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. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1884. ~ ~ ' ,',f . ?????? Wyoming. A strctcn of dusky, barren plain. Hemmed in by mountains grim and oold. I T? *hn? rn ir.oflripd limb and brain Was viewed by seekers after frold. To them as pitiless as fate, . * As they crept to the golden gate. The schoolboy droning o'er his book. In stuay of his country's chart, Was told therein to never look For white man's land or busy mart; And on his atlas thumbed and worn Appeared this desert land forlorn. jf A railway gpuns the desert belt. And climbs the mountain's Jagged side-? ' Before It savage sway doth molt, " From prairies broad to ocean tide; And hign up in the continent Are nevr-made hemes ailed with content. And !o! a3 Midas :niser kin?, Beseeching-gods in days of old, Was given the power whonec anything He touched turned instantly to gold; So by the weight of iabor's wand. Transfigured 18 the desert land. j Upon the plains the black herds swarm. ] where'er the genial sunshine falls; From eastern workshops, field and farm, ! Armed men attack her mountain walls, | r And earth yieldB up the key that unlocks Her vainly hidden troasure box. From babyhood Wyoming leaps. Strong limbed and vigorous In her might, j And jealously her frocdoin keeps, In watch and ward on mountain height. ! We hall the land of all'our love, . * Minerva from the brain of Jove. HOW DONALDSON DIED. Xfce Alleged Spirit of the Balloonist ? ' Describes His Iiast Voyage from Chicago. -A yonng girl of Reading, Pa., has ; lately developed remarks yiu ouwers as a spiritual medium, it is said, and last i Saturday, with a circle of Spiritualists ' :about her, she took a trip to the spirit j world, as she called it, and related f what she saw. Among the people met j there was Professor Donaldson, who { hS3 never been heard from since he ; started-on that perilous balloon voyage i from the lake front, this city. Tno < Professor was considerate enough to! clear up the mysterv, and told the j - - young lady all about his perilous voy- j j age and the terrible experiences accom-i panyiug it THE AEEONAUT'S ST02T. The young lady's story, as <jiven by 1 the Philadelphia Fress is "as follows: i **XHe lact is tnat lor tne past ten ; days I have seen the face of the same [ man every day. I was in the spirit j land. I call it spirit land, it is so much ; prettier, I think, than tho clairvoyant j state; the latter is so vulgar and com- ; mou, and, I am told, thero is so much j humbug in it" By this time eleven people had as- i sembled in the parlor and formed a j circle shout the girl. The gas was turned down just a trifle, and in a very ] short time the parents nodded and j pointed to their daughter, whose face j | had turned slightly upward. Her eyes ' VTsicast ?ni? T?on/?c tnrrafhnr I on her lap: She sat upon a hasso<5k, | and it was at least three"7-minutes of 1 silence before she spoke again. The ! measured tick of the clock, the low I hum of the gas, the cracking coals in ! ^ the grate, the hurrying, crealh'ng foot- j! steos on the pavement in the icy air of i night a!one Droke the stillness. " '! "I see the same man's face coming ! ( toward me as;ain," said the young me- ;, dinm. "He lias black, wavy hair, wel^ | Bfr "" rfrtslife?H*ead, >lar<re^ahoa??ne<Jc. dar^4-: complexion, and "black mustache. As j ( he comes nearer to me I see that one j -"of his eyes is dark and the other light, i, On one of his cheeks I see a black j ^ mark. It is a mole or birthmark of i, some kind. , a spirit's fruitless search. "He looks at me as if seeking some j i one he: cannot find This is the i eleventB^time I have seen his face. He 1 >r seems to-want ma to speak to'him, -and^, appears to be in trouble because I didi not speak to him before. I now speak |, to him and his eyes light up and i sparkle with delight Ho smiles and i says: "I am glad you spoke to me. Ton j are the first to greet me from the world j below since I left it Why did you not1 . speak to me before? Do Vou not know | ^ me? No, you. do not Ton were too t young when I lived in your city. But j no doubt you have heard of me. My \ name is Donaldson. I was called Professor Donaldson. [Here the circle of friends were, astonished and became doubly interested, j uon n you remem-; ber my name? I went up in balloons i in Beading and gave entertainments, } with presents to all the little children | and tae grown folks toa Tell your j father and those people near you who j I am; they will remember mel Also i tell them that I want to clear -up the l mystery of my strange death. "Some say that I am not dead, and ^ will come back to mv old home ana friends -once more. !Fhat is not so. I * ;am now out of. the earth and flesh and j f am in the spirit world. doxaldson's last ascension. ' 'Every bo'dy who remembers me will remember that I was never heard from after I went ap in the balloon at Chica? go. - That-was my last ascension. Our balloon was caught in a terrible wind storm in- the upper current. I -never experienced such a storm on land. It blew oor balloon-basket to pieces. My - friend, or friends, were blown 'out of the basket car, leaving me up in the l rigging, sitting on the hoop of the bal81 loon. I saw everything below me blown into shreds. Then the gas chamber of-the balloon made a fearful plunge and careened to one side, and threw me and the hoop upward, and for a few minutes Iwas "sailing through j the air on top of the balloon. That j r? was the strangest ride ever indulged in { B& by mortal man. The few minutes V seemed like an age. I had the pres W ence of mind to grasp hold of the netting, so that it would not slip down ana release the gas chamber. Then the gas began to escape from the t mouth of the balloon, and it old have suffocated me had not the storm j hurled us through the air at a terrible J pace. I was far above the clouds, but now far I could not tell, because all - our instruments had been blown into - the lake. I tried all I could to have ! the balloon right itself. I got way ( down on the s:d6 of the balloon and j ggfr pulled at the hoop and rising, but it flW .would not come. "STRUGGLES FOR LIFE DESCRIBED. j " "Then I went back and tied myself ! "" V'A S ^ ? fltA I - SO tUB'e&a OI 3 strong iwc oiuuuu uxv body, and fastened it to the iron hoop, so that if I should be blown off I womd t not drop to the earth. Then I crawled ^ out on the side of the balloon again, further than before. Just as I had fin ' ished this the balloon gave another awful lunge and I was thrown off into space, but was held by the rope. The balloon then righted, "and I was dang-1 i - ling in mid-air, nearly out of breath because ot ttc suaaen jar, ana tnc rope, tightening about my body, severely cut me. How long I hun? that nmv I nonlft not telL because I was . nearly dead with fear, terror, exhaustion and cold. The air was extremely ^ light and I could scarcely breathe. I Stencrawled up tho rope, handover ^ hand, and, when nearly dead, and : fcst as I had reached tho iron iwp agaiay. ^sddenly, th^ inuslingas ". v; / ^ _ v ... -x . ^ Vv i ^: - i - ??1 IIIMPWI BP I I ?I ?1g ? i enamL>er split with a loud noise, from ! top to bottom. God help me, I J thought, because it was the most pcril[ ous position of rnv life. Tben'one; half of the balloon was blown into the i other, and quicker than I can tell you, I the two halves, now wedged together, Kill /*a/^ nn o r> rt /".?? * in fliA A n??/) [ v/uii^vi u.^/ vuu a.i vuti juuu^aui; uxiu ! formed a parachute, or a sort of urn brella, leaving me swinging below. THE STORM BEATEN" "PARACTICTS. : " 4I realized for a moment that God had answered my prayer. Then the ; truth Hashed upon mo that I vc.3 going down so fast that is nearly too:-: my breath. I was too heavy for the paraiVhnt/V Thf>r? T alTTr 1 }>?t- fV*n /^o nrraa V'V. M ?uivw WUV ?wiO had split again, and suddenly another frightful sweep of the storm tore the parachute into tatters, and I v.-as hurled iieadlong down through the clouds. I closed my eyes and prayed, and died foing down, thinking of loved ones at omo. My poor body fell into a wild, lonely, and bleak swamp, ten miles aortS of the northern shore of Lake Superior, where it slowly severed, separated, and scattered by. the ebb and Sow of the waters, until it has now returned to its original earth. My spirit entered spirit land at once, whero it has now been lodged ever since. ^ . " 'I am slowly working my way np to higher circles and to a higher life. I have been happy ever since my coming hers, and have not changed my mind but that some day some one will discover a method by which the air can be navigated, I am obliged to yon for vonr kindness, and will be nleased to talk to you again when our eyes meet j held or elsewhere. I have other thoughts, too, of dear ones for whom I ; am waiting in peace and happiness. j Good-bye/ i "Now," continued the young medi- j am, "the faco vanishes with smiles, j He must have been a good man on i earth. I see that he never drank or j strorA hnt nn PMmnlarv Jiffl Ho I was brave, warm-hearted and generous." In a few. moments the young medi- i urn was out of her clairvoyant state, J and soon afterward tho company de- : parted, considerably impressod'"with j the story. t .. < i ? Canada's Treatment of tho Indian, j Canadian statesmen sav that the In- j dians in the States would not cost anv ! more than they do if congress boarded j them all at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, ! whereas in Canada each Indian costs a ! little less than would keep a private in ; the army. There are about a quarter j of a million Ind'^us split up into little ; bands, whose resorves are sprinkled I over the land like the lakes of Maine. { The government keeps an account with j each band, sells for them what lands | are not wanted, and holds $3,000,000 j in trust for them. It instructs them in farming, pro- j vides them with implements, seeds and ; cattle, instructs their children, ana j feeds all who need food with pork and j grain. Already the home farms, where j the savages were'shown how to till the { soil, are rapidly being closed up, and j the rations of food are being* with drawn from one band after another as ! the Indians manifest ability to store ! and preserve their^crojrs^ thro^yvh_ t^e j something toward self-support. Some make baskets, others make snow shoes and toboggans, others sell furs, others make barrels, others catch fish, and so on. Five years ago the Blackfeet were ? * ^? ??? v Atrnw r on ins *varpatu. xivjw ivnuuo* t family has a house and farm. During the present session of Parlia- | men* Sir John Macdoaald- introduced ! a bill to'complete their civilization and j convert'them into politicians T5y an act designed to "train thom for the exer- j cise of municipal powers." The up- j shot of the whole thing, as oenator A. W. Ogilvie put it the other day, is that "the United States means well, but her agents hold that no Indian is a good Indian except a de$d Indian, while Canada believes they are human beings, and that it costs less to treat them kindly than to fight them."?JSr. 7. Sun. He Sought the Office. "KnowDouglas?Stephen A.? Yes, indeed, I knew him when he was a young man," said the Rev. John Fisk in a recent interview. "He had just opened a law office in Jacksonville, 111., and I was studying with him. One morning as I came into the office Douglas stoo"d with a letter in his hand, and was gazing at it intently, thinking j about something. E<* ^roke out finally ! with: 4I have ^usi got a letter from i Yandalia saying that they are going to j elect an Attorney General day after to- i morrow. If I had a horse and a little j 7 ? ? 1 J ? ?? ?* /"* *o??/4 ofirt f money ? WQlUU-gV UUWH tuuw auu OWV if I couldn't get it.' Vandalia was then [ the seat of government, and was seven- ! ty-five miles from Jacksonville. I told I him, Well, there's that old gray horse j of mine, and Fve got about $8, and if I that will do you any good you're wel- j come to the" horse and money*He ! thanked me and accepted the ofler. i <Go catch your horse and I'll go,' So i I got up the horse and Douglas started I He had about twenty miles to go before ! he struck the prairie. He had to ride j through this in the darkness of the ! - - ?' *? Xll^XX&p UU.b iiO WSrliWCU iAJ JLUkU f AUV j dalia as soon as possible. : Well, he not I only got there, bat he got elected. It j was the first o?2ce ho ever held. After j that he kept rising from one position to : lother, just like so many steps, going I upstairs." j No Such Matt Known Here. "Talking about stingy men/' said the conductor of a Pullman car, as he: sat in the smoking room while the por-' ter was doing" the work, "the worst specimen I ever saw came out of De- ; troit the other night. His wife, a groat ! ?~* tt'OO n-itK Mm thpv : XUb nwuu, rt n.vu ....... j took seats in the ordinary coach. Pret- j ty soon ho came back, selected a berth ; ?a single upper?and then went back j to his wife, rretty soon he returned j and went to bed alone. About an hour ; after this 1 was going through the train j when the fat woman stopped mo ana | wanted to know if I had any empty j berths. I told her there were plenty i of them, when she brought her lips to- ! fether like a vise and clenched her fat ! ands as she said: 'I thought as much. ; Here, tske my bag with you, and make i me up the best section you have. I'll J I be back as soon as the train stops i again.' You see, that selfish cuss of a j | husband of hers had told her there j | wasn't an empty berth left, but he had ! | found a chance to share a bunk with!" I an acquaintance. He was the maddest I j man you ever saw next morning, when 1 j he had to hand over *5 for her nightfs j rest, in addition to the $2 50 he' had j i paid for his own. He gave the porter I only two cents for shining his shoes, 1 on/? t>?f> nrsrtp.r didn't dare | kick for mora. Oh, but he was a tough ! one." _ "If some men would treat their wives as well as they do their servant-girls there would be fewer divorces," says l the Indianapolis Times. j Franklin, and Adams. ( Soma tirao during thu revolutionary j period, or p. little after, John Adams - and Benjamin Franklin were dis{ patched from Philadelphia. X bolieve, | to Massachusetts, on a public errand. Adams had a mortal antipathy. shared j by him along with the majority of j maiiKma at uiai any, against; mo mgi? ! air. He believed that if he kept nis j bedroom window open even a crack at ; night he would surely die. Franklin, j on the other hand, was a disbeliever in j the theory of danger in the night air, J | and ho "had many arguments with j ! Adams thereon. Circumstances and j | the crowded condition of many of the J taverns they stopped at on their jonr! ncy eastward compelled them frequently ! to occupy the same room, and often j the same'bed. Adams always opposed rfl'ciner tVio telnHfiw ?nr? nnrvr "Rati | nearly suffocated and reviled Adama ! i for bis wret-ched theory of tho deadly ! effects of nature's universal medium of | breath. One night Bon slyly raised a J window in their common chamber, but i Adams, on tho alert for hi3 friend's j : little games, insisted that it should bo j i closed at once. Said crafty Ben: "IsTow, j ! Mr. Adams, we'll go to 'bed with the | ; window up, and I wilLshow you why it! | win not 00 narmrui ior us 10 permit mo i ! window to stay open. If I cannot con- j ! vince you of the reasonableness of my { i theory, I will myself get up and close ; the window." ' Adam3 weakly consented, and Ben began to reason with him. Finally poor Adams was talked to sleep, and Ben tranquilly resigned himself to slumber. Next morning great was Adams' horror at finding the window up, but not having died through the night, and feeling ho ill effects from having breathed the night air, he becamo a convert to sly Bonjamin's night-air theory. The author of a history of America during the colonial epoch told me this anecdote as aU 1' r> ?? A 3\JIUULLHU^ ;tmusiug, wuiuu nau liiviicivu escaped type. Of Interest to Smokers A gentleman describing himself as 'one of the people fond of a good cigar," assures the New York Times tit at a prominent physician told him lately that from tho practice of cigarmakers wetting the wrapper with their saliva and biting the end of th6 cigar into shape a loathsome disease was spreading, and that he knew of several cases. "Somewhat alarmed,1'he continued, "I managed to Visit a number of factories. Two-thirds of the cis^ar makers, I found, daub the whole 'end of the cigar with their saliva. Thinkr ing that Cuban workmen might not do it, I visited places where they were wholly employed, and found that not only did they use their saliva to make the wrapper stick, but that most of them, before wrapping, bit the end of the cigar into shape with their teeth. As the physician informs me that many of the cigar-maker3 have sore mouths from disease, it i3 a dangerous a3 well as a beastly habit.1' mi _ i *1.1. e x j* j I j.his is uornoie, u true, ana we iear j it is true to some extent. From per- I sonal obsorration we know that cigar- I makers in Cuba do manipulate toeir I work with a touch of saliva. Not many ( (if them do it we Vro wauv uv, aiiu umwMWj \f uJTSsI wll ciZJJ , probably the very fellows whose mouths ] are the most' likely to ' communicate , diseases. Those cigars, moreover, which look the neatest at their smoking end, \ and are therefore the most admired by young smokers, probably owe their at- ' tractive symmetry to this disgusting manipulation. Yet it is a fact that the most inveterato smokers are found among men who must be aware of the no /vf fViic filf-'lTT AT most all those who manufacture cigars or who deal in cigars, also smoko cigars. We don't quite see how they do it? but they Ho.?Buffalo Express. Sugar in I/omps. In answer to a correspondent who asks the difference between the sugar which is sold in apparently smoothcut lumps and other "white sugar, the lumps of which are somewhat rough 4.V?a?* "NT^rrr Ynrlr fcZf/.TL VU QUi-XUrWV) WUU VII * ?v?.? says: The difference is considerable, and the latter, which is pure loaf sugar, cut into lumps, always commands a higher price in the wholesale market, : and cannot be- adulterated- It is : called in the market "cut-loaf." The ; former quality of sugar is what is known as "cubes." The cut-loaf sugar is made in lumps of fifty pounds 1 out of cano sugar, then sawed into j slabs, and these slabs aro partially cut through and partially broke. -It is easy to distinguish the marks of cutting and breaking on each lump. The cube sugar is made of soft su^ar and pressed in moias, wmcn gives xne smooiu ap- i pearance, and is suitable for shipment ' ?ho cube sugar will somotimes on a sea voyage resume, the consistency of the soft sugar, and the change of fqrm is'due to adulteration. : - -The safest sugar for anyone to buy i3 pure loaf sugar, and it is much sweeter than any other. , The principal substance used in adulterating sugar is " glucose, which is sugar made from various vegetable substances, chiefly grain. While glucose is sweet, it is easily detected by the expert because it is not so sweet as cane sugar. It is, nevertheless, very extensively used to adulterate cane sugar and produce cheap sugars which are sola in the market. Reputable dealers sell it. as glucose, but* there are many dealers who sell glucose for sugar. The nature fhp nrlnonso. is tomaEo a close, stickv sugar; Ifc does not produco grains, liko cane. "An Old Man." An old man is a beautiful object in bis own place, in the midst of a circle of young people, going down in various gradations to infancy, and all looking up to the patriarch with filial reverence, keeping him warm by thoir own burning youth; giving him the frosli? onr3 xzyit.h IXUSa \JL uuu AWAAMgi ? ?? such natural influx that it seems that it grew within his heart; while on them he reacts with an influence that sobers, tempers, keeps them down. His wisdom, very probably, is -of no groat account?he cannot St to any new state of things; but, nevertheless, it works ' its effect. In such a situation the old ! man is kind and genial, mellow, more i gentle and generous, and wider-mind | ed than ever before. But if left to him^self, or wholly to the society of his con! tfcoyporaries, the ice gathers about his heart, hope grows, torpid, his ISvc? J f nothing of his own'blood to develop it j j ?jrowscold; he becomes selfish when j ; he has nothing-in the present or future j worth caring about himself; so that, in- j stead of a beautiful object, ho is an ug- j ly one, little, mean ana torpid; I sup- ! j pose one chief reason to be that, unless ' he has his own race * about1-'him, ho i doubts oi arybody's love, he 'eels himself a stranger in ths worlc^apd so bei comes unamiabla ?From^'Dr. Grim |?aaurc*f Secret," i~"'- ' . ' - 'S' " iteV"-, y :-V ? ' V IS"*,- - -r.-V -il ' I For the Parmer. White helliboro will destroy tin i currant worm. | The fine-wool sheep of CanacU aro giving placo to coarse-woo i breeds { The best American cattle sell ii j England for 1$ cents per .ponnc j dressed. ! About 1,500,000 bushels of whea i are annually used for sood in; tfci; j country. A gill of strong greon tea is said U be a specific for sheep poisoned by eating laurel. A fanner in Dedharn, Mass., get; lour ton3 oi timothy hay per acre. He manures heavily Investigate iiic-uraining. Manj farms would be trebled in value H thoroughly undordrained. Florida growers aid the heading 6] cabbage by sprinkling a little salt into the heart and tying up the leaves with twine. If 100 acres of arable land will nol keep six horses, twenty cows and twenty ho?s, it is not ur> to the standard oi goodland. Persian insect powder, applied by means oi a small bellows, is recommended as an affectuai remedy forties on cattle and horses. ','r E^g shells should be crashed before feeding them to the fowls for when fed whole it is apt to teach them- the hflf? hflhif: <vf putincr acrcra ~ V O Poultry cannot bo kept to advai&gge unless they have a properly arranged house for their accomodation. is just as necessary to their well' being as it is that the cattle or horses should have a good barn. Lysander S. Richards, of East Marshfield, Mass., writes to the Massachusetts Ploughmaji that he planted' potatoes last Season that had turned green from exposure to the sun, and saw^- no difference in the yield. In portions of North Carolina nine teenth century methods have made but little progress. A rficent letter from the state says many of the housewives still "follow the cotton with their own fingers from the stock to the stocking." Grass means cattle: cattle means manure; manure means rich lands; rich lands means good crops, and good crops means prosperity. This is the history of the world. Seed part of your farm down to grass and see if the assertion is not true. ' Gravel or coarse sand is as mtteh needed by fowls as ordinary food." With this their food is rendered digestible, When the birds are confinedto close quarters, especially in houses with wooden iloors, the absence of gravel will quickly become apparent in the fall away in flesh and good health of the inmates. Every weed that secures growth' on the field deprives the soil of so much fertility and robs the crops of that degree. The labor of eradication is also greater the stronger the weed, and it is a well-known fact that the majority of weeds are not only gross feeders but. tenacious in habit, doing more injury in occupying and seeding the ground than by dopriving it of its fertilizing elements. Karl?"15,000,000, in 18HU, were farm ers, in almost equal proportion of both sexes. Since 1868 the people own the Land, paying the tax for it to the government. Three-tenths of tho tuled land is in the hands of small proprietors, who, with their wives and children, do nearly all tho farm-work. The plow in common use is nothing but a spade, with a ivarrow blade about three feet long, There is a fine climate and much fertile land in Japan. ~ IT Qncofl nf t.HA XX Ci. JUL Q Mr Id W4 ik vmvlwm w w* w? Prairie Farmer , Mr. Jacob Nixon, in answer to a request for something to prevent wire-worms from injuring seedcorn after planting, advises the ttial of a pint of coal oil to the bushel of seed. He finds this remedy effectual in preventing moles from following the planter's marks, and also the prairie squirrel, or striped gopher. Corn thus treated gives no trouble to horso -or hand corn-planters. An Incident of the Floods. The dost interesting inoident oi the flood in this town was that related 'by Mrs Charles Fitters, who resides nearly opposite Floto's bakery. She said that a chest lodged in the yard, and upon opening it she was very muchsurprised to see in the contents articles , of children's clothing, etc. The chest, was taken into the house, and uponi further examination a complete batch of ; letters, filed according to date, was discovered. These letters had been writ- j fan tttMIo flifx writer tpjlq in "tho armv. i and were addressed to his sweetheart (now hi3 wife). The writer had been with Grant and Sherman, and the epis-: ties detailed the. fights "engaged in with remarkable accuracy. Said an old sol- j dier who read the letters: "There is a chapter in the history of the late war that has not been printed!" Sirs. Fitters cleaned all the articles .. i *t i- n?4. ana gqt Ilium ia msiz-iiiw sju.?pc, auu finding the address of the ownpr wrote to him. The letter was almost immediately answered, asking that the chest be sent tolndustry, Pa., to the owner. Mrs. Fitters was offered some compensation for her kindnessi but she refused to take a cent The chest, with its contents, were 3hippod intact to its owner yesterday.?Whaling Intelligence. ' " An Old Maid's Eccentric Will. Miss Kezlah B. Blackburn, an elderly spinster, who earned a scanty livelihood by sowing for charitably disposed persons, and who was generally supposed to be very poor, occupied for a long time a small room on the top floor of a house in Brooklyn. She was recently found dead in her room, and her will, which had been- deposited with her spiritual adviser, showed her to bo possessed of $1,200, and Its provisions made it compulsory with her executor at her death to dress her body in white, place it in a solid rosewood casket, having six silver handles and a silver plate, on which should be.incribed her name and age. The hoarse at her funeral was to be .drawn by six black horses, and there were to be six pall ? ? ? - * i bearers, wearing wane gloves ana white ties. Her body was to be buried in the Evergreen Cemetery beside her parents, ana a tombstone bearing the inscription: * * "Biefisod tie ho who preserves these stones. And cursed ho be who moves these bones." Was to be erected over her grave. Any money remaining after the expense of the numerous behests had been defrayed she desired her executor to place at interest, to be paid to a man to keep her grave in order. ^ ' The Kentucky Legislature has appropriated $1,200 and authorized the Governor to appoint a suitable person on - Tt-o ITT r? lkjmAtra 1A/ gv bv X IVIVUVV^ y UUU fcvuAVTV the body of Joel T. Hart, the sculptor, to taat State._ __ \ A . _ I ??cawwi?BB?a?BW??n I *>7 Throiv it Out, 5 j- fc^-WeiL,1' said Conductor Jones to a I iikibe, representative, "one of the funi 'inSSt things that ever happened on my 1 train occurred one day at Bethlehem. An old man whom I had noticed in the i drawing room car as a very lively and \ ta&ative traveler got oU at that station. r was stAndinff n.t. an nnp.n rriri t dowt>f the car just as the train was 3 smarting oil; when whom should I see bit<the jolly old man rushing toward j me from the outsida He pointed . fjartically to a windgw just back of TTijfexclaiming a3 well as he could 5 viiqfc trying to catch his breath: j ' ' My valise?left it?there?throw it ?out" j Taming quickly I saw a large black I vajipin the seat indicated, and, seizin!^ rushed to the rear platform of r : fW tBsot* rxrht*v& fTTA-ro Trrfto' t* r\nrr?_ , be-/of gentlemen.Tossing it to one oi ( than, as they blocked the way. so I couldn't get- through, I shouted: itliTow.it to the oldman. there.'' -^gSuiiefif-atioa the jSrectedL. As the valise 4'iefahis ihandf&e W&de fin ineffectual regain; possession' of it, then, , with exclamation which I , co-^^t coic^rehend, leaped from the iiferasnc^eizecl.tije ill-fated baggage, and *-yrj&?ist, ^nnifilo to board one of the ; iek&ssr,sC - Ifr'^a^all done in an in: StaJ*.. although ifct^es-time to tell the " stcritftji Jto a; miniate-"fee made his way did trcthrow this ^tri^offior?* . -fBeeansB-^e bld-iaaQ wanted it." -*^32;, theirhe'a a thief. - That val: ise-lis>iatirLjB?' . - - lfor ^ whele'. -faituatiott' sSeroled* s<J perfectly ridiculous, "why uude?the sun did you/th^ow'iit- off.'str *eS? -: JDidn't you t ;^o^our:w?r'property F 9fes, *but ifr^wafr all so- sudden, and yotH&d mc to^thr'dw it, and?1' .isattns roar attaugnreMaat -greeted his explanation broke-short his senterioe, and he wae -voted -a Neither medal bj'-the'pass enters/ *' I -^as-coavihced :4hor^Jwsome ex- i pisaation for tho. old.'-^Mii's conduct, for ? was personally ~ac?aasited with hi^'ftnd Knev that'he was - a3 honest as the day was long. About three weeks after I saw mm - at the depot, and Qtfestioned hinr on the-subject. "1 .thought,'* said~-he, as his face grew-round and-red,i and his eyes ;twinkie&-w2th merriment "I thought I shoulddie to sea . that fellow hyper roufcd:after .his--valise "and hustle on hoard the-train again. I didn't expect to cause so much trouble."' "Welly where was vour valise all the time?" "Oh, tho driver took it without my knowledge and put it on top of the stage. He's been carrying it'round j ever since, and I just got It this moj mcnt Good day!'Boston Globe. ~ tir tr?i I a^UUX I91U? VX VllVCI ?T , XJ.UXH1CT* Memory is a net. One finds it full of fell when he takes it from the brook, but|& dozen miles of water have ran through it without sticking. . God b'oss all good women. To their so^-anda and pitying hearts we must " " Pllt HUl yOm' 11 , your money in trust When a strong brain is weighed with a true heart, it seems to be like balancing a bubble against a wedge of gold. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way?and the fools know it If the sense of the ridiculous is _ one siae ox an irrapress.tij.itj nature, it. aa i very well; but if that is all there is in a man he had better have been an ape and stood at the head of his profession j at once. Travelers change their guineas but not their characters. There are three little wicks to the lamp of a matfs life?brain, blood and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes -out, followed by both- the ; others.. Stop the heart a minute, ana out goes all three of the wicks. Choke the air outof the -longs, and presently th? fluid ceases to supply the other -' centers of flame, and all - is soom "Stagnation, cold and darkness. There are a good many real miseries " in life that we cannot help smiling- at, I but they are the smiles that tmake i wrinkles and not dimples. -; I We must have a weak spot or two in ! a character before we can love it much, j People who do not laugh or cry or take j more of anything than is good for them, or use anything but dictionary words, are admirable subjects for biog-. raphers. But we don't care most for these fine pattern Actors that; press best in the Herbarium. Faith always implies disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater. I would have a woman as true as death. At the first r?al lie, wh&i works from the heart outwardr she should be tenderly chloroformed-into a better world, where she can have an angol for governess and feed on strange fruits, which shall mate uer ail over again, even to her bonea-and- bet marrow. Why can't somebody give us a list of things which everybody thinks and nobody says, and another- list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks? Bartley Campbell. While in conversation with a gentleman -cu-Vin nlaima tn hftVfl known Rftrfc. ley Campbell from boyhood, he told the following story of how -the- now famous dramatist came to take- up journalism and playwriting: "Bartley and I were working tofether in a brickyard near Pittsburg, oth at the same bench. One of tSo helpers had just brought a fresh load of clay and deposited it on the bench in front of us. -.-Bartley took up a handful of oold, moist earth and: commenced to work it in his hands. Pres-: ently he stopped and seemed lost in thought All at once he dashed the. clay ne wa3 working-down on the heap Innh-S'nrr rrtrt OQ i r} - 'Tf fll'flr I CULLll AUVf ? v?v? ? J mold another handful of clay may the j life he squeezed-out of me,' and going to where his coat hung oil a nail ho took it down, put it on, and started down hill. 'Hold on, Bartley,' said I, 'If you'ro going to quit, I quit too,7 and I took my coat and followed him. We went to the boss and got our pay, and that afternoon started for Pittsburg, where he obtained a position on one of the papers. I need not add thai he never wont back to brick* making." The second district of Gibson county, i Tenn., has three men that have sixty. ! tViT-no r?TiiMfor> .twAfttv-OTie atMGCG. Two ?-?w VUMU4VU, - J r I of them have been married twice and; the other once. One of them says he j -can walk forty miles in a day; he is sixty-eight years of -age; the others are i sixty-six and eighty-three. One of ;them | has about aieventy-five grandchildren^ and great grandchildren, vadther 'itaa' thirty, and the 'Li-u-enily two. """* ? f J OUR CRAZY QUILT. Selections From the Current Liter* ture of the Household and the Fashionable World. A Protest Against the Rnle of Fancj i Worfc and the Ghostly PillowSham. j Practical Homo Hints?Inexpensive I Curtains. ; SUNDERED, YET LOVINGDoes nothing tell thoo that I think ctf theel Something should -whisper It Into thy heart Oh, dusky eyes, look westward through tir clear And azure sky, bid distance hence depart In thought at least travel the realms ol 6pace, And come into thy dwelling la my heart. j Our lives. lifco two cieft rocks, are sundered ' wide; No human power can heal the fatal breach Oa this sloe death; but when we cross the tide fiver whose waves our spirit hands may : reach, Wilt thou then meet me with the olden smile, i And spead to mo la. the old tcn&er tpeeohJ Ho coming yeurs can blush away the bloom Of one sweet year that clings about xajp heartShort, sweet, and sad, swift love tha*" aet Its doom, ! <ttnAni*A'1o si ^ i 4/ub /vw vuc dwwwiooo vauuvA ftu urrpari- ? ' For 1070 Is deathless, and its 6pirlt stillSbatf Haunt rod follow me," go whore I will. ?Mary Kaapp in Boston Posi FANCY WORK. Eliza Archard makes in the New York World a sweeping onslaught on fancy work. In the course of her article she says: Fancy work is the small vice of the femalo sex. It is to women what smoking is to men. In some respects it is worse indeed, for man can read or write and smoke at the same time. Fancy work, on the contrary, is so absorbing as-an intellectual exercise that it is not possible for a woman to make the Kensington stitch and do anything else, unless it be to gossip. In brief, we arraign female fancy work as a wAtar of tinriP r. of eyesight and health, a deadener to all noble ambitions, -and a promoter o! scandal besides. We shall prove it Fancy work is .an uncanny thing. There is some strange fascination m this miserable 4armng and knitting that blinds their eyes to the nobler achievements that lie all about' them. In summer hotels And winter hotel groups of fair young matrons sit, hour ; after hour, their bright eyes bent over some queer fuzzy-looking, contemptible little stuf? as though the salvation of the world depended on banding the nnnowltli o rnrA}a r\t t-n/if+fl/} +'r-?nr?/v V^UMWA n * J** w UIV v* amvuvvu AI before to-morrow morning. -Now they cover ghostly nillow-shams with weird chain-stitch ^Tow it is ric-rac, and again it is crazy-quilts. At- this point it may be remarked that of ail contrivances" that are ugly enough to scorch one's eyeballs the crazy-quilt goes up head. Anon the fancy-work madness drives them to the production of tapestry pictures that makes your hair stand on end. Or maybe it is "darned net" This is the head-fiend, of fancy work. It is safe to say that on the average darned net drives one thousand American women a day to premature spectacles. "PrettyP" Yes, it ought to be pretfe^itaiarly pot my eyes out? robe of , ?...,s-_ fabric. Her eyes were red and swollen, her nenres were all unstrung _so that she kept'springing like a jumping iack at every little sound. She had got herself in such a state over the pesky stuff that she hadn't slept for two nights. 'Tm just ready to cry!" she said. No wonder. The time and labor she had spent on that execrable gown would have male nor an accomplished student in microscopy, and not hurt her eyes either. Then she would have had a peep into the fairy land of science and at least learned enough to make her a charming and entertaining companion for a month. And a month is a long time when it comes to entertaining anybody, especially one's husband. 'We arraign fancy work because it dwarfs women's intellects. It gives them just occupation enough to make them believe they are doing something. They sh and moon over their one,-two, three crosff-stitch till the practical in terests of life fade from their mental horizon. They are the true bashee^ eaters. Fancy work- is v genuine deadening drag, cheating ladies into jv fool'a paradise. While they delude themselves with thinking they are at work they are doing absolutely nothing at all that is worth while. It is worse than nothing. Itought to be relegated wholly to very aged women, so old that they have lost ail interest inactive affairs, and have "* - -s 1. A? noming to aa out -snooze mruugu vuo days like placid old tabbies. "Aw?American women don't get out-doors-enough to give them a decent complexion, you know," says-the Englishman. Trimming is the wretch that is to blame. Show ua a lively, healthy, practical, intelligent woman who is a confirmed trimming maker- and we will find yon an honest politician. PRACTICAL HOME HINTS- _ ; Two pretty tidies for tie ?>ac& oz a small sofa which is divided in two parts are made thus: For one take three pieces of bine ribbon the length of the sofa cushion, putlace insertion of the same width as the ribbon between the strips of ribbon, trim the edge with narrow face, not more than an inch and a half vide. For the other tidy use a contrasting color of ribbon: pink or crimson are pretty, or a. fine shade of yellow will answer. Make this tidy just like the other in form. A work-basket or waste-paper basket which has become worn and broken at the edges may be made to serve a good purpose by lining it; have the lining! quitetuii, ormg iv over axe outaiue vi the basket, hem' the edge, 'and shir it j and catch' H with fine" tf&tefcee to the basket* An old basket repaired in this ] way i3 oven prettier than the new ones. It is not-every woman who can cover a soap box with plash and so transform it into a book rack of elegance. In or-: dor to glue plush to a board and have it smooth, one needs a little experience, I and it is advisable to try experiments 1 with cheaper material than plush. Af: ter examining the box to see that it is in good condition at the corners, take 1 An -rtTI'/*] s\4 rrr\r\n | DUiliC UrtUUW* V* ? **-j> cut it to fit the bos, then spread the glue over it in a thin coating. The outside and the inside should Doth be cov: ered. If this is successful then by all ! means try the plush, but not otherwise. ; While visiting at a friend's house once she asked me to go to her desk j for-something, and I'-satf there, on j opening the lid, a motto written by | herself and evidently intended for no I ono else. It said: "LJo not scoia; ao I not fret!" "Yes," she said, in answer I to an inquiring look, "I was obliged to ' T 1T7C Qrv'f WftTK. Iffct.lA ^Ulri? - t w ? .r^y tilings troubled me* and it 13 -sd-a&tural tfffcpeefc afthem; but Itiataced sfter a Iittl? wiillo when La_ &e^oniing . f early betore scnooi or Dreaiciast, l ix gan to speak of the wrong-doings c any member of the family, that th wrong-doings and the tendency t speak of them increased alarmingly a! through the day, and I discovered ths r If I were silent the opposite was true and X began to earnestly believe as never did before that my own sol } i words turned away my own wrath; an j isn't that what it really means? for i : Vlrr flio* AfU a? maamI napyxmo cuaw l/buc: wrath is increasod by that very course,1 i ?New York Post HOME-MADE CUHTAENS } Vory pretty and inexpensive curtain ?i can be made of cheese cloth, with a without a border. Should the borde not be used, turn a hem three inche i .wide down the front and across 1th* hnthnm of fhi> Aiirfain TMo Ki ( caught down in herring-bone stitch ii gold-colored silk. The curtain is the: embroidered all over with double ring; i executed in chain sffcch with embroia eredsilL In each^etof rin^s- ther; bti one silfc,'2n3 theoth er of soise contr&#ih*g8|tede; such ai ?ale blue, rod, greenToPbrown. ,.Th< last two colors alwavB coifc&st prettily with gold. Crewels may be used is place of-silk, though the embroider? ttua vucu jjt&oviiL a> &upWi? ance. The border may be- of darned work. Sprays of leaves make a good design, each spray being embroidered with different colored silks, cardinal, gold, brown, and green Draw the stitches from point to stem of the leaf, and then darn back and forth through the silk stitches only from side to side of each leaf, as in darning a stocking, out ao noc iec ine succnes come througK the material. Then outline eaah.ieaf round the edge with the same color in chain stitch. This shows each leaf in solid color on the white ground. A straight line of herring-bone stitch on the inside of the border dividing it from the groundwork gives a pretty finish to the curtain. They have somewhat the appearance of the Madras curtains so much used, and as the work is not at oil AMA ^AAlo ~ uijuvmv mszio 1CJJA1U W-UVJJi CUU pretty drapery i3 hang up at the windows* White lace curtains are now very seldom seen except on bedroom windows. Japanese gauze and other thin materials are largely used for portieres in place of the heavy plush, Turkey, and velvet curtains so long in fashion. ?American Queen. Extent of the Czar's Estate. I ~ Une may lorm some laea oi the extent of the possessions belonging to the Russian Emperor, as property immediately attached to the crown, when j we hear that the Altai estates alone i cover an area of 40,000,000 desjalins,or ! over 170,000 square miles, being about ! three times the size of England and Wales. The Nertchinsk estates, in ! Eastern Siberia, are estimated at abont 18,000,000 desjatins. In the Altai estates are situated the gold and silver mines of Barnaul, Paulov, Smijov, and .uoKijepp, ine copper lounaiy at aasoum, and the great iron works at Gavrilov, in the Salagirov district. The receipts from these enormous estates ars in a ridiculously pitiful ratio to their extent. In the year 1882 they amounted to 950,000 rubles, n a little moie than about'400,000 gave a surplus over expense of administration of about 1,500,000 rubles. On tiie "otner nana, tne worsing 01 uie mines showed a deficiency of over 1,000,000 rubles, hence the result Just indicated. A partial explanation of this unsatisfactory state of things is to be found in the situation of the znines, which are generally in places quite destitute of wood, while the smelting-works were naturally situated in districts where wood abounds, sometimes asmuch rrv?? Vrtn^rd/1 Arcotron Vi>rnr?rpr1 jrilmrifV OiA UUUUi ^Vfc, VI uv t vm " ? ? ters distant from the mines. The cost of transport of raw materials became considerable In this way. By degrees all the wood available in the neighborhood of the smelting-works t>ecame used up, and it was necessary to fetch wood from distances of over one hundred kilometers. Formerly the mines were really penal settlements, worked by convicts, Vho were partly helped by immioranta whose sons were exempted from military service on the condition r?f-working in the mines. Bat since -fee abolition of serfdom this system has-been quite altered; and there is now a great deal of free labor on the ordinary condi tions. ?Ikmdon Times. An Interesting Indian Bellow Dr. Oglesby, of Fossil, has a beauti#r>7 Tnnion rv?7ir? . }?A ffYiinri im? bedded in the roots of a fir tree near Mary's peak. The tree was about 300 years old, fcnd the trunk was so decayed that it could be knocked to pieces easily. The relic resembles the "huge blade of a knife, eighteen inches in length, three ia width, and one and a half thick. It is cut out of brown I fi TVO. gift! 11 W| OUU UMO uuw ish, being nearly as moota as sculptured marble. The doctor caiao to the coast in 1863, and during the pioneer days became intimately acquainted with an Indian chief, which acquaintance finally ripened into friendship, : from the fact that at one time when the I chief was attacked by a vicious grizzly I ho came to his aid and killed the bear. X1113 Oia xnaian was very cuuveirsau& with the traditions of his tribe, and related to Dr. 0<rlesby a legend which had been recited from father to son for ages, and which stated that at one time a people came from the ocean armed with lar^e stone knives, and while they peacefully slept in their wigwams these ferocious invaders would attack and murder them. The doctor believes that this instrument is one of the knives described by the old chief.? Dallas (Oregon) Times-Mountaineer. . i m Niagara Falls. To a Syracuse reporter Henry Irving thns spoke of Niagara falls: "I was simply astounded and overawed bv their majesty and grandeur. I took my entire company to the falls in order to give them an opportunity of seeing a pace they had an heard so much of at home. 1 was told by some Englishmen who had seen tno falls that they wor? riisannmntGd wfeen thev first saw them. Well, I should like to know what they expect to see. For my own part, I found that the half had not been told me concerning them. I can not find words to express my admiration for the mighty cataract The rapids, too, of which I had not been told, deeply impressed us alL I hope to have an opportunity some time of passing a good long while at this most interest* xnff oiaee." Did anyone ever think how much apace is required to bury the dead? If one would be contented with a grave two feet by sis, 3,600 bodies could be interred in ono acre, allowing nothing for walks, roads or monument. On this crowded theory Sondon's annual dead numbering 8*, 120* would ?11 An * ^ - -> "f>" : i : I - * -. ; c _ , , rnwuiMTfl >* GLEANINGS* c %l Fifty thousand Northerners are now. " [1 in Florida. & Dakota has 250 newspapers, moat cl? K them dailies. M * Henry Ward Beocher will be sevens -si * ty-two in Juno. An Ohio physician is preparing a > g medical lescon in forty-two languages. " The proposed reform bill in England; S will enfranchise about two million | men W. P. Elliott, of Lewiston, Pa., nino- - -?1 I ty-onc years of age, is still editing a r : - I 3 The Southern Bivouac argues that 3 the mound builders were drowned by .. j floods. _ ' , The old Confederate forti?ca+ior.S j around Athens, Ga., axe now being During 1888 a Philadelphia establishmeat turned out 557 Iqppmotive^ of ? ~?JB . whiei* 151 wwtexpbrted. v ; : Mr3. ffftnnaft Simourof Newark, N. i J.,: recently celebrated her ninety-ninth r birthday by waltzing for ten minutes. Boston |s going to displace electric street lights with-gas. Her 881 electric m | lights cost last year $83,749, while r 9,623 gas lamps cost $880,381. " n It is several centuries since, Italy has J| taken part in polar expeditions, but 1 one is now about to be sent out under 1 the command ofCaptain Fcadacaro, of the Italian navy. English newspapers say that the 1 adoption of black silk gowE3 by the Judges of the New York Court of Appeal is due to the visit to this country 1 of Lord Coleridge. Ti J. - /v* jr n * x TM ir.t 3# ' jj. is a-uixineu m r^gypt waas rj. muaui ..-i-VJ possesses eighteen wives, and that his vakeel possesses tarenty-fomc. The Moslems in Khartoum "are horrified at Jfce ? Media's exceeding the number per* ? mitted in the Koran." A member of Congress, in recom- . 1 mending the appointment of a naval * cadet to the Annapolis Academy, states fl in his letter to the Navy Department UWI tuu ivuug HWIi nui 1A7 1UU11U 415* ", cally qualified, he is sura. An immense aerolite fell on the B&ncho Redeo de las Agnas, twelve miles west of Los Angeles, plowing a deep hole in the ground The light was visible from Los Angeles, and the explosion was heard for miles. Since the commencement of work on the canal the population of Aspinwall, , Panama, has suddenly increased from \ - vj 1 SAA 9 AAA Q AAA 1A AAA ^,vvv VL ?,uw w u,wtf VI i.V|WV, OUU ' building has extended into the swamps; -Jf where there are no streets graded- , " The region south of Cedarville, Kan., Is infested with wild dogs, which have already killed two large-steers, nearly wiped" out two flocks of sheep, and eaten two litters of pigs. The dogs are 1 more difficult to capture than wolves. i ?a ft. now onVictonmonn. factored in Maine principally of cotton. I paper- It looks like leather, but 18 Harder and very elastic, and no amount of tossing about or hammering will J break it This suggests its use for i Mra. Livermore's little book,4'What ISh^jWeDow^kO^Dau^hteTS ?"'has daughter attihelrstfe^ The Washington Monument Commission has granted authority to an electric light company to erect ten electric lights on the top of the Wash ton monument. They expect mat tne lights will be so effective that the city mil be illuminated as far out as the northern boundary. The annual rainfall in this country, ; -< according to the Weather Signal, is lowest in New Mexico (13 inches) and , " 'fr California (18 inches), and highest in Oregon. (49 inches) and Alabama (56 inches). The annual rainfall in the ^British Islands among the mountains is 41 inches, on the plains 25 indies; 45 inches of rain faHs'on the west side of England, 27 on the east side. A Fight "With, a Heron. . A few weeks ago CoL "Win, E. Sisty, the Fish Commissioner of Colorado, went to the State fish-hatchery, on the Platte River, nine miles from Denver. While he was inspecting the hatchery he saw a large, bine heron preying upon the fish in the box. He approached the heron, expecting that the bird would take alarm ana fly; bat the heron attacked him furiously. The bird was fully as tall as CoL Sisty, and was so very swift that he was upon the man SP in what seemed an instant He used his neck with lightning rapidity, striking all the time at -CoL Sisty's face. CoL Sisty was unable to do more at first than protect his eyes, and the blows rained upon his hands and left tJiflm Meadinc. His face was also cut . in places, for tie bird was quicker with - .-'3 his bill than the man was with bis hands. After the surprise was over, CoL Sisty prepared to assume the oL - -*3 fensive. Protecting his face with his hat, he rushed m upon the huge heron, seized the creature by the body, O ' and hurled him to the ground. Then the straggle was soon decided, for CoL Sisty grasped the heronTs neck, ami held on until his enemy was choked to y?s. death. The heron was taken .to Den- -- \ ver and exhibited to hundreds of people, who soon learned of the Fish Commissioner's exploit German Student Pomposity. A party of American travelers weffc on the railroad platform at Heidelberg. , One of the travelers happened to crowd a Heidelberg student, when he drew himself up, .scowled pompously and said: * "Sir, you are orowding; keep back, sir." jl/UU y VU uav jvuwf 4 the American. * ^ "Sir," scowled tfeosttident, "allow me tc tell you, sir,-thai I am at your service at any time and place." "Oh, you are at my service, are you?"* said the American. "Then, just carry this satchel to the hotel for me." A Talbot farmer and his good wife lost their reckoning last Sunday, and the farmer drove to jEaston with a load | of marketing while his helpmate stayed ' ! nomA onr? tin thfi f&Hlill7 j ironing. Finding the stores and market V-'jJ j house closed, he inquired tho cause, and being told it was Sunday, he ex* i claimed: "Good gracious! and my ] wife is at home ironing!" When the ' church bells began to ring he made a j bee-line for home to report to Mrs. Oai man and stop tho ironing.?Grcensbo* I rough (Md.) Times. Austin, Texas, boys amuse thefii* selves by dropping cats from the Colo* -~?? rado bridge into the water forty fee$ below. Some are killed by the falL bat the most of them tiUIYlTO to ftpniisfr