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IS Is 1 J ADYERTISIXa BATES : rn inch, one insertion ...... One inch, each subsequent insertion... Quarterly, SemUanpnal or Yearly cob tracta will be male oa liberal tcrma. Obituaries and Tribute! of respect charged for at advertising rates. No communications will'be published on, less accompanied by the full name and ads dress of fie writer. These are not requested for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. -' Ail comrann'catioci for the paper, and business letttrs, should be add rested to THE BANNER. Rv!herfrta, S. t WILLIAM BROWN, OF OREGON. . . They called him Bill, the hired man, Hut she, her name was Mary Jane, The Bouire's daughter; and to reign The belle from Ber-ahe-be to Dan, Hit little game. How lovers rash -(lot mittens at the spelling-school! How many a mute, inglorious fool Wrote rhymes and siprhed anddyed rmttaclie! The hired man had loved her lensr. Had loved her best and first and Iks,;; Her very gurments as sho passed F r him had pyraphony and song. So when one day with brow afrown Mie called him " Bill," he raised his head, lie caught her eye and, faltering1 said: " 1 love you; and my name is Brown." Fhe fairly waltzed with rage; sho wept; You would have thought the house on fire. She told her s';re, the portly squire Then -melt her smelling gaits and slept. Ivor William did what could ho done; .He swung a b st A on leach hip, Hi irathered up a great ox whip, .And drove toward the setting sun.! ! i Ho crossed the grrat back bono of fearth, , l ie saw the snowy mountains rolled Vike mi-rhty billows; saw the gold it awful sunsets; saw the birth f Vi sudden dawn upon the plain, -I Aud every night would Wiliiam Brown Eur pork and be-iTM, and then lie down , And dream sweet dream? of gentle Jane. Her lovers passed. Wolves hunt in packs, They sought tOr bggor game; somehow They seemed to set abbve her brow ? The forky sign of turkey tracks. ? The teter-lKwrd of life gbye up, '- is The teter-Lioard of 1 le sroi-s down. The sweetest lace must learn to frown, Hie biggest dog has been a pup. ' . O, miidens: pluck not at the air; ,1 besweetost flowers 1 have found ' (irow rather close unt; the ground, And highest places are most bare. h v you had better w.n the grate tf Of one poor cussed Af-ri-ean, 1 Than win the eyes o.f every mau In love alone with his own face. At last she nursed a new desire, She sighed, she wept for William Brown. She watohed th3 splendid sun go down -lake some great. saiiinar ship on tire. Then roso and cheeked her trunk right on; And in the cai s sho lunehed and lunched. And had her ticket punched and punched, u util she came to Oregon. t he reached the limit of the lines. . She wore blue specks upon her nse. Wore rather short and manly clothes, -And so set out to reach the mines. ' Her right hand held a Testament, Her pocket held a parasol, And thus equipped right on she wont, Went water-proof and water-fall. She met a miner gazing down, Slow stirring something with a spoon; " O tell me true and tell me soon. What has become of William Brown?" He looked askance beneath her specs. Then stirred his cocktail round and round. Then raised his head and sighed profound, And said: "He's handed in hi3 checks." . Then care fed on hf-r damaged cheek. . And she grew faint, did gallus Jane, And smelt her smelling salts in vain, slif wandered, wtary. worn and weak. - At last upon a hill alone . She came, and there sh ? sat her down; For on that hill there stood a stone, ,Aml, lo! .that stone real:. " William Brown." 'O.William Brown! O, William Brwn! . And her ; you rest at last," she said, " With this lone stcn : aoove your "head. And forty-miles from anv town ! i will plant evrress trees 1 will, And 1 will build a fence around. And I will fertilize the ground. With tears enough to turn a mill." r!he went and.got a hire 1 man. She brought him iortv m les from town. And in the tall grass squatted down And bade him build as sho should plan. lint savage jpow-boys with their bands They saw, and hurriedly they ran And told a bearded cattle man Somebody builded on his lands. He took h s rifle from the rack. He girt hims -If in battle pelt. , He stuck two pistols in his belt. And, mounting on his horse's buck, He plunged ahead. But when they shewed A woman fair, about his eves He pulled his hat, and he likewise Tuiled at his beard and chewed and chewed. At last he gat him down and spake: "O.-ladv. dear, what do you here?" " I build,a tomb unro my dear, I plant sweet flowers for- his sake." The bearded man threw his two hands Alove his head, then brousrht them down And cried:. "Oh, I am William Brown, And this the corneY-stone of my lands!" Her specs fell off. her head fell back, .Just like some lifted tea-pot lid; She screamed, this ancient maiden did. And fainting. pp;lt herself, in fact, ltijrht in the beard of William Brown; - 'J hen all the Indians were amazed. They th aight this gentle maiden crazed, And circling round they squatted, down. -; list William was a gentle man; He bade two Indians call the priest. He bade two more prepare a feast, Th;n led herblushing. bv the hand, I.ike some sweet miid n in sweet May. He was so good, he was so true. He did not know what else to do, But led her round and round all day. '. At last the priest, on spotted mare. Who galloped forty miles o -more. He found them in the gra-Jse sore. An 1 married them right then and thete. Then all the cow-boys th y came down An i feasted as the night a Ivaced, "" ' And all the diggers drank aud danced, And cried: " Biar Injin, William Brown!" - Joaquin Mill r, in N. Y. Home, Journal. A CHINESE CHILDREN'S BOOK. fjEvery nation appears to have a favor ittl virtue, which it endeavors to impress upon the mind's of its children. Turn over some French books, lor children, and you will observe that the moral of Inost of the stories is: Be gentle and po lite; be considerate and agreeable; seize every opportunity to be obliging. The typo of English books or this class is Robinson Crnsoe, which incul cates courage, fortitude and self4 dependence, the virtues which conquer the world. , What is the favorite virtue of the United States? If I should judge from the pieces I hear oftenest declaimed in our schools, I should say :it was love of country, a preference which displayed itself in a remarkable manner during the late war. " In China, for twenty centuries past, the great object of moral teaching has been to inculcate reverence lor ances tors, devotion to parents and kindness to brothers and sisters. The popular stories of China mostly turn upon fam ily afl'ee'iou. If an orator should wish to move a Chinese audience to tears, he could. not do better than relate some affecting instance of filial piety. ! The most popular book for Chinese children is a collection - of one hundred and two s'ories, each illustrated by a picture, nearly all of which are narra tives of extraordinary devotion to parents or near relatives. So much valued is this work by the amiable peo ple of China that many editions are published by men of wealth for free distribution." By applying at the office of publication any one may have a copy for nothing. An English missionary, Air. A. E. Moule, a gentleman capable of doing justice to the virtues of a heathen peo ple, has translated a number of these tales into our language, and thus en abled us to know precisely what the moial lesson is which parent and teach ers in Ch:na most assiduously teach. Umj of Uiese itori9 K9 obYioualy in- ESTABLISHES 1848. credible, but the moral of them " all is substantially the same. One story is this: There was avery naughty boy named Han, whom his mother used very often to whip with a rattan, but without making him shed a tear. But one day, after being flogged, he cried; whereupon his mother asked him why he did so. "Oh, mother,1' he answered, "yoii used to hurt me when you Hogged me, but now I weep because you are not strong enough to hurt me." The Chinese author who relates this remarkable tale, adds, by way of com ment, that "it makes one weep even to read it.1' Some of the stories are 'more like truth. There was once a little boy who bore a name which, being translated into English, would . be Laudable High land. When he was six years -of age a gentleman named Ze gave him two orangeg, which, instead of eating, he put into his bosom, and bowed his thanks. As he bowed, the oranges fell out, and rattled along the ground. Ze exclaimed: "Here's a pretty young visitor, to hide his oranges and carry them off without eating them! What does this mean?" Then little Laudable knelt down and said: "My mother is particularly fond of oranges, and I wish to keep them for her." Ze was surprised, and let him go home without reproof. , Then there is a story of a man named Lee, whose mother was always very much frightened in a thunder storm. At last, she died and was buried in a wood; but, as often as a thunderstorm threatened, Lee ran to his mother's tomb, and, kneeling down, cried out with tears: "Lee is near you don't be afraid, mother." There is a curious story of a boy of eight named Woo Mang, which means Brave and Talkative. He was wonder fully dutiful to his parents, who were so poor that they could not afford mos qu'tj nettings fpr their bed. So Woo, early; in the evening, used to get into his parents' bed, and let the mosquitoes bite him without disturbance for an hour or two, and then, when they were tilled with his blood, and could bite no more, he would get out, and call, to his parents to go to bed and sleep in peace. Another story calls tomind that 'of the (J reek mother who told her son; as he was going to battle, to return to- her with his " shield or upon it. A father anil two sons, after noble conduct in battle, fell by the hand of the enemy, the sons having followed their father into the thick of the fight. When the bodies were brought home, the bereaved mother laid her hand gently upon them and said: . "The father was a loyal officer, and the boys were dutiful sons. Come, come, this is no time for lamentation." Another story is of a man whosei mother had lost her eyesight. For thirty years he took care of her, leading her out on pleasant days into the i garden, where he would laugh and sing so gayly that his mother forgot her sad condition. When, at length, she died, her son almost wasted away from sor row, and on recovering his health be stowed all his tenderness upon his brothers and Bisters, his nephews and nieces. He used to say to himself: " This is the only way in which I can get some comfort, in letting my love go forth to those who are left." There is a similar story of a great of ficer, named Yang, who in the spring time used to carry his aged mother on his back up and down the liowery walks of the garden, and, after placing her in a shady seat, frisk and gambol about for her amusement The old lady live to the age of one hundred and four. There was another great officer whose ounger brother, named Perverse, was terrible addicted to drink, and, one dav, in a drunken tit shot his brother' s only ox. When the officer came home, his wife met him, and said: " Perverse has shot your ox." He -was not at all disturbed by this in telligence, and asked for no informa tion, but simply said: "Well, let the ox be cut up for food." Having said this, he sat calmly down to read, when his wife again cried: " Perverse has shot the ox; surely this is no light matter." " I am aware of it." said her husband, and kept on reading his book without even changing color. Such was his un willingness to be moved by a brother's misconduct. Brotherly love, in fact, is regarded by the Chinese as only less important th&u filial duty. There is a story of a , Mandarin, named Soo, before whom some broth ers brought a suit about the division of .a tract of land. After much' litigation, continued at intervals for ten years, the Mandarin at last called the brothers before him, and addressed them thus: "It is difficult to get a brother; it is easy enough to get land. Suppose you gain your fields and. lose your brother, how will you feel then?" Upon this the Mandarin wept, and not one of the bystanders could keep back his tears. Instantly the brothers, perceiving their error, bowed low to the magistrate, asked his forgiveness, and, after ten years of separation, took up their abode together in the family home stead. The work is filled with such tales as these. Family duty appears to be the religion of the Chinese people. ; If we may judge from the narratives of M. Hue and other missionaries, both Prot estant and Catholic, Chinese families live together in peace . and' harmony. Many of their popular sayings and maxims express a very elevated kind of moral reeling, lake these as speci mens: " You may be uncivil to a great man; but mind that you are respectful to a small man." , "To go on a pilgrimage to offer in cense in a distant temple is not so good as showing kindness near home." iSIf you have money and use it in charity it won't be lost." 44 Use men as you use wood. If one inch is rotten, you must not reject the whole piece." "If you have good children, you need not toil to build them houses." 44 1'hinj( of your owo faulta when you rrh'V?ir PUBLISHED AT RUTH ERFORDTON, N. Ci EVERY FRIDAY MORNING ..- ; -?L : ' 1 1 " ' " " are awake ahd of the faults of others when you are asleep." "Better be an honest beggar than ft dishonest millionaire." "If a man has not committed any deed that wounds his conscience, a knock may come! at dead of night and he will not be startled." 44 However enraged, don't go to law; however poor, ddiv t steal." Thd people of China are like ourselves in more than one particular but they resemble us most in not living up to i tneir own sense pi wnac is rignc. in this trait of character, if in no other, all men are brothers!: James Parton, in N. . Ledger. i Dog Fat The attention. I of a reporter of the World was attracted yesterday afternood while at the dog-pound by two boys who were carefully skinning and dress ing a dog that had just been drowned according to law for vagrancy. ; 44 What are you doing that for?" was asked. j 44 For consumption," replied one of the boys. 4For a two-dollar bill," said the other. j It was finally explained that manv residents of th8 east side of the city firmly believe that dog fat is an infallible cure for consumption. 44 The boys told you the truth," said Dr. Ennever, theveterinary stationed at the pound, whoj was next questioned. 4.4A great many pjeople believe that dog fat, and even the;flesh.of dog, is a sure cure for consumption, and on an aver age one dog a week is taken from here and redut-M to medicine." 44 Who comes aiter them?" 44 Generally women, either Germans or Jews; They qome up here, and, af ter carefully examining all the dogs, se lect one that seem3 to be healthy and fat. They then point out their selection to an attendant, who ties a string round its neck or marks the animal in some way so as to identify it. . The woman is told on what day that particular beast will be drowned"; she returns at the time specified, gets the body, and turns it over to some of the hoodlums round here, who for a dollar orj two skin it and take off the fat. If she wishes the car cass they dress id for her just as a butch er would a lamb or calf. No, yellow dogs have no value in this way ; a black dog is always chosen in preference to any other color, if he is fat and healthy." 44 How do theyi take the medicine, as I suppose they call it?" ,4ln different ways. Some reduce it to oil and take it. as a liquid by the spoonful; others fry it out and then, after it gets cold spread it on bread as you would butter and eat it'so." "Do they eat the meat, too?" 4 4 Yes, and as aj matter of fact, it's not bad-eating. I've! tried it myself, though I was not aware jof it at the time. It looks like young veal." 4'Have you any, regular customers?" "We have one, a Mrs. Farley, who used to live corner of Avenue A and Six teenth street. She was pretty far gohe in consumption, but she used to come every other weeli for five or six months for a nice fat dog-. I have not seen her for some time, but I don't think she's dead. Some one; told me she was living over on Ninth avenue. But as a gene ral thing we donft know our customers' names. This superstition is so general on the east side jthat many of the drug stores keep dog fat or oil in stock! There are a number of these household remedies for different diseases. Through Vermont and New Hampshire the fat of skunks is used la cure for croup and rheumatism. Then at the South the negroes use dogs' flesh as a cure for rheumatism. The dog must be jet black or the medicine is without effica cy. When the animal is chosen it is fed on nothiug but the lungs and livers of racoons until itj is so fat that it can hardly walk.'Whejn it is killed and eaten. After that if the patient is not cured he is perfectly assured that his pains and aches are attributable to some other cause." I During the last six years over 48,000 dogs have been drowned at the pound. So far this year 8007 have been received, 2,674 drowned, 98 rldeemed, 3 returned by order of the authorities and 232 are now awaitinjz death. N. Y. World. SlaTei Marriages. A curious case relating to the marriage status of former plaves has just been de cided by the Supreme Court of Ala bama. The controyersy was between two women, eacfi of whom claimed to be the widow of Gus Washington and en titled to dowerjj in his estate. One named Edie had been married to him in 1847, when both were slaves of the f-ame master. The cermony was per formed by a colbred minister, with the consent of the master. The two lived together as lmsband and wife till the fall of 1866. At. that time the husband, being, then, of course, a freedman, took out a license land married another woman, with whom he lived till his death. Under these circumstances the Court was called upon to docide which" of the two had bieen the lawful wife. It has been decided in favor of the one claiming by virtue of the slave marriage. It holds that slaves were not competent to enter into a valid marriage contract or hold the legal relation of husband and wife. But n September, 1863, the Constitution of Albama declared that all freemen and freewomen then living together and recognizing one another as husband and wife should" hold that re lation under the law. The Supreme Court decides that this was ratification of the marital relations then existing between Gus and Edie Washington, and that this subsequent marriage with the other claimant was void. . Eeef -teak Pudding: Xitie your ba sin with thin sujet crust. For a small pudding take thVee-quarters of a pound of rump steak, cut in thin slices with out fat or gristle; make a powder of pepper and salt, dip each, slice into it and lay it round in layers in the basin until nearly full. Fill up the center with oysters or mushrooms, tie it tight and boil for three hours; add water in the saucepan as required, but it must not reach the top of the pudding basin. Fill up the basii with good, stock. N, y, SeraUi, .JL r i ) -t rf ' f IV.-' . I A Family Sewspaper; Devoid ftjjtone Interests RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL . . -! i The English clergy list contain 26,000 names, being, a gUino'f (;000 in the last twenty-two years-t '-. ' , The Christian Advo&iie. claims that it is as easy to maintain a Jrge congre gation in the cities in the'lmEnmtfr as in the winter, provided th&"j services are keptjUp to the standard. Is V ' The Agricultural College at Hand ver, N. H., will admit wpmen pupils ai its next terin, who will be given aspecial course of study, including but;fer and cheese-making, and dairying and ail its branches. . The Bishop of Hongrlf onj says he has been repeatedly stopped i while preaching, and ackett if She is t, not an Englishman, and if his is!Vcft the coun try that sends Opium to China?" And when he admits the facV, they tell hirr to go back and stop. th( opium, and then they will talk a5ou "jChnstiaDky. The Interior. ' v' ' The Baptist Weekly safs: 4 'It should make Christians blush to jinow that the bees in this country do much more in making honey than the churched of all denominations in raising money for mis sions. , The valu of theJioney op ex ceeds $3,000,000 annually, whi.e con tributions for foreign missions Amount to less than $2,500,000." j; The membership of the fn elargest Presbyterian churches in ' "the flttLuitfy are given as follows: Dy.rTatou age's1 Tabernacle Church, I?rot?khn 2,471 members;Dr. Cuvler's Lafayette Avenue Church, 1,761; Dr. KittrcdgeV Third Church, Chicago, has 1,753; Drl Hall's Fifth Avenue Church, Nev York,' 1,730, and Dr. Crosby's church, 1,381.. Y. Post. ; ' Kentucky has twenty universities and colleges, seven schools ef medicine, six theological schools, two Jaw gehodls, and one agricultural and mechanical college, with several hun&lred grammar schools, academies and coU'eges each holding a high standauL pf edy ntion. With all these means 6f second;!; edu cation, her primary schools iwe con fessedly poor. There at e2-,;O,JU0 illiter ates in the State. X. Y. f$n?i. The Welsh Presbytem SVnod of Wisconsin held its tirst hu'in obsession at Chicago. The synod lijs fg-ty-five ministers. 13.3 eiders, 3,'4o0 fuU nem bers in its seve a! churches, aij-d 1,718 probationers. The question of iotraing a new synod of the churchu '-jii Mis souri, Kansas, .Iowa audNeb ala Was discussed, and decided m lavorofjthe proposed change. The success f mis sionary work in Nebraska, Kansa Sand Missouri was reported aS beyonti all ex pectations, but there was stil' rpom for more workers. i - 4 Heroine and Coward There were many individual deeds of daring at Mud Hazel Cceek daring the fearful accident to the pioteet1 excur sion train, but none jan eclipse the heroic conduct of Miss Annie Martin, a young lady of Augusta, iiow Oua visit to her sister here, Mrs. vW. H. Jones. Miss Martin was an occupant, of the first coach, and was sitting 5 beside Captain W. IX O'Farrell. Wljen the car had settled on top of the "engine and the hot steam was pouring into the coach, threatening tassnffocate all the inmates, Mr. 0'FarreIIJthrew;a cloth over the lady's face to pr&itect lipr from the steam, and passed hgjout through the window unhurt. But aM.ss;Martin was not content with belhjj sav&d her self. She instantly rusl&J. to the 'scene of the wreck, and, with her cvn hands, saved the lives of three pelong,1 one of them a gentleman, by dragging them through the car windows: How this delicate j'oung lad accomplished a task before which some pf the stoutest men present , quailed is more than we can- ' nv. Sho Eee.meu enuoweu nn uXirnaiurai strength. Miss Martin, kluying the ex citement, saw a lady beinS crnsied be neath the coach where she had :fal!en, and threatened with -death. 1'urning to a young man, who was standing idly by at some distance,' she asked him to rescue the party. "I am not going to risk my life's, to save any one,' was the cowawlly rea ouso Miss Martin then, with hey owl hands, extricated the Victim,' who proved to be a married ladr and dragged her to a place of 'safety. But it was at the expense of seriout injury to herself, as she received ibruises from which this young ladywps for some time delirious. Nobly did ;she continue the work until the " last 1 person Was rescued from the wreijc-, when Miss Annie set to work and parried, bucket after bucket of water Until (he last spark was extinguished fen the sjengine. It must be remembered that this hero ism on the part of Miss-HM&rtin was per formed in the face of Imminentdanger to herself, for after th& excitement the young lady was discovered, to have her arm dislocated in two places; her side badly scalded, besides Serious brjjnses on her body. Had she repaired to a place of safety as soon as released from the. coach, instead of returning to the scene'1 of danger, Miss Martin would have es caped without a scratch -4Mes Oa.) i .1 i i , i ' " :.rr. - a. -i Banner. t h h Peter .Cooper's Charity.'' A New York correspondent; of the Boston Gazette relates the following story about the venerable Peter Coop er: Nearly every day hei drives down to his office, and "stays tbre or a few hours. As he comes out to his coupe he is surrounded by ?a bevy of, seedy looking men. Each in turn steps up to him with a "Good day lr- Cooper," and an expectant look in his etye, and just as regular, the benvolent.old gen tleman puts his hand in his pocket and gives him a piece of money and $ "Good day to you." "Why do yon pt these people annoy yon, Mr. Cooper?? asked an impatient young man the other day. "They don't annoy roe at all," said the philanthropist. ."They jare old friends of mine, poor 'foilovv-s Many of them have seen better days! They don't want much just jenoug&n for a dinner or a lunch. When I ara ready to leave the office I put a Jew dollars in change in, my pocket, and give it to them when they speaklto roe. They ex pect it, ou know, and 2 wouldn't like to disappoint them," 7 ! ---; , h : and fienefil fws. Occupation and LongeTitfY "Woe to thenl that are at easef" says Carlyle, but his anathema dees not' prevent the English village pai-sori from outliving any other class of his countrymen, riot excepting the British farmer, whose peace of mind an not always be reconciled with high rents arid low price of American wheat. Where agriculture is what it should be a coni tract between inari and Nature, in the United States in Australia, arid in some parts of Switzerlana the plow-far row" is the straightest road to longevity i id Canada; wherfe Nature is rather a hard taskmaster, the probabilities are in fa vor of such haif-indoor trades as car pentering and certain branches of hor ticulture summer farming, as the Ger mans call it. Cold is an antiseptic, and the best febrifuge but by no means a panacea,- and the warmest climate oii &arth is out and oUt preferable even to the border-lands of the polar zone. The average Arab outlives the averag'e Es; quimau bf twenty-five years. The hygienic benefit of sea-voyages, too, has been amazingly exaggerated. Seafaring is not conductive to longevity ; the advantage tff the exercise in the rig ging is more than outweighed by the effluvia of the cockpit, by the pickle diet, the unnatural motion, and the foul weather misery ; and, from a sanitary standpoint, the sea-air itself is hardly preferable to mountain and woodland air. The eozoott may hare been a ma rine product, but out Pliocene ancestor was probably a forest creature". 44 For what length of time would you; undertake to warrant the health of a seaman?" Varnhagen asked a Dutch marine doctor. "That depends on the length of his furlough," replied the frank Hollander, ana it will require centuries of reform to redeem out cities from the odium of a similar reproach. In victuals and vitality towns consume1 the hoarded stores of the country, and only the garden-suburbs of a few North American cities are hygienically self supporting. Permanent in-door work is slow suicide, and between the various shop-trades and sedentary occupations the difference in this respect is only one of degree. Factories stand at the bot tom of the scale, and the dust and vapor generating ones below zero ; the weav er's chances to reach the average of his species have to be expressed by a nega tive quantity. In France, where the tabulation of comparative statistics? is carried further than anywhere else, the healthfulne33 of the principal town trades has been ascertained to decrease in the following order : House-building, huckstering, hot-bed gardening (flor? ists), carpenter and brick-mason trades, street-paving, street-cleaning, sewer cleaning, blacksmiths, artisan-smiths (silver, copper, and tin concerns), shoe making, paper-making, glass-blowing, tailor, butcher, house-painter, baker cook, stone-masons and lapidaries operatives of paint and lead factories, weavers, steel-grinders the wide differ ence between brick and stone masons being due to the lung-infesting dust of lapidary work, which, though out-door occupation, is nearly as unhealthy as steel-grinding. -Lead-paint makers have to alternate their work with jobs in the tin-shop and, after all, can rarely stand it for more than fifteen years ; needle grinders generally succumb after twelve or fourteen years. Dr. Felix L. Os wald, in Popular Science Monthly. Was She Buried Alive I As the sun was going down amid crimson and amethist splendors last Sunday, a scene so appalling as tO blanch the faces and press the life, for the moment, from out the hearts of those who Witnessed it, took place m, Congressional cemelery. lhe relatives of a deceased lady were thei'e to re move the body from the receiving vault where it had been deposi'ed to await the return of the husband in order to inter it with kindred dead. The circum stances attending the illness and death of the lady were unusual y.ad. Mis. Baxter had but recently returned home from a Southern station, where she went to join her husband, who is master's mate in the United S? ates navy. A complication of maladies rendered her such a sufl'erer that opiates w.ere resort ed to in order to alleviate p.nn. When her recovery was despaired of the hus band was telegraphed for, but was un able to re' urn home immediately. He arrived the latter part of last week when arrangements for the final buriaj were male. When the casket had. been taken, from the vault the husband exprcsed the desire to look fo;- the last time upon his beloved dead. lhe attendant re-j moved the outer lid so that the face could be viewed through the glass. Th0 changed position of the body and das arranged condition of the clothing at once excited the agonizing suspicion that a living body had been . placed among the dead. The carefully ar ranged hair had been torn from its fastening and laid over the shoulders in disorder. The flowers that ha I been placed on her bosom were scattered. The folded hands had been, wrenched asunder, and the palms were open and finders strained apart, and the eves were started from their sockets. The changes which would naturally occur after a lapse of eleven days from death nusrht account tor some ot tne altera tions which had taken place, but the disheveled hair, the appealing expres sion of hands and features, create the horrible fear that the unhappy ladv suiik away into that counterfeit of death suspended animation and re vived to hnd herselt comned and en tombed as dead. Washington Cor. Dc troit Free Press. " . i: A clock on exhibition in Utica, N Y., marks the time of day in all ipaTts of the world at the same time. It is a globe with a transparent dial for loca time, and in running the globe revolves figures on the ring representing the equator, indicating the time In different countries at that same particular mo ment. The clock was constructed at Canajoharie. Utica Herald. One year ago the business portion of Truckee, Cal., was entirely wiped out by fire. Now the town is much larger and contains handsomer and more sub stantial buildings than ever before. CM eago Time, TEBHS-J2. CO Per Annam Worshiping Account-Books. A cOrrspo"ndent writes : "Dewalee, the fea3t of laatrnsf has often been described in your columns 1 proeeed to describe the . interesting ceremony of Vahee Pooja which I was invked to witness at the office cf distinguished native firm. Among the natives o! India, whether they be Parsees, Mo hammedans, or Hindoos, for prac ic:il purposes the new year cotSrriences with that of the Hindoos. 1 he ceremony of Vahee Poo j a, as its name denotes, is the worshiping of the account-book for the nw yean It takes place a day be fore the Deatee and is performed not Ohly by every merchant and tradef', 'but even by private persons, in snort, tne new year" among natives of India, whether for business ot household af fairs, commences with the new year of the Hindoos. This necessitates the Closing of old accounts and opening of hew ones, and for the latter purpose ftevfr books are used, but before they can be so utilized they must be worshiped, and each according to his means does this. The wealthier iiative firms avail themselves of the opportunity to invite their friends and constituents to be present to wish them a haopy and pros perous year. The firm who had invited me is one oi tne oiaest arms in oom ay. of course' expected the pooja. or cer emony of worshiping! would be per formed by the mobeds or dcHtoor?, a sort of tasun ceremony but l was sr prised on entering the office to see the place of honor assigned to a nau starved and very dirty -looking Brahmin. On the floor of one of tne rooms was spread a clean floor-cloth, with huge cushions near the wall3, in the center of which were placed silver trays Contain ing pan-sitparee, cneoanuts, oauasas, dried dates, sugar-cane, conanaer seeds, and silver and copper coins. In an adjoining room was placed a silver vase containing fire, and round it stood one of the high priests, or dustoors, of the Parsees, attended by several mobeds. When all the preparations were com pleted we toofe our seats by the well- adjusted cushions, and an wno Knew Guzerati were given a new account-book and a new pen, and each wrote on the second leaf of the book what seemed to be a supplication to the deity invoking his blessings (in as many . names as he is known by in the Zoroastrian calen dar) for the new year, which is written in full with its corresponding English and Parsee dates. When some thirty books had been written up, the Brah min who sat in the center amid trays containing the articles above enumerat ed had them submerged in gulal and the red stuff used by natives on all au spicious occasions ; and thus the dustoOr and his mobeds on the one hand, and the Brahmin on the other, invoked the dietys blessings. The duties of the Brahmin were not, however, confined to simply supplicating his gods to bless the Undertakings for the coming year of the Parsee firm ; they seemed to be ofaj multifarous nature, for he appeared to have had to bless (by muttering some thing in Sanscrit) each article as he took it from the tray, and after besmear ing it with the red stuff, to place it on one of the many new account-books near him. This went on until the trrys were emptied of their contents. Then in a small silver dish were mixed some coriander-seeds with sugar and given to all the guests to eat ; and then, as it were by way of a final dramatic effect, the Brahmin took a smal- silver vessel, and in it nlaced some of the red stuff with two or three pieces of ignited camphor, j and had it taken about tne room wmle he stood up shouting at the top of his voice. "Brahma! Brahma!" Then were distributed money, nosegays, and pan-suparee to all those present, and the il proceedings terminated. l was in f ormed that the books and articles would be Beft undisturbed on the floor as placed by the Brahmin until the new year s day. Bombay Oazelte. flow the German Boy Is Schooled. From the hour of his birth until he has reached the mature age of six years he is under the constant supervision of ' his' parents or his nurse. He plays as children play a!l the world over, but his games and pastimes are not rough. From the moment his sen-rilivc mind is capable Of beinj: trained he learns obe dience and politeness. He is not four years old ere he will bid a stranger j good-day or 0d-evening, raising his little hat and making li s little row at the same time. Between four and six he is allowed to mingle Ire !y with the : ch'idren .of the neighborhood, but his1 play -ground, is a!va3Ts circumscribed ac- i cordin; to the size of the garden in the rear of the block. At six the law com pels his parents to send h'ni to school, i From that t me on he is a person of some responsibility, for his lessons, must not be neglected under any cir cumstances, unless his health provfesj him to be unequal to the tasks. His; school hours for the first year are noti long, but he must be in his place j promptly at eight o'clock in the mor-1 ning, remaining until ten, and at 1:30 j o' clock in the afternoon, remaining until j 2:30. Then he brings home his lessons for the morrow, which, with the as -I sistance of his parents, he must be pre-j pared to answer for on the next day. j lhe second year of, his school-life is aj little more severe. The schools open at six in the summer and seven in the; winter, and long before children of; his age .are awakened in America, the: streets are full of little ones hurrying toj the different schools. This early class! is dismissed at eight and nine o'clock,; and the children are then expected t assist their mothers, or, as is morel frequently the case, from ten years of age upward, they go 'to the great factories or work-shops where they arej apprenticed, and learn a trade. Indeed, the school hours are fixed thus earJy in order that the childien may not only re-j ceive an education but also learn how to make a living and help their parents! to keep the wolf from the door. - Chemnitz Cor. Chicago News. j 44 Only a Mrt-iiCTEB " is the title of an article in the New York Sun. Wonder why she didn't take in cloak and dress making, too; That's where the money eomei ia, TERMS F SUBSt RIPTIOX. One Tear $2 CO tiix Months. i qa Special Requtats. 1. In writing on business be" sure to give he Postoffice at whioh you jrei vour mail matter. 2. In remitting mou'y, always eive both name end Poaoffiee. 3. Send matter for the mail department on a separate piece of pjer from an tiling for publication. 4 Write csmmvimeation only on oae aide of the hf tt. HUMOROUS. -4 Don't yoti think I have a goofi Tace for the stage?" asked a younglady with histrioniu aspirations" "1 don't know about the stage," replied her gal iaut companion, "but you have -a love ly face for a 'bus!" JV. Y. Commercial Advertiser. You never would suspect that th fine look ng member of the horse guards, vho shows oii to such advantage on j-arade day.-., is the identical man who peddles mi k iind mashes the servant ir!s, Wold you"'' Such ist! efact, how--Ler. - New Haven ItegiHer. ; 'Itell yer wor,b)ys," exclaimed Did Ben. the roughest man ia the camp; '? 1 tell yer wot. boy,, it mad a,, feller feel kinder watery round the l ibj to hear that 1 ttle chit of a thing a-settin" up lhar l.ke an angel a syin' her prayers so cute. 'Mary had a lktlo lamb,' or sunthin' er thet sort." 44 1 feel I am growing old," said the lady, mincing'Ij, to her guests, "for. really, I sm. beginning to lose my hair.',' (Of course she lias bushels ot it, ami it is a black as a raven's wing. $ "Then, ma," exclaims her little child, with tho innocent frankness of infamy, " why don't yoti lock up the drawer when you n't it away at night?" Ffonv the French. A French scientist has made soma experinen:s recently which, go to show that all classes of insects, in propoitio.i to theii size, are from hteen to forty times a3 strong as a horse. If you don't bVdevc in the strength of insect life, watch the velvety little Lunib.e-lx'e, with the tropical polonaise, 'and see him lift a two-hundred-pound picnic nian out of the grass. Chica jo 'lime. When all the buTalo are killed oT, if Uncle Sam1 c in be in luecd to ijuiy feeding the red devils on canned goods and .th. r Govemm nt rations, they Will have to put up at an -American board-inf-h iise. ami then dyspepsia will wind up'the no'.de red mau.. The Secretary m the Interior should cut this out and paste It where he will' see it again. Te.-as Sif'tinfs. The new reporter was sent to the schooi exhibition. His-report read pret ty well; but there were a few things in it WHICH OKI UUL inu iipivji vi the local editor sir.h, for instance, as these: "The essays of the graduating1 class were good, whoever wrote them;" 1 me iiorai ouei jiis cio -..t:.-3n t , uu. from the number received by Miss Sim-. plegush we judge her father owns a hrst-class greenhouse:" "the young lady who lead the valedictory to the teachers has in her the making of a tine actress. She simulated sorrow so accu rately that the writer might have been mis'.ed had he not subsequently heard the young lady speak of this same dear teacher ' as ;a hateful old thing.' " Boston Transcript. An Englishwoman's Eccentric Will. One of the most eccentrip wills of modern times has just been quietly set aside by Vice-Chancellor Bacon in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice. The document in question was executed in May, 1868, by a Mrs. Anne Burdette, of (iilmnrton, in Leicester shire, and her leading testamentary dis position? were made in a codicil, which directed certain appointed trustees, im mediately a ter her funeral, to cause the win !ows"and doors of every room in her dwelling house to be bricked up in a solid manner, and to continue the brack ing up for twenty years. The kitchen only was to remain un healed, and in this apartment some re spectable married couple were to be in s: ailed at a peppercorn rent of one half penny pter weefc, their duty being to take care of lhe premises, and, in par ticular, to see that no attempts were made to raise the brick blockade of the doors 'and windows. In order that her directions should be carried out to the letter, certain benefits under the will were given to the trustees, which bene fits they were to for eit if the house cea-ed to be in a strictly bricked-up and barricaded state. Bv another codicil the testatrix direct ed that the w in lows should be boarded up and nailed with good long nails, bent down on the inside, and then cov ered up with sheet iron and tin. Of the property thus hermetically sealed up no eiiectual devise was made. This extraordinary probate was eventually granted. Then the parties who were dissatisfiad took the case into the Chanccy, and no fewer than eight -ouncil learned in the 1 ,w appeared before the Vice-Chancellor cn Wednesday, Aug. 2, those who supported the valid ty of the devise quoting Pope's well-known lines, in which "he' poet says that a testator may "endow a colle :e or a cat," aud seek- mg to draw therefrom the inference that. Mrs- Burdette .was entitled to dis pose of her own precisely' as she liked, even though her testamentary in unc tions were of the most capriciously gro tesque nature. Sir James Bacon, how ever, very cogently pointed out that in the case before him, the testator had en dowed neither a cat nor a college; and he directed the trustees to unseal and re lease all this hitherto useless property, which must be distributed as the undis posed residue of real and personal, es tate. London Telegraph. The pompous lawy er, who supposed himself to be very sarcastic, said.to the keeper of an apple s'and: "It seems to me that Tou should quit this business and go at something which is not so wear ing oh the brain." "Oh, 'taint busi ness," said the apple seller, "it is ly ing awake nights trying to decide whether to leave my fortune to an or phan asylum or to a home for played out lawyers as is killing me. Chicago News. - A. sulphur mine in Sicily was re cently set on fixe in a very enrious manner. A wagon loaded with sulphur was being drawn np an incline, when the rope supporting it broke, and the wagon rushed back into the mine at a frightiM speed. The-rapid motion de veloped heat enough to set on fire the hiblyombnstible ore, and the flames spread so quickly through the mine that thirteen worsmen were nuauia kj and thirty or forty others were seriously cut
The Rutherford Banner (Rutherfordton, N.C.)
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