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WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1882. ESTABLISHED IN 1844. If ?'e Had but a Day. i We should fill the hour* wi'h the sweetest< things, If we had but a day; j tL Wo should drink alone a: the purest springs, Iu our upward way; Wo should leve with a life-time's love in an ; hour, If our hours were few : r\\ e snoulu rest, not lor dreams, on: :or iresner power To be and to do. Wo should bind our weary and wanton wills To the clearest light; We should keep our eyes on the heavenly hills, If they lay in sight; We should trample the pride and the discon- i tent Beneath our feet; We should take whatever a good God sent, j Wirli *> pnmnlffp * We should waste no moments in weak regret, If the (lav were but one? If what we remember and what we forget Went out with the sun. We should he from our clamorous selves set ! free, | To work or io'praj, | And to be what our Father would have ua be, " If we had but a day. BOB DAYTON'S MINE, The familiar sight ol two young asses is ' or "Jacks," as the miners call them, loaded with mining tools and provisg ions, and driven along by two miners, m who walked behind them, would have attracted but little attention among the ' loungers in front of the Grand Hotel at Cedar Gulch, had it not been for two or three peculiar circumstances which *'Col." Brown proceeded to narrate to the bystanders. Since coming to Colorado three years ^j^^j^thecolonel had succeeded, with- j means of support, in | free free his ly the r The j JBPIigainst Bed Grand gprflood at a P^tnose. There's Bob Bnn t much more than a ?^ut he's a white man right I^But as for Sandy J<je, I BPt trust him as fur as I could see. M^didn't jump that claim o.! Cap, Harry's last winter, I'm a Coyote. How j Dayton ever happened to strike in with ; Joe, I can't see. except that Bob's rather ' fresh in this country. You out<;ht to ] have heard him last night tell me in j confidence all about his cirl out it. Ohio, i Lizzie, I think, he called her. He was poor, and she was poor; and he didn't ^ see much hope of getting married unless they wanted to live on a little less I than nothing. So he came out hero to * find his fortune. Hope he'll get it. He deserves tc, anyway, going out prospectiDg on the mountains in Colorado ^ in October. Like as not there may be three feet of snow on the mountains tomorrow. Joe ought to know better, at any rate; but he's reckless enough to do anything. By the way. Bill, what j about"that roan Jaorse that Powers lost ! V* iinnn Mrm-nt. Shflvano ? TTn^n'f-, found it yet, eh ? He better be looking around ^ lively, if lie expects to get it down before the snow comes 7* . Anr^ tneii the -conversation group in iron; of tho hotel at Cedar Gulch driited off on to other topics, while the two men of whom the colonel had spoken proceeded on up the gulch, and turning to the right struck the trail leading no the sides of ilount Shavano. A great contrast was apparent rln the looks and manners of the two men working together in the close companionshiD which is implied in mining regions by the term "partners." Robert Bayicn was a tall, fair haired ** young man \>i:h a frank, open countenance that made him iriends even among the rongh class of men among whom his lot was cast in a Colorado mining camp. Ee had been well edurcated by a father who had left him only his education as an inheritance. He had become engaged to a pretty and rich giri, bat her father lost in a grain speculation roost of the wealth that he had acquires, and Sobert was unwilling to urge her to a speedy marriage unless he could provide for her a home 1 with at least- some of the comforts to r which she had been accustomed. Accordingly he bad sought the silver land of the West, in thj hope of there obtaining more speedily sufficient mean3 to justify him in making her whom Le loved his own. But his sanguine expectations had beeu disappoint^ ed, and for seveial months he had P* wandered from one mining camp to another, till at last he arrived at Cedar Gulch, weary and disheartened. He was just in the mood to listen to a reckless prope^l which he heard made in the hotel one day by Sandy Joe, to go on a ^ prospecting tour in spite of the near JT approach of snow. Robert did not know, and did not care much, who his ^ partntr was if he could have another mBl chance to labor for the treasure which gfflL he was seeking. No one knew the real j |L name of Sandy Joe, as be was called, | R with the frequent inappropriateness of ! Western nicknames. He was a short, j r dark-complexioned, and dark-haired, man, with an unenviable notoriety for quarrelsomeness. This ill-assorted couple proceeded on their expedition % without mnch incident the first day, driving their ''Jacks" tip the stony trail toward the summit of Mount Shavano, that towers high above the surrotmding mountains. On the second day of their journey, when they had not xet reached the place where thev had to leave their "Jacks" and proceed oil foot, there j came down over the travelers a heavy i mist, not uncommon on the mountains, j end soon after the snow began to fall, | very lightly at first, asd then more heavily. Tbe trail, which had not been very distinct before, began to be almost hidden from vievr. But the sagacious animals seemed by some in- j stinci to pick out the true path, and the journey was still slowly conticued. Oae of the animals, however, wandered A a little from the path in the afternoon, and steruins on a loose rock near the H edge of a steep ravine, slipped and roiled over and over down the bank, KLl and was seen no more. A hearty earse hfe from the lips of Sindy Joe greeted this I '"'nil \\k 1' i' flu journey was continued. HP The path "oe^s^to grow steeper, and as WBF the snow begau piled up before the travelers it became?- J?lmcst impossible to go on. Joe, who washed-tempered enongh when everything"''***^ well, began now to show signs of- ia-1 creasing ill-temper. He cursed and I ctt/ira of, t}-.A storm and snow, and then vould subside into moody silence. He beat with merciless blows the heavilyladen ' Jack," that straggled along on its hard jonmey. It became evident at length that the men conld not reach the camp to which they were bonnd by walking, and the animal was unloaded, and it was decided that the men should take turns in riding till their destination was reached. But five or fix miles now lay between the men and the cluster of cabins where they hoped to find aid, but the darkness was already coming on, and the way was getting ^ almost impassable. Joe insisted upon taking the first turn in rising, and Dayton allowed him to mount. In this way about a mile was passed over, when Dayton, almost overcome with fatigue, called npon his j companion to dismount and exchange ; places. The way at that point was nar-1' row and led alongside of a steep incline j on the mountain side. Joe, who was riding ahead, stopped when he heard /. his companion call, and allowed Day- i1 ton to come np to him, as if to allow j2 him to take the animal. Then sndden-1 * Jy bending over, Joe drew from his t belt a Ions knife and plunged it into j * his partner's breast. "There," said he, "as we can't both 1 get through to the camp, I won't be the one that's left behind," and then giving } poor Bob a push over the edge of the 1 bank, the assassin rode on. c The wounded man rolled down the 1 stony side of the mountain, the kindly c snow shielding his body from some of 2 the sharp boulders, till the gradual I declivity down which be was precipita- * ted changed to a steer* r?recioice, over c * o - ^ i A. 4. ' the edge of which he plunged on to a ^ level surface several feet below. Stun- I ned as he was by his wnund and fall, he k was still able, on looking around him, c to see in the side of the precipice a large opening like the entrance of a cave, 1 f:nd with the instinct of self-preserva- c tion, he dragged himself thither, and a succeeded in reaching this shelter from 3 the storm before he fainted away, over- f come by the loss of blood. Meanwhile, Sandy Joe struggled on * his way, and by using the animal as far * --:l ??u j .u? i? u ? t 10 WUIUU ftitu tiiCil lcaviu^ xu a snow-drift while he continued on foot, finally reached the little camp to -w hich he was bound. He told his tale oi! the great dangers he had. endured, but without mentioning his companion, ana received sympathy and attention from the miners. The morning sun was just darting his straight beams from the eastern sky across the valley and into the interior of the mountain cave when Bob Dayton awoke from bis sleep of exhaustion. The storm had cleared from the mouna - J xt iam, anu as me amuing rttjro wac mu upon the interior wall of the cave, Bob, t lying with his eyes just opened and too i weak to feel a disposition to rise, no- 2 ticed gleams of light where some bright r substance reflected the sunlight. "With j difficulty he made his way on his hands i and knees toward one of these points of c light, and taking the glittering object i in his hands, found, with trembling de- i light, that it was a bit of native wire sil- s ver, such as is found sometimes even on j the surface over rich Colorado mines, j On further examination he found rich 1 indication of the same nature in va- s nous parts 01 tne cave; ana ne was soon x aware that be had made one of those 1 discoveries which incite so many to seek 1 their fortunes in the mining grounds of t the West, and that are really so infre- ( auent and exceptional. The ambition S oi his life was accomplished., and he i might now, he felt, make a home as rich t and pleasant as he had imagined to t which to take the one he loved. But t while in the first joy of his discovery he i thus pleased himself with grateful j images of the future, there came to him t a new thought of his present fituation, 1 which had for the moment passed from ? his mind. I "Alas," said he, "the willful fortune t that kept from me the riches that I de- 1 sired brings them to me now when life 1 itself seems doubtfal, and when I see no a way to safety, weak as I am and far from s my rescue. Must I die in the midst of s this nAtr-found wealth?" Just as he t was occupied with these thoughts he t heard a noise in a dark recess of the ^ cave, which he had rot vet explored, e ar^L "?th- anrnal 1 apparently been lying there, rose to it? f feet and came towards the light. For a 1 moment Bob thought it might be one of 3 the few wild beasts which are occasion- s ally found in the mountains; but as it f advanced he saw,to his joy,that it was a roan-colored horse, such an one as he had \ heard had been lost from Cedar Gulch f on these very mountaius, and the very s one to which Col. Brown had alluded ? when he talked to the loungers on the t departure of the miners. Poor Bob's * TiAarf, fairlv leaned to his mouth at the l hepe of rescue presented by the appearance of the horse, who had apparently wandered into the cave to seek shelter from the storm, and most opportunely presented itself. Bob took tip and put in his pocket a few specimens'of the silver-bearing mineral about him, and leading the animal to the entrance of the cave,succeeded after several efforts, in getting on its back. The feeling of a rider on its back brought the horse to its habit of sub jection, and almost witnout direction it found its "way back to the path, and down the side of Mount Shavano toward Cedar Gulch. The horrors of that journey to the rider it would be hard to tell. His wound, from which the blood had csased to flow, began to bleed again somewhat, and was with difficulty stanched. The weak man could scarcely retain his position on the horse's back, but with a brave determination and strong will he kept his seat while the sagacious animal decended the trail. The evening had just set in when Bob tumbled faiating from the horse in front cf the Grand hotel. The rough but kind1 L-J <-/va V.^-rv-% riY-v r*r?/3 11M 11 OLM-JiY UDH UM Cbi-LYA VAIV/H J for liim till by skill and patience he was 3 again restored to strength. Sandy Joe, \ in the distant camp, heard of his vie- j tim's escape, and quickly departed from that part of the country, and was afterward killed in a fight with a fellow-out- . law. Bob recovered from his wound, ] and before the winter snow had melted from the mountains he had staked out for himself a claim called "The Lizzie ; Claim," and including the cave where that memoiabie night in his history was | passed. He is counted a rich man in , the possession of this mine, now iamous for its mineral wealth, but he considers himself far richer in the love of the 1 "? - - J -il. ~ woman now ms onae. ana me twu bright-eyed children growing up in the circle of home. Difficulties of Newspaper Men. Here is how a brother journalist puts it: We presume that some people think newspaper men are persistent duns; let a farmer place himself in a similar position, and see if he would not do the same. Suppose that he raises one thousand 1 ~ o-Mrt V?tc? v? qi rrr?V*rvy? UlUSJUeJLS Ui VA/JLU, 4. mo | should come and bay a bushel, and the price was only a small sum of one dollar, or less, and tho neighbor says, "I will pay you the amount in a few days." As the fanner does not want to be'small about the matter, he says, "All right." Another comes in the same way until the whole of one thousand bushels of corn are trusted out to one thousand different persons and not one of the purchasers concerns himself about it, for it is a small amount they lowe the farmer, and of course that will rfi^it help him any. He does not realize that the farmer hasv- fritcered away his large crop of corn,^ and that its value is due in a thous^nj little dribblets, and that he is ! seriously embarrassed in his business j because his debtors treat it as a little ! matter; Bat if all would pay him j prompt!-which they could do as well as not, it -would be a very large amount to the fa'nner, and enable him to carry on his bilsiness without difficulty. The above comparison is too true of the difficulties ti^t the newspaper man has to contend Cork_ trees are being successfully raised in Gt?orgia. The cork on some i specimens pjanted there i3 already j thick enough for use. It is supposed i these trees caa be successfully raised in i most of the Southern states. | HIM ? ! IIIUWIII ! I?I I I I 11 VIRTUES OF THE 3IAT>ST0>'?. rhe Wonderful Story of It* Effect* Told j 1 J'rom Personal Observation by a Woman ol Seventy-Six. | A writer in the St. Louis Republican, [1 n pursuit of some definite statements jc is to tie cures said to be performed bv j 1 he mad-stone, was introduced to Mrs. 11 smith, whom he found to be a bright, j1 ntelligent and sprightly old lady of IJ leventy-sis years of age, and who will- 1 nglv gavo all the "information she ^ 30ssessed, interspersing the interview c vith many anecdotes. The mad-stone 1 s in shape of a Masonic badge worn by | :hapter members of that Order, with 1 ound instead of square comers. It is 1 >ne and one-half inches long by one ^ tnd one-half inches wide at the widest * >art and two-eighths of an inch in ( hickness, its weight being about one \ ranee. It is of a copper color, tinged 1 vith green, some portions of it being c >rowD, others of a lead color. As Mrs. Smith said, it is somewhat of the nature ? >f the chameleon as to color. I Mrs. Smith said: "My husband got 8 t from Mr. John Giger, of Jefferson 1 :ounty, Mo., about thirty-five years ago, * ,nd he got it from a friend somo thirty J rears Drevious to that time, and that I riend got it from the Indian;;. This c riend resided in Arkansas. I do not ? ;now where it was originally found, * rat I have heard that they are fonnd in ) he head of an elk. The stone was 1 .bout twice as large as it is now. Mr. r Jiger broke it in two and gave half of * t to a Mr. Boldduke, his nephew, who * ised his stone on horses and cattle that * lad been snakebitten until it would not 1 ake hold on a person who had been c )itten by a mad dog, and for that reason c Japtain Smith would never aEow this ? >ne to be used to cure anything but the 1 vifa nf ? md rlno- or a marl Per? a ;ons frequently applied to him to cure * hem ox a snakebite, but he would cot 1 ry it. a "The first person bitten and to whom his stone was applied coming under , ny obseiwaticn and knowledge! wa3 a , ilrs. Spon, who had been bitten by a naa cat, and the mad stone was ap- a jlied and struck many times, ?.nd she f ecovered from the bite. She is now lead. A large ju amber of persons, jj learly a hundred, I suppose, have had * t applied when bitten by mad dogs, md only one went mad after it was ap- I )lied. That was a verj sad case. That : >erson was Mrs. McRea, wife of Major 1 I'.-Ptea, at Jefferson barracks. When 2 ;he was bitten ?he wanted to go to the c nad stone, but her husband did not be itve the dog was mad, and consequent- ? y she did not go. After nine weeks 1 he lady went mad. Then he sent for T Captain Smith, Dr. Pope (who s cept the college in St. Louis and died v n Paris), Dr. Taussig and Dr. Bailey, ^ he surgeon at the barracks, and had * .he stone applied. Captain Smith told . he physicians it could do no good, and 1 t did not, although it "struck to the )lace where the dog had bitten her on 1 he face. She died in a few hours. I kfter that, because he saw the stone ? tick, Dr. Pope sent every one bitten 1 >y mad dogs to Captain Smith to have x he mad stone applied, and I believe a le had great faith in it or he would not ^ rave sent them. It will not stick when c ipplied to an ordinary bite of a dog or ? ore, but when the dog is mad it will J ;tick sometimes as much as twenty imes, in some cases only two or three ; -imes. aomeiimes persons nave stayeu fith us for weeks, applying the stone ] ivery day. One young man from Illi- ? tois stayed eight weeks. If; is wont^erul how frightened persons become who 5 lave -been bitten by mad dogs. Dr. c Perkett, residing in Carondelet, always ^ ;ent patients to us, and I believe had aith in the mad stone. "I will refer to two cases to prove t ;he power possessed by this stone?the a irst was that of a Mr. Nicholas Bore I tnd his little son, about eight years r Lgo. They came to our house and had ^ he stone applied. It stuck to both of hem, but only a few times to the little + joy. The man was badly bitten in two ^ >r three places and he would not re- r nain nntil the stone quit sticking, but c ;rent home. The man went home and c Jied, bat his sen got well. The other a is the case of Mrs. Court and daughter, c residing at Benton station. They were { bitten and did not know that the dog ? *as mad until the girl went mad. The r nother came to me in great fear. I ipplied the mad stone ana she did not r 2:0 mad. In a great many cases the log would bite other animals, as dogs, ;ows and horses, and they would go g nad, and the person, when the stone 5 s-as applied, wouia not. ic never iailea when the person came in time, j. except in the case of Mr. Bore. When v ;he stone has been applied and it sticks, j [ let it stay on until I can snap it off t with my finger. The person can walk ^ ibout the room with it sticking on. rhen I place it in milk warm water. [ have used ono cup ever since we had ihe stone. It sinks to the bottom and j little bubbles about the size of a grain t Df wheat, and resembling a person's ^ Bye in appearance, will rise to the sur- a [ace of the water and disappear. There ^ K ill be a green substance sometimes, I T have fancied, on the water, yet they | may have been only imagination. Af- T ter these bubbles auit rising the stone ; is again applied, and this is kept Tip * until the stone will not stick. T "The directions we got wit'i the stone were to put it into warm milk, e but it would not work. You see it is ^ very porous and the pores would ?11 up ^ with the particles of milk and would ~ Dot stick, as we always used wate::. . "A German doctor offered Capt. ^ Smith one thousand dollars for the j &tone after seeing it work, but the cap- ( tain said he would not part with it for fear one of his own family might be bitten. I never had another one. There : used to be one in St. Charles, but it has 1 been taken to some place in Illinois, I don't know where. Persons coming to j as to be cnred would offer any amount of money to be cured, but I have never 1 charged any one more than three dol- , Iars a day for it, and that was because ( I had to board them and they gave me . a great deal of trouble. I have never ; refused any one the use of it I don't ; think it right that such a thing should be charged for. "I read some years ago of some dcc tor who hunted up all the madstones in the country. He found thirteen, no ' two of which were alike." Any one wishing to try this wonder- ' fnl stone can find it eight miles west of St. Louis, on the Manchester read, at ? - -J _ ? T_ T? _ X 0 ? i.t me residence 01 juiiu ju. outtuu. iino. Smith never allows the stone out of her immediate controJ, and consequently the person bitten must go to it unless the eld lady will consent to go frori home with it. ?? A Farmer's Curious Will. An eld farmer at Guelph, Canada, recently made a curious will, which is substantially as follows: The son works the farm till his stepmother's death, at the end of which time he commences -1-11 i-- AAA i."U ~ paving installments uu w,uw iu iue | rest of the family at a yearly rate of $50 a year, and ^hen be gets all paid off lie will get the farm in his ow^ possession. It will be seen that after the stepmother's death it will be sixty years before the son gets the farm, and as the woman is yet in the prime of life and healthy, it "is calculated that she may live j another forty years. The son is now I thirty years of age, and when he can j claim the farm, by his reckoning, he ! will be 130 years old. The caterpillar destroyed 300,000 j bales of cotton last year. " I FOR INVALIDS AND OTHERS. A'hat to Put in Delicate Dishes for Weak !?tornr-.cIis, and How to Prepare Thctn. Cooking for the sick must do half the 7ork of digestion. Everything that is >ffered to an invalid must be done to perfection. If the dish is a failure it nust r-.ot be served in the sick room. I ^nd sometimes one's best efforts are 'allures from some cause impossible to prevent, leading one to believe more irmly than ever in the total depravity )f inanimate matter. Indeed, this is a loctrin'3 that impresses itself with painful distinctness on the woman who sees ler carefully prepared custards separate into cnrds and whey at the moment vhen r ougH to attain perfection; or ;he jelly that shonld stand proudly irect, clear as a crystal, lying limp and nuddy in its mold. Happy the patient :hat has a nurse who rises to the oc:asion and tries until she does succeed When fresh eggs are to be had they ire a great resource. They can be prejared in so many different ways, and ire usually liked, and are oaten with a elish. In dropping eggs it is someimes difficult to preserve the form, [little wine-strainers are sold for the )urpose, which are very useful. When ,ne is not at hand a small half teapoonful of vinega.r added to the water lelps to set the egg. The water must )e boiling at the moment the egg is put n, and a square cf hot, buttered toast eady to receive it when it is taken out. V. simple omelette is made with an egg >eaten very light, a desert spoonful of lour, the third of a cup of milk and a ictle salt. Grated ham may be added if iesired, or fresh parsley shredded fine, >r spice. The omelette is poured into b hot pan with a little butter melted n the bottom. It is unwise for an mof/ani. +n at.bmnt, to t.nss an nm ilette. When one side is nicely browned old it over in the shape of a half moon ,nd serve on a hot dish. It is asserted that gelatine contains ibsolutely no nutriment; so, however empting the jelly made from it may ook, it is practically useless, except as i vehicle for wine or nourishing sub .tances. A nourishing jelly is made rom rice by boiling a quarter of a >ound of rice flour, with sufficient sujar to sweeten it, and a slice of lemon >r rather flavoring, with a pint of cafpr. rmtil the -whole becomes a erlu inous mass. The jelly is tlien strained nto a mold. Jaime mange is a pleas,nt change from blanc mange, of which ;onvalescents have a surfeit in the iarlier stages of their recovery. To nake it, boil half an ounce of gelatine n a little more than half a piot of rater; strain it and add the juice with i smaJl part of the grated rind of an irange, a tablespoon of sherry, the ^olks of two eggs beaten and strained cith sugar to taste. Stir it over a genie lire until it just boils ; then strain t into a shape. Lemon sponge is very light and del- | cate. Nothing that contains the wintes >f eggs must be looked upon as unim )ortant in an invalid's bill of fare. It s made with half a pint of water, in phich is dissolved half an ounce of gel,tine and a quarter of n pound of su;ar, with the juice of one large lemon >r two small ones. Tie whites of two 'ggs beaten to a stiff iroth are stirred n last. It must c^oao scarcely to a >cil and be put to cool in the dish in rhich it is to bo served, Snow jelly has a refreshing sound in farm weather, when even a suggestion >f coolness is grateful. To make it, ake half.a small box of gelatine asd. oak it in half a pint of cold water ; add >ne gill of boiling water, one cup of ugar, and the juice and grated peel of wo small lemons, JPut it in a disn to tool, and when stiff add the whites of wj eggs very lightly beaten, and beat he mixture well. Serve with a custard ironnd it made with the yelks of the !ggs and half a pint of milk. In sumner it is advisable to make this dish the lay before it is desired to use it The us;e of sago is not as general in his country as it is in England. If its nerits were better kno^n it would be nore poyular. Put a dessert-spoonful >f sago iato three-quarters of a pir.t of sold milk, and let it simmer gently for r> Vinnr an<l n nnartfc!*. stirrinff fre [ueittly ; skim it as it approaches holing, and uweeten with a dessert spoonnl of sujjar. It may b9 flavored with mtmeg if the taste is liked. Tapioca can boasr more friends, and nakes a delicious dish. Pat a large ablespoonful to soak ovei* night; boil , pint of new milk the next mornin?, weeten it, add the tapioca and the 'elks of two eggs well beaten; flavor pith extract of vanilla, and put in a dish o cool. Then cover the top with the whites of the egcs beaten stiff, wi;h a ittle sugar and vanilla, and place in he oven to brown slightly.?Christian Tnion. Ileuses Built of Cotton. Of all substances apparently the east likely to be used in the construoion of a fire-proof building, cotton tould, perhaps, take the first rank, md paper the second; and yet both hese materials are actually being em>loyed for the purpose indicated, and heir use will probaply extend. Compressed paper pulp is successfully used n the manufacture of doors, wall panding and for other similar purposes, vith the result that all risk of warping tnd cracking is obviated, while in-1 ireased lightness is obtained and the :ear of drv-rot is forever banished. ^ i : ?n rapier-macne, snur navm^ oa^cu <* 2S2fal purpose in an unobstrusive mantier for years as a material for small irays, paper-knive3 and other siich Light articles, has now tnddenly as umed a still more important position in the industrial world. A still mere sudden and striking advance has been made in the' employment of cotton as a building material. A preparation called celluloid, in which cotton is a leading ingredient, has been used lately as 2. substitute . or ivory in the manufacture of such articles as billiard halk p.nr) mr>er-cutters>. and now a "" JT ' Canadian manufacturer has invented a process by which compressed cotton may be nsed not merely for doors and window-frame3, bnt for the whole facade of large buildings. The enormous and increasing demand for paper for its normal uses as a printing and writing material, prevents the extended rise cf papier-mache as a bu:1ding material, ior which it is so well smted in so many ways ; but the production ot cottcn is practically unlimited.?Exchange. Il&l A Sort of Intermixing. A few years ago there lived in Oxford county, Maine, an aged widow, who had fifteen children. A peculiarity in this family was what may be called a "double marriage." Thus, two of the daughters married brothers, named Palmer; two of the sons married sisters, named Barrows; two oilier sons married siiters named Bonney; two granddaughter?, sisters, married brothers, named Jtsonney, and thus became sister-in-law to their uncles' wives, two other granddaughters, sisters, married brothers, named Bcnney, cousins of those already namedt Thus there were five double marriages in this family, three of the children and two of the grandchildren of this old lady. Another peculiarity in this family was that twelve of them, six sons and six daughters, settled down on farms within two miles of their mother. On one road tnere were tliree owning farms next to each other, aDd on another road five in snceession; and the farms on the first road were only divided from some of those on the second by a river that ran between them.?Boston Journal. How to Escape Xervonsne&s. Nervousness is nervous weakness. The principal sign of a feeble nervous organization is an excessive degree of irritability of one or more of the organs of the body. li! the nervous system be weak, the organs to which the nerves are distributed will also be weak, and a weak organ is always an irritable one. ' ? lilil . AT "L ^ _ it taees very junte to taxuw suuu <xu organ out of its orderly course of action Some slight cause or other acting on a "nervous" brain creates such a degree of irritability th&t its possessor feels as if he would like to "jump out of his skin," or he may be thrown into a paroxysm of intense emotional disturbance, or a sick headache, an attack of hysteria, or even a more severe disorder may result. A "nervous" eye or ear is annoyed by unusual or presistent lights or sounds; a "nervous" heart palpitates 1 or flutters after slight mental or bodily 1 exertion; a"nervous"stomach is irritated by food which a healthy baby could : easily digest, and the condition known 1 as "nervous dyspepsia" is induced; and ii JLLCrVUli.3 O^iuc, t'U a^fX^>XJ.J uu auavuva, causes derangements of nearly all the organs of the bod?. To cure these various disorders ** xften difficult and ; sometimes impossible. To prevent them even in persons predisposed to 1 nervousness is comparatively an easy matter 1 The whole hygiene of the subject is 1 embraced in this sentence: Strengthen I the nervous system. How is this to be done? 1st. The first prescription is an am- 1 p]e supply of pufe, fresh and cool air. ] The nerves "will always be weak If the 1 greaterpart of the dayand night bepassed 1 in close, ill-ventilated and over-heated ] apartments. Tha nerves mere than the ( rest of the body, to be properly nourished, require a frill snpply of oxygen. ' They will not endure vitiated air, * whether from savers, gas-lights, sub- 1 terranean furnaces or the individual's * o^m person, without making an ener- ' g tic protest. A gas-bumor consuming four cubic ' feat of gas per hour produces more car- < bonic acid in a gi.*en time than is 1 evolved from the, respiration of eight ] ac ult human beings. Bear this in mind, { ycu who suffer from nervousness, that ' when you have shut yourselves up in ' ycur rooms and lighted anargand burner (which consumes sibout twelve cubic ( fort, nf pas ner hour! vou are to all in- ^ O XT / tents and purposes immured with, twen- < ty -three other persons, all taking 02y- i gen from the atmosphere. Is it a won- J der that after several hours' exposure to the depraved air. your nerves should 1 rebel as fast as their weak state permits * and that your head should ache,- your 3 hands tremble, and that your daughters * playing on the piano almost drives you j wild. An overheated apartment always enervates its occupants. It is no uncom- 1 ? * >/ *?! 'kin/* r/M-imo in win. J LUVU imug UWV. AVV1AAU uvMwt'Vfc T|*M ter by an underground furnace np to ninety degrees. Fights and murders are more numerous in hot than in cold weather, and the artificially heated air that rushes into our rooms, deprived as it is of its natural moisture by the baking it has undergone, is even more productive of vicious passions. Ifc is no surprising circumstance, therefore, to find the women, who swelter all day in such a temperature and adds to it at night by superfluous bed-clothing, cross and disagreeable from little every day troubles that would scarely ruffle her temper if she fcapt her rooms at sirtyfive degrees>af?d ;bpeacd the windows evary now and then. 2d. Eat plenty of well-cooked and nourishing food. The nerves cannot be kept healthy on slops. Gruels,panadas, 1 teas are well enough in their way, but 1 the nerves require for their proper nourishment undiluted animal and vegetable food; as a role the former should predominate. Meat-eaters are rarely troubled with nervousness. Americans eat more vegetables than any other well-to-do people, and they are probably the most "nervous" nation on the face of the earth. 3d. Take sufficient physical exercise in the open air. When you feel irritable, tremulous, fretful, fidgety, andunrtVvl/% +A T?AT1> -f l-> r\Ti nrll f C CiUID IU OUXJLU^AJl ox a W J W v** the veriest trifle, take a long walk, or split half a cord of wood. Even the extreme nervonsness of lunatics is best quieted by bodily labor. The homicidal maniac who cannot if kept in his cell be trusted with a bodkin may safely be given a spade, pickax or hoe and set to work in the garden. His irritability is quietly led off into another and safer channel, and his nerves are strengthened. These are tlie principal rifles. If they -were faithfully followed, there would be less work for us doctors to do. ? Wm. A. Hammond, in Our Continent. A Gollen Deed. It was during the wars that raged j from 1652 to 1660, between Frederick ( III.,of Denmark, and Charles Gustavus, ( of Sweden, that, after a battle in which > the victory had remained with the } Danes, a stoui btxgher of Flensborg . was about to refresh himself, ere retir- , ing to have his wounde; dressed, with a ( draught from a wooden bottle, when an ] 4vn-r,\ o xnrxTrnA&A XliiyiUAiUg ViJ JiV". ? TTV^UVU ~ lyiBg oil the field made him turn, and with the very words of Sidney, " Thy need is greater taan mine," he knelt down by the fallen enemy to pour the liquor into his mouth. His requital was a pistol shot in the shoulder from the treacherous Swede. "Rascal!" he cried, "I would have befriended yon, and you wonla murder me in retnrn. Now will I punish you. I would have given you the whole bottle; but now you shall have only half." /3vinlr?n<y Tiimcolf Tift ffaVA the rest to the Swede. The king, heariDg the story, sent for the burgher and asked him how he came to spare the life of such a rascal. " Sire," said the honest burgher, " I could never kill a wounded enemy." 'Thou meritest to be a noble," the king said, and created him one immediately, giving him as armorial bearings a wooden bottle pierced with an arrow! The family only lately became extinct in the person of an old maiden lady. From >"eTT York to Paris by Rail. "From New York to Paris by rail in fifteen days and a half, the land journey only to b9 broken once by a two-hours' ? "L AT. ^ 1.i. sea-passage ?suuu ia lueiitesipruyuoi tion submitted to the consideration of capitalists by American engineering enterprise. The plans for this gigantic undertaking have been drawn out by a Mr. Gregory, well known in transatlantic railway circles, whose readiness to carry them out, so soon as the necessary funds shall be placed at his disposal, may be taken for granted. His line of route, starting from the commercial capital of the States, passes through Canada, New ^Georgia and Alaska to t ape Jfrrnce 01 vvaies, wnence the passengers are to be conveyed by steamer to East Cape, on the opposite Asiatic coast of Behring's Straits anddistant abnnt forty miles from the northwestern extremity of the American continent. From East Cape the iron road to be constructed will cross Russian territory in Northern Asia until it joins the Siberian railway system, already in direct connection, through Moscow and St. Petersburg, with all the European capitals. Mr. Gregory calculates that j the distance between New York and 1 Paris, the American paradise, can b9 i traversed by this route in 372 hours and ' * -i i. il-.'-i. J - I at a COSw 01 aocxis iiutt>jr puuuus tauu j passenger.?London fetegropk. I i i The National House of Representatives. The national House of Representatives presents, in many respects, a striking contrast to the Senate. The apartment in which the popular branch meets in the Capitol is much more spacious and more richly adorned. A irocf ennotfl rnnm V>V IdTCfi "a"-' ~J oskyliglits in tbe ceiling, with broad galleries extending down on all four sides, and the desks ranged, as in the Senate, in a wide semi-circle; two white marble desks, or tables, rising one behind the other opposite the members' seats; a green carpet and all the furniture of light wood ; these are the first general features which strike the eye. Above the white marble table at which the speaker sits, two American flags are i -l i i.1 crossed, ana aoove mem u guuca eagle with outstretched wings. On either side of the speaker may be seen full-length portraits of Washington and Lafayette, while on every hand is a profusion of rather gaudy frescoing, gilding and dainty decoration. But the attention of the stranger, who has taken his seat in one of the galleries, is soon withdrawn from the inanimate features of the scene to its living and bustling occupants. It is a 3cene of hubbub, confusion and noise. The members flock in and loll in their jeats in all sorts of postures, or pass up and down the aisles, or chat in groups in every part of the hall. Even when the speaker has called :he house to order and the business of the day has begun, the bustle and noise continue. Loud as the speaker }r the clerks may speak, frequent as may be the raps of the gavel en the marble table, the apparent confusion loes not subside. There is a continual buzz, mingled with the occasional eager conflict of ttalf-a-dozen members, who rise simnlianeously, shout and wave their arms ;o wards the chair, and say in every way ;o catch the speaker's eye. The members of the house do not, as lo the members of the English House }f Commons, wear their hats while sit- i in-r ir> casta "Rnf. nt.TlfVrWlSA fhA17 nanners are, to express it mildly, easy md informal. Now and then you will 1 see a member with his legs stretched aigh upon his desk. You observe another puffing his :igar right under the speaker's nose, [n the midat of business you will perihance note a group who are cracking jokes with each other, and laughing heartily at each humorous sally. You wonder liow any bn?iness can advance in the midst of such a scene; yet imid all the confusion motions are nade, bills or resolutions are read by ;he clerk, and questions are put from ;he chair, and thus the affairs of legislation go on. Occasionally, when some noted mem Der is speaking, the House becomes lushed and intent, and a calm comes )ver the scene. Members huddle close n the chairs immediately around the - - > --a ?i?i. v. ipeaser, ana wiuto ue says xs uiouiu^uxjr ieard in the gallaries. Bnt there are ;ew members who can command thus ;he attention of their colleagues; and a lull speaker is sure to be impeded by ;he noise, or to be left in a thin House ;o conclude bis effort When you have observed the general ispect of the house, you begin to pick >ut, by means of the plan of seats which ; rou have bought for the purpose, the nore eminent politicians to be seen in : ;he House. He is almost as thin and gaunt as <a skeleton; bis face is of a deathly yellowivhite; his skin looks dead and dry; his jves are black and bright; his grayishvhite hair falls in long locks down his 1 leek. Yet his movements are active and ner,Toas, and he is constantly wheeling his :hair suddenly and quickly from one >ide of the open space to the other. You j .earn that this bingular figwe is no less than Alexander H. Stephens, once the Vice-President of the Southern Confederacy, now a member from Georgia, and jy all odds the most distinguished nember of the House. When Mr. Stephens speaks, he continues sitting in lis chair, which, when he becomes exl?io Vl & -nOTtTATl el V JlliCU. vrxcu. UiO QUk/jwvU) iiu x^.v/*. T V ?K/4J :erks hither and thither, His voice is ligh and shrill, and can be distinctly aeard in every part of the vast hall. It is interesting to sit for a while and ;?atch the proceedings of this noisy assembly, and to reflect that iiere the laws of u nation of fifty millions of people are made; but one soon tires of the hubbub, and the novelty vanishes, and it is a relief to return to the galleries of ;he more quite, sedate and dignilied Senate.?Youth's Companion. South American Habits* The politeness of the Argentines is meqnaled. Of course they have a jreat many little formal phrases that mean nothing, bnt which, nevertheless, creates a pleasant atmosphere. Every 3ne lives there ;,in order to serve yon." rhey are all "your servants." You admire an article belonging to one cf them?f,it is at your disposal." You receive a note- it is dated from Li casa 3e Ud?your house. Even the children lisp the little formal phrases in the most charminc wav imaginable?thev are born polite. You pay a visit?evsry one in the room, known and unknown to yon, rise and remain standing until you are seated; the same ceremony takes place when yon leave. And these forms are just as rigidly adhered to by the lower orders. You enter a ranch and are received by the mistress of it with as much savoir-faire as if she were a queen of society. They are a pleasure-loviug people. Every town has its plaza or park, surrounded by wide graveled walks that in Cata-1 marca are shaded by orange, pepper,? and willow trees, and bordered by rose j and oleander plants which blossom all the year round. Comfortable benches J are stationed at intervals, and in the j center of the plaza is stationed a kio3ka i or pagoda, where on Sunday and Thurs-1 day nights, and on tbe evenings of QTl/1 Tl Q+.i/in 0.1 fo.TSf. !1V I CVCi.J IslAUAVM throughout* the year, the military band discourses sweet music, both classical and popular. And here, on these nights assemble the people, los rico3 y los probes, la catagoria y los plebes?(rich and poor, high and low)?and walk, or seated, partake of coffee or beer perhaps, brought from their homes. They are very -fond of music, and I have - *i AWrtn rtrt T*1 y?V> r\Q TrVlrt flQ/] UlltJil CYCU ^auuuvo, nuv u.mv? strayed in from the country, applaud with great gusto a selection from "La Semiramide" or "Los Hugonotes," presented for the first time. A Probable Success in Journalism, One day an editor was visited by a committee of villagers to urge upon him some argument in favor of a new town pump. Being an amiable man, although it was just his busiest hour, he asked them to be seated until he had finished an article he was writing on the application of ensilage to green j picket fences. While waiting, they all j began to talk to each other at the very j pitch of their voices, until the distracted | editor could stand it no longer, when, 1 wheeling round in his chair, he re- ! marked, with an expression sweetly ut?<Y/tn'd nhliVe me. centlemen. bv -V- o- SKJ , ? conducting your conversation in a lower tone. There's a men sick with smallpox in the next room and you might disturb him." As he gathered up the hat?, canes and umbrellas that were left bv the committee in their eager ; bolt for the fresh air, he said to himj self, quietly : "I reckon I'm going to I be a success in journalism." Saining the Baby. "I think," said the fond mother, " that as the baby's last name is Brown, it wonld be better to give him some first name less common than Henry ? There are eleven columns of Henry Browns in the directory." " Thirteen, darling," said 3tlr. Bicwd; " I counted them yesterday. What we want for the baby is a unique first name, a name that will be distinct and peculiar, that will make it possible always to identify him. Isn't that it, dearest ?" " Certainly." " Well, I bave prepared a list from which we can pick. Suppose we skim over it ? Let's begin with the twelve tribes of Israel. Are there aDy among them that you like V " I think not." " Eow would Gad do ? Gad Brown ? That would bo novel, anyhow."' " But too startling, perhaps ?" " Possibly. The others are all rather common. Does Ivanhoe strike you ? I ratiier like lvannoe ?5rown. ur, 11 we | wanted to give him a middle Dame we I could call him Ivanhoe Alcibiades Brown." " It is too long; and, besides I'm not certain I could always spell Alcibiades correctly in marking Eff underclofliing." < "Plutarch, then?" " Mr. Brown, that's outrageous!" " Ontrageous, love! Plutarch I Why what do you mean ?' "No child of mine shall ever be named after the god of the infernal regions !" Mr. Brown explained tiie biunder and passed on. " What do yon say then to Galileo? There is not a single Galileo Brown in the directory." "Was Galileo an Israelite?" "No, love, I think not" "I thought from his name perhaps he came from Galilee," ^said Mrs. Brown, thoughtfully. Mr. Brown was too mnch astonished to try to explain. He resumed the reading of his list: "Pelaliah is a Scriptural name. Would you care for Pelaliah ? Pelaliah Brown ?" "I think not," said Mrs. Brown. "It sounds like an impeachment of the dear child's veracity. I don't think we ought to start him in life with an insinuation that he will bo a storyteller." "It might not be right. Sappose then we call him Petrarch ?" "Is that a Bible name!" "No, love, not a Bible name." "To be sure not; I was thinking of St. Peter. I think, William, I should prefer an American name of some kind if we could find one." Mr. Brown concealed his feelings and turned a new leaf of his list. "I have a few Aztec names," said he, "that belong on this continent and that are marked by strong individuality. Tegozoiroc, for instance. He was an Aztec kirg." "Was Li3 last name Brown ?" "I think not. No. I am certain it wasn't, and there was Nezohualcoyotl; he was a king, too.'* "Oar child could never put such a name as that on an umbrella handle." "True," said Mr. Brown. <vThe king probably had no umbrella. Spotted Tail however is a native American name, which?" "And you would give that name to vour child?your own child?" "I don't know. Spotted Tail Brown might answer for?" Mrs. Brown suddenly flirted oat of the room wtth a remark intimating that she was going home to her mother's. Aiter she had had a good cry, Mr. Brown folded up his list and agreed to call the child Thomas.? Oar Continent. About Advertising. If you can arouse curiosity by an ad- j vertisement it is a great point gained. The fair sex don't hold all the curiosity in the world. A thing worth doing is worth doing well. A thing worth advertising is worth advertising well. A newspaper worth advertising in once is worth making a contract with. It is a mistaken notion that a fine store in an eligible location, surrounded by attractive signs, is a superior advertisement ; for the experience of the most enterprising merchants is that it pays better to spend leas in rent and more in advertising. Advertising is the pole that knocks the persimmons. Don't be afraid to invest in printer's ink, lest your sands of life be nearly run ctit, Trjing to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through a pair of green goggles. Yon may know wha1: you are doing, but nobody else does. The enterprising advertiser proves that he understands how to buy, because in advertising he knows how to sell. Bread is the staff of human life, and advertising is the staff of business. A simple card may profitably stand years without change, but a sensational advertisement should be changed as often as you can get the printer to do it. A heavy advertisement once is more than quadrupled in value by a small card, published for a few months after, giving your address. ion can't eat enougn m a weea. last yon a year, and yon can't advertise on that plan either. Now is the time to think abont advertising, and reflection should be followed by judicious action, To make a man realize an idea as yon realize it is what is necessary to make him understand his needs. Advertisements should aim to place a matter so clearly before the public that they see it as clearly as the advertiser does. Enterprising people are beginning to learn the valae of advertising the year round. The persistency of those who are not intimated by the cry of " dnll times," but keep their names ever be fore tiie public, win snreij piace xnem on the right side in the end.?Traders' Circular. Tricky Devices in Gambling. A New York letter in the St. Lonis Republican says: One of the newest tools is the poker ring, an ingenious little contrivance for marking the cards while playing, in a systematic manner, so that in a half hour one can tell each card as well by the back as by the face. Although it is not generally known, it is now in use by a few of the oldest and best professional players in the country. It is no secret that in the " _ _ gaming nouses marsea piajmg o-arus are used. The pattern on the back seems innocent enough until held at a certain angle under the light, and the difference between the cards may bo seen. The greenhorn cannot tell the pack from fair cards in common use, but the professional can tell precisely the cards that his opponent holds. There are loaded dice, *hich are made in exact imitation of j Tlion fhotv* is tVip snv. n. I Ui KklLiUi. J UiwWl ? ?X'.' J ? I reflector about the siza of a half-dollar, | which, it is said, can be used with per-1 feet safety either on the table or on tHe ; knee. i As for "strippers," another device in I card*, a gambler says: The benefit of j these cards can be estimated only in ' oneway, and that is by the amount of j money your opponent has got, for you ! are certain to get it, whether it is S10 1 or 810,000; the heavier the stakes the ! sooner you break him, and he never | knows what hurt him. The " bug" is ; a device for withdrawing from the pack ; a number of cards from which the j plajer can mate up a hand to suit. j* TRLCKS OF BEGfGAKS. Ilowthe Fraternity In London Deceive the Charitable. The reader may be surprised to learn that it is not in all cases that bona fide cripples, acd those who are nnmistakably afflicted and who implore charity are really entitled to commiseration and relief. It is quite within the verge of possibility that they have rendered themselves objects of compassion deliberately and with a purpose. At a notorious common lodging-house in the noiofViVw-irTioA/^ nf Timrv TroriA flip man a ger pointed out to me two such characters. The one was a wretched-looking woman, of past middle age, who was very poorly though tidily dreased, and who, while I was talking with the man in the passage, passed throngh, carrying in her hand a piece of romp steak and a small cauliflower. "That's how she does it," said Mr. Manager, as the woman, too weak to walk well, held on the balusters with her disengaged hand while she descended the steps that Jed down into the cellar; "that and a pint of stout will make her a decent dinner. She can afford it, and if she couldn't she would be dead in a month." On my requesting an explanation of this enigmatical speech, the manager continued: "I can't give you all the particulars, because what she doses herself with is i. -n_i 3 1 l* n a secret, xsut aose uerseu cue uues. She remains indoors till after the gas is lit, and an hour cr so before she starts she takes her dose, whatever it is, and it makes her that horribly ill that 'pon my soul, it's a wonder how she finds pluck to continue at the game. Her face grows ghastly aad pinched, and she grows black under the eyes, and she's so weak that there's no gammon about her hand shaking as she leans on her stick. She toddles out every evening, and you may find her afterward standing just off the pavement with a paper pinned to her breast, on which is writ, 'I am very ill and in deep distress.' She doesn't say a -word, I am told, or even hold out her hand. She hasn't any need to. I've known her to go out from here at six o'clock, and she'd been going it so the night before that she's fairly stumped and been glad to borrow two-pence-ha'penny of me for a half-quartern of gin to start her. Well, sir, I've known her to go out at 6 and be home before 10 with a matter of eight or nine shillings all in coppers. Does the stuff she tafce do her any harm ? It makes her thin, and she has such pains inside her that some times all the drink she can swallow don't make her forget 'em. Bat it is an out-and-out game while it lasts, and plenty of 'em that lodge here would give her something handsome if she would put 'em up to what her 'dose is. Do I thiak they would? I am sure of it. Why, take notice of that chap out there in the yard, washing his shirt. You see his arm 7" I looked at the individual indicated, whose braces crossed his naked shoulders, and I saw at once that his right arm was frightfully attenuated?seemingly mere skin and bene, while the corresponding limb was well nourished and plump. "There is no pretense there," I remarked; "the poor fellow has a with ered arm." Mr. Manager grinned. "i don't say he is a liar," said he, "bnt he brags that he did it himself on purpose that he might have the advantage of being a cripple. He's been a soldier, and what he says is?between friends and in confidence, yon know?that wanting. io?get :ont. oL. .the service and. not caring to work for a living, he gave himself a bang on the elbow with a hammer. It passed as an accident, he had 3 few months in the infirmary, and came out of the army with an allowance of sixpence a day for eighteen months, and his arm has been gradually wasting to what you see it now. Does he show it to excite compassion? Bather, He can use it a bit, and he plays on the fiddle witli it about the streets, shoeing it all bare np to the shoulder. But he doesn't ever make much. Not more than four or four-and-sixpence a day." "But that is much more than the average hard-working laborer earns," I remarked. "The hard-working laborer?" returned Mr. Manager, with undisguised contempt: Til find you dczens of fellows about here who haven't got the advantage of being crippled, who'd be sorry to earn as little as a hard-working laborer." And there is no doubt that there might be found scores of men and women, disabled and helpless, who make such an excellent living by displaying their infirmities that they" would decidedly decline to be made sound, were such a miracle possible. I can speak positively as regards blind men who are streethAtro-nrs Finding t.liem in wretched homes, with a drunken wife, and grownup, lazy children, living in clover on the money bestowed on their sightless parent during the day, I have interested in their favor those who, had they been willing, would at once have placed them in a comfortable asylum where, for the remainder of their lives, they would have b8en well fed and lodged and taught a trade as well. Buc in at leastfcliree instances they declined to aval themselves of the opportunity. Two ci them excused themselves on the pie that they could not bear to live among strangers, but the third bluntly told me that, though he was blind, he was net exactly a fool, and it wasn't very liiely that i.e was going to be caged tip for the sake of his food and a bed, when he could "make" seven shillings in a short day by going abont with his dog, and enjoy his pipe and his glass every evening.?London Telegraph. Siam's King Mourns His Loss. The Siamese nation has been plnnged into mourning by the death of "His Sublime Grandeur, the Court and Body Elephant of the King." Says the Indian Herald: We regret to learn that; the animal departed this life in a highly sensational manner, fraught with irreparable disaster to the staff of his household. One morning, after a hearty breakfast, he went mad quite unex pectedly, and trampled live ox nis attendants to death. To shoot him wonld have been sacrilege. [An attempt to tranquillize his perturbed spirit by encircling him with a huge ring o! bamboo, specially blessed by the high priest of his own particular temple, proved worse than ineffectual, for he broke through the ring and all but terminated the high priest's career upon the spot. He was then wif.h or^at difficulty driven into a close court of the palace, where, after several f arious endeavors to batter down the walls with his tusks, he sadden Iv toppled over on his side and uttered a last cry of raga. Naturally enough, this heavy calamity was attributed to criminal carelessness on the part of one or other of the attendants intrusted with the sacred elephant's feeding. The king thereupon interrogated the members of his sublime grandeur's household in parson with respect to their treatment of the il1 ~ -3 ,3 nmA Km ct fa cA i f. JUhmUllS UCUCMCU, UUt4 IIUUMJ any individual confession of delinquency, decreed that they should one and all be punished. Having thus vindicated propriety, his majesty assumed the garb of woe, and is understood to be still inconsolable for his loss. j Manitoba has a real live peripatetic ! tcwn. It is called "Boontown," and moves as the Pacific railroad advances. A camp is made at ibe end of the line i and building lots bring fancy prices, j and with another advance the place is ! d^sorted and another locality is called I "Bcomtown," - Told by a (5nilele?s Drummer. . Kecently a sad-looking drummer arrived in Little Kock. He had just made . a tour of several of the northwestern coon tie?, and, as he expressed it, had enough experience in one house toward tha "shank" of his trip to serve for yeirs of adventurous reminiscence. "Several days ago," said the drummer to a party of acquaintances, "I was riding along through the woods, wet and weary, and hungry. I had hired a horse at a farmhouse, and was ort/?/vmr?j.rnA/3 hv ft ftolnred bov on an other horse, who was sent to take my horse back when I reached the railroad. Well, as I was riding along throngh the -M country where the road was a mere ^ path, and where the woods were so thick that they reminded me of a perpetual evening, I was suddenly confronted by two men who, with leveled guns, told me to hold up my hands. I would like to have had an explanation, but my hands went up. Several other men advanced, and two of them searched me. They found a borrowed revolver and a watch. They did not take the watcb, but relieved me of the pistol." "'What's the boy doing with you?" one of them asked. I replied that he. - . had been sent along to take my horse back when I reached the railroad. " Yes; when you reach the railroad T one of them said. I asked for an explanation, but they cursed me. I didn't know what to do, and it didn't seem that they desired me to do anything. They tied a rope around my neck. "Letf s swing him up here," said one festive young fellow whom I took to be in something of a hurry. Then they began a debate. The colored *oy was frightened out of his wits. Pretty soon they told him to go back, and to take my horse with Mm. To this h9 readily 'assented, and in a minute more I was on the ground. I begged for an explanation. One man solemnly pointed to the rope I wore. " 'Fellers,' remarked a tifonghfcful looking man, 'we'd better take him ~ ^ ^ over and see if he is the right man.' This motion seemed to prevail. They 3 threw me onto a horse behind a little fellow, and I started off through the woods. It seemed to me that we had traveled an age, when we reached a clearing, in the center of which stood a small house. Several men were gathered in the yard, and I noticed excited women moving around. Our arrival was greeted with a loud shout. v. " 'Where's Abram ?' asked the on* TTA bliuuguuiui man v* vuk ??w . ? reached the gate. 'Atram' would be out in a few minutes. He came ; ail old mon with gray hair and a hickory shirt. " 'We've got him, Uncle Abe,' said the man who had proposed to hang me, '|jS 'and we're only watin' for the word/ The old man regarded me for a moment, and then said, 'Boys, he ain't the man, turn hi cd loose.' "The rope was taken from my reck. 'What was I seized for? I asked of Abranu js " 'Wall, you see,' he said, *a feller came along here this mornin' an' tried to steal my dog. You ain't the man. You can go.' I turned and walked * tT-3 -T?* away, i una gone auuuu mu uu^ when a man on a horse overtook me. 'The old man must see you,' he said; 'hurry back.' I trudged* back to the farm house. The old man was at the gate. 'What do yon want?* I asked. 'I want to say,' young feller, that it Jgi would be a good idea for you never, never to steal a dog." Then I walked ten miles wefeog.d.-? thought the matter over since, and blamed if I intend to steal a dog." Ancient People of America. At the New York Academy of Sciences, Professor John S. Newberry lectured recently on " The Ancient Civilization of America," and said in substance: When the savages were pressed back by advancing civilization until they had passed what was once the great natural water-gap between the lakes and the Mexican gulf, it was ciscovered that they were not autochthonous, for mounds, caves, palaces and remains of cities showed the existence of a race that lived in the highest state of civilization. Investigation and research by - - - ... . i ?*?i - _ Historians, geologists ana arcnajoiogisus have brought to light much concerning these wonderful people. They can be divided into two classes, which, with ' local differences, are genericaily the same. One is the mound-builders, who dwelt in the fertile vally of the Mississippi, following a sedentary and peaceful life. Mounds built by them, and instruments and pottery and copper ornaments made by them, have been discovered all through the Mississippi miiur Tbo-p tPArfi miners and farmers. raised tobacco, and remains of their oil wells still exist at Titusville, Pennsylvania. In numbers they probably equaled the inhabitants of the region at present, and enough is known of their ' osteology to say they were of medium size, fair proportions, with a cranial development not tinlike our Ted Indian. Their teeth were large and strong. They buried their dead with great ceremony. When, and why, and how the moundbuilders disappeared we do not know. Their ultimate fate was probably entire ?extinction. The second class of these early Amer icans was the palace-builders of the table-lands, a class that was spread from Chili, on the south, to Utah, on the north," reaching their greatest degree of power and civilization in Central America, Mexico and Pern. The ard Montezumas were types of this race, and though, when swept from the earth by the brutality of Pizarro and Cortez, their glory was already in its decadence, we can scarcely conceive of the extent of their macmificence. This Mexican and Penman era far surpassed anj thing in our day in the construction of public works, roads, aqueducts, palaces and cities. The macadamized road that led from Callao to Lima exceeded in cost the Union Pacific railroad, and if ali the fort 8 within our borders were put into one it would not eqnal the fortified structure that is yet to be seen en the Peruvian coast. Louis Hoffman, an engineer who was with Maximiilian, has described the ruins of a large seaport town on the Pacific coa>t of Mexico. The Central American country abounds in evidences 01 me Aztec ract, and this winter many archaeologists have gone thither, and from their labors we shall soon learn more of this wondrous people. Their origin is lost in antiquity. They may have coma from the seed borne across the sea by Phoenician traders?perhaps they sprnn? from the fabled race of Atlantis. They were either indigenous or imported iu an embryotic state from the oriental archipelago?the latter the most likely. Two Stories. In a trial before a justice at Do3go City, Kansas, a witness who was beic^ bullyragged by a cross-eiaminiag lawyer cilled on the court for protection. The justice handed him a pistol. "I ? have no further questions," said tha lawyer. Another story of the same character is of a horse and two men Li Missouri. The owner of the animtl was trying to sell it, and meeting a stranger taid ; "How ranch do you ij - - - . ?vi ?/i? 1 ?,v think, my horse is worri ing at the gothio 6teed the stranger replied : "About eighty-seven c^nfcj.'' ;3| ; Reaching behind him the owner of M>e horse palled forth and presented as tho -^Jg stranger a revolver, with the question : "How mnch did voa 827 this h-:ss is --^^5 worth 5" The rt ply quicfcly cace : Z&Gf ' Under the circnmstao?es I tbick that 4||jjgK