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TWIEDIIOSBORO, Sec'e, UAR Y 4,99 JDAN JUDS( By EDWARD PRISINGS were in the air and Salis bury,* the. .capitza, of Mashonaland, was in a state bor dering on panic, in the month of Juxe, 1896. The - Mashonas had; risen to aid their former oppres sors, the Mata Leie, and from the 13th to the 18th -of June, and thence nnward for many terrible days almost every hour broaght tragic tid ings. Prospectors, miners and trav eters, unsuspicions ol danger, were being slaughtered ia all directions. Stores and lonely houses were be seiged, looted and burned, after the owner3 were slain. * Judge Vincent, the Chartered Com pa~y's -active administrator, could only muster 250 burghers armed with rbirt eighty riles and one Maxim be tween them, to protect the 300 women and children in Salisbury. Mr. Dan Jadson, chief inspector of the Chartered Company's Telegraphs, ani-3 .thea recently gazetted captain inte Rhoiesia Horse, was one of the few men who had prophesied that the Mashoaas would rebel. Though a yoang man, he was an old pioneer, hal taken part in two campaigas, and jnow the country well. Having friends at the 'Mazoe-a small settlement centering round the Alice Mine at the head of the Mazoe Valley, about twenty-seven miles from Saisoury-Judson wired to Mr. Salt house, manager of the Goldields of Mazoe Company, the news of the -.murders as it came in. When, however, early on Wednes day, the 17th of June, the. inspector had occasion to wire the Mazoe peo ple tae terrible list of murder.s end ing- with the blood-curaling Nortou massacre, he suggested that their women folk, at least, had better come into Salisbury, where a strong I laager was being cnstructed. Consequently at midnight a wagon, or large wagonette, and six mules left the telegraph ofce in charge of Mr. J. 0. Blakiston, Captain Judson's clerk, and Trooper Zimmerman of the Rhodesia Horse. It rire the ~next- mring 'Thur day, the 18th).a telegram was received from Blakiston announcing his safe arrival, 'that he had met nothing on the road, and was ready to leave with the women as soon as they had break fasied. Jadson then-by wire, of 'course ordered the Mazoe telegraph office to be closed, after first instructin Blakiston, Salthouse, and ihe ihen with them to start off at once with the ladies. The inspector passed the next few hours feverishly anticipating their arrival, On going into the oniee later on, he *was astonished-believing Mazoo to have been deserted since morning-to hear the Mazoc instrument clieking. Rt cased as hie entered, and Lieuten ant HTarrison, then in charge of the Salisbury Telegrap3h, silently handed, igmthis message: *".i3:kisto.n to~ Inspector Judson. Three mnen killed. Alice Mine suir roundal. Send help at once. Our on:y cance. Gooj-bye." *Thre niews-fjfom the Mazoe greatly: disrarssed .Judge Vincent, for he was now being harassed on all sides with * the most piteous appeals for atssist ance, which, for the most part, he was -nb to grant. Now, when Judson. asked im if niothing could be done to assist the 3Mazoe people, he said he was afraidl no men could ho spare3l. After some talk, however,:the inspee tor was g:'aated permission to take four inn and these he chose from Pie memibers of the RThodiesia Horse. Just before sunset, the little patrol of one oflicer and four men rode outi of the town on its forlorn errand. The-party consisted of Captain Judson - and Troopers Honey, Guyon, Godfre *Kin;; and Hendriks; but three miles *out it was joined by Captain Stamford Brovu, who was chief paymaster of the Rhodesia Horse, but not on its4 The~ patrol thea pushed on, and near the G we.,i -eie unearthed a native, w>o, when challenged, tied precip tately. With one brief halt to loosen ri':ths and allow horses and men a hasty meal, the patrol rode on. to 3iont Hampdcn. and again halted, *keeping a sharp look-out the while. Here. at half-past three in the morn ing, they were joined by a reinfcree menit fror Salisbury, consisying of *Troopers Finch, Pollett, Niebuhr, * Coword, 2inivaney and King. B3eore starting, JTudson addressed his comarades, pointing out that they were about to enter what might prove a veritable death-trap, and that there * 1t UJ nlo thought of turning back diter they h'ad onte started. Not a ean of them. however, shrank from the mission-, znd descending the rise on w~hich the farm stands, they crossed the Tatagora Ri~ver- and proceeded in sigle ile, Juds~on loading, with Cap taiu~ Erown a close second. After covermng half a mile or more, they enteredl a stretch of tall, dense grass, in length about 300 yards. termninating in a perfect jungle. It was an ideal spot for an ambuscade, and tuirning in his saddle, Judson gave the abrupt ogder, "Gallop!" Still going -in single file they tore along, the dnly sound being the thun der of the hoofs of the horses. Judson dashed through the e -tremity of the patch about ten yards ahead of Brown, who was closely fol :)N-S EIDE. O-N HART. lowed by the others. Then he wheeled his horse round, and raising his gun covered th thickest clump of grass, past which Niebuhr and Pollett were then galloping. As he did so, a dozen shots rang out in rapid suc cession; fire and smole burst out of the grass nor six yards from the two men, and at the same moment both of them were on the ground, horses and all. In the same instant Judson caught sight of the natives crouching ir. Cae gra d a fired la n.1.--rZIhar,ed barrels, felling two of them. This alone prevented a volley being fired on Honey and Coward, the latter of whom was thrown by his horse-who was frightened at the sudden dis charge-right in front of the 'enemy. Two horses were killed outright; Pollett was badly shaken and Niebuhr severely wounded, his hand having been shattered by slugs. Brown, Hendriks, Coward and Honey then opened a hot fire on the enemy to en gage their attention, while, with great difficulty, Judscn got the wounded man to his horse behind him, Pollett clambering up behind Hendriks. Then they fired a volley into the rebels at forty yards, and again started off at a gallop. Niebahr'i wounded and useless arm hanging limply over Juson's shoulder, and saturating the front of the latfer's tunic with blood. Before they bad galloped many hundred yards, a large party of the enemy was seen running parallel with them along the mountain side to cut them of. Judson at once halted his detachment and poured volley after volley into the enemy, the Martinis at 300 yards range doing good execution among the natives and forcing them to retire. Ouce more the party 3tarted for ward, but this time at a gentler can ter, emptying their rifles gs tbey rode, and keeping up a running fight. On approaching thick clumps of grass which swarmed with. concealed na tives, they dislodged them.by .fring volleys into them as they aavanced, and then rashed- p the dangerous spots at a tyng gallop. . Judson gave orders that, in the event of any more getting weunded, and 'the survivors being unable-to iry them, they were to stick to gether and endeavor to secure a position on one of the kopjes, where thea would I able- to Lad thsi n at least while the ammuniti6n lasted. Judson decided, and so informed his comrades, that if they were unable to discover their friends alive, they were to fight their way to the tele graph office and inform the. Salisbury authorities of their plight. They would then Maager up as best they could, the iact of their having no food and bat little ammunition left forcing all to realize that such a proceeding though the only one possibite under the circumstanees-could be but a prelimijnary to certain death. Just as they were 'heading for the1 telegraph oSice, they heard a great shout of mingled triumpa and despair, and looking round they beheld, stand ing up and waving to them from with in an improvised laiger on a small kopje nea.r the Alice Mine, ;the men and woman they had fought~ their way so gallantly to rescue. But for that shout the pair-ol might have rid den past. so hidden was the-laager by masses of the enemy. Through these bloo-thirst.y savages the relief force now shot a pathwray for themselves and whilst unde: a hail of lead, but. ~till firing volley after volfey, they cae up the slope at a gallop, and in a minuto rescuers and rescued were unted. Thus Dan Judson's patrQl had bad to ight their way in under. a contin nous, heavy, close-range fire 'from dense cover, for a..distance of eight railes. But the besieged had also a terrible e:pt,rience to relate. When on the Thursday it was de cided that all the Mazee people should! proceed to Salisbury, a party. of the men, as before re!ated, started on. ahead, taking with them fourteen na-, tive carriers anid a cart drawn by two donkeys to carry their provisions. About 11. a. m. they left the rough laager of logs and boulders which had: beeni constructed the previons .day, but had not gone above, three miles when their carriers led them into am-! bush. Cass and Dickenson were lone to death on the grass with as segais and knobkerries, whereupon the rest turned the eart round and jumped in, but had not proceeded far when Faull, who was diving, was shot through the stomach br~a native conceled in the grass not foar yards from him. Almost at th-e same mot m"t one donkey was-killed and the othr wounaded. and the men, -aban donig 'the cart, then ran for their Teev met the wvazonette containiig the th-ee l.idies ana .tmried it ba,ck: Tinally shootingm for-W tlhey were woth at fifty of sixty niativ'es who chased them and fired bs th.ey ran, theyv regained thie shelter .s tihkager. AndJ thnoeocurred a st~range,thing, which for h.erois-m is not~o bdexcelled in the annals of war. .A amessage had to be wired to Salisbury or relief, but who in the face of certain death would vor.nteer to take it? - Then Blakiston, who was a tele graph cle'k, but not: an operator, voluteered-to take the message if Rout. edg.:. 'who, was an operator, would accompany him to transmit it. The two men' knew it was certain death, too-and yet they went. Bakiston was wounded in the foot before he reached the telegaph oface, but: sent his message-and his good caught sig: of them on their return, when they were some 1700 yards dis tant. They saw Blakiston fail on the road, man and horse, riddled with bullets. Routledge ran for cover into the bush, but was never seen again. After the arrival of the relief, the enemy for a time practically ceased fir ing, though the watchers knew they remained concealed in their vicinity. For the promised reward of $50), a singularly plucky Cape boy named Hendritz was induced to ride to Salis bury with a dispatch asking for a re inforcement of forty men and one Maxim gun. On the Gwebi Flats he met Inspec tor Nesbit o[ the police, with a patrol consisting of Troopers Ogilvie, Har bord, McGregor, Byron, Edmonds, Arnot, A. Nesbit, Berry, Van Staacn, Zimmerman, McGeer and Jacos thirteen men in all. The- iIspector el'ecteO to- pro-cec: at once to the Mazoe, winot v.t:ug for further reinforcements, and partly on account of the darkness, and Part ly owing to the enemy making sure ot them on the retara joarney, they rea::hed the Mazoe without fighting. The party now numbered thirty men and three women; and after the new arrivals bad f!d and rested their horsn= all hands set about preparing for their departure. Judson had the two sides, and to an extent the back of the wrgoaette armored with sheet-iron, which -as was observed at the- time-fitted so well, that it seemed to have been made for the purpose. The mules had all been shot or lost, so six men were dismounted, and the six troop horses inspanned in their p'aee, thonch they had never beea in harness before. The order of march was an advance guard of five mounted men and eight on foot, and then a rear guard ol seren mounted and eight footmen. A start was made before noon. The thick bushes and konjes were alive with thousands upon tnoasands of the enemy oficered by experienced Matabele, and armed with Lee-Met ford, Martinis and elephaat ganq, crammed with pa-leo and every vari ety of slog. Mounted natives never cea-ei to hatass the rear guard, and pressed it so close that at one point a halt bad to 'be made, and volley after volley 'ired to drite them back. A ie%v min utes .aftertards' Lieutenant McG-eer feil, - and his horse bolted, but was. pluckily ridden after and recaptured by Hendriks. Then two oL the patrol had their horses shot dead under then. Jadson and Stamford-Brown rar back to see McGeer, and found hir. lifeless, with several bullets th-ough hie-head. All this -while the mr fhmyf ihh. f-aei-remained hid den, the grass edging the roadside be ing from eight to nine feet high. In tis dense cover the natives squatted, and took pot-shots at the patrol, who had only tashes and pufs of smoke to aim at in return. About a mile from the Tatagora Drift, where the road winds between the. foot of a large kopje and the river, annihilation seemed certain. The bla.ks were swarmed to witIr.n three yards of the road, and bullets seemed to rain upon the horses from every uarter. Here one of the leaders of the team was shot through the head, but not killed, and kept its place. Im mediately after, however, the orT-side wheeler fell mortally wounded, and while Brown and Salth ouse were strug gling to cut him loose, the near wheeler was killed and almost fell on Salthouise. Next Jacobs and.Tan Staden were shot dead, the latter falling with the side 'of heis 'head .completely blown away. Arnot was cut off from his c'mrade, but eventually escaped. Hen driks in the advance guard was shot right through the jaws and mouth, and -was ordered to aband'on the con voy and save himself. Ogilviti was shot and severely injured; and Barton, receiving a terrible,:wound -right through the"face&-nst ,managed to lamber into the wagon, an.d fell bleed ing amnong the borr i women. Still the a'goniz..d procession forged slowly ahead, and still the four re maimnng horses painfuly dragged the wagon ette, blood pouriug fromn the ncse and mouth of the -ou.nded leader. The advatice guard now made a se ries of charges on the ainbuses ahend, and so diverted some of the-fire frotn the wagonette. -At the end of that terrible valley, a ruse de guerre was attempted,.the advance guard riding forward and cheering wildly as if they sighted advancing relief. The cheer ig was taken up by the rest-and the ruse succeeded. The firing slackened of perceptibly, ad soon ceased altogether; and be fore they reached the Gwebi River all pursuit was abaudoned. With one halt, varied by a false alarm that the natives were again in sight, they toiled painfally over the intervening seventeen miles, reaching Saisbury Laager,about, ten o'clock. Thiey received an indecribable ova tion, it .beinug reported tha: dl were killed. The attack on the Alice Mine andthe reliefs had lastevj, with but ittle intermissica, more than sixly hours. Inspector Nesbit-possibly because he was connected with a force more nearly allied to"th~e regular forces was given a Victoria Cross. but he was the only meinber of th4t gallant little band whose servi'6es tydre recognized by governraent. .Captainx Dan Jndt.on. the Qrganizer, leader.and moving spirit of the most heroic Expedition in colo ial annals-despite the strenuone recommendations of Judge Vincent received-nothing! - But his heroic feat of arms is not like -todbe forgot-: ten by the people of the veldt side, and will be remembered by most Eng lishmen who know tlie story.-Wide World Magazine. The elephant beetle~.of Venezela~ is the biggest of its species. An average secmen of this inseet, when full OR FARM AND GA1~ DI'emors for Piq FoaA. An agricnItural paper PI%gests the fo'loving as ai.Is to digestioa for the Pig Pea: !:aust: A mixture of six pounds of saIlt to a bushel of wood aslies. - Sec ond: To sit bushels <- charcoal brok( n ine ada six voundr of salt, one bnshel wheat shorts aba 1 1-4 pounis of copperas dissolved in a pail cf water. Ti:d: One bnshel of w.aod ashes, four p:awls of~charcoal,si. pounds of salt rnd 1 1-4 pounds of cApperas dis solved in a pail of water. One or the other of the:i should bo kept :n an o-en box-bk; protected fro. -h veat her - ini eve, y pig pen and wiire tue aniia _m. help them selver.-Ncw York Week!'y Witnes. I-nnurin- Fruit Treet li Wiater. .Uaiures applied to trees when their bads ire dormant, its iu Ain,e, are smre to Jargely inrrease wood growth the following year, especial on yo-ug, vigorous trees. Even w un examitna tion of the bads show%s thi:t - the t!ee Vill bos 4ota freely nextsring, itis not safe to apply now much rkh i manure. as it X-ill make so mnh :-ap that the blossc m wili be drowned 'nt and not set its L:uir. This is oft-h the reason w-hy f::iiit mails to set whe there are plenth of blossoms. On",7 old tree can bE thus manured with ce:tain y that. the nanura will heip the fruit yiel. And even who 1 nx nring old tre s, iotash and pho-ipha-e in avai - able f4rn are b tre: that. st:V]e mau urc or othtr fertiizers ric.h in nitro gen... :-i~rr Goin: Dry Too LonT. If tlero is any ea elesa in mi'l in- it .s apt t. oc :tic whep heifers aro mi ke.. a:1er their first dalf. Tinr teats are small, and it is slow, hard work to draw th last drops from tho udder, as shonld always be doe Besid:s, the heifer tha calved last spring proba:Iy gives Jnaly a sna'l miles, et the best, and tie:e is grea tenaptztion to dry her oD, as the milk shbe -i-es scarcely payhe -troable o' milI ing. But that is ;lot ~the main point. Keeping the belfer fip to her upnal flow of Lailk is alt i.-po:tant for lhe owa fture value :a a cow. When a lei-er is aloved to go dry two, three <;r four m>nths,the cow is after wards extremely liable zo stop further milk p.oduction at ab -Ut the same tiw,e. J - .utter. The prime cause of mo,ftles is the use of -oo cold water in washing the batter and the manner in which it is introdE,ced into the chnrn. By using too col.. water the outside of the but ter graales becomes crusted or hard ened 'ike, the shell of an egg, while the inside is soft. Now, when this mass i worked together these little she.ls remiain in the same condition, no a:nnt of working or temper itg sail, or even dist ibution of salt when adtded, will ch'ange the condi tions. They do not work up, conse quentle do not take salt, hence the fine, threadlike streaks in the butter. The.nanner in which the water is intr-ouced into the churn is respon sile for the large mottles or seeming lnmt:s of white butter throughout the n:asa. In the majority of ci eameries thronzi:oat Whe country the water is pu~m; ed <lirectly into 1he churn. either through a hose or a pipe. Now,when the water st:ikes the butter these g-aua!es become hard and solid as in the first case, only that the:e hard granu'es are not broken downa at all, and the large mottles are the result. The wash water sh uld be teimpered to within two or three degrees of the chn to:.ui:erature. One of the most imnportant winter wo:ks oa1 the fa:m is t.>open the paths after eatch snowfaii. Where the path lies aero a places that usually drift fnil of snow much~ of the work of keepinz- the path open may be a' ided by remov.inIg the obstruction to the wind which causrs the drift. Most generally a drifting snow remains several days, so that the path will dr~it full every night, even though no fresh :uow has fallen. In opening roads a teamt of steady, stout o:en hi.ched to a sleigh, or sometimes to a stoae sled, will ma:ze a broad path bet ter thtan horse< could do it. We have often seen, when a boy, most of thbe catt e in the neighuborhood brought ont to follow after an ox team and sledi. By the time those had been dris en t wice over the roa-i, it was con sdered safe for sleigh vehic:es drawn by horses. A flock of sheep driven after all else will compact the snow best of all. But if snow drifts into the t. acks thus imde, it will often be pilea nearly as high as the loose snow n either side. It may be all right so long as the cold weather lasts, but let a thacw comne, and this solid snow must be abandaned, and a new track made in the loose snow on one side of what has been used during the winter. - U:Hizlng Farm Mtanures. It is generally understood that all fertiliziug elements must dissolve be fore they becomec plant food. Henice the more thoronghly decomposed they become in thbe corupost heap, the more quickly rains and dews will dissolve theni after they are applied to the soa~iv.M plan of earing for farm mannrues is to m1ake three bins by pacing ..osts -eight-feet apart and sid ig' up w ith boards. The size of these bi's ill1 be determined by the ai'onnt o. waste~ to be con verted into fertilizer. Luord mno the first and senond bins three teet nigh. The third bin I make rer thian the others, as it must ho:d . atire nutpu of cmmt until it is To prevent waste of the liqid manures by leaching, spread a' thick layer of dry muek, peat or,- 'h sodI over the bottom of the bin:-xzis will act as an abso:bent. If this is too much trouble put in a layer of coarse grass or straw instead. Bin No. 1 is to receive all fresh manures, night sl.ps from the hoase, asues.dvoppings fron poultry house- and pig pe is, cl shoes, bones and trash of all kinds. Make bii No. 1 a general dumping gr,>un for everything .,at can possibly ue utilized, sach as dish water and wash water, unless you have hogs aad prefer to give this Ust to them. 'ee that the stable manure and rnbbish are tho ongbly mixed ii bin No. 1. By thus i.corpmorating all the trash with the stable manure you prevent its beating too rapidiy, or burnin. Sprinkle lime, or better, sulphate of potash over all. This will has:eu de compositio:. Neep all the b.us that cout ;iu anything covered wi h str:rr, earth or coarse gass to prevent the amUoniia escapiung. Fyrk over contents of bin No. 1 a lit:le every three or four days to thoroughly mix coarse with fine and in three or four days after bin No. I is full fork it all over into bin No. 2, then proceed to till bin No. 1 again. When bin No. 1 is fill this time, empty bin No. 2 into bin No. ?, aLid repeat the process with bin No. 1. Eve-y laut t:at grows ia garden or field has a taste for food pe,niliar to i.self. The old shoes, bones and even tie dead cat throxn into bin No. 1 aid mixedwith the other cim post wili find its way ilto tie lilt.e rootlets of so ne plant. While thi; method does not make a co:nplete fertilizer for any spec-al plar, it makes a most etcellent gen e;al fertili.er. We are munch too a.t o t.i.ik of worn out a ticles as del ,r worthle4s matte'-. An article serves a long and well as it can in on- form ;-id t1l":l dis negrates only to alljw ;he indiiilatzd partie es to comne to gether in so.ne new and often higher ior.a.-U. M. Drake in Siw England .omlestead. Undi%r;1rainin- mick Sw-nmp. There is a far better way to make ase of a swamp of uich black muck i ha i to dra w it ont, season it a year or iwo by e.sptsn e to freezing. and thea spi ead it on uplands. No doul.t there are placet whaze tais plan may pay, but it is not econoay. The black .auk is proualy nt nea,ly so rich in er,ilizing matei i.d as is supposed. and so mneh haudiug of it as is *re ti:ed to draw t in its raw state, s:-a son it and then handle it again to ap ply it, very rarely pays. The better way is to make undrdrains throngn the rwamp, 1ossibly if there is a great deal of water 1eaUiug'ail these \hrains into La open ditch, which should have a growth of sod on its sides as early as possible. In two or three years frost will p)enetrate to the depth of two feet or more in the pliable muck, and the surface if left bare through the winter can easily be cultivated until it is as imehow as an ash heap. Uaually these muck swamps are underlaid with a c ay snb.soil. That is a good sign, for it ieans that less of the fertility has been washel away and lost. In all cases the drains shoald be put dowu deep eaongh to reach the clay, and somie gravel should be pnt over the joints of the tile,so as to not only keep the clay from stop ping the wvater from entering, but also to prevent the fine bla k mould from above from siKt. ng into the tile. Sometimes when we get down to the clay springs of wvater will burst forth. Where a sprinig is found, much care will be required in lacy.ug the tile, as there will he a great <.eal of sand b ought up by the water, and this is likely to get into aind choke the tile. The best way prIobab)ly is to leave an opeiiing here in thme drain and make a smialI pond there wih the spring of water in the ceitre. It is slow, dirty wo k dredging out such a pond so as to have the water rise up from a lower depth than the drain. It wih regni: e attention every year to keep this hole from filling ur. But sntch a spring once tonud w~ 11 furnish wa er at any timeC through the op:en ditch into whic~h the tile carries it. Afte:-thesa:mp is drained,it shetid be cultivated with ordiinary armi eI ops,I but reserved for those which re ,ui e mncky soil to do tjieir i.est. If g ain is sown it wvill prob..bly make a .tank growth os straw, whech,lacking m1meial fertility,will not be able to sust-in its own we gut. The g ain c:-op will probably rust, and both that and the straw will prove a >aiinre. But a drained muck bed fertii>edl with }ot ash and phosphatb makes a first rate place for celery, for cnLhba y and for co-n. The,e e u be bet ter grown ont the dlrai e I muek bed -han onugands fer ilized with the s w.mp mt uek spread over the:o. AI.no t anll m:tcky soils are de5ieiut in ot ash. TLcey are the remiainis of -.egetaitionl that has very little mineral matter in i:. A dressing of phlospha.te and 1otash applied to m?ucky soils makes them abnost as rich as fermented cow manure. In time the muck bed will waste away by exposu: e to the air,and for this reason it should every few years grow a crop of c-over to i e iewv the vegetab'e mat-. t r~ it has lost. It may seem needless where the soil is still blacek with the remains of old vegetation to plow under a clover growth, but the clover is far more nitrogenonst than any vet etable matter this soil ever prodneed before, and it also contai is a g:reater amont mine al fert.ility. So there is probably no way of making clover p: ociuee a better efTect than by grow-. ing it on soil which is apparently al-: ready ful?l of vegetable matter. -Amer ican Cultivator. An "ice-creeper," for wearing on the shores in s ippery streets, has been inite itel by a Vfissou ri lady. It has smalml st, el teeth to 1ie ce the ice as the eare walks and < an be applied. V 1LLAub W lmVAU4:1 V U15L FOR CENERATION S INHABITANTS HAVE PAID NO TAXES. The Remarkable State of Afas That EXisto in Hastings, a Little Town Amid the %%hite Dlountaine-Most Cosmopoli tan Setilement in New England States. Hastings is a little village seated amid the White Mountains on the bjundarv betw, en Maine and New Hami.shire, and is the most unique in -\ew ingiand, perhaps in the civil ized world, declares the Boston Globe: it contains 300 inhabitants within the village proper, with es many mre at work cutting and hauling lumber to the villag- from the slopes of two surrounding mountains. It has the large manufacturing indust: ies, large store and boarding houses, twenty six rebidences, postoffice, electric plant, lighting streets, store. etc., raiiroad, telephone, fine school, re ligious s;cieties and services, excAl lent water system and sewerage-in short, as wauy modern conveniences as auy %illage of its size in New Eng land. Yet it is ueith.r city, town, plantation nor evea an incorporated place. It is nothing. Its inhabita' ts pay no taxes of any sort. Babies have been born here, have grown to inauhod and b-come the heads of families and never known what iu was to I-ay one cent for taves. The.e is,of c.urse, a wild lan-1 tax and a state tax on the will property, but these are pai.l by non-residents an i are so.nething with which the inhabitants have noLhing to do. Oa the other band, no inhabi'ant can vote. They are, as a rule, well educated, the dazly papers have a large circulation here, te people are well poste. in cnrreit e :entq. Yet be,e, in the very heart of New Engia:d, i.s a coainunity who have no tuore v,ice or intinence in n.,tio :al, state, county or town affairs than t hou4h tuey live.J in the heart of Rus sia. ie.e are giay-haired America. citizens w-o have never cast a ballot, and caunot so Ion-; as they live he':e. It. is the most cosmopoltan village in New England. Eve:y nation on earth is, or has been, represented here. The most remarkable thing about this most remarkable place is the ea tire absejce of crime. Notwitiistanding this heterogeneous popnatioa tuere are uo ) olice, not even a coistable. There was a sort of e-nstable here, bat his com nission expired abont a year ago, and his dn ties had been so licht li \.d not con sider it wortg his whi,e to renew it. Here is the only vilia-e in the United States. to whi,b-there,is no carriage roa:. The ol'y Mns of transportation to or from the outside world is by a railroad. This railroad starts at Gilea1 and *ollows the val!ey of the Wild iiver aiong a route sa narrow that in many placas there is barely rooa1 for the rails. On every other side of the village are moun t..ins so s'eep that even a foot nan c -n c:imb their sides only with difienlty and so high that the sun is visible only part of the day. When this railroad was first built a few persons ventured to drive a car riage over the ties, but it proved so di!licnlt and dangerons tha.t this method of reachiag the village has been abandone 1. This railroad is one of the wonders of New Eug'andl. It renetrates four teen miles into the wildest defiles of the White Monitains. A ride upon it is a new experienIce, even to a trav eler who has visited every contry upon the globe. You fellow the si iu ons White rive'-, whirling aronnd enrves of forty degree, wvhere it seems i vo).ssible for a trainjto go; yon eli uh the sides of mountha t an elevation of 403) fest to the ~l whe-e a horse conld scarcely go and could not haul a load. You shoot d awn declivities which are almnost nrecipices, where a break in the machinery means death. Once the train dii run away and was r.mashel, killing the t-ainmen. It is a frei;it road, not us a.lly taking pas senwers. Here was the first s,ecess'al experi mient of hanuling logs by rail upon a l:rge sen!e i t New En' laand, and nuo-i this readl was -nsed the first patent ge trod locomotive for mountain climb ing in the cast. The scho I is another nuique fea tare. The scholhou3e was h) iilt in I1992 by the two co apanies who oper ate here, and the teacher is paid by a co itribut'o:i from each workma-1 of ten cents a nmonth. -This is taken from each ma's wares each pay day, and is enonthz to pay for about thi"ty five w eks of school each year. This term the-e are thirty-seven pupils. This territory was granted to Rich avd Batchellor by the state of Massa chnsetts about 1100 years ago. Forty aears ago G. A. -Hastings of BehladD. P. Fastings of Frye Urg haught 20,00)0 acres here, prac ticaly the who' e re-ion. In 1891 they sold the right of way.through their territory, the mill. site at the village and twenty acres to. the- Wild River Lumber Co. of Island Poad,Vt. This company purchased at the same time 40,000 acres of timber in Bean's Purchase, just across the New Hamp shire line. They put in the big steam mill, store, most of the houses, the electric system, sewers, etc. They cut their timber at Bean's Purchase and haul it bmy rail to the steammill here,which. saws 60,03)0 feet a day wi'.a ran to its fuli capacity. Carl Storrs may be termed the fa ther of the settlement, as he holds every pulic office so satisfactorily that no other man has been thought of in connection with ihe positions. He is the cow-"aty's agenr, b sok keeper, pay:na'te-, tri.djustice, pst When the prestimptiueis segregate confinement enidee Eastern penitentiary, -hiladel - aroused the indignation of Charles Dickens and his trenchant pen gave expression to his horror of such pun ishment, the institution on Fairmount a% enne was given a sinister reputation beyond its de ierts. Since the greatnov velist wrote in terms sos .vereof so:ita ry imprisonment the results obtained by the management of the prison here have refuted in the main the strictares passed npon the Eastern peniteut:ary. Phrenologists have given their teiti mony in favor cf tne system which Dickens condemned, and sAitary zou finewent is in vogne in many of the penitentiaries of the country. If en forced to the letter and a man was coml;elled to sit within a narrow cel day after (lay with nothing but his -own thoughts to occupy his mind, then, indeed, sol;tary canfinee:ent would be a barbarity that wonild shame civilization and bamanit.y. Maduess and death could only result in the ma jorty of cases. But when the convicted man stands before his julage t receive his pan ishinent ant litaas to the words "sol itary confinement," their terror is li;htened by the mercifal provis:on that his lonelinss shall be be relieved by "hard labor." Then, t,o, the crowded condition of the Eastern pen itentiary requires that two and fre quently thr:e,convict, shallbe con fined in the same cell, and the "s,litary confinement" part of the sentence is mo e or less a legal fition. While a man has the conianv of his fellows ad the boon of work in the pris:n there is imposed upon him a punishment the sever.ty an 1 ir' s.mene4s of which cai only be a:pre honde.1 in its full force by one who has undergone it. Ta.e i.uishmeitis silence. Throughout the day no m.n dare speak to his fe':ow save of ne,-es sity or by stealth. To a man wh. ha3 yiel.lel to temptation and fallen fro a an honorable p'ace in soc ety the need of himanu sympathy, the fon1 of a kindly voice, a friendly ea: into whiAx to p.ur the toit iring surgings of his mind is most nece-sary, and inst make this i.n.osed sil--nce ta:riiule to bear. The prison autnorities recogize the severity of th3 nish-meut of these lon- broodi.g ho.:rs an- t1he mental strain i;npose:l on the convico. Many in passing the peniteatiAry in the early hours of the evanint mnst have been startL A by tje c. ies an.l tumult echoing fr::m behind iti atone walls, and woude:ed as *hey hnrried by if a bloody re o t was go ing on within. A revolt it is indeedi that nightly take-4 plaoe, but it is the revolt of overbarde-ied hearts, of an gni-hed souls, and black, evil minds agiinst the silence they have writhed under daring the day. From 6 o'clock until 9 ach night the ban of silence is raise.1, and the inmates of the prison are free to give vent to the tumult of their minds. Locked there in their cells the great majority of the prisoners await cager l tne hour of sic. At the given time pandemonium b-eaks loose. Tb 3 cor ridors echo and re-echo to the yells, shrieks and songs of the miserable, caged men. Many of them have inn sical instruments, and these add their volume to the general discord. For three hours the din continues, b4c n the stroke of nine the electric lights - in the cells go out-, silence o:ize more broods over the g oomy place, an:1for tunate the man who finds freedom in sleep. __________ QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Baby carriages propelled by eleo tiiity are in use in Paris, France. -- Horses in the Philippines are a curi. The few that are ~raised in the islan~.d too small to brand. There is ~f.-sary in the British musenm made of-4he vertebr:a of a snake's backbone. her is com posed of rats' teeth. The Dutch fishermen kill the fish caught as soon as they reach the shore, while the French fisher aen leave their booty to- die of suffocation. In England the year formerly began - - with the 25th of March. It was not until 1752 that the first of Jacnuary was made thc beginning of the te24.~--.K year. . The Clarendon Street Baptist church of Boston has a Chi:zese Sunday school whose average attendance is 20). This school supports two native mis sionaries in China. Untame.1 camels are not the docile creatures they are taught to beco no after months of breskiag. In the wild state they are extremely vi, ions, and can kick harder, liigher, swifter an .1 oftener thati a mule, and sadmetimer seem to use allfontr feet at once. Mrs. Ann Smith of Wo-eester, Eng. land, 110) years of age, has spent ove? a hundred years of-her life ii tra. elig from fair to fair in a van. Sh6~ has ha.i sixteen children, and one of her daughters, now 80 years of agj has. also had sixteen. Mrs. Smith -eats four meals a day,drinks sparingly of intoxicants, smokes- a cgay -pip steadily, and attends to all her house.. hold dutie herself. R egn. tefnty-five years ago, the British Mtuseum, catalogue .of birdte .as just been 'completed, in -tient? seven large srolufnes. It attempts to give a list of ever~y ki;td of bird known atthe 'time-of pudlieation, and de scribes 11,6l% species,. -belonging toa 2255 genera and& 124families; 40f,. specimens,350, 000 of which are infN British Miuseum collection, are r3 ferred to in the woik. ^ The largest-.u'agen'sfidutridgier.e East river in Gre. r New 3 ork Y~ 598.i feet long and i slog. 15 feet. -