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ABBEVILLE PRESS i BANNER r> ' ' BY HUGH WI1 .SON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MAY 2, 1877. VOLUME XXIV.-NO. 47. Estranged. t Some day she will come back, my poor lost ' dove? My dove with the warm breast and eager eyes ! How did it fail toward her, my passionate love V . Where was the flaw ? since flawed it must have , been, t Or surely she had staid with me, my queen. ] Her heart was full of inarticulate cries i Which my heart failed to ca ch ; and yet she ) s rave t To cleave to me. Ah, how she must have ; striven, Praying, perchance, of times for strength from 1 heaven! j But no strength came ; and'so, one fatal day, j j Despairing of all help, she uent away. And there her half completed portrait stands? ! The freah, young face, and gray eyes brimmed with light. J I pain ed her with flowers in her hands, Becau.se she always wj'emetl tso bright and good, I never thought the studio's solitude Would hurt her anyway. I thought the sigh Of painted forms and unfamiliar lands Would be enough for her. Sho was too mild, j Too patient with my painter's life. Poor child ! j Had she complained at all, by look or tone, j Had she but said : I seem too much alone ; j " I grow half fearful of these painted eyes That never change, but, full of sad reproof, Haunt me and watch me ; and those southern J skies j Reflected in deep streams ; and that dark boat From which a girl with bare sweet breast and { throat Droops willow Hke, and dreams of life and love; j Aud that youth's dying face, which never dies; j And then, again, that pic uro of Christ there, j Christ fallen in an agony of prayer, . \ ; ] And his disciples near him, stern and dumb, \ 3 Like men who know the fated hour is come." \ ] Had she said thus, and added: " Take me, dear. ^ Outside of the.se Bad faces ; let mc stand ' Onco more within life's shadows, and there hear j Light laugh er of the surf upon tho bcach, ^ For here tho very sea is without speech, ; - Ko still it i?, and far away from land ; J " I want life's little joys ; this atmosphere 1 Oppresses me ; I cannot breathe in it; j Tho li^ht that lights your life leavos mine unlit"? I shouidhave answered tenderly, and sought t To carry out in all her slightest thought. ; I She knew I loved her, through those winter > r days; . ' Did it no comfort her at all, my love ? { I It was such joy to look upon her face, 1 I sat for hours, content to be quito still, ; c Feeling her warm bright beauty fill Mv sonl and brain; fearful lest she should e e move, And speak, or go ; but when sho rue my gaze I turned away, as if I had done wrong i In looking oa her loveliness so long. v I rarely kissed her, rarely took her hand ; ? And now, I hink, she did not understand. I Perchance she thought my love was passionless, ] Wanted what I withheld yet longed to give; | She did not know my silence a caress? j All passion was by reverence controlled? And so she deemed ) ?> wrys of love were cold. | Ah, me ! the lonely life she had to live ! j 2 And I knew nothing of its loneliness. t Hers was a nature quick io givo and take. 8 A nature to bo broken and to break ; fi She loved confidiiig valleys, sun kissed rills, 1; But saddened at the solemn peace of bills. ( AH things had been so different had I known s Her nature then as now ; aud'yet, and yet, n If she caine in, as I sit here alone, , n The April twilight falling through the room. ti And all the pictures lapsing into gloomCame in, knelt down, snd prayed me to forget, ti Forgive her, and reclaim her for my own, v, I hhould be glad; and draw her to my heart, n And kiss the rising tears awav, and part ti The sweet black hair, and fold her to my eido, 11 Yet leave, perchance, the want unsatistied. n IV But here she comes not. I must wait and bear; c Live on, and serve mv art as best I may. v If I can catch the color of her hair L And the neck's [vise, and set beneath her name, v Shall not her loveliness have deathless fame ? r Now lights shine on.t along the London square, t Oh, dreary plaeo! 'vhere no joy comes at all, * There! I tuns', turn the easel to the wall! a I cannot bear her 'ace as yet?Oh love ! Oh, wounded of m j' hands ! my wounded dove ! ; e Harper's Magazine. ? t THE MAN WHOS i ME WAS NOT EAST, r BY BRET HARTE. r ' C tJL t He was a spare man, and, physically, t an ill-conditioned man, but at first v glance scarcely a seedy man. The indi- o cations of reduced circumstances in the n male of the better class are, I fancy, c first visible in the boots and shirt, the li boots offensively exhibiting a degree of v polish inconsistent with their dilapidated s condition, and the shirt showing an ex- li tent of ostentatious sirface that is iuva- u riably fatal to the threadbare waistcoat li that it partially covers. He was a pale v man, and I fancied still paler from his t black clothes. ! 1 He handed me a note. It wait from a certain physician; u 1 man of broad culture and broader expe- V rience; a man who had devoted the 4 greater part of his active life to the alle- t viatiou of sorrow and suffering; a man 1 who had lived up to the noble vows of a I noble profession; a mau who locked in his honorable breast the secrets of a hun- 1 dred families, whose face was as kindly, whose touch was as gentle in the wards i of the gre.it public hospitals as it was beside the laced curtains of the dying < Narcissa; a man who, through long contact with 'suffering, had acquired a universal tenderness and breadth of kindly philosophy; a man who, day and night, was the beck and call of anguish; a man who never asked the creed, belief, moral or worldly standing of the sufferer, or even his ability to pay the few coins that; enabled him (the physician) to exist and . practice his calling: in brief, a man who no nearly lived up to the example of the Great Master that it seems strange I am writing ol mm .is a uocwr vi we-numo nnd not of divinity. The note was in pencil, ehnracteristicHiiy brief and ran thus : 'Hero in. tlio itihd I spoke of. Ho might to be good material for yon." For a moment I sat, looking from the i:ote to the man, and sounding the "'.lim perilous depths" of my memory for the meaning of tins mysterious communication. The "good material," however, soon relieved my embarrassment, by putting his hand on his waistcoat, coming toward me, and saying: "It's just here; you can feel it." It was not necessary for me to ilo so. In a flash I remembered that my medical friend had told mo of a certain poor patient, once a soldier who, among his other trials and uncertainties, -was afflict- < ed with an anuerism caused by the1 buokle of his knapsack pressing upon be arch of the aorta. It was liable t< >urst at any shock or any moment. Tb joor fellow's yoke bad indeed bei n toi leavy. In the presence of such a tremendou lossibility I think for an instant I fel tnxious only about myself. What should do; how dispose of the bod;y iow explaiu the circumstance of hi aking olf; how evade the ubiquitou reporter and the coroner's inquest; he* i suspicion * might arise that I had ii ome way, through negligence, or fo vine dark purpose, unknown to the jurj - ? J.X.. i. 1 v.l.? ,.11 jjrecipuaieu mu iui before me. Even tho note?with it larkly suggestive offer of "good roa serial " for me?looked diabolically sig nificant. WLat might not an inteliigen lawyer make of it ? I tore it up instantly, nnd -with fever isli courtesy begged liim to be seated. " You don't euro to feel it ?" he asked i little anxiously. "No." " Nor see it ? ' "No." He sighed, a trifle sadly, as if I ho< rejected the only favor he could bestow [ saw at once that he had been unde :requeut exhibition to the doctors, an< ;hat he was, perhaps, a trifle vain of thi ittention. This perception was corrobo rated a moment later by his producing v copy of a medical magazine, with th remark that on the sixth page I wouh ind a full statement of his case. flmihl T serve him in any way, . isked. It appeared that I could. If I coul< lelp iiim to any light employment, some ;hing that did not require any grea physical exertion or mental excitement le would be thankful. But he wante< ne to understand that he was not, strict y speaking, a poor man; that some year jefore the discovery of his fatal com alaint he had taken out a life insurant policy for $5,000, aud that he had rake< ind scraped enough together to pay i lp, and that he would not leave his wifi md four children destitute. "You see,' ke added, "if I could find some Bort o Mjht work to do, and kinder sled alon; rfyi know?until "? fle stopped, awkwardly. l\ have heard several noted actor hrilll their audiences with a singli )hrase. I think I never was as honestl; tiovekl by any spoken word as tha ' untnl" or the pause that followed it le wiW?evidently quite unconscious o ts effectV for as I took a seat beside hin m the so?a and looked moro closely ii lis waxen face, I could see that he wai evidently embarrassed, and would havi 'xplained '.himself further, if I had no topped him. Possibly it was the dramatic idea, o jossibly clmnce, but a few days after vard, meeting a certain kind heartec heatrical mimager, I asked him if h( i ail any lig'At employment for a mai rho was an imyalid. " Can he walk ?' 'Yes." "S*and up for fllteea min ites ?" " Yes\" "Then I'll take him le'll do for th? last scene in the ' De truction of Saannachorib'?it's a tre nendous thing,! you know, we'll hav< 1,000 people ou| tie stage." I was i rifle alarmed aft ?ie title and ventured tt uggest (without betraying my pool riend's secret), ithat he could not active y engage in the i" Destruction of Senna herib,"aud that even the spectacle oi t might be too m ,uch for him. " Needn'i eo it at all," saiJ my managerial friend, ' put him in fropt, nothing to do bui larch in and mai ch out, and dodge cur' tin." He was cngageul I admit I was al mes haunted Liy grave doubts as t< hether I should foot have informed tin lanager of Ins physical condition, and is possibility tha - he might some eveing perpetrate a real tragedy on tlu limic stage, but mi the first performnee of "The Destruction of Senna lierib," which I coiiscicntiouslv attended, .'as somewhat relipved. I had often n%en amused witla the placid way ir r-hicli tho chorus inl the opera invariable ?-wived the most i astounding informa ion, ami witucasedw the most appallinp ragedics by poison t?r the block without .uything more than;a vocul protest 01 ommand always delivered to tho audimce, and never to thjejiotors, but Ithinfc uy poor Iriend's utter impassiveness tc he wild carnage and'the terrible exhibiions of incendiarism that were goin# on round him transcended even that. )ressed in a costume that seemed to be he very soul of ana<']ironism> stood little outside the proscenium, holding spear, the other h;in<l pressed appafintly upon the secret -within his breast, almiy surveying, with Ins waxen face, lie pay auditorium. J could uot lielp [linking that there w^ H certain pride isible even in his placjj features, us oi ne who was conscious tb at at any molent he might change this simulated atastrophe into real terror> J could not ielp saying this to the doctor, who was rith me. "Yes," he Saj,^ with profesional exactitude, " wi|(?n it happens te'll throw his arms up i'lbove his head, itter an ejaculation, and full forward on Lis face?it's a singularjgjLng, they alrays fall forward on tHjr facc?and hey'll pick up the manjpj dead asJninsCiesar." After that, I used to |r0 night alter light, with a certain hideous fascination; )Ut, while ic will be remembered the ' Destruction of Sennacherib" had a remendouH run, it will also be remembered that not a single life was really k>st (luring its representation. It was only a few weeks after this modest first appearance on thf. hoards oj " The Man with an Aufurisn " that, happening to he at a dinner jarty oi practical business men, I sought fx interest them with the details of tiio \bove story, delivered with such skill ftn(" pa'hos as I' could comnmrd. I regr>t tc Ray that, as a pathetic story, it for a u0ment seejned to be ft dead failure. last a prominent .banker sittingjnext < me turned to me wita the awful ques tion : " Why don't ycrir friend try to re ftjixft on his life insimnce ?" I begge< his pardon; I didn't cuite understand " Oh, discount, sell oit. Look liere(after a pause). Lst him assign hi policy to me?it's not'lnuoh of a risk, oi your'statement. Wei?I'll give him hi five thousand clear." And he did. Und(r the ndvice of thi cool headed?I thfn> I may add warn hearted?banker, 'iChe Man with ai Aneruiwn" invested his money in.thi name of and for thp benefit of lxia wif( in certain securit.es that paid him a smal but regular stipad. Bui he still con tinurd upon theooards of the theater. ISy reason cisumo meiits that calleJme away from the cit; I did not see & friend tlie physieiai for threa rnor^s afterward. When did I asked ti(A83 The Man with tin Aneurism. rl\? doctor's kind face gren sad. 44 I'm fruid?that is, I don't ex aetly know rhether I've good news o bad. Did y.i ever see his wife ?" < I never hl.; ' ,( "jf" " Well, se was younger than he, an? rather attptive. One of thoee dol o ! faced women. You remember, he set-, e | tied that life insurance policy on her and 1 0 i the children; she might have waited. ; She didn't. Tlio other day she eloped ' s | with some fellow, I don't remember his t; name, with the children and the five 1 : thousand dollars." ; I "And the shock killed him," I said,;' s with poetic promptitude. s " No?that is?not yet; I saw him yes-; v terday," said the doctor, with conscien-! a tious professional precision, looking over r ; his list of calls. | "Well, where is the poor fellow now?', 1 "He's still at the theater. James, it' s ! these powders are called for, you'll find ! them here in this envelope. Tell Mrs. Blank I'll bo there at seven?and she t can give the baby this nntil I come. Say ' ! there's 110 danger. These women are nn , - j awful bother ! Yes, he'6 at the theater 1 yet. Which way are you going ? Down , i town ? Why can't you step into my car: riuge, and I'll give you a lift, and we'll ' | talk on the way down ? Well?he's at. the theater yet. And?and?do you re1 member the 'Destruction of Senna.1! cherib' ? No ? Yes you do. You remem. | ber that woman in pink, who pirouetr I ted in the famous ballet scene ! You i I don't? Why yes, you do! Well, Ii 8 i imagine, of course I don't know?it's , t- j only a summary diagnosis, but I imagine ' ? ' that our friend with the aneurism has at0 tached himself to her." .1 ''Doctor, you horrify me." "There are more thiugs, Mr. Poet, in j 1 ! heaven and earth than are yet dreamt of ! ; in your philosophy. Listen. My diag- j I; nosis may be wrong, but that womau j .' called the other day at my office to ask t about him, his health and general con-1 ! dition. I told her the truth?and she |! fainted. It was about as dead a faint as r ' I ever saw; I was nearly an hour in : 8 j bringing her out of it. Of course it was . the heat of the room, her exertions the j 0 | preceding week, anil I prescribed for , j ! her. Queer, wasn't it ? Now, if I were j a writer, and lind jour faculty, I'd make s ; something out of that." ? ; "But how is his general health ?" f ' "Oh, about the same. He can't evade y I -rfhat will come, you know, at auy mo- ! ? j ment. He was up here the other day. Why the pulsation was as plain?why 9 the entire arch of the aorta?What, you 3 ! get out here ? Good-bye." Y j Of course no moralist, no man writing j t! for a sensitive and strictly virtuous pub! lie could further interest himself in this j ; man. So I dismissed him at once from ! 1 my mind, and returned to the literary \ 3; contemplation of virtue that was clearly ! 3 | and positively defined, and of sin that! 3 ; invariably commenced with a capital let-! 11 tor. That this man, in his awful condi- ; ; tion, hovering on the verge of eternity, ; r ' should allow himself to bo attracted by . . ; ?but it was horrible to contemplate. > j | Nevertheless, a month afterward I was 3; returning from a festivity with my inti-j j mate friend Smith, my distinguished j < ; friend Jobling, my most respectable i . friend Robinson, and my wittiest friend j ; Jones. It was a clear, starlit morning, i [ , and we seemed to hold the broad, beau-1 . I tiful avenue to ourselves, and I fear we | ? j acted as if it were so. As we hilariously ; t passed the corner of Eighteenth street, j! a coupe rolled by, and I suddenly heard r idt name called from its gloomy depths. "l oeg your paruon, sam ine uocior, . : as the driver drew up on the sidewalk, [' " but I've some news for you. I've just t been to see our poor friend . Of j course I was too late. He was gone in a j [ flash." "What, dead?" " As Pharaoh I In an instant, just as i [. [ said. Yon see the rupture took place ! , in the descending arch of "? "But, doctor!" [ "It's a queer story. Am I keeping j . you from your friends? No? Well, . you see she?that woman I spoke of? | . had written a note to him based on what j . I had told her. He got it, ami dropped ; in his dressing-room, dead as a herring." ; | " How could she have been so cruel, I , knowing his condition ; she might with j . woman's tact have rejected him less; . abruptly." "Yes, but you're all wrong. By Jove ! slip accepted him !?was willing to marry : ': him !" , "What?" ; " Yes?don't yon see ? It was joy that j | killed him. Gad, we never thought of ! . that! Queer, ain't it. See here, don't; , you think you might make a story out i of it?" , " But, doctor, it hasn't got any moral." ; "Humph! That's so. Good morn-j f-i ? -\r ct ! t u:g. urive oil JOUII.?>j\ew jur/caun* ; j Fearful Adventnre 011 the Rail. i The S;in Francisco Chronicle fur- , rushes the particulars of an event which j ' literally converted an eastward bound j . overland train into a perambulating j . bedlam on wheels. The story, in brief, ; ; is to the following effect: In the make- i i up of the train which left San Francisco j were two Pullman sleeping cars. The ' i. larger proportion of passengers occupying the Pullmans were women and chili : dren, and all expected to enjoy a pleas. nnt and comfortable jaunt across the [ j continent. On the second day out the ' . general serenity was disturbed by the . development.^ a malignant malady on j board. The victim was the representa [tivo of a Sau Francisco house, a large : and powerful man, who had drank him. self into a state of delirium tremens. The muniac startled the passengers by j giving utterance to terrible BhriekK and 1 imprecations, at the same time rushing j i back, and forth through the car. The j ' greatest consternation prevailed, and two , , ! ladies, at least, were seriously affected I * by the violence of the madman. He was | finally secured in one end of the car ; s while the women and children were ! I crowded in the other end. Not a soul ] i slept through the night. His ravings were incessant, and it was feared that he ! b might regain his liberty and commit | >1 murder. When the train reached Og-1 den the derangement of the unfortunate j - man had greatly increased. At this | 1 point the females and children were j . trowded into the rear sleeping car, while - ti? other was converted into a lunatic b i asylum, and carefully guarded by male l ! passengers. After leaving Ogden his s ' suffertnga were terrible. He frothed and bhd at the mouth, while continuous s spasms shook his powerful frame. The i second day out from Ogden he became i- more quiet, and under the belief that he e was getting better, his watchers, needing 0 rest, left him in charge of a single per1 son. Shortly after daylight he suddenly - sprang up and dashed through ; a window. The engine was reversed and the - train ran brick, all expecting to find the f lifeless body of the maniac. He had a fallen, however, where the snow was T -1 ' J -i i. r . jl urup nun son, and m? escape irora lin9 mediate death thereby prevented. He v 1 was able to raise himself and stagger - toward the approaching train, his eyes r glaring -wildly and blood oozing from his none and mouth. He was again taken on board by kind hands, but the belief 1 prevailed that" he amid not survive to 1 i the journey's end. # FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Housekeeping Hint*. Yeast Cakes.?Put a very large handful of hops into two quarts of boiling water and boil until the water is reduced one-hulf; boil three large potatoes until cooked; mash them and add them to two pounds of flour; pour the boiling hop water over the flour and potatoes and stir until it is quite smooth; while it is warm add two tablespoonfuls of salt and half a teacupful of sugar; before it is quite cold stir in a dissolved cake of compressed yeast or a gill of any other liquid yeast; let it get perfectly light, then knead in all the Indian meal it will take; roll out in a sheet about a half inch in thickness, cut in small cakes; lay tliom on a cloth on ft board, putting them in a warm place; turn them every day; they will take ten or twelve days, in tho winter, to dry; place in paper bags, a few in each, and tie tightly, hanging in a dry place. Will keep good for months. Chocolate Cornstarch.?One quart of milk, quarter pound of chocolate, one tablesponnful cornstarch, two eggs, one cupful white sugar; grate the chocolate; add to this the cornstarch and sugar; mix well; put enough milk on to dissolve; then add the yolkp of the eggs well beaten; heat the rest of the milk;, when near boiling stir in the mixture and let it boil for five minutes: when done pour into a dish and let it cool; beat the whites of the eggs to a froth anil add a spoonful of sugar, and drop in spoonfuls over the pudding. You may omit the last if you wish, but it makes n pretty dish. Old-Fashioned Buckwheat Cakes.? Put some lukewarm water in the batter pail, add salt, a handful of Indian meal, buckwheat flour enough to make a batter of the desired thickness, then add yeast to raise it. Be sure to get the batter ! thick enough, for itcan easily be thinned, when wanted to bake, with a little milk, which will make the cakes more tender and of a beautiful brown. Stir?up the batter at night; let rise until morning, ; and bake; the next night add moreluke- ! warm water, salt, and sufficient flour to ; i__i? rc 1.1,~ LincKen, iu* ueiure. xi me uuivco ouuuiu be slightly sour, dissolve a little soda in ; warm water, just before baking, and add. I. It is well to use the batter all up once in two weeks or thereabouts, and start new , again. Codfish Cakes.?Soak three pounds ' salt codfish in coM water till it comes to a boil; pour off the water; if too salt for the taste, add fresh cold water; don't let it boil; when soaked sufficiently remove all bones and skin and chop fine in chopping bowl; boil eight white potatoes till j done, drain off water, mash very fine, > add one-half cupful milk, less than onehalf cupful butter, salt in proportion to the freshness of the fish; beat well with t a spoon and add to the fish, mixing thoroughly, using more potatoes than fish; roll with the hands into small round ; cakes an inch thick, and fry a rich brown in very hot fat. These, with stowed ;, dried peaches and rice pancakes, make a | good breakfast. TIic Fruit Gnrdcn. Planting should be attended to at the ?i ?l ? 1. _ xi 1 i? ?.:n eiirJlUSb IlJDIIlflll/y US but; Mll'UUR, Cl/U., Will suffer ill hot weather, unless they become ' well rooted. I Currants. ?Wherever the leaves are fairly expandod the currant Abraxis, or most common "worm" is to be looked for. Careful examination of the under side of the lower leaves will discover the \ eggs, and by the picking of a single.! leaf, dozens of eggs may be destroyed. If the worms appear, apply powdered white hellebore at once, or it may be ap-; plied stirred in water, about two ounces i to the pailful. Scald the hellebore with a little hot water first, and fill up with i cold. The same directions apply to ; gooseberries. Strawberries.?If not already done, | < remove the covering around the plants, to expose them to light and air. Set. plants early, that they may get well 1 started before hot weather. We set in i .1 rows three feet apart, -with plants one J foot distant, allowing the runners to fill j1 the spaces between the plants, and form solid rows. Whore laud is scarce, tho 1 rows may be two feet apart, or the plauts ! set as close as twelve by eighteen inches, j i Very rich duil and clean culture are ; needed. We would remind growers of the im-1 portance of cooling off the berries before packing. The fruit must never be soft, ! but its ripeness governed by the time j before it will reach the consumer. Pick t into the baskets, and set these in a cool, ' shady place for some hours before pack-, ing. Use only baskets and crates that j are well ventilated. Grapes may still be set in many locali- ; ties, and there can hardly be a yard of j, any kind but will allow of one or more . vines. The vine is so manageable that; its fruiting part may be a long distance ! from the xoot.-jrAgriculturist. Antidote for Oidiuin on Urapc-Vinen. , M. Chfttot, a Frenchman, recommends : i common table salt as an antidote for ;; odium, or grape-vine disease. Ho says j I that his vines and grapes were covered j j fnr Rnmo vpnrs with a fnntrus-like sub- ; stance, nml that last spring lie sprinkled ;! a handful of salt about the roots of each i' vine. The effect was marvelous, the J: vines grew luxuriantly, and bore an' i abundance of grapes entirely free from the fungus of oidium. j i Use for CohI Ashen. ! ' E. E. S., West Meriden, Conn., asks what is the best use to wlxich sifted coal j ' ashes that have boen saturated with slops j; from the house, can be put. ', Reply.?They nro of little value for any purpose. They may he spread upon i a meadow, where they will do more good ' than anywhere else. If the soil is heavy . clay, tliey may be scattered on any i plowed ground and harrowed in. A Modest Prince. i The Prince of "Wales, when ho troes i hunting, likes to enjoy himself unostertatiously, and doesu't want a fuss made i about him. But when he went to Glou-! cestershire lately, a member of Parliament and a newly-rich person, Mr. Pow-! ell, appeared to think this all nonsense, j and when the meeting was appointed on | his estate made a great fuss indeed. He ' sot up a marquee on tho lawn fur the princo's luncheon; ho prepared his re- ! ception rooms for the entertainment of ! his hunting friends and acquaintances; i he laid in bread and cheese by the ton 1 weight and strong beer by the hogshead , for the consumption of the country side. Consequences: The mob of mechanics ! and laborei*s of the n< ighborhood broke j in, devoured the royal luncheon, and ! made the day hideous generally; and af- ; ter a long day's hunting the prince re- j freshed himself with tea and poached eggs nt the nearest clergyman's residence, not having been seen at all by his ambitious would-be host, Mr. Powell. I Farmers' Facts about Grasshoppers. , The Chicago Tribune has gathered ' from Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota and Ne- s n braska a great deal of curious informa- [ tl tioji about the grasshoppers of the West. : E A few suggestive facts reported by the j p fanners are worth repeating even on the ' Atlantic seaboard, as they give a vivid j o wlswt r\f fllft 1/Wnaf. ' 1 lUCtft Wi UUC UC^IUUIU^O VI vitv <vvuww , a< plague bucIi as the labored description , o of scientific men fails to produce. A tl correspondent in Neosho county, Kan- g saa, says that the ground is full of eggs, si there being as many as a hundred to the o square inch in some places, which -will, tl in his opinion, stand any amount of bad g weather and hatch .-when the proper' Ij time comes. But he naively remarks j w that all the young grasshoppers that j tl hnve been found ure "our nutive aui- ! Iti mal," and with an agricultural disregard i T of grammar ho adds : "The Colorado I Ii 'hopper is a different institution entire-; ti ly, as any one acquainted with their j T make-up can see at a glance." A man w in Franklin county is amazed to think ! tl that the eggs which have been deposited j tl in that neighborhood can stand the tl frosty weather that has prevailed of w late, but be confesses with many misgiv- sj ings that such of them as have been put ai under the microscope look sound. The si farmers of that region take the whole re matter coolly, and are determined to ir meet the 'hoppers firmly and "drive p them into tho ditches and destroy it them which is a new version of the lc heroic determination to welcome tho in-* w vaders with bloody hands to hospitable graves. From Labette county a corre- L spondent cheerfully announces that the la people there expect to be alive with lo- i ai custs iu the summer, but that they are p not nervous, as they have kept a lot of L old grass to bum and have planted g '' barley, castor beans and pampas, which s< are'hopper proof." nj A farmer in Nemaha county writes b that some of the grasshoppers' eggs were E hatched out during the warm weather in ii February, and that even the sceptical A county editor was forced to acknowledge te the fact. 'He adds : "Some of the eggs tl arc spoiled, but a large part are yet d: good." Another farmer writes from the si same county, classifying the locusts as rri uatives and foreigners. Of the former j he says : " There are somo of the na-1 tives hatching in sheltered localities ; some of them are half-giown." Of the i latter he says: "None of the for- aj eigners are hatching yet that I can find." sf A correspondent from Washington fe county says that the grasshoppers' eggs 8i are generally laid iu sandy places along tc the creeks ; they that are proof against Cl cold, but that the. March,and April rains m kill them ; that many have been hatched fc, out already along southern slopes. Ho n< adds: "We arc cheerful but organ- bi ized." A farmer in another part of the at same county gives this description of fe the favorite places of the insect: D( " Roadsides and prairies where the grass 01 is trodden out, stubble fields, orchards, w corn fields and every other place where pj the ground is bare and a little hard is g< literally full of locust eggs." A farmer p( iu Price county, who is probably accus- ?< tomed to making political speeches, ft gives the law and the state of public ti opinion on the subject of locusts in some ]e very large words. Ho says : " Onr Leg- ti islature has passed an act authorizing ti the roiul overseers to call on all male w ?? ^ r* /\*V? t persons mj unniwu m ucouujui^ vu^ut should they visit us this season. Burn- fc ing prairie grass simultaneously iu our county has been agitated some, with a | view to destroy them after hatched out." ; From Snc City, In., a correspondent! reports that somo of the grasshopper ! aj eggs have been hatched out by artiticial I Vf means, and that the young locusts have J] been exposed to great degrees of cold or without effect. In Page county some of ft] them were put between two pieces of ta ice, which were frozen solid and then g, thawed, the imprisoned grasshoppers coming to life and moving olF. Iu other j M places the eggs were hatched out by the I Q family stove and the young locusts were i bJ set in the open air at night and frozen I stiff, but win u put beside the stove again j ?[ in the morning they became as lively as \ si ever. Throughout the whole Northwest the prairie grass has been spared, and is b< left to use against the grasshoppers if Bi they should come in swarms. Corre- ^ spondence from Minnesota indicates that pi the people in some parts of the State will have to fight for their harvests. It is said that some of the experimentalists in that State have frozen and thawed out! the young locusts as often as three i times, and found them able to bop about j n after the third thawing. From Nebraska f? comes the same story; but one of the fa fanners of Franklin county in that State 0j declares that the idea of lighting the lo- b, ousts through organizations under the a command of the road masters, as pro- m vided by Nebraska statutes, is as absurd j ^ as would be the attempt to turn the wind j 01 with fanning mills.?New York World, j fr j w An American's Success. I ! Capt. Boynton, wearing his indiarnbber : cl fmit, lias crossed the straits of Messina, j b passing successfully through both Scylla [ st and Charybdis during tho prevalence .pf,j B a severe gale, which caused the destruc- j m tion of one of the accompanying vessels. I cf Fortunately there were no lives "lost, i ai The trip took five hours, and was wit- j nr'HHwl hv the American consul and manv : distinguished Italians. Shortly after j storting, Boynton received a blow from ! the tail of . one.of the large fishes which ! fa abound in the straits, but upon the ap- I di proach of the harpoon boat he was found 1 bi entirely uninjured and laughing at the 1 w mishap. Notwithstanding the predic- ; re tions that lie would never leave the wa-! b< ter alive, Capt. Boynton landed in excel- | tc lent condition and'in no way fatigued by j bi his marvelous exertions. His reception ; ui by the entire population of Messina was I most excited am! enthusiastic. He wat> d< officially welcomed by the mayor and an- j 8f thorities, and subsequently entertained , le at a public banquet. Capt. Bpvntqn ! b compares the Scylla and Charybriis to ! y< the rapids and whirlpools of the Niagara ,-tc river. ' ' j di ?? I d! The High-Toned Tramp. Yesterday a gentleman, residing in a ! neat, modest cottage in the suburbs, ; caught a tramp prowling about his back j g yard, evidently trying to et-cal some-! h thing. e: " Why don't you come to the front, L door if you want anything ?" indignantly i s.' roared the proprietor. j ai " That'B what I was looking for," was ' oi the impudent reply. ; . j tl "Didn't you sue it 011 the other side 1 cl of the house ?" retorted the gentleman. ; li " How was I to know that was the le front door ? No silver door plate, 110 j ti bell, no telephone, 110 statnarv, no ser- ti ? ? ' m n _i vunt to take your nut ana cane. jloji ci your boss there is n gentleman out here ni who is waiting for his breakfast." 1 c< When the gentlehmn got buck with his w shot gun, the tramp was not there any ( ir more.?San Antonio Herald. . . { fx Murdered by Savages. Relative to the recent search for the . mrderers of the passengers and crew of i t ae steamer Geo. S. Wright by the j tritisli gnnboat Rocket, the following c ress dispatch is received from Victoria: t The most sorrowful page in the story c f the wreck of the Geo. S. Wright, in B74, remains to be written. The Col- i ni#t has a few additional particulars of i io massacre of a portion of her passen- t ers and crew by Indians and the de-j traction of the Indian village. The t (Scorn learned enongh to convince them r rnt several of the shipwrecked persons 1 ot ashore and were murdered bv the udians. The story is that a number of t liitc men came ashore in a boat; that a ley had with them many papers aud a c irge "urn of money in gold and silver, "hey bargained with a party of Kiragut t udinus, wbo were bound to* Victoria, to t ike them to Fort Rupert for $7 each. ; ? he white men were without arms, and i a hen night came on and all were asleep le Indians murdered them, and threw a ie bodies into the sea after stripping 1 lem of everything of value. The money, r hich was in a box, was divided by the ivages, who then came on to Victoria i ad spent the coin. An Indian woman i a lys she picked up the head of a white I tan on the beach at Cape Caulion a few a lonths after the wreck, and was told tp , ut it down again and say nothing about a . The officers found no property be- ! r mging to the steamer except portions of ! t reck, which probably drifted ashore. c With respect to the destruction of the a idian village, Sergeant Jiloomfield inded withJthree others from the Rocket, r ad demanded four men, who were sus- i c octed of complicity in the murders. The f idinns came out armed, and refused to c ive up the men. The party then ' t :cured two of the suspected savages, and a lade for the boat. They were tired on, * ut got back to the ship safely. Captain 1 [arris then gave the tribe six lioiirs i which to (surrender the other two men. > fter the lapse of six hours he ex-1 >rwl<v1 flip fimA tlirpp. hours lonmr He ^ icn fired blank cartridges, and the In- r ians ran away. The village was then e idled and afterward burned. The two T icn were secured. No one was killed. ! c < Opposed to PnbUc Policy. t An instructive breach of promise case , , spears in tlie last volume of New Jer- j . >y Common Law Reports. The de-; 1 indant was a married man. He had j ^ led his wife for a divorce, and expected j , i succeed in the suit. Under these cir- , imstanecs he told the plaintiff he would : arry her within a reasonable time after ! , 9 obtained the desired divorce. He did ; . 3t keep his word, and the plaintiff, rough t her action. This was the case i i presented in the complaint. The de- j' ndant objected that these facts would j. at sustain a suit for breach of promise : , : marriage, as the promise relied upon . . as plainly unlawful and void. The su- . reme court held this objection to be ' x>d, and declared such a contract op-1 , ssed to morality and public policy, i If a husband can bind himself to a ; iture marriage, conditioned on the get- j ? tig a divorce," said Chief Justice Beas- j j1 y, "so he can incur a similar obliga-j on to be put in effect on the dissolu-} ? on of his marriage by the death of his | . ife. Such contracts are highly impoli-; c and highly scandalous, and are there-1 f ire illegal." c Snch is Life, a Mortality statistics, showing tho aver- ^ duration of life among persons of ,T irioun classes, are often faulty. In 8 [assachusetts such figures are more j ? irefully and accurately obtained than v most anywhere else, and the following n ,ble is the result of very recent mvestiition ixi that biute : Yearn. Yearn. eu nucmployed 68 Mh8ouh 48 ; D idges 65 Traders 4fi j . inuers '... 04 Tailors 44 ; ! ink officers ?4 Jeweler* 44 i ii lopern 58 Minufacturer* 43 iblic ofttcors 57 Ushers 43 (Tgyraen 5t> Painters 43 }j ilpwrlghts 55 Shoemakers 43-; itter* 54 Mrnhauics 43 : r iwyerc 54 Editors 40 ' fi iperaakern 64 Musicians 33 { p ackKraiths SI Printers 38 | erchants 61 Machiuibts 3G I ilico printers 51 Teachers,.,.. 34 , lysicians 61 Clerks 34 . IJ itchers 50 Opeiatives 32 ! fi irpenteri 49 1 ! 1 1 1 a A Prisoner's Pets. Two years ago Geo. Bidwcll, the noto- v ous Bank of Eugland forger, was traus-1 ;rred to Dartmoor prison. Soon after j c e was apparently seized with paralysis , v : his lower limbs, and has ever since * 3en an inmate of the infirmary. Lately j new governor was appointed to Dart- s .oor, who was skeptical as to the genu- ' h lenes.B of Bidwell's illness. The pris-j a aer was ordered to get up aud dress, ; d lit positively refused. Thereupon he i p ? ? X - ? ? -"I -J ""11 1A^ nn n MB pub ill U UU1U UCJl uuu ICIt Uliciu uu- <1 otlied until he choae to dress. Within i 1 hour he jumped up and put ou his ft othes, and evidently a perfect cure had ; t; een effected, but when lie was being 1 (i lipped a euritos discovery was made. 1 c eneath his armpits were found a tamo : 15 ;OU8? and a rat. These he said he had night in the infirmnry, and had petted 1, id fed with crumbs for many months, j ' 1 ? I c ' How to Yote. . t ; ' rJ The venerable Jeremiah S. Black is' mouB for his little anecdotes. One day ' ? firing the late debate on the Electoral ill he was strolling in his abstracted 0 ay about the floor of the House of Bep- i isentatives, when a Pennsylvania momsr said to him: "Judge, how oiyyht I 1 vote on this bill ? I want to do right, 1 at really there are so many things to be rged 011 both aider of this men sure that /I >4- Ir^sMir vtrlmf Ar\ WJint q1io.11 T , UUU 1/ VI imu tv uvi *? ***** ? j j?" The Judge, in his benign way, U lid: "I don't wish to counsel any vio- fa mt change in your habits, my dear sir, " at perhaps it would be worth while for c ju and a good many of your associates ? try for a while?not rashly, but by j egrees?the experiment of doing your :} nty-" _____ |. Bottling Cfdcr. I? A writer in the New England Farmer i ives this advice to bottle cider that will r eep it sweet and fine for years, and its 1 icellenco is indorsed by the editor:' ieach and filter the cider through pure uid, after it han worked and fermented, ' ad before it has soured. Put no alcohol e r other substance with it. Be sure that I 1 ic vessels you put it in are perfectly n ean and sweet. After it has leached or o ltered, put it in barrels or casks filled, i ' laving no room for air; bung them ' c <*l?f o?,l it u-liArn if. wnn'f frpp7.fi r -V -- 11 February or March, then put it into f lampagne bottles tilled, drive the corks 1 e ad wire them. It should be done mat ?llar or room that is comfortable for ^ s ork. The best cider is late made* or;';i mde Then it is oold as can be and not j c eeee. , . | f Farm Notes. The lust recipe for making hens lay is o buke their corn. When you hear a country praised beause roses bloom in winter, you may be lire that mosquitoes and snakes come >ut thick in spring. There have been great improvements 11 poultry, but one point is lacking, that s, a breed that can get over the idea hat an egg a day is enough. The scientific truth about potatoes is linf flmir will nnf rrrnw wfill UTllPK8 in nellow soil. There are other needs, but, ike charity, this is the first of all. The apples of Michigan are worth moro hau her wheat and com; more than her alt and lumber; more than her fish and inions; more than her politics. It is said that- choice apples, such as lio Bhotle Island Greening; are -worth luee dollars a barrel to make into vine;ar, but, remember, a good many lies vo told. What is badly needed is a method for aving corn fodder. One who can devise t will do more good than if he conld nake a political speech two hours long. They say that by a free"use of potash u the soil pear trees will never blight, ,nd will bear heavily. If this is true, a >ear orchard is worth more money than , big office, Wiat is the matter with beans? We .re told they contain ninety per cent, of ilitrition, and yet hired men turn np heir noses, and wnnt potatoes, which uuumi uiuy btirutj |/ci v/mv. ?? w JUW-VI , greater diffusion of knowledge. A boy should bo the lirat up in the aoruiug; lie .should- build the lires, put m tlio tea kettle, set the table, and then fo out and fodder, and he should have a liance to warm himself a little before >reakfast; so'that wlien he becomes of ,ge, ho will not fly from the farm as if it vere Sodom or the other place. Phair, the Mnrderer. The New York Herald, in commenting in the case of Phair, the condemned ntrderer, says : Vermont furnishes an vent that is mildly sensational in its ray. In that State in the year 1874 the rime of murder was brought home to a oting mau by evidence satisfactory to a ury, and this culprit is now under senence of death. But a person has ' turned up" who promises to prove hat at the time the crime was committed n Rutland, Vt., the alleged murderer ras not in the place but somewhere lue, -on his way to Providence. That he executive should stay the arm of the a,w out of regard to a mere expression of pinion of this nature must be attributed o the readiness of the authorities to exlaust the smallest chance that may preen t itself in the culprit's favor?to a iisposition not to hang anybody in favor f whose innocence a word can possible ?e said. It is nearly three years since lie occurreuce or tiie cnme. un tne rial the whereabouts of the murderer on he day of the murder was made out by consistent train of circumstances, and id not at all agree with liis own account f his whereabouts. No evidence was nvduced on the trial to sustain his own ccount, and the jury decided against iim. Now a man comes forward whose tatement amounts to an expression of piuion that the prisoner's story was rue. It seems not according to ordilary methods to stay an execution on uch ground. Doubtless the governor ttaches weight to the story, and that of ourse is sufficient; but it is evident that man who knew so little of the prisoner hat he did not appear on the trial, and ?lio yet knows so much that he can wear to the culprit's whereabouts on a (articular day in June, 1874, is a person rlio knows at once too little and too auch. ' "i? Fashion Notes. Parasols trimmed with coverings of .etted floss and edged with deep netted ringes are to bo among the new fashjns. YoiT>._ r -'Is will wear turban shaped ntn nr ' ip Rnclish shaDes with brims oiled 11 tlie side. Wings, pompons of ?athe.' s and ribbon will be used as trimlinff'j. Pockets, which have so long formed a >art of every dress, are going out of ishion; largo bows are set on in the ilace they occupied; even small pockets re dispensed with. Satin boots for full dress are trimmed ath yellow Batin bows and yellow butcms. Dull gold buckles mixed with fine at steel are put in the bows of slippers, rhicli are cut low on the instep to show lie stocking. Huguenot cuffs of torchon lace and inertion come to wear over tight sleeves;1 irge square collars to fasten in the back re worn with them over high-neck resses. Delicate necklaces made of oint and duchesse laces are also worn rith high dresses. Fine Balbriggan stockings in all shades re embroidered by hand with floss on ' * A 1 lie lusttjp; uuu bnuuo jo uacu lxx iaic iroideriug; tun on brown, blue on white, iirdiual 011 black, and vice verm ; while ine lisle thread and spun silk stockings 11 delicate' tints have embroideries in ligli mixed colors. Tunic overdresses are said to be going mt altogether, the long princesse taking lie place of dresses cut in several pieces. ?he princease ia sometimes trimmed imply around the bottom and arranged o drape a little in the buck under bows if ribbon; passementerie trimmings or oarfs are draped over it. A Daring Member. One day in 1795 a daring and heterolox member of the London common onncil named Dixon had the audacity to nake a motion which threw the whole >ody into such consternation and confuion as it had never yet known. It was lothinf? less than to suspend all civic iinners for twelve months on account of he rieamess of provisions. Aldermen and ommon councilmen i\ere alike speechess with amazement and indignation, md there is no. saying what dreadful lonsequences might not liave ensued had lot Mr. Deputy Birch, a famous restauateur, renowned for turtle banquets, noved for the standing order of the day. How ft Lawyer Lost a Client. A gentleman was sued, and very much ixcited he went into a law office and told lis case to a lawyer. The lawyer hinted it a settlement, af. which the client beame exceedingly wrathy, and shouted : 'Never! never!" and striking his list >n the table until it bounced, "not ouc ent to stop the fight!" "And millions or defense, I suppose," quietly remarkid the lawyer. The man stopped as linnch lie had been struck with a club. at down ft short time, and then taking tp his hat wont ntit and employed anithvr lawyer. The word "millions" lightened him almost out of his coat. \ Items of Interest. ! Telegraphy has been introduced into tlie school for the blind, at Nashville, as a study. , A donkey carrying a load of books is an respectable an animal as the person whose head is crammed with learning that he does not understand. A bill has been passed by the Illinois Legislature making an appropriation for the completion of the monument to Stephen A. Donglas in Chicago, In Japan a man who eats onions absents himself from society for sixteen days; in this country lie complicates the offense by chewing cardamon seeds. A Western editor publishes a poem which "was written by an esteemed friend, who has lain in the grave many years merely for his own amusement." The recent vigorous prosecution of parties for violation of the gambling law im had the effect of almost wholly suppressing that vice in Portland, Oregon. The great question of the present is whether it is better to carry two pounds of dried apples or a bar of ten cent soap to tnc annual cionauon ui me imiuBtei a bouse. ' The British army estimates provide thin year for 131,720 men, a net increase of 836; 3,815 men deserted in the past year; 29,350 joined the line, and 38,437 the militia. A Chicago girl, who claims to'have proved it by experiment, says that by putting a lover in the light of a blue glass w indow he can be made to propose at one sittihg. From one point of view?Scene, British jury-room. All agreed on their ver| diet except one juryman (who holds out)'. " Ah, thin. Ihv'n more obstinit' men I ; nivir met in all my loife!" The disaster that followed a cry of lire in a Memphis theater was confined to the boy who shouted. Ho was cuffed and kicked out of the building, and when ' he got home his father added a sound whipping. A French boarding school for girls is [ mentioned, where a prize is offered to the best mender of old clothing, in ad; dition to those for general excellence in studies. This is the first case of the kind chronicled. The testimony elicited as to the salaries paid the officers of life insurance companies fully justifies the belief that, by a I little care and frugality, almost any one of them could go through life without suffering from chronic penury. The Southern humorist known as Bill Arp was recently killed in Texas by falling from a wagon. He was not a literary ' man by profession, but was a farmer. His ' quaint ideas were put into shape for publication by a newspaper friend. Soudan will apparently never be of much value to Egypt unless its climatic : disadvantages can be in some way overi come. In three months 600 of the 1,300 ' troops there have died, and during the two rainy seasons 2,400 out of 5,000 ; died. ' _ | A promissory note for S5,ui>u was presented to the probate court at St. Louis (last week for allowance, upon which ' iuterest had been paid at ten percent, for nearly twenty-three years. The drawer ! of the noto had paid SI1,000 on it in ' interest. j The brother and heir of the dethroned : tycoon of Japan is now in Paris as a : student. He is a gentlemanly, quiet 1 young man. The mikado allows him : ?1,000 a year for his expenses. Ubi : lapsus ! Ten years ago, thirty millions of people trembled at his name I ; An electric belt for ladies, which is said to have a tranquillizing effect upon the nerves, is the last invention. .For steady comfort, however, it is not likely to supersede the old and popular belt, which is composed of a coat sleeve with a young man's arm inside of it. The "Little Schoolma'am" in St. Nicholas recently asked her readers to tell her what they took to school for ' 1 T n ??n rtArrtin rt in VlTT fli a i lllUVlleilU. xjci/icxa aic m *,j j cord, aud it is proposed to draw from j them some practical suggestions toward teaching the young idea how to eat "William," observed a Milwaukee j wonyin to her husband, " Mrs. Holcomb . fe< Is pretty badly now, since the loss of j her child, and I wish yon would drop ' over there and see her.. You might say that all flesh is grass; that we've all got I to go the same way, and see if 6he is go1 in g to use her dripping pan this after! noon." j Brigham Young has lost the use of his j legs, aud his numerous wives take turns in wheeling him around in an easy chair. Their turns come alphabetically?Ann Young wheeling him the first day, Betsy the second, and so on. It is thought the one whose front name is Wilhelmina will reach her turn about the middle of next July.?Xorristown Herald. ! An anti-kettledrummer puts forward the theory that tea is a foe to a fine complexion, because " If tea be mixed : -with human blood, tannate of iron is formed, turning the blood black, and if the skin I is soaked in tea, it becomes like tauned leather. " Hence, according to the alarmist, it follows that tea absorbed into ; the veins will give a dusjty nue to tne I skin. & The English institution of game preserves has been introduced into Berks i county, Pa., by a local sportsmen's asso1 eiatiou. They have leased 3,000 acres of . >? j forest, field, and stream, which they will I stock with birds and fishes. They pay I each of the fifteen farmers who own the land 85 a yeA a^d divide the proceeds | of tines for "poaching " with the farmer on. whose territory game is killed. Several hundred quail and pheasants will be ' set at liberty this spring. Impure Liqur.s. A reform liquor dealer in New York in telling his story said : " I'll give S100 in gold for a gallon of pure brandy," he 1 shouted, "or of port wine. I tried to : buy a bottle of the latter pure for a sick woman, and I paid ?13.50 for it, and got shaved at that. It was made of logwood I and elderberry juice, because there are not grapes enough grown in the world j to make tiie port wine tnac is imiuu. m . the city of London alone." The following story, illustrative of the effects of these poisons on the liufnan | syntem, closed the speaker's address : " I knew a man who kept a saloon, an * ! drank beer. He thought itwasdoinpr him I good. He was getting fat. And I re ! member how he would hold up the gin?'? land look at it and say: 'That's tine j beer.' Well, that fine beer killed him one line diy, and they had a postmortem examination mndc to asrcita'n the exact cause of liis death, and th<> . doctors said he died of a kidney disease caused by drinking beer. But that wasn't all; they found about a pound of fatty substance about his heart, and they i tried it out to see what it was composed I of, and found that it was beer juice."