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^ . ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER. 1 BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1882. NO. 42. VOLUME XXVI. Ifo Kept His Word. Sho stood in the spelling clas.-t, A maiden sweet an 1 fair, Willi a tender light in her eyes and a bright Soft g'eam on her yellow hair. " Caress," the preceptor called, And as no one answered .sho IP'jnircd with a .-mile, though sho blushed the w hiie, " Did you give it, ?ir, to me "Not then, my child, but I will," . IIo sail, an 1 a titter brolto From the scholars all. There were nouo too Hilill To take and a'sorb a joke. T lion the pretty speller turned From a j ink to a scarlet rose, And the teacher thought, as he gravely taught, "How eh inning anil sweet she grows 1" Bat years glidt; by, and now, Impelled bv rumors heard, i'.ii prophetic ear, happy bells I hear; ' For the teacher kept his word. ?lloslon Transcript. a Queer Matrimonial Emerieiice, i. Tho Milllnuk neighborhood is a prey to excitement. Oae of the prettiest and most popular belles of ttie country finds herself married without having intended to marry anybody. " This startling event occurred under tno IollOWiugcircuaiMauires?me queerest of all incidents in the chapter of accidents. A picnic party at "Annandale," the residence of Judge Annan, our popular couuty oSicul. A beautiful autumn day inspired every heart, and a picturesque grovo near the mausionhad been selected as the scene of the festivities. Nothing could bo more attractive than the spectacle presented. I he youths and maidens were seated in groups under the briliiant foliage; hampers of edibles were already uncovered under the shadow of a great oak, and the autumn suushino lit apgay scarfd and curls and laces. Miss Bel Annan?for eho was a belle in name as well as in reality?was engaged in her customary amusement of flirting. Sho was a lovely blonde, and devoted to the occupation. No one had ever succeeded in flirting with her. At twenty-five, if you could believe her I statement, sue was neari-wnoie ana impervious. ik-r loeman on this occasion was a fine young fellow called by his intimates Nei Hay. Ho was very much in love with Miss Bel Annan, and everybody was aware of it. Hence general enjoyment of the sillies of the young couple who were equally gay. " You people really ought to be married 1" said a satirical voice behind them. And, turning round Mr. Hay saw a friend of his, Mr. L9ftwick, smiling with a grim expression. Mr. Leftwick has been a candidate for magistrate, and the fates seemed unpropitious. The election had taken place on the day before, and the returns indicated that his opponent had been elected by a clear majority. " If I bad only had good luck I might have married you to celebrato this festive occasion." Mr. II iy looked at his fair companion ? .3 : i ~ J acu suuiuu. "Isn't it a pity!'' he said. "Yes-it really i^ too bad!" said Miss Bel, with a dangerous glance. "It would be such a novelty?a wedding at a picnic," said Mr. Hay. " If agreeable," said Mr. Leftvnck, "I will perform the ceremony for the general enjoyment." At a country picnic the extravagant is the order of the day. The propose tiou of Mr. L5,ftwick had l>6en overheard by some of his " strayed revelers." They gathered around the group, besieged Miss Annan and Mr. Hay? convinced the latter promptly. Then the former after a while; and it was an noucced to the company in generai that Mr. Edward Hay and Miss Isabel Annan wore now about to be married. Ia ten minutes tho whole gay company had inhered beneath the oak; some wild flowers were improvised into a wreath for the bride, and she presented htrself, leaning on Mr. Hay's arm and modestly holding down her head?nothing could be better. Mr. Leftwick, with deep solemnity, ptr.'ornjeJ his fuactions to the best of his memory. " If anybody can allege aught why this marriage should not take place," said Mr. Leftwick, " let him speak or for ever aUer hold his peace." No one spoke. " Dj you, Eilward Hay, take this handsome young person for your wedded wife?" " With pleasure?I certainly do," said Mr. Hay. And do you, Isabel Annan, take this unfortunate victim of your charms for your wedded husband ?" said Mr. Leftwick. " Yes," paid Miss Bel Annan, looking down with the appropriate air of timiditv. "Then," said Mr. Leftwick, so'emn- i ly, "bj virtue of the authority vested in me?or which should have been vested ia me?as a magistrate of this county, I pi cnounce you Elward Hay and you Isabel Annan to be man and wife! Silute your bride!'' Mr. Hay 6eemed willing, but Miss Bel promptly declined. She was blushing a little?the \*hole affair seomed so very real. A few minutes afterward her blushes had suddenly disappeared. An old farmer riding by had called out: "Mr. Lsftwick, I congratulate you I" "Congratulate me?' "You aro elected a magistrate. The Russell precinct was not heard from last night, but the returns are now in. You are elected by thirty-five majority." "Elec'ed !' exclaimed Mr. Leftwick. " Certainly, you are elecled." it TT7.11 Al ? _ *3 T ~tL * wen, iueu, b;uu air. xiHifcWiua, desperately, '-I've celebrated the event by performing a marriage ceremony!" The gay revelers stood looking at each othei in wild amazement, aad Miss Bel Annan was visibly trembling. That vou .g lady was now Mr3. Hay 1 II. No sooner had the incident at tho picnic become generally kaown than it created the wildest excitement. Every teatablo buzzad with it; every friend meeting a friend asked what would be the result. Were the young people really married or was it only a mock ceremony, having no actual significance ? Tho Millbank neighborhood was turned upside down. Tho question was simply?Had Mr. Left wick authority to marry any tody on the day of the picnic ? If he had that authority the parties were married, for they had consented and he had pronounced them man and wife. It was useless to urge that the affair was intended as a jest. When a duly empowered magistrate is called upon by two people to marry them; when they formally take each other as hus band and wife, and he pronounces them to be such?then tho two persons are married, and there is an end of it! This view was generally accepted; but was Mr. Leftwick a dulv emDOW ered magistrate ? He had been elected, bat had received no certificate. What was the law governing the case ? Jadge Annan was not appealed to. It really was too delicate a question for his * decision under the circumstances. But other gentlemen learned in the law were consulted; and they agreed almost unanimously that Mr. Leftwick had been an actual magistrate; the popular vote had made him such, and any formal certificate of election was unnecessary. The parties were married. When Misc Bel Annan awoke slowly to the consciousness that this was the general sentiment, she began to cry, and then grew snllen and angry. It was au outrage! ?it wa3 a wild absurdity! Married! and to Edward Hay! She would never cee his face again. He had been guilty of the basest de ception. Ho bail known that Mr. Leftwick wa^ really a magistrate, and meant to entrap her into a hateful union with him. Yes, hateful! She iletesteil the sight of him. If he over presumed to approach her, she wonld tell him her opinion of him, and forbid his ever appearing again in her presence. Mr. Hay did not seem desirous of inflicting his society upon his young wife. Tho picnic party had speedily broken up in the midst of general dismay, and Mr. Edward Hay had simply bowed low, without so much as a smile, and departed. Soon an incident occurred which brought home to Miss Annan, or Mrs. Hay, the terrors of matrimony. Judge Annan was absent holding court, and 1 he young lady was in tho drawingroom at Annandale, when a loud knock was heard at tho front door and a visitor entered. Tho young lady looked at him and bowed slightly; his appearance was not prepossessing. Ho was oneof aclassof petty attorneys of whom the illustrious Guiteau is an example. ??I have called to see you about a claim I havo on your husband, Mrs. Hay," said this ornament of his profession. Tho young lady started slightly, but only greeted the words with a haughty srare. " Sorry to trouble yon, bat business is business. I am counsel for plaintiff in Smith vs. Hay. It is too slow to proceed against real estate, and I am told you have, bank stocks." The young lady colored. This gross j business intrusion was hateful to her. She had a nice little amount of stock in her own right?the gift of an uncle. "You are aware that your personality is liable to execution for your husband's debts,' said the legal gentleman. The young lady rose to her feet and swept superbly from the room. As she disappeared upstairs sh? said to a servant: "Show this person to the door." And the person in question took his dilapidated hat and went away. Three days afterward Miss Bel Annan, as we may as well continae to call her, saw an advertisement in the county paper which made her color a little. It announced that the real and personal estate of Mr. Edward Hay would be exposed for sale on the first of the ensuing month. She remained silent for a few lnnl-inw of +I10 n/lvprf.lROmATlt; UUiUCU'.O 1VUAIU5 MV VMV , then she began to sob, and said: " I cm so sorry I" On the same evening she received a note through the postoflice which contained these words: " I trust you have never supposed that I had any agency in the affair of the picnic or that anything could induce me to take advantage of it in any manner. But I know you will acquit me of that. There is only one course. As we seem really to be married, a divorce is necessary?but a divorce case occasions scandal, and that I know would wound you. Need I say that I would not wouud you for the world??that is not much to say. I have, therefore, arrrnged everything to spare you pain. My estate wiil be disposed of, and I shall remain away for some years. Then the law declares you free again?on the plea of desertion?and there will be no more annoyance Your friend, no more, Edwakd Hat." Miss Bel Annan read this letter over twice before she observed a postscript on the second page : "I heard of the visit you were subjected to by that wretched cre^tnre. If I had been present?but this is unnecessary. He will not presume to annoy von again; I can promise you that." As a matter of fact, Mr. Edward Hay had horsewhipped the counsel for plaintiff in Smith vs. Gray. He had then advertised his property and made all his arrangements to leave the country. "Hum, hum!" muttered Judge Annan, reading the notice on his return from court. "That is really a pity. There is no necessity for selling his j property. The estate is an excellent one and will pay all claims ten times over. Poor fellow, I alwavs liked j him!' Miss Belle Annan, who was present, 6niffed slightly and murmured. " So did I, papa!'" "Well, I suppose there is no help for I it. To be candid, my dear, I always wished you to marry Edward. His father was a very dear friend of mice, and I like the young fellow himself. If at had not been for that unlucky affair at the picnic you m:ght have married him some day." " Never, papa." "Well, my dear, of course you know best. You really are married, I am afraid; but you can count on Edward Hay. He is much too honorable to take advantage of you?and then he may wish to marry some one else." "Marry some one else? He cannot 1" exclaimed Miss Bel Annan. The old judge smiled, and looked furtively at his daughter. She was biting her lip. " 1 merely hazarded the supposition," said the judge, refolding hi3 newspaper. "You are aware that his name has been frequently connected with his cousin, Miss Hamilton." Miss Bel Annan made no r^ply, She was looking with contracted brows at the carpot, and masticating a lace handkerchief, which was suffering from her white teeth. Miss Hamilton was a very handsomo young person, and her name had often been associated with Mr. Hay's. Did he care for her? It would be shameful! Had he not told her, Bel j Annan, a hundred times. Tuen she I colored, remembering some very interj esting scenes between herself and the j yount? man. " There's no help for it," repeated ! the judge, " but I am really sorry the ! young fellow is going to leave us. There | will ba one advantage, nevertheless? i you will bo free again. Two yeara' desertion dissolves tno marriage tie. Then both you foolish people will bo free?and he can many Mies Hamilton. Until then that will be impossible, as I fear you are legally, my dear, Mrs. j Edward Hay 1" j i u. Everybody could see that Edward ; Hay was in an unhappy state of mind. I He had always been a person of the i most cheerful temperament, 8ifd the ! gayest fox hunter in the country. Now ' ho hid lost his good spirits and went ! about moping. He grew thin and j white. He did not eat, which is a bad ' sign. Finally, in a fit of desperatioQ, he joined a party of fox-hunters and rode recklessly; in swimming a stream he wa3 thoroughly chilled, and in consequence three days afterward he was I seized with a fever. A fever is a very bad thing to have. Mr. Hay got tip one night when his attendant friend was dozing, and wrote a Dote which ho addiessed to Miss Bel Annan. This reached her on the next day, and, with a littlo flatter at her heart, she read what follows: 4,I have been thinking, thinking, thinking, liero in tiio dreary night, about what has happened to ns; and tho resfUt of it is that I ought to neglect no meass of showing you that 1 I am not the contemptible person you must think me. 'lI therefore write down, a3 well as I can?my head seems a little feverish ?this. It is to be shown to people, and produced in court if necessary: "lam not your husband, and you are not my wife. " I never meant to say that I took you lobe my wedded wife. " I do not wish to bo your husband, | and assert that I was deceived into tak: ing part in a mock ceremony which as i long as I live shall have in my eyes no | legal significance whatever. "Edward Hat." i This was written on the first page oi { a sheet of note paper. On the second j portion of the sheet, and wholly do, tached, were these words : j " Oh, how I love yon, Ball It nearly breaks mo down t:> think that I arc going to leave yon. I am not well, either, bnt hope to be soon. If we could only go bac1! to old time3 before thai cursed picnic?I can't help using the word. You liked mo a little, I think, end you might have?well, all that is over. I suppose I shall never see you j again?certainly not for m<.ny years, i You will then, no doubt, bo married to ' some good fellow, and there will bo an i j end of me. ^obeit. You shall be free I from oil annoyance. I give you a proof i , of that in the first part of this note, i I which you can show people. They will I see that I am not, and never have been, : I your husband." | The unlucky lover signed Lis name j ; again, but as tie forgot to add the period j at the end of his sentence, the signature j ! read, " Your husband, Edward Hay." Miss Bel Ar.nan, who had read the1 note throughout, with a deep blush in ! ! her cheeks, suddenly burst out laugh- j I ing. It was rather hysterical, but she j ? 1 - - J1 _ i. j 1 OKa was piainiy amuseu ui Kuuiemiuy. ouu i allowed tho hand holding the sheet of j note paper to sink in her lap, and fix- i ing her eyes upon tho floor, mnr- j mured: "Your husband, Edward Hay !" Then she sighed and said in the ; same low tone; ' Poor, dear fellow ! Ho is sick; and ; I ?and I suppose I ought to be there ! i to nurse him!" iv- j Edward Hay roso suddenly from his i sick bed and abruptly left the country. Ten days afterward his property was j sold and his attorney transmitted the J proceeds to the young man in Paris, j He remained thero three months, went j to Rome and stayed six?then he took I | a run to Russia, and came home, via i j England and Scotland, to New York, j It was quite a pleasant evening in i autumn when he reached the Millbank j ' neighborhood again. As ho had no | I r\f Ilia own Via Viorl wrif.tpn to Q I I UUUiU UA uio uuu ??? ...... ? , friend that he was coming to see him, j acd having gotten out of the train he ! i set off on foot in the direction of his j friend's house. The pathway which ho followed i ' wound across green fields, and passed within a few hundred yards of Judgo i Annan's. Seeing this, a fact which he ! bad probably lost sight of, Mr. Edward ! Hay made a detour to avoid the house. : This led him into a picturesque glen, | which he followed. All at once he | emerged iDto the very grove where j they had held the picnic, and there at i the foot of the oak whero ho and Miss j 1 Bel Anaa had been martied sat?Miss j | Bel Anan. The young fellow stopped and stood ! : still, trembling a littlo and looking at j her. Sho was leaning on a huge root, I j with one hand covering her eyes and j ! sobbing. I j "Bel 1" | The words seemed to escap efrom him j * 1 - 1 A J I unconsciously as ue uaoicut*u iu j*ci. ; Arid then came another word from the j j lips of Miss Bel Anan as she started up, j apparently as much the result of, i impulse: 'Edward!" As they were locked in each other's J | arms a moment afterward, there seemed j i to be very little explanation. These ! were natural, however, under the cir-1 j cumstances, and were soon made. Miss | Bel Annan informed her husband that j i she had not the least objection to being [ i Mrs. Edward Hay; and when the cus- I j tomary performances followed, and Mr j ' Edward Hay moaned his landless con- j i dition, Miss Annan, or Mrs. Hay, as tho j \ reader pleases, said smiling, as she j leaned her head upon his shoulder: | " i will give your estato back to you j as I bought it, my dear. The property j , of a wife belongs to?her husband!" This charmiDg young person had indeed purchased Edward Hay's property;' and, as only a year had elapsed sinco he j had deserted her, she was still liis wife, j and their possessions were, therefore, in common. Nevertheless there was a wedding, and the young people were formally married by a minister. The occasion was a grand frolic at Judge Annan's j hospitable maDsion, and Mr. Edward j Hay said to his wife, as she blushed ; under her orange flowers: "After all, I bolieve?I wish to be j your husband!"?/. Esten Coo fee. I Glass Houses. Perhaps not one builder or contractor ; in ten, if told that the common grades I of gl ss made at the glass factories in \ j this city have a crushing strength nearly j four times as great as tbat credited by i ! experienced engineers to the strongest quality of granite, would accept the ! i statement as true. Yet it is a fact, and j being so, the query as to why glass has ; not received more attention from archi-1 oq a nt.rnetnrnl material naturallv i i suggests itself. A reporter had a talk ! with several prominent glass mann- j factnrers on the subject, and in answer j to an interrogatory as to whether blocks i of glass conld bo made in suitable j i lengths and sizes and eo annealed j as to bo utilized in the can- > j struction of a building in place j of stone, they said it could be done. Said one of these gentlemen : ' " This question has been considered by ] | myself a number of timos, and, al-. i though I do not want to advocate the ! absolute abolition of brick and stone, | yet in the erection of art galleries, | memorial building?, etc., a structure composed of blocks of glass in prismatic , colors would be a unique, beautiful and j : lasting structure. With the numerous ! : inventions which have come into use cf j I late years in connection with the pro! duction of glass, the cost has been j gradually going down, while ;he qual- j } ity of the fibric is steadily becoming better. " One objection which wonld be | raised to tlia durability of a class house, i in the literal sense of the words, might j ; be that the blocks would not take a j : bind, or adhere together with com- | ; mon mortar. This obiection can be ; j readily set aside by the use of a good ! i cement, and when completed the strucI ture will fitand for ages, barring extrai ordinary accidents. As to the cost of I a glass house, it can be kept down to a small percentage above the price of our cat granite. In building with storie you have to pay the stone masons, and J when it comes to elaborate examples of I carving in Corinthian pillars, collars, ; capitals, etc., why the work is rather I j costly as compared with glass, when the j latter can be molded into any shape ! or form, and the work accom- I j plished in much less time. I am con- | vinced that the time will come when we i J will see such a buildiDg erected, j j Scarcely a day passes but what the i | sphere of glass as an article of use be- j i comes widened In parts of Germany i and on one line in England glass tics 1 are being used on railroads, and thus : far have given satisfaction, combining all of the requisites of wooden ties with tho virtue ol being susceptible to usage at least twenty-five per cent. loDgcr than wood. Then by the Bastra process ; glass articles are now being made for j cor inon use which can bo thrown on ; the lloor and will rebound like a rnb ber ball. Progress is also being made I j toward rendering glass, which has ever i j be( n characterized as the brittle : ! febric, ductile, and to-day threads | of glass can be made that can bo tied in j knots and woven into cloth. Wero one ' disposed to give play to fancy and fuse | it into fact, a houso entirely composed : of glass conld bo built with wall3 and ! j roof and floors fashioned from melted ! J sand. Carpets of glass could cover the I floors. The most ulira .'esthete, sitting on glass chairs or reclining on glass couches, arrayed in glacs garments, eating and drinking from glass dishes, i such a < ne could realize that the ago of glass had come. Yet nearly all of this fifty years ago would have been classed with the then impossible telephone and [ electric light, and this statement wonld havo likely found its way in tho ' C<ita' | logue Expurgatoros.'"?Pittsburg Vis' I patch. \ Tho occupation of tho male popula' tion of Nevada is chiefly mining in sili ver ore. The silver is, however, so largely associated with lead that ninetenths of tho medical cases reported from that locality are of lead poisoni ing. It takes the forms of half par i ulysis, paisy ana wrist arop. ; iJixty papers in the United States are ? published by women. | Fi)R THE FARM. AND NOME. Colic in IlnrHfM. Tlio following remedy never fails to , give relief in this disease if properly administered and in good time. It is one of the secrets of the profession : Sulphuric ether, one pint; aromatic 1 spitits of ammonift, one pint ; sweet j spirits of niter, two pints ; opium, onefourth pound ; aspafcedita, pulverized, ' one pound ; camphor, one-fourth pound. 1 Mix. Let it stand fourteen days before ! using. Dose?0110 ounce (or less, ac- ' cording to size of the horse) every thirty 1 minutes until relief is afforded.? Wallace Monthly. ^ Clilckcn Cholera. Henrv Hales, an authority on poultry 1 sends to tho Poultry Bulletin his 1 method of dealing with tho above named < /I icon en Tfc i<i fiq follows: As this 1 disease Los proved a terrible scourge ( and one bard to arrest I think it may be 1 interesting, perhaps, to many to know ' cf a remedy which I tried with perfect 1 success. My long experience has satis- ' fied mo that the best practice where disease prevails among fowls is to use disinfectants. I had some chickens so i badly affected as to be partially blind, 1 and in attempting to pick up corn would | fail to reach it where it lay upon the 1 ground before them. They lost their 1 appetites and wasted away till they be- ; come so weak as to lie upon the ground I as if they were de id. I n9ver saw any ! fowls before that recovered from such i deep prostration. Some of tbem i evacuated a dark, watery and excessively . i fetid matter, and as some of them wore common dunghill fowls I let the disease take its course with them, and these all died. Such as I took in hand in timo I managed to save. I placed the ailing , birds in boxe3, on clean straw, and cut | away such feathers as had become soiled , by their evacuation, and as a means of j sustaining life fed them twice a day ] with oatmeal gruel, into which was put ] some finely-chopped rue; this, of course, ] bad to bo poureit down tno tnroais 01 j the sick birds. In addition to this I sprinkled carbolic powder upon the , straw in llio boxes where the fowls were ] placed; dusted some into their feathers, , and gave them a teaspoonfal or two of j water, slightly impregnated with car- j bolic acid, which can be had of almost auy druggist. The ailing fowls were , kept apart from those that were in ? health, and after the administration of ; the lemedy referred to, recovered rapid* ; ly. I treated some two or three dozen j altogether, of different breeds, and j believe I should have lost all if I had j failed to apply remedies. ? v?... 1 r U I hi uiiu uuauvu iivkCM* ^ Oats grown on clay land mako the best meal, keep longest ancl bring the highest price. An application of one hundred pounds of nitrate of soda to an acre of wheat, i where the crop looks weak, will show 1 its benefit in a few days, not only im- i proving it in growth but largely increas- 1 ing the yield. I An application of a bushel and a half ] of plaster .to the acre on clover early ] this spring will infuse new life into it. j If wood ashes are added it will be still better. Ashes and plaster are special 1 fertilizers for clover. One cow well fed and comfortably J cared for will produce quite as much milk and butter as two that are allowed 1 to run at large, lie on the wet grouud 1 and be subject to the exposure of the 5 weather. Ensilago is nothing new as far as ( preservation is concerned. It is sim- . ply keeping green food through the ; winter by exclusion of the air. It . is on the same principle as canning, j only on a larger scale. ; Onions are the first vegetables that ( get in the ground. The land should j be verv rich. They can be grown - in the same piace every year, as they ] are very nearly equally proportioned in < tho constituent elements derived from \ the soil. ( Professor Johnson says the difference ] between a scientist and a practical man i is this : The latter believes a thing till 1 it is proven valueless, while the former 1 believes nothing that has not been de- < monstrated to be of real value. Be ? also says there is no best corn manure; < all manures will differ in value to the J crop planted according to the soil upon which the corn is planted. ' When smohing hams something to I burn a long time without looking after , is desirable. Corncobs are an excellent } fuel for smoke-houses, burning Blowly a long time, and if, after tho heap is ' well under way in burning, tbey are j partly covered with ashes, tho time will , bo prolonged. Wood will burn slower ? . 1 C11 ! J 1 it similarly covered. oaaviugs uuu sawdust, as is generally known, are also , good, and if covered down pretty well , to keep tko draft from passing through the heap will last many hours. . When house plants are in a growing ] state they may bo stimulated by the use | of guano water. A small teacupful of , Peruvian guano dissolved in a pailful { of rain water is strong enough; water the soil with this once or at most twice a week. The water of ammonia (hartshorn) is about as good, and can be had everywhere. If of ordinary strength , add "a fourth of an ounce (two teaspoon- 3 fnls) to a gallon of water, and use as , above stated. Cold coffee is also said i by some florists to be nourishing to ^ plants, and especially is it commended } to forco plants to bloom. Whnt Shall Wo Have lor Dlnnrr f Tomalo Soxtp without Meat. f Roast Bc.rf and Yorkshire Pudding. ] Boiled Potatoes. Canned Peas. \ Salad, celery. Apple Meringue. \ Cfijfcc. < TOMATO SOUP "WITnOUT MEAT. ] Materials.?One large can or twelve ' fvaoli fnmat.nfxj nn? nnnrt. of hnilinc t water, two small onions, a small carrot, 1 half a small turnip, two or three sprigs i of parsley or a stalk of celery, all cut ' line and boiled one hoar. As the water ] boils away add more, so that the qnan- 1 tity may remain tho same. Season with t one even tablespoonful each of salt and i sngar and half a teaspornfnl of pepper. < Cream a tablespoonful of butter with i two heaping ones of flour, and add hot < soup until it will ponr easily. Pour into the soup ; boil all together for five minutes, then strain into the tureen 1 through a Eieve, and serve with toasted crackers. ROAST BEEF. Allow ten minutes to the pound for : rare, twelvo to fifteen for well-done. Sirloin and tenderloin pieces are considered choicest, but tho sixth, seventh < and eighth ribs are almost equally good. A piece of from seven to teu pounds can bo used most advantageously for a family of six. Have a trivet or i tlm rnoc+innf nan nnrl r\tif blUUU utliu^ iuu iuuov*u^ uuu j^/uu the meat on it in a very hot oven, that she outside may sear over at once and 1 thus retain the juices. Dredge with flour after tho first fifteen minutes, and for a six-pound roast sprinkle on a tea- < spoonful of salt and pepper lightly. I Basto often, and dredge at least twice with flour. Threo quaiters of an hour 1 before the beef is done make the pudding as below. TORKSIIIHE TUDDIKO. Materials.?One pint of milk, one 1 teaspoonful of salt, two cups of flour sifted with one teaspoonful of baking powder, or prepared flour can be used; i four eggs beaten thoroughly. Mix all , together quickly, eggs, milk and salt, then flour; pour ofl'fat from tho gravy I iu the pan, and then pour in tho pudI ding. Continue the roasting, letting j tho dripping fall on tho pudding, i Baste tho meat with tho gravy taken ' ' xl T? 1%I~v { irora lLit: puu. r>uiu linn uu uuui lu forty minutes will bake the puddiug, Cut it in small squared, and serve about ! the beef, or separately, if preferred. BOILED TOTATOES. Peel, remove all black specks and I laj in cold water at least one hour before using. Allow half an hour for tno boiling of medium-sized potatoes. Pat on in boiling water, having a teaspoonful of salt to eacli quart. Boil steadily but not furiously. Try with a fork, and when done drain off every drop of water; caver with a clean cloth and dry lor ten minutes at the back of the stove, shaking tho saacepan onco or twice during that time. This method will secure mealiness for the most ob- A durate potato. CANNED PEAS. Open the peas at least an hour before { using, and turn into a bowl 'that they 1 may lose the airless taste so often no- 0 fciccd. If dry, barely cover them with Jj sold water; add a teaspoonful of sugar, " in even one of salt and a salt-spoonful 6 af popper, and stew for half an hour. <3 Send them to table in the liquor and ' idd a tablespoonful of butter. CELERY SALAD. * Materials.?Two bunches of celery, r two table3poonfals of salad oil, two of rinegar, half a teaspoonful of Bait, a salt-spoonful of pepper. Lay the celary, after washing and scraping it, in sold water for an honr or two before dinner. Cnt in inch lengths or ohop joarsely, as preferred,and put in a saladbowl. Mix the peppor and salt, add the oil slowly, and then the vinegar, md stir thoroughly into the celery. 3erve with wafers or water crackers. APPLE MERINGUE. One quart of apple sauce or eight taripples stewed 6oft with but one cup of crater and sifted. Add one cup of granulated sugar, half a teaspoon ful of ranilla or lemon extract, and the wellbeaten yolks of four eggs,. Butter a pudding-dish, put in the mixture, and bake twenty minutes in a quick oven. Beat the four whites to a stiff froili, md add two tablespoonfulsof powdered augar. Spread ovor the hot pudding and brown very lightly. Eat when icy ( cold, with cream if preferred. Serve ] with delicatu crackers or lady-finders. ; COFFEE, I The best coffee will be found to be a i mixture of two-thirds Java with one- ? third Mocha. Buy ready roasted unless ? you have a rotary roaster; keep in an c rir-tight jar and grind only as required. ( For a pint of black coffee, r.ufficient ( for six "after dinner cups," allow tv? t lieaping tablespoonfuls of ground coffee t to a pint of freshly boiling water. Mix g with it a little egg and a spoonful of u cold water, the best method for t boiled coffee being 4o break an egg, 1 shell and all, in a bowl; beat it with t three spoonfuls of jiold water and use a t th'rd at once. Cover the coffee pot ] tightly, boil three minutes, then pour i out a spoonful or so to free the nose i from grounds, and return it to the pot. ] Put it on the back of the stove and r. let it seme ior not less man nve mm- i ntes. Do not decant it, for much of the a flavor will thus be lost, but serve at y ducg in the pot, the additional richness 1 of the drink being the balm for any out* t raged feeling on the part of a guest or 1 scrupulous member of the family.? i Uclcn Campbell, in Our Continent. n Atmospheric Dangers of the Night. J The room in which the enfeebled per- ? son has been sitting before going to 1 bed has been warmed piobably up to t summer heat; a light meal has been ? taken before retiring to rest, and then t the bedroom is entered. The bedroom i perchance has no fire in it, or if a fire < is lighted provision is not made to keep ) it alight for more than an hour or two. 1 The result is that in the early part of i the morning, from 3 to 4 o'clock, when r. the temperature of the air in all parts I is low(!at, the glow from the tire or atove which should warm the room has ceased, and the room is cold to an extreme decree. In country houses the water will Dften be found frozen in the handbasins or ewers under these conditions. Meanwhile the sleeper lies unconscious [>f the great change whioh is taking place in the air around him. Slowly ind surely there is a decline of temperature to the extent, it may be, of thirty or forty degrees on the Fahrenheit soale, and though he may b9 fairly covered with bedclothes, he is receiving into hici lungs this cold air by which the circulation through the langs is materially modified. The condition of tbe body itself is at this very time unfavorable for meeting any smergency. In the period between midnight and 6 o'clock in the moving the animal vital processes are at their lowest ebb. It is in these times b that those who are enfeebled from any I janse most frequently die. We physi- e cians often consider these hours as critical, and forewarn anxious friends in c respect to them. o From time immemorial those who I tiavo been accustomed to wait and at- f 'end od the sick have noted these t hours most anxiously, so that they t have been called by one of our old c ivriters " the hours of fate." In this i pace of time the influence of the life- t giving sun has been longest withdrawn a from mac, and the hearts that are even : the strongest beat then with subdued i sone. Sleep is heaviest and death is i nearest to us all in " the hours of fate." t rhe feeble, therefore, are most expoBod i so danger during this period of time, I md they are most exposed to one par- a sicular danger, that of congestion of the c lungs, for it is the bronchial surface of i she lungs that is most exposed to the iction of the chilled air, and on the * igedthat exposure is hazardous.?Dr. I B. IF. Richardson. 1 1 c A Woman's Miraculons Escape. 8 One of the most singular adventures \ md wonderful escapes from death ever recorded took place in this city Satur- c 3ay morning. At that time Mrs. Peter J inderson, who lives in the vicinity of t she Half-Way house, and who had been c -infrurn rctii tatail-nine t.? lifir I f *r,v ? o iiome. She had to cross the railroad, t rast then a Chicago, Burlington and i 3ain;y train was coming, and she f ?topped back on the Chicago, Rock \ [aland and Pacific track to allow the v ;rain to pass, not noticing that at e the same time n train was backing a 3own toward her on the Chicago t Rock Island and Pacific road, i rhe latter train 6truck her before <j she was awAre of its coming, and s knocked her down, she falling n immediately between the rails, c The train Ciime on, and the cars d passed over her prostrate body, the r brakes and trucks striking her successive hard thumps. The locomotive was 1 the last to reach her, and its fire-box, f coming very near the ground, pushed a and rolled her along the track for some o distance. Fortunately a cattle gnard r was near, and when 6he reached it the 1 fire-box forced her between the ties into > the guard, and the locomotive passed a on. These ties are close together, and c it is not understood how she could have s been forced between them without killing her, but the fact remains. o She was picked up and attended by f Dr. Sloan, who at first thought she was I dangerously hurt. Her skull had bus- c tftincid a slight fraetnre. and the flesh c bad been torn from her body in several I places. Her shoes and stockings had 1 also been ripped off. Subsequent ex- r amination, however, proved that her a wounds are not fatal and with proper 6 care she can recover. She is a yonng t woman and has been only recently mar- s ried. She owes her life to a fortunate \ combination of circumstances and to \ the fact that she is not a very large f woman. After one has been through such an ordeal as that there need not be mnch fear of death from accident. A.t tha last report she was doing very J well.?Ducevpcrt (la ) Democrat. 1 x How a Senator's Name was Changed. I Senator Cameron, of "Wisconsin, tells o how the late Senator Carpenter's name t was changed. He says Carpenter was a christened by his parents "Decatur c Merritt Hammond," and was commonly f called " Merritt" Carpenter, until sub- t sequent to uis removal to Wisconsin. 6 In 1851, after he had argned a cause in c court with extraordinary learning and t ability, one of his associates enthusias- g tically declaied that the argument was t worthy of Sir Matthow Hale, and that j its anther ought no longer to be called t "Merritt" Carpenter, but fhould bo a named "Matthew Hale" Carpenter, e This declaration strnck tho imagination t of the lawyers present, and thereafter i they called their eloquent young asso- ? ciato "Matthew Halo." Bo generally was 1 the name of "Matthew Hale" applied to 1 him tbat he was actually constrained to f adopt it, and thus "Decatur Merritt ? Hammond" Carpenter, of Vermont, 1 became "Matthew Hale" Carp?nter, l of Wisconsin, i SIX DAYS ON A RIFT. l Yonnir fionmnti 1'lckcri np in illM-Occnn -Olio ISlncuit uml u Little Uildew All iiin Food. When thirteen men, rescued from the ost Bermuda steamer Bahama, arrived n New York they reported that twenty ithers had been drownod. Seventeen nen wero in a boat that swamped. iwo of these swam back to tho sinking teamer. Three men bad refused to [uit tho steamer in the two heavily oaded boats. They were Felix Clistre, he second cook; Gandoiso Baker, a >orter; and Napoleon Mathurin, a seanan, called Paul for short. Six days after tho steamer bad foundired, Theodore Noat, lookout on tho >rig Pearl, Captain Brightman, saw a nan on a raft waving a signal. It was I in the morning, and the raft lay ight ahead. The Poarl boro down, owered a boat, and took the man ofl. Ie was Paul, the able scamau who had tuck to the Bahama. He had been ix days and six nights alone on tho aft, and had lived that time on one sracker and one drin^ of water. He is l tall French Canadian from St. Thomas lear Quebec, where his family live md is twenty-one years old. He was nought by the Pearl to Now York, " I belonged to the watch of Second Mate Rosa," ho said to a reporter, 'and was below when the Balanites bulwarks and two boats were :arried away. I helped to get the saptain's boat out, and so many got into ler that I didn't go. When Mate Roas aunched the seccnl boat he told me to ?et in. But it was only a thirteen-foot Doat, and there were already thirteen n it, and I knew if I got in the other iwo men who were still on the Bahama yould get in, and then tho boat would iwamp. So I stayed behind and law the boat disappear. It was jloiidy, and the moonlight was Jim. I saw the captain's boat npset. Charles Smith, a sailor, and Charley, a ireman, swam back, and we hauled hem aboard. They were weak and lick, and lay down on the deck. I had i little hatchet, and I ran forward and Tied to cut away a ladder to make a aft. The stern began to sink, and then he whole vessel sank. There was a remendous explosion that stunned me. ! su ppose it was the air in the compart* nents blowing out. The suction pulled ne down very deep. "When I did come up found a small spar, and got on it. The sea washed me off several irnen. The spar struck against k hf.tch three by four feet. Baker ras sitting on the hatch. I got on with lim. He said it was not big enough for iwo, and I told him wo mu6t do our )eet with it. A few moments later he vas washed off. I heard him hollering md I shouted, ' Are you alive ?' He inswered, ' Yes,' but I saw no more of rim. At daybreak I saw fifteen feet iway a large piece of the forecastle lead fifteen feet long, nino feet across it one end, and five at the other. I iwam to it. It was upside down, with he cross beams uppermost. Over these vere nailed planks that had been the seiling on the ice house. Under the jlanks was a good deal of fawdust. I L prilled on board two doors to at vere floating near some large sticks. Chen I lay down, for I was dead tired. Mter a time I got up and saw a vessel. She was so near that I could see the nen on deck. I tied my jumper to a itick and waved it, but they did not lee me. I found three sea biscuits in he water, and picked them up. I fixed he doors against the beams so that hey were some protection against the vaves, and they made enongh sail to sarry me out of the wreckage. At 9 ('clock in the morning the sun broke hrough the clouds and tho weather beame warm. I was too lonesome to leep that night; "The next morning, Sunday, the Find rose and raised the sea. Someiino? tte waves carried me clean .cross the raft, but never entirely off. Inf T Inof Iwa of mr hfapnifa T tuna 'ery hungry and I ato tho oth^r. 11 be afternoon I tried to signal a barkenine, three or four miles away, but she Lid not see me. At night 1 tried to Jeep, sitting back against the doors, jut the waves doused ne and woke mo ivery two minutes. " Monday morning theie was a heavy ihop sea. The sun did not come out ,11 day. I was getting weak. At noon ! saw a sail to leeward, but she was out ar awuy, and I did not try to signal ler. Sharks six to ten feet long rubbed heir noses against the raft and turned >ver on their backs. I hit them with ny sticks and fended them off, bat hey kept coming back. Then 1 saw i big turtle floating, and I thought if I jould catch him ho would be good eatng. I took one of the doors and mshed it under him, and then I tried o pull him up on deck, but he was too leavy. I sang to keep myself company. :t was a Canadian song. The wind died iway at snndown, and at night the stars same out. Toward morning I slept a ittle. "On Tuesday morning the weather 9as clear and the sun came up very red. ! felt cold and thirsty, but was no onger hungry. I saw a sail far off, and lid not signal it. The sharks were iround all day. That night the sea pas so rough that I could not tleep. "On Wednesday morning the sun :ame up finely and the water was clear. Lt 9 o'clock a little rain fell. X tried o catch some in my oilskin coat, but iould not. I scraped somo mildew rom the boards and tried to eat it. It asted very bad and was salt. My throat pas very dry and I dipped up big handuls of salt water and swallowed it pithcut tasting it. I know that was prong, but I think I was a little out of oy heiid. The water made my mouth ,nd throat sore and my tongue so thick hat I could not speak. Toward evenng I saw a bark, but so far away that I | lid not signal her. At midnight a fog | ettled and it rained heavily a few min- j ites. I made a bag of my coat and j aught enough water to have a good ! Irink. The rain killed the ttind, and I aanaged to sleep two hours. " When I woko up on the morning of Thursday, the sixth day, I was cold rom the drenching I had had. I slept ;gain half an hour, and when I woko igain I saw the Pearl away off heading traight for me. I was very sleepy. I ay down and went to sleep again. iVhen I woko the Pearl was only a mile iway, and I signaled with my jumper >n a pole, and I was very glad whtn I aw that they had seen me. "I went up the ship's ladder myself; md ran fcr water. I drank a larce can-! ul, and then the steward stopped me. le gave me hot coffee, and I drank two [uarts of that. The captain gave me try clothes, and tried to cat a littlo >ecf and bread, but I could not swalow it. I did not feel hungry. I could lot sleep. I drank some more coileo, ,te four oranges, and after that a full tinner. Then I went to sleep for two lours. Tho next day felt stiff and I ore, but I cjrew steadily better, and fas soon able to Wt . k with the crew. I , ma picked up about twenty-five miles ; rom the place of the wreck." Wild-Eyed Editors. There has been in existence in Eng- ] and for many years u periodical called j he New Moon, the contributors of ; yhich are inmates of lunatic asylums in a rule tho articles display marked l ?n^?ncd 41.nf ' kuiui V) UUU uu uuc u uiuu nui;|>v? u ?" *? , he writers were suffering from mental j iberration. On ono occasion tbo editor | >f the New Monti received complaints j rom several subscribers that tho conents of the journal, although well [ 'noagh in their way, were lacking in | listinctive flavor, and did not betray ' he:ir origin; so in tho next number be | jave free play to his refractory con-; ributor;}. There appeared astounding 1 jolitical revelations; a paper on evoluion, with woodcut illustrations of the ' ibape of tho human soul at diff rent; iges; the designs of a machine to facili- j ate bodily ascension into heaven in tho i nanner of Elijah; and tho first canto of in epic which, when not utterly incolerent, was anticipatory of "Alice in Wonderland." Ono number of this char-1 icter was sufficient. The discontented m^cPfiViAVO Qvnrnaoo/1 fnflmcnlv/Jd Rnt.ifl lei and begged that tliey might have I 10 more Bedlam broke loose in prose i ind verse. | SUNDAY READING. Great Slim nml Petty Faults. Ycu need not break the glasses of a telescope nor coat them over with paint to prevent you from seeing through J them. Just breathe upon them, and the dow of jour breath will shut out all ' the stars. So. it does not require to 1 hide the light of God's countenance cr ; shut out every star of promise. Little faults can do it jnst as well. Take a I shield, and cast a spear upon it and it ' will leave in it one great den*, but pick it all over with a million little needlo shots, and they take the polish off far more than the piercing of the spear. So, it is not so much the great sins that take the freshness from our consciences as the numberless petty faults which we are all the timo committing.?Bcccher. Religion* New* anil Note*. A proposition for the organic union of the Northern and Southern Methodist churches meets with much favor. At Wallerawang, New South Wales, a lady has built a church for the joint use of Anglican and Presbyterian communities. The English Baptist hand-book for 1882 reports an increase of thirteen churches, thirty-seven chapels, and 5,700 members. The commission appointed in Germany to revise Luther's translation of the Bible has held its last sitting and brought its work to a close. Tho Scottish United Presbyterian church gathered in for foreign missions la^t year 8167,725, an advance of upward of $15,000 on the previous year. There are in Paris ninety-two Sunday schools, with 819 teachers and 7,400 scholars. Many of these schools use the international series of lessons, for which lesson papers and other expository helps are published in French. At the thirty-second anniversary of the Southwestern Bible society, at New Orleans, it was reported that during the past year seven colporteurs had i * i j t j nr: :? ueeu biupiu^ t'u ju jjuuiamuu ?uu iuibbihsippi, who visited 15,837 families, of whcm 6,341 were without a copy of the Biblo. Ia all, 4,607 families and 1,318 individuals were supplied with the sacred volume, 1,690 copies being giveu away. The colpolteurs spent 1,055 davs and traveled 10,236 miles in making ihe canvass, at a total expense of $1,691.25 An organization known as the Children's Scriptnre Union was formed in London, England, in April, 1879, and has since spread through different parts of Europe, until now there are about 9,000 branches, comprising nearly 100,000 members. The objeci is to promote among children and young people the regular daily reading of the Bible. Tne Baptist Weekly bewails the meager contributions of Baptists for foreign missions. It goes into statistics to show that the actual contributions of the churches is shockingly small. Of the income from churches and ind viduals, amounting to $167,685, it finds that $100,611 came from 178 churches and sixty-four individuals, Apportioning tho balance among the rest of the pa'ronizing churches, it secures as a result an average contribution of eleven cent^ per member. Circus Apparatus and Accidents. The following extract is from an article entitled " Men-and-Animal Shows and How They Are Moved About," by W. 0. Stoddard, in St. Nicholas: The most important business, after the tents are up, is the formation of the "ring" and the setting up of the gymnastic machinery for the performances of the acrobats. The ,lring" is generally a little more than forty feet in diameter, and it looks like a rude enough affair, but its preparation calls for both care and skill. The ground for it is leveled with nicety. Tho barrier, a eircnlar mound of earth of about one hundred and twenty-five feet inside circumference, is raised to a height of somewhat over twenty inches on its inner face. It must be thick, firm and strong, to bear the hard blows of a horse's feet or the 'sudden leaning npon it of an elephant. It must, therefore, be banked, and pounded with sledge-hammers, until no strain to which it can be subjected will break it down, and it must retain ro looseness nor unevenness, to trip a horse or endanger the life of a rider. It is the work of a few hours only, but there is a man busy upon almost every sqnare yard of it whilo it is rising. As to the machinery for the acrobats, simple as is the appearance of the uprights and cross-bars, they must be set up with especial care, so as to leave no possibility of their breaking down. The performer using them must be able to trust his appliances absolutely, or he could never have the nerve and confidence to delight the crowd at the risk of his neck. All his feats of skill and daring, moreover, have relation to the exact distances at which he has practiced them, and there must be no variation from those precise measurements in tho daily adjustment of his machinery. He, or she, as the case may be, is sure enough to meet with what are called "accidents." When a "great slnw" recently came to the city of Brooklyn, a family group of three persons sat down together in the breakfast tent. They were acrobats of unsurpassed agility and skill. A sad-faced woman, a young man of middle size, a girl just entering her teens. There had been four of them prior to a recent performance, but the "star," an older girl, the most daring of them all, had " missed her motion " in a feat of uncommon peril, and had fallen upon 1 tho receiving net. "She was but slightly injured," all were told who cared or thought to ask, but the little group at the table knew she was dying. They performed their paits that day as skillfully as ever, though with so much more weight than usual to carry, bu when tho evening exhibition was over thero were, indeed, but three of them. The fourth had gone forever. Such an "accident" may come to tho best trained and most experienced per- , former, and yet it is a mistake to suppose that acrobats aro necessarily a short-lived race. Tho constant exercise, the enforced temperature, the out-1 of-doors life, amount, in fact, to a caie- i ful observance of well-known laws of j i health. IfaprofessionalatLietecfcapes 11 the more serious disasters which are ; continually possible to him, it is his own fault if ho does not remain for i many years a comfortablo body. < His worst perils do not come to him | in the "riDg," but during the long j i mouths when ho is not employed, j and when he has no immediate and j < pressing need for careful training. For, 11 in this interval, ho is in danger of re-j j hmng his habits of careful living, and | j a very little over-indulgence will put i oat of order that wonderfnl machine? t Ilia I odr?on tho perfect condition of ] which depends his power to do the | feats required of him. (Juccr Ideas of Curative Oils. Some people &1 ill hold to curious old | superstitions cor earning tho curative | j properties of the oils of certain ani-11 mals ; and to hear the druggists tell of I ( Ihe strange things called for by seme I of thiir customers is to be reminded of , the vagaries indulged in by the aborigimil medicine man in his native wig j J warn. For instance, thero are persons ! j who pic great faith still to the virtue? , of rattlesnake oil, and who believe it is I j a specific for rheumatic afflictions. A ! traveling quack who announced that his J it.. | curc ail was partly uviu|i juuucii ui 1UI>- ; tlesnake, reaped a big harvest of silver j I coin from crowds on tho square not long J ago. There is a frequent demand for ( pickerel oil, which is said to be a cure I for deafness, and which is tried from ] the livers of pickerel. Mud-turtle oil is ] also frequently called for by people who ] have still' joint?. It ha^ been but two ] cr three years since oil of theso oils ; wero staplo aiticles in drug stores. : Pickerel oil sold for fifty cents an ounce : and turtle oil for SI a pint. These oils : are rarely found to-day, and probablv 1 from this very reason are accredited i the more wonderful qualities by the oracles.?Letcislon (Me.) Journal FLORIDA ALLIGATORS. riiclt* Food. Their Ilnhlt* nnd Their Corn- i ntcrcinl Value. The alligators are mostly of the red i E eyed species, which are noted for their j 0 3ize and fcrocity, and when met on [and are not much disposed to turn out ? of their course for anything; to that I Qot many people care to meet them in ! their rambles. An immense fellow who 0 lay about 200 yards from the shore allowed us to paddle within 100 feet of 0 him, so that I had a fine view of his vicious eyes and general ugliness. It 0 was fully two feet from his nostrils to his eyes, and he must have been nearly B or quite twelve feet long. As we ap- ,, proached nearer he settled slowly out of sight, sinking so easily as not to cause a ripple upon the almost glassy surface of the waters, as he disappeared. It seem<3 that these strange creatures are almost as much at home on land as I in the water, and, contrary to my pre- , vious understanding of their habits, they are frequently found a mile from any body of water, especially at night, c when they wander about from one pond or lake to another. They arc very de- ( structive of stock, and are especially s fond of hogs, and as all Btock runs at 1 large in this country, they catch great numbers of them. CalveB and year- c lings are also a favorite diet of these a monsters, and even full-grcwncows end i steers are frequently pulled into the lake by them and devoured. When- 8 ever you see a bob-tailed cow in Flor- r ida, which is not infrequently the case fi near the numerous lakes and ponds, it j is safe to presume that she has been wrestling with an alligator, and would, , if-she could, " a tale unfold." A gentleman living about two miles ? from Lochloosa lake told me that on one * occasion he was driving a lot of cattle acros3 a stream that empties into it, when all at once they began running and 1 bellowing. Running forward he saw 6 an immense alligator had seized a fine 1 yearling, not by the tail but by the 1 body, being so large that he had actually grasped the yearling's body in his 1 month, as a pig would an ear of corn, i And although he could not of course raise it from the ground, he did by his weight and tbe strength of his huge jaws crush it to the earth. The owner of the cattle tried to make the 'gator let go by striking him over the head with his cow-whip. Failing in this he rode rapidly back for his gun and was followed on his return by his dog. By this time the 'gator hadreleased his hold, and the yearling lay in the road nearly dead. Riding up within twenty feet, the gentleman discharged a heavy load of buckshot at the alligator's head, which only served to infuriate the brute, and he at once made a rush at the dog. Thereupon the gentleman approached until he could almost touch the 'fcator with the muzzlo of his gun and discharged the other barrel at { a point just back of the shoulder, causing the animal to retreat into the bushes, and he was found next morning ! on the shore of the lake stiff and dead. He measured fifteen feet in length. Alligators are being hunted very extensively of late for their teeth and hides. Their teeth are mounted with gold and mads into earrings, necklace?, watch charms, etc., anl are worth from one to five dollars per pound. The hides are worth a dollar to a dollar and a hall each, green. Over 400 have been killed in Lochloosa lake alone. Fire hunting at night is the most successful mode of capturing them, if not the safest. Two men and a boat are required. One paddles while the other has an immense j bull's eye lantern fastened on top. of his head, the light of which attracts the 5 alligators to the surface and blinds fin that the boat nan 1)B rnn richt t against them. Then the man with the I light thrusfs the muzzle of a heavy ; I caliber rifle within six inches of the 1 creattire'a head and fires, immediately [ proceeding to haul him aboard, to t which effort the 'gater lends what strength he may have left; his great desire on being morally hurt is to get i out of the water. And if one feels the i boat after being shot, be will attempt t to climb in himself if not entirely dead. A native alligator hunter whom < I met on the shore of the lake yesterday told me that he had seen as many ] as eighty 'gators at one time during one j of these night hunts, and that he could ? hear and feel their jioses "plump" j against his boat as they swam rapidly j toward the light, their eyes being too ( much dazzled to distinguish the boat , until they ran against it. On coming ? so abruptly in contact with the boat's ? "idea taey would back off a little dis- r tance to investigate.?Buffalo Courier. ( Tlie Little Children's Watches. Yesterday an old man entered a Little 1 Rock store, and taking from his pocket ] an old buckskin pouch he emptied two : coins on the counter, and tben, after ' regarding the silver for a few moments, 1 said: " Mister, I want to buy some goods : to make a dress." 1 "Thatmoney is mutilated, old gentleman. This twenty-five-cent piece has notches filed in it, and this fifty-cent ; piece has been punched. You see, they a have been abused. I can't take them." c "Abased," said the old man. a "Abused," and he took up the fifty- p cent piece find looked at it tenderly. , "And you won't take it on account of e the holes. Heaven grant that I did not 8 have to offer it to you. Years ago, when t my first child was a little girl I punched q a hole in this coin and strung it around v her neck. It was her constant play- g thing. At night when she went to bed j we'd take it off, but parly at morning she would call for her watch. When j j our John?you didn't know Jobn, did j j yon? No. Well, he used to come to , c town a good deal." j s "Where is ho now?" asked the mer- M chant, not knowing ^rhat to say, but a desiring to show appreciation o?' the t] old man's story. w "He was killed in the war. I fay 5 that when John was a little boy I tj strung this quarter around his nfck c. One day his watch got out of fix, ne a said, and he filed these notches in it. f{ He and his sister Mary?that was the jr girl's name?used to play in the yard 0 and compare their watches to see if ^ they were right. Sometimes John f( wouldn't like it because Mary's watch f( was biggdJ than his, but she wonld ex- e] plain that she was bigger than him and ^ ought to have a bigger watch. The ni children grew up, but as they had a] ilways lived in the woods they were not ashamed to wear tneir watcnes. a] When a young man came to see Mary ance she forgetfully looked at her fifty 0j ^f-n's. 'What are you doing?' asked ^ tho young man, and when she told him 0, she was looking at her watch he took it j 61 is a hint and went home. After this : 8j she did not wear her watch in company. I n Well, Mary and the young man mar- j ried. John went off in the army and; jot killed. Mary's husband died, and \ xbout two years ago Mary was taken j vj sick. When her mother and I reached I b ac-r house she was dyin*. Calling me ! p to her bed, she said: ' Papa, leas over.' ' a [ leaned over, and, taking something ! fi From under her pillow, she put it j h iround my neck and said : ' Papa, take > cl jare of my watch.'" The old mau! tl looked at tho merchant. The eyes of! o both men were moist. "Do you see j b that boy out thore on the wagon V he a' said. " Well, that i3 Mary's child. I u tvouldn't part with this money, but my ! w aid wife, ^vho always loved me, died this morning, and 1 have come to buy ai tier a shroud." When the old man ' si went out ho carried a bundle in one g hand and tlio " watches" in the other. ft ?Little Rock (.*1 rk.) Gazette. n ? o According to a recent calculation the 0 total amount of paper made in the world j. from all kinds of materials is 1,800,- |j 300,000 pounds, of which half is used Fi for printing purposes, a sixth for writing f, purposes, and tho remainder for miscel- ^ laneous purposes. For government n purposes 200,000,000 pounds are ussil ; t] for instruction, 180,000,000 pounds; t] for commerce, 210,000,000 pounds; for p industrial manufacture, ISO,000,000 n pounds; for piivate correspondence, jj 100,000,000 pounds ; aud for printing, ; 900,000 000 pounds. These 1,800,000,- j f( 000 pounds of paper are produced iu j 0 3,960 manufactories, employing 90,000 j ^ men and 180,000 women. I n Marsh Sons?At Sunset. ver the monstrous shambling sea, Over the Calio; ? s^, right Ariel-c'.ou . thoa lihgerest. h wait, oh wait in the warm red Weil? Thy Troapcro I'll be. ver the humped and Ashy scs, Over tho Caliban sea, h cloud in tho. West, liko a thought in tho heart f pardon, looso thy wing and start, And do a gracf for mo. ver tho huge and huddling sea, Over tho Calliban sea, ring hither my brother Antonio-man [y injurer. Night breaks tho bar.; Asiubuui, x paiuuu kucc, ?Sidney Lanie>, in Our Continent. HU3I0H OF THE D1Y, The difference between a dog and a ioy consists in the fact that when the log finds a scant he doesn't spend it for andy. Talk abont modern miracles, Nr. Jabbagebead says he cnred his boy of ome bad habits by the laying on of lands.?Stamford Advocate. A burglar got into the house of a ountry editor the other night. After , terrible straggle the editor succeeded n robbing him.?Philadelphia News. " Pa, why do they call 'em high chools?" " It's because we pay so Quoh ior'em, my son. You'll underInrKan W/mi rtof Ilauu KUCQO bmu^O UDbU^l ITUVU JVM QVH o be a taxpayer." The man who never did an7thiag by rnlves tried to swallow a whole dsh ball he other morning, and has been exramely qniet and unassumiag ever lince.?Loicell Citizen. " Is enow warming ?" asks a Vermont japer. Egad, yes I You get a good iolid snow ball tanked into your ear ind you'll think the ear is afire for the lext two honrs.?Boston Post. Two men discussing tho wonders of nodern science. Said one: " Look at istronomy, now; men have learned the listance to the stars, and with the specroscope they have even found out tho . mbstances they are made of." " Yes/ iaid the other, " bnt strangest of all to ne is how they foand out all^their laflaes!" < .. A remarkable fact: We have many ' ;imes been an unwilling listener to ? ;he"said she" and "said I" narra ions in public conveyances and else vhere; bat never knew an instance inhere the "saidI's " didn't say all the imart things, and the " said she's " all ;he stupid and vicious things, or where ;he " said I's " didn't come off victorious n the end. A Woman's Ingenuity. Elizabeth Lloyd King, alias Kate Stoddard, who is well known as the nurderess of Charles Goodrich, brother >f the Hon. W. TV. Goodrich, and is iow confined in the Auburn State conrict asylum, being denied the use of rating material, recently invented a lew way of composing a letter. She pas allowed books and magazines, a Bible and a Testament, and although lot permitted to have scissors, had a leedle and some thread. Taking the lyleaf of a book she stitched upon it tingle letters, and bit3 of words that vould compose sentences, and veiy leatly made up out of fragments of srint the following letter: lis. Pavzy, Counselor at Law: Sib?Please excuse this print and paper,for I lave not been allowed 10 use my writing lnateiala since last July. I would like, to consult ou as soon as I can. Will you please call here? Respectfully, Elizabeth Lloyd Kino. AUOOrn ataio uonvict abviuiu, nun xuib. Editor of the Syracuse Standard: Sir?Will yon please oblige me by giving to ilr. Counselor Pavey tho abovo note? I do not mow where to direct if. I'lease excuse this irint and paper, for I have not been allowed to ise any writing materials sinco last July. Bepectfully, Elizabeth Lloyd Krao. Auburn Stato Convict Asylum, N. Y. The following address was stitched ipon another bit of paper, which was ifterward sewed on the reverse side of be card: Mr. D. C. Pavey, Editor of tho Syracuse i'.andard, Standard office, Syracuse, Now York. It must have required many weeks to lave pieced out the letter. The capias were used only in proper places, ind great care was taken as to punctuaion. The whole of the first letter was n brevier type, and most of tho aec>nd, and the words were nearly all nade up of single letters pricked out of t printed page, evidently with a needle, ind then sewed on with white thread. Che word King seems to have been cut rat of a Bible printed in agate. The ititches were taken with such care is not to tear the paper or to leave lptamed edges that would be apt ;o cause any part to be torn off n handling. The edge3 of the paper vere neatly hemmed. The letter was lelivered to a visitor to mail, but it was aken up by an asylum physician, who las preserved it as a curiosity. A Snake-Rooster. Some time ago u farmer's son in this icinity caught a young water-snake, ,nd conceived the idea of forming a sort if happy family by placing the reptile ,nd a newly-hatched chicken in com>anv, with a view to ascertaining whether or not they would live contentdly together. Strango to eay, they oon became inseparable, and attracted he attention of all the neighborhood. ?he most curious feature of the ca^e ?as to follow, however. The snake ;rew and the chickens grew, and in ime the latter laid her eggs and began o hatch. Before many days elapsed he chicken was observed bitting on liree eggs and the snake near by was urled around one. The sight of a Dake constantly encircling a hen's egK ras so rare a sight that the result was waited with great interest. Finally ie eggs wero hatchi d. The eggs on 'hich the hen sat pr. duced chickens, ut from the e%g over which tne rep Ie kept watch came* an exceedingly arious freak of nature. It onaists -of rooster's body and claws, with a per ct snake's head. The head is sunken ito the neck somewhat, and is stuck at something after the fashion of a irtle's head. The creature has a )rked tongue like any snake, and issues >rth a rumbling sound. This phenomaon is confined in a coop along with ie hen and the snake, and thi hen eglects her regular brood for the snake ad the snake-rooster The latter has > be kept cage d, and it is very savage id has already killed some eight or >n chickens. People who have heard [ the creature come from all parts of le country to look at it, and the young urner has an idea that it may be a nail fortune for him should a lowman chanco to see it.?Marlton V, J.) Lellet. Wolves in a Church. While the inhabitants of the Spanish illage Unarro were sttending a celeration of midnight mass in then arish church, a terrible surprise wjvi waiting them outside the sacred edice. During the seivieo a p.i:k ol angry wolves had gathered round the hurch doors, and when these were jrown open to let tho congregation lit, the ferocious brutes, stimulated y famine to an unusual display of ndacity, made a desperate onslaught pon the crowd. According to au eyeitness an indescribable panic ensued, [ in and women alike, screaming fnr id, strove -to escape from their ivage assailants; several, whiles sirugling frantically to icich the doorway, ill down and found themselves at the lercy of the famished wolve?. Tho nly man who displayed aiy presence f mind tr;n thrt RilCii.vtfln. who C3E ived to clamber into the pulpit, and ience imitated the harking of a dog a efftciivply that tho invaders touk right and iled, but not befrre they had ilied t:ireo of their victims and langled five mote so horribly that aey were not expected to recover at lie time when tins tragical nll\ir was ublished in the Spanish paper*. Meaares have been taken?somewhat late 1 the day, ns is generally the c. se iu _o Peninsula?by the lo;;al liulhorities jr the extirpation of wolves thrcu^fcut the districts at present infested bf hose canning nnd sanguinary carivora,?London Telegraph. ^ V 4