The Floral Mystery. Out in a sunny meadow, Two children busy at play, Busily picking flowers To play with and toss away. - One holds in her tiny fingers A buttorcap, golden bright, And pulls out the sunny petals, Scattering them left and right. Her face wears a puzzled expression, And she whispers mournfully, ** 1 have pulled the coup to pieces, And where oan the butter be” The Farmer's Thanksgiving. The harvest flelds are stripped of grain; The late-sown com 1s shocked in dun, And husked beneath a chilly sun; The ragged stubble checks the plain. The hills are desolate and cold, The maples stand in grim array, And through the forest's muflled gray The winds of heaven strike the wold. Yet while the harvest splondors fail, The grain is sold, the barter made, And work, and care of crop, and trade Are put aside with plow and flail, The bins are filled, the harms are stored, The orchards robbed of scanty fruit, And in the garret cold and mute, The thrifty squirrels share the hoard, Although the dronght was long and sore, And scorched the fleld beside the road Till half the crop was left unhoad, Nor aftermath repaid the mower; Though half the rye was winter-killed, And here the wheat was struck by blight, Yet all is good in heaven's sight, And still the waiting barns are filled. And still, through every empty mood Beyond the moment's harsh surprise, At last a truer knowledge les— The sense of some essential good. B80, since the harvest moon has waned, By yonder shini Our hands are struck upon a pledge, And much is lost—and more is gained! ng erescent’s adge, The Pilgrim seed has taken root, Despite the land so hard and gray, And, flotvered to this Thanksgiving da Shall yet bring forth abundant fruit, -— Dora Read Goodale. ¥ ¢ home was not to be wondered at. She had been born in it, and so had her mother before her. She had remem- brance of no other, and it was as much a part of her existence as the sky and air. It would have Seemed no stranger sky than it would to see four different walls from these about her and to call them home. And, certainly, if beauty could give one reason to love a spot, Anstice had reason enough. For was not the long, low stone house perched on a crag, so that it looked like nothing but a lichen on that crag? And did it not overlook purpling hilltops below and far away, and elm-fringed intervales, with silver streams looping and doubling through them? And was not old Greyvhead towering above her, with all his woods and precipices and storm-scored sides, and casting a shadow over her ; and Redeap, taking the sunset fires on opposite upper heights ; and greater peaks, looming blue in the horizon? And did she not know when the weather was to be fine by the vapors round great Monasset? And, when tempests of rain or snow set in, did she not feel that Monasset and Redeap and Greyhead stood, like three power- ful genii, and shut her in and Kept watch and ward over her and her ~seaudchildren, in their sad fortunes, as they had kept it over her ancestors for generations? For her only son had smitten with a strange unrest among these mountains—an unrest new to the Pur- cells (and he twice a Purcell, since Anstice had married her cousin }—and, spurred by the fear of poverty, per- haps, and his children’s fortune in the future, should Greta give him chil- dren, he had gone away to sea, ten years ago, as if only boundless hori- zons, after these imprisoning hills, could fill his yearning for space. He had left Margaret, hisyoung wife, with his mother; for, although the Purcell acres had shrunk with every genera tion, there was vet a pittance which would support the household till he could send back or bring back the riches that he meant to have. But the moment when she saw his bright black eyes flashing through her tears, as he ran down the rocky path to cross field and wood, and take the coach, and turned a moment to wave his hand joyously, was the last in which Anstice had ever seen him. The bark Alba- tross, the owners after a time wrote her, had gone down, with all on board. For a season, then, it did not seem to old Anstice that she lived. The world was blotted out, the crags and hills, Greyhead and Redcap and the rest were not, and she saw only the gray waste of waters for days and weeks and months, till she was awak- 3 py veen child's voice in the night, the quick, amazed cry of a new-born baby. Of one? Of two of them! She rose tot- teringly to her feet, looked about her in a half-bewilderment, then hurriedly dressed herself, as she had not done for room. “Greta,” she said, “you have given me back my boy.” And Greta used to think in after days that An- stice really felt as if the babies were her own, and she herself was only a well-meaning nurse. But she grudged the care of her boys to their grandmother, great as the comfort of that care was to herself. that it was because of them, stung to ing to live the life of poverty and care come back no more, A this sweet Greta, up in her own woman, heart, and never in the watches of the when she would sav to them how her and she had worshiped him ; how they must grow like him and make haste to be strong and good enough to take care of their little grand- mother, and let her herself away to her husband. The only trouble that ever came between her and Anstice was that she would not give either of the boys the father’s name. “No,” she said. “It is like parting his rai- ment. Call them what you will, but not John.” And so Anstice called the one Benoni, the son of my sorrow, and the other Asher, because of her hap- piness that had been restored to her with him. And little Ash and Ben, as they presently were known, grew and thrived, and ruled the household with rods of iron. What pretty little darlings they were, rolling round the floor in their dimpled play, their curly yellow heads in the sun ; their dark-fringed eyes, their father’s eyes, dancing with n¥irth and mischief; their rosy faces so velvetysoft and sweet. Anstice would catch one to her heart, and drop him for the other, and go back to the first, and hardly let them alone at all, in the swelling ecstacy of her love, but for the kicking and struggling and loud- yoiced protestations that they set up; 4 KEditor and VOLUME XV. in Advance, HALL, CENTRE NUMBER 48. 1 but Margaret would only pause in her | work, and follow them with wistful | eves, wondering if this was the { that their father looked at th | and silently thanking Heaven, ti | the father had been taken, it f any rate given them each other, Wi i They needed each other, the i) { lows, as they increased their days, They | had nobody else, It was | long since i Anstice had Kept a servant, and, al n other rooms, the small family lived { chiefly in the narrow quarters of two, { opening into one another, Neighbor | were scarce in that hill country. Child { ren did not exist at ail. The only per son within resch was the man round | the side of the mountain, who managed | Anstice's little farm for her. There {i was no school, of course (the nearest i was down in the valley, away); no church any nearer; way { farers did not fare that way; no i soldiers marching through bannered streets with mu | other torchlight han that { of the eternal stars; nothing to break { the calm monotony but the mail-coach, i that once a day could be seen, a mere | speck, winding down the distant high- { way. Bat it all made no odds to the children. The day was not long enough | for their pleasure. They knew nothing { of any world outside of their Kites and { balls and gardens and birds"-nests in the i lovely, swift summers; their snow | forts and snowshoes and sleds in the long winters. If it had not been for { their perpetual longing and yearning i for what was not Greta and Anstice might have felt something like a re- | flection of their happiness in looking at them, “Do other little boys have fathers?” | asked Ash, one day. “Only when they brothers,” ti wn Rit 1 no streets procession don't have answered Ben, “ But fathers are nice to have,” reasoned Ash. “Don’t you remember the tart the minister over at Bareback brought us? And he said his little boy had one.” “Yes. It had raisins in it, are so good!” “But I think I'd rather brother,” urged Ash. “The there next day to play and the raisin isn't.” “Hear the darlings” said Anstice. “They will be father and brother both to each other. Oh! and they will have need of it.” For poor Anstice’s age was even more troubled than her youth had been. . Then she had piece by of the old estate ¢ , field by field. For two generations, except to and reap the few acres left the home place, her people had done nothing but to sell their patrimony, till, at length, it had reached a point where all the fertile glebe was gone and there was nothing left to sell. The Porter place had kept them alive so many years, the Green property many When her father t« the 1 sey 1 £ Saag Ol Raisins have a , brother's seen, SOW SO went ) farm pai When hi the great funeral ce arley fields. The long acre the valley had furnished her and J: with food and clothes, after her own husband's death from mountain fever. And then there was no rem- nant of it all, but the home place, that any one would take much as a mortgage on; and it was when she mortgaged that that John, in despera- tion, went away to sea, Anstice had depended on the rent of two or three little outlying spots to pay the interest on the mortgage; and now, this cruel year, they had been de- serted by their tenants, who left the sterile heaps of stone and moss for the rich Western lands, and there was no other tenants to take them. She had no money; and, come the last part of November, the mortgage would be foreclosed, and she and Greta and the boys would be turned loose upon the world, without a dollar. Greta could work, maybe; but she herself and the little lads—there was not even the house before them. Up in that hill country the abject poor were so few more, > We the SO from place to place. And that was the end of all the Purcell wealth and cell hope. Death would have been a kind thing to old Anstice in parison. She used to lie awake in the nights, thinking over the possibilities. horror of them grew upon her, flinging something on would run out, { as if to get help from all outdoors—the stars, the wind, the sky-—and end hy pet of the old stene wall, if it would I not be best to put an end to themselves at once down the precipice below her. “When I think of it,” she said, Greta came once to feteh her in—“when I think that as. far the eve could see an object a8 as their children will not own their inheritance cr have a their heads, I doubt Providence and it drives me wild |” “ No, mother, dear,” a foot of said —*n0, mother, dear, if we doubt Prov- idence, then all is gone, indeed.” “To think of it!” cried Anstice, again, “You! old Parson Mildredge's on the world, to earn vour bread or starvé! And the little lads—the last of the Purcells—with no future before | them, no clothes to their backs! Think of the Thanksgiving dinners all this country over, and not a tart will my boys have. Other boys—" “But, indeed, mother, solgng as they have bread and milk andask fornomore, we need not fret at that, Such happy little rogues—" “ Happy they'll be'in the state alms- house |” o “ 1t will never come to that! a pair of hands—" “ Much you can do?with your hands, you as fragile as a reed !” “1 can work for you and the chil- dren with them. Don’t fear.” “If you can getwork !” “J shail see. We will go down to one of the great mill towns; and it will go hard but—" “Go down to a Down in a dark, stifling of a town! Away from all the light and freedom here—the hills, the glory of them, the strength of them! Oh! I will die first. 1 had rather die !” “But we can’t die, you see. And if we doubt Providence, that is worse than death.” “Oh! we are tried,” half sobbed Greta. “ We are baing tried! But somehow 1 seem to feel— I know ! I know !-—that help is on the way to us, just as much as though I heard a voice from heaven saying so.” I have mill town! alley went little to bad and took i mother in her arms, and the nervous storm throbbed itself off into sleep for the weary old Anstice; then Greta took her turn to see , pausing v thought shivering ad wide world, the spot | nee or Anstice had er, and On. When a slipping by, in a swift blaze of glory, her heart gave a Sn 3 unge: and then it se $i the stars themselves had sent her mes. roi af anmsfart: a sages of comiort, ar in the th th “ Ben,” said morning, si sunshine his pretty flushing freshly up his face, ever see an angel?” “No,” said Ben. * Did you?" “Once I did. Yes. 1saw an angel last night, Ben” “1 guess so." “1 did. Really and truly, I dia” sald Ash. “1 saw two of them, Ben, I woke up in the night when it was dark and the fire was out, and one was r by the hearth, and the stars y» all over it. And I saw it all in white; and it went away. And it looked just like the Is mother angels head and the ww aAid did you gold I ] 2. Sh le” “I guess it was mother,” said Ben. “The other wasn't mother!” an. swered Ash, indignantly. ‘The other was a real angel, any way. It went like fire, and it left a path shining be- hind it. And I know it was the Angel “Do you really suppose it was, Ash? “Y know it was. And, of course, it came for something, you know, Ben, I shouldn't wonder if we were going to have Thanksgiving to-day, after all.” “1 hope there'll be raisins in it, then,” said Ben, “1 likeraisinsso!” “ Just hear the darlings,” whispered Anst her custom, to Greta. “I'd give my hand to get him raisins for the day. Going to have Thanks- giving after Thanksgiving for being cast adrift upon the world!" And she began to cry bitterly. “Come, called Greta, been gently moving about the fwes were bright in the rooms, for of wood they had “ One should be stir morn- Lo at . 100, aller allt il who bov i : on Thanksgiving Porridge is ready when you have said your prayers.” And shesatdown where the rose and purple of the sun- rise fell over her like an aureole, as the two little y naps came pattering out to the snappin long i fire, in their long white kneeling before her, 1 her lap while she said r -» raver. ne would have thought it enough that Greta Purcell had to give thanks for that day--husbandless, portiomless, and with three helpless souls hanging on her for help. But to one wring simple that she offered in her morning sacri- fice it would have as though princes had no more to be grateful for—as gave her thanks for life, for health, for hearts not yet altogether, for the bright lovely earth, for hope of heaven, for each other, “ Amen!” sald a voice at the door. None thought of fastening any door in that unvisited country, The ir lifted their they kneeled, and Greta turned her head, to see a tall man standing in the doorway, with a loose cloak Ww rapped about him. “ Perhaps it is the angel,” whispered Ben, still a little under the spell of his mother's prayer, “John! John the inner room. “Oh! old Ansticee. “My son! And she would have fallen she reached the bearded, eved stranger, with a iver little ie words seemed she broke 41 morning, the children faces as from cried son !” before black- wild I” came a cry John r ! my of sort not caught her on one arm while the a white stone, “I knew him! I knew him first!” cried Anstice, presently, to Greta. “Oh! trust a mother’s instinct. He's my flesh and blood!” herself. “He is my very self! And I always knew he was alive, felt it. dead!” “ But half of vou came mighty nea it twice,” said John, from where he was sitting then, with an abashed and undraped urchin on either knee and his cloak about them both. “I shall I was sure half of me was not night, than I was on the day the Al- down. I have thought, all these ten cruel years, that I had better have been dead; for 1 picked up by a craft that carried me into a Formosan port, and I have been a slave,” he said. have been a slave, with slavery made more terrible by thought of I did not know that I had two of them!” said John, with “Oh! John! Dear John!” “To think of us,” eried Anstice, lift- ing up her voice, “when you were suf- fering so yourself, my boy I" “To think of you!” he exclaimed, with a flash in his eyes that melted in “There never was day or night, sleeping or waking, that I did not. The agony of it passed all the rest, and I see now my worst forebodings almost true, You would have been starving in a little—" “And the mortgage is foreclosed to-day,” cried Anstice, wringing her hands, with the sudden remembrance thrust upon her joy. “ Not exactly,” he laughed--and he was fumbling in his breast for a little goatskin bag as he spoke —* although heaven knows what might have been if last night, just as I was going over Whitehorse ledge, a huge meteor had not suddenly blazed out and showed me the chasm into which the next step would lead. Not exactly; for, when I escaped, months ago, and found my way to the Cape—South Africa, you know-—1I went to the diamond fields while 1 waited for a ship. Great Heaven! How good it was to go where I would! Do you see this, Greta? Do you see this, mother? These little crystals are worthless-looking things, are they not?” And he poured them out in his palm. “They are diamonds, and of my own finding. I have sold enough already for emergencies—" “And I need not leave my home, my father’s home, this spot of heaven to me, and all of earth, full of the Pur- cell’s life and death !” cried Anstice, sharply, springing forward, to look in herson's face again. will beg + UNIVers lites for us, Oh! ! there lies edd, my without a And we send to they look whole “Never, mother, it what it for, worthless an hat handful lies a of happy possi Greta, my faithful make wits home regained, my mother bless hildren educated, and you care. There le all the Pure and all the Purcell our own." “It wis the Ww hispe rod Ash, “ And raisins, Harriet Pres ————————————— Noteworthy Trees. An elm near Lawrenceburg, Tenn, is 150 feet in er from tip to tip { ts branches and 929 feet in circum 1 fortunes Ares one agaln angel, you s¢ e," father ¥” asked itt Spofford. diamet 2, gancaster, Pa. yard which and time. walnut tree that was hollow feet in diameter was sawed the stump is used as a pen for a number of George HH. Cook, has a pear treo ently ha of 1 Fen blossoms On is brand tt the sam A Penns and i 3 down lately, and Carter hall county, feet in and branches circumference and its three feet AC TOSS, Near the N.Y, bouquet season Fair street depot, Kin 1S a grand old elm and Hu) ton, of shape, present over nests in its branches, At the mouth of Grassy Run, Springhill tow nship, Pa., there stood a sveamore tree that was hollow at the butt, and Joshua Brooks used it stable for his horse, dt birds in “as i Miss, is a double which has two trunks twenty fect apart, uniting thirty feet above the ground, forming at that point one solid trunk, round and sym. metrical, In Greene county, pine tree ! distinct 3 In the village of Padu grows a marvelous palm. ren plucked its fruit at & afternoon, and flocked early morning to gather more, but the now far They ran to their parents with the story that a date tree which they saw on the previous day lying upon the ground wi standing. Obser- t vation disclosed that the tree hatl been India, ne child A O CICK Ofte the next wy found their branches hove is NOW changing its position morning i feet including the leaves and it writes: 5:30 thetree was almost lying toward st. The foot of the tree » of five to seven degrees with th to sommenced kerchief {ot t evening. ie i even not One who has seen Wits Al under i that it ha read to rise from 4 o'clock, Al which had been tied tl munsiff to one of the leaves, so that it by the distric ust touch the At was eighteen incl and at 3 A. MN feet, other end n had risen six inches. M. tl kerchief ground, t 3 from tl nine i —— A Bank Clerk's Sacrifice, A good many years ago a took a little Ind a neighl poorhouse and when the boy | come a youth he was given a sible position in the 1 from respons ank of whi h his patron was practically the head. 1 the cashier stole more t $1! from the bank. Exposure was threat- ened every day, and the guilty officer, n a pericd of depression, confessed to { 1 i 0K ater 1A URS i= vs rexk wa Protege, Was the yout fi that he propos HI Young Ray, the smitten with horror as he thought of the terrible turn in affairs, but having weighed the matter, the next day he threw himself into the breach. He suggested, and the cashier eagerly ac- he should and al self, cepted the suggestion, that fasten the guilt upon himself ab- second, thus leaving his patron honest in the world's eves, though blackened $ What the public heard that a stolen of the Westport robbery was bank clerk named Ray had Detectives found several clews, but not until vears afterward was secret disclosed. One of the detectives the case came up with Ray under still more circumstances, The detec according to reminiscences published in a San Francisco paper, the his to ferret out the person who had robbed a private house of 200 gold The only man under arrest As soon as detective saw Martin the former said: “You are Dallas Ray, who robbed the Westport bank.” Ray then Ray claimed that Me was innocent of the gold eagle burglary and asked the de- take a note to his sweet- heart, a Miss Morse, When the latter threw her whole soul into obtaining proof of his innocence. She went to the house where the robbery had been committed. Having asked if the bur- glar had left anything in his flight, she was given a handkerchief that had been dropped by the intruder. She put the handkerchief to her nose and exclaimed: * Find the thief who uses this perfume (naming the peculiar brand) and you will find your eagles.” It was found that only one drug store in the city sold that kind of perfumery, and that only one bottle had been bought within the preceding month. Need it, be added that the purchaser was traced, the eagles regained and the lovers married! Decision, A man without decision ean never he dared to assert that puny foree of some cause, powerful, you would suppose, as a spi- he did, the ful boaster the very next moment, and his understanding and his will. He innumerable things do actually verify their claim on him, and arrest intercepted by every weed and whirled into every eddy. may pledge himself to accomplish it— which come within him, and wonder what form and direction his views are destined to take to-mor- row, just as a farmer has often to ac- knowledge the next day's proceedings clouds,—Hume. M. W. Harris, of Perry, Ga, has some Egyptian cotton growing on his place which is ten feet high. SCIENTIFIC NOTES, dissolving mixing the solu- tion with driving off the ammonia powdering and strongly compressing in molds, recently been shellac in prepared hy WT LiL, ol ox lide 3 by heating, Ne, Professor Burns, of Tubingen, has made some experiments on dogs which he regards as proving that bone-mar- row, completely separated from the bone, may be transplanted under the skin of the same animal at a remote part of the body with the result ol giving rise to the formation of bone and cartiage. * The wlies evaporate the moisture they cont the more surface they have will remain true in regard to earth, and it will fol- low that the il is pulverized the faster it will under ¥ iret but evaporation, to be rapid, ¥ air to receive the vapol na to gi soil the most efit from dew, it must be made po- het rous so that the moist air can touch the aw that | in the aster finer the s become dry giyell sary ve greatest surface, Vaoel pulsory int ular opposition (ne cause for pop- y it that it is the practice there to vaccinate children on the nose, J ward of hall a tael, which th hus of- is government id vaccinated, has nt to persuade parents tanees to distigure their way: and a law has mulgated punishing pment the failure to fered for every iy fine and impris vaceinate, During Mr. Lil POssl- ing & tube into the animals without subsequent experiment in at least ject. The pain was caused current of car- upper part of the in incision, for from nt searches re Brown-Sequard has proved the bility of trode 1 i irynx of the higher Sy } in Causing any pain result, aithe wis Pp or any bad igh the erformed repeatedly, stil ion was completed the lasted from two One's First Earthquake, A private letter ro cently recel vid from Miss Fanny Snow, containing an f the earthquake in Mexico, is so full of interest that we have heel ad to make the following tract. t is known to 3 5 ow's friends that she ff Mexico last Octo- with Miss M. L. Fe or-Ntchester, in or- n school interesting accot SOMme ¢ went to the ¥y( ber to lt ited rian board of foreign : has been a day to be morning we invited Miss she re- iA No. i badd Soe. SAW Iu {he Lown I nil . other in throug 3 out from under t aeall { myself on the { a building. verad my m the sph joe i. to watch the ont of the stores ding, 1 in corner By RONSes, somehow { street, standi and clinging that time 1 had reco and could philosop It was very people. They into Ls, Very knelt, ook in the height of the buildings around, and concluded that should they fallinto the narrow streets one might as well be in one spot in another. 0 staved in the shade, It was not a word spoken anywhere, suppose it lasted three minutes, he queerest gensation bmaginable. For the ment that I did not know what it was I was dreadfully frightened, but the moment it occurred to me it was only an earthquake, 1 was as COMPOSER a8 if 1 had taken earthquakes for a daily exercise all my life. sick for a little wh mteresting he generally As very quiet, I don’t but it was Hio- I was quite sea- and never was seasick at sea. tually so dizzy now, at 10 o'clock, that 1 can hardly write.” — Rochester Democrat, Alaska’s Mineral Wealth, A man named Moore recently ar rived at Victoria, B. C,, direct from Alaska. He that the Yukon prospectors from Arizona reported good diseoveries of bituminous coal, gold, silver, copper and nickel, SAVs country. Mr. Moore brought down a quartz from the lead with he is gonnected. On Douglass island beautiful marble, white, cloudy had been found by an old named Willoughby, On Ad- miralty island, between Sitka and Har- risburg, Messrs, Webster and Lock- hard have traced a fine lead of quartz for about five miles in the direction of This is not far from Har- Another old prospector, 1.000 feet wide, upon which three camps are al- The Bullion is owned by John Pierce, of this city. The Prince of Wales is an island further to the northwest, where much mineral This island, and, in fact, the whole country, is won- derfully stocked with all sorts of game lk, deer, moose, bear, mountain ides water fowl, are in the greatest abundance, A missionary is is doing good work. A noted pros- pector named Haley, who has earned the title of the Polar Bear Chief of Fdeecomb, fifteen miles called the Mount from Sitka, Veterinary surgery is looked upon with much more favor than was the case thirty or foMy years ago. There cal course than there formerly were, attle is not considered beneath the dignity of a regular M. D. As ani- mals have not usually been drugged or dosed with stimulants they respond more readily to simple remedies than is the case with most human patients, FACTS AND COMMENTS, per cent, was pald out on ac count of strikes, i | 3 i$ { : roundings in England, at least, in the verdict of £10,000 recovered by an English lawyer against a town compensation for personal plied by the corporation, If defective pavements or streets can make corpo- rations liable for water be equally binding? It seems to be go established in England, The difference of character between the Prince of Wales’ two sons, says the London World, was very remarkably evidenced at a dinner given in their honor in Queensland by the governor, Sir Arthur Kennedy. Prince Albert Victor was silent and thoughtful, Prince George all vivacity. The wait ers were all Chinamen, and whenever the governor was not looking Prince George gave hard tugs at the pigtails, [he Chinamen, with true oriental po. liteness, maintained an iin gravity, The census of agriculture will show there are 539,000,000 acres in farms and 287,000,000 acres of improved land, The value of the farms amount to $10,197,161,000, or five times the national debt; value of farm animals, §1,500,000,000, There are 10,357,000 houses in the country or one to every five human beings, about the same proportion as in 1870; a little short of 1,000,000 working oxen, 2,443,000 cows, 47,000,000 swine and 1,812,000 mules and asses, In 1860 there were 2,254, 000 working oxen in the country, more than double the present number, Apparently the ox must go, Horses and mules are more adaptable to mod- ern agricultural machinery, It is for. tunate in some respects that this is so, for we cannot or do not eat the equine flesh, but would be glad to have the beef a good deal plentier than it is “Other cattle” number 22 488 000, 13,666,000 in 1870, ————— against The recent reports of the discovery and development of gold and silver mines at A late issue of the made in gold mining in Antioquia and Folima, be sold, and worked successfully by companies formed in this country and Europe. roving over the rieky backbone of the mountains that run alofigrthe narrow strip of territory umting South Ameriea. 1 long lain stagnant under the sway of sprang up put now money, ery and enterprise will pour in them as long as mining enter- prises prove remunerative, mixed peoples that the Spanish conguests, The Detroit Free Press thinks that ters from the mail after they have left the mailing office, will be a sweet boon y the public, It very often happens reach the pesson addressed. This can now be done on a telegraphic order Hoe, the order quite as much merchants--the every who are stantly brought before courts in actions for breach of prom- There is scarcely one of them, profit by as the age, being 186, ing the fatal letter while there was yet time recall, but for the relentless grasp of the postoffice department on everything committed to its charge. Now that for the relinguishment of that grasp, the telegraph will have a lively time in recalling swains whose to second thoughts on paper.” The Wackerle insurance case i St, { mpanic \ himself for § with the cyanide of potassium, of that believed scheme substance, that it was to kill the fumes company ingenious but they concluded to pay. count several years ago life of an ignorant young girl £115,000, He said to her: we shall beat the bloated insured the go to Italy. and enjoy it, follow my advice. Tell friends and mortally ill. Take to your bad and beads, Affect death close at hand. all your bury something in place of you, and demand the money.” The poor dupe consented and then he poisoned her with digitalis, Everybody thought it a natural death, for she had said soand But the insurance company was not satisfied ; the body was examined and variously tested, and his wife and mother-in-law also dug up. Digitalis, a powerful poison, was found in them all, Mr. George Howells has published of the trades unions of England, which indicates that their condition is much better than has commonly been supposed. The membership in all of men, and, by the regular monthly pay- ments of these, the unions are in re- ceipt of an aggregate income of about $10,000,000 per annum, The common assumption is unions have no other pur- pose but to encourage strikes; and though it is true that the protection of its members in the matter of wages is the chief reason for the formation of a union, it is also worthy of note that only a small part of the money raised is used in sustaining conflicts between labor and capital, Thus, in the returns for some years of anumber of the larger associations, it is found that, while about fifty per cent. of the outgo went to sustain members who were simply out of work through the accidents of trade, twenty-five per cent. to help those who were sick, and eight per cent, each for funeral charges and for a superannuation fund, only six {insist upon uniformity in wages, is i from the fact that only really able workmen are allowéd to meinbers, {the reported tyranny of the chief tion in fact; that criticism of an exceeding acrid character is all the time going on, and, in the monthly compelled to print any letter or reso- which any of the lodges may choose to send. Howells, is one which involves an enormous amount of hard work, while the average salary of the men upon not over $1,000 per annum, collections and payments sums, is not over, on the average, receipts. ron — Brave Bear's Career, Ma-to-O-hr-to-ka, or a discharged soldier, was a Yanktonai Indian of short stature and full flesh, about twenty-nine years of age, was of roving disposition and had been a sojourner from time to time at about all the agencies inthe Northwest. He was charged with being implicated in several murders and generally regarded wherever he was known as a bad Indian, It was said he killed one of White Bear's Indians at Grand River several years ago, and attempted the murder of Pete Johnson, mail carrier between Fort Sully and Standing Rock agency, who was shot and badly wounded by some one in ambush in 1874. He is also said to have been the Red River of the North in 1872, when | Indians came upon an isolated settler's abode and slew the entire family, mutilating a woman and two young children in the most inhuman manner, They butchered all the settier's cattle and took his four horses with them. Brave Bear and three other Yankto- | nais were known to have been in the massacre, and when they finally re Custer ( who afterward went down like a hero in front of Sitting Bull's howl- ing horde on the Little Big Horn) at- detachment of the ill-fated Seventh cavalry; but Brave Bear eluded the military by dropping into a hole in the ground and covering himself with | leaves and brush, and the others could not be identified, | It is not easy to say whether Brave Bear owed his notoriety most to the success in stealing the wives of other He was a professional in all these things. Living a- sort of vags bond life, now among his own..kin- to both races. The Indians hated him because of his success in their wives. As savages go he was | handsome and rather dashing. His features were regular, his form athletic and his smile pleasant. When he came to the conclusion that he wanted a new wife he would make his selection from | the better halves of his brother chief- | tains, and if there was any serious ob- jection on the part of the head of the particnlar family which was levied on, Brave Bear usually cae vied off a widow, for he ww very expert in the use of a gun. When drunk he was a fiend. When among | the whites he would speak a little Eng- | lish, but when with the Indians he professed entire ignorance of that Once, when in a confidential mood, he was heard to say that he was | naturally kind-hearted; but that when he had taken whisky, or when excited by battle, some wicked spirit took pos- session of him and made him irresisti- bly savage. His coup stick had valued possession. The savage thus described seemed { to have no fear for no one save an '/n- Some of the at the Bottom of the Atlantic, At a meeting of the National Acad- emy of Sciences in New York Profes- character of the sea bottom off our soast, especially that which lies be neath the Gulf stream. He has made United States fish commissioners, He peake bay and about 200 miles out to Nantucket is a streak of very cold like those caught in the waters of Greenland, Spitzbergen or Siberia Boulders weighing 800 or 1,000 lieves they are brought down by joe bergs from the Arctic regions and voulders are found as far south as Long Island. Further out to sea, seventy to the sea, which has inclined very ually eastward, forming a tabl takes a sudden dip downward, so that ieep. The slope is as high and as steep as Mount Washington, and its summit, which is level, and 270 mollusks have been added to must be specimens shows that the he trowel rope brings up a ton of living and as the trowel simply scrapes over a small surface, thé ocean bed is Sharks are seen by thousands in this hand. Thigshows what destruction is constantly going on in those depths. Not a bone of few days. It is a constant display of the law of the survival of the fittest was dredged up after cruising for five miles from land he dredged up an india rubberdoll. That, he said, was Here the Gulf stream Ts~forly miles Professor Verrill continued ; and chusetts. The temperature further in degrees, and toward the bottom of the basin thirty- nine degrees, while further out to sea the temperature of the water grows nautilus and the Portuguese man-of- In this belt the tile fish, about which so much was said a year ago, were summer, although expeditions have been made for the express p of ‘and then put away. She appears to have adored him at first, but his treach- ery turned her love to the fiercest-hate. She followed him tor months at a time, in all seasons and in all places. Itis probable that if the whole truth was known, Brave Bear's roving life could be justly attributed to the terror which she inspired in him, If mortal ever { had a Nemesis, she was his in very truth. Armed with knife and revolver, and with murder animating her whole being, she dogged him for years, intent | on revenge. The fact that he escaped her is the best proof of his own cun- ning. Simplicity in Food. ReformMagazine, are we to get at the proper quantity of food? There are | some good rules for feeding as to quan- ‘tity. When our food is simple and natural in kind and quality and mode | of preparation there is little danger of | eating too much, There is little | danger, for example, of eating too | many grapes, apples, pears and bananas, | Salt, sugar, spices and luxurious cook- ery tempt to excess, With men, as | with animals, a natural diet is self limiting, and we are disposed to stop when we have got enough. The more artificial the food, the more elaborate and luxurious the feast, the more lia- bility to overload the stomach, overtax | the digestive power and overweight the forces of life. Simplicity of food is a condition of health and pro- motes longevity. The quantity of food which enables a man to do his | daily work without loss of weight is precisely what he requires. He sup- plies the daily waste--no more, no less. This quantity may vary a little with each individual, but every one can | easily ascertain his own measure of re- quirement Ly reducing the quantity of daily food until he finds a balance of force and weight. 1t is my opinion that the average quantity of water-free aliment required, say by business and literary men, is twelve ounces, Men of great muscular activity may require sixteen to twenty ounces. 1 have found myself in very good condition for sedentary work on eight or ten ounces, When any one is in good con- dition for his work and keeps his nor- mal weight, he has food enough. Dr. Nicholls advice is, find this quantity by experiment, and then habitually keep to it. III nse. There are in the German empire 17 - 591 physicians and 4,457 apothecaries. resting on the ocean's bed may contain Arctic fish, and a current of warm may be alive with tropical fish. As to the quantity of light at the dispute. Animals dredged from below 700 fathoms either have no eyes, or faint which shows that that light is feeble, and large and sensitive. Another strange thing is that where the crea- Sea anemones, corals, shrimp and crabs have this brilliant color. Sometimes it is pure red or scgriet, and in many specimens it inclines toward purple. Not a green or blue fish is found. The orange red is the fish's protection, for the bluish green hg in the bottom of the ocean makes orange or red fish appear of a neutral tint and hides it from enemies. Many animals are black, others neutral in color. Some fishes are provided with boring tails, so that they can burrow in themud. Finally, the surface of the submarine mountain is covered with shells, like an ordinary sea beach, show- ing that it is the eating-house of vast schools of fearnivorous animals. A codfish takes a whole oyster into its mouth, cracks the shells, digests the meat and spits out the rest. Crabs crack the shells and suck out the meat. In that way come whole mounds of shells that are dredged up. Pown in the World. A New York letter to the Atlanta (Ga) Constitution contains the fol- lowing personal: “I saw to-day a man in shabby genteel dress—his clothes threadbare and without an overcoat—his face thin and pinched— a look as if he was suffering alike from cold without and hunger within. This man was Mullet, the government architect who planned our and over $50,000,000 worth of public buildings. With monuments of stone and brick to his genius in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cin- cities in the country, he is to-day wan- looking for work, while his wife, a noble little woman, is ki a board- ” on its perch by Epi ; diel or 3 router in the act of Cro culine extravagance is = : I. a may be mentioned e ropert feet in length are being built at Sprague, Washington Territory, in the mountain passes on the Ni ern Pacific railroad.
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