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I 3 ? ? ' _? . 1 J. f # 1 ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1878. . NO. 40. VOLUME XXV. t ' ..I ? ? ? I m n nLIIJ ! T.t/o The Latest Chinese Outrage. It was noon by the san; wo had finished our game And was passin* remarks goln' back to onr claim; Jones was eonntin' bis chips, Smith?relievin' his mind Of ideas that a " straight " should beat "three of a kind," When Johnson, of Elko, came gallopin' down, With a look on his face 'tvrixt a grin and a frown, And he calls "Drop your shovel#, and face right about For them Chinese from Mnrphy's are clearin' us out? With their chiug * ring chow, And their chic colorow, They re bent upon making No slouch of a row." Then Jones?my own pardner-looka up with a sigh, "It's your wash bill," sez he, and I answers, "You lie!" But afore he could draw, or the others could arm, Up tumbles the Bates' boys who heard the alarm. And a yell from the hill top, and roar of & gong, Mixed up with remarks like " Hi! yi! Changa-wong 1" And bombs, shells and crackers that crashed through the trees Revealed in their war-togs four hundred Chinees ! Four hundred, Chinee! We are eight, don't you see ? That made a square fifty To just one o' wo. J~hev were dressed in their best, but I grieve that that same (Vas largely made up of our own, to their shame. &ad my pardner's bc-t nhirt and his trousers were hung Oa a spear, and above him were tauntingly hYi uug ; While that beggar Chey Lee, like & conjurer Kat, rullin" out eggs and chickens from Johnson's best hat; .And Bates' game rooster was part of their 'loot," And all of 8mith's pigs were skyugled to boot Bat the climax was reached and I liked to have died When my demijohn, empty, camo down the hillsideDown the hillside! What onoe held the pride Of Robertson oouoty, Pitched down the hill Bide! Then we axed for a parley. When oat of the din T/? Itx. W nnmtka *.wv>Vl'ncr thut hftdtVlftn Ah Sin! " You owe flowty dollee?me washee you camp, You catchee my washee?me catchee no stamp; One dollar hap-dozen, me no catchee yet. Now that flowty dolleo?no hab ? how can get ? Me catchee you piggee?me sellee for cash, It catchee me licee?you catchee do " hash;" Me belly good sheliff?we lebbee when can, Jle allee same halp pin as Melican man ! Bat Melican man He washee him pan On botlorn side hillee, And catchee?how can?" " Are we men ?" says Joe Johnson, "and list to this jaw Without prooess of warrant, or color of law ? Are we men or?a-chew !" here he gasped in his speech For a stink-pot had fallen jnst ont of his . reach? "Shall we stand here, as idle, and let Asia pour Her barbaric hordes on this civilized shore? Has the White Man no country ? Are we left in the lnrch ? And likewise what's gone of the Established Church? One man to fonr hundred is great odds, I own, But this yer's a White Man?I plays it alor e 1" : Aod he sprang up the hill-aide?to atop him j { | | npne dare? Till a yell frem the top told a " White Man was there!" A White Man was there ! We prayed he might Bpare Those misguided Heathens The few clothe* they wear. They fled, and he followed, but no m&tter where rhey fled to escape him, the " White Man was there." l ili we miasea nrsi ins vcuoe on me pme-wooued elope, And we knew for the Heathen benoeforth was ii? hope, And the yelU they grew fainter when Peterson said ' It simply was human to bury his dead." And then with slow tread We crept up in dread, But found nary mortal there Li vine or dead. Hut there wu his trail, and the way that they came, i . And yonder, no doubt, he was bagging his When Jones drops his pick-axe, and Thompson says "Shoo!" Vnd both of 'em points to a cage of bamboo, Hanging down from a tree with a label that BWIlDg i3onspicuous with letters in some foreign tongue. ^Vhich, when freely translated, the same did appear Was the Chinese for paying: " A White Man is 9 here!" jC And as we drew near In anger and fear Bound hand and foot, Johnnon Looked down with a leer! In bis month was an opium pipe?which was " "J fie leered at us so with a drnnken-like eye ! They had shared off his eyebrows, and tacked on a one, They had painted his face of a coppery hue, And rigged him all up in a heathenish suit, Then eoftly departed, oaoh man with his loot** Yes, every galoot, And Ah 8in, to boot, Had left him there hanging Like ripening fruit At a mans meeting held up at Murphy's next day, 1 here were seventeen speakers, and each had hie say ; There were twelve resolutions, that instantly passed, And each resolution was worse than the last; - here were fourteen petitions?which, granting the same, Will determine what Governor Murphy's shall name. And the'man from our district? that goes up Doxt year. Goes up on one issue?that's patent and clear; " Oan the work of a mean, Degraded, unclean, Believer in Buudha Beheld as a lien?" ?Bret Earte, in Wilkes' Spirit of (he Times. OT . A St Valentine Experiment. It was the eve of Saint Valentine's Jay. Twc girl* were Bitting before a bright open fire in the oozy sitting room of an ouMaahioned house amongst the *?nr Hampshire hills, It w*s ?bon* I twenty, years ago, when open fires were | , | more in vogue than now. The warm j | glow glinted and glimmered upon the j j walls and furniture and touched the | forms and faces of the girls with a tender, poetic grace. "Now's our chance j to have a peep into futurity," said Grace j Elmore, the younger and gaver of the [ ? two. "If we walk down cellar back- ! wards with a looking glass at the witching hour of midnight, we shall see our ; , future? " " I shouldn't dare _to try the experi- . Jment," said Irene ;?iere8ior<i. j.vei | heard of persons seeing tlieir coffins instead of a true lover. Poor May Gay- , lord tried it last year, and though she i wouldn't mention what she saw, she told | me before she died that she could never j think of that nig] t without a shudder.' "Nonsense! how superstitious you [are!" said the more practical Grace, i " How can you believe such things. Now, I haven't the least idea either lover : or coffin would appear. If I should try the experiment, I should only do it for a i 'lark." "Call it superstition, or what "you [like," returned Irene, "I know that j many fine, high-wrought, and yet pow- ] I erful natures, are strongly controlled by < i such notions. You know we have high j authority for the assertion that ' there i i are stranger things in earth and heaven , than is dreamt of in our philosophy.' ( j I do not believe in supernatural influ- ; ences, subject to laws whose workings i ; we do not understand, but which are ] I none the less real. Now, I'm just sen I sitive enough?cowardly, if you like? I j ! to prefer doing almost anything die- j agreeable to the ordeal of walking down j 1 ' cellar alone at that hour." i j " Well, there's no need of our discuss- j < j ing this subject before Paul in such a J < 'gloomy manner," said Grace, hastily, j] "He's low-spirited enough now, aren't h you, Paul ?" getting up and crossing the j j room to the side of Paul, who was re- 11 clining upon a low lounge that sat in a 1 i reoess. "I guess you weren't noticing j j what we were saying," she contiued, as I < he did not speak. " Come, coz," pat- ; j ting him on the cheek, 44 cheer up, and ; \ I -no V.QTTA onmo fnn r\ri f.Hft attA of rl*?nr I i old Saint Valentine." i f "I did hear what you were talking ! j about," he said, quietly, "and I agree j with Irene. I believe? ? " 0 yes. of course you believe any- j thing that's dismal, and hateful, and j disagreeable. Come, Irene, help me ( wheel him around out of these shadows; < he'll never move unless we do, and see if this bright firelight won't dispel these 1 dismal ideas." j Irene lent a hand, though the occupant protested, and the lounge was j ( placed before the rosy firelight. Then ! \ Mary, the housekeeper brought in ap- I pies and nuts aud cider, and the girls : ] of* onrl ilronV nrw} lnno -hI and I I I ? O 4 ? with intent to cheer up their invalid j oousin, who was in a decline, some said, and others that ho was only low-spirited. { Paul Weutworth was a dreamy, imag- ( inative youth of nineteen, whose seusi- 1 tive temperament had acquired a morbid s tint from the misplaced kindness of an j indulgent mother. Believing him too j delicate for the rough-and-tumble play i of ordinary boyhood, she had treated 1 him like a hot-house plant, which had further strengthened this tendency. She had died suddenly a few weeks before j the opening of our story, and the Bhock t had thrown him into a state of hopeless despondency. His two cousins from a 1 neighboring town were spending a few 1 days at the farm-house, trying to cheer ud his 8Dirit8. but all their efforts were c ! in vain. i As he sat before a cozy fire in hio sleep- ^ ing room after the girls had retired, his unnaturally bnght eyes and the vivid ? dnsh on his cheek seemeu good evidences , of the truth of his friends' fears, that | consumption was doing its work. The I subject on which the girls had been I speaking in the first of the evening bad ' a strange fascination for him, and he j was resolved to try the experiment of i which they had spoken. Not that he really believed that there was any truth n the mntter, only he felt a strange longing which was quite consistent with such a nature as his to experiment in SQmething which had a suggestion of the supernatural. He had no fear of death, ? indeed he had a 6ort of morbid longing j t j for it; so if be saw bis coffin, he felt that j i it would not tumerve him. The thought ! kept him hopeful, and he sat in a low i ' chair before the fire glancing occasional- i j lv at the clock until the hands pointed e I to five minutes before twelve. His room , opened on the sitting room. He took a I : small looking glass that bung on the wall t j and a lamp, and passed through the Bit- t | ting room to the kitchen. The house s , was still as death. All the inmates ex- i cept himself were sleeping in the cham- ? bers. He heard the clock strike the i mystical midnight hour, as he opened the cellar door, which creaked noisily, t He descended the steps slowly, for walk- 1 inp backwards down stairs is a slightly t j:ta?u r TX? t ?? ? UliliUUlt I^I'IUIULIUUVX;. lio t icuiuir\l ou violently by this time with excite.nent t i that he could scarcely hold the light. As i his feet touched the bottom, the cellar became illuminated with a w^ird light t distinct from that shed by his lamp, and he seemed for a moment to lose his own t identity, as in the glass, from which he * never took his charmed gaze, he beheld f looking over his shoulder tbe fair face j framed in golden curls of his cousin a Irene 1 It is doubtful if his coffin would t hnvp HtAxtlftil lialf Rn miinh as this i unexpected apparition. He was paraly- r zed for a moment. Then the vision c glided away as n dseleasly as it came; and, without stopping to investigate, he t reascended the stair* as hastily as his ' trembling limbs would allow, and the l cellar door closed with a bang. The sound acting ou his overwrought nerves r ; caused him to drop the looking glass, f i anil it fell on the kitchen floor with a c loud crash and was shivered to atoms. 1 He hurried into his room, undressed and c crept into bed. He lay a long time in \ a dazed, bewildered Btate, for thoughts of a lady love ha ] never before entered his head, and when at last he slept hisdreams were of his fair-faced oousin who had showed herself to him in Buch a weird, mystical manner. Next morning when Mary entered the kitchen she was startled by the sight of the shattered looking-glass on the floor. With considerable superstition about such mishaps, she gathered np the fragments in an awed sort of way, and ! saw that it was the one that had hung I in Panl's room ! She considered it as a i mysterions omen of ill to him, but checked herself from r iking him about it, as she feared the effect on his nerves. She confided the matter to the girls as soon as possible in an awed whisper. "I guess it's easily enough explained," said Grace, in a iight tone. " Let's ask Paul about it. 1 shouldn't wonder if he did it himself." "O, no; yon musn't mention it," Raid the excited woman. "If he did, it's allthe%orse for him ; but I wouldn't have him questioned on the matter?it would only excite him. Poor dear ! he won't be long after his mother." Irene regarded the circumstance as singular, but said little, and Grace kept her secret for the time?resolved to see the end before she revealed it. But whether or not a broken lookingglass is ever an omen of ill, it was not so in this case. The sudden shook to his nerves reacted with a beneficial effect upon his whole system. From tnat night his health improved rapidly. He ceased to brood morbidly over the memory of his mother. Ria countenance feet its ?b?ent, dreamy *xt>raeioa? and his actions betokened the workings ma of a hitherto latent energy. He never her mentioned the glass, for he would "1 rather have died than revealed what he wei had seen to the girls, and he was too in- sab genuous to tell the story with any false varnishing; but he wondered secretly why Mary had never spoken of it. He commenced to manifest a bashful reserve towards Irene, which she did not know how to interpret. He had im- I prove 1 so much, lirace said, through " * their influence, that they returned home a8i? with a promise from him of a speedy one viRit. When he clasped Irene's hand in the good-bye, a strange thrill shot " through his frame, for he felt convinced can that some time in the future she was to not: be his wife. Mo ? No\ "Leave the farm in charge of John i?u: tod Mary and go West with me.'' ^8^ Paul's eyes kindled with a new animation. hon " I'm sure, uncle, I'm willing to do not! anything you think best I feel as if I f?r had only ]ust begun to live." . A "Well, you'll have enough to do out j j there to make a man of you. Three or I doll f i?*-.t- -~l:? :n : nf t tour ^earu ui urina, ttuuve 1110 wm ? 3hange you so your friends won't know 9?a* you. Your mother was my only and dear 3ister"?here his voice faltered a little. " Perhaps she petted you more than was i?ood for you; but she meant all right. [ said when I started for New Hamp- " shire: 'If Rachel's boy needs a helping ye 1 hand, I'll give it to him.' " hig So the farm was left in care of the fid11 faithful man and woman who had been hav with Mrs. Wentworlh ever since her hus- " band's death, and Paul accompanied his " J< ancle to his western home, where he was and loing a thriving business. The change kQ0 jf scene and active employment acted " .ike an elixir. At the end of four years watJ die tall, slender stripling developed into _ " 1 strong, broad-shouldered, full-chested j *n a mnnp man. -with onlv the dark, hand- I y?u jome eyes and broad, white brow re- in^' naming to identify the Paul Wentworth * /' )f yore. All this time he had cherished ;he memory of Irene. They had kept ip a correspondence in a cousinly difip fashion, but no word of love had been can ipoken. They exchanged pictures. Her " face was the same mild, lovely one he aQd remembered seeing four years ago in the bam jlass on that well-remembered night, mor sut his was so changed, and for the bet- " ?r, that with a cry of delight elie fhri lastened to show it to Grace, now a wife jmP )f one year. "It " Would you have thought he would j ST161 lave grown so strong-looking and hand- /' tome, Grace ?" j ^id< " Yes, I should, as soon as he got out j com ){ leading strings.' I never believed he ] vas in a decline any more thau I was." j dete " He's coming home to visit us," said ! hacl [rene, with tb? least little flush on her j hie i 'air cheek. " He says he has sent this " jicture as a forerunner." clen "I shouldn't wonder if you fell in " bve with him when he comes," siid auB* jrace, mischievously. " You're half in j oth* ovri with that rieture now. and I could ! mftj' lee that he liked you before he went | 44 iway. He must be intended for you, for ^ttCe rou've given all your beaux the mitten, 9ur vhich I guess you must be doing to rfttt eave the coast clear for him." one * * . * I'll " I have loved you, Irene,*ever since " rou and Grace visited me at the old won arm, after mother's death." B "I liked and pitied you then," said whi< [rene, " but I never thought of love, at orig east I don't think I did." evei . " I don't kDow as I should, indeed I the Ion't think I should, have been living the low only for a violent shock I received ben vhile vou were there." " "What. wan it?" nnpstioned Irene, truei sagerly. yeai "Do you remember a talk yon and Wid Jrace had on Valentine eve about trying Sail !xperiraeut8 to find out who was your " rue lover?" " " I think I do?about walking down moi! sellar at dead of night with a looking- a mi flaas. We were sitting by the firelight, fes, that evening is distinct in my nemory." Vf "Well, you know how morbid and esc* anciful I wap, I thought it over after Iter 'on want to bed, and at midnight took a amp and glass and went down cellar. I ixpected to see my ooffin, What do you hink I saw instead 7" " ? "What?" asked Irene, breathlessly. Bi "Your face looked over my shoulder gj n the glass. It was so unexpected that ? t frightened me so I had just strength inough left to get back to my room. m08 " Why, that was singular, Paul " said xene, with her blue eyes fixed on his ever landsome face. "Of course I was in Vi >ed asleep. It seems foolish to attribute are i uoh things to any cause but our own maginations, and yet a belief in the yjve upernatural clings to me. though Grace j, 8 always langhing at me about it." . " Just in time to explain that myserious supernatural affair," said the . 0 r\rr/\lw firoAn ma llrin rr in nnnn f.bfim 8imt UlOiJ VJIIUVW, fTMU?4M^ &U MJ^VM hrough the folding doors of the porlor. T] ' I've just been an unintentional listner in tl o your thrilling account of your mid- j> light exploit four years ago." . p6tt " Why, what do you know about it ?" x >oth asked. {a8h " You saw your lovely cousin's face in y he class and thought it was her spirit , rhich your influence had called away utl * rom her body," said Grace in a tone of . D. )layful banter. " Well, I'm sorry to poil your spiritual theories, but the ever ruth is, Irene was in the habit of walk- Ti n her sleep occasionally, and on that won light she chose the cellar as tho scene vet < if her pedestrian feat." T1 "Why, Grace, you never told me (jre<3 hat," said Irene in a surprised tone. prec 'You said I was in the sitting-room, T1 >ut I never dreamed?" "Li " I did not intend you should," inter- . .j. upted Grace. " I knew it would fright n you half to death, it was such a large, CJ :averuou8, horribly suggestive old eelar, and you were always so afraid *avo >f doing something dreadful in your T1 talking fits. I woke and missed you. have ! concluded you were at your usual squs ricks. I couldn't find the lamp, so sup- stra] >osed you had taken it to light your l< >ath. I stole down stairs softly. What [ narr vas my surprise when I opened the fa8t? :hamber door into the kitchen to see our braii nvalid cousin hurrying from the direc- 0f tl ;ion of the cellar door like one pursued. * j 3e dropped the glass in hishaste, which S()m( yiary found the next morning and told tragj is about in a stage whisper. As soon j is he went out of sight I opened the eel- . ar door. You, Irene, were just ascendng the steps serenely with the lamp in . ^ four hand. I did not speak, but made *B ivav for you and you passed up stairs. I 'ollowed. I supposed that Paul had a . ?een you and been half frightened to W1"1 leath, but when he began to improve jo fast it seemed that his fright had operated beneficially." "Well," said Irene, "to think you T1 aever told me of this before!" pet: "I bided my time. Don't you ever the jay, Paul, that a woman cannot keep a a mi jecret. I always thought you were made enri for each other. When you began to nou jorrespond I knew pretty well how it of li would end." Then the comical aspect a n jf the affair presented itself to the fertile oth< fancy of Grace, and she laughed hearti- the [y. The others joined her, too happy and bo feel anything but amused over it. aboi " Then it seems, Irene, that the pleas- sera Hat little fancy of mine which I have ble. cherished so long has been rudely swept on t away by this terribly matter-of-fact ooui sousin ofr ours," said Paul. dan: "Yes/' said she, "and I feel sort of beii sorry." of "I m glad the illusion lasted till now. coat It deewn altar tee * th?t we we?e Tin de for each other,"said Paul, drawing i fondly toward him and kiBBing her. I liat night I began to live, and you | :e the unconscious instrument of my ; cation." "80 'hese were wed, Alia raerni^ rang mo ueuu. The Conundrum Fiend. le came in hurriedly with the usual [ow're ye?" salutation, brushed le a pile of exchanges, took a seat ?n i oomer of the editorial table, and k an encouraging smile observed : ' Say, I've got an A1 conundrum you 't guess in two weeks. I had a big ion to send it to the Scientific nthly or tho Philadelphia Bank Reporter, or some o' them leading rnals devoted to original humor and it literature, but a little reflection 1 me it was mv duty to patronize ae industry, so I'll give it to you for kin'?not charge you a solitary red it." nd squirting a stream of tobacco :e with unerring accuracy into a tenar miRDador in the northwest corner he room, be wiped his mouth on his i sleeve and propounded the followawful conundrum: Why?which?that is, what is the erence between the widow Perkinaon her daughter Sallie ? Now then!" About seventeen years, perhaps," replied at random, without suspendwork on a labored and convincing orial on '' How the Turks Might e Whipped Kussia." Oh, pshaw, no!" be growled! >u couldn't guess it in two months; it is easy enongh, too, when you w the answer. One?" One has a husband and the other ;ts one," we again ventured. No?Great Casar, no I" he howled tone of disgust. "Don't believe would stumble on the right answer wo yea?" One," we interrupted again, "is a ow and the other is a wee dear." There you go again !" the tone of fust considerably deepened. "You t guess it in seven yea?" One mourns for a late husband, the other mourns because her hus1 is late?coming," we essayed once e. Julias Antony, no!" he fairly eked, reizing our shear* and fiercely aling several exchanges to the table, 's a dobs conundrum, and yoa might 38 for seventeen years, and you? What was the front name ot cne jw'b dear departed ?" we aBked, being interested in the fiend's oonunm, in spite of a previously formed irmination to kick him out of the c door in five minutes out of a possisix. William," he replied, between his ched teeth. Aha I Now we have a olew to the ver. One has loBt her Will, and the >? lioon'f Incf lior will hv ft. IftTCfl jrity. N-ii-u-0 ! !" he howled, in boldd pica caps, -which nearly overturned inkstand, and made the windows le. "Great Obelisk, man, -what a 'boss conundrum guesser you are! tell-" One is born to wed, and the other is q to?" efore we could finish our answer? ;h if we remember rightly, fits ui inal conundrum propounded by r minnt.rpl trnnnfl in the land during past twenty years?the fiend slid off table as if he had collided with a t pin, and cried aloud : Why, you darned idiot! you wouldn't as it in two hundred and thirty s. The difference between the low Perkinson and her daughter ie is?" How old is Sallio?" is this : tbe daughter has a re antique dress, but her mother has ?re antique face. See ?" 0 0 0 0 0 re reluctantly oonfess that the fiend ped with his life.?Norristown aid. Fashion Notes. lack satin dresses are revived, tck combs are won: very high. xiped stockings are regaining favor, arrow strings to bonnets are the t fashionable. Dnnets are worn far off the head for ling dress. 'hite swiss scarfs with ends of lace igain worn. Trite satin trimmed with lace is red for bridal dresses. ?? . ..i?i>:?? .3 is en regie ior uie tsu^iuugo auu i*u latch in evening dress. rgandie and tarlatan are nsed to ilat? orepe lisse ballayeuses. le latest fancy in jewelry is sets made le form of tiger's claws. ed is the proper color for a long icout, even those wearing mourning, ace mitfl and kid gloves are equally ionable this winter for evening toilet, akes and full gathered waists are to rorn in the spring for wash materials. ark, rich-oolored velvets and paleid cashmeres are used for composite ling toilets. ransparent lace elbow sleeves are i with a few sleeveless silk and velavening toilets. :ie Princess dress, varied in a hun[ different ways, is rapidly taking edence of all others. 1 ie latest style of coiffure is both high lie top of the head and dropping low le neck behind. oth boots foxed with pebble goat, thick cork soles, oontinue to be the rite walking shoe. ie most fashionable evening dresses j > long pointed oorsages, cnt very ; ire back and front, with high shoulder as, and no sleeves. j Dng, handsomely carved, and long, J ow, tortoise-shell pins are used to < ;n the hair when it is dressed in two 3s, fastening low down in the nape < te neck. 1 nong novelties in handkerchiefs are 1 9 of fine batiste, embroidered in con- J ;ing colors; the scolloped edges have 1 borders set on full under the emdery. j ie most fashionable evening bonnet rmed entirely of flowers and f jathere ;ned on a slight frame of cap wire, ( tied in the back under the chignon ( i long, narrow strings of ribbon. Lighting a Match. tie match box, the wall and the car- i are the three substances upon which average woman will oonBent to light itch, and it should be noticed, as a one and as yet unexplained fact, that poman, in any circumstances, dreams ghting matches on the under side of larble mantel piece. Men, on the ir hand, regard the mantel piece as natural complement of the match, if he happens to be near one when at to light a match, uniformly ,tehee on the under side of the marSome men prefer to light matches he soles of their boots, except, of rse, when the soles in question are ip. The vast majority of male human igs, whether men, boys or advocates female dress reform, light their chea on thei? trouMr*<?ivW York WIS \ . ' * A HEROIC DEFENSE. Four Men and Two Women Mtnnd a Three Days' Hlece by a Large B ind of Indlaai?Eight H&TRcea Kilted and tb? Party Rescued. A correspondent writes from Bozeman, Montana Territory, to the New York Herald, as folluws : White Calfee, a scout and freighter, brings information of a terrible battle -with the Indians, off OTallon's creek, near the Yeli l 1UWPI/UAJU live* J xix wuiuju a pe*x\jj vi wliite men and two women bod a perilous adventure, and would probably have all been killed but for tlie timely arrival of the troops from Tongue river. It appears that Dr. Maxwell, with his wife, daughter and four men started from Miles City, with the intention of settling on the Little Missouri, near where the old Stanley trail crosses that stream. Afcer they had been out several days, and just as they were crossing the 0'Fallen hills, Mrs. Maiwell descried two objects ahead which she took to be antelopes, but which the aid of a field glass showed to be Indians. Mr. Maxwell at once halted his party and soon discoveied he was in the vicinity of a village of about forty lodges of hosti'e t i? nm l j 1 i_ xnuians. iue wagons were turueu uuch. and the party retreated toward O'Fallon creek. The Indians followed but did not attack, and Mr. Maxwell, having reached the timber and water, selected a high point of land and went into camp. A ravine ran around three sides of the cam]) and it was naturally very strong and 6amly defended. It was almost dark when Mr. Maxwell selected his camp and the entire night was spent in fortifying it. The bluffs did not run close to the water or timber and the party had to take position about two hundred yards from water or wood. As good h supply as possible of both arti i i i ? J?i iK- J cies wiih mm 111 uunug uie uiguu, ohu the party waited anxiously for daylight and tbe battle they knew it would usher iu. At eleven o'clock the next day Indians were discovered approaching, and the diego began. The cattle wera kept as close a? possible, but in the evening they had to be watered, and while this was being done the Indians dashed forward and captured all tho oxen. Mr. Maxwell let them go and kept his men hard at work on tho fortifications, knowing he would soon have need of all the protection be could get. About eleven o'clock at night the works were finished and the place made aa strong as possible. ine wagons rormea one siae, ana logs, sacks filled with earth and sand, the other side. Oaves were dug for the women and strong rifle pits placed on fhree sides of the camp. All night long th) men heard cattle bellowing, and cuey were driven np and around the fort, in the hope that the little garrison would oome out and attempt to capture them ; but Mr. Maxwell kept his men within the fort. About midnight one of the party crept out .of the works, nud, avoiding [the Indians, Btarted to Fort Keogh for help. The little garrison was now reduced to six persons, and consisted of Mr. Maxwell, Mr. Bonton, George Darland, Jester Pruden and tho two women?Mrs. Maxwell and May, her daughter. During the night the men in the fort heard the Indians ooming np the ravine mounted. It was bright moonlight and they could be distinctly seen. Halting at the creek, they dismounted, tied their ponies and commenced crawling toward the fort. Mr. Maxwell told the men to keep very still and let them come on until he called oat: "Fire!" and then to work the breech-loaders hard and steady. When the Indians were within sixty yards of the fort the frontiersmen began firing, and before the redskins Tould get out of range killed two. One fellow was wounded, and fell so near the fort they could see aud hear him. He called out to the men in broken English: " Hold on, I am hit I" and " Don't shoot an-iT mnrs T am n. crnnd Indian !" Later in the night he called: "Come ont and get me, I am wounded." Mr. Maxwell replied: "Well, crawl in here, then, and we will look out for you." The wounded fellow said: "No, no, let them come and carry me off." Fo reply was given and presently the fellow rose up and said: " How, how I Don't shoot, me go away." They let him go, and after working himself down the hill a little distanoe two Indians came up, took hold of him by the arms and helped him off. The Indians now packed up everything and made a great snow as u iney were fjoing away, driving the cattle with them. The steers were soon heard lowing abont the camp, the wily red fiends thinking the white men wonld believe some of the oxen had got away and oome back. Mr. Maxwell, however, kept his men within the fort, and the savages seeing all their efforts to deceive or drag the little garrison ont were in vain, came on with yells and boldly charged the works. They dashed at each side of the fort firing at the men within, but the besieged kept still and let them ride and howl as mnch as tliey had a mind to. Toward daylight the Indians drew off, went into the bills and commenced throwing up signal lights, which were answered from a disr tance. "They are sending for help, 1??" " WoTtoall "anil vrA will Hrton UUJO, oaiu iUQAHVA*) .. w .. have it hot and heavy, so rest while you can." In about two hours Indians were seen coming from the south and joining those on the hills. Very soon they came down toward the fort, and several advancing called out: " How, how ! Oome out and give up." Maxwell replied he would do no duoh thing, and for them to oome on if they wanted a fight. It was now light and the Indians made a steady advance, crawling through the grass and sheltering themselves behind every little mound of earth. The firing now became rapid and was kept up constantly for two hours. The Indians came very near getting into tke - - 1 . Jl L 11 1 tori, Dtlt uie BCOUL buys; luiuwuu ttiiu bis men stood their ground like lions.' " For threo hours," says Callee, " nothing could be heard but the roar of the rifles, the veiling of the Indians and the sries of the women -within the fort." Presently the Indians drew off and held i council. Then they divided into five parties, went on the hills, built large fires and camped. Several of them came down to the fort and wanted to talk, but the white men warned them to be gone. Maxwell said: "ttoys, Keep close; tney want to find out how many men we have in. the fort." One fellow was inclined to be very sociable and came quite near, when a ball sent him howling with pain to the rear. Mrs. Maxwell cooked end carried the victuals to the men, who ate with one hflwl while they held their guns in position with the other. May Maxwell was as brave as she could .be, and went from man to man, given them water to drink. During the remainder of the day and all the following night the situation remained unchanged. The Indians sat by their fires and every now and then made an ineffectual attempt to talk with the men in the fort. On the morning of the second day the Indians renewed the attack. The little band of white men were surrounded on every side and the charge was most determined, but after half an hour's fighting the Indians fell back. They next commenced shooting with their bows and arrows, firing in the air bo the arrowB would drop within the fort. This is a most dangerous game, as an Indian can throw an arrow so it will come down point foremost within an inoh of any mark. The men did not have their backs and heads protected from ab<rr?t and one ?o?n wounded, but all lay still aud did not expose them- t'l selves. Toward Doon au Indian, who > had been sitting smoking on the ' hill, got up and walked down toward the ' fort. He continued to approach, despite ^r( the bullets, until within sixty yards of ^ the breastworks, when he fell dead. The ar( savage was probably a medicine man and thought the whites could not hit I tn'm or lis mav urobablv have been , I~~, ' */ ST ~ tf rn tired of living and took that opportunity to make an end of himself. Failing to accomplish anything with their bows ^ and arrows the Indians fell back and ' 1 again counciled. They seemed to think *01 the only way was to watch the fort and Th starve out the garrison. Creeping up close to the works not a head could be 001 raised or a hand exposed but it brought nei a dozen bullets from the grass. One 4 Indian was observed creeping almost mc within the works when a shot from tifi Maxwell laid him out. The men saw coi another approach, lying on a pony, and th< fired, hitting the pony in the nead and di? leaving the redskin to scramble off as ala best he could. I bit The water was giving out and the men j t Vi -iTYiinfT Vii'ToftT To mfiflh tVlin TlftW I V '"""6 '"""V ? I uiu danger a passage was dag under the breastworks and one of the party crawled g0l out, and, under cover, went down and got water. Another man got some wood, rec and in the morning the besieged sur- ^ prised the savages by building a large ^ fire. Mr. Maxwell had had a tent put tio up, and when the Indians saw the im- y0, proved condition of the little garrison gV( their rage was very great Dashing 0f down to the fort they fired over a hun- m0 dred shots at the fire, but Mrs. Maxwell ge bravely stood her ground and quietly , went on cooking while the balls were fly- , ing all around her. The Indians ciroled about the besieged for over two hours, but only. fired occasional shots, whioh showed they were getting short of ammunition. About noou on the third day 1111 they drew off, one calling out: " Good- 5?' by, we are going now. When asked . whn fhev wfiro the Indians replied: I ^ "Sionx and Nez Perces." Eight In- ?ai dians -were seen to fall during the fight, .. and it is likely double that number were wounded. on: On the morning of the fourth day all Pr( looked well, but the garrison did not 6CC venture out, being satisfied the Indians 8?? had only moved a short distanoe from the . fortifications. During the day Colonel im Baker (Second cavalry), with a strong force, was seen approaohing the fort, J guided by the man who had been seat pr< out for assistance. Mr. Maxwell had a mc very narrow escape, a ball cutting away coi a lock of his hair and another grazing of his jaw. Mr. Maxwell and party lost a i twenty-six head of oxen, captured bv dn the Indians, and one pony killed, but all wi: are only too happy to have escaped with aci their lives. This is one of the most tw< memorable sieges and defences ever Ur known on the plains, and stamps every he one engaged in it as a genuine hero ana ne ; heroine. i mc ILL The Code in Colorado. tm | Tlie code is new out in Colorado, and fe< awkward marksmen find it hard to kill th< each other. St;ne and Colburn, of Co- he bolla, had a wrangle over a young lady's th< reputation and a duel was arranged, bo Place, the bridge; weapons, shot-guns; th( distance, fifty feet. The principals were Tl stationed at each end of the bridge and thi loaded shot-guns were laid at their feet, frc - 3 41 1 ? iUrtm +V?of fnl ana weir hccxjuub oa^iuuliou iu >ucu uu? at the word " three " they were to seize At their weapons, cock and fire them. At an the signal Colbarn caaght up his gun of and exploded a cap. Stine had his piece ac: ready, but to shoot would have been foul po murder, and, like a man of hopor re- po frained from taking advantage of his an- an tagonist's helpless condition. Colburn's tu gRn was reprimed, but as he expressed i some doubt as to the effectiveness of the i i arm, his antagonist offered to s^ap te' weapons with lum, at the Bame time jjj volunteering to settle for two hundred 8U and seventy-five dollars. Colburn's friends could not raise the money, and an so, taking ins1 enemy s gnn, ne urea uiju hit the ground midway; and without waiting for his antagonist to return the w? Are he scampered off and took refuge qq i behind a venerable drover named Smyth. Stine advanced with his gun leveled at 8p the barricade and Colburn, being forced or to fight in the open, Beized a ponderous ^ boulder and rushed to the front. ^ Seconds, Burgeons and bystanders sur- in rounded the principals, and in the ei- qq citement of the fray somebody's gun ke went off in the air. At this critical f0 moment a deputy sheriff, with a small |,0 posse, armed to the teeth, dashed upon he the scene with foaming steeds and arrested the sanguinary combatants. on ? B< Kleptomania In High Life. fo: A kleptomaniac, a widow of good In family and in comfortable oiroumstanceB, tal was recently sentenced to six months' Cc imprisonment. She is believed to have la; stolen articles from a number of drapers' shops, and was lately detected at the 1 Magasins du Louvre slipping two lace gr handkerchiefs into her muff. The shop- pa man who saw her do this, and whoBe su attention had been attracted by her rest- ve less air followed her into the street and or asked fyer whether she had not forgotten lei something. She said she had bought pi, nothing, whereupon he drew out the in handkerchiefs. She offered to pay for tic them, but he led her to the desk, where co she pulled a square of soap and a cos- is metic from her pooket. These she at . p0 first asserted she had paid tor, out alter- th ward confessed she had stolen. On be- In ing asked whether she had anything he else, she replied in the negative; but a mi Bhopman, on searching her, found six a articles, four of them in a false pocket. Co At her lodgings a muff, waterproof, and pi; other things from the Bon Marche were no discovered, amounting in value to 420 co francs. The Magasins du Louvre, on ha learning her connections, declined to th prosecuta her, but the public prosecutor insisted on proceeding with the case. On her trial the prisoner wept and acknowledged her guilt, adding that she had no need to eteal, and that she had lost her senses when she did so. ?Lortdon Times' ac Paris Letter. ea dii Ammonia. pe A very useful article. We quote the loi following from competent authority: th Put a teaepoonful of ammonia in a quart bu of warm soapguds, dip a cloth in it and da go over your soiled pants, and see how da rapidly the dirt will disappear; no rai scrubbing will be necessary. To a pint m< of hot soapsuds add a teaspoonful of the da spirits, dip in your fork or spoon (or wi whatever you wish to clean), rub with a 6oft brush, and finish with chamois skin, joj For washing windows and mirrors it has dh no equal. It will remove grease spots ev from every fabric without injuring the bu garment. Put on the ammonia nearly fre clear; lay on blotting paper, and set a no hot iron on it for a moment. Also a few Tt drops in water will cleanse and whiten ed I laces and muslin beautifully. A few inj drops in a bowl of water, if the skin be tal oily, remove all uneasiness and disa- th< greeable ordors. Added to a hot bath, to it entirely absorbs all noxious smell, faf and nothing is better to remove danruff an from the hair. For cleaning nail nnd ab hair brushes it is equally good. For wi heartbuhi and dyspepsia, the aromatic sta spirits of ammonia is especially prepar- ab od; ten drops taken in a wine-glass of ac< water,will give relief. For house plants, Tt five or six drops to every pint of water, foi once a week, will make them" flourish, rel It is also good taf clean plant jars. So tk , be sure and keep a bottle of it in the bu house, and have s gin** *topp?r, it "1 eat? *way cork; iai Lllin, ttAKUEft AiMll nULSIStlULJ Farm Notes. The best -way to protect the bark jes from mice, rabbits or farm stoc to tie a small bundle of dead branch Dund the part to be protected. Care of the orchard, whether young < i, will require good fences and gat< keep out intruders of all kinds, ay ox or horse may cause serious dan e in ft young orchard, rhe constituents of soot are those on< -ming fertilizing material of the soi iey are valuable, whether of coal < >od, and contain charcoal, ammonii npounds, muriatic aoid, lime, maj aia and other substances. nest-egg, capable of deceiving tl >st knowing hen is made, the Sciei rC SX/UCTtUU/* tHkja, UJ XOIUUT JLUg UL itents of an egg through a break i 3 end, say three-eighths of an inch i meter, and filling -with powdere ked lime, tamped as closely as poss i, and sealed with plaster of Paris, ["he Gardener's Monthly well ri jks: "tSome people say that lan ich will raise good corn will gro od fruit trees, which is all right; br ;y sliould add that, like corn, the luire regular and continuous manu f." To which we would add, tha e corn, they require thorough cultivi n of the soil, especially dnring the: anger years, and many farmers won! m regard a clean, mellow soil instea a grass sod in their corn-fields, t ne important than manure.?Countr ntleman. Fowls drink water freely, but the dw iust how much they need, an en they have access to the fluid cleai eet and fresh, they imbibe no moi in is good for them, it is, tnereiori necessary to mix your dough too thi 1 sloppy at the morning feeding ive the meal well scalded, and feed tl iture to the stock stiff and dry, con ratively. This 'feed should general! composed of both corn and rye mea ;h vegetables?say one-third each. I r own practice we have fonnd th: jferable, both for the birds and as a raomical provision for the old or tl >winff stock. A little neoner occaaioi y in this dough, and always salt, wi prove the mess. Cultivation of Horse-Kadlsh. Lny kind of soil will suit horse-radisl jviding it is cool and moist. A Iot ?ist, Handy soil, well enriched wit v yard manure, is the best. In pla< barnyard manure, Peruvian guano, < mixture of finely-ground raw bom st and unleashed ashes may be UBe tb benefit; 500 to 800 pounds p( e of either of the above fertilizers, c entytons of manure will be sufficien ileached asbes are excellent, but nee Ip; ft strong ammoniacal fertilizer eded as well as potaah. The be >de of cultivation is to plant root-cn ga about one quarter inch in diamet* d three to six inches long, in rows tw it apart, and sixteen inches apart i a row. The cuttings are made fro: smaller roots, and as they are mad( 3 tops should be cut square and tl ttoms slanting, so that in plantir By may not be put bottom upwan ley are to be set three inches belo b surface. This crop is not grow >m seed; by planting slips in May tl 1 crop may be harvested in Decembe >out 12,000 roots are grown per acr d good roots will weigh three-quarte a pound, giving 10,000 pounds p re, when the cultivation is the be psible. The roots are dng aa late ssible, trimmed 'and put away in pit d covered with soil just as potatoes < rnip& are kept over. How to Iflanaie Fowl*. The Butter, Cheese and Egg Report lis of a Mr. Benton, who keeps elev< Eferent kinds* of fowls, and is ve; ccessful in their management. M inton found weak lye and wood ash effectual remedy for the canker. T1 ctors recommend chlorate of potas] ihes are also excellent for the hens illow in, and he keeps a box in ear op for that purpose. This effectual! ieps off lice. The flour of sulphi rinkled in the nest 01 setting hens cellent. Mr. Benton's principal let Indian corn, which is kept constant nf hv mftAns of boil the partitions, one serving for to ops. Water in a dish set nnder a na g, with a hole cut in the side, servi r watering. The nests are in a loi ?x along the ends of the coops; tl ns enter through holes and are the comparative darkness. Lids on tl tside give access to the nests. M mtOn thinks Indian corn the best gra r hens, because of its heating natur addition, he feedB scraps from tl ble, butcher's refuse, and green stu: >rn and fat will at once Bet hens ping. Vegetable Green Tor Plclde?. The Boston Journal of Chemist 768 particulars of a process recent tented in France and England fi pplying a green color, extracted fro getables, which is to be used for a ing pickles. To procure; this extrac ives of spinach, sorrel, or simil ants, are scalded in hot water, choppi to a mass, and then boiled in a sol m of-caustic soda till dissolved. C oling, a green cake is deposited, whi< to be dissolved with the phosphate itaBsa1' or ammonia,' and' reduced e required strength bj adding wate fVio linnif* thNH nhfcftinftd. when it ated to boiling point, ten or fifte* inntes' immersion will give to pickl fine and permanent green. As tl lor consists of the chlorophyll ants, it is quite harmless; which cai t yet be certainly said of the salts t pper, although French experimente. ve recently found them less poisonoi an had hitherto been supposed. How Much to Eat, A nftner bv Dr. Wilson says for tl tive, out-door laborer and artisan, s rly breakfast, before work, a mid-de aner, with an interval of rest, and sn] r after the day's work is over hai ag been proved by experience to I e most conducive to health. For th isiness man, a later breakfast, a mi< y luncheon and a late dinner after tt v's work is over, it is the best a agement. For literary men who wri' >re in the evening than during tl y, an early dinner and a light suppi 11 be found to be the most advaj jeous for steady work. Idlers, to ei j life, if they possibly can, shou] le early if they intend to spend tt ening at the theatres and the lik t if they accept dinner invitatioi sely they should be very carefi t to eat much at the mid-day mea te breakfast hour should be determh in great measure, by the hour of ri j, but in any case food should be pa ten of before the material business i 9 day is commenced. Those who lil take a " constitutional" before brea1 it would find their appetite whett* d their walk made all the more enjo; le if they took a little milk or coffi th milk, with bread or biscuit befo: irting. Work done before breakfast vays irksome and fatiguing, and on th x>unt is very likely to be badly don te last meal shoula be sufficiently la : the whole not to be absorbed befo: tiring to rest. To a person in heali ree meals a day ought to be qui ffloient, and the pActioe of continual taking something {e ror* to brinet t iliffeitiofii v. ine rauper tiuiu. There is one bed?or, more strictly ! i speaking, a bundle of rags?in the i of corner. The household consists of an j F k, old man as ragged as Rip on the moun- 1 08 tains, a woman whose face the wrinkles ! r i t ?.1 t ,1 j iiuve iwuj&eu una niriuwcu ou uwrv , 3r that it requires au immense sweep of j ^ ag the imagination to think that it ever was t X young. Four -children, from five to j tt_ fourteen years of age, pale and hungry, I dart about the room like dock-rate. Ex- j cept one, the little one, whose hair lay i C , back on her white forehead as if it had been swept there by the winds, whose ! N hands were like shadows, and whose \ ' eyes seemed to be fastened on the dingy j R and desolate-looking ceiling. She lay on a pallet, and the mother sat upon ; 16 the floor beside her and administered C now and then a taste of water. 16 _ "She's the only white one in the j A " lioclt,'' said tne man, as ne tuggea.ai: his short and bristling beard. She's ? the only one of the gang that's fitted to be an angel, she is," he continued, as he stared npon the sick face before him. B- " She -won't never get out of it; there 01 id ain't no use tryin' it on her," he went 1 w on in an abstracted way, " We had the wh< it county doctor, but suoh as them ain't into y givefi to hangin' round a sick bed like ? r- her'n. He left some truck and she took yeri t, it, but it never mended her ailin', and I ii01 3r guess he'll not come back." east ir The little face turned over on its j d mother's arm, and there was hardly d enough life in it to be perceptible. is "Bymeby," the father said, a few miny utes later, "some weemen come in here I and left a pone of brjead and made her * ,y somethin' tbat kind o' seemed to make J?01 her peert-like, as she was when she "7* ! crossed the 'Hio, and then they read a ^ .1 biece outen the book, and one of 'em? am< * * * i * a 3 sne was a smarwoomn woman, <uau u wasn't afraid of dirtyin' her clothin' nor a si y nothin', though her goods wus fine?she Thi Le got down on the floor thur, and shut sen lm her eyes kinder close, half-way, and it[y held her hands, one of 'em on her g f busum, and tother on the child's head, Qi< n and the brats quit mnnin' round end it [s was awful still. And the woman turned org n her face up agin the ceilifi'." He ocfi 10 paused for a moment, as if he had to bei] j. gather a little strength. And then: g 11 "Talk about prayin'! She put up the ap_ best one I ever hear south of the 'Hio, w-[|j and I reckon it was as solid with Him as heard it as any that ever was got off. w0 It kinder made things more hopeful ^ v> around, and the child opened her eyes _ ^ wide, jest as if she knew the woman . * :e was Button' uu for her. It Rot down )r into me, though tliar wasn't any stakes DlH ^ put up for me at all. When she went i away I said to Emily?that's wife? bea ,r that I would try my hand on jest one 8tai * prayer, it seemed to help things so. I The old woman shook her head, 'cause I ten . never thought of such a thing before. "PI But I got down and put up every cent I Ser had?I mean everything I could think Jan l" of. And when I got to the last word, and 31 the amen, it stuck in my throat, but hoc 0 Emily got away with it.* She said it A m right out like it was in' meetin'." den ? "I guess I made a misdeal some- one 3 where," he continued rather mourn- ove !? fully. " The little one didn't look up and p any, and she's been growin' weaker Du I* every day. Emily said I'd spiled the hor whole busmess, and that I crowded the 4 ^ Tvorti. tunmon'a nraunr nnt Rnfc T riAVflT n/?ri 16 meant it. Ef I'd known I was interfer- haj * n\ I'd never pnt up agin her hand." ma; e? There was a blast of wind that came the ra and rattled the window, and a kind of nai a low moan, and then the head of the say eick child and its face famed over in to i M the mother's lap. Its thin lips met the < 8' wrinkled ones, and the struggle was 31 over. uij The grim faced, hardy looking man bent over the pallet,-but there was a ^ w good deal of good sense left in him 3D still. He turned to the reporter, who un( ry had gone to the scene of misery and n6? r. said: "But I am not the man to go ( 08 back on good prayin', even if I didn't i? win. I reckon the hand that the woman P" b. put up will win for somebody else's ? to little one, ef it didn't for ours. For it J. sh was the solidest hand I ever see, not TT iy 'ceptin' the south side of the 'Hio in old , ir Kaintuck." is A pauper child was buried yesterday. >d ?Chicago Times. * ly nea 38 " 1?1 of i [o About Coffee, do\ gg There is a legend about coffee?a legend of which the pious Mussulman is the hero. The Mussulman used to _e |Q get sleepy during his devotions, and so . 10 he prayed to Mohammend, who came to . r his aid. Mohammend sent him for ad^ vice to a goat-herd, who took a hint e from his goats. He observed that when 1Q I these animals ate the berries of a par- 1 _ I 4-innlni* fron tliov erni. frinlrv and flTO:ted. WAVy U4uii VMVJ ^ 9 ^ bounded about all night, in fact. The Mussulman took tlie hint, ate the coffee "*fl berries, slept less, and no doubt prayed 1 better. That was the legend. That bui J* coffee, however, was sold in the streets wit of Cairo toward the end of the sixteenth pei century is not a matter of legend but of sta history. In fact, it was not only sold, thi ." but it was forbidden to be sold. An ed fl' Arabian historian recounts that in the lino ^ year 1538 a cafe was attacked by the I authorities, and the customers who were the v" found on the spot hurried off to prison, abl from which they were not liberated till gir . they had each received seventeen strokes a d ?: with a stick for the encouragement of the others. And, in fact, this raid served up, !F* that purpose so excellently, that five anc and twenty years afterward the town of fro; Cairo could boast of more tnan two nai ? thousand shops where coffee might be anc Q. bought. Prom Cairo to Constantinople anc 1 was in those days a accessary transition, n I and the new drink once established in .1 Europe soon made its way to the East. . 1 re It is recorded that the first cup of coffee Pe 18 known to have been prepared in France was handed to Louis XIV. to drink. It was a royal beverage in those days. A ~nl I nnnnd of it cost about twenty-six dol- _or fars. But this extravagance" of price UP ie must have abated soon, for not long in afterward several shops wera opened for 1?' iy its sale, and in 16-17 Thevenot, giving a ^ p. very select dinner party, offered each of j re hiB guests a cup of coffee. P0' >e I ie Bp; i- A Boy. : of ie | One of the best things in the world to j r- I in a liov. ; fce Boys have always been so plenty that j ?* '0 they are not half appreciated. a A boy is willing to do any amount of a- work if it is called play. i- The feeling of a boy towards pumpkin- j p*1 Id pie has never been properlv considered. "u ie A bov furnishes half trie entertaine; ment, and takes two-thirds of the scold- , is inpr of the family circle. al If is impossible to say at what age a 1. boy becomes oonscious that his trouser ' a- legs are too short, and is anxious about Mf s- the part of his hair, sec t- In fact, a boy is a hard subjeot to get at of a moral from. on ce j wa fe Hash ! id , gr< y- Hash has been abused more than any cai 3e other legitimate nourishment, and it is In re well able to stand- it. The Duke of Well- git is ington used to call hash "What is left frc at over from the tight yesterday." The fiee. Baron Rothschild said of hash, "It has cat te no pedigree." Tully: the Roman orator, obi re speaks thus beautifully and compre- wo kh hensively, " Hash has done more to ad- pie te vance the human race thnn any other tn: ly kind of mixed food." Socrates, the wo w dirin? philosopher, told of hash, '' Th*t odi It wm <rad withont mwni," wo die is & rose, brier-burdened, yot sweet? Blooming a day, Tinging its perfume like perfame to meet Wind blown away. peaf after leaf spreads ita blush to the air, Kissed by the sun. >eeper-hued growing as joy makes it fair? Love's guerdon won. ?af after leaf shrinks up from the heart j Leaving it bare ; I olor and fragrance and joy all depart? ' j None left to care. ay, the Divine in it lingers there still; God's care in all. ore-leaves but drop at the beck of His willFetters which thrall. p from its trammels the freed spirit win Higher to soar; ttar immortal, a pore essence flingsSweet evermore ! items of Interest. 'he deaths from scarlet fever in New k city during 1877 numbered 8,482. "he boy who grows up with an overtiming fear of dogs will not develop ) a book agent in after life. Distilled sea water " is the latest i ntion from France, offered to the pubbo cure or prevent all kinds of disB6, t is confidently believed that every lern hackmanwaa in the cavalry durthe war, and hence his audacity in rging. ' 'he Peace Dale (B. L) Manufacturing upany is to introduce the co-operai system on the 1st of February, and i thereafter divide the surplus profits )ng its workmen. amuel Bowles used to say there was ith sense?the " newspaper sense." )re is also a seventh, sense?nonse. This paragraph is a specimen of -Norristown Herald. ays the Cincinnati Breakfast Table: not in thfl Iflmmace for Doetrv. mch for love and Italian for handon melody, bat a man with a shirtar that don't fit is the same helpless ag in all. dentists say that the age of iron is iroaching its close, and that steel 1 eventually take its place. The intifio gentlemen are a little slow ; have been in the midst of the age of d for some time. !hree hundred men witnessed a fight ween ten dogs and a bear in Sharpsg, Ey. The battle lasted two hovrs ! a half, and' then was drawn, for the r attacked a horse, and there was a . npede of the spectators. t is a carious fact, that, in the first itorial legislature of Alabama, the ler branch of that body, or the Late, was composed of one member, lea Titos sat alone in the chamber, . decided npon the acts of the lower 186. k Mobile buainees firm came to a sndl end the other day. H. H. Hopper, i member, while at the store, leaned r on his desk,Baid his he*d hart him, L died; and half an hour after, Thos. ggan, the other member, who was at Qe flick, died there. 1 Hi1 where did you get them trou9 ?" asked an Irishman of a man who >pened to be passing with a pair of rerkably short trousers on. "I got m where they grew," was the indigit reply. " Then, be me conscience," s Paddy, "you've pulled them a year won 1" ' And where was the man stabbed?" ed an excited lawyer of a physician, lie man was stabbed about an inch I a half to the left of the medial ?, and about an inch above the tunicas," was the reply. "Oh, yes, I lerstandnow ; but I thought it was j the town hall." 'Young men," said an old college aident to a coterie of dissipated dents, "all these excesses of your ith are drafts upon your age. beging to mature about thirty years after e, and continuing to press and draw mly on your bodilv resources all the idue of your lives. . fine thousand feet per minute,that is, irly two miles per minute, for the rim i circular saw to travel, may be laid ra as a rule. Shingle and some other rs, either riveted to a cast iron oolkr, very thick at the center and thin at i rim, may be run with safety at a ater speed. L Kentucky youth sent to New York some visiting cards, and received ae of a transparent kind which, when d up to the light, reveal the outlines a donkey. Unaware of this peouliarthe young man gave his sweetheart and was astonished to hear her say ,t she didn't want his photograh. fear Berlin, Germany, is a church iiding, circular within and octagon hout, and capable of seating 1,000 sons, whose reneis ouwiue wu lues within, roof, ceiling, and Corinan capitals are papier-mache, renderwaterproof by saturation in vitriol, e and water, whey and white of eggs, in "Hardwicke's Science - Gossip' ' re is an aneodote showing the remarke tenacity of life in the cat. A little I'b t?et fell from a third-story window, ietance of more than forty feet, upon stone pavement below. It was lifted to all appearance dead, being limp 1 motionless, and blood streaming m the month and ears. About three xrs after it wna crawling feebly about, I the next morning it caught a mouse 1 was as lively as ever. ?h? report of the national department igriculture for 1877, states that the la of wheat in the United States for year was 360,000,000 bushels, or 50,1,000 more than was ever before prosed. Deducting the amount necessary home consumption in food and seed, ward of HO,OOU,UUO can oe spared ior >ort. The acreage of winter wheat for 8 is greater than that of 1877. The n product was 1,800,000,000 bushels, h -corresponding yields of oats and a toes. L brutal affair recently took place at ringsboro, Ohio, durimg the progress a ball. A stalwart young farmer ned Hoover, who had previously been i master of all his associates in trials strength, was made intoxicated and acked by the entire male portion of > oompany, who beat him so terribly it he was not expected to recover, ier performing this feat thsy drew q into another room and the dance nt on, the women being required to >p up their dresses to keep them from m being soiled with Hoover's blood, ich smeared the floor " Old Bill," the roan battle-horse of ijor General W. B. Tibbits, of the ?nd New York cavalry, has just died Hoosick Falls. He was probably the ly horse that served through the whole r and wound up his campaign with a lit on duty to the plains. He was a ?at pet of the men of the Griswold -airy and an Animal of peculiar ways, camp or on the nuixch lie was slngih, would not allow a pistol to be fired un his back, and if turned loose de* d the efforts of a whole company to ;ch him, but once under fire he eyed the slightest touch of the rein, uld jump anything, paid no heed to itol-firing from his back, and could be rned loose with the certainty that he uld not stray away, In his twenty i enmaeoumtn "QM BO1" wa? only