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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