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BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1881. NO. 49. VOLUME XXV. Jj
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lloauty Everywhere. ]
Beautiful in the valleys,
When they toil not, and yet grow.
Are the modest, half-hidden lilies*,
With their dazzling eups of snow;
Holding their fragrant misers
Up to the bright blue sky,
And tilling the air with sweetness
As the winds go whispering by.
And the beautiful at the altar,
In the house of the Got! above,
Are the twain who fail not nor falter,
unt at>iue in each others love?
In the presence of God, devoutly
Taking each other for life,
The manly and the earnest husband,
The earnest and womanly wife.
And beautiful in the dwelling
Of the living mid loving twain.
Whose hearts are forever telling
A tale never told in vainAre
the liojics and the joys and sorrows,
The pleasures and pains and fears,
That bud in the beams of gladness,
But bloom in the midst of tears.
And beautiful thrice, thrice over,
Is the faith that with love arose.
And abides with the loved and the lover
As the years arou id them close;
For it proves a light in the darkness,
A star that goes before
And guides their fo.t, now weary,
In peace to the E.ermore,
- 11". 1). Gallaqhvr.
THE MOON TRIAL,
Indian summer bad come in " ole
Virginny." A dreamy haze hung in the
otill nir thf> cardinal flower blazed
down by the river. It leaned far over j
the glassy stream, lingering to gaze at
its sweet reflection, ere it withered ;
the queen of the meadow flashed golden
in the last rays of the setting sun.
Ever and anon it bent graciously to
whisper to the drowsy clover at its feet;
the pokeberry bushes by the fences
were flinging their red purple on stalk
and leaf, like an eager painter. A mist
lay on the.distaut hills, freshed flushed
with thfi thoucht of fall. Nature seemed
intoxicated with the red wine of pleasure.
All was still, save the " tinkling
herd " that grazed lazily in the meadow,
when, lo! the shrill laughter of a party
out gipsying rent the air, and four open
wagons, drawn by powerful horses, appeared,
bowling on tlis soft Virginia
road.
Uncles and aunts, and cousins and
friends, were there, all attired as gipsies.
and plenty of colored help, with !
provisions anil cooking utensils, in a
rear conveyance. Behind all came
(barking and panting) Black-eye,
Pinkum and Snort, three of the smartest
and happiest dogs in all Virginia.
"Now, children," spoke Aunt Hester,
" it is after sunset?"
" Alas! my stomach says it is after
tea-time," interrupted Dick Jones, a
curly-headed youth, with honest blue
eyes.
" It is both," continued Aunt Hester,
glancing critically at the last ray of the
retreating orb of day, " and we ought to
stop and eat."
" Yes, yes!" cried several merry
voices, " stop and eat."
" After supper we will order up the
full harvest moon," said Dick.
" Goosey, there is the moon now, big
? liio pATiein
U Utl t?\> liCCi) 1 cpucu Xiio vvuoiu
^ Susie.
V. "And vellow as your dress," anstfgred
Dick. *
"I^jvill be as red as yonr hair before
we are uV$he road ogain," responded
Susie.
By this time :>ofh teams had stopped
and were being uriiQ&ded. They had
discovered a beaut if :ti spot under a
chestnut tree in the near the
road. Here they pitched thsir gipsy
encampment and prepared to ki?41e a
fire. On a high rock overlooking the sceSS*.
ana commanding a view vi un- |
moon, perched a dark-haired, dark- eyed
girl. No sooner had she flung herself
down than old, black Aunt Cloe hobbled
to the summit of the rock, whispering
shrilly:
'eHoney, I's such news foi you ! Dis
art nioon I's heard young Marse Alfred
. an' Marse Fred talkin' 'bout you in de
woods. Dat was when you was all fishin',
chile. Dey bofe said how as dev
had tried for weeks to see you alone, an'
dat drefful dragon-fly aunt ob yourn
wouldn't 'low it nohow; an' how as dey
had determined to settle dere troubles
dis yere night anyhow by axin' you fa'r
and squar' to marry dem V"
"Did they wish me to marry both, or
only one ?" asked the girl, merrily.
"Only one, chile; an'dey shook han's
when dey parted, an' swore to abide?
dat were de word, chile?to abide by
your decision, an' be friends ever arter.
Oh, Miss Bessie, t'ink de matter well
ober, an' take the right man!" said
Aunt Otoe, stroking with loving hands
the silky black hair of the child she had
nursed when an infant. "What you
laughin' 'bout, baby ?" as the girl
suddenly shook with merriment.
"To think, auntie, of the imper
tinence ot tnose puppies: iepxiea
Bessie. 4' I'm not a china doll, or a
bag of candy to be won at a raffle,"
continued she with flashing eyes. " That
is always the way, auntie. The men we
don't want pursue us relentlessly, while
the one we love stands coldly aloof.'
" A?what ?" asked Aunt C'loe, glancing
shrewdly at the girl's tearful eyes.
"Aloof! what'sdat?"
" Star ds at a distance, Aunt Cloe, with
his back turned, thinking about his
dinner, his hunting, his b >oks?anything
but the girl who loves him,"
answered Bessie, with rising color.
"She lubs young Mars Gustave,"
muttered old Aunt Cloe, as she hobbled
back to her boiling kettle. " There he
stan's now alone, an' in sight of Miss
Bessie, his back turned, an' thinking.
Mars Gustave," and the old negres3
touched his arm, a moment later, " let
me read your palm."
He turned quickly, smiling, and
pxtAridpd liis handsome., strontr white
hand.
" I sees a lady. Sho am young an' she
am dark," said the old crone, glancing
keenly at his face. " She am rich an'
she am proud, but she loves you, Mars
Gustave. Dis berry night two suitors
hab sworn to ax her han'. If you lubs
her, honey, dere is no time to stan' here
thinkin'.'
And before the astonished gentleman
could reply, old Aunt Cloe had hobbled
away.
>" Witchcraft!" exclaimed lie. "Is
this a cable dispatch of information and
gmidance for me, direct from?"
"The Devil's Soup Ladle!" shouted
a voice from fhe encampment. " That's
the place."
" It is, is it ?" replied Gustave, under his
breath. " Then I return thanks to the
Devil's Soup Ladle for the information,
and will act upon it. Can it be possible
that Bessie loves me ? There she sits on
a lock, with her Cousin Jack and the
dogs, while her two suitors?if I mistake
them not?are drowning their tender
passion in the occupation vulgarly termed
' broiling frogs' hindquarters,' before the
gipsy tire yonder. Philosophers, both
of them. They catch frogs and forget
their troubles in cooking and eating
them. May they experience more difficulty
in securing and devouring the dessert
which they propose to tackle after
the frogs!"
And, with this hasty soliloquy upon
the frailty of man, Gustave Mellville
glanced tenderly at the girl on the rock,
then at the moon, loosened his necktie,
ns though to give freer play to his fancy,
muttered, as he faced for the encampment
:
" By the blue imps which haunt this
spot, I will know my fate to-night!"
Nine o'clock found the party once
more upon the road. The moon was
high and quite as red, Susie affirmed, as
her Cousin Jack's hair. The soft and
balmy air was heavy with delicious odors
from field and wood. Crickets chirruped
joyously in the bushes, and the fire-flies
flashed their tiny lanterns in the gloom
of. the shadows. Here and there a stray
squirrel shot, meteor-like, up the trunk
of a tree, the stripes on its back appearing
distinctly in the moonlight; while
ever and anon a hoarse grandfather
bullfrog Would give an explosive grunt,
us thougfr suddenly awakened from a
bad dream and turning uneasily in liis
miry bod, while, above all, the joyous
bark of the dogs and the gay voices of
the travelers rang out clear and sweet.
Ten o'clock found the little band unloading
for the night. At last they had
reached their destination, a spot that
they had traveled twenty long miles to
see.
This was a wild and beautiful ravine,
known as "The Devil's Soup-Ladle."
It was noted for its picturesque scenery
and for its many tales of witchcraft and
hobgoblins. Neither money nor persuasion
could induce the colored help
to remain on this haunted ground during
the night. So after pitching the
tents, building a cheerful camp-tire and
carefully arranging all for the night,
they retired to a neighboring field overlooking
the unholy ground and prepared
to offer prayers for the souls of their
masters, whom it was their firm conviction
daylight would never again behold ! i
And now the merriment becan. Pat
McCormiok, a one-logged Irishman, 1
whose chief delight was to discourse
sweet sounds on the fiddle, seated himself
astride a rock and struck up " The ,
girl I left behind me," while a gay party 1
took their place for a dance.
Around the fire stood a group of children,
intent on watching a huge kettle I
of molasses boil preparatory to a candy-1
pull, and still another knot of gipsies ,
sat upon the grass in the moonlight, re- ;
counting the blood curdling tales which
belonged to tiie Munteu ravine.
It was a beautiful picture?the white i
tents standing in solitude on the moon- J
light hillside, while below appeared the j
camp-fire and suspended kettle, the
happy children, the music, the dancing,
the loungers and the story-tellers, the !
crouching dogs and the unharnessed
horses grazing peacefully beside their
wagons, and, below all this, the shadowy
ravine, or "Soup-Ladle," where foamed i
and surged the sparkling stream, which :
was said to quench the almost insatiable !
thirst of the Evil Ore during his tem- j
pests of fury.
" Tell us the legends of the ' Soup-1
Ladle,' " said one of the loungers, light-!
ing his pipe ?:s he stretched upon the j
grass.
" Which legend V" asked his compan- j
ion, leaning his elbow on the turf and !
puffing graceful columns of cigar smoke 1
toward tne moon.
"Are there so many?" asked Aunt i
Hester, looking up suddenly, while the ;
moonlight struck her glasses, causing i
them momentarily to flash like calcium i
lights.
"At least a dozen," replied the gen-!
tleman gipsy, who seemed posted in the j
history of the "Soup Ladle." "But1
the most appropriate to this occasion, 11
should think, would be the one they j
call ' The Moon Trial.' "
" m - ? At. - i j ?? ^
"* JL en US I lie lt'geilU, rsuiu uuc mm !
all.
" Yes, tell us the legend, whatever it j
is!" cried a gay, young voice.
And Bessie, leaning on the arm of'
Gustave Melville, joined the group at '
that moment, followed by a merry party, j
among whom were the two unhappy
lovers. \
" W-e-1-1," began the story-teller,;
knocking the ashes from his pipe, " it;
isn't much, but it's appropriate to the
place and hour. That's why I tell it.
Behold! the harvest-moon is at its full,
and"?looking at his watcli?"it is a
quarter before 12. The little tale runs
thus: Any creature, youth or maiden,
who goes alone, by the light of yon
harvest-moon, at its full, while the clock
cfril-QQ 19 In +I10 cfronin liolnw fnr (I
drink of water, will meet, on reaching
the bank, the phantom of his or her1
fate, who will present them with a cup
of water. Should the youth or the
maiden drink from the cup they thus
pledge themselves towed the phantom's
earthly counterpart, when fate is pleased
to bring the two together."
"What rubbish!" exclaimed Aunt
Hester, with her nose in the air. "What
-git x-rvef ?
"One unhappy maid^trr-N?0 history
tells, did go to the bank," said the "stoiy"- ~
teller, solemnly, stroking his beard.
in.l clio tifivpr voHimpil V" iimniroil
*?*AAV% "v,v* * ? ?x
several, anxiously.
"Not that niglit," replied the storyteller,
in a sepulchral voice.
"And did no one go after the silly
thing?" asked Aunt Hester.
"No one knew she went," replied the
story-teller. "After waiting on the bank
a long time, looking for her fate, and
making at least a dozen mud pies to pass
the time away?this artless country
maiden afterward confessed?she fell
sound asleep, until the hot sun next
morning waked and hurried her home to
breakfast, with a terrible appetite from
sleeping out all night."
"That shows there is no virtue in the
'Moon Trial!"' exclaimed Susie, with a
superior air.
"Not at all," answered the storyteller.
" 'The Moon Trial' was correct.
The girl had no fate to come. She died
an old maid, years ago."
"Who will try it to-nightV" asked
some one.
"Nobody, if I can help it" exclaimed
Aunt Hester, quickly. "It is foolish
and wicked."
" Then I am both foolish and wicked,"
said Bessie, " for I will try it."
Away she darted, like a sprite, toward
the ravine, while the distant strokes of a
village clock slowly tolled out the midnight
hour.
A well-worn path through the woods,
which excursionists had already explored,
led directly to the water's edge,
and along this the girl flew, like a spirit
in the moonlight. More and more lonely
grew her path, fainter and more distant
I the voices of her companions above ;
while nearer and clearer souuded the
surging and tumbling of the waters heneath.
Her heart beat wildly. She
stopped in sudden terror, ami would
fain have turned back, but for the
thought oi Aunt Hester's triumph at her
failure.
On she pressed. The last stroke of
the clock was dying on the air, as she
reached the water's edge, and stepped
timidly out in the full glow of the moon.
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V^II t'vrrjr Biui1 liiv airrjiiiijj iuirmst
No Bound broke the awful stillness
but the sullen roar of the waters, as
they tumbled in ghostly white over the
moonlit rocks that jutted from the river's
bed. But what was this phantom-picture
before her? Bessie shaded her
eyes, and peered eagerly forward. Had
the too powerful rays of this glorious
harvest moon indeed turned her bmiu ?
There "stood seven stalwart gentlemenphantoms
in line, upon the water's edge,
each presenting her, in silence grim,
with a cup.
Suddenly, a succession of piercing
j screams sounded in the woods above.
! Like a flash each phantom dropped his
| cup and dashed up the bank. Faint with
j terror, Bessie sank upen a rock, and but
; for the timely assistance of a pair of
aims, accompanying a manly form, which
sprang to her side, would have fallen
into the torrent.
" Foolish child !" exclaimed Gustavo
Mellville, sprinkling her face with water.
" Why did you come on such a
goose-chase ? Did you want to meet
your fate, Bessie ? May I suggest the
name of one who would gladly fill the
position ?" and he gazed tenderly at the
still white face. " Whose cup have you
just drank from?" and he smiled roughishlv.
"Mine, of course," and ho laid
his handkerchief, wet from the stream,
upon her forehead. " You would not
break such a promise, would you, Bessie
?"
She smiled faintly, while the color
stole slowly back to her cheeks.
"What were those cries?" she exclaimed,
springing suddenly to her feet,
as she recalled what had so frightened
her.
" Only Mrs. Jones, dear, who slipped
on a stone in hurrying down here to see
the amusement," answered Gustave.
" What amusement ?'' cried Bessie.
"And those men with cups standing
here?who were they?" she asked,
shivering nervously.
" My dear, I greatly fear," said Gustave,
humorously, "that they were the
gentlemen who listened with us a few
moments ago to the story of ' The
Moon Trial!' All I know is, I saw
each man catch a cup from the wagon
near, and as yon disappeared in the
path they took a short cut through the
woods to the water, followed by Mi's.
Jones and a number of other iadiee.
' My own darling," and he tenderly liftet"
the fair young face to the moonlight
"would you refuse to listen to one wh(
has loved you so long and saved you ai
last from seven phantoms and a waten
grave? Quick, m\ dear! I hear then
coming. We have but a moment to l?c
alone. Sav, Bessie, will vou not be nij
own iloar little wile?"
" Oh, Gustavo, how can you doubt
it ?" she answered, with dazzling eyes.
" Tlieu ' The Moon Trial' has provec
true," replied her lover, holding het
I close to his heart.
" Too true!" whispered she, joyously
The Wolf and the Hares-A Fable.
Once upon a time there was a certaii
colony of Hares, with plenty to eat, lot:
of time for recreation, and perfect liar
mony between them. No colony couh
have been better situated, but one dav i
j Wolf stalked in among them, and began
" What do I see here? You seen
I happy, but you are not. You appeal
prosperous, but you are really in a starv
ing condition. You look sleek, but tlia
is all outward appearance. I tell you
you are in a bad way, and if something
is not speedily done you will be no bet
ter off than caitiffs and slaves."
The Hares wore dumb with astonish
ment, and it was some time before tilt
leader could ask for an explanation.
" Why," replied the "Wclf, " the own
or of this land has gone aud fenced vol'
out of at least half yor.: former territory,
"But he owns it all and has a right tc
do with his own as pleases him best,'
said the Hare.
"\'n li" lincn't I Wllf>n Ill's Vlffht?
conlliet with yours lie must be put
clown."
" But lie allows us plenty of room as
it is; and having been our friend in oui
days of weakness, we should not turn
upon him in our strength."
The Wolf argued and the Hare protested,
but the Wolf finally made n
part of the colony believe that they
were terribly oppressed and badly
stepped upon, and jie set them up to
demand more territory. When the old
Hare saw them about to depart ho said:
" You had better let well enough
alone. In seeking to grasp too much
you may lose all. We have lived here
in peace and plenty for years, even
when it was hard for the owner to pay
taxes and keep this land out of market.
Be satisfied that we have had all wc
earned."
His words fell upon the air. The
Wolf, too lazy to work, and too unprincipled
to get credit, had thoroughly
excited the Hares, and away they went.
" What!"' exclaimed tho owner aftei
they had stated their grievance?"arc
you not satisfied with free rent for hali
my land!"
"But we are oppressed!" shouted a
Hare.
"How? Have you not shared inj
prosperity ?"
" Yes."
"Haven't you been well fed?"
" Yes, but we want our rights."
" What are they?"
"We want more room."
" But I can't spare it. Even now ]
am giving you more than I can weli
spare."
"Well, we must either have mor<
room or else we shall leave. We wil
not be oppressed and enslaved."
The Farmer could grant no mcr<
room, and the Hares at once withdrev
from the lands. In a week, after en
during cold and hunger and discomfort!
they returned to the colony.
" You are not wanted here," said th<
old Hare, as he met them. "Y^u an
too conceited, too selfish to respect tli<
rights of others, and we could not liv<
in harmony."
The Hares then went to the Farmer
and he replied: " You were not satisfied
u-iHi l.nlf nnrl rn vnii slinll Iiilvp none
go where you will."
The Hares wandered over the ?oun
1 try, hungry and dejected, and one ila]
met the Wolf and upbraided him fo]
" You go^^gES88!" was his sturdy
; reply. " You kne\vTBtstoiiaJazy, sedi
tious Wolf, and if you \Fe?&^i2?j:
; enough to obey my advice you inusi
take the consequences. By setting yoi
; against the Farmer I set you againsi
: each other, and now while you recrimi
I nate I will indulge in rabbit pie !"
moral:
Tabbit pie is good?when you aren'
the rabbit.?Detroit Free Press.
Marriage.
Men and women, and especially vounj
people, do not know that it takes year;
to marry completely two hearts, even o:
! the most loving and well-sorted. Bu
j nature allows no sudden change. W<
i slope very gradually from the cradle t<
the summit of life. Marriage is gradual
J a fraction of us at a time. A liapp?
wedlock is a long falling in love. ]
I know young persons think love belong!
only to brown hair and plump, rounc
I crimson cheeks. So it does for iti
i beginning, just as Mount Washingtoi
begins at Boston bay. But the goldei
marriage is a part of love which th<
bridal day knows nothing of. Youth i.'
i the tassel and silken flower of love, ag<
is the full corn, ripe and solid in th<
ear. Beautiful is the morning, of lov<
, with its prophetic crimson, violet, pur
pie, and gchl with its hopes of day:
that are to come. Beautiful also is th<
' evening oMove, with its glad remem
branches, and its rainbow side tm-ne(
toward heaven as well as earth. Youn{
people marry their opposites in tempe
and general character, and such a mar
riage is generally a good one. The;
do it instinctively. The young mal
does not say, "my black eyes require t(
be wed with blue, and my over
vehemence re<iuires to be a little mod
ified with somewhat of lullness and re
serve." When these opposites com*
together to be wed, they do net knov
it, but each thinks the other just lik
himself. Old people never marry thei
opposites; they marry their similar
and from calculation. Each of tlies<
two arrangements is very proper. Ii
their long journey, these young opposites
will fall out by the way a grea
many times, and both will charm tin
other back again, and by-and-bye the;
will bo iifrrepd ns to the nliu*e tliev wil
go to, and the road they will go bv
and become reconciled. The man wil
be nobler and larger for being assc
ciated with so much humanity unlik
himself, and she will be a noble
woman for haying manhood beside liei
that seeks to correct her deticiencie
and supply her with what she lacks, i
the diversity be not too great, and ther
be real piety and love in their hearts t
begin with. The old bridegroom, hav
ing a much shorter journey to make
must associate himself with one lik
himself. A perfect and complete marriag
, is, perhaps, as rare as perfect person;
beauty. Men and women are inarrie
fractionally, now a small fraction, the
a large fraction. Very few are marrie
totally, and they only, I think, afte
forty or fifty years of gradual approac
and experiment. Such a large an
sweet fruit is a complete marriage tha
it needs a very long summer to ripen i
and then a long winter to mellow an
season. But a real, happy marriage c
love and judgment between a noble ina
and woman is one of the things so ver
handsome that if the sun were, as th
Greek p ets fabled, a god, he migb
stop the world in orde^ to feast his eye
with such a spectacle.?Tlieodm
Parker.
Perhaps He Was.
The other day a pewter-colored, ring
boned-spavined, skin-ribbed apology fci
1 a horse was hitched to a vehicle whic
was crawling along Michigan avenue
with an emigrant family under the covei
when a man on the corner called out:
*' Say, is that an Arabian hoss?"
The stranger drove up to the curl
stone, halted, and asked what the othc
said.
" I asked if that was an Arabia
horse."
" He mout be?ho mout be," was th
serious reply. " I got him in trad
with a chap down in Indianee, and froi
the way I was took in I reckon that ol
seraph" not only beat the Arabs out c
this old nag but got away with seven c
eight camels to boot."?Detroit Fri
1 Pr&ts. f
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1 FASTING FORTY-FIVE DAYS.
j ilowMiNM Ilnttiu Dnell's Sirnnue LlfcTermi.
, naled?A Woitinn Who llml Not Spoken for
.Morelhnn Sixteen Month*, nml Who Did
' Not Taste Food for Nearly Seven WccUh.
1
j A dispatch from Iowa city, la., says:
r Miss Hattie Duell, whose remarkable
fust had continued forty-seven days,
^ flinil rvn ?Jnrw1ot* rnrrlif TT/?r frinr?/la nn/1
relatives, who for some time bad been
1 momentarily expecting ber death, were
r at ber bedside. In the morning ber
pulse was imperceptible and herrespira.
tion thirty-five to the minute. She bad
no1, drank any water during tbe Inst
twenty-four liours, as it Beemed to make
her sick. After her last drink of water
1 she complained of nausea. Even in the
s corning she evinced some strength and
- was able to communicate with her
1 friends by means of ber fingers and a
i stick. She even reached out and opened
: a small drawer in a bureau, which stood
i near her bed. She was asked if she was
r not hungry and did not want something
to eat, and answered both questions
t negatively. She had been in a comatose
, condition all night, but in the morning
j her mental powers were clear and un
affected, and she seemed fully to comprehend
all that was going on about her.
- Her last moments were very peaceful,
; and, surrounded by friends and relatives,
she died.
Miss Duell was a spinster, fifty-two
i years of age. Her sister married Dr.
. B. H. Avlworth, a physician of this city,
) and in their family Miss Duell lias lived
many years. During nearly the whole
of this long period she lias been an ini
valid and confined to her bed. Her
; I complaint was a nervous disease, accompanied
l>y intense neuralgic pains. Ali
. though she has always been regarded
as eccentric, no suspicion was ever eni
tertained of her sanity. One of her
oddities was a sudden determination to
talk no more to anybody, and, calling
. for a slate and pencil, continued thereafter
to make these her sole medium of
communication with her friends. She
. 1. tl.nf
' JJUi'SIOl'dl 1-UL lid OliUIiljD v>illiai lium uiai
. time?November, 187'J?up to the hour
: of her death, notwithstanding the urgent
entreaties of her friends. Once or
i twice within the last few years she abi
stained from all food and drink for
several days together in the be
lief that her sufferings would be
thus alleviated. These have been Irii
tense during the past winter, and she
has frequently spent hours at a time by
i a hot stove, wiapped in quilts. On these
occasions she complained of a severe
' cold in her head. On the morning of
February 23 her sister observed that she
loft untasted the breakfast which had
> been placed at her bedside. When an
I explanation was asked, Miss Duell wrote
on her slate: "I have no hope of recovery
i | or relief, and I am determined to die."
j In vain ber friends and her pastor, the
' Rev. Mr. Folsom, of the Presbyterian
church, to whom she was much attached,
reasoned with her and endeavored to
dissuade her from her purpose. She
turned her face to the wall and refused
even to look upon the food which was
brought her. Various ruses were
[ attempted to compel her to swallow
I some broth, and when these failed force
was suggested, but this idea was abandi
oned as inadvisable.
I As the story of the woman's suicidal
attempt at starvation became noised
; abroad there were many applications to
r visit her, and the Aylworths were be
siVrrp/l with lptt.ftrs find nnmmnnicntiona.
5 The curious, however, were completely
snubbed, and strict orders were given
j that only members of the family and the
i most intimate friends should be permit5
ted to see Miss Duell. As was to be
i expected, the disappointed ones vented
their indignation in the attempt to
, rouse a public feeling against what was
I stigmatized as the co-operatic n of the
; Aylwortlis in creating a victim for the
coroner. The better feeling of this
- community, however, was opposed to
r any legal interference, particularly as
r medical experts had pronounced Miss
Duell perfectly sane. Five days after
r beginning her fast Miss Duell wrote
- with her pencil: "Do you think it
i would prolong my life to drink
r^watW?!^ The question was ad.
Dr Avlwnrfch. and
4 IUUOOCU IU i/i.- ?J - 1
t ho replied that fever and deiiritlCJ jrould
- probably set in unless she drank a
little water daily. After that she called
for a drink, and sucked a small <juant
tity through a glass tubo several times
every twenty-four hours. Up to the
thirty-fourth day food had been placed
at her bedside regularly, but as tha
sight of it only aroused her anger the
? practice was on this day discontinued.
| She was at that time wasted to a skele|
ton, her nose was thin and pinched, her
cheeks were hollow, and her skin was an
3 unusually dark color. It was predicted
} that she could not survive more than a
> few hours loncer. She, however, seemed
to tliink the end was further away, for,
f on recovering from a deathly faint, she
J wrote the question: "Do you think I
* am going to live always?" In reply to
3 the questions of her friends she said
1 that she suffered no pain whatever.
1 On the fortieth day she was living in
3 a comatose state much of the time,
3 though apparently sleeping very little.
3 Her mental faculties were unimpaired,
5 however, for when roused she became
31 fully conscious of what was occurring
" I around her. Her physical condition
51 was much deteriorated, and she was
31 now weak and utterly helpless. Her
- i nnloo l\aof lioftrflon iiinofv fin.l nnfi Imn
| J.Ui.,!, *,v ?v -V
1 dred, there were no signs of fever, and
I i apparently none of pain. One of the
r singular observations of this fortieth
" day was the fact that her breathing,
y which all along had been normal, sud1
denly changed to between twelve and
3 lifteen respirations per minute. She
* was thought to be dying, but recovered
* sufficiently to iudica'te that she had lost
" none of her determination, for when the
e subject of food was introduced by one of
v her attendants, she shook her head and
e a nanseated expression came over her
r face, much to the surprise of the pliy8
sicians, who had been closely watching
Q her symptoms. On the forty-fourth day
1 I she rallied a little, and appeared some
j what stronger. Her pulse was then more
t' variable than ut any time during the
3 j fast, rising to 100. and then slowly
Y ebbing again to a vorv low point. On
1 the following day Dr. F. W. Peck, of
'? Davenport, made a thorough examina1
tion of her condition, and reported that
>- lie found her very mnch reduced, but
e not more so than in the case of a patient
r with a long fever. The idea of compell">
ing her to swallow food was again
8 broached, but the doctor gave it as his
f I opinion that the only result of such an
e I attempt would be to make her a raving
0 i maniac. Several times on Sunday she
- : managed to make her friends understand
that her head was so hot that it
c ; appeared to be on fire. At midnight it
e ! was observed that she was sinking fast,
d ' and at 12:45 o'clock she breathed "hei
d ' last.
ii j Immediately after death a post-mord
! torn examination was made byDr.Cowper
* , thwait, doan of the homeopathic departli
; inent of the university. Not a drop of
d ! blood was found in the body, which
it weighed only forty-five pounds. The
it 1 stomach was also void of any substance.
d ; ?
>f ] While there is a gratifying increase
n ] in the number of Presbyterian churches,
y i there is a discouraging decrease yearly
e in the number of communicants added,
it Thus in 187o there were 5,077 churches
s and 48,240 accessions by examination;
e i in 1877, 5,153 churches and 43,068 ac!
cessions; in 187'::, 5,209 churches and
32,277 accessions; in 1879,5,415 churches
and 29,190 accessions, and last year,
5,489 churches and 20,838 accessions,
ir Here is a steady decrease, the causes for
h which are not yet understood. It is
needless to say that these facts are disr,
cussed with care at each general assembly,
but as yet without finding any
remedy.?Christian at Work.
1 At the recent session of the Central
Pennsylvania Methodist conference one
n presiding elder condemned the holding
of large and expensive camp-meeting3,
e and of closing the gates on Sunday,
o Ad other said he hod refused to attend a
n camp-meeting whose authorities had red
fused to close its gates on the Sabbath.
>f ?
>r No vessel was ever known to be short
:e of provisions when the mate wai
1 aboard,
i
STARVING AT SEA.
Timelj- Aid Hint Snvrd n 1'iiniUhoil -Crow
from ('nniiibnlisni?Thirteen Men Eke Out
Life for Five Day* on it I>ok)? CnrrnM.
Captain Gordon, ol tne ship Fcbo,
told a New York Herald reporter a
graphic story of bis meeting with a vessel
whose crew were on the verge of
starvation, and related the sad experiences
of the sorely tried crew. "Shortly
after daybreak on last Friday morning,"
he said, " when the heavy weather
we Lad been running through had
abated somewhat, though there was still
a high sea running, we sighted a bark
right ahead of us. As wo approached
her I found that she was under two
close-reefed topsails and a foretop-maststaysail
and flying signals, which on
inspecting through my glass I saw to
bo N. C., indicating that the crew were
in distress and needed immediate aid.
As we neared the ship, but long
before wo were in hailing distance,
I saw that the crew of the stranger
were lowering a boat and I immcdi
ateiy gave orders to stop our engines.
There was a nasty sea running at
the time, and as I watched the two
men at the o rs in the boat and the
third in the stern sheets, also working
an oar to kec:p her to the sea, I thought
they progressed very slowly and did not
carry the boat along with the swingand
grip that seafaring men usually do. At
last she got alor gside and while my ::nen
heaved a rope over and the boat wan being
made fast I leaned over the rail and
asked what the trouble was. Though I
did only what was natural in asking the
question the men's looks had already
struck me what was wrong, for starvation
was plainly written on their white
faces, pinched and drawn till the features
seemed all distorted and out of
flin mo n afnn/1 rm in
the stern sheets and holding up the
skin of a dog in one hand as he clutched
the guv rope in the other, said, in a
hoarse voice : ' Why, we are starving,
that's what's the matter; the flesh of
this poor beai t is all we have had to eat
among thirteen of us in five days.' You
may be quite sure," continued Captain
Gordon, " that I soon had the men on
board, and while the mate saw that the
seamen were speedily served with a
plentiful meal, I gave my arm to the
captain, the one who had held up the
skin of the dog, and led him to my stateroom,
where I ordered fresh additions to
the breakfast table, from which I had
just risen, and after the poor fellow had
somewhat appeased his hunger I listened
to as sad a tale of misfortune and
suffering as it has been my lot to hear
during all the time I have followed the
sea.
:
"Captain Kruger, for that was the j
poor fellow's name, said that his vessel
was the Tiger, o German bark of about
five hundred tons, bound from Liverpool
to Baltimore, and 124 days out
from her po;t ni departure. Her crew
comprised thirteen men all told, and at
the time they sighted our vessel they
were all on the very verge of star .itic-n.
They experienced heavy weather during
nearly the whole of the voyage out, but
managed to reach a point within fourteen
miles of Cape Henry during the i
second week in Januarv. when thev on- 1
countered a terrible humcane, which j
carried them out to sea again, and they
had been knocking about in almost con- J
tinuous bad weather until April 8, the i
day on which we happily encountered j
thum. A month before that date the ;
provisions ran short; a few days more
and everything edible in the ship was
exhausted. Then began a time of suffering
almost unparalleled in its intensity.
There is not generally supposed
to be much, if indeed any, nutriment
in leather; but the poor fellows, having
nothing else, cut tho nppers of their
long sea-bootB into strips and dipping
the pieces in lamp oil essayed to masticate
this strange substitute for food.
But this diet, if it so i ewhat allayed
their ravenous appetites, utterly failed
to satisfy the men's craving for food, !
and soon the sailers began to cast longing
eyes upon the sleek, big black retriever
dog, an especial pet of Captain 1
Kruger, that always accompanied his j
master on the voyages he made. At ]
length, half maddened by hunger, they
appie*clied the captain with the request
that he would allow his favorite to be
killed and eaten. Though the brave
fellow had since tiro provisions began to
run short constantly gone shdrfc Qf food
that his men might fare a little better, j
he pleaded hard for his dumb favorite
and at his request the dog was spare il
another day, with the understanding
that if the morrow's light failed to discover
an approaching sail the poor
brute should be sacrificed. The next ,
dav. in accordance with his promise, as
?*r i * - ;
no ship was in sight the dc>g was killed,
and for five days the thirteen men exist- j
ed upon it's carcass. The last mouthful
of the uncanny food was swallowed on !
the afternoon of Thursday last, and only j
by a further appeal for a day's grace for
the cat was the execution of the captain's
other favorite averted. By this
time tho men were in a wretched state,
three of them so weak that they could
only crawl a:round on their hands and
knees, while the captain, who wa3 tho j
most emaciated of them all, having al 1
most abandoned hope, was on the verge '
of delirium. Nothing could be done in j
the way of working tho ship, as even if1
the combined efforts oi' the crew had en- j
abled them to set the nails, had a rising ;
wind necessitated them being taken in, !
the operation could not have beon perfnmiofl.
A settled anatliv seemed to
have fallen upon tlie crew. The ship :
rolled to and fro in the trough of the ;
sea utterly at the mercy of the winds ;
and waves, and the nieu, no longer car- [
mg whither she went or how she fared, |
brooded only over the thoughts of how |
they might satisfy the gnawing hunger j
that consumed them. Each man looked ;
at the other suspiciously, and at length
I one more bold, or less sensitive than the
I others, with horrible suggestiveness
asked his comrades whether it was not
better for one to die than for all to expire
in agony from the pangs of hunger
that hoiuly grew less and less endurable.
"From what the captain told me and
; the sailors said to the mate," continued
Captain Gordon, " I have not the shad;
ow of a doubt that but for our provi;
dential appearance on the scene cannibalism
would have been resorted to, as
.1 it has l>een before in similar cases. In!
deed the mate of tho Tiger had considi!
erably difficulty in disarming CUptain
| Krnger oa the Thursday night, when he
seized a loaded pistol and endeavored to
\ shoot himself. The rumors of the turn
matters were about to take had reached
him, and ho was f-s willing to sacri;
lice his life for the benefit of his men as
he had been to deny himself sustenance
thr\t they might enjoy a more liberal
fare. There is one statement that Cap.
tain Krnger made to me which I muj-t
not omit to mention, which, if true? |
. and I have no reason to doubt it?is an
I infamous stain on the character of the
parties implicated. Twice while in the
i state of abject distress he depicts ho er conntered
vessels, and although he sig naled
to them as he did to me, they let
i his pathetic plea for assistance pass unheeded.
The one ship was a German
bark and the other an American school er.
He knows the name of the first men-1
tinned vessel and when he reaches Baltimore
I hope he will give her captain the
unenviable notoriety he so richly merits.
"After the captain had eaten his till,
I called up his men from the forecastle,
when their wants had been attended to,
and hastened the trio's departure, as
the wind was rapidly rising,and Ibegaa
to have a fear as to their reaihing their
vessel in safety. Meanwhile my Jchif f
officer had had stowed away in their
boat a plentiful supply of bcof, bread,
biscuit, Hour, peas and other eatables |
and a few cans of condensed milk, as
also a quantity of lamp oil, a supply cl
i which they had been without for eleven
; days, leaving the ship below decks ?a
complete darkress during the long anl
, cheerless nights. Well, we sent then
k away rejoicing to rejoin their comrade.'",
. who, ns you may guess, were eagerly
. awaiting their return ; and we had tlie
satisfaction before we lost sight of tliein
i of seeing them shake out the reefs in
i the topsails, let go their topgallant sai .s
and set their courie in eur wake.
TIIE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Tent the Seed*.
Every farmer and gardener should
personally tesi I Ik seeds he puchases, as
well as those he saved last year, before
o/vrtMurr flirvcn iiifnrwln/1 fn voiaa n nvnn Tf
is but little trouble to test seeds in advance,
and it frequently happens that by
doing so a total failure of a crop may be
avoided. No one wants to sow seeds
that will not grow, because if the first
put in tlie ground fails, the season will
usually be too far advanced before the
failure is discovered for a re-sowing or
planting. A few shallow boxes or flowerpots
is all that is recpiired for testing
seeds in a house where the heat is tsulticient
to insure growth. It is always well
to note the proportion of seeds that
sprout in order to know how thick or
thin they should be sown in the garden
or field. If the seeds start freely in the
house, and fail when sown in the field,
then the farmer can blame the soil, manner
of sowing, or the weather, and not
the seeds of the seedsman who sold
them.?New York Sun.
Pork In Spite of CliemlHtir.
Chemistry has misled many people in
regard to the feeding value of roots.
"We wintered eight old hogs the past
winter on three bushels a day of sliced
mangels, and they grew all the time.
At the end of four months one of them
was taken out of the pen and slaughtered,
ana it was a line porKer. it was lat, ana
the flavor of the meat was most excellent.
This hog had nothing else to
eat for four months but its part of the
three bushels a clay of mangels. A
bushel of mangels weighs sixty pounds,
and three bushels would therefore weigh
180 pounds. According to the wisdom
of chemistry, eighty-five per cent of
the 180 pounds would be water, making
153 pounds of water and twenty-seven
pounds of something else. Chemistry
also informs us that mangels contain but
about five per cent of sugar, which is
the fattening property, therefore the
eight old hogs grew fat on twenty-seven
pounds a day of sugar, woody fiber, etc.;
or, in other words, eight hogs lived all
winter and got fat on nine pounds a day
of fat-forming material. This would
give an average of one pound and oneeighth
to each hog to live and grow fat
upon. These hogs would average if
dressed over 200 pounds, so that there
were eight lives sustained during a
very cold winter, with the power of
locomotion, and over 1,G00 pounds of
the choicest kind of pork made ready
for market, on nine pounds daily of
saccharine matter. Great is sugar, but
greater is chemistry.?F. D. Curtis,
Kir fa; Homestead, X. Y.
Trn implant hiir.
In order to insure plants against
wilting when transplanted, they may be
grown, says the New England Farmer0
in pots, but this involves a good d; .
of expense, and a simpler method i? a
use among the gardeners for movA-.g
such tender plauts as cucumbers, J felons,
summer squashes, Lima beans,. $to.
The plants are pricked out under g"iass,
in groups t f four plants each, the hills
being nine inches square, or thirty-two
to a sash. \V iiGE grown so as 10 require
transplanting, which will be in about
two weeks, or by the time they begin to
run, have the ground ready for fhem,
and wet them down well over night, ^80
that the earth will cling to thfl roots.
Have ready a few square rings of sheet
zinc, nine inches square, made by folding
a strip of zinc three inches wide and
three feet long into a nine-inch square
prism, without top or bottom, and soldering
the edges together. Take a ring
and press it down into the earth around
one of the hills; then run a spade under
it and lift the hill, ring and all, on the
spade anil carry it to us destination,
where a hole is made with a hoe to receive
it; place the cluster of plants on
the spade in the hole, draw the earth
around the ring, and remove firs
the spade, then the ring, and the
work is complete. These tender plants
cannot be transplanted safely to the
open field much before June 10. But
cucumbers are transplanted thus under
glass whenever the glass is ready for
them. In transplanting vines choose a
hot day, and avoid rainy, cold weather.
If well moistened before transplanting,
and carefully handled, they will not
j wilt much, but may need a little shade
for a few days. The transplanting of
celery, cabbage and cauliflower plants is
simple and easy enough in the cool,
I moist weather of early spring, but in the
.hot weather of midsummer requires
I some--skill. Much depends in having
the land in "-'which, the plants are to ba
j set thoroughly "fiaa;Jf coarse 01 lumpy
it is much more likeTysto dry up and
destroy the plants. ChoosV&P^ikle,
a cloudy day after rain, but if this-can't
be done, and if the weather is dry alid
hot, the plants must be watered. Keep
the roots wet while setting them, and
water every day till they grow or till
rain comes. This is laborious work
where largo fields are set, but is often
ihe only way to be sure of a crop. To
make the earth tine for setting plants it
may be thrown into drills with a plow
and then raked down; or if it is desirable
to set the plants low, as in the case
of celery and cauliflowers, the rows are
marked first with the wheel marker, and
the spots where the plant3 are to be set
mode fine by chopping with a hoe.?
New York Herald.
Why we l'nn Quick I.hue I'pou the Land.
All cultivated plants contain lime in
their ashes, p.nd it is considered necessary
to their proper growth But as
soils generally contain enough lime, and
we apply it for its action upon the soil,
lime acts upon and greatly aids the
decomposition of organic matter in the
soil. It is thought to neutralize the
organic acids contained in what are
called "sour soils." In a complicated
manner'it aids in the fixing of ammonia.
It also acts upon the inorganic or min|
eral constituents of the soil, and aids in
converting them iuto forms in which
j they can be taken up by the plants,
! especially m liberating potasn irom its
i combinations. The effect of lime upon
| the mechanical condition of the soil is
| an important feature. Upon heavy clay
i soils its effect is most marked; the
[ particles lose their adhesiveness, and
! allow air and water to enter. Tliese are
the leading effects that follow the use of
lime. In view of the claims made for
ground, unburned limestone, it is an
| important question how far it can proI
duce the above effects. That the un|
burned limestone will supply the
| demands of the plant for lime, that it
i may slowly neutralize organic acids, and
! help the mechanical texture of the soil,
| seems very probable. But that it will
perform one of the most important offices,
the decomposition of organic matter
1 in the soil, and convert that into plant
I food, seems improbable, because the
j ability of lime to do this depends in n
j great measure upon its avidity for carI
bon tj'acid, whilelimestone, being already
a carbonate, has 110 need of more. That
I limestone cannot produce all the effects
I of lime is shown by the well-known fac
that soils underlaid by limestone, and
: naturally containing a large proportion of
! finely divided carbonate of lime, are
| as much benefited by the use of quickI
lime as are soils deficient in limestone,
j The advertisements of ground limestone
1 that we have seen make great use of the
] experiments of one person in Pennsyl!
vania, who states that his yield of wheat,
1 treated with ground limestone, was more
1 than doubled that to which slacked lime
i had been applied. He also claims to
have found it a much cheaper fertilizer
than lime and bone dust, and more profit5
able than guano and superphosphate*
These statements have been sent by
j several who ask our opinion. Our
"opinion" is that we do not accept as
tinal the results of any one experimenter,
when they are in direct opposition
to the accumulated evidence of those
whose practice runs through many
years. In nothing more easily than in
! agricultural experiments can an effect
| be ascribed to the wrong cause, and when
we see the fertilizing value of ground
limestone placed above guano or superphosphate,
we do not accept it.?American
Agriculturist.
('homing Cream
Neglect in thorough agitating all the
cream in the churn will sometimes make
a glreat difference in the production of
j butter. Professor Arnold says he once
i visited a large dairy where the managers
j felt satisfied they were not obtaining
I the amount of butter they should do.
j They had six barrel churns, three on
; each side of the room. On examining
i these churns he found that the boards
were so narrow tlmt thnv did not acifate
| the cream properly, some passing under
| and some over the floats without being
scarcely moved at all. He had the floats
taken out of three of them and deeper
ones substituted, so that there^as only
a short space between the edge of the
floats and the sides of the churn and so
that very little cream could pass without
coming in contact with the floats The
trial was made, the result showing that
the churns, when the floats had been
made deeper, produced a much larger
j percentage of butter than those when
i the floats were narrower.
Recipcs.
Roll Jelly Cake.?One cup of white
sugar, three eggs, one teaspoonful of
cream tartar mixed in a cup of flonr,
half a teaspoonful of soda in two tablespoonfuls
of sweet milk; stir well and
bake in spare tins. "When done spread
with jelly and roll while warm.
Cracker Omelel.?Beat four eggs
and add a teacup of milk into which has
been stirred one tablespoonful of pounded
cracker and one even teaspoonful of
flour; stir it well and pour on a well
buttered griddle, not too hot; turn it
as soon as it will do, and then fold it
over twice and turn it on to a warm
plate.
Blind Birds.?Take a piece of beefsteak
as large as your hand and spread
it on the table, cut a piece of bacon as
| large as a finger and lay it in, then cut
1 some onions fine and spread them over,
salt and pepper it to taste, add a pinch
of juniper berries, roll it up and tie it
with some thread so it will not open,
stew and fry an hour.
Potato Slaw.?Boil potatoes, peel
j them and slice fine, take a small piece
! of bacon and let it fry out, then slice a
! few onions and let them fry till a light
! brown, put a spoonful of flour in and
! let it get yellow, then pour in a little
i water and vinegar, and then sprinkle
i salt and pepper over the potatoes and
raw onions, pour your sauce over them
and they are ready to serve.
Oat Meal Cakes.?Place one pound
! of oat meal in a bowl; in one pint of
j boiling water drop about half an ounce
1 of butter or salted lard ; pour this boil!
ing over the meal, stirring it as quickly
: as possible into a dough ; turn out on to
: a bread board ; roll it unil as thin as it
nnn on/1 li/-vl*1 inf A
, v;cwi uo uuvt jav/jh w a?.4 y vuw ?uw
, small, round cakes and bake on a gridi
die, first one side and then the other.
I
floUMcliold Hint*.
After buttering your cake tins scatter
a little flour over them and the cake is
absolutely certain not to ftick to the
tin. If your oven is likely to bake hard
at the bottom put a.^aper in the bottom
' for rats and mice.
When washing fine laces do not use
i starch at all; in the last water in which
i they are rinsed put a little fine white
< sugar, dissolve it thoroughly, and the
! result will be pleasing.
j To brown sugar for sauce or puddings,
! put the sUpf-i in a perfectly day sauceI
pan. If tt? paa-ia4i?e least bit wet, the
sugar will burn and yoiMj^ spoil your
I saucepan.
| "When putting away the silverteaNJi
i coffee pot which is not used every clay,
i lay a little stick across the top under the
i cover. This wfll allow fresn air to get
| in, and will prevent mustiness. It will
] then be ready for use at any time, after
j having first been thoroughly rinsed with
| boiling water.
Nothing is better to clean silver with
j than alcohol and ammonia; after rubj
bing with this take a little whitening or
; a soft cloth and polish in this way;
I even frosted silver, which is so difficult
' to clean, may be easily made clear and
j bright. _
Japnnesc Children.
The Japanese children have to endure
j hardships from their birth. In their
; tiny houses are no bright, cheerful fires,
no easy chairs, no well-spread tables,
around which the family gather and hold
sweet converse. You must stoop to
i enter the ordinary houses, and their
rooms are not much larger than closets,
j A part of the floor is covered with mats,
J on which they sit and sleep. A block
of wood four inches high, hollowed a
| little at the top, answers as a pillow,
Sometimes it has stuffing on top an inch
| thick, over which a clean piece of paper
I irflpreftd..^ach timo it is used, to save
any needful wasWag^.. .The head poised
on this pillow prevents The disarrange;
ment of the hair, so that it" aeed not be
1 combed more than once .or twice in a
week. But the poor babies, and^&tle
i children's heads are shaved entirely, oi*
! have from one to five tufts of hair left
on the top over each ear, and on the
back. I have seen little babies with
heads entirely shaven and uncovered on
the coldest day, while the mother or
person on whose back it was carried, had
the face and head covered, only the
eyes and nose visible. Dr. Hepburn says,
! " only very strong babies survive their
j infancy."
Japanese houses have only paper
i windows; they have no stoves or grates,
j but a little box, from one to two feet
j square, witli some coals in the center, is
i all they have for warmth or cooking,
j Two or three cups, as many plates, a tea{
pot, a kettle and some boxes to hold
their clothing, complete their furniture.
All the houses I have seen are very
clean, which is their only appearance of
i comfort.
Little cluldren are often made to
take care of the baby. A very common
I sight is a little boy or girl, from five to
! twelve years old, playing with a kite,
witli a baby strapped on their backs, fast
! asleep, but sometimes crying, In the
| latter case, they only say "Be quiet,"
: and go on with their play. But
Japanese children seldom cry or quarrel,
and are very obedient to parents and
i teachers, w hom they venerate.?Mission!
ary Link.
What's a Printer?
A printer, according to n punning
exchange, is the most curious being
living. He may have a "bank" and
" quoins" and not be worth a cent; have
"small caps" and neither wife nor
children. Others may run fast, ho gets
along swifter by "setting" fast. He
' may be making "impressions" without
. eloquence ; may use the " lye " without
; offendin.ar, and still tell the truth; while
i others cannot stand while they set, he
lean "set standing," atnl do both at
: the same time"; may have to use "furniture,"
aud yet have no dwelling ; may
! make and put away "pi" and never see
a pie, much less eat it during his wholt
life ; be a human being and a "rat" at
! the same ; may "press" a good deal,
! and not ask a favor; may handle a
I " shooting iron" and know nothing
about a cr.iinon, gun or pistol; he may
i move the " lever " that moves the world,
j and yet bo so far from tho morning
I globe as a. hog upon a mole hill;
! "spread sheets" without being a house"
wife; he may lay his form on tho "bed"
I and yet be obliged to sleep on the l1 *;
I lie may use tho " dagger" without shedj
ding blood, and from the earth may
j handle " stars ;" he may be of a " rolling"
disposition, and still never desire
to travel; he can have a "sheep's " foot
I and never be deformed ; never without
a "case" and knows nothing about law
; or physic; bo always correcting his
| "errors" and be growing worse every
i day; have "embraces," without ever
j having the arms of a lass thrown around
| him ; have his T' form locked up," and
j at the samo time be far from the jail,
j watc ihouse, or any other confinement
; he may be plagued by the "devil" and
not be a Christain of the very best typo.
Darwin, in his recent book, says thai
" all plants circumm^ate." This is c
serious charge and needs confirmation
| There has been quite too much of this
! conduct. If it i? true, n reform i? great
I needed.
FACTS AND COMMENTS.
During and including the past fou
years the United States has produced i
the aggregate 20,131,471 bales of col
ton, 914,500,000 pounds of wool, 1,713,
922,899 bushels of wheat, 5,816,214,44
bushels corn, and lias exported $46,
806,331 in live stock and $1,427,317,29
in other food.
In the cabooses attached to freigh
trains on toe Erie raiL vud there is placet
an automatic contrivance called th
,,tell-tale," which registers all the stop
pages and the rate of speed over ever
^^ i?/??/I rrli4- Ivoina orn nn
lUUl/ Ui buu.iuau? XlCi^uu VAC****? utvuv
allowed to run more than fifteen mile
an hour, and if this speed is exceedei
the fact is at once disclosed on inspec
tion of the apparatus.
The wife of a clergyman in De
Moines, la., has a Sunday-school whicl
is not attended by children, as migh
have been supposed, but by"busines
men, professional men and thinkers.'
The class has become so large that it ha
been found necessary to take it into th
body of the church, where it forms i
small congregation of itself. This look
very much like the wife's running a]
opposition to her husband.
TVia nlnrmintr sfcni<vmfinfc is now mflde
on the authority of a New York physi
cian of more than forty years' practice
that for the first time in the history o
that city true spotted typhus fevei
which only originates where great filtl
abounds, has made its appearance with
out being traced to importation in th
shape of ship fever. This is an an
nouncement which is well calcnlated t
intensify the excitement regarding th
terrible filth of the streets of th
metropolis.
Carelessness, says James Harrisoi
secretary of the New York underwriter!
bureau of survey, is the great cause c
fires. In seven" years, 1871 to 1880, ir
elusive, New York city had 6,188 firei
Two out of five, 2,579, were due to he
aohes, pipes, cigars, matches and cai
dies; nearlv another fifth, 938, spran
from foul chimneys, 477 from defectrv
flues, and 578 from kerosene lampi
Extra-hazardous inflammable materia;
lead to comparatively few fires.
Since the assassination of the czi
extraordinary precautionary measure
have been taken to secure the safety <
Queen Victoria while traveling by rai
way. During a recent journey to Loi
don a train of empty carriages was ru
about a quarter of an hour in advance <
the queen's special train, which it pilo
ed throughout the trip from Windsor i
Paddington, while the entire distant
between the Windsor terminus and tl
metropolis was guarded by platelayei
stationed at regular intervgk^long^t
route, and well witfeHTsight of eat
other.
An interesting paper has been recen
riysad by Dr. Pliene, at Edinburg, c
'wJ|T>enefits to be derived from plan
_ 'iS^jatca in cities. Among the beneficii
regttKn to be attained are, he stated, tl
* ^ ovtio nerve through it
eye resting on objects of a green* cola
Just that which is effected by.the m
of green or blue glasses in-strengtl
ening and sustaining the power of sigl
is attained* or at any rate much aidet
by the presence of green in nature; an
instreeta the only method to procui
n ' u _ t 1?1! x TL
ims reauu is uy piuuuug trees, xi nt
pointed out by the author that wherev<
opportunity exists nature provides gree
and blue (the latter being the same col<
^linns the presence of yellow), and thi
aTtlie*iibs^ce of color produces sno
blindness, a&d^Q tropical calms, whei
the ocean presents G*}]y a white reflec
ed light from a unifMrnT^flagsiy surlac.
reduced optical power soon
long continuance of the absence of bk
color, which becomes immediately a]
parent on motion of the waves.
They have in Vienna an organizatio
for the preservation of the public healt
which watches closely the articles sol
for food, and from "time to time In
samples chemically analyzed. Investi
gations of this character'were conducte
on an extensive scale during the pa;
year. Of milk, 950 specimens wei
analyzed. Most of it had been skimme
and diluted with water; some had com
from diseased cows, and some was thick
cned with borax, soda and soap. Butt<
was analyzed to the extent of 310 sam
pies. All of it contained an excessiv
proportion of water, and much of it w?
adulterated with fat. lard or stearini
Lard coming from America and Hun
gary had borax and lime. Of 1,1S
specimens of Hungarian and Austria
wine fifty-two were artificial concoctioi
Artificial coloring matter and excessi\
proportions of water were found i
many. Pilsner beer contained soda an
Vienna beer glycerine. Of liquor
seventy-two had traces of arsenic c
lopper, besides injurious flavoring an
perfuming ingredients. Ground coffe
Vwivs mainly roasted grain, acorns an
j cliirnrVs?liven bread was badly adul
j terated. ~ " ? ?
The Jeannette search expedition to th
Arctic ocean is expected to sail from Sa
Francisco soon. It will be remembere
J that when the Jeannette sailed, her con
! mander arranged with the navy depar
I ment to leave records of his cruise at cei
I tain points. One of the chosen place
{is the southeast corner of "Wrangel islanc
j and the first stop on the search will prot
; ahly be made there about the first c
| August. If no message should be foun
: at that point, the expedition vessel wi
i proceed to Herald island in the hope c
' finding there some trace of the missin
j steamer. The search along the coast (
! those two islands will probably take tw
; months,when theArctic winter will begir
The searching party will then find
' secure harbor at Wrangle island, and, :
this is not possible, cross over to Siberi
and go into winter quarters then
During the winter sledge parties will l
j organized and sent out in search of new
of the Jeannettf. Captain Berry, wh
i will command the Helen and Mary, wi
""' oi'im.l liv tli/j infnrmatin
t he may receive after reaching the Areti
i regions. His orders are not to sta
north more than one winter, bnt to pro;
! eente the search after spring opens i
' 1882, ami remain until the winter se'
in again, and then return to San Frai
, cisco.
, I
It is proposed to hold in London du
ing the tirst week of next August an ii
i ternational medical congress, and tl
arrangements are already sufficiently ai
vaneed to warrant the belief that it wi
be the largest and most important gat:
i ering of the land ever held. Fourtho'
1 sand invitations have been sent out
, medical men in all parts of the worl
and the responses indicate that at lea
j half this number will attend. Some <
! the most eminent men in the professic
I in England are taking an active intere
in the proposed congress, which will 1
| presided over by Sir James Paget, ai
. of which the queen and Prince of WaL
; j have consented to be patrons. Foi
general addresses will be given by i
I many men of distinguished intern
; tional reputation, representing Franc
; Germany, America and England. Pr
' j fessor Huxley, who is a member of tl
, Royal College of Surgeons, as well as
; man of science, has accepted the respoi
; sibility of delivering the English ai
' j dress. In the vast range of topics whit
| the discussion and papers will enibrac
i S perhaps none will excite a livelier i
| terest than military surgery and me?1
II cine. The chief subjects under th
head will be the hygiene of armies ar
; fleets, the health of soldiers at home ar
i abroad, and the best means of extendir
' to field and other temporary hospita
. the recent improvement in the treatmei
[ of wounds and injuries by what is callt
, i the antiseptic method.
[ Dorset, Vt., is conservative. Past<
Pratt has been minister for twenty-lb
j years. His chorister has started tl
t tunes for thirty years or more, his de
i cons have held office, one for forty yea
. and the other for twenty years,the Sm
< { day-school superintendent has preside
7 sixteen vears and one of the teachei
i has taught fifty-two ycare.
First T.mo at Church. '#
A grave sweet wonder in thy baby face,
r And look of mingled dignity and grace,
11 Such as a painter hand might love to trace.
- A pair of trusting, innocent blue eyes,
0 That higher than the stainod-glasa window riso -V>
- Into tho fair and cloudless summer skies.
^ The people round her sing, " Above the sky
There's-rcst for little children when they die"?
j. To her?thus gazing up?that rest seems nigh. r
3. The organ peals; she must not look around, . V
e Although with wonderment her pulses bound?
The place whereon ehc stands is holy grouad*--^*
y r..
t Tho sermon over, and the blessing said,
s She bows ?as "mother" does?her gold# ?
1 head; !
And thinks of little sister who is dead. .*
She knows that now she dwells abovo tho skj
Where holy children enter when they die,
8 And prays God take her there too, by-and-byo.
?. Pet, may Ho keep you in the faith alway,
a And bring you to that liomo for which youp ray -I
? TVhcre all shall have tfieir child-hcarta back
s one day.
0 ?Chambers' Journal faajp
s HUMORS OF THE DAY.
Shocking?A magnetic battery. *
A boaster's virtues are on the but'?
face. ''
Undi eased kids will be quite common Jj
'i at the sea shore this summer.
Everything has to pay up sometimes;
^ even the little chickons have to shell ','h
e Say for instance a dog loses his paW VxM
nr. A O mnoUf lAott: Ilia matP rlnafl it ITtltca '-N
I- ttuu ? X UUOVUl AWI7W H ) .. ri(
o orphans of them ??Steubenvillc Herald. Ji
e When is the most dangerous time to ^
e visit the country? Give it up? When g
the trees are shooting and the bulrushes 3ai
out. ' ;>
'? The Philadelphia Chronicle says that M
5' married men are like eggs, because by 'y?
being kept in hot water they become M
r hardened.
3" Man's Lot.?' Twixt women and wine
man's lot is to smart; the wine makes
l" his head ache and women his heart.? vj
? Old Rhyme.
3 A hungry hen will pick up 113 kernels 'Jj
[8 of corn in a minute by the watch and J
have a second and a half left to look for J
more.?Free Press. 1
ir "Life is a great battlefield," says * .,.a
>s renowned philosopher. Perhaps that is ^aj
jf the reason there is so much charging
1- done.?McGregor Nexcs. J
* Our forefathers could not harbor the 1
n idea of paying taxes on their\tea, so ^
>f they compromised the matter by narbor- Jm
t- ing the tea.?Yawcob Strauss.
:o The meanest man in tlwrtsountay lives
!e in Missouri. He pleaded in a breach*^
ie of promise suit tfufliikcontracv made on ~S":
Sund^y-cigiit was not binding. gasSm
ie little girl had been scfcrided by
grandmother. She picked CJflier liflK^
kitten, and, caressing it, said\ "I 5vfigW*||s
one of ns three was dead. And it aHT J||
you, kitty, and it ain't ine."
S terribly shaken far eartW&riafct^
r the Grecian ArcSfteiago, offtbtcoMftjHffi
w Asia Minor. It is separiteL frw^W J
>. main land by the Strait of Scio, whSjgM*
. i- * :i :ji~ :m m>IHH
l{ -IS IUUX rnuen WiUC ill its muiunvsv jaub^b
^ The area of the island is about fc#gB|
<j hundred square miles, and its
e population is about fifty thousand,
ls of whom are Turks. Limestone ridjfl I
iv traverse Scio, giving it a rocJiy and
,n even surface and picturesque apnflHH
)r ance. There are a few small streaiJ^^R9
^ water in the alleys, but
w irrigation is by means of
:e wells. Only a small part o^^H^Rb
t- is arable. Gum mastic is
prodnction, among the other. produ^M
a tions being ?ilk, cotton, wol, fruit an^Hfl
^reiT-v6<^^'<j!iblc wine i? also madej^^Hj
y. the islan^K?^ch^f city andcaj^BH
is Scio, or Kaatro^*jBigat^c^^B^^M
middle of the east coaatanulu^Bm
,Q 14,500 residents. The city is
h teeted by a castle, has a harbor^HMH
d manufactories of silk, velvet and
IS In ancient times the chief cityj^H^H
_ called Scios, and claimed to have
d the birthplace of Homer. The hisJ^H^Hj
st of the island runs back centuries be^B^H
e Christ. Iu 401 B. C. it was inv^^^^H
d and laid waste by the Persians. HBH
Le became a member of the Ath^^^^^H
league in 470 B. C., and iecover^|HHH|
Jr independence in 358 B. C. Philip^|^9H9
i_ Macedon, took possession of the^^^^^H
e in 201 B. C., and it afterward
>c Riibiect to Romt. Turks caDtn^BH^HH
w
3, chief city and massacred the inh^B^BHH
_ early in the fourteenth century. HHHN9
10 the Genoese gained possession
n and held it until 1566,
i. fell into the hands of
the a short
n belonged to Venice,jHHHMH
under rule^^^^^^^^^^^^H
time. The inliabitaifl^^H^^^^^^HB
,r Turks during the
d 1822, but were soon
to suffer terribly
d in two months 23,cHBflHa^DjB^^^H
or
| ?W01,df_
and 5, (XX) fled to escape death. As* a i
;e j result the Christian population of SMty ; -
n 104,000 was reduced to 2,uou. Atireek
d ; force commanded by Colonel Fabvier, a
x-: Frenchman, attacked the Turkish garrit
son of Scio in 1827, but were beaten and *
r- driven from the island.
? 1 ''
li Bill Fosdick's Great Failing. "iv?
'* A Mississippi correspondent of the '
)l New York Times tells this story: I was ... 4
^ told here in Mississippi the other day of
U an old man who had killed many men;
>f had usually, indeed, kiHed every man
? who greatly displeased him. His favor>f
i ite weapon was the rifle, his inseparableff
0 j companion. At last a man came back to **.
L I that region all the way fromTeias, with \j*
,a the avowed object of killing this old ^
| man, and so avenging a relative who
ft | had been one of his many victims. One
, day as the old man walked along a path i
ie through the woods his pursuer fired at
3 him from behind a tree. The aim was
0 ; true, and the victim fell to the ground,
^ i shot through the bodv. but he wawiot
n dead. After some time the man who
IC had shot liim'put his head out from bey
hind the tree to learn what had been
s" the effect of the bullet. At that mo11
ment a rifle ball crushed through his
s brain. A little later a neighbor came
*" along the path and found the Texan r
quite dead; but the old man, though*.
! plainly fatally wounded, was still alive
r- j aud conscious, but unable to do more
a-1 than raise himself on one elbow. After
ie ; he had succeeded in attaining this posi[1-;
tion he said: " Could yer roll that cuss
,11 i oyer byur, so's I kin hev a look at
li- i him ?" This was done, and he gazed at
n- the lifeless body with a contemptuous
to : kind of interest. "Bill Fosdick alius
d, | was a fool. I knowed he couldn't keep
st! his head behind that tree. I knowed
of he'd look out arter a while, and then I .
>n! knowed I'd fetch him." Then the
st neighbor took off his coat and adjusted _-i
ie it under the old fellow's head, and in a
id few minutes more two dead bodies lay J
es side by side in the woodland path.
ar * ?
as Take Care of the Penni es.
a- Look most to your spending. No
e, matter what comes in, if more goes out
o- you will always be poor. The arti* not
ie ! in making money but in keeping it; 4
a littlelexponses, like mice in a large barn,
n- when they are many, make great waste.
Hair by hair heads got bald ; straw by
h straw the thatch goes off tbe cottage,
e, and drop by drop the rain comes in the
n- chamber. A barrel is,soon empty if the tap
li- leaks but a drop a minute, \\ henyou
is mean to save begin with your mouth ;
id j many thieves pass down red lare. The ale
id | jug is a great waste. In all other things
ig i keep within compass. Never stretch
Is j yonr legs further than the blanket will
at i reach, or you will soon be odd. In
hI ' clothes ehoose suitable and lasting stuff,
1 and not tawdry fineries. To be warm
'is the main thing; never mind tne
or ! looks. A fool may make money, but it
re i needs a wise man to spend it. Rememie
j ber it is easier to build two chimneys
a- j than to keep one going. If you give all
rs j to back and beard there is nothing left
n-: for the savings bank. Fare hard and
d work hard while you are young, and you
r? j will have a chano* to rest when you w*
I old.
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