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St i VOL. IY. NO. 40 ' floth-Eaten. I bad a beautiful garment, And I laid it by with care ; I folded it cioae wtti lavender leaves Iu a napkin due and fair ; 44 It is far too costly aerobe." I said, 41 For one like me to wear." I ISo never at morn or eveniDg I put my garment on ; It lay by itself under clasp aDd key In the perfumed dusk alone. Its wonderful broidery hidden Tiil many a day had gone. There were guests who came to my portal, There were friends who eat with me. And clad in soberest.raiment I bore them company; I knew that I owi.'ed a beautiful robe, ? Though its splendors none might see. 4 There were poor who stood at my portal, There were orphaned sought my care ; I gave them the tenderest pity, But had nothing besides to spare ; I had only the beautiful gaiment, And the raiment for daily wear. At la?t, on a fea-jt-dsy'e coming, I thought in my drees to shine; I would please myself with the luster Of its shifting colors fine ; I won'd walk with pride in the marvel Of its .arely rich design. So out from the dust I bore it? The lavender fell away? And fold on fold I held it up To the searching light of day. A'aa ! t'ie glory had perished TT7Ivila sKavA ir> ifo v\1oaa if lor lHUiO wJ_itic iu jvo Jk/iavv <v <??, Who seeks for the fadeless beauty Must seek for the use that seals To the grace 0f a constant blessing The beauty that uso reveals, | For into the fo.'ded robe alone The moth with its blighting steals. 4 ? A NIGHT LODGER. \ When I was in my twelfth year, papa ami mamma made np their minds to take a pleasure trip to the "Far West." This was something unusual; they sel dom left home. Well, they went, aDd iay two sisters, two brothers and myself had a gay time housekeeping." One day, all except myself and onr se. vaat girl were invited to a dinner party. I confess I dreaded to have them go. 'Kate, we will bring yon any amount of candy." " Now, pet, you know you and Sally can stay here just as well as not.v *' Don't be a baby," Kitty "?were the words directed to me. { Finally I resignedly bade them '* get _ out of my sight." Sally and 1 were good friends; she told me stories and sang songs till i began to think it was quite a tine thing to be left at home. Tired of staying in the house, I sauntered down the front walk, and amused myself by indulging in a forbidden pleasure?swirfgiug on the gate. Looking down the road, I spied a man oom ng along. I flew to the house, and, satisfied that he was coming in, I ran to Sally. Seizing her dress with both hands, I exclaimed: Oh, Sally ! there is a dreadful look ing man coming in." Sally picked up the poker and walked to the door, while I, imitating her example, snatched a stick of wood. Suddenly Sally cried: 44 Yon iittle goose, it is Bill McCarty !" Sure enough, it was Sally's beau. Her mother was very sick, and McCarty was sent to bring Sally home immediately. Here was a dilemma. Sally didn't want to leave me, and unless she started home then, she might not see her mother alive. It was nearly time for the rest of the folks to come home, so I managed to raise courage enough to say I was willing to remain alone. In a few minutes Sally was off, and I was left in possession of our great hou?o, which never seemed so large to me before. I tried to read, but it was impossible; all the murder stories I had ever he >rd came to my mind. I remembered that none of our doors could be locked. Papa, who had a few strangf ideas, declared locks were a nuisance. I felt that I was doomed. I svent out to the yard, and, to my dismay, discovered that the sky was overcast aud a *torm near at hand. I could see tli9 rain comiug; faster and faster it came; it wa3 soon at the house. Oh, how it did rain ! On each side ot our yard was a brook, pretty and peaceful in pleasant weather, but a very little rain transformed them both h io ragi jg torrents. >" 1 afoo 1 at the window I saw fir't OLo.~r:Jge, and then the otiier, swept off. I knev now that 1 must stay alone all right; it wordd tv? imrvvsible for my br<> h rs and sisters to get home. Ci 'ltt nr? fV. 1.; 5' V i"I P, ' " f /?? l 7i". J i J t.UiVU tiu LUI 44 iutuj-'t is," o?t< 11 stopped at our house over ni^ht, there wa. no public house near, lb my horror, I now paw one of them coming across the fields. Should I hiur ? No, that was not to be thought of. Without stopping to kt ock, the great rough man walked in. 44 Can 1 stay here all night?" I dared not ri fuse him, so, as firmly as I could, answer* d : 44 Yes." He seemed surprised at seeing no one but myself, and questioned me much. I told him my brother was up stairs writing ; that we two were alone, ihat was the first thing that entered my head to tell him. Such a villainous countenance that mau had ! His hair was cut close to his head, leaving his huge *ars in bold relief. Wicked looking eye-, and a brutal month, completed his general expression of fer<x*ity. Bedtime came, and I directed the man to a room up stairs in the servauts' department, not the 44up stairs" where I iiad said my brother was. Now that there was real danger, I was calm and reasonable. I fastened the door that led up stairs with my embroidery scissors, which happened to b?in my pocket, so a* to guard against surprise, and* hurriedly collecting our silverware, ^ parr-ed it to'mamma's roo jt and hid it \ N DA in the bed. No one would have sup posed the bed had been disturbed. I vr\s elated at my ingenuity. I then hunted up what jewels the girl.* possessed, and placing them, with wlia money I could find,in a box, I tied them ii my pocket. After doing this, I stole dowi j stairs and removed my scissors fron the door. These scissors were countec among my most valuable treasures, had had them many years, and had n< intent ion of losing them now. I expected the man would only wai till he thought I and my flotation brother was asleep, and would thei search the house for valuables, an< finish by killing me. Only one plan for escape that I origi | nated seemed feasible. I determined h j wait till 1 heard my lodger in the room I below, and then wrap myself in papa' j shawl, and jump out of the window, was net kept long iu suspense; the pe culiar squeak of the sitting-room doo warned me that it was time to act Qnielly I raised the window, and just a the stops approached the stairs, I jump ed to the ground. Fortunately, ther : was a bed of lilies directly beneath th ; window, and they softened my fall. That there was danger of breaking m | neck I had not thought. I was deter i mined to escape. j It was as dark as Egypt, the rain wa ! pouring down in torreuts, but this wa nothing in comparison with the horrc within the house. Half a mile back of our house lived friend pf papa's?Mr. Vincent. I re j solved to go there. I ran aloDg, stun j bling against fences and falling int j ditches, thinking I never knew such j long half mile. j Finally 1 reached the house, and mar : aged :o tell my story. Several youn } men happened to have been delaye | there by the storm, and, headed b j Henry Vincent, a youDg man of som | twenty-two years, they prepared to caj ! tnre my visitor. I was too excited to remain at Mi | Vincent's. I declared I would go bac j home. They all tried to pt rsuade m j not to do this except Henry Vincenl who said " such a little heroine shoul do as she pleased." With my han tightly clasped in Henry's, we started When we came within sight of oa house, we saw a light flitting from roor I to room, and a few words of boisterou I soi.g floated to us on the breeze. Si ! lently my friends surrounded the house | guarding every avenue of escape. HeDr i and I (L would not let him leave me fu i a moment) entered the house. W ; found the vagabond searching papa' ! desk. Ho had found several hundred dollar j that I had not seen, when preparing fc flight. He started to run when he sai uj, but finding men and revolvers on ai sides, he was obliged to surrender. He was safely bound, and then ques tioned. It appeared he was a note thief who had long baffled the police. He said wheu he learned the hous was occupied ODly by two individuals h was much elated. He did not intend t proceed to acts of violence, unless m brother aud I troubled him too nmcL When he found the house deserted, h concluded I had not told him the trut ?that I was alone. Not finding me, h supposed I had hid, and he would nc huut for me. Lifting me into his lap, Henry Vir ; oent jailed me the " bravest little worn# ' he ever knew." All the others praise ! and flattered me, till I began to thin : men were greater talkers than womer I All that night we staid there, but b< fore morning I was " raving like a mac , man." Three long weeks I remaine j unconscious. j When I became sensible, anxiou j faces were bending over me. Papt mamma, and all the folks were at m , bedside. " What is the matter ?" I asked. In a moment that dreadful day cam I to my remembrance. "Oh, I know," said I, with a shuc dor. It was a long, long time before I re gained my strength. Every person petted and praised me I war the heroine of the neighborhood Henry Vincent never tired of descanl ; iug upon my bravery, and devoted bin: i self to me in a manner that would hav ! been very aggravating to his lady friend ! had I been a few years older. My "lodger" was sent to prison t ' meditate for some years. Harriet's llumor. When Garrick was in Paris Prcville | the celebrated French actor, invito j him to his villa, and, being in a ga; humor, he proposed to go in one cf th hired coaches that regularly plied be tween Paris and Versailles, on whicl j road Preville's villa was situated. Whei | they got in Garrick ordered the coach ] man to drive on, but the driver repliei that lie could not until he got his com ! pliment of foar passengers. A capric I immediately seized Garrick. He de , terra ined to give his brother player ! specimen of his art. While the coach | man was attentively looking out fo ! passengers Garrick slipped out at th j opposite door, went round the coacli ; and by his wonderful command c j facial expression, palmed himself o: | upon the driver as a stranger. This h | did twice, and was admitted into th i coach each time as a fresh passenger, t A1- J - ?1 "*>'1 r lilt} aSlUXiiSUUifUb nuvi o(uiiianvu v Preville. Garrick slipped out a thir time aud addressed himself to th driver, who said, in a surly tone, thr he had "got his compliment.'* II would have driven off withont Garric had not Preville called out that as th strange^ appeared to be a very litt 1 I man they would* accommodate him an j make room for him. Those Spoons.?Tommy (who hp I been allowed a seat at table on the oect ! sion of a tea party, and is scrutinizin i the engraving on his teaspoon, which i I odd)?" Why, mother, these spoon ! were on Aunt's Jane's supper table th j other night, when Cousin Fred had hi j party.'* A "look" from the materrt j and a smile all around. The most infallible way of preventin I a kitchen door from creaking is said t ! be to engage a servant girl whose sweel ( heart to the JUonae to see her, FOR' RD .A. BEAUFORT, S. < What he Wanted. There are men in every locality who ------ - _ A1 _ ^ think tlat wnenever tney move we . event is worthy of notice in public print. One of these, with a personal mention 1 thirst, engaged the attention of an at1 tendant in a New Orleans office at an | early hour. He stepped in suddenly, r wearing a long linen duster and carrying a palmleaf fan, and said : "I am going away." . "Glad to hear it," said Bates, who evidently did not comprehend the case, or else he felt pleasure that the visitor , was about to travel. " Most everybody 'round here knows me," ventured the tourist. ' 44 Yes, sir, I reckon they do." 44 Any of the reporters about ?" 44 Not yet," said Bates, 44 they are so x powerfully hard worked nights, they are most generally late in the morn* _ ?? r 44 Ah! I thought they might mention * me in the paper, I am so well known." 8 Bates mistook the character of his customer at once. He thought he be? longed to the numerous class who e wish to be left out on account of the feelings of an old ana influential J family, and so said, soothingly : 44 If you have only been on a simple dnrnk I reckon they won't pnt you in s the paper, nohow. You might leave a ,s note to the boss, and ask him to snpr press you." The man laughed at the simplicity of a Bates, but he left a memorandum for J" the reporter to the effect that44 our old l" j and esteemed friend, the courteous and ? i ever popular Washington Smith, loft a the city laet night by the reliable Skimmer Handle line, for the purpose of l" voting the Centennial, etc." It was ? further intimated that Smith expected to be absent some weeks, and that he y should have a new stock of goods on his return, and tnat ne nau paray ueumcu to purchase a tall hat and a red necktie in New York if successful in his under,* takings." " Here," said Mr. Smith, " hand that e to the reporter, with ' my complipliments." 1 "Yes, sir," said Bates; who also re. marked to himself: " I'm most certain . they'll leave that mau out. He don't r look like he could be blamed for anyQ thing nowhow, he's so respectable like, 8 and it's like enough the other mau 1 struck him first." I 7 I r | The Grasshopper Described. 6 ' A Western journal says : The grass! hopper as a champion multiplyist has no R I equal. He lays (speaking generically r and not to put to fine a point upon it) an egg which is about the size and shape I of a long primer 0. In fact, he lays several of them. From August 1 until winter he is actuated by a reckless ambij tion to bore holes in the ground, of the size of a pipe stem, and to fill these e holes with cream colored 00. Ana e though ho is small he attends to his biz, 0 and is a triumphant success. In stature he is about a match for a sixpenny stub 1 | nail, in form he is like unto a lynchpin, * j and he wears a green sealing-wax head k j on him and a pair of glass eyes, so that 0 ! with his long tailed duster on he looks j like an unsophisticated and near sighted i schoolmaster. But unsophisticated isn't t j what's the matter with him. And nu^ | meration is his best mathematical hold. ^ i He will stand himself bolt upright like k ! a peg in one of those holes aforesaid, ( and view the heavens with an air of eub" lime serenity and wooden headed unconsciousness. Uan't Trnn fnnl vnnrself?he knows (1 I " J ? J ? I just what he is about. He prefixes himself like a figure 1 in the business, and. I adopting the decimal system of nota' tion, calmly places a 0 where it will do ^ ! the most good. That stands for 10, and before you can dot and carry one ho has ! added another cipher to that, and he i now reads 100. About this time you be[ ! gin to discover what sort of a rooster he i is, and you entertain a degree of awe for , i him not inspired by front view of his i rreeu goggles. Reasoning a posteriori , ! y v.u discover that he is a dangerous j' I neighbor. But while you stand amazed / : he rapidly suffixes fifteen or twenty * j more 000, carrying his problem into the B j million millions, and has sealed and B j cemented it up ready to be fired at you I next spring. In two minutes and a | quarter he has give a you a problem that i with all your powers of multiplication 1 cannot be solved or equated. He comj pounds his interest at 100 per cent, every j five seconds, puts a snap judgment on i your cornfield, and forecloses before you ! can say Jack Robinson. ! y: e Fast Stage Driving. tj ! A Santa Barbara correspondent of the Q Louisville Courier-Journal has seen the "fastest stage driver in California." 3 This is the breezy story: The tallest time I ever made was when a wager of e ' 810,000 was pending between the old ). | California stage company and the Pioa i neer stage company. I drove for the t_ ' California. The track was from Vir,r ginia City to San Francisco. Old Lent e j telegraphed me to drive him fifty-five 1} ' miles on the way. I strapped myself >f i on the box, and Lent and two fellows ff' jumped into the stage and I laid my e ! whip on. There was six horses, as fiue e flesh as you evef seen. Them horses 0 ! were worth 810,000. I just laid the >f ! whip on every jump. I never took off d the whip during tho whole fifty miles. e ; We were going down grade, down the Sierras. The road was pretty rocky, c ! and sometimes I didn't skip the chasms, k 1,000 feet deep, by more than two e ! inches. It makes my flesh crawl now to e j think of it, but then I was just nerved d up to do anything, and we come down ! that grade a-flukin. Taylor was to drive | the next fifty miles, and he starts down I the road and me after him, and we run is each other five miles before we could i- check up and change passengers. I was g black and blue all over, but I made is , fifty miles in four hours, the time's on is I record, or I wouldn't tell it. That's the e i fastest time ever made with a stage is I coach. The California beat by one hour il and twenty minutes the whole distance. Lots of Visitors.?Thirty thousand g ! visitors from "Massachusetts were estio; mated as present on the Centennial b j grounds on the day set apart for that | State. T RO" lND ' 0., THURSDAY, Of Fashion Notes. Shoulder shawls of Iceland wool. Straight linen collars are again talked about. It is not admissible to mix crape and embroidery. Amber beads are much sought after in a hay fever season. Novelties in jewelry are composed of gold shot with platina. Worth uses for traveling mantles the largest buttons he can find. Double capes, popular two years ago, are coming in favor again. Abroad at the present time there is a decided taste for small shawls. Art needlework, both as applied to furniture and dress, is decidedly the fashion. Either black sicilienne or blue or cream Indian cashmere are used for the cardinal oapes. Variegated leaves are arranged as ohatelaines across the skirts and bodices of evening dresses. Plain gros grain costumes, trimmed with dice check satins and silks, are counted among the novelties. The Marie Antoinette mantelet simulates sleeves, has long square ends, and at the back does not desoend lower than j the waist. The new style of wearing a shawl is to fold it us a scarf and to sew at each side an agraffo of silver, fastening it aa mantle. A knotty ecru material, trimmed with broad bands of red and black embroidery edged with ecru lace, is advised for an effective costume. A new model for a dressy polonaise is cut after the style known as the Queen of Navarre," with a lacing in front of narrow satin ribbon. Seaside mantles and capes are made of white cloth and trimmed with black braid three inches wide, black lace, and bows of black satin ribbon. '' Drap zephir " is a new cloth showing silk stripes of bright colors; as for instance, a gold stripe on a brown grouud, a red stripe on a navy bine ground, etc. A unique costume, worn on the occasion of the unveiling of the statue of the late Prince Consort, consisted of an clabo ate steel cuirass over a rich silver gray poult de soio dress, trimmed with velvet and steel. A widow wears the distinctive crape dress and widow's cap for a year and a day, and heavy crape for six months longer. Daughters wear crape for six months, black for three and half-mourning three. Sisters wear crape three months, black two and half and mourning one month. At a recent wedding the six bridesi maids were attired in cream colored | dresses trimmed with blue, each wearing i a massive gold locket, with a raised jeweled enameled monogram of the bride aud bridegroom, presented by the bridegroom. The jewels worn by the bride were pearls and diamonds. Luck .*u lumbers. Gibson, the famous sculptor, had a curious faith in mystic numbers, in three and seven especially. J. H. Freeman, in Appletons' Journal, relates a story of this peculiarity told him by Miss Harriet Hosmer, Gibson's favorite pupil. She had arranged a journey with him to Switzerland, and they had fixed to meet at the railway station in the morning. Gibson had brought his valise, caipet bag and a hat box. As they were quitting the baggage-room for the cars, Miss Hosmer observed that Gibson was forgetting his hat box. Sue caught it up to give it to him, when the cover fell off and she perceived it was empty, "You are leaving your hat behind you," said she, "for it is not in your box." "No," he replied, "I did not intend to bring it." "Oh," responded she, "I suppose you intend to buy a new one, and have brought your case to save purchasing another." "No, I have plenty of hats." " Well, then, in the name of common sense, why do ? ~ nr>r>A/>nonn rr? J'UU IjriLlg IU13 uuuowooroij utuiu brance?" "Well, you see, Miss Hatty, my valise counts one, my carpet bag makes two, and I bring my hat box to complete the trio. I always travel with three pieces." How She Escaped. The fat woman, who was at the sea cow and learned hog show near the Centennial grounds, gives the Philadelphia, Item the following account of her escape from the recent fire r The front stairs were on fire; I had to go down the back way. Now, the front stairs were ; built especially for me, of wood six inches thick, while the back stops were only fit for common light people like yourself. The first step I took crash went the wood, and J came near going myself. The liog was sqealing awfully, and both the sea cows were roaring like mad bulls, but I wasn't frightened a bit. I got a long smooth board that was in the room and placed it on the stairway. I tucked up my dress, and slid down gracefully. I smashed everything at the bottom, and got my foot wedged. Just as I got free a noble fireman rushed into the building. "Rescue me, rescue ue!" I cried. He came toward me, and I threw myself into his arms. He fell with a shriek. My weight had broken both his legs." I How he Shot. Old Daniel Boone strayed in npon a lot of men shooting at a mark, and rather sneered at their work. They did not know him, but challenged him for the best two shots in three. Daniel blazed away off hand (tbero were neither rests nor telescopic sights in those days), and put a ball exactly in the center of the powder spot. He fired again, and the boys set up a laugh, for ho did not even hit the tree. Then he took more deliberate sight, and now they fairly shouted?missed the tree again. Then j Daniel called them np to the tree, and asked one of them to cut out his first bnllet. It was done, and there were all three atop of each other in the one hole j made by the first. And then the bnys stopped laughing. "4 TJLLf OOMIV i "TOBEll 19, 1876. A ' MEDIUM ? CONFESSES. How JcDDinct Fooled the Rochester People?Some Ingenious Tricks. C. L. Jennings, whose pretended srriritnalistic seances have attracted much attention in Rochester, Elmira, and elsewhere, has made a full confession of the manner in which he deceived the public. He has made the following statements under oath : The cabinet wliioh I used was partitioned by a wire screen, having the aperture in the vacant end or side in whicb J did not sit. I saw that I could not stand this test at all, and that something must be done. I decided to get an accomplice, that we might consult together about what was to be done. Often at the midnight hour we have gone to my room to plan what we should do, and see if any alterations could be made in the cabinet. We decided to remove a small strip running aoross the top of the door and forming a part of the casing. Our idea was to hollow out a space which would extend up into the cornice of the cabinet, large enough to hide some false faces and beards, and have the piece we removed fixed to work securely with a spring. So we hollowed out a small space. We then replaced the piece, fixing it firm enough io hold in case of investigation. I had my acc >mplice paint me a couple of faces, one of a man and the other of a woman. I then got a small piece of wire, which I twisted up to put in my pocket, and told them I would shut the wire door, as Mr. ! Cutter, the control, said he thought I was strong enough to materialize through the screen. I entered the cabI inet and the singing and music commenced. I straightened out the wire, attached one of the faces to it, then rolled i he face up, poked it through the screen, and then unrolled it by turning the wire. I also had a piece of thick, dark worsted cloth, which I used as a beard for myself. On this night two * ? J ?* 'VWAA nnn of oonh IilCCN lippfHri'U tt b ULiV^j VUO cm u vt*vu aperture, which almost threw the audience into ecstasies. My accomplice was concealed in a closet opening off the cabinet. At the end of the closet was simply the scantling and sideboards. Leaving just space enough for my accomplice to stand, we placed a false end in the closet, which swung on hinges. From the closet it was impossible to detect a deception. A committee appointed marcned in with sealing wax and a candle, and sealed up the closet door and the window. This disconcerted me, and so the conditions were pronounced bad, and no manifestations were given; but, instead, I gave them a short lecture on Spiritualism, and stated that the next night, probably, everything would be nil right. The question was how to get my accomplice out of the clo?et. After all had gone 1 returned, and, heating a knife, unsealed the door. By this means no one could see that it had been done. We consulted together as to what we could do, and ho struck upon a plan which we adopted and worked successfully. We sealed all the screwy and sides tight, but from the inside we cut through the matched door in such a way that from the inside of the closet onehalf of it could be opened. I didn't mako much money, as I had to divide with my accomplice, who had me in his power. He used false hair, wigs, beards, etc., and put flour on his hands, to give a ghostly appearance. I We practiced in the daytime, with my ' I _ ( self as audience and he as the spirit. Many people came, and recognized in the seances faces of deceased friends. One even ng I attended a temperance meeting, and heard Gen. Riley tell about Adonijah Green, who forty years before kept hotel where the Whitcomb House now is. In my next seauce he j appeared, and no one knew him. But on inquiry they found such a man had lived here at that time, and kept hotel. I went up to Mount Hope, and from tombstones obtained names to use. I got the names of Lieutenant Kline and Gen. Stevens. For baby faces we ueed a piece of black velveteen, cutting out a small round hole for the face. This, placed over a face, looked like the small features of a babe. Bouquets, rings, etc., were taken from the hands of the spectators and returned while my hands were in the stocks. A Mr. Tubbs one evening proposed additional seals to the closet door, j I objected on the ground that the con! trol said too many alterations had ali ready been made. Mr. Tubbs finally asked me to allow him to enter the closet and seal it in his own way. The control refused, but said at the next sitting a manifestation would be given which would satisfy all?a form would walk out of the cabinet in their midst; but Mr. Tubbs said he would not be satisfied until his demand was complied with, and, furthermore, no more seances could be given until it was done. I said ! I was greatly incensed at the control, be1 cause he would not consent to this, but | I had no alternative but to stop. Mr. | Tubbs was determined, and I saw the ' game was up. I knew that the Rev. Mr. j Stratton was acquainted with some of j my relatives, and so I went to him for I advice. He advised me to make a clean I breast of it. - ' He Had to Go It Hone. "I want to be shown through the Treasury department," said a six-foot j visitor, with a duster and a carpet-bag | attached, stepping up to a well known ! official in the department, the other ! day. "I am afraid, sir, that yon will 1 have to trust to your own ingenuity in ! your wanderings, as there is no one to ! accompany you," po'itely replied the j official. " Well, what in thunder are all j these young men doing here?" The courteous official couldn't or wouldn't ! tell the truth, that the young men were hard at work watching the young ladies j taking their daily noon exercise, but simply said: " They are not paid to act j as guides." "Oh, well, I'll pay 'em, if that's all." But when convinced that it would hurt their feelings if such a proposal were made, he concluded he would Iiave to go it alone. After all. says an old doctor, thero are only two kinds of di-ease?the oue of wbicli you die, and the other of which i you don't. 1ERCI $2.00 per 1 The Demon of Drink. The following is-on extract from one of the lectures of J. J. Talbott, who died lately at Elkhart, Ind., from the effects of a drunken debauch ; But now the struggle is over, I can survev the field and measuro the losses. I had position high and holy. The demon tore from aronnd me the robes of my sacred office and sent me forth churchle88 and Godless, a very hissing and byword among men. Afterward I had business large and lucrative, and my voice in all large courts was heard pleadicg for justice, mercy and the right. Bat the dust gathered on my open books, and no footfall crossed the threshold of the drunkard's office. I had moneys ample for all necessities, but they took wings and went to feed j the coffers of the devils which possessed i me. I had a home adorned with all that I wealth and the most exquisite taste could suggest The devil crossed its threshold and the light faded from its chambers; the fire went out on the holiest of altars, and leading me through its portals, despair walked forth with her, and sorrow and anguish lingered withio. I had children, beautiful, to me at least, as a dream of the morning, and they had so eutwiued themselves around their father's heart that no matter where it might wander, ever it came back to them on the bright wings of a father's undoing love. His destroyer took their hands in his and led them away. I had a wife ' whose charms of mind and person were ' '' * 1 1 ~ sucii mat to see uer wm w icwowuvi, and to know her was to love. * * * For thirteen years we walked the ragged path of life together, rejo oing in its sunshine and sorrowing in its shade. This infernal monster couldn't spare me even this. I had a mother who for long, long years had not left her chair, a viotim of suffering and disease, and her choicest delight was in reflection that the lesson which she had taught at her knee had taken root in the heart of her youngest born, and that he was useful to his fellows ami an honor to her who bore him. But the thunderbolt reached even there, aud there it did its most cruel work. Other days may cu^e all but this. Ah ! me; never a word of reproach from her lips; only a tender caress; only a shadow of a great and unspoken grief gathering over the dear old face; only a trembliDg hand laid more lovingly on my head; only a closer clinging to the cross; only a piteous appeal to Heaven if her cup at last were not fall. And while her l5oy raved in his wild delirinm two thousand miles.away, the pityiDg angels pushed the golden gates ajar and the mother of the drunkard entered into rest. And thus I stand : a clergyman without a care; a barrister without brief or i business; a father without a child; a husband without a wife; a son without a , parent; a man with scaicely a friend; a i soul without hopo?all swallowed up in the msolstrom of drink. A Nice Question of Law. A singular and very interesting case in the administration of criminal law has just arisen in Ontario, Canada. Two . men. named Young were convicted of murder and sentenced to be banged in June. Just before the day set for their execution they overpowered their jailer and escaped. While search was making for them" the court extended the day for i carrying out the sentence to July 17, but when it came round the prisoners had not been rearrested, and the officials neglected to fix another day. Since then the Youngs have been captured, and the time set for their execution having passed, it is a nic8 question what to do with them. Some papprs in Canada even contend that the murderers cannot legally be banged, taking evidently the same view of the matter which was taken not long since by a man in Texas, who, finding himself ordained in the warrant to be hanged " between the hours of ten and twelve in the forenoon," set himself to make a three hours' dyiDg speech and confession. There is not, so far as we are aware, any Canadian precedent, but there are certainly a couple of cases recorded in the English books which cover the point. In 1746 the brother of the Earl of Der went water, Charles Radcliffe, was , convicted of high treason, but escaped to France before the day set for his execution. He was subsequently taken on board a French vessel and brought before the court of king's bench on a writ of habeas corpus, the rocord of his con, viction and attainder being removed , into the court by certiorari. The attorney-general prayed execution, but the prisoner claimed that he was not the person who had been convicted and s^htenced. To try theissue a jury was im1 1 ? ? ? AjnAfflA f A i j paneiea ana gave a vercuut autm oo w Uadcliffe, who was subsequently be, headed on the day fixed by the court. Twenty years later, in 1765, three murderers under sentence of death esi caped from Maidstone jail and were not recaptured till after the day set for their execution. They denied their identity, but it was thoroughly established, and sentence was ordered to be carried out, though the court did rot fix any day. It is altogether likely that the same practice will obtain in Canada, and that j after the brothers Young have been given a hearing, and their identity has been proven, they will be consigned to the gallows thev came so near escaping. After the Kobbers. Speaking of the Minnesota bank robbers, a local paper says : It may look ridiculous for a thousand men to hunt down six ontlaws, one or two of whom are wounded; but the woods afford splendid opportunity for amburcade. The people of the section where the robbers have been discovered are ignorant, superstitious Bohemians, who could readily be made the obedient tools of the outlaws, who scruple at nothing. Every foot of the ground must be gone over, and there will be shooting done before the robbers are captured. The course of the desperadoes in the main has been due southwest, following the belt of timber which is unbroken from Northfield to the State line, and everywhere dense, they have once doubled on their track, and in the flight of fifty hours or more bad not proceeded more than thirty-five miles from Northfield, the place where the robbery was committed, when last seen, 1W' %* AL. .ml Single Copy 5 Cents. The Army of Tramps. Last winter, according to an estimate made by a gentleman who has studied the tramp question, New York city alone j Anniainfid thirty thousand tramps. This year, owing to the depression in trade, the suspension of mining and manufacturing interests, which has turned many hitherto honest workingmen into tramps, the invasion from the country roads cannot fall far short of fifty thousand. Of these, ten per cent, may obtain employment sufficient to support them (though this estimate is regarded as tx> liberal); thirty per cent, will seek refnge in minor correctional institutions, and poesibly ten per cent, will be admitted into hospitals to recuperate after their summer's jourueyings. It is fair to suppose that more than one-hall of the now arrivals must resort to crime end for a living. Each road leading into the metropolis pours in its quota daily, llagged, dirty, j footsore and weary, they are docking in j by scores and hundreds. New York is their Mecca?the goal of their winter aspirations?their shelter against the chilling winds of the autumn and the biting frosts of December. Each argues to himself that in a city of a million souls there must be room for one more, and so this vs?tf Rrmj-a motley corps | of unarmed Falstaffian warriors?como | tramping id. ) By far the greater portion of the tramps seeking the cities in the winter are trimps from choice, who would sooner beg than work, bur* fear to steaL Some are thieves who tramp to steal, although keeping up appearanoes by begging once in a while. The number actually in search of work (every man will tell you he wants a job if you ask him) is comparatively small, and the fagitives from justioe, who travel as far from railroads, telegraph wires and large towns ? A | as possible, are numerous auuw? class is made up of peddlers of trifles. Their visits both in town and country are almost as annoying as those of the begging tramps. These are called "fakirs," a name which applies also tQ the lower grades of traveling showman/ They differ from the other tramps to tbe extent of paying their way most of the time and never stealing. In the winter, though, when confined to the cities where their wares will not sell, they take their places with their companions of the summer, and "rough it" as best they may. It is fair to say of these men, however, that their crimes seldom ex- . tend beyond "jumping a hotel bill " or "beating" a boarding house keeper, and these little failings are not unknown among persons much higher in the social scale. Black Suits. The richest black silk suits, says a fashion journal, have overdresses of black brocade, e.thor silk brocade, or else that with raised velvet figures. The brocade basque has sleeves to match, and is trimmed about the neck and .wrists with folds and plaitiags. The edge of the basque is not trimmed, as it is hidden beneath the brocade drapery whioh forms the overskirt, and the effect of a polonaise is produced. Very rich fringe edges the drapery. The lower skirt is of silk, with plaited flounces. Plainer black silk costumes have two narrow gathered flounces, with a cluster plaited flounce between. Over till. is a long overskirt trimmed with wide, heavy fringe. The overskirt is sewed to the lower skirt, and is shirred down one side, while the other has long loopUr^a i-Co/uiii nniffi low down upon it. ull uuno Feather bands will aLso bo much used on black silk suits, Loth as the heading for the bunch of ruffles and for trimming the overdresses. Long wadded silk clcaks will be worn with black costum* s. Fur bands will be most stylish trimmings for black velvet and silk dresses, as well as for the long cloaks that are to be worn over them. Black cashmere suits and the square figured woolens will be trimmed with galloon braids, fringe, and silk plaitings. Presence of Mind. A few nights ago, says the San Antonio Herald, a married couple were attacked by a dog. Of course the lady screamed and tried to run, but her male protector, quick as thought, caught her by the shoulders, and held her firmly between the infuriated animal and his person, while he whispered in a hoarse voice, to encourage her : " Don't you dare let go of me, darling. I'll stand by you even if ho does bite. Keep cool now," etc. Never losing his presence of mind for an instant, the daring man baffled every attempt of the fierce brute to hang him' self by his teeth to the seat of his nearly new pants, by interposing his helpless companion. The owner of the animal interfered, and as the couple moved off in triumph he was heard to rebuke the lady he had just saved, almost from the jaws of death, by saying : " If you bad only iet that dog bite you, Matildy, I might have sued the city for $10,000 damage p. Knf. vnn never did have much sense." j Tliere are some men who are never sentimental, bnt mean business all tho time, and he was one of them. Military Discipline in China. A terrible instance of the'severity of tho military discipline enforced by certain Chinese officers occurred only the other day at Soochow. As a band of soldiers was being marched through the town the attention of one of the men was attracted by an itinerant needlewoman?one of those virtuous and useful ladies whose whole stock in trade consists of a housewife, a tnimble, and a little stool; and this man, is seems, took the liberty of patting or stroking the woman's cheek as he passed. Up sprung the outraged lady, and retorted in good set terms, treating the adventurous warrior to a sound bit of her mind at the top of her injured voice. The officer in cbargo stepped up to her. " Don't make such a noise," he said, quietly; " be patient; it shall not occur agaiD." The soldiers passed on, and in a quarter of an hour the mp.L s head was adorniDg the city walK It is said the woman who had been the ini.o* cent oause of the catastrophe, was sa^Iy grieved at this unloosed for and dren iul result. w 'V -fV