Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — Page 5

MORNING-GLORIES.

0 dainty daughters of the dawn —most delicate of flowers! How fitly do ye come to deck day’s most delicious hours, Evoked by morning's earliest breath, your fragile cups unfold Before the light has cleft the sky, or edged the world with gold. Before the luxurious butterflies and moths are yet astir, Before the careless breeze has snapped th leaf-hung gossamer— While sphered dewdrops, yet unquaffed by thirsty insect-thieves, Eroider with rows of diamonds the edges of the leaves. Ye drink from day’s o’erflowing brim, nor ever dream of noon; With bashful nod ye greet the sun, whose flattery sco'ches soon. Your trumpets trembling to the touch of humm ng bird and bee. In tender trepidation sweet, and fair timidity. No flower in all the garden hath so wide a choice of hue; The deepest purple dyes are yours—the tenderest tints of blue; While some are colorless as light—some flushed incarnadine. And some are clouded crimson, like a goblet stained with wi e. Ye hold not. in your calm cool hearts the passion of the rose, Ye do not own the haughty pride the regal lily’ knows; But ah! what blossom has the charm, the purity of this, Which shrinks before the tenderestlove, and dies beneath a kiss? In this wide garden of Ihe world, where he is wise who knows The bramble from the sweet brier, the nettle from the rose, Some lives there are which seem like these, as sensitive and fair. As far fiom thought of sin or shame, as freo from stain of care. We find sometimes these splendid souls, when all our world is young. Where life is crisp with freshness, with unshaken dew-drops hung. They blossom in the cool d m hours, ere sunshine dries the air, But cease and vanish long before the noonday’s heat and glare. And if in manhood’s dusty time, fatigued with toil and glow. We crave the fresh, young morning heart which chirmed us long ago. We seek in vain the olden ways, the shadows moist and fair— The heart-shaped leaves may linger, but the Llostoms are n t there. —[Elizabeth Akers Allen.

Relations by Marriage.

BY AMY RANDOLPH.

Everybody went to Pamela Pepper’s wedding; It was quite natural that they should. Miss Pepper w’as as well known in Cornstalk Corners as the old town clock itself on the steeple of the Methodist meeting-house. She had made dresses and trimmed bonnets there for more years than she cared to remember. She was gossip-in-general, prime mover in all the tea-parties, quilting-bees and apple-butter frolics, head of the charitable and religious societies and chief chronicler of all the dates in regard to births, deaths and marriages. She knew what everybody said to everybody else, whut Mrs. Meluth gave for her new sealskin cloak and in how many weeks Mr. Luckless’s farm would be foreclosed on. She was quite au. fait as to every household quarrtfl, all the family skeletonsand a score of motives for each action, which no one else would have dreamed of. No story was quite complete unless Miss Pamela Pepper’s version of it had been heard. And if people didn’t know their own speeches after they had been through the mediumship of Miss Pamela’s interpretation, surely that was ho fault of hers.

But the blossoming-time comes, wo are told, even to aloes a hundred years old—and Miss Pamela Pepper was married just before she floated into the forties. How it had come to pass, nobody knew exactly. There were some who had the hardihood to assert that Mr. Josiah Black "bad come to the dressmaking establishment to see Mary More, the blue-eyed little apprentice who made the button holes and sewed the straight seams, but that being skillfully intercepted by Miss Pamela, she had taken his overtures as intended for herself and accepted him effusively, before he had proposed; and that Josiah, being a meek young man with white eyelashes and a flat, freckled face, had not the requisite courage to escape from the meshes where'with she had so artfully trapped him. Be that as it might, it was certain that Mary More had been discharged and that Miss Pepper was now Mrs. Josiah Black. There had been an outfit ordered, economically, from New York, a weddingcake nearly as big as a cart-wheel, and a deal of ostentation. The bride declared that it was a case of love at first sight. “It ain't a month,’’ she remarked,gushingly, “since me and Josiah first set eyes on each other, when he came into the store to ask the way to Squire Robinson's. He looked at me—oh, how he looked at me! And I felt a sort of ail overishness that I couldn’t describe noway in the world! He didn't think of money nor yet of lineage, nor none o’ them things; he only felt as we was made for each other by Providence!’’ In which case, Squire Robinson remarked, sub rosa, Providence had made a bad mistake, of it for once. For Mrs. Josiah Black was tall and shallow, with the frame of a Prussian grenadier, while Mr. Josiah Black was slight and roundshouldered, with flaxen locks and watery, blue eyes. Mrs. Squire Robinson said there was fifteen years' difference in their ago. But the bride said it was only five. And who should know if the bride didn’t? But when the couple were seated in the train, speeding toward Blue Point, where the ancestral halls of the Black family were situated, Pamela grew confidential. “We’re ugoin’ right to your, house, Josiah, I suppose?” said she. “Yes,” said Josiah, with a deep sigh. “Where else should we go?” “Some folks board,” suggested the bride. “Just at first, at least.” “I hain’t no money for that sort of fane’work,” dolefully remarked the gro m “is it pleasant there, dear?” asked the bride. “Well, it ain't bad,” responded Josiah, in-a non-committal way. “You never told me about your family, Josiah,” went on Mrs. Black, soothingly. “Fam’ly?” repeated Josiah, with a

startled look. “I hain’t got no fatn’ly. I ain’t never been a married man before.” “I.mean your relations, Josiah.” “’/here's my step-mother,” said Josiah. “And there's my two sisters and my brother and Uncle ’Lijah and Aunt Nancy —and Heber and Stratton and—•” “Oh, stop, stop!” ejaculated the bride. ‘They don’t all live with you?” “No,” Josiah answered. “Not all.” “Dear mo, Josiah,” said Mrs. Black, “how dead und alive you seem. Nobody would realize that you had beeu only three hours married.” “I don't seem to realize it myself,” said Mr. Black, leaning his head against the car window, with a thoroughly discouraged air. “But if you s’pose I’m going to turn my house into a refuge for all your relations,” added Mrs. Josiah, with energy, “you are very—dear me! Blue Point, a’ready? This can’t bo the place, can it? Why, we hain’t—” Just then the relentless conductor, swooping through the train, bore Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Black off to the platform, the latter still remonstrating loudly. Mr. Black was silent and moody as they walked up the steep hill lending to the village street. Mrs. Black was secretly resolving that, husband or no husband, she would not be captured by thro Goth and Visigoth horde of relations who doubtless were waiting to pounce on her hearth.

“I must assert myself,” she thought, “at the very first, or I shall beoverrun!” “Here is the house,” somberly remarked Josiah. A long, low, red building faced them at the top of a hill, with a fence draped with morning-glory vines, trailing hops and wild vetches, and two or three gnarled quince trees leaning up against the south end. “ There’s lights inside,” said the lato Miss Pamela. “And a fire! There’s somebody there! ” “My folks,” briefly remarked Josiah. “ Your folks ! ” repeated Pamela; and there was a world of unsyllabled meaning in her voice. Walking valiantly forward, she flung open the door, and stood facing the little group which was gathered amicably around the blazing fire. And Josiah Black, following, pushed her, in rather an undignified manner, into their midst, with the introductory speech; “My w’ife. Here she is !” “How d’ ye do, Mrs. Josiah?” said an elderly woman. “ I’m your husband’s step-ma.” “ And I’m his sister,” said a blonde matron with lilac ribbons in her cap. “ And I’m his other sister,” spoke up a short, sharp, little female with a black-and-tan-terrier sort of face and a rustling black silk dress. “Brother Simeon,” announced Josiah, as a stout man with a profusely pomatumed head rose and ducked it toward her. “And Uncle ’Lijah and Aunt Nancy,” motioning toward a solid-look-ing couple in the background; “and my cousins, Heber and Stratton,” as two tali, awkward young men emerged from behind a calico-covered screen in the rear. “I hope you all|find yourselves pretty well?” said Mrs. Josiah Black, with the geniality of an arctic iceberg. “But I shan’t find it convenient to entertain you here.” The herd of relations stared, aud Mr. Josiah’s step-ma bridled, and said; “We wasn't a-calculating to stay to tea.” “Tea or dinner, it makes no difference,” said the bride. “If we’re to get along comfortable together, all those things has got to be understood at once. I ain’t goin’ to keep free hotel for my husband’s relations, und I don’t want it to be expected of me.” There was an indignant buzz among the relations at this remarkable piece of plain speaking—they all rose up in concert. “Well,” said they, addressing Josiah’s “step-ma,” as if she were the representative of the mass, “if Josiah’s wife don’t want nothin’ to do with us, we certainly don’t mean to trouble her.’’

“Don't be in a hurry,” faintly uttered Josiah; but none of the relations took the least notice of him, as they seized upon their hats, bonnets, shawls and other articles of outer wrapping with precipitate haste. “Of course,” added Mrs. Josiah, a little alarmed at the result of her own generalship. “I shall always be happy to have you call in a friendly way.” Josiah’s step-ma, who had taken a package from the table, stonily remarked as she held it up: “My ice-pitcher—best triple plate and porcelain-lined—as I had intended for a wedding present. But if folks don't want me, they don't want my presents, so I’ll wish you good-bye, Mrs. Black.” One of the sisters took up a cream-jug of chased silver-—the other put a plated caster buck into its box, and off they marched. “Our simple offerings,” said they, “are hardly elegant enough for one so excloosive in her tastes us our brother's wife.” Simeon Black swung a heavy wickerbasket across his shoulders. “A tea-set of real Ingy china that belonged to a Chinese sea-captain,” said he, “and I got ut a bargain—but I guess it ain’t wanted,” and he, too, departed, banging the door. One by one the others took a hasty leave, each carrying some little offering of more or less value which had been brought thither for the delectation of “Josiah’s wife.” while that lady herself stood gazing after them in blank dismay, with an agonized consciousness that she had committed an awful political blunder in this, the first term of her married life. “There!” said Josiah, grimly, “now you’ve done it, Pamela. Every one of 'em well-to-do and livin’ in their own places. And, as sure as you live,.they’ll never forgive you in this mortal world!” “I —I thought they was coinin’ here to live!” gasped the bride. “I only wanted to protect myself.” “Well, you've done it now,” said Mr. Black. “There is such a thing as bein’ too beforehandod.” And he sat slowly down, too spiritless even to upbraid his wife. While Pamela felt that her wedding day hud not been altogether a success. For the Blacks .were a clannish tribe, and it was even as the bridegroom had predicted. They never forgave Josiah’s wife for that first reception. —[The Ledger.

The National Beverage.

The United States ranks high among the coffee-drinking nations, being surpassed by Belgium and Holland alone. The average consumption of coffee per inhabitant in this country last yeur was eight and a quarter pounds, while that of tea was but one and two-tenths pounds. Coffee is the national beverage of the United States. During the last ten years the annual consumption of coffee per head has increased two or three ounces. This is due in part to the fact that the people are better off and can afford to spend more in

luxuries. But the average quantity ot tea drunk has not increased in last decade. So it is evident that the United States is becoming more and more addicted to the Arabian or Brazilian berry. In 1820 the consumption per head was about seven ounces of tea and nineteen ounces of coffee. Ten years later it was about nine ounces of tea and forty-four of coffee. In 1840 it was nearly fifteen ounces of tea and five pounds of coffee. Sixty years ago the value of tea imported was about half to a third of that of the coffee. It is now about a sixth. The tea has been losing ground, comparatively speaking, all the time.—[Chicago Tribune.

TESTING A TERROR.

He Found out that he had Mistaken His Occupation. When we opened the old “Four X’' mine in Nevada, says M. Quad in the Now York World, it was no time at all before a lively town was founded and hundreds of people came pouring in. lu those days every community had its terror. He wus supposed to be able to out-drink, out-yell, out-shoot, and out-fight everything on legs in his jurisdiction. Some times he was a free-lance, and again ho was employed as a sort of policeman. We wanted a man to protect company property, and one day a giant of a chap, weighing 205 pounds and 6 feet tall, applied for the place. “Are you a fighter?” was the question asked of him. “I am,” he replied. “ I’ve had seventynine fights in seven weeks.” “Afraid of anything mortal ?” “ Nothing mortal or igimortal.” “ Shoot both handed?” “ I do.” “ Use the bowie knife?” “Perfectly at home with it, sir.” “ How many men have you killed this last year?” “ Well, this has been an off year with me, as I was sick abed for six weeks, und so I haven’t got but ’levon.” “ Suppose, now that a terror from some other camp should come over here to clean you out ? Have you ever met any other terror and downed him—a genuine, firstclass terror from the headwaters of Fighting Creek?” “ I can’t say that I ever have, sir—not a regular terror.” “Then you can’t tell how vou would act?”

“ Why, I should probably fight him.” “ But you can't say for sure. However, come back at 4 o’clock this afternoon.” We sent over to Cedar Flats, five miles away, for their terror. We knew him to be the genuine stuff, and when lie arrived we posted him as to whut was w r anted. At 4 o’clock, when our alleged terror returned to the shaft, the Cedar Flats terror suddenly waltzed out on him with a hairraising whoop and called out; “ Whar’s the bloody, bloomin hyena who has been passin’ hisself off around here as a fighter ? Whoop ! Waug! Ugh ! Somebody pint him out to me and then tie my hands and legs while I bite his ears off!” Our alleged terror turned pale and looked nervous, and the Cedar Flats man pranced around, cracking his heels together and crowed. “ Cock-a-doodle-doo! Whoop! Pint him out. Let him stand before me! Whoop ! Tie me all up in knots, head me up in that bar’l, and then I’ll lick him or go over the cliff ! Grout snakes ! but won’t somebody show me the fello v who —!” I pointed to our terror, and the Cedar Flats man uttered a scroaft'i and rushed for him. The chap who had only killed ’leven men just fell right down in a heap, and it was five minutes before we could bring him to. He was whiter than flower and us limpsy as a rag, and it was all of half an hour before he could walk away. “ How do you account for it?” I asked as he was ready to go. ‘‘ I must have gone into the wrong business,” he gloomily replied. “ How do you mean?” “ I ought to have been a preacher I”

Barnum’s White Elephant.

“ You probably have not heard bow Barnum secured the indorsement of the New York press on his alleged white elephant,” said Bert Davis, to a Mexico, (Mo.) Intelligence man. “ Upon the day of the white elephant’s arrival in New York Barnum entertained all the press gang at dinner and after that he was to conduct them down to the wharf to see the elephant—a scheme to obtain a little free advertising. In the meantime some of the boys had visited the wharf and saw the elephant was not white, but rather of a mouse color, and they had agreed among themselves to give Mr. Barnum a genuine ‘ roast.’ A few minutes before the start Mr. Barnum had a story to tell the boys in order to put them in a good humor. He said that there was once a big social gathering given in honor of a great beauty. When the beauty arrived with the usual flourish of trumpets all eyes were turned upon her and the general remarks were, 1 Isn’t she lovely ? ” and ‘ How beautifully she is painted ! ’ It is true, she was painted, not by hand, however, but by God. ‘ Now, gentlemen,’ said Mr. Barnum, ‘ the color o£ this unimal I am about to show you is just as God painted it. Had the work been left to me, I assure you he would have been perfectly white.’ The young men appreciated the little story, which resulted in the entire press of the city ndorsing the great humbuggar's white lephant.”

An Extraordinary Boat.

One of the most extraordinary boats on the great lakes is not a whaleback, but is a passenger car transfer operated in the Straits of Mackinac by the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railroad. It has an enormous capacity for carrying cars, but its peculiarities are its strength, its shape and the number of its steam engines. It carries twenty-four stenin eti gines for the performance of the variouZ requirements of the business it is in. The hull or the boat is as solid as the walls of an old-time blockhouse. The bow rises up and away from the water so as to hang or slant over it as if it were a hammer, and that is what it was built to bo. This is because the boat is an icebreaker, intended to keep a channel open in the straits all winter, or to make one whenever she is pushed into the massive ice that forms in that cold region. The big boat advances toward the ice, and shoving her nose upon its edge, lifts herself upon it. Then a screw propeller under the overhanging bow performs the work of sucking the water from under the ice to enable the boat’s weight to crush it down the more easily. Thus the destructive monster makes her way steadily through the worst ice of the semi-pedar winters of that region, climbing up on the ice, crushing it down, scattering it on either side, and making no more of it than if it were so much slush. —[Boston Transcript.

WOMAN AND HER DRESS

SOME NEW STYLES TjHAT ARE ATTRACTIVE. Mental Occupation Resulting from a Love of Dress Is a Preventive of Hysteria— Becoming Headgear—The Long Clo«k Appears.

What to Wear in Winter.

CELEBRATED dandy, whoso attire furnished the court of England with more subjects o f conversation than I did the war which ! she was at that time waging, once enunciated the astounding doctrine that it was a man’s duty to dress well even if he ran in debt for it. While such a doctrine must be strongly condemned from a moral standpoint, yet as a bit of popular philosophy it goes to show I how strongly inI trenched t' e human 1 mind is in that love I of praise and commendation at the J Hands of our fellowbeings. The same

feeling was uppermost in the thoughts of that good wife who refused to allow her husband to go on a journey shabbily dressed lost in the event of a railway accident the fact might bo drawn to the attention of the public. Commencing as it did, with an instinctive fondness of personal adornment, this question of dress, like the attire of the ce’cbrated man of fashion above mentioned, has grown to such importance that It now monopolizes a good half of the world's attention. Take from our poems, our novels and cur newspapers the descriptions of the raiment worn by the characters and people therein mentioned, aud yr.-u would leave a tremendous gap. But the time which a woman spends over dress is not lost by any means, though the contrary fs very apt to be the popular opinion. A celebrated physician, an authority on nervous diseases, has expressed the opinion that the mental occupation resulting from a love of dress is a most valuable preventive of many forms of hysteria. It is better to talk chiffons than to mope or discuss unwholesome topics. That being the case, even if you don’t care to order such a costume for yourself, you will have no objection to examine and discuss the handsome costume pictured in my initial illustration —a white silk, striped with pale blue, with a white crepo de chino plastron. With this costume is worn a verj- stylish bonnet of white lace, embroidered with large pearls, which form a kind of diadem in conjunction witli bows of black velvet and black feathers. Speaking of becoming headgear, says our New York correspondent, 1 should remind you that this is jar excellence the season of felts, when the new styles come so fresh and beautiful from the hands of the makers. If you will dis-

STYLISH GRAY FELT.

cuss this subject of hats with your husbands. brothers, or male friends, you will learn that a felt hat, stiff or soft, cannot rightfully be termed dressy. Only a silk l.at can be dressy- Now, there is a great deal of truth in this, only, of course, when a lady wears a felt hat she may beautify It with appropriate trimming, with really rich garniture. A felt hat calls for trimming. In and of itself it is not a material like silk or velvet, which is a garniture unto itself. Its great advantage is that it lends itself so readily to the formation of quaint and graceful outHm s, and thus aids in setting off the natural beauty of the head, for it should be borne in mind that all art in personal adornment has for its so.o object the enhancing of natural come Iness, the bringing out of Inherent grace, the accentuation of that coloring done by Nature own hand. I have seen some altogether charming head gear in felt this season. “Who hath the choice hath the | ang, ” says the old proverb, and you will be forcibly reminded of the truth of this saying when you come to select a felt, so endless arc the shapes, so different are the Styles, so never-ending the varieties. The point is to get something that will suit your particular sty e. It is a problem not always easy to solve, for whi e anything may look well on Maud’s head, when set upon Helen's class c crown it looks like a fright Close-fitting felts trimmed with feathers, sma 1, black cbques, for instance, or wings, are very becoming to that stylo of young person commonly known as the dainty Miss, but the large-featured, picturesque girl

LACE COVERED FELT.

needs an expanse of brim, whi'e on the other hand, the pert, pretty fate often bear a shape that flares boldly 'up and shows her just as she is. A short figure of the dumpy build should beware of wide brimmed felts They look like extinguishers on half-burned down candles. My second illustration pictures a dashing bit of beadgear in felt, trilamed very high with bows of velvet ribbon.

Such a shape is very becoming to a face that needs no shading or softening of any kind. Such faces, however, are lew and far between. Even the face of angelic type is framed and shaded by wavy tresses of hair. A felt hat s trimmed in a novel manner, will be found represented in my third illustration. This striking piece of headgear is in black telt, and is trimmed with a deep band of blaek velvet ribbon, which forms a large flat bow in front, fastened with a Duckie of brilliants. Plumes of black ostrich feathers are placed high at the back, and a most novel eflect is produced by the boatshaped brim Leing covered with fine white laco. In my fourth illustration there is pictured a very richly trimmed gray ielt, the trimming consisting of a torsade and loops of moss-green velvet At the front there is placed a “battle” of green parrots’ feathers. The felt hat is admirably adapted for traveling purposes, and I have noticed a number such, nattily trimmed with silk ril bon bows in black, brown or navy blue, sitting close to the head. The joint aimed at is to combine stylo with simplicity. Rough felts and beavers are mostly worn by young Misses, although occasionally one sees a face and head that looks woll beneath a broad-brimmed beaver of tho Gainsborough pattern. As the season advances tho long cloak will make its appea'ancc. Cloth will bo tho favorite material, and I need hardly add that those garments will be richly and heavily trimmed The cloak worn by the lady iepresented in my fourth illustration belongs to this class of elaborately trimmed ,-treet garments. It is of a light Havana-brown color, and is

BROWN CLOTH CLOAK.

cut out at the neck, front and back, and filled in with cream colored crepe do chino. The shoulders are gathered to form slight frills of no great height, and there are quaint little gussets in front apparently supported by bretellos of the trimming. The passementerie forms a sort of false hood with collar band and long slender pendants. It Is made of beads of various metallic tones and Is full of color. .Tho bottom of the cloak is finished with three narrow tucks, and it is lined throughout with cream colored silk. Now that we nro about to enter upon tho season of theaters, operas, danc.es and receptions, it is quite natural that the thoughts of a lady of fashion should turn to long, loose wraps that completely cover a dress, and, abovdall, shield tho decollete neck and bare arms from tho cold blasts. You will find such a ono pictured In my fifth illustration. It is customary to make up these garments in velvet or plush, although very stylish ones may be made in fancy woolens or in silk, which, of course, must bo warmly wadded. The particular one set forth in my last illustration is in embossed plush of a shade known as Russian green. It is fitted to tho figure at tho back and falls in folds from the wa st' line The front sides, cut out at tho neck, are fastened in the middle by large hooks The left side folds over and is held in position at the waist by an agrafe in old silver. The sleeves are made large, but narrow down a litt o toward the wrist. The sleeves and front and collar of this pelisse are trimmed with fur, or, if you choose, with real or

PLUSH PELISSE.

Imitation feather trimming. It should be lined with o d gold or old roso We shall have the debutantes with us in great numbers this season, and some charming evening dresses hav.s been made up to sultthelr dainty coloring and delicate style it beauty. One was a white Brus els net over white silk, the skirt being made with full folds all around the back and sides. In front there was a lovely trimming formed of graduated fringes of field daisies, hanging cn their long green stems and placed one above the other from waist to hem. It was the ideal coming out dress. Another was a i ale-pink made with a very quaint little de ollete bodice, witli narrow peats back and front, ou lined by tine feather stitching. The neck was edged with a deep turn-down frill of pink chiffon, and there was a wide sash of softs Ik around the waist t ed In a largo bo.v in from The skirt was finished with a flounce of chiffon rom.d the bottom.

Mostly Medical.

In a case of sudden and prolonged cessation of the heart’s action while giving chloroform during an operation, Dr. L. L. McArthur restored the heart to action by thrusting a needle between the ribs and Into the apex of the heart, thus to Irrjtate its muscle. He has found this method of use in other cases, and when milder means fail this sort of stabbing is certainly a useful resource to one who knows Just where to strike the steel into the heart. Mabie Wilt, the once noted soprano, who committed suicide in Vienna last September, met her death by jumping from a fourth-story window. A baii.boad in the Argentine Republic has one stretch of 211 miles without a curve or bridge.

SAVED BY INDIAN BOYS.

Defeat of the Sioux Tribe Led b Brave Young Crows. Captain H. J. King, of Chamberlain, S. D., is one of tho best known Missouri steamboat captains in the West, having been runriingonthe upper river constantly for the past twenty-eight years. The Captain is a good story teller, and while speaking of the early Indian troubles on the upper river told how the valor of a band of Indian boys turned the tide of battle. In August, 1875, the steamer Katie I’. Kountz and other steamers were unable to proceed to Fort Benton, their destination, on account of the extreme low water and were compelled to discharge their cargoes at Cow Island, 120 miles below Benton. The cargoes consisted mostly of government supplies for tho military posts in tho upper country. A company of infantry was sent from Fort Shaw to guard the supplies, and while in camp some eight hundred Sioux came in and attacked the guard camp, which had boon re-iuforced by some Crow Indians. The Crows at once sallied out and engaged the Sioux in combat, but wore soon defeated and driven back into camp. The Crows then sent a runner to their village for re-inforcoinents. The ro-inforcements arrived in due time and they again made an attack upon the Sioux, who once more defeated them, and the Crows wore compelled to retreat to their white allies, who had fortified themselves behind tho boxes and barrels of supplies. After the second defeat the nows was soon received at the Crow village, and the squaws promptly armed all boys between the age of ten and eighteen - about two hundred in all —and sent them to the assistance of their fathers and relatives. Upon appearing in view of the besieged camo, dashing along with whoop and yell, the Crows rushed out on their swift little ponies and attempted to stop the boys and prevent them from entering the battle, but they might us well have attempted te slop a cyclone. The boys scattered out and eluded their elders and immediately attacked the large body of Sioux. Seeing their young mon hotly engaged in battle with the hated foe was too much for the old warriors, and, uttering their fierce battle' cry, they wont to their assistance, and the buttle between the Sioux and Crows became general. Notwithstanding the bravery of tho Sioux they wore unable to long withstand tho fierce attack of the crows, and soon began to retreat up Crow Crock, a small stream that enters tho Missouri near tho spot where tho buttle commenced. A week after the light Captain King arrived there on the steamer General Meade, loaded with private cargo, and owing to tho same cause that stopped other bouts from going further up the river found it necessary to remain there, end tho captain mid party went to Benton by ] ony to make arrangements to have the freight brought by tho stoumei transported overland to that point. In going to Benton their road lay along the entire length of the buttle ground,and the terrible havoc wrought by tho Crows mid Sioux could still bo plainly seen. Dead Indians, dead ponies, blankets, wurimplot monte, &c., were strewn over the entire eighteen miles where the running fight hud taken place. In fear of their own sculps none of the party lingered long enough to collect any of the relics. [Chicago Mail.

Cultivating the Chestnut.

How much cun be accomplished by introducing foreign strains of chestnuts no one can toll ns yet, but there nre native varieties which afford promises sufficiently certain and fluttering. Some of these, found in Tennessee, Pennsylvania und the mountains of Virginia, tire nearly us big its horse chestnuts and have a most-delicious flavor. Grafts from the trees bearing them produce admirable results. It must be understood that grafts do not improve vurictfes, merely maintaining them, so that the planter is able to gradually bettor his stock by selecting those trees which bring fort h the best fruit. Perhaps the time may arrive when chestnuts will contribute importantly to the food supply of the United States as they do now in Europe. There are many ways of using them in cookery and a number of receipt i will be included in the government report above referred to. They uro made into soup, prepared ns a pudding, employed us u stuffing for birds, boiled and dipped in sirup fora conserve and utilized in several other fashions. Now und then a chestnut twig is found which has a succession of burrs all along it instead of the usual two or throe that dangle together. The Department of Agriculture would bo very much obliged to any one who will send to it such a freak. It means simply that all of the female blossoms along the “spike” that boars the blurrs have been fertilized by the pollen. Ordinarily only two or three of them are so fertilized. If some grafts of the unusual growth described can be secured, possibly the producing power of chestnut trees may bo multiplied.

How Bees Know Each Other.

“All the animals which belong to a herd, and also the bees in a hive, from 20,(XX) to 80,000, in number, know each other,” says Professor Combe ip his System of Phrenology, and from this fact the author attempts to show that bees possess the organ of “form,” by means of which they are enabled Io recognize every individual composing the vast army which goes to make up a colony. But the fuct is that bees do not drive an intruder away or kill him because they know him by his size, form or color, but because his scent (hive odor) is different from their own. This is soon found out if wo attempt lo unite two colonics of bees without the preliminary manipulations known to nil intelligent apiarists, for a slaughter at once begins. A peaceful and harmonious union, however, is easily accomplished if the beekeeper first proceeds to “unite” their odor by spraying both colonists alike with peppermint water, or in some other way of liis own. Bees thus prepared never fight when united.—[New York Voice.

A Herb Said to Care Insanity.

A Mexican paper states that there grows in Yucatan an herb, well known to old women mid Indian doctors, which is tin infallible cure for many of the most common forms of This herb is unknown to the scientific men of Yucatan, but many of them believe firmly in its existence, and many of them have know, ledge of cures made by its use. Now here is an opportunity for some enterprising person to prove himself a benefactor of mankind und at the same time line his pockets with gold. There is a fortune awaiting the person who may find and utilize that herb. Orleans Picayune.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

There are twenty-three widows and daughters of Revolutionary soldiers who will draw pensions, though the last male survivor died long ago. This fact leads < to some curious speculations as to the number of widows of veterans of tho civil war who may be on the pension rolls one hundred years hence. A physician of Berlin writes that twenty-two different species of bacteria find a lodgment in the human mouth. Kissing ho pronounces to be a habit of untold danger and one which should bo ’ abandoned. If, however, the human family entire cannot be persuaded to reform in respect to osculation, the writer suggests the use of respirators by those ‘ who persist in the error of their ways. The syndicate that was formed in Germany last summer for tho purpose of establishing colonies of German farmers in Alabama has procured a tract of land in that State. Tho work of enrolling the colonists is in progress in Germany, and it is reported that a body of them will bo ready to take their departure for Alabama next month. If tho first colony, • which is to bo in Washington county, is successful other colonies will bo rapidly organized, so that within a few’ years tha State may have a large German population. A few years ago, in Syria, American had displaced the native vegetable oils' mid their feeble light. Tho familiar Pennsylvania petroleum cask was fouud in tho Jordon valley and hundreds of miles up the Nile. To-day the Batoum Trading Company’s square tin cans in which the oil is curried from the Caspian Sen are used by tho shopherds of J udon, in place of tho goutskin buckets to wato/ their flocks. On tho east of Jordan roofs, are tinned and doors plated with tho tin ■ from those cans, and in sumo of the native schools little boys use them with ink, ns slates, on which to do their sums. All this shows how the Russian traffic with Palestine has increased of Into years. In reference to tho number of valuable dogs that have died during this year, James Watson, kennel editor of Outing, says; “Tho sooner American owners recognize the fact that dogs are just as much in need of pleasure end comfort os they are themselves the better it will bo for the health and longevity of their dogs. Men without love for dogs and who simply go into tho business for what pecuniary gain they think is in it cannot, perImps, understand that dogs are intelligent, thinking animals, and it is littlo wonder that, not being treated in a rational manner, they succumb to disease. Confinement without companionship is us irksome to dogs as to human beings, and they lire bound to suffer from it bodily ns well as mentally. Treat your dogs ns you would yourself bo treated, and they will live long and die happy. William T. Coleman, the chairman of tho famous San Francisco Vigilance Committees of 1851,1856 and 1877, in an account of their work which .ho has written for the Century, refer* to tho recent lynching at New Orleans, and tolls what ho thinks tho people of Californio would have dono under tho same circumstances. They would have organized in full force, ho says, formed a court, appointed a judge and selecled u jury; called for evidence, analyzed it carefully, put on trial tho people who had been discharged by tho perjured jury, given the accused good counsel and tho benefit of every doubt, ami finally would have executed with duo deliberation those whom they found guilty. A stock company with a capital of #IOO,OOO has been formed to place u paper exhibit at tho Columbian Exposition. Every American paper maker or American manufacturer of paper-making machinery will bo allowed to take stock. Tho entire capital has already been secured, but tho pledges will not bo culled, for until the outsiders have boon given tt. chance, in order to do awny with any idea of a money-making scheme. A. Committee of Five has been appointed, by President M. J. Fitch to fuse the matter in hand and to send a representative to the meeting of tho Boston Paper Trade Club on the third Wednesday inNovember.

“I believe," said the Rev. Dr. Heber Newton, in the hearing of a New York Sun man, “that there will be greater changes in the world before the end o£ our century than there have been at any other time since the advent of Christ.”’ To this the Sun man adds: “There- iso, notion of this kind in the minds of many, people nowadays who are not cruekbrained, including people who eannntt forecast the nature of the impending; changes, or foretell the very time afc ‘ which they will occur, us it has been foretold by Lieutenant Totten, of Yale College. But in the meantime, even the ’ cynics can sustain their spirits with the assurance that they will very soon know all about them; the end of th® century is net far off.” A concession Ims been granted to M. Stepnani to erect a Moorish palace nt the Worlds Fair. Ono of the many attractions which ho proposes to exhibit in this palace is $1,000,000 in gold coin ip one pile. Ho believes that this will be a great drawing card and that nearly every visitor will want to see it. Of course great precautions will bo taken for the safety of such great treasure. It will be in a strong cage, and Mr. Stepanni says, "just under the gold will be constructed n fire and burglar proof vault. To the doors of this vault will be connected electric wires. In the event of an attempt to rob the palace my guards will press tin electric button, the entire pile will fa'l into the vaults and the doors will spring shut.” A space 200 bv 250 feet was granted for the Moorish palace, upon which Mr. Stcnanni says he will expend $400,000. Gen. John Echols, in an address before the Confederate Association of Kentucky, read a letter from n Virginia, minister describing how “Stonewall” jacksons example made a Christian of his lieutenant, Gen. R. S. Ewell. Ewell Jn the early days of the war was a very profane mail and a skeptic. And he was as skeptical about his commander’s military talents as in religious matters. At a council of war called at a critical stage of the Valley campaign, soon after Pope took command of the Federal forces, all the generals, including Jackson, were unable to offer any suggestion concerning the movements of the army, but Jackson asked for more time to consider the matter. Perhaps an hour later, Ewell; returning to the General’s tent to get his gloves, which he had forgotten, found Jackson on his knees praying for divine aid. Ewell could not help overhearing the appeal, which was childlike in its simplicity. The following morniug Jackson proposed the movement through Thoroughfare Gap, which led to a series of victories. Gbn. Ewell was so profoundly impressed by the incident that he forthwith joined the church. A» the world knows, he also became Jackson e most trusted lieutenant.