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r -?*" Tg ^ | ^ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1883 NO. 23. VOLUME XXVIII -|fM THANKSGIVING. As flower from the sod look.* up To greet the gladsome light That Alls with fragrance its gay cup, And makes its petals bright. So may our hearts look up to Theo Oh God, our sun, our spring I And every grateful faculty To Thee it; glad song sing ! For tables bountifully spread, For homes, and hearts that love, For every good that cro? ns our head, For hopes that !ur above. For all the streams of good that flow Down from Thy distant rills, "We thank Thee ; for they come, we know, Prom Thino eternal hills. We thank Thee for the friends still ours ; "We thank They none the less For those we have had, though their powers Our lives no longer bless. For like a meteor in the sky, Though they have gone from sight, Their pas ing trail still greets the eye, And makes our night sky bright. Teach us to lienr the songs of life; Teach us t> see its beauty ; Oh make us manlv ia its strife, Nor ever deaf to duty, And since what&'er we have was given. And still Ivy right is Thine. \ Teach us that earth is Jikest heaven r Through charity divine. AT DERIS FARM. A TITAXKSOIVIXO STORY. It was the day before Thanksgiving, but there were no preparations for feast or revel at Norris farm. The old red house stood grim and silent in the midst of gaunt trees that had dropped their leaves like tears since tne trouine nnu ?aucn upon orris ijaee. For during the last few months matters had grown from bad to worse, and the poor harvest had proven beyond a doubt or a hope that the old farm must go. It had been under a mortgage these Sve years, and old Squire "Winters had been obliged to sell the mortgage to raise money to pay the bills his long and lingering illness during the last year had accumulated. "I was sorry to hcv to do it, Neighbor "Vnrric " Vin enul wlion hn rump over, the week before Thanksgiving, to tell the unwelcome fact. "The mortgage would never hev been forec losed by me. as you know. I'd hev given you time to pay it up if it had been twenty years. But my sickness just snapped me?took all my ready money; beside, hired help let the place run down and ruined all my machinery. Then that man came from the city buying up mortgages, and the money he offered for' the one I held on your place would save my home for me and my old woman. I told the man to go easy with you, but I can't swear that he will." And Neighbor Xorris and his wife and their "help," Janet Dyer, listening, knew just what this meant. It meant the foreclosure of the morttracri' tbo rlnv nftor Tlinnksrrivinrr 6"to" " "'V o ?' "Shall I make any pies to-day?" It was Janet Dyer who asked the question this morning before Thanksgiving, after the pcant breakfast had been put away, almost untouched. Mrs. Norm sliooK her gray head, that had seemed to whiten strangely during the last week. "No, Janet," she said; "let us have no semblance of Thanksgiving this year?it would be a mockery and a lie. There is no thanksgiving in any of our hearts? how can there be? Let the house be as dark and cheerless as our hearts !" " "While* there is life there is hope," answered Juuet Dyer, softly, and the soft voice in which she spoke seemed strangely at variance with her muscular form and Inrcro l-nnrlsninrv hut almost masculine. _ 7 J features. ' Hope!" repeated Mrs. Norris, with an accent of scorn. " Hope, did you say, Janet Dyer? No, there is no hope for us! Haven't I prayed night and day for live years that my boy might come buck t) us. reformed and repentant, to bless our old age? Haven't I wearied heaven with my importunities? Have not 1 worked like a slave to save our homo? And yet a cur.-e has seemed to folllow us at every step. Everything has gone from bad to worse, and now the house and farm is to go, and we are to be paupers in our old age. Don't talk to me of hope, Janet Dyer. I have lost faith in God and man!" "You'll never be paupers while Janet Dyer has these two arms to work with!" answered the girl, baring her strong arms with cords of muscles that would have * "? a snamca many a youui. The old lady smiled grimly. "That will do to talk," she said. "But I know the world, Janet Dyer. You are young, and handsome in your way. You have a woman's heart, which is a soft thing always till it grows hitter and hard with the iron of fate, as mine has. You are human, and that means selfish. You think you will cling to us, but by-and-by some man will say a few sweet words in your ear, and you will for?et all your promised allegiance to us. ou will want a home and a husband and children by yourself, and you will say, "Why should I sacrifice my youth and my happiness to these old people? They are nothing to me. Ah. I know the world, Janet l)yer." A curious look came over Janet Dyer's face. "Have I shown any weakness toward lovers during the three years I have been with you?" she asked, in her soft voice. "Did I not give Herman Hcia a slap across the mouth, when he came with ills love-wonts. tnat ne win never forget to his dying day? And did I jiot send Sandy Green away with a piece of my mind? I want no lovers!*' "Ah, no, not till the right one comes. Then I know how it will be," answered the old lady, nodding her head. lint Janet did not reply to her. She went toward the cornfield, a basket slung over her shoulder, and as she went she Bmiled softly, and said, under her breath : ""When the right one comes. Ah, yes, I know how it will be then. But how inueh longer?oh, Lord, how much longer." . and the dark eyes she lifted to the gray ^ November skies were wet with tears, yet brave with hope. Ah, Janet1, at ready was your woman's heart crying out for its own: in spite of your bold words you were longing for freedom. So Mrs. Xorris would have said had she ueanl Janet's low cry. lint it was heard only by the angels, unless the ears of corn were listening, which Janet proceeded to sever from their withered husks and fliiij; into the basket which she had brought for that purpose. Bhe filled the basket with surprising swiftness, then lifted it on her strong shoulders and carried it to a wagon standing at some little distance, half filled with golden cars. "If the season had been warm and dry instead of cold and wet, a dozen wagon loads of ears would have left this field instead of one," mused Janet. "And - that, together with the priee the horses will bring. and the machinery, would have kept us through the winter, or uutil I could find work to do. But as it is " Janet finished her sentence with a long sigh. Then she lifted her eyes skyward again. llGod will not let us suffer?1 know it," she said, and fell to her work with renewed zeal, and worked until the dull glare of light that shone through the gray clouds above her told her that the sun was ncaring the zenith. Then she shouldered her basket and went back to the farm-house to prepare dinner. She hud been at Norris farm these three years, acting in every capacity?from nurse to domestic indoors, and man-of-all-work without. She, a stranger, had one day knocked at the door, saying that she had heard there was sickness in the house, and that she had been nurse in a hospital, and was wanting a situation, and would be willing to give her labor for her board > until she could una a ucrrer piace nnu better pay. Mrs. Noriis hnd taken her in without any parley, though some of the neighbors who were in the house at the time had warned her against such a risky act. "Men tramps arc bad enough," they said, "but women are worse. Better find out who this girl is before you take .. . her in." . "I can't wait to try her before a court i and judge,'answere'd Mrs. Norris. "My % husband lies in yonder room, crippled by a fall from a load of hay. My daughter is in another room, dying of quick consumption, us you all know. I nm worn out with watching and with care, and the neighbors can't take care of us for ever. I've sent word far and near for 1 1...).. T el,.. 11 m q\ (inn ui#? m ij? tviuv, ? ^uuu not stop to question h?r. I like her face and will trust her till I'm obliged to distrust her." But the time had never come, and now Janet Dyer had been with Mrs. Norris three years. It was she who had closed the eyes of sweet Hatttu Norris and robed her for the grave. And it was she who waited upon Mr. Xorris, nml bore with all his petulance and impatience during the year that he had been confined to his room, and at the same time she had done a man's work in the field. And for all this she had refused to take one cent in money. And so she had staid. It was acknowledged by all, far and wide, that it was owing to Janet Dyer's excellent nursing rather than to medical skill, that Mr. Norris had regained the use of his lir.\l,c Knt lw? \v!ic tint nlilo to do farm work, and neve would bcaga in. and his | mind seemed shakt i a little?its old | vigor and strength gone for ever. Janet I was head and hands both at Xorris farm. And yet the neighborhood never ?juite forgave her for the mystery surrounding her coining to Morris farm; for Janet had not taken pains to make the explanation to her neighbors which she had made to Mrs. Norris. "She has her eye on the property," suggested one. "Thinks she'll be the heir, now the girl is dead and the boy disinherited." "Oh. yes, she's an ax to grind or she'd I never stay on slavin' as she does," replied another. " Hut the property's all under mortgage, and even if that's paid up, and it's all deeded to her, that bov'll come back yet and make her trouble." "Heard he was killed in a saloon fi<jht ?over a gaming table or somcthin' years * ago. , ' Report never was confirmed. lie's I sure to turn up, like u b:ul penny." The " boy" referred to was the only son?now the only child of the Norrises. He had been a wild youth, and his father had been a severe judge, of his youthful follies. The tighter the reins had been drawn the faster he had gone, like an unruly colt?till finally he had disgraced the family by contracting debts iu the name of his father. Norris farm had to be mortgaged to lift these debts, and, with a curse, Anslev Norris was banished from his ffither's roof, and forbidden ever to return. lie had gone, and a year later the report had come of his death in a gambling house in a neighboring city. And I one disaster after another had befallen j Xorris farm, and things had gone from | bad to wo.se, even as its mistress had ! said, since then. ******! Thanksgiving morning broke bright and beautiful. Nature seemed in a smiling?which with her is always a devo tional?mood. Jt or tue nrst nmc in more than a week the sun burst through the gray November clouds, and shone with dazzling brilliancy, touching up the traces of late glory in the forests and borrowing a smile f:om the late Indian, summer with which to return thanks to the Creator of all. j In all the surrounding farmhouses, j even to the hut of Tom Kelly, the section hand, which was spilling over with children of all sizes, there was some preparations for a feast of thanksgiving and a j holiday from labor. Loads of laughing | people rode by, going to the homes of j l'riends or relatives to celebrate the day. | l>ut amidst all the merrymakings, Nor- i ris house stood grim and silent. Scarcely a word was spoken during the early morning hours, and Mrs. Norris went about her household duties with a | sterner and more defiant expression than ; usual upon her face?an expression which j seemed to say: "If any Power expects me to be grateful to-day for the misfortunes which have fallen so thickly on my past, it will be I disappointed." Mr. Norris was just leading out his i i horses to water, and Janet was in the ! stable getting out hay, when a stranger approached?a tall, bearded man, who! j lifted his h it politely as he accosted Mr. ' Morris: j "This is Mr. Xorris, I believe?" Mr. Norris lifted his mild blue eyes, in j which an expression of almost childish j innocence and meekness had crept with his long and cruel sufferings, and answered in the affirmative. "Well, sir, I am informed that your horses are for sale. I suppose this is the [ span. I ;tm w anting to buy, and as I was | passing near here this morning I took the liberty of calling, although I knew it was ' Thanksgiving day, to see if we could ! agree on terms. What is the price you ' have set ou your span?" Mr. Norris drew his hand across his j j brow. , ' I cannot remember," he said, "though Janet and I were talking it j over this very morning. But everything ' j slips from my mind so since my fall, j I Janet will know; you just step inside the ! | barn, sir, and you'll find her. IIo, Janet! j I here's a customer for the horses." lie ; led the horses on toward the watering-' i trough, and the stranger stepped inside j ! the barn, and at the same time spoke the ! name he had heard Mr. Norris speak, but , ! in a different tone: "Janet!" It was a voice that brought Janet from ! the hay-loft, with wide glad eyes and ' crimson cheeks, and a palpitating heart, j And no >ooner did she catch sieht of the I stranger than she Hew to him crying: ; "Oh, my love, my love!" and flung her- j self upon his bosom in a passion of tears. I But five minutes later when Mr. Norris | i returned, leading the horses to their stalls, > ! he found the two in quiet conversation in :t distant part of the stable. A little ' i later lie went into the house and left them still talking, so confident that it would all be managed right if he left it to Janet. : And it tired him so to think. After a time Janet came to the house, j i She went to the kitchen, where she found i i Mrs. Norris, who looked up at her with | an expression of surprise in her brooding j j eyes. I "Why, what has happened to you,] Janet, that your cheeks are all aglow ? | I hive you sold the team for a fortune?" j i, "Ay." laughed Janet, and then draw inj; nearer, nshe snftT" .'ii^.-frwrig, !i . man has come to buy the team and pay J the mortgage on the farm, and, oh, Mrs. ; Xorris, forgive me for deceiviug you all J these years, but I am a married woman, and this ma^ji^o has come is my husi hand, KTrtTne has money to pay up all the | j debts and make us all a home while we | I shall live. Did I not tell you that some- j j thing might happen?" But Mrs. Norris drew back, the dark j cloud upon her face growing darker. " So>" she said, slowly, " this j accounts for your seeming kind- ' ness, Janet Dyer ! You have been ' scheming all these years to got the i j house and farm in your own hands, j i to lie mistress here, and now it's done, j and you pretend you want us to remain ( ?paupers?charity objects under your roof! Never; Janet Dyer! my husband j I and I will starve in the street first. You j J would soon lire of us, you and your hus-! j band, whoever he may be. We will go j | at once and leave you in full possession | of your home. Ah, the world is all alike, ! 1 selfish?selfish to the core. I knew some j i selfish purpose lurked under all your ; I seeming kindness. I knew it because j you were human. No, no, we'll not j tax your hospitality longer. Janet Dyer!" But just then the door opened and I Janet's husband entered, and sprang J ! past her, and took the aged woman in j ! his arms, savin ir verv centlyas he clasped j her to his breast: "lint, supposing Janet's husband was your lost boy, Anslcy, motlier, who had ! just come back to make your old age ! blest, would you not dwell under his roof?" But he spoke to senseless ears, for Mrs. Norris, with one glad cry of "Anslcy, my boy, my boy!" had swooned away to unconscio isncss. After she recovered there was a glad j day of Thanksgiving at Norris house. I j And there was a long story to tell how it | all happened. Ansley had been shot in a gaming- i room, and had been taken to a hospital I for treatment. Janet was one of the nurses there, and j they had ioved each other at sight. As soon as Ansley was convalescent he had told her his story, had asked her to j marry him, and, as soon as the ceremony - .i; .v:.iev; was performed ho had started for th? mines of Colorado. But, first, he had made Janet promise that she would go into the neighborhood where his parents resided, and remain somewhere in their vicinity until his return. ' I want you to be near them to keep guard over their old age," he said, "and, beside, I do not want to leave you in the city. I shall feel far wafer concerning them and you both, and I shall not come back till 1 can bring money to pay up all past follies, and make a home for you and them, Janet." -Tuner had ironc; as he directed, and the vry day of her arrival in the ncighborhooil had learned of the misfortunes which had befallen the Norris family. With fear and trembling, she had presented herself at the door, with what result we know. Years seemed to fall from Mrs. Norris' face during the Thanksgiving Day, which restored her lost faith in God and man, even as it restored the long-lost son. And something of the lost spirit and vigor seemed to return to Mr. Norris, for a time at least, and Janet was radiant, and she set about preparing a feast tit fo: kin^s. For Anslcy Norris had comc home with pockcts full of gold and silver from the mines of Colorado. And so, after all, there was a glad and happy Thanksgiving Day at Norris farm, and UU OI1L' Seill ll[> u 11IUIU cm uc?i> \.IJ > > gratitude and praise than the softened heart of Mrs. Norris, as she clung to Janet and whispered: "It is never wise to lose faith in God, dear. You were right in clinging to his hand through the darkness of the night, which has been shattered by the glory of this beautiful morning. And all my life shall be one long day of Thanksgiving henceforth." Chinese Dances. In a San Francisco letter the writei says: Through the kindness of Colonel Uce, American secretary of the Chinese consulate at San Francisco, we were permitted to meet Mrs. Ching Ling, wife of the Chinese vice consul of New York, and several ladies of the higher and most exclusive circles of Chinatown. Mrs. Ching Ling we found to be a tall, slender and rather stately dainc, who trotted into her parlor on feet not quite three inches long. Her hair was dressed in a most elaborate manner, decorated with jade and gold ornaments and a bunch of pink chrysanthemums. Her eyebrows were shaved to their arching lines on her forehead, and the brightest blush of rouge covered either check, shading up over the eyelids and temples. Her lips were colored a deep red, and her ears were hung wit'i l<irrrr> frnId ftiul iade ear-rin<rs. She ",v" *""&w j o wore the loose trousers and blouse of dark blue silk. When she had minced in on her poor little feet she greeted us with two or three prettily accented English words of greeting, and gave us the limp handshake appropriate to the women of fashion all over the world. Mrs. Ching Ling had a strange mixture of womanly dignity and childlike simplicity to her, and through the interpreter we carried on (piite a conversation, her funny little children clinging to her knees and watching us with their slant eyes all the time. While we were talking to this Chinese madonna a vision appeared in the door way in the person of .Mrs. Clung cnung Chow, wife of one of the rich merchants and a woman of most unusual beauty. Mrs. Ching C.'liung Chow is young and charming, with a delicate olive skin, full round eyes, as softly black as a fawn, and the most graceful little ways of doing everything. She chanted her dainty little English sentences at us, listened with the greatest interest to the jargon the interpreter repeated after us, and had the most bewitching ways of any woman I have seen in a fortnight. While we were raving over this celestial beauty, Mrs. Ohing Ling's maid set the tea tray on the round centre-table, and the hostess proceeded to ofTer us cups of tea. unattainable in any ordinary way, and of a quality to inspire a poet's soDg. The tea leaves that floated around in the larger cups, in which they were steeped, were one and two inches long, and the tea itself was of a delicate amber tint. Crystallized sugar was ollered us to put in it, and thin wafers and dried ginger completed this unique refreshment. We spent a charming half hour with her, left with many compliments on both sides and assured Mrs. Ching Ling and Mrs. Chin Chung Chow that we should only take too much pleasure in future visits. The Butter Tree. The Karite, or butter tree, is very eominon in the jvalleys of the Upper Senegal and Upper Niger. It is a tine tree, with long and oval leaves, slightly curled. The fruit is agreeable and pleasant to the taste, and within it is a nut about the size of a liickory nut, with a firm white kernel. The fruit is gathered from the end of May to the close of September. The women and children go into the woods every day. and especially after storms and high winds, and bring in baskets and gourds full of the fruit shaken down from the trees. These are thrown into cylindrical holes which are seen everywhere in Bambarra villages, even in the streets. Here the fruit is left for several months, sometimes all winter, until the outer fruit disappears. Then the nuts are thrown into vertical ovens made in the earth inside the huts, and are dried by lire. When well dried, the shells are cracked illlU LIIU ivuruuid jJUHiiVM V4 luvv ? This is placed in a jar of cold water and beaten till the butter forms on the surface of the water. This is skimmed off and beaten again to make it <ompact and expel the water. It is then done up in packets of leaves "With the elementary means employed by the negroes, this butter-making is a long and tedious process, and is generally done in the dry season. Karitc butter is constantly useu uy .win >?uu Malenkes of the Niger for cooking, foi feeding their rude lamps, in soap-making, for the women's hair, for dressing wounds, etc. The Djulas export small quantities toward the south. Commandant Uallicni, French officer, draws attention to its possible value foi the manufacture of soap and tapers, a? the tree is found in immense quantities, and, with machinery, the butter could be readily obtained. The Thirsty Eucalyptus. Where there is surplus moisture to expose of, as, for example, u cesspool to keep dry, says the Pacific Rural Pre**, a large eucalyptus will accomplish not a little, and a group of them will dispose of a vast amount of house sewerage. Jhit, if you have water which you do not wish to exhaust, as in a good well, it would he wise to put the eucalyptus very far away. Daniel Sweet, of Bay Island farm, Alameda county, recently found a curious root formation of the eucalyptus in the bottom of his well about sixteen feet below the surface. The trees to which the roots belonged stand fifty feet from the well. Two shoots pierced through the brick wall of the well, and, sending oil millions of fibers, formed a dense mat that completely covered the bottom of the well. Most of these fibers are no larger than thread, and arc so woven ana intertwisted as to form a mat as impenetrable and strong as though regularly woven in a loom. The mat, r?f tlm TVpll U'flG >\ mil ill > t l.llWil WUl \>A ll?V MVf, ...... water-soaked and covered with mud, and nearly all a man could lift, but when dry it was nearly as soft to touch as wool, and weighed only a few ounces. This is a good illustration of how the eucalyptus absorbs moisture, its roots going so far to find water, pushing themselves through o i,rift- wnll find thpn rleveloointr enor inouslv after the water is reached. Mr. Sweet thinks one of the causes of the drying up of wells is the insatiable thirst of these vegetable monsters. Moon and Earth. Professor Proctor reasons that the moon has grown old six times as fast as the earth, a comparison of the masses and radiating surfaces of the two bodiemaking it evident that the earth's internal heat was orriginally sufficient to last six times as long as the moon's supply. On the very moderate assumption, therefore, that only 12,000,000 of years have passed since the earth and the moon were at the same stage of planetary life, this astronomer shows us that 00,000,000 of years must elapse before the earth will have reached the stage through which the moon is no\r passing. . ; 5 MM - ' f: . P.ARM, GARDEN ANI) HOl'SEHOL Chronic Dlarrhnrn in Stock. In speaking of chronic diarrhtra stock Professor L. B. Arnold "It best curcd by removing the cause, whi< must be known in order to be avoidei In horses it may come from ovcr-drivinj over-feeding or imperfect mnsticatu from defective teeth, or from eating t< fast from an unnatural or greedy app tite. If the friend who has trouble this direction will look carefully over fl the habits, treatment nnd surroundings* the animal, he will bo very likely to tin the cause himself. In the moantim let the exercise be gentle, the food civ to digest, and, if possible, in shape prevent swallowing too hastily. Ton stimulants are useful in all such cases, tincture of spice, clovcs, ginger or po permint, given steadily in modcratio Medication will be less ellcctivc thi ooking closely to feed and exercise." Rcwt Soil for n Drilrj' Farm. A young dairyman asks in choosir a dairy farm what kind of soil would 1 the best?clay, light loam, gravel < limestone? As a rule the best dairy districts a those in which lime and potash rocks pr vail and grass grows spontaneously. Ai soil that produces blue grass luxuriantl provided it is well watered, is excelle for the dairy. Iiut it is not only tl soil that is to be considered; the chara ter of the surface is equally importan Low, marshy, wet land can never make good dairy farm, although it may 1 made so by drainage if the soil is of tl right kind. Lime and potash abounc in soils that are tilled with mica, the fin glistening particles of which are so co spicuous upon such land. High rollii land where cool springs and rapidly ru ning streams abound should be chosen preference to any other, for the water one of the most important characteristi of a good dairy region.?Pruirie Farnu Thorough Gardening'. A common error in management, sa, an exchange, is to occupy more gard< ground that can be well manured ai well cultivated. A square rod with ueup, ncii son, niorouguiy curcu iur, ?i give better returns than half an acre fu of weeds and scant of half-grown, u eatable vegetables. Set apart no mo ground than can be trenched or su soiled, thoroughly underdrained, well at deeply manured, and kept clean ar mellow the 9cason through. Many ga dens are too hard and have a heavy soi This may be improved and corrected 1 manure and deep tillage. There is st another remedy, where the material is hand, and that is sand. Draw on fro one to four inches and spread over tl surface. Try it on a limited scale ar observe its elTeet. I)o not try to go ov much ground at once, but work the oughly. The sand will become gradual intermixed by cultivation, and it w ?tay there a century. It does not waf away like manure. It can neither d; solve nor evaporate.?Exchange. Salt and Lime. The following, savs an acrricultur * o' " / - - O paper, is recommended as an excelle combination for fertilizing purpose J Mix one bushel of salt with two bushels j dry lime, under cover, and allow tl mixture to decompose gradually, thi forming an intimate chemical union the two materials. For this purpose tl mixture should lie at least six wee! b"fore use, or, still better, two or thr Months, the heap being turned over o casionally. This salt and lime mixtu when applied at the rate of twenty thirty bushels per acre, forms an excelle top-dressing for crops. It acts powc fully on the vegetable matter of soil Fifty bushels applied to a turnip lie have produced as large a crop as twen loads of barnyard manure. It is al vnrv destructive to insects and erubs I the soil. Like salt, it attracts moistu: j from the air, and has been found uscf 1 against drought. Its decomposing jx>\v | is remarkable, and if three or fourlmshc j of it are mixed with a cord of swan j muck the latter will soon be reduced ; powder. Course manure i6 in a simil ! manner decomposed and made fin j Sour, wet muck thus treated and cor . posted with barnyard manure constitut ' a fertilizer almost as valuable as the u I mixed manure of the barnyard. Oiling Wagon Wheel?* " I have a wagon of which, six yen ' ago, the felloes shrunk so that the tir became loose. I gave it a good coat hot oil, and every year since it has had ; coat of oil or paint, sometimes bot< The tires are tight yet, and they have n | been set for eight or nine years. Mai j farmers think that as soon as wagon ft j loes begin to shrink they must go at on j to a blacksmith shop and get the ti ! set. Instead of doing that, which j often a damage to the wheels, causii i them to dish, if they will get some li ; seed oil and heat it boiling hot and gi ' the felloes all the oil they can take, S will fill them up to their usual size ui I 4 *+r\ 4*T?m olirinlrln ' ll^IUCU kV luwui : and also to keep out the water. If y< ! do not wish to go to the trouble of mi : ing paint you can heat the oil and tie rag to a stick and swab them over as loi t as they will take oil. A brush is mo { convenient to use, but a swab willansw 1 if you do not wish to buy a brush. It j quite a saving of money to look after t' ! woodwork of farm machinery. Altt nate wetting and drying injures ai causes the best wood soon to decay ai I lose its strength unless kept well painte [ It pays to keep a little oil on hand to < fork handles, rakes, ncck yokes, wliiffl I trees and any of the small tools on t! farm that are more or less exposed." Farm and harden Note*. Let the poultry into the plum orcha and get rid of the curculio. ! Fanny Field says to make duck-raisii , profitable they must be kept for all th | are worth?eggs, feathers, and f ! market. Peach trees can be most advantageous : transplanted at one year old, as they ci : fhen be lifted without cutting any of tl j main roots. ; Fowls delight to scratch in loo i ground, and if a portion of their ya is dug up at intervals it will aflord the ; the exercise they so much need. Soils of a close, heavy texture requi I thorough drainage. A Yioeffci ay^A'Cfl.tv of stable mauun., with i heavy top dre; ! ing of coal ashes, is the best treatment Tin vessels so worn that the iron is c > i .e.*. *? I poseu arc noi ih lor usu m iwumii, u j should be discarded. Sour cream w ' be unpleasantly affected by remaining I contact with the iron. j A solution of hyposulphite of soda i recommended as an excellent remedy f chicken cholera. A teaspoonful dropp ! carefully down a fowl's throat tin j times a day hardly ever fails to effect j cure. A good sheep dip is made of twel ! pounds of tobacco and six of flowers | sulphur to fifty gallons of water. Tot! i some add a little concentrated lye, snj ! pound or two, and about the same qua j tity of arsenic. j It is well known that pruning an ( I cHard too severely aoes iar more nai : than good. All that is necessary is to ) I move the dead limbs and unfruiti i branches. An important part of fru ; culture is to know when to let the trc ; alone. | It is a prevalent notion that to sccu | early vegetables one must plant on po ] soil. This is false in most cases. T j ground needs to be loose, well drains and to have a warm exposure. Und [ these conditions a very rich soil will gi i early crops. It is well known among obscrva poultry-raisers that those breeds of fow which are large layers and non-sittc possess an almost insatiate appetite f - 1 14 annual iuuu. u m iuv ^uuiu^iiiiun 1 ! this appetite that makes them such ino j dinatc layers. i Regarding the plum curculio Profess Riley, the United States entomologis says: "I find nothing superiortothe j.n ; ring process that was recommended yes ago. I place no faith in the repella powers of strong-smelling substanc which we find repeatedly recommend* in the agricultural press." To hatch poultry success fully, eith *. ' [). by natural or artificial moans, a temperatare of from 102 to 104 degrees is needed. This may be produced either by the pajn rent birds, by fire, or by the sun. It is js well known that in ancient times the >h Egyptians hatched chickens by artificial [] means, using buildings somewhat like ovens. >n Pear trees are much more apt to grow )o tall and spindling than apple trees. They e- often get so tall that it is next to imposin siblc to secure the fruit from the extreme ill top. To cut back the main trunk when nf the tree is old is not commonly advisable, d The evil is best remedied by preventing c, tV tall growth by keeping the central iv shoot cut off when the tree is young. to A correspondent 01 *he Rural New ic Yorfor, who has been experimenting in us planting potatoes, lar<re and small, cut p- and uncut, says he has never been able n. to detcet any difference cither in the in yield or quality of potatoes raised from large or small seed. But he has in every ease noticed a marked dilTercnce in the results obtained from planting cut and 1C uncut potatoes. This dilTercnce was in^ variably in favor of the former method, or Strawberries delight in rich, cool, damp soil, although one not positively cold or re undrained. The runners and dead leaves c- from the plants serve during the summer iy as a mulch. If one is particular to have y, these leaves and runners removed, they nt can be pinched of! and left on the ground tie as a mulch. If one has a small bed and c- is particular about its appearance, he may it. apply a covering of loose, light sawdust a between the rows, or an inverted layer of dp. sods mav answer the nurnosc. If wheels for f.'irm wagons, have four *8 inch tires horses will draw two tons over c> soft ground as easily as they will draw n" one ton if the wheels have narrow tires, 'o The following is a Southern man's P" method of feeding a cow: "If you want '.n a large yield of rich milk give your cows is every day water slightly warmed and cs salted, in which bran has been stirred at r' the rate of one quart to two gallons of water. By this daily practice the cow will give fifty-two per cent, more milk vs immediately under the effect of it, and in she will become so attached to the diet id as to refuse to drink clear water unless a very thirsty. The amount of this drink ill necessary is an ordinary pailfull at a time ill ?morning, noon and night, n re HouNchold Hint* and Recipe*. When drying the face always rub down, l(: as rubbing both ways tends to roughen the skin. J*. Boiled sweet potatoes left over from dinner are very nice for breakfast when jjj thinly sliced and fried. at When peeling onions place a pin tightm ly between the front teeth. This prchc vents the tears from coming. id Silver or silver plated knives should be er I wiped with a damp cloth and thoroughly >r- dried as soon ns the meal is over. If left ly for a half hour or so, they are apt to be ill stained. [tc Lemon fritters are delicious. To one cup of milk and one egg allow the juice i and nult) of one lemon. These may be served with sauce; in that case add the grated peel of half the lemon to flavor al the sauce. nt Stale buns may be made to taste as s: nicely as when fresh if they are dipped of for a moment or so in cold water and lie then put in a hot oven for live or ten as minutes. They will turn out as light of and crisp as when first baked. Make a small square bag of flannel, k-s leaving one end partly open. In this j ee put all the remnants of soap as the pieces c" become too small to handle easily. When rc the bag is filled, baste up the opening, to and it makes a good bath-tub arrangent mcnt. To make steak tender", put three tableId spoonfuls of salad oil and one tablespoonful of vinegar, well mixed together on a ^ large flat dish, and on this lay the steak, j Salt must now be put on the steak before it is cooked. The steak must lie on ue, the tender-making mixture for at least half an hour to a side. The toughest ^ steak will succumb to this and be per- | fcctly tender when cooked. t|) A novel way to make tomato soup is ar to take one pint of tomatoes, either e canned or fresh; if fresh, have one pint u. nftcr they are stewed; pick up a teacupes fill of nice white codfish; to this add j n_ three pints of water, a tablespoonful of j butter. When these have boiled for half . an hour, add one pint of sweet milk, and ! just, before sending to the table, and after | the soup is in the tureen, add a half a j ,1S teaspoonful of bi-carbonate of soda; j e. send foaming to the table. This is a very j ?a appetizing soup. jj Indian meal cake is made of one pint 0[ meal and half a pint of wheat flour. 1V i Sift them together. Then mix a tea- i ,j". spoonful of baking powder and about ! the same quantity of salt. Mix three re quarters of a pound of sugar and half a ' jg pcundof butter together; beat until light lfr and creamy: then add to this four wellbeaten eggs, half a cup of sweet milk, a ve little nutmeg and cinnamon. Then stir in a little at a time the meal and flour. lcj This should be baked slowly and a long g time in well buttered tins. ill ~ " " x. The Tallest of Trees. : a Though there is ever}- probability that ig California's big tree will maintain its sure premacy as the most massive column in j er the world's forests, it must perforce yield j is the palm of altitude to the Australian 1 tie eucalyptus. In the valley of the "Watts :r- river, in Victoria, many fallen trees have id been measured as they lie on the ground id and found to exceed 350 feet in length, d. One mighty giant had fallen so as to form >il a bridge across a deep ravine. It had ie-1 been broken in falling, but the portion , he which remained intact, measured 4;i."5 feet in length, and as its girth at the point of fracture is nine feet, its discoverer estimates that the perfect tree must have r(] ! measured fully J300 feet. Its circumferi cncc five feet above the roots is fifty-four feet. Another gum tree on Mount Wcle? lington was found to be 102 feet * in girth at three feet from the ground. Its height could not be esti mated owing to the density of the forest. - But its next neighbor, which was ninety j*" feet in circumference, was found to be | 110 j 800 feet in height. In the Dandcnong I I district of Victoria an almond-leaf gum se i tree (eucalyptus amygdalina) has been rd i carefully measured, and is found to be m ' 4^0 feet in height. It rises :JS0 foet bc! fore throwing out a branch; its cireumre : fcrence is sixty feet. Tasmania also pro iO dwi?. sneeimens of eucalyptus which sire ss- j :tr>0 feet in height, and which rises 200 feet ere forming a ueanch. One near I 1 Hobart Town is ninety-six feti 1" i a(1 j and, till ten years ago, towered to a j jU ! height of I'OO feet, but is now a ruin, i jn j The question of supremacy is. however, j confined to altitude, for the untidy-lo'ok| ing eucalyptus, with its ragged and tat,1S i tered gray bark hanging about it in such j slovenly fashion, can never contest the : palm of majesty with the stately cedars, ee j whose magnificent golden-red shafts ' a I tower on high like the fluted marble i columns of some viisit cjithoilrnL-?All tht ve Year Round. of ' lis By No Means a Tramp. ' a "I want $20 for a new hat," said Mrs. ,n" Poppcrman to her husband last evening. "it's too much," said he. "I can't )r- ' afford it." to j "No; I suppose not. That's what you e- i always say when I ask you for anything, ul I I know what I'll do; I'll leave you. I'll it-1 go home." :es i "Go home? This is your home." "Yes; it's one of them. Hut I've got [re i three homes beside this," sobbed Mrs. I or I Popperman. lie I "You have? Where arc they?" ed "My mother's home, my sister's home, l nnrl 1 rnn tnlro mit mv &1H ?mi1 irc\ i er "V V?v vc. ! to the Old Ladies' home. Hoo-hoo!" j "Here is the $20, my dear."?JS'e>rYork ! Journal. j From the Restoration to the Itcvoluirs | tion military officers wore either ribbons ?r I or plumes, and sometimes both, in their hats; but at the battle of the Hoyneevery r" man in the army of William III. had a "sprig" fastened to his hat to distill* ?r guish him from the soldiers of James II.. who wore bits of white paper. irs The mind of the scholar, if you would nt have it large and liberal, must come in e? contact with other minds.?f^ongfilloxr. Russian prisoners were first sent u> er Siberia in 1710 by Peter the Great. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. [ r] A new branch of trade is the making ^ of illuminating gas from sawdust. According to a writer in a foreign paper, animal oils are unsafe to use in air i compressors, as they take fire spontaneously in comprcsscd air, or in other words, they create an explosive gas. ~j A specimen of vegetable wool comes from Java. When it is freed from its leathery covering and the seeds, through a a very simple process, it is worth between i sixteen and seventeen ccnts a pound. (3 According to Elcctricitc, spider', * j which are very numerous in Japan, spin ? their webs during the night, between the telegraph wires and their supports. As 8 the dews arc very abundant, the webs be- T come conductors of electricity and give ? rise to great disturbance in the transmis- 11 sion of messages. ^ The Eureka colliery, in Pennsylvania, ^ is now employing in their mining opera- a tions the expansive force produced by Itrmrrinrr frvornfVior nni^IrlimD nnrl Wiltflr instead of blasting with gunpowder. Among other advantages claimed by this system, besides its cheapness and quick- ( ness, iire the following: Immunity from gas explosions, there being no fire or flame, necessary absence of all noxious gases and odors, and possibility of tho , men working without interruption, there . being no explosion. The Helena (Montana) Independent tells . of a gulch between Helena and Virginia e City, Nev., whose waters cover polished B iron and steel, with a coating of pure metallic copper, as bright as the bur- j uished metal. Pick and shovels used there soon become copper-plated. One day in 187G a horse was permitted to t stand in the moist sand some fifteen rain- g utes, and when led out his shoes had a a 1-!~i.A A.:? muA un^iib coppcruuuiuig. iijcsuuuaiu uuo ^ gulch arc full of beautiful crystals of metallic copper. Sometimes we found ], masses of crystalized copper weighing 6 three and four ounces. a Owing to the peculiarity of the Chin- ii ese characters, each of which represents v a word, not a letter, as in our Western t tongues," says the English journal En- c gineering, " the Danish Telegraph Com- v pany (the Great Nortnern) working the ii new Chinese line has adopted the follow- d ing device: There arc from five to six h thousand characters or words in ordinary s Chinese language and the company has I provided a wooden block or type for each of these. On one end of this block the character is cut or stamped out, and s on the other end is a number representing the character. The clerk receives a message in numbers and takes the block of n each number transmitted and stamps t with the opposite end the proper Chinese ii chnracter on the message form, Thus a t: Chinese message sent in figures is trans- ii lated into Chinese characters again and h forwarded to its destination. The send- a ing clerk, of course requires to know the n numerical equivalent of the characters or f have them found for him. t! h TJ:e Postage Stamp Mania. v While some foreign postage stamps are worth little more than their government ? value (sometimes not so much), others n obtuin fabulous prices in the world's j stamp markets. The most valuable v xl rtsvl Slump?IIIU lliril utia ui nit iitmuvur j> lector?is that of Mauritius, 1850. q "Whether blue or red it is worth 1,500 jj francs to its possessor ($300); but it is ? not easy to find, as all the French con- s sills have been looking for it for years. ^ The value of certain collections is enor- a mous. The most important in the world j,. ?and it is not yet complete?belongs to B the son of the Duchess of Galliera. The ? sum paid for stamps alone?not including other large expenses?was upward of $300,000. But this collection consists of t, many hundred volumes!?albums con- f taining stamps. It will take nine years y more to complete the collection. 8 M. Arthur Hothchild's collection ranks f next: it is worth only$50,000, or 200,000 T francs, and comprises over one hundred ^ volumes. v M. Rothschild has fonnded a Stamp t Collectors' society?"La Societe Timbro- j logique which studies and records the 8 history and peculiarities of all known a stamps in their relation to chronology, geography, finances, linguistics and line arts. This society holds its Meetings the v first Thursday in every month; it issues a yearly bulletin and is preparing an ency- * clopedic dictionary of stamps. v Huge as the commerce in real stamp9 <3 has become, with its thousands of whole- r sale and retail houses in the capitals of B the world,itis doubtful ^whether the trade E in counterfeit stamps does not almost equal r it. Turkish, Cinghalese,Indian, American, jAfrican, Chinese, Japanese stamps are ( manufactured to order by great firms in a (icrmany and in Belgium, the counter- p fetters being careful to cancel the stamps as soon as printed so as to escape prosecution. A new mnnia has thus been developed. Collectors of counterfeit 0 stamps are numerous and some of their ? collections are quite costly. Butasthema- j jority of stamp collectors, who care noth- a ing for counterfeits, are perpetually lia- j, ble to imposition, a new profession has ^ also been created?that of timbrological ( expert. The expert can detect a coun- <a .>?, rnn/lili' na o firuf flnoq hanlr tpl. I T Icr can detect a bad bill, and his services are largely in demand. One of these ex- i ports, well known to all stamp collectors 0 in Berlin, earns without effort $10 a day v the year round.?New Orleans Times. ( Cooking in Normandy. * Our kitchen has a vast fireplace, down 8 which the rain pours and the wind howls, a and over which every pleasant night we j, may see an arch of starry sky. This 8 fireplace is seldom used?the undisci- 8 plined cooking-stove and the faience pota- s ger, as every one may not know, is a j, brick arrangement like a long narrow a table set against the wall. The top is 9 laid with blue tiles, and it has four holes, j two round and two square, within which a small quantity of charcoal does marvels a of cookery. Neither bread, nor cake nor j, pastry of any kind is ever made in our jj chateau. Norman cooks knowing nothing whatever of their compounding, all ?l.? fA/iilmnmn virii.ti>>u whinli pvpr adorn French tables coming always from the patisserie. It is in soups, potages, sauces r and the multitudinous fashions of v entrees, ragouts, and vegetables that f: our Norman cooks are triumphant; and s one may venture to say that for every v kind of cake?sponge, pound, cup, fruit, a marble, etc.?at which American house- 6 keepers are such adepts our Norman c cooks can furnish two different potages, t or another way of cooking vegetables, a ov.'o w.v cf "ur Norman cooks a couple ji of onions, a bit 01 V/jtter and a bit of 1 cheese, and, presto! a defied Wis potage c comes in, steaming and savory, of wnfch. 1 one may rejoice to eat and be tilled. The c economy of French cooking is something i to onen American eyes. For instance, 1 not a drop of the water in which vegetables j are boiled ever drains away wasted from , a Norman kitehen, but, with a dash of milk, and a little pork or butter, is made I a good soup vehicle by means of which j to consume dry bread. Even the peapods arc always boiled first in the water intended for the green peas, and thus the llavor is intensified which might be otherwise weak. Among the poorer peas[ ants the pea-pods boiled are often eaten as a vegetable.?Lijipiin'ott. The Pulse of Animals. j The health of animals as well as that j of human beings may often he guessed at j very shrewdly by simply feeling their pulse. In a horse a good and strong but quiet pulse beats forty times a minute, in an ox fifty to fifty-five, in sheep and pigs not less than seventy nor more than 1 fi.r nrdinarv health. It mav be i felt wherever a large artery crosses a 1 bone. In the horse it is generally felt on I the cord which crosses over the bone of i the lower jaw in front of its curved posi- ( tion, or in tho bony ridge above the eye; | and in cattle over the middle of the first ril). Tn sheep it is, perhaps, easiest to i place the hand on the left side, where the beating of the heart is felt. A rapid, i hard full pulse in stock points to inflammation and high fever; a rapid, small, and < weak pulse also to fever, but to fever accompanied by a poor and weak state of the subject. A very slow pulse in stock will often be found to indicate brain disease, while a jumping and an irregular pulse shows something wrong with the ncart.?London Graphic. ["HE LUCK OF THE CAUL. "HE FBOUZ.XAB, OMBHB ATTACHED TO THE BXBTH-GXFT. EThere They arc Sold and How The> are P?ircTia*ed?The Lack They Bring- to People. BIRTH CAUL FOR SALE.-Apply No. ? South Street Advertisements similar to the above ppear from time to time in newspapers q this and other cities. There is evilently a rendv response, for such anlouncemcnts are Beldom repeated inlividually. A caul is a little membrane found on omc children encompassing the head vhen born. This is considered a good imcn to tne miant, nna me vulgar upmon is that whoever obtains the caul by lurehase will be fortunate and escape [angers. The origin of the superstition s lost in antiquity and is current among ,11 nations. St. Chrysostom inveighs gainst it in the early homilies of the hurch, and in Arabian and Athenian :lassics mention is made in several intances of persons born with a "coif," or kin hood. "Have you sold that caul," the author if the above advertisement was asked. "You bet I have. A seafaring gent lought it at quarter past eight this mornng, half an hour after I purchased the taper with the advertisement in." The speaker was the keeper of a geural shop for sailors' stores near the South treet wnarf. " How much did you get forit?" asked he reporter. "Ten dollars, and cheap it went. Vhy I've had twenty-five dollars for hem. I let this one go cheap because I ;ot it at no expense to myself. I bought , trunk at an auction up town on the nancc 01 wnat n coniaineu. 1 gave u V ' for it. When I opened it I found a ot of women's underwear, three heavy ilver spoons, a stuff gown, nearly new, nd a tin box. I opened the tin box and a it I found that caul I sold this morning trapped around a large chestnut. Here's he chestnut. I tried to sell it to a aptnin this morning?the same bloko rhat bought the caul, but he didn't see t. If you want it you can have it for a lollar. It ought to bring plenty of luck, aving kept company with the caul for o long. Don't want it, eh? All right; '11 find a customer." " Do you sell many cauls?" " Not as many as I should like. The upply ain't over and above large. " How do you get them?" " Well, I was born in one myself. My - -i' ' a n nuiucr Kept lb iur luuij-uuc jcaio, uuu rhen the old lady died I thought I'd sell t. It had never brought me any paricular luck, as I could see. I got $8 for t. It was a bit tore. There must have ieen something the matter with that caul, nyhow, cause the man that bougfrt it, late of a vessel, in the tea trade, sailing rom New York to Ilong Kong, fell off lie'niain mast and broke his skull byj itting it hard on the deck the very next, oyage he took. "Well, lie was not drowned." "No, he weren't drowned. I guess hat was his luck. Tho' if I'm to break lv nock just to show the value of a caul don't want it. But you are asking me T ffftArto T^/vr?fr*ra na n riiUlU X tUU gUUV40( A/VVVV*U| HU M ale, sell them to me, and the mothers. >ccasionally the original owners brings hem to me themselves, when they are Towed up. But doctors is the chief ource: physicians attached to lying-in ospitals and them as has a practice mong the very poor classes, what don't now the value of a caul. The doctor lips them in his pockets and I gets hem." "Do you pay much for them?" "Well, that's telling. However, I will ell you this about it. There is a com-< ortable profit in selling them; but, as ou seem a decent sort of a chap, you hall have the next one I comes across or and I'll throw in the chestnut we ras just a-looking at. See here, now^ ,'auls brings luck anyhow, no matter vhat your business or profession happens o be. Say you're a lawyer. In comes he fees. But, by the cut of your jib, I hould say you're a minister. Nothing like caul in the church, so they tells me. " Would you like a piece of a caul?" "A piece of a caul? Why, what use rould that be?" "Use! Well I should blossom. A >iece of caul is almost as valuable as the srhole article. House will never burn [own when a bit of a caul is in it. The lerson carrying it will never get drowned, uffer from smallpox, toothache or rheuQiitism. True, it isn't- quite as certain a reventative as a whole one, but some leople like to bo economical, even in heir luxuries, meres oniy one wing gainst being born in a caul unless you ;et ri<l of it, and that's one of the reaons I sold mine." "What's that?" "You see too much. I never could go <ut on a moonlight night without getting he awful horrors. Talk about spirits; 've seen them so thick in the streets on full-moon evening that I've wondered iow I was to get past them, and I never [id pnss them. I seemed to walk straight hrough tho middle of their bodies, lincc I've sold my own caul, however, 've never seen no more ghosts." Headers of Dickens will remember that )avid Coppcrfield, the alleged prototype f theauthor himself, was born withacaul, rhich was advertised for sale at the low iiriiv? nf fiftppn miinpns An attornev v i e .?i onnectcd with the bill-broking business ms the; only reply to the advertisement, le offered ?2 in cash and the balance in herrv, which was declined. Ten years ftcrwnrd the caul was put up in a raffle 11 n country inn to fifty members at two hillings and six peuce a head, with the tipulation that the winner should pend five shilling*. An old lady won t, reluctantly produced the five shillings, 11 in halfpence, and twopence halfpenny hort, and eventually died aged ninetywo. It was regarded as entirely owing o the caul that she never was drowned, lthough it was well known that the old idy had never been on the water in her ife.?P/ri'itdefjifiin Press. Mexican House-Servants. Every Mexican household, says a corespondent. lias a great number of serants in proportion to tbe size of the amily, and how they all occupy themelves is a mystery. There is one creadc. irhose sole business it is to make tortillas: nother to do the marketing and act as toward; another who does nothing but ook; another to wash: another to keep he house tidy; others to wait on table nd attend the children, to brush the distress's hair and shake the dust from ier dresses ^which literally sweep the licty streets whenever she goes out. American short skirts being considered Irefully immodest), beside gardeners, lostlers. " vukIc, etc. Hut' servant teeping is a very different thing n Mexico than in the I'nied States del Norte. Here they do lot require the salary of a Congressman, lor demand days out and company in, jor grow so important that their cni)loyer is barely allowed to remain proriding she is sufficiently polite. Mexi:an creados consider $4 per month a nuniricent salary and in time get rich on t, according to their ideas of wealth. I'liey sleep, rolled up in their sarapas, on he floor, in the court, wherever it is nost convenient, requiring few clothes, md those generally the gifts or cast-off raiments of their employers, and are inrariablv pious and apparently contented. ndt'L'U, l nave ouservea niai me poorei hey are and the lower down in the social scale, the more pious and contented they are sure to be. As a class they are he most honest, oblTging and simpleu-aited folk I over met. Each wears aisp mded around the neck his or her precious charm which has been blessed jy the priest, and says his prayers and tells his bends devoutly many times a :lay. When annoyances arise or dangers threaten, the words, Balga me, Dios? " Protect me, God "?rise to their lips as naturally as sparks fly upward. Happy people ! IIow gladly would most of us ixcnange our struggles with the world ind the little we have gained in the way of knowledge for their unquestioning faith and the contented poverty which aspires to no higher lot! Whatever may be said of Catholicism, it is surely good in this?that the ignorant and lowly art made better by its superstitions, and sustained and comfortea through laboriom lives by them and die in calm content. * - - ? NEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle States. WHE.vaDewgas weJ, recently o^ned in Westmorelaud Cvuntv, Penn., was lit tho flame shot upward 156 te't, and illuminated the country for miles. Its rear was terrific, and ooukl bo heard for three miks. By its Intense action house* were shaken within the radius of a mile. The well was pronounced ' -* ? A- 1 - 1? -* A..AM .lAtfAlntwl j ay eijxjris mj uu me largest* evi-i ucivr^/w. i A. H. Rowland, clerk of the county court at Pittsburg, Penn., has been arrested upon ! the charge of having embezzled nearly $17,; 000 during two terms of offl-c. > Twenty-nine horses were bun:o 1 to tlea' h I in a Philadelphia stable. ! The schooner James Wade is reporto l t"> have gone down in Lako Erie with "her civ w of 9even men. | A marriage in high life is reporte 1 from Pittsburg, Penn., where Patric'c OBrien. ' professionally known as the Irish g-'ant, hns been united to Miss Christine Duerz, the Ger man giantess. Both are on exhibition in a Pitteburg museum. A New York court lias decided that the trustees of the Brooklyn bridge aro not personally liable for the disaster en that structure, resulting from a f anic by which several lives were lost last Decoration day. | Commodore John M. Berhikn, a retire 1 officer of the United States ravy, died tin ] other day in Philadelphia. He was a mid; shipman on the frigato Constellation, over j fifty-eight years ago. William McWilliamp, a Wo tor for. I j (Penn.) octogenarian, awoke the other niilit . and found the cold arms of his dead wife I clasped around his nsck. I TA*i*f PfiTPUAT 1* J Viowrrn*! of. VfttPfirL* | UWfl.i vnionvjuji ??t* * I?fau^v?* MV .<V ; N. J., for the murder five months ago of h s i wife, whose lifo he ha-1 oft2n threatened, and j who was living apart from him. John McKeon, i>'evv York's district nt| torney, ex-member of Congress and for mnny i years one of the most prominent Democrats i In the city, died suddenly the other day, aged seventy-eight years. A meeting in the interest oC freo trade, held at the Cooper Institute, New York, ?at I presided over by Henrv Ward Beei-hcr and j addresses were made by Henry Watteraou and others. The Rahway, (N. J.) naticml bauk, was compelled by a heavy run to suspen 1. The trouDle is said to be only temporary. South and Wait. Samuel Hemby, of Swanton, Ohio, sh t i and killed his wife, and tried to kill his j daughter, Mrs. Liba. He t'aen shot himself ! dead They had been married about a year, she being tne widow of a Mr. Stevens when i Hemry married her. Forty masked and armed men took po* j session of the mine at Marshall Basin, Colorado. and made the workmen quit aftei shooting and killing one. A STATEMENT 01 tne recent rules uu iue great lakes shows a loss of fifty-five lives and sixty vessels. Twenty-six vessels, representing a value of $400,000, are total losses. The Mississippi Valley bank, of Vicksburg, Miss., has suspended. General Augustus C. Dodge, formerly United States Senator and minister to Spain for eight years, died in Burlington, Iowa, a few days since, aged seventy-two years. Ex-Senator George E. Spencer, of Alabama, was arrested at Austin, Nev., by order of Attorney-General Brewster for contempt of court in not appearing as a witness in tne star route cas?s. Spencer denied eluding the officers. He left Austin with two deputy marshals for Washington. During a severe rain storm a dozen houses at Piedmont, Mo., were swept away by tht> rising waters of a creek, and two women and three children were drowned. The propeller Maniitee, from Duluth, Minn., bound for Ontonagon, foundered in Lake Superior during the recent heavy gale*, and twenty-five persons on board are supposed to have been lost. Edward Payne, cashicr of the First National bank at Rushville, Ind., was shot dead by a burglar, who bad entered his house for the evident purpose of robbery. Jxcon Crouch, his daughter and h?r husband, and a guest fro-n Texas, wers found murdered in the former's farmhouse near Jackson, Mich. Robbery was the motive of the crime. A number of people were drowned and ereat destruction of property has been caused by heavy floods resulting from lon^continuea rains in various parts of Illinci<, Indiana and Missouri. Washington: Postmaster-General Gresham nas forbidden postmasters to aid pension attorneys by furnishing them with lists of soldiers aud others supplied to be entitled to pensions. The aunual report of the register of tho treasury shows that the total tonnago of tho country exhibits an increase of 69,554 tons. Chief Brooks, of the Lnited States Secret service, reports that during the past fiscal year his division mado .'570 arrests, obtaine I ninety-one convictions, and the impo-ition of fines aggregating $14,!>79. The tot il expenditure wns ?60,41A, Only one rfally dangerous counterfeit coin appeared, that of the staudard dollar being almost identical with the genuine in weight, ring and appearance, yet having only about 30 per cent, of silver. A surr for $20,003,003 has been brought at San Francisco against the Quicksilver Mining company of New Almaden, by the heirs of Gray, one of the original proprietors of the mine. The action is baseJ upon the alleged fraudulent administration of the property by Robert J. Walker, who had been a partner of Gray, anl was until recently tie c.nei representative of the company. The attention of the United States government has been invited to the Internationa] Forestry exhibition to be held in Edinburgh in the summer of 18S4. The exhibition Will be open to contributors from all countries, and is designed to include everything connected with or illustrative of the forest products of the world. James Russell Lowell, United States minister to England, was electcd rector of St Andrew's university, an honor usually conferred upon some prominent Englishman. He received 100 votes to eighty-two for Mr. Gibson, member of parliamaiu for Dublin university, Foreign; The Ameer of Afghanistan has causal to be executed a number of persons susDecterl of favoring the projects of Avoob Khan, and has expelled a number of others froiu the country. A schoolmaster and a peasant have been shot in Servia for leading the revolt Sheik Obeidullah, the notoJ Kurdish chief, has died of cholera at Mecca. In France decrees have been issued appointing Prime Minister Ferry minister of foreign affairs, in place of M. Chalierr.el-Lacour, resigned on account of ill health, and M. Fallieres minister of public instruction in succession to M. Ferrv. Great loss of life and shipping occurred during the recant severe gale off the coasts of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. The coasts were strewn with wreckage, and many bodies were washed ashore. At Green Island a Norwegian bark was driven on the rocks, and out of twelve men on board ten were drowned. Dr. Charles "W. Siemens, the celebrated German scientist, engineer and electrician, died a few days since in London from the effects of a fall. Eighteen* workmen wore drowned while crossing the river at Donarneuz, France. i Fifty persons in Thorn, West Prussia.have been attacked by trichinosis. Joseph Poole, the Fenian, was convict? 1 | In Dublin, of the murder of Joseph Kenny, an informer, and sen tor. cod tod.ath. The Prussian diet is in fission. Scattered bands of Chinese pirates, su> | posed to bo "B ack Fla'^s," bnve been c>111 mitting outrages in Tonquin. Four villages | were aestroyea by them. Further particulars from St. John's, N. F., regarding the recent disastrous storm say ' that the brigantine Bonnie Lassie was lo.-t at | Cape St. Francis. Captam Hogan, First ofli- I cer Prang and Steward Tohey perished with : | her. The bark iieiois, me unganuiiu v.rrvnt-, | the schooner Western Packet and the brig- : antine Guelph were a!s > loit during the gale. | Their crews were saved. A cyci.one (lest royed every house in Atlanta, Mexico. Several i>ersyns were killed or wj'.mded. Bandits are Kttwjitting great depredations in Cuba. ,, Jloouy and Snnkey, tiie evaag>V.' t' flC^. holding largely attended meetings in W a Isworth, England. The Chinese government is reported to have issued a call for l.Vi.OJO troops, in anticipation of u war with France. The American ship Thonus L'ana arrive 1 at Fayal having on board twenty-one men j whohad formed part of the pas enger.4 an 1 ! crew of the French bri r line tberg, su:tk by a collision. The remainder of the passengers and crew. numb?ritig eighty-eigh', per isheJ. James Davis, secretary of the Lon lo;i an 1 San Francisco bank, ub nude.I from f/jndon with .s'J.j(),lioi) of the m iitution's funds. Spanish Republicans threaten a revolt if universal su!!'r >^e is not granted at the next : session of th tes. John Shaki'I.^s. Sons & Co., lumber mer i chants of yui.'jic. iia.v iiiiieu I'll-uojut ?.w,00(?. Tiik duke of C-asile limit e, who was ricsnt]y capture1 ?eiir Tia;> ni, Sicily, by Lr g amis, has b vn ransom d for D,0JJ. A Romk <l!a;ja'ch states that the pop* l:?i3 1 created Mr. K. AW l aw on, elitor of the tfeirs mni I'dnrirr, of t Inrleston, S. a i knight of the order of St. (ieorge for the stand ho has taken in his paper ngaimt diie'., inpMk. Hopstoff. the British juj.erfn endent ' of the Nieobar Hands, in (ho hi 'inn ocean, while riding with his wife on the is and of ; fame rta. was ; hot and killed by a Sepoy i officer who u ho hail im'shel. Ai'rerkillin r the su]xr nlendeiit the murleicr committed ^ tuiciile. The Herman cn.wii prince met with an er ! thusiastic grei t:n,'i up ?:i his landing af 1 lenc'a, Spain, whence he pr< cce !ed to M- d 5 rid. The unusa ally htarty rccepton, c corded to the future emperor of Germany i. the Spaniel people was a rctarn for the raan> attentions paid to the ldng of Spain during his recent visit to Berlin. It will be remeoibe red that for accepting the compliment of an appointment as honorary colonel cf a - : German regiment the Spanish king was hooted by the populace in Paris. AN ARMY CUT TO PIECES;? Egyptian Troops Annihilated by 'm the False Prophet, Only One Soldier Out of 1(1,000 Suceeed in Escaping. A special despatch from Khartoum, mys; - \y& Most trustworthy sheiks in the service of ''%a? the government, who arrived at Douen yes- ; terday, report thatHick? Pasha, the governor general, and his entire army, were anni- j hilated in a defile at Kashgate, whither they were led by a treacherous guide. The guide led them to a rocky, wooded defile, which waa " without water, and where an ambu-cadehad ' been prepared by the rebels, under Mahdi, . -" jga the false Prophet, who were armed with rifles and artillery. Hicks Pasha was unable /'rZ&j to use his guns. For three days the army, J, worn out by thirst, defended itself, but on the fourth day it was annihilated to a JS man." Vizetolly, Arteu and fifty soldiers, Ujgl who were outside, came in and were taken ' aa prisoners. They were carrried to El Obied. The rebels captured thirty-six Kru^p, Nor UCUICIUJ/ OiiU UiUUilWlU LUU^ Ou vun uMk,^ the munitions of war and the cameli. With Hicks Pasha, besides those before mentioned, were Surgeon-General Georges Bey, Captain : Anatyaga, Morris Brady, late sergeant- . ''a maior of the Royal Horse artillery, and certain pashas and beys, in all "$25 about 12,000 officers. Korfodan is virtually loet Colonel Coettoean was at f'-M Douexu when the sheiks arrived there. He . at once proceeded to Khartoum, which he is arranging to defend. He is also arranging, to suppress an expected revolt by calling fir all the outlying garrisons. Colonel Coettogan> and your correspondent are the sole surviving Englishmen in the Soudan. The entire Soudan is in a blaze. The army will retreat to Berya if possible. It cannot muster 4,CO J regulars, all told. The London News' Cairo correspondent' says Hicks Pasha had divided his army,, ' sending half to El Obeid to demand the sur-' render of that place. He awaited the arrivoll -' of the Mandi, who was advancing) (JSS from the southeast The Mahdi how- $331 ever, met the half of Hicks . Pasha's army advancing to El Obeid;, and attacked it. Hearing the firing,; Hicks Pasha came up with nis it hole force; - '-yjfj and format! ?. unuare. The Mahdi broueht .,J, ..JSI up fresh regulars who.it is supposed, were > j the soldiers who were captured when EI1 Obeid fell and who agreed to take service1 under the Mahdi. These numbered 3,000. i The square of Hicks Pasha's men was then i /: broken and his army was annihilated. The* < English officers with the Egyptian army' ' r&a fought gallantly. The European who escaped is thought to be Mr. O'Donovan, or Frank VizetoLy, of ihe London Graphic. Hicks1. Pasha had 10,000 soldiers and 2,000 camp fol-, lowers. The Aral s numbered 200,000. . Another report of the fight says the Mahdi ; > *. sent the dervishes to treat with Hicks Pasha**: . - & native officers, saying to the Egpptiocsri ^S^H "We, like you, are Mussulmans. Why: jSgHB flghtr The dervishes were received by a " volley and then the battle commenced. In a pronunciamento issued by two protninent sheiks under El Mahdi, in Septemoer. lt, was claimed that his forces numbered 200.000: that they had Remingtons, guns and rockets, which they had taken from the Turks, out that El Mahdi had forbidden theirr . use, as only spears and swords would be used' by fighting men. The news has cahsed apro-j - v,.'.*3j2 found sensation in all circles in London.; ' 'IsfijnS In an an interview with a corre-i Stafe' spondent, a high official stated, MBS that the government would modify its! CEflBg plans, and that the idea of withdrawing' VmSk British troops from Egypt would be aban- & doned. Tne utter incapacity of the Egyptiaa Kejj troops, even when officered by capable foreign generals, wasnot only apparent,but presented IM ?? f/NUnMicKinfnrocr? in Vf?f. U> 2KHUU9 UiCUOtC w iJUgiieuuivwi ww g"~j . especially at this time when it seemed likely B| tbat the success of the false prophet might arouse unbounded fanaticism among: the followers of bis faith in HOTTING _CASSLTIE& jpffl John Weatherby, of Const an tine, Mich, .I|j9! had his lower jaw torn off by the accidental BHI discharge of his gun. Jay Hollywood, of Leaton, Mich., was killed uUM by the accidental discharge of his gun as be jumped upon a log while hunting. HH While trying to creep under a barbed wire fence with a gun in his hand, Noah Harmon, '' -'5*3 of Mount Joy, Penn., was fatally shot. J. H. Hersperger, of Nicholasville, Ky., fired at a flock of birds and hit his friend Georgo Hughes, shooting the top of his head y&Jj Daring Miller, of Gouglersville, Penn., went ' > ?$ hunting, and after wounding himself in the abdomen crawled SOU yards toward nome. He was found dead. John Droester, of Brockton, Mass., carried ' %s his gun over his shoulder, Both barrels were ,WlM accidentally discharged, killing Droester's brother, agei seventeen years, who was behind him. " Charles Cella, forty-eight years old, entered a store at Commercial Point, LL, after hunting all day, and brought his gun down with a ban^ ujxjp the floor. It was discharged, kiHAs Ira Emmons, of Eureka, Nev., was carrying a shotgun with tha barrels down, tbe pin connecting the barrels with the stock *rt fell out, and the gun was discharged, blowing Emmons' leg off. Albert Lee, of Minneapolis, lived four hours after being accidentally sbot by his jJats! friend while hunting. The charge of shot -jjSfSL was lodged under the kneecap, severing an artery, and he bled to death. As David Cramer, of Rawlinsville, Penn. ^ was walking through a cornfield with his gun, $ the hammer caught on a stalk and Mr. Cra- ,>35 mer's little boy received the charge of shot in . his body and arm. He will recover. The well known hunter of St? Louis, Nick Simon, who was supposed to bave been fatally shot near Horseshoe lake, has recovered after . - "jSt having restored to his pouch twenty-two shot taken from his face, forty-one from his right '?/ arm, and one from his right eye. A most singular hunting accident occurred ,'Jd near the Burr Oak farm, in Reno township, . ^ Kansas. Charles Barrett and Nathan Cuah? inbury had had a (rood day's sjjori, and DOgirea muca RHiue. Iimw ill iwu uuu; on their way to Lawrence, the harness broke - . , ' as they wore going down bill, the horses fell, t>*' .*?$ and the busrgy was overturned, throwing Barrett, who was holding a breech-loading ' shotgun across his lap, into the ditch. The ';un was discharged, shooting the owner in he back and killing him instantly. THE NATIONAL GRANGE Twenty-seven States Represented at the Annual Convention* The annual convention of the National Grange was opened in Washington, D. C., twenty-seven Statee being represented by masters of State granges. William -c. Saunders of the agricultural department, who was the first master of the national . grauge, delivered an address of welcome to .loWnfvHf SDeeches were made by ex (Tovernor Robie. of Maine, J. R Thompson, of this city, ana Mr. Harrison, of Alabama v .? They discussed the question of the strength and influence of the agricultural class, its want of representation in the executive branch of the government, and the growth of national grange organization. Worthy Master J. J. Woodman, of Michigan, delivered his annual address, reviewing the progress of the order. He asserted that the grange organization is in a more prosperous condition now than it has been for many years, and i) at its ranks are rapidly fillingnp. The Buffalo Disappearing. The anpcarance of a buffalo in Dakota 1 is now nn cxceeiuiigiv uuu uwuuvuvu, l)iit ten years ago they were as numerous in the western portion of our Territory as the heads of the domestic beef cattle are now. Twenty years ago the buffalo was not a rare object in the vicinity of Sioux Falls, but, like the Indians, he had to go before the army of civilization, until now Tic"^ ^oon'jd into a contracted region in Northwestern Montana, and will become extinct, if not pt'*i.,rI,,il '\v l'iw, within a few decades. The .f i< :il strength of the buffalo ten years ago is iV/,r,'djn'6 to tlie people in the States. Horace was ridiculed and lost his reputation for reliability among many good people fifteen years ago, because lie had the temerity to tell the readers of his paper the estimated number of cattle lie saw in one herd. The extent of the herd was beyond comprehension, and the lamented Greeley was put down as the boss prevaricator, so far at least as his buffalo story went. The herd descnoea l>v Horace was fifteen miles in length and half that distance in width. This, in those days, was a comparatively small band. It would not have formed agood| >i/ed fraction to the herds the writer has seen in Montana during the years.of 1870 ! and 1871. In the month of July in the latter year, between Fort Peck and Cow Isiand. 011 theuppcr Missouri river, a disI a lice of 200 miles, the country on each bank of that stream was black wilh these ^mit animals, in one solid body, reaching back from the river as far as the eye eouhl distinguish objects. But now a buffalo is a strange sight there.?l'urgo Dakota) Argus. The best way to discipline one's heart against scandal is to believe nil stories to be false which ought not to be true.