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mmfm Tl** - ? MM , I -, I,,. ? KERSHAW COUNTY, 8. C., THURSDAY fcp <**??> y r ? ^ ft . ?: . v' "? ??-.??? J ?? ? ?? T"~" W'^ ~ ? tfciv yt* 4 **?*?? \?i? <?*??<? ' ~ <V*>4 /*????'. ;^..v ?*? ????/??. "J 'v t?Jr ?* &? i : ' ??? ;tSB4?<Ar tflKlBD, Publisher. ? ' ? 'i ?' ? ' .s. . ' - '? - 1 .?-? T1 .*'?'? ?w m ,1 VOL. X. r.iHHD Y MH.il a D FEAR NOT. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. NO. 29. Hereon! g&ajette. TAB PEOPLED PAPfct'?' ? ? ' ? ? ? > ><?'? Wf FRANK P. BEARD. Publisher. / To Corrtupondcnto. virlly (or pal/Uratton, but M mi cv|tlet?c? t>f food faith on the part of tt>? writer. - \V*li*,?vly ?xone .The Gazette Job Printing Office I* BBTTB* prepared than Mj th ?T OAM (? taw*. toexecatc In iuo*t >?r*cawi>>lw 1 1 M | tton of Job rrlntln*. racb u Pampfclet*, Bill Head*, letter and Note Head*. Ltw VrMfc Poster*, Dodgtrs Clmlm, Haud Milt, VUMi|< Vls'.tluf apd AUjm Cvd?, UMl A Work done In Bronte, Red, Blue mm Wi? Tbe public in tut remember Uut the beet 1 1 atwa** the cheapest. . ? We do work at Ctiarlecton Price*, end guarantee entire ?atl?l?ctlon to our petroa*. We keep con?ta&tly on bead the Meek o Paper* end Card* In town . TO?:~iP3Tw The gross is trrcen on Bunkjr Hill, The water? ?w^i?tB|a<dylHIo;T -il"> The sword sleeps in the scabbard (till! | The fanner keeps hia flook and Tl&f I t u Then who wouldiunar fljAceneto-Oai.* s With raunt of battle Quid Or fray? t The bravo corn lifts, in rogimenU, Ten thousand sabers in the sun| The ricks replace the battlo tonts, Tho bannered tassel* tow and run. The neighing stesd, the buglo't blast? These be thq ator ioa of the post. , The earth haa healed hoi- wounded breast, The cannons plow the flelds no more; The heroes rent: Oh let thom rest In peace along the peaceful shore. They fought for peace, f-r pe jeo they fell; They sleep in poaoe, and all is welL The flelds forget the battle* fought, The tro . hes wave i?\ golden grain, Shall wo neglect tho lesson taught And tear the wou .ds agape again? Bweet Mother Natnro, nursp the land, And heal her wonnds with gnatle hand ! Lo I peace ou earth ! Lo I flook and f jld, Lo I rioh abnndnnco, far inoroase, And valleys elad in sheen of gold. Oh rise and sing the song of poaoe I For Theseus roams the land no more, And Janus rest<> with rusted door. - Southern Exposition Programme. THE FRONTIER WAIT. ? ; . M,The bloody^vvillnins^ muttered Sandy McGovern tb iiimt^lf, as he sat oh his horse surveying the sceno of deflation and death; "the bloody, murderin* Bcoundrolsl" In f^frht of a little knoll on whloh Sandy had eined his horse in' was a confuse. I so?ip of broken wagons. Hore and there a dea&Vhorse, already par tially gripped by the cayotes, and scat tered up and down the line of wagons i he bodies of men who evidently diod fighting. ? It' did hot need the hidooUs red patches on top of the skulls, where tho scrips had been torn off, to tell the old froatieiaiuan that he saw before him all that was left of an omigrant train that had been surprised by In diana To his exporiehced \res, the slight signs which would have oscaped a mun new to the plains, told him that the massacre had taken place, at tno most, but' two days before. "? As he roda slowly along he suddenly ? heard a faint sound. With his norVes strung by the scene Which iay before him, the frontiersman, whose senses were always alert, found lit* attention attracted at once, and stopping his horse he listened intently. In about a minute he heard it again, and noticed that it cavne from One of the wagons. Dismounting and walking to the place he listened once more. In another minute he heard it again. It was some thing liko a faint cry, and it seemed to be smothered in some way. Sandy stood clote by the wagon, his iianos resting upon the footboard in front. Again he heard it, and this time more plainly than bofore. Fairly leaping to the foot-board ho opener! the long box in front, the top of which forms in a prairie schooner the driver's seat, and saw lying in it a little child. The big frontiersman lifted the baby ?for it was scarcely more? out of its strange resting-placo as tenderly ai a mother. He 6aw tlmt the ohjld was very weak from its long fait, and, placing it gently on his hlankots, he began to search for something lit for it to eat. Finding a bag of flour, he i made, with a little sugar, a kind of thin gruel, heating it over* (Ire he ha I hastily kindled. Taking tho baby in his arms, he fed it el jwly and cau tiously. With infinite patienoe the j big-bearded man went through this strange, task, u 1 1 Ml, after some time, he had the sb; is t action of seeing the little one refuso to swallow any mord. Then sitting on the tongue' of the wagoh, with tho dead lying all around I him, Sandy rocked the baby in his a#ms until it went to sleep, ' ' v Placing it in his blankets and cover ing it up carefully* I e examined the box in wtiich lie had f jund it? In the I bottom was a rough horse blapket. , Thrown over the edge was 4 piece of rope, placed there to jWeYjnt the ltd shutting tight. Alongside of the child he found half of a bracelet, evidently a cheap imitation one, which looked as though it had baen torn (ft from the other half. At the lower end of the box there was ? a Confused heap of baby clothes, thrust in hastily. All of these things. Bandj^ tCek. 4l* fortnd even the water in the spring beside which the trhln had Witfped, to give his newly-discovered treasure.^ bath, , which, seemed to do trie Utile one * great deal of good. >. >< For one week Sandy staved there, strong and bright, and he found that the feeding, washing and drWsipg of the "kid, as he 'had already ohrlst ened it, a source Of over-Increasing de light. At the end of that time, wav ing the broken brtuelefc carefully stowed away in hto s*ddM>ega, Sandy the massacre never tf^see it again. What a wonderful change sixteen yeart make in then and women. The floaty brow* hair may have becomo thin in that time, and on tho once smpoth face time may print more than one hue wrinkle telling of the deep fur rows to come. Sixteen years have somewhat whitened Sandy MoGOvorn's hair and bis figure U ntoro portly than it was when he rode away from the scene of the desert massacre. And six teen years have transformed the "kid" Into a tall stalwart lad of eighteen, full of health and strength. Robert Me >vern, as Sandy had called the baby found in the o;d wagon-box, looked * ilfleontly as he rode xip to the f, crossing tho little stream In one easy leap of his horse. For the Kixteen years had brought wealth to Sandy with the gray hairs. It really seemed as If everything he touched prospered' after he rescued tho baby. He made mere money in trapping that year than he had in ahy two before I He got contracts to supply the stage line with hones and made money out of them. He houg it a share in a elalm for alraodt nothing, and It turned out to be enormously rich. "Lucky K^oJufl^r3i^^3in0ally he turned his atteitlon to cattle, and purchasing a large traot of land, ?tOcl^^?9CN(^^nrinchero. lie placed The 44 kid at sch&ol as soon as he was old enough . to co, and alt?r giving him h fcood cdi|caflon, brought him'Jiomet. to^Jlve flip ranch and learn to manage it "Fathe^'' said' Bob (Sandy never called him ? Wdr1 .unless they were by thetoselVes)V^tlVeio'a * patty\down thore on tne road and 1he stage has broken down. I V>Jd them I'd ride up here and send a Wagon down to* bring them up. 1 sai<| you'd be glad to have them as long as th?jy'd stay." "That's right, ray boy; of oourso we're glad to hav? 'em. Here you, i'cdro, harness up an* go down to the road. Bring up Jill the passengers on the coaclL How many is there of them, Bob?" ?? Five in nil. , There's the prettiest glri. father, you evor saw, an oldFlady who kppt looking at me, and three gentlemen." ,? a - Well, my boy, we'll try and make 'cm comfortable. You better go an' see 'bout rooms being got ready for 'em, an' I'll ride down to ' bring 'em up." - Bob dismounted, and, throwing the bridle-rein over the hitching-post, walked into the house. Sandy looked after him, and mutter ing to himself, " I declar' that boy gets better every day," prepared to ride down to the rescue of the passengers. It was not long before the whole party reached tlifc house, glad enough for the chance of staying ttlwe ?,untii they Crtuld go on with their journey. It consisted 6t Mrs. Barnst >tt and Mr. Barnston, his niec^Mlss Edith Hovee, and two friends lot thilrs, Messrs James and Flym*. Sandy's welcome was SO oordlal, and he was so unaf fectedly glad to see. them, that all idea of fortnauty vanished, and 'before h up per time the "hole part/ had become as familiar *s ol? friends. Bob seemod to get along Vefy well with Miss Edith, and wtyler Sandy and the Other gentfe'men chatted to gether, the yoking pco;le talked about anything and everything that could furnish a topic of conversa tion. B th Sandy and BoU noticed that Mrs. Barnston was very silent, and that she did hot seem to bo able to keep her eyes off the young man's face. She would look at hUn with a?hatf puz zled and most anxious expresdod until she saw that she was noticed by the others, when, with an effort, she would Join In rhe genejal conversation. After supper the whole party went out' upon the piazza, when the men lit their vigars and talked. At length Sandy, who never missed a chance of showing his boy off, called up Bob to sing, an ' he at onco began, in a beauti ful tc nor voice, some simple melody. As he sang, Mis. Barnston became more nervous, until suddenly starting up, she hastily left tho piazza, ller husband followed tier nud after a sttoit | absence returned. Turning to Sandy, he said: " You must excuse my wife, Mr. Mc* Govern; but she lost her first husband and her boy many years ago under pe culiarly distressing circumstances, and your son's singing has reminded her so of her first husband's voice that she was unable to stay with us." Sandy paused for a minute before re- [ plying, and then in a de p tone said : . " Bob ain't my son." ?? Not frour son 1 Why, I thought ? but I bog your pardon," said Mr. Barn ston, ??Pardon's granted," said Sarnly, sen tei tlously. "What 1 mean Is, I ain't Bob's real father. He's my son in affe tlon and In loye, but he ain't my natural son." " Well, if you'll excuse my curiosity, where did you get himV" ** It's sixteen years ago now,' said Sandy,, slowly, "that I was riding along the South Platte. One day 1 cane across a place whar tho red flends hhd been flghtln' a train. When i oomethw ther* weren't no man alive nor Ho horses nor nothin*. I ro le >afong an' I hear n a kind o' wail, feeble ?ke. vlstopped an' listened, an' then I looked Whar t ie sound come frotrv and I found. Bob lhar, nothin' but a kid he were then, in a?" ?%yoti foUnd him in the wa^on-box 1 Oh, for God's sake, fay you found him and Mrs. Barnston fairly ran from the door in whioh she was stand ing and threw her arms about Bob's neck, turning her head toward Sandy as she spoke. - Bandy'started, Sndhalf rose from hfs chair. Then looking at Bob with an eye full of afle.t'.on for a moment, he allowed his gaze to rest upon the eager fmajsr of the woman* Then he said, .J ? - *nar wer sometnin' as l round alongside o' the little one." " I know," Mild Mrs. Barnston, "the half of a bracelet." Sandy nodded, and in a wild, innrtlc tilate cry of delight Mrs. Barnston fell fainting on the floor. The Spectators of this intensely dramatic scene hast-' ened to her asal tance, ai d when she reoovered it was. to find tho arms of hen son around her. She hugged hint, k. s i?<i htm, laughed and cried at the sameS time over him. Bhe called him her boy, her Willie, her darllng-^vory, term of endearment ever heard sh# lavished up >n him. Bob or Willie Thorndlke, as hi* name really was, behaved venr well. While it wm im possible for him to realize that he had round anew name and a mother, lie yet showed a great deal of affection. He was the first to realize, however, that, Sandy had left them. "Mother," he said, "father must be told that this makes no difference. Come with me." Mrs, Barnston got up, and holding her son's arm tightly went with him. They found Sandy walking to and fro ontfddo the house. "Mother," said Will, "you must speak to father. He has been a true father to tne.M ?? At the sound of {he title he had so long been accustomed to, Bandy turned toward them. M Father," continued Will, " I have found a mother, but I have not lost you/* I do not know what to say to yoU," began Mrs. Barnston; " word* would be poor and weak. God bless you, Mr. McOovern. and He Will bless you for What you have done. I cannot thank you, but. I can pray to Him toat He will. -Do not think . that I , wish to take Will away from you* You have been a father to 'him, and it is right that he should he your son. But he is my boy, tnydarlinff--" " Wa'alj iba.-in," said Sandy, as his face softened into a smllo as full of pleasantness as a -May rooming, grasp ing; ajh e spakd, Will* hand, " thar ain't no reason, as X knows, why we can't both love this youngster. He's a good boy, ag good as they make 'em, -and I reckon we Can 'range. things eo as' to sultffell pur lies. You an' your husband had better stay on the ranch for a month or two, and we'll have plenty of time to talin?MM| J fteasj afored,'' con tinued Sandy, aftdr1, a*0auafe, "as how I might hev lost the boy long o' your comw', but I se^s that ninj .sp, an' I blocs God fbrUhe joyllo'h as-given you tills day. Let's all go into the house and talk It over." And so It was . arranged. Mr. and Mrs. 13arnston and Edith stayed at the ranch for three months. During that time Will's mother had a chance to tell how, she had been carried off by the Indians and rescued by the United States troops r within a week; how she nad met her then husband some eight years afterward and married him, and how she had never ceased thinking about her boy that had died, as she supposed, in the deafert. During the three months Will discovered the Tact that tie was | very glad that Edith Hovee was not his relation by blood. When the Barnstons did leave, they did so two days hfter Mr. and* -Mrs.. William Thorndike hod taken the ears on their wedding tour. Bandy gave Will one half the ranch, blocking it for him, and the last time I saw Will he told me he was going to run for Congress. He was full of the pleasure ho expected to have In getting his mother, his wife and babies, and nis father, as he al ways called old Sandy, together once more in his home to Washington. ? Alfred Balch. **??? Bows.. 'AtfW, that "touchstone or fcood breediqg," says a French wr&pr, has undergone that strange mutation since the obsequious days of the Georges. Now the body muut not be bent, only the head inclined, cordially oi other wise, according to oircumstances; genu flexions are relegated to dancing/ and posturo masters, whose palmy days are now a record of the past. In the tiftke of the merrle monarch th.j plumed and joweled hat was doffed with ^sweep ing grace to the very ground, and there hold until the lady so saluted had passed or retired. Now the hat is simply raised in recognition of n fair acquaint ance, who must give the initiative by a slight inclination of the head, and we are informed by -\n aristooratic au thority on matters of etiquette .that "a gentleman returning the bOw of a lady- with whom he is but slightly ac quirf&ted, would do so vlth a deferential air," but if $here were an intimacy he would raise his hat with greater freedom of action, " and con siderably higher." In France it Is the gentleman who bows flrst, and there, too, the bow is thesignalof recognition between members of the sterner sex; in England a nod suffices. The two most polite ? In the old-fashioned sense (A the word ? of our kin^s, Charles II. and George IV., took off their hats to the meanest of their subjects. A lady's obeisance to loyalty, fifty years ago, was an acrobatic feat. The knees |eere bent and the body slowly brought for ward in graceful and reverent guise, tho equilibrium being recovered by a backward movement very difficult to perform with ease. But our monarchy waxes old, and republican manners, assertive of independence, make high flown courtesy ridiculous; now a cour tesy to royalty is merely a deep dip, a sudden collapse as if on springs, and as sudden a reattalnment of tne per pendloulsr. ? All the Year Round, ? Somnolent Patient. A case of somnolency has been at> tracting great attention at Kingston, Ont. The patient Is a married lady bet-ween fifty and sixty years of age. Many years ago she took ill with a sort of nervous weakness, r>>, suiting in lom of strength, and finally passed into somnolency. She partoolc of little nourishment, principally liquids, and otfuld not speak or move. Her pulse was regular, and the doctor judged sh? was free from pain. She was conscious, however, and could intimate whenevei she desired anything. For years she lay in bod or reclined in a chair. Then she regained her wonted health and Strength. Again, about 1880, sht showed symptoms of another nervoui attack*, and she was indisposed during the winter and gradually passed into IttftL unit body scorning to be naturally pd* formed. The physician attending hei made a study of the case, as it is th< only, one of such a character he h&c ev?rr heard fit ?ir$*d abodt., Thfcro li ftothlftfe to Indicate disottai of thebrain, Iftretlon is regular and the puis* formal. I laf (Kxjtor attributes thii state of lothhrgjr to the utter prostr* tioli of the nervous system.' He thinlu she is cottons, but ItHUaVes that ii the brain ifefe examined the cersbellua would be found undergoing a change The probabilities are she will nevei recover, . Ittfttriilty. Apatt frotft his musical gift, Riohard Wagner was a man of very oommot mola. Delicacy of feeling, the grac< of manner which poetry Should beget ho had none. A year ago he spent th< winter at Palermo. meditating hli score of "Parsifal, and a great ban. quot was given In hie honor by th? Sicilian aristocracy at the Villa Tasoa. , i He oame three hours late. H? | then strolled In with an old felt hatoii his head, a tattered Scotch oloak on his shoulders and a cotton ambrella In his hand. Uls hosts, who had waited for three hours, were disgusted, and trtie incident was so hotly dUcuMcd in the Italian papers that the composer's official or gan at Bayrenth published a statement saying: "tho maestro felt hound to a-t as he did, to prevent the 81cllla& no jblllty from worrying him with an} 1 more invitations." ? New Yotft Hour. F^BJfrcJABUElC AND HOUSEHOLD. Boot Uitr.lac. Root grafting is soiu jtime.j resorted to where extonsive increase is an ob ject, or where stem-grafting or other means of propagation aro not avail able. In such a case the scion is grafted directly on to a portion of the root of sumo appropriate stock, both graft unJ stook boiog usually very small. The grafted root is then put ted so as to cover tho point of juno* tion with the so 1, and is plunged in the bed of 'the propogatlng house, where it is Slightly Stimulated by the gentle bottom heat. Dahlias and peonies may be grafted by inserting young shoots hito the neck of one of the fleshy roots of each kind respect ively, the best methrd of doing so belftjptffdqt a tMangular section near the upper tfnd fcf the root, just large eiTQUghrtTOdmitohe yotrng shoot when slightly 4>r#j * onTtwo sidee to give it a similar form. Keedlna Cornntalk*. A farnler, writing to the Amerioan Agriculturist, says: I have never until now been jjhlo tQ account foy the different VuriOUs pnfcjical peo ee ?dt upon Wrnstatks. True, there a great difference in different kinds of corn in the way it is fed, etc., but, after all, the great variation in value is caused by its drynoss. That which is cured somewhat moist, even if more or less moldy, is greatly preferred by the rattle to hard, dry, brittle stuff, which has lost almost all its flavor and doubtless a good deal of its nutritive qualities. Simply sprinkled, the por tions of stalk to be fed so that they will have a few hours to absorb water, helps a great deal, but still it is not at all like having naturally moist fodder. If the water used to soften the stalks Is salted and flavored with a few handfuls of bran this makes a great difference. No doubt the best plan to feed corn-fodder i * to cut and steam it, with such additions of roots, bran, etc., as are desirable. Few can do this; many, however, follow what is the next best plan ? to out the corn fodder aud mix it with bran, then to i pour scalding water In abundance over the mass and cover it up with rubber sheets, rubber army blankets or place 'it in a box w.tlra close lid, so that it will have a good soaking and " sweat ing." In whatever way it is fed it should be cut? the finer the better ? but even if it bo cut in foot lengths, every farmer will find his account for It. A large part of dry feed stalkR is rejected and gets into the manure, where it is a great nuisance, first in getting it out and then in clean cul ture. Those of us u bo cannot afford to cut our corn-fodder fine ? to have it "chaffed," as the English say ? can at least be tidy enough to have it cut in six inch lengths with a broadax or a hatchet. Career the Horse, 1. Never allow any one to tease or tickle your horse In the stable. The Animal only feels the torment and does not understand the joke. Vicious habits are thus easily brought on. 2. Never beat the horse when in the stable. Nothing so soon makes him permanently vicious. 8. Let the horse's litter be dry and olean underneath as well as on top. Standing on hot fermenting manure makes the hoofs soft, and brings on lameness. 4. Change the litter partially in some parts and entirely in others every morning, and brush out and clean the stall thoroughly. 5. To procure a good ooat od your horse naturul'.y, use plenty of rubbing and brushing. Plenty of " elbo.v grease" opens the pores, softens the skin and promotes the animal's general health. 6. Never clean a horse in his stable. The dust fouls the crib, and makes htm loathe the food. 7. Usethe currycomb lightly. When used roughly it is a source of great pain. ' 8. Let the heels be well brushed out every night. Dirt, if allowed to cake in. causes grease and sore heels. 9. Whenever a horse is washed, never leave him until he is rubbed quite dry. He will probably get_a chill if negl< eted. 10 When a horse oomes oSf a jour ney, the first thing Is to walk h m until he is cool, if he is brought in hot. This prevents his taking cold. 11. The next thing is to groom him guite dry, first with a wisp of straw and then with a brush. This remove* dust, dirt and sweat, and allows timo for the stomach to recover itself and the appetite to return, 12. Also, let his legs be well, rubbed by the hanfl. Nothing so soon remove* a strain, lb a'so detects thorns or splinter*, soothes the animal and en ables him to feed comfortably. 18. Let the horse have some exer cise every day. Otherwise, he will be llableto fever or bad feet. 14. Let your horse stand loose if possible, without being tied Up to the manger. Pain and wearin&ta from a confined position induoe bad hab ts and cause swollen feet and other dis orders. .. \,''v 16. Look often at the animal's feet Disease or wounds in those ; all neglected, soon become ?y night look and see if there la a ny stone between the hoof and the shoe. Standing on it all night, the horse will be lame next morning. 17. If the horse remains in stable his feet must be "stopped." Heat and dryness cause cracsed hoof and lameneft*. 18. The feet should /lot be "stopped" of toner than twice in the week. It will make the hoofs soft and bring on corns. 10. Do not urge the. animal to drink water when ha refuses. It is proba bly hard and unwholesome. 20. Never allow drugs to be admin istered to yonr horse without your knowledge. They are not needed to keep the animal in health, and may do the greatest and most sudden mischief. ?New York Graphic. WSmtiiH plate. Hot irdiu should never be used for embroidery. V In beating butter always take the back of yonr spoon. ? little , gin dissolved In skim-milk and water Will restore the stilTneaj I and luster to crape and make it look like new. Black stockings should K, us lied in a cool lather of plain White soap, u little ammonia and rain water. Do not wring, but press the moisture out and roll In a cloth and keep from the air while drying. To wash colored table linen use tepid water with a little powdered bora*; wash quickly, using but little soap, and r^nse in tepid water contain ing boiled starch; dry in the shade and when almost dry, iron. E&ilroad ** Beats." A man who has been accustomed to travollng on railroads by hook or crook, without paying fare, has been detail ing some of his experiences to a Chi cago Times reporter. "A great scheme," said he, " is to fee tho yard master, and have him seal you up in a freight car. The party must bave a sharp knife. With this he cuts a round hole nearly through in tho vicinity of the lock while on his journey, and when he arrives he knocks a hole through the door and pulls out ^the piug, or breaks the seal fastening to the door, and walks away. On the Louisville and Nashville, Illinois Central, Atchi son, Topeka and Santa Fe, and many other roads, " ? Siflpllel ' aie run with open doors, affording am'ple facilities to travelers, though sometimes the tablos are turned by a trainman, who slyly locks the dopr which the traveler has closed in order to be more solitary. I remember coming over the Iron Moun tain once in a box car filled with cot ton bales. Some officious meddler shoved the end door together, and I remained in that car four days, finally gazing upon God's glorious sunlight once more in the city of Cincinnati. 41 Did you ever get caught ?" "Not often, thO" ?h ^cannot tell a lie. ,1 do not wholly deny the soft im peachment. Years ago It was a com mon thing for twenty or thirty toughs to board a train in Californi i and ride as far as they wanted. It was a strange sight to see the old miners, each with a blahket, riding-ofl top of the freight cars. The Central Pacific, however,', succeeded in getting some very strin ? gent legislation through, and when fel- . lowc in small numbers accepted the courtesy of a tide without pay, they were suddenly, severely and heavily sat down on. The scheme there among the knowing ones was for the three or four, or as many as happened to be captured, to swear that they had each paid some trainman half a dollar, and the justice usually dismissed the case, for if the allegation came to the ears of the general officers of the Central Pacific they forthwith dismissed every man on that train. The doors of loaded freight cars are frequently 'sprung* with fist plates. The 'fakir' gets in, taking his fist plate with him, and an outside party springs tho door back, * Wheh the traveler has gone far enough he springs tho door open with his fist plate, and walks forth. The interiors of mail cars, too, it is said, furnish excelfcnt facilities for free riding if the mail agent is properly fed. The emigrant trains are all easy to work, and a man who can't w< rk his way in a high-toned emigrant car lrom Chicago to San Francisco In ten days has not the stuff In him out of which millionaires are made. If a fellow has a little money with him with which to tip the conductor his journey will be as smooth and pleasant ai the ab sence of rude remarks and unpleasant forebodings can make it. The lastand highest form of free traveling is on passes. I usually go to the general managers of tho roads direct. Some times I'm a missionary, at other times I'm on my way to locate huge paper mills on the line, and again I am the editor of a leading metropolitan paper. Ve^p often I approach a man, repre senting myself as the general manager of the Sitka, Panama and f 'ape Horn route, or some other line.. Sometimes I boldly announce that my name is the same as that of the general manager whom I address, and then suggest that I have forgotten his name. Tho freight departments oan usually be worked in case of failure with the general manager. 1 quietly say to the general freight agent that I have one hundred cars of string beans that I want to ship in a week, but must arrange for their reception at destination. Will he give me a pans over his line and connections to Yoka horna and return? To be sure he will." Speaking with a general superin tendent of one of the leading Western roads, he told the reporter that a freight train had not loft Chicago for ten years that did not carry a deadhead either under the trucks, in some freight far, on the engine, in front of the en gine, Of just back of and behind the oowcatoher, In a vacant place in whloh, if a tramp once gets snugly stowed, he Is. safe for a ride until the train stops. The number of passes Jsftued by the railroads has of late years grown to enormous numbers. Some of the great Western roads, it is stated, issue as high as five thousand annual passes, while trip passes are munificently handed over to almost anybody who has the assuranoe to apply. Ah Kplaofle of City Life. In a barroom in New York, lately, a boy. apparently not more than four yearn of age, pu?he<l open the door and ollmbed np to the level of the bat by flatting his foot on the footrall. Hit* 1H tin pug noet And eyos oduld jwut be seen above the bar *s he asked for a straw. The barkeeper told the midget to to home, whisking a cloth across his f see, but he ointoned the edge of the bar only the harder. Then the bartender walked round the counter and carried him to the door kicking and struggling. Then he shrioked for bla beer, and it was discovered that he AM hidden a pitcher behind the door. When he had pioked it np and was in the street he turned and hurled at the bartender One of the foulest epithets in the vooatmlary. "Do you see the racket that ohlld was giving me?" said the bartender. " His mother has ?ent him hereto buy beer, but he has bought it aomewhere else and comes Itt here for a straw to sip At the stuff all the way home. That's the Sort the ohildren's aoclety ought to look after. The child is a drunkard Already." TIMELY TOPICS. Everything American fa the fashion at present in the City of Mexico, rvnd the Mexicans are beginning to adopt many of the customs of this country. American ladles find especial favor In the eyes of the dark-eyed senors. in the year 1784 eight bales of cot ton grown in the United States were sent to England, where, upon arrival, it was seized and condemned by order of the privy council, on the ground that so large an amount of cotton could not possibly have been raisixi in America. This year the cotton crop ' of the United States tfill not be far I from 7,000,000 baits. ! i In the markets of Irkutsk, the Sibe , rian town whoso nam?' has groVrti so familiar to American readers through I tho story of the id-fated Jeannette, j milk is sold by th^ block, beinft hard I frozen. Kach block has a string or stick 1 frqzen into it foi c venience in car j lying, and the p rehaser takes his I ir.ilk by the sti ,k or string, slings it aofoss his shoulder a~.d walk* off with it. Tho Ohio State meteorological bu? | rea has under consideration a novel I plan for displacing weather signalj ! for the benefit of tne farmers between Columbus and Cleveland. Largo sig i nals Of different shapes and colors will be j laced oi^each side of the bag gage car of the passenger trains of one of the railways Je&ding ,ta Cleve land. so that, when the farmers under stand tho code, they can foretell the probata state of the weather for twenty-four or thirty-six hours. The London Times makes the fol lowing comparison between Bismarck as an ambassador and Americans fill ing that office: " Of all ambassadors, tho American arc prooably the best. With them, too, diplomacy is a pro fession, but not one that requires any preliminary training and outfit beyond the posset-jkn of au educated, opan mind and a seeing eye. Their idea of the representative or honorable spy fund' on is the true one, as any one may convince himself by turning up a volume of the<r * foreign relr? | tions.' Nothing is too small for them to make a note of. Nothing escapes their observation, but no minister of the United States ever used his eyes or ears more diligently or reported more faithfully wha< he saw and heard than did H?rr von Bismarck at the Diet. He 'J .orough. No newspaper correspondent could possi bly have held the candle to him. He was the greatest tell-tale in Frankfort. Everything went to Berlin, from the ferreting out of the author of some ob noxious article co the denunciation of persons of doubtful antecedents of a government which had converted a cobbler kto a full-blown diplomatist." It is Btated by Frank Leslie's III us irated Newspaper that "butter is now adulterated more extensively than ever before. In the wholesale trade, I when adulteration is practiced, tho fact is stenciled on the package, but among the retailers the bogu* product is, to a largo extent, sold as thj genu ine. It is claimed that butterine, tho name given to the successor of oleo margerine, is not open to all the objec tions brought against the latter; but this is only a negative recommenda tion. It is said to be composed of de odorized lard, creamory butter, Btcar ino and sometimes beef oil. The oleomargarine now manufactured, it is stated, is less objectionable than that formerly so:d. What is meant by this assertion may bo gathered from the fact that the ' improved' article is composed of beef oil, deodorized lard and cottonseed oil, the latter being used to make it ' mellow.' In accord ance with the law it is labeled oleo margarine when sold by the wholesale merchants, few will carry sim plicity so far -as to believe that the re tail grocers will take the trouble to en lighten his customers when selling tliem this mixture. Surely it is time all these swindles (should cease.'1 In spite of the fears of statesmen and the selft'i opposition of offh id ism, the condition and experience of the Russian people seem to make them snech I'.y fit for political freedom, says the fortnightly Review. They are reared in the practice of local self government. Everywhere the peas antry, the great bulk of the nation, are acomtomed to meet to vote and man age their social and local affairs; to eleot the managers of their commune, and to Implicitly obey those whom they have eleoted They have to provide, not Individually, but each commune oollectlvely, for the excessive taxation Imposed by the central government, and, in addition, to bear the irritating and constant interference of a central officialism. The extension of their ex perience and action from local and so cial to political and national affairs seems a safe and natural step. There are, in fact, unusual guarantees In Rus sia for the fight exercise of political power by the people. They have few difficulties or caste, \helr present assemblies being representative and democratic. There Is the conservative element of a common o nershlp in land, ea;h man being, as a rule, in his corporate capacity a proprietor of tho soil, and responsible to tho coitimune for his Individual contribution to tlio common welfare. Consequently they have not had that most serious of all problems In their political future which other European nations have yet to solve ? the ex 1st* nee of a vast property less class In the midst of an ever Increasing national wealth. Roxl id Children's Ears. In the Ihi'ish Medical Journal l)r. Dal by calls attention to the dunger of Inflicting punishment by blows on the ears. A number of ev.l results may follow; first, total pa raiyais of audition' may occur simp y from the shook to tho delicate nervous apparatus within tho ear. Again, the svmnanlc mem brane may be rapturod; furthermore, acute inflammation of the middle ear may result from such violence. Cases ftr.) recorded In which children havo lost their lives from extension upward of the inflammation to the meninges <if the brain. FOB TliE FAIB SEX. T?RcbtD( women Trade*. The idea of systematic Instruction of women in the industrial arts has been successfully developed in France, according to a writer to the Loud >n Tina*. !Not only in Paris, but through out the country, schools that teach particular trades to women havo been formed. In one nearly two thousand young women have received thor? u^h training in millinery, needlework, wood engraving, painting on porce lain, or designing. Workshops affili ated to the school by a pecuniary ar rangement furnish actual practice. So successful have been these schools, and so superior the graduates in their work, that particular trades have es tablished similar institutions for tho express purpose of tilting the:r own workwomen in occupations mt taught In the large ones, as In tho brass a id copper trade, and in the manufacture of clocks and watchbo. How to Hpntl a Httabnnri. Find fault with liim. Keep an untidy house. Always have the last word. Be extra cross on wash days. Quarrel with hiin over trifles. Vow vengeance on all his relatives. Lot him sew on his own shirt but ton!. Pay no attention to household ex penses. Give as much as he can earn in a month for anew lonnet. Tell him as plainly as possible you married him for a living. Haise a row if he daro to bow ploas antly to an old lady friend. Tell him the children inherit all their mean traits of character from his side of the family. ? Keep the parlor for company and do not let him put his foot in it. Get everything the woman text door gets, whether you can afford it or nut. Let it out sometimes when you are good and mad that you wish you had | married some other fellow you used to go with. ? When he gives you |10 to lay aside 1 fo^a " rainy day" give it to the llrst , peddler that comes along for a pair of ten-cent plaster vases. Fashion Note*. JJutton boots are revivod. White satin is much worn in Paris. Bla.k satin is revivod for full dress. Sleeves have a tendency to bouffant tops. Short visites, vory handsomely trimmed with lace, w 11 be much worn. Lace pokes, with brims of lace plaiting, are st en atyong uovelti ?? in millinery. Lac3 cloaks, unlincd but hand* Eomt'ly trimmed, como among other lace importations. New silk and lisle thread gloves in all lengths and in all the new colors appear on the gl counters. The now colors jwe in grayish tones of blue, shrimp pink, terra cotta, brick, rose, green, brown and purple. Large, very large, open-worked and heavy lace collars are worn outside the pelisses of little girls and boys. Laie is the most beautiful trimming for underclothing, and Valenciennes is the queen of lace for this purpose. Capes in all sorts t shapes, and fall ing just to the waist line, will be mm h worn for street wraps as the spr.ng ad vances. Lace fichus, ruffles and kcrcbiefs of silk or mull are not. fastoned up high in the neck, but are arrangt d in a V shape, coming to a point in front nnd thus revealing a bit of (he throat, which is usually ornamented with a velvet ribbon and a jeweled slide. ? FACT* FOR THE CURIOUS. The analeps, a viviparous fish of Eastern Asia, ha a singular eye. It is divided horizontally into two hemls Eheres by a memhraneou- band. E;ioh alf is a perfect organ of vision. The two upper halves are lo. ('-sighted and 'netwo lower ones near-sighted. Dr. Talmago preached in Brooklyn on the eye. He assured his hearers that it winks 30,000 time.* a day; that thert are in it 800 contrivances; that it sook the sun 95,000,000 of miles off, that it is the lighthouse of the harbor of the soul, an ' that it is mentioned in the Bible 584 times. The ehrvsanthemum is the popular flower of China. When they emigrate to other lands their favorite flowor is cArried with them and affectionately cultivated. The Japanese possess vo luminous illu8tr.it? d works in which the chrysanthemum, in all i',s phases of race and color, is ably portrayed. Jn Bwahia children who look out of a window aro still sometinx s cautioned against being carried off by the man in the moon; nor aro they allowed, in imitation of the hare in tho moon, to make the figure of a hare on the walls with thoir lingers. In the same dis trict the sin of tho man in the moon was simply that of working in his vineyard by moonlight; while, accord ing to another version, a woman was taken up for spinning at her window i by moonlight, and her flax and hair may still ho scon thero. To this day ' this prlmltivo idea of sin against tho j moon exists in Hwahla, where. It h still thought sinful to spin or sew in the moonlight, and It Is a common thing ' to hear it said: " I,eavo off working or you will go to the moon." If an Kgyptian happened to find .t dead cat, Bays the (Sicilian historian, ho wan careful not to approach it closely, for fear of helng suspected of I its murdor Htandlng at a distance, he ! made the sad loss known by cries of | distress. During conflagrations, ac cording to I?e <d>tUH, tho Kgyptian I spectators allowed the flames to r,i??? 1 unchecked, devoting their attenth n to I saving tho cats b -longing to the burn ing hou<e*. A Koman happened one day to kill a cat by a < idont. The melancholy e\ e it took |?!a *o. at a t m when the Egyptian g.vernnoit vat v? y anxious to eomlli;ite Home, But | in spite of the oxertois of tiie king | and his ministers the mob broke into 1 the Roman's d we 1 ngnnd intentionally did to him what ho had accidentally done to tho cat. Of this act, of pojv. ulwr vongeance, l)'o lorus savn that h<> was a spectator. THE i John Mann had a wifo who wu kind and true ? A wife who loved him well; She cared for the house and theS only child; But if I the truth must tell, Bho fretted and pined beosuse John was poor, And his business was flow to payi But he only said, wht>n she talked of change " We'll stiok to thegood old way." She saw her neighbor* were growing rioh And dwelling in houses grand) That she was living in poverty, With wealth upon every hand; And she urged her husband to specula To risk his earnings at play; But he only said; " My deareet wife, We'll stick to tho go >d old way." For he know that the money that's qoiokiy got Is the money that's quickly lost; And the money that stays Is tho money earned At honest endeavor's oost. Bo he plodded along in his honest style. And he bettered himself each day, And ho only said to his fretful wife, "We'll stick to the good old way." And at last there came a terrible crash, When beggary, want and shame Came down on the homes of their wealthy friends, While John'9 remained the same; For ho had no debta and he gave no troet, " My motto is this," he'd say? " It's a chann against panioe of every kind? 'Tis stick to tho good old way." And his wife looked round on the little house That wna every nail their own, And she asked forgiveness of honeat John For the peevish mistrust she had shown; But ho only said, as her teArful face Upon his shoulder lay; " Tho good old way is the beet way, wife; We'll stiok to the good old way." ?L*&V*r. HUMOROUS. For good board apply at any saw mill. Always down on the boys- -A mus tache. The best flro escape is when your wife gets up in the morning and makes it. ? Boston Commercial. Yale college talks of adopting ailtw i yell. Anybody knowing of anything , particularly horrible will please for ward a diagram. i We hear a good deal about the "rage for speculate n but Fogg, who speaks from experience, says the rage j generally comes after tho speculation. I ? lit 8'. on Transcript. A calculation shows that a Dundee | spinner must spin sixty miles of yarn j to earn $2. \lmost. any country store I can produce men that will spin a ! longer yarn for nothing. ? Pittsbury Tetej/raph. ) Tho price of a wife in Siberia is ! eight dogs; but what worries the Lowell Courier is, that not knowing i the market price of dogs in Siberia, it can't tell whether this is cheap for a ' wife or not. Bub thus apostrophizes the rabbit : The rabbit winks with hiz noze an' 1 suintimes he duz it with such effek I that the ekko agertates wat little tale ; heze got lef\ Rabbits haz got other I funny trates besides, because heze got i kneze on hiz hind logs that reatch from,-' ) hiz toze to his elboze aii' ne seta on 'em | more'n he duz on the fuitherest end of j Mm. II i a ear< iz stflycats of hli be j longin' to the ja-kass family, an' wen ho sticks 'em up the stars begin to get I ne vuh an' move out ther way. Rab | bits wares furs all the hull yeer an' wen they walk yude think the behind part ov 'em wuz harder ter lift than a barrow, but wen you tetoh 'em a lite nin' bug coodent ketch 'im ef yude give 'im tu dazo start. Rabbits in g< od ter eat only if thares wimmin round you mustn't menshun enny thin' 'bout cats wile the banket Is goln' on. ? liotne Sentinel. Foreign llodles In the Fa*-. Some children have a propensity to put small objects which happen to come Into their hands, such as beads, buttons, the seods of fruit, etc., into their ears. Tho alarm attending a mishap of this kind Is only fully ap probated by parents whose children have indul/ed in a predilection of thin ? kind, and they, as well as others, may profit by Homo experiences which the au Tints of New York have quite re cently discussed in the columns of the MidU.nl Record con ernlng the re moval of locust beans from the ears of children. In one case -a child nine years old ? whoro a locust bean had been put in the ear, I)r. Duck partially detached the outer car, an operation which soomed to afford tho only way of getting at tho bean, which had bean tightly packed in the canal. Dr. Sex ton relates anothor, but somewhat aim- ? liar, ditllcult case, which suggested to him the construction of forcepft for grasping objects in the ear, and which subsequently served him in removing foreign ImhUcs in such caaee. It would appear from a oerusal of the Rstord that in nearly all (Mies where foreign bodies like tho a!>ove are put into Ine ear they may bo allowed to remain, for a time at least, without fear of harm re sulting, the danger in such cases being the result of unskillful and bungling attempts at removal. The principal cause of danger In tluse cases Is stated by Dr. Sexton to consist mainly in the inability of children to remain quiet enough to permit necessary manipula tions being made, and he advise*, therefore, that in nearly all dlffWralt cases an anaesthetic should be admin istered boforo removal Is attempted. In conclusion, It would seem to bo ad visable when a child gets a bead, a seed or other 11 ko object In the ear, not to poke it In any way, lest, during the child's struggling, It may be pushed down Into tho ear. The removal, It is needless to sav, should be Intrusted to tho sklllod only, and if such aid be not accessible, It is best to avoid any ener getic procedures. Doulllier, an eminent French savant, Is convinced that dreams throw much light upon the moral character and re sponsibility of tho dreamer. They are a fair revolatlon of the oonrelenoa of tho moral character, and heli far from having disregard of them.