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Caught in a Shower.
\ 'Twas a midsummer day, and the raindrops
were falling
And stirring the leaves in a slumberless way,
First gentle and soft as the cooing and calling
Of dove to its mate at the parting of day;
Then faster and faster it came, till the plashinc
Of waters grew loud, in its gathering power,
And the birds that above me, like jewels were
dashing.
Trilled songs of delight in the midst of the
shower.
Then who shonld I meet bat sweet Rosa, the
fairest
Of all the sweet flowers that illumine the
morn,
But oh, all her dainty adornings, the rarest
That beauty can fashion, hung damp and
forlorn.
She held up her hands, with a gesture entieating:
'Oh, Mr. La Rue, I yoi^pity implore?
Of oourse I'm a fright! But how fortunate
meeting
You here. Why, I never onoe dreamed of a
shower."
Her hat was a wreck, but tho eyes that were
smiling
Beneath it were even as violets blue,
And her lips?well, I thought, eo complete
their beguiling?
" If 1 ?ere her lover I know what I'd do."
I gave her my arm, and beueath my umbrella
She crept, with a face like the rosiest flower,
For I think the divined, tlio' 1 dartd not to
tell her,
The rapture 1 felt shielding her from the
showtr.
'Tis summer again and the roses are giving
The wealth of their heart* to tho covetous
air,
But fairest of all is my Rose, whose is woaviue
The thr? ads of our lives into unity rare.
And yes erday eve as we watched tho Barren
der
Subm ssive of day at tho swtet twilight
hour,
She whispered in aocente of loving mode
tender:
" UU, i'reO, ar a i you giaa we were caugm
in that ahower ?"
ATROCITIES IN BULGARIA.
Firndtah Work of the Turks?The Terrible
Ha bl-Bitzouks at Work?Jlansucre. In?*e>u<iiurl?ui.
Slavery and Debauchery?
Ou? Hundred and Twenty-One Villages
Destroyed.
M. Ivan de Woestyne, correspondent
of the Paris Figaro, has made an extended
tonr through Bulgaria and has
written several graphic letters to that
journal, iu which he describes the atrocities
oommitted by the Turks. The
following extracts will be found extremely
interesting. Although the author
is evidently anti-Turk in his feel
ings, there is no reason for supposing
that the story he tells is exaggerated.
He thus describes his experiences on
the first morning of his visit to Adrianople:
' At the first street corner after leaving
my hotel I found myself opposite a man
hanging, whose legs were still kicking
convulsively. He was suspended from
the door of a shop. The feet were
fastened aud the hands tied behind his
back, but the face was uncovered and
the tongue huug from the mouth. The
feet were scratching the side wall of the
door in a vain endeavor to jind a resting
place. The shopkeeper, furious that his
house should have been chosen for the,
execution, was abusing the " zapties,"
who went away laughing and driving
before them two other wretches whom
they were ordered to haug in different
parts of the town. The evening before,
the tribunal, which was composed of the
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condemned a dozen Bulgarians to death
on account of the revolt which took
place three months ago. It was decided
that three of them should be executed iu
Adrianople, and the other nine scattered
. through the country, one at each crossroads.
I followed the soldiers who were
driving these unfortunates before them
with the butt ends of their guns, while
crowds of boys threw stones at them and
shouted " Giaour."
We soon came to a g llows constructed
of three pieces of wood, the upright and
arm being held in their places by a sup"port
from one to the other. This primitive
gallows was erected under a lamp
which had been pulled down the night
before by the weight of another man
executed there; for they hang them here
every day. In a few minutes every
thing was ready. The cord rolled round
the arm of the gallows, ended in a running
knot, which fell down to meet its
victim. One soldier placed it round the
neck of the shorter of the two condemned
men, and then, upon a remark
made by one of his comrades, took it off
and adjusted it on the taller. The reason
given by the second soldier for this
change was that it was difficult to hang
. tall men from the shops, which are generally
low. The man was then placed
on the scaffold, where he was kept in
position with blows from the butts of
the soldiers' guns until the rope was
fiually adjusted, when the scaffold waft
kicked from under him. They had not
even taken the trouble to fasten his legs,
which kicked convulsively in his agony,
while the ill constructed gallows groaned.
The crowd was already far distant.
At the corner of the street the cortege
seemed to be in doubt as to which
route they should take, and the soldiers
engaged in a discussion. It appears
that although they had been ordered to
liang one of the prisoners at the gallows,
yet they were fr^e to strangle the
others when they pleased. They advanced
toward a confectioner's shop,
which was somewhat larger than the
others, but the proprietor, guessing
their intentions, ran in front of the
troops and put something into the commander's
hand, who, changing his direction,
went to a cate. Here the same
scene ensued, the owner of the cafe
took the sergeant's band, who turned tc
a cafe opposite with the same result.
All the shopkeepers not caring to have
a mau hanging at their door all day pa\
the zapties to go further on, and the
victim meanwhile has to follow theii
zigzag march under an incessant rain ol
abuse and stones. At last the cort gt
stopped. The Bulgarian had fainted.
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I went away, for I had seen too much.
" Bashi" means in Turkish "head,"
and " Bazonk" "spoiled" or "damaged,"
so that bashi-bazouk is "bad
head." This official Dame given to
these irregular troops show that the
government has allowed them to take
the initiative. The population of Turkish
villages, like those of villages everywhere
else, are composed of men aud
women, but with this difference, that
whereas with us the men are willing to
work, here they do nothing and are content
to send iheir women into the fields,
as I have frequently seen them from the
top of my wagon in the vicinity of the
Turkish villages, and when leaving their
work they must go home with their faces
veiled. Whilo the women work the
men sit at the door of their cabins
smoking the excellent tobacco which
their country affords. This is kept up
during the clement portion of the year,
and during the winter the women work
in the barns and farmhouses. There
comes a call " to arms,'' and everything
changes face.
Immediately an old flag is brought
out from the mosque, borne by a fellow
who, in view of some past exploits,
bears the title of chief, accompanied by
priests reciting short verses of the
Koran, the religious sentiments of which
are "Down with the infidel,"and the
real meaning an incitement to plunder
and destruction. The village is at once
tail of life and activity. Oid guns are
refurbished; the old flintloeks are repaired
and refitted; the broad blades of
their knives arc cleaned and sharpened;
women and children all take a hand at
the work. They are thinking of the
spoils, and the great thing is to be ready
first. It is also a question of slaying
the giaours, for he who hall shed the
most blood will be able to aspire to the
first place or chieftainship of the village.
Vanity governs amid savages, it
seems, as it does amid the civilized.
Th*> same day the sub prefect, or Kaimakam,
makes his appeal to these
patriotic (?) souls, every available man
is cn route for the place named for the
men of the different villages to meet,
followed by old men and children, the
former going to teach the young how to
torture the wounded and set fire to
vacated dwellings.
These reunions last several days, for
it is the villagers furthest off that receive
the notice last and who have the
greatest distance to make. These latter,
on arriving at the town of meeting, find
the others gorged with booty, and, irritated
by jealousy, attack the Christians
m the streets, where they are supposed
to be protected. Among these bandits
the bravest or most brutal are the Circassians.
The others wear the red
blouse and spatterdash?shoes they take
from the peasants?the belt is filled
with long knives and long barreled
pistols, and their linen, when they have
any, is always bespattered with blood
from the todies of their victims. A
Greek vest fitted close around the body
and a handkerchief tied around the head
completes the dress. Tbey wear nothing
around the neck. It would seem
that thev are con.-d intly in expectation
of being" hung. Everything they have
on is filthy, repugnant, hideous. Such
are the men who, according to Turkish
newspapers, 44 leave their hearth and
home" to rob 44in defense of their
country."
I have said that 1,000 regular trained
troops, which have not been sent, would
have been more effective, but 10,000
Bashi-Bazouts have been sent instead.
They will assassinate more than 30,000
persons. The fear inspired by the authorities
before an attack on some of
the Christian villages caused them to
abandon everything. A hundred and
twenty-one villages were burned. 1
went by chance to look at one of these?
Peroutchitza?the history of which I
will give. According to the estimate of
disinterested persons and European
officials, this is the hundred and twentyfirst,
and this may even be considered
as beneath the number. Peroutchitza
is situated to the left of the railroad between
Philippopoli and Pazardschyk,
midway between these two places, and
6,000 or 8,000 yards from the railroad.
It was a Christian village of 350 houses
anfl liaving more than 2,000 inhabitants,
planted, as it were, betwo.n several
Turkish boroughs as poor by their idleness
as Peroutchitza was rich by its
labor. The instant the call was made
for volunteers Peroutchitza was shut in
between all its neighbors. The nobles
who were saved in time arrived at
Philippopoli, where they demauded aid
more loudly than any one of their fellow
citizens, sayirfg they had nothing to do
with the insurrection. The governor
replied to the effect that he would think
about it. The consuls intervened and
addressed themselves to an aide-de-camp
of the sultan sent from Constantinople
to report the true state of things. They
obtained a promise of help, which was
reduced to the sending of a commission
of conciliation. The commission did
not even go into the village, which the
assailants wanted aisarmca, to oegm
with.
This, in effect, was the way the Bashi
Bazouks operated : They presented
themselves before a Christian village,
and, according to the "order of authority,"
required complete disarmament.
After this order was obeyed a
massacre of the men so disarmed was
begun. In case the villagers refused to
hand over their guns, etc., their village
was immediately set on fire. Several
villages which had never been armed,
and which, consequently had no arms to
deliver?a fact well kiown to the murderers?were
treated in just thejnanner
I have indicated. The people of Peroutchbza
answered that they would deliver
their arms to soldiers of the regular
army, but not to the Bashi-Bazouks.
then the attack commenced by firing
the village at the four corners. The
fight lasted four hours, and the inhabiti
ants, snrroimded by fire, took refuge in
one of tho two churches. The 44 authority
" then sent cannon, but the uni
fortunate people held together, though
i at this point they were willing to parley.
At length, completely outnumbered,
'they consented to surrender. The firsl
> to leave the church were shot down ir
' cold blood the instant they showec
5 themselves; they then comprehended
: that the attack was made with but on(
F object, namely, a general extermination
5 and they resolved to stand out to th<
, last. Thus, in a word, there uow re
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mains of this village absolutely nothing
of the 350 houses?nothing, nothing,
nothing. I defy any one'to find any other
trace than a portion of the church,
whose four walls are riddled with bullets,
and a piece of another wall a few
feet in height. The only objeot remaining
inside the church was the half of a
painting representing St. Paul, all that
remains of a township which paid 500,AAA
a roo? fr\r dnflAfl
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And as to the population of over two
thousand persons, they are now reduced
to one hundred and fifty old people and
children, who mourn among the rnins
which cover all that was dear to them.
Not a strong man is left, not a woman.
All these have been slain, and all those
who escaped the massacre have been carried
away into slavery to the other side
of the Salkaus, where they will be subjected
to the Pomacs, renegade Christians,
still more ferocious than the Mussulmans
themselves, and who are always
on the raid. The abandoned children
who strayed into the country have been
caught and sold at an average rate of
fifty piasters each?a 4ittle less than $3
?the little girls, at least those who were
pretty, sent to Constantinople and
plaoed upon those secret markets for
such bargains-which always exist. They
will be scattered among the harems,
where the ladies always have little girls
which they raise to sell when they beI
come of age. These are their little
perquisites. You will understand that j
the slave dealers are "expected from j
Mecca," a rumor now being in circula j
tion that the sale of women is about to
be recommenced.
It will be seen that the old Turk is just
as low as the moment after the conquest;
indeed, these people have not advanced
one step morally, and some of the recent
events have destroyed all that European
civilization has been able to
achieve in fifty years upon this essentially
brutal population. One hundred
and twenty-one villages burned, women
violated and children hacked to pieces.
The Bashi-Bazouks take the latter by an
arm or a leg, give them one terrible cut
with their knives and then pass on to
the next. Those considered most adroit
in this bloody work cut the little ones
in two across the waist at a blow. A
priest told me that some few days previous,
while h^ was crossing a ford, one
of these half bodies injured the legs of
his horse. One priest was crucified,
another was roasted alive. Furthei on
he saw women impaled on stakes drawn
from ricks of hay. My mind shrinks
from the remembrance of these horrors,
and I will conclude in the words of some
of the oonntrymen to me : " Whatsoever
you may say to your readers, you
will always be within the truth."
The Little Russians.
The Little Russians inhabit an inland
district in the southwest of Russia.
They are a primitive people, and of
their funeral rites a striking account ha3
recently been given by a member of the
St Petersburg geographical society.
When any one dies in Little Russia a
jug of water is placed on the windowsill,
that the soul may be able to perform its
ablutions before setting out on its long
journey. That it may have the sun to
light it on its way the funeral takes
place at sunset Within the coffin are
placed various articles of food and clothing
along with some money, that the
deceased may have a prosperous start in
his new life. The shavings of the wood
of which the coffin has been made, and
the tools used by the dead man, if he
has been an artist, are also inclosed in
it. With these are put the parings of
his finger nails, which both men and
women in Little Russia preserve all
their lives, in consequence of a superstitious
notion that they will enable
them to climb the mountains that separate
the earth from the mysterious
region of the dead. Female mutes are
invited to follow the coffin, and an old
woman scatters handfuls of wheat over
the mourners and along the road, a
proceeding which is considered lucky
fnr fViA livincr. The coffin is surrounded
with cows?this being the continuance
of an ancient custom prevalent among
the Hindoos; it is thought to purify and
| disinfect tho dwelling in which the
death has taken place.
The Little Russians believe that the
soul remains for some time in the house,
in tho shape of a butterfly; and the cats
and fowls are driven away for fear they
should eat it up. After the funeral a
! banquet is held, at which a cover is
> laid for the deceased, who is supposed
! to preside during the fostivitives. The
dead are held to the hurtful rather
than well disposed to their surviving
friends. This, however, is not always
the case ; mothers sometimes, for example,
revisit their children and lavish
great tenderness upon them. But it is
essential that the children keep the
visits secret, or they will call down the
vengeance of the mother on their native
village.
Curious Case of Spasms.
The Augusta (Me.) Journal says:
Tho other day a gentleman from Portland
came to Augusta, aecompanied by
a friend, and was stopping at the house
of Mrs. Temple. One evening, after
supper, he was sitting with his friend in
the front yard engaged in smoking. He
remarked that a lit was coming on, as
he felt the unmistakable symptoms. He
was soon rolling upon the ground, froth
1 ing at his mouth, and to all appearances
in mortal agony. He made a noise
' somewhat similar to the barking of a
dog. He would also try to bite. Five
' persons attempted to hold him, but
' were unable to do so, during his most
severe convulsions. The poor fellow re;
mained. in this condition some twenty i
four hours, and did not appear to be
greatly exhausted when he came to himi
self.* He remarked that the reaction al
ways came two or throe days afterward.
He relates that twelve years ago he was
i bitten by a dog, and since that time an,
nually, and only once a year, he is
, afflicted by these manifestations that
t greatly resemble hydrophobia. He ali
ways had sufficient warning of their
I coming. They occur later every vcar;
1 last year ho was attac ed in June. When
) he is consciou of an approaching attack
, ho takes the precaution to lie down, or
5 otherwise he has a desire to pursue aud
' bite whoever may come in tbo way.
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THURSDAY, SEP
OUR CENTENNIAL LETTER,
Woman and the Centennial?Brazilian Buttcrfl.ee>
and Their Cne?.tllscellaneoas
Notes of the Exhibition.
WOMAN AND THE CENTENNIAL.
In the Woman's department of the
Exhibition may be seen the following
inventions, all of which are practical: A
griddle greaser, bath chair, life saving
mattress, combination desk, dish drainer,
patent flower stand, dress charts,
dust receiver, baby's exercising corset,
fireproof house of voluminous material,
mangling, washing and drying machine,
broiler, invalid's chair, smoothing meat
tenderer, models for teaching children
object drawing, a window shutter and
fastener, trunk hinge, lonch heater,
traveling bag, postage stamp moistener,
bureau trunk, bedstead, bureau and safe,
sewing machine attachments, and many
other articles whose enumeration would
occupy too much space for a letter.
BRAZILIAN B uT*Jll?RFTiIfi3t
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, sends a collection
of butterflies. The class insect,
order Lepidopterus, Family Nosturnas,
Section Bombycianous, Genus Attaces,
Subgenus Saturn ia, Species Aurota.
This butterfly abounds in Brazil. It
produces each generation 240 cocoons of
silk, each cocoon weighing two and onehalf
drachms and prodncing thirty
grains of fine silk. The fiber is of a yellowish
color; it is strong, elastio and
lohg; a single thread sustains a weight
of four drachms, and a cord of twentyfour
threads resists the weight of threefourths
of a pound. The great advantage
in the cultivation of this Lepidopterus
consists, that the butterfly inclosed
in the cocoon can be preserved
and utilized without breaking the fiber.
CLASSIFICATION.
In a previous letter I mentioned how
articles are classified. It may be useful
for reference to continue the explana
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scientific readers, who may wish to
know the standard of articles required
for exhibition. With class 110 begins
metallurgical products?110 precious
metals, 111 iron and steel in tlie pig,
ingot, aud bar, plates and sheets, with
specimens of slags, fluxes, residues and
products of working, 112 copper in ingots,
bars, and rolled with specimens,
illustrating- its various stages of production?class
113 lead, zinc, antimony,
and other metals, the result of extractive
processes; 114 alloys used as materials,
brass, nickel, silver, solder, etc.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
Pittsburgh, Pa., aends a diamond circular
stone sawing machine, which cuts
in ordinary sandstone one hundred and
fifty square feet per hour, counting both
sides of the cut, leaving the stone perfectly
in line, finished ready for tho
builder, doing more than can be accomplished
by one hundred men in the same
space of time.
Philadelphia has an impact brick machine,
which makes a brick with a
blow.
An important scientific exhibit from
Philadelphia is a coal and ore separator.
This machine separates all solid substances
that differ in specific gravity,
and from tho smallest particles to four
inches in size.
From Peru, Illinois, is a well boring
and prospecting machine with which a
man and a horse can bore twenty feet
per hour.
Philadelphia has a chromotypo cylinder
printing press that prints five colors
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paper collar machine, which cuts,
stamps, buttonholes, and finishes 30,000
collars a day.
Lawrence, Massachusetts, exhibits
portable steam engines sized to 100
horse power, automatic variable cnt-oll
giving uniform speed. These engines re
quire only twenty to thirty pounds of
feed water, and three to three at d onequarter
pounds of coal per hour.
Those studying dogology or canism
will be pleased to know that at least 150
setters, will compete for one prize alone
at the dog show; all entries are free of
charge.
The Scottish team has been selected,
the riflemen from Australia are en route,
the Irish and American rifle teams are
practicing, the Canadian team has not
been made up, but will participate in
the competitive international riflo struggle
on the twelfth and thirteenth of September.
The beautiful frames and bands with
ornaments inlaid on massive ground and
gilt with burnished washing gold are
the invention of Alois Scheidt: the
njerit of the invention consists in the
ornaments not falling off because they
are preserved massive.
Austria exhibits some very delicately
wrought lace covers for parasols.
The most elegantly cut opals are from
Dubnik near Eperies in Hungary. This
place is famous for its work in opal cutting.
From Prague, Bohemia, are garnet
articles in handsome setting.
Vienna sends a very fine collection,
as regards taste in formation and variety
of design, in mother of pearl buttons.
Vienna competes with France in her
display of calfskins, which are worth
delivered at an Austrian seaport, French
calfskins, made in Austria, per dozen,
550 florins, or $247, rating the florin at
forty-five cents gold. White skins,
$247; brown, $247; patent, $250. There
must be a fine margin somewhere, judging
from the prices obtained in the
United States.
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fco be held by the Welsh people, has
been indefinitely postponed, its master
spirit, Rev. R. R. Williams, having been
appointed chaplain of the Ohio penitentiary.
Norway exhibits the national vehicle
(Kariols) Norwegian for carriage. Onr
carryall is a corrnption of this. The
Norwegian kariol is far behind the English,
or American, carriage, yet I have
no doubt it is better adapted to Norway
than would be the more elegant conveyances
of the American or English workshop.
J. B.
An old physician says: If a man is
stricken by lightning, lay him flat on his
back, open his clothing at the pit of his
! stomach and dash on it a pail of the
coldest water you can get. In nine
cases out of ten it will restore consciousness
and save life if done within fifteen
or twenty minutes after the stroke.
Coma/
TEMBER 14, 1876.
A Romance of the Sigual Service Bureau.
A correspondent at Washington tells *
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heard a couple of days ago a hitherto 1
unpublished romance connected with
the life of one of the most prominent
officials of the signal service bureau. He
was, my informant states, once engaged
to bo married to a lovely, charmiDg, and
wealthy girl. The eve of the wedding
had dawned?if an eve can dawn?and
they were occupying the same rocking
chair and talking as insanely as only
lovers can Mk, when the fair one said:
" Albert, there is one thing I wish you
to do when we are married." "Name
it," he replied, making her feel that her
corsets were a mile too large for her.
" That is, to have no rain on Mondays,
because, you know, darling, that Monday
is washing day, and if the things are
not washed and dried then, the week's
work is so fearfully put back. You will,
won't you, my own ?" The young man's
heart was torn, but he replied: " Maud,
dearest, my duty to my bleeding country
demands imperatively that I shall
whoop her up the precise sort of weather
t! at Heaven will probably send impartially
during the next twenty four
hours upon the just and the unjust,
without regard to age, sex or previous
condition of servitude. If an area of
barometric disturbance exists in the
Middle States on Monday, how can I
oomistently with my duty declare that
the probabilities favor clear weather
with light winds from the southeast ?
No, angel; ask me anything but that. I
oould not love thee, dear, so darn mucn,
loved I not honor more." " Then you 1
do not love me," she sobbed, bursting \
into tears. The reader will readily un- 3
derstand how they progressed to a quar- 1
rel and parted enemies. She returned 1
his presents, and is now lecturing on j
woman's rights, and he is a confirmed '
misogynist, and sits up all Sunday night 1
at the signal service office, with a fiend- '
ish glee making out bulletins for Mon- ]
day, announcing falling barometers, ]
atmospheric disturbances, heavy rains,
showery weather, and so on. '
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Grapes as Food. i
The Boston Journal of Chemistry ^
says : We have on former occasions referred
to the value of fruits as articles
of diet, both in health and sickness.
Grapes may deservedly claim a high <
rank among the fruits in this respect. |
<They contain a considerable amount of ,
hydro- carbonaceous n> atter, together with j
potassium salts?a combination which ,
docs not tend to irritate, but, on the .
contrary, to soothe the stomach, and !
which is consequently used with advantate
even in dyspepsia. According to ,
Dr. Hartsen, of Cannes, in France, who ,
has recently contributed an article on ]
the subject to a foreign medical journal, ,
the organic acids in the grape, especially (
tartaric acid, deserve more consideration j
than they have generally received. (
Their nutritive value has, he thinks, ]
been much underrated. It is known ,
that they are changed to carbonic acid ]
in the blood, and possibly careful re- (
search may show that they are converti- j
ble into fats. Dr. Hartsen thinks that (
they should be ranked with the carbo- ,
hydrates as food. They have been ,
found a valuable diet in l^er, and the
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Tyrol and other parts of Europe appears )
to show that they are positively bene- :
ficial in other diseases. .No doubt the >
good results of a residence at these es- ,
tablishments are in a measure to be as- 1
cribed to the climate and the general (
hygienic discipline adopted. The ad- i
vantage does not wholly consist in the .
fact that so many pounds of grapes are ,
eaten daily, but partly in the fact that ,
other less healthful thiDgs are not eaten; j
and pure air and exercise are also im- ;
portant elements in the curative treat- i
ment. But after giving all true weight j
to these allied influences we must allow ,
no small fraction of tho beneficial result (
to the grapes.
We rejoice, therefore, at the increased ,
cultivation of the vine in this country,
and hope to see it go on extending
wherever soil and climate permit. Let
every man who can do it plant a centennial
grai>e vine, or a scoro of vines, beside
the " centennial tree" which the
papers have been advising him to set
out. He can eat the fruit of tho former
sooner than he can sit under the shade
of the latter, and his children will bless
his memory for both.
Of a Dramatic Turn.
Of the good things floating about just
now in the French papers the following
is a very good specimen : A huzzar is
sitting on the summit of a hill overlooking
a garrison town. His horse is
picketed near by; he is smoking leisurely,
and, from time to time, glancing
from the espl made to a big official envelope
he has in his hand. A comrade
passes and says:
"What are you doing here?"
"Iam bearing tho king's pardon for
our friend Flichmann, who is to be shot
this morning."
"Well, then, hurry along with it."
"Not much. See, there is hardly a
soul on the esplanade, and tho firing
platoon has not yet been formed. You
surely would not rob my appearance
of all dramatic effect."
A Letter from Stanley.
The New York Herald has received
a letter from Stanley bearing date of
July 29, 1875. It continues the narrative
of the explorer's adventures in the
neighborhood of Lake Victoria Nyanza.
At a town called Makongo tho party
were surrounded by five hundred armed
negroes, who, however, -enly forced the
visitors to depart and did them no harm.
At another place where the explorer's
landed the natives stole oars and a drum
and matte hostile demonstrations, which
finally resulted in a conflict in which
Mr. Stanley's party killed fourteen and
wounded eight of the natives while they
were endeavoring to capture the boat of
the explorers.
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It is amusing to watch the faithfulness
with which a newly married man
i will keep a family expense account in a
little book for a while and the unfaithful
certainty with whichhe will get tired
of it and drop it in a few months.
IERCI
$2.00 per in
The Source of Disease.
The modern science of medicine, says L
he New York Tribune, has achieved its
greatest triumphs in detecting the imnediate
sources of many diseases and
"?r?inHncr nnt thfl mfiftns of ftvoidinff
ihem. To the list of perils that may be T
ivoided by proper precaution is now to
je added tho danger of illness from the
ise of impure ioe. The most striking
ustanoe of this on record has been very
"ally set forth in a recent report to the
Massachusetts State board of health by 0
Dr. A. H. Nichols, concerning the out- D
3reak of an intestinal disorder among
;he guests at one of the hotels at Bye
Beach in the summer of last year. The
lymptoms were those generally followng
a derangement of the digestive sys?m;
such as nausea, giddiness, loss of
tppetite, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and
ever. With about five per cent, of the "
quests these symptoms were grave and
persistent; among the great majority, n
ind notably with children under ten b
rears old, there was no such illness, and y<
here were no traces of it at the other
lotels and in the cottages of Bye Beach. ??
The sewerage of the hotel was first care- f(
ully investigated, and then the water n
mpply, the proprietors of the hotel
ending eager aid to thorough research; .
5ven the kitchen and its processes were ?
>verhauled without finding the cause of ?
rouble. At last it was discovered in
;he ice with which the hotel was supdied.
This had been procured from a
pond of which the outlet had in recent si
rears been closed by sand and stones tl
vashed up from the sea; the pond thus
becoming a stagnant receptacle of mud w
ind sawdust, there being two sawmills g]
m the stream above. The ice was sub- b
ected to chemical analysis, and was
:ound to contain putrescent vegetable G
" n\1 1- -i-1 _i. J fU.'a
nawer.. mo uuvoi siuppou uouig uuo ?
contaminated ice, and there was an end ^
jo the sickness among its boarders. The ?(
report concludes by mentioning that
here is a common but quite mistaken ?
popular notion that when water freezes ,
its impurities are somehow excluded
From the ico. The moral is so obvious ^
that it need not be here stated; but in y
i general way it may be worth while to
summarize the fact that water which is S
Dot perfectly fit to drink is unsuitable 1
(or an ice supply. c
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Fashionable Love at Saratoga. ^
There is littlo love nowadays, says a ti
Saratoga correspondent. It is found to c
bo a poor paying investment, and the A
youth of our cities take little stock in
it. There arc any number of fashionable
women here who have sold their ^
youth and charms for some old man's a
gold. This class always frequents this Q
gay American spa, and you will find
bhem at Brighton and Ems, and all over
the European continent. Their aim in c
life is pleasure, and so they wander, for ?
this bright delusion is ever before the g
lazzled eye of its "followers. At the o
States is a very noticeable lady of this
slass?a lady with the cold face of mar ^
ble, and gray eyes that darken with s,
passion and flash with fascination. She
moves with the grace of a Juno and I
? ?aLavim r\f a 1 Qfofll I
sunvertjeo wim uic uu<um ? ? w?v..
She is courted in high places, and is a
aneen of the fashionable world. Only .7
i brief period ago she was unknown and a
unloved. On the return voyage from ?
Europe she met the man whom she ?
made her fate?a man who has almost 8
reached the three score and ten years of
man's short, un atisfactory life?a man ti
well known in .the great marts of trade t
and in the great centers of fashion, s
Twice before had he tasted the sweets a
aud bitters of matrimony, but not until h
this charmer came did he really know
what love was, he says. She pets and g
cajoles the old gentleman and luxuri- n
atcs in his fortune and in his princely v
home. From plain dresses and a plain 8
life she swept into velvets and gems and ^
position; and with this loveless heart
and this glittering life is not a woman
of her kind happier than she would be 7
as the wife of a poor man who could 8
give her nothing but love and mediocrity?
Indians in the War.
Father Mesplie, who is well posted jj
on the Indian tribes, gives the following Jestimate
of their numbers: He puts the :
Sioux down at 60,000 ; the Crows at
15,000; Blackfeet. 20,000; Dtes or Utahs, 1
35,000; and in addition there are the *
Brule, Ogalalla, Minneconjou, Y^nctonnais,
Uncpapa, Two Kettles, San Acres, a
and Sontoo bands. Some of the Crows t
and some others that live around the res- c
ervation are friendly, but many who pre- 8
tend friendship will gather arms and a
ammunition for their tribes. He says c
they are in strong alliance with each
other to carry on this war, although ^
when they have no common enemy to ^
fight they figlit each other; but now they
are united against what they consider a j
common enemy, and will turn out all
their warriors, and they will number at (
least 50,000, and the father says it is
likely to bo the most formidable and
bloody Indian war in the history of our 1
government. They are well armed, and 3
will fight to the death whenever they are f
tUlU^lVUi
A Lover's Advice.
There was a large excursion party in
Detroit, the Free Press says, and about
noon three or four couples entered a
confectionary store and made purchases.
One girl didn't want candy,
and so her lover invested in ten cento'
worth of dates?a fruit neither had ever
eaten before?and he gave her the
largest half. As they stood at the door,
eating away, she came to one of the
seeds or pits, dropped it into her hand
and looked at him, and then tossed it
back into her month and closed her
teeth upon it. She bit and chewed tnd
bit, and was red in the face from her
exertions when her lover looked up,
realized tho situation, and called out :
" What on earth are vou driving at!
When ye come to seeds ye must stand
on yer toes and swallow 'em hull, and if
she goes down hard, I'm here to pat ye
on the back."
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A widow at Martha's Vineyard is exhibiting
the house in which her husband
was killek by lightning. Admissiou
costs twenty-five cento, and the curiosities
to be seen are a shattered bedstead,
broken mirrors, and a photograph of
the man after death.
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did. Single Copy 6 Cents.
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Resignation.
et nothing ra?\e thee ead and fretful,
Or too regretful;
Be a till?
rbat God hath ordered must be right?
hen find it in thin? own delight,
My will.
rhy uhould'st thou fill to-day with sorrow
About to-morrow,
My heart?
ue watches all with care most true;
oubt not that He will giro thee, too,
Thy part.
Items of Interest.
Upward of 8,000 newspapers are read
y the people of the United States.
Charlotte, Mich., claims to be the
ealthiefit place on earth. There hasn't
een a death in that town in fonrteen
2a rs.
" Ma, dear," said an intelligent pet,
what do they play the organ so load
>r when chnrch is over ? Is it to wake ^
s np ?"
The family tree of a Texas family
aows a branch on which several memers
have been nung for borrowing
orses.
The only way a farmer can get a Lttle
een with a city visitor is to borrow his
ilk umbrella to wear while he is getting
ae c )wf>.
A young poet of the realistio school
vites : 44 Time marches on with the
low, measured tread of a man working
y the day."
They had a bread famine at Sau Franisco
on the fifth of Jaly, owing to tho
atriotism of the journeymen bakers,
vafnoArf bake on the centennial
rortb.
Rice culture in Louisiana employs
0,000 people on 1,200 plantations; proaces
a crop worth $8,000,000, and doelops
business to the ext|nt of $10,*
00,000.
In 1792 the first canals of the United
tates were built in Massachusetts,
'hese were short ones on the Connectiut
river, one being two miles long and
lie other three.
The old mania for Persian cats with
)ng tails has afain broken out among
lie Daimios of Japai}. An enterprising
aptaiu of a merchant vessel sold three
short time ago for $3,200.
A novel method of electioneering was
dopted bv a couple of residents of
lonroe, Mich., who have agreed to ruu
foot race, the loser to vote for the
ther's candidate for the Presidency.
The Chinese question on the Pacifie
oast has assumed a more serious aspect
ince it has been discovered that immiration
from China has been the means
f introducing leprosy into California.
The Corpus Christi (Texas) Time*
as been studying human nature. It
ays;
To owe, is human,
To pay np, divine.
Kansas is bound to complain. Last
ear she sent out grasshopper mission ries
begging for bread. This year she
ays there are not men enough in the
tate to harvest the enormous crop of
rain.
It is calculated that the whole populaion
of Maine could stand on an area of
wenty-two acres, or an area of 1,000
iiuare feet, giving to each man, woman
nd child a space of one loot uy eiguieen
aches.
According to recent letters from Buiaria,
the Turkish troops have butchered
,ot less than twelve thousand people
rithin the last few weeks, and burned
cores of towns. Women and children
lave suffered tearfully.
It may be of interest to the top of
our head to know that the Sioux scalp
ong runs as follows :
Hoo, hoo, hoo, hi yi!
* Hi-yah, Li-y&h, bi-yi!
Hoo, hoo, hi-yah, bi-yi!
Thackeray said: " I can't help tellqg
the truth as I view it." In which
le was not a whit more virtuous than
he rest of us; the only trouble is that
n this enlightened age we can view the
ruth in any light and shape that we
rant to.
A Bremen paper insists upon it that
, live potato tug has been captured at
hat port lately, having worked its way
>ver to Europe in some empty corn
aoks. The police got possession of it
.nd placed it for exhibition under a
dosed glass.
A post mortem examination in Pitts)urgh,
Pa., the other day, after a myserious
death, revealed forty-two stones
n the liver of the subject. They varied
rom an inch to an eighth of an inch in
liameter, and doctors pronounce the
>ase unparalleled.
A very daring Kentucky girl lately
ode her horse close up to the edge of a
pawning chasm and proudly defied any
gentleman of the party to follow her ox?
imple. Not a soul stirred except one
pouth, who boldly backed his horse
nto the same position, and standing on
lis head in the saddle dared her to do
;he same.
A butcher of some eminenoe was in
3ompany with several ladies at a game
if whist, where, having lost two or three
rubbery one of the ladies addressing him
lsked : " Pray, sir, what are the stakes
low?" To which, ever mindful of his
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occupation, ho replied : " luftuam, mo
loeat rump I cannot sell lower than tenpence
ha'penny a pound."
General William H. F. Lee, eldost
jion of General Robert E. Lee, turned
[lis sword into a pruning hook after the
war, and is now one of the mo6t substantial
farmers in Fairfax county, \a. A
local paper deeciilMK, as having
" just passed our fitting behu d
a fine pair of mule^uMaseeihea^W know
that a master hand held the ribbons.'*
No sooner c.o we'hear of the building
of a now and apparently impenetrable
ironclad that it is followed by an account
of a more destructive weapon of offense.
After reading the account of the trial of
a new American missile which took a
splinter off the cheek of a book agent at
a hundred rods, we imagine that the
Eugli?h will conclude that their ironclad
navy is a miserable failure, .
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