Begging. Balding with hunger How uiAiiy no meet, Footsore and Iroacn, Wand'ring the street; Weary and dreary, Pleading for bi-ead, Houseless and starving— No rest lor the head; Cold—sold—nothing to eat, Kaggcd and shivering, Wand'ring the street. Battling with hunger, W purisonuv— sad, Kroin morn until eve Scarce *' a bite " to l>e had; The outlook all gloom. Trudging through snow, In misery creeping, Onward they go, Cold—cold—nothing to eat; Wretched and hungry, Wand'ring tho street. Battling with hunger, Rattling tor bread, Battling lor bare lite, Wishing life sped; Hearts sadly aching, Hard in their pain, Uroveling in gutter, Begging again. Cold - cold— wretched and sad; All alone in the world. Scarce " a bite ' to be had. Battling with hunger, Hard is their late, Pleading and tramping Early and late; Oh, list the prayer Ol tho wandering poor, And don't thrust tho beggar Away Irorn your door. Cold—cold —out in the rain, To eke out a living Begging again. OUR HAUNTED HOUSE. " I)o buy the house, Charlie; lam not at all alnud of ghosts!" My husband leans against the worm eaten fence and looks thoughtfully at the dull, old-fashioned house, with its shutters flapping from broken hinges, its porches overgrown with vines, its par den fall of rank weeds, and the river singing beyond its garden gate. "It is very cheap. Amy," he says, at length. " They only charge me for the land, and nominally nothing for the house. But ean you endure living in such a dest tied plaee, and I in the city all day? Why, ail sorts of noises can be heard here day and night, and I have heard good, intelligent people, with con sciences, say they had seen the spirit of a woman, with a little child in her arms, walking all about these grounds at evening. Nobody else would dare buy it. Why, it has had no tenants for a year. I fear it will frighten away your friends, and that you yourself will have to succumb to the spirit-influence of the place." He stops, seeing the expression on my face. I can hear anything better than the allusion to spirit-influence, or to the belief of the progressionists. Charlie is a good business man; hut he lias read a great many scientific works written by men who ihought they were very wise on the subject of spiritualism; and he has investipnted, or. rathrr, invested a great deal in the saire He has pro gressed to such an cx ent that he can sometimes hear raps on the headboard, and feci cold shivers down iiis back, and in mosquito-time he often feels pinches from unseen spirit-fingers. I do not like to real, scientific books' and during the short time we have been married, 1 have employed my time, in stead, in practicing waltzes, making pies and embroidering baby-clothes. Still. Charlie worships me. I believe it is God's unseen law of recompense that there should always he some one to adore, even a women with freckles, wide mouth and a figure like a Dutch doll. At all events, my will is nlways law; so Charlie takes his knife and cuts away the rose brambles that have thrown their arms across the front door, and to gether we enter the vacant echoing rooms. The ceilings are dim with vails of cobwebs, the spiders run up the walls at our approach. The house has a ruin ous, moldy smell, hut it docs not oppress me ns it does Charlie. Already in my mind's eye I see what it will be like, cleaned and aired, with open windows and cheerful furniture. I ran through the house, exclaiming; "What a beautiful wide hall!—this room facing the south shall be our sit ting room. I will rout ail the ghosts witn sunshine. See those hollyhocks smiling over that picket fence, ann those summer pears all rotting on the ground —what a shame!—and all those rose bushes choked in the long grass!" Charlie shakes his head. "If you hod beard all T have about this house, you would be in no haste to live here. You know the Widow Wool son's dauchter that has been missing from town a venr, and supposed to be murdered ? Well, Geoffry Clare wns passing here one night, only last week— and you know, whatever else he will do, he won't lie —and he told roc he saw Grace Woolson's face ns plain as day over that garden fenee." I checked him suddenly again. I have never bad hut this one secret from my husband, ttiat three years before J met him I had fallen hopelessly in love with handsome Geoffry Clare. He hnd soon forgotten me for pretty Grace Wool son, who had afterward disappeared so mys teriously that no trace of-her could be found, although 1 er mother and Geoffry bod searched for her many months. I think I loved him no longer, and sometimes thanked God for taking my feture out of my unskillful bonds, yet the mention of his name always made ase wince. As Charlie's only objections were on my account, and as we were not rl< b enough to buy such a home as we tnig. have chosen, within a week he hnd paid the small sum required for the haunted heme, and we hod moved into it, bag and baggage. I liked the place, which was neither town nor country, hut was embowered among iU trees, jaot at the terminus oi the pavements, wilh such a grand old garden and such glimpses of wood and waur. The first ! thing I did was to open all the windows wide, and let in the summer's sun. Martha Ann, my one servant, cleaned away the mold and cobwelm, and fresh paint and pap r changed the rooms as if hv magic. Charlie lelt his scientific researches , after business hours and pruned tho trees, cut the grass, trimmed the ragged vines, rchung the shutters, and made a email paradise out of the reclaimed lawn. When all was completed, there was j noplace for ghosts in those wide, sunuy ! rooms. My bedroom was the pleasant ! est room of all, facing the east, and | looking out upon the pear trees, the | hollyhocks and the river. I'ink had | been my color when a girl, so I took a fancy my room should be all pink. The dull drab paper, with green vines wan diring about and clutching aimlessly at nothing all over it, was changed for a delicate pink and white. The carpet was pink and white, the color under the cheap muslin pillow shams was pink, the lace curtains hung over pink shades, and were looped hack with pink rib bons, making as a whole too rose-hued a bower for any specter to fancy. 1 believe I was as entirely happy, after getting settled that first week, as any one could be who had lived in rented houses all her life, und owned one ot her own for the first time. I had but one distaste lor the place, and that w s for the basement, which, covered with clinging vines, was rotten underneath. It had formerly been a I cellar-kitchen, but was now fallen into disuse, and ftillof refuse piles of lumber, old cans and unused rubbish. The heavy vim's grown over tho broken bricks had made it a damp and noisome place, and I never eared to explore It, i or to put it to any use, except the por tion directly under the trapdoor going 1 down from the kitchen. I hod Martha I Ann clean away a space here, and fill n i cupboard with canned fruit, vegetables, etc. I grew to have a dread of this dark 1 and cheerless cellar, and never came out j of it without shivering, though I would ! not own it even to myself. It had scarcely been ray receptacle for fruit a day before I began to miss things in a most mysterious manner. Before I could realize it there would be a glass of jelly, a pie, a loaf of cake, a melon, or a plate of peaches gone. I could ac cuse no one but the ghosts and Mnrtha Ann, and she had always heretofore been the soul of truth and honor. t Twice I laneied, when in the cellar, I had heard a sigh and a rustle of ghostly garments, and I could have sworn I heard the wailing of ay ung child several times; but I would have died t rather than own this to my husband. " Martha Ann," said I, one day, corn * ing up in great haste from the cellar, 1 "do ghosts like pickled figs?" * " I am sure I don't know, ma'am!" ' Martha Ann's eyes are as wide, as ln ' noeent and unquailing as ever. " "Well, you know that jar of pickled figs my cousin sent me from California, L that I was saying till mother c.ame to ' visit meP Well, they are two-thirds ? gone, ns well as that pie that was laid 1 away expressly for Charlie! What am ' Ito think." [ lam suigry and excited. Martha Ann says nothing, as usual, hut I see , her tears arc quietly falling over the dish-apron she is hemming, l am rather relieved the day after when she asks me ; for a month's vacation to visit her sick grandmother. Ido not like to accuse ; her of theft, and I would like to be alone to ferret out this mystery. I have fresh bolts put on the cellar-floors, and the chinks in the bricks filled in. The trap-door I keep fastened down with heavy weights, still the depredntions go on—pies, cakes, ice-cream left in the freezers, cream off the milk, a portion of cvt rv available thing is missing from day to day. 1 am too proud to confide in Charlie, hut my life is getting to he a burden. One bright September day I sit down in I the kitchen in tears, with my feet in the oven, and would fain cover my head with my apron, like Affery Flintwineh i in " Little I>orrit," to shut out the faint wnils ot some child that I am surf: are coming from the cellar. Martha Ann will not he home for two weeks; I am tired out and discouraged; Charlie will ho home in half an hour to a five o'clock dinner, and the spirits have eaten all the cold roast ami tarts that I have laid away for tiiat especial banquet. I shall he forced to tell him that for my hardihood in making him buy this haunted house, lie is destined to go on half-rations generally, I think with a sob, when I hear a faint step below and see the trap-door slowly rising, and the blanched face and thin shoulders of a i woman, with a ske'eton child in her | arms, coming into view, j Can I believe my eyes? Yf s, it is the | shrunken, faded form of Grace Wool ; son. which I know in an instant, though i the sunken eyes and claw-like hands and | skeleton figure, make but a silhouette of tho rosy, dimpled girl I remember. 1 am not a nervous woman, and I have expected this ghost to appear so long, that I do not scream or faint away when she comes toward me, and the Ktlirtie, drooping a.r with wnieh she ilds out the visionary baby, and then [ bursts into such a human agony of tears, I would make oue feel tender and akin to • even a hobgoblin. "Oil, Amy," she gasped, "you are a good woman, and will vou try and save t my child's life? If it had not been dy i ing I should have staid hidden always, • but I knew you would lieip me if you [ could. I was sorry to taxe your tigs i and tilings, and would not if I could i have k< pt from starving; but for - mother* sake ) have hidden in your , cellar three months, for I knew she and r Groffrv C.are woud find me if they I could." I u i .is • did, then?" I asked, not s v ; ;h -on i'i i curiosity, but much as r one would frame a question ta fill a t pause. i " Yet>," she snid, simply, i "Well, I have not u word ol blame , foi'yoy. I nearly went ne to the New York hosoilal, whtre fan away with the baby as soon as ( could walk, for fear I should he traced thre: and knowing this house was said to lie haunted, and people were afraid to oome hi re, I made a bed in some pack ing-hoxes behind the lumber, and so long as my money lasted, I used to go out at nights In my waterproof and buy tilings; hut after you came I dared not leave, and the baby has boon grow ing sick in the damp weather." I pour her out a cup of strong tea,that ia steeping on the range, but she sits holding it in her hand, untastod, staring nt me with iter mild, faded eyes. " Olt, Amy, I am afraid to usk you, but how is my mother?—hnvc you seen iter?" " Yes, I saw iter last week at prayer meeting '" and site looks like one who lias been struck with death," I was going to say, but stopped, seeing Grace was quivering all over with fear and expec tancy. I dared not tell iter that her mother was now sick in bed, and that out of tier life all hope had gone, witli the loss of her only child, or how my heart had ached for the poor widow, out of whose faded faee even expectancy had vanished. • " Come," said I. " the baby is warm now, let us go and lay it in the bed; and Charlie and I are all alone, and you may rest assured no one shall know of your being hero." I carry it to nty own pink room as be ing the most retired, and it is with joy I hear Charlie's step on the stairs. He takes in the situation at a glance, and being a practical druggist, and a better nurse and doctor than our little town affords, begins instantly to mix some medicine for the little sufferer. lie is tenderer than any woman to ward anything little or weak, or needing care; so for two days lie does not go to bis oflice, but watches witli Grace and me beside thedyingchild; but what can mustard-baths and drugs, and careful nursinu avail where a damp basement has undermined the constitution of so frail a little blossom? On the third day the little life goes out to complete its being in another world. Ponr Grace will not believe that tho little child she has cherished through such awful days ami nights of want and distress is really dead. She holds it in her arms all night, and in the mrirning we dress it in the dainty lace and linen robe of a hap pier baby yet to come, who, too. alas! may never need the pretty finery. And Charlie digs a little grave under the pear tree, c lose to the sunny wall, when- the catchfiy and sweet allyssum grow so rank, and lays the little creature tend erly under the September eavs at i grasses. Poor thing, it would have been so pretty, had it bad proper nourishment, and air to breathe, with its delicate features and pretty ri igs of soft hair. Graca follows us silently back to the door, and pausing on the step, lavs her hand upon my arm, looks into my face beseechingly, saying: " I must go to mother now, if you will do me one Inst favor. Amy, and go witli mc." Charlie hurries off for a down-town car to his office, and Grace and I walk down the quiet street toward her mother's little cottage. None of the people who meet us recognize in the slender figure, clad in my new drab walking suit with my gypsy turban and long veil, the Grace Wooison of a year ago. 1 tremble cm ncaring the house, for I see the windows are open wide, and two or three an- watching by a bed where Grace's mother lies breathing faintly and moaning at intervals. I see Grace- fly up the garden-walk and stop, with clasped lianas and bent head on the threshold, and I hear her mother's faint voice saying to the woman who is fan ning her: "Do not trouble yourself about me; I shall never be well again, and nothing ran cure me now hut a sight of my daughter's face." I see Grace grope forward. I hear her calling, " Mother, mother!" I see those two poor women in each other's arms, and I turn away blinded with tears. And Grace's mother did not die, but seems entirely happy with h-r lost dar ling ail to herself again onoe more, the color coming slowly hack into her whitened checks, and life getting back into its old grooves. Her return was a nine days' wonder to our gossiping town; but the little grave under the pear-trees telle no tales, and though she will never be exactly the same pretty, blooming Grace Wooison again, vet this aftermath of her life Is something to he thnnkfu) for, in its great content and peacefulness.— Kmnui S. Baylry. Diseased Milk. Several medical men of prominence, both here and in England, have lately maintained thai tuberculosis is often imparted to human subjects by milk from diseased cows, and Prof Otto Bollinger, of the Munich university, one of the highest authorities in German?, has sustained their position in a paper recently read in that city. He said that repeated experiments show that the milk of tuberculous beasts has a very decided, contagious influence, and re produces the disease in various animals, and that its noxious properties can no he expelled even by boiling. While the tuberculosis of man is not completely identical with that of the cow, it is ex actly similar; hence, there is constant danger to any community where milk is freely used. The professor enjoins upon farmers the necessity of taking the strictest care of their stock, and upon people generally the greatest care as to the quality of milk they use. Rigid measures should be adopted everywhere to exclude distempered cattle from dairies. This has been done in the as sociated dairy established recently in Munich, and will have, it ia believed, excellent hygienic effect. All oows are there kept under the closest medical supervision, and at the slightest symp tom of tuberculosis are immediately re moved. It is estimated that nearly ten per cent of the cows kept in towns are more or less diseased—a proportion which must be much increased in New York, where, in all probability, metre unwholesome milk is sold than in any city on the globe. If the tuberculosis theory be true, it is singular tliat one half of our population has not unsound lungs. The uniform green color of the vege table world is due to chlorophyll. This substance, however, exists only in mi nute quantity in plants, tho leavs of a large tree containing perhaps not more than 100 grains. It appears to be a di rect product of the action of the sun light upon vegetation, ns it does no exist in slants kept in darkness. Tho changes in the color of leaves in autumn are surposed to be doe to the oxidation or tbeh chlorophyll * There are Ave Chinese students in the Morgan school, at Clinton, Conn., and one of these. Wing Ho. at the last ex amination stood at the head of hie clms. CAPITAL CLAIMANT*. Nam* or tit* Odd Climartrr* Found In WashlHKton. Frequent visitors nttlie capitol cannot have failed to notice tlie dally occupant of the front scut of the left hand Senate gallery. He in known as the "prayer flend." In rain or shine he is punctu ally on hand. At ten ininutea before twelve o'clock he shambles in, takes Ids scat and quietly awaits until the chap lain begins liiH prayer. Then he rises, throws his body back to an angle wliicii may some day lose him his balance, poises his head even to a more extreme backward angle than his body, and rocks on toe and heel until the amen is uttered, to whir ii he responds. Th"n lie resumes his seat and generally re- I mains until the session closes, particu | larly if therit is a debate. In appear \ anee this character is striking. He is | tall and thin ; more thnn six feet high. ! His frame is angular; face spare and 1 shrunken. He has little tufts of grav I side whiskers, otherwise his face is af i ways cleanly shaven. He draw as iii plain black, wears a clonk and carries a i cane. Ills eyes protrude well out of ' their socket# and have a restless look. ! If be happens to come hi late, no matter i who may be in his seat, or how much I difficulty he may encounter to reach it. ! he will crowd his way to the place and oust any one who may be in it. He is ! well known to all Congressmen sis the | one who keeps most zealous vigil over ! their proceedings. The name of this I odd character is Powell Cuthbert. a | Virginian by birth. Of lat< years he | seems to have gone a " little off -1 on re ; ligion. Ho lies an income which cannot ! be alienated from him in bis lifetime barely suflich nt to keep him. and finds I peace in his latter days in the Congres ! sional gallery. ' Another conspicuous character is an old iady named AlmiraThompson. She I has a claim. Infect she has presented ! a claim 'to every Congress since the i forty-third, and is daily in attendance I both in the gallery nyc is coal black, dashing and cxpres- I Hive. Her hair is gray, worn in a pro j fusion of curls, which hang over her forehead- She bears evidence that in her youthful days site must have 'aid : claims to superior beauty, for she even ' yet possesses more tlian ordinary good | looks. She wears a faded gray dress : and an old shawl. On her bond she ' wears a modest and matronly white cap. ! Nobody seems to know where she lives or how she is supported, but from Iter ; appeals for aid her livelihood is sup ! posed to be precarious. Another character who, ut> to a few months ago. was a daily visitor to the capitol, is Col. Maurice Pincbover. This j man has a grievance. He s--ms to be haunted with the phantom of Col. Tom Scott, the railroad king. He declares that Col. Tom Scott years ago robbed him in a railroad transaction, stole his money, and reduced him to penury. He carries with him, usually, a tin case nbout two feet long and six inches in diameter, in which it adrawingof some kind. Originally it might have been a tracing of a plat of ground and the cross sections, hut whatever it was in its erimitive state it it unintelligible now, y reason of all manner of additions which have been added to the tracings by the mischievous. One day last sum mer, when the House was engaged in an exciting political debate. Fjhohover came to the capitol with a woolen shirt, saturated in blood, and which he de clared was the shirt worn by him when lie was assaulted by Tom Scott on the plains of Colorado. Pincbover also has a chum. All Uiat he has rver yet suc ceeded in explaining is that it is for 91,000,000, and is connected with a mine of some kind, which Scott robbed hint of. Since the present session begun he has not put in an appearance, and it is believed that he is over to the Eastern branch. At times he ia dangerous. Journal Clerk Smi b on one occasion filled the tin case he carries with mucil age. When Pincbover disx>vered it be tiecame ungovernable and would have done Smith bodily ininry had he not fled incontinently out Wtnnge. Another persistent claimant who comes to Congress every year is John C. MrConnel. His claim Is for $17,900. and has made its appearance in every Congress for years, it has for a basts the alleged fact that the claimant rcn dered service to the United Stated in re cruiting 300 men in Maryland for a Massachusetts regiment Last rummer General Bragg, chairman of the war claims committee, in reporting adversely upon it said: "This claim lias been re jeeted at the war department and the treasury department when all the par lies who knew ol the transaction were living and the vouchers now alleged to have been lost were in existence. It has since been rejected bythe committee on war claims, and now presents itself to this committee having only one merit in its favor—unblushing persistence. It is time this raid on the treasury should oease. The oommittee report adversely." Wanhington SUtr. North and South Carolina and Ten nessee are preparing to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the battle of King's mountain, the turning point ia the revolutionary war in the South, which occurred October 7, 1780, and legitimately led to the final victory at York town. RKLHHOUft HEW* AVB JIOrEH. There are 100,000 church members in the British army. The Baptist missionaries jn Japan have ordained their first preacher. In the last twenty years the Methodist missions have received upward of $lO.- OuO.OOO. Tliesixtii of next May is tlie date pro posed for tlie great.council of the world's 80,000,000 Methodists. The Methodist freedmcn's aid society lias disbursed in twelve years $790,216. It receipts last year were $71,093. Ihe English Congregationalists have 170 churches and 160 ministers in active work in the Australian colonies and New Ze.11.11111. The Lutherans arc displaying great activity in church building. A denom inational paper mentions trie dedication of twelve German churches. The Rev. Mr. Marshall, a Baptist mis sionary in Origan, India, writes that 400 Hindus in that place have renounced caste aril become Christians. Many of them are men of wealth. Four Chinese were admitted to the Second Presbyterian church, of Indian apolis, by Dr. William A. Burtlett at the last comtiiunion. the first Celestials to join a church in Indiana. The death is announced of the Rev. Thomas S. Berry, president of Simpson centenary college, a Methodist institu tion in lowa. Mr. Berry was delegate elect to the general conference. The daughter of Cli:inr. Eisner, of Samrodt, Prussia, has celebrated a very uncom mon anniversary, the sixtieth anniver sary of his being made doctor of philos ophy by the university of Breslau. He lias been pastor in Samrodt fifty-five years, and is eighty-five years of age. I fThe thirty-one universities and col leges under Baptist control contain 867 instructors and 4,6s9students. In their libraries they have 190.490 volumes, with property worth $7,336,01X1, and en dowments amounting to $3.843 640. Besides these universities and colleges, there are fortv-nine aeadrmie*. female colleges, etc.. 2,313 students. The New York Methodist book con cern has a net capital of $1,060,568. The net profits lor the year were $71,155. The sales of publications amounted to $H25.634. against $912,726 the previous vear. The Western book concern, at Cincinnati, lias a net capital of $474,178, the profits for the year being $27.H®7. The sales fell off $65,673 from the pre vious year. The Lesson ef the Bath. One of the most valuable discoveries made by Archimedes, the famous scholar of Syracuse. In Sicily, relates to the weight of bodies immersed in water- Hiero. King of Syracuse, had riven a lamp of gold to be made into a crowt:. and when it came back he suspected thai the workmen had kept back some of the gold, and had made up the weight by adding more titan the right quantity of silver; but he had no means of proving this, because they had made it weigh as much as the gold which had been sent. Archimedes, puzzling over this pioblem.wenttohisbath. As he stepped in he saw the water, which his body dis placed, rise to a higher level in the bath, and to the astonishment of his s<-wants he sprang out of the water, and ran home through the streets of Svracuac almost naked, crying. Kurtka!" (" I have found ft! I have found it!") What had he found? lie had discov ered that any solid body put into a ves sel of water displaces a quantity of water equal to its own bulk, and there fore that equal weights of two sub stances, one light and bulky, and the other heavy and small, will displace dif ferent quantities of water. This discov ery enabled him to solve hU problem. He procured one lump of gold and another of silver.each weighing exactly the same as the crown. Of course th'c lumps were not the same size, because silver is lighter than gold, and so it -akes more of it to make up the same weight. He first put the gold into a basin of water, ana marked on the side of the vessel tlie height to which Jthe water r^se. Next, taking out the gold, he put in the silver, which, though It weighed the same, yet, being larger, made the water rise higher; and this height he also marked. Isutly, he took out the silver and put in the crown. Now if the crown had been pure gold, tlie water would have risen only up to the mark of tlie gold, but it rose higher, and stood be tween the gold and silver marks, show ing that silver had been mixed with ft, making it more bulky; and by calcula ting how much was displaced. Archi medes could estimate roughly bow much silver had been added. This was the first attempt to measure tlie specific gravity of different substances; that is. the weight of any particular substance oom pared to an equal bulk of some other substance taken as a standard. In weighing solids or liquids, water is the usual standard.— Harper** Youtm Piopk " What do you think of my new shoes, dear?" said the the other even ing aftsr tea. " Oh! immense, my dear, perfectly immense," said lis, without looking up from his paper. Then she began to cry and said she thought If he thought her teet were so drendftilly Urge be needn't tell her of it.—Boston Jefferson Davis's memoirs will be published by the Appletoa's early In the A Mining Expert'* Terrible Kxneri ewe. Nearly a week since Jxiuis Blandine one of the best known miring expert* on the coast, passed through ttiin city on lii* way from San Francisco to ex amine the Kantu Anita quartz mine which is situated near Washington ♦ wenty-one miles above here. Day be! fore yesterday he returned here, hav ing accomplished his object. Hjs ex. perience* on the trip were of an inter I • stin* nature, and it 1m by mere eharif* tliat he was enabled to live and relate them. After a tedious journey through the snow he reached the home of on of the owners of the c laim, and togethe. they forced their way for tliree mi lei. futtli rto the mine. Lighting • and.'<. they entered the tunnel, wti-h lias been pushed toward the heart of the moun tain a distance of 130 f<-et. Twenty- fiv<- feet from the head of it they cum' to >. winze fifty-six feet deep. Over thii win//* is a windlass. Mr. Blanding <•* nniined it c arefully, and observing re weak spots in its construction, had l,i> companion let him to the bottom. Ib inspected the ledge, made measure, rnents, secured a sack of specimens, and putting one foot in the bight of tl, rope, shouted to the man abov to how away. Afur aseending thirty !<>• hi censed to rise-. " What's tlje matter?" he- a-kul "The windlass is broken," wa-tf, "?'ix it and hoist away." "I can't. The support at one *!•;. , broken dean. One end of the lias dropped to the ground. My siiou <•!'. is under it. and if 1 stir toe who jo thin will give way," was the startling repa that comeback The candle at th<- u, : had been extinguished. Mr. Blandinj; recognized the urgency of having a ene of hit shoulder® against on<- side "of tin box I and his feet against the other, u ! his way up inch by inch, the owner 1 taking In the slack of the rope witlj ot ,l , hand. Thus he ascended f n feet. Tl.n ! the sides of the winze grew so fr spur, j that this pian could no longer be purl , sued. There was but one sulvatiot. The remaining ten feet must lx- ciimh. hand over hand." Releasing bis fa from the knot, lie put the idea invl practice. Exhausted by his preview efforts in walking to tne mine and n ploring it, it seemed to him he climbed a mile, and stopping to rer i found by the voice that he had yet fir> I fe-et to go. With another Miper.'.umir I effort, another start was made. After j what seemed an age, one of Lis l Jirj o I struck the edge of the covering on of side of the mouth. His body and imb were suffering the agonies oJ cram pi and soreness, and his brain la gnu to reel. All sorts of frightful phantonu tilled his mind. With a firm, effort hf reached up and found he could g'ttta ends of one hand's fingers over the edp of a hoard that answered for part of the covering With the d'"pair of a not who faces a fearful death and know it, he let go the rope altogether, rutc raising the other hand obtained a pre carious hold. His body swung back and forth over the dark abyss an instant and as he felt that bis Lands were .us ing their hold, he cried, "Save n quick. I am going!" Just then Itis companion, who is a man of g;cat strength, dropped thing of the drum, ana grasping his cos! collar, drew him out on the floor of the tunnel. The mining expert was utterly pros trated as his rescue was effected. H< was carried out of Ihetannel.liisciotM wet with perspiration, and laid in the snow. When partially recovered b was assisted to a house three ruim away. His whole frtme was so rackw with the Tphyeieal and mental torton that for several hours he had no use of some of his limbs. Two days after hf returned to the mine and with an ins nar broke the windlass into 1 000 pieces then fished the sack of specimens out of the winze. During a whole life time at mining adventures in some of the dev est claims of the world, he says lie Ist never been so near the door of death a he vm at the Santa Anita, and hebapo never to pass through the like again - Nivadu TYatwripl. Frozen Seed. Researches made by Messrs. Df Cm dolle and Pictet. of Geneva, on the de gree of cold to which seeds of piartf can be subjected without impairitt their vitality, present very rrmark*h Interesting ola* of people known * " chair boarders." He discovered that fifty per cent. of the people who gathc in Uie rotunda oi a hotel never spend cent, and are yet an aetnal expense to proprietor. Tbs " wbv and wnerefore was given witli much research. M *_ Oris wold, tlio proorictor. furlbernicn' furnished the Information that S" 0 -®" sheets of note paper and envelopes were distributed annually to patron* arc " chair boarders" and also some I 00.00 blotters; and although tte staUsaery was bought In job lots, cheap, it a**™" theiees amounted to $l,OOO Mr. Griswold said that they wouldev i have nerve enough to ask for powsp stamps, but that they were .pot kept"" the oflice, but were on sale at the ner stand, the reception ef mail at J* Imuae for outsiders was also eons- 1 - * I wonderful.