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" How shall I win the strength to keep my " voice Steady and firm, although I hear thy sobs ? How shall I bid thy laintiDg soul rejoice, ^hil Nor mar the counsel of mine own heart- ha\ throbs? you Love, ray love teaches me a certain way, So, if thy dark hour come, I am thy Btay. ? au con I must live higher, nearer to the reach mit Oi angels in their blessed trustfulness, Learn their unselfishness, ere I can teach Content to thee, whom I -would greatly bless. slig Ah! -what woe were mine if thou shouldst " (4 come, . 44 Troubled, but trusting, unto me for aid, a ^ And I should meet thee powerless and dumb, it Willing to help thee, but confused, afraid! J <Jj It shall not happen thus, lor I will rise, of f C^od helping mo, to higher life, and gain I si: Courage and strength to givo thee counsel P0.?; Wlf wise, it And deeper love to bless thee in thy pain. ?ar Fear not, dear love, thy trial hour shall be " '1'Uft <]AnMAn? Vi^vnrl luifwaan tv*tt V?Adrf on/1 tVlAA t/LC JLIIV UCUlCOb lA/uu mknoou IUJ uuuiw uuu vuw? v ?All the Year Round. SP?! ria<2 A LITTLE FOOL. con, ll?lV "I am astonished, Eloise! after all my instructions as to what society and ficjj respectability demand of you. If you jjttj must marry and make a fool of yourself, maj why not marry Colonel Powell?" ? " Because I do not like Colonel jjar Powell, and because I?like some one orn else. Aunt Ethel." " I never heard of such a thing. Do ?? you know what you are saying, miss? ? Such talk, I can tell you, is highly im- ei0j ?roper; and as for not liking Colonel ^a(j owell, that is nonsense. Colonel Pow- ]eas ell has everything necessary to win any does woman's approbation?very old family, ( very fine manners, elegant residence, pja( servants, carriage, money, and a mem- ?? ber of Congress besides. Don't you wjK know that you would spend the winters a ; in Washington?'* Yoi 441 declare it does not tempt me a n;,ri bit." 5, " And I don't believe that he is a day j;; move than fifty." " He is seventy-five if be is an hour, Y~ and he hobbles and coughs, and is altogether dreadful. I nevei\ never, never , J will marry him." * " Slay I ask who, then, is to have the ous honor of becoming my nephew?" and Miss Ethel sat stiffly down, and began ? ^ to carefully re-arrange the pink satin bows on her white morning dress. RT?1 Kloise sat down opposite her, and 1 . fingered nervously the rose-buda and 5|n< ivy leaves that trimmed her garden hat. naf The two women were strangely alike, se|!] on! v ono face was forty years old, white, , K( and proud; and the other was only naa, twenty, flushine and paling,and answer- Pr0 in*.'every feeling of the hecrt. . !?e ' For some moments Eloise did not lorn speak, and Miss Ethel Bruce did not urge her. She sat patiently looking in her y niece's face, until that young lady, find- ?ne , inir courage in her desperation, said. nun with a bland defiance, "The gentleman w?5 who is to have that honor, dear aunt, is , , Mr. Henry Torrens." "Impossible! You would not do such ,13r a foolish thing?" var "Oh yes, I would." . *or ' " Do you know who he is?" mar -*t w mor ne is? Jnairj. "Ridiculous! Do you know who his ^ father is?'T i, % " Nor I don't wan't to know him particularly. Do you know him, Aunt Fr] Ethel?" " No. I dare say it would be very improper for me to know such- a person. When we first met him last summer in v the North, I don't remember that he ~:P ever named his family." " Nor I." v "That looks very bad Eloise. If a man has respectable relations, of course A he talks about them." '.J' "I don't see that it makes any great vT" difference to me. I do not intend to marry Harry's relations. I do not care ?r,?r much about them, anyway. Once he told me that his mother was dead, and I said mine was too; and of course we felt sorry for each other, and all that. But I ol" am afraid I am a little jealous about Tl Harry; I would just as lief be the only ?pe person in the world who had any right Tor to love him as not. imP "You make me feel hopeless about mor you. Pray what do you intend to live 1 upon?" . Hnr '* Harry has two thousand dollars a ' year." Q6CG " Two thousand dollars a year! What "^nc a magnificent Income!" " Don't make fun of us. aunt. I can- hfiv not allow that; indeed I cannot. We dm love each other, and shall be very ?ilei happy." ful "Doubtless. May I ask where Mr. ^eri Torrens is employed?" ' deal " In West & Green's law office." ploj "I thought he lived in New York. ?ree What brought him here?" frfq "How should I know?" saidEloise, win, blushing, and involuntarily dropping T. her voice. oth< Iler aunt watched her curiously, and mo* i shook her head for answer. " where m.a^ f have you seen him?for I hope you have ?iec L not dared to bring him within the pre- But I cincts of Bruce Place." > l]la1 f " He has never touched a paling of it. she f I met |him at Aunt KeziaV, ana I &m ?e.r? sure she would have 'let Cousin Lizzie "lfc marry him very willingly. She thinks O a great deal of Harry.'" war "Lizzie Bruce is different. She has had five Jittle sisters, and my brother Jake letfc always spends twenty out of an income the nf ninnf/ioti Ynn Viqtto OvnOPtatiAnc?nr inor. at least had. I always intended, if you libr remained unmarried, to leave you the The Bruce Place." and "Dear aunt, thank you for the inten- rem tion; but I would rather have Harry, casi I have a little bit of money of my own, ere: have I not?" wh: "About four thousand dollars; just yea ^ enough to buy your wedding things, and A marry you decently. For though you thr are going to make such a fool of your- spr self, I shall not show the white feather Bes about it. I must pretend to be happy orn when I am wretched, and receive con- boo gratulations that will nearly choke me; ant but such trials are part and parcel of a reai woman's lot; I dare say I shall get nie< creditably through them." cou Miss Ethel rose with a proud air, but mo a pitifully sad face, and attempted to 1 leave the room, but Eloise, with gentle He: force and many tender kisses, made her tinj sit down again. wil " Auntie," she said, coaxingly, " you tar have asked me a good many Questions, up and I have answered them truly; new I ly i am coiner to ask vou some, and I know vouwilfbe lair with me about them, yoi First, were you ever in love P" cal Half smiling and half siehing, Miss am Ethel sat thinking over the bold ques- the tion. At length she answered, slowly, Th " Yes.'Eloise; I once loved as I do not the thins you have the power to love. It ] is twenty-two years a?o." He 'Will you tell me about it?" we " I cannot. Yes?I will try; perhaps ha it may show you what a waste of life is. sh< m Wait here a few moments." ag< She then left the room, but soon re- ha turned with a little tortoise-shell box in po her hand. It opened with a spring, and ne' showed a few yellow letters, a bunch of ha withered violets and the half of a plain ha f . d ring. She lilted the latter and This in part of his dead mother's idingring; we broke it in two and >re solemnly over it to be faithful to promises we had made to each other, m he sailed away from me and I er heard from him again. For two rs I suffered all the agonies of hope 3rred and slighted love, and at length ad a fever that left me the colorless le ghost I have been ever since." Perhaps he was dead." No." Then he was a miserable creature, [ I should have put him out of my rt and memory." Yes, I think you would, Eloise. I lk. too, that it is likely you would e let some other man make a fool of . a second time. I have a different ore. I did not cease to suffer for aes Early for five years, but having quered that weakness I never perted myself o care for any other i.". But you were rich and handsome, no one else care for you?" Ciss Ethel smiled queerly, and after a ht hesitation said "Yes." Who was it, Auntie?" Colonel Powell." Oh, aunt! So you wanted me to do i ling you would not do yourself." Yes, dear. You wanted to marry; i d not. When I was twenty years i tge, if I had wanted to marry at all, lould have married for wealth and , ition. Colonel Powell can give his e these advantages." # ] Are you still in love with this Mr. I Y O lU^XliVX J . No, I am not. If I should meet him lay, I do not think I should care to ik to him." Is he alive?" I suppose so. I heard of his mar- i ;e ten years ago." < Poor auntie!" \ Don't pity me, child. I am to be gratulated. If it had not been for i dear father's opposition, I should j e married for love, given my fortune : my life into the keeping of a selfish, 1 le man?ip fact, made just such a ; e fool of myself as you are about to ;e." j Aunt, do you really think that ' Ty would forget me in a few weeks j months?" ] Of course he would." I I will try him." 1 You will act very wisely to do so. 1 ise, I am glad I have told you my < little story; it may make you at / t 'look before you leap.' Where s Harry generally leave you?" t Um!rmr\ nilfl)A \ <Jll LUC 11LL1C uiiu^c uutoiuv/ tuv i ;e." 1 Do not say4 farewell' tliore. Lovers j ? part over running water never meet s in. Give htm every lawful chance, j i may bring him into the park to- I it." ) a few hours afterward there was a ( f bitter parting under the oaks in 1 ce Park. Elose was almost shocked ? in it was over. In her heart she had * r intended to frighten Harry, but her it bad taken the proposal too seri- ? y. and things had been said that she Id not unsav. At first, indeed, ' ry had laughed at Miss Ethel's* c bts of him, and his laughter had raked Eloise. She did not like the * g treated as a joke. " It was a very ! )us matter, and she did not see how ?: ry could laugh at the idea ot not f ng her for eleven months." J jr eleven months was the time she ' fixed upon as the limit of her lover's J >ation. In eleven months she would ' sf age, and could claim her small * one. If Hairy was true to her, she * lid then be willing to begin life with J on four thousand dollars. Besides, J had a shrewd idea that if she * lored her aunt thus far, Miss Ethei tld not withdraw her favor. i arry was indignant at all such pru- I tial considerations. He spoke very 1 espectiully of Bruce I'ark, and do- 1 ed he would not say ' Thank you' ;very acre of it, and the old wooden 1 ision thrown in, and that eleven 1 iths was an eternity; they might just 1 re 11 any guuu-uj iuicvui. lien Eloise argued that" it was very | 1 for him to talk of living on two * isand dollars a year and each other's < i. Men could get society, and have ' pie speak decently to them, even if ' t could only afford one new suit in J lve months; but a woman's friends 1 snded on the condition of her ward- 4 and she wondered if even Harry's : could stand a shabby old-fashioned 1 ss and one-button kid gloves." 1 arry " was sure she would make anv is look elegant;" and Eloise said, l rily, " He was very absurd," and 1 jght so too. So the efld of all Harry ( e ner " farewell" till the 5th of the 1 >wing June, and that with many 1 s ana protestations they finally bo- ( their self-imposed trial of each ar's fidelity. j tie next morning's paper announced \ sudden "departure of Mr. Henry i rens for New York on business of ( ortance likely to detain him some iths." and Eloise was angry enough i the information. She had hoped , ry would try again to convince lier * 'the folly of parting," and she was nnined at this interview to be con led. J >r some weeks Miss Ethel did not e a very happy time. Elois wanid in the park, or about the big it house, and was not at all cheercompany. At first Harry's letters i e so long and frequent that a great 1 oi iier time was sausiactoniy era. > red in answering them. But by de- i s they grew both shorter and less < uent, and toward the beginning of i ter they stopped altogether. 1 he two women looked sadly in each 1 jr's face at the empty post-box every 1 ning, and Miss Ethel had her will i le during these days, and left her f :e all she liad, as some compensation. < yet often when she saw the sad face < ; had once been so bright and pretty, < half reproached herself, and won- < ;d whether, where ignorance is bliss, i be not folly to be wise. ne day toward spring?a bright, in day for the season?Elois, who now long ceased even hoping for a J er. was walking slowly up and down great ball dividing the large draw- ; room and the late Mr. Brace's ary from the rest of the house. ' ise rooms were very seldom opened, . still more seldom used. Eloise only lembered two or three grand ocions on which they had been used for at entertainments, tne last Deing mat ich introduced her into society two rs previously. ? sudden fancy seized her; she would ow back the closed blinds, and let the inz sunshine into the dark rooms, ides, there were all kinds of curious aments there, and a great many >ks; to examine them would pleasly pass a few hoilrs. Miss Ethel dily agreed. She was glad to see her ce interest lier?elf in anything that ild beguile thought from the one sad, rtifying subject of her desertion, toward noon she went to seek Eloise. r first glance showed her the girl siti thoughtfully upon the hearth-rug Sh her lap full ot letters, and queer nished Hindoo jewelry. She sprang to meet her aunt, and with astrangejolenin excitement, cried out: Oh, auntie, thejr are all yours, all irs! I was looking at that queer )inet, and my di;ess turned it over, I a piece fell out of the bottom, and (se things were scattered about." en she ran out of the room, shutting ; door carefully behind her. ?oor Miss Ethel needed her privacy, re was her lover's vindication; here re all the sweet words for which she d nearly died. He had suffered all 2 had suffered; he had poured out his my and Mb despair in letters which d never until now readied her. The or lady took them to her room, and eer appeared again that day. But she d no nard words for the hands that d wronged her. "Dear father; he meant it for a kindness," was all that she said. Still she grew very restless, and continually declared that she was sure something was going to happen. But coming events often cast long shadows before, and it was full two months afterward ere Miss Ethel's presentiment came true. Then she got a letter one day which threw her into a wild, feverish excitement. "Eloise," she cried, almost sobbing with ioy, "he is come; he is at th* village; he will be here in an hour. How am I to bear it?" Women seek each other's sympathy in hours like this, and Eloise?perhaps with just a little pang for her own sorrow?gladly gave it. But when she joined the long-parted lovers at dusk, and saw her aunt lingering with tender r.irasihv t.lie handsome dark Ktranew at the fireside, she knew that never again would Aunt Ethel want sympathy: it was easy to see her lover was still her lover, and that they thoroughly understood the past. Perhaps the sight of their happiness was a little irritating sometimes to Eloise. She could not help blaming her aunt in some measure for the loss of Harry, and she wondered if she ever remembered now any of her old opinions about the folly ot marrying for love. Many women would have reminded her of them, but Eloise was not ill-natured; und when she saw the old lovers wandering about the gardens so happily together, she only hoped that her own blighted youth might have some such recompense given it; for such a joy it would be almost worth waiting, a little while, but not twenty-two years; that was too strong a test of fidelity. It was not asked of her. On the morning of the fifth of June, -when the dew was yet on the grass, there was a messenger to see her. He had with him an jxquisite basket of white roses, and in their midst was a letter which made Eloise Bruce the happiest girl in America. And Aunt Ethel was just as delighted. " lie must come here at once," she said; "they would wait breakfast for him?and he must never go away igain." Then the ladies discovered that Harry md James Early were already friends, they had met at a hotel in New York, irifl hnt.h bavin ir t.liwr hearts in thfl samp ittle Southern town, they had speedily secorae confidential. And Harry was lot long in getting his pardon, though lis excuse might well have been consid?red by a less loving mistress as an aggravation of his offence. "You see, darling," he explained be,ween his kisses, "you wanted to test ny heart, and so I thought it only fair to et you test your own also. Do you think ,-oii wouid remember me, if you never ;aw or heard from me for twenty-two rears, as Aunt Ethel did that lover of lers ?'' " Harry! I should remember you for*ver. I never, never would have marked any one else, if you had staid away iltogether. But indeed it was cruel to ry me so bitterly." "And how about you sending me IWilV ?" "1 won't ever do it again, Harry; and [ never really wanted you to go. You >ught to have known that." A few nights afterward, as they all sat ogether on the moonlit veranda. Aunt Sthel said, very tenderly, "Children, rames and I will be married next Thurslay, and we shallsail for Calcutta immeliately. Could not the two marriages >e made at onceP Then. Harry, Eloise ould live on at the oid place, and keep t from goin? to destruction. It is ^lniso's now: I made it over to her to lay, and Mr. Green says you are going nto partnership with their firm, so I iope you will have enough to keep love 'roin llying out of your windows." Little more was said at the time, for Vunt Ethel persistently turned the subect, but when she came into Eloise's oom to bid the new bride elect "goodlight," the happy girl whispered: "Oh, lunt, how generous you have been to is! Surely Mr. Early must be very ich, to let you give us such a ma/.'nifi:cnt wedding present." "No, dear, he is not. In fact, be is ,*et what he calls a struggling man. He las great ventures on hand; ne may be:omc rich, or he may lose nearly all he las made. It is something about indigo, lear, I know not what, and I don't care. [ am going now wherever he goes, and I im a very, very happy woman." Then Eloise whispered, slyly, ' Auntie, do you remember saying a year igo that a girl was a little fool who marked for love?" " I remember, dear. I am wiser now, ind I say if the girl is a little fool who narries for love, she who marries with>ut it is the most foolish and wretched of ivomen. On the whole, Eloise, I am rather proud of our cood sense?eh, my larling?" Others, however, seemed to think lifl'erently; for Lizzie Bruce, meeting ler friend Selina James one morning, <a1d: "Selina, what do you think? ! I airy Torrens has come "back, and Jousin Eloise has actually forgiven him 'verything and is going to marry him! [ never would have done it. Would ;rou?" "Certainly I would not; but then Eloise Bruce was always ?on that sub ect?a little fool."?Harper*$ Weekly. The Boy. In some families, where the daughter is attended with every care and solici:udc, the boy is often turned olf to see"k lis own companions and His own amusenpntq in run all manner of hiiir-breadth escapes, moral no less than physical; to ride on wild engines, to clamber among ;he shipping at the wharves, to dodge loose horses and mad dogs. To be sure, iic loarns reliance upon himself and his resources by this means, while his sister sits tamely and securely at home, afraid 3f her own shadow. While he is diving 3ff the end of the wharf, struggling with .Tamp in the surf, paddling his own anoe amidst rocks or rapids, breaking through air-holes in the skating-pond, running witli the tire-engines, accumulating Strength and knowledge of the world's ways, she, perhaps, is learning crochet or lace stitch, or to daub with water-colors. Left to his ow i devices thus, his judgment is cultivated daily in his came of stick-knife, in liis trade ot aid nails for new coppers with the junkman, in his wrestling match with unexpected dangers and his intercourse with the bully ot the neighborhood. In short, the boy is only half appreciated, notwithstanding tne lack of masculine element in the community. A hungry boy does not awaken the sympathies as readily as a hungry girl. One leels that an orphan boy can shift for himself, but a girl must be provided with proper guidance. We have small concern for the blisters on his hands, for his bare bruised feet, the shabbincss of his clothe?. It it v matter ot course that he should rough if - it. ia t.hfi nrn(!pR8 that fits him for the rub and tumble in the great world, and no one wastes a sigh over the affair. But if there is an errand to run, a kitten to dispose of, a caterpillar's nest in the fruit tree to destroy, a horse to catch, or any disagreeable thing to do, the boy is called into requisition. In the meantime, while his discomforts are considered of no consequence, or at least such as every boy must expect to go through on the way to bccomintr a man, as passport to that dignity, he grows to disreg:ird them himself "and to reckon it of little account whether his clothes are wet or his ears tingle with frost, as that rude Knniiimen of his kind bore witness who, being asked if his feet were cold, answered: "I dunno; feel of 'em." No doubt this lack of cosseting and consideration hardens him, so that he may endure the shocks of misfortune witn greater equanimity on reaching manhood and think of other tilings than of his own sensations.?Harper's Baz(ir. The experimental cotton factory at Atlanta, Ga., is getting alontr, with orders ahead for 600,000 yards oT cloth. The Cabbage. Just speak to a fine lady about ca bases and she will think you have me tioned one of the lowest things on eart Madame, you are wrong; it is one of t most useiul articles of food. Those n eient nations did not know food scien< but they knew the value of good a: nourishing things and they gave the the place of honor which they deserve Cabbages were thought of highly ancient nations, and the Egyptians ga the cabbage the honor of letting it pi cede all other dishes; they called it divine dish. The Greeks and Roma had a great affection for cabbage a: conceived the idea, which I have m self, that the use of cabbage keeps pe pie from drunkenness. I am persuad the constant eating of certain vegetab] kills the desire for alcoholic beverag* The Greek doctors ascribed all kinds virtues to the cabbage. It was thoug to cure even paralysis. The Roma thought even more of the cabbage thi did the Greeks. They ascribed to it t fact that they could for 600 years i without doctors, and Cato actual maintained that cabbage cured all d eases. The ancients knew several kin of cabbage?the long-leafed green ca bage, the hard wliite, so much used Germany ior " sauer kraut," or fermer ed cabbage, the curly and the red. Tl; last seems to have held the place honor, and was at first introduced 1 fkn Pnmiinc infrt ftn.il! nr France ai then brought to Great Britain. Lat the green-leafed cabbage was introduce The Greeks were fond of aromatic se sonings?of oil, raisin wine and almonc They coiled or stewed the cabbage ai seasoned it with cummin, coriand seeds, with oil, wine or gravy, makii rich dishes of a vegetable which we no boil in water and reckon among t plainest food. Something like aremei trance of cooking cabbage among t old Greeks has come down to the mo ern Greeks, for they stuff cabbage leav with dainty mince-meats and then stc them with gravy.?Food and Heai Leaves. New York's Nickname of "Gotham, The term Gotham, often applied mild derision to this city, says a Ne York paper, was first employed, we b lieve, {is a nickname to New York 1 Washington Irving. The name is n an invention, as is oflen thought; itisi actual parish of Nottinghamshire, En land, whose inhabitants were tormer so proverbially rustic and stupid th they gained the ironical title ot the Wi Men of Gotham. Many stories of the doltishness have been put upon tl Gothamites one of which is that th< joined hands on a certain occasion roui a thorn-bush to prevent the escape of cuckoo. In order to confirm the tal the bush?of course, the identical bu? ?is shown <o tourists in that neighbo hood. It is said that King .John, < Magna Charta memory, intended on upon a time to jzo through the parish fi the purpose of buying a castle ar grounds. The Gothamites, knowii that the royal visit would entail co; siderable expense on them, pretende when the monarch's messengers a peared, to be occupied with some sill ridiculous pursuit, much to the disgu of tne regal emissaries. These report* to John what they had seen, and ne d clared that he would not have a cast in the neighborhood where such simpl tons lived. Thereupon the parishone shrewdly remarked. "More fools, v wot, pass through Gotham than rema: in it." Andrew Boyde, a native Gotl amite, wrote the "Merrie Tales of tl Wise Men ol Gotham," founded on commission, signed by Henry VIII., i the magistrates of the parish to prevei poaching. All nations are apt to sele some region or spot as a limbo of fool Phrygia was the dunce's home in ancie: days, in Asia Minor, as Abdera was Thrace, Boeotia in Greece, as Swabia in modern Germany, Calabria in Ital Ort'lKroo Qnoir? A Ioqpp f HpfflTY> t.l Franco-German war) in France, etc. Words of Wisdom. The world is governed by thr things?wisdom, authority and appea ances. Wisdom is lor thoughtful pe pie, authority for rough people, ai appearances for the great mass of supe fioial people who can look only at t] outside. ' Seek not to please the world, but yo own conscience. The man who has feeling within him that he has done L duty upon every occasion irf liappi than he who hangs upon the smiles the great or the still more fickle favo of the multitude. Flatterers are the worst kind of tra ors, for they will strengthen your ii perfections, encourage you in all evi correct you in nothing, but so shade and paint your follies and vices as y< shall never, by their will, discover go< from evil, or vice from virtue. Imaginary evils soon become rc ones by indulging our reflections < them; as he, who in a melancholy fan sees something like a face on the wall wainscot, can, by two or three touch with a laed pencil, make it look visi and agreeing with what he fancied. Bread Superstitions. Among the many superstitions which a loaf of bread has been t basis, one of the strangest is that whic in more than one European country, j taches special jll-liwk to the turning the loaf upside down. In Scotland tl is accounted for by a legend that J Walter Menteith, the betrayer of Wi lace to the English, made tuis 'action signal of attack, whence the reversing a loaf in presence of a Menteith was co sidered so deadly an insult as to eau more than one fatal duel in the old fig! ing days. The same belief in Germai is explained by the story of a Bohemi king," who, happening to reverse his lo: was warned by a soothsayer that it pi 6aged the overthrow of his kingdoi which speedily came to i>ass. TheRi sians hold this superstition so firm that you have only to turn a loaf upsi down in any native village to see t whole company dash at it and revei it, explaining that when the flat side exposed the devil comes and seats hii self upon it, and is not to be dislodg without a victim ot some kind. Why Some Birds Never Forage Flocks. Mr. Wilson Flaps explains in the . lantic Monthly why certnin birds, li chickadees and robins, never forage compact flocks, as do the sparrows a other grain-eatine birds. Their fo consists of insects, and hence they i compelled to scatter. Tbeir natu gregariousness, however, causes them sound a note every now and then, order to keep within hearing. Wor peckers do not call to each other wh feeding, because their hammering sufficient. Mr. Flagg notices a singu fact in the association together, yet 1 in the same troop, of the downy wo< peckers and the chickadee. Th I 4-- 1-- 4. ?< v,? on SCUIUS IU l)U 11 DUtl ux iviniiif.y, IIo Oil, between the small woodpeckers, I creepers and the chickadee. They not join company, but keep within lie ing of one another from a sociable fe ing. When birds are grain-eaters, tl *?? lnrrro olr.so flnCKS. lllcQ the Tl 4*4. ~ - winged blackbirds, becauso thei-i fooc abundant. There lias been a great deal of adv running through the press lately as the best and most comfortable way peel onions. One says, " put a lump bread on the end of a knileanoth " do it under water." The first woi seem a little risky and the second r^itl inconvenient. A good way to peel onion is to "use a knife about a re long; but the very best way is to stn off ten or fifteen miles with a good te scope and see somebody else ao it.?J Id Gazelle. THE BATTLE OF FATAL. h The Moit Wonderful I* a vol Battle < Record. ^ A writer in the Cincinnati Enquir, ne gives a vivid account of the battle Fayal, "the most desperate, heroic at romantic naval action that ever toe na place on the ocean." It was toward tl close of the last war with England, j?" 1814, that the reverses which had a Dy tended our arms on land, the bankru condition of the government, and tl e" capture and burning of th e city of Was ' * ington, on the twenty-fourth of Augus 1814, had thrown a general gloom ai na despondency over the country. It w unaer these circumstances that the nc\ fr of the battle of the United States privat armed brig General Armstrong (nami ^ after the then secretary of war) and h '8; extraordinary victory, sent a thrill P: joy and enthusiasm through the hear of the American people. n? On the ninth of September, 1814, tl j~ General Armstrong, of only 246 ton carrying but seven guns and nine men, including officers, sailed fro Sandy Hook, New lork, on a cruis She was commanded by the late Cor j? modore Sam C. Reid, then only thin ." years of age, who had been a midshi ? man under Commodore Truxton. C " the twenty-sixth of September the Arr strong put into Fayal, one of the Azo 5" islands, for water. About suadown large British squadron, consisting of tl ship of the line Plantagenet, of sevent, j ftrtir guns; the frigate Rota, of fort; four guns; and the brig Carnation, rT eighteen guns, commanded by Comm J?.' dore Lloyd, were discovered entering tl harbor. The total force of the squadrc ^ was 136 guns and about two thousar men. jjp This squadron was a part of the exp dition then assembling at the island Jamaica for the capture of New Orlean j under, the command of Sir Admir zT Cochrane, who had already succeeded burning Washington, and was awaitii the arrival of Lloyd, both expedition having been planned at the same tin by the British Cabinet. Lloyd, consi ering that the Armstrong would mal a useful auxiliary to the expedition, r ?nnn nanfurp Thp hnV fjfl JJJ DUIVUi upuu AJLXsA. VI#J/WV4?W. -J ~ ? w nation came to anchor, and fpm the e: l6. change of signals and the throwing o' jy of four large boats or launches, ini which men and arms were being passe m it became evident that an attack w; - contemplated. It being about full moo fy and the night perfectly calm and clea a*t every movement could be distinctly see; 3e Although Captain lteid had been assun ,jr of the satety of his vessel by the author (je ties, he being in a neutral port bclongir ,y to the dominions of Portugal, he neve jJj theless prepared for action. a About 8 r. M, the boats, containir e about forty men each, were seen rapid! ,jJ approaching the Armstrong. r. As they neared his vessel, Captai 0f Reid hailed them repeatedly, and warm ee them to keep off, to which they paid r 3r attention, but pulled alongside, wh? 1(1 the British officers cried out, " Fire ar j? board my lads!" and as the men rose fro: a theirseats, Captain Reid ordered his mi (j rinesalso to fire, which was'almost sin J ultaneous on tlie part of both. One ma y on board the Armstrong was instant] killed, and the First Lieutenant, Fre< >(j A. Worth, a brother of the late Gener g. Worth, of the United States Army, wi ]e wounded. The men in the boats mi e. with great slaughter, a large numbi rg being killed ana wounded, when th< 7e hastily retreated, The Armstrong no [n slipped her cables and pulled in und< j. the jaws of the bastile for protection, tl ie Portuguese Governor having sent a r a monstrance to Lloyd protesting again ^ any further attack. Lloyd answerc Qt that he wns determined to capture tl American vessel at all hazards, ar - wnnld destroy the town il anv Droteetic was offered. jn Consternation spread through tl ja town; the windows of the houses nea v est the scene were filled with wome: jq while the walls and shores were line with the inhabitants anticipating a r newal of the attack. At midnight fou teen large launches, containing fro forty to fifty men each, commanded t ee the "best officers of the squadron, we seen approaching in rotation. Wh< lQ_ they got within gunshot, a tremendoi )t[ and effectual fire was opened by tl T_ Armstrong, which threw the boats in kg confusion. They now returned spirited fire, but the Americans kept i so continual a discharge it was almo ur impossible for the boats to make ai '.a progress. They finally succeeded, aft 119 immense loss, to get alongside, and a er tempted to board at every quart* 01 cheered by the officers with a shout 'rs "No quarter," which could be distinct tinord An qhnrn n.q well OS fchfiir flliriel it- and cries. The termination was ne n-> about a total massacre. Three of t) Is, boats were sunk, and but one poor bo iw lary officer escaped death in a boat th ou contained fifty souls, and he w od wounded. The Americans fought wi a desperation and firmness neverequale al The number of British killed ai on wounded was nearly three hundra cy while, to the surpx-ise of mankind, o or loss was but two killed and sevi ies wounded. The enemy were employ le, for three days in burying their dead. Commodoie Lloyd then made a d mand on the Portugese governor to d liver up the crew of the Armstrong his prisoners, and threatened in case O' refusal to send 500 men ashore to tal he them. The Americans immediately r ;1*? tired with their arms to an old goth ^ convent, which they fortified, knock of nwav t,hi? odioinincr draw-bridse, ai }}s determined to defend themselves to tl ,ir last. The British commodore, howey< "* felt his loss already too great to execu 0 his threat. ?* The squadron was delayed ten days n* Fayal repairing, which delay prov se fatal to Sir Admiral Cochrane's expet lt;- tion to New Orleans, as it did not a ny rive until four days after General Jac an son and his troops. New Orleans, pi vious to that time, was totally defent :e* less, and had Corcbrane ai*rived even week sooner, it would have fallen i 8- easy prey to the enemy. ily de ' "All Mine!" it An Oregon correspondent, writingt m- the Country Gentleman, tells this sto ed of the civilizing influence of hortici ture. Uncle Buly Rector went to Oi gon in 1846, bringing seeds, grafts a: in tools, and took up a square mile of fi land in the Willamette valley. In t . scrub-growth, along the edge of t , prairie, were some crab-apple tre *e which he grafted. 'j? The Indians were jealous of his inti ttu C!A? tliAiifrh r\<ifinnnhlo Rv-nnH-hv# ?d chief and fiis band of brav.es and squav ir9 with hiB ponies and pappooses, camp L'n* near at. hand on a fishing expedition. h? The red man, he sain, claimed all t *n valley?and in proot of this claim sr >?- they came every year to gather the n Me pies. Then sweeping his arm in a circ ,13 he exclaimed, "All mine!" lar The savage thought his argument cc 1"t vincing, una demanded beads and fis )d* hooks as a tribute. erc Rectos got rid of him by yielding, a; ?8> for two or three years saw no more L'ie the noble red man. Then the chief a "? his string of horses, squaws and dc again sought the spot, now vas el" changed by Rector's improvements. 1 pretended to be very angry, perhaps ?(l- on.?.a tfio man nilf nf npftHs fi' I . OUUl/ tuv ?I?*W v-v 1 118 water and fish-hooks. Standing ere and sweeping the circle of the horiz with outstretched arm, he exclaimi ice "Allmine!" : io Then Rector said, "All mine, toe to and beckoned the Indian with him i of the apple tree, where his grafts wf er, bearing large red apples. aid He looked and wondered. The poy :ier of the white man's medicine to char an the fruit of the tree was too much for ] tile philosophy, and when Uncle Billy or nd more asserted, "It is all mine!"hega ile- a grunt of assent. The next raorni ETo- the cavalcade disappeared and never turned. THF WARLIKE UTES.' >n The Struggle of a Fierce Mountain Tribe Against Advancing Civilization. er As matters stand, and have stood for of' over five years, the presence of the Utea ^ id in Western Colorado has been a great ? >k obstacle to the development of the State. 12 ie In the past Ihey occupied among the a in mountain Indians much tlie position of it- the Sioux among* the Indians of the pt plains. Bold and warlike, they spread ij tie over a great stretch of territory in West- P' h- ern Colorado fighting the Cheyennes and " it, Sioux on the north and the Apaches and 01 id Navajoes on the south. Tneir tribal m as wanderings extended in all directions va beyond what is now Colorado, but not e- many years 'before the admission of the t)< 3d State a great reservation was given ?r er them, covering a large fraction of the t!1 of State, and the wandering Utes were n ts gathered at three agencies. The work *r of bringing the tribe together has only ie just been completed, one band of Utes is, having been brought from northern l-TT XTnm Aftnft aAllfKrtwn TT + rt nrtilnnrt iij iU'W iTJLCAXtu tu uicsuuuuciu u ia; m a little over a year ago. 8n e. Thi government confidently expected, ? a- as it always does when the boundaries ty of a new tudian reservation are defined ^ p- by treaty, that the Ute territory would >n not be wanled for mines or settlement. J" Q- This seems not unlikely. The currents bl re of emigration had* flowed for a genera- P a tion north and south of the Ute reserva- m ie tion. The mountains were practically y- inaccessible, and the best maps of trails y- and rivers in the southern part ol the w of reservation were made by the Jesuits qi o- three centuries ago. Te-day the entire w ie region is one of the best mapped dis- cc m tncts in the country, thanks to the Hay- a id den survey, and the most prominent 01 mining region in the West. A Ute war 1I e- became certain when the San Juan in of mining region was discovered six years ta is, ago, and miners swarmed into the In- pi al dian country. A " treaty" was made er in and the Utes surrendered a big slice out cl lg of the southern end of their reservation, si as leaving a square of white territory with bi ie Ule land on three sides of it. Unfortu- pi d- nately mining claims and indications do c< ke not follow the smooth, straight lines m e- the commission drew on the map in ec r- 1873. Miners crossed the reservation k- line, were attacked by the Indians, dent fended themselves, and kept up that M to state of uneasy hostility sure to break ^ d, out into war. A year ago another fc as commission took the matter in hand, q n, negotiated another 44 treaty,1' carved m r, another slice of the Ute land, confirmed n. their title a third time, and drew more a ;d straight fine lines, to which the miners ^ i- paid 'small attention. ^ ig The Uces still had a magnificent terri- ... r- tory of 12,000,000 acres; the whole State hi of Colorado has but 66,800,000, stretch- w ig ingfrom the northern boundary to its ai ly southern, with a break where the San gl Juan mining region lies. Over this terin ritory, containing a third of the arable :d land of the State and as large as New ft io Hampshire and Vermont put together, ec in but 3,734 Utes wandered. They were ^ id divided into three bands, the southern m numbering 634 Indians, the middle at pi v the Uncomphagre acency 2,000 and 800 i- at the northern or White river agency, je in the scene of the present outbreak. The ?? ly irruptions of settlers have raised dis- ^ I. turbances all over the reservation, but y ftl the troubles have been worse at the ^ is north. The head chief of the Indians at tr et the Uncomphagre agency, Ouray, is a 3r man of some civilization, who drives his ai y wagon, plows his land and wears 44 store w clothes." By the experience of rough justice and * occasionally shooting a ie backslider into barbarism, Ouray has e- kept very tolerable order.?Springfield st Republican. tl ;d . aj le B td A Philosopher of Suicide. a, in Russia has not been of late a very de- gi lightful country to live in, but the m ip mnrtiAd nf niiitf-inir if. dpanrihfvl in n. ln.t.e si r- number of the St. Petersburg ZeUung Si a, must provoke nearly as much astonish- di id mcntas horror. oj e- The story told is that of a suicide, vi r- He resolved to kill himself, and to do it p< m in a manner absolutely unique; and, in rr >y fairness it must be owned that he wns p< re successful. Some years ago a man in pi m one of our Wcstern States had a some- rc us what similar idea. He made for himself y< le a kind of amateur guillotine. An axe, c( to heavily loaded, was fixed In a groove '? a above and a block was nicely adjusted vi id below. The axe was held in place by a gi st cord, and the cord was passed through ai ly a pulley and conducted downward. A vi er candl? was then so arranged that when m .t- its flame had burned down to a certain tt ir, point it would,consume, and so release,' er ol the cord. The inventor of this ingen- w ly ious machine having seen it in thorough d< <s working order, bolted his door, swal- ai ar lo\. 3d a large tumbler of whiskey, fas- w ne tened himself down in the precise spot rc li- required for the purpose and was decap- hi at itated with great neatness at the ap- tl as pointed time. tc th We have no intent to make a pleas- gi d. antry of so ghastly a theme, but it must st id be owned that there was a certain gro- ce d; testjueness about this proceeding at pi ur which it is hard not to smile. The it en same is true of the Russian case. This cl ed imhaDDV man determined not to cut his R hc#l off, but to roast himself to death, af le- Nothing would content him but to do m e- this in a way that would insure the most di as excruciating tortures. But be also de- 01 of sired that the world should be thor- st ke oughly made aware of the fact. If he It e- were simply found roasted or boiled the gs lie presumption might be that it was acci- tl ed dental or that he was insane, or that lie m id had taken narcotics or anaesthetics by ei lie way of dulling the pain or becoming in- v< ;r, sensible to it. He had perhaps heard ft ite of the Western man whose case we have tl described and he had certainly made a c* at profound study of suicide. Now, there b ed was good reason to believe that the fc li- Western man, before tying himself t! ir- under the axe, had got extremely ai k- drunk; and the Russian was resolved tl .'e- that no odium of this kind should attach cj ie- to his memory. Hence, after arranging o: a and subjecting himself to his apparatus ir in he wrote memoranda in four different II languages, explaining his purpose and tl the circumstances of its consummation, n He first fixed a line of candles to a ft board, set the board at a suitable dis- vi , tance under his couch, and then lay on ci ,}e his back on the frame or skeleton of his U *2 bedstead in such a way that the candlcs ti I1' roasted his back, or, according to the ti e7 Zeilung, "carbonized his backbone." si He was found naked and dead, and his b , ? manuscripts in the four tongues were a lie close by him. These were in German, v Russian, Polish and Czschish. He was d !es anxious to show in dying that he was v not a coward. Hence his selection of a ti 31" mode of death that, in his own words, n 3 :l should assure " the most atrocious suf^ ferings." A woman, as urfual, was at ea the bottom of his troubles, and he liter, ally died cursing her. "Bcshe accursed , .? with my last breath "are the concluding n- wor^s message tlie poor wretch 5 left behind for the pity ana wonder of * ie* his fellow beings, and doubtless for the f grief and remorse of one of them.?New ^ York Evening Post. * " s ajj. How a Horse Killed ft Dog. n(j One evening not long ago there was a n curious fight between a dog and a horse j tfy on North C street, in Virginia City, c fle Nev. The horse was running loose in c t0 the street, when a bulldog, belonging to re. Henry Matthews, rushed out and began j, * ~ nn/tAiit?a<yA^ I IU YVUllJ It. lUiitmcwo cucuuingvu vhm orJ dog, -winch made several attempts to jj fasten itself on the horse, hut at the c same time fought shy of th? spirited ? )!? animal's heels. Finally the doc came r t0 in front of the horse and sprang straight c ?re for its throat. The horse struck the ^ dog on the shoulder with its right fore- j. ror foot, and the dog, howling with pain, r, 11~ J fho rrrnlln/1 i. IQPQ 1UI1CU UUHVUIOIV'IV upun lav aivuuvu ||jj8 The liorsp then trampled savagely upon" t ice it and killed it. t ve s nc One family of four persons paid a bill b re- of $280 per week at a Saratoga hotel for s the past season. 1] TIMELY TOPICS. ' An important movement, looking to le placing of American horses before le public, was inaugurated in New ork recently. The object is to organic a company for the establishment of grand central and international horse ?ency and repository for the sale of arses and carriages in that city, eonard Jerome, J. R. Keene and others opose taking part in the enterprise. Of le proposed capital stock of $100,000, rer $35,000 was subscribed at the first eeting. Of the war waged between man and ;ast m India the yearly statistics are ice more published, and it would seem lat during 1877 the slaughter was terble. Nineteen thousand six hundred id ninetv-five people were killed? rty-six by elephants, 819 by tigers, 0 by leopards, eighty-five by bears, 564 r wolves, twentv-four by hvenas. 1.180 j other , wild animals, ana 16,777 by lakes. Fifty-three thousand cattle, oreov.er, succumbed in the fight. On ie other side, under slimulus of a reai*d amounting to more than ?10,000, !,85l wild beasts and 127,285 snakes ive been killed; a large total in itself, it small when the losses man and doestic animals have sustained are taken to consideration. A correspondent in Mexico, who took ith him from the United States a large lantitv of agricultural implements, rites Lome that he is more tnan ever mvinced of the grand opening that >untry offers for American trade; and ie of the most enterprising natives of ie country writes that he is introducig the late inventions on his own esites. Reapers and threshing machines rove highly successful; also corn plant's and cultivators. Many other marines, such as portable mills, corn lellers, straw cutters, etc., have lately sen put to use, and from the short exsrience had of them, the writer feels jnfident that farmers in Mexico will nve to adopt them, and will economize luch time, labor and expense. The "Indian troubles" in Colorado id elsewhere represent pretty fairly icnormai state of things in Algeria irty years ago, and .in some parts ol entral Asia at the present day; but it lust be owned that in point of humanity le record of both France and Kussia is very dark one, even as compared with meriac. One of Marshal Pelissier's frican exploits, to take only one inance out of many, was to maintain a age fire at the entrance of a cavern filled itn Arab fugitives, including women id children, till every soul within was iffocated?a tale which one may still sar told with muttered curses by some :ay-haired Kabyle on the border ol ie Sahara. St. Arnaud destroyed an [ual number even more barbarously, ccidentally discovering that a crowd ' natives had fled into a subterranean issage, he ordered his unsuspecting ildiers to block up the only aperture ading to the outer air, and thus to make the lair of the brigands their >mb," as he theatrically phrased it. ears later, when telling the story to an nglish traveler, he added, with exeme complacency, " I am naturally the indest-hearted man living, but there e times when a little severity is Useil." _____ Hon Mushrooms Grow. Mr. Julius A. Palmer, Jr., writes to ie Boston Transcript: A few years ;o the banks of the lot opposite the runswick Hotel, this city, were sodded id the land leveled to its present ade. As the pick of the worklan broke up the soil, a white lbstanco ran through every piece, tarting with large branches, -it ivided and subdivided like the veins i the back of the haDd. The smell was " awSaIvIvv nn a r\vv_ UIJ SllUlig) UUIUMJ UUUV/CU VIA UliW upjsite side of Uie way. This subterinean white vein?for it had that apjarance?wa3 nothing but the hidden irt of tlfe Corprinus comcUus, a mush>om freely eaten now, although tw&nty ;ars ago thought to be poisonous. The immon name of this substance is ipawn." Just as a cutting of the grapeine placed in conditions favorable to :owth will shoot up, put forth branches id bear fruit, so a part of this Corprinus ine transplanted will continue to unify and in time show the result in le form of mushrooms. The whole irth beneath your feet, on a country alk, is alive with vegetation to a great jpth. This vegetation is juatas real, id the various vines?or, in other ords, th&thousand varieties of mush>om spawn?are just aa distinct as the apvine and the woodvine, tbe ivy and le virgins' bower that twine 'their ndrils above your head. Just where ew this year a peculiar kind of toadool, there, next year and so on for suc ssive harvests, will you find the same lant. There is no more mystery about s appearance than in the growth of the lestnut on the tree that shades it. apidity of growth is not near as general i it is thought to be. .The common lushroom and many others lorm for lys just below the soil. A heavy <lew r an evening shower straightens the em of the fungaa and expands its top. ; break3 the earth in the night, and the itherer is able to find in the mording le white buttons wherft he could see r?thinsr the nixrlit before. So, popular Tor has made mushroom growth prosrbial for a superficiality which by the ingi at least is undeserved. Further, le various varieties of toadstools suc;ed each other in rotation just as the loodroot and anemones of spring are dlowed by the roses of summer and le cardinal or gentian of fall. These re not theories that are here advanced; ley are the results of several years' ireful watching of the growth of this rder of plants. On the very spot where. 1 1874,1 gathered mushrooms, there, in 379,1 find the identical variety, bo that le lover ol fungus may have his regular arvest with all the certainty of the irmer who looks for the return of his 'heat crop or tlie results or nis cranoerry ulture. With just that degree of cerlinty, no more and no less", for, as cerlin years are favorable for the producon of certain fruits, as the potato crop 3metimes fails and the apple orchard is arren, the mushroom sp:iwn, usully producing abundantly its expected ariety, mav pass a year, or even undei ifliculties oecome extinct. The blight rhich may visit all life, animal or vege< ible, does not fail to fall at times upor ly humble friends. An Indian's Fight With Bears. An Indian known as " Peavinc Tom 1 OH liorl )ionrl_<n-li!iri<1 ('Tlfniintpr wit.l ome bears on the mountain a'oov* tuck's ranche which must have been s srriblc battle. lie was hunting in tin reality spoken of and found a " beai callow" in a little valley and suddenly ame upon five bears, ilo says 1 hat h< hot one, 'killing it, wla-n another at iicki'd him. His only dependence was n his butcher's knife, and with this h< nmaged to kill the second one. About his time another attacked him, and tin onflict must have been fearful. Pari if the Indian's scalp was torn from his icad, his face was badly lacerated anr lis arm, side and one thigh were fairlj 'eaten up." No bones were broken mwni'ir iml til'mnn;i rrcil l/i stjixwr finf* rawlto.the road, where he was found nd taken to Buck's ranche. Mr. Wagtor dressed his wounds and at last accounts ne w;is improving and in a fait ray to recover, lie says that he would lave been killed but that he kept his aee down most of the time and let the tears hite his buck, went out o the scene of the lijnit and found the hree bears dead and two Indian's knife ticking in one of them. He must nave ieen " game to the backbone," and deerves the title of the '* boss beat iunter."?Pulma* ( Cal) National. THE SNAKE DANCE. A Wonderfnl Snake Story Told tor an Agent of the Jloquii Indiana?A Pit Filled with Battler* and Serpents of all' Kind* and Taken ont by the Month. Mr. W. R. Mateer, Indian agent of the Moquis Pueblos, of Arizona, gave a St. Louis reporter a thrilling account of a strange ceremony practiced by tliat tribe, called the " Snake Dance." The Moquis regard the serpent as a sacred reptile, possessed of the power of controlling the elements, and disposed to be friendly to man. They never kill a snake, and frequently handle the most poisonous serpent with impunity. The rattlesnake is regarded with special TTtmoroli/Mi and fhoir htfo is nn mftrP dreaded than the scratch of a mesauit thorn or the pricking of a cactus. They have an antidote for the bite of a rattlesnake which is infallible, and never fails to effect a cure in a few minutes when administered immediately. An Indian of this tribe, when bitten by a rattler, swallows the antidote at once, and, after being stupefied for a moment, becomes entirely restored and never feels any pain or inconvenience afterward. All attempts of white men to learn the ingredients of this antidote have proved futile, as this secret is guarded with religious fidelity, and an Indian would lay down his life rather than communicate the recipe for snake bites to a pale face. If a white man is bitten by a rattlesnake the Indians will not hesitate to jgive him the antidote, but he must not inquire what t is composed of. The snake dance is performed by the Moquis every two years, and is resorted to as a means of propitiating the Spirit of the Summer Bain to sena abundant showers to fructify the earth and make the crops grow. The corn is planted in the moist sand of the mesa, without previous preparation of the ground, for the plow is unknown to the tribe, and after it has grown to a certain height, and needs moistening from the clouds, preparations are made for the grand snake dance. A deep and wide excavation is made in the diit floor of one of the largest houses in the village, and tlie whole tribe go out to hunt ?nakes. These they catch with their hands and bring them in twined around their necks. , coiled in their bosoms, or wrapped 1 around their legs and arms. All kinds i of snakes are captured?the rattler, the viper, the moccnsin, the blue liicer, the black, the carter, the ereen, spoked?in fact, every variety existing in the country. These to the number 9i several Hundred are placed in the pit in the floor, , and the mouth is covered'over with a buffalo robe, the hairy side down to prevent the reptiles from crawling out and escaping. Then la certain number of the old men dance around the pit, chanting I monotonous songs and calling upon the imprisoned seroents to intercede with the Spirit of the Clouds to send vain upon the thirsting cornfields. A body of younger men next form a circle around the pit, and go through a similar ceremony. Then come the old women, who , have a different chant, then tho young married women, *hen the boys, ana finally the virgins with their hair done up in loops, and then for a few moments a solemn silence prevails, during which the hissing of the serpents and the shrill sound of their rattles are heard under the buffalo robe. These sounds are taken as favorable tokens that the incantations have been successful, and that a copious fall of rain will follow. Then the buffalo robe is removed, and then the men and boys leap into the pit, and each one brings forth a snake, which he holds in his mouth. Sometimes a man will emerge with two or three small snakes in his mouth. As each man emerges from the pit with his mouth full of snakes he runs at full speed down the almost .perpendicular side of the mesa until he comes to the plain, and there gently releases his captives, who at once take to the grass and quickly disappear. After the.pit has been emptied the men examine the wounds on their arms, breast and faces, ?*nd if blood has been drawn they know that the fangs of a rattler have entered their flesh, and they lose no time in applying the antidote. The wounds inflicted by the rattlesnakes are very painful, ^he rattler, when provoked, is the most savage of all serpents, and will continue to strike and lacerate an enemy as long as lie is within reach. Sometimes an old snake with full-grown fangs will fasten upon the cheek or arm of an Indian and hold on until the fangs are torn from his jaws. Mr. Mateer witnessed one of these snake dances of the Moquis recently, and was horrified at the sight. He saw the blood streaming from the arms and breasts of the Indians, who bore the pain with stoic indifference, and seemed to take pleasure in the infliction. They believed that Che more savage the snakes became and the deeper the wounds inflicted, the more copious would be the 3hower. On the occasion of the last snake dance the Indians of one of the villages refused to participate. For some reason they believed that the rain would come without the dance, and while the other villages were engaged in the ceremony they sat idlv in their houses listening to the noise an^. smiling at the unnecessary trouble their neighbors were taking. Subsequently they had good cause to repent, for when tlie rain came sweeping aown from the mountains it poured a copious flood upon the snake-worshiping villages and their fields and passed around the heretic village and their parched cornfields, leaving them as dry as a powderhorn. The result was that six of the Beven villages raised abundant crops, and the other had to call on the agent for government,rations. Haj Fever. A new view of this disease has come to be entertained, the result of a more careful study of it. It is found to be nervous in its origin; to come not from without, but from within, though it may have numerous exciting causes. Dr. Beard, of New York, who uas led in ! the more recent investigations, says ' ILK lb LL1U3U VViJU liUVlVUgllij uuvviwvmum the nerve-theory of hay fever are prepared for the discovery of almost any conceivable manifestation of this won1 derful malady. 1 Though he has seen or studied, over 1 eight hundred cases, every season brines to his attention novel, unexpected, and 1 unimaginable caprices in its history and " symptoms. He adds: "In the family t of neuroses" (nerve diseases), "to which hay fever belongs, nothing can * surprise, nothing is anomalous, nothing is inconsistent With the evolution ol the modern constitution, new shapes and type of symptoms are every year > coming under observation." t While eminent physicians have looked ^ upon running of the nose, sneezing, ^ cough, asthma, ana inversion to iigui :w , essential to the disease, I)r. Beard has " known a case in which the only symp. torn was intlammation of one eye, com, ing on suddenly every summer. Another ' was characterized only byaneczematous eruption of the face, coming on yeai ; after year, between the twentieth and ? twenty-fifth of August. If theeruptior , was suppressed by treatment, an attack ' of asthma followed. j In another c ise the only symptom wa< I spasm of the oesophagus; ia anotlior. r loss of voice; ir. another, the attack w;i> preceded for two or three days by proj found mental depression, during which I immense quantities of alcohol could be taken without any apparent effect. " Like all the "nerve-maladies of the . family to which it belongs, hay fever is I by far the most common in the North, ; and it TCgwIarly decreases in frequency , as we go South."? Youth's Companion. ; The world is a looking-glass, nnd ? gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will . turn and look surly upon you: laugh at it and with it, and it is> a pleasant, kind companion. The Fail of the Year. Oh! the elms are yellow, The apples are mellow, The corn is ripe in the ear; Tho birds leave off nesting, The oarth begins resting, Because 'tis the lall o' the ye&r ' ' ypi The crickets are calling, Tho red leaves are tailing, * In the field the stubble is sera; Tho day of the clover And wild bee if over, Because 'tis the Ml o' tho year. Since summer is flitting, Dent iriend, it is fitting The heart should make double cheer So lot us go smiling TV ith love life beguiling, Because 'tis the lall o' the year. ?Mrt. M. F. Butti, in Boston Traiucripe. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The board of education?The school' master's shingle. . r . Man is often driven to desperation with his own hobby horses. Can an editor's hat bo called the newB tile??Syracuse Sunday Time9. " You don't seem to like me when I rhold," the ink replied to the angry scribe. Always in " order." The five letters which compose that word.?New Fork News. A gauge that no man should measure his property by is the mortgage:?-.Some Sentinel. " This is a late fall," said Heffelspin, as he sustained a midnight tumble.? Some Sentinel. When a corner loafer dies in Tennessee, the newspaper says: " Anether old land-mark gone." It is estimated that American travelers expended last summer, in foreign travel, $17,000,000. A man?so to speak?who is not able to bow to his 6wn conscience every morning, is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day. The St. Petersburg Globe says tha.11,854 persons were incarcerated in the Central prison at Moscow during the summer, 10,477 of whom were condemned to exile in Siberia. A London clergyman has described the orchestra and coffee palace in Regent's park as ""twin roads to hell, along which the rising generation are invited to walk on Sunday." You may put a mean soul, like a poor 9 ?? *? ? AMi) ho in mada picture, in a uuawjr uiuuc, uuu u? u> uvuv the better for it; and I yon may pat a great soul, like a good picture, into-a common frame, and he is none the worse for it. Four years ago there were only 157 Chinese"io the city of New York. There are now more than 3,000 of them. Of thes.*, 500 have laundries, forty run groceries, twenty tobacco shops, ten drug stores and six manage restaurants. Great Britain's standing army of 133,000 men costs $85,000,000 per annum; < France has an army of 470,000 men at an annual cost of $100,( 00,000; Russia, 787,000 men at $144,000,000; Austria, 296,000 men at $51,000,000; Germany 420,000 at $92,500,000. An eye to the future: Mother to her daughter just seven years old?" What makes you look so sad, Carrie P" Carrie, looking at her baby-brother three weeks old?"X was just tlnn&ng. that in about ten years from now, when I shall be. entering company, and having be<ux, that brother of mine will be just old enough to bother the. lile out of me."-Puck. A hungry printer is not apt to criticise the typographical appearance of a bill of fare. ?New York News. Especially if he is satisfied with the quality of the inside matter.?Stamford Advocate. But hejfrequently forms an' opinion of the pi; an assertion which neeasno proof.?Oennert. And lie gobbles all the fat he can get.? N. Y. Monthly Union. And sticks to it regardless of the rule to take as you ticd.?Nauyatuck (Conn.) Enterprise. Tim new iiouor law in Michigan is (juite stringent in its provisions, and imposes severe penalties for its violation. Under this law no intoxicating drinks are to be sold on Sunday, nor on week days between the hours of nine o'clock at night and six in the morning, excepting in certain cities where the night hour is extended to ten o'clock. It also prohibits its sale in any billiard-room or other place where games of chance are played. Now knock the nuts from off the tree And store them in the barn, And sheer the chickens and the geese, And spin your winter's yarn. Dig up your ontside windows soon, And train them to the wall; Put on the rubber moldings, too, 4 And the storm door withal. Your cellar floor with coal now dress, And sharpen up your ax; Your name set on the voting list. And promptly pay your tax. And when the winter's storm shall rage, And snow and hail shall come, . Just spend your evenings with your wife And family at home. ?Boston Transcript. A novel invention recently exhibited in St. Lous consists of a fire-prool shutter that is opened by a stream of water. The shutters are constructed of iron with holes about a foot square near the center, which are protected by iron slats. On the back part or inside of the shutters beneath the slats there are small water tanks, so that when a stream of water strikes the slats a portion of it runs through and fills the +.,nL-c on/1 n<> snnn as thev are full the weight, together with the force of the stream, trips the shutter fastenings and/ the shutters fly open. The shutter hinges are fastened on an inclined plane, so that it may be said the shutters open by their own gravity- Simply filling the tanks with water will not cause the shutters to open, as force or a shock are also requisite. The Tunnel Under the Hudson* Work on the proposed tunnel under the North river between Jersey City * and New York is now in progress. About forty men are at work building ; the perpendicular shaft, which descends : by gravitation a* fast as the toil h<*neath is removed. When this turiss of brick | masonry has been sunk about H.vtv feet, the archway ouiit into one side and temporily bricked u|> will be opened, so 1 that the horizontal shaft, or tunnel I proper, can be pushed forward beneath II the river's bed. Ori this latter part ol ' the work an "air jock" win u?? muu duced, consisting of an iron cylindei KixG feet, [so arranged by means of a hinged door that laborers can pass [ through it into tho compressed airchamber and go on with the excavation. 1 The outward "pressure of tho air is cx1 pectod to assist in excluding water and * upholding the roof of earth. Colonel ? - -? l.J.iic/.f ditr re I il:l5KlM I'.xpjvnacw iuiuovk ?... -1 oorter with enthusiasm. confident that * ' In the end he will succecd in one of the 1 most remarkable engineering lcnts of ' modern times. The expectation is tli.it. 1 the Erie and Pennsylvania railroads, ' the New Jersey Central, Delaware. Lackawanna ami Western, and other ' iinportiint lines which are now depen1 donee on river transportation, will send their trains through the tunnel, which wiii have a capacity for 400 trains every twenty-four hours. The tunnel will be about one miie under the river, with approaches at either end?12,000 feet aiunrethcr. It will he circular in form.-0x21 In t. liitted with a double tra<;< railway Total estimated cost, $!0,n:i0.000 ? American Sfiip. i