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? MiSiMimmy .1 rr- , ~ ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER, - i , ' BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1879. NO. 18. VOLUME XXV. ? \ , ' I Autumn Dajs. To-day, across her pensive face ! Snd nature draws a veil of mist, As if to hide the pallid cheeks j And whiten'd lips that death has kiss'd. f And summer lies with loMed hands; * Her happy, sunny tasks are done; j The paths she trod are sere and bio wn; t The leaves arc dead her lair hands hung. j The sun looks like a golden moon; * His strength wanes with the waning year. A mournful whisper iu the air 3 Doth tell us oi the dark days near. Oh, saddest days ol all the year, * j You do beget a thoughtiul mood; The leafless trees, the barren fields, li xuncu itrssjuno UJWJJIJ UUUOIOIWU. *. But as I gaze upon the scene, n Behold! the golilen butterflies Kise from the stubble, bare and brown, t ^ And seem to pierce the misty skies. And so I hope, when comes to us The dreary autumn-time oi liie, J< When Irom our souls thts chains are loos'd, 11 So may we soar from toil and striie. When death doth kiss our pallid lips, May we, e'en like the butterflies, Find wings on which to soar irom earth, Until, like them, we reach the skies. ?Faith WaLi-jn. TTa*v* CVia i?l im **vw muc wiueu uiau. W A STOUY FOUNDED ON FACT. Mi When Loolie Draper was not asleep ? she was a remarkably wide-awake baby. She attracted general attention by the. ? beauty of her luminous eyes, and by her tendency to jump and spring and smile in answer to any notice that was tat en ^ of her. As soon as she could run alone, her lively, gesticulations were a great r source of amusement. She waved her hand with an air when she said. "How do you do. sir?" and in all her ways she y was a very dramatic little person. Everybody said, " What a prettj ehild! U: What a bright little thing!" She had twin brothers but littk oider than herself, her parents were poor, and ai before :he emerged irom childhood sev- w eral other babies were born; so she was saved from beinp spoiled by engrossing the whole attention of the family. Her ^ natural activity took the form of help- ^ fulness, and she early manifested both the disposition and the capacity to man- n] age and arrange everything for her a' brothers and sisters. She had a motherly way of washing their faces, combing y} f.linir Imirand jrivinirthem a talkin^.and I S1 sometimes a sliaking, when they were w nHughty. These domestic cares prevented her being too much occupied with exhibitions" of herself; but her ls temperament was too elastic to be ren- p dered slujrgishby any amount of pressure. She w:is always very much a'ive in her sprits, very pronounced in her opinions. R< ant! very prompt in her decisions. Her si< father, who had very little of such aual- of ities himself, .-rtmired them greatly in th liis daughter. He often looked after her in wlun. she passed into the street, and T* wotlhS remark, with a smile of satisfac- th tioti. " Doolie always walks off as if she ti: was going somewhere." And her walk p:i was indic.it iveof her character. She had an definite aims and she went straight nn toward them. uv In personal beauty her maturer years ?rr surpassed the_ promise ^ of infancy. R< Everybody lud said. w Hat a pretty In baby !" and everybody said, " What a vc lianilsorao girl!" Her large Uazel-brown :iii eyes had long silky fringes; her ahund- h<' ant hair was of same color; her so cheeks were iijee the sunny side of a peach, her lips were as ripely red as the tli interior of a pomegranate, and her form, thomrh inclining to be robust, was to admirably - proportioned. A paiater tit might have chosen her lis a model for a pi goddess of health. The dramatic ways lii: of her babyhood developed into an st; amusing facility of imitating everybody It and 'vt-ryiliing, from the tizz fizz of a ha mo<quito to the groan of a trombone. re< Luckily, she was very good-natured, ami fa< there was no malice in her mirth*. Of nr course, she was a tavovite with the an young men of her acquaintance. The th girls generally liked her less, partly n<' from a consciousness of being somewhat eclipsed bv her brightness, and partly th from an undefined fear of those observ- -r. ins; eyes, which seemed instantaneously fn to daguerreotype every body's pecu- t), liarities on her mind. She had more than once heard.it said, "That girl " would make a capital actress." But she knew very little about the theater, and di si to had by nature more 'practical common sense than romantic love of adven- sh ture. A sea captain, who was a friend of her father, used to say: "Though i Loolie carries sc much sail, she has { ', plenty of ballast aboard." Instead of studying for the sta<je, she helped her ' ' motjierfcke out their small income bymaking stocks and vests for the merchant tailors. This industry enabled oilier to procure pretty ribbons, and a . feather or flower to adorn the bonnets 1,1 - which her own skillful fingers manu- '!; factored. Nobody knew how she learned millin?ry or anything else. Her m' mother said, "She can always do whatever she sets out to. It seems to come >' ' by nature." As for singing and dancing, she took to them as a duck does to the 1'"' water, or a bird to the air. The straitened circumstances of her J"' parents formed a barrier to social dissi- }r! pation; and moreover it was not so much 1 the fashion of those times us it is at the J1 present day. She did, however, some- ,h times go to small danciDg parties; and 1>:' no young man danced with Iter so fre- V quently as Robert Norton. He was tall &nd good looking, played on the flute, i1'1 stepped well to music, and the expres- i} sion of his countenance indicated that . he was on jovial good terms with him- l"' \ self and all the world. He was accus- J"'.1 tonied to say, " I go in for having a good time, and for helping others to have a J'".' good time." He very naturally thought that looking into Loolie's handsomb tv"' eyes and listening to her funny imita- C;| tions was the pleasantest way of having a good time. They soon became very v/| sociable. When he attpnded her home in the evening, he held her hand all the way, and ifter a while he formed the ge habit of relinquishing it with a gentle pressure. This excited no resentment, ! dr though she had always repelled similar p" /amiParities when attempted by others. ' c-i! Her oldest brother noticed this growing , s<> intimacy with some, anxiety. One day d:i he said to his sister, 44 Loolie. I advise hi you not to go so much with Robert Nor- en ton." foi ^ She held out her skirts and made m: sweeping courtesy. as she asked, 44 Pray s!i what objection has your reverence?" fr< 44 Don't let usjoke about it. Loolie. I ot am serious," he replied. 441 know more ad about him than you do. He goes with yn a set of drinking fellows, and he gets in- r.e toxieated." f? Her f-we flushed, and she answered t.i brusquely: 441 don't believe it. The young men pa ,cnvv him, I suppose, because he is de handsome and has the ways of a gentle- pi: man; and so they make up stones against ex Dim. i see Jura oiten. ano i never saw i i any signs of his having been intoxi- m< cated. ' ' " T h.i-e," rejoined her brother. And kn he went on to prove his statement by tcl various details of times and places, im Loo.,though she positively' refused to ' believe, was effectually sobered by the so warning. That night -he lay awake for be 11onir time and shed nany tears. The next time Robert y ?rton proposed to ou escort her home and attempted to take I r her hand, as usual, she hastily withdrew cei it. And when he inquired whether he ' had offended her. she merely answered tlx "No." and immediately left him to join joi k some girls of her acquaintance who were ' walking ahead of them Accustomed alto being a favorite with jountr ladies, he to drew au Agi-eeahle to hie yo vanity; He thought Loolie was conscious ol rotting attached to him more than was ".rii-tly proper, so long as there had been 10 specific proposals on his part; and lie esoived to remedy that by an early ivowal of But he did not find it :o easy to'obtain interviews as it had icen. She was polite when they met iut obviously wished to avoid being ilone with him. At last, however, by >ersistent watching, he found an opporunity to ask her to be his wife. To his jreat surprise, she answered: "No, Mr. Norton, I cannot marry rou." "You have become very formal all at ?nce with your Mr. Norton," rejoined ic, with a forced laugh. "When I called you Robert I did not mow of you what I know now," she eplied. " And pray what do you know against ne?" said he. " I know that you sometimes get inoxicated," she replied. " Who told you so ?" he inquired, very lastilv. "No matter who told me," she re jinea. "it is true: ana i never win rirry any man who gets intoxicated." " But I am not a drunkard. Loolie," ne leaded; "though I confess I have someimes been rather the worse for liquor, rhen I have been with a set of gay fel>W8." " Isn't that the way drunkards generl!y begin?11 she asked. " I suppose iti*," he answered. 44 But " you'll marry me I promise never to iste of intoxicating liquor again." " My dear Aunt Eliza married a man ho made the same promise, and a rretched life she has had ol it. I shall ot vpi ture to try the same experiment, thank you for your offer, hut I cannot L-eept it. Good evening, Mr. Norton." lid she vanished from the room. He as offended by her plain speaking, and mnifested it by very cool politeness hen they met. A few months later she :is informed that he had gone to Calirnia. Her companions noticed a change in oolic. She entered into dances and olios with less zest; and although she ?ed to imitate a flute to perfection, she >w professed to have forgotten how to i it. Conjectures were whispered uong the girls that she was in love ith Robert Norton, who had flirted a liile with her, and then gone off and ft her. The young men said that Bob orton couldn't have been such a fool as ? leave her if she were in love with in. More than one tried by very tirked attentions to console her for his >sence; and some of the opportunities emcd so eligible that tier parents adsed her not to let them slip. But in the lent watches of the night she communed ith her own honest heart, which said her." What rieht have you to marry ie man and love another?" She bau!ied beaux from her thoughts, and left ssips to wonder at the chances she was <ing. A year passed without any tidings of <bert Norton. Meanwhile her father . kened and died, and the withdrawal his "arnings rendered it necessary for e older brothers to put more money to the common stock for family use*. > accomplish this they resolved to seek oil fortune in California, where.nt that ne, the streets were supposed to be .ved with gold. They chanced to be nons: the lucky few, and before many onths had elapsed they sent for their other and sisters. The first news that eeted them on their arrival was that >bert Norton was in their neighbortod, that he had pounced upon a rich in of gold and had become a millionre. When Mrs. Draper inquired how bore this rapid change of fortune, her 119 laugheil, and replied: "He lives like a game cock, and rows money about by shovelfuls." Mr. Norton took an early opportunity call on Ins old friends, and impressed em all with an idea of immense prosrity. Loolie's observing eyes noticed s rubicund visage even more than the ylishness of bis dress and equipage, recalled the conversation when lie .d asked ber to be his wife, and the collection bad flushed her expressive e with a vivid blush. That swift intling of the blood was hailed as an spicious sign; and, emboldened by e wealth he bad to offer, he soon revved his suit. l/oolie replied: "I have told you it I would never marry a man who ts intoxicated; and any one looking to your face, Mr. Norton, must see at you drink hard." lie turned away with sudden anger. You are as frank as ever," he said. Nobody can complain of you that you n't speak your mind plainly." "Isn't that the most honest course?" He was silent an instant, and thonreied: "Yes. Loolie, you ire :r the iht. But I love you so much I am re I could conquer any habit you did .t like." ''You may leel sure, but I do not," e rejoined. " Wliat can T do to convince you?" he quired, anxiously. " If I do not taste -ingle drop of any intoxicating liquor r h year will you consent to marry I*?" "If vou do not taste a drop for two ;ire. I may perhaps consent, provided >u agree to certain conditions I sLall opose," she replied. " i hey must be hard conditions if I do >t agrw to them." he exclaimed, exultgly. He attempted to draw her toward in, but slie gently disengaged herself. took her hand and looked steadily to her eyes, as he said: " I solemnly omise you, Loolie, that for two years I ill not taste a drop of any intoxicating [Uor. It is a long time to wait; but I u willing to serve as long as Jacob did, I can only win my Rachel at last." A fV.'jr fhtlf u I .kibV4 vu?*vi ?* Ji?pt pvi uuu ui nia c\ t*iigs were spent at Mrs Drapers, and e places that had known him knew in no more. For a while his former mrades wondered what had bee. me of m, hut they soon fathomed the mysry. and laughed as they said: "He's t in love with that handHome girl from e East, and he is too much taken up ith her singing to his flute to c.are for ir company." ' Our turn will come again when she | ts to be an old story," said another. ButLoolie's expressive face and lively amatic ways liad the charm of pertual novelty. He craved no other excment than her company, and he mi'timesurged his indifference to more ngerous conviviality sis a reason why s term of probation should be shorted. But Loolie had always been noted r being firmly persuaded in her own ind, and when she formed a resolution e w:is not casilv tempted to swerve i >m it. It was a happy period to both them; especially to Loolie, who, in dition to the common bliss of" love's ung dream," had a pleasant consciousss of leading her companion away )ra paths the end of which was inevihlc ruin. The morning after the two years had ssed he came bounding into the garn where she w.-is training some vines. iced his hand on her shoulder iin^ claimed, eagerly," The time is up. and lave kept my promise. You believe ?, don't you. Loolie?' "Yes, I believe you, Robert, for I 0'.v you never deceive. A nd vnnr fncp Is plainly enough how much you himproved m these two years." ' And you always keep your promises; tell me, dear, when shall the wedding She gave him one of her mischievs glances, as she replied. "You know ?romised provided you would ajnee to tain conditions?" "Oh, ves, tlie conditions?T accept ?m. "What are they?" he hastily rened. 'Every time you get intoxicated, I 10 will get intoxicated. If you agree that bargain beforehand. I will marry u " " What, a fanny girlP1 h? *xc]aim?d> F "Of course you may get intoxicated i whenever I do." "Iam not in fun," she replied; "I a? i seriously mean what I say; ana I want you also seriously to agree to it; other; wise I will net promise to marry you." > "I agrev to your conditions," he said; m( . ' though they do seem to me to be a pre- 8ej : cious piece of absurdity." cej He Wiis tempted to laugh, but looking tj1( at her serious face, his own became sober, 0f and he folded her to his heart, as he said, ca] very solemnly* " Loolie, dear, you shall prj never have cause to repent that you ?r< trusted me." They were married not long after- ' ward, and Ix>olie became mistress of a C0] splendid home. There was a little too Cft] much of California lavishness in their n'p} arrangements; but they did not shoe wj their horses with gold, or stud the doc's je? collar wit i diamonds; a moderation which ought to be set down to their {^'0l credit, considering the intoxicating ef- or fects of sudden wealth. cer A beautiful little boy came to them about a year after their marriage; and ma as Loolie was naturally very affectionate her babe proved a more satisfactory ob- me ject of interest than bracelets and ear- gcp rings. Robert was very proud of his handsome lively wife, and the babe was S!lf her only rival in his affections. Every- tjie body remarked what a wonderfully domestic man he had become. Thus three tjie years glided happily away, and no wa shadow of the old tear crossed his wife's -yy| imagination. But one day he went to a CHj public dinner, where there was riotous eating and drinking. Atnid the con- eoc tairious merriment he forgot his promise tjje to Loolie. After hours of senseless revel, m(>, he was brought home in a state of stupor and depositee! in bed. There he slept a -jyj long leaden sleep, and awoke at noon n;c with a throbbing headache. At first, he ' was bewildered; but finding that he had ^ not been undress^, the remembrance of un(: the dinner par y returned to him, and c Ik* felt heartily ashamed. He had such y('lf a dread of Loolie's reproaches that his ^eh first impulse was to escape. He rose to his feet, hut staggered Bj0, and upset a chair. Loolie. who had aro, hen on the watch to guard him au^ from the observation of the domestics, w]1( led him to their room and helped him to 6(| t g<--t into bed. She rung the bell and or- nan acred coffee to be brought. Then she j^ej proceeded to hathe his forehead with |jOV cologne. He looked up piteously, cried ^ out., "Oh, Loolie!" covered his face j.ue, with his hands and sobbed. Her eyes jt ^ were swimming, but she crowded back tjie the tears and said gently: 44 Drink the colice; it will do you good." Nota word Jpj1? of reproach did she utter, and the cause an(j of unhappiness was not alluded to by gtal. either. Except fora slightly perceptible two de^i*ee of constraint on both sides, things par wi re restored to their usual condition, yer and all appeared to go on smoothly for kjft( a few weeks. At the end of that lime, Mr. Norton said he had invited several gentlemen to dine, for whom he wished ^ei to havea very handsome dinner provided. ' ^ No objection was made, and, at the ap- i, pointed time, the guests arrived, expect ni{{ to fare luxuriously and to be agree- tjie* ably entertained by their bright and i g lmndsome hostess. But, to the sur- , prise of all, and the dismay of her j-,f husband, she came in at the same . m< >ment with reeling steps and an undue ji e amount of foolish expression on herface. t g( ?ne Kept saying: - rieasea to see you, gommens!" Seated at the table, she or- r ? acred a decanter of wine to be placed fine:tr her, poured out some, and, with a wor si! iy simper, said: " Take a drink, gem- inf. nu ns!" Then she began to sing: "Fill ' .> high the Lowl." The servant in attend- ? t an re looked on with astonishment. Mr. u Xniton, who had lyen hanging his head 1 t with shame, rose presently, and. draw iiig her arm within his, said: " You ar^ ' Ik it well, my dear. You had bettor go ?r 11 to your room.1' She leaned upon him, t? staggering, and laughed idiotically, say- jlovj ing: fp _ ' I b'lieve I'm?tipsy?tipsy!" b" Robert assisted his wife to their bed- u roum and then returned to his friends, who soon after left, marveling much at .. what the- had seen. The next morning tt h" met his wife at the breakfast table. II<? took his seat with an averted face. Loolie smiled as she said: i " I believe I was intoxicated last inight. Well, you must remember our u.'retWient was that every time you got intoxicated I should have a similar privilege, and I have only availed my- rr.. si;it ot it. mat is tair, is it notr"' ~ Tlie tears sprane into Robert's eyes as ? In* replied: ' ^ "All! Loolie, I little thought that my jjJ5 weakness would ever again overpower ni!:. And far less did I think it would jf ' aKo cause my biave little wife to stum- . bk-." n? "Since you have discovered my fond- f"*" in ss lor wine," she responded, " there is but one remedy. Keep all liquor out of P tl::' house, and the temptation to drink hi Ing removed, I shall not be so likely ff t.. eive way to it." , JjfJJ But you know nearly every one here drinks wine; and what shall I say to my ' friends when I bring them to dinner, in and they tind their customary beverage ci-nspicuous by its absence?" ?l?P *' Robert, you are a brave man in most ''' tilings," she replied. M Have you not the r courage to say, I am conscious of a weaknrss about wine, and I am resolved ?' j neither to be tempted myself, nor to {]r*| tempt others, by having it about? It . ? seems to me that eood men would re- f" * sjiect the manly frankness of such an ^ J. avowal; and as for those who seek your "r* company for the sake of your wine, the F v| lo-5s of their intimacy would be rather a f g:tin. Nobody will suspect you of nig- ? "r g;irdly motives, for you are known to be f , generqus even to lavishness. Besides, ^n)) V'U can prove your hospitality in other s, u ami better ways. And, Robert, by pur- ." suing this course you m!ly be the means of saving others from the snare which ~lc': proves so dangerous to yourself. You S ni.iy not only save your own wife and eliild from shame and ruin, but other ana women and children may have reason to ?~jlr bless you. Oh, Robert, only think how dreadful it would be for our dear boy to r V he ashamed of his father!" an~. She paused, and he said, with a good d: al of ^notion, "Loolie, I have prom- .J,1, iwd you never to taste another drop; ^ and this time I will keep my promise, so ?. help me God!" " He will be more sure to help you, if Yf?u never have it in the house," she re- J: ",e joined. f&!' As he remained silent and downcast, she stooped and peeped up into his face. J01*2 us she said playfully, " They will lay all u 1 the blame on me, dear. They will say "\pS. that you are afraid to trust your wife in . ! the house with it; and lam willing to be the scape-goat." V1 S( He looked up with a smile, as he an- , rf swered, " You have conquered. Everything that intoxicates shall henceforth ? P' h? banished from the house. But. !^\3 Loolie, that was a dreadful lesson you t,,re gave me. It would be awfully hazard- ?Ciir' ous for you to carry out that pledge ot tur' yours." " I am glad you are aware of the nj?a hazard of beginnings," she replied; " for v the hazard is much-greater to you than it would be to me; because you like the ~uni mischievous stuff, and I do not." She placed her hand affectionately on his f'l<J shoulder as she added: "I was not so t,ic 1 much intoxicated as I seemed, dear. I w,|" am so unused to wine that a very little ' upsets me. I am something of an act- ' ress. you know; but if you keep your """ promise, I will never perform in that WHS diameter again." n.'sJ lie repeated his promise with a kiss and he never afterward broke his word. -L. Maria Child. tl,n one The total valuation of the personal the property in Illinois is ?151,629.963. The Ver lands are assessed on a valuation of $412,208.278; and the total value of personal T property, lands and lots is placed at Col ?741.405.339. The railroad property as- poii sessed in the different counties amounts thai to $744,742,846. The nnmher of acres ol imp wheat in the State is 2.118.000: of corn nan 7,062,508, and of oats, 1,582,387. Tho pur assessed valuation of personal property* in s lands ahd lots is said to hp ahmtt nni" -.dai third rtf rwO I %no IN NIAGARA CANTON. x Eteltlng Adventure which Befel Three Schoolboys?A Good Place for Timid People to Avoid. rhe canyon of tho Niagara river is al)stas terrific a sight as'the fails theravee. and the three gentlemen Who reitly undertook to sound the depth of ; water below the falls found the task 1 climbing up the steep walls of the nyon difficult and dansrerous. The inted account of their adventure haa \ aught out the following letter from a ;w York Evening Post correspondent: I rhe letter to the Syracuse Standard i deeming the canyon of the Niagara 1 Is to mind an incident that happened I ir the same place three vears ago, J len I was a teacher at Do Veaux Col- i ;e. The mem.?ers of that engineering 1 rty spoken of in the Siandard could < t have be^n familiar with the canvon, 1 tiiey would have found a way 0/ as- ] it sooner. About a mile, hy the road, ow De Veaux College, in a wild, ro- 1 utic gorge, is a rather deep cave ] own as the Devil's Hole. Here, by f ans of a stairway and a path, the de- 1 nt from the top of the bank to the t tgara river is comparatively easy and J e. This place used to be visjted by 1 ! tourist, but as the hackinen got no < ;ra fee for carrying persons thither f i place now is scarcely known. *Talf- s y between the Devil's Hole and the ? lirlpool at De Veaux there is a place 1 led the Ladders, where by means of a r iety ladder and the roots of trees a ? >d climber can cet from the bottom to f top without much difficulty. Hy re- > inhering these three places ? the * tail's Hole, the Ladders and ti e s lirpool?as the only means of commu- t ution between the nether and the \ >er regions in this canyon, the inci- ti it which I have to tell will be better t lerstood. n aturday is a half holiday at De s iux, and unless a boy has greatly mis- 11 iaved he can go off bounds on that n It is generally enjoyrd in excur- t' is to the falls and the romantic spots li und the river. One Saturday that u umn-Iwns master of the day, and n en the report of absent ones was hand- u :o me at the supper table I noticed the s les of three of the smaller boys, n ley, Park and Very. They were new ? s,"all three of them, and sat at my P le. I asked the boys near me whether c f knew anything about them or not. ? ras thought that they had eone down ? road toward the Devil's Hole. Sup- o was over and they did not appear. ; boys marched into evening school, b three of the larger boys were just fi ting to hunt the missing ones when ? i of them came in, Park and Very, o k's clothes were torn and muddy, p y had a horrible-looking face, bruised 11 ;k and blue, and very bloody. They si e *> tired and frightened that neither k liem could sav a word. "Where is P ley? Where is KelleyP" This only P le them the more excited. It was d f by degrees that we found out that 11 f had been down to the river near ? Devil's Hole to play and to hunt J i Is, and that at the suggestion of Kel- ? they had undertaken to return by the t along the rocks to the Whirlpool P rs. They got along well at hrst. ti n it grew darker. "After a number srious falls down the rocks, and eager ei vling up again, they came up the ai ders. They did not know whither would lead them; but so rejoiced e they to get a little higher that they cnea tne rotten rounas up, up, up, then the roots of the trees, s'.ill tl ler and higher, not daring to look rc k. and with hearts full of joy they at a reeoenized the woods and the level tl Is. They could not rpjoice in their T i escape without thinking of poor tl lev. Then they lived over acain all es r had gone through the two or three rs before. Without Kellev they ed at first to go hack to De Veaux, di the dark night and their bruises di ried them alori<r. a' But where is Kellejr?" I don't know!" tt;ey both cried. e came a sobbing pej iod. " He went down. w Into the water?" I don't know. We could not see Was it very steep? Did he go into river P" Yea?.I don't know." b( lis was all we could learn about ir Kelley. The larger boys then t( Led with lantern and horn, and were fi; o along the top of the bank blowing it horn and swinging tne lantern to si the boy some encouragement in hi l.? IA A.I r iiu diiuuiu Bft? we iigiii/> ur uie roar- i<j river should allow him to hear the tl 1. The night was too black to at- T pt a descent at either of the three :u es mentioned. tl irk and Very washed off the blood dirt, and after supper they looked w er and felt better, but were not w iosed to talk as much as they usually at e. There was not much study in T >ol that night. There was no dispo- a in to talk or "cut up." Kelley's ri ty seat made every boy tliink of hi . Some of the small boys who sat tl: Kelley had to T>e sent out. they di e so restless. In the dormitories the tl ters were asked: "Do you tninklsi j dead?" " Is ho drowned?" "Have a r found him?" "I can't eo to sleep." ps Celley's dormitory the small boys lo e crying. At ten o'clock the three hi e boys returned, but without a in r. At eleven o'clock the clouds h< :e, the moon ca ue up, and it was 01 sst daylieht. The president, who fr rohirnpH frmn RnflPnln frnTTP nrrlprQ ave the upper school turned out to ir tlu> rocks, the boys in the lowest st nitories to remain in bed. The hunt- hi party was divided into three squads, ye i under the command of a master, w squad was to descend the rocks by bi Whirlpool, another at the Ladders nr the other at the Devil's Hole. They {>> ted off rather hopefully under.the in lit sky. With each party was some in shments for the lost boy. chicken df a little brandy. The Devil's Hole y took a wagon down the road with tli ter, mattress and blankets. is le Ladder squad was the successful st Within a few feet of the loud and o\ ible river, under the shadow of an :i tense rock, thev found Kelley, who, w n night set in.liad buttoned his coat m tly, coiled himselt up and, taking ?i gs calmly, had gone to sleep. The fl; of the bugler awoke him as from a cc .m. With a happy smile he met the ter and the bugler. With a hearty v< mnk you," he took the chicken ana ki 1 it a little brandy, and-was then able m iramhle up the rocks, climb the Lad- bi and walk to DeVeaux. He was not at ; at all. It appeared that he had u| jed on a treacherous shale bed, and, tli foremost, had slid down the seventy- hi e feet, landing at the bottom with is cely a bruise. The Ladder squad re- In ed with the hero of the night and pt e the whole household happv. The ai r squads did not return till nearly di ireak. The next day was a joyful a day. A week later two strong, large le ? and myself undertook to walk from in Whirlpool to the Devil's Hole over as rocks and to return by the road. We b< ted to have .the grand views and to low long it would take us to make ? trip. We started immediately aftir tl icr, and did not get back till supper in over. We stopped occasionally to di and to admire the wonderful rock U\ ur<*9 which nnnxlv fivcrv one misses lv i visits Niagara Falls. We had some w lling descents, and came near losing ti of our party, but we did not have fi story to tell that Kelley, Park and w y can tell. 11 ? l> he humane citizens of Silverton, u are erei-ting houses of refuge at n its on their new toll road between b ; place and Antelope Park, and are u ortintr a large number of St. Bcr- tl i docs, which will be kept for the tl pose of reBcuing persons who get lost >i nowstorms. Rope fendere are to be 1 ji jed at thp m?ny plncen i?*po*nd to c wnUdon: i, I A ? The Cookery of a Saratoga Hotel. Connected with the palatial hotels of Saratoga are immense kitchens where the very best meals are gotten up for some 800 oi 1,000 guests. Dinner is the meal of meals, ana the army of cooks, be they French or American, exert themselves to the utmost to make it as grand each day as possible. A correspondent of the New York Tribune was permitted with a few friends to rummage about the kitchen and pantries and storerooms of what is supp' sed to be the largest hotel in the world. Mr. Antoine Ennesse, the head cook of the establishment, gave the visitors all the information desired. "So you have come to help me get dinner, have you, gentlemen? Well, I need ill the heto I can cjet, for I have to feed 1,000 to-day, and the bill of fare is a generous one." One of the gentlemen inquired who made up ihe bill of fare. " I make it up." replied the cook. "The steward buys whatever he likes, and I make my dinierout of what there is in the house. For example, step this way, gentlemen," md the cook led to one of a numbei of argc blue chosts, wh ch were arranged ibout the sides of a laree room. In the niddle of the room was a butcher's )loek and table. Opening the chest the :ook showed us a hundred or so beautiul fish stretched upon the ice side by lirlp There were salmon, weak fish. itriped bass and Saratoga lake bass. 3arh fish was thoroughly clcaned and eady tor cooking. "In this next chest ire the steaks ana cliops, all ready cut or the gridiron. We have two butchers rho cut and dress the meat. There nusfcbe a thousand or fifteen hundred teaks, small and large, in th 2 chest. In his next chest are the lamb and mutton. Ve use about one hundred and twentyive racks a day. Let's see what there is o come out of here for dinner. ' Leg of nutton. caper sauce.' That will take ix of these fellows. Then I want ten. ! lind-quarters for the 'spring lamb, 1 lint sauce,' and six saddles of mutton ' o roast. There will be some of this ! imb oi mutton left over, and we? will se it to-morrow under the hr-ad or cold mats. In this chest is the beef. We 1 e a great deal of beef. To-day we 1 hall roast fifteen ribs of beef that aver- 1 ge forty-five pounds, and fifteen tender- J >ins. There will be one rib iert lor super. Here, now, are the little spring hicken?, and we use between 500 and IX) a day. Don't they look pretty with lieir arras tucked away behind their acksP For dinneraione we shall want bout 340 of the little chaps. We shall oil forty, roast 225, and use seventyve more in the 'Spring saute, a la larengo.'" The first item on the bill f fare under "pastry" was "cabinet uridine." One of the cooks was mixig up the doueh for it. He said the realt would be 250 small puddings. Three inds of pie were making?rhubarb, umpkin and blackberry. One of the arty expressed surprise that only nine ozen pies would be needed for the diner. "Oh," said Mr. Ennesse, "our uests don't come from Massachusetts, 'liey are mostly from New York. They on't care much for pies. Here is what :ey like," and he pointed to where peole were working on what he said would lrn out to be 800 Charlotte Kusses. We make a good deal of cake, too, to it witli the ice-cream end water-ices, ad all of it is made in this room. Of jurse we always have some on hand, nt! only have to make a single kind or vo kinds in a day. We bake the pastry i these tile ovens. These two men are ie bakers. They do nothing except take bread. They use four barrels and half of flour a day. This afternoon 107 will he at work on tea biscuits, hey make between 3,000 and 4 000 of lemadav. There is not much bread 2 iten at dinner. We use Jotsoi butter * nd eggs and milk in this room, but I 1 uTt tell exactlj how much we use for J inner. In the whole house in a single J iy we use for cooking and on the table ' bout 500 pounds of butter, 400 dozen of c ;gs. and 700 quarts of milk. The icevam takes considerable milk and eggs. Je make 220 quarts of ice-cream and ater-lce together. ( ? I .t A Hnmorist on the Finny Tribe. \ It is an almost every-day sight to see c ays catching fish, but yet not one lad 1 l a thousand has ever given u thought f > the wonderful construction of the c liny tribe. At the outset of this subject 1 might be remarked that no fish has a \ ngle bone too many. You may think j s has, especially when vou have perch t >r dinner, hut every little bone was put s lere by nature ior some special purpose. I ake away a handful of hones from the \ ,'crage fish and he would die in less r inn a week. 1 Bones, however, have very little to do f ith a fish, and a great deal less to do n ith catching him. Let us draw your c Mention to the eves, in the first place. 1; hey are so placet! that the fish can see a bob-tailed steamer coming up the t ver, and a boy on the l#idge behind fc im at the same time But for this fact h ic boy would cither catch him with a g p-net made of an old hoop-skirt, or c le steamer would run over him. By a c mple roll of his eye. a fish can take in 1 view from all sides at once, and you \ m't pass a canoe off on him for a saw- a g. If the fish could see only ahead, t is tail would be grabbed at every hour s the day. If he could see only behind, c 3'd have to wear a sheet-iron protector q i his nose. As it is, he'll dodge a stone ^ ntfi one side and smell of a root on the t. her at the same motion. p The mouth of a fish is provided with miners called gills. But for this he'd ive a stomach full of sawdust all the ;ar round. Without the gills his mouth 8 ould be open a great share of the time, r it with them he keeps his jaws together v id has no opinions to force upon his t llow-finnies. The gills of a fish may g ; compared to the nose of a man, even > color, but most of them are,a great ^ ?al better set on. _ It was evidently designed by nature t lat fish should live under water. This f( why they tn ke on so when hauled out, v rung on a willow and carried around v rev a boy's shoulder. The bladder of p fish plays an important part in his ^ hooping around under the surface of a j( ill-pond. ?y sucking in or expelling v r lie can rise to die surface to grab a 5 y. or go to the bottom to attend a v mvention of suckers. g The every-day habits of the fish are r M'v interesting. and are not generally lovvn. He is a very enrly riser. You fl ay think you can pet up before he does, f( at lie will be wide awake when \ou a rive on the spot. His meals arc picked v p from such things as were leftover n ic day before, and it is immaterial to ^ irn whether well-cooked'not. No fish w bound to anv particular neighborhood, t at has the run of the entire river or jnd. He is out in all sorts of weather, * id if he comes home wet odds is the a lFerence. It is generally supposed that fish stands on his head to sleep. At [j ast none have ever been caught sleepig on their backs. Tliey see by niglit i well as by day, and perhaps a little >t er. The tail of a fish is not of much ac>unt in the frying-pan, but it is a handy r ling ior ttie fish when sloshing around j i a mill-pond full of old stumps. 1 rowned bovs and wrecked skiffs. His ^ i ?:.i?i.;_ l i l ij?? r ill ??uiii<:? ills iitwiu, uuu it auuwiii jiuco nek on liim. Nature calculated that he rould be flopping his tail against bridge- ' mbers, stones, old tioop-iron and lost sh-hooks, and so she made hira one r diich couldn't be hurt. It issimply a icinbranc, without nerves, and could J e cut off without the fish knowing it c ntil lie smarted to dodge an old root and an his head into the bunk. Fisli may 5 u divided into two classes? the fish ,'hich catch boys, like the shark, and ? lie fish which permit boys to catch ticm, like the mullet and bass. In go- J ie a-fishine always Bit on the veranda * i the shade, if you can, and if you an't, let the fishing go and hang to thr( 1 wandFret PrtM. ' TIMELY TOPICS. There ara 12,000 dentists in the United Stites, who annually extract 20,000,000 teeth, manufacture and insert 3,000,000 artificial teeth, and hide away in the cavities of carious .teeth three tons of pure gold, to say nothing about the tons of mercury?tin, silver and other metals employed m "fillings." Mr. Cole, in his work on the horse's foot, says that the avprage driving-horse, at its normal gate, will raise his foot at least fifty times a minute, or 3,000 t'mes an hour, and all four feet at this rate 60,000 times a day of five hours1 work. Now if the horse is earning a shoe of two ounces unnecessary weight, he will, in this day's travel, waste power and force enough to move a weight of 7,500 pounds. And yet some trotters are made to carry a shoe of more than three pounds weight, at a speed under three minutes, wnen a snoe weigmng uau that is regarded as sufficiently heavy for driving and road horses generally. The incomes derived from trades and professions in Great Britain are stated to be somewhat larger than in the United States. The schedule for the last fiscal year, just published by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, shows that ninety persons exercising trades and professions in Great Britain enjoy incomes exceeding $250,000; that 994 of them enjoy incomes of between $50,000 and $250,000; that 1.870 enjoy incomes of between $25,000 and $50,000 ; 980 incomes of be-' twepn $20,000 and $25,000; 1.824 incomes of between $15,000 and $20,000: 12.403 incomes of between $5,000 ana $10,000, and 1,487 incomes of between $4,500 and $5,000. A strong feeling of animosity is growing up between Russia and Germany, and there are politicians and journalists on both sices who make no secret oi their wish for atrial of strength between ixie LWU uuuuu itra. vjrunmui.y cci LUUIly taking precautions that seem to provide for the worst. Ten thousand workmen are laboi ;ng on the fortifications of the fortress of Thorn, which is called the Strasbourg of Germany's eastern border. The fortress of Posen has also been immensely strengthened and enlarged, md can now accommodate a large army. A. considerable part of the indemnity payments made by France has been expended upon these fortifications and in furnishing them with enormous stores of provisions and ammunition. No fewer than 124 persons were killed ind 3,032 maimed or injured in the itreets of London during the last year, md a total of 3.570 persons, who were mffering from accidents or other causes, were taken by the police to the hospitals, rhe number of dog seizures is remarkaile, the total being 30.687, of which 26,592 were sent to the Dogs1 Home, 3,873 estored to owners and 117 "otherwise lisposed of; 8/1 cabs and 104 stage;arrirtges "new and improved" were >ut on the streets, and no less than $91,195 worth of property left in cabs or )mnibus9es was deposited at police leadquarters. Of this sum $fi6,200 were :laimed'and restored, and the remainder, >ur authority says, Teturned to the Irivers or conductors. Clime and Irunkennefs have considerably in;reased. A total of 83,746 arrests were nade, 42,806 of which were for druuksnness and disorderly conduct. The lumber of indictable offencrs rtgainstj jroperty was 14,409, of which 759 were :ommitted in houses which were left vithout keepers; and, as a further comnentary on the carelessness of houselolders, it is said that 17,116 doors and 1.766 windows were found by the police lither open or insecureiy fastened at light. A little more than fifty-five niloa nf afroafo Imrp Hpfln aHHnr) to t.lin -ondon area, the number of new houses >eing 17,127, while 6,552 more were in iourse of erection. A Race With Fire. Col. Leon and a Mr. Perry, the lessees )f Canyon ferry, at the head of the Mag)ie, in Montana, recently started down he mountain road behind a pair of lorses. The wind swept violently from ummitto base, and with it floated great ilouds ol sraoKe, a party of prospectors laving the day before let their campires get away with them. About three 'clock in the atternoon the Colonel and lis companion realized that the whole fast incline back of tliem was in flames ind that the fire was traveling down he mountain with great rapidity. Willi l crooked, rocky and in some places uniroken road before them, they naturally m-e alarmed. What was to be done nu3t be done with the utmost dispatch. Phe only hope lay in outstripping the ire. Col. Leon put whip to the horses md the nnimals dashed along the verge ?f precipices at breakneck speed. The looming of falling timber and the roar nH nrn/>lrlf? nf fliimps nlmnst, drowned he voices of the mountaineers. Hot (lasts of air had nearly exhausted the torses when it was found, on making a harp turn in the mad, that it had been hoked up by tumbling rocks anjJ debris if pine that nad come down from above. The men were obliged to clear the road, vhich took many minutes When they g?in*started trees were falling all about hem, the atmosphere was thick with moke and impregnated with the fumes if burning pitch. A sharp run of a [Uarter of a mile brought the Colonel inder cover of a clearing on the moun- , ftin side and he escaped.?Helena Inde- ' endent. Utilizing Sewerage. London constructed a sewer twenty- i even miles long to convey the sewerage ] rota her 4,000,000 population out to sen, rhere it will be beyond the influence of he tide. This is an annual waste of < i8,000,000 worth of the best fertilizers, i few York and vicinity washes the < ewerage of 2,000,000 population into < ivers to be alternately carried by the < ide up and down the streams and inlets \ ar twenty-five miles around. Chicago rashes her sewerage into the lake from rhich she also draws her water suppl v. tl.!UJA1?U2A rrrti 1 itt o f ot? ctinnlv UUllUCllMUit Uliivvs Jlvi l>uK|>,j com the river, and returns her sewerage t Dwrrdown to pay the (^aft. St. Louis r rashes the sewerage of a population of f OO.tKO down the Mississippi, while a t ery large number of the cities of less t ize emplfy their sewerage into the t ivers or bury it in vaults. j All of this, an exchamrc says, is waste, j . shameful waste , of the health ami t crtility of the country. The same j mount of what is thus thrown away, j cashed into streams to render them foul , ,nd obnoxious to health, must be re- < urned to the soil in some way to keep ) tp the fertility. The immense propor- ? ion of the fertility of the soil which is f nnually removed from farms and sent ( o be consumed in cities and washed t way will, at no distant day, so ini- | >overi.sh the soil as to cause a serious ] leferioration in value and productive- s iess. t Infantile Innocence. , The front door of a Lafayette avenue ( esidence was open the other day wnen 1 wo ladies called on the mistress. A j ittle five-year old was standing in the 1 loorway and the callers had no need to i inc. : " Where's mamma?" asked one of the i adies. i " Se's up 'tairs dressin\" was the lisped eply. i " Take these up to mamma, said the , ndy, as she handed the little one the , ards. , The small maiden climbed 1 he stairs | ind pattered down aj?ain. _ I " Mamma tonk'e tards and'told m? to j ay'at sVs out." , It is the same old story, and T. G. | inly chronicles it because he knows it , o he true in this instance. The Indie* marched off, doubtless reoIvi/iR to tw;li their own little ones to m> rnorr 7V<rmi ft*a prv>?. ( Disinfectants and Bow to Use Them. The American National Board of Health, consisting of a number of ihe leading physicians and chemical experts, of which rrof. C. F. Chandler is chairman, have issued the following instructions for disinfection, intended especially for the guidance of physicians ana nurses in the yellow fever districts, but which are equally applicable in other cases of contagious diseases. In submitting this report the chairman says: It has been the aim of the committee to prepare concise directions for disinfection so simple and clear that they may be easily followed by any person of intelligence. In the selection of disinfecting agents the aim has been: 1st, to secure agents which can be relied upon to accomplish the work; 2d, which can be procured in a state of comparative purity in every vil lage intne unireu &rar.es; jo, so cneap that they can be used in adequate quantities. It is extremely important that the people should be instructed with regard to disinfection. They must be taught that no reliance can be placed on disinfectants simply because they smell of chlorine or carbolic acid, or possess the color of permanganate, and that, in general, proprietary disinfectants with highsounaing names are practically worthless, as tney either have no value whatever. or, it of value, cost many times as much as they are worth and cannot b used in sufficient quantity. EXPLANATIONS. Disinlection is the destruction of the poisons of infectious and contagious diseases. * Deodorizers, or substances which destroy smells, are not necessarily disinfectants, and disinfectants do not necessarily have an odor. Disinfection cannot compensate for want of cleanliness or of ventilation. I.?DISINFECTANTS TO BE EMPLOYED. 1. Roll sulphur (brimstone) for fumigation. 2. Sulphate of iron (copperas) dissolved in water in the propoition of one and a half pounds to the gallon; for soil, sewers, etc. 3. Sulphate of zinc and common salt, dissolved together in the proportions of four ounces sulphate and two ounces salt to the gallon; for bed clothing, bed linen, etc. Note.?Carbolic acid is not included in t.hft nKnvp list. fnr t.hp fr?llnw!nor r?o. sons: It is very difficult to determine he quality of the commercial article, and the purchaser can never be certain of securing it of proper strength; it is expensive, when of good quality, and experience has shown that it must he employed in comparatively large quantities to be of any use; it is liable by its strong odor to give a false sense of security. II.?HOW TO USE DISINFECTANTS. 1. In the Sick-Room.?The most available agents are fresh air and cleanliness. The clothing, towels, bed linen, etc., should at once, on removal from the patient, be placed in a pail or tub of the zinc solution, boiling hot if possible, before removal from the room. All discharges should either be received in vessels containing copperas solution, or, when this is impracticable, should be immediately covered - with copperas solution. All vessels used about the patient should be cleansed with the same solution. Unnecessary furniture?especially that winch is stuffed?carpets and hangings, when possible, should be removeafrom the room at the outset; otherwise they should remain for subsequent fumigation and treatment. 2. Fumigation .with sulphur is the only practicable method for disinfecting the house. For this purpose the rooms to be disinfected must be vacated. licrtvjf v;iULUiiig, uimiikCU), ucuuiug, auu other articles which cannot be treated with zinc .>o!ution, should be opened and exposed during fumigation, as directed below. Close the room as tightly as possible, piace the sulphur in iron pans supported upon bricks, set it on fire by hot coals or with the aid of a spoonful ?f alcohol, and allow the room to remain closed for twenty-four hours. For a room about ten feet square, at least two pounds of sulphur should be used; for larger rooms, proportionally increased quantities. 3. Premise*.?Cellars, yards, stables, eutters, privies, cesspools, waterclosets, drains, sewers, etc., should be frequently and liberally treated with copperas solution. The copperas solution is easily prepared by hanging a basket contain ing about sixty pounds of copperas in a barrel of water. 4. Body and Bed Clothing, etc.?It is 1 bent to burn all articles which have been in contact with persons sick with contagious or infectious diseases. Articles xjo valuable to be destroyed should be treated as follows: a. Cotton, linen, flannels, blankets, etc., should be treated with the boiling hot zinc solution, introducing piece by piece, securing thorough wetting, and boiling for at least half an hour. b. Heavy woolen clothing, silks, furs, stuffed bed covers, beds, and other articles which cannot be treated with the zinc solution, should be hung in the room during fumigation, pockets being turned inside out and the whole garment thoroughly exposed. Afterward they should oe hung in the open air, beaten and shaken. Pillows, beds, atuffed mattresses, upholstered furniture, etc., should be cut open, the con tents spread out and thoroughly fumigated. Carpets are best fumigated on the floor, but should afterward be removed to the open air and thoroughly beaten. 5. The corpus should be thoroughly washed with a zinc solution of double strength, then wrapped in a sheet wet with the zinc solution and buried at jncc. Metallic, metal-lined or air-tight ?offins should be used when possible, jertainly when the body !s to be transsorted for any considerable distance. A Journey Under the Earth. Early next year Baltimore will celebrate i ;hc completion ofits water supply tunnel. . Che tunnel is seven miles in length, and i ibout twelve feet in diameter. Upon I lie day of inspection the water will be urned on gradually at the upper end of lie tunnel .ind flow through until about < bur feet deep at the lower end. Several < one boats will then be launched into i lie mouth of the tunnel at the Lake Uontebello end, in which the party will ] nake the trip through the tunnel of j vater. They will be propelled by pad- \ lies or short oars. By the time the party ; ias made half the distance, the lower ] < >nd of the tunnel will be completely j ilied by the water, which will be slowly i urncd on at the upper end during the ( rip. Headlights will be placed on the )oats, and at the arches, which will lave been erected where the fifteen , ihafts n?w are, brilliant lights will be lisplayed, and large numbers will des rnate each shaft. Every arrangement . ivill be made to prevent accidents, as the Irowning of the party, which, of course, ivill include the city fathers, would be , m inauspicious opening of the great water works. The trip up the subterranean river will occupy several hours, md will be the first one of the kind ever ruade. At Hamburg, in Germany, the longest lay has seventeen hours and the shortest icvcn. At Stockholm the longest has "iglitren and a half hours and the short- * i'nt five and a half. At St. Peters burr the longest has nineteen and the shortest five hours At Finland the longest, has twenty-one and a half hours. At Wonilarbus, in Norway, the day lasts from the 21st of May to the 2d of July, the mn not getting below the horizon dur-1 ing the whole time, but skimminjr along ; very close to it in the north. At Si-iizber?en the lon?**?t.dnv thmr month* u.rf a W.f. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD HooachoM Hints. ^ Common lye of wood aslies will soften ? hard putty in a few minutes. v The fumes of a brimstone match will F remove berry stains from a book or pa- 0 per or engraving. Dr^ paint is removed by dipping a J swab with a handie in a strong solution * of oxalic acid. It softens it at once. E If there is rust on your flat iron, or D other roughness, put some fine salt on a 0 board and rub it rapidly while wanu, A until it moves smoothly. A A single drop of sesquipede chloride o of iron, put on a corn between the toes, q orce a day. with a camel's hair brush, Q will effect a marvelous cure. ^ If a door does not shut without! a " slam," put a diop of sweet oil cn the " catch?or on the hinge, if*it creaks. T1 Soap will do, but not so well. ? Fi Ten grains of oxalic acid in half a pint A; of water will remove all ink and fruit Oj stains. Wet the article in hot water, and apoly it to the top of the bottle, so that the liquid will reach it, then rinse it wall. Borax, half a teaspoonful, in half a teacup of water, makes the mildest and most efficient hair and scalp cleaner in the world. Rub it into the scalp with the balls of the fingers, head held ovpr a basin, eyes shut, until the entire scalp in Ff in a foam, then rinse with warm water. Keep some strong spirits of hartshorn he in a ground glass stoppered bottle; a teasnnnnfiil in h. tn.h psnonnfnl nf wntpr will clean combs and brushes, and restore colors inured by acids. A weaker . ( solution, applied to ill-smelling feet and arm-pits, removes the odor, and re- ln moves grease spots from carpets and clothing. A weak solution in water * makes a good wash for the hair, and stimulates its growth when impaired by di fever, and cleanses the scalp effectually. A weak solution scattered over the leaves co of plants, from a fine, soft, limber brush, Gi gives new life to plants. Even if a little Ai is sprinkled over the earth at their roots ? their growth is invigorated. Boils and whitlows are relieved or dis- w< sipated in their earlier stages by using the tincture of camphor. Dip a finger in the camDhor and rub it over the ^ boil; do this eight or ten times and re- ^ peat every four hours during daylight; For whitlow, dip the finger into the camphor and let it remain ten minutes; this often gives immediate relief. Repeat f? ev"-*- three hours during the day until , cured, eating nothing, meanwhile, but ^ coarse breaaand butter and fruits. Pre- ps pare the camphor thus: Put an ounce or more in a vial, fill with alcohal, shake it | well; some of the camphor should al- ]& ways be seen at the bottom; this en- he sures a saturated tincture, which is the u8 strongest. * In the Flower Garden. The flower garde?, although a source of pleasure, is at the same time a thing $ requiring almost constant attention. Weeds will grow and seeds must be sown, and there are transplanting, di- J* viding of clumps, and other operations ' which call for work, work all the year Pe rr und, or at least through the greater nc part of the twelve months. Although most of the seed sowing and trans- ev planting are usually done in the spring, an there are certain kinds of pli nts that ait will succeed better if moved in the fall jni than at any other' fieason. For instance, DC the old white lily and tho perennial poppy have done blooming, and all their so leaves are dead and gone at this season, mi the bulbs and roots being perfectly dor- th mant; but in a few weeks thero will hr spring up a new set of leaves which Oc will remain green all winter, and re- . moval after this second growth of the j season has commenccd is likely to check their blooming the following year. The ^ pame is true with all the early spring e flowering bulbs, such as hyacinths", crocuses, tulips and narcissuses, conse- .g. auently they should be planted while in ( leir dormant state, and early enough to produce ?ood strong roots and obtain a *?! firm hold of the soil before the approach ba of cold, freezing weather. There are ies also many kinds of herbaceous plants UP with fibrous roots which can be more safely divided and transplanted now than in the spring; and if one has ' leisure to do it now, so nuch time will yo be saved for other work :n what is usu- Be ally the most busy season. _ cei Wprhfl/>pnn<? nwrtnios will usually fail in to blfoom if the roots are disturbed in' the do spring, but if transplanted early in Sep- no tember new roots will soon push out ] from the tubers and the plants b"i in fine gj^ condition for throwing up vigorous art flowering stems the ensuing season. If uge the clumps of roots are to be divided it x < is now time to do it, in order that the m;l wounds may heal and a new growth oj na] fibrous roots be produced before winter. ns In the Southern States there may not be as much necessity for planting early as in the Northern, still many kinds,which ripen up early in the season, should be transplanted, if at all, 'it that time, or when in a dormant condition. There are also many kinds of biennials and perennials, the seeds of which, if sown now, will produce plants strong enough to bloom next season. The hollyhock, canterbury bells pansies, carnation and grass pinks lire well-known , flowers of this kind. A few hours spent in the garden at this season in sowing seeds and transplanting may' contribute much to the good appearance of one's grounds / next spring and summer.?New York av( Sun. 0f c The Cheese Fly. X. A. Willard gives some interesting | anr .acts about the cheese fly. The cheese i $10 fly is a very small insect, one 01 tne ny pru family. The fly is most troublesome in mei hot weather and in September. It lays age itM etrgs usually where the bandage laps hal over on top of the cheese, and under any eag little scale, often directly on top of the J cheese. If there is a small crack or oft crevice the skippers commence to work $37 into the cheese, and when cheeses are 31,. what is termed loose or porous, they 8ho work into the cheese rapidly, and if not of e arrested will work into the center and cen through the cheese, spoiling it. They inci require air, and this fact is taken advan- qur tage of by the dairyman in covering the so i surface of the cheese with a greased den paper, plastering it down securely on the fcip: cheese or on the hole where they are C working. This brings them to the sur- vai face, when they may be removed. One nat of the objects of rubbing the cheese age smartly every day is to rub off or destroy abc the eggs of the fly. The tanles, in warm Dm. weafher, should also be washed off with ? hot water or with soap and water and r?' lye, in order to remove grease, so that ^ the fly will not lay eggs on the boards. qu(| Never heard of the fly depositing eggs on Thr :heese curd, and by that means getting One into the center of the cheese. Do not think they could live and hatch in the Tot: center of cheese for want of air. j til H sur New York Real Estate Auctioneers, trei Sec The real estate auctioneers make Pine -qS street the center of this important interest, and here you may learn the details of some of the most important land speculations ever attempted in this city 1 Bleecker & Co. have been in this busi- ing ness nearly a century, and are immensely gru rich. Theiv fee for selling any parcel of pel property tliat may be knocked down at 114 ont* niu is $iu iur twenty-live ma iront, whetlior it bring $5,000 or $500,000. Sp: The heaviest parcel of rpal estate that Be ever went under the hammer was the ian Manhattan market, which brought $1,- 00(1 250,000. As th" plat was 100 feet front, | ex] the commission was $40. Ri al estate sar sales are licld twice a week, and some- av; times 200 parcels nf property are sold on St?*i one day by th ; different auctioneers, of 7.51 whom there are at least a half dozen, bit; It was at such a sale that A. T. Stewart Soi bought flic Washington Hotel, whose l>a ?itr- i? now orvupied by the wholesale Etf r.-jiri li'.U"-'' Tlx-prifo paid nra? ?6S 000, 000 and ?h? i? ??" * worth timea Sta r[rwi^trn.^-trrir yf)rt. TMtor V f * Time. foe! whatia time? A. power etafn, bodfl? 'hat we may feel, bat never lee. We pm Pith aobiag eyes into the past, and there Ye see a thousand shapes of light and glome "loating like atom* in the pallid beams |J mournful memory, bat the perished year i ail unseen. From thenoe we sadly torn, .nd, gazing on the luture, we behold lira, countless lorms trooping from He daft nlathomed ocean to the lonely shore 1 earthly being, but the eoraiag years re aU invisible. And then we pause nd gaze above, around, beneath, and ur eyes are startled by the mighty dMb 1 the now-pawing time; the iron weight f his otern presence rests upon oar soak< re feel the awfal specter touoh our brows rith his oold, death-like finger; and we hear ae deep and vr '.ngled roar that rices np rom all his might/ doings on our earth; nd jret hpJmsjno torm to oast its glsan... : shadow on ?or sight. ?OtofQt D. Ptfxdum' ITEMS OF INTEREST. A cold spell?I-c-e. TThitewashers?Good laundresses. There will be fire Sundays in b?k ibruary. No tenor singer should lire in a glass >use. He throws tones. Chinese history says that wheat was troduced into China 2,700 B. C. Harvard and Yale have each a pressor of Chinese in their corps of 9 tractors. ? Lemon juice used as a gargle is said by French physician to be a specific pinst diphtheri a and similar throat seases. Immense beds of the finest bituminous al have been discovered near the Rio ande, in Texas, 145 miles west of Sea atonio. , The Indianapolis street-car drirera ,ve struck, for stools. They say their ark is so hard that they can't stand it. Picayune. The report is without foundation that e Limberger cheese factories in thii untry are not making a (s)cent.?flfconviUe CIir(micle. English fanners have introduced the actice of nnhoming cattle by clipping e small projections in calves, when klf an inch long, using simply a strong ?ir of shears. Dark and brilliant colored clothed tract the sun and retain its heat muck ore powerfully than light colors; nee the latter are more suitable for e in summer. We know of a great many mm who e so anxiously advocating the payment the national debt that they forget all out those contracted by themselves.? mira Gazette. A man on horseback overtook an aclaintance trudging along on foot. May I ride ben inn you?" asked the , destrian. * " Certainly," replied the irseman, " but not on the same horse." nrn 3- L_t. J L'1>4. lJiousanos are naira, wiuihi uuuc *rc er loved without a real cause. Ths aiable alone can be loved. In most luatioos of life the consciousness of nncence is our best shield and firmest ickler. " For the life of us we cannot see why many people court death," wildly reirks Erratic Enrique. Let us tell you, e man who courts death never gets a eech of promise suit on his hands.? )wanda Enterprise. * rhe losses by fire in the United States ring the first six months of this vear lounted to $47,062,800, which is $15,3,000 more than in the same period last ar. It is also from $7,500,000 to $15, \000 over the losses in 1875- 1876 and 77. What," asks a writer, "isfiercer in the eye of a fighting animal at v?" Well, we don't know what, un a may be it is the other eye. Or, hold , we won't give it up yet?it's the iraal itself. Ask as another one.? iwkeye. 4 The San Francisco Hotel Gazette, says u never can calculate on women. A rlin prima donna refused to sine reltly because there was too much dust the house, and a California prima nna refused to sing because there was t enough "dust" in the house. ;owa has an agricultural crMege that res a course of domestic science and ;, with an experimental kitchen for the :of the Sophomore and Junior girln. creamery lor teaching the art of butteriking is in full operation, and a "eteriry department, with a full course of truction, has been established. The apples now begin to l&ll Upon the dewy grass, And start upon & pilgrimage ^ With boys who chance to pass In that direction. ?Mtv York Star. *, S /<. U apples lie not on the ground To meet the boys' desire, . ' They will not tail to got enough - 01 those that are up higher. <"*, V' Not il they know it. ?Rome SiHlind, Gold Coinage. ' ' l Washington dispatch says: The V :rage coinage of the last fitteen years fagles lias been less than $200,000 anil fy, and of half eagles about $250,000 mally, and of quarter eagles less than 0,000 annually. For the five years or to the suspension of specie paynts in 1861, the average annual coin; of eagles was less than $400,000, ot f eagles about $500,000 and of quarter les about $300,000. )uring the last fiscal year the coinage lie United State was: Dnuble eagles, .234.340; eagles, $ 1,031,440; half eagles 442.130; quarter eagles, $1,166,800, wing that the average annual coinage lagles has been increased over 500 per t.; the coinage of half eagles has been rcased nearly 600 per cent., and of irter eagles more than 1,000 per cent., i...? a , 11 tlb LUC UClIillUU IUI JjUIU tui:I U1 OlUMl lominations baa been more than anti(ited. >f the eold coin now in the treasury tits, there is of these smaller denomiions an amount exceeding the coinof the last year, which is stated >ve. The actual figures are as follows: minaUon Amount Hotcm <f Ooin. Trramri Vault I tnle eagles ?123,799,180 ;les 3,180.340 t eagles 1,856.958 irterengles 1,264 888 ee-dollar pieces 265,137 i-dollar pieces 112,252 al amt. ot gold in Treasury.. .$130,001,360 'he above represents the actual gold .t now lies in the vaults ot the treay?nine-tenths of it being in the subasury at New York?accumulated by :retary Sherman for resumption purtes. The Grain They Will Want. i^rench statistics put down the follow omnnnf nf , II? II mil UntllUiVVU U& IUC (Kiiivuitv lin the countries named will be corai6d to purchase this year: France, .,000,000 bushels; England, 120.000,i bushels; Italy, 18,600 000 bushels: :iin,24.000,000 bushels: Holland and Igium, 1*2.000.000 bushels; Switzeria, 6,00(1,000 bushels; total, 294,000,l bushels. Or canvassing the wheat porting counV?i?s of the "world*, the no nuihorities estimate the quantity lilablo to purchasers follows: United ites, 157,500,000 bushels; Hungary, 00 000 bushels; India, 12,000.000 *hels; Australia, 21.000.000 bushels; jthern Russia, 30,000,000 bushela; nubian countries, 6,000.000 bushels; ypt, 3,000.000 bushels: total, 236 000,1 ousIipIs. Theesfimnte tortheUnited >tee is by far the largest of ?ny y*nr 1* l MsViry of thft foutitry;