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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER: 1 0 BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1882. NO. 38. VOLUME XXVI. The Rock-Tomb of Hraiiore. A drear and desolate shore! Where no tree unfolds its leaves. And never the sprir.? wind weave* Green grass for the h niter's tiead; A land forsaken and dead. Where the ghostly icebergs go And come with tho ebb and flow Of the waters of Bradore ! A wanderer, from a land By summer breezes fanned, Looked around him, awed, subdued, By dreadful solitude. Hearing alone the cry Of sea-birds clanging l>y, Tho crash and grind of tho floe, Wall of wind and wash of tide. " Oh, wretched land !" he cried, " Land of all lands tho worst, God-forsaken and curst, Thy gates of rock should show The words "the Tuscan seer Read in tho realm of woe: ' Hope entereth not here !' " I.o ! at his feet thn^ stood A block of smooth larch wood B-Jside a rock-closed cave By nature fashioned for a grave. Safe from ;ho ravening bear And fierce fowl of the air, Wherein to rest was laid A twenty summers' maid, Whose blood had equal share Of the lands of vine and enow, Half French, half Eskimo, In letters uneffaced, Upon the block were traced Ihe grief and hope of man, And thus the legend ran: "We loved her! Words cannot tell how well 1 We loved her! Goil loved her! And cal'ed her home to pence aud rest. We love her The stranger paused and read ' Oh, winter land !" he said, 'Thy right to be I own; God leaves thee not alone, Aud if the fierce winds blow Over thy wastes of rock and snow, And at thy iron gates The ghostly iceberg waits, Thy homes and hearts are dear; Thy sorrow o'er thy sacre l dust Id sanctified by hope and trust; God's love and man's are here. Still wheresoe'er it goes Love makes its atmosphere. Its flowers of Paradise Take root in the eternal ice, And bloom through Polar snows!" ?J. G. Whit tier, in the Independent. ST. VALENTINE'S DAY. It was a clear, sunny morning this fourteenth of February abont which I write, and the postman of Longwood looked for a busy day, for Longwood was a cozy, old-fashioned town where lovers still clang to time-honored customs, and valentines had not become miserable daubs or vile caricatures. The morning sun was not very high when Maggie Lay field, one of the acknowledged belles of the town, eat combine out the rippling waves of her dark hair and building her air-castles. It was i? double holiday for this pretty girl; her birthday and St. Valentine's day, and Maggie knew tbat on this eighteenth birthday there was not likely to be any lack of the tributes laid yearly at her feet. She knew where two for her wee brother and sister were securely hidden and she was wondering what Lizzie and Hattie, Willie and Laura would receive from the postman, and wnetner ner mysterious lover woo ior five years had remembered her would be forthcoming on this her eighteenth birthday, She was still dressing when her two elder sisters, bright, pretty girls of nineteen and twenty, came in. "Now, Maggie," said Lizzie, "I would not for the world be suspected of I hinting, but Hattie and I do hope you will remember us when you receive your yearly remittance.*' " Perhaps it won't come," said Maggie. - | " Perhaps it will!" said Hattie. "Oh, it is too delightfully mysterious! Do you know, Maggie, I am furiously jealous, and should bo worse if you were not so generous." ' It seems so funny," chimed in Lizzie, "aud if papa was not so willing for you to accept it and mamma so smiling, I should very much doubt of its pro- i nrinf-v " " The breakfast bell; and I am jast i ready. Come, girls;" and off Maggie i darted to answer the summons. < Speculations were plenty as to the ; number of valer tines expected and the ! senders thereof; but many allusions! were made to Maggie's certainly com- j ing, and various hints were thrown out about wants and desires. At last tho doable rap at the front j door gave the signal, and as tho sound | rang through the hall Dr. Layfield's j eldest son, Albert, came down the: t-taiis to breakfast. Every one of the ! children, except the wee baby, was in I the hall; Lizzie and Hattie hidden by i the door, Laura beside Betty, and j Willie peeping behind her skirts. Mag- j gie was kneeling to draw from under | the stairmat the envelopes addressed j to Louis and wee Amy, while even John, | the doctor's erra ad-boy, made the boots ! an excuse to appear on the scene. The I doctor looked up from his paper with j an air of interest, and mamma left her j second cap nntasted till the important i letters were delivered. "OnA fnr anrl nrm fnr ATofrnrm that's all by the first post," said Hattie, coming in, followed by all the others.1 "Yours always comes early, Maggie; there it is." Maggie broke the seal. For four j vears before a cri^p bank note for five hundred dollars had fallen from the en-1 velope. but this year there was, with j the usual offering, a letter, andinsids of that a smaller envelope addressed to Dr. Layfield. " A proposal, and here a note to a^k papa's consent," cried Lizzie. " Too bad, and you younger than Hattie or 11" Buf, looking at the face that was beut over the sheet, she paused to ask, in a quieter tone: ""What in it, Maggie, dear?'* And Dr. Layfield, with t>. glance at his wife, echoed the question. "Read if-, and tell mo what he means," said the young girl, handing the doctor the Jotter, which ho read carefuily. "Come into tlio library with me, dear, and I will tell you. No, none of you," he added, waving his hand to the others who crowded around him; "I must fee Maggie alone." The deep gravity of his manner, the mysterious letter, tilled Maggie with a vague dread, and she trembled violently as she followed him. Even his kird arm around her, his loving kiss on her p face could not quiet her agitation, while his face was so grave and his k voice so sad. 8 "I cannot tell you why this letter |j was written," said the doctor, gently, g as he placed her in a comfortable chair. K ,rmfil f nnsn mv own. and this he has requested me not to do yet. Read his letter to you again Maggie." With a trembling voice the young girl read: " My own dear Maggie : At last, after eighteen years' of cru'.l separation, I am hoping to see the dear face whose baby feature", pictured by my loving heart, have been tho comfort of my lonely exile. I am trembling with joy at the thought that the eyes now scanj ning these lines will rest lovingly on my fnce, and the clear voice I have heard in my dreams will fall in music of affection upon my waking ears. I am coming home?shall be with you on the day you receive this, to clasp you I in my arms, never again to let you go fiom me. Go to Dr. Layfield, and ask him to tell you the story of my life, then read what I inclose to him, and oh, my darling! my treasure! open your heart to the weary wanderer who looks to you as his haven of love, of oy, after years of bitter exile. Listen to my story, lovo me, and welcome me. "Hebbhbt Arundel." 1 " Now, dear father, pray tell me what ! all this means." "It means, Maggie, that yon are to leave ns; but no, I will tell you the story as ho requests : Years ago, when these grav hairs were brown, and this peaceful home a dream of a far off future, Herbert Arundel and I were old college friends. I would not pain yon by a recital of our life, but it is necessary to make you understand what follows. We wero w hat indulgent parJ ents called ' wild boys,' what sternest truth-tollers call 'dissipated yonng i men.' Young, and with ample meaus at our command, we ran the career that j borders closely on vice and crime. For three years we continued this miserable . course of folly, keeping our position i partly by family influence and partly by exerting our powers of intellect at in I tervals to redeem past idleness or misi spent time. " The fourth year we really devoted I to study, and passed creditably through the necessary examination, but after . leaving college old habits resumed their 1 sway. Plunging recklessly into the amusements of the large city where we i lived, we became involved in debt, and ! made our lives one long course of fashionable extravagance and dissipaj tion. To dress with taste, to be ! acknowledged leaders of fashion, to j drive the fastest horses, give the best i suppers and tlirt with the gayest belles, J seemed the height of our miserable ami bition, till we both became conscious i of loving t uly and fervently. The ladies whose fair faces became the light i to show us the folly of oar lives were i good, pure women; one the daughter of 1 a leading physician, the other the or| phan niece of a wealthy banker. "At first a false shame kept us both silent: but in some moment of better I feeling we both mutually promised to : amend our lives, and try by steadiness : and rectitude to become worthy of the love we coveted. Frankly and without | one reservation X laid my case before Dr. Lee, the father cf my Amy, and he ; held out to me the helping hand I sought. Making my reward depend ut| terly upon m? own merit, he admitted me among his students, and allowed me to visit in his family, where for five years my present wife waited for me to prove my love. '' Herbert was not so fortunate. His addresses were treated with ecorn, but he won the lady to consent to a clandestine correspondence. Meantime he obtained the situation of clerk in the bank over which her uncle exercised : some control as director. With a resolute determination to win the esteem he had periled by his former career he kept his head clear and his hand busy with his new duties, striving earnestly to overcome the evil desires that still clung to him. "Three years after Herbert had en- i tered the bank it was discovered that i extensive frauds were being perpetrated and large sums stolen irom the iastitu-1 tion. With bitter malice Mr. Wallace, | the uncle of the woman whose love was ; given to Herbert, fastened this crime j upon him. He was followed and; watched, and among his private papers j were found letters and part of the! stolen money, the letters containing j proof that he had spent larger sums j than bis salary would cover. He was ; imprisoned, tried, found guilty, and | sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. Two weeks after his trial the | prisoner escaped, ana no trace was ever , discovered of him, but the malice of \ Mr. Wallace was thwarted, for Margaret j fled from home on the night when the : prisoner escaped. They were married i in New York, and sailed for California the next day. : " The doubt of Herbert's perfect in- j nocence of the charges brought against him never crossed mv mind?never for ! one instant dimmed Margaret's faith in him, and she accompanied him as cheerfully on his flight as if friends and relatives had sanctioned her marriage with the noblest of the land. Under an assumed name Herbert again tried to win a position, and aided by Margaret's ! possession of a large sum of money he ! started in business in San Francisco. " Five years later, when my own mar- I riage had been blessed by two crowing J babies, Albert and Lizzie, and worldly | prosperity was smiling upon me, I j again saw Margaret Arundel. Herbert; had lost everything by a destructive fire, and this devoted wife bad come ; home alone to beg for aid from her! uncle, and to obtain from government' her abused husband's pardon. 4 It was a wild evening in February \ when she came to my office, weary and faint, to implore mo to help my old ! friend. She had seen her uncle, and been crnelly taunted as a felon's wife, ; and refnsed" the most trifling aid, and j as the last words of her pitiful story , left her lips she fainted in my arms, j That same night, or rather the next, i eighteen years ago, you were born, and j two hours later yonr mother died. "I wrote to your father, inclosing : such pecuniary aid as was within my j reach, and promising to fill a father's place to his child till ho could claim , her. Maggie, dear, yon can best judge ! if I have kept my word." But Maggie's voice, broken by sobs, had no word; only her clinging arms ! round his neck, her fuce lifted to his, j told how truly she felt that he had in-I deed fulfilled his task. " For two years I heard nothing from my old comrade; but then he wrote, j He had again obtained a foothold among the merchants, and was winning his WAV tn affluence. but ho imnlored me to keep his child, never to let the : taint of the feloD's name rest on her 1 life. From that time he has sent me yearly more than sufficient for yonr sup-1 poit, still imploring me to make no difference between you aua my own chil- 1 dren. Wishing, however, that you . should enjoy what was truly your own, I proposed to him to inclose a portion of your income to yourself, and have contrived to drop it in the postoffice so that yon receive it on St. Valentine's j day. Your own generosity has still ! kept the balance even, for I am sure i that but a sm'ill portion remains after jour gifts to all have been selected. "And now, my dear child, beforo we ; open this envelope, let mo say to you that no father's love was ever stronger . than mine for you. Your gentleness, your frank, loving heart. yo".r obedienco and intelligence have been to me as great a joy as the gifts of my own /iliiMi An onrl ilm Qontirafinn Trill lm uu ! painful as if Lizzie or Hattie were I ubout to be taken from mo." Quieting her own emotion, Maggie watched the doe'or as he broko the seal of his letter. Only a newspaper scrap fell from it, but upon this was printed: " The murderer of L? J? to-day m open court confessed his crime, pleading the heat of passion as his excuse. ; Following the long confession which we give in another column, the prisoner I made another one almost as important ! Twenty-three years ago he was clerk in I a large banking house in B?, and in i love with the niece of one of the directors, Lemuel Wallace. Being favored by this gentleman, now deceased, he ! was anxious to be rid of a rival, and I with the aid and consent of Mr. Wal! lace contrived to fix the crime of the celebrated bank robbery of that year upon him, secreting in his desk forged letters and some of the missing money, and swearing to acts and words of the accused which would make his guilt uppcux t'Uitaiu, k/uu ui uumuiiubiu^ ui uttering which he was perfectly innocent. Ho begged that, as somo atonement for the crime he has just confessed, Herbert Arundel's name may be cleared before all the world, as he was ; innocent of the crime laid to his charge, i During this recital ono of the jurymen, ! Henry Atherton, a merchant whose ! name is one of our most honored among ; merchants, was observed to bo violently : agitated, and as the prisoner concluded, : he rose from his seat and stood erect, j facing him. j " 'Look at me, John Davis,' he cried. "'John Davis! that is my own name,' said the prisoner, trembling in every limb, but obeying the request. " ' Lo 'k at me,' repeated Mr. Atherton, 4 and say if I am not the Herbert Arundel whose good name you swore away twenty-three years ago ?* "The prisoner gave him a long, , | searching gaze, and then trying in vain j to speak he fainted to the floor. , j " Mr. Atherton or Arnndel has beeu I besieged by congratulating visitors, | bat it is rumored that as soon as he can I arrange his business and collect hie j vast wealth, he will return to B? It was in vain that Maggie tried to speak in answer to the doctor's kind words of encouragement and congratulation. The old gentleman, himself elated by this good news of his friead, was almost vexed at the white face and ! quivering lip the young girl turned to I him. j " Maggie, think of it! After twenty! three years of lonely exile he is coming j home a free, clear man, to establish his I innocence and claim his child. My poor child ! all this agitation has been j too much for you. Shall I leave you j alone for an honr or two while I tell j the others?" "les, yes; let me think I It is all | so very strange to me." Strange indeed! to part from all ! these dear ones, whom she had always I believed to bo her own relatives, and go j away with a stranger who was really her father 1 With yearning, pitying love she longed for him, to repay the genernna lnro fliaf l-inrl nforTrod nn Inner w UVMl ? >- V* O to give her a happy home, and yet she shiank from this bitter parting before her. Lizzie, Hattie and the children had never seemed so dear, and Albert ?how could she leave Albert ? From the time when he had shared his mar: bles with her, and refrained from breaki ing her doll, she had always been his pet sister. Lizzie and Hattie were to| gether constantly, and Albert became I very fond of the baby whose brightest i smile was for him, of the child whose i first word was his name, of the young j girl who turned to him ever for proI tection and companionship. Belle as she had been, she preferred Brother Albert for an escort to any of the adorers who always begged the office, and while the two older girls were always provided with "beaux," Maggie kept the place for Albert. And he was not her brother! she had no claim upon that tender love, so precious to her! The strange father would carry her awav frnm linmfi. sisters. father. mother and brothers. Worn ont with conflicting emotions, the young girl carried her sorrow to the source from whence she had always looked for snpport, and kneeling down by the doc| tor's chair she prayed fervently for counsel in her new duties, strength for I its trials, gratitude for its blessings ; prayed for tue dear unknown father, for tho tenderly loved home circle she must leave, and as the whispered words fell from her lips she felt the painful agitation qqieted, and the troubled throbbing of her heart growing calm again. She bad risen, and was standing by the window waiting for the return of the doctor, when the door opened and a tall, handsome man, with iron-gray hair, and a kindly look in his gray eyes, came forward. It scarcely needed his open arms and tender call of "Margaret, my child 1" for Maggie to know her father, and the tender clasp of his ttiULic?, tuc iuviug nuiuo ao muuicu uuu upon her, told her that he would keep his word, "never again to let her go from him.'' The whole morning passed, and the long separated father and child held uninterrupted converse, the one seeming only too happy to poan again and agaiu the features of his daughter, to hear the music of her voice, to take into his heart the timid but warm assurance of her sympathy and comfort, whilo shq, already opening her heart to take in ihe patient, noble nature that was leaning so trustingly on her love, was happy too, as a woman always is when j she is a comforter. At last the dear mother of her childhood came to break Maggie's long j morning of loving intercourse with iier father, and take her back again to the home circle. For some weeks Mr. Arundel was content to stay at Longwood, and wean his darling gradually from tlio dear ties of her life, but the parting came at last, and Maggie left her old homo to preruIa nwr Iipv larcftlinnKft in "R?. The petted darling of the wealthy man, whose sole object in life was her happiness, she had every comfort, every luxury at her command; but money could not fill the great house with the music of home voices, conld not lessen the painful homesickness of the loving heart. Her father never dreamed of this pain. For him her face wore its gayest smiles, her voice rang out its music in gayest welcome, and while he was near her the hours flew by in music, reading and familiar conversation. She loved 'aim truly, but she was learning in Bbcdnce another lesson of love: she was learning to recall a voice that had always been tenderest for her, a brother who was fast becoming remembered and loved with a stronger affection than even a sister gives. So, with threads of joy and pain interwoven, a year glided by. "Maggie, dear," said her father, as lie sat playing with his coffee cnp, " next Wednesday week is your birthday, and we are to have a grand party. Everybody is to come, and Miss Aruiidel is to enter society. Now, I waut you to write to Longwood and invite them all here, as many as can come. The doctor's family must come for a long visit, and you must ask all your old friends for the party. It is only four hours' rido from here, and they can stay all night. I may have been wrong in not having them here before, but I was jealous of the old affections. You have not been unhappy?" " Not for a moment! I have missed them all, dear father, but I have never doubted ycur love, never wished to change my position. Yet if they could come sometimes for a visit?" " As often as you will. Have one or the other always with yon, dear, if it will mako tho hours when I am away less tedious." St. Valentine's day found the doctor, his wife, Lizzie and Hattie, Maggie's guests, while Albert was to come in the eveniDg. Every preparation for the great party was completed, and Mrs. Lay fie Id bustled about full of tho importance of mistress for tho nonce, and chaperon for her dear adopted daughter, Maggie. Luce it: the afternoon Maggie received !be only valentine offered her that da<\ She was io her room, preparing ior the evening, when the white envelope was handed her, and she lot it lie unopened whilo she finished dressing. As the broke the seal, the mirror l>eio?e which she stood threw back her figure, in its glossy white silk, its lleecy lace folds aud the pnre pearl ornaments, her father's gift. The rich dark lniir, braided low on the neck, contrasted well with the pearls there j resting, and the beautiful faee bore the j test of full dress bravely. She looked : very lovelv, and as she read the words before her the deep flush that mounted i to her cheek was not unbecoming. Inclosed in folds of poft paper the ; letter contained a ring?a circlet of j pearls with one bright diamond in the I center. She took all in her hand and i softly went, downstairs to her father's ! librarv. He was alone there, and j greeted his darling with fondwordsand | proud praises; but she put in his hand j the letter and the ring. He sighed as he read, but the blushI ing face betore him gave added force to ; every word of this earnest petition: j "Maggie, Maggie, I cannot live apart ! from you. Tho brother's love, for so | many years part of ray very beiDg, was j nothing to the earnest devotion I lay ! now at your feet. I love you fondly, truly, as a man loves but once, and I j implore you give me one word of hope 1 that you will return my love. ]f you j can give me the precious boon I crave let me see the inclosed rinc on vonr tin ' ger to-night, the sign of betrothal to j one who will make your happiness the | hope and study of his life. " Albert." Studying Maggie's face earnestly the young girl's father read there her answer. "He must come here, Maggie; I may lake a son, but I cannot lose my daughter." She clung to him, whispering: \ i ! " Nothing shall part us, father." Long he held her closely in his arms, i then with a fervent kiss nnd a whis, pered.blessing her father put Albert's i ring upon her finger. i ______ , - Matches, .Vice and Fire. i Tho enormous amount of property 1 destroyed annually by the lire that | often originates in a way that cannot be i accounted for may well excite, says j an exchange, an inquiry in reference to ! the most pvobable origin of these de strnctive fires. The watchman may be in the lower part of the house, and bej fore he is aware of it the flames burst j out in some upper room, and a general I connagration iouows. ! Now tho public would be startled to j hear it stated tha.' a mouse Betthemanuj factoring establishment or store on fire ; I yet this is, as we have good reason to ! believe, often the case. It is now very common for clerks in i storeB, and men and boys employed in ordinary labor, to emoke cigars, and as a matter of convenience they often carry parlor matches in their pockets, and it is quite likely that some may be accidentally dropped on the floor or left ; standing where a mouse will find them, j And just as certain as a mouse finds a 1 I parlor match, so sure will it set off the j match by putting its sharp teeth into 1 ; it. The parlor match contains a subj stance for which the mouse has a j fondness, and as soon as the teeth entor i tho match it will ignite. If there i j is* loose paper or other combustible ! material near the flame will soon i spread. Let any one who wishes to satisfy himself of this fact take a parlor match and scratch it with a pin or needle, or stick it quickly into the match resembling as near as possible | tho action of a mouse's teeth, and he I will soon have a blaze. The common ( sulphur match will not be touched by a mouse, neither will it ignite in a j similar way. If insurance companies , would consider their interests they wnnld mnl:n tlio nnn.TUA nf rmrlnr ' | matches a condition of insurance. If they are in donbt on this subject 1 they can make an experiment on some ! outbuilding or shed where mice can 1 come, and scatter paper or rags over ' the floor, and leave a few parlor ' matches scattered or standing in a box, ' and they will soon witness a conflagra- 1 tion. Millions of dollars' worth of I property have been destroyed in the < way above referred to, and where ihe I remedy is so eaty it should bo applied I without delay. Let those who wish to i protect their property demand of their i employes that they shall not carry par- f lor matches in their pockts, conse- 1 qnently none will be carelessly dropped ] on the floor, and the danger from this source will be avoided. j ! ! 1 Popular Weather Prophets. 1 The so-called " Bauern-regeln," as 1 rules for farmers, which occupy a ! prominent place in the indispensable ''Kalender" of every German and ] Swiss household, havo not been abolished by the process of meteorology and the publication of official weather forecasts. We find th?m printed as ( usnal in the countless German alma- ' nacs for 1882. Many of them are in 1 rhyme, too pithy to lend themselves ' easily to translation, and are doubtless 1 of considerable antiquity. They may 1 be roughly divided into two classes? ( those which imply a sort of juriedic- ' tion over a particular setison to a par- ' ticular saint, doubtless a survival of paganism; and those which I express the collective results of i the actnal observance of the < weather by those [who were dependent i upon ,'ts influences, whose formulated < experiences were handed on from i generation to generation. " When it I snows small and fine" (kleinund fein), f says a peasant's rule of frequent oc- t currence, " the cold will hold out a long time; when it snows wool and f feathers (largo and broad flakes) the j cold will be slight and soon over." | Again. " When you can make a snow- | ball easily, the cold will be moderato." f Again " Little snow, grea". water; j great snow, little water." Observation j has proved all these rules to be true. 5 Fine and small-flaked snow lies long on ] the ground, while large and loose- j flaked snow quickly thaws, and its fall ( is usually an indication of an approaching thaw. So, too, a "little tnow," small in flake, lies long ou the ground, more is added to it, and when the spring comes 1 there is a gieat mass of water; whereas ' great snow, big in flake, quickly disap- \ pears, instead of heaping up until the : i definitive arrivul of spring." " A mild ! January brings a cold spring and a cold 1 ; summer." " A snow year is a rich ! year," " As much mist and fog in 1 March, so much rain for o, hundred ' days after March," and similar rules, 1 printed year after year in almost every 1 " Kalender," are not the product of 1 guess or venturo, such as a Zadkiel may < compile, but the results of actual observation. The popular rnle that " Au- ] tnmn without mist (nebelfrei) brings I : winter without cold," seemes to have 1 \ been verified in the year 1881.?London I I Glob*. < ' <'?!,! /.ml 1 i iTUiuiiain uuu nuggcta* 1 ] The first piece of gold found in Cali- < | fornia was worth fifty cents, and the ] j second 85. Sinco that time one nug- ? pet has been found worth $43,000; two ' 821,000; one, 810,000; two, 88,000; one, ] 86,500; four, 85.000; twelve worth 1 from 83,000 to 84,000, and eighteen 1 wortn from 81,000 to $2,000, have been found and recorded in the history of the i State. In addition to the above, num- : berless nuggets worth from 8100 to $5(0 1 are mentioned in the^ annala of Califor- i nia gold mining during the last thirty I years. From the date of the discovery i ; of gold in California to the present ( ! time the yield has been about $1,000,! 000,000; therefore it is very easy to s^e i (the small figure that nuggets cut in the i i gold yield. Big nuggets are very fine < j things to show, but after all it is the ; fine gold?the dnst?that shows : up. Although ten years younger i than California, and a producer of a less precious metal, Nevada has ( yielded in good solid silver bars 8275,- < 000,000. The annual product of gold is | now Jess than 81,000,000 throughout ; | the world, and its foreign coinage has ] j practically ceased. in the United i | States the production of gold has of \ I late years practically diminished. Id i 1878 it was $47,000,0^0; in 1879 it was 1 S38:900,000, and in 1880 but 836,000,- ] 000. A large part of the coinage in cur ; mints at present is of plate and of for- i nirrn on/1 Trnrn onina HP!i nnrl \ accounts submitted to the director of ; the mint show during the year dcpisits j of gold of domestic production, $35,815,536.55, of plate, jewelry and worn coin, $1,784,207 90, and of foreign coin and bullion $92,233,858, being a total ' of $130,883,1112.-15, an excess of $32,- i 000,000 over tho gold deposits of last ' year.?Territorial Enterprise. i ? The Mexican's Sccret. | Twenty years ago a prominent physii cian was called to attend the deathbed J of an old Mexican. Tho doctor re; mained faithfully at his side until ho drew his last breath, and just before he died the old Mexican said: "Doctor, may God reward you for your kindness ' to me. I havo no money to give you, i ' but I can tell you i secret, known to i i me only, which may somo time prove I valuable to you." In a faint voice be ! told how he became possessed of the ! knowledge of the locality of one of tho lost mines in Mexico, which had not i ' been worked for more than a century, j uuu no gttVO W1U pll YblUIttJl tutj jumps i showing the situation, whish he had been carrying about with him, being too i poor himself to use the knowledge for j his own advantage, but always hoping | to find Bome one to buy his valuable ; secret. The physician thought little of j the matter ut the time, or until many years afterward. Within a year he has been there with a partner and bought the land where his maps takl the mine would be found without disclosing why he wanted that tract. The mine was found, has been successfully worked and has proved one of the richest mines in Mexico. THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. Fat in anil Garden Nolo*. Blood and r< fuse meat rubbed upon the trunks of trees will beep away mice and rabbits. If any new varieties of seeds are tried uso oniy a small quantity at first, until you are sure that the soil and locality are favorable. Do not allow I he cattle to tramp over the mowings when the ground is soft enongh to retain the imprin; of their hoofs wherever they go. Carbolic acid is very useful as a preventive of insect ravages. Radishes may be protected from maggots and orchards from borers by its use. Sugar beets are the only saccharine plants that permit of preservation without appreciable loss of sugar. Hence their importance for sugar manufacture. Upon nearly every Canadian farm a certain lot of land is devoted to roots (sugar), beets, carrots, mangel-wurzel, etc. These are as essential to cattle as the potato is to man. The dead bark from the trunks and larger limbs of tree3 is best removed during a thaw. A wasti of whale oil or soft soap applied with a brash gives a smooth, healthy appearance. Never set a hen in a box above the ground or floor of the chicken-house if possible to do otherwise, as the eggs dry too fast and lose their vitality. Much better success may be expected if the nests are made on the ground. Strawberries are much more prolific when four or five different varieties are planted together, although each variety may bo a perfect one, than if but one perfect variety were planted alone. The opinion Las generally prevailed that a little bran mixed with meal would produce mcro pork than clear meal, but in some experiments lately tried it was found that clear meal made more pork than a mixture of bran and meal. Keep all stables, pens and sheds in perfect cleanliness. They should be well ventilated and not too warm, which is unhealthful. Filth is too often a jause of disease. We seldom hear of trouble from sickness where the stock ire well fed and have clean skins, puro air and dry beds. The Flemish farmer scrupulously jollects every atom of sewage from the towns; he guards his manure like a ;reast re, puts a roof over it to prevent rain and sunshine from spoiling it; he ilso gathers mud from rivert and c jnals, md excretions of animals along the tiighwavs for conversion into phosphates. The value of all manufactured fertilizers depends upon their solubility, md these manures should all?be appropriated by the growing crops. To expect any such fertilizing matter to remain in the ground for another year is ;o presume that the fertilizers are not properly manufactured. Bone dust, kntttntror ttm 11 in fViA cnil cnmro 1 fears. To keep machinery from rustiDg take me-half onnce of camphor, dissolve in me poand of melted lard; take off the jcum and mix in as ranch fine black lead as will give it an iroa color. Clean ;he machinery and smear with this mixture. After twenty-fonr hours rub ;lean with a soft linen cloth. It will keep clean for months under ordinary jircumstf nces. When com on the ear is fed to horses ;hey masticatoitmnch more Blowly than f the corn was shelled. As a consejuencethatonthe ear is better digested, V ho:*se requires more time to eat corr m tbo ear than if fed either meal or shelled corn. If the horse cannot have ;ime to masticate a fall feed of uniheltad corn, then it is best to feed something else. If possible have your fruit garden jepatate from your vegetable garden. It Is a poor plan to put blackberries, raspaerries, etc., along fence rowrf, where he fruit is sure to he poor in quantity ind quality. There are too mauy large 'arm* lacking in fruit. So little soil is required in the culture of vines and small fruits?and they conduce so largey to health, and consequently to happiness?that no farmer should fail to jultivate them. RcctpcH. Pudding Sauce.?For ft good or easily made pudding sauce, take one tablejpoonfnl of btitter, two tablespoorrfals jf flour, two-tliirds of a cup of srgar. Pour hot water over these, stir well and boil until thick, flavor with lemon or nutmeg and a teaspooonful of vinegar Custard Pie.?Scald a pint of rich milk ; pour :it on to two eggs beaten with two tablespoonfuls white sugar ind a little sal1;, till very light ; line a plate with crruit and pour in i;he cus:ard. Bake quickly, and if in danger if scorching pnt a paper over the top. Egg and Toast.?For this a perfectly fresh egg is necessary; put a pan half full of hot water on the stove, with a Little salt in it, cover, and put back on the stove till the white is firm. Take rat of the pan with a skimmer, and slide into a bowl of hot water while you make and butter your toast. Tako up ihe egg carefully on a perforated skimmer, shake dry, trim off any ragged jdges, and serve immediately on the the toast. Sprinkle a little salt and pepper on the egg. If this is well and neatly done it is appetizing for a sick person. j Rice Cream.?To a pint of new milk idd a quarter of a pound of ground rice, a lump of butter the size of a walnut, a little lemon peel and a table spoonful of powdered sugar. Boil them together for five minutes, then add half in ounce of isinglass which has been iissolved, and let the mixture cool When cool add half a pint of good cream whisked to a froth, mix all to- j gether and set it for a time in a very oool place or on ice. When used turn it out of the basin into a dish and pour fruit juice around it; or some stewed applo or pear may be served with it. Potatoes a la Pueckler ?Cook a quart of small-sized potatoes, peel and alico them. Pat them in a stewpan, with two ounces of butter, a taltspoonful of salt, half the quantity of white pepper and a teaspoonful of chopped onion. Let'"them simmer for fifteen minutep, shaking the pan frequently to prevent the contents from sticking, lake a large bowl, rub the inside with balf a clove of garlic, break irto it the yolks of ^hiee eggs, beat them with a teaspoonfnl of vinegar and pour over the hot potatoes. Shake them over the fire until properly mixed, and serve immediately. Faking in Japan. Fishing in the rivers and streams of the main island is not considered as a n/vrr. Iir flift .TanariPRn Vmf. n.q n. mound of livelihood, and therefore the "gentle angler'' will not receivo much eiicoirngeirent from the brotherhood in the land of the rifling sun. Salmon trout, trout and ai (a email but game fish) are "educated" on some rivers to take the fly. Tho Japs work with very small Hie?, fine tackle, slight bamboo rods, with which they are very successful. Altogether, however, the game will be found scarcely worth the candle on the mainland, but capital sport with the Balmon trout can be obtained in several streams near Satsuporo, in Yezo, during May and Jur.", with a genuine British fly. The most important export from Yezo in in dried salmon, which are netted in incredible quantities in various rivers of the northern part of the island and in the southern Kuril^s; but sport in these r vers among the dense masses of fish is out of the question, even if the proprietors of the fishings would allow their fish to be poached. The Japanese neaboard is everywhere picturesque, and the seas abound with fish, giving employment to the crews of thousands of fishing boats. When tailing along the coasts numbers of large black whales and sharks, both large and small, will be seeu, the latter being caught by the .fishermen, as their tins are counted a delicacy, and the skins serve many uses. The hilts of all the old swords are covered with white shark's skill.?The London Field. HEALTH HINTS. To remove freckles take lemon juice, one ounce; quarter of a dram of powdered borax and one dram of sugar. Mix them and let them stand till ready for use, then rub it on the face occa- : sionally. i Never stand still in cold weather, 1 especially after having taken a slight 1 degree of exercise; and always avoid standing upon the ice or snow or where the person is exposed to n cold wind.? I Dr. Footes Health Monthly. ] The curative qnalities of common salt < are not as freely impressed upon the 1 public mind as is expedient. Inflam- < mation can be rapidly reduced by a t solntion of salt, and for a weak or dis- \ eased membrane local applications of 1 salt rnil water net as majric. Incases \ of sore throat, sore eyes or catarrhal affections, simple salt and water as a garg',.e or douche, is a most efficacious t application. Tho chief virtue of min- i eral waters is salt, which forms a cju- t stituent either in large or small propor- s tions in all springs recommended for t healing. The unmistakable benefits 1 derived from sea bathing and sea air t proceed fivm that great strengthening I medium?common salt. A goblet of c well iced salt and water is not a dis- 1 agreeable beverage before breakfast, and is highly beneficial as an aperient. If "salt should lose its savor" a most 8 important lever of the pharmacopoeia r would be destroyed. x Concerning the treatment for diph ) theiia, the Food and Health says: j To us it appears that fresh air is tho f first necessity; \\e should allow a diph- I Iherial patient to be near an open win- t dow. Next, we should use hot malt g vinegar for flannel wraps round the t throat, gargles of the same dilated t with water, and the most tonic dietpos- p sible. Neither quinine nor mineral c tonics, but hot, strong wines, yolks of t eggs beaten up in strong beef tea ; t warm baths made of chamomile flowers; I feet placed in mustard and water, and t flannel wraps soaked in hot vinegar I around the stomach. The juice pressed t from raw beef, heated in a farina boiler c and given constantly, but, above all, hot red wine. Inhalations of the fumes of vinegar with open mouth and pencil- e ings of the same within the month. The ^ nse of lemons is also to be recommend- \ ed. Diphtheria is a preventable disease, ^ and when we know more of the condi- 0 tions nnder which the health of human c life can exist and are inclined to listen g to it and act accordingly to it, we 2 shall have fewer epidemics such as \ those of diphtheria. c ] A Country Girl's Koinance. A lady correspondent at Center White * Creek, Washington county, N. Y., sends 1 to the Troy Times the following ro- 1 mance of real life. It concerns a native ,( of Washington oounty. She snys : \ Five years ago a poor and modest ^ country girl of twenty-one snmmers, * following the path of duty, enlisted in T the holy wars and tailed with a band of * brothers to a far-off heathen shore, 8 leaving behind her two rejected and likewise miserable lovers ; one a lad of low condition, the other a regular patri- c cian. But the heathen have souls to c be saved, and for four years our self- 1 sacrificing htiroine followed the noble j e ^ ? * i nr I r caning sue una cnosen. .E,uriy m iuay, i?_ 1881, our fair toiler in the vineyard, | c deeming that the heathens were eufll- a ciently converted to admit of a visit to f her native shore, resigned her charge i for a period and sailed, via England, for 3 her own tome and harbor. An English i noblemaE who chanced to he among I the pasuengera became interested I in the poor American, and ere 1 the good ship anchored at Liverpool a had offered his hand, heart and fortune 1 and been accepted. At London the ^ lovers par ted, soon to meet again, to re- I ceive a father's blessing and part no I more. The bride of the future con- 1 tinued hei journey alone with her trous- n 6ean, and was soon welcomed in New ? York by a host of admiring relatives and t the forgotten lovers. Preparations ? were commenced for the reception of t the noble, and the dipappointed lovors 1 sighed for the things " which might have been." But alas! the nobleman met with a financial misfortune. Ten- ,* derly did ho break the news to the dis- \ tant fair one, nobly releasing her from t promises which might become irksome, j The humble and faithful suitor (who , chanced to be nearest) soon became f dearest, and the weary heart, taken on \ the rebound, surrendered gracefully, c and Thursday evening last they wore \ united in the holy bonds of matrimony f at the residence of the bride's parents. ] The many invited guests tendered their \ congratulations lo the happy couple, t who left on the evening train for tne ? South, there to remain indefinitely. t In the New York Morgue. t This was burial day at the morgue, 1 says a New York letter. A number of the friendless dead were transferred to potter's field, where they were interred. There were no funeral ceremonies, no procession of mourners. The only witnesses of this last sad scene in the sad drama of these unfortunate lives were the men who had charge of the removal of the bodies. A noticeable fact about the charnel-house to-day was an unusually large number of small bcxes containing the remains of chil- 1 dren and new-boin babea. On the lid fc ot foot of every coffin, written in pencil t on the board in some cases and in others t on Bmall square wbite cards, were any \ facts that were attainable relating to C the deceased, such as the name, a age, nationality and where tbe ^ remains came from. If any one is c found dead in the street or in the river a the body is immediately removed to I the morgue, where a photograph of it ? is taken and the remains are then kept t for identification. If, however, after a 1 reasonable time no one galls to claim i the body it is sent to the public bury- 1 ing grounds for interment. Mr. White, \ who has charco of the morane. and his i assistants use every possible means in ( their power to find ont the friends of c auy unknown person wbo is brought 1 there. The clothing is carefully ex- i amined and shown to all visitors and t questions are always readily answered. ( Persons dying in any of the hospitals, s charitable institutions, prisons or police < stations in this city or vicinity are also c 6ent to the morgue. It is is need like- 1 wise by undertake^ occasionally as s ] storehouse for the bodies of persona i whose friends are out of town or abroad t and cannot reach the city immediately 1 to take charge of their fun'eials. Labor in tlic 44 Black Lands" of Russia. * A correspondent of the London rl imes, * writing from the "black lands" of 1 Russia about the scarcity of labor in ' that jegiou, says that the laborer's or- I dinary wngcs are from forty to fifty co- j jpecks (twenty-five to thirty cents) daily; i' but at harvest time, or when the field is jc to be due for beet root, the landlord I * finds it extremely difficult to procure f laborers even at two or three rubles a 1 day, and ho declares tbat ho would J rather pay that high wage to one effi- J cient laborer than to four such lazy * hounds as he can muster in the neigh- jc borhood. Of the northern peasants, re- i * ported to bo yearly flocking from their I comparatively barren lands to these fer-1a tile southern fields, hardly any make j * their appearance, except carpenters and j other mechanics, who, however useful r in their several capacities, are of no r avail whatever as field hands. The ? distress f. r reapers and plowmen has 1 waxed so great that the government j has had to come to the landowners' res- 1 cue by allowing the soldiers quartered " in the garrisons to lend their hands at c the rate of one ruble daily for each c man, their employer having to feast and J entertain ';ho officers into the bargain. f But, although as man7 as 50,000 men from tho ranks have thus been told " - Ct x 1 1 DLL ill luu pruviuuo ui ruuuiitt uiuuc tu . make themselves useful on a better ground than the battlefield, the supply 1 of labor is sLill wofully inadequate to j the demand. j Oa the first day of January, 1801, the initial day of the nineteenth century, Ireland passed into incorporating union ] with Great Britain. I ] FACTS AND COMMENTS. A schoolmaster in Southern Oregon has resigned his place becanso two of the directors would not sustain him in his efforts to stop urchins from squirting tobacco juice on the stove during school hours. The trustees evidently believed that school-boys have some rights that a teacher must respect. Honesty is almost always rewarded. Dne Bennett, while parchasing a railroad ticket in St. Louis, accidentally dropped his overcoat on the floor and walked awav without it. In the course i>f a few minutes there was a vigorous search for that overcoat, because it confined 84,650 sewed in the lining. A Dootblack found it, and was rewarded vith a silver half dollar with a hole in it. The United States, according to a able published by the department of igrioulture, has one-fourth the horses, >ne-tifth the cattle, bneninth the iheep and almost one-half the swine in he civilized world. Russia has more lorses, apd that country and the Argenine Republic more sheep than the Jnited States ; but these are the only lountries-whose number of live stock is arger in any particular. All of the good old storie3 about the iccommodations offered by occomaodation trains will be out of date rhen a railroad which is to be built in IVest Virginia shall have been competed. Gratuitous right of way is sought rom all the farmers whose fields are to >e cut by the projected road, and in renrn for the gift tho railroad company ;ivcs the pledge that at least one of its rains each way shall stop every day on he farm to take on or put off passengers or freight, provided the persons lesiring such accommodation will take he trouble to flag the train or give noico to the conductor. Industrious lousewives may then stop a train when hey wish to go to the nearest neigh>or's to borrow a cnp of sour milk, and here will be no excuse for the resources if the region to remain undeveloped. According to the British statistics the inormons number of 2,039 shipwrecks ook place throughout the world in 881, or on an average six a day. The alue of tae property lost is estimated ,t 81,400,000,000. This was an increase if 859 vessels over 1880 and of about 1500,000,000 in property. The loss of ife also was very great, the figures >eincr 4.134 DersoDs. which include offi sere, seamen and passengers Great 3ritatn was, of course, the severest suferer, more than 1,000 of her vessels laving" been destroyed, nearly 200 of vhich were steamers* The year 1881 ras one of the most tempestuous ever jxperienced on the ocean, particularly n European waters. There can be no loubt that tbe adoption of an internaional system of meteorological obser'ation and reports would largely tend o the saving of life and property at ea. True believers are greatly agitated iver the expected coming of the Mehdi ir Mohammedan Messiah. The prophet limeelf foresaw this event, and proplielied that he would be an Arab and a lescendant of his own house. El Mehli is expected to unite the faithful, retore Islam, and rule over the Mobamnedans throughout the world. Accordng to a prophecy that has for several 'ears been circulated among the Moorsli Mussulmans, he will make his ap jearance on the first day of the month tlohairam, in the year 1300 (November ft i nno \ TT_ ?:n u .2, icoz.j xie wiji uw ivuj jeuin ui ige and of noble appearance, and one of lis arms will be longer than the other. religious devotee of great sanctity in tforth Africa is already known as El Hehdi (literally the tacher), and in >ersonai appearance corresponds exictly with the description in tbeprophicy. He will probably attempt to play he part of the Messiah, and, aided by i fanatical following, may seriously hreaten Enropean influence in India, 2?ypt and Algeria. Mutilated silver coinage is being re ected as current money all over the United States, especially in the West md East. Large quantities of it are jeing sent to the United States t-reas* irer at Washington and to the mint it Philadelphia for redemption upon the msis of the amount of bullion which it iontains. Treasnrer Gilfillan has here;ofore transmitted such mutilated silve ;o the superintendent of the mint at Philadelphia for purchase as bullion, )ut is now informed by that officer that mder the rules governing the mint the imallest purchase of silver coin or de josited gold wnicn win ue received here is ?100, and upon all 6nch remitances there is a melting charge of one lollar. Heretofore the superintendent >f the mint has taken the remittances lent from the treasurer's office, but as he number of them is largely increasng from all parts of the United States he treasnrer is forced to declino taking hem in the future, and all such remitances to the treasurer for redemption pill now be returned to the parties sending. United States Commercial Agent .)ezeyk, of St. Gall, in an article on the Swiss watch industry, reports that he American watches fell behind at be recent international exhibition of vatchmakers' tools and maohines at jhaux de Fonds. In a competive elimination, Swiss, English and German patches led those submitted by Ameri:an makers. Six Swiss watches gained m averngo of 472 out of a possible 500 joints, and six American watches au iYcraw;e of 367. He says: "Thanks o the perfection of their machinery the imericans, in 187G, were powerful com>etitors in the manufacture of watches, >nt at the present t.me the Swiss have jrotited by the lessons drawn from American superiority, and have iutroluced the machine where they fonud it lould conveniently be done. The Swiss lave, moreover, the advantago of three mportant details over their com pet iors?in artistic turn of hand, cultivat;d through generations ; the tradition tnd the business connections throu^h>ut the whole world, and an untiring liligence and desire for improvement." Mr. Dezeyk adds that even tbo mo>t perfect machine is only at be*t an inxiliary for good band work, and ,he latter must alw.tys win in the ong rub. Three women in acertain NowHauip- j ihire town form a trio not easy to paral- 1 el. One is an Amazon in strength and j igility, and performs most marvelous j eats of labor and endurance. Having j mrchased at the village an outside Iweliiug house door, one and onernli iuchts thick, she phced it )n her back and carried it in that nanner to her home, u distance of wo long miles. Yet she is slender u form and agile and elastic is a deer. She is often seen walking he street engaged in knitting, her ingers and fi et moving as if in vigor>us competition with each other. When i i lot incumDerea, m pasaiuy iuauunum he village, she frequently strikes iuto , run, sometimes maintaining it up the teepest hills aud for most of the disance. Occabionally sho essays jouricys of ten and fifteen miles on foot ito the neighboring towns, if not at i orresponding speed, yet at oncesurprisng to people with ordinary powers of ocomotion. The second woman has j jeeu five times married?ones divorced -and is so self-reliant, vigorous and leterinined that at the funeral of one if her husbands the clergyman renarked that he had been a very dutiful lelpmeet. The third is just passing he honeymoon with her sixth husband -having been divorced from the live amented predecessors. Marvelous must jo the forbearance of a woman toward uankind, who, after such a round of infaithful spouses, proves still vulnera)le, and suffers herself to be captured >y the blandishments of a sixth suitor. More than thirty of the mining companies in Colorado make total abstinence a condition of employment. WILD AJilMAL TAMERS. Homethins About Mfiinecrle Animal* anc How They Are Tamed. Most youngsters who pay their waj into a circns-teut know at sight everj animal that is likely to be found there, and as soon as they have nodded recognition at him are sure to ask : " What oan he do ?" For this reason almost every dangerous creature in the best recent collections has been both wild and tame. The lions, the tigers, the panthers, are as large and t9rrible-lookinR as ever, and it wjuld be just as dreadful a thing if they should get loose among the spectators. It is worth while, therefore. to see them all nlavfnllv submis Bive to a little man or woman with a mere whip in hand. A direct consequence of all this is that the more a wild beast can be taught the more be is worth, but there is no telling how stupid some lions and other savages are. The very best of them, even after all kinds of good schooling, retain a lurking disposition to make a meal of their keeper or of anybody else if a good opportunity is given for it. " Taming " is a process which has to be constantly renewed, for the tamest tfger is a tiger still, and there has been mo change in his born conviction that all other living creatures are "game' for him. The best lion and tiger ' kings" of to-day say that every time they enter a cage containing these fierce creatures they carry their lives in their hands. "Gentle ?" remarked one of these venturesome folks the other day. Those tigers of mine ? Why, do ybu see that whip? I know as well as I know anvthiner that if I drop that whip when I am in that cage they'll be on mo. Their idea of obedience is connected with the whip, first; then with my voice ; then with my face. Severity? Cruelty? No use at all. I never use cruelty in training them. Only patbnce. When I take on a new cage of beasts I work to get them used to me; feeding them ; cleaning the cage; talking to them; all that sort of thing, before I go in among them. Then I do that. It's a ticklish piece of business going in the first time, and I pick my chance for it when they're specially peaceable. I go right in just as if it were a matter of course, but I keep my eyes about me. It's all humbug that a man's eyo has any power over a wild beast. Your eyes are to watch their motions?that's all. They'll find out quickly enough if you're getting carele99. They're sure enough to be watch ing you all the time. Are they intelligent? Well, there's as much difference among 'em as there is among men. I can train a really intelligent lion, right from the wild, in about four weeks so that he will do all that the lion kings make them do. A lioness always takes a couple of weeks longer and so does a leopard or a tiger. You can't get a hyena well in hand inside of two months. They're the meanest of bra tea. They never understand anything but a club. The easiest to train, because they know the most, are pumas. I can teach a puma all it needs to know in four weeks. Affection? Teach those fellows to love you? That's all nonsence. They'll fawn and fawn on you, and you'll think you've done it, maybe. Then jou go into the cage if you want to without you whip, or wlien they're in bad temper, and find out for yourself what they'll do. See that dent in the side }f my head and those deep scars on my arm! There are more down here"? patting his leg. " Got 'em from the best trained lions you ever saw. It's awful sometimes to have one of those fellows kind o' smell of you and yawn and shut his jaws, say close to one of ^aur knees! See my wife tliere ? fcl t'gthe ' Panther Queen,' ju6t as I'm a Tiger King,' and that fellow yonder's a ' Lion King.' IJer pets are playing with her now, Dut they've scratched her well, I tell you. There's great odds among them, though, and that young puma with her head up to be kissed is what you might call gentle. Only they're all treacherous. Every lion king gets sick of it after a while. I could name more than a dozen of the best who have given it np right in the prime of life. Once tbey give it up nothing '11 tempt 'em inside of a cage again. You 6ee every now and then some other tamer gets /ilnmn/^ n v> A Kiffnrt Q1 i uuuij txaiTCU auu uxwuui x u- j ?v u?? been clawed or bitten more or leas themselves. The strain on a man's nerves is pretty sharp?sura death around him all the while. And the pay isn't anything like what it was." It maj be true that the strictly predatory animals of tho cat kicd are never to be tmsted, bnt the now three-year'old hippopotamus of the leading American ."show" seems to have formed a genuine attachment for his keeper, a yonng Italian. He is savage enough to all other men, and when out of his den for his very limited exercise it iB fun for all but the person chascd to see how clumsily, yet swiftly, he will make a sudden " charge " after a luckless bystander. After that he will crustily and gruntingly obey his keeper, and permit himself to be half enticed, half shouldered into his den again. There should be more room for brains and consequently for affection in the splendid front of a lion than between the sullen eyes of even a very youthful hippopotamus. Tbe "keeper" question is one of prime importance in collecting and managing wild animals. * Trainers of the right kind aru scarce, and although high pay hardly can be afforded it will not do to put rare and costly animals in tho care of stupid or ignorant men. Such qualities as courage, patience, gocd temper and natural aptitude for the occupation are also needful, and they are not always to be had for the asking. Unless the right men are secured, how ever, the failure of the menagerie is only a question of time. As for tho "specimens" themselves, it is much easier to obtain them than it once was, Al.* fn/tilUtAa /a* frona. UWillg IU LUtJ UCltCi IDUUUL-O iwi porting them from the several "wildbeast countries." Catching them in their native wildernesses has been a regular trade for ages. The market price of a menagerie animal of any kind varies, like that of other merchandise, according to the demand and supply. A writer stated recently that zebras are sold at a little over S2.000 a pair, gnus at about 8S00 a pair, while rhinoceroses cost some SG.OUO per pa:r, and tigers about $l,f>00 cacli. A short time ago, however, and perhaps now, a vf-ry good " uneducated" ifger could be bought in London for from S500 to 8800. The same beast, the moment he takes kindly to learning and promises to be sparing of bis ke-. pers, doubles and trebles in value. There is no telliug what he would bo worth should he show farther signs of intellect or good morals, but he is like a human being in this respect? the more he knows the more it will pay to give for him. The same rule applies to the entire list, from elephauts to monkeys, so that uo precise idea can be given of the probable cost of a menagerie.? S/. Nicholas. The Gamp of Risrlits and Lefts. John Debois took a great deal of trouble to get a good pair of boots in St. Louis for nothing, but ho achieved success. He was a traveler ata.viug at the Grand Central hotel. He went to a store and ordered the finest pair that conld be made. He was exact in hia stipulations as to tho material and style, and wished them sent to his room at a certain time. Then he gave the samo order in another store, except that the delivery was to bo made half an hour later. The boy who brought the first pair was sent back to have the left boot stretched, and the boy who carried the second pair was sent back with the right one. Debois then put on the remnants, for which he had not paid, and caught the next out-bound train. The statistics of the Baptist churches of Maine show the number of baptisms for the rear to be 291, or leas than for any jar since i?4y. wnen mere were 231, Five churches, numbering 84 members, have been dropped from the list. There are 317 less members than were reported last year. Shops and Shopping in Mexico. Shops and shopping, of the upper 1 aort, in Mexico follow French or European traditions more than American. r Fanciful titles over the dorrway are r adopted instead of a firm name. A drv goods store is "The Surprise," ' "The Springtime," "The Explosion;" ; a jeweler's the " Pearl" or "Emerald;' a shoe store, " The Azure Boot," and " The Foot of Venus." The windows ure tastefully draped and a large force of clerks is seen shoulder to shoulder within. These clerks are more demo cratie in their manners than Americana would venture to be. They shake vnifh iVi VSAIW/VMA if fliAV tiAVA uauuo vritu tucu (jauiuuo ji uuoj uavo enjoyed a slight previous acquaintance and inquire after the health of Miss Lolita and Miss Soledad. There are those of superior social position among them, however?some who are met with at the bulls of the Guatemala minister, for instance. The explanation may perhaps be found in the limit ed.choice of occupations open, which leaves to many who desire to work no more important places. Until of late it has not been etiquette for ladies of standing to shop except from their carriages?a considerable part of the shopping, as for furniture and other household goods, is still conducted by the men of the family? inst ft<i it was not Atinnetta for laaififl to be seen walking in the streets. The change in both these respects is ascribed to the horse-cars. The point of ceremony, it appears, was founded somewhat upon the difficulty of getting about. The American touch appears in the streets with increasing frequency, in signs of dealers in arms, sewing machines, and other of our useful inven* tions, and of tho insurance companies, a novel idea, to which the Mexicans seem to take with much readiness. The principal shopping hours are from 4 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon. From 1 till 3, or even 4, little is done. There is a general stoppage of affairs for dinner. It is b't a short time since that interesting person, the commercial traveler, has been known in the country. The profits of favorably situated houses, in the absence of keen competition, have been very large, and methods of doing business in some ini LUUUCa VUdCOpvUUUi^lJ 1WOO. AUO Mexican merchant does not necessaiily go into a fine calculation of the proportionate value of each detail of a foreign invoice, but ' lumps" the profit he thinks he ought to receive on the whole. Some articles, in consequence, can be bought at less than their real value, while others, in compensation, are exorbitantly advanced. It is the smaller trade, however, and that most removed from metropolitan influences, tliat'is the gayest and most entertaining as a spectacle. How many picturesque markot scenes does one linger in I Each population has its own market-day, not to interfere with any other. The stone flags of the plaza or the market-houses, whioh are plentiful and well built, are hidden under a complication of fruits, grains, cocoa sacks and mats, striped blankets and rebozos; sprawling brown limbs, em. broidered bodices and kirtles, as if v with an excessively thick, richly col ored rug. A grade above this is the ? ?-_ ? x . 1 A| | rariun, as at lueuia, u utuur ui euian shops, ia which goods, sales-people and customers are all to be pnt upon the canvas with the most vivid hues. The leading merceria (dry goods shop) of the same important city of Puebla, called "The City of Mexico," has a facade antirely in glazed tiles upon an unglazed ground of red, with allegorical figures larger than life between the pilasters as part of the pattern.?Harper's Magazine. Cloves. Cloves grow on trees from twenty to thirty feet high, having a handsome pyramidal shape, with leaves that are large, glossy and evergreen. It is a native of Malccc3, but is now grown in nearly all tLe spice islands of the Indian ocean, the larger part of the crop coming from Amboyna, in the island of Teruate. Many years ago the JDutch undertook to control the production of , this spice and to confine its growth to this island; they, therefore, destroyed the clove tree sin the other spice islands, but the high prices which they demanded gradually led to its cultivation in territory outside of their jurisdiction, and they afterward abandoned that policy. Still, most of the cloves now produced are grown in Datch territory, and the high prices which have prevailed during the last year or two have been attributed partly to a failure in il- X_ 1L - the crop at rem ate ana paruy w we Acheen war, which has considerably interfered with the supply usually derived from Sumatra. The cloves of commerce are not, as many suppose, the fruit of the clove tree, but are the / . fli flower buds. The ripe fruit in shape / resembles a small ciive; it is of a dark * 4 red color, with one or two cells containing as many seeds, and it is also aromatic to a certain extent, and sometimes appears in commerce in a dried atatn under the curioas name of " mother of olives." It is not nearly so pungent, however, as the flower stems. Indeed, the whole tree?leaves, bark and wood?seems to be impregnated in come degree with the strong, distinctive clove flavor; but the flower buds are the principal commercial product of the tree. When fliet gathered they are of a reddish color, but in the drying process, which is generally partly done by wood fires and partly in the sun, they tmn a deep brown color, as they are when they reach us in America. Although the tree grows wild to some extent, it is regularly cultivated in plantations, the plants being some ten or fifteen feet apart and carefully pruned and cared for. How Webster Looked. f "Hoviirtl W/iKofiiii mo a Knm VMM l/nuigi if cuowk ?i??j uv*m *w j v?..ago oil the eighteenth of January, 1782. Nobody who onco saw him ever forgot him. Of all Americana he was probably the most imposing in his appearance. Others have had a finer, loftier, | more refined, more spiritual aspect, as i there have been Americans of a far higher essential "greatness. But there was a ceitain grandeur in Webster's look which was incomparable. Ilia Olytn- ~ piun presence gave un air of significance - ^. and dignity to whatever he said. We have heard him deliver the most astonishing commonplace in 6nch a way that j the audience seemed to be listening to a i new revelation of great truths. He had 1 the instinct which as-sur d him that the I prosperity of tho oration is in the eye ! und ear of the hearer. Of the singular | charm of his private intercourse there are pcores of published records. Bat j the private circle ot' fiiends seemed to j be always a little oppressed by the con, sciousness of his greatness. His manj ners were those of what is called the old | school. His dress upon great occasions I wasthat of the English whigs, blue and bnff?a yellow waistooat and a blue I dresscoat with brass buttons.?Harper's | Weekly, How a Prospector Lost His Lncre. 1 J. W. Patiick says this glorious weather has occasioned him a loss of j SSO.OOO, and this is the way he explains i it: Last fall he discovered a new mining district, in rmicrhVinrhnn/l nf hi? Rait Park ranch. Ho had just time to prospect enough to ascertain that the lends are large and well defined, carrying a high grade of ore, when the snow came and causcd him to cease operations. He then came to town, supposing that the foot of man would not find ita way through the deep snow into his bonanza field, and until a few days ago he rested in perfect security Then he I learned that the snow had disappeared i and that every lead in his new and i supposedly rich district had been | located by the persistent prospector! I And this is why Mr. Patrick charges up j to the weather clerk a loss of $50,000. i Ho says it may reach a million. j It is eaid that the only obstacle in the j way of transporting live hogs from this country to England is the difficulty of feeding them on the passage. Why not feed them from the trough of the sea? * ?SomerviUe Jownal. ?*?