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BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1879. NO. 24. VOLUME XXY.
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A Legend or Harvest.
So long ago that history pays
No heed nor record of how long,
Back in the lovely dreamy days,
The days ot story and o 1 song.
Baiore the world had crowded grown.
While wrong on earth was hard to find,
And hall the earth had never known
The lorms and laces ot mankind.
When just as now the years would keep
Their terms ol snows and suns and showers,
It chanced that summer dropt asleep,
One morning, in a Held ol flowers.
And while tho warm weeks came and fled,
In all their tender wealth of chnrm,
She slept, with beauteous golden head
Laid soltly on her weary arm,
She did not hear the waving trees,
The warbling brook she did not hear,
Uor yet the velvet-coated beea
^ That boomed about her rosy ear.
In many a yellow breezy mass,
The rich wheat ripened lar away,
And glittering oa the tragnuit grass,
Her silver sickle idly lay.
But then at last, one noontide hour,
A gorgeous moth, while hovering by,
Mistook her sweet mouth for a flower,
And summer waked, with startled cry.
rose, in anxious wonder, now,
To gaze upon the heightened wheM,
And saw its plenteous tassels bow
Dead-ripe below the sultry heal.
Halt crazed, she wandered east and west,
Amid the peaceful spacious clime,
Until at length, with panting breast,
She stood beiore old father time.
With tears oi shame she told him all,
While pointing to the wheat unmown,
And said: ""What power shall make it tall
Ere autumn's bitter winds have blown ?"
Then father time, with laughter gay,
Bowed all his frame, and crooked his knees,
And tossed his white beard like the spray
^ That crowns tha crests oi wintry seas.
| "Oh, daughter, cheer your heart!" he cried; |
" The wheat shall fall ere lalls the nighl. !
We two shall mow it, side by sido,
And reap it in the stars' pale light!"
So summer cleared her brow of gloom,
And lorth with father time she went,
And, haggard age by youth in bloom,
Above the tawny wheat they bent.
Ere fall of night the harvest fell;
But since that season, fair and blithe,
I
Ab ancient annals love to tell,
Old father time has borne a scythe !
?Edgar Fawceit, in St. JWcholus.
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DOM'S LOVERS. j
Dora will never forget that day of the
procession; she remembers the very airs
the bands played, the glitter of epaulets,
the splendidly caparisoned horses, the
waving flags. She was very happy on
that day?far happier than she was for a
long, long season afterward. Clement
had invited her to go into the city to witness
the paeeant; he had permission
from Mr. Oliver, a director of the Bank
of Shekels, to take a window in thai
building, by which the procession passed
- Aunt Hitty had frowned upon the
affair, and had told her she was a fool to
rneoura<re that vounsiackanapi s, and so
L keep better matches at a distance. " If
t lie weren't going off directly, I should
I ' forbid it," she gaid.' "How can you
r care for him, when such a man as Simon
Cleverly is at your feet, passes me!
They're not to De named in the same
breath. Cleverly is tall, Clement Smitliers
is short; Cleverly's eyes are dazzling,
Clement's are near-sighted; the one has
a fortune of his own, the other hasn't a
sou, so to speak." As for the question ol
money, Dora felt that she would rather
share poverty with Clement than dwell in \
marble halls and fare sumptuously every
day with Mr. Cleverly.
It so happened that she and Clement
were the earliest arrivals at the bank,
with the exception of a clerk, and as
that person knew Clement, and had a
sweetheart to escort trom the suburbs,
he soon left them in possession. Dora
had never been inside the bank before,
and while they waited and said their
* tender nothings, she looked about her,
asking innumerable questions, in ordor,
perhaps, to postpone the inevitable
question.
"There's the safe," said Clement, as
they paused before a ^door. " It's built
into the wall. If you open this door, it
rings a bell somewhere in an office in
Exchange street, and they are warned
that somebody is tampering with the
safe, and up comes a brace of policemen."
" Oh, Clement, what a romancer you
are!" laughed Dora. "Won't they hear
it at Thule? Let's see "?and she turned
the handle of the door. "There! Why
doesn't the bell ring?"
''The burglar doesn't hear it, I suppose,
or he'd make off. Maybe it's the
inner door, the door of the safe itself.
They don't lock this one, you see, and
anybody might open it by mistake.
When the bank officers want to open the
safe, they know how to prevent tne bell
from ringing, they tell me, but maybe
it's all humbug. Cleverly told me about
it?he's teller here." And presently
other spectators arrived, and Clement
and Dora took their places at the window.
and caught far off the muffled
tread of feet, the beating of drums, and
the hint of a martial tune. Just then
the door opened hurriedly, and an irritated-looking
man popped in, likeajackout-of-a-box.
"Who lias been meddling with the
bank's safe?" he cried.
" I don't think it has been disturbed,"
replied a gentleman present. Clement
and Dora had forgotten that a safe
existed, and had just stepped out upon
k 1
tut; vviiiuiiw uaivuu).
" Don' tell me!" pursued the irate ofiicial.
"Was nobody here when you
came?"
44 Only those two young people on the
balcony?lovers."
"'Confound 'em!" and he stepped up
to Clement and pulled his sleeve.
44 Somebody's been tampering with the
safe?can you tell me anything about
it?'1
" I?I really?" stammered Clement,
suddenly brought down to earth. 441
beg pardon?what did you wish?"
The man repeated his question more
angrily. His demeanor brought the
blood in a flame to Clement's face.
44 There was no harm done, I assure
you," he answered. 44 The door was
opened by mistake?"
"Tell him, Clement?tell him I
openpd it," whispered Dora.
" Worth while bringing a man all the
way from Exchange street for nothing!
Th t comes of opening the bank to
Tom, Dick and Harry! I shall have to
lay it before the Board of Directors, I
shall!"
~4,I haven't the smallest objection,"
said Clement; and while they returned
to the memorable pages of the past,
where here a rose had been pressed, and
there a sprig of mignonette, the procession
moved into sight, the music
soared above them, the crowd surged
beneath; there was rhythm in the tread
ol tue marcningieec, ana ine sun bituck
soarks from the housings of the horses
and the points of bayonets. Cleverly,
on a capering steed, looked up and
smiled on Dora, while daggers shot
from beneath his brows as he recognized
her companion. But everything has an
end. The last bit of glitter and color
finally vanished down the long vista ol
the street, and the band music became
like the unreal melody of a dream. They
went and dined together afterward, and
stepped into a picture gallery, and said
I good-bye at Aunt Kitty's gate, since h<
j expected to sail next morning by sun
! rise, as first mate in tLe Viaette foi
: Japan.
hut next day be appeared a^ain
j "The wind didn t serve," he explained
! "we shan't get off till afternoon. Pul
I on vour hat, Dora, and I'll row you out
t to the Vidette, and you shall see "how we
j poor sailors fare." The day was like
crystal, the river coruscated with shift
I ing lights, while the ship loomed up be:
fore them like some fabled sea-bird,
' gigantic and mvsterious. Every moj
ment was full of elixir to Dora,
i "Iwish I were captain, Dora," he
whispered, as they leaned over the side
of the Vidette, ana looked into the depths
below, and at their own shadows upon
j the surface, which threatened to become
I one, as the ship swayed and the tide
I rocked, " and we were bound fof Japan
j together."
I " It is a long way; you might grow
tired of my companionship. "Who are
those men coming up the side of the
ship, Clement? Do they belong to the
crew?"
"They look like policemen. I suppose
that one of the sailors made off without
settling his bills."
j "No, Clement, they are asking for
I you."
! "Nonsense! what can they want with
Ime!" Clement turned about, surprise
j and perplexitygiving him an involved
I expression. He had the air of one
I brought to bay.
! "Mr. Clement Smithers?" said one of
the officers, approaching. "You are
; suspected of having tampered with the
' safe of the Bank of Shekels on the seven|
teenth of June. It becomes my duty to
i detain you for examination."
4i What folly!" cried Clement, hotly.
I " I can explain it all. The lady who
was with me at the bank is my witness,
j I can -give my affidavit?"
" But you must come with me; them's
1 my orders."
"How do we know but the lady's
i your accomplice, eh?" put in his comI
panion.
"But I am to sail in a couple of
hours," objected Clement.
" Ay, the chip's to sail, but we'll give
you another sort of berth."
"Tell them," gasped Dora?"make
them understand thit I pulled the bell,
opened the door by mistake, for fun?"
| "Yes, we've heard that pretty story
before, but it won't bear washing". Perhaps
you took the bonds that are missing
too?"
Clement's heart stood still. "Are
there any bonds missing?" he asked.
"Just as if you didn't know better'n
us! If the wind hadn't bauled round
you'd got off splendid with 'era."
It was all abroad and in the daily
papers by the following day; everybody
was talking about it. Mr. Cleverly
stepped into Aunt Hitty's to cive the
latest particulars and assure Dora that
she should not be annoyed.
"But Clement is as innocent as you
are; it was I who opened the door," she
explained.
"Nobody suspects you of taking the
bends, child. You wern't about to sail
for foreign shores?there's the rub. I'm
afraid you'll have to go into court and
give testimony."
"Youdon't believe that Clement is
guilty ?"
"Itlooks black for him. I suspend
my judgment."
"Butyou believe me when I assure
you that he never touched the safe."
" I believe every word you utter. But
that will not convince the directors or
the jury. If no bonds had been missing,
of course opening the door would have
given no concern."
"It is so unexpected, so undeserved!"
" That must be proved."
" Mr. Cleverly," she asked one day
later, "what will they do if Clement is
?is found?" ?
" Several years in the State-prison at
hard labor. I believe."
" And nobody to keep up his heart, to
encourage him. He will get hardened
by such injustice,'" she signed.
As the time of his trial drew near,
everybody spoke of Clement as one already
condemned. "Poor misguided
fellow!" they said; and even Aunt Hitty
i nopea ne was suppneu wmi uhuis. in
the mean time it almost seemed as if
Cleverly had stepped into Clement's
nioh. He was always at Aunt Hitty's,
and going away late; and Aunt Hitty
was usually ill with neuralgia, which
prevented conversation on her side,
while Dora had nothing to do but keep
the ball rolling, and was never weary of
talking of Clement's case.
"You are profoundly interested in
this affair," Cleverly said to her one
night when she had stepped out upon
the pizza to wish by the new moon, and
he had followed.
" Nothing interests me so much." Mr.
Cleverly winced.
" What would you do to prove his innocence
?"
"Anything?that was right."
" Would you marry some one else, if
that would save him ?"
"Some one I do not love? Would
that be right?"
"Where would be the harm, if he
frw morru withmif Invfl rafhpr
than not at all?"
"These are mere idle words, Mr.
Cleverly."
44 No, they are not mere idle words.
Listen; you will do anything to save
Clement Smithers. Is it wrong to make
another happy, and save a friend from
ruin? Tnen marry me, Dora, and I
will save him; I give you my word."
44 Why will you make such a condition
if it is possible for you to clear him?
Why will^you not accomplish it gratu
itously ?"
"Because I love you, and I am not
Quixotic. At present your storv is not
credited; you are suspected of a weakness
for the prisoner. Were you my
wife, that prejudice would be cancelled.
Marry me,, dear Dora, and I swear to
save his name and credit, or forfeit my
own."
44 How could I do such a thing, even
to save Clement?"
44 It is in your power to decide whether
he shall spend his best years in prison,
in the pursuit of menial tasks, in a convict's
garb, in the society of abandoned
men, imbittered by injustice. It seems
to me that you can not hesitate."
Was it true, then, she asked herself,
that it was in her power to save Clement
. from ignominy, and did she hesitate?
Did she not love him well enough to
sjicri fice everything for him? Daily she
reached the heights of renunciation,
daily she slipped back into the valley of
humilittion and self-love. Every day
Mr. Cleverly pressed his suit, waxed
eloquent, convinced her ienorance by
plausible proofs agd_promises, and one
day he earned his point.
" Yes," she assented, feebly ; 44 I will
marry you to save Clement."
441 accept the terms," he said. " You
will marry me for Clement's sake; byand-by
you shall love me for my own."
She could make no objections to an
early wedding, sine0 it was oniy as Mr.
Cleverly's wife that she could influence
Clement's fate, while Aunt Hitty, unaware
of the conditions of the contract,
at that time, pressed the matter forward
with feminine alacrity. "I'm sorry foi
Clement Smithers," she confessed, 44 but
vou couldn't marry a felon if you loved
him to distraction. Mr. Cleverly says
he prefers a wedding in church. Shall
it be satin and tulie?' But it seemed as
if Dora had but a shadowy interest ir
the preparations, such as a ghost mighl
have.
It was toward dusk of a dark after
noon, always darker in the place when
Clement awaited his trial than else^
where, that Mr. Oliver, one of the ban!
directors, was admitted to an interview
with the prisoner.
" You have come to beg me to confesi
what I have done with the bonds P'
laughed Clement, bitterly.
! "iJo," replied Mr. Oliver; "I hav<
come to tell you that tne bonds hav(
[ been found."
i "Found!"
; " Exactly. We had a wind-storm on
Mr. Cleverly's wedding day. You have
: the newspapers here; you must have ,
read of it ?"
" I read nothing here; I have been j
; composing a satire on justice instead. I (
t did not know Cleverly was married." ,
t "No?" It was a furious gale, and the i
old elm that stood near the Church of (
the Heavenly Manna broke beneath it. .
A splinter struck Mr. Cleverly as lie j
passed from the carriage to the church ;
door. It proved his de^th-blow." <
"Poor fellow! On his wedding day, t
too! But what has that to do with me j
or the bonds?" ]
"Mr. Cleverly was our teller, you re- ,
member. Yesterday the bonds were j
found among his personal effects. That i
is all."
i " That is a good deal," said Clement, j
i a new color flushing his face. " I should t
not have thought it of Cleverly. How- t
ever, let us speak no ill of the dead. On c
f his wedding day, too! Who was he r
( going to mnrry?" t
"Miss Theodora Gray." s
"Miss Theodora Gray! My Dora!" 8
he cried. The cloud that had lifted for ,
a space dropped again over Clement, j
and he walked out of prison more hope- f
less and heartless than he had entered, t
He asked no questions; he did not seek c
Dora. The captain of the Swan, about e
to sail for the Indies, had fallen ill, and a
he accepted the situation without a mo- a
ment's hesitation. r
On the homeward voyage he put about B
to relieve a shipwrecked crew. " You'll c
never catch me at sea again," one of the e
rescued confided to Captain Smithers' ^
mate when she had gotten to rights on a
boardtheSwan. "Betweenseasickness 0
and shipwreck, it's no joke. You see, t
the doctor prescribed a voyage for my j
niece; a love affair, you know?lowered v
her system. I wonder if shipwreck is a a
tonic? Save us! who is that? The ?
captain? Why, man alive! it's Clement ?
Smithers! Dora! Dora! there was a f
Providence in our being wrecked, after ,
all. Goodness! what's the matter with a
the girl? Captain Smithers, don't you t
know old friends? Won't you go to B
Dora? She looks as if she were going ?
to faint." f
And Captain Smithers went.?Harptfs a
Bazar. o
Th/> Won Vfti*nant ?
JL HV tJVU uvtyvuva U
The sea serpent is classed by Borne naturalists
as a reptile, and by others as an C
animal, but this trifling disagreement u
has no effect on the general health of b
the monster. He is always in a jolly u
mood and the best of spirits. He is not h
quite as domestic in his nature as an old ri
tom-cat, or a boy with three stone- w
bruises on each foot, but he is seldom n
met with any great distance from home. v.
There is abundant evidence to prove that fl
he knew all about this country before d
Columbus did. At least, the first one j?
seen in America by white men acted as
much at home as a hired man in the a
pantry, and at no time during the last ai
four hundred years has the market been g
short of a full supply. a
Sea serpents have been met with only a
150 feet long, but the majority of them 0
are at least double that length. A sea h
captain who would come into port and b
make oath that he had seen one less than tl
200 feet long would be laughed to scorn
and advisen to go West and become a t<
Buffalo Bill. There is no doubt that
one of the monsters can keep right on g
growing sis long as he w ants to, and of r
course each one is ambitious to spin out
as far as he can. During fly time a sea h
serpent 300 feet long has a great advan- 0
tage over a cow or a mule?a fact which ](
naturalists seem to have overlooked en- v
tirely. r
While these monsters are no doubt p
somewhat given to roaming around, they n
are seldom found curled up under favor- tl
f cflfio ai? ir\ ofKnro roo/vrfflH fn a.\
11A? V.J 11.1 J. Jf VI WLD VI 1U 1*1 UW&O 1WDVJ> VVM W y
by moon-struck lovers. v
While other snakes go tD heaps of b
trouble to get into a house and curl up a
in an old straw hat on the top-shelf of a t;
bedroom closet, the sea serpent keeps 0
himself modestly in the background. a
This animal is not gregarious in its 5
habits. Two sea serpents are never
seen together, and it is seldom that two
are seen the same week.
Their plan Beems to be to go it alone.
Each one then secures all the glory and n
all the plunder, and there is no give "
away about it. Their principal food t!
consists of tough old ships?the older ?]
and tougher the better, and it any red- J]
nosed sea captain or swaggering mates
happen to slip into the monst?r,s mouth
along with topsail yards, bowsprits, ?
capstans, etc., the serpent is not to
blame for it. ?
While children may cry for this ref)tile,
they hadn't better fool with it, as it t(
is plain that he is very whimsical in his s]
nature. Captains have taken one stiff ^
elass of grog and gone on deck to be- *
hold a sea serpent humping away from ^
the ship as fast as he could go. Other ?
captains have taken two glasses of rrog s:
and seen the serpent swim all around the *
ship and lift its head thirty feet in the E
air and open his jaws as if he scented u
roast chicken. It may all be in the grog, ?
or it may be the variable nature of the k
serpent. Until the real truth is known
the tow-headed boys of the land had v
hetter not run after this marine novelty. ?
While it is known that the house tiy b
lives six months and the elephant 100 a
years nobody knows how long it takes h
a sea serpent to die of old age. He may t
droop and die just as he has learned the t
ropes and come to know all about the t!
bunko-game, or he may hang on and s
witness the passing away of seven gen- &
erations of long-lived olu Jack Tars. It h
is perhaps j ust as well that some little a
mystery is allowed to enshroud this a
strange inhabitant. If we were privi- ^
ledgea to slam him around as we do t
mud-turtles, or kick him^out of the path F
as we do an old hat with a rock under it, '
we should feel a contempt instead of an a
admiration for him, and when a ship s
came home and reported seeing a mons- s
ter sea serpent in the neighborhood of c
section three, township eleven, in range t
thirteen east, the captain would be *
asked to look in our eyea and answer if i
he saw a vegetable garden there.? De- t
troit Free Press.
rkiMnAn
recuiLif, V/UIIUICUI
I)r. St. John Roosa, professor of oph- ]
thalmotology, writes to the New York
Medical Record a strong protest against j
the common practice of feeding little f
children with meat, tea and coffee and J
all varieties of food eaten by adults, j
It induces diseases of the eye as well as j
of other parts of the delicate body. He ;
pertinently says: " If the good Lord had '
wished us to eat meat at the age of {
twenty months He would have given
us a full set of teeth ready for use at the
time." He agrees with Dr. Learning, j
who has for several years had charge of '
fin asylum in which large numbers of
children are cared for, ana who does not
allow one of them to have anything ex- ;
cept milk until they are seven years old. \
i Dr. St. John Roosa begs tlic physicians :
whom he addresses to use all their ini
fluence to have children reared upon ,
milk alone, withholding meat, cake and
. puddings, tea and coffce. Milk and fari- ,
naceous food until the child has teeth
' with which to prepare other articles ol ;
> food for the stomach is the rule in ordi
1 nary cases. Many a mother who reads
[ tuis will wonder that such advice should
I be necessary, but the proportion ot ,
J mothers who understand the relation of
i food to health and development is very ,
t small. This is not to be wondered at, i
~ 5a morJo in niir ooVinnl
IU) UU piuv 10IVS1& AO iuuuv m vi** wvhvv.
system for teaching our boys and girls, (
5 unless they enter the high school, the
- knowledge which is most important to ,
c their future welfare. Whatever their (
r rank in the various branches taught, if
thev are ignorant of the conditions of
' health they are not properly educated.
' To say that they should learn these im- i
portant truths in their homes does not
3 meet the difficulty. The mothers are 1
i usually as ignorant as the ehildlren. :
One has but to notice the food of little
chilfon to be convinced of this. i
*
limiting in Kansas.
On those prairies where buffalo and
deer and antelope have run so many
years, there are vast quantities of old
bones lying about. These old bones are
af some commercial value. My brother
md I drew in rather over a hundred
ions during one winter. It was a three
lays' trip to go out on the plains and
jet a load. While out on these bone
;rips, we made considerable account of
ack-rabbits; we had two greyhounds
)n purpose to hunt them, and to hunt
mtelopes. I "did most of the hunting;
ny brother was a little lame that season
Tom a "hoist" he had ieceived off a
eaper. We had one of the fleetest
lonies for running I have ever seen.
We called her Gilly.
I would get up before sunrise, call in
sport and Grip (the two greyhounds),
hen mount Gilly, and start after a jack abbit
for breakfast. One morning we
jot after a pretty big jack, and ran him
>tcc an emierant party hauled up for
he night. Two men and a woman were
tirrintf about: and I saw two nice, rosv
;irls peering out of the back end of a
vagon. They looked so inspiring that
: thought would show them a li:tle
ancy riding, So I touched Gilly and
old her to go. At that, she just reached
iut those white legs of hers and straiglitned
to it. Oh, she went like an arrow
iter the hounds and past that schooner,
jid away on across the prairie. And,
ight in the midst of her keenest run,
he broke into a wolf-hole! Believe it
r not, the mare turned a complete somrsault!
But I wasn't in the saddle
<rhen she turned it; I had gone on.
jid went on; went on my head, went
>n my knees, went every way. I was
aore than fifty feet from the pony when
finally stopped! Sportand Grip pulled
ip to see me go, and the jack?he stopped
md looked. The wolf came out of the
Tound and looked, too. They were all
o interested in it, that they entirely
orgot each other. And back at the
yagon I saw six or seven men, women
,noT girls, standing motionless, with
heir mouths open When I, at length,
;ot up, such a "ha! ha" came wafted
>n the wind as I shall not soon forget,
t hurt me outrageously. I got up feeling
s if I were a hundred and one years
Id. As for the j ack. he had taken leave;
nd the dogs were barking into the wolllole.
Another young fellow, named Adney
)lark,and myself once ran a.jack-rabbit
nder a settler's aouse, which stood out
y itself on the prairie. The rabbit ran
p to it and crawled under the sill. The
ounds could not get under. We went
JUI1U LUC 11UUOC tuiu LllCli 1I1WJ It. IUC1U j
ras no one at home. We were deter-1
lined to have that jack, anyhow. So j
re pulled up two or three boards of the i
oor, and Ad took the fire poker and got i
own under the floor, to poke out the j
ick. He had not been down there long |
rhen he uttered a screech and came out;
t one jump, with a great big rattleaake
hanging to his boot-ieg. I j
rabbed a chair and killed the snake, j
.d was so weak lie could not stand J
lone and could scarcely speak. I pulled [
ff his boot. But there was no mark 011 1
im. Fortunately, the snake had only j
itten his boot-leg. We then poked out I
tie jack and the hounds grabbed him.
And at another time, when eight 01 ;
2n of us were out racing down jacks j
rith as many as thirteen hounds, we all j
ot after one big fellow, and at length I
an him into an old deserted " dig-out." 1
A "dig out," or "root-out." is a|
ouse dug in the ground, and the floor '
f it is often four or five feet below the I
jvel of the soil. The door of this one '
raseone. The jack, being pretty hard
un, darted in there. In went the whole !
ack of hounds alter him, and there was
0 end of a pow-wow. Round and about
liey went, yelping and growling down
:iere in the aark. We thought there
rouldc't be much left of that jack, when, I
y-and-bye. out he came and leaped ,
way, leaving all the hounds ft there j
smbling over one another, and the end !
f the business w:is that we had to go in j
nd haul those dogs out by the legs.? |
t. Nicholas.
A Horse's Revenge.
The society for the protection of anilals
against the cruelty of human anirnls
is not remarkable for activity in
1113 v;uiiijw j, w into ba& x ano wut- i
pondent of a London paper. TJie po- '
,ce appear to think it no business of j
Heirs when carters or coachmen bru- j
illy maltreat their horses in the streets, >
r when boss amuse tliemselves by tor- J
jring docs and cats, or whatever other j
reatures hare the ill-luck to fall into j
lieir hands. The horses would appear
3 be aware of the supineness of tlieir i
apposed protectors, for they have taken ;
lie matter into their own hands, or !
ather into their own teeth and feet. ;
l carter by dint of hard flogging at his !
Irree horses, persuaded them to drag ]
ixteen tons of coal to the root of the j
teep^ hill which leads to the Boulev/ird j
tessiers; but his powers of stimulation
tterly failed to induce them to proceed j
ny further?a thick steam rose up from j
heir panting sides and nostrils, j'Budge!"
said the fiend; and straight-j
ray the carter began to lash and swear, j
l crowd gathered around the furious
least, who abandoned the lash
nd began to bang his stick about their
leads and kick them with hob-nailed
loots in the sides. The leader of the
earn took upon himself to protest against
bis extreme measure. He turned round,
eized the carter's arm with his teeth,
ossed him to the ground, and trampled
lim with his hoofs; then seized him i
cain with his teeth and tossed him i
.tout. The crowd and the police,which j
lad approvingly looked on while he ,
ortured the horses, interfered for the \
irotection of the human monster, who !
ras with great difficulty torn bleeding
,nd mangled from the just equine reentment.
He is justly punished; but
urely some penalty should be inflicted
?n the railroad company which sent out
hig heavv load of coal to be drawn uplill
by three horses, when twice the
mmber would barely have sufficed for
he work.
The King of Beasts.
William Garhart denies Congressman !
Daggett's assertion that the mule is the I
ring of beasts. Garhart accords the I
mlm of superiority to the hog. A hog
ilways knows what he is about. Garlart
claims that no man on earth ever
tot the better of a hog in a fair struggle,
tie has tried to drive over hogs many
imes, but was successful only once,
rhev sometimes lie in the hollow of the
oad fast asleep. Mr. Garhart has often I
)orne down on them at a 2.40 pace with J
i five-ton stage and a six-in-imnd on a ,
ilown grade. Just, However, as ne con-1
idently expected to see the air filled
with wagon-grease and spare-ribs, they .
would lurch clear of the wheel or glide i
ander the stage and come out all safe 1
md sound, with a grunt of quiet satis- !
"action and a look that was more ex- 1
isperatine than to be. robbed by road i
igents. Mr. Garbart never got away i
with a hog but once. The animal i
lodged a train of cars coming out of a j
;unnel, and he whipped up his horses j
md caught the hog square in the neck !
with one of the forewheels and killed I
it. The stage, h "wever, upset and j
jmashed everything in sight. Two i
men were killed outright and several
women maimed for life. The hog calculated
all right for the locomotive, but
was out of his reckoning on the stage.
But the company thought the victory
? ?? -> 1
jver me nog was uenuv (juiuhw .
Sarhart also asserts that a hog can whip
i mule, Daggett's assertion to the contrary
notwithstanding.? Virginia (N(v.)
Chronicle.
Th'* JapApse government has in ifp
service eignty Englishmen, thirty-ou~
Americans, thirty Frenchmen, eighteen
Germans, seven Dutchmen, four Italians,
three Swiss, three Chinese, two
Austrians, two Portuguese and one Russian,
making 181 foreigners.
I
TAMING LIONS.
A Talk with the Man In the Cage<-IIow a I
Naiteryli Obtained over the Monarch!
of the Field?A Very Eaiy Business?
Experience* and TbrllllnB Stories-*
The Fasclnatlona ot it. ]
" The little man standing over there ]
by the cage of monkeys is the lion- j
tamer," said Mr. Barnum to a represen- j
tative of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. (
An introduction was arranged, and Dr. \
Charles White, the man who had coaxed (
the Nubian monarch to become as a ]
kitten, said he would be at leisure as j
soon as he had fixed up a dose for a }
man who had a chill under the hyena j
cage. Almost lithe in build, he is five j
leet eieht inches out of his boots, and i
pulls down the scales at 180. He is E
modest to a degree that is captivating? t
because modest men do tase. He is t
reticent, or was at the start, in a measure
that was exasperating, tor when a ^
man is expected to talk and won't, or l
hesitates, he is of all creation the most r
flxasnerfltincr. i
" ^he world is mistaken about this i
thing of taming lions," he said, as he J
looked around at a balclheadcd monkey t
that had reached out for his sparsely- r
covered head. c
" Doesn't he require the will power 1
and the peculiar grit of the gods of 1
which the juvenile learned?" was asked.
" I don't know anything about it," he
answered, quietly. "You have got to
take the same common sense rule about
the government and control of a lion S
that is used among men; only, I must 1
say, I had rather attempt to tame a cage p
of lions and tigers and leopards than ?
some men I have seen." ?
It was suggested that he must have .
some rudimentary idea about the busi- *
ness. r
" No, I never thought anything about ?
that," he replied. "You see I started ?
out in 1846 with old Van Amburgh. I f1
was the man who took care of the har- J;
ness, and that brought me around the F
caccs a good deal. After a while I got ^
so~that I could take a .ion by the paw. *
T?- oonmorl trv primp natiirn.llv. T npvfir
tried to do anything to make a lion 1
afraid of me. I never thought of such
a thing. I never felt afraid of a lion, 2
and somehow or other I don't think a ?
lion ought to be afraid of me. We kind ?
o' took to each other," he finished with r!
a pleasant 6mile. He was asked when ^
and where he first entered a cage. 7
"I commenced going into the cages J,
when we were on the road, in 1848.
Not in public, but around before and v
after the performances. The first cage P
I ever entered was one that contained *2
two African lions; they wire young, ?
but had been partially trained by an- ^
other. They knew me, of course, but J
they never made any demonstrations." F1
" Where was your first public exhibi- 11
tion?" "
" In 1854, with Barnum." "
"Was there anything of note connected
with that event?"
"No, only I created a sensation by "
taking a bucket of blood in the cage, s
which an old lion licked up and then 8
laid down." a
In reply to a question relative to
something thrilling in his career, he ?
said:
"I was with Thayer & Noyes in
Rochester on .July 4, 1867. We gave ?
three exhibitions on that day. I had a ?
cage of what are known as the maneaters.
They are of all the lion tribe ?
the most dangerous. You know lion e
' ?-* 1 21J Ii
Hunters sometimes uuuu uieo nuuui/ ,
their hammocks or places where they c
sleep, to keep lions away from them?" "
"Yes," was said eagerly, so as to encourage
Mr. White. 6
" Well, a man-eating lion isn't afraid ?
of fire. He would just as soon w.lk
over it and tarry a man away as a dead- V
head would come into this show." F
" I went into the cage at night and I
had always noticed that one in the cage 7
was nervous in his temperament, for
lions are like human beings in tbat respect.
Tho least unusual thing would r
attract him. 1 had stooped to let liim f
jump over my hack, and in lii9 jump a
portion of lis body was grasea bv a J
whip I held. He sprang back, knocked ?
me down, and seized the skirt of my *
dress; he had me under his forepaws, ?
and I was powerless. Charley Noyes J
happened near, and he seized an iron u
bar and struck the animal over the heid. f!
It caused him to release me, and then I ?
plied the whip to him till he crouched at
my feet." ?
4* "V"/MI linrl f A An
" Why, of course I w;is bleeding. He
hud torn my shoulder and crippled my ?
right arm so that I have never been able ?
to get it above my head since; but I ?
knew I must subdue him, and 1 did; it j;
was six weeks before I appeared in a j,
cage again." t *
The bald-headed monkey had made ?
another attack on the lion-tamer, and ?
he turned around to the root of the Dar- ^
winian theory and said,44 You'll not get =
any supper if you don't quit that."- The
monkey without hair seemed to understand,
|
441 spent three weeks in the Sisters' '
hospital here in St. Jxjuis," said the j
doctor, in a very quiet way. f
44 When was thatP"
"In 1870. I was with Robbins,
Strone & Henderson. We had been t
showing in some Missouri towns, when
an African lion attacked me. I wasn't .
seriously hurt, but there was something
about that affair of which I have to tell .
you. I had a pet lioness In a cage, and
she was a beauty. I never loved an an- o
' T J'J I T 1...J - ?,1 1,., 11
lOlHi OS X fid Ji(;r. i u:tu iitiuuu uci uj
liand, and my own boy used to play
with her as if she had been a kitten."
" What did she have to do with it?'
" Well, when the lion attacked me she
sprang upon him, and there was a struggle
between them until I got on my feet
and curbed the assailants. That pet
never forgot that night, and I had to
take her out of the cage."
"These animals, then, have attachments
the same as human?"
"Yes, I have found them so. Now
there are two lions and a lioness over
there," pointing to a cage ofNumidians;
" one of these fellows had a strong attachment
for a lioness, and so had the
other at one time. But that one "?pointing
to the grander looking of the two?
"thrashed the ofher daily until he gave
up, and now the one he thrashed couldn't
be persuaded to put his nose against the
lioness. And it is the same with people.
They take a fancy to some people, and
are easily subdued, but I find there is
nothing like kindness."
" How is it with a lioness; is she more
easily trained or subdued?"
" A lioness is just like a woman. It
depends altogether on how you take her,
or how she takes you."
How Bar-room Liquors are Made.
There may be seen daily on Chestnut
street, says the Philadelphia Bulletin, a
man dressed in faultless apparel, with a
great diamond on his breast, vainly endeavoring
to out-glitter the magnificent
solitaire on his fineer. In a German
university lie learned chemistry, and not
even Liebig knew it better. Ilis business
is the mixing and adulterating of
liquors. Give him a dozen casks of
deodorized alcohol and the next day
? 4-1-. /.w ??*! il f fV?n vtomn f ,
I.'UCU Ul lin:ill Will icpivauill; uauiv UI
a genuine wine or popular spirit. He ]
enters a wholesale drug store hearing a j
large basket upon his arm. Five pounds i
of Iceland moss are weighed out to him.
Jo raw liquors this imparts a smooth- 1
ness and oleaginousness that gives to 1
imitation brandy the glibeness of that ]
which is matured. An astringent cate- 1
chu that would almost close the mouth !
of a class ink-stand, is next in order. A i
couple of ounces of strychnine, next <
: called for, are quickly conveyed to his <
^ 1--*. ?j ,?,1
Vt'SU pUCKUL, UIIU upuuuuui winlvj vxuuu
is as silently placed in the bottom of the 1
basket. The oil of cognac, the sulphuric 1
acid, and other articles that jrive lire and i
l)ody to liquid poisons are always kept 1
in store- The mixer buys these from
various quarters. They are staples of
the art. ]
BEST AS A MEDICINE.
Some Valuable Illnti for Persona who
Overwork Themselves.
Every intelligent medical man of the
prisent day recognizes the very great
ralue of rest in the treatment of disease.
Rest and activity might be aptly com5ared
to two sentinels, who have between
;hem the duty to perform of guarding a
rnmp or fortress. They must take it in
;urns?when the one goes off, the other
:omes on. Were Activity to remain too
ongon duty, the heart would flutter and
ail, the brain would reel, and thesentilel
drop dead of fatigue. On the other
land. Rest might remain long enough on
^uard to drop asleep. You see that rest
nay be overdone; it conduces to sloth,
md ennui, and atony of brain. To my
hinking, there is no more miserable man
ban he who has nothing; to do.
My old friend, Dr. K , that erst
vas professor of medicirie in a certain
iniversity, labored hard all his iife till
learly sixty yoars of age; then he said
le needed rest, and would retire. So,
>eing a wealthy man, he built himself a
>eautiful house on a breezy cliff-top near
he sea, laid out pleasant gardens, andiaid
attention to every known principle
if hygiene. Six months retirement
;illea nim. He remembered not the
ines in Cowper's poem:
" Absence of occupation is not rest;
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed." .
People who have been long in business j
f any kind often make the same error as
)r. K . They think they need com- j
ilete change and rest, and they seek it J
a hp sniiffnt it. and too olten tind it as ,
le found it?in the grave.
It is the sudden breaking off of old |
ies, the uprooting of all old associa- ,
ions, the giving up all at once the cusoms
and habits of years, that work the
hange for the worse. People should
lever forget that old trees don't bear
ranspianting well. Do nothing too <
ashly. Reverse the proverb, "It's 1
?st to be off with the old love before ]
ou are on with the new," Rather J
tick, partially at least, to the old life, 1
ill you are firmly rooted to the new. ]
Rlany people suffer from chronic in- i
igestion, from the mere fact of having 1
rst and foremost produced the dyspep- <
ia by overloading the stomach, or by 1
ther errors in diet, they give it no rest; ]
bey keep on worrying it to get well; the i
ery medicines thejrkeep pouring into i
t keep up the irritation in probably five J
ases out of ten. In these cases I am con- inced
that two or three hours' com- '
lete rest to the stomach every day from i
ioth moat and medicine would soon in- <
uce a healthy hunger. Tho3e who t
ave this organ in good working order ]
muld do well to remember that the 1
ime when every particle of food has <
jft the stomach is not the time to put J
lore in. An hour's rest at least is 1
eeded, and if you give it this before j
ach meal, it will be a willing servant, i
nd will never think of suggesting the i
ropriety of a sherry and bitters before i
ou sit down to dinner; and remember, \
willing servant makes a good master, 3
nd a good-tempered'one to boot. 1
The kidneys are extremely hard- 1
forking, and, as a rule, healthy organs, 1
iut are often out of order when we lit- 1
le wot of it They are long-suffering <
rgans, and are not like the liver oi* 1
torn ach?they don't call out when first lUrts.
But they too need their periods I
f rest, and undue stimulation is some- |
imes productive of the most dire and 3
atal results. Beer and alcohol might
ie called direct stimulants to the kid- '
iey; abstinence from these in people <
rho have been used to them will often ]
;ive this or^an rest, and time to get over 1
ilments trilling in themselves, but |
irhich if not cured might lead slowly 1
nward to death. "Oh, but I must 1
lave my beer," I heard Mr. C say 1
Mtdumnier?lie was suffering from a '
try slight attack of diabetes. "He had i
lis beer, and never recovered.
The liver is another organ which 1
ften has to complain for want of rest,
t is greatly over-stimulated by overloading
the stomach with more food
han can be easily digested, by irreguarity
in (Met, but aoove all by the
buse of fermented drinks. These alone
re capable of procuring illness which,
f not immediately fatal, make life a
iurden- a weary chain that the patient
ias to drag out. Like every other organ
if the body, the liver must have rest,
,ud you can give it that rest by cultiating
habits of abstemiousness and
emperance?rest, but rest with periods
f activity regularly intervening. Some
ieople have naturally sluggisn livers,
nd must take medicine occasionally,
uch as a blue pill at night and seidlitz
n the morning; but for those whose
ivers are ordinarily pretty active, there
3 no fillip to the liver equal to a good
risk walk?not a mere saunter along,
mt a walk that shall quicken the
?reathing, and cause the diaphragm to
;ently compress the organ between it
,nd the abdominal vescera.
A livpr that does not eet rceular rest.
;ets in time changed in structure, to
he great detriment of the health of its
wner; it is also rendered more liable to
liseases of a more active and fatal kind,
or the simple reason that it is a weakned
organ.
The same may be f>aid about the heart,
low many times and oft does the disector's
knife reveal changes of strueure
in this organ, which regular rest
.lternatins; with periods of activity durng
life might have prevented! Too
auch hard bodily work, too much
.thlctic exercise, constant worry of
oind, grief and care and sorrow?all
hese act detrimentally upon the heart,
.nd shorten, if they do not speedily take
ife. The cure is obvious; avoidance of
lie cause, if you can, and rest whenever
lossible. Unrequited love, or loss of
he loved one from whatever cause,
ome will tell you never kills, but I
:ould adduce more than one case to
>roveJit may lead to death. A grief like
.hi* is hard to bear: there is but one i
:ure?change of scene ami work, the
vork being in this case actual rest for
;he strained heart.
The brain is frequently the hardestvorked
organ in the body, and frejuently,
too, it is just the one to which
est is denied. Brain-workers form a
rery large portion of the community, if
we include in the list, as I think we
)ught to, not only writers, students, and
leep thinkers, but business men as well
?men in city life, whose minds are on
:he rack from morning till night, and
srobablv nearly every day all the year
ound. It is absurd for such as these to
;hink that thevcan keep on forever without
some regularly;recurring periods of
:est and relaxation; but some men do
;hink so. They are mad on the point,
jr strangely obtuse. Others, again, think
;hey can keep on till they are just within
i step or two of the inevitable break-up.
rhey may, however, go just a step farmer
than they intended, and either ?o
jut like the snuff of a candle, or walk
;his earth, till they die. with ruined
constitutions. Hut there is another class
)f brain workers who make a far more
zrave error, n:imely, those who use
stimulants to increase their brain-power
md get still more work out of themselves.
From the ranks of these men
lunatic asylums are recruited.
Now for a case of debility and illness,
with lowness or spirits, etc., ana tne
!oss of power o f looking at everything
in the brightest light, there is only one
uure, unci thai is rest. Hut what kind of
rest? Before you can get a brain-woker
io give up thinking about the work
that has made him ill, you must give
him some other employment, and one,
:oo, that he will take an interest in.
Every one must choose lor liimseii wnat
that will be, whether shooting, fishing,
[>r a walking or boating tour. A month
rof either or these will work wonders;
hat particular portion of the brain
which lias been over-worked to weariness
and weakness will have rest, and
the tissues will be repaired, and at
the end of the holiday not only will
mental vigor be restored, but the health
of the body generally will be vastly improved.
There are cases in which, through the
giving way to excesses of various kinds,
including intemperance in eating and
drinking, the sufferers feel what they
often describe as "altogether out of
sorts." There isn't, perhaps, an organ
in the body that is not crippled more or
less, and the mind too seems to partake
of a share of the general wreck. Mind
you, there may be no real disease in
any part of the frame, and still the patient
feels as ill as possible. For cases
like these I can prescribe nothing better
than change of scene, and complete rest
of body and mind. This, combined
with temperance in eating and drinking,
will soon repair the system. But
once restored to health, let a complete
change in the system and style of living
be had recourse to, or the second illness
will be infinitely worse than the
first.
Tonics of some kinds may be found
of great use in helping to restor relaxed
constitutions during the holiday taken
immediately before the advent of winter.
The mineral acids with bitters,
and the tincture of bark, will often be
found invaluable; so will the bath.
Here is ? capital Ionic in the form of a
bath. Well lather the body thoroughly
with soap and hot water, from head to
foot, by means of a bathing glove. Then
immediately after take a" cold spongebath.
which should be ready at hand.
If repl sea-water is at hand, so much the
better; if not. the bath should be got
readv the night before, by throwing into
it two or three good handfuls of the
rough sea-salt of the shops. The bath
should be taken the very first thing
ifter getting out of bed, ana if afterward
i short walk be taken before breakfast,
the sense of exhilaration will be very
SP*eat.?Harper's Bazar.
Smoking Ladles.
But what one thinks in America of
jigarette-smoking women one soon ceases
:o think in Europe where it is so frequent.
For does not fat, famous and frolicksome
Emily Faithfull smoke like a Lake
Michigan tug-boat? Does not the
Duchess of Edinburgh enjoy a quiet puff
low and then, and even the Princess of
Wales have her pretty little cigarette
lase which she hides profoundly from
;he smoke-abhorring nose of her royal
namma-in-law? Mime. Ratazzi in Italy
is said to be a great smoker, and so alt?o
is Elizabeth Thompson, the artist, in
England. The two daughters of the
Due d'Orleans, one of whom was the
ueautiful Mercedes, Queen of Spain, were
fond of a quiet smoke, as also is the wife
)f the pretender, Don Carlos. A lthough
imoking ladies are so numerous in Europe
one often hears it insisted upon
liere that American ladies are the great?st
habitual smokers in the world. " I
icver saw a lady smoke in America!" I
liad occas:on frequently to say in France,
md always with the unsatisfactory feeling
that I was not half believed. Once
jpon a time in Paris I lived several
routbs in an extensive pension des den./iselle*
In this flourishing school was
Mile. N . a ^oung American of
twenty-two, from .Boston, a sort 01 parlor
boarder, who had many extra privileges
besides that of a private bed-room,
tvhen every other pupil slept in a tiny
jouch in a dormitory that looked exactly
like a hospital. "Ah, but your
American ladies do smoke, and smoke a
jreat deal more than our Frenchmen,"
jaid the matron of the school one day.
Mile. N. smokes much more than M. ie
Professeur, and if you don't believe it I
will some day show > ou the ashes that
30jjc down trom her room." I said
nothing. And vet I could have told
that which would have made madame's
eolden wig stand up like quills on a fretful
porcupine, and reduced the matron
to a state of gibbering idiocy. I could
have told that, indeed, many cigarettes
were smoked in Mile. N.'s room ea^h
night, and that great were the asuesthereof;
also could T have told that
every night when that huge dormitory
full of pupils was still and every girl
asleep, four ol the teachers, all girls
themselves of from twenty to twentytwo,
whose business it was to watch and
crnarH that sleemnc fold, stole softlv
From their beds, up the attic 9taii-s*
across the roof, down the skylight, and
then into Miss N's. room, where, with a
bottle or two of beer and unlimited
cigarettes they smoked, drank and
chaffed till?goodness only knows how
late?as if this were, indeed, not a pension
des demoiselles, but a popular brasserie
in the Latin quarter. " Girls,
girls! how indiscreet! ' 1 exclaimed one
night when, returning from the theater
after midnight, I was quietly let into
Miss N's. room, whither I had been at-,
trac ed by the light, and where I found
the smokeso thick that I could only half
distinguish live flushed and laughing
faces, looking.if truth must be told, more
like the merry bacchantes of Ruben's
pictures than like the nun-like maidens
of a pension de3 demoiselles in virtuous,
monastic France. "Ah, but you will
not betray us!" they chorused. We
must amuse ourselves a little, and you
know how triste our life is \"?Margaret
Bertha, in Chicaqo Inter Ocean.
The Meanest Trick on Record.
We have to rocord this week a peculiarity
aggravated case of misplaced
confidence. Everybody who attended
the recent masked ball at the pavilion
remembers the exceedingly well-executed
representation of Lotta's fountain
that sidled its majestic way around
the room. This massive and faithfully
hideous fac simile, it appears, was constructed
by two young gentlemen,
room-mates, one of whom has confided
his tale of woe to our sympathetic paper
bosom. It seems the arrangement was
made between himself and partner to
take turns in shoving round the fountain
from the inside and supplying the
spigots from the reservoir of a bucket
also concealed inside, by which arrangement
the one not employed for the moment
could participate in the outside
festivities. Our informant faithfully
furnished the first hour's locomotion to
the edifice, but when the time came for
his relief his chum was nowhere to be
found. Worse than this, he discovered
that his perfidious friend had carried off
the key of the door on the side of the
structure, and as the latter was too
heavy to overturn he was a complete
prisoner. By applying his eye to a
small peep-hole lie could descry his
companion enjoying himself in a distant
part of the room, but when the indignant
captive had laboriously pushed his
prison house to the spot he would tind
that the deserter had" carefully waltzed
to some still remote corner. This continued
for several hours, the exasperated
man making occasional frantic
efforts to escape from his confinement.
The spectators were highly amused at
the manner in which the fountain would
make spasmodic rushes across the room,
knocking cupids down by the dozen and
causing monks and martyrs to yell with
anguish as tlwir corns were sacrificed to
this new-fangled sort of Juggernaut,
while instead of water the spigots aforesaid
uttered regular melted lava torrents
of maledictions from the true inward
ness of the structure. What increased
the rage and perspiration of the fountain's
motne powei was the fact that
every time he caught a glimpse of his
betrayer the latter was engaged in flirting,
neck-deep, with the former's sweetheart,
to whom, in the kindness of his
heart, he had only introduced the perjurer
the evening before. The injured
party says that lie was finally about
fainting from heat and exhaustion when
about three in the morning he happily
fell througii a ventilator hole, over
which he accidentally wheeled his incubus,
and was set free in body, but
with a mind whose confidence in his
kind has been shattered forever.?&tn
Francisco Post. ________
There is an oak tree near Raleigh,
N. C., which, at the sun's meridian,
covers with a shade a space of
nine thousand feet. It would afford
shelter for 4,500 men.
A Nihilist's Kemarkable Adventure
Fomin, the Nihilist, wlio escape
from the citadel of Wilna a few day
ago, was 110 ordinary conspirator. Whe:
only seventeen he joined the revolution
ary associations, although little^ i
known uf his operations until his arriva
at Odessa in 1877. He then went by th
name of Matvaeff/and acted as deputy
chief to Captain Tchubaroff, theMhiJ
ist leader, who was hanged at Odess
a few weeks ago. One of his earl
escapades was an attempt upon the lii
of Goronovitch, the spy, which re
suited in the recovery of the wretchei
victim?who was beaten and thei
drenched with vitriol?and a confessio;
that led to the arrest of300 revolutionists
Fomin escaped, being included in thi
number, and shortly afterward was sen
i? >< n?u tru?
vy ins uapuiia IU jLibiiui &vu IA/ Icicoo
the conspirator Voinoralsky. Assists
by several members of the revolution
ary league, Fomia established an am
bush outside the town, and when th
Cossack convoy passed with the prisoner
the Nihilists poured several volley
into them. Some of the gendarmes fe]
dead, others set spurs to their horse
and darted back to Kharkoff for assist
ance, and Voinoralsky, disguised in th
dlothing of one of the victims, rode ol
with the Kharkoff Nihilists, and effect?
his escape. Fomin alone returned t
Kharkoff, and was arrested while in th
act of taking a return ticket to Odessa
After his incarceration in the Kharkoi
prison a series of audacious attempt
were made to obtain a release. A ban*
of Nihilists came to succor him froc
the Kieff, and two of them, dressed a
gendarme?, presented themselves at th
aoor of the jail with an order to conve;
him to the presence of the governor
The chief warden was on the point o
removing Fomin from the cell, when
by a curious coincidence, two rea
gendarmes arrived with agenuine order
and exposed the plot, xhe Nihilist
then hired a house opposite the prison
and began burrowing under the road t<
EVtmin'a noil Thia was disnnveret
A VU11U o vv** .. ??
during the mending of a drain, and th<
excavators had to fly to escape arrest
Fomin himself now tried to break out
of prison, and. with the aid of seventj
criminals who shared a room with him
self, he dug out the inside of th<
chimney, ana climbed up the channel t<
the roof. Six of his companions escaped
with him, but the entire partj
was recaptured a few miles from Khar
koff. Last March Fomin was put or
his trial, and the day that the order wai
signed summoning the court-martial
the governor, Prince Krapotkin, out o
revenge, was assassinated. The tria
ended in the condemnation of Fomin U
the mines of Siberia for life, but, as i
was imagined that the careless trans
Ural officers would not keep him in safi
custody, he was removed to perpetua
imprisonment in the citadel at Wilna
From this confinement he has now sue
cessfully escaped, and by this time haj
probably joined the Nihilist refugees ii
Switzerland.?iAmdon Examiner.
Another Little Lamb.
On the day in Manh, 1873, sa/s th
Augusta (Ga.) News, the fearful cyclon
which ravaged middle George was doinj
its most destructive work, a white Iamb
no larger than an ordinary house cat
was safely deposited, among other de
bris, in the yard- ofMr. Don Prather, ai
old gentleman, who lives near Berzelia
on the Georgia road. As soon as th
lamb was discovered some one of Mi
Prather's family ran out, picked it u
and carried it into the house. Where i
came from no one knew, but it was fe
and warmed and nurtured and becam
a great pet in the household. In facl
like Mar'ys lamb, it followed Mr. Pra
ther about all the time. After inqniriei
Mr. Prather could find no one wh
owned a flock of sheep in the directio
from which the cvclone came for a di?
tar.ce of twenty miles, and wnere his pt
came from was more of a mystery tha
ever. At any rate, it grew to be a fin
healthy sheep, and as years passed i
was regularly sheared and the wool aj
plied to domestic uses. There was n
other sheep on the place, and it is doubi
ful if ever this lamb saw another of il
* ?-? ? ? ?
SptClL'S Since LUC mciuuiauic luiuv
wind took her upon its wings and d<
posited her safely in Mr. Prather's yar
over six years ago.
A Mountain of Glass.
Another marvel recently brought I
light in the Yellowstone park of Nort
America, is nothing less than a moui
tain of obsidian, or volcanic glaa
Near the foot of the Beaver lake a bar
of explorers came upon this remarkab
mountain, which rises at that place i
columnar cliffs and rounded bosses i
many hundreds of feet in altitude, fro:
hissing hot springs at the margin of tl
lake. As it -was desirable to pass tto
way, the party had to cut a ro?
through the steep glassy barricad
This they effected by making huge fir
on the glass to thoroughly heat and e:
pand it, and then dashing the co
wiifpr nf t.lm lafefi against the elassv su
face, so as to suddenly cool and break
up by shrinkage. Large fragments we
in this way detached from the solid si<
of the mountain, then broken up sma
by sledge-hammers and picks, not, ho\
ever, without severe lacerations of tl
hands and faces of the men from flyir
splinters. In the grand canyon of tl
Gibson river, the explorers also four
precipices of yellow, black and band<
obsidian, hundreds of feet high. Tl
natural glass of these localities lias fro
time immemorial been dressed by tl
Indians to tip their spears and arrow
A Mistake Worth $25,000.
A mistake sometimes proves a lucl
affair. While in the midst of lias ca
vass Governor Foster received an offer
$100,000 for some railroad proper
owned by him. He had no time to co
sider the offer tarefully, but concludi
that he would telegraph his acceptanc
He had at the same time occasion
telegraph to his old friend and cor
panion in most of his stumping tou
Gen. W. II. Gibson, who was in
nnUhKni-ini, tnwn nnH. hflinfr bother
at the time by a dozen of claims up<
his attention, he got the addresses of t!
two dispatches mixed. The aeceptan
of the business offer went off direct
to General Gibson at Pine street, Nc
York. Next iav came a reply from t
telegraph ollice saying that iy> Genei
Gibson could be found in Pine strc<
By that time Mr. Foster concluded th
it would be better to hold on to tl
property a little longer. Now it is sa
to be salable for $1*25,000, so the m
take in the address of the telegram w
worth ?25,000 to him.
31illers to Have an Exposition.
Cicorge Bain, president or tnc Amei
can Millers' National Association, h
issued an address to millers, millwright
dealers in mill machinery, flour deale
and bakers ot the United States, settii
forth that the grand exposition of m
machinery, mill products, grain, et<
will be held in connection with the a
nual convention of the Millers' Associ
tion, next June, and asking them
co-opevate in making the event a not
worthy one. Besides the exhibition
domestic tlour and its various produi
in me w;iy 01 urt::uj, ciuc&uia, ciu., oui
pies of celebrated flour made in Euro
will be imported, so that compariso
may be made between the wheat pr
ducts of the two hemispheres. Deale
in grain, as well as millers, tre invit*
to exhibit samples of grain raised
their parts of the country, and railw:
companies offering lands'to emigrant
and State* seeking to promote emiirr
lion, are expected to make large exhibi
of the products of tb^ir lands.
Farmers are just now laying in tin
winter's fuel, and the more grown -1
daughters, the bigger the wood-pil
Allowance must be'made for sparks.
Middlctoion Transcript.
i. The Patchwork Spread.
d The cottage stands back from the sidewalk,,
s In front is a largo willow tree,
n While nestling among the morning glories
!" A flower hanging basket I see.
j Madeira vines climb o'er the window
e And gay lady-slippers so red,
- While mother, she sits in her rocker,
[ Ba?v making a natch work spread.
a
y The garden is teeming with flowers,
e * The bright portnloccas in bloom,
!- With myrtle and gay creeping Gbariie,
d And sweet heliotrope sheds perfume,
Q Bat brighter and sweeter than any
l Gay flowers that grow in their bed,
g Is the dear one that aits in the rocker,
t Busy making a patchwork spread.
e
j With pieces of muslin beside her,
Each one of a different hue,
f Some light and some dark and some plaii
f ones,
g Some well worn aaVell as some new.
[] How deftly she puts them together,
8 Hie bright ones surround each dark shred,
* So that when it is all oompleted
? 'Tis a beautiful patchwork spread.
i The children are home for vacation,
g They gambol and play in the room,
And swiltly her needle is plying,
J And she blithely singing a tone.
s I think as I watch her spare figure,
1 Some few silver hairs in her head,
a How maoh that oar lives twined together
? Resemble that bright patchwork spread.
7 Some days have been happy and joyous,
j And some hare had heartaches and tear*,
Yet bright they appear altogether,
] For now nearly twenty-eight years.
; God grant when our lives are both ended
3 And sewn with tweet lore's eflken threaa,
i Oar children will think of as kindly
j When they look at that patchwcA spread.
3 ?Ormond Place.
ITEMS OF DTTEBEST.
" It is not life to live for one's self alone
j A silent school-house makes a noisy
. bar-room.
r Principal features of a convention?
> The eyes and nose.?Ottawa Republican;
i Minneapolis is sending off 3,000 bar*
' rels of flour a day, and the city has 50,
000 inhabitants.
, A Missouri doctor paid a patient 402
visits and squared the bill for a barrel
* /it/far anH ft. In A/1 Of hrickfl.
It is a fact that many a fellow has
3 learned through experience that a
1 woman is never merciful to a timid man.
Waterloo Observer.
I Bancroft, the historian, makes so
s many corrections in his proofs that the
i alterations cost more than the original
expense of composition.
The Boston Courier discovers that
each other as " old man,11 and tliat when
e two old fellows meet they, say "my
e boy."
? Of the sixty fast horses owned by
'? Bonner fiifteen have trotted in 2:20 or
> better, and two of them, (Rams and
* Edwin Forest), have trotted ,a mile in
II 2: lli.
g England has no merino sheep, except
. in her colonies; Russia has 19,000,000
" merinos, France 9,000,000. The merinos
V and grades in the United States exceed
25,000,000.s
e Fast younz men, like fast horses, have
records. Those of the former are kept
^ at the police court and some of them
p.m.
5^ can SHOW & gttlt tliOt WUUJU uiuav iww ww
o feel like a dray-horse.?Keokuk Gate
n My*
Now lades the glimmering landscape on the
it lea,
n Now lades the fly, the gnat, and all the
l6 teat;
it Now walks the street, oh, painful sight to see,
). The man whose winter ulster shrouds his
0 summer vest. ?Haxokeye.
t- The wasp feeds on the hollow peach,
? And the thistle down is blowing, blowing;
k The fern is dead, and the morning red #
In the eastern cloud is glowing. A
,'j The holly-oak staff is broken in t*o, ^ 4 .
And the weed-fires are all flaring;
Time is shaking the sluggish sands,
And the year, the year is wearing.
The peculiar pebbles known in Aus?
tralia as the traveling stones have ioop
h been regarded as great curiosities. Simii
lar ones have just been dis;iovered in
s. Nevada, almost round in shape, and as
>d large as a walnut. The cause of these
le stones rolling to a common point from
in distances of tliree or four feet is the
to loadstone or magnetic iron ore of which
m they are composed.
ie An energetic girl in the southern part
^ of France heard tnat a gay youm u?u
10 been slandering her.. She came up bee
bind him while he was walking with
es his sweetheart and threw vitriol into
P: his face, destroying his eyesight and
1(1 spoiling the beauty of his pretty oomf"
panion. Everybody sympathized with
1 her and she was acquitted, although
[e confessing that she had meditated the
deed for two years.
ill
^ The Chinese as Cunning Smugglers*
ig A new Chinese trick has been discovle
ered not lone since, on the] arrival of a
id vessel from Honolulu, containing several
xi cases of shoes tbat had been shipped to
ie that port by some Chinese house in San
m Francisco, and sent back condemned by
l the consignees, the custom house officials
s. were curious to know the cause, and this
curiosity prompted them to open the
cases, when an ingenious plan was discovered
to smuggle opium into that port
ij through the heels of the 44 condemned "
n- shoes. The heels, at a glance, appeared
of natural and properly made, but by pullty
ing out a nail or two, and removing one
n- thickness of leather, a hole occupying
2d nearlv the whole size of the heel, was
~ fnimri. into which opium had been placed
to to introduce into the Hawaiian market,
n- The " condemned " business was a part
ir. of the programme, and the shoes were
a returned evidently to be reloaded and
ed forwarded again to that port.
jn
he Limekiln Clab Meteorology.
c? The committee on atmospheric influ- \
ea ences announced that they were ready
with a report, and, leave being granted,
n? th3 chairman submitted a well-con
structed report regarding the coming
,l* winter. The committee had been guided
,at entirely by signs, and their reasons for
j? predicting a hard winter were:
!" First?The thickness of the cornhusks.
13 Second?The unusual number of over513
coats pawned.
Third?The anxiety of women to get
winter bonnets.
Fourth?The way the frogs have gone
ri- for deep water.
as Filth?The hesitancy with which
ts, young men climb out of bed in the
rs morning.
ig Sixth?The unusual number of dog
ill fights to be observed by a man who
I keeps his eyes open.
n- The report was accepted and filed; and
a- the chairman sat down with a sigh of
to relief.?Detroit Free Press.
e- 11
of Well-Directed.
ta A letter, addressed as below, was sent
u. to the New Hr ven postofiice, one of the
pe localities where Postmaster-General
ns Key's "misdirection order" was a peo
culiar injustice:
rs Mr. Enos A. Hale,
ed Assistant Postmaster,
in 250 Orchard street,
iy New Haven.
:d, City of New Haven,
:i- Town of New Haven,
" rvr?.?
tg WOUniy Ol lien umv.")
State of Connecticut,
United States of America,
ir Western continent,
ip . Planet earth,
ie. Solar system,
- Universe.
?Indianapolis News