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-" - ---t. - DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORtALITYj ]DUCATION ANID TO THE #AENERAL INTE1RST OF THE0UR -.-... H URDA YFEB3RUA RY O16,1LN.822 n Flada, 8s0 . ianM Mdmeiare eployed! I the'ben *'rks in Cherokee county, Ah the only drawback to cocoanut rah Ing in Florida is that It takeis ten year for the trees to bear. -Fifteen hundred exeentions for deli quent poll taxes- have been issued 1 Union o n county, . . An old man on Caney Fork, in '01id .die Tennesee, caught $6,000 wor th oj e log during the last rioo t Tennessee 'has a State law which im poses a fine of 500 for failure to repor umall pox cases to the State Board o: Realth. At Louisville, Mi., 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 musi stop their debts at 7 per cent of thelb taxable property. Six hundred partridges in boxes shipped from Danville, Va., arrived ir Wilmington, Del., last week for the Delaware Game A ssociation, which is trying to restock that State. Fifteen thousand dollars have been 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 prosnect for an excellent crop was never more encouraging for the time of year. Within the Jat 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 Fauqier 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 snarr gal, big enough to get married." The Nashville Banner, in some race recountings, sayi.: At another race over the Clover Bottom track Glen. Jackson entered his famous horse Trux ton, and was backing him quite heavily. Goy. Cannon was on hand, but had no money, so lie bet a wagon load of negroes with the General. Truxton won tho race and the General took in the negroes. Gold is being washed from alluvial lands within the limits of ('ainesville, Ga., which pays 50 cents to the pan. The city Covers a deposit of gold-bear ing material which should be' utiliz.ed, 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 will be cut through veins aind dep~osits ot gold-bearing cre. There are three tgreat land companies now interestedl in Florida. The Disston company holds 2,000,000 acres of the 4,000,000 acres it bought from tihe State. A'' third company (hcaded b~y Dission also) proposes to drain the Lake Okee chobee region and reclaim the swamp large as New Jersey, Connecticut, D~ela ware and Rbode Island, and the lDisston 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 pushed to completion. Atlanta Constituition Florida Notes Eight years ago there was only $120,000 invested in steamers on the St. Johns. Now there are twenty eight steamers plying that river, one of which cost $240,000,' and to this fleet there are con stant~ additions. The Indian 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 be supplemented by steamers, and then the quesaion iWill be settled, a new region opened, the fertility, and 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 Dickens drew a true picture of Mr. War dle at the head of his table. I have seen en Englishman with ten children and six gtdts, -making eight on each side, his wife at one end of the table and himself at the other, a twenty-pound roast of beef before him and a quarter of mutton before her, and heard this strange bit not inappropriate, blessing asked : "iEless this food. Hlelp us to be thankful and to eat what shall be suffieient 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 p late, and in a short time the Tast conglomerate of bread and beef and mutton and potatoes and pudding was being transformed into human nature. The impression made on a stranger is that they arc the healthiest race on earth; but the prevalent ruddy complex '~O,~wjnnot produced by ibibition, is 4ribibl to the climate, and not espe ci alliative of health. Apoplexy, pa gout and rheumatism are very Iuonin England, and consumption O aW~ off great multitudes. The preva tetndencis to excess of adipose tis 4u.Rv Buckley in New York Christian Aannam TOPICS OF THE DAY. CINOINNATI reports 188 cases of small. pox under treatment. DmVER will hold a National Mining Exposition in August. Tms in the season of the year to make predictions about spgng. THE persecution of Jews in Russia is exciting general attention. THE New York bar will give Judge Porter a complimentary dinner. A woMA in Graves County, Kentucky, Is undergoing a forty days' fast. VANDERBILT pays over two hundred thousand dollars annually in taxes. STRAWBERRIES 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 feasibility of-abohalhing 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 Gainaborough hate the higher they loom up. CINaINNATI will probably try the ex periment of propelling street cars by the cable system. TE Cleveland fund for the Garfield monument is not quite $100,000 and there it sticks. RTDGEWAY is 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. TnE reporters of Chicago have ruled women out of their press club. Men want to get to themselves occasionally. 'iR is one thing Guiteau may rest assured of : He will be cut up, or froze up-exhibited in the flesh or as a skolt son. 'FEMAnE teachers in Boston who have been in service ten years want $1,000 a year. If they can't get married they ortght to have it. Tia Spanish pilgrims to Rome are Carlist soldiers or well knowvn friends of Don Carlos, who urges the movement in letters to his partisans. THE Russian Guvernment claims that the persecution of the Jews in that country was originated and is kept up by revolutionary agents. THrE work of tunneling the St. Law -ence River is to be completed in four years at a cost of $3,500,000. Mon tresal has the contr act. WInDE's face is so long tha~t it is said to have the appearance of being reflected from a convex mirror. Grief over hie fading buly produced it. . UNDER the law District Attorney Cork bi1l will get $20 for prosecuting the assassin. Dr. Bliss might give Corkhill a pointer on making out bills.. OsoinR WILDE thinke Walt Whitman is the gieatest of living poets--not even exceptin~g Longfeliow. Mr. Whitman will now please tickle Mr. Wildo some. THE Grant phalanx, known as the Three-Hundred-and-Six, are to be pre sented with bronze medals as mementos for their unswerving fidelity in the hour of sore trial. Ii' BARNUM could secure the body of Guiteau, and then engage Oscar Wilde as lecturer, he might double his fortune of $3,000,000. Thle scheme is worth looking into. WEi RECKON 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. TOBAcCO is a foul weed, but it seems to yield an enormous revenue wherever it is raised. The tob)acco monopoly of F'rance last year yielded a net profit to the State of about $60,000,000. SINou Liszt went to Rome his health iias greatly improved. But he still de votes hours to the fatiguing work of composition, and forgets sleep, food and everything else except the work before him. THE Mt. Petersburg police have issued an order forbidding the appearance of any actors or dancers on the stage of the theaters of the Capital whose dresses have not been previonsly rendered in combustible by means of chlorate of limo. The same rule has been in force in Berlin for five years. AN OFFICIAre report on the condition of the eyes of school children in Philadel uhla av: -Uypm.romi eye .... more nn mfl.1sl titan both myopio and emmetropio ; that next to myopic astig. matism, distinct lesions are most preva lent to the eyes with hypermetic astig. ins tism " This will be startling news to miost people. 1N trs continual use in the Guiteau trial many people have asked, what does " court in bane " mean? " Bano,' brought into legal language from the French, means "bench, and comes to is from English law. "Bane Regis " was tho title of the King's Benoh, whioh was above all other courts, and appeal to which was final. The "Court in bane" thereforo means the Supreme Court of the District in full bench. SIXTY 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 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 pursued long enough, will teach the dis ciple of mastheticiam a wholesome lesson. EDrTon ]RAMSDETLL. of the Washington Republican, 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 missive. I have turned over every leaf of my heart during the day, and on each page I find the same written, namely, gratitude for the love of a noble man, hu mility in finding myself its object, and ambition to render myself worthy oc that which you offer. I will try Yours henceforth." GEORGE Q. CANNON, one of the con testants 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 silbmit with the spirit of martyrs, as they have heretofore submitted when oppressive laws have been enacted against them, or when they have been expelled or mobbed from their various homes, before polygamy became one of their tenets. They actually rejoice in persecution, as it intensifies their ad hes.ion to tho doctrines of their church, and confirms them 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 waienes lho had there. A few nights after William Cox, who was the only person in the saloon during Harsens' absence, came in with some friends; and while he was drinking at the bar, the parroV 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 which was found in his possession. AcconrDNG to the New York Herald, now engaged in examining the Clerk's ac con of the disbursements of the House of Representatives, the most shameful recklessness prevails in the manner of spending the pub~lic funds. We quote from the list: ' Two perfumery cnses, bought for a member, $20; three fans bought for a member, $16.63; six tooth picks, bought for member, $28.17; twvo 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. Those are only a few of the long list given. The Hferald, commenting, says: "Surely Mr. Adams, the late Clerk of the House of Representatives, who furnished these extriaordinary 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 withholding the 'member's' name from the curious taxpayers. He must have been engaged in very dirty work to needJ so much perfumery." Wes P'oiut Board of Visitors. The members of the lPoard of Visitors appoinited every year to attLend the an nual examination at Wecst Point, are solicited in the following manner: Seveon per'sons, the law~ provides, shall be applointed by the President, and two Senators atnd three members of the House of Representatives, shall be desig nated buy the Vice President or President pro fcwpo)Hrc of the Senate, and the Speaker oEf the House of Representa tives, resp~ectively, of the session of1 Congress net precedmlg such examina tioni. As to compensation, the law It akesthe following provision;. No compensation shall be made to the membters of the Board beyond the pay ment of their expenses for board and lodging while at the Academ, and an allowance, not exceeding egtcents a mile, for traveling by the shortest mail route from their respective homes to the Academy and thones to their homes. A eOWPRIMPoRARtY asks :" How shall womI1(e crry their purses to) frustrate theo thi'ves ?" Why, carry them empty. Nothting frustrates a thief more thn to snatt(ch a woman's purse, after followinig h.rt htati a mile, and then find that it con.. tainst nothing buit a recipe for spiced p -aches and a faded photograph of her grandmother. BAG BEN BOLTON. BY ZUVOUle 5. HALL. I remember big Ben Dolton, and the little L:.ontine. He could carry off a millstone, but she ruled h.im like a Queen. E stood seven feet in hjs stockings; she was hardly three feet high ;. But he wound him round her finger, and she ritled him with her eye. The women used to snicker, and the hardy ininers smiled, -To see the brawny giant with the gentle little child. And the gamblers up from 'Frisco, when they saw them, used 1 swear That they looked as fitly mated an a rabbit atid a bear. He would drop his pick and shovel when she cane in working hours; They would go aniong the gulches after gny aid gaudy flowers; He would clilb the diszy ledges, he would scale tihe m1 oll taain-side, Bearig her upon his shoulders, which he called her Slitt'e bride." He could bend an iron crowbar, he could lVft a half a toi, He co1hi twist a wagon-tire, or the barrel of a gain, With hin fingers; but it often used to inake us laugh When we saw Leontino lead hlin as a butcher lead-i a calf. When the hard day's work was over, when the crescent silver moon Arose above the ountain pilres, we net at," Blood's saloon," When Ben Eolton used to give us exhibitions of li skill In bending iron crow-bar, or In twisting ff a drill. One day Ezekiel Parsons sent to 'Frisco on the 1i' And bought a bar of tempered steel, for brawny 1.en * to try. The boys who understood the gaine cano down to Blood's one night, And stood serenely round the bar aid waiting for the sight. Ben Bolton grasped the bar of steel, he brought I to his knee, And like a locomotive puffed, the trick he could not Fee; The sweat ran down hils honest face, 1i1x'n his hands he pit, Ho tugged and worked with all his inight, it would not budge a bit. Ezekiel Parsous shooe his sides, the boys all laugl:ed aloud, Ben lost his reputation and had to treat the crowd. It out him so oompletely, and it made him feel so mnean, H. quit the camp next morning with the little Leon tine. 31. A storm comes up the valley, a cloud bursts on tire hills, The stream becomes a river, that sweeps away the mills. And downward through the hollow the maddened torrent roars, O'er rocks, through glens and gulches, and inining catups it pours. A cry comes from the hollow, and rushing down the ridge The miners see Ben Bolton like a giant at the bridgN 'The water settles about hitn, the bridge rocks to and fro ; He holds it with a crow-bar-in a minute it must go. Beneath the narrow ledge near by, with bright dis heveled hair, They see the little Leontine--her hands are clasped im prayer. The structure quakes, the strong nan shakes, no fear is ill his face; "Ho ! save the child," he dho;rts aloud, " I'll hold tho bridge In place.' Eche Parsons bounds upon the bridge, the wounen wail with fear ; He lifts the child ist his strong arnims, the miners :oudly cheer; He leaps tipon the trembling le g, the water,. round him roar; He slips, he falls, he creeps, ho crawls, he priugsr upon the shore. The child la saved, Bul Bolton, bat who will ielp you now ? The crow-biar in yomar l'rawny hratids breaks like a rotten boaghi, And down thre glen goes bridge anrd warm, with broken logs andi stounes That rend anid gash his stalwart form arid crrush arid break his bones. Adowrn the hill the rmisiersm iun, withr outcrie, of der'i,ar ; They find him wuedged bretweem thre rocks, and hang inig hrelpless there. Threy b'ear~ his nmangled formn away, without the glen threy pass with wordls of pity and of love, and lay hIn on the grasn. The erhutsonm blood rutris down ihis face, lhe shudders umrd heradghs ; Hisi pale lips miot, Ire inoenm, lhe groans, then to a cormradle cries: " l've sarved tire little Leontine, be kind to her, dear Jo,, rie benit andl brk .Zeke Iiar&(unn, for l'm ready is~ head dro'ups limp and lifeless down, his eyes grow~ dill ard din1m, Ilis biroard breast heaves, a shriver runs throuagh every broken lirib Tlwnm, with a smile upon hris lips he sinks upon the sod, And the soul of brave B~en Blolton is at peace with luan and God. " CAVED." " It's cavedl I " exclaimedl Bill Beaver, bursting into the cabin where I was leis urvely eating breakfasit and reading the news from l ast year's paipers that were pasted on the wall. " The ground has caved ! it came down mighty sudden and little Janmy 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 ketched." T1his technical jargon revealed to me the fact that our mine had caved, and had buried one~ of our1 companions, for "Little Jimmy " was not an infant, but aL man-a mmolitr and a friand He 1'a been working at the " breast," or fat r <st end of the " drift," but was now per haps sleeping his last sleep in the bot tom of the mother of us all. Three years before we had come to this creek, we had prospected the "side gulches " and the bairs, and found "colors " everywhere. lIndicaltionls faL vorable, so we " staked " a body of ground along the main creek ; 'huilt cabins, or'ganlized aL company, of which1 the wvriter wvas electedl Presidenit, anrd went to work to open1 our (c1lam Those08 three years had bteen iearsl of toil and1( privatioun. We were ill the hrear~t of the Rocky monfnains. Our caimp was pitched in aL little ba~sinl of a valley, warm1 atnd sims~huiny, anld just at thre enm tranceL' of a dleep andu gluiomry canion, whlichi we namred "' The. D~evil's Onte," and through wich'l oulr sparkiling littlIe st1 reamll foameitd and tilubled downvi to) the great. river1, thie M~i.souri. O ur ground w as der y an d ver-y wet. 1 )rainage was necessary, and wer land driven a tu'amol for t his pulrpo~se thrlough the earth and h)owlders that filled the prlimevail bed of the creek, until we had a ni tained a hori zonltal distanc~e of I,000) yards ; buIt thre slope of the guleh was so gradual that we had not reached the "' bed rock" where we hoped to find the gold laid ini b10ap1). '"Bed rock, " being the ihjeetive pomlt, must be reached ; so) we sank a shaft at the head of our tunnel andu he took ourselves to a pump)1. As it was a coupjle of thnourntd miles to the nearest foundry, and n~ ecoulld not aflord to await the comp.1lletionl of tihe North Pacific railroad, a pump under the circulmsitamces was a problemi - so I will tell you how we got one. \Ye bad lacfksmlith's and carpenters' tools, which most of us5 could use ; there was plenty of timber growing on the mountains, and a pair of dilamidated freight wans supplied our stock of iron. Great slabs or segments were cut from the fir trees and hewn and dressed on (oe side to a smooth plane. The othcr sido was rounded to an arc or convex surfice, so that when four such sogiment were placed togetherlengthwise, secured with pins at the edges, whici were first squarej1 and then made parallel, they formed a long, hollow trunk or barre, four squares within, but out1side eyliu drical, and tapering slightly from one end to the other. Upon this were driven hoops or bands of iron, which forced the joints close like those of a cask, and thus we had pumps or pipes of considerable length and solidity. It was easy to fit to them valves and pistons, and to work them with a wooden walking beam, moved b the crank of a water wheel. This eran was a master piece. It had an arm or leverage of two feet, and was forged from the iron axle of one of our wagons, and its dungeons or bearings were turned mi a lathe of our own contriving. This was -a heavy job for our own resources, but it was finished after an age (it seemed to us) of toil, puzzling and per spiration, and we had produced machine ry that was capable of raising to a height of nearly thirty feot many tons of water per aay, and which answe'ed all our requirements for drainage, so that we were able to reach that long sought "bed rock " at a depth of ninoty feet below the present bed of the vreeolk. I will mention here that our pump v as twelve inches square inside, and had a stroke of four feet, raising the water twenty-nine foot into our drain tunnel, whence it flowed out to the surfaco 1,010 yards down the canon. We had reached " bed rock," but had not "struck it very rich," and were ru n ning a drift or tunnel on bed rock scrotss and up the gulch in search of the "P ay streak " which we were hoping every day to find, when the annoullciflemit ->f ia startling accident was made. Here was the ruin of our hopes and the death of our friend ; for there was little room to ho )o for %ny otie-r result. it must i ot be supposed that much time was lasted in such reflections : for. telling Bill to rouse the entire cam), I rushed off to the mine. Such of the men as had heard of the oceurrence hurried from their work, bringing witi them their picks and shovels as likelv to be needed, and the miners from wet dig ings came clad in coats, high boots and hel met-shaped caps of India-rnibber, and looking like knights in armor. Knights they were, too, for that matter, for, though armed only with shovels and picks, they were as daring and as g.i erous as ever belted Prince who rode with lance at rest to right imaginary wrongs ; and they wero ready now to risk every danger to rave the poor fellow buried in the mine beneathi,. Ori reaching the scene I founi our' machinery apparently ininjurd, 1but looking more closely I discoverel tliat the puml) wais raising not i drop ol water, andl it would not)l, be ln -g b 1. ore. the entire mine would be Ikoaded. Th'Ie pump imust be relieved at on1ce or we coul not hope to save I hie mine. numeh less to rescue our friend. Calling Bb Piper. a tail, h)?ack-bieardedl miner, who had worked at his trade in every miniing country frioini the Enist h iumei to the Pacifie ocean, and wh~o, in skill, courage* andl experience, was the mining orace of our' campu -I p)ointed him to the: pup wich was wearing itself out in vain, for it lifted no water. "Bob," said J, "' we must fix that pum ! It is our only hope to save "We'll fix it," replied IBob, quietly. "The pump is starved-choked up at the bottom. We'll fix it; amd as for the poor lad Wve'll git n out." Bob wats a WVest of Englanid mn, and his dialect stuck to him. ''We'll get un out, Benny; I think he bean't dead. I've helped dig meni ont in the old country and this, toom; an'Gohd will help us we'll get un out now; wvon't us, Beny ?'' Benny; thus appe)(aled to, answered wvith an emuphuattie "You bet," anmd the next moment he and Blob , followed 1by two others, were clan~mig down th'o steep and slippery flight of laddec's that led into the mine, until their candles, glimmering like stars, were one by one swallowed upj iln the black shaft. Axes had beeni sent down in the buncket, and in a few moments were heard btlows ringing on the mass of wood and iron that composed the barrel ot the pumlp. They were cutting holes to let water' into the pump below, 1t had alreaid" rien above their waists, anid the mnonli of~' lhe lowest drift was n':arly suibauergedi. The mnachinery was ('r"akingi and' groaning, and the wheel daslhing rond and it was idle show, and the inine was filling up, and soon the men would beo diriven out ; but meanitime ~( we could hear the blows of thle axes. P rt sently the clumsy walking beamx quit groauinig, stood still and bieganu to ticemlet. The wvheel-had stopped for~ a umom.-uit, th,-nx began to miovei Mlru ly, and~ wentI round with at surge. TVhere~i was .a gre at r ush of water through the pony, andl it was all right. Our old wooden pim ap was equal to the occasiona. Thle foldgt es were openied to the gr'eat o)verthot wheel, and it was required to do its best. Jt rushed round steadily, and in an hour the mine was freed fr(ota water so that men could ptress inito the dIrift. It was aanaged thait if L'Iittle. Jim my was funnd alive the tact, shoauld be tle graphed aloft by) two( strokes of the sig nal bell ; b'ut if dead, onie htyi shonild announce it. Meni were working uinder rouind as only such mien would work. 'he1(ylhad beenLi tohl (Il1 int' gangs of four each, whtichi spe'll or1 r 1'elijeved each other every liftec auinutes; and1(, as they advanced', into the avatlanch ofl14 r4eek and earth that filled the drift, ceery i nc~h had to be propp'l'ed with hxeavy thtu'bers, for the vast umsaa above thenm land bnee i shakeni aind hxad~ lodI its cohiesiona, and at ever~y nliomnt ruight~ crash doann like a mountamn. P resently, to) thiose who waitd Iaboveiiatc there came ait't shrp h p~eal 4of thle b ell then anioiber3. lHe was alive ! WVhat a shout went upl fromt the iuen atssemleld there. Out of the depths of that canon, above its elift'hsand crags, and over the trees that waved onl their summits, and above the mountains that towered beyolid-far abto themn all it rose like incense. .It ascended into hosiven, for it was a nrayer- npraye Emik...~v.:. and of- praise. Not formed in speech, not framed in language, but the over. flowimg 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 exting.uished, and he dahed down with his face to the earth; butthe rocks and timbers had formed an arch over him and, resting his elbows on the ground, Le was just able to support his ead above it. In a little while he would have drowned where he lay but he was safe now. Strong hands Liad dragged him out of this grave. They had har nessed tbemselves to the "horse whin," and had hoisted him into the glorious sunshine. They boro him to his cabin, and placed him in the tender care of "Doe." Hero we will leave him. The three drinking saloons in our cairip 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. " Genelien," said he, "I told you we'd git un out, if so be as God would help us. Genelinen, He did help us." " You bet I" was the applauding and emphatic response. Spoopendyke in li* Role of a Sports man. "Say, my dear," said Mr. Spoopen dyke, as lie drew a gun from the case and eyed it critically, "I want you to wake ic up early in the morning. I'm going sbooting.' "lan't that too sweet 1" ejaculated Mrs. Spoopondyke. "I'll wear my dress and my Saratoga waves. Where do we go?" ",I'm going down to the island, and yon'l go as far as the front door," grunted Mr. Spoopendyke. "Women don't go shooting. It's only men. All you've got to do is to wake me up and get breakfast. When I coie hone we'll have some birds." Won't that be nice !" chimed Mrs. Spoopendyke. ''Can yon catch birds with that thing?" and Mrs. Spoopendyke iht.t -red around the improved breeCh I n,( iig h-iot gun, firmly impressed with the i-leln that it was some kind of a trap. " [:r.i kill 'em with this," exclined Mr. 8 openidyke. " i'is is a gun, my it isn't a nest with three speckled eggs in it,, nor is it a barn with a hole ii. flie ro:>. You stick the artridge in here fild pull tiis finger-pieev, and down 0'0111' 1 yutrm bird (vtrv timw. " in'i t It the greatest, thing ! I sup p iLsit youi don't waiit apartridgo you kennl stieki at m.c r a turkey inl that endI t'oo, (1r t fish or a lo1bster, and bring it < iowin jut .s uiuek." " e-;. or yoil can stiok a house or a rnilteld, ~or a dod gasted female idiot in tlhere, too, if you want to !" snorted r. Sipiop'n dyke. Who said anything :i bo'ut a part-ridge ? It's a eartridge that gosin I bore. " h! jaclavdted 'Mrs. Spoo~pendlyke, rat hcrl crest fallen. " I sc nowuv. Wiere d, oes the bird go", "it goe t's n iight school, if lhe hasn't soi an.y more senses than~e you haLve," sniorted Mr'. Spoopendykhe. "'Loo~k here, no0w, anld Il sho11w you how it wlOok," anid Mr. Spoope'ndyke, whiose id1eas1 of a gun were about as vague as those of his wife, ins'rto'd the cartridge half' way ini tihe muzzl~e end, and cautiously cocked "'And when the bird1 sees that he c'loe anld pI'cks it ! isn't that the fun niest !"' and Mrs. Spoop end~yke elapp1 ed her hiandis inl the enujoyment of her dia -overyV. "' Then( you put outt your handt ando catch himui !"' "You've sitriek it !'" howled Mr. Spopenyke, whoi~ had the hammer on1 the half (cock and wats vainly p)ulling at thle trigger to get it downi. "' That's thle idea ! All you need is four feathers and a gas b ill to 1be a mlartinigale ! With your n'iotion~s you onily wanit aL new stock and steami trip) hiammier to be at needle guln! D on't you knIow the drod gasted thing has to go off before you get a bird ! You sho'ot the birds ; you don't wait for 'em to) shoot you !'' "'At home we used always to chop their heads off with anu ax," faltered Mrs. Sp~oop)endyke. "'So~ would I if' I was going after measly o1liens," retorted Mr. Spoonen dyke, who had managed to unmcock ~the coit rivance, '" butt whien Ii go for yellowv birds and sparrows I go like a sports mani. While i'm waiting for a bird," conltinued( Mr'. Sp'openldy ke, adljust ig thle eatrtridlge at the breech, "'I pult thet load ini here for safety, and wheni I see a flock I alimf anod fire." hang I wvent the gun, knocking tihe hall feathewrs onit of an eight-day clock tad plow~ing a foot fnrrow in the wvail, pe'rforatinig the closet door and1 culminat mig in Mr'. Spoollendyke's plug hant. "(ioodniess, gr'acionis !" EIilueaikedl Mrs. Spbopend(yke, "' Oh, myv "' Mr1. S poope'ndyke gathleredl hiimself unp " Why co'uildn't ye keep still !" lhe shirieked. "' What'd ye want to disturb lmy ai1ra for and make me let it off? Th'link 1 ennm hldd back an charge of po0w d~er and ai p.oud of shot while a umeasly womilan is scarin~g it through a gunii bar "If it had been a bird howv iioely yon w~Onh1l have shlot it !" suggested'Mrs. pot penidyko, soothingly. "If you shoilhi ever' aim at a bird you'd catch Neapolitan IBabies. TJhecre are millions of' babhies8 in Nales 1aies(' enuitugh, ~I judge, to sup)ply all te rest of the world if the crop) should happeno'i to grow thin anywhere. There lire h ahms in arms, babies on balconiies~ babies&' threatening to tumble from in~ tOunieral ue front windows. Babies in w agonis, babies tinder hor'ses, b'abies niaking mnd-pies ini the "' stradas," but abou~lt half of them uinder 4 years of ago aire as naked as whieni they were bar 'n. .1 don't think theore~ is a eradle in N:.lesr, any more thtan there is a r'ok mtg-chai' in England ;but here and there a miother', compar~ vely well-to-do, cairriesI her infant "bound11( in swaddling cbtlo ,'' like the plel of Jerusalem and the American Inidianis, wrapp~ed tightly round and round from head to Ifoot, like a cocoon or a (cigar, anid somec times its aims ar'e also imprisoned. IThese, mii~ite sp)ecimens of the lazzaroni 1are generally god.uutured, like their fthers and motip, and where clothes can be afforded, tey are always worn mor'e or les.- W. A~ (koetj~'s (o?'' IQnOndenlcG. IL bas wateir, if~ to ment., will and meessed'r as good as if A PA*= will alen whi and MistwmM left to (Ilh t s it. marble ill remove spo. OUmay boiled hixW B4 the milk servedas a be) at cure for stpcitie in oases o people find omfWt in NEVER stand 'sili h, especially after basi degree of exercise, stauding upon the foe or the peroon is exposed to a A FLANNRL cloth dipped sioap suds and then ito w applied to. paint will ins all grease and dirt. Wash water and dry. The most will not be injured, and will. I new. To REMOVE grease from whit wash with soap or alkaline 1, ored cottons, wash with like * yes. Colored woolens, the ammonia. Silks, absorb wit o chalk or fuller's earth, and diseolv a as with benzine or ether. FOR salt-rising bread, stir U thick in the usual way, using cold and place upon the sitting-roon stove over night; it will be light en to sponge the bread by mornag, quite a help when the days are so for raising the em t ings; myf prefer this rising. When one has not a warm-enough place to set their mill yut hot water in to raise the temperature. To make a light wheat loaf, take othe thick buttermilk from the, bottom of gpur buttermilk dish ; stir just as you, can, allowing one heaping teaspoon 1 s0. da to a pint basin of buttermilk-Atot pie is nice made in the same way, &Ily put about one third sour cream. A d ding made in the same way with 'ed cherries and steamed in the cake It with a hole in the center is nice. ' ie advantage of the hole in the centet is that the steam passes through the tmter of the pudding into the steaner. ,at this pudding with sugar and cr n - nico tart apples will answer very l for fruit. POPULARt SCIENCE. FOR several years it has been obseiled that the European glijicrs are steadily retreating. THE mnolecules of hydrogen, at a tim perature of 60" Fahrenheit, move at~the average of 6,225 feet in a second. * FrJAMMARIAN says that the tail oJii comet must sweep through space ivith tho velocity of 16,000 leagues per seoid. Min. STONE, her' Majesty's astronofther at the Cape of Good Hope, has just com pleted his great catalogue of Southern' stars, the result of ten years' labor at the cape. TnE~ algs3 known as protococcacemo have one peculiarity--they .do iaoti~ im the water but in other plants, some Y~ dead, some in dying and others in living parts. NoME, people have come, to believe that salting or smoking will kill trtchin(o, but a temperature of 212? Fahrenheit or at least 1600 should be reache~f in every part of the meat to bring aliout this result. TiHiE colors which distinlguish our sum mer and autumn flora-redls, pinks, blues and yellows-are caused by the presence. of subs)tances which require a strong light and high temperature for their productioni. It was at one time supposed that among twining plants each had its own direction, some twining toward the sun and others agairwt it; but, though the theory is true in the main, there are found exceptLions to thes rule. T HE amount of nervous action may lbe nwaesured by the quantity of blood con suimed in its performance. The-plIhy miograph, measuring the volume of an organ, wheni the arm is brought in con tact with its records the amount of blood dIrawin from the body to the brain, and thus indicates exactly the effort in men tal action. EXPEnlIMENTS have recently been made to show that the presence of ozone pro duces luminosity in phosphorus. In pure oxygen, at a temperature of 150 0., and under atmospheric pressure, phios phiorous is not luminous in the dark, and a bubble of ozone introduced under the bell glass produces momentary phos phorescence. THE practical value of the Faure ac cumulator for the storing of electricity is yet to be0 proved, .it is said that sev eral 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-machine. A Boston Gti In Chicago. I feel that I im very far from Boston, I realize that I am many miles nleare the line that separates civilization firom~ the land of savages. And into tpese We3stern solitudes I have brought a vol ume of Herbert Spencer to refresh and cheer my mind, Ha aas fascinkttes; 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'ijues tions, it is useless to) asik why this is so. We can only observo the working of the phenomena, but not its cause. Bunt truly, of Spencer I never tire. Hisu ideas of the hi gher life are so consoling--the development from anu "indefinito, in coherent homogeneity to a defInite, coherent heterogeneity." What could b5 truer or more conclusive ? Perhaps the illiterate mind might be staggered by the unusual comnbinalt in of polys;yllables, bunt we who are cuiltivalted1 can appreciate the sub~tle signiJflece of a definite, coherent heterogeneity. H~is ida of love, however, are not extravaganitly tinlged 'with romiance. Sup~pose that a mann with tender eyyos and raven-hued mu tstache, hiaving seated1 himself by your side, should tenuderly' take your hanl in his, and then aissnre in fervent tones thati he is conscious of ai moulicnlar change in