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BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WABDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1882. NO. 50. VOLUME XXVI.?
The Hound of Life.
Two children down by the shining strand,
With eyes as blue as the summer sea,
While thu sinking suu !VIs all the land
With the glow of a golden mystery;
Laughing aloud at the sea-mew's cry,
Gazing with joy on its snowy breast,
Till the first star looks from the evening sky,
And the amber bars stretch over the west.
A soft green dell by the breezy shore.
A sailor lad and a^naiden fair;
Hand clasped in hand, while the tale of yore
la borne again on the listening air.
Tor love is young, though love I e old,
And lovo alone the heart can till;
ind the dear old tale that lias been told
In the days gone by, is spoken still.
A trim-built home on a sheltered bay;
A wife looking out on the glistening sea;
A prayer for the loved one far away.
And prattling imps 'neath the old roof-tree;
A lifted latch and a radiant face
' By the open door in the falling night;
A vrfilpnmA ami n "'"I."'"'
From the love of liU youth and his children
bright.
41 aged man in an old arm-chair;
A golden light from the western sky;
Dis wife dv his side, with her silvered hair,
And the opened Book of God close by.
S Tcct on the bay the gloaming falls,
And bright is the glow of the evening star;
But dearer to them are the jasper wa'ls
A*ul the golden streets of the Land a ar.
An oid church-yard on the green hillside,
Two lying still in their peaceful rest;
The fishermen's boats going out with the tide
In the fiery glow of the amber west.
Children's laughter and old men's sighs,
The night that follows the morning clear,
A rainbow bridging our darkened skies,
Are the round of our lives from year to
j ear.
?Chambers' Jcvrnn'.
1 WIDOW APPLEBORE'S ROMANCE"
A man that thinks of nothin? but
pep'mint oil an' the price of wheat! No !
Emma Jane: my life h:isbcen humdrum
enough without my endinp it witii Deacon
Bliss. I shan't have him !"
" "Well. well. Eosetta. if voc won't I
don't know's anybody's goin' ter try an'
make yon," chirped plump, rosy Mrs.
Phlox, looking np from the stont blue
woolen sock f-he ^as knitting. " I
B'pose the deacon thought he'd a right
to ask yon, feein' it's a free country.
Caleb Appledore was 1 awful nice man,
but so's the deacon. Lone wimmen
are put on. Job Whittamore negkc^s
yonrga'ding, an' just see what workyon
have with your fires winters an'
keepin' roads broke ont."
" I'm not going to marry just to have
some one to tend the parden and do the
chores," said Mis. Appledore. " I've
never found fault with them that's
dead and gone, but I know what it is to
live with a person who dees not care
two pins for the things I do, and if I
ever do marry again it will be some
\jujj nxiu uui ojj-upai ui^c mm mti. 1
can't say I swallow all 'Lias Bradshaw
says about the marryin' of souls and affinities,
but there's 6ome truth in it you
may depend. Besides, I'd like a little
romance in my life before I die."
"Bo-mance is all well 'nuff," paid
Mrs. Phlox, "but you're thirty-nine
next March, Rosetta, an' eech a man as
Deacon Bliss don't grown on every
busb. Bein' a gcod provider, an' a
fplendid farmer, an' a deacon, an' a
piller in the church may not be romanlio,
but they're good leoommends in a
man you'ie thinkin' of marryin'. I
hope you'll think twice."
"I have thought, and I shan't marry
the deacoD," said Mrs. Appledore, decisively;
"an' if that's being romantic '
I'm not asham<?d of it."
The little widow did not look romantic.
Her comt)lexifin was arlnll -whito
and her hair was a dull brown. Dnll, i
too, were her Jrrge gray eyes that i
blinked behind sli~rt-sigh ted glasses,
bnt her form, though meiRer aDd devoid
of curve, was not without grace,
and Bhe bad a clear, sweet soprano
voic? which, though it was untrained, |
she could use with taste and feeling.
The Harmonicum, the Diivil'e musical
association, mede her the i
head of all their committees, and i
relied upon her to sing all the i
solos. Indeed without her it could not
have existed. The wheezy melodeon
which was a dozen years old before it i
becaue the property of the society had
at last collapsed under the energetic
fingers of Pro/essor Jackson Jones, who
did the accompanying, and they were i
tningto buy a piano. They had given
coccorts and had oyster suppers till Dix- :
ville was tired, when Dr. Ollapod f-ugf
ested a lecture. It was whispered that
iYi a ViQ/1 fiTr?onfflr1 flia nnrrtrrtiHAA
Ituv WVVWA MMV* V/ajk/CVWW VVIUUilltCC
to invite him to read one of his papers
on the 8emitic tongue; but if he did
he was disappointed. I ley corresponded
with many popular lecturers, who all declined
to visit Dixville c n tho plea of
engagements, and the committee at last
invited a certain Professor St. Clair
Smith, about whom they knew nothing
save that he had lectured in the neighboring
villages with acceptance, to address
them The professor had suddenly
appeared in Dixville mounted on
a fine gray horse. The next day he wa^
seen to enter the posioffice with a
green bag on his arm, and the gossips
immediately reported that ho was
wealthy and had comc from Boston. He
at once accepted the invitation of the
Harmonicum committee, and announced
that his lecture would be on the ''Phi
Iiosopny 01 Art. me meeting house
was hired, and Mrs. Appledore with a
select few began practicing some music
for the occasion.
It was the afternoon before the lecture,"
and Mrs. Appledore bad invited
her sister to spend the day with her.
Domestic duties seemed to be just what
Mrs. Phlox was made for. Her husband
and siBter usually did all her thinking.
In return she served them with her
hands, but the few notions that did
creep into her round head she cluDg to j
pertinaciously.
" The worst kind of a fool is a beetleheaded
old one," she said, after a long
pause, "an'-puttin' this an' that together,
Bosetta, I think you're preparin' with
your romaccin' to be just that kind of a
one."
" I don't 6ea how sitters can bo so
unlike," and Mrs. Appledore drummed i
a harsh accompaniment to her words on j
the middle C of her piano. "To be j
sure, you are the oldest, but age need
not make one'd soul a clod.''
" It would be well for you to rsmem
Iber that nil tho advantages are cot on
your side,'' cricd Mrs. Phlox, rising with |
dignity. "There aro bodies, jca, and j
dispositions, that ar9 clods," and ,
Mrs. PlIox jerked on her calash and j
went home.
The meeting-house was full, and lho |
next day the Dixville Times declared :
the lecture to havo been a most soulful
and eloquent dissertation, but Mrs. Appledoro's
attention wandered, and she i
only knew that the entertainment was |
about to bo concluded by Dr. Ollapod's |
sonorous call for "moosic."
"I am delighted said Professor St. j
Clair Smith, bowing low before her b ;
soon as possible after the "moosie" j
"I never heard such a delicious voice." j
Mrs. Appledore coughed behind her
hand to conceal her flattered embarrass-1
ment and turned a questioning look on
Profefisor Jackson Jones who stood
I near.
" You always sing splendid," said
tha!; gentleman, drawing himself up.
" 1 dare say I pnt you ont. That flute
obligato is a denced hard thing to do.
I didn't do myself justice to-night."
" You've always dragged," said Karl
Leopold, who took every opportunity
to criticise th&Harmonicum doings.
Professor Jackson Jones pulled at his '
cravat, and Mrs. Appledore's face was
full of resentment.
" I never heard anything finer in
Boston,'' said Professor St.Clair Smith, |
coming to the rescue, ' ind I suppose
you know what that imr;ie3."
The night after the lecturo was a
very stormy one,and Mrs. Appledore was
slowly twisiing her hair in crimpinguins
when the door-bell rang. ' I
could not endure the loneliness of the
hotel, dear Mrs. Appledore, ' said Professor
St. Clair Smith, making a
I
! couitly bow, "anl havo corns to beg
for just one song."
The professor was. so far as outlier
| and coloring go, a Landsomeroan. His j
j head was what; is ccmmcnJy called
i deme s-htped. His wavy hair and silky |
! board were a bright yellow red, and his
j rather largo eyes wero blue. Ho sat
I down in a 5'ig rocking chair, and taking j
a twin on each knee, " 1 renew ray j
youth in children," he cried, giving '
them a squeeze. " Do you know the !
song, 'The old times were the best j
times you and I were young ?' " j
"Oh, yes." said the widow, nervously !
turnicg over her music, "but 1 can't
say that 1 feel so very old."
'Deer me, what a blunderer I am,"
cried the professor, "I was thinking of
my boyhood. I've always hafed being
grown up. A man has so much to fetter
his imagination. You must havo
lost your husband in the first flash of
your youth."
" I did," murmured the widow, forgetting
that she was thirty-live when
the event occurred. " The twins were
babes."
Song succeeded song till the professor
proposed duets, and Mrs. Appledore
enjoyed the music so much tiiat it
was midnight before she knew it.
Two months passed away. Tho professor
came almost every evening. He
had hired a small houso a little out of
town that he might be undisturbed, he
explained, and a relative bad come to
keep house for him. He did not know
how long he should remain in Dixville.
He was preparing a book for publication
and writing several new lectures.
When his literary labors were over he
was going to take a trip somewhere and
rest, though friends of his, influential
at Washington, were anxious for him to
accept a consulship at an important
point.
The widow's neat white cottage stood
by itself on the confines of tho village.
Deacon Bliss's fields of dark green peppermint
and nodding wheat stretching
along the country road for nearly a
miie joined the garden. Before her
abrupt refusal of him the deacon had
been accustomed to drop in for a little
visit or to bring a neighborly offering
/vf onnloD fir* frncli "Rnf
these calls had ceased, and cut off from
all her sources of news and pleasure
Mrs. Appledore stayed closely at home,
practiced he music and entertained the
professor.
Bat one sunshiny afternoon Mrs.
Phlox came bustling up the prim graveled
walk.
"Rosetta Appledore," she chirped,
like an angry blue jay, as sho opened
the door, "though a clod, which there
are folks that think different, I've come
to ask you if vou know you're the town
talk r
"The town talk !" echoed her astonished
sister.
"Yes, the town talk," repeated Mrs.
Phlox, with wonderful emphasis. "Anybody
would be who had spent two
blessed months philanierin' with a
married man.
"Who is married ?"
"Your Professor Smith."
"I don't believo it."
"I s'posed you -wouldn't, but I've
seen his wife," said Mrs. Phlox, with
evident satisfaction. " Miss Merrills,
she 'twas Pearly Ann Truesdale,
wouldn't miss a lindin' out anything if
sho had to walk ten miles, and she
called on her and told me. That night
I sez to John, 'John,' sez I, 'a sister's a
sister, 'specially if she's younger and a
widder, and if I be a clod I'm goin' tc
the bottom of this;' and says he, 'Emma
Jane, I think you'd better,' and the
first thing he did the next ^morniu was
to hitch up and take mo over on the
mile strip where that fellow lives, iu
ronv Allerton's cottage. He wa'nt iD,
but fhe was, and she was washin'.
" I'm. Miss Phlox," sezi, "an' I come
to call." " Thank you," sez she," I'm
Miss Smith," an' she set out the only
chair th^re *as in the room for me an'
set down herself on the wash bench."
" Air you Miss St. CJair Smith, the
wife of the professor,'" stz I.
" A sort of smile twinkled over her
mouth an' she sez. 1 Yes," Miss St. Clair
Smith, though I didn't know Mr. Smith
had adopted the St. Clair name. That's 1
my family name.' An' then she went
on an' 6poke of her husband, an' of how
ambitions he is, an' how ho feels his
spear in public life, an' how she is i
willin' to do anything to help him. An'
then she inquired if I thonght she
could git sewin in Dixvillo when she
feels a little better an' is able to do it." <
Tears of shame and aDger gathered
in Mrs. Appledore's eyes as her sister
spoke. " Is Mrs. Smith good-looking ?
Is she an interesting woman?" Bhe
asked.
'*! can't say how interesting she i9.
She seemed kind of trod on, so to
speak. As for looks, she ain't any pret
tier'n you'd be if you worked hard an'
didn't have half enough to eat," said
Mrs. Phlox, calmly.
Mrs. Appledoro sobbed aloud. "What
do people say about me ? What shall I
doV" she cried.
"Tliev don't Rfiv Tiothio' vet o'nv tlmf,
you're "dreadful foolish," chirped her
sister, rising and putting on her culash,
for it was almost supper time, "I can't
say as I know of anything for you to do
except to tell Mr. Smith to stay V home.
'Taint likely Deacon Bliss will give you
a chance to eay yes a second time."
Ihere had been a good deal of pleasurable
excitement in receiving tho visits
of the professor. To dress herself in
her best mourning and to sing her fa
vorite son^s to an appreciative listener
had been something to look forward to
during the humdrum work of the day.
The thought, however, of what her ac- i
quaintances were saying about her embittered
her life, and when the profes- :
sor again called one glance at her face
told him that she knew all.
"Dear Mrs. Appledore,'' he began,,
but she checked him.
"You had better go home to your
nr..
wiie, IUI. ouiitu, &uu cum UUIUJV.
Tears, real tears, came into ths professor's
big blue eyes. a But I love ,
you," he cried, " and sho has always
been an incubus upon cay soul."
" But she's your wife," persisted Mrs.
Appledore.
"I know it," moaned the professor,
rubbing his brow distractedly. "It
eats out my vitals when I think of it.
She don't feel as I feel. There's no
wings for me as lo. g as I am tied to
her. We've no affinity."
Mrs. Appledore gazed at him in dull
wonder. These were almost the words
she had used to her sister, but they did
not sound pleasantly now.
" I love you, Rcsetta," went on the
little man, approaching her, "and I
want to ask you just one question:
Were I a single man would you marry
me?"
"1 might," admitted the widow,
smoothing down a fold in her overskirt
with a trembling Land.
"Enough!" and f'e professor flung
his arms about her ^ud pressed a rapturous
kiss upon her forehead. "Blets
jou, my darling 1" and before she could
answer him ho was gone.
The next evening when Mrs. Appledore
was taking down her washing
from the line she was suddenly claspid
from behind by a pair of strong arms.
"You will soon be mine," said the
voice of the professor. " I've offered
my wife fifty dollars to leave me, and
she has ascepted."
"Accepted 1" the widow cried, wrenching
herself free.
" Yes, and as soon as I can sell my
book she shall go. I've lived in soul
isolation long enough. My heart has
found its mate."
All 1.1. ~ XT L TIC A 1. .1
an me iut?n uiat xurs. iippieuore
knew wero quaint of speech and some
what rustic in manner, but what
they considered duty controlled their
lives. '-Yon wretch!" she cried,
dashing the clothespin basket
at him.- "Fifty dollars I l'ou ain't
worth fifty cents. Go homo and never
dare to speak to me again !"
'Hear me," he pleaded, catching
hold of her gown.
"I can't stay out here and listen to
philanderiu' talk," she answered resolutely,
and twitching her dress from
I his grasp she entered the house. Bat
j tho professor'? hand was upon tho
! latch. Like most little women the
! widow was a curious mixture of timid'
ity and courage. She flung the door
I " r
, opeu. "Dou't yon dare to come in I" i
sheaied. "I'll throw hot water on
von! I'll?1'jl kill you!" Then slam- j
ming tho door in his face she bolted it .
sccurelv.
Ail the evening the professor paced j
up and down Mrs. Appledore's back
veranda. Tho next evening he again ;
appeared, and the next, and the widow
thoroughly alarmed sent the bravest 1
twin out the front way with a note to .
her brother-in-Jaw.
Mr. Phlox delighted in anything that i
could be called proceedings, and in a j
few minutes he had the deputy sheriff j
and two constables and went matching
down the principal street with them to
the great delight of all the small boys
of the viilage. It was impossible for
the professor to escape. The officers
crept roun'1 the house noiselessly. The
sheriff coli-red him, the constables
Tiinirvnn.1 liia nrmci !\1 > "Phlr.v
him by the coat tails and away ho was
walked to the village lock-up.
Mrs. Appledore passed a sleepless
night. She imagined the whole town
was wide awake and discussing her,
and long before daybreak she had resolved
to sell her home and Dixville
bank stock and move West. "I've got
my comeupance," she groaned. " I've
always been romantic and wanted a romance
such as I've read about, an' I've
had one. Oh, dear! Oh, dear!"
Abcmt 8 o'clock in the morning
there came a lively rap at the kitchen
door, and unstrung by exeiteirpnt and
lack of sleep, she shrieked aloud.
" O'ny me. O'nv Deacon Bliss,"
cried a pleasant voice through the keyhole.
Mrs. Appledoro slid back the bolt
with trembling fingers. " How thankful
I am," she said, holding out ner
hand, " I feel so inj need of somebody."
" ' Twas fortinet I come along jes1 as
I did then," said the deacon, taking off
his straw hat and slowly rubbing his
face with his ample bandana. It was a
cliroTrri t.hrmffh lipnnvnlpnt, framed
~ . w ? t
in waves of iron-gray hair. " I see ye
look kinder peaked. The weather has
been tryin'. I've felt it myself an'
ached ia my jints the wust way."
' It's my soul, deacon," wailfd the
widow dropping into a chair and covering
her faca with an apron. "I've
always hankered after a romance an' I've
had one, and I wish I was dead and
laid beside Caleb.''
" Oh, no ye don't, Miss Appledore,"
said the deacon, in the caressing tone in
which he wonld address a sobbing child.
"This world's a pooty good place, 'an
with a few exceptions folks are pooty
good. I come over to fetch a few of
my sweetin's and to tell ye thet that
there offer I made ye a spell ago holds
good yet. I rally wish yon'd consider :
it a?ain."
Mrs. Appledore remained silent be- :
hind her arron.
"Ef ye'd hev me," repeated the
deacon. in a low voice, "I
know I ain't half good 'nnff
and thet I'm kind uv an old fellow, :
bat I've got; a comf'able place an: ;
comf'able things in it, an' I've been sot
on ye this long spell, as ye know. I
dare say was 'tached to L aey more'n ^
I shall ever be to anybody agin. We 1
sort uv growed together like, bat so did ]
yor .rj' Caleb, an' I'm sare I'll try ter
makt.. e happy, an' yer two little gals,
as sweet as two pinks, '11 be to me jes' '
like the little gals I lost." <
Mrs. Appledore did not remove her (
apron, and after a pause the deacon J
falteringly continued : "I s'pose
'taint no use ter argy. Folks hez their ^
own idees of tech things ; but anyways '
I'll stand yer friend."
The widow rubbed her eyes and
slowly let fall her apron. "I've always had
the greatest esteem for you," she 1
said, with a little shako of her voice, 1
"but I never knew how good?how ^
much I think of you. I will?I?"
The deacon started up. " Will ye!" 1
Mrs. Appledore Had taiien refuge in
her apron. *
" Will ye really, Ivosotta?" be repeated.
j
The bowed bead covered in the blue '
gingham nodded. 1
" Ye shan't regret it," said the dea- 1
con, solemnly, and awkwardly laying *
his big band, coarsened by labor, on '
her shoulder. " Lord bless the little J
woman?an' our home. Our home," he ^
spoke softly as if to himself.
' P'raps now," he continued, after a 1
minute, "I'd better drop in an' 6ee him, *
an' in teiiin" tne news j. mignc mention
casual like we're goin' ter be married
soon. An" tbet nobody'll trouble anybody
that stays t' bum, an' tbet I'm
able to help an eddicated man to a good
place, real neighborly, 'cause my
brother Eben out iu Kansas wants a
clerk."
-Mrs. Appledore said nothing, but the
deacon eeemed satisfied with her si- 1
lence, for he did just as he had proposed.
Professor St. Clair Smith was
discharged from jail, and in three days
he and bis pale littlo wife had left Tony
Allerton's cottage on tho mile etrip to
return no more.
In about a fortnight Dr. Ollapod attended
a quiet wedding. "You've had
ft ro-manee at last, Rosetta. I might
bettor say two of 'em," whispered Mrs.
Phlox as she gave the bride a sisterly
kiss. "The adoration of the professor
was like things in a novel book, but
marryin' a man whost> goodness an'
larm can i? ue puruuuiuu m mo uuuntv
is a ro-mance that has sense in it, an' I
wish you joy."?Our Continent.
Anccdotes of a:i Outlaw.
Jesse Jiimes' nearest neighbor , on
the corner of Thirteenth and Lafayette
streets, speak in the highest terms of
the departed outlaw. During the last
snowstorm a number of young ladies at
1320 Lafayette street, wcro in tho yard
snowballing cach other, when Jesse,
to them kuowu only as the quiet,
neighborly Mr. Howard, chanced to
pass tho premises on his way home.
In a spirit of mischief one of the ladie3
molded a snowball and threw it at
Jesse, who burst into a hearty laugh,
and gathering up a handful of snow
began to throw back at his aggressors.
"With loud screams of laughter the
ladies Btarted to run down tho hill,
with tho domesticated guerilla and
train robber in close pursuit, showering
snow on the fleeing bevy of beauties.
All speak in tho highest terms of Mrs.
James, and tho neighbors were congratulating
themselves upon tho prox- 8
imitvof such acreeable neichors. when
Jesse's tlf atli disclosed to them the E
truth of the adage that all that glitters E
is not sold.
In the new directory just published,
Jesso's name appears as C'homas Howard,
but no vocation is given.
Jesse, among other accomplishments
could lay claim to being a good billiard
player, and somo of his eveniDgs
were spent at a saloon in South St.
Joseph, where he could indulge his e
passion for the game with a number of
young men who ho often met. On3 dark
night a young man t-aid:
"Mr. Howard, I don't like the idea of
going homo to-night. It is dark, and
a man may be held up."
"Where do you live?" asked the I
pseu lo Mr. Howard.
"On the hill," was the reply.
"I'll see you home," said Jesse, "and '
nobody shall lay a hand on you whilo j"!
I am with you.M
Ho kept his word. They wont homo | i
together. The bare recollection, j
4 V. /-, ?-? nli 1 mnr?o niiua u nnLl oroAof ? i
tliuu^u) a 1 yy l*j o jnuuuv,ti) ? t unk dituoi j
on the young mau's person.??SY Joseph i
Gazette. 1
Skinned Alive.
Six robbers, armed to the teeth, made i
their appearance recently at the caetlo
of a nobleman near Bares, in Huagary, ]
and by threats obtained a carriage and 1
horses, with which they at once drove ]
to the barracks of tho Pandours, or j
Croat regiment. Here they overpow- j
ered the quartermaster, bound him ]
and placing him in tho carriage, hur- j
ried him off to a neighboring wood. 1
Arrived here they suspended him to a
tree, and, pulling out their long knives, I
proceeded to cut the skin from his
body. They then sent back the car- j
riage to its owner, tolling the driver to j
make known that they had flayed tho
Pandour officer because, some time be- j
fore, he had caused a member of their j
band to be shot. I
JESSE JAMES.
KrminlHcrnccN of ilie >oi prions Outlaw.
Some one who knew the notorious
outlaw well gives a number of characteristic
anecdotes relating to the desperado
in the Kansas City (Mo.) Timcn'.
The writer says: The history of the
massacre cf Centralia, of which I was
an eye-witness, has been so often recounted,
and in which Jesse James
madn himself more notorious than ever,
I will pass by, merely correcting a few
errors and relating au incident that
closely followed. The soldiers taken
from the train were not billed by Anderson
ulone, but they were stood in
line and Bhot down by a volley
fired by at least fifty men. The
oilier soldiers, under tho command
of Major Johnson were scattterd,
and the guerrillas rode them down,
shooting them like dogs, Jesse James
killing one man within two miles of
Sturgeon. Not a guerrilla was killed,
and one only wounded. The next day
Anderson and his band were in Rocheport,
and Jesse James was at a private
house visiting some young ladies. A
high-spirited Southern girl, now married
to an ex-Uonfed crate oihcer, and living
in Fayette, Howard county, was then
the object o! Jesse's attention, and bo,
as usual, was boasting of bis prowess.
Leaving the house for a few moments,
lie returned witli the throat-latch of his
bridle, on which was strung seventeen
gory scalps. He exhibited them to the
young ladies, thinking, no doubt, to
surprise them; but he was the worst
surprised of the party. Miss K ,
rising to her feet, said:
' * Mr. James, I have two brothers in
the Confederate service, and am a
Sonthern woman. Captain Anderson
or any of his men, who are men, are
always welcome to my house, but I will
not entertain brutes. You can go!"
When Jesse reached the sidewalk he
pulled off his hat, swung it rrouiad bis
head, threw it up in the air, shot a
couple of holes through it, and yelled;
" Hurrah for Bill Anderson's horse
thieves." This seemed to quiet his
nerves, and mounting his horse he rode
away. Jesse threw away bis Ecalps,
however, and was never known to scalp
another man during the war.
The first 1 saw of Jesse Jimes .since
the war was at Jefferson City, during
the time the bill in his and Frank's be
nan was trying to db puc uirougn me
legislature. I was at the Madison
honse one night when a prominent
newspaper man of the State asked me
to take a walk with him, and on going
to a honse was admitted to a room in
which was Jesse James, a State senator,
two representatives and another
prominent newspaper man. The amnesty
bill failed to pass, and I saw no
more of Jesse nntil a few years ago I
met him at J^the Laclede hotel, St
Louis.
A correspondent of the St. Louis
Republican had an interview with the
Ford brothers, who killed Jesse James!
Hie correspondent says :
I asked the Fords if, in case
fchey wore soon released, they were
apprehensive of brigandish troubles
on account of haviDg killed Jesse,
Their reply was prompt and pointed.
" No," and they here toDk the pains to
issure me that they were raised to banlie
the pun, and that while they
ireaded Jesse, they were abundantly
ible to take care of themselves.
I referred to the barn being locked
"rom the outside of the outer door, and
isked how, in case Jesse's house had
jeen surrounded, he hoped to escape.
:,Pooh! he'd just walk out in that
j J j
yuru uiiu kuuuu uuwu uvo ur bia ui
;hem, which would create a stampede,
ind then he would coolly mount his
lorse and be off."
" I tell you there was but one Jesse
lames!"' replied Charles.
I asked them about Jesse's wealth.
Jhar'es replied he thought " he may
havo hnd 8000 or $700. Jesse never
nado Iho big hauls people suspected
lim of hnving made. When a big haul
,vas made there were big gangs to divide
among. He did best taking conn;ry
banks, which only took thiee or
:onr men to work. Besides, they lived
is fast as their means would permit.
Money flew, they cared not how."
Another point was here developed,
reuse James was the self-prcclaimed
sing of bandits and would shoot down
i fellow-robber in u second if he reused
to obey. He exercised kingly
inthority, and acknowledged no rival.
Charles spoke of Jesse and he talking
jver matters aoout tne contemplated
aid on the Platte City bank, aad
idded that Robert knew nothing of it.
3e said: " Jesse would just order
laddies, and that settled it, What
resse said went."
" A kind of captain V" I asked.
" Ee ruled with an iron rod I" replied
Robert, " and I regard it as comnon
practice among outlaws to have
or a leader a man whom they fear,
Iread and obey."
Referring to banks being " caged," I
isked him what that meant. " It
neans," 6aid he, " a high wire railing
iround the counter, and locked and
jther wise situated so as not to be easy
)f access." His description of the
scene at a daylight bank robbery was
nost thrilling. What boundless nerve
hose fellows must have !
I asked abrut Jesse's wife?did she
snow all th went on ? " She was the
lead fiend, tnd her suggestions came
lown rs from the liolv of holies. Un
seen, unknown, she was the unbidden
iource of tho most gigantic scheme of
jlnnder tbat was over sought to be
sonsummated. Jesse, however, had
ratlived his greatness as a bandit,
;hough not as an individual robber,
is a leader c-o was dead. There were
few who would place themselves in
lis clutches. Even his brother Frank
sept continually hundreds of miles
iway; Dick Little went back on him; so
lid Shepherd. It was his tyranny
imong his fellows that wrecked his empire.
The day was when the clatter of
lease James's horse's hoofs was the siglal
for a hundred highwaymen to
nount and away. Now there is none?
io, not one?of the drilled bandits of
he West who will move a step. And
lence," ho continued, " I have no fear,
rhere will ba more rejoicing in outawry
at his death than among lawibiding
citizens."
" Had Jesse a heart/' 1 asked. " No
lir; he had no more heart than a stone,'
laid Charles. " He kind of liked his
infArrnnf"Rnlv tf Jinrl tira/1
0 think that they were the smartest
hat ever lived ; but I think they were
ools," he said, as he shut his eyes and
ocked back in his 6eat.
The Dakota iMau's Farm.
"Yes, Bir," said the Dakota man, as
1 crowd of agriculturists seated tliemlelves
around a littlo table; "yes, sir;
ve do things on rather a sizable scale,
['vo seen a man start out in tho spring
ind plow a furrow until fall. Then he
urned around and harvested back. We
lave some big farms np there, gentlemen.
A friend of mine o^ned one on
nhicli he had to Rive a mortgage, and
,he mortgage was due on one end before
hey could get it recorded on the other,
fou seo it was laid off in counties."
There was a murmur of astonishnent,
and the Dakota man continued:
" I got a letter from a man who lives
in my orchard, just before I left home,
ind it bad been three weeks getting to
he duelling house, although it had
traveled day and night."
?' Distances are pretty wide up there,
lin't they ?" inquired ono.
"Reasonably, reasonably,"replied the
Dakota man. "And the worst of it is, it
jreaks up families so. Two years ago
[ eaw a whole family prostrated with
mef. Women yelling, children howlfng
and dogs barking. Oiie of my men
!iad his camp truck packed on seven
four-mule teams and he was around
bidding everybody good-bye."
" "Where was he going?" asked a
Sravesend man.
"He was a going half way across the
farm to feed the pigs," replied the Da
fecfa man.
"And did he ever get back to his
family again
" It isn't time for him yet," replied
the Dakota man.? [Brooklyn Eagle. 1
The Canadian Mecca.
In a picturesque description of the
famous shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupro
by W. G. Beers in the Century, occnrs 1
the following r-.ccount of the shrine and
the cures said to bo effected there: I
But there the steamers come, and ;
soon two thousand pilgrims land on the i
wharf. A brass band leads the way,
and the people file up in long prccea- 8
sion, dusty but devoted, many, no n
doubt, with mingled hopes and fears.
Over forty cripples limp along on
crutches or supported by friend?, and a T
pitiable sight it i.?. Tho proceesiDn B
enters the new church, where,
j at the high altar and at the
sides, a number of priests preside.
As you enter you Fee a large
money box, of ancient date and curious
construction, fastened to a pillow by
iron stanchions. The quaint padlock
is opened by an old-fashioned bed key.
Over the ride doors ire rude ex voto
paintings, representing wonderful rescues
from peril by water through intercession
to Ste. Anne. Over the altar is
a picturo of the saint by Le Brun,
the eminent French artist, and the
f-ide altars contain pa:ntings by the
Franciscan monk Lefrancois, who died
in 1685. Hung upon a decorated pedestal
is a handsome oval frame or reliquary
like a large locket, surrounded
with garnets, and having in its <;enter a
rich cross of pearls. Besides title, you
see the collection cf bones said to be
the relics of the saint, consisting of a
piece of one finger-bone, obtained in
1663, by Bishop Laval, from thf chapter
of Carcassonne, and which was
first exposed to view on the 12th of
Marco, in anotner case tnere 13 v
a piece of bono of the saint, ob- 0
tained in 1877, bnt the Redemptorht
Fathers, who have charge of the mission, f
do not know to what part of the body e
it belongs. The bones of tho saint do i
not appear to differ in g?ory from those
of a sinner. The church also claims n
to own a piece of the true cross upon s
which our Savior died, and a piece of I
stone from the foundation of the honse
in which Ste. Anne lived, brought a
from France in 1879. Also there may ^
be seen a superb chasuble, given by v
Anne of Austria, mother of Louis XIV.,
and some silver crucifixes. e
Nothing, howovor, will excite more $
curiosity than the great pyramid of ^
crutches and aids to the sick and crippled,
twenty-two feet high, divided .
into six tiers, and crowned by a very old ^
gilt statue of the saint. The oollection ^
is very curious and principally home-' "
made, comprising plain walking-sticks,
odd knobbed fancies of sexagenarians, h
queer handles, and padded arm and A
shoulder rests, made of pine, oak, birch, p
ash, hickory, rock-elm?of all common
and many novel designs. A half-leg sup- ^
port testifies to a reputed removal of p
anchylosis of the kDec-joint by inter- g
C98sion to the saint. I have no desire 1'
to sneer, but that there is some imposition
ani much imagination about ti
these "miracles" no impartial mind v,
can doubt. One may carry bis charity j]
to the verge of believing that implicit p
faith in intercession to a saint, with t<
mingled hope and fear and a strong ^
determination to force a cure, may in
some cases really throw off disease^
but the power of mind and will over
the body withoufc any sncb t]
intercession is familiar to every ^
student, and is no duubt an undevel- y
oped branch of medical science. A ^
coincidence is not a miracle, neither i6
this powe:r of the will over the body a y
miracle. Among the long list of re- y
nnfvri mii'np.lpp ihft fnllnwinr* frr.m n _
manual of devotion will be sufficiently 0
suggestive: "In the jear 1G6A a woman 0
broke her leg. As the bone was frac- a
tured in four places it was impossible ri
to set it. For eight months she was unable
to walk, and the doctors gave up j,
all hope of a cure. Sho made r
a novena in honor of the saint, f,
and vowed that if she was 3
cured she would visit the shrine every j,
year. She was carried to the chnrch, t
and during the coumunioti she put c
aside her crutches and was cured at v
once." Sworn testimony is given a3 to a
instant recovery in diseases said by 0
physicians to be incurable by ordinary ?
means, and among the peculiar favors c
accorded to the parish the temporal as (,
well as spiritual is not forgotten. The jj
Bishop of Montreal says that it is Ste. 0
Anne who obtains for it "lain in the j,
time of drought.'' ^
? h
The Land of Cotton. *
k
Whoever embarks at Vicksburg on a ^
BteamDoat upwara-Donnu ana remains ]j
on board until she has reached Helena jj
will have traversed the ve'y crerne do la ],
creme of the cotton-belt. It is true <]
that above and below the arbitrary ^
northern and southern limits are to be n
found, in the expressive vernacular of a
the country, "splendid landsbut y
within these borders?upon the great j<
alluvial plain of the Mississippi, on the [j
margin of the river itself and its de- b
pendencies, Deer creek, Grand' lake, fc
Arkansas river, the Yazoo, Lake Wash- t]
ington, etc.?is the veritable land of n
Dixie, land-of cotton. Elsowhero, cot- 81
ton can be grown undoubtedly ; here it v
grows itBolf. In " the hills," ns all the j,
upland southern country is in this re- t]
gion denominated, lands will wear out, v
the yield becomc less and less, rotation r(
of crops must be resorted tp, costly fer- h
tilizars applied. Here, year after year,
the soil loyally fulfills its manifest des- t]
tiny, rev?rrding industry with superabundance,
and often responding to the
slight and intermittent culture of the
slnggard with the undeserved and
munificent largess of a bale to the acre. S
The denizens or this region hold that <j
the world # was created expressly to n
grow and to consume cotton?1 hey and p
their lands for the first purpose, the q
rest of mankind for the second. So far 0:
as their lands are concerned, they are w
right. Whoever has seen a swamp a.'
plantation in October with a bale to the fi
acre open npon the stalks, the vast y(
white oxpanso subdivided into rcctan- o:
gnlar " cuts," each separated from its b
fellows by straight black lines?the g
turn rows?and-each resembling noth- o
ing so mnch as a smooth, soft, level r
bed draped with a snowy coverlet four p
feet thick neatly tucked in at the tl
edges?he who has seen tfcis knows ci
what cotton-planting really is, and no- R
body else does. It is the most impos- d
ing agricultuial phenomenon as yet cl
evolved by the genias of modern civili- a
zation. An immense wheat field, white E
for the harvost, is "beautiful exceed- J,
ingly," but then without examination (5
one cannot even Ruees how much is R
wheat, how much is chafl", liow much ;s
is cheat, whereas tho snowy staple G
speaks for itself in millions upon mil- ei
lions of glistening rays, dazzling the I
beholder with their refulgent bright- n
ness. 0
As the steamer ascends tho river, <>i
there come into view on either side ?
long stretches of broad plantations, e!
without treo or thicket or bush to break A
the uniformity, level as a floor to tho A
eye, but really falling back bj impor- n
ceptiblo degrees to tho sombtr r,nd si- t<
lent forest that bounds tho prospcct. V
The huge gin-honses and massive b
smoke stacks and whitewashed villages h
of cabins lio on the front, n.l guarded N
against the lawless river by the heavy, ai
continuous serpentine earthwork of the n:
levee. The gradually unfolding land s<
scape suggests to the observer the im- w
mense labor that has been required to ti
transform into this scene of agricultural u
perfection the cienso forest of gigantic a
trees and almost tropical profusion of
undergrowth out of which it was
evolved.?Lippincott.
i? n
Occupallons of Emigrants. []
The official report upon the statistics w
of emigration states that la6t year there si
were but 49,179 farmers, 5,439 farm la- tl
borers and 132,402 classed simply as la- A
borers. Professional occupations were a
represented by 5.812 persons, skilled ti
occupations by 06,457, arid miscella- w
neous occupations, embracing farmers, b
laborers, merchants, salesmen, cooks, c
coachmen, etc, 244,492. The number u
returned as without occupation, women, a
children and others, is 855,G50. It ap- ri
pears that special occupations other tl
than farming embrace five-sixths of the I
total number of emigrants who^como to n
the United States. * s
TVISE WORDS.
Education should bring to mind the
deal of the individnal.?[Richter.
They aro Eever alone that are accom- ^
)anied with noble ihonghts.? [Sidcey.
Allowing the " bines" to master yon ^
s a snre way of catting your life short.
Clothes are the best passport among g
trangerB?character among acquaint- jj
,nces. i
I dare do all that may become a m an n
pho dares do more is noae.?[Shake- ]
peare. , n
It is possible for a man to be so very b
hrewd that in the long run he cheats ?
limeelf. ^
There is nothing so likely to produce
>eace as to be well prepared to meet J
he enemy.
Put a drop of honey on your ton ue ]
t. ,1 1 1L
>eiore you Hpeuh, unu. teo uuw euajr 11 ih v
o make friends. it
It is one thing to Eoe that a line is b
:rooked, and another thing to be able v
o draw a straight one. n:
What, we learn in youth grows up h
vith ufl, and in time becomes a par of ?
his mind itself.?[Anon. ?
Oft the cloud which wraps the pres
:nt hour serves but to brighten all our
uture days.? [John Brown. ^
Pigmies are pigmies still, though ?j
lerched on Alps; and pyramids are 0.
>yramids in vales. ? [Young. 0
Common sense does not ask an im- h
lossible chess board, but takes tho one fa
?efore it and plays the game. it
Bo courageous and noble-minded; d
iur own heart, and not other men's
opinions of us, forms our true horror. d:
The wise prove, and the foolish con- j?
ess, by their conduct, that a life of "
mployment is the only life worth leadng.
Fancies, like wild flowers, in a night
aaygrow; but thoughts are piants whose *r
tatclv p.rowth is slow.?[Mrs. E. 0.
Linney. L ta
If you would not be forgotten as Boon
8 you are dead either write things
reading or do things worth
anting.?[Franklin. fi
What an emancipation it ig.to have oi
neaped from the little inclosare of n:
ogma and to sta-.d?far, indeed, from
eing wise, but free to learn! hi
The talent of success is nothing more ^
han doing what you can do well, and "
oing well whatever you do without a
bought of fame.?[Longfellow. di
If a man empties his purse into his r
ead no man can take it away from him. 1E
in investment in knowledge always
>a78 the best interest.? [Franklin. C
There are moments of despondence, a!
rhen Shakespeare thought himself no
ojt, ana Jtvapnaei 110 painter, wnen tue -*
fatest wits have doubted the excel- af
euce of their happiest efforts.
Living men must have living institu- w
ions. It is very idle to supposo that j?
re are to be ruled by men who are lyig
in their graves. Each age is caable
of jadging of its needs ; it is not
:> be supposed that a past age knew in
'hat we should want.
ii sc
Habits of Siberians. R
Many of the habits and customs of
hese people are very singular. Along d?
ith much rudeness nnd simplicity, te
bey have a high degree of ingenuity. 2c
night, for instance, an Oatiak can
?11 the time very accurately by judging
be position of the Great Bear ; and as
his constellation is constantly varying ^
nth the season, tbe operation involves ll!
t: the part of the Ostiak a calculation w
f some magnitnde. In common with w'
11 barbarous and semi-barbarous 7(
aces, they manifest great dexterty
in the use of weapons. In shoot- n<
ag small animals such as squir- ?
els, hares, etc., for the sake of their ^
tirs, caro is taken that the animal w
hall be struck on the head only; and hi
a this the natives seldom fail, even m
hongh their rifles are very clnmsy in
onstruction. With the bow and arrow,
rhich is the weapon most in use, they
re equally dexterous. Their method 81
f capturing salmon, as deecribed by a a*
Jossack oflif-er who witnessed it, is pe B*
uliar. lu marching through the
nuntry at the head of a detachment,
.0 encamped one evening on the banks
f a river; and on the following mornicr
lie nbservtd one of the natives
ralfc to a pool near af .hand, into which J(
e waded, and then etooa motionless as
statue, bis spear poised aloft, and his
een eves fixed 011 the water before ?'
im. Not a movement indicated that Q
ife inhabited the figure, until, with
ightning rapidity the ppeur was ^
munched forward and as quickly with- "i
rawn,a fine salmon quivering on its
arbed point. Three times in twenty 8}
rinutes was this operation performed, *
nd each time a fish rewarded the na- 81
ive's skill. And yet their cleverness re
3 but slightly applied to the arts of
,te. The Tangooses, for instance, use hi
ear and reindeer skins to form their n(
eds; but as they have never discovered w
lie art of tanning, these articles when
ot in use are buried beneath the
now, by which means the hair is pro- w
ented from falling off. This same w
ribe, i;oo, are remarkably improvident; aI
li'Bj will consume nearly a week's pro- f*
ision6 in one night, and go hungry the
emnitiing six days. Over against this, 'u
owever, must be placed their detesta- r
'on of robbery, which is regarded by th
iem as an unpardonable sin.?Cham- ai
?rs' Journal.
?? ^
TIic Division of the Mates. cc
The old conventional division of the pi
tntes of the Union into Eastern, Mid- at
le, Southern aud Western continues, T1
otwithstanding the great increase of ar
opnlation Westward and the conse- m
nent shifting of the line?. Chicago,
nee upon the outpost of the far North
est now speaks of the Northwest
i being as far from her as she is
om New York. Bat it is found con- .
enient to conlinne the old grouping
f States, not because it is accurate, but
ecause of tho absence of any other fo
enerally adopted division descriptive
f the location of groups of them. H^n- ,
f Gannett, of tho census bureau, pro- #
oses a new classification based upon *
10 natural lines of tbo Atlantic .
sast, the ^Mississippi valley and the
;ocky mountains. These are sub- ,
ivided for greater convenience of _
lassification as follows: (1) The North *
tlantic States, comprising the six New ..
.ngland States and New York, New
ersey and Pennsylvania ; total, nine ;
i!) the South Atlantic States, Delaware,
Larvland, Virginia, West Virginia,
orth Carolina, South Carolina,
leorgia and Florida, these making
ight, or, if wo count among them the .
>istrict of Columbia as another unit,
ine; (3) the North Central States, ,
?hio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisonsin,
Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, or
hkota, Nebraska and Kansas. making ,
leven ; (4) the South Central States, ,
.labama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas,
.lkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky,
mking seven, or with Jndian Terri- ,
try as another unit, eight; (5) the
Western States,now mostly Territories,
ut reckoning in Montana, Idaho, Wash . '
igton, Oregon, Wyoming, Colorado,
few Mexico,, Arizona, Utah, Nevada j
ad California, eleven in all. This is
luch better than the existing plan, but an
3 great is tho power of habit that it
ill bo diflicult to havo this classiiicaon
adopted as a substitute for one in j
so commonly for generations.?Chitgo
Times. k(
.Mountains Under the L'artlt. an
Observations in tho St. Gothard tun- ev
el show that the rate of increase of ve
ltornal temporaturo is slower there an
iian beneath plain countries and slowest
h?ro tho mountain is highest. This ot'
liould not be the case, perceptibly, were ^h
ie earth cooling as i uniform solid. W(
.ssuming these rates to be uniform, and ^r
llowiug for the cold due to tho eleva- 00
it ia ?? 01'
uu, iu ia v?oj untumtu liau no
hich any particular temperature would
o reached. If there bo a molten nuleus,
its Gurfaco should bo a surface of
niform temperatuie. But the depth a <
t which a temperature of fusion can be vi<
cached will be found far greater under sti
bo mountains than under the plains, ab
fence it is argued that tho solid crust it
lust haye protuberances below an- 11
weriiQg to the mountains above. Kr
SUiNDA\ READING.
Victor Hugo un Immortnlltv.
I feel in myself the future life. I am
ke a forest which has been more than
nee cut down. The new Bhoots are
frongfr and livelier than ever. I am
isins, I know toward the sky. The
nnshine is on my head. The earth
ives me generous sap, but heaven
ghts me with the reflection of unnotrn
worlds. You say the soul is
nfhing but tho resultant of bodily
oweis. "Why, then, is my soul the
lore luminous when my bodily powers
egin to fail. Winter i3 on my head
nd eternal ppring is in my heart,
'hen I breathe, at this hour, the frarance
of the lilacs, the violets and the
sses, as at twenty years. The nearer
approach the end the plainer I hear
Ynn ^V> a ? *v? ak^aI CTTnmliAm'aa r\t
ivuuu mo uuc luiuiu&uii aj ui^uvjuito ui
lie worlds which invite me. It is marelous
yet simple. It is a fairy tale, and
; is a history. For half a centnry I have
een writing my thoughts in prose,
erse, history, philosophy, drama, rolance,
tradition, satire, ode, song?I
ave tried all. Bat I feel that I have
ot said the thousandth part of what is
1 me. When I go down to the grave I
in say, like fo many others, " I have
nished my day's work," but I cannot
ly "I have finished my life." My day's
'orb will begin again the next morning,
'he tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoraghfare.
It closes in the twilight to
pen with the dawn* I improve every
onr, because I love this world as my
ttherland, because the truth compels
ie, as it compelled Voltaire, the human
ivinity. My work is only a beginning,
[y monument is hardly above its tounation.
I would be "glad to see it
lounting and mounting forever. The
lirst for the infinite proves infinity.
Kellsionn News and Notes.
The total number of churches in Bosm
is 224.
The Protestant Episcopal church sustins
394 missionaries in its home field,
' whom fifty-two labor among the Inians.
Tn "NT.^brnnlra. nnf, nf fibnrnhp.s onl\
"" "'" ' ' "" J " "* "***' w ' * " /
fty have buildings. In Minnesota, out
! 120 missionary churches, seventyine
have no church home.
Dr. Lyman JBeechcr preached until
B was eighty years old, and Henry
fard Beecher hopes to do likewise,
'e will be sixty-nine next June.
Florida is the Easter State. It was
iscovered on Easter Snnday in 1512,
paniards led by Ponce de Leon landig
near St. Augustine on that day.
There are a large number of Boman
atholic colleges and schools in the
chdiocese of Baltimore, with an agregate
attendance of 19,141 pupils,
here are no less than fifteen orphanjes
and asylums.
A decennial missionary conference
ill be held in Calcutta during Ohrist,as
week of the present jear. All
rotestant societies will be represented
. it. The last conference was held in
$72, and was an occasion of very great
tere3t.
At the speoial convention of Sundayhool
workers of North Carolina, at
aleigh, the secretary's report gave the
Mowing statistics for the State : Snnly
schools, 4,197 ; scholars, 197,973;
achers, 33,576; total membership,
11,513.
Hon Fish Hooks arc Made.
Boys, how long do you suppose it
ould take you to make a respectable
jh-hook? What do you suppose it
amI/1 T7/mi Iiotto n fivcf />taoo
uum V-UOU J UU bU UOTO ? Uiov viuou
orkman make yon one as good as one
jn can bny for a penny ?
But I saw a magical little machine
>t long ago Jbite off a piece of steel
ire, ohew it a moment, and then spit
ont formed into a perfect hook. It
onld toss ont these little hooks every
ilf-second, the different machines
aking the different sizes.
There are eight steps in the making
! a fish-hook by the machines I saw.
lie boy who tended one of them
latched specimens from the machine
i they were passing throngh, and'
lowed me how each stroke of the little
lisels ard hammers added to the bit
I wire that went in, until it came out a
aished hook and ready to fish with,
tough probably the more fastidious
ah wouldn't touch it because it hadn't
it been polished.
The curious little machines would
rst nip off bits of wire; another stroke
! the machine and the bit of wire had
little loop in one end. The next halfcond
the wire had a hack in it tear
le 01 her end. Then came a little
immer-btroke which flattened out the
icked end. Then a little chisel
laved this flattened end into a point,
hen finishing tools Bhaped down the
des of the point. And last of all, it
iceives one crook, and drops a perfect'
formed hook into the little bucket
iving been only four seconds"wiore
jthing but an inch or mere of steel
ire on a reel.
There are two ways of finishing these
Doha. Either they are ' japanned,"
hich gives them the black finish,
hich is the most common one, or they
e finished with that fine bine that is
equently pnt npon swnrds and entry.
It is done by heating them in a
irnace till they come to a " cherryid"
as the workmen call it. and then
toy are ponred into a bucket of oil
id left to cool.
After finishing they are taken up to
le deft-Angered girle, who rapidly
>unt them by hooking them over a
ece of coarse wire, and throwing out
the same time the imperfect ones,
ben they pack, them in neat boxes
id they are stacked up ready for
arket.? Wide Aicokc.
Under the English Channel.
Count Ernest von Hosse-Wartegg
ad a paper before the New York
jademy of Science on "The Submare
Tunnel Between England and
ranee." He described the geological
rmation of tho rocks under the Engih
Channel, which, he said, would ren>r
such a scheme feasible, and spoke
tho grjat facilities that such a
nnel wonld furnish for travel and
insmission of merchandise. From a
mmercial point of view tiio unuerking
would be a profitable one, for at
esent somo 700,000 passengers antally
cross between England and
e Continent, and about $500,000,000 :
jrth of goods were carried, Of the
tire trade between Britain and the
mtinent the Tunnel company, it is
timated, would do a business to the
tent of ?1,200,000 annually and net
r32,000, or 7A per cent, on the capital '
vested. Of the feasibility of the
terpriso there was no doubt, as it had
:en shawn that the chalk formation of ]
e bed of the channel was impervious,
almost impervious, to water. The
nnel would be twenty-four feet wiile ;
r nineteen feet high barrel-shaped,
d lined with brick, which, however, ^
>uld not touch the upper part of the
alk roof, but leave a space between .
as to allow whatever water ;
ight leak through to escape '
the bottom. The highest part
the tunnel would be in the middle j
the channel, and from this point the !
nnel would decline toward England j
d France, so as to allow the water to
iw off. At either end deeo reservoirs '
mid be dug to receive the water, !
lich would then be pumpod up
rough the shafts to the surface. The ;
sturcr described the method of boring
d said that thirty-six feet was bored .
ery day. The great incon- .
nience that was being experienced
d which would bccorue more serious,
is the bad vcntil&tion, and the meth- 1
Is that wero employed for ventiluting
o St. Gothard and other funnels
)uld bo insufficient on account of the
eat depression of the tuunel. When
mpleted two great air-pumps will b
ected, one to pump air in and the
her to oxiiausc it.
"How much qninine can you take at
3ose?" inquired one malarious indidiial
of another as they met on the
reet this morning. "Oh, not more'n
iout four grains. If I take any more
sets my head to working." "Dops it?
ahonld think you wotild take six
ains twice a day." \
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SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
According to Mr. P. L. Sclater, P. R.
S., the term lipotype, which ia com- .
paratively new to science, is employed
tc indicate animals which we shonld *
naturally expect to meet, but do not
find in certain parts of the earth. For
instance, Australian lipotypes are mon- '
keys, vultures and woodpeckers.
Professor Dufour has presented,a J
new and interesting proof that the
earth is round. The images of distant
objects reflected in the Lake of Geneva J
in calm weather show just the degree
of diptortion which a careful mathe- 1
matical calculation would predict on
account of the shape of the earth. 1
The sand of the Sahara desert is ^
sometimes heated to a temperature of (
200 degrees Fahrenheit by the vertical
rays of the sun. This gives rise to a <
scorching wind?the dreaded simoom? i
which is rendered still more terrible by 1
the burning particles of sand it carries i
along. In 1813 Burkhart recorded 122 '
degrees in the shade during the prevalence
of this pestilential blast. (
Mr. W. H. Preece, F. R. S., states i
that the explosion of a cannon can be <
heard to a distance of twenty to twenty- ]
five miles; and instances are known <
where the bombardment of a town has
been heard at a distance of one hnn- ,
dred miles. It is very well known, he i
thinks, that the roar of the guns at (
Waterloo was heard on the English ,
coast, more than one hundred miles 1
from the battlefield. \
It has been held by eome medical
men that the best treatment of frozen <
individuals is the giadual application 1
of heat, while a few experimenters have j
claimed that the warming should be i
rapid. To settle the matter, Lapts- <
chinkski has made a series of very care- <
fcl experiments upon dogs, with the
following results: Of twenty animals j
treated by the method of gradual resus- ,
citation in a cold room, fourteen per- ]
fnronftr *\1fl/iorl of rmno in a I 4
loucu> VrtXJtAVJ [/iMWU MV v-w * I
warm apartment, eight died; while of
twenty immediately put into a hot bath
all recovered.
Some Traits of Indian Life.
Among the many amiable traits which
distinguish the character of the American
Indians that of conjugal affection
and fidelity is not the least remarkable
When a couple is newly married the
husband, without saying a single word
upon the subjeot, takes considerable
pains to please his wife, and by repeated
proofs of his skill and abilities
in the art of hunting to make her sensible
that she can be happy
with him, and that she will
not want while they live together.
At daybreak he will be off with nis
gun, and often by breakfast time returns
home with a deer, turkey or some
other game. He endeavors to nuke it
appear that it is in his power to bring
provisions home whenever he pleases ;
and his wifo, proud of having euch a
good hunter for a husband, doeu her
utmost to serve him and make herself
agreeable. The more a man does for
his wife's comfort the more he is esteemed,
particularly by the women,
will oav Hiio man atitaIv InvAS bin
wife. e
" In the year 1702," says Mr. Hecker- t
welder, in his interesting account of the a
American Indians, " I was witness to a ^
remarkable instance of the disposition ^
of Indians to indulge their wives. c
There was a famine in the land, and a [
sick Indian woman expressed a great f
desire for a mess of Indian com. Her t
husband having heard that a trader at ?
Lower Sandnsky, Ohio, had a little, set
off on horseback for that place, one
hnndred miles distant, and returned
with as much corn as filled his hat ,
crown, for which he gave his j
horse in exchange, and came home v
on foot, bringing his saddle back with j
him." It very seldom happens that an g
Indian condescends to qaarrel with his j
wife or abuse her, though she has j.
given him just cause. In snch a case f
the man, without replying or saying a <3
single word, will take his gnn and go r
into the woods aDd remain there a 8
week or perhaps a fortnight, living on fl
the meat he has killed, before he re- t
turns home again,well knowing ho cannnt.
inflip.fc a creater Dunishment on his -a
y ,,
wife for lier conduct to him than by j
absenting himself for a while, j:
for she is not only kept in snspenee, jj
uncertain whether'he will return again, 0
but is soon reported a bad and quarrelsome
woman; for, as on these occasions, ,
an Indian does not tell his wife on
what day or time he will return, which ?
he never fails to do when on good
terms, she is at once put to shame by .
her neighbors, who^^oon suspecting
something, do not fail to put such ques- ?
tions as she cannot answer. When at
length ho does return she endeavors to t
lei, -him see by ;.her attentions that .
she has repented, though neither
speak to each other a single F
word on the snbjcct of what has passed; 1
and as his children, if he has any, will
on his return hang about him and
soothe him with their caresses, he is,
on their account, ready to forgive, or at
least not to say anything unpleasant to *'
their mother. If these traits in the n
conduct of the untutored Indians in e
domestic life put the manners of more ?
civilized nations to tho blnsh, how ^
much more severe is the reproach to ?
social life contained in the following ?
account: "In the year 1771,' h
says the author already named, b
X T moo ronirHntr nn thfl Biff I tJ
nulla i -a _
Beaver, I passed by the dcor of an Jn- *
dian who was a trader, and had a quantity
of goods in his house. He was s;
going with his wife to Pittsburg, and o
they were shutting up the house. As e,
no person remained in it during their sj
absence this shutting was nothing more w
than putting n large hominy pounding n
block outside the door to keep it closed, si
As I was looking at the man with at- y<
tention, while he was so employed, he d
addressed me in these words : - tl
" 'See, my friend, this is an Indian ai
lock that I am putting on my door.'
"'Well enough,'I answered; 'but I
see tou leave much property in the
house; are you not afraid those articles 0
will ba stolen while you are gone?' tl
" 'Stolen 1 By whom ?' c<
" 'By the Indians, to be sure.' IU
" >fin. no.' he replied; 'no Indian c<
would do suet a thing; and unless a y<
white man or white people should hap- s<
pen this way, I shall find all safe on ai
my return.'" tl
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Oleomargarine vs. Butter.
The figures introduced into Congress jE
recently from the bureau of statistics, a]
to show tho influence of olecmargaiine ^
npon American butter, are suggestive, g
if not conclusive. During the six fiscal ^
rears ending Juno 30, 1881, the aunual ^
value of the oleomargarine export rose p(
from $70,483 a year to S381,566; and
whereas in 1878 the quantity exported m
was only l.COH.iOl poands, in 1881 it c;
svas 20,327,076. On the other hand,
tho amount of butter exported dur- jf
ing the twelve months of 1881 was in
21,331.358 pounds, tvhile the year be-! si
fore it had been more than 37,000,000; j a]
md the value of the export fell oiT; p]
B3,250,000 Thu3 oleomargarine is at: 8a
last not only exported more largely than ^
butter, but v is apparently hurting the ^
in imnri(inn Villttpr 1)V
Inav.o '"""'7" -J | ct
makiDg consumers suspicious of it. ! j.j
Unquestionably, much of the falling ofl j a
in butter is due to last year's drought, j g
which carried up the price. | u
The oleomargarine factories of New 1
i'ork have a producing capacity of j r(
116,000,000 pounds annnally, while the y
production of dairy butter in the State k
is only 111,000,000 pounds. ^
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Something: in the Eyo.
Wash out with water if possible, or j D
hare some friend turn the upper lid ; ?
wrong-side out over a pencil, and this j ?.
will usually discover the object, which j ?
can he removed by a blunt pointed b
pencil or penholder. To turn the lid
over the person mu*t look down while
the operator takes tho eyelashes be- ti
tween thumb and finder and reverses P
the lid over a pencil placed upon the e
lid. When a particle of steel or other tl
substance.is imbedded in the eye itself ?
a physician must be sought at once.? {f
Dr. Footc's Htalth Monthly, ^
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm and Garden Nate*.
Never brood your chickens in and in.".
It makes them weak and more difficult
bo raise.
Oats grown on clay land make the
beet meal, keep longest and bring the
highest price.
It is said that if food is kept from the
sheep twenty-four hours before killing,
ihe mutton will have a better flavor.
Pear trees will endure a goodly quantity
of ashes and cinders at their roots,
rhe sweepings of the blacksmith shop
ire excellent.
Oharred corn is one of the best things
which can be fed to hens to make them
lay, not as a regular diet, but in limited
quantities each day.
One cow well fed and comfortably
cared for will produce quite as much
milk and butter as two that are allowed
to run at large, lie on the wet ground
ind be subject to the exposure of the
weather.
If the urine from a stable falls into
3, basement or cellar upon the heaps of
solid manure, then a shallow cistern,
covered with strong planks, under the
pile, will catch what otherwise would
disappear into the earth.
A New Jersey farmer reports that a
dressing of eight bnshels per acre of
salt to land badly infested with white
grubs enabled him to raise good crops
of corn for three years past, which
was impossible previous to this application.
It is commonly known that feeding
30WS heavily with turnips imparts the
9avor of the turnip to the milk, but if
given in moderate quantities just after
milking, so that twelve hours shall
elapse for the effect to pass off, little
difficulty is experienced.
A reader reqaests a remedy for excessive
sweating in horses. This is usually
caused by feeding too much corn, and
hence the best remedy is to diminish
the quantity of corn and vary the feed
is much as possible. Some horses,
however, are constitutionally subjeot to
sweats.
There is no better and surer way of
killing yonng trees than to expose the
roots to the wind, which dries them
sut very rapidly. Make a note of this,
ind if yon have any trees to transport,
be snre to have the roots thoroughly
jovered with blankets or somothing as
jffectnal. This precaution may save o
iron the life of fcores of trees.
It is immaterial at what time vegetables
are transplanted, provided they
ire not too large and the ground
s warm and mellow; bnt they
ihonld never be transplanted in a
ainstorm, \yhen the ground is puddly,
[f transplanted when it is warm and
nellow root action begins at once.
B. Hurlbnt, Portland, Mioh., says he
mows by two years' successful experimce
that a dash of srapsuds is death to
mrrant worms. "Try it," he tells the
Truit Recorder, "in just such strength
is will ourl them in a second of time."
Ie uses it very strong, and after it has
erved this good purpose the rains wash
t down, and it acts as a stimulant to
he bushes.
The tomato worm, according to the
intomologists, is such a greedy feeder
hat it ohauges its skin three times to
dmit further capacity for gluttony,and
trhen transformed into the fully-dereloped
insect?every tissue and fiber
if' whioh is composed of tomato leaf?it
nstinctuely distinguishes its favorite
orage afar off by sense of smell, apd
he larger the plantation the farther it
oay be scented. J
Recipe*.
Bean Soup.?Soafe one and one-half
lints of beans in cold water over night. ,
n the morning drain off the water,
rash the beans in fresh water and put
nto soup-kettle with four quarts of
;ood beef stock from which all the fat
tas been remove J. Set it where it will
toil slowly but steadily till dinner, or
hree or four hours. Two hours before
linner slice in an onion and half a carot.
Strain through a colander and
end to the table hot The black bean
nd the red bean are better for soup v . han
the white. The best of all is the
irge, round speckled bean, red-and/hite,
sometimes called " goose beaa.'
t is said that the first seed was found
a the crop of a wild goose, and planted
a this country. It has since been ono
f the choicest of soup beans.
Mock Cream Toast.?A delicious..
reakfast dish is made thus: Molt in
ne quart of milk about half a teacupil
of butter, a large teaspoonful of
lour freed from lumps, and the yolks of
hree eggs beaten light; beat these in-'
[redients together well. Heat it all
ogether slowly, stirring briskly; it
uust not boil, or it will curdle and lose
be appearance of cream; add at least
wo teaspoonfals of sngar and a small
(inch of salt. Toast bread nicely and
ay in two dishes, and pour the hot
ream over; or better, perhaps, to dip
ach slice separately and pour the reaainder
over the dish. -
Indian Pudding.? One quart of milk,/'
wo heaping teaspoonfuls of Indian
leal, four of sugar, one of butter, three
ggs, one teaspoonful of salt. Boil the
lilk in the double boiler. Sprinkle
be meal into it, stirring all tho while.
look twelve minutes, stirring often.
teat together the eggs, salt, sugar and
alt a teaspoonfnl of ginger. Stir the
utter into tho mral and milk. Pour
bis gradually on the egg mixture.
take slowly one hour. 9 1
Loaf Cake, ?Tate three cnps of
ponge dough (like pancake batter),
ne cnp of sugar, one cup of flour, three
ggs, beaten separately, one-half teapoonful
of soda, dissolvod in a little
arm water; one teacupfnl of raisins,
atmeg and cinnamon to taste. Beat
igar and butter to a cream; make it as
du do a cako before you mix with the
ough. Pat in the raisins the last
ling. Let it rise the same as bread
id bake an hour. *
A Monstrous 1'ow.
1. H. Cooperidge, of Licking county,
hio, writes : "In a recent issue of ~
le Ohio Stale Journal I notice an acjunt
of a monstrous cow owned by ' ^
[artin S. Stakes, of Grayville, White
)unty, Illinois. This cow is seven
ears old and weighs* 3,GOO pounds, ia"
sventeen and one-half hands high, ten
ad one-half feet long from the nose to
le buttock, seventeen ajul one-half
set long from the end of the nose to
le end of tho tail (considerable tail,)
ght feet nine inches around the girttg,
twenty-six inches around the fore:m,
and thirty-one inches across the
ips. She has been exhibited in four
intoa?Tllinnin. Indiana. Missonri and
ennessee. She is white and red,
lostly the latter, well formed, and a
arfect beauty; has two calves, one
iree years old and the other three
lonths old. She was raised in Posey
junty, Indiana. Now this is a little
le biggest cow story I e'er heard, and
these aro facts, she is probably the
rpest cow in the world. However, I
nil not dispute the writer's word at
1, for this may be true, and sufficient
roof may be obtained to testify of the
ime. I have a cow ten years old, tha!<
is given birth to ten calves, being
iree years old before having the first
ilf. Now some may think
lis is a dream ; but it is
fact, and cm be proven. She is a
rade Shorthorn, very large; however,
ot so largo as brother Stake's eo* (ineed
much smaller). She is of a light
3an color, almost white. When three
ear? old she gave birth to a verv fino
ei(er can. Yvneu iumf ? pu 01 uttaaa
nil calves. When five, twins again,
neof each sex. Thus you see she had
iireo sets of t-ues in succession,
laking her sr, many calves as she is
ears old, or averaging ono calf for
veryyeirof her life. Now if any of
lie brother farmers has a now that can
eat that let them trot her out
With the Greefcs and Romans, carpen y,
especially as applied to w.tr puroses,
made great progress. The woodn
horse that caused the fall of Troy,
10 Argonaut's bhips and bridge thrown
ver the Rbine by Cicsar's legions are
imiliar examples" of the results obu'nad.