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SALEM, N. C, AUGUST 14, 1879.
NO. 33.
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A Sunset,
Beside a dusty way a cottage stands,
Brown from the touch of many changeful
years. y- '
Winter and enrnmer both have laid their hands
Upon its clapboards and above it rears
X towering oak, whose branches o'er shade
Itf roof -tree with a sort of guardian Jook.
Behind its rocky crags, through which a glade
Of fomber green half hides a running brook.
The fence before is gray with clinging moss,
And here and there a picket, fallen down,
L:es in the graes. The evening breezes tosa
T he tiger-lily, with its gorgoou8 crown,
Out at the hedge, where everything is bright
With hollyhocks and flowera like the Bun;
With purple pansiea and with daisies white,
While up the wall the bright nastur tions run.
With drowsy eyea and semi-wakeful sleep
A shaggy hons3 dog ttretchea at the gate;
While in the road a score or two of sheep
And mild-eyed cattle for the master wait
The day 13 waning, and the parting gleams
Of the red Bun gild hill-top, rock and tree;
And in the west the clouds, touched by his
beams, !
With lips of fire kiss the pulsing sea.
The song of birds grows clearer as the night,
By deepening shadows heralds her return.
A tint of brouza creeps o'er the goldea light,
That but an hour ago appeared to turn.
The bree ze die s down. A t wilight quist lie s
Over the landscape ia a sweet repose.
Bo, with a bleaalng over earth and skies,
Uuto hia rest the day setenely goes.
Thus, with his years well spent, peaceful and
calm,
A good man passes to Lis final Bleep.
Pare in his deeds, his life has been a psalm.
The seed is sown, he only waits to reap.
The tears that fall should be as gentle dew,
That is distilled above the slumbering eatth.
His feet have gone the gates of glory through,
To be refreshed in Heaven's immortal birth.
LIFTING UP.
When Susan Robinson was left a -widow
with three small children, life seem
ed hardly worth striving " for. But as
tirno wore on, her stanch womanhood
came to her aid, and she determined to
do her utmost to mate home pleasant for
her lost Harry e children, and undertook
such work as she could get to provide
them food and clothes. She rented most
of her little mortgaged house, and lived
in two rooms, having hard times and
spending many anxious nigh tH over the
difficulty of paying the small bills neoas
saiy for their maintenance
When Philip Powers, a well-to-do
clerk, touched by Iter molherliness and
destitution, proposed marriage, she put
back her natural repugnance and accept
ed him in orer to better the condition
of her f atherlesa little ones, trusting life
would flow mdre smoothly. .
No two persons could begin life to
gether with less realization of what each
was to bear and forbear. The husband,
now past, forty, had been a bachelor,
waited on as a person of consideration
in the house where he had boarded for
fifteen years- Susan's first husband had
treated her with tenderness and consid
e ration, much as if she .were a child.
Now these two had come, together, one
because a sweet face, made interesting
by its black surroundings, had charmed
him; the other because she wanted pro
vision for her children. When the hard
places came, they were the harder that
neither had any stock of experience to
draw from. Miv Powers had no thought
of reconstructing his habits to suit a
house with three young children in it.
Susan had no intention of keeping her
children from noisy play, or of sending
them to bed early, to suit his whims.
If he had always spoken, and it was
done; then a little change would be well
for him. ; He thonght a little discipline,
in the way of suppression, would be
good for the young ones.
In half a year there was open warfare.
Mr. Powers had learned to dislike, al
most to hate, his step children; they to
dread and dislike him.; the mother to
compare her life with what it might have
been, had she struggled on alone, or,
more dangerous still, with what it would
have been, had Henry lived. And ,one
day. in the course of some dispute, she
paid the bitter things ttjat she had
thought. From that day they lived
over a smoldering; volcano; . jealous
sense of wrong on one side; self-assertion,
in spite of 'fehame and humiliation,' on
" the other, i Susan affected to be fighting
her children's battles, when she opposed
what sire- considered tyranny; her hus
band felt that all he had. tried to do
went for nothing, and that the children,
whose bread ne earned, were taught to
despise him. This was not the truth;
for Susan, though she was unjast, never
said a word against her husband, save
to him, or before his face; there was left
this little spark of truth and honor yet.
There were occasional truces and at
tempts at peace, until the little girl was
born; then 'the worst of this divided
. house appeared. The father swas con
stantly on the watch,' and the " thousand
little nameless ways in which 'own pa
ret tage shows itself, awakened Susan's
jealousy for her fatherless ones. And
t once, when ;Mri Powers struck Harry
because the baby was hurt in their play,
V the mother's anger flamed out 'What,
is she better than my boy? I wish that
ehe had never been born., And never,
in her father's sight, would she bestow
a caress upon his child; when he was out
of the way, she made up for all.
' At fifteen months old the child fell ill;
it was a bad summer for babies, and she
was teething; it was only a week's sick
ness, and she died. As they were put
ting her into, the little casket, her father
turned to his wife, and said, 'This, is as
good as what you wished.' Susan dared
not ask if the grave were to be made in
her lot, but she hoped, till the very mo
ment when the carriage! turned to the
f opposite path, and the whole breadth of
, the cemetery lay between.
' I will never go there when he can
v know.' said Susan to herself. And in
this frame of mind, filled with anguish
for her loss, "With remorse for what she
had allowed herself to say and feel while
the child lived, and with anger toward
her husband, she went to church, on the
Sunday after the funeral, more for the
eake of getting away alone than for the
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before. . - '
It was Friday morning, and the Riv.
Mr. Stanfleld sat in his study, 'attempt
ing to write a sermon of consolation.
Two of his parishioners had died that
week, one old, the other in the prime of
life; he must say something of comfort,
something of heaven, to the mourners.
He had the text written out: 'Xe believe
in God, believe also in Me. f ; In My
Father's house are many mansions. '
Uut that was as far as he could go; the
words that he wanted would not come.
He walked out. to try and work himself
into the mood, when instead of it there
fell upon him such a sense of the worth
of man as man, such a vision of his capac
ities, such wenders at his possibilities,
there came upon him such a realization
of the soul, apart from conditions, that
he felt it must be written. What a waste
of time, with the work which must be
done yet on his hands! Bat he put at
the top of his paper, 'Ye are of more
value than many sparrows,' and 'For
we are also His offspring. . Writing was
no labor then, and before he thought of
it, there was. a sermon. 'I must pick
out an old ono for Sunday,' he thonght;
but on Saturday night he determined to
preach that. 'It's the word of the Lord
tome for this hour, and I will eay it.'
Susan Powers heard that sermon; and
it was the word of deliverance and
peaca to her soul. She sat like one
in a dream, till the service ended; then
rose and went out of the house, lust
casting one backward glance At the man
who had spoken, to see if he were not
indeed an angel; then with a fixed pur
pose in her heart, turned toward her
home. 'I will try and keep my sight,'
she said; 'I will not become blind again.'
For she tea like one who had just re
ceived his sight. How all her , life, to
this hour, the herself had been the cen
ter around which the universe revolved!
her rights, her comfort, had been the
important matters, and people were
good or bad according to their treatment
of her! And yet life, her life, had seem
ed only poor an 1 mean. ;
No word of upbraiding or of warning
or threatening could have touched her
as this thought of the value of man had
done.
vein. In a whisper, as they waited to I
give the final order, her husband said.
'The baby had no name, but I would
like to have 'Sasan on the stone.' And
thus it was.
The next year a little boy was born.
and his mother named him 'Philip,' but
his father added 'Henry, as his part in
the naming of their only son.
Whom we bless, we love.'
A Wonderful Child.
There is in Bangor, Me., one of the
most remarkable boys in the worlJ,
probably. He is a eoa of Col. Fuller,
and is now ten years of age. His intel
lect is perfectly wonderful, and almost
goes beyond belief. The first that bis
friends notify! of his nnwvitv vat
about a year ago, when they accidental-1 night, in
ly discovered that be was almost infalli
ble on any date he had ever seen or
neara. lie was out west with his p
Reminiscence of Arctic Exploring.
The arotio exploring expedition which I rents at the time, and as he was walking
But how can I let him know of this
new light that has oome to me?' she ask
ed herself. 'If I were to begin talking
kindly, he would think there was some
purpose in it, and despise me. If I tell
him that I have been wrong, he will not
listen, or will say some cutting thing.
What shall I do?' She thonght of the
children; but since the baby's death, he
had never spoken, not even to Fcold
them. He went in and out just as
though they were not in the world. At
the table, their mother gave them food
which his money had purchased, know
ing that he hated them, and feeling as if
each morsel they ate was choking her.
Then the thought came of the little
grave, and how he would go there alone
at sunset:; would she dare offer to go
with him? " No, her courage was nor.
equal to that. But there was something
she could do. She found that her hus
band was busy writing in his own room;
and quickly gathering her best, loveliest
autumn flowers, she went to the ceme
tery; tenderly, with tears that fell not
merely for her loss, she laid the offering
on the new grave. That little mound
was an altar, and this was an offering of
love and peaca, and of hope too.
That night, when JMr. rowers came
home, his wife scarcely dared raise her
eyes to his face; though she longed to
know if her repentance were accepted.
He said nothing, but she fancied that
his movements were gentler than usual,
and he actually picked up one of the
children's toys, and put it away; he was
not used to touch anything of theirs.
All through the week Susan watched to
do kind things, without being obtrusive;
and when Sanday night came, as he was
leaving the house, her bonnet and shawl
were all ready; she said,, tremblingly,
'I should like to go with you, Philip,
and, as he did not forbid, she walked on
by hia side. Neither spoke; but after a
little, Susan timidly put her hand on her
husband's arm; this he permitted also,
and she felt that hex offers of peace were
not despised.
left Sin Francisco recently in the steamer
vcBuucura iui uuituij b Dual, Icuuu
another expedition of the same kind,
sent out by the English government
about twenty-five years ago, which met
with a singular fate. The vessel which
contained the exploring party was named
the Investigator, and attempted to make
the northwest passage by sailing to the
east. She got safely through Behring's
B trait, but became locked in the ice in
the Bay of Mercy, and remained helpless
ly there for two years. At the end of that
time the Resolute, a vessel sent out by
the British government to search for
traces of Sir John Franklin, arrived
from the east in Wellington Inlet, and
by sending a party across the ice for
abcSUt two hundred miles to the west,
communicated with the crew of the In
vestigator and brought them on sledges
to the Resolute. . The Investigator was
abandoned and never heard from again,
but her crew accomplished the northwest
passage by passing ever the ice in
sledges, not in their ship; as was intend
ed. On arriving at the Resolute, she
was found firmly fixed in the ice, and
the party were obliged to abandon her
also and find, their way south on
sledges. The Resolute was abandoned
in Wellington Inlet, on May 15, 1854,
and was not again heard of till Septem
ber. 1856. when, after haying drifted
about for sixteen months, she wae pick
ed up neat Cape Mercy; oyer thousand
miles from the place where she had been
abandoned, and still imbedded in ice, by
Captain Buddington, of the American
whaler George Henry, who towed her
into New London, as a prize. Congress
having heard of the. circumstance, ap
propriated forty thousand dollars to
purchase the vessel of the salvors. She
was then fully repaired and equipped at
a United States navy -yard and sent back
to England 'as an act 'of high interna
tional courtesy. After a very stormy
passage, the Resolute reached English
shores under command of Lieutenant H.
J. Hartatene, United States navr, and
oast anohor al S pithead on the 12th of
December. The enthusiasm at the
event was unbounded throughout Eng
land. Lieutenant Hartstene dined with
the Prime Minister, Palmers on, at his
country home, and staid at Osborne as
the guest of the queen, while the other
officers and the crew received every at
tention which national gratification
could suggest.
This happen-
and but little
Finally, how
took pains to
InTestlgating Yellow FeTer.
The. recurrence of the, yellow fever
plague has stimulated anew the scientific
inquiries into its origin and contagious
ness, and in that laudable but dangerous
service Drs. Chaille and Sternberg have
been sent out to Havana to make as thor
ough and searching an investigation of
yellow fever in its native land as is pos
sible. They have erected a physiologi
cal laboratory there. In this their ex
periments will oe conducted, and full
reports are to bj made from time to
time to the United States national board
of health. One of the points they wish
to test first is whether a newly-arrived
person is more liable to contract yellow
fever than one who has lived in the
country for some time. That is one
reason why they wished to have the ani
in company with some relatives, in a
cemetery, they observed that he would
look at a tombstone, read the date of
the death recorded, and the exact age of
the person buried there, and then glance
np and tell what day of the week the
dead person was born on.
ed on several occasions,
attention was paid to it.
ever, one of his relatives
look into an old almanao coveting some
of the dates he had mentioned, and found
that the day of the week had been given
correctly in every instance. This caused
them to ask him questions, when it was
discovered that he ctnli almost instant
ly tell the day of the week on which any
date within the last seventy-five years
felL
He never forgets a date that he has
onoe fixed in his memory, and is almost
invaluable as a statistician. He remem
bers when every President of the United
H tales was born, when inaugurated as
President, and how long he served, and
when he died. Any of these dates he
gives with soarcalv a second's thonght,
as well as hundreds of others of a like
nature. Ones in a while he makes a
momentary mistake, but corrects him
self almost instantly, never proceeding
until he is absolutely certain of what he
has already said.
A still more remarkable fact is that he
recollects everything that he does,' re
members on what day he did it, where
he was at the time, and what were the
circumstances that led him to do it. For
instance, be will tell where he was on
any day within the past two years, and
what he was doing. Further, he re
members and can tell everything that
his friends have done, providing he has
seen them do it; and tell on what date
and on what day of the week they did it.
In mathematics, it would be difSsult
to find a boy of nearly twice his age that
cn equal him. He computes the most
difficult fractions in his head, and will
add, subtract, multiply, or divide them
without difficulty. This is all tho more
wonderful, considering that he has never
been taught anything except how to
read. One evening about tea-time be
was informed that the double of two is
four. He was informed that the process
of getting that result was called multi
plication, and that it was all given in
the arithmetic He immediately got an
arithmetic into his hands, found the
multiplication table, and had all of it by
heart at the breakfast table next morn
ing. The most remark able test to which his
memory has yet been put is on the Bi
ble. He repeats the name of every
book in the Old and New Testaments,
in regular order, beginning with Gene
sis; tells how many chapters each book
contains, and how many verses in each
chapter in several or the books; and on
any portion of the Bible he has read
and he has read nearly if not quite all
will tell the substance of any particular
verse in any chapter of any particular
book. He tells at once where any par
ticular event is described in the Bible,
also where the name of any character
mentioned in the Scriptures can be
found. He not only knows the Bible
thoroughly, but can tell without hesita
tion on what page any particular hymn
A Young Girl's RomaaUc Life.
The romantlo vicissitudes of the early
life of the Countess Solange de Kramer
have once more become the talk of the
Pat is sattmt, and they are, indeed, so
extraordinary that. nsd as -materials
form novel, they would spoil the book
by their lack cf verisimilitude. One
night, in 1801. a little girl about one
year old, was deposited in the drawer of
the foundling hospital at Brest. Bha
was dressed with much finery, and a
note, attached to her skirts, told that
her name was Solange, and that shs
would be reclaimed by ber father. The
claim was never made, however, and in
due time the child was transferred to the
orphan aylum, to be ed oca ted there.
As she grew up she developed a most ex
traordinary beauty, but her intellect ap
peared to be very weak, and abe suffered
from frequent nervous fits. When she
was twelve years old she was sent out
into the streets to sell flowers, and her
beauty and modesty attracted many peo
ple's good wilLbutahe grew weaker and
weaker, and at last ahe died. According
to French custom, ahe was buried In an
open casket, and as it was winter and
the soil was frozen, ahe was laid into the
grave, only covered with a thin layer of
aand. Danng the night ahe awoke, and
pushing the sand away, ahe crept cat
from this grave, riot exactly under
standing what hal taken place, ahe was
not so very much frightened, but in
crossing the glacis between the cemetery
and the fortifications, ahe was suddenly
la EffertlTe Cart.
R slating Lis Indian experiences, CjL
Meiove Taylor UUs of bis being beset
by hundreds of pilgrims and travelers,
crying cut again! the bnnU. or Lxir
aellers, who cot only gave their custom
ers short weight, but aJoUerated the
Coux so sbocainably with sand that cakes
made of it were utterly uneatable. The
colonel determined to pur.uh the cheats,
and this is how he did it, 'I toll says
be, ome reliable men of my ecort to
go quietly Into the btxiars.a&J each buy
flour at a separate shop, being caret al
to note whose shop it was. The fi;ur
was brought to me. I tested every sam
ple, and found it fall of sand as I passed
tt under my teeth. I then desired all
the persons caned in my list to be sent
to me, with their baskets cf flour, their
weights and scales. Shortly afterward
they arrived, evidently suspecting noth
ing, and were placed la a row on the
grass before my tent. 'Now, said I
gravely, eacJa of you Is to weigh out a
seer two pounds of year floor which
was done.
'Is it for the rtlgrirmr asked one.
No,' said I, quietly, though I bad
muehdiSailty to keep my countenance.
You most raj it yourselves.'
They saw that I was In earnest, and
offered to pay any fine I imposed.
Not so 1 returned 'yoa hare made
many eat your floor : why should jxu
object to eat it yourselves!'
They were horribly frightened; and
amid the terrains of lscghter and jeers
stop pel by the outcry, Quf rive. and I of the bystanders some of them actually
as she did cot answer, the sentinel cred,
and she fell to the ground. Brought
into the goard house, her wound was
found to be very slight and she soon re
covered, but her singular history and
also her great beauty had made so deep
an imprcsfion on a young lieutenant of
the garrison (Kramer) that be deter
mined to be her protector, and sent her
to one of the moat fashionable educa
tional establishments in Paris. Daring
the next few years Kramer was much
toased about by the war, but when In
1S18 he returned to Paris, be found
Solange a full-grown woman, cot only
beautiful, but accomplished and spirit
ed, with co more trace of intellectual
weakness or cetvous fits. He married
her, and for several years the couple
lived bsppily in Paris. Meanwhile, in
vestigations were made concerning the
girl left, in 1501. in the loundung hos
pital at Brett, and as these investiga
tions were made by the Swedish am
bassador, snd in a somewhat t final
manner, they attracted some- attention.
CinLain Kramer heard sbout the affair.
and sent a note to the ambassador, and
a month later on the ambassador came
. . t a
in state to Dncg ume. xwramer m ior
mal acknowledgment from her father,
the former General Bernadotte, the pre
sent K ng Charles XIV. of 8eden.-
Capt. Kramer and his wife went imme
diately to Stockholm; they were enno
bled, etc, and their ton has ju?t cow
ba appointed attach to tha Swedish
legation in Paris.
began to eat, sputtering out the half
tooistened flour, which could be beard
crunching between their teeth. At last
some of them rlaag themselves oa their
faces, abjectly beseeching pardon. And
so, with a severe admonition, they were
let off. No more was heard of the bad
flour.
Unhappy Slarrlages.
The truth is that these too frequent
'unhappy marriages are the offspring
of ignorance quite as mnca as ox actual
sin or wrongs. Fools, and especially
vicious fools, hsve no right to get pos
session of an honest woman's life and
soul which they cannot comprehend,
snd the elevating tnflaecc of which
they throw away even more by stupidity
than by willfulness. A woman, by her
sex and character, has a claim to many
things beside shelter, food and clothing.
She is not less a woman for being wed
ded; and the man who is fit to be trusted
good wire recollects au wnicn
Casse of the Coolness Between Eul
and Gtrmany,
After keeping the whole diplomat!
world of Europe in one continuous flat
ter for more than a month, the origin of
the cold wave which suddenly a'. rock
the Rosso German alliance, blighted its
cordiality, and prevented the Raaaiaa
emperor from being present st Lis un
ci s roUen wedding, has at last been
found out. A certain II ar on L'.rg
citx. attach ej to the German legatkm at
St. Petersburg as its military member.
had some time sgo the great misfortune
to have, cot only his money, but also
his papers stolen from hlo. The thief
was caught anl the money was prompt
ly restored by th pol e-, but the papers
were sent on a trip throagn toe secret
bureaus cf the Russian alclnUtration,
and here some disagreeable discoveries
were made. The major's criticism was
verv free and cot so very kind la iu
tone. This, however, could properly be
considered sad treated as merely a per
sonal affair. Bat the papers also show
ed thst the German government kept
itself posted about everything military
in Russia with a minuteness which look
ed very much like sn actual preparation,
and which in a striking manner reminded
the Rissian government of the startling
familiarity which the Pruiaian staff de
veloped In 1870 71 with ail French mat
ters. The reult was that Major Yen
LeJgultx immediately returned to Ber
lin, though without his papers, and a
few weeks afterward the French ambas
sador, Gen. Chaney, was invited to in
spect one of the new seaports at Kron
sudt, while the Oerman ambassador was
left out in the cold.
11X213 OF fiESEIUL IXTEKEST.
Tea grown la 8h Carolina has a
delicious aromatic flavor.
AclLcny Z ibrikie, an old geallesaa
who lived near New York, was struck
by sn express train while cro:rr the
track asi Instantly killed, lit left a
fortttseof S10.030.COX
Mr. l'ina committed su&Je at Pal
mer, Kansas, and bis wife, on hearing ol
her berravetaest, also killed bers-tlL
Their dasghter made aa atiespt oa the
f ollowinj dsy to hang herself, but was
rescued.
The rorrespoolent at Rims esys a
drrclar has been add pet 4 to bishops
throcghoot the Cttholie worU. calling
on then to pmooU a monster e'mcil
tr.lgriaiage to Uas for the text rat
of the Epiphany.
Ia r-iris thirty-five yrs ego stores of
all kinds were opea oa Sanday mora In r.
Nrw idl large establishments arsclote),
snd only a fw of the saalkr are opea.
In Italy, too, labor ta xaac!i mors re
stricted oa Bandsy than formerly.
Tea thousand thkkeus were broil el
on Coney Ialsni, New York's great sea
shore plsoa, on a recent S today, a&d
FCi.0 lasss of beer washed thea
down. The four leading hotels there
fevl that day aa sggreta'e it tVl
people.
Kioce asphalt baa been adopted f or ths
streets of Lndoa many you -g men
travel over thea oa ordinary roller
skates, and they ea mov S3 much
fatter than ordinary pedestrians that
messengers employed by oQscs la the
city are adopting the skates,
Torpetlo boats are now protected
against G tiling and similar small guns
by coating the insids of the iron sheath-
lag with sheets ox lodia rnnoer. w era
a ball makes iu way throash the rubber
that subs taxes inataaUy clot over the
orifUrj anl excludes the water.
While aaoalertaxer was potting the
remains of Eail Biased ta aa toe box
with a
mala they are to use in their experiments I in Watt's or Moody and Sinkcy's hymn-1 Cnvalrous. sweet-spoken, consider
sent to them from a northern port. books can be found. wprntiai. Ths fcola snd
port.-
Again. they desire to see whether a
white animal is more susceptible than a
black one. On this aocount, ail the an
imals shipped were as near white as
could be procured. They will be exposed
to the contagion by being placed in
rooms where yellow fever has been and
where it is at that time present. The
body of
tr an rind flmrfn rtf tha hoilv nf a TtertlOTl
Day by day she sought and made little having yellow fever, and especially the
jportunities to show good will; not re- bhvjk vomiL will be introduced under
ceiving direct encouragement, but not
repelled, she persevered, feeling con
stantly that a little ground was gained.
The great wonder was that her own
sense of wrong had vanished; she found
herself beginning to think first of his
comfort and convenience; to consider!
his interests,' and to feel real pain when
the children incommoded him in any
Early in the autumn Harry was taken
ill, of what soon proved pneumonia. On
the second day, before Susan had real-
their doctor came in, eaying, 'Yonr hus
band came round; he thinks I had better
see the little lad.' There was a choking
sensation in the mother's throat; it came
to her, like a flash, that she bad not
wanted a doctor for the baby at first;
she had not thought her sick enough.
Harry's symptoms grew more and more
alarming, and as his mother wondered
to herself if she could stay with him
alone good Mrs. Marshall walked
in Mr. Powers had found her. out and
sent her.' Susan understood why he
held back from any part in the nursing,
and felt that she should do the same in
his place. But that very night he said
to Mrs. Marshall, 'You must go to bed;
I will Bit up with my wife; she will need
you in the day-time.'. And these words
onoe spoken, he took his part of watch
ing and care while the child lived. 'We
must be all dreaming,' the mother
thought, as she saw the boy carried in
her husband's arms, soothed and tended,
just as his baby had been: 'what should
I have done, if he had left me alone!'
The last distinct words that Harry
spoke were: 'Take me up, papa.' It
was the first time either child had called
him so, and a sob came from the strong
man s breast.
A few weeks later Mr. Powers asked
his wife to go with him and see some
little stones that he had looked at, to
mark the children's graves. Before
thev earns to the marble works he said
suddenly, as though anxious to have it
off his mind, I hsve had the baby taken
up and buried by Harry, and I have
been looking at a stone for his father:
yon would like to have one. And there
was a fine, large piece ' of marble set
aside for Susan's judgment, and the two
little blocks were of the same fine, pure
the skin of the healthy animals, and the
effects carefully watched and noted.
The experiments with the perspiration
are especially expected to yield impor
tant results. The temperature of the
animals is to be carefully kept, . and all
the most recent discoveries in science
are to be applied to effect a solution of
the problem. The list of animals em
braces six white rabbits, six Guinea
pigs, four dogs, two house cats, a pair
of fowls, four Leghorn chickens, and
two : South American monkeys one
known as the midnight monkey.
Narrow Escape from Death.
A week ago, while a laborer was en
gaged in managing a large wooden box
used for hoisting brick at the stacks
being erected at the Pax ton furnace,
near Harrisburg, Pa., he met with an
escape in a perilous situation that per -haps
never ocourred before under simi
lar circumstances. A load of brick had
been delivered to the top of the stack,
then at the height of one hundred and
forty feet, and the laborer in question
was standing on the edge of this wall,
rising to this immense altitude, guiding
the ascending bucket to keep it in the
center of the stack. In doing this he
had to lean forward to eatoh the rope,
thus poising himself over the fiarful
chasm. In this position, when the box
had deeoended about twenty feet, the
man lost his hold of the rope while still
bending forward. It was a moment of
terrible peril and awful horror, in which
presence of mind alone saved him. The
man instantly jam pea into ine dox, ana
thus deeoended with lightning velocity
to the earth beneath, the box, when it
touched the ground, rebounding with
great force. The effect was tremen
dous, jarring the man severely; but,
singular to ssy, not doing him any se
rious injury. But what an escape 1
Had the man fallen and even caught an
outside hold of the box, he would have
been either torn to pieces in s wagging
against the wall, or crushed beneath the
heavy box when it reached the ground.
The man is cow at work managing the
same box. The stack is to rise nearly
two hundred feet' -
A Terrible riague.
The description which the Tijfit
Vjetiwlk gives of the devsstatioo by
grasshoppers of EUzabeipol. and other
districts of Southern Siberia, is really
appalling. The grasshoppers did not
come in dense clouds, sweeping down on
the fields like hailstorms; on the con
trary, they put in their appearance so
gradually that, in the beginning, they
caused only curiosity. B at they steadi
ly increased, in cumber, and when the
fields and gardens began to look bare,
when trees and plants stood covered
with' grasshoppers instead of leaves.
people began to realize that a plague
was upon them. . Candles were lit, pro
cessions were made, the priests prsyed
in publio for deliverance from the
plague, and all the means of a rude
superstition were spplied. But in vain ;
the grasshoppers went on increasing at
a fearful rate, and finally they invaded
the towns. They filled the brooks and
wells, making the water nndrinkable;
they settled so thickly in the streets test
all passsge was seriously embarrassed;
they penetrated even into the houses.
and filled chimneys and ovens. At this
point the civil authorities determined to
supplant the clergy in dealing with the
plague. All business was suspended,
and all the members et the community,
without distinction of rank, sex or ago,
were set to kill grasshoppers, two roods,
or about sixty pounds, being the aver
age measure demanded of a person. By
this means the plague seems to have
been stayed, but now came its conse
quencss, the fsmine and the epidemic
brutes who abound among ns msy think
such demands bard; but they are not
nearly aa bad as to live the oat-and-dog
life, missing the dearest possibilities of
human intercourse.
What right has a man to expect hap
piness in a household who brings co
sunshine into it ? What right has he to
look for the graces and refinements of
early love when he violates them by
ronth speech, ill manners snd the dis
regard of those little things upon which
the self-respect of a wife is built and
maintained? The cynio who rails at
marriage is generally one and the same
with the thoughtless egoist who flies
into the presence of his wife careless,
stubborn and sour tempered, though he
never went to his mistress except on bis
best behavior. The fate is horrible
which a poor and faithful girl may en
dure by encountering in him whom ahe
weds cot mere actual cruelty or injury,
but stupid incompetence to understand
a woman's needs, dull forgetfulness of
the daily graces of life, and oblivious of
the fact that while men hsve the world.
women nave oniy meir come. a. new
grossnesses of masculine ingratitude do
not, indeed, often load to visible catas
trophe, nor grow into absolute tyranny;
but they equally tend that way. Thsy
drag down a wife's soul to the point
where she must despair; they change the
sublime meaning of marriage to vul
garity and weariness; they spoil the
chance of that best and finest of all edu
cation which each man obtains who wins
a reasonably good woman for his com-
E anion, and they cost more to a million
ouaebolds than money or repentance
can ever pay back.
The Eall of lllrtlng.
Scene, a theater. Seated in the or
chestra a lady and gentleman; the former
much enamored of the bitter, in fact,
desirous of winning him. The lady,
however, has flirting tendencies, and in
dulges them with a handsome party la
the circle. The escort is cot nnooserv
ant of this little by-play, and finally
asks smUicgly. 'Do you know that gen
tleman with whom yon are fiirticgT
An embarrassed negative Is the reply.
Then excuse me a moment.
The escort Immediately crosses the
theater, puts a similar question to the
other conspirator, 'Sir, are yon acquaint
ed with the lady at whom yott have been
smiting this last hall hour?'
SoV
'Would you like to ber pleasantly.
v ery ddcu inrprwJt xuuj,
Then come with me
A moment later the escort in trod nc as
the not altogether .comfortable pair.
Then the mild expression leaves the in
sulted gentleman's face, and be says
sternly:
Now, sir, you may accompany this
lady homel' . - .
With a bow he Ukes bis leave, and
the woman who loves him never hears
his voice again.
Grand Rapids,
treating society.
Mich., has an anti-
Poor Girls.
The poorest girls in the world are
those who have never been taught to
work. There are thousands of them.
R ch parents have petted them ; they
have been taught to despise labor, and
depend upon others for living, and are
perfectly helpless. If misfortune omes
upon their friends, as it often does, their
care is hopeless.
The most forlorn and miserable wo
men upon earth belong to this class. It
belongs to parents to protect their daugh
ters from this deplorable condition.
They do them a great wrong if they neg
lect it, Erery daughter ought to be
taught to earn her own living. The rich
as well as the ttoor reauire traininfir.
The wheel of fortune rolls swiftly round;
the rich are very likely to become poor,
and the poor rich. Skilled to labor Is
no disadvantage to the rich, and is in
dispensable to the poor. Well-to-do
parents must educate their children to
work. No reform is more imperative
than this.
Lobsters for the raclfle Coast.
i A large quantity of live black and
striped bass, eels and lobsters from the
Atlantis coast hsve lately been distrib
uted along the Californian ahore. This
is the first time thst lobsters in good
condition hsve reached the Pacific.
Their soceeeef ol transportation is attrib
uted to the unremitting attention of Mr.
Livingstone Stone and his assistants, in
whose charge they were. The lobsters
wata taken st once to Point B ani to. and
liberated. Oa the way to the point they
were placsd in a fresh supply of wster
from the incoming tide, wnica greauy
delighted them. They w.ere all females.
ripe for spawning, and were esumatea
to carry 1,000 eggs.
In a Bombay. India, cotton factory a
man receives $3 a month, a woman $1
and a child $2.50.
The population of Mexico is cfnaaHy
sUte4 at 9,686,777.
A Ifetada Story.
At Omaha a disgusting exhibition Is la
progress in the shape of a rooster,
which although having his bead cot off,
still lives. His head was cut off in Kan
sas four months ago. and the rooster ran
under a house, whence In a dsy or two
h was taken out aliva. having refused
to die. The present proprietor hearing
of it bought it for $ZQ. and be says he
hM rtfnatd rr.CCO fcr it. He claims he
is tasking mint of money out of it. The
bird Is fed ia the throat and takes nour
ishment rapidly; Is ia fat condition, snd
stands up snd walks around at leisure.
Sorgsocs explain it by ssyltg thst ths
bead was cut off st the base of the brain
la WiUiamaborg. N. T., the .supposed
corpse rtv.ved, and the man Is now d
ing welL It was soppesod be had diel
of heart disease, when be was aicply la
a state of suspended animation.
In examinations cf o.CM boilers made
by a boiler inanranoe eospaay, 1.977
wore discovered to be dafeetivs, and ta
124 the defects wers dangerous. Noth
tea more than fach flarc as Umss
ought to be needed to ecJoroe the value
of frequent and thoroogh ia pectins.
The special treasury sgvets ia New
Yxk are engaged la examining aiie-f!
extensive undervaluations ta silks sad
velvets and it U said thst their labors
have already molted ia avexKtxg cer
tain invoioaa mors than $300.(0 X Some
cf the velvets are said to hare been un
dervalued nearly cms-third.
The boys st Holyok. Mass., sliie
down the Incline ct the tg dam oa
their faces, the foot or so of water esrry
iog them with fright! ol velocity and
pluag'ng thee Into the dep pool be
low. One of them ran a sliver into bis
I sbdomen and had to be sewed ftp after
ward; bot usually the sport is fanny.
There Is a Utile baa tan rooater, the
property of a family la Calhoun, Ga.,
that is trained to perform many antics
marvi'cuOy amuting in their nature.
II will feign dead whea told to, anl
will also perch upon a bureau and pa
rade himself before the looking glass,
pefcrming all sorts of Isulkrous tricks
and maneuvers.
The other day a flock of sheep cam
bering upward of two hundred hetd be
longing to El ward arl James M:Coa
nell, near Chatham, III., broke oot of
their paatore and ran oa the railroad
track , jost as a train was resting. Up
ward ol one hundred of thtm were killed
and maimed ere the train could be stop
ped. A steamship recently landed at New
York over CX sUersg tssager, the
most of whom were Rxstians, fleeing
from the hardships of thst country.
The Ruwiars slone represented a capi
tal of over 3 100.COX Among theax were
sixty families, having two bandied and
thirteen children. They axe a remark
ably fine-looking party.
The Science of Health says: If farm
ers would avoid soJJenly cooling tb
body alter grist exertions; if they would
be cartful cot to go with wtt clothing .
and wet feet, and if they wool! cot over
eat when in that ex bans ted condition,
sad bathe daily, using much f riot ion,
they would hate lit is or co rheuma
tism. The revolution ia Migdaleoe, New
Ores ads. Sooth Araerkss, has triumphed.
sad President Roblea, whose pruicirai
crime seems to bsvs beea bis sctive op
position to the rsniUatare of the rsrty
ta power, Nunex. is row in prisoa. The
three dsys' fighting la the streets cf
Bants Martha resulted la the loss cf one
hundred sad seventy lives.
The sutbor tiee of Vera Cmx,Mx'eo,
ar eharfird with ccneceesarily sad with
iadeoent basts exrnasg the nine revolv
ers. All of the victims leevs families.
The eon-rirary on the s.mr 1 bertad
acd ia Vera Cm x had rsmlfleetkma along
the Gnlf coast. The rude Mow given st
Vm Cms trrrrented a geoeral oetbreak.
The coorpirsey is attributed todisena
tsot arising from the luprreeaion of the
contraband trade.
Rossis bas many and varied troubles.
It is estimate! that the cattle plagae will
tcflet a loss of $2a.ooo.P0Q nwoa tne
emoire this year. atd millions of bushels
of wheat are being destroyed anaoally
nrr the end of thssrinaleolaxan, which
was cot broken. The head is prepared La I by a small beetle, forwbose destruclivs-
aloohoh "
Goethe as a Child.
The great German writer Goethe, ac
cording to Scribner, early; learned to
read ana wrtxe, ana a six e
cot only wrote quite wen ta uctbu,
bat also la Latin. Whea be was eight
years old, be wrote original compositions
and very good ones in German,
T'reeeh. Italian. Lstia and Greek! ' Ha
was cot taught Julian, but picked it tip
from bearing it taught to his sister. He
was tru'y a wonderful child. And be
did cot lave study because be was weak
and sickly, and could cot do anything
else; for be was generally healthy, and a
very bright, active boy at play, always
ready for a frolic. He was born with aa
eager desire for knowledge, and the es
rvritv tft attiiir it. as well as with the
genius to invent I lories and poems.
a ae. A "
co enmaect caeca ass y
found. As aa indoor meet to the peepie
to destroy the Insect, a reward was of
fered for every quart cf thetn that were
brought la, deed or alive; but ,000.
000 bas beea expended La this say with
out effect.
TK mnt recaarkahle eorial fratnrs of
the present sesaoo st Locg Branch U the
development of caste, to which develop
ment the soa cf 7 seems to bsve
been remarkably favorable. C sales are
oow three In ootaUr, vis : cottage resi
jmli.' hotel cssU sad excursionists.
These social or rather unsocial lines are
becoming spparect to even a careless
bsetver, and many amuvirg incidents
occur when people cf the third caste,
Vxeursiosists are betrayed by ignor
ance or tadiserenee isio rairowai
themselves oa the domain cf the 'hotel
guests' or the Voltage reaidenU.'
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