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mpiBIH WPl?P1 1111 1 WW? - ; ABBEVLLE P R E8S AND BANNER J BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1881. NO. 45. VOLUME XXV. g^i The Age of Innocence. Drear were the world without a child, \Vhtre happy infant never smiled, Nor stirr'd a mother's love; We sooner could the flowerets spare, The tender 1 >ud and blossom fair, Or breath of springtime in the air, Or light of dawn a bow! Xo monarch rules with lordlier graco Tlian helpless infancy its place Soon narrowed to a span; Outstretching bands that claim as right All things that loom upon the sight And reeking nought of greater might That will discrown the man. qfcgfr Oh, little king, oh, little queen, Von rule not with the golden sheen And jwmp of larger courts. But sovereign is vonr gentle sway, Strong hearts and willing homage pay, Love scatters garlands on your way Where your young life disports. , No poe t utters daintier word Thau oft from lisping lip is heard, No wit moves purer mirth; In mimic satire babes grow bold And quaint surprises they unfold, As first their untaught eyes behold The wondrous shows of earth. ? William Stevens. ' 'DEAR MARY.'" Robert King was six-and-twentv, handsome, rich, and a bachelor. He had no parents living; indeed, his only relative in the world was a pretty sister of eighteen, just returned from school to keep house for him. They lived in a comfortable old place, Vale Manor, which, in conjunction of course with its owner Kobert, aroused the ambition of ?11 A."U ~ - '-11- 1 ' - ~ # '1 ** uii mc uumuirii-ii latuesiormiiesarouna. Mr. King came iu one autumn eve- j' ning through the open window of the |. drawing-room, to find bis little sister, Belle, sitting in the dusk, doing nothing. She sprang up as he entered. "Oh! is that you, Boh, dear? I'll ring for the lamp." "Xo?don't," cried Bob, laving his ! hand on hers to detain her. " I prefer ' the half-light. Twilight is the time for !1 confessions, people sav, and I've a con- i ! fession to make." ! ! * Belle gave a little exclamation of sur- j prise and sank down again on her chair. Her brother took a low stool at her feet, j and, flinging the end of his cigar out of i mo window, Degan: " I darejsay, Belle, dear, you Lave noticed that I have been backward and for-; ward to Crossville a good deal lately V" " "Why, yes," replied Belle, wonderingly. " It was not without a purpose. I am an engaged man, Belle! Congratulate , ? _ 99 |, me. Belle's breath was nearly taken away, but she bent and kissed her brother and , murmured something which he took for congratulations. Hardly noticing her silence, he went on, quietly: "I did not like to tell you before it i was nil settled, in case she should refuse me. My dear Mar}* is not so young? that is, she is not such a child as you are, and folks say she is not altogether pretty, though I don't share that opinion. But then, love is proverbially blind. She ha<? no parents living, so we need consult only our own wishes and convenience, and?" He was interrupted by the entrance or a servant bringing in a card. Bob rose and struck a match. " That follow, Jones, confound him!' he growled. ' He'll keep me for hours, probably. Very well, Jane, show him j into ihe study, and say I will be there ; in two minutes. Belle, dear," turning I ixj his aistcj, ' uij lUui'v is coming to tea with you to-morrow at 4 o'clock, i She is sure to be punctual. You won't forget, if I don't see you again to-night? I shall be off to Isledon before you are up in the morning, and I may not be back till evening. So when dear Mary comes give her a warm reception, because I wish it. You will love her for her own sake when you know her better, and I am sure she will like you. So remember what I say; and now good night, my sweet, and God bless you! I mustn't keep Jones waiting." He was gone, and the first thing she ma was to tut clown and nave a good cry?foolish little thing! " It was cruel of Bob never to say a word to me till it was all settled," she sobbed, " and of course she wouldn't refuse him?no girl could, the dear! He ; might have known I should sympathize with him." And then she wept afresh, vowing to hate " dear Mary." " I'll be perfectly polite to her," she , told herself, " but ah ! so cold ! An iceberg shall be warm compared to my manner." Then stamping her little foot spitefully she got up and went to bed, where she sobbed herself to sleep. Bob had been in such a hurry the evenincr he told her the news that Belle i had not the slightest idea who Mary was, or even if she had a surname. But' the afternoon would show. Next morning Belle rose in a better frame of mind. All her ill-feeling j had vanished, and she was quite pre. pared to take " dear Mary" to her heart and love her as a sister, for the sake of Bob, who had been a father, mother, brother, everything to her. Bod had already started for Isledon when Belle came downstairs. Before 3 o'clock in the afternoon she was dressed and ready for her visitor, j She was arrayed in her best gray silk dress, and seating herself in the di-awing-room, iook up her needle-work, and waited as patiently as she could. As. the clock on the mantel-shelf \ stmck four, there came a sharp determined ring at the door-bell, and Belle trembled in her shoes, for she decided if that ring was characteristic of " dear 1 Mary's" disposition, then good-bye to her own way for ever. "Miss Prime" announced Jane, and "dear Mary" was shown into the room, and the door closed behind her. Belle started forward, hesitated, and ! with an inward groan held out her arms and buried her face on Miss Prime's shoulder. " Dear Man*," she gurgled, " I am so pleased." " Dear Mary " looked rather puzzled at the warmth of her reception, but smiled, nevertheless, and observed, in allusion to her visit, that it was perhaps unexpected. "Oh, dear no!" responded Belle. " Bob told me last night, and "?hoping a Providence would forgive the lie?" I was so jdeased. I have always wanted an elder sister so?I am so young." u Yes, dear Miss King; but that is a defect which time will remove," graciously replied Miss Prime. If it was a defect, thought Belle, who was charming at eighteen, it had been completely eradicated in Miss Prime. "And so your brother told you, did he ?" inquired the lady. "Yes! He took mo into his confidence only last eveniug, and said you would be here to introduce yourself this afternoon, just as it happened." " So your dear brother did not approach this subject before ?" - " Oh, dear, no! When people feel strongly, and are perhaps in doubt upon a subject, they are averse to di-, vulging their hopes to a second person, even to a sister." " But when their doubts are cleared up ?" suggested Miss Prime. " Yes. when they are relieved from their apprehension, then they are ready ' to open their hearts and ask those they love to rejoice with them." " Your dear brother, then, can be very reticent "Not more so. perhaps, than most men; but ho certainly kept this affair quite to himself." "Quite to himself," repeated Miss Prime; and then musingly uttered, "Ah, that accounts!" Evidently a doubt had suggested itself to her mind, and now a satisfactory explanation had been arrived at. A light seemed to break in upon her and a smile parted her lips, displaying | an astonishing amount of somewhat toothless gums. " And at last vour dear brother told vou?" r 9? M 4 f- -x v,?" J *>.*{??. ,jL r 'r;:; She hesitated. "Yes. He tohl mo that he loved you, ami hoped I would love yon for his sake, which of course 1 do. He will be home after tea." ' Oh ! Miss King?Belle, dear?I am so happy!" murmured the spiuster, with a becoming blush. " I never dreamed he could care for me." " And do you know,'' said Belle, wishing to please her,'' he was actually uncertain as to whether you would accept him. Fancy!" "Fancy, indeed!" quoth "deai ATii,.*- " ,"f T rwf vnfnc. ing the dear fellow ! I love him, oh ! so much. I have always done so, but 1 hardly dared to hope?" She broke off short and remained looking out of the window across the beautiful grounds soon to be hers, lost in thought?dreamy, delicious thought ?till Belle"]carried her off to remove her out-door garments. These consisted of a large pair of white cotton gloves ; a long antique cloak which Belle decid ed must have been brought out bj Mrs. Noah or one of her daughters-inlaw out of the ark : also a bonnet, wonderful and terrible in the complication of its colors and materials. The shape itself might have been originally a canary-cage or a lioman helmet. To crown all, she carried a huge green alpaca umbrella, rolled up like a lettuce, with an immense bone handle, beakshaped, and not unlike the interesting feature of the lady owner's face called a nose. After removing her bonnet, etc., " i r )? A . 1 1... T> ^ ^11 ? * turnr luarv was iuki'ii uv x>t-uu un u>ui tlie bouse. They lingered in the pretty drawingrooms, where Mary proposed various improvements. "I should like," she said, proudly, "to have these rooms completely redecorated. I never cared for blue ; scarlet is my favorite color." Belle shuddered with horror at her bad taste, and inwardly wondered how the dear old rooms would look when the ruthless band of her future sister-inlaw should have desecrated them. "Ob!" she sighed to herself, " whatever can have possessed Bob to fall in love with this woman?" And she recalled his words. " Not such a child as you are. " Ao, Uelle thought, " sue certainly is not. Why, Methusaleh himself was an infant to her. ' Not altogether pretty, too.' Good gracious! She's positively hideous, uot to mention scraggy. Oh ! Bob, Bob, you'll me the day that ever yon asked her to share your home." But outwardly Belie was all a flectionate politeness. " How did ' dear Mary' like this? and what did ' dear Mary' think of that V " Miss Prime had the most peculiar ideas and the most abominable taste. She disapproved of all Belle's neat, elegant arrangements, vowing to change and improve (?) everything as sr>cz as her reien slioid}:zSzr "I wonder," Belle said, "that Bob has not spoken of you before. That is, of course, he has spoken of you, but only casually, as it seemed to me. Never till his confession last night did I suspect for a moment why he went so much to Crossville." Miss Prime blushed becomingly as she said: "Your de..r brother cun be very close, you see, and hides his feelings well. Indeed, even I, though I could not but see my company had a more than ordinary attraction for him, scarcely dreamed that he cared for me so much." TTa Aomn fn L-on vnn iwnffr fvn. quentlv, didn't he ?" asked Belle. * "Yes, two or three times a week, and stayed chatting for half an hour or more. Indeed, Miss Loggins, the lady who lived with me, has laughed about it more than once, although I know she was jealous of his attention to me." " Did he speak to vou of me ?" asked Belle. " Oh! yes, frequently, and I always asked after you when he came in." " You have no relations living, I think Bob said ?" " No, no one in the world," said the lady. '' I had an aunt somewhere down in Yorkshire, but I have heard nothing of her for years." " My brother had scarcely time to tell fmvfKinnr " c?ni/l Pnlln UIM iiwt can i "for just as he began his confession, the girl came in to say his man of business was here, so that I heard hardly any particulars. I did not sec my brother again last night, and he was oil'to Isledon this morning before I was'up. Is it arranged when?when it is to be ?" Oh, dear, no!" replied the spinster, coyly. " Nothing has been said on the subject at all at present." "I see. Bob told me that, having no relations living, yon had only your own wishes and convenience to consult." "Yes, of course," admitted "dear iuaiy, simpering ana looking clown at tlie lace of her pocket handkerchief. Then they went down to tea, Miss Prime inarching first with a stately tread and a dignified carriage of the nearly gray head befitting the high post she was soon to fill. Already did she seem to feel her position, as she swept her stiff linsev skirts haughtily past the astonished servant 011 her way to the breakfast-parlor, her sallow face flushed with triumph. Belle, notwithstanding her disappointment and annoyance, had much ado to keep from laughing outright. " Prosperity certainly makes fools of some people," she thought. After a quiet cup of tea together, the two ladies adjourned to the front drawing-room, where they sat by the open window and chatted gaylv, for Belle was a perfect little actress and entertained her brother's betrothed^ right merrily, in spite of the bitter grief that was gnawing her loving little heart, for she knew >t was not in the nature of things that her brother could long be happy with this woman, who was so much oldei than himself, even supposing that the only objection to her. Time flew on, and it grew dusk, almost dark, wlien Belle's quick ear canglit the sound of her brother's horse cantering up the drive. Begging her guest to excuse her for s moment, while she went to acquaint hire of her (Miss Prime's) arrival, she lefl the room. She met Bob in the hall, with a quivering lip and outstretched hands. '' Oh, Bob!" was all she could say. " Well, my darling," he said, as h< bent to kiss her iu the dusk not noticing her agitation, " is Mary here?" "Yes; iu the drawing-room. WiL you go to hor ?" " To be sure; but I want to know dear, what vou think of my choice' If?" "I don't like her at all," she lmrsi out, passionately. " I hoped she woulc be so different. Don't bo angry witl me, dear; perhaps I shall get used t( her in time, and even like her. Now go or she will t hint it si range. I am going t( fetch the lamp," and Belle tripped away Bob stared after her retreating figure in startled amazement, then softly whist ling to himself he turned on his hee! and went into the dark drawing-room ir search of his lady love. Belle was absent little more than fiv< minutes; when she re-entered the roon she stood transfixed with amazement. Bob was standing at a little distanc* from "dear Mary," his hands hanging a his sides, his month wide open with as tonishment and his eyes staring wildly Mary stood by the window looking like a hunted stag at bay. " Good heavens, Bob! what is tin matter?" gasped Belle, setting dowi the lamp and springing to his side. " Matter enough !" said Bob, savagely "What have you done, child? Wha have von told Miss Prime ? This is no my Mary." " Not your Mary!" gasped Belle; " i must be! Her name is Mary. You sai< Mary was coming at 1 o'clock, am she came. No one else has been here. " There has been some dreadful mis take somehow," said Bob, sternly, " a] of which, unfortunately, Miss' Prime i the victim. Did I not say Mary Vernon when I told you last night ?" "No, indeed 1" replied Belle, "yo only said Mary. You mentioned no sui name at all. i thought, somehow, Mis Prime seemed a little surprised whe i I? Oh! I see it all now. Dear Mis ^. ?,, r-; 1 ".vVvc vu,.- - vv*' ?>s V ' - ifz-v Prime, will you ovoi^Hpve me?" turn-! ing to the now tearful spinster and hold-1 ! ing out her hands. i; Mi ss Prime drew her spare form up ] | I haughtily, and, wiping away her tears,, , . surveyed brother and sister with a , i kindliug eye. ! < ' \n. ! T iiover r-nn or will for- , give you, miss, for your scandalous { practical joke; and as foryou, Mr. King. , I should have thought you would have : had too much gentlemanly feeling to countenance your sisters pranks, much , ^ less help her to carry out such a heart- ' less joke. Not that i care, for I know," 1 ! she added spitefully, " even if you had i ! asked me to marry you, I should have \ had too much good senso to allow my . self to accept such a very ill-bred, i ^ i! foolish young man. Why you can't , ; even look after a sister, much less a j wife," she added, flushing with anger. ^ s " Miss Prime," said Bob, hastily, i I " believe mo, you are under a wrong j ; impression altogether; neither my sister nor myself had the slightest intention , of wounding your feelings. This unfortunate occurrence is a pure mistake, ;I assure you. You cannot surely think so badly of us as to imagine we would be , i guilty of such unpardonable rudeness ? It is very awkward, and I am perhaps partly to blame for not making my sister acquainted with the name of the lady to whom I am engaged. I beg humbly to apologize. Beside, you must know that! your visit was quite unexpected." Mary stalked awfully downstairs, opened the door herself, and went out, B?'lle standing at the door gazing after her with a troubled faco. She heard her groan as she wont down the steps: j "It's all over?all over?and I should so ! have enjoved crowing over Miss Loggins! Oh!" : She stamped her umbrella savagely down on the bottom step and marched I ' 1_? ^ 1 1 1. away, crusinug mt gruvn uuuui ua i fairy feet! Belle 'went back to lier v ; brother. J She found him watching Miss Prime's 1 retreating form anil laughing immoder- I ately. What could she do but join f j him ? i "When she could speak she gave him t an account, word for word, as nearly as ! she could remember it, of the conversa- j i tion of the afternoon, and the mistake;'1 j 1 was easily accounted for. ' r c , " Miss Prime, you know, Belle, keeps j a small stationer's shop at the end of r i the town, and when I call in there for i s ' the papers and so on, I stay generally r i and chat with her. She is a lively old | ^ I girl, and rather amusing to talk to. In , rj ! fact, fellows chaff me about her some-: c times ; but I give you my honor, Belle ; f I have never said one word to her that J 0 she coxild possibly construe into?well, [ a anything of that kind. Goodness knows n j what possessed her to call to-day, un- s less?unless it's something connected j j w ith some of her charities. The only ^ i thing I can't account for is the fact of j niv Marv'a never arriving at all. I: - ; %/ ~ : x I think, Belle, we will go over to Cross-; f ville in the dog-cart after breakfast to-;, : morrow morning?shall we?and you t j shall be formally introduced to the real ( I Mary, Miss Yernon." 1 . Belle agreed, and then they laughed | f afresh. ! f Next moming Belle went with her! s brother to Mr. Vernon's house, and was ] I introduced to his charming niece, Mary, j The girls were delighted with each ' i other. I Mary was a sweet, merry, plump little : ! darling, whom it was only necessary to ' !see to love. j( She shrieked with laughter when j c ; Belle confided to her the story of tlie; ! terrible mistake, but declared she was very sorry to have been the innocent cause of it all. | " If I hud only kept my appointment, I j all would have been well," she said, with smiles of amusement dimpling her; sweet face. " But dear uncle seemed so poorly I conld not leave him, and I had no one I could send up to the Manor with a message. 'Twas unfortunate ! However, it can't be helped now, but the secret must never go farther than you, Bob, and myself." i They learned afterward that the ob-' 1 ject of Miss Prime's ill-starred visit had i been to solicit Belle's assistance at a Dorcas meeting in the following week. | Belle and Miss Prime have not met, met sincc. i ... ... , 14 nrr ] Aru:Miiii5 ii The first and most prevalent miscon- j' ception of tyros is, that an article or a i' I)oem, to be brilliant, must be "dashed j ( oft'." They have heard, of course, that1 1 ! Johnson wrote " Rasselas" in a week ; j that Byron was only thirteen days over i " The Corsairthat Scott was scarcely i' i double that time in writing a volume of j i i " Waverleyand that Burns composed 1 " Tam o' Shanter" between dinner and >1 tea. But they forget that before these ] tasks were accomplished Johnson had ] , composed and published what would lill ] volumes ; Byron had already spent the i i best of his years in the constant practice 1 of his pen ; Scott had edited the Bordei , < j ballads, the works of Swift and Dryden, 1 < i i and written the greatest of his poems ; 1 and that Burns was as expert and prac- f ticed in verse making as a long experi-; t , CIIUC 111 CUC (lib LUU1U puooiuxj UiaACCVCU ; . j him. Apart altogether from the ques. j tion of the super-eminent genius of all j these men, they did not attain to this degree of literary celerity all at onee. They did not jump into it as a man 1 may get into a suit of clothes. It was in each case the result of the unwearied practice of their art. There have i been instances, such as that of the poet 1 . i Campbell, where the genius ripened ' early and where the first work was the j ; best, but this is very rare even in the i ,. ranks of genius. The rule in these ranks has rather been on the side of un-; . mitigated labor in correcting and per fecting their compositions. Many of, : them, such as Gibbon, wrote and re-, t wrote the first of their productions i 1 three or four times over; and after all, I 1 . when they saw their work in print, have ,' been known to declare that they thought1 < . they could still improve it were they to i write it over yet again! It may be ' j taken, therefore, as a fundamental rule in the attainment of literary excellence i j to spare no labor in perfecting and pol[ ishing and to leave no word or sentence i ] t or passage unimproved that still seems to admit ol' improvement. Attention to 1 ( this would save many a young writer j ( some of his bitterest disappointments. I j : ?Chambers' Journal. ) ' I ; A Kiml-Hearted Brigand' A brigand in Tliessaly has lately dis- 1 I; tinguished lamself by an act of unusual i kindness and good-feeling. A short j 1 i time ago several school-children were ? carried off from Zagorah by a band of brigands under the leadership of an t eminent ruffian by name Balachos. Five :1 I of these children were subsequently re1 stored to their parents on payment of a ;: > heavy ransom in each case. Three of > the captives, for whose release a l:i,-gei* > ransom was demanded, were retained, j One of the three was the son of a Mr. - Cassavetti, a little boy in whose fate - general interest was excited, and who I has regained his liberty in an unexpect1 ed manner. A Wallack, belonging to the band which had captured the boy, 3 took a fancy to him and determined to 1 effect his rescue, and being left with two : others of the band to guard the child, 5 he found an opportunity for carrying! t out his benevolent intention. One of the brigands went to get some bread and another fell asleep. The Wallack, J ; taking advantage of this favorable mo: ment, broke the needle of the gun of 2 . the bandit and called to the child to 1 j come with him. The little captive, not unnaturally misunderstanding the sum mons, began to cry. This awoke the t brigand who was asleep ; but his gun I was useless and he snapped the trigger in vain. In the meantime the Wallack ; managed to escape with the boy to ltis1 somoia, whence he was taken home by 1 some friends and an escort of soldiers. " ; Of course Balachos is dreadfully an' noved at the affair, and if he gets hold 1; of the Wallack intends to make an exa ; ample of him.?St. James' Gazette. t, j ? , ? A writer in the New York Tribune a knows of a couple boarding at a hotel , > in that city who pay ?20,000 a year for ; s rooms and board, and of housekeepers n who pay a dollar a pound for beefsteak ; in so as to have the best. j TIMELY TOPICS. Some learned'persons are advocatin the theorv that outbreaks of crimes ar JUC IU QUUUl'U UUU pt'CUilUi IIICICUIUIU^J ?harges. If the theory is correct i ;eems to us that the criminal outbrea per centage for the past winter slioul be about the highest on record. An association of the shipowners an shipmasters of Main*. with five huudre substantial members, lias boon organize n Augusta. They believe that th jreat prosperity of the country at larg is about to make itself felt in the sliij rards of ]\Iaine, and their purpose is t lid in the revival of the great industrie ;or which the State was long famous Hie organization, which represent many million dollars, was perfected b he election of permanent officers wh lave enough to stake to secure tliei jest services. An article in a California newspape jives some interesting information i: egard to the present condition am prospects or me Kingdom 01 ivmj Kalakaua?tlie Sandwich Islands. Th lative race it appears is dying out lie terrible disease of leprosy being o: lie increase. Since the reciprocit, reaty with the United States went int 'fleet the labor conditions of thecountr; lave been greatly improved, the ehie jeneficiaries being the Chinese, wh aise the greater portion of the suga Top and \vho are in a male mimericfl uajority on the islands. The electiv rancliise is open to all, but thus far th Chinese port ion of the population mani est no desire to avail themselves of th >rivileges of Hawaiian citizenship. Tin uture of the islands is an extremely in cresting question. If the forces a >resent in operation are allowed to worl nichecked the Mongolians will in a fe\ ears have complete control, and Hono ulu will become a small Hong Kong low and to what extent such a conditio] >f affaiis may affect American interest s a question which the future alone cai leiermine. Apropos of an article in its columns he Christian Union savs: It is worth; >f note that the coffee-houses estal) islied in the chief English cities as i neans of keeping men away from liquor hops have proved a decided success nany of them paying an annual divi lend of ten per cent, upon their capital Dhey supply coffee, tea, cocoa, soups old' meat and bread and butter of gooc [uality and at low prices. Newspaper ire kept in abundance, and customer; ire welcome to remain and read as lonj is they please. Thus the coffee-hous< erves the purpose of a cheap club similar experiments have prove( mccessful in Boston, Troy, St. Louis ind other points iu this country. It is i patter for profound astonishment tha he organized viurkors against intern >erance have paid so little attention 4j ae paipanie lacts mat anniung is parrr lue to the fact that men are thirsty >artly to the desire for social good fellowship, and neither thirst no fellowship is adequately provided for h iny of our great towns and cities excep >v the liquor-shops. It is proposed to establish in Denver 3ol., next September, a permanent ex ribition of ores and all the implement )f mining. Prominent persons through rat the country have expressed an in crest in the project, and the organiza ion has been completed on an effectiv JllSiS* J. 1IC CApUDltlViJi j J liembers Mill secure no personal profi rom the undertaking, has secured fort; icres of land and will erect a substan ial building costing $250,000, a consid jrable proportion of which has been a! ready subscribed. This building wil lot probably be completed for the open ng of the exhibition, but is designei is the permaneut home of an extensiv ind varied collection of specimens am machinery. It is intended that thi exhibition shall display every nature 'act and every artificial process know :o mining engineers. It will be dif inctly national in its character, but co] lections, machinery, illustrations an :reaties from abroad will be welcomed This is a broad field to cover, and it i iot to be expected that completenes ;an be attained at the outset; but th plan is practical and affords ample foun lation for an extensive and useful sr perstructure. In 1880 there were in the Unite States no less than 170 boiler explc lions, which killed 259 persons an wounded 555. It is remarkable thai tvhile tko number of explosions pe month varies slightly, and is rathe larger in winter mouths, the number c resultant casualties was decidedly larges in June. Probably that was dne t the exceptional character of that month' lisasters: but it is onlv fair to expec :liat violent deaths will increase regr larly with the return of each excursio: season. A classification of the boiler jhows that fortv-seren were used i vood-working mills. Presumably woo ivas used for fuel under such boilers uul the much less equable temperatur produced by the burning of wood a compared with coal would go far to es plain the undesirable pre-eminence flie next most numerous class of explc led boilers numbered nineteen, am sere used in paper, floiu-iDg, pulp ani jrist mills and" elevators. Eiglitee: ?xploded boilers were the motors of lc ?omotives and firo-engines, fiftee: *1, (VUltJ xllulillti uuiil-i.i, hula l ecu. nci 'portables," being used in lioisters hrashers, pihwlrivers, cotton gins, etc, md thirteen v. ere used in iron work? is compared with 1879 there is a larg ncrease in these figures. In 187 there were but 132 explosions, wind killed 208 persons and wounded 23( rhis fact is traced to the reviv al o :rade, which demanded the new use c idle boilers, and in many cases the ovei working of others. Married People Would be Happier. If homo trials were never told t neighbors.! If they kissed and made up afte every quarrei. If household expenses were propoi tioned to receipts. If they tried to be us agreeable as i courtship days. If each would try to be a support an :omfort to the other. If each remembered the other was human being, not an angel, If women were as kind to tliei husbands as they were to their lovers. If fuel and provisions were laid i during the high tide of summer work If both parties remembered that the married for worse as well as for bettei If men were as thoughtful for thei wives as they were for their sweel hearts. If there were fewer silks and velvc street costumes and more plaiu, tid house-dresses. If there were fewer " please darlings, in public, and more common manners i private. If wives and husbands would tali some pleasure as they go along and nc degenerate into mere toiling machine; Recreation is necessary to keep the heai in its place, and to get along without : is a big mistake. If men would remember that a woma can't be always smiling who has to coo the dinner, answer the door-bell half dozen times, and get rid of a neighbc who has dropped in, tend to a sick bab; tie up the cut finger of a two-year-olc gather up the playthings of a four-yea: old, tie up the head of a six-year-old o skates, and get an eight-year-old read for school, to say nothing of sweeping cleaning, etc. A woman with all this t contend with may claim it as a privileg to look and feel a little tired sometime and a word of sympathy would not t too much to expect from the man, wli during the honeymooip-rcQuldn't let h< carry as much as a sunshacter^Sto/urtfe Ercniny Mail. \. Cape Horn was named by Scliouten, Dutch mariner, who first rounded i He was born at Hoorn, in North Ho land, and named the cape after hit n tive town. J - . . -** ' SAVED FROM SAVAGES. j I rr Thrilling Adventure Anion? the Apaches? j .g KchcuIub: White Women frdnt ihu Indianm in Arizona. ^ During the brief but memorable war ]. waged by the late Apache chief, Vic-1 torio, against the white and Mexican i inhabitants of Arizona and^NewMexivo, j manytfncidents occurred, which for in- J tensity of dramatic interest, have few j parallels in the pages of -history or ro^ niance. Last summer, a few days after ^ Victorio and his pitiless band had ? made one of their ruthless incursions v npon a settlement rear jae luaricopa, Wells, on the Gila road, word reached i 0 Tucson that two white, women were J 8 captives in an Apache camp in the Santa ' ' Orui. mountains, some seventy-five or i s eighty miles distant. Holv the report j y was brought I cannot say. There was i 0 certainly no regular communication be-! r tween the city and the caanp, by tele- j phone or telegraph, mail tir express. I j suppose, as is usually tlie case, the r squaws circulated the rancor, and gave n it such impetus that it was carried to d Tucson, where it was fairly credited, g and It proved to be tru&' enough. It e made a good deal of excitement in the ;, city, and the general sentijhent was that ti something ought to be fnne to effect v the rescue of the captivfs. But what o steps should be taken nb one at first v seemed capable of suggesting. The I iorco ac uamp umtencipp was smiui, i o and even had it been thuhierous it j r would have availed nothing, because i, upon the approach of troaj?? the Indians J e would have fled to some of the inaecese sible fastnesses of the mountains, and - perhaps murdered their Unhappy pnse oners. The subject was '.discussed in 0 all its phases, and every plan proposed - for the relief of the unfortunate women t had been rejected as impracticable, '% when suddenly some one naked: r " "Where's Charlie Dupocf ? He's the j - man we want for an occasion like this. J . If any thing possibly ton be done 1 Charlie will do it, and make no fusu j s about it, either." ,> i The suggestion was eogwly caught up ! and assented to, and a sparch was at j once commenced for Charlie Dupont. i TTii wrto /-\f TVavt/fcl* AvfvoA+iKn l*ta mnfliAT- I IXU nao Ul XIUIVU CAVitiwar^i) uig mwuv^I J, being a woman of the Aricaree tribe, among whom his sire had trapped, 1:ra* dec! and hunted for many years. Charles was a feminine-looking young fellow, | whose dark, slender mustache barely re-; * lieved him of the appearance of eflemi-1 nacy, and whose soft, musical voice and , quiet movements betrayed nothing lie| roic in his composition, y;t he was regarded by those who knew, him as every * inch a hero?a terrible fellow in a fight r or at a fandango, and ono of the most ' daring and successful scouts our troops had ever employed in their warfare I against the scourges of our Territory, j the bloodthirsty Apachesv For months i ' he had been in almost constant service j i as a scout, but was now, f- .r some reason, | spending a few weeks in Tucson. He I " was at length found ?Jid conducted to the fonda, where the principal citizens * were^still engaged in discussing the ' topic oS^Jbabsorbing -.interest. He was ~ quickly macTfe-Hcmiainted -vif.il the situation, and was theirn^sked j. " What do you say^ 8h.xlia.? do anything for these wc aen ?' "Yes, I think I can," lie replied, de-; 1:1 t-i v.i l?i ii 11 U t: ru I tu J UUU Mire : . mo a good man to go W-h me, and I1 - will see what I can do." * I s It was not a very dif cult matter to ; - find men willing to acci apany liim on 1 - his proposed perilous expedition, so j - much reliance was pJfti.-?.. on his conre age, coolness, skill and 'ulgment. He e selected as his compai >n Billy Tall- , t nan, a reckless sort of ,llow when in y the white settlement". it whom a long - and dangerous experti" a driver on ' 4- kW nn? rtfirtr* nn/1 IVf^e! mnfo lio/1 I tuu X UCOUU auu iiXV/OIll i. -Iiwgw A \J UI.V uuu I- rendered cool and wary when among .1 the haunts of the savages. He was a i- man totally different from Dupont in 1 manners and personal appearance, but, e like him, would " do to tie to " under j i any circumstances and ftmid any sur-! s i roundings peculiar to an unsettled com-1 ,1 | munity. n j In a very short time the two adven-; i- J turers were equipped and mounted for j I- their enterprise. Goo4 horses were I d placed at their disposal. Armed with j [. their trusty Spencer carbines and Colt's j s revolvers, and provided with a small1 ;s quantity of provisions, and having us-! e certained as nearly as might be the lo-1 1- cation of the camp they proposed to j l- visit, they sprang to their saddles and j were soon riding rapidly across the mesa, threading their way among the , cacti, and pursuing as straight a course toward their destination as the nature of 'j the ground permitted. Their ' horses were fresh and they kept steadily to \ \ I their tvork, enlivening their way with song j 1 I and ; est, or with serious conversation * concerning the delicate and important i ' lio/l Tf rt'oa I . UliaaiUU IUUJ UUVl UUU' .i. lUUVyll. JLV ??!*.? | scarcely noon when they started, and by j p nightfall they had covered more than j half the distance tli< y had to traverse.! Then, ns their steeds showed signs of ' l~ weariness, they halted, picketed the! n animals, ate a frugal meal, wrapped, s their serapas about them, lay down upon j the ground, and were howled to sleep , by the shrill voices of scores of hunjrrv j '' nayotes. e After a refreshing slumber, in suite of 9 the cowardly beasts which dared not ap- j proach within effective shooting dis-1 !* tance by the starlight, the two adven-! 'j turers were awake and alert with the j | early dawn, and, having breakfasted, j saddled their horses and proceeded on i 1 their way. Toward noon they began to j ascend the mountain slopes, when their j n progress became slower and more toil- \ e some. They were now approaching the ; '' j camp of which they wore in quest, but ' of its locution they knew nothing accu^ j rately, and must trust to luck and acci ( dent to reveal to them its whereabouts, j , They now proceeded more carefully, j j1 keeping their eyes well about them, dis' coursing only in whispers, and favoring j . their horses by selecting the easiest' ' grades and smoothest ground for the ascent of the mountain. Fortune favored them, as she sometimes, not always, favors the brave. Having reached a considerable elevation, they were making o their way through a wooded dell when they came upon a half-naked savage, r who, after a hasty observation of the intruders, turned and ran directly from j > them, waking the echoes with his shouts, evidently intending to alarm the camp, i 11 " What shall we do ?" said Tallman. * " Follow him close," replied Dupont, ; d and giving their horses the spur they ! ran tiie fleeing redskin into the camp, ' a which turned out in confusion to ascer-j tain the cause of the uproar. But few ' r males made their appearance, however, and these mostly old and decrepit,. 11 while a considerable number of squaws :. and children were seen scampering y toward the rocks and timber. A few; \ shots from their carbines scattered the ir males, and then, seeing a group of; t- | squaws hastening toward a ledge of ! rocks on the upper side of the dell, they ! !t | urned their horses' heads in that clirec-1 y j tion and dashed among them. Their | I bold .less was rewarded by finding in j " this group the women of whom they were j n in search?one an American and the j other a Mexican, and both, notwith:e standing the grief and anxiety depicted >t upon their countenances, fair to see. ?. The lings who had them in charge were d loth to let them go, but our heroes, it dismounting, swung the captives, by i main force, to the saddles, and then, n ! springing on behind them, began their i k retreat. j a This was a much more difficult feat | >r than the advance, for the Indians who j v, had at first supposed they were assailed ] 1, by a detachment of troops, now dis-! l- ! covered that their assailants were but! :n ! two in number, and were rallying to cut i y j off their retreat. A running fight en-j !*:, sued, in which the deadly accuracy of | o the carbines told to good advantage, | :e while, on the other hand, the nature of s, the ground gave the savages opportuui>e ties for ambuscades which they were not.' io . slow to improve. Only the proverbial j jr ! cowardice of the Apaches saved alive ; ty our heroes and their precious charges, j exposed as thev were to assaults from j every side, unable to urge their jaded a and over-weighted horses to any satis-j t. factory degree of speed. The fleet- j 1- footed savages were easily able t<? keep ; a- up with them and harass them from j behind trees, rocks and bushes with a | : ' rapid discharge of both arrows and firearms, the number of their warriors having evidently received an accession, while tho squaws and children kept up an infernal uproar of hoots and yells. Dupont's horse got an arrow in his shoulder, which rendered him almost unmanageable, and Mrs. JJenedict, tlie American lady, who occupied Tallman's saddle, received a bullet-wound in the fleshy part of her arm. As soon, therefore, as they reached a convenient spot, the little party stood at bay, and the fight began in earnest. The rapidity of the carbine fire soon partially silenced the volleys of tho Indians, who now skulked under shelter and watched their opportunities; but every time one of tliera raised his head it attracted a bullet, and it is almost certain that .several of tliera were converted into good Indians by the gospel of lead. It looked that way to our heroes, who, although they had no way of ascertaining the fact, felt sure that some of their shots were effective by the evident consternation of the enemv and the fact that with each vol ley they became more cautious and retiring, and at last withdrew from the field, when our friends lost no time in getting down from the mountains and putting a good piece of ground between themselves and the redskins. Their camp that night was carefully chosen and strictly guarded, but they suffered no further molestation, and in due time arrived in Tuscon with the rescued captives, who were received with the active and cordial sympathy which grows only on the wild soil of the Western Territories and Pacific States. It was found impossible, however, to restore them to their friends, for these, alas ! had been murdered by i.i. _ t_ -*r t> .1 -i U. me jjuiuuis. huh. -dclhjuicu wus, ut ua own request, sent to California; Senora Riviera remained in Tuscon and was in due time married to an American in respectable standing. As for Charlie Dupont and Billy Tallman, the boys applauded them; and that, beyond their consciousness of having done a good and brave thing, was the extent of their reward. And, doubtless, if necessary, they would undertake a similar adventure upon the same terms.?Cincinnati Enquirer. A Lady's Adventure with a Llou. Jules Gerard is dead, ignobly drowned in an African river, but Bomboncll lives, and the lions of the dark conti nenfc have long trembled at his name. A sister of Viscount Mandeville, Countess of Gosford, now divides with Bombonell the laurels of Africa. The international yacht club, which started from Lisbon on a yachting tour, and included Algiers in the list of ij#*to* tions, procured its memberf^helonged-for ?pportunity of having-* shot at a lion nnder nell's guidance. Thc-mttLeypilxusnistiemembers of the expq$fc*o^i|i(pre ladies, among them the C^Lteapw Gosford. Bombonell received the members ol the yachting clubs, aa.. old acquaintances. Almost the first was: "Shal^g^/^o lion-hunting?" Now, it^JplWebonie in mind that Algeria is no longer the hunting ground par excellence it used to be, and one lias to travel a good distance nowadays to reach some Arab tribe in whose neighborhood lions are to be met with. Bombonell knew of two tribes to whom he had addressed hin self in anticipation of the expected v tors' clamoring. Vainly did he try to dissuade ii.- * A_I_* i 4-i.? ? Wit? iiuues ii UIll UUUUg pui u 111 tuc njJUL t. Nothing was left for him but to take the greatest possible precaution against any accidents that might befall the fair portion of the party, all of whom, after an early start, reaclied the promised land in safety. Without much loss of time the beaters set to work and promptly succeeded in rousing first a lion and nest a lioness. Unfortunately the lion, afcer being wounded, began to make in long leaps straight for the vehicle occupied by the ladies. The driver seeing him approach jumped off his seat and disappeared in the bushes, the horses became uneasy by the firing, and instinctively frightened by the lurking enemy, dashed off but were soon brought to a fatal stand for them?a fortunate one for the ladies as it turned out. The lion came up with the horses in a few leaps, struck his claws and teeth into one of them, throwing it on the ground, thereby not only causing the other one to fall, but upsetting the wagon at the same time. Quick as lightning Lady Gosford was on her feet again, and almost touching the lion fired at and wounded him so badly that the animal was unable to renew the attack. Bombonell came to the rescue, and with a couple of shots from his revolver gave the lion the coup de grace. It Is needless to say that the hunt was brought to an end, and that Lady Gosford is now the heroine of a lion hunt, envied not only by manv a sportincr ladv, but bv all the tourists at present innndating Africa. Finger Nails. There is popularly supposed to be some poison communicated by an abrasion of the skin by the finger nail or when it comes in contact with a wound. We question this. Unless a person has a very decided scrofulous diathesis or unless the system is greatly diseased with syphilis there ought to be nothing in the hard tissues of the body to communicate disease. What to our mind more likely is this: People are not particular enough about keeping the finger nails clean. Those of refined tastes and who belong to what is termed "good society" take pride in keeping the nails free from anything which discolors them. But that kind of material gathering under the nails which make them look disagreeably is not as apt to contain some insidious poison as something which may not exhibit itself to the visual organs at all. The bright blade of the lancet when it looks free from any corrosion and when it seems to be entirely clean, if introduced beneath the skin may convey a poisonous inoculation. In various ways the finger nails may come in contact with transparent fluids which, brought in contact with the blood by an abrasion, would cause a sore?perhaps obstinate ulceration. These poisonous matters may be gathered up by contact witli the various objects we take hold of, for we are constantly handling things which have passed through the hands of hundreds of others. In public conveyances especially, the hands grasp and find rest where thousands of hands have been before. A person having a cutaneous affection will be very likely to have his fingernails charged with th# poison for the reason that he is so often scratching himself. There are some occupations which "are liable to charge the nails with irritating matters. Both for the purpose of entire cleanliness and for complete safety every person should use a nail brush and apply it thoroughly as often as twice a day, while its more frequent use would be even still better. ?Health. Monthly. Hereditary Dignities. There are now 577 peers or peeresses and 805 baronets, making altogether a little over 1,400 persons who are possessed of hereditary dignities out of a population of thirty odd millions in Great Britain. All the baronetcies have been created since the reign of James I, who established the order, and only abor.t th ree hundred of those which are still unmerged in peerages were created before the reign of George III. The unmerged creations of George III. number 305, of George IV, thirty-nine, of William IV forty-six, and of the queen 172. Of the 577 peers, 478 have seats in the house of lords, 434 by personal right, and forty-four by election?sixteen by the peers of Scotland, and twenty-eight by the peers of Ireland; v.-hile tho 143 peerages of which the holders are not legislators at present r re distributed among the peeresses and peers of Scotland. And very few of the whole number, comparatively speaking, can boast of any higher antiquity than the baronetcies. Women generally are in favor of corporal punishment. They never go anywhere without their switches. (Sl':..*-*- >v . *' namHOMaanHM CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS. i No creature below the back-boned ; animals ever breathes through its mouth. Huxley ia of opinion that the simi i.^ooaocaa o nnwmic liUUg U UV4 I VWW system. Austria lias a petroleum region oneeighth the size of that of the United States. Ireland was lirst called the Emerald Isle by Dr. W. Drennan, in his poem entitled Erin (1754?1820). It is true that in high mountain altitudes the boiling point of water becomes so low that food can not be cooked in it. Stone hammers, similar to those found in the ancient mining pits on Lake Superior, have been discovered in Silvei Belt mine, Arizona. Ivan IV., of Russia, first adopted the title of Czar (1529,1533, 1584). He was ! called Ivan the Terrible, being infamous i for his cruelties. Four-fifths of the animals on the . onn nnn +1,, I glUUCj U1 iiUU,WU OpCUCO) UCiVlJ^ lU tUC ringed and jointed-footed animals, and I of these 150,000 are the six-legged in{ sects. j Bees have very little power of comI municating with each other, F. Millei j gives curious instances of the inability i of the bees to invent for themselves ? ; natural language. The governor of a State has not the . power to fill a vacancy in the house oi i representatives. Ho must order au elecj tion previous to the next regular meet ing of Congress. : The tiger does not naturally possess j but easily acquires a love for humac ' flesh. "When he has once tasted it the | spell of man's supremacy is broken, and I ever alter tnat, it is saia, nepreiers ic ic | any other. Nitro-glycerine was invented by So j brere in 1847. In 1863 Alfred Nobel, t j German, first mixed it with gunpowdei i and uied it for blasting, and after fur i ther experiments invented dynamite, bj j mixing it with infusorial earth. A sheep, buried seventeen days unde] a snowbank, near Atchison, Kansas, was released, and found to be still alive The sheep had eaten off all the wool or its own body that it could reach, and its only other food was the snow in whicl it had been entombed. It was dread fully emaciated, but on being releasee it joined the flock, and began biting al the fleece of its companions. The Close Colony. Not far from the Missouri river, ir the northwestern corner of Iowa, is ? colony of Englishmen who have undertaken with moderate_ capital and 4sfinite pluck to Md up their [attunes ?juaTold enough, ho^evelT tc Ifijntet satisfactory evidence that agricultox6"i?] when properly undertaken, one of the most profitable industries in tSic Toui|p[|^JkarnumbGr at present Jt j abouf^i^^^^many~Jldditionalmembgg : are expected this spring. ' This colony, often called the Close Colony, owes its origin to three enterpris : ing brothers, respectively James,William aiul Fred Close. One of these came ! out here in 187G to row in the Cambridge j boat crew at the Centennial regatta, : Some of the crew fell sick, however, 1 and they were forced to leave Philadelphia and retire to Cape Slav to reenperI ate. There the young Englishman mel ; his destiny, and closed his boating ! career by an engagement to many, j About this time the young lady'f ; father advised young Close to tak( : a trip "West before returning tc I England, assnring . him that ii j he should do so, he would be satisfied ! that this country offered stronger in ducements to a young man than am ; across the water. Accordingly, he weni West, and made up his mind to go intc ! fanning. He immediately drew his two brothers into the enterprise, anc together they began on a large scale At the same time they took steps to in duce their friends in England to joir them. Though the enterprise is nol j three veai-s old, tliey^control at presenl some two hundred 'thousand acres oi ; land. The young men who make up this community are for the most part gradu ates of Oxford or Cambridge. On one ' farm I met two tall and handsome young farmers whose uncle had been a distin! guished member of parliament. The last time I had seen them was in o London drawing-room. This time thej tramped through the mud and manure of the barnyard to show me some new. ly bought stock. They were boarding o Tintnli fdrmor at three dollars nei ] week, in order to learn practical farm ing. Both were thoroughly contented, and looking forward to the future with i pleasure. Another young farmer whom I no j ticed on horseback, with top-boots, flannel shirt, sombrero and belt-knife, was pointed out to me as the grandsor ! of the author of "Paley's Theology.' j He was attending a cattle auction al Lernars, Iowa. There, too, was a son of Thomas Bay ley Potter, the distinguished lionorarj ! secretary of the Cobden club, and M. ! P. for Rochdale, who had come out onlj j to take a look at the place, bnt who sc j fell in love with the life that he decided ; to invest. One had been an admiral ir j the royal navy, another had been con ' nected with a Shanghai bank. Then j was a brother to Lord Ducie, not tc I speak of future baronets, viscounts and i konorables. These young men had al] j been attracted here by their love of s i free, active life, and the knowledge that j they would enter a society congenial tc their tastes and early associations. [ Although differing widely from "Tom" ; Hughes' Tennessee colony, this Iowa j community has accomplished (without | any special agreement uetween tne i members) an undertaking which com| bines the profits of farming with the | outdoor sports so dear to an English1 man. ; They have the very best ground foi i fox-lmnting in the world?a rolling ! prairie with a creek hero and there, i Even- colonist makes it his chief care, t after* buying his farm, to breed a good i hunter for the steeple-chases. The) j have regular meets for fox or "paper' ; hunts, as the case may be. They hvsl I year opened a racing track, and wound i up the races with a grand ball. Tin ! event was a grand success, and partners | were brought even from St. Paul, 27C miles to the north, to grace the occa! sion. Their relations with the Close Broth1 era are very simple, and entirely of a j business nature. After a desire has been ! expressed to join the colony, and the i firm have decided that they are worthy i to be admitted, they arc required to pay j $230 as a species of initation fee. Tim i is about five per cent, on the first investi incut, and is a commission charged tc i each new colonist. In return they coni tract for putting up houses, building ' wells, purchasing land and implements, ! etc., and furnishing ad nee whenevei | called upon. It is something in the nature of a lawyer's fee for future conj sulfations. The tax is saved over and I over again in the security the strangei j obtains against all manner of exorbitant | charges. Sharp as down-Easters are re| pitted to be, they are mere beginners i compared to a Western land agent. | Thus we have an example of co-oper ( ation on a large scale that works per I fectly, and has grown up from the con! ditions of the colony without any pre I vious theorizing on the subject. The i head of the colony buys for all al | wholesale with a large discount. He sells at retail without charging the col onists anything but a nominal commis sion for their service. Herein lies on< secret of the power and prosperity o ; this colony. They can combine foi ; purchase; they can combine for con tracts in working their estates on i large scale; they can combine foj special rates in the shipment of theii produce to Chicago, St. Paul or St Louis. The single colonist lia? no1 these advantages so pronounced, anc above all does not enjoy the social ad vantage of being among people of hi: own tastes and home associations.? Poultney Bigelotc, in ffwper'a Magazine FOR THE LADIES. A Novelty in Costumes. Some beautiful costumes for Saratoga ;; or Newport have been imported in I boxes, arranged beneath the glass to show the effect when made. These are i j partly of the new Bayonnaise wool in colors, draped over flounces of cotton ; . I satteen, on which are printed roses and ; [ | foliage so admirably done that it is mis-1 ; taken for hand-painting. The basque, i [ for instance, is of dark porcelain blue | L Bayonnaise, with a vest of pale blue . ftiinctrii, uii a npenai uuaigu tu , j represent a hand-painted vine of teaj| roses. A new white lace outlines the! j vest in plaitings, and trims the neck and j '; sleeves. The bouffant apron drapery is ! ^: of the Bayonnaise without trimming, j !! The flounces of the lower skirt, of J i which there is a very wide one boxplaited above two narrower ones, are of > the light blue satteen, with a separate i design of tea-roses, leaves and buds imi printed on each. Lace edges the flounces, and a glimpse of the dark blue j is seen at the foot. Above these flounces >i all of the lower skirt that is visible is 11 shirred in puffs around the skirt. In . j the box with this suit is a parasol of the lifflifcpst, bliift Rftfin. hnrrlprpd with ft rnfifi . | wreath, lined with blue silk, and having .' a stick like a fishing-rod. There is also r' a fan of the pale blue, with creamy k | roses and sticks of white wood. | Another bit of French coquetry is a red i bettle an inch long of gilt and stone ! j that is resting on the plaited lace of the 1 ; dress front. This single beetle is dis' j covered on other French costumes, '. sometimes reposing on the left shoulder, while on other dresses it is transferred 1 j to the sleeve. - Harper's Bazar. i ; Fault ion Notes. ^ | A profusion of lace trims round hats. ' Steel trimmings are fast superseding ! jot. j Stripes will be worn for traveling \ j suits. i i Bengaline is the new name for Sicilr j ienne. Satin merveilleux is the present name f I for surah. i 1 Jpt-lionrlpd S-narnnh Iopa trims manv , ! imported suits. 1! Mantles "with liavelock capes attached i i will be worn. 1 i Shirred visite mantles appear among ^ | other spring wraps. t Cheese cloth comes in a much improved form for summer suits. Fans and parasols match fancy cos! tumes for country seaside wear. Large white collars of linen batiste i will be much worn in the summer, i Fringes, as well as flowers, and satins j de Lyons, come in shaded effects. ' Small mantles and shoulder-capes will ! be worn as soon as the weather permits. Lar^e-figured cretonne costumes will | be remed fct.inxloor and country wean ' 1- T' 1 CI 5 <?. j 1 ? I | ljisxo mrcaa an?-wM*giim? iwre. "Pry V "i Inti reaching half-wav to theelbo^^^^ The high plaited fraisestraput the , i neck and shoulders of summer immtles" > j give them a very dressy look. Very long gloves are more and more popular; the arms are now covered : while the throat is exposed. Poke bonnets of draw silk or satin are now worn with large wreaths of J , wild roses, and folds of beaded black ' tulle arranged like a diadem around the ' 1 crown. Moire is decidedly taking rank among J' the fabrics for dressy toilets. It is j worn not only in its original state, but L i is also combined with plain satin. It is _! often used for trimming dresses of plain , woolen material as well as in conjuncl tion with richer fabrics, t ) I*re-historic Footsteps. I , Oregon, the Arcadia for the red man,' rich in minerals and fertile in soil, held j ' a numerous population of aborigines who still flourished when the white man J; set foot within its borders. They dwelt \, near the rivers and the shore of the " ocean, were warlike and primitive, float : eel their canoes upon the streams and lived their wild life undisturbed. Less ' than a century has swept them into oblij vion, leaving only a few bleached bones, J a few stone idols, and a few implements ': of warfare and domestic use. No earthworks, nor temples, houses, nor pottery ! remain. Yet tradition and the great 1 shell beds prove tliat numerically these r: people were strong. Thinking of their 5' sudden extinction, we may well wonder at the brevity of human life and the effac; ing power of time, who passes his hand ' ' . over a race and it disappears like " | figures under a sponge. These people ' worshiped, for they have left their 1 idols. They joyed, son-owed and loved i in their rude way, and now there remdins | of them only a few feeble creatures in ; ' the lowest scale of humanity. 1 i Then there are the mound builders, of! \1 Ohio, that curious race long departed, ! , who left their earthworks to puzzle a; "' civilized people. One writer describes the observatory mounds as forming a ! | i chain of signal stations so located as to i rj communicate across tlie country from ! ' valley to valley. They are built upon r | the highest hilltops, and undoubtedly |! served the people who built them as ^ telegraphs whose messages were beacon 1 lights. Inside these mounds is an arch ' of clay and stone and an altar. These !, and some flint implements are all that i remain of those vanished tribes. That i ' they leaned toward civilization, and had ; \\ a certain form of government is a theory ! 1 nnf nnsimnnrterl bv the traces thev have ' 1 left. They tilled the soil and cultivated ! ' art in figures sculptured from the hardest: ( stone. Another race was contemporaneous with the mound builders. They were; ' agricultural and ingenious, and they : "wrote their history for us in curious pot-1 ', tery. Earthen vessels shaped like tor-! 1 toises, shells, fish and birds are found in \ ' the pottery mounds in Missouri. They j carved stone with great skill, too. Hu: man heads of almost Grecian beauty '< adorn many of their works. They, tooI suddenly disappeared, leaving behind I , ihem a wonderful record in stone and ^ I pottery. All that remains of their pa' tience, industry and skill are found in their mounds, graves, and in the relics : scattered about the vicinity of the habit tations. What wind of fate swept them > out of existence is not yet known. ? Near Joliet, Illinois, a row of human j ' skeletons with copper ear ornaments be-1 side them were found recently, and several sections of Minnesota send news of! similar discoveries. One mound revealed j - six hundred skeletons, supposed tc be I 1 the remains of Indian braves slain in a j > battle which tradition says took place > several centuries ago between the Chip- j pewas and Sioux, the former winning the ! 1 day. i | Everywhere over the earth lie buried j 1 the tribes and races that flourished be-! fore history was, and before civilization j ' began. How limitless is the store of i : facts the silent earth holds hidden in ' j her bosom ! Ages pass and races perish > I yet she loses not the record of either. ; Under her fresh and smiling face, green ! with verdure and bright with flowers, are | the tombs of the centuries. Wonderful '. are the forces of nature, the laws of ! change. Who can contemplate the > mighty evolution of the universe and notj feel the egotism of his soul grow less, and i hear in fancy the tramp of the army of, a race in their march toward oblivion ? : How (hoy Got. A lot of tht "boys" were sitting around the stove the other night about 10 o'clock, talking of early times, busi-! ness, how they got their start and kindred subjects, and during the talk young Adolphus walked in, looking very solemn. " Hello," said one of the old fellows, "here's a kid; let's hear how he got his start," and Adolphus, , < not knowing wkqi the subject of Cottle | versation had been and keenly feeling r his recent sorrows, tenderly folded his j hands behind him and moaned: " Well, t: if you'd seen Maria's father boost me 1 off' the front porch with his foot about . j fifteen minutes ago you'd have enough s I respect for my family not to ask me , - how I got my start."?Sfeut>6rri/l* . | Herald ? THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. ^ " Wi Peas. For an early crop of peas plant early in the spring,* just as soon as there is no , -< longer any frost in the ground. Choose a southern exposure, and, if possible, a . : northwestern protection. The warmer " the place the better. It is our practice , J as far as possible, to prepare our ground, (pi, the autumn previous, so that the fertil- -iizers may become finely mixed with the . soil. We have found old leaf mold* very good manure. We prefer double rows for at least the tall sorts, which should be bushed when thev are five. "".f inches high, having previously been | hoed. The rains will pack the earth around the young plants, and it needs good stirring. The double rows we make seven inches apart, and from that' to the next double about four feet. It has been our plan in order to getagood. start to sift some earth and fertilizer 't'y. get a number of pans or boxes, soak . the peas over night and plant ag* in the boxes, two inches of fine; earth to a good sprinkling of, soaked seed, one after the other to the top. The boxes are put in a warm room in the sunshine or near a stove, and the earth is kept moistened with tepid water. When the ground is ready " the boxes are taken into the garden, the earth and peas are gently dumped out, and, as the peas will be found to have sprouted, they must be carefully ... , dropped into the drills, with fear thai the sprouts may be broken. Then they . must be gently covered- We plant peas so that they are not more than a half incii apart, sometimes almost touch, and - ^ our success with peas has been veiy :'% great. In fact, we had the vanity to try and show our country neighbors that a family can have plenty of pew, j and good ones. As to varieties our . :',^ tastes may be peculiar, but we do not like the kttle, round, plump peas, and would rather take castor oil than a dose : *? of the old-fashioned marrowfats. We like the wrinkled, . green, ^ it: sweet sorts, which, when cooked, are ^ cnrrAnn/lA/1 xrifVi anrl oaf viffi A * spoon. The Philadelphia pea is very-V early, and is a saleable early pea. in market. For onr personal use wo donotwant it. The Ameqcan wonder is a nice wrinkled dwarf pea?needing no brush /'Vi ?bat its coat is considerable, and we do not propose it for any but the For a somewhat tall, early pea needing-V'r brnsh, give us the Alpha. It is the ice* cream of peas. It is very early. One year it did not yield well with us; the' y*. next year it did. The Premium Gem is * our favorite early dwarf pea?the moat satisfactory early sort that we have ever planted. Next to that we like the Little . v Gem. No one can go wrong on that, variety. It is dwarf* For safety and for : general early crop we commend it. For the later general' crop there is no choice. Of course the Champion of England is the champion of peas. yard manure generally lacks phosphoric V^ acid, while bones contain a large quantity. A ton of pare bone dust contains, j,~ as much nitrogen as eight and a haftj&fcr tons of fr*>sh staihlfi manure of an areralra age quality. The quantity of phoe?vr phoric acid contained in the manure depends upon the kind of food consumed * by the animals, though the ton of bone T dust contains as much phosphoric acid as 110 tons of stable manure, but one tone of the latter contains more potash than five tons of bone dust . : Iu the Ponltry-IlonHe. A correspondent of the Oouniry Gentler man says: Kerosene and lard are as "J essential in the poultry-house as soap' <vand water in the nursery, and I wonla . , * as soon think of going without the latter M as the former. I never see a sign of a louse unless we are careless and negl the remedy, or rather the preventive^ I do not wait until the chickens are ten or twelve days old, for by that time the mischief would be done; but I begin * the fall before, and all through the. winter, once in two or three weeks, rub the roosting poles with a mixture of * lard and kerosene,' hi#and half, and < v: put a little on the corners of the nest boxes. "When I set a lion I use new, /; soft, clean hay, and on each corner of y' v * the box pour dear kerosene; it must , not touch the eggs If very late in the. J season, it will be best to repeat this a few days before hatching., I take theT '. -, i chicks out as fast as they are dry, and"*' ^^ keep them by the kitchen stove in a ,^" bftakat under a woolen blanket for ona". or two days. Then each chick's head rubbed with the anti-louse mixture* and any stray insect that may have lain. > " in wait in some unguarded spot will never obtain a meal from that chick. Care must be taken not to put on too . much, or it will run into the eyes.. v Once a young assistant used it so freeW^ that thirty chicks became entirely blind,. and died from starvation. Hoaflcho!d Hints. If, when bread is taken from the oven, ' the loaves are turned topside down in the hot tins and are allowed to stand a - few minutes, the crust will be tend*.and will cut easily. When washing fine laces, do not use starch at all; in the last water in which ^ they are rinsed put a little fine white sugar, dissolve it thoroughly, and the result will be pleasing. No housekeeper should put quicksilver on her bedsteads. The mineral is absorbed by those sleeping upon them, causing paralysis and many other serious and fatal diseases. < v* To keep bread moist, have the dough stiff when it is set for the last rising. The larger the proportion of flour to that of moisture in the dough the longer zl :ii j :? iu ?ni Jiccp IUUISI. Alter tuts uieuu JIB baked and cold, put in a tin box or an earthen jar with close cover, and keep it covered tightly. Bread thus made and kept cool, and always from the air, will last afld be moist for a week. A Fight Between Stallions. Lady Florence Dixie, whose work " Across Patagonia," lias attracted considerable attention, rode in man fashion in that country, and apparently for that reason was able to follow game for hours, to throw herself from her horse, and otherwise conduct herself lik? the men of the party. Readers of Beerbohin's book will remember the exciting description of the contest between a tame and a wild stallion. Lady Florence saw such a sight, the interest being deepened by the fact that the wild stallion very nearly succeeded in driving off all their mares to add to his own. " We are lost," cried the guides, simultaneously; and, filled with dismay, we all stood still, perfectly paralyzed at the thought of the position we should be in without horses 300 miles away from Sandy Point; but at this moment Gregorio's big bay stallion, the master of the troop, rushed out to meet the enemy, both halting when they met, and fronting one another. The two animals, after pawing the air for a second or two, made a dash at one another and engaged in a fierce combat, carried on chiefly with their teeth, though occasionally they would rise on their hind legs and tight with their fore feet. Our horses, not daring to stir, watched them on one side, and the wild herd, which had meanwhile trotted up close to the field of battle, looked on from the oth'M- side, apparently deeply interested in the issue of the struggle. * * * We had to run a good distance before we could get to firmer ground, and in the meantime the battle went against our stallion, who suddenly turned tail and fled. After giving him a parting kick the wild horse rushed at oUr troop and began to drive them at U gallop toward his own, punishing with :cioua bites and kicks any animal that snowed signs of becoming refractory, or that did not go quick enough. Handkerchief suits are much in favor for little girls this spring, and are mor? suitable and becoming to them than to ladies of mature year*.