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The Comet.
Vision of night, seraphic, bright!
Coming unsought, thy presence.wrought
Supreme surprise to wandering eyes !
Loosod from God’s hand o’er sea and land,
Thy glory lies, midst starry skies,
Throughout vast space, a course to trace.
Though vainly we reach unto tliee,
Longing to know, of weal or woe,
If pledge thou art, to the faint heart.
Hath God's behest, to realms unblest,
Freighted with might, thy winged flight,
Salvation sure, to grant once more ?
Art thou a note, and thus afloat
Amongst the spheres, thy native peers,
Their music thine, by power divine ?
No mortal car shall ever hear,
Silence complete, only to greet
The listening earth, as from her birth.
Great mystery! Thy history,
Creation’s cry, fore'er deny-,
But we implore who now adore.
If thou a part of heaven art,
Banner unfurled to this wrecked world,
In glory shine, oh I princely sign !
Till souls awake—till voices break
Into the song renouncing wrong
And Love ordain for Christ the Slain !
A TRUE OHIO ROMANCE.
“Never condemn a person on circum
stantial evidence. It is unreliable, even
when the circumstances seem to lit into
each other like a couple of cog-wheels,”
said John T. Morris, who is an experi
enced detective of Springfield, Ohio.
“Give us the story, Uncle John.”
“Not long ago there resided in Frank
lin county a wealthy old maid, Miss
Sabina Smith. By inheritance she was
the possessor of an old-fashioned, though
comfortable, dwelling house. She was
reputed to have a good square bank ac
count.”
“How old is she?”
“Well, on the shady side of seventy,
but she had a weakness, like all old
maids, not for kitiens, poodles or cana
ries, but for children. She had raised
several orphan girls who are now well
settled in life. In 1865 she adopted a
six-year-old black-eyed girl, bright as a
button, named Mollie McCann, whose
father had fallen in battle fighting for
his flag and country, while her mother,
crazed with grief, pined and faded away.
Mollie soon learned to love her new
mother, and from a prattling maid in
short clothes and pinafores, she soon
bloomed forth into a gushing school
girl, and at eighteen was the belle of
every rustic gatheiing—the pretty Miss
Mollie McCann, over whom the boys
raved and the girls envied. To all her
admirers she turned a deaf ear, and with*
a pretty toss of the head and merry
twinkle of her roguish eye, bade them
be off and not bother her.
“Miss Smith was sensible ; knew that
Mollie would probably marry and have
a home of her own some day, so she
neither discouraged her foodness for
society nor harped upon the miseries of
wedded life in the maiden’s ear, but
when she came back from the State fair
at Columbus in 1878, and told her
adopted mother about the young gentle
man that she bad met, his attentions
and good qualities, Miss Smith was not
E leased, nor did she hesitate to frown
er displeasure, and advise her ward to
turn a willing ear to the many suitors
of the neighborhood, instead of seek
ing in far-off fields that which was nearer
home.
“But Mollie was like many another,
struck on a traveling man, and she car
ried on a secret correspondence with
him through a lady friend for a long
time, until at last they were engaged.
“Miss Smith and Mollie were the sole
occupants of the house. The bedrooms
were four in number, two of which were
used as spare rooms, one occupied bv
Miss Smith and containing two beds,
Mollie occupying one, Miss Smith the
other. The fourth bedroom was called
Molly’s, but was only used by her when
a lady friend was visiting her. In one
of these spare bedrooms was an old
fashioned bureau and bookcase com
bined, the top drawer of which could be
converted in a desk. The back part of
this drawer was fitted up with small
drawers. One- of these small drawers
had from time immemorial been used
as ji money drawer. In the summer of
18(9 the sum of 8355 was missed from
the drawer, in the summer of 1870 $290
mysteriously disappeared, together with
a quantity of gold coins which had been
in the family for over a century. On
the 29th day of last May Miss Smith
loaned to a neighbor SSOO, giving him
her check and he signing a note in her
favor. Sickness prevented his present
ing the chepk at the bank at Columbus
and, learning that Miss Smith was going
to that city off the 30th, he requested
her to get it cashed. She did so, and
returned with Mollie about dark on that
day, having the money all in one hund
red dollar bills. •
"The house was all securely locked
down stairs and Miss Smith deposited
the SSOO in the secretary drawer, closed
the drawer, locking it and placing the
key in the bureau drawer beneath. She
then locked the room containing the
bureau and placed the key under some
quilts that lay in a wardrobe in her bed
room. Before retiring locked her
bedroom door and she and Mollie re
tired for the night in separate beds in
the same room. The next morning,
April Ist, the neighbor who had bor
rowed the money, having a long journey
to perform, during which he expected
to make a payment on some land pur
chased, called as early as five o’clock
before Miss Smith ' and Mollie had
arisen.
“Awakening Miss Smith, she took her
key from the wardrobe, unlooked the
bed-room, then taking the bureau drawer
key from the under drawer of the secre
tary, opened this to find the money gone
She went down stairs ; everything was
locked and bolted as she had left it the
night before.”
“Who took that money?”
“That was the question that con
fronted me. There were no signs of a
burglary; no lock forced, windows and
floors all right. No one else in the
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VOL. XI.
house but Miss Smith and Mollie. Of
course, I at once examined the girl.
She talked freely, said she always had a
preseutiment that the money would bo
stolen—in fact, had a presentiment that
night, but feared to tell the old lady for
ffar of alarming her. I soon learned
that Mollie had a key which fitted the
bedroom containing the bureau, hence
my suspicions were strengthened that
Mollie had arisen in the night, either
unlocked the door with her own key or
taken the one in the wardrobe, and, se
curing the money, hid it either in or out
of the house without awakening the old
lady. I finally told Mollie that I should
have to search her, and make a thorough
examination of the house.
“ ‘Well,’ she naively remarked, ‘if you
do find any money about the house, it
won’t prove that I stole it, will it?’
„“‘lt will be prima /new evidence,’l
said. L.
“I locked her up in her bedroom and
began a thorough search; band-boxes
pried into, bureau drawers pulled out,
cupboards ransacked, and finally went
through her own room. Under the car
pet under her bed I found in a compact
wad twelve ono hundred dollar bills.
Now the total amount-known to be miss
ing was only $1,045. Where had the
$155 come from? Where had the gold
coins gone to? Was the bureau drawer
paying interest on its deposit?
“ ‘Now I’ve got you, Mollie,’ as I con
fronted her.
“Mollie fainted
“A bottle of camphor and a little cold
water brought her speedily to, yet she
sturdily proclaimed her innocence.
“‘I didn’t take Miss Smith’s money;
no, I did not.’ she convulsively exclaimed
between her sobs.
“Miss Smith would not allow me to
takfe her to jail: where I reasoned con
finement would soon compel her to con
fess.
“My work, however, was but parti
ally done, for the gold coins had not
turned up.
“I determined that those coins must
be in the house and resolved upon a
thorough search from cellar to garret.
The cellar disclosed nothing, and at last
I stumbled upon a small stairway lead
ing to the garret, the door to which was
a common trap door, securely fastened
by a padlock, to which was attached
three links of a chain.
“ ‘Give me the key,’ I said to Miss
Smith, ‘to that trap door up in the
attic.’
“ ‘Oh, no use of looking there, the
keys have been lost for over five years,
and no one has ever been up there
since.’ There were cobwebs on the
door, but I noticed that over the
crack of the door’s edge they
appeared to have been broken
away, caused by the dopr having
been recently opened. With an axe 1
speedily got the door open and saw large
foot-prints in the dust. By the aid of
a lamp I followed the course of the
tracks over the boards which lay across
the shaky rafters to the furtlierest part
of the garret, where, over an old cross
beam, hung a p>air of old-fashioned
saddle-bags. The dust on the bags had
been recently disturbed. In one of the
pockets I found the five one hundred
dollar bills which disappeared on the
night of the 30th of May, the $355 that
was missed in the summer of 1879, the
$290 that was lost in 1880, and, better
than all, the rare old gold coins upon
which Miss Smith set such store as an
heirloom. I had found the money, but
I found $1,200 too much. The mystery
deepened. I resolved upon one thing,
and that was that Mollie must know
something about the money that was
hid under the carpet beneath her bed.
I talked kindiv to her, told her that
Miss Smith’s money had all been found,
and urged her to tell me how the $1,200
came under the carpet of her bed.
“ ‘You will not believe me if I tell
you, but if Miss Smith will go out I
will explain. I put that money there ;
it was my lover’s. He had saved it out
of the wages and given it to me to keep.
I destroyed his letters, for fear my aunt
would find it out. There’s the story.’
“ ‘But how did the old lady’s money
get into the garret ?’
“ ‘She carried it there herself. She
was a somnambulist, and walked in her
sleep.’
“How did you prove it, Mr. Norris?
Did the old lady let you occupy the
bedroom and catch her ?”
“Oh, no. I got the old lady to take
off her shoe and stocking and place her
No. 6 foot down on a sheet of white
paper. With a lead pencil I marked out
her foot on that sheet of paper. With
a pair of scissors I carefully cut out the
exact shape of the old lady’s foot which
fitted exactly the tracks in the dust on
the garret boards. Besides tliatMollie’s
foot was much smaller, she only wear
ing a No. 2,} shoe, and would not fit
the track. I also on careful examina
tion, found traces of cobwebs in the frill
of the old lady’s night-cap, while Mollie
wore no night cap. So you see I proved
it by both ends—the "old lady’s head
and by her feet. I explained all to the
satisfaction of the old lady. She paid
me my money, and I predict a wedding
scon at the Smith mansion, with Mollie
McCann as the bride.”— Cincinnait En
quirer.
Umler Twelve.
Monday morning at 11 o’clock a man
with a wife and eleven children, some
of them grown up, appeared at the clam
bake gate, bought two tickets and
demanded that the entire family be ad
mitted on them. The gatekeeper said
“no.”
“But these are all my children.”
“Of course, but some of them are too
old to bo admitted free.”
“Too old 1 What’s that got to do
w r ith it! Don’t you say on your bills
that children under twelve accompanied
by parents are admitted free ?”
“Yes”
“Well, I hain’t got but ’leven chil
dren ; and if ’leven children ain’t under
twelve, I’m beat.”
The situation was explained, and he
paid for three of them, under protest.—
Marathon Independent
Ninety million boxes of sugar-coated
pills were swallowed in this country last
year, Rather bilious.
LOUISVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1881.
THE HOME DOCTOR.
Dieting. —lfa man or woman grows too
stout, the best known method of reducing
flesh is to regulate the diet and avoid fat
producing food. Those who are tired
of carrying about too much of them
selves are advised by a physician who
has given much attention to the effect
of various articles of diet in producing
embonpoint that they may eat lean mut
tnih and beef, veal and lamb, soups not
thickened, beef tea, and broth ; poultry,
game, fish and eggs ; bread in modera
tion ; greens, cresses, lettuce; green
peas, cabbage, cauliflower, onions ;fresh
fruit without sugar. They may not eat
fat meat, bacon or ham, butter, cream,
sugar, potatoes, carrots, parsnips, rice,
sago, tapioca, macaroni, custard, pastry
and puddings, sweet cakes. They may
drink tea, coffee, cocoa from nibs, with
milk, but no sugar. It will bo seen by
inspecting the above list, that the arti
cles allowed abound in nitrogtn, that
those disallowed abound in carbon,
which is always fuel to the flame, no
matter in what form it appears. Those
who wish to increase their weight may
do so by devotion to the list of articles
denied their stouter brothern. In sum
mer wea her, however, the diet, of every
one should contain less carbon and more
nitrogen than diet in winter.
Glycerine -The name is derived from a
Greek word signifying “sweet,” and has
reference to the taste. As oil consists of
acids and glycerine, the latter is ob
tained by separating the oil—the same
is true of fat—into its component parts.
The uses of glycerine are becoming
more and more extended and valuable.
There is no application that is better
than a few drops rubbed daily over the
hands, to keep them moist and smooth.
The hands should be first moistened with
water, as the glycerine otherwise absorbs
moisture from the skin. Glycerine and
carbolic acid—three ounces of the for
mer to'fifteen grains of the latter—are
among the most effective applications
for chapped hands, and equally for a
scurfy skin. It may be used two or
three times a day. Glycerine is also
said to be exceedingly effective in some
eases of piles. A gentleman who had
suffered from them for years, and whose
case appeared to defy medical treatment,
was cured by taking it daily with his
food. A dose -would be from a half to a
whole table-spoonful. Writers in the
London lancet strongly recommend
it for acidity of stomach. Its use for
this trouble was first discovered by a
private gentleman, who had long bden
a sufferer from it. Having read in the
paper that glycerine kept milk from
souring, he said to himself, “Wliv
won’t it keep me ?” He tried it with
complete success, and was able thence
forth to take food from which he had
been forced to abstain. It Was subse
quently employed by physicians with
like results. It does not remove acidity;
it only prevents its occurrence. Take
from a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful
immediately after eating'; or take it in
tea in place of sugar.
Simple remedies for emergencies.—
Very few young mothers are able to
control their nerves so completely as to
keep from being startled when con
fronted with a cut finger with drippiug
blood, and the loud cries which an
nounce a catastrophe. Sometimes she
cannot collect her thoughts sufficiently
to recall any of the good remedies with
which she is acquainted. One way to
avoid this is to write out a list of help in
trouble, and tack it upon the door of
your room, after the manner of hotel
regulations. There is nothing better
fora cut than powdered rosin. Get a few
cents’ worth of rosin, pound it until it is
fine, and put it in an empty, clean pep
per or spice box with perforated top ;
then you can easily sift it out on the cut;
put a soft cloth around the injured mem
ber and wet it with cold water once in a
while. It will prevent inflammation
and soreness. In doing up a burn, the
main point is to keep the air from it. If
sweet oil and cotton are not at hand,
take a cloth and spread dry flour over
it, and wrap the burned bart in it.
It is always well to have some sim
ple remedies in the house where you
can get them without a moment’s loss
of time; a little bottle of peppermint, in
case of colic; cholorate or potash for
sc re throat, pepsin for indigestion, and
a bottle of brandy. Have them arranged
so that you could go to them in the dark
and reach the right remedy, but be sure
you never do it, even if you know they
have not been disturbed; ’always light
a lamp or the gas, and make sure you
have what you are after. Remember
that pistols are always loaded, and that
poison nflay be put in place of pepper
mint.
WORDS OE WISDOM.
Denying a fault doubles it.
Manners are the shadows of virtues.
You cannoFdream yourself into a char
acter ; you must hammer and forge your
self one.
When young, we trust ourselves too
much, and we trust others too little
when old.
To be comfortable and contented,
spend less than you can earn, an art
which few have learned.
No human scheme can be so accurately
projected, but some little circumstances
may intervene to spoil it.
Matches wherein our party is all pas
sion, and the other all indifference, will
assimilate about as well as ice and fire.
As by constant friction steel is kept
highly polished, so by constant exercise
is talent ever at its brightest. All our
powers grow by use.
The wife is the sun of the social sys
tem. Unless she attract, there is noth
ing to keep heavy bodies, like husbands,
from flying off into space.
Love, like a cold bath, is never nega
tive, it seldom leaves us when it finds
us; if once we plunge into it, it will
either heighten our virtues or inflame
our vices.
There is this difference between happi
ness and wisdom ; he that thinks him
self the happiest man really is so, but
he that thinks himself the wisest is gen
erally the greatest fool.
"OLD HICKORY’S" NOSE.
Ftrutcnaut Randolph'* Attack on Prcgidcn
.1 nrk*on
A Washing! on letter gives the follow
ing account of an affair which created a
great stir at the time it occurred, Lieu
tenant Randolph’s attack on President
Jackson in 1833:
Lieutenant Robert B. Randolph, of
the navy, on board the frigate Constitu
tion, was appointed by Captain Patter
son, in tlie year 1828, to assume the du
ties of acting purser, in the place of
John B. Timberlake, the purser, who,
in a fit of drunken delirium, had com
mitted suicide. Timberlake was the
i first husband of the future Mrs. General
John H. Eaton, nee Peggy O’Neal, who
enjoys the dubious honor of having
caused the dissolution of General Jack
son’s first Cabinet— Randolph took
charge of the office dr duties of purser,
and, in his statement of the case, he com
plains that the survey and inventory re
quired by the regulations or the law
were not made, and that he was held
accountable for an amount of stores
which were not on hand. After some
years lie was found to be a defaulter, on
| wbat he insisted was an assumed state
of facts, when he took charge of the
pursership. A court of inquiry was ap
pointed to investigate his accounts.
Their report exonerated him from an
intentional misuse of the public prop
erty, but not from the default. They
reported him to be careless or neglect
ful, though not dishonorable. Other
wise he was an efficient officer, who had
rendered the country valuable service.
On this report General Jackson dismiss
ed him from the service, in spite of the
strenuous efforts of influential friends
in his behalf, it was to avenge himself
for this injustice, as he regarded it, that
he made the violent assault upon the
President. The friends of General Jack
son were never willing to admit the fact,
but his opponents insisted that Ran
dolph pulled the old hero’s nose. That
seems, to have been the purpose of the
ruffian, at any rate ; and the blood upon
the general’s face would seem to prove
that the attempt was sncceseful.
The opportunity for this outrage was
furnished by a trip of the President, a
portion of his Cabinet, liis private secre
tary, and other friends, down the Poto
mac to Fredericksburg, in Virginia, to
witness the ceremony of laying the cor
ner-stone of the monument to the
memory of the mother of Wash
ington. The boat stopped at
Alexandria for a few moments, and
while there a number of persons came
on board, and among them Mr. Ran
dolph, the late lieutenant in the navy,
who had recently been dismissed from
the service. He entered the cabin
where the President was seated and en
gaged in reading a newspaper. He ad
vanced toward the President as if to ad
dress him, and seemed to be in the act
of drawing his glove. “The President,”
says the account in the Globe, “not
knowing him, and supposing it was
some person about to salute him, and
seeing him at some difficulty in getting
off liis glove, stretched out iiis hand to
ward him saying, ‘Never mind your
glove, sir.’ Randolph having then dis
engaged himself from his gloves, thrust
one hand violently into the President’s
face, and before he could make use of
the other received a blow from a gentle
man standing near by him with an um
brella. Almost at the same time two
other gentlemen in the cabin sprang
upon him, and he was dragged back and
thrown down.
“The moment he was assaulted
the President seized his cane,
which was lying near him on the table,
and was forcing his way through the
gentlemen who had crowded round
Randolph, insisting that no man should
stand between him and the villain who
had insulted him ; that he would chas
tise him himself. Randolph by this
time had been borne toward the door of
the cabin, and pushed through it to the
deck. He made his way through the
crowd on the deck aud the wharf, being
assisted, as is believed, by some ruffian
confederates, and made his escape. He
stopped for a few moments at a tavern
in Alexandria, and passed on beyond
the district line. The grand jury, then
in session, in a few minutes found a
presentment against him, aud the court
issued a bench warrant. A magistrate
had just previously issued a warrant,
but before the officers could arrest him
he was gone.”
An eye-witness, writing to the Rich
mond Enquirer, gives some additional
particulars, as follows : “When the
President said, ‘Never mind your glove,
sir,’ Randolph said in a low tone that he
came to ‘take his revenge by pulling his
nose,’ suiting the action to the word.
The President ersdhifeed in astonish
ment, ‘What, si? 1 *Wbat, sir !’ Ran
dolph on the instant was struck by Mr.
Potter with an umbrella a very severe
blow, which knocked him against the
berth. Captain Brown seized him and
dragged him with violence from the
Piesident, and Major Donaldson rushed
toward the table in his anxiety
to protect the President. It was
the work of an instant. The President
exclaimed, seizing his stick, ‘Let no
man interfere between me and this per
sonal assault; I am an old man, but
perfectly capable of defending myself
against, and punishing a dozen cowardly
assassins.’ It is said that a person
named Thomas approached the Presi
dent, and, tendering his hand, observed
that if he would promise to pardon him
he would murder the dastard. The
President put by his hand, saying : ‘No,
sir ; Ido not wish the majesty of the
laws insulted for me. lam capable of
defending myself against insult? ”
How to Stop Ruiiawny llorsps.
The Mexicans have a method of sub
duing fractious horses and such as are
inclined to run away, which might be
introduced with profit here. A hood
or winker is so arranged that the driver
or rider can in an instant draw it di
rectly over the eyes of the animal, ef
fectually blindfolding him. Whenever
this is done the horse instantly becomes
quiet, and a repetition of the blindfold
ing two or three times, gradually results
in his becoming quiet and docile. Such
an arrangement would be a valuable ap
pendage to theliead gear of horses dis
posed to run away. *
RELIGIOUS READING.
Quality vs. Quuiltriy.
When Dr. Robert Finley took into
his home at Basking Ridge’ four lads as
pupils in a private school, it was appa
i rently an insignificant undertaking. For
a man of his consummate intellectual
and moral power to be spending liis
time in teaching four boys provoked his
| friends to interpose remonstrance. His
; answer was sublime.
“It will prove no waste of time or
I strength if these boys shall make the
sort of men that, by God’s grace, I mean
they shall.”
So he plodded on, laboriously laying
the foundations not of culture only, but
of character. Like Arnold at Rugby
and Mary Lyon at South Hadley, he
taught, first of all, that conscience and
the Bilile must find in the heart and
j life a shrine and a throne. He gave
j these boys a thorough moral training,
as well as a thorough intellectual dis
j eipline.
Who did those four boys afterward
become? They were Chancel’or Green,
Governor Yroom, Judge Dayton and
Samuel L. Southard.
Hero is a lesson for Sunday-school
teachers.— Her. Be. .!. T. Pierson.
Koliiriou* Nuw* aul Note*.
There are 1,109 young men’s Chris
tian associations in the United States
and 2,400 in the world.
The bequests of James E. Brown, of
Ivittaning, Penn., for various church
purposes aggregate $1,850,000.
The Methodist Episcopal Church has
in this country forty-five colleges and
theological seminaries, besides ninety
other high grade institutions of learn
ing.
The first meeting of the committee
appointed to prepare a creed for the
Congregational churches will be held
in Syracuse, Sept 27.
There are 118 Protestant missions in
New York city, where Sunday schools
and preaching, and other religious and
moral services for adults or children or
both, are regularly carried on.
Pennsylvania has 568 Baptist churches,
containing 64,572 members. The small
est (Zion, Butler county,) has five mem
bers, and the largest (Fomt Church, of
Philadelphia,) has 762 members.
The revised New Testament has been
adopted for all services in the chapel of
the Theological Seminary at Andover
and in Phillips Academy. President
Porter has introduced it in the Yale
chapel. Dr. McCosh reads from it in
connection with the old version in the
religious services he conducts at Prince
ton College.
At the various ministers’ meetings in
Chicago, the following topics were dis
cussed : by the Methodists, “Tbo Causes
ot Modern Skepticism ; by the Baptists,
“The Preacher and his Bible ;” by the
Congregationalists, “The Home Mis
sionary Meeting of the Previous Week.”
The Presbyterian ministers went into the
country for a picnic.
At a meeting held by the Jews in
Chicago, May 26th, to protest against
the persecution of their race in Southern
Russia, addresses were made by Prof.
Swing, R ibbi Hirsch, Judge Rogers,
Thomas Havne, and others. Resolu
tions of sympathy with the sufferers
were adopted, a collection of SBB9 was
taken up, and the U. S. Government
was requested to convey its appreciation
of the efforts of the Tsar to protect his
Jewish subjects. The Government was
also asked to instruct its consuls resi
dent in the disturbed district to extend
needed aid as far as possible.
Cattle on the Plains.
How the cattle business is conducted
on the plains, very few outside of those
engaged in the business there have any
definite idea. The Sidney (Neb.) Plain
dealer's description of the methods fol
lowed will not be devoid of interest:
First, each owner selects some brand
for liis herd, and every head of stock is
branded and turned on their respective
ranges. The stock thus turned loose go
where they choose, sometimes remain
ing on their range, but generally diift
ing here, there and everywhere over the
vast prairies of Western Nebraska, Wy
oming and Colorado, finding their own
food, care, water and shelter. Each
spring, beginning early in May, the
cattle owners meet and appoint a cer
tain time for the beginning of the round
up, and on that day j epresentatives from
the cattle owners or the owners them
selves assemble at an appointed place ;
a wagon is provided for each mess, as
they style it, in which the men, .anging
from six to fifteen, put their baggage
and blankets. The cook’s mess-box is
on the back end of the wagon. Almost
military precision and discipline are ob
served. From five to ten ponies are in
use by each man. This number seems
to an uninitiated person more than nec
essary for tlie prosecution of the work,
but when it is remembered that most of
the time these horses are on the keen
jump after some stray cow, calf or bull,
which, from the freedom they have en
joyed for a year in roaming the plains
or hills, are as wild as an untamed buf
falo, then it is plain enough to the most
unsophisticated that horses are soon run
down. These riding ponies are kept in
a bunch by each mess and are in charge,
day and night, of men hired for the pur
pose of herding them. Grain is never
fed to them, the nutritious grasses of
the hills and plains affording abundant
sustenance. The men ride the gronnd
all over, searching every bluff and ravine
in order to find all the stock, and as
fast as an animal is found it is driven to
a herd from which each owner cuts out
those of his brand and takes them to
his own herd, and so on.
Every day the cattle are gathered to
gether, all unbranded calves are branded,
aud this thing is kept up till the entire
route previously agreed upon as the
field of operations has been thoroughly
scoured and each man takes his cattle
to his range.
The round-up naturally is an expen
sive business, extending as it does over
a territory of 300 to 400 miles square.
But its efficiency in proving property,
and keeping cattle on the ranges where
they belong, makes it necessary as long
aH cattle are permitted to run at large.
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Faliion Note*.
Shoulder capes and mantles of chenille
arc in order for summer wear.
White lace over colored satin is the
j latest relief for hluek dresses in London.
As the season advances fans grow
larger. Shaded fans are much used.
In Paris entire dresses are made of
Chantilly lace at an enormous cost.
A ermicelli embroidery in silver grav
coni is used to trim cashmere. It has
nearly the effect of lace.
Instead of tying a knot of flowers to
the stick of the parasol the Parisian now
fastens a wreath of blossoms to it.
- \\ liite is equally suitable for morning
and evening dress, only tlie material
must be different. White may be tiim
i tiled with any one of tlie colors that
j suits the complexion of the wearer.
The West Indian fashion qf weaving
living beetles and fire-flies will be iu
! traduced if possible by certain New
j Yorkers who have imported some, and
mounted them with gold bands fastened
to gold chains and pins. The creatures
may he used to fasten shawls, for hair
ornaments, brooches or belt-pins.
The waists of many of the latest
French dresses are made in the old
euriass shape with both tlie vest front
and the sleeves very closely shirred.
This shirring is continued down the
front of the skirt, tapering off to a point
at the hem. A handsome dress in this
style is made of pearl gray satin. The
sides of the skirt front are covered with
narrow plaited ruffles that meet a pan
nier drapery on either side. Behind
the skirt falls in a narrow train bordered
with three narrow puffs and a shirred
flounce. A girdle of dark ruby satin
encircles the waist, finished at tlie sides
by bioad loops and ends of the same.
A similar bow is placed at the juncture
of the panniers in front.
A Firefly (’o*l nine.
A short time ago a New York lady
gave a masqueraih I! at her summer
house in Newport , liie dancing was oil
the lawn, and the gn sts were requested
to be there half an hour before dark.
The hostess wore the costume of night,
and in the daylight her black dress,
covered with ivy leaves, did not attract
special attention, but when she appeared
in the gay throng after dark she pre
sented a perfect blaze of light, and was
the center of the admiring and wonder
ing company. Tremulous waves of
reddish-yellow flame seemed to move
over her entire dress, while on a cap on her
head gleamed one great fiery star. The
cause of this illumination was the phos
phorescent light of more than 5,000 fire
| flies. For weeks previous to the ball
■ the designer of the costume had been
storing away fireflies, and on the day of
the fete they were rapidly put on the
dress. As the light-giving spot is on
the ventral surface, each one was placed
on its back and held down by a fine sil
ver wire, so skillfully caught that it
could not not turn over or escape, and
was not injured. Ihe star was formed
of many beetles.
A Japan me Wil’d*.
In Miss Bird’s book on Japan, among
tlie rules for women appears (be fol
lowing :
“Sixth—The wife lias no lord or mas
ter but her husband, therefore she must
do his bidding and not repine. The rule
which women must observe is obedience.
When the wife converses with her hus
band she must do so with a smiling face
and humble word, ami not be rude.
This is the principal duty of women ;
the wife must obey the husband in ail
that he orders her to do, and when he is
angry she must not resist, but obey. All
women shall think their husbands to be
heaven [Hear! Hear!] so they must not
resist their husbands and incur the
punishment of heaven.”
There is not likely to be a general
exodus of American wives to Japan, at
least, not just yet.
Ko*e We Idlug*.
Weddings are as plentiful as roses,
and all sorts of novel fancies in regard
to dress and decoration are following
each other in quick succession. The
latest English weddings are called’“rose
weddings." The bride wears white roses
and the bridemaids wear roses shading
from pale pink to deep crimson. The
dresses worn by them are of Madras
muslin, the bodices gauged front and
back six inches down from the throat,
then a space left fnll, after which the
ganging is repeated for three inches to
the belt. The skirt is gathered half a
yai-d below the waist, then it is left plain
for half a yard, after which are alternate
box-plaited flounces and puffings. The
sleeves are made with alternate gaugings
and puff’s from the shoulder to the wrist,
and jaunty mob caps are worn on the
head, adorned with roses.— New York
Post.
The Baptist anniversary meetings
which recently closed at Indianapolis,
and which were the most interesting of
any yet held, show great advance in all
departments of Christian work. The
Publication Society received last year
$421,137, and issued 509,000,000 pages.
Sixty-nine colporteurs and Sunday
school missionaries have been at work
in forty-three States and Territories.
Foreign missions received $313,774, and
home missions $235,032, an increase of
nearly one-third over last year. Dr.
Duncan, of Cincinnati, stated that the
million of freedmen who can read had
no copy of the Scriptures.
The City Council of Vienna has ap
pointed a man to shoot down the spar
rows with an air-gun at the rate of forty
to fifty a day. This is done because
their twitter drowns the notes of the
singing birds.
Philadelphia and New York are con
nected by more telegraphic wires than
any two other cities in the World, and
yet all is not brotherly love between
them.
The Herdic Coach Company aro going
to use broncho horses or Indian ponies
to draw their coaches. The broncho is
tough, a good puller and lasts twice ns
long as the American home.
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Profanity in the streets of Baltimore
: is punishable by fine.
The aggregate number of live stock
in the United States is set down at 82,-
000.000 head.
There are now in this country 271,
144 teachers, or ono teacher to every 184
of population.
Tattoo marks may lie removed, it is
said, by pricking milk into the skin in
the same manner that the ink was origi
nally applied.
In 1786 there were 250,000 landed
proprietors in England, lmt in 1876 the
number hud dwindled to 170,000. Half
of Scotland belongs to ten or twelve
persons.
Vast, flocks of sheep are owned in
Australia, one man having 500,000 ani
mal-, another 386,000, the Australian
land com puny 300,000, and numerous
other proprietors from 200,000 down
wads.
At the close of the last Ashantco war
Queen \ ktoria received as a memento
thereof King K dlVe’s umbrella, and now
in token of amity the steamer A’olta has
brought to her from the Ashantees a
large golden ax.
An old maid of Plattslmrg, Mo., has
five trained cats. On a bed, in a sleep
ing apartment, are to be seen five little
pillows, handsomely decorated with
lace, fringe and gay ribbons, and on
these the five cats sleep.
■ The new roof on the cupola of St.
Peter’s cathedral, at Rome, is divided
into sixteen sections, each one requiring
1,000,00(1 ] amiuls of lead. It was begun
seventeen years ago, and Avill not be
finished for two years longer.
Wonderfully rapid canal digging is to
he done in Florida, in connection with
the scheme f>r redeeming the vast area
of swamp land. Powerful machines on
floats will scoop out the soft soil to a
depth of filteen feet and a width ot
forty four. Nine million cubic yards
will ho t Ini a excavated in about six
months.
How to Build a Levee.
From an article in Scribner's Magazine
on the levees of the Mississippi we clip
the following ; The mode of building
a levee which superseded the primitive
style just described is this ; The space
which it is to occupy is first carefully
cleaned oil; trees, roots, stumps, logs,
weeds, even gra sand leaves, are re
moved. Then in the middle of the
space, extending longitudinally the
whole length of the proposed work, is
dug a ditch three feet wide and three
feet deep, which is to he straightway
filled up again. This is called a mock
ditch, or, as some people say, a “muck
ditch,” but why “muck” is one of the
things that has not yet been found out.
The object of this is twofold—to close
all root-holes and to mortise the super
structure into the natural earth, thus
preventing any sliding under the pres
sure of the water. As the levee is built
of loose earth, its mass coalesces with
the loose earth with which the mock
ditch was filled, and when the levee has
been completed, and settled, it forms,
with the contents of the mock-ditch, a
homogeneous mass anchored three feet
all along the line in the solid ground.
The next process is to build the levee.
The material is to be taken only from
the outside, or next to the river, and
should not be cut nearer than twenty
feet from the base of the levee; the
earth is carried in wheelbarrows upon
run-plank. The dimensions of levees
have varied from time to time, accord
ing to the amount of funds available for
their construction. In any case, the
top of the levee should be three feet
deipendicular above high-water mark ;
the base line should be five, six, or
seven feet, according to the ratio in
force, for every foot of perpendicular
height; the top should be level, and as
broad as the levee is high. Thus where
high-water mark is four feet, above the
level of the natural bank, the perpen
dicular height of the levee should be
seven feet, the breadth at the top should
be seven feet, and its thickness at the
bottom thirty-five feet, forty-two feet, or
foity-nine fei t, as the ratio of five to
one, six to one, or seven to one might
be in force. Taking, for illustration, a
seven foot levee constructed upon this
last ratio, it will be observed that, with
the wat ?r standing four feet deep, there
will be on a horizontal line twenty-five
feet of solid earth between the surface
of the water outside and the air inside,
aud forty-nine foet between the bottom
of the water without and the air at the
natural surface of the earth within.
The last but indispensable step in
the process of levee-building is the
“seep-water” ditch, which is dug some
thirty or forty feet from the inner mar
gin of the levee, and parallel with it.
The function of this ditch is to receive
and conduct away the seep-water, or
transpiration-water, which oozes in con
siderable quantities through even the
most compact of levees. If permitted
to remain it would render the ground
about the inner base of the levee intol
erably muddy, and would operate as a
great disadvantage in case of emergency.
The seep water ditch must be connected
with plantation ditches or otherwise put
into communication with the swamp in
the rear, so that the water can be car
ried away. Finally, as a finishing touch
to the new levee, it should be planted
with Bermuda grass. If tufts of this
grass be set two or three feet apart all
over the surface of tlie levee it will, in
a year or two, cover it completely with
a very dense sod, aud by its interlacing
roots add materially to its water-resist
ing capacity. When water stands for a
long time against a levee, tlie current
and the waves serionsly abrade its sur
face, cutting in sometimes so deep that
an inoppnituno wind storm would as
suredly break it. A heavy coat of Ber
muda sod is a very efficient preventive
of this kind of disaster. I have seen,
at the end of a long period of high
water, a piece of levee deeply indented
all along the line, and, in some places,
cut more than half through, while ad
joining it was a strip of Bermuda-cov
ered levee, subject to the same exposure
to wave, wind and current, which had
not, apparently, lost a pound of earth
or a tuft of grass.