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I5e particularly car-:i;I In srlTlug Bwh m>4 date* to Ua*e the letter* plain and dl? ~tU (iH| Job PiaNtnipcJ0^gTOf la mttm prepared thfta mj othar4 towMMt* In tlx rotrt tttrtottwi tloo of Job Printing, such l| Pi Bill n?^K Lottos aqd Not? IT? Poster*, Dodder*, Circular*, Hut nUta,*?QM|lK, YUCtUtwd ifclriw CUKU, fflMlMM| Work donoIn BrooMt 8*1 > Btaaaatt Tb? public iuuttreiu?ml?r that tha b?*t la aJway* tho cbeapeit.. Wo do work at Charleatott Prloaa, M< 1 *ntlro satisfaction to our patrona. * **** | Wo keep constantly on hand the | P?per? mud Cards In town. \ /0 WHEN THE 8HIP COMES IN. We paced a level reach of sands of sold, Two careless hearts, with stories yet untold* A'-d w -.tilu.i iLi cloais that gatherod, fold on fold. - T?;o ranset rudiauo > in; And tiny sails thotghone against the bine, Like spirits, gi|(^f\ud all through and through, ^ Leaving a shining track for mortal view, Whero soft their feet had been. I watched with youthful ?>03 without a oare, With youth's fresh heart, bo brave to do and dare, Aud drinking in the soft transparent, air That kissed the Bait sea foain, I said, with laughing voice, in very jest, "Oh 1 see the ships sail s'owly to tho west; But life shall bo so beautiful tnd blest When mine comos saving home.'Vj^ And onoo ngain we walked, at set of sun, W.th clapping hand* nnd married hearts as one, With all fair gifts to win j I smile! iu loving eyes that smilud on me And aaid, "Dear lore! how full our live3 will be When f?om the the lands across the shining sea Our ships come sailing in." I stand, alone, upon <ha dreary strand, With barren hoart, nnd o.npty nerveless hand; The heavy o!oud? wrap fea and sky aud land; ? An 1 on my bare, boweI head Tho bitter, bitter raius uuccasing pour, While far, far down, bjyoud ths sto m-tossed shore __ ^ " My shiprlie low, (o sail tho sea no more, For love and hops are dead. ?J3os(o/i Transcript. A BROTHER INDEED. .When Mrs. Benson wasl?ft it widow, in 1842, she had throe clill Iron?Frank, aged twenty; Mary, eleven, and Willie, the baby, six months oil. Her lius-, band had been a sea captain, and he ; had saved up nuney enough to leave j his wife oomp iratlvely comfortable. Frank at this time was a bright-eyed, elear-faoed young fellovr, full of health and hope; and a year after his father's death he male up his mJn.l to seok his fortuno in the then El Dorado for venture ome spirits, California. Bidding liis mother and si ter good bye, he joined a party to sail on board of the gocd ship Mary Lee, Captain t Henry Jackson, and in due time they arrived in San Francitsco after a fair postage through tho straits. Landing at the beach, Frank, after a day pr two * spent in seeing the town, during which, time he spent nearly all tho .money he had with him?for, with meals at a dollar and a half and bo Is s two dollars for the night, money goes rapidly?mado hU M ay on the dock of a sloop to Sacramento. For passage alono he paid fifty dollars, finding his own gmb and sleeping on tho deck, rolled up In his blankets. In ?an Francisco ho had bought aplck.th-jvel and pan, and with theso on his back ho ? made his way on foot to the American rivor, at that time the most populous diggings on tho coast. k,y~' jJSere, for labor was always In demand, he got work on a claim, camp* Ing out at night on tho hlllsldo under H the shelter of a brush-covered run or V dugout, and being strong and actlvo as well as willing to learn, he speedily rose in value until, ho was le ng paid ap. ounoe or sixteen dollars a day for his services. Thiswa* in tho summer o?xT8fc4. ' That fall Frau/k^ joined a party )of prospectors who headed no Into to>e mountains, and was with them when they took up a claim which yloldod as the result of two months' work thirteen thousand dollars apiece to five men. v With a part of this sowed Into a buck ' skin belt and drafts on Wells-Fargo's office in San Francisco for the rest, Frank left the diggings to go home. He had, he thought, H made his pile," and he would now go baok. To anyone who has for long and woary months been confine! to the ex cessively laborious work of gold min ing, the reaction when a city is reached Is very strong. The ship was to sail, Frank found, In four days, and he having nothing to do and attracted by the lights and music, strolled one^night into the Belln Union, the great gMxib ? ling house, run in those days jSfft; opposlto the pla/a by Steve WhlpTrto. Ito 0 watched the games for a while, listened to the muslo, drank some whisky and smoked. At laist he went s B? to one of the tables and began to ? |W ?p^ss the time. Of course, he hau the evi. one's luek at first?a man always has somehow?and he won enormously. Carrying out over five thousand doi'ars with him, he went home, his brain In a whirl. This was better than gold mining, he reasoned; three days left-why not take afteen thousand dollar* more wltl* him? rFoor fellows, thjs Is the way they Always talk. Tlmt socond night he was at tho table early, and still he won, going homo with a pile more. Of . course his luck was noilood, and you ' may be sure a man never needs friends ?nave tho mark!?to help him at this wprk. All that dav Frank lived In a fool's paradise, and at night he was onoe more at the table. But his luok had turned, and he lost all night. His win nings had' been over eight thousand dollars, and the third night they were rcdue d to ono thousand. Tho next morning the captain of the s';lp oalled upon him to ask him to come ?n board, and he promised to do so. On his way there, he met one of his new friends, who proposed a drink. One led to another and another, until Frank forgot all at out the ship, went to the Bella Union, and came away In tho morning light a ruined man. Whipple gave him enough money to get back to (ho mountains and to buy i an outfit. Back he went to work, nnd dnrlng the years that followed, a -J sncoes'ful miner. But the gambling fever and the llrst for drink had got hold of him, (raduallyho sank lower and lowor jese two attendant fiends swsl J up all he could mnko. , _ the gambling ruined his soul, so i drink ruined his body, and in 1864, nk Benson, or Fokor Frank, as he called from his loxg of that, game, that saddest i f sll iitaliM min i> bummer. iftcd from one camp to another V: -v*\ '.-j in an aimless kind of way, making money now and then by an odd job of some kind, but subsisting for the most part upon charity. The man ha<l an almost profound knowledge of mining, and was thought to be the best judge of a claim that could be found. It was this that brought him in an odd twenty-five or flftv dollars occasionally. Attracted by his manner and his knowledge, many men had tried to raise him up and rescue him from the slavery?aye! worse than slavery?he had got into, but it was no use. Either habit was tco strong for him, or his friends got tired ] do not know which. Certain it is that the attempt was always abandoned, and Poker Frank fell back into the slough in .which he was beforo. J lie had, however, retained one good ' quality in the midst of his degradation ?he wa3 in corruptibly honest. If he told you a tiling?when sober?that thing was true to the uttermost. In 1864 there arrived inMillerstown, a mining-camp in Mono county, a young fellow by the name of Winslow ?Will Winslow. Educated for a mining engineer, he had made his way to the West to add the practical to the theoretical teaching he already lied, and he took a place at once in one of the great mines there, working as a miner down below. Ho rose rapidly, for he worked hard, and Lefore a year had passed, had be come underground boss, or captain of the mine. Between himself and Poker Frank there had arisen the strongest friend ship conceivable. The young man never drank nor gambled, nor would he watch the elder when he was doing either. But there was in his cabin always a meal and a bed for the poor old bum mer, and two or three times he had nursed hiiff through attacks of delirum tremens after bfg sprees. Will was not wont to lecture, but he did sometimes beg the old man to let up on the miserable stuff and try to bo decent. Upon such occasions Poker would cry maudlin tears, for his nerve was all gone now, and promise anything, only to break that promise the first oppor tunity hi got. Still, with unwearied patience and good humor, Will stuck to him, never losing heart, and never really believing but what he would save Poker In the end. It must not be supposed that the obligation was all on ono side. Poker taught the younger man more about mines and mining than ho had ever drta ncd of before, and it was largely owing to his lessons that Will ro3c as rapidly as he did. It happened ono Sunday afternoon, when the two m n were sitting in front of Will's cab'n after dinner, a huge pot of tea botween them, that Will told his companion lie had mado up his mind to leave Miller.stuwn for awhile and go prospect ng. "My soheme," he said, "is this. I've got money enough to got a good outfit and plenty of grub. If you liko to go in pards with me, I'll givo you one third of all wo find, provided you'll lot mo keop tho cash and manage the money matters myself. I ain't going to tako any whisky along, and I ain't going to givo yi.u any money to play with. If you want to go in on this lay, Frank, say so." " I'd bo a fool t' refuse," said Frank. And so the arrangemont was com pleted. The ncwK that Hill Winslow and Poker Frank had " gone pards pros pectin'" Hew around the camp like wildfire, and whilo many of the men prophesied all mannor of evil to the pair so strangely different, thoro wero not a few who thought tho arrange mont a thoroughly good one. "Ye see," said Kansas, while speak ing about it, "tiiar's no ono ez knows more'n Poker do about rock, an' I shouldn't wonder of that ar young fel ler might keep him straight. Ef ho do, herjl be'a wonder, tho*" Perhaps the most amazing thing about the whole alair was tho fact that Poker refused several drinks dur ing the time that preparations for the trip were being made. . r V Me an' that ar young un air pards," he answered, with somo pride, ? an* dog gone me ef I go back on it." The news of the destruction of San Francisco oould s carcely have excited more wonder in the minds of the men. Everything being ready, the two men paoked their ?? plunder" upon a burro's back and started out. They wandered over the mountains, taking a oourse which led them pretty far to the north. The regular exercise, abundanoe of food, and that feeling of nafoty which only an old drunkard can havo when he oanpot relapso, made a new ton an out of Poker Frank. * %Jr His eye became brighter, his skin once more looked healthy, and his nerve came back to him. With health came a better state of mind ; and when Will, seeing that he was in a fit state to listen, began to talk to him, Frank thought out tho subject of his own degradation more seriously, perhaps, than aver before. Ha made up his mind to drop drink , and cards, and tho resolve was one which this time seemed to have every chance of being permanent. The two were wonderfully successful in their hunt. They found a pocket from which they took ovef four thou hand dollars in gold dust and nuggets in less than a week. With something of the old gam bling spirit, Frank wanted to oonfine their soaroh to pockets alono; but Will, knowing (hat tho leflgen were far moro certain in tho long run, refused, and Pokar submitted almost without a sigh. I Going back to Mlllerstown with their gold they bought^ three mules, and loading one with provisions Started out again. T While they were tla?re, Frank came to his pard; one day, afcd said: ' " Bill, give me some Uust." WIU looked at him Mr a second, and then handed the bag him. Poker j helped himself and leftahe room, no walked deliberately dowa to the saloon; and, going in, pa d to tlift crowd; "Boys, what are yon goln'to taka? t m my shout!" .. - fa I The boys looked at each other, and $S some of them smiled. Banging up to the bar they ordered their drinks, and when all were ready, the barkeeper said: " What's yours, Poker ?" 44 Lemonade!" said Frank. And, to the amazement of all, he not only ordered the drink, but swallowed It. As Kansas remarked afterward," Ef thar'd bin a yearthquake, I couldn't ha' bin more 'stonished." "When Frank returned to the room, Will looked at him anxiously, but said nothing. That night, however, when he hoard the story, It seemed to him as though a great weight had been lifted off his mind. When they started out once more Poker's exploit had raised him in the estimation of Will as well as of him self,. and he became far more the lead ing spirit than before. It was Poker who traced the float and found the ledge now so well known a* the great Esmeralija mine. One night, while they were in camp talking over the camp-tire, Will read a letter he had got from his mother, and after reading it, said : ?"Don't she write well for an old lady, Frank ?" Poker glanced at the letter; and then, turning half away, and shading his face with his hand, said : " What's her name, lad?" "Mrs. Benson." .? "I thought you called yourself Winslow," he said, in a husky voice. " So I do. Old Mr. Winslow left me money for coll ego if I would take his name. But my real namo is Benson." " What did your father do?" asked Poker, his face still hidden. " He was a sea captain." "What became or Mary?" " Mary married. IIow did you know I had a sister Mary?" " Did you ever hiiYe a brother ?" " Yes, my brother Fra?Why, great heavens 1 are you?" "lam, or was, Frank Benson, and you must bo my baby brother Will. How is mother?" "Well. She only lives t) see you. Why, Frank, shake hands. Old man I ?I am so glad! This is glorious. Shako hands again. Mother will go crazy. Who didn't you write?" And talking and laughing in a breath Will acted as though he'd lost his head. Frank Benson sat there in deep thought, and although lie returned the squeeze of the hand his brother gave him with almost convulsive energy, he said nothing. At last he looked up and said: " Do you s'poso mother 'u'd bo glad to see me?" "Old man," said Will, looking at htm straight in tli3 eyo?, "you have pulled out. Mother will never know what you have been, for I shall not tell hor. All sho will care about will be to see you, and now you avo flt to peo anyone. Clod bless you mv brother I God has blessed me in finding youl" Frank bowed his head down, and wept tears for which ho had no shame over his brother's hand. ***** * The great find of the Esmeralda sent Frank Benson and Will Winslow homo moderately well olT. Far bo it from me to attempt to describe that home coming, or the way in which Mrs. Benson greoted her long-lwst boy. Will went We t again, but Frank bought a farm and lived respcetwl and beloved by all who knew him. Nothing was more marked than the trouble he would tako with men who had fallen, and his unwearied patience saved many a one who, but lor him, would have been ruined, body and soul.?Alfred lialcJi, in Saturday Nif/h\ Cattle in a Blizzard. Frank Wilkeson says, in a lottor to tho Now York Sun, that the history of cattle breeding on tho plains and in tho mountain valleys is ono of cruelty to dumb animals. Thousands and thousands of cattle, he saya, are an nually frozen and starvod to death on these wind swept plains, because their owners believe and assort that It Is oheaper to have them die than to pro vido food and sheltor for them. 1 liavb seen blizzards on the plains that swept through a man who was olad In heavy woolens nnd i'ur over garments as though ho was dressed In tarlatan. I have known parties of buffalo hunters, mon used to hardship, and whose stomachs were filled with buffalo marrdw, and who were wrapped in blankets and robes, to freeze to death In tholr wagons wltllo endeavoring to escapo from the un endurable Icy blasts of an arctlo-liko blizzard. Cattle, weak and Ill-fed on frostbitten grass, disappear before these storms. They drift with the wind* As they pass by the air is Ailed with the sound of their mournful moaning. They wander staggeringly along over* tho trackless plains, vainly endeavoring to find water with whioh to quench the intense thirst produced by exceedingly oold weather. The wator holeo aro frozen. The weaker eattle dropout of the herd. They He down to die. The snow drifts around them. They aro froezing to death and are still consumed by raging fever. The wolves attack them as they He on the frozen ground, unable to rise, unable to protoct themselves. The ory of desnnir uttered by the wretched animals when they realize that the horrlblo death of being oaten alive by carnivorous animals is their doom, is an unearthly one. As the po oullar bellow of an animal when it finds the scent of tho blood of one of ita fellows on the ground excites the herd with the information, "Here one of us has beon slain," nnd renders them unmanageable, so dors tho death cry of a feeble cow frighten the drift ing herd. They disappear down tho Wind. Tho wolves <doso In on tho doomed aqlmal. She struggles depor ately to ar'sp. In vain. Tho hungry wolves attack hor. They tear her open. They drag her entrails out and detour them before her oyos. She dies, and the wolves pick her bones, and then gallop after the herd. Tho dredging of South Carolina rivers for phosphates is anew industry of considerable Importance to the tet rltory surrounding Charleston, Some of the crude ro>k Is shipped to Europe, but most of it is ground at home be* | fore it goes to market. At the present time the demand is groat and all the W0HPP8 8KBTCBB8. Becfnnlnc t? I1ed?e. "Two cents?" sneered a Woodward avenue man to a tramp who had asked for that sum?" why, you are getting very modest in your demands, aten't you ?" "Look a-here," said the old fellow, a* he backtd up to a hitching p^at, " wheat is only half a orop, corn is coming out behind, potatoes will be skoarco, and every prudent man In this country is preparing for a tight squeeze next fall. I'm rightthar. I commence] hedging this morning. ? If *6 get another financial panic " whooping over this country I'm rot going to have it blamed on me again?not if I know It!" ? Detroit Free Press. A Drummer Taken In. "Will I have timo to step off and get somo refreshments ?' . asked a drummer on a Texas railroad, of tho conductor, as the train st>pped at a station. " You will havo plenty of time." Tho drummtr stepped off, and the train went on without him. The next time the drummer saw that conductor ho took him to task very severely for his conduct, complaining that he had to lay over at that station soven hours. ** Well," replied the conductor, "you asked me if you would have time to get some refreshments, and if you couldn't got all you wanted in seven hours, it seems to mo you are a hog." Verdict for tho conduoior, and no appeal.?Siftings. DooOirker'a Hide, "Yes," said Mr. Doofiicker, as ho drew his chair out on the porch to (ho fa#ly circle, r 1 had some wild expe riences vriion/l was a locomotive ongi ner. I romember one night I was or dered to^fc^o a floc^rfrom Ohieagrftjb Mendota in tho quit keirt'bossjible time. To make my onginolightv t uncoupled the tender and left it on a side trnok. When the doctor took a seat on the fireman's box I threw the lever down in the corner and gave her steam. Away wo jumped like a stared kan garoo. The doctor's, eyes btilged out liko a pair of pQrceluin do >r kuobs as wo hustled over tho prairie toward liivorside. "4What't that?a post?' asked the doctor, as wo passed something in a jiffy. " It was a coal shed 120 feet long. So you see how fust wo wore going. 41 ? What's that funny looking fringe on our leftV asked the doctor. "' Them's the telogr.iph poles,' answered tho fireman, as iie stopped half a minute from shoveling coal, just as wo zipped through the shop yards =at Aurora. "Well, wo inado Mendot'.v without a stop in lorty-ono minutes and a half, just two nnlos to the minute, and I boiled tho cofieo in my dinner puil on tho driving boxes." "What a 1 >ng-armed firomnn you mnst havo had, pa," put in young Theophilus Doofiicker, ?us ho looked up from tho copy of VKsop's fables that lay on his It p. "How's ywt?" asked Doofiicker. "Why, t> shovel coal in Aurora from a tender that f-tood on a side track in Chicago." X * Doofiicker went in tho house Chicago Herald. Topnoody. "My love," said Mr. Topnoody to his wife, Tuesday evening, ?? would you like to attend the commencement at Musiohall to-night V" "Does it cost anything to go?" " No, my I.jyo." * " I thought so." " Why, my dear?" "Because you would not iiavo In vited me to go if it did.-' " Oh, yes, I would my dear, for I want you to go. ~IfKfefOHRffiffithing so youthful and so joyous in such gatherings ; such a profusion of prom ise ; such a happy association of the young and tho old, bringinpfememorles bo dear tp ye and waging etfioes back of tho tlmrs V l^n wf w<rattrst step ping over the threshold &r future, filled with golden dreams." " Tlmt sounds right well, Topnoody, but I don't Want to go. I am preju diced against commencements of all kinds. I took in one once that I havo never recovered from." "Why, my dear, jou. surprise me I never heard of it before. What, was it?" _ "Well, Topnoody,ft -was the com mencement of your attentions to me when I was a girl. -I looked over one threshold too many, that time, and got ?tuck on your ^lgfr-dt am business; I heard tho echo?r Wafted back, and tumbled to the memories, so dear, ai it were, but, Topndody, I ain't that way any mote, and the only commenoe mont I want to hear of now is your commencement of conduct toward the wife of your bosom whioh will give me some encouragement in the teach ings I have wasted on you. Kvery time I think of it I-~"'T- ' - 7 But Topnoody departed hastily, and revived dear memories by hlmhelt? Mtrohant-TravtU r. The Rod of Pr?Hl(?. V Is this the place?" A prepossessing young lady stood In the doorway of the editorial rooms and was gazing around the apurtment in a friendly but somewhat mysterious man ner., . ?< "It dopends on what you want," re plied tho home reporter. "If you are on a wild and fruitless search for a Sieoe of plum-colored satin to match a ress, or a new klftd of oarpot-sweeper that will never by any p isslbllity kenp in working order three consecutive days, you are jqyomly calling away on the wrong tMck, but if yon would like an editor?' ? i - "That's it," said the young lady. '? I want tcj fee an editor; I guess it is the litorary editor. I saw such A swoet verse in the T+lbitne the other day. It weht like this': ? i ^v. ? 'Tho bloom on the hssther Aiding, dar Tho moor? and* are crimson God grAntlremay I It* together darling. Together till we grow old.* " "Well," paid the horse reporter, "oue4>loow'<>a?tharbeather editor is just out now, but maybe some of th* rest of us could attend to your case. What Is it you want?" * "1 am going to graduate nefct month,sir," said the young lady, "and tf-?i I've got to read an essay. Isn't it I funny f" " It will be very," reiponded the per sonal friend of St. Ju'ien... "Andrthoughf/' cont'nuo theyoun lady, "that perhaps tho literary editor would give me some advieo about the subject of ray essay and the genera! manner in which it should bo treated. But possibly you could do it just aa well,' and the coming graduate smiled a swoet encouraging smile. " I guess likely I could," was thy ro ply. " You've got 'yopr whito tlrt ss made, I suppose?" J* < ?..* ?- v ts '? " Yes, sir. ' . "Well, that's a good deal. What! were you thinking or writing about V" "I don't exactly know, sir. That I was what puzzled me." "The Bud of Promise rackot Is a pretty good one/' said the horse re porter. ' * " Tho what 1" ** The Bud of Promise racket It's a daisy scheme for girl graduate*." "Could you tell me," asked the young lady in a -hesitating manner, " about thig^jf J ' V ??**;?< S " Racket ?" suggested the^horeo ro porter. > i " About this racket/' " Oh, certnlnly. You want to start the essay with a few remarks about bladoj of grass, kissr rT^rrsr heaven and Wriritfed of the sun, peep fort. and then in &l the l theirflvid colors, frb-_,.^ tho earth that was such a whi wrapped in m fif " whiteness and fast, arms of ho Thert isaytbJ leaps tjhroi that begin L grateful sKKde rail upon therb. fruit trees^juad^ the buds ri poa;atf wealth of floraj ldv< pare the* nwiidcn ' jtL. from the precIncts Qf tho School, an.I ga'.ing with fistful, eagor cyos out into the world with the little bud upon tho tree, and say that she; too, by the aid of the sunlight which comos from education, will soon lijjnyelop into a woman, that prlcclOaj gift", of God to 11.an, and ever ca*t about her the holy light of love. That ought to fetch 'em." "It sounds nice, doesn't it?" said tho young lady. "You bet it does, sis. Of course, you and I know that when a girl grad uates sho is as useless as a fan in a cyclone, but it won't do to say so. You just give it to 'em tho way I told you and you'll be a'.l right." "Thank you very much, sir," said the young tyidy, starting for the door. '''Don't forget to tie your essay With a bluo ribbon,", said tho horse re porter. "No, sir, I won't." " And tell your papa to buy a bou quet to flro at you. "Yes, sir. Good-bye." " Bon soir. C'onio around when you fall in love and I will put you up to a great schemo for making Charley de clare his intentions several months earlier than would'otherwise bo the case."?Chicago Tribune. Cremation In tlie Far l ast. Among the Hindoos, as every one knows, the process of cremation is common, and at Bonares its practico may be observed at any hour, alike beneath tho burning rays,6t tfte noon day sun and by thp.^light -pf tho pale moon. Mariy a t>oor sitfTOrer strains his list efforts to rtach the shore of the Ganges, there to dio "qiji hallowed ground. The oxpertfbs of wootl f<fr the funeral pyro being too great to secure the burning of the whole body, it is partly charred and then sent to float down the holy stream in^d the eternity of the sea- The wealthier Hindoos aro more formal in the.disposal of their dead. After bathing the body in tho river it is swathed in a shroud of white, scarlet or saffron coloroJ ma terial ; Eometimes oven covered with cloth of gold or silver, soqie vermillion paint, symbolizing the blood of sprlnk-* ling, is then thrown over it, and the body is laid upon tho pyre. After adding sweet grass, precious oil and more wood, the chief.^onrnpr bears a lighted torch three &Y nlntf tftnos round the body, t juchos the dead lips with tho holy flame and lights the pyre. Then it is kindlel in sovetai other places, and in a very short time the body is consumed by tho flame, the ashes are gathered up, and tho flanges bears them away. In Japan cremation is not. so publicly performed. A plain looking house in tho corner of the country cemetory, with mud walls and earthen floor, inside of whioh are seven or eight low stone inolosures, serves as a crematory. The body, In a sitting attitude, is plaqcd on a heap of dry fagots in ono of the inclofttires, and when after six or eight hou?t tho flro is burned out, nothing Is left but a few white ashes, those are put into an earthenware urn and buried with or without religious rites. The burning of bodies is not compulsory in .Japan, but Buddhists of the Monto sect aro nearly without exception cremated. The town crematories differ only from those in the country by their tall chimneys, by whioh unpleasant odors are kept from .becoming .troublesomo to the neighborhood. / flferg is also a small room kept separate for tho wealthier peopld In Which they have their dead burned apart. For tho uso of this private anartment they pay twenty siiilllitgs, While tho?te'who pre fer to be burned in company pay about the fifth part Of this Aurn. ;Tho fuel only costs abaut one shilling. Vrom. 8 *. m. to 0 4. m. the fllrpi burn on the granite supports which are laid on the earthen floor, and from each of. thdse hearths the ashes are authored Mm* put separately into an txtb. Thbto in ho smell to annoy-any one* tad no nuls aiito Tetrlble M crernation xhay tfi pear to some, f he process in far Imk hideous in its details thaft fhftt Whfoh has its slow eewse In Hw iiwrt, narrow bed into ?wilek, *hr flower covered colli* Jhf sight, fftrtrrtghily R*pUw. ? j There Is enly one thing that remain! out doors more permanently than the tramp, and that's th6 w oath sr.? Yonkere OautU. SCALP-TAKING. Indlna Tradition Parportlac to (Hr? the True Or 1(1 a tfTklt Ciutoia. Last week a representative of the IrulepetKieiit, mounted on a horse, ulad^ a trip across tho main range of tho ltocky mountains, following an old forgotten Indian trail. At noon he stopped among tho pines on tho summit to rest his pony and to lunch. AVhile time engaged his attention was attracted to a solitary horseman com ing up tho trail from the west, who, on near approach, proved to be an old Indian. When he came up he stopped and said " How!" and being invited to dismount, ho did so slowly and carefully. The old brave's form was bent with age. Ills long hair, om o like the raven's wing, now was bleached by tho suns and storms of perhaps a century. Ilia oyes had lost the brightness of youth. His step, un certain and slow, gave evidence that his journey of life was drawing to a close. IIo was asked to eat, and did so with avidity. The traveler asked him a few (mentions and found that ho spoko English well. On boing asked what tribe ho belonged to, ho said he was a Moh?gan. Tho traveler ex pressed some surprise at this, saying he had supposed tho tribe long ago ex tinct, Tho old red man replied that such was tho general impression, but tha'. it was nit literally true. Xo?rly a hundred years ago, he said, his trib.?, numboring only about ono hundred in all. removed from How York to woit of tho great lakes. Some of them he believed to still be there. Soon after this, while he was yet a small boy, ho had been stolen by a hostile band of "Western Indians and had never been with his own people since. lie had been with the British Crees for manv years (how many he d d not know) and knowing something more of civ ilization than they ho had been ad van* ed to tho pos.tion of chief medi cine man. This ho filled until within a low weeks ago, when by failing to save the life of a sick daughter of one of the principal chiefs he was com pelled, in order to save his lifo, to havo the tribe. Ho was now making h s way east to the great lakes, where he.hoped to find some ferhnants of his people. ' Tho newspaper man had quitealung and interesting talk with Otowatse, as ho called himself, and among other things asked him the purpose of tho Indians in scalping their enemies, and where and now iho custom originated. Otowatse replhd that tho custom had now b.'come one of revenge and hatred, but that s-alps at onu time wore only tak n to show aftor a battle how many of theenomyhad been slain. A war party, by comparing the man-1 her of soalps taken with the number of their own warriors missing, could tell which side was victorious in point of executi >n on tho foe. The origin of tho custom, ho said, was only ex plained by tradition. Tho tradition is, in substaNoe, as follows: Hundreds of years ago?perhaps thousands?when tho Indians were all ono tribe and under ono great chief, a dispute aroso in the tribo as to who should become chief, the old chief hav ing di- d without leaving a son to suc ceed him. There wore two principal aspirants to tho chieftancy, and each of thorn had a strong following. The disputo ended in dividing the tribe, and in war. Previous to this time, scalp ing was unknown, thore boing no ene mies to scalp, the land being occupied by only one people. Peace was novor made between the two factions. Tho chief of one side had a beauti ful daughter and one or tho leading warriors wat a suitor for her hand. Tho chief, as n condition to consenting to give his daughter to hor warrior lovor, required him to kill the chief of the opposing tribe (his old-time rival for the chieftaincy}, and to bring him proof Of the act. Tne warrior accepted the condition. It was many long miles to the camp of the enemy and thesnow was deep, but he immediately set Out upon hi i mission. , After lying in wait near the enomy's camp for days, and Undergoing great suffering from tho 'fcxtromo told, without tiaVmg any op portunity of currying out his plan, he finally one night boldly entered tho camp, walked into tho great chiefs lctfge, s ew him, and cutting off his head to tako back with him as proof, started to return to hi* own pe iple. Tho next mrrning tho murder was discovered, also tho muiderer's tracks In the snow, and drops of Wood whloh had fallen from tho dead chieftain's ><?aptut he could heatf tlnm on his track. lie was, almost tired out and the dead chiefs ht a I was g owing heavy, vet he struggle I on with it through the snow and <old, determined Hot to re linquish the. pro f which would win for him his brido. The pursuers pr0S8iHl liiin 00s at length that he throw ftwriToVeiy weight bttt his trophy. . W -v "f UHITJW ? IsKJQv HU . OlUHli either srelin(mtoh > his,-prize or be cap tured, which, of <Jouw6, wotild bo death. Whipping out his rude knife (it was bofore the time of steel knives among the Indians) he htlrrlodly stripped off the scalp from tho dead man's head and sped on. Thus lighted of his load he made his Otyn camp in safety, the scalp, was aeoopto.l as sufficient proof that he had fulfilled his mission, the old ohiof r.o longer withheld his oon sent, And tho brlght-oyod daughter of the forest bocamo his own. Tnusorlg inatcd tho custom of scalping among theAn^rlca^ Jpdlans. lar mentioned above was tho fctesim thero ftre now $0 mtiny tribes scattered thMtigh North Ameriik 10 ho This' ?'tkmv whi?h the Austia.ian colonies #?e srtfTeHng has T?a JSTew South AVaWs td p?w a lit* rabbity or eretk ihffll intfodtids into the colony rabbit scalps, la llshld for each offense to a fine of $600, or, in Jefault of payment, to ImpHsonment Cor six months. \ . 1( 1<1>Atlantic Telegraph Stations. Chnmben' Journal takes up the ro oent bold plan of Mr. W. C. Anderson, for found ng "deep Bra lighthouses" ; as a ?? hopeful scheme,'' wliW h, If car-' ried out, " will fulfill a want that has ! long been acknowledged as a necessary ono." Mr. Anderson's plan, as recently ex- j plained to the Loudon Society of En- ; glneers, is to construct a hollow cylin-! der of riveted iron work, 200 leet long, 1 to consist of two a ctions - the upper j pnrt to he 110 feet long, destined to | rear its head above the waves and fit- 1 ted as an ordinary lighthouse?while j tho remaining portion of the tube is to be ballasted so a* to sink below tho water line and counteract the force of winds and waves on tho exposed part. Tho whole apparatus is to be anchored in deep wattr by heavy steel cables. The inventor claims that it would be easy to tow the structure to the spot selected for it, and then by admitting water to the lower se tl< n it would a sume an upright i osition and ride tho waves like a bottlo. The English journal referred to says: "Owing to our insular position we are depend nt for our storm warnings on our trans atlantic neighbors; but if it becomes possible to found a floating telegraph station, Bay 1,000 miles from our shores, in mid-Atlantic, wo c< uld have warnings of coming storms quite twenty-four hours before their arri val." Tho idea of founding mid-ocean float ing telegraph stations has long been diseussed, but no engineer has y t de vised, unless it be Mr. Anders' n, any structure which would remain station ary, and if connected with the telegraph cables would not in stormy weather endanger them. Tho depth of water to which tho agitation of a wavo reached never b ars a largo proportion of tho wave's dimensions, tlio motion diminishing in geometrical progossion as the depth below tho surfaca in creas; s in arithmetical. " In case of a wavo a quarter of a mile in breadth and forty leet in height," as Sir .J< hn Ilerschel shows; " the cfi- placement of tho water at a depth of 1,:?20 feet, in its passage over it, would bo less than an inch, and would bo incapable of disturbing the smallest grain of sand As Atlantic waves seldom attain those dimensions, it seems highly prob able tl at tho construction of a deep sea floating stat 1 m whi h can in all weather bo kept in place is not a mo clmnical |mp s ibility. The success with which gas-lig ted buoys have been maintained on storm-swept shoals on our sea coast may be taken as evi dence that such a structure a? Mr. An derson devises might bo made, with some modifications as to shape and length, to stand moored to anchor blocks in duep water. If this much could be demonstrated the work of connecting the structure with ono of tho transatlantic cables would bo simple ; and th ? structure, thus s<rv ing the purpose of a mid-ocean tele graph statiun, would bo an immense boon both to navigation and toi'.ete, orologlcal science.? New York Herald. Man the Sp >rt of tin Elements. " Hope springs eternal in the human breast." Tho Italian villager to-day bull ds a confidently, if not as impo, ingly, upon tho slopes of Vesuvius as tho dwellor in l'ompeii built before natnro overwhelmed him and his in a moment, and, with the ashes of de struction as a shield, kept tho ruins of his city to bo the marvel of alater ago. A now city rises wlr ro Lisbon was in gulfed by an earthquako. Man ro> builds in the track of tho tornado, and goes back to his fields in tho river .bottoms that n ay again sufTor inun dation. Man maybe noble in reason, inflnito in faculties, express and' admirable in form and moving, like an angel in action, in aptirehensiori liko agoJ. IIo cerlainly is, in ever/thing but brute strength, tho paragtii of animals, but from tho dawn of crentlon he has been tho sport and prey 0^1 the elements, and thero is no cunning in his art by which, now or hereaftor,yiio may hope to esoano tho destroying iigencies whiclf rumble in tho bowel* of tho earth or play upon its surface. Ho comes into this world undor sontonco of death. Ho goes henco never to report to thoso he leaves he'd ml upon tho lifo beyond. ?Chicago Times. A rlevanee. A woman withoutgrievanco Is more lonely than n pelican in Is'tibia, or a gull without a mate on a stormy night at tho Farrallone rooks. Yot thero are uncomplaining females, gontle as the-airs Which are supposed to murmur all around tho groves of Thessaly, or mild a* tho most insipid California oheeso which ever disgracod a chiirn. Suoli a one speaking to hor husband, said: "Ho is absolutoly without a fault, excent that he does not roalizo that sometimes 1 pino for a little re laxation. In ten J ears he has not takon me to a funeral, and in all that time I haven't had ono good squarocry at my neighbor's expense." This story Is porfectly reliable, and should furnish a four-sided quadrato meal of rofloctlon to many a lather of a family who imagines that ho anticipates his part ner's overy wish. The Hreftt Desort. Tho newspapor reader has not vet turned thirty years who can remomber when tho map in his school geography had the words "Great American Des ert " printod a' ross all the unknown spa^o between the Territory of Kansas and the Hooky mountains. If ono of tho old geography makers is al.vo to day ho would rub his eyoa In astonish ment to get hold of a newspapor pub lished in Denver, a city of fifty thou sand inhabitants, and read columns of interviews with architects as to whether tho new capital of the Ktato of Colorado should bo built, as ho ox presses It, " In tho stylo of the French renaissance," of, as another thinks, "Kike the Louvre of Paris," or, as a third "After the school,ef tho Kng it renaissance,* ot " rigidly olaasio/' ' lericaft/J m ot Unerlc Ifi-4- 'V-triMW* w? iit'l ?* ' -v .. hWetfed that TlritlaK otpitot to the amount of $30,000,000 went Into Texas and Wyoming last year. The silver production ot New Mex ico in 1882 amounted to $8,266,492. < V I POETRY FROM A CKMKT KITS' [The following beautiful ftn?*ar? written oa the walla of old Blandford church, in ? cemetery uoor Petersburg, Va., and nave been the oocasion of muoh dispute M tot their authorship]. . ; Thou't crumbling to ths dust, old pile* * 4 Thou't hastening to thy fall, ? And around thee in thy loreliness Clings the ivy to thy waU. The worshipers ore soatter'd now, ( Who me. uo.oro >hy ohrino, t : ? And silenco rolgus where anthems roae In days of auld limy syuo. And rudoly sighs the wand'riug wind, . Whoro eft, in years gone by,. . Prnyor roso from many hoartsto llim, v Tho highest of tho high. The tramp of many a busy foot Which sought thy aisles is o'or, 7 ?* And many a weary heart around s-i Is stilled forevermoro. How oft ambition's hope talios wings! How droop tho spirits now ! We hear tho city's distant din? ? <1 Tho dead are muto below. ri The suil which phone upon thoir paths , Now gilde thoir lonely graves; i Tho zophyrs, which ono.' fann'd their brows, '1 ho grass above them waves. Oh, oonld we call tho many back Who've gather'd here in vain; Who caroloss rovod where wo do now, Who'll uover moot ago n? How would our souls bo stirred To moot ti e earnest gazo Of the lovely and tho boautifal? Tho light of othor days. -ii HUMOROUS. Au exchange says that 80,000 Amer icans annually visit Europe, but when wo come to taink that about 51,920, 000 stay at homo, wo don't feel so aw fully lonesome as wo might.?Ifer chant-Trciceler. 'f It is now thnt tho lly , Doth t<Uo hutter espy, And its golden outs.do roconnoltor, '' And a low or two left, When of life he's bereft* -j Doth provo where he loved toloiter. ) ? Yonkera Gazette.< Quinn, being asked by a lady why it was reported that thero wore moro women in tho world than plicd : "It is in conformity with the * arrangements of Nature, madam?; Wfl always see moro of heaven tluih earth." ? ? 7 When Pythagorus wrote, '"Chooae tho way that is bOvSt, however rotigh it may seem," ho little knew 1:What glowing encouragement he was giving for all timo to tho boy whose ambition aimed for his neighbor's grape arbor. ? Yonhcrs Ua:e(te. Wo parted in Filonce, we parted by night, On the bnnk of a beautiful rivor; No sound but i guggle, as, out of my sight, Swiftly sho sank, W| " Tho nightingales wn sho:'.C, And, though sho w No Borrow was sho flown, ?? For that cat '.s silo " How delightfi this morningl" rem sho Bteppod to tho toward tho rising to live hero alwayfjft^ Josh wouldn't objftQ^ a Kobinson, with a siySvii!--. Josh scu 1 around tho corned 'of1 the house and began yelling at the co#s, and Miss Tit/joy st arted Inside to ttfke down her crimps si as tolookaspwfoty as possible hy breakfast ford Pout. .v . " Isn't that pretty steep V" replied, a man who was ask.ng for a, faUfoad ticket to Lansing yesterday morping. "Usual rate, sir." "But don't xou sometimes make a discouilt ?" " Some times?to clorgymon. Are yoti' Cler gyman ?" " Well not exactly," Wittily replied tho man ns ho scratchwlihi8<ehr, " but I reckon I'm tho next thing tolt. 1'vo stood by and se:n my deft all chawed up and nover wanted to JU-k the owner of tho other M^injjliL^-IIo paid full fare.?Detroit tfrqe < A Noyo! Suggestion ConeetTilhg' '?rlg? onoro. ? iii?? Cm* ' Tho writer of an "QptfA*"I?ieiiG'rt" in tho ( tnhirff, gives* inteMtftng indorsement of tho f611owlog sticking suggestion regarding, tho treatment oil prisoners: "A Jdan which faipeuayed to bo new, and which appeal Wjave great merit, ha* been lirondsed for^ho reformation of prison (liseirilflWf It has been proposed that prlsdflftrtfJUtfall be paid for the labor theyuperfAfm; that, so far as may l>e, there Ahull1 be no restriction of the Industrie* mfcon e*t occupations wiiicli follow; that they shalltbo td\om(X to engage in trades and industries on their own account, and that tfiov sball even bo j ormltted to trA/fli! with the outsido world so far as mAy be cdrti^at Ible with Insurance against escape And the commission of frauds or other un lawful practices, and that all prisoners shall bo entirely dependent upott,their Industry for their livipg and comfort, except in cases of sickness and debil ity; th at they shall support thiittlfelyos by their labor, and grow r!6h Ot Mfn'ain poor by their labor; 1ri Hue, thfltfttue Individual liberty be net only taught but enforced when the BtAtty by. the sequestration of criminals, has put it out of their power to be a preaent langor to society." ., 1 Candor. ?* Young Mr, Tromble, who iff *<|Nite bright, waa at it party one night and ho was quite well Iboked at by the jfirls before he wan introduced.# After tho introduction he soon cati^h^jtn, *nd was making himself vety pcfltttrtar. " Oh, la, Mf/Tfefhote* tritighdaMisa Molilo at one of his witty remarks, " you romind me so muohol a fcvtfnd ar mine." - -<i. " Indeod, Miss," said Trembkto* In what way?" ' ? ?*'??* w*IM " Oh, he looked Just ll)td ha hAWIKt a bit of sense, but when d^d knew Mm, ho was Just too Awfully cute ?<j[r any use."?Metohant-7'raoeUr. '? Neither Lake Nor A Kentucky man waa. Mk?d< b* a Northern friend what kindof %!tmie he had/ * *,,n "Oh^homdfeff'?we Wif^WWry pleasant pJfrcoJmfeed.'* ^ 'VDoyoilliVSoil Ml,-... trawler. Tho aroa of Kuasia in Europe la nearly thlrty-flvo timea thAt ftt the State of Pennsylvania,