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Like Father Like Son.
The man looked into (lie enp one day
Only one glance, then turned away j
But tbe demon hid in the sparkling wine
Thought, " One more glance, and the man is
mine I"
And he laughed and danced in his rnhy lair
Till the wine grew foamy and sparkling fair.
Another glance did the man bestow,
And bis eyes shone bright with a etrango wild
flow.
' Only one drop ! one taste !" thought he ;
41 What harm can it do to one like me ?"
Only one drop, be tried at last,
And the demon seized and held him fast.
" As father does," thinks the littlo son.
" So may I." And the deed iB dono,
Tbe domou laughs rh the days go by,
And chuckles, " Another soul have I !"
And tho boy cries out. " It is well, I know,
TVliere father lead. I may surely go!"
So years roll on, and tho man grows old,
Eich in crime, and but poor in gold ;
The Bon has reeled into man's estate.
His heart on fire with Bin and hate ;
And tho demon tightens his cruel chain,
While he lures fresh victims to share their pain.
A WIFE'S MISSION.
We were in our mountain Lome, my
lmsbaud run I, when one day he said
to me, " This 'will never do; there's
going to be a rousing storm, that's
plain. And there isn't a hundred weight
of hay left in the settlement should
liave gone last week if Harris hadn't
broken his leg; I waited for the thaw to
freeze over a little, too. Well, we won't
put. it off an hour now. We must har
ness up and go across the hills to
Marshall's and get some, or the storm
will be Hon us. nud the creutures will
till have starved before it lifts and the
road is passable egain. It may be a
reeulnr three-decker."
So Mr. Dean and John Bishop' put
their horses into our sled, and Jo, my
husband, and they crossed the lord
there was only one single stringer of the
bridge laid then and started on the
main road for Marshall's, and Jo said
thev d be back by night-fall, and lelt.
one day, Bose to take care of the baby
and me. But Bose knew it was a special
occasion, and broke loose and went frol
icking after them.
Well, I worked about all the fore'
noon, and put the baby to sleep, and
laid together a nice little dish ready for
baking tor Jo s supper.
I piled on the logs that Jo had
brought in. and kept a roaring fire
going, and I pottered round for th
sake of being busy, and went into the
lean-to and gave Sorrel the last of the
fodder, and when I eame back the baby
cried with a colic an hour, and by the
time that I laid him on the bed the sml
den-coming dark had shut down like a
dish-cover, the wind was howling
through the hills, and it was storming
. furiously. I sat down at last in a dull
tremble, listening for the sound of bells
or voices; but nothing was to be heard
biit the keeuing of the wind, like a
wailing cry. round the corner ol thehut,
like the roaring of a furnace up the
mountain. It was pitch-dark; no moon
nor star. Tho sleet beat against the
' window in blast after blast; once it
pushed it iu, and almost smothered me
as it stopped my breath, and made me
feel like a dead leaf to bo blown away,
while I put the sash back. Occasion
ally a sort of supernatural glimmer
showed mo the tempest whirling up
white into the blackness of the night;
vut after I set a lamp iu the window the
iakes swept by the lane of light like
hurrying; sparks of fire, and I could see
that it was drifting heavily in drifts
that must be already deep. It was
eight o'clockaud still no Jo.
"I will go to bed," I said. "Of
course he isn't coming to-night ; they
would never let the team leave Mar
shall's when they saw such a storm
blowing up." But I didn't go to bed,
for I knew better. .1 knew Jo would
not leave the baby and me alone in this
weather so much for having such
simpleton for a wife ! I kiew they had
left Marshall's ; I was fearful that to
save time they had forsaken the main
road for the shorter cut across country,
and had either been wedged between
drifts or had lost the way in the dark
and the snow, and my heart beat so it
hurt me, and I began to cry forlornly.
Another long, long, weary hour, start
ing up and sitting down, praying and
wringing my hands, and walking to
and fro, and straining my eyes to see
through tlie thick air and it was ten.
Sometimes I thought I heard cries, but
it was only a sharp whistle of the
storm ; sometimes I thought I saw a
shadow struggling up, but it was only
the denser sh ado w following some fierce
gust. And I thought what if I had
heard cries 1 what if Jo and his com
panions were calling out now for help !
what if, in the darkness, the team had
gone off the road at some one of all the
countless bridges between us and Mar
shall's and they had plunged down upon
the broken ice or into the brawling tor
rent I whatif theyhad sunk overpowered
upon the way and were this moment
falling into mortal sleep, wrapped in
the snows ! Jo ! while I was warm
and housed, and with my baby t And
all at once I saw I had my punishment,
and I burst out crying again, crying out
loud, to think it should have come to
me through Jo, and not my own self
through my dear, good, patient Jo!
And I could see Lis face, cold and white,
and Lis eyes fixed and staring at me
my Jo's! "And wLat should I do
without him?" I cried. "How could
the baby and I live without him ? Oh,
if we could only have all gene together!"
And I ran and Lid my face iu a corner,
of the baby's blanket.
I suppose it was half an Lour that I
sat bo; when suddenly I thought I
heard a scratching. I did Lear a
scratching and a thumping at the door,
and it drove all the blood to my heart.
My fiist idea, yes, actually, my first
idea was of wolves, but in the next
breath I thougLt of Jo staggering up
and falling there, too tired to speak.
And then there came a yelp and a baik
that I knew Bose ! Then Jo must be
close behind 1 And I flung the baby
on the bed, and sprang to the door and
threw it open, and the dog bounded in
and bounded upon me, covering me all
over with the powdery snow as I peered
out beyond him. I called, I shouted
nothing replied. I went outside the
door, and found it had stopped snow
ing ; it was too cold to snow ; but the
wind still blew a hurricane, and the
night was black. And despair seized
me.
But the dog ran into the hut, and ran
out again, plunging into the snow, and
barking, and returning to me and
catching my gown and trying to draw
me on, and running off again and
bounding back. " Oh, it s lust as I
knew it was !" I screamed. " They're
lost in the snow, and the dog has come
to tell me. What shall I do ! what shall
I do !" And I ran in, and Bose after
me, prancing around the room, and
barking so that he woke the baby, who
had to be nursed off to sleep again.
liut while 1 was doing that 1 was
trying, too, to calm myself, and to
think if there was any help. There
wasn't a man in the neighborhood now
that could do anything, for both of the
Irvings had gone to Ossipee, and James
Harris had broken his leg, and would
have been of no more use than a wet
rag, if he hadn't, and Mr. Marsh was
down with a fever, and Dean and Bishop
were with Jo. There was nobody but
Sorrel and Bose and I. Could we do
anything ? Could Bose lead back the
way ? He was nothing but a common
farm dog, but he knew more than James
Harris did any day. I got the little
lantern and lighted it, and tied it to the
dog s collar, and ho held fo still I knew
he understood me, and then he went
and waited beside tho door, looking
round for me impatiently, with now
and then a whine.
But what was I to do with the baby ?
I couldn't leave him there to starve, if
I never came back. I broke out crying
again at the thought, as much of a baby
as he. I must take him with me. I
lighted the other lantern, and went into
lean-to, and put the man's saddle on
Sorrel, and strapped it with all my
strength ; and he turned his large eyes
on me, as if he, too, knew what it was
all about, and held down his head for
me to bridle him ; aud I tied a little
bundle of kindlings on the back of the
saddle, and put the hatchet into one of
the holster pockets.
And then I came back and rolled up
the legs of a pair of Jo's trowsers, and
got them on over my own cowhide
boots, and hurried into my warm jacket
and cloak and hood; and I wrapped
the baby in layer over layer of my rob
roy, lraving the least litth? crack of a
breathing hole, with a vail over that,
and bound him to me, under my cloak,
with my long boa, for fear my arms
should get numb; and I put the tinder
box in my bosom, and slung over my
back the apple-toddy jug, tlAit was al
most too hot to touch, and wrapped up
a hot henrth-stone in a newspaper with
Jo's other trowsers to hold under the
baby, and she found it warm against I
found anybody. And I went out and
brought Sorrel round, and, laden as I
was, I climbed upon the horse-block,
and from that to Sorrel's back I don't
know how, I'm sure by force of sheer
desperation, I suppose; and Bose went
yelping and jumping down the hill be
fore me with the little lantern, but the
wind blew my lantern out in a minute.
What a wind it was ! bitterer than that
wind upon the mountain-top, it was so
black and fierce. I couldn't have
breathed if it had been iu my face, and
I Ladu't thought it was going down a
little. Oh, I suppose I couldn't have
gone at all if I hadn't felt it was worse
death to stay, and there was just one
chance in going. Twenty years later
it made cold chills creep up my back to
think of that night's ride; but then I
was like an old she-bear fighting for her
young. I clung to Sorrel with my
knees it was all I could do, loaded
down so, to keep on at all but then the
wind was certainly falling; and I gave
him the reins, knowing he would follow
liose, and grasped the pommel with
one hand and the baby with tho other,
and, wild and half frantic as I was,
pushed on. But, oh, it was too terri
ble !
I could not see an inch before me ;
but Bose had crossed the ford, I
guessed tho ice Lad broken up once.
and even in this storm could hardly
have frozen solid again, and I drew up
my feet to save them dry. But there
was no sound of ice or water either ;
and Bose's lantern went swinging on
ahead, and I kept looking for the ford.
aud wouderitlg that we didn't come to
it ; and I turned to look behind me
for I felt as if wo must be going up the
opposite hill, and there, late as it was.
was the light iu Mrs. Bishop's window
she anxious, I suppose, as I ; and
and then it rushed over me that we Lad
crossed tLe river not by the ford Sor
rel always did hate a ford but we had
come across on that single stringer, a
beam ten incbes sqnare ten feet above
the water ! Though it was over, it
made me turn faint and shut my eyes ;
and I had to take myself to task to
conquer it. And when I opened my
eyes, there was Bose's lantern leaving
the main highway, and making, I
imagined, for the Marshall s woods
ves. certainly it was the old rutted
road, as wen as one couiu ten lor me
blowing snow,
they had tried
short-cut.
jow it was plain that
to come Lome by the
It was easier getting along in the
woods, for the drift was little, and the
wind, that had cut me through like a
knife, wat shut off ; and after I got up
beyond, with Bose's bark and Bose's
lantern still before mo, there was
scarcely any wind at all. only a piera
ing cold. I could not see Sorrel's head;
I felt that we were going between faces
of mighty rock, now picking our slow
way over a sheet of ice, now over the
bare rock, now wallowing in a drift, and
whether there was a precipice or a pool
within a foot of us I could not tell, for
all the horrid way was new to me. And
by-and-by the passage seemed to widen;
L fancied it was not quite so inky ; i
looked up. and saw a star hanging on
the edge of a Luge shadow, as if tLe
mountain held it out ; and I took heart
and began to call, loud as ever I could,
for Jo, and only the echoes answered
back to me.
1 don t know, but I think, that in
the cold and the excitement and all,
must have been losing my Lead to sup
pose that the ecLoes were making such
an ado over my baby, for I began to
clutch him closer, with some fancy that
all these creatures were flocking round
me, when we came out upon a high
and open field ; and a rack of clond
was sinking down between two lulls,
and all the rest of the Leavens was just
one frosty sparkle, and Bose was sitting
on Lis haunches, baying at some dark
obiect in the field. " Eh ? what r said
a dull and muflled voice.
"Oh, Jo ! Jo!"
" Sue ?" said the sleepy voice, and
didu't say any more.
And I was off of that horse in a twink
ling, and Lad the cork twisted out of
the jug, and the apple-toddy pouring
down Jo s throat, and the hearth-stone
in his lap; and I unwound the boa, and
laid the baby down in his arms, and
then ran and shook Bishop the Deans
had wisely staid at Marshall's and
poured the apple-toddydown his throat,
aud was back, rubbing Jo with snow,
breaking the thills of the sled with the
hatchet, putting my old newspaper and
kindlings together with the broken
pieces, and striking a spark and getting
a blaze going between them. And by
that time I had roused them both, and
set them to moving briskly as they
could; and I gathered, bit by bit, that
their horse for they had left the other
for the Deans had broken his leg, and
that, despairing of reaching home, they
had dispatched him, and rolled them
selves in their bufl'alo-robes between his
legs to get the warmth of his body, aud
that had 311st Kept tuem anve.
Well, they were still torpid and
stupid; but I flipped off the trowsers I
had on, and made Jo put them on over
his, and gave Bishop the other pair, and
took the baby and climbed back on
Sorrel. And I wouldn't give them any
more apple-toddy, but made them walk
each at one side of Sorrel's nose, Bose
barking enough to split the welkin, and
curveting and galloping on before.
And if it was hard coming out, it was
ten times worse going back. I had two
men half dead to keep alive, half crazed
to hold steady. They wanted to lie
down, but I knew they must have mo
tion ; the wanted the apple toddy, till
threw the jug down a gully, and they
heard it crack and splinter on the
stones. I wasn't afraid any longer, for
it was clear starlight, aud though I
could see the dreadful edges by which
I had come, I couldn t stop to fear ; I
felt the weight of these twolheson
my bauds ; I talked to them, and made
them answer ; I made them step quickly
benumbed and dazed as they were,
they had sense enough to mind me. I
leaned forward and held the shoulder
of the outer one as he tottered on some
steep brink or slipped on a glare of
ice. And with Heaven's help we got
through the place of the echoes, and
through the wood, and over the ford at
last, and up the hill, and into the
cabin. And there sat Mrs. Bishop, who
had found her way over as soon as the
storm cleared, and had staid, half hop
ing, half despairing, but keeping the
fire bright.
But alter we made our husbands as
comfortable as we could, Jo wouldn't
rest till I came and sat down and held
his hand. "You saved my life, my
darling," ho kept whispering, " my
little mountain girl, my little heart of
oak !"
" Me and Bose," said I.
"And the trowsers," said Jo. "I
think," he said, drowsily, "the trowsers
put the courage " and he was asleep
in the middle of his sentence. Bishop
had been sound as a log long before.
So then I stole away, and gave Sorrel
such a tub of mash as he remembered
to his dying day.
When the Bishops went home next
morning I went to bed myself, and had
a fit of sickness, and Jo sent me down
to the salt-water, with the baby, to get
over it. You never saw snob, a fuss as
mother and the girls made over that
baby you really would have thought
there never was one before. " It's the
first of it's kind," Baid Jo, when I told
him. And when we came back there
was the frame house built that we're sit
ting in to-day, for the whole settlement
had turned to and helped. It's old, you
see, and the times have stepped ahead
of it, but every plank in it is dear to
me.
"I hope you'll be happier here now,
dear bue, said Jo,
"I never, never shall be anything
but happy again," said I ; "for I know
what it was without the baby, and
know what it would be without you 1"
And the mountains ? Oh, asforthem,
I never could feel, after that ride, that
they were anything but a part ot my
self. They were part of my suffering
aud of my joy that dreadful night; they
helped me on and cheered me with the
airy voices that they lent, and I love
them, and shall lie down to my sleep
securely under their shadow. Still, it's
strange that whenever 1 nave a night'
mare all that old trouble of my youth
rises again, and There s Jo, now !
Look at him, so upright and stalwart,
with his white head and his blue eye !
That's a mountaineer's own tread, bo
lithe and light ! He's a better man than
either of his sons to-day, young as ever
he was, my Jo, and as tun of his mis
chief for to the present time, do you
know, he teases me about those trowsers.
What They Wore.
A gentleman who was present at the
recent royal marriage in Russia alludes
to the three princesses as a remarkable
trio one the future Uueenof Eugland,
another, her sister, the future Empress
of Russia, aud the third, the sister-in
law of the first, the future Empress of
Germany. The faces of all three ex'
pressed gentleness, intelligence, and
refinement. The Grand Duchess Marie
wore a dress of silver, heavily embroid
ered, and from her shoulders hung
train of claret-colored velvet, lined and
edged with ermine. On her head was a
tiara and a small crown of diamonds
from which Lung a point lace veil; on
her neck the largest diamond necklace
iu Russia, .composed of large perfect
diamonds, each with a large drop at
tached, the whole valued at twenty mil
lions of dollars. The front of her waist
was covered with diamonds, and down
the fiont of her dress were rows of
pearls. The bridegroom wore the uni
form of a Russian offioer. The dress
and train of the Empress were of gold
rtlfifli Vi aw tinwa nn1 lantila annrliivaa an1
cloth, her tiara and jewels sapphires and
diamonds. The crown princesses wore
velvet trains embroidered in gold, and
their jewels were only surpassed by
those of the bride."
Ashantee Horrors.
A Captive' Btorr of Mlnnghtera In Coo
massie. The special correspondent of the Lou
don Daily Keivs in Ashantee thus sum
marizes the reports brought to the Eng
lish camp by Mr. Knehne, one of the
missionaries released by King Koffee:
Mr. Knehne's description of the
scenes daily occurring in Coomassie
pass all belief in their horror. Mr.
Kuehne says that no day passes with
out slaughter in the streets of innocent
slaves and freedmen. He speaks of it
as a common incident to be sitting in
the doorway, or walking in the street,
or looking on at some spectacle, when
the next man is suddenly seized by exe
cutioners, who run a knife through his
mouth, from cheek to cheek, so that he
may never speak again. He refused
ever to witness the horrible orgies, but
it was impossible to avoid seeing the
dead bodies which are left daily to lie
in tho streets, while the pigs feed on
them in the public thoroughfare, drag
ging them about with every conceivable
effect of horror and indecency. There
is one huge charnel-house, or block,
over which, for ages, the vultures have
never ceased to hover and to swoop
down into. The stench of this is so
fearful as to make passage withiu a very
considerable distance of it almost unen
durable. Here the great sacrifices are
made, as many as 200 at a time having
been recently put to death within it in
one day. Altogether independently of
these sacrifices daily on a small scale,
frequent on a grand one, excuses for
slaughter are never wanting. There is
a certain place where each of the past
Kings of Ashantee has a room, and
where daily food is placed for them,
Into the actual presence ot the skeie-
tons of tho Kings no one but the King
himself ever enters. But it constantly
occurs that the wretched mud roof of
some one of these chambers tumbles in
Then the King himself goes down with
the necessary laborers, ami sees it re
paired. All'besides the King who have
thus been there are slaughtered. There
are a variety of duties of this kind
which, as soon as performed under or
der, entail death on the workers. Mr,
Kuehne speaks of these as of daily inei
dents, tlwuerh. of course, there are mo
mentarv lulls, and the degreo to which
they are done at different times differs
immensely. When spirits have to pe
exorcised, the plan is to take small
children tie them up in cloth, and drag
them through the streets all day. As a
rule the great obiect is that no victims
shall die before the evening. In the
case of great criminals the man is fast
ened through the cheeks, as already
mentioned, ropes are attached to the
two ends of the knife, and executioners
proceed to slash his flesh with knives all
day, with the understanding that if the
victim dies betore the evening tne exe
cutioner is put to death. The ordinary
victims are simply left to endure the
agony of the knife through the cheeks,
sitting in a room till nightfall. Women
and men appear to be taken for these
purposes about equally, except that the
woman is rather the more valuable ani
mal to her master, being both a better
worker and useful in other ways, and
therefore when slaves are given for sac
riflce the men are more often handed
over. The population appears to con
sist in about equal parts of Ashantees
and of slaves, with a few freedmen,
whoso condition does not differ much
from the slaves. It is on the slave pop
illation that the greater part of the
slaughter falls, and as they are con
stantly recruited by all sorts of devices
from surrounding tribes.the diminution
of numbers is not so rapid perhaps as
such a system would imply. At tht
time when Mr. Kuehne was captured
Ado Boofoo was nominally in negotia
tion with some friendly tribe ot Cree
pees as to the number of men they were
to furnish the King with for war pur
poses. He called them to consult with
him, and Laving got them into his power
drove all of them, with all their women
and children, before him to Coomassie,
nominally that the "palaver might be
settled before the King." All, to the
estimated number of 5,000, have since
been made slaves or have been slaugh
tered. Though the slaves suffer most
from the mere sacrifices, and are par
tially replaced, there is a most minute
system of ordinances decreed by the
King, which make almost any man in
Coomassie liable to be treated as a
criminal at almost any moment. Crimi
nals so brought before the King, even
it for a moment pardoned, the offense
being Blight, are put aside or else
merely noted for execution when the
King next wishes for victims for the
sacrifices who are of Ashantee blood.
Thus the slaughter iu the course of the
year of pure-blood Ashantees alone is
considerable, and taken together with
the incessant wars, would account for
almost any diminution of population.
For the last year all the pure Ashantee
males have been absent.
Daubury cws Notes.
What this country needs is more
fences or less medicines.
Second-hand maple-sugar in market.
The early bird has arrived, and is
hopping from twig to twig with a sore
throat and a pain in the back.
If banks were kept open through the
night what immense deposits they
would receive. To have a ten-thousand-dollar
dream after the bank closes and
to awake before it opens is one of the
exquisite tortures of life.
Owing to the abandonment of tLe fe
male Loops, and the lengthening of the
female white skirt, the condition of the
pavements is unusually goad for this
season.
Courting receives a fresh impetus
from the advent of maple-sugar.
Twenty-five cents worth of maple-sugar
will go farther than two dollars worth
of candies.
The Secretary of the Treasury sells
$3,000,000 in gold this month. We ad
vise our readers to be on hand at this
sale.
our correspondent ana the corre-
spondent of another paper Lad a per-
. nnnul a 11 sistrm i rt Wautiinnrnn a 4a
sonal encounter in Washington, a few
days ago. While we must deplore an
exhibition of such a nature by gentle
men, still we feel glad that our corre
spondent licked. -
Robbery by Burglars.
A Prosperons Trade Carried on by the
Rascals.
In spite of the capture and convio
tion of the " masked burglars," says
the New York Times, the winter cam
paign of the thieving fraternity ap
pears to be progressing in and about
New York with unabated vigor. Nine
houses on one block in Jersey City
were entered and ransacked in succes
sion, without leaving any clue to the
robbers. On the same morning, in
Newark, three houses were in like man
ner broken into and robbed. The roads
of Queens County are rendered unsafe
after dark, and sometimes in daylight,
by desperate bands of highwaymen.
A farmer returning from Brooklyn,
where ho had sold a wagon load of pro
duce, was set upon by a party 01 mass
ed men, who demanded his money, of
which he had a considerable sum about
him, or his life. They were finally put
to flight by tho opportune intervention
of some laborers, attracted thithci by
the cries of their intended viotim, but
not until they had beaten him severely.
In the upper part of New lork city
a number of organized house-breakers
and sneak thieves are at work with a
success and impunity neither comfort
ing to the public nor creditable to the
police. Three houses at Harlem were
robbed of property amounting to sev
eral hundreds of dollars in silverware
and jewels. Only a short time previ
ously, several dwellings in or near
Fifty-fifth street were similarly served.
In one instance a lady sitting m her
parlor reading one evening was sud
denly startled by the appearance of a
masked face thrust into the room, and
as suddenly withdrawn. A policemau,
summoned to the spot by the aid of the
district telegraph, failed to find any
trace of the mysterious mask or his
confederates beyond the evident signs
of their entrance by prying open the
basement door. The servants being up
stairs, failed to hear them.
The most noticeable thing about these
depredations is the systematic manner
in which they are conducted. The
plunderable part of the city appears to
be mapped out in districts, each of
which is carefully ransacked before
another is entered on. One robbery in
another quarter is generally followed
oy several others in the same immediate
neighborhood. Sometimes an eutire
street appears to be " gone through
before beginning upon another. The
continual repetition of this course of
events indicates thorough organization
and carefully-matured plans, and it
also proves most painfully the incom
petency of our police, who show them
selves utterly unable to cope with these
rascals.
Another point to be noticed is that
these city robberies are for the most part
confined to tho daytime or the early
evening. A time is selected when the
family is at some meal down stairs ; an
entrance is effected through the scuttle
if there be an unoccupied house on the
block ; not unfrequently after duck in
warm weather by clambering in an open
secoud story window. The iron porti
coes over the hall doors of many houses,
or the trellised vines running up the
front, afford ample facilities for an
active burglar. The peculiar constrc
tion of our " high-stoop " houses, es
pecially where, as is often the case, the
front basement is used as a dining
room, favors greatly these modes of
entrance. At other times, a moment is
chosen when the male members of the
family are known to be absent, and the
servants up stairs, when an experienced
burglar lets himself in through a lower
door or window as easily as though it
stood ope n.
Tho Locomotive Engineers.
Charles Wilson, late Grand Chief of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
neers, publishes a letter in the papers
denouncing the action taken by the con
vention held at Cleveland, in not per
mitting him to make a defense, but con
demning and compelling his immediate
resignation because he opposed the
striking policy. Ho says that delegates
were admitted to the convention who
had been guilty of gross misconduct in
the late strikes, while one delegate was
admitted from a division which retaius
a striker who was guilty of misplaeiug
a switch so as to throw a passenger
train rom tho track. Railroad officials
who have always treated the men kindly
were denounced in no mild terms by
the convention. He concludes as fol
lows: " Before the strike the brother
hood received the cordial support of
thousands of the best men in Canada
and the United States, but now all is
changed. A number of subdivisions.
with a large number of members, have
entirely disregarded the most sacred
rules of the brotherhood and all their
protestations made to their friends
Binco they were first organized. They
have forfeited every claim to the confi
dence of everybody by entirely ignoring
all their previous promises, and now
they assume a suspicious attitude by
instituting a secret policy that will
surely prove ruinous to the best inter
ests of all concerned. No declaration
of good intentions will now avail any
thing after such flagrant violations of
all previous rules and promises. Sin
cerely regretting the condition our
once-powerful organization is placed
in, and not being willing to share the
responsibility of a final disgrace and
failure, I have applied to my division
for a final withdrawal. J. am aware
that there are a large number of di
visions that do not approve of the
strike, or of any change in the policy
of the organization. To , my mind,
there is only one way that a division or
member can save their honor, and that
is to withdraw from the demoralized
brotherhood and organize a new society
that will Lave for its guide, first and
last, justice and Lonor."
Funny. One of the funniest things
in Nature is a council of fashionable
youths over a new coat just brought
home. The inspection of the cloth,
bindings, and distance of buttons, anx
ious examination if the shoulders are
wide enough, the patting in the back
and walking off in suspense to decide
the final question whether the " tails
split," are enough to set a woman off in
unextinguishable laughter.
Something About the Spring Styles.
Artificial fruit will trim the coming
bonnet. .
The spring bonnet and hat are al
most the same.
A pink tinted gauze veil is now quite
fashionable.
Scant skirts are slowly but surely go
ing out of style.
The same outside dress pocket Las
proved a great success.
Spring sun shades are of moderate
size and very handsome.
Blue, purple, gray, fawn, brown, and
lilao will be the fashionable spring and
summer colors.
Instead of a braid the ladies wear a
bunch of curls at the back of the head.
This is the latest style.
Charlotte Coiday will be one of the
leading shapes in straw bonnets. They
trim very handsomely.
Long ear rings are again in lasnion,
and some new and exceedingly hand
some designs are exhibited.
Sealskin and feathers are being
gradually laid aside (as warm weather
draws near) for another winter.
Jierthas are all the rage. ine nanu
somest are lace, aud appear to fine ad
vantage over a light silk.
Very long train dresses are entirely
out of fashion even for full dress oc
casions. The demi train is the rule.
Striped materials are destined to be
all the rago for spring suits intended
for street wear; also dotted dress goods.
Spring promenade skirts will just
touch behind, and be sufficiently short
in front to show the boots. The loop
ing up at the back will be extraordina
ry. Round waists, with little coat tails
and points in front, will be the style
for spring suits, with the new tight-fitting,
double-cuff sleeve.
The rediugote, as first introduced, is
almost entirely out of fashion. Eco
nomical matrons say it consumed too
much valuable material.
Flowers will be the chief ornament
of the new bonnet. Where the bonnet
turns up at the side will be planted a
hiiffe artificial flower garden.
Brown linen traveling costumes are
shown for tho summer season. They
come ready made, and cau be worn
over any ordinary street dress.
ljace scans are much worn, and so
long that they come almost to the bot
tom of the dress. Brussels net appears
to be the most fashionable.
Large gros grain bows will take the
place of scant neckties among the de
moiselles. Dame Fashion says the
larger they are made the better.
Vests continue in popularity among
ladies who fain would emulate the men
iu matter of dress. They are made of
silk, and are very pretty and effective,
A Desperado Hanged.
Sid Wallace, the notorious desperado,
was executed at Clarksville, Ark. His
neck was broken by the fall, but his
pulse continued to beat for twenty
minutes afterward. About thirty mm
utes after the drop fell life was pro
nounced extiuct, and the body was cut
down aud given in charge to his mother.
The culprit, who retained his compo
sure to the last, said he would make no
confession to man, but had confessed
to God. He died, ho said, in self-de
fense. and in defense of his friends, and
wished he had a dozen lives to sacrifice
for the same puipose. The arrange
ments for the execution were complete.
The town was well policed and guard
ed, and no attempt was made to rescue
the prisoner. Wallace was considered
to be a great desperado, and is believed
to have committed six murders in all,
His mother advised him to die game,
saying that she had two more sons to
figbt, and after they were gone she
would take up the fight herself.
Keeping Sunday.
A bill wa3 introduced into the New
York Legislature by Mr. Scberman to
amend tLe act in reference to the
servauce of Sunday. It provides :
ob
Section 1. Wo person or persons
society or corporation, shall be pre
vented or prohibited from keeping open
on the first day of the week, commonly
called Sunday, and lawful places of
amusement or entertainment, or from
carrying on at said place any business
for which the same is licensed, except
as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 2. No such place of amusement
entertainment situated within one
block of any church or other house of
worship shall remain onen during the
hours of Divine service in said church
or house of worship, or for half an hour
before the commencement of or after
the conclusion of said service.
Forgiven.
The Louisville Courier-Journal con
tains a long and double-leaded notice
of the death of Charles Sumner. Among
other things it says: " Fifteen years
ago, the news that Charles Sumnr was
dead, would have been received with
something like rejoicing by the people
of the South ; ten years ago, they
would have hailed it as a message from
Heaven, telling them that an enemy
had been removed from the face of the
earth. To-day, they will read it re
gretfully, and their comment will be,
lie was a great man, no was an nonest
man ; as he has forgiven us, so Lave we
long ago forgiven him.' " ,
Butter Patents. There are now
patented about half a dozen processes of
making butter from fat, tallow, and
substances other than the old-fashioned
cream which used to rise in our grand
mothers dairies on the top of genuiue
cow's milk. There are also several
methods of making butter from the
whey remaining after the manufacture
of cheese, as well as processes by which
bad butter is refined and purified, and
made as good as new, or better. But it
is a blessing that we don't always know
what we are eating.
Chime. The great majority of crimes
are committed between the hours of ten
at night and three in the morning. The
chief of the New York police recently
said that if every plaoe where liquor is
sold in the city were rigorously closed
at ten o'clock at night, one-half the
police force might be dismissed.
Items of Interest.
Anti-gamblist is the latest " ist."
The Governor of Minnesota doesn t
want his salary raised.
A proposition i3 before the French
Assembly to impose a tax of twenty
cents on men's hats.
" Uarl Schnrz has a voice like a wind
sighing through sugar cane," says a
Washington correspondent.
The Cincinnati Knquirer offers to
bet 8500 that no fashionable lady ever
goes to bed without first looking in the
glass.
In England recently a man attending
the funeral of his father was arrested
for au offense committed fourteen years
previously.
An undertaker s shop in Philadelphia
reoeutly bore the following cheering in
scription : "Gone for a dead man
back soon."
The Snnremo Court of Mississippi
has aflimred the legitimacy of children
born of marriages between white and
colored persons.
It is believed that the bottom price
of rails is reached. The railroad com
panies now contract for rails at gG0tto
03 at the mills.
The handkerchiefs, over which there
has been such a furore for neckware,
are going out rapidly. Windsor ties
aie taking their placo.
It is a rule of eticiuette in Arkansas
that no true gentleman will eat with his
leg thrown over the back of his neigh
bors chair, if he can help it.
Tho New Orleans City Railroad re
cently sunk in the river a bag contain
ing 17,000 counterfeit nickel coins, the
returns of one year's business.'
When women war against rum and
beer, and close for aye each drinking
place ; then shall the salty, silent tear
roll down each lunch-nenci s iace.
It was a western landlord who posted
the notice in his dining-room that mem
bers of the Legislature would be first
seated, and afterwards the gentlemen.
The majority of the hands on Texas
ranches are Mexicans, who are good
and steady workers. A Mexican will
not allow his wife or daughter to work.
Rector's daughter (to Sunday scholar)
" Oh, you have an elder brother j
how old is he ?" Schoolboy" Dunno,
miss, but lie's just started o' swear
ing."
The Man with Two Wives is said
to be a " drama of great domestio in
terest." That may be, but it must cer
tainly bo without any domestio prin
ciple. Put this down to the credit of mm.
A man in Wisconsin went home to whip
his wife, and was so drunk that he fell
through the cellar stairway and broke
his neck.
The Maryland Legislature has
made it unlawful for children under
sixteen years of age to engage for more
than ton hours out of twenty-four in
factory labor.
Texas has two n6w legal holidays,
the 2d of March and tho 21st of April.
The first is the anniversary of Texas in
dependence, and the second that 01 the
battle of San Jacinto.
Experiments made upon a healthy
soldier in London go to show that alco
hol is useless in a state of health, and
absolutely injurious in larger quanti
ties than two ounces daily.
The once formidable New Zealand
chief To Kpoti has become physically
a wreck through continued drunken
ness, and 'pleads for liberty to settle
where he " can have eels and rum."
We have had almost every shape of
parasols, and now wo are informed they
are to be fiat, a la Japanese, and so in
expensive that numbers can bo owned,
to match every costume. Just this of
it I
It is surprising how much it takes to
make a man happy. There is a man in
Indiana who is now living with his fifth
wife, seventeen children, and three
mother-in-law. And still he is not
happy !
Mr. Brady, who after the chief offi
cers of the Pennsylvania had been
swept overboard by a heavy sea took
command of the ship and brought her
safely into port, has been appointed her
captain.
A number of physicians and others
are being prosecuted in England for at
tempting to defraud a life insurance
company by obtaining policies unknown
to the persons whose lives they sought
to insure.
Peter Macnally, a lame Dublin attor
ney, wanted to be enrolled in a volun
teer crops. "You'd never do, Peter,"
said the officer to whom be applied for
admission ; "the more we told you to
march, the more you'd halt."
TLe Maryland State Grange requests
manufacturers and dealers in agricul
tural and farming implements of all
kinds to discontinue the practice of de
manding exorbitant pay for separate
pieces or parts of such, when needed
for repairs.
There is a difficult gentleman in Kal
amazoo, Mich., who reiuses to pay 111s
school tax. He takes the ground that
schools have no right to teach any lan
guage save the English, and that when
French and Latin are taught nobody is
obliged to pay any part of the expense.
" If you don't see what you want, ask
for it, is posted up in a conspicuous
place in a Logansport grocery. A na
tive stepped into tLe establishment last
week. He saw the card and remarked :
"I want a ten-dollar bill, and don t see
it." " Neither do I, was the lacomo
reply."
The British Society of Arts offers its
gold medal or $100 for the best "revo
lution indicator. 11 musi oe capauie
of showing the number of revolutions
marine engines are making, at any
hour of the day or night, without the
necessity of counting or comparing with
a watch.
According to the Greensburg (Pa.)
Argus, John Keller, of Unity, Las dis
covered where the potato bug lives in
the winter. Grubbing on a piece of
land the other day, he unearthed count
less thousands, very fat and equally
healthy, and all ready for the summer
campaign.