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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
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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 ,
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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?"
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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
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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.,
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* 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: -
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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
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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 . *'
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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*.