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THE DAYS OF ">49" Touch Storicn Told nt n Rpcent Kcuuiuu o tltc Pioneers. Pioneer C.'s story : "1 went to tbe mines early in ' 'IS.' I purchased in San Francisco ! a washing-machine,' weighing sixty pounds, which I packed on my back, over the hot and arid plain lying between Stockton and the Moke- j lnmne river. When I got there I dng my first hole and planted my washingmachine by it. It wouldn't work. Pretty soon tho 'oldest man in the mines' came along, and says he: Stranger, how much d'ye charge for washing shirts Y I told him I was not th =re to wash shirts, but to wash out gold. He burst into a guffaw, which was heard as far as Murphy's camp. ' Why,' says he, ' that's a contrivance for washing clothes you've got thar. They've taken ye in and done for ye.' it was true. I hail been cruelly imposed upon. But I made a small fortune out of that washing machine. I gave up gold mining, turned washerwoman for the whole camp at Out-throat bar, and in six months mado $10,000 by washing shirts at 85 apiece. Gentlemen, the services I performed in building and making history' for the great State of California are anions: the proudest reflections of my life." Judge B.'s story: "When I arrived at San Francisco there was any amount of banging going on by the vigilance committee. There was a great scarcity of rope for halters. 1 happened to have with me a bale of choice hemp. Law business was just then very dull. (I had opened u law office and hung out my shingle.) My expenses were 850 per day. An inspiration seized me. I occupied my spare time (which was all my time) in making halters and selling them to the vigilance committee at 8100 each. Some days I made S500. A single boiled potato cost then 81. This was the commencement of my fortune. I regard with shame the humble part I had in building up the State of California." General E.'s%tory: " I landed on the i shores of the Golden State in '48. Although my stay was but fifteen minutes, I assisted as a spectator in hanging two men without judge or jury. There j was no delay in justice in those davs. | I believe that one of these men was ' afterward found innocent. But he was I an awful example to the guilty party, j whoever he was, and who was never? ! no, never?discovered. Our vessel sailed then immediately to China. Although I have never seen the snores of the glorious State I assisted to find an 1 make history for, still the humble part in which it was my glorious privilege to take in elevating her to her present proportions is one of the proudest and grandest acts ol my life." Colonel D.'s story: "On tho first night of my arrival I put up at the O^j cidental hotel, then kept by Lewis and Jerome Leland. I slept on the top floor. During the night I heard a scratching, pawing and snillicg at the door. Thinking it to be the cat I opened it to drive the animal away. It was not tho cat. A n enormous grizzly | stood before me. Tho door opened, | and with a single bound he overthrew J me and was in the room. With one stroke of his paw he demolished my | spectaclos, tore out my set of false teeth j and upset my cologne bottle. I had three revolvers and four bowie knives in my valise, but alas! had neglected to take any of them ou', before retiring. The monster seemed to divine the contents of my portmanteau, for he grabbed it with one of his human like claws and threw it out of the window. Shall I tell you how I fought him and saved my life? Will you believe it ? I fought him with my bottle of smelling salts. Every time he made for me 1 gave him a sniff of it. He would roar terribly and temporarily back down. Then he would rush for me again. The fight was kept up for the remainder of the night, until my supply of smelling salts was exhausted. I called out to Lewis Leland to send me up some more. He replied that there was but a single pound in the entire city. I said, 'Buy it at any price.' He sent out a waiter, who returned with the reply that it would cost Sl.Ol'O. I,"?(here the speaker's words will be drowned by the band)- at the close of WJU1V11 tliClC ?T ill UO ucaiu l* Oli^UU iUUlmur of 'proud record?my part^-building up the glorious State? ma.' Major F.'s story : "Daring tho spring of '49 the Wa)lop-o-Wogga tribe of Indians used often to attack our camp at Dirty Blanket. We expected attacks ; from them nightly, and were in the I habit of sleeping on our arms. I had no arms then but a pocket pistol I had brought out from the States. I used to sleep on that. So did my brother. These pocket-pistols wereiully charged every night. They were generally empty in tho morning in consequence of the repeated and furious attacks from these Indians?and snakes. Itkept one man busy getting them charged the next daj ?at the nearest grocery. They were loaded from a barrel. Those were wild old times, I can tell you. One day two wild Indians chased my brother three miles. We saw him being pursued by them. That is, we saw him, but never saw the Indians. It was the same with the snakes. Numbers of our party were pursued by snakes, but it is a singular fact that no one ever saw the snakes save the parties pursued. People at the East can neTer realize the hardships and perils endured by us ! brave, daring Calnornia pioneers. It was a veiy dangerous country where we mined* Nearly all of our party eventually met their death at the hands of these Indians and snakes. Whisky then was twenty dollars per gallon. It cost us nearly all our earnings for ammunition. Rut, gentlemen, I am proud that I, too, hud u hand in making California tho great State she is." Webster's Knife and Fork. An Exeter (N. H.) correspondent of the Chicago Advance says: When Daniel Webster's father found that his son . was not robust enocb'h to make a snccessful farmer, he sent him to Exeter to prepare for college, and found a home for him am -ng a number of other students in the family of "old Squire Clifford," as we of a younger generation have always heard him called. Daniel had up to this time led only the secular life of a country farmer's boy, and, though New Hampshire farmers have sent out many heroes as lirm and true as the granite rocks in the pasture, there cannot be among the hard and homely work which sneh a life implies i the little finenesses of manner which i good society demands. Daniel was one ! of these diamonds of the first water, I but was still in the tough, tied needed ; some cutting and polishing to fit him to shine in the grvat world in which he was to figure so conspicuously. None saw this more clearly tlr n the sensible old squiro. The boy Lad one habit at tabie of which the squiro stw it would bo a kindness to cure him. When not using Lis knife and fork he ! was accustomed to hold them upright j in his fists, on cipher side of his plate. | Daniel was a bashful boy of very deli I cate feelings and the squire feared to i wound him by speaking to him directly j on the subject. So he called aside one : of the other students with whom he I had been longer acquainted and told I him his dilemma. "Now," raid he, "I j want you this noon at the table to hold | up your knife and fork as Daniel does. I will speak to you about it and we will see if the boy does not take a hint for himself." The young man consented to be the j scapegoat for his fellow student, and I several times during 1 he meal planted j his fists on the table, with his knife and fork as straight as if ho had received orders to present arms. The squiie drew his attention to his position, courteously begging bin pardon for speaking of tbe mutter, and added a few kind words on the importance of j joang men correcting such little habits ! VxaZ/m./, ?<"innr r.nf. infri 1 o rvrxrl/I Tim i UCiCAO *"?v/ vuw irvtiu. I student thanked him f< v his interest and advice, and promised reform, and Dan ' iel's knife and fork were never from that j dav seen elevated at table. When, after a vacaiion, Daniel's j father brought tho iad for a second term to Exeter, ho pnt in his saddle j bags a good fat tnrkej from the Frank- ; lin farm, which he gave to the squire j as an expression of his gratitude for Daniel's improved manner. We h*ve never heard further particulars, but we , hope the self-^prificing student go"; the 41 lucky lont" when the fowl was, f erved. More than half of all the thanks that have been thought of aud planned for sinco the world began have biou lost forover by bein z left over night. The cotton crop of Arkansas is claimed to have s greater money value than the wheat crop of Minnesota* General SkobelefT. In connection with General Skobeleff, the prominent Russian general whose speech against Germany has created such a sensation in Europe the London Pall Mull (itiz-llc reproduces some inteiestiug reminiscences of his career. The story of his exploits in the Bulgarian campaign includes all I that, was most exciting in the war which | brought the Russian army within sight of the minarets of Stamboul. From i the day when, "to show tho stuff he was made of," he swam his horse across the Danube while General Dragominoff j was forcing the passage at Simnitza to i the time when ho could with difficulty be restrained from marching into Constantinople as soon as the British fleet entered the Son of Marmora, he was the most prominent actor in the drama, j He became the legendary hero of the campaign, and in the minds of the common people he almost monopolized its ! glories. He was always in tho forefront of the hottest battle; four horses wero sjot under him iu ten days, but I he was only woumled once, and after being in constant expectation of death for months he returned homo safe and ! sound. His white uniform was to his soldiers as the white plume of Henri Quatre at the battle of Ivry. " I have heard the soldiers speak of him," says Lieutenant Greene, "r.s a general under whom they would rather light and die, thau tight and live under another. They had often to die?sometimes fiftv per cent, of his | command perished; but he spared no exertion to minister to their wants and to supply their needs. His division was the best fed and best clothed and best armed in the army. Ho was always with them in the most exposed positions of the field, sleeping with them in the trenches and looking after all their necessities in the camp. In short," says Lieutenant Greene, "he succeeded so thoroughly in making himself one with his division that his men responded to his thoughts as readily as the muscles obey the will. I doubt if a more thoroughly ideal rela tion between a general and his men has existed since the days of Cromwell." His custom of wearing white, as if to court the ballets of his enemies, his reckless nersonal braverv and the strange custom of bis of always " going into battle in his cleanest uniform and fresh underclothing, covered with perfume and wearing a diamond-hilted sword, in order that, as he said, he might die with his best clothes on," gained him the reputation of a wild dare-devil, which somewhat obscured bis real capacity as a general. In reality they only showed how thoroughly he had divined that secret of power which lies in fascinating the imagination as well as of appealing to the reason of men. When he was sent to take Geok Tepe and subdue the Tekkes many shook their heads and predicted that his impetuosity would be his rain. Co far from that being the case he displayed the utmost caution, acted with the greatest, deliberation, refused to move from July to December, until he had made all his preparations, and after he had carried on camels to the trenches no fewer than 1,575,000 rounds of ammunition, to say nothing of several thousands of shot and shell, ho laid siege to Geok Tepe and captured that hitherto impregnable stronghold. He had IO.UOq troops against 40,000 Asiatics, and he achieved the conquest of the Akhul Tokke country with a loss of 937 men. Only once in tbat campaign did SkobelefT display his usual recklessness. After the fortress had fallen he was riding through tho country with his escort when he met several Tekkes. He asked who they were. They answered, "Friendly Tekkes." " How can I believe your word?"*he asked again. "Tekkes never lie," was their confident response. ""Well," replied Skobeleff, " if that is the case 1 will send my escort home and will return accompanied by you." He was as good as his word and his trust in the word of the nomads was not misplaced. The Mexican Boy. Tn many ways, writes a correspondout, the Mexican small boy sets an excellent example to bis young cousins across the Rio Grande. Giowing up in this placid, social organization, bis disposition naturally is mild, and he has as his birthright an allowance of good manners so abundant that it might bo divided amon? a whole boardingschool of United States boys and make quite a showing in each. One day at San Pedro?it was the saint's day of the little town, and the placo was in a ferment of pleasurable excitement ? I hailed a small chap who was darting across the plaza and asked him to. get me a drink of water. The average American boy, if so addressed under 1 similar conditions?say by a Frenchman on the Fourth of July?pretty certainly would refuse to comply with the request, and very likely would couch his refusal in some such phrase as: "Just you hold your left ear while I get it!" or, " You go boil the back of your head !' But this little Mexican, not having enjoyed the advantages of a biffhfir civilization. "Dulled UD short i when I bailed him and promptiy went into the house and brought me the : water that I asked for. As he banded me the mug he took off his ragged lit- 1 tie cap and held it in bis band while I drank, and be bowed very prettily, ' this gentle lad, as I handed back the empty mug, with a "gracias' that came from the heart. Water fresh and cool is a pleasant drink in this thirsty land; but it is all the sweeter for being so charmingly served. And these children are courteous to each other as well as ' to adults. Out in the suburbs of the j town I saw two little chaps sitting together beside an acequia ? dabbling j their bare feet in the running waterwhile they played very contentedly with a dead bird they had picked up j somewhere. There was no auarrelioc as to which should h. ve the bird. One of tbem was plucking out the feathers while the other was looking on. They were talking very earnestly, and seemed to be full of the quiet happiness that ' with their gentle natures, is born in 1 hem. The Use of Wealth.Thero are thousands of rich men who aro not skinflints who have the reputation of being so because they have never been known to have done any special good with their money. A man who is worth 8">0,000 can do more to make himself loved and respected by all with whom he comes in contact, by the judicious expenditure of a thousand dollars ia charity thau by givicg tho whole fifty thousand dollars after he is dead. It seems as though it would be miehty small consolation to a millionaire to leave money to some charitable purpose, after death, and be so dead that he couldn't see the smiles of happiness that liis generosity had created. Suppose a millionaire who has never had a kind word said of him except by fawning hypocrites who hope to gt;t some of his mon y, should lay out 8 beautiful park worth a million dollars, and throw it open free io all, with walks, drives, lakos, shade and everything. Don't you suppose if he took a drive through it himself and saw thousands of people having a good time and all looking their love and respect for him. that his heart would bo warmtvl up and tbat his day would be lengthened. Wouldn't every look of thanks bo worth a thousand dollars to the man who had so much money that it made him roundshouldered ? Wouldn't he have more pleasure than ho would in cutting off coupons with a lawn mower ??Peck's Sun. Gorillas. The gorillas are the terror of Africa. In the gorilla country no lion will live. They a:e man-haters, and kill them for the lovo of it, leaving tho body, never eating them. When they spy a native thf-v come down from a tree, hit him on the head with a club, which they wield with their hind claw, or carry him up into the tree, there to murder him. Their strength is so great that they will bend tie barrel of a rifle. Only one live one was ever brought to England, and that soon died. Several ha\e been shot, but they are tough customers, and the natives dread them more than any animal of the African forests. The gorilla makes a bed like a hamiaock, and swings in the trees. The gorilla is the sworn enemy of the elephant, because each derives its subsistence from the same fource. When he sees an elephant puliing down and wrenching off the branches of a favorite tree the gorilla steals along the b-.-ugb, strikes the sensitive proboscis of tha elephant a violent blow with his club, and drives off the clumsy and startled giant, shrilly trumpeting his pain and rage through the jangles of the forest. * AN ANIMAL WAITER'S METHODS. Tho Fiercer the Anlimil In the En?tier It I* to Trnlu It?An Exciting Kucouutur A Louisville (Ky.) Couri*r-Journal reporter has had uu interview with M. Willis Cobb, who was exhibiting his troupe of animals in that city. Mr Cjbb, Hlthongh yet a young man, has probably had more experience with, unimals than any man in the profession, having handled nearv every specie with success, and trained them in a very short period. " How did you happen to go into the business?" asked the reporter, as he took a seat on a box surrounded by the troupe of dogs. " I have been in the business about twenty-eight years," answered Mr. Cobb, " and first commenced with a black-and tan dog in my father's store in Cincinnati. 1 tried to teach the animal several tricks, and by exerc ising considerable patience succeeded in teaching'the dog a number of tricks. I then took up several other dogs and taught them also. I now determined to go into the business more extensively, and launched on goats. I never fully recognized what trouble there was training animals until I tried to train a goat, which is, without doubt, the hardest of all animals to train. They are perfectly stupid, and the first thing you have to do with them is to teach them some of the sense which is natural with other animals. I worked on them about eight months before I could venture to pat them before the footlights. And then only with ' fear and trembling.' After considerable practice they got so they would roll a giobe or barrel perfectly and eee-saw very well. I never had much experience with wild animals until I joined Sell Brothers' circus in 1878, and ray first experience was not the pleasantest one in the world. One of the first things I undertook to train was the drove of six wild Colorado steers. 1 toojt mem cut miu iue practicing bam, and after fastening the doors went in among them by myself. Things went along rather smoothly until one of the steers became infuriated, and the whole gang rushed at me with horns down and tails up. I thought my time had come in earnest, us tbsre was no means of escape except by fight' ing them off. On the other hand, I knew that if I succeeded in whipping them then that they would bo effectually tamed I backed up against the door, and having a policeman's club in my hand I fought them back. Three times they returned to the charge, and I managed to fight them back each time. After that they were perfectly tame, and I soon got them to working finely, and learned them a number of tricks that astonished every one who knew them. The closest call I ever had in my life, however, was with a royal Bengal tiger, which the showmen purchased and gave over to me to tame. At first I was nonplussed, as the animal was terribly fierce; but experi t - j. 4l,?l 4UA once lias much lauyuu mo iuan wc i fiercer the tiger is wlien captnred the I easier it is to train him. I managed to I get the animal so tame that I could put; my hand on him and rub him over; he was, however, still very treacherous, and it was dangerous to approach him suddenly, as you can see by the scar. [Showing a deep mark on the palm of his hand.] When we wore in Topeka, Kan., a newspaper man came to the tent one day. and I started to show him around. I was standing by the tiger's cagc, the animal being asleep on the inside, and stooped to pick something up. In doing so my foot slipped and I fell against the cage, my right arm going inside. Quick as a flash the animal was upon its feet, and, reaching out its foro feet, caught me on the shoulder with its claws. Giving the claw a sudden pull, tho animal tore all the sleeve off my coat, and with it some flesh, the claws stopping in the palm of the hand. The young man who wa& with me jumped forward, and, catching mo by the shoulder, pulled me back. The movement nearly cost me the arm, nlnitra fjcf. ao tuu auiui^i o tiu?ro u oiv ui wi r ened in the palm of my hand, and as I was pulled back the whole inside was torn out, leaving the knuckles bare The accident laid me up for some time, and I had to, train the animal over. Some months afterward the same tiger killed a man in Bellaire, Ohio. One of the men with the circus liad seen me put my hands on the animal, and thought he could do the same. One day he went to the cage where the animal was, and putting his arm through the bars,' caught the animal by the collar. The tiger socked its claws into his shoulder and commenced chewing on the arm, eating it off up to the shoulder. He managed to get away, but died two days afterward. The tiger is now so tame that any one can pat him. The two baby elephants that created so much talk I raised by hand, feeding them out of a bottle. Each of the animals drank about a gallon of milk a day, and cry for it like a child. It is remarkable to see with what accuracy animals can distinguish their keeper at a distance. As soon as I would enter the canvas every aniimal in the circus knew it. and would rear around in their cage at a terrible rago. Trainers can say what they will about the secret3 of training animals, but there is no secret about it but kindness. Any one can train an animal who has the patience and gentleness. The art of training pigeons has created much comment, and I will tell you how the thing first started. In the year 1874 I was in the little town of Rushville, Ind., and in the hotel where I stopped were a great many pigeons. They used to sit on the roof and look down on my window while I was eating. I soon got on to this, and sprinkled crnml)3 ,of bread on the sill. They used to flr down every day ind eat as soon as I was gone. 1 then began to stand and watch them eat, and finally got so I could touch them. After that it was easy, and I could get them to come to me whenever I wanted them. This was the origin of pigeontraining, and a number of persons have now taken it up and made money out of it. The whole secret of training pigeons is in feeding them, and if yc u do not feed them for some time thoy will gladly eat out of your mouth. There are numbers of other tricks in animaltraining which I could tell if I had the time and you the space. Knowledge In a Nutshell. A cubit is two feot. A space is three feet. A fathom is six feet. A span is ten and one-half iuches. A palm is three inches. A league is three miles. A great cubit is eleven feet. There are 2,759 languages. rY?4--? wnnnrlu "rvav linohal llliliJ-UTD 2'VUUuu VMUMvti Bran, thirty-five pounds per bushel. Barley, forty-eight pounds per bushel, A days's journey is thirty-two and onehalf miles. Two persons die every eecond. Souud moves 743 miles per hour. A square mile contains 640 acres. A storm blows thirty-six miles per hour. Coarse salt, eighty-five pounds per j bushel. Buckwheat, fifty-two pounds per bushel. The average of human life is thirtyone years. A ban-el ot rice weighs (100 pounds, j A barrel of perk weighs 300 pounds, j An acre contains 4,840 square yards. I A barrel of flour weighs 300 pound j. 1 Slow rivers flow five miles per hour. 1 A firkin of butter weighs fifty-six pounds. Timothy seed, forty-five pounds per : bushel. A hand (horso measure) is four i inches. A hurricane moves eighty miles per hour. A rifle ball moves 1,000 miles per hour. Rapid rivers flow seven miles per hour. The first lucifer match was made in 1829. Gold was discovered in California in 1848. Electricity moves 228,000 miles per hour. The first horse railroad was built in I J 820. A moderate wind blows seven miles , per hour. The first steamooat plied the Hudson i in 1807. A mile is 5,280 feet, or 1,700 yards in j length. A Hard-Headed Passenger. On the luv ^national train that left ! yesterday for fc> -o Antonio, there was a darkey who kept, sticking his head out : of the car-window. "Keep your head iDside," sr.id the! ccndnctor, angrily. " Wbaffor ?'' " For fear you will damage some of the iron work of the bridge, you fool " ?Texas Si/tinge. [ THE WORLD'S NEWS. Eastern and Middlo States. At Waterbury, Vt., Michael MoCaffrie, ajfod fifty years, in a fit of insanity, killed his Wife, of the pamo age, and his own mother, aged eighty years, and concealed their bodies in the ue'lar of his house. Sauah IH'ru. au old womaa who died recehtly in New York, lias bequeathed $3,000,030 to institutions in the metropolia and other parts of the country. Miis. Mklviile, wifo of Engineer Melville, of the Josnmette, has received a letter at lier residence in Philadelphia from her husband, iu which lio espressos 1110 dcubi xnat uimuiamlcr Dc Long and tho twelve men with him have perished. It.vi.sToN, McQuaide <fc Ca, bankers, of Fairview, Fa., bavo suspended. Tho liabilities are between *200,000 and $300,000. A noixun explosion iu Goodwin Brothers' shoe ehop at Lynn, Mans., leveled tho building, lulled several men and injurod others. Smallpox assumed an epidemic form at South Bethlehem, Fa., 130 persons out of a population of 4,000 being down wi;Ii the dread disease. Hazaei., winner of tho recent champion pedestrian match in New York, departed, suddenly and Hocrctly from Philadelphia for England in order to escape the clutches of a deputy elierill who was after him with an attachment issued in favor of a former trainer. The month of J. W. Clark <fc Co.'a mines near Pittslmrg, Pa., is about three hundred yards from the M'mongahela. river, and the coal is brought in oars down a steep incline to a tipple at the water's edgo, where tho barges are I loaded for shipment. Tho other day several men wero standing on the tipplo talking and awaiting tho arrival of cars. Suddenly a loaded car broko loose at the head of tho incline. It ciinio whizzing down with fearful velocity and crushed into the tipple, instantly killing turce men. Nineteen women graduated tho other day from tho Women's Medical college of Phila uaipnia. Sehoeant Mason, convicted by court martial of shooting at tho assassin Guiteaa, baa arrived at tlio Albany penitentiary. Resolutions asking executive clemency for him were proposed in tho legialaturea of Now York and Now Jersey. South and West. The Baltimoro conference of tho Methodist church has be?n in session in that city. Tin: number of deaths by tho bursting of a steam pipe on iho Ohio rivor steamer Sidnoy has increased to fight. Information lias been recoived at Raleigh, N. C., tliat the Mormons have made a lodgment Dear .King's Kountain, that State. Numbers of the country people flocked to hear them and they mode about fifty converts at that point. X'ATKit dispartclies oaiimato that over 80,000 fqnaro miles oi territory lias been inundated by the floods in tho Mississippi valley, and the total number of sufferers is placed at CO,000 persona. In BoEivar county, Miss., no less than thirty lives havo bean lost by drowning, and tho whole county, containing about 11,000 persona, has been under water. P. H. McCkacken, formerly a member of the board of supervisors of Bradford, Mich., charged with the embezzlement of $1,000 of the public funds of that township, was arrested at his home in Chesterfield county, Va., and taken back to Michigan. Nine companion of Nobraska State troops and threo companies of United States regulars were sent hastily to Omaha in anticipation ol troublo with a bo^y of strikers. The strikors held a mass meeting, at which speeches Were made exhorting tho labor union to stand firm awl denouncing the authorities for calling out the military. In a charge mado by the military upon a crojrd at Omaha one workman was killed. A woman who hid reached the extraordinary age of 10G years was burned to death in Indiana. At Jacksonville, Or., a deputy sheriff was shot and killed while protecting a prisoner from wo;ild-be lynchers. Captain James 31. Davis, deputy United States rovenuo collector, and a celebrated raider of illicit distilleries, way waylaid by conceded parties and shot to death, about threo miles fiom JlcJIinnville, Tcnn. Captain Davis was owe of ihe most successful and daring men employed in tho service of capturing moonshiners. As the result of a uctico issued by tho presidents of the twelve coal companies in the George's Creek and Cumberland (Md.) regions that a redaction of fifteen cents per ton would be made in wages, threo thousand miners wont on a strike. This strike, which is the largest ever known in that region, left two hundred mid odd mine3 idle. A joist resolution passed the Ohio legislature. with lew disienting votes, requesting Piesident Arthur to pardon Sergeant Mason and .restoro him to the rank he formerly held in the army. Ex-Mayor J. M. Thurmond and Robert E. Cowart, a prominent lawyer, both of Dalla?, Tex., who had been bitter political opponents, met in the court-bot^e in Dallas, and, after an exchange of ugly words, both men almost simultaneously drew their pistols. Cowart fired firsi, the ball passing through liia antagonist's head and causing instant death. Hundreds of deaths through drowning, exposure or_ starvation have taken placo in the1 country flooded by tlio swollen Mississippi. Mary Ann* Hermann, an inmate of the asyloin for tho insane at Cliarlestown, Indiana, diod jifter refusing to take food for sixty-threo days kxI twelve hours. She drank water freely. Five boys dng a cave in a hillsido near St. Joseph, Mo., and went into it to play. While they were thus engaged tho bank caved in, crushing them all to death. From Washington. Toe Senato confirmed tho nomination of Colonel Rufus Ingalls to bo quartermastergeneral. News has been received that tho Rev. Dr. Higbland'Garnet (colored), United States minister to Liberia, Africa, is dead in his aixtycighth year. The finding and sentence of the court-martial in tho case )f Sergeaut Mason, who Bhot at Guiteau, have been issued by order of Major~ " - >'? ucnerai nauuotit. uiuauu 10 ?> uv dishonorably discharged from tho army find to bo imprisoned for eight voars. Lord George F. Montagu, secretary of tho British legation at Washington, died a i!ew days ago, aged twenky-seven years. The congressionid temperanco society is holding meetings oviiry week. Addresses harc been made by Messrs. Vance, of North Carolina, Il.-pburne, of Iowa, Price, Indian commissioner!1, and others. The Smithsonian institution has received from Professor Foerater, of Berlin, the announcement of tho discovery by Palisa, at Berlin, of a new planet of tho thirteenth magnitude . A census report shows tho]aggregate nation a] debts of the principal nations of the world to have been, in 1880, $23,280,11-1,753, an increase over 1S70 of $0,103,714,323. In 1880 France headed the list wi:h a national debt of $3,82'.),'982,399, followed by Great BiPain witb $3,700,071,000; Russia, $3,318,953,003; Spain, $2,579,245,000; Italy, $2,540,313,000; and the Unite 1 States comes fifth with $2,120,415,371. Denmark has the least debt, $18,065,000. Judge Samuel Blatciiford, of Now York , judge of the United Stites circuit court, was nominated by the President as associate juetico of the United States supreme court. On tho same day tho President aleo nominated John t> 11 V ?!.? ~z.1l_t,nnn,? irtnrnnliuf n-lir. 1111031*11 ?UUU? lltu Htii-niiuiiu jvu???w-*v. .? ..v accompanied General Grant in his tour around tlio world, writing up the trip for thj Now York Herald?aa United States minister to China. Letteus from ex-Senator Conkling and Senator EdmunU declining the appointment of Unitod States s'ipremo court justice havo been made public. Mr. Conkling saya that for reasona which the President would not fail to appreciate, l.e is compelled to declioo. Mr. Edmunds declines for reasons which, aa he states iu his l ;tter to tlio President, ho had expressed to Secretary Frelinghuyson. The Senate confirmed tho nomination of William II. Scruggs, of Ueorgia, to t>c uinteu States consul at l'auaum. The chief of tiio bureau of statistics reports that the total val ies of the exports of domestic breadstuffs from the United States in Fobruarv, 1882, were $11,173,239, and in February, 1KS1, $13,1)19,046; for tho eight months ended February 28, $135,291,078, and for the same period the preceding year, $182,428,G2G. Charges are made of gross mismanagement of the affairs of tho Soldiers' home in Washington. The eecrctary of the treasury has issued three calls fur ltonds?continued sixes?to the amount of $15,000,000, payable in parcels of $5,000,000 each on May 3, 10 and 17, respecti .-fly. Under directions from the state department Mr. Lowell, our minister to England, has* asked fiom tho Bri ish government a speedy trial for American citizens imprisoned in England. Gexhul HosKntANS has been cJcctf'1 s/iinirinin of tho Denxe.atic CrK^e.-'sional commitlco. Tiik Senate toconfirmed the following nominal ion' ..hn Russell Young, of New Vork, mir or to (!' ini; C-. A. Logan, of Illinois, iniui tor to G i!i. \ * Foreign News. There are rumors of bad blood and a coming war between Russia and Austria. Gekebal Skobeletf, in au address to Rnssian officers at St. Petersburg, declared that the German empire, founded by tho man of blood and iron (Bismarck), must be destroyed l.y Radian blood and iron. Tur; Greek ministry has resigned and a now cabinet has been formed. It ia stated that the negotial.'om for a copyright convention botween Great Britain and the United States have been suspended, President Arthur and Secretary of State Frelinghuyscn not sharing General Garfield's views on tho subject. Queen Victoria has written a lotter returning thanks for tho sympathy, expressod for hor in England and olsewhero on tho occasion of the recent attempt upon her life. The first anniversary of the assassination of the Czar Alexander II. was celebrated by a solemn service at tho Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in St. Petersburg. Anniversary services were also hold in Berlin, Paris, London and Constantinople. The report sent from Panama of the earthquake in Costa Rica was taken from an official (Iwn.itrli v.hich nroves to haveerreatly exacrcer rated the disaster. James Pyett, an American 'engineer, with six Mexieaus, while coming down a uteep grade on a hand car on tho National railroad, in Mexico, ran over a man while crossing a bridge. Tho car was thrown into a chasm. Pyett and three Mexicans were instantly killed, and others were fatally iujured. The caso of Dr. Lamson, an American, charged with tho murder by poison of his yonug brother-in-law in England, has excited great interest in that country. Upon circumstantial cvidcnco the prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to death. Dr. Qeorgo Henry Lamson took his degree of doctor of medicine at Paris in 1870. His practice was not remu nerativc, and while living in Loudon he was compelled to borrow money from his friends. Percy Malcolm John, hia wife's brother, was afflicted with spinal complaint. Ho was nineteen years old, and by the provisions of a will the sum of ?3,500 would be divided be tween Mrs. Lamson and her sister, if the lacl died before ho came of ago. On December 3, 1881, Dr. Lamson visited his brother-in-law and gavo him somo wine and gelatine capsules, in which he* mixed what ho said was Bugar. The boy died that night after Dr. Lamson had gone away. It ] was subsequently discovered that the prisoner i 1-al bought, on November 24, two graina of 1 aconite, and a bottle marked "poison" wasfound in his hotel. The pout-mortem examination Bhowed that death was caused by aconite. ' i FORTY-SEYENTi? CONGRESS. Senate. ' The bill providing for a commission to inves- i tigato the alcoholic liquor traffic was passed by 34 yeas to 14 nays. The bill provides for | tho appointment by the President and con- | firmation by the Senate of a commission < of seven persons, not moro than four , of whom shall be of the samo political party or bo advocates of prohibition, to hold i office not exceeding two years, who shall inves tigate the alcoholic liquor traffic, its relations ( to rovenue and taxation, and its general eco- j nomic, criminal, moral and scientific aspect in , connection with pauperism, crime, social vice, j the public health and general welfare ; and who j shall inquire as to tho principal results of | licenso and prohibitory legislation. The com- | miesioners are to servo without salary and to re- , port within eighteen montln after tho passage ] of tho act. An appropriation of $10,000 is f made for their expouBes. , 8everal petitions relating to tho Mormon ] question, the floods in tho Mls.-igsippi valley I and civil service reform were presented and | referred Mr. Garland, from the committee on the judiciary, reported a bill amending the statutes relating to a quorum of the supreme court of tho United Slates; calendar. It provides that a majority of tho court shall constitute a quorum, instead of six justices, as at present, and prohibits any justice from sitting on a ca.j0 on appeal on which ho has acted in a circuit couri. A report was made in regard to the extent of the suffering in tho Mississippi valley, and ft bill appropriating $100,000 was passed to aid those in distress....Mr. Call addressed the Senate upon Chili-Peru matters, as presented by his pending resolution in' lavor of a settlement of the controversy by the United States, and rccomnionding a congress of governments of North, South and Cen'ral America in Washington to stcure noma jud. method of eo.lleinent of all questions b. twoer.. them, claiming that our commercial interest* were to be substantially benefited bv intervention to prevent the disintegration and practical extinction of Peru. A bi.l appropriating $20,000 for a monumental column to cominemorato tho battle of Monmouth Mas passed.... Mr. Garland spoke on tho necessity of ? levee system along the Mississippi river. Mr. Jonas, speaking in regard to tho extent of tho present inundatioD, snd that a rough calculation ho had mado showed that tho lands in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana now raider water or I in daily danger ol being submerged produced in 1880 a total of 750,0G3 bales of cotton, tho valuo of which, at the ordinary market rate of $45 a balo, was $.13,752,835. As to tho sugar crop tho water would cfiuso its total destruction throughout tho inundated region. Ho favored tho appropriation of $15,000,000 to rebuill tho levees. Tho bill was sent to tho committee on the Misfcissipt i river and its tributaries. Tho House amendments to tho Senate Joint resolution making a further appropriation to relieve the sufferers by the Mississippi overflow wero taken up, anc'l the first, increasing the appropriation by $50,000, was concurred in. . Tho other, which directs tho use of a portion of tho appropriation for the hire of laborers to strengthen threatened levees, was non-concurred in - Mr. Logan addressed tho Senate upon the measuro introduced by him to appropriate and expend tho entire income derived from tho internal revenuo taxes on the manufacture and sale of distilled spirits for the education of all children living in tho United States. Ho said tho proposition was to distribute pro rata to the several States and Territories according to population, as shown by tho census returns, an Amount aggregating under tho present rate of taxation about $30,000,000 a year. The proposed distribution on tho basis of population, ho paid, would give tho Southern States nearly $10,000,OC'O a . year for their schools. The bill was referred.. ..On motion of Mr. Edmunds the Senate, by a voto of 40 yeas to 15 nays, passed an amendment to the postoffico appropriation bill restoring the iranking privilege to Senators and Represent*- ? lives. House. The speaker laid before the ITouae four me- t morials from citizens of Utah Territory (one s from 10,900 young women, one from 13,035 yonng men, ono from 15,000 womon, and one from 12,378 men), for a suspension of ' further action on all bills relating to I Utah, and for tho # appointment of a j commission of honorablp and unpreju- j diced mon and women to inquire into ana determino upon the state of affairs in that Territory. Tho memorials were ordered printed in the Record and referred... .Resolu- j tions of land league and Irish-American societies of Massachusetts asking Congress to take steps for tho protection of American citizens f abroad were presented by Mr. Ci apo. a A select comraitteo,pn women suffrage, con- T sisting of Messrs. Camp, White, Sherwin, Stone, ^ liepburu, Springer, Vance, Muldrow and Shack- * elford, was appointed,...The speaker presented (. memorial of tho legislative as- 6 sombly of Utah complaining of the bawk'.-s "an:l monstrous exaggerations mi der which tho peoplo of Utah aro . placed in jeopardy anil threatened with the 1 deprivation of the right of local self-govern- f moot; saying that the aim of tho persons who a have started these rumors is to gain control ? of the wealthy and prosperous Territory of r Utah, and to manipulato its finances, and f that they have succeeded in arousing tho ire 1 of tho clergy and through them the anger 8 of many people aga nst tho large majority a of the people of Utah; and urging that it is im politic ?.ik1 unatatesmauliko to disarrange tuo political machiuery of tho commonwealth in an a effort to punisli tho alleged offenses of a J few individuals. Congress is therefore * asked to suspend action upon Utah affairs until, by a committeo of investigation, the 11 facts aro learned and a taugiblo founda- 1 tion is laid for rational proceedings. Tho 1 memorial was referred to the committee on f judiciary....Mr. Butterworth, lYom tho appro- , priations committee, reported the army approl riation bill, appropriating $27,431,GiW....Mr. c C )x, of North Carolina, presented a bill propos- g ing a constitutional amendment to prevent bigamy and polygamy within tho States. The Senate anti-polygamy bill was passed lifter a sharp debate by a vote of 199 yeas to 12 nays. Tho Senate bill making an appropriation for ? tho relict of tho sufferers by the Mississippi t river Hoods was amended and passed. As 6 amended the bill appropriates $150,000, and . authorizes tho secretary of war to expend "such pai t thereof as he may deem advisable lor labor ^ only in strengthening levees of the Mississippi g where there is danger of immediate breaks at j] points it) Itis discretion," etc. c Mr. Willis spoko in favor of and Mr. Taylor in opposition to tho anti-Chinese bill....Upon F motion 01 .ur. ajcjihoih a resoimiuu nan i. that "the commidee on foreign afftirs bo t! (liroctoil to demand from Jacob It. Shiphord, ? of New York, copies of all correspondence between himself and any person or persons what- P soever, and all other evidence, in his posses- f< eion tending to show what sai l Shiphord did or j] attempted to do to enforce tho claims of the |i( Peruvian company or to indnco the United v States to enforco these claims against Foru." Millions Wasted Upon a Harrcn Rock. P ? . . n A Siin Francisco letter in tfce iiaiii- i ~ more Sun says: Half a million a month j ~ continues to be spent in barren rock in I vain search for bonanzis in the nnmer- J ^ ous mines on the Coinstook silver vein, rl in Nevada, below an average depth of 2,2u0 feet below the snrface of Mount Davidson. The 5,000,000 daily gallons 8' of water is very hot everywhere below 1,000 feet, and, with a single exception, j* no large body of paying oro has been found below that level. At this time sj combined eflorts are pushing explorations with fourfold activity, and streaks P of quartz aro met in the dark poiphyry, giving hopes. But the stock market is ' set back by the new theory of expert ? James Delavan, viz.: "No bonanzas ' will be found whore the water Las so * high temperature, nnd all boring is money thrown away." Scientific reasons aro given. Two of the mines have G reaobed 3,000 feet in confirmation of D this theory, and the bottom has dropped ci out of the* mining stock market. re Effeots of the Floods. A N6W York Herald correspondent telegraphs from Little Rook, Ark., as follows: Your correspondent his just returned from & tour in Dosha, Chicot and ABhley countioe, which embraco a largo portion of the overflowed districts. Tho stories of death, suffering and destruction of Btock and proporty have not been overdrawn, but, on the other hand, the mirror has not been held up to nature as the facts warrant.* Everywhere is desolation; everywhero is suffering. Opposite Arkansas City the Mississippi river is fully eighty miles wide, and tho banks aro but frail barriers against the encroaching current. Houses have been swept away, many lives lost, hundreds of head of cattto drowned, plantations almost destroyed, and many planters beggared. Thero are not less than twenty plantations in tho Laconia Circlo utterly ruined. Tho section named is noted for its groat fertility, 15,000 bales of cotton being annually raised upon it. The wholo tract is completely submerged, and hundreds of tenants are loft without shelter or food. In Chicot county tho loss of property and life is as great as o.'sewhero. Some fifteen persons have been drowned. There is not a plantor in tho county who is not a sufferer to a greater or has extent. In Ashloy county the situation is gloomy, many of the largest planters having been financially ruined. More than 1,000 people aire on the verge of starvation in this county. Tho Herald correspondept had an interview with Monroo Brown, a gentleman who had leased a large tract of laud -in Cypress Bend, Desha county, and who was living with his family in tho bottoms when the Mississippi began to rise. Said ho: " We wore overflowed nlrtioHr in a twinklinff- Thn wiitfli* nnurod intn the house at every availablo apaco. It happened I Lad a mule hitched at the front gate, and catching up my wifo, who had a threemonths'-old baby in her arms, I carried her out, wading into water up to my knees, and f;ot on tho mulo. I knew there wa8 a ridge tome two miloa east, and thought if I could only get to it we would be safe until picked up by a steamer. My wifo was almost scared to death, but sho's a plucky littlo woman, and so she didn't say anything until we got into deep water that carried tho mule off his feet ana forced it to swim. .Then she began screaming, and when the animal saw the corpse of a negro flouting on the water and bogan whirling round and round she fainted dead away and lay liko lead in my arms. About that time I began to think we should all perish, for in the excitement of the moment I had lost the course on which I had started, and as far as I could see there was nothing but a wide expanse of water ?a solid sheet of surging, foam-crested waves. I seomcd to be afloat in the center of a soa, with my wife unconscious in my arms and tho infant slumbering serenely on her breast. Our combined weight taxed tho strength of the faithful mule to tho utmost, and just when it seemed on the point of sinking with exhaustion and I began to contemplate the possibility^ a watery grave, I h^ard voices, and looking over my shoulder saw thrco colored men on a rafr. I called to them and they came to my relief, and thus snatchcd us all from tho very jaws of a terrible death. My mulo floated down tho current and was drowned. I wouldn't repeat that experience for all the wealth ol the world." Colonel G. W. Sappington, a prominent and wealthy planter, had likowise a trying ordeal in removing his family to a place of safety, and narrowly escaped destruction. Colonel" Sappington eaid the scene once eeen was never to be forgotten. The fleeing people, the waters iweepiog everything beforo them, the roar of tho rising waves?all formed a picture as itrango and weird as it was real and terrible. Many persons took refuge in trees until the boats picked them up, many were taken from [he roofs of floating dwellings, while particles sf houses driftiug with the current marked the ruin of once happy hofnes. Lieutenant 8. C. Vedder, of tho Nineteenth United States infantry, who waa detailed oy the war department to investigate the condition of iffairs in this State, was interviewed. Ho said tie had been all through Southern Arkansas ind found that the reports of suffering were not ex'ggorated in tho least. "It was,"said lie, "too appalling to be exaggerated. Tho Mississippi river is higher than it lias ever before been known. At places along tho railway in Desha county where tho water was never inown to reach in the paat a strong current is jweeping. Threo-fourtha of Chicot and Desha counties are' inundated, and at least 4,000 peoplo in either county are in a state of destitution. Thns far tho rations have not been properly issued. No ono seems to be reiponsible." A dispatch from Now Orleans say?: Above Picksburg tho low country from tho Mississippi io the Yazoo river has been covered by the loods. Tho people, with such stock and property as thoy could save, are flocking to Vicksjurg in tho steamers. Red river and ita chicf iributary, the Ouachita, are almost everywhere >ver their banks, covering many plantations. Hong all the streams and bayous that empty nto Red river thero is the samo slate of affairs, and somo hundred thousand colored people who havo lost their all must live on rations. In Richland Parish the cattlo and hogs are reported to be dying in large numbers. They ire unable to get anything to eat, and they die [1:0m starvation and from the effects of bites by j ;be goats. Fires are built to run the gnats j iway. In their efforts to get in the smoke the :attle in a few minntes trample the fires out. A Memphis dispatch says: The flood has broken nearly all the railroad connections wiHi l-ADiAnrrara rtn Vw\ata CMvn nr?fao/\r. iblo accounts of the river. A gentleman who tiado the trip from Now Orleaus says that at Torreno the river is 100 miles wide. Fully ifty negroes have lost their lives it Riverton, . and tho people there me five mules for a skiff. * Back of Tiverton there is a singlo acre of unflooded and literally covered with snakes. One old :olorod man is tho sole human inhabitant :hereof. In many places starving catfle fight ike cannibals and are leeding on each other. negro living near Island No. 98 killed a leer that had Bwam threo miles, and took it o his cabin where his stock was. A severe ight ensued between the negro and his cattlo "or the possession of the deer, ho having finally o throw them parts of tho animal to keep hem quiet. People all along the banks of the iver have cut away their floors from tho sides )f their houses, so that tho floors will float on op of tho water; As yet no estimate of tho oss can bo mado. General Beckwitb, of the commissary department, has received tho following from Cap;ain J. ti. Loud, at Memphis: " I found Pemis:ot county, Mo, in a distressing condition, being almost entiroly submergod, and about 1,200 people entiroly destitute. Tho supplies ient to Gayoso are being carofully distributed. More ehouid be sent there. Tho people will be in just as bad a condition when tho water joes down. The government, to prevent starration, should care for them at loaat until May L. About fifty people aro destitute at Hathaivay, Tenn., 150 at Tiptonville, 200 at Halo's Point, Tonn., 150 at Bayfield Point, and 1,500 n the vicinity of Osceola, Ark., are destitute ind badly in want." ni3i> nvnus. Character is the diamond tbat scratches svery other stone. Pride is the consciousness of what >ne is without contempt for others. When respiration ceaaes our educaion is finished, and not a moment ooner. As a man's life, so are his studies. I hink it is the most beautiful and hunane thing in the world so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may lot sink into melancholy nor the other ise up into wantonness. The every- day cares and duties which nen call drudgery are the weights and sounterpoises of the clock of time, jiving its pendulum a true vibration md its hands a regular motion, and vhen they cease to hang upon the vheels the pendulum no longe/ swings, he hands no longer move, the clock tands still. t, If your character indicates a flaw, hat is, if you find what at first seemed nnocent desire, under indulgence is | ast developing into a habit which may ; eriously affect your character and life, i iradicate it at once; for nothing is so mrd to uproot as a bad habit, and nothDg is so essential to advancement or erves us so faithfully as a good cbar- j ;cter. Keep a firm grip on good temper, ] ,nd don't lose your hold unless it pays. I, Jany a man Las lost his place and i riend, many a lover his sweetheart, | oany a house is broken up, hearts that I i oved divided, children scattered and j ives wrecked, crimes committed even ( o the extent of murder, just by losing < he grip discretion bids us keep j in this best of all good companions? ( ;ood temper. 3 ( Spring Clothing. In years past, as spring approaches, , 70 have cautioned our readers in regard o the too early adoption of spring or ; ummer apparal. We might well set | his down as a good subject for every j writer in Afarch. The appearance of i 1 ;reen lawns, bright sunshine and ping t Dg birds is quite calculated to allure .J no to adopt light flannels and less j ; irotecting covering. Bear constantly j i 1 A'--A ir, ! t 1 kminu nitii uir jii mutiuu jo uuuiu i Imn air at rest With March winds, | * bo tberm&meter above the freezing ( 11 ioint may entirely misrepresent the ef- i t ective tempo ature. We have before 1 llnstrated this proposition by referring ! * 0 the habit of using a fan in summer. | 1 ?heu the thermometer is in the nine- j 1 ies and the face is bathed with pers- | * iiation one is able to keep comfortable i c 001 by air set in motion by that little j * evice \ye call a fan. It is questionable j *E in tho New England and Middle ; ^ tates tho clothiEg should not le ' bicker and warmer in March than in t anuary. It certaii ly will not do to j v brow aside the winter overcoat nor the j 0 ?alf-kin cloak, nor even the heavy un- c erflannel. When finally tbe change is v - - J ' ofn ?>!!( nsirlp ' C UlUtJU-lU V?lUtiOA Miuivuiu w.t/ r liey cannot safely be laid away for the t ammer until all the chilly days and i * ;ill move cbilly nights have entirely I as-ed away. Always bear in mind that j ? hen one experiences a chill, or when )r a long time one feels an uneomfort- j H bio sensation of coldness a cold is , eing contracted ?Dr. Footc's Health j fonthh/. f li Decided sl?ps onght to be taken to enro a V si J or Cough at once. We should recommend r. Bull's Cough Syrnp. This valuable medi- I no is Indorsed by tho physicians, and you can L >ly on ita doing tho work every time. y An Ex-Consul's Story. To the Editor of the Brcoklyn Eagle: A late United States Consul at one of the English inland ports, who is now a private resident of New York, relates the following interesting atoi7. He objects, for private reasons, to having his name published, but authorizes the writer to substantiate hw statement, and, if necessary, to refer to him, in his private capacity, any person seeking such reference. Deferring to his wishes, I hereby present bis statement in almost th8 exact language in which he gaveittome, C. M. F>rmer, 1690 Third avenue, New York. "On my last voyage home from England, some three years ago, in one of the Cunard steamers, I noticed one morning, after a few days out of port, a young man hobbling about on the upper deck, supported by crutches and seeming to move with extreme difficulty and no little pain He was well dressed and of exceedingly handsome countenance, but his limbs were somewhat emaciated and his face very sallow and bore the traces of long suffering. As he seemed to have no attendant or companion, he at , once attracted my sympathies, and I went up to him as be leaned against the taffrail looking out on the foaming track which the steamer was making. "'TCTrnse me. mv vntinc friend ' I Raid. touching him gently on (be shoulder, ' you appear to be au invalid and hnrdly able or strong enough to trust yourself unattended on an ocean voyage; but if you require any assistance I am a robust and healthy man and shall be glad to help you.' "'You are very kind,' he replied, in a weak voice, 'but I require no present aid beyond my crutches, which enable me to pass from my stateroom up here to get the benefit of the sunshine and the sea breeze.' "'You have been a great sufferer, no doubt,' I said, ' and I judge that you have been afflicted with that most troublesome disease?rheumatism, whose prevalence and intensity seem to beoD an alarming increase both in England and America.' '"You are right,' he answered; 'I have been ita victim for more than a year, and after failing to find relief from medical skill have lately tried the Springs of Carlsbad and Vichy. But they have done me no good, and I am now on my return home to Missouri to die, I suppose. I shall be content if life is spared to me to reach my mother's presence. She is a widow and I am her only child. " There was a pathos in this speech which affected me profoundly and awaken-i ed in me a deeper sympathy than I had felt before. I had no words to answer him, and stood silently beside him watching the snowy wake o! the ship. While thus standing my thoughts reverted to a child?a tenyear-old boy?of a neighbor of mine residing near my consulate residence, who^had been cured of a stubborn case of rheumatism by the u?e of St. Jacobs Oil, and I remembered that the steward of the ship had told me the day before that he had cured himself of a very severe attack of the gout in New York just before hia last voyage by the use of the same remedy. I at once left my young friend and went below to find the steward. I not only found him off duty, but discovered that he had a bottle of the Oil in his locker, which he had carried across the ocean in case of another attack. He readily parted with it on my representation, and hurrying up agaih, I soon persuaded the young man to allow me to take him to his berth and apply the remedy. After doing so I covered him up snugly in bed and requested him not to get up until I should see him again. That evening I returned to his stateroom and found him sleeping peacefully and breathing gently. I rouse'd him and inquired how he felt. 'Like a new uian,' he answered with a grateful pmiie 'I feel no pain and am abl# to stretch my limbs without difficulty. 1 think I'll get up.' 'No, don't get up to-night,' I said,' but let me rub you ajrain with the Oil, and in the morning you will be able to go above.' 'All right.' he said, laughing. ' I then applied the Oil again, rubbing his knees, ankles and arms thoroughly, until he said he felt as if he had a mustard poultice all over his body. I then left him. The next morning when I went upon deck for a breezy promenade, according to my custom, I found ray patient waiting for me with a smiling lace, and without his crutches, although he limped in his movements, but without pain. I don't think I ever felt so happy in my life. To make a long story short, I attended him closely during the rest of the voyage?some four days?applying the Oil every night, and guarding him against too much exposure to the fresh and damp breezts, and on landing at New York he was able, without assistance, to mount the hotel omnibus, and go to the Astor House. I called on him two days later, and found him actually engaged in packing his trunk, preparatory to sturtingAVest for his home, that evening. Willi a bright and grateful smile he welcomed me, and pointing to a little box carefully done up in thick brown paper, which stood upon the table, he said: 'My good friend, can you guess what that is?' 'A present for your sweetheart,' I answered. 'No,' he laughed?' that is a dozen bottles of St. Jacobs Oil, which I have just purchased from Hudnut, the druggist, across (he way, and I am taking them home to show my good mother what has saved her son's life and restored him lo her in health. And with it I would like to carry you along also, to show her the face of him, without whom, I should probably never have tried it. If you should ever visit the little village of Sedalin, in Missouri, Charlie Townsend and his mother will welcome you to their lilt Je home, with hearts full of gratitude, and they will show you a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil enshrined in a silver and gold casket, which we shall keep as a parlor ornament as well as memento of our meeting on the Cunard steamer.' "' We parted, after an hour's pleasant chat with mutual good-will and esteem, and a few weeks afterwards I received a letter from him telling me he was in perfect health and containing many graceful expressions of his affectionate regards."? Brooklyn Engle. Bowing In Holland. Everybody bows?nobody nods, and touching of the hat is unknown. You bow to every one you may have met when calling on a friend, for callers meeting are introduced. You give an order to a gardner or a workman, and he takes off his hat with a bow which would not bring discredit on a duke. Every one bows on passing a house where they visit. I often used to amuse myself by watching behind a curtain to see every second man take off his hat to the window, it being quite immaterial whether any of the family are visible or not; and every second lady make a polite bend of tho whole body, not a mere inclination ox the head as our ladies do. Everbody bows Men take off their hats to each other; trades men do the same to all their customers. A well known lady is bowed to by all her father's, huBband's or brother's I friends, and any gentleman knowing a i lady is stayfhg at a house where he visits will bow to her. I even had a bowing acquaintance with a student whom I never met, and j did not know from Adam. I could not : imagine what made the boy bow so pro- i foundly, until I got some one to ask if; he knew me. I found I had once met i his father somewhere, and that was the ?shall I say excase? I should if he had been English. Well, after an absence of three years, I returned to the town where he lived, and there he was, , . grown into a man, bowing still. For ; some months we had quite a lively bow- j | ing acquaintance, and there it ended, as ! j xforetime. I must, however, include j ; "compliments" with bowing in the Dutch j ] idea of politeneSs. Every parcel is | i ?ont homo with the sender's compli- | f ments, and I once heard this message i < lelivered at the door of a house where | 1 [ was calling: "My compliments to the j t niurouw. and has she any dust?'* It ! j vas the dustman!? Leiswe Hou>\ Hoir One JIan (Jot His Name. I. The Lfd'jcr, ofEaston, Mil., siys that j i valentine sent by a youth in Washing- j ;on to a girl in Easton recalls the story j f a name of note in Americau history, j rbe name of the sender of the missive i s Return J. Meigs, and the same Chris- ! ian name has been in the Meigs family [ or several generations. Many years j igo, in ante-revolntionary days, Jona i ban Meigs courted a young lady who ejected his addresses. Meigs confintn.l tn lr.ro tlm ?irl. and. though too )roiul and sensitive to try a second | imo to win her, he determined never j o ruarrj any cne else, and to Jive and I lie u bachelor unless she, of her own 'olition, relented. After a few years I . he ludy did relent, or perhaps got to ;nowlierown heart better, and sent a j etter to her former suitor. Meigs got ! r bo letter, and found in it only the two : rords: "Return, Jonathan." It was ' nough. Joua'hau did return, and j ade her his wife. Their first child J fas baptized " Return Jonathau," to ommeuiorate the brief letter that saved he Meiga family from extinction, aud j i rom that day to this thero has been a letnrn .T. Meigs iu every generation. : |l ?he sender of tho valentine referred to I 3 the grandson of M. C. Mc:gs, late j uartermaster general. i T No patent required to catch the rheuma- i p ism. A cold and inattention to it, and you j ? iave it?the rheumatism. We cure our* i t< nth St. Jacobs Oil.?Chicago Inter-Ocean " Mr. Frosb, an FiUglishman, has > lought 20,000 acres of tho Disstou . I ands in Florida, and will get out vine- i ards on the largest wale. THE SECRET REYEALED. How Htiael Won the Race. Tin great race is over; the champions have returned from the arena; ono by one the lights have gone out in Madiaon Squaro Garden; tho sporting fraternity now sum up their gains or losses, as the case may be, and the only quae* tion now to bo decided is, how the race vu won. This we propose to show. We aro going to prick tho bubble; we aro going to conduct' our readers behind tho sconea and prove to them how Hazael, now the world's champ ion pedestrian, became such. Before we proceed to do so, let ns first take a retrospective glance over the field and champions. Oat of the ten champions who entered tho lists, four retired weary and disgusted; the remaining six, although handicapped with ailments, remained to peg the sawdust to tho bitter end, and perform wonders in ped?strianism by eclip:ing any and all previous scores. At precisely half-past 9 on the morning of March 3, Rowell retired from tho track after scoring 415% miles. Thoso who wero posted attributed his*collapse to several causes?some claiming that he was overtrained; others that ho overexerted himself in an earlier stage of the contest. Bs this as it may, tho reason is now plain to us, and we propose to give it, as a warning to coming pedestrians and to sporting men who wi'l in future siako thoir money on races of this class. Rowell romoved, Hazael was placed in the btsfc possible position. Who is Hazael, the winner? George Hazael was born in London March 22, 1815. He is five feet six and a half Inches in height, and weighs 122 pounds. He is the recognizod champion runner of England, from six to fifty miles, and has the following bost on records made in six-day races: Four hours, 33 miles 1,C50 yards; 5 hours, 40 miles 1,100 yards; 6 hours, 47 miles 1,210 yards; 7 hours, 04 miles 935 yards, all made April 21, 1870; and 8 hours, C4 miles 880 yard*; 9 hours, 68 miles 880 sards; 10 hours, 75 miles 440 yards, all made May 9, 1881. His beit performances aref London, November 4 to 9, 1878, six-day go-as-you-please, won at 403% miles, beating 23 others. Same placc, April 21 to 2G, 1879, soconi race for sixday championship of England; finished second to Blower Brown with 492 miles. In the fifth contest for the Astley Belt at Madison Square Garden September 22 to 23, 1879, ho finished third with 500 miles. Agricultural Hall, February 15 to 21^ J880, long distance championship belt of England, he finished second to Blower Brown, with 480 miles. Ho now caps the pinnacle with six hundred and a half miles, and comes off winner of nineteen thousand dollars, a fortune in itsolf, tho result of a week's work; and why ? Tho writer of this, who ia an "old-timer" (to mako uso of a pedestrian expression), and has assisted at several walking matches, waited on Mr. Goorgo Hazael, the world's champion, in his cabin, immediately at tho closo of the race. Ho was one of the favored few who were permitted to enter, and ho >aw that which gafe him a "pointer" aa to how the loDg-fought and hcroically-contested race was won. Ho imparted his idoas to Mr. Harry Vauglinn, a gentleman who came from London, England, five weeks ago, purposely to act as trainer for Mr. Hazael. That gentleman spoke freely, and bade the scribe meet him at Joe Bowler's Ham's Head Hotel, Gieeupoint, L. I., on the following day, and eeo Mr. Hazael in referenco to tho matter. In accordance therewith Mr. Hazael was met on the following day, March 5. Mr. Hazael was found to be in excellent condition, and had just partaken of a t-plendid dinner, and was proparing for his afternoon siesta. After somo introductory remarks, the writer observed: "George, when I entered your cabin at tho close of the race last night, my olfactories were pleasantly assailed and my Vision greeted?tho former by smelling St .Taonhs Oil- the la.tf?r hv seftini? it. "I came to aak if the world's champion racer had found the world's champion remedy-the proper thing for his valuable limbs?" "So," said Mr. Hazael, laughing, "you saw my stock of St. Jacobs Oi', did you ? It is a wonderful medicine, sir, wonderful 1 I do not know what pedestrians would do without it; it is their best friend. A rub of St. Jacobs Oil after leaving the track makes a new man of one, and fits him again for the contest." Mr. LIcnry Vaugban, who was standing by, broke in at tbis juncture as follows: "I was noverso surprised at anything in my life as I was to see the effect of St. Jacobs Oil on George. It did Georgo a powor of good, and but for its use ho might have had a different ending." " Yes," cxcl/imed Joe Bowler, just entering with a bottle of Piper Heidsieck, "you can safely say that St. Jacobs Oil won the race for the champion, made a fortune for Mr. Hazael, and prepared liim to win tho greatest raco on record." The secret was out; and Mr. George Hazael, a Briton of whom all England may be justly proud, and of whom America is justly proud also, has shown not only phenomenal endurance to such an extent that it awakens our wonder and surprise, but he has thown that ho tempers wisdom with pluck and energy; that he not only knows how to "go," but that he knows what is best for him while going. Mr. Hazael has won for himself fairly, honestly, and above board, the title of Champion Walker of tho World. George is a perfect gentleman, and in his pleasant manner awards the championship to 8t. Jacobs Oil, tho great German Remedy,' over all other remedies. Mr. Bowler is willing to back Mr. Hazael in any sum from $1,000 to $5,000 against any man in the world, for 100 miles running, and give the opponent five miles out of the 100. We will back St. Jacobs Oil against all medicines at ratfM aa liberal. Ox examination of a pet chameleon which ihad died, it was fund tuat its long tongue had n some way got down its throat and caused its death. ALLEN'S Brain Food-cures Ncrvona Debility 4 Weakness of Generative Organs, SI?all drupmsw. 8end for Circular. Allen's Pkarmacy,313 First ar.,N.Y. WETTtiER- OR HOT, Wo admire the philosophy of tho unfortunate man, who, when everything had been 6\vept away, said," Well, there'll be weather and tases left, at any rate." Alaa! weather is tho "yellow dog" of all subjects; everyone thinks it his special right to try to better the weather, and hurls his anathemas against "Old Probabilities," and all who endeavor to assist him in regulating the weather. Tho following communication is from Prof. Tice, of St. Louis, Mo., the renowned meteorologist and weather prophet of the West. It does not discuss the weather but something surely of more importance to those who suffer with "that painful malady he speaks of: "The day after concluding my lectures at Burlington, Iowa, on the 21st of December last. I wns seized tdth a sudden attack of neuralgia in the chest, riving me excruciating pain ami almost preventi"" breathing. My pulse, usually fcO, fell to '.'5; iateuse nausea of the stomach succeeded, and a ;old, clammy sweat covered my entire body, l'he attending physician could do nothing u> releva me. Alter sufi'eritig for three hours. I ;hought?as I had been using St. Jacobs Oil with jood etlect for rheumatic pains?I would try it. 1 saturated a piece of flauncl, large enough to ?over my chest, with the Oil, and applied it. The elief was almost insUiotaneous. In one hour I ,vas entirely free from pain, and would have aken the train to fill an appointment that night n a neighboring town had my friends not dismadedme. As it was, I took the night train for my lome, in St. Louis, and have not been troubled lince. v v v it?^tm Ji AU HWA 1^1 mure man uuc mi VEKYBODY WANTS IT. 258th Edition (New). I *- i orScIf-Prcscrviuion ?>i>c on .UnnLootl; tli //SCIENCF/' f linuMed Vilulily, Nei ?fs OF^ii, tec / *'y; ,,'moou tJ,c i*?"? <& / // Excet?!?en of feature if Nvo. Tin' very finest et? Prescriptions fur all acsit (HOW THYSELF. .JfislSiarfflM ILLUSTRATED SAMPLE, The Science of I.ifi>, or Self-Pr servnHnn, is the rnof horc is nothing whatever tli.it tlir married <>r siuk'*" 1 ' hat iilully explained. 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Since the fire has cleared the land speculators have discovered it to be of great value, and many of the stricken and discouraged settlers are selling out to new cccupants, who will improve and muke the country very different from what it was before the fire. Here is where the law of compensation suggests itself. in cold water iroga win oreame entirely by the skin, and cannot be killea by immersion as long as they are provided with food. On Loan Journey* Or ih traveling in tropical or moist climate, it is always well to bo provide-.! with a medicinal defense against fever and ague, bowel or stomach complaints and bilious attacks. Tourists, emigrants, miners a>;d ?eamen find in Hostetter's Bitters au efficient articlo, pleasant in action, agreeable in fi tvor and whoksome in composition. Unwholesome water. it deprived of its injurious properties bv admixture with this purifying corrective, ana symptom* of disturbance ia the stomach or lowels, caused hv unwholesome food, "are remedied by it. Failing appetite, loss of strength and fleeh, caused by non-assimilation of the food, nek headaches, nervousness and low of sleep, are counteracted by this uncomparable health promoter, Physicians who have contrasted its effects with those of other medicines, acknowledge its superiority. It is known both * here and ab:oad as a reliable family medicine. Keokuk, Iowa, ebippeu, during tne put seison, 10,50:),000 eggs and claims to be the biggest egg market in the world. "Iu Each and Every Instance." Wilmington, Del, Aug. 13, 1881. H. H. Waeneb Si Co.: S<r*-As a physician I have recommended atd prescribed yonr Safe Kidney and Liver Care for persons afflioted with Kidney trouble, and in each and every la* stance they were cored. A-lfbed Wai/tok, M. D. 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