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j^EEKLY EDITION, WIj^^ DECiiMBElt' 27,; 1882. ^ ^ ESTABLI^im) 1844. ^ I The Farmer's Son?* i * ? harvest fields aro stripped of grain; e lnto-eown oorn is shooked in dun, id husked beneath a chilly sun; ragged stubble checks tho plain. hills are dosolate and cold, ie maples stand in grim array, . id through the forost'B muffled gray winds of heaven strike the wold. r7\ siec wimo tlio harvest splendors fail, L The grain is sold, tho barter rnado, B| 7 vAnd work, and care of crop, and trade f ,?Lre put aside with plow and flail. . '.e bins are filled, tho barns ato stored, \ 1 ftie orchards robbed of scanty fruit, ,.?And in tho garret Cold and mute, '*,? thrifty squirrols share the hoard. hough the drought was long and sore, tad scorched tlio Aold beaido the road /ill half Jio crop was loft unhoed, \ - ^ aftermath repaid the mower; -'( ; ;j QUgh half tho ryo wfta winter-killod, Uid horo tho wheat was struck by blight, yj\..??- .. ? ? - - im is kqou in noavon'8 Bight, | / ,md still tlio waiting barns two fillod. V And elill, through every ompty mood Eljm JJeyond the momont'a harah (surprise, Bt<' v At Inst a truer knowledge lies? F~/ <the sense of some ?saonthil good. [ So, since tho harvest moon haa waned, ; By yonder shining crescent's edgo, I 1 "Our hands are struck upon n plodge, | And muoh is lost?and more is gainedl i V The Pilgrim seed has taken root, ? \ Despilo tho land so hard and groy, I A?ld. jlownvnrl to tliin r -n ? ? *..v..AivobiUl?ti U(%/, ^ -.ill yot bring forth abundant fruit. i* ' ?Dora Head Good alt, | : ? I ; IN TIE HII1X.8. g Chat old Anstice Purcoll loved lior " Jno was not to be wondered at. Sho I id been born in it, and so had her . bther "before her. Sho had remem\ anco of no other, and it was as much i mart of her existence as the sky and | ? It would have seemed no stranger her to bo without a coping of blue ?' f than it would to see four different k -lis from theso about her and to call 1 m fm home. i " Anilv certainly, if beauty could give : no reason to lovo a spot, Anstico had ' . cason enough. For was not the long,; >W stone house perched on a crag, so ! i\at it looked like nothing but a lichen I'^that crag? And did it not overlook j Idling hilltops below and far away,j ^lm-fringed intervales, with silver ' ams looping and doubling through j 11V And was not old Greyhead j 1 fering above her, with ail his | kla and precipices ami storm-scored 3, and casting a shadow over her ; Redcap, taking tho sunset (ires on psito upper heights ; and greater its, looming blue in tho horizon? . I did sho not know when tho I jfc .her was to ho fine by the vapors j Al great Monasset? And, when! :; , posts of rain or snow set in, did 'aot feel that Monasset and Uedcap | i,j'proyhcad stood, like three power-1 '[ gonii, and shut her in and kept' j;h and ward over her and her ( idchililrcn, in their sad fortunes, j ]iey had kept it over her ancestors : generations? or h'or only son had boon smitten j v.A-A a strango unrest among these: ir jatains?an unrest new to tho Pur (and he twieo a Pureell, since' tico had married her cousin)?and, ! I *ved by tho fear of poverty, per- \ I uiftU mo o lUivUlIU 111 tlJU . !vso, should Greta givo him chil' ho had gone away to sea, ten t^jigo, as if only boundless hori^ ^ ^vftor thoso imprisoning hills, . , ^ill his yearning for space. He J ;,:t Margaret,his young wife, with \ ' nother; l'or, although tho Purcoll i had shrunk with every gonera>there was yot a pittance which , -jd support tho household till ho ! Hp "".send back or bring back the' 1 that iie meant to have. But the ! * jit wlion shosaw his bright black I %'.ashing through her tears, as ho j Jwn tiio rocky path to cross Held \ cyood, and tako tho coach, and i L ,il a moment to wave his hand ' ,sly, was tho last in which Anstico I 1-ver seen him. The bnrk Ailm. I B ttho owners affcor a timo wrote! t aad gone down, with all on board, j B a season, then, it did not seem ! fl ^ Anstice that she lived. 'J'lw 1 f jP&JaEf mt ti'!; f J -'V iitul 8be saw only tlio [ "waste of waters for days' and " and months, till she was awak-, from her apathy by the sound of a | tj voice in tho night, the quick, ; m tjd cry of a new-born baby. Of I ] fU f WA aF X-A ' J V- .. 'y VJI UIVIIII OllU 1U3U liULI My. to her feet, looked about her t jalf-bowildorment, then hurriedly B . Vd herself, as she bad not done for BT ' '}g, and went out into another S "Greta," she said, "you haw H i? mo back my boy." And Greta : Wy .to think in after days that An-! /p really felt as if the babies wore j t own, and sho herself was only a L Voll-meaning nurse. But sho never j H grudged tho car? of her boys to their | jn grandmother, great as tho comfort of B that care was to horself. Sho knew V what their lovo of their mother must! Hi needs bo; nnrl she used to toll them BF that it was becauso of them, stung to H madness by tho thought of their com MM. Ing to livo tho lifo of poverty mid caro Hkthiit lio ?aw stretching out to old ago, What her own Hon had gono away to mo hack no moro. A woman, this B /cot Greta, who shut hor sorrow | t in hor own heart, and nover k ,nispered it oxcopt to her bahiofl, t tho watches of tho night, ; WL on she would say to thorn how S lUtifnl, how bright, how bravo a W h their father was ; how ho loved j and sho had worshiped him ; how , y must grow like him and make l" vp to bo strong and good enough ] F 'fo caro of tlioir littlo grand- j r. ami !<> ' . F nvi tiuisuu iiway TO ] L band. The only troublo that ( i g,| ^otweon h6r and Anstloo was that she Would not ftiyo either of tlie boys the father's name. "No," she said. "It is like parting his raiment. Call them what you will, but not John." And so Anstioe called tho one Benoni, the soft of flty sotfcow, and tho other Ashe*S because of her happiness that had boen restored to her with liiin. And little Ash and Ben, as they presently were known, grew and thrived, and ruled the household with rods of iron. "What pretty littlo darlings they were, rolling I'Ottiid the lloor in their dhiipied play, their curly yellow heads in tho bttn ; their dark-fringed eyes, their father's eyas, dancing with mirth and mischief; their rosy fttttesso velvety soft, and sweet. Anstlce would catch one to hfet heart, and drop him for the tttUer, and go back to tho first, And hardly let them alone at all, in tho swelling ecstacy of her love, but for the kicking and struggling ttttd loudvoiced protestations that they set up; but Margaret would only pauso in her WoUk, and follow them witli wistful eyes, wondering if this was tho way that their father looked at their age, and silently thanking Heaven, that, if tho father had been taken, It had, at any rate given them each other. Thoy needed each other, tho little feU lniVfl aa v <* m) vA*vy iuvjlvuouvi vuoail aujroi i. ui>y lmd nobody else. It was lotig sinco Anstico had kept a servant, and, although tho old furnishing remained in other rooms* the small family lived chiefly in the narrow quarters of two, opening into ono another. Neighbors were scarco in that hill country. Children did not exist at all. Tho only person within reach was tho man round the side of the mountain, who managed Anstieo's little farm for her. There was no school, of course (tho neatest was down in tho Vttli?.y> ten miles away); no church any nearer; wayfarers did not faro that way; no soldiers marching through bannered streets with inusic ; no streets ; no other torchlight procession than that oi uie eternal stars ; nothing to break the calm monotony but tho mail-coach, that onco a day could bo soon, a mere speck, winding down tho distant highway. But it all mado no odds to the children. The day was not long enough for their pleasure. Thoy knew nothing of any world outside of their kites and balls and gardens and birds'-ncsts in the lovely, swift summers; their snow forts and snowshoes tmd sleds in tho long winters. If it had not been for their perpetual longing and yearning for what was not Greta and Anstice might have felt something liko a rellootion of their ili luvililillf at tiiem. 4< Do other little bovs have fathers?" asked Asli, 0110 day. "Only when they don't have brothers," answered Ben. " But fathers are nice to have," reasoned Ash. "Don't you remember tho tart tho minister over at Bareback brought us? And ho said his little boy had one." "Yea. It had raisins in it. liaisins are so good!" "But I iuifiR I'd rather have a brother," urged Ash; "Tho brother's there next day to plav and tho raisin isn't." " Hear the darlings," said Anstice. "They will be father and brother both to each other. Oh ! and they will have n An/1 rvf i 4" '' XXVJVjU \J 1 JlVi For poor Anstice's ago. was even more troubled than her youth Iia<l been. Then she had seen, piece by pieco, the substanco of the old estate depart?farm by farm, field by field. For two generations, except to sow and reap the few aercs left the home place, her people had done nothing but to sell their patrimony, till, at length, it held reached a point where all the fertile glebe was gone and there was nothing left to sell. The Porter place had kept them talive so many years, tho Green property so many more. When her father went to eolloge the sale of tho Itye farm paid the hills?big bills too. When he was buried tho great funeral cost the barley fields. The long acres down in the valley had furnished her and John with food and clothes, after her own husband's death from the mountain lover. And then thoro was no remnant of it all, but the home place, that "ny one would take so much as a mortgage on, and it was when she mortgaged tjiat that John, in uespuiation, wont away- uu nm. > Anstice lnul depended on the rent of two or three little outlying spots to pay the interest on the mortgage; and now, this cri^el year, they had been tloserted by their tenants, who left the Hterile heaps of stone and moss for the rich Western lands, and there was no other tenants to take them. Sho had no money; and, como the last part of November, the mortgage would be foreclosed, and sho and Greta and the boys would be turned loose upon the world, without a dollar. Greta could work, maybe; but she herself and the litte Ian*?mere was not even the poorlionso beforo them. Up in that hill country the abject poor were so few that they .wero farmed out and boarded from place to place. And that was the end of all the Pureell wealth and Purcell hope. Death would havo been a kind tiling to .old Anstice in comparison. Sho used to lie awako in the nights, thinking over thtf- possibilities. The horror of them grow upon her. She would start up and puco the floor, and flinging something on would run out, as if to get help from all outdoors?the at.nrs flut winrl tVin olro --J ? .....m.vi.u oixjr?uiiu uuu i?y wondering, as sho loaned ovor the parapet of tho old atone wall, if it would not bo best to put an end to thomsolves iit onco down the precipice below her. " When 1 think of it," sho said, Fts Greta came onco to fetch her In?" when I think that us far lis tho eye could hoo an object ivnd tell what it was, so far the land was tho land of my family, yiohling \ revenue, and now a bare two days and c tbeir children will not own a foot of t their inheritance cir bjwo. a toof oVer their hcadfj, I doubt ProVidelice and it drives me wild 1" "Nof mother, dear," said Greta's gentle voice, aa, with her arms round Anstiee, she led hef back to tiio house ?"no, mother, dear, if wo doubt ProVidenca, then alJ is gone, indeed." " To think of it r cried Anstice, again.. ''Ton I old Parson Mildredge's daughter and my son's wifo, adrift on the world, to earn your bread or starve I And the little lads?the last of the Purcells?with no future before theni, Ho clothes to _ their backs I 1 Think of the Thanksgiving dinners all 1 this country over, and not a tart will ' my boys have. Other boys?" 1 "But, indeed, mother, so long as they ? have bread and niillt tlrldask for no more, ' We need not fret at that. Such happy 1 little rogues-.?"' ' " Happy they'll be in the state alms- J houso 1" " It will never como to that 1 I have \ a pair of bands?" ^ " Much you can do with your hands, . you as fragile as a reed I" " I can work for you and the children with them. Don't jfear;'* " if voU can cret work I" "IshtUl seo." Wo will go down to ' one of the great mill towns ; and it will go hard but?" " Go down to a mill town! , Down in .a dark, stifling alley of a town I Away from all tho , light and frcedo\h here?the hills, the glory of them, vho strength of them ! Oh I I will dio first. I'ftnd rathelrdie I't " But we can't die, you see. And if We doUbt Providence, that is worse than death" "Oh I wo-are tried," half sobbed Greta. " Wo are being tried I But somehow I seem to feel? I know 1 I know !?that help is on tho way to us, just as much as though I heard a voice from heaven saying so." And she went to bed and took the shivering little mother in her arms, and tho nervous storm throbbed itself oft into'sleep for tho weary old Ansticej and then Gfeta took her turn to see tho strir.s slide by the window, pausing LU lUUJv. HUieilllliy 111, Willie Hlie MIOUgUt that, somewhere in tho wide world, they were looking down on tho spot whero her husband slept. Once or twioo she rose, after Anstice had been soothed to slumber, and moved abcut tho room. When a great meteor went slipping by, in a swift blaze of glory, her heart gavo a plunge; and then it seemed to be as if the stars themselves had sent her messages of comfort, ana she slept. " lien," said little Aslier, in tho morning, sitting up in bed, with the sunshine breaking in new luster on Ina nrnitu rrnl/lrvn lmn/1 nn/1 fI^a ! Hushing l'reshly up his face, "did you i ever see an angel "Ifo," said lien. "Did you?" "Once I did. Yes. 1 saw an angel last night, Ben." "I guess so." " I did. Keally and truly, I did," said Ash. " I saw two of them, Ben. j I woke up in the night when it was ! dark and tho lire was out, and one was i standing by tho hearth, arid the stars 1 shone all-over it. And I saw it all in ' white; and it went awav. And it looked just liko the angels mother reads about to us in tho Bible." " I guess it was mother," said lien. " Tho other wasn't mother !" answered Ash, indignantly. " Tho other was a real angel, any way. It went | rxiuiii^ vy biiu imunv wim wings like fire, and it left a path shining behind it. And I know it was the Angel ol' tho Lord." " Do yon really suppose it was, Ash ?" "I know it was. And, of course, it came for something, you know, Ben. I shouldn't wonder if we were going to have Thanksgiving to-day, after all." "I hope there'll he raisins in it, then," said lien. " I like raisins so 1" "Just hear the darlings," whispered Anstice. after her custom, to (Jrota. " I'd give my hand to get him raisins for the day. Going to liavo Thanksgiving after all! Thanksgiving for hiring cast adrift upon the world 1" And she began to cry bitterly. "Come, boys," called Greta, who had been gently moving about till the HreS were bright in the two rooms, for 'of wood they had still plenty. " Ono should bo Stirling uui'iy ou ximuKBgivuig iuominy. Porridge is reudy when you have said your prayers." And sho sat'down where the roso and purple of the sunrise fell over her like an aureole, as tho two little chaps eamo pattering out to tho snapping lire, in their long white nightgowns, and, kneeling before her, hid their faces in her lap while shosaid the prayer. Ono would have thought it little enough that Greta I'urcell had to give thanks for that day?husbandless, 1 homeless, portionless, and with three i helpless souls hanging on her for help, i But to ono hearing the simple words < that she offered in her morning saeri- ! Ilc(i it would have seemed jus' though : princes had no more to he grateful j for?as she gave her thanks for life, for health, for hearts not i yet broken altogether, for the ' bright morning, the loyely earth, ] for hope of heaven, for each other. I "Amen 1" said a voico at tho door. 1 None thought of fastening any door in 1 that unvisited country, " i Tho childron lifted their faces as < they kneeled, and Greta turned her i head, to see a tall man standing in tho ' doorway, with a loose cloak wrapped i mm 1 "Perhaps it is tho angel," whispered ! lien, still a little under tho spoH of his i mothor's prayer. "John I John 1" eoino a cry from j the inner room. " Oh I Joiin !" cried i old Anstice. " My son 1 my son!" i And sho Would havo fallen before ( she reached the bearded, black- ; eyed stranger, witli a sort of wild t beauty on Ids dark, swcot face, had lve i not caught her on one arm while tho itlior already folded GrSSpwho sat like twhite stone. ? & V ,T. him! \ J kntw/him sried Attstice, j)reSehtly?o .<!Oht ruBt a mother's. inatfipot. He's my. leah and bleodl" "And do you suppose$cUd not know i lim ?" fliished baek GretAfaot vet quite j icrsplf. " Ilois my VfiHr. self)., And [ always knew ho was any,I fttways loH it. I was sure haafof me was hot leadl" wW'j " But half of you eanjfo mighty n^ar t twice," said John, fro^ >wh6re he ,vas sitting then, with an Abashed and indfaped urchin on eitW. knee antl na aIaqIt o l^nnf + *' l( T aV*nil I VWMU UUVUV VUV1U 4. O^CViA lever be any nearer doafyi, aftgy las.t,,. light, than I was on thffrdH^'vlm^M?;,.. jatross went down. I-uSv* thought, vll these teii cruel years* that. I liad_ letter have been dead; for t tfw' kicked up by a craft-that carried no into a Formosan} port, and* [ have been a slave," he said. ' I have been a slave, .with slavery nade more terrible M thought of ivhat had becomt of liiy mother, my wife, my child. 1 did not know that I uul two of them!'* said John With naif a sob; ... . & . *' " Oh 1 John ! Dear Tohii I'V- . . "To think of us," cried Anstice, lifting up her voice, "when you were suffering so yourself, my boy I" " To think of you 1" he exclaimed, with a flash in his eyes that melted in M.A /1ai?. umi I niu uow until/ 1WUUWCU. 'lUBlO UOYer was day or night, sleeping or waking, that I (lid not. The agony of it passed all the rest, and I see ndw ttij worst Eorp.bodirigs almost true:* /\rou would have beeri starving iri a little?" " Arid"' tlie mortgage 'is foreclosed to-day," cried Anstice, \vringing her hands, with the sudden remembrance thrust upon her joy. "Not oxactly," ho laughed?and he was fumbling in his breast for a little goatskin bag as ho spoke ?"although heaven knows what might have been if --la^t night, just as I was goirtg oVet "NVhitehorse ledge; it huge meteor had i}ot suddenly lllll'/Pfl fillt. nnrl ?lin\vnll tria flio utinuin into which tho next step, would lead. Not exactly; for, when I escaped,, months ago, and found my way to the Cape?South Africa, you know?I wont to tho diamond Ileitis while I waited for a ship. Great Heaven I ITow good it was to go whero I would! Do you seo this, Greta? Do you see this, mother? These little crystals are worthless-looking things, aro they not?" And he poured them out in his palm. " They aro diamonds, and of my own finding. I liRVO Sold Ouongh already for emergencies?" " And I need not leave my home, my father's home, this spot of heaven to me, and all of earth, full of tho Purcell's life and death I" cried Anstice, sharply, springing forward, to look in her son's face again. "Never, mother. And we wiL make it what it used to bo; for, worthless as they look, in that handful lies a whole universe of happy possibilities for us. Oh! Greta, my faithful wif? \ Mmro lio? homo regained, my mother blessed, my children educated, and you without a care. There lie all tlio Puvcell fortunes and all the Purcell acres once again our own." " It was the angel, you see," whispered Ash. "And raisins, father?" asked Ben. ?Harriot Prcscott tivofl'ord. One's First 'jtiiu'thquako. A private letter recently received from Miss Fanny Snow, containing an interesting account of tho earthquake in Mexico, is so full of interest that we have been permitted to make tho following extract. It is known to some of Miss .Snow's friends that she went to tho City of Mexico last Octo* bor to bo associated with Miss M. L. Latimer, formerly of ltochestor, in organizing a mission school for girls, under tho Presbyterian boaid of foreign missions : " This has been a day to bo remembered. This morning we invited tlio Q s to come up to tea tonight. After school wo sallied forth to buy clams for a clam-chowder, cake and various . things. Wo wero walking briskly along San Francisco street, in the hot sun, when I felt myself suddenly whirling?could not see. I called out, frightoned, Why, Miss L?, I'm dizzy!' "So am I,' she re Hljuimciii una tnon 1 uunK lor a moment I lost my senses, for I had a wild idea that I must get somewhere under shelter. As I saw people all around dropping on their knees, I did not want to bo the ono conspicuous personago on the street who could not kneel to the archbishop or tho holy sacrament. Whatever I thought I staggered into a shoo store, and just as I got inside it struck mo that, an earthquako was in session. They wero ropairing something or other in tho store, and I vaguply folt tnrougu my dizziness mat 1 must get nut from, under tho scaffolding, nnd I Somehow found myself in the street, standing on tho cornor ind clinging to a building. By that timo I had recovered my senses, nnd could philosophize on tho subject. It was very interesting to watch the people. They poured out of tho stores into tho streets, and very generally knelt. I took in tho height of tho buildings around, and concluded that should thoy fall into tho narrow streets nno might as well bo in ono spot as in unother, so stayed in tho shade. It was very quiot, not a word spokon iny whero. I don't supposo it lasted three minutes, but it was tho queerest sensation imaginable. For tho moment that I did not know what it was [ was dread fully frightened, but tho moment it occurred to mo it was only m carthquako, I was as composed as ii i nau ia?en oaruiquaKes ior a ciany exorcise all my lifo. I was quite seadck for a mtlo while, and never was waslck a* jea. I am actually so dizzy now, at 10 o'clock, that I can hardly rite."'?Jtoohcster Domoorat, SCfENTlfrlOHOTES. ' ?A very durai)l^> artificial iroty has recently been prepared by dissolving sheilao iti itUtiriOiiltt# mixing the solution with oxldo of fclnc; driving .off tho ammonia by beating, powdermg' and strongly compressing in molds.; Professor Burns, of Tubingen, hta made Soiiie experiments on dogs which ho regards as proving thai jboHe#ri?r-> row, ^completely separated froto the bone*may be transplanted under the skin of, tho same animid at a remote part of the boc^ with tlio, result of giving rise to the fortbtitldii ox riew bone and cartilage. The law that bodies evaporate the njorauu'o they contain tho faster tlie more surface they have will remaintrue in regard w earth, and itj will follow that the finer the soil is pulvefi?ed the faster it will become dry under given circumstance*; but evaporation* to be rapid, requires dry air to receive the vapor. And to give soil the most benefit from dew, it must be made porous so that the moist air can touch the greatest surface "Vaccination is henceforth to be compulsory in China. One cause for popular opposition to it is that it is tho practice there to vacciriiite children on the tip of tho nose. A reward of half a tael, which the government lias offered for every child vaccinated, has not been sufficient to persuade parents in easy circumstances to disfigure their children in this way; and a law has therefore been promulgated punishing by fine and imprisonment tho failure to vaccinate. During his recent researches JNlr. Brown-Sequard has proved the possibility of introducing a tube into the larynx of tho higher animals without causing any pain or any subsequent bad result, although the experiment was performed repeatedly, in at least one ease, on a single, suojeet. 'l'lie local insensibility to pain was caused by directing a l'apid current of carbonic acid upon tho upper part of the larynx th/ongh an incision, for from fifteen seconds to two or three minutes. After the operation was completed the anrcsthotic effect lasted ?rom two tr eight minutes. A Hank Clerk's Sacrifice. A good many years ago a cashier took a little lad from a neighboring poovhouso and When tho boy had become a youth be Was given a responsible position in tho blink of Which his patron was practically t.hwhnud. Ti?tor tho cashier stolo moro than $15*000 from tho bank. Exposure was threatened every day, and tho guilty ofllcer. in a period of depression, confessed to tho youth that lie proposed to kill himself. Young liny, tho protege, was smitten with horn r as ho thought of tho terrible turn in afFairs, but having weighed tho matter, the next day ho threw himself into the broach. lie suggested, arid tho cashier eagerly accepted the suggestion, that ho shov.ld fasten tho guilt upon himself and abscond, thus leaving his patron honest in the world's eyes, though blackened in his own. What, the public he^rd of the Wcstport robbery was thvt a hank clerk named Kay had stolen $15,000. Detectives found several clows, but not until years afterward was the 3ecret disclosed. One of the detectives who had been employed in tho case sanio up with Kay under still more romantic circumstancos. Tlie detective, according to his reminiscences published in a San Francisco paper, was called recently to a Western city to ferret out the person who had robbed a private hoitso of 200 gold eagles. Tho only man under arrestwas one, Ilenry Martin. As soon as the detective saw Martin the former said: "You are Dallas Kay, who robbed theWestport bank." Kay then told the true story of tho robbery and tho story has been verified since. Hay claimed thai ho was innocent of tho gold eaglo burglary and. asked tho detective to tako a noto to his sweetheart, a Miss Morse. When the latter 1..V 1 1. 1 ? ? * ? 1 neuni ,ui nur jovur h predicament sue threw her whole soul into obtaining proof of his innocence. She went to the houso where the robherv had been committed. Having asked if tho burglar had left anything in his flight, shewas given a handkerchief that had been dropped by the intruder. 6ho [ put the handkerchief to her nose and exclaimed: "Find tho thief who uses this .perfume (naming tho peculiar brand) and you will find your eagles." It was found that only ona drug store in tho city sold that kind of perfumery, and that only one bottle bad boon \?r!f l?5r? ~ ? ? A* xuiiguu WIK1MU uuu piuuuuillg J11U1LU1. Need it. 1)0 added that tho purchaser was traced, tho eagles regained and tho lovors married I HEALTH HINTS. A handful of (lour bound 01 a v,ut I will immediately stop tho bleeding. AVhcn suitering fyom Hour stomach, Dr. Footo, in his Health Monthly, advises tho sufferer to try sv allowing saliva. A good wash to prevent tho hair from falling out is made with one ounce powdered borax, half an ounco of nowdnrnd rsnvrnhnr nnn minrt. r?f __ 4 : - I J 7 w*boiling water. When cool pour into a bottlo for \ise, and clean tho head with it, applying with a flannel or spongo once a week. For dyspepsia, pour ono quart of cold water on two tablcspoonfuls of unslacked lime; let stand a few irinutes, bottle and cork, and when clear it is ready for use; put three tablespdonfuls in a cup of milk, and drink any timo, usually before meals. A Chicago policeman shot cloven times at a burglar and each timo missed. Ho made the serious mistake of aiming at tho follow. . . TUB OCEAN'S lJErTHS. rtha Woiulorl'nl Tiling* IMncovcrcrt at ?ho KlttVOI af tll? Atlantic. . ' j' At a meeting of the National AcatlcAiy of ScienceB in Now York Proifea* BOtf A,. 13? Verrill, afc Yalo college, described the physical and geological character of the sou bottom off our coast, especially that which lfefl beh?ath the Gulf stream. If? lias made 1,500 obsemitiohi this suirimer for the United States fish comfrtiMioners. He has cruised from Labrador to Chosa peak? bay and about 200 miles out to He& . About sixty mlias outsldo of Nantucket id tt streak of very cold water, and animals dfcfclged'up.aro llko those caught in tlio writers of Greenland, Spit/bergen or Siberia. The water is fifty fathoms deep, and tlio. bod of the ocean is of clay. Bouldefa Weighing 800 or 1,000'pounds aro dredged up. IWfessgf Vefrill believes they are brought doWni by icebergs from the Arctic regions tftid dropped when the ice melts. Tht boulders are found as far south as Long imtuiu. j: uibiirL uuv w nt'tv, iv 120 miles stmth .from the southeastern coast of New ICnglaUdf the bottom ol tho sea, which lias inclined vei'/ gradually eastward, forming a tableland, tilkes a sudden dip downward, so that whereas tho WUtef on tho edgo of tho bluff is 100 fathomskdeep, fit; the bottom of tho basin it is 1,000 fathoms deep. Tho slope is as high and as stoop as Mount Washington, and on its summit, which is level, a diver, could lie go to so low a dopth, colild not put out his hand Without touching a living creature. Tho bottom of the sea is coveted just there with a fauna which has novel:' boon before found outside of tlio Mediterranean soil, the (Julf of Mexico, the Indies, or other tropleflt t'ejadons. Tho number of species of fish dredged lip is 800, and over half of them have never before been seen by naturalists. Sev enty kinds of fish, ninety of crustacea, ancl 2?0 lnollusks havo been added to our fauna. Tlio age of many of the specimens shows that they imi?C he permanent in that region. The trowel let down from tite ships by a mile of ropo brings lip a ton of living.,,'nd dead crabs, schrimp, star fish.4 t*nd as the trowel simply scrapes ovtu u small surface, the ocean bed is plainly carpeted with creatures. Sharks are seen by thousands in this region, and countless dolphins, but it seems strange that not a ilsli bone is over dredged up, A piece of wood iiuw bo iij-y .1K00 ? your, huh 1^ 's honeycombed by the boring shell fish i falls to pieces at the touch of the and. This shows what destruction is constantly going 011 in tlio.se depths. If a ship sinks at sea with all on boHrd, it would be eaten up by fish with the exception of the metal, and that would corrode and disappear. Not a bone of a human body would remain after a few days. It iw a constant display of the law of the survival of the fittest. Nothing made by the hand of man was dredged up after cruising l'oi months in tho track of ocean vessob excepting coal clinkers shoved overboard from steamships. Hero Professor Vcrrill corrected himself. Twentyfive miles from land ho dredged up an india rubber doll. That, he said, win ono thing tho llah conlcl not eat. Here the Gulf stream is forty miles further west than any map show?, Professor Verrili continued ; and iiiis stream of v. arm water from the south nourishes the tropic;** life near Massachusetts. The temperature further in shore is thirty-five degrees in August , on the edge ol tho submarine Mount Washington fifty-two degrees, and toward the bottom of the basin thirtynine degrees, while further out to sea the temperature of tho water grows colder. On the siirfaco tho jelly fish, nautilus and the Portuguese man-ofwar, with other tropical flab, aro found. In this belt the tile lish, about which ro much was said a year ago, were found in immense quantities, but tlii.-j summer, although expeditions have been made for the express puf potto ol patching some, not one could be taken. Undoubtedly they had been killed, to a flsh, by a storm which caruied tho cold water into the Gulf stream; indeed, it. is known that a cold current of water resting on tho ocean's bed may contain Arctic fish,, and a current of warm water floating ovor it on tho surface may be alive with tropical lish. As to tho quantity of light at tho bottom of tho sea there has been touch uin^iibi,:. y\iiiiinu?(ircugcairom neiow 700 fathoms either have no eyas, or faint Indications of thorn, or else their eyes are very largo and protruding. Crabs' eyes are four or live times as lavgo as those of a crab from surface water, .which shows that that light is feeble, and that eyes to bo of any use must be very large and sensitive. Anothei c.trango thing is that whoro tho creatures in those lower depths haVo any color, it is of orange or red, or reddish orange. Sea anemones, corals, shrimp and crabs have this brilliant color. Sometimes it is pure red or scarlet, and in many specimens it inclines toward purple. Not a green or blue llsh is found. The orange red is the fish's protection, for tlio bluish green light in the bottom of tho ocean makes the orango or red fish appear of a neutral tint and hides it from enemies. Many animals aro black, other* neutral in color,. Some fishes are provided with boring tails, so that they can burrow in the mud. Finally, the surf ace of the submarine mountain is covered with shells, like, an ordinary sea beach, showing that it is the eating-house of vast soliools of carnivorous animals. A codfish takes a whole oyster into its mouth, cracks the sholls, tligests tho meat and spits out tho rost Crabs crack the shells and stick out tho meat. In that way eomo whole mounds of shells that arn dredged up. . There aro in the German empire 17601 physicians and 4,457 apothecaries. Tlumksglylngv Through centuries the golden link* have nrn Oar fathers' fathers, like their girls and boys, .. .. ; E'er blesawd the mellow Indian ptunmw ?un That gave this oxovrn of all their house.- ? . _ ^ Y4 tt,* Jo?? *V w*v'fliMV VUW VtVM* UUU VWOV^UV nuuuviv^ baok, > * . It placed' the infant on the grandsire't ltpee, And wondrously it smoothed vexation's traok,. New warmth rekindling for the time to he} * ' * .. %a,. ' V Oh, rich the garnore by our fathers stored, ^ And glad and deep their dpar Thanks* giving glow; Our own but eoho round the festive board The voices of a hundred years ago. For now as th<ui, Thanksgiving goethup, j A v? WIVIJ U(UHOOU luijmjnu UlKl/.UUiXIy For bl68Bing& lingering in old ngo's cup, And nil the promise round the feet ot youth. ?George H. Coo ier, g= .1 11 'aanjf llUMOROFfHE Dlt. Josh Billings says: ' "Next to a clear conscience foi' solid comfort comes an ,, old shoe." Marriage makes men thoughtful. , About Halt their time is spent m forming excuses. \ It is the rich oyster dealer who known how to shell out.-?-iVeM> York Commercial. Any good-looking lass Is perfectly hapfty when loft to her own rejections. ?New Yoi'k News. | The man who "couldn't stand it any longer" has taken it seat and now feels more comfortable. > The circus rider who was elected to the Italian parliament is, wo believe, the' only politician who can success fully fid? Mvp liorses at onco.?Philadelphia NeuJs'. ' ' $ A woman was offered $1,000 if sho would remain silent l'or two hours. * At tho end of lifteon minutes sho asked: "Isn't the time nearly up?" and thus lost. * ) lie was making a call .'tnd they were talking of literature. " Tho Pilgrim's ProgiteSs/' she remarked, " always seemed to me prtinful. Of course you are familiar with Bdft^an?" IIo said ho had one on each' foot and they uuun^ir-u iiiui it guuu utiu. I Association of ideas : " Tliat was u, powerful sermon the dominie preached this morning," said old farmer Furrow to his wife as they sat at the dinner table yesterday. " 'Deed it was,*' rciplied she^f-but do you know,. John, uvuiy tltno'llie parson spoke oi' tlm golden calf that them 'ere heathens worshiped X couldn't help thinking of you and tho brindle heifer what you won't sell for love or money ?"?New York Commercial. BOTH DEIilTDED. " Yonr girl may bo pretty," said Harry, "May be, ps you call lior, divino; A Mtrl any fellow yrculd marry, But Walt, Charlie, till you've seen mine. % Ah 1 then, my denr boy, you'.U boo beauty United to BwoetnosB and gracd, With buqIi a high notion of duty? why, condor is writ on her face." "Indeed,1' rtrplted Charlie, "such graces Might well adom maiden or dnme; 'Tib Holdom wo look on such faces? lJray tell me, old follow', her. name." " Her name," replied Harry, " 'tis Eltu? The daughter of Old Deacon SiOne, And I would bo willing io bet a Small Bum that she loves me# alono." " What, Etta I" crios Charlie, in pnssiou, " Yoti can't mean that swGot little elf? .She knows not of jlirting the fashion-" 'Twas l?ttft I spoke of myself 1" "That so i:: mutie^fxl Harry; "then surely Wo'vo both boon deluded 'tis plain, And ore she 1ms hooked One securoly She's got to go fishing agaifc<" For Young Folks Winter Nights. tho ioiiowing may seryo to while? away somo long winter evenings : Can you place a newspaper on tho lloor in such a way that two persons can easily stand upon it and not be able to touch one another with their Winds? Answer?Yes, by putting tho paper in tho doorway, one-half inside and tho ' other half outside of the room, and closing tho door over it, two persons can easily stand upon it and still be be yond each other's reach. C.m you put ono of your hands where tlio other cannot touch it? Easily ; by putting one hand on tho elbow of the other arm; Can you.place a pencil on tho floor in such a way that no ono can jump ovor it? Yes, if I placo it close enough to the wall of tho room. Can ybu push a ohair through a 'finger ring? You > by putting a ring on the finger and pushing tho chair with tho linger. You can put yourself through a keyhole by taking a piece of paper with the words " yourself " written upon it and pushing it through the hole. You uuii sisK a question tnat no one can answer with a '{ no," by saying what does y-e-s spell? You can go out of the room with two legs anil return witli '\ six, by .bringing a chair with you. , There is no element that enters moro largely into the happiness and general comfort of society than the disposition to make tho best of what happens. ( Good and ovil. or what we esteem as sUoh, como to us at different times and in various ways, but tho message they bring and tho effeet they produce aro chiefly determined by tho way wo receive them. To make tho host of the thousand details of every-day life, as they arise, is^i great power for I good in human lives, and ono which every man and every woman can ; f ?1.i t W1U1U. "Bobt. II. M.," Soinift, Ala.: "You seem to know a littlo about almost everything, and I hope you will answer this question : How can I permanently remove an indelible grease spot from a broadcloth coat?" The,only way to permanently romovc an indelible grease spot from a coat is to saw it out of the coat, but that would possibly injure i tho coat. On the other band, if you wov.!d saw tho coat from tho groaso spot?but roally wo feel inadequate to tl.o task of furnishing the right brand of adyjeo Jn t,hls eiwe, : '1 :v. ;vv'?" : :-'3^45