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On the Channel-Boat.
“ What! Fred, you here? I didn’t aee
Yon come abom and at Dover.
I met the Browns last week : they said
That you were coming over,
But didn’t say how soon.”
“Oh, yes,
I came by the Britannic;
And what a rash tljere were lor berths '
’Twas almost like a panic.
I’m mighty glad to meet you, Will:
Where are you going ?’’
“ Paris.' 1
“ Good ! so am I. I’ve got to meet
My cousin, Charley Harris,
To-morrow. He and I have planned
A little trip together
Through Switzerland on foot; I hope
We’ll have some decent weather.”
“ lake care there ! hold your hat : it blows.'
“ Yes; he w this steamer tosses !
I’m never seasick: Charlie is,
1 hough, every time he crosses.
Whoh with you, Will*”
“ I m traveling with
My sister and my mother:
They’re both below. I came on deck:
It’s close enough to smother
Down there. These chaps don’t care a snap
For ventiliation, hang ’em !
Where did you stop in London? We
Were stopping at the Langham.”
You were ? Why, so was I. But then
I only got there Sunday
At break Plot time, and went away
The afternoon of Monday;
And yet within that short sojourn
I lost ray heart completely:
Such style ! such eyes ! such rosy cheeks !
Such lips that smiled so sweetly !
I only saw her twice, and then—
Don’t laugh—'twas at a distance;
But, Will, my boy, 1 tell you what,
In all my blest existence
I ne’er before set eyes upon
A girl so really splemliA.
But, pshaw ! I couldn’t stay, and so
My short-lived visions ended.
I don’t suppose she’ll ever know
How I, a stranger, love her,”
“Who was she, Fred?”
“ Ah ! that’s just it:
1 couldn’t e'en discover
Her name, or anything at all
About her, Broken-hearted,
I saw it wasn’t any use
To try; ao ofl'l started,
Aud here I am, disconsolate.”
“ All for an unknown charmer T
Your’re solt, my boy. Let’s stroll abalt:
The sea is growingealmer;
Or forward, it you like. The view
May make your leelings rally.
We’re drawing near to France, in hull
An hour shall he ut Calais.
Bee! there’s the town, and, just this side
The port wilh shipping in it;
And, there, beyond, you see the spires,
And ”
“ Here, Will, stop a minute.
By Jove 1 look there ! that girl in gray,
With red flowers in her bonnet !
I do declare—l—yes—it’s she:
I'd take iny oath upon it.
What luck ! It 1 had only known !
How can it he I missed her?
Look ! here she comes !”
“Why, Fred, you 100 l !
That girl in gray's my sister !”
Geo. Collin, in i.ippincott.
FOUND ON THE TRACK.
Wet and dreary. It is midwinter: the
scene is Kirklington, on the London and
Northwestern: the time 10.45; just after
the night mail has flashed through with
out stopping, bound for Liverpool and
the North. The railway officials— points
men, signalmen, porters, platelayers—
are collecting preparatory to going off
duty for the night.
“Where’s Dan?” :tsks one of the
crowd upon the platform.
“I saw him in the hut just after the
10.45 went through. Can’t have come
to any harm, surely.”
“No; he said he’d seen something
drop front the train, and he went down
the line to pick it lip.”
And Dan had picked up something.
It was a basket —a common white
wicker basket—with -ilid fastened down
by a string. What did it contain?
Refreshments? Dirty clothes? What?
A baby! a child half a dozen weeks
old. no more; a pink and white piece of
human china as fragile as Dresden and
as delicately fashioned and tinted as bis
cuit or Rose Pompadour.
“Where did you come across it?”
asked one.
“ Wins. oll the lino, just where it fell.
I or naps it didn't fall; perhaps it was
chunked out. What matter? I’ve got
it and got to look after it; that’s enough
for me. Some day maybe I’ll eonie
across them as owns it, and then thev
shall pay me and take it back.”
"Is there nothing about him? Turn
him over.”
1 he little mite’s linen was white and
of tine material, hut he lay upon an old
s n l "I au ? 1 k’ w bits 01 dirty flannel.
Ail they found was a dilapidated purse
—a common snaploek hag-purse of faded
brown leather. Inside was a brass
thimble, a pawn ticket and the half of a
Hank of England note for £IOO.
good's half a bank note to
you?
“ Half a loafs better than no bread.”
“ Yes; but you can eat one, but you
cant pass the other. Won’t you catch
it from your wife! How’ll vou face her
Dan? What'll she say?”
“She'll say I done quite right,” replied
Dan. stoutly. “She’s a good sort, God
bless her.”
“So an> you. Dan; that’s a fact. God
bless you, too.’ said more than one
rough voice' in softened accents. " Per
haps the child’ll bring you luck after
all.
* • • •
Winter-tide again six years later, but
this season is wet and slushy. Once
mere we areat Kirklington. a long strag
gling village, which might have slum
p'd on in obscurity forever had not the
Northwestern line been earned close by
it, to give it a place in Bradshaw and a
certain importance as a junction and cen
ter for goods traffic. But the activity
was all about the station. All the per
manent officials had houses and cottages
there: in the village lived only the field
laborers who worked at the neighbor
ing estate, or sometimes lent their hand
for a job of navvying on the line. These
poor folk laid a gruesome life of it, a hard
hand-to-mouth struggle for bare exis
tence against perpetual privation, ac
companied by unremitting toil.
Anew parson—Harold Treffry—had
come lately to Kirklington. lie was an
earnest, energetic young man. who had
won his spurs in the East End parish,
and had now accepted this country liv
ing because it seemed to open up anew
field 1 ‘ usefulness. He had plunged
bravel> into the midst of his worn; he
was forever going up and down among
his parishioners, solacing and comfort
ing. preaching manful endurance and
trustfulness to all.
He is now paying round of parochial
visits, accompanied by an old college
chum, who is spec ing some days with
him.
“Yonder. - ’said Treffry, pointing to a
thin thread of smoke which roae from
some gaunt trees into the sullen wintry
air, “yonder is the house—if, indeed, it
deserves so grard a tame —the hovel,
rather, of one whose ease is the hardest
ef all the hard one* in my unhappy cure.
Oglethorpe Echo.
Bv T. L. GANTT.
This man is a mere hedger and ditcher,
one who works for any master, most
often for the railway, but who is never
certain of a job all the year round. He
has a swarm of young children, and he
has just lost his wife. He is absolutely
prostrated; aghast, probably, at the
future before him, and his utter inca
pacity to do his duty by his motherless
little ones. Jack!” said the parson,
stopping short suddenly, and looking
straight into his companions face, “ I
wonder whether you could rouse him?
If you could only get him to make a sign;
to cry or laugh or take the smallest in
terest in common affairs. Jack, I be
lieve you’re the very man. You might
get at him through the children?—that
marvelous hanky-panky of yours, those
surprising tricks; a child takes to you
naturally at once. Try and make friends
with these. Perhaps, when the father
sees them interested and amused, he may
warm a little, speak, perhaps, approve,
perhaps smile, and in the end give in.
Jack, will you try?”
Jack Newbiggin was by profession a
conveyancer, but nature ’ bad intended
him for anew Houdin, or a Wizard of
the North. He was more than half a
professional by the time lie was full
grown. In addition to thequick eye and
the facile wrist, he had the rarer gifts of
suave manner and the face of brass.
They entered the miserable dwelling
together. The children—eight of them
—were skirmishing all over the floor.
They were quite unmanageable, and be
yond the control of the eldest sister, who
was busied in setting out the table for the
mid-day meal; one otner child, of six or
seven, a bright-eyed, exceedingly beauti
ful boy, the least —were not nature’s va
garies well known—likely to be .born
among and belong to such surroundings,
stood between the legs of the man him
self, who bad his back to the visitors
and was crouching low over the scanty
tire. .
The man turned his head for a mo
ment, gave a blank stare, than an imper
ceptible nod, and once he glowered
down upon the fire.
“ Here, little ones, do you see this gen
tleman? he’s a conjuror. Know what a
conjuror is. Tommy?” cried the parson,
catching up a mite of four or five fiom
the floor. “ No, not you; nor you, Sarah ;
nor you, Jacky ’’—and he ran through all
their names.
They had now ceased their gambols,
and were staring hard at their visitors—
the moment was propitious; Jack New
biggin began. He bad fortunately filled
his pockets with nuts, oranges, and cakes
before leaving the parsonage, so he had
half his apparatus ready to hand.
The pretty boy had soon left the
father at the tire, and had come over to
join in the fun, going back, however, to
exhibit his share of the spoil and describe
voluminously what had occurred. This
and the rcDeated shouts of laughter
seemed to produce some impression on
him. Presently he looked over his
shoulder, and said—but without anima
tion—
“It be very good of you, sir, surely;
yerv good for to take so kindly to the
little chicks. It does them good to laugh
a bit, and it ain’t much as they’ve had to
make ’em lately.”
“It is good for all of us, now and
again, I take it,” said Jack, desisting,
and going toward him—the children"
gradually collecting in a far-off corner
and comparing notes.
“ You can’t laugh, sir, if your heart’s
heavy; if you do, it can be only a
sham.”
While lie was speaking he had taken
Ibe Bible from the shelf, and resuming
his seat, began to turn the leaves slowly
over.
“ I’m an untaught, rough countryman,
sir, but I have heard tell that these
strange tilings you do are only tricks;
ain’t it so?”
Here was, indeed, a liopefnl symptom!
He was roused, then, to take some in
terest in what had occurred.
“ All tricks, of course; it all comes of
iong practice,”said Jack, as he proceeded
io explain some of the simple processes,
hoping to enchain the man’s attention.
“That’s what I thought, sir, or I’d
have given you a job to do. I’ve been
in want of a real conjuror many a long
day, and nothing less’ll do. See here,
sir,” he said, as lie took a small, eare
fully-paper from between the leaves of
the Bible; “do you see this?”
It was half a Bank of England note for
£IOO.
“ Now, sir, could any conjuror help
me to the other halt?”
“How did you come by it?” Jack
asked at once.
“ I’ll tell you. sir, short as I can make
it. Conjuror or no conjuror, you’ve got
a kindly heart, and I’m main sure that
you’ll help me if you can.”
Dan then described how lie bad picked
up the basket from the 10.45 Liverpool
express.
“There was the linen; I’ve kept it.
See here; ail marked quite pretty and
proper, with lace around the edges, as
though its mother loved to make the
little one smart.”
Jack examined the linen; it bore a
monogram and crest. The first he made
but to mean 11. L. M.; and the crest was
plainly two hammers crossed, and the
motto, “I strike”—not a common crest
—and he never remembered to have seen
it before.
“ And this was all?”
“’Copt the banknote. That was in a
poor old purse, with a pawn ticket and
1 thimble. I kept them all.”
Like a true detective. Jack examined
every article minutely. The purse bore
tlie name of Hester Gorrigan, in rude
letters inside, and the pawn ticket was
made out in the same name.
“ I cannot give you much hope that I
shall succeed, but I will do my best.
Will you trust me with the note for a
time?”
“Surely, sir, with the greatest of
pleasure. If you could but find the other
half, it would give Harry—that's what
we call him—such a grand start in life;
schooling and the price of binding him
to some honest traae.”
Jack sl:ook the man’s hand and prom
ised to do his best, and left the cottage.
• ****
When Jack Newbiggin got back to the
parsonage he found that his host had ae
eepted an invitation for them both to
dine at the “ Big House,” as it was
called, the country seat of the squire of
the parish.
They were cordially received at the
“Big House.” Jack was handed over
fortliw ith to liis old friends, who figura
tively rushed into his arms. They were
Jondon aequaintanees. no more; "of the
sort we meet here and there and every
where during the season, who care for
us, and we for them, as much as for the
South Sea Islanders, but whom we greet
with rapturous effusion when we meet
them in a strange place. Jack knew the
lady whom he escorted into.dinner as a
i gossipy dame, who, when his back was
turned, made as much sport of him as of
| her other friends.
“ I have been fighting vour battles all
! day.” began Mrs. Sitwell.
“Was it necessary? I shculd have
; t hought myself tod insignificant.”
“They were talking at lunch of your
wonderful knack in conjuring, and some
| one said that the skill might prove in
-1 convenient—when you played cards, for
| instance.”
i “A charitable imputation! With
whom did it originate?’’
[ “ Sir Lewis Mallaby.”
“ Please point him out to me.”
He was shown a grave, scowling face
; upon the right of the hostess —a face like
■ a mask, its surface rough and wrinkled,
i through which the eyes shone out with
j baleful light, like corpse-candles in a
i sepulcher.
i “Pleasant creature! I’d rather not
j meet him alone on a dark night.”
j “He has a terrible charactog. cer
i tainly. Turned bis wife out of doors
, because she would not give him an heir.
; It is this want of children to inherit his
j title and estates which preys upon his
mind, they say, and makes him so
morose and melancholy.”
THE ONLY PAPER IN ONE OP THE LARGEST, MOST
Jack let his companion chatter on. It
was his habit to get all the information
possibleabout any company in which he
found himself for his own purposes as a
clairvoyant; and when Mrs. Sitwel
flagged, he plied her with questions, and
led her on from one person to another,
making mental notes to serve him here
after. It is thus by careful and labori
ous preparation that many of the strange
and seemingly mysterious feats of the
clairvoyant conjurer are performed.
When the whole party was assembled
in the drawing-room after dinner, a
chorus of voices, headed by that of the
hostess, summoned Jack to his work.
There appeared to be only one dissenti
ent, Sir Lewis Mallaby, who not only
did not trouble himself to back up the
invitation, but when the performance
was actually begun was at no pains to
conceal his contempt and disgust.
The conjuror made'the conventional
plum-pudding in a hat, tired wedding
rings into quartern loves, did all manner
of card tricks, knife tricks, pistol
tricks, and juggled on conscientiously
l ight through his repertoire. There was
never a smile on Sir Lewis’ face; he
sneered unmistakably. Finally, with
an ostentation that savored of rudeness,
he took out his watch, a great gold re
peater, looked at it. and unmistakably
■ awned.
Jack hungered for that watch directly
he saw it. Perhaps through it he might
make its owner uncomfortable, if only
for a moment. But how to get it into
his hands? He asked for a watch—a
dozen were offered. No: none of these
would do. It must be a gold watch, a
repeater. Sir Lewis Mallaby’s was the
only one in the room, and lie at first dis
tinctly refused to lend it. But so many
• ntreaties were addressed to him, the
hostess leading the attack, that lie could
not in common courtesy continue to re
fuse. With something like a growl he
t ook his watch off the chain and handed
it to Jack Newbiggin.
A curious old-fashioned watch it was,
which would have gladdened the heart
of a watch collector; all jeweled and
enameled, adorned with crest and in
scription —an heirloom, which bad pro
bably been in the Mallaby family for
years. -Tack looked it over curiously,
meditatively, then suddenly raising his
eyes he stared intently into Sir Lewis
Mallaby’s face, and almost as quickly
dropped them again.
“This is far too valuable,” he said,
courteously, “too much of a treasure to
be risked in any conjuring trick; an
ordinary modern watch 1 might replace,
but not a work of art like this.”
And he handed it back to Sir Lewis,
who received it witli ill-concealed satis
faction. He was as much pleased, pro
bably, at Jack’s expression of possible
failure in the proposed trick as at the re
covery of his property.
Another watch, however,was pounded
up into a jelly, and brought out whole
from a cabinet in an adjoining room;
and this trick successfully accomplished,
Jack Newbiggin, who was now com
pletely on his metal, passed on to higher
flights. He had spent the vacation of
the year previous in France as the pupil
of a wizard of European fame, and had
mastered many of the strange feats which
are usually attributed to clairvoyance.
There is something especially uncanny
about these tri -ks, and Jack’s reputation
rapidly increased with this new exhibi
tion of his powers. Thanks to his cross
examination of Mrs. Sitwell at dinner,
ite was in possession of many facts con
nected with tlie company, although
mostly strangers to him; and, some of
his hits were so palpably happy that he
raised shouts of surprise, followed by
that terrified hush which not uncom
monly succeeds the display of seemingly
supernatural powers.
“Oh, but this is too preposterous,” Sit-
Lewis Mallaby was heard to say quite
angrily. The continued applause pro
foundly disgusted him. “This is the
merest charlatanism. It must be put
■in end to. It is the commonest impos
ture. These are things which he has
coached up in advance. Let him be
tried with something which upon the
face of it he cannot have learned before
hand by artificial means.”
“Try him, Sir Lewis, try him your
self’’cried several voices.
“ I scarcely like to lend myself to such
folly, to encourage so pitiable an exhibi
tion.”
But he seemed to be conscious that
further protest would tell in Jack’s favor.
“ I will admit that you have consider
able power in this strange branch of
necromancy if you will answer a few
questions of mine.”
“ Proceed.” said Jack, gravely, meet
ing his eyes firmly and without flinching.
" Tell me what is most on my mind at
this present moment.”
“The want of a male heir,” Jack re
plied, promptly, and thanked Mrs. Sit
well in his heart. _ .
“Pshaw! You "trade learned from
Burke that I have no children,” said Sir
Lewis, boldly; but lie was a little taken
aback. “ Anything else?”
“The memory of a harsh deed you
now strive in vain to redeem.”
“This borders upon impertinence,”
said Sir Lewis, with a hot flush on his
cheek and passion in his eyes. “But
let us leave abstractions and try tangi
ble realities. Can you tell me what I
have in this pocket?” He touched the
left breast of his' tail-coat.
“ A pocketbcok.”
“ Bah! Every one carries a pocket
book in his pocket.”
“ But do you?” asked several of the
bystanders, all of whom were growing
deeply interested in this strange duel.
Sir Lewis Mallaby confessed that lie
did, and produced it —an ordinary mo
rocco leather purse and poeketbook all
in one.
“ Are you prepared to go on?” said
the baronet haughtily to Jack.
“ Certainly.”
“ What does this poeketbook con
tain?”
“ Evidence.”
The contest between them was now to
the death.
“Evidence of what?”
“Of facts that must sooner or later
come to light. You have in that pock
et book links in a long chain of circum
stances which, however carefully con
cealed or anxiously dreaded, time in its
inexorable course must bring eventually
to light. There is no bond, says the
Spanish proverb, which is not some day
fulfilled; no debt that in the long run is
not paid.”
“ What ridiculous nonsense! I give
you my word this pocketbook contains
nothing absolute.y nothing—but a
Bank of England note for one hundred
pounds.”
“Stay!” cried Jack Newbiggin. facing
him abruptly and speaking in a voice of
thunder. “It is not so—you know it—
it is only the half!”
And as he spoke he took the erumpled
paper from the lymds of the really stu
pefied baronet. It was exhibited for in
spection—the half of a Bank of England
note for £IOO.
There was much applause at this
harmless and successful denouement of
what threatened at one stage to lead to
altercation, perhaps to a quarrel. But
Jack Newbiggin was not satisfied.
“As you have dared me to do my
worst.” said Jack. “ listen now to what
,1 have to say. Not only did I know
that was only the half of a note, but I
know where the other half is to. be
found.”
“ So much the better for me,” said the
baronet, with an effort to appear humor
ous.
“That other half was given to —shall I
sav. Sir Lewis?’
Sir Lewis nodded indifferently.
“It was given to'one Hester Corrigan,
an Irish nurse, six year* ago. It was
the price of a deed of which you ”
“Silence! Say no more,” cried Sir
l>*wis. in horrar. “ I see you know all.
1 swear I have had no peace since I was
tempted so soreiy, and so weakly fell.
But I am prepared to make all the resti
tution and reparation in my power—un
LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1879.
less, unhappily, unless it be already too
late.”
Even while he was speaking his face
turned ghastly pale, his lips were cov
ered with a fine white foam, he made one
or two convulsive attempts to steady
himself, then with a wild, terrified look
around, he fell heavily to the floor.”
It was a paralytic seizure. They took
him up stairs and tended him; but the
ease was desperate from the first. Only
just before the end did he so far recover
the power of speech as to be able to make
full confession of what had occurred.
Sir Lewis had been a younger son;
the eldest inherited the family title, but
died early, leaving his widow to give
him a posthumous heir, the title remain
ing in’ abeyance until time showed
whether the infant was a boy or girl. It
proved to be a boy, whereupon Lewis
■Mallably, who had the earliest intima
tion of the fact, put into execution a ne
farious project which he had carefully
coneoeted in advance. A girl was ob
tained from a foundling hospital and
substituted by Lady Mallaby ’3 nurse,
who was in Lewis’ pay, for the newly
born son and heir. This son and heir
was handed over to another accomplice,
Hester Corrigan, who was bribed with
£IOO, half down in the shape of a Half
note, the other half to be paid when she
announced her safe arrival in Texas
with the stolen child. Mrs. Corrigan
had an unquenchable thirst, and in tier
transit liet ween London and Liverpool
allowed her precious charge to slip out
of her hands, with the consequences we
know.
It was the watch "borrowed from Sir
Lewis Mallably which first aroused
Jack’s suspicious. It bore the strange
crest—two hammers crossed, witli the
motto “ I Strike ” —which was marked
upon the linen of the child that Dan
Bloc-kit picked up at Kirklington station.
The initial of the name Mallaby coin
cided with the monogram H. L. M.
Jack drew his conclusions, and made a
bold shot, which hit the mark, as we
have seen.
Lewis Mallaby’s confession soon rein
stated the rightful heir, and Dan Blockit,
in after years, had no reason to regret
the generosity which prompted him to
give the little foundling the shelter of his
rude home.
Indian Stage Drivers.
A correspondent, writing from Las
Vegas, New Mexico, says that lie got the
superintendent to tell him about his
stage line, which runs from Yinita, In
dian Territory, to Las Vegas, New Mex
ico, about 900 miles, and passes through
some of the most dangerous Indian coun
try in the world. It has 108 drivers,
thirty of whom are native Indians. The
lineearries the United States mail daily
and what passengers it can get, although
the superintencient is as yet the only
white man who has been over the entire
route.
“ Can you trust your Indian drivers?”
1 asked.
•‘Oh. yes,” said he. “Everybody
said at first that I couldn’t do anything
witli them; but I had to dso.nething,
for the redskins liad“ a habit of killing
the white drive*-* 5 - -'"-qc localities. h
got some r f them broke in at last, liow
ever, and they do very well. They like
the salary, for it enables them to put on
style above their brethren, and I tell you
they do 'like to dress. It catches the
squaws, and the young men like that as
well as you fellows down East One
day an Indian driver ran off after a buf
falo, and was gone two or three days.
I sent men to hunt him up, but he came
back before they found him with a dead
buffalo an'd Uncle Sam’s mail as uncon
x-erned as if nothing had happened. I
discharged him, and it taught the others
a lesson.
“You ought to see them hunt paths
at night. If they can get a glimpse
of a single star they c-an find their way
the darkest night that ever blew. Some
of them are great astronomers. They
have an idea that there was once a great
flood which covered the whole earth.
Everybody was drowned but seven
chiefs, who were storomr enough tc climb
to the top of the highest mountain in
the country. They wouldiiavebeen de
stroyed also had they no* prayed to the
Great Spirit so fervently that their sup
plications were answered. They lived
to a great age and replenished the earth.
When they died they each became a
brilliant star in the heavens. These In
dians know the principal stars by the
names of departed chiefs. This belief is
prevalent among nearly alt the savage
Indians in the southern part of the In
dian Territory.”
“ Are any of your Indians desperate
characters?”
“ Some of them. Six of my drivers
saw the Custer massaci-e. They proba
bly took partin it, but they claim that
they were near by herding ponies. They
describe the whole bloody affair, but
wiil not tell who killed the whites. Cus
ter ha? many friends, and they are afraid
of them.”
“Have any of your Indians ever seen
the cars?”
“ Yes, seven chiefs went up to Yinita
one day, and I got them to look at a
locomotive. It suddenly whistled and
blew off steam, and you ought to have
seen those seven Indians wilt. They
fell down on their knees in consternation
and began to pray to the Great Spirit.
I guess they thought the engine was the
Great Spirit, but I don’t know as to that.”
He Thought it a Good Joke.
Tramp! tramp! tramp; and a farmer
with solid, old-fashioned feet came into
the editorial rooms of this paper to say:
“ Howdy ? I’ve walked down from the
market to give ye the partickelers of a
good joke.”
“ All right—proceed.”
“You know them lightning rod fel
lers?” observed the old man, as he drop
ped into a chair.
“ Yes—heard of them.”
“Well, ye know they’re a purfy tuff
set. Been after me for more n twenty
years. I've got signs out all along the
road warning ’em to keep off the place,
but t’other clay one of the chaps driv
right up to the gate, big as life.”
“Did, eh?”
“ Yes, he did, and ’fore I could get my
tongue to going he had about a thou
sand feet of rod out ot the wagon and
ready to put it up on the bam.”*’
“ What cheek!”
“ I guess ’twas, but pretty soon I went
for him. I had my mind made up to kill'
him right there. The old woman, she
came out. and sailed right in with me,
and the two hired men supported me on
the flanks.”
“ And you jumped him all to pieces,
of course?”
“ That’s where the hull fun comes in,”
answered the old man. “ That ’ere fel
ler squared off. shed his coat, and he
licked the whole four of us in less’n two
minutes by a wig-wag clock.”
“Did. eh?”
“ Ytou bet he did, and he drunk up a
whole pan of milk and drove off whist
ling ’Yankee Doodle Dum.’ When I got
out o’ the catnip whar’ he piled me. and
saw one of the men with his nose mashed
flaf, the ’tother with three teeth knocked
out, and the ole woman jist crawling out
from under the old bob-sled, I begun
laffing and didn’t stop till midnight!
He slapped his leg and uttered a
“haw! haw! haw!” which echoed clear
to Canada, and in his contortiont he
broke the back off his chair.
“But the joke was on you,” said the
perplexed journalist.
“ Sartin—sartin. but I am such a dod
rotted idiot that I can't laff at the wav
we four sailed in on him, calkerlating to
mop him all over the barnyard, and
laff harder yet at the way we all started
in to pray afore he had fairly got the rust
off his elbows: When I saw Hanner
clawing up from the bobs I—!”
And ne went off into another fit and
choked and gasped till he went down
stairs with his collar hanging by a single
i button.— Detroit Frrr Pro a*.
FARM, GARDEN, AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Depth to Need*.
Rules are often laid down by writers
as guides for farmers when planting the
seeds of their various farm crops, as
though any rule could be depended upon
under all circumstances, when the fact is
every one must use judgment in this as
in every other operation on the farm.
We have before us an account of an ex
periment made by someone in sowing
wheat at different depths from-one-lourth
of an inch to three or more inches deep,
also in leaving it upon the surface. That
sown from one-fourth to three-fourths of
an inch came up soonest and grew best,
while that left on the surface, and that
covered thiee and a half inches deep,
was two weeks in getting started. Tlie
writer would, therefore, recommend
covering grain not less than one-half
inch, nor more than one ineli deep to se
ure the quickest germination and the
most vigorous grewth, which would be
a good depth whenever the soil is in the
best condition for planting, that is, when
it is just perceptibly moist throughout,
from the surface downward. But there
are times, during severe droughts, when
there is so little moisture in the top soil
that seeds planted less than an inch deep
might lie for weeks without germinating,
while if covered two or three inches
deep, they would find moisture enough
to sprout them. Much mav be done to
insure germination by stirring the.soil
deeply just before sowing, to bring up
moist soil from the bottom, and by roll
ing the surface after sowing with -< heavy
iron roller to compact the soil and rendes
it capable of taking up moisture from
below by capillary attraction, but rfter
all it is usually good economy, in dry
weather, to sow seed, grain especially,
quite liberally, and endeavor to work it
well down into the soil with a cultivator,
disk harrow, or something of the kind.
The smoothing harrow may then follow
to level tlie surface, after which the land
should be rolled smooth and as hard as
the nature and condition of the soil will
allow.
■ Some farmers delay sowing grass or
frain in autumn when the weather is
ry, and wait for rain, but we al ways
prefer to put in the seed as soon ‘as the
ground can be prepared, after the season
of sowing has arrived, and then trust the
future for rain to sprout it, and suitable
weather for its growth. If one could
plant no more seeds than would grow to
maturity, a great saving would be made
io a term of years, but still we believe it
is usually a better plan to seed liberally
and allow something for uncertainties
than to stint the quantity. In the early
spring when the ground is usually quite
moist, shallow covering and even surface
seeding may be advisable, but in mid
summer deeper covering is demanded.—
New England Farmer.
Carelessness as a Source of Income.
It is amazing to consider the extent to
which losses are incurred on the one
hand, and sales and occupation afforded,
on the other hand, by the inexcusable
carelessness of people who know better
and ought to do better. Tlie fastening
of a well-bucket is deranged, or a hoop
Js loose, but the thoughtless man or
woman never notices the trouble until
the bucket is dropped in the well or the
•bottom is out. Then t’me is lost, the
family is inconvenienced, and perhaps
a neighbor gets a job of work and the
pay. The gate-latch is out of order; no
attention is paid to it; the hogs or cows
get in; the yard is rooted up; the shrub
bery is destroyed; the gardener is em
ployed, and the nurseryman has an
order. A tire is loose on the wheel; the
wood is swiftly wearing away, a little
care would set the matter right; no pains
are taken; away on the road a wheel is
crushed, and the wheelwright has some
employment. A shingle is out of place
on the roof: one nail would mend the
trouble; that nail isn’t driven; the ram
steals in, and soon the plasterer is paid
to use trowel and brush. A bridle rein
is weak; a bit is worn; nobody thinks
of examining either; a horse is drawn to
one side, or a horse runs away; a vehicle
is broken; a carriage-maker or black
smith is profited, and perhaps a surgeon
has a profitable professional engage
ment.
The water of a well is impure; those
who use it complain, no proper steps are
taken; the family have serious sickness;
the druggist sells his medicines, and the
doctor gets his fees. In the same way the
cellar is foul: the mephitic gases escape
through the floors; the blood is poisoned;
tlie fever rages, some suffer: some die;
the physician has a harvest, and even
the undertaker and sexton find employ
ment. A stove-chimney is in a danger
ous condition; people have eyes to see,
but don’t use them; the fire soon does
its dreadful work, and carpenters and
merchants have a good time. So ®f
many —very many tilings.
Are you innocent of such neglect?
There are far better and cheaper ways
to give work and protit to others. By
taking care of what you have, you may
become able to add other and more val
uable things which you desire. There
is true economy in proper attention to
small as well as great things.— Rural
New Yorker.
Firm Butter Without Ice.
From W. P. Ilazzard’s treatise on
butter and butter-making, we extract the
following: In families or where the
dairy is small, a good plan to have but
ter cool and firm without ice is by the
process of evaporation as practiced in
India and other warm climates. A cheap
plan is to get a very large-sized porous
earthen flower-pot with an extra large
saucer. Half fill the saucer with water,
set it in a trivet or light stand—such as
is used for holding hot irons will do;
upon this set your butter; over the
whole invert the flower pot, letting the
top rim of it rest in and be covered by
the water; then close the. hole in the
botton with a cork; then dash water
over the flower pot, and repeat the pro
cess several times a day, or whenever it
looks dry. If set in a cool p'ace, or
where the wind can blow upon it, it will
readily evoporate the water from the
pdt, and the* butter will be firm and cool
as if from an ice-house.
For Cabbase Worms.
The following is recommended by
Philip Osborne, of Girard, Pa., as sure
death on the cabbage worms. “ Take
one part slack lime, one part plaster, one
part wood ashes and one part salt. Mix
well together. Sprinkle a little on the
center, and no matter if over the entire
surface. Four quarts of the composi
tion will save one hundred cabbages—
about a handful to five plants. I applied
it to mine this morning while a light
dew was on. and it was gratifying to see
the worms tumble off to rise no more.
Last year I saved all my cabbage that I
applied it to. Have no fears of this com
position injuring your cabbage. It will
all work out with the growth of the
plant and the salt will make the heads
solid.”
Words of Wisdom.
Knowledge is more than equivalent to
force.
What cannot be required is not to be
regretted.
Do good with what thou hast, or t
will do thee no good..
" You cannot dream yourself into a
character; you must hammer and forge
yourself one.
is to worth what shadows are
n a painting: she gives to it strength
asd relief.
There are nfsfoy men whose tongues
might govern multitudes if they could
govern their tongues.
If a man have love in his heart, he
may talk in broken language, but it will
be eloquence to those who listen. *
Don’t despise the small talents; they
are needed as well as the great ones. A
candle sometimes as useful as the sun.
The diamond fallen into the dirt is not
the least precious, and the dust raised by
winds to heaven is not the less
rENT AND WEALTHIEST COUNTIES IN GEORGIA.
KATE BENDER FOUND.
A Horrible Crime in Jlew Mexico Reveals
Her Whereabouts.
Sheriff Whitehill, of Grant county,
New Mexico, was recently in St. Louis,
en route for Indianapolis, where he was
taking a bright nine-year old boy,
named Josie Granger. The laa is the
nephew of Bishop Granger, of Indianap
olis, and the sheriff is confident that the
boy’s father, who was the bishop’s
brothei, was murdered at the instiga
tion of none other than Kate Bender,
who six years ago wasjifie most odious
woman in tue United Slates. It will re
quire no effort on the part of the reader
to call to mind the Bender family, who
for several years kept a human slaughter
house in the shape of a little hostelrie on
a lonely Kansas road, about sixty miles
from Fort Scott. The tracing of a prom
inent citizen named York to their house,
and the discovery of his murder, led to
revelations of the most horrifying char
acter, and the grizzly old murderer with
his inhuman family fled in great haste
from the wrath which must follow the
discovery of the graveyard which they
had made all around their home.
Whether they were overtaken and all
lynched, or whether they really escaped
and scattered, has always been an open
question. The most fiendish member of
the family was Kate, then a stout young
woman, whose thews had grown great
in wielding the hammer that crushed
travelers’ skulls. The story which the
sheriff of Grant county tell? has refer
ence to Kate. He says that William F.
Granger, the father of the boy in his
charge, married a wite in California, and
when she died moved with his son Wil
liam, a weak-minded, cruel sort of a boy,
to Fort Smith, Ark. A second marriage
took place there, and Josie was the is
sue. Mr. Granger took into his family
as nurse and sei vant a young woman
who had been a domestic in a hotel, and
who went by the name of Dora Hesser.
The family moved to Grant county, New
Mexico, and Dora went along. The
second wife died, and about a year ago
Granger married Dora. Just three
weeks after he was enticed into the
mountains by his own son, William, and
a man named Young, and tlie boy fired
a bullet fom a needle gun through the
old man’s brain. They dug a hole,
jammed the body into a lieaD and threw
it in, then covered it up and stamped the
ground level. Going back home they
divided the old man’s possessions,
amounting to about $5,000, Young tak
ing one-third. William one-third and
the bride one-third. The authorities
suspected something wrong, and a sher
iff went to the Granger house to arrest
the trio. He found them all in bed, and
hidden under one bed were tlie old man’s
gray clothes, which Dora had chopped
into pieces. William was closely ques
tioned and finally acknowledged that his
stepmother and Young had fixed up tlie
job on the old man and induced him to
do the killing, the object being one of
plunder. He led the officers to the scene
ot the murder, and the body was ex
humed. Since then the belief has been
growing: that Dora is Kate Bender. She
acknowledged that her name is Kate,
and she knows a deal about the Ben
ders. A young man who went to school
with Kate Bender when slie was about
sixteen years old visited Dora in jail,
and positively identified her as Kate. In
her trunk was found about SSOO worth
of silverware, most of it marked “ Galt
House, Kentucky.” The sheriff lias her
picture and it represents a woman about
thirty years old, with full heavy face,
large lower-jaw, very small eyes, and a
mouth of a virago. The woman is still
in jail, and will be tried. Meanwhile,
the sheriff intends to give the little boy
Josie, who is a very amiable and intelli
gent child, and who gives a graphic ac
count of the murder, in charge of
Bishop Granger.
Mental Effects of Physical Injuries.
Dr. Henry Maudsley, in a paper before
the Royal Institute, England, said:
Many instructive examples of tlie per
vading mental effects of physical injury
of the brain might be quoted, but two
or three, recently recorded, will suffice.
An American medical man was called
one day to see a youth, aged eighteen,
who had been struck down insensible by
a kick of a horse. There was a depressed
fracture of tlie skull a little above the
left temple. Tlie skull was trephined,
and the loose fragments of bone that,
pressed upon tlie brain were removed,
whereupon thepatient came to his senses.
The doctor thought it a good opportunity
to make an experiment, as there was a
hole in the skull through which lie could
easily make pressure upon the brain. Ht
asked the boy a question, and before
there was time to answer it lie pressed
firmly with liis finger upon the exposed
brain. As long as tlie pressure was
kept up the boy was mute, but the in
stant it was removed he made a reply,
never suspecting that he had not an
swered at once. The experiment was re
peated several times with precisely the
same result, the hoy’s thoughts being
stopped and started again on eacli occa
sion as easily and certainly as the engi
neer stops and starts his locomotive.
On another occasion the same doctor
was called to see a groom who had been
kicked on the head by a mare called
Dolly, and whom he found quite insen
sible. There was a fracture of the skull,
with depression of bone at the upper
part of tlie forehead. As soon as the
portion ot bone which was prising upon
the brain was removed the patient called
out with great energy, “ Whoa, Dolly!”
and then stared about him in blank
amazement, asking: “Where is the
mare? Where am I?” Three hours
had passed since the accident, during
which the words which he was just going
to utter when it happened had remained
locked up, as they might have been
locked up in tlie phonograph, to be let
go the moment the obstructing pressure
was removed. The patient did not re
member, when he came to himself, that
the mare had kicked him; the last thing
before he was insensible which he did
remember was, that she wheeled her
heels round and laid back her ears vic
iously.
Selling Whisky to Indians.
There is not a town in Montana, says
the Helena Independent, where an In
dian cannot get a.l the whisky he wants,
as is evinced by their drunken sprees
immediately after leaving the place.
Whisky is the cause of all the disturb
ances between whites and the Indians,
and no doubt the primary' cause of all
thefts and outrages by the Indians.
Nearly all the trouble with Indians,
says the Statesman, of Walla Walla,
WWashington Territory, is occasioned by
the action of a few depraved whites sell
ing them whisky. Go where we will,
we are sure to find some saucy, drunken
si wash trying to get up a little war of his
own. There are various dodges by
which the Indians can obtain liquor.
One is to sell them “skookum flour;”
that is, they buy a sack of flour in which
a bottle of whisky is concealed. Any
white found guilty of providing the
dians with whisky, or gambling with
them, is entitled to a coat of tar and
feathers, after which performance he
should be turned over to be dealt with by
the law.
James Stewart, twelve.year-old son of
James Stewart, residing near Willy’s
Neck, Dorchester county, Md., was sent
into an out-field to make a smother, to
keep the mosquitoes from the cattle
Not coming back after a reasonable time
had elapsed the father went into the
field to search for him. He was found
lying face downward on the ground dead,
his mouth, throat, nose and ears liter
ally packed with mosquitoes.
The entire population of the United
States could be provided for in the State
of Texa, allowing each man, woman,
and child four acres of land. The entire
population of the world could be provid
ed for in the United States, allowing
•aeh person one and a half acres ef land.
A CHOCOLATE CITY.
Interesting Retails of a Model French
Village.
When the son of the great chocolate
manufacturer, Menier, was married in
Paris the other day, the workmen of the
Menier establishment sent a pillow of
roses as their bridal gift, which was an
improvement upon the custom which
sends pillows and cushions of flowers
only to funerals here. But the Menier
workmen have good reasons lor the
graceful tribute. Their employer has
not strewn their path with roses, but he
lias shown, on a large scale, how pros
perity and comfort and good-feeling
among his workmen are as much the
foundation of a flourishing manufactur
ing village as its tons of exported goods.
The Menier chSeolate. although the
best in Europe, is not a whit better than
our own Philadelphia Whiteman’s, if as
good. But the factories at Noisiel make
a town of themselves on the banks of the
Marne, and their active proprietor is
one of the powers ‘of France, a repre
sentative manufacturer of the solid men
who supply for the republic .what the
great bankers used to do for the empire,
confidence, and when needed, the sinews
of war. The best test of the security of
the French republic is found in this ad
hesion of merchants and manufactur
ers, the bourgeoise, as it was once tlie
fashion to call them under the monarchy,
and who used to be solidly Bourbon and
Orleanist.
The details of- this fragrant manufac
ture, the huge hydraulic engines on the
Marne, the amount of water-power, the
sugar, cacao nut and packing boxes re
quired—this last a business ot itself—
with the busy women at work on tlie
dainty envelopes of tin foil and yellow
papeis, although of much interest, might
be in other shape, and, instead of the
chocolate city, this might be an iron
city, or glass, or cotton, equally on the
same good basis as that ot Noisiel. The
town of Raltaire, in England, at tlie
famous works of Sir Titus Salt, probably
approaches it in thrifty detail, and then*,
are American manufacturers who lend
themselves to many plans for the com
fort and improvement of their men. But
Noisiel seems to be a pattern and to pos
sess in itself all tlie modern improve
ments. The cottages tire close to the
works, each with its four rooms, its
good cellar and a garden, and for which
the rent is twenty-four dollars a year.
Flowers, fruit and vegetables are culti
vated in these blooming gardens, and,
although the women are largely employ
ed in the factory, there are arrangements,
as will be presently seen, for lightening
the household cares. The schools at
Noisiel are maintained at M. Menier’s
expense, and they are graded from the
infant school, where the children go at
the age of three years, to a day nursery
for tlie still younger ones, who are taken
care of in their tiny cots in tidy, cozy
rooms on the one hand, and the upper
schools, where the boys and girls are
taught to the age of fourteen. The
branches are those of a good French
education, with needlework, singing,
bookkeeping and drawing. All this is
conducted at M. Menier’s expense and
without a sou’s cost to the married em
ployees. So that one great difficulty of
manufacturing towns, where the mothers
have to be busy all day and their chil
dren left to themselves (and the matches)
seems to be very squarely met at Noisiel,
in the Ecole Gardienne. From the babies
of a year to tlie time the boy or girl is
ready to go into the factory, it is under
cave or instruction, and this last fits these
children to find good positions either at
Noisiel or elsewhere.
There is a library also belonging to the
operatives, and a savings bank, which
they are encouraged to patronize. But
the most striking feature of the place,
after schools, are the co-operative stores.
There are no store-orders, it appears, at
Noisiel, of the sort that are so hateful
and oppressive to workmen in this coun
try, although tlie Meniers are in position
to make as good profit out of these as
any Northern manufacturer or Southern
planter here. Tlie workmen at Noisiel
are their own shopkeepers; they get tlie
profits and the benefits of the low prices
of the wholesale supplies. Meat, gro
ceries and other articles of daily domes
tic need are sold at low prices and good
quality, the membership of the associa
tion being entirely made up of the choco
late workmen, the thrifty ones who get
tlie benefit of their savings in a double
sense.
We have given some space to this little
French Arcadia, because it seems to hold
the solution of many vexed questions. Tt
is the pleasure of this wealthy manufac
turer to furnish schools, libraries and
good living homes for liis men, and to
see them well into co-operative societies
like the savings bank and the stores, but
the workmen themselves, in this coun
try of better wages, might, with a little
forethought, have the same sort of shops,
and especially the same kind of day
nursery establishments, so that all the
little children too young for school would
be sure of warmth, care and comfort
while their mothers went out at work:
Noisiel is, in fact, an answer to a sum
well worth working out, for both mill
owners and operatives. Philadelphia
Ledger.
A Chinese Cure for Cholera.
The following letter from a China
man in regard to the cure of cholera is
published by the Iliogo News. The
Hiogo paper, in publishing it, says; As
evidence of its genuine nature we may
state that it was originally handed in
as an advertisement, the physician
whose skill in the cure ol cholera it
makes known having (we are assured
by one of the most respectable Chinese
residents of Kobe) made a fortune out
of his practice during the brief period in
which the cholera has been raging, and
being therefore in a position to pay for
the fame which he no doubt considers
to be his due, outside of the narrow
sphere in which he has been laboring.
The letter itself is written in a fine,
bold, clerkly hand, and we *are in
formed is the unassisted production ot
a Chinese. We give it verbatim, and
shall be happy to show it to the cur
ious:
“ Sir —With your permission I would
beg to direct, through the medium of
your valuable' journal, the attention of
the public to a subject which is most
important and interesting to the medi
cal world. In the general opinion of
the European, as well as the Japanese,
cholera is an infectious disease, a
plague against which there is no cer
tain remedy; whereas, according to the
opinion of the Chinese doctor who has
been curing hundreds of Japanese in
Osaka, it is not at all * infectious; as
soon as the black blood or the poison
ous matter is let out from the joints
in the limbs and the middle fingers,
the disease can be cured immediately.
This may seem an absurdity to the
European, but it is, nevertheless, a
fact, since hundreds of the natives have
been cured by this operation. If the
medical men of the West would care to
see how this disease is treated by the
Chinese doctor referred to, and analyze
the blood of their patients at the va
rious stages ol the disease, as a Yoko
homa resident in his letter to the
Japan Daily Herald suggested, they will,
with their superior medical knowledge
and skill, discover an important anti
dote for the disease. *
“ I am, dear sir, your most obedient
servant.
“ A Native of the Flowert Land.”
Prof. Brun, of Geneva, has described a
curious case of poisoning in a child of
two years of age. It was caused
eating a combination of cabbage
tigs. The cabbage he says, must have
produced a great abundance of lactic
acid, which, m the presence of the figs,
developed enough of butyric add to
cause the death of the child.
VOL. VI. NO. 1.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Georgia is about to elect a monument
to Sergeant William Jasper, of South
Carolina, who fell in the assault on
Savannah. October 9, 1779. This is the
hero who leaped from the parapet of
Fort Moultrie and regained the flair
which had been shot away by a ball
from the British fleet. On another oc
casion, aided by a single companion, he
captured a British guard of ten soldiers
and rescued twelve American captives.
“ Wild Bill," the frontiersman, who in
his day was as notorious as Kit Carson,
and who was killed three years ago, has
turned to stone from scalp to toe. His
remains, which were buried at Dead
wood, in the Black Ilills, were taaen
from the grave for re-interment at an
other place, when they were found to
have become petrified. The features are
as natural as life, save that a whiteness
overspreading all gives to the face the
appearance of chiseled marble.
The following statistics will prove in
teresting to those who raise either dogs
or sheep: In 1860 Massachusetts had
114,000 sheep and 112,000 dogs, and it is
believed that the present number of
sheep in that State is actually below
55.000, while there are good re:isons for
believing that it has more than two,
perhaps nearly three dogs to every sheep
kept in the State. During the year 1875,
11.489 dogs killed 1,673 sheep; and in
1878, there were 10,000 dogs taxed, and
sheep killed by them to the value of
$10,584.55.
The cotton crop in the South this year
will correspond well with the enormous
crops of wheat and corn in the West and
Northwest. The report of the executive
committee of the National Cotton Ex
change, just received, says that “dur
ing the last five years cotton-culture in
the United States has outstripped the
most sanguine expectations: that the
problem of free labor lias been virtually
solved, and that the South must be re
garded as the future reliance of t he cotton
manufacturers of both America and Eu
rope.”
The plague of rats in the Deccan,
Bombay, for the second season in suc
cession, is occasioning serious alarm.
These animals overspread the country
like locusts, destroy the crops almost as
thoroughly, and are even more difficult
to keep down. So grave had become the
aspect of affairs that a “ Rat Committee”
was appointed to inquire into the best
means of disposing of these creatures.
They have advised the people to turn
out en masse and face the enemy. Re
wards are to be offered for dead rats. and.
in fact, the invasion is to be treated as a
matter to be dealt witli vigorously by
the whole community. In the meantime
Ihe question lias arisen as to how the
rats have multiplied.
On t e 31st of December, 1877, there
were 58,466 postoftiees in Europe, with
223,517 persons employed, or one postal
establishment for every 6,134 inhabit
ants. These postoftiees are most thickly
planted in Switzerland, and after Swit
zerland in Great Britain and Ireland.
A striking contrast to these two coun
tries is afforded by Russia and Turkey,
there being in the former only one post
office to every 5,708. and in the latter one
to every 1,105 square miles. Altogether,
5,682.000.000 letters, papers, etc., were
sent by post in Europe in 1877, 3,597,-
000,000 being letters or post cards, 1,522,-
000,000 newspapers, and 563,000,000 pat
terns and the like; and the greatest
number of letters, papers, etc., were sent
in Great Britain and Ireland, the total
number dispatched being 1,483,075,000,
or at the rate of 34 7 letters and 9.4 news
papers for every inln bitant.
I.ieut.-General Maxwell writes to the
Life Boat Journal, an English periodical,
to give to the public, or rather to swim
mers, a valuable hint for use in case they
are called on to save a drowning man.
He picked up the idea while in service
in India. A man had fallen into a large
reservoir used to store the rainfall, and
a native, who happened to be passing by
with a long staff, jumped in. taking the
staff with him and pushing it forward in
tront as he swam. The drowning man
eagerly clutched the staff and was thus
towed slowly in by the swimmer, who
was obliged to keep his body nearly up
right. A person who is not used to the
water loses his wits as well as his breath
when he suddenly finds himself over
board, and is apt to seize upon the swim
mer who would rescue him in such a
way as to fairy both down together.
The lesson Gen. Maxwell lays down is
that if you have to jump into the water
to save a man, take with you a long
stick, an oar, a plank, a broom, or a bit
of wood of some kind, if one is at hand.
It will the# be possible to keep the
drowning man at a safe distance and
still get him out.
The Next United States Census.
A Washington Post reporter has inter
viewed General Francis A. Walker,
chief of the National Census Bureau,
in regar I to taking the census next year.
The reporter asked.
“ How will agricultural statistics be
secured ?
“ It would not pay to employ special
agents to take agricultural figures,” said
the general, ‘‘ and this duty will be in
trusted to the enumerators. This a wide
field. There are probably 3,000,000
farmers in this country, and you will
see the objection to employing especial
assistance when the ground can be cov
ered as well by the regular force.”
“ Does this apply to all granger in
terests ?”
“No; there are certain branches,
such as fruit culture, live stock and im
portant crops, where special agents must
necessarily he employed, and the work
will be done as never before. The special
officers will collect facts and figures re
lating to the growth of these crops, and
fruits, meat transportation and exporta
tion, and the shipping of live stock to
England. Lumber, honey, beeswax, pea
nuts and other industries that are becom
ing of great importance, will also re
ceive the special attention of this agent,
and the product of these efforts will form
a valuable adjunct to the census, and
show a vast difference to those of former
years. Heretofore, these Statistics have
been grossly erroneous and inadequate.
Then the law provided for no special
assistance in procuring these facts, and
was so constructed that codfish, coal oil
and mining were placed on the same
schedule.”
“ Is education a class of itself?”
“ It comes under the branch of ‘ social
statistics,’ which embraces education,
schools, libraries, newspapers, wages,
wealth, debt and taxation.”
“ A most important branch.”
“ Yes, and will be collected almost en
tirely through special agency, as will
also vital statistics, pauperism, crime,
idiocy and deaf muteism.”
“ How have they been collected be
fore?”
“ By enumerators, or else by deputies
of the United States marshals in the sev
eral districts.” , *
“ What force will be necessary, and
when will it be selected?”
“ There will be 150 supervisors, one or
more to each State, according to its
size. The supervisors’ districts will be
formed and announced about the middle
of October, and the appointments will
probably be made at the meeting of Con
gress in December. In January the su
pervisors will appoint the enumerators.
The special agents will be selected as ne-
requires.”
“ How many enumerators will be re
quired?”
“ I suppose about 15,000 to 20,060, and
those in thecountry will be required to
complete their labors during the month
of June, 1880. Those in the city are con
fined to the first two weeks of the same
month. The reports will come ias
rapidly as completed.” ,
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In tbe Vestibule. \
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A little, chubby, raUppad child.
With dreamy qye 'neath fringe of silken la*h,
And, working o’er its ientnree, wonder mi'-'.
Like tipples kindled by the sunbeam's fiasn,
Just at the ei trance of the maze called lile.
Heedless of all its turmoil, blare and strife, r
Yon is waiting,
H^sitqtmg
Not with little nerveless fist to beat its tap.
And iu lile’s vestibule Ida sound its sott li*(i
rap.
Say, what shall be th entering ii .'
Through halls oh right, or halls o: sin*
To right, to latt. beside the gal
Attending spirits beckoning wai<
Oh, shall the good or evil win?
It.
A youth beside a church-door stands;
Across the way the ruby wipe doth loan'.
And comrades lure with beckoning hands,
Whilo swelling org-u tones pUtjy‘ Heaven's
my home.” : ■
Behold him on the verge of mnnhdmi here,
With careless heart imd love ol worldly choet
'.llsilmg, waiting,
Hesitating,
A voice within him pieatiing, - “ To the right.'
Vet on the lett he Mes a world ot dear delink'
Say, what sliail be the entering heroT
The organ 'notes persuasive, clear,
Swell out in strains inspiring, grand,
And sweet, “ Heaven is Lather-land,
While siren tones sing “Winedoth cheer.
4 111.
A ripe, old man, of honors full, 1
Conqueror of ologies and tame.
From vestibule to vestibule,
Having gone m and writ.en high his name
At lile’s last door finds still n entrance hall.
And feeble, nerveless, infant-like in nil, *
Yet is waiting,
Hesitating
Here at this final vestibule to find
Entrance by death alone where pass in all
mankind. * .
, Say, win', shall be tiie here ’ : .
In loving faith or loathing fear? r s
I'pon the right, 11 ansions ol bliss.
The shadowy left, realms all unbleat,
In wliicn, ob, Soul, wilt thou appear?
— Louise S. Door, in Portland J'ranscripl.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A prowed thing— A ship.
Cold muffins—Ragamuffins.
A moving sight— Old cheese.
You can’t beat a porcelain egg.
A judge’s position is a trying one.—
Post.
Did the man who “ shot at random”'
bitit?
How strange it is that hot words
should produce a coolness.
It is reported that the Indians in
Florida now number only 300.
No hotel porter ever tried to smash an
elephant’s trunk .—New York News. ' ’
The strength of an elephant is calcula
ted as equal to that of 150 men combined.
The greatest height at which visible :
clouds ever exist does not exceed ten
miles.
By anew law the French postoffice
undertakes the collection of small bills
in the provinces.
The Philadelphia Times says that girls
who sing in hotel parlors have conspicu
ously large mouths.
“I expend a good deal of panes at my
work,” as the glazier said to the window
sash.— New York Mail.
Mercury freezes at thirty-eight degrees
Fahrenheit and ljecomcs a solid mass,
malleable under the hammer.
Before man iage “ honey; ” after mar
riage “money;” which is anytiiing hut
funny.— Meriden Recorder.
Mr. Barry Sullivan, the English actor,
prides himself on having plajed Hamlet
more than 2,800 times in all quarters of
the globe.
When you are down-lieartea and the
world looks black to you, you ought to
be hospitable enough to entertain a hope
of better days.
“All’s well that ends well,” said a vio
tim of the toothache, as his swollen
cheeks resumed their former size.—Dan
ielsonville Sentinel.
A lad being asked “ What is Rhode
Island celebrated for?” replied: “It is
the only one of the New England States
which is the smallest.”
It is said that the entire population of
the world could be provided for in the
United States by allowing each person
one and a half acres of land.
The official returns of the registrars of
Ireland for the second quarter of the
year contain a record of the death of
persons aged respectively 105, 107 and
Two boys have been arrested in Paris
for cutting buttons from men’s coats.
It was learned that they collected
dozens a day and sold them to obscure
tailors.
The flouring mill industry in the United
States employs 90,000 men m 25,000 mills,
turning out yearly 50.000,000 barrels of
flour, of which 4,000,000 are exported to
foreign countries.
The world’s wheat crop in 1879 is put
at 1,540,000,000, —not much above a
bushel to every human being in the
world; and much wheat is consumed by
the lower animals.
From the report to the British Board
of Trade it appears that the number of
persons returned as having been killed
in the working of the railways during
1878 was 1,053, and the number injured
1,007. Of these, 125 persons killed and
4,752 persons injured were passengers.
We believe L stands for fifty, according
the Roman notation, and that is the rea
son why a young man who hail just in
herited a fifty dollar legacy won the con
sent of the girl’s father by telling the old
man he had just been left a bare JL of
money. —Keokuk Constitution.
“ I’m sitting on this tile, Mary,”
He said in accents sad,
Removing from the rocking chair
The best silk hat he had;
And while he viewed the sliafieh-ss mass.
That erst was trim and neat,
He murmured, “ Would it had been telt,
Before I took my seat.’ 1
Yacob Stratum
Prussia has eighteen prisons for
tramps and vagrants. In 1874 there
were 4,600 commitments to these insti
titutions. but the number has increased*
every year, and for 1878 was 9,000. Of
these. 8,000 were men and 1.000 women.
They cost the country' $650,000. but
earned while in durance $270 000. Many
of the arrests were capable of artisans,
who were really desirous of finding
work.
According fo the report of Consul Per
eeval, of Port Said, the total number ot
vessels which passed through the Suez
canal in 1878 was 1.550, of which 1,227
were British, 89 French. 71 Dutch, 44
Italian. 38 Austrian, 22 German, .21
Spanish. 8 Egyptian. 8 Japanese, 6 Dan
ish, 5 Swedish and Norwegian. 4 Portu
guese, 3 Turkish, 2 Belgian, 1 Amerng*jr,
and 1 Zanzibar. Total, 2,178,316 to* t)
which 1,706.946 were British.
Herr Krupu. the German gun-# J** 1
is a tall, line-looking man of reins j y° u
commanding presence, with wh* sell
- heard, high forehead, brigh>
and a strikingly intellectual exprn
At seventy his natural force is not a
ed, but he is active and energetic, w
broad bn ast is not broad enough for An.
medals an orders that have been (Im
ferred upon him by his own and
sovereign l ; be lias repeatedly declined *
patent of nobility during the last fifteen
yarn.