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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER. _ " BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1882. NO. 14. VOLUME XXVII. Worship in the Woods. How rich the embroidered carpet spread, On either sido the common way; Azure and purple, gold and red, Russet ami white, and green and gray, With shades between, Woven with light in looms unseen. The dandelion's disk of gold, With luster decks the meadows green, And multiplied a million fold, The daisy lights the verdant scene; Tho blue- mint's plumes Invite the bees to their perfumes. A wrinkled ribbon seems tl.e road, Unspr.oled from silt nt hills afar; Best., like an angel, lifts the load And in my p:ith lttts down the bar, And hero it brings A lease of life on healing wings. The summer leisure of the cloud That wanders with its trumpeter, The wind, is mine ; no wrangling crowd Annoys the humble worshiper In the white tont Beneath a listening firmament. ITp-tloating on the ambient air, Sweet songs of sacred music rise, And now a voice distinct in prayer, Like the lark's hymn, reaches the skie*, And the " Amen " Is echoed from the hills and glen. The wood a vast cathedral seems, Its dome the overarching sky ; The light, through tr.-mbling branches streams From opsn windows lilted high ; Under the firs Soft shadows shield the worshipers, ? Qeorqe lV. Bungay, in Our Continent. ONE MAN'S HEART. A long, dusty street lay white and hot under an unshaded August sun The closely-cut lawns were bright and green where the water had been thrown upon them from the hydrants and hose in the yards, but the bits of grass along the sidewalks were dusty and withered. The leaves on the trees drooped in the noontide glare, and seemed to be snutely appealing to the cloudless sky lor moisture and coolness. Not a breath of air stirred anywhere as far as one could see; all nature seemed waiting in a painful pause for a relief for which there set med no hope. i Far down the western horizon, it is trne, there was a long line of dark clouds, but it was a hint, rather than a promise, of the cooling rain which the city needed?a thought written in the heavens, impalpable and shadowy, rather than a threat, of what Nature might do when the Bilent powers of the air were loosened. Of human life the scene showed little. In all the long street there were only two persons to be seen. Closed blinds protected the inmates from the almost furnace heat, and no business was boinK done the need of which was not imperative. Two men, however, were in ^ight. The. first one lay stretched in a hammock on the piazza of the largest and Soost pretentious house on the street. His clothing was of the latest style? tfresli, cool, comfortable. The face which was looking up at the vine overi i i i * mi ? t neaa was a naucisome one. me oook which had faLen to the floor was an expensive one. Everything around him spoke of wealth and happiness. The otLer man. coming up the shadeless street, walked wearily. His clothing was coarse, and in many places it was jpatched; in some it was ragged. His faca and his garments were covered with dust. His hair was loDg and hung over his forehead. His beard was rough and uneven. He wad a man who would have been plain anywhere, and who looked his worst that afternoon as he came on through the dust. He had walked for blocks scarcely looking to the right or left, and there was a look in his eyes that might have seemed anger, or might have seemed despair, according to the nature and the observing powers of one who locked at him. " Once more," he said ?" once more ] and then?" He opened the gate of the yard bt fore the house where the man lay in the hammock. The man on the piazza swung himself down and stood ht the top of the steps waiting for the tramp. "Well," ho said. The tone w.ts not encouraging. Well," answered the othtr. There was more in the tone than ono could get at once. All the emotions of which the human heart is capable seemed to have stood by in the soul of the tovnf n.l mn*-i o rwl in <> r>ir\ rr mcwtucu uiuu (tuvi mu^ii IU the thought before the lips said " Well." " What can I do for you ?" 'G'.ve me money. I want money." " What is your story?" ? " No matter what my story is; never mind my past?or my future either. See what I am. Do you want to invest in the gratitude of a man like me? Is there any posfeibility of yoar needing it again V" 44You are hungry?" The question was a useless one, for the man had the look of one halfstarved ; but the well-dressed and well ied man on the Bteps had been used to bearing the plea of hunger put forward at once, and its omission puzzled him. " Yes, I am hungry. You've been told by men who sbun labor and who travel through the country living on their own vices and the misplaced sympathy of the Rood of their huDger. I, They have lied. But I am hungry. I'll not tell you how many hours I've mi 1 iutrcu WiLliUUW 1UUU. A 11 UUl? UCU4Y iuul the la8t dime I had went for brandy. But for it I 8honid have died before reaching here. I need food?yes, and drink too. I need money." The man on the steps put his hand in his pocket. " How much do you need?" "I'll tell yon," with desperation. " I have to say what you've often heard before. If you give me a dime I shall Bpend five cents for food and five for liquor. I shall rest a little here, and then I shall go on again to tell another man to-morrow the story 1 have told you to day. I shall reach my journey's end some day, and you will have been one to help me, and I shall remember it with thanks. Bui you've asked me what J need. More than i expect, more?much more?than I dare hope." And the man took his eyes from the face of the one on the steps, and instead of looking at the dirty street, his glance rested for a moment on the railroad station in sight in the distance. " "Well, how mnch ?" "If I had ten dollars I wouldn't ask anything better in this world;" then, a little fiercely: "I am not sure I'd ask anything in the next. I'd sell myself fn rnn fnr iart rlnlhiru 91 I The rich man smiled, for the first time in the whole interview, aT d said : 141 flatter myself I am bettor than eomo men yon might find, men with less money, too, and I haven't so very much?" ;'How mnch?" Thd question was abrnpt, b~t perfectly respectful; the tramp was evidently gaining a hope which he would not have dared to entertain a half hour before. "A matter of ten thousand dollars or fo. Of course, the house here isn"i mine. But I could afford?afford But I couldn't afford to be cheated.'' There was doubt and sudden suspicion in the last sentence. " On my word and honor as a?pshaw, what does it signify? I have not lied to yoa. Give me what you will. My thanks will be as true and genuine for lit* xe as for much." The man on the steps took his hand from his pocket and laid a ten-dollar gold piece in the band of the dnstyman standing one step below him. "I never gave a penny to a beggar. I never gave food to a tramp. But you have the ten dollars now. Keep it. But, tell me now, are you an ordinary man?" "I'll finish my sentence now, sir. On my honor as a gentleman, I have told you the truth and I've acted the truth. It was a question of life and death. I looked at the river as I orossed the bridge. Suppose I bad not come here; suppose?suppose?" He said the i V" ' words dreamily, but with a shudder, 1 j Then he turned to the rieh man again, i 1 for the last words ho had paid to him- c 1 self alono. " You have given me life, | 1 ; not food ; a future, notmcuey. I fever ; 1 can be of service to you 1 will be ; if 'I ever I can repay the debt of to-day?of 1; course, 1 don't mean the mere money? j I will do it. I swear I will do it. What j i; ! isyour name? Tell mo your age?your I business. It may be I shall eome time j j tind you agaiu." o The man on the top step took a card j s I irom nis pocKct ana wrote a lino on it i ij | in peucil. The trump took it and read j rI (in print: "Paul Hudson, Druggist, j r Lakeville." And in pencil, "Twenty-1 'I four years of age." t] " 1 should like to shako your hand, if j a you please." ! n " Certainly," said Paul Hndson. j ] As the tramp walked down the path , p tothestreet, Paul Hudson watched him. j e " ' The quality of mercy is not j a strained.' lint that fellow has strained ; l> ten dollars out of my pocket. 'Jtja droppetii like the gentlo rain from : si heaven.' And sure enough it is begiu- | tl ning to rain. 'It is twice blessed.'j K Well, I'll bo hanged if I know whether ; ] it is or not." a And Panl Hudson Wc*ut/Finto the t< house. 1c n d n. A young man sat in the well-cushioned seat of a palace sleeper and a] watched the snow fail slowly through the darkening air at the near close of a ^ brief December day. Strong but not graceful; noble-looking, not handsome; 0] richly dressed, but not in a manner to Ci attract notice; a face which spoke of sorrow, and on which there seemed to w be the seal of peace, rather than what ^ could be possibly called happiness. ,s This was the man who watched the w earth bending the shoulders of the hills to the white robe in which nature was wrapping it against the fierce cold of rp coming winter. . A certain article in a newspaper by his side seemed to claim the attention of the young man. He took it up and s read it for the tenth time at least. to Let us read it. too. " A Lucky Man.?Manv of our read- fiC ers have heard of the great case between Smith and Robinson, which has been before the courts in one form or another for more than twenty five years. The . lu^t rourt decided it yesterday, and for j Ju tbe last time. The decision is absolutely final. The Robinson side has wou. The Smiths and Robinsons who wore inter- 60 ested at first are all dead. In fact, the Robinson family which \fas interested years ago is now extinct, and the property goes to a distant heir. The lawyer who took tlie case years ago when he ? was a young man was satisfied of the justico of the claims of the Robinson h( family, and has worked for years without pay and without instructions. Aud "i in his old age he has won. Deducting an all expenses, there remains a balance of "wi some S50,00(!, which goes to Mr. Richard Robinson, of this city. Mr. Robin- n* son received the news of his good luck dc to-day. He did not know that anything ra had been done in the case for years; no fa: did not know that deaths anion? distant wl relatives had left hit . the only heir. It an was a complete surprise to him. An im- pr perative invitation comes from Mr. Milton Muckle, the lawyer, who has fr< clung to the case for so long, and Mr. Robinson, who yesterday was a poor se clerk on five hundred a year, is now one of the richest men in our little city, pr and to-morrow he leaves us to remain for a time the gueat of the lawyer of wi whom he had until to-day never even ly heard." jai The young man leaned bp.ch in his seat and looked thoughtful. an (Doubtless the reader who has just mi read of the lucky man would himself sl< look thoughtful if his name were Rich- Pn ard Robinson.) wt tc t>_v.; l "l LI X.YUU1 Li ? lUXtUiiW UttU UUIUO IU Ut him ten years before, life, which liad ' always been hmd, would always have been easy. Five years ago he could have won low if ho could have maile a home, or, rather, could, have won love . g if ho had t ried, and would have tried if ag^ luck, or fate, or something had not been imuiust him in every venture he made in the courts of fickle Fortune. A few years ago and he could have . given comforts to a loved mother, to whom he could now render no other . service than to beautify the place whore . . she was to rest in dreamless sleep "until the judgment." Five months ago and toil, privation,'- despair had Dot been his. But at tt" rtv-five life holds ! a great deal for an; man who has a strong body and an honest soul, what- ^ ever sorrow and disappointments may 8e have done for him in the past. So Pe this man sat thinking of his money, of ve the happiuess it would bring him, of un the good he could do with it; and this j mi despite the fact that his face could | never look quite happy again. For peace?not happiness?was, as wo said, tbe sign and Heal winch good fortune j had set upon him. 01 The train stopped. The brakeman f? shouted something which sounded hI exactly as hieroglyphics look (Did the . reader ever wonder whether the onl > H literary men in ancient Egypt were the !:a direct ancestors of modern brakemen ?) fj? Mr. Robinson asked a gentleman near j*1 him the name of the place, learned it was Rockland, and therefore his dee- e? tination, and got out j" Several men snouted the names of! the hotels they represented, and did it jV for the benefit of the passengers who * had left the train, although one would , have thought that they intended to call U( to some persons already at the hotels,' and a long way off, by the noise they ^ made. I ilr. Robinson found a man who had a j hack. He distinctly heard the man j , .>__ f __S v. . .1 i i _ ni mention me iaci, anti ue orciereu mm- ; * self taken to Mr. Mnckle's. " When tho hack stopped anil Mr. r? Robinson got out he must have im- P1 pressed the driver as being a lunatic of w some Bort. i " I thought this was Rockland ?" I a[ "It is." \s\ "Well, I wanted to go to Mr. ! al Muckle's." 1 "This is the place." " u Where is Lakeville?" | ^ "Thirty miles from here. Ar.-.I your ! e< fare is twenty-fivo cents." j Mr. Robinson paid it, and the hack- | v'! man drove off. ! e It was late to arrive for a visit, but the well trained servants at Mr. Muckle's ! ? had bad their instructions, ami it was j a| not many minutes before Mr. Robinson j was settled in a large and handsomely > " furnished room. A servant brought him a note : " The compliments of Mr. Mucklo, who re- j grets that business which cannot bo delayed , w prevents his meeting Mr. ltobinsou to-night, j t] Will Mr. Robinson make himself perfectly at j ri homo. Tho servants are directed to attend to j , his every order." 1 " A cool welcome," said Richard v Robinson to himself, but ate a hearty w supper, retired lute and slept soundly " ?aud late, too. i "A cool welcome," was Richard j ? Robinson's first thought when he awoke j t in the morning. There was a rushing ' ^ to and fro of hasty steps, doors were ! opened and closed ; there were voices j ' hushed but eager, It was a cool wel- j 1 come; for, when the almost forgotten i ^ guest left his room, ho learned the ' fearful truth. Mr. Milton Mucklu had j r been found murdered in his bed that I * m rt m> it The coroner's jury examined the wit-! ( nesses separately. Mr. Robinson whs i ( examined as a mere matter of form, j ? He saw no one else in the room who , had or who wonld testify. Ho had his j, luggage taken to the hotel, lie .had his i. dinner and then he walked briskly out j. into the country for miles. It was all j t so horrible to him. Hero was the man ! i who had done so much for him; the \ man who had won a fortune , which, though justly his, would have , been won only by patience and long, ( hard work. It was true that this man I, had had from the property all the fees j for his services which his work warrant- > ed, but the service was of a kind which ': demanded more than money as a payment for it. And this man was dead? i dead by the hand 0/ a mirderer?before TIIE FARM AM) HOUSEHOLD. The I'ropngntlon of I'lantn by C-u 111 tin. The conditions required for propagating plants by cuttings or slips aro very nearly the same, as fur as temperature and soil go, as are found to give the best results in raising from seeds. In fact, it makes but little difference what the soil is for rooting cuttings, provided it is porous. \Ve have experimented with nearlv everything, and lecould thank liim. It waR terrible !? lorrible I?ho could think of nothing >lse than the fute of the* man who had >een his friend. In the early evening he caaio back. L'ho verdict had been given. The and lord said: "They've said it was Mr. Mnckle's iepv.ow. I for one don't believe it 'vo known them both for years and ears, and know they are stubborn and ibntinate. Mr. Muckie haw been a tubborn man ; his nephew a stubborn ioy?lie's scarcely more than a boy yet. .'hey had hard words last night about a irl the young man intended to marry, 'he old man, who has no other heir han his nephew, said lie would leave 11 his money to some public charity nless the young mau gave it up, and ho poor fellow was in his unclo's ower. He used to be rich. Lost very cent in speculation three months ;;o, and twentv-livo thousand dollars orrowed from his uncle with it. They Imost came to blows last night. The ervauts Knew it and tesuneu to it, ana be yonng man admitted it. He didn't ave the bouso until after midnight, t looks bad. They've arrested him ud put him in jail. Every man in nvn but myself believes the poor fel>w is guilty. I don't. I believe a mn he discharged from his employ id it." (Ah our story is nearly done, Jet us ly at once that the landlord wus right, ad the rest were wrong. Ton years iter a death-bed confession gave tho nth.) Robinson lit his cigar and sat down a the balcony at the hotel. The moon ime up and tho night was cool and rifcht and beautifal. His thoughts ent to the dead man, then back to imself. "How sweet and bright life he thought; "how I pity this man ho has lost his." A man rode by swiftly, and he had a ask on I Another one and another ! he landlord came out on the balcony shind Robinson. "Cnrse the fools," he said; "it (ems as if ho town had all gone mad gether. Do you see what it meaus ?' Down on the night wind came the ?und of blows boating on a strong nil. Robinson looked up and said : "How horrible. It means lynching, m't it "Yes," said the landlord, "that is st whi?t it means. They won't listen ; ey won't wait. They will have the >ors down in an hour, and Paul Hudn is as innocent as I am." " What is the name ?" The tones were low and even. " Paul Hudson." ' Please wait here a minute," said obinson. Jn less than a minute ho was back, )lding a package in his hand. " Keep that until morning," be said, ind then take off the outer envelope id give the rest to the one addressed thin. Do not open it until morning." And with a face whiter tban the oonlight which fell upon it he walked iwn the steps into thy street. As he ised his hat to the landlord the latter ocied he saw more happiness in the jite faco than he would have believed hour before it could have given ex ession to. "Keep back." said a hoarse voice tm beneath a mask. "Not so," said Robinson. "I must e your leaders." " Well, hurry up, then; moments aio ecious." A half minnte later Robinson stood th the most active men umong tiie achers, and in the very shadow of the il. "Gentlemen," he said, very seriously d very quietly, " you must make no istakes. I am Richard Robinson. I jpt at Mr. Muckle's house last night, ml Hudson is innocent. You are on* about this murder?entirely and terly wrong. 1 did it I" And ho went with them quietly. rv. Paul Hudson lias a card which Lo eps with care, and which he is not bamed, strong man though ho is, to f over some times. It is his business rd, with his age?many years younger au he is now?written on it in pencil, id on tho back: " You saved me from a suicide's grave August. I save you from a worse :? to-night.- We are quits. "Richard Robinson," I Precious Stone found in Georgia. Tue Atlanta Constitution says: Near >rcros8 there resides an old German oloftist, who loves to live among the culiar specimens of mineral ar.d getable matter which he has unearthed d housed. He is an elderly gentlein of little sociability, but of great sntal acquirements. His physical entrance is simply astonishing. For days a time he wanders over the hills and routfh tho dales near his home, coljting rocks and atones, limbs and ots, tue properties 01 wmcn are unlown to all but himRelf. The room in which his collection is, wonderful. In onj receptacle are nged a number of stones whose ight rays remind the observer of amonds. Iu tho center of this room ere rests a stone half the size of a hen's rg, which waspicued np by the owner onths and months ago. It was found its owner one rainy afternoon. For jarly a week he had been on a tramp irough tlio bills and dales near bis >mo, and weary with his ceaseless toil i was wending his way homo when his es fell upon something from which 10 rays of tho sun were scattered in a lousand directions. With little thought of what he was )ing, tho geologist stooped down and icked up the object. It was nearly te size of u hen's egg, and of au ir't?ular shape. It was covered in many laces with thick, heavy clay, which aa removed with great care. It waB found to be exceedingly hard, id whenever struck with a hard subance gave forth little sound. It was most colorless with a hue and tinge of teeu. Its form was that of au "octahoron, bat some of the facus or sides ere inclined to be convex, while the Ices were ourved. It was subjected to acids and alkalies itiiout experiencing any perceptible jangn. Sotm-. friends induced him to place it n the market, ,and only a day or two go he received a letter from a diamond ealer in Now York olTeiing him 00 for it. Persian Traditions of KU< ?. Take next the Persian tradition, in 'hich wo approach more nearly, evt:o, ban in the Indian, to the Hebtew naraiive. We havo first the holy mounlin of Ilara-Bcreziiiti, frum the side of hich flows the sacred river, Alhordj, diich ri*es in the lako upon the sumlit. On the mar^iu of this lako grew wo trees, the Vicputaokhma, or "tree f every seed," and the Gaskerena, or ree of li:e." Here Meschia aud Me.4hiaona, the first pair, were created for lappiness. Before long, however, they i ??;i V?rtJ BUUUUUU Ujr ?u uvii opiiii? vtuuf^uvc hem fruits to eat, and by the eating of pliich they forfeited 100 enjoyments. L'his evil spirit, whope immo is Ahriqud, is represented as a poisonous ser>ent.? \V- IK. I)e Jlurt. Dakota (iirls. A Dakota girl has earned her right to he endearing title of "duck." While srossing the river near Valley City her ;anoe upsot. She tied the cunoe to her inkle and swam ashore. Another young ivoman of the Fame Territory has advertised for a husband as follows : " 1 nean business. If there is any younp man in this country who h is as mucb ?and in him as a pound of plug tobaccc [ want to hear from him. I have a tret slaim and homestead, am a good coofe ind not afraid to work, and willing to dt my part. If any man with a like amount on baud, and decent face and cireasf wants a good wife, I can fill the bill.' The leading industries of Pittsburj required, last year, S76,000,000 capital employed nearly 57,000 hands, anc turned out over 884,000,000 of naturp] and manufactured merchandize. i fiml there is little choice, although it : is onr practice to use ordinary building sand, as it is cleauer to work with than auything else, and when watered never I gets muddy, as a heavier soil would do. I But do not suppose for a minute that j 1 sand is indihpensablo to the rooting of j I cuttings, for if tbo conditions of tcm! peratnro are right, and the condition of i the cuttingR is right, thoy will root in 1 almost any material in which they are | j placed. The temperaturo required | j is very similar to that in which seeds should bo germinated. If of a hardy ; mixture, they will do nicely in a | temperature averaging sixty degrees, but if of a tender or tropical : nature then tho temperaturo should not average less than seventy-five degree.". For example, you can very easily root cuttings of geraniums, roses, verbenas, petunias, carnations and others of what are known as "green house plants' in a temperature averaging sixty degrees; but if we attempt to root eoleuB, bouvurdius, begonias and other plants whose nature is tropical at that temperature, they will be almost certain to fail, and success can only be complete at a temperaturo ranging from seventy to eighty degrees. Much depends on the condition of the cutting. I believe I was tho tiist. to introduce what is known us the snapping condition of tho cutting. That is, when the shoot, of a verbena, geranium, fuschia, begonia, stevia or plants of that character, is bent, if it breaks or snaps clean off, then it is in the proper condition for rooting; if it bends it is not. Not that the bent cutting would not root, but that it would take longer to root, and make a feebler plant when it did root than one that had tho proper conditions for the formiDg of roots. Florists use ^vhat are called propagating benches for rooting cuttings when wanted on a large scale, as they usually are by them ; but when an amateur not having greenhouse facilities wishes to root u few slips, there is no process that we can recommend better than what is Known as "the saucer system, which i even at the risk of telling it to some of your readers who already understand it, I must again repeat, as there is 110 other plan that is so simple and so safe. Take any common saucer or plate, into which put sand to the doptli of an inch or so. Then prepare the cuttings in the usual manner and place them in the sand close enough <0 touch each other The sand i is then to be watered so as to b ing it into tLe condition of mud. The saucer thus tilled with slips may be placed on the window-sill and exposed to the sun. The cuttings must bo fully exposed to the sun and never shaded. But one condition is absolutely essential to success; until the cuttings take root the sand must be kept continually saturated with water, and always in the condition of nind. To do this the slips must be watered at least once a day with a very tine rose watering-pot, and the watering must be done very gently, else the cuttings may be washed out. There is every certainty that ninety-nine per cent, of the cuttings put in will take root, provided tbev were in the proper condition when placed in the saucer, 1 i.L .i Al _ A. L 1 1. ami mm, uio lempenuuro r.us uuc uweu lower than sixty degrees for greenhouse pluuts or loss than eighty degrees for tropical plants. By the saucer system a higher degree of temperature may bo maintained without injury than by any other system of propagation, as the cuttings in reality are placed in water, and will not wilt provided the water is not allowed to dry out. Still the tender slip until rooted will not endure a long continuation of very high temperature, and wo would advise that propagation be done at such seasons that they may have as near as possible a uniform temperature of seventy-live or eighty degreos in the sunlight. W hen rooted they fliould be potted in dry soil, such as is recommended for sowing seeds in. Thoy should be placed in pots not exceeding two and a half inches in diameter and treated carefully by shading and watering for two or ihreo days.?Peter //*?. dersott. Fnim ami Harden Note*. Clover is an excellent preparatory crop for wheat. Feed the corn crop, and cultivate | often and not deeplv. Now is the time to watch for vermin in tho poultry houses. Good timber on rough or rocky land will pay better than if it was in grass. It is not proper to exposo stock because it is summer. Good shelter is necessary at all times. A correspondent says ho knows by two years' successful expei ience that a dash of soapsnds is death to currant! worms. j A youus animal is very often spoiled . by becoming too f*t, for its food is di-1 verted from tho production of bono and j muscle to tho accumulation of fat. Tho education of the horse should bo j commenced in early colthood. The; treatment should bo firm but. gcotlo, I very much an in tho trailing of children. | Unless an orchard is designed for i commercial purposes there is no special' mU'iinlnaa in Bfftinrr nut. fill t.lio (rnou ?if once. It is better, in many respects, to plant the trees at different periods. Newly weaned pigs should be fed overy four hours,at least let them get five meals a day. After a week or two omit \ one meal and ten days later on another, j They will then do with three regular ! meals a day. It is said that foot-rot and other dis-; eases to which sheep are subject occur j much less often among flocks which are ! pastured on rather rough ground, and I particularly where they have to climb ! hills to get their grazing. A preparation made with one pound I of soap (F.oft or hard) with at ouuco of i carbolic acid crystals dissolved in water will destroy vormiu, itch, scurf and j mange. The preparation as givon abovo ' snoum D'J mimcu 111 warm water nciore being applied to the animal, ami it will; then not injure the hair. Orchards itro far preferable t<> open ; fields for poultry farm purposes. The shelter of the leaves in summer is very beneficial. Worms and caterpillars fall- ; ing from the trees aro consumed, wind- , fill is uro made usb of instead of hurboring vermin, which again creep up and destroy good fruit. At three feet apart each way there aro hills on an acre. Potatoes yield- i ing only one bushel to every thirty hills would give upward of 1(50 bushels per acre. That this is much above the average crop, even in good years, shows how great aro tho possibilities for improvement in potato growing. A piece of rye near a poultry-house is very useful during the fall and spring, and sometimes in tho winter, as a hen pasture. Tiie sowing of grain in poultry yards is also an excellent plan. What is scratched out will bo eaten up clean, ur.d plenty of scratching aud green food are what fowls need. Dr. Lawes thinks that tho United , States farmer will bo wiso in using phosphates for the growth cf corn ho long as they continue to five him a good crop; and at all events if they fail to do this they will remain in tho soil and can at any time bo mado availablo for vegetation by tho use of some ni, trogenous manure; whereaR an applica( tion of ammonia or nitrates is irretrievably lost if not takeu up by tho grow; ing crop. i An Indiana farmer tried four different i fertilizers for melons-poultry dropi pings, well rotted cow manure, barnyard manure and old bones, gathered upon the farm and reduced by placing ! them in alternate Jpvers with ashes the previous year, mixing all liberally in 1 the different liilie, which were eight I feet apart eaoh way, and he fia>e: " Suoh a crop of melonB as oame from I " " - I tho hills that had the bone dust I never saw before." ) One of the common Bmall wastes of a farm, Hays a writer, arises from careless > binding and shocking grain. Sheaves 1 fall to pieces or shocks overturn, and j grain is wasted as well as much time. ! Sec that the bands aro s rong enough, long enough and well bound, and the shocks well put up and safely capped. Although tho caps may not be needed yet the grain is safe, and in case of a Middi n thunder shower ono can rest easy, knowing that no harm can happen to tho crop. KCCIdph. A Nice Breakeaht Dish.?iwomove the skins from a dozen tomatoes, cut them up in a saucepan, add a little butter, pepper and salt when sufficiently boiled, beat up the or six e?gs, and jnst before you serve turn them into tho saucepan with tho tomatoes and ftir ono way for two minutes, allowing them time to bo done thoroughly. Creamed Cabbage.?Slice as for cold slaw and stew in a covered saucepan till tender; drain it, return it to tho saucepan, add a gill or more of rich cream, one ounce of butter, pepper and salt to taste; let simmer for two or three minutes, then servo. Milk may be used by adding a little more bntter; or have a deep spider hot, put in the sliced cabbage, pour quickly over it a pint of boiling water, cover closo and cook for tnn minutos, then pour off water, add half a pint of rioh milk When the milk boils stir in a teaspoon of flour, moistened with a little milk; sePi'.on, cook a moment and serve. Boiled Ddtkeb ? Put meat on, after washing well, in enough boiling water to just cover; us so;>n us it boih set kettle on the stove where it will simtuer or boil very slowly; boil until almost tender, then put in tho vegetables in the following order: Oabbage cut in quarters, turnips of inodinm size cut in I halves, and potatoes whole, or if lur,?e ; cut in two. Peel the potatoes and tur nips and allow to lie in cold water for half an hour before using. The meat should be well .skimmed before adding vegetables; boil together until thoroughly done (adding a little salt before taking ont of kettle), when thore should be left only just water enough to prevent burning, take up vegetables in Fcparato dihhes, and lastly the meat. If there is any jaico in the kettle pour it over the cabbage. Boil cabbage an hour, white turnips and potatoes half an hour. Parsnips may be substituted in place of cabbage and turnips, cooking them three quarters of an hour. A saucer tnrned unside down, or a few iron tablespoons, are useful to place in the bottom of the kettle to keep the meat from burning. Leo op Mutton.?The following two moilca of cooking a leg of mutton may bo acceptable to economical housekeepers: (1) Boi'^d Shank.?Cut the lug of mutton clea "^ across the meat and bono from tho shank down, with as much meat as will sullice for tho meal. Rub it, and flour it all over, but specially the cut meat surface. Plunge it at once into a taucepan or pot of boiling water to cover it, together with some salt, a few grains of pepper and a bunch of parsley. Draw away from the tiro and allow tho water to cool almost completely ; thou put once more on the tire aud cook slowly, according to I weight, till quite done to taste. Serve with parsley, onions, caper, sorrel or any sauce preferred ; garnish with meat or potatoe rissoles. The flour and tho j p'ungiug into boiling water will prevent tho jaice from escaping and tho meat will cut just as linely as from a whole boiled leg of mutton. (2) Mutton Steak.?From the rest of the leg of; mutton cut cleanly and evenly a slice j from the full round of from two to ! throe inches thick. Pepper and flour both sides at once and insert a piece of shalot onion into the bone eye. Broil tho raiv.t slowly on a beefsteak griddle or pan, covering tho upper surface with chopped b;jt f marrow, butter or mutton kidney fat. Prepare a brown gravy with fried f-.halotH, brown stock, a few peppercorns, two cloves, some lemon rings or juice or a spoonful of terragon vinep.ar. Strain, add a few split cloves or pounded anchovies aud serve with I puts of mushed potatoes, turnips, para-1 nips or any snitublo vegetable. A Rido on the Back of a Cattish. In the early days of Rome, about | forty years ago, a poor wulow, a Mrs. ; Parks, occupied a rude habitation about ( sixteen feet square, constructed of i rough poles, on the site where Dr. ! Gregory's residence now stands. This : poor woman had two children, the ; elder a stout, robust girl about eighteen ] years of age, Martha by name ; the I other was a boy of seven. One day ! Murthu, who took in wushing to help i support the family, went to the spring j near the house, on the banks of the Etowah river, to do some washing ; her mother was with her. On arriving at the spring, which is only a few feet I from the river, she noticed an enormous cattish lying in the cool branch of the spring in water nearb deep enough to float tho tish. A batteau was fastened to u tree near by, and, stepping into the boat, sho seized a paddle, and quick us thought dealt tlio monster \ lish a blow on *.he bead, which ; t-tunned it, and tho l.t'lu boy, Scruggs j Purks, jumped into the stream and seized tho lish, but in his excitement and attempts to secure tho priza he thrust both hands into the gdl of the i fish. Tho gills closed on them with a i vice-like-nrip, and tho lish, in llonuder- ' ing about with the boy, at length struck | water deep enough to support him, and with head to the river with a mighty effort shot into the ^ream with the speed of an arrow, the boy on his back. A moment of terrible anguish and suspense to tho poor sister, who was a j helpless observer of all that was passing, and the cattish landed high and i dry on an island some sixty or sevonty ' feet distant from tho shore, with tho ! boy in a fainting, frightened and half i drowned condition. Tho cries of the ! sister soon brought men upon tho scene, who took tho bout and in u few j minutes landed fish and boy on tho ' shore of tho river. Tho fish weighed sixtv-fivo pounds, The Daily Swelling of Plants. With delicate means of measurement TT T."? 1 1 *1... 11VI I Aluun 1Jil j iCl/UUUlJ tUU UA - ; istence of u phenomenon in ail plant organs, which iH connected with their 1 variable water eontent, and consists in a periodical swelling aail contraction in ! the twenty-fonr hoars. Leaven, etc., j decrease in thickness from tho <arly morning till tho afternoon, when they j begin to swell again, attaining a greater j size by night than by day (this is well !;een in ugavo, aloe and the like); f-imi-1 larly with buds, flowers, green cones, ! fruits, etc , and with stems and branches. Herr Kaiser has befoio prove! stu-h a perioil in trunks of trees, and liorr i Kran8 shows that both wvood and bark 1 : share in it, independently or unitedly. : Tho various experiments of llorr | Kraus?removal of foliage, wateiing, i shutting out light, etc.?lead to expla- I nation of tho phenomena by tlio vary- i ing reciprocal action of those factors j which brin^ water into the plant and those which carry it away. Bv night only tho water-absorbing activity of tho parts below ground operates, by day ; the water consuming activity of the I parts above ground beside. The water 1 consuming activity depends mainly ou i the foliage an.l on light (removal of i leaves or of light stops contraction) and consists essentiilly in transpiration, llerr Kraus states that when a plant is ' wa'ered these things occur: In a short I time, less than an tour, the stem begins to swell; both wood and burk lake ' part in this, tho wood always first. Tho ! swelling progresses at a pretty quick j rate, upward of several meters per sei> ond. After some timo. perhaps an hour, j contraction gradually recurs. The cou; traction began at an upper part of an acacia after ten minutes, whereas the swelling at the lower part continued fifty minutes. This shows that tho contraction is duo to tho activity of the foliage, and is gradually extending downward. An old and famous corapoper?AdulJ sermon. JAPANESE FESTIVALS. Legend ol tlicSun (Jodili-x* Trn-Slo Dnl-Zln ?In ihe City ol'iiio Demi. A Yokohama correspondent of the Sun Francisco Chronicle writes: The 15th of May in a grand religious festival day in Japan. On that day, from one end of the land to the other, tho patrioti m and religions devotion of the people are made manifest. Tho Hag of the empire is given to tho breeze and tho temples are thronged with worshipers. Tho festival is in commemoration of tho creation of their first parents. Tho legends of Japan toll of this sun goddess Tensio-dai-zin, tho favorite daughter of Iza na-gi-mikoto. creator of the earth. Iza-na-gi-mifcoto was the Columbus of the gods. Ho conceived the idea that ueneam me ueavens?uuucr luuuuuujg waters?there must bo a habitable sphere. To-think with him was to act. lie planned his spear into the waters, arid npon withdrawing it the drops falling from it were congealed, and so the ' world was formed, the largest drop becoming the islands of Japan. Ho then created tho ten thousand things known to men, and placed his lavorite danghter to reign over his creation. After lapase of over two mil- ' lion years, withont counting the odd thousands, one of her descendants ! married a mortal, and from her union 1 sprung tho race of tho mikado and his J people. Tho 15th of May is a festival ' day in honor of tho sun goddess TenBio dai-zin. So patriotism, loyalty and religion are inextricably involved and ! joined in tho minds of tho people : Through the mikado they claim lineal descent from tho creator of this world . and all that therein is. In tho near past the sun was worshiped by the Japanese, ] and at this time very many of the unlearned are sun worshipers, this being ' especially true of seamen. As the sun ! rises they bow their heads and invocate ! the god of day. There Is a romantic ie- . gend connected with the reign of the sun goddess Ten sio-dai-zin as queen protec- ' tress of the earth. It appears that she 1 had numerous brothers and sisters, and that one of the brothers was wild and made it very troublesome for his sister. At last she became so much afraid of him that she secluded herself within a , deer> cave in tho mountains, the entrance i to which was securely closed. Owing to her absence the world was wrapped iu continual darkDrss. This Btato of affairs became intolerable, and tho Rods, meeting in conclave, determined thatTen-sio-daizin must be prevailed upon to reappear, they agreeing to assure her that her troublesome brother should be banished to some far away realm of space, to trouble her no moro. They proceeded to the cave where she had immured horself. and by great efforts opened tho entrance a little, when tho sun goddess gave a peep out; and seeing the vast multitude of her fellow gods and goddesses, whom she knew as her friends, she oamo out from her seclusion. The brother was duly banished, but after a time it wasjthonght that if he was allowed to return to his old nome the experience he had gained jn his banishment would deter him from further troubling his sister, whom he knew vt as under their protection. He came buck among them, but tho devil was still in him. It was the fashion iu thosi; ages of tho gods for all femalo deities to always havo with them a mirror, and to this day a mirror is considered an emblem of purity, and to be found in ever? Shinto temple in the laud. As this wicked brother met his \ sister ho tried to kill he? with his flaming sword, making a deadly cut at her, which she warded off by interposiug j her mirror. From the meeting of the , sword nnd mirror another pod was created, who proved to be as vicious as his father. The fato of both father and son are not authentically established, j Probably thev became lirst-cluss demons , in the infernal regions. The festival in honor of the &uu god- j dees is celebrated with duo ceremony at a temple especially dedicated to her ( worship in Yokohama, Tho teruplo is situated upon one of the sixhtlie-st j elevations of the place, and looks toward , Tokio. Tho busy city lies far below it, and a complete bird's-eye view can be had of the city and its environments ; , and the whole expanse of the beautiful ( bay of Yokohama, with its fleet of shipping, is before the gazer from this spot. X am told that it is only upon this anniversary day, during tho entire J year, that this temple is open for care ( monial worship, tho devout all tho rest of the year praying before tho closed . doors. On this day the Shinto priest- , hood array themselves in their robes o.' . olliee and perform their sacred functions . nr,ri UUJiUg lilt? UUT ; (All V4 ttiou XLX liiu U1UU- , ing. Tho temples devoted to the , worship of Buddha and his disciples, j who have been painted and deiiied, are . always open for business to be trans- j acted, though there are days set apart for peculiar ceremonies befitting extraordinary events connected with tho i lives and death of their peculiar object , of worship. Somo time last year tho ^ god who has charge of the thunder , machinery of heaven was placed in a new abode that was prepared for him. From tho templo where he had been ( enthroned he was taken in a sacred ] traveling-box at tho head of a long procession of worshipers, and placed in tho new house, where he is now t-up- ( pos'.-d to abide. Thoro was no idolatry in all this, only a spiritual conception i of tho faithful. On tho hills of Yokohama?here termed tho ''bluff"?are to be seen tho elegant homes of tho city. Revo. , too, aro tho rnariuo hospitals of the ' English, German ?md American govern- , ments, and here live tho missionaries ' who have left their homes in Eng- , land to come to this land c t sun and flowers, that they may sow the seed of their different religious sects. On tho " bluff " also is the home of the resting-place of those who have learned the secret of tbe hereafter, and who have no further reed of priest or phvsieiau. On the m;:?t elevated plateau of the ( reservation dedicated to the dead, is a granite obelisk, about six feet square and some twelve feet in height, standing on a granite base eight feet square and four feet high. On its four sides is told the story ot tho loss of the United States steamer Oneida, with all on board. On the east side of tho obelisk is this inscription: : In Memory : : of tho : ; Oflicors and 3Ien : ; Who went down with (he : ; U. S. S. Oneida : t When that vessel was mink : ; While honiuwanl lioiuul, : ; ]5y the steamship I ; Bombay, : : In Yeddo hay, Japan, Jan. 24, 1K70 : Tho other sides of tho monument contain the names of tho oflicers and crew who lost their lives. It stands on ' a plat, inclosed with cable chains at- [ tatfhed to anchors, set with the stocks upright, at e -ch corner. Outside of j ho chain is an evergreen hedge, nicely | kept and trimmed, and on tho inner j side aro growing beautiful cc.dars and j camellias. Tomioka is tho place where the wealth and beauty of Yokohama resort /i..-:? n.? -j.,*o I UlllliJK mr llLiHlAl H i 1X1. AWiUlWl\?t M J distant from Yokohama about right miles. The road thither in one characterized by tho tiamc diversify of i scenery ho peculiar to all roads in Japan, hills and dales vying in tho attractions ; they oiler to the eye of the traveler Tim vilhige is a picturrpque <>?< , as it nestles amon? tho liills. which imojc down to tho sea \z all their pride, show' ing high bluffs, in manv pl.uvs their I bases washed by the waves, with here : and there quiet nooks and roaches of hard, clean, sandy beaches. It is a charming place for Heabathing, the clean sand insuring a^ainnt any torpid condition of the , water, which is at the ebb and flow of j the tide as clear and tmnspaient, as old oeeun p.ives any coast. There are many line old trees at Toruioka offering ample , shade to all comers. The usnal paraphernalia of the tishing village is here not encountered, as the absence of facilities of rnnnirg boats upon the bench, ! whero thoy may be left in security, are wanting. I'.s elevation secures flue j views, and the fresh, uncontaminated ; breezes from off tho water aro grateful i to the senses. Ther? arc throo temples hero that aro occupied during the summouths by parties renting them from the priests. Many of tho native hon^es aro utilized, and there is plenty of room for camping out. It is a delightful bail from Yokohama to Tomioka by Sampan, and during the season there aro regular trips mado daily by many small crafts for tho accommodation of those visiting thero. Somebo w,it seems to bo the more favorite method of bathing with the Japanese to take theirs hot. The hot bath it an iuntitntion patronized at all season?, both males and females indulging as often as their means will allow. The cost being in the neighborhood of one and a half cents at tho more ordinary institution-i, not manv are debarred the luxury of tho hot bath. Formerly, and until very late years, bathing establishments were open to all of both sexes, j without discrimination. All bathed in the presence of each other and in view of the passing public. At the present time the males are segregated from the : female bothers, and the resort is no longer open to the public gaze. In tho Hacone mountain range are : many wonderful medical springs, flow- ' ing in large volume and of very high i temperature?mueh hotter than the hot springs of California, and perhaps more ' highly charged with sulphur. AstbesG ' springs are at an elevation of between 5,000 and 6,000 feet above tho level of ; the sea iu a mountain range, they are i visited by very many who desire to i wicape tlie sultry beat of the lower i levels, while at the same timo th?y may : ben.-lit their health by using the waters i to bathe in. I have listened to the re- ' lation of the wonderful curative properties of these hot springs by those who have visited them, and haye been lelighted by the descriptions' of the i grand aud majestic scenery that is pre- 1 jented to the adventurous tourists who have penetrated into the fastness of i ;his pile of everlasting peaks that nestle ; iround old Fniiyama, but I have yet to nsit them in person. FACTS AND COMMENTS. 1 Statistics show that over 1,500,000 J jperatives are employed in the manu- | racture of cotton goods in the principal , '.ounfries of the world. Of these, 180,000 are employed in Great Britain. < France follows with 210,000, and the j sther countries in order of precedence { ire the United States, Russia, Germany ind India. With regard, however, to ! :he annual value of cotton goods pro- ( luced the United States comes second. , with about half the value of Great ( Britain, and Germany and Russia fol- j low, the joint product not being quite , innnl fa fVtof rtf TTnifn/1 ,Vj|UUi IU UUUU U4 bUU V/U1UVU UUHVbQl j Rabbits aro playing hob ^ith New J Zealaud. Thpy commence breeding at , bo ago of three months, and prodnce | iwolvo large families a year. This , prolific increase has overrun the country with the pestg introduced by pa- 1 iriotic Englishmen and Scotchmen, and millions of dollars' worth of property ; ire beinpr destroyed annually. Crops ire feasted upon, streams are obstructed, , \nd in fome placos the devastation has been bo great that farmers have been ariven from their farms. From 50,000,D00 to 60,000,000 of the frisky inno 3ents are killed cveiy year, but with their reproductive capacity tho living rabbits do not mind a little thing like that, which only amounts to a decimation. When an individual starves to death in a civilized city his fate is probably always due to ignorance of his condition ind not to inhumauity. This certainly Diust have been the case with William Ellis, a sculptor, who lately died in Sheffield, England. Some years ago ho was engaged with Stevens in model ing the Wellington monument, On liis return to Sheffield lie engaged in local irt trade, and executed busts in marble of John Arthur Roebuck and several local celebrities Of late years he has beeu in very destitute circumstances, ind frequently needed and received assistance from his friends. It was shown it tho inquest that death had resulted from "exhaustion brought on by insufficiency of food." The Mnrhions aro displaying the craft which has always characterized LLie Church of Latter Day Siints in Lheir efforts to savd their "peculiar institution" from the fresh assault made upon it in the passage by Congress of the E.lmunds act for the suppression of polygamy. Their first move is to try thb policy of evasion. All officials who svere polygamists have been ordered to resign, and their places have been filled by monogamists who are equally strong in the faith, so that there will bo no chance to apply the section which forbids a man with more than one wife to hold office. Moreover, from President I'aylor, in Salt Lake, to the elders in the most extreme parts of thoir domain, the polygamistB have ostentatiously separated from all but one of their wives, and are living openly with Her only, so that it will be difficult, to find grounds for instituting proceedings ugainst them. Some of the most eminent lawyers in the country have been employed to fight the question of the constitutionality of tho law, and the insuo will be carried up from court to court until it reaches the supreme tri bunal. A report comee from Ut.ili that if the supremo court. sliouM linullv ile- I fide against them, the Mormons are ra- ] solved not to submit at any eosc; but it, may well be doubted whether tho sober ( 1 > t.t .. .1! ? I St'L'ULllI LUUll^lib win Ditoiuiii u?ru ??. "uum i i)f fanatics in fighting the whole power of the goverumt lit The present out- I look, however, is thut, in any event, it I must he a good while before material j progress is made toward the extirpation of the "twin relic of barbarism.'' The Moon. No one over gets tired of tho moon. Goddess that she is by dower of her eternal beauty, she is a true woman by ' her tact?knows tho charm of being ! aeldom seen, of coming by surprise and ! staying but a little while ; never wears tho same dress two nights running, nor all night the same way ; commend* herself to the matter-of-fact people by her usefulness, and makes her usefulness adorned by poets, artists and all lovers i in tho lands; lends herself to every i symbolism and to every emblem; is ! Diaua's bow and Venus's mirror and Mary's throne ; is a siekle, a scarf, an eye-brow, his fac-.< or her face, as looked at by her or by him ; is the madman's hell, tho poet's heaven, tho baby's toy, the philosopher's study ; and while her r.ilmirorq follow her footalens, and hang 1 on li^r lovely looks, siio knows how to j Locp her woman's sccret?Lev other side?ungnessed and ungnossablo? . Walt Whitman. | - ' 1 ho Mory of an Umbrella. During tho fhowrr yesterday a citizen ' carrying a very wet umbrella entered a i hotel to pay a call to some ono upstairs. ! After placing his umbrella where it j might drain ho wroto upon a pieeo of; pupei and pinned to it fho .sentence: "N. 1?.?This umbrella belongs to a man who strikes a 251) puund blow? I 1 ft"k in fifteen minutes," lb' went his way upstairs, and after' an ill.'souco of fifteen minutes returned to find his umbrella gone, and in its place a note reading: "1\ S.?Umbrella taken by a man who walks ten miles an hour?won't be back at all!"?Jiitroit Free Press. Tho number of schools in France where the system ofasavinus bank hail been adopted wa-; 1(5 4!M at the close of last year, against 14,372 at tho beginning. Tho average number of depositors was twenty one per school, against seventeen the year before. The department of public instrnctiou considers that, tho results in seven years have fulfilled tho hopes of the inventor 1 of the system, M. de Malasse, the j school bank showing that it occupies a unique position in the world as a medium of eduoation in thrift. Sir Francis Lycett, of London, left by his will 81,000,000 to built Wesleyan chapels in Great Britain, and the will bein^ contested by a nephew it was, a few weeks ago, sustained. LION HUNTING. A Narrow E?mp<v-Shootina ft Hon on th Wlnir?An Al'rlcnn Boy'* 8hot. A correspondent of the Philadelph' t Press at Cure Town writes: Isaiah Whit;, a wandering New Englander, saile: from Cape Town on the last outgoin English steamer. He camo to this re mote part of the world two years ago with a number of other adventurers, who made their way to the diamond fields to the north. They endured all manner of suffering and hardship, and in the end became so discouraged at their utter failure that they decided to d<4*what thousands of others have done and are doing continually?give up and return home. White was the only one who held out. " I shall never ro back penniless," he declared, "if I have to stay here till I die." The fact that the Yankee did sail for his native land a few days af?o, that when I saw him lie was arrayed in European dress, and wis in the highest spirits, leads me to believe that the good fellow, after all, has not broken the pledge he made to his friends, when the ragged fellows turned their backs on the diamond fields and started for the other side of the world. Some weeks after their parting, White was in the Hottentot country, where he came upon a native lion-hunter, who had assisted a great many English parties in trapping the king of beasts, and who was .verv favorably disposed toward the Caucasian race, probably as - ? ? II/UUA Wfin \% UUIJhfqut3LI)TU11U vrti-j p^uiiii^no, ragged and sick ; but Burwik, as the guide called liimbelf, acted the part of the good Samaritan. He took him to his lint, where Bnrwik'3 wife nursed him, and when he was restored to his usual ragged health the guide presented him with a European hunting outfit and rifle. The American, as may be supposed, was astonished to find Buch wealth and hospitality among the yellow natives of South Africa, but the host quickly explained it all to his satisfaction. Burwik, by his skill and faithfulness?the Hottentots, aa a rc.ce, are thievish and untrustworthy?had won the good opinion of many European hunterp. who engaged him aa a s;uide, and, beside paying him liberally for his services, had made him many presents. He had three rifles of excellent make, ;wo fine revolvers, while his wife was furnished wi',h enough jewelry, beads ind ornaments to outline a barbarian princess at high court. The suit wliioh White donned was the very thing for ;hat country, but he shivered slightly when Burwik told bim that a major of the English army had it on when a huge [ion stole into camp one night and killed him with a single blow. Even the rents made in the garments wmie the beast was trotting off with his victim's limbs dragging throngh the timber were plainly visible. "They conldn't be better," said White, a little faintlv; "but I'm sorry your friend hadn't mother suit to present you." As White had been noted for his skill in markmanship at home, it did not take him long to win the admiration of Burwik by his exploits with the gun. The Hottentot himself was no oidinary shot, but he could not compare with the American, who shattered bits of wood thrown into the air, and punctured tiny targets at a distance far beyond the reach of the South African's aim. "You beat any one I ever saw," said Burwik, in his broken English; "we will go shoot lions." "That will suit me," said the American, "although I havo never engaged in any such sport. Shall we go alone?" "Alone with Erwa," said the guide. Erwa was the name o^ Burwik's boy, a graceful lad, like most of the joung Hottentots, whose ill looks come only with the passage of years, many of the females who may be called handsome in their youth taking the most repulsive appearance as they grow older. Erwa had been the companion of his father on many daring hunting expeditions, and though he could not have been more chan fifteen years old, he i-l /..II ??? ? was counted US a lull lliuu m tuc tuli, hardship and peril which must always accompany him who goes in search of tbe king of beasts. When White and his Hottentot friends set out the following morning they took with them two fine hunting dogs. With many hunters the favorite time to hunt is after the sun has set. White and his companions did not expect to reach the neighborhood where the beasts would be encountered before the day was pretty well gone It was, in fact, late in the afternoon when f,he American was told he must begin to look out for his game, and the news was scarcely imparted when all three caught sight of a single buffalo graziDg on an elevated piece of l&nd at such a distance tbat neither Burwik nor Erwa thought it possible to leach him with a rifle. The trained dogs were sent for ward to get beyond the buffalo and drive him toward the hunters, who screened themselves in the bush. But, before the dogs could reach the position, the animal from some cause took fright and wheeled to run. As he did so White fired with such accuracy tlmt the ball entered just hack of the fore leg, and after one or two plungestne animal pitched forward on Lis face. Eurwik and Erwa could hardly believo their senses, but gave expression to their astonishment and delight in the most extravagant language. Meanwhile the cries of the dogs wero heard, and it was evident they had started something. The American followed the \ maxim of professional sportsmen, and j loaded his gun before starting from the j spot, and the moment he had finished ! made all haste to follow Erwa, who had j run ahead of bis fa'her. To teach the point where the buffalo had fallen it was I necessary to pass through lower land, j so densely wooded that the hunters j were shut out of sight of the game for a i considerable whilo. They were half ! way across this space when the report i of Erwa's gun was heard, and a minute later ho came rushing througn the bush j with the appearance or iuo must ua- i treme terror. ""What is it?" asked his | father, stepping in front of him with i his Kun raino l. " A li'in ! a lion ! He lias killed the j dogs aud he will kill us !'' "1 um ashamed of you," said the father. "Stand your ground.'' Poor Ertv.i Wis jil'ashed beyond measure, and, repressing his treiubli g fright as be*t he could, niauaged to reload his weapon. While he was thus empioyed the men stood with their pieces ready, expecting tbe appearance of the lion every moment, but, as he failed to .show himself, they began a cautious forward . movement. They had not gono f:u j when tnov came upon the dea i bo.lv of | oho of the dogs, slain by a siuglo blow i from the beast, which must have been of unusual size. The other dog was | silent, aDd, if alive, was doub.fcss sit a ! safu distance from the lion. Pres-?ng i on, it was not long before the carcass of the buffalo was fouud. The audacious king of beasts had picked that up immediately after it was shot, ami. dragging it into the bush, bad helped himself to what he wished. But where was the lion himself? "I should say the beast was not far away," suggested White, holding his rifle with his linger on the trigger; " but it seems to me he ought to show himself." I ' There he is 1" It was young Erwa who uttered tho alarming cry whicli disconcerted tho others for the moment. There was good cause for it, for tho keen eyed lad had just then detected the head uisfl mane of the lion, who was stealing toward the men. Tho aiTrighted words of the boy apprised the others of their danger, but it did not tell them of the point from which it threatened. White sprang forward several steps and turned half way round, glancing furtively in every direction for his foe. The latter, as if he understood that it would not do to wait, instantly gathered his muscles together and rose with a" prodigious bound which carried him directly toward tho American. For a single instaut White saw the huge body apparently poised in midair, and then the flaming evep, frightful mouth and glowering front were precipitated toward him as if driven from the mouth I of a:: enormous colnmbt&d. Instoad of 1 leaping aside, lhe Ameiicun undertook to tire from where ho stood. His desperate haste to rai.se and aim hi? gun, in his awkward position, ^caused him ^ : not only to send the bullet wide of the mark, but he lout his own balance and fell upon his aide. Bnr*ik discharged his piece at the lion wht-n he was in mid air, and struck him; but as ho was already on the way when hit, tho n.issile could not stop him, no matter how well aimed, nor did it indued inflict a mortal wound, for even the veteran Itarwik was disconcerted by the daring and unexpected attack. But a singular f^xct i-aved the American for the moment. The shot which young Erxa Jia:i tired when he first encountered the beast had injured one of his eye? in such a w*y us to hurt his sijibt. Instead of striking on the prostrate American, as ho would Lave done at any other time, ho ftruck beyond him and some distance away. Before he could recover Whi^e was on his feet and Burwik drew hia lorn? knife to assist him; but just then Erwa discharged his gun the second time, sending the bullet directly into the chest of the beast as he crouched to gather himself for another b ap that must have been fatal. Two shots had already struck the lion and the third finished him. He made the leap, but it had the appearance of being involuntary, as he went directly up iu the air, and, dropping to the earth, rolled over like a cat in his last struggles Isaiah White extended hin hand in gratitude to the litt e Hottentot bny when all danger was over and taid: "Thank you, for, under heuven, yon saved my life; henceforth it is not I who am the best shot of tho company, but you." A soft flush suffused the saffron fioe of the lad. "Allah ai Berlin aa<!cl el balloot," said the boy, qnietly, meaning in his bravo heart that it was G )i who directed the shot. Barbarities of Modern War. The history of bombarding towns affords an instance of actual dt-teriora tion in the usages cf modern warf.ire. Regular or simple bnmbardnjer t, that is, of a town indiscriminately and not merely of its fortresses, has now become -he established practice. Yet what did Vatiel say in the middle of the laht century? "At present wo cenerally content ourselves with battering the ramparts and defenses of a place. To destroy a town with bombs and iedhoi balls is an extremity to which we do not proceed without cogent reasons." What said Vanban still earlier ? '' The fire must be directed simply at the defenses and batteries of h place * * * and not against the houses." Then let us remember the Eaglieh bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807, when the cathedral and three hundred housee were destroyed ; the German bombardment of Strasburg in 1870, where rifled mortars wera usei for the first time, and the famous libiary and pictnre gallery destroyed; and the Garman bombardment of Paris, about which, strangely enough, even the military conscience of the Germans was struck, so that in the highest circles doubts about the propriety of such a proceeding at one time prevailed from a moral noint of view. "With respect a.^ain to sacred or public buildings warfare tends to become increasingly destructive. It was tho rule in Greek warfare ^ to spare sacred buildings; and the Romans frequently r-pared sacred and other buildings, as ikarcellus, for instance, at Syracuse. Tot when :he French ravaged the Palatinate in 1689, tl-wx** A?1? flva fr* nufltorlraid. bat sacked the tombs of the ancient emperors at Spierp. Frederick II. destroyed the finest, buildings at Dresden and Prague. In 1814 the English forces destroyed the capital at Washington, the * President's house, and other public buildings; an-1 in 18-15 the Prussian general, Blucher, was with difficulty restrained from blowiDg up the bridge of Jena at Paris and the pillar of Austerlitz. There is always the excuse of reprisals or accident. Yet Vattel had said (in language br,t which repeated the langnase of Polybiup and Cicero): "We ought to spare thnee ediiices which do honnr to human society, and do not contribute to the enemy's strength, such as tompJes, tombs, publio buildings and all works of remarkable beauty.' ? Gentleman's Magazine. Origin of Names. Miss Pi'man, in her "European Breezes," says: The curious namts of German Jews must ulways be of iatersst to auy one wi.li even a slight knowl^J^o of Gorman. I r< call a part} in a Jewish house in Frantfort, where nonly every person presented to me bora the name nf bird, beast or fowl. It was i?.n urnus ing collection of hens, wolve andfoies ?indeed, it was difficult to fiud a bird * . of the air or a beast oi the tiol-i not ?, represented. How the German ' Jews came by these nanus is interesting, and possiblv is not known to "everybody. Undc-r AIh: i.i Theresa when gre.it numbeis lud >jone to Austria because of Ler 'o>.a- ? tion, there was constant c: ufiisu.u arising from the fact that it was i.a dly possible tu hold an individual f.>;* any crime or in any cuso 'of kw-nit?of w'jich there were many against tUt-iu? for tbena>on that a man c>'.ild n>t he proven to bt* tb? "Ikihc, t!i?* f-on of Israel," or the partioalur '-Salomon, son of Jf.cob," wlio was ho'igr.'t f r. S > one day tii-d, <*a;prt-ss befit f.ntii au edict that from that time bene' f??rili uv'i ry Jew should take a came fo hi:a < If, and no Damu boru-? ever by any ono else was ho to s-*lec:. This provoked much anger, but there was n< thing to l>o done but. obey. The co nmand was that they hhouid choose names from ihft auimn!*, metal-t, in n3r als, the elemeuts, rivers, lakes, towns e:c. Hence came ciio Baar-<, Wolfs Fuchs (fox), Hahns (cock), llrcht (pick erel), and nearly all the nain-'S endiug with baum (tree), and stein (iten"), and himmel (heaven). Some i>? ike couibinutions growing out of thin enmmaud are very interestiug. For instance, we fiad Eckstein (corner stone), Seli?man (blessed man). Himmelreich (kingdom of Heaven), Fleischman (meat man), MaLd-ibauin (almond tree), Giuenbauni (i^reen tree). Ros? nbaum (rose tree), VeigelstpC* (Austrian dialect for gillyflower bush), B aun (t>rown) Sohwarz (black), Weiss (vhite) From cities and rivers are the Jewish names so common, Oppenheimer, Moldauer, Erland> r, Wiener, Paiiser. Ofuiv, Oman. Wo ht\?*o ?>':?> ll(?bs?hild (r-d s'?ii)i Il>'Di^fcld (' oney Held), etc. I. will ba seen tin* a (Km ami .Tew is s!;own l?v bis U::rjie Of i.iti-tljeio ha<eb.><n modification* atd chances matle l-y families who dou> wish t> be ho li udiiy <::8fi-i vm.'i. ,1 !nit. iv i 4iu- ivs < n>v ti! tr:iC0 tbcUl. A 'd on<l< rf ui Fori it**. M n?oe V:. is the largest f-itir'!: !' . icn in i!n' world It lias already cost over S.'J UOO.OoO of money. The wafer battery is considered to be owe of the liiie-t pieces of miliary construction in the world. Colonel Lodor, the ins rnctor of the military school, has invented and perfected some a^tonihlun^ appliances that, when ho shall have gnus, will be of immense value in handling them. In one of tbo casements iusi 1,' the fort is bis otlice. He can t-it in it and, with an electric appliance, cante ev< ry gun in the foit to bo tired siumlturjeously. Ho lias perfected another vet <>i instruments by which the exact distance of a ship from the shore may beacouratelj determined, the volocirv and direction of the win.I, the cou-?qne?it deflection of the ball, and the precise point at which the ball will strike th<* bhlD. ? The puns are tired l>v electricity.?7/isv.u//, The Suez Canal. j The 8'iez c-tnai in eighty-five mile i long, 327 leet wide at tho top, ^eventyj two feet at the bittern and twen'y six | feet deep. The total cost wa- S i7,('00,- j (100; the toll chargt-n are two dollars per ton for merchandise and two drllars per head for pap6tngevs, and tin total reoeipts lor 1881 were $10,200,000 ?