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About Schley County enterprise. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1886-1??? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1886)
SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPRIS + A. J. HASP, Publisher. THE NEWS. Interesting Happenings from all Points. KAHTKKNI AND MIDDI.K ST4TRS. During 1885 there were 30,088 births, 11,- <10 marriage*. 35,696 deaths and 73,072 ar- rests in New York city. Governor Hill’s inaugural ceremonies at Albany comprised a civic and military pro¬ cession—in which tho governor took part— to the capitoi, wht.ro the oath of ofllco was administered by Judge Learned. In his ad¬ dress Governor Hill reviewed the history of some of his predecessors anti made promises of a reform administration, quoting words of Mr. Tilden and pledging himself to follow in the footsteps of that governor. William II. McNeil, president of tho Lancaster National bank, of Clinton, Mass., disappeared pended. The suddenly, absconding anil the I sink sus¬ thought to have fled to Canada president was Frederick Fishel, confidential book¬ during keeper for the a large New York clothing house, past few years stele from the firm Bums gambling aggregating and fast $75,000, living. which he spent in stared him When detection in the face he fled to Canada, but was arrested a few days ago and brought back to the metrojiolis. Last year accident.* in thenumern,.* J -I,,, wanna \ alley (i’euti.) mines, amounted to seventy-one deaths, the maiming of sixty- nine persons (some of whom will die) and tho wounding of 173. Fire has partly destroyed the Essex County lunatic asylum, Newark, N. J. Though removed. greatly excited, The the 350 inmates wore safely $75,000. damage amou ts to about Three small boys—Robbie, AY i.lMe and Hugh Roberts—were drowned while skating near near West Pawlet, Vt, A great improdement in the iron and coal trade is reported in some sections of Pennsyl¬ vania where those industries are predominant. A committee in New York is raising a fund of $100,000 to aid Parnell, the Irish home rule leader, and his eolleagues in the British house of commons. About $25,000 has al¬ ready been raised. Millie Eddie, a trapeze performer, fell thirty in a New feet Haven from a theatre, trajieze and while performing seriously, if was not fatally injured. The annual message of Governor Hill, of New York, says that the State’s finances are in a healthful condition, although there has been an undue increase in public expendi tures; that a revision of the tax laws is needed; praises the civil service laws and de¬ nounces the s|x>ils system, and declares that the problem of the satisfactory employment of prison labor still remains unsolved. Mr. Am Enbe, the Hoboken (N. J.) drug¬ gist whose mistake in a prescription resulted tn the death of two young ladies some time ago, was acquitted by the jury. The New York legislature organized by electing mly, James W. Husted speaker of tho assen while Lieutenant-Governor Jones swore in the ^senators. The legislature is Republican in both branches. The annual auction sales of pews belong¬ ing to Mr. Beecher’s Plymouth churefi bringing Brooklyn, realized $26,620, the first choice $775. •b B. Lippincott, head of the well-known Philadelphia publishing house, is dead. SOUTH AND WF8T- R. H. Harris, a resident of Lee county, Ala., and an ex-member of the legislature or that State, committed suicide by shooting. In a drinking saloon brawl at Louisville, Ky., brother, Anthony Sauer fatally stabbed his who had knocked him down. General Fitzhugii Lee was inaugurated governor of Virginia at Richmond. Speculators are holding back wheat for Increased prices, and in consequence every elevator in Michigan is reported to be full to the roof, 2,000,000 bushels being stored in Detroit alone. * The lumber-laden vessel Orphan Roy, with ■even Michigan. men on board, has gone down iu !>ake Chicago is to have a crematory for the burning of the dead. A fire destroyed the Southern hotel, New Orleans, an. 1 L. mis TCissner, a Baltimore mu¬ sician, perished iu the flam,*. Five prisoners—four of them charged with murder—knocked down a guard in the Charleston (\Y r . Va.) county jail and escaped The captain, mate and Chinese cook of a schooner wrecked on the Oregon coast a fee days ago were drowned. WASHINGTON. More than 6,000 persons,comprising cabinet members, judges, the diplomatic corps, supreme court army aud navy officers, many members of Congress, numerous government officials, grand army veterans citizens, and an im¬ mense hands with throng President of private Cleveland his shook New at Year reception in the AVhite House. The ladies who helped the President receive were Mias Cleveland, Mrs. Bayard, Mrs. Manning, Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Vilas. President Cleveland has contributed $100 to the Grant monument fund. Accom¬ panying the contribution is the hope that the association will succeed in its object. The numlx-r of fourth-class jx>stiiiasters are pointed under the present administration was, up to the 5th, 13,425. A Washington special states that the President has now sent to the Senate the nominations of all the men he has appointed to office since the adjournment of the special session of that body last March. None have been withheld. Four Republican Senators— Messrs. Hawley, Frve, Conger and Cullom - have called at the White House to state to the President their objections to men he ays pointed during tho recess. FOREIGN. A young prirl who ha<l marie a highly sue cessful ilebut a,s a singer in Buda-I’esth, Hun¬ gary, killed of herself with shortly her afterward on Re¬ count a quarrel affianced lover. M. Pasteur, the hydrophobia expert, ha* undertaken at his own cost to cure eleven persons that have been bitten by a mad wolf in a village in Western Russia Great Britain has formally annexed Burmah, thus adding 67,000 square miles to the British empire. A Panama disiiateh says that two fam¬ ilies with attendants were crossing from Taleabunano to Per.io when their Ixiat was ■wampod, six ami au-l seventeen Lddi" persons—nine men, • mu : v . ", v • - ! Woody MatakIORak, election Mexico, lias been the scene of a riot. The chief of police . and seven rioters wore wounded.. The mili¬ tary law took possession of tho city and martial was declared. The Arabs lost 600 kilted and wounded in the recent battle with the British near Kosheh, Egypt. Emperor William's twenty-fifth anni¬ versary of his accession to the throne o r Prussia has just, been celebrated through ^ t , Germany Every with much kingdom, rejoicing and outlaid Lsm. principality empire, republic an t of Europe and America was represented in a gorgeous and glittering pro¬ cession to the royal chapel at Berlin, where a thanksgiving service was hold. Women lmve just voted for the first time in Toronto, and they elected the temperance candidate for mayor, for whom they wont almost solidly. A new French cabinet has been formed by M. de Freyciuet. The Balkan conference at Constantinople has lieen abandoned, Russia refusing to guar antee the independence of the union of Bui garia and Eastern Roumelia. A shock of earthquake was felt a few da} Mnoe over an area of several miles in Bou' Devonshire, England. Dr. Robert Ramsey, oue of the mo. prominent masons in America, died tbe otic '! night in Toronto. NK( Kt.TAKV MANNING’* CALL Foil TKS MILLION*. The Call Issued lo Alliiyii Fear of fllsturl.. anett lu Finance. Secretary Manning has issued a lioncl for ten millions of three per cents, interest which will cease on tho 1st of February next This is the first call of t>ouds since September 26, 1884, fifteen months ago. It is understood that tho call was made by Secretary Manning in order to remove from the minds of the public any apprehension as lo a disturbance in the money market grow¬ ing out of any or continued shipments of gold to foreign will markets. It is said that sufficient calls be made whenever it is evident that a supply of gold is necessary to meet demands of this character. THE CALL. Trvasitrv rinnciTurvT 1 i Officb of the Secretary, .ia* f Washington vv ahhington, JJ. j, to, tw Bee. <*. 2», 18*5 J By virtue of the authority conferred by law iq* n the secretary of the treasury, no- accrued tice is hereby given that bonds the principal anil interest of he hereinlwlow designated, United States, will be the paid city at of the V\ treasury ashingtou, of the 1 >. m U, ou tho 1st day of February, 1886, and that the interest on said bonds will cease on that day—Viz the ; three |ior cent, bonds issued under art of Congress approved July l2, 1882, and numbered as follows: Soo-Orignial No. 2W9 to original No. 303, both inclusive, and original No. 1,314 to orig- mal No. 1,307, both inclusive. *106—Original both No. 2,100 original to original No. 2,- 204, inclusive, ami inclusive. No. 9,564, to i?’l? illal ??■ * x> *'* 1 090, #•>00-Original both inclusive, No. 1,076 original to original No. 4,048 No. .. 1,- and to $1,000—Ongical ^9- 4,200, both No. 9,787 inclusive. to original No. 10,012, both inclusive, W and original No. 23,011 18ek>4’both f'ly^l-Onginul mclusiye. No. L,401 to original ,-kt No. lotaJ, $10,000,000. The bonds described above are either bonds of the original issue, which have but one serial number at each end, or “substitute” bonds, winch may bo distinguished by the double set of numbers, which are marked plainly numbers." “original All of numbers” and “substitute the bonds of this loan will be railed by the original numbers only. The three months interest due February 1, 1880 on the above described bonds will not bo paid by checks forwarded to the holders ol the bonds,but will be paid,with the principal, to the holders at the time of presentation. Many of the bonds originally included in the above numbers have been transferred or exchanged “waiver,” into other numbers denominations on the original being can- cekMi, and leaving outstanding the apparent amount above stated. The provision of law governing the order in which the bonds shall bo called m is as fol- “Tho ..... last of the said .., bonds , originally . . „ issued . , under this act, and their substitutes, shall bo first called in, and this order of payment shall be followed until all shall have been paid." Bonds forwarded for redemption should be addressed Division to the “Secretary of the Treasury, of Loans, Washington, D. C.,” and all bonds called by this circular should be assigned redemption.” to the 1 Assignments ‘Secretary of the Treasury for must be dated and the properly printed acknowledged the back of as prescribed in note on each bond. Where checks in payment are desired in favor of any one but the payee the bonds lie assigned redemption to tho “Secretary for of the for account oF’ (here insert the name of the person or persons to whose order tho cheek should be made pay. able). [ Daniel Manning, Secretary. The Indian Problem, HOW GRNEKAL Nil Kill DAN PIIOI’OSKB TO nettle TI1K QUESTION. In response to a request for additional in formation explanatory of the recommenda- his last anuual report in regard to Indian question, Lieutenant-General Blwtfciau has written a statement in whleb h, says: In my annual report for 1885 I recommend- ed that each Indian family lie given (and located upon) the 320 acres actual now provided settlement; f.-r them by law in ease of that the government then condemn the ro- mainder of each reservation with and the. buy proceeds it in at $1.25 i*>r acre, and purchase government bonds, to lie held in trust to" by the interior each department, the giving the Indians year interest on the bonds for their support. 1 cited in illustration of what would l« the practical workings of this suggestion the case of the Crows, the Cheyennes and Arapahoes and the Utes, but the limit of my report did not per- mit a full elucidation of the advantages that would accrue to the Indian nor even an ai- lusion to the large amount of land now lying idle that would thereby bv much lie opened tho to material settle- ment and increase so prosperity of the natiim. The Indian reservations of the United Stat<>s contain about 200,000 square miles; their population isat>out20U,000. Twenty-six fain- thousand square miles would locate each il v upon a half section of land, leaving a cur- plus of about 170,000 square miles, which, would a-- cording to annually the plan $4,480,000. I have proposed, This amount produce $600,000 the entire exceeds bv about sum ap- preprinted for tho payment of their annuities and for their subsistence amt civilization. The policy advocated in my report would be most, advantageously applied Indian* gradually, being the general government of the continued according to the methods now in Vo- lie or such improvement of them as time and exis'i-ienee may suggest. Tho ultimate development of the suggested policy would, as the Indians advance in civilization and in- telligenoe, result in the return to them of the principal derived from the sale of their authorized lan'ts, which, until such measures were held by act of Congress, would be as a trust for their benefit ami tho income applied to their support. TRAIN FALLS TIIPOITHH A IIRIDGR A FhIaI Accident to a Train on tbe Pennerl- vanta Railroad. About half past eight o’clock Monday evening the local east-bound freight train ou tke Penn¬ sylvania railroad was orossing the bridge al St rman’s creek, nearbungannon. fifteen mile* from Harrisburg, Pa., when one of the spans, n rukened by high water, gave way into and tho preoipl- tab-d the engtne atjthat andeight cars into the Susquehana stream, which empties point with the wreck. r.vcr. Five men went down Two of the crew succeeded in rescuing The the en¬ gineer, who was badly hurt, shore brakeman, mimed Turbit, was gotten on and con¬ voyed to the station at Duncan, where he died. Conduotor Nall is reported dead, and the fire¬ man and two brakemen missing. Several Sand slides ooeurred at other points on the road, but were discovered in time to prevent accident. The storm was one of the most severe that has ever visited that vicinity. The streams in the neighborhood of Karriahu/g are swollen beyo..d their banks. The lower stories of the houses are flooded, and the rain at midnight showed no sign ot abatement. Throughout the entire Cumberland valley much damage has bec» done. AM the Mules Drowned. All the mules in Preston N->. 3 colliery, Ash- land, Pft., numberingthiffr-six, Were drowned 1 hursday morning. The water gained on the pumps so rapidly that tha animals eould not be rescued. They were Yaiued at $120 eaeh. ELLAY1LLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 188G. A DESTRUCTIVE EIRE, A MILLION HOI.LARS OF PROPERTY IN DETROIT SWEPT AWAY. I llio til}’* Larges* Then ire Destroyed and a Fireman Killed. i The most destructive fire that has occurred ®n Detroit in a score of years broke out the other moruiug in the seed store and ware¬ house of D. M. Ferry & Co., which occupied one-half the block, bounded by Croghan and Lafayette streets, east of Randolph. Smoko was seen issuing from a window at about 0 o’clock and an alarm was sounded. The fir* department the found was tho on tho ground part of promptly, the building and full men of dense smoko, upper which seriously interfered with every attempt to locate the fire. The breaking of windows to run in hose furnished a sufficient draft to kindle the smotherd flames, which at once broke out in great fury. Tho entire contents of the burned building were asinflam- nmblo as tinder and as rapidly. Prom one end to the other it, seemed to inflame at on ,,, Th() cvowds M1 llU ,. k t „.f ore tUe intenso heat and the firemen were driven away from their posts. W ater seemed to have no effect on tho (i ame8 . l„ 0 „ e hour’s time the walls of | the s,uth half of tho building had fallen in. The uort h half was shut off by u heavy brick .-all, with openings closed by double iron doors. So powerful was the heat that theso j were twisted into from their half fastenings of structure and tho swept that the gnd in half an hour more that was gone, The fire then spread across theatre, an alley and commlm j cate d to White’* the largest most complete structure of the kind in q 10 ppy ’ which fronts 011 Randolph street, wlll tl) j s was destroyed. Several ad- single stores in the block followed, so so that finally an entire square small was swept brick c iean, with the exception of one structure. This was tho busiest season of tho year for Porry & Their building already was sorted full from top p, bottom of material and packed for shipment. Their loss is, as near can be estimated, $650,000 on building and stock, on which they have an insurance of 000 The toss on White’s theatre is estimated at a bout $125,000. The building originally additional cost *75,000, but a large amount of ex- pease lias been put on the premises. The 6 taere properties, the scenery, contents, etc., with were slight very ponmiete. All OICO p t ions, were destroyed. William H. Wesson is the owner, and is well in- ^,,.,,1 The other buildings burned bleak on the belonged Randolph street side of the to the g^te of t he late E. A. Brush, and were worth $75 000. Thev are fairly f ks insured, that There were other i osst>s 0 stoc w ill aggregate something the like $50,000 more Altogether losses ca n- not t)0 ] eS a than $1,000, (XXI, about two-thirds insured. Captain Richard Filban, Q f one 0 f the truck companies, was struck by a falling wall during the progress of the fire md i nstau tly killed. He was an unmarried man twenty-eight years old, and the support of a widowed mother. Two other firemen were seriously injured from the - same cause, 0SSME ARABS, NTILL FIERCELY FIGHTING Tli BRITISH IN EGYPT. A Batttie Id Which the Rebels vrere t om * pletely Routed. A dispatch from Kosboh, Egypt, says “Lieutenant General Stephenson, eommand- e r of the British forces in Egypt, who recent- ly arrived here with large reinforcements, attacked the rebels who had been menacing the garrison for several weeks. A three-hours fight ensued, resulting in the British troops capturing Giniss, a village near Kosheh. The rebels were completely routed. Tho cavalry is pursuing the enemy. The guns and twenty bannere wore captured. The English lost one officer killed and twenty-one men wounded. The Egyptian allies of the Brit¬ ish lost six killed' and thirteen wounded." in one house. British men-of-war have lieen ordered to blockade the coast of Egypt from Massowah to Suez, in order to prevent and ammunition the importation for into the Soudan of arms the Arabs. The rout of tho rebels was s< < complete, Stephenson says a later dispatch,' that General is hopeful that there will lie no necessity for further operations. report stated that the Arabs at A recent Giniss and Abal numbered 7,000, of whom 1,100 were riflemen. They had six guns and plenty of ammunition. The guns were placer! In earthworks, and the line of fire was direct on the Nile, so as to oppose the passage of a steamer. Ab-del-Kader Pasha, minister ofwar,for- merly governor of tho Soudan, in a recent conversation on the Egyptian Wady question, Haifa said: they “If the English Assouan, retire ou and if Assouan, must retire on on then on Cairo. Every friends; pece in advance gives in the English a hundred every pace retiring gives them two hundred enemies, half in front, half in rear. but England if may gain victory after victory, they are followed by retreat the English government has uselessly who will wasted believe blood. in England’s There is defeat. not one I in ten say that a retirement now would be fatal.” When asked whether the question was in- soluble he replied; “No, it requires two rebellion; things —first, a fixed policy Let England to erush attack the secondly, force, money. ami after tho latter’s defeat enemy negotiations. m With native emissaries and open England could detach the soldiers money the backbone of the rebellion who are now and also some tribes who are always jealou of each other.” When asked what sum would be required tho minister said: ‘Perhaps £2,000,060, the but this policy would lie tho cheapest in long run.” RAILROAD CONSOLIDATION. A C'omblnatioB which Brine*Together 1,828 Mile* of Iload. II is atated hero that U. P. Huntington will consolidate all his property east of tli* Missis¬ sippi Hirer at an early date. The Newport News and the Mississippi Valley railroad is to be the title of the new oompany, whioh erabraoes the Chesapeake and the Ohio, extending from Newport News to Huntington, West Va., 531 miles; the Elizabetliton, Lexington and Big Sandy, Huntington to I.exington, and Southwestern, Ky., 139 miles: the Chesapeake. Ohio miles; the Louisville, Louisville to Memphis, 302 New Orleans and Texas, Memphis to New Or¬ leans, 533 miles, and the Kentucky Central, 254 miles. These roads, with be under an aggregate mileage of 1,828 miles, are to one generalman- agement. The Maysville Ashland, and Big Sandy road wid be extended from Ky., to Cincin¬ nati this year. This will shorten the die tanas about sixty miles. A Pretty Blonde’s Ta»te. Miss Eda Brawnell, a young and pretty blonde, of Cleveland, 0., whose parents are in good circumstances and moved in good soci¬ ety, has just married a colored man named Barber, who is also a barber by trade. A co’- ! orvd clergyman performed ha acted the service. go-between A col ore( ; woman servant as j between the girl and her black lover. His , i»it« were ostensibly to the colored woman, The new married couple left the city after the marriage. Two Rooms. i. A beautiful room with tinted walla, A bust, where the colored sunshine falls, A lace hung hod with a satin fold. A lovely room, all bine und gold And ennui. n. A quaint old room with rafters bare, A small whito bed, a rocking chair, A book, a stalk where a (lower had been, An open door and all within Content. — Good Housekeeping. LITTLE KATE AND I. Wo didn’t wait for an income to marry on, little Kate and 1. We had no rich relations to leave us legacies or to send pearl necklaces, diamond orna¬ ments, or thousand dollar bonds for wedding presents. I was sitnply a brakeman on the Eastern Michigan railway, a long and lonely stretch of rails over desolate marshes, steep mountain grades, and solitary sweeps of prairie land; she was the bright-eyed waitress in one of tho restaurants along the line. But w hen I fell from the platform when the great accident happened, you heard of the great ac¬ cident, I suppose, when there was such a shocking loss of life—it was Katie’s care and nothing else that brought me back into the world I had so nearly quitted for good and all! “I would have done it for anybody, Mark!” said she, when I tried to thank her. “Would you?” said I. “But it isn’t everybody that would have done it for me, Kate!” So 1 asked her to marry me, and she said yes. And I took a little cottage on the edge of the Swampscott woods, and furnished it as well as I could, with red carpet, cheesecloth curtains at the windows, a real Connecticut clock, and a set of walnut chairs that I made myself, with seats of rushes, woven in by old Billy, the Indian, who carried his baskets and mats around the country, and Mrs. Perkins, the parson’s wife, made us a wedding cake, and so wo w r ere married. Pretty soon I found out that Kate w r as pining a little. “What is it, sweetheart?” said I. “Remember, it was a contract between us that we were to have no secrets from each other 1 Arc you not per¬ fectly happy?” “Oh, yes, yes!” cried Kate, hiding her face on my shoulder. “But it’s my mother, Mark. She’s getting old, and if I could only go East to see her, just once before the Lord takes her away 1 ” It was then I felt the sting of rny poverty most Jfl had only been a rich man to have handed her out. a check, and said; “Go a„ once!” I think I could have been quite happy. “Never mind, sweetheart,” said I, stroking down her hair. “We’ll lay up a few dollars from month to month, and you shall go out and see her be¬ fore she dies 1 ” Anil with that little Kate was forced to be content, But there was a hun- gry, homesick look upon her face which went to my heart to see. One stormy autumn night wo were belated on the road, for the wind was terrible, shaking the century old pines and oaks, as if they were nothing moro than tall swamp grasses, and driving through the ravines with a shriek and a howl like a whole pack of hungry wolves. And the heavy rains had raised the streams so that we were compelled to go carefully and slowly over the bridges and keep a long look ahead for fear of accidents. I was standing at my post, in front of the second passenger car, stampipg my feet on the platform to keep them warm, and hoping little Kate would not be perturbed at my long absence, when the news agent came chuckling out: “We’re to stop at Stumpville sta¬ tion," said he. “Nonsense," said I, “I know better. This train never stops short of Wau- kensha city, least of all when we are running to make up for lost time, as we are to-night.” “Qh, but this is an exceptional occa¬ sion,” said Johnny Mills (which was the newsagent’s name.) “We’rego¬ ing to put an old woman off. She has lost her ticket, she says. More likely she never had one. Goes on as though she had her pockets picked.” * “Which is the one?” said I, turning to look at the end window of the car which was at the rear. “Don’t you see? The old party at the back of the two fat women in the red shawls. She’s haranguing Jones now.” “I see,” said I. It was a little old woman in a black silk poke bonnet, a respectable cloth cloak, bordered with ancient fur, and a long, green veil, who was earnestly talking and gesticu- lating with the conductor. But he shook his head and passed on, and she sank back in a helpless little heap be- hind the green veil, and I could see her take a small handkerchief from a small basket and put It piteously to her eyes. “It’s too bad, said I. “Jones might remember that he once had—If he hasn’t now- a mother of his own.” “And lose his place on the road,” said Mills. “No, no, old fellow, all that sort of thing does very well to talk about, but it don’t work In real life.” So he went Into the next car, and the signal to slack up came presently. 1 turned to Mr. Jonos, the conductor, who just then stepped out on the plat¬ form. “Is it for that old lady ?” said I. lie answered, “Yes.” Said I, “How far did she want to go?” “To Swamp- scott,’’ said he. “You needn’t stop, Mr. Jones,” said I, “I’ll pay her fare.” “You!” he echoed. “Yes, I,” said I. “I’ll take her to my own house until she can telegraph to her friends or something. My wife will be good to her, I know, for the sake of her own old mother out east !” “Just as you please," said Mr. Jones. We did not stop at Stumpville sta¬ tion after all, but put on more steam and ran as fast as’it was safe to drive our engino—and when, a little past midnight, we reached Swampscott, where we were due at 7:30, Pierre Rene, the Frenchman, came on board to re¬ lieve me, and I helped my old lady off the train, fiat basket, travelling bag and all. “Am I to be put off, after all? ’. said she, with a scared look around her. “Cheer up, ma’am," said I, “You are all right. Now, then—look out for the step! Here we are.” “Where am I?” said the old lady. “At Swampscott, ma’am,” said 1. “And you are the kind man who paid my fare?" said she. “Hut my daughter and her husband will repay you when—” “All right, ma’am,” said L “And now, if you’ll just take my arm, we’ll bo home in a quarter of an hour.” “But,” said she, “why can’t 1 go di- rectly to my destination?” It’s middling late, ma’am,” said I, “and the houses don’t stand shoulder to shoulder in Swampscott. My near¬ est neighbor is a mile and a-half away. But never fear, ma’am, I’ve a wife that will be glad to bid you welcome for the sake of her own mother.” She murmured a few words of thanks, but she was old and weary, and the path was rough and uneven, in the very teeth of a keen November blast—and walking wasn't an easy task. Presently, we came to the little cottage on the edge of the Swamp- scott woods, where the light glowed warmly through the Turkey red eur- tains. “Oh, Mark, dearest, how late you are?” cried Kate, making haste to open tho door. “Come in quick, out of the wind. Supper is all ready, and —but who is that with you ?” In a hurried whisper I told her all. “Did Ido right, Kate?" said 1. “ftighL of course you did,” said she. “Ask her to come in at once. And I’ll put another cup and saucer on tho table.” Tenderly I assisted the chilled and weary old lady across the threshold. “Here’s my wife," said L “Ami I hero’s a cup of smoking hot coffee and some of Katie's own biscuits and ckicken pie! You’ll be all right when tho cold is out of your joints a Bit 1” “You are very, very welcome,’’ said Kate brightly, as she advanced to un¬ tie our visitor’s veil and loosen the folds of her cloak. But, all of a sud¬ den, I heard a cry, “Mother, oh, moth¬ er!” “Hold on, Kate!’’ said I, with the coffee-pot stiff in my hand, as I bad been lifting it from the fire. “This is never—” “But it is, Mark!” cried out Kate breathlessly. “It’s mother; my own mother! Oh, help me dearest, quickly, sho has fainted away!” But she was ail right again, present¬ ly, sitting by the fire with her feet on one of the warm cushions, which Kate had knit with wooden needles, and drinking hot coffee. It was all true, The unfortunate passenger whose pocket and to had whose been rescue picked I had on the train, | come, was no other than my Kate s own mother, who had determined to risk the perils of a journey to the far West to see her child once again. | And she has been with us ever since, the dearest old mother-in-law that ever a man had, the comfort of our household, and the guardian angel of little Kate and the baby, when I am away on my long trips. And little Kate declares now that she is “perfectly happy!” God bless her—may she never be otherwise. In Ceylon tho natives cover down newly killed venison with honey, in large earthen pots: these are not. opened for three years, and the meat so preserved is said to be of exquisite flavor. Concerning Clover. Every group of organisms, every genus and etery species of plant or animal, has certain strong points which enable it to hold its own in the struggle for existence against its com¬ petitors of every kind. Most groups have also their weak points, which lay them open to attack or extinction at tho hands of their various enemies. And these weak points are exactly the ones which give riso most of all to further modiilcatiens. A species may be regarded in its normal state as an equilibrium between structure and en¬ vironing conditions. But the equilib¬ rium is never quite complete; and the points of incompleteness are just those where natural selection has a fair chance of establishing still higher equilibrations. These are somewhat abstract statements in their naked form; let us see how far definiteness and concreteness can be given to them by appliyng them in detail to the case of a familiar group of agricultural plants—the clovers. To most people clover is the name of a single tiling, or, at most, of two things, purple clover and Dutch clover; but to the botauist it is the name of a vast group of little (lowering plants, all closely resembling one another in their main essentials, yet all differing infinitely from one another in two or three strongly marked peculiarities of minor importance, which nevertheless give them great distinctness of habit and appearance. In England alone we have no less than twenty-one rec¬ ognized species of clover, of which at least seventeen are really distinguish¬ ed among themselves by true and un¬ mistakable differences, though the oth¬ er four appear to me to be mere botan¬ ist’s species, of do genuine structural value. If we were to take in the whole world, instead of England alone, the number of clovers must he increas¬ ed to several hundreds. The question for our present consideration, then, is twofold: first, what gives the clovers as a class, their great success in the struggle for existence, as evidenced by their numerous species and individ¬ uals; and, secondly, what has caused then; to break up into so large a num¬ ber of closely allied but divergent groups, eacli possessing some special peculiarity of its own, which lias in¬ sured for it an advantage in certan situtaions over all its nearest congen¬ ers ?- Popular /Science Monthly. An Outdoor Insane Asylum. The celebrated Belgian colony of insane at Gheel has nothing in its ternal appearance suggestive of tho ordinary lunatic asylum; its inhabi¬ tants give no superficial indication that a large proportion of them are madmen. If one would conceive what Gheel is, lie must imagine a town of five or six thousand souls, in no way different from other towns of like importance, surrounded by a number of hamlets containing altogether, perhaps, about as many more inhabitants. The e people have been, from a very remote period, in the habit of taking insane persons to board in their houses. The lunatics live in constant contact with the family of their host. They share in their labors and their pleasures if 80 focltood and their means permit it. * * ie y coiri o and go, in the enjoyment an Afloat absolute liberty. It has," however, been found necessary for the good of the patients and of the settled population to organize administrative and medical services, in order to pre¬ vent dangerous and improper persons from being sent to the colony, and for the care of the mental and physical affections of the patients, and for se¬ curing to them proper accommodation and treatment; and an infirmary has been established for those who need medical care. But the administration »i«kes very little show. The whole of the ^eel district is an asylum; and the streets and the surrounding coun- tr y are the promenade of the lunatics. —Popular Science Monthly. Wluilcs in the Faroe Islands, An average whale will yield meat an d blubber (which is for tho most part melted Into oil) in worth about £,3 7s. 6 d. A herd of only 200 grind, successfully landed, will therefore |, e worth to the Faroese nearly £700— no small sum, remembering that the whole fund of the Faroe Savings Bank stands ai only 100,801 kroner (about £(i000). But, in this primitive com- muaity, actual money (though well appreciated) is of less consequence to the people than money's worth. The whales supply them with a store of megflPit is on account of lIris that they are specially jubilant, F 01 months after the capture there will be plenty of feasting in all the houses within the district of tho Iciiliii^, Some of the meat will be roasted and thus eaten fresh, though most of it will bo pickled. As to the blubber, what is not reduced into qil will lie consumed as butter, or dried, salt ed, aud eaten like fat bacon iu England. - Saturday Review. VOL. 1. NO. Hi. From Afar. Sweet, that I see thee when thy dimpled smile Breaks fresh screws the silver rarity morn, And when thy sunny eyes Shame all the sunny skies, And no rose lovely as thy lips is born— That is enough. Sweet, that I hear thee when thy mellow vote* Floats down the twilight in Ualf-wnupered song, While every wren and thrush And all tho robins hush, And listen like my silent heart, and long— That is enough. Sweet, that I dream of theo in holy night, When the tired world hath rooked itself to sleep, And Lets when day and my on yearning re depart, heart I And iindeth 1 est on Love’s unbroken deep— Tlial is enough. — IV. J. Henderson. HUMOROUS. There has been a big jump in the frog market Teacher—Deilno “snoring.’' Small boy—Letting off sleep. The school ma’am who married a tanner had evidently a glimmering of the fitness of things. Some malignant slanderer now states that a woman needs no euloigst, for she speaks for herself. Fond mother—Are you better, my dear? Little Effie—I dunno ; is the jelly all gone? “Yes.” “Well, I well enough to get up, then.” “It seems to me,” moaned he, as b fled toward the front gate, with f old man behind him, “that there® more than three feet in a yard.” “My son, how is it that you a*,^ ways behindhand with your studiaP “Because if I were not behindV with them, I could not pursue then “Did you do nothing to resuscit the body ?” was recently asked <r witness. “Yes, sir; we searched u. pockets,” was the reply. A Sunday-school scholar was asked, apropos of Solomon, who was the great Queen that traveled so many miles to see him. The scholar—in fact, the whole school—looked as if a little help “Are your domestic relations agree¬ able?” waB the question put to an un¬ happy-looking specimen of humanity. “O, my domestic relations are all right,” was the reply. “it’s my wife’s relations that are causing the trouble.” The principal of an academy, who had just purchased a new bell to hang on the cupola of the institution, and also married a handsome woman, made an unfortunate orthographical error when he wrote to the president of the board of trustees: “I have succeeded in procuring a fine large-tongued belle.” Schools and Press of Mexico. It is a lamentable fact that but a small portion of the Mexican people are able to read and write. The total number of illiterate persons is not definitely known, there being no accu¬ rate census returns to which reference can be made. The most reliable esti¬ mate that can be arrived at places the number at 7,000,(KX) P or fully two- thirds of the entire population. It is safe to say of all the daily pa¬ pers published in the City of Mexico no one of them has a circulation of 500 copies outside of the city of publi¬ cation, while it is more than probable that the combined outside circulation of all the dailies will not exceed that number. I have been in a Mexican city of 12,000 inhabitants, where not a single copy of a daily newspaper was subscribed for by the entire popula¬ tion, and where not fifty newspapers of any kind were received at the post- office, except those addressed to resi¬ dents and visitors of foreign birth.— Indianapolis Times. Fable of the Jackass and the Dude. At a meeting of the farm animals the Dude once attempted to prove hit relationship to the Jackass. “Why,” he'safd;'Vhlflfy, “just look at my ears! We must be nearly related.” “True," returned the Jackass, “yovf may be a degenerated mule; but though 1 have often heard men call you a jackass, they have never yet in¬ sulted me by calling me a Dude.” At this speech the other animals burst Into roars of laughter, and the crestfallen Dude slunk silently away. an Moral; ordinary This mortal Fable should teaches net attempt us that I to claim the acquaintance of a hotel f clerk.— Life. The Kernel of the Arerunnnt. A bushel of corn, when compacted into lard, or cheese, or butter, can ttr.u its market anywhere in the vtorld where the cost of sending the corn itself would make a market for it im¬ possible. Besides this, in the making of the lard or butter a, maouriai resi¬ due is left on the land, instead of being carried away to fertilize foreign fields. This is the kernel of the argu¬ ment for mixed farming, instead ipi farming.— New Orleans Tti S>y
