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The Fallow Field.
The sun comes up and the sun goes down ;
The night mist shroudeth the sleeping town
But if it be dark or if it be day.
If the tempests beat or the breezes play,
Still here on this upland slope I lie
Looking up to the changeful sky.
Naught am I but a fallow field ;
Never a crop my acres yield.
Over the wall at my right hand
Stately and green the corn blades stand,
And I hear at my left the flying feet
Of the winds that rustle the bending wheat.
Often while yet tl e morn is red
* I list for our master's eager tread.
Hs smiles at the young corn's towering
height,
H? knows the wheat is a goodly sight.
But he glances not at th? fallow field
Whose idle acres 110 wealth may yield.
Sometimes the shout of the harvesters
The sleeping pulse of my being stirs.
And as one in a dream I seem to feel
The sweep and the rush of the swinging
steel.
Or I catch the sound of the gay refrain
As they heap their wains with the golden
grain.
Yet, Oh. my neighbors, be not too proud,
Though on every tongue your praise is loud.
Our mother Nature is kind to me,
And I am beloved by bird and bee,
And never a child that passes by
But turns upon me a grateful eye.
Over my head the skies are blue ;
I have my share of the rain and dew;
I bask like you in the summer sun
When the long bright dajs pass, one by one,
And calm as yours is my sweet repose
Wrapped in the warmth of the winter snows.
? For little our loving mother cares
Which the corn or the daisy bears,
Which is rich with tho ripening wheat,
I Which with the violet's breath is sweet.
| Which is red with the clover bloom,
; Or which for the wild sweet-fern makes
room.
Useless under the sunnnor sky
- Year after year men say I lie.
Little they know what strength of inino
I give to the trailing blackberry vine;
Little they know how the wild grapo grows,
Or how my life-blood flushes the rose.
Little they think of the cups I till
For the mouses creeping under the hill;
little they think of the feast I spread
For the wild wee creatures that must bo fed ;
. Squirrel and butterfly, bird and bee,
And the creeping things that no eye may
see.
Lord of the harvest, Thou dost know
How the summers and winters go.
Never a ship sails east or west
Laden with treasures at my behest,
Yet my being thrills to the voice of God
l\Yhen I give my gold to the golden-rod.
C. Ji. Dorr, in Ilarjwr's Magazine.
IN THE CREVASSE.
"The glacier will not be safe today,"
said the old guide, shaking his
head gravely. " There is a yellow xuist
over the cap of old Ileingen Alp, and
that means a thaw."
"Well, and what of that?" asked
the younger man, whom I had chosen
for my guide. " Neither one day's nor
one month's thaw is going to melt the
3Ier de Glace."
; / " No," said the old man, *' but a thaw
sometimes splits the glacier into crevasses.
I've seen the Mer de Glaee as
v full of cracks as the bottom of a driedup
i)ond in summer. Many a good
fellow lias lost his life at the bottom
of those chasms."
"It's not a crack in the ice, nor a
crack in an old man's brain, that is
going to scare Franz Berg," said the
young man, laughing. " I've been
guide here, boy and man, these fifteen
years, and I never heard of even a goat
^ being lost in a crevasse."
" Well, well, have your own way,"
muttered the old man, " wisdom is
learned by experience. Ilappy for you
if you live to profit by it."
I was somewhat disturbed by the
old guide's ominous words, but not deterred
from mv original purpose. I
had come all the way from Geneva expressly
to see the glacier, and it was
not the prophesyings of a doting old
man tlutt was going to interfere with
my object. I had but one day to spare.
The weather was beautiful. The sky
was brilliantly blue, and the snow1
mnimfoiny I
CTOWnt'U Ciips III n:u 11>UU1>VU>UU
. sparkled like gigantic prisms in the
sun. I. for one, coulil not see the yellow
mist to which the olil man had re'
ferred, and was greatly inclined to at.
..tribute his warning, as my guide had
>* /lone, to a megrim of his old brain,
y *. Our preparations, consisting of high
boots, shod with spikes, steel-tipped
strives and a wicker llask of spirits
* -apiece, were soon complete. We set
l-jjut at 10 in the forenoon, and by 12
.had reached the left bank of the great
Xlv? which wo proposed to cross.
- *. .1 .paused a .moment awe-struck at
. _ the magnificent spectacle. Imagine a
gigantic river, perhaps two miles
? broad, whirling between vast snow>>V-capped
hills, suddenly frozen to a slow,
? "moving torrent of ice. Vast heaps of
?Vsnow lay upon it, and here and there
masses of rock, weighing tons, detached
frolicsome gorge far up the
'Very near us a narrow fissure or
cleft ran diagonally across the body
. 'jofHhe ice; tlie sides, smooth as glass
and of a deep lustrous green, descending
sheer into impenetrable darkness.
Such a crevasse as this, the guide said,
. - was always to be found in the glacier,
' ' and only the most ordinary care was
necessary to avoid it.
i\'e scrambled down upon the ice
and began to make our way cautiously
'across it. Owing to various obstructions,
such as heaped up snow, or soft
pots in trie ice, our progress was very
- slow. After an hour of hard work
we hud not accomplished one-half of
f; the distance. I sat down upon a
<?nbe of rock to rest and look about
me.
A change had already taken place in
.'..-the weather. The sun was obscured
~ "by a dense, leaden-colored mist, and
the valley of the glacier itself seemed
* to be choked with masses of whirling
vapor. -My outside garments were
wet, and all around us the ice kept up
a cold and benumbing steam.
' As I set in a far from comfortable
frame of body and mind, 1 was startled
by a far-off, dull, booming sound, the
~ "echoes of which seemed to be repeated
interminably among the hills.
"What was that?" I asked the
guide.
"Most likely an avalanche on the
Beilgen Alp," lie replied. " They are
.. always falling there?"
lie was interrupted by a repetition
of the sound, much nearer to us. accompanied
by a tremendous shock that
.?..seemed to shake the ice beneath us. I
looked at him inquiringly, and observed
that he was slightly pale.
"A crevasse," he said, answering my
look with an air of unconcern that I
could see was not wholly real. "When
the ice parts it makes a noise like a
cannon. It is nothing. However, we
had better be moving. I don't like the
looks of this fog."
We arose and resumed our journey,
the guide directing our course by occa
sional glimpses of the Alps tlirougn
the wreaths of fog which every moment
became more dense. We had not
proceeded twenty steps, however, when
the guide suddenly paused and motioned
me back. At that instant there
came another report, so loud and sharp
that I was absolutely stunned, and
right, in front of us a long, jagged line
? appeared in the ice. widening rapidly,
.until two sheer walls faced each other
more than ten feet apart.
Though the chasm lay directly in
our way, to cross it was out of the
question. The guide turned quickly
to the right, and we followed the
brink of the crevasse, hoping to find a
yi point where it ended or was narrow
V enough to spring over. The fog had
now become so dense that we could
^ not see a dozen steps before us, and
we were forced to move at a snail's
pace in order to avoid falling into some
< unseen abyss. AVe had gone on in this
(way perhaps five minutes, when there
canie another report, followed by a
. jj series of weaker shocks. The guide
* and I paused and looked around us.
^ The situation had become, to saj
least, embarrassing. During s
HH^entary lift of the fog we saw al]
a perfect network of cracks,
one another ever)
^^HBj^^uthe vapor closed in
the huge masses of ice approached or
receded from each other.
What to do now was a serious question.
To proceed a single yard might
he to precipitate ourselves to the bottom
of some frightful chasm, and to
remain where we were might be
merely waiting until the ice should
open beneath our feet and engulf us.
But we were speedily forced to a conclusion.
While we stood a few feet
apart anxiously discussing our position,
there was another shock, and r
was blinded by a shower of small particles
of ice.
When I cleared my eyes I saw that
another cleft had opened directly at
my feet, between myself and the
guide. It was rapidly widening, and
in a few seconds would separate me j
from my companion. Without hesitation
I sprang across it and stood heside
him. He looked at me with a
I grave face.
" \\ e are in great u;uigt*r, nc s<uu,
simply.
" Ves," I replied, as quietly as I
could, ' but we must do our best to
get out of it. "What do you advise?"
" "We must not stop here," lie said,
peering into the fog;44 we are evidently
in the very center of these crevasses.
If we could get nearer to either bank
we should be safer. I think we had
letter follow one of these cracks until
we can cross it. We shall have to feel
our way, for this fog hides everything."
"Very good," I replied; "lead on
and I will keep close behind you."
Crouching almost to our hands .and
knees we proceeded slowly onward,
keeping the main crevasse, a cleft some
twenty feet wide, on our left. For
nearly an hour we went on in this way
and still the awful chasm yawned behind
us. Indeed, it seemed to me thatwe
had not moved at all, and that I
recognized certain peculiarities in our
surroundings as similar to those I had
noticed at our point of departure.
While I was pondering this disquieting
notion, I saw the guide stoop
and pick up some object from the ice.
He turned and looked ftt me with a
white face.
" "We need go no further," he said,
holding up hissjiirit-ila.sk. " I dropped
that an hour ago on the ice beside the
crevasse."
" In other words," said I. " we have
been traveling in a circle for the last
hour."
" Yes, the crevasse is all around us,"
he replied, with a drooping head.
" We are imprisoned upon an island of
ice."
I was silent for a moment, struggling
with my own dread. "Well,"
said I, " we must make the best or it
anil wait until the crevasse closes
again."
He shook his head sorrowfully.
" The mass of ice we are standing
upon will be more likely to split up
and we be sent to the bottom."
" The case is hopeless, then," 1 said.
"We can do no more. Let us meet
death as bravely as we can."
"Old Kober was right," lie muttered.
"He warned me and I have
led you to your death."
" Let us not speak of that," I answered.
" I do not blame you, Franz.
Let us shake hands, then sit down and
wait for whatever Providence sees fit
to do unto us."
"You are a brave man," ho said,
grasping my hand.
Desiring to prepare myself for what
was to come :is well as I might, I
withdrew a little distance from him,
and sitting down covered my eyes
with my hand. Meantime the grinding
and crashing went on all about
me. The fog had settled down so
heavily that it was almost like night.
Suddenly and without warning,there
was a roar like a thousand thunder
im;?i? .1 Jiiimlinc dnsh of ice narticles.
| and I felt as if I had been seized and
hurled bodily into the air. Then,with
Franz's wild cry in my ears, and the
sound of a furious wind rushing past
me, I seemed to be sinking down,
down into unfathomable depths. Then
came a violent jar and I knew no more.
"When consciousness returned I found
myself at the bottom of a tremendous
gorge, one wall of which receded upward
at an angle. It was by sliding
down this incline that I had escaped
being dashed to pieces?only
to await death in a more
lingering and horrible form.
The gorge was lighted by a pale-greenish
glow from the polished faces of the
ice, and far above I could see a narrow
streak of outer day. |
My shock and fall had aroused a
temporary resentment against my cruel
fate. I looked around for some means
of escape. One wall of the crevasse
asolutely leaned over me, and this a
cat could not have climbed; the other,
as I have already said, sloped upward
at a considerable angle, but it was so
slippery that 1 could find no foothold
upon it.
I had with me nothing but a strong
clasp-knife, but with this poor tool I
began desperately hacking niches for
my hands and feet in the ice. It was
slow and painful work. When at the
end of four or live hours I found that
I had not progressed more than ten
yards upward, my heart sickened, I relaxed
my hold, and slid, numbed and
despairing, to the bottom again.
By this time night had come upon
the world above, and in the chasm it
was perfectly black. I wrapped my
coat about me and lay down in the
crevasse, perfectly careless as to the
end of it all. Some time toward
morning, worn out with fatigue and
excitement, I fell asleep.
It must have been late in the day
when I awoKe. 1 started 10 my it-ei
and looked around me. A significant
change had taken place in the condition
of the crevasse. "When I had
fallen into it the chasm had been fully
twenty feet in width. It was now
less than six. The cleft of sky was
reduced to a mere white line far
above. The walls were approaching
each other?the crevasse was clo3ing
again. In the course of a few hours I
should be crushed to pieces between
the meeting masses of ice.
The thought had now no terror for
me. Mentally and physiciilly I was
benumbed and callous. I sat down
upon the bottom of the crevasse, stolidly
watching the slow approach of
the opposite wall, until it began to
press against my feet; then I arose to
a standing posture and continued to
eye it vacantly as before.
Another hour went by; it might
have been a moment or an age, so far
as mv dulled comprehension was concerned.
The walls had now approached
so closely that 1 could touch the opposite
one with my outstretched hands.
At this juncture a small object struck
me sharply upon the head. I supposed
it to be a fragment of ice detached
from the ice-walls above, and paid no
attention to it. But the blow was repeated
more violently, and I looked up
carelessly to see whence it came.
Tf won w-it.ii ;i snnsc of absolutenain.
so great was the revulsion from despair
to hope, that I saw the end of a
knotted rope dangling before me.
Some one had discovered my situation,
who it was or how I did not stop to
think, and had come to my rescue.
I seized the rope and hurriedly
knotted it under my arms, and, uttering
a shout to those above, was slowly
and painfully drawn up through the
fast narrowing cleft. A dozen strong
arms lifted me out into the sunlight.
Eager faces, among which I recognized
those of Franz and the old guide, bent
over me; then I knew no more.
My fainting fit lasted only a few
moments, but as I opened my eyes and
i sat up, the crevasse out of which I
had been drawn closed together with
t a terrific crash.
I learned that I had been engulfed
alone, and that Franz had been left
i safe upon a detached block of ice. At
. early dawn, finding the crevasse clos[
ing around and the glacier becoming
! passable again, he had hastened back
! to the village and procured ropes and
i assistance, with the hope that I might
i still be alive at the bottom of the crei
vasse. They had trailed the rope
; along the crevasse, knowing that if I
was still alive it would attract my at'
tention. Fortunately for me, the dei
vice succeeded, and i was rescued at
t the very last moment.
If, as they say, we measure time
^ il ?
SELECT SI FH^GS.
An Indian's wido tv lis expected to
keep in mourning for twenty moons.
The five good em par-ors of Rome
were Xerva, Trajan, llatlrian and the
two Antonines.
In China a lady's distorted foot
which, naked, looks Jjke a hoof, is
called a "golden lily."
An English writer attributes the
" leanness and lankness of Americans
to the dryness of the cl iiuate."
The ancient Chinese used hydropathy
as a cure for certain diseases,
among others chronic rheumatism,
i It is predicted that the time will
come when (Jaelio will cease to be a
.spoken language, and will share the
f.^te of its sisters, the Manx and
Cornish.
o vwir't! cnrmlv r>f
J ?J uiunc n j i.in .? ??1L"J ~?
in t his country takes 0,000 cords of
wood,, and supplies eight bunches for
every man, woman and child. The
governanent tax is $3,(300,000 on 400,000,000
boxes.
It is .stated that paper made from
strong libers?such as linen?can now
he compressed into a substance so
hard that it cannot be scratched by
anything b nt a diamond. In view of
this fact, it is thought that before long
a great va riety of house furniture,
will be ma de of paper instead of
wood.
Oswaldus Korthingerus is said to
have made 1,(5 00 dishes of turned ivory,
all perfect and complete in every part,
yet so thin anil slender that all of them
were included at once in a cup turned
out of a poppercorn of the common
size. Thay were so small as to be almost
invisible t>o the eye. They were
presented to iPope Paul V.
China is" ahe ad on bridges, tho largest
in the work I being her structuie at
Lagang, over an arm of the China sea.
It is live miles U >ng, built entirely of
stone, has 300 mc. hes seventy feet high
and a roadway seventy feet wide. The
parapet is a baltusi rade, and eacli of
the pillars, which as e seventy-nveieec
apart, supports a p?l> ""stal on which is
placed a lion, twerat.v-one feet long,
made of one block of inarble.
Tlie first Roman aiwnp hitheatre was
built by Crcsar with ti e amiable intention
of outdoing Pompey, who had
built a stone theatre greatly admired
by the people. Cicsar sc.nt immense
sums of money from Gaul ti > his friend,
the tribune Curio, who built two
wooden theatres side by sid e, so that
twy audiences could bo enteL tained at!
once, and so arranged that at a given j
signal it was possible to swing one theatre
about so jis to face the othi'r and
to form an amphitheatre.
In 1578 Mark Scalliot, a blacksmith
of London, made "for exhibition a nd
trial of skill one lock of iron, steel ar:d
brass, all of which, together with a
pipe-key to it, weighed but one grain
of gold." lie also made a chain of
gold, consisting of forty-three links,
and having fastened to this the be forementioned
lock and key, he put the
chain about the neck of a Ilea, winch
drew them all with ease. All th ese
together?lock and key, chain and L'ea
?weighed only one grain and a ha If
A Noble Red Man's Bill of Fare.
One of the peculiarities of the latest I
uuueu ouitea at>ic ul luuiug
ble red man is the fact that he is given
government rations, and at the same
time appropriations are made which
are supposed to maintain him. Sometime.?
a wild Indian who don't know
much about groceries and how to prepare
them for food, comes in and
draws his regular soldier rations in
this way. For instance, up in the Sitting
Bull country a while ago an Indian
came in from the warpath who
had never seen any of the pale-face
style of food, and drew his rations.
lie made a light meal of unground
coffee the first day, and as he
overate, the coffee swelled on him, and
he had difficulty in buttoninghispants
around the pain that he had on hand.
He felt very unhappy for a day or two,
but laid it to the fact that he hadn't
exercised much, and the consequent
ennui and indigestion resulted therefrom.
As soon as lie succeeded in getting
his interior department quieted down
he tackled his ration of candles. These
he decided to parboil, in order to avoid
trouble from indigestion. The dish
was not so much a glittering success
as he anticipated, and as he remorsefully
picked the candle wicking out of
his teeth with a tent-pin he made some
remark that grated harshly on the
esthetic ears of those who stood near.
He then tried a meal of yeast powder
and vinegar. lie ate the yeast
powder and then took a pint of extremely
potent vinegar to wash it
down. At Jirst there was a feeling of
glad surprise in his stomach, which
rapidly gave place to unavailing remorse.
A can of yeast powder in an
Indian's midst doesn't seem to be prepared
for a pint of vinegar, and
the result of such an unfortunate
circumstance is not gratifying.
Every little while a look of pain would
comeover the features of the noble chilil
of the forest, unci then he would jump
about seventeen feet and try to kick a
cloud out of the sky. Then he would
sit down and think over his past life.
It took about a week for him to get
back to where he dared to get up another
meal for himself. Then he
fricasseed a couple of pounds of Sundry
soap and ate that. Soap is all
right for external purposes or for treat
ing a pair of soiled socks, but it does
not assimilate with the gastric juice
readily, and those who have tried
laundry soap sis a relish do not seem
to think that it will arrive at any degree
of prominence as an article of diet.
When a gallon or so of agitated baking
powder and vinegar is singing its
little song in the innermost recesses of
an Indian, and this has been followed
bv a treatment of laundry soap, the
student of human nature can find a
wide field for observation in that locality.
The earnest and occupied look, the
troubled expression of the countenance,
followed by the quick, nervous twitching
of the muscles of the face, and then
the swelling up and the bui sting of
the suspender button, the deep-drawn
sigh and the smothered remarks, all
betoken the g;istric agitation going on
within.
This is why an Indian prefers a link
of bologna sausage to the high-priced
groceries so common in our modern
civilization.?Boomtrany.
WISE WOltMS.
True moral courage is the diamond
pin which may unite poetry and mildness
with a world-braving stoicism.
There are a great many subjects to
be wise or witty upon?and just as
many to be ignorant and foolish about.
Say nothing, do nothing, which a
good mother would not approve, anil
you are on the certain road to happiness.
iV Illiin WHO \V 111 11V13 illMJYi; JUS
present circumstances is in great danger
of living in a little time beneath
them.
lie that is taught to live upon little,
owes more to his father's wisdom than
he that has a great deal left him does
to his father's care.
The little and short sayings of wise
and excellent men are of great value
?like the dust of gold or the least
sparks of diamonds.
lie alone is wise who can accommodate
himself to all the contingencies of
life; hut the fool contends, and is
struggling like a swimmer against the
stream.
We take cunning for a sinister or
crooked wisdom, and certainly there
is great difference between a cunning
man and a wise man, not only in point
of honesty, but in point of ability.
Success and Failure.
The man who never failed is a myth,
i Such an one never lived, and is never
likely to. All success is a series of efforts,
in which, when closely viewed,
are seen more or less failures. The
. mountain is apt to overthrow the hill;
but a hill is -xealityy nevertheless. If .
> you fail now and then don'tbedi*-'
v?\
FOR THE LADIES.
Evolution In IlairpinN.
The hairpin of to-day is no more
kke its ancestor than is the enlightened
maa of science like the primeval monkey.
Hairpins have "evoluted" out of
the old-fashioned straight wire into
various shapes, sizes and designs.
Most of them are enameled. They are
of "varying length, from the gossamer
fort s with corrugated limbs, used to
hold in place puffs and curls, to the
Ion g pins required to keep on the big
hats whose broad brims present great
temptation* to the wind. They are
made by machinery, and are so cheap
that the poorest women may enjoy the
greatest variety. What becomes of
the hairpins? They drop on floors;
they get swept up and lost; they become
bent and useless ; they disappear
and are replaced, and great factories
are employed in making them.
Courting I'ndf-r IWllcultlcH.
A Cleveland (0.) gentleman, who is
fond of a story, related to a reporter
an incident of hypochondria which
came under his notice when he was
considerably younger than at the
present time. Ilis narrative was
something like this : "When I was
a boy there live d near our house, in a
part of Cleveland that was then almost
in the -woods, a maiden lady
who was in vary poor health. In girlhood
she was not strong, and as years
advanced she imagined herself growing
more and more delicate, till at last
she took to tier bed, where she afterward
reraaine d in daily expectation of
death. Her nerves were very delicate,
and in my days the schoolmaster
used to warn us urchins to keep quiet
when going "by her house, as we might
disturb her if any noise was made.
My youth and boyhood passed, and
with the coming of manhood I discovered
that a young sister of the invalid
was a very pretty girl, and
when, after coming home from
church or singing-school with her,
an invitation to come in was given,
it was always accepted. The short
and awkward visits made at first soon
gave place to the old-fashioned
sitting up. One evening several of the
young people came in, and the talk and
laughter grev.* hilarious. It was checked
instantly by a fvavy thump on the
floor in the room directly overhead,
where the sick woman lay. One warning
was enough, but the frequency of
the same signal afterward tended to
lessen our respect for it. It seems tha
she kept a big <-ane at the side of het
bed, and by rapping withjit she indi-.
cated her wjvnts?and her displeasurer
Finally one night, after being cautioned
several times in the usual manner
without effect, the parlor door
opened suddenly upon the assembled
party, and the bed-ridden woman stood
before our eyes holding the awful cane
in hand. It was the first time she had
moved in twenty years. Her entrance
was so sudden that she was able to give
two or three stinging blows to those
sitting near her before an escape could
be made. In a moment a shout of
laughter went up, ;uid the supposed invalid
was not slow in finding that she
was the cause. Her mother and sister
fixed her up with suitable clothes, and
she spent the remainder of the evening
downstairs, and the da V following she
went about the family housework! I
Jidn't marry the girl whom I courted
uiuler such adverse circumstances. .She
in .time married and went to Massachusetts.
and it was only last week that I
saw ti'.'e once invalid woman walking
as briskly about as any person of
eigQty-seryen could do.
Fn*liion Noten.
Popular colors for evening toilets
are buttercup and jonquil yellow.
Stamped cashmeres, made up with
velvet or satin, are popular for home
dresses.
The diamond as an engagement ring
has gone entirely out of Xew York
fashion.
In beaded embroidery for evening
dresses all shades of -terra-cotta pearls
arc fashionable.
A favorite design for a brooch is the,
clover leaf pattern with a different
rem on each leaf.
Dogskin gloves with four buttons
stitched on the back are worn by
ladies in cold weather.
Basques, with pointed waists, are
worn by young ladies in full dress.
These have the necks cut low.
The newest bonnets are very small,
but have a pointed brim extending ,
over the forehead and long cars with j
square corners.
Box plaits in dress skirts are made i
so wide that they look like panels, es- j
pecially when trimmed with cord four- 1
ages and buttons and bows. >
Padding, wadding and corsets are <
avoided by fashionable girls, as it is <
the style now to have the ligure look i
iis natural and supple ;is possible. i
Braided bonnets are made of strips
of velvet, strips of plush, of chenille f
and of camel's hair to match the colors '
of the cloths now so fashionable for '
walking suits. '
Tan is the favorite color for evening J
gloves when the rule of matching the '
dress and gloves is disregarded. Tan
color harmonizes with white, black !
...,.1 oil stnlnru
(Hi VI iVIA Wiv/i./.
The newest wraps are padded on (
the shoulders, or rather on the upper ^
]>art of the sleeve. This is done to
give the wearer an appearance of
greater height. ,
High corsages are very high indeed,
the collar encasing the throat and neck t
almost to the ears; above it only a tiny j
rim of the white linen collar is visible j
on a very natrow flat plaiting of lace, t
"When the skirt is of chenille spotted '
tulle, white or tinted, the underskirt 'J
should be of white or tinted satin,
while the corsage may be of brocade ;
or plush of the same shade or of plain 1
satin. *
For a debutante in society sixteen j
years of age, a dress for family or
ordinary reunions is of white veiling
trimmed with breton lace or with- *
silk plaitings. For large balls the *
dress of white surah, with small
floral designs. A pretty style is the r
" Dauphine" dress of surah, with {
tmrwhnu nf flmvpra Tf in:iv also ;
bo of silk batiste, with alternate 1
bunches of mvosotis and rose. buds. In 1
Paris young girls of twenty wear almost
everything in fashion, with the \
exception of diamonds, heavy fabrics '
and the richest trimmings.
"What 1o Sleep On. b
Do you sleep upon a feather bed? o
asks an agricultural paper. "We hope o
not. Years ago a feather bed was supposed
to he an important part of a 1
housekeeping outfit. If you have a r
feather bed, put it in the spare room, n
lock the door and lose the key. A t
curlfU hair mattress of the best quality c
makes one of the most desirable
couches, but curled hair is expensive c
and all cannot afford it. The next best j
thing, indeed almost as good, is af- f
forded by that plant, so dear to every t
American farmer?Indian corn. Who- !
ever grows corn need not lack for the t
most comfortable of beds. We are r
aware that ticks are sold filled with
husks with the stem part left on. A <
bed of this kind is not the kind of husk ,
bed we have in mind. To make the j
very best possible husk bed, save the f
husks from the green corn as it is daily
used. The husks are coarse, and should (
lui clit An old f:ishioncd hatchet. ?
where there is such an implement, an- <
swers well, hut a substitute can be r
made by driving a few large nails ,
through a board, and filing them sharp.
Drawing the husks across these will '
slit them into shreds an inch or less i
wide. An old carving fork may be i
used to slit the husks. Then put them i
to dry in a garret or some airy loft. If i
the green corn season is past, then, at ]
the regular husking of the field crop,
secure a stock for mattresses, lleject
the weather-worn outer husks, taking
only the thin, papery ones.
The Chinese laundrymen in this
country invariably put an assumed
name on their signs. Thus Xoy Po
calls himself Sun Sing, and explains
the custom by stating that if he were
to die and some one else should use the
signs with his real name on and do
something discreditable, it could be
^^vtp*-" " ir - '
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Eafltorn and Middle States
Two successive earthquake shocks in tl:?
vicinity of NoUborough, N. H., rattled
windows nnd crockery.
NEAnTitusville, Penn., a tank containing
3/5,000 barrels of oil burst and was set on lire.
Two men, one woman and a child wero
burned?two fatally.
Mes. Younq, a wealthy widow of Fall
River, Mass., has presented the city with
$500,000 to be used for educational purposed
in memory of her son.
According to the reports of the mine inspectors
there wero 2!)i> persons accidentally
killed and 1,014 injured in and around th<?
mines in tho anthracite coal region of Pe jiisylvania
during the past year
A si an in New York has defies indigestion
1 *Vin nns5P!9nr of fl tOUCh
mill Jjruvcil lUUlOOU ?,*?v ? w
stomach by eating two quails a day for
thirty consecutive days. The gastronomic
fo;it was performed on a large wager.
Axl bnt three ringleaders of tho thirtyseven
cadets suspended from the Pennsylvania
Military academy at Chester, for insubordination,
havo been reinstated.
Robert J. Smitii, a carpenter, twenty-save
years old, entered tho Noyos hotiso at
Lowell, MasH.twhore his wife was employed
ns a domestic. Without a word ho shot tho
woman doad and then put a bullot through
his own brain. The couple had frequently
quarreled,
South and vV set.
Damon Romero, a young Mexican, was
hanged at Springer, New Mexico, for tho
murder and robbery of a ranchman.
Tue Union Iron and Steel works, of Chicago,
are embarrassed and have shutdown,
throwing more than 2,000 men out of employment.
The liabilities of the company
aro estimated at $2,300,000.
In a drunken rcw between miners at Or.l
tcwah, Tenn., one named Bennett was
stubbed by Mike Drillard. A few minutes
later Drillard was run over by a train and in
stantly killed.
Ten men belonging to the steam collier
Tacoma lo3t their lives by tho vessel's wreck
off the Oregon coast.
At Cleveland, Ohio, the waters of a email
creek, swollen by heavy rains, rose far beyond
their usual height and spread over hundreds
of acres of lowland, surrounding a
leaky petroleum still of the Standard oil
works. The escaping oil and refuse wero
swept down the 6tream and carried under
the boilers of the Great Western oil works,
which were nearly submerged. The
oil became ignited and floated to n
tank containing 5,000 barrels of crude petrohum,
which took firo and exploded, spreading
the blazing oil in all directions. Continuing
down the stream the flaming flood
next attacked the tanks of tho Standard oil
works in tho valley, one after anothor of
which took firo. Nine tanks, containing
over G5,000 barrels of oil, were consumed.
The total loss is estimated at ?250.000.
The coroner's jury m (he investigation of
the Newhall house disaster at Milwaukee
found the proprietor of the hotel guilty of
culpable negligence in not employing a
sufficient number of watchmen to guard tho
house against fire, and in not providing sufficient
means of escapo.
The lumber nianufacl nring Ann of Forry
and Brother, of Grand Haven, Mich., tho
head of the house bein,' United States Senator
Ferry, hr.s failed. The firm has for
thirty yeirs ojnd.ictid a large business.
The liabilities, it is thru ;ht, will amonnt to
upwaid of ?50,(0>, contracted in large part
by the failure of tl e ;irm's Utoh mines.
Joun C. pajtkkk. a molder, about to be
tried at St. Louis fur killing Michael Payton,
p. baker, in a saloon last August, suddenly
drew a pistol i:i fc'io court-room and
shot IbB wite, whovn". fi'.ling besido him,
killing her instantly. Parker thou shot himself,
inflicting a wound from which death
soon rosul'ol An imesl;ga:ion showed
that Parkor's wife had rcn-onted beforehand
to be killed by hr.r husband.
W. S. Battle, of Raleigh, N. C., has failed
with liabilities placed at $2:S">,000.
Three minora wore killed by the caving: in
of the Ksineralda mine near Dcadwood, Da
t.ota.
The prevalence of smallpox in the southwestern
part of Virginia has created a panic
among the peoplo.
Sevebal earthquake shocks which knocked
down stovopires Hi;d cracked windows have
occurred in yarlou.? sections of Indiana and
Michigan.
In a collision between two trains on tho
Dayton and Michigan road at Kirkwood,
Ohio, four men were killed, the engines were
totally wrecked, and one passeuger was
badly scalded
The flood that recently swept throngh the
valley of tho Cuyahoga in Ohio was the most
widespread and destructive ever experienced
in that section. The whole valley, from far
[ibovo Cleveland to the viaduct, was entirely
submerged, presenting the appearance of a
lake miles in length and nearly a mile in
width, from the surface of which protruded
the tops of houses, smokestacks, chimnoys
ind railroad cars. The valley was covered
ivith lumber yards, mills, forges, machine
shops, manufactories, warehouses and freight
iepots, all of which wero partially under
tvator, while down tho rushing current of
the river floated lumber, barrels, timber and
ill kinds of debris passed on toward
"EVin tvifh fnrcn. Tim <lf>.
*truction of property is variously estimafoJ
it from $1,250,000 to $2,000,000. Over25,000,
XX) feot of lumber and .'!G,000,003 shingles
ivere carried off. The aggregate damage in
Northern Ohio by the floods will roach well
ip into the millions.
Fon many wecnj past law-abiding citizens
n Western Montana have been terrorized by
awless bands. At length they decided on
extreme measures. On a Sunday night three
lesperadoes were hanged and ono shot at
iVacksville. At (ho "Y," another camp,
>n the same day, throu mou were hanged to
me tree. Monday witnessed a similar fate
'or three more.
Tiie men Neal and Craft, found guilty in Jan:aiy,
1882, of the murder of Emma Thomas,
?annio Gibbons and her brother Robert, at
bhland, Ky., in December, 1881, obtained
he grant of a new trial in November last
vith a change of venue to Carl or comity.
L'heir transfer, it will bo remembered, was
iccompanied by an attack on the militia,
vho returned the lire, killing six persons in
he crowd. On this second trial the two men
vere accompanied from the jail in Lexington
o tho court-house at Grayson by 400 of tho
(entucky National guard.
Governor Hamilton, the successor of Governor
Cullurn, clechid to tho United States
senate, w.is inaugurated at Springfield. 111.
New Orleans was filled with visitors at tho
mnual Mardi Gras festival. Fifty triumphal
:nrs participated in tho procession. All tho
vessels in tho harbor were gayly decorated,
md at night tho bu'ldings along the lino of
narch were brilliantly illuminated.
Charles Watte, sheriff of Shorman cjnny,
Neb., shot and killed Mrs. Rj-an, a boardng-house
keeper with whom he was intinale,
nnd then committed snicido. Jealousy
ed to the deed.
During the temporary absence of the asistant
postmaster of Brooklyn from his
flico a man entered tho room and walked
ff with $2,.T00 lying on the official's desk.
A heavy blast in a colliery at Centerhill,
'enn.. brought down a portion of the mine's
oof upon seven miners, burying them uuder
bout ten tons of coal and rock. Two of
ho miners were taken out dead, and tho
ither five were fatally injured.
The Chinamen of New York nnd vicinity
elebrated tho Chinese New Year, which bofins
February 7, by making calls and per
nnramrmipB. TllO feStivi
uniting jitluiiu. ?.
ies continued for three days'. In China the
s'ew Year celebration is tho greatest feast of
ho year, and is often prolonged for a '
nonth.
While the Rev. Georgo F. RronFon, pastor !
>f n Congregational church at La Salle, 111.,
vas officiating at a marriage ceremony, and
ust as ho had pronounced the couplo man
ind wife, ho fell dead at their feet.
Pbkpakatioxh aro being made to celebr.ito
ho JKEkl anniversary of tho founding of
Santa Fe, New Mexico, tho oldest town in
he United States, by an exhibition of the
Teiritory's historical treasures and material
esources, to be held duiiag next July.
An Indian of the Creek nation, Indian
I'orritory, became crazed with excitement at
receiving $'2,000 as his portion of the orphan
money paid by the government, and in his
lelirium killed two of his sleeping companions
and mortally wounded a third. The
i 1:
lUlliUlu wnr> nai^u*
Edwabd J. Davis, ox-governor of Texas I
and leader of the Republican party in that
State, is dead.
Tun Scioto and other rivers in Ohio overflowed
and cnuscd enormous damage to
property. The town of Jasper was flooded
by the breaking of the levee. Marietta was
partly submerged, and hundreds of people
were driven from their homes. At Steubenville
the water works were submerged, and
the manufacturing establishments had to
shut down. The main business part of Pomeroy
was miniated. Every family in-the town
of Florida was driven from its home by the
j^v'^ - -.: * ;- --' J
K -. J.'
A BOiLETi explosion at Boone, Iowa, killed
the engineer and two other men.
One passenger and the driver of a coach
which left Pacific Springs, Wyoming, were
frozen to death.
Captain Payne and party were arrested by
United Statw troops while trying to enter
the Indian Territory for the purpose of occupying
the land.
Hknry Dbees, a St. Lotus teamster, cut
his wife's throat and then his own in presence
of their five children. Jealousy was
tl) e cause of the double tragedy.
The governor of Missouri declines to surrcnder
Frank James, the outlaw, to Minnesota
or any other State until he has been disposed
of under the indictments pending
against him in the State of Missouri.
I
From Waihington
The Samta in e.xe^ativj sassior. confirmed
tho following nnninnlions: Albert
Rhodes, of Now York, to be United States
consul at Elberfeld, Germany: Charles P.
Williams, at Calais; Orson V. Toiisley, of
Minnesota., ru Loipsic: Jamos E. Montgomery,
of Now V'or'c, at Triosto.
Pbesidext Akthub has nominated Cyr.13
Harris, of Rhodi* Island, to bo collector of
enstoms for 11>q distri<n of Providence; also
Eugene H. Plumacher, of Tcnnesseo, now
commercial agont at NIaracaibo, to bo United
States consul at tint place.
A majority of the House committee o.'i
military affairs agreed upon tho terms of a
bill to place General Gnmtnpon the retired
list of tho army with the Tank of general.
Ix is stated that ex- Secretary Blaino is
preparing a work of political history under
the title of "Twenty Tears of Congress:
from Lincoln to Garfieli A History of National
Legislation from 1851 to 1881."
Two notablo weddir?g3 took place the
other evening at the < sapltal. Miss Alice
Stnnwood Blaine, eldest, daughter of ex-Secretary
James G. Blaine,vas united to Colonel
John J. Coppinger, Unirted States army, at
Mr. Blaine's residenc), and Mi3s Mary
Walker Brewster, stepd. inghter of AttorneyGeneral
Brewster, was ir.arried to Robert J.
\V. Koons, of Philadelph la, at the Epiphany
church. President Arthur and many other
prominont personages w ere pro3ent at both
weddings.
Foreitrn I Wews.
Tni; schooner Adriana, of San Francisco,
was eoizod nt La Paz, Me rico, and the captain
thrown into jail on a charge of smuggling.
Tho captain deni ssd tJie charge and
a] paalod to tho United f.ttaU.s government
for redress.
Tim revolutionary or "republican" party,
as members stylo themselves, is triumphing
in Ecuador. Esmeraldas, tie lending port on
the coast, was besieged and after a fierce resistance
captured by tho revolutionists. Prior
to abandoning their positiion the besieged
sacked tho stores and dwallir.gs and fired
tho city in three places. The attacking party
had thirteon killed and kveaity-six wounded,
whilo of the government troops some forty
were killed and an canal number wounded.
In a densely-packed conrt-room at Dublin,
James Carey, a member of the city corporation;
Jo3eph Brady, a stone cutter; Edward
O'Brien, a shoemaker; Edward McCaffery.
a van-driver; Peter Cary, a mason; Lawrence
Hanlon, a carpenter; Peter Doyle and Timcthy
Kelly, coach builders, eight of the men
recently arretted there, -were charged with
the murder of .Lord Cavendish and Under Secrotary
Barko, ra Phoenix park. Several witnesses
tostified that they had seen one or
more of the prisoners in the park on the day
of tho assassination. George Qodden, an
old park ranger, deposed that at 7:20 o'clock
on the night of Ma;' &?a few moments after
tho assassination?a car, with five men driving
furiously, passed within ten feet of him,
and he identified Brad'y as sitting on tho side.
Two sharp dissecting knives and a rifle,
found concealed in Car ey's house, were produced,
and doctors deposed that the cuts in
the clothes and wonndii of the murdered
men were inflicted by inatrumente similar to
those shown in court.
A band of forty smugglers attacked a custom-house
guard of ten men near Salinas,
Mexico, killed four of them and recaptured
a quantity of contraband that had be<jn
seized by the off cials.
Oveb ono hundred persons suspected of
being connected with a secret organiza tion
have bft Dublin. A spy 6ystcm similar to
that used in Pennsylvania against the Molly
Magnires has been adopted by the authorities
in Ireland.
Renewed carthijnako shocks lmve been felt
at Murcin, Spain. Portions of Hungarj
have also been well shaken.
Michael Kavanacii wa* added to fiho list
of men, eight in all, charged at Dublin with
the murder of Lor;! Cavondish and Mr.
Burke.
Czah Alexander has issued a manifesto
giving notice that his coronation will take !
I laco at Moscow on May 27.
pnince Seuoius OvnoussoFF, a Rossiaa
privy councillor, senator and secretary of
state, is dead.
The steamer Konranro Castle, from London
bound to Shanghai, has been lost in the
Bay of Biscay. The captain and first mate,
and thirty of the crew, all Asiatics, were
drowned. The eight passengers and eight of
the craw were rescued by a parsing steamer.
John G. Buchan Hepburn, son of SiThomas
Buchan-Uepburn, a Scottish baronot,
was murdered by miners in Pines
Altos, Mexico. Fivo of the murderers were
tried and shot 011 tho following day.
A scnooNEB has been wrecked near Port- ,
aferry, Ireland, and another near the Shot- I
land Islands, Scotland. In the first instance 1
five sailors lost their lives, and in tho latter
the whole crew was drowned.
Mb. Michael Davitt, Mr. T. M. Healy, M.
P., and Mr. Quinn, who were arrested some
time ago for making inflammatory speeches r
and required by the court of queen's bench r
to give bail for good behavior or go to prison *
for six months, were arrested in Dublin for ^
refusing to give bail and conveyed to Kil- ^
mninhum 'ail. '
A fire destroyed the Royal Opera-house in c
rrt A ~ - t Af- nnn C
loronio; io*m, iji,'i,wv. The
Spanish ministry 1ms decided to treat
as freemen 40,000 Cuban slaves whom the
planters hoped to keep in slavery by not entering
on the census as required by law.
It is asserted thnt during this winter 1.T0 ^
bodies have been stolen from graveyards in
the vicinity of Montreal, one-half of which
were sent to medical schools in the United
States. b A
THE WORK OF CONGRESS.
Hcnr.:?. f
Mr. Tabor, recently elected Senator from J
Colorado, was sworn in and took his scat t
Mr. Pendleton introduced a bill amending n
Hie national bank net The tariff bill was u
further considered : tho duty on potato and a
corn starch was lixed at two cents, that cn \
rice and other starches being left at two and i
ono-half cents.
Mr. Maxoy presented the credentials of
his colleague, Mr. Coke, re-elected a Senator ft
from Texas....The pension appropriation
bill was reported to tho Senate by Mr. Logan.
The bill appropriates $,Sl?,575,00i), and reap- J
propriates $1"),?00,000 of unexpended bill- _
ances now in the treasury of former appro- I
priations.
A memorial of the New York chamber of
commerco against the importation of adul- r<
terat ?d teas was presented.... A joint resoln- n:
t!on was introduced for tho relief of tho sufferers
f rom the recent floods in Germany.... tj
The tariff bill was further considered. ti
Mr. Saunders presented a commimicmbn \
from the governor of Montana recommend- f,
ing great care in relation to the leasing of
the Yellowstone National park o- any part of
it, and urging action tj prevent t'le destrue- ei
tion of game there. Referred to the committee
on Territories....Discussion of the a
tariff bill was continued.
Ilou.te. {j
Mr. McCook presented a memorial of the si
chamber of commerce of Now York urging
Congress not to separate without passing a
bill to limit the coinage of the silver dollar to jj
the requirements of t he people.. .Mr. Cannon ?
l eonrtpil from the annronriation committee
tho legislative, executive and judicial bill, 1,1
which carries the salaries of all civil ofBcors, rc
clerks and other employes in the public ser- "
vice. f,
The Senate hill to encourage the holding
of a world's industrial and cotton centennial p
exposition in 1864 was passed....Mr. Randall,
froin.t'ie committee on ways and
means, reported a bill to prevent the C1
importation of adulterated tea c<
Mr. Singleton offered a resolution directing w
the committco on naval affairs to inquire p
into tho condition of affairs at the naval j,;
academy, and report tho cause of the trou- w
hit! between tho students and the suporin- B
tendent of the institution, whether there has Ir
been any insubordination on the part of the j
students, and whether the superintendent
has been exacting, oppressive and tyrannical
iu his management Resolutions IC
of respect to tho memory of tho late W. M. b
Jjowe, of Alabama, was passed, and eulogies
were dclivored by Messrs. Jones, of Texas,
Ford and Burrows, of Missouri, aud Gates
and Herbert, of Alabama.
Unsuccessful at'empts were m.?de to sits- _
pend the rules an 1 pass bill? to e;tablish the
Territory of Nor.h Dakola, to quiet the title
cf settlors on the Des Moines river landB. and n
to provide a civil government for the Torri- i
tory of Alaska: and al?o to bring tho legisla- c
live appropriation bill before tho House..
Tho tariff bill was further considered. c
Appropriate resolutions upon tho life and oi
public services of the late Representatives c
Updegraff, of Ohio, and Hawk, of Illinois,
were offered. After addresses eulogistic of
Representative Updegraff by Messrs. J. D. 11
Taylor, Atherton and McKinley, of Ohio. 11
Skinner, of New York, and Willis, of Ken- *
lucky, and eulogistic of Representative d
Hawk by Messrs. H'tt, Sherwin, Henderson, ?
and Davis, of Illinois, Rosecrans, Carpenter,
:
Mr. Robeson, from the committee on rules,
reported a resolution that for the remainder
of the session the House shall at fi:30 p. sr.
each day take a recess until 7:30 p. m.
Adopted....Mr. McLane introduced a hill
aqpropriating 810,000 for the erection of a
monument to the memory of Baron De Kalb
in the naval academy grounds. Referred
Mr. Bingham introduced a bill for the appointment
of a commission to consist of seven
members, three of whom may be* members of
the present House and two of whom may be
Senators, to inquire into the condition and
value of the plant of the various telegraph
companies of tho country and report to tho
next Congress what methods are at present
available to reduce the cost of telegraph
communication, and whether any legislation
is necessary to carry out the pow6r of Congress
to regulate commerce as applied to
telegraph communication. Referred.
MILLIONS LOST BY FLOODS. .
Heavy Destruction of Property in Pennsylvania
and Ohio?Some Live# Lost.
Heavy rains, added to a thaw resulting
from the mild weather, caused disastrous
floods in Western Pennsylvania and
Ohio. Large tracts o! country were submerged,
railway bridges have been washed
awny, mill property is greatly damaged, and
in many instances people were compelled to
'iee for their lives. In many places boats
had to be used for the purpose of rescuing
those in peril. Railway trains were impeded
at many points, aud a few lives were lost,
while the loss to property runs up into the
millions. Dispatches from various points
gave the following particulars:
Pittsburg, Penn., and vicinity: The ice
went out of the Neshonnoch rivers in this
State, accompanied by very high water. The
audience in the Newcastle Opura-house had
to be taken from the door in carriages, the
water being two or thr?e feet deep around
the door. Trains on the Oil City and
Chicago, the Pittsburg and Lake Erie,
and the Erie roads were suspended,
the water putting out the fires in the locomotives.
Two country bridges and the Newcastle
railroad bridge wera torn away. Half
of Oil City was inundated, the people being
rescued from their houses in boats and on
rafts. The fires in the pumping houses of
the water works were put out, and
Oil City's water supply was cut off.
The bridge at Titusville was swept away
with three boys on it, two of whom were
drowned. No trains could reach tho city.
Meadville was flooded, and over two hundred
famil:es were rescued by boats. All
country bridges wera down, and cattle by
I he hundreds have been swept away. The
large French Creek bridge was destroyed.
Timber nnd rafts valued at $50,000 were lost
on the Clarion river. The hrge bridge over
the Alleghany river at Einlonton was carried
away with a man namod Ross on th?
U Tin Pit,,
U1 Ibt <Uv UUUkVU IV X (Uigi VilTj YTUCIV
ho was reicued by ropes let down from the
bridge. The destruction of property along
the Alleghany river will reach ?n00,000. At
Pittsburg about forty coal boats and barges
aiul two steamers, the Modoc and the Cora,
wore torn loose by the icc, and either broken
to pieces or carried away. Loss $100,000.
Bradford, Penn: This place was visited
by a disastrous flood, which inundated abont
500 houses along Pearl, Globe, Boylston,
Florence, Pine, iicin and other streets. The
lower part of the city was submerged in some
cases to the depth of ten feet. Five bridges
were swept away and several houses
along the banks of the creek
wero badly damaged or totally destroyed
Eighty-five families on the flats
between Bradford and Tarport, living in
one-story houses, had to flee for their livos
when the ice gorge broke away, leaving all
their effects, and many of the houses were
swept away.
Akron, Ohio: Tho damage by the flool in
this city aggregates $")0,000. Locks 1!) and
20 of the Ohio canal were washed away entirely,
and others ware badly injured. In
the Sixth ward the ioa and water gorged
broko suddenly and three families were
with difficulty rescuod. All the families in
Pimn Krtrfl tfO 1 1qt? n A?f nni4
tuc vu^auu^a imit/ nuu mw uuit>uuiu yai b
of tho city iled from their houses. The Valley
railroad bed wa3 washed ill many places
from Canton to Cleveland, and all tho trains
were abandoned. Abridge on tha Pittsburg,
Fort Wayno and Ch'cngo road between
Alliance and Canton v.as washed away.
Yonngstown, Ohio: Tho Mahoning river
overflowed its banks, inundating a large
part of tho city. Tho water was higher than
at the great flood of 1878. Familios were compelled
to leave their houses in boats. All
trafflo on railroads was stopped, fields of ice
covering tho tracks between this city and
Pittsburg. An abutment of the bridge of the
Pittsburg and Western at Newcastle, Penn.,
was washed away. The largo iron bridge
between here and Newcastle was also swept
away. The damage in this neighborhood
will be from $100,01)0 to $200,000.
Cleveland, Ohio, and vicinity: At this
point the greatest amount of damage was
done. In Cleveland from threo to four
miles of closely occupied territory was submerged.
Tho great flood reached its highest
point at about noon, when the river was
ten feet lughor than at the ordinary stage.
It is estimated that 23,000,000 feet of lumber
and from 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 shingles
have been washed from the lumber
yards. The Valley railroad was several
feet under water for miles,
and its bridge near Weighlock was
swept away. Two mills of the Cleveland
Paper company, containing about forty tons
of manufactured paper, were in water nearly
to-the top of the first story. The lower central
way bridge was broken, and the approaches
gone. The district all abont pre
sented the appearance of a lake dotted with
chimneys of furnaces, roofs of buildings, and
lumber pilessecurely anchored. The infirmary
farm on the river's edge was submerged. The
freshet was the most destructive ever known
there, and the water was higher than since
the great flood of lS.VJ. The damage caD
hardly bo less than $1,000,000, and may b#
much greater. A dispatch from Mansfield
reports that two froight trains went through
bridges near there, and that one brakeman
was killed and another lost his leg. Three
other bridges between there and Alliance, on
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago rail,
road, have been washed away. A
Delaware (Ohio) special reported that
the 0' antanzy river was raging, the freshet being
the worst ever known. The suspension
bridge was swept away, and two other
bridges were expected to go. Families living
nuar the river wero rescued on boats.
Acres of meadow land have been inundated,
and houses and thousands of trees are afloat.
A dispatch from Mount Vernon reports that
a bridge on the Baltimore and Ohio road
wiis uiuuuu tiw?> wniiL- it irciKtlt train wan
crossing. The locomotive and the forward
part of the train sank oat of sight. All the
train?hands escaped except a brakeman
aair,ed Hartman, who was drowned.
How a Lawyer Treated the Case.
I, David Strouse, of Xew Haven, Conlecticut,
was attacked with a severe
heumatism in my right arm, hand and
oot, so that I walked with difficulty
ind could hardly use my hand to eat
vitli. I used one bottle of St. Jacobs
)il, rubbing well three times a day, and
ibtained instant relief and a perfect
ure. David Stiiouse, Attorney at
jaw.?New Haven {Conn.) Union.
In' Paris bread is adulterated by
nixing it with bean meal, potato
tarch, etc., or adding to it deleterious
ompounds of lead, copper, zinc, sulhate
of lime and chalk. Out of
liirty-one specimens of bread analyzed
nly thirteen were made of pure wheat
nnr
OX THIRTY DAYS' TRIAL.
The Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall,Mich., will
end Dr. Dye's Celebrated Electro-Voltaic
Bolts and Electric Appliances on trial for
hirty days to men (young or old) who are
iftlicted with nervous dobility, lost vitality
ind kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy
;nd complete restoration of health and manly,
igor. Address as above N. B.?No risk is
ncurred, as thirty days' trial is allowed.
For Thick Hendw,
Heavy stomnchs, bilious conditions?Wells'
lay ApploPills?antibilious,cathartic. 10 2.5c.
How can you remain a sufferor from c -slepsia
when worse cases than yours are being
:ured by Hood's Sarsaparilla. Try it.
)ose Cup. lidvcrtTsement in another column.
Don't Dle^in^Jho Honne. ^
"ItOUgn Oil lulls. vicuim uuu iiiu, uucc,
>aches, bedbugs, flics, ants, moles, chipmnks,
gophers, 15c.
There is bnt one way to euro baldness, and
lat is by using Carbolinu, a deodorized exact
of petroleum, tho natural hair grower.
a recently improved, it is tho only dressing
>r tho hair that cultured people will nso.
2,"o buys a pair of Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffnors;
makes a boot or shoe last twice as long.
Yfter a Wisconsin clergyman had preached
sermon against the sin of wearing finery,
Mr. Thomas went home and tore a silk
ress off his wife. Then Mrs. Thomas
Hashed his gold watch.
TIIOUUII HALT KIIKUM
toes not directly imperii lifo. it is a distressful, texv
ons and resolute complaint. Patient endurance of its
nmert'US very small wi.tery pimplco, hot and smarting,
quires true fortitude. Ifthodiischargod mat tor sticks,
ohes. and the scalu leave underneath a roddenod sur- 1
ice, thodinrasuhnnn.it depart^*, and Hood'ufifuvinnrillit,
in nude-rate doses, should bo continued.
I
M.UIM.f I .1.^1. 1.1 im.nv.i.
"My little four-year-old girl had a powerful eruption
a her fnoo nnd head. I'nttor her eyes it was regular 1
:alding rod and sore, like a burn, Back o( her loft ear j
e had to idiavo her limr cI-ki? to her bond. Fire or nix ,
tijficians and two hospitals g.ivo up her caso as incura- i
le, save tint :<bo might outgrjw it. When it began to j
latur.ite I became alarmed. In threo weeks, with j
lood's Sarsaparill.i, the soresbogun to heal; twobottles '
lade her eyes as clear as ever. To-day she is as well aa
am." JOHN C.VRKY, It'rl D Street, South Boston.
ATTEST: I know John Carey. He is an honest, g'. -d
lan, whose statements are worthy of entiro credit. I
eliove whr.t he s-iys about hi* chil'I's sickness.
CLINTON H. COOK, Milk Street, Boston.
HOOD'S SAItSAI'AItll.T.A.
Sold by Druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by
!. I. IIOOI) ifc CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
('urn tlint Cold.
Do not suffer your lungs to bocoma diseased by
Mowing a cold to continue without an effort to cure it.
'housands have died premature deaths, tho victinu of
nnsumption, by simply neglecting a cold.
Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam for tho Lungs will cure Colds,
oughs and Consumption surer and quicker than any
ther remedy. Th.nijjh alow, is sura if persisted in acording
to directions.
Henry's Ciiibollc Snlro
I the best Salve for C.itr., Braises, Sores, Ulcers, Sal
;heum. Tetter, ChapptrJ Hands, Chilblains, Corns
nd all kinds of Skin Eruptions, Freckles and Pintles.
Get Henry'.) Carbolic Salve, aa all others are
annterfeit. Price S3tf.
The Excesoes of Youth are drafta upon Old Age,
i/able with interest, milfernr* should immediately use
Poverty ud Dlstrea*.
That poverty which producea the greatest
distress is not of the purse bnt of the blood.
Deprived of its richness it becomes scant and
watery, a condition termed anemia in medical
writings. Given this condition, and scrofulous
swellings and sores, general and nervous
debility, loss of flesh and appetite, weak
lungs, throat disease, spitting of blood and
consumption, are among the coqimon results. 1
If you are a sufferer from thin, poor blood
employ Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery,"
which enriches the blood and cures
these grave affections. Is moro nutritive than
cod liver oil, and is harmless in any condition
[ of the system, yet powerful to cure. By
druggists.
On January 1 there were in the penitentiaries
of Spain and its African possession?,
17,G33 criminals.
Dr. Pierce's " Pleasant Purgative Pellets "
(ire sugar-coated and inclosed in glass bottles,
their virtues being thereby preserved unimpaired
for any length of time", in any climate,
so that they are always fresh and reliable.
No cheap wooden or pasteboard boxes. By
druggists.
Fuench scientists have just discovered a
new nan. iney msianuy anu wun fjreai
presence of mind called it the "Earypharynxpelecandides."
As a tonic and nervine for debilitated
women nothing surpasses Dr. Pierce's
" Favorite Prescription." By drnggista.
A neobo child waH born recently near Athens,
Ga., with a full sot of teeth.
Skinny Men.
Wells' Health Renewer restores health, vigor,
curesDyspepsia, Impotence, SexualDebility.$l
THE GREAT GERMAN
REMEDY
FOR PAIN.
Relieves and cures
RHEUMATISM,
Sciatica, Lumbago,
BACKACHE,
HEADACHE, TOOTHACHE,
QUINSY, SWELLINGS,
IPBAIH8,
Soreness, Cuts, Bruises,
BURNS, SCALDS;
And *11 other bodily acbeo
FIFTY CENTS A BOTTLE.
Sold by nil Drnpglsts and
Dealers. Directions lu 11
The Charles A. Vogeler Co.
IO A. VOOZLZQ * CO.)
naiunore, nan v. iu m,
n y~W~U?6
-rSf^T^'lf &?alida broken down
UEB^iS Ga S BP iu he,lth "d "PW*
fefc k. 8TOMACH^|^ yon, too, may bo
?5fl 5? /Of jj| ^ ri>n?tbonnrl and rc*82)
g Sj H Hp?' *11 Druniets tod
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^^5^2?TiX_Knts, Mice, Fleas, Flies, Lice, Ant*.
Insects. Free from Poison. Not
dangerous to uso. Only infallible remedies. 7Go. to $3 pel
dor.. Retails ll'o toftco. All Stores. 405 Broome St.. N.Y
Silvrr Ore >ilovc t'olliiti, ocl'nnd IQc.aift'g boiesl
ADD TOIlliNCOME
Glut* offer* the surest mctnsof making regular monthly
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GRAIN. PROVISIONS I STOCKS
Each member gets Hie bencfltof combined capital of Uit
Club. lie ports cent weekly. Dividend* paid monthly.
Club 13 paid shareholder* back their money (u prtUt* In
past three month*, still leaving original amount raaklnf
Iiwucjr mv<uu,ur rcturuniuiiiiuimiiu. DiiMw,viwtM.ik
Ei plan nor? circulars sent free. Keflable correspondent!
wanted evcTTtflierc. Address IL E. Kzh?aLL k C?.
?m'u Mclits.. 177 & 1*9 \a Salic St. Cmdxqo, III.
m a%w^_ Is unfailing and InfaV
^ g U A kI7/I h liable Id curing EpU>
c Aln/UU J^lk cptlc Kits, Spasms,
Convulsions, St. Vitus
" CURES AND " Dance, Alcoholism,
Opium ^jlng^Nei^
w '.' ururB MtrB ^ who require a nerve
tonic, appetiser or
Mfl ^ AVMstlmulant, Samaritan
* B P D^lr Ml wr Nervine is Invaluable.
W B0? Thousands proclaim It
w the most wonderful Invlgorant
that ever sustained the slnkingwysiem. For
sale by all Druggists, 'i nk DR. 8. A. RICHMOND
MEDICAL CX>~Sole Pruprletora, St. Joseph, Mo.
|l u u rrjcra new ^ ,
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BartiBh ^tlHj.sPsddiairtetfrOTasiioibM.
h cepshap^t wilK Self-Adhaller
Ballio c*ntar,adaekttMllto 2
"fif 8EHA1 BLEW Pylons el lb* Mr. wbQ? th?
AH Tm?r* KlllBtll?C1ippTMH?bMktk?
SB %L TBUM^y latxttaMjisiMap*r*oc??ol4
^pf \ f* frith Ik* Vtapa-^ With ll(M
^ pnerojBiBexieroieieBaieieerary .
Isjtud eight, *nd ? ndleal rcra ctrula, ItU mrf, isatii
IBdcfatip. wntbyjaifl. CtrcoUn free,'. 9
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Beat In the world. Get the gennine. Every
Mckate bail oar trade-mark and la marked
Frnzer'8. MOLD EVERYWHERE.
TMFRFQT ^
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Demorest's Illustrated Monthly.
Sold by all Newsdealers and Postmasters,
or the Editor of this paper will take yonr subscription.
Send twenty cents for a specimen
copy to W. JENN1NUS DEFOREST, PubUsher.
17 Eaat14th Street, New York.
JsUdglM 1 Ml I ni'l fc
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rH Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. ISj
IM Use In time. Sold by druggists. M
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rviuiiuwii wiivw ? <! ? |
.n<l Rockers. Strong, durable and comfortable. No I
gilt. trashy stuff, but good, honest home romforta.
pecial discount to clergymen. Send sUmp for cat a>gue
to F. A. SIM I.AIFI, Jlottville, Ononnnga
County,Mow Vorl.
Hand:Power Elevators
xid Hoist Wheels for etores, factories, etc. Dambalters
(pat. Feb. 8,1876) for dwelling-houses, flats, etc.
be best in use. Prices and particulars upon application.
orrion Prow. Factor/, 131 South Sth Ave., N.Y.
IMITATION STAINED GLASS.
Indescribably beautiful. Easily applied to window
glass. I,(XX) references, samples, etc., 2.5c. in stamp*.
A<JENTS> IlKltAM). IS pp. S1H6 (10c.): fearless
is its denunciations of sundry humbugs. Indorsed
by 600, OOOgorernmoii t officials and citizens. Jiare chaneet
to com money. Subscription 60c. NEW subscribers
ONLY 2~ic. $20 to finder of longest word, each edition
of Herald. 1,. LUM gJMITHt Philadelphia, Pa.
consumption;
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ore thousands of caiss of the worst kind and of lose
standing hare b?#n cured. 1 so strong ts mjr falta i
In It* efflcacy, UiM I wlli^end T WO BOTTLK3 FKEK, to- |
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oiiTSuCeror. Olvo Bxpn-wi mid F. O. e trims. * I
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proof, Superior to Linen. Paper or Celluloid. Sent by
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buryport. Mass.
<jMl >?vr>TK*'S f EiRD FLIXIR S?\ JgCq
ei?.,iurap<or til'cr. t..,i.L.baiTiiAt u.Soi.isu. l'aUiiut,!!!, r
rt MilKKTS fino writing pnpor, in blotter, wltli %
ff g H calendar, liy mail fur 2 >c. Agent* W'mitc<l. .
WWhcoNOMi; Puinting CO., Nuwburyport, Mass. 1
AP1IMake money sellinfonrVamil); Med- '
faHvBaiu H ^icinei. N<> capital required, fstand*. r
Mil Bail I Ward CoroCo., 107 Puarl St.. N. Y.
VnilNR MEU L?arn telegraphy hero and we wU) 3
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VAI.KNTINE I1KOJS., JnncovHIe. Win.
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#CC ? week in your own town. Ttrmi and $5 outfit
500 free. AddressH. HaM-STtACo., Portland, Mo.
A RSnt" Wanted for the lieKt and Fastest-sellinj
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cent. National PctbljshINO Co.. Philadelphia, Pa.
CT> 1~1 COLEMAN BUSINESS COLLEGE,
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^"79 A WEEK. 812 a day at hnmo easily made. Costly
'< outfit free. Addrcaa Tuce a Co., Augusta, Mo. '
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Wilsonia
Insoles.
THE GRANDEST DISCO
Those Insoles keep the foot dry and warm on the coldee
their consequent ills, uy woarius a pair of Wn.so.n'la MaGN
$2.00. fhee by mail.
WILSOMA < L'UES AU J
It hasbeen successful in eichtytivo eases in each one hu
theso Appliances have been doine c. marvelous work arannp
bles taken from the hospitals and cured. Chronic invalids
[lave squandered their time, their money and best days ftp
snjoyine life by having worn Wilsonia. One say.,: 1' I would
Dnoweok." Another, " I was paralyzed for five and a half
not take $50,00(1 and bo as I was one year aco." Another, '
;reat pain. Tlio Wilsonia Appliances have taken away all
bad catarrh and deafness and dyspepsia for manv years. W
my Kratitudo." Uivo sire of shoe, und whether (or lady or g
WILSONIA MAGNET
25 East 14th Str
UinUCQT UnMHDQATE
L01
MASON sHAMUNO
S.YDIA E. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND. .
Ib a PoflttTe Core
For all tboM Falnfol ComplalaU sad W<dMM
o eonutoaM ?wbent feiule popnlafl?.
A Medicine for Vfomt jj. Invented b;-a Wo*a*>
Prepared by a Ifomaa. I
n? Greatest Hwlital Dlworiry Slat* tls D*wa rf Ulstwj*
Wit rerir** the drooping spirit*, Invigorate* and
harmonizes the organic function*, gives elasticity and
firmness to the step, restore# the natural Justro to the
eye, and plant* on the pale cheek of woman the frnlj
rose* of life'* spring and early summer time.
|y Physician! Ust it and Prescribe it Freely *
It remove* falntnes*, flatulency, destroys all enrfrf
for stimulant, and rellere* wcatae** of the stomach.
That feeling of bearing down, caadng pain, weight
uid backache, Is always permanently cored by It* use.
For the care of Kidney Complaint* of dtkw nx
this Compound I* anaurpaMtd.
I.TDIA ?. PIXKHASTS BLOOD PCBITIEB
will eradicate every Testis* of Humors from tb*
Blood, and giro tone and strength to the system, oc
mao woman or child. Insist on having It,
Both the Compound and Blood Purifier are prepared
at 2S3 and 335 Western Avenue, Lynn, Kao, Price o<
either, 91. itt bottles for $5. Sent by mall la the torsa
cf pills, or of loionfje*, on receipt of price, flparbex
for either. Mrs. Plnkham fffWljr answers all lettara ot
Inqnlry. Enclose Set stamp. Sefld for pamphlet.
JTf. family should be without LYDLA. % ffltflfll
LIVE a PILLS. They care constipation, UlMMMMk . ? >
and torpidity of the lirer. ?5 cent* per box.
JO-8old by all Dnnlita.'il W
fflASBEENPROVED^I
3 The 8URE8T CURB for ? j
KIDNEY DISEASES, |
J Soaa a lame backer a disordered arias isdlll
1 Cat* that you ay* a Ylfftim? THBW SO JTOTlt
i wwrmiffra. ? ? u * fttiutfnrrmm amm Ik
I (drugglata reoomaend ItJ tat! it*111 apeedUy I
overcome the dUeaae and reatoro healthy action. '
1 It Is a SURE CURB for all
DISEASES of the LIVER.
It hM spedflo action on tht? meet Important
organ, enabling It to throw otf torpidity and laI
action, cumulating the healthy accretion of tic
Silo, end by keeping tho bowela infrMeoadlI
tlott, efl>0ting its regular dlabhar-jo.
MolaWo If yon are suffering C-orU '
I IVIdlQI ld? hivo tlio?
rcbUioua, dyspeptic, or coaatlpated, Kidney.
Wert will ?nrolyroll5vo and quickly cure. ,
I In the Spring, to olftaneo tho System, every >
one ehotdd take wthorongh ocrnrac efli
1 I orllaC 7?ooaplalr.tj p^uliarto
bflUICDi yanftix. rue'-i -a yala crA
I \weskneesee, KLDMX5T-W021T li l-.?-r^aoecd, I
aa it will act promptly and ?aTcly.
Either Sex. Incontlncnce, retratlaa cf nrlne,
I brlakduatorropy deposits, and dull drcc?ing
. f ?vi apeedlly yield to lta enrativo pjcrWr. gI
C3TIt Acta at the umo time on the KX^fisXa, [ft
L1VJ1R AND BOWEL3~?3 rcr Constipation, ft
pilot, or Rheumatism It U r. permanent euro. K
so^en^
I'libArfd'i&snsis1
A NEW DISCOVERY.
, EFTor aereral yean we bare furnished the
TJalrymen of America with an excellent artificial
color for butter; so meritorious that It met1
l with great iu?n everywhere receiving the
highest end only prize* At both International,
Defer Ma
I tyBct by patient and sclentiflo chemical research
wo havo Improved In several polnta, and I
I now offer this new color as the bat in thtworUL
tt Will Wot Color tho Buttermilk. <ti
I WIH Hot Turn Rancid. X la th?
I ttrongeat, Brightest and
Cheapest Color Made, I
' QTAnd, while prepared In oil. Is ocomposnded
that It is impossible for it to become rancid. I
I EVBEWARE of <11 Imitations, and of all
other oil colors, for tbey are liable to become,
rancid and spoil the batter.
I arif yoa cannot get the "lmprored" write ns
to knowwheroandhpwto get it without extra I
expense. O)
WILLS, niCHAUDSOy A CO., Rarilatfte, TL |
fTIS
i ra *1
, partus
?dr ^emj
5 ^^fifi?y| , thtpuWfc
H. H. WARNER &, C<J.
ROCHESTER. N.Y.
jy This remedy Is an nliaolnte specific fmr
hftilliMiiM of women! for the self*!nfllrt?<1
lervons troubles ofyontlk, and for the debility
vhleh precedes old age. As statistics show
hat all diseases arise from the kidneys or
lTert we can guarantee freedom from diaense by
eason of the power which onr Safe Kidney
md Liver Care possesses over these orjrnns*
DOSS CUP fc CQBS-SCEEW.
-M *" invalid'* boon and nntneV deJIgbi
^oHFvf GIVEN FREE toDnlvooi*? I
. J9 llEAI.TIt MOKTIH.Y to thfrte KOdhlfi
_ w on|y 4 letter stamps for u 3 month/
H X subscription. The Dosr Cpp
t) J ? mensurv* ocrarntely one dntchmand
y r Q prevent* mistakes: the cork-screw _
< j l. prevents liroAkinfr fork* unci knifeC
f X blade*: tho Hculth Monthly prevents
J * ? human ill*. AAlrrns M. Hll.L Pt'B.
< e CO., Box 7SS, New Vorlc City.
fl 8 nil fTIOII
i MAuNE I idDI
Wilsonia
ffiriloy Appliances.
very of the age!
t days. Consult your health. Avoid colds, with al'
etic Insoles. PKICE, 50 CENTS; 5 pairs for
?ORJIS OF DISEASE.
ndred. For over three years in England and Amrric*
; invalids. No medicine required. So-called incursrestored
to the Mossing of health. Thousands who
erinjentinK with medicine without success, are to-day
nut take $1,1*10 for what Wilsonia has done for mo in
years. Wilsonia cured me in a few months. I would
'I had rheumatism for twenty-three year*, suffering
the [tain, and I can dance like a hoy." Another, "I
'ilsonia liss cured ran entirely. Words cannot express
:entlcucn. Send price in stamps.
in pi ntuiwn pn
IU ULU I B1II1U UU.,
eet, New York. _ I
^VERYGREAT WORLD'S I
IIBI^ON FOR^b YEARS.
,$93,1108-, $114, $500, AND UP I
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