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ij? XI. CAMDEN, S. C? THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1884. NO. 42. Wyoming. A atretob of dusky, barren plain, Hommod In ur mountains grim and oold. It thus to wearlod limb and braJn Wm Viewed by K-o Iters after sold. To them as pltlle?? m fate. A* they oropt to the golden gate. Tbo schoolboy droning tfor hi* book. In study of hi* country's ohart,. . Was told thoroln to never look Forwhlto man's land or busy marl; And on bis atlaa thumbed and worn ?* Appeared tbls desert land forlorn. Uoforo It savnffo sway doth melt, broad to ocean tldo; . the oonUnont homes ailod with oontont. ?, miser king, _ jds In days or old, d power whence anything _ turned Instantly to gold; ?Po by tho wolght of labor's wand, Transfigured Is tho dosert^nd. Upon tho plains tbo blaok herds twarm. where'er the genial sunshine falls; From eastern workshops, hold and farm. Armed mon attack her mountain walls. And earth yields up the key that unlocks Her Vainly bidden troasuro box. From babyhood Wyoming loaps. Strong limbed and vlgorouB in hor might. And Jealously her freedom keopa. In watch and ward on inouuluiu height* Wo ball the land of all our lovo, Minerva from tho brain of Jove. HOW DONALDSON DIED. ^ Tho Alleged Spirit of tlio Balloonist Describes IIits hast Voyogo iVum Chicago. A young girl of Uoadlug.- Pa., has lately dovolopod romarkablo powors as S spiritual medium, it is said, and last aturday, with a olrol(T"of Spiritualists about hor, alio took a trip to tho spirit world, as slio oallod It, and rolatod What sho saw. Among tho poople mot thoro was Profossor Donaldson, who has novor boon hoard from sinoe ho started on that perilous balloon voyago from tho lnko front, this city. Tno Profossor was oonsldorato onough to olonv up tho mystery, And tola tho jroung lady all about his porilous voy ago and tho terrible oxporloncoB aocom panyingit , ? ' TUK AERONAUT 8 8TORr. ' Tho young lfcdy's story, as givon by the Philadelphia 1'rcss is as follows: *!Thafaot Is that1 for tho past ten days I have seen tho faoo of ib? same ,,<> man evoiy day. I was in tho spirit land.. I call it spirit land, It Is so xnuoh prettier, I think, than tho olairvoyont ' state; tho lattor is so vulgar and com mon, and; 1 am told, thero is so muoh humbug in it1' By this tlmo olovon pooplo had as sombled in the psrlor And formed a olrolo about tho girl. Xho gas was turned down lust a triile, and in a very jhort time tlio parents noddod and pointed to their doughter, whose f aoo nAd turned slightly upwArd. ? Her eyos cloHod And her hands rested togothor on her lapr - 6ho sat upon a hassock, and it wwTfct least throo minutes of allono'e before sho spoko again. Tho measured tick of the olook, the low fctiftt of tho gas, the Oracklng coals in tho grato, tho hurrying, croaking foot steps on the pavoment in tho loy air of . sight alono broke tho stillness. ?0*' *'l soo tho samo man's faoo oomlng toward mo again," said tho young me dium. "Ho nes blaok, wavy hair, well rounded hood, largo, short nook, dark * complexion, and black mustaoho. As ho cornea noarer to mo I soo that ouo of hie oyos 1b dark and tho otlior light. < On ono of his ohooks I soo a black - mark.. It is a molo or birthmArk of .; somo kind. ^ a srnuT'a fruitless search. "Ho looks At mo as if sooklng somo ono ho OAnnot find. This tho elovonth timo I Iiavo soon his faoo. Ho aeoms to want me to spoak to him, and appear* to bo in troublo booauso t did not speak to him boforo. I now speak to bim and his oyeB light up and sparklo with dollght. Ho smilos and eayaj "! "I araglad you spoko- to mo. You aro tho first to groot mo from tho world bolow sinoo I loft ib. * Why did you not spoak to mo before? Do you,not know meP No, you do not. xou were too young when I llvod in your oity. But .no doubt you havo hoard of. me. My nfcmo' Ur Dbnaldsqn. I was called Professor Donaldson. [Hero the olrolo of friends wero astonished and beoame doubly intofostod.] Don't you remem bor my namoP 1 went up in balloons In Beading and gave entertainments, . r with prosonta to all .tho lltylo children and tho grown folks too. Toll your r- father and those -people near you who lamt they will romember mo. Also ' toll tndtn that I Waftt to clear up the mystery of my itrango doath. "Somo say that I aitf not dead, a*d willoomo baok to my old homo And frionds once more. ThAt Is not so, 1 am now out ot tho eArth and flesh and am In tho spltlt world. ^ iKWTAtPSON's ASOKNSIONm .J| '4 ??terybody whb nimombors mo will ! romombor that I was noyot henM froni'l aWT tfeftt up Iti tho balloon at Ohio a-1 go. : That was my last attention. Our I balloon was naught ib vatetrlblo wittd storm Jn the uppor current, * I', povof ? oxporlonood suoh a storm on land. . ttl Klow our bailoon-basVot to piooes. My ? Mend, or frionds, woro blown out of loon, 1 saw qVatttotng boloW mo V blowri ihto shreds.'-Then tho gasl ^chamber of the balloon made a fearful plungo and careened to one SldO, MOt I Il-^w me and the iioop upward, and , itrangost rldo overindulged in % mortal ?5m>;VTh?< few/ ?mlnutos : sflomed llko an ago. I had tho pres ence of mind to grasp hold of tho not ing, so that It would not slip down ana release tiU gas ohaniber. 'J Hen hA^ifrfteated me had not th* storm is through tho air at a tgifrible I was far abof<Hhe clouds, but I trldd all I oould to hhye on right Itself, I,got waYl tho sldo of the balloon add ,.j the hoop arid trigging, but tfc n?? not corner $i y -1 stRtrdOLM ton LifM nnsfntiBBD. . " ?Then I went baok ahd tied nvjrsolf __'as held by tha tope. The i th?n righted, and X wiur daug llng in thld-aln ftftarly out, of breath bof.n.o ot ?I?uddon j?r. Mid tho r ' JUn'li tie I WM r, exhaua extern oly d over TM Iron m t}Imw cnambor split with a loud noiso, from top to bottom. God holp me, I thought, because it wu the moat'perll oua position of my life. Then ono> half of the balloon was blown Into the other, and quicker than I can toll you, the two halves, now wedgod together, bulged up and out in tho hurrloane and formed a parachute, or a sort of uw broil a, 1 o?rlng me swinging below. THB STOB11 11 KATUN PAltACIlUTB. 44 *1 realised for a moment that God had answered my prayer. Then tho truth flashed upon me that I was going down so fast that it nearly took my breath.' I was too heavy for tho para chute. Then I saw that the banyaa had split again, and suddonly another frightful sweep of tho storm tore tho Earaohuto into tatters, and I was hurled oadiong down through tho clouds. I * olosod my eyes and prayed, and died going down, thinking of lovod onos at homo. My poor body fell into a wild, lonoly, and bloak swamp, ton milos north of tho uorthorn Bhoro of Lako Snporior, whero it slowly sovorod, soparatod, and scattorod by tho obb and flow of tho waters, until it has now roturncd to its ^original oarth. My spirit ontored spirit land at onoe, wnoro it has now boon lodgod oyer since. 44 'I am slowly working my way up to higher circlcH and to a higher lifo. I havo boon happy over slnco my com ing horo, and havo not ohangod my mind but that souio day somo ono will discovor a method by which tho air can bo navigated. I am obliged to you for your kindness, aud will bo pleased to talk to you again whon our oyes meot Jhoro or olsowhoro. I havo other thoughts, too, of dear onos for whom ? am waiting in pouoo and happinoss. Good-bye.1 4'Now," continued tho young modi um, ?'tho faco vanishes with smilos. Ho must havo boon a good man on oarth. 1 soo that ho novor drank or awoi:e, but lod an exemplary lifo. Ho was bravo, wnrm-hoartod and gonei ous." In a fow momonts tho young modl xim was out of hor clairvoyant stato, aud soon aftorward ' tho company do partod, considerably impressed with tho story. Canada's Treatment of the Indian. Canadian statosmon say that tho In dians in tho Statos would not cost any moro than they do if congress boardod. thom all at tho Fifth Avonuo Hotel, whoroas in Canada oacli Indian costs a llttlo loss than would koop a private in tho army. Thoro aro about a quarter of a million Indians split up into little bands, whoso. rosorvea tire sprinklod. ovor tho land liko tho lakes of Maiuo. Tho govcrnmont koops an account with, each band, soils for thom what lands aro not wanted, and holds $3,000,000 in trust for them. Jt Instructs thom in farming, pro vides them with implements, seeds and oattlo, instructs their children, and foods all who nood food with pork and grain. Already tho homo farms, whoro tuo savages woro shown how io till tho soil, aro rapidly being olosod up, and tho rations of food aro boing with drawn from ono band nftor another as tho Indlaus manifost ability to storo and prosorvo their orops through tho wintors. Noarly all tlio Indians do something toward self-support. Somo mako baskets, others mako snow shoos and toboggans, othors soli furs, othora mako barrols, othors catoli llih, and so on. Five yoftrs ago tho Blaokfoot woro on tho warpath. Now almost ovory family has a houso and farm. During tho present sosslou of Parlia mont Sir John Macdor.ald introduced a bill to comploto thoir civilization and. couvort them into politicians by an act dosignod to "train thom for tho oxor oIbo of munioinnl powors." Tho up shot of tho wholo thing, as 3onator A. W. Ogllvio put it tho othor day, is that 4,tho United Statos moans well, but hor agents hold that no Indian is a good Indian except a doad Indian, whilo Canada boliovos thoy aro human bo ings, and that it costs loss to troat thom kludly than to light thom."?N. Y. Sun. IIo Sought tho Oflloo. ?Know Douglas?Stophon A.P Yos, Indood, 1 know him when ho was a roung man,*' said tho Hoy. John Fisk n a rocont iritorvlow. "Ho had lust openod a law oflloo in .Jaoksonvillo, 111., ^nd I was studying with him. Ono morning as I oamo into tho oflloo Doug las stood with a lottor in his hand, and was g&tsing At it intontly, thinking about somethifig. Ho broko out finally wtyht "I hayo just) got a lottor from VaOdaha saying that thoy aro going to oleot an Attofnoy Goneral day aftor to morrow. If I had a horse and ft little money I would go down thoro and seo if I couldn11 get it.' Vandalia was then tho ?oat of govornraont, and was sovon V* UUUUf MUU A TV W ?Ull U that will do yon any good you're wol eomo to the horse and money.' Ho thanked mo and a'cooptod the oflor. *Oo oatoh your horse ahd I'll go.' So * ot up tho horso and Douglas star tod . had about twenty miles to go before' ho struok the prairio. He had to ride through this in the darkneaa of tho night, but ho wanted to get into Van* dalla as soon as posslblo. W?1I, he not only got there, but he got olootod. It 4ras tho first office he oyer held. After that he kept rising from ono position to another, fugt )lko so many steps going KoSnoh Man'ltuown Here. "Talking about stingy men," said the oonduotor of ft Puljman oar, as he ?at in tho smoking room while tho pot* tor was doing tho work, "the worst speoimen I eyor saw oamo ont of De troit the othor night. His wlfo, ? great fat women, was With him, arid tMy took seats in tho ordinary ooaoh. Prefc ty soon he oamo baok, lolootod a borth ?ft single upper?and then went baok to his wlfo, rrotty soon ho returned and wont to bed afono. About an hour after thin I was going through tho train when the fftt women stopped mo and wanted to know if I: 'had any empty berths. K tdld he* thore woro jblonty of thom, when she brought hor lips to gether like a vllo and olonohod hi* lit handfl fts she lafdt 'I thought as muoh. Hero, take my bag with you, and make mo np tho best aeotlen yon have. I'll bo baok as soonvas tho train Stops again.' You soo, that selfish ouss of ft hnsband of hers had' told her there wasn't an 4mpty berth left, but he had found a obanoe to share a bunk with ana6q[naihtitnoe. He was the maddost man yon ever saw next morning, when ho had to hand oyer $r> for hor night's rest, In addition to the $160 ho had paid for his own. Ho gavo the porter only IWo rents for shining his shoes, and scowled so the porter didn't dare kiok for more. Oh, but he wfti ft tough ono.'* . T^""'ri ' .*>*??"?? ? v: "If some men would treat their wires as well as they do Ihelr servant-girls there Would be fewer dlyoreos," says the Indianapolis Of Interest to Smoker*. t to I esctU A gentleman describing hlmsolf M **OQ9 of the peoplo fond of a good cigar," assures tho Kerr York Times that a prominent physician toldtt&im lately that from the practice of oigar makers wetting the wrapper with their saliva and biting the end of the cigar into shapo a* loathsome disease was spreading, and that he knew of several casos. "Somewhat alarmod," he con tinued, "I managed to viait a. number of factories. Two-thirds of tho oigar makers, I found, daub the whole end of the eigar with their saliva ? Think ing that Cuban workmon might not do it, I visitod places where they wore wholly employed, and found that not only did they use their saliva to mako tho wrapper atlok, but that most of them, before wrapping, bit tho ond of tho oigar into shape with their teeth. As tho physiolan informs me that many of the cigar-makers have sore mouths from disease, it is a dangorous as woll as a beastly habit." This Is horrlblo, if truo; and wo fear it is truo to somo extent. From per sonal observation wo know that oigar makers in Cuba do manipulate their work with a touch of saliva. Not many of thom do it wo should jadgo; but somo do, and thoso nasty workmen are probably tho very fellows whoso mouths are the most likely to communioato diseases. Thoso cigars, morcovor, which look tlio noatost at thoir smoking ond, and are theroforo th'o most admirod by young smokers, probably owe their at tractive symmetry to this disgusting manipulation. Yet it is a faet that tho most invotorato smokers aro found among mon who muBt bo awaro of tho provaTonco of this filthy praotico. Al most all those who manufacture oigars or who doal in cigars, also smoko oigars. We don't qiiito see how thoy do it, but thoy do.?Buffalo Express. Fraulclln and Adams. Somo timo during tho revolutionary poriod, or a llttlo aftor, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin woro dls patohod from Philadelphia, I believe, to Massachusetts, on a publio errand. Adams had a mortal antipathy, shared by him along with tho majority of mankind at that day, against tho night air. Ho bolievod that if ho kept nis bedroom window open even a oraok at night he would surely die. Franklin, on tho other hand, wbb a disbeliever in tho theory of danger in tho night air, and ho had many argumonta with Adams thereon. 4Dircumstanoos and tho orowdod condition of many of tho tavorns they stoppod at on their Jour noy eastward compollod them frequently to oooupy tho samo room, and often tho samo bod. Adams always opposed raising tho window, and poor Ben nearly suffooatod and roviled Adams for his wrotched theory of the deadly effects of nature's universal medium of broath. One night Bon slyly'raised a window In their common ohamber, but Adams, on the -alort for his friond'a little gamos, insisted that it should bo closocl at once. Said crafty Ben: "Now, Mr. Adams, we'll go to bed with tho window up, and I will show yam why it will not bo harmful for us to permit tho window to stay open. If I cannot oon vinco you of tho roasonablenoss of my theory, I will myself got up and olose tho window." Adams woakly con sented, and Ben began to reason with him. Finally poor Adams was talked to slcon, and Bon tranquilly resigned himsolf to Blumbor. Next morning S*oat waB Adams' horror at finding o window up. but not having died through tho night, and fooling no 111 ofloots from having broathod tho night air, ho booamo a convert to sly Benja min's night-air thoory. Tho author of iv history of Aniorioa during the colo nial epoch told mo this anoodoto as something amusing, whioh had hitherto escapod type. Sugar In L/uraps. In answer to a oorrospondent who asks tho differonco botween tho sugar which is sold in apparently smooth out lumps and othor whlto sugar, tho lumps of which aro somewhat rough on their surface, the New York Bun says: Tho difference is oonBidorablo, and tholattor, whioh Is pure loaf sugar, out Into lumps, always commands a higher prloo In tho who)esalo market, and cannot be adulterated. It is oallod In tho markot "out-loaf." Tho former quality of sugar la what la known aa "oubes." Tho out-loaf su gar is made in lumps of fifty pounds out of oane sugar, then sawed into slabs, and these slabs aro partially out through and partially broke. It Is oasy to distinguish tho marks of cutting and broaklng on egoh lump. The oubo sugar Is mauoof soft sugar and pressed in mold s which gives tho smooth ap 5earam >, and is suitablo for shipment ho oubo sugar will sometimes on a sea voyago resumo tho consistency of the soft sugar, and the ohange of form is due to adulteration. The safest sugar for anyone to buy is puro loaf sugar, and it-is much sweetor than any other. i Tho principal sub stance Used in adulterating sugar is glucose, whioh is stigar made from va rious vogntabln substances, ohlofly #*?/?? . While glucose is sweet, it is .easily deteoted by the oxpertbeoauso it is not so swoot as cane sugar, it Is. novortheloss, very extensively used to adulterate eano sugar and produce cheap sugars which are sold in tho market. Uoputablo dealers sell it as glucose, but there are many dealers who sell gluooso for sugar. Tho nature of the gluoose is to make a doso, sticky ?utfar; it does no$ produoe grains, like 'cano. "An Old Matun An old man is a beautiful object In his own place, in tho midst of a oirolo of young people, going down in various gradations to Infancy,* and all looking up to the patriarch with filial r*ve? enoo, keeping hlxh wArm by their own burning vooft} giving him the fresh riess ortholr thought and feeling, with suoh natural influx that it soems that It grew within his heart; while on them he reacts with an influenoo that sobers, tempers, keops them down. His wis dom, rory probably, is of no great ao< i^nnt-hc oannot fit to any he* state of things; but, nevertheless, It works its effect. In suoh a situation the old'I man is kind and genial, taellow, more gentle and gebmons, and wlder-mind' ed than ever before. But if loft to him self, or wholly to thosoolety of his oon temporcrlos, the loo gathors about his heart, hone grows torpid, his Jove? nothing of his own blood to dovelop it grows ocld; he beocmes selfish wnen ho has nothing in the present or future worth carina about himself: so that, In stead of a beautiful objeot, he is an ug ly one, little, mean and torpid. I sup posei one ehief reason to be that, unless he has Jits own raoe about him, he doubts of anybody's love, he feels him stranger In the world, and so be For t ho Farmer. Whlto liolliboro will destroy the currant worm. - y The fino-wool sheep of Canada ate giving, pitvco k> outwae-wool broods. Tho host Amorioan cattle soli In England (or 15 conts por pound droBsed. ' . ' v ' v: About 1,600,000 bushoU of wheat aro annually usod for Bood lu this country. Aglll of strong groon tea is said to bo a specific for snoop poisonod by oat* Ing laurel. ' ~ A farmer io Dcdham, Mass., got* tour tons of timothy hay por ocro. Ho tuanuros heavily. Investigate tllo-drainlug. Many farms would bo 'treblod lu valuo it thoroughly undordrainod. Florida growers aid tho heading of cabbage by sprinkling a llttlo salt into tho hoart and tying up tho leaves with tonne. . If 100 acros of arablo land will not koop six horses, twenty cowb and twen ty hogs, it 1b not up to tho standard of good land. Persian insoot powder, applied by means of a small bollows, is rcoom mendod as an afFectual rciuody for llco on cattle and horsos. - - Effg sholls should bo crushed boforo foodiug them to tho fowls for when fod whole it is apt to toach them tho bad habit of eating thoir oggs. Poultry oannot bo kopt to advantago unless they havo a proporly arranged houso for thoir accomodation. This is just as nocoBsary to their woll being as it is that tho oattlo or I jrsos should havo a good barn. Lvs&ndor 8. Richards^ of EastMarsh fiold, Mass., writes to tho Massachu setts Ploughman that ho planted pota toes last Season that had turnod groon from exposure to tho sun, and saw no difTorenoo in tho yield. In portions of North Carolina nine teenth century methods- havo mado but little progress. A rooont letter from the state says many of tho houBowivos still "follow tho cotton with thoir own fingers pfrorn tho Btook to tho stock ing.'* ' >. Grass moans oattlo: oattlo moans manure; manuro moans rioh lands; rloh lands moans good crops, and good crops means prosperity. This Is tho history of the world. Seed part of your farm down to grass and soo if tho assertion is not truo. Gravol or coarso iand*is as muoh needod by fowls as ordinary food. With this thoir food is rendered^ di Soatiblo. Whon tho birds are confifred > olose quarters, eBpooially in houses With wooden floors, tho absence of gravol will quiokly booomo apparent in tho fall away in flesh and good hoalth of tho inmates. Evory wood that eocures growth on tho field deprivos the soil oi bo much fortuity and robs tho orops of that do groe. Tho labor of oradloation is also groater the stronger tho. wood, and it la a well-known fact that tho majority of woods aro not only gross foodors but tenacious in habit, doing moro injury in ocoupying and seoding tho ground than by dopriving it of its fertilizing elomonts. , Of tho 86,000,000 pooplo in Japan, noarly 16,000,000, in 1880, woro farm ors, in almost equal proportion of both sexos. Sinoo 1868 tho pooplo own tho land, paying tho tax for it to tho gov ornmont Three-tenths of tho tilled land is in tho hands of small proprie tors, who, with thoir wivos andohildren, i do noarly all tho farm-work. Tho plow | in common uso Is nothing but a spado, with a narrow blado about throo feot i long, Tlioro is a lino olimato and I muoh fortilo land in Japan^. A Kansas correspondent of the Frairio Farmer , Mr. Jacob Nixon, in answor to a requost for something to prevent wJro-worms from injuring seed- j corn after planting, advises tho trial of | a pint of coaLoil to tho buahel..qft spail. He finds this remody effootual in pro vonting molos from following tho i planters marks, nnd also tho prairio | squirrel, or stripod gopher. Com thus; troatod givos no troublo to hovso or I hand corn-plantors. Au Inoldont of the Floods. Tho most intorostlng Inoldont of tho flood in this town was that rotated by Mrs Charlos Flttors, who residos noar lv opposlto Floto's bakory. Sho said that a ohost lodged in tho yard, and u?on oponing it iho was vory muoh surprisod to see in tho oontonts artloles of ohildron's clothing, otc. The ohost was taken, into the houso, and upon further examination a oomploto batoh of letters, filed aocording to aato, was dis covered. These letters had been writ ton while tho writer was in tho army, and woro addrossod to his sweetheart (now his wifo). Tho writor had boon with Grant and Shorman, and tho epls tlos detailed the fights ongaged in with remarkable accuracy. Said an old sol dier who read the letters> "There Is a ohaptor In the hlstorv of tho lato war that has not boon printedPf Mrs. Fitters cleaned all the artlolos and got them in first-rato shape, and finding tho address of tho owner wrote to him. Tho letter was almost immo dlately aosworod, asking that tho ohost be Sont to Industry, Pa., to tho owner. 1 Mrs. Flttors was offorod some oonw ponsatlon for hor kindness, but she re fused to take a oent. The ohest, with Its oontonts, wore shipped Intact to its owner yosterday.-^-FKAwKngf Intelli gent. w. , ,. .. . . . - ? - An Olfl Malrt's fSocentrto Will. . #1 v'' * . - . , Miss Koalah B. Blackburn, an oldorly spinster, who earned a scanty liveli hood by sewing for charitably disposed persons, and who wu generally anp ijosed to bo tery poor, oeeupled for a on# time a ?mall room on the top floor of a house in Brooklyn. She waa ro contly found dead In her room, and her will, whloh had boon deposited with hor spiritual advisor, sh6w6d her to be possessed of #1,200, and ita provisions made ii oompnltory with her exooutor at hor death to dress her body in whito, placo 1k )n a solid rosewood casket, having six sliver handlos and a silver pi a to, on whloh should be inorlhod hor name and ago. The hoarse at her fu neral was to be drawn by six blaok horses, and there wero to bo six pall bearers, wearing white gloves and white ties. Her body was to bo bnrlod in the Evergreen Cemetery bosido her parents, and a tombstono bearing the Inscription: "Messed bo ho who preserves thflso ? tenon. Ana cur*od be he who moves thono bones,1' Was to be erected over her grave- Any money remaining after tho expense of the numerous bonosts had boon dofray ed she desired hor exooutor to plaoo at Interest, to be paid to a man to keep hor gravo In ordor. ? i. i'i. ? .. iwi i fri .. .i' .? ? ? The Kontaoky Legislature has ap propriated $1,300 and authorl/od trie Governor to appoint a suitable person to go to Florence, Italy, and remove the body of Jool T. Hart, the ionlptori Throw it Oat. H^*ur~^ j?2js/S ??? * ?? ?? i^. ?&"Sta't 'hSfc^i ^ en w^om shohld I soo batAojguy?id nun rushing w?5 <?l%i\Z%?w j? BftJ sjfeis?&ip fallso-left it-thor??throw II sSs^?,?a tUiS'ff ttSTlii T?''?K Ittoonoof ul ?fi lM direotod. At tho valian ?'effortinilndih0 mftdo m inoffootual 1.3k V" 21 staut,. although it takes tlmo to tell tho story* in & minuto ho mado hla wav forward and angrily aakod: 7 off forV?U toU m? 10 throw thl? I !Su!f tho,?1? mon wanted it J' j I.o Kino ""' h0 ' 0 thlet Th" "1 i "Iun 8tdd '? laughing; for tho who!| situation aoomoS to perfect!? ridiculous, ?why under tho ??n rfil you throw ll orf at X BlSSt f? I taomyour own proportv P 7 * if* 1' Was au SO sudddn nnrl you told mo to throw it, and?" i Uutitho roar of laughter that"*reeted i hit explanation broke short his sen &?<> ho waa voted aloathor mod al by tho passongors. 1 1 waa convlnood thoro was aome ex. planatlon for tho old man7? uot for [ was personally aoqnainteii with him, and know that he wm aT honiS long, ""bo" httZ' wooks after I saw him at the donnt and questioned him on tho tubioot "I thought," Bttld l,r,, I1 grow round and red. and h ! llJt I twinklod with merriment, ,4I thonwiff t should die to soo Sat follow Ki J I round aftor his valiso and h?.ki/P board tho train apain. , I didn't oxpoot t aor*?nob trouble." ^0Ot timeP" ? Was your Tall>0 th? ' "OJt tho driver took It without ma | mcnt- .Ooodd.yl'"-CLlff??m? Aphorisms of Oliver W. Holme* oitajg Sjfer?S.E? _ ^ "toss good womon. To thofr lyouSL'ot^Smono* but"at ? w^lghod with ?neiug a bubblo agalnat a wodgo 0'i n?TSr C'|Ualizos ,ool? ?rnt wiso S.oW lt 0m?Way-and th? "th?7.0T ?' tho ridloulou. ]. ono !? of '*1 irroprossiblo nature It is gtS? " th? "I hi. proZ.Z ; ?ouS?oha?riS.th0lr gUln0"? bul out go'o, afrfhrTo S?"th. tl?7 c'h*k2 1? footot tho long,* Sd proSnUv tlV flaidoeasos to suddIv tho ^k Y enters of flame, and afiP2 ^ ?Jhor Om?n?!!L00ld and darkness. , ?_ tt^f5 *? atre a ?oc>d many roal miserioa ?m?1 ft. wo oannot holp .mmnt il but thoy aro the smiles that ?{!not moro ol ftoythlng th?n b ?o^d W them, or nso anything to, tofftSfflWSI? 01 I wonlJ havo . womfTa ira. ? wort." ,r^' "I? flr" Ho, whloh ?"?o??m?4toto2 oettor world, whero the oan h?v? .n W>n,.T.atohorl>oaS.nd h?2S! tC/w?h?.'h %$mi&IM& Hartley Campbell. Whllo in oonvorsation with a gentle* man who claims to haye known Bart ley Campbell from boyhood, he told tho following story of how the now famous dramatist oarne to take up Journalism and play writing: "Hartley and I were working to gethor in a brickyard near PltMoprg, both at tho samo benoh. One of' the helpors bad just brought ar freeh load of olay and deposited it on the benoh it front of us. Hartley took up a handful of oold, moist onrth and com menced to work it lh his hands. Pres ently ho stopped and soemod lost in thought Ail at onoo ho dashed tho olay no was working down on the heap ana looking at mo. saldt 'If ever I mold another handful of olay may the life bo nquonjsod out of ino,' and going to whoro his ooat hung on n nail ha took it down, put it on, and started dofcn hill. 'Hold on, Hartley,' said L If you'ro going to quit, I quit too,' and 1 took ray ooat and followed him* Wo wont to tho boss and got our pay, and that aftornoon startod for Pitta* burg, whoro ho obtained a position on ono of tho papors. 1 need not add that ho novor wont baok to brtbk making." , ^ fho sooond distriot of Gibnon oounty, Tonn., has three men that havo sixty throe children, twenty-one apiece. Two of thorn have been married twioe and the othor onoo. x One of them says ho oan Walk forty miles in a day; be if sixty-sight yoars of age; the others are gitty-slx and elghty-thrso. One of them has about aprentv-flvo granddhildfeq and groat grandchildren, another ha# thirty, and the third only two. OUR CRAZY QUILT. MeoUoni From tho Current Liltora tare of the Household and the Fashionable World. A Pretest Against the Rule of Fancy Work and tho Ghostly Pillow. Sham. Practical Homo Hints?Inexpensive Curtains. 8UXDKRED, YKT LOVINO. ? Doos nothlnjr tell theo that 1 think of thee J Something should whisper It Into thy heart. Oh, dusky oyes, look wostward through th olsar And asnro sky. bid dlstnnco honoo depart. In thought at least travel the realms of space. And oomo Into thy dwolllng In my heart. Our lives, liko two oloft rocks, arc sundered wldej Mo human powor oan hoal tho fatal broach On this sldo doath; but when wo cross tho tldo Over whoso waves our spirit hands may roaob, Wilt thou thon moot mo with tho oldon smile, And speod to mo lu tho old tondor epocchf No oomlng yoars cau blush away tho bloom Of ono swoot yoar that oilnga about my heart? Short, swoot, and sad, swift lovo that mot Its doom. But yot tho swootnoss cannot all dopnrt, For lovo Is doathloss, and Its spirit still Shall haunt and follow mo, go whoro I will. ?Mary Knappln Boston Post. FANCY WOliK. Eliza Arobard makes in tho Now York WorUl a sweeping onslaught on fancy work. In tho courso of hor arti olo sho says: Fancy work Is tho small vloo of tho fomalo sox. It is to womon what smok ing is to mon. In somo rospocts it is worso indeed, for man can road or writo nnd smoke at tho samo timo. Fanoy work, on tho contrary, is so ab sorbing as an intolleotual oxorciso that it is not possiblo for a woman to mako tho Konsington stitch and do anything olso, unless it bo to gossip. In briof, we arraign femalo fanoy work as a waster of timo, a dostroyor of oyosight and health, a doadoner to all noble ambitions, and a promoter of scandal bosidos. Wo shall provo it. Fanoy work is an unoanny thing. Thore Is somo Btrango fascination in this misorablo darning and knitting that blinds thoir eyos to tho nobler achievements that lfo all about them. In summer hotels and wintor hotol groups of fair young matrons sit, hour after hour, thoir bright oyes bent over somo queer fuzzv-looxing, contomptiblo little stuff, as though tho salvation of tho world depended on banding tho equator with a girdle of knotted Iringo boforo to-morrow morning. Now thoy covor ghostly oillow-shams with weird ohaln-stltoh. Now it is rlo-rac, and again it is oraey-quilts. At this point it may bo remarkud that of all contriv ances that aro ugly enough to scoroh one's eyoballs tho orazy-qullt goos up hoad. Anon the fanoy-work madness drives them to the production of ta pestry ploturos that maktrn your hair ?tana on end. Or maybe it is "darnod not." This is tho head-fiend of fancy work. It is safo to say that on tho avorago darnod not drivos ono- thousand American women a day to promaturo spootaoles. "Pretty P" Yes, II ought to bo prot ty. It noarly put my oyos out" She had mado hor lfttlo daughter a robo of this domonish. woman-killing fabric. Hor oyes wore red And swoll en, her nerves woro all unstrung so that sho kopt springing liko a jumping j iaok at ovory lfttlo sonnd. Sho had got norself in suoh a stato over the poslcy stuff that sho hadn't slept for two nights. "I'm just roady to cryi" she said. No wondor. Tho timo and labor sho had spont on that exoorablo gown would havo mado hor an acoomplfshod student in mioroscopy, and not hurt her oyos elthor. Thon sho would havo had a poop into tho fairy land of soi onco and at least learnod enough to mako hor a oharming and entertaining ti&mpanion for a month. And a month is a long time whon it oomos to ontor taining anybody, especially ono's hus band. Wo arraign fanoy work booauso it dwarfs women's Jntolloots. It gives them lust oooupatlon onough to mako them believe they are doing something. Thoy sit and moon ovor their one, two, three* .oross-stltoh till tfce praotlcal in uuivuuning urpg fool's paradise. - Whifo thoy delude thomselvos with thinking they aro At ^ork they aro do ing absolutoiy Nothing at all that is worth while. It ie worse than nothing. It oggfct to b* rologatod wholly to very ftged women, to old't^at they have lost all interest to notivo affair's, and have nothing to do b\)t anoozo through the days like old UbbiQi; Amorloan womon don't got >..4Ao''ngh to give them adocont Ori,;yoil know," says tho En uaan. immfng is tho wrotoh that is to ' Show tis1 a lively, hoal thy. Meal, intelligent woman who is ft out-d oo ?led ^trimming maker > ftnd we I find you fch honost politician. . ; mxotaioAi, *t6mb aiirrk T#a pretty ;(|Idi6s for tho back of ft ?mall | sofa which la divided in tWp {arts are made thus: For ono tak* hree plocos of blue ribbon thj* >ngtht of the sofa cu?hlon>ptitlaoo insottibn of tho sMtto width as tho ribbon .betvreen tho strips oI ribbon* t#im the odgdjftfth narrowfaoe.not mor# than an uioh and ft hall tfido. For the othor tld* use ft eontraailng" color of ribbon: pink" or crimson are pretty, or a fine shade of yellow will answer. Mako this tidy Just like the other in form. A work-bftskot or waste-paper basket whioh has booomo worn and broken at the.crigos tnfty be m?de to servo ft good pnrposo by lining it; hftve the lining aulfo fall, bring it ovor tho outs'do of lie basket, horn the odgo, nnd shir it ftnd ofttoh It with flno stitches to the basket. Aa old baskot repelled in this way is even prettier than the new ones. It Is not evory woman who oan o?ver ft soap box with plash and ao transform it into ft book rack of elegance. In or der to glde pltfsh to a board and have it smooth, one noeds a llttlo exporlonoo, and it Is advisable to try expmJmonts with Ahoftper material thnn plush. Af ter oxamlning the box to seo that It is In good oondltion at the corners, take some canton flannel of good quality, Out It to fit tho box, then spread tho glue over it in a thin coaling. The out side ftnd tho Insld+.fhOttld ooth bo cov ered. i If this is saooessful then by all moans try the plush, but not othet#lse. WWJj? visiting at ft friend's house once she askod me to go to her desk for something and t sftw there, on Opening the lid, ft motto written by horself and evidently intended for no one elso. It saldt "Do not scoldt do notfretl" "Yes.M she said. In answer to ftQ inquiring look, "I was obliged to pnt It there. 1 wasn't very well, little thtnga troubled me,and it Is so natural &?***?<? ^emj bf I noticed after ft early botoro Softool or breakfast, 1 bo gan to speak of tho wrong-doings of any momber of tho family, tbnt tho wrong-doings and the tendency to epoak of thom increased alarmingly all through tho day, and I discovorod that if I woro silont tho opposito was trno, and I began to earnestly bolicvo as I novor did boforo that my own soft words turnod away my own wrath; and isn't that what it really moans? for it frequently happens that other pcoplo's wrath is Inoroasod by that vory oourso." ?New York Post. UOHE-MADK CUllTAINS. Vory protty and Inoxponsivo onrtains can bo mado of chooso oloth, with or without a border. Should tho bordor not bo used, turn a horn throo inches wido down tho front and across tho bottom of tho curtain. This should bo caught down in horring-bono stitch in gold-colored silk. Tho curtain is then ombroidored all ovor with doublo rings executed in chain stitch with ombroiu ored silk. In oaoh sot of rings tliero should bo ono of gold silk, and tho oth or of Borno contrasting shado, such as {ialo bluo, rod, groen, or brown. Tho ast two colors always contrast prottiiv with gold. Crowds may bo usod in placo of silk, though tho ombroidory will then presont u lioavior appoar anco. Tho bordor may bo of uarned work. Sprays of loavos ruako a good dosign, each spray being ombroldorod with difforeut colorod silks, cardinal, gold, brown, and grcon. Draw tho stitchos from point to stem of tho loaf, and thou darn back and forth, through tho silk stitches only from side to sido of oach loaf, as in darning a stocking, but do not lot tho stitchos conio through tho material. Thou outlino caoh loaf round tho odgo with tho samo color in chain stitch. This shows onch loaf in solid color on tho whito ground. A straight lino of horring-bono stitoh on tho insldo of tho bordor dividing it from tho groundwork gives a protty finish to tho curtain. Thoy havo somowhat tho appoaranco of tho Madras ourtains so much usod, and as tho work is not at all diflioult ono fools repaid whon tho protty dranory is hung up at tho win dows. Whito laco curtains aro now very soldom soon except on bedroom windows. Japanoso gauzo and othor thin matorials aro largoly usod for por tieres in placo of tho heavy plush, Tur key, and vclvot curtains so lonj; iu fashion.?American Queen. Extent of the Cinr'H Eutato. Ono may form some idoa of tho ox tent of tho possessions bolongingto tho Russian Emperor, as proporty immedi ately attached to tho crown, when wo hoar that tho Altai cstatos alono covor an aroaof 40,000,000 dosjatins.or ovor 170,000 square miios, being about throo times tho sizo of England and Walos. The Nortchinsk estates, In Eastern Siboria, aro estimated at about 18,000,000 dosjatins. In tho Altai os tatos aro situated tho gold and silvor minos of Barnaul, Paulov, Smijov, and Lokt jepp,tho copper foundry at Sasoum, and tho great iron worses at Gavrllov, in the Salagirov district. Tho roocipta from thoao enormous estates aro in a ridiculously pitiful ratio to thoir extent. In tho yoar 1882 they amounted to 950,000 rublos, or a littlo moro than ?95,000; whilo for 1883 tho revenuo was estimated at loss than half this sum, or about 400,000 rublos. Tho rents otc., gavo a surplus over oxponse of admin istration of about 1,500,000 rublos. On tho othor hand, tho working of the mines showed a dolicloncy of over 1,000,000 rublos, honco tho result just indioatod. A partial explanation of this unsatisfactory stato of things is to bo found in tho situation of tho minos, which aro generally in placos quite des titute of wood, whilo tho smolting-works woro naturally situatod in districts whero wood abound/*, sometimes as much as six hundrod or Bovenljbnuiuu kiiomo - tors distant from tho minos. Tho cost of transport of raw matorials bocamo connfdorablo in this way. By dogroos all tho.wood avallablo in tho neighbor hood of tho smolting-works beoamo used up, and it was nocossary to fetch wood from distancos of over ono hun dred kilomotors. Formorly tho minos woro roally penal sottlomonts, worked by oonvlots, who woro partly helped by immigrants whoso sons woro oxomptod from military sorvlco on tho condition of working in tho minos. But sinoo tho abolition of sorfdom this systom lias boon quito altorod, and thoro is now a great deal of froo labor on tho ordi nary conditions.?Lyndon Times. An Intorosting Indian ItollOt Dr. Oglosby, of Fossil, has a boautl ful Indian rolic, which ho found im boddod in tho roots of a fir troo noar Mary's poak. Tho troo was about 800 years old, and the trunk was so decay od that It oould bo knookod to piocos oasily. Tho rello rosomblos tho hugo blado of a knifo, olghtoon inchos In length, throo in width, and one and a half thtok. It is cut out of brown grnnlto, and has oxooodingly, fino pol ish, being nearly as smooth as sculp tured raarblo. Tho dootor camo to tho ooast in 1858, and during tho pionoor days beoamo intimately acquainted With an Indian ohiof, whloh acquaint, anco finally riponed into friendship, from tho faot that at ofto tlmo whon tho Chief was attaokod by a vicious grizzly ho oamo to bis aid and killod the bear. This old Indian was very oonvorsant with tho traditions of his trlbo, and ro latod to Dr. Oglosby a legend whioh had boon rooitod from father to son for sgos, and whioh otatod that at ono time % pooplo oamo from tho ooean armed With largo stono knivos, and whJlo they poaoefuuy slept in their wigwams tho so feroolous invadors would attaek and murder thom. Tho dootor beliovos that this instrument is ono of tho knivos dosorlbod by tho old ohiof.? Valla* (Oregon) Timet-Mountaineer. ) ? y I . . Niagara Falls. To r Byraouso reporter Ilonry Irving thus ipoko of Niagara falls: "I jvas simply aatonnded and ovorawed by their majesty and grandonr. I took my ontllro oompany to t|io falls in order t<j glvo thom an opjportunity of soolng a plaoo thoy had au heard so muoh of at home. I was told by somo English men who had soon the falls that thoy woro disappointed whon thoy first saw thom. Well, I should llko to know what thoy oxpoot to soo. For my own part,I found that tho half had not boon told me concerning them. I oan not find words to express my admiration for tho mighty oataraot, Tho rapids, too, of whloh I had not boon told, doop ly impressed us all. I hopo to havo an opportunity somo time of passing a {food long whilo at this most intoroetr. ng place.M Did anyono over think how muoh ipaoo is ronulrod to bury tho doadP If ono would bo oontontod with a grave two foet by six, 8,fi00 bod loo oould bo Interred In ono acre, allowing nothing for walks, roads or monument*. On thl? orowdod theory Bondon's annual dead numbering 81?180? would fll" S8f acres, _ GLEANINGS. ' Fifty thousand Northornora rto now In Florida. Dakota has 250 nowspapora, most of thom dailies. ? Honry Word Boocher \?U1 bo aovon~ ty-two in Juno. An Ohio physician Is preparing n modical lexicon in forty-two languagos. Tho proposed reform bill in England. will enfranchise about two million moo. W. P. Elliott, of Lcwlston, Pa., nino ty-ono years of ago, is still editing a papor. Tho Southorn Bivouac arguos that tho mound buildora wero drowned by floods. Tho old Confcdorato fortifications arouud Athons, Ga., aro now boinar lovelod. During 1883 a Philadelphia establish ment turnod out 657 locomotives, of which 151 woro oxported. Mrs. Hannah Simon, of Nowark, N. J., recently colobratod hor nlnoty-nlnth birthday by waltting for ton mlnutoa. Boston 1b going to displaoe olootrio street lights with gas. Hor 881 olootrio lights cost last year $83,749, whilo 9,623 gas lamps cost $330,381. It is sovoral conturlos slnoe Italy lias takon part in polar expeditions, but ono Is now about to bo sent out undor tho command of Captain Fondacaro, of tho Italian navy. English nowspapors Bay that tho adoption of black silk gowns by tho Judgos of tho Now York Court of Ap peals is duo to tho visit to this oountry of Lord Colorldgo. It is affirmed in Egypt that El Mohdi possesses olghtoon wivos, and that his vakoyl possesses twonty-four. Tho Mos loms In Khartoum "aro horriflod at tho Modhi's oxcoodlng tho numbor por mil tod in tho Koran." A mombor of Congress, in rocom monding tho appolntmont of n naval cadet to tho Annapolis Aoadomy, statos in his lettor to tho Navy Dopartmont that tho young man will bo found fis cally qualified, ho Is suro. An Immonso aorollto foil on tho Ranoho Rodeo do las Agnas, twelve miles we6t of Los Angolos, plowing a doop hole in tho ground. Tho light was visible from Los Angolos, and tho oxploslon was hoard for milos. Sinoo tho oommoncomont of work on tho canal tho populatl<? of Asplnwall, Panama, has suddonly Inoroasod from 1,600 or 2,000 to 8,000 or 10,000, and building hasoxtondod into tho swamps, wlioro thoro aro no stroots graded. Tho rogion south of Cedarvillo, Kan., is infested with wild dogs, whloh havo alroady klllod two largo stoors, noarly wiped out two flocks of shoop, and oaten two littors of pigs. Tho dogs aro moro dlflloult to oapturo than wolvos. Loathorold is a now substanoo manu factured In Maluo principally of cotton papor. It looks llko leather, but la harder and vory olastic, and no amount of tossing about or hammering will broak it. This suggests its uso for trunks. Mrs. Llvormore's littlo book, "What Shall Wo Do with Our Daughters P" has boon translated and publishod in Paris, quito Buporfluously, as most Fronoh nion know enough to marry off tholr daughtors at tho first favorablo oppor tunity. ' Tho Washington Monumont Com mission has grantod authority to an oloctrlo light company to oroct ton elootrio lights on tho top of tho Wash ton monument. Thoy oxpoct that tho lights will bo so ofieotlvo that tho city will bo illuminatod as far out as tho northern boundary. Tho annual rainfall In this oountry, according to tho Weather Signal, is Now Moxlco (18 Inohos) and California (18 inohos), and highest in Orogon (49 inohos) and Alabama (60 Inohos). Tho annual rainfall lb tho British Islands among tho mountain* is 41 inchos, on tho plains 25 lnohos{ 45 inohos of rain falls on tho wost sldo of England, 27 on tho oast sldo. > > - ? m > m ? i I... A Fight With a Heron. A fow wooks ago Col. Wm. K.'Slaty, tho Fish Commissioner of Colorado, wont to tho Stato fish-hatchery, on tho Platte Rivor, nlno mlloa from Donvor. Whllo ho was Inspecting tho hatohory ho saw a largo, bluo horon preying tip. on tho fish in tho box. Ho &pproaohojt? tho heron, oxpooting that the - blra would tako alarm and fly; but the bor on attacked him furiously. Tho bird was fully as tall as Col. Slaty, and Wtls so vory swift that howaa upon tho man In what soomod an Instant. IJo used his neok with lightning rapidity, strife} Ing all tho tlmo at CoL SlstyV faoa Col. SIsty was unablo to dd moroynt first than protect his oyfls, and tho blows ralnod upon his hands and loft thom bleoding. His faoo was also out In plaoos, for tho bird was quloker with his bill than tho man was with hia hands. Aftor tho surprlso waa ovor, Col. SIsty preparod to assumo tho of fonslvo. Protootlng his faoo with his hat, ho rtishod in upon tho hugo horon, solzod tho oroaturo by tho body, and hurlod him to tho ground. Then tho atrugglo w^s soon dooldod, for Coi SIsty graapod tho heron's nook, and hold on until his onomy waa ohokod to death. Tito horon was taken to Don vor and oxhlbitod to hundroda of poo plo, who soon learned of tho Flah Com missioner's exploit Gorman Htudont Pomposity. A party of Amorioan travelers wore on the railroad platform at Holdolborg. Ono of tho travolors happonod to orowd a Holdolborg studont, whon ho drow himself tip, soowlod pompously and said! "Sir, yon aro crowding; koop back, sir." ??Don't yon liko U* ftonnyP" aakod tho Amorioan. "Sir," soowlod thpstndont, ??allow mo to toll you, sir, thai I am at your ?or* ?Ico at any time and place." "Oh, you aro atmysorvloo,areydnP,, Raid tho Amorioan. ?'Then just carry thin satchol to tho hotel for mo." A Talbot farmor and hi* good wlfo lost tholr rookonlng last Hnnday, and tho farinor drore to Easton with a loa<! of markoting while bis helpmate stavod at homo and flnishod up tho frtffiily ironing. Finding tho storos and market bonne olor.ed, ho inquired tho canso, and boing told it was Hnnday, bo ex* olaimod: "Good gracious! and my wifo is at homo ironing!" Whon tho ohuroh bolls began to rhtg ho made a bee-lino for homo to roport to Mrs. Oil man and "top tho Ironing. rough (Md.) Times. -? mm * u Austin, Texas, boy# amuse them* selvos by dropping daU from tho Oolo* rado bridgo into the Water forty fool bolow. Some are killed by tho fall, but tho most of them suVrivo to furnish tho noxt day's sport