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r? ' 1 I T' ????' ABBEVILLE PRE88 AND BANNER;1 i ? til iiUuH WILSON AMD H. T. WAKDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1882. NO. 4. VOLUME XXVII. | Mt Daughter Louise. In the light of the moon, by the side of water, My seat 'on the sand and her seat on kneea We watch the bright billows, do I and daughter, My sweet little daughter Louise. We wonder what city the pathway of glory, That broadens away to the limitless west, Leads up to? she minds her of some pr story And says: " To tbe city that mortals 1 host." Then I say: "It must lead to the far a city, The beautiful City of Rest." In the light of tbo moon, by the ?ide of water, Stand two in the shadow of whimpering tr And one loves my daughter, my beau' daughter. My womanly daughter Louise. She steps to the boat with a touch of his fmg And out on the diamonded pathway t more; The shallop is lost in the distance, it linger; It waita hnt. T L-nmr tVlot it* prove That it went to the wal's of the wonderful c The magical City of Love. In the light of the moon, by the side of water, I wait for her coming from over the seas; I wait bat to welcome the dust of my (laugh To weep for my daughter Louise. The path, as of old, reaehing out in splendor, Gleams bright, like a way that an angel i .1. Ill UU y I kiss the cold burden its billows surrender, Sweet clay to lie under the pitiful sod; But she rents, at the end of the path, in the c Who3e "builder and maker is God." ?Homer Greene, in Our Contimn, COLORADO MADG] The sharp silver horn of the cl curled moon?hanging so low in I marvelous bky of Colorado, it seen: you might tiptoe up and touch it fr< the hilltop?. 'lid hastily oown behi Pike's Peak on this evening, as if it ( not like to see what was about to hi pen. This was in the earlier days of Co rado, when miners slept on their ne\ discovered claims. A wall of rock a t?~ - > - < ucuiio nuu iuc miuo umuu tt bun fortress against the savage and < storm. This mine here at Bonlder Canon \ a new discovery?the richest, the m marvelously rich that ever yet had be found, lint as all this has been said nearly every discovery, these glari adjectives add bat little to the ontli of this crude little sketch. This clai like all other fearfully rich ones, v also for sale. That was why it was rich. That was why all Borts of peo] from all sorts of places came straggli in through the narrow passes left in t walls to where Colonel Bill Willia: and his friends grouped about th< pine knot fire under the stars of Co rado. Old Kit, the last of the trappers, withered, dried-up old man, ready blow away like a leaf into ;he river death?a man who had held possessi of all this land of gold long years I fore?sat moodily aside smoking 1 last pipe of tobacco. Suddenly started up, or rather half undouble with his hand to his ear. "What's that?" "Gness you've got 'em agin, Kit." "Ga; 'em again? It was a woman, tell you. But I forgot, you new f lers can't hoar like old Mountain K Yes, thar it is agin! Ingin women yonder! Ingin women in troub Somebody's after "em," muttered t old man, as he again doubled up a: silently sucked his pipestem. "Shouldn't woDder. Snagly, t agent, is redbot after Madge, you knov squeaked out the littlo doctor. "Yee, Madge and her old motl: have cot away from the Reservati again," growled Ginger. " And is he goin' to take Mad V\r?oV 9*' XT?4 . VJ utl icu iXlb) OjiUpaVUCUl'Ol as ho again half-undoubled and shnffl forward. " Take her back, if it tabes the wh< United States army," said Ging< savagely. " Poor gal, poor gal!" mused the c trapper. " Why her father, boys, v white. Yes, white as?as?well now, wa3 white as the whitest. And as i Madge, why, she's whiter herself th thit agent is." The old man was fnll of rage, a: stood almost erect. " Now, you look here," and Ginge like the bully that he was, came clo up to the old trapper, " Saagly, t Indian agent, is a pard of mine it tradin' post. And you jnst go slow he wants that gal he'll have her." "Have her, will he? Well, n while old Mountain Kit can lift a lii ne won t. inow, ao you just stick pin there." But, from the manner of the mine' it was clear that neither Madge nor a of her nnhappy race had friends in tl camp other than the old trapper. Suddenly Madgo stood, or rati crouched, as a hunted wild beast mig crouch, right there in their midst, course she had come in through t narrow pass in the stone wall that li been thrown up theie by the lor strong armB of the now resting derri< but no one had seen her enter. She h come as silent and sudden as tho mo had gone. Her limbs were as supp as the panther's?her footfall as ligl She looked to be only a waif?a hung] tired beggar. She had a spotted sfe over her shoulder, a 6hort, tattered p tieoat huDg from her waist; her ft were naked and a storm of hair hn i. l -1 <-5 -- - %*u\x ujuw uuuuii uer euuuiuers as b crouched there, looking back, as if s feared she was followed, tremblii starting, revering, scarcely daring bre?iuo. "Hello, Madge, what's the row no\i The girl did not answer. The ste and unfriendly voice of Colonel B "Williams and the half sneer on t faces of all showed her at a glance tt she had not fallen among friends. "Madge, why don't you claim to white and stay with the whites? Y have a right to do that, and they cai take you to tho reservation at al added the colonel, more kindly. Should she open her proud lips utter the scorn she felt for a race w could treat her and her people as th were treated? Should she stoop say: "My mother is ttarving up Tond on the rocks only a stone's throw aw? where she is hiding from the ma hunters." Did it need any words to t< these men that 6he would live or t with her mother and her mother's p? pie? "Say, Madge, you could get a j down at the Hurdy Gurdy house 6ing and dance if you'd claim to white; then you could get soi clothes," urged the colonel as he look at her thin, bare arms, while she st sfood trembling, locking back listenii her nostrils extended, her pale lips f in silence. Ginger, meantime, had risen a moved cautiously around toward t door or entrance through the great hi stone wail, and, before she could gu< what it meant, he stood between 1 and her beloved mountains. She wa prisoner. The bard, merciless m laughed wickedly as he threw his 6tro arm before her when she was about spring pa6t him and escape. She had not spoken yet. But now s turned about, half threw up her bar in tign of submission, and for tho fi time stood erect. She was tall, and, had sho not be starviug, she would have been stram ly, saviigely, fearfully beautiful. H she been well cla I and cared for, s would at that moment have looked 1 royal princess in body that she was soul. Bat this wild rose, set th with thorns, was only a bud that p haps would never blossom. These men all had seen her befo This canon, this land, these mounta were her home, her inheritance. S had played when a child with the sh bits of gol I and silver that these atrc men were going mad over now. ] . v-'' - ? ? I people had galloped their horses ove th all this gold for a thousand years. Bn j now the uhite man had come and wa my digging, digging everywhere?diggin j graves for body and for soul, my . Yes, all these men knew Madge ver i well?hor pride and her recklessness j Not a man there that did not know hoi | impregnable was this girl's virtue, hoi she scorned and despised them ever cttv ; one, too. Ginger sat himself down on a roo . near by the pass in the wall and waite< ove for Snaply, lie agent, whom he knei was after her and would soon be there na?T j Tho girl moved about the inclosur | dimly lighted by the flaring pine knotf i but did not speak. This was a w:l< the I beast that bad been caught in a cage ! She was gliding about as if to try th PC3 I bars, to see how to escape from th jfnl cate. At last her eyes fell on a littl i uncovered tin bucket back among th j buffalo robes and blankets. Sheleanet I over cautiously and looked at its con j tents. It wrs full of provisions?sand " * i wiches and a roast fowl for somebody' ; supper. The girl glanced np towan ' the rugged mountain above her. Thei I she measured the height of the ston< j wall before her. Her black eye< ' ; gleamed wita a terriDie purpose ae : mother was starving up there. Sh the i W!is going to steal this, leap up an< j over that wall like a starving wolf anc i save hev mother, who would die rathe ter ! than sutreader and go back to the res ' ervation. its Old Kit, bent, broken, helpless, hai sat all this time back obscurely in th< k corner; but his eyes, his every sense had followed and understood her. EL came out from his place and sat betweei i the flaring and fitful pine-knot ligh t I and the littlo tin bucket. But hov I * i i ii 1 | coma 00 neip uer, mis man who cook I not even help himself? The girl di< I not seem to notice him, or indeed ti i see any one now. She stretched he long slender arms just once, as if t< Ej, make certain that they were free ; sh drew the thong that girdled her a littl ear together, put tho storm of midnigh ;lje hair back a little from about her pierc 10(j ing eyes, and that was all. She ha< om not spoken one word. She had not eve] n(j deigned to Jook at the man who sa lid keeping watch at the narrow little pas ap. through the great ugly wall. Only ol? Kit seemed to suspect her purpose. Th ]0_ miners talked in httle groups togethe ply abcut their mines. They had forgottei ,n(j the girl was there. At length shi 0f seemed ready. She threw her hand U] ;}je to her ear as if listening, looked up thi I ugly cliff above her where her mothe pas I was hiding and starving, looked hard a ost: the steep and savage stone wall befori i her, and then darting down like a haw! of eho caught up the little bucket anc Dg leaped across the open space at a bourn ine and on up the stone wall. m Up, up! She stops. It is too steet rag for her failing strength. The jagg^c so quartz cuts her feet and hands till th< .)le white wall of rock is red. Her handi ng relax their hold on the sharp rock, anc ;{je she falls back bleeding and bruised a m8 the very feet of the man who hac sprung forward from where he wai 10. keeping watch at the pass in the hall. "Now, what do you mean?" callec a out the colonel. t0 "Told you so!" shouted Ginger, a; of he. took her by the hair and forced he; on to rise. )e. "Injins will be Injins, boys," saic mb the doc'or, as he picked up and sel jj6 aside the little bucket. !(j "Now, I guess you'll help me keep ' her here till Snagly comes, won't you \ I seed you fellers lookin' dark at me as I sat there, ynu in particular colonel, j Well, now, don't you see I'm right, pj. Injius is Injins. It's the onssed L>a<3 blood tbat'n ia 'em, Tlie Injin will oul a' every time." 1^ " Yes, send the little cuss back to the he reservation. Let Snagly have her ii you like," said the colonel, as he brushed the dirt from a bruised knee he and limped around to the other side o! 7 ?> the fire. For he too had sprung up anc ' tried to reach the girl when he saw hei ier about to full. But whether to help oj <-n j harm was not certain to any one. At mention of the reservation thogir, Ke I became wild and desperate. She thre^ jy j herself imploringly before the strong ; bearded colonel and lifted her face as ir j piteons prayer. I " Well, what did yon go and stea' ! for9" er, !Ior | Still the girl did not speak. But no^ ?ld she could not lift her face. Her eye? ras i fell to the ground and she stood mute, he ' motionless?all bowed and broken be:or i fore him as he accused her. an " Madge, if you hadn't stole my din ' ner; if you hadn't done that, Madge, ad I'd let you go. Yes, I would; hang it, ! gal, I'm sorry for you; yes, I am, and il sr, i jou hadn't stole that lit;le bucket, mj ise gal, I'd a chucked that Ginger out ol he ; that door before two minutes more and i a ! let you go; yes I would, Madge. Bui If i you see now I can't, for you've stole." The tiembling old trapper staggered ot forward, and standing between cried st, wildly: a ''She didn't steal! I stole it and giv it to her." rs, " What, you?you hoDest old trapny per. Kit?" lat; "Yes, I?I old trapper Kit. Now lei her go, won't you ?'' ler j 14 Yes, I will. Go, gal," and the mar ;ht i pointed to the pass in the ugly wall. Of Just as he spoke there was a rattle ol ? 1 1 4. !_ At- - 1 1 J il . 1*1.11. tie uooinaus over me oomuers :n me nme ad i narrow pa^s, and Snagly, the Indiar ig, ! agent, followed by an officer of the ;k. j United States army, and two men witt ad manacles at their waists, entered the on little inclosnre. The Indian agent? >le the man ^unter with the United State: tit. army at his back?stopped there ant ry, glared at her. The girl lifted her face :in now in silent petition to every mai et- there. One after ono, as her eyes me set | theirs, they turned away without a word ng shaking their heads sullenly. Three he centuries of hatred toward the Indiar he was in their blood. ig, " Caught at last, eh?" triumphantly to chuskled tho Indian agent, as he a' ! length came forward, followed by the j">" , men with manacles at their waists. He irn stood before her, gloating at her uttei ill discomfitnro and helplessness. Now he she should be his?his at last, body anc lat soul. She stood up, tall no longer. Hei U? lnpf fli Ait> lnof Ati U am 1 aw r# Ut? ujco uau iuou it:on luotci) uci iv/ug? oa \ bony arms hung down, low down, tired a't j so tired now. Her magnificence of haii I," ' mantled her. Her brea9tlifted a little j That was all. What could she hav< to been thinking about? ho ' The fire burned low at her feet. Th< ey | stars above her ?every one?came ou to stealthily, as it were, on tip-toe ant ler j peeped through the keyholes o iy, j heaven to see what the United Statei in* I was doing there now under the vast fre< ell i skies of Colorado. lie ! "Caught at last, eh! "againejaculated jo- | the brutal Indian agent, as he took on< i step nearer to tho trembling child ob as if about to lay hold of her. to "Caught, caught! Why, mon, yot be i speak of her a9 if she were a clog fo ne ; the pound." The brawny Scotchman wh< ed said this had just unrolled himself fron ill a pile of blankets back under the othe: ig, j wall, where he had taken shelter after i jet ; hard day's digging. He was a foreigner ; and of a race slow to comprehend nd' He was now for the first time he i since the fugitive had entered the in gh ! closure, getting pretty well awake. 588 ! The agent only looked at the strange] ier and thea motioned hi3 men to approach 3 a ; The officer, who evidently did not lik< an ; bis work, was slow to obey his master ng 1 the Indian agen\ to | " Oh, f-ave mefrora that man?fror I that man of all!" at last cried the girl he j throwing herself before the kindly offi ids ' Per. " I will die rather than be taken rst j Oh, you did save me once. You dii : help me once to escape?" :en ! "Quiet! You will betray me am ^e-1 ruin all. I dare not help you, Madgt ;ad j where the agent is." ?be ! " But it is death to be taken. Ob, i ;he | is more than death I" in | " Well, now, it id mt so bad as thai ick ; Madge! IfSnagly wants you, you g er- back," paid Ginger, familiarly comin forward. ire. | "But see bow she trembles. Thi ins | will kill lior," protested the officer. Jhe j "Oh, she's just making out! Sa] iny where did you sleep last ni^ht ?" calle >ng j out the red-hoaded ruffian. Ier I The girl shrank from the monstc Hi!?: J ir ; and crouched before the stranger, as if it; lie could help her. Then turning to the .s j ruflhn, ehe cried, as she threw her Ionq, g I bony arms in tho air, and pointed | to the rocks above : v i "Where was I last night? Up yon>. 1 der on the high, rocky ledge, with my v ; poor starving mother, hiding ! hiding ! v ! hiding from him and his men I And y | there were rattlesnakes there in the j rocks, rattling and hissing all night as b xcex 1 t>TT re hi.linnr ufovrinnr !*' " "V "UUVUIUM "'"'"61 ?1"' '"*S ' il I " Poor, poor lass!" muttered the forv eigner. >. | "Ob, why is this ? You all cau come e ; ami go at will. Bat I?I am hunted i, I down like a wolf Why is this il i " Bah, you Tnjin, don't tako on like i. that," sneered the agent as he again ape ' proachfd. "Come, vour mother must e : go back to the reservation* ? Don't you e want to go back, too ?" e " I'd rather die !'' and with an instinct .1 that saw something kindly in the face - of this quiet but determined foreigner, - she turned to him a?ain and pleaded, s "Oh, sir, long, long ago ray father lived \ and was rich in horses and gold in a yonder mountains?long, eo long ago it 9 seems, for I was happy then, and oh, so s wretched now! Long, long ago, and r j he loved mo and called me Margie. But e | now, down at that reservation they 1 I mock at me when I pass and call me 1 tn.'i'n ? a iu.augC| uujuiftuu muuKr, JLUJJU xuaugo. r Oh, I could kill them?kill them, every one!" The Indian agent in the name of the 1 United States was growing angry and e impatient. He began to fear that posi sibly this girl might move this man's 0 pity, and somehow at last escape him. a He advanced closer and roughly laid t hold of her shoulder. ^ "Come, come mw, I want to lie | gentle with you. But remember I am * your lawful guardian and I must take 0 you back. Come, go bac!; peacefully r under my protection." 3 The girl sprang from mm and threw e back her hair. Her whole form shook, e but it was not with fear now. "Yoar protection! Your protec' tion 1 What is it? To see my mother's ' people sicken and perish on the deadly 1 reservation with only the Great Spirit ' to heed or to pity them ? To see a race ? of warriors die in savage 6ileDce while * your ureat ? atner at wasmngton ana 0 his chiefs about him hug themselves in r happiness and boast to the world of 2 peace and prosperity in the land 0 Tour protection! "What is it? To see ? little children starve that you may 9 grow rich! T o see helpless women r debased? To bear your insults, your 1 persecutions? Youre,yes,yours! Nol 0 no! I'd rather live with the rattle * snakes!" | "Now, look here, none of that! Re* member, I don't take one more word of insult. So come. And come right ? along now." 1 I Tha />lnfr?Vi^rl licr fhin IlllATlMfir 3 angrily, and threw her toward the two 3 men with the manacles as he spoke. * But the girl sprang back to the side J of the stranger, and, half hiding there 1 as the a?ent again attempted to take 3 her, cried out in her desperation: "Don't you touch me I Don't you 1 dare to touch me, or I will kill you 1 "Nae, don't you touch the lass! 3 Don't you dare to touch her! If you r do, begad, sir, I'll " The mighty . fist was in the air, but he was too _ angry to finish the sentenco. He did not ' want to talk now. He wanted to fight. Snagly, the Indian agent in the name J of the United States, fell back before the lifted fist of the foreigner and the ! i gieaming eyes of the half-crazed girl, I and cried: j I " Captain, I call upon you to enforce my antnonry. Arrest una uuiiver me that Rirl I" ." You wretch !" muttered the officer betwein his teeth, as he drew his sword ; then, hesitating, he let its point fall to the ground. Whether he had drawn his sword for the agent or the. stranger was not certain. " Oh, you will help me!" cried the girl to the officer. " Madge, Madge! A soldier can only i obey orders. Alas, the laws make this man my master. An Indian agent commands the army!" Once more Snagly attempted to lay hold of the almost frenzied girl. But , the man from under England's flag threw him back and turned to the girl. "Come here, me l?ss !" And throwr ine one arm about her he shook his fist ' at Snagly. "You, stop there. There's i the line 1 Now you cross that, and if I don't knock you down, dom mo ! No true Briton allows any innocent lass to be put in chains, whether she be red or > black or while, and I am a son of bonnie Briton!' f " Well, son of Briton you may be, r but this ain't British soil," shouted f Snagly The stranger started at this ; ' i he held his head in thought, and Snagly t continued : "No, yoa ain't on British soil here!" " Not on British soil. Not on brave 1 old Britain's soil." The man said this as to himself, and th?n, slowly, tent derly, pitifully, lifting up the now almost prostrate child, he handed her J toward the agent, saying : "Well, then, I too nnnr Iaqb. T'll hnvA to crive vo Tin. I ' can't save you, lass, I can't. Here, sir, ! take her. Bat please, sir, tre&t her t gently. She's only a poor, friendless lass, sir. Treat her gently, I imploro I yon!'' j -'Mind your own affairs and keep j your advice to yourself," cried Snagly, as he again clutched the girl and threw her toward the men. " There! Iron her!" The girl no longer resisted or remonstrated now. Her head bent very low. Meekly and mechanically her two bony little bands fell across each other to re! ceive the cold ratting shackles. Her I hair hung down about her bended fac*, I as if to hide the blush of shame that I mantled it in her captivity. The mouth of Colonel Bill Williams i had been working; had been watering i to devour that monster, tbe agent of the United States. His hands had clutched till his finger nails nearly drew blood from his palms. But the rattle of chains now seemed to awaken him to a sense of the awfnl insult that wae being nnf Tinnn Viia ivmnkrtf. Ilia mnnVinnrl onrl jf-v ? his presence. Ho cau?ht up the nearly est thing at hand?a pick that leaned ? against the wall; he dashed forward, ? throwing the men with their manacles r to the ground, and roared with the voice of a Numidian lion as he cleared the 5 way for the girl through the ugly wall. 3 j " Well, if this ain't British soil it is t! God Almighty's soil, aud you can't iron 1 her! There, girl!?go, as free as the f winds of Colorado I" 3 The girl started up with all the grate3 ful remembrance of her race in the single glance she gave her deliverers, 1 and she passed out, with her face lifted 3 to the cliff above. And old Kit stood > there as she passed, and adroitly forced something in her bony hand for the I ! hungry mother on the rocky hill. Suror | ly, with the contents of the little tin > bucket went a God's blessing on her II from the heart of every man thero. save r j and except the agent of these United * ; States and the cowering red-headed ? deputy.?Joaquin Miller. '' The delightful climate of California has its disadvintages, and among these j one of the most serious is the strong r | and chilling winds that blow from the i ' ocean at some points along the coast, j 3 What makes this particularly important! ' is the fact that the soil is often culti- | vated to the very verge of tho beach, i Q where vegetation, grain and fruit that | ' ; would otherwise flourish luxuriantly, ! j feel the winds keenly. It is now pro- ! ; ; posed to remedv this evil by planting j I dense rows of hardy trees along tho , | coast to form a barrier against -.the | winds. That would also serve the use'' : ful end of helping to fix the shifting ; sand 3. It is more than likely that in ' I course of time the coast of California ! will present the novel spectacle of unj broken woodland extending along the 0 very edge of the ocean for hundreds of j B i miles. ;s In France there are 256 establishments engaged in making sugar from j, mangel-wurzel, and eighty-tbrco of d these houses employ what is known as the diffusion process, a method whioh sr likely tun to be in ?et( irI m c. THE FARM AXl) HOUSEHOLD. 01 Cnro of Clilckn. Chicks after being hatched should be M kept in a uniform warm temperature. When they ate older they may grad- rp ually become accustomed to every vuri- ! jg atiou of weather, so as to get a strong, j ft hardy race, that in their turn will pro- j ftl duco a vigorous offspring. But in the j meantime rney need especial care and j , suitable food to give them a start. . After they pre four or five weeks old ^ their diet may be more varied, and may . be coarser. Their digestive organs grow stronger with age, and they should be fed from the shell until they are j able to shift for themselves, with such | ^ kinds of food as are suitable to their hi age, condition and development. 1D One point of great importance in feed- tt ing chickens is to feed often, but never to give more at one time than they can m eat with appetite. They should be fed oi early and lato and of such quality and b< kinds as will satisfy them best, and w without leaving any food to be sour or tl trampled under foot. The feed at this oi early age should in part be cooked or m scalded with boiling water. Hard al boiled egg?, bread ciumbs and millet i ^ seed, johnnycake, oatmeal, cracked | is corn, wheat and vegetables. Animal i st food three or fonr times a week will be j oi found good if confined or before they i tr can proenre i'. sects, and a small nllowr.nce of fresh bone meal occasionally in d: their soft food will help their growth be and looks considerably.?Poultry gi Monthly. oi ir Practical Tcmh of EnoilaRP. Mr. William M. "White, of Alleghany c< county, New York, writes as follows to 111 the Country Gentleman npon the subject cc of ensilage, and the information is of d great valn<\ as it gives the result of ^ practical tests: h' Ensilage weighs forty-five pounds to 8t the cubic foot. A bushel basket full ; J~ a . ? /-ii ? weiguu lujuijt puuuus, ul u la aiun mess w for an ordinary animal fed twice a day. tl Ten tons of ensilage can be put in the fa same space ocoupied by a ton of hay. w The Southern white dent tooth corn is hi more generally. used for ensilage. It costs about SI a bushel in New York. ?] From three pecks to six are used for w driliing-in. Preparo the land as for m corn. Drilling in a double row, four e3 inches apart, leaving twenty-eight aj inches space between the rows, is the b6at way to plant it. This give 3 from ten to twenty tons to an acre of valuable fodder. Broadcast corn is not nutritious, except the leaves. It is too P1 young and grows too closely together 01 to make nourishing food. More weight ^ can be grown in drills. Ensilage should ? not cost more than $2 a ton, and two tons of ensilage are equal to one ton of ?! bay. A ton a month is full feed for a cow, so that a cow can be wintered for ei $12. With hay at ?8 per ton it will cost $20. a My four-year-old Devon bull, fed on A' ensilage and barley meal (four quarts oi a day), gained 100 pounds in forty-two Q1 j a ? .13 ? j- # ' ' uajs. au om cow wiiuoul iront teeiu, i 11 weighing 875 pounds, fed on sixty j R pounds of ensilage and four quarts of c( barley meal, gained 100 pounds in bi forty days. fe Fine grade short-horn steers coming g' two years old have bad thirty pounds ! di of ensilage each and the pickings of the I barn yard and nothing else. They j w weigh 800 pounds each, and in the last i fc eeventy-one days have gained sixty-five g< pounds each. Fourteen steers have oi been fed on -ensilage for 100 days. They weighed 11,585 pounds (827$ each). ,*E They havo consumed three tons of : jE cornmeal. They now weigh 13,530, a | Qj gain per head of 139 pound3 in the 100 days. But for three weeks they were 8i fed in an open yard without shelter. p] Then they were housed. They were | aiso covered wicn iice wnen oougnt, ana fc it was a very long, tedious job to get rid of them. They consumed about seventy pounds of ensilage a day, and had no hay, straw or cornstalks. Nor s did they drink any water,- and they g] were irregularly fed. In feeding en- bi silage alone or with meal the cattle re- a quire no water. Thoy do not scour. vj The dung is neither dry nor liquid, but j pi of a proper healthy consistency, it ap- i d: p?ared digested and the food assimi- i C? lated. There is no strong smell or odor q perceptible iu the manure. The cost of a silo depends on its , size. It will cost as mncii as a good ; P1 cellar, and should be plastered with water-lime on the inside and bottom. Tho trouble in using water-lime is that * it is not always used as soon as it should ?, be after mixing. The cement should ? be fresh ground, and the mortar mixed in nmall quantities and kept in motion 01 trill it is put in its place. It sots like | plaster of Paris, and when once set it ] is ruined as mortar if it is not where al you want it. Keeping it in motion with thd hoe or shovel prevents it set ting till it is used. Pi Much testimony goes to show that wooden silos are equally good, bailt .f like an ice-house, and filled and weighted with 200 or 300 pounds to the square ^ foot. The objections to rods and screws is that as soon as you Etop tightening * the nuts you take off the weight. One " must depend on weights, for gravity J* never never forgets to press. A build j1' ing of rou(?h hemlock with ten-inch " studdiDg ;; .vj by ten) and joists, spiked' together and tilled in with sawdust or P1 lined with tar pap8r, and with a boara ci roof coated with crude petrolecm inside jc and out, set on the ground, the space 01 between the floor joist filled in with tl coccreto of water lime, will last thirty w years and answer a good purpose. Made sixteen by sixteen by sixteen, like an w ice-house, it will hold fifty-four tons of fc ensilage, enough for ten head of cattle j si or six months, or sixty good sheep.. ta The crude petroleum penetrates the j g< wood, making it shed water like a i & dock's back, prevents warping, and j keeps out all moisture, makinerhemlock as durable as cedar. The cost of a corn crop is the cost of lc corn ensilage. Twenty tons per acre bi costs but little more to raise than ten fx ons per acre. So the amount raised on b< an acre governs the cost. Housing it a.l costs from thirty to fifty cents per ton. c< I use trucks and fla*. jacks. Drive by a] the side of the standing corn, cat and tl drop it across the rack, and when one II tiuck is loaded another takes its place, tt With ten men and ten horses (sweep Jt power) I (asily housed fcur tons per w hour, all the corn within 1G0 rods of the II Bilo. d: I built two silos last 6ummer under 01 sidehill barns, one of 200 tons, one of fi 300 tons. I raised 300 tons of ensilage, j tl I shall raise more, and probably build ! b two wooden silos. If it bo true that we , fi dostroy nearly half of the nutriment in j al grass by curing it, we are losing too j ir much. By ensilaging we escape poor ; o: hay, and the terrors of a rainy haying ; s< time, and have the control of harvesting j tl the grass crop. I have not yet found | b the man who has tried the experiment j h who is going back to the old way. b Farm and Garden Note*. I tl The toad destroys from twenty to n thirty insects in an liour, and the molo ci is continually destroying grubs, larva}, b palmer worms and insects injurious to tl agriculture; no traco of vegetation is . tl ever found in its stomach. J b Let the boys and girls have all the cossets they can raise. It will give ! ^ them valuable lessons in sheep hua- j d bandry. Often the cosset, on account rr of the extra care and attention it re- i & ceive3, makes tho largest sheep in the j flock, having also the heaviest fleece. | It is poor policy to grow pumpkins I _ with corn or potatoes. The vines sap | more by a large percentage fr< m cither i corn or potatoes than any profit the pumpkins will afford. Plow up a u small piece of ground and plant the a pumpkins alone. ^ Erery owner of a cow should havo ii a set of milking tubes on hand for iise y in a case of emergency. When the g teats aro injured by accident or milking a becomes difficult fiom any cause it may \ h save the cow to be able to diaw the j 1 milk, and the only way is by the use of \ a milking tubes inserted in the teats, s They are used by first oiling them and r then pushing them carefully into tho li opening of the teat until tho end enters ii the milk reservoir, when the milk flows c I off to tho last drop. c A writer in Vick's Magazine eaves 'bis iioD8 from the maggot by covering tbf sds before they are sown with coa ihes. Tnrnips are healthfal for horses hey should be cut in slices, or whai better, pulped finely and mixed witr little meal and some salt. Rutabaga! e better than white tumipB. Quince roots left alone maintair lemselves near the surface of th< round, and are therefore often affectec f drought, and also more liable to in iry by the spade and plow. German farmers, according to a cor ispondent of the English Agricullurn azette, ' are convinced that since thei ive used oxen on a large scale farmg has become more profitable foi leic." Young apple trees are often'jbrough ito bearing prematurely by the attacki : the borer, and their owners sometime! 3ast of their trees as early bearers hen if they wait but a ysar or tw< ley will find them dying. The efforti i orchardists should be directed t( taking steady growth upon each tree though it must be necesparily lcsi hen bearing than barran. The Beed ig of the fruits draws upon th< rength of the soil aDd the constitutor f tm?A. hnf. wnnd rrnwth in err acted mainly from the atmosphere. A New Jersey larmer reports that i reBsing of eight bnsheln per acre o lit to land badly infested with whiti rubs enabled him to raise good cropi I corn for three years past, which wai apossible previous to this application A readet requests a remedy for ex jssive sweating in horses. This ii 3ually caused by feeding too mucl )rn, and hence the best remedy is t( iminish the quantity of corn and var: le feed as much as possible. Som< orses, however, are constitutionally ibject to sweats. A writer in an exchange says that ai ell kept hay is worth about as mucl le second year as the first, the thrift; ,rmor oncht alwavs to have hav to sel ben the crop is short and the pricei igh. If anybody will persist in sowing o [anting. poor seed, instead of tha hich is plump, sound and clean, h< ust not surprised if he is taught b; cperience that " as ye sow, so shall y< so reap." Honselilod Hints. To wash dishes nicely fill your dishin full of hot water and add half i ip of milk. It softens the hardes ater, and gives the dish a clear, brigh tok, preserves the hand from a rougl tin or chapping, which comes fron sing soap. It cleans the greasies ishes without leaving the water cov .1 :*.u ;eu wiiii huuu? The following is said to be not onb cheap but a permanent stain fo* oors: Mix about one-fourth of ai mce of permanganate of potash in i aart of water. Apply quickly ant eely to a dry, clean floor with a brush epeat the process for a very dark oal )lor. When dry oil with burnt oil o eeswax and turpentine. At first, for i !w minutes, the color is bright ma snta, but this quietly changes to i irk brown. ' ' Onions are very nutritious ant holesome. Onion soup is a fine braci ir one wbo is sick. Baked onions an aod for a cold. A late sapper of friet aions will put you to sleep. If a kerosene lamp is filled quite ful i a cold room, and then ia brougb ito a warm one, the heat will cause thi il to expand and overflow, and lead t< ie suspicion that tho lamp leaks. Thii jould be avoided by not filling comletely; knowing that this may occur ifficient space should be loft to nllov >r iho expansion. Recipe*. Cold Slaw.?Procure a large whiti avoy cabbage; remove the coir am reen leaves, cut in fine shreds, par oil, cool, drain thoroughly and put ii hollow earthen vessel with salt an< inegar; mingle well, put an invertei lute over and let macerate two hours ittiu uuu ccito in a uoop uiou, muu i istor of salad ingredients. ? Th la.itronomtr. Fork and Beaks. - One quart of whit eans; wash and pick them. Som onsekeepers soak their beans ave ight, but I find it less trouble to boi iem at once, putting in three quart f cold water and lotting them com owly to the boil. Cook fully thre ours and do not boil too rapidlj r thtv will be cooked unevenly. 8eaaoi ith a tableopoonful of salt, half a tea poon-ful of white ground peppe ad as much red pepper as th ad of a penknife blade wil tke up. Pnt them in a deep baking an. If tb.e beans have not abdorbei il the water keen some of the watt ley were boiled in, as they will requir when baking, if too dry. Take on id a half pounds of bacon; it is nice lan salt pork. Skin and core it. Afte le beans have been baking in a sloi pen for four honrs pnt on top of th eans the bacon, and let it all bake tw ours longer. If it gets too dry, adi le water, which should be boiling. Potato Pie.?Two cups of mashei Dtatoes, one-half cup of butter, tw ips sugar, six eggs btaten well, th lice of one lemon and grated peel ne-half. nutmeg. Beat all togethe joronghly till very light, and bak ithout upper crust. TAriocA Pudding. ? Soak in warr ater one teacupful of tapio?a. Bea inr eggs with three tablespoonfuls c igar. Melt in half a pint cf milk, on iblespoonful of butter. S'.ii all to gther; flavor to your taste, and bake ii quick oven. The Youngsters of Long Ago. I remember when we were little fel )ws, in the early days of Westeri ackwoods life, we used to step ou om under the covers of the trundle ed and watch the old folks, sitting aout the large open fireplace, as the; jnversed in a low tone and occasion lly cast suspicious glances back inti le shadows wherein we were snuggled t did not require very close listenini > learn that they were under the de ision that we were all asleep, and tha e were the subjectof the conversation i was not till we came to have chil ren and grandchildren that it all cam at how pleasant it was to sit by th re and con over the cunning pranks le mischief and the prattle of th abies. Of course you youngsters o fty or under do not know anythini bout good living-you were bori i cities, or in fine country house E modern build; so you can not 2e in Smagimition the trundle-bed i; le shadows of one large room, with ack-log fire at the other end. Yoi ave never graduated from a trundle od to a "real bed" in the loft. Yo' ever woke up in the morning to fim ie coverlet, where your breath fel pon it, frozen stiff and solid from th Dndensation cf the vapor from you reath; nor did you ever find two o iree inches of snow as an extra wrap lat had sifted in between the clap oards at night; nor did you jump on a the snowy floor with pink toes aai undle down stairs, with a whoop, t ress before the fire. No, sir, o ladam, you don't know anything abou ogd living, Luxury has robbed life c s zest and sparkle, of its light an tiadows, q! the contrasts which consti ite tbe whole sum of human happinesi - "Texas Siftinqs A Smoky Procession. An old man of seventy-five, who die few days ago at Cabannes, near Tar scon, in France, left a clause in hi ill to the effect that all friends attenc iti his funeral were to smoke pipe rhile following his remains to th rave, and were to adjourn to a cafe t pend in drink a sum of sixty dollar! pecially bequeathed for the pnrpos< ^hreo hundred men, headed by th aayor of the village, attended the ol equies, which took place without an eligious rites. Every follower had ighted pipe in his mouth, and after th oterment the second portion of thi urioup testamentary disposition wa arried out. 3 ANIMAL CUNNING. 5 1 IIow Animals Try to Evndc the Trapper , and How Tlicy arc Cangbt. k Of all animals rodents are .the most 1 domestic. More than bees and swal5 lows, and far more than man himself, they love to have "a roof overhead." i They are fond of buildiog a house with3 it. a house. The dryesfc corner of a 1 dry goods box in a snug old garret is the favorite dwelling place of a house rat, j _ _i n.. li aca even a cnurcu moaso, me emoiem . of poverty, manages to find the wherel withal of feathering her little nest. It r must be a poor place, indeed, where our . sharp-toothed Rnest fail to make themr selves comfortable. In the '-Paradise of the Netherlands," the Elysian bogt meadows of Helvoetsluys, an aoquaint3 ance of mine bnilt himself a model 3 dairy with glazed brick walls and fire, brick foundations that seemed to defy 3 the coloniziDg attempts of all rodents; 3 bat before the end of the first summer ) be found that all tbe same a pair of t black rats bad located and raised a 3 family in bis store room They must . have clambered in through tbe window; 5 but it puzzled him how they bad managed i their nest-hiding, till after a loni? search . it appeared that they had excavated a forty-pound Dutch cheese, lined it with i shreds of the tegumental canvas, and f retired from the world, like friars into 3 a fat convent. 3 Tbe fish otter burrows in the root3 tangle of solitary river banks, and hides the entrance so carefully that her nest can be discovered only by the sheerest accident; but she is often victimized 3 by another foible which seems to be a 1 peculiarity of the species. Otters are } fond of sliding. In winter time they ^ scrape the snow from the top of a steep 9 bank, and warm themselves whenever P the snn comes out, but every now and then they fling themselves down, spread 3 their legs, and s'joot down hill with al i the delight of a schoolboy trying a new 7 sled. At the first sign of danger they 1 disappear like a flash, for the end of 3 their inclined plane communicates with a hole in the ice; but if you can watch r them unobserved you may see them t whisk up and down hill with evidently b no other motive but fun. Their pasf time, however, ceases to be funny if a the hunter discovers their slide. After setting bis trap near the foot of the slope and covering it with loose snow, he is almost sure of securing his game on the first sunny morning. Otters are a also caught in traps smeared with oil of j. anise, for the smell of which they evince j. a queer passion. The olfaotory predi1 lections of different creatures are, ina deed, almost as contradictory as their musical preferences. Chinamen con(eaa fViat. fhAV can find nAiMiAl- nvstflm nor euphony in what we are pleased to call music; and beavers can be baited P with assafetida ns readily as with casr torenm. It is by no means impossible 1 that our favorite perfumes, rose oil, ' cologne and orange water, may be down1 right torture to the noses of our do mestio animals?which would partly ex5 plain the ill humor of lap-dogs and r similar pets that have to endure such 1 luxuries all day long. Wildcats, that * disdain all other baits, can be trapped 1 with valerian roots, and mnsbrats with stinkwort. 1 But it is a strange fact that such 3 "medicines" serve their purpose only at 0 their first introduction to a new dis1 trict. After a certain number of muskrats have been thus victimized, the 1 rest seem to arrive at the conclusion 4. fViof flin QTiinrmnnf r\f narfnmafl ia nno U V-JVJ A v**^ 3 of the pleasures that kill There is 3 hardly any doubt that animais must s possess some means of communicating - their ideas. Arsenio has no perceptible t taste or odor, and an cnnce of it mixed j with a bushel of corn meal will destroy a cart-load of sewer rats in a single day; bnt all professional vermin killers agree that snch receipts lose their effib cacy in a short time. Somehow or other 1 the survivors manage to trace the mis chief to its canse, and old rats have a be en watched in the act of driving their 3 young from a dish of poisoned hash. i When the British first effected a settle; moot in Singapore, the traffic in mona keys soon became a regnlar branch of e industry. The ubiquitous Chinamen nsed to go on trapping expeditions to e the hills, at a time of the year when the 9 mountain macaques were rather hard tip r for provisions and conld be baited with 1 "fuddle-cakes"?!, e., rice-bread soaked s in a mixture of nngar and rum. The 0 trapper used to hide behind a tree and e let the monkey assemblage enjoy bis , bounty till their antics suggested that it q was time for him to rush in, like Cyrus _ into the banquet hall of Belshazzar. r Experience, however, soon taught the lif-.t.lA mnnntairiAArfl tn nViATiPA'their tan e o 1 tics. Instead of devouring the fuddle.. cakes on the spot, they learned to gather \ them np and defer the fesst till they r reached a retreat where they could be e hoped to be left alone in their glory. e But the trapperp, too, have sinoe r changed their plan. They manufacture r a sort of narrow necked jars, about the size of earsaparilla bottles, and, after e filling them with a melange of syrup 0 and alcohol, they tie them firmly to the (j root of a tree and withdrew out of sight. The monkeys come down and . sir) the nectar, a little at a time, till many a mickle has muddled their per0 ceptives to the degree which the foun6 ders of Buddhism would have called ' the first stage of Nirvana?indifference r to earthly concernments in general. 6 The trapper then approaches and collects his guests, whose exalted feelings ? often exhaust themselves in a peculiar way. Some receive their captor with open arms, some hug their bottles with 6 approbative grants, while others lie on the ground, contemplatiag the sky with 11 ecstatic silence, In Mexico monkeys are generally caught in box-traps. The Mexican farmer rarely kills a capuchin monkey; man can afford to bear with his poor " relatives wnere nature nas Deen Kina 10 ' all, and in some districts of Oaxaca the " monitos are as petulant as the sacred ? apes of Benares. Still, it is possible P that this Hindoo-like forbearance of our '* next neighbors has something to do 0 with their indolence, for I suspect that north of the Rio Grando the propensi5 ties of the long-fingered four-handers "severely Btrain our tolerance,'' as Mr. 1 Evarts said of the peculiar ethics of the Salt Lake saints. Nor docs the monkey ridden ranchera object to their extermi3 nation by proxy; wherever maize is cule tivated in the neighborhood of the river '? forests the tfapperis generally welcome. ? The box-trap method can be successfully 1 employed only where the haunts of the ? game are well known, for the capuchins Q will not go out of their way without 8 very special inducements, and in a field " where monkeys have been caught bea fore their relatives become as oircuma apect as pickpockets in a metropolitan a opera-house.?Lippinc It. a ?? 3 Unexpected Criticism, il One of the most eloquent and popu0 lar clergymen of Austin, Texas, being r about to ascend the steps leading to his 'r church a few 3undays ago, was aBked by a partially blind old lady, who did ' not recognize him, to help her up the t steps. With his usual urbanity he com^ plied with her request. Just as they 0 reached the top steps she asked him r who was going to preach. "Parson Smith," ho replied, that being his own name, d <(Oh, Lord, exclaimed the old lady, i- "Help me down again. I'd rather lis? 3- ten to a man sawing wocd. Please help mo down a^aiu. I don't caro to go in." At first the clergyman was inclined to refuse, but, on reflection, be gently d assisted her down the steps agaij, re marking as they reached tho bottom: is "You tire quite right, madame, about I- not going iuto the church. I wouldn't s go in either if I was not paid for it."? e Harper's Magazine. o 3, ?? 5. "Get through vonr breakfast quick, e sonny. You will bo late at school," ) said an Austin rcotbnr to her hopeful, y " I'm not going to school until I get a a dime." " I won't give you any dime." e "Well, then I'll just keep on eating, is I will see for once if I can't cure you is of your obstinaoy," replied the hopeful, taking ft fresh butter-oak^ FACTS AND COMMENTS. Tea that is grown in India is becoming very popular, but it is greatly adulterated by unprincipled dealers. A company has been formed in India which proposes to put 21,000 acres of land in this cultivation, at the rate of 7,000 acres a year for the next three years. The vast property is to be J ~ O/VA uiviueu liitu garueus 01 ova; aurea eauu. A Hoosier yonth named Gosley or GosliDg, piobably the latter, saw a girl at churoh, conrted her two hours, and at the end of three was married to her. The Detroit Free Presn thinks a man who dees np all his courting in two hours and then marries misses lots of fun. It's like stuffing himself with peaches and cream in five minutes and then having dyspepsia the rest cf the year. The city of Texarkana is a phenomenal city. It lies in the two States of Texas and Arkansas; hence its name. The State line rnns through the center of its chief street, and on each side is a population of 3,000. It is considered the gateway of the Southwest. It is only eight years old, but has all the air% of a city of twenty-five years Four railroad lines center there. It has an Italian-like climate, tramps are not tolerated, the Sunday law is enforced, money is plenty and the people are prosperous. August and the anoient city of Karanovatz, in Servia, will witness a singular ceremony in the crowning of King M'lm I, of Servia. In the monastery of Siezi in that oity seven Servian kings of the Nemanich dynasty have been orowned, a new opening having been made at each coronation through the outer wall, whence, as it was broken away, issued the newly crowned monarch.sword in hand, and on his head the "diadem of Dushan." Siezi has long been called "the Cloister of the Seven Doors," and now an eighth opening is to be made in the old wall for the first sovereign of the Obrenovich dynasty. There can be no donbt that the emi gration of the Jews has reached dimensions which make the movement not only a serious economic blow to Kussia, bnt a grave difficulty to her neighbors. The emigrants who are pouring into Galicia, though they might have been producing wealth in the country of their birth, are in the first instance, at any rate, a cause of poverty to the country in which they take refuge, homeless, penniless and abused. Protests nave been raised both in the Hungarian and Austrian parlia mente, and the government has been londly appealed to to insist npon the better protection of its Jewish subjects by the Russian government, not so much from motives of humanity as from motives of self-preservation on the part of the protesters. He was a wild Western cowboy, who was offered a calf that didn't belong to anybody in particular, if he would rido n tni 1A V*n11 TTr?fV?/\nf. co^ln ond V?in/1lo He jumped from his horse, looked to his spars and leaped upon the brill with bis face to the animal's tail, setting his spurs deep into the flanks of the infuriated brast. The bull flung his head to the ground, but the rider held on to the tail and kept his seat. With another roar the bull rushed off and out upon the prairie. The race continued for a mile and a half, the whole crowd following on their horses. The bull plunged now and then into thejsage brush with the idea of ridding himself of his burden, but it was of no use, and the sharp rowels kept pricking him on. At last; exhausted with -I-*. ?J ? "u? /~n iUn ingulf turn iam^uo,uo ion uu tuo givuuu, and the cowboy, stepping off,came back, like the prodigal son, for his wellearned calf. In order to do suitable honor to the French minister of agrionlture, who happened to be passing throngh Avignon, and to exhibit himself in an agreeable light to that angnst functionary, the prefect of Avignon recently determined to go to the expense of an official dinner. Invitations were sent to the select few, and everything pointed to a happy display of magisterial hospitality. Bat some wag whose claims perhaps had been ignored, securing one of the cards of invitation; had duplicates struck off, and sent them to a host of small officials who, flattered by this unexpected attention, flocked unanimously to the prefect's house at the appointed hour. To entertain them wqh imnosBible. and to cret rid of them was a problem. At last they all withdrew in a dudgeon, leaving the prefect in angry embarrassment. Meanwhile the joker rejoices in secret, for all efforts to discover bim have failed. A most distressing death occurred during a recent oyolone at Monticello, Miss. Mrs. Carroll, hearing the storm approaching, rushed with her babe in her arms, to her husband, who threw bis arm around her neck. At the same instant the wind blew the house down upon them and crushed them to the floor, the mother with the infant in her arms, the husband with his arm around his wife's neck, and there he choked her to death. The falling timbers did not seem to hurt her, but locked the doctor's arm so olosely about her neck that he oould not move it. He was conscious that he was killing her, but all his efforts to throw oft' the timbers were futile. Assistance came in two hours? too lace I The spirit of the wife had fled, and the husband felt that in a measure he was the cause of her death. The idea made him nearly frantic for several days. The babe was also killed Oyster Planting. A letter from Ohincoteague island to the Baltimore Sun gives an interesting deecription of the manner in which oysters are planted. The writer eays: The oyster business in these waters are now very active, and has reached an interesting stage, "the planting." A description of tho modus operandi will perhaps be new and entertaining to many of tho oyster-loving readers of the Sun. There are at least thirty vessels engaged in the business and the oyster "plants'" growing in the mouth of James river, some eighty miles from this place, it takes a trip of about live days for a good schooner with favorable winds to make the trip, get a load and return. Every morning a fleet leaves this harbor for Hampton Koads. ' the schooners having a capacity of from 1 350 to 1,500 bushels each, the average being 800 bushels. The beds of plants, which are known in the trade as "culllntines," are rich in the natural growth in the Roads, and a hand can with his tongs take up one hundred bnshels a day of tho young oysters. They are ubout the size of a half of an English walnut, and he gets six cents per bushel, making wages at from 85 to 8G per day. ! A favorable trip of from twelve to fifteen hours puts the vessel in Chinco* teaguo bay, when they are mostly planted in the Maryland waters from fifteen to twenty miles above this point. The planting consists in scattering them in the bay so that they will lie thickly at the bot, torn of the water, and not more than touching*each other. The whole cost of planting to the owner who hires tho vessel and the work will reach twenty cents a bushel. He has his ground, or his water rather, staKed off, and in two \ears his oysters are large enough to be taken up and sent to market. They command fifty cents a bushel here, or 81.10 in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, ^nd the finest 85 per barrel of three bushels. By an experiment made with a chestnut tree thirty-five years old to calculate the amount of moisture evaporated "from the leaves, it was found to lose sixteen gallons of water in twenty-four hoars. Americans eat much less cheeso than Englishmen, their average annual con1 sumption per head being four pounds, o two-thirdB the amount of English conRUX&ptiOB. A BRUTAL BUTCHERY. Cetitenninl Celebration of (be Massacre of Mneiy-alx Christian Moravian Indiana In Ohio r A recent letter f/om Goadenhntten, i Ohio, gives particulars of the centennial j celebration of the horrible massaore of Q Moravian Indians, which occurred there s in 1782. The letter says: j This village is situated on the Pan f Handle railroad, midway between Pitts- ? burg and Columbus, has two churches, p several stores, two hotels and fine fl schools. It is a peculiarly peaceful an<| v prosperous neighborhood, whose quiet, t retired-from-bnsiness appearance has j, little in it to remind the traveler that r it was once the theatre of one of 'the f bloodiest butcheries that ever occurred j in this country. n David Zeisberger, a Moravian mie- v sionary, established several missions j among the Delawares in the Tuscarawas ?Valley in 1772, and among the rest was i that of Gnadenhutten (meaning tents j crrar%n\ TVhtin IVin Parftlnfiftnow i VI ? V v UvU UUO XVOTViUViVUMi j JJ war began the British made evary effort to induce the Moravian Indiana to take the war-path against the Americans, but while they were friendly to the Americans, their religion taught o them that war was wrong and they a steadily refused to take sides Failing c to accomplish their object peaceably, p the British prepared to disperse the ii mission by force. Late in the fall o n 1781 the Half King, Captain Pipe and s Captain Elliott,-an Englishman, with a 1 force of more than three hundred, ap- t peared at Gnadenhntten, and drove the v inhabitants to Sandusky, where they c were left without sufficient provisions for the winter that was near at hand. s Their su fieri age were terrible, and in s March they obtained permiEsion to send \ a party back to their Tuscarawas home a lo crather (he corn that thev had T not been allowed to harvest tie pre- c vions fall. A party of hostiles came f with them from the Sandusky, and those g going to the Ohio committed several r. murders. Among other atrooities they 1 imphled a mother and her child npon 1 trees near Gnadenhntten. They then i came to the -town and loitered aronnd some time, but being warned away by the Moravians, they left, after having secreted several bloody trophies of their expedition abont the place, inolucfing the dress of the woman they had murdered. These murders enraged the settlers so greatly that a large party, under the command of Colonel David "Williamson, Biarted toward the Moravian village with the intention of destroying it. On the 6th of Maroh they reached the .vicinity of the town, and lay all night within hearrng. Next morning a young man named Sheboeh went out to look for his horse, and seeing the white men he went toward them, expecting a kind reception. He was killed while begging for his life, telling them that he was the son of a white men. Williamson's men then proceeded to the village, and were received by the Indians with great kindnees. They were told that the white men had come to take them to Fort Pitt, where they would be well taken oare of until war was ended. On this promise of protection the Indians gave up their arms, when they were seized and bound. Nearly all the white men were in favor of killing them, only eighteen refusing to participate in the orime. The man whose wife and child had been murdered and impaled on trees was along, and he recognized his wife's bloody dress, which, with several other articles, was found where the Wyandots bad hidden them in order to bring mischief upon the Moravians. Some were in favor of burning them at the stake, but that was voted down, ana it was aeciaea to khi m?m biu^i * i by tomahawking them. The Indians i were told that they must die. After ' the first shock of surprise was over they ' began to prepare for their fate. What ] a time of agony it mnst have been to 1 those poor people All through the i long, siormy night voices of prayer were heard in the cabins where they 1 were confined, while ontside the rough tones of the bordermen in angry debate, < mingled with the roar of the wind that howled through the trees, as though a thousand spirits shrieked in horror at the deed so soon to be done. The victims were led ont one by one and knocked in the head with a mallet. The first killed was Abraham, an aged Indian, whose long, white hair caused his executioner to remark that it wenld make a fine scalp. Of the ninety-six that were killed, forty were men, twenty women and thirty-four children. Two boys escaped?cne by simulating death after having been knooked down and scalped, the other by creep '?? n tmn-dnn? infn tn? flflllftP. lUfj imuugu u ? Watching an opportunity, they succeeded in getting to a thicket near by, where they concealed themselves. The dead bodies were thrown upon the floors of tho "slaughter-houses," as they were appropriately termed, and the cabins fired. The bones were only partially consumed, and lay scattered around for ten or fifteen years, when they were gi7en burial by David Peter (father of Edward Peter of this place, himself now an old man, and the first treasurer of this county) and John Heckewelner, a Moravian missionary. In 1872 a monument was erected to mark the spot for all time. It is car boniferous limestone of a light brown color, is tbirty-sii feet high, and coat $3,000. ) t is inscribed as follows : : Here Triumphed in Death : Ninety Christian Indians, : March 8, 1782 ; : ' G.vadenhutten. " ; A Long-Lost Sou Found. A romantic episode in every-day life bas come to light in Dedhara, Mass. John Finn resides with his wife and a portion of bis family in a neat cottage, of which he is tbo owner, located on or near the boundary line of Dedham and Boston. Here be bas resided for at least twenty-five yearfl. He has had tin-aa onnn nnfl of whom. John, en listed in the army during the "late unpleasantness" and was killed. The other two sons were named Cornelius and William. Cornelius was a lad about seventeen at the oatbreak of the war. He suddenly left town, and his parents hearing nothing of his whereabouts concluded that he, too, had enli6ted, especially as during the war they read of one Cornelius Finn, i attached to a New York regiment, being | killed. The family mourned for him I as sincerely as they did the death of j John. Last September William went to ColI orado to settle, hoping to better him; solf. While seated in a room in the ; western portion of the State one afternoon soon after his arrival there a miner entered and announced to the company present that Cornelius Finn had opened a new mine. William, taken aback somewhat by the name, said that he had had a brother once whose Dame was Cornelius Finn. To which the miner responded by looking at the stranger and declaring that he resembled Cornelius Finn, the miner, aud might be his brother. Cornelius became greatly agitated upon learning the name of the stranger and that he ' came from Dedham, and immediately j started for the town. The meeting was decidedly affecting. ! Cornelius at once recognized W illiam . as his brother, although William, being younger, had not so strong a recollecj tion of Cornelius. Mutual explanations : followed and Cornelius related his wanderings since leaving home. He | had gone South in 1861 and entered the army. At the conclusion of ihe j war he drifted to Colorado, whore he i had inteiested himself in mining and j had uecome wealthy. Regarding his j neglect to send a letter home, he ex| plained that he had read in the pipers I of the death of his parent*, and had 1 also the report substantiated by John j ; Finn, n fotmtr res dent of Dcdtiam, I whom he mpt. He had abandoned all ' | hope of over seeing or hearing from his j I folks. He at once took William with j him to his mining camp and gave him ! an important position. His father has i received a check for 81,000.? 1 Glob?t FOR THE LADIES. Grrman Ladle*. In the richest German household the aistre38 superintends the kitchen and ends a hand to the cook. Certain iishes she always makes with her >wn hands, because her Fritz likes them o. She may boast thirty-two quarterngs on her escutcheon and be terribly >ioud of her lineage, but she has no lonwmsical ideas about its being degrading to put on a canvas apron, lard piece of veal, make jams or dole out I**" !?<? ? ill n MMMAfl a niu ucr uwu uauuo iuo piuuoo uuav ?io o be put into the potato stew. She :eeps her best attire for Sundays, and aakes it serve on a good many of these estal days, for she does not follow ashion blindly or in a hurry. On orditary dajs she dresses with a plainness rhich would excite the contempt of a French woman ; bnt then the culinary mrauits do not prevent her from being ?y far the intellectual superior of her iYench or Belgian sister.?Garnhill Magazine. White Moulin Dresner Mull muslin, French nainsook and ther sheer lawns that have no s'a-ch nd are of dull ivory white, yet are learer than cream-color, are the fabrics ised in imported dresses. Embroidery s invariably employed for the <ritaring, and to this is sometimes added ome inexpensive lace, or perhaps a ittle real Mechlin, or Valenciennes in he new designs that have small figures rith feathery edges, and show a great leal of the foundation mesh work. The imbroidery is most effectively used ha cant flounces for the skirt, trimming is ometimes in many rows up the front, rith three rows extending all around it, md ample back drapery to cover'the >lain part of the back; while other Iresses have three or four embroidered lounoes, eo wide that they coverall the ikirt but a short space for hip drapery. Che open designs for such work have >eenmo8t in favor, but there are also, nany flounces of the thicker work hat can scarcely be detected from leedle-work. For simple dresses this vork is done in patterns of dots icattered about, or else in scalloped :ows near the edge, and is very effectve. For more elaborate dresses there ire larger nower, leai ana vine patterns, md some blocks, Greek 'squares und nvolved geometrical designs. The jverdress of white muslin is made without lining, but is worn over a high jorset coyer, the sleeves tieing the only irsneparent part of the corsage. The ieck is cut in a low point in front, or it nay be finished high at the throat with i standing raffle of "embroidery, and oeide this two standing frills of lace. pretty finish for a pointed throat is given also by a fichu of the mull that s shirred down its only seam?that in ;he middle behind; its bias ends drawn jlosely down on the shoulders are lapped or knotted, or held by a ibbon bow on the bust just above he waist line in front This fichu may ilso be added to a high corsage to give ;bo effect of a full bust and sloping ihonlders ; the high corsage has its standing Mi's of embroidery and lace, ind the embroidery may also be in lengthwise rows to form a vest, and jxtend thence along the edge of the paniers that curve down on each hip from the middle of the front. Another brimming that is quite inexpensive is a puff of the sheer mull around the neck and wrists with ribbons in it. rheremay be frills of embroidery or lace below the puff, bnt for a simple ireas a pretty frill may be added of the mull doubled and bias, and this shonld be pulled apart in pouf-like roundness, instead of being pressed flat. Very narrow ribbon, only half an inch (ride, may be knotted or looped frith many ends in the' front or on the left side of the neck. The seams in th6 waist and sleeves of these thin lawns should not be left "raw"; that is, with rough edges. They are neatest when made with the English bag seam that first sews the edges together, making the seam on the outside of the dress. The garment is then turned and sewed ou the wrong side, covering the seam just made as it with a bag?hence the name. The draped polonaise is muoh used for white mull overdresses. The bodice is first fitted like a basque, and trimmed along its lower edges with the embroidery in two rows, one turned * up and the other down, or with a puff over a ribbon, and, the drapery is added in lengthwise tucks on the hips and in front. Below these tucks tne drapery will be quite full, and is made still fuller by the frills of embroidery. '?11? ? ArnMTA/5 fllMDAVi) KflkmW X Ilia 1U11UWB 10 UIU?CU UJ/VMU uuuuiu, and disappears tinder the straighter breadths that are draped at the baek. ( Another fashion omits the tucks, and finishes the top of the drapery with embroidery, which is then gathered on the edge of the basque. For very dressy occasions a large sash bow with long ends of doubled white watered silk is placed on the back of the basque, but ordinarily a bow cf the muslin is used there. Another fashion for such dresses repeats the shirred basques of last summer, having a round yoke of many rows of shirring, with also shirring at the waist line in front and back. A satin ribbon at the waist is passed under the shirring of the back, and outside of the rest of the basque, na a Violf Thfl f^Apn anron OC5J. Vliig BO a WVAH> ~?r overekirt is used with such a basque, and is famished with a deep flounce, of embroidery in front, while the back has a drawing string of ribbon across it, making a punier puff at the top, while below it the mns'.in is slit np the middle, and falls in two sqaare ends that are trimmed all around. The ribbon of tho drawing string forms a great bow with many loops below the puff. The surplice belted waist is also used fo such dresses, but preference is given to corsages that slip over the hips, defining their outline, and being enlarged below by panier drapsry.?Bazar, Fashion Faoclea. Lace is the trimming of the season. Shaded chocolate hues are much liked. Light fichus or pelerinep, covering the shoulders and loosely tied in.front, are the coming summer mantle. Few embroidered lace fichus of black net glit er with a dense covering of fine-cut jet bugles and pendants. Many slender ladies follow the fashion set by Sarah Bernhardt, and have their gloves reach neatly to the shoulder, pushing them down to the elbow and allowing the extra fullness to wrinkle over the arm. New tea gowns have straight redingotes, with short skirts deeply folded in plaits in front and box-p'aited behind. White camel's hair is a favorite fabric for these gown*, with collar, cuffs and bash, also bows of bronze green, copper red orsapphire blue velvet. Embroidery in the material is also used for the trimming, The Russian Sunday. In Russia Sunday is the favorite shopping day of all classes. Although the evil of this has been pointed out by most foreign writers in Bussia, and by many native ones, it is ocly of late years that public feeling has been awakened in the matter. This has been partly due to the discontent evinced by the classes exposed to Sand ay work, but more par- j ticularly to the itfiaence r>{ that evangelical movement within and without the Bussian church which is oae of the most interesting features of modern Russian progress. Archdeacon Bogoyavlensky recently preached iv sermon in one of the cathedrals of Mosoow, the theme of the venerable ecclesiastic being the Sunday closing movement, in favor of which an immense petition, signed by most of the clerks of Sc. Petersburg, has just been presented to the emperor. Referring to this and to a discussion by the Moscow municipal council in behalf of the movement, the archdeacon demanded of the orthodox "whether they were not ashamed to open their shops on a Sunday when the shops of the foreigner, of the English and Gdnnan merchant*) Moscow, are elowd on that daj." ^