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BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27-, 1878. < NO. 42. VOLUME XXY.
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' ? ? ? I - ? ? I Ttamo nf TntiifWlt.
He Didn't Sell.
"I b'lieve I'll sell the farm, Jane Ami, and buy
a house in town
Jonea made an offer yesterday?bo ll pay the
money down.
He said he wasn't anxious, but he had the cash
to spare,
And reminded me that nowadays cash sales are
very me. "
The farm ain't worth much, anyway, the soil is
mighty thin.
And the crops it yields are hardly worth the
pnttin' of tbem in ;
Besides, that pesky railroad that they re pattin'
through this way
Will cut the old place ?lap in two?Jones told
ice so to-day.
I Ain't afearr-d of work, you know?my daddy
alios said, )
' There ain't a. single lazy hair in Nehemiah's |
head.'
There wan't no lazy hairs, I know, in that old j
head of Itii. *.x
For he did the work of three hired men in spite j
of rhenm&tiz.
No, no, I'm not afearod of work- -of that I I
don't complain?
I ve tried to work with willin' hands in sun- |
Bhine and in rain ;
And I've alius wore a cheerful face, except at
When them gi8dy, heai-slrong steers o'mine
would' haw' when I yelled ' gee!'
v'l I i : ' x, f
Perhaps it toay be sinfnl foi a mortal to find
fault
With tfttaag ftmrd both d?r and night, if he j
his salt, \ i
But I've thought while cradlin' rain-lodged oats j
on the side-hill over there,
That my cross was most too hefcy for a small- j
booed man to bear.
. . i
It s alius been my custom vrhen a-plowin' i
stumpy soil j
To hum some good, o'd-fashioued hymn?it
sorter eated my toil ; j
But I tell you what,'twas pretty hard to smoth- j
-er the words of sin
Whene'er a springy root 'nd break and whack [
me on the shin.
J
I mention these 'ere things, Jane Ann. because 1
T<flfie tflgead- j p t j ^ f
A peaceful, blameless kind o' life, from all
temptations freed.
Bnt as long as Hessian flies exist and tator- \
bugs abound ' ? * 1 ? )
There'll be some tall profanity at times a lloatin'
Younil.
V! AJL'i t <
So now if you're agreed, Jane Ann, I'll sell 1
IUO lUi U1 iv ?A/UCn .
He'll find that what it lacks in soil is well
made up in stones?
And we'll movQ, iuto the town next week? |
what's that you're sayin', wife?
You'll never leave the good old place aa long as
you hawelife?j
Well, there it goes again, I rum ! Go on and
have your Bay?
Your bound to wear the breechew? in a flggera- |
tivoway;
But yon'll find I'll have my way this time, old
girl, as well as you,
So if you're bound to stay right here, by grannies?I'll
stay, too!"
The Old Squire's Mistake.
, "True h&arUarc more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.''
Squire Atherton owned a fine place,
aud had a plethoric rent roll, ro that
money need not have been an object in i
the selection of a wife for his only son, !
Cyril.
Not being of a romantic temperament, I
he had eiven but lutle' thought to the
matter, merely looking upon it as es- ;
sential, that at some distant time Cyril ,
should form some Suitable alliance, so j
that the^ame ireei not die out; but j
there need be no haste, and a fortune .
must- be among, the lady's advantages.
What, then, was his surprise and dis- J
may, when Cyril cnme to him one morn- |
ing and asked his consent to a marriage
with a poor young girl, the orphan niece
of a small farmer, who lived some three 1
miles from Atherton manor.
A stormy scene ensued. They parted
in anger. - Cyril mounted his favorite j
"Madcap"*/ and rode at once to Deep-1
dale farm. Hilda saw him coming and
met him at the door.
The rash young lover had not waited
for his father's consent to woo her, and
they had been betrothed for several
weeks. He had led Hilda to believe ;
that she would be welcomed to his
home, and eiven a daughter's portion of I
love. ;* *
It was hard to tell her the bitter troth,
And in his anger and disappointment he
did not soften one harsh word his father
had said,'ev?i to calling Hilda a milkfaced
doll, whose pearly teeth and bright
eyes had captivated him in spite of his
better judgment.
" But we'll be married in spite of him,
won't we, darling ? He'll come to his
senses then, 111 warrant. He'll think it
all right when he can't help himself."
Hilda's rases paled as she listened to ;
the eager boy, and the happy light
which nad made her dark eyes so bril- j
liant, had died away in somber shadows,
but ahe answered with gentle resolution:
v^a, uym, two wrongs never umue u ;
riglrti It doesn't sound like you to say
Bach ft thing. .-We are. young and wa can j
wait until your . (atlier changes his
mind," i'-> j
"That's what he'll never do," said
Cyril, gloomily. " If he tabes a notion, 1
an earthquake wouldn't move him. If i
we wait for such a thing, we'll wait forever."
"Then it will be with a clear oon- 1
science. Tour father is an old man, and ,
it might shorten his life, if you his only
son?should prove disobedient and ungrateful.
..I cannot come between yon
and your fathajfe -* 'TJ
Cyril listened to her with flashing
eyes. ' >:
" Then you will throw me over ? 11
who worship the very ground your feet <
have touched. Oh, Hilda, I did not
think it of you. My father was right,"
he ooQ^iuued,jgk)omily. "He said all
womfch tfre alike?selfish and mercen..~1
11^2 ... !
"*LWn't UJTUJ l Know yoi uhuliui ueIieve
it of me J Hear me ! If you were j
to be crippled in min$ and liody, and J
miserably poor, and no one else had a |
prior claim to yon, I would work myself
to a shadow for you, and consider myself
happy in doing so. It is because I love
you better than myself that 1 will not let
you do wrong. But T will promisfc to go
politary and alone, so far as iiinman love
is ooneerned, to my grave,if it so'be that
we cannot marry. Dear, dearest Cyril, !
go home to your father and do as he
wishes, fully and entirely. God'6 bless- ;
iug will surely rest upon the dutiful 1
SOD. 1 . ) 1 I ? ; . ; Her
voice broke. With a wild impulse
she . threw tjer arms around his
neck and kinged him again and again,
between her sobs. It was her farewell.
The next moment Cyril was standing
alone in the porch, and the heavy door
was shut and bolted between them.
After a few moments of bewildering
hesitation he mounted and rode away.
He oould not but think forgivingly of
Hilda, as he recalled her anguished sobs,
and felt her kisses burning upon his
forehead?she who had ever beem so
chary of her caresses.
Strive as he might; he did not again
see Hilda. - It seemed as though some
unseen messenger was ever on the alert
to warn her of his approach. At last he
grew desperate, and determined to leave
; home. His father procured him a oomj
mission in the army. He wished for ac!
tire service, and, as it was the time of
! the Crimean war, he had no difficulty in
| carrying out his purpose. His regiment
I was one of the first sent out.
Hilda heard of his departure with tearj
ful eyes. Still she did not regret the
i course she had taken. Following the
| noble example ol Jt'lorence iNigntingale,
i she went to one of the hospital training
! schools to fit herself to follow her sol'
dier, if necessary, and nurse some poor
I victim of the war baok to life, or to
soothe his dying moments if he was beyond
help.
i * But other work was in store for her.
' A letter from home brought news of an
epidemic of the most fatal type of typhoid
fever in her own village. The
inhabitants were so alarmed that they
were leaving the place, and nurses could
not be obtained, so great was the fear of
the contagion. The concluding item was
this :
" Squire Atherton is down with it, and
of all the indoor servants at the manor,
old Hannah, who took care of the mistress
in her last sickness, is the only one
left. She declares if she leaves the master
in his sore need, it'll only be ' feet
first.'"
Without a moment's hesitation, Hilda
went to the matron, telling her she was
needed at home, and procured her discharge.
Then, laden with her precious,
newlv-gained knowledge, she took the
fiist homeward-bonnd train.
Old Hannah was seated at the master's
bedside, looking worn and weary. As
Hilda came softly in, dressed in her
clinging gray flannel dress, with her |
glossy hair hidden by a olose-fitting mus-1
lin cap, she looked to the surprised old j
woman like an apparition. Hilda smiled j
and held out her hand as she whispered: |
"Don't you know me?Hilda, of
Deepdale farm ? I am here to help you.
I know what to do, so don't be afraid to j
trust me. I'll watch the master faithfully
if you'll go and take a r'est."
Something in the girl's quiet, resolute j
manner impressed the faithful old servant I
that she was making no idle boast,or she j
would not have yielded up her post. As i
it was, weary human nature asserted its
claims, and she went gladly.
She soon came back with a bowl of j
warm soup. It tasted gratefully to the |
young nurse, as she tad not broKen her j
fast since the reception of the letter.
After this, Hilda was left alone, with i
the sick man. The night wore wearily |
away, the silence only broken by the j
restless moans of the sufferer, when :
Hilda would straighten his pillow, and :
pass her cool hand with a magnetic touch j
over his forehead, thus giving him a
momentary relief.
After old Hannah was thoroughly I
rested, she and Hilda divided the time '
in the sick room, and by that means kept I
their strength from giving out.
It was a weary fight with death: but a !
strong constitution, aided by careful
nursing, carried the squire through. !
The delirium passed away, and a deep j
sleep came upon him. It was the crisis. '
"If he awakens rational and comfort
able, he is saved," said the doctor. "If,
on the contrary, he falls into a state of
coma, nothing can help him."
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-Q.Ull.fB Uli* vi vuo i
silver-tongued repeater on the mantle
seemed to find an echo in the hearts of
the anxions watchers. At last the critical I
moment came. . The squire awoke free '
from fever, though weak as a child. He '
was saved. ~ i ? ; t ^ >
At first Hilda kept as much as possible '
out of his sight, shrinking into the :
shadow of the heavy damask curtains .
when he was awake. But he did not
seem to notice her, and she gradually j
forgot her caution.
During his long and tedious convalescence
he was often querulous and intractable.
Then Hilda would talce a j
book and read to him in her low mnsical
voice, and thus soothe him to sleep.
She was only waiting until her pres- ,
ence was not" absolutely needed to go I
back to her self-imposed duty at the [
hospital. One morning she liad been !
reading the Timet, until the squire was, I
as she thought, asleep. Then the paper j
dropped listlessly in her lap. Her 1
thoughts, unmindful of time and space, ;
were with him she loved so faithfully
self-sacrificingy.
A trembling voice suddenly roused her j
from her reverie:; > "Hannah
tells me you are going away.
Is it necessary? Can any other sick
person need you as much as I do ?"
Hilda looked at the old man in sur- j
prise. A cadence, born of loneliness !
and sorrow, in his voice, touched her j
unspeakably; and as she recalled the |
hale, hearty squire, who often rode by ;
the farm in the pleasant old daja, call- 1
ing out a cheerful good-morning to her
uncle in his stentorian tone, tears came
to her eyes to see what a wreck of his '
former self he had become.
After a brief hesitation she said softly: j
" If you need me I will not go away j
for the present."
" I do need you very much," was the
reply. " So that matter is settled. Now,
nurse, I want to ask you a question.
Have I ever seen you before ? Somehow
your face seems familiar, but I cannot |
place it."
Hilda .felt the blood dyeing her face, j
even to the border of her cap. She !
turned away, ostensibly to adjust the j
folds of a curtain, in reality to avoid a j
replv.
Just then Hannah came in with the 1
mail. Important news from the army
was expected, there having been rumors
of an engagement.
" Get the paper, nurse, and run over i
the war items."
Hannah caught the words and passed i
on her way out. In her way she was
as much interested as the squire. Was '
it not her nursling who was far away on '
the battle-field Btriving,to win his spurs ? I
Hilda took -the paper and ran her |
eyes over the columns. One painful
moan escaped her lips; the next mo- I
ment she lay apparently lifeless on the |
floor. The heavy fall loosened her cap, |
and her hair rolled in all its rich luxuri- \
ance around ^her?a kindly mantle hid <
her deathly face from even old Hannah's ,
pitying eyes.
A dasli of cold water soon revived her,
and as soon as the fright occasioned by
her sudden illness had subsided, the
squire took the paper, and saw facing
him in staring letters :
A BLOODY ENGAGEMENT.
Great loss of officers and men?Cyril
Atherton, of the Grays, mortally
wounded, while endeavoriug
to silence a battery.
The letters swam before his eyes. He
could read no more. He rose feebly
and dragged his Bhaking limbs to Hilda's
side.
"My poor girl," he said, brokenly.
But he did not finish his sentenoe ; for,
at the sound of his voice Hilda opened
her eyes and looked at him, first in a
dazed, dewildered way, then she put
out both hands had motioned him away.
" We have killed him between us!
Do you hear ? You and I! Oh, my
darling ! my darling !"
The Squire turned to Hannah:
" Who iB this young woman ?"
" Lord bleBS us, sir. Didn't you know
it was Hilda? Master Cyril's Hilda,
who has been risking her own life to
save voure ?"
Hilda's voice interrupted them:
" The grave is the lonesome couch we
have given your bonny head, and your
father may think it a better one for you
than your low-born Hilda's arm. Oh,
my own Cyril, could you but know how
?
my heart ached -when I Bhut the doc
your face, and sent you to do j
duty; but yon never, never will be
wiser ! You have gone forever,
thinking, too, that Hilda was cruel
hpdrtlpRH Oh mid Hilda! and u
cruel father !"
It made the old man's frame qu
like an aspen leaf to hear the berei
girl. He felt himself almost a murd(
as the low plaintive tones made theii
cnsation against him.
He took her hand at last, and said
" My poor girl, forgive me and 1
, mo to bear tliiB bitter, bitter pun
| ment. From tbis moment, be C
i alive or dead, I will make amend
' you for my unthinking cruelty bot
, you and him. Yon shall be to m
much my daughter as though you t
Cyril's wife. But as long as Cyril
not reported dead, there may be r
for hope. He may come back t<
yet."
Hilda caught eagerly at the raj
i hope.
j "Oh, tell me truly," she said cli
I ing her hands in her intense eagern
| until the nails almost cut into the
j der skin, " could :t be possible i
| there was a mistake ? Do they <
| put the wrong name down ?"
" I have known of instances ol one
1 oer being taken for another in the h
1 and confnsion of a battle, and this t
I gram -was sent while the conflict
still raging."
So they tried to hope?even w
every one else was thinking sorrowf
that the kind, bright-faced young ma
wes lying with his face to the stars,
! longer ignorant of their voiceless n
teries, in his solemn sleep.
Hilda remained at the manor. It
a comfort to the old man to make, ae
thought, this expiation for his fault.
In order that Hilda's position in
household might be fully understc
he announced her to be his son's
trothed wife, and invited Lady Hargn
his widowed sister, to come and lend
sanction of her presence to the yoi
girl's residence in his home.
The next telegram brought cheei
news. Cyril had lost an arm, but
doing well, and as soon as he would
able to bear the jouniey, to be e
home, wearing on his breast a decora!
earned by his own bravery.
After this there was a happy hoi
hold at Atherton manor. Lady Hargi
was versed in all the womanly aco
plishments, and she found Hilda an
pupii.
The squire could hardly show enoi
fondness forthe gentle girl who had b
so patientflnd. tender in care of ]
through his tedious illness. The si
of her pretty face bending over her i
broidery, or engaged in weaving sc
delicate crochet pattern, seemed to ]
like a tangible promise that he was
to be left a lonely old man.
So the days wore on until the {
young soldier came nome. Then ti
was quite a wedding?the festivities c
sequent uppn the marriage of the hei
the manor being reserved until the
turn of the bridal pair from a lengthe:
tour in Italy, when it was fondly ho'
that Oyril 'would be fully restored
health and strength, so that the tenan
conld be made harrov bv his presence
What Causes Consumption.
Statistics prove that the percent;
of deaths by consumption keep es
pace with the number of inhabita
who follow indoor occupations. M
women than men are victims to it,
cause more women spend their ti
within doors as a matter of cow
The rooms in which they live are g
erally very warm, and -without vent
tion. "When their poor, abused lui
break down, they anathematize
"disagreeable andunliealthfulclimat
though their failing health can
Art AV> AniiuffAAna m/
i-rucou. uLICUnj iv ou uuwogwuo *AV
tion of the physical laws of natu
How many people in tliis %erycity
preparing for the coming of the und
taker by sleeping in warm rooms, v;
the death-dealing base-burner in i
blast? The old prejudice aeainst nij
air still olings to many. They excli
it from their sleeping and living rooi
and when they shut it out they shut
every night enongh poison to oa
them over Jordan's stormy wa-s
Then the air in churches and pul
assemblies is universally bad. App
ently the blessings of ventilation
unknown to the custodians of the do
and windows of anch places. If peo
had half the regard for their lnngs t
they have for their souls, they woi
1-1 ? XI t .
xuuur lor tue ui u pmo AIL VA
nance in the churches that would g
them more time and vigor to prep
for heaven. The theater is not mi
better. Until places of worship s
amusement are better ventilated, no <
who has a proper regard for his lui
should frequent them, unless he can
his own cubic air with him. Factori
Erinting offices and all places wh
urnan beings are corralled for seve
hours together, are conservatories
the propagation of consumption. ^
were the healthy people ? Those w
years ago, slept in rooms that ne
knew a fire, and worshiped in churcl
as cold as the experience of the Polt
expedition. Now, surrouuded by evi
comfort, a large proportioh of the po]
lation of this country cuts loose from
life every year by means ot consun
tion. Pure air will make the d
scourge avaunt. Open the windows
the top, and keep them open night t
day, and see how quick consumpt
will Bneak out of sight.?Denver (C
Neivft.
Words of WiHilom.
Those who trample on the helpless
disposed to cringe to the powerful.
We cannot walk side by side with p
pie of true nobility of character with
becoming ourselves elevated and
nobled.
Tears at a funeral are sometime
mere disguise for joy, just as laugl
and cnvfitv amid Rrv>ial fflfltivitios t
mask a broken heart;
Talents give a man superiority far n
agreeable than that which proceeds f:
riches, birth ?r employment, which
j all external. Talents constitute our \
I essence.
Many a true heart that would L
I come back like the dove to the ark, a
I the first transgression, has been frij
I ened beyond recall by the angry 1
| and menacing taunt?the savage cha
i of an unforgiving soul.
Compliments which wo think are
: served, we accept only as debts, \
i indifference ; but those which conscie
| informs us we do not merit, we rec
I with the same gratitude that we
favors given away.
i The goodness which stuggles and
ties and gees down deep and soars h:
; is the stuff of which heroism is mi
; by which the world is salted and 1
| pure. It is the seed which bears f
i in martyrs and makes men nobler t
! their nature?and deini-gods and
prophets of a better time.
The man whose mind and hands
busy findB 110 time to weep and wail,
work is slack, spend the time in read
No man ever knew too much. The h
est Btudents in the world are the
men who know the most
Habits influence the character pr
much aB under-currents influence a
sel, and whether they^ speed us on
way of our wishes, or retafd our
gress, their effect is not the less im
tant because imperceptible.
>1 in QUEER HOUSES.
four
the The Kind of Bnlldlnro Fonnd In New Mexico
and ?Taos and Its Inhabitants.
and The orrespondent of a Denver (Col.) ,
Qore paper writes from New Mexico as fol- i
lows : The people of Taos are economi- i
iver cal in the way of house room. There :
ived are but two dwellings at Taos, and in 1
}rer? those two all the inhabitants reside. <
' ac- They are not owned by any one or two <
parties, and the apartments " let" as in n
some other places I could mention, '
belp where the houses are almost as thickly *
lish- inhabited ; but as best. I could learn the 1
'jril people possess the houses in co-partner8
^ ship, and all live like one happy family. <
h to a house properly constitutes a village, i
e as One of the buildings at Taos covers 1
vere about an acre of ground, and the other j
wa8 about an acre and a quarter. They are 1
00111 constructed, as is generally known, I 1
> us presume, like pyramids, one story on 1
another until they reach fifty or sixty 1
r of feet into the air, each story being set in i
from the edge of the one below Buffl- i
a8P- ciently far to bring the structure almost <
es8> to a point by the time five stories are at- (
ten- tained. The vails are of adobe and the t
that bottom oneB are very thick, as they must ^
5ver v>e to support the immense weight that t
they are compelled to hold up. There e
offi- are innumerable partition walls which t
aste serve to support the roofs and top walls I
?le- as well as to separate the rooms. The c
"was inside walls are thus the highest and t
strongest. Being thoroughly protected 1
hil0 from what slight rainfall there is in this j
ally country, they stand for ages. The enster
trances are from the top, the ascents and r
i no descents being made by means of lad- ! a
178" ders. A ladder is about as useful a ! i
" *"* I 1 Ml 1 J
ttung in a rueDio vuiage w ?ie?u penwas
cil is in a newspaper offioe. These lad1
be ders stand everywhere, ontside and inside
of and all aronnd a village. They
the are used to climb from the ground to the
>?d, first roof, from the first to the second,
be- and so on to the top, and then from the
lve? top to the first floor from above, and so
the on back again to the bottom. The peoing
pie go up and down them with the agility
of monkeys. Even their domestic
"iag animals climb them with perfect ease,
was An Indian dog is the next thing to an Into?
dian after his first cousin, and the animals
'?nt muBt of course be in the house. Conseaon
quently, one of the first lessons a Pueblo
dog must learn is to climb up and down
18e" these ladders. The chiokens also unave
derstand the modus operandi, and the
3m* housewife often thus has a whole brood
aPt picking crumbs from her fourth floor.
The houses are divided into compart- a
ich TnanfD IVifl rnnmo Vwrin cr aHnnf tfln nr n
e?n twelve feet square. A family occupies b
one compartment, and whosoever occu- c
ght
pies the ground floor owns and occupies t
9m* all above it. It may be seen that those a
>uie having their residences in the center of [ f
the building have much more commo- I
no^ dious quarters than their outside neigh- i
bors. When in one of the Taos "hives,' s
){"e a family occupying central apartments, t
iere has five rooms, those upon whom are r
!0n" conferred front corner roomB have but k
r ?* one. They have rules regulating the 8
r?* distribution, generally giving the most e
ned capacious apartments to their most hon- s
ped ored citizens. These people, when "at r
* to | home," are so effectually separated by g
'try I the immense walls between them that t
' I they are no more troubled by their \
I neighbors than are the people who live t
! along Fourteenth street in Denver. i:
age i The family relations are well pre- p
:act j served, and I am told that domestic disnts
cord does not -prevail here more than
ore 1 among more civilized communities. The
be- I lamb and the lion lie down together. I
ime j The mother-in-law and son-in-law sit in s
| opposite corners and smoke the pipe of a
en- j peace. There are about seven hundred t:
1- i . ,1 Ml 3 XI -11 n
an- j Indians in cms village, aiiu uiey mi m- ?
age j habit these two houses, consequently tl
the they are about as thick as a new paper e
e," ' of pins. There have been about seventy J
be deaths from small-pox in the place dnr)la
ing the last few months, and, fearimg t;
re. that the walls might be innoculated, I
are did not go inside. s
ler- These Indians have lived at this place a
ith for over 300 years, as we have every c
'nil reason to believe from the old Spanish a
?ht records still extant; how much longer b
ide will probably never be known, as they fl
ns, have no knowledge themselves. /It is, h
in I however, believed, that they settled n
rrv ! tiom nhrmt t.ViA t.imA or soon after Cor- l)
es. tez attacked Mexico. o
>lic j ' p
?r- i " a
are Shocking Scene In a Chnrcli.
ors A reeent dispatch from Richmond,
Pi? Ind., is to the following effeot: City '
hat Marshall L. Schafer, has juBt returned
from Knights town, reports that himself, <1
di- park Page, from Richmond, a?d Officers
lve Kehoe, from Indianapolis and Haynee, d
"i? of Knightstown, took Harry Foxwell, f'
IC^ the Knightstown saloon keeper, arreBted h
in(* on suspicion of being the murderer of
)ne John W. White, to Carthage to-day, and I
arrived at the church just as the funeral c
ieB services over the murdered man were a
es? completed. They took the prisoner into
er? the church to look at the corpse. He
J0* evinced such agitation that the murdered n
man's sister screamed in affright. Instantly
the crowd in the churoh made a k
"?? rush upon the prisoner, whom they
^er tried to force from the officer. Revolvers
h?8 were drawn, the women screamed, the
1118 preacher leaped upon a chair and ex- f,
3r7 horted the crowd to keep the peace, and
Pn* only owing to his influence were the
officers able to remove Foxwell from the
aP- church. j
ea<* Upon the street the mob of sev- *
at eral hundred made another rush jj
l.U(* upon the officers, demanding the pris- ,
ion nnfli? onrl nrrrinw " Shnnf t.Vlft mrmlfir
?/ \ ?J??? _
ol') er," "Hang him," "Stone liim to ?
death," and such like expressions. The V
officers forced their way through the
crowd with their revolvers, and took the ?
are | prisoner to a justice's office, privately I F
i secured a hack, drove rapidly from town 1
>eo- ; and took the prisoner to Rushville,
out I across the country nearly twenty miles.
en- j Arriving there, they were met by a large r
I crowd, but had no difficulty in locking J
s a I up the prisoner in jail. Fox well is a f
iter , Baltimore' rough, and bears a bad repunay
tation. It is the general belief that he c
1 is guilty, and he would have been lynch- ?
tore i e(* ^nt *or ^rmuess of the 1
rom | officers and a few law-abiding citizens *
are j who anticipated an effort would be made c
! to lynch the prisoner. '
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i ' *
Lave j Au Adroit Swindle. j i
iter A young gentleman recently drove up j <
;ht- to tne establishment of a well known i I
ooK watchmaker in London and purchased ^
rity a gold hunter for ?18. Unfortunately, 1
he had left a ?50 note on his desk at 1
de- home. Would Mr. So-and-so kindly \
vith ' send a man with him to his business I i
>nce j house?naming an eminent Arm of f
eive : ironmongers ? The man might keep the do
change for himself. Mr. So-and-so 1
hummed and hawed, and found means
to communicate with the cabman, who, 1
L<rh" ' however, told him he had taken up his
^e' fare at the ironmonger's establishment i
in question, and that the gentleman was ]
going down to Pytehly. Thereupon <
jjan : the man was sent. Arriving at the <
tjje establishment, the voung gentleman ]
ushered the watchmaker's man into the 1
1 shop, and told the clerk to " give him ]
thatSO-pounder." So paying he jumped i
. into the cab, and drove off. The clerk, i
mS- who had politely bowed and gone off ]
ar^" to fetch the cash, then returned with a i
old brown paper parcel, which he suavely ]
handed to the man.. "What's this?" i
etty asked the astonished messenger, "this <
ves- isn't fifty pound." " Excuse me," was ]
the the reply, "it is. It's the fifty-pound i
pro- dumb-bell the gentleman bought about
por- an hour ago." The watchmaker still ;
cherishes that dumb-bell.
Russian Characteristics.
Ex-minister Boker tells the Philade]
phia Times something abont Russia
characteristics as follows: The whol
government of Russia has been tone
down from the Russia of twenty year
ago. I witnessed in St. Petersburg th
reception or the emperor upon his re
burn from the war. After leaving hi
carriage to go to his palace the peopl
crowded around him and pushed hie
ibout as Americans would a politician
rhe reception was the most enthusiast!
aver I saw, and he seemed to enjoy i
thoroughly.
It is true that some of the poore
jlasses of Russians are very ignorant
md the nation itself is not so far ad
PAnr?,?d in civilization as other Europeai
aations are, but it must be consider
yhat a vast area of population there ii
X) reach and civilize. The resources o
;he country are infinite. In the neigh
Dorhood of the Caspian sea- there an
ivers of petroleum running away, ant
;he mineral wealth of the country "is en
)rmous. But the Russians have not th<
mergy which Americans possess, heno
;he great bulk of this wealth lies unde
reloped. They import petroleum fron
bis country. The peoplejare more con
lervative and careful in taking riski
han "Americans are, although many risi
rom the lowest conditions to position!
>f affluence, and some make their for
unes rapidly. A shrewd ignorant iel
owwill crop out there'and become rich
ust as they do in America.
They have not the gteat inventive fac
ilty of Americans aijd other peoples
ind they are not very ^uick to adapt th<
mprovements of other nations to thei
>wn use. For example, in their lm
aense grain trade they .do not use eleva
ors, but handle this product altogethe:
rith shovels. They lose time in thii
pay, and when their grain does get int<
he market it is generally dirty and selli
or less than it wouli otherwise bring
Besides it usually goesto market in bags
ehile in England and America they shij
t in bulk, which makes it lees liable t<
poil I
The people in the interior provinces o:
Russia are, some of them, very ignorant
?hile the higher classes in the cities ar<
.8 much enlightened as those of an]
>ther nation. Not many speak the Eng
* 1 to 'or?/1 al AfQTM
IB LI ItUl^UD^U) UUU VUOlV JK7y nuu turruji
ias been, a very friendly sentiment or
he part of the Russians toward on:
ioontry. The cause of some partB o:
he population being so highly civilized
tnd other parts rather benighted may b<
iccounted for in the fact that the race
pread over such an immense area oi
ountry, is not easily reached and cenralized.
But with their mineral wealtl
.nd other resouroes there is an immense
>rospective power belonging to them,
:t is this that makes other nations anx
ous and uneasy in issues like the pre
ent. It is this that Napoleon the Firsl
tad before him when he spoke about hit
Jtimately getting into possession of al]
Lsia Minor. The Rugsinis develop
lowlyx as iB the case wita all great
iations. Out of the three hundred aud
ixty-flve days of the year I forget how
aany holidays they keep, but they are a
Treat many, and the giving of their time
o these observances is an immense
caste. But too muoh praise cannot be
>estowed upon Alexander for his unto
_ 1- i-- -4.- v.;?
g enorui i<u pruuiuto iuo guuu ui uu
>eople.
Didn't Know He Was Loaded.
"Yon will pleas? observe," said old
lr. Lamb-well, as he led us through hie
choolthe other day, "that the boys
re required to display the utmoBfc attenion
to quietness and discipline, and in
short time become even divested oi
bat most annoying disposition to tease
ach other; in short, they soon settle
own into the gravity of mature years,
inder the wholesome system I have inroduced."
We at this moment arrived in front of
everal boys who were standing around
bucket of water, and one had just
harged his mouth with the contents ol
tin cup, while the old gentleman was
tooping to recover his pen from the
oor, when another passing along be<
ind, snapped his finger quickly beeath
the drinker's ear, and caused him
y a sudden start to eject the contents
f his mouth over the pedagogue's bald
ate. Starting upright, with his hair
nd face dripping, the master said :
"Who did that ?"
The party unanimously cried out:
'Jim Gun, sir,"
"Jim Gun, you rascal, what did you
o that for ?"
Jim, appalled at the mischief he had
one, muttered out that it was not his
rait, but that Tom Owens had snapt
im.
This changed the direction of old
jambwell's wrath, and shaking his
ane portentously over Owens' head, he
8ked:
" Did you snap Gun ?"
The culprit, trembling with fear, murlured:
_
" Yes, sir ; I snapt Gun, but I didn't
now he was loaded."
Character.
The great hope of society is individual
haracter, because it not alone affecte
lie individual himself, but also tne
ociety in which he lives. Emerson save
liat the characters of men make the
onscience of sooiety in which they live.
Jenjamin Franklin attributed all hi*
access among men to the character he
stablished for himself and not to anj
irilliancy of intellect. Gharaoter it
apital in itself. It is a victory organzed,
and does not depend upon birth,
ortune or influence. There is no capita
;oes so far or pays so well, and bankuptoy
in oharaoter is seldom repairec
a a life time. To establish character,
eelings have to be disciplined, habit*
aonlded and controlled in obedience t<
eason and moral conscience, and wher
>roperly fashioned make the surest pass
)ort through life. We find in evervda]
ife that when a person of doubtfu
iharacter calculates a pieoe of news it ii
ecaived with suBpioion, whereas whei
t is attributed to a man of oharactei
>eople listen with eager interest anc
jonviction. The best time to test a mai
>f character is when the tide is agains
rim. George Washington was a tru<
!xample-of a man of great oharactor
vho showed in times of danger and diffi
:nlty a force of -will, a tenacity of pur
lose that have never been surpassed
[t iB loss of character that has fillet
maonB, poorhonses and lunatio asylums
md only when people appreciate th<
rue worth of character?how jealousb
t should be guarded and transferred al
i precious heritage to their offspring
?will the world furnish fewer causes o
inman misery, sorrow and degradation
Probating the Will of a Living Person
A good joke is told of one of th<
nost distinguished members of the St
Louis bar. A short time ago he wa
:alled upon to write the will of a Iadj
>f some means, residing at one of thl
public institutions of the city. He wrot
;he document, and after having i
regularly attested, put it in his pocke
md forgot all abont it. A week or tw<
ifterwards he found the will in hii
pocket, and, thinking the lady was dead
look it to the probate court and bad i
probated. Some of the heirs, residini
in Illinois, hearing of the provisions o
af the will, came to the city for the pui
pobe of contesting it, and found to tliei
surprise that the lady wrs living, an
not likely to die very soon. The lawye
is now at work getting the probate c
the will set aside.?Globe-Democrat.
Remarkable and Historic Trees.
I- TUAwn ava nn*v?nvrtra mmorlro^lA firifl
Q historic trees, among' which may be ,
e named the bread-fruit tree of Ceylon,
3 the frnit of which is baked and eaten as
s we eat bread, and is equally good and
e nutritious. In Barbutu, South America,
?- is a tree which by piercing the trunk
s produces milk, with which the inhabie
tants feed their children. In the intea
rior of Africa is a tree which produces
.. excellent butter. It resembles the Amer-.
0 ican oak, and its fruit, from which the
t butter is prepared, is not unlike the
olive. The great traveler, Park, declared
r that the flower surpassed any made in
> England from cows milk. "At Sierra
- Leone is the cream fruit tree, which is
1 quite agreeable in taste. At Table Bay,
1 near the Cape of Good Hope, is a small
s tree, the berries of whioh make excellent
f candloa. It is also found in the Azores.
- The vegetable tallow tree also grOws
b in Sumatra; and the bark of a tree in
1 China produces a beautiful soap. The
talypot tree in Ceylon grows to the
3 height of one hundred feet, the leaf of
3 which is so large that it will cover nearly
- twenty people, like an umbrella. The
i banyan tree is wonderful; it never dies, !
- and is constantly extending, for as the
3 branches shoot downward they take root,
J and thus produce other trees, whose
3 bunches in like manner extend down
ward, and resembling large oaks, the
- fruit of which is much like rich scarlet
) figs, and furnishes a luxurious subsistence
to monkeys and birds of every
description.
i The pippul tree is said te be " the
s most completely beautiful of all which
r adorn the wide garden of Nature." The
- Hindoos call it the " Tree of God " and
- the "religious fig," because under its
r shade they suppose their god Vishnu
3 was born. It is held by them in such
> veneration that the form of the leaves is
* onlv allowed to be painted on furniture
used by their princes. They plant them
i as memorials of persons deceased. They
> serve also for shade for travelers. The
> Chinese feed vast numbers of silkworms
on this tree.
f One of the most remarkable trees in
i history is the great dragon tree, -which
5 was blown down by a hurricane a few
5ears since at Orotava, in the Island of
'eneriffe. It was a stately tree, about
i eighty feet high, as early as A. D., 1402,
1 and so old and remarkable* tree then as
r to excite particular notice and care for
f its preservation. Humboldt spoke of it
I some sixty-two yearrf ago and computed
* it to be 6,000 years old. Sir George
> Staunton had previously brought it into
1 notice in 1771.'
A cypress tree in Oaxaca, Mexico,
1 which forty-three years ago measured
1 one handred and twenty feet in height,
1 one hundred and seventeen feet ten
" inches in circumference, and which
' sheltered Herman Cortez and his followc
era under its widespreading branches
| about the year 1520, is supposed to be
I now 5,000 years old.
J A type of antiquity in the vegetable
' kingdom is that of a fig tree in Ceylon, '
1 nlantarl o/>/>nrr1iTHy tn dOCtlDQentaiT and I
r traditional evidence, 288 B. 0., making it
1 2,165 years old.*
1 The oldest oak in England is in Here1
fordshire, situated in Hatfield Park. It
1 is over a thousand years old. Another
" old oak is the " Parliament Oak," from
1 the tradition of Edward I. holding a
parliament under its branches, on one of
the estates of the Duke of Portland. It
, is considered to be thirteen hundred
1 years old. The tallest oak in England
1 was the property of the same nobleman,
1 and was called the ' Duke's Walkingstick."
It was higher than Westminster
[ Abbey. The largest oak is known aa
"Calthrop Oak," Yorkshire; it meas1
ures seveifty-eight feet round the ground,
' while the " Three-shire Oak." at Worknnn
iu an r.ftllfld from its shade covering
part of three counties.
Fashion Notes.
; Spring styles are makiDg their apf
pearance.
1 Scarf draperies for fourreaux grow in
1 favor.
Blouse polonaises, with carrick capes,
will be worn.
Old gold, amber and rainbow beads
are to be worn.
Large quantities of flowers are seen
on all ball toilets.
Dress and breakfast capes are worn
by ladies of all ages.
Fluffy wool fringes are to trim the first
spring dresses.
Chambery gauze is the material for
| bridesmaids' dresses.
; Blue gray jet h the coming variation
of this popular fashion.
New percales show dashes of oolor on
i grounds of white or black.
1 Spanish colors?old gold, yellow and
11110/11- dm (viminc in fashion.
i Large lace collars and outside cuffs
! will be much worn in the spring.
; RoBe color is worn by the first bridesmaid
when several attend a bride.
The brims and crowns of spring bonnets
will be covered with a network of
beads..
, . The last fancy in flower garnitures is
, for them to be studded with artificial
, dew.
Satin evening dresses are trimmed
i with single folds of crape of the same
) Bhade of color.
r The laveuse, or washwoman's tunic,
? is the only overdress worn in Paris at
| the moment.
! Solid black or white grounds in spring
percales have borders in Oriental colors
| pnd designs.
Carrick capes on spring polonaises
\ and paletots have stole-like pieces down
, the front.
i The squurer the neok, the higher the
. shoulder straps, and the shorter the
t slqeveB the more fashionable is the ball
1 dress.
When several bridesmaids attend a
i bride they wear dresses of the same
r material and style of make up, but of
1 different colors.
| Fashionable trimming for cream white
1 silk and satin ball dresses is made of
3 the head and breast feathers of humming
birds and Brazilian beetles.
Bnssian Cheese.
I An article of diet of almost universal
i comsumption among the poorer classes
^ in Russia is the variety of home-made
7 cheese known as " Tworog," of which
3 more than seven million pounds are
J sold annually in St. Petersburg alone,
f Its mode of preparation is very simple.
Sour skim milk is placed over night in a
warm oven, and poured the next day upon j
a sieve, where it is allowed to remain till j
j all the whey has run off. The curd is I
. then packed tightly in a wooden vessel'
s and covered with a lid made to fit j
7 exactly within it. On this heavy weights 1
b are placed so as to. keep np. a constant
b pressure on the mass of curd ; and the :
t space between the lid and tbe top of the i
t vessel is filled with cold water, which j
5 is frequently renewed. Tworog cheese '
b is, in fact, nothing more than hard- j
, pressed milk ourd. In the northwestern j
t and Bouthem governments of the empire !
% it is often made from sheep's milk, and
f in Bessarabia a superior quality made
'- from the whole milk is prepared, whioh
r possesses far better keeping properties
:1 than the ordinary sort, and which is
r exported in considerable quantities to
if Wallachia, Moldavia, and even to
Austria.
k
FA KM, UAKUJUN AM? HOUSEliULiJ.
Importance of Having Good Barns.
In a climate so changeable as ours, the
proper care and stabling of domestio
animals are of more importance to their
health and thnft than a large nnmber of
farmers seem practically to admit.
Fall, winter and spring, storms of
rain, snow and sleet not unfrequently
last, two, and sometimes three days.
No humane, prndent farmer should leave
so important and reliable domestic animals
as horses and cattle exposed to
sucn storms auring eimer aay or mgnt.
It is greatly against the interest of any
one to do so. Much has been said and
written that stock does better to roam
at large over the farm, bat this is a sad
mistake. Practically we'have proven to
onr entire satisfaction that such a practice
is ruinous in the extreme to the interests
of any farmer who would make his
occupation a profitable one. We are
satisfied that stock of any kind will consume
almost double the quantity of
feed, if fed in the pastures and woodlands
of the farm, than if fed in good,
dry, comfortable stables. This is in
itself proof enough for its advantages;
and then, in connection with this, it is
not half the labor to feed and
see after the stock; besides there
is no everlasting tramping over me
farm raining the hope of next year's
grass, as tramping over the pasture
fields by a big lot of stock all winter,
and mnch ef the time when it is
very wet and muddy, almost ruins good
grass land. There is not a wor<i that
can be said to favor out-dolor feeding.
Feed under shelter. This is the way to
secure good profits for your trouble,
since every farmer has more or less stock
to feed during the winter months. If a
stock barn is properly constructed, well
lighted, dry, comfortable, and thoroughly
ventilated, animals of all kinds will
endure confinement cheerfully, with no
desire to be outdoors.
A good barn contributes to the convenience
and comfort of everything, and
imparts an air of thrift, neatness and
order to the entire farm that never fails
to favorably impress all who visit it.
Light, warmth and ventilation are indispensable
to the health and development
of animals, and these conditions
should be found in every barn. Many
-a farmer loses more than enough grain
in the course of five or ten years to build
a good barn. An ample, well arranged
building of this kind will supply the
place of several other unsightly strao
LUJLtJtt WiilUil UiXJUpjr njpave au? uwvooiiovo
trouble, uot being adapted to what could
be termed a good system of feeding. It
is argaed that it is too expensive to erect
big bams for feeding all the stock on, a
farm. This is true. Bat then the barn
must be built to suit the farm, and this
changes the matter. A small farm will
need a small building, and a large farm,
one more capacious. So the expense of
building need not be more for either
than they can afford. The advantages
And convenience resulting from them
demonstrate that it is true economy to
have them. Better do without some*
thing else and secure neat, convenient
barns, and each succeeding season will
prove more clearly the wisdom of the j
investment.?Practical Forme?.
Keclpea.
A Cheap Fbtjit Cake.?In one quart
of sifted flour add a teacup of sugar,
half a cup of butter, one cup of washed,
dried currants, two heaping teaspoons
of baking powder and spioe to taste;
rub all thoroughly into the flour, then
stir in cold water to make a stiff batter.
Bake an hour, first half hour quickly,
then slowly.
A Swiss Soup.?Boil three , pounds of
potatoes, mash them well and add slowly
some good brotli, sufficient for the
1 T -i i.1 t M . 4-V.^r>
tureen. uei tue?c lmjii iu^ciudx , uiuu
add some spinach, a little parsley,
lemon, thyme and sage, all chopped
fine; boil all 'together five minute*;
pepper and salt to taste; just before taking
it off the fire to serve add two wellbeaten
eggs. (
Goujen Lemokade.-?Make a lemonade
rather more tart than for ordinary
drinks ; take as many eggs as you have
nsed lemons, and beat until thoroughly
light, adding daring the process, half a
cup of powdered sugar to a half dozen
eggs ; wnen thoroughly light, pour into
the lemonade, keeping it well stirred
This makes a delicious, cool and healthy
drink, and id particularly acceptable to
ladies.
Corn Dodgers.?On6 quart of corn
meal, a tablespoonful of lard, two eggs,
a tablespoonful of salt, scald the meal,
with the lard in it, with boiling water,
cool with a little milk, add the eggs,
beaten light, beat *veryN hard for ten
minutes, make them thin enough with
mi'lV to dron off the STK)on and re
tain their shape in boiling lard; serve I
hot. Have the lard boiling hot when J
you drop them in. 1
exotmient Rolls.?Melt in one and
a half pints new milk a quarter of pound
of butter?lard will answer, or one-half
the quantity eaoh of lard and butter.
Have ready "two and a half pounds sifted
flour, in which mix well half a teaspoonful
salt, one grated potato, whioh should
have been boiled the day previous, that
it may be perfectly cold. As soon as
tho miIV in lukewarm, stir it in : add a
teacup of yeast and knead welL In oool
weather let it stand near the Btove, that
it may rise in three or four hours ; then
put in a oool place an hour or more;
then work in half as much more butter,
incorporating it thoroughly in thexlough.
Form it into rolls, place in a well buttered
pan, let them rise about half an
hour, then bake in a quick oven.
The New Crescent.
The Boston Advertiser calls attention
to the curious fact that if the conditions
of peace preliminaries signed by Russia
and Turkey are carried ont, they will
leave the European dominions of the
latter very much in the form of a crescent,
or rather of a moon in her last
quarter, which would be the more appropriate
emblem at present for that power.
It is true that its symmetry will be
somewhat marred, since Montenegro
" oomes cranking in," cutting " a monstrous
cantle " ont of the western horn,
while Thessaly and Albania constitute a
protuberance, which the little kingdom
of Greece is anxious to reduce. Altogether,
however, the general outline of
the country will resemble the form of a
waning moon about as nearly as that of
Italy does a boot. Its diminished and
shrunked proportions will recall the
moon described in Shelley's lines:
" Wan emblem of an empire fading now,
See how it trembles in the blood-red air,
And, like a mighty lamp whose oil is spent,
ShriDks on the horizon's edge, while from
above
One star, with insolent and viotorioas light,
Hovers above it* fall, and with keen beams,
Like arrows through a fainting antelope,
Strikes its weak form to death."
Qnecr Names for Towns.
St. Nicholas gives the following as
some of the queer names of towns found
in the United States: Toby Guzzle,
Ouray, Kickapoo, T. B., Ono, O. Z.,
Doe Gully Bun, Omio, Nippenose, Eau
Gallie, Neeu More, Kandiyohi, Nobob,
Oob Moo Sa.We Wo Ka, Ty Ty, Osakip,
Why Not, Happy Jack,U Bet,Ohoptack,
Fussville, Good Thunder's Ford, Apop
ka, Burnt Ordinary, drum Elbow, Busti,
Cheektowaga. Yuba Dam, DycuBburgh,
Ohuckatnck, Ni Wot, Buck Snort, What
Cheer, Forks of Little Sandy, To wash,
Sopchoppy, Thiry Daems, Vicar's
i Switch, Omph Ghent, Peculiar.
Gravity In the Moons or Mars.
We are able to consider the relations of |
intermatter in worlds where gravity is
so small as it must be in the Maritian
moons. It has been said, by myself
among others, that building and all engineering
processes wonld be much easier
in a world where gravity is very
small than in our own world. But if
less arduous, so far as mere labor is concerned,
they would in some respects be
far more difficult. Much more skill
would be required to give adequate
stability to buildings, made even of the j
most solid materials, in a world where !
all weights are so much reduced. Sup- j
nose even platinum were available in
sufficient quantities for architectural
purposes, yet a block of platinum of
given size* would press downward with
less force there than a block of deal
wood of about one-twentieth of its size
on our earth. Whewell has well described,
in his Bridgewater treatise, the
effects of a great deduction in the force 1
I of gravity, though he is not there con-1
sideringlife in other worlds, but the im- j
portance (which many are apt to overlook)
of those portions of our earth's j
frame which lie far below the deepest;
j mines ever yet dug by men. If the in- J
| terior of our earth could be scooped out;
! and removed, we should, in fact, suffer 1
j from precisely the same inconveniences I
I as would affect creatures like ourselves !
! living in the moons of Mars. We should !
indeed ' find ourselves, like them, in I
dread and terror. "Things," as Whewell
truly says, " would not lie where we
placed them, but would slide away with
the slightest push. We should have a !
difficulty in standing or walking, j
something like that we have ou
shipboard, when the deck is inclined;
and we should stagger helples&ly
through an atmosphere thinner than that
which oppresses the respiration of the
traveler on the tops of the highest
mountains." "It is hard," says the ingenious
writer in the Spectator, "to
conceive a one-storied house holding together,"
in the Martian moon woild,
"against any serious lateral blows."
Projectiles wonld be no less deadly
than in our own world; but the range
which projectiles such as ours would obtain
in "such a world would render close
fighting impossible, on the one hand,
and efficient aiming impossible on the
other. A Krupp cannon, for instance,
whose greatest range on our earth is, let
us say, five miles, would on the Martian
moon fire a projectile which would leave
the moon forever, and the recoil of the
cannon would probably carry it half a
dozen miles away from the firing point.
Much weaker projectile force would
have to be employed, and less mischief
wonld be done on this account, and also
because any living body struck by one
of these projectiles would give away before
it much more readily than a similar
body similarly struck on our own earth.
?Richard A. Proctor, in liclgravia.
AL? Da?aa4A/I TaVA
JlUTT Ui? i)uug? n?|Raicu uit)
The Raleigh (N. C.) Observer relates
this anecdote of an esteemed North
Carolina judge : Some years ago a case
was called for trial in Cumberland su- i
perior court. Among the witnesses on i
j behalf of the State was to have been
one Sara Mooney. She was not found
in the court-room, and her name was '
called in due form from the court-house
window without effect. Whereupon, the
State solicitor, the late Hon. Robert
Strange, who was fond of a joke, even ,
of a pun, turned to the oourt and said: j
"May it please your honor, the testimony
of this witness is not material,
and we will go on with the case without
Sara-moony." Of course the lawyers '
laughed at the pun, but the judge didn't *
see it, and cracked never a smilo. There ,
were no railroads in those days, ar.d a
few stage-coaches, and judge and law- J
yers traveled from one court to another '
in McKethan's buggies. On the road
to the next court, in the judge's own
country, there was quite a procession of 1
. _ 1 *.11 : 1U. (
lawyers m oaggiutt iuuuwj-u^ mo juugc o
lead. The jadge called a halt in the ^
middle of a stream to water his horse, 1
and, in the thoughtful mood incident to 1
that process, suddenly astonished his '
brethren of the bar by bursting into '
laughter both loud and long. He ex- i
plained that he was laughing at Judge 1
Strange's good joke. Arrived at home, I
through with his toilet, and seated at i
supper, his wife, as wives will, asked of ]
the incidents of his journey. There had i
been none of interest, he said, except ;
the good joke gotten off by their mutual
friend Judge Strange at Cumberland
court. " And whi't' was that, my dear ?"
" Well, there was a case in which one
nf the witnesses was named Mary
Mooney. She could not be found, and
Judge Strange, amid shouts of laughter,
said, " May it please your honor, we
will go on without Mary Mooney." The
good lady pondered awhile, and said she
I did not see anything very funny in that;
| and, after a little thinking, the judge
: said that he did not either, then, but
that he had seen it while watering his
I horse.
Badly Frightened Celestials.
I
A boy, while on his way to the RiohI
mond charcoal pile above the furnaces,
I yesterday. espiecl an old wagon wheel on
the hillside. With trne boyish impulse, |
he stood it on its rim and started it down
the hill. With the usual perversity and
cussedness of all inanimate things, it
took a straight oourse for a Chinaman's
shanty, and, gathering 'jrce and velociity
by the momentum of its downhill
revolution, it dashed with great force
against the Celestial residence, and tore
it from its moorings, carrying wreck
^ud destruction to the interior. A doz
en terrified and scared Celestials tumbled
| ont of the back window and sought safe!
on the flat below. The boy had taken
to his heels and disappeared over the
orest of the hill, and there was no visible
cause in sight to account for the apparent
earthquake. After a long consultation,
the oravest barbarian cautiously
crept back, peered around the corner of
the shanty, and finally ventured to the
doorway. His. companions joined him,
and the gesticulating, outpouring of
choice speech, and the testing of the capacity
of their native language in the
way of profanity, was wonderful. The
boy forgot to return that way to explain
the cause of the accident.?Eureka ,
(Nev.) Sentinel. i
I
He Would Tell.
She had invited him to stop to supper, !
and he was trying to appear easy and !
| unconcerned, while she was oil her I
prettiest behavior.
i "Have you used the sugar, John?"
| inquired the mother in a winning man-1
ner.
"John don't want no sugar," ejaculated
the young heir, abruptly.
" Why not?" inquired the father, curi- !
I ously, while John in his surprise swal- I
i lowed a bit of toasted crust and nearly
cut his throat open.
" Cos he don't," explained the heir in ;
j an artful manner, "I heard him tell :
I Mary las' night?"
i "You keep still," interrupted Mary
i in an hysterical manner, while the young
I man caught his breath in dismay.
" I heard him say," persistedthe heir j
with dreadful eagerness, "that she was
so sweet be shouldn't never use no more i
sugar any more?an' then he kissed her, '
an' I said I'd tell, an'?"
The young heir was lifted out of the
room by his ear, and the supper was j
finished in moody silence.
AWUIO VA JU?WV> vww* #
A stitch in time saves harsh language
A bakers' congress has just been held
in Paris. . '
The man who would like to see you?
the blind man. A
soldier can not be even half a soldier (,
if he is in quarters.
The air in a .room twelve feet* square
and eight feet high, weighs nine pound?.
There are in Prussia 51,398 teachers, .
but out of this number only 5,588 are
women. " *' * "* ,4 ^
Wisconsin has 20,000,000 acros of land
which have never been broken or felt
the plow.
The Paris exhibition will be open
evenings, and will be lighted by an electric
light. ' r>.i r ,
Chicago had 365 failures during 1877.
One for every day in the year, including
the Sundays.
Why is the chin the most unlucky part
of the body? Because it as constantly,
getting into scrapes. - . > ,lh f
Official salaries aggregating $8,149,-,.
158 are paid yearly to 7,204 persons in
the city of New York.
Let's have spelling bees this winter by
all means. Those Eastern war names '
would come in so handy.
When a man breaks his skull he
" lies in a critical condition," but when
t -i J i
ae Dreajsa jjuj wuru ue siuipijf hot.
Good striving . ..
Brings thriving.' ' "
Better a dog wrdeh works-; i S,..H . ..
Than fclion that shirks..t.t
A horse-thief, in Honeedale, Penn., is '
ascertained to have killed one of the
stolen animals , and salted it down'for'
meat..
Indiana has dug np a musket supposed
to have been lost.sixty-five years agol
The owner can have it by paying for this '
notice. ' * " <" h
Professor Gorini, of the U niversitv of
Padua, treated the body of Victor Em- >
manuel with a preparation which made
it as hard as marble. <
" Tell your mistress that I've torn tie
/?n?-+o;n " floirl a Irutoar to a female
domestic. " Very well/ sir ; mistress
will put it down on the bill as. extra
rent" . j,.
"The bright lexicon of youth," ^in
which "there is no such worn as f%3/' .
does not seem to be a very popular dictionary
in the mercantile community just
nov.
i
Wonder if it would be considered a
remarkable original observation if we ^
should intimate that the stuffing has
been knocked out of Tnrkey.?Cincinnati
Breakfast Table. .'>>>
A new design of postage stamps is
soon to be announced. They are pre* pared
with inclosed borders of white to
prevent the fraudulent practice of
"washing " canceled stamps. K
South Carolina supplies nearly half
tbe rice produced in the country.
Georgia is next, or 7,000,000 pounds
ahead of Louisiana. Nearly all the
rice comes from these three States.
"You're Retting a great d*eal of silver,,
aren't you ?" he said, as he paid his fif- ,
teen cents at the lunch counter, and took
half the toothpicks in the tumbler.
"Yes, but we're getting short of timber,"
replied the clerk.
A new piece of music, composed by a
New York newspaper man, is entitled
tbe "Editor's Waltz." The title-page '
should be embellished with a picture of
the editor waltzing after a subscriber
who is seven years in arrears. .
"What is a veranda?" is now dismooad
hv frtTAi'om architects. A vemil
da, gentlemen, is a place where, with
the right ^ind of companion you will
find the mron shines brighter and the
hours fly swifter than in any other spot
on the earth's surface.
The human body expands immensely
with age. When eleven young men are
3eated on one side of a car, they can
easily sit up a little closer to make room _
for a pretty girl, but six of them can
manage to monopob'ze and entire side
of the car when an old woman oomes
in."
Sufty-flve of the eighty-one lives lost
it the Ashtabula disaster have been paid
for by the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern railroad company at a rate
averaging $5,000 apiece. The most expensive
life cost the company $9,000,
and a newly married couple were appraised
at only $3,000.
The net imports of merchandise into
the United States from 1820 to 1878
were $12,257,753,197, and the domestic
exports $10,777,782,872. Since 1870
the imports have exceeded the exports ,
in value by the sum of $149,114,839,
although the excess of exports in the
last four years was $395,481,316. .... t (
A co-operative society of working women
in Paris, in the hope of obtaining
steady work and remunerative prices, 't
have opened a shop at 2 Boulevard da
Temple for the manufacture and sale of
underclothing for both sexes,'and of flowers,
hats and dresses for women. There
is also an association of journeymen
tailors established on a firm basis, at 72
? t n i L 1 __ J OQ Qna TVir
.boulevard oeoasiupui tmu w mw
bigo, which advertises that it obtained a
prize at the Philadelphia exposition.
A popular Newport (R. L) clergyman
was. sitting in his room a few eveniDgs
ago, when a man knocked at his door,
and said hie sen-ices were required at a
boarding house a short distance away.
The clergyman went with the messenger,
but the expected wedding did not come
off. It was found that a sick man, in an
outburst of gratitude, had informed his
female attendant that he would marry
her if she would send for a minister,
but he had changed his mind and refused
to keep his promise.
One of the foreign medical journal**
calls attention to the evils of breathing
by the mouth, and reminds us that the
nose was made for a two-fold purpose:
First, to sense impure air and lead us to
avoid it; secondly, the inequalities of
the nares retain solid particles of the
atmosphere, and prevent the inhalation
of irritating dust in the delicate tissue
of the lungs. Therefore "shut your
mouth," instead of being an'impudent
demand is good hygienic advice,?Dr.
E. B. Footc's Health Monthly.
A lady contributes to the New Jerusalem
Messenger, for the information of
the children, a little result of her observation
in natural history. It is the way
Pass has of showing when she is thirsty
and when she has dmnk enough. "If
she wants milk," writei this observant
Iddy, "you will notice that her"long tail
stands straight out like a banner. Give
her a saucer and watch her tail; as she
eagerly laps the milk, the tail gradually
droops from its position, falling lower
and lower until it rests on the floor.
Then Pussy has finished her drink, and
wants no more. Try it."
The American whaling fleet of 1877
was very suocessfnl. There were no
special disasters, and no changes in the
business worthy of note, excepting
the continued additions to the fleet.
Twelve vessels were built during the
year. The present fleet consists of 187
vessels, aarainst 172 on January 1, 1877
169 in 1876 and 163 in 1875. the North
and South Atlantic ocean employ over
100 vessels, while the more fruitful
grounds of the.Paoiflo ecean, Japan and
New Zealand are almost deserted. The
North Pacific fleet lost three vessels,
and sixteen vessels came out with an
average of 1,065 barrels of oil and 8,55c1
pounds of whalebone.