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VORiiVllR YOUNG. Hi* Wild world hastens on its way; Th« fray-haired rantory nears its dose; Its sorrow deepens day by day; The sommer bloah forsakes the toss. Bat, darlinf, whOs your voice I bear. And while your darfc-brown eyes I set. Bad months and tonlem, seasons drear, Are all the same, all glad to me. Despair can never reacli me. While your soft band 1 bold: While your eyes love and teach me, I never shall grow old! They my that love forsakes the old. That pamion pales and fades away; That even love's bright locks of gold Mast kies their charm and change to gray. Bat, darling, while your heart is mine. And while I feel that you are true. For me the skies will over shioe With summer light and tenderest blue. Yes. let old age deride me! -1 scorn his mocking tongue. Dear love, with yon beside me, I am fersver young! —Belgravia. The Quaker’s Daughter. A TBUK STORY OF THK REVOLUTION*. There is no fairer or richer portion of Orange county, N. Y., than that lvingin the picturesque vale known a* Smith’s Clove. It is properly the head of the Ramapo valley. When the locality was •till ft wilderness, and the western es carpment of the Hudson Highlands was i unknown and undiscovered region, h neck, end hangel Lmupto abeam. Phebe Reynolds was less than 13 ycais old, but she fought this attempt of the gang'to murder her father with such fury that it was necessary for two of the men to hold her before it could be executed. Sup posing that they had accomplished the death of Reynolds, the Tories proceeded to plunder the house. They no sooner had left the room than Phepe cut the rope by which her father was suspended, re moved ths noose from his neck, and car ried him to a bed. She had succeeded in restoring him to consciousness, when one of the gang re-entered the roam and discovered what she had done. He sum moned the others. Phebe took her posi tion in front of the bed, brandished her knife, and declared she would kill the fir>t one who attempted to touch her father. Bcnjam : n Kelly, the leader of the gang, shouted: “Get awav. you little rebel , or 111 run my sword through you!” The undaunted girl refused to move. “You may kill me.” she replied, “for if you kill my fath< r I do not want to Jive!” Kelley made a lunge at her with his sword. She knocked it from his hand, and in trying to catch it before it fell to the ground he received a wound from it on the under part of the wrist from which the blood flowed freely. One of .the others stabbed Phebe in the breast, and. seeing that she would be overpowered by the Tories she threw nerselfupon her father's body on the bed, and c'aspedhcr arms about him in order to shield him from the weapons of his assailants. While .* of the gang prodded the girl’s arm d, the fiend Kelley tore her with his sword, clothing from her and lashed* her bare body with the rope with which family marie their way from Brookhaven. Long Island, through the trackless arei. . that lay between the Hudson and the < the y. ,uld liangcd Romapj, and became the first settlers in ' “'** ' ‘ that part of Orange county. Their name was Smith, and they gavetbe name to the clove, which it still bears. Tlic date of this family’s coming into the county is unknown, but wheu the Revolutionary war liegan the head of the family was an * number of grown-up ■ons. The elder Smith was unsavory reputation, and his oldest ion, Claudius, inherited his father’s ignoble traits. The Smiths were rank Tories. Claudius Smith became the leader of a gang of dcsjierate and bloodthirstv out laws, and his nan patriotic families _ lier father. relating the brutal details of this assault, even seventy years after ward, Phebe never attempted to repress her anger and indignation at the memory of it. During all the severe punishment she received at the hands of the Tories, she never uttered a moan or gave any sign of the paiu they inflicted. The blood ran down her arms from the wounds made by the sword, and the rope cut great gashes in her flesh, the scars from which she carried to her grave. Being unable to force the brave girl from the protection of her a terror to th*c ! helpless father by this means, the Tories scattered i removed her by main force, and hurled about the then frontier in Orange am! I her, we: ‘k from her superhuman efforts, Sussex counties. Claudius SmithVi cow- iinto a far corner of the room. Her boys ami their deeds of blood wereshud- ! m °thcr had regained consciousness by dcringly recounted by the survivors of ! this time, and was crouching in a corner, those troublous times and their descend- holding little Caleb, who had also re- mot* for many years after the war was I vived, in her arms. The assassins again over, and still'afford subjects fur many a : banged Reynolds from the beam in sight dramatic talc. Claudius Smith became ! of the moaning woman and her two known as the Scourge of the Highlands, i children, and, believing that Phebe was He was finally captured by a band of ! P a,t rendering any further aid to him, patriotic scouts, and was hanged in j proceeded to the completion of their Goshen in the public square on the 22d of January, 1770. He was buried at the foot of the scaffold, and his remains have never been disturbed. In the ancient and lonely burying pound at Neversink Flats, one of the isolated mountain villages of Sullivan county, are two graves, long ago over grown and now almost forgotten. One contains the remains of Henry Reynolds, who died in 1830, aged 90 years. The other is the grave of his daughter, Phebe Drake, who died in 1853, aged 83. It is ft singular fact that the story of Henry Reynolds and his heroic daughter, the mo»t intensely thrilling and dramatic, as it is, of all the recitals that have come down from the times made perilous bv Claudius Smith and his murderous band <rf marauders, finds no place of record in tbo annals of Orange county, except a brief legendary chronicle, in which a “Mr. Riuinclls” is mention as having been made u victim of cowboys. The one great story of tho lives of Henrv Reynolds and his daughter is related as follows by mi old resident of Neversink Flats, who is spending his declining days with a daughter in Goshen. He heard it mauy a time from the lips of the par ties themselves sixty years and more ago, Henry Reynolds was a Quaker, tie was a native of Westchester county. In threat liaU an hour before. He was still 1769 he married a descendant of Henry I afraid to stir. Phebe’s mother rendered Fowler, an original owner of the town- ' a little aid in removing her husband from ship of East Chester. Reynolds was then ! the trunk. He was stiff and pallid, and in the mercantile business in Poekskill. i apparently dead. Phebe got him upon In 1777 he was one of the sufferers by , the bed, and was overjoyed to hear him the burning of that place by the British, groan. She pried his jaws open with a all his property being consumed. He es- pewter spoon—a rude tablespoon, still in capcd with hi s wife and five children. ■ the family, with the teeth marks of Henry and settled in Smith's Clove. Or&rm* ' Reynolds upon its handle—and poured a few drops of water in his mouth. He be- scheme of plundering. ' They had calculated the courage and vitality of the girl, however, and the last Tory was barely out of the room before Phebe had once more cut her father down. She was attempting to remove him to another room when he fell heavily to tho floor. Phebe at once threw herself on his body and'the Tories found them mingling their blood together, the father apparently dead, and the girl shielding his body with hers. The murderers thrust their knives and swords several times into the body of their prostrate victim, and twice Phebe was stabbed in her efforts to pro tect her father. The Tories finally dragged her from her father and threw him into a chest, shutting the lid down upon him. They then departed with what booty they had obtained, first roll ing a large stone against the door, which opened outward, to prevent it being opened. As soon as the murderous gang was out of the house, Phebe herself covered with blood from her wounds, hastened to remove her father’s body from the chest, hopeful that he was still alive. Her mother was wandering from room to room, moaning and weep ing. The Inmnd boy stood as immovable as stone against the wall where Edward Roblin had placed him with the terrible county, not farfrom the present village of Monroe. Although a Quaker, he was an ardent defender of the cause of the colonies, and even so far trespassed on the requirements of his religion as to join the “minute men ’* As one of these brave citizen soldiers lie participated in the storming of Stony P,>int. unde: General Wayne, in 1779. His outspoken senti ments and active demonstrations in lie- half of the American cause gained for .. him the bitter enmity of his Tory neigh-1 I can’t put it out if it burns 'down Dors, and several attempts were made on i our heads.” J? 1 * during the war by Claudius: The bound boy still stood motionless smith and his gang. j by the wall as if he were nailed to the ^ After the execution of Smith at Goshen i spot, and could not be induced to move. U# ~ n * ’ ■ Phebe was compelled to leave her father, i the volumes of smoke that began to gan to revive, and while Phebe was put ting forth every effort to staunch his wounds and aid his restoration, her mother, who had been aimlessly wander ing about tbc house, tottered into the room, and dropping to the floor, covered her eyes with her hands and hysterically exclaimed: “Oh. PhMie! Phebe! The house three places, and his followers swore to avenge his death by taking tho lives of a large number of leading Whigs, one of whom was Henry Reynolds. It was not until 1782. how ever, that what was intended to l»e the decisive blow against him was struck. Late one uight in July of that year Rey nolds was awakened by aloud rapping at hw door. He arose from l>ed and asked who was there. “A detachment of American troops lookin'* for deserters,” was the reply. Washington’s army was encamped in the Highlands, » few miles from Rey nolds’ house. and it was well known that ft number of deserters were concealed in the vicinity. Reynolds hastily dressed himself, and opened the. door to the sup posed American soldier*. They entered, and while Reynolds was stooping down by the fireplace to light a candle, oho of the Tories stru k hiir. with his sword, and exclaimed: “Huny up. you —- old rebel!” come from an adjoining room warned her of another impending danger. The Tories had set fire to some flax and to two straw bed*. Phebe extinguished the fire, and then tried to make th* bound boy ntn and alarm the neighbors. but he would not stir. By persistent ef fort tho brave girl, herself covered with wounds, and her clothing saturated with blood, brought her father back to con sciousness, and then, consigning him to the care of her mother, who had grown more composed, she started out to give the alarm. In her relation of the tern* ble experiences of that night to her chil dren and grand children, more than half a century afterward, she dwelt with par ticular pride cn the fact that she noted the crowing of the cocks as she started after help, and said to herself: “It must . . . be nearly morning.” This, she thought. Reynolds knew n! once that he had been indicated how cool and collected she was dupea by the Tories. He turned quickly around with a lighted <-audit, in his h ind, l and recojjn ized. Ben jam in Kc-!lv, who lived within half a mile of him, and Ed ward Roblin* Another neighbor, both mcmlxTs of tlte Claudius Smith gang. They wen? accompanied by several others. Reynolds dashed past them and got out of doors, but stumbled and fell. He was seized by the Torlas and- dragged back into the housr. Ho called loudly to H bound bay who lived in his family U> run for as istance. As the boy was hurrying out of the house Edward Roblin - seized him and stood him against the wall, and told him that if he turned his head one way or the other he would cut it from his body. By this time Mrs. Reynolds and the oldest, child. Phebe, entered the room. Mrs. Reynolds was soon to become again smother. Her husband was prostrate on the floor, bleed ing from wounds inflicted by the knives ana swords of the Tories. The wife fell, in convulsions, to the floor. One of the children, named Caleb, had followed her into the room, and a Tory kicked him until he became unconscious, and threw him on his mother’s Insensible body. The Tories then tied a rope around Reynold’s after the frightful scene she had just wit nessed She alarmed the neighbors, and a doctor was summoned from Goshen. A party started in pursuit of the Tories. It was found that Reynolds had thirty serious wounds, inflicted by swords and knives, but no one of them had reached a vital spot. One of his earn was nearly served from his head, ana it was bound back as nearly as possible to its place; but the manner in which it healed disfigured him for life. One of his arms badly cut that he never recovered its use. Phebe had two serious wounds, one in the breast and one in the head. The others were painful but not dangerous lac erations. It was several weeks before Rey nolds and his daughter were again able to get abiut,and their escape from the death that was intended for them was so won derful that the people for miles around flocked to see them. The bouna boy never recovered from the fright he ex perienced that night. Brain fever fol lowed, and he died begging that his head should not be cut off. Mrs. Reynolds gave birth to her child the day after the assault of the Tories. It lived, grew to womanhood, and is well remembered in Sullivan county as the wife of Dr. Blake Wales, one of the pic peer physicians of this part of the Statu, uind the progene- j tor of a huge and prominent -family. ; Caleb Reynolds, the child who was j kicked so brntaily by one of the Tories, j grew up, and was a soldier under Jack j at the. battle of New Orleans and ! was killed in that engagement. I The Whigs who set out in pursuit of | the Tories overtook them in the raoun- j tains, and only two of them escaped alive, i Benjamin Kelley, the leader of the gang, j shot in the moun tains by a man of j name of June. There were three or four of the others secreted in the moan- tains and the guards were watching for them. Some persons told June that they were at a certain spot playing cards. June skirted to find them, and when he light they were lying down, but hearing his approach rose up, and at they June slot Kelley. They escaped, and Kelley wandered" down near a cer tain large sulphur spring, where he was found dead by John H enl<v and his dog, partially covered up with leaves and brush. Near him, tied. up in a bun dle with dark strings, wa i the wedding coat of Mr. Runnels, which Kelley had stolen a long time before. This was the coat in which Hc:iry Reynolds had been married thirteen years before. The returned to Reynolds, but he re fused to touch it after it had been in pos session of wTory, and ordered it 1o be burned. Edward Roblin escaped to Canada, and years afterward sons of his returned to'Orange comty to search for booty that their father and others of the Smith gang had hidden in the moun tains. In 1788 Henry Reynolds removed to Sullivan county and settled in what was known as the Mutton hill neighborhood, being one of the pioneers of the town of Neversink. ne ws-s the first supervisor of the town, in 1798. In 1805 he was elected to the assembly, and was, until the day of his death, one of the leading Sullivan county. His wife pre sented him with six children after leav ing Orange county. Phebe Reynolds married Jeremiah Drake soon after the family came to Sullivan county. Her de scendants are the most numerous in that part of the State. The known descend ants 'of Henry Reynolds, according to of the family, to-day number over 1,400, as ten of his children reached ma turity, married, and reared large families. Few York Sun. A Miner* Lack. McKim is an honest Irish miner, who drifted off from Arizona a few years ago into Sonora. He had a little money, but a great deal more faith. Bcnhamsays: l I should say here that every mine that as ever been worked in Sonora, or, in deed, anywhere else in Mexico, has its early history recorded in the archives in the "district. Thus, if a claim has lain idle for half a century, and one wants to get its record, he has only to go to the prefect, or local authority of the district, and he is given access to the huge vol umes that contain the information. McKim got hold of a claim that hadn’t been worked for twenty years, and studied up its history. He found the last year that it was worked it took three shifts of eight men each to pack the water out of tho mine. He also found that the water increased so fast on them that the mine had to be abandoned, and from that he argued that it was by no means exhausted. ‘The problem then was to get the water out. But how? McKim had no money to put up pumps, but he did have a good deal of courage and a strong arm. He went down the mil and resolved to run a tunnel for the mine to strike the ledge below the water pocket. Nearly five years ago McKim began work, . and for long years he pegged .away at that tunnel. He had fully 600 hundred feet to run. For about a year McKim had a brother Irishman to help him, but the latter got weary of the hopeless task, and for the remaining time McKim went it alone. “About a year ago he noticed that the face of his tunnel was in moist, crumbly ground, and he got fearful that it would tumble in on him. He didn’t go near the tunnel for several days, for he was afraid of it. One morning he went up and found the water pouring out of the tunnel like a mill-race. The water pocket had broken through, and the tunnel was draining the old mine at the rate of one thousand barrels a minute. McKim was beside himself with joy. In a week he explored the mine through the old work ings, and he found almost a bed of pure silver. Actually, he cut out cabinet spec imens with a chisel. He sacks and ships the ore, and the little property is turning out $100,000 a year with no other labor than that of McKim and two Yaqui In dians. So much for patient industry and four years of faith and hard work.”— Chicago Herald. The Names of Ocean Steamers. Tbc New York correspondent of the Troy Time* thus refers to the rules ob served by different steamship lines in naming their vesfete: The Guion ships are named after States and Territories in the Northwest, including Wisconsin, Ne vada, Arizona, Alaska and Oregon. The last-mentioned vessel, whose aad fate awakened so much notice, was purchased by the Cnnard company from the Guion. The White Star line prefers names end- s ^g in “ic,” as the Germanic, the Celtic id the Britanic. The Cunard company selects names ending in “ia,” such as the Scythia, the Persia, the Servia and the Aurania, and the Anchor line pur sues the ‘same practice. The Na tional line very properly uses names of nations, such as Greece*. Spam and Egypt, while the In man line honors various distinguished cities, such- as Chicago and Berlin. The State line goes for States, and names its ihips Pennsylvania, Nebraska, etc., but the Hamburg line dips into authors and gives us the Wieltnd,. the Gellert and the Lessing, with other distinguished names. The French, on the other hand, love wine more than books, and hence the Bordeaux line names its vessels after the best brands, such as Chateau Leon Ville and Chateau I.afitte. The Bremen and Hull vessels are named after birds, and the United States and Brazil line se lects names ending in “ance,” such as the Finance, the Advance and the Reli- The Monarch line, on the other hand deals, in monarchs, and its list com prises the Assyrian Monarch, the Lydian Monarch, the Grecian Monarch, etc. In this manner a remarkable degree of uni formity is preserved in the midst of wide variety of taste. On a Broncho’s Back. Dr. Holmes says that “on horseback a man's system becomes clarified, because his liver goes up and down like the han dle of ft churn.” The doctor has evident ly taken a deck passage upon a Texas broncho some time during his existence, but is diffident about telling the whole truth. Liver, lights, stomach, lungs, heart, and even feet, go up and down, -HITTING THE PIPE. 1I1K FASslLt The Grades of Opium—The Pipe ; Used by Smokers—Other Arti cles of the ‘.‘Layout”—Prepar ing the Drug Tor Use. Most of the smoking opium which comes into this port is ready for the pipe, but little being prepared for smoking in this country. There are two general grades of smoking opium—the No. 1. which is -variously termed “Tai Yet,” “Fuk Lung,” “Li Yun.” etc., according to tire name given it by the firm import ing it. This grade of opium i* considered the best, and is worth from $16 to $20 a pound. The No. 2 opium is called “Ghee Yen,” and is made in this city by mixing the ashes resulting from smoking “Tai Yet” and other first-class opium with the best opium. It-is cheap, aad is smoked only by those who cannot afford the bet ter grade. Opium “fiends” in this city save their ashes ^“Yen She”) and sell it to Chinese dealers for $4 a pound. The pipe (yen’ teung). as the main in strument in the destruction of the use fulness of the livcaof thousands of young men and women of this city, is entitled' to first place in the description of the layout. Thqi pipe fc usually made of bamboo. anc£is about two feet long and four inches in circumference. The stem is always cut so as to leave a joint of the wood about six or eiglit inches from the end of the pipe. . Some smokers prefer orangewood, sugarcane or lemon wood for the stem of the pipe, on account of the sweet taste of such woods and the peculiar flavor they give the opium. Others saturate the bamboo stems with sugar, molasses, nut oil, lemon juice or orange juice, to get a good flavor. Some of the lemon p!pes arc made of rings of lemen peel cemented together, layer lemon habit,” can use no other kind of pipe. Many of the stems, especially those used by rich Chinese, are very ornate. One was seen which had several gold bands around it and two diamonds set in the wood near the bowl. Most good pipes have mouthpieces marie of ivory or abalonc shell. At the end ef the stem a small hole is usually made in the wood, in which are placed small pieces of soft cloth, which are used in fitting on the { bowl of the pipe. This hole when not [ in use is closed with an ivory plug. [ About eight inches from the end of the i stem a place is hollowed out in the side j of the pipe which connects with the longitudinal perforation. A shield of metal, brass or silver is fitted on the side i of the stem about this hollow, so that a | rim of metal will rise above the hole. The bowl (yen tow) of the pipe is fitted into this shield, Is usually bell shaped, and is made of hard, red clay or lemon peel. Its greatest diameter is from three to four inches It lias a small neck by which it is fitted int > the stem. To make it fit tightly pieces of soft cloth are us ually wrapped around the neck of the bowl. The upper surface of the bowl is semicircular and sloping. A small hole, about big enough to admit a darning needle, is in the center of this surface. The other articles belonging to the lay out are a small glass lamp (yin tone), in which Chinese nut oil is burned, as that oil gives a very steady light. The lamp has a gloss cover. A long needle (yen hauck) on which the opium is cooked ; a , small horn box (yin hop) to hold the opium; a pair of scissors (kow ten) for trimming the wick of the lamp; a straight and a curved knile to clean the bowl of the ash (yen she); a 'sponge (suey pow) with which to wash off the surface of the bowl, and lastly a tray (in pon) on which to place the “lay out.” “Fiends,” by which term is usu ally meant only Caucasian smokers, gen erally refer to the pieces of the layout by their Cliihcse names. A “layout” costs from $6 to $100. The pipes, like meerchaums, are valued according to the length of time they have been in use. An old pipe which has become saturated with opium has a peculiar flavor, dear to a smoker, and is of a rich cherry color, deepening and becoming more beautiful with age. Some pipes are valued at $100, while an ordinary good pipe is worth at least $20. A new bamboo pipe can be bought for $1.50. It is not to be supposed, however, that every “fiend” has a “layout.” A piece of zinc or tin often does service as a tray, a nutshell as the holder of the opium, and any kind of a lamp which will give a steady flame as an opium lamp. The Chinaman dipped the end of his cooking needle, the yen hauck, into his opium pot, and, winding it around a few seconds, took out a little, pellet of opium, on the needle. . This pea was then held over the flame of the lamp to be “cooked.” As it became heated the pea swelled to triple Its orig'ml size, and it was then seen that the true color of the opium was golden brown, and not black. During the cooking the opium gave off a pleasant odor, resembling that of roast ing peanuts. When it had been heated a few seconds the smoker rolle 1 the pel let upon the smooth surface; of the bowl of the pipe. The pine was held near the lamp in the left hand. The operation of cooking or “chying” the opium, was al ternated until the opium became of a con sistency necessary for • smoking.' The needle wa3 then thrust through the hole in the top of the bowl and immediately . withdrawn, the bottom of the pen thus leveled off TTftLI bowl wzs then heated slightly, and the needle, being again 'thrust into it, was again withdrawn, but the opium, in thi shape of a cone, with a hole throng!) its center, was left on top of the bowl. The process of cooking takes frem two to three minutes. The stem of the pip? is then grasped more'firmly i:i the left hand, the smoker’s bod; is half raised on the elbow, the lmwi is inclined to ward the flame, the rig! t h»hd holds the yen hauck ready to keep the opium in place, the iips close over- the inouthpi< ce and the smoking begins: As the-flame strikes the opium the smote is inhaled by the smoker, who cm i* it in dense white clouds from his no-trii-. The lips sire not removed from the pipe until al! the opium on the bowl is consumed. The bowl is then sj ouged off and the smoker passes the pipe to his vis-a-vis, who goes through the sanre ]K-r forma nee. The ash or yen she of the opium falls into a bowl’ Each smoke is called a “pipe” and an old smoker cau consume from ten to twenty pipes before his crav ings are satisfied. After pissing the pipe to the other smoker, the fiend puffs on a cigarette or a tobacco pipe until the opium pipe is handed back to him.— San Francisco Chronicle. Relief for Toothache. For ordinary nervous toothache, which is caused by tLe nervous system being out of order or by excessive fatigue, a hot bath will so soothe the nerves that sleep will naturally follow, and upon getting up, the patient will feel very much re freshed and the toothache gone. For what is known as “jumping” toothache, hot, dry, flannel implied to the face and neck is very iffective. For common toothache, which is caused by indiges tion,or by strong, sweet acid or anything very hot or cold in a decayed tooth, a lit tle'piece of cotton steeped in strong cam phor or oil of cloves is a goo i remedy. Care in the diet, < specially when the bow els arc disordered, is helpful to mitigate toothache. If the tooth is much decayed, nothing is better than its extraction. Carbuncles and Boils. Whoever has reflected as to the real nature of carbuncular inflammation will, I think, see reison t<. believe that its causes are to a large extent local ones. Respecting both boils and caibuncles, it is the fact that the most efficient measures are those which appeal to the local con dition. This is true of all the different measures in repute, however dissimilar at first sight they may appear. Some have’for their object the protection of the inflamed area from further irritation, as when we cover 1 up a l»oil or commenc ing carbuncle with leather piaster, others the subdual of the inflammation by means of cold arid the. like, as when we usfe an ice bladder or a strong spirit lotion. Nor. do those who adopt a time-honored practice of an eirly free incision depart from this principle, for their object- is still the mitigation of local inflammation by the relief of tension, and by permitting tho escape of contaminating matters. From acne, impetigo, and ecthyma to boils is in many cases a m itter of degree, and that there is little or no real dis tinction between a large boil and a small carbuncle, all will, I think, admit. The age of the patient, xnd his special diathetic condition at the ti ne, their site, the influence of different modes of local treatment, are conditions which deter mine the final result. If a boil occur in an elderly person, on the uape of the neck, where it is likely to be irritated by the shirt collar, and especially if, instead of being systemati cally protected from the first, it be further bullied by premature squeezing a id the like, it is very likely to pass into a carbuncle. I claim the strong testi mony which has been borne by Sir James Puget and others to the efficiency of ssm- ply protective measures in preventing the development of small earbuncles,nnd obviating the supposed necessity for in cision, as proof that local spreading is, in the main, due to local causes, and no necessary connection with the general health. In other words, it is not a thing which is inevitable. On the other hand, we know of no internal remedy which possesses any marked power in arresting carbuncular inflammation. If we now* ask in what does the pecu liarity of carbuncular inflammation con sist? ’ In what does a carbdncular differ from a boil? I should lie inclined to reply that it is solely in this tendency to spread. The spreading is occasioned by contagion of continuity, and it has cer tain marked resemblauces to what we observe in erysipelas. A carbuncle might almost be defined to be an erysipelatous boil, with the proviso that the expression is not intended to imply identity of im- fiamiriatory type, but only close similar ity. Throughout its whole course, and how ever y:tensive it*m»y be, a carbuncle, in combination with its erysipelatous method of spreading, contains the' char acteristics of the furuncular process. Its secretions and its core; or slough, are exactly like those of a boil, excepting that they are much more abundant, a general way there appears to be natural tendency, independently of treat- meat, to arrest the process, aad this is not generally observed in erysipelas. In other words, erysipelatous infiura nation is more intensely infective than rarbun- cular. I mustj however, qualify even this admission of difference by stating I that- carbuncular inflammation has su ! an injurious influence on health that all cases in which its spread continues spite of treatment the patient quickly dies. Thus many cases occur in which no proof is given of tendency to arrest. It- may easily be the fact that in i states of system, and some types of buncle, there is as little tendency to ar rest as there is in phlegmoumiK erysipe las.—Jonathan Hutchinson. M. D. BUDGET OF FUK A Rational Change—Testing His Love—What He Forgot to Say— Not Worth it—Two Appre ciative Sonls, etc. “Arkansaw,” exclaimed an ardeut man, “why, it is the best State in the Union, a State above all others in re sources and the exactness with which the criminal laws are enforced.” “I am astonished to hear you speak well of the State,” some one replied. “Why so?” “Because several years ago, during an exciting campaign in Indiana, you avow ed that there was so such thing as justice iu Arkansaw*, a State where a man < ar- ried his life in hand.’” “That is very true, my dear sir,” but I was a politician then.” “And what are you now?” “A land agent.”—Arkansaw Traveler. Testing His Love. The other evening as a Detroit.Fit/.- “It’sthe awful, awful toothache!” sht sobbed as he asked for an explana tion. “Try camphor.” “But the dentist says I must have twe of ’em out! Will you go with me?” “Of course.” “And will vot pulled?” “Certainly.” “Two of ’em? i also have a tooth T “Before I do?” “Yes, darling.” Then she flung the handkerchief from her face, brushed the tears from her eyes, and gave him a long, lingering pro crastinating kiss on the left jaw. She had simply been testing his love and devo tion. They will go to Niagara Falls on their bridal tour.—Detroit Free Press. What He Forgot to Say. It was at a K street- residence and the young man had been going often and staying late until the girl felt the monot ony. One night about 11 o’clock the conversation dragged and for a minute or two h? sat in a cogitative mood with his hand to his forehead. “I had something pleasant to tell you,” he said finally. “Yes,”, she responded,. inquiringly, “what was it?” “Um—um—let me see,” rubbing his head, “I can’t just think what it was.” “May be it was ‘good night,’ ” she suggested. ' He looked at her for a minute, but she never flinched; then he went away, and up to date he has not been back.—Wash ington Critic. Not Worth It. While Judge Walton was at work in his chamber at Portland one day many years ago drawing an opinion in a knotty case a certain "lawyer came in. This lawyer (he is now deceased) was a thin, tooth-pickish, dudish sort of man, whom the judge did not like very well, and than whom he had rather seen Daniel Pratt himself walking into his chamber. “Well. Brother Lightweight, what can I do for you this morninj*?” asked Judge Walton, hoping to get rid of the fellow. “Nothing,” he replied; “I only came In to make you a call.” After a disagreeable silence the judge looked up again and asked: “Brother Lightweight, why don’t you get married?” •‘Because I can’t afford it. How much do you suppose it costs me to live now?” The judge said he wouldn’t guess. “Well, it costs me $8,000 a year for just my own living.” An expression of surprise came on the judge’s face. ‘ ‘Lightweight, ” said he, ‘ ‘I wouldn’t pay it. It isn’t worth it!”— Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Two Appreciative Souls. A distinguished Maine gentlemau says that some years ago he was making's journey down East when the train became snowbound. It Was then evening, and there was no hope of progress until day light. But near at hand was a little vil lage which boasted a public hall, ft was suggested that the passengers adjourn to the hall and listen to an address by their distinguished fellow-traveler. He'finally consented to do his part; the hall was warmed and lighted, and the lecture took place. The next day the gentleman was approached by a sturdy young yoeman, outside the gold hunting industry. Their idea was to make the other fellows delve for the gold, while they appropriated it afterward. Rollin Daggett, afterward Nevada’s Congressman, established ferryboat on a small creek, and named the place “Death’s Ford,” at tho same time inventing a musty legend to the ef fect that it was thus named because so many lives had been lost in an attempt to cross it. The stream was not more than dozen yards wide, and the water nowhere more than two feet deep, but he rigged up a flatboat and pulled it bick and forth by a rope contrivance. When ever the prospectors crossed he regaled them with hotrible talcs of the*treachery of the stream, and the remorseless quick- sauds which had drawn so many men and mules to terrible deaths. In the night whou he ferried people over he would caution them not to get too near the edge of the boat, as a fall overboard was certain death. By letting the dim old lantern go out, and making slow time, he frequently impressed the passengers with the idea that the stream was half a mile wide. For night trips he charged $5, but if the wind was high aud the weather bad he struck sanguine prospectors for much larger sums. In the day time $1 was his modest charge. He went along in this way for several months, the men who rushed to the hills looking upon him as a benefactor to his race by this conquering of so formidable an obstacle to travel as “Death’s Ford.” One day Charley Stoddard, the pro- , moter, appeared on the kink with a mule and boarded the flatboat to cross. In the middle of the stream, just when the ferryman was telling how dangerous the place was, the mule grew restive aud fell overboard. One leg caught on a rope, and he got his head under water, and, uuablc to extricate himself, was drowned. When he was cut looss he lay there in the middle of “Death's Ford,” half out of the water, so that all who came along saw what a miserable sham the ferry was. and that any four- footed animal could walk across. Dag gett tried to get the mule away, but he was too heavy to budge, and so he lay there in plain sight for weeks, until Drig get’s business as a ferryman was ruined.— Carton Appeal. nwho made the speech and if a man’s system is not clarified, a portion of it is ’generally sacrificed, and when the operation is concluded he in variably acknowledges that he in .“well ofL"—Flatonia (Texas) Argus. ,— In 1851 there were fifty-one scientific and art schools in Great Britain. Now there are 1,927 of these institutions, with 87,777 students in science. The entire educational establishment is under gov ernment control __ Presents to the President. A friend of President Cleveland said in the course of a conversation with a correspondent of the Indianapolis Jour nal : “Talk about the President's ■ refus- iag gif Us I remember at Albany,. just after his election, what a time he had. He refused everything. Why, he actually had to employ a man especially to work in repacking the gifts sent him from all over the country. You Will hardly be lieve it, but from November to March he had eighty-nine dogs sent him. Cleve land is fond of dogs, but he made it a rule never to see one of the gifts. As soon as they arrived they were sent to the stable of the executive mansion, and the professional packer reshipped them. One da}* Mr. Cleveland happened to be in the yard when an express wagon arrived with a dog. It was a splendid New foundland, I can tell you. When Cleve land saw him he looked longingly at the shaggy, black creature, as if to say: •Howl would like to keep you,’ but he passed on and the dog was sent back whence it came. During that time he received no les3 than six eagles, splendid j of $15 oU the three-card monte racket, birds, but they were all sent back. Mr. He was 4 little, old, wilted-up specimen. Cleveland always sent everything back seeming io be all of seventy-five years that could be returned, but there was ; old, and he didn’t get the game through one thing he cou!d not return—they were his head before we jumped the train at a embroidered hat-bands Why, I do not I small station. The other day I was com- exaggerate in the least when I say he re- ing to Detroit from the East, and when ceived as many as a bushel basket full a ; the train stopped at St. Thomas I got out day. I have often seen, at evening time, ' to stretch'! my legs. I had scarcely during November or December, 1884; a touched th* platform when somebody bushel basket full of tbese things in the r grasped mebnd a voice cned out : library of the executive mansion at AI* J ** *He is-cm maan. He bait me out of oanv.' Wlrnt did he do with them? He fceftcen dollkire!’ never saw them: they were carried out j “I looked Around to find that same old by the servants and sold for waste paper Frenchman banging to my arm. I or rags. I often used to think how many couldn't see that he had changed a par- hours had been wasted 'by fair hands in tide in looks or grown older by a day. marking the‘G. C.’ on tho hat-bands. I ‘“I want ihe feefteen dollaire!’- he was mistaken when' I said he returned shouted as he (lanced around. ‘Dis man everything. He did keep one gift—canes, he throw one—two—three caard, and he Mr. Cleveland had the finest set of canes taakeme feefteen dollaire and keep!’ of any man in the world. He had a < “I tried to brass it out, but it was no cabinet made for them. There were go, and the result was that I had to fork ninety-six in all, and such beauties Ho over the money. He stood there as the receives a large number voted to him from train moved off, and shaking his fist at fairs all over the country. He has over me he shouted: who said : “Ycu’i last night, aint you?” The identity having been duly established, he went on : “I want to thank you for it; I don’t know when I’ve enjoyed myself more than I did while you were talking.” The orator experienced the genial glow which unconventional and unsought praise is wont to inspire, and he cordially took the honest fellow’s hand. “Yes,” the young man continued, “it was a good thing; you see, my girl is on the train, and while you were lecturing she and I had the car to ourselves.”— Boston Record. Long-Lived. ‘OnIt of the curious traits about those FrenchVCanadians,” said a fly man yes terday, r ‘is the fact that they never d e of old age. Some seven years ago a couple co us were working a Great West- * U and we beat a Frenchman out twenty-five gold-headed ones, a number of them very handsome. “Cleveland hasco pets at the White House and his well-known trait of return ing all presents has stopped, to ft certain extent, his being bothered by receiving any. If, however, one does stray into the White House it generally goes hack the way it came before he see it. His orders are to tins effect. .... “ ‘AhM forgot! You doan’t pay me no inter es’ on zhat feefteen dollaire for seventeen yaarea! I see you again—meb- be seventeen yaarea more!’”—Detroit Free Press. . Business Rained by ft Male: Many years ago down in Idaho, during a gold excitement, a good many men went into the country to make. money WORDS OF WISDOM. s great hearts reso» When all else is lost, the future re mains. Tis an ill thing to be ashamed of one’s poverty. Little things console us, because little things afflict us. It is the up-stretched hand that meets the down-stretched hand. To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power. There shall be no success to the man who is not willing to begin small. Things are unbearable just until we have them to bear: their possibility comes with them. The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature. Only in a world of sincere men is unity possible, and there, in the long run, it is good as certain. A set of mortals has risen who believe that truth is not a printed speculation but a practical fact. Silence never shows itself to so great an advantage as when it is made the re ply to calumny and defamation. Scorn not thy fellow creature; there is some spark of good yet left in every man,, eveu though he be lyinjgjn the veriest Bad faith on the part of an individual, city, or even a State, is a small rice in comparison with the calamities which follow bad faith on the part of a sover- cign government. Dangers of the Hanging Lamp. The supremacy of tho toy pistol and the rabid dog as agents of destruction is being seriously threatened by a powerful rival. The rival is the modem hanging lamp. A few months ago the use of these illuminators became again so gen eral as to constitute what might be called a hanging lump renaissance, aid although the fashion is not yet worn <jut the effect of wear seems to be discernible upon the hangings of some of thise which were earliest in use. At any mte the lamps are beginning to fall. An Oc cident of this kind which occurreq in this village a few days ago is not {the only one that has recently been reported in the newspapers, and in some c^ses they have caused serious results. Prob ably no one who has had one of these lamps hung has not looked forward with more or less certainty of belief to ft time when the lamp would come down by it self ; and the instances in which such accidents have occurred show the appre hension to have been not entirely a jierv- ous one. The succession of improve ments which have been made lathe lamps have a ided to their appearance, but have also added to their weight, and they often seem provided with insufficient means for safe suspension. Wheit such an amount of metal, earthenware, and glass as some of them are composed of comes down with a crash it m a good deal of a loss and a shock in itself, even if no one or nothing else is injured. But, of course, the principal danger is that of fire being caused, and if this sort of thing continues it may qot be impos sible to find the ever-vigilant insurance companies classing houses where these articles are in use in the “extra hazard ous risk.” Those who have advice to give upon domestic affairs may turn their attention 1o this fresh subject.—Seneca Falls (N. Y.) TrPrune, j Like a Yost Prison. I Russia is like a vast prison, writes an Odessa correspondent of the New York World. The prisoner in « dungeon can walk within certain confines as f reely as the freest. It is only when he wonld go further that he encounters the walls and is stopped. So, in' Rns-ia, as long as you remain within a narrow limit* you may possibly forget that you are. in a prison. It is difficult to forget it, though, when you would stir. The walls, the officers, meet you at every turn. On arriving at a hotel the first thing de manded is your passptrt, which you must carry to the police and have registered and stamped, you, by the way, having to foot the bill for the registration ana stamp. When you leave a city the police must again be notified, and from begin ning to end it seemed as if every comer is suspected of being a nihilist or dyna miter. It is dangerous to converse on social or political topic's. Each suspects the other spying. It i* so easy to be de nounced and so easy to be waltzed off to Siberia, that the truth of the proverb, “Silence is golden,” is appreciated in no other part of the earth as it is in Russia. Manchester, Vs., has produced the largest diamond ever found in this coun try, weighing 33 3-4 carats uncut.