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lit 7 777: J.P D)EVOTED) T1O POLITICS, MORALITY, ]EDUCATION AND TO THE UNERAL INTRUEST OF THE CUTY BD.FBRDE &CoPICKENS. S. C., TUSA ,FB ARY 16, 1882 VO.XSRO 2 Jn Florida 8,000 pie a le can I raised on an acti of ground. one O housand me are employed i thelron rorks in Cherokee county, Ah The only drawback to cocoanut rabi ing in Florida is that It takes ten yea1 for the trees to bear. Fifteen hundred executions for delhi quent poll taxes- have been Issued i Union county, S. 0. An old man on Caney Fork, in Mid die Tennessee, caught $6,000 woi th o ;mw, logo during the last rise. Tennessee- has a State law which mi poses a fine of $500 for failure to repor small pox cases to the State Board o Health. At Louisville, Miss., John D. M Thrasher has been sent to the peniten tiary for life for the murder' of W. D Triplett. The Georgia Supreme court has de cided that the cities of that State mus stop their debts at 7 per cent of thei taxable property. Six hundred partridges in boxes shipped from Danville, Va., arrived in Wilmington, Del., last week for the Delaware Game A ssociation, which is trying to restock that State. Fifteen thousand dollars have beer expended (n the North Georgia agri culturel college at Dahlonega. It will take $5,000 to complete it. Col. Benj. S. Ricks, of Yazoo county, Miss,, the second largest planter in the South, employs 1,000 men, and made 2,000 bales of cotton last year. The acreage of wheat sown over East Tennessee is unusually large, and the prosoect for an excellent crop was never inore encouraging for the time of year. Within the last three years over $2, 000,000 have been invested in manufac turing enterprises in Georgia, and nearly $10,000,000 have been invested and con tracted for in new railroads in our State. Old Aunt Bonnie Holloway died in Fauqiuier county, Va., last week, in the one hundred and fifteenth year of her age, the oldest citizen probably in the Old Dominion. When Lord Cornwallis passed through Eastern Virginia in the summer of 1781 she said she "was a good smarr, gal, big encugh to get. married." The Nashville Banner, in some race recountings, says: At another race over the Clover Bottom track Gen. Jackson entered his famous horse Truxton, and was backing him quite heavily. Gov. Cannon was on hand, but had no money, so he bet a wagon load of negroes with the General. Truxton wvon the race and the General took in the negroes. Gold is being washed from alluvial lands within the limits of Gfainesville, - Ga., which pays 50 cents to the pan. -The city covers a deposit of gold-bear ing material which should be utilized, and no dloubt will be as soon as the ea nal Atlanta so much needs passes through that section. The bed of that canal for a distance of forty miles wil] be cut through veins and dleposits of gold-bearing cre. There are three great hmnd coimpanics now interested in Florida. The Disston company holds 2,000,000 acres of the 4,000,000 acres it bought from the State. A third company (bcaded by Diss'on also) proposes to drain the Lake Okee chobee region and reclaim the swvamp 0lands. The area of reclaimation is as large as New Jersey, Connecticut, D)ela ware and Rbode Island, and the Disston company will get half of it, the State retaining the balance of it. Two enor mous dredging boats are already at work at this, and the work will be puished to completion. Atlanta Constitumtion Florida N otes Eight years ago there was only $120,000 4 invested in steamers on the St. Johns. Now there are twenty eight steamers plying that river, one of which cost p240,000,' and to this fleet there are con stant additions. The Indiani river and South Florida lakes and inlets are now dotted with sail boats, carrying freight to and fro. In a very short time these will lbe supplemented by steamers, and then the quesaion will be settled, a new .4. region opened, the fertility, anid beauty of which cannot be put in words. ~John Bull at Table. .No people delight in eating and drink ing more than the English. Four meals per day, two light and two heavy, barely content them. The total abstainers drink large quantities of tea, coffee and temperance drinks, and eat amazingly. The moderate drinkers take as much as would, in this climate, make a man a drunkard. They are very hospitable, and delight to see their guests eat. Charles Diekens drow a true picture of Mr. War dle at thme head of his table. I have seen en Englishman with ten children and six gd~sts, .making eight on each side, his wife at one end of the table and himself at tho other, a twenty.pound roast of beef before him and a quarter of mutton before her, and heard this strange but * rnot inappropriate, blessing asked : "iiless this food. Helip us to beotharnkful and to eat what shall be sufficient for strength and comfort. Help our guests- to feel at home. Bless us every one and accept our thanks." Then came the huge slices to each plate, and in a short time the last conglomerate of bread and beef and mutton and potatoes and pudlding was being transformed into human nature. The impression made on a stranger is that they are the healthiest race on earth; but the prevalent ruddy complex A~'.wh~ not produced by imbibition, iE rrnb bl to the climate, and not espe. -al niaieo elh ppey a tiv aof rhemalti Ae para ,~ Egoutand, rhandiosumptiover 940ws nin ga d anmcnlmtitue.oh r lettnec ifreto eulitues The adpseva ent-tednc Dis tokxcss of dpe Yoi Chue--Re vo .u eynNwYo t TOPICS OF THE DAY. f OINUINNATz reports 188 cases of small. pox under treatment. DzNvva will hold a National Mining Exposition in August. TZs is the season of the year to make L predictions about spgng. r THU persecution of Jews in Russia in exciting general attention. THE New York bar will give Judge Porter a complimentary dinner. A woMAN in Graves County, Kentucky, Is undergoing a forty days' fast. VANDERBILT pays over two hundred thousand dollars annually in taxes. STRAWBERRIMS from Florida are selling in New York at $4 and $5 per quart. Tmsis the year that the Mohammedans expect the coming of their Messiah. OF THE 601 convicts in the Arkansas State Prison more than 100 are murderers. CANADA is considering the feasil'ility of'abolshing the duties on tea and coffee. DE LONG has been traced to a definite locality. The next thing now will be to find him. A ST. Louis man has started a fund for the Guiteau jury by contributing $1 towards it. WE FIND that the more the editors say against the Gainsborough hats the higher they loom up. CiNoINNATI will probably try the ex periment of propelling street cars by the cable system. Ta Cleveland fund for the Garfield monument is not quite $100,000 and there it sticks. RTDGEWAY iB under the impression he can freeze Guiteau's body so that it won't stink. It may be that he can. FEBRUARY 27 is the day upon which Mr. Blaine will deliver his eulogy on President Garfield in Congress. -- - - -a - - *'' - THE reporters of Chicago have ruled women out of their press club. Men want to get to themselves occasionally. itERn is one thing Guitean may rest assured of : He will be cut up, or froze up--exhibited in the flesh or as a skelo ton. FEMAnE teachers in Boston who have been in service ten years want $1,000 a year. If they can't get married they ought to have it. TaI Spanish pilgrims to Rome are Carlist soldiers or well known friends of Don Carlos, who urges the movement in letters to his partisans. THEi Russian Government claims that the persecution of the Jews in that country was originated and is kept up by revolutionary agents. THE work of tunneling the St. La w -ence River is to be completed in fogr years at a cost of $3,500,000. Mon treal has the cont ioct. WTLWE's face is so long thiat it is said to have the appearance of being reflected from a convex mirror. Grief over lie fading lily produced it. - UNDERt the law District Attorney Cork bill will get $20 for prosecuting theo assassin. Dr. Bliss might give Corkhiill a pointer on making out bills.. OsCAR WILDE thinki, Walt Whitman is the~ gleatest of living poets--not even exceptin~g Longfelhow. Mr. Whitman will now please tickle Mr. Wildo some. TEN Grant phalanx, known as the Three-Hfundred-and-Six, are to be pre sented with bronze medals as mementos for their unswerving fidelity in the hour of sore trial. IF BARNUM! could secure the body of Guiteau, and then ongage Oscar Wilde as lecturer, he might double his fortune of $.3,000,000. The scheme is worth looking into. WE REOKON Oscar Wilde don't like'1 America excessively. Shafts of sarcasm are hurled at him from every conceiva ble quarter. He must think we Ameri cans are awful reckless. TOBAO00 is a foul weed, but it seems to yield an enormous revenue wherever it is raised. The tobacco monopoly of France last year yielded a net profit to the State of about $60,000,000. SINrou Liszt went to Rome his health unas greatly improved. But ho still de votes hours to the fatiguing work of composition, and forgets sleep, food and everything else except the work before him. T HE St. Petersburg police have issued anU ordecr forbidding the appearance of any actors or dancers on the stage of the Itheat'rs of the Capital whose dresses have not been previously rendered in combustible by means of chlorate of limo. The same rule has been in force ia Berlin for five years. AN~ OPFFICAY4 report on the condition of the eyes of school chiidren in Philadel phia~ says: "Hvnermaetronlo avea are more numerous than both myopio and emmetropio ; that next to myopio astig matism, distinct lesions are most preva lent to the eyes with bypermetic astig usntism " This will be startling news to most people. IN Trs Continual Rse ini the Guiteau trial many people have asked, what does 1 " court in bane " mean? "Banc,' brought into legal language from the Fren ch, means "bench,' and comes to r from English law. " Bane Regis " was the title of the King's Bench, which i was above all other courts, and appeal . to which was final. The " Court in bane " therefore means the Supreme Conrt of the District in full bench. SrxTY Harvard students, wearing knee breeches and black silk stockings and ' bearing lilies in their hands, went in a body to one of Oscar Wilde's lectures in Boston. Oscar, strange to say was not pleased. To see himself as others v see him so disconcerted him that he failed even to enjoy the rapturous ap plause that occasionally greeted him Perhaps this sort of monkey business. if i pursued long enough, will teach the dis- C ciple of mostheticism a wholesome lesson. EmTOn BRAMsDEAL, of he Washington Rlepublican, recently offered $5 for the best written letter accepting an offer of marriage, and here is the letter, by Ger trude Nelson, which won the prize : "My Dear Donald-Fresh with the breath of the morning came your loving z missive. I have turned over every leaf of my heart during the day, and on each E page I find the same written, namely, E gratitnde for the love of a noble man, hu- I mility in finding myself its object, and i ambition to render myself worthy of that which you offer. I will try Yours henceforth." GEORGE Q. CANNON, one of the con festants for the seat of Delegate in Con gress from Utah, speaking of the re pressive measures respecting polygamy, says: "Our people will be obliged to submit with the spirit of martyrs, as they have heretofore submitted when oppressive laws have been enacted against tirem, or when they have been e' expelled or mobbed from their various homes, before polygamy became one of their tenets. They actually rejoice in persecution, as it intensifies their ad lesion to tho doctrines of their church, and confirms thom in their belief in its divine origin." A COTEMPORARY tells the following story: A man named Harsens who keeps a saloon and a parrot in New York went out a few minutes the other even inig and on his return missed seven silver watches ho had there. A few nights after William Cox, who was the only person in the saloon during Harsens' absence, enme in with some friends; and - whilc he was drinking at the bar, the parroL startled him by saying gravely, "Billy Cox stole those watches." He hurried out to sue the owner of the par rot for defaming his character, when he was arrested for stealing another watch whiich was found in his possession. AcconomoG to the New York Herald, nlow engaged in examining the Clerk's ac count of the disbursements of the House of Representatives, the most shameful recklessness prevails in the manner of spending the public funds. We quote from the list: ' Two perfumery cases, bought for a member, $20; three fans bought for a member, $16.63; six tooth picks, bought for member, $28.17; two fourteen carat charm magic pencils, bought for a member, $30.60; seven knives, bought for a member, $109 67; three card cases, bought for a member, $10.33; one fine opera glass, bought for a member $40; one shaving case, bought for a member, $13. These are only a few of the long list given. The Her aid, commenting, says: "Surely Mr. Adams, the late Clerk of the House of Representatives, who furnished these1 extr aordinary articles to 'a member' at the public expense, on the pretense that they were needful for the discharge of his legislative duties, does great injustice in w~ithhuoding the ' member's' name from he curious taxpayers. He must have been engaged in very dirty wr one so much perfumery." wokt West Point Board of' Visitors. The members of the lloard of Visitors appointed every year to attend1 the an nual examination at Wes$t Point, arc solicited in the following manner: Seven persons, the law p~rovidesH, shall be0 app~ointedl by the President, and two Sen~ators andl three membllersI of the House of Rtepresentatives, shall be desig nated b~y the Vice PresidIent or Presidlent pr)o f(em?>orc of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Reprosenta fives, respcctively, of the session of Congress nuext preceding sueh examin tion). As to compensation, the law nrakestheo following pro~vision . No compensa~tion shall be made to the mnembers of the Board beyond the pay ment of their expenses for board and lodging while at the Academy, and an allowance, not exceeding eight centas mile, for traveling by the shortest mail! route from their respective homes to the Academy and thene to their homes. A s!ON 'EM~Rr)ARtY asks : " How shaoll w(om en carry their purses to) frustrate tho INieves ?" Why, carry them emptv. N.othinig frustrates a thief umore than to MInatch at woman's puirse, after following her half a mile, and then find thautit con tains nothing but a recipe for spiced p -achos and a fadedl photograph of her grandmo ther. ii -.'. h'a Idamed hiM dog Non~ Sequit, Ur. , loned Ia~ , lit fain-?oow BG BEN BOLTON. by EUGENE J. HALL. remember big Ben Bolton, and the little L:ontine. Io could carry off a millstone, but she ruled hit" like a Queen. 3 te stood seven feet In h4 stockings ; she was hardly t three feet high;. hut she wound hin round her finger, and @he riled I him with her eye. he women used to snicker, and the hardy ininers smiled, o see the brawny giant with the gentle little child. nd the gamblers up from 'Fisco, when they saw them, used 1 swear 1:at they looked as fitly mated as a rabbit atnd a i bear. le would drop his pick and shovel when she catne in working hours; 'hey would go ailong the gulches after gay anid gaudy flowers; Ce would clinb the dizzy ledges, he would scale the mIounritain-side, learhig her upon his shoulders, which lie called her "4 lite bride." t te could bend an iron crowbar, ho coutld H'ft a hallf a toil, e could twist a wagotn-tire, or the barrel of a gin, Vith his fingers; but it often itsed to make us laugh f Vbcn we saw Leontino load hini as a butcher lead , a calf. MWen the hard day's work was over, when the crescent silvor moon roso above the mountain pines, we inet at " Blood's saloon," hen Den Bolton used to give its exhibitioiis of lie skill n bending iron crow-bars or inl twisting Off a drill. r Inc day Ezekiel Parsons sent to 'Frisen on the sly, nd bought a bar of tempered steel, for brawny Bell C lIe to try. ub he boys who understood the game came down to Blood's one night, ,nd stood serenely round the bar and waiting for the kight. Ien Bolton grasped the bar of steel, he brought I to his knee,t and like a lcoomotive puffed, the trick he could not Feo; "he swetv ran down his honest face, uipon his lilits he spit, [o tugged and worked with all his inight, it would not budge a bit. zekiel Parsons shook his sides, the boy. all lauigl:ed aloud, ten lost his reputation and had to treat the crowd. j t out him so completely, and it made him feel so Inean, to quit the camp next morning with the little Leon- E tine. L storm comes up the valley, a clottd bursts on the hills, .he stream becomes a river, that sweeps away the 1ills. Old downward through the hollow tha maddened torrent roars, 'er rocks, through glens and gulches, and Ainling camps it pours. k cry comes from the hollow, and rashing down th ridge Lho ninerssee Ben Bolten lke a giant at the bridge ] Lhe water settles about in, thn bridge rocks to and fro ; Ee holds it with a crow-bar-in a mainute it must go. Beneath the narrow ledge near by, with bright dis heveled hair, 'hey see the little Leontine-her hands are clasped il1 prayer. he structure quaLes, the strong man shake., no fear is ill his face; AHo ! save the child," he shouts alotid, " I'll hold the bridge in place." Eho Parsous bounds ujon the bridge, the wonen wail with fear; Llu lifts the child inl his strutag arms, the miners :oudly cheer; [1e leaps utpon the trenmbling l-gs, the waters round him roar; He slips, he falls, he creeps, hd crawls, lie springs upon tho shore. 'he child is saved, Bun Bolton, bit who will help you now ? rhe crow-bar in yotur lorawny hunids breaks like a rotten bough, An ildowni the glen 5045 bridge atnd mant, with broken logs antd StoiiE that rend and gash his stalwart formi anid criush and break his bones. Adowun thie hill the niiner-s rutn, withe outcrles of dlespali lhey ibnd him wuedged b'etween, fli recks, and hang inig lhelpless thiere. L'hiey b'ear his nmangled forra sway, without thne glen they pass W'ith wordls of pity arnd of Jove, and lay lIma on the g rasi'. ['he erlinuson blood ruins down his face, he shudders anid he sighs; i.'ipu lips move, ho ::noanis, lie groans, thou~ to a eohiaradle cries: 'I-ve s:ived1 the little Leontine, be kind to her, des r J1ot',] ~u bent and b roke, Zek sa rnfol' ed Is locad drolis liip and lifeless down, his eyes grow d(11l11aUii1 din, Ils broaid breast heaves, a shiver rutns through every brok~en liiinb 'ln with a stnile lpon his lips, he sinks upon the sod, knd the soul of brave Bern B3olton is at peace with inati arid Cxl. " It's cavedl I" exclaimedl Bill Beaver, b)urstin~g into the cabin where I was leis lirely eating breakfast and reading the tiews from last year's papers that were pas.ted on the wall. "' The ground has :-aved ! it came down mighlty sudden rind little Jimmy was at the breast. I was further out in the drift, and had the start of it ; but it made such a close call for me that I knew he must o' got kehed." This technical jargon revealed to me theC fact that our mine had caved, and iA buried oune oif our companions, for Little Jilumy " wats not an infant, but r. mjan--a mmner and a frijnd He0 had( Lbeen working at the " breast,'' or fathr :at endl of the " drift," but was now per taps sleeping his last sleep in the hot tomn of the mother of us all. Three years before we h'ad comec to ~his creek, we had prospected the "side ~ulchecs " and the bars, and foumd colors" everywhlere. Inldic'ationls fa ~orable, so wye "staked "L aodly of ~rounld ualong the main creek ; Imlitt ~abins, organlizeAd a compny, of whiebx hle wvriter was4 elected Presidenit, ad vent to work to openl our (laiml Those8 three years had beenl a eairs of roil and1( priv'ationl. We wvere ini the heart f the Rocky mroutinsiii. Ou r camp wasu pitchedl iln a little 'oasin of a vatley, warmi and( Mlulnhny an ijst ate en hreo eop) and1 gloomy enn~onl, whlichi we naimed "' Thet D~evil's (Gate," timd through which ouir sp~arkling little iireamn foniuced (and tumb~lled1 downvi to the great ri ver, thne Missiou ri. O ur grounld w ar d14 y ansld very weE. IDrainage was Ihle0eusary, iluy wt*i~td drivell It t(I'lhl for 1 his puirp~ose throui gh the( earth anrd b)owlders thatt tilled thle primevatl hed o)f the creek, until we hadl a9 tined at hori ronital distance of l,000) yards ; bunt the slope of the gulch wai so graduail that we had not renehed the " bied rock" where we hoped to find flhe gold laid ini br01aps. "Bed roek, " being the' objhetive pomlt, mutst be reached ;i sowe san1k a shaft at the head of our tunnel and he took ourselves to a pump. As it was a couple of thousandil miles to the nearest foundry, and no could not afford to await thue c'ompletionl of the North Pacifle railroad, at pumpl uinder the c~i rumsces was a p~roblemu ; sio I will tell you how we got one. Weo ha~d lackusmith's and carpenters' tools, which most of us could use ; there was plenty of timber growing on the mo(untainsH, and a pair of dilapmdated freight wagn upplied our stock of iron. (reat slabs ir segments were cut from the fir trees ad hewn and dressed on oeaQ side to a mooth plane. The othcr sido was ounded to an are or convex sirface, so hat when four such segimits were ilaced togetherlengthwise, secured with >ins at the edges, which were first quare$d and then made parallel, they ormed a long, hollow trunk or barrel, our squares within, but outside cylini. Irical, and tapering slightly from one end o the other. Upon this were driven hoops or hands >f iron, which forced the joints close ike those of a cask, and thus we had mmps or pipes of considerablo length bud solidity. It was easy to fit to them ralves and pistons, and to work them vith a wooden walking beam, moved by he crank of a water wheel. Thii; cran vas a master piece. It had an arn or everage of two feet, and was forged rom the iron axle of one of our wagons, nd its dungeons or bearings were turned n a lathe of our own contriving. This vas -a heavy job for our own resources, mt it was finished after an age (it cemed to us) of toil, puzzling and per piration, and we had produced machine. y that was capRble of raising to a teight of nearly thirty foot many tous >f water per aay, and which ans4wered .l1 our requirements for drainage, so hat we were able to reach that loig ought " bed rock " at a depth of ninety cet bolow the present bed of the crek. will mention here that our pump v as wolve inches square inside, and had a troke of four feet, raising the wvater wenty-in feet into our dnn tunn.l, v henco it flowed out to the surface 1,0.,9 ards down the canon. We had reached "bed rock," but had lot "struck it very rich," and were ru n ling a drift or tunnel on bcd rock across 6nd up the gulch in search of the "ay treak " which we were hoping every (lay o fld, wlien the announcement )f a tartling accident wLs made. Here was he ruin of our hopes and the death of ur friend ; for there was little room to iopo for any other result. It must not be supposed that much ime was wasted in such reflections : for. oiling Bill to rouse the entire camp, I 'usled off to the mine. Such of the non as had heard of the occurrceo mirried from their work, bringing with hem their picks and shovels as lkeclv to )e needed, and the miners froim 'wet ligging came clad in coats, high l oots mind helmet-shaped caps of India-rul ber, Lud looking like knights in arnonr. Knights they wore, too, for that matter, 'or, though armed only with Fliovels and picks, they were as daring and as geln rous as ever belted Prince who roei with lance at rest to right imaginary wrongs ; and they wereI ready now to risk every danger to rave the poor fellow buried in the mine beneati. Oi reaching the scene I fon i oiu machinery apparently uninjirt d, iW ooking mor closely I discovered ih the pumip wazs raising not, a drop water, and it, would not h Ie lon g 14. f the entire mine would be flothld. Thi. p.umUp nit4 be reliev'ed a1t on e 0r wI couldl not hope to save the mine, nmuei, less to rescue our friendl. Caluling Boli Piper. a tall, black-hI ern-dedl mii nr, whc liad worked at his trade ill every ining 'ountry froi the Eng~ish clelliL' to the P~acific occean, andIC who, ini skill, courag md( experience, wVas the mnininig uiraec four camnp-1 pointed htim~ to the mmp11, whlichi was wearinig itself t in rain, for it lifted 1no water. "Bob,'' said J, "' we muist lix that ump ! It is our only houpe to save [little Jimmy." "We'll fix it," replied Bolb, quiet ly. 'rThe pump is stairved-choked up at he bottom. We'll fix it; and ai. ftori the oor lad Wve'll git n out." Bob was a WVcst of Eniglanid natu, anid his dialect stuck to huim. ''We'll get unl out, Benny; I tlhintk he ean't dead. I've helped dig mni ont ni the old country and this, too; ani'uod vill help us we'll get un out no0w; won't is, Benny ?'' Benny; thus appeatled to, answe red svith an emph~latie "You bet,'' aind thle >ext moment hie and BobI followed 1by ;wo other.s, were cheriniig do4wni the steepi and slippery fliight of ladders that led into the mine, until their (anles, glimmering like stars, were one b y onW swallowecd up in the black shalt. Axes hma beenu sent down iln the bucket, and in a few moments wvere' heard blows ringing on the mass18 of wood and iror that composed the barrel of tihe panmp They were cutting holes4 to let waiter init< the pump belowv. it had(1ii aready ri.sei above their waists, and1( thle mouth of th<1 lowvest dIrift was nrarly submitergel. Tile machinery was5 ('reakinlg nu; groaninig, and the whieel dashing nO~nnlt, and it wats idle show, and the in~le wa.' filling upl, and soon1 the, men would be [iriven out ; but meanII~timae we con)ll bear the lows of thew axes. 1 'rt senitly) the clumsy walking beamw qit graning, s~t4od still andI beganl to treml. Theii wheel had stojpped for a mom.-niut, th!ean began to miove ulow ly, anid wvent round with aL surge. There wvxas' greait rush [>f water through the pwny, ~ andu it. was ill right. Our 0ld won,&ti pinyp' was equal to the orccasionl. T hle floe d-g t ''s were openledl to) the gren t overtdhot wheel, and it wIas *' reuired1 to do its best. It rushied rond( steadily, and in an hlour the mnine was freed frota water 5o that mcould'11( press. into thle dr'ift. It was arraniged that if Little Jfimmiy was found alhive the tact should bee tee.. grapihed aloft by two strokes of the sig. rald bell ; b~ut if dead, one~ tap should mnnoiunce it. Men were working iiutder ground( na onmly such mien would wyork, 'hey had~ bentl il tito' gangs of fouri aeah, wvhibcl spelliedc or reliuevedl each )thmer every fifteen oinuli11tes; and1(, a8 thiey idvancedl inito thet LiLi avalceof roek I 1211 earth thait filled the dift, every ich 14u4 to be proed with heavy tiltlbers or the~ vast umass above thieim'hiad beci hakeni and4I had lost its cohdesion41, an11d it (very mnomnt might crash dann~I lik4 i mountain. P resenatly, to) 1those4 who waited abdove hten an1ot hIer. He( wash alive ! 'W hat ohout went up from the 13nen atssemble< Ahere'. Out~ of the depths~ of that canon ibovo its elifTh and erags, and over th brees that waved1 on their sumtuit-s, anld Ibove, the mountains that towere< beyond-fartu above thomn all it rose lik~ incense, .lt aseended into hoagven, for i was a praye--a pram. P$ Mhns..v..: and of- praise. Not formed in speech, not framed in language, but the over flowing of the heart that can not be ut tered in words. My story is done. Little Jimmy had been overwhelmed with an avalanche, his candles extinguished, and he dashed down with his face to the earth; butthe rocks and timbers had formed an arch over him, and, resting his elbows on the ground, he was just able to support his head above it. In a little while he would have drowned where he lay but he was safe now. Strong hands had dragged him out of this grave. They had liar nesAed tbemselves to the " horse whin," and had hoisted him into the glorious sunshine. They boro lim to his cabin, and plaed him in the tender care of "Doc." Hero we will leave him. The three drinking saloons in our canp proclaimed open doors and free whisky for the rest of that day, and, as the boys were about to take a drink, Bob Piper asked leave to offer a sentiment. G(enlhneCn," sid he, "I told you we'<t git un out, if so be as God would lielp us. Glenelmen, He did hell) us." " Yon bet I" was the applauding and emphiatic response. Speopendyke in lh. Role of a Sports mian. "Say, my dear," said Mr. Spoopen dyke, as he drew a gun from the case and eyed it critically, "I want you to wake in up early in the morning. I'm going shjooting.' "Isn't that too sweet I" ejaculated Mrs. Spoopendyke. "I'll wear my dress and my Saratoga waves. Where do we go?" SI'i going down to the island, and yon'll go as far as the front. door," grunted Mr. Spoopendyke. "Women dohn't go shoioting. It's only men. All you've got to do is to wake me up and get breakfast. When I come home we'll have some birds." " Won't that he nice !" chimed Mrs. Spoopendyke. " Can yon catch birds wN iti thi.At thing?" and Mrs. Spoopendyke fliuti-red around the improved breech hoauli'ig .shot gun, firmly impressed with I he i-lea that it was some kind of a trap. i eau kill 'em with this," exchlmed AIr. Spo1'topendyke. " This is a gan, my id itisn'r a nest VWith thiree speckled eggi in it, nor is it a br1 with a hole it?. Ihel roif. You stick tle eartridge in hero and pull this 1i!nger-p)iecet, and down ComI M yurm1 bird c.ve-rv tin." " ilt that tl greatest iling ! I sup i st yovu don't want i partridge you k11n stik* a du k (r a t urkey in t hat end, 1(w, ()I- it tish or a los)Yter, and bring it downl jutl -s qu1ic~k." " Yoe, o r Vou can sii.ok a house or a cnih-iild, uora dod gasted female idiot fl ther,1 t, if you waunt to!" snorted M. . Spoop4mlyke. l Who said anything abut a pirtridge ? It's a eartlridge that goo'. inl 11bere." h " jaelatli ed EMrs. Spoo~' pendtyke,~ rat h.r crestfallen. " I see now. Wihee 14os the bir(d go?" "It g.us to night school, if lhe hasn't ut.1 :uaiy mnore senise than& you have," sno~ rtedl Mr. SHyoopen~dykIo. "Look here, no0w, anid Ill show you how it works, andt Mr. Spoopendyke, whos~e ideasi of a unii we(re*u iuou asa vaguec as those of his wife, instedh thle eartridge half way in t lie mi uzzle endi, aind eatutionasly cocked the weaplont. ''And when the birdl sees thatt he ('on-es land petCks it ! isn't that the fun niest !"' anud Mrs. Spoopendyke clapped her hands in the enijoymnent of her udis coveryV. " 'Thuen you put out your hand and1( cat ch himi !"' "Youi've strn'uek it !"' howled Mr. Spo(opleyke, who had the hammer on thei half cock and was vainly pulling at the trigger to get it downu. "' That's the idea ! All you ueed is founr feattheris and a gas i ll to be a mauiurtinigale ! With your niotioniYO yOu ly wanit aL ne(w stock and steamuu trip) hiannnuer to be at needle gun ! D~on't you k now the dod gasted thing has to go off b~efore you get a bird ! You shoot the birds ; you don't wait for 'em to shoot you l''~l las oco "At hiomei weusdawytocp their heads oil' wit h ian ax," faltered Mrs. " So woul I if I wvas going after measly ol lhens,'' reto rted Mr. Sp)(open dlyke, whot had mnanagedl to unucock the sonit rivance, "' but whenu I go for yellowv birds anid sparrows I go like a sports man. WXih'iI'm waiting for a bird," contin ued Mir. Sp)(openfdy4'ke, adjustinug the cartridge at the breech, "I1 put the load in here for safety, and when I sce a Ilock( I aim and fire." Ilanig ivwent the gun, knocking the tall i feathers ont of ani eight-day clock and plow~inug a foot furrow in the wvall, perforating the closet dloor and culminat umg in Mr. Spooyendyke's plug liat. (" Oodniess, gracious !" solueaked Mrs. Spo' opeuidyke, " Oh, my 1'' Mr. Spoop~endyke gathered hiumself up "Why co udn't ye keep1 stilt !"' he s hirieked(. "' Whaft'd ye want to disturb my alim fori and make me let it off? T1h ink Iui nn hold hack a charge of po0w decr ani'I a PoundI~ of shot while a nmeaisy woman is scaring it through a guna bar rel ?" " f it had beeni ai birdl howv nicely you would have shot it !" suggested 19irs. Spoopenu dyko, soothuingly'. '"lf you shoulhd ever aim at a bird you'd catch Neapolitan BabIes. TJher.'e are0 millions of babhies' in Naples - baibies enough, I judge, to supply all thet rest of the world if the crop) should imppenl to grow thin aanywhere. Thore ar~e habLies n m arms, babies on balconies, baies thireatening to tumble from in' ianuerale front windows. Babies in waagonsm, babies tinder huorseh babies mnakinig umd-pios in the "' straudas," but about half of them. under 4 years of ago are as naEkte as when they were ba'rn. I don't think there is a cradle in Nph.ls, any more than there is a rock mig-ehair in England ; but here and thierea mother, comparatively well-to-do, caie(s her infant "'bomnid in swaddling clot lies,"' hiko the plX~ei of Jerusa10le aind the American Indians, wra~pped 'tightly round and round from head to foot, like ai cocoon or' at (igar, and some-0 times its arms are also imprisoned. . These minute specimens of the laizzaronli are0 generally god.utured, like their fathers and micGs, and where clothes 3 (5nn1 be afforded, ~ey ere always worn t , mre or less.-.J 4' C&Oj'ern' (%rr' r /.nXndenlCA. - ' has wat to, mento, 1R o of glu i and pressed ry, as good as'i. A PA*r & will alen e and whiting anddods left to the sunif marble will remove spot, (1armaboildlnhikai' the milk served as a In i cure for . . ..... stpecifte in cases of lwooplo find oomfort in NEVER stand sl especially after haWi (legree of exercise; Anch tstanding upon the te or the persaon is exposed tooa A FLANNEr cloth dipped soalp nuds and then into w al)Plied to. paint will insat ill grease and dirt. Wash water and dry. 'The most will not be injured, and wil new. To nEMOvn grease from w wash with soap or alkaline oredl cottons, wash with ltike yes. Colored woolens, the ammonia. Bilks, absorb wi chalk or fuller's earth, and dis with benzine or ether. Fon salt-rising bread, stir upq, thick in the usual way, using cold and place upon the sitting-roolin' stove over night ; it will be Hight en Wc to sponge the bread by mornmig, quite a help when the days are po. for raising the emptings ; my prefer this rising. en one has- iibt warm-enough place to set their millkibut hot water in to raise the temperature. To make a light wheat loaf, take.ithe thick buttermilk from th& bottom, ofi.pur buttermilk dish ; stir just as yOu can, allowing one heaping teaspooriilso da to a pint basm of buttermilk.,,-)tot pie is nice made in the same -wayply put about one third sour cream. Ad ding made in the same way with. 'ied cherries and steamed in the cake * Ih with a hole in the center is nice. The advantage of the hole in the 'eentei is that the steam passes through the tenter of the pudding into the steawer. .fat this pudding with sugar and .an nice tart apples will answer very ~eli for fruit. POPULAR SCIENCE. Fou several years it has been obserled that the European glaciers are steadily retreating. THE molecules of hydrogen, at a ttm p~erature of 60" Fahrenheit, move at4he average of 6,225 feet in a second. FLAMMARIAN says that the tail odu comet must sweep through space with the velocity of 16,000 leagues per secobad. MIR. STONE, her Mlajesty's astronother at the Cape of Glood Hope, has just com pleted his great catalogue of Southern ' stars, the result of ten years' labor at the cape. TuE algie known as protococcaoema have one peculiarity--they ..o uotJ'~ im the water but in other plants, some l~ dead, some in dying and others in livingN parts. Sous people have come, to believe that salting or smoking wvill kill Irichinx, but a temperature of 2120 Fahrenhteit, or at least 1600 should be reached in every part of the meat to bring aliout this result. TnE colors which dlistiniguish our sumn mer and autumn flora-reds, pinks, blues and yellows--are caused by the presence of subs)tances which require a strong > light and high temperature for their p~roductiont. It wAs at one time sulpposed that among twining plants each had its own -~ direction, some tWining toward the sun and others agairwt it; but, though the theory is trute in the main, there are found exceptions to the rule. TrHE amnount of nervous action may be meas'nured by the quantity of llood con suimed in its performance. The plethys mnograph, measuring the volume of an organ, when the arm is brought in con tact with its records the amount of blood drawn from the body to the brain, and thus indicates exactly the effort in men tal action. EXPERIMENTS have recently been made to show that the presence of ozone pro-1 duces luminosity in phosphorus. In pure oxygen, at a temperature of 150 0., and under atmospheric pressure, phos phiorouts is not luminous in the dark, and a bubble of ozone introduced under the bell glass produces momentary phos phorescence. THE practical vahie of the Faure ac cumulator for the storing of electricity is yet to be proved, .it is said that sev oral such batteries stationed in a house and charged 'with electricity during the day will be sufficient to light up the rooms at night and perform such light operations as turning a coffee-mill or sewing-alacohine. A lioston GirI in Chicago, I feel that I am very far from Boston, I realize that I am many miles near-' the line that separates civilization ir' a the land of savages. And into tpese Western solitudes I have brought a vol utme of Herbert Spencer to refresh anid cheer my mind. He always fascinktes; and the fact of his being still unmarried has something to do with it, for you know there is a halo surrounding the celibate which marriage utterly de stroys. As in most philosophical 'dues tions, it is useless to ask why this is so. We can only observe the working of the phlenlomen~a, but not its cause. Ibit truly, of Spencer I never tire. His ideas of the higher life are so consoling- the development from ain "lndefinite, in coherent homogeneity to a defInite, coherent eterogenieity." What could bt3 truer or more conclusive ? Perhaps the illiterate mind might b~e staggered by the tunusual comb inationi of polysyllables, but we who are cultivated can appteeinto the sub~tle signifleance of adeni, coherent heterogeneity. His ideas of love, however, are not extravagantly tin~gedl with romancfl(e. Suppose)5 that a ma~n with tender eyes and raven-hned miustache, having seated himself by yone side, should tenderly take your hand inm his, and then assure in fervent tones tha6 li e s onsnions nt a mnolennlar change in