Pike County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 December 1878 — Page 4

The Democrat. _ V. T. KNIGHT, Editor and Proprietor. .Petersburg! ! s Indiana. THE SATIN SLIPPERS. A Story of Western «« Resurrectionists.” I. The basis of this strange story is fact. The ghastly romance of the sequel will be recognized by old residents near Flint, Mich., who have not forgotten the nocturnal exploits of a well known family whose modest home, of such fair surroundings, stfeod half wav up the road, between the town and the old graveyard. n. i Peals of laughter rang through the | windows of the school-room. With a light step and a face beaming with good humor, Sister Mary Agatha hurried along the hall, the big beads of her long rosary clacking time with her steps; and when she reached the open door she clapped her hands together for attention and silence. For an instant she securedboth. It was the noon recess, and, recreation being the order of the hour, girls were free to do almost as they pleased, within the limits of decorum. One was showing. photographs received that day- from honfe, and was laughing herself info hysteria because a brother* whom she had left a beardless boy, now dignifiedly glowered at her heavily be whiskered. Another read a funny, fairy extravaganza aloud, and it was her delighted audienae that had been making the boisterous laughter. Lois Mallory was bent over a dainty bit of embroi'ery, and her big blue eyes looked up with unconcealed affection at Sister Mary Agatha as the latter advanced into the room. The girls suspended all their proceedings and grouped themselves around the teacher. She said a few s words in a meek way about making “such a noise,” and while one played with her rosary, and another drew her veil back from the border of her cap, and another examined the^silver cross pendant from her cape, she had * kind word for each—a thoughtful inquiry, or a pretty, but not fulsome, compliment for some accomplished task. But, this good order did not last long. The sister was not entertainment enough for more than two or three, and the rest roamed away, renewing their clatter. Lois Mallory still had her embroidery in her hand. “Lois will not tell us what she is makijpg,” complainingly murmured Nan French, a white-haired, black-eyed child, pert for her age, anji very notioeable in any group on account of the unusual combination of shades in her eyebrows and in her eyes. “T promised,” answered Lois, looking with manifest pleasure at the results of her labor. Siste^ Agatha took the work up in her own hands to look at it. % “ Papsies on a white satin ground,” ^ said she, half to herself, half to the rest. “And I guess—may I guess, Lois?—

u is lor—a--lauj: s—supper. ■ ■ “Qh, sister, that's telling!” x_ ‘‘I know, I kdow now, I know!" exclaimed Nan French, hopping with glee nds. “ ’Tis for -and. clapping Per hand your sister Eunice. Going to be married to Walter Garth.” “’Sh!” whispered Sister Agatha, putting her hand abruptly over Nan’s mouth, but failing to get the smile off her own. “Yon are a little gossip, Nan. - -—-— — —«V*V You ought not to have said that when you saw Lois did not wantto tell.” “ There is no harm done,” said Lois, ■* with embarrassment. The tears welled •ftp into her eyes’. “ Yes; Eunice is going to be married, and I am making her wedding-slippers—for a surprise, you know.” She wiped the tears away, and shewed Nan the embroidery. “Nan, J'ilLnAt n i~uy<^u~ thing more subowk I should not .like to have Eunice or Mr. Garth know until just the last moment.’” . - “Honor bright,”Answered Nan,with the most solemn of aspects, and her hand where she thought her heart was. And the moment she got the chance she stole away and told it to every girl in the room, in strict confidence, making each solemnly promise, “ true as you live,” not to breathe it to any other living mortal. She took them out into the hall one by one to divulge the secret, modifying the recital with various particulars furnished by the inspiration of the moment. % Before the study-bell rang an open carriage rolled through ‘ the dust of a neglected country road, and stopped at the gate of the academy. Eunice Mallory saluted with gracious heartiness the sister who opened the door; and Lois, hearing the welcome voice, buried her embroidery in her desk and ran. The little sister was in the big sister’s arms, and they hugged and kissed each other like two foolishly fond persons who had been separated by oce£ftis for many years, j. “It is a. whole week since you were here,” said Lois. “ I thought you were never going to come.” “You foolish child. Sister Agatha will not let me -come at all if I do not obey the rules. I fear you will not be content until we; are under the same roof. Is not once a week often enough for a visitor? I have some news for you -Eunice held her surprised sister a arm’s length, and looked earnestly inti the child’s face, in which fear, hope pleasure, curiosity were all commingled “ Am I to go home?” “ Yes.” “Is something going to happen?” And Eunice drew the weeping girl close to her, and her own tears fell tluck and fast upon Lois’s head, sobbing against her bosom. Lois was neither child nor woman. Already some of the melancholy of womanhood clouded the lingering gayety of disappearing childhood. Her mother died in giving her birth—

The mother's rapture slew her, —I&nd Eunice had been mother, sister, friend. Lois at 16 looked at Eunice, 24, with intense reverence and intense tenderness. Aside from the motherwant about the house, which Lois had scarcely felt, life had been very pleasant and fortune very kind to them. Job • Mallory had been wise enough to buy Michigan farming-land before a railroad pierced that part of the State; and his natural thrift made him rieh as soon as the rails were laid through his farm to carry his crops to market. His two girls were the sole objects of his ambition. To give them every thing they desired was his highest pleasure; and in return for his indulgence they gave him a largess of filial devotion which he * considered the Sweetest and greatest „ price Heaven could put upon his toil. Eunice, the older girl, now in blooming womanliness, inherited a weak constitution from her mother. , Lois had her father's sturdier one. Eunice was tall, shapely, graceful; a brunette to whom scarlet was the most becoming of colors until pink spots same to her cheeks and stayed there, and her pallid skin grew whiter and whiter and more transparent. The cronies of the town shook their heads with dismal significance, and said “ consumption; ” the doctors emphatically declared no, pronounced her lungs perfectly soundbut could not account for the gradual diminution of her flesh, her loss of appetite, and sleeplessness. The coming of young Garth into the family had brightened her and apparently improved her health, and it was this consideration, and only this, which had reconciled! Job Mallory to the marriage. Walter ( Garth had little to commend him; on. the other hand, his sole vice was one ,'t 4 & « "■■■

which, Job reasoned, Eunice would be able to removo. Ho was addicted to drinking; and, prior to hia engagement to Eunice, had amused half die town and disgusted the other half with the whimsical pranks of his periodical sprees. He was a ine-Ilooking fellow, stalwart and supple, and winning in his manners; the very man whom a good and susceptible young woman would madly fall in love wi th, and for whom she would abate no ; ot of her hallucination though she weri compelled to see in him all the faults of Lucifer. There was iromething mysterious in the way the Garths lived. They had a cozy cottage, “up the road,” as the folk said, over the sides and roof of which broad-leaved vines clambered. Thick, stumpy rose-bushes surrounded the house and filled the air with delicious fragrance. Honeysuckle and morning-glorias contended for the right of wav up thu windows; and the wide eup of the hollyhock oaught the dew along the thick hedges. Behind the house were, many apple and peach trees, and when they blossomed the adjacent Country was silled with the sweet smell, so that this portion of the township was familiarly described as “Garth’sOrchard.” There were the father, three sons, and an aged housekeeper, supposed to be a distant relative. It did not stand to reason that the orchard alone was enopgh to support the family; yets Walter had gone to work as book-keeper for Gormley’s house only a year or two before, having been at the Ann Arbor High Sohool ana University frum his boyhood. William, the second son, was studying medicine iu the same ir stitu tion; and Gaffer, Jr., the youngest, did “chores ” around the £ ace, and had plenty of money and a d name. > Old Gaffer Garth was known very widely by his red nose, his blue pipe, and his ardent piety. Whisky gave him this first, nobody knew where he got the second, and the third was as inseparable from him as either of the others. In one respect he was like the lilies of the field—he toiled not, neither did he spin; yet, although not arrayed like Solomon, he never was shabby, and seemed to want none of the comforts of existence. ~— “ Had a goodyield thisyfear, Garth P” was sure to bring forth the unvarying response: “God is good to Gaffer Garth.” His reputation for piety was not confined to the earth and the fruits thereof. He knew many excellent anecdotes about John Wesley, which he told with quaint humor, ana the Sundays he led at prayer-meeting the congregation were kept in smiles and tears, tor he was a powerful exhorter. His red nose, his white hair,'his sunken, bleary eye; his thin, clean-shaven face, constituted a pemiittrqnctu re, an once imposing, repulsive, a^d grotesque. One of his best XnowjMiftiits was a, strict keeping of his (wtemuul. UVtold his personal business to nobody. Adroit enough in learning all about every other body’s business, he told his to no man. He was noted far and wide as a “ good

neighbor,” and this popular quality in the old man manifested itself chiefly in his remaikably prompt attendance at funerals. People were as little surpi ised to see Gaffer Garth at a “wake” as a corpse. He v/as always welcome, too, for he cried lustily with the mourners, and had a delicate way of soothing their grief by examining the shroud, praising the quality of the goods and the neatness and taste of the work; or if the deceased were a. man, and clad for his last journey in the somber habiliments which he had worn on festive occasions in life, Gaffer had a kind word for the tailor. He was known to have a curious notion that it was good taste—indeed, a.duty—to attire the dead f,s richly as possible. He thought that they should be burieffwith all their jewelry oil; and it was observ--edrthtrt he wan'fund, of jewel*/ 'feu lts~ •own sake. He wore several cameo rings and one onj’k circlet upon whose stone a monogram—not his—was deeply graven. 1’ oung Gaffer resembled his father in more respects than a fondness for jewelry. He, too, attended funerals with singular uniformity; and so eon

siueraie was ne oi me ieeungs 01 tne survivors that ho often managed to push his way throngh the crowd around the grave, and did not hesitate to assist the grave-digger whenever his services seemed to be acceptable. He was accustomed to absent himself suddenly from the town and as suddenly to return ; he went, it was understood, to pay flying visits to William at the University. It was observed that he frequently wort new studs in his shirtbosom and new sleeve-buttons in his cuffs, on returning; but it was notorious that the young men in Ann Arbor were more fashionable than those in Flint: and William had doubtless presented young Gaffer with some of his personal bric-a-brac. hi. The expected marriage did not take place immediately in Job Mallory’s. Eunice was prostrated by illness, and the wedding had to be put off. She could not foresee that she was never again to leave her room; that never again would she ride to the academy to kiss Sister Agatha and carry away that meek saint’s benediction; that she was never again to take a long walk with Walter down the clover-lined, lane and listen to his passionate declarations of love and manly ambition, and the determination to become somebody for her sake. A summer passed away; and her beautiful head, with its wealth of black hair hiding the white of the pillow, tossed restlessly abo ut, and the red spots glowed in her hollowing cheeks. Hope never left her. Nor did Lois. That faithful heart forgot the weakness of the child, put on the strength of the woman, and became nurse and companion to Eunice, whose keen wit had discovered the secret of the embroidery; and, day after day, at Eunice’s command, Lois sat at her bedside and wove the silken pansies on the satin slippers. “ I shall wear them, dear, at the altar, or—” this vrith a gay, forced laugh— “in my coffin.” t ' Lois neve r talked of death to Eunice, though she knew that death was inevitable. The silk had been bought for the wedding-dress; the tulle and the orange blossoms ::or the wreath and the bridal veil, and Lais had stitched forget-me-nots on the white kids, which were never to be worn by a bride. Thesummerwanea. The perfume of the roses ceased to stoat in through the windows; the luxurious odors of “Garth’s Orchard” liad given place to ruddy apples and jieaches, whose velvet down bespoke their inner lusciousness; the hues of autumn were on the woods, its purple haze hung in the sky, and the discarded " eaves crunched" under the foot of Walter Garth as he made his daily visit dawn the road to the bedside of her who was never to redeem her promise.JPule almost as Eunice herself, half crazed by the certain prospect of her approaching death, he sought in strong stimulants vigor for his exhausted nerves, and over the dying girl's face he breathed he mephitic poison of intoxication. She? forgave him, of course. Did any true woman ever fail to forgive nay fi.ult in the man she loved, and who sue knew loved herP It is a part of the exquisite economy of nature. She said : “He loves me. He is trying to keep up.” And that was forgiveness October, with its scarlet glories, pass ed awayffcullen November came, and the whirring flocks of birds flew south, leaving the chilli ag north for the coming snows. A few days before Thanksgiving Eunice began to feel that the end was near. Lws and Walter were at her bedside; h«r heart-broken father. * f

b^id.toKSli^iSSKa grief. Eunice asked that her weddingdress ifiight be spread out on a chair whore she could see it. Smothering her sobs, Lois obeyed. Then the veil, Uie orange blossoms, the gloves, the slippers. Taking one of the latter in her almost lifeless hand, Eunice gazed with fervent joy upon its silken pansies, unfit half dreamily, said: " Dear Lois, I ought to bid you wear these on your wedding-day! 'Oh, may some noble heart love you as yon deserve to be loved; may some one whom yon will honor and trust take you to wife, and oherish yon as yon have cherished me--—” Poor Lois! Unable longer to control hciself, she hurried ont of the room, and in the gray solitude of the silent porch bid her tears flow; and when the paroxysm was past she returned smiling to Eunice. “ No,” resumed the latter, with a pitiful affectation of dress me for the oo: as hare been Walter’s wife-” r, “you will -as—I was to And in thdutillness of midnight death came. I Her command was scrupulously obeyed. In the rich toilet of the bride that to have been lay Eunice in her was coffin; and, as the first snow-flakes of the year lazily descended, on the afternoon of Thanksgiving Day,she was laid in t he grave. There was no Thanksgiving in the town that day. No dinners were spread; no healths were drunk. LUe struck sharp on death makes awful struck sharp on lightning. Rumors, scarcely credited, of “resurrectionists” and “body-snatching” had been carried about from' time to time, and Walter Garth, ashamed to make the suggestion, and yet compelled by affection for Eunice, resolved to watch her grave. He armed himself, hired a trusty fellow to accompany him, and, bidding a tearful good-by to Lois and her father, left Uiem without hinting his purpose or his destination. Worn out in body and Unmanned in spirit, he drank several times, and drank deeply, on his way to the graveyard. At the gate he met his companion, and together they began their weary and silent journey among the tombstones. The night was dark; the wind moaned in pity and affright; through the fitful clouds the moon shonugjlt short intervals, illumining the appalling scene. A gentle layer of fresh snowliad fallen. In a moment of moonlight Walter thought he saw traces of footsteps on the ground, on the very path leading to the new monnd—the mound under which his Eunice lay in her bridal robes. He quickened his pace, and his companion began to falter. With torturing impatience he awaited another gleam of moonlight. It came, he stooped to satisfy himself that the tracks he saw were really human footsteps. With his found he brushed aside the snow, and touched some small object to which the lambent rays gave & pale blue shade. “My Goa!” he cned, in smothered agony, “it is my father’s pipe!” He turned in terror—his companion had not heard him. He was alone. The hireling had fled.

Alone with the moon and the tombstones, which seemed to cry out to him, “Be quick, be quick!” He ran. The moon withdrew her light. He stumbled over graves, and hurt himself on the jutting corners of monuments. He was almost at Eunice’s grave. Dizziness began to overpower him. He cursed himself for having ever tasted liquor, and damned the devil that, under the name of alcohol, was fast stealing his brains away. He was almost at her grave. The moon came to his rescue; the clouds opened. Two men -were there, one white-haired, one a lusty youth. They had the body before them; they were stripping it. Out with his revolver, and Walter aimed as best he powered. In another the tombstones were startled by a sharp report. Walter Garth lay dead beside her who was to have been his wife. In the morning he was found there, shrouded under a heavy fall of snow, his own revolver at his side. People said it was no wonder; he could not survive Eunice; and when Job Mallory went over to “ Garth’s Orchard” to console old Gaffer, who had now a funeral to attend to in his

own noose, tne bereaved father, summoning all his fortitude, said between his sobs: “Thank’ee, Mr. Mallory. I’Jl get on. Never fear for me. 'God is good to Gaffer Garth.” IV. Seven years hurry away. To the young, time hurries; only to the old, the wretched, the poverty-stricken, it drags. It had never dragged to Gaffer Garth, senior,or to Gaffer Garth, junior; both were dead, nevertheless. The latter was found on the road, as if he had fallen from his wagon, and, in the wagon, strangely enough, was an empty i coffin, which, unless appearances deceived, had had a clammy tenant. No explanation, however, was ever made of this curious circumstance, and old Gaffer, who always had an eye to saving unnecessary expense, used the empty box to bury the youth in. The last funeral old Gaffer attended was Job Mallory’s. Mayhap he took cold, for it was winter time; but he died within a month—and made no confessions. Whether God was as good to Gaffer Garth after death as that humble man believed him to have been in life, I I know not; albeit the minister preached a most extravagant discourse over his remains, and extolled his many virtues. In seven years Lois Mallory, had become an attractive woman. The only naan who had found access to her sympathies—nay, he had awakened her love—was Dr. William Garth, who, having completed his university course with exceptional honor, had come back to his old home to practice. He knew as much as doctors generally; he lived at “ Garth’s Orchard,”•- and he wooed and won Lois Mallory, the prettiest and *the richest girl in his circuit. Their marriage-day was set, and, unknown, to them/it was Thanksgiving, for the Governor’s proclamation had been issued many w rks after Lois bad began preparing her trousseau. Lois shuddered when she learned the shocking coincidence. Unwilling to wound William, bat unable to conceal her agitation, she suggested that they postpone the ceremony, and bring it nearer Christmas. With playful imexorablenees, he demanded a reason. She reminded him of Eunice’s death, and. of Walter’s snioide. Not lacking sensibility, and jnst superstitions enough to oppose postponements, William still persisted in keeping the day; and, thus arguing, they approached ‘“Garth’s Orchard.” A wayside patient demanded his attention; the old housekeeper bustling around the vinecovered gate, attracted Lois. She was a furrowed, leather-faced old woman, whom rheumatism had reduced to hobbling; her left hand was withered, and hung helpless at her side. Her sparse white hair was neatly curled back under a clean double-bordered cap. She saluted Lois respectfully. Her voice was husky, and her articulation indistinct. I “ I beg your pardon, miss. Ton will forgive an old woman like me tor saying a word to yon.” 41 Indeed, I have nothing to forgive. I thank yon for speaking to me so kindly.” T “ And yon will do dm a favor P” “ Gladly.” “ Then come in a moment, and sit in the porch. I have something to give 3011—something for you to wear on your wedding-day.” 'a mrm- z V .. .

Lola keeper took But the did houserhy the hand and led her, ia a sort of trance, up to the walk between the barren rose bushes, and gave her a chair in the porch whose trellis was half concealed by withering vines. In a moment the old turned, bearing a pair of embi satin slippers. “ These, Miss, are for your wedding- “ Oh, thank yon,' thank jou very mnch,” said Lois, as she took them in her trembling hands. Her head swam. Her eyes refused to look. The design was pansies. They were the slippers she had wrought with her own hands for Eunice—the slippers that had enclosed the feet of Eunice in her coffin! A loud cry of agony was followed by a deep stupor. The old housekeeper could make no explanation except that. the slippers had been given her by old Gaffer Garth on Thanksgiving night, seven years before—she knew nothing about where hegot them. Lois could not be persuaded to rest until, accompanied by William, they visited the graveyard, opened Euncie’s grave, found the body still and perfect, and all the robing on; the slippers alone were gone. Perhaps Walter had taken them off before the coffin was closed, intending to keep them as souvenirs. | William insisted on Lois abiding by her promise. They were wed on Thanksgiving Day; but the satin-slip-pers were not worn by her; William nad replaced them in Eunice’s coffin. A faithful and tender husband, he soon diverted Lois from the charnel mystery; but he had his own misgivings. Itjras only after his settlement in “Gttrai's : Orchard” that he learned of his brother Gaifer’s frequent visits at Ann Arbor, which must have been made in secrecy and disguise; it was only after his father’s death that he had discovered that the orchard had not paid his college expenses. On more than one occasion he had been startled in the dissecting-room by fancied resemblances of the cadavers under his knife to persons he had known; but such illusions were common and ceased to be surprising. How did the empty coffin happen to be in the wagon, In falling from which his brother Gaffer was killed P Where did his father and Gaffer get their large assortment of jewelry P Cold sweat covered his body and chilled his brain when he thought that perhaps his father and Gaffer were disrobing Eunice to steal and sell her body when Walter suddenly appeared before them; that they shot Walter as the only means of keeping their secret, and, in the hurried reinterment of the body, forgot to put the satin slippers again on the feet of the dead, and carried them home as the safest way of eluding suspicion. If William believed that his surmise contained some measure of probability, he had too much good sense to make his wife miserable by imparting his horrible fears to her. Doctors take these things more practically than other men. —Chicago Times.

Rearing Wild Birds. I found it essential to success in rearing birds from the nest to watch the parent bird and find what food it selected for its young. That of all the finches, sparrows, and wrens was naked skinned worms and grasshoppers. The indigofinch which 1 at first failed to rear, 1 foutad was fed solely with grasshoppers, (s', e., with grasshoppers which had just moulted;) after which I found it very easy to raise, and that it proved to be a ve ry excellent cage-bird. All the viroos fed readily upon small grasshoppers and large-sized worms, and in every case died after being fully grown, from my inability to make the proper change in their food. The finches and sparrows would take to seed-eating as so#?i the neat and tfarftrbillNirefc hardened. Wrens, under my obsenpk. tion, fed their young almost exclusevely with small, smooth larvse, taken from the undersides of the leaves of currant bushes, brambles, etc., and I have sat for a long time and counted the worms brought to a nest, the average being five worms in two minutes. This was a nest of the common house wren, when the supply of food was abundant in a neighboring row of currant-bushes. These also were easily reared in the nest. All the young birds took naturally to water when fully grown, except the ground or grass finch, Poocetes gramineus, which would bathe only in fine sand, but would keep itself in excellent condition and was a very interesting cage-bird. The common rice-bird or bobolink was very easily raised, fed on young grasshoppers, took to eating seed readily, became as tame and playful as a'kitten, but when full grown, was liable to become excessively fat, and would then often have epileptic fits, recurring at frequent intervals, death always following^. The cat-bird was an inveterate mimic, attempting to do and sing whatever it saw or heard done by the other birds in its compartment of the cage. The wren was a thorough busybody and studious of nature, investigating with a very knowing and inquiring look every corner and crevice of the cage and every act of its associates. A pair of blue-birds kept themselves inviolate from all other birds, and were models and full of lover-like attentions to each other. They selected a place

where the pair could perch themselves close together, and spent a large part of their time in attentions to each other. The nuthatch, when full grown, delighted to find a grain of Indian corn, which it would push into any crack or crevice where it would fit closely, and then would amuse itself by hammering away at it until it was broken into fragments suitable for its food. The cow-bird was an inveterate gormandizer. It could not be fed enough to stop its clamor for more, and often so folly crammed was it that the last worm or grasshopper stuck in its throat, but it would still beg for more, as if starving. Taking the offered food and finding itself unable to swallow it, it would throw it away with a sudden jerk of the head, but still ask for more. Any thing in the shape of animal food that it could swallow was gobbled down; and this affeotation of starvation, and its large size, sufficiently explain the dwarfing of the other occupants of the nest in which it is a fos-ter-child. It would eat or waste all that any two birds could gather.—Cor. Science News. A youthful couple in Janesville, Wisconsin, celebrated Thanksgiving Day by getting married. In the afternoon the young bridegroom thought he would take his bride out for a drive. But, unfortunately, having drank too many toasts in honor of the occasion as to seriously interfere with his vision he tried to drive over a post at a rattling pace, and the bridal tnrn-out came to grief. The buggy was hauled off for kindling-wood ana the “ happy couple" had. to be carried to the nearest doctor 's office, where the bride’s disinnsfod shoulder could be set and the groom’s broken arm mended. They don’t believe in bridal tours any more. -—- A micbophonio buiglat-alarm is the last device. The slightest noise made by the burglar is straightway magnified into an earthquake and conveyed to the oar of the sleeping proprietor. One little trouble is that a mouse, or, for that matter, a mosquito, has about the same effect. Dr. Bull’s Cough Strop fa particularly • ecommended for children. It cures Coughs, Colds, Croup, Sore Throat and Whooping Cough. Is pleasant to the taste and acts like achann. price, ttceata.

GENERAL BREVITIES. Macon, Georgia, is anxious to besoms an orange market. Enqush maid-servants have shown symptoms of rebellion against caps. Col. Ingersoll’s vest has reached the inordinate proportion of five feet in ciicumference. A Galveston school-marm punishes her j>np3s bv administering nauseous medicines to them. Florida is more nearly ont of debt than ever before in her history, says the Pnlatka Herald.

JlHE Uolumb&num, as tne cremationIfcouse in the cemetery at Gotha, Germany, is called, has been completed. The town authorities have decided that the coffins for cremation are not to measure more than 2.25 meters in length, 0.75 Lin width, 0.72 in height. The urns to be placed in the Columbarium are not to have more than 0.80 meters in height and 0.40 in diameter. The cost of cremation will be about $6. Ac<}uste Guidi and his wife were very miserable in San Francisco. They had been married only a few months, but were already discouraged by poverty, having been accustomed to an easy, careless life. Guidi sent a letter to a friend, requesting him to go to a certain spot in the suburb of the city, find a bit of red paper, and follow a trail of similar pieces until he came to “ something startling.*’ The friend did as requested, and found the dead bodies of Guidi and his wife. They had qommited suicide. The Troy (N. Y.) Times says: “A gang of sharpers is said to be gulling the farmers in this and adjoining counties. Its mode of proceedure is this: An oily tongued, well dressed individual calls upon a farmer, and, after expatiating to considerable length upon the advantages of a wonderful fanningmill for which he is sole agent, prevails upon the honest agriculturist to consent to purchase one. The most remarkable property about the machine is that it has a contract accompaniment which turns into a promissory note when it has reached the bands of the third party.” Afghanistan is known by its shuddering neighbors as the “ land of sud den death.” It well deserves the title. The Afghans themselves exult in th< belief that the devil fell in their country when he was thrown out of heaven The inhabitants of Cabul boast that their city holds the tomb of Cain. Tra dition reports that Mahomet describee the Fuktu dialect of the Afghan tongue as the language of hell. The traveler who has carried his life in his hand: through the wild passes which lead tc the Ameer’s capital, finds little difficulty in accepting the legends. He is en tarely willing to admit that Cain if sleeping among his kindred, and that the Fathan people sprang straight from Satan’s loins. Many New York ladies, according t< Harper's Bazar—some even among th< wealthiest—do their own marketing every day. They prefer to see what if in the market, and to make their choici themselves, and thus neither dealers noi their own servants have much opportunity to take advantage of them; for it is a'sad fact that those who are carelest in looking after their own affairs an every way liable to be cheated. It if not an uncommon practice for servant1 who purchase meats, groceries, etc., foi their employers, to demand of deaden gratuities to the amount of a certaii: per centum on all goods ordered for their employers. If the gratuities- .art: refused m any case, the servant goCs elsewhere to purchase. The results oi such a practice may be easily imagined, and it is well for employers to be oii their guard against such practices. Public indignation has been aroused to a high pitch in San Franciscc Jty the action of a Judge who has hitherto been held in much esmBi" tecrarWA savings bgffir ffiutu^11 ^ucag inD/ilnAnk « XaaA L...__ .. 1_a .insolvent—a fact that became apparent wrifcu the President blew his brains out —the depositors, as well as those resident in the city as those living abroad, were desirous of having the assets of the institution, amounting to some $6,000,000, placed in the hands of a certain new board of Erectors; but, notwithstanding the unanimous petition of the parties interested praying for an order to that effect, Judge Dwinelle directed that the bank be placed in the hands of a receiver, and appointed as such receiver one of his own personal friends. This was too high-handed, however, and Judge Dwinelle will probably lose more by this act than his friend will profit. Jules Vebne wrote the “Wreck of the Chancellor.” He described the voyage of that vessel from Charleston loaded with cotton. The cotton took fire and in spite of the efforts to smother it the vessel sailed on with a core of fire. A somewhat similar case took place last week. The steamer Zealand, of Antwerp, left Jersey City loaded with bagged grain. While at sea a fire began to manifest itself by the smoke that oozed out at every aperture. It was found impossible to extinguish it. The steamer turned around and put back with all speed to New York with a fire that might as any moment destroy her burning in the hold. On arriving at the dock the upper layer of grain-bags were removed and the fire burst out into flame. This was speedily extin?fished by the fire companies at hand. hus doth truth make an effort to keep up with fiction.

The latest fashion of velocipede, or bicycle, as they prefer to call ft nowadays, really seems to be a useful thing. Its chief peculiarity, as contrasted with theold machine, is that the tire of the wheels is made of- India-rubber, enabling the rider to travel over rough or sandy roads, and to go up hill—a thing impossible with velocipede wheels having a tare of steel. Another peculiarity is that the rider sits over the center of the driving-wheel, propelling it by an up and down motion of the leg, instead of one backward and forward, as formerly. With this sort of apparatus men really make journeys into the country about as fast, if not as handily, as with horses. In England some physicians travel about with bicycles upon professional rounds, and in Massachusetts the young fellows go off with them on pleasure excursions. It would be curious if the method of locomotion which was so much talked about a dozen years ago, and was then abandoned, should after all prove to have some practical utility. An ingenious fraud has been committed upon a wealthy merchant residing near Paris. A few days ago he received a letter informing him that a box containing treasure was buried in his garden, and offering to indicate the exact spot if he would agree to divide the spoil. The merchant was at first inclined to treat the letter as a hoax, but upon receiving a second and more pressing one he sent an answer agreeing to the proposal. The next day he was waited Upon by a gentleman of agreeable manners, ana ft was arranged that the search should be made at night, in order to prevent the neighbors from talking. The box—a very weighty one— was duly unearthed, and, when taken into the noose and opened, was found to contain 8,000 franos in silver pieoss of five francs each. The merchant, much pleased at the result of the search, at once handed over the half which he had promised to his informer, who remarked that it was rather a heavy lump to cany to the railway station, distant about a mile, and that perhaps the merchant could oblige him with notes or gold instead. This the merchant was very happy, to do; but he regretted it bitterly the next morning, as he saw that the five-franc pieces were spurious.

T HOKE INTERESTS. Corked Bksf.—To 100 pounds of beef take 10 pounds of salt, 8 quarts of water, 2 pounds of sugar, 2 ounces saltpeter, put in a brass or tin kettle, simmer and skim, jr Pour on the meat when cold. To Cur* Corks.—Take the skin of a boiled potato and bind it on the corn, putting the inside of the skin next to the oorn. It is a good plan to lay on two or three thicknesses to keep it moist. Whipped Cream.—In skimming the cream for whipping be sure to take up none of the milk. Whip always the one way, and do not add your sugar or flavoring till your cream is half-whipped. Cooking Turnips.—Peel them, ohop fine in a chopping-bowl, put them in a kettle with water enough to cover; cook until tender. They should be nearly dry when done; then season as you would cabbage. An Odd Scrap Basket.—Take a peach-basket and paint it black on the outside, paste on scrap-pictures to suit your taste, cover the handle and line the inside with red flannel, putting a box plaiting of the same around the edge. Tapioca Pudding.—Soak a teacup of tapioca for 8 or 4 hours in warm water (some prefer milk); peel and stew some apples, put in a dish, covering the apples with tapioca; bake for 4 hour; sugar and butter sauce. Washington Pudding.—6 ounces of butter, 3 eggs, 4 pound of sifted flour, 2 tablespoonfuls of raspberry jam, 1 teaspoonftu of soda. Star the butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs well beaten. Mix the soda with the flour, add to the mixture, stir in the jam, beat all well together, boil in a mold 3 hours. A Good Dish for an Invalid.— Crumb crackers into a bowl. Pour boiling water, sufficient to soak them, over the crumbs. Break afresh egg, and add quickly, stirring the whole rapidly. The boiling water cooks the egg. Season according to discretion, with salt, pepper, cream, or butter. Chocolate Cake.—1 cup of butter, 3 of brown sugar, 1 of sweet milk, 4 of flour, yelks of 7 eggs, 9 tablespoons grated Baker’s ohocolate, 3 teaspoons baking-powder. This may be baked as a layer cake, making a white cake of the whites of the eggs, baking in layers, and putting them together with frosting, alternating the layers. Lemon Pie.—1 cup of sugar, the yelks of 8 eggs, the white of 1 egg, 1 tablespoonful of butter; stir until veiy light, then add I of a cup of water, and 2 good tablespoonfuls of flour, and the grated rind and juice of one lemon. Bake in a quick oven at first, then slow. Beat the whites of the other 2 eggs to a stiff froth, then add 4 table poonfuls of powdered sugar, and spread over the pie after it is baked, ana brown lightly in the oven. A White Fricassee of Chicken.— Skin them, cut them up in pieces, season with salt, pepper, nutmeg, and mace; and strew over them some sweet marjoram shredded fine; put in a stewpan and pour over them half a pint of cream or rich unskimmed milk; add some butter rolled in flour, and, if you choose, some force-meat balls. Set the stew-pan on the fire, keep it closely covered, and stew or simmer gently till the chicken is quite tender, but do not allow it to boil. v—The Boston Advertiser wants to -know the reason why there is no pleasure in smoking in the dark.- We will give the reason if the Advertiser will promise not to tell. It is beoause one oannot enjoy a smoke until he has a light.—Lowell Courier. r~ —Frenoh papers state that Gambetta is about to marry a widow with a fortune of *8,000,000. If the right-au-imd BVMlicang-pflth wefeUbia^t would probably be that he was about to marry a fortune of *8,000,000 with a widow.

Stop Drinking Vinegar. How many young women who have inherited a predisposition to ewibonpoint have rained their health by drinking vinegar to reduce their forms to graceful proportions. Allan’s AnthFat is absolutely harmless. It promotes digestion, and accomplishes its work simply by preventing an undue assimilation of the fatty ingredients of the food. Excessive fatness is a vexatious burden, and there is no longer any excuse for enduring it, since Allan’s Anti-Fat is an effectual remedy for this abnormal condition. Colorado Springs, Colo., July 15th, 1878. Botanic Medicine Co., Buffalo, nTYs: (I'eulleineii—I lost three pouuds while taking one bottle of Allan’s Anti Fat. Yours truly, Mbs. M. B. Myers. “To Be op Not to Be.”—It is a question of importance to all afflicted creatures, whether they will be cured of disease by remedies which leave a long train of bad af-ter-effects, or by a medicine that strikes at the cause of the malady and eradicates it, without doing any more harm Mian that much water? Clifford's Fberifoge, for the cure of all diseases caused bv malaria, la, a palpable, powerful AnUperiodie and Tonic, ana yet never produces headache, noise In yet never produces headache, the ears, deafness, or any of the evils consequent on the use of Quinine, Arsenic, etc. J. C. Richardson, Proip’r, Nor sale by all Druggists. 81. Louis. A Florida preacher closed an unsuccessful revival meeting recently with the remark, “ I tell yon, my hearers, it don’t pay for the gas.” Particulars regarding Electric Belts free Address Pulvermacher Galvanic Co..Cincin..O THE MARKETS. NEW TORE, December 13,1878. BEEVKS—Natlve Steers.....*. 6J0 • 10.00 SHEEP—Common to Choice. 3.75 a 5.37 k HOGS—Live. 3.00 « 3.20 COTTON—Middling. « 00 FLOUR—Good to Choice..». 4.15 8 4.50 WHEAT—No. 2 Bed.. 99 « 1.07 CORN—Ungraded... 44xa 45 x OATS—Western Mixed.. 29X0 31 PORK—New Mess..... 7.00 2 7.00 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling. BEEVES—Choice to Fancy.. Good to Prime.... Native Cows. Texan Steers—„ HOGS—Packing. SHEEP—Native.. FLOUB—Choice. XXX. WHEAT—Bed No. 2. •• No. 3. CORN—No. 2 Mixed.. OATS—No. *. RYE-No. 2. TIMOTHY SEED-Prime.... TOBACOO-Dark Logs. Medium Dark Leaf HAY—Choice Timothy. BUTTER—Choice Dairy..... EGGS-Freah..,. PORK-Standard Mess.. W OOL—TSb - waehed.Ghotce Unwashed Mixed... 4.20 • 3.80 * 2.25 g 2.75 • 2.40 a 2.00 a 4.30 a 3.75 a 84k* 28X* 19 ^ a 42 a us a 2.00 a 4.95 a 8.00 a 26 a is a 7.45 a 38X2 22X2 06X 4.40 4.15 S.S5 3.40 2.70 2.62k 4.40 3.90 88X 85X 30 19X 42k 1.20 a.25 4.75 8.25 2B 19 7.60 34 23 CHICAGO. BKJCVK8—Coinxh’n to Choice 3.40 a HOGS—Common to Choice.. 2.70 a SHEEP—Common to Choice. 2.40 a FLOUB—White Winter.. 4.00 a Red Winter........ 4.00 a WHEAT—Spring No. 2,New. 81k 2 Spring No. S. 66X* COEN—No. 2 Mixed.. 30 a OATS—No.2, New.... f 19X8 RYE-No. 2.. 44 a PORK—New Mess. 6.50 a 5.25 3.80 4.25 5.00 4.75 81k SOX 19X 44k 6.57k NSW ORLEANS. FLOUR-Uholoe Family.. 4.87X2 CORN—White... 45 8 OATS—St. Louis.M. 31 8 HAY—Choice. 16.00 8 PORK—New Mess.. 8.00 a BACON. 08 a POTTON—Middling. • 5.37k 47 39 16.50 8.25 04k «k

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