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gfomcimis Department. AN UNLUCKY THOUGHT. Representative Byuum, of Indiana, is, one of the best parliamentarians and most' successful lawyers in the house. Before j coming to congress he acquired considerable i prominence as a criminal lawyer, and was j in great demand to defend criminal prosecu-1 tions. In the Washington Times he tells a : . story on himself to illustrate the fact that an attorney can sometimes ask one question too much. And this is the way he tells it: "A number of years ago, when a young at- [ torney, I was employed to defend a man charged with mayhem in a little town in Southern Indiana," said Mr. Bynum, "and -among the witnesses for the defence was au ; odd character named Jo Bates. When Jo j came on the stand and after the preliminary questions, I asked him if he had'seen the fight in which my client was supposed to have bitten a piece off the other man's ear. " fOb, yaas, mister,' replied Jo, 'I seed all of it.' " 'How did you come to see it, Jo?' " 'Waal, tell you how 'twas. I had heered a good deal about Jim Haskins's fitin'?as how he was good man?and I wanted to see as how he handled hisself.' "Did you see the light to the end, Jo ?' " 'Yaas, mister.' "Could you see both men all the time?' " 'Oh, yaas, mister.' " 'Did you see Jim Haskins bite off Rill Brown's ear?' " 'Oh, no, mister.' < " 'Did you see him try to bite Bill iu any way, or was the fight fair and without gouging and biting ?' " 'Yaas, the Gte was fit fair, and Jim licked Bill without turnin' a hair, and I did not see Jim bite Bill in any way,' answered Jo. " 'That will do, Jo,' said I; and just as Jo was leaving the witness chair?for the pros-1 ecutor did not want to examine him?an unlucky thought occurred to me, and I told him to sit down and answer one more question. " 'Jo,' said I, slowly, and in an impressive manner, 'did you see anything during the fight or immediately after it was over, that led you to think that possibly Jim might have bitten off a piece of Bill's ear ?' " 'Waal, mister,' replied Jo, 'I didn't see Jim bite Bill, nor would I tho't anything about it, only after the file was over Jim spit out a piece of ear 'fore he cud take a chaw terbaccer ; but I don't know whether it was BiU's ear or not.'" Mr. Bynum says that he lost the case, and that his experience with Jo taught him to let well enough alone when examining witnesses. A MOUNTAIN EXPERIENCE. A gentleman recalls a little experience he had last winter, while traveling away up in the Alleghany mountains. "It was desperately cold and snowing fast, and the train had made such slow progress that everyone was desperately hungry and anxious for a way station of some sort. At last we did stop at a small place near Altoona. There seemed to be nothing but a dinning-room, but that was quite sufficient. Over the.door was a sign, 'Dinner, 50 cents.' I read no further, but rushed in, aud planking my grip down on the chair beside me, drew up to the table and prepared to satisfy a 24 hours' hunger. Fiually I passed over a halfdollar to the waiting Negro. " 'Beg pardon, sah, but this is not correct,' j he said. "Not correct. How do you make that i out?' I asked. " 'Dinner, 50 cents a chair sah, the sign ! reads.' "So it does. What then ? I occupied but J one chair.' "To be sure, sah, .but your satchel did another.' "I looked at the Negro aghast. He was | calmly grinning. " 'You mean to charge me for that chair ?' " 'Dem's orders, sah !' "I looked at the satchel, then at the Negro, then back to the satchel, when an idea occurred to me. " 'Well, old satchel,' I said, 'if I've got to pay for a dinner for you, you have got to eat one,' and with that I opened it wide, and swept into its empty space a full dinner from I bp tnhlp "The extra 50 cents was laid in the astounded Negro's hand, while I hurriedly took ray place in the waiting train. It was a good many hours before we halted at another eating stand, but I didn't go hungry in the meantime." A Great Advantage.?"The bicycle," remarked the drummer for a big cycle works in Boston, "is a great institution, and will supersede the horse in many instances; but not in all. A case in point came under my notice recently. I was in Blue Grass, Ky., where the roads are superb, and in the course of my visits to agents, I ran across a farmer who lived about five miles from town, and got to talking to him on the subject. He was rather progressive and conceded that the bicycle possessed many advantages over the horse. It saved feed, toil, care, shoeing, and a lot more things, and was a good deal speedier," says the Detroit Free Press. " 'Why, then,' said I, don't you get a bicvcle?" " 'Well, there's only one thing that pre- j vents me,' he said, with an apologetic grin, j 'When a man comes to town on Saturday, and starts home in the evening just corned i up enough not to know his way, his horse j will take him back to his family in fairly good shape ; but the bicycle ain't made that j can do it, and I'm a man that goes to town on Saturdays.' "Of course," concluded the drummer, "af- j ter that I had mighty little show for an ar- j gument." "Before the War."?A Southern man | recently told this : Away down in Alabama 1 mii old pv-shivehnlder lived some vears airo. ! He was one of those men who dated all hap-! pinessaud prosperity from "before the war," and all misfortune from its inception. The! sort of a man who would say : "Yes, sah, yes, sah, that's a very line sunset, sail; hut you ought to have seen our sunsets before the wall!" He went to Europe and was gone three j years. He came back to his native town this spring, and as he alighted from the; train and met his welcoming friends, he looked around in a critical way and raised his eyebrows. "What's that thing out there iu the street ?" i "That's a trolley car, major. (Joes with great rapidity sah." "Ah ! And they've done away with the old cars and the mules?" "Ob, yes, major." "Whose idea was this, sah ?*' "Well, a Boston man came down here and put the cars on, sah." "That's it, that's it," growled the major. "They came down here 30 years ago and freed our niggers ; now they come down and free our mules." The Judge and the Bootklack.?A! judge, who used to wear very long, waving hair, and a heavy beard, one day was on his way to court, when he was acccosted by a ' little street bootblack, with an exceedingly dirty face, with the customary "Shine, sir?" j He was very importunate, and, the judge being impressed with the terrible state of the hoy's face, said: "I don't want a shine, but if you'll go and wash your face I'll give you 10 cents." "All right, sir." "Well, let me see you do it." The boy went over to a neighboring fountain and made his ablution. Returning, he held out his hand for the 10 cents. The judge said : "Well, vou've earned vour money. Here! it is." The boy said : "I don't want your money, old fellow. You take it and have your hair cut," and forthwith scampered oil'. A certain judge who is blessed with a tremendous head of hair, which is generally 1 in a state of the wildest disorder, was ques-1 tioning a youthful witness, to make sure < that he comprehended the character and im-! | portance of the oath he was about to take. ' "Boy," he said, with his severest and most 1 magesterial manner, "do you feel sure that .! you could indentify lue after six months? j' Now, be careful. Think before you speak." | "Well, your honor," replied the boy, after a prolonged survey of the judge's portly figure mid rugged features, "I ain't sure, hut 1 tliink I could if you wasn't to eonih your hair.'' - BdT ''What did the lecturer say when the cabbage hit his chest ?" "He said that such attentions quite took his breath away." ? Harpers' Bazar. Gatherings. 8fe?f One demagogue is more dangerous than a dozen aristocrats. BaSf" There is but one easy tiling to borrow, and that we don't want?trouble. Bof" Eighty per cent, of Atneriern farms are occupied and managed by their owners. Javanese brides, during the marriage ceremony, wash the feet of the bridegroom. During the Tenth century no woman was allowed to appear at church without a veil. BSof The National Toothpick Association claims an output of 52 car loads of toothpicks annually. fiST" Machinery in a Pittsburg steel works enables 2,000 men to do work formerly done by 5,000. BaT" Thirty-one years ago the battlefield of Gettysburg bore a crop of laurels; today it bears a crop of peaches. S&F Many a man would carry a burden contentedly if oflicious persons did not tell him it was too heavy. BaT Among the wealthy classes of Japan it is considered undignified to ride a horse going faster than a walk. 8?fln Hammondsville, O., seven women have left their husbands because the men would not join the church. BSTIt is noticeable that the man who pays his debts has more money than the man who does not pay what he owes. B6T In Germany, all employers are obliged to insure their employees, even when the employment is temporary and unpaid. 86T A little girl was heard to wish the other day "that she was a boy, so she could swear when she dropped her books in the mud." fi&" Indian corn, or maize, never has an uneven number of rows or grains, because it has opposite radials of growth from the cob centre. BaT It is the cultivation of the moral side of our natures that has given to our people as a nation their great strength and grand strides. The smallest woman now on earth is Mille. Paulina, of Holland, IS years old, and 23 inches high. She weighs less than nine pounds. S?"lle who judges and decides without hearing both sides of the question, although he may decide correctly, yet he is an unjust judge. 86?" A Brooklyn court has decided that a bicycle rider is a "human being." This should stimulate the riders to straighten up and try to look it. 8?? The royal library of Nebuchadnezzar, recently unearthed at Babylon, contains innumerable tax lists and records of taxes paid and unpaid. Temperance puts coal on the fire, flour in the barrel, vigor in the body, intelligence in the brain and spirit in the whole composition of man. BfiT" The heaviest bicycle-rider in the world is said to be Dr. Meldon, of Dublin, Ireland, who weighs 27S pounds. He is also an expert tennis player. BST "There is one thing that can be said of Brown : he always attends to his own business." "Yes, sir, that's why his last employer discharged him." VST The proprietor of one of the Southern California "truck farms" is boasting of an onion 26 inches in circumference, weighing seven and one-quarter pounds. All nlnntc lmvp tipi-ind* nf nnlivitv and rest. Some are active in the daytime and sleep at night; others repose during the daylight hours and are awake at night. fiST" When you hear a man say "There's the devil to pay," don't get worried ; the devil is the last man he ever pays, and is perfectly willing to wait 011 his customers. B6T A young man in Jefferson ville, Ind., has lost the sight of both eyes by the explosion of a pneumatic tire of his bicycle. He was inflating the tube when it exploded. 8Say A farm in Sedalia, Mo., is managed by two colored women. In ploughing they get along without a horse. One woman is harnessed to the plow, while the other guides it. 36T" There is at Oxford a portrait of Charles I composed of minute letters. The head and ruff contain the book of Psalms, the Apostle's Creed and the Lord's Prayer. fiST" Figgs?Why will you deal in such foolish arguments ? You convince nobody hut yourself. Fogg?And isn't that sufficient ? I don't expect to convince people who have no sense. fiST" The war ending in the independence of the United States commenced with the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1776, and was ended by the Treaty of Paris, 17S3. This war cost $135,193,700. fiST" The Pharisee did not plead with (Jod, but be "prayed thus with himself." A little less "praying with ourselves," and a great deal more pleading with God will avail in richer blessing. B6T" A countryman who attended a horse race said he didn't see why the sportsmen should be so particular to a quarter of a second about the end of it when they kept the public waiting half an hour for the heginning. 8ST" It has been computed that the death rate of the globe is 98 per minute, 97,790 per day, or 35,717,790 per year. The birth rate is 70 per minute, 100,800 per day, or 36,S 17,200 per year, reckoning the year to be 365} days in length. ?ar a smart bit of repartee was overheard the other day at Killarney. A guide with a tourist scowled at a peasant who stared well at him. "You'll know me again if you meet me," said the guide. "Not if you wash yer face," said the peasant. fitaT" According to Texas Sittings, a Kentucky editor says that "all the assaults of that blatant infidel who edits the atheistic sheet across the way, cannot bring discredit upon the Bible or tarnish the fair frame of its illustrious author, Thomas Jefferson." Bfcay.Y vessel laden with frozen meat from New Zealand, owing to a collision with an iceberg, was 12 months in reaching Kngland. The meat, notwithstanding the delay, was in excellent condition, and many who tasted it pronounced it as tender as any they had ever eaten. Bfc?" A doctor who was passionately fond of cards was called to the bedside of a natient. He pulled out his watch, felt the sick man's pulse, and began to count, "Seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king, ace." The patient immediately burst out laughing, and got well again. 8^ The wuterearts of an Irish town are decorated with patent medicine advertisements. An innocent Irishman fiom the rural districts looked at one the other day, and remarked, "Faith, it's no wonder J), is healthy, whin they water the streets with Jones's Sarsaparilla!" BaT" "What was the largest dining-room you ever saw, Pat ?" "Well, begorra, it would accommodate 8,000 people." "Nonsense ! No such number could be waited upon." "Well, indade they were, sor. The waiters were on horseback, and the horses were on roller skates." 8ST Duty is a power which rises with us iu the morning and goes to rest with us at night. It is co-extensive with the action of our intelligence. It is the shadow which cleaves to us, go where we will, and which only leaves us when we leave the light of life, says (iladstone. Competition iu the labor market is quite as fierce in Fngland as iu any other country in the world. At a recent civil-service competition for the position of sorter iu the English postoflice, with the maximum pay of nine dollars a week, there were !)OS women candidates to lill in vacancies. tpof It has been computed that about .">!?,000000 million babies are born into the world each year. It will probably startle a good many persons to find, on the authority of a well-known statistician, that, could the infants of a year be ranged in aline in cradles, the cradles would extend round the globe. 8?* Our country has been exempt from cholera this season, partly because of the falling off in immigration, perhaps: but the immunity is due in a large measure to the efficiency of the inspection of our consuls ?lo..uw) 1 ? 11 Liiit ? t O'lHII'U'O line luw>ll iUM v/au. i nun iu?roin uiv wuipv n??.7 ?x Vi. spreading westward over most of Kurope. flSf The haggage smasher had dropped the trunk from the ear, and knocked one end of it out. ''What in thunder did you let that trunk drop that way for ?" exclaimed the irate owner, as he rushed to the rescue of! his property. '*1 beg your pardon," respond-1 ed tlie baggage smasher, innocently: l,l could have dropped it on the oilier end just, as well if I had known you wanted it that way." j 'She ^avm and ^fireside. TO KEEP SWEET POTATOES. A Virginia man writing to Home and Farm concerning methods of keeping sweet ; potatoes, says one who has been very suc cessfulin that line pursued the following plan : Select a spot in your garden from which the water drains readily, dig a trench around la spot as large as you wish the mound, throwing up the earth so as to raise it about i ten or twelve inches above* the trench. On ! this place a layer of dry soil or'road sand. In the middle of this set up a kind of pipe for the escape of heated air, made of four I three-inch wide, inch thick planks, each piece bored quite thickly with big auger ; holes (one and one-half inches in diameter), the holes say about six inches apart, from j bottom to top of pipe. As soon as the potatoes are dug, carry them to this place and pile them up around this pipe, cone-shaped, as these kilns generally are. When you have piled up all your potatoes take dry straw, and then on this throw dry dirt or sand until it is about eight or ten inches thick all over. After all is mounded up the pipe should extend at least a foot and a half above the top. In ordinary weather leave this open, but when frosty, cold nights or days come, stulf some straw or grass down j the pipe, rather below the surface of top of | mound, and when it gets warm again pull it out. In real cold winter weather throw an ! old piece of carpet or something over the 1 pipe in addition. Make a shelter over the mound so that it ' will not get wet. Plant four posts, two being, say about two feet higher than the other two ; nail a strip at the top of the two : higher ones and another at the top of the , ?J-, ? i lower ones; over this nail some boards or 1 planks so as to turn rain and you have a very good shelter. I have found that all vegetables put up in these mounds keep ! better from being protected from rains and 1 suns, in other words kept dry. It is well to ! at least have two mounds for your potatoes, and as they are put away, separate the small I ones from the larger, keeping the smaller I ones for seed, which in almost every neighborhood you can find a ready sale in the ! spring. I need not say, perhaps, but will, that it is best to get out enough potatoes to last for a ' week or so at a time, as of course daily j opening makes thein more liable to hurt, i Every one can arrange so as to keep a small : quantity from hurting before using. Some ! will say that this is too inneh trouble ; but if i you want to keep sweet potatoes you have | certainly to take trouble, and if the end is gained by simply filling up the. pipe in cold weather and opening it in milder ; that's a small trouble, I think. TUB OSAGE ORANGE. I It is a little strange that the most valuai blc tree in America, the one with the fewest ! drawbacks, has been overlooked and ignorj ed. Horticulturists, foresty commissions, ag, ricultural colleges, horticultural and agricul| tural journals, all have passed it by. I have i no hesitancy in saying that the osage orange, all things considered, is altogether the most I valuable tree for the greatest number of ! purposes, and with the least objection of any I tree on this continent. ' It is easily propagated. It is a good grower, making a large tree I (except in extreme north latitudes.) ' It has no enemies; no bug, beetle, worm, fly, mildew, blight or horer touches its viscid I juice. Asa street tree it needs no boxing; it ; protects itself with spines, sharp as needles, which fall off when the tree gets older. The woo'd is as durable as cedar, and stronger than hickory ; no tree will equal it i in a cyclone. Nobody has lived long enough ' to see it rot. It will grow in any soil not too wet. : On good soil it will make a post equal to cedar in four or live years. Planted along a ! wire-woven, picket fence, ten feet apart, it I will take the place of oak posts that will ! have rotted otr at the ground. It is a handsome tree, with rich green leaves that equal the orange. If anybody can find its equal, let them do so. If our avenues in the cities had been planted with ' this hardy and beautiful tree instead of the ! unsightly, weak-branched, soft maples, we | would now have something permanent and beautiful. ! Call up all the trees that have been recI ommended by landscapers and city fathers. : Hard maple is hard to transplant and grows ! too slow. Walnut won't live in a city with much certainty and is hard to transplant; i neither will it bear much abuse. The post ! oak is one of the most diflicult to transplant, i and a slow grower. Kim is one of the best, (but has many enemies, and the timber is i nearly worthless. Poplars arc weak in j wood and uncertain in growth. Cedar is so i slow in growth that it would take a lifej time to get a post. Black locust is destroyed by borers. None equal osage orange for | so many purposes.?J. H. Creighton. -- ? ? SOWING GRASS SEED. When grass or clover is to be sown in the ! fall, it is quite an item to get the seeding done in good season, to have the soil in a good tilth, to use good seed, to get it distributed evenly over the ground. All these are essential in order to secure a vigorous start to grow. It is important that grass or clover plants get well started in order to withstand the winter. It is important with ! grass, either for pasturage or hay, to have a jgood, even stand, and the use < f good seed and the distributing of it evenly are essential items in this. The work of preparing the soil should begin in good season, plowing well and then harrowing until the soil is worked into fine I tilth. One of the principal advantages in i using a seeder in preference to sowing by j hand is that the seeder will distribute the j seed more evenly that can be done by hand, jticnerally it is the best to mix the seed, ! using common red clover with orchard grass, and the mammoth clover with either timothy or red top. For feeding out on the farm this will make an excellent quality of hay, and give better results than if either is sown alone. One item must always be conjsidered, and that is to sow varieties together that will ripen about thesame time. Otherwise a part must be allowed to get too ripe, 1 or a portion must be cut too green. 1 Time of sowing in the fall must he largely determined by the season. If there is sulli| eient moisture to induce a quick germinaj tion of the seed, it is nearly always best to I sow reasonably early in order to secure a j vigorous start to grow. I'se plenty of seed. A failure to do so i will unquestionably all'eet the yield. If it ; can be sown early enough to get well estab; lished before severe cold weather sets in, fall seeding does very well, but if from any i cause the seeding is delayed until late the better plan is to put it oil'until spring, or late in the winter.?The llepublie. ?? Loss in I'riMNO Im)I?i>kij.?The subject of curing hay and other fodder is a very interesting one, and much study may profitably be given to it. It is rarely considered fully or rightly. When fodder is simply dried, the water is taken out of it; but with the water a considerable quantity of volatile matter, as the flavoring essential oils and other substances are removed, unless the drying is done in the shade and slowly and without much heat. The sun's heat and light have a chemical effect certainly, but to what extent this is exerted we do not know, excepting so far as we may find the fodder dried quickly in bright, hot sunshine deficient in feeding value. When hay or fodder is cured in the silo, or even in the cock, being put in moist or damp, a certain amount of heat is produced, and this heat 1 is so much combustion of carbonaceous matter. Some of the starch, sugar, gum. cellular tissue, must be oxidized and changed either to carbonic acid and lost by evaporation with the moisture, or turned into acid or alcohol, the latter evaporating very quickly in the cock. In drying l'ooo pounds of hay, II,000 pounds of water is evaporated, and to get rid of this water a sullicient quantity of| the carbon is consumed to reduce the feeding value considerably, unless, as is probably true, a portion of the woody liber is also reduced by the heat to digestible starch, sugar and gum. Sittinc With tiii: Li:<;s('it<?s.si:i>.?Sciatica, neuralgia and other serious troubles frequently result from the steady persistence | in the habit of sitting with the leirs crossed. The muscles and nerves in the upper portion of a woman's le^ are extremely sensitive, ami it is the pressure upon these sensi-] live nerves and colds, if indulged in fori continued lengths of time, as is often done J by women who sew or embroider, that in- j duces disease. | ?hf ftovji ?elUr. I ' " PPRRPTTWft nnT A MTTRTIPR 1 UXVXVJJJ.J.i.1 V V w * A DETECTIVE STOKY. In 1871, one Joseph Kidder, a farmer residing in Springfield township, Mass., sold all his property for the purpose of removing to, land settling in the West. He was then a man about JO years of age, ia widower without children, and had no relatives in that section of the country, with the exception of a half-brother and his fam| ily. with whom, though not exactly on unj friendly terms, he was not very intimate, j Joseph Kidder, in fact, was an eccentric | person ; and though of good habits and morJals, and strict integrity, lie said and did a good many things that in another would not i have been so readily overlooked. ||Itwas known that he sold his farm for 1 $2,52(5, and received the cash for it: and it ! was also known that he deposited $1,500 in ' a Springfield bank : and it was further supposed that he took the remainder with him when he went away. After this, nothing was heard from him for a couple of years, when, in the fall of 1873, his half-brother, William Kidder, received a | brief, characteristic epistle, or note in bis j own handwriting, mailed at Jefferson City, ! Mo., in which he merely stated that he had | purchased a farm in that section, was about I to draw the balance of his money from the bank at Springfield, and should probably never return East. A month or two later William Kidder, on inquiring at the bank, was informed that his brother's deposit had all been withdrawn ; and this was the last knowledge he had of him, till, as a detective, I was employed to !.: ? is.r... ,l?.wl ! lliUJU JJIII1 uul, lltliip v* uviui. i The cause which led to this search was a J matter of property. Ia lS77,an uncle, one Amos Kidder, a rich | bachelor, of Boston, died, bequeathing to | each of the half-brothel's (both his own nephews) the sum of $20,000?conditional, in the ' case of Joseph, that, if not living, or if subsequently dying without issue, the amount I should revert to William and his heirs. Laying out brotherly affection, and view: ing the affair sorely in a mercenary light, it became a matter of great importance to find j Joseph Kidder, if living, or get positive proof of his death, and for this purpose, William 'caused advertisements to be inserted in all the leading St. Louis and Jefferson City papers, and all the local weeklies for miles around, asking for information concerning the missing heir. After waiting a few months, and getting no response of any kind, he came to me, stated the case in full, and said he wished to employ me to go to Jefferson City and make a thorough search, not only through that town, but, if necessary, through all the [ surrounding country, and obtain some posiI live information concerning his brother. "It may cost month'sof labor, Mr. Kidder,'' said I, "and a good deal of money, and re; suit in nothing after all." "I've calculated all about that, Mr. Hari per," was the reply, "and I expect it all may | be as you say : but it's got to be done, either by you or somebody else, and, from all I've 1 heard about you, I'd rather have you, if you'll undertake it." i So we settled the preliminaries, and I im! mediately set about my task. First obtaining a full and minute descrip lion of the personal appearance of Joseph Kidder when lie left the East, but failing to :get either a photograph or a daguerrotype (for tiie reason that the eccentric man would never have one taken,) 1 repaired to tiie , bank from which he hail drawn his deposit, and ascertained that it had been paid to the i order of a bank in Jefferson City; and this fact, and his letter to his brother, mailed at ' the same place, were the only clews I had to ' guide me, even to a beginning of my search. Well, I went to Jefferson City, and com! rue need a systematic course of proceeding? j among other things, visiting all the hotels land public places where it was possible for a stranger to register his name?but without finding any trace of Kidder anywhere. Then I visited all the eating and drinking I saloons and small shops of trade, and made thorough inquiries everywhere if anyone had ever heard of a person by that name, I but received a negative answer in every instance. I even set the authorities to work by offcrI ing a handsome reward for any trace of the | man I sought. I had not neglected the bank, that having | been one of the first places I had visited; but though their books showed the transaction of drawing and paying the money over to one Joseph Kidder, no one could remember so far back, anything about the personal appearance of the man who had received it, i and no one. could tell what had become of ; him after he had left the premises. The paying-teller of that particular date, however, was 110 longer an officer of the ! bank ; and, just to have something to follow up, I procured his address, determined if i everything else failed, to pay him a visit. I subsequently found him in an adjoining i town, engaged in book-keeping; and, on J my making known to him the importance of : my search, he replied that he would readily assist me if he could : but that all he could remember of the transaction was the fact i that the man to whom the money had been i paid had lost the first joint of his thumb 011 i ins left hand, and had it covered with leathj er, and that it seemed to him, in looking ! back, as if the party was dark-complexioned with dark hair and eyes, and not light, as I j had described Kidder. Dark-complexion, with a mutilated thumb! This was the first thing that aroused a suspicion in my mind that Joseph Kidder had not been represented at the bank by Joseph Kidder himself, but by some, other person. ! And if by some other person, where was Joseph Kidder, then? Dead, perhaps?murdered, perhaps. But what was the good of this far-down suggestion ? If Joseph Kidder was dead at the time his Springfield deposit was drawn, who drew it? {and what chance had I of finding out anything about his personator, of whom nobody knew anything beyond this clerk's recolleci tion of the missing thumb? Well, it was something to think about and I ponder over; and I was not unmindful of the fact that a very faint suspicion and a 1 very feeble clew had sometimes brought i about most wonderful and startling results I by being seized upon and followed up step ! by step by persons of my profession. In sooth, in looking back at some of my exl ploits, I am led to marvel at the curious j ways in which I have got at wonderful se| crets, and I am tempted at times to reverently believe that there is a Higher Power at work, using me as an humble instrument to complete the ends of justice by bringing the evil doers to a proper punishment for their i crimes. Having finished my work in the city, I now set out to visit the surrounding country, aud. on one pretence or other, to call at the different farm-houses within a radius of ">() miles, always keeping my eyes open, and a sharp lookout for the man with a joint wanting on his left thumb. It is true that Kidder might have lost his thumb and darkened his complexion and hair, but, even if so, I would lie quite as! well satisfied to lind him as his murderer. I am not going to detail all I said and did in that region for the next two months; for besides the fact thai this would lill a volume, it might not prove of snllicicnt interest to \ the readers to repay a perusal. Sulliee it, therefore, to say that one day, while passing through a villingc about 20! miles from Jefferson City, my eye chanced j upon a man who, while talking to another.; had his loft hand resting on a telegraph pole. As it was my business to take a sharp no- j tier ol everybody, [ looked keenly at him. and saw he was of dark eomple.xiou ; and then, eansiiallv glancing at his hand, I perceived that the thninh was none at tlie lirst j joint. This fact suddenly roused up all my inter- i est ?for though the man might not he the i one I was seeking, 1 determined from thai moment to know all about him. I ?y a long series of inquiries, so rare fully guarded and casually pronounced as not to excite any surprise or even curiosity as to my motive, I learned at different times, from | diHeront parties, what I will now condense! into a few words. The man's name was Asa Slingshy. llei was about 4"i years of age. lie lived between i three and four miles from the village, on a farm of his own on a hack country road. lie. was a well-to-do farmer, and had, within the I last few years, inherited a handsome sum of money. He was a widower, without eliihlren ;! and since his wife's death, in 1S72, he had : lived alone working a small portion of his| I I farm himself, and renting out I lie rest. He was not generally well liked, though he i could make himself very agreeable when he j chose. He was greedy and miserly, was ; fond of money, and always ready to drive a , hard bargain. It was thought that he would sell his farm if more than its value were of, fered him in ready cash. j, I did not remain long in the village, hut I went away,studied over the matter for a few days, arranged my plan of operations, pre- 1 pared myself in every way for what might , either prove to he nothing, or else a perilous1 ( I undertaking; and one night, near sunset, , j dressed as a respectable traveler, I stopped! at Asa Slingby's dwelling, found him chop-j ping some sticks in his door-yard, and asked j him how far it was to a tavern where I could ! put up with safety?remarking that I was j an entire stranger in that section of the I country and that having a good deal of 111011-: ley about me, with which I intended to pur-! ! chase a farm, I did not care to trust myself ! in any doubtful quarters, j He looked at me sharply, and I fancied I | | saw the devil of cupidity in his eyes. Ull V. niuli fain- inline In t Im tn t'V'nfti nf I lw? ! .1 O V.I * ~ Highest village, stranger," lu? said "and the roads aren't nonco' the host and tione o' the safest." "And I'm so tired, too," I said, dolefully. "What shall I do?" "I lives alone here, and does my oivn cooking," he answered ; "hut if you could put j up with a plain supper and breakfast, I reck-1 on I mought aceommerdate yor with purty fair lodgings." As this was exactly the proposition I had hoped and expected him to make, of course I readily and gratefully accepted it. Krom that moment we got 011 very rapidly land pleasantly in our acquaintance. ! He had a farm to sell for ready cash, and j j I had the ready cash to buy it. "lint I'd want $.1,000 down," he said, "and | 1 I reckon you aren't carrying that much?" "No, I've only got about $2,000 with me," j said I ; "but if I like your farm when I see it | in daylight, I can soon get the other $1,000 j from York State, where I belong." His wicked eyes glittered. "Don't yon know nobody in these here diggings that mought lend it to yer?" he asked. "Not a sold," I replied, knowing that he only asked the question to he sure of his ground. He smiled a fiendish smile and turned the ! conversation. I was satisfied now that he intended to I murder me that night, as he had perhaps I murdered Joseph Kidder years before?subsequently accounting for having an extra amount of money by saying he had just inherited it. I was prepared for everything, though. When he showed me to a spare bedroom, I j and a decent looking bed, I took the light, j ! bade him goodnight, and requested him to! call me early, as I was a very sound sleeper. I then hurriedly made a dummy out of the bed-clothes, covered it over in the position of ! a sleeping man, put out the light, and I crawled under the bed myself, where?with' my dark-lantern, my two revolvers, and a | j large bowie-knife, I anxiously awaited j events. A little past midnight I fancied I heanrl i j my room door softly open, and I affected to I snore. j Then soft footsteps glided across the floor I to my bed, and a moment or two later I j heard a heavy blow upon the dummy above me, as a sharp ax was buried in what the assassin supposed to he the head of myself. Thou before he could ascertain his mistake, ! I flashed my lantern upon his legs, and hamj strung him with my howie-knile. As he dropped to the ground, with a yell of pain and fright, I was upon him with the j muzzle of my revolver fairly jammed bei tween his teeth. "Quick, Asa Slingshv," I yelled, without [giving him a moment for thought, or recov' cry from his astounding fright, "tell me what 1 I .1! 1 ,1, .... yuu UIU Willi 1IIU UUII} Ul i/uni'jMi ivnuiti, 171 I I'll blow your infernal brains out this instant !" "In?in?the?well!" he gasped out. "Vou hear, men?" said I. "We hear! we hear!" replied the voices of i a couple of constables, with whom I bad \ previously arranged to be on baud and rush in at the first alarm. That night we look the murderer to the I county jail. ! The next day men were set to work to dig out an old closed-lip well. They found three skeletons, with some | clothes that were subsequently identified as \ having belonged to the missing Joseph Kid- j der. The clerk, who had once been teller, iden- j j tified Slingsby as the man to whom he bad , paid the Kidder money. It turned out, on investigation, that Asa j | Slingsby was an accomplished penman and j ! forger ; and, though assuming to be illiterate, j | was really well educated. It is supposed that he had, in some way,' 1 fallen in with Kidder, gained his confidence,1 ' wormed o.it his history, and, after murdering ' him, had found the letter to his half-brother, j sent it on, and had boldly forged the draft ' which had brought the money into his own : bands. Hut Asa Slingsby was never legally tried [ for bis crimes. The people in that region became terribly j excited over the revelations which Ifad been j( 1 made, banded together into a mob, broke j into the jail, dragged the culprit out and j hanged him by the neck till dead, without j even so much as saying "God have mercy on I his soul!" Without wishing to vainfully boast of my j exploit, I think I may venture to cite it as: one example among many of what may be (lone by pluck, energy and perseverance in ferreting out a secret and long-concealed murder. mnmm How to Srct'kki).?The fact that success is mainly due to hard work has been express- j ed iu many different ways; but one of the best was that recently employed by a "drum; mer," or commercial traveler. He was talkf ing with a companion, a rather lazy fellow, I when the latter exclaimed : "I .1-.I T.w.l. T u l<v i I lltXIlirt'j (/tICIV) 1 tlill t* ?? ??jr j : you always succeed in selling so many more goods than I do!" ; "I'll tell you why it is," replied Jack, "hut," 1 he added, "it's a trade secret, and you j mustn't 'give it awav.' " "Of course I wouldn't do such a thing!"; : was the answer. "Well, then," said Jack, impressively, "I ! succeed because, when I'm after business, I wear out the soles of my shoes more than the | seat of my trousers." i A Xotaui.k Kvent.?When Queen Vic- j j toria travels, an engine is carefully selected,! i in charge of an experienced engineer and | fireman. A pilot engine always precedes the I royal train, and no train is allowed to cross the main line for half an hour before the ! time lor the queen to pass. The gates at all grade crossings are locked, all shifting opera- j ! lions are suspended and an army of trackwalkers are on duty to remove any obstruc (ion from the line. In addition to all this, uj 1 telegram is sent from every station heralding j her approach. Altogether, it must be quite | an event when her majesty takes a trip, but ' the general traveling public cannot enjoy it. i ^ f&r There can be but one excuse urged j in justification of the iincharitableuess we sometimes see manifested by professing Christians towards those who do not indorse J their opinions?that is, they regard them as the enemies of (lod. Hut does it not re-i quire a vast amount of self-conceit and sell'-, t.i.k-li I fuincm.<c I. ii- .1 mini In i-iillclllclc I llilL lie i is riglil and in the kingdom, and everybody else is wrong and belongs to the wicked one? i Sneli Pharisaism will not live to eelehratejj thejnhilee year of the next century.?Nash- i vtlie Advocate. -? IiOI'.nty roi; Scalps.? During the French- j J Indian war of 17 "?-! the French offered a t I bounty for British scalps. In the same year i a bounty of L'lilb each was ollcred by the L authorities of the several colonies. In 1S55 j Massachusetts granted a bounty of l'-10 for'1 every scalp of a male Indian over 12 years ;i of age and L'2<) each for the scalps of women \ J ami children. In 17ii~> John l'cnn, grand- j son of William l'cnn, and governor of l'cnn- 1 sylvania, ollcred a bounty of $lfit) for every : "Indian buck" killed and scalped. I < Thk Daukkst Illicit.?It is not darkest || just before dawn. The maximum of dark-j t ness begins when the sun has sunk below the i 1 horizon so far that none of its rays are re-1 ? traded to the mirth hv tin* atmosphere or j rellccled hy clouds, ami cuntinui's without | variation, until it reaches a point near the eastern hori/on, when the light reaches the earl h once more, marking the commencement ! r of dawn. It is hard to understand how such | an erroneous idea came to lie generally accepted. ? BSdr* It is well-known that, a reward of 1100 was ottered for the head of John Hancock, whose bold, impressive signature is so remarkable on the Declaration of Independence. Well, he signed the document as if he wished to throw his whole soul into his ncii !in<l viwhur I'm 111 liis si>:it exclaimed! "There, John Hull can read my name without spectacles. Ho may double his reward, [in<l I'll put him at ilelianee.'' Vgp' \pakin<f? ..r^Powder Absolutely A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength.?Latest United Stales Government Food Report. Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall Street. N. Y. icURESfc CLEA^I 1?F|B r -"'Hiaa ii# m ('f mental! In h strong! ENERGypJ^i.NERVES| - AVER'S ~M Sarsaparilla! M. Hamrnerly. a well-known business man of Hlllshoro, Va., sends this testimony to the merits of Ayer's Sarsaparilla: "Several vears ago, 1 hurt my leg, the injury leaving ii sore wliich led to erysipelas. 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It has already paid *1,770,MM) in death claim: since.lanuarv 1, 1SH4, Sound, practical, busines: men appreciate the Mutual Reserve. Relow wil be found a statement and an opinion of the association from Mr. (leorge L. Kiddle, of Zcno. Zkno, S. ('., June211, lsot. To Whom it May Concern: I have been informed that an agent of a certain old line life insurance company trying to d< business in this section, has been making an unwarranted use of my name in his etlbrts b induce citizens ol York county to buy his higli priced insurance instead of that furnished by the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association, ol New York, in which he knew I was carrying n policy. He has made the statement, so I am reliably informed, that 1 had dropped my policy in the Mutual Reserve and taken one in his. Tin! statement is without a shadow of loiindation, as I never so iniieli as thought of suoli si thing. I took my iiisiiranoo in the Mutual Reserve because its rates wore less than liall'tliosi charged by the old line company in which I had been currying si policy, and which I dropped, and because I could not find the slightest evidence that the Mutual Reserve was not entirely honorable, reliable and prompt in meeting it> obligations, except the statement of old lini agents, and that didn't amount to anything witli j me. I have every reason to believe that my inj suranee is of the best quality and expect to continue to carry it. I have had the policy nearly | two years, and in that time have saved ?224 in premiums, notwithstanding the fact that I wa> three years older when I insured in the Mutual I Reserve than when my policy was issued in tin ! old line company. I make the foregoing statements because I consider them due to the Mutual Reserve, to Sam M. and L. <Jeo. Grist, it> , agents, and to any who are likely to be intluj enced by the use of my name in the eonneetioii | in which the too zealous old line agents have ! been using it. In conclusion, I will say that I (unreservedly endorse the Mutual Reserve, and am convinced that its insurance is the kind peoj pie should have whether rich or poor?absolute i protection at the lowest possible cost. u. I,. Riooi.K. IF YOU CONTEMPLATE Insuring your life we will be pleased to furnish j you with an estimate of cost and explain the 'Mutual Reserve's plan. Don't insure until you I know what we have to oiler. Some have done ! so; but they are now coming our way. You had better start right. Call on us or write for information. SAM M. A L. HMO. CRIST, lien'l Agents, Yorkville, S. C. ALL MUX MUST Dili." T7"!)!' will observe that the above quotation A does not say, all men can die. miuht die, may die; but "Ml'ST" die. There is no es| cape. The debt M I'ST be paid sooner or later. 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