The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, August 24, 1880, Image 1
WINNSBORO, C., AUGUST 24, 1-NO.102.
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The flake, fall white and fast and soft -tl
In a no144 Obi10o0the v446. 4oft,
Ans hiiial *rid,g5 fair a
On slith i browih breast throug the darkened
air ;
So reft-the rose-bush looks and wan, mill
Metbinks her blooming jo all undone, for
.And leafless tre4ndad,j and low t.hc
epeath their branches' crown of snow. roh
A robin pased in his flight too long
In his frozen tbroat is a silent Bong;
And.novermore shall his dead heart beat
With its love of the norland true and sweet.
Southward bin winged spates have flown, a
But this redbreast died at' home alone. tile
Through the b.lded boughs you may dimly h1o
see I
Aebird of snow in a oedar-tree - Al
My life, dead birJ, Is the oe9dar-treo, frh
And my heart iu its branohes is dead like thee; pol
Twas red as thy breast in its love and youth.
But tiue snow-flakea fell on its truet and truth I
When the singers hie them on ballpy wing
To leafy arches in pomp of spr.ng, be
Their merry carole may mook the hito, bel
but th.ne and mine shall bi chilled and aute! she
die
'I
The Hand of Fate. per
she
After A Ilford Dunout married Annie allu
Lee in a fit of pique aud jealousy, Ellen' and
Harland, once his betrothed wife, suf- bleq
fered more than words can tell. Sat
%he had loved hin in her wild iasslon- in t
ate way, -and had nbVer thought she conld' You
lose hint; but she had trusted t'oo much in 'J
htcr own power, and another woman was sol
the wife of the young millionaire. She out
nearly went mad with rage and pride and wit]
wounded passion, but she had sense enough wer
to hle her heart from envious eyes. As il 1
as long as she felt that inWilford's presence A
she would turn pale; gte loig as she coult froi
not bear his voice or glance without wic m1(c
ing, she kept out of his way, under pre- i
tence of visiting an aunt at a distance; but
in the sprightly Ietters that she wrote her bittl
friends, she spoke of being rlad that Wil- the
ford Dumont had not felt her dismissal of a c
hini to severely too be comforted. And aI
when she was once more mistress of her- and
self she called upon the bride, and Mrs. the
Dumont, who knew nothing of the old he
love story welcomed her heartily, and told hers
Wilford, on his return home, that she was fron,
delighted with lia old friend Miss Har- 44
land. sec.
"She cannot have cared for me," thought sIt
Wilford Duiont. with a pang no husband goin
should have felt at such a thought, but the Eve
little wife never guessed It and it lid not idle
harin her. She returned the young lady's gay
call and an Intimacy began at once. .80 t
that, when the Dunonts wont to tnear A]
place on the Hudson for the summer sea- a nl
son, Annie sent a warm invitation to Miss -tle a
Harland. -
Ellen thought it over. It was an offer not th u
to be despised by a fashionab'C girl with a bach
small income. A
She desired to marry, and iotels at wa
tering-places were expensive. All the sef
men of, they set- would be at Wilford Di- look
mont''at one tine or another. The neigh -laok
boring residents were people of position. host
She could'dress aiid ilirt to her heart's con
tent, and Wilford could see what: W prize L
he had lost, lven-whle slo gave liIn plain- She
ly to understand that she was glad she had wh14
escaped the natrimonial yoke. And then kno
she wrote a loving note to- Annie, a.nd held stan
an inteAview with herjp'esaker.
And Wilford Dumiont-well lie had She
loved this girl, and had married Annie be. SOil
bause she had made him angry. And self
" Annie was so-sweet and mild and gentle. her,
And now lie was waiting for her coining WIva
w'.th a guilty feeling In his heart. lieth
ad
wanted to aeeker, to sit b)y her, to hear an
her sang. As her host, he' couleldo tls, at
least, Hie went to the depot to drive her fr
home. 'Annie hadl, of course, expected
lham to do that, but she had not expected nea
what followed; for when they wvere in the all
little wvaggonette side by side, and she
turned and looked into lis eyes, Wilford tma
Dumont had kissed 'the gIrl. ft wvas nilght; ted
and, though the moont was brighit, th~e
shady lanes which'~led to Dumnont Park
were still and- lonely. No human eyes
looked clown uyon thoem, and their lips lad :An
met so often-oh, so oftent-bef'ore. .on
ln Elen dr-e a 1. i slaclrlet, ~
You forget you. are a marriedl man, cor
si'." an~
.And Wilford answered: hoe
"'Yes, I did forget. Pardon mec."ha
That and nA>thing more. Then there lIv(
was slence, each of those two suif'ered in a
different way, and yet somehow there was fes
a pleasure in the pain. ,,'fli
After thljt(ey goijld grot stad ota .tile ,y
caln, friendlyfoSit thae'fiiboth hoped heo
for. He, at least, meant no wrong. She' tha
had hoped that he might be regretfusl of the gir
past, but had not dreamt 'that lie would tue
dare presume upon it. .liC
For an hour or so after--thie eening was tha
over--the long NirinOr tha nusie in the he.
parlor, the da.i, tha.w k in the mooplight, gra
with the fd1I j' yi arm about her do,
waist--Ellen intemidaf to make lhef ; itt 3m
very brIef.' Ina little while, howevei, sho ir
changed her mind. She would staV. -Yes lo0
stay; and this wife, who bstedl t9 her of hie
her husband's, lovp, should sui er ~ little 9
also. What.was she to>come between them? of
And now all that was evil asserted Itself In
Ellan Ifarland's heart, sand where evil once kn
abides it grows stronger dlay by day. so.
She laughed, she lilrtedh, she dlancedi with
other anon, but she met': Wilfoi d aloiie by de
the banks of the river. She sang d(iets th
with this one, looked merrily lnte the eyes q1
6t that, blat in the lonely wioods she sat by
Wilford's sideo with hals armi about her c
waist. ..ca
T1hey talked freely of the past niow. lie tii
had confessedl that she w*s yet maore to eh
1 than any ot her woman; more than his
sting, Unsuspicious wife. Only that
,o life stood between tlie,ip, and often,
9ileU.lookq.at Annie, aiofelt that she
oid be glaw to see her in her cofflin.
'et the end of her vielt approached. She
at go, since she would have no excuse
lingering, and in her absence might not
wife win the heart of one who already
s.ted aad admired her, though his pas
a was another's? $urely.
lo, with the fiend's whisper in her ears,
en Iarland one day walked out alone,
king the purchase of some little trille in
village 'an excuse for a solitary
ir.
Por a while she battled with her hate for
nde, knowing her to have none but
ndly feelings to herself, but it over
vered hr at last.
'If that.little thing were dead," she said,
hould have Wilford for my own-I should
he lady of the Park-honored, admired,
-ved. N>w I-walk here alone, while
fills my place. If she would but
11
Ilien, suddenly-surely,Satan was wiis
ing in her ears--she reiembered that
had heard of a drag, which, though. an
oat instantaneous poison, left little trace
was tasteless. For a moment she trem
I and fiung the suggestion from her; but
n is strong. There was a drug store
le village, and the proprietor had left a
ig, emptypated clerk in charge.
'lie poison , which would not have been
by the older man to any stranger with
a doctor's prescription, was dealt out
iout a thought by*this boy, and Ellen
it hiom1e witithe tiny puckage hidden
er bosom.
unie was watching for h6r pming
ci the veranda. 8he came fori'rd to
t her guest with a sweet smile. '1 P
'ihe others have had lunch Iaid ii
t I waited for you. ' I have ffit-Oar
table dbt#hi'Ahe b'W41IAd,I with
view of the river. We shall 1)14
en she led the way to the dining.room,l.
tossing her hat and inantle on a sofa
young hostess poured the coffee and
led a cup to her guest, taking one for
=If. At that moment some one called
I the hall:
Joine, b3th of yon; something to
was only a great pleasure barge
g up the river with a picnic party.
ready for anything amusing in those 9
tours, the household always made a
pretence of deep interdst in these par- c
mue left the little room. Ellen delayed
aute before she followed. In that lit
lace of time she had emptied the pol- I
ito poor Annie's cup ot coffee, and 0
it the crumpled paper that had held it,
into ler-bosonm.
inic returned first. As she seated her- r
she happened to notice that the cup
,a( passed to Ellen was over-filled. It
ad untidy, neither had yet been tasted, I
with the natural impulse of a careful I
a, Annie changed the cups.
te did sne guess what she was doing. C
only.destred'to set before her guest that
qh was neatest. And little did Ellen I
m what had happened in that brief In
to looked to see her rival iun' pale.
;vatched for some token that the pa1
ad begua its wvork. Instead she her
felt a strange faintness creeping over
was conscious of a sudden agony. It
brief. The fate she had decreed for
nnocent young wife was to be her own,
it came to swiftly too leave much time
hought;
efore the man who had ridden fast and
musly across the country to find the
rest doctor, had performfedl his errand,
~as over,
vying, Ellen Hlarland understood only
In some way Providence had outwit
her. --
Pray for me," she whispered to Annie.
dare not pray for myself."
nd with her hands held fast between
ibe's, with Annie's tears failing fast up
er pillow, Ellen died.
iey found the crumnpled paper wvlth
ison" wrRdeki on it, in her bosom. The
iner's jury gave a yerdlct .of stiid4,
remorse' illed Wilford' Dumont's
t-for lie believed that Elleni Ilarland
killed herself 'because she 'could not
without him..
n his trouble lie made a sort of a can
don to lia wife. No man ever made a
and true one under sucly cirvmymstances.
at 4ne gathiegdd fr'anij it . as, that
own attractions had made himn forget
so of Ellen Hlarland, and that the poor
couild not endure the sight of their mu
tendlerness: and Bo to this (lay she be-;
ecs, and often goes wvith her husband to
elhurchi-yardl whierg Ellen lies, andi with
own falf hands plant flowe rs upon the
vye og the woman who would fain have
ic her to death that she might win for
owp the jmiuan4'whof tli6igh not as
e adid perf'ect- as AnnidelletesWs'huim, now
's her very fondly; loves -lher, though
remembers, with a pang, the passioigg
attro(who, as hie fan le, died for love
him.
n this worldl the truth wvill never be
>wn, anid' it is better that it shouIld be
ENCgUsNl straWborries ,are sm,ihl, it
Os n6t fellow that t,bere are more of
inn to the quart, for the quart s frc
antly ispade 'stollier to match thle
aw beraries,
A RkPORTERI who attended a banquet
nel uded his dlescription with t,he
radhd statement that "it is not (di
ictly remembered by- anybody pres
,t who imade the bauit speechi.
iaukt rJForia.
In the winter of 1870 1 was encamped in
the great Turnbull swaiip, ninety miles t
south of j. Augustine, hunting deer, bears,
wild cats, cougars, and wild turkeys. There -
was a great drouth, and the mivninas and t
swamps were dry. Scores of alligators
paraded the dry savannas Ii search of
water. One day Capt. Frank Sais and
Tom Murray, two eil-known guides, rode
past the encumpimlent. They were looking
for sour oratige stumps, with the attention
of tratisplanting and grafting them. A t
hundred yards fron camp they reined n
their horses on a burnt savanna, and began
to shout. Snatching a double-barrel gun, I
ran out on the savanna. Their horses were
prancing around an enormons bull alligator,
who had crawled out of tile dry swaip a
and who was headed for the 19illsborourl
river. He was confused by the shouts'of c
the guides and the prancing of their horses, t
and I approached him unseen. Stealing C
behind him I au a long paltnetto splinter
in his eye. H1e turned lumberingly over
the blackened stubble, and the guides struck
at him with cowhides. Driven to wearl- a
ness, he crouched close to the ground 0
puffed out his throat, opened his cavernous b
mouth, and made a noise like the rushing 0
of a wind. A moment afterward I dis
charged a load of buckshot into each eye.
Tit, monster shuddered and stretelaed him
self in the agonies of death. Capt. Sams
dismounted and buried his axe in the rep
tile's tail. The vertebra was severed, and
Ie was no longer dangerous, although there )a
was still life in the tail. It moved slowly e
and uneasily, like the tail of a wounded ti
snake, and theguides declared that it would c0
not,dle until the setting of the sun. At b
intervals the cayman roared like a Central
Park lion. Toward night I went to the
swaaup to mark the roosts of wild turkeds. p
The day was oppressively hot. I was
returning towards camp long after dark, t(
when I found myself upon the burnt savan- c
na. To my surprise, the whole savanna di
3eeied a ive and moving. Nearly worn n
Dut with exhaustion, I fancied that my b
liend was reeling, a sure sign of malari-d y,
[ever. Tle phenomenon was quickly ex- ft
plained. A thousand buzzards were in the
3amp near the'great alligator, awaiting the rc
light of day to secure their prey. A year at
iterward I found the skeleton of this
iaurian, and knobked out its t.eeth. The cc
mnvanna was then covered with water a la
oot deep. w
In the following winter I was sho)tlug gi
luimed herons on the great savainns at the th
lend of Indian river. My guide was the w
vell-know'n Judge Coamor, once a Metho- se
list clergyman. * One morning, while rid- fo
ng over the vast prairie on horseback, we at
net an alligator longe than the moral Jaiw
'Shoot him." said the judge. ti
'Oh, no," I replied; "I don't want to ot
ill him. The report of the gun will scare
p every lcron within a mile, and I shall oll
et no plumes." th
"But, Lord blast my buttons," said the
adge, "he eats my hogs and yoing calves
n the range. Shoot him." ik
ei1J 'fj Plumes, and I don't intend to go
ack without them."
"Well," said Connor, "you're the first tic
ankee I ever saw who won't pull a trigger su
n a 'gator."
"I'll take a look at him. anyhow," I le'
aid, as I hitched my Iforse to a .palmetto lel
idwAy between two creeks. The grass an
7as kigh and rank.. As I walked toward
lie reptile lie raised hiniself on his- four i
"gs, opened his jaws, puted out his throat Pc
ike a bullfrog, andi made a noise like the
Lumming of a buzz-saw. I stopped ten dc
ct away, and stamped and shouted. The at
udge sat .upon his horse watching the pro
cedings. The alligator did not quail. yC
)n the contrary, he squatted close to the
;round, and began to creep towards me as
cat would creep toward a mouse. Walk- ar
ag back to the palmetto, 1 gathered five or
Ix of its huge dried fans, held them toward I
ny body, struck a match, and set them se
iblaze. The ugly monster watcelrd me
Ike a dragon. I held the fans down, hid- pm
ng the blaze, and nmarchied 'toward him. ini
Iis lhugo mouath was open, and looked like ii
anewly-bricked tunanel. ,Within reach, I i
uddenly raised the fans, and thrusk the gi
)lazlng maiss in his throat. Hie closedl
ds ponderous jaws, turned pale, and ran.
[lgghting a fresh fan, I ran around hin,
aettmng the coars'e, dry grass of the savanna
>n fire. He wvas encircled with fiamws.
Ele raisedI his body, gazed at the fire with I0
bipodshot eycs, and then shuffled himself Ci
into the w.et sandl, and calmly awaited the ir
result. There was a fair breeze from the at
northeast. In three inutcs the fire had St
i*ept over him, buryins: him in the black- t(
mned grass. lie renmalned as lie had planted n
hImself. 1 wecnt through the smnoke and ti
touched him with the barrel of the gun, 5
but lie did not move. Hie seemied dated ; s~
possibly lie had fai'nted. I remounted the P
horso,, and we rode off. A hundred yards si
away we'looked back. The monster had Ji
recovered, and was traveling leisurely over a
the smhoking savanna toward a little stream g
that pours into the head of lIdian river, a
Two years before this I had visited Lake l
Worth, twelve miles below Jupiter lighitr I
At that time Charles Moore, a jolly beach
comber, was the only person livmng oni the 5
shore of the lake. We wenit through an il
arm of the everglades, and diepositedl our
camp equipage and p)rovisions on the hiardl '
sand at the niorthiern end of the lake. The r
sand was frungedl with liuge rushes. We Ii
had hauled our boat over the strip of sand a
sep)arating the waters of the lake from thei
everglades, Intending to rnm down to y
Moore's cabin before suindown. The wincd, a
however, died away, and., we concluded to t
camp for the night. We fouand a clearedl
spot in the gerub a hiundred feet back from.
the shore. Ridge poles an(t cro}ched( posts
ind(icateid that it was a favorite camping
groundl for the Seminoles. On returning
to the beach I fonddl a twelve-foot alligator 11
crawling toward our bag of pork. A score
of companIons were anchored o1! the
rushes, and one or two were gllowing in
his wake, Oin hearing my footsteps the
ohci' gllow turned apcd aced mec. Our guns
lay on a chest withiff t.aree feet of him and
we. were cut off from 'ur base of supplies.
Moore and Hammond, a Pennsylvanian, 1
who had preempted land on the lake, I
joined me. We shouted and hieavedl ridge. I
poles at the savage scoundrel, buit it was I
nie go.. iIe hbld the pass and his compan
ions were moving on the pork. 3omnethmag
must be done praye woud be lett without
provisions. Mly eyes fell on a bed of dried
palmettoeg that had been used by the Indi -1
an.. To gather aid set them ablaze was
the work of a few seconds. With the flam
ing mass we advaaced 6n the great lizards.
la the light of the blaze they retreated to
the lake. We susp,ended the bag qf pork
from a tree that hung over the baic., an..
a the mormng the sand looked as tho
ebol brigade had been thrown
reaches. %
'Tho inlet connecting the lake witi
cean has been closed by a bank of
brown up in an easterly hurricane.
hi bank I encamped for a week. Bc
'f spot.ed bass, snappers, groupers, cro
ad white drum had been shut in the
y the closing of the inlet. At hilgI
lie water fron the: ocean perco
brough the sand, and ihe fishes swa
> the bay to get a taste of the fresli
rater. While fishing here I discover
uge alligator regarding my movei
rith apparent interest. As he so
iVL and not evily-disposed, I threw
I a twenty-pound bass, and he ate it
relish. For six days lie remained
ie, reaping the harvest. lie at las
Lite so tame that lie stationed Iii
jirty feet away, and received his fish
vident pleasure. Nur did he act the
r display any ingratitude. He took
to fish that were thrown to hi. Ai
me a vicious bluefish snapped the
bove the float, and a huge white drun
IT with the bait. I followed the float
oat and secured it. When I returne
Id alligator was at his station, and a
r choice fiah that I had reserved for
bif were undisturbed.,
That's a tact.
"That's a fact," said Mr. Hopkins a
hid down his paper the other evei
every man, woman and child in the c
y ought to know how to swim. Nc
in tell what minute lie will be u
own ip or knocked overboard. Ain
mi going to learn you how to swim."
"Learn me," queried the wife aw
aused in her sewing.
"Yes, you. Your life is very pre<
me, and I don't want you to lose ii
Luse you can't swim ashore when an 4
,at takes place. I can swim like a 4
kyself, and I feel guilty to think li
.ei married twenty-one years and
)U'd go to twe bottom like a stone if
i overboard."
"Why, I never had te' least fear,"
plied. "There Is always soeie
01111d to rescue a lady,"
"Mo one wants to depend on heroes.
urse, I'd jump into the water to sai
y; but there are lots of men
ouldn't. Stand up, Amanda, and let
ve you Ihe motions of swimming. I
en, put your hands so, push them
ard so, take a sweep and bring them 1
. See how easy it's done ? You mu
rget to kick every time you move 3
Ills.
She went through the motions sev
nies, but so awkwardly that he ca
"That isn't the way I Tle iotl
ght to be perfectly natural. Now imni
it you are out on all excursion.
"Yes."
"You suddenly grow dizzy and tuu
adlong Into the river. .iow what
ns would you make as you rose to
rface? What Would you do?
"Well,,if a hero jumped In after me
Ln my hehd on his shoulder like this
him put his right arm around my w
(I support me until help arrive(."
"Hero be-hanged I A hero would 1
3e holding up one huudrcd and al
unds, wouldn't he?"
"1e'd look as nice as you would
n't believe you could keep your I
ove water to save your life."
"I couldn't, eliI Then I won't li
u a single stroke about swlIming I"
"Then you needn't I"
"Ani If any man ever jumps overb
d rescues you I'll punch dis head I"
"And if you ever jump in after anyl
.now I'll have to pay the funeral ox
s out of my share of this property I"
"Very well," said Mr. -Hopkins a
it on his coalt, "I ace I am not wa
my owvn house. If I am not hom
ght it won't do you any good1 to telep]
e at, the ollice, for I shall have the
ice Withou,t. w reezin,g.
A new skating surface, called "cr
e," has been invented by Dr. Calati
its, of Scarborough, England. Cons
g that after all ice is merely a crysta
ibstance, and t,hat there is no lack of
ances that are crystalline at ordi
miperature~s, Dr. Calantarients ex
entedi with a variety of salts, and afi
imc suCccde in maiking a ilxture
sting mainly of carbonate and suipha
>da, which, when laid as a floor by
an, can be skated on with ordhinary
oates ; the resistance of the surfac
1st equal to thait of ice, It looks like
rid indleed when it has been skated ori
ft "cut up" a little, the deception Is
utonlshling; a small experimental floo
een laid In the skating rink a Prince's
as proved1 so suiccessful that no dour
irgo floor will be laid there or at
her convenient phace in the autumn.
oor wIll obviously hiave great advant
oth over art,ificia Ice floors, whic
cry expensive indeed, and over floor
ller skating.. Tlhe floor can at any
e made smooth again by steaming wi
pparatus for the pur~pose, and the
self, when once lai:l will last for
ears. Th'le mIxture of salts usedl cor
bout 60 per cent. of wvater of crysta
on, so that after all the floor co:
hiefly of solidi (ied water.
*"ir. IIenry i"
At a plitical meeting, the speakeri
ud(lence were very much disturbed
inn who constantly called for Mr. II
YVhedevbr a new speaiker came on the
hIs mant bawledl out,
"Mr. Henry I Henry I Honry I I ci
ir. Ilonryl1
-After several interruptions of thfl
it each speech, a yoiung man asicend<(
>lat formn, and was soon airing his eloq
n magnitlcent, style, when the same n
>efore was heard bawiling out at the I
ds voice,
"Mr. Henry! Henry! iHenry I1
'or Mr. Henry to make a speech!l"
TIhe chairman arose ane'l refnarked
t would ob)lige the audience if the g
nan wouldi refrain from further calli
W1r. Henry, as that gentleman was
peaking.
"Is that Mr. Henry ?" said the dis
>f the meeting, "Tihat can't be Mr, 11
Why, that's the little fellow that t(
to holler."
igh a Nellie and heC mLittil Lamb.
up
Two yea's ago a band of gypsies uIm- Th
the camped at Ginger tidge, near West Union, Loril
sand Adams County, Ohio. The farmers in the hard
On vicinity missed sheep, pigs and poultry, no I
hools charged theirlosses to the gypsies. The dent
akers leaders of the band were -arrested, exami- only
lake ned and discharged for want of sufliclent iII tho
A-tide proof to convict them of sheep stealing, speem
ited pig-sty pilfering and lien-roost robbing. the I
rned The gypsies moved away, inutteringtthrepts cherr
salt against Mr, John iainforth, their prindI- to th
ed a pal prosecutor. They crossed the Ohio was
aents river, and encanlled on the Kentuckyshore. aniou
amed On the same day little Nellie lRahforth was for V
l11D missing. She Was a four-year old, with Robe
with smny face and golden liuir, and was last (oun
near seen playing with a lamb on the ledge of a Bend
be- rocky ridge, a short distance from the the f
,nself house. Tho pet lamb was gone too, and imanil
with neither Nellie nor her lamb could be found One 0.
hog, anywhere in the Ginger Ridge region. lng91a
only Rainforth charged the gypsies with steal- stood,
One Ing his child, and with assistance ransacked deteri
line their Kentucky camp. The little golden been I
ran sunbeam could not be found in the canipt Minst
in a and the gypsies denied all knowledge of the candi
I the child. Still they might have known, and for I
pile some story-tellar in after years might find had
mly- the materials for another romance of Nellie aMniU
Rainfortlh'sgypsy life. At all events, the hangi
-- parents were convinced that their child had est of
been stolen by tile gypsies, and might somcI Lorillt
lay turn up alive and well. There was prove,
sone consolation in the hope. The other reach(
a. le day Rainforth lost a sheep, anUd got on the som1et
ig, trail of its disapperance. There was blood blue %
Dun- and wool on the grass and across fences went 1
1One where the lost sheep had evidently been down
dset, dragged. The trail led to a cavern in a selves,
nda, ledge of rocks, with an openinr large ning,
enough to admit the body of a man, but save
she nobody was willing to crawl into it. A wis. c
blast of powder widened the apporture and Or wit
30bus let in the lighit. It wats a cave of bones nlot at I
be- and horrors. . The blast had killed a black lifting
M snake full fifteen feet long, and two feet clent I
l,ck around in the thickest part. The sheep was (lte
'0 VC lying on the floor of the cave among the "dran
yet ghastly relics of serpents' feasts-dead and cIiem1C
YOU sinmy. An explorer Picked up a small hu- was 1
man skull and handed it to Rainfoitli. Ile last t
she said, "Poor little Nellie." The mystery and il
lero was s ilved. Th1ie gypsies were exonerated. one of
The rest of Nellie's bones--all that could turned
Of be found-were gathered together and nounlc4
'e a buried near where she was last seen play- lat,er
v01o ing with her lamb-and a veracious cor- shout <
me responiuent of a New York paper saw the the joJ
low snake and vouches for the whole story. heai I
for- That there might be no doubt about tie lHossito
aek human bones and to whom they belonged. curse,
si't a gold chain which the child wore around lie hall
our her neck was found aniong the bones. too lit,
The mother of the child was nlot informed ed ini
eral of these discoveries in the black snake's returni
ie du, or the funeral on the ridge, as the -wha
father preferred to let her dream on that Were in
01s her little golden-haired girl is alive among to carr
,Ine the gypsies. the Su
F1rencli
gation into the history and bresent condi-i conie t
kbie tion of the fisheries of the United States wonde
io. forms one of the most interesting and im- amon,
the portant, inquiriesin taking the telthI Coils. least i,
it is placed in charge of Prof. S F. Baird, lnoble
I'd United btates commilsoner of fisheries. highly
and His final report will include imports and
aist exports of fish and lish products from
1820 to the present tiine, besides foreign Ali
,ok shipments. A few of these tables have
iety been prepared, an(l exhibit som0 remark- 4o11
abel features, such as the growth of the verltaij
I oyster export trade from $85,089 11In 1860, and g<
ead when the first reliable information begins, Well,
to $453,301 in 1879, and the decrease in to dliim
arn exports of sperniaceti for candles which in young
1836 was $841,907, and in 1857 was but nurser
$35,121, since which time it has gradually -131
ard fallen off to a condition of absolute stagna- kitteiE
tion. The.work is divided into several see th<
(tdy sections, each one in the hands of an ex- port bi
on- pert In his particular branch. It. E. Earll a "Fa
work has been peculiarly successful, rc- The
s lhe suiting in a discovery which Prof. Baird poe
nted pronounces one of great importance. Th'le entere
to- most important, food fish of southern wa- that at
ione ters is the Spanish mackerel, 1t is only ini saft
vire found in certain localities, however, and 'sg~
has never been propagated because no0 one tihe ok
knew when or where it spawined. Mr. "B,
Earl, after careful watching, found that, d'ye in
the lower part of Chesapeake bay, known stable'
as Mob Jack bay, was the place andl June and1 fa
fatal the time. Next June the Fishmhawk will seeing
tari. be taken to tihe spot and, with her impirovced might
ider-- apparatus, take up a quanttity of the eggs, sO, yO
lline whiicTi will be hatched on b)oard and sub- more.
sub- sequently dlistribiutedl in favorable local- -w
iiary ties, If tihe young fish survive, the well- ate o11
p)eri- known principle that they wIll at any risk into ti
er a or labor return to spawnm to the Apot wvhereol 01a
coin. they 11 a si w light is dlependied on to insure 11idd(1
te of their first residence in thteir new habitation. "I)
this Ab)out fifteen new varieties of food fish woodl
ice have been already aded, by the labors of 'p,
e is this dlepartmlenit of the census, to the 173 eeg
ice, common food tishes of this country. Prof. '.y
andl Baird contemplates the formation of a per- ''g
luite mianent b)ureaui for the collection of stati's- dlo ye
-has tical information in1 co,nnectlin with the Bhe ht
,and fish corannission at the close of the present in it I
bt a work.- ________ there
seof itj
This 11ow Ramiliroad Timo ,s Ke01,1,a.(
ages,
i lare There are in use between Albany, and(
i for New York thiirtecen electric clocks, tw o of
time the inmber being placed in the waiting
th an rooms and one in the dispatcher's office lit On
floor the GIrandi Ceintral dlepot, New York. Thie ward
nany time on the clock in tihe dlepot at East Al- cent3
talns bany corresp)ondsi exactly with the time mn sat um
hliza- New York. Enchi one of these clocks is down
asists connccted wvithm the general superintendent's spire(
office in New York, in wihmch the railroadl ed, hi
tiiie is kept oin what is called the "big hour,
'clock." Conductors, train mteni,and( others said:.
are compelled to keel) their watches in "L
I an(i strict conformity with the superintendent's sun-s
by a clocK. It is set by stand(ardl timle and con. "
enry. nlectedi with the service department of the ply.
itand gold aiid stock telegraph. The time is "'I
dhistributedl over the line eacll weck (lay as shad<(1
di for follows: At teit o'clock fifty-eight minutes "I
andl three seconds1 A. si. the wordl "timie" is "I:
kind sent b)y the main ollice to the telegraph asket
d the stations between New Yol'k andl Albany. "~
tience This word ia repeatedl for twenty-eight own
man as secondsl, (huring which tine operators must dead,
op of ee that their inlstrumiients are adljustedl. At S1
ten o'clock an~d fIfty seconds, seconds, was
call conmmence beating and continue son (
for fifty seconds. TIheo word '"switch" is the<
that then sent over the wire andl operators hay- "'
entle. ing electric clocks connect them imumedia- is th<
ig for telSy with the circuit known as number nine sit oi
now wire. Ten seconds are allowed in a ichm corn
to make the connecti".l. At eleven A. ii., ter S
urber with one touch of the Now York key, the jmn
enry I hands on the different clocks are set to deat
Id me eleven o'clock. If they are fast or slow can
they change all at once to the hiomr named,. anyt
Rot Day-sit Down.
The captain of the Central Staion, De.
troit, had a day-dream cf burglars rudely
shattered the other day by the event of a
gaunt, tall woman about forty yepsr of age
who carried a closed umbrella in a threat
ening way. She refused his salutation of:
"Hot day, imadam-sit down." but slowly
advanced to the desk, gave it a rap with
her umbrella, and solemnly asked:
"Am I a human being-a person-a
woman?"
The startled captain was so long In an
swering the question that she continued :
"If I ain't I want to know it, and that's
what I am here for "
"What is your case?" he cautiously in
Ituired.
"Why, I've been passed over by the
census men the same as if I were a (log I
Not one of the gang has been near me!"
4 Iaven't, eiI Well I suppose they
have missed a few."
"But there Is some spite work about It,
ind you can't make me believe there
ivasn't " she exclaimed as she waved her
iveapon around his head. "They might
tccidently miss some little dwarf of a
Nonan, but how could they get past me?
tell you.It was a put up job, and I don't
eel right over it."
"It won't make no great difference, I
tippose," mused the Captain.
"low do you know it won't?" she in
lignantly demanded. Don't I live here ?
)oU't I count one ? Haven't I just as
nany rights as any other woman? Do I
>clong In the census of people or of goats?
know when I am stepped on as well as
6nybody else I"
'It's too bad."
"It's eican, that's what It is! Every
&d polk of a maid on our street, every girl
nd every old woman, has got her nanie
iown, while I've been left out in the cold
, If I belonged In AfrIca You've got to
inke this thing right "
"Me?i"
"ies, sir, youl Now the, write It
own. i'm forty-three years old, and no
ring. I've been married three times and
i the mother of nine living children. My
r,ther was born in England, andi my moth
r in this country. I was born In New
0rsey, and my occupation Is that of a
ridow who don't care two cents for all the
ien you can pile into a ten acre lot I (Jot
lat all down ?"
"Yes, but you see-"
"I don't see nothing. If I am put In the
Hnsuifl, all right. If I find I ain't there,
ou'll see mc again I Good (lay, sir I"
With that she gav6 her umbrella an extra
ourish, upset the chair on which she had
:sted her foot, and sailed out without, a
ok behind.
HIs Hoeou,ld Dei,arment.
One day recently anll editor was startled
y a whole tornado of raps at his saflctui
TtIdFna'nt detetrmiatiom oler face, and
dish or pan under her arm.
"Are you the-the-party who said In
at week's paper that salad dressing could
o improved by an ounc of cayenne and
ine powdered borax?" said one.
''1- I-suppose so," admitted the edi
>r.
"Ohl you are, cli," said the woman,
isplaying a sticky green compound.
Well, perhaps you'd like to finish this
it. I've got four children home at the
oint of death from It now."
"Andyou are the miserable 11 r who
ated that the only way to clean sealskin
as to boil it in iulk I" screamed another,
olding upi) what appeared to be a drowned
uppy. Look at that I"
"l-r-ahem-really-" mumbled the
'retched journalist, "the printer must
ave nixed it up with the broken china
cli."
"And didn't you print a recipe saying
uat a fewv pinches of copperas gave a rich
ark color to sponmre cake? My husband
as been throwing up steadily since the
ay before yesterday morningl" sobbed
nother, exhibiting what appeared to be ai
uink of stone coal.
"Yes," put in aiiother irate dame, hold
ug up a tattered basque; "and y'ou said
lint vitriol would take ink stains out or
'civet. You disgusting old piratel"
"I-I-tidnk it must have been my as
istant, Clipemn," stammered the editor. "I
lon't think I wrote anything for that issue
rxcept a leader on our "Accursed Moiio
>olics."
'"That's too thin," shirieked another dhe
rastatedi female, putting up a green vail
aud displaying a parboiled countenance.
'Didnl't you advise me, dlownl at the mari
tet, yesterday, to cut out your infailble
)rlental recip)e for taking out freckies? .It
,ook 'em out, andi the skin wvith 'em; aund
ho doctor says it is two to one I never see
ut of that eye again. Therel You're wel
meii to wvhat's left!"
And the half scalped victim broke a bot
Gle on his nose, while the rest hammecredl
ibn over the head with ssprted1 slabs of
Lidigestion, built according to the Clean
np's speelieations; rammed unrison douighi
lui his mouth, and poured a coal tar, arse
ime and sulphur remEedy for chicken pip
down the back of his neck
When they were done, the mouiler of
public op)inionl picked himself up, iimnited
for the foreman'samallet, smashed the stereo
type "llousehold Hints" into forty thousand
bits, kicked the dlevil downstairs, and went
out to trade a special notice on the first page
for some courtplaster.
Saved il,s ,5rot.Im,r.
Recently, a boy of about twelve went up
street in D)etrolt, at such a rate of speedi
that everyb)ody who saw him was satistleud
that lhe was running for a doctor. A man
with a kindly expression of countenance
caught the flying boy by the arm and asked
him:
"$onny, Is there any one right sick at,
your house ?"' -
"No, but there will be if you dlon't turn
mec loose."
"Who is it, buffy?
"Will yer let me ~o If I tell yer?"
"I will, my boy.'
"Well, then, it's my brother Bob. HIe
will be a remains before night if I don't
got home right off. You see, we 'have ecu
eumnbers, green corn, clabber, watermelon
and cabbage for dinner, andi if I ain't there
to get my share he will founder himself
andl die. Please let me go -so I can save
my little brother's life."
/A GECNTLEMAN4 nmiing Lad whisky
punich a little to hot, M$u w Jt with hits
breath to coQl it, "!Biio lomg your own.
horn, I see,"' said ti4 tcomrad.e
Engand's Derby.
ere were a few Americans around Mr.
ard's Boreas, at the last trying very
to Iancy he mnight win;but the colt has
'ry gentlemanly air, and it was ovi
r,bat the racing blood of the States was
to be represented by a commoner; yet
race he seemed to show a turn of
for, passing Sherwood's, lie went to
lead, and carried Air. Lorillard's
r and black hoops in front almost
mile-post. The betting at the start
principally marked by the large
lit of ioney thrown Into the market,
on der Tann, the strong position of
t the Devil, Aluncaster, and Ercil
!, and the comparative opposition to
Or-for how a horse having shown,
>rm that lie had shown, and stripping
estly well, should have had two to
Tered against him, instead of odds be
Id upon him, is not yet quite under
But, perhaps, the reasons of this
nined hosility were his not having
ried at home, and the Duke of West
-r having Aluncaster so dangerous a
late, and not declaring a preference
end Ur. However, If Bend Or
?)astInIte enemies, lie had a vast
it of firm friends, and the cloud
ig over hun only added to the inter.
the race- After the start,which Mir.
%rd' 8 on of Saxon vso not ably im
1, and as soon 118 that point was
d when position began to mean
iung, the color of white and sky
?ere seen leading the field, ani(k a cry
il for Robert the )evil, running
the hne faster than the horses them.
On caie the Devil, brimful of run
md nothing emerged from the field
Bend Or, but the yellow and black
osing very slowly. At the bell Bend
s a beaten horse. But Archer was
jeaten jockey-and lie fell to fairly
his horse along, while the self-sutl
ilockhelad, Rossiter, u,t "the Devil" I
stiff, with the egotistical idea of
ing it fhie." The strain of deep ex
nt as Bend Or grmdually drw upi
>ninfully intense, and when, in the
wenty yards, the pair Joined issie
ow past tae post the s -ne was
m1om1entar3 maIness. Every glance c
to the one SIlOt Its the judge pro
id his verdict, an([ when a moment i
'No. 7'' rose in the air, the ringing 1
1 exult ation that urose seemed like t
cry of a mighty nation. A short
and Archer's riding did it. Little
!r must have cursed a bitter C
for no -)ie knew so well as lie that Y
called on his horse just ten seconds
3. In an instant the track was turn
.0 a stormy sea, surging arounl(d the r,
ng jockeys. What roars for Archer I(
; a madness of enthusiasni There
ten there who wouli have rejoiced
y him ill triiniph-those who, On
Wday before, had seen him pluck the b
Deiby froni the lIrefer M. ' y .
vlIl lie bt.LatIl, ArenCI A O- o
lie best jockey that ever lived. A a
-ul popular Derby win it was; and
the ciuses for gratification not the If
as the sympathy felt for Bend Or's b
cwicr, a thorough sporistan Uan td (so
honable a man.
irishi 1111nn111er1 of 11t0bilipig a At e10.
49
r folks" have got a Biddy of the It
lest, kind. .h was a queer duck
>od nattired "as i basket of chips."
tst Sun(ay,am we were sitting down a
ier we found the 01( cat with three %
grimalkins largely engaged in the 1
r business under tie table.
Idy," sa(I we "'take this cat and her
and put them Where we shalh nee.r y
mI more." A hint of (Iealdfll imll- I
it not understood.
ith mir, that I will."
feline family was remiovedl, and1 we t
Lied to dinie. By and biy Biddy re
I, w.th aii impression on her face y
emedl to say, "he (dad, 1 guess they're a
keeping niow."
311 Biddy, whiat have you (done wvithli
cat and her kittens."
gor, sir, they're safe enough, sure
ind the wood1 house forninst the i
Well I puit them all ini there,
stened tile dloors and windles. Then,
there was a hole b)esidecs whlere they
get out, I stopptedi that, up too and
Li see, they won't troiible you any
were sIatisfedl ''av course," andl( we
r (diner in peace; afterwards walked
ic yardi when we saw the "dlntical"
amid her kittens at liberty. Calling
we said(:
dl you say youi faistned the cat in the
house 14
nth tan' I dhid sir.''
'i stoppedi the hole?"
as sir "
eli, she had, that's a fact but what
suppose she stopped( the hole with ?
id stuck a section of a stove pipe
We thlought we would split. And
sat, one of the little imps at, the mouth
uist as5 it crawledi out licking its paws,
>oking as sausy as thutndter.
"Get the ulige on EUm."
one of the hottest corners' of Wood
avenue, D)ctrolt, at hugh noon re
, a small boy with a boot-black's jit
diner the full blaze of a sun pourlhig
for all it wasq worth. The boy per
I, roastedl oistered andl almost melt
it lie 1had stuck there for htalf an
when a had1y passing by halted amid
itt,1e bio?, aren't you afraid of being
ruck ''
(es, maii'am," was the prompilt re
hen wvhy don't 'you get inito the
can't."
idl anyone tell you to walt here ?" sheo
I.
ro, marml, but I am (doing it on may
11ook. It's awful hot and( I'm miost
but I've got to staind it."
c looked to see if lie was f.led, andlI
ibout to go on and regard hun11 as the
f a blrutal father in a saloon arouind
Lorner when the 18ad explained:
'here lie is nowi That boy up there
chap I was walmg for, and I iiad to
t here to see him when lie turned the
~r. lie's the feller that called my sis
poke-eyed rabbit, and I'm goIng to
in on him and lick him most to
ii I wishm you'd held my box so I
get the bulge on iiln aforo he AsuspctIs
lmnr."