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^ . . * ' . 1 ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER: i BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH S, 1882. NO. 40. VOLUME XXVI. Astray. X traveled a forbidden road. Which first appeared eo flowery fa'r That onward eagerly I strodo Till?to my horror and despair !All buds and blossoms blooming thorn, All tender boughs and twigs of green Stood changed to burrs and nettles keen, Whose angry points my garments tore, And pricked my hands 11 they were tore. bewildered at Uic wondroub change, That should have warned mo from the place, 1 kept my course with swifter pace, And saw a marvel still more strange; For cruel flints sprang through the ground To meet my leet at every bound, With gash on gash they made tUem bleed, Then time it was that I should heed ! Just at th? moment of my ue.-d, A shining man stood at my side? Whose luster fell on all around, And spread a glory far and wide! "And who art thou?" I trembling cried. "Give ear," eaid he, " to what I say: I am the guide of all that stray. To point them back to virtue's path, Ti;e?uardian of thy erring way; And step by step? in lovo, not wrath? These angiv flints and briars I strew, To warn thy feet fiom wandering so." I knelt and kissed his garment's hem, And cried: " Oh, angel sent from heaven ; j Make bharper yet each thorny stem ! Increase the (lints to seven times seven ! I will endure and not complain I" He fled, and I with deep remorso Turned back from my forbidden course But, oh, how many weary hours I traveled o'er tho^f blighted bowers Hebloomed wirli all their former flowers. ? Theodore Tilton. j Unlocking the Shackles, j The sun was just setting at the close \ of along, hot day in Jane, when Etnest 1 Blaok and myself drove onr wagons np ! the bank of Ited river, on the Indian ; Territory side. We were hauling freight for the United States government, and were on onr way to Texas for a load. We signaled the ferryman, living on the Texas side, and as soon as he came over began to cross. The boat was too small to put over both wagons at once, j bo I crossed first and came back to i assist Ernest. He had two refractory mules, which i had always to be held in a ferryboat, i and it sometimes took both of us to do ! 60. Just as the ferryboat neared the i Chickasaw nation side a large, power- j ful horse, but evidently nearly ex-1 hausted, came into view around a bend in the road, a double burden on his back. A young man of noble appear-; ance, but looking weary and harassed, i rode in front; behind a beautiful girl, > nearly white, but with sufficient Indian , blood showing through the clear skin j to add a piquant charm to the features. They rodo up to the wagon, and the ; young'man, without dismounting, spoke | to Ernest: T " Sir, I am a white man, and some ; ^avc Via^ a nnarrAl xxnf.h arin+Vinr in which, unfortunately, he was acci- j dentally shot. I am pursued by his ; brothers, who are close behind, and j who have Bworn to kill me on sight. I ask jour help to cross the river, if possible, unseen." " Why do they?" began Ernest; but the stranger cut him short. " Time presses, sir; you must answer ?'yes' or 'no!' If not I must do the : best I can for myself. I decline to 6hed blood, but if I am too closely pursued?" and the gleaming of the blue eyes finished the sentence. Ernest tock another look at the open, manly face, which, whatever might be written there, showed no trace of crime. Then he spoke, and fast, for the trampling of horses' feet rapidly approaching oould now be heard: "I suppose you wish to take the lady with yvu. Get iijto the wagon, and j under % wagon sheet which you will find there loose. I will hide your horse a the bushes." The young man dismounted, assisted off the girl who was riding behind him and did as directed, cowering down in | the bottom of tho wagon. After depositing tlie sheet so as to ! look as if if. had only been carelessly thrown in, Ernest led the horse a short distance from the road, and, after having taken off saddle and bridle | turned him loose and returned to his , team. I had witnessed the scene from the 1 boat, which by this time had reached I the bank, and the wagon drove In. After | giving the ferryman a caution to silence, j Ernest tnrned to me: "I may be helping a fugitive from j justice to escape, but I will risk it. j Loose the boat and put off, Beecher 1" i he added to the ferryman. At this moment, however, a pair of horae9, covered with dust and sweat, citno ronnd the turn in the road, and ! th?ir drivers drew rein at the river side. j Tbey were two powerful, evil-looking felluws, with belts stuck fall of revolvers, and a rifle across the pummel of each saddle. The elder-looking one of the two addressed Ernest: " Have you seen anything of a man a id a woman on one horse anywhere here ?" As he spoke his eyes roamed to the I wagon and sheet in it, and both men ; dismounted. , j " Why, what do you want of them ?" j asked Ernest. " He has killed a man fn the Choctaw ; nation, is Irjing to get away, the woman with him, and 1 want to arrett ' him. If yon help him to Ret away it j will be the worse foT T ^slieve ho is under that 6heet minnow." And he stepped on the ferryboat, i The other remained on the bank with j hi* hand on a pistol, ready to assist his j brother. The one on the boat approached the 1 wagon and was about to raise the sheot, when Ernast, with bis eyes gleaming dangerously, spoke to him: ' This wagon is in the employ of tho ; United Spates government, and no one | but a regularly authorized official can ' search it." The iellow, however, still persisted;' but as he laid his hand on the sheet n well-directed blow from Ernest floored I him. Tho ono on tho bank started to draw j his revolver, but before ho could do so ; I had him covered. One learns to be ; quick with the pistol on the frontier, j *here a man's life may depend on his j i-*geiMDg me arop on 'omu ruinan. The ferryman, terriSed at the scene before him, had remained quiet, but now at a 6ign from Ernest, pushed tbo coat fiom the bank. Erneat, keeping the prostrate man covered with his pistol, spoke to the | ono left behind. "I shall take your companion with us as a hostage for yonr good conduct. If you shoot after us, he suffers. Remember !" We crossed the river without accident, the baffled ruffian on the bank making the air resonnd with curses. When we reached tho Texas side, ErneBt turned to me: " Frank, drive my wagon up the bank to where yours is, white I see this fellow back across the river. Beecher, take your skiff and row him over; he will hardly hurt yon. If he tries, I will put a bullet through him." After seeing his captive into the skiff, j first discharging all his weapons, ho spoke to tho now cowed man: ' When yon get to the other side, stand on the bank until the boat returns. If you attempt to go into the bushes, or try any other treachery, I will shoot you." The ferryman put him across the river and returned, and Ernest came up the bank to where the wagons were. Meanwhile I had driven up the hill and relieved the occupants of the wagon from their uncomfortable covering. They were nearly smothered, but had made no movement until all was safe. The young man jumped to the ground, and, with a simple grasp of the hand, and the earnest words, " I thank you both," assisted his companion out. I Ernest now came up, and to him th< stranger turned: " I owe you my life, and if ever I car i in some measure pay so great a debt, I trust me I sball not be -wanting." " I am glad to have been uf service tc you," said Ernest, simply. "I think you are safe for the night. There is no ; other ferry within about twenty miles, I and they will not cross any one aftei | night. Red river is too high to swim | over. If you remain with us to-night I we can make tbo lady a bed in tiie ! wagon, and the rest of us must take the | ground. You can tell us then how you | managed to get into this scrape." After some farther discussion it wae 1 arranged, and we went into camp. SupI per over and the horses staked ofl, the j young lady retired to one of the wagons, i while the rest of us. at some little distance, reclined on the blankets and saddles, guarded by our faithful dog. Nothing could conic within a hundred i yards of the camp without his giving us warning. 'i' k iUn n^HAM mk An a Mn w\ a vnnn ! IUCU tiio otiau^ci) wuuoo uamo wao Herudon, gave us an aocount of how he : happened to come to the ri7er in such a plight. "Some months hccj I was in the Chickasaw nation buying up cittle, when I became acquainted with a Mr. Williams, who had married and settled | among the Indians. "1 found it convenient to go very often to his house about, cattle I persuaded m\self at first, but I soon had to acknowledge that the attraction was his daughter Lily, the youDg lady who is with me. "She is only an eighth Indian, well educated, and as to her beauty you can 6eo for yourselves. She soon began to look with favor on me, and I aeked her of her father. He was willing, and we were engaged. " But there were three sons of the old man, by a former marriage with a white woman, who hated me from the start. I think they had hoped to get possession of Lily's property, but knew, if I married her, there would be but little chance of that. Matters went on, however. I was too happy to care much for them, although they became more unbearable from day to day. They bore no good reputation in the county, and I was warned against them more than once. " Three days ago the explosion came. I was walkmg with Lilly, wlien the youngest of the three met us, and, after a few insulting words, accused me of dishonorable conduct. " It was more than I could stand, and I sprang toward him to strike him. He attempted to draw a pistol, but I closed with him and attempted to take it away. In the struggle the pistol went off, and he was shot dead. I stood for a moment stunned with horror, when Lily's voice roused me. " 'Ob, fly, fly! The others will kill you whsn they see you. They will swear it was no accident P " ' Not much of an accident { I 6aw the whole thing and he shall swing for it,' said a voice behind me. "I turned, and there stood one of the other brothers, with leveled rifle bearing directly on me. I attempted to speak, but he would not allow it. " * March straight to the house, and if yoa try to get away I'll kill you like a dog. I would shoot you now, but for the pleasure ol having yon nunR r " My own protestations, Lily's tears and entreaties, were of no avail, and to avoid immediate violence I thought it best to comply. " Od the way to the house we were joiiit-d by the other brother, and, after a fow wi>rds in some language unknown to me, thoy both harried me on. The old man was not at home when we reached the house, and after another consultation they chained me securely, and then made preparations for a journey. "As I gathered from hints?purposely let drop?they intended to take me to Fort Smith tu be tried. I did not exaotly see the object of this, since if the case was cnce brought to trial I could easily be cleared by Lily's evi dence. "After sendingsome of their servants to bring in the body, they mounted me on a horse, tied my hands behind me aDd my feet under the horse, and, with one riding before and the other behind, wo set out. " Lily bepged to be allowed to go, but they refused. It was a lonely country where Mr. "Williams lived, no house within twentv miles, or she would Lave gone for help to stop them. "Tbb first day's travel passed without incident. My captors were taciturn, e&ying nothing to me and but little to each other. At night they loosed my hands sufficiently to let me eat, which was a little more than 1 expected; i but after supper my hands and feet were securely chained, the chain carried around a tree and fastened with a padlock. " The next morning our journey "'as resumed. We had reached the Kiamatia mountains, over which we were Roing by a bridle-path?a wild, desolate region, tit place for a deed of crime. I began to fear, from the looks and words which passed fiom one to the other, that 1 would never reach Fort Smith. It would be an easy matter to kill me, cast my body down into pome one of the ravines which we were constantly crossing, and invent some plausible excuse for my disappearance. ' As night came on they frequently stopped and held consultations with each other, casting the while glances of mingled hate and triumph op me. It was eafiy enough to tell the meaning of this; but even if I bad condescended to entreaties it would have been of no avail. "Let my fate be what it might I must meet it in silence. Many were the thoughts which passed through my mind on that hurried ride, but it is needless to dwell on them. "The. night of the second day we camped on the edge of an old field, grown over with brown grass. The same precautions were taken as on the previous night, and soon my captors were wrapped in slumber. I knew that in all probability it was my last night on earth, and many conflicting emotions filled my mind, driving away sleep. But chiefly I thought of Lily,my prairie flower, left to the mercy of these rude men. "About midnight my meditations were interrupted by a soft rustle behind me in the bushes; but before I could speak or make a motion a voice, which I never expected to hear on earth again, said, Hush 1* and in a moment Lily was beside me. "Then, with her arms around me, her lips close to my ear, she told that she had overheard her brothers talk of killing me on the way, being a'.'raid to do so at home; had caught two of her own horses (the best in the country) and had followed with the hope of rescuing me. "She had a key which she thought would . open the padlock fastening the chain that held me. The padlock was one of the spring kind, with the keyhole, a simple slip, at the bottom. The key is a plain, flat bar, with various indentations in it to fit the wards of the lock, and by simply pressing on it the loct flia>. open. "Lily tried the key, but it would not fit. As* I could see by the moonlight, an expression of dismay flitted over her face and she pressed her hands to her head as if to think. As for me, I had fin Innc piven un all hone of life that I sat iu silence, awaiting what she would do, nnable to offer any suggestions. "Then, with the murmured words, ' It may do !' she left mo for a moment, ' going into the old field. Then she rei turned, bringiug a handful of the : broom-prrass with her. Selecting a twig j of thistle of jut-t sufficient diameter to j fill the slit in tho bottom of the lock, I sho thrust it perpendicularly as far as j it would go, broke it off a quarter of ! an inch from the lock. She did this ; with other straws, until the whole keyi hole was full, breaking them off eveniy | only on the outside, though, of coufte, i the inside ends fitted into the wards of ! the luck. Then sho pressed on all the i ends and the lock flew open. " So quietly that not a link rattled. ! Lily unwound the chain, and I was onc? i more free. We started for the horses, | but unfortunately had gone but a fea ' I fe? t when I stepped on a dry stick, which broke with a loud crack. Lily's i ! brothers were light sleepers and they I awoke immediately. Not seeing me, j they rnshed hither and thither in search, > I and just as we reached the horse3 one : l of them caught a glimpse of us and fired. > I The ball struck Lily's horse and killed , it. n a moment I had peated her bu ! hind me, and, concealment being no i Jongor possible, rode away at full < speed. " They saddled and came hard aftc-r 1 us. We kept our distance; but on account of the double burden which our horse carried were never able to get far out of hearing, while they followed with a persistence worthy of a better cause. Not caring to stop in the Indian Territory among the Chickasaw nation, I rode for the river, which 1 fortunately reached just in time to meet | you and baffle them. Our horse, good as he wa?, wa~ nearly exhausted, and ! could not h vo carried us much j further. Thanks to you, I bo; e we are safe now." The story was ended and we were soon asleep. In the morning we took Uerndon and Miss Lily to the railroad, whero they took the train for Fort Smith. We received a letter from him afterward. He stood his trial, camo out nloov on/1 mnrviflfl Mica Tiilv TKp Williams boys were soon afterward both killed in a drunken frolic ending in a fight. Indian Mound Builders. "We are not, moreover, withont testimony to the fact that the present Indian tribes di i bnild mounds. Lewis and Clark mention the custom among the Oruahas, Paying that "ono of their great chiefs was bnried on a hill, and a mound twelve feet in diameter and six feet in height erected over him." Ber tram states that the Choctaws covered the pyramid of coffins taken from the bone-hcuse with earth, thus raising a conical hill or mound. Tomochichi pointed out to General Oglethorpe, a large conical mound near Savannah, in which he said the Yamacraw chief was interred, who had, many years before, entertained a great white | man with a red beard, who entered the Savannah river in a large vessel, and in his barge came up to the Yamacraw bluff. Featherstonhaugh, in his " Travels,'' speaks of the custom among the Osages, referring to a mound built over the body of a chief, called Jean Defoe by the French, who unexpectedly died while his warriors were absent on n linnfinrr nmoilifmTi TTrmn fVinir YOm U UUUliU^ V J/Wll vuw?* V turn they heaped a mound over his remains, enlarging it at intervals for a long period, nntil it reached its present height. Bradford says that many of the tumnli formed of earth, and occasionally of stones, are of Indian origin. They are generally sepulchral mounds?either the general cemefery of a village or tribe, funeral monu, ments over the graves of the illustrious chiefs, or upon # a . battlefieldcommemorating the event and entombing the fallen, or the result of a custom, prevalent among some of the tribes, of collecting at stated intervals the bones of the dead, and interring them in a common repository. A mound of the latter description was formerly situated on the low grounds of the Bivanna rirer, in Virginia, opposite the site of an old Indian village (Jefferson's " Notes of Virginia," pp. 100, 103). It was forty feot in diameter and twelve feet in height, of a spheroidal form, and surrounded by a trench, whence the earth employed in its erection had been excavated. The circumstances attending the custom alluded to were the great number o! skeletons, their confused position, their situation in distinct t trata, exhibiting different stages of decomposition, and the appearance of bones of infants. A mound of Bimiliar character, and constructed in layers or stiata at successive periods, existed near the south branch of the Shenandoah, in the same State. A tumulus of stones, in New York State, is said to have marked the grave of a distinguished worrior. " Beck's Gazetteer" Btates that "a mound of the largest dimensions has been thrown up, within a few years in Illinois, over the remains of an eminent chief.?Pro/esor N. H. Winchell. The Ohristian Almanac for 1882 gives the following statistics of the Evangelical association : Whole number of members 113,871, being an increase over last year of 1,674 ; newly converted, 10,469, a decrease of 2,043 from last year; adults baptized, 1,328 ; children baptized, 7,828; itinerant preachers, 912; local preachers, 611; number of churches, 1,534; parsonages, 456; value of church propel ty, 33,782,295; Sunday-schools, 2,016; catechumens, 8,632. Sunday-school scholars, 127,557 ; total of contributions, $100,826 47. Novel Remedy for Shipwreck. Perhaps no point on the eastern coast of Scotland do the waves come rolling in more lunousiy in stormy weatner than at Peterhead. Situated as it is on the most easterly promontory, it is fully exposed to the German Ocean. As fpr baob as the days of Earl Marischal it was found necessary "to build ane bulwark at the mouth ol the haven" there, and since then many improvements have been effected with a view to the safety and convenience of the craft which during the fishing season in the north sail out from the harbors, there to reap the harvest of the sea. But of all attempts made in this direction the latest is in every respect the most extraordinary. It consists simply of "throwing oil upon the troubled waters." The idea is not altogether a new one. but so far as we are awaro it has never received that attention which it would seem to deserve. Mr. Shields, a Perth gentleman ; Mr. Armit, submarine and wreck engineer, Broughty Ferry, and Mr. Yeanian, one of the late members of parliament for Dundee are, however, now determined to thoroughly test its efficacy. The experiments are to be carried out at the bar of the northern harbor of JPeterhead. Here a wooden building has been erected on I the quay wall, in which a tank with the j oil and a force-pump will be placed. I From this tank the oil will be conveyed I by iron pipes to deep water? a distance ! of some two hundred yards?and thence | in a gutta-percha pipe across the harbor entrance. The piping will be kept stationary by heavy blocks of metal, and it will be perforated and fitted at intervals with "roses," to permit of the oil being properly distributed. From the pipe the oil will be forced by the pump, and will riso to the surface of the water, and form a film; and while it is not expected that by this mcan6 the volume of the waves may be very much lessened, it is believed that the wind will be prevented from breaking their crests, which it seems is one of the great dangers to which small craft are exposed. Should the experiments be rendered with any degreo of success the same thing could be done in a variety of circumstances.?Pudtn Echo. How the Indian Jockey Won, The first horse-race in this conntry occurred jast twenty-five years ago between a white man named E. Kuhn and an Indian belonging to the numerous camps of red men in this county. Kuhn pnt up twenty-five dollars in gold, and if Mr. Indian would cover it he would let his horse run. This was arranged, and three hundred and fifty yards agreed upon as the distance. A naked f-avage w*s then bound to a pony, with each wrist encircled with rattle-boxes /if inoonimm dnmV.A P.or* l.hintr heinc Vl ? o o in readiness, word was givon and away they went, the Indian in the lead. When they had passed about half tho distance Kuha thonght he would show how easily he could pass. As Kuhn urged his horse alongsido the savage let forth an unearthly yell, and at the same time flourishing whip and rattles , in the eye of the white'man's horse, causing the affrighted animal to wheel 1 and run in the opposito direction, leaving to the B.'ivage a free Held and no favor.? Ringgold (Iowa) Regist-v. < Statistics show that women commit r suicide most frequently on Sunday. FACTS AM) COMMENTS. In December last, an attempt was made to kill the czar of Bussia by filling with dynamite the wood used in making a fire in bis library stove. An inspector rushed in one morning and gave warning that the czar should not have a fire pade, as his suspicions had been excited by a conversation he had overheard between the fireman and an officer of the guard. An examination disclosed enongh dynamite to blow up the palace. The fireman and officer disappeared. Alexander does not go into his conservatory, as he has been warned that the plants are poisoned. Altogether, ho manages to lead a very quiet life?by not daring to go anywhere. While the fly-wheel of the Winchester Arms manufactory in New Haven was revolving so rapidly that the spokes were indistinguishable, the engineer notic.d a wluto blotch revolving with it, bnt snpposing that it was merely sunngnt lau ng on me wneex, ne at urBi ma^e no investigation. Two hours and a half later he observed that the white streak was still there, and, having stopped the engine, he discovered to his amazement that tho apparition was a substantial white cat which had been clinging to one of the spokes since the wheel started. She was very much exhausted, and the numberless revolutions had made her cross-eyed, but she has sinco recovered her strength and visual perfection a?d become the pet of he establishment. A paspenper on the steamer Egypt last summer had his attention recently aroused by an advertisement inquiring for information of a young man whom he saw just as the steamer was leaving for Earope asking the captain for permission to work his passage. He was pale, slight, fashionably dressed, with a traveling satchel, delicato hands, expressive face, polished manners and troll Q/1r1rAR? Tho RAftfind rlflV VMWVWVVVi ~~~~~ j out he saw the young man coming np through the hole leading to the furnaces, for a breath of fresh air; his hands , were blackened, his brown hair uncombed, hi3 pantaloons and shirt soiled. The passenger couldn't but ad mire his pluck an he wont back to hie duty. Only once he faltered and offered his watch to a fireman to give . him a respite. It was intensely hot weather and he could not endure the 1 fiery furnace. Two nights later the passenger heard some one say, " Bring ice, ajman is djing," and the next day the 1 young man's body was buried in the eea. 1 t Last summer Secretary Blaine and President Garfield made tho discovery that one of the clocks in the White 1 House had a history worth knowing, i From a bundle of old red-tape docu- i ments they learned that a gilt and i alabaster clock, presented by Napoleon i J.'to Lafayette, had passed from him j to General Washington, and thence to ] the use of the Presidents of the United i States in their official mansion. The t historical timepiece, of which no one i knew this engaging history, was found < ticking away in the exact and regular < way that it had been famous for years, i It adorns the mantelpiece of the Red 1 Parlor now; a block of alabaster with j a band of gold bas-relief in heraldic < designs around the base, the gilded 1 figure Clio, the muse of history, seated < above it. As a relic and piece of vertu < it is more valuable than any thine: else in the mansion, and the vicissitudes of all these years have strangely spared it to this latter day that has just learned to reverence it. Cheap food is a blessing in every sense, and a writer in the Internationul Review shows the influence of the price of food upon the social and moral condition of the people. It has been shown that in England and France those years in which corn was sold at the highest price have been those in which mortality was greatest and disease most prevalent; and that those, on the contrary, in which corn has been cheapest, have been the healthiest and least mortal. Dr. Farr, of England, in his statistical abstracts, shows that the death-rate of the population falls three per cent, for each decreaso of two shillings in the price of wheat. The influ- { nn/ia /> ( fhn nnot litrinnr nnnri fVta U1 iUU WOV VI illiug UJLIVU ?uu ^ number of marriages is too well recognized to need any extended notice. In Enrope this influence is exerted upon 1 emigration, and the statistics show that j a year of high prioes is aocompanied ( with an increased emigration. It will ( be thns seen that heavy crops in 3ny country are conducive to morality and health, as well as prosperity and con- | tentment. i 1 Several cases of atrocious poisoning 1 in England of late have attracted much ' attention. A London physician has 1 written a letter to one of the papers, in which he eay&: " Being in conversation i Ivith an eminent London physician and with an eminent provincial physician, I chanced to relate an attempt at domestic poisoning which had come under 1 my notice in course of my practice. Tho provincial physician related a similar 1 one, the London physician another. 1 He then added: 'Here are we three, each with such a case, and probably with more than one in our experience. ' Estimating that there are 18,000 medi- 1 cal practitioners in Great Britain, I be- ' 1-- iu.t 10 nnn ^11 lUHt i?,VUU U1 tliCJLU kUUlU 1E11 ta^s of the same kind. How many instances are there which escape detection?" It is not admitted by most com mentators on this curious intimation 1 that there is any snob prevalence of poisoning as these lxs*?os would seem to indicate. Nevertheless, cases of attempted poisoning are not infrequent. There seems to be no safeguard against them. For in England, at all events, the regulations against the improper sale of poisons are very strict. HEALTH HINTS. Educate the stomach. When it is once accustomed to simple food, voracious appotite, distress and disease will disappear. There are no two substances known that can furnish better sustenance to the body and brain than whole wheat, unleavened bread acd cow's milk. On matters of life pertaining to health, there is at present no coscience with the people, but there should be one, and you ar.d I ought to help create it. A live minutes'nap is often better than a hour's sleep, because you do not wake up with that half-dead feeling which some people complain of when we urge them to rest, ami the sleeplessness is gone. Whooping congh has been sncceesfully treated by turpentine vapor. The theory was discovered by allowing a child, sick with the disease, to sleep in a room freshly painted, when a noticeable improvement took phce. Seven rales by which to get well and keep well:?1. Keep the hend cool. 2. Keep the skin cool. 3. Keep the feet warm and dry. 4. Keep bowels open. There is no snch provokative cause to disease as constipation. 5. Rest regularly and profoundly. Empty the brain at night of all the day's proceedings. Train the will to help to do this. 6. Bo careful in the choice of associates. Do not be demagnatizod or vampired by people. 7. Go to bed and get up at regular hours, thus culjivatiner the habit of Bleep. Invalids need to be reconstitutionalized. Genius and intelligence should be locked up and laid away while the process of reconstruction is going on. No human being can get well in defianco of God's law. The custom of employing artipts to paint the outside of houses with artistic designs, which formerly prevailed not only in the south of Europe, but also largely in Germany, has lately been revived in Munich. Two houses recently treated in this manner are cxcitiog i much admiration from the beauty of their decoration. KATE S0THE11N. Tlirllline ?torv of a Wife'* IteTeng? ? A One? !Hnuntnin Belle In n Georala Prl?on ?Appeal to Wonieh for Uer Vindication. An Atlanta (Ga.) correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial writes as follows: Five jears ago there lived in Pickens crunty, among the mountains, as fair a Idsa as such a region is proverbial for producing, a rosy-cheeked, brownhaired, blue-eyed maiden, with the form of a model and the grace of a gazelle. She was the daughter of a well-to-do farmer, and her smiles were courted by the brave-hearted young mountaineers, who engaged in honorable competition for a monopoly of her society. Amonrr those was a dashing joung man, handsome, of princely carriage, and whone fame for courage made him known in all the countics around. Dauntless iu love as in all things else, be laid siege to the heart of this mountain belle, to whom Rhe capitulated, and thong h tmt a girl in years?seventeen she was ? tliey wore married. She idolized her hnsband, and clung to him with a w_r*hipful devotion, happy only when with, and ready to sacrifice her life if need oe for him. And he, feeling secure in her love, repaid her attachment with indifference, and gave more attention to another, a former rival of his wife, than was consistent with his obligation as a husband. She bore this long in silence, and tried to persuade herself that there was nothing wrong in her hasband's condnct. Bnt the seed of jealousy was planted in her heart, and found nourishment in the buoyancy that once existed there. Ere many months the bloom on her cheeks faded, the brilliancy of her eye departed,her merry laugh was no longer heard, and the once light-hearted and happy girl was changed to Vie disconsolate and brooding woman. And still no complaint of her husband. He would come back to her, she thought. ."But her confidence was misplaced; and at last, when one night a dancin; party was given at her father's house, whero she lived, and the source of her nnhappiness was among the invited, she approached her husband, and affectionately entwining her arms about his neck, begged him for her Bake not to dance with tho woman Bhe hated. r>i f-.11.. i- / 1 -i nuyiuiiy cmuiug uer ior uer juhioumj , lie gave her his promise that her request should be granted. She did Dot engage in the festivities, but pleading illness retired ; though not to sleep, however, for she knew that her husband arid her rival were under the eame roof. With weary eyes and aching heart she watched the dancers, but nothing occurred on the part of her husband to excite her jealousy until midnight, when, believing her to be asleep, he took his position in the next quadrille with the woman he had promised his wife to avoid as his partner. Stung to the heart at this exhibition of perfidy aDder the roof that sheltered her home, she watched the dance for awhile, her senses seeming to desert her, and then she left her room and sought her father, from whom she borrowed a pocket knife under the pretext of wanting to cut a tooth-brush Securing ihe knife she returned to the room in which the danoing -was going 3n, reaching it just as the last set ended, end going up to her rival, who ivas moving toward a seat, seized her by the shoulder, and frenzied with jealous rage, said, " You have danced anough 1" at the same time drawing ihe open knife from the folds of her irees and plunging it deep into the woman's neck, making ? horrible gash which penetrated nearly t:> the heart, ind from which the blood spurted Bevsral feet in the air and spattered over ;he late dancer?. Again the deadly blade was uplifted, and again it descended, plunged into the left breast in search of the heart, and yet again mother blow, when the victim *ank to she floor?dead. Ho quickly and bo quietly was the awful tragedy enacted, ;hat not nntil the woman fell, and the blood from her wounds was discovered, lid any one know what had happened. When the discovery was made, a rash tras made toward the prostrate form, ind voices cried: " Where is the man that struck that yoman ?" To which the answer came in a tone ind an attitude of prond defiance from ;he wronged wife: " I am the man that did it." The horror-Btricken crowd surged ibout the door, when her husband, resizing what his flirtation had brought ibout, grasped his wife and drawing his pistol, said: " Gentlemen, I am going to leave this house and take my wife with me; ind we are going through, if I have to shoot through." The crowd gave way before him, and going out into the night, husband and wife disappeared under cover of the darkness, and for a 'whole year evaded the vigilance of detectives, with the in centive or ?zou reward onerea t>v t-ne | parents of the dead woman and 8150 by the State for their apprehension. They were finally heard of in North Carolina, where they were arrested and brought baok to Pickens county and lodged in jail, and with them a little girl baby which had become a member of the family since their flight. The woman waa tried for murder, convicted and sentenced to death, but through the efforts of friends the governor was indr.ced to commute her sentence to ten years in the penitentiary, and on the 29th of May, 1878, she passed through Atlanta on her way to enter the service of her sentence at a convict camp in "Washington county. So famous had this girl-wife and murderess become?her name and her deed already the theme of two continents?that the announcement of her presence attracted the largest throng ever assembled in tho city, with the possible exception of one or more grand special days at the late exposition. The surging multitude grew wild over the desire to get a glimpse of her, while she appeared unconscious of her surroundings, maintaining a dejected and listless air. Her husband and child accompanied her. The influence of a universal sympathy Eecured immunity from prison l _ 1* J ^1. -11 i.~ 1 regujauoDB, ana kuu w?o uuuveu i*u weur her customary garb instead of the penitentiary stripes. At the Washington county oamp she remained nearly a year, during wfiich she was occupied in making clothing for the other convicts, her husband remaining with her and holding the position of guard over a squad of prisoners. She was not restrained in her liberty, but remained with and had the privileges of a member of the family of the lessee. At the expiration of a year she fell to the lot of another lessee,'whose camp was in Taj lor county, whither she was removed, her husband following, her little girl dying during her stay at the Washington county camp. After eleven months in Taylor county she was removed to Barton county, where the family of the lessee resided, where she remained in the capacity of a domestic nntil last February,when the lessee, Colonel C. B.Howard, removed to Atlanta, bringing with him the fair convict, who is still retained as a servant in his household. Her husband remains with her and acts as her escort, no surveil lance being kept on their movements. They attended the exposition frequently and alone. To the readers of five years ago the name of this woman, the circumstances of her crime, the trial, conviction and dentil sentence will be familiar, for " Kate Sotheru" appeared in the columns of every newspaper printed in this country and in many out. of it The victim of her outraged love was Narcissa Cowart, or " Cis Cowart," as she was better known. Although only twenty-two years old now, Mrs. Sothern bears the age traces of thirty. Hfr countenance wears the shado of a deep melancholy, and her great blue eyes a perpetual expression of sadness A visit to her by your correspondent has led to a revival of the tragic history of her life, but not for the purpose of pandering to the sensational appetite of the public. Far from it. The columns of the Commercial are sought with a higher aim, which is an appeal to every wife and mother in this broad land to lend her name to a petition to the governor of Georgia for Kate Sothern's pardon. Men have killed their fellow men for a like provocation that Kate Sothern killed larcissa Cowart and ware not only acquitted of crime bnt applauded for the deed. It is a husband's conceded right, nay, hisiuost solemn duty, to protect tho sanctity of his home ; and wherein is tho wife to be less commended than the linaband in a like effort? Again, if tho purpose of the law is punish-1 ment for crime, in what measure has the law been satisfied in its execution of tho sentenco of Kate Sothern? Clearly, she was either guilty or not guilty. If guilty, Bhe should have been punished according to the degree of her offense. If not guilty she should be 6et at liberty. Her punishment has not been in satisfaction for the crime of which she was found guilty, for she has virtnully enjoyed unrestrained liberty, which is wrone ii she is innocent. Certainly the authorities are not disposed to regard her as guilty, since her sentence is permitted to go unserved, and it would appear that whatever the extent of her crime, she has atoued to the law and society in the four years of her detention at the camp of the convicts, and it is believed that the adoption of the suggestion herein contained is only needed even in part to induce Governor Oolqu tt to grant Kate Sothern's pordon. It is left for the ladies. Let them seek it. Majolica Ware. From the earliest ptriod of ifs production the ancient art pottery of Italy ?called in tho language of the country " maplica"? has attracted theattentic n of coDnois?eur8. For a long time it was known in England as Raffielle ware" or' 'Faenza ware," and before curiosity hunters had scoured the country specimens could be obtained in anj brie a bi ac shop of Italy for cents, where dollars would now fail to seenre it. Tho common belief that Raffaelle had himself been a painter of plates and dishes was the cause of widespread appreciation. Evidence is, however, totally wanting in this direction, and although stripped of interest and no longer attributed to the great painter of Urbino, majolica ware, from its intrinsic _.i - L ?1.1 _ .1 _ vaiuo, is niguiy prizau. It is certainly one of the most important items in the category of decorative art, arising as it did from a study of the ornamented pottery produced by the Arabs in Spain, and which daring the middle apies were largely imported into Italy. Darincr the fifteenth, sixteenth and the early part of the seventeenth centuries, majolica was a great staple manufacture of Italy. Manufactories were founded and fostered by the princes and the status of the workmen was placed above the condition of the ordinary artisan; the artists were "maestri" enjoying wide repute, and the cities which were the principal seats of the manufacture acquired dignity and importance. Faenza. Urbino, Oastel Durante, Gubbio and Pesaro wdre the great centers of the majolica fabrication, and the princes of Urbino were its most noted patrons. Specimens known as "lustred" are the rarest, and these are of various kinds, the "iridescent colors," "reflects metal-liques," "dolori cangianti" or madre-perla are really pigments produced by metals deposited on the surface of tho ware by some means unknown at the present day. The secret of one of tuem, tne ruby luster, aiea orit early in the sixteenth centnry, and seems to have been confided to one ceamic aitist, Giorgio, of Gubbio. The specimens of this luster date from 1500 to 1550, and happy is the possessor of a cabinet containing a genuine specimen. The earliest known example of Giorgio's ware with the signature of the master is 1518 and the latest 1537. Probably the finest collection of works of this character is the Soulages collection, formed by M. Jnles Soulacjes during a period between 1830 and 1840, and purchased by the English government in 1856 for the South Kensington museum for the sum of $65,000. A Norwccian Table. The Norwegians, writes a correspondent, are not epicures, not even what might bo termed good livers. They have but little variety on their tables; the food is not always of good quality; and even if the original ma teriai is good, it 19 pretty certain to oe spoiled in the cooking. The Norwegian manner of preparing and dressing victuals I must emphasize as especially tail. Fish and potatoes may be called the staple diet of the whole country. A cup of coffee is usually taken upon rising in the morning. Then at about1 9 o'clock comes breakfast. This meal is usually preceded by arery small glass of brandy; flavored with caraway seeds. Upon the table are many small dishes of cold ham, tongue, sausage, anchovies, sardines and several kinds of cheese. Sometimes these dishes are served upon a sideboard, to which periodical visits from the table are made. Then some warm fish and potatoes are brought in. These aie raveneusly attacked, and next the cold dishes are apt to be pounced upon again, and the most outrageous dietical crimes are unblushingly perpetrated. Beefsteaks and mutton chops are rarely seen. Dinner is usually served at 2 o'clock. It consists of soup, fish, meat and pudding ; then is rarely any fruit but a kind of pickled currant, which is eaten with the meat. Good beer and claret, which is rarely good, are the popular drinks. Upon rising from the table, it is etiquette to say something (in NorskJ of conrso) to the effect that you have made a good meal?how often a gastronomic perjury!?bowing at the same time right and left, and to your vis a-vis. This recalls the pretty and graceful iable benediction: "Gesegnete Mahlzeifc," (m ?y the meal be blessed to you,) nnn Vioarn nil nvflr Gftrmmv. Supper is ready at 8 or 9. Like breakfast, it is beisun with a small glass of aqnavita, followed generally with beer, but sometimes with tea. The supper-table resembles the breakfast-table, except in the species of the genus cheese. Thus I have frequently seen six varieties of coagulated curd on the table at the same time, ono or two of them being qulto good, but several native kinds rank and more distasteful to an American palate than the reindeer cheese of the Laplanders. The gentlemen take a glass of hot toddy before retiring for the night. Hooks ard Eyes lor Rnssiau Soldiers. By an imperial order just issued considerable changes are to bo introduced into the uniform of the Russian army. Buttons aro to be rigidly suppressed, and ttieir places su| plied by hooks and eyes, and two breast pockets are to be worn in all cases for holding tho reserve cartridges on occasions when the troops are compelled, in going into action, to leave their knapsacks behind, l'lao officers' uniforms are to be of similar make, with the difference that they are to be adjusted to the fignro of the waist and that buttons be allowed for attaohing their epaulets. In the case of the dragoons the familiar kepi and ehako are to he replaced byal Astrafcan sap ornamented in front with a cockade and the imperial eagle. The imperial gnard, on the other hand, will retain its present uniforms and cap*. A writer in the Invalids Russc explains that these and other minor modifications have for their cLief object the simplifying of the work of supplying the army with clothing, the uniforms under the new system being more easily adapted to the varying sizes nnd figures of the men.? London Daily Neict. A farmer who is doing justice to his profession should know in February just what crop each field on his f^rm is to bear during the coming season. He should plan further than this, and by following o. well selected system of roflfona Vn r\rrr rrliaf. fhia an/1 taiilUU VI VI vypo UUVII l>UMW VU?J MUM that field is to be devoted to for half a dozen years to como. There is a relation:-which one crop bear to another that all should understand. The Central Hudson railroad and its branches is valued at $168,210,680.83. A Terrible Mistake. The condensed milk npou which Mrs Murphy fed her baby was kept at night , upon the window-pill in the nureery, where the cool air, drawing in under the oponed sash, would envelop the ca.. One night when the baby was unusually troublesome, Mr. Murphy, faithful and self-sacrificing father and husband, said : that he would go to the nursery and mix the milk for the hungry little ' sufferer. The nursery was quite dark, ' but Mr. Mtirphy had often performed J the service before, and he knew just where to put his hand on tho bottle and 1 spoon and the other things. It happened, however, that an open can of 1 baking powder stood apon the wiudow 1 sill, near to the can of condensed milk, ] and Mr. Murphy, Retting hold of it, put two spoonfuls of the powder into the : bottle, filled the bottle with Lot water, 1 put on the rubber top and went back to ' the bedroom. ' i When the baby had takfn turee or ' four swallows of the mixture it pushed the bottle away and began to behave in ' a most extraordinary manner. After : ?.n~ ....ii. iui. -,.i VUlilUg ?' 1 til lUilb VOUt'lLirULC tllUI/ 13 always astonishing when the sizi of a baby is considered, it turned a couple I of somersaults, rolled over and over, 1 clutched the sides of the crib and con- 1 ducted itself generally inauch a fashion as to fill Mr. and Mrs. Murpby with 1 intense alarm. 44 What on earth can be the matter with Alexander ?" asked Mr. Murphy, taking the bottle from his wife, as she turned her attention wholly to the child. " He acts as if he had convulsions," said Mvs. Murphy. Mr. Mrn^jy suggested a spice plaster as a possible nlleviation of the child's pain; nnd Mrs. Murphy was just remarkirg that a spice plaster was far too trivial a remedy for such spasms, when Mr. Murphy observed the color of the mixture in the bottle. He removed the top, and standing behind Mrs. Murphy applied the bottle to his ncse. At once he-proceeded to the nursery 1 and striking a light discovered the nature of the^ mistake he had made. 1 Qaickly he threw the can of bakint powder out of the window, emptied and washed the bottle, tilled it with milk and returned to the bedroom with the evidences of his crime, as he imagined, all removed. In an hour or two the baby grew quieter, and Mr. Mnrphy went to bed, remorseful, bnt glad that he had had so much presence of mind. Mis. Murphy sat up all night with the injured Alexander in her arms. Mr. Murphy came down to breakfast, feeling, upon the whole, rather easy in his mind. Mrs. Murphy greeted him with a fierce look in her eyes. ' " You wanted to murder your ohild, J did you ?" Bhe asked, with intense feeling J "Murder my ohild, darling?" asked j Mr. Murphy, with an affectation of sur- * prise, while his head began beating furiously. " Why, what do you mean?" ? " You threw away the baking pow- j der and cleaned the bottle," said Mrs. ' Mujpby, with a bitter sneer, " but you forgot the spoon! I found some baking 1 powder in the spoon! H#! ha! Be ! sure your Bin will find you out! If Al- 1 exander had died you would have been } a murderer! A red-Handed murdererl" J And then Mrs. Murphy burst into ' tears and flew upstairs. Mr. Mnrphy * went down town without hm breakfast 1 and with a strong determination to re- 1 frain hereafter from providing noctur- 1 nal nutriment for Alexander.? Our Con- 1 tinent. 1 Last Hours or John (Jiiincy Adams. ' I never witnessed so impressive a ' scene as that in the old hall of the Honse of Representatives on the 21st 1 of February, 1848, when Mr. Adams was stricken down by death at his seat. He had partially risen as if to speak, then grasped the desk with a conval- 1 sive motion, and would have fallen had 1 not his neighbor, D*vid Fisher, of ' Ohio, canght him in his arms. The ; representatives and those of us corre- spondents who had seats on the floor J hastened to the spot, and thero were j cries of "Stand back!" "Give him 1 air I" " Carry him to the win- | dow I" Nearly all seemed panic- J sttuck and confused, but Mr. Speaker Winthrop main'ained his self possession and a'ljourued the House. Ready hands brought a settee, on which Mr. Adams was carried into the rotunda. The fre6h air, however, did not revive him, and by invitation of Mr. Winthrop he 1 was taken into the speaker's room, 1 where a bed was soon made on a large, i old-fashioned sofa. Five physician?, ! who were members of the House, held 1 a hurried consultation, and by their < direction mustard poultices were ap- < plied to his feet, producing, however, < but little effect. Meanwhile Mm. < Adam=, with seme female friends and < the family physician, had arrive.]. Cupping was then resorted to, and about an < hour a'ter he had fallen the dying patriot I nnonc*A TtiQ flTld flAl'd to Dr. P?V- 1 ton: "This is the last of earth, but I j am composed." 1 These were the last words spoken by i John Quinoy Adams. The remainder < of that day and through the two follow- i ing days did he linger on the verge of 1 existence: < His history closing as Iifo seldom ends 1 Ho had outlived ull foe*, till the world were hie ? friends. t Statesmen of all parties, including < Henry Clay, called upon him, but he 1 knew them not, as he lay with closed 1 eyes, apparently inanimate. He lin- c gered until the afternoon of the 23d of c February. His spirit qaietly took its ? flight, and Burling, Healey, Palfrey and * ethers who stood at his bedside might c have exclaimed, in the language of f Beaumont: i How sweotly g Even death embraces thee 1 * Tho peace of ? Heaven, , The fellowship of all great souls go with thee, j A few days later the remains of Mr. j Adams were escorted to their last rest- ^ ing place at Qnincy by a large Congressional committee, who were hospitably f entertained at Boston after the funeral. The old speaker's room in which he died is now the room of tho House ( committee on banking and currency, and when Mr. Sam Hooper was chair man of that committee he had a bust of ; Mr. Adams placed there, with a slab . beneath bearing an appropriate com- 1 memorative inscription, written by ; Charles Sumner.?lien Perlcy Poorc. eedlng Fowls by .Machinery. The process or feeding fowls by machinery in France is thus described : ; Imagine the top of a round tea fable divided off into seotions, with a partition between each section and a board in front with a half moon shaded apt-rtnre in it. In each of these sections is an unhappy duck or chirken confined by a ebain to each leg, and nndc-r each is fitted a tray which receives the dirt and is emptied each day. Through the center of this structure gois a round post, and there is a series of such tea- , table tops to the roof of the building, each with its divisions and imprisoned fowls. At stated intervals a man comes around with ft complicated machine, , filled with a kind of thin gruel, and ! filled with a pipe at the end of a long india rubber tube. He introduces this ( pipe down the throat of a duck, and -3 rt n will* f/Vftl An/1 precsoeo UUWU a pcuai mim xiio iuuv,, uuu a certain quantity of food is forced into the creature's crop, a disk above showing exactly what amount of force he is to use and how much food passes. This process is gone through with each fowl till all ore fed, and it is repeated four times a day for ducks aud three for ' chickens. Two weeks suffice to fatten a duck, but three are neeea?ary for a chicken. Apart from the necessary confinement of the birds, the process does not seem to be at all a cruel one, as tho amount of food forced down I their throats is not excessive. Chicago has a larger proportion of Hebrews in its population than any other city in the world. There are fifteen synagogues in that city, with an aggregate attendance of 20,000. Student: "Whac is political economy?" Running on the Fame ticket with a very rich man who will pull yon through.? Boston Post. How to I'un. Very few bojs kDOT how to ran. " Ho, ho 1" say a dczen boys. " Jast bring on the boy that cnn run faster than I can I" Bat stop a moment. I don't mean that most boys can't ran ia3t?I mean they can't ran far. I don't believo there is one boy in fifty of those who may read this wh'o can ran a quarter of a mile it a good smart pace withont having to blow like a porpoise by the time he has made his distance. And how many l.'oys aie there who can run, fast or slow, a full mile without stopping ? It hardly speaks well of our race, 3oes it, that almost any animal in creation that pretends to run at all can out run any of us? ? Take the smallest terrierdogyoucan Snd, that is sonnd and not a puppy, *nd try a race with him. He'll beat you badly. He'll run a third faster than you can, and ten times as far, and this with legs not more than six inches long. I have a hound so active that tie alwajs runs at least seventy-five miles when I stay a day in the woods with him ; for he certainly runs more than seven miles an hour, and if I am gone ten hours, you nee he must travel about seventy-five miles distance. And then, a go:d hound will sometimes follow a fox two days and nights without stopping, going more than three hundred and fifty miles, and he will io it without eating or bleeping. Then, you may have heard how some of the runners in South African tribes will rem for long dis^nces?hundreds of miles ? curving dispatches, and making very few stops. I make these comparisons to show tha?; our boys who cannot run a mile without being badly winded are very poor runners. But I believe I can tell the boys romething th it will help them to run better. I was a pretty old boy when I first found it out, but the first time I fried it I ran a mile and a quarter at one dash, ana I was not weary or blown. And now I am going to give yon the secret: Breathe through yonr nose! I had been thinking what poor runners we are, and wondering why the animals can run so far, and it came te me that perhaps this might account for the difference, that they always take air throngh the nose, we usually begin to puff through our mouths before we have gone many rods. Some animals, such as the dog and fox, do open their mouths and pant while running, but they do this to cool themselves, and oot because they cannot get air enough through their noses. I once found, through a sad experience with a pet dog, that dogs must lie if their nostrils become stopped. They will breathe through the mouth Dnly while it is forcibly held open; if left to themselves they always breathe through the ncse. Soi, possibly, we are intended to take ill our breath through the nose, unless lecessity drives us to breathe through ihe mouth. There are other reasons why we jught to make our noRes furnish all ;he air to our lungs. One is, the nose 8 tilled with a little forest of hair, ivhich in alwav* k?|.t moist, like \dl tho inner surface <?t rim Lose, and particles )f dust that woul 1 otherwise rush into ;he lungs an 1 im k trouble, are caught ind kept out by tuis little heavy network. Then thn passages of tho nose ire longer, and ^mailer, and more jrooked than that of the mouth, so fhat i:- it passes through them the air becomes warm. But these are only a few reasons why the nose ought not to be switch^ Dff and left idle, as so many are, while their owners go puffing through their mouths. All trainers of men for racing and rowing, and all other athletic contests, understand this, and teach their pupils accordingly. If the boys will try this plan, they will soon see what a difference it will make in their endurance. (Liter you have run a few yards holding yonr mouth tightly closed, there will come a time when ifwill seem as though jrou could not get air enough through tho nose alone; but don't give up; keep right on, and in a few moments you will overcome this. A little practice of this method will go far to make you the best runner in the neighborhood.? Theo. B. Willson, in St. Nicholas. Subjugating Animals. In Hindoostan snake-charming is a branch of a business that includes horsecreaking, rat catching, monkey training and other occupations that must ?ive their adepts a peculiar insight into :he faculties and foibles of animal na'.nra A fam? nniiltAi<i nnlv a nirfe.ahow ?f the Quritwalla, or traveling vermindestroyer; or, so to say, a living diploma )f his mastership. He ns< s a trained jobra as a business advertsement. Jugglers with dancing snakes are >n every Bengal market place, but the ?rand masters of their craft exhibit fery different tricks. Lord Dalhousie'e juruwalla-en-chef used to call rata from :heir holes in broad daylight, and had i water snake that followed him like a log and could not be driven out of the *oom as long as its master was present. Eo had evidently established some hold >n the affections of his strange pet., for le never failed to bring her back by a tingle whistle after flinging her into ;ho middle of a pond where she could fasilv have escaped if her subjection lad been an involuntary servitude. 3is favorite trick was to get a lot of :ommon black tree-snakes (Coluber Iryus) and by a mere word make them ingage in mortal combat?snakes vhich but a minute before had lain :oiled together in a sluggish repose rom which no other human voice conld ouee them even for a moment. By a ilightlv different sound he would iuipire them with a panic that sent them larting out of the rcom, and out of the louse if the doors wore open; nor did le trouble himself on such occasions :o recapture them, for, after a few hours manipulation, a batch of fresh caught snakes would serve his purpose as yell. The professional jugglers prefer thu jobra only as the least expensive of all sensational unimals, for crocodiles and pythons are equally tamable. The wardens of the s.?cred crocodile ponds near Benares keep their pets under perfect control, and, as Captain Godwin Buchanan assnres us, through influences which hunger is only a minor item. His opinions seem continued by the statement of a famous Spanish beast tnm?r. j>r -priotor of a cockpit and pulque in Tampico, Mexico. The effluent can il of Ttaipico Laguna is well stocked wi;.h alligator;?, whose services to the h< ul li police have made tuem a sort of puMin proteges. They live upon tho ofl'tl ?>f the slaughter houses and they are so well fed that they can afford to spare their t,;v> lcv'g??d fellow-citizens: they mind their own bunness antl give bathers a wuie oertn. But the cockpit landlord lias a negroof-all-work who for a couple of coppers will convoke the caymans aj a farmer would snmmon his pigs?nay, often without any audible signal, by merely going to the water's edge and standing with uplifted hand^ till the alligators throng around him in crowds. Ho declines to divulge his modus operandi but his employer is positive that ho never feeds or touches his pets.?Lipphicott. TJ'C Animus of Work, The world likes heartiness und earnestness. Those will often compensate for the lack of some other sterling qualities of mind and heart. Zeal is inftO' tious. When a fireman of a factory moves about among his men with spirit, and drops a quick, earnest wi rj here end there, the workmen about him unconsciously become imbued with like earnestness, and he will by mere force of eiample eecure better results from his employes. How often have we known a farmer in the olden time, before mowing machines were invented, to gefcr' nearly double the amount ol work out of the name gang of men bj starting out at the ht'ad of the pwath with cheery words and a gac.ey nir, bidding the boys to come on and seo i'l they could keep up with him.? Chicago Express. Iron?Sllyer?Uold. Tim EE RULES. Question: What ia the Iron Rale 7 Answer: The rule of savage men: If evil is done unto you. Evil do thou as'ain. That ia the Iron Rnlc. Question: What ia the Silver Itclc '* Ansicer: The rule of worldly men: If good your neightordoas to you Do good to him again. That is the Silver Rule. Question: What ie the Golden Rule ? Answer: The rale of righteoua men: If evil ia done unto you, Return thou good again. This is the Golden Rule. ?The Children's JJour. __ HUMOK OF THE DAY. TO A EEBSOH SKOBDJO. You, who tho world in a tumult keep With open month whene'er yon sleep, In mt-rcy Borne at nement make, And keep it shut when you're awake. ? ?Nero York JTour1 As a young shaver of five or six years was reading at school one day, he came upon the passage, "Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from guile." Master Hopeful drawled out, "Keep? thy?tongue?from ? evil?and? thy? lip* -from ?girls." Little Freddie, when visiting a neighbor's house, was offered a piece of bread and butter, which he accepted, but without any show of gratitude. "What do you say, Freddie ?' hinted the lady, eipecting him to spy "Thank yon." " I say it ain't cake," was the response. "Mr. Brown, do yon eat mush?" asked a four-year-old fl? nd of his sister's beau. "Why, Johnnie?'' responded . Mr. Brown. "'Cos sister says she wishes yoa wouldn't talk like you had a mouthful of mush." Sister faints and Brown remembers that he has an enoanumunt in Anntrnlin.. Gab9 Citv. A small-sized office boy hung a thermometer out in front of the Presa office on Tuesday to " see how it would go down." When he went out to look for it in five minutes he found that it had gone down to Burling slip and was still going. A newsboy had taken it in charge.?Sew York Press. Some surgeons demand almost as much to remove a cataract as Niagara hackmen charge to show you one.?Hews. Well, if tbe cataract removed by the surgeor is as large as the one shown you by the , Niagara hackmen, his charge is not *ny too steep. And, besides, you might not be able to see the one if \he other was not removed.?Non-istown Herald. IlETTEB LABGCTAGZ. The farmer feeds the bleating a a, The sailor sails the c c, '' ? The gardener plant* the p p, he doee, The printer takes his o e.. * 1 The owl looks very y j At everything he z z, The schoolboy dote his i i And crosses all his 11. A Racine county farmer had 250 bush* els of oats stolen from his barn, and he is offended. When it gets so a farmer has got to have a burglar-proof safe to keep his oats and wheat in, the profit on farming will be small. There should be a senatorial courtesy among farmers to such an extent that a bin of Aitta a? n dKhiq cfnrtlr ia oaf a annnflK uaiD Ui a ovicvn dwvu IO ??*V WMVMQH without being stored in a vault.?Peck's Sun. An Angel's Toucli. The San Francisco limes Letter tells this touching incident. One bveningnot long ago, a girl of nine or ten entered a place in which is a bakery, grocery and saloon in one and asked for five cents' worth of tea. "Hows's your mother?", asked the boy who came forward to wait on her. "Awful sick, and ain't had anything to eat all day." The boy was just then called to wait upon somtf men who entered the saloon, and the girl pat down. In five minutes she was nodding, and in seven she was sound asleep and leaning h6r head against a barrel, while she held the poor old nickel in a tight grasp between her thumb and finger. One of the men saw her as he came from the bar, and after asking who she was, said: " Say, you drunkards, see here. Hero we've been pouring down whisky when this'poor child and her mother want bread. Here's a two dollar bill that says I've got some feeling left." " And I can add a dollar," observed another. " And I'll give another." They made up a purse of an even five dollars, and the spokesman carefully put the bill between two of the sleeper's fingers, drew the nickel away, and whi-pered to his comrades : " Jist look a' there?the gal's dream- / inp: ?" So she was. A big tear had rolled orit from her closed eyeli I, but her face was covered with a smile. The men tip-toed out, and the clerk walked over and touched the sleeping child. Sho awoke with a laugh, and cried out: " What a beautiful dream I Ma wasn't sick any more, and we nad lota to eat and to wear, and my hand burns yet where an angel touched it I" When the discovered that her nickel had been replaced by a bill, a dollar of which loaded, her down with all she could carry, she innocently said: " Well, "now, but ma won't hardly believe that you sent up to heaven and got an angel to come down and clerk in your grocery." Beauties of a Florida Forest. The spring season is the most favorable time for viewing Florida scenery. The magnolia then wears its regal crown of creamy white?the queen of flowering trees. The dogwood mingles its snow-flake blossoms with the glistening green of bay-tree leaves. The holly, with its clusters of varied hue, is the rival of the oleander, which exhibits all shades from deep carmine to pearl. The myrtle droops its ringlets of purple here and there on the hill side and by the stream, while towering over all is the majestic palm, wearing its tuft of leaves as an Indian does the feathers on his head. Looking to the earth, its surface is seen covered with plants and shrubs, which, in their radiant freshness, reflect all colors in a most delightful confusion and till the air wiih fragrance. Spanish moss?the prevalent parasite of ail the Gnlf country?hangs pendent from the trees, or, imitating creeping ivies or grasping viucs, J'astens in crfmefnl festoons, swaviuer its somber gray in funereal aspect amid j the variegated flowers and the verdant I raiment of tho trees. This semi-tropical forest is the homo of birds of rare plumage and ravishing song. The mocking-bird sings to its mate throughout the entire night, and scarcely rests by day. Tho red-bird is ! almost as incessant in his cirols, and ranks high as a musician. Tho cat-bird attempts to rival the mocking-bird as an imitator. There are many other warblers deserving mention, and the paroquet should be specially named as one of the native birds wearing gay colors. But, beautiful in their feathers as are the birds on the trees, those in the water surpass them in the richness of their attire. The heron family?red, white and blue?and the gorgeous curlew display costumes that give them a high value in the markets, and thesa wading birds are much hunted in the winter months for their 1gt:~ plumes. At this Feason they are very wild, but ill the spring tbey are qiuto lame ana easy of approach. There are also hunters of other birds, but as the market ( for them is mostly at Jacksonville.? | the headquarters of tourists from the North?the forests o? West Florida are | peldnm disturbed, except for the heron and curlew, whoso feathers ilnd a sale among commercial ti ureters in any of t the small towns.?I,ip/>i)>cn'>, The Michigan forest tires last year destroyel property to the amount of : 82.346,000, including eight, churches, ) twenty-eiVht school-houses, 130 stores, and 1,147 dwelling-houses. y .