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? I ' ' ' , ~-r ? ?? ??? T IBLr,L i _ .W. ... . ABBEVILLE PRESS & IUNX till BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE. S. C., WEDNESDAY, APB1L 23, 1879. ^0, 46. - VOLUME XXVI. The Last Lap. I'm on my last lap, boys, And have not won the race; I've done ray level best, boys, And kept a steady tace; But now I leavt the track,* boys, I cannot stand the pace. Cheers, rpusing cheers, lor those who win, Renown and wreaths and gold, Whilst friends crowd round with open hands, And I'm out in the cold. i'm left out in the cold, boys, With aching feet and sore; And, oh ! the aching of my heart? But that will ache no more. I'm on my last lap, boys, But have not won the race; And tftose nnu Detter icave tno iracK Who cannot stand the pace. I felt so strong at starting, My sinews seemed of steel; My nerves, my hones, my muscles, all Were sound from head to heel. My shoes they sorely chal'ed my feet, And? Well, I hardly know? Hie track was soft, the air was foul, I scarcely liad a show. I'm on my last hip, boys, But have not won the race; And those had better leave the track Who cannot stand the pace. At times I'd forge a bit ahend, And then I'd fall behind; Some jeered me as I toiled around, A few good souls were kind. \ I've tramped this truck lor weary years; 1 I've done my level best For half a century of laps, And now I go to rest. I I'm on my last lap, boys, But have not won the nice; And those liad better leave tho track * Who cannot stand the pace. Iihave no pile to leave behind. No trophies, and no fame; 1 No prizes for my little brood, Save, perhaps, an honest name. It's been a woeful strain, boys, But now I'll have some ease; One litj) to Jill eternity, And go it as you please. I'm on my last lap, boys, * But have not won the race; ? _J .1 1 1 l....4?1^..? ?,? , I\ I1U U1U9C 11UU UCklCl tcmv ute iuw.n 'Who cannot stand the pace. ?Harper & Weekly The Cobbler's Story. i " He came running down the steps of . my shop?this very basement?and sat down in that chair, all out of breath. ] "I was hammering away, polishing j off a new sole which I had just fitted to .< a customer's boot. I was in a great j hurry, because I had promised the boots } at two o'clock, and it was now a full j quarter past. I should not have minded < tnat, but the gentleman said he should ( certainly call for them at two. He was j a good customer, and I did not wish to disappoint him. , " I had finished one, and was nearly through with the other. _ I looked up and was glad to see that it was not the I owner of the boots, and I kept ham- ( mering all the harder. 1 "The young man?he was a young man, not more than one-and-twenty?sat } about a minute, till he got his breath. ' Then he spoke up, in a savage, domineer- ? ing way: 44 * Look here, old fellow, here's a little 1 job I want you to attend to while I wait; 1 I am in a hurry.' "I did not like his tone; and, raising 1 my eyes to his face, did not like his looks, ?' either. For all that, he was a handsome, ' well-built fellow?a regular dandy, I ( should say. What struck me particular- t lv was that he was.as pale as a ghost. ] ""'Can't touch your job till I am through with this. I shall be done in a < few minutes.' ' "Times were (lull, you see, and I thought I would hold on to him, if I could. ' " He swore a hie oath, which startled me so much that I dropped the boot?in j fact, I may say< it was as good as finished ' ?and held out my hand for his. He had already pulled it off. , . "' IIow long ?' he demanded, sharply. " I examined the boot?a neat button ! gaiter, almost new, best French leather, first-class every way; in _ fact, one o ! Stiles' best?you know Stiles is firstclass?should sav the pair must have cost fourteen dollars, perhaps fourteen- j fifty, with the leather buttons, which art! extra. The strangest part of the whole was, that the heel liad been torn oft', and the sole ripped clear away to the center ?an odd sort of job, wasn't it ? . "4 Well,' exclaimed the man, savagely, 4 wliat are you waiting for ? Why don't vou answer ?' "4 Where is the heel ?' I asked. '44In perditicA,' he muttered ; and I ! have half a mind to send you there alter it.' , "I was frightened. I had read so many murder cases in the newspapers, I was afraid I was to make one of them. He looked to "flae as if he would not think twice before putting one of my own ! knives through me. "'It will take a good hour,11 said, 4 and I Ciin't make a neat job at that.' '"'Will give you thirty minutes,1 he answered, taking out his watch. ' Botcli it any way you like, only make it strong. Thirty minutes, mind." "I went to work with all my might, the young man eyeing me every instant. I felt all tne time as if lie was pointing a revolver at me. '"4 Do you object if I do this with pegwork?1 Isaid, when I came to the heel; ' it. will saveut good lifteen minutes.1 '"' Peg away/ he growled. 'Time almost ub.1; , " I managed to get the heel on some sort of fasnion. It didn't look much like its mate?ha, ha, ha!?but lie paid no attention to that * '* On went the oot "' Now button it,1 he said. " I did so. " He took a glance at the street, then he fumbled in his pocket, and pulling out a roll of bills, threw me a live. "'There you are!1 he exclaimed. ' Will be back one of these days for the change.1 "So saving, he darted off doublequick, ana, turning up the street, was out of sight before I could count three " Mv first thought was that he had given me a counterfeit note. But I discovered, on examining it, that it was genuine, and no mistake. "' I am in luck to-day,' I thought. 4 Five dollars for thirty minutes' work!' "On looking a little more carefully at the bill, I perceived on one corner a drop of something red, which did not appear to be exactly dry. No, I can't say it was red, like red paint or vermilidn; yes, it was red, though?leastwise, more red than anything else. It looked so fresh that I put my finger on the spot, just as one might say, without thinking of anything particular; yet I was in a kind of puzzle, too, considering it did look, as I was telling you. ^uite Fresh-like. " When I put ray finger on the spot and took it off acain, something stained it?something which?well, I can never forget that to my dying day. I did not know what to do,- so I called to my wife ?she was in the next room and the door was open. Says I: " Wife, come here.' "'What's wanting?' says she, as she ran in. "'What's that on my finger?'says I, holding it up. " ' Blood, says she. ' How did you cut yourself ?' " * It's somebody else that's cut, I'm thinking,' and I told her all about it. "'Go right away to the police!'she exclaimed. " ' And get myself locked up for life as a witness? That's the way they serve you in New York. I'll wait first and see if the papers have anything to say about it.' " ' Strange, Mr. P don't come for his boots,' said my wife. ' I wonder if you could be mistaken about his calling for them?' " 4 Perhaps he has forgotten it himself, and is waiting at home for them; and here it is three o'clock.' "So saying, I took the boots and started for my customer's house. I had a good way to go, but hurried as fast as T tliinVimr ?>1] thi? timp of flip spot on the greenback and the spot on my finger, for I never thought to wash it oft. 44 I mounted the steps and rang the bell. 44 The door was opened so quick that it startled me, and thefe stood a sweet, Sretty girl, fourteen or fifteen years old, resseafor traveling?hat and all on. 44 4 Mr. P.'s boots, I said, putting them down. 44 4 Papa is not home yet, and it is so strange!' she cried. 41 was watching for him. We were to leave for Boston by the quarter-past three express train, and it is that now. Papa is always so punctual, I can't think what to make of 44 She appeared to be more thinking aloud than talking to me. 44 4 Probably business detains him, miss ?something unexpected, no doubt.' 441 could not help casting a glance at my finger as I spoke?I mean the finger that had the spot on it. I looked fx-om the finger to the young girl. 44' Do you think anything has happen ed to him?' she demanded, earnestly. 44 4 Happened to him? No, indeed. Sure to oe home in a few minutes.' 44 The words nearly choked me. How I got them out I don't know. I left the house as quick us Jjossihle, holding the (inger separate from the other lingers till I reached my shop. "' Something awful has been going on, wife. We will see it for certain in the papers.' "' Peter,' said she, 4 be sure you don't wash that finger.' 44 4 Why not?' said I, ray teeth chattering. 44 4 1 tell you you must not do it until we get the news. 44'Good gracious, wife.' says 1,4have I got to be all night with my finger so? I shall not sleep a wink.' 44 4 Yes, you nave,' says she; 4and I will do it up with a rag, so nothing can rub the stain out.' 44 4 Please don't do that, wife. It makes me feel strange.' > 44 4 But before I was done speaking, she had the rag on. Then she got supper, but not a mouthful eould I eat. 44 4 It's of no use, I can't work; I may as well go to bed,' I said. 441 did not light up the shop, but went into the other room and got in bed. I laid awake nearly all night, in a terrible state with my finger. At last I fell isleep, and dreamed it began to swell, ind kept growingjarger and larger, till it was bigger than my li^ad. I was in jreat trouble. A doctor came to cut it )ff, and, just as he was commencing, I leard a scream which woke me. There ,vas my wife standing over me, with a lewspaper in her hand. 44 4 The awfulest thing that ever hap)ened!' she cried. 4 Mr. P?- was murlered yesterday afternoon, and it was lis murderer you did that job for. Read!' 44 The account was short. Mr. P lad been discovered in the basement of lis warehouse, near his vault, quite dead, itabbed ever so many times. The vault -it was where he kept his valuables? ,vas ope*. Everything disposable was aken, of which was a large sum in bankJills?a tremendous robbery. From the casement into the vault, you crossed an irea, covered with an iron grating, which et light into a cellar below. The murlerers heel must have caught between lie bars during the scuttle. It was vrenched off, and was found stuck there. Tlieue was no clew whatever to the murlerpr except the heel. This was the kvhole story. 441 jumped out of be'd. 44 4 Now, Peter, what are you going to io?' asked my wife. 44 4 1 am going to see Lawyer E 'lie was or.e of my customers), and tell iiim all I know.' 44 4 Tliat's right,' said she. 441 hurried off as soon as I was dressed. Lawyer E was not up. I waited for Iiim. As soon as he came into the room, [ told him my story. He took it coolly ?nough; but that was because life was a lawyer, I reckon. 44 4 Wait till I have my breakfast,' he ;aid, 4 and I will go with you to police headquarters. " ' To be locked up?1 says I. ' Won't that be the way of it?' " He laughed. " ' I will t;tke care of you, Peter,1 says lie; ' will go bail for your appearance, if necessary." " After he had his breakfast, we started off together. Lawyer E took me to the chief man; I forget what they eaii him. I told my story over again. Then 1 answered so many questions that I began to feel as if I had killed Mr. P myself. " Before they got through, they showed me the heel of the boot. T could have sworn to it on a stack of Bibles. Then I niillml /\fV tlio r?(r nnrl clmivpd liiin rr?xr puiltu VII HIV iWjj ?**?? WMV M vv* *4**11 "tj finger. "'What's that for?' said the police officer. " I told him. "' Never mind that. Let's see the bankbill!' he exclaimed. " I took it from my pocket, and gave it to him. "He marked it carefully, and then made me mark it, so I should know it again," he said. "Then he put the bill in an envelope, and wrote on it, and put it in his safe. " They handed me a paper to go before the coroner's jury that afternoon, and lawyer E gave his word that I should be there. Then I went home. " I told the story for the third time before the coroncr's jury, and that was all the good it did. "It was a nine-days' wonder?the papers full of it. Folks came crowding to my shop to stare and ask questions. They only hindered my work; it didn't do me any good. The police kept arresting people, and would fetch me to look at them, but they never got the right man." Here the cobbler paused. He remained so long silent that I began to think his story was concluded. "' Is that all?' I at length asked. " ' All!' exclaimed the cobbler, with a start. 41 wish it was all! I have but just begun.'" So saying lie took from his pocket a large colored handkerchief, wiped his face, and proceeded: " Nothing more came to light for five years?five years. The whole affair went to sleep?forgotten?as things are in New York. Often, though, I used to think of that sweet, pretty girl, who opened the door for nae the day I took Mr. P.'s boots home, dressed .for her trip to Boston, and of her eager anxiety, when she asked me, ' Do you think anything lias happened to him?' Oh, dear! oh dear! I never could bear to recall it. and to think I had her father's blood on my finger the very time she ;iskt-d me the question! "Well, as I was saying, nothing more for five years?five years to a month. I was working hard as usual?just as I expect to work all the days of my life. I don't know what made me cast my eyes up to the street?it is seldom I do it?hut I did do it, and?may the Lord help me! I saw going by, at that moment, Mr. Pfs murderer. , "He had a young woman on his arm, and she held by the hand a little tot of a child not more than three years old, who tripped along with her. " The wretch cast a strange glance into my place?he could not see me?and then turned away. " I threw down my work and ran into the other room for my wife. "' I have seen him, I have seen him, have seen the murderer!' I screamed in her ears. 4 Put on your hat and shawl, and follow him?follow him to the ends of the earth, and see where lie goes? young woman and child with Trim? young woman and child. Do you hear?' "Quick as thought, almost, my wife was on the sidewalk. "'Be careful,' says I; 'don't let him suspect.' -i " iiliiore UK" WOl'US wuiu i;unj uuu ui my mouth, she was out of sight. " I sat like a petrification for more than a good long hour. Nobody can tell what I went through. Nobody can tell. First, I was so crazy glad to discover that wretch I did not know what to do. Then I began to settle down more quiet, and when naif an hour passed, and my wife did not get back, I Fell into a great thinking, and so many things came crowding, crowding into my mind. "4 That is his -wile with liim,' I said to myself, 4 and that little tot, trudging is his child. God forgive me, what am I trying to do? To make that young woman a widow, and the little tot an orphan?1 " The perspiration stood in big drops on my face?I could scarcely breathe. "Suddenly, the vision of the young girl waiting for her father to come home appeared to me. There she was, standing in the doorway. " 'He shall hang!' I exclaimed, aloud. ' lie shall hang! What is his young wife to me, or the little child, either?1 44 AfteF that I settled down, weak as a kitten, and remained in a tremble till my my wife came back. 44 When she did come, she did not look to me to be the same woman she was. She had taken oft' her hat and was swinging it, crazy-like, in her hand. Her eyes were as big again as they were before, lnnkpfl neither to the risrht nor loft, but plumped herself square into her seat, and said nothing. "4 Well, where did ho go to?' I asked, after-waiting a little. "'Peter,1 said my wife, solemnly, 'are you sure he is the one?' "' Sure as I am that we are now talking together.1 "Then may the Lord hnve mercy on our souls!1 she exclaimed. " I thought she had gnne off in a fit, but she came to, presently, and undertook to tell me. '"I followed them to Mr. P V house,' she articulated. 'As sure as I live, I followed them to Mr. P 's home, where Mr. P 's widow lives, and there they went in. I asked the servant, who stood on the stoop a minute, if the gentlemen and his wife were staying there.1 "' What's that to you. Impudence,1 she said. "'Nothing,1 I answered; 'only I thought I knew the gentleman.1 "' Then you ought to know he stays here, without asking.1 And with that the door was slammed in my face. Oh, Peter, Peter, it can't be the one.1 "'It is the one,11 repeated, 'andthat I'll prove in less than an hour.' "I started for Lawyer E . He went with me once more to the head police. The head police took me all to pieces again; than he charged me to say nothing myself, and not to let my wife .breathe a word to any one. I heard not a thing for three days, and began to think it is all given up, when slap came the arrest, and i was called on to be present at the examination. "Inever told the particulars of the awful tale but once since. I doubt if I ever can do it again." The cobbler stopped, took a long breath, and proceeded: "What do you suppose? It was Mr. P 5s own nephew, who lived in Philadelphia, who murdered him. He confessed the whole before he came to trial. He had been on here for two days, and taken leave of his uncle the night before, expecting to start for home in the morning, but being detained, next day he walked to the counting-room and saw the uncle stepping down to his vault. He entered, unperceived, and waited till the vault was opened, and then committed the murder and robbery. He escaped without notice, and in thirty minutes after he left my shop he was on the train, and, strange to say, was never suspected. Three years afterward he courted and married his cousin, Miss P , whom on that fatal day I encountered at the door. She was his wife, and little Tot their daughter. Oh, mv God! "He was tried, found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. The governor a. ?i it.? commuted uiu sentence wj ownu jmoun for life. There he is now. "I Sometimes feel sorry," continued the cobbler, after a pause, " that I ever saw the man. But," he added, thoughtfully, 44 I suppose it was best." "What became of his wife and cliild?" "I cannot tell?they left the country. Dead, for aught I know."?Richard B. Kiviball. Lost?A Comet. An astronomer has many ups and downs in this world, although most people no doubt believe that it is most up, as far as looking is concerned. Professor Swift, of Rochester, a noted star-gazer, met with a curious loss a few "weeks ago, and the worst is there is no insurance. He was scouring off the sky on a clear evenipg a month ago, when lie suddenly discovered a comet. Now a comet is not to be picked up every day, and the professor felt considerably elated. Comets are pretty high now-adays, and genuine specimens without flaw or blemish are exceedingly scarce. The professor was Overjoyed, and he was just preparing to mark it and put up a sign, 44 Any person trespassing on this comet will be prosecuted. "Keep off the grass,1' when suddenly a (doud came in the way. What pen can describe the scene that ensued! Swift loudly called for help, but it was a time, v. hen no one is up except robbers or astronomers, and no one came. The situation was critical. If he went up on a ladder and shoved away the clouds there would be no one to tend to the telescope business. The comet in the most cowarly manner took advantage of the professor's dilemma and made off. At least it is thought so, because the cloudy weather, lasted severahveeks, and when"the professor pot his astronomical shotgun in order again the celestial bird had Hown. Professor Swift ought to advertise for the lost comet. A reporter interviewed the bereaved philosopher, and between his sobs the star-finder said that the comet was of uncommon appearance fall lost fish are big), and that it was in the same field with EtaEridani. miKif l.mrn v/i wuisc Hie vujuci) must uavc wuu of that field in some manner or other while the professor was attending to the clouds, and this is another great argument for keeping fences in order. Meanwhile, if any person happens to meet a comet of uncommon appearance without a brand on it, the finder will confer a great favor on Professor Swift by putting a little salt on the comet's tail and telegraphing at once for the disconsolate astronomer.?Free Press. He Got his Dinner. Rev. Mr. had traveled far to nreach to a congregation at . After the sermon he waited very patiently, evidently expecting some of his brethren to invite him to dinner. In this he was disappointed. One after another departed, until the house was almost as empty as the minister's stomach. Summoning resolution, however, he walked up to an elderlylooking gentleman, and gravely said: " Will you "o home to dinner with me to-day, brother?" " Where do you live?" " About twenty miles from this, sir." "No," said the man, colOTing; "but you must go with me." $ " Thank you?I will cheerfully." After that time the minister was no more troubled about his dinner. ON AN ICE FLOE. Perils and DnnRern of fleckers for the Worth Vole. Captain Tyson, commander of the Ilowgate polar expedition, and formerly one of the United States steamer Polaris party to the Arctic regions, delivered a very entertaining lecture in Baltimore on " One hundred and ninety-six days on an ice-tloe." As an introduction, Captain Tyson referred to the progress of the Polaris expedition in 1871, the death of Captain Hall, its commander, in Aiiiriist,. 1872. and thesubseauent start of O * -J a. the vessel homeward in command of the sailing-muster. Toward the middle of October of that year, as the winter season was about commencing, the ship's company built an icehouse on a floe, as a precaution in the. event of the vessel being disabled by the ice in which it was bound. October 15th a gale and snowstorm set in, and while the speaker was at supper an alarm was given that the ice was breaking and the ship aad been stove in. In the confusion which followed a large quantity of ship's stores were cast over on the ice. The alarm in regard to the vessel's safety having proved . false, Captain Tyson, with a number of volunteers, went on the ice for the purpose of saving the provisions. While thus engaged the ice oroke, and the vessel parted from her moorings and was swept away. Sho was not to be seen at daybreak the day following, and Captain Tyson, being the only officer among the fugitives, found himself in command of the party, consisting of Mr. Myers, of the scientific corps, the ship's steward, cook, seven seamen, Esquimaux Joe, his wife and little son. and Esijuixmau Ilans. his wife and four children? a toial of nineteen persons, including five children. During the 16th of October, whilft endeavoring to perform the hopeless feat of making a boat voyage to land, the Polaris was seen about six niiles to the stern, apparently sailing and steaming toward tlio iloe. Signals were hoisted, but the ship was subsequently observed anchored on the lee of an island. The floe drifted rapidly to the southward, and the Polaris was finally lost to sight, leaving the party without hope of a rescue from that quarter. The next day the floe broke in twain, separating the party from their boats and provisions, but eight days later fortunately the two ice lields came together again, and the party took up quarters on the one containing their property and began regular life. Several seals were shot, but the Esquimaux being indifferent hunters, no extended supply was secured to prevent the perils of starvation which threatened the party later in their forced exile. The only persons protected by fur clothing were the Esquimaux, the remainder of the little band being clothed in woolen fabric, which was suflieient for "still" cold, but scarcely any protection from violent winds. The Esquimaux built huts of ice and snow, of which Captain Tyson gave a graphic description. They were small, admitting of two or three persons standing erect, but others had to be "packed in like sardines," Lamps were also imnmvisflrf. but durinsr the Ions winter that followed the huts were frequently in darkness, as no material was secured to furnish light. Spoons were made of meat cans, as well as primitive cooking utensils. The provisions brought with the party were measured by Captain Tyson, who calculated minutely the amount, and apportioned eleven ounces of ship bread per day to adults and five and a-half ounces to the children, which proportion was subsequently curtailed through necessity. It was impossible to get water, and the only means at times of quenching thirst waj to chip small pieces of ice and dissolve them in the mouth. During November the party existed exclusively on the ship's stores, and the pangs of hunger, through enforced diet, were anon intense. Thanksgiving and Christmas were appropriately observed, as far as possible, a few dried apples, etc., being preserved as dainties for the occasion. When threatened with Starvation the brain appears to. partake of the desires of the physical nature, and the exiles were almost crazed for food. They could thing of nothing else, and the white men performed no bodily labor for fear of increasing the horrible appetite. Captain Tyson gave an cxtend r r0??;n?,1Y ti?, t?U UCSUli|IUUU \'l tut Jio^uiaiou.v V* v.??party and their habits. The women mended the clothing of the white men, and the males were constantly looking for seals. The youngest member of the party was a young infant, who was only two months and three days old when they were sent adrift, and which'the mother kept in a nude condition on her back between her clothing and her flesh, where it was protected from all of tin; terrible experiences that followed. After a few weeks on the floe a seal was caught by Esquimaux Joe, and was eaten raw by the nearly-famished persons. March 10th a series of gales, succeeding snowstorms of the period just preceding, began and culminated in the breaking up of the floe on which the party were refuged. April 1st the floe was reduced to dimensions which merely admitted of habitation, and the following day the castaways were obliged to take to a boat, twenty-seven by live feet. They had at this time been on the floe five and a half months and traveled twelve hundred miles. Here followed a detailed account of the sufferings of the party, who were compelled frequently to leave the boat and take to ice fields, only to be driven again to the boat, which threatened to sink with their combined weight. Nearly all the provisions, guns, etc., were cast overboard, and in consequence the terrors of starvation again threatened, during which the sailors discussed cannibalism, and were only prevented from practicing it by a providential discovery of seals and bears, furnishing provisions. April 28th a steamer was sighted, but sailed away without, discovering the castaways, who were finally, two days later, rescued from their perilous position, havihg drifted one hundred ami ninety-six days, and accomplished a distance of two thousand miles'. A Hard Head. Every man graduated froYn Williamr college in the hist twenty-five years has some recollection of Abe Parsons, os Abo " Hunter," as he is more commonly called, from his butting propensities.. A correspondent of the Boston Journal writes: "Little is known of his early life, but he was owned as a slave anil ran away to obtain his freedom. The story is toJd of his recognizing the picture of his old mistress, who had aided bim to escape, in the room of one of the students, who was her son, and that after that she used to send him aid. The most powerful blows have no effect on his cranium. Two-inch plank are shivered at a single blow, and large sticks of wood broken in two. At an agricultural fair he was once giving an exhibition of his powers by breaking cheeses, which had been placed in b:igs, but a grindstone had been substituted for one of them. The first blow failed to break it, but nothing daunted, he made the attempt the second time, and sure enough broke it quite to pieces. At a fire once some men were trying to break in a strong door with axes, hut they did not succeed m making an entrance till his power was put into use, when the door quickly yielded. A thousand*stories might bo told of his wonderful feats, but nothing has brought him into notoriety so much as his connection witli J. Frank Baxter, the spiritualistic medium. At one of the spiritualistic camp-meetings at Lake Pleasant, Baxter brought up his spirit and gave a detailed account of his exploits, but Abe proved too lively a ghost for him, as he was not dead, although reports of his death had been published. | He is now about seventy years of iim; but though he lias given up some of his feats, he can still make quick work with a dry goods box or door of ordinary thickness. Leavenworth, Kansas, has a chain pagne factory. THE GOVERNESS* Jtomnnce in n I|Iew York IVumeryt A short time ago a well-known mor chant of New York city advertised in t newspaper for a nursery governess tt take special charge of ah infant daughter, whose nervous cohditions required peculiarly intelligent care. Among tin many answers lie received was one hosed apparently upon a wonderful exact apprehension of his want, and worded lr such a combination of business method and dignified self confidence that it al once decided him in his preference. Tin address given by the writer was in Fiftl: avenue, where at a cel'tain hour of a certain afternoon only she could be seen This last specification sounded rathei dictatorial, under the circumstances, but the father wished no ordinary professional attendant for his child. According at the appointed time he went to tut house designated, and upon the verj stoop thereof was met by a lady vailcc! and attired for the street, who at onc( accosted him as the principal of the advertisement, and introduced herself a< his correspondent. She further explained that, sis he was a few minutes behind time, she had scarcely expected to sec him, and was starting upon an errand ol business importance. While speaking she slowly descended to the street, hei caller mechanically following, and tlieii conversation was concluded as thej walked side by side along the avenue, In iis few words as possible the lady explained that the house they had left wjif that of friends with whom she w;is temporarily a guest; that she greatly need? ed such employment as she had made application for, and could give the highest references ;is to qualification. FamJj names of great respectability were cited in this connection, the gentleman noted them down and then, with a bow, went his own way. These references being subsequently found answerable to all hit requirements, the merchant informed the lady by note that his-wife would be glad to see her. In short, the engagement was made. Not only did the wife ap prove it to the utmost, but tne cmm in the case exhibited :in immediate liking for the new comer. Nevertheless there had been a certain unwontedness about the manner of bringing the arrangement about, and this perhaps aroused the curiosity of the mistress of the mansion. At any rate it was not long before she expressed to her husband the conviction that there was some mystery about the nursery governess, who, she had found, spoke and wrote several languages and had the manners of a" perfect lady." The gentleman thought this so much the better, and did not trouble himself with sentimental conjectures. But when somewhat later his better-half confided to him that she thought their otherwise admirable new acquisition acted a little strangely at times, his masculinely prosaic bent of mind induced him to leave a bottle of brandy, as by accident, where any trusted familiar of the household might find it, and when next he himself examined it some of the contents were gone. Just before this development, however, a female hairdresser, of great custom on Fifth avenue had called at the house, by order, to dress the child's head for a juvenile p:u'ty while the mother was out. Upon the return of the latter the little girl's first words were: "Oh, mother, (naming the hairdresser) knows Miss " (the governess). At once the mother's curiosity was stimulated afresh, and she took measures to have the hairdresser come again, when the two might meet in her presence. Iso sooner, however, had the summoned adept in fashionable coiffures entered the mansion on that occasion than the mysterious nursery governess betook herself to her own apartment, and, upon Kr* cuKennnnnfJv cmitriif W?iQ fniirwl nuuoui^uviltlj QV/U^H W) m?o ?wu?M to have packed up all her few wardrobe belongings and departed from the house without a word of adieu. And who was she ? The chattering little hairdresser, through her own- professional familiarity with family matters in the avenue, did, indebd, know'all about her. A few years ago she conducted one oi the most fashionable female seminaries on Fifth avenue, and had .among hei scholars the daughters of a number ol the wealthiest households up town. 01 distinguished Irish birth, with lieu father an eminent clergyman in the church ol England, her brother a general in the British army, and many of her relatives titled people, she had come to this country by reason of some domestic infelicities never very definitely explained to her friends here, though the sequel may have thrown some fight upon them. Ilere she established her school, as already noted, bade fair for a time to become wealthy by it, and then lost allschool, friends, everything?by betraying lw.iHM.lf ?u n iiTonlnimnhlii ilrnnlrnrH ! In the house of which she .hud given the address in answering the advertisement were pitying former friends, who allowed her to do so, and they jy ere compassionate early patrons of liW school who had allowed themselves to recommend her for last employment. The latter ended as above described, only a few days ago, and where the unhappy woman now hides her misery and shame no on< knows. The sad story reaches print here for the lirst time, all names being withheld because the family involved naturally shrink from public association in such a matter, and identification of the hapless fugitive mi^ht close to her some future possibility of redemption.?Baltimore Sun. Two Visitors. Mr. Low was a poor man, and lived in a humble cottagc 011 the edge of .1 large city. One evening, an oldacquain tanee, now quite wealthy, came to take tea with him. He first dwelt upon th&fael that the house was in an out-of-the%a> spot, and there were few or 110 neighbors, ,At table he told of the delicious tea he had drank at the house of one friend, kofthe rich tcasorvice he liiul se>en upon tho table of another, of the rare old china that wax used in his own 'household, arid of the dainty meals he had eaten from it. In the cramped little sitting-room, after tea, lie nut by tin stove nnd talked of the delights of an open wood-fire, of his enjoyment of ran and costly books and pictures, and ol twenty other tilings that the host ol whose hospitality he had partaken did not and could not possess. It is nol surprising that after ho left .the little household felt sad and discontented. Ilu! the next evening there came anothci visitor, also wealthy. lie brought good cheer in his very face. The room, In said, felt so warm anil comfortable aftei his walk, which, he added, was jusl the thing to give a man a good appetite for his supper. At tabic he spokt of everything that was nice, congratulated his host on having 'such a snu<j little home, apologized for eating s< much, but couldn't help it, because it was "so good" and tasted "so homelike," liked the old bliick teapot because it was just like the one his meithcr had when lie was a boy, anel tolel his hostess, who was all smiles and 'as happy as 21 queen, that she; ought to thank her star? that she had no gas or furnace! to ruin 'her ileiwers that inaelchcr room look s< cheerful. Whe-n he) had gemc, husband and wife fe*lt satisfied with .themselves anel the little house which they had lwiuf til ihmL-o i-iimfifirt>ihli> There lire two ways of looking lit everythin:;. ______ Oldest and Coldest Town In the World, According to Humboldt the oldest town in the world is Jakutsk, 5,000 Inhabitants, Eastern Siberia. It is not onl.\ the oldest but probably, also, the coldest The ground remains always frozen to tin depth of300 feet, except in midsummer when it thaws three feet at the surface The mean temperature for the year i; 13'7CF. For ten days in August tin thermometor goes as high as Hf> ? . Fron November to Febnniry the tcmperatun remains between 42? and 08? below "zero. The river Lena remains frozen foi nine months of the year. ONE WOMAN'S EVENTFUL LIFE. Career of the American t.lrl Who SIiu rlcd IVnpolcon Bonaparte'* Yoiiiikc 1 Brother. ' The New York TfUmjie has an oj [ tended biographical notice t>f tile lilt , Madame X'atterson - Bonaparte, froi [ which we quote: Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson w:us born: Baltimore in the year 1785. She was tl I daughter of William Patterson, son < l a farmer in Donegal county, Irelant J Her father, at the age of fourteen year ^ was seiit to Philadelphia, ahd employe in the counting-house of Samuel Jacl son. He was a born money-make I during the Revolution trading to I' nine and bringing back cargoes of gunpov der and arms. lie soon acquired \ arge fortune. Miss Patterson was n , inarkable for the beauty of her persoi \ for her intellectual powers, fascmatir I manners and uncommon wit. In 180: , Jerome Bonaparte, then in command < a French frigate, landed in New Yorl J He was, as the brother of Napoleon I [ hospitably received. While at Bait [ more lie met Miss Patterson, fell i , love with her, and on Christmas cv p 1803, lie married her, with the entii p consent of her ambitious father. thou# ; her mother had grave misgivings of tl . prudence of the alliance. The ceremon \ was performed by Bishop Carroll of tl R. C. Diocese of Baltimore. At Was I ] ington, whither Jerome, with his wif | proceeded, they attracted much attei tion. Aaron Burr wrote of her as " ' charming little woman." Meanwhi | there was wrath in Paris. Napoleon, i \ the head of the family, wfts exceeding! I exasperated at his brother's America alliance, and gave orders that M. Jeron i and his wife should be permitted t . land it no port controlled by the Frenc ; government. Notwithstanding tlii ; they set sail from Philadelphia, but befoi | reaching the capes were shipwrecket : Again, in a few weeks, they embarke . for Lisbon. Here she was left on board tl; ' vessel, by Jerome, who went to Paris t make, if possible, his peace. lie did nc . find it possible. Napoleon refused t recognize the marriage. Madame Bonr ; parte went to Amsterdam, but there si; was met by Napoleon's order forbiddin ' her to land. She then sailed for Englam and took up Her residence at uamnerwei , where her only child, Jerome Napoleo Bonaparte, was born on the 7th of Jul; 1805. Two months after she sailed fc the United States. Her reception wa not a very gracious one. Her father r< i fused to pay the income stipulated i , her marriage settlement, upon" tli ground that the First Consul had nullifie the union. The marriage of Jerome wit 1 the Princess Frederica. of Wurtemberj ; soon followed. He is said to have ofi'm; his discarded wife the ^principalit" < ' Smalcand, with an annual income ( ?40,000, her reply being: 44 V/estpliali: no doubt, is a considerable kingdon but not large enough to hold tw | queens.1' The reply pleased Xapoleor ; who directed the French minister i Washington to intimate his desire t serve her. She replied: 44 Tell the en , peror I am ambitious; I wish to be mad a duchess of France." It is said tin [ the emperor promised to confer thi rank upon her, but offered immediatel a gross sum of $20,000, with a life ar ' nuity of ?12,000. This she acceptei "proud to be indebted to the greate* , man of modem times." She stipulate! however, that the receipts for paynier ; should be signed by her as 44 Llizabet , lionaparte." To this the emperor a< ceded, and until his dethronement' tli annuity was regularly paid. Her hu.' band was angry oecause she refused ai ; from him anil accepted it from h: ' brother, but she merely retorted that si 44 preferred shelter beneath the wing < an eagle to suspension from the.pinio ; of a goose." The submission of Jeron , to the unreasonable commands of h \ brother were amply rewarded. He r< eeived a high command in the navy ( France and snowed mmseii a compeiei , officer. In 1806 lit; was made a brig: dier-general in the army, and in lb( r was created King of Westphalia. Mme, Bonaparte applied to the Mar . hind legislature for a divorce, whic was granted without difficulty. lit motive for taking this step is noteasil ; comprehended. The pope had refuse f to annul a marriage which had receivc ; the open sanction of the church. T1 ! social position of Mme. Bonaparte ha ' never been in the least compromised 1j ] her domestic misfortunes. , When the Bonaparte government ws . overthrown Mme. Bonaparte visit*: Paris, where, jus she was still beautifu [ and had lost nothing of her social ai ' complishments, she attracted attentic ] and was favorably received in the be, p circles. Only once did Mme. Bonapari i meet Jerome after the separation. . [ was in the gallery of the 1'itti palace, i . Florence. The princess was leaning o [ the arm of her husband. He started o recognizing Mme. Bonaparte, and whi pered to the princess: "That lady is m ; former wife. The next morning he le i Florence. She had only said on meet in Jiim, " It is Jerome." Mme. Bonapaii 1 was received at the court of Florent , with special distinction, and was s , kindly met upon her presentation to tl | duke and duchess that she nearly bun into teal's. Since her return from Europe, Mmi , Bonaparte resided in Baltimore. SI > appears to have exercised tluift in tl; . management- of her money matters, fo: with an income not very large, sli amassed a handsome fortune. Iler soi Jerome Bonaparte, was. educated i i Harvard College, from which institutio t he was graduated in 182G. lie aftei ward studied law, but did not practice , lie married, at an early age, Miss Susa . Mary Williams, of ltoxbury, Mass., iady of large fortune. This, with h: own acquisitions, made him one of tli j richest citizens of Baltimore. lie w: much devoted to the management of hi ( estates, and to agricultural pursuit i lie was on terms of intimacy with h _ father, from whom he received a state I income, lie visited the French colli , during the reign of Napoleon III. . , family council decided in favor of hi : assuming the name of Bonaparte, but li , was not to be regarded as belonging t p the imperial family. The French court p refused to recognize his legitimacy. II , vvuvi nevrr hiLturnlized in the t'nite States, lmt always regarded himself as , French citizen. Me died in Baltimon June 17, 1H70. Mis son, Jerome Xi . nolcon, horn in 1H32, was graduated : I west Point in IH5*2, and hccaine a , officer in the French armv in 1851, ser\ . in^in the Crimea with distinction, an being decorated for gallant conduct h " thi! Sultan of Turkey. Another soi | Charles Joseph, is a rising member < the Baltimore bar. r The later years of Mine. Bonaparte wci J lit'marked by any important events. Sli lived to see the imperii' family wit which she had connected i.crsel'f a seeon [ time bituished from the throne of Franc* I and any dreams of the future great net of her descendants must, have been Ion ' ago dissipated. She employed lierscl ( it is said, in writing her memoirs. Froi 18.T7 to 1H11, she snent her summers : ' Kockaway, where sue is reported to hav i been the " gayest of the gav." At Ball more she lived very simply, in a tlowi i town boarding-house. Iler rooms wei ' * * * - - * i i ... l'ii' plainly llinnsneu, ami nine wart mu tin [ about thrill to mark them as occupied li a distinguished personage. They li:i\ even been characterized as " barren tin comfortless." She was, of course, :i .noo ' deal annoyed by visitors who bail n i claim ti|)on bi*r timcoraltcnlion. Mine. lionapurtc was somewhat fwti t in person, of a remarkably symmetric; ?i c -. i.ii , limine, aim i;iii II Mil |I ||.\ n III. ill i .-II |> I the last was t|uick and elastic; her , (irecian in ils east, was mobile anil e: . nrcssive; her liair :i beautiful shade i i Idaek. She told a writer, with sjiv: > frankness, tliat " her height and propo 1 tions were exactly those of the Venus < ; Medici," and as she said this she thrc r hack the sleeve of her dress, and show* r a beautifully molded wrist and aril I such as few woiin ii can beast of attl age of eighty-four. It was dangerous to try a combat of wit with her, for with all her grace she li.'ltl one of the sharped of r* tongues, and this is said to have alieiirtted more tlian one of her early fiiends. Yet she had a skill to win them hack again if l- she pleased. Talleyrand said of her : le " Tf-he were :i queen, with what a grace 11 woiild she rejgli!" i*nd ftortschakoff dedared that it "she had lieett near the it throne the Allies would have fotliid If le even more difficult to dispose of Napojf leon." She experienced the fate of more 1. than one woman as ambitious as herself: s, but whatever and however, dark may (1 have been the vicissitudes of her life, she i- never surrendered to {hem, hut remained r, brave, earnest and indomitable through ;e all. If Napoleon I. could have seen her he might have admired her, and so the a whole current of her life have been 3- changed. Hut still it would have been i. ;i flnrk one. for she would have been ig driven from the throne, which she cov3, eted so much, and which she came ho if near reaching. In the annals of therec. markable period during whicli her early ., life was passed she will always he meni tioned, and her ill-treatment adduced as n evidence of the thorough and utterly une, scrupulous selfishness of her imperial e brother-in-law. h ?? ic An Appreciative Old Party, y Sometimes it is rather difficult to suste tain a conversation even with a man i- who is apparently willing to talk. Yesp. terday, on the C. B. & Q. train coming i- east from Fairfield, two'men occupied a a seat just in front of me. One of them le was a pleasant-looking old man, and the is other was a young man, who looked like y a student. They appeared to be strang n ers to each other, and for some miles te they rode in silence. Theji our train o paused a moment to catch its breath at h a siding and a freight train went tliuns, dering past us._ Then the. young man *e turned to his neighbor and said: 1; " What a wonderful thing is a rail u road." ie "Eli?"said the old gentleman, looko in?c up with a pleased expression, )t 44Eh?" o 4.41 say a railroad," repeated the young i- man.""is a wonderful thing." te 44 Oh!" said the old man, delighted," is g It?" b The studently looking young man 1? looked as though he didn't know just exn actly what to say to that, and nobody )' > blamed him. >r But the old man was too well pleased ^ to find a talkative friend to permit the &- conversation to die such an untimely n death as that, so he asked, in brisk, inie tcrested tones: (1 4,Wliyisit?" h The young man looked as though he ?. didn't exactly know why, as indeed any d man rm?ht have looked under the cir>f cumstahces, nut he gathered himself and said, with a little oratorical flourish: b " Why it winds through the valleys b and scales almost inaccessible mountain o heights; it creeps along the dizzy ledges i, of the Ideating precipice and stretches tt away, hundreds of miles across the 0 smiling plains and the limitless nrairies; i- it pierces the rock-ribbed hills, and le where it cannot climb it burrows; it ft winds around?" i? Old gentleman, in a fine burst of eny thusiasm: i- "Oh, does it?" 1 -VT t.-i. 1.1 M l\OW, WI Jill I'D 11 111 IWlJr JIUlll BiVJ lUUIill. jt The young man felt just that way, anil '? all the lire died out of his eyes and the 11 llusli faded away from his cheeks, and h somehow he found himself wishing that -- lie had that old man in a dark and lone10 ly tunjiel on the Union Pacific railroad, and no one by to stop the murder. Of J course he sank into profound, abashed 's silence, but the old party was by this ie tirae thoroughly interested in thesubrf ject, and he spurred his young companion n on by saying, after an apparently intense intellectual effort: is " Er?et?but why? wha' for?" The young man made one more effort >f to entertain his enthusiastic comrade, and answered his rather childish quesl tion, growing in earnestness as he went on: "Why, to meel the ceaseless demands f- of restless trade; to annihilate space and h bring the climates close together; to t ]>our the gold and silver into the trcnsy ury vaults at Washington; to bring the ,(l corn of Iowa to the port of New York; d to empty the wheat fields of Minnesota u> intn ttu> olov-nf-ntM nf Rftltimnrp: to"? d Old gentleman, fairly earned off" his, y feet with excitement: "Ground, fences and all?" is Then the young man glued his nose to d the window and riveted his whole atten1. tion to the landscape, and the old party vainly endeavored to draw him out u again. He was enthusiastic enough, was $t tiie old man, hut somehow he didn't t<- have the llow of language to express it. ft flawkcye. n n The Measles. n An unpleasant disease is the measles, j4" hut of short duration, and, if ordinary A care be exercised, not fatal. * Its most apparent and usual symptoms are sneezing, slight cough, running at the nose and eyes, peculiar itching of the face, red eyes, very sensitive to light. It generally runs four days before the erupV tion, which lasts usually but three days ?" three days out and four days in," as the old ladies say. The third day little ' red spots appear on the face, generally in * clusters, afterward spreading. The state of fever decreases as the rash comes to 't the surface. After about three days the little crescent - shaped pustules iurn V brown and the skin crumbles off. Dur1 ing this stage diarrhea often occurs, but if iu line)- nnf tn inti>rfi>vn with it\. The room in which the sick child lies " should he kept moderately dark. Keep , the child well covered, especially about .a the chest. Administer plenty of warm t beverages, such as weal: tea, arrowroot, oatmeal-water and the like; put a gently^ drawing poultice on the chest. Sometimes a dose of purging medicine is called ? for early in the disease. Be very careful j to jirotect the child from taking cold, as alarming consequences are liable to rely suit in that case. If medical advise is .. handy it should be had, though, unless the disease is not running its regular ll' course, it may be dispensed with.?Health ? and Home. :s . Preventing Seasickness. :l Of the many annoyances to which t the traveling public is subject at this particular season, seasickness is, per!t Imps, the most distressing. A perfect u cure for this malady would rob ocean travel of half its terrors. Xo drug, (1 liowcver, has been discovered which v acts as a specific. Tlio cause of the i, seasickness is largely, if not wholly, / .! <.. ?li<> itivnlimf-Mi'v .inrl linnvln>i t<>i 1 motions to which tin* passenger is subected on hoard ship. These can so uni,. due pressure upon the stomach and h liver, and derange the aetion of those ,j organs. To prevent this, attention has t recently been called to an old plan, <s which is saitl to In1 very successful. It jr consists in regulating the act of hreath? ing according to the pitching or rolling ij of the vessel, drawing in the breath as it she rises, and breathing out as she falls into the trough of the waves. Afti*#a i- little experience the practice, it is said, becomes involuntary. *e ^ The Market in Klmae. The Macon (Miss.) Sim dropped into d poetry to represent the state of the mar I kct the other day, with the following reo suit: ('nlton?1 )l<io|>ill^, (i In S; {, Whisky?Itrisii, jj>*2 straight; .1 HltOOIl?StI'lllI,' , It (u 7. 1. I,..! I I... | 1 ) . rMipir?I riiui*, iiip irmuni n, Flour?I'lwlmti^'il. tViim 7 t?> 10; Mutter?h'inii, on ice, or when k C Tlii' wenther'* rool enough, ami then ll rule* in lots nl -?*?; '' ' "Hve; ' ('ltee.se is lively?crnwlinj; up; I'' ('ollec?Wink, illrlillfil toilroopk I.:inl slip* 111> lo 7 mill N (1 i J lint where 'I'ililen slippeil u. " But. \vi' nro slipping into politics. :uxl cannot proceed any further." FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD Allow for Contiiiffeiiclef. Mnny farmers who arc so ambitious U succeed plow more work in the spring tliiin they are aide U) accomplish during l he season. They ploW more land thai I hey can profitably cultivate. They ge behind in their work early in the tit'nxox and do not" catch up " till the close of it They plow so much land that they an late Ifl SoWingand planting, and as a con sequence they are mte in cultivating an< harvesting. Weeds get tliestart of crop :ind keep it till the frost puts an end ti their growth. Farmers who are in debt those who have just commenced tfo business, and those who have openei new fat'ms in the far West are especially liable to lay otlt too much work in th' spring. They are anxious to pay of their obligations to get a start In life o tn mntfi imnrnvnments. and see the ne cessity of raising all they can. Tliei ambition often causes them to undertak< far more than they can perform. Among the contingencies for which al lowances must be made is unfavorabli weather. On an.average there i* on< day in every week in which no war) can be done in the field on account o rain. After the rain there is ordinarily aftother day in which the nlow, eultiva tor and hoe cannot be lined, for the rca son that the soil is not in a condition tf he worked. Rainy wuajiwttjs favornbh to the growth of wewM N^they an In advance of the crop-;1t <ljl&?ult t< subdue them. A season rarely passes ir which the farm team is in a condition U be Avorked all the entire time. The itk< is true in reference to the man who lmn dies the team. If work is constant!] driving on the farm the liability to sick ness become greater. Hurry and anxietj are not conducive to good health Overwork during warm weather is : very frequent cause -of sickness. Es peciallv is this the case with men :uu animals Hint have enjoyed a long seasor of rest, or a suspension of hard work. Accidents are constantly happening U farm implements and machinery, nntl it is not always practical to got them repaired at the time they are wanted. Il is well to take all these contingencies into account in estimating how mucli land can lie safely put under cultivation. Attempting to cultivate more land thar one is able to attend to properly results in crops small in amount and poor ir quality. Inability to properly cultivate land insures the growth of weeds, whicli causes the soil to remain foul for manj years. The difference between the maximum and the minimum crop? that any soil is capable of producing is astonishing. In the same locality tlit yield of corn per acre often varies from twenty to one hundred bushels. The former is the result of poor, and the latter of good tillage. To insure the best cultivation requires time to do worl properly at the season when it is demanded. It is better, so far as yield is concerned, to cultivate a few acres wolj than many poorly.?Chicago Times Health Hint*. Relief fob Dyspepsia.?Burn alum until the moisture in it is evaporated: then take as much as you can put or a dime, about half an hour before eating Three or four days will probably answer: but take it until cured. To Remove Tan.?Lemon juice usee freely upon the face at night, and permitted to dry there, will be found aftei a few applications to remove tan fron: the features, though we consider it r matter of little importance. Some ladies are sensitive about the matter of tan, bui men should never be; it is becoming tc them. ' Champ im the Stomach.?Opium ant other powerful remedies often fail to re lieve cramp in the stomach. Hot water sweetened with brown sugar and takei freely. rarely fails to relieve this painfu trouble. Swift remedies are always tin most desirable, as they do not disorganize the system or cause reaction. Rheumatism Liniment.?'The follow ing is an excellept liniment for rheunia tism: One tablespoonful of salt, half i heel's gall, one ounce ammonia and fou ounces of alcohol mixed together; appl; to the parts affected. Rheumatism, lik headache, is not to lie cured in all per sons bv the same remedy, I know, but have great faith in the liniment given. Wearing Belts.?ffhe evils origin from compressing the chest :ind body i; early life are not confined to the femal sex. Schoolboys and youths constant! practice the habit of binding up tliei clothes about their bodies by means of belt tightened above the hips, instead c wearing braces over, the shoulder. Th same objections anplv to the belt as t the corset and tight lacing; it often ir duces hernia-rupture. IloiMfhoId Hints. The Kitchen*.?'The kitchen should l the sunniest, cheeriest snot in ail tli house, for there the best hours of man women's Jives are spent, and the fei glimpses o?" ihe out-door world they g< seem a bit of fairy-land to be treasure ...>-1 slnvimnd river To them the \YO!' kitchen brings a weary sigh, and synonymous with labor and toil th; amounts to drudgery. There are othei who look upon "our kitchen" with lingering fondness for ?.he very won It is to ihem a p'acc of real eiyoymen where c'usicr the busiest and most usefi hours of the day. Washing Colored Hose.?First, thr sliould never, lie soaped or .soaked, not too soiled, wash in almost cold watei make a lather of <rood bar soap?whil is best?and in it dissolve a small piet of alum. Use tin's dissolved soap in tl water, and ru!) Llie goods with the hanc as far as nossib'e. Put through t\v waters, and rinse in iwo more. A lianc ful of salt or a spoon ui1 of vinegar in tl rinsing water helps to brighten and liol the colors. Wash only one article at time, and that very quickly. This good for colored muslin, calicoes, liner and silk handkerchiefs A Mother and hor Child. An extraordinary case eaino hefoi ustice AVandell in the Jefterson Marki police court, in Now York. Mrs. Mi Quiston, an octoroon, charged Mr. Mi (juiston with stealing her child. SI declared that the child was not his an that lit* had deserted her. She said tli: she wanted her child, hut did not war to punish the man. The justice, afti consideration, said that he should decit1 that, as the father had possession, an the mother did not care to punish hit for the manner of obtaining it, the fatlu should keep the child. The mother. she could not settle with him amicahl; could ohtain redress through a civil pr< cess hy proving her claim and a lies;: tions. The man hurried from the coin and carried the child to a street car. .\ he stepped upon the platform the woma spran.it at him. struck him in the fiici tore the child from his arms and lli*i She was pursued ami arrested, and w: soon aitain hefore Justicu Wai:del When at the har she said: ".ludije, could not help it?he was siealiiur m hahy. I'll do it airain. Foriret whei you are and remember only that you ai a man. that I am a woman, and that -f.. 1 lam a.motin'r in your power, .iuug you just dealt out some hard law t tin'. What i< law for otic parent oug! to he law for {lie otlnT. I stand liet ju*t exactly as lie stood liere a lew tin uients ago. Now give liim tin* law : I you ga-e it to me. Ho it ajul he just. could not seethe justice then; I rati si | it now ami hey; it for myself.'' The justiee linallv decided that tl mother should keep her child. Kev. Dr. Ingram, who died recentl in S|ic||:itid :it the age of KKt. i< said t I have 1 lie oidest minister in tl world. Four general ions of the Ingrati have lived in the same house in She land, and lliey were long generation too. TltV deceased's lather died at tl: age of l(H>, and his grandfather at 105. The Violet. Lonely and sweet a violet grew 'Hie meadow weeds among. One morn a rosy shepherd maid, | With carelcss heart and idle tread, | Came by, t Came by J The meadow lands and sung. a " Ah," said the violet, " would I were 1 Sortie stately garden flower! J Tluit I might gathered be and pressed 3 One little hour to her sweet breast 3 * Ah, me f Ah, me ! 1 j Only one little hour! \ On came the rosy shepherd lass, ? WMi Viswit* tW. lMIr )IM1 r And crushed the violet in the grass. It only said, " How sweet! l' How sweet!" it said, with tainting moan " If I must die, to die alone For her, 2 For her, 5 To die at her dear feet." 1 ?From ihe German oj Gotlht. f . -= = = f ITEMS OF INTEREST. " " Oh, go on a track !'" is the latent f>ub?ti, lute for " What are you giving usV i An imposing ceremony?The marriage ) of a bigamist.?Saturday Night. l The Mammoth cave of Kentucky is > soon to be illuminated with the electric ? iMgbt. | ; The .active manufacturer of dentists .* la nrilv marl who Can do tOOth IASIDV ?HV v?j ? , ; things once. A man, who jjfcill carries in his body a ' bullet which eiVttwd it at Antietnm, . calls it lead f I Dealers in secoKi|4Mb^; 6ipthing stand i ever ready to relieve*poorhumanity of its abandoned > Connecticut, with a school popttirtipn t of 138,407, had, during thf? post jour. 130.937 children in her schools. T J--. ~ ' A wonderful petrified skeleton ' wonderftil animal is said to have 1 found in McLean county, Illinois. I Flowering grasses mingled with small v' 5 pendants of line crystal beads strung \t. ! the shape of small cat-tails are used for , wreaths on some bonnets. i In 1859 the cattle plague in the vas' herds of Australia was effectually check, > ed by a simple method of inoculation ; which was extensively practiced. In the olden time a lady's hair rarely changed till she was over fifty; in tliew: ' days a lady's liair will often show several shades of color before she is thirty.? Andrews' Bazar. A dandy, smoking a cigar* having | entered a menagerie, the proprietor' re' quested him to take the weed from his mouth, " lest he should teach the monkey's bad habits." It is estimated that' the Printer Boy mine, near Oro City, in California gulclf, ha* produced more gold than any other , mine1 of its development in the Shite. ! One pan of dirt once yielded 100 ounces ' of gold. ; Quintilmn suludes to the well-known fact that we can repeat a task more per. fectly on the following morning than on 1 the night we learn it, and observes that | things digest and settle in the mind during sleep. t The Bureau Veritas, of Paris, in giving 5 the number of steamers registered is t 1878, makes Great Britian heat'the list, ) with 3,316; the United States Is placed ' next, with 516 and France ranks third. with 275 steamers. ! East Earl, Pa., has a young lacly who ' for sixteen years lias never spoken to # anybody but her mother and two sisters. J j When a child she was whipped by her | father for some misconduct, and she then - I mjirlfi a vow of silence. t * J 0 A facetious boy asked one of his play- I mates why a hardware dealer was like a bootmaker. The latter, somewhat puz zled, gave it up. " Why," said the ftjrm? er, "because the one sold the nails, and r the other nailed the soles." | ? A few years ago the Czar sent tlir* Ameer of Afghanistan a quantity r>f j lightning rods, and the Afghans put up 1 the gilded points on their houses without connecting them with the ground. The g effect was not favorable to Russian popii ularity. ? "What occupation did the duke of ' Wellington follow before he joined the army ? writes a Lee county correspondent. He was a teacher of mathematics p in a grammar school. Don't you re- / * member his famous order to his claaa : 0 Ud l>oys, and add 'emy?Burdettc. The number of men actually engaged in fishing in the four provinces of Nova New Brunswick, Quel>ec and 10 Ontario, is 42,000. It is estimated runt [0 about 200,000 persons are supported by y the various branches of this industn- on ,T the shores of those provinces. One thousand decked vessels are employed in this (] British North American fisliery, and 17,000 open boats. PERFUME. pg I am the spirit of the woodsd steep, * I roam at will through quilt dell?, i' And find pale palaces of sleep J' In lily-bells. I steal o'er beds of balmy mow, Where erst the silvery brooklet run; , ,y I'm charmed while hiding in the mow Or Laura's Ian. ? I shrink from gusts of rain and storm In some blush-rose's t)osom gay; e Full oft I stray through gardens warm, , ie In far Catlrny. Is 0 Some lond sultana's curls of gold j. I-kiss And steal through cloudland's tents; 1C In bottles I am often sold j For fllty cents. ^ 1*11.-1. fniv lime iilTlU1 vviii IS is There probably isn't a woman in North America who isn't afraid of cows, and there is not a cow in North America which would harm one hair of any woman's head if it had the best chance in .p the world and no other job on hand. ?t Wednesday forenoon a stray cow, pcrhaps from the country for a taste of ba led hay. found a gate open and entered a j ~ yard on Second street. The woman cam?* (j to the front door dressed to go out. but lt seeing fhe cow she uttered a scream and I lt hurried back. There wasn't a thing in ,r the yard for the cow to damage or eat. j(> and being tired she raised her cud, lay ,1 down and began to chew a way as if she ^ n had got home from a long visit to Eu,r rone. The woman next appeared at a' side window and called upon the cow to " ?if out/' A doir nihil it have "got." but the row didn't. Then the woman , throw a rag at the cow and called for the rj. dog. The do? didn't come and the nig s didn't scare. Then the woman shook a pi 1! low at the cow and peremptorily ordered (, her oft' the premises, hut tlx* bovine tin If l" close?l her eyes and let her thoughts mil ahead to lly time.. As the cow wouldn't l" go. and as the woman couldn't so till tin1 { oow did, sterner measim* were resorted .. t.o A tin pan was held out of tin: wincow and beaten with a spoon, but that cow couldn't befooled into believing that j fourth of July had come. Then (lie woman went into the bncK vard to throw (J clubs over the fence and knock a couple lf I of horns oil'. The first one hit th. wm (> dow and tin; next one hanged (lie blind* ,.[011 the next house, and tlie cow's horns 1 r'i-ii's; ,if "irit ls j stuck ni;iint mini . .. j | out! ' were .-lira in resorted to without ef,,, | feet, anil then the woman washed at the front door till she saw a hoy eome alon-i 1(, and she opened it and cried out. " (>h! j hoy! tin-res a horrihle cow in our yard! Prop the irate open and ire! a!i the hoys and police you can ami drive her out and y I'll iriveyou a whole c|uarter of a dollar! o Hurry up, for sin* looks as if sin- was net ' - : .!. i.. i '/'i,,. ! ' I limr n*n?iy i<> mini* nmn i- . is Iniv " li(ini|m'i| " 1 1m* i"ii^ :i^i:iii-iI l-, <nii in liiirty sm-onfls. meiv<<| Ins | :?v s. j ami tin* woman ?iavi- U|> <l<>v n u* I town for fi*arslu> would haw a " m*rv?m*? ' ?/>< tr?it / '/ , t Pres.*. J