Sleep.
When the evening shadows creep
Stealthily,
Hiding every hill and dale,
Hiding all things with their veil,
When the shining day doth die,
Sweet is sleep,
When the evening shadows creep
Stealthily,
To the baby in ber nest,
Longing for her quiet rest,
Hushed by loving Inllaby,
Sweet is sleep.
When the evening shadows oreep
Stealthily,
lo the weary heart and brain
Bringing tranquil peace again;
All our cares and sorrows five.
Sweet is sleep,
tm———
Christmas Anthem,
Maidens mothers that may be,
Bring your wroa! is to deck the shrine
Of the Mother-Maid divine
With her Child non her knee;
Shout your silvery songs of praise
For the birth of better days
Mothers, come!
In your glances deep a
The adomtion of the (
Come, your children at t
Lift yo
For the birth of bottey
I see confessed
n
ht
he !
ens |
2%
ur prayerial songs ol pmise
days
Childrens come with con
Seok the benediotios
Of this gentle
little |
Who was love and noocence;
Lisp your guileless songs
For the birth of better day
Pillip
om
BERYL'S CHRISTMAS.
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Christmas raining.
rained from early LW adily
without cessation, avd now the
had fallen and it was raining still.
To the eyes of the that stood in
the west window ol little villa
among the elms |i anspeakably
dreary. She hb i a long
while watching with their
laden vehicles sp through the mud,
and the pedestrians, laden too, hurrying
along the swimming pavements;
now she pressed her face against the cold
ane, and great tears fell slowly fr
er eves. Shoturned away in a moment
and buried her face in the cushions of a
divan that stood near, and cried as if her
heart would break
The little fire in ib
fitfally on the walls and
pretty room; the rain drip
the veranda and patie
pane; and :
pliiowWSs, the hres
disordered masses of
the slender form thal
intensity of her grief.
The littie French clock on the mantel
chimed seven and she jifted her tear
stained face, and pushed back the heavy
hair with two sma’l white hands.
“ I wonderif there is another girl as
miserable as I'' she exclaimed, as so
many girls have «x ed before her,
and as 0 many wii exciaim again. “1
who have everything in the world to
make me happy— heath, a happy home,
and friends; and yet. because have
quarreled with ore of these, everything
is less than nothing tome. Such a little
thing to quarrel sbout! Heknows I am
jealous. and he |! hit to praise
Coral Gilbert everything
that I am not.”
She was nervous, sipping a dainty
amethyst up and down one slender
finger, and the frelig! hing it drew
pale, violet flames from it. “Yes, and
to send this back without a word—
without one least hittle word. Just a
year ago to-night he took it from me,
and promised to keep it until I sent him
back the one he had given me, If I did
send his back, what right had he to re
turn mine? He knew I would be sorry
when I had ¢ tnthink; he knew, too,
I didn’t mean one word of tLe hateful
letter 1 wrote him: and { haveu't seen
him for six weeks, and he is going to
take Coral Gilbert to the party to-night.
I almost wish I wasdead.” The bronze-
brown tresses were recklessiy crumpled
against the cushions again, and the rain
outside seemed weeping in sympathy
with her.
There was a clatter of glad childish
voices in the hall, a ringing of happy
laughter, a rush of little f and Beryl
Dean had just time to jump up, wipe the
tears away and smooth her hair hastily,
wheén the children bu in without
ceremony.
“Story, story!” they “Youn
promised, Berry, you know.’
“Yes, I remember,” fshe answered,
gently, In a moment the petulant,
grieving child had become the quiet,
womaniy girl. ** Have you had a pleas-
ant time this afternoon?”
“Jelly!
“ PDeligutfal®
* Aunt Louise 1s the nicest woman in
the world.”
** Not nicer than sister,” Baby Jessie
said, loyally.
* Oh, no. indeed, of course not,” they
all said, and then Harry rolled a great
easy chair to the grate and drew Beryl
into it affectionately, and eat downon a
little hasscck at ber feet and leaned
inst her knee; May sat down on one
of the arms, Daisy on the other, and
Baby Jessie clambered into her arms.
And so they sat in the cheery firelight,
and Beryl told them wonderial stories
of Clristmas tide and the Christ-child,
her sweet, low voice often broken by
eager questions, and Mrs. Dean came
and astonished them beyond measure
by telling them it was nine o'clock and
bed-time ; loving and with kisses and
good-nights fer the elder sister, they
trooped off.
But that night the white pillow under
the bronze hair was wet with hot, girl-
ish tears.
td
- - -
Christian day, and still it rained;
would it never cease? Long betore
dawn the children had rushed into her
room with * merry Christmas” on their
lips. “Everything we wanted, we
have,” they cried. * Come down to the
presents.” And she went down with
pale cheeks and heavy eyelids, but with
smiles and cheerlul over the
pretty things that had been lavished
upon her Only the mother noticed
that there were is shadows under the
dark eyes, and the face was very pale,
and the red lips often trembled as she
looked from thie warm, cozy breakfast-
words
t
leaned down sorrowfully to the sodden
earth. The thoughtful little woman
said nothing, but Beryl felt in many
ways that the mother's love was a very
tender and precious thing.
Mrs. Dean had some household cus-
toms that were as cliangeless as the laws
ot the Medes and Persians. Her family
spent Christies day at home, always.
They went to church always.
on a very sad and murmurous heart that
day; and as Beryl's sweet, powertul
trembled so she was frightened, and
with a strong effort forgot everythin
but the grand chant. *“ How wicked
thinking, always thinking about ayown
one tries to make me happy.”
When the solemn benediction trembled
but shrank back with her heart beating
tumultuously as she encountered a pair
of dark eyes looking up into hers. How
long it had been since she had seen
them. Flushed and trembling she ran
down the stairs and hurried to the car-
riage with a celerity that greatly sur-
prised Mrs. Dean.
* If I could only make some unfortu-
nate happy, I think I could be happy
myself,” she thought, nervously, “Iam
so selfish and egotistical in my sorrow,
no wonder I never have any rest or com-
fort. Ah!’ as a sudden gidea crossed
her “1 know. I will go and see Mrs.
Hull. Poor old lady, she will be lone-
some to-day.”
And so while the late dinner was in
VOLUME XIIL
3
cottage a mile or two away where dwelt
Mrs. Hull, a childless widow, destitute
and aione in her helpless old age. She
found her. patient and urcompinining,
id up with a bad attack of rheumatism
t out in the ciean tlic
the fire aimos
COOH,
The withered o
wien Beryl came in *1 have come to
stay wit an hour or two, Mis,
Hull,” waking off Y Waters
} 1g up the iittie fire
and flickered in t
ina
i brightened up
i
fa iv
a
t hie
enn
est manner
here is your Christmas," w
; lok woolen shawl about Fy
vi putting a pretty white cap and
handkerchief on her own pretty it,
and laughing acd dimpling in the most
delightful manper at her little surprise
* And you and I are to have luncheon
together: I couldn't wait to have it at
home, so I brought it with me. I hope
you'll excuse my unceremonious entry
with my bundles, 1 dare say mamma
will be seandalized when I tell her about
our pienio,” and Beryl laughed one of
her pretty merry laughs not caring to see
the tears in the oid eyes.
“This is like the larks we used
have at A whole year since l
was a schoolgirl,” with a heavy sigh.
‘I baven't enjoved life half so much
Gi ke forgetting the summer
that was fairer than any poetic idy! to
her young heart; forgetting the bright
autumn days that were happy and
dreamiui and with a delicious
peace; oniv remembering the sad win-
ter days that come in with storm |
and tears and misunderstandings.
She put fr coverings on the bed,
in e pain-twisted form tenderly in
hed th
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had
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ing th
her strong voung arms; she bathe
hands and | and combed
hair gently, and hushed the
words that were her
ing a little table he bed and cover-
ing it with the contents of her basket,
keeping up & running stream of gay girls
ish chatter. Then she propped the old
lady up with pillows, and drew the one
chair to the table for herself, poured out
a cup of hot fragrant tea which she had
made for Mrs. Hull, and waited on her
much more assiduously than she would
have done for anv of | mother's ele-
gant friends.
“ Mamma wil
S0e said, at (ast.
ing
00, the STAY
grateful
portion, by draw-
hh
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§
itt
be anxious about me,”
‘1 am afraid I must
go," putting on her rubbers. ** I'll just
step into Mrs, Dunn's and tell to
send Maggie over for an hour or two
you won't be lonesome, and 1'il come
again in a day or two I think you'll
be around all right, soon. The *f
ness.” as my little sister Jessie says, is |
very bad for the rheumatism.”
She bent over the little white bed and
kissed the wrinkled forehead gently.
“God bless vou, dear.” oid
said. “Youn have made this
Christmas for me.”
And
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a Lappy
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Ladt
Fh Tus bys
Mav Il N
wondering how Hu
signed fier poverty and [one
and happy as well as content. Then she
sroided hersell heartily for her restiess-
ness and the sore place in her heart.
“ { know it makes mamma sad to see
me so disconsolate. must certainly re-
form. I'il begin this very minute.”
She ran up the steps blithely.
* How long before dinner ?" she called
to Nora.
“Hall an hour, miss.”
“Can 1 dress in half an hour? she
queried of herself. “1 must” reso-
lately.
She flew to her own room.
**I have taken no interest in my ap-
pearance at ail lately ; one would think
I was a perfect beauty to judge by my
nonchalent attire, and could afford to
slight the ‘arts of the toilet.’ Christ.
mas night! [ must reform.”
Surely no fairey Christmas vision
gladdened any eyes in all the wide city
that night than the slim girl-form that
ial
ran down the broad stairs into the bril- |
pariors half an |}
ith WwW
“x iy
MIS.
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Wa
i
s
liantly-lighted hour
later. Trailing robes of gauzy black,
white arms and shoulders shining
through, vivid blossoms at |
rounded throat and in the shining hair. |
Bright fires glowed in the grates:
beautiful odorous flowers trailed over |
the table and mantel! and bracket; and |
as she turned to a long mirror to see the |
“effect of her train,” the dinner-bell |
sent its silvery summons through the
house.
Mrs. Dean came into the drawing
room, her gray silk rustiing softly, look-
ing pleased as she noted the pretty pic-
ture her child mado. Mr. Dean, silent |
and n little abstracted, followed, and the |
children came down the long stairs with
laughter and merry nonsense,
Beryl was bright and anim ted as she |
had not been for weeks, and even the |
servants below smiled at the gay bursts |
of mirth that floated down occasionally
from the dining-room.
But after an hour or two, when the
i had gene upstairs again, and
mother and father lsd gone to the
library, memory, which is never still,
awoke in her heart again.
She had drawn a low easy chair to the
grate, the work had fallen from her idle
band, and the dark eyes were watching |
the flickering fire ight steadily.
How many pictures it showed her! |
and in each ther2 shown one face. Dark,
imperious eyes that could be so tender, |
grave lips that could smile so rarely, the |
one face that had fillel Ler life for
year. She remembered the many hours
hat this face had shone upon her The
boating on the river; the drives along
the country roads; the lingerings in the
n100 flower-scented old garden: the
lewves they had gathered ir the gorgeous
autumn; the books they had read, and
| the songs they had sung together in the
ill winter evening.
{i It all came back to her, this chill
| winter nicht, and the tender, girlish,
undisciplined heartwas sorely wrenched.
“* How could I have been so mad as to
| give him up without » word of expia-
nation? But he did not care for me, or
he would have written or come before
this! 1 know I shall be miserable all my
i life, because | was so foolish,sochildish.”
{| The soft eyes slowly filled with tears.
| There was a ring at the door-bell just
i then, but Beryl did not notice it. A
| moment later a step came along the hall
| and stopped in the optn door, but Beryl
‘ heard it not.
i It was a pretty picture—the luxurious
| flower filled room, and the fair pensive
| girl looking into the fire, wrapped in her
i revery.
The proud face of the man, who saw,
ftened and grew tender, as he looked
stood beside her
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another moment he
{ chair.
“ Beryl.”
| The fair startled face was lifted to him
as she half arose,
“ My darling,” Le said, as he saw the
{ grieved red lipsand the tears in her dark
| eyes. He drew her to him closely and
| kissed her white brow tenderly.
| “My little one, did you think I could
| let this night go by, and not see yout”
Snake and Frog.
Many years ago, while in Ceylon, I
livid in a house in ‘Slave island,”
raised on a high platform. The steps
up to the door had become loosened,
and behind them a colony of frogs had
established themselves. One morning
I watched a snake (a cobra) creep up,
insert its head into a crack znd seize a
frog, which he then and there swallowed.
But the crack that admitted the thin flat
head and neck of the ophidian would
not permit of the same being withdrawn
when the neck was swollen with the
addition of the frog inside it. The
snake tugged and struggied, but in vain,
and after a series of futile attempts dis-
gorged its prey and withdrew its head.
But the sight was too tantalizing. Again
the head was inserted in the erack and
the coveted morsel swallowed, ana
again the vain struggles to withdraw
were renewed. I saw this repeated sev-
eral times, till, gaining wisdom by ex-
perience, the snake seized the frog by
one leg, withdrew it from its coigne of
vantage and swallowed it outside.—
Hditor and Propr
CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS,
Some Odd Variations fo the Popular Myth
of the Happy Season.
In the north of Germany and on the
Rhine it is St. Nicholas on his donkey,
} %
accompanied by his servant Ruprecht,
who makes his rounds on Christmas
eve, The tthe myste.
MOUs visit
they plack
OOS and
thie Ones ex pod
wa to fill the
on the window
wh
y, with
the firm {
ot to fall asleep and miss hearing the
fonkev's bray which is 10 announce
i rival of the bountiful pair. How. |
they are n owed to leave their
beds until ear v dawn, when a general |
soramble takes plage With shouts of
delight or sobs of disappointment th
varfous i geptacies for the expected pres
ents are examined and the several papers
undone in which the gifts afe tied up to
projong the suspense. Some reveal the
coveted swee ts, the ijong-desired picture |
hook, praved-for fairy doll;
contain palpable hints of t!
displeasure in the shape of & birch i,
a written reprimand, efe,, or are emply
altogether lncky recipienis are |
congratulated those under a cloud
iaunghed at, and harmless fun reigns sa.
preme throughout the house.
in a simi'ar way St. Nicholas day
celebrated in France on the sixth of De
cember, and in Lorraine the role
Ruprecht is plaved by Pere Foutettard,
preceding St. Nicholas, who is seated
on the inevitable donkey, in his official
robe, with mitre, cross and long beard
In the Jsouth of Germany St. Nicholas |
appears in person on Christmas eve or
i bearded servant, Rupreolit, |
wrapped in furs or piankets—the more |
ogre-like the better—with a birch rod in
his hand and a well-filled bag or basket
on his back. Before distributing his
gifts, which consist of apples, walnuts,
oranges, penny dolls and similar trifles,
he examines the children about their
behavior since last Christmas, reward.
ing the good ones and exvressing his
displeasure by the character of i
presents—bits of wood, stones or raw
potatoes — to the naughty ones. Rau.
precht is appealed to by the parentsmany
sills,
ey
hits gifts
determina
y
si i
= OO 2% eh 8
vf
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the others
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sends his
hin
ing in order the youngest members of
In Alsace the Christmas messenger
ApPEars Lady Bountiful, clad in
white, her face powdered with flour. On
her long auburn hair, made of tow, she
wears a crown of gold paper serrounded
wifh lighted wax tapers, holding in one
hand a sliver bell and in the other a
basket presents. She, too,
as
filled with .
is suppose to arrive on a donkey, and is
Hans Trapp, the in
dispensable bugbear, wrapped in bear
skins, the blackened face hidden under
% slouch hat, and in his hand a birch
rod. Anxious to conciliate
) tidren place 0
ind the door for its accommodsa
tion and a glass filled with wine as we!
come for the lady and her attendant,
singing a quaint old German rhyme
Chrischkindele,
war
gyn Li
i
ad
hay
34 1 a hwwnmindls :
Mid ARAN E i
by
¥
Obrisohtkindele,
Kumm du zoe uns eryn'
Merr hann eo irisoh’s Heubindele
Un an e Glasele Wyn.
E Bindele
Fir's Essele
Fir's Kindele
E Glasels,
Un bete kenne mer au,
the explanation of which may serve as
an amusement for a holiday afternoon.
The proceedings of Hans Trapp are
about the same as those of Knecht
Ruprecht; but the Lady Bountiful in-
tercedes for the naughty children on
their promise of amendment and places
her gifts under the Christmas tree.
git
EE ——————————
A Terrible Story of the Sea.
In a lately published book, written by
Rear Admiral Werner, of the German
navy, a strange story is told of the way
in which many years ago, in 1536, a
French man-of war went down with all
hands on board in West Indian waters. |
The ship had been in commission for
two years on the Antilles station, and |
during the whole of the time her captain, |
who i8 described a8 an incarnation ol
cruelty, h exercised his ingenuity in |
tormenting in every possible way both |
the officers and men of his crew. So
to them, while the captain himself was
hated with an intensity of which proo’
was soon to be given. Orders at lengtl
came for the ship to return home Nol
long after the anchor had been weighed
it became evident thata heavy squall
was coming down on the ship, and the
captain directed the officer of the watch
to shorten sail. The orders were given
but not a man moved. Again the orders
were repeated, this time by the captain
not 8 man moved,
“This is mutiny,” cried the captain,
and then a hundred volees answered:
In vain the
They stood silent, and
make man or officer move, save only
ites of the captain. A few minutes more
and the squall struck the ship. In a
beam-ends. *‘Cut away the masts!” |
shouted the captain; but still not a man |
moved. In another minute, however, |
the rigging was carried away, the masts |
went by the board, and, thus relieved, |
the ship righted herself, Then the long |
suppressed rage of the crew broke fo th, |
and rushing aft, they seized the captain, |
followed the rigging, but the first lieu- |
tenant, going below, opened the door of |
the magazine and fired his pistol into it.
There was a loud report and the ship
was no more. An hour afterward an
American vessel passing over the spot
picked up one of the erew, who told the
story of what had happened and died
shortly afterward.
Greasing the Sea.
‘he expression ‘to pour oil on the
troubled waters” is generally regarded
as a metaphor or figure of speech, illus.
tating the action of some persuasive
peacemaker. softening the angry passions
ol contending disputants, On the other
hand, the mollifying influence of oleagin-
ous liquids upon the waves was long ago
demonstrated as a scientific fact, and the
equinoctial gales would probably have
heen kept in subjection ere now, on the
high seas, but for the uncertainty of the
weather and the estimated expense ol
oiling an area as limited even as the bay
of Biscay. It would appear, however.
that a gentleman of Perth has solved
the problem of economy as applied to
greasing the ses, and that in future
ships may carry with them, at a com-
paratively trifling cost, a sufficient sup-
ply of oil to nullify the rigors of the
fiercest cyclone. A northern contem-
porary states that a series of experi-
ments have lately taken place in the
north harbor, Peterhead, with the most
satisfactory results. The experimental-
ist filled some bottles full of « il and
sank them to the bottom of the harbor
while a gale was blowing. Presently
the oil was released, and, floating to the
top ot! the raging billows, stilled them as
if by a miracle. As a consequence of
this experiment, it is thought in the
neighborhood of Perth that oil can be
laid on continuously by pipes to the
bars of all exposed harbors, so as to
enable vessels to gain port in safety in
the midst of the most violent hurri-
canes. The invention would be invalu-
able if applied to the channel passage
in dirty weather. Day by day we are
taught that there are no bounds to the
conquest of science over nature, and
now that we can oil out the gluy
wrinkles of the stormy ocean, we need
not despair of b ing able, sooner or
later, to warm the north pole with other-
wise waste steam and fertilize the great
e.
1otor
HALL, CENTRI
Absence of Mind,
It is essential to skill
of the body should work anc
but the moment they nssert
their independence of [fen
and prompt to the initistion of efforts
outside of what they | been taught,
a diseased condition 1s begun which wi
{ mind Such a habit
thin re genera
than 8 oom
something
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The collec
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who! aif doen! An authentic anec-
dote of the gre
Adam Smith,
upon 1
writing OWnR name,
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with the rest of your !
So many ty les are comi
that yours will have
mMOdisll any aay,
other, they w
style of your
which may
dealer's sto
ago. Have
work of your
and groovings
and swell the
oly
linn
and
pisase,
Ts
IT
si
14 vy
vile rem
tr, out
piain
hanes
00
t the
i of
hoid the dust
But in.
iow base-
grained paint
naint
paint,
besdings
which
CATH
omy
ers DL
“
whi
OW any
Plain ;
yelter and keeps nice
RIWARAYS TEDORL
boards, and don’t
about your Lou
varnished, looks
onger ana 4
sham, I'm a
and wainut. {
{-hand, restore paint and give things
yourself, and don't be afraid of hones.
hand-finished pine without either paint
or varnish. The prettiest effect
mer houses are
(reorgia pine, and
hed with
forms prevail in somt Of
ture, An expensive oak dining table
newest pattern witl "De
corners, and a support which 1s a square
pillar with ini the rudest
Saxon could t beautitul in its
clear wood, d and hand fin-
ished to smoothness.
Such a table H ars at
the most fashionable makers in the city.
set of chairs with straight turned
maple uprights and legs, with basket
a
}
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wi
ofsn't
¥¥
¥i6
sL8I,
gained from
the white pine, fin
The simp
' NOW
Hin
is ear shellac at
arn
Of
i
" r Payy
18 BquUAre, i a i
br:
i
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cos, p
fs
desir
>
we POT Go;
*
joned with Momie cloth and {rigned and
fi: belowed are prety enough for any
sitting room, and such s.mple, original
pieces give an air of taste anl research
to a room worth any mere
Shirley Dare.
Oss
tashion.——
Carp Culture for Farmers,
The Philadelphia has been
the
Ledger
work of the United States fish commis.
gion: and makes some remarks upon |
one feature of that work—nawmely. the
introduction of carp. says. The
business of water farming has already
its rules and its profits. It LAKES an
old farmer stare to be told that a quarter
of an acre, laid down in water, will
bring him in more profit, in food rais
ing, than a quarter of an acre cultivated
in any other way. Also that corn fod
to carp brings in twice or three times
the returns in food that the same number
of bushels fed to pigs or other cattle
does. The earp is a vegetable feeder, so
that it ean support itself in the vegetable
growths and confervee of ponds and |
streams. Bat it thrives and increases
enormously when regularly fed as other
stock is fed. It does its own grazing if
it is let alone; but it can be fattened for
the market on bread erumbs or eabbage
leaves. Its most profitable food, how-
ever, is boiled dry co n—that is, corn
out of the corn-crib, dried on the cob
and then boiled.
Less than four years ago about one
hundred and thirty European carp, Bo
hemian and others, were brought alive
to this country and given a home in the
ponds of the commission ant Washington.
These have increased so rapidly that the
commission recently found itself in pos-
session of 150,000 of these desirable fish,
which are being distributed over the |
country to those who apply for them, |
About 50,000 voung fish, in lots of!
twenty, have alieady been distributed |
throughout New York, Pennsylvania,
Iliinois, Ohio, Missouri, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Connecticut, Ten-
nessee, (reorgia, Texas and Mississippi.
There are 3,000 apnlications still to be
L
ie
in a few years is sufficient to stock a
five-ncre pond, but the quarter-acre
ponds are suflicient to begin with and to
work for market and table supplies.
The carp breed at two to three years of
age, and their growth is as rapid as their
fecundity is great. The *four-year-
olds” in the government ponds weigh
from ten to fifteen pounds. As so many
farmers have ponds upon their grounds,
and so many more might have them, we
think that the culture of the carp should
become a source of supply in numerous
farmers’ households and by-and-bye a
valuable source of income.
—ie————————
The magnet as a means of mitigating
pain and curling dlsease is again seri
desert by artificial i -
4 y rrigation tone
ously submitted to the consideration o
spocialis
.
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Popular Selence,
a noticeable fact that the animals
y found in Ameri were not
arge nor so strong as those of the
world Horses were originally
imported here from the eastern contin.
t, though now found running wild in
nearly all of its parts
ction tapers NOW made
rom a mixture of one ounce
one half ounce powdered
th-ounce minum
iorus; on the latter being
FOF WO ounces of easton
the quantity varying ac
the resultant tenacity
exibility required
It is
originni "0
sO
oid
ti
nre in Eng:
Rana sRils
orris
and one
pets
r
root,
one vig
ounee phi sp
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Nn
i
the Cauoassian race
woome inhabitants of the
in hemispheres, a
though their descendants have been for
centuries « xX poded fo the most active in
fluences of the climate, have never éx
ibited the transformation from a Cau.
f Oassian Oo & negro compiexion, Henee
! i to have no perman-
$1 i
ie
Those nations of
which have ©
torrid acne
both
}
climate is
ent influenot
Duman smi
wved
Up
mm the Or Lie
y
he amount of
ar they contain is doubled, the starch
undergoing a corresponding diminution
while t of the protein passes from
Lhe © guide into form
Day Lie process of rotting! ¢ potato
t its nitrogenous constituents
tO BUgAar.
W hen potatoes are frozen 1
ve I¢
sug
the soinble
i i
Laat
and the
The minute ‘nes and furrows on per.
' hax are jige.y Lo receive a Ia
attention than the observa
great lines fortune.
18 Ie to believe thal
horis on the thumb and fin
are pecul to individ
and may be as certainly
Lie «¢ thno OFIoR]
ntification of the being
ng them as measurements o
skull or the examination ol a photograph
woud Doctor Henry Faulds, of
n
Peuki
LHOZIOR
sous 18
iu
144
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Of
naon
ger points ar URS
ir used
CC. ASS OF Posi
MOISBIERN~
1 i $
Lhe i Lhe
¥
Tokio, Japan, |
1Imes }
an
and
4 elt
i HOEPpIiAL,
barat
« DUS
te
:
whicl
» Nature, direcis a
Way i
attention of
students of the theory of
heredity, The value
os of hand-marks in
hardly Over.
tention ot
ey
i5i8 Al
n
OW E.
palurs i
deve.opment
Land
based ¥
u
nguirics can "
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
ere 18s somelhing
noel gives
cle
reiurns
ys '
of conjec-
vestments of
fisherman of Gn
to grateful
§ for shu
Lhe sneg tL
MProvi
GEseTY
Meclaugh
ihe
reason
at Britain have
by to the Baroness
Burd« it
ex pena
z $Y
HO
14 said to have
sum of 8500000
condition ol
Ws
ed LL
in the
thie poor and k « Cinss
in, the discov.
i gis on pot.
was
Osh
Miss Louise
erer ol paintin
« TEADZEIN
gage
8 s health,
i #5 LO
reporters
riving direct
her process and
»
M, Gambetta ten years ago was one of
men in France, His
Of fing 8 i spirituel
ii bas
144t
he handsomest
WHE a face HH
his figure was
i a man of
NO More
looks of his yvouthfa
i
wate
i
conlours; i
ful. Hz:
ence, but
poetic g
Victor Hugo is d
i-{nced,
He
of
ANG ETRcos
is
hi
ood
st striking pres.
tl simost
Gass,
J J
swmeribed as still
ai d with short,
is a great talker, and it
that once, when he
be intimate with Louis Phillippe,
two talked evi rybody to bed, and
he king had to take a candle and light
@ poet downstairs,
J. F. Russi and others, of San Antonio,
Texas, havin against the
playing « army bands at conceris,
(yeneral erman answers that as even
in despotic Russia soldiers are allowed
to earn an extra penny by any craft they
may have, he sees no reason why our
own soldiers should be deprived of so
simpie a privilege.
very
stubbly
:
a
gray hair
i related
used to
gf
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A Case of Mistaken Identity.
of
A most remarkable instance mis
taken identity is relsted by the Geneva
correspondent of the London Daly
Adews Professor Schulin, of Basel uni»
versity, while making an excursion in
the Grand Dachy of Baden, was are
rested at Hagen by the on A
charge of having assanited a women a
short time previously. In vain he pro-
tested his innocence, expinined that at
the time the alleged offense had been
he was at Basel, and asked
i DOLCE
i
1
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perpetrated |
leave to communicate with his friends.
I'he public prosecutor said a serious
crime had been committed, and that
several witnesses were ready to swear
that Schulin was the guilty maa. He
refused to listen to his explanations, and
the judge before whom the professor
had been taken sent him back to his cell,
where he was kept ten days. As it
happened, Schulin was betrothed aad
the marriage day fixed, and his confine-
ment in prison on so serious a charge,
the difficulty of contuting it and the
prospect of losing at once his character,
Lis bride and his professor's chair so
preyed upon his mind that he attempted
to commit suicide by cutting open his
veing with a pocket knife. The au-
horities at length allowed him to com
municste with his friends, when over.
whelming evidence was at once forth.
coming that on the day when the offense
was committed Schulin was lecturing in
Basel university. Almost at the same
time the man for whom he had been
mistaken by the police was arrested.
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Length of the Human Step.
At a recent sitting of the French Acad-
emy of Sciences, Monsieur Marey read
a very interesting paper, giving the re-
sult of his experiments with a machine
for measuring the length and rapidity of
a man's stride in walking. Marey found
fied the length of the step. The step is
longer going up hill than going down;
ionger for a man carrying a load than
for one unloaded; longer with low
heels than with high heels; and longer
which project slightly beyond the toe
than for one wearing short and flexible
soles. It was found that while the heel
might be lowered indefinitely without
detriment to the gait, the sole could not
be made perfectly rigid nor prolonged
too far without interfering with the
speed and ease of the wearer. Experi-
ence alone was able to determine the
exact length and thickness necessary to
produce the best results.
————
Probably fifty years hence there will
be abundance of trees in the West, Ag.
riculturists are rapidly awaking to the
necessity of planting them. The Fort
Scott and Gulf railroad company has be-
gun the planting of hundreds of acres
A Boston capital
ist has engaged a company of raisers of
forest seed lings in lilinois to break and
plow a large area in Kansas, and
plant no less than 2,720 trees to the acre,
and cultivate these until they shade the
| ground. At the end of that time —say
| ten years—the plantations will be de-
| livered overto theowner. No trees less
than six feet high are to be counted,
The Fort Scott railroad has adopted this
plan, one advantage of which is that
the tree enterprise will be attended by
experienced men, whose interest it will
| be to make as much of a success of it as
| possible.
{
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| The Locomotive publishes engravings
| in each issue showing how boilers look
{ just after they have exploded.
doesn’t seem to hit the case at all
What is needed is a picture showing
how a boiler looks just before it is going
to explode. We could then learn when
to get out of the way. New Haren
ter.
de
IM.is
1
Reminiscences of 8 New York Fireman,
The pride and =
company,” says
wire to be {
the most effic
vim bition of each fire
Mr. Zophar Mi
farsi to reach a fire,
ent in pulling it out
bad a8 much love for 1
i
3€
We
ial
i
biy could have for anything else, We
WOLD [eave out
our anything, and
The night I was
was a fire. I could
Lo go immedintely
ng
business,
rashi lor the engine,
etling married there
1 80a 11
But the next morn
i TRY,
:
another five, and 1 went to that, So you
may judge how we liked it,
BR parade, paid ihe expenses curse.ves
We always paid for the painting, repair-
ing and decorating of cur engines. Ean
gine No. 13, to whieh 1 belonged, was
sliver piated-—the first that wa so—at a
cost of perbaps $2 000, We didn't ask
the corporation to foot the bill. 1 kept
ah atcoun ol my expenses in connec
tion with the fire department,
found that in seven yeurs I had paid in
| charity, in clothing and in incidentals
£3 000 Mr. W. L. Jenkins, president
the Bank of America, was a member
of engine company No. 13. Many of
its members were Quakers.
lew ‘ roughs’
Nor were
Ww
tt!
LE
Ol
then, as in modern times.
there any salaries, except in
f the chief engineer, and tem-
orarily of the asiistant engineers. Fire-
nen pow are liberally compensated;
hey get #1200 a year each, and sre re
i hail-pay, if infira, after ten
rvioe Many and many a time
worked my breath out while
oid Thirteen, and lain in the
and jumped up again and seized
rakes, because there was no one to
LE INY piace.
Atl a fire in Haydook's drug store,
Pearl street, near Faiton, on the first
} i834, I had DAITOW €8Cape.
he building was high, and all of it
rove the second story was consumed,
ieaving only the gable walls standing,
Severs! firemen, after the flames ha
{ie case oO
¥
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1 a
Vibe
1
a!
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n
of July, 8
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Diy
iy
4
i
nhac
in order lo prevent
fire from
hose up to the second story,
upon the debris,
ks from flying sbout, and
i As | wi there, at six
he morning, with two or
n, I suddeniv saw ont
gable walls spread out like a
f
¥ 44
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@
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hance was to turn my back and
there was no time toran. Iwas
flat, of course, by the falling
prick, and was foreed thro
story floor, and also through
flix into the eeliar,
i mysell on myelbows,
ap and walking
through two
of me. Why
i me? don'tknow. It was
je) a miracie. Eagene Under
d Frederick A. Ward, who stood
w feet from me, were instantly killed
Hall and William Phillips, two
other fireman on the same floor, jumped
out ol a window, and one of tham landed
was badly injured. 1
rumpet SWUng soross my
back, my flesh in MBEQENOS Was
biasck and blue for six months. My oa
was not dog the celisr until
evening. The former foreman of Thir.
Who was on second story, ad.
vising us, was buried standing up to his
in hot bricks— so hot as to burs
toes, and ng
ralion
¢ Orst
t
.
wal
1g
\ A
Mona
first-silory i
thie
remem bet ng
g
out,
floors
wal
LOD
10g
sos smest
iV, AG
in i
and n ©
i
out of
:
! the
1
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oy
Neck
¥ % £5 it
off some of his 8 bricks |
« § * i
{ h
{ £8 i
0 1h fq
Lis misfortund
b ri r
thirty vears aft
2 LLATLY years ati
K dispiny
4}
th
is ie
av
sper of tl ia
Chief En-
presence
His first
a
gineer (xuiioe
mind in
er was 10 engine 7. which was
working near the fire, to take off the tail.
screw, jet the water out of the box, and
n pump air in the ruins. The men
were digging all day for their buried
comrades, and for the bodies of poor
Und ii and Ward, who stood not
fifteen feet away from me when the wall
fe hout warning. We were pinying
‘washing down "as we called it, the op-
et oroughiy to put oul the
that lingered in Lhe straw, cotton, and
80 CR considered that the fire was
preity much out, and were only giving
a few finishing touches. Thirteen after.
ward erected a marble monum nt to
Underhill and Ward in the cemetery
i
in Carmine tf. Opposite Varick.—
Harper's Mogazine
Of nd
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The Irish Land League.
i
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The Dublin correspondent of the New
York Herald says: Whatever may be
the general opinion of the world regard.
ing the methods of the land .eague, it
be recognized that the organiza.
tion is now a remarkably strong one
When Mr. Parnell was in America last
winter there were only thirty branches
of the league in Ireland, and they were
very weak. There are now fally five
Tid
y
nust
enrolled, making
%
paying mbers are
nitogetber one hundred thousand payin
recruits uncer its flag. Of course there
are as many more who can not pay. |
These, with capital on hand and the |
money which still comes in from
America, enanle the organisers to
“spread the light” in every direction,
and to keep it bright and well trimmed.
The organizers who form the branches,
enroll members and instruct the farmers
in the methods of the league are paid by
the central organization, as are a un
jority of the speakers who go into
country to the meetings. It would i
to suppose that attendance at |
these meelings 18 at all pleasant work.
Ratiway traveling i8 more disagreeable
in Ireland than in almost anv part of
Europe, and the inns are generally of the |
vilest character. A lew weeks of travel
and of life at these so-called hotels and
experience upon the country
platf haranguing a crowd in an
Irish mist or downpour of rain would
soon wring dry of every drop of enthusi.
the heart of the most ambitious
| young champion of the ‘‘peopie.”
Therefore, so long a8 the money in
| Americas 18 plenty the league orators |
should not be grudged the price of their |
eloquence. Upon the {sce of their mem. |
bership cards are the mottoes: ** Ireland
for the Irish," “ Down with landlord
ism,” “Keep a firm grip on your home- |
| steads,” and ** The land for the people.”
On the back are the objects of the
league, briefly set forth; and for those
| who desire to know the exact aims of
the organization, 1 transcribe them. |
The Irish National Land League was |
| formed for the following objects: First, |
| To put an end to rack-renting, eviction
{and landlord oppression; second, To
effect such a radical change in the land |
gystem of Ireland as will put it in the
| power of every Irish farmer to become
| the owner, on fair terms, of the land he
i tills. The means proposed to effect these |
objects are: 1. Organization among the
| people and tenant farmers for purposes
| of self-defense, and inenleating ti
| lute necessity of their refusing to take
any farm from which another may be
| evicted, or from purchasing any eattie |
{or goods which may seized on for |
non-payment of impossible rent, 2. The
cultivation of public opinion by persist. |
ent exposure, in the press and by public |
meetings, of the monstrous injustice of |
the present system and of its ruinous re- |
gults. 3. A resolute demand for the re. |
duction of the excessive rents which |
have brought the Irish people to a'state |
of starvation. 4. Temperate but firm
jesistance to oppression and injustice,
sat ——
A Lily.
She was a big, buxom lass, and when
her small beau called one evening, she
anid. ** Good evening, Lily.”
“I'm no lily,” said he. surpr’sed at
the idea. *“ You're the lily; men are
never lilies.” “
“Yoa,
especially, are wu iiy
*How's tha! I"
“ Liliuputian.”
He then looked ns if he wished he
were ap elophant.~ Kentucky Slate
Journ!
a
a
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the
WH 5
mistake
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ASL
10 abso- |
he
Qa
ial
somet
imesa they are; and you,
!
| FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Fares and Garden Notes.
moiting than susflower seeds,
Apples boiled with milk are good fo
| PIES,
It pays to feed cows giviag milk liber.
ally. Botter is high snd now is the
| time to feed profitably.
Always give the
it is we ii
t Ine ’
soil the first meal
fed with manure it
piants, animals and men,
Rapid drying of paint Is insired by
{ the addition of a small proportion of
| iitharge, sugar of lead or
[ If
that thin sowing of wheat in drills is
more productive than thick sowing.
| By special culture on small plots a sin-
{ gle grain to the hill has given a yield of
A dormant bulb of the calla should be
planted so that the point shall be just
this plant in a pot or tub is not a matter
of much importance, as it readily adapts
slant supply of water.
~ None but earth colors should be used
in painting floors, and the rapid wearing
off of a coating of oil paint on a floor is
a sure sign that white
mixed with the paint.
that th
dry beiore the second is laid on.
It is important
In selecting cows for milking, the free
ensy step, the pleasant and comiortable
expression of countenance and the round,
capacious form of
important than the
family bistory.
Hllie unless it
good milker.
n all attempts at breeding domestic
line of descent or
cattle no immature stock should
Mature sires and dams are essen-
tial if strong Leslthy stock are desired.
* Like produces like.” If the parents
are immature the stock from them ean.
not snd healthy, and if this
mischievous practice is continued for a
few generations it must end in produc-
ing a feeble race of stock.
A indy says that to kill insects she
uses one teaspoonful of kerosene to a
adlon of water, and sprinkles it on the
piants with a hand.-broom. Ii destroys
green flies and oth ry
wg
bs
a
sirong
2 E,
Rt
sis
4 1
ni
Horses
nd numbers, four pounds of
for each pound of dry substance in their
1
rou
ou
Oud
$
pounds, sil
A Missi
RE IUCa.
sgippi farmer dashes cold
i
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and the mucsular action dis-
: obstruction,
violently,
pages Li
BEL
Save lameness and conghs by an im.
mediate covering of the horses after a
drive, if only stopping for a few min.
utes, D t cover the horse with
biankels pn he is in exercise: not
in arm; but rab thoroughly,
cover safier horse has found
3
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fhe following recipe for a durable
whitewash is farmnisiud b Tliinots
Fami'y Mogasine: Take d
ww $i
¥y ie
barrel
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$i
$8 |
Walt :
ith boliing water.
i, add cold water
ring it to the consistency of
whitewash, then dissolve in water
i one pound of white vitriol (su:-
ate of zine) and one quart of fine salt
ering
Alle
nough
a
ie Ww
is slacke
%
4 ¢
i 3
$
LO
and add
Ti
Bs Wii
chiefly to the vitriol, which hardens and
fixes the wash.
PPamestic MHecipes
LOING UP Suinrs — A shirt-board for
#8 paint
Wo
regulated iamily. This should be cov.
ered with at least two thicknesses of
bisnkets, snd have the ironing sheet.
that it cannot siip.
arag to the iron.
collars, ete., done up al
rub
The polish of
and by dint of much rubbing. It may
be done by any good laundress, bul it
takes much time, and is fearfully hard
on the linen. Spermacetti added
small quantities to the starch gives ita
pretty gloss.
ounce white wax and (wo ounces sper-
macetti; prepare in the usual way a
sulh ty of starch for a dozen
bosoms; put into it
enamel the size of a haszeinut.
gives a beaudiul polish.
To Bake A Turxey —Afler
gent quanti
it is
marioram. Whole oysters, well sea-
soned, may be added to the staffiog.
When stuffed, tie it in shape, lard the
gait, penper and flour, Have the oven
pot very hot till the turkey gets heated
hrougli, then increase the heat, While
the fowl is cooking, boil the giblets, the
neck, liver, gizzard and sweet-bread;
abioo them fine, and when the gravy is
made, add them to it. To make gravy,
after the turkey is removed from the
baking-pan, put the pan over the fire,
stir in bolling water or stock; skim off
every bit of iat, add the giblets, season
with s&'t and pepper.
A TT WTR SO
Dense Population of Africa.
Although we have not, nor are we
like to bave for years, sny accurate
statistics of the population of the interior
of Africa, there is very little doubt that
we have greatly underrated it.
Much
gathered on the subject, especially con-
cerning the distribution and density of
that far-off land. In the great inke dis-
trict, for instance, there are territories
States, relatively
millions of peopie. The negro regions
are by far the most populous, while the
i
geographical society gives the estimated
continent as follows
the population is 50,000,000, or about
fifty-three persons to the square mile.
The town of Bida, on the Niger, for ex-
ample, contains ful
East Africa i+ rated at 30,000,000, and
equatorial Africa at some 40,000,000
gets the negroes as numerically 130,000,
000; the Hamites, 30,000,000; the Ban.
tas, 13,000000; the Fooial, 8000000;
the Nubians, 1,500,000; the Hottentots,
50,000, making a total of 172 550,000.
These figures—only approximate, of
course—are considered too low by both
German and British geographers, the
former estimating the population as
high as 209,000,070,
Words of Wisdom
The difficulty of the world is not that
it does not know enough, but it can’t
find time to practice what it does know.
The block of granite, which was an
obstacle in the pathway of the weak, be-
comes a stepping stone in the pathway
of the strong
On the stage of the world, frankness is
the only part a man knows without
having to learn it, or fearing to forget
it.
There would not be half the difficulty
currences of cases where the lesser vir-
tues are on the side of wrong.
The web of our life is of a mingled
yarn, good and ill together; our virtues
would be proud if our faults whipped
them not, and our crimes would despair
if they were not cherished by our vir-
tues.
A Kansas railroad train ran at full
speed into a herd of cattle, tossing them
right apd Jeft and killing thirteen,
NUMBER 50.
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MEMORIES OF LIBBY PRISON,
fMTamorous Nisuiniamemans of the ©
Prison—Story of a Confederate G card
The Hats that vols the Polstoes.
A correspondent from Richmond,
| writing of the recent sale of Libby
| prison, says Mr. Joseph Wingfield, an
| ex- guard, told his experience on a mem-
| orable night while standing sentinel
| over Lhe prisoners there.
** 80 the old prison is sold, is it? he
(maid, * Well, gentlemen, I never go b
| that place without Jsurhing now. I can
| help thinkine of the eute trick played
| ay & lot of Yankees there. The fact is
| it was s0 good that, aithough I had bein
| ordered to shoot in among them, I dis.
obeyed orders. It was about "63, and
the Libby building was so crowded that
it wouldn't hold any more prisousrs, so
| they put a large lot of them in the second
| story of the building across the street,
| Soon after these prisoners came the
| prison officials got a large Sunply of
| Aweel polsioss (regular yams) from
North Carolina, and stored them on the
first floor of the building in which those
prisoners were confined, Big sweet po
| tatoes were Juxuries in those days,
| Turner and those fellows kept » strict
{ watch over the bailding, I can tell you.
i The third day after they had
| stowed away iL was noticed that they
were disapperring al the rate of sbout
| a bushel & day. At first it was thought
| that the rats took them, but a
| thought showed that the idea was ab.
{ surd. Bentinels were posted ail sround
i the building with orders to shoot any
| man they caught stealing those yams,
but they didn't see any y to shoot
| and although posted there day and night,
and no one was allowed to enter the
| they continued to disappear at the rate
| of a bushel a day. The Confederates saw
| their vams disappearing in this wav.anc
| were furious.
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were put om the
iwax, #0 that if any of them
were opened ii would be krown.
{The next morning the officers
went into the room. The wax was all
| right, but another bushel of potatoes
i ind vanished.
| maddest crowd you ever saw. They
| came siter me, and ordered me to take
| my stand in the room. They locked
{ me in, and a lighted candie was put st
| private marks
see. | was ordered to shoot on sight
anybody | saw stealing those yams,
{ Just as fast as I could light one candle
| and go to the other end of the room to
| ight the other, the rats would cut the
‘first one down. They were regular
| Confederate rats, and a candle was &
| godsend to them. After a lot of worry
got the rats out of the way, sna sat
| down near the door waiting for devel-
opments. There I stayed till twelve
| o'clock; but though I kept my eyes on
| the potatoes ali the time, I couldn't see
| any of them going. Shortly after twelve
I heard a creaking, ng sound, which
| seemed to be all over the room at once.
I cocked my gun and held my breath,
{ but still I counidn’t see anv sign of life
| except the rats creeping about the four,
‘By George 1 thought, ‘this darnea
place is haunted, if there is any
{such thing as a place being
haunted. The sound stopped, but
| about ten minutes after it began B.
| 1 Jooked at tae pile of potatoes, and pres.
ently saw something shoot from the
ceiling and islion them. Isawit was
a brick and could distinguish a rope
tied to it. I crept a littie nearer to get
|4 good look atthe thing, but before I
| sould examine it, it was drawn slowly
| up, nnd there was about a peek of yams
| sticking to it. It went up through at a
| hole which bad been cut in the floor
| above, and presently came down again
| with a thump right among the potatoes.
It was the most artful srrargement you
ever gaw. The brick had about fifty
joles drilled in it, and through each
hole a sharpened ten-penny
been run, so that when the brick fell
among the yams these nails stuck into
| every one they fell on. I couldn't help
iaughing at the smart dodge those Yan-
| gees had taken to get at the yams, I
gently put my hand forward and caught
bold of the rope. Pretly soon thoy -
gan to draw on it, and when it did not
move 1 heard one fellow say: ‘Steady,
| boys, the brick’s hung on something
| Pall her steadily without jerking.’
{ They aid pull her steadily and fairly
lifted me, from the floor. * No jerk;
easy, hoys, easy,’ the director said, and
| they tugged away. 1 got preity red in
{the face holding to the rope.
of those spiked nails might strike me
passing.
| ting all their weight on the other end ».f
{the rope. I cutitintwo, acd the end |
| shot back through the hole in tle ceiling,
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on the floor above, showing thst the |
| sudden giving way of the rope had had
{a disastrous effect. 1 heard another |
| voice say: ‘There now. [told you so.
You've broken the rope. We've lost
| our brick, and to-morrow we'll be found
out.’
i *Can’t you see it?
itup.! Next I saw a long neck protrad-
| ing through the hole. and a felio# peer. |
{ing down. Then I called out: * liyon |
| trouble any more of those potatoes Ul]
{ shoot,! That fellow's head shot bak
| through that hoe just like a (errapin,
| and it was as still as death up there, 1
| hated to tell on them, because it was |
| such a sharp scheme of foraging on the |
enemy, but [ had to. When the officers |
went up the next morning to examine |
the room it took a long time to find the |
hole. Those Yankees fac out a holea |
foot square through the floor, and it was
| done so neatly that ittook good eyes to
ternver it. That was where the offi-
| cers yams went to.”
There are two characters connected
| with Libby prison whose whereabouts
many an ex-prisoner would doubtless
ike to know~—' Old Ben” and “the
General.” The Yormer was an old
Hl
establishment, and who generally came
| made it his business tc get some one
| patches from the seat of war, and these
he turned over in his mind until he had
| managed to work them into a graphic
| aging to give the victory to the Union
forces. The keen old fellow had learned
that reports of Union victories elated
the prisoners to such an extent that they
became liberal, and rewarded him for
his cheering intelligence. He would
come in the room, and sing out at the
top of his voice: * Look sharp, dar!
Here I is wid de latest talogrifick
‘spatches from de seat er war.” This
signal was enough, and the prisoners
would crowd around the wily old man
while he related *‘de latest 'spatches,”
which often ended with the intelligence,
“@Ginrel Lee's men dey took 'n run
Old Ben, although he claimed to be a
Northern sympathizer, was deeply
grieved when the war ended, as it
closed the Libby and deprived him of
his occupation. The old fellow lived
about ten years after the war, and died
in want.
“The General” was a younger negro,
who was almost as taciturn ss “old
Bin" was loquacious. He was a prison
official, his principal occupation being
the fumigation of the prison. Every
morning he went through each room
with a pan of burning tar, to give the
place what he termed ** a good Union
smoke.” He left Richmond soon after
the war and went North. With hin:
disappeared the last of the Libby offi-
cials in Richmond.
The cultivation of tea in India has
greatly increased during the last fifteen
years. In 1864 the tot: | production wa
not above 3,000,000 pounds, while this
Pangleap girl.
wll right N id her Jusaer, bee
Pn eicne, Mins Crenhosor spams
ing up the sirect. Now, I'll wager
new walking suit you wint fo much
that you can't say ‘roast turkey snd
cranberry sauce’ in response to the first
half dogm remarks that sho makes
without her poticifig the fact”
“1 never
shsura,” replied Miss I To .
might as well have that sult—it's jo
too lovely for
you must the sentegce in your :
usual voioe and manner—that Is osar.
in # single breath~sll yun together as
or Shen Mise Glusherson wus shows
2 ola P. could hear the usual open ~
alor peck exchanged, Miss pe
a without even the smalies! comma
in the whole remark:
Aly
the words with that pnd
concluding gurgie with which sll
women, for some oconlt reason, invaris.
versation when de-
dead bury her next Sunday did you get
that edging at Gimps'?”
“ Roast tarkey and cran—"
| white kid boots ean't you come round
for dinner to-morrow and stsy all—"
“Roast and"
“Night, and show Milly
basque? Tha! msn with a
oost stared at me again
O'Neill
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| those ferns are just too lovely
| these cuffs a $iils morniag aie
{erimps coming yours
| Skippen says you met Charlie Boggs
| other night and be said ¢
‘ about me tell me quick!”
hm nd
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| Linda,” interrupted the visitor ou
“You don't listen to & word I say
| was asking about Charles Boggs not
you're
Le say
the
soli thinks
| awfu: nice now teil me did
i gracious! are you
i * And Tilda™
| Miss Pangieups after the matier
| been expiad
that he had lost by a serateh,
| lieve in my heart hat if you hadn't
| thought about Charlie just then, |
| shouldn't have bad any new suit this
| winter.”
| All of which goes to show that there
(is at jenst one subject upon which one
| may ype to secure the temporary st-
| tention of the i
| ~ San Francisco Pot.
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Hinis to Writers for the Press,
The following are opinions. Opinions
| are not always facts.
| The great sim in writing isto tell as
much 8 poasible IB as few Boi us
i ible. te nea when
! [sibs love of the soued of words peo-
| There is a tendency in word te-erecp
in when they are not needed. Every
| rank of fifteen or twenty is apt to con-
; yr one peg Be
good plan to many un.
necessa'y words can be kicked out of a
sentence is to telegraph messages at ten
| sents » word.
with sn ease and
originated
Some use quotations
confidence as if they had
‘them. It is well to remember that que-
| tations are not your
i Omit the remark
property.
comman al the oom-
-mencement of many lelters: “ Thinking
‘that some facts reistive to the raoent
boer-barrel explosion in Masivilie
might interest your readers, I take the
| liberty of sending, eto.” All unneces.
| sary, and a waste of time, isbor, paper,
; pen, ink. type and space. If the matter
| vou write 1s to interest anybody, it will
' do so without your preface,
Avoid prefaces one-third or one-half
‘as long ss your articie. Nobody builds
‘a haliway hall a mile long to get ino a
| small house.
| - In long articles the same thing is gen-
| eraily said two or three times.
It is much more difficult to writea
short article than a long one. Anold
time to
It is harder
A steady practice of wri immedi-
ately after A to will reiting resuit in
confirmed dyspepsia. The stomach
must have its time to manufacture and
store up brain tforee,
The best efforts in composition are
lly realized when the body isin
fis best pirysieal conditidn Y
write well when you are tired, and
writing on stimulants involves a hea
discount on the morrow’s streagth.
When you im
“ jost bbled something.” if that
something is really clever, please re.
member mi of your past life,
experience, study and observation it
has taken to proauce it. The ripe fruit
which in autumn fa l'sfrom the tree has
taken many months to store up all its
richness, Trees don't just ‘scribble
s ap ples.
Dm'’t let your bravery in print Xo
ahead of your bravery in a personal
terview with the subject of your abuse,
Honor the foreman and the prool-
reader. They can slaughter you, and
hardly know how they do it themselves.
—New York Graphic.
that youn have
Good Advice.
Don't leave to memory what should
be writien; it makes lawsuits.
Don't become security for him wle
waits for the sheriff.
Decent, substantial clothing for your
children makes them think better otf
themselves, snd keeps the doctor away.
Teach your boys to look up and for-
ward, but never backward.
Cuitivate the habit of giving, but
never give up.
Bay a farm wagon before a fine car-
age.
Don't buy a piano for your daughters
while your sons need a plow.
Don't let your horses be seen standing
much at the beer saloon—it does not
look right.
Til give the you a Sey
© 3
makes independent men.
Tr
Crow vs, Ratilesnaks.
A man living in Wood Gulch was
climbing a fence, and while in the ac-
noticed a crow a short distance from
him jumping back and forth in an ex-
cited manner. He kept quiet with a
view of ascertaining the cause, which
soon made itselt apparent. The crow
was having an encounter with a large
rattlesnake. The snake would strike
repeatedly, but the crow would evade
him every time, and finally flew away,
when the gentleman, on a:
vestigation, found that the snake’s head
was picked to shreds and quite dead.—
Klickitat (Wyo. Ter ) Sentinel.
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Didn’t Like the Pantaloons.
A Galveston dandy didn’t like the
rew pants he had received from his
tailor, so he told the artist who
the pants: .
* Look here, I can’t use those pants.
I wanted them for a di=ner , and
they are so tight I can’t walk in 2
* Well,” growled the tailor, “if yon
ear a crop of 40,000,000 to 45,000
Joands is a oe
don't get to be any tighter :
on't get ti
ts you won't
Dn. Stein