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X Two Sides of a Sentiment. When two-ye&r-old May-Blossom Comes down in clean white dress And runs to find “ dear Auntie,” ( nd claim her sweet caress i Auntie tabes np Blossom, l her eyes—they glow and shine, Oh, pretty Baby Blossom—if yon were only itry, r, 5e icing f halt the cake is bare, Then Anntie puts down Blossom, Andjier_aye*—they glow and shine, i, naughty Baby Blossom- if you were only mine /” —Scribner's Magazine. Harvest Song, budding, and tlittl mxm otmtal VOL.. UI. NO. loS. 1 OI.D MKHIR8. VOI.. VII. NO. 300. f AIKEN, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1878. $2.00 per Annum, in Advance. were clover was When ruses sweet. And the grasses were cool, and long, and green, There was laughter and song with the hay- . maker’s feet, ; labo?*went merrily on between : 1 the hay was gathered from every lea, Itfae babbling brooks ran to tell the sea, “The hay is home !” at was yellow in all the land, *s the earth with the harvest kept tune with the binding jtjth the sheaves piled np so high. grains, and the full barn's glee, fr. ng brooks ran to tell the sea, “ The wheat is home.” E7 shades where the apples Srj-jjhore the can*>« .. fonffeTOB white as snow, Down in the swamps where the rice is beat— There’s never a land in the wide world free Where the babbling brooks have not told the sea, “The harvest’s home,” A Strange Adventure. on I etam- -I hope private “ Good morning, sir—a lovely day !” I started rather guiltily from the stooping position in which the voice of my unknown colloquist had accosted me. In truth and in fact, I was engaged in examining the padlocked moorings of a graceful little boat whose keel lay on the shore, and meditating to myself how very agreeable a row across the crystal lake would oe through the silence of the purple August daybreak. “ Good morning,” I responded, turn ing to meet the inquiring gaze of a tall, gentlemanly-looking personage, appar ently about thirty-five years of age, who stood leaning against a little gate. He was dark and handsome, with piercing eyes, a forehead slightly bald, and a jet- black mustache, twisted jauntily away from a small, nervous mouth ; and his dress was tasteful and faultless to the last degree. He had taken off his light straw hat to greet me, and now stood apparently awaiting some more definite explanation on my part. “ I beg your pardon, mered, rather confused ; I am not trespassing grounds ? ’ “Why, sir, you are undeniably on —L^ij^ifi-gxounds,” returned the stranger, smiling ; “ButfT'tliliitjBa won’t call it by any such harsh name as trespass ing. You are staying in the neighbor- ood?” “lam staying at the ‘ Lake House ’ for the summer,”! explained; “and I suppose my morning walk has led me further than I at first intended.” “ You are about six miles from the house, sir,” returned my companion, courteously, “and, judging from your occupation when I came down to the gate, j ou would not object to dressing back by water ?” " I laughed, and acknowledged the fact. “To tell you the truth, sir, I was just thinking how cool and pleasant a short row would be. In fact, if the boat had not been fastened, I should most assur edly have braved all consequences, and boldly ventured the experiment.” “I think we can overcome that objec tion,” said the stranger quietly, turning to an old ruined tree, whose gnarled trunk overhung the transparent tide, and drawing a key from its hollow depths. ‘ ‘ Suppose we get up an appetite for breakfast together ? I am not an experi enced oarsman myself, and I suppose you understand the art of propelling on the water ?” “Just give me an opportunity, and see if I don’t indicate my education in aquatic matters,” I said, in high good immor, springing into the fairy-like lit tle shell, followed by my new acquaint ance. “ Really, sir, this is an unexpected treat. I scarcely know how to thank you ently for your courtesy.” “Then-flo not attempt it,” said the gentleman, inclining his head with a dignified, high-bred politeness, which impressed me more and more in his favor. “] assure you my gratification is entirely mutual. Pull to the right a little ; we shall get entangled in yonder floating sheet of water lilies if we are not careful. Upon my word, this is a ?st perfect morning for the water.” It was, indeed ! Across the diamond flitter of the lake the golden splendors August sunrise were just beginning ’-reflected; and in the distance, a ige of dim, misty, mountain-peaks leaned against the horizon like far-off sentinels, almost losing their outline in the blue radiance of the cloudless axc’.is. “ l wish 1 •SVre an artist!” broke al most involuntarily from my lips. My companion smiled. on making your acquaintance. Will you allow me to reciprocate your frank ness?” He bowed low as he presented me with a crumpled bit of brown paper that he extracted from an old cigar-case. Upon it was inscribed, in staring letters of red ink, the one word, “ Albert.” “ Albert — who ?” I involuntarily questioned. “ Albeit, sir !” returned my compan ion, starting into a sitting posture, and regarding me with stern dignity. “Prince Albert, sir ! Albert of England, Scotland and Wales !” I stared at him, aghast. Was the man mad, or dreaming ? “ To your knees, sir!” he said, with a sharp, sudden imperiousness. “ Have yon no reverence for royalty ?” I obeyed his quick sign, almost before I knew what I was doing. He smiled complacently, at the same time drawing a gaudy tlmufi afar from his pocket, and gravely affixing it to the left breast of his coat. “Yes, my friend,” he went on, im pressively, “you are now in the presence of the prince consort of Great Britain! Men have amused themselves by dis seminating the idle tale that I was dead ; that’s all they know about it; I am not dead ; and, what is more, I shall never die. I am privileged with the gift of everlasting existence. As long as I wear this jeweled star, death can never come near me !” I felt the cold perspiration oozing from every pore in my body; I could | almost feel myself grow pale as I became fully convinced that I was out upon the solitary lake alone with a madman ! I had heard, when first I came to this mountain retreat, that there was a large asylum somewhere in the vicinity, but I had never given the affair a second thought. Now I was reaping the conse quences of my own folly and reckless ness. His dark, piercing eyes roved restless ly from object to object. Suddenly they rested on my appalled countenance. “You don’t believe what I am say ing ?” The remembrance of what I had often read and heard about the expediency— nay, the positive necessity—that existed for indulging monomaniacs to the top of their bent, in whatever whim might possess their minds, occurred to me, and I hastened to reply, “Of course I be lieve it! Why shouldn’t I ?” “Ah, why shouldn’t you, indeed? But people are so sceptical now-a-days. Now, when Victor Emmanuel was stay ing at my house, and Pope Pius came down by way of the Mediterranean Take care where yon are going ?” I had thought to take advantage of the new path into which his troubled mind had wandered, to divert our course a little more shoreward; but his cunning, roving eye was upon me in an instant. “ It—is getting very hot here,” I stammered. “I thought, perhaps, should find it cooler on shore.” “ Ah-h-h !” he hissed, putting his face so close to mine as to glare up into my eyes, uner the very shadow of my wide- brimmed hat; “you’re a traitor and a hypocrite, like all the rest of ’em ! But I’m prepared for you. Sec !” And with a burst of laughter, so dis sonant that the very tide seemed to tremble and quiver, he flashed a long, sharp knife in the air, describing a circle of gleaming light around his head. My blood seemed turned to ice in my veins as it dazzled across my vision. “ Put up the knife, your Royal High ness,” I said, counterfeiting an off-hand ease that I by no means felt. “ Where’s the use of it between friends? Let’s i talk about the queen.” I.was the more anxious to secure his attention, as I saw moving figures on the short, scarcely half a mile away from us, the flutter of a white handker chief, and then a total disappearance of the figures. Help was at hand, I felt quite sure, if 1 could only manoeuvre so as to reach it. “No, not about the queen,” said the poor mania^ os , ‘ that grieves and afflicts me.” ^ d his knife as he spoke. “But, do you s.now,” he continued, “ I am haunted ?” “ Haunted ?” I said. “Yes—haunted by a horrible, ngv^ old woman—a witch, or ogress, a female fiend. Now, do yon know,” he said, moving close up to me, and speaking in a low, mysterious voice, ‘ ‘ she won’t let me alone ?” “No?” “She won’t. Sometimes she climbs up among the stars at night, and sits there winking through my bed-room window all night long. We were within a few rods of the clustering bushes that I knew contained help. Oh, heaven, could I but have reached their friendly shelter. How like a moss of lead my heart sank in my bosom, as I saw him catch up the oars, and strike out once more in a contrary direction. But as he turned his head away, I caught up the sheathed knife, and flung it hurling upon the shore. “ What’s that?” he demanded, turniug quickly round. “It’s your witch,” I said, as uncon cernedly as I could. “ Don’t you think we ought to go ashore and see what has become of her ?” His eyes roved restlessly along the green bank. “ I don’t know ; what do you think ?” “Why, she is your enemy. No doubt it was she who spread the report of your death. You ought to address her in a conciliatory manner ; and if you could once bring her to terms, what would pre vent you from assuming your proper station once more in England ?” “That’s very true. Here, head her in toward the land. I wonder I never thought of that before. ” Poor fever-brained lunatic ! Even in the consciousness of my own mortal peril, my heart ached for the crazy flights of his sick fancy. We were close to the friendly land; the long, silver-green tresses of the wil lows almost touched my throbbing fore head, when my strange companion start ed to his feet with a yell that aroused all the echoes floating over the peaceful lake. “Traitor—spy ! double-dyed villain! you have been deceiving me. Your hirelings lurk among yonder bushes. But it is in vain ! the royalty of England shall never fall a prey to base artifices like these.” He sprang towards me like an infuri ated tiger. At the same instant the shore seemed to become alive with hurrying figures ; and with a last im pulse I caught up the rope that lay coiled in the bottom of the boat, with one end affixed to an iron hook, and threw it desperately shoreward. I could see a tall form plunging waist deep in the watei- to grasp at it; and then the cling ing arms of my terrible companion were wreathed round me, and I knew no more. * * v * “ Are yon better, sir ?” “Better? Yes — no—I can’t tell. Where am I ?” “ Here, at the little inn, snug in bed; but you’ve had a stormy time of it. What on earth possessed you to go out in a boat with that poor gentleman ?” “Mad, isn’t die?” I asked, with all the frightful occurrences of the morning crowding back upon my mind, as one may remember the hideous phantases of a troubled dream. “Mad as a March hare, sir; thinks he’s Prince Albert. They say he’s the we I worst case in all the asylum, sir—escaped i last night, and has been wandering about the shores all the morning.” “ Is he safe at last?” “ Yes, sir ; they had a deuce of a time getting hold of him though. He threw you overboard as if you had been a wil low twig, and then swam like a fish himself. Dick Dayton — that’s his keeper, sir—says he’s got the strength of twenty Samsons in those long arms of his.” Thus ended that long frightful morn ing among the peaceful solitudes of Shadow Lake ; but I carry an everlast ing memorial of it, in the shape of a single lock of hair that gleams, white as silver, among the chestnut luxuriance that curls over my temples. While I live, aud while that lock retains its ghastly whiteness, I shall never remem ber my peril and deliverance without a shudder. Don’t Dispute. The rule for living happily with others is to avoid having stock subjects of dis putation. It sometimes happens, when people live much together, that they come to have certain set topics, around which, from frequent dispute, there is such a growth of angry words, mortified vanity, aud the like, that the original subject of difference becomes a standing subject for quarrel; and there is a tend ency in all minor disputes to drift down to it. If people wish to live well together, they must not hold too much to logic, and suppose that everything is to be settled by sufficient reason. Dr. Johnson saw this clearly with regard to married people when he said: “ Wretched would be the pair above all names of wretched ness who should be doomed to adjust by reason, every morning, all the minute details of a domestic day. ” But the application should be much more general than he made it. There is no time for such reasonings, and nothing that is worth them. And when we recol lect how two lawyers or two politicians can go on contending, and that there is no end of one-sided reasoning on any subject, we shall not be sure that such contention is the best mode for arriving at truth. Certainly it is not the way to arrive at good temper! But to see families forever disputing ! —it is a spectacle that ought always to be considered disgraceful; and, when the members of those families come to regard the question rightly, there must be hours when each member feels the wrong and discontent of the practice. The father and mother, perhaps, have some question of dispute among them selves, which they will neither of them stoop to settle in a kindly aud generous way. They are both proud, haughty, or, we should more truly say, stubborn, and neither will yield an inch, both being positive of having the right on their side. This creates a habit of querulousness and quarrelsomeness which extends to the children ; and families of this char acter are noted for their disagreeable ness. The lives they lead may be termed “ a cat-and-dog’s life ;” though, indeed, we have seen cats and dogs of the same family, when not set at each other by quarrelsome children, live very happily together. These animals, of so different habits and pursuits, and who hate each other so viciously, will, when brought together under the same roof, reconcile their differences and become the best of friends. We recommend their example to the cousideration of the human, reasoning beings who are brought together bv some of the circumstances of life, anil who take so much delight in disputing about trifles. Words of Wisdom. What have kings that privates have ■ not, too, save ceremony? Men of genius are often dull aud inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone. Excessive indulgence to others, es pecially children, is, in fact, only self- indulgence under an alias. Get too many suits brought for you by tlm lawyer, and you will get none brought to you t»j +ajior. When a man j iag nothing in the world to lose, lie is thin i u the best conditi^o exiod- every- to sacrifice for th. thing that is his. There is a wonderful vigor of constitu tion in a popular fallacy. When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is Sometimes she ! astonishing how hard it is to get it out comes jumping down from tne clouds j of the world. among the rain-drops, and sometimes— There are few men who, were they There she is now, with three pair of fius, certain of death on their seventieth birth- and a face like a fish’s !” jay, WO uld think of preparation. To- He uttered au eldritch screech, as he morrow may be the gate of an eternit ,, xt i ,. . . - ] looked down into the clear, shining 1 and thev - in their follv “ Need a man be an artist to enjoy the | j eepR J cir 1 - y * of such a scene as this?” he ! ,, ' Let s escape from her!” I beauties asked. “A little more towards yonder jmint, if you please, sir. Now wo are out in the channel, and you can pull as hard as you choose. The boat will al most move of herself, in fact. ” He threw down his oars and leaned back in the stern, adjusting his straw hat so as to shield his eyes from the ioo vivid glare of the morning suu- shiue. “One scracely thinks of civilization in such a secluded spot as this,” he mur mured, lazily. “ I suppose there isn’t a living soul within a mile of us, always excepting birds and fishes.” “ I suppose not,” I assented. “But, nevertheless, ceremonies of society cannot entirely be c-iist aside. May I know whom I have escape claimed, vigorously seizing my “ She can’t follow us on to dry laud, that’s certain. Pull away.” “No, she can’t. We might hide among the woods, only, if she should turn into a squirrel, and jump up and down among the trees—she does some- ! times !” “ Well, then, I’ll borrow a gun, aud dispose of her,” I said, still pulling Jdes- perately towards the shore, while the perspiration, cold and clammy as mid night dews, streamed down my temples. “ What are you in such a hurry for ?” demanded my companion, rather mo- thelorms and | rOSel T: “ H ° 1<1 hard a little ’ can ’ t you ?” I checked my exertions. Evidently, had the pleasure of helping to an hour’s h® was in no humor to be trifled with. j Measure?” I drew my card from my waistc«at- j>.>cket, and handed it across, with a smile. “ Vernon Cheveley, eh ? A very pi etty name, sir. I congratulate myself Moral influence: The influence ot a cx- good example is far-reaching ; for our oars, experience and conflicts with the world lead us at times to indulge misanthropic sentiments, and charge all men with sel fish and impure motives. A man of genius never seeks applause; while the little-minded of those who have I but a small portion of intellect,4ry by ( their vanity aud conceited boastings to ' llls ut m 0 | build upon the mental resources of others their own fame and reputation. I However, it is for the best, for they soon ' fall to their proper level — once they reach it they never rise. True kindness must often set impulse aside aud seem to sacrifice itself for the time, that it may eventually justify its own principles. Would we be truly mer- ; ciful, we must consider the contingencies that may rest upon our impulsive kind- ‘No hurry at all,” I said, as calmly ; ness. If to please one individual we sacrifice the happiness of twenty, or in cur the risk of doing so, we are cruel in our benevolence. If to relieve present distress we create a p>-v* future, we are most ! as possible; “only, you see, the old j witch is following you up pretty close, 1 and ” “We are too near the shore,” he in terrupted, abruptly. A Feathered Bandit. John Burroughs, in Scribner for January, calls the shrike a “bird with the mark of Cain upon him. ” He says : But let me change the strain and con template for a few moments this feath ered bandit—this bird with the mark of Cain upon him—(Collyria borealis), the great shrike or butcher-bird. Usually, the character of a bird of prey is well defined; there is no mistak ing him. His claws, his beak, his head, his wings, in fact his whole build point to the fact that he subsists upon live crea tures ; he is armed to catch them and to slay them. Every bird knows a hawk and knows him from the start, and is on the lookout for him. The hawk takes life, but he does it to maintain his own, and it is a public and universally known fact. Nature has sent him abroad in that character and has advised all crea tures of it. Not so with the shrike; here she has concealed the character of a murderer under a form as innocent as that of the robbin. Feet, wings, tail, color, head aud general form and size are all those of a song-bird—very much, indeed, like that master songster, the mocking-bird—yet this bird is a regular Bluebeard among its kind. Its only characteristic feature is its beak, the upper mandible having two sharp processes and a sharp, hooked point. It cannot fly away to any distance with the bird it kills nor hold it in its claws to feed upon. It usually impales its vic tim upon a thorn or thrusts it in the fork of a limb. For the most part, however, its for«i secr aH to consist of insects- - spiders, grasshoppers, beetles etc. It is the assassin of the small birds, whom it often destroys in pure wantonness, or merely to sup on their braius, as the Gaucho slaughters a wild cow or bull for its tongue. It is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Apparently its victims are unacquainted with its true character and allow it to approach them, when the fatal blow is given. Too Fond of Coffee. An Italian statuette-seller, going on his rounds in the Paris streets and carry ing a tray of plaster casts on his head, stumbled upon a well-stuffed leather portfolio lying in the road. As it con tained $2,500 in bank-notes, it was a per fect bonanza to a gamin. What could he not buy with it ? But there was one thing for which he cared above all others. It was strong coffee. His first thought was that he could drink a dozen cups of coffee a day, if he chose. He a cafe and swallowed, one after another, six cups of strong coffee | with liquor. The next day he paid a j second visit to the restaurant and in- j dulged in a fresh debauch ; and he re- i turned on the following day to order I coffee with the same recklessness. His j continued revelry excited the suspicions I of the police, and he was finally arrested. I Ten bank-notes were found in his j pockets. Twenty dollars, had lasted him several days and he was evidently congratulating himself on having re sources wherewith he could buy and drink gallons of strong coffee during the winter. Driving Rats Away Without Poison. We Show of three methods : First, the old French plan : this is followed chiefly in Paris by men who make it a special business. They take a deep tub, with water on the bottom and a little elevation in the middle like an island, on which is only place for just one rat to sit on. The trap is covered and has a large balance-valve, opening down ward. — On the middle of this valve a piece of fried pork or cheese is placed, and when the rat walks on to it to get the cheese the valve goes down, drops the rat into the water, and moves back iu position. A road is made from the rat-hole to the top of the tub by means of pieces of board rubbed with cheese, so as io make the walk attractive for the rafo In the course of a night, some ten, twenty, or even more rats may go down, md if the island was not there, tliey would be found most all alive in the morning quietly swimming around ; but the provision of the little island savesthe trouble of killing them, because their egotistic instinct for preservation causes them to fight for the exclusive possession of the island, on which, in the morning, the strongest rat is found in solitary possession, all the others being killed and drowned around him Second, the New York plan, invented by one of the Friends. The floor near the rat-hde is covered with a thin layer of a most caustic potasso. When the rats walk )u this it makes their feet sore ; these they lick with their tongues, wh ch makes their mouth sore, and the result is that they shun this locality, not alone But appear to tell all the rats in the ndghborhood about it, and eventu ally tie house is entirely abandoned by them, notwithstanding the houses nrounl arc full of rats. Third, the Dutcl method. This is said to be used successfully in Holland. We have, howe^r, never tried it. A number of rats aie left to themselves in a very large trap or cage, with no food whatever ; their craving hunger will cause them to fight, and the weakest will be beaten by the st;ongest. After a short time the fight b renewed, and the next weakest is theyictim, and so it goes on till one stron' rat is left. When this has eaten the lad remains of any of the others, it is set oose; the animal has now acquired such a taste for rat flesh that he is the terror of all ratdom, going about seeking what rat he may devour. In an incred ibly short time the premises were abandoned by all other rats, which will not come back before the cannibal rat has left or died. — Manufacturer and Builder. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. ^ True Success in Life. Benjamin Franklin attributed his suc cess at a public man, not to his talents or hie power of speaking—for these were noderate—but to his known integ rity of character. “Hence it was,” he says, f ‘ that I had so much weight with my fellow-citizens. I was but a bail speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitaiion iu my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carriesr my point.” Character creates confidence in men in high station as well as in Kmnble life. It was said of the fiist Enperor Alexander of Russia that his personal character was equivalent to a constitution. During the wars of the Fronde, Montaigne was the only man among the French gentry who kept his castle-gates unbarred ; ami it was said of him that his personal character was worth Core to him than a regiment of j horse. That character is power is true in a much higher sense than that knowl edge is power. Mind without heart, in telligence without conduct, cleverness without goodness, are powers in their 1 way, but they may be powers only for | mischief? We may be instructed or \ amused by them, but it is sometimes | as difficult to admire them as it would j Lie to admire the dexterity of a pick pocket, dr the horsemanship of a high- ; wayniHU. Truthfulness, integrity and ; goodness—qualities that hang not on man’s breath—form the essence of manly character, or, as one of our old writers has it, “ that inbred loyalty unto virtue wTTicli can serve her without a (low to Treat ItiiiKbonc. Should there be any inflammatory ap pearances, as there generally are, they should be removed before recourse is had to stimulating remedies. Foi this purpose evaporating applications should be em ployed, by immersing the limb frequently in a bucket of cold water, or by the application of rags around the limb, which should be kept constantly wet and cold during one or two days. When perfectly cool, but not before, counter irritation may be resorted to. In choos ing either blistering or the more severe remedy, firing, we must be guided by the extent of the disease and the nature of the animal’s labor. If firing is em ployed, blistering may be added im mediately after or after a few weeks. If it be preferred to blister it should be repeated at least three times. For this purpose shorten the hair covering the enlargement, and apply, by rubbing it well in for ten minutes, the whole of the following ointment: Half a drachm of biniodide of mercury, mixed with six drachms of hog lard. Apply the blister early in the morning, aud keep the horse tied during the day, so that he cannot reach to interfere with the blister. In the evening he may be tied as usual, as he will then not interfere with the parts. Next day wash the blister carefully off with a sponge and lukewarm soap suds, without rubbing the skin, which would break the blisters. When dry, apply a coat of lard, once daily, during a week or ten days, when the blistering may be repeated as before, and repeated again and again, the same as the first time. While under treatment the horse should not be worked, and should be fed spar ingly, with an occasional change of wet feed, and at last have liberty for a month or two on good pasturage.—Dr. Paaren in Prairie Farmer. Fowls.-Watrr find Cleanliness. These timely and sensible suggestions are from the Poultry Review : “ Per haps fowls in the farm-yard suffer more for want of pure water in winter than from any other cause. In the summer they usually get plenty and do well enough, but in our cold climate, when springs and brooks are frozeu solid, when tanks aud swill pails are no longer available, then their daily allowance is A DISASTROUS EXPLOSION. too muc Why is a^Sblar eclipse like a woman whipping her b'\y? Because it’s a hiding of the sun. Why is dew like a f illing star ? One is mist on earth, and the other missed from heaven. A steamer which sailed from Boston a few days ago took out a shipment of robins for acclimatization in England. The average man jioe^’t want au elephant ou hia hand ^^mnyfiela Re publican. No ; nor on his toes, either. —Boston Post. We sleep, but the loom of life never stops ; and the pattern which was weav ing when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow. A physiologist estimates that there are 2,400 disorders to which the human frame is liable, and there are plenty of people who believe they have every one of them. A I.nrgc Candy Factory In New York Blown ui>—Scenes and Incidents. The fatal boiler explosion in a New York candy factory was described by spectators iu the next morning’s papers. An eye-witness gives the following des- | cription of the explosion: “I was pass ing Greenwich street at 5:10 p. m. when I was startled by a loud report that shook all the houses and shattered the glass in the vicinity. I at first supposed it was an earthquake, but on coming to myself I saw paving stones and debris flying in all directions. The fire soon enveloped the buildings in the vicinity of Barclay street and College place, and amid the smoke and flames a number of women, young aud old, could be seen. They were hysterically shrieking for help. I shall never forget the heart rending cries of those poor girls. From one of *the upper windows several of the factories now number 361. even months, they do not get a drop of water. They eat snow when it is to be had, and they could do nothing worse, for this has the singular quality of making them poor, and they should never be allowed to eat it. If they are supplied with water they will not eat snow. This treatment, with very little rule among farmers. The result is that millions of fowls die annually of that scourge of poultry—the cholera. Years ago the cholera was dreaded as a most fearful plague among the human family. Towns and cities were devasted by its ravages ; but of late years, by cleaning out the cess-pools of filth in the cities, and by the proper measures, it has lost its terrors. girls jumped down ; others fainted in the attempt. One young girl in a blue dress jumped into the flames from the third story. Another, who seemed not to be over thirteen, held out her hands beseechingly for help. She attempted to jump, but her dress caught, and she fell back.” Mr. David Sullivan was on the oppo site side of Barclay street, about fifty feet east of the location of Greenfield & Co.’s building. He gave an account of the explosion to a reporter to the follow iug effect : He says that he was walking toward Broadway when he heard a sound resembling the report of a cannon, only somewhat duller. He turned round and saw the whole front of Greenfield’s build ing flung out into the street, which was entirely filled with the heaps of debris. The gap thus made in the walls of the edifice disclosed the upper floors, burst upward as if by some force from below. Everythiug within seemed shattered. Then the whole building settled back into its proper position, all the floors and walls being distorted by the shock. He rushed up to the spot,and with some other persons attempted to get out some one who had been buried by the falling debris. Then they assisted three girls to escape from the building. One of these was badly hurt ou the head, and was beside 1 cr\ ing out for her brother, who, she said, was inside. These had to be entirely cut off, and often for weeks and -forced away, as they were unwilling to leave'the place until they were satisfied of the safety of their friends. A space was thee cleared for a boy to jump out. He did so, and escaped unhurt. Three California is preparing to make a splendid display at the Paris Exposition. The aggregate space asked for is over 30,000 square feet, and the estimated weight of the exhibit is five hundred tons. The prisoners in the Janesville (Wis.) jail run a paper of their own. Their last issue contains urgent appeals to the county board to cleanout the rats,which are becoming so numerous that jail life ceases to be a pleasure. The population of Richmond, Va., has doubled since the war, and her manu- The sales in 1870 reached the sum of $22,424,80# her wheat and corn mills producing $2,857,000, her forty-one tobacco factor ies $12,037,300. and her iron works $12,032,780. A deputy sheriff recently set out to arrest two brothers,who had farms a few miles from Waco, Texas. He found them at work in their fields picking cotton. He told them what his errand was. They stared at him, winked at each other, gently but firmly disarmed him, and ordered him to go to work in the field ; and there he remained, picking cotton for dear life, until the officials in his own frontier county heard of the incident and rescued him. Several children were feeding a pet bear with corn at Austin, Texas. An ear was dropped out of the reach of the bear, and a little girl handed it to him. The boar sportively pulled her to him, when a house dog, believing the child in dan ger, sprang upon the bear. Bruin then carried the child to the further part of the hogshead in which he slept and re turned to fight the dog, under the im pression that the dog would hurt the child. A party of negroes tried to pro tect the child from her other protectors, — but the little one did not escape until her mother had killed both bear and dog wi; h a musket. Robbers of Graves. If you have had occasion to take up a vine that had been some years in grow ing, you will often find that its roots, instead of growing in a regular orderly more boys came to the front ol the thlra+“ ny ' . ^. av ® hunted around for some especially fat let^Une' ground, and there have feasted in riotous living. A grape vine which had grown at &ie bh>*-uI a story. The height was so great to the sidewalk that the bystanders called to them to wait for ladders. They waited variation and a" Tew—ricepttema, is the for a while, aud then went back to try and escape by the stairs. But, all on a sudden, the flames burst out with great violence in the centre of the building, and the unfortunate boys were seen to be caught in their terrible embrace. One boy slipped and fell to the ground while preparing to jump from the second floor. He lay close to the wall, appar ently badly hurt. No assistance could be given to him ou account of the flames Here lies the remedy for chicken and smoke pouring out from the front of cholera—cleanliness and proper care, the house. The flames then drove the This will do more to rid the country of ; crowd back, and the firemen and police this plague than all the patent nostrums ! arriving, applied themselves to check in existence. With a very little outlay ! the conflagration. A ladder was placed of money and time you can build a ; against the front of the building, down good, comfortable house for your fowls. ! which three persons made their escape, Let it face the south, with windows to though the tire scorched their hands. give it light and warmth when the sun shines. Spend an hour each day iu feeding, watering and caring for your fowls. Keep your house clean aud well ventilated and yon will have a plentiful supply of eggs in winter as well as iu summer, aud the time that you spend in the care of your fowls will pay you a larger per cent, than any time you spend ou the farm. .Wedlral IllutH. This, however, was soon burned before it could be taken away by the firemen. Mr. Scherer, who was wounded by the explosion, said : “I was in the rear of the store, No. 69 Barclay street, when I heard the explosion. I was thrown down and stunned. The noise was similar to the discharge of a battery of artillery. On recovering myself I ran iu front of my store and saw our own ; place on tire, then heard a second exphx Disinfectant.—Light, air and cleanli- , K i° n and was thrown down again, which ness are the three greatest disinfectants kuown to medical men. With these and no medicine, it is said that small-pox has been most successfully treated both in Europe and here. Adhesive Puastek.—One ounce of French isinglass, one pint of warm livery.” When Stephen of Colouua fell ; water ; stir until dissolved, then add ten into the hands of his base assailants, aud they asked him in derision, “ Where is now your fortress?” “Here!” was his bold reply, placing his hand upon his heart. It is in misfortune that the cVKMjae.tor^.aL^the upright man shines forth with the greatest luster; and, when all else fails, he takes stand upon his integrity and upon ids courage. motto of lovers—“E plural, b.?j^ Locomotives for Russia. A recent dispatch from Philadelphia says : One of the proprietors of the Baldwin Jjocomotive Works started for Russia last month, in response to a cable dispatch from the Russian government, inquiring about the terms, etc., for the building of a large number of locomotive engines. Yesterday the firm received from Mr. Parry directions to immedi- ntely proceed with the construction of fifty large-sized, first-class freight engines of five feet gauge, to be completed dur ing February and March, 1878. It is stated in 1 letter received from Mr. Parry a few daysafto that the Russian govern- meut has absorbed nearly all the railway plant for war purposes, aud that it is being rapidly used up aud destroyed in that ruinous service. Meanwhile the largest crop- of wheat? ever raised in Southern Russia and Bulgaria is rotting in the bins for need of transportation. This wheat,which usually finds au outlet from the Black Sea ports, will have to be transported by rail to the Baltic ports, and about three hundred new en gines will berequired at once. A large proportion of these will, however, be built in Europe. The engines to be built at the Baldwin Locomotive Works will cost upward of $500,0ori. * in their construction em- ploymenj be given to about eight j cents’ worth of pure glycerine aud five : : cents’ worth of tincture of arnica ; tack j | a piece of silk, black or white, on a I board, and paint it over with the mix- ! ture. Curing Colds.—A severe cold in the ; head or inflamation of the air passages Will SOIm-fcinvcn wfMWtlily by | several injections up the nostrils of a saturated solution of bromide of potas- . sium. Chilblains.—Put the hands and feet into hot water in which two or three j handfuls of common salt have been throwu. This is a certain preventive as 1 well as a cure. itnotn for Slock Feed. Roots have become a necessity, with progressive farmers, as a winter food for stock, and their great value in this con- I nection should commend them to those ! who have not essayed their cultivation. Even the owners of work and driving ! horses iu large cities, where no oppor tunity is had to raise them,annually buy hundreds of bushels of carrots, mangel wurzels, turnips, etc., to be fed in con- i nection with grain food to their horses, aud they are well assured of the profit" - bleness of using them, for the animals are always sleek, fat, and glossy iu ap pearance, aud never become hide-bound or sickly. The sheep, cattle and swine, too, come in for a share of the roots in j winter, and no farmer who has a right to 1 be called one should think of neglecting the cultivation of roots for his different kinds of stock. The authorities of Memphis, Tenn., thought the number of marriages was falling off, and reduced the charge for .Jdredi a lie says Uuk r j sufficient TEi in addition to the force of I has larg, ‘uthe works. 11 cents. A local papef- lucement has rlP'yt -Aumoer of Uftmages '/ reduced caused the cut on my forehead. I then saw the whole of Nos. 63, 65 aud 67 Barclay street on fire. Met young Nel son Greenfield. He asked me . ‘ Have you seen father?’ I told him that I had not. Did not tarry, however ; ran back into my store to save what I could. I rushed out again into the street; there saw four men jump from the third story into the arms of firemen, who stood on the sidewalk ready to catch them. Two of them hesitated, but the firemen shouted to jump, and they finally did so. At that very mo ment clmool tlie walls fell with a tre mendous crash, and a panic seemed to get hold of the people, police, firemen and all. Two Types of Life in Nevada. In the Carson Tribune of a late date we find this little item: Judge F. K. Bechtel arrived on the stage this af ternoon from Bodie. He is en route to the scene of his boyhood days in Pennsylvania. The judge has resided in Bodie since 1862. His implicit faith iu the mines has been finally rewarded, and he returns to his Eastern home a wealthy man. On Friday last a man nam^l Carrolton, here in Virginia City, fifty years of age, blew his brains out. A day or two pre vious he remarked to a friend that he had a daughter, eighteen years of age, to educate whom he had sent money East; that his daughter had recently married a gentleman there ; that they were coming here to see him, and that j he would rather die than have his daugh ter come here and find him poor. He j was discharged a few days since from one of the mines ; he had drank heavily j for two or three days, and on Friday ! borrowed a pistol from a friend and, bid- , ding him good-bye, turned around and blew his brains out. The cases of Bech tel and of the suicide make between them a pretty good history of this country. In the Consolidated Virginia office yesterday we saw half a million dollars’ worth of silver bricks, and out- wood-shed was once transplanted and was found to have thrown out its princi- pal roots to one side where a basket of bones hkd been buried, and there it had made such a network of rootlets that it was necessary to take up the bones and all. How did the vine know the bones were there ? Iu the biography of Samuel J. May we find a curious instance related illus trating this peculiarity of the growing world. Ho was one day taking a walk when he passed the tomb of an old friend named James Otis. The door of the vault was open and he passed in. Curi osity impelled him to look into the moldering coffin, and he found it entire ly filled with the fibrous roots of the elm, especially thick and matted abou the skull. Stepping out he looked up at a noble elm, which flourished glori ously above the tomb, and he felt that there were the true remains of Ins old friend. Perhaps the most curious instance of such transformation is in the case of Roger Williams, whose grave was in vaded by the root of an apple tree. The main branch struck into the coffin at its head, rounded around the skull, branch ing off at the shoulders along the two arms. Another part followed the spine, branching at the hips, and even turniug up at the feet. The whole is preserved in a New England Museum. It is a question of some little interest who ate the apples that grew on that tree from year to year. No 11 me records of thousands of graves could be brought to light many such instances would be found. A Mirage on the East River. A veritable mirage was witnessed by the passengers of one of. the Roosevelt street ferry boats recently, wrote a New York correspondent. There was a dense fog prevailing, and when about midway between the New York and Williams burg slips—the exact location not being determinable — the outside passengers became alarmed at what appeared to be another ferry boat bearing down upon them iu the opposite direction. The pilot sounded his whistle, and the steam of the other boat was seen to issue from the alarm-pipe at the same moment, the sounds of the whistles apparently blend ing into each other. The wheel of the Williamsburg boat was moved as if to steer her out of the way, when the other boat glided steadily, but rapidly in the same direction, and W’hen the signal was rung by the Williamsburg pilot to stop the boat, the other vessel seemed to stop at the same moment. Suddenly the fog lifted like a curtain, aud a clear, sun-lit view was presented. The opposite boat ha<l vanished, and the expected collision proved to be a delusion. Punished for 111-Lnck. Whenever a misfortune or aocideu. of any kind happens to a Maori^ his relatives, neighbors, friends and remote acquaintances assemble and punish him as if the ill-luck was caused by his owu imprudence. They pillage his house, devour his stores of food, and beat him almost into insensibility. If a man’s wife runs away from him ; if his child falls into the fire and gets burned ; if his boat capsizes and those in it are side a beggar. Both were types of Ne-1 drowned—these and similar events are vada—the latter the moj: Virginia City unmon type. the proper occasion for applying,.^ istom iff the murer. THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER DEFECTS WHICH MAY APPEAR ON THE FILM