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Gazette. ? S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1883. THANK P- BEARD, Publisher. VOL. X. TWO DOLLARS A YEAH. CAMDEN, NOT. Hcwtyaro ipftiit. ? r* '? > * > ? m ft ? ? ? '.? TUB PgOPJUB?%fr43WB? rciLunuo at oamdm, i. c. FRANK P. BEARD. Publisher To CWrrieapondeats. All communication* (or this paper ihtuld be ac companied by the lume of tbo Author, not neces sarily far publication, but as an evidence of food faith t>atho^ pert of tho writer. Writ* only on oo? ?iUoof thepopcr, Bo particularly careful in giving name* aud date* to har? tho letters plain and dis tinct. The Gazette Job Printing Office Is b&tter prepared than any other olttco io town, to executo Iq the most attractive styles every descrU?? tlon of Job Printing, such *5 Pamphlets, Leaflet^ Dill Heads, Letter and Nota Heads Law Briefs, Poster*, Dodger#, Circular:, Hand IUTU, \\'(.Odlug, Vls',tlnga?d AddnxsCafrdj, Business Cards, Labela. A.. Work done In Bronte. Red, Blue ana Biac*. The public must remember that the best Is *)waf? the cheapett. "* We do work at Charleston Prices, and guarantee enthe satisfaction to our patrvas. ! We keep constantly, ,00 hand the largest stock o* I Papers and Cards Jn town . " WORSHIP IN T&B WOODS. Bow rioh the embroidered carpet spread On either side the common way I ktoxt and purple, gold and red, Basset and white, gr6en and gray, With shades between, Woven with light in looms unseen. The dandelion's disk of gold With luster decks the meadows green, Kud multiplied n million fold Tho daisy lights tbo verdant soene; The blue mint's plumes Invite tho boos to thoir perfumes. A wrinkled ribbon seems the road, Unspooled from tho silent hills afar; Rest, like an angol^lifis the lotd, And in my path lots down tho bar, And hero it brings A lease of life on healing wings. K summer leisure of the oloud That wandora with its trumpeter, The wind, is mine; no wrangliffg cfbwd Annoys the humble worshiper * "" In tho white tent * * ? * Beneath n listening firmamont. IJp-floatiug on the ambient air Sweet songs of saored music rise. And now a voice distinct in prayer, Like tho lark's hymn, reaches tho skies, And the "amen" Is echoed from tho hills and glen. . Vho wood a vast cathcdral seems, Its donio tho overarching sky; Tho light through trembling branches streams From oj on windows lifted high: Under the firs Boft shadows shield the worehipors. MISS VAN ARSDALE. Miss Van Arsdale, like the fleshpots of Egypt, whs good to look at in the eyes of man and she lived way up in Vermont avenue, in a blood-red Elizabethan palace, all gables and stained glass and olive-shingled porches ?a structure where high art raged rampant, where everything that wasn't old English was intensely Japanese, and everything that wasn't Japanese was old English, except Mr. Van A r.- dale, who wai intensely Dutch in stead. Down by the "Flats" there is. a norrlbly dingy yard that slopes to the festering river. Not a nice place to look at, wilh tho green slime and snaky W6vds ior ever before oneseyeB. and the odor of death for ever in one's nostrils, but pice place to own ; for mines of coal and forests of wood had found their way there, to be turned Into g >ld at the Midas touch of Mr. Van Arsdnle's Angers. Miss Van Arsdale curried her dim ples and diamonds to parties, and came home tricked off like a Comancho warrior, with twenty germ an favors dangling at her belt -favors that meant ?ah, bliss! -"twenty stab-thrusts for tho twenty '? dlsengageds," who watched with laughing eyes and bleed ing vanity as sho won her trophies in the d?\nc '. Miss Van A rsdale considered herself musical, and though society likened her reg sttfr to tho still, small voice of conscience, and paid its ovations in deference of Mr. Van Arsdalo's notes, rather than tho3e of .his daughter's, she placidly accepted tho delicious false hoods it lavished upon hor and w?nt on singing worfee than ever. Miss Van Arsdale painted impossible pink rose ? on sevorely green stems, and socit ty caljed her a ttonheur. What lik< ne. s could be traced between her stiff-necked bloss ins and Berkshire ca.tle evtn sho was pu/zltd to dis cover ; but sho took it all in good" faith, and rovenged herself on society by painting pla jues for her f i iends. * Society can stand a great deal of dust in its eyes ? cold dust ? but when it pralsod Miss van Arsdiile's clover pink cheeks aud bij? wonderful eyed? German bluo they wore, with silver llickvrs in them ? it honestly meant every word that it paid ; for she was absolutely beautiful, from a dressy point of view ! Mr. Van A rsdale was not? indeed, there was nothing beautiful about Mr. Van except his love for his only child? a love in which sooiety could piok but a single flaw, and the queen's big diamond lias two 1 lie was a shabby little millionaire, plain of feature and shy of speech. His hands were a* brown and dry as the ohips in Ids own yard, and you were pretty sure if one scratched him he would run sawdust instead of blood. He was ko old as to look quite moldy, and his clothes. In pbint of age, were cei ? Udnly entitled to a vote. When his daughter demanded her palhce and set up a fur-caped coaoh man he gave her the money with all his heart; but when, as a disastrous consequence, she hand 2d him ovit to a tailor to do with as fashion or da'nod, bo little did he appreciate the feternfcl fitness of the th ngs given him to wear, that he returned to what one, at a stretch, might term the friends of his youth, and went about his business in a hopeless state of revolt. WAen he did not spend his evenings at his dismal oflloe in the* wood yard wMh another shabby old millionaire who owned the wharf alongside, or at ?? Abner's," he generally managed to : woriy through the time at home, , though it was dull enough with Min erva always away. He was a patient little mnn? however, and woujd wait i up with en almost childish wlstfulness just to get a careless kind good-night from his daughter as #sjie flushed up the oaken stairs. ? , Girls d< n't mean harm, they only do It. Mi?s V nu jftwrtaU ved her father, of course, Jbpt ho ?mew better than to presume upon thfl relationship, and as be never evpectett her to put her young arms' aVotind his neck, or kiss his withered llpsjie wasn't disappointed because sho failed to del it. Society was unite in the middle of its greatest ball, and Miss Van Am* > dale, in cream satin and big diamonds flaming in her eats, was singeing moth# to lier heart's content, when the omin ous news came that Mr, Van Aradale had bften taken ill downtown and brought home dying in a cub. JUstle*s ty'es staring at everything and Bt-e:ng n ithing, palsied fingers anct n twitching lips? -was this her father? Ml?s Van Arsdale's pride fell from her like Cindorella's rags, and burying her face in the n.llow hh > sohl>ed With the willful grief of a ehlid. ? If you do not stop crying like that/' canto a low, warning voioe * from among the shadows, " I oWJg?d to send you away." MIes Van Arsdale's head shot up from til? pillow, and her finger* tight ened over the hand that lay helplessly In hers. " I thought it \Vas an understood thing between us that you were never to ctan^heve again ?" Her voice might have belongad^o that other Minerva, so hard ana cold fell on the deadly quiet of the room. If it fell hard and cold on the heart of her listener, he made no other sign than to step from the background into the ring of dim light under the chan delier. " As a friend of yours, yes," he an swered, in the same even fashion, "but as I brought him home, I shall remain hero until his own physician arrives." HIb own physician indeed When had he ever allowed himself an ache or pain or arj idle day to be sick in? All her life he had worked like a con vict to keep up a style he cared noth ing about, to buy satins whose colons he could not guess, jewels whose very names ho did not know ? and now it had brought him to this 1 Sho had al ways beon fond enough of him in an underhand fashion, but deep down in her heart sho know sho had been asha ned of him, and the knowledge cut like a knife. "Is he? very ill ?" she asked, In a frightened whisper. "He is ? very ill I" " liut not that ?" she cried, starting up and facing him with horror stretched eyes. "You don't mean that he will- -will ? " She tried to utter the evil word, but it stuck crosswise in her throat, so he kindly said it for her. " Die ? I think not, I hope not ? there? there," he continued, soothing ly, as if to an unreasoning child, "there's really no need to be so upset, Minerva. I have done all that is needed until you send for the doctor." "No one olse shall come near him !" she cried eagerly, with the hope he had given her shining in her ' tearful eyes. "I will trust him to no one but you ? " "Then, if that be the case," ho in terrupted, cheerily, "I shull begin operations by putting you out of the room." ? fche followed him to the door obediently enough, then turned at the last step, and with a pitiful sob threw herself on her knees by the bod. Without a word Mr. Van Arsdale's physician lifted her by the shoulders, gently forced her outside the door, and turnod the key in the lock. When, a little over a year ago, the engagement existing between Miss Van Arsdale and I)r. Matthews, her cousin, was broken, society nodd< d its approval without in the least knowing why, except upon the general principlo that it is always foulish for a daughter of Midas to waste her money on an ordinary man who can earn his own living while thero are no eud of lega tion youths, with titles a yard long, 1 waiting in beautiful helphssness for a I rich wlfelo take them off their hands; but when, a fow months later, sho tripped off to the wilds of Pennsyl vania, and came homo engaged again ? this time to a mere nobody, from nowhere in particular? society lifted its hands, and doubtless would have washed them of her altogether only iho Elizabethan palace flashed into ex istence jurt then, with, its house warmiugs, kettle drums and high teas without number, which kept sol e y iu a slavish state of adultation until the sudden Illness of Mr. Van Arsdale. Society called it a mysterious illness, tou hod Its foreheal suggestively, and, alter a bit, wont oft to its summer's pleasurlngs and bothered no more about him. June roses, pink and yellow, choked up the throats of Miss Vau Arsdale's ffouty Japanese Vases ; June sunshine ay In flickering patches across the antique floor of hor sitting-room, against the orients! dado, over the bamboo chairs and old English tables, up and down the whity loveliness of her dress, as Dr. Matthews stepped briskly in the midst of it all to tell her that at last his' patient was strong enough to be moved. A whiff of country air won't harm you," he remarked, at lasv, with a pro fessional glanoe at her face. It wasn't much to look at, Miss Van Arsdale felt, with the pink gone out of her ehreks and all the fluffinesn brushed from her hair, so she turned it away. 44 Of course you have some preference as to scenery, so ? '' 44 What, difference does it make where we goY" she interrupted, wearily. 44 Pa is too weak to hunt up views, and I hate them 1" "I suggested Pen* Hill to your father . 44 What on earth made you do that?" she demanded, sitting bolt upright and staring at him with wrathful eyes. Dr. Matthews suddenly discovered that the ceillng'SvHfrpwuM^ck-bluo. 44 1 onl^ wanteu to pleasd you," he remarked, to that particular feature of Miss Van Arsdale's room, " and I sup posed I was going the right way about it, foocauso"-? lowering his glance from the blue of the ceiling to the blue of her eyes "because, yjour young man lives there. '.Yen* see, I don't know his name, so I give him the benefit of youth, though, for all I know, he may be quite as venerablo as invsolf." "Oh, no, I assure you," explained Miss Van Ar.<dale, amiably, "ho is not only young but extremely pretty." Dr. Matthews was neither, and ho knew it. 44 A beautiful young man is^ n well spring of delight," he answered, ?fltar 44 He is more than that? he i* hon estl" replied Miss Van Arsdale, calm ly. "You wouldn't catch him making iott to his ootfsln for her money." '?Perhaps she ha<i nonel" he sug "There is something," she went on, loftily. Ignoring the stones ho wns throwing at her Idol ? "there Is some %htag. in being loved for one's self ?Line, and he loved me from the very flrst~*it wai at Morrison's plcnie ? though Itnlghtbave been a scrub-girl j foV an he knew or cared." ?* Yon look so very like ascrub-glrl," he remarked after a slow Inventory of her rtlm muslin figure, with its bunch | of roses tucked In her belt and* hi* In hf toot of gSto-JS umr, a "? ? triumphantly? .J?. <<** *<* ?wpeot that I have ? single penny." I Another Inventory of the big milky I Fnifhinn^r 1x1 80,110 heathenish' half-wayup her ears, of the j ?f?gSl T8, and ieweled Angers ? I I v^ M^ale was barbaric in her I mIhk shining things? and then Dr. turner8 ^"Wd his shoulders and turned toward tne door. 1 J I don,]t wonder you lovo so noble a I creature, ho said, lightly, though! there was a pained look about bis eyes, ' if only Miss ^Van Ar&dale couULlive ISSV u "H6u must be quite ai green wising" ** ve?etables of his o*n "Love him !" she exclaimed, in such I fi* amazement that ho turned to I t^ roomTnian?d'haV;ngl?0ked'cr08sed he? chaTr. ?ame qUlt* clo8e to " You say that as if you hated him ? and yet you mean to be his wife." "Why not?" she asked, defiantly, ile is a good man, and after beintr Kuf , Vnco " Miss Van Arsdale hesitated lowered her ? eyes because she could not face what she saw burn- I ing in those others, and then bravely picked up hsr words again?" I was so much obliged to him for loving me for myself that I am afraid I* said Yes, and 'Thank vou,' too ! I sup ose unflinchingly ? ?? I ought to be rave enough to stay single and go in for suffrage, and how I wish I fould because do you know, it makes me sick when I think of my future 1 ?oWyM? ' d0mwtlc Tir"??-?b auw ,want " doctor In'iueJI ately, laid her cous n, making a praiseworthy effoit to appear as disin terested as the occasion seemod to re itUlrx#,?" 1 d??'t ?uPFO30 you realize , M,nerva, bi t jou are showing yourself to be a very foolish sort of girl worse than that, for you may break the heart of an honest man when ho find* out for lunself your silly reason for marrying him." I * * bftve )(r'?d to And some excuse for myself ?pathetically? "Just like pecple hunt up shelter in a storm? but LnrtV/llldra,?ty-, 1 dU1 ROt ^6 to mind being foolish until poor dear pas goodnew showed mo up in my wicked "T- 1 "o ft gooll .1 I';1, J"st look "-rdiirtlng fT? table (o.d English), opening with vicious haste an album lying upon it and thrusting it under his e>Vl"just look at that picture, and tell me if a girl of any taste could bo expected to adore the original ?" vi ",C;::?rge Miller!" exclaime* Dr. Matthews. Ars(l(aiorg<3 MiIler!" g'wpedMiss Van th l)T' MHtiheT8 banged the album on Ar?i?i ,Kll"h tuble- Mi s Van cliair Ban k in tho ?T"I'a?e8e "Look here Minerva," he went on, n a quick excite;! voice, "I am speak ing to you (is a cousin? mind that? because your fath.r's sick, and there's no one to help you out of a fix but me. If that scoundrel said he knew nothing of you, he lied. For heaven's sake don t go on like that. He wanted mo to introduce him to you three years ago, and I wouldn't. You bl liove me, don t you ? ' m " 1 l?the'? n J truth ^ the world then t she asked, lifting her head pre sontly in a wistful sort of way. You don't mean to pin your faith to a tad like that?'' he said, in fine wm.Hl1 if "T,ie WOfl(l 18 ful1 of rnen who would Jove you without caring a con tinental for your hank account." " You did not." she said, simply. So your friend said." "Amnnda Jones my friend I The mean, deceitful . ' And I don't oaro if you spend every cent I've got in tho world, John," ? " Minerva," remarked Dr. Matthews severely, "perhaps it would bo proper in you to wait till I ask for it." tlm?e?i?lt DOt lon? 10 wa,t- By the ! S ^ came "on,e 8he ha<1 mar tial/! rather 0,dl?h cousin, and was ? vl !/ery poen plaque with some very red art on it bv wav of grateful thanks 7 V 0 And when, at last, society found out the cause of Mr. Van Arsdale's illness Mini y^,8er^ed that ifc always knew Minerva Van Arsdale would ruin her lather sooner or later with her foolish extravagance; and as to Dr. Matthews ho must be a venturesome man indeed hnrgfun? bUyKt?hfti h0U8e ,n and set hor father on his business legs again after the scandalous way she served The Diamond Rattlesnake. Of all th6 ft^ako varieties of which we have yet any knowledge, the dia mond rattlesnake, as It Is called, seems to be the most deadly. It grows to * length of six feet or seven feet, and in somewhat thicker than a man's wrist. It is armed with the whitest and sharpest of fangs, nearly an Inch in length, with cisterns of liquid poison at their base. A terror to man and heast, he tarns aside from no one, al though he wilt not go out of his way to attack any unless pressed by hunger. A description of his movements by a traveler who has encountered him stales that he moves quietly along, his gleaming eves seeming to emit a greenish light, and to shine with as much brilliancy as the jewels of a finished coquette. Nothing seems to escape his observation, and on the slightest movement near him ho swings into his fighting attitude, rais ing his upper Jaw and ejecting his fang.*, which, in a state of repose. He clostjy packed in tho soft muscles of 4?ls mouth. This snake is not so active as the famous copperhoad of North Amorioa, nor so quick to strike, but ono blow is almost always fatal. His fangs aro so long that thoy penetrate deep into the muscles and ve ns of his victim, who ha* little time for more tlian a single good-bye l.eforo dosing his ey. s forever. In one instance the fangs wore found to bo seven-eighths of an inch in length, and though not thicker than a common sewing ma chino needle they were perforated with a hole through which the greenish yellow liquid eouhl be forced* In eon slderabl * quantities, and eaoh of the nans contained about half a teaspoon* i ful of the most terrible and deadly | poison. ? London TimtQ, *re*allee4Ueekt?* one of the streets of tar * and to allow him to use it while the other wm wiling papers. He gave as a reason for this remarkable request that he was hungry, and wanted to earn enough to buy a breakfast. The street Arab was quite taken with thft stranger, bought him something to eat and finally al vised him to go to I the children's home, be admitted utt der ^fictitious name, bo that If ho " didn't l|ke it he might skip out," and | to give the place a trial. The lad did so, except that he gave his teal nam% I and told the truth about himself. Hil mother was dead, and his father ha$ deserted him. After spending a few months at, the home he was bound to a farmer* But the farmer's, boys misused him, and he ran away and returned to the institution. At last he was placed with a stone cutter, meanwhile living at the home, and he learned the trade. When he was turned out a profloient workman the home authorities sent him for a couple of terms to a business collage, and then the boy quit the institution to begin life for himself. . ' At that time, in 1877, the Cincinnati Southern railroad was in process of construction, and the boy, now grown to be a man, went down the line to work as a stone-cutter. He receivqd^ |4 per day, but he had scarcely been I employed a week when he was made foreman, at a salary of $30 per week. He gave such satisfaction in this posi tion that before long he was given the place of superintendent of a section, receiving $200 per month and his ex- j penses. The young man did not have a single extravsgance, and he saved almost every cent he earned. Finally, 1 he became a subcontractor on the road, and he managed his affairs with such judgment that when finally the Southern was completed he had a credit of $23,000 to his acccunt at the bank. He then came to Cincinnati for a short time, doing business as k stone contractor. His next move was to the Wfcst. Finally he crossed the line into Texas and purchased a herd of one thousand cows, driving them to a ranch which he ha I purchased in N orth western Coloralo. He went into cattle raising on an extensive scale and with the most wonderful success. At present he annually disposes of a large number of cattle in Chicago, for $38 or or $10 per head, his expenses in raising and transporting each animal being $8.25. Ills cattle at the ranch now number sixteen hundred, he has a drove of four hundred horses, and is said to bo worth about $80,000. He fore he went West he married a lovely girl in Georgetown, Ky., and his family, consisting of two children, live fit Colorado Spring*, as the ranch is too near the Indian) for peace and comfort. This phenomenally successful pro tege of the home, who is now just twenty-eight years of age, was in the city a few days ago, and paid a visit to the old institution, the memory of which he cherishes in h's heart with the greatest affection. ? Cincinnati: Commercial Gazette. Fotigh Kport for Cftildreo. In liia account of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico, F r.mk H. Cu thing Bays in the Century: One day I saw some of the children playing at "breaking horses." One Juvenile demon was lead ing a band of four or five children in the pursuit of a big bristling boar. La^so in hand, the li .tie f<l!ow watched his chance, and, twirling the flexible cord onoe or twioe rapidly in the air, sent it like lightning toward the head ot the )>oar. The latter made a desperate dash only to run his snout and forefoot into. the jhU v which, held by the com bined efforts of all, quickly precipitated him, in a Succession of entangling somersaults, into the shallow river. In an infant another lasso was dex terously thrown over his hind feet, and his captors, heedlese of mud and water, wild with vociferous glee, be straddied him and hel 1 him down. The leader tore off one of the legs of hie cotlon trowsers, aqd with this he bandaged the eyes of the squealing ani mal, wrapping another piece tightly around his snout so as to smother his cries. Thus equipped, the hog was set at liberty! Two of the little wretchee jumped astride him, while the others prodded him behind and at the sides. Thus goaded, the poor beast ran un certainly In all directions, into oorrftla, over log.*, headlong Into deep holes, precipitating his adventurous riders; not, however, to their discomfiture, for they would Immediately scamper up, drive, push, lead or haul him out, and mount him again. The last 1 saw of them was toward evening; they were ruefully regarding the dead car cans of their novel horse. Actor and HifhwiyMii. Returning one night from the theatre, Feehter was assaulted by a thief who, attracted bt a very large stage jewel ? a diamond paste pin which he supposed to be real thought it ea4y work to rob so rfilght a youth. Fethter** hot bipod and practiced muscle soon undeceived the robber, who, upon tlndinir himself at a disad vantage, drew a dirk. " Oh, strike if you like, ' exclaimed Feehter; "I'm entirely unarmed and you can have it all yo-u own way, but as you want nothing of me but my diamond pin, it is har.lly worth while killing me when you can have it on easier termB." "How so?H asked tha robber. " Why, I'll make an exchange. Give me the came* in your shlrt bosotn, nnd I'll give you my diamond." " You're a queer sort of fellow," re plied the robber. " I rather like you. It's a bargain." Whereupon the exc'iange took place; actor and robber shook hands and *op?rated- -the former in possession of a very beautiful cameo, the latter sole proprietor of a p'nchbeck I What the robber did to himself upon discovering how completely the tables had been turned remained a nrnt?ry. Certainly Feehter never net<d beit.?r than on his occasion. , > fk4 Prise* BleAeh. Among the reeent tenants of the flock at the Central station, sayd the Philadelphia Times, have been several culprits 'Who to the glance of the de tectives were ex-convicts from prisons outside of Pennsylvania. The coun tenances of these men bore an unmis takable waxen pallor. An old detec- I tive, who was standing by when a stalwart, resolute-visaged man was arraigned for an attempted safe rob ,|?ery, said : ?? It'B easy to see that he's hot been out of prison long and that he's an outsider. They don't turn out any bleached-out specimens like him from our penitentiary. That white ness is what is called the priso#bleac.h." Pursuing this line of investigation, J * visit* r called on one of the officers of the Eastern penitentiary. In re- I sponse to the question: "Do you take any special measures for remov ing this bleach, which seems to be a mark of identification, stamping the ex-convict?" the officer answered: : " Well, not particularly. A few weeks' before a man's time expires we begin to allow him outdoor exercise. In fact, he has a yard outside of his cell in which he can walk at any time. But, as I was saying, just beforo his time is out he has his recess, as you may call it, extended. This is what is called the hardening process. lie , takes daily walks in the yard, and, if he is an old staler who has been here before, when he take? this dally jaunt i and the sun is shining, he will be seen [With his face held upward, exposed to the glare of the rays, so that in the end he will bo quite tanned before we are ready to spring the door open and give him his liberty again. Now, this is just one of the little things that shows the humanitarian side of the Eastern penitentiary, and in which it differs from some other penal institu tions. Men, when they enter here, are not subjected to being cropped, de prived of their whiskers, or arrayed in the plaid-suits of the felon, nor are they twjaten with the paddle, put into sweat-boxes or shower-baths, hung up by the thumbs, or put through other cruel punishment when they are re fractory. The dark cells went years ago, and none of the other punish ments ever had a foothold. Bread and water rations and solitary con finement without work are the sever est penalties here. When you see a blanched fellow you may set him down as coming from some New York or down-East prison, and where the men never see the sun from the time they j enter until they loave." P? sirle " Signs/' About two miles from town ho sud deuly checked liis horse, gazed intently on^ the ground, and said: "Some fellow has lost his saddle-horse hero i this morning." There was no advertisement on any of the trees offering a reward for a lost horse, -and as there was no lost horse in Bight, we were at a loss to under stand how, if a horse was lost, our friend could know so much about it. The doctor Inquired : " How do you know that a horse has been lost?" " I see his tracks." " Are there not hundreds of horses pasturing on (he prairies, and how do you know that this is not the track of one of them ?" ; " Because he is shod, and the horses herding on the prairie do not wear shoes. " How do you know that he is a saddle-horse, and lost?" " I see a rope track alongside his trail ; the horse has a saddle on, and the rope hangs from the horn of the saddle." "But why may he not be a horse that some one has ridden over this way this morning, and why do you insist that it is lost?" " Because, if a man had been on his back he would have ridden him on a straight course, but this horse has moved from side to side of the road, as he strolled along, and that is a plain sign that he grazed as he went, and that he had no rider." . " After that-it wo?lld?not surprise me," said the doctor, ??-if yeu y ere to tell us the age of the horse, and the name of the owner." ** Well, that would not be very hard to do. There are signs that have told the owner's name, and there are other signs that, if I had time to examine, would tell me his age. I know he is one of old man Fendegrast's horses. Pendegrast has a large bunch of horses downin the bottom, and an old colored man down there does all his shoeing, and shoes no other horses except his. Bo we know his shoe track just the same as we know his brand." , It is wonderful how expert these men become in reading what they call "signs " on the prairie or in the woods. ? No sign esoapes their practiced eye; all manner of tracks, trails and marks are to them data on which to base con clusions. The peculiar movement of an animal will indicate the presence of some other animal in the neighbor hood. A broken limb of a tree, a crushed weed, the debris around a camp-fire, the flight of. a buzzard and other suoh signs are to the cowboy and the frontiersman what the signboards and advertisements are to people who livo in cities. ? -Ttaxu Sl/tiny a. That Or. at fted Spot. Astronomers are speculating as to the meaning of the great red spot recently seen on the surface of the planet Jupiter. It is computed to be thirty thousand miles long by six td eight thousand miles wido. The mat ter has been discussed at the various meetings of scientists in this country and Europe, and the general impres sion seems to be that by some commo tion a portion pi the atmosphere of the planet has been temporarily dis sipated, thus showing a seetlon of its surface. Tho opinion has long pre vail. d that Jupiter is as yet a huge molten mass, whi.h is gradually cool ing off, and which, in countless ages, may develop land and water, and, in time, life, similar to that now existing on this globe. Speculations about the distant planets are very fascinating to students of agronomy, but as yet the facts in our possession are very few. 80 far as discovered, however; while lifi\ as we know it, probably exists on Venus ani Mars, there Is no trace of it in Jupiterr Saturn, and the other mighty planets still more distant from the sun. ? Dtmornt. THE BUCAtYPTCS TREE. A Peenllar Tr?e m*4 !?? Ttr!o?? Malaria Much has been wrltt n of lats years about the eucalyptus or blue gum tree of Tasmania. This interesting variety of the myrtaceoB was discovert d by Lablllardlere in 1792, and introduced into Euro|>e in 1856. In the southern part of Tasmania and in Victoria, on the mainland of Australia, it grows on the moist slopes of wooded hills. It has also been extensively intro duced Into California, the b ?uthern portion of the United States, the I south of Europe and Southern Africa, It grows rapidly to the height of 200 or 800 feet, and its leaves, which are thick, leathery and of a p ile yellow ?isli -green color, are from six to twelve inches long. The tree has various uses. The wood has a greater density than oak, and although very hard, can be easily worked when green. It is of great use in cabinet work, since it is of different shadea and is susceptible of a brilliant polish. From the incised bark exudes the astringent gum known as "Kina," and the oil of eucalyptus has the property, peculiar to aromatics, of limiting putrefactive fermentation. One remarkable feature in the devel- J opment of the tree is the singular growth of its lateral branches When it has attained the height of about I forty yards s< me of these branches extend out to a distance of ninety feet, so tliatt a tree which is about SOJ feet high will have a leafy circumfer ence of 600 feet. It was at one time suppo el that the eucalyptus would prove a rival to the cinchona bark and quinine, as an in ternal remedy in intermittent fever and other malarial disorders. Humor said that more than, forty years ago the crew of a French man-of-war, having lost a number of men with severe malarial fever, put into Botany Bay, where the remaining sick were treated with eucalyptus and rapidly cured of their disease. Subsequently, trials were made of the leaves as a remedy in marsh fevers, and reports more or less favorable were given ; but Burdel, a French physician, who ex perimented in the district of La Sologne, where periodical fevers are unusually common and severe, found that the medicine possessed little or no curative power over this class of diseases. Possibly his experiments were with a wrong variety of the plant, since there are no less than eleven varieties of it. Yet the tree is, after all, a most poworful febrifuge, although the leaves are much inferior to quinine when taken into the human system. This wide-spreading monarch of the wood annihilates malaria by purifying the soilfroin which the poison springs. In consequence of its rapid growth it absorbs large quantities of moisture, and by thus drying up the soil it is supposed to remove one of the factors on which the growth of malaria de ends. Formerly it was said that eat, moisture and vegetable decom pofitibn were necessary lor the pro duction of the malaria poison, now, in the belief that the malarial essence is a fungoid, the same conditions are be lieved to favor or oppose its growth. Experience has shown for many years that cultivation of the soli tends to diminish fevers, and the experiments which ha/e been made by theTrappist monks in the Boman Campagna seem conclusive in favor of the eucalyrtus tree as a febrifuge. The deadly air of the Campagna is proverbial. Although the traveler may pa?s safely through the Forftlne marches by day, deatji would claim him as a victim should he pass the*ntglrt^^here. v?Xhat this pestiferous region should be made tenantable for man is indeed a cause for congratulation. For eome years convict j have been employed in the agricultural opera tions which have been carried on under the direction of the Trappists at the Abbey, of the Tre Fontane in the Campagna. These works were inaugurated wiCh a view to test the opinion that malarial air could be im proved and purified by the cultivation of the soil. On the theory that malaria depended upon atmospheric causes, it would naturally be inferred that no cultivation of the earth could modify its baleful influence. But since modern science has discovered that it is of a vegetable nature, and that its home is in the soil, the conclu sion would follow that the conditions which favor or retard vegetable growth would also modify the malarial fungus. This inference has been verified by ex periment. No Kjss than on* hundred thousand euc alyptus trees have been planted by the industrious Trappists, and the ground adjoining the Abbey has beea brought under cultivation. Mark the remit: Form erly the monks were obliged to re main in the city during the unhealthy season, but now the Abbejr is alive with its somber occupants throughout the year. Instead of one-fourth of their number dying yearly, as was for merly the case, the fevers from which the monks now sometimes suffer are mild and seldom fatal. Only three of fhe two hundred and eighty convicts employed died from malarial disease. In view of the satisfactory results, the Italian government has given a large grant of land in perpetuity to tho Tiappjsts, and the wilderness will doubtless blossom under the effects of well-directed cultivation. Unfortunately the eucalyptus will not bear tnore than Ave degrees of frost. The more northern countries must depend upon drainage for their principal relief.? iVsto York If our. How Far?er* Are Swindled. Philip Keller, a farmer redding in the vicinity of Georgetown, 111., signe.l his name to * certificate, at the request of a gentlemanly stranger, stating that the g. 8. had the beet "roof paint " he ever saw. The certificate changed into a note for |250, to tho dismay of Mr. Keller. Young Daniel Boone, a great-grand son of the explojrer of old Kentucky, delivers parcels for one of the great Broadway firms of New York on a ?alary of one dollar and a half a week. A.t the end of the Revolutionary war there were only fotty-three news papers published In this country. Training Circus Horses. A Ne* York Journal reporter in j quire 1 of Frank Melville, the circus] performer on b;trel>*cke<l hi rses : "How are the horses trained?" " The ttist th:ng circus men do when ' tluv get new horses fur training," ! Melville replied, "is to simply keep i them in the sta' les with others for a certain time unt.f they have got use^i to their new company. It's singular i how jea!ous horsed are of newcomers. , You may laugh, but horses have their way of what I might call 'guying' 1 green stock as well as human perform ers. The next operation is to blind fold them, when they aro led into the ring and trained to t'te circular mo tion. Tbis'requi; ei much time and patience. JSgme horses takelwo weeks, i {hers twice "as many months. The r a'ural tendency of a horse is to go straight, and this constant round is strange and unnatural to him. He is first walked around, then trotted, then galloped, each stage beLng thoroughly mastered I eforc the next is attempted. Nowadays \ve? use a system of checks and lines which ron ders the processes much easier. After tho horse had l:een thoroughly broken into each motion, th<n tho blindfold is removed and tho pi r former commences to try trices with him. The horse being natu^ty jvn observant animal is placed by 'he side of another, whi<y is trained, to give him confidence and so the two work together, the rider flr.-t trying one then the other by turns in order to familiarize the new arrival. It is a great mistako to suppose that harsh ness Is resorted to as a means of breaking in circus horses. Horses so trained are seldom to be depended upon, and the rider never knows when he may bo left." " Is turning a somersault rtpon a horse more dtHlcult than in any other way?" " Much more difficult because of the peculiar motion. In fact the per former has to reverse completely the ordinary movement he wojiljl make if he were merely desefctading to/ tho ground. Instead of * alighting "on a level plain he has to alight on an In clined one. Pads are never used now by performers of more than ordinary merit. I have a horse that will run In a forty-eight foot ring In less than 2:40. When you consider that it is necissary in one act to turn four som ersaults in one revolution around the ring, you can form some idea of tho difficulty of tho feat. A good intel ligent animal will, technically speak ing, 'feel' his rider and accommodate his motions as much as possible to his own." "Aro horses sensible of the applause of tho audience?" "Almost as much as wo are. It is wonderful to contrast what a horse will do under the stimulus of applause with what he will not do when the audience is cold and phlegmatic. They areapt, however, just the same as we are, te> 'lose their heads,' so to speak, when the approval is too stimulating. That Is one of the reasons for tho sev eral checks and reins that you see circus horses provided with. These are not by any means intended for ornament, as some people suppose, but are strictly necessary." "What is the value of a well-trained circus horse?" " I have recently bought one for a thousand dollars. As a rule, riders own their own horses exclusively." " Do you groom your own animals?" "No. I have my own man who at tends to that, whom I have to pay. In fact, a thoroughly trained groom is .almost as necessary as a thoroughly trahic^ horse, which needs as much care as a .baby. Prior to every act a horse's back is rubbed with rosin to prevent the performer's feet from slipping. This has to be care fully washed out after each perform ance, otherwise it would make the ani mal's back sore in a very short timo. Then the feet require well looking after. A groom must also bo some thing of a veterinary surgeon. He must also prevent the animal taking cold. Some of my blankets alone cost me |50 apieco." The Farmer In India. The Indian agriculturist (ryot) can in no sense be compared to tho American farmer, but rather to the late serf of Russia. He is a tenant on hard conditions, and Is, by custom and bigotry, almost a fixture on the par ticular spot of land whero ho was boin; his farming is done on a very small scale and according to old methods, to which he clings with religious venera tion; his wants are very few, and ho enduree poverty and even hunger with ?>atienoe; he cultivates his patch of five o fifteen acres on shares for the landed proprietor (zemindar) who holds under rental to the government, end the better half of his gross income generally goes to the zemindar, the prieet (Brahmin), and the usu.er, in the form of rent, presents, offerings and intereet, and if ho can net ten cents a day by his hard and hopeless labor that will sufllco for the most pressing wants of the household. His home is a mud or bamboo hut; his property a pair of small bullocks, a few cows, calves and goats, a woodon cart and a few brass and r&rthen pots ? in all, worth about $50; and his implements and tools are of the rudest kind, such as his ancestors used a thousand years ago; and yet he Is making soino progress under Hrltish rule, and finds his wants increasing and at the anme time hett< r outlets for his produce and more rocompenso for his lal>or, and, on the whole, is so in dependent on ten cents a day that he will eat or store his whoat rather than sell it below a certain price. Of course, he does not employ machinery In farming, but plows his land with a crooked piece of iron-pointed wood, harrows it with an implement resemb ling a common ladder laid flat on the ((round and dragged by the little hill ocks crossways over the field; he sows by hand, reaps with a rude sickle, car ries the sheaves home on his bark or in the bullock cart, thresher them with a wooden olub, or lets the cattle tramp out the grain, and cleans it by hand winnowing. ? Crmtut-General Attrition. Architects sav that a few wlnterH will make the Washington mohoment "flag pole crooked," BETTER twtugs. Better to smell the .tolet cool, than^is^M glowing wino; ?-.*? Better to hatk a hidden brook , than watcha diamond shine. Better the love of a geutlo hesrt, than beauty's favors proud: Better the rose's living seed, than roses in a crowd. Better to love in loneliness. than to bask in love all d:iy: Better the fountain in the heart, than the fountain by the way. Better bo fed by mother's hand, than ent alone at will; Better to trust in good than say. " My goods my storehouse fill." Better to be a littlo wise, than in knowlcJga to abound; Better to teach a child, than toil tu *M1 per fection's round. Better to sit at a master's feet, than thrill n listening state; Better to sus|>oct that thou art proud* than be suro that thou art great. Better to walk the real unseen, than watch the hour's event; Better tho " Well done !" at i1. . last, than the air with shouting rent. Better to havo a quiet grief, than a hurrying delight; Better the twilight of the dawn, than tho noonday burning bright. Better a dealh when work is done, than earth's most favored birth; ? Better a child in God's grtnt house, than the king of all the earth. ? (.Ifonjr Vocl^nohl. HUMOROUS. Men of mite ? Dwarfs. A fast gait ? One that is bolted. A bonnet covered with birds due* not sing, but the fellow who has to pay for it whistles when t ho bill comes In. A Washington paper says the White House is haunted. There are hundreds of men haunted by a desire to sleep there. ? Huston Transcript. "Please check my trunk," as the passenger said to the expressman when ho saw his baggage about to fall off the truck. ? Salem Sunbeam. "Young man, you shouldn't waist your time in that manner," exclaimed Angelina's mamma as she spied John's arm encircling the young lady's form. ? Somercille Journal. " The largest button house in New York has suspended." Now, if tho largest suspender house in New York had buttoned, it. would not have been so bad. ? Norristoirn Herald. It is not strange that many great politicians have been enthusiastic: iishermen. Not so inueh that they like to hook things as that they take pleasure in pulling strings. ? .Lowell Citizen. T1IK DUDE. Jpon tho corner stands tho Undo, ?lis bangs upon his forehead gluoil. ?Chaff. He grins and ogles nil tho girls, As in his hands his cane ho twirls. ? Dntmmrr. And an hie tailor's form ho spies, Ho quickly 'round tho corner hios. "You say your wifo gets mad and raises a ryw?" "I should say six* did. She makes enough luas to run a freight train forty miles an hour." " But if you know that she was in tho liablt of getting mad, why did you marry her }'* " Because, if 1 had held back she would have got madder than ever.' ? ? Wftinys. She had an intellectual look, and as she came up tho street talking with her companion, the strolling passerby said to himself: " She is discussing Plato, or quoting Herbert Spencer." And as she came nearer her fa< o brightened a dew animation, and she was heard to say: "Y?s,thoie\s just a yard and three-quarters in the train." All tho passengers in tho street car on Boston avenue were very much annoyed by a crying child, and one old gentleman appeared to bo particu larly exasperated. " I do wonder what little wootsy-tootsy is crying about," said tho mother, dancing the infant up and down. "I know what he is crying about. lie has been cry ing about six blocks; ever since you got into tho w\T."~S1f tings. Hid Ills Fal<e Teeth. When she will she will, and there's an end on t. Writ<s tho Washington correspondent of the Boston Traveller : I heard a good story the other day about a venerable ex-member of ('on ({ress from Pennsylvania, who had >eon married twice, and has for his second wife a lively young lady who in extremely fond of social gayeties. Not long ago she made an engagement to accompany a young naval officer to ono of the fashionable balls, and tcld her husband she was going, but neglected to say that she had so urol an escort. He appeared to bo pleased, and said that ho would accompany her. This was more than she had bargain* d for, and she resorted to various expo Ib-nts to got him to stay at home. The morn reasons she gave, tho more lie was do termined to go. Things wero getting desperate, when a bright idea struck hor. She took tho old gentleman's false teeth and hid then., and when tho evening came ho was still without, those nccossary adjuncts to mastica tion. He wondered and raveJ, and raved and wondered, but it was no use, he couldn't find them, ami finally was obliged to remain at home, while his wife tripped gayly to her carriage and spent a most delightful evening. llnrd Words. *' Did |you hear about the Kprig glnsOH?" " No, what is it?" " You know how loving they were? W9II, th< y haven't boon married a month and hard words have already parsed betwoen them." "Is that so I What was It all about? How did It happen?" "Why, she happened to cotno across"" a sentence she didn't un derstand, and ho passed her the dic tionary, which Is full of hard words, you know." ? Ronton Tranneripk Children under ten years of age in Russia are forbidden to Work In fnc- . torlea.