The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, May 03, 1882, Image 1

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

X 1^-?? ? ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WABDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1882. NO. 48. VOLUME XXVI. Welcome, Spring. Bright and breezy, brave and ckar, Strong new life in every vein, March begins the rolling year, Starts anew the wild refrain : Hark ! tho cool winds fresher blow Hark I the clear streams freer llow; Hark ! the birds exultant sing,? Welcome, Spriug! Moist and brown the naked sod, Quick'ning to an olive green, Streaked with snow, that lingers still Where tho sheltering fences lean ; Higher, lines of trees that stand Stiff and bare, on cither hand, Murmuring, as they ro?-k and swing,? Welcopie, Spring ! On the blue hills far away, Hazy dreams of distance lie, While white drifts of clondland float O'er a clear and wind-blown sky In the air a subtle power, Faint, sweet breath of leaf and flower, Thro' the damp mold whispering, ? ?- Ve come, Spring! Once released from Winter's spell, Once his icy reign is o'er, Shall our eager hearts rebel, Dashed against his desert shore ? Nay, for once tlio germ possessed, Ours, in trath, are all the rest, Flower and fruitage Time shall bring,? Welcome, Spring! Bright and breezy, brave and clear, Strong new life in every vein, March begins ttie rolling year, Starts anew the wild refrain :? Hark 1 the cool winds fresher blow ; Hark ! the clear streams freer flow; Hark 1 the birds exultant sing,? Welcome, Spring 1 BETWEEN TWO HORNS. " I tell yon, Susan Swing," saW Captain Rose, "there ain't a man that lives between the Two Horns as would let his boy not bigpjer'n yonr'n go out in aboat to-day. Don't yon do it. 'Taitft no kind of weather for that slip of a lad to go foolin* with then hi* billows as sweeps aronnd old Dull Head. Why look yourself, woman. You can see them more'n four miles away dashing anu i&sumg mo Buurt*. As Captain Rose spoke he pointed with his right hand in the direction of one of the two headlands between which Dell Haven lay. "And no dory in the harbor," he oontinned, "could weather Bright Head (pointing toward the headland- at the left), not if Cap'n Hezekiah himself was a row'n' of it. You'd better take them rowlocks out and bide the oars if he won't mind without you doin' it." " I can't bear to do it," said Mrs. Swing "Richard will be so disappointed. He set his lobster pots yesterday and he hasn't slept any all night in his eagerness to go ont early and haul them. Don't you see, Captain Rose, it's Saturday, and two whole coaches full of the summer boarders came last night to the Bright Head house, and he can get a big prico for his lobsters to-day. My poor Dick has worked so hard making the lobster pots himself, and it 6eems like cutting off | tb*? boy's reward to sav ' vou shan't go' 1 o him." "B'pose you do feel weakish 'bout it, fc>"Ufan, but you don't want that ere boat to be picked up adrift and no boy in it, do ye ?" " You know I don't, Captain Rose," i she said. "If I hadn't loved him do you think I'd get up before daylight to come down here to see the lad off?" " Hush," said the Captain. " Here he comen, and he's fastening his straw hat to his buttons. He sees there is wind enough ahead." It was a morning in June, and the sun was not yet risen, but the glory of his coming was in the east and on the sea. A a Vi Ck AomA /I rrm flm m'nv 1* mw uv vauiu uv/nu vuo jjivM) iuc uajio on his shoulder, and securing his straw hat by a string to his jacket, the old captain said: "He's a fine lad, Dick is, atd well, worth the saving." " He's allJhe.wjBtlfi-to JEe^'lihogght~ ~MrV~Strxng, although her lips uttered no word. " Uood-morning, Captain Rose," called out Richard. "Good for lobsters, do you think ?" "Better for lobsters than 'tis for boyp," ejaculated the captain, removing j his broad brown hands from his pock-1 ets and laying one of them on the lad's shoulder as soon as the latter came ; within touching distance. "I say, I Dick Swing, that you are not going out j in that cockle-ehell.oi your'n this morn- I ing," he announced, " I certainly am, Captain Rose," re- ! turned ihe boy: *' It's a little rough, ; but like as not the wind will come | right around before I get half way to the ! ledge, and I should think iyou would i know better ihan to scare my little ! mother here half to death. See, ! mother," he said, gayly, " I have an I extra car and one thole-pin, yes, two of! them, in case a rowlock gives way, and j I've got a lot of extra courage about me that I can't exactly show you unless j you come with me." This he 6aid looking cut to sea, for he did not feel like looking either at his mother or Captain Rose. "Dick," said Mrs. Swing, approaching the pier's edge as the owner of the little boat proceeded to bestow the lunch-basket and extras under the bow. "Well, mother," returned Richard, looking up. ' I wish you would not go;" she i eaid, her tones full of beseeching. "Why, mother? Do you want my j seven new lobster^pots io be carried off 1 to sea?".he asked. " How could you ; have the heart to ask me? If this wind j keeps on blowing shall lose them, { every one." "That's true," ejaculated Captain j Rose. " I never thought of that. It's I just right, this wind is to drag them off, I but you can never haul them in alone. | You'll be sure to be dragged overboard." " No, I shan't. Come along with me i f you want to help," laughed Richard. "Humph! I should sink that craft before tte got out of harbor," 6aid the captain; though if I wasn't so heavy I would go." Captain Rose weighed a trifle less than three hundred pounds, and had left the sea after fifty years of faithful service. Not another person was in sight, " I'll tell you what I'll do," said the oaptain. " If you yoa insist on going, I'll 8top on my way up and ask Captain Danforth to look out for you, and if ho j thinks you're getting into trouble to sail after you." " Thank you, captain.'' "Dick,'' said his mother, "can't you let the lobster-pots go ?" "Couldn't possibly," smiled the boy. "Could you have the heart to ask me? j "Will you cast me off, mother ?"he called a second later. " Wait a minute," exclaimed Mrs. Swing. "Fetch your boat close up. I went to speak to you, Dick." The boat received the necessary impetus, and touched the side of the pier. | Mrs. Swing had seated herself on the j topmost layer of logs forming the I wharf, and leaned over as though to speak confidentially to her son. " Dick," said his mother, " held fast I I'm coming," and into the boat she dropped before either Captain Rose on the dock or Captain Richard in the boat had knowledge of her intention. ** YUViaf. nnflfli* cnr? mAfV?a? " ! * UMf ltU\?V4 VUV w uu | UiVVUgi) cried the boy, " do you mean?" "Tm going witn yon, Dick, to keep yon from tumbling overboard when you haul in," and she seated herself in the stern, calling bock as the tide floated the boat out, "We depend on you, Captain Rose, to send after us if we? if it gets too rough," she gasped, with a daah of spray in her face. "Ay, ay 1" cried the captain, and ho took oil Lis hat and swung it ho knew not why. Of all tho women in Dell Haven, from the eldest to the youngest, Mrs. Swing most feared the sea. To live beside it, to watch its every mood, delighted her, but to venture on it for pleasure she was never known to do. -A moment's peace she never knew when Richard, her only son, was ex 1 ' posed to the treachery of the waters, I but r.tther than mar his wild delight in j wind and waves this unselfish mother i concealed as much as possible her anx} ietv for him. Ricbnrd was not eel fish, and had he i imagined what his mother was at that i moment suffering would have put the I boat about and tied it forever at the stake ! rather than cause her this agonj. : Just as the boat got well into the toil ! of the waves the sun arose, shedding j such brilliance on the waters that Mrs." Swing, who sat facing it, was dazzled j aud well nigh failed to see in time a gill j net into which the boat was running. "See any boat ahead, mother?" ! questioned Richard, " You must keep j a good lookout for me. I've got my ranges right and can fetch the lobster; grounds every time." j "Is it far?" questioned his mother, I shudderingly. "Not very; just outside Dull Head, j I reckon we'll fetch it," said the lad, 1 dipping his oars for a full stroke and ! then letting the boat slide up to the [ summit of a rolling wave, a trick he ; had caught from Ciptain Hezekiah Dan| forth, the master boaman of Dell Haven. The wind grew stronger and stronger ! and the waves every moment increased | in size. Even Richard glanced sideways more than once with ill-concealed anxiety as the long billows came tumbling on, and just then getting a glimpse of his mother's face beheld it so blanched with terror of the sea that it seemed to him his mother was no longer in the boat with him. " Dick," she gasped, as his oar missed stroke and sent the spray o^er the boat, " Dick, I'm afraid to go on." Dick glanced backward. He had pnlled about a mile from shore and was midway between the two headlands familinrlv finotpn nf ns Hip TTnrna. Dill Head was surrounded by an even accu mutating mass of breakers, and Bright Head caught the sea on its precipitous sides, sending it backward in fountains of foam, and all the four miles that lay between the two points were rolling miles of billows. Sitting with his face landward Richard had not fully felt the danger. Now the lad could not repress a shudder as he eaid: I don't believe I could find the buoys in such a sea, and nobody could haul in the pots. I believe I'll put about." "Oh, do! Oh, Richard, there comes an awful one!" and Mrs. Swing slipped down from her seat into the bottom of the boat and hid her face from the oncoming wave. Richard gave a mighty pull at the oars to keep the boat head on, and it rode that wave in safety only to meet new ones, into whose depths the tiny shell rolled, to be completely hidden from the sight of two men who were standing out on the Doll Haven pier. One wasHezekiah Dauforth, the other was Captain Rose. "If there was only a tug in sight to help them," groaned Captain Rose. "Why didn't you dun a little common sense into the woman if she didn't take any naturally," scolded Captain Danforth, "or shut her and the boy up somewheres." " 1101a ner, dul i aeciare wnen iwas young I could have brought down them oars in half the time it takes Jim to fetch 'em. I say, 'Kiah Danforth, ain't that boat: trying to put about ?" "It acts like it, John, but it will get swamped just as sure as guns if?no, it's going on. There's nothing else to do. I never in pll my life time saw a time when there wasn't a sail in sight. * * * The boat's gone! No ! There it comes up again 1" Suddenly a cry for a helping hand was raised among the bystanders, and willing hearts went forth from the land. "Every second tells. It's a race for life!" called out Captain Danforth. Jim, you'd better get in. You're strong; if one of us tuckers out you can take hold." All ready lay the boat, a dark green surf boat that could stand heavy seas, and the two men and boy who had nobly volunteered were not long in start-:, _iss-o& ? "Success to you. Fetch 'em back alive !" called out Captain Rose. All at once the pier at Dell Haven seemed thronged with people. The news had spread that Mrs. Swing and Rishard were out alone on the sea As they watched the dim, dark speck now rising upon the swelling waters and as quickly vanishing from sight, not one of the little throng but knew the danger of the tiny boat. With breathless eagerness they watched the surf boat as its two rowers stood at the oar urging it onward. * t " It's down tho harbor now. They're catching it. It's an awful wind for June. Do you think they're gaining on 'em ? That mite of a boat will never live till they get there," were some of the remarks heard as they passed on. As for Captain Rose he went panting up the hill into the town, climbed into the belfry of Dell Haven church, as far up as he could go, and watchudthrough a spy-glass the progress of the mere speck in the distance and the toiling helpers so far behind. After a few minutes he realized that Captain Danforth, although doing his utmost, could not reach the periled ones in time to save them and he said to himself: "The boy is doing well, but he can't hold out. I must do it." Captain Rose's l.iil - J V 1... 1 . 5 I 11 1 l> II. . luue uaaguT,er naa lonowea ner iaiaer into the church and climbed the belfry stairs. '.'Seehere, Dolly," he said, "can you j look through here and keep sharp watch? No; you run?you can go auicker'n I can," and the captain scribbled a message on the back of an envelope, and giving it to her bade her make hasto to the telegraph office. "You tell Johnny Blako it's to save life, and it must go ahead of everthing." Dolly Rose did not need to be told twice. She ran every step of the way, and rushing into the telegraph office, flushed and eager, cried out: "Mr. Blake, here, send this quick. Richard Swing and his mother are going to drown, and it's to save them 1" The operator took the old envelope and read: " Captain True, steamtug Good Heart , j Cromwell harbor: Steam out at once in ! searoh of small boat?woman and boy | in it?off Dell Haven three miles; going [ against the wind; can't last long. "John Rose." i "Allright," said the operator, click- i ing away at his machine for a minute j r\y ftrn orirl f.lion CT^loimin?* Tf'o I done. Wait a minute, sis, and I'll tell! you whether or not he gets it; wire runs ! right down to the wharf." The minutes went by. Ten had i passed when the answer cime back: "Steam's up; start ah once; go my-1 self. Timothy True." J The operator did not stay to write it. "Run quick ; .1 . tell your father Captain True is ?.>ne already," lie said. Dolly ran. paying to every one she met, "They'll be tared! They'll be savedl" The child got up the belfry sta*'r and couldn't utter a word. She could only smile and bow her head and try to get out the message, which she did at last. Captain Rose's eye was on the 6peck. He dared not take it off lest never to find it again. Meanwhile, the news got abroad that Captain Rose had telegraphed io Cornwall for a tug, and the burden of fear grew lighter. In the little boat again and again had Richard tried to turn its head toward the land, but with each trial it took in so much water that he was forced to give up the attempt. Nofhing conld bo done but keep off and face the boiling sea. Very few words were spoken. Mrs. ; Swing kept bailing as fast as possible, ! with only the shell of a horseshoe crab i to work with. At length came a wave like a small ! hill, up which the boat rode gallantly, , and then suddenly Richard shouted : " They're coming for us, mother. I { Eee a boat just outside the harbor." Theu the tears sprang to Mrs. Swing's eyes. She stopped bailing for a moment to look toward the shore. All she j could see was a wall of water shutting I out the land. I "Courage, mother," DIok said. Every rise and fall of the oar was a J prayer ; overy dip of the poor old crab , sbell was a petition for life. Out from Cromwell harbor, seven ; miles to the eastward, and bidden from si^ht by Bright Head, steamed the tug Giod Heart. Never bad its captain s'ood watching the eea with more ! earnest gaze. Never was steam applied : with moro generous hand. 'Twas the | woman and the boy in the boat out at i sea that lived in the gaze, in the steam 1 and in the fuel, and Good Heart bore i away wilh cordial speed till Bright , Head was won and weathered. " I see it 1" shouted the captain, ; " though how in thunder it's lived to i get there's more'n I know," and he gave directions to steam outside. Richard's attention was so divided between the billows and the land and the friendly boat, and Mrs. Swing was so intent on bailing, that neither of | them saw the tug until it was up i n ! them, and a hailing voice shouted: " Hold on till we pick you up." It seemed as a voice from heaven had I spoken. Even bluff old Captain Rose, j up in the belfry of the church, ejacuj lated, " Thank God 1" as he saw the j tug come to. Tho olmnl- r\f Hin noil flia Af IXUC DJiUVft VI IUU UUil) I'iiU UlfjUl UA ( the black throbbing tag, friendly as j they seemed, yet 'came near swamping I the boat, for Richard let it turn, ard the last strength he had was put forth in holding it up to the wind until a line was cast off, and even then he had no power to make it fast. It was Mrs. Swing who tried to obey the commands that came but could not. Finally tho tug's boat was lowered It was no easy task to get to leeward and board the Good Heart, which held its breath, bracing itself against the waves'almost as a thing of life to do its kindly office. Richard and his mother had been saved. " Give 'em a signal! Give 'em three !"' and the steam whistle blew three shrieks that went over the bay and up theharbcr and overHgaraet the meeting house steeple, until old Captain Rose fell down on his knees to utter the first prayer of thankfulness his little Dolly had ever heard her father oiler.?Our Continent. IIow a Petticoat Placed in TerH a Nation's Peace. A late Paris letter says: If it is generally the big mountain which gives birth to little mice, it may happen that a mouse is the progenitor of a mountain. Great and serious consequences sometimes can be produced by apparently trifling causes. The last bey of Algiers lost his possessions because, in an outbreak of ill-temper, he broke his fan across the face of a French oonsul, ai^ not many weeks ago the mistake of a dressmaker very nearly embroiled the courts of Romo and Brussels. Everybody knew that there was a coolness, yet none, save those salt of the earth who ari? always admitted to the presence of royalty, by right of birth or accident of fortune, could imagine its reaaon. This is what happened, and I trust that your readers will pardon my being retrospective and going as far back into the past as the 1st of January, 1882, as the incident is a curious instance of the rigor of etiquette. As I have said, it was on New Year's day, and the diplomatic corps was defiling in solemn procession before the throne, when the queen's first lady of Lonor, the Marchioness of Montereno, remarked that the gown worn by Mme. Leghalt, the wife cf the first secretary of the Belgian legation, had a tail which was not of regulation length. The marchioness was horrified. She called her majesty's attention to the dreadful delinquency, and gracious Margarita agreed with her that such things could not and should not be permitted ; it was a mark of disrespect to her auust, self which must be noticed. Request M. de Kendel to come here," she said to a pago, and the fleiv man ambassador came, and was bidden as a senior member of the diplomatic corps to ask Mme. Leghalt if her robe too jth.crk. TSjth hII the gravity an (Tcoolness of his nation M. de Eendell acquitted himself of his misssion; he was courteous, unctuous, but withal uncompromising and decided, as became the representative of i a regime where everything is as strictly ruled as a sheet of music paper. He saw nothing absurd in the royal message, naught to get angry about assuredly; but Hme. Leghalt did, and being of a vivacious" temperament, at once flared up, beckoned to her husband and left the room. This was bad enough, certainly, yet was it but a trifle compared with the sequel, for when she reached the ante-chamber she asked for a pair of scissors, and aided and abetted in the operation by monsieur, cut off the train of the offending garment, which sho sent into the marchioness with?my compliments, and be good enough to measure the length of it for yourself, driving home immediately from the quirinal, *' You must apologize," said the Belgian minister. "The apology is due to, not from, me," replied the lady, and then a series of notes were exchanged, and King Humbert scowled, and a special messenger was sent to get instructions from King Leopold, and nobody could tell what might not happen, when M. FrereOrban had a happy thought; he would send M. and Mme. Leghalt to some other capital, and appoint a celibatarian secretary in their stead. Considerable excitemeLt prevailed in court circles, 1 am assured, until the difficulty was settled, as the Opposition is in an interpellating humor just at present, and there is qtxite as much in this as there is in most of the incidents which are made pretexts for an attach, npon the foreign policy of the Italian government; fortunately, the tempest was blown over without a rupture, and the Eternal City will not be forced to appeal to General Garibaldi for advice and comfort. Wood Carving. Wood carving is a feature of the interior decoration of modern New York houses, and is carried to the very highest style of art. The Evening Post say 6: Ten years ago the number of accomplished wood carvers established in New York did not exceed 100, and their work was done wholly upon fine furniture. At present 1,000 competent men may be fonnd to do the finest kind of wood carving, and a new industry may be said to have sjrrun? np in this department of work. Two firms alone ha^e had in their employ for the last two or three years nearly GOO carvers, whose work may be seen in many of the finest houses of the city. With a taste for , hiaiueu giass nas come a iasie ior carv! ing the panels of the wainscoting, of the ceiling, doors and staircases. The j chimney-pieces in the finest houses, I such as those of the Vanderbilts, are I monumental masses of carved wood; | each post of the ttair-rail is a work i of an which has cof-t weeks of labor, while th? newel or large | post at the foot ol the htaira, is woith [ thousands of dollars, and is probably j inlaid with precious marbles. The furj uiture in such houses has to present i still more cunning work of the carver's I tools in order not to appear coarse, and in consequence it is not uncommon for i the work upon ono bedstead to cost thousands of dollars. A walk through | tl:o new streets uptown will bhow that ; wood-carving is popular not only with ' the millionaires, but with ueoi>le of ! modest fortune ; scarcely a new house J of any pretensions at all but Las a band j of oak or alanthus leaves carved in I the woodwork of the door, indicating | the character of the decorations within, i For the last four years carvers have been coming from Europe in such numbers that the wages have fallen considerably of late. The very finest workmen, especially those in the possession of some secret processes of doiug difficult work, receive wages as high as $8 a day. The average pay of good woul carvers is from S4 to $5 a day. The process of ebonizing cherry wood, for instance, used by one of the firms visited, is a secret fcnown only to the workman who does it. F<lIt31 AND HOMF. I Removal of (iron*? Spot*. j Fatty oils have a greater surface ten j slon than oil of turpentine, benzoic or I ether. Hence, if a grease spot on a ; piece of cloth be moistened on the rej verse side with one of these solvents ! the tension on the greasy Bide r larger, and therefore the mixture ui benzole and fat or grease will tend to move toward the main grease ppot. If j we were to moisten the center of this spot with bcnzolo wo should not remove it, but drive the gvase upon the ckan portion of the cloth. It is therefore necessary to distribute the benzole first over a circle surrounding the grease spot, to approach the greaBe gradually, and at the same time having blotting'piper in contact with the spot to absorb the fat immediately. Another method, namely, to apply a hot iron on one side, while blotting paper is applied to the other, depends upon the fact that the surface tension of a substance diminishes with a rise of temperature. If thereforo the temperature of different portions or sides of the cloth is different, the fat acquires a tendency to move from the hotter parts toward the cooler.?Pharmacist. Orchards. Frofessor Beal, oi Michigan, says: If you have money to fool away seed down your young orchard to clover or timothy or sow a crop of wheat or oats, If you want the trees to thrive cultivate well till they are seven to ten 3 ears old. Spread ashes, manure or salt broadcast Stop cultivating in Augcst, weeds or no weeds; this allows the trees to ripen for winter. The question whether to cultivate old orchards or not must be answered by manuring treeB. If the culor of the leaves is good and they grow well and bear fine fruit they are doing well enough even in grass. But if the leaves are pale> the annual growth less than a foot on twelve-year-old trees, and the fruit small and poor, something is the matter and they are suffering for a want of cultivation, or manure, or both. To judge of the condition of an apple tree is like judging of the condition of sheep in a pasture. Look at the sheep and not at the pasture, and if they are plump and fut they are ell right. Thoroneli Cultivation. Chemistry teaches us that nearly all of the material which makes plants grow comes from the air, but it also teacheBus that a small portion must come from the earth. Careful experiments prove that the phosphates, the potash and tho nitrogen, which enter the roots of plants must bo reduced to atoms, and united with both air and water before they can be available as plant food. When we understand this , we at onoe realise the importance of applying fertilizers in a condition to be , soluble in water, or so that decoinposi- , tion shall bo rapid acd continuous, . while the crops are growing; we shall : also realize the importance of keeping j the soil in a condition which will per- . mifc a free circulation of air, moisture ] and heat _ , In keeping the soil loose and well . pulverised we not only give the iroots 1 of the plants a better chance to push . their way through the earth, but we , give the descending rain a chance to , settle down into all parts of the soil and , to reach every particle of the manure , applied ; it also gives the air a cbance to mingle with the soil and the heat to ] penetrate and warm the earth ; these j thinga are important, for plants cannot } grow without large quantities of oxy- ( gen, and plenty of heat as well as mois- ( ture. The thorough preparation of the j soil, before planting and the frequent , Btirring after does more than secure j these, for thorough preparation means ( not only pulverizing the soil, but it also , means thoroughly incorporating the 3 fertilisers with tne pulverized earth, . thus not only bringing it in contact j with all portions of the soil but also ^ with the descending rain and ascend- { ing moisture, and every time tbe j earth is cultivated the particles of both Tiie earYET an<Tthe"m6iBlb"feTift^eh4tiget] and a new chemical action takes place, thus hastening tbe decomposition of the material applied to furnish tbe plant . food. The moment tho earth becomes bard rapid decomposition ceases, the rising moisture stops, and the oxygen of the air is shut out, and the descending rain cannot readily find its way down, oo it stands in ponds until it broaks through the hard crust of the soil, in some hollow, and descends in large streams; and as it cannot find its way back through the hard crust of the earth it settles down into underground streams .?nd finally reaches the ocean by way of the rivers, without having in the least aided plant growth; when this takes plaoe the plants must suffer. ?Massachusetts Plovghman. Farm and Garden Notei* Fat is of no value aa manure. nf ttmtpr in thft nnil> r>rflVf?ntR i root development. Hcof and horn shavings contain more than twenty-five times as mnch nitrogen as is contained in average stable manure. Roots fed in a state of decay indues blood poisoning, disorder the milk of ewes and cows, and act prejudicially on the young of both. Sheep fed on dry fnel are frequently troubled with sore lips. An application of sulphur and lard once or twice will generally effect a euro. Small, yolkless eggs, sometimes observed in tho care of fowls, denote overfeeding, most likely an exclusive diet of Indian corn, with little exorcise and no green food. j Deeply-rootod crops, as wheat, red J olover and mangel, are those best fitted to resist drought, while shallow-rooted orops, as grass and turnips, are those that suffer most from it. I In the management of live stock it is Fafer and better to give water before feeding than after. In the latter case the food is liable to bn washed out of the stomach prematurely, while in an imperfectly digested state, and thus occasion intestinal irritation and disease. Hen manure carries less water than stable manure, but more nitrogen and organic matter. As to potash and phosphoric acid, there is a great similarity in the constituents of both materials. The common practice is to keep hogs in a growing and fattening state without forced exercise. An exception, by way of an experiment, was recently made with a boar on a Pennsylvania farm. He was well and liberally fed, f A f. Tirn a #nr/?nrl fri fnbn n rrr\r>A vnn in ~"u " ? *~?vwv. -V, iUU 1U, ( front of a boy every day. His offspring \ were much more vigorous of constitu- ] tion than were pisis from boats that ( were confined all tho time. Rcc'ipm, Escalloped Parsnips.?Mash one pint , cf boiled parsnip-*; add two tablespoon- , fulsof butter, one teaspoonful of salt, ( a littlo pepper, two tablespoonfuls of j cream or milk. Mix tho ingredients, , stir on the fire until the mixture bub- : bles; turn into a buttered dish, cover with crumbs, dot with butter and brown in the oven. Chocolate Custard.?Take a quart of milk and tho yolks of two eggs. Mix with the eggs ono tablespoon of cornstarch, only a little heaped, and stir this gradually into tho milk when scalded. Add two eqnares of chocolate I (crated), sugar to taste. Pour into a j Uish, and spread ovor the whites of two | egps well beaten, and sweetened and I flavored with a little vaniila. Set the | whole in the oven to brown slightly. Pickled Tomatoes.?One peck green I tomatoes, three bell peppers (or flavor i wiHi fiftVPnnA if nnn lm? nnf, ilio lioll | popper), one cup sugar, one tableepoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful each of ground cloves and allspice, one tablespoonful ground mustard. Lay the tomatoes sliced ii fait over night, pcald in ealt and water; drain well. | Cover with vinegar and cook a very few minutes. Scald tho vinegar over occasionally. By example we become teachers. 'Tie not what we wear on our backe, but what we wear in our brains. Crime in New York. Ins, cctor Byrnes, bead of tho New j York detcctivo force, Paid to a reporter: I "I don't think we have here what wonld be called 3 very bad city as compared with the big cities of Europe, he said; "our professionals are doing their work in the other cities, baling found it dangerous to engage in it here. They go to London and tho other English cities and come back here with lots of swag. They are very seldom caught, deppite the wonderful reputation of the men of Bow street and Scotland Yard. New York Las none of theeo sections throngh which strangers may not pass with r-afety which we are told are to be found in the big cities over the sea. Jt has not even those resplendent nnd bold haunts of vicious pleasure that we hear of there. - We have nearly 2,000,000 npnnlfl Vif-rn in thn fliviimn nvorv f?av r-vr*w ? ?J ?ni ?J except Sunday, and 1,500,000 every night; the criminals and ecum of En-1 tope are dropped in our streets, and yet ( the Dumber of arrests has fallen to 1,200 ; a week from 1,900 not long ngo. The ; desperadoes of the city to-day are the j ]\ToGHoins (referring to a lad who has been sentenced to be hanged for the murder of a French saloon keeper a few months ago); they are onlj loafers and petty thieves one day, and yet become felons of the most terrible record the next. We can do nothing to prevent their crimes, and we often have no basis to work on in pursuing them afterward. "These young fellows," he continued, "are the eons of respectable parents, who are poor and have to bring their children up in swarming tenements The boys go to school, read dime novels and flash papei'Si and learn to hang around barrooms and visit variety shows. Presently they are beyond the control of their parents, tnd being unable to get from home the money necessary to support their vices, they steal. McGloin and his companions had a wngon which they used to drive over to Brooklyn and Jersey, load up with barrels of flour, whisky, sugar, hams or anything they could steal from the sidewalk and cell herein New York. They went Into the Frenchman's saloon to work a game of a few years' standing iiere, canea ino -iainiing act. ?ne plan is for one of the crowd to hand the proprietor a big bill to change, if possible, necessitating his bringing out his bills from his pocket. His doing so is the sigial for one to faint and fall on tho floor, The proprietor alarmed, naturally la^s down his bills, and attempts to do something for the afllictud man. Then one grabs his money, and all run. In this case the Frenchman paid no attention to the fainting man, and the others were bluffed. Mad at him for his sagacity, all came to his place late at night, broke in the door and stole his cigars. The trehcbman heard them, and came dowrstairs. The door was open, and all could have escaped, but McGloin waited, cocked his pistol and when the man's form appeared on the last flight of stairs fired and killed him. He left nothing to work on but tho ballet in his victim'e body. I was four weeks getting him, and when I did bo, t marked him by a necktie 1 had bought for him and had put on his neck. I could tell how that was, but I won't. When he was arrested ; md asked how be came to kill a man j who hart done him no harm, his reply was: 'A fellow is not considered a tough [ until he has downed his man.' " The truth is," said Captain Williams, in whoso precinct this and one or j two other mUrders have beeh cotnmited j recently, "the truth is that these foreigners determine to bring their chil Sren up like gentlemen. They send them to school until they get too old md too wild to be manageable, and then the boys steal the Copper bottoms :>ut of their mothers' wash boilers, the rings and brooches their sisters and mothers wear, and finally make stealing pay their way in pool rooms, gin mills ind vicions resorts, getting arrested and j wringing their parents to plead for them ! it first, but finally going headlODg into j ;he eitravagahco of cHme." The l'ope's. J)aily Life. A letter from Rome to the Boston-Journal eavs: The present pope is of rather austere habits, and j bin eleratioh to tli'o highest i office ih the church as not 1? d him in my way to relax the rather rigid cbarac:er of his personal conduct. He always rises between 6 and G:30 o'clotft in the morning, which in the soft Italian climate is not so great a sacrifice as in Iiarshmt climes; and at G:30 o'clock he is dreesed by his valet de chambre, an aid servant named Centra, who has long been with him. He then says a mass in bis private cnapel, and shortly ifterward hears a second Eaid by one of the almoners who Is on duty. He neit leaves the Chapfel and takes a very light breakfast, after which he looks over the morningpapers, ana awaits tne arrival01 Cardinal Jacobini, who is his secretary of state, and who never fails to appear in Leo XIII.*8 rooms at 9:30 o clock exactly. His visit laats a long time. The two confer together oh all the foreign affairs which have any reference to the holy see, and in the intervals of their conversation the pope gives audiences to the secretaries of congregations, to members of the diplomatic corps, and to such distinguished etrangera as he ! pleases to receive, l'oftard hbon, by the forhial order of his physicians, but somewhat against his will, the pope joes down into ihe reserved gardens of i the Vatican, borne in a sedan chair, i Ee gets into a carriage, and escorted by j two of the "noblo gtatds'' on horse- j back, takes a lohg ride if the weather is j pleasant; after which returning to the palace. At 2 oclock he dines, as all Romans do at that hour. His favorite :lish is boiled beef. Only a few privileged persons are admitted to this repast, nono of them taking pdrt in it, aa iccording to the tradition no one is even illowed to take a seat at the holy fathsr's table. All that the etiquette of the pontitlcial court allows ij for the | invited gaest to sit at a table just below that at which tho popo has hia place. One of the pope's nephews, tho Gount Damillo Pecci, is Leo XlII.'s especial favorite, and lives In an apartment graciously placed at his disposal in the ratican. After dinntr tho pope UBaally retires to big nrivato aoal'tments to1 work, to give audiences und to pray, ibout an hour before tbo angelns he ! tabes a little nap, and then a short walk ' in the loggie of Raphael. At 9 o'clock ! in the evening, like all the rest of the : Romans, ho sups, takes nothing be- 1 :weeu dinner and supper except a small j jlass of Bordeaux wine, in which he j lips a biscuit. At 11 o'clock he goes | :o bed. It is after dinner that most of j tiis real work is dono, either with one j 3f his private secretaries or alone. ?? The Value of I'olitene.-s. Some tbiity years ago Mr. Green, an 1 imiable Englishman, seeing a rather . shabby old man looking for a seat in | church, opened his pew door, beckoned ; to him, and placed him in a comfort- j able corner, with prayer and hymn- j books. The old gentleman, who care- j fully noted the namo in these latter, ex- i pressed his thanks warmly at the close of the services. Time had effaced the ! incident from Mr. Green's recollection, wlunhe ono day received an intimation that by the death of a gentleman named Wilkinson ho had become entitled I o 835,1100 a year. Mr. Wilkin J tnnu o cnlifnrv mnn. without relatives Green's Ret prepossessed him in liis favor; ho inquired about bin), and found tbat bo bore the ln'gbest character. There was u marvelously courteous hospitality in tlio m>tter of pews for some tirno after that bequest, ; but nobody else has yet got ?35,000 a year for a seat. In Minnesoia a law is now in force for tho punishment of men guilty of assaulting their wives. The new law provides that any person who shall hereafter brutally assault and beat his wife shall bo deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to bo whipped not exceeding forty lashes, or to imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, in the dis rection of the court. Tho shflrifT is to do the lashing. A Novel Scheme of Co-operatiom Tho little village of Dolgeville, Herkimer county, N. Y., has the only manufactory of sounding boards in the world, and the only factory for making ! piano felts in this country. The work i gives employment to 480 people. In 1875 9,089 pounds of piano felts were manufactured there. In 1881 the total was. 25,600 pounds. Five years ago every piano firm manufactured its own sounding board", and the attempt on . tho part of a single firm to suit the I tastes of all piano men was regarded j 1 as an innovation that would r.evor sucj ceed. Now the boards are shipped in | Iaree quantities to European countries, I and the domestic demand keeps ahead i of tho supply. In 187G but 260 j boards wer? turned out at the i Dolgeville factory. Last year 52,000 , sounding boards were made and | sold. This is the work of one man. In 18G6 a German lad of eighteen landed j at New York, with the piano trade at j his finger ends and twenty-five cents in his pocket. As soon as be got work that enabled him to live he turned his thoughts to doing something for himself, and, in a small way, began the manufacture of felting need by piano makers. His experiments were pursued with unflagging industry until he had succeeded in producing an article which proved moro acceptable to the piano mftfcers than anything they could import. "When this point was reached the work of manufacture was fairly entered upon at Brooklyn, but was subsequently transferred to this hamlet. All the machinery had to be invented and adapted for the purpose, and this occasioned long and vexatious delays and endless experiments. But success came at last, and the great factories here are kept running night and day. One secret of tho success of Mr. Alfred Dolge is that he has always employed the best workmen ho could find. His relations to his employes have always beeii so intimate and pleasant that they have labored with an intelligent zeal that ha* borne good fruit. Thoy have been encouraged to suggest improvements, for which they have been paid liberally, and they have been provided with a gymnasium, library ana other means of entertainment for their leisure hours. Mr. Dolge spares no pains to command the zealous service of the most intelligent workmen. A pension system has been introduced as a part of this polioy. At a meeting of his workmen Mr. Dolge explained his plan, and announced that it would go into immediate operation. By this system every employe of the farm wiil, after a continuous service of ten years, be entitled to a pension under the following conditions : Pensions will ba due in case of partial or total inability to work caused by accident, sickness, or old age, as long as such inability may last, and they Will be proportioned to wages as follows: ?0 per dent, after ten years' service, 60 per cent. after thirteen years' service, 70 per cent, after sixteen, 88 per cent, after nineteen, 90 after twenty-two years, and 100 per cent, after twenty-five years' service. In case of accident while on duty, or of sickness contracted through the perfotmahce of.duty, employes will have a pension of 50 per cent* at any time prior to the completion of the ten years' service. This is the groundwork of liberal provision made for faithful labor by this firm. Eillln? a 1 igcr on the Amazon. Ernest Morris, the young American naturalist, relates this incident of his travels along the Amazon in Sotlth America: We pulled tho canoe ashore, climbed the muddy bank to the house and shouted, " Are we welcome?" We waited a moment, the door was opened *f?n M i n/1 ^/i (4 twri f V* UUU TT sJ nwu XJj T1 IC'.l tU CUbUi IT1UU God'' (entre con t)eos). We asked shelter for the night, which was granted, and while our host, a young Indian, slung our hammock, and his wife, a pretty Indian girl, made the coffee, wo inspected the dwelling. The floor was clean; clean hammocks swun;? fi'om poles] everything irao neat and in order. I dwell on this becaii.sfe 1 have never found an Indian huf so clean. On the wall was drying a largo jaguar skia. the larget-t I ever saw. After a bowl of hot coffee I asked the Indian to^ell as ho'v ho killed tlio tiger. I wi3h yMT.foaders could hare seen that young Indiau as he stood, grin in Land; and told his story with maiiy a gesture; his wife sitting quietly 'by sewiug, but with a proud look in her eyes, while over all danced the fire light. "You knew thfi largo creek below my houBtr, Patron,'' he Said. "It MS there I killed the onca. "While paddling up this stream in search of palm fruit I heard a noise as if some one was beating the water wi h a pole. I listened and heard nothing but the wind in the trees. Again T resumed my paddle. Again I heard tile plash of the #atet. I paddled to shore, and, taking my gun, crept uj? the bank in the direction of the noise. At intervals the noise would stop, only to be renewed mure violently. After a short distance I saw, lying full length on a log, in the water, an onca, or jagiiar, ehgaggd in fishiiigjeallibg the flsh by beating the water with its tail. There are many fruit-eating fish in tne Amazon waters, ana ic is Known to ns that the jaguar frequently imitates the splashing of palm fruit by striking the water with Its taii, hooking the fish,, as they tlsej with their long claw?, (in fiahiDg for piranha we always beat the water with our poles and then throw in the lines.) He was very big, Patron, but I crept nearer." "Did he get any fish?" said I. " ^emham" (not one), said our host, "and he seemed angry about it. The old tiger looked awful cross, and I saw he was tired of fishing, for he slowly arose from the log. I quickly dropped a ball on top of the shot, and fired. He sprang Into the air and fell into the water morte (dead). I fished hitn out with my harpoon. That's all, my white man." The Indian took his seat, rolled a bark cigarette, then said : "Patron, there are many kinds of oncaa ; they are afraid, they are cowards, but be ware of the block tiger; he never will run from you." After this advice he stretched himself in his hammock and was soon asleep, , Diphtheria. At a recent meeting of the Michigan State board of health, the Hon. Leroy Parker, the president of the board, related the following fact9 in illustration of the importance of reporting cases of diphtheria to the health authorities, so ai to secure the employment of proper precautionary measures. In Game3 township, Genesee county, a child of Mr. H? died of what a doctor called malarial fever. A neighbor and wife, Dr. and Mrs. B?, assisted in preparing the corpse for burial. About the tame time a child of Mr. S ? died from " sore throat," not reported as "dangerous to the public health," and some of the children of Mr. B ? attended tho i funeral Soon after Lrs. B? was ta'ccn sick with diphtheria, and in turn thirteen out of fourteen members of tho family had it, and seven outcf ten children died. The board of health promptly isolated this household, but the attending physician's error in diagnosis or failure to report the first case was fatal to tie hopes of that family. In view cf these facts, tho board resolved that since it is often diflicult to recognize slight cases of diphtheria, and that such cases often communicate a daugerous anil fatal form, it was the duty of physicians and householders in reporting dangerous cases, and of local health . authorities in their eiiorts to restrict ] them, to always givo public safety the benefit of tho donbt. The Ilev. David Willinmson, ft wellhnown miuistc-r of tho United Presbyteriau church of Scotland, recently sent to Africa as a commissioner to visit the missions of tho church, has died on his way home If you gain nn advantage over your fellow man, call it shrewd diplomucy. If your fellow-man gains an advantage over you, c.ill it rascality. The terms are synonymor-.n In tliiv? world of chango naught -which comes stays, and nau^Jit which I goes is lost. FACTS AND COMMENTS. Some chap who has nothing else to do estimates that Juy Gould's stocks alone, amounting to .$54,000,000, give him an income of 83,2-10,000 annually, ?274,000 a month, 89,000 a day, 8376 an hour. SG2.50 a minute, and over a dollar a second. Dr. Lenz, after having journeyed h rough Morocco and Timbuctoo, Africa, declares the great Sahara is not \ desert at all; at no point is there a lepreseion below the level of the sea, as Bbown on the map of certain geographers, and which ijd to wild schemes of converting the so-called desert into a great inland sea. The latest census bulletin gives some interesting facts as to the 6Ugar cane productions of the Unitedv States in 1879. The production of sugar reached 179,000 hogsheads, and of molassos 17,000,000 gallons. This is a remarkable increase over the amount reported in 1870, when 87,000 hogsheads of sugar and 6,000,000 gallons of molasses fT?n?A rtwo/^nAA/1 "Rnf 4 It A Viol/l ncxo ^fiuuuucui 4*141 mo jtwu uvwi not compare so favorably with that returned by tho census of 1860, which Was -231,000 hogsheads of sugar and 10,000,000 gallons of molasses. The bulk both of sugar and molasses is the production of Louisiana. In the present census returns this State is credited with nearly 11,000,000 gallcns of molasses and more than 131,500 hogsheads of sugar. Its production of the former article has nearly trebled since 1870, and of the latter more than doubled. To prevent the extermination of large game by wanton killing Mr. Post, the congressional delegate from Wyoming, has introduced a bill making it unlawful for any person or persons to kill or destroy any elk, deer, antelope, buffalo, mountain sheep or bison in any part of the Te'ritories of the United States at any time except for food, and forbidding the tran?portation out of tie Territories of any of the animals named either dead or alive, or the Bkins or pelts of any, and making it unlawful to deal in the animals or their skins. The value of some kinds of hides has greatly Increased in the last year or two, the slaughter has become very rapid, and the territorial government are unable to check it. From the Yel lowstone and Missouri rivers alone in 1881 it is thought that there were about 150,000 buffaloes and as many more of deer and elk killed, and one writer thinks that at the present rate of destruction the animals first named will practically disappear in four years. A curious Indian claim before Congress is that cf some Creeks whose ancestors left Georgia for the West fifty or sixty years ago. The savages were paid for great quantities of land, and the portion of money belonging to a number of orphan children was put in the hands of the President as trustee, where it has since remained. With in terest at five per cent, this fund now amounts *.o about 8350,000, and 1,043 Indians descended from those orphans claim the money. But nobody seems to know what has beoome of it. Something like 050,000 was invested in Virginia and Tennessee bonds, which have now an uncertain value, and it is said that some of the money was carelessly handled during the war, while som? went to relieve destitute negroes and Indians in Kansas; but it is urged that tho government should make the amotint good, and then get something back if it can. Lieutenant William Hoffmann, postadjutant at Fort Bennett, Dakota Territory, asks the newspapers to publish the following startling announcement; " Beware I Bewafe ! Beware 1 The poisoner is at large! Hdnt him down I Hunt him downl Hunt him down! druggists and apothecaries take special notice I At Fort Bennett, Dakota Ter ritory, on the 16th instant, an infamous atd dastardly attempt was made to poison riti entire family. The fiend crept in in the dead of night and (scattered a handful of arsenic over fresh meat designed for the family use. Two persons were severely poisoned, and a fortunate accident only Bared the entire /atnily from a moat horrible death. Various similar attempt have been made during the past two years, and suspicion now amounts to a certainty, while proofs are accumulating. The poison could not have been obtained in this vicinity, and the indications are thut it tfis procured by correspondence and broirgfet here in the mail, and all druggists ana-apothecaries in tho 'land are hereby calkd-npon to examine their records of the past two years for the name of any person a^Uiia post who may have given an order for&py kind of poison. Atj^ information on thiSv(Mbject addressed to the P.st Adjutant^i-'ort Bennett, D. T., will be thankfully received. This is in the cause of humanity, and in cases like this every individual owes it to himself, his family and his kind, to join and swell the hue and cry that should never be abandoned until the reptile is hunted to his death." U..M.A*. ijUJlglt'ilU W9 iiumui* Mr. Longfellow had a v^ry keen sense of the humorous, and many a witty impromptu was occasioned by some slight, incident or accident. One summer twenty years ago, when the Appletons were living in Lynn, the poet's soil Charles, who was very fond of sailing u boat, and who has since become a famous yachtman, came in his boat one day to make a call. The surf was high, and the boat was capsized and he was thrown into the water. He was wet through, of course, and was compelled to make an entire change of clothing. Captain Nathan Appleton, in place of shoes,loaned him a pair of slippers, which he woro home. Mr. Longfellow, the poet, returned the slippers a few days afterward, done up in a neat package, with this little stanza: Slippers that perhaps another, Sailing o'er the bay of Lynn, A forlorn or shipwre'ckcd nephew, Seeing, may purloin again. The mother of Captain Appleton was a Mrs. Sumner before she married Mr. Appleton and before Mr. Longfellow married his wife. One day when he came from Portland to call upon her ho wore a pair of new boots which were very noisy. When he went away the next day ho left a little poem written on a card, which Capfain Appleton still holds. It is as follows: I knew by the boots that so terribly creaked Alone; the front entry a stranger was near. I said: "If there's"greaao to bo found in *he world, My friend from tho East stands in nce.l of it here." ?? '*?.$ Emperor William's Helmet, Among tbo enrious trifles that adorn tho writing table of tho Germau emperor is an old cavalry helmet, the special use of which is one illustrative of Lis kindness of heart. Ever since he ascended the tlirono ho has manifested a disinclination to ailix his signature to Eenteuces of death, and, indeed, to any penal decrees of unusual severity. "Whenever, therefore, such documents are luid before him by his minister.) of /?.in ft /-,?<, o/l liidn thorn HI lilt*, JUU ilv. not v-uav, v* bv ? away under his liclmot. It has frequently occurred that eflicials, anxious to obtaia his majesty's sanction to the pronouncements of tbo law, but not venturing to remind him of his omission to nign these papers, have availed themselves of Lis temporary abseuco from his study to ]ift the casque and move the documents iu such K it that the edges havo slightly protruded from under tho helmet's brim. Iu ton cases out of twelve, however, this hint has proved unavailing, for tbe emperor, as soon as he caught sight of the detesttd papers peeping out from tho place of their concealment, has quietly pushed them back again and foreborno ever thereafter from making any allusion to tho incident. Iu sueli cases tho ol noxiout documents have been discreetly abstracted and destroyed, it being obvious that liis majesty wuild never be induced to n*;n t -em. In the census offica is a retnm ic i which a Boston roan is described as p I manufacturer of pigs' feet, \ Execution of Two Indian Murderers bj Shooting'. One of the most tragic legal executions in the history of the Indian i country occnrred recently at OckmulRee, the criminals being Haney and Lilley, two Indians, who, with a comrade named Jones, were convicted of the murder of an Indian named Ookchunhaijo. The victim was between sixty and seventy years old, widely known and widely respected. He was something of a miser and hermit, living in a rude hut in an isolated locality and hoarding his money. Haney attempted to rob him, but was detected and driven away and was afterward prosecuted for larceny. Pending his trial he conceived the idea of killing tho old man and thus ridding himself of the only living witness of his premeditated crime, By some means no succeeded in enticing Lilley and Jones into the scheme, and the three conspirators surrounded the lonely hut at midnight of February 12. Ockchunhaijo was within, and recognizing the visitors by their voices refused to admit them, when the latter attempted to break down the door. The Indian threw himself against it to frustrate their design, whereupon Lilley and Haney began firing through the door,some six or eight bullets piercing the body of the old man. He fell on the floor, expiring in a few minutes, while the guilty trio hurried away. They were quickly captured, tried, convioted and 8entenced. Jones, who wa3 a ^mere boy, was pardoned by the principal chief, but clemency was sternly denied either Lilley or Haney, and they were advised to prepare for death. Some time before their execution they professed religion aad were admitted into the Methuuist church, receiving baptism and the last sacraments. They conversed freely with their friendp, paying they were peaco with God and would be admitted into His kingdom. The execution occurred on a gentle elevation a short distance from town. The doomed men bade good-by to their friends with the greatest fortitude and were conducted by guards to the spot designated. They were bound and placed in position, and at a signal the report of two rifles rang out, and they fell forward, death ensuing almost instantly. From eighty to one hundred persons witnessed the scene. Moat of these were Indians and friends of the U_4. 1U 4ss Uaa4 cuuueiuiieu, uuii iiusru wua uui/ tun jcaob excitement, or attempt to rouse sympathy, < r to release the criminals. What Was Heaid When the Piano Stopped. There waa a f cial gathering in Rockland the other < veiling, and among the gaests present was a mnsical genius from Boston. A nnmber of looal celebrities had favored the company with selections, both vccal and inntramental, and then the mnsical genins from Boston was with great difficulty prevailed npon to play a piece npon the piano. He seated himself amid much applause, and fell to pawing the ivory keys with a vigor that left no donbt of the sincerety of his emotions. The audience contemplated the scene for a brief moment, and then fell into a pleasant and comfortable conversation, intermixed with light and joyous bursts of laughter, as is customary among good society when a person is performing on the piano. An idea flew iuto the mind of the musical genius as he proudly listened to tho fltorm of laughter and conversation which his talent had callcd forth. He suddenly stopped in the middle of a bar, or a rest, or some musical term, and the awful silence of the piano was filled by the following fragmentary ends of curlent remarks: "Was awfully cold," said the thin woman in the blue dress and green ribbons. "01 the best pork" said the baldheaded man with the mottled face.* "So wo chipped another ten all around," said tho young man in the phenominally short coat. "Puts on airs like all Boston musicians," said the sad-eyed party who had been watching the musical genins' back with jealous eyes. "Soukcd fat dreadfully," said the little woman in the corkscrew cnrls. "Always flirts in a company like this," said tho maiden ltdy, whose eyes were fastened on a handsome girl on the opposite side of the room. "Think family albums ar6 just heavenly," said a gushing young thing in pink, who was talking to a weak-eyed Toung man in glasses. ' Can't like these mixed times," said the prim won?an in gray hair and a jet blnck switch. "I eat sours on jjij^stomacb," said the dyspeptic-loo^gmsffi-in^ the long black coat^? -CTlc-*them off with father's razor;" _ said the girl in tight boots. ' Sewed a patch on his old ones,1' 88id the fat woman in the baby blue I Hank. And silence fell on the assemblage, and the thermomettr on the mantel dropped to twenty degrees below zero. ?Ico feland [Me.) Courier. Spoopendyke Starts a Fire. "Mr. Spoopendyke 1" called Mrs. Spoopendyke from the head of the stairs the morning after the sardines had been disposed of. "Mr. Spoopendyke 1'' she called, in a shrill falsetto. The only answer from the bed was a load snore. "Mr. Spoop?" "Well, holler again H' yelled Mr. Spoopendyke, springing up in bed. "What ails yon ? Think I'm deaf out of one ear and can't hear out of the other? Think I?" 'Why, no, my iear, but I thought you might bo asleep. You know I called you twice before you answered. I don't think you heard me " "Did you hear, too, but I thought it was a lishhorn. All it would take to make a steam whistle of you would be a locomotive to put you on. Do you want anything?" " Tho fire in the furnace has gone out," said Mrs. S. "Oh, has it?" yelled Mr. S , and he dropped over and laid his nose against tho cold wall. "What has it gose out for, to take a walk ? S'pose I'm going to p,et up and start it at tnis time 011 night ?" "But it's six o'clock, and I've been up an lionr." Mr. Spoopendyke bonnced out of bed, caught up his coaf, and tried to get his feet into the eieevea. I Mr. S. went down stairs to get the i kindliupr. Presently Mr. S. came down | and stalked to tho woodshed. A few | minutes after he called to his wife to i know where she kept he saw. | " Why, where did you put it when | you had it last.'' "Oh, I dug a hole in the garden and ! buried it, then I planted a cabbage over its grave. Don't think I swallowed it. do you? Oh, you've got it, have you? Where did you lind it? Mere, give it to me," and he grabbed it and Bawed his fingers across the teeth to see how sharp it was. Everv tooth left its mark. Ho dropped it on his toes with a yell of despair, and howled and danced around the room as if he had a smull dog at his heels. " Did you hurt you, dear?" asked Mrs. S., sympathetically. " No, of course it didn't hurt. I'm j just dancing to ke.p warm, just trying ; to work i lT my spirits, you know.'' And with a terrible griu he grabbed { ! his saw aud started to file it. Just as the family were setting down to break-1 ' * ? ? .11?-i J JdKli JLUr. O. waittl'U JIU yyn.ii a uuoavu \n charcoal and his saw. "Come into breakfast," said his wife, ,'I have started the tire." " Why, have you, my dear? Wliero did you get the kindling?" 411 split up a board I fouud in the barn." ' Tho deuce yoa did; you'll ruin me yet. Did yon know that was black val' nut, nnd I paid a dollar for it? Oh j you ought to have been a business man , | All it would take to muke a Jay Gould of you would be a hatful of United States bonds and a few railroads." i And Mr. S. helpad himself to a plate i of beefsteak, and let his food atop his i mouth.?Brooklyn Eagle, An Execution of Mliilists. The trial at Odessa, Russia, of the two men concerned in General 8trelnikoff's assassination ierminated very qnickly. The following facts were gathered from tne evidence given: The deceased was sitting on a seat on the boulevard quietly contemplating the sea, when his murderer approached and fired a revolver. The general was shot through the neck, the ball entering his brain. He expired in a few minute? afterward in the arms of some persons who had hastened tj his assistance. After committing the crime the mnrderer jumped into a droshki which wm awaiting him on the boulevard. He was stupped, however, by a man called Korriga and was arrested, together wiih his accomplice, who acted as coachman. A citizen named Labsine, a sold er named Nekrasson and a custom house clerk named Ignatovitch also played * part in the capture. Labsine and Nekrasson were wounded by the murderer in the struggle. The droshki had been . hired by the two men for a day and a Lalf. The horse had been bought for twenty-five rubles two days previously. On searching the assassins three revolvers, three daggers and several flasks of poison were' found on them. One of them was stopping at tbe JtLutel do la Crimee, where General Strelnikoff also stayed. The accused declared that the general's death had been resolved on becanse of his activity in prosecuting in* quiries into crimes' against the state Ho was au obstacle to the successful v. propagation of revolutionary doctrines among the working classes of Odessa. The two captnred criminals, wno gave falee names, were brought before the military tribunal at Odessa, and were sentenced to be hanged. General Strelniko'fTs funeral took place with great pomp at the cathedral. The hearse was escorted by a large detaohment of infantry and attillery and was followed v by thousands of spectators. The^execution of the murderers took place the next morning, after the sentence had been approved by Gener*\ , Gourko. At 7 o'clock in the morn V* A nm'aAr flfo tVia nloAA A? aug mo ^/xiovuvio avovuvu ?**v |/m*w v* execution, wearing on their breasts pla- ' cards, on which was the inscription "State Criminal." The hangman, who had, as tuual, been bionght from his prison at Moscow, and had arrived during the night, according-to custom, was dressed in the red shirt of the Russian moujiks, the wide trousers tucked into high boots. The ^scaffold, which was approached by five^ steps, was a rough platform resting on tiesties. Two gibbet rose above it and two black posts. The local authorities were stationed in a circle around the scaffold. The arrival of the prisoners was heralded by the shrill sound of fifes ^ and the beating of diums. Each prisoner was attended by a priest. On ascending the steps they were received by the hangman and bound to the posts. The death warrant was then read by the military attorney, while the executioner placed a short ladder under the right hand gibbet. The usual white shrouds were next thrown over the heads of the condemned men. One of them mounted the right hand ladder, followed immediately by the hangman. When the prisoner was exactly under the gibbet the rope was slipped round his neck outside the linen shroud. The executioner then jumped quickly from the ladder, which ho instantly withdrew from beneath the man's feet. While one prisoner hung struggling in the last convulsions the rope was put round his companion's head in the same manner. In three minutes the execution was over. Using One's Ejes. How many of ns go through li/e without ever realizing that our eyes have to be educated to see as wel' as our tongues to speak, and that only the barest outlines of the complex and everchanging images focused on the retina ordinarily impress themselves upon the brain ? That the education of the eye may be brought to a high state of perfection i3 shown in numerous ways. There are many delicate processes of manufacture which depend for their practical success upon the nice visual perception of the skilled artisan, who almost uaconscionsLy detects variations of temperature, color, density, etc., of his materials, which are inappreciable to the ordinary eye. The hunter, the mariner, the artist, tho scientist, each needs to educate the eye to quick action in his spacial field of research before he can hope to become expert in it. The following story, which is quite apropos, is related of Agassiz, and it is sufficiently characteristic of this remarkably accurate observer to have the merit of probability. We are lold that once upon a time the professor had occasion to select an assistant from one of hisclasEse. There were a number of candidates for the post of honor, end finding himself in a quandary as to which one he siionld choose, the happy thought occurred to-fcim of subjecting * three of the more promising pupils in turn to the simple test of cTefeenbjng tho view from his laboratory windowT1^^ which overlooked the side yard of the college. One said that he saw merely a board fence and a brick pavement; another added a stream of soapy water; a third detected the color nf tiio r>oint nn the fence. no ted a green mold or fungus on the bricks, and evidences of "bluing" in the water, besides other details. It is needless to tell to which candidate was awarded the coveted position. Eoudin, the celebrated prestidigitateur,. attributed his success in his profession mainly to his quickness of perception, which, ho tells us in his entertaining autobiography, Le acquired by educating his eyes to detect a large number of objects at a single glance. His simple plan was to select a shop window full Of a miscellaneous assortment of articles, and walk rapidly past it a number of times every day, writing down each object which impressed itself on his mind. In this way he was able, after a time, to detect instantaneously all of the articles in the window, even though they might be numbered by scores. A Costly Supper. When Napoleon ascended the throne very little money was mado in France unless by himself or with his permission. This Ouvrard found out. Ouvrard, who, born of humble parents in 1770, was worth 40,000,000 francs by 1800, was a creditor of the government for 70.000,000 in 1812 and was ruined in 1820. He was a rival to the emperor in the affections of Mile. Georges, ard one evening had arranged with her to sup with him at his villa of Iiueuil, when he received a note of regrets, as the had receive an invitation equal to a command from NapoleoD. Ouvrard's reply was thrft she would find a check for $20,000 under her napkin at supper that evening if she supped with him, whereat fhe invented an indisposition and threw Napoleon ever. Next morning Oavrard was summoned to the Taileries. ' How much .profit have you made out of your army contract this year?' "Eight hundred thousand dollars, sire." "That is too much, "/ou ^ill pay half of it back into the treasury. Gocdmorning!" And thus M Onvrard's supper to an actress cost him Si'20.009. * J. Higgins, in the Popular Science Monthly, writes that experiment has shown that animals confined in a close apartment where they must inhale over aud over again their own exhalations develop tubercle of the lungs, aud that human beings are no less injured by i breathing the air of poorly ventilated ; rooms, he thinks is proved by the fact i that of eleven preachers who died dur! ing eight years in ono county in PennI sylvania, eight died of consumption. | . There is^a general demand for an at> j breviationlof the word oleomargarine. The average man can't stop to twist his ' toEgne all around such a word wb?n he i getu a mouthful of bad batter.