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ABBEVILLE PRESS & BAOTER I .... __ '^3 ' j ? ~ BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1880. NO. 12. VOLUME XXVI. ;|| ? ? * . Throngh Life. Entering lile, wc come learltilly Into the new and unknown, Trembling and terrified, learlully Lilting lile'9 burden alone; I Braving its dangers more cheeilully I When we the stronger have grown. i till like old eaith so receivingly I Taking the bad and the good? < Taking, nor choosing, believingly Evor the best as we could; ! Sadly repenting them grieviugly Striving 10 ao as we snouia. LoDg may we wonder suspectingly, 1 Ingrates whom passions enslave; | Scornfully, proudly, rejectingly, Serving the mercy God gave; 5 Nor look to Him who protectingly A His arm forth stretches to save. s J Thn-ghtkssly, carelessly, musingly, 1 fcp - Playing at life's checkered game, t Ever the tally-sheet loosingly 8 Scorcth a list to our name; c Bravely our consciencc accusingly Stirreth our senses with shame. Looking to conscience inquiringly, Thoughtlessness seemeth a sin; e Working and striving untiringly, S So must the battle begin; Faith, hope ai.d lovo will inspiringly Teach us how life wc may win. c May we our duty do dreadfully, ^ Strengthening, careworn, oj pressed; Trending our way ever carclully j Through marcs to home of the blest; C Hopefully, chcerlally, prayerfully, 0 F.nding in heaven a rest. Striving with sin, sin enslavingly f; TT/%1#lIr*rr na orftr CA fttct ^ Looking lor mercy most cravingly S Tiirough the dark clouds sweeping past. ^ Tenderly, lovingly, savingly, Jesus redeemetli at last. f, ?Eoston Transcript. b -===?"^== v "KOI A WORD, HIE TO DISAH AHK!" jj r*- h "Not a word, mind, to Dinah Ann!" Dinah Ann herself, the speaker's wife, j1 having strolled down the garden in the h sweet stillness of the summer night, heard these suggestive words as the gig SJ pulled up at the gate, and lier husband ^ descended from it. She was a pleasing ?1 little woman of seven or eight and )e thirty, with a dark brown eye, abright, fresh face, and a natural propensity to d< take her own way, in the house and out D of it. Drawing bark from the gate be- ei hind the well-kept hawthorn hedge, she li WHlll'U Jor WU31 waa v^ulijc um?. ;i " Not a word, lor your lile, mind, to p! Dinah Ann!" rc " No fear!" replied a voice, hich she w recognized as that of her brother, Harry Leete; "I know what women are. s] She'd be for?revolutionizing the (j house, and herself, too, once Jet lier get an inkling oftLis. No fear, James! Take D; care on your side that you don't lore i.hat?or let Dinah Ann find it." " I'll take care. When are you com- y( ine to smokeaqniet pipe with me? 1 n shall-want your advice as to?" sl ' ekie of thoBC evenincs." interrunted the lawyer, a<? he drove on up the lane, *c " Good-night!" James tlarbury, substantial farmer d and agriculturist, came through the gate and turned to fasten it. Had he turned the other way, to the left instead of to ii the right, he would have seen his wife. \ standing against the hedge as close as jxl she eouid stand, almost into it. He did ^ rot see her, and went straight up the n( f path to the house. When his footsteps had died away, Mrs. Harbury wound al her light summer gown over her black ]c silk am-on. caueht hold of her lilac cap- hi strings, lest the cap should fly off, and ran swiftly up the narrow sidewalk, \A got lound to the back, went through the y) house, iet drop her gown and entered the sitting room, all calmly, nearly as k: soo" as her husband. jr y "Got back!" she exclaimed, with a it look of surprise. "Just come," replied the farmer; " Harry drove me up in his gig." ' What brings Harry up here in his gig at this time? and why did you not come back with Hall?" inquired Mrs. w llarbury, who liked to be at the begin- tl J? . ning and the end of everything. a "Harrr had to come," said the y J- farmer," who seemed to be walking about raiher restlessly?and who never thought of such a thing as refusing to w satisfy his wile's auestions. "He got a message from the Down farm to go over there without loss of time. I thought I Dl might as well come with him, Dinah j; Ann. As to Hall, I left him stuck in the tap-room of the 'Tawny Lion;' he ir didn't order his gig to be ready before ten o'clock." "Just like Peter Hall! You'd haye tafcen tue reins ycurseit, James, 1 reckon, had you come back with him." :r *' Ob, he'll not gel as bad as all thai ? u But, I say, Dinah Ann, it's a sad thing about Partridge at the Down farm. A day or two a^o he went cui with his I haymakers?and you know what a m.tn IT""-T he is to work when he does set about it ?got into a heat and drank a lot of cold cider. It struck to him. for death, they fmv : and llarry is gone to make his >? will." u What a dreadful thing!" exclaimed Q( Dinah Ann, who had a feeling heart, with all her curiosity. t? " Ay, 'tis. I think I'd like a snack of (|' cold beef, Dinah Ann. though it i? late. I got talking to your brother in his n( office and missed my tea; so I've had t| nothing since one o'clock dinner. While Phcebe puts it, I'll ju*t go and take a look at White Bess." h, "White Bess is all right," said Mrs. if Harbury. " So much belter that E7ans j1( thinks you might have ridden her. No I i**?: need to go and see her now." ?!?> "Better, is she! I should like to give !neralooK. He took up bis hat, which still lay on the table, and went out.. Mrs. Har- sl bury's eyes followed him; they were full ot speculation, and her mind also. " 1 don't believe he is pone to look at J1 the mare," soliloquized she. " He'd " not disturb her, now he hears she is all right. And how absent and fidgetty he ? seemed! There is some mystery, and I ? should like to know what it is. I wonder whether?I should not think?no, I ? should no; think he can have stolen out h to meet somebody," she concluded, her a tone dubious, in spite of the stress laid on the " not." o Stepping lightly into the kitchen, and b giving her orders to Phoebe about the d supper tray, she caught up an old water- J proof cloak that hung in the back pass, t age, threw it od to hide her light dress t , and crept ou*-, after her husband. It was s a very light and beautiful night; in fact, fc it could not be said to be yet as dark as it would be?and that is never dark in I the fine nights of summer. a " For him to lose his tea," ran her thoughts, "of all things! It must be 1 uncommonly urgent business to induce James to foreeo a meal of any kind. I c co wonder what secret they have got ; between them. 'Not a word, for your t life, mind, to Dinah Ann,'cries he. 'No 1 fare, answers Harry, 'I know what ] * mmunn orO Kn (AT* VOTTAIH. nuui^-u aiu auu OUD u fc/G ivi AW? Ulw< . lionizing the house, and herself, [too.' : Yes, that I should; but it's them I'd i Hit-3. revolutionize, not myself," she emphatiBlfj cally pronounced. " It may be that old iove affair cropped up again-that [ ?? ' w?mna who threatened to bring an action for breach of promise when t James married me. Perhaps she has B been writing letters to him I ' Mind you i. don't let Dinah Ann find it,' says Harry. Or perhaps?perhaps James has been E loolidi enough to let her meet him! BKg Harry, not a married man himself, and r ? liwycr, would Jend himself to any I tarUilv tiling without Bcrnple. All law, This rural district, remote from haunts of wily men of the world, 1 given over entirely to farmers and fa ing intere ts; simple-mannered peo: who lived out their uneventful lives the routine of daily duties The sn market town of Northam, four m flistsnt, was sleepy and primitive, ne nwakenirig from its slumbers save the weetly market day. It had its p son; its doctor; and its lawyer?Ha Leetc; all three of them b^ing nearlj simple as the farmers. Not simple sointof intellect, itmustbeunderstoi jut as to life and manners. This, Thursday, was market d Fames Ilarbury had gone to it, in jig of a brother farmer, Peter Hall, >wn mare,which he either rode or dr< tenerally, being sick. He was a t. ilender man, of thirty years, very f: vith exceedingly handsome featu ind mild eyes, looking as unlike I >opular notion of a farmer as man coi ook, and presenting a marked contr o Lis agricultural neighbors. So 'ar ippearances went, none of them, pi ?r rich, could vie with James Harbu ,nd his temper and his bearing W' ilike gentle. He had one fault?though perhaps eople would not call it a fault?love uoney. That he was one of the "war st" larmer3 in the district was univ ally believed, and the most saving uen. Too saving, his wife would 1 lim?and where was the use of it, s srould ask, considering she had neitt hick nor child??and every now a hen she would make the money fly,: he was a dear lover of smart attire a f having pretty things about h ames would wince and bid her to l>o yioror xxtont\ lono aitlUl , UUCiit. UV?V4 v VMW .vu. f telling her she bad spent too mu< le was fond of her and she oi him. "Neither chick nor child." In tl ict had lain a sharp sting. They h >ecn married eight years now. and t ting was wearing itsel! away. Ti: oftens all things, lie had never giv er cause for an unhappy thought?ur o-nisht. He had never had any seen rom her, except that he nev^rcould rouirnt to tell her what the exact st ras that he was enabled to put by at t nd of each year. Dinah Ann Harbu id not care for that; she knew tb owevcr much it might be, it was all J er. But she did care for this?tl lystcrious secret which had come er hearing to-night. Sin knew he Dod-looking James was, now univi illy he was liked by man and by -w tan, and what a kind heart he had ic put it "soft"?and something li alousy began to torment her spirit. When James came in again, the su er-tray was at one end of the table, a; ! K A ?*% ?lirrlil h KIIJ2U1 au. uuuouui ?4 ^ ?cs, sat at the other end, near the lam nving taken up her knitting. The fan 's general manner was easy ai laeid, though he had certainly seem< tstless after leaving the gig, but now ] as calm again. " Well," she said, as he cut himself lice of the cold boiled beef, " and he id you lind White Brss?" " Oh. she seems comfortable," he r iied, looking round for the mustar ot. "You deceitful viilian! You kno 3U did not po near the stable," tlioug is wife. " You are sure you think so ie added, aloud. " Ay. VVhitc Bess will bo all herse -morrow, Dinah Ann." " It's more than I shall be," tlioug inah Ann, "unless I can come to t! jttom of this." He ate his supper nearly in silenc ke a man who is mentally preoccupie nd he enjoyed it, too, for he was ve angry. jamts, i;i? )UU tVl'l utai ?n;imi jw of that Emma Land ?" James Harbury laid down his kni ad fork in surprise at the question aj >oked across at his wife, whose face w ent over her knitting. "I)o I ever hear anything of Emu and ?" he repeated. " What ca:i ma 3U ask that, Dinah Ann?" " What can make me ask it? I doi now. The query happened to cot ito my mind. Why should I not a P" "There's no sense in it?that I see." "But do you?" " Do what?" "Ever hear of her?" "Why, you know she wont out to 'here was it??the West Indies, link?to her friends there?ever so loi ?o. Nigh upon eight years it must t ou know she did, Dinah Ann." "But she may write from the W< adies. Perhaps she docs. Doos s Tite to you?" He shook his head to imply a neg ve, and occupied bimself with iiis su sr again. Emma Land had once up time been a somewhat sore subject I veen them, for Dinah Ann was jealo i the old days. " I)o you ever see hc-r, James?" " See who?" "You know. Emma Land?" "I can't think what has put all t! ito your head to-night, Dinah An 'ow is it?" " But do you ?" " Do I what?" " See her." "Why, how could I see her?'' 1 irned ho, in a sort of helpless tor lat his wife fully thought was put o She is in the West Indies, and I a ere." "She may not be in the West Indi aw." "I don't know where she is. Sin lere for all I know?and I'm sure aes not matter." "' A.-k nt? questions, and 'you'll ho 3 stories,'" ihouglit his wife, quotii ie line famiiiar to her in her scho< irl days. " 1 should not at all wonder, Jami ut Emma Land has come back agair " May be. T wo or three years-ago 1 eard she married out there?" " Wiio heard it? Who 3aid it?" "I know I heard it; I remember uitc will. Hut as to who said it, I fc 2t tha'.?your brother, I think. Tli ie had married a cousin." " Oh ! Not that that's unlikely, f je was ready to marry anybody. Sh< ave married you, you know. She In aps lor you." " That's about true, I believe; but id not fail into them, Dinah Ant .nd. laughing good-naturedly, ,Jau larbury turned from the supper-tray each his pipe. Dinah Ann rang t oil, resumed her knitting and feU.ir n unpleasant reverie. A .. Mnnin/] o trr n rr IiIm rrO rr r~\ ! r%. IV;>Y uuja uuu^o ^v/i n smoothly at the farm. Dinah A iad recovered her temper?at leasts isplayed no signs of it being ru'lli ames Harbury was as usual, save that imes hf seemed a little absent a houghtful. One afternoon he went i tairs to change his every-day coat fo >etter one. "Where are you going?" cried M larbury, quickiy, as he came do igain. "Only into Northam! I shall iome early." "Into Northam! It's not marl lay." "No; but I've got a little busin .here?about those sheep, you kne Dinah Ann. I shall get them "at my o arice, after all." "Of course you will. I told you ill along. 11 nt i ao wonder you co aot wait until to-morrow." "Oh?market day's always a bustl day; one forgets half one'd business has not time todj it. Anyway I thou I'd so in thisaiternoon." 4,,I should like to go with 3 James!" Mr. Harbury received tho impul wish with a blank look, and had ready auswar at hand. " 1 want to buy a new silk gown, to order a best cap, and ever so n other things. Yes; I will go with James. I won't be five minutes ge' ready." mi i?iniirara? the "But?Dinah Ann?not to-t'ay. fl svas can't take you this afternoon. You shall rm- go to-morrow, instead." pie, " Why can't you take me?" > in "Business," he shortly replied. And, nail his gig being just then brought round, iles White Bess'in the shafts, he got into it ver without more ado and drove away, on calling out good-bye to his wife. >ar. " I'll be even with you, Mr. James,1' rry nodded she. ' as The sun was setting when he drove in in again and round to the stable yard. Dd; Leaving his horse and gig with Evan, he was crossing to the house when his atay. tention was caught by a huge volume of the black smoke puffing out of the chimney his of a narrow building that was formerly jve made to serve as a bre w-house and washall, house, until the Jarger one was built. iir, As it was out of use now, was not in res fact used for any purpose whatever, or the entered by anybody from month's end aid to month's end, Mr. Harbury naturally ast thought of fire. He rushed to it like a as madman. x>r In the fireplace under the furnace a ry, fire blazed away, upon which more coal ere had recently 1 een tlirown. Whiter than death James Harbury made one frantic all move toward it, while a yell ot what of really seemed like terror broke from ?**_ I A nniliop T'oll find s^ill 1XX I 111 Lll nilVbUVi J er-1 another; then he collapsed utterly, and of fell upon a low wooden stool in wild ?ll despair. ihe "Good heavens!" exclaimed Dinah ler Ann, who had been stooping over some nd blankets in the far corner. "What in for the world is the matter? Is it spasms nd James? Let me run for the camphor." "Camphor, indeed!" exclaimed the ?e unhappy man. " Bring poison, rather. ,rth Poison. You've ruined me." ;h. "He's oft his Lead," was her pitiable suggestion. "Lot me tub you, .lames, lat Where is the pain? In the chest ?" ad He llung his arms around in all direc lie tions, so that she could not get to nis me chest, or to any other part of him "Who en lighted this tire?" lie gasped. itil Phoebe lighted it. I ordered her. sts The flue in the proper wash-house has be taken to smoking frightfully. The im blankets are to be washed to-morrow he and will be put in soak to night. But try what is the tire to you, James, that you lat should be put out about it? ' for "It's everything to me," he faintly answered. " Five hundred pouuds has lis been burnt up in it." to Rising from the stool?and Dinah Ann >w wondered the creaky old thing had not sr- come down with his weight?he haso tened indoors, sat down by the table ? and buried his head upon it." She found ke him so, his face hidden in his hands. "Now, James, you must tell me what p. all this means?if you are not quite out nd of your senses. Come! I intend to er know." p, "Yes, you may know it now," he n- said, lifting his face and its despair. "I id had placed in the fireplace of that old ;d furnace, in my old green pocketbook, Le ?500 in banknotes. And?and they are burnt! They are burnt, Dinah Ann!" a Dinah Ann paused. "Where did the ,w notes come from?" " From your brother?to me. A long e. while ago, years before I knew you, I d. lent a friend over ?400. He ran away with it to Australia, and I lost my w money, and set him down as a rogue. Ijt But he is not so dishonest as I thought , " him; he has made his fortune out there, aDd is back again in London now, and ,]f last week he transmitted the debt and interest to your brother for me, ?500. I ht brought the notes home the night Ilarry i,e drove me here." "And now just tell me, James, how ;Gi you could think of putting banknotes into such a placc as a furnace tirebole?" rv "I did it for safely. Nobody ever went there, and the lurnacc was never n rr USed." "e' " Safety? Was there not your bureau, ife upstairs in the bedroom?" '"That's never locked." jjj "Why, it's always locked." " Anyway, tho key is never taken out Qa of it." jje " Ah, I see what it is?you were afraid I should see the money and want to spend it!" ue And so you would, Dinah Ann?a sjj sum like that coming unexpectedly," he meekly rejoined. " Honnets and frills i and fresh chairs and tables?you'd not have known where to stop." " Well, I must say. James, you have been rightly served for your want of _ confidence. No husband ever has a j concealment from his wife, il she's a - _ pnnd wife, but hei s sure to be paid out. )C Tt is a loss though, ?500!" He groaned. 44 My business in Nor?st; tham this afternoon was to consult with hp your brother about a good investment for it." 44 What's this?" asked she, placing be; fore him the identical green case?with the banknotes inside it. '.James ,n gasped. uu "Dinah Ann! My dear Dinah Ann!" "Ah, it's my dear Dinah Ann now? and where would you be without me? I have given you a j.ood fright, however. Don't you conceal a thing from .. me again, James." ' "I don't think I will," he said, "llow has it all come about?" 44 Why, I have just been playing a little as well as you. I was at the gate last Thursday night, and heard what you said to Harry as you got out of the p gig. It excited my suspicions and my lJ^' curiosity." n* "'But what did I say?" asked the ,m farmer, really not remembering between , the excitement ol the past misery and ies the present happiness. , 44 4 Not a word, mind, to Dinah Ann. Not a word, for you life, mind, to Dinah 11 Ann!'" a r ag The I'alse. >1- Many erroneous impressions prevail about the puiseas indicative of health or "s? disease, a common notion being that its i*" beatings are much more uniform then they really are. Frequency varies with age. In the new-born infant the beatings are from 130 to 140 per minute; in it the second year, from 100 to 115; from >r- the seventh to the fourteenth year, lat eighty to ninety; from the fourteenth to the twcnty-lirst year, from seventy-live or to eighty-five; from the twenty-first ;'d to the sixtieth year, from seventy to tid seventy-live Alter mat periou lucpulse is generally thought to decline, , I but medical authorities differ radically i." on this point, having expressed the most les contradictory opinions. Young persons to are often found whose pulses a;e below he sixty, and there have been many inito stance of pubes habitually reaching 100, or not exceeding titty, without apparent ne disease. Sex. especially in adults, ina civ-wl UfAmOn it hfHl t Q llUUDl'eS tiJU puwr, imv* iu Mumv??<v ihe more rapidly th:m in men. Muscular exertion, even position, materially affects the puise. Its average frequency nj in healthy men is, when s auding, 1D_ eighty-one; when sitting, seventy one; r a when lying, sixty-six per minute; in women of the same age and in the same r3 positions, ninety-one, eighty-four and wii. seventy-nine. In sleep the pulse is considerably slower than in wakefulness be In certain diseases, such as acute dropsy, for example, there may be 150, even 201) beats; in other diseases, such as apoplexy and some organic aflections of the es3 heart, there may be no more than twen>w. ty or thirty per mintue. Thus, one of wr| the commonest diagnostic signs is liable to deceive the most experienced practi180 tioner. uld 1 A pretty tancy, says the Bazar, is the Ling use of satin ribbon of different widths ? /-.n r?r?rqoirf>Q tor at the throat. > Ul VU -w. ght or at the end of the square neck, is a square bow of ribbon two inches wide; fou, at the waist is a rosette of many Joops of very narrow ribbon not more than half sive an inch wide; while on the basque below [ no the waist is a very wide bow oi sash ribbon in two drooping loops closely strapand ped together; when a bow is added on lany each sleeve it matches that worn at the you, throat, and is now placed on the inside tting seam on the top of the arm, rather thai on the outer seam as was formerly done, TIMELY TOPICS. A curious fish, known as the Chraamodms Niger, has bnen received at the Smithsonian institute, Washington. Its prominent peculiarity is its ability to swallow tislx of twice its size and four times its own weight. It has a very largemouth, and its stomach is of course wonderfully elastic. When digestion begins and gases are form?d its stomach becomes so distended that the other or gans are temporarily paralyzed, and thus the creature can easily be caught This specimen is ten inches long, and has in its stomach a codfish eighteen inches long, but of course doubled up. A girl astonished an audience in a i London theater two years ago by jumping from a high bridge at the back of < the stage, landing gracefully on the ? floor, and then executing a dance, which | was varied by leaps of twenty feet in 1 the air. The performance of Ariel, as I she was called, were for a while the < theatrical wonder of the town. They < were done by means of a jumping ap- < paratus, invented by her husband, i Wnltpr TYinrin. Hn subseauentlv aD- I plied the machinery to other dancers in London and Paris, and several duplicates of Ariel will soon be seen in America. The small boy has a good friend in the -upreme court of Kansas. A railroad company was sued for injuries rece.ved by a boy while playing upon a turn-table, and the court held that, as everybody knows that by nature and instinct boys love to ride, and will cling to the rear of wagons, ride upon swings and swinging gates, ride upon cellar doors and steel rails, and even pay to ride upon imitation horses, they should nnt :incordine'lv. No person has a right , to have dangerous machinery Calculated 1 to attract boys, without taking steps to | nuard against all danger, and the person | failing to do so is guilty of negligence. { The boy was awarded damages. * i The length of the Egyptian obelisk s which has come to slay in New York is I sixty-nine feet six inches; it is seven e feet eight inches square at t:ie base, and a live feet five and three-quarter inches at i the top. The foundation is seventeen c feet six inches square. The lower step c is twenty and three-quarter inches high, t nineteen and three-quarter inches wide, a The second si ep is nineteen inches hieh, t thirteen and a quarter inches wide. The a third step is seventeen inches high, sev- ? enteen and three-quarter inches wide, i Upon this foundation the pedestal upon t which the needle rests is placed. This f pedestal is six feet ten inches high, nine feet four inches square at the base, and s nine feet and three-quarters of an inch ^ square at the top. J c John II. Burke, cf San Francisco, has t complained to the board of equalization f. that the six Chinese companies are not t' properly assessed. He claims that all, ^ or nearlv all, of the Chinese in the United j States, British Columbia and the Sand- t wich islands arc contracted for as slaves r or serfs; and furthermore, that the t Chinese coming to this country become ] indebted to one or the other of said com- 5 ninics find their bodies are held respon- | 3 sibie for payment; that the said com- 0 panies hold absolute control over the E lives and liberties of the Chinese, and t execute the decrees of their own private r courts to the exclusion of the constituted g authorities; that they have hereby r built up and maintained an independent t government, and arc at war with the int?rests and laws of the people of California. He states that in 1878 the six ? companies controlled 119,600 Chinese, j and at present control 223,00), and that ] the obligations of these Chinese are in t the nature of solvent credits held by the t six ccmpanies, and should be so as- t sessed under the law. The complainant t theu asks that the personal assessment c roll of the six companies be raised to -v $22,300,000. He assesses each company c in the following amounts: Sam Yup, c 81,515,000; Yung Wo, $1,530,000; Kung c Chow. ?2,250,000; Nine Yune, ?11,250,- s 000; Yan Wo, $615,000; Hop Wo, t $5,110,000; total, $22,300,000. e J > c Fasting in India. The land of preternatural feats of the useless order is the Orient, notwithstanding the peerless enterprise and shrewdness popularly supposed to be exhibited by denizens of the western climes. A writer in the Northern Christian Ailvocntc gives some account of the feats o sect of fanatics in India are accustomed to perform. For ages the ascetics of that country have, more or 'ess, practiced fasting from food, water ard air; and the school of Hindoo philosophy known as Yosra has many volumes of instructions in the various degrees of the art. The Hindoos say that Yog a means mental abstraction, silent, prayer or the union of mind to soul. The motive for the abstinence refe rred to is to secure the absorption of the devotee into the deity, whatever that may mean. The instruction books contain minute directions how a person is to pr< pare for his fast, whether for forty days cr for longer periods of time. The writer in the Advocate lias one of t these volumes, anu a uumma num. n. j*. It is asserted that in the fast:"ng state the persons are not poisoned by snake bites, ! winch might prove ihat the circulation was really suspended, and that snake [ poison operates by entering the circula- r tion of the biood. The person remains j unaffected by the cut ir>g of weapons, , and gives no symptoms of pain when c broiirht in contact with lire. He can- * not be drowned when sunmerged in j water, nor does he dry up when exposed t to the air. The Hindoo theory is that the Yoga, whose functions of respiration Mnd circulation are suspended, is de- J prived of the power of committing sin . in act, thought or specch. A man is an t adept who can suspend respiration for 1 rive minutes and twenty seconds. At the fifth stage of progress respiration . can be suspended lor ten minutes, and . at the sixtli stage for two hours, at the i seventh stage lor twenty-four hours, j and he reaches the state of Saniadhi ( when he does not breathe for twelve < days. TlieYogns live Without water, , food or air while in this condition. They have, however, by ages of observation , of the habits of temperance among torpid animals, learned what food is most j nutritive, and even the habits of respira- , tion of various animals. A case well authenticated, apparently, , is that ol a young man who allowed 1 himself to be buried, sewed up in a ( shroud, in a hole three f'cot long, two and a half feet wide and a yard deep. Over him were placed two heavy slabs of stone, six feet long, several inches , thick, iind broad enough to cover the mouth of the grave. A little earth was plastered over the whole in order to exclude the air. A building was then Greeted covering the spot, and the door was clcscd and sealed. Guards were stationed outside to sec that no one canic to succor the buried devotee. At the end rt a month the man was dug ?n His hiiir had not grown, his hands were cramped, and bis teclh so set that they had to he pried'open. The work of resuscitating iiim was successfully accomplished. The performers of these pastimes are looked upon in their country as holy beings, and entitled to great regard and consideration.? Tre limes. Mr. Power, chief constable at Winnipeg, Manitoba, undertook to cross a river with a prisoner in a skiff, when the latter, a desperate fellow, upset the boat, and both drowned. The main stairway in George Peabody Wetmore's house at Newport cost $.40,i 000. The wood was imported, and is . carved in the Florentine style. CALIFORNIA'S BIU TREES. A Vivid Deicrlptlon of these Monarch* of the Forest. A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, writing from San Francisco, says: I have just returned from a trip among the famous biu-tree grcves ot California. So far as known there are eight or nine separate groves in the State, and tbese are found on the western slope of the Sierra. The altitude is from 5,000 to 6,000 feet above the flea, and they are always associated with a greater number of other trees. The wood i3 soft, light, clastic, straight erained and looks like cedar. The bark fs deeply corrugated longitudinally, and so spongy ss to be used for pin-cushions. The branches seldom appear below 100 or 150 feet from the ground, and shoot out in every direction from the zround. The lea res are of two kinds?those of the younger trees and of the lower branches of the larger set in pairs opposite each other on little stems; and those growing on branches which have flowered, trimgular in shape, and lying close down :o the stem. The cones are remarkable For their diminutive size, being not much larger than a hen's egg, while the cones ?f rrmnh omallpr ^nnifers are larger thaii aineapples. The seeds are short and ;hin a9 paper. It is snid that it takes 50,000 of them to weigh a pound. The ;wo most southerly groves?those on the louth and north forks of the Tule river, lave as yet been but kittle explored; )ut they are known to contain many rees scattered over a considerable area. I The next grove to the north, that be;ween Kings and Kaweah rivers, is one >f the most extensive in the State, there jeine thousands of trees scattered over i belt eight or ten miles in length by our or five in width, but most of the rees being small, averaging scarcely uore than ten feet in diameter or about hirty feet in circumference near the >ase. Two trees in this group, described )y Professor Whitney, are scarcely in ize elsewhere surpassed, and their dinonainna nrp t.hfi wnnder of all who have icen them. The one near Thomas' mill las a height of 276 feet, and a circumfermce, twelve feet from the ground, of eventy-five feet. The tree at the ground s badly burned, and the circumference iriginally was over 100 feet. Into the ther tree, which is prostrate and >urned hollow, three horsemen can ride .breast for a distance of tLirty feet, the leight and width of the cavity being ibout eleven feet. At a distance of eventy feet the diameter of the cavity s still eight feet, while 169 feet from the >asc the diameter of the tree is nine eet. The Fresno group has lately become iccessible by the open'ng up of the Maleira route to the Yosemite, and is said o contain a number of trees, not far rnm 600. The Merced grove is north ?f Mariposa, and fullv twenty-five of he trees are from forty to eighty feet in ircumference at the ba9e. In passing hrough this grove only a few davs ago, vith three companions, we saw snow n some places ten feet in depth _ and his, coupled with the magnificent pro* ortionsofthe trees and the av/ful soliude of the forest, gave an almost subime grandeur to this part of the iierra. The Tuolumne grove is situated .lmoat due north of the Merced, and i3 >n the Big Oak"Plat trail to the Yoseaite. There are about thirty trees in he group, and these are excellent repesentative? of the scq loia family. The Siamese Twins, prowmg from the same oot, and uniting a few feet above the >ase, are thirty-eight feet in diameter ind 114 feet in circumference at the >ase. A unique piece ot roaa-maKing is lere seen. In the construction of the lighway for coaches and wagons to the fosemite, theengineers suddenly found hemsclves face to fa.-.e with one of hose monster trees, and, not choosing o build around it, they cut through it, hus forming a tunnel, the like of which ;an scarcely be found elsewhere in the vorld. The diameter of the tree being >ver thirty feet, there remained an abunlance of material on each side of the :ut to retain the tree in a standing poition. and the whole, ten feet high by welve feet wide, is sufficiently large to illow the passage of any coach or team. V, Yosemite teamster, while chatting >ne evening with our Darty a few miles rom the spot, remarked that he had loticed, when passing through the tree vith a four-horse team, that the heads >f the front pair of horses emerged from he one side of the tree about the same ,ime the rear part of the wagon entered he other, or, in other words, that the liameter of the tree was about equal in ength to his four-horse team and wagon. This grove is about six mile3 in a lorthwesterly direction from the South ?ark grove, which is, in turn, the next jrove in a northwesterly direction from he Tuolumne. The South Park grove ontains 1,380 big trees, and these, in all iorts of postures and conditions, become inmost bewildering. One tree here, 170 eet from the ground, has a diameter of welve feet; another named the "Grand rlotel," will hold forty persons within ts hollow trunk; another has held six,een horses; a fourth named " Eve," has i breast-like swelling, sever feet in diinietfr, 150 feet from the ground, and he circumference of another, named ' Aaam," is said to be 103 feet at a disurifn nf three feet from the ground. An ndetinite number of other trees of simiar proportions might be named. The Jalaveras prove is the most northerly >ne yet discovered, and is the one best mown. It is situated on the Stockton md Calaveras trail to the Yosemite, and s distant 164 miles from San Fiancisco. >23 from Sacramento, 73 from Stockton, tnd 102 from the hotels in the Yosemite. The number of trees of larger size is not ar from 100, with many smaller ones on he outskirts. Most of thoss have been lamed, and tables have been published riving the exact height and dimensions )f each. Here are at least twenty tive rees above 250 feet in height, and thirty ree3 over 230 feet in height. The four lighest trees in the grove, and perhaps >n the American continent, are the * ,r ? -1 ^" riavinra 1 -Tanlrann " IVCyStODU V>tuvn?i i/i?vn>jvu| 4 Mother of the Forest,'' and " Daniel iVebster." The height of the first-named 3 325 feet; of the second, 319 feet; of the ;hird, 315 feet, and of the fourth, 307 feet. While a column might be filled ivith a description of such like monsters is the " Husband and Wife," a pair of ;rees gracefully leaning against each Dther, 250 feet high, and each sixty feet in circumference; " The Hermit," a solitary specimen of great proportions; "The Old Maid," a disconsolate-looking spinster, fifty-nine feet in circumference; "The Old 'Bachelor," a rough, unkempt old fellow, nearly three hundred feet in height; "The Beauty of the Forest," with graceful foliage and symmetrical trunk; " Uncle Tom's Cabin,''in the interior of which twenty-five persons can be seated comfortably?yet only a brief mention of two or three of the most prominent can herewith be appended. "The Father of the Forest" is prosLrated, hollow, limbless, and without bark; yet across the roots the distance is twenty-eight feet, and the extreme length to where any sing of top could be found is 365 feet. Into the tree the tourist can ride ninty feet on horseback. " The Mother of the Forest" has been stripped of its bark to a distance of 1IG feet, yet tue circumiereuuu ?i, base is still eighty-four feet. The tree is estimated to contain 537,000 feet of sound inch lumber. If twenty-five cords of wood will keep the Eastern reader's chimney roaring through an entire winter, such a tree as the above would furnish fuel sufficient for nearly twenty years. One of the largest trees in this grove not ma ny years ago was cut down. Five men were employed twenty days in the work. Even after the trunk had been entirely severed from the stump by means o( pump-augers, three days were required, by- the men with wecges, to throw the monster over. The stump has been smoothed off, and on the saqie there If room for thirty-two persons to dance four sets of cotilions at the same time. The feat has often been performed. Between five and six feet from the ground, across the solid wood of the stump, the distance is'twcnty-five feet, and, '"ith hark included, twenty-eight feet. The Mariposa erove comprises a tract about two miles'square and is the property of the State of California. It is situated six miles distant from the Big Tree station, on the Mariposa trail to the Yosemite, and about sixteen miles due south of the hotels in the valley. The average size of the trees is greater than that of any other grove in the State, but the average height is inferior to that of the trees 'of Calveras. Here are in reality two distinct groves?the upper one containing 3G5 big trees over a foot in diameter, and the lower about one- half as many. In the upper grove are at lenst ten trees over eighty feet in circumference, and 125 over iorty feet in circumference. Several trees here, badly burned, were originally over 100 feet in circumference, while others, yet in the full vigor of their growth, show proportions but little inferior. Most of the trees have been numbered instead of named like those of Calaveras ; and a complete description would show wonders the half of which has not yet been told. The principal tree in either grove is the one known as the " Grizzly Giant,1' and the eye and sense of the spectator are at once bewildered at the size of its mighty proportions. At the base of this tree tho carriage road slops, and the trail for horses begins. "Golly, that's a whopper!" said one of our party as we approached; and soon we all named this mighty wonder the grandest of ihe Mariposa prnvp. Careful! v measuring the cir cumference with a line carried for that purpose, we found it'to be over ninetythree feet at the base, and this not counting tho burnt away portions, which would nave made the total still greater. We measured thirty-one feet a 3 the diameter. At the base were live openings, any one of which seemed large enough lor the accommodation of a camping party; and immediately around these the bark was gone. From the ground to a height of about eleven feet the tree contracted perceptibly; then, perfectly round, it shot up with scarce! 1 a change to the lowest limbs, which were fully 100 feet from the ground. On one side were about ten limbs, varying from two to six feet in diameter, and on the other about twelve almost as large. The largest limb was probably 150 Icet from the ground, and this was fully twenty feet in-circumference where it left the trunk. Shooting out in a straight line for a distance of thirty feet or more, it curved then suddenly upward in a perpendicular direction, and at a distance of seventy-five feet more wa3 lost in the upper foliage. Secondary branches, as Large as a full-grown eastern oak. shot out from this primary oranch as a trunk, and there again produced other branches, to the third and fourth generation. Some of these branches were decayed; some were moss covered; some were in ine mil vigor of their extraordinary growth. The top of the tree seemed to have been bio&en off, perhaps by lightning; and the appearance of the whole was that,of a war-worn veteran of the Sierra. It was near dusk when we had finished our inspection of this mighty tree. We were over n miie above the lc; ?1 of the sea, and six miles from our stopping} place for the night. Still wo lingered. | Although it was June, yet the eternal snows of the mountains were every- | where around us, and, as the hu-M banks I and drifts stretched away off in the dis- i tance, the melting power of heat and the elements was on every side defied. Not ; a weed or blade of gr iss relieved the monotony of the view; not the chirping of an insect or the twittcrine of a bird was heard. The solemn stillness of the night added a weird grandeur to the scene. Now and then a breath of wind stirred the topmost branches of the pines nd cedars, and, a9 they swayed to and fro in the air, the music was like that of Ossian, " pleasant but mournful to the soul. There were sequoias on every side almost twice as high as the Falls of Niagara; there were pines rivaling the dome of the capitol at Wellington in grandeur; there were cedars to whose tops the monument of Bunker Hill would not have reached. There were trees which were in the full vigor of manhood before America itself was discovered; there were others which were yet old before Charlemagne was born; there were others still growing | when the Savior himself was on the j earth. There wore trees which had ; witnessed the winds and storms of j twenty centuries; there were others which would endure long alter countless generations of the future would be numbered with the past. There were trees crooked and short and massive; there were others straight and tall and slender. There were pines whose limbs j were as evenly proportioned as those of j the Apollo Belvedere; there were cedars ' whose beauty was not surpassed in their counterparts of Lebanon; there were lira whose graceful foliage was like tha? fabled locks of the gods of ancient story. It was a picture in nature which captivated the 6ense at j nnnn h? iu prnndeur and extent: and, ! as we drove back to Clark's through six ; miles of thi3 forest luxuriance," with : the darkness falling about us like a blaek curtain from the heavens, and the | mighty canons of the Sierra sinking | away from our pathway liko the open- j ings to another world, tiien it was not ; power but majesty; not beauty, but sub- j iiuiity: not the natural, but the super- j natural, which seemed above us and ; before us. Night lu the Moon. At last, however, night sets in. Grate-! fully it comes after the sun lias gathered up his smiting rays and gone down to I his rest. All at once we are plunged j into comparative obscurity, for again I there is no twilight to stay the steps J of departing day. At one stride comes the dark. But, looking up into the sky, we behold a vast orb, which pours dewn , a milder and more beneficent splendor ! than the great jora 01 uiu system. n- 10 such a moon as we terrestrials cannot j boast, for it is not less than thirteen ! times as large and lumirous a3 our own. There it hangs in the firmament, without apparent change of place, as if " fixed iu its everlasting scat." But not without change of surface. For this globe is a painted panorama, and turning round majestically on its axis, presents its oceans and continents in grand succession. As Europe and Africa, ocking the Mediterranean in their em- j brace, roll away to the right, the stonuy ' Atlantic offers its waters to view, then i he two Amcricas, with their huge for- 1 ests and vast praries pass under inspec- I tion. Then the grand basin of the IJacifie, lit up with island fires, meets the gazer's eye, and as this glides over the ] scene the eastern rim of Asia, the upper i Jortionof Australia, sail into sight. The ' ndiau ocean, and afterward the Arabian sea spread themselves out in their sub-1 dued sdendor, and thus in four and twenty nours, "tue great roiuiiuuy wu thread" turns its pictured countenance to the moon, and grandly repays the listening lunarians by repeating, to tiie best of its ability, the story of i:s birth. Nor is the sky less marvelous in another rcspect. For the absence of any atmospheric diffusion cl light permits the constellations to shine'out with a distinctness which is never paralleled on earth. They glitter like diamond points setina fumament of ebony. Stars and clusters which we never see by the naked eye flock into view, and crown the heavens.?British Quarterly. The population oi twenty-four Southera cities and towns, not including ; Louisville, St. Louis, Galveston, At, lanta, and other large and growing ceni t<rs of population, shows an increase i between 1870 and 1880 irora 405,669 souls i to 537,641, or over thirty per cent, FiRH, WARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD' To Destroy Cabbage Worms. From many experiments made we are inuuced to discard the various applications which soil or contaminate the leaves. When the plants are young, and I when the worms first make their ap- t pearance in comparatively few numbers, i they are to be removed by hand. The t plants may be cleared as rapidly as by ] the various applications used, counting t in the time of preparing or procuring i these applications As soon as the i heads form, use hot water. If any in- ( jury results from the heat, it will be c only to the edges of the outer leaves, i The body of the head cannot become t heated. If the insects have become ( numerous, this will be found a rapid i mode for their extermination. We are ( often asked for the degree in tempera- < turo to which the water should be i heated. We cannot give the precise de- < gree. The watering-pot in which it is i carried will not reta'n a high heat long, 1 and the fine streams of water from the ] rose are partly cooled in their passage < through the air. It is supposed that a j temperature of l-20 degrees will kill the < worms, but a greater heat is better, pro- 1 wirtprl thp fjihhftirp lpavps are nnf. scorched. Some practice is required to i do the work rig'it, and the operator < may experiment on a few small heads, j or else begin with warm water and ] gradually increase the temperature. In i a little time he will learn to apply the j water as it should be. Immediately after filling the watering-pot, when the ; water is hot, lie will give a quick or in- ; stantaneous dash. This will be sufficient to destroy all the worms; after the water has partly cooled, the washing will be continued longer. The great ; advantage of this treatment is that the cabbages are left perfectly clean.? i Country Gentleman. i A Word to Farmer*' Son*. Farmers' sons are quite apt to suppose ! that they can only attain to any coveted j nncUin-n lifo thrmirrh nn n-eniifl nf I^uouiva m IUV uuivu^u VM?v some trade or profession. They look about and find the wealthy men nearly all belonging to these classes. They do not stop to consider that only the wealthy ones come to view; that for ] every one of those who has acquired wealth and distinction ninety-nine others have failed and disappeared; or . have never risen to notice at all. They act on the belief that they are the only : persons that can be called into public * life, ignoring the fact that it is in the : training they get that constitutes the J difference rather than the calling. A ; farmer of equal learning and culture i with the lawyer would, we believe, find i himself in just as good request, with j perhaps many chances in his favor. If ' the farmer allows the professional man J to monopolize all the advantages at the ! start, he must expect to fiv.d himself at a a disadvantage all the way through. noiuiehold Uinta. f The New York Tribune says: G. B. i wi ii.rs: Mrs. A. E. H. is informed that 1 for many years I have kept roll butter per ectly sweet by placing the rolls closely but not crushed, either in a atone or oaken vessel, the bottom of which is first covered with clean salt, then the whole mass of butter is covered two or more inches deep with brine a3 strong as salt can make it, and thn vessel is_ then covered tightly. H. M. B. sccures perfect immunity from ants by using white hellebore. Thi3 she puts around her sugar barrel and under the papers on her shelves. Taken into the stomach it is an irritant. so it is ^desirable to keep it from children. A swing shelf keeps the daily cooked food from being infested. A neighbor of H. M. B. keeps a pan with a little sugar in it outside her closet window, and while the supp'y lasts the ants keep away from the closet. To discover whether bread is adulterated witQ alum, soak the bread in water and to the water in which it has been soaked add a little of the solution of muriate of lime, upon wbicli, it any , alum be present, the liquid will be pervaded with miikinessj but if the bread be pure, the liquid will remain limpid. Rationale?sulphuric acid has a stronger affinity for the lime than alumina and potassium, with which it forms alum; it therefore quits those bodies tolorm sulphate of lime with the lime of the test, which produces the milkiness. Don't Crowd the Fruit Tree*. In setting out fruit trees it is not uncommon to see insufficient allowance made for their future growth; hence, when the years have passed and the little saplings have attained their full size, their spreading branches almost, if not quite, interlace, excluding needed sunlight and air from the lower oranches and bringing the roots into too near neighborhood. It has been observed that the loiver branches of trees planted in ttiis way produce inferior fruit, whiie a the upper branches?receiving noundance of sun and air?give fruit of good r quality; also, that the outer rows of v t;.ese trees have liner fruit than the t inner rows. The facts teach a lesson c likewise in pruning. Branches should v not be alloyed to grow so thickly as to t exclude a fair share of light and aii g froa: any p ivt of the tree. The distance ^ apart the treos should be set must be > determined by the climate and by the t kind of tree; the size of even the same f variety of trees varies more or less with P the climate. Less complaint would be c ?ica-d about non-lruiting yea s if a gen- c erous be:t of sunlight was allowed be- t tween the rows of t ie trees, and the soil a annually supplied sufficient food for t material to restore that used in the pro- i duetion of large crops of fruit.?Lan- t easier (Pa.) Farmer. I ? t L'ircns Adverti*iug. t Mr. Fred. Lawrence, the press agent 1 of Vorepaugh's show, recently remarked to a representative of the Cleveland LearUr: " I tell you it is half the business to advertise well, Of course we must have a good show to keep up our reputation. ' I will give you some items of our adver ' tising in this city alone: i .5,000 sh.eets (1 pictorinl paper ?300 ' 140,000 programmes ol all kinds 400 3,000 lithographs 200 S Costot bill-bo.irds 350 < bulletins on wheels, building moving j and transparencies 230 j Stercopticon illumination GO ? Wnges cl bill-posters teams, etc 260 , Newspaper advertisement i,-v Total in Clovoland $3,OCO " Twenty to thirty years ago the above sum wouUl have defrayed the advertising expenses of a circus for an entire traveling se:ison." 44 How many men are to-day employed in doing your advertising?" 44 We have forty advance agents at the business, and they go in three gangs, about a weex or sometimes two weeks apart. A week ago our advertising car cam ? to this city and stopped several days at the Union depot. It brought our bills, paste and all things needed. It has now gone on its way. We have one man for every department of the ! business. I am press agent, having : oiluln tn An urit.li thf> nOWSDriDCrS. An other man attends to printing bills; another lias charge of all displays and bill-posting. There is a boss bill-poster with each gang of agents. My partner there is the fellow who interviews the city fathers to get license, grounds, etc. The reports of the inspectors of mines in England for 1679, shows that during j the year 133,7*20,3!)3 tons of coal, 1,455,003 tons of fire-clay, 9,387,766 ton3 of ironstone, and 803,207 tons of shale, etc., were produced in the mines classed under the coal mines regulation act. Four hundred and seventy-six thousand eight hundred and ten persons were employed in and about the mines. Of these 385,170 were employed underHound, and 91,631 (of whom 4,842 were males) were employed above ground. THE BEJiDEB FAMILY. rite Story of Their Terrible Crime* 1 ICausas llevlved. The recent supposed capture iu Nc jraska of John Bender and his wift wo of the notorious Kansas murderers efreshens interest in the story of thei -errible crimes. The hiitory of th 3ender family and of the murders whicl ;hey committed is one of the most re roltinjr recorded injthe annals of crlm n this country, 'lne lamuy consisie )f two men and two women, and the iccupied a one-story frame-house, o ather cabin, twenty feet long by four ;een wide, on the south side of th Jsage Mission road, about two mile Tom the town of Cherryvale, in Labett ;ounty, Kansas.. The house was on th jpen prairie, and was kept as a kind c wayside tavern for the accommodatioi if travelers. The building was divide into two rooms, the front and larger on being used as a dining-room, and th rear as a sleeping apartment, In whic were two beds. Attached to the hous in the rear was a garden, and the lan sn which the house was located em hrnopfl fihnnh t.wn acres The Bendei were all of them repulsive in appeal ance, and the neighbors shunned their 3o that ihey had DUt few visitors. Th two women pretended to be healin mediums, but from subsequent develoj ments it would appear that their claim in this respect were only pu t forward t lure persons to the bouse in order t murder them for their money. The tw men were reputed to be brothers, an the two women passed as their wives. Shortly after the settlement of th Benders in the house near Cherry vali remarkable disappearances of traveler began to be noted. The first that at tracted public attention was that ol a old man and his granddaughter, wh lelt Cherryvale in February, 1873, in two-horse wagon, to go to Fort Scot! but who never reached that place. A inquiries failed to elicit a clew to thei Jisanpearance until, about the beginnin jf March, Dr. William H. York re cog lized the wagon and team at FortScotl He ascertained that the wagon had bee; purchased at the fort from some perso: who had come from Cherryvale, and h ietermined to ferret out the mjsterj He left Fort Scott on March 9, and n ;oo disappeared. Large rewards wer jffered for his body, and the seatcl noAa in* him mn<3 a 1r>n<r and carefu >ne, but no clew to his fate could be ob ;ained. The search, however, forDr fork, led to the finding o/ the bodies o ;he old man and child in the ravine nea Drum creek, with their throats cu rom ear to ear. During the search fo Dr. York the house of the Benders wa risited often, but all the family deniei 11 v ing seen him. They were evidentl; tightened, however, at the persisten learch that was being made, and on light in the middle of April, 1873, th inlire family disappeared. Their fligh vas not discovered for a week after yard, as none of the neighbors were ii be habit of visiting the house. Whei t was made public everybody becam sonvinced that the Benders had left fo iome good reason, and a party fror Jherryvale started out to make an in restigation. The house wa3 found exactly as th lenders had left it. and nothing suspi :Tbu?",w a "noted until, on mov:n#o&< >f the beds in the rear room, a sligh lepression in the floor led toth&discov >ry of a trap-door. Upon raising thi i well about six feet deep and live fee ivide was discovered, from which aros i horrible stench. Upon exploring i ;he floor and walls were found to b laturated with thick, fetid blood, whicl :lung to the lingers of those who wer jroping around in the bottom of th ivell. There was no doubt that whole .ale murder bad been committed in th louse, and that the bodies of the victim aad been thrown into the well But n< corpses were found here, and the part; continued its explorations in the garde; to the rear of the house. Sharp rod were used to penetrate the ground, an* ifter an hour'3 fruitless search one o :he rod3 struck something which fel ike a human body. Shovels wer luickly brought, and the ground up jeaved. when the body of a man lyini 'ace downward was unearthed. Ther no coffin, and a torn and discol >red shirt was all that covered th loJy. The corpse proved to be that o Dr. York, and a wound on the back o he head disclosed the cause of hi leath. This discovery encouraged tin aborers to continue their work, and ii i short time nine more graves were dis :overed, eight of them containing singL >odies of men, and one of them an ol< nan and a little girl. Most of the bodie; vere so Jar decomposed as to maki ecognition of the faces impossible. Thi hroats of all, except Dr. York and th< ittle girl, had been cut, and the girl hac .pparently been buried alive. The mysterious disappearances weri iow accounted for. The Benders ha< Qurdeied the travelers who stopped a heir house, stripped them of money ant lothes, thrown them bleeding into thi veil under the rear room, and thei rnried them at convenient times in thi ;ard(?n. Descriptions of the fugitive varc sent all over the country, and thi vhole land was scoured for then]. Par ies were organized in Kansas to hun or them, and weeks were spent in th >ursuit, but the Benders had too mucl >f a start, and their trail was lost. Feu lifferent men and women supposed tx >elong to the Bender family have beei irrested during the last seven years, bu hey have succeeded in proving thei dentity, and have been released. Whei he man and woman captured in Nc OTwn tnirpn to the former home c he Bender's in Kansas it was foun hey were not the Bender's, and the vere released. Talmnge In Leadrille. The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage ha icon making a personal inspection c lie slums ol Leadvilie. Half an hoc ifter the close of a sermon a week ag Sunday night, he set out from his hot* with a guide. They first looked into saloon where a man had been kille Dver a gaming table a few nights b< fore. They then entered a gamin jaloon to catch a glimpse of a litt' crowd of players seated about half dozen green tables and watching wit breathless interest the progress of tl games. He next proceeded to what known ns the "Texas," another gamt ling saloon where music and a goo lunch relieve the monotony of far< and where the erowd present wi equally large about thedifterent table: Being recognized he beat a hasty r treat, reaching the street, thence coi tinuing ins visit to uiree otner garni ling rooms on Harrison avenue, whei he was thoroughly initiate I into tl secrets of poker, keno and rouk'tt The preacher and his companion the turned down the street, jind procccde to visit the dance-houses. Tli? first < these places at which Mr. Talma; stopped was the Odeon. His coc panion led the way down the hall, M Talmnge timidly pausing a few fc from the door and watching the eirls they threaded the mazes ot the dance wild abandon. The lloor-manaser, n recognizini him, approached Mr. Tj mage and asked him to lead a set, b the invitation was politely decline and as soon sis lie could get his gui once more within reach of his voi they stepped out and continued dov the street until the red light of a dam hall was reached. Thus the roun were completed from Harrison aven to Pine, and Mr. Tal i.age viewed all t sights to be seen in this deleetal region. In the last dance-house visit he was recognized by one ot the gir and was glad when he found hims once more beyond the bold inspecti ot the frequenters of the place, to who his presence became known almost soon as he set foot inside the door. 0? the Shore. , .Down on the golden s&nd, * . - j&jj n With careless feet, - ' N Through sunny horn's they stand? The children sweet. >, Gonlly, as if at play, * The green, gray waves r. Make music in the bay ^ And kiatfthe eaves. - Tattle the children know ? ^ ; ^ Upon the shore . V ;?jj ? How, in mid-sea, winds blow ' L" -* 3 ,j? will Diuvwii iuu ) . ~ How ships meet sad mischance, s And sailors drown; e This blessed ignorance e la childhood's crown. Q Beside another sea 1 These children stand, C From all its fears still free, ? On childhood's land. e Oh, mighty sea ol life, ' * d Ob, perilous tides, l~ Where storms are always riie * And death abides! * i, Fall soltly on the land e Where childhood lingers, ? x Building its domes ol sand . l8 With rosy Angers. ~ ? For children should not hear \ "J Q Tour raging wild, d Nor see?whose eye# are clear? Yonr tide defied. : V - j? , Nor mark, with bearta that bleed, g How souls go down; v > This ignorance indeed n is childhood's crown. v. ^ ? ?Botioii Pilol t ss ?. - li ODDS AND BHDS. ^ T _ g Pressed for time?Mummifs. -? Tho war-cry of the army of tramps? To alms. " ^ * The first horse railroad was built In -v Si826-7- ' - - *,'3 ,m A fitting opportunity?The visit to* g the dressmaker e No photographer can carry cn. his f i business without a little so?. ; 1 The four great coffee countries of the - ^ * world are Brazil, Java, Sumatra and* * Ceylon. * The consumption of iron in the t United States is estimated to be fully , . ?358 * 4,000,000 tons per annum. q A bottle has been thrown ashore by - ?- J J tDe SOU COllttUUlUg a uuv/uuicuu nutvu + y purports to have been written by Noah. . t It is probably a hoax. e Louisiana's sugar crop, which fell . S'% e from 459,410 hogsheads in 1861 to 10,387 ^ t just after the war in 1861, amounted to 169,972 hogsheads last year- , - ? 3 A clock was on exhibition which fired . 11 off a pistol hourly. The exhibitor, on * e being questioned as to its object, replied r that it was to kill time. ' ^ The population of Oregon will foot tip about 170,000. It was 90,000 ten years e ago. The increase is about ninety per . cent- Tuis is a remarkable gain. e Ladies are- like watches?pretty " t enough to look at; sweet faces and delicate hands, but somewhat difficult to s ' regulate" after they are set a-going". ;P >S4 t The department of agriculture ill e Washington reports the number of hots t in the country this ye^r as 35,036,100;e last year, 34.700.200, and in 1878 at a 32,262,500. - / -M e An old sailor, unacquainted with the e appliances of a lady's toilet, picked up a !" hairpin in a New York street car, and e banning it to a lid opposite, said: 8 " Madam, you have lost a fork." ^ It is believed that the largest yield o q wheat on record is one hundred and a two bushels to the acre, raised by orte * Jam's L. Rav. of Lewis and Clarke f county, in the '.Territory of Montana.) ~ t Without wishing to encourage the e world in gabble, we may say that the . ; r goldenness of silence is overestimated. "* g The mute, inglorious oyster is always e getting into broils, stews and hot water. A tree fell on Andrew Erckin's cabin e on State creek, Washington*Territory, f the other day, and a cross-cut saW, f shaken from its position on a beam, 9 dropped on Erckin and cut himiin two. . e The newspapers of Ireland say it' is. 1 time thit the tide of emigration from ' the Emerald isle to the United States be ? arrested, as young laborers, at the pres1 enl rate of outflow, wiil soon become' ? scarce. a Bees are kept in Paris. One Parisian . ' ? has 900 hives. The bees infest sugar-. _ - ' ( factories. At one refinery two or three bushels of bees are destroyed in a day, a bee -use they steal syrup and sting laj borers. t A shrewd farm hand bought for 8160 i the big meteor which fell in E nmet a county, Iowa, last year, and was laughed 1 at by his comrades for what they con- .? 2 ceived to be his idiocy. He has now 9 sold it to the British mnrnm f->r ?6,500. * ' ! Food. t The use of lood by different persons e should be regulated in quantity or chari acter, or in both, according to their ages, r health and occupations, tlie seasons and 0 the climate in which they live, itiik is 1 the oniy perfect lood for inrai.c?. It is t the best food for children and youth up \ r to the age of sixteen. Old people are a weaker in their digestive powers, partly i- becaus? their whole system is weaker. / if and partly becau-e of th"ir diminished J o..fitritv 'I'hfir f.uid should u LUUOUU1UI MWVMIVJ. ........ y be less in quantity tban that used by vnunger persons, and of easier digestion. , . '"v In summer and in warm climates less food by one-third i3 needed, tbe tone of the system being lowered, and persons s thus being unable to digest or to assimi(f late as much as in winter and in colder [r latitudes. So also fat, su^ar and starch 0 ?the latter includes line liour?bcidg >1 mainly heat-making elements, should bb "a but little used in summer and in tropical j regions, and largely used in winter . and in coid climates. Corn bread, 'g which contains a large per cent, of fat . l| is better adapted for food in winter than a in summer. Shoemakers, tailors and people of sedentary habits generally >e need less food, and what is more easily j3 digested, than the farmer and persons who work in the open air. Still, every(j body should have enough active exfrr, cisc to digest a generous diet. A thinker ^ needs a good supply of brain food, such a as is liberally furnished in oatmeal; but gl he must not use tiis Drain ai ine cipcuoo a- ?f vigorous muscles, lor it is muscles j. that have to work not only the stomach. e hut the lungs and heart. The sick, of le course, need food carefully adapted to . e their particular condition, and those who are not in full health may greatly help themselves by rejecting whatever they find injurious to them., :e ~ 1 ? ii- An Inland Sea. [r A correspondent of the New York et Fxrrrcs? writes of t'ie famous Japanese as inland si-a: i'he inland sea. though in beautiful and deservedly far-famed, is ot not, in our opinion, superior even if i\- equal to a number of similar scenes in ut America, except for the peculiar nature d, of the improvements along the shores, de and the novel nppearance of the little Datches of grain, irregularly teriaced, vn often from the water's edge to tue ioptu ;e- the hills, with temples here and there in ds wooing clumps of trees, and villages ue close down to the water's edge in every he possible hollow along the way. The ile sea is, I should think, about one hundred ed and fifty miles Ion*, varying in width Is, from live to twenty miles, and tilled in eli with numerous islands, many of which on are under cultivation in homeopathic mi patches, their different colored grains as making them seem a little like an old* fashioned patchwork quilt.