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i II i m .i- ? . . .., . _?. _ , . - . ... . ? . -- mmmmm mmnm i ^nn ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW, ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1882. NO. 51. VOLUME XXVI. The Light of Stars, Hi" night is come, but not too booh; And sinking si!o,nU?Ail silently, the >:.ttlo 'moon Drops dow?\ bo'uind the sky. There i" 110 j,, (.artb or heaven ^'\t the coM light of stars'; And the first watch of night is given To the red planet Mars. Is it the tender star of love ? The star of leve and dreams ? Oh, no! from blue tent above A hero> ntmor tleams. And earnest thoughts within me rise, When I behold afar, "Suspended in the evening skies. The shield of that rod star. Oh, star of strength ! I see thee stand And smile upon my pain; Thou beckonest with thy mailed hand, And I am strong again. Within my breast tlitrc is no light But the cold li^ht of stars; t giw the first watch of the night To the red planet Mars. The star of (he unconqncred will, He rines in ray breast. Serene, and loaolute, and still, And calm aud self-possessed. And thou, too, whoso'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one tliv hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublimo a thing it is To suffer and be strong. ?iMngfellorc. Matching the Banner, "I Dever was 10 disappointed in my life," paid old Miss Berkley, letting her oyeglasses drop hopelessly at her side. Are you quite sure, Belinda ?" Tve been everywhere," said Miss Belinda B. ckley, the younger of the two ancient maiden ladies. "Everywhere I And there's nothing that corresponds with it in the least degree." The two Misses Beckley looked at eaoh other despairingly. And if one : had been gifted with a fertile imagina- ] tion, it would have beeD easy to fancy ( them a pair of elde/ly enchantresses in | the midst of a magio palace. For the , quaint, low-ceiled drawing rooms were filled with jointed bamboo screens, ] carved massoa \>f ivory, hideous painted i ware, and tiny cups and saucers as j transpar ^ a8" B0 many egg shells. And, 'jj ^ay of finishing up the har- ? mon-.oQg whole, Ihey had hung their j with draperies and banners in ^ tinkled crape cncircled with gold j thread, lustrous eatin, brocaded tapesttrv. even strins of trilled caper, where * 'Oriental plants blossomed, and phe- t nomenal birds set all one's preconceived t ideas of perspective at defiance. And j a faintjperfume cf teak and sandalwood v hung on the air, and dingy rags blotted r ont the harvest roses and tulips of the carpet, -which had been good enough i for the half-pay captain who had once been uncle to the two Misses Beckley, j and it only required a coffee colored i native with wooden shoes and a braided e quer.e to make one believe one's self in the Flowery Land. t " Japanese, you see," the two old ladies would 6ay, looking complacently [ at the astonished guest who had stumbled from an atmosphere of newly- ] fallen snow and New York sunshine jj into this half lighted, strangely Fcsnted mosaic of the East?"entirely Jap- p anf-se." ( Tlnf, lifft is rmf tciflinnf its sliftdowa. ^ and upon this especial evening, as the nephew and heir-apparent of the old i: ladies, one Frark Franklyn, sauntered in, just as the daffodil gold of the Feb- e ruary twilight was turning to hazy pur- t pie, he found both his aunts plunged i in '.he deepest abysses of gloom. Mr. Franklyn looked from one to the j other of the weird and agitated faces, t He knew that Aunt Miranda's cap was e never tipped at that particular angle t over her false front except when mat- j ters were very bad indeed ; and Aunt Belinda leaned against the mantel in an j attitude of limp despair. f "What is the matter?" he asked,setting j his hat on a lacquered tripod in one i corner, and balancing his cane in the E anglo of the wall behind a stuffed ibis, c whose speculative eyes seemed to glare a at h<m from the partial shadow after a i most uncomfortable fashion. ; "Look there, Frank?" solemDly uttered B T? * i * nl. l i J " miss .Decsiey, pointing wim ner uruuKeu gold-headed, cace to the opposite r wall. c "Beautiful!" said Frank Franklyn, at a a venture. For he saw only a long and t narrow parallelogram of black satin t mounted in a border of glimmering gold brocade, with a roller of cream i white ivory, and a background on which ^ a pensive* stork wandered through waves of lead-colored silk embroidery, c and beneath the silver green shadow of a eacred palms. r "Isn't it?" said Miss Belinda, her ?, venerable face lighting up with mo- ? mentary satisfaction, only to darken a again into gloom. "But, oh! Frank, r we haven't got a match for it." "Not got a match for it ?', "There's nothing?nothing," cried c Mies Beckley, tragically lifting her ; bands, "in all this room that is fit to ^ -hang on the other side of my dear c ^' grandfather's portrait." Why," said this reckless iconoclast, e T fViinV olmAof oriT?fViinnr a. OUVU1U miun. may ..imv/o. would do." The two old ladies uttered a simultaneous cry of dismay and horror. " Frank," reasoned mild Miss Beckley, "you don't understand high arc." " Tcu're u dear, good-hearted fellow," added Miss Belinda, with that degree o? charity wherewith a missionary may be supposed to regard a wellintentioned cannibal, "and in a knotty point of law I don't suppose you have your equal. But, you see, you are not a>3thetic." " N?no," confessed Mr. Franklyn, rubbing his nose; "perhaps I am not. But wby don't you and Aunt Miranda go down to the stores and match the thing?" "We have tried," said Miss Beckley. "It can't be done," added Miss Belinda, with a sigh. ' Give it to me," said Frank,who was great at an emergency. " l'Jl take it downtown with me to-morrow. There's ' a new place opened near the docks wuere tiitJjr preieuu to import novelties. Tado Anoko, I believe, is the name t painted up over the door. Probably j the concern is kept by an Irishman, j with a staff of German clerks. But ] I've seen some nice things out at the ] ? door. Perhaps I can obtain something t to suit yon there." < "Oh, Frank, if you only could!" cried Miss Belinda, clasping her mit- ] tened hands. !,Atall events, it is worth the trial," ( said Miss Becbley, cheering up a little. "Tado Anoko! That is quite a new ; name." tfo Mr. Fr&nklyn, on bis way to the ' legal Mecca of Meeprs. Waitstill & Lin- : gerlong the next day, stopped at the newly painted and gilded establishment of Tado Anoko, where a plump, redwhiskered man who spoke excellent English (with perhaps a redundancy of h's) promptly placed himself at his service. Together they unrolled the ivorymounted banner and viewed the stork nun iuc piumo ui Lur wucu^iiui iiccult3work wares of the Kjusi river. "Vary sorry," said the superintendent, as lie called himself, of Tado Anoko's bazaar, "but I don't snppo?e, sir?I don't, indeed?aR you'll find hanvthing to correspond with this 'ere piece of 'igh hart. There never was but a few of 'em himported. And they'ie all bcught hup. Law bless you, sir, the gentrv they will 'avo 'em, sir, at hany price." A plump, fresh-colored old woman, the salesman's aunt, who had been arranging palm leaf fans on a gigantic revolving screen at the back of the store, now came forward, peeping at the satin scroll over her nephew's shoulder. " It's quite true, sir, what Simpson says," pronounced eho. " I know those banners. There ain't one to be had in the city. P'raps our house may import some more for the next holidays; but?" ' Call Alta Graves," imperiously interrupted Mr. Simpson. "She knows a deal about the stock. She can tell us." Alta Graven wfts summoned?a pretty pink checked little damsel, with hair brown and sbining like a newly-ripened chestnut, and dark eye3 which she scarcely ventured to lift from the floor. I "Oh, yes," she absented, in an innocent, bird-like sort of voice, " she had seon those banners. Bat there were none at present remaining in Tado Anoko's store of imported novelties. Unless, indeed, the gentleman would take a fine quality of paper, mounted on linen? But Mr. Franklyn shook his head. Paper would not meet the views of the ladies in whoso behalf ho was conducting the investigation, ho saiJ. The banner must be of satin, of the same black color, embroidered in a corre spending pattern. Ho was sorry for giving so much trouble; and he went out, leaving his card, so that in case any new vein of banners or decorations should be struck at the eleventh hour, he might perchance get thebenetitof it. Three days afterward, just as the hands of the office regulator were consolidating themselves at the figure twelve, and the bells of Old Trinity were pealing their musical noon jangle, there came the smallest of tap-taps at. the outer door of the firm of Waitstill & Lingerlong, in which Mr. Frank Franklyn was a silent partner. And there stood Alta Graves, rosy and palpitating. ' Why," exclaimed Mr. Franklyn, trying to locate the fresh blooming face in his mind, and associating it oddly wifVi nhinoco mnnsfArs. rrmmmnf.h flhpsts of tea, and a curious odor of fresh matting and sandalwood fans, "it's the joung lady from Tado Anoko's place, isn't it ?" And Alta made a little courtesy, and answered, breathlessly, "Yes, please." Mr Franklyn graciously bade her enter. Mr. Waitstill was at his lunch, and Mr. Lingerlong was in the hack office arguing with a dusty old client who believed himself a better judge of law than Blackstone, so that the coast was clear. "What on earth did she want with him ? he asked himself. Had the firm got into a lawsuit, and had she been sent to bid his immediate presence on the scene ? Or was she herself ibout to sue her principals for breach of contract? "Can I be of any service to you?' tie courteously asked, as she stood ;here, still breathless, and changing xom pink to pale. "Would you please look at this, sir, md see how you like it ?" said she, mrriedly unrolling a little parcel vhich until now she had carried in her land. It was a long strip of black satin, rith a scarlet-plumed ibis wading hrough white silk deeps of water, wiCh , he Sacrcd Mountain Fusiyama rearing ts peak beyond, while in the foreground raved a picturesque tangle of reeds and ushes. " The very thing I" exclaimed Frankvd. "But'it isn't mounted." "Almost any store will do that for ' on, 6ir," said Alta, her cheek brightenng into still deeper carmine at hiB ( vident satisfaction. "But why didn't you show me this he other day V" he questioned. I "I?I hadn't found it then," answered ] Uta, in some confusion. j " And what is the price ?" Mr. Frankyn asked, putting his hand in a busilees-like way into his pocket. Here again pretty Alta seemed to be ' mzzled. She didn't know, she said. Jould tLe gentleman telpher the price j i the other one ? It was ten dollars, Mr. Franklyn be- { ieved. " Then," said Alta, spea7ung with an vident effort, "would you think this oo deur at eielit dollars, seeing that it sn't mounted?" ' I bhould consider it a very fair irice," said Mr. Franklyn, kindly. And le paid her tho money, a gold half- , agio and three crisp, clean one-dollar j tills; and she vanished away down the ong hall like a gray shadow. ? What a fool I was," thought Mr. ' 'ranklyn, suddenly rousing himpelf ( rom a reverie, " not to ask her to take t to Anoko's to be mounted on ivory ! j Lnd now I shall have to go around there j avself. Very stupid of me; but then I iften am stupid. But how pleased my ,unts will be, bless their dear old ieart3 J And what a wonderful pair of , impid hazel eyes that little girl has ;ot?" | And all day long Alta Graves' sweet>ea face came between him and the ' lusty pages of his prosy law-books, like , vague dream of what might have >een, had she not been a Bhop-girl and 1 le a bachelor close on the forties. He went home early, and on his way j "? of aofoWiolimorjf.' nf IC OIU^JJCV.1 M? w VUV WObHV*4UMW\.uv V* Cado Aaoko. ] Mr. Simpson uttered an exclamation if amazement at the sight of the ibis | ind the 6acred peak Fusiyama. "Well, lever 1" cried he. "Aunt Sarah, look , ere. Where on hearth did you get this ' ere, sir, if I may make so bold as to isk ? For I didn't know, I give you ny word of honor, as there was one liko t in the city." It was now Mr. Franklyn's turn to >pen his eyes. "The young lady phom you call (Alta Graves brought it o me," said he ; " and I supposed, of 1 :ourso, that you had sent it." " Alta Graves 1" repeated Mr. Simpion. "Our Alta!" shortly spoke Aunt 1 Jarah. " Thei as true as my name is ; Jarah Simpson she have stole it?and ; rat of our very stock. Andsheknowed ; >f it all the time, the ungrateful minx, ; rhile wo was a-turning over heverything ; o find a match for the banner that you >rought here. And you paid her, you ay, sir? Her?" ??f!orf.ninlc T did." Kftid Mr. Franklvn a ?* "*! ??- ? - - y 9 jecoming more and more puzzled and incomfortable. For as to the ovalaced little maid with the liquid brown )ves being a thief, he did not believe a vord of it. " Very well," asserted Simpson: "this lettles the 'ole haflair. There can't be 10 doubt about it now; for she 'ave lever paid us the cash for this 'ere satin manner." "I always suspected she wasn't relia :>le," said Aunt Sarah, slowly wagging ler head to und fro. " She's a deal ioo good-looking. I never had no faith n good-looking shop-girls myself. Didn't I tell you so, Simpson ?" And Alta Graves, who was unpacking i large hamper of cups and saucer3 and fantastically pattern plates down in the moldy basement, was promptly summoned up by mouth of an eager, panting little errand-boy. She came, coloring rod a little abashed, but prettier than iver. " Yonng womn::," uttered Simpson, majestically, " what does this mean?" "ConfesB at once, yon base, unprincipled girl!" 6aid bis aunt. "Look here. Miss Graves," spoke Franklyn, "I'm awful sorry to startlo you so, hut them seems to be something wrong about your sale of this banner to me." " There is nothing wrong," said Alta, quietly. " I did sell it to you." " And where did you get it V" sternly demanded Aunt Sarah. " Confess, base girl, that yon stole it. Prevarications won't do here.'Alta's checks crimsoned; her eyes blazed into sudden brilliance. "I never stole it," she cried 1 Do you think 1 am?a thief? Oh. Mrs. Simpson, how can you, a woman, be so hard upon me, a friendless girl ? I made the bunner mjself. I bought the satin and the embroidery silk, and tho goldthread out of my saving?, and I sat up two nicrhts to embroider it. so that I could earn a little nioro money than the poor wages yon pay me, to buy fruit for my mother, who lus at home dying of consumption. There! If that is being a thief, then I stand condemned." And here poor Aita's dignified bearing gave way all at once and she buret out crying like a child. "Don't fret, my dear," soothed Aunt Sarah, who was a kind-hearted woman in the main. " It's a misunderstanding, that's all. Don't fret." I ?' It's a very good himitation of the expane?e style?very," remarked Mr. Simpson, closely scrutinizing the gleam ing lines of embroidery. "Really, Alta Graves, 1 think you 'avo genius." " Pray forgive mo for my blundering awkwardness," said Mr. Franklyn. And Altr. tried to smile throngh her tears and said she would. "She was ashamed of having made such a scene. The whole thing was a matter o-f no consequence whatever.'1 The satin banner was lined and mounted and Mr. Franklyn took it to his aunts, who could scarcely be ccstatic enough in its praise. "It was a gem, a beauty, a marvel of art. Such a thing could never, never be gotten up anywhere but in Japan. And it was so good ot tvramc to una it lor tnem, after they themselves had scoured the highways and by-ways in vain. That love of an ibis! And that exquisite sacred mountain ! They never could thank their nephew sufficiently. r. Fianklyn went the next day to see Alta Graves' mother, on t.'uo dreary j top Hoor of the tenement house, where i the uncompromising sunshine that! poured through the curtainlcss window revealed every flaw in the plastering, ' every mildewed 6tain on the ceiling. He came home grave and reflective. " Aunt Belinda," he observrd, "you said the other day that you were not intending to use your seaside cottage at Asbury Park this year ?" "Not if we go to the mountains." said Aunt Belinda, looking up in some surprise; "and I believe that that is our plan." <1 TVTrtrr r if r\? rAH 91' ocVnrl Fiank. "Borrow it ?" repeated Aunt Belinda. And then Frank cpened his heart, and told them all?about pretty Alta with the limpid eyes; about the pale invalid, with the two little girls who played at cat's-cradlo so quietly at the foot of the bed, and hushed their baby laughter so as not to disturb mamma; about the hand-to-hand contest with want and disease, in which the sick woman was getting so sorely worsted. "She shall have the cottage," said Aunt Belinda, enthusiastically. " And I will send my own maid down to help make it all comfortable for her as soon as the month of May comes," added Miss Beckley. And 60, perhaps, the old ladies were not 30 much amazed in the autumn when they heard that their nephew Frank had engaged himself to marry Alta Grave?. She was very pretty, that was certain, and men like pretty faces, and also they knew that she had been very good and dutiful to the poor mother who had just been laid under the yellowing autumn leaves. And if Frank was determined to marry, he couldn't do better, they thought, than to marry Alta Graves. But there wa3 one thing which Frank never told them, nor did Alta, his wife. And that was the secret of the embroidered banner. And to this day the old ladies point it out to their icstheticallyminded visitors with conscious exulta lion, and say, with many twists and wags of their venerable cap strings: " Imported, my dear. No; of course you can't get anything like it, because it came direct from Japan." " Oughtn't we to tell them, Frank dear?" whispers Alta. And hor husband answers "No, dear, no. It would only bo breaking an illusion. Don't you see bow much happier they aro in believing that it came 'direct from Japan ?' " ?Bazar. An Elephant Story. .The elepluint seemed to get tired | first, and just as the first streak of 3awn began to show itself in the sky he ;urned and walked leisurely away. For i minute or two I heard him crashing imong tho thickets, and then all was juiet again, as if he'd gone right xway. " Now," I thought, " is my time to desamp, too," and down the tree I slipped is nimbly as an acrobat. But I soon found I had been reckoning without my host, for I had hardly touched the ground when there camo a crash like tifty mad bulls charging through as many glass-houses, and out from the thicket, with his great white tusks leveled at me like bayonets, came my friend the elephant, who had been on khe watch for me all the time. Whether I should have ran or stood my ground, and how I should have fared in either ease, can never be known now, for jast at that moment my foot slipped and down I came, clobe to the tree. The next moment there was a crash as if two trains had rnn into each other, and I made sure that I was knocked into a hundred pieces at least, and that it was all up with me. I soon beoame aware, however, that I was still alive and sound,- while a shrill, frightened cry overhead told me plainly that it was the elephant who had got the worst of it this time. I scrambled to my feet gingerly enough, for the brute's great forelegs were stamping and poucding like steam hammers within arm's length of mo, and there I saw a sight which, scared as I was, made me laugh till I could hardly stand. I had fallen just in time to escape the blows of the elephant's tusks, whicb linrl oftirtlr ^KntMOnlTTOO CO rlflrtn infn fill uau OVUV'ii uucatogiTuo *MW ?MV tree that he could not pall them out again, and there he was, bard and fast, like a ship run aground. The animal's look of disgust and bewilderment at finding himself in such a fix was as good as a play to behold; but just then I was in no humor to stop and admire it, for I knew that he might break loose yet, and that if he did it would be all up with me. My firBt impulse was to take to my heels at once, but the next moment I thought better of it, and decided to settle Mr. Elephant instead. I quickly picked up and reloaded mv gun, which had luckily escaped his notice, or ho would have trampled it to bits, and, scrambling into tbo tree again, sent a bullet into his forehead, which did its business, and left him standing bolt upright in a very picturesquo attitude indeed. Overheating Houses. ViWn hVrtrnl (inidf. advises nirainst overheating plants. It says the temperature of the room c^juld not ho allowed to go above seventy degrees, and sixty-five degrees would bo better. Give a little fresh air every day and all the sunlight attainable. An effort should be made to givo moisture to the atmosphere, for our own good as well as for tho life of the plants.'' The advice here given iu regard to temperature, fresh air and sunlight is just as essential to human beings as to plants. Sensitive plants dry up and wither away and dio if the surroundings are not favorable. So sensitive individnals sicken, get headaches and depressed feelings when tho room is carelessly allowed to be heated to seventy-six and eighty degrees, when ventilation is never thought of, and sunlight almost wholly excluded. Especially in winter do we find sickness from those causes, for the overheating of furnaces and stoves is not as readily borno as the summer heat, and ventilation is pre vented not only by shut windows and doors but by weather strips, and tlio sunlight is absent a larger portion of the time than in summer. Therefore if you find that no plants will live in your own living rooms may it not be that it is too great a tax upon your own constitution to maintain existence in such a place.?/)/'. Foofc's Ileilth Monthly. The ventilation of the groat Alpiuo tunnels under Mount Corns and the St. Gothard so as to freo them quickly from the Bmoke of trains Las been a work of much difficulty. It has been proposed to create a current of air by the keeping of largo fires <.t one end, but the expense 1ms been found oxccs6ivo. A French engineer, M. Pressel, suggests thut the sama object may be attained by cooling the air at some point in tho tunnel by water, which would give the difference ia density of the atmosphere necessary to cause a draught. Oool mountain streams are numerous in the Alps, and could be readily applied to the purpose. I ARIES' DEPARTMENT. Xpwh nnd \otr? for Women. A woman living at Cokesbury, South Carolina, ha3 mado over SI,500 in the manufacture of feather fans. Mrs. Garfield recently received as a present from a Dresden aitist a portrait on porcelain of her late husband. A Nevada youug woman wh.) is still in her teens has been divorced from two husbands and has married the third. There are 533,529 women in Massachusetts unrepresented by husbands, OfH < 1 /-v C TrrUrim f ntATifw T* r*r? TCI VJl tTUUIU UiD UVCl ITTCUl/J jcmo [ of age. The hair of Johann Strauss' wife reaches to her ankles and weighs all of five pounds. She used on it nothing but water of her native city, Cologne. The young Kate Shelly who saved an j Iowa train near Doone, by her coura- j geous and heroic efforts a year or two ago, is engnged to bo married to the conductor of the train she saved. The latest caprice in Paris is the wearing of huge collars and cuffs crocheted of twine or linen thread. They are worn over dark woolen dresses, with a narrow white lace or liese rucho above the collar around the neck and below the cuffs around the wrists. A widow in Japan who is willing to think of matrimony wears her hair tied and twisted around a long shell hairpin placed horizontally across the back of the head. But when a widow firmly resolves never to change her name again she cuts off her hair short on her neck and combs it back without any part. The wife of Senator Mahone has won in Washington the distinction of wearing handsomer jewels than does any other woman in official society. Her diamonds used long ago to be a matter of comment; and when she returned from Europe lately her husband presented her with additions to her jewel case valued at 840,000. Women are admitted to the bar on equal terms with men in Kansas. Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois. By ' an act of CongreBS, those who have been for three years members of the bar of ] the highest court of any State or Territory, or of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, may bo admitted J to practice before the United States ! supreme court. ( ] Fanhlon Fancied. I Block balayeuses appear in black J dresses. 1 Long Directoire coats are fashionable , in Paris. j New guimpes are of ecru lace over , white satin. ] Pink and brown together are stylish ] for bonnets. < Sewing silk grenadine is the fashion- | able choice. 1 The Cabriolet hat will be worn in ] midsummer. 1 Shepherd's check is liked for moun- : tain dresses. Pelerines are worn smaller than they j were last year. j Dresden china handles are attached 1 to dark parasold. t English ladies have adopted the mas- < culine pea-jacket. Flemish lace of creamy liot trims dark satin dresses. Yellow flowers trim dark gre^n and ? DiacK straw Donneis. ^ White suits for summer are of wool 1 in preference to lawn. i Jersey gloves are worn outside the fsleeves of riding habits. Visites made of India cashmere shawls are favorite wraps. White net embroidered is need for t neckties and chemisettes. 1 The handsomest silk embroidered ( and bead embroidered designs are seen j in applique bands, to bo sewed on as trimmings of the handsomest silk cos- 1 tumes. They sell at high prices. The large red straw hats in porcupine j braids are being rapidly appropriated j by young girls of from eight to ten t years. The favorite trimmingB are os- < trich feathers or silk pompona of a y darker shade of red. 1 "Long corsets are now almost uni- i versally worn, and over the hips of the ] more expensivo kinds are set narrow t V-shaped pieces of india rubber web- 1 bing, which, though fitting the form i perfectly, give it uncommon ease. e A novel dress is made of scarlet surah, 1 cut princeBse shape, and completely J veiled with black chenille in diamond openwork patterns. A scarf of the chenille, bordered with a very wide chenille fringe, is laid in transverse folds across the skirt in front, and, being canght np in the back with large jet clasps, falls in donble-shawl points over the back breadths. The bonnet of most pronounced originality brought out this season is the "London Witch." It is an immense turned-up scoop hat, brimleas in the back and short and flat at the sides, an emphasized, exaggerated old style Danstable. It is vastly becoming to piquant faces. It is trimmed with large quantities of fleers or feathers or ribbon, at the option of the wearer. In Paris, as a variety, young ladies have adopted, to a limited extent, riding habits of creamv white or pale buff instead of dark cloth ones. The bodice is a glove-fitting cuirass, lengthened behind into coat lapels and fastened and trimmed with buttons of carved pearl. The neck is finished with a ruffle of creamy lace; the sleeves are tight and partly concealed under the long gloves of soft deerskin slipped over them. The hat, of white felt, is a Gainesborough, lined with black or dark velvet aud decorated with a long plume. Ancient Burials in China. An Oriental writer has recently' given an interesting description of an ancient burial in the Chinese empire. It was tho custom for the wealthy man to procure his coffin when he had reached the age of forty. Ho would then have it painted three times a year with a composition resembling silicate paint or * ?t .1 j i_ enamel, which iurmeu. uu eiueuuiugij i hard coating. rIbe process of making ( this paint is now one of the lost arts of ? China. If tho owner of the coflin ? lived longenough, tho frequent paint- ? ing?each coat being of consid- 1 erable thickness?caused it to as- i surne the appearance of a sarcophagus, with a foot or more in thick- ] ness of this hard .stone-like shell. After death the veins and cavities of the person's stomach were filled with quick- j silver for the purpose of preserving the ( body. A piece of jado would then be \ plnced in each nostril and ear, and. in \ one band, whilo a piece of bar silver , would be placed in the other hand, j The body thus prepared was placed on i a layer of quicksilver within the coffin. tho latter was sealed, and the whole ( deposited in its final resting-place. ( WThiiawa n( 111 AOA ffinvn M UCU OUUJO V/A LUC'U on nviu ; opened, after a lapse of centuries, the bodies were found to be perfectly pre served, but they quickly crumbled to dust on being exposed to the air. Rice and Sugar Cane. The census of 1880 shows that in 1879, 174,173 acres of rio were cultivated, yielding 110,131,373 pouuds?an average of 082 pounds to the acre. South Carolina leads the rice states with a production of 52,077,415 pounds George and Louisiana come noxt with yields of 25,369,037 and 23,188,311 pounds respectively, while Texas tails the list of eight states with a production of 02,152 pounds. The sugar cane producing states are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South favstlina nr?rJ TVvrflfl ?'27 77fi nr>r^a f\f cane yielded 178,872 hogsheads of t>ugm and 16,573,273 gallons of molasses. Louisiana heads tho list with 171,706 hogsheads of sugar and 11,696 248 gallons of molasses. Georgia and Florida produced 1,273 and 601 hogsheads respectively, besides 1,029,868 and 1,565,784 gallons, while South Carolina produced only 138,944 gallons, and ' Mississippi but 18 hogsheads. FROM POVERTY TO WE1LTH,, Haw a I-U'iitcunnt iJovcrnor IJectimo 'tVcallhy?Iliclir?i nnd DompiiClc Vnlmppl" IlI'M. The divorce suit that has bee:a instituted by Mrs. Tabor, wife of th s lieutenant governor of Colorado, is another illustration that wealth does not always bring happiness with it. Mrs. Tabor asks for divorce and $50,000 alimony per year. The facts are thu? related by the Cleveland Leader: The unhappy couple wero married at Aiignsta, Me., in 1857, and their career since that period has been marked by transitions from domestic feliciiy to the most violent family jars; from absolute poverty to princely wealth; from the rude hovel of the frontier to the moat luxurious home that the purse ot a millionaire could cc mmand. In 1859 they started for Pike's Peak in a parlor car drawn by two oxen, taking all their property with them, and after drifting about the country for some years they settled dowu in the place where Denver now stands. He searched in vain for "pay gravel," and while he was prospecting she cooked bacon, made bread and kept up the household expenses by boarding miners. Finally Tabor built a log hut and started a store and boarding-house combined, which was a general rendezvous for the miners. All the hard work of the establishment fell upon Mrs. Tabor. She was the only woman within one hundred and sixty miles, and sho did the cooking and washinc for the miners, attended I to all their wants in the stbre, weighed their gold dust on the only pair of scales in the neighborhood, making herself the waiter and drud6e of every one. In the meantime tho husband yielded to the irresistible fever that seldom lessens its grip npon one who has once become its victim, and con tinned his search for geld. He moved from prospect to prospect, from digging to digging, always believing himself on tho blink of fortune, and while he reveled in golden dreams the wife drudged and toiled to procure for herself and her royal dreamer the substantials of life. In 1876 he began to realize some of hit; grand expectations, and ho was soon known as a millionaire. Tabor contined to prosper at a wonderful rate, and is r ow considered one of the wealthiest men in the State. His wife's petition says lie is worth $10,000,000. and has an income of 8100,000 per month. He spent his means lavishly md surrounded hi3 wife with every luxury that money could buy; but, adds the Leader: She says that he grew hard-hearted in proportion as ho became rich; that lie absented himself from home for tveeks and months, and on one occasion lie offered to givo her a portion of his large fortune if she would apply for a livorce. All he has to bi.j is that he ;avo her $100,000 a few years ago, which she invested, and which now fields her $14,000 a year; that she la a woman and he hopes she sill receive a!l the sympathy growng out of the case. Both sides of the >l:ory will only come out on trial. What s certain now is that their domestic lappiness took wings the moment wealth rolled in upon tbem; that as >oon as they ceased fighting with poverty they began fighting each other. rimir tiannipftt rJnvn TPATft wheil thev ivere poor, and as they now sit in the nidsl of luxury and plenty it is probible that their memory holds no pleasinter period than when they sat together behind the. ox-tea,m and were jeing dragged out into the Western ivilds to seek their fortune nearer to the letting sun. An Old-Time Outlaw. The death of Jesse James in Missouri, ind the frequent references to hiti robberies and to his notoriety as "the most lonspicuous and formidable" Rcoundrel }f the Schinderhannes and Cartouche ype ever known in this country, may inggest to some of the News readers, with long memories, that forty years igo or more there was a robber, and a :>and organized and directed by him on he lower Mississippi, more iamous ban Jesse or Fiank James, or the 'Blue Cut" gang, more dreaded, more ride-reaching in crime, and far more jloody, for tliey made it a rule to leave 10 victim to become a witness. John A. Vlurrell was a name of terror from he mouth of the Ohio to tho iTazoo, and far back in tho inte-' ior of the States bordering the Missisippi, on the east; side. The west side vas too wild a woods for travelers or obbers in those clays, but the east was jeset for hundreds of miles along the oads leading no rthward from New Greens, which were largely traveled by lealers from the North, who had taken lown droves of h orses or flatboat loads ,>f grain or pork or whisfcj. The deputations were not confined to the land, , )j any means, but unsuspecting f broad-horns" were captured and pil- j aged and their crews fed to the fish, virile tied up at night o at of the way steamers and rafts that might sink ihem in a fog. It is said that the M'urell gang had hiding places in caTes ind stored their plunder in them. iVestern Tennessee was said to be their Favoruo ground, but they ranged from he north of Mississippi to the Ohio. Vlany efforts were made to capture the ender and break up the band without ?ffect:i till an adventurous young fellow lamed Virgil Stewari undertook it of lis own motion, partly to clear the jountry of a terror, and partly to employ his superabundant energy and laring. He became a member of the jang and continued so for some conliderablo time?a year or two, possibly hore, and finally trapped the great>pt villain ever known on the Amerioan ;ontinent sinco the days of tho buccaieer chiefs, Montbass and Morgtm. He ;vas sent to the penitentiary at Nashville for a long term on conviction )f robbery, it is to be presumed, as a jonviction of murder would have hung lim. It may have been that no legal ivid^nceoE direct participation in murler could be advanced even by his ;aptor, however complete might have jeen the moral certainty of his guilt. Stewart published an account oi his idventures in a largo pamphlet forty rear3 ago or thereabouts. The robber :hief died in the penitentiary, or, at all svents, before ho got a chance to remme his old career, even if he had been 10 disposed. There are, no doubt, per;ons in this city who retain an accurate ecollection of "the man's adventures and lotoriety.?Indianapolis News. Ifow Weapons First Came to be Employed. ' The idea of employing weapons for issuuit or defense was a logical result 3f the first contests that took place.beiween man and man. I a theso contests the strongest man with his native weap3us?his lists?was unconsciously the father of all arms and all armed strength, for his weaker afttagonift would eaily seek to restore the balance of power between thorn by the use of I some sort of weapon. The shorter armed man lengthened hi3 strising pow?r by the u?o of a stick, and found, after a time, the help its leverage and weight afforded him. The first case in which the chance selected, heavy ended staff or club showed that weight or haidncss had its value, was a first Btep toward furnishing it with a strong head. Jlence the blew of the fist was the fororunner of tho crushing weapon. T A I ... IK.. 1. .1 1_ in iuo huiuo wtij uiu pumieu mica becamo tho Ianco or dagger; and the I thrown shaft, helped, as knowledge increased, by tho bow or " tlirowingstick," was the preenrhor of tho dart and arrow. Tho charucter of tho first weapon was largely determined by the naturo of tho materials from which they were derived, and their shape partly from this and partly from copying the forms of the weapons posse?sed by the animals the primitive men slew. Hence arises tho general similarity iu character and shape of tho earliest tools from all parts of tho world.?Popular Science Monthly. According to the Canadian census 109,435 widows are mourning for their lost spouses, and 50,893 widowers 'aro I in the same distressing state. i SUNDAY READING. The True Gentleman. The following sketch of the trae gentleman was found in an old manor house in Gloucestershire,England,written and framed, and hung over the mantel piece of a tapestried Bitting-room: The truo gentleman is God's servant, the world's master and his own man. Virtue his business; study his recrcation; contentment his rest; and happiness his reward. God is his father; the church his mother; the saints his brethren; all that need him his friends. Devcftion his chapplain, Christianity his chamberlain; sobriety his butler; temperance His cook; Hospitality ms housekeeper; Providence his stewart; charity his treasurer; pity his mistress of thehouse; and discretion his porter, to let in or out as most fit. This is the whole family, made up of the virtues, and he is the true master of the house. He is necessitated to take the world on the way to heaven, but he walks through it as fast as he can, and all his business by the way is to make himeelf and others happy. Take him in two words?a man and a Christian.?Church Union. Religions News. It is said that five denominations have 250,000 members in Texas in a population of 750,000. Four years ago in all" North Dakota there was only one Presbyterian church; there are now nineteen. V ?9 3 . T. *_ A1?1. J-iora VJairns declares ma ueutji iuui, the revised edition of the New Testament will never be in general use in Great Britain. In Mr. Spurgeon's church in London the regular hearers absent themselves one Sunday evening every three months, and the house is given up to strangers. The number of Protestant communicants increased about 14,000 in the city of Berlin during the lasfc'year, owing largely to the labors of the oity missionaries. There are in the forty-five leading theological seminaries in the United States ninety-eight students who have decided to enter the foreign mission field, and 143 who will become home missionaries. The auther of "There is a Happy Land." Mr. Arthur Youne. is now living in Edinburgh, his native city, and is made happy by Mr. Moody's assurance that his hymn is sung throughout Christendom. He is seventy-five,years of age. Ten years ago the Central Presbyterian church in Denver, Col., was a missionary church. It now has a onehnndred-thousand-dollarjchuroh edifice, the finest between St. LouiB and San Francisco; pays its pastor 85,000 and has a membership of 500. The average value of college property to a member, down to 1880, among several religious bodies, is stated as follows: The Methodists averaged $1.74; the Baptists $3.82; the Presbjterians $3.90; the Congregationalists $6.93 and the Episcopalians $13.57. There are connected with Trinity parish, New York city, nineteen clergymen, and seven churches or chapels. Last year there were 1,0-48 baptisms in the parish, 495 confirmations, 227 marriages and 391 burials. The communicants number 4,465 ; scholars in Sanday-school 4,657. The con ributions were 855,155; besides this $78,480 were expended. The Northern churches are, it is said, expending from 3800,000 to $1,000,000 yearly in churches and schools in the South, chiefly in schools. All the 1,500 colored Methodist-Episcopal churches are used ae eohool-houses. As near as can be estimated, the principal denominations of the North have expended more than 813,000,000 in the Sonth.for school and church purposes in the last fifteen years. Robbing Jewelers' Salesmen. The salesmen who travel for jewelry houses, and who frequently carry in their trunks large quantities of valuable goods, used often to be robbed at hotels, or by thieves changing the checks for their luggage. Of course they are liable to robbery now, but the danger ol it has been much diminished since the formation, about three vears ago, of the Jewelers' Protective union, which has inspired the thieves with a wholesome dread of its powers. Tbia organization, whioh includes all the principal dealers in the United States who employ travelers, has now about $50,000 in its treasury, and has already been the means of sending eight thieves to State prieon. It Is supported by dues proportioned to the number of travelers which each firm employs, and it is prepared to spend any amount of money necessary to hunt down and convict the thief who robs one of its members. Whenever a salesman starts cut on a business tour, his name and route are reported to the president of the union, who in turn notifies a deteotive agency, which has branches in all the principal cities. To protect traveling salesmen who have valuables with them in sleeping cars, alarm watches have been invented which make a startling noise when any package attached to them is disturbed. As a rule, however, such salesmen depond more for security upon " sleeping with one eye open "kthan upon any artificial aids of this sort. An invention litis just been made by a well known scientific man in Franoe that may prove ? valuable protection against the robbery of jewelry trunks in hotels. It is a trunk made with a galvanic battery under a false bottom, and so constructed, it is said, that when it is "set" for the purpose, a thief cannot touch the lock or any metal work about the truuk without receiving a terrific shock, by which he will be temporarily paralyzed. He not only cannot continue his attempt at robbery, but will be riveted to the trunk until some one comes and relieves him by arrest. The rightful owner can open the trunk at any time without dangor, by ufk.e a key which is a non conductor uuJ j breaks the electric current. Nearly Kissed Themselves to Death, Osculation is unquestionably a pleasing pursuit. It has been recognized as such from time immemorial, by generations unnumbered of lovers, poets and even philosophers. There are doubtless, at the present moment, in this and in. other countries, many enamored swains who aek no better than to be permitted to imprint " ten thousand kisses," one after another, upon tho lips of the damsels on whom they have bestowed their affections They may, however, esteem themselves fortunate if their opportunities in this direction are somewhat limited, as the following true story will show : At an evening party in Kelkheim, a few weeks ago, the conversation happened to turn upon kissing, and the question arose how many salutations of this class could be exchanged between two ardent lovers within a certain space of time. As U8UP.I, opinions differed, and the discussion waxed warm. Presently a fiery youth offered to bet anybody present the German equivalent of a ten-pound note that he and his betrothed would kiss one another 10,000 times withir ten honrs, provided they were permit- ' led to partake of some slight refreshment at intervals of half an hour during the performance. His wager having been acccpted and the money posted, the afliunced conple addressed themselves to the achievement of their congenial task. At tho expiration of the lirst. hour their acconnt Btood credited with two thousand kisses. During tho second they added another thousand and during tho third seven hundred and fifty to that number. Then, pitiful to utate, they both broke down. The youth's lips were stricken with cramp, aiid the maideu fainted away. Later on in tho evening Bhe was compelled to tako to her bed with a sharp attack of neuralgia. An even more distressing result ensued from this surfeit of tender endearment, for it led to the breaking off, br mutual consent, of a hopeful matrimonial engagement. Young lovers should keep tlrs sad tale in mind and moderate their transports, for, strange as it may seem, Don Cupid himself may be kissed to death.? London Telegraph, SIBERIA. Interentlnu Fact* About n Conntry Liltl Known. Mr. 0. H. Eden, a member of the RoYal Geographical society of England, has recently published a book on Siberia entitled "Frozen Asia." From it we gather the folio-Wing facts: 'lhe area of Siberia is about five million square miles, and in this vast territory there are leas than three and a half millions of inhabitants. It is divided politically into Western and Eastern Siberia, each presided over by a governor-general, and each farther divided into districts whose officials receive all orders from their governor-general, and can only apply to the court of St. Petersburg through him. Thd religion of the people is of a mixed kind, partly that of the Greek church alternating with a form of Christianity called Shamanism, and partly that of Buddhists. The native races are variously designated as Voguls, Ostiaks, Buriates, Tnngoases, Gilaks, otc., nearly twenty in all, Many of them present interesting points of study to the ethnologist. They are small in stature, with the round, broad face and prominent cheek bones of the Mongols. They rarely build houses, but content themselves withyurts, or huts, constructed of a few poles stuck in the ground or the snow, and covered with reindeer skins or birch bark. The men and women dress nearly alike and their garments are adapted to the rigorous climate in which they live. Many odd superstitions exist among the various tribes. When a Gilak dies and is buried a small wooden house is orected over his ashes by his sorrowing rolatives ; and as they believe that the soul after death takes up its abode in tho body of a favorite dog, that unhappy animal is sacrificed at the giave of his | late master after haying been fattened for the occasion. Again, a Gilak will feel himself dreadfully aggrieved if you ask permission to light your pipe at his fire, fully believing that a simple spark taken from his habitation will occasion some great disaster, such as the death of a near friend, or a total failure in fishing and hunting. The reindeer holds a deservedly prominent place in the esteem and affeetion of the Siberians. Some tribes, although they have large herds of reindeer, betray the greatest aversion to killing them for food. The members of a family, unless rich, never think of slaughtering a reindeer until- they have been eight days without food. The Kariaks and Tschuktschis will, neither for love, money or brandy, part with a deer so long as life remains in his body, but will sell a traveler as many dead animals as he likes to buy. A live reindeer will not be given for five hundred pounds of tobacco, but they Will sen a carcass lor a string 01 glass beads. This same tribe have the conviction that all men are equal, and they refuse to show a personal respect to any individual on the gaound of superior rank. But these races with their curious customs aro a decaying people. "Broad," says the author, " though that inhospitable area of steepe and tundra may be, -it is too oircumscribed for the conquerors and the oonquered to dwell side by side. Years may elapse before it comes to pass, but the aboriginal races are doomed ultimately to perish.'' The c'nitf minerals of Siberia are malachite, porphyry, jasper and agate. "The labor required to cut a solid column is enormous, and the workmen have recourse to a very clever expedient which lightens their toil. Having selected the portion of jasper that they wish to separate, they proceed to drill holes a few inches apart along the whole length of the block to the depth required. When this operation is completed, they drive into the i t A J - J 1^- V J noies morougaiy uneu uircn wuou reenails, on whiih they then pour a quantity of water. This the thirsty wood eoaks up, which causes it to swell; and the lateral strength thus exerted throughout the whole end of the line simultaneously, rises the stubborn rock from its bed to be lowered down in triumph by its ingenious assailants. The asper thus obtained is of a dark green color, and the enormous vases sometimes seen of this material are made at Kalyvan." The quarries of Siberia also produce mica and plumbago. Trade in fossil ivory is conducted at Yakutsk. Since 187? it has been known that steamers in summer may pass from London to the mouths of the Obi, Yenisei and Lena rivers which empty into the Arctic ocean from Siberia. This fact has as yet caused but very little increase of trade because of the scarcity of population. As the northern part of Siberia is frozen to great depths and only thaws out in summer to the depth 'of a foot or less, the country is not very inviting to new settlers, and it must be many years before it will be densely inhabited. In the meantime it will continue to be used as the penal colony of the political offenders of the Russian empire. General TVinfleld Scolt at tlie Table. Great in his exploits, great in his person, he was scarcely popular, but his heart was in proportion to his perbod. Six feet five and a half inches tall, weight 360 pounds ; he had all the tenderness of a woman. Lavish of his money, often annoyed by the want of it, he never deferred a just debt nor turned his back upon a poor man. Lavish of his own life in battle, he was careful to the last degree of the lives of his soldiers. He justly won renown. Never fm'Unor in firroAt thincs. he waa to the last degree pettish in small thing?. | Soup salted by the cook violated ono of his maxims, that every man should season his own soup. If the soup?at his own table I meanwas salted by the cook he raised a row which made the best soup unsavory. Was the turkey staffed with sage, thyme and chestnuts, all right. Marjoram was his abomination. If marjoram was there, farewell to any comfort with your turkey. The fish must be boiled to the txact bubble, or baked so that, floating in abundance of dark claret sauce, it showed the exact golden brown he fancied in the crumbs that garnished it. The parsley which adorned it must be duly adjusted or the fish would be cold before he would let you eat it. Ho would deliver a dissertation on the oulinary art. A canvasback duck had to be roasted to a turn, ao that the blood would just trickle from the edge of the knife-blade, or the company was not feasted on canras. Tx: 3 Ia n rtf t>AQCif JJIU UliU iiCip UlUi bU l* JLtkMKfVJ XJA AWt*tjv beef not from the inter-costal, be would ask, did yon take him and his guests for "boors?" The "salade," as he called it, even if only raw tomatoes, if it was not dressed a la mode Delmon ico, or a la mode de la belle France, or by himself, was an ofTenee. let he was singularly great; he was a scholar; had Shakespearo and the Bible by heart, and often quoted them in felicitous illustration. He would call, and insisted that others should call, clergy, | and clerk, dark and jole, if you did not pronounce it- jowl, he would almost howl. One of his aids once asking his permission to marry (aids have to ask their general's consent to do such things), tho general asked the lady's name. "Miss Clurk," was the reply. "Oh, yes," said tho general, "for now vnn will be forced to sav Clark or die." Tho lady is dead and tho aide is dead now.?Philadelphia Times. TlicSnlcof Longfellow's Works. Tho salo of various works of his from 1839 to 1857 'amounted to 325,550 volume.". From 1807 to 1881 there were sold 194,000 copies of his collected works, in four different editions. In 1881 moro than 45,000 copios of his works wero sold, and in the Pitmo year 15,000 copies of the "Birthday Dojk," edited bv Miss Bites. It is estimated that in Groat Britain and roland not less than .'10,000 copies of his bocks are sold annually, this being far more than of any other living pcet; while in Canada his books find a greater salo than those of any other fonr living poets combined. Prudery is a perfume that concea's vitiated air. DR. LAMSOS'S CUIME. An Account ol tbo Cone nnd Trial of tlio American linns in London for Polsouinn Ilia Brother-ln-Law. The following is an interesting account of the case of Dr. Lamson, the American hung recently in England for murdering his brother-in-law, a young student: The trial of Dr. Lamson was one of the causes celebros of modern English criminal annals. Lamson was an American, the son of an Episcopal clergyman well known in Paris, Florence and other European cities. He studied medicine at Paris, where he took his degree in 1870, and afterward became a licentiate of the Edinburg College of Physicians and Surgeons. In the Franco Prussian war he served with an ambulance corps, and in 1876 he was in charge of a Serbian Vinnnif.al of. Homondrin and /Inrinor the war of 1877-78 was attached to a hospital at Buoharest. From these services he brought back a number of decorations, French bronze and iron crosses, etc., and settled down to practice in Hampshire. In April, 1881. he visited the United States, spending several months in this country. His practice was not remunerative here, however, as in the fall he had to pawn his watch and surgical instruments. He was married, and in the event of his wife's brother, Percy Malcolm John? a lad of nineteen, affected with spinal complaint?dying in his minority, a sum of some ?3,500 would pass into the possession of Mrs. Lamson and her sister. Percy was at school at an establishment at Wimbledon, called Blenheim House, kept by a Mr. W. H. Bedbrook, where his brother-in-law visited him every three or four months. He was in good health, although his spinal trouble prevented him from crnincr ahnnf.. data in a wheeled chair. He seemed to be on affectionate terms with Dr. L imson. Late in November Dr. Lamson was stopping at Nelson's hotel in Great Portland street, London. He was out of fnnds, his bill had been sent up to him several times, bat had not been paid, and on the 26th he tried to borrow ?5 from his landlord. Two days later he attempted to get a check for $15 cashed at the American Exchange. On Friday, December 2, he left the hotel, leaving part of his luggage as se ourity for his bill, and told a medical friend named Tullock t?at ho was goiog to set out for Paris. Through him Lamson obtained ?12 10s. cash on the Witts and Dorset bank. This check was dishonored, when Dr. Lamson wrote to Tullock that he had inadvertently selected the wrong book, having closed his account with the bank in question. He went with his friend to Wimbeldon, saying that, as there was a bad boat on the line that night, he would delay his departure for twenty-four hours and visit his brother-in-law. As he left Tullock at the school gate he told him that the boy was suffering and was likely to die at any time. On Saturday, the 3d, Tullook again met the doctor, who told him that he was going to see his wife at Chichester, as he had missea me ram train. jjimson aia see his brother-in-law on Friday as he claimed, bat on Saturday, about 7 o'clock, he called at Blenheim House and saw Percy John in the presence of Mr. Bedbrook, who produoed some sherry. Dr. Limson mixed some ground sugar with his wine, saying that it destroyed the alcoholio effect; -then he produced a package of gelatine capsules, telling Mr. Bedbrook that he had remembered him while in New York, and had brought him something that would be of service when he had to administer medicine to the boys. He gave one to Mr. Bedbrook, showing him how it was closed, and filling another with sugar gave it to Percy John, who also swallowed it. After a visit lasting less than an hour he doctor left, sending back some money by a porter from the railroad station, with the message that he had forgotten to give it to his brother-in-law. Percy soon complained of heartburn, and after resting a few minutes said he felt woreo, and felt just as he had when Lamson hnd given him some quinine at Shanklin, Isle of Wight. His pains become worse, and though doctors were sent for at 9 he died at 11:30. The police were at once informed, and suspicion was directed to Lamsom, The latter appeared at Soolland Yard on December 8, saying that he had heard of the lad's death while on his way to Italy for his health, and had returned, seeing his came connected with the case by the papers, to remain in London till after the inquest. He was, however, at once arrested, and the public prosecutor, St. John Wontner, soon discovered several unfavorable points besides those already mentioned. It was found that Lamson had bought two grains of aconita November 24, in the form of a dry powder, and suoh as could be readily introduced into the capsule, and that a vial marked " poison*' was in his possession at the hotel. It was discovered at the post mortem that John Percy had died from a vegetable poison acting directly upon the nervons centers, aconita being * a *1- *-- :LK eucQ a poison, ana id oeing pussimo iu administer a fatal dose in such a capsnle as that given him by Dr. Lamson. The alkoloid taken from the stomrfch of the deceased had killed mice when they were injected with it. A package of powders prepared by Lamson at Ventnor were analyzed, and, while many contained only quinine, in others there were found fatal quantities of aconite. One pill would have killed 100 persons. These were the powders Dr. Lamson had sent to his brother-in-law. Dr Lamson was committed January 20 on a charge of willfnl murder. He was found guilty after a trial at the Central criminal court in London, and sentenced to be hanged April 4. Strong efforts were made by Minister Lowell to obtain a stay of execution for the condemned ** * 1? * T> I man under instructions iruw neaiucut Arthur, and a reprieve was granted. The friends of Dr. Lamson then presented many affidavits setting forth the insanity of the prisoner. A petition containing the sworn depositions of twenty doctors and friends, covering a period of two years, were sent to Lam son's counsel, but the, efforts to obtain a new trial proved unavailing. Lamson was thirty-five years old, of medium height and spare build. The trial attracted unusual interest, as cases of aconite poisoning are not very numerous, and there was a notable battle of medical men over the evidence. Lamson wassaid to have made an unsuccessful attempt Lo poison his brother-in-law previous to sailing for America. His wife, who believed him to be innocent, visited him almost daily. A lliirning Lake. It is said that from one of the chief J% ?- * t> i.-u^ naptna wejis 01 nusaiu mo iujuiu shoots up as from a fountain, and has formed a lake four miles long and one and a quarter wide. Its depth is how evor, only two foot. This enormous surface of inflammablo liquid rccenMy became ignited, and presented an imposing spectacle, the 1 hick Mack cloud? of smoke being lighted up by the lurid glare of the central column of fiame, which rose to a great height. The smoke and heat were such as to render a nearer approach than one thousand yards' distance impracticable. Suitable means for extinguishing the lire were not at hand, and it was feared that the conflagration would spread underground in such a manner as to cause an | explosion. This supposition led manv I inhabitants of the immediate vicinity to remove to a safer distance. The quantity of naphtha on tiro was esti I ---I-J 'i / A ? i,?if ??U;? IliaifU at iuin nuu u uan uiiuxvu tuun feet. The trees and buildings within three miles' distance were covered with thick soot, and this unpleasant deposit appeared on persons' clothes, and evei on the food in the adjacent houses. Not only was the naphtha itself burn ing, but tho earth which was satnrateo with it was also oa tire, and ten large establish Events, founded at great ex ponse for the development of tho trade in the article, were destroyed. The secret of felicity is a jadicicus mtenuption of routine. HK An Echo of Bjgone Years. ? A eons comes back'from tho bjgono j*tza H Whose melcdy never grows old, And I listen agaio, through my imU? tad HKj tear!?, MBH Tlnugh the singer lay dead and cold. BHD Ti-f i song so sweet, by a voice so rare, Far purer than any other, \n.i I hear it again, though tronbled by cure, SH The lullaby sung me by mother. HHJ| There are times, it seems, when all al*n?, Tho singer is by my side, HH3 And I hear ber voice in a monotone, 3^9 Like the rise and fall of the tide. |BEfl While tho days go by till the end of tim* And the struggle of life is ended, May the singer never forget the rhym? * 'Till her bliss and mine are blended, ?A" to York Mail. eHX HUMOR OF THE DAT. 8H| Art is long, but the artist is usually HH "short." SSH It goes against the gr&ia to gamble * gflH in corn and wheat. BBBi " When sorrow has left its traces," ,HgM what has becume of the rest of the harness ? A little boy who wouldn't ran to the ABj store for his mother until he had had a I H drink of water, pleaded in extenuation ARB of his disobedience that "even ? river BtfWI couldn't ran when it was dry." A Minnesota girl walks eighth HgSfl miles every day, to and from the print HV9 ing office in which she is employed VSfl Her bean must be working somewnert HH in the neighborhood of that printing office. aW Heard in a rural village: " What, no SjDD supper at your house to-night? Are you all sick?" "Oh, no; we are all flBj well, and as hungry a? bears; but yon BHN see we liave a donation party at our HH minister's to-night, and we are merely HH Having up our appetites?that's alL" I "I don't believe there's going to be MU much of a war in Europe, after all,** ? ooJ<7 T/iT-> CKnH.Ia so Via throw hii mnAn ?",u ? >v ?- ? I J"?~ aside. "War in Europe, a great flight!" BH| said the wife of his frugal board. "Bat there'll be war right here in this house, ^Rj| if you bring any more friends here to mH dine when I don't hare anything but HBB picked up codfish on the table." There Mb was an immediate disbursement of fundi ffljH for larder supplies. |H A St. Louis man has composed a new Hflj national anthem which he calls America." The musio is described as contain- H ing " occasional jolts, suggestive of the H occasional bumping of the ship of HH state on the sands of Mexico, and HI thundering thumps representing the |BBH bombardment of Fort Samter." This 8QH may explain the great exodus of Ameri- ?8fl cans to Earope. If the hand organs get MM hold of this tone, there is going to be a HH large increase of sudden deaths among Italian counts in disguise.?Norriatown ' B9 TTayrtl A Toledo Beggars. 9HH Tbe populace are instinctive, free- BD born, insatiable beggars. The raag- HM niflcently chased doorways o! the ^^B cathedral festered with revolting speci-> Hh mens of human disease and degenera- H9 tion, appealing for alms. Other more HH prosperous mendicants were regularly ^Bfi on hand for business every day at the gHJ "old stand" in some particular thor- HB oughfare. I remember one especially mH whose whole capital was invested in a 9 superior article of nervous complaint, HR which enabled him to balance himself ^BB between the wall and a crutch, and H there oscillate spasmodically by the fi^B hour. In this he was entirely beyond BH competition, and cast into the shade those routine professionals who took tbe common line of bad eyes or unin- ^H| terestingly motionless deformities. It HH used to depress them when he came on to BH the ground. Bright little children, even QH in perfect health, would desist from ^^B nmwfinmAnfo an/? oQOQll Tlfl buun oinnoouivuuj uuu uvuum ?wv 9VHVHH with the happy thought that they might MB possibly wheedle the "strangers" into some untimely generosity. There was 9H one pretty girl of about ten years, who 9H laughed outright at the thought of her HR own impudence, but stopped none the HjB less for half an hour on her way to pBs market (carrying a basket on her arm) . in order to pester poor Velazquez while fl he was sketching, and begged him for money, first to get bread, and then H shoes, and then anything she oould BBM think of. wH A band opened to receive money would be highly a suitable device for the municipal coat of arms. fflfflfl My friend's irrepressible pencil, by BB| the way, made him the center of a crowd HH wherever he went. Grave business men ^99 came out of their shops to see what he Hfl was urawing; loungers made long and E9| ingenious-detours in order to obtain a rH good view of his labors; ragamuffins H elbowed him, undismayed by energetio j^B remarks in several languages; until finally he was moved to get up and display the contents of his pockets, invit- E9K ingthem even to read some letters he had with him. To this gentle satire HH they would sometimes yield. We fell a 9 prey, however, to one silent youth of ^^9 whomwe once unguardedly asked a ques- HH tion. After that he considered himself permanently engaped to pilot us 9H about. He would linger for hours near the fonda dinnerless, and, 9H what was even more terrible, Bfl sleepless, so that he might fasten upon ffiH us the moment we should emerge. If 3BH he discovered our destination, he would HH| stride off mutely in advance to impress 0X1 on us the fact that we were under obli- MM gations to him; and wheh we found the MlB place we wanted he waited patiently HH until we had rewarded him with a half HE cent. If wo gratified him by asking HjBfifl him the way, ho responded ny snenuy m stretching forth his arm and one long forefinger with u lordly gesture, still fflH striding on; and he had a very superior flfli Caatilian sneering smile, which he put on when he looked around to see if we were following. He gradually became for us a sort of symbolic shadow of the HB town's vanished greatness; and from his 99 mysterious way of coming into sight nB and haunting us in the most unexpected ^Kj places,wo gave him the name of ''ghost." . Nevertheless, we baffled him at last. In the street of the Christ of Light BH there is a small but exceedingly curious ra| mosque, now converted into a church, jggj so ancient in origin that some of the capitals in it are thought to show Visigothic work, so that it must have been mHm a Christian church even before the |M Moorish invasion. Close by this we chanced upon a charming old patio, or HB court-yard, entered through a wooden ! > <? <iavtarr>nslv clidincr in here ?UlCluuu "J J O ? and shutting the gate we exorcised "Ghost" for some time.?Harper's BB Magazine. H9 Tlio Streets of Venice. BM Many persons are under a great mis- H| apprehension as to the means of transit or locomotion in Venice. It is a mis- HQ tike to suppose that there are no streets, ^N9 and that it is absolutely necessary to jjgHfl go from place to place by gondola. It ?9| is true that three bridges?the Rialto RH bridgo of the middle ages, and two modern iron bridges?span the Grand |^H canal which dividos tho city in equal HH halves ; it is true that the city is built upon 117 islauds, intersected by 150 small canals and 2 480 passages ; but almost every one of the water streets Iiuvo u quu^r Ui iw.path bordering it, while 400 bridges JH8 unite island to island, so that it is qnite possible to go to every part of the city SSfl on foot. There is not in all the world ft HB m ire difficult place for the traveler, guided only by the "light of nature," HH 13 find a given spot. That spot may be hH9 only a few hundred yards away, but to nHB reach it he may have to cross half a HH dozen bridges, so mo leading to the right, and somo to the left, and tra- ffll verse a* manv squares, of which there fflH are 396?127 larger squares and 209 BSfl smaller squares. |^Ng ? r 1* L TT7 Hi A miesiorarv wrtics iroin ruro v?rau- IBMI gell, Alaska, that iu hi* vicinity the na- fin] rives have a wav of killing witches, and (ells of an old woman accused of being flgSB the devil's agent, who was tied to a t:ee and starved for live days, then givea~.^^B saltwater, and finally hacked to pieces BBH with knives. BB There are 2S0 pjiauna or firms in Hfl Washington engaged in prosecuting MH claims before the penBion bureau. HH| I