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■*» .X KJOi is The Recorder BY DEAYTON & McORAOKEN, AIKEN, S. C., TUESDAY, FEBJJUARY 21, 1882. YOL. I. NO. 19. headquarters for SPORTING GOODS! O. IB. O^IPIH HARDWARE MERCHANT, vVJITJETV, O. We Ukf pleasure in calling the attention of sportsmen to onr stock of BBEECH AND MUZZLE LOADING SHOT GUNS, Paper Shells, Primers, Cartridges, Etc. Also to our new selected etock of Hardware,Tinware. Stoves, Agricultural Implements, Hubs, Spokes and Rims. We have added a Saddlery Department, consisting of Saddles, Bridles, Harness, Collars. Whips, Etc. Al! the above wo offer you at the lowest market prices, and defy competition with other markets. OUR MOTTO—“QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS.” Mr. Edward B. Curtis is with us, and will bo pleased to servo his many friends. C. H. LUDEKENS & SON DEALERS IN IROCERIES AND CONFECTIONERIES, Imported & Domestic Wines, Liquors, Cigars, &c- Mil Male to Orior. Catting a Spialty. Ktreet. AIKKIV, C. IMMENSE STOCK OF NEW CiBPETS! Purchased from the leading manufacturers of the country, are offered to the trade, our frie nd / ^ and the public at RO()K BOTTOM PRICES! Body and Tapestry Brussels, Moquet’s Velvet. 3-Ply Ingrain Carpets, all qualities Crumb kdotlis. Door Mats, Hearth Rmrs, a full line of New Chromos, Hair Cloth and Upholsterers’ rTrimmings, Floor and Table Oil Clotbs, Lace Curtains, Cornices and Bands, Window Shades tall sizes), Piano and Table Cavers, Wall Papers and Borders, French Terrys, Curtain Goods, ^Cretonnes for Lambrequins, China s*" 1 c>»coa Mattings, and a big stoek of goods in my line. 4»nis G-. BAUjpp UGIt*L CARI ‘ ' IjD ORIGI CARPET STORE, - - 713 BRO ^STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. RESH STOCK OF GROCERIES. I have in store and arriving 500 cases Canned Goods, Moats, Vegetables and Fruits of every variety; New Preserves, Jellies, Crackers, Mackerel (No. 1 and in mess), Salmon and Boneless Codfish; all grades of Sugars, Coffees, Teas, Soap?, Starch, etc.; Onions, Cabbages, Potatoes, Apples. Straw and Rittan Brooms, Scrub Brushes, long handle and shoit handle Hair Brooms. Tu bs, Pails,Clothes Hampers, Clothes Baskets,et*.; all of which I offer at the lowest prices for cash, JAMES Gr. BAILIE & SONS, OLD STAND .TAMES G. BAILIE & BROTHER, 113 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA MYERS & MARCUS, JOBBERS IN AND MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS FOR Dry Goods, Notions, Hosiery, Boots, Shoes, Clothing. / The undersigned would respectfully inform the merchants of Aiken county that their Fall and Winter Stock is now being jcceived. nni in price and assortment is uuequaled by any that has ever been brought to this market. A special feature of onr business is the establishment of a Wholesale Boot, Shoe and Hat House '‘Fnfctelv diatinct froni^uJAj.r.w«"*« ** ■♦**. ""naitinents. In our new store will be found the largrfi! tl-J 1 " • -.•.-.selected stocks of Boots and Hats wc have ever had, and we feel eat* isSed that it will be (o the interest of purchasers to inspect our goods before buying elsewhere.. M v i±: i* ss* 286 AND 288 BROAD STREET, -Sc ^ x* c tj AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. Hardware Merchants, Cor. Broad and Washington Sts., Augusta, Ca. DEALERS IN Mill S&'.pplies, Wagon Material, Carriage Material, Oriole Plo vv s Farmers’ Friend Plows, Rowland Chilled Plows and headquarters FOR HARDWARE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. NEW GOODS. I am receiving my Fall Stock of GROCERIES! Comprising ail that is call* d for by an epicure. Quality and quantity guaranteed. By the quantity and for cash. I will sell for the Lowest Possible Prices! Give mo a call before you go to Augusta. W. TIEJIfcINfBU LL. OPERA HOUSE GARDEN BEN NIESZ, Proprietor. CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND C a GAR s. Philadelphia and Cincinnati Beer. Broad and Ellis Sts., Augusta, Ga. ESTABLISHED 1846. S. P. T. FIELD’S. Cor. Laurens St. and Richland Ave., "VARIETY AND G-ROCER All kinds of Canned. C^roods. Tbew Nectar, tne lincst Flavored and Pureet The Eook-Tonih of BrAdorc. A drear and desolate shore l VV here no tree unfolds its loaves. And never the spring wind weaves Green graes for the hunter’s tread; A land forsaken and dead. Where the ghostly icebergs go And come with the ebb and flow Of the waters of Bradore 1 A wanderer, from a land By summer breezes fanned, Looked around him, awed, subdued, By dreadful solitude. Hearing alone the cry Of sea-birds clanging by. The crash and grind of the floe, Wall of wind and wash of tide. “Oh, wretched land 1” he cried, “ Land of all lands the worst, Ged-forsaken and curst, Thy gates of rock should show The words the Tuscan seer Read in the realm of woe: ‘ Hope entereth not here! ’ ” Lo ! at his feet there stood A block of ijuiooth larch wood Beside a rock-closed cave By nature fashioned for a grave. Safe from the ravening bear And fierce fowl of the air, Wherein to rest was laid A twenty summers’ maid, Whose blood bad equal share Of the lands of vine and snow, Half French, half Eskimo, In letters uneffaced, Upon the block were traced Ihe grief and hope of man, And thus the legend ran: “ We loved her ! Words cannot tell how well 1 We loved her! God loved her ! And called her home to peace and rest. We love her !” The stranger paused and read. ‘ Oh, winter land 1” he said, “Thy right to be I own; God leaves thee not alone. And if the fierce winds blow Over thy wastes of rock and snow. And at thy iron gates The ghostly iceberg waits, Thy homes and hearts are dear; Thy sorrow o'er thy sacred dust Is sanctified by hope and trust; God’s love and man’s are here. Still wheresoe’er it goes Love makes its atmosphere. Its flowers of Paradise Take root in the eternal ice, And bloom through Polar snows!” —.7. O. Whittier, in the Independent. ST. VALENTINE’S LAY Leaf Tea ever , Large variety *»f Party Cakes supphe] Coffee, Rice, Grit* every variety of with'the finest bran] iffered to the pub'ic. [Candies. Wedding and at short notice. Sugar, Mfal. Butter, Lard and [mily Groceries, together of Flour in the market It KA3 a clear, sunny morning this fourtfeentn of February About ■which 1 write, and the postman of Longwood looked for a busy day, for Longwood was a cozy, old-fashioned town where lovers still clung to time-honored cus toms, and valentines had not become miserable daubs or vile caricatures. The morning sun was not very high when Maggie Layfiell, one of the ac knowledged belles of the town, sat combing out the rippling waves of her dark hair and building her air-castles. It was a double holiday for this pretty girl; her birthday and St. Valentine’s day, and Maggie knew that on thi-i eighteenth birthday there was not likely to be any lack of the tributes laid yearly at her feet. She knew where two for her wee brother and sister were securely hidden and she was wondering what Lizzie and Hattie, Willie and Laura would receive from the postman, and whether her mysterious lover who for five years had remembered her would be forthcoming on this her eighteenth birthday. She was still dressing when her two elder sisters, bright, pretty girls of nineteen and twenty, came in. “Now, Maggie,” said Lizzie, “I would not for the world be suspected of hinting, but Hattie and I do hope you will remember us when you receive your yearly remittance.’' “Perhaps it won’t come,” said Mag gie. “ Perhaps it will 1” said Hattie. “Oh, it is too delightfully mysterious! Do you know, Maggie, I am furiously jeal ous, and should bo worse if you were not so generous.” “ It seems so funny,” chimed in Liz zie, “and if papa was not so willing for you to accept it and mamma so smiling, I should very much doubt of its pro priety.” “ The breakfast bell; and I am just ready. Come, girls;” and off Maggie darted to answer the summons. Speculations were plenty as to the number of valertines expected and the senders thereof; but many allusions were made to Maggie’s certainly com ing, and various hyits were thrown out about wants and ^Y^sires. At last the double rap at the front door gave the signal, and as the sound rang through the hall Dr. Layfield’s eldest son, Albert, came down the stairs to breakfast. Every one of the children, except the wee baby, was in the hall; Lizzie and Hattie hidden by the door, Laura beside Betty, and Willie peeping behind her skirts. Mag gie was kneeling to draw from under the stairmat the envelopes addressed to Louis and wee Amy, while even John, the doctor’s erraad boy, made the boots an excuse to appear on the scene. The doctor looked up from his paper with an air of interest, and mamma left her second cup untasted till the important letters were delivered. “One for Lizzie and one for Maggie, that’s all by the first post,” said Hattie, coming In, followed by all the others. “Yours always comes early, Maggie; there it is.” Maggio broke the seal. For four years before a crisp bank note for five hundred dollars had fallen from the en velope. bnt this year there was, with the usual offering, a letter, and insid 3 of that a smaller envelope addressed to Dr. Lay field. “ A proposal, and here a note to ask papa’s consent,” cried Lizzie. “Too bad, and you younger than Hattie or 11” Bat, looking at the face that was bent over the sheet, she paused to ask, in a quieter tone: “What is it, Maggie, dear?” And Dr. Lay field, with a glance at his wife, echoed the question. “Bead it, and tell me what he means,” said the young girl, handing the doctor the letter, which he read carefully. “Come into the library with me, dear, and I will tell you. No, none of you,” he added, waving his hand to the others who crowded around him; “I must see Maggie alone.” The deep gravity of his, manner, the mysterious letter, filled Maggie with a vague dread, and she trembled violently as she followed him. Even his kind arm aronnd her, his loving kiss on her face conld not qaiet her Agitation, white his fiVca tTUA so grave and his voice so sad. . “I cannot tell you why this letter was written,” said the doctor, gently, as he placed her in a comfortable chair, “until I open my own, and this he has requested me cot to do yet. Read his letter to You again, Maggie.” With a trembling voice the young girl read: “ Mr OWN DEAR MaOGIM T At l»*st k after eighteen year*’bf Oru'.l separation, I am hoping to see the dear face whose baby features, pictured by my loving heart, have been the comfort of my leneiy exile. I am trembling with joy at the thought that the eyes now scan ning these Tines will rest lovingly bn my face, and the clear Voice I have heard in tny dreams will fall in music of affection upon my waking ears. 1 am coming home—shall be with you on the day yon receive this, lo clasp you in m.y erm?, never again to let you go from me. Go to Dr. Lay field, and ask him to tell you the story of my life, then read what I inclose to him, and oh, my darling 1 my treasure! open voor heart to the weary wanderer who looks to you a? his haven of love, of joy, after years of bittc*t exile. Listen to my etory, love me, and welcome me. “Herbert Abcnder.” “ Now, dear father, pray tell me what all this means.” “It means, Maggie, that you are to leave us: but nCj I tVill toll you the story as he requests : Years ago, when these gray hairs were brown, and this peaceful home a dream of a far off fu ture, Herbert Arundel and I were old college friends. I would not pain yon by a recital of our life, but it is neces* sary to make you understand what follows. We were what indulgent par ents called ‘ wild boys,’ what sternest truth-tellers call ‘dissipated young men.’ Young, and with ample means at our coremaud, tYe fah the career that bofdc-rs closely on vice and crime. For three years we continued this miserable course of folly, keeping our position partly by family influence and partly by exerting oar powers of intellect at in tervals to redeem past idleness or mis spent time. “ The fourth year we really devoted to study, and passed creditably through the necessary examination, but after leaving college old habits resumed their sway. Plunging recklessly into the amusements of the large city where we lived, we became involved in debt, and made our lives one long course of fashionable extravagance and dissipa tion. To dress with taste, to be acknowledged leaders of fashion, to*! -bs»f drive the fastest horses, give suppers and llirt with the gayest belles,v seemed the height of our miserable am bition, till we both became conscious of loving t uly and fervently. The ladies whose fair faces became the light to show us the folly of oar lives were good, pure women; one the daughter of a leading physician, the other the or phan niece of a wealthy banker. “At first a false shame kept ns both silent; but in some moment of better feeling we both mutually promised to amend our lives, and try by steadiness and rectitude to become worthy of the love we coveted. Frankly and without one reservation I laid my case before Dr. Lee, the father of my Amy, and he held out to me the helping baud I sought. Making my reward depend ut terly upon my own merit, he admitted me among his students, and allowed me to visit in his family, where for five years my present wife waited for me to prove my love. ‘ ‘ Herbert was not so fortunate. His addresses were treated with scorn, but he won the lady to consent to a clan destine correspondence. Meantime he obtained the situation of clerk in the bank over which her uncle exercised some control as director. With a res olute determination to win the esteem he had periled by his former career he kept his head clear and his hand busy with his new duties, striving earnestly to overcome the evil desires that still clang to him. “ Three years after Herbert had en tered the bank it was discovered that extensive frauds were being perpetrated and large sums stolen from the institu tion. With bitter malice Mr. Wallace, the uncle of the woman whose love was given to Herbert, fastened this crime upon him. Ho was followed and watched, and among his private papers were found letters and part of tho stolen money, tho letters containing proof that ho had spent larger sums than his salary would cover. Ho was imprisoned, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to a l.ng term of imprison ment. Two weeks after his trial the prisoner escaped, and no trace was ever discovered of him, bat the malice of Mr. Wallace war thwarted, for Margaret fled from homo on the night when the prisoner escaped. They were married in New York, and sailed for California the next day. “The doubt of Herbert’s perfect in nocence of the charges brought against him never crossed my mind—never for one instant dimmed Margaret’s faith in him, and she accompanied him as cheerfully on his flight as if friends and relatives had sanctioned her marriage with the noblest of the land. Under an assumed name Herbert again tried to win a position, and aided by Margaret’s possession of a large sum of money he started in business in San Francisco. “ Five years later, when my own mar riage bad been blessed by two crowing babies, Albert and Lizzie, and worldly prosperity was smiling upon me, I again saw Margaret Arundel. Herbert had lost everything by a destructive fire, and this devoted wife bad come home alone to beg for aid from her uncle, and to obtain from government her abused husband’s pardon. ‘ It was a wild evening in February when she came to my office, weary and faint, to implore me to help my old friend. She had seen her uncle, and been cruelly taunted as a felon’s wife, and refused the most trifling aid, and as the last words of he pitiful story left her lips she faimod in my arms. That same night, or rather the next, eighteen years ago, you were born, and two hours later your mother died. ‘ ‘ I wrote to your father, inclosing such pecuniary aid as was within my reach, and promising to fill a father’s place to his child till he could claim her. Maggie, dear, you can best judge if I have kept my word.” But Maggie’s voice, broken by sobs, Lad no word; only her clinging arms round his neck, her face lilted to his, told how truly she felt that he had in- dfctti fhifllled his i&l*. “ For two years I heard nothing from my old comrade; but then he wrote. He hitd again obtained a foothold Among the msrtihauls, And wifinl^g his way to affluence, but he implored me to keep his child, never to let the taint of the felon’s name rest on her life. From that time he has sent me yearly more than sufficient for yoUr sttp port* still Imploring nte.tb wiffke nd dif- fOtefiCd between you ana my own Ohil- dren. Wishing, however, that you should enjoy what was truly your own, I proposed to him to inclose a portion of you* fneomb to jduiAelf, alid hath contrived to drop it in the postoffice so that you receive it on Sfc. Valentine’s day. Your own generosity has still kept the balance even, for I am sure that bat- a small portion remains after jotir ffifls to all have been selected. “Aiid hotV, my dear child, beiore we open tl^is envelope, let me 8»y to you that no father’s love was ever stronger than mine for you Your gentleness, your fi^nk, loVing heaft, yon! obedb ence and intelligence have been to me as great a joy as the gifts of my own children, and the separation will be as painful as if Lizzie or Hattie were al ,«ut to be taken from met” (^uief.lng her own emotion, Maggie Watched tho doc'or as he broke the seal of his letter; Only a newspaper scrap fell from it, but upon this was printed: “ The mnrderer of L— J— to-day in open court confessed his crime, plead ing the heat of passion as his excuse. Following the long confession which we give in another column, the prisoner made auotner one almost as important Twenty-three years ago he was clerk in a large banking house in B—, and in love with the niece of one of the direct ors, I cmuel Wallace. Being favored by this gentleman, now deceased, he was aniious to be rid of a rival, and with the aid and consent of Mr. Wal lace contrived to fix the crime of the celebrated bank robbery of that year upon him, secreting in his desk forged letters and some of the missing money, and swjaring to acts and words of the accused which would make his guilt appeiu: certain, but of committing or uttering which he was perfectly inno cent. He begged that, as some atone ment lor the crime he has just con fessed, Herbert Arundel's name may be clearea before all the world, as he was innoceit of the crime laid to his charge. Dnringthis recital one of the jurymen, Henry Atherton, a merchant whoso name lione of otlr most honored among merch.nts, was observed to be violently agitated, and as the prisoner concluded, he roseurom his seat and stood erect, facing lira. “ ’Look at me, John Davis,’ he cried. “ ‘John Davis! that is my own u-me,’ said the prisoner, trembling in eveiv li^iK bat obeying the request. "^Ntio •'faTme.' repeated Mr.'Ather ton, • and say if I am not the Herbert Arundel whoso good name you swore away twenty-three years ago ?’ “ Tho prisoner gave him a long, searching gazo, and then trying in vain to speak ho fainted to the floor. “ Mr. Atherton or Arundel has been besieged by congratulating visitors, but it is rumored that as soon as he can arrange his business and collect his vast wealth, he will return to B —,” It was in vain that Maggie tried to speak in answer to the doctor’s kind words of encouragement and congratu lation. The old gentleman, himself elated by this good news of his friepd, was almost vexed at the white face and quivering lip the young girl turned to him. “ Maggie, think of it! After twenty- three years of ’ mely exile he is coming home a free, clear man, to establish his innocence and claim his child- My poor child 1 all this agitation has been too much for you. Hhall I leave you alono for an hour or two while I tell the others?” “Yes, yes; let me think! It is all so very strange to me.” Strange indeed! to part from all these dear ones, whom she had always believed to be her own relatives, and go away with a stranger who was really her father! With yearning, pitting love she longed for him, to repay the gener ous love that had starved itself so long to give her a happy home, and yet she shrank from this bitter parting before her. Lizzie, Hatlie and the children had never seemed so dear, and Albert —how coul 1 she leavo Albert ? From the time when he had shared his mar bles with her, and refrained from break ing her doll, she had always been his pot sister. L’zzie and Hattie were to gether constantly, and Albert became very fond of the baby whose brightest smile was for him, ot the child whose first word was his name, of tho young girl who turned to him ever for pro tection and companionship. Belle as sue had been, she preferred Brother Albert for an escort to auy of the adorers who always begged the office, and while the two older girls were always provided with “beaux, Maggio kept the place for Albert. And he was not her brother! she had no claim upon that tender love, so precious to her! The strange father would carry her away from home, sisters, father, mother and brothers. Worn out with conflicting emotions, tho young girl carried her sorrow to the source from whence she had always looked for sup port, and kneeling down by the doc tor’s chair she prayed fervently for counsel in her new duties, strength for its trials, gratitude for its blessings ; prayed for the dear unknown father, for the tenderly loved home circle she must leave, and as the whispered words fell from her lips she felt the painful agitation quieted, and the troubled throbbing of her heart growing calm again. She bad risen, and was standing by the window waiting for the return of the doctor, when the door opened and a tall, handsome man, with iron-gray hair, and a kindly look in his gray eyes, came forward. It scarcely needed his open arms and tender call of “Mar garet, ray child !” for Maggie to know her father, and the tender clasp of his arms, the loving words he poured out upon her, told her that he would keep his word, “ never again to let her go from him.” The whole morning passed, and the long separated father and child held uninterrupted converse, the -one seem ing only too happy to scan again and again the features of his daughter, to hear the music of her voice, to take into his heart the timid but warm assurance of her sympathy and comfort, while she, already opening her heart to take in ihe patient, noble nature that was leaning so trustingly on her love, was happy too, as a woman always is when she is a comforter. At lost the dear mother of her child hood came to break Maggie’s lung morning of loving intercourse with her fatner, au-T t ake ber back again to the hortie aitela. For some week? Afundfl was content to stay at Longwood, ana his darling gradually from the dear ties of her life, but the parting came at last, and Maggie left her old home to pre- sld/J ovur her father’s large house In B—. The patted darling oi the wealthy man, whose sole object in life tte9 her happiness, she had every comfort, every luxury at her command; but money coul** not fill t^e great house with the music of home voices, could Co a leseen the painful homesickness of the loving heart. Her father never dreamed of this pain. For him hex face wore its gayest smiles, her voice rang out its music in gayest welcome, and t>'hile h6 was near her tho hours flew by in music, reading And 1 familiar canversation. She loved him 1 truly, but she was learning in absence another Ifessun of love: she was learning j to recall a voice that had always been I tenderest for her, a brother who was ! fast becoming remembered and loved j with a stronger affection than even a ' sister gives. So, with threads of joy and pain iuterwoVeh, A Year glided by. “Maggie, dear,” said her father, as ho sat playing With his coffee cup, next Wednesday week is your birth day, and we are to have a grand party. Everybody is to come, and Miss Arun del is to enter society. Now, I want you to write to Longwood and invite them all here, as many as can oorao. The doctor's family must come for a long vi-it, and you must ask all your old friends for the party. It is only four hours’ ride from here, and they can stay all night. I may have been wrong in not having them here before, but I Was jealous of the old affections. You have not been unhappy?” “ Not for a moment! I have missed them all, dear father, but I have never doubted your lore, never wished to change my position. Yet if they conld come sometimes for a visit—” “ As often as you will. Have one or the other always with you, dear, if it will make the hours when I am away less tedious.” St. Valentine’s day found the doctor, his wife, Lizzie and Hattie, Maggie’s guests, while Albert was to come in the evening. Every preparation for the great party was completed, and Mrs. Layfield bustled about full of the im portance of mistress for the nonce, and chaperon for herdear adopted daughter, Maggie. Late in the afternoon Maggie re ceived the only valentine offered her that day. She was in her room, pre paring for the evening, when the white envelope was handed her, and she let it lie unopened while she finished dress ing. As she broko the seal,* the mirror before which she stood threw back her figure, in its glossy white silk, its fleecy lace folds and the pure pearl ornaments, her father's gift. The rich dark hair, braided low on tho neck, contrasted well with the pearls there resting, and the beautiful face bore the test of full dress bravely. She looked very lovely, and as she read the words before her the deep flush that mounted to her cheek was not unbecoming. Inclosed in folds of soft paper the letter contained a ring—a circlet of pearls with one bright diamond in the center. 8Lie took all in her hand and softly went downstairs to her father’s library. He was alone there, and greeted his darling with fond words and proud praises; but she put in his hand the letter and the ring. He sighed as he read, but the blush ing face beiore him gave added force to every word of this earnest petition: “Maggie, Maggie, I cannot live apart from you. Tho brother’s IdVe, for so many years part of my very being, wai nothing to the earnest devotion I lay now at your feet. I love you fondly, truly, as a man loves but once, and I implore you give me one word of hope that you will return my love. If you can give me the precious boon I crave let me see the inclosed ring on your fin ger to-night, the sign of betrothal to one who will make your happiness the hope and study of his life. “ Albert.” Studying Maggie’s face earnestly the young girl’s father read there her an swer. “ He must come here, Maggie; I may take a son, bat I cannot lose my daugh ter.” She clung to him, whispering: “ Nothing shall part us, father.” Long he held her closely in his arms, then with a fervent kiss and a whis pered blessing her father put Albert's ring upon her finger. The Ameer’s Method of Execution. A description comes from Cabul by way of India of the manner in wnich the ameer caused the late minister of war to be exterminated. The latter made glowing promises of future devo tion, but his sovereign would not listen to them for a moment, but condemned him to instant death. Thereupon the prisoner was bound hand and foot, con ducted to that part of tho yard in which tho elephants’ stalls open and laid upon the ground. At the same moment one of the stall doors was unfastened and out stepped a gigantic elephant. Tho ponderous executioner, evidently un derstanding what was expected of him made no delay, but advancing through the courtyard placed his fore feet upon the prostrate body of tho culprit and forthwith began to tread him out of existence. A few seconds later noth ing was left of tho miserable Daud Khan except an unrecognizable mass of flesh and numerous mourning wives and relatives. How a Pro-peetor Lost His Lucre. J. W. Patiick says this glorious weather has occasioned him a loss of 350,000, and this is the way he explains it: Last fall he discovered anew mining district in the neighborhood of his Belt Park ranch. He had jnst time to prospect enough to ascertain that the leads are large and well defined, carry ing a high grade of ore, when the enow came and caused him to cease opera tions. He then camo to town, supposing that tho foot of man would not find its way through the deep snow into his bonanza field, and until a few days ago he rested in perfect security. Then ho learned that the snow had disappeared and that every lead in his new and supposedly rich district had been located by the persistent prospector! And this is why Mr. Patrick charges up to the weather clerk a loss of 850,000. He says it may reach a million. HKALTIl I1L>TS. To remove freckles lake lemon juice, one ounce; quarter of a dram of pow dered borax and ono dram of sugar. Mil theta and let them stand till ready for use, then mb It on the face occa sionally. Never stand still in cold weather, after having taken a slight degree of eiefclss} and always avoid standing upon the ice or' enew or where the person is exposed to a cold Wind.— Dr. Fnote* fftafth Monthly. The Curative qualities of common salt art? hot as freely impressed upon the public as is ripedient. Inflam mation can be fSpioly reduced by a solution of salt, and for a wwk or dis- eaped membrane local applications of salt riid water act as magic. Incises of sore throat, sole eyes or catarrhal affections, simple salt and water as a gaggle or doucha, ia a most efficacious application. The chief virtue of min oral waters is salt, which forms a con- stiitient either in large or small propor tions in all springs recommended for healing. The unmistakable benefits derived from sea bathing afld sea. air pressed fr.m that great strengthening 1 medium—cumraou salt. A goblet of well iced salt and water is not a dis agreeable beverage before brefikfast, and is highly beneficial as an aperient. If “salt should lose its savor” a roost important lever of the pharmacopoeia wortld be destroyed. Concerning the treatment for diph thftiis, the Food nnd Health says : To us it appears that fresh air is the first necessity; we should allow a diph therial patient to be near an Cpen win dow. Next, we should use hot malt vinegar for flannel wraps round the throat, gargles of the same dilated with water, and the most tonic diet pos sible. Neither quinine nor mimral tonics, but hot, strong wines, yolks of eggs beaten up in strong beef tea ; warm baths made of chamomile flowers; feet placed iu mustard and water, and flannel wraps soaked in hot vinegar around tho stomach. The juice pressed from raw beef, heated in a farina boiler and given constantly, but, above all, hot red wiue. Inhalations of the fumes of vinegar with open mouth and pencil- ings of the same within the mouth. The use of lemons is also to be recommend ed. Diphtheria is apreventable disease, and when we know more of the condi tions under which the health of human life can exist and are inclined to listen to it and act accordingly to it, we shall have fewer epidemics such as those of diphtheria. Great Salt Lake. The lake from which this town, writes a correspondent, takes its name —the full name is the “ City of the Great Salt Lake is a very curiousand interesting body of water. It is about 100 miles long, from north to south, some twenty flvo to thirty-five LroaJ, from east to west, is more than 4,000 feet above the sea level, and has no outlet. Its greatest depth is sixty feet, but it is generally very shallow, being in many places not more than two or three feet deep. At one time it must have been vastly larger than it is now, spreading, an inland sea, for hundreds of miles. The water is transparently clear, bnt so salt—it contains twenty- two per cent, of chloride of sodium—as to form one of the most concentrated of brines. It was long thought that it contained no living thing, but recently a kind, of shrimp and several species of insects have been fonnd in it. Large flocks of gulls, ducks, geese and swans frequent its borders and islands, one of the lat- tea—Antelope island—being eighteen miles long. It is so buoyant that a man may float in it at fall length, his head and neck, his legs to the knees and arms to the elbow being entirely out o water. In a sitting posture, with arms extended, his shoulders will rise above the surface. But swimming is hard, as the legs can hardly bo kept under water, and the brine is so strong as to nearly strangle him who swallows it, and causes severe pain if it gets into the ryes. Nevertheless, a bath in the lake is refreshing, although fresh water is required afterward to remove tho salt from tho body. The lake was first made known to the white race nearly two hundred years ago, through Baron La Hontan, who had learned of its existence through some Western Indians It was formerly named Timpanagos; was supposed to be much bigger than it is, and to have an outlet into the Pacific. Fremont was the first man to navigate its waters, and ho described it in 1843. The lake reminds ono in many respects of the Dead sea, and the resemblance had its influence in deciding the Mor mons to settle here, associating the neigliborkocd with Judea, and prompt ing them to name the strait connecting Salt and Utah lakes tho River Jordan. They have copied various features of ancient Israel, and claim to believe that they, like the old Jews, are under the immediate direction of God. The Kigbl-Wind. Once, when the night-wind clapped its winss, And shook the wlod-nr-bare and roof, I heard the eoafa of ’attk-kings Drive bjr in cb^hiny proof l Sometimes a runic strife it kept. Of winter nights, in elected trees; Or underneath the eaves it crept— A swarm of murmuring bees. • Or, now, wild huntsmen of the air In hollow chase their bugles blew, While swift o’er wood and hilltop bare Tho slirlll-voicod quarry flew. Sometimes I beard of lorers flown. Safe, under ward of storm and night,* To where, in sylvan lodge, there shone A taper kind and bright. Tlicso things the night-wind used to tell, And still would tell, if I might hear; Bnt sorrow sleeps too sound and well To lend a dreamful ear. ■— K>lith M. Thomtu, tn the Century. Fishing in Japan. Fishing in the rivers and streams of Ihe main island is not considered as a ^ort by the Japanese but as a means of livelihood, and therefore the “gentle angler” will not receive much encou ragement from tho brotherhood in the land of the rising sun Salmon trout, trout and ai (a small but game fi a h) are “educated” on some rivers to take the fly. The Japs work with very small fires, fine tackle, slight bamboo rods, with which they are very successful. Altogether, however, the game will be found scarcely worth the candle on the mainland, but capital sport with the salmon trout can be obtained in several streams near Satsuporo, in Yezo, daring May and June, with a genuine British fly. The most important export from Yezo is in dried salmon, which are netted in incredible quantities in vari ous rivers of the northern part of the island and in the southern Kuriles; but sport in these rivers among the dense masses of fish is oat of the qaestion, even if the proprietors of the fishings would allow their fish to be poached. The Japanese seaboard is everywhere picturesque, and the seas abound with fish, giving employment to the crews of thousands of fishing boats. When tailing along the coasts numbers of large black whales and sharks, both large and small, will be seen, the latter being caught by the ^fishermen, as their fins are counted a delicacy, aid the skins serve manv uses. The hilts of all the old swo ds era covered with white 11bark’s skin.—The London Field. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A good prophet—One bandied per cent. “ The simple utterance of joy is poe try,” says Oscar Wilde. That settles it. We shall allow no joy in our family. It will ba tossed into the waste-basket.— Noe Haven Register. A fashion writer says “raised figures” produca excellent effect. Well, that depends; if they ate on a check they sometimes produce the effect of send ing the raiser to State prison. “The difference between a marriage and hanging,” said an old bachelor, “is that in the former a man’s troubles commence, while with the latter they end.”—Philadelphia Chronicle. It is sn'd that the only obstacle in the way of transporting live hogs from this country to England is the difficulty of feeding them on tho passage. Why not feed them from the trough of the sea? —Somerville Journal. Said Mrs. Ragbag: “At table, while the servants are present. Mr. Regbag and myself always talk of the large amount everything costs ns, It gives the neighbors such an excellent imores sion of our liberality.”—Boston Post. Prosecuting Animals. In the good old times from the thir teenth to the sixteenth centuries ani mals wore duly prosecuted in court for injuries done by them to life or limb or to private property, and numerous cases are recorded in France of hogs, bulls, horses and other quadrupeds being convicted and punished, capitally, by hanging, burning or in other cruel fashions. In Sardinia cattle taken in the act of damaging property could be lawfully slain, but asses, possibly as being stnpid and less accountable, were punished for trespass, first by loss of ono ear, on a second conviction by the loss of the other and on the third by forfeit Ur®-to ihC nrn»m Ww* TTfrow— physical seizure of the^offending erea- tuies was impossible the ecclesiastical tribunals took cignizance of the mat ter, and the plague of rats, locuste, caterpillars, or what not, was duly cited to trial. More fortunate than human offenders, they were allowed eminent counsel and wide latitude in their de fense. One of the most famous law yers of France made his first great hit in the defense of “certain dirty ani mals in the form of rats, of a grayish color, living in holes,” in the diocese of Anton. Bis clients did not, of course, appear on the stated day, and he pleaded defective service, and that as all the rats in the diocese were interested no tice should be given to them in all the parishes. The priests having been duly instructed, and the rats still re maining in contempt, their counsel ol>- tained a postponement on the ground that more time was needed to make their preparations for a journey eu masse, and when the time was up he came into court professing the good faith of his clients and their anxiety to appear, but demanding for them a safe conduct and the pu'ting of all the plaintiff’s cats under heavy bonds not to molest any rat until the case had been decided. As the plaintiffs declined to enter into the bond the rats got off. It would bo curious to know what ever came of the famous lawsuit between the parish of St. J alien and thebeetles, which began in 1145 and had not been ended in 1487, when the records unhappily terminate. The proceedings ended with a compromise by which the inhabi tants gave tho beetles in perpetuity a certain portion of the parish for their sole use and benefit. The beetles demurred to this, but the demurrer was overruled and, tho court’s astessors hav ing inspected the land and found it everything that a beetle could ask. the title was made duly out and signed and sealed and tho beetles would have had to retire to it or place themselves in flagrant contempt had it not been dis covered that there had been a quarry on the land, and, though it was ex hausted and no longer worked, that - there was a right cf way over the soil which if exercised would incommode the new proprietors. Tho beetles promptly made tbe point, and the trial was begun over again at the beginning. One reason perhaps why the courts were so scrupulous was to be found in the fact that the plaintiffs had to show a clean tithe-bill before beginning the suit, and daring its continuance numer ous imposing and expensive ceremonies were performed. How Webster Looked. Daniel Webster was bom 100 years ago on the eighteenth of January, 1782. Nobody who once saw him ever forgot him. Of all Americans he was prob ably the most imposing in his appear ance. Others have had a finer, loftier, more refined, more spiritual aspect, as there have been Americans of a far higher essential greatness. But there was a certain grandeur in Webeter’s look which was incomparable. His Olym pian presence gave an air of significance and dignity to whatever he said. We have heard him deliver the most aston ishing commonplace in such a way that the audience seemed to be listening to a new revelation of great truths. He had the instinct which assur d him that tbe prosperity of the oration is in the eye and ear of the hearer. Of the singular charm of his private intercourse there are scores of published records. But the private circle of friends seemed to be always a little oppressed by the con sciousness of his greatness. Hie man ners were those of what is called the old school. His dress upon great occasions was that of the English whigs, blue and bnff—a yellow waistcoat and a blue dremcoat with brass buttons.—Harper'a Weekly, \ z