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K- . . - tj * . ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNERTI BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1878. NO. IT. VOLUME XXVL :>wk I Mglit Among the Hills. i hi So still! So still! j &1 The night cornea down on vale and hill! So strangely still, I cannot close ! My eyes in sleep ! No watchman goes ; About the iittlo town to keep j j_ All safe at night. I cannot sleep ! | jj, So dark ! So dark ! I 8avo here and there a flittering spark, j ^ The firefly's tiny lamp, that makes j Tho dark more dense. My spirit quakeB With terrcr<J%ague and undefined I see the hills lcom up behind. ! cj So near! So noar ! y< Those solemn mountains, grand and drear w: Their rocky summits! Do they stand Like sentinels to fjnard the land ? j1' Or jp.ilora, fiercc an j grim and stern, j To ohut us in till day return ? i ^ I h9ar a sound, D A chirping, faint, low on the ground; I bs A sparrow's nest is there. I know | hs The birdlings flew three days ago; ; CC Yet s'ill return each night' to rest I dt Au'l sleep in the forsaken nest. B No fear! No fear ! Sleep, timid heart! Sleep safely here ! j A million helpless creatures rest j et8ecurely on Earth's kindly breast; ?) "While Night her solemn silence keeps, ! ti] Ee irakes to witch wlm never s'eepc. i ta ?Jo>j Allison. | er ? fr THE ACROBAT'S REVENGE. j? The buu wis setting behind the hills ! of Maldon, one Juno evening in the year m 1845, wheu an acrobat, with his wife, were seen plodding along the road to- as w*rd the next market town. They were weary and sad. The acrobat j himseif was a man about thirty, of dark ; j"3 oomplexion, with raven-black hair curl- j ?e ing over his forehead. His eyes were black and piercing, and there was some- an thing in his look which bespoke a nature be above that of a mountebank. w? His wife was some years younger, and carried an infant child on her breast, j ea. She too had the appearance of a person WI superior to her lot, find her face was "l oomely to look upon. Their life was a hard one, but they et* bore it well. Nor,"p.* yet, had all the narasnips wnicu poverty nad brougut | i&io their door sent love, as the proverb ; has it, flying out of the window. j ?' They were now journeying to the mar- | ket town of Maldon, and as to-morrow | Tl would be market day, Duval thought lie :. ' might come in for a portion of the money 301 that would be changing hands. But as | it was very desirable that he and his wife ' ^ac should have supper after a long day's ca: journey, and a place to sleep in, lie was j an anxious to earn a few pence in the town | or before reaching it, and presently an | opportunity arose by which, as he jor thought, he might do so. j Almost opposite to him, at two or j "e tloree hundred yards' distance, was the : lodge and noble gateway of a gentleman's j park. As Duval approached it he heard j ' voices sounding high and mirthful in ; lat the air?the voices of children making j ric merry, with their light, young hearts, 1 coi and their clear, ringing laughter. I wb As he came nearer and looked through j th< the gate, he saw between twenty and pa thirty children, in holiday atHro, playing wL upon the lawn before an old and spacious its mansion, which had belonged to the ; wli Hindus family for many generations, no and was now in the possession of Sir ! th< Windus, the tenth baronet! and it was J tin the birthday of his little daughter which j ?i the ohildren were celebrating. ; tifi The acrobat's eyes kindled as he; W< looked in at the bevy of holiday-makers. i Here was a grand chance for him. j ro< Surely it would delight the children to thf see him flash his golden balls in the air, raj whirling them up and up, like the ever- i voi springing stream of a fountain. Surely Sir all the other wonderful things he could j Ei do would be the very thing for them. : iut Surely the great and wealthy pareuts : J would pay handsomely for the amuse-J up ment of the little ladies and gentlemen. ; He paused for a moment, then slowly bai pushed open th? gate, and walked in to- ' ward the lawn, followed by Iiip wue. , my Had there been any one there whose \ i permission he could' have asked, he-'tin would have done so. Bat there was no | des one bnt the children themselves; and, ' therefore, addressing one of the oldest, ! Wi he asked her if they would like to see ! thi some of his feats. The girl smilingly j 1 repliedfthat they would; and all the lit- I vei tie faces, with their great eyes, were 1 wit turned upon the acrobat and the wonder- wa ful box which he took from his shoulders i sta and laid upon the ground. ! "o And now the eyes of wonder opened i Ca as far as they could go. And so intent was i ing his little audience in watching tbe aero- ! ooi bat, and so intent was Duval in catching En his brass balls, that, none of them per- on< ceived that Sir William Windus was ap- ! ' proaching with his gamekeeper. Ho poi came forward with rapid strides, and ' when within a few paces of Duvul, he I bei called out to him, in a voice of thunder: 'th "Vagabond! how daro you enter sh( here?" tol For a moment Duval stood astounded wa and dumb at this sudden interruption. Sai He saw before him a gentleman much Ca taller than himself, in shooting coat and i r. boots, with a felt hat, narrow shouldered, j nei fair, with a shaven lip and chin, but ' for bushy whiskers of deep tawny hue; his I in < eyes, of a bluish gray, large and bright, ! thi and his bearing that of an aristocrat, ! ] with a strong dash of the bully. } hu " Come, pack up your trumpery and i fac begone!" said the baronet, seeing that mi Ttmral st/inrl lnnHnff ftf. him Rn But the acrobat had recovered his po self-possession, and now said, with a stc firm voice: sm "I meant no offense, your honor, nor to harm any one or anything belonging sai to you. I saw the children, and made hp bold to enter, thinking it vonld please to them to see my" in " Oh, that's a very old story," said j th the baronet. " When thieves and gyp-1 ro Bies prowl about gentleman's parks we m< all know that their intentions are per- j fectly innocent" ! sa< " Do you call mo a thief, sir ?" said j W Duval, his dark cheek coloring and his M eyes flashing Are. j a ? "Scoundrel!" exclaimed Sir William, I go his blood ruBhing into his face and mak- j sit ing it in a moment red with rage ; " do j qr you think I would chat logic with a ! wl strolling vagabond like you ? I told tic you to pack up and be off. Do so atj wl once." J w? And as the baronet uttered his com- \ cu raand he raised the hand in which he j pe held the whip as if about to strike the | acrobat. ; he Duval looked at him with a savage mi glare of his keen dark eyes, and slowly, ; in a deep voice trembling with suppress-1 dr ed rage, Baid : mi " xou had better not." gt "Duval,'r said his wife, gently pulling him by the sleeve, and in a tone of an mingled pathos and humility, "never pi mind the gentleman. We shouldn't fo *- 1 - 1 TTT. Have como in witnont nis leave. vy e ; ec humbly ask your pardoD, sir. Come, tli Duval, let us go." ac " Take your wife's advice, my man," di said the gamekeeper, " and don't come hi into gentlemen's parks no more till such hi times as you're specially invited. There ar now; gather up yonr toggery an 1 get g( out." - ar While Martha and the gamekeeper 01 had been speaking Daval's eyes remained riveted on Sir William's. The baronet di had dared to threaten him with a blow? h< with a blow of that whip with whioh he w: wa? wont to chastise dogs. Duval would al p ? - - v HimBBBSk ; ive died sooner than endure such a de- tidi radation, and he felt half inclined to a fi iring upon Sir William as it was, and bal iow him that when it conies to closo I jilting between man and man, wealth | sw* id rank make no difference in pride of ; bui anhood or strength of limb. Sir Wil- ; bar lm saw the fierce spirit that was strug- her ing in the acrobat's breast. He felt ane lat he could not bear the steady gaze ma: 3 fixed on him, and that his proud and ow^ rerbearing nature had met its match: froi is blood boiled with rage. I "Impudent villain!" he at last ex- S aimed, stamping on the ground, "do j whi )u dare to beard me, to browbeat mo low ith your insolent look ? Take that." Cai And, lifting his arm, he brought down Chi !s whip with a thud on the acrobat's owi utk that could be heard as far off as the dan ocige, stal Mad with rage, frenzied with insult, pec uval, with a tiger spring, rushed at the the ironet, and dearly would Sir William tha ive paid for his rash act if the acrobat phi >nld only have had one blow at him not ilivered with the prodigions strength cat< his muscular arm and broad shoulders. V ut, as Duval rushed forward, Leo, one j cou the noblest hounds in Sir William's | I iunel, which had for some time watch- j the {the parley between his master and ; ing uval with grave, sedate face, sprang j at t pon the acrobat and intercepted his at- era! ck. Meauwlii'e two under gameke.- p- eye s had arrived. And Lady Wind .is, " om lier bedroom casement, saw the rat ruggle between the man and the dog, " id wondered what it all could be about, dig "Down, Leo, down!" cried Sir Wil- " im, and the dog sprang away from the fur< au, and sat down by his master's side, up, "Now put him o;it," said the baronet, whi he turned away and walked off toward woi e hall. the "It's no use making any more fuss A out it," said the good-natured game- glaf eper, as Duval sprang upon his feet, a ly s face and hands covered with dust Wii id blood. "You were wrong in the lick iginning. Be advised, and go your " iy quietly." ; at t And Duval was advised, the more | atte sily because of the appealing look his 1 The fe gave him as she gently wiped the can ood from his face. He flung his box Y ce more over his shoulders, and walk- thei slowly toward the gate. He passed his rough it, closed it, and then, pausing, dire clenched his hand, and, lifting it up he c ward Heaven, cried out, in the agony J him his heart: " "My God, I only ask tins favor of i tim< lee?that I may one day be revenged!" j P So lie aud his wife resumed their j in. irney. j tnrr Presently a pony-chaise, driven by a i wlii< Jy, was heard behind them; when it j boal me cIcpg to them, the lady drew up, ; L d asked them, with slight agitation, liaa 3 way to Natwich; then asked Martha at 1 tether the infant she carried was a boy ily, girl, looked at it, kissed it, dropped a roui rereign into Martha's hand, and trad- ther nly drove off. It was Lady Windus. j notl j mas CHAPTER II. and Two years passed, and a beautiful die ly reclined upon a sofa in a large and TJ hlv furnished drawing-room of a a mtry mansion, everything about I " rich betokened the great wealth of man 3 proprietor, who sat by the window, but tting the head of a noble mastiff, n?ti iich every now and then looked up at TJ master, and gave a bark, as if to atk the at he could do for him. There waB j inde t much that dog or man could do for | one i wealthy owner of Windus Park, for did, 10 had lavished on him nil her favors of d indent descent, great wealth, a beaual wife, and two promising children, T1 all might Sir William be proud. ohil< 3uddenly the luxurious silence of the him >m was disturbed by a loud clamor in i and ; hall, in which questions were heard , It jiilly put by some one in an agitated j praj ce: "Where is my lady? Wbcro is, fori William ?" and the next moment j was lily Carter, Miss Joan's maid, rushed be s o the drawiug-room. ' mist >ir William and Lady Windus started who solvi ' What is the matter?" demanded the ! love on et. I she 4 Oh, Sir William ! oh, my lady?oh, J bab; dear, good lady " " 1 coffi Ind then Emily shrieked three or four j Din les running, and, turning white as j som ith, fell back into the chair in a fit. N ' Heavens and earth !" exclaimed Sir had lliam; "what is the moaning of all saw s ? Chambers, do you know ?" and 'Only, Sir William," suid Chambers, only v slowly, and selecting her words siste ;h a precision which showed that sho who s resolved neither to under or over- j to tl te what she had heard from Emily; | W inly, Sir William, this much. Emily j not rter came to the door, a3 I were look- j Ai ; out o: the lawn, and with an awful ! Win intenancc?and everyone knows what i cons lily's countenance is when Emily's in j her 3 of her " I inse * if wnmnn t nrwryp, in flifl i f( int!" cried Sir William. you 'So, Kir, she says to me," said Cham- reve rs, suddenly quickening her pacf; thirs e children,' says she;' the boat,' says A 3; ' there's my lady?' And when I he a d her, sir, where you and my lady dow s, she rushes in, and as my name's ' He rah's Chambers, that's all as Emily | till rter Baid to mo." i thro Though Chamber's information was | for t ther copious nor distinct, it conveyed i ^ cibly enough that the children were ; whi( danger, and that the boat had some- ! agoi ug to do with it. i to r< [t is impossible to describe the ghastly j bact e which spread over Sir William's i were ;?, as the thought flashed across his 1 and nd that his children had been drowned, j road it he hud hardly time to realize the i a lie ssibility of such a calamity, when in had ?le the curate, with a soft step and N tiling faoe. soot " There is no imminent danger," ho suit !d, at once. "There is yet half an j " ur, during which it is quite possible j at la save them. But lose not a moment ingl sending a messenger on horseback to ! han< b nearest fisherman, and bid him bring j aud and his boat directly. If you'll lend rewi ) one of your borseB, I'll go myself." i D Orders were given for the immediate " Idling of a horse, aud raeauwhile Sir ing illiam learned from Mr. Ling that at t! lister William had run his boat upon him mnken rock; that sho had filled and pun ne down ; and that the boy, with his A iter, were now upon a point of rook u afte larter of a mile from the shore from lich they were cut off by the flowing le. In half an hour the point on ^ lich they stood would be a foot below pur, iter, and unless a boat could be pro- ajwi red by that time they would be in the iril. noti In a few seconds more the saddled equ irse stood at the door. Mr. Lang 8e"e, runted it., and rode off. Att< "By this time, however, Lady Win- nes, is was on her way to the shoro. The ^ sment she Leard of the boat, she ; t]iaJ teased all tlie rest. | aQi, The truth, however, was that Emily i eye id Miss Joan had been sent out in the \ jf ^ laeton, under the charge of the page, | ^ r a drive; that William, seeing the j p0V [uipage, ian his boat in shore ; and ; jiea at, as Emily decliued to venture on count of hsr tendency to bile and her ~e alike of sharks, he took his sister, of s own lordly will and authority, under 0j s protection. The boat struck, filled noe id went down ; and, by the greatest kxI fortune, William, with Joan in his ms, was able to reach the point of rock 1 which he now stood. son What were tte feelings of Lady Winis when she reached the shore and be- A jld her children on a small spot of rock, spe ith the sea all around them?smooth um most as glass, it is true, but with the aga 9 flowing, and every minute cove rcBh portion of the rock on which )es were standing. Jut in vain did her mother's h ill within her till it was well-i rsting, as she saw the little dim] ids of her Joan stretched out tov , and her brave boy take off his I wave it cheeriugly to her wil oly courage, which he drew from i generous blood much more t m his sire's. Jut could nothing be done ? iir William now appeared on the i ich ran along the shore. He was ed by the old gamekeeper, by Er ter, who had recovered, by St imbers, who wished to see with 1 eyes what the precise extent of iffer was. bv the liousekeerier. jle boy, and a rat-catcber wiio 1 ied to be passing along the roai time and was drawn to the beacl t love of the terrible which kii losophers, high damsels and 1 >le marquises, baronets and 3hors share equally among them Tell, was there no one there ^ Id swim ? Jnhappily Sir William could not, game-keeper. The rat-catcher applied to by Emily Carter, loo hat young person solemnly for f I secouds, and then quietly closed s, and thus addressed her: 1 Young woman, do you see this h in thiR here cage ?" 1 Well ?" demanded Emily, with mi ity. : Then, unless some on you can st ierer nor me, or unless a boat coi or unless Bomethink else happc ch I sees no promising sign oi ildn't give the life of this here rat life of them two children." .nd the tide was rising. Smoott J3?smooth, spacious and smiling ing hypocrite it was rising, and Li ldus coum see mac 11 was aire: ing the feet of her children. Look, look, William!" Bheexclaim he same time directing her husbari ntion to the rock; " he lifts her i > water is at tbeir feet! My Gc we do nothing ?" es, it was true. The water was r feet. William had raised Joan arms; and as he saw his mot! ct the baronet's attention to the failed out, though Bhe couldn't h All right, mamma; there's plenty 3 yet." lenty of time! The sea was flow Often as the party on the sh led their eyes in the direction cli Mr. Ling had ridden to procui t, there was nothing in sight, auy Windua had fainted. Sir ^ i stood a picture of agony, looki lis children. Sarah Chambers, E and the stable boy were grouj id the old game-keeper, who assis n in shedding many tears, but 1 ling better to offer to his yon ter and Miss Joan, though he avow< perhaps truly, that he was readj for them. be rat-catcher had seated himself >ne. Are those your children ?" askec . who stood at Sir William's si< whose approach had not b< ced. lie baronet did not turn to look speaker. It was some secon fid. before lie recognized that a had addressed him, but when he replied, in a very deep whis] espair. Tiiey are I" be man's gaze was fixed upon I Iren. Sir William's was fixed up , He thought he remembered hi so ho did, for it was the acrobat. was Duval!?Duval, ' who 1 red for vengeance as the sole fa' vhich he would trouble heaven. Duval, at whoso uooi, if he coi aid ever to Lave had 0110, all 1 iries of life had knockcd, and so hearth they had seated the es. For did not she, whom he 1 d more than himself?Martha?< not lie iu her cold grave, wi ll 1 y by her side, in the same paupt n ? And now, what was left al??only to wait for 'death. Nt ething more?to live for revenge, o boat made its appearance, the t: risen six inches more, and now tl the boy kneel down in the wat look up as if he was praying. A Duval could save him and ;r?only Duval, flo alone of Btood there conld breaut the fie le rock and back again with the b< rhy not telh Sir William so? W indeed. Is not revenge sweet ? nd still the tide was rising. Lr dus, restored for a moment iciousness, but no sooner reali: position than she relapsed ii nsibility. Sir Wiiliam," said Duval, "I i remember me. Once I thirsted nee upon vou. For two yeari sted for it. Heaven has sent it to m bright light shot from his eyes aid this, and then he walked sloi n to within a few paces of the wat undressed ; he waded into the it came up to his breast, and th wing himself forward, struck < ;he rock. ro shall not describe the joy w ;h the parents, who had watched lized suspense the acrobat's atteu ;scue their children, received th : into their arms. But while tl 5 fondling them, Duval had dres slipped away. Ho had regained I, and was pursuing his journey ;ht step and a light heart, for he 1 his revenge. o, not all of it. Sir William ler missed him than he went in p of him. Here," exclaimed the baronet, wl ist he came up with him, endeav to put a well-filled purse into Duv 3. "You have saved my childr are entitled?I say entitled?t ard." uval drew back his hand. I have had it!" he exclaimed, di a look of fierce and withering sc lie baronet, and then, turning fi with an expression of conterc 3ued his journey. nd the proud baronet stood look r him, rebuked and humbled. How to Choose n Horse, n English paper tells us that chasers of 1 orses for the French ai ays endeavor to obtain a first lool animal when he is in tho stal ng if the animal supports him ally well on all his legs, and, if nsto yield, especially examining jntion is then directed to tho lai s of the pupil of the e^e. which ou le more dilated when in the etc a when exposed to light. After nal has boen let out of the stable, ought to be again examined to lie pupil has been contracted; if i sight is feeble. Others, to test *er of vision, feign to strike the f< d with the hand. If the hollow c eye be profound and the ten y, old age is to be concluc unds about the temple suggest attj staggers; and when the end of e presents circular scars, it mft] eluded the horse has been twite h a cord to insure his quietness w og shod or having had to submit le painful operation. Ln eminent German traveler in Af aks in the highest terms of petr as a protection for men and anin inst muequitodfl. ring THE MARVELLOUS MICROPHONE. lier Tl: A Simple Little Instrument which Mncniflen Terr eart Hound to a .Surprising Extent-Hearing a i, ugh F"w?,kpled By the courtesy of Agent Fallon of m-ne rard Pacific Mills, who ia quite an enthusicap ast in scientific matters, we spent a de- 8CeD( ;h n lightful hour a few days since in experi- mej. her ments with that latest marvel of discov- niKjj( han ery, tho microphone, a little instrument w which becomes to tho ear what the microscoi'e is to the eye. This is a ^ oad discovery of Professor Hughes of Great excit, fol- Britain, who, while experimenting with ni]y the telephone, foundj a new element, trail through which he has succeeded in per- myrjJ her Meeting an instrument by which sound is ^ I the magnified or increased and conveyed by 8ha<j< the a wire, in a wonderful manner. The hums iap- microphone of Mr. Fallon, imported aveni L1 at from England, is a simple little affair; 0^0r i by a thin piece of deal, perhaps fiv9 inches jn_ ( lgs, by three, insulated by means of four bits ow, of rubber, one at each corner, on which mer j rat- it rests; to tins is attacneu a smaii, 0? ordinary battery; a small piece of pure raD,? vho carbon is fastened with a bit of wire to ^ the board, and another piece of carbon jegp], nor liko an inch and a half pipestem is an(j c be- pivoted near the center, from little sup- jn? j ked ports, one end resting upon the piece ;ev- strapped to the board; the wires by prjva his which the sound is to be conveyed are exten attached to either corner of the board, erB _ ere and connected by other wires with the ?at'e < carbon vibrator and the battery; the ^cj8 ach carbon, highly charged as it is with ?ftyjy mercury, possesses the power not only * rim of conductivity, and of reproducing jnciU( nes sound, but of vastly increasing its pow- twent ms, er. As tbe microscope reveals to the eye ^ .. i, I of man the most insignificant of nature's p0pU] for works, so does the microphone disclose lv_/ vjui ucaiiug ^ y tu ujuuuiuivj dwuuu. ClOUt l ns Mr. Fallon lias conuected with Lis , > ns microphone some six hundred feet of g^idl xdy wire, and in the room at the other end nacka idy an ordinary Bell telephone attachment. wear During the experiments which we made gj^ 8 ed, with the assistance of Mr. Rideout, a ar0 W( id's watch was placed upon the instrument, attirei tip. and through the nearly one-eighth of a courS( )d I mile of wire came to the ear not only the separate ticking, resounding like the Bcrap( at heavy beating of a marine or tower ^rjate in clock, but we could clearly detect the fl00de ber whirr of the minute wheels, the buzz >m, and friction of the delicate machinery of ear the watch. Then the watch was removed, cjU(]e( and the gentlest sweep of the down of a pajro] ' of feather, brushed as lightly as possible g across the board, reached the ear mag- <?rou] ing nified to sound like the coarse grating of ?< ore a file or the scraping of a heavy brush. jjer ? in Then a small wire'cage, containing two j e a common house flies, was placed on the mone, instrument, and to the listening ear, j ftl- six hundred feet away, distinctly came aQ(j a ing the soft and irregular patter of the tiny t im- feet as the flies walked over the board; iji^e ? )ed and as they flew from one Bide of their ^ich ted cage to the other, the sound as they ca8j1< lad struck against the fine wire was heard centg mg with a sharp t: etallic ring, altogether genen ed, like that of the hammer of a boiler andni . Is-v nn V* n VittaIo 4-K /-? Vlrtl ^ fllQ 1 VAM lu Wfiuct ao no nvrvo tuio uirxuo xj-i wuw uvu fTQmPfi cylinder. We were somewhat sceptical feS8j01 on iu relation to this last experiment, it hau8? seemed so much beyond credence, and ^owu 1 a the wires were detached, the annuncia- are t'j lie, tor fastened to the instrument with only jjauc^ 5en a few feet of wire, and we sat down in Qan front of the little wonder and with our port at i eyes made certain that there was no ds, j possibility of deceit as to the source of g( ,ny the marvellous sounds to which we comc he | listened; but there was no difference, dissoli per | the footfalls of the fly came with no I seeming greater distinctness than when gg{ transmitted through six hundred feet of 0ften die wire, and we see no reason why miles jn ion may not be added with the same result, m, Conversation in the room where the instrument was located, without theinteriad vention of mouthpiece, as in the tele- A c< ror phone, was distinctly heard at the other says: It j end of the wire. Tlfis is the instrument the pi aid J which in Halifax, Eogland, was attached chips the i to the pulpit of a chapel, the connecting ftlso i at | wires being carried to a house the dis- small m- t tance of a mile, every word of the ser- tains 1 ia<l mon being transmitted with distinctness, tion c lid find even enabling the listener at the notioc icr i close to hear the janitor as he walked up Formi tr's \ the aisle, closed the Bible, and return- the " to ' iiig closed and locked the door. As to photoj iy, ; the uses to which it may be put, there is been s j scarcely any limit to the imagination; avem ide I already in surgery it has been practically clump ley ! applied, as a detector of bullets and extern er, I other foreign bodies, and it is thought point nd 1 likely to prove invaluable in a diagnosis agate lib ! of lung, heart and other diseases. Our high ] ali : brief examination convinced us of its cordis >0 i i right to 6tauii as one ot the marvels 01 tuo u ay. this age of wondrous discoveries.?Law- clean hy I rrnce, Mann., American. moss. the Q tdy i Jl on a L sed George Washington's Ledger. ato George Washington's " Ledger Bover t now in 2>0BBessi0n of the United States, picket see opens its accounts with January 1, thousi for 1772, and continues them in his own the I s I j hand until January 6, 1776. It falls this ' e." i then to the keeping of his nephew found i as | until September 1783, when the neat ite, ar vly hand of the father of his country is again I ever er. ; observed. The receipts and disburse- There Bea j ments in 1762 were ?8,500, and only them, en, . four shillings rt-mainea unaccounteu iween out j for. A correspondent, who Las had the creek. leisure to inspect it nays : years ith " Tho book is full of curious, delight- found iu ful confessions of how much he gave in edge < apt charity, how much he won or lost at Berth em horse-racing, how much he paid "for come ley sundry play-tickets for himself and far dei se<l others" when he went to town, how browc tho mnch he paid for hair powder, tooth river, ith powder, black silk hose, what his claret miles lad cost, how he went to tho Annapolis small races, and evidently did not bet on the found no right horses, while there ; how, in the reddie ur- spring of 1775, when war with the oppos mother country was all but inevitable, creek, len he subscribed ?140 and more for the kind, 'or- purchase of ammunition to arm Fair- and ci al's fax County ; how he helped bear the made en, 'contingent charges of Fairfax Inde- naturi o a pendent Company,' like the patriotic ble ae i country gentleman that he was ; how he picket ' had paid Mr. Peale (what Mr. Peale ?) broke art- for his picture, and for miniatures of the re oin Mrs. Washington, and of Mr. and Mtb. om Custis. All these, and a great many tpt, more interesting and more valuable things, are to be found in this book. Pyi ing And one finds, too, that he paid for of N 1 Mr. Jefferson's Bill of Rights that world in September, 1774, he went to the tures* Congress in Philadelphia ; that as it away tkg came near the time for him to start for fisher .my the front ho had his holsters covered there, . aj[ and his hanger altered, and that ono the la j]e day he bought a sash and five military Srpei seh books." exten one 1 ~~ and e ?Uscfnl for Reference. Il ,, ?g0. no ou ght general, 20,000 pounds is a car place tble l?ad ; it is also seventy barrels of salt, inter i_ !_ a r fcjjQ seventy ui nxuy, lljucl^-luhu ui iiuur, mo i the sixty of whisky, two hundred sacks of been see flour, six cords of hard wood, seven of One ( aof4 soft; eighteen to twenty head of cattle, feet, the fi?y to sixty head of hogs, eighty to one pond) 3re. hundred head of sheep, 6,000 feet of ago, i )Ver solid boards, 17,000 feet of siding, 33,- enty < iple 000 feet of flooring, 40,000 shingles, afforc [e(j> one-half leys of hard lumber, one-qnar- gamo icks ter less of green lumber, one-tenth less alfllai the i?istsf scantling and all other large a bun 7 be lumber ; 340 bushels of wheat, 460 of ces, a bed corn, 680 of oats, 400 of barley, 360 of whole biie flaxseed, 360 of apples, 480 of Irish po- and i to tatoes, and 1,000 bushels of bran. The hour' foregoing table may. not be exactly cor- oldesi rect, for the reason that railroads do not ent hi rica agree in their rules and estimates ; but and p ole- it approximates so closely to the aver- tent \ aals age that shippers will find it a great anoth convenience as a matter of reference, hod si - * ; - aftt - ' I Sight in Cheyenne. le town of Cheyenne is in Wyoming itory, on the Union Pacific railroad, ,t 500 miles west of the Missouri, is the principal point from which rn and others start for the Black i by stage. All the characteristic -i i 1?t c 28 nnu tiiememo ui nuuoict um ?iD it Cheyenne during the day, but at t the peculiar life of the border may itnessed in all its varied phases. A spondent says: night Cheyenne is a whirlpool of Bment, one hundred drinkiug and )ling saloons in full blaflt, brass s clamoring through the streets, ad lamps with their reflectors flashtheir vivid rays through the dark jws npon the palpitating mass of m beings surging through the wide i aes. McDaniel'6, Belle Union and varieties theater open their yawnioorways to the stream of mortals 3g constantly in and out. The fors the prominent place ; it consists o spacious halls, handsomely arid and ornamented, and contained e building.- The theatrical hall is andent with gaudy, frescoed walls eiling, the brilliant colors and gilding in keeping with the flushy ! of the patrons. A range of twenty te boxes form a half oval above the sive lower hall, where the perform >rincipally female singers, congreluring the intervals between the The stage is of pretty large size, decorated. General admission to :oncert saloon, twenty-five cents, ling a drink or cigar ; up stairs, y-five cents extra. Every night >lace is crowded with this mixed iation, representing nearly all races tawny Indian in blanket, breech and leggings ; the greasy Mexican, risaged and sullen ; the Chinc.r;an, ike and bland ; the negro, the Keu, and finally the white. Nearly all the regulation sombrero ; buckinits, gayly ornamented with beads, Dm by many, but the majority are d in the California drilling. Of 3, everyone is armed with a sixer or bowie, and shooting or cutting 38 are a frequent result of ined contention. The saloon is overid with waiter girls. ) gambling hall, like the rest in is run day and night, Sunday in3, openly, and is attended and jized by both sezes, old and young, ames operated are "faro," "keno," ette," "rouge etnoir," "vingtun," iquenette," " freeze out" or " po- ; and a number of other card games. < ;ables are constantly crowded, and 1 f changes hands rapidly. This i 8 equally as large as the theater, i ilso trimmed up ; it is connected 1 he ( aer by three wide doorways, i [ambling is done with "chips," < you receive in exchange for your \ The stakes are limited from ten to 812.50 in faro. McDaniels' is j ally considered a " nquare game," j jerally patronized. Some "brace" i i are dealt in town, but by 1 he pro- | aals are avoided. Four "dance ] are ran jn diiiercnt parrs ot me , and are well attended ; bnt tliev ] le most degraded of all the de- < ed dens. < lp Oarlin, a mile and a half, and Russell, three miles north of the contribute something to its life. J 5ldiers seizo every opportunity to here, and are often seen in a very rate state. Every day and evening 3d squads are patrolling the streets 1 irch of their stray comrade?, and ' they are obliged to transport them j wagons. ] Moss Agates iu Colorado. j ^respondent of the Denver News \ The agate covers large areas of f ark, scattered over the surface in ] and larger fragments and occurring , n massive ledges. Only a veiy j percentage of it, however, con- i ;he curious and delicate cry6taliza- i )f iron known as moss. Curious , is prevail relative to this substance, |, 3rly it was a common opinion that; moss " was fixed in the stone by a graphic process, and I have often hown specimens which the finders 1 id contained faithful pictures of j is of bushes, groves of trees or an led landscape visible from the where they were picked up. The 11 is hard, tough and susceptible of a ( 5olish. Specimens are valued ac- ( ig to the perfection and beauty of loss clusters contained and the ; ess of the stone apart from the The great agate field is south of rand and west of Williams river, ligh sage plain. It is six or eight in length and nearly as great in ' . though abates are not found all his area. It has been called and ! 1 1 over by hundreds of people, and i' mdB of jewels worn to-day all over j1 Inited States bear settings from j 1 'agate patch." Some agates are j < north of the Grand,directly oppos- i td the largest and fluest specimens ' saw were picked up there in 18C3. j is an agato patch?or several of I small in extent?on the divide be- 1 Troublesome river and Corral i north of the Grand. Two or three I ago a small deposit of them was i near Eraser river in the eastern j )f the park, not far from where the j oud puss and Rollins wagon roads ; | together. In all the localities thus : j 3ciibed the "moss" is black or dark , l?the usual color. Near Grand on the north side, and about three ] west of Hot Sulphur Springs, is a , area where red mosB agates are | ?that is, the "moss" is red or t ih-brown, instead of black. Nearly j ite, across the river, near Beaver ( is another "patch" of the same j Red moss agates are very r tre , irious. No search has ever been in any of the localities beneath the il surface of the ground for valua- 1 ;ates. Those gathered have been I up on the surface, generally in J n fragments of stone that showed loss naturally. Pyramid Lake. amid Lake, among the mountains 1 evada, and little known to the ,, is described as a singularly pic]ue, unique and lonely spot. It is from civilization, and miners and men are the only people who go . After the Great Salt Lake it is ,rg6st body of water west of Lake rior, being fifteen by forty miles in t. It is 4,000 fe^t above the sea, lotinding lines dropped 1,000 feet failed to find a bottom. There is tlet to the lake, the dry air of tbo absorbing the water rapidly. At rals pyramids of rock rise out of vater in fanciful shapes, having worn by the waves and stornin. )f these islands haa a height of 500 A San Francisco Bulletin corrcsjnt, who visited the place a month jays vegetation is very rare. Sevor eighty goats roam at will and [ shootingfor whoever considers the worth the powder. They live on ee, which is getting plentiful, and eh of grass which grows in crevind are as fat as if stall-fed. The ) place is alive with rattlesnakes, i man might kill a dozen in an b walk. A gentleman, who is the t inhabitant, told the correspondb had seen 260 tons of duck, geese *1 3 1 eiicans eggs mere, uuu nut uuurith that huge story, added that in er place, which he pointed ont, he sen "100 acres of solid pelicans-' " 3 cV -v .ru'.. ' ll _ FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD Farm nnd Garden Note*. A dust bath is essential to fowls. Low perches are preferable for fowls. Provide shelter for farm implements. Peaty soils, well drained, are very productive for grass crops. Good, thorough tillage is death to weeds and their propagating powers. " Scaly leg " in fowls may be cured by carbolic soap suds or sulphur and lard mixed and rubbed on. A morning wash with a decoction of walnut leaves, the London Farmer says, will keep flies from horses. Cut your corn and shock it as soon as *<--1 o rri-wl o -n A flma a*rrvi/-l /^n m o rrcx 1U ID AUU l?u?0 HTU1U viu&mmqw from early frost and secure good com fodder. Weeds absorb moisture as well as plant-food from the soil, and nothing but science and laziuess can justify their growth. A dressing of linseed oil will serve to prevent iron and steel from rusting, and mixed with lead and applied will prevent the decay of wood of farm implements and machines. The great want in farming is more stock and more manure. Exhaust all your home resources in barnyard manure and materials for the compost cheap before investing largely in artificial fertilizers.?American Cultivator. A legal bnshel of oats in Maine, New Hampshire and New Jersey must weigh thirty pounds; in Canada, thirty-four pounds; in Oregon, thirty-six pounds; in Missouri, thirty-three pounds; in Iowa, Massachusetts, New York and most other States, thirty-two pounds. An Austrian journal states that cows have a great liking for celery, and that "in many districts " the leaves are fed to them either scalded or cut fine and mixed with bran-mash, and that they are preferred to red clover and bring " a far richer and sweeter milk than any other food." A correspondent gives expression to a commonplace but important truth, when he says that "it is actually less work to hoe a field as often as weeds can De seen, tnan to auow tnem 10 gti mo Btart of you and then try to conquer." He adds that he has "learned this lesson many times." Don't allow weeds abont yonr dooryard, barnyard, roadside, in the hedges of yonr fields, in the garden where you bave taken off a crop, to ripen seed; nor should you put ripened weeds, full of seed, into your pigstye. Neglect not these hints aud suggestions, lest you should ero long be inquiring how to eradicate weeds. " Prevention is better than cure " is an old adage. A solid, compact, hard or densely packed soil holds little or no air, hence is a powerful conductor of both heat ind cold ; while a light, loose, porous 3oil holds a large volume of air, and is a poor conductor, is not liable to extremes Df heat or cold, retains moisture well, but not water, is warmer in cool seasons, jooler in hot ones, and thus is more congenial to plant growth at all times. The following table gives the number jf trees to the acre when set out at certain distances: Dintanco apart. Number. 8 feet by 8 foot (180 9 feet by 9 feet 537 lOfeotby 10 foot 436 LI feet by 11 feet SCO 12 feet by 12 feet 802 13 feat by 13 foet 257 14 feet by 14 feet 222 A correspondent of a Philadelphia paper says that milk set and kept at a :emperaturo of forty degrees -will not sour, but the cream will become bitter before it is ready to skim, and milk set it a high temperature, say seventy decrees, will sour in twenty-four hours. V proper temperature for settiug milk is Detween lifty and sixty degrees, with ivhich fact, no doubt, the majority of lairymen are familiar. To cure and heal up places of broken skin on the shoulders of draft horses, Jissolve six drachms of iodine in half a pint of alcohol, and apply it on the sore with a feather as soon as the collar is removed, and when at rest, twice a day, morning and evening. The article should be in tho stable of every hostler, as it is *n excellent application on horses where :he skin is broken by kicks or other accilents, and is a 6ure cure for splints if used in a proper manner, says an exjhange. Household [lints. The juice of a lemon will remove claret stains from table linen. Peel and bake ripe pears, with but little water. When cold, cover the top ind'sides with a cake-icing flavored with vanilla, and serve with cream and sugar. This makes a delicate and healthful Jesert, and but little time is consumed in its preparation. Take full-grown tomatoes while yet ijreen, cut out the steps, and stew until render; press through a seive; season highly with pepper, salt, ground cloves, lllspice and nutmeg; boil the pulp until thick. Worcestershire sauce may be ldded if liked. This is nice with cold meats. Many do not know that hot fruit can be put'in cold glass jars without breaking them. Place an ordinary tablespoon (silver plated, or pewter) in tho jar or can, before putting in the hot berries, tomatoes, or anything that is canned. Also, when putting jelly in tumblers, place a tablespoon in tho glass, then pour in the hot jelly. Do not be afraid, the glass will not break if sound. It saves much trouble in canaing fruit. For an experiment, put a teaspoon in a tumbler, and pour boiling water in and see if it will break it. To whiten old flannel, mako a suds of bard soap and soft water; dissolve a teaj.,1 /\f n*>/1 nnf i r* 4 ] * r\ an/la* spuuiii 111 Ui UUXUA cixivt ?/uu m \ uu ouuu^ put the flunnol in the suds and let it lie a few minutes, then wash and rinse; have ready some cloths dipped in melted brimstone, and wound ou sticks; two will be sufficient, put them in a candlestick, or anything to hold them in an upright position; hang the flannel in a barrel, so that the smoke can come up through the middle and around it; light the brimstone candles and set them in the bottom of the barrel and cover closely, If carefully done, they will come out nearly as nice as new. Carrying tlie Bill Through. A Washington correspondent says that ns one representative wns leaving the United States capital after the close of the recent session, a pension agent who hails from his district came up to him anil fcaid: "Well, general, you did not get my bill through." "Your bill, sir ?" asked the general. "Yes, my bill for granting pensions to Hi a liftirR of those who were called out by General "Oil I" exclaimed the general. "Yes, I remember. Yes. Why, I carried that bill through both houBes 'without any trouble." "You did! I did not see anything about it in the newspapers." "My dear sir," said the general, in his most tragic tones, I carried your bill through both houses in my pocket. At the next session, sir, when there will be less excitement, I shall have it passed. Good-by; I will see you again, sir, in December," i i Co-operation in Virginia, For the past six months a co-operative association of workingmen has been in tri successful operation in Fairfax county, Ya., seven miles below Mount Vernon, _ from the windows of which the com- in pnny's grounds and buildings are in full an sight. The practical manner in which the association is managed, and tJae success attending it, have attracted the at- ho 1 tention of men possessing both philan- wa thropy and capital, and it promises to rec assume large proportions. Meeting the . business superintendent, Mr. Joel H. ] Ellis, a Washington Post reporter asked 68, i him: inc " How is your association getting on, rat Mr. Ellis?" "First rate." r " How much land do you own ?" yeJ "Seven hundred and fifty acres?the Qe old Mason estate." jD( " How long have you been there ?" ^ "Six months. We wore originally located at Springfield, Yt., being thero r three years, our specialty being the ? * manufacture of toys, such as jointed j dolls, backgammon boards, etc. We were burned out, but oar machinery is jj~ still in Vermont. We have been farming * and gardening here in Virginia, but not manufacturing as yet." " How many members have you ?" ? "Twenty persons?fifteen men and 8U1 five -women?with a capital of $17,5UU. We ought to have one hundred members ma and a capital of 850,000 to enable as to ma realize from the beginning the full ben- ?* < eflts of co-operative honsekeeping. Our association gives constant employment ] and reasonable wages to its employes, 8pe and boards them in a pleasant home at a me low figure. A workingman can earn say <jet $400 a year. His board will cost 8175 ; ren he is required tc save one-fourth of his Jet wages, say $100 per year, and invest it in the stock of the association, on which I he is guaranteed a six per cent, annual dea dividend. He is thus left with $125 for 8pa clothes and incidental expenses. If a pi0 man twenty years old joins the associa- fcee tion and invests his annual dividends in Qf t the stock, he will have, at the age of bee thirty, $1,318 ; at the age of forty his adv savings will be 82,073; and going on at the same rate, when he is seventy years j old he will have $29,049. A woman will earn $250 per year ; her board will be jn81 $125. She is required to give one-fifth wjj( of her wagc-s, or $50, and invest it in the ^ stook, leaving her $75 for clothing and ^ incidentals. Starting at twenty years cau old, at thirty she would have $659, and fon at seventy years old her savings would 0f f be $14,524. In case of marriage between two members of the association, if there be no children the couple will have $43,- " 573 when they reach three score and ten. a 01 Yet the man has earned only $8 per I week and the woman $5 during their dis< lifetime. They havo lived well, in a teri pleasant home, owed no debts, had no eve anxiety or fear of want in their old age, Per: ran no risk of failure, and accumulated no^ a fortune of over $40,000." " The conclusion is pleasant to think of, certainly. What are the require- exe ments of membership ?" "A capital of $500 is required for ^ each person employed, to furnish the cur dwellings, furuiture, farm, works-hop, 0f ] tools, machinery and stock needed to p0S employ the members constantly and pro- 0f ] fltably. If an association with 100 Bpj: I members and $50,000 capital admitted new members without money as often ?p as tl ey added $500 to their capital from ci0< I the savings of wages required, they the would grow rapidly, and soon absorb all are working people and capital in the conn- e(jc try. The increase would be quadrupled tow every ten years, and you can easily cal- pie culate it. In ten years they would have tak 400 members and a capital of $200,000 ; in twenty years, 1,600 members and n$800,000 ; in thirty years, 6,400 mem bers and $3,200,000 i apital, and so on. ^ This increase, moreover, does not include ' interests or dividends ?simply the sav- ? ^ iugs. You see that the working people only require constant employment at |a] reasonable wages, and a comfortable home to live in when they are required jfl. to save that part of their wages not needed for their legitimate wants, to si(j( become capitalists. That the better I _i -1 1_- ? ero C1UHH UI WUrillLI^LUBU UHU DCbUio tunc advantages is shown by our practical experiment on tho Mason estate." ^ " How many hours constitute a day's _OI1 work ?" " Ten, with the chores extra." ^ " What are your profits ?" E "The by-laws provide for ten per wei cent, divideod. The men who advance money are guaranteed that they shall ^ not be less than six per cent, on the ^ amount invested. The surplus, invested ^rj in United States bonds, is kept as a fund wag to guarantee dividends. We have a cer-! W0tain, pleasant, profitable and bnccessfnl j enterprise in our association." ~ " And do ^ou intend to confine your- , self to farming ?" _ me] " Certainly not; I am on my way to ana Philadelphia now to get the required capital to move our toy-making machinI ery irom Vermont, and then we will j I start to work in earnest." I T ? PI a After Many l>nrs. ^ There passed down on the train the p0] other day nnd agaed but smart-look- j reg ing lady, between sixty and seventy j uey years of age, having with her a little j fcjj6 child about two years old, whose dark go,, complexion unmistakably betokened In- omj dian origin and naturally excited some 0oj curiosity. The lady was communicative, Vft8 and told a story filled with romance. She am] was a widow, with an only son living in qnj Connecticut. Her boy grew to be a an(] young man, and, filled with love of adventure, he forsook the parental roof and fr01 came West. His rovings at last led him ajg to Bismarck, Dakota Territory, where wj1( he became interested with Indian traders ern and finally married the daughter of a 0W1 chief, the'fruit of their union being one 0n child. At length in an engagement with situ the hostiles the young man was killed. seti The sad news in due time reached his iaT7 mother. She was almost disconsolate in catf her grief. With truo maternal affection pje( she at ouce resolved to search for her gen sou's child, and, if possible, find in it an me] object upon which she might bestow her 2 01 care and motherly love. Forthwith she ove journeyed to Minnesota. The difficul- ma: ties in the way formed no barrier to her geu Now England energy. Her diligent in- twe qniry along the Northern Pacific railroad kee brought to her acquaintance a man who the had known her son. For flftv dollars he smi offered to find the squaw who had been 1l Q the son's wife. Without going into de her tails of the search it is sufficient to say hei that the tribe of Indians was found, and coe with it the squaw and the child. When the the lady first saw her grandchild she ply thought she could discern in his features ere a resemblance to her son, but -when the cat little one was in the midst of a number of of Indian children, it was hard to dis- eta cover much difference. Nevertheless, eon the grandmother of the dusky little half- anc breed was bent on having him brongbt grn up under the gentle influence of Con- latl necticut civilization, and she quieted arr her compunctions of bartering in human tha flesh by the exigencies of the case and cat the gift of six sacks of flour to the be- is i reaved Indian widow. The old lady de- anc parted with her new found treasure, as the happy as a boy with a now toy.? Winona to {Minn.) Republican. the ? 1 cat A Nevada newspaper tells how a Piute linj squaw shoots:. "She will throw herself yea on her back, clap both feet to the bow, tindraw the arrow with both hands and, let- Th ting drive, send it clean through the one body of the deer." nio TIMELY TOPICS. Flies totally disappeared from the di cts affected wifh yellow fever. A. Louisville young woman advertis( the papers for an escort to a conce d forty young men replied. By rolling it in a blanket soaked i t mustard an apparently lifeless chil s resuscitated at Wethersfield, Conn sently. [n England and Wales there ai 538 persons of unsound mind, a srease of 1,902 over last year. Th io to population is 27.57 to 10,000. riie Prince of Wales in going ne: ir to Australia, China and Japan, an n. Grant, at the same time, will vis: 3ia, China and Japan, returning t 5 United States by way of Californi: rbe lady conductor of a well-know glish magazine recently cut out f from an entire edition of the perioc 1 because a novel running throug pages contained a reference of a libe i nature. Statistics show that the actual cor nption of eggs in the United States i )nt 10,600,000 barrels. The poultr rketed or consumed in 1877 is est ted at 680,000,000 pounds of thevalu $68,000,000. t ildison, theinventer, proposes to pro< set in Calif?rnia for ore bodies b ans of electricity, and thinks he ca ermine by the resistance fo the cm t the extent of any ore body, and als ermine its relation. t is noted by a New Jersey nurser ler, as a feather in the crest of th rrow, that whereas formerly he em yed two boys all summer long ii ping four acres of rose-bushes clea he destructive slug, this season ha in wholly unnecessary since th ent of the sparrow. Inch litigation is likely to grow on mill exolosion in Minneapolis. Th< iraace companies refuse to pay thj )le damage, on the ground that the; liable only for the actual loss b] ; but the mill owners held that fir sed the explosion, and that, there >, the entire loss was in consequent ire. 'hey have a novel mode of discovering riminal in Japan: The magistrate the village of Awa, being unable t< sover the author of a series of mys ous crimes, opened a poll, inviting ry citizen to name on his ballot th son whom he thought guilty. On oriouB ne'er-do-well was elected a culprit by a great majority, and hav confessed his crime was promptl; cuted. .t the Paris Exposition there is i iosity, made of all the different kind ace that could be used for the pur e, is a reproduction of the Cathedra Hilan, a structure of wood with ever re, cupola and minaret covered firs h blue then with the differen oints " selected. The stonework i 3e crochet, which imitates carving fret work is Irish, the rugged part grained tape lace, and one is remind >f Napoleon's curious remark:' 'Thosi ers," he said, "are as delicate a mish point, and to this day look as i en out of a box." 'hat the electricity of the atmosphefr s necessary to vegetation-as sunlight and water has been established b; eriments made by M. Grandeau, Pro lor of the French Esole Forestiere * <? - i _ x_.i_ x Apru, low, ae took vwo wjuucci nts, each weighing 3} grammes anc log lour leaves. They were botl ated in boxes containing mould o atical quality, and placed side b; 5 in a position favorable to thei wth. But one of them had place< r it a cage, consisting of four rodi i metre fifty centimetres high, join at the top and covered with win ize, which permitted the free circula ) of air, light, and water, but com fcely protected the plant from the ac i of atmospheric electricity. The] e left uniuterfered with until th< Idle of August, when the results ob led were as follows: The plant ii open air had attained a height o 2e feet five inches, while the othe \ only two feet four inches; the forme ghed 273 grammes and the latter 141 mmea; when dried their respectivi ghts were thirty grammes and fifteej 1 a half grammes. Similar experi nts made with maize and wheat gnv logous results. Cattle Raising on the Plains. V. A. Boland writes from Nortl tte, Neb., to the Jackson (Mich. izen, a description of how the stoc! mess of the plains is conducted lowing is an extract: The graziuj ions of the plains extend from Keai near the ninety-ninth meridian, t .Rocky Mountains, and embrac chwestern Dakota, southeastern Wy inf?, western Nebraska, and part c orado and Kandas. Through thi t region cattle and sheep range winte summer, feeding on grass and r? ling no attention except brandin 1 driving to market when fat. Th oe country is occupied by ranches n three to four miles apart. Ranche the houses?mostly made of sodjre the herders eat and sleep. Go\ ment owns the land, exoept the stoc ler generally owns forty or 160 acre the watercourse where his ranch i lated, and this ownership of tha.ranc Km f/> fi?A T-irro do flin flfrafr 'ito iiio nwu tv vuy xckugwj uu vuw miuv forbids any other party to alio' :le to remain on a range alrerdy occi I more than three days. A ranch i erally occupied by from two to fiv a; one ranoh can care for from 500 t 30 cattle or sheep. Men haviu r 2,000 head of cattle, and there ar ay who have 12,000, and some 40,00( lerally have contiguous ranches abou slve miles apart. The whole cost c iping cattle a year and marketin m ranges from $2.75 per head fc ill herds (small herds are less tha: 00) to 81 per head for larg ds. Three hundred two-year-ol fers will keep a family in moderat afort after the second year, and mak i owner rich in ten years. The sup of cattle is kept tip by natural ii ase and by the importation of Tex? tie, which latter are driven in here1 many thousands to Ogalalla, a sma tion on the Union Pacific railroac ae forty miles west of North Platt< I sold to stock growers all over tb zing region. From June 10 Jill th ;er i>art of July these Texas cattl ivo fit. Oonlnlta in ?ii/?h voKt, nnmhoi ,t it is beyond donbt the greatei tie market in the world. No choic lllowcd the buyer except as to ng I sex?a thousand is a thousand?an i buyer tnkes his number, drives thei the ranch, brands them and turn m loose. The present prices at whic tie are held at Ogalalla are?for yea: I heifers, $8; for steers, $9; for twc ir-old heifers, $12; steers, $13; fc ee-year-old heifers, $13; steers, $1( ese bring at four years old, graze \ year, about $25, sometimes a dolla re or less. r*? . moaaaHHa Items of Interest. s- A well-read officer?General news. A home journal?the grocer's book. , There are 854 churches in Londoi . ^ and its suburbs. Some editors own real estate, have lots of fun, that is. in Buttermilk is very healthy. If yon *sj d find any that is unhealthy, don't drink it. i When you are seeking to get out of the way of a mad bull, to be slow is not to be sure. e An echo in Woodstock Park, Eng- -M o land, repeats seventeen syllables by day and twenty by night. xnenumoer 01 savings uuiuum California at this time is twenty-fflne, with ^ deposits amounting to $71,331,025. ? A Massachusetts chemist analyzed the "jjffl lt pickles put up by twelve wholesale deal10 ers, and found copper in ten of them. To my inward vision, things are achieved when , ;-"i tbey are well begun; n The perfect archer calli the deer his own while 'J-S a yet the shaft is whistling, j. ? The Spanish (bjpty. jj Some time since the Free Press inquir-. v[. ed incidentally if fish could talk. One paper answered "seal skin." Another, more recently, says, certainly, out in Colorado, Pikes Peak. [8 It is a fact demonstrated beyond dis- . 'j&k y pute that the person who is entirely VajB j. alone when slipping down on the sidee walk is more hart than if he were sur- J rounded by scores of unfeeling people. The women of Cyprus, like all the \'lj| Greek women, chew great quantities of '* mastic, imported by the island to Scio, y and deem it graceful to appear always '^j, P biting this gum, and it will soon be in order for a Jater Byron to remark: "Maid I 0 of Cyprus, now we've come. Leave, ob, leave off chewing gum." A ViKa/3 nlrl fflllnw ruY\f\ tiA4 r a uauu^u uiu hmw mmw . _ y/giiaw 0 reading that "a general break of parties . may be looked for quite early," remarks '.--J q that he wishes they would break up now . 7^5! r at the hotel where he is staying earlier s than two o'clock in the morning, and'*? e that some one would givo the young puppy who puffs cigarettes in the entry some tobacco to smoke.?Boston j. mercial Bulletin. 3 What a grand faculty is that of the , :M 3 poet who can paint, in glowing and j graphic verses, the feelings of sorrow j-"-jS j and joy, of terror jnd despair, that . 9 harass men in various hours of this 'f| . changeful life; bitt no pen of the 3 divinest bard was ever able to depict -jjs the mystic thoughts that sweep across the soul of a man when a watermelon $8 slips from under his arm and Bmites the j> pavement.?Cincinnati Breakfast Ta- 3 Of General Lafayette's personal ap- ~'i^} pearancc an old newspaper gives this ? description: "General Lafayette was 0 cne of the finest looking men in the I 0 army, notwithstanding his deep red hair. ;/ 8 His forehead was fine, though receding: *';j his eye clear and hazel; his mouth ana P chin delicately formed, and exhibiting beauty rather than strength. His mien wa3 noble, his manners frank, and atni1 able, and his movements light and s graceful. He wore his hair plain, and - never complied sj far with the fashion 1 oi his times as to powder. " 7 Speaking of persistence in advertist ing,' au exchange says: Advertising, as t the means of prosperity, is not as well ^ v] a understood as it should be. Nothing -.. <"1 ? can take its place. It is a fact that no 8 one who has advertised liberally and I "Vio^moK/iniiB hoi folt. liVft disn^fcinir /s-zw OJ ObVLUntVlUlUiJ UMW mmmmir ^ <rriMM? 3 that it was the best spent money he put ' . z| s into his business. As a horse was never *3 made fat by a single bushel of oats, so a f : single advertisement is never a perfect I test of the benefit of advertising. The ] 0 man with genuine wares to sell who ad- * , vertised them in the right way, without -^| j success would be a curiosity. ? Three hundred apes, four feet high, "great brutes and as savage as wild > beasts," have taken possession of An- ^ 1 gurpara, a village eight miles from Oal - *>. .< i cutta, and having ejected the inhabitants /. ~*&5 f have billeted themselves on the orchards '* ^ 7 aad gardens of the hamlet, whence they y r direct various offensive strategic move- 1 mentd, night attacks and predatory raids ' 3 upon the neighborhood. They attack \ children and even full-grown women * 9 without fear, selecting always the female - and weaker sex as the special objects of their violence. The villagers dare not - shoot one, the police are not strong f enough to interfere, and the Calcutta 9 volunteers are to be called out. The following curious case 01 peiniacj tion is lecorded by a California paper:' ? * More than twenty years ago Judge AJmy r sunk a well at Bolinas. Happening to ' . > ' have three or fonr large oil casks at the . - 1 J time, he knocked in the heads, burned * 0 out the oil, and set them in the well, a one above another, and, strange to say, they all turned to solid stone, arid are 0 as perfect to-day as when they were pat into the welL The top cask is about ? two feet below the surface, and a curb of common boards is set over the well, _ ' running down to meet the casks. Sev1 eral of these curbs have rotted away, ) and been replaced, but the oak casks appear likely to stand forever. Is there * here a hint for well builders, or are the ? causes of petrifaction local ? ? * mart's little corn. 0 Mary had a little corn .^ 7": Upon her little toe, * And everywhere that Mary went '* The corn was 8nro to go. . Z'z'm s ! ? Camden Post. * - ' * >4 1 And to the cooling ocean's shore _ . I It followed her one day; I g But the little acho corn was eo sore I e Sho couldn't play croquet. *' ?Island Review. I 8 "What makes the corn hurt Mary so?" ' J _ The other players cried. Vfl " Bscanne 8he wears her boots so tight, ? . l A looker-ou replied. . -y'fl K ?Seaside Press. - 1 J? '*And you a little lump upon ?.-> J , Your toe can grow to suit, - T " By patting on a 'five' sized foot ** 6 A number two sized boot." . w Boston Traveller. I f" And so the doctor dug it out. -fl is Which made poor Mary boo; * .-.fl e And no.v no corn sho kuows about . I _ Except what's ou the cob. '? ?Nt;u> York Graphic. fl 8 " )( Queen Victoria's Narrow Escape. 1 it Apropos of her majesty's review of ". >f the ironclads at Spithead, it may be in- fl g foresting to recall the fact that the queen I ?r can look back upon at least one danger- _ 'J q ous maritime adventure. Cruising off I e tho Isle of Wight in the yacht Emerald, - 'fl d while she was yet Princess Victoria, the - J <e beeeze freshened into a gale, and before a e the vessel could get into Cowes road the fi >- decks were swept fore and aft. The com- - -J l- ing queen, however, undauntedly re- fi w mained a witness of the scene ; when a 9 Is sudden squall took the Emerald aback, I 11 and crack went the topmast immediately^ - I 1, above the cap. The pilot, Mr. Saun- fl 3, ders, quick as thought, sprang to where I ie the princess was standing, lifted her in 1 e bis arms to a more safe position further' -.I !e aft, and the next moment crash came I 8 the topmast down where the queen had 'M it originally stationed herself. But for the fl se prompt action of Mr. Saunders the queen I ;e would probably never have lived to wit- I d ! ness tho ponderous procession of tho -fl * "* moiiiKfr loilff r 31 JrODCiadS. luuecu, lici 0 is ago acknowledged that the escape was I h something to bo lhaukful for, as the I r- pilot, at her instance, was promoted to S )- be a master; and when the Princess I >r Victoria became queen of England, ho 1 3. was early invited to court. Moreover, I d at the death of Mr. Saunders, some few I ir years after, her majesty made considerate I provision for his wife and family. J