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^^ ' 1 ..... " ^?p?y^? "L, ???^?i ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER! BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1882. NO. 37. VOLUME XXVI. . The Fiddler. Sometimes ifyoti listen?listen When the sunlight fades to gray, You will hear a strange musician At tho quiet closo of day ; Hear a str&ngo and quaint musician On his shrill-voiced fiddle play. He bears a curious fiddle On his coat of shiny black, And draws the bow across tho string In crevices and in crack; Till the sun climbs up the mountain And thods the earth with light. You will hear this strange musician Playing?playing ail the night 1 Sometimes underneath the hearthstone. Sometimes underneath the floor. He plays the same shrill music? Plays the same tune o'er and o'er: And sometimes in the pasture, Beneath a cold, gray stone, Ho tightens uj> tho einews, And fiddles all alone ! It may be in the autumn, From the corner of your room You will hear the shrill-voiced fiddle Sounding out upon the gloom ; If you wish to see the player, Softly follow up the round, And you will fiud a dark-backed cricket Fi Idling out a mcry sound ! ? Hewy /;. Jiorr, in Youth's Companion. MORE THAN CONQUEROR. "Winter in Russia is more emphatic than with us. There is a steely glitter in the ice, a barbed arrow in the trail. Eternal glaciers lie upon the hillside; at least it seems as if blossom and leaf . and fresh green grass were gone forever. The sky, sparkling, blue and cold as turquoise stone, has only snowdr fts of clouds floating here and there, illumined by a golden light called sunshine, but. totally different from the life giving radiance we hail with delight. Beneath such a sun we would imagine only snowflowers could bloom. Yet a young man loiters along the frozen road as if summer zephyrs were wafting the Bnbtle odors of fields of . ' \ioletd an! roses to his senses. He is not DjUuI hi m costly furs, yet there is something within that makes life warm aud ecstatic and full of rosy bloom, despite the desolate fields.%about him, where the snow lies pure and ccld as a quarry of Carrara marble. Hp is a dreamer and he is in love, so the present does not exist for him. It is noihiDg that he has never spoken to the lady of his dreams; that she is set far above him; that his love is like "The desire of the moth for the star; Of the day for the morrow." It is enough that he sees her every .day?and he lives upon that?though her sky-blue eyes have never rested upon his face. By-and-byehe will want more than a glance,'and the torment of love will begin. In the distance he oan see a glimpse of the lordly structure {hat is her home, and in his mind he contrasts it with his own humble abo Je. But he is a soldier of f.-rtune, and who can say what the future may have in store for him ? Russia offers prizes to intellect and zeal, why should he not gain one and make a narac for himself; or, oh, ecstatic thought, for her?for Vera I Th*t is hi*r name-it sings itself to ; mystic mu^ic in his dreams it is written on his soul. Yef he has ouly seen her whirling by | him dav after dav in a sleigh fashioned line; iw uuuiobimus ouo drives herself, and he has been devising means to say some word to her, to make her look at him once and speak to him. Ah ! if she is only alone to-day. It is coming now. He stops with a sudden flash of fire kindling his blood. A slim, girlish figure, in dark, wine-colored velvet skirt trimmed with sables. Her golden curls are streaming in the wind; her blue eyes are full of the sunshine of youth, that light that is clouded bo toon: her lips are 6carlet as n pomegranate blossom; on her cheeks she keen wind has brought vivid roses. Nicole loses Lis head at the sight He do?s not note the thin, gray-haired old man at her side, half-buried in his furs, and shrinking from the icy blast. This man's face is cold and hard a3 if carven from stone; his lips are stern and compressed; no kindly light warms his pale eves. A man with an iron will, run would say?no prajers or tears t won Id avail with snch a one. Nicole, y blinded by the splendid vision of the ? girl, supreme in her youni? beauty, suddenly stopped forward and took off his f hat. . e An idea bad come to liirn?a frenzy ( to hear her voice. She had a heart of j I heavenly pity, he knew, and eo he j i would come as'a mendicant. He felt i. indeed like one who was willing to j c kneel before her, if he could win one j t smile. But he merely held his hat as one < t that asks for alms?and he looked poor : ? enough-^ike a poor scholar whose in- j l telleci is his only wealth, and who g finds it is worth nothing in exchange t for bread and butter. i The girl had no time to ac? In a E second her father had noted the move- g ment on the part of the young man, and c at the same instant the lash of the whip t was Jaid across his face like a living line t * of fire. The Count Semiloffhad stopped g long enough for that and to hurl a tialf- E dozen oaths at the young man's head, , t then the sleigh dashed on like the wind. ! i Nicole staggered back. He grew cold j g and sick from head to foot?cold as a i 1 stone, and with no life in him, save | where the scarfet line on his face i throbbed and beat like a wound. He ; \ slowly steadied himself at last, but he ' was deadly pale, save for the crimson j band, and he shook from head to foot 5 % as if with the pi>y. * Curse the aristocrat I" he gapped; " one day we will bo quits for this. If I lived a hundred )i?es I would never forget this moment. Bah 1 fool that I was to forget for an instant that I am one of the people? that my hand is against such as he and his. He has brought me to my setsps with a vengeance. That blow ought to kill my love?and it will. Henceforth I live for revenge, and when that day comes, Count SemilolT, I will remind you of this." ' The sleigh, skimming along the .frozen gronnd like a bird on the wine:, was a mere speck in the distance by this time. Not a word had been spoken s:'nce the oathd that the count had thundered forth vith his blow. There was not a sound save a little gasp from the young girl, and afterward a muffled sob. "Vera, what do you mean?''?in a stern voice. "Look at me." The girl unwillingly turned her face toward him?a sweet face, with the color gone, and lips that quivered a little, and eyes tha% met his own undauntedly, tlfough they were as misty a* the blue of showery skies. "He had a good face, papa, and looked poor and cold." " Bah?the begcar! Well, I warmed him a bit! Besides, I've a shrewd idea that he was a* sham beggar, after all ?not but what he would have been rightly served if he'd been genuine! There's work enough in the empire for all. Only with this man I've happened to notice one thiDg ? for the last month we have met him every day' I flatter myself we will not meet him again." " Bat why should he sham beggary?'* asked the girl, wonderingly. 8ha was verv vonnfir. onlv sixteen. < and she did not dream that it was her j ] own sweet face that had made the poor i youth mad and blind. Her father gave her a penetrating ; ] glance. Ho wouid have been wise to j have spared her, but he was toe angry. ; ' I thought women were keen enough j to see these things," he said, scornfully. I ' It's my idea that he wanted to attract j your attention at any price! But if he ; comes in my way again I'll set the dogs ! on him." At these words a quick flush mounted to the fair face of the girl. It was the j first time a thought of her power over any other heirt had been projected into her mind, and she could not help thinking a little of this man?this first lover, who had dared so much for one look into her eje#. He mutt be very roman tic, then, this poor young man; and her heart softened a little as she remembered his dark, eloquent eyes, with their appealing glance. It was not strange that the thought of th.s young man took possession of her fancy for a few days. She longed to let him know that her father's barbarous blow had wounded her as well ?to show him that her heart was not so hard?that she bad not inherited the cruel prejudices of caste. She found out his name from her maid, who knew tho people of the village; and she heard that he was educated and ambitious. Day by day she watched the roads as the sleigh skimmed along, but she never saw tho face she half-feared, half-longed to see. After a time stern realities took her away from these dreams, ller ambitious father had a suiter for her?a contemporary of his own?against whom her whole soul revolted. Count SemilofT found to his surprise that his daughter had inherited j one thing from him?namely, his iron ; will. She dared to rebel against paren- | tal authority?to vow that she would never sav the fateful words of assent, ;c oifor C?C11 11 ouu ?C1C LV/ uur aiuai? "You ure my on]v child," said the I count, in his hardest voice; "but as sure as there is a God in heaven I will cabt you off?you shall be as a stranger ?I will forget that you live?unless you obey me in this thing.-' "So be it," answered Vera, with a white face, and eyes full as cold as his own. He did not dream Of the self-contained power in the girl. He had seen her among her flowers and birds, singing as carelessly as a bird herself, and so he had not fathomed the depths of being, the possibilities of passion and pain, of fortitude and high resolve, that were in her. Only, the next day, when they came and told him she was gone, no one knew where, it was a terrible shock to him He had been quite capablo of disowning her, but that she should be the first to cast off her allegiance was an inexplicable thing and a terrible blow. All day the lonely old man sat silently as one who has been sore smitten. He wondered that his heart had such ca-1 pacities of pain in it. and he was sur : 3 -I. ? .1 1 ?en, * I pnsuu ut nit* utter uesuiauuu wuuuub Vera. Now that she was gone he realized for tho first time how much he loved her, and that life was an aimless thing with out her. A girl of eighteen only, how could she battle with life? But the slow days came and went and she made no sign, and at last the Count SemilofF went forth with hope in his heart?a hope that failed day by day. For the days grew into months and the months to year3?yes, four years?and he had not heard from her, not ODe word. So as a balm for an aching heart' the J count threw himself into hard work. His old prejudice grew strong again, and with the vigor of a young man he took up a service for tho czar; a secret service that needed fidelity, courage and even recklessness of life." And who was so indifferent to life as the the Count SemilofF, the. last of his line save for the unnatural daughter - T? J r 1 I. : o wuo 11 au lurbtiii^ii mm iiriiio uiu ugci What did the few remaining years hold for him that he should be careful to preserve them? N*y, he was ready to fliug them away, if by so doing he could render a service to his master. Therefore, he gave himself up to ferreting out the creatures who were plotting against that master's life and the wellbeing of all Russia, according to his convictions. b It was with peculiar sensations of triumph, therefore, he read one day an anonymous note that some one had left for him: "Whereas the Count Semiloff's vigiance for the czar is well known, an opportunity is now offered for the defeat : Df a Nihilist plot of the first magnitude, and the arrest, among others, of ( i certain Sophie Posenski, who is a powerful member of the party. This woman has for two years been a leader md an influence in the band?the most 3ubtle, the most dangerous to all lovers . jf peace and order. She has an infatuation, an insanity, it mi?ht be called, ; to redress wrongs; she is eloquent and ( sways men's minds at will; she is beau iifui, and she rules men's hearts; she is ;he most malignant ei'emy the czar can and, and you can deliver her into his und. Be at the Boraoff warehouses :o-morrow ntght at 10 o'clock. The vatchwardis 'Public Safety;' the place, i cellar under the first house." The count felt a sudden enthusiasm 'or his work?greater even than he had ;ver experienced before. Ah! if he lould but seize this woman, of whom he iad heard much, but whom he had lever been able to see or trace before ?if he conld deliver her into the hands )f justice, then indeed he might be able ' ;o say " Amen " to his weary life. Somehow he had conceived an in;ense hatred against this Sophie Posen)ki ?this arch traitress, as ha thought ler, who led men into treason with >miles, and made them willing to cast heir lives away for a word of praise, ^nd a thrill of triumph came over him is ho thought that he was to be the in I strument of delivering Russia from this j :nrse. Siberia would be the place for .his ardent, snaring sonl. In the mean;ime the object of his wrath, unconscious of her danger, but knowing that ihe walked amid ceaseless dangers? i-ana ar*rl r\lr?fa on/1 ynffuHc nr-ia molrin ct < eady for the meeting. Her toilet was } limple, as befits a woman sworn to be- ! i ODg to the cause of the people?the! 500r, the downtrodden and oppressed? i ret her beauty bloomed through all, a i rose would do in a neglected garden, i 3er hair was cut short, that no time i s uight bo wasted in its arrange- j nent, but it disposed itself in: switching little infantile curls all >ver her head aud low down over her iroad, white forehead. The faco was nil of force, the mouth impressive? ( rat it locked as if it might be eloquent i )f love and' passion as well ?and the iark-blue eyes that could flash in icorn at an ignoble action or anger at l tyranous act, were soft and limpid iow with memories. Her room was alain and bare as a cell. She was one )f the workers, and her slim fingers vere hardened with toil; but she did lot grieve over that. A strange enhusiasm filled her heart; she was Jivng-for a purpose, and that is the secret of happiness. Once in a while ;here came up before her suddenly, is if some one held up a portrait, the nemorv of a face she had seen at the neetings lately?a new membor who seemed to hang upon her words, yet Those eyes betrayed a sort of animosity -she could find no other word for it. Sometimes it seemed as if hatred and j ove struggled together in their ex-1 pression, and she had felt a cold creep-1 ng sensation as she caaght the glance. \ She had grown somehow to look for uis coming, and his presence affected ] ler in an inexplicable manner. It i leemed to touch some chord of mem- : jry, too, and she vexed herself with at- i ;empts to understand it. To-night, as ! isual, her eves sought him out, and ;; ;hen as she met his glance the hot j alood surged into her face. The next moment he was at her side, j ind with him a person whom she knew, i; 'Let me introduce my friend Sergius," 11 ?aid her acquaintance, "and 1 will | 1 leave you together to talk. Two such irdent disciples must be friends." " I have heard much of you," ex- , claimed Sergius, bowiDg, "and have longed, but scarcely dared, to be prejented." "Dared!" exclaimcd Sophie, with a I mi all "it. is nnr rflicinn to darft !" "But I am a novice. Perhaps I shall learn to dare everything in time." There was a significance in the words which made the girl blush*again. 'It is a long time since the cause of' the people became the dearest thing to me." Then she said: "Some one used to send me Nihilist pamphlets, and I became a convert when I was a mere child. I wish I knew that perscn. 1 would like to meet him." A peculiar smile came to the lips of her companion. "Are you grateful to him ?" "Jes. I look upon him m my apostle," "Snpposo I could point him out." "You!" "Yes. Pardon mo, I am the unknown. 1 owed your family a debt. I began payment in that way?but I shall not end there." " Ah!" exclaimed the givI, " I fear ' they will not be as grateful as I. Hush! they are going to speak. It is Demitri. j Ee is one of the bloodthirsty ones. It was an odd crowd that was gath-; ered together in the great damp cobwebby cellar. Men with pale faccs and ; lurid eyes that seemed to peer into a | wonderful future?when, all barriers burnt away, a new world Bhoul.i spriug ] np on the rains of the old. There wore j women there in nncouth drosses, with j clipped hair and strange bonnets - women who eschewed all the frivolities j of fashion as sins against the great cause j ?who were ready to sacrifice their rank, their money, even their heirt's idols, for the wort. They had sworn to give all?even themselves?according to the | mandates of this strange power. Demitri, a muscular man with a pas 1 sionate face and fiery eyes, was. denouncing the tyranny of the czar in j burning words. Then he passed on to \ a vivid picture of Siberian exile. " We I are in Dante's Inferno !" mustered Ser-1 gins to the young girl; " fir^t a lake of! lire, and then a sea i f ice." At taht moment the door sprang open and an old man entered. He did not seem at all bewildered by the noise, but took his place quietly and looked about him. Sergius drew nearer to him stealthily. " How goes the cause, friend ?" he said at last. Tho Count Semiloff smiled calmly. " Never better ? Shall we have a speech from the renowned Sophie to-night ?" " I suppose so. She is cogitating it now, probably, in the shadow of that i. in YYiUt; UUS& I The count's eyes followed his companion's. " What-, that girl ?" he cried. "Did you expect to see un 'old woman ?" j "Excuse me. I come from tbe prov- J inces," tbe count stammered. " I must [ see her nearer." The next moment his hand was on her | shoulder. "Sophie Posenski, yon are my prisoner!" he cried. " No escape, gentlemen, the place is surrounded!" The girl turned, and the count uttered a cry. "My God, Vera! my child !" he moaned, and staggered back, then fell heavily to tbe gronndThe lights wore put out and there was utter coufasion. "Now's your chance, gentlemen," some one cried. " He is insensible; ho has not made the signal." vora 8tooa tor a moment as 11 paralyzed ; 'then, stooping, she lifted her father's head in her arms. There was a sound- of retreating steps, then silence. Suddenly a torch flamed out on the fcene. She looked up and saw Sergins standing near her. " You have not escaped ?" she asked. " No ! I told you I owed a debt to your family. I want to Betf.e it now!" j he said, with a strange smile. , The count raised his head, faintly, ? " My girl, my poor child I" he moaaed ; l "your father did not know; come! I have you at last. Let us fly. They shall not take y.u now, save over my dead botlv " "Aha, Monsieur le Count. High ; treason, is it not?" exclaimed Sergius. j The count stared. " Vera, my love, 1 wno is tnis man : "He is?a friend," stanynered the! girl. " So you do not recognize me, most | noble count?" begin Sergius, in a mocking tone. "Ir.m Nicole Sergius, the man whom you lashed for pastime one line day. Oht I carried your autograph on my face for a long time, and then I carried it in my heart! I told your daughter I had a debt to pay to the family. Well! I pay it to day. She will be sent to Siberia as a Nihilist; and you, heaven knows what fate will bo yours But I have my revenge." Vera sprang up with blazing eyes. "Coward," she cried, "what are yon? Whatever my fate, you will not escape ?yon are one of us !" He smiled, mockingly. "What am I ? [ am {i spy ! Yes, although I am your apostle, that was part of my game." " Good God I" exclaimed Vera, hiding lier eyes on her father's breast, " and I jared for this man!" At theso words the face of Sergius ihanged suddenly, as if ho had cast iside a hideous mask. Hie eyes were llumined by a strange fervor, and his nouth trembled. "I have been a fiend I" he cried. ' Vera, my angel, I loved you. I dared ,o love you, and it made me a fiend. I vill die for you 1 Only say again that | :ou cared for me and I will go through I lames straight into the jaws of death for rou!" At that mcment armed men burst in . he doord. and all three were secured in ! * k moment. Sergius was liberated as a i ipy, but the count wa3 convicted; > raitorous papers had been found in his 11 runk. Ho was condemned with his ! laughter to Siberia, in vain Sergius | sonfessed his plot; there was no pardon, i >ven after he stated that he had intro- j luced the damaging papers among the j > lount's effects. But when the exiles j 5 narched in line through Ihe streets on heir way to their living death a man | Mine out of the crowd and stood by | Sera's side. "I am going with you," ho said, j j 'and thus may I expiate my crime. <; Vhere yon live, I will live. Where you lie, I will die." Jleat Versus Vegetable Diet, The most plausible argument we have een offered against the vegetarians or some time is contained in a recent lumber of the Boston Journal of Ch'-m- i stry. It relates experiments of Pro-1 essor Hoffmann which tend to show that i i far greater proportion of a meat diet | s assimilated than of vegetable diet, j [t is said "we must consider not mere-j y how much nutriment each puts into j he body, but how much of it remains j ihere and how much goes to waste." i Professor Hoffmann fed a servant on regetable diet and found that not one i 1 ilf of tbo albuminous matter Jiad j jctn digested. The same man was icxt fed on beef, fit and flour, and j mly one-fifth of tiie albuminous sub-1 itr.nco parsed off as waste. Experiments of other physiologists ue quoted that gave similar results. Iho writer then couclndts that " the results of tlieso experiments by independent investigates evidently agree in proving that a much larger fraction af nutriment is utilized in the case of mimal than in that of vegetable food. Ihey go far toward kn< eking away the very foundations of vegetarianism by showing that our digestive apparatus is better adapted to deal with the former , hVian trifli t.Vin lotto** We are not rated vegetarians and do ! t not take offense when arguments are i presented to refuse their tenets. ButI wo would like to Know what constitutes 1 the true and proper food for man, and j we have inclined to the belief that his ; Dormal diet in the perffct state would ! be vegetarian. i The ixoeriments referred to by the | Boston Journal i>f Chemistry are not ; logica'.ly conclusive. There is a flaw in the premises? or lots of room for one. The men experimented upon had in all probability been raised upon a miscellaneous diet, and their digestive powers are an unknown quautity, and so the experiments cannot prove much un-1 til they are repeated upon a healthy ! person who has been raised as a vegetarian. As people are now, doubtless' meats are digested with less waste than j vegetables, and possibly it remains true j for everybody ; but to determine just j how much advantage of this kind is to j be credited to meat di<-t it will bo neces-1 sary to make a large number of careful I experiments upon fair specimens of | meat eaters and vegetarians, trying each j on the different kinds of diet and com-! i paring the results. The animal king- i ] dom furnishes; abundant material for i such investigation in different classes of carnivorous and herbivorous domes- ; ticated animals, which field invites the ' attention of practical physiologists who desire to settle the question,?T)r. Foote't Health Monthly. i THRIFT OF THE PEOPLE. SSomp FnciM C'oncrrniiia the Distribution'* of (Jovrrnnicnt HoiuIk. Circular No. 222 from the census bureau presents facts of more than' ordinary interest to the people. Its j purpose is to show as noatly as possible j the distribution r?f registered bonds, or ! rather the ownership of the national debt. It shows the number of male and female holders and tht? amount held in the several States and in .117 cities; also the amounts held by individual ; (" bloated ") bondholders, varying from : less thaD 6500 to 850,000 and upward. According to the register of the treasury the whole amount of the registered four, four and one-half, five and six per cent, bonds owned by foreign and domestic holders and by banks at the time ; the census was taken was $1,173,749,250. It appears that the aggregate | 1 nnm^nr nf nf Vmnrlfl typrA rh ! follows: Per cent. of Ter Hold- Hold-cent of ( Hate. era. Amount. ere. Am'nt 4 per coat....55,278 $380,742,800 G8.41 46.58 iyt per cent.. 10,745 123,031,300 13.30 15.22 5 per cent.... 7,091 134,610,300 8.78 1G.2!) 0 per cent.... 7,088 180,020,700 9.51 21.91 Totals 80,802 $825,917,100 100.00 100.00 Omitting the six per cents from the calculation we find that of the whole number of holders of the other bonds 42,262 were mules, 29,325 were "females and 1.527 are coporations, and of the amount held the males owned 8327,185,500, tho females 890,353,350 irad corporations ?227,451,500. The average per head adds: For male holders, , S7.741 84; for females, 83,081 10; for corporators (of course representing , individuals of both sexes), 8148,953 20. No less than 8410,279,400 wus held ; in amounts of over 850,000, $58,730,600 in amounts varying from S25.000 to 850,000; from 810,000 to 825,000, S59,153,850; from 85,000 to 810,000, 841,079,900; from 8^.500 to 85,000, , 833,070 950; from $1,000 to $2,500, $22,032,550; from ?500 to $1,000, $13,097,250; less than 8500, $7,555,900. The number of persons was as follows: ClasBea. Malep. Females, i Exceeding $50,000 830 103 From $25,000 to $50,000 1,018 281 From $10,000 to $25,000 2.32G 953 From $5,000 to $10.0Q0 3,410 1,571 From $2,500 to $5,000 5,490 2,G81 Froai $1,000 to $2,500 7,505 4,871 , From $500 to $1,000 8,308 0,372 . From $50 to $500 13,309 12,248 ' Totals $2,202 29,325 j CorporaClasses. tions. Total. Exceeding $50,000 531 1,529 i From $25,000 to $50,000 224 1,523 From $10,000 to $25,000 259 3,538 From $5,000 to $10,000 190 5,183 * From $2,500 to $5,000 149 8,500 | From $1,000 to $2,500 53 12,429 From $500 to $1,000 59 14,799 From $50 to $50U ?.. 50 25,613 Totals 1,527 73,114 l It is gratifying to observe that in J putting small savings into government { bonds the women nearly equal the men. More than one-half of the 73,114 hold- i ers reside in cities, and they hold 85 per t r?onf nf t.liA hnnrln. c . The following tablo shows the geo- f graphical distribution, omitting cor i porations, giving per cent, of males and i females in each section: Male Per Female Per 1 SectioLu hold're. cent, liold'ra cent S'ew England M,G33 34.?>2 11,986 40.85 ? Middle Slates 13,723 44.30 12,580 43.00 1 3outhern States 1,721 -1.07 914 3.13 i West. and Territories. 7,185 17.01 3,845 13.12 j The thrift of New England is appar- f snt and the disinclination of Southern people to take the obligations of the ? ijovermeDt is signally apparertt. Of c nearly thirty thousand women who have s laid by something in government bonds r for a rainy day but a trifle over 900 are ^ in the South. This does not come from t tvant of means, nor from distrust of the e securities, but from the memories of j, :he war. Massachusetts shows the largest number of holders in any St^te, 16,855; then New York, 14,803; Penn- 'E jylvania, 10,408. These three States | 8 lave 57 1-2 per cent of all those (indi- S riduale) who hold bonds. Massachuietts doubtless gets her pre-eminence v :rom the proverbial thrift of the females ? ivho work in her many manufactories. With regard to amounts held it is e aardly necessary to say that New York 0 itands far above all other States, hav- c ng 8210,264,250, or 32.60 per cent, nearly one third of the entire invest- n nent of $644,990,400 (omitting tho six 7 jer cents). MaBsachusetts, Pennsyl- 11 ?ania and Ohio follow in order: then b he District of Columbia?an excep- a ional location, for it is natural that 0 nany of the thousands of government c smployes should put their earnings u nto the boadfl with which they are a lecessarily so familiar. The Territories ire bunched together so that the small>sfc investment appeared to be in Oregon d pith fourteen investors holding in all v ?126,300. The sectional distribution g n amounts held, is as follows (corpora- f: ions omitted): a Section. By Males'. Per cent, w few England State?.... $50,142,500 15.33 it liddlo States 223,225,150 08.22 h iouthcrn States 10.241,250 3.13 11 Veatern States 43,570,COO 13.32 8 Total $327,135,500 100.00 ti Section. Bv Females. Per cent, low England States ... .$"20,820,550 23.0G liddlo States 55,788.100 01.74 a Southern States 2,808,550 3.21 1) Vestern Slates.. > 10,842,150 11.00 ri Total $90,353,350 100.00 f] Perhaps a clearer view of the dis>osition of the people in the various / Jtates to invest in government securiies will bo found in the table showing P he number of private bondholders to . >ach 1(10,000 of the population of such . State That table we give, excluding ^ he District of Columbia: ilassachusetts.... 950 Kansas 30 few Hampshire.. 850iLouisiana 30 c 'erraont 570 West Virginia 30 g 'onnecticut 380 Colorado 30 Ihodo Inland 300 Nevada 30 . few York 290 Iowa 20 ilaine 2G0 Tennessee 20 a: 'ennsylvania 240 Territories 20 ci few Jersey 240 Florida 20 )hio 130 South Carolina... 15 _ Hindis 100 Texas 10 J* laryland 100 North Carolina.... 10 II )olawaro 70 Alabama 10 ii Jalifornia 50 Mississippi. 10 sj ndiana 4C Arkansas 10 L ilissouri 40 Minnesota 10 ventucky 30 Nebraska 10 C( tiicmgau iiu urcgon ;?i u 'irginia 30 Georgia 4 1 Visconsin 30' Statistics arc given from 117 cities. I Che bulletin closes with the distribu-1 ion among banks and other corpora-! 0 ions, as follows: ? Corporations. No. Amount. Per capita, n fational banks.. 335 $10,251,400 $3,000 12 r iavings banks.. 4*3 131,224,400 271,080 13 a 'rivatc banks... S3 10,!>94,150 124,933 52 nsur. companies 478 00,857,450 127,310 84 , Crust companies 137 13,481,050 98,423 72 ^ 2xp. companies. 0 040,100 100,083 33 b Totals 1,527 ?227,421,500 $148,953 20 ?New York Herald. ? i i The Hrakoinan's Story. . U A braketnan on the Erie railroad tells he following fctory: -During the heavy ^ ush of freight last summer I had been ^ in duty for thiee days and nights, and a vas completely jaded out. Between deposit and Hancock our train brokcj c n two, and, rnnning together again, i j. uuseda wreck. I went back to flag I he first approaching train. After going j ^ vhat I considered r. proper distance, I lat down on "the outside of the rail to tvait. I was soon asleep with my head waning on my hand, and my face turned *x )n the track. I dreamed I was lying on ? :ho track, and that the Atlantic express " an mo down, cutting off both my arms P ind mangling mo eo terribly that I 81 :ould not possibly survive. I awoke e. ivith a Btart, and there, within forty feet jf me, was the headlight of a locomo- * ;ive, bearing down upon me at the rate ? jf forty miles an hour. I grabbed my ? red lantern and eprang from the track, I1' md as I did so the engineer saw me; " ;here was a whistle of down brakes, a ind the train was saved. It was the j ^ Atlantic express I saw in my dream. j a ? a: Hope is a ruddy morning ray of joy, i recollection is its golden tinge; but the a latter is wont to sink amid the dews b ind dusky shades of twilight; and the j e bripht blue days which the former ti promises, break indeed, but in another s: world and with another sun. ti ? b Anson Buggies, of Hard wick, Mass., n Ib08. Hin grandmother lived to be 140 r THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. ProvenrIon nnd Trcannent of Milk Fever. One nf the best methods of preventing milk fever is to feed the coweeveral weeks to several months before calving ?according to its danger?if in winter, on ordinary dry hay only,'vith a qnarfc! or so of wheat bran: night and morning, j to keep the bowels open ; if in summer, let her rnn on a poor pasture, and at all times hare u large lump of Liverpool rock salt to lick at pleasure. If the cow has been dried off a couple of months before due to calvo, watch the approach to parturition, and if the bag shows fxtra full, then begin to d-aw a small quantity of miljj from it two weeks or less before her time, and increase this, according to the fullness of the bag, till the calf is dropped ; then milk her clean after the calf lias sucked, at three equal intervals in every twenty-four hours. In the meanwhile do not increase her feed for a month or more, till all dauber of fever is passed. If the cow bas continued to give milk up to within a few days of the time for her to calve, as is sometimes the case, then perhaps it will not be necessary to milk her till after calving. Keep ber dry and sheltered from storms and from excessive cold or heat. See that the water she drinks is pure, and that Bhe has all she wishes to take at least three times per day. Never let this water get icy cold, and after calving give it sligntly warm for a few days. As soon as uffjcted, if not already in a comfortable stable, put the cow into one, litter the floor well, and always keep this dry ana clean. One of the most simple and effectual prescriptions for this disease is half a pound of Epsom salts dissolved in three or four quarts of warm water mixed with two tablespoonfuls of sweet epirits of nitre. Wet up a small feed of wheat bran with this. If the cow will not take it so, then put the salts and nitre solution into a strong-necked bottle, raise up the head and pour it down the throat. Repeat this every morning till cured. Tbis simple remedy rareJy /ails, even in the worst cases, if all the above directions are carefully followed. Rub the bag with lard, mixed with the last Btrippings, every time the cow is i milked. This renders the bag soft and pliable and prevents the milk from caking in it.?National Live Stock Journal. Farm ntiU Garden Notes, rr 1 j jrri.;? ?v.uep buuep UIJ uuuti xuui. JLLIIO ia Bven more necessary than roofing them. Young cows do not give as rich milk is those do of mature age. A lean cow gives poor milk aud a fat one rich milk. Grass grown on manured land gives i more nutritive fodder, richer (especially in albumnoids) than that grown upon unmanured or poorly manured land. The difference is sometimes as jreat as ten per cent. A heifer coming in at two years old s the best time for developing her fu,ure milking qualities. Comfortable quarters, generous feed, regularity in eeding and kind treatment will do nuch, however, in rearing a fine nilker. The Gardener's Monthly says that in England apples are dried whole. They seem to be first pared and then placed mder pressure, as they are always nuch depressed. A kind named Nor'olk Beafing seems almost wholly used or this purpose. An Ohio farmer wants to know what :er cent, of grain is lost by the process if threshing, und suggest that farmers 1 t. _ L i.1. _ * ^A. A -I. - CC eu inaD meir suaw ami cuttii pueu are nn through the machine a second ime, and note the result. He believes hat., so far a3 his knowledge extends, nough is wasted to pay the threshing all. The Asiatic breeds, euch as the Brahtias and Cochins, if overfed with rich ;rain and succulent roots will soon beome too fat to be serviceable as layers. rowls need to be well fed in cold reather, but great caro must be exrcised with the breeding stock in paricular, as if they become too fat their ggsare often infertile. Allow plenty f green chopped vegetables, such as mions, cabbagtsand turnips. Manure the land heavy onough to lake it loose, and plant for several ears crops that could be 'cultivated broughout the season; or, what is still 'etter, grow two crops thu same year, nd keep them well cultivated throughut the'season. Conch grass can be asily killed by hoeing it once or twice he la&t of July and first of August with sharp hoe, cutting the grass an .inch elow the surface of the ground. The complicated character of the uder with its mousands of little reseroirs renders it necessary to observe wAnl tr\ vrri r? r? /"\ (V IKa nAHTO in 1CUU I.OID ILL UIJlUg VU. ?UD WHO 1" KUO all. If milk is left in the udder the bDorbents will readily remove the ; ratery portion, but tho chus) material ; j removed with difficulty and is liable 0 remain and inflame the udder?p<\ ibly destroy a portion. Every particle , f milk should be drawn occasionally , ill the cow is dry. As to the five-wire fence, a short time go I was driving some hogs, and hog- i ike, they "took another notion," and in right through tho wire fence, and hough the barbs made them squeal, bev did tho same thing again and gain, and they were not pigs either, j ut hogs that would weigh over 300 > ounds. Another objection to baroed ( 'ires is that horses and cattle in pass- , ig along or standing near, especially ( 1 " fly time," often switch in that digction, aid often stay switched. A. farm can be stocked with sheep \ heaper than with any other animal, t beep will come nearer to utilizing verything which growi on a farm. Less < ibor will be lequired for getting i'eed nd stock together. Tho returns wiil i ome in sooner and oftener than with s ay farm stock except hogs. Less 1 lonev is required for shelter'and fenc- i ig, and less labor is required for herd- I iff, when outside pasturage is accesible and preferred. And finally, a i andsome income on the investment 1 i>n be cad without ktne sale of tue j ] uimal8 themselves. Ilccipc*. King George's Pudding.?One pint : f breadcrumbs, half-pint of flour, tea- , 1 [joonful of baking pcvder sifted in 1 our, a little salt, half a pound of 1 iisins, quarter of a pound of currants, f aarter of a pound of chopped suet, 1 offeecupful of milk, one egg; tie tight<f in a bag and boil three hours; to e eaten with bard sauce. FisniJAiiLS,?To mako fishballs, cut j r pick codfish in small bita, take care d remove every piece of bono ; let it . oak in cold water for an hour ; rinse it a another water ; let it cook slowly for ! weniy-fiva minutes ; season with milk, ! utter and eggs ; mix wi^h this about ' ouble the quantity of boiled potatoes; J dd milk or cream to giva the desired ( mount of moisture ; shape in round . ukes, roll in flour, and fry until brown i hot lard. If the lard is not hot when c liey are put in they will soak up the f it and will be unpalatable. 11 Iuisii Stew.?About two pounds of lie neck of mutton, four onions, six irge potatoes, salt, pepper, three pints f water and two tahlespoonfuls of j our. Cut the mutton in handsome j ieces. Put about half the fat in the t tewpan with the onions, and stir for c ight or ten minutes over a hot fire, ( iien put in the meat, which sprinkle , 'itii the flour, Bait and pepper, stir ?n minutes, and add the water, boiling, et for one hour wliere it will simmer ; hen add the potatoes peeled and cut i quarters. Simmer an hour longer nd serve. You can cook dumplings rith this dish if you choose. They are great addition to all kinds ot stews nd ragouts. FiiOATiNO-IsLAm?Make a cafce with cup of sugar, cup sweet milk, a welleaten egg, a piece of butter size of an gg, little salt, two teaspoonftils creamirtur, and one teaspoonful of soda ifted in two cupfuls of flour. Beat all ogether peveral minutes, and pour the c latter, half an inch thick, into a comaon, long, square-cornered tin. The emainder of the cake will make a small t Washington pie. Bake quickly. Make a soft boiled custard by heating four cupfuls ?f milk in a pail set in a kettle of hot water; when scalding hot, pour a cupful on to three eggs, beaten with a cupful and a half of sugar, and three teaspoonfuls of corn starch; then pour ull together, and cook till it begins to thicken, and pour through a tin strainer and flavor with lemon. Lay your cake, cut in small squares, on a platter; sift over powdered tugar, and put a slice of jelly on each piece. Serve by filling a saucer half full of custard and laying on a slice of the cake. Organs and Organ (jriuders. A New York manufacturer of hand organs has been giving some information to a reporter. "Yes," he said, in reply to a question, ' 'the organs you see in the streets are generally rented, and do not belong to the people who play them. There are five or six large places in the city where any number of organs can be rented, besides a nnmber of smaller places, where only one or two organs are kept for hire. There is one place in Mott street and tuo in Mulberry street, both within a block of police headquarters. There is another in Crosby street, aod still another, the largest place of the kind, in Bleecker street. In the Bleecker street place fifteen or eighteen organs aro kept, and on a fair day they aro generally all in nse. No, the people who keep these places do not buy their organs from ue. They are generally old organ grinders themselves, and know about what an instrument is worth. They watch their chances till they find a man with an organ who is in need of money and lend him 310 or 815, taking his instrument for security. Nine times out of terf the j borrower is not able to repay the loan, and the capitalist keeps the organ. When he gets enough instruments to start in business ho rents them out by the day. The rent he gets depends very much upon the organ and the number'and character of the tunes it playp. The customer has something to do with it, too. For instance, if a man has possession of a good corner, where he can take in two and three dollars a day, he has to pay higher rent for an organ than a man who goes wherever he can find a chance. An organ in good condition, playing ten popular tune', will sometimes rent for as much as one dollar a day. From this the rent comes down as low as ten cents a day. A regular professional organgrinder who is known can generally rent an instrument without any trouble. But a new hand who is not known has to give security for the safe return of the instrument. Women have a fancy for sick organs, and they generally rent for about twenty-five cents a day." " Sick organs ?" "That is some of the slang of the trade. The squeaky little music boxes you often see melancholy-looking tnr*rr*nr> n tm n r* am cfva/if rr\jui^Li XJU. uuu Dbi^u i/ViucMO we call sick organs. They are not out of tnne, or even worn, out, as they seem to be, but are often quite new. They are mado with die-away tunes to excite sympathy. A woman with one ?f theso sick organs, a half-starved baby and a sorrowful countenance is sure to make a good living." " Ho w many organs are there in the city ? It is impossible to say. We have made nearly 2,000 here in this factory, belt they go all over the country, though they were nearly all made for New York men. The orgaa-grinders have regular" routes, many of them just! l'ke a theatrical company. But there ! is this lifference, instead of going East | and West, they travel North and South, j 60 as to bo in the North in the summer | and the South in the winter. They do ! all their traveling on foot, of course, so it is slow work. But they play all i along the road whenever they come to i a hoase, and are snro of making their j traveling expenses itfc least. What an I organ-grinder can make in the city streets is just as uncertain as what a > merchant can make. He may take in 85 i in a single clay if he has a good place ! and strikes a streak of luck. On the ! other hand he may not get half a dollar, j work as hard as he will. "The cost? It all depends. Do you , see that big fellow in the corner? That j ia o aalnnn nvnron nrwl Violnnnra in FTrmtt. ton street. They got tired of tlie old : tunes and want & now set. I made that; organ five years ago and got $2,200 for it. Prices have come down about ten per cent, since then, and I could make the same organ now for a trifle less.than 82,000. It is just as good to-day as when it wa? made. In the ordinary barrel organs we charge S-t a tune for putting in new tunes. And we have had a great deal of changing to. do in the last year, getting rid of the 'Pinafore' airs. There was a great.rnn on them at one time, but they are no use now and have to come out. A common organ weighs about twenty-five pounds, and is worth, to make, from 8100 to 8135, according to the number of tunes-, it plays. A parlor organ, with from twenty-five to forty-six keys, costs from $150 to 8200. What we call a 'side ' show organ," to imitate a brass band, ! has sixty keys, thirty-five brass trnm- j pets, large and small drums and tri- j angles, and generally playa nine tunes. ! It is worth 82,500." Owned to Hii Record. The editor was sitting in his revolv j ing cane bottomed chair when Tornado ; rom, the traveling terror of Texas, ( iame in and demanded retraction of the | statement that he had swindled an ! Drphan out of 81. " It's a lie clear through," said the ' rerror, striking the table with his 5st, " T'm as good a man as smells the itmosphere in this section." "Perhaps you are better," said the! jditor, meekly. " My record'll compare favorably ! (fith yourn," said the Terror, with a ;neer; " perhaps there are a few little j jack rackets in your life, sir, that j ivouldn't bear a microscopic investiga-1 ;ion " "Oh, sir," said the editor, visibly j igitated, "don't recall the past; don't, bring up the memories of the tomb; j know I've led a hard life?I don't deny it. I killed Shorty Barnes, the Bowery | boy of New York?hacked him all to ! pieces with a knife. I have atoned for I it a thousand times. I blew a man's \ bead off at a log-roll in Kentucky, and bitterly have I repented of my folly. I ile.v a lot of inoffensive citizens of Omaha over a paltry four-dollar pot, : simply because I got excited. Oh, i :onld I but cheat the tomb of the men [ have placed in its maw I would be j iiappy. But it was all owing to my j iigh temper and lack of early training. 1 r flint T linirn' l-?non TOOVtTfinl I l nuurr lunu jl uuvu uttu u mj ?t h*v?j , slicked, and you have a right to come ! iere and rocall those unhappy memo- ! ies; hut it's mean for all that. No- : jodv with a heart would treat a man > ike you have me. Don't leave, stranger; ; ['11 tell you all. I sawed a man's head >tf with an old army suber just for?" | rhe Texas Terror was downstairs and ; lalf way around the corner, while the i >ditor, taking a fresh chew of rattle- j make twisi, continued his peacfful ivocations as quietly as a law abiding iitizon.?Halt Lake. Tribune. When to Advertise. An old merchant, who had always )een an extensive advertiser, was in the j labitof saying (and practicing upon the ' heory) that the most necessary time to Ldvertiso freely is when times are j' A oa fan* fha 1 I lUllCHL. ^ ULIIO ?o 1UV.IJ uuv jresent is a good time to advertise. Beore the holiday trade was brisk, bnt lince it is not so brisk. Hence mer:hants do not advertise so freely. Here s the mistake. If there be any differ?rence, advertising should be more jrisk. If merchants have bargains to )ffer now is the time to induce purchases. It is now that purchasers ] ;vatch for bargains and bite a hook that s temptingly baited, and how much setter it is that merchants who have joods with which to bait hooks should I mit them, and sell the goods at small j i >rofits rather than keep them upon j ] heir shelves and invite damage from j lust.?Chicago Time,a. :? i1 There are 3,630 street in Paris with 11 \ length of GOO mile*. i SCIENTIFIC NOTES. The elasticity of toughened glass is more than double that of ordinary glass and the former bends much more read ily than the latter. Gun otton has the great advantage over dynamite that it doss not freeze and therefore needs no thawing out, a point appreciated in cold climates. In tho case of a hen poisoned with phosphorus the digestive organs were fonnd luminous on the twenty-third day afterdeatb, and phosphorus was readily detected. A well-known German manufacturer of mica wares, Herr Raphael, of Breslau, now makes mica masks for the face which are quite transparent, very light and affected neither by heat nor by acids. They afford good protection to all workmen who are liable to be injured by heat, dust or noxious vapors ; all workers with fire, metal and glass melters, stone masons, etc. In all kinds of grinding and polishing work flvincr frftomontn roVinnnil' frnm *V?o arched mica plutes of the mask without injnring them. . The legister in deeds of Bay City, Mich./stepped out of his room a minute, leaving his heavy glass inkstand on the table. When he returned he found the inkstand split in two in the middle, though no person had been in the room. He wants the scientists to explain this i phenomenon. The accident is not a very rare one. When glass, or any metal, is melted and cast in a thick mass, the outside cools first, and in cooling shrinks, thus producing a severe strain npon its particles. Then the inside cools and shrinks away from the outside, producing another counter strain. The tendency of these strains is to produce a split. When a mass of glass or metal which is under such a strain is warmed by the sun or a current of warm air, more upon one side than the other, the outside of that side expands and produces an additional strain which may cause it to fly to pieces. These are the causes why glass lamp chimneys break, and these are the reasons which scientists would give for the Bay City phenomenon. Journalism in the United The variety and extent of journalist, in the United States is shown off to great advantage by the forthcoming report of the tenth census. The collection and collation of the facts bearing on this particular national industry was committed to tho hands of S. -N. D. I North, who is himself an experienced newspaper editor, and bis report will show that there were.printed in this country during the late census year 11,418 periodical publications of which 982 were daily, 8,725 weekly, and the remainder semi-weekly^ tri-weekly, biweekly, monthly, semimonthly and trimonthly. New York takes the lead with 1,412, Illinois coming next with 1.032 ; Missouri standing eight on the list with 531. These publications are divided into some twenty classes: Devote 1 to general news, politics and family reading are 8,556; to religion, 572; agriculture, 162; commerce and finance, 143; trade, 166; insurance and railroads, 51; magazines and periodicals devoted to general literature, 145; Sunday newspapers, 247; medicine and surgery, 111; law, 44; science and mechanics, 73; education, 23; art,, society, music and fashion, 72; college and school papers, 219; children's and Sunday-school, 192; freemasonry and similar, 146; illustrated publications, 512; miscellaneous, 496. Of tho whole number 10,619 are printed in English, and 769 in other languages. Of these latter 605 are German. *35 French, 1 Indian. 2 Chinese. 2 Polish. 5 Welsh. 45 Bohemian, 2 Portuguese, 26 Spanish, V.2 Swedish, 9 Dutch, 4 Italian, 15 Norwegian and 1 Catalan. *' Of the religious publications there are 114 unsectarian, 75 Methodist, 73 Baptist,, 67 Catholic, 32 Episcopalian, 39 Presbyterian, 3 Dunkanl, 6 Spiritualist, G Movmon and 1 Shaker. An estimate of the crst of running thes9 publicatiots shows that $28 571,336 was paid out in wages alone during the census year; the percentage of which paid for work on daily papers was^e 65 and for weekly and other papers 43.35 per cent. In the production of these publications 50,799 male and 3.855 female operative s find employment; 16,480 persons, among whom are quite a number of females, are returned as editois or cn editorial staffs. The gross value of the annual product of these publications amounted to 887,441,132, of which the dailies are credited with $42,750,132, and the others with 84?,601,098. The percentage of receipts from advertising on the former was 59.69, and the latter 48.31 per cent. The percentage of receipts from subscription was? ailies,46 21; others,53 79. The average daily consumption of paper was-on ..dailies, 297,568 pounds; the total weight used during the year being 178,165,951 pounds. The aggregate circulation per issue of dailies was 3,637,424 copies, and for all claeses, 31,177,924. The aggregate number of copies of daily papers issued during the census year was 1,135,532,446, and tor all olasses i2,U77,t>5U,b75. ,THe average subscription price of daily papers is 87.31. The people of this cointry pay oat more than 826,000,000 a year for their newspapers and periodicals. Mr. North's newspaper statistics will soon appear in the shape of a report, which will give an exhaustive history of the subject, and when his investigations, which are of a more thorough nature thau ever before made in this line, are completed he will present the Smithsonian institute with a collection, embracing a copy of every paper ever printed in this country.?Paper Trades Journal. Private Abuse of a Newspaper. Some people think they are very smart when they abuse a newspaper or editor. They forget that many papers have largely profited by becoming the , objects of these attacks, and that some , editors havo thriven on being assaulted. ( Aside from this consideration, it J should be remembered that an editor is often obliged to occupy a very delicate , position. His sense of right will often ] cause him to attack or defend a man, a ? busioess, a class or a cause at the risk , of making enemies of others, only to ] find those in whoso interests ho has . labored diplay ingratitude. ( Of course 110 level-headed editor ex- [ Dects to find u/uch gratitude or charity. 1 He mus'- generally be content with the approval of bis own conscience, and pursue the course be believes to be right, regardless of either frowns or smiles, supported by his conscious rectitude. It will come all right in the end. It is hard to be misunderstood, andtotind those to whose support you have earned a right desert you to meet alone the at- i tacks of those you have incensed in T pursuing the course you w> re con- j vinced was right, but you will thereby | learn a lesson of self-reliance, and form j a habit of judging entirely f . r yourself I that will be invaluable. You will be [ ablo to tell the truth, however distasteful, and refuse to utter a falsehood, no matter how much pleasanter it may promise to make things go.?Exchange An Argument lor Matrimony. An argnment for marriage from statis- a tics furnished by the Mount Hope in- a sane asylum, of Baltimore, Maryland, e Total 371 Single 23* Married 85 Widowed 52 Male lf>7 * Female 214 Foreign 3 ' Average age, bctweeu forty and lifty. p Moral: Get married?if any one will v have you. q ? t Mr. Webb, a London cutler, was poor a nntil be hit upon the device of adver- 6 tising his ware on the splashboard of v the cabs. He left a million dollars to v bis children at his death the other day. i: c St. Louis claims to have the largest e and most complete factory for the pro- e duction of coffins and casket* in th? J1: United States. 1 r A New York Newspaper at Night. "Hermit," the New York correspondent of the Troy Times, writes: Tho morning papers do much of their work at night, and few more active scenes can be found than at one of these establishments. Stand, for instance, in the business room of the Herald and see the hurried groups of advertisers who aie rushing their slips in so as not to lose tho next issue. Many of these people have just got through their day's work, and improve this chance of making their wants known to the world. Here are clerks and porters looking up situations, contrasted with cooks and housemaids who are offering their services to the public. Here is a delicatelooking lass, who with a modtst blush hands in an advertisement, asking for a place, perhaps to tend baby. Her history is that common one in city life of poverty driving families once rich and exalted to seek bread by hard labor Such misfortune is illustrated by the painful history of sewing girls, music teachers, governesses, etc., which one can readily understand when reading the advertising column. Here, too, is some finical youth inserting a "personal" to some girl he has met, who will probably never see the advertisement, while he will wait day after day, vainly expecting an answer. In the vault beneath the mighty engine is resting from ifs labor?, having just worked off one side of the paper, and is being prepared for the labors of the night. The ^engineer is giving it a thorough examination. Its machinery must be in perfect order, for a break down at midnight would be a costly damage. Go Tip to the second story where editors and reporters are hard at work preparing matter, and every little while jerking the bell ard sending "copy" ap the elevator to the composing-room. These men will ba on duty until after midnight, and snch work as this tells upon the system in the most exhausting manner. Ah, little does the reader, as he lolls over a newly-printed sheet, damp from the press, think of the close and trying effort of combined intellects, poorly paid and worked hard, and the sacrifices of health and comfort which gave it existence. We may ascend still higher to the "composing-room," where the types are set and tbe paper got ready for the press. Here 100 men are bard at work, and amid the general silence one hears the incessant click of type. One great difference be*, tween night and day duty in such an office is that in the last hours of work ali "copy" is in manuscript. The "clippings" have been cut up during the earlier part of the day, and now come the thoughts from the fevered brain. Most of these men, after the paper has gone to press, put on their ooats hastily and go home, first taking their accustomed drink at the porter house, which is ever ready to entrap the victim of appetite. Some of them, however, remain at work until morning. The reason for this is they are out of-town men, living in Orange or Morrisania, and by working all night they can go home by 6 o'clock in the morning and stay all day. There i_: 1 :l ?i,? WIM U L1LLIU W11CU 1U UUUJVi uo oaxu muu truth, "Man goeth to his labor until evening." Now, however, the rtile is to a large degree reversed, and men work by night and rest by day. The day, however, is never a proper time for rest, and the slumbers taken at\his unseasonable hour are lar less restorative than those of nights. Oar newspapers reach their present perfection through the incessant sacrifice of health and comfort on the part of editors and craftsmen, and again we exclaim how little is this considered by ihose who dawdle over a morning paper and sip their coffee at ease, while criticizing the labors of that unfortunate class referred to. Some Very Old People. At 92 John Sojourner, of Louisiana, ha3, after a year's widowhood, married his fifth wife, who is 45. Mrs. Haldeman, of Mahanoy Oitv, Pa., will be 100 in July, but Mrs. Simpson, of Pottsville, is 100 already. At 109 Richard Leonard, of St. Augaetine, Qaebec. was burned to death in his cabin while lighting a fire. Rachael Brown, of Hagertown, N. J., was 115 on New Year's day. She cm still do a day's work if need be. The evangelist, Archibald McArthur, who died rfcently at Dunoon, in Scotland, was born?on September 5. 1777. Robert Warnock, a veteran of 1812, and an inmate of the Dayton (Ohid) soldier's home, was cat off by cancer at the age of 103. Three Tallahassee warriors, with their families, survive the chief Chips, who died recently at Bartow, Fla. It is said that he was 100 years old. With memory unimpaired and form erect as it was fifty years ago, Mrs. Inman, of Smitbfield, N. Y., lias begnn her second century. Aunt Dorcas, who died on a recent Sunday in Sumter county, Ga., was 108, and had outlived all her kindred. She had been married three times, hat was childless. Thomas Shofield, of Montville, Conn., 91 years old, continues to walk nine miles to renew his subscription to the newspaper that ha3 always printed this item. John BlaziDger, of Camden, N. J., who can read without glasses, lias celebrated hij 101st birthday. He was born near Moscow, Russia, and is an old soldier. His father lived to be 103. The Mountain of the Lord is a solid , rock, 100 feet in heij?h\ rising above ( the street level at Manti. Utah. The Mormons uro building '.n this eminence a temple of fine rrurble, 95 feet , by 170 in area, and handsomely , adorned. i . i A Woman's Romantic Lit*. ( Elizabeth Hatzler, who died not long J i igo in Philadelphia, was born in 1790, | ] it Landou. then one of the French pos- j t sessions, and when twenty years of age I ] 3he married George Hatzler, a sergeant t }f cavalry in the French ?rmy. WhiJe 1 i^et enjoying their honeymoon the hus- f aand was ordered to join tho memor- < ible expedition against Russia, and the ^ wife determined to go along. Mrs. Eatzler was present at all the princijal battles and at the burning of Mos>ow. After the promotion of her husmnd to the rank of a staff officer she , jad many opportunities to see the em)eror, and on several occasions con- f rer^ed with him. An accident to her j lusband separated them from the main , )ody of the aimy at one time, and for line weeks she dragged him on a hand I ledge over the frozen ground. Through ! l guide's treachery they were heldpris- ' 8 mera by the Cossacks for nineteen Ic nonths. Thoy were exchanged in time ; 1 o rejoin the French army and underge j , he sufferings and privations of thedis- j . strous defeat which almost annihilated | . Napoleon's forces. Through all these !. icissitudes the sex of the woman re- 1 T "? "? i ?# I 1 named unaiscovereu. airs, iiaizier j . migrated tc this country in 184G, and j ived for twelve years on Fort Delaware, 1 nnle it was being built by Major San- i lers. Up to the time of her death ^he j etained the full use of all her facul- i * ies, and it is said that since leaving the | ? lattlefield iu 1814 she nevtr sufferer ny results of her long exposuro. She ? poke English, German and French fluntlj. ; to Mrwl no n ? t iis iuau ? naiivii The most striking (in two senses) 8 Ling about the hatter's art in the old ime when frit bats were made by hand, ras the beating up of the felt. Dip ling the mass of wool and hair, from r ?hich his fabric was to be formed, fre- I uently into hot water, the hatter was j ben wont to fly at it, as if in passion, t nd give it a violent beating with two o ticks, one held in each hand, till it I 1 ras matted together iuto tho felt, | d fhicli iu time, after numerous comb- i n ags and dressings and shearings, be- j i: amo the stylish beaver worn by the 11 Qen of lifty years ago. The hatter h eemed to be very mad at the object of, l lis labor, and "mad as a hatter' jo teeded no explanation in those days- : Two Hands. A little hand, a fair, soft hand, *k Dimpled and sweet to Um J r;i. No sculptor ever carved from ?tone A lovelier band than tins, A band as idle and as white As lilies on their stems; Dazzling with rosy finger-tips, \ Dazzling with crusted gems. Another hand?a tired, old hand, Written with man7 lines; A faithful, weary hand, whereon The pearl of great "price shines I For folded, as the wingeAJly Sleeps in (he chrysalis, Within this little palm I see That lovelier hand than this. ?Harriet Pretcott Spofford. ?????? HUnOIl OF THE DAY. m President Arthur is appointing chiefly tall men to office. He is right The American people want officials whom they can look np to.?Lowell Citizen. *, 3 ft i-i a jLuiiiiiiy uon l iiso xai meat, v/ne u?T the steak was very fat. " Tommy, asked the professor, "will yon hare some beefsteak?' "Yes, sir; bat I don't want any that has pork all round ifc" 7 Eight out of every ten men in thi?ef!j county will do more hard work to trace back the pedigree of a horse or a dog than to establish the fact that they were '*?? related to the most noble king o^J Europe.?Detroit Free Press. A Cleveland man was robbed in broad daylight, and the Leader spoke of it a* .. an untimely proceeding. Bat if a man is to be robbed does it make any (Uffer-&Jj ence to him whether it be done in Aw-hm light or dark ??Saturday Night. > -Sps Teacher: "John, what itf^yonr boot^^ made of?" Boy: "Of leathor." J'Wherer|t3 does the leather come from 7* "From. <. the hide of the ox." "What animal, therefore, supplies yon with boots and gives you meat to eat T "My father.**: p "Yon must not smoke in" this car,1^' said an Austin avenue car-driver to Gil--. hoolv, who was the only ooenpant of the car. " Why can't I smoke ? I war the only person in the oar." " ft don't; i make any difference. Even when there * is nobody in the car smoking is not allowed."?Texas Siftings. # How dear to my heart ta the school I attended, ^ And how I remember, bo distant and dim, _* mat rea-noacled JJilL ana the pin ttuU x . bended And carefully put on the bench under him! And bow I recall the surprise of the master, When Bill gave a yell and sprang up with the pin So high that bis ballet-head busted the platter Above, and the scholars all set np a grin. * That active boy Billy, that high-leaping BiUjr That loud-shouting Billy that sat on a piia The Editor and the Smallpox Doctor* ?: It was nearly noon, and the city editor in his sanctum was- putting finishing touches to the assignment book, while the waiting scribes in the ' Inter- Occan local room were grimly :'-2 pondering as to what choice bite of Jj work would fall to them when the customary " Book ready, gentlemen," should be heard. Aim The city editor had jusfcifllcided that theohurch reporter needed a little re- ' luxation, and booked him for a dog. , fight, when, in response to' a rap on t&egfc door, he ejaculated in his Jblaadest:^. tones, "Come." * The knocker came, and proved to "be a colored gentleman of affabl* manners and the medical persuasion. Said he, "How do ?" and the greeting beiaffjreturned, he resumed: "You see, haven t been around lately; been bus;; little matter in the^ paper I was going to ask you to say something about for me; would have been up before, but been busy; 00 much ? smallpox about; I've been nursing one ^ man with smallpox for eight days, and only just run away now to?" "w-h-a-t? Get out You don't want to see me. It's a man outside. Here, hi 1" And the city editor hollered for the contagious diseases editor and rinderpest reDorter. This member of the staff. who draws a princely salary for doing balloon excursions in the summer and epidemics in the winter, was absent' however, having stepped out to buy a sealskin overcoat. The doctor continued: "Nevermind, it's short; don't trouble; only an item. Bad case? Yea, as I was saying, eight dayB?" ' "Get out!" "Afraid of smallpox? * There's no danger. After eight days?" "Get outl Write a letter to the paper, and we'll print it! Get out!" The request to get out was here accompanied by demonstrations, and he got. That is, the caller got as far as the passage, where he was told through the keyhole to communicate by postal card, which card can be soaked in vine* gar first, and then read with a telescope from the top of the shot tower.? Chicago Inter-Ocean. ' A Perfect System, Under Louis XV's reignlJsL de Sarthe lieutenant-general of police, was said to have brought his system ol espionage to such perfection that one* half of France spied on the other half. It was M. de Sartiue who won the fol? lowing curious wager: He was remark' ing one night that nobody c^uld leave or inter Paris without his knowibg it. The Duke de Chevreuse, who was present, undertook to come to Paris and spend a week there without the lieutenant-general being any the wiser, and he backed th?s vaunt by a bet of a thou* sand louis. M. de Sartine took the bet, and the duke was allowed two years in which to win his wager if he could. During this time the duke frequently came to Paris in all sorts of disguises ind under a variety of names, but no sooner had he settled at an inn than he <. received a note from the lieutenantgeneral complimenting him upon hia irrival. At last the duke came into Paris disguised as a decrepit old woman selling apples, but he had ecarcely cobbled through the gat?s when a ouched his hat aad handed him a etter, in which M. de Sartine begged av fTin Anr\y* r\( liia nnmr\or?xr of. lisguise and all. The duke paid his vager. Who Makes Money in Wall Street. Bat will this Wall street business :ontinue? Does it not seem as if epecuation in railway securities has culminted? Transactions within ten years lave run up from 50,000 to nearly .000,000 shares a day. The sales in SS0 amounted to nearly 100,000,000 hares, and in 1879 to about 75,000,000 hares, while during the past jear the hares sold reached the enormous total if 128,1G'2,466; in other words a busiless representing $ 13,000,000,000. Not >nly the wholo country, but every capial in Europe has been speculating hrouih our stock exchange But the nvestigating public has found out that here is no money for it in Wall street, t is the leaders in the street and the nside operators who always profit at he expense of the outside public. The ardu are stocked and the dice loaded very time. Any "'square" gambling ;ame gives the nun who gives his aoney a far better chance than when le deals in the most conservative se* iurities in the street. All kinds of msiness-in a new country like this iffer greater inducements for the inrestment of capital than doed the puting up of margins on stook in Wall treet.?New York Hour. A Fish Candle. A singular fish is found in | mmUnva irk nnoof nf Alftfltfl. !t is about eight inches long, tranajarent, and the most fat of all the finny ribes. This fat, however, bad not the lily, rancid taste of other fish, but ia ike fresh lard. When these ""fish" arff Iried, the Indians often turn them to a lovel and practical account?burn them n place of candles They give a clear, irilliant light, and are not liable to be >lown out by the wind. The tail should ie lighted instead ot tho head, and ach fish will barn about fifteen min? tea.