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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;
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'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.
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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.*.
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