Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 46, Bloomington, Monroe County, 17 September 1881 — Page 3

CHILDLIKE m UST,

The child loans on its paronfs breast, TiCaves there Ite cares, aud is at rest; The bird siis sMugtng by his nest. And talis aloud His trust in God, and so is blessed Neatfi every ;cUrad He bos no store, he sows no seed, " Yet sings aloud and doth not heed;By flow I stream or grassy mead i Ho sings to shame Men who forget, in tear oi need, A father's name. "The heart that trusts forever sings. And feels as Uht as it had wings; , A well of peace within it springs; Comogoottor ill, Whatever to-day, to-morrow brings, It is His Willi" . ...

A MAIL CAT.

Tho Interesting but Unsuccessfu Experiment of Young Mr. Tiilinghast.

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Burlington H&wkeye, ... T , . A short time since the London Telegraph published an account of how certain eminent Dutch naturalists. had utilized grimalkin as a letter-carrier. Of thirty-seven cats,earried miles from their native village, and turned loose with letters tied around their necks, not one failed to get back to the start-iug-point onetime. Well, young Mr. Tiilinghast read this article, and a romantic conception occurred to him right on the snot. While he was burning a limited quantity of old Judge Diffenbaugh's gas, and just ruining Miss Ditfenbaugh's "Dangs,that evening he told Mi3S Bilfenbaugh all about it. Mr. Tiilinghast would carry Alfrida's beloved maltese home with him that night The maltee was one of trie fiery, untamed, Ukraine breed, blue as smoke, with a tail like ' a secondgrowth bologna sausage, and it weighed about twenty-three pounds. Its name was Cleopatra. It was really a Marc Antony cat, but Miss Diflfenbaugh called it Cleopatra because it was such a pretty name, You never can tell whether a cat has a right to vote or not by the name a girl gives it. Mr. Tiilinghast tucked the cat under his coat as well as he could, but the cat stuck out fore and aft Vainly he struggled

with it bowsprit or soanker would i

stand out in spite of him. And when he was about half-way home he met a group of . friends. , Cleopatra got his head out, and yelled for. fresh aav in a tone that blighted the lilacs and threw one of the ladies into hysterics. One o the gentlemen collared Tiilinghast and and told him that in his opinion it was a: trick no gentleman would be guilty " of, and he believed that' Mr. T. woula never have done it had he not been intoxicated. Greatly depressed in spirit, Mr. Tiilinghast pursued his homeward : way, Cleopatra occasionally clawing

his ribs. He sat up the greatei J part 01 .

the mgmwritmga letter tun ;or poetry and bathing his lacerated (body. Next evening be made ready to jiend his messenger home. In order to increase the oat's ''vehement yearning77' to return home, Mr. Tiilinghast had fed it nothing during the day ;tfnd Cleopatra, in the frenzy., of hunger, had chased imaginary rats about that room until the only thing that wasn't scratched;

was the ceiling, and the only thing !

. tuoi, wasn't broken was the hammer. 'If," said Mr. Tallinghast, holding his lacerated hands in a bath of water, after tying his letter carefully around' Gieoi. patra'sBeck with a blue ribbon, ;if your 'yearning7 to return home is one half as vehement as mine is to have you return thither, you will be in the lap of your angelic mistress before I can close this door again.77 Cleopatra got along very well for about a quarter of a mile, when, while streaking down a lonesome aUey, he suddenly pansed and saiffcr5I hope to die if" I don't smell fish.77 And while he was exploring the ash-pile he was suddenly accoated r -' by ' a ; ionesomelooking cat- on . the , wood-shed: ,tsSay, old . iodiso blue,., shinny' on your own side!7? "Watchugivinus?7 'growled Cleopatra.,, The wood-sbedder, being on his own premises, made a violent -effort id restrain his wrath, but he "came down to the ash pile, and said in a voice that meant - business: "I'll trouble yon for that fish, if . you please." "AH right" said, Cleopatra, 'I'll leave you the bones when I'm through with it' The strange cat reached out to take the savory fish, and Cleopatra smote him; In less time than it takes to tell it, he stood that cat iii thecor- , ; ner of the fence and wiped enough hair ' off 6f faim to stuff a sofa cushion. And as the wailing Cat dragged its lacerated body do wn the drain, Cleopatra resum- . edhis fish remarking, as he dodged a passing blacking brush.tbat he believed as long as he was out, he'd sit up a little while and "have some fun ' with the boys: And he had it. He went down the aUey and danced to everything he met. "He nearly tore the ear off a smart kitten that sat mp on?a wood pile and sassed him, ana asked him "where he picked up tbat paper collar." He prowled through the back yards and he almost horrified the iifeout of a most highly refspechv ble elderty tortoise shell tabby, sitting in a kitchen window, and then roared out to know if "she danced the lancers?" He scalped a harmless d 02 all

the way down the back in six red raw Hues, and shouted after the anc?uish-

striek en animal to "run home and put on his Hair on4T7 He was hit once with - akerosene torch that perfumed him up Jike a little political procession, ana he crawled through an old drain back of ' thesoap works, and came out smelling worse than an Indian picnic. In Judge Biffentaugh's parlors, at the piano, Miss Bilfenbaugh dreamily wandered through the en trancing numbers of "Schubert's Cracle Song." A familiar " voice came across the lawn. It was Cleopatra. And this was what he was V saying: "Hoop-pee! I can lick the best son of a brindle rat catcher that ever climbed a fence! Wow I wow 1 I'm the old Bashi-Bazouk from; Angular street, an7 don you fer-furgizit . Wow! Dance to me, somebody! I .5. only weigh a pound !" And then that mockery of a home bred cat strode in to A Judge Diffenbaugh's parlor, and everyB body climbed on the tables and chairs. . Miss, Dtffenbaugh fainted. Cleopatra's hair was mainly gone,and what ne had

... 1 'v was noh- com oeu. his lace was.

. scrarenea. une eye was closed, ins f earsliung loose and limp. He hiccough- - ed in bis" speech. Around his neck still

jwuug me owe riooon ana a letter,

The Judge received the letter with a

pair oi tong3. He did not show the

letter to his dauichter. HeBimnlv told

her that if ever that infinite ass,young

wnat-is-nis name, came around that

bou? again he wouJd pulverize his

nramiess carcass wim tne lawn mower. Mr. Tiilinghast still lives a blighted.

desjnti ring life. He has gone but of the mail serviee,and leaves all experiments

m Hiar iouKs to uenerai lirauv.

The buttons for autumn dresses are in two sizes, and in design and colors are as handsome as jeweled brooches. Albthe wool fabrics imported for autumn and winter are soft, flexible, pleasant to the touch aud'oxcelienfcfor drapery. . Paletots of ruby or blue velvet are popular wrap3. They havo the page's collarettes and are embellished with embroideries of gold and silver. The Oil City: Derrick thinks Jthat a dutiful wife will try and make home eerraleveh4f she -is compelled to employ two of three pretty servant girLi v: New tablecloths are made of serge in ecru, seal brown and olive green embroidered with a stiff pattern in yellow arctotis, the edge being buttonholed all round Evening dresses of colored silks are ornamented with confections of bright cameo ribbons, arranged in colossal sashes and relieved with cascades of

coffee and cream lace. Ciaret, olive and black velvet underskirts are popular and very economical; for, with an overdress of nun's veiling, batiste, foulard, or even dotted whites, a very elegent costume may be produced. ' i y. "Domesti3 chiua," says the Art Ameteur, "is not lit for di a wing-room decoration. Plates, dishes, and tureens are not fit for walls and possess neither beauty of form nor breadth of color to compete with pictures.

Dresses of myrtle, olive, bronze, grey, garner blue and crimson flannel are very popular at the seaside. They are trimmed with Mirecart, Point d'Auriiac, Irish point, and Spanish lace, andrcoiored embroideries. Greys.are the choice of the festhetics for dresses or parasote; siiver, tin, steel, smoKe, and trooklet xipples give evidence of judgment and keen appreciation of the new school. When trimminga. are tolerated, shell pink does duty. ' y ' ' ' ! ;.. , . , The Derby hat will be worn this fall by natty youiig ladies, but in stead of a single black or pearl-colored one tnere will be a variety in the rich shades of dark admiral blue; hunter's green, dahlia color, olive and seal brownri;o mateh.yarious siareet costums. It is justnow considered in good taste not to mix flowers for corsage wear, but to select a favorite blossom, wearing -a huge cluster of the5 kind chosen. The sulpher-colored hollyhock

is jusfrat present enjoying a, season or popularity- equaling that log the tfield

I daisy soflately; the rage.

For and About Women. The fall will be a velvet season.

woman per.

Earth'snoblest thing, a eted.

wear the jersey

Plump little misses basques!

A womans whim they -were fall of

whims. 5

Ttiero is no accounting for tho sex: in

auatrs 01 tove.

Women, more than all, are the ele-

mej 1 1 and Kingdom of illusion.

I'retty and cool evening waists are

made of mull pulls and lace insertings.

For holiday and wedding gifts, this autumn, china plates will be the rage. ITmbrelia coyere are something new for industrious Sogers to make for

fair?.

Wild clematis and cape jasmine pat-

m i m xt pr in ceo on cream eoioreu

foulards and sateens.

But for them, sir, our entire world is

out a frost-bitten sweet potato, woth-

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.... . A Georgia Family of Dw arfs. o Columbus Enquiror. Yesterday quite an -unusual sight, and one very?; attractive" to the little street gamins? was presented in our city. It was two men and one boy, who by their difference in size formed a rather peculiar and comical looking trioTher first suspicion that, sqmethiiig)Ut of the ordinary uthij jvas goingn wastcauWd'by1 'sL crbwo of "band wagon boys" dodging in aud out of the walk as they hurried up Broad street. The next moment a large man fulry six f eet in height, hove i n sigh t. There was nothing peculiar about his

appeaiance, tand we were at loss for a tenieHo Tdefermine the; causebfethe amusement tof taei bovs Directly., be-

boysr Directly

hind the man came another, who appearedtto be not half, as tall as his com panion. Then came a? little boy seemingly about: two feet i . height, but in form was alniiniature of oiiv High Sher

iff. The two latter seemed accustomed

to the stares and rude, unbecoming

laugh of the crowds, and passed them

wruran an of mdinerence that would

do credit to Tom Thumb. The last

two are father and son, and belong to

the-dwarflah1amiiy of Troup , eon nty.

The father, Mr. F. M. Darnel F, Jives a few miles- above West Point, om the

river, is 49 years of age,, and . is only

four feet and four inches high. "He has

four children, two of whom (boys) in

herit their lather's imperfect stature.

One is 12 years old, and his' stature is

thirty-one inches; ..the other 9, and

measures thurty-three inches in height.

The eldest of these two children is

afflicted with malformation and disease of the spine. The mother is five

feet high, and the other chilaren are of

the ordinary height.

How Men Become 1 nsane. ' ; TheHeiTnit of tne Troy Times writes: A large number.of luuatics in our asy

lums are the victims of their own mis

conduct. Almost any man can make himself a lunatic if he pursues the di

rect method1. -There are hundreds aud

perhaps thousends in 'this city, driving

themselves to madness. Gam blinsr.

speculation, and hard drink will undermine the strongest intellects. A

young man -of iy acquaintance, has

lately been sent to Bloomingdale Asy

lum, who was a few years ago so

promising as to obtain an important

appointment. , He abused his position, wasted a la:ge salary, became suddenly a gambler, and a rake as well as a defaulter. Such a course of vice destroyed his reason, and he is now one of the incurables.

The same idea 13 advanced by Ho

garth, who finished the "Rake's Progress" by the scene in the mad-house.

During th e last n ve years large nu nibers have been carried . to the asylum,

the victims of speculation. The love

of pleasure and the haste to -. get rich

have done a fearful work. After the

intellect has been over-driven it must

sink, and perhaps remain in hop less

prostration. It may be added that the increase of insanity since the opening of the present year is of unparalleled degree. More than 500 cases have been reported during this brief interval-, and hence it 13 not surprising that the asvlums are more than full. The attention of the public has been called to this subject by the press, and additional room must be provided. We must either abate" thit furious intemperance which is driving so many to maduess or we must double vour asylums all through the State. ' Iiife at the French Watering Places. Liverpooll&ail. . ' Trouvilte, Beanville, and Dieppe are crowded ; the most wonderful Parisian toilets prevading the beach, and still more marvelous bathing dresses, almost putting old Neptune, with his reportory of shoaling greens and blues, out of countenance. One can imagine a mermaid trying to take the pattern in her eye, for doubtless, cut-out paper models are unknown in the kingdom under the sea.' - I spent two days there last week amid the concourse of French marquises and countesses, with all their attendant courts of eavaliera servant!; of rich English, to whom the rather fas t lone of Trou viile maun ers and customs is not deterrent; and of sparse

Aiueriuaus, ,wn, co3iumes mat outworthed Worth himself, and eyes that opened wider ever day at the unaccustomed sights they saw. The pretty American is no prude; she has been accustomed to receive her daily meed of admiration, and thinks no more of it than she does of breakfast or dinner. She is very often fast, but her fastness; compared with that of Trouville, "is as water unto wine." I should like to see some of the letters she writes home from her pretty home in the Hotel de la Mer. One of them might run somewhat as follows : "The people here do the most, extra ordinary things; not only do men and women bathe together, but they sit and walk about on the beach in the inos astonishing bathing costumes you can imagine. I will describe that worn this morning by a pretty woman, rather inch n ing to em bon poi n t. Trousers of stripped scarlet and yellow" ticking, barely covering the knees, even though supplemented by an edging of gold lace; tunic or similar ticking, commencing a good two inches below the neck, and with a collar made of gold braid and gold lace. This tunic is eon-

tiat the waist py a oid braided

band, and reacho3 to wiimn six or

seven inches of the Uneo-. The sleeves are very short, so that amis and legs are

practically uncovered . vvnat wouiu vou take to walk about, laugh, flirt, and

ehfttter with half a dozen men in such

a earb? It is thought nothing of har.ie

In fact, it is wn at every one uoes. ivios, of the baicneuses look as if they vreei

rirpsspd for onera bouffe. As for the

flirtations !H m r , : i Visitnig Victoria. Grace Greenwood's London letter. We have sapped full on royalty! Wo have seen the Queen, Jcihn Brown and the sest of the royal family. Her Majesty drove as usual in an open landau, drawn by four-superb bays, with postillions, and drawn at a furious rate. Close after her galloped outriders and life-guards. She is particularly bent on going at full speed past Buckingham Palace, where in her youth she was so "happy and glorious," and over . Constitution Hill, where she was onco shot at. By her si de sat the fair and haugu -ty Princess Beatrice, and from his seat in the rumble hovered over her the Scotch "gilly," John Bfown, constant as her shadow, grown very gray in her gracious service. TheQaeen was more than ordiuaiily red-fa(wd an d glum , and was evidently too worried and exasperated by the heat to pay decent heed to the homage of her people such as it was-the cheers which hailed the flash of . her swift passage beinjr, in truth, few and faint. Very different frnm the receotion ffiven tliis sad and

sullen head of the graudest nation of the earth, this sovereign est lady of the world, was that given by the crowd to the eldest daughters, tho Crown Princess of Germany, when she drove by with her gallant husband and - three young daughters fair-haired, blueeyed, small-chmned, Gnelphic girls. The princess royal is a smiling gracious, unlike likeness to her mother, her round, ruddy face being the very ideal of bright, good nature. But to be sure, she has still her handsome husband, and: the cares of state have never rested on her plump shoulders; she has imperial honors and splendor before her her mother only heave n . The pretty Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lor ne, was also cheered a3 she drove by, and responded like a very queen. Though never so much beloved by the English people as her sister s Vicky," she is much admired and some think it is hard that she was put off with a mere marquis, though a Briton and weil-to-do,mstead of an honored though an. impecunious German prince, such as was foun d for her plainer sister Helena, whom also we saw driving through tho Mall to Birmingham Palace. With her was her elderly husband, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Souderburfic-An-gustenburg. He 13 all that, and the father of two children, one a large morganatic connection in Germany. Then came her short royal highness the Duchess of Connaught) and her martial husband an eminently ugly pair her handsome and .hefry" highness, Mary of Cambridge, aud his serene highness, the Duke of Teck, her fascinating, but alas, if report be true not faithful lord.

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ul Man Eating iShark. Pi'ovidonco K. I. Journal. On Friday a-number of boys, vouns; men were bathing in the

konk river, near Carpenter's wharf, which is on the west si ie, when there was an occurrence that will not soon be forgotten. Among the party was a young man named Jerrv Lowney, who lives on Gano street, Providence, and a young man named Fleming,!who lives on Watxr street this town. Lowney went into the water, leaving a pair of , dry pautaloons 10 put 011 when lie came out. Fleming, seeing the pantaloons, for a joke put them 011, unobserved by Lowney, who on coming to the shore and Ending his pants gone, and that Fleming had taken them, to be square with him put on a pair of overalls which Fleming had left upon the shore and again entered the water, and to the change of pantaloons he .probably owes his life, for he had swam but a little distance when a huge shark made an attack upon him", seizing hold of his pantaloons near the hip, but the overalls hanging so loosely about him his flesh was not pierced. Tne shark dragged him for some distance, making a terrible , splashing as he turned over in the water, sometimes pulling Lowney under the' water until the pantaloons gave. way. The young man of course was greatly frightened, but was not so paralyzed that he' could not swim, and called to a man who was rowing a boat near him. who came to his assistance, and helped him into the boat. The overalls bear the marks of the attack, being ripped the whole length of the leg Bharks are frequently seen in the river at ; this season of the year, though this is the flrst instance where a person has been kncqjti to have beeen attacked by them in this Vicinity. They are reported to be uncommonly numerous this year in Narragansett Bay. Lowney feels that lie has had a narrow escape from a terrible death. -i .

A.TJumerous Family of Immi grants Pittsburg Telegraph. ... The class of peoole pouring through this city from the Old World to the hewer portions of the K'ew would afford an interesting study for those who hold that the proper study of mankind- is man. Night before last there arrived among the passengers a German family grandfather, grandm other, and th eir nine.'children, six sons and three daughters, ' all of whom were married, with their families, on board the same train. There were 40 grandchildren and 11

great-grandchildren . The en tire rela

tionship consisted of 9o people. . The head of the family, Solomon Whiohter by name, was a stalwart German, 73 years old, and his wife, with a lovely face, retaining, even in its old age, traces of beauty, wa3 63 years.old. This family goe's to Northern Iowa, and will settle in the same township, the men being practical farmers, butchers, weavers and shoe-makers. It was a tribe, with a patriarch at. its head le axing the Fatherland to find genuine freeebm and prosperity in the New World, .'" In the mattero f baggage, these immigrants-carry, in many - insnances, immense quantities. Baggage Agent Men ges s lates t ha t yesterday on e j m m igrant turned. up with 1,100 pounds of extra-weight baggage; mainly consisting of such lustry iron-bound chests as made the life of Menges" hideous night-mare for the time being, One of the chests being accidentally opened, disclose d fold upon fold ol linen, enough to stock a small store. Evidently, in the matter of humanity and baggage the Western prairies; will not want..

, The Methodist Class Leader. Edinburg Koview. The Methodist class -leader in his best type has been a devout man, not de

void of practical shrewdness. He has

made a study of his Bible, especially the New Testament. He has endeavored to instruct his members in the essentials of religion, and has many devotional aids put within his reach. He has sedoously watched ov.or his class, sympatized with them in their troubles, advised theiid! iu their dilliculties, visited them and consoled them in their hours of sickness and death. In country placesT.he has .gathered a few simple souls together., and preserved alive a flame of devotioi; in obscure hamlets. It is to him. that. we owe the piety Leigh Richmond has drawn in the Dairyman Daughter," and to him many a young man in a large city has. been indebted forrthe first words of counsel when he was a stranger in a strange place. ; When the . spiritually gifted Tholuck resid ?d in Loudon ,biuy with the thoughts that lie had given to the world in his commentary on tho Sermon oh the Mount, he is said to have been greatly charmed by the piety of a Mothdist elaaseaer.and toha(ve sought his counsels, "

SHOOTJJNG STARS.

Thou sajst, Shoplierd, that a fitnr Shines iu the Rkies my laic to guide." Ycs, child, but hi yon darkness far s . Thick veils of nij-ht its jUinnnciing hide." 'Blicporcl , cans't thou indeed divine The secret-s of the far-off sihcrss? Then tell mo what yon briUiant line Moans as It shoots and disappears?" Know child, wheucr a mortal dies Willi him his star that momout lalJs. This amid youn and laughiii; eyes Wliilo music echoed to tho walls, Fell, stricken lifeless oTer the wiuo WJioso praises fired his dying ears," "See yet another star, whose lino One imitant gleams, thou disappears" 'Child 'twas a Star serene ami bright, The star of oho as pure and fair; A maiden blithe, a sphit light. The wedding festival proparc; Her virgin brow vrit h orange 1 wine j Ring, vedding bells; fall, happy tears." "See, see another shooting Him That gleams aud shines and disappears." 'Weep, weep, my child, such stars are rare; He ga c liis wealth to feed the poor 1 They glean from other's store, but. thero Thoy reaped a. harvest great and sure, When o'er the waste those ho mo-lights shine The wanderer forgets his fears.' "See, see, another gleaming line That shoots across and disappears." "Yes, 'tis the star of some gront Icing. Go, child, thy early virtue keep. Let not thy star its glories flingnv wnlfft mp.n's ruvv from its sleeo.

.Vith steady light burn clear and far;

So at tne ena iook not 10 near, 'Tin lint nnotn fir shoot insr stfti

k They &hbot and gleam and disappear. "

AN OHIO BOMANCE.

"Never condemn a person on circumstantial evidence; it is unreliable, even when the circumstances fceem to fit into each other likeacoupie of cog-wheels," said John T. Morris, who is an experienced detectivo of Springfield,

Ohio.

uGive us the story, Uncle John." . "Not lorn; aero there resided in Frank

lin county an old maid, Miss Sabine

Smith. By inheritance sne was tne

po.sesisor of a larsre farm, on wiiien

there was an . oia-iasnioueu, tuuugu comfortable d wellin c house. She . was

reputed to have a good square bank account.

"How old 13 she?" "Well, on the shady side of seventy, but shehad a weakness Jike all old

maids, not for kittens, poodles or canaries, but for children. She had raised several orphan girls, wno are 10.W wel:l settled in life. In 1865 she adopted a

six-year-old black-eyed girl, brighLasa

button, namea jxiome xvicuann, waose father had fallen in battle lighting for his flae; and country, while hermother,

crazed with grief, pined and faded

away. Mollie soon learned to love her new mother, and from a prattling maid in short clothes nnd pinafores

she soon bloomed forth into a gushing

schoolgirl, aud at eighteen was the

belle of every rustic piiiiormg tne

pretty Miss Mollie McCann .over whom

tne Doys raveu anu tne gins cnvieu. To all her admirers sin; tin ned a deal

ear, ana witi a preciy toss 01 tne neau

and merry twinkle of her roguish eye, bade them be off and not bother her."

"Miss Smith was sensible: knew ihat

Mollie would probably many and nave

a home some day, so she neither discouraged her fondness for society nor

harped upou the miseries of wedded

life in the maiden's ear, out when sue came back from the State Fair at Col

umbus in 187S. and toJd her adopted

mother about the young gentleman

she had met, his attentions and good

qualities, Miss Smith was not pleased,

nor did she hesitate to frown her dis

pleasure and ad vise her ward to turn a willing ear to the many suitors of

the neighborhood instead of seelung

in fai:-ofl fields that which was nearest

home.

"IBut Mollie was like mauy another

struck on a traveling man, and she carried on a secret correspondence

with him through a lady friend for a

long time, until at last they were en

gaged;"- -

"Mies Smith and Mollie were the sole

occupants of the house. The bedrooms were four in number, two of which

were used aseparo rooms.one occupied

by Miss bEQith and contaming two beds. Mollie occupying one, Miss

Smith the other. The fourth bedroom was called Mollie's, but was only used by her when a lady friend was visiting

her. In one of these spare rooms was an old-fashioned bureau and book-case

combined, tho top drawer oi which could be converted into a wri ting-desk.

The back part of this drawer wTas fitted up with small drawers. One of these small drawers had from time imme

morial been used as a money-drawer. In the summer of 1879 the sum of 5355 was missed from the drawer: in the

summer of 18S0.$20O mysteriously dis

appeared, together with a quantity of gold coins which had been in the famDyfor over-a century. On the 20th day of last Marh Miss Smith oaned to a neighbor $500' giving him. ner check anil he signing a note in her favor.

Sickness prevented 1133 presenting the

check at the bank at Columbus, and, learning that Miss Smith was going to

tha t city cn the isoth., he requested her

to get it cashed. She did so, and returned with Mollie about dark on that

(lay, having the money all in $100

bills. .... .....

"The house was all; securelv locked

down stairs, and Miss Smith deposited the $500 iVi the secreicaiy drawer, closing the drawer, locking it and placing

the key 111. tne uureau drawer beneath.

She then locked the mom containing:

thevbureaa, and placed the. key under

quilts that lay in the wardrobe in her

beoroom. Before retiring she locked

her bedroom door, and she and Mollio retired for the night in separate beda

in the same room. The next morning, Amril 1 . Hm tiaicrtahni tv h e Viorl hnfiu-vw-

ea the money, having a long journey

io periorin, uurmg wnicn ne expectea to make a payment on some land pur

chased, called as early as 6 o'clock,

bet ore Miss Smith and Mollie had

arisen, : ........

"Awakening Miss Scaith, she took

her key from the wardrobe, unlocked the bedroom, then taking the bureau drawer key from the under drawer of

the secretary, opened this to . find the money p one. She went down stairs :

everything was locked aud bolted as she had left it the night before.

4 Who took that money?" ;.

That was the question that confronted me. There was no aign of a burglary; no locks forced, windows and doors all right. No oue else in the house but Miss Smith and Mollie.. She talked freely, said she had. always had a presentiment that the money would bo stolen iu fact, had a presentiment that nisjht, but feared to tell the old lady for fear; of alarming her. I soon learned that; Mollie had a key which fit ted the bedroom containing t tie bureau., heuce my suspicious were atrou ertheneel

either unlocked the door with her own key, or taken the one in the wardrobe, and, securing the money, hid it either in or out of the house without awakening tho old lady. I linally told Mollie t hat I should have to . search her and make a thorough examination of the house. . ... " 'Well,' she naively remarked, 5f you do find any money about the house it won't prove that I stole it, will it?' 4j ;It will be prima faiia evidence., 1 I said. "I locked her up in her bedroom aud began a thorough search; band-boxes j)ri'ed into, bureau-drawers pulled out, cupboards ransacked, and linally went through her own room. Under thecalpet under hev bed I found in. a compact wad twelve $100 bills. Now the total amount known to be missing was only $1 ,045. .Where had the $155 come from ? Where had the gold coins goue to? Was the bureau drawer paying nitereat oh its deposit? " No' I've got you Mollie,' I staid as I confronted her. "Mohio fainted. "A bottle of camphor and a little cold water brought her speedily to; yet she sturdily proclaimed ner innocence.

'3! didn't take Miss Smith V money;

no I did not,' she convulsiyely ex-f ignorance of her company. It takes

claimed between her sobs, j

"Miss Smith would not ftllo w me to take her to jail, where I reasoned confinement would soon compel her to confess. - "My work, howevcer was but partially done, for tho gold C3in had not turned up.

"I determined that thos) coins must

ved upon a xr to garret.

nnr, anu ac

sa'id to Miss

up in the

be In the house an d resol thorough search from cell Tho cellar disclosed notl

leading to the garret, ihedloor of which was a small trap-door, seejurely fastened by a padlock, to which p: attached three liults of a chain.

' ' 'Give me the key,' 1

Smith, Ho that trap-doolr

attic.' "'Oh, no use looking there; the keys have been lost for ovsr five years, amino one has ever be 211 up there since.' There were cob webs on the door, but I noticed that over tho crack of the door's edge theyj appeared to

have been broken a wav. dauaed b; the

the door having been recently opened.

With an ax I got the door open and saw

larcre footprints . in the dust. By the

aitiof a lamp I followed

the tracks over the boar

across the shaby rafters t

pact of the crarret, where

he course of

s which lay

tho furthest over an old

experience, a cool neau anu a ciear eye to see below the plausible surface in which vice of this sort cloaks itself.and

nIio had none of these. No girl h?ts of

the hundreds who walk nightly through dangers JfOr which they have

neither been nrenared nor warned. It

is too late to put up the bars in American life. For good or for eviheustom

has established a free social inter

course, and the paths by which a 'girl passes beyoud home influences are easy and all alike dangcrous.but the risks are vastly increased by ignorance of the facts, and conditions which breed danger and bring disaster. A healthy home life is the soundest of all safeguards; but as long as village life has disappeared for good and all in our provincial cities, and all of them share the overflow: of vice from New York, girls like this one would fall less often if they were wisely taught more knowledge of the evil in the world. : It is not that they are ignorant of the real relations of the sexes, for they are not ignorant of them, but mothers and daughters alike too often actj as though they were ignoraut of the very thin veueer which may disguise the rake in the gentleman, and of the passion which may transform the ordinarially well-intentioned man into the

devil when opportunity presen ts the

lady's money

Mr. Norris? occupy the

herself. She

was a somnamouiist ana waixea 111

lnv cloan J

"How did you prove it, Did the old lady let you Krft vr"Yv an1 rtool- hor9 '

J'-V4 UUU ltlyt. iiVl ..... "Uh, not I got the old lady to take oft her shoes and stockings and place her No. 6 foot down on a theet of white paper.. .With a lead pencil I marked out her foot on that shbet of paper. With a pair of scissors I carefully, cu t the exact shape of the o d lady's foot, which fitted exactly in the tracks in dust on the garret be ards. , Besides that Mollie's foot was much smaller, she only wearing a No. 2 shoe, and would not lit the traca:. I also on careful examination found traces of cobwebs in the frill of the old ' Jady?s night-cap, while Mollie wore no nightcap. So y em see I proved it by both ends the old lady's head and by her feet. I explained all to the satisfaction of the old lady, she paid aiemy monety and I predict a weddiur soon at the

Smith mansion, with Mlollie McCann

as the bride."

and ciddv c iris who rebel against the

all too loose restraints of our American homes take perilous risks , The presumption is also pretty strong in "the New Haven case that the basest scoundrelism was at work at the bottom.

1 1 e e.,i ucvij. nucu

1 STT' ul,feiM 1 lu ;r 0 , t temptation. Man is a dangerous anied saddle-bags. The duat on the hags , Ln nAjaiuWi t

of the pockets I fcund the five 5100 bills which disappeared on the night of the

30 ;h of May, the $fi55 that was missed

in the summer of 1879, the 290 that was lost in 1SS0, and, better than all

the rare old gold coins upon which Miss

Smith set such store as dn heirloom.

I bad found the money, but I found

$1,200 too much . The mastery deepen

ed. I resolved that Mollie must know

something about the money that was

hid under the carpet beneath her bed.

I talked kindly to her, told her that

Miss Smith's money had ceen round,

and urged her to tell me Itow the$l,200

came under the carpet of jher bed.

" You will not believe me if 1 tell

vou. nut if Miss smim wm go out 1

will explain. I put that (money there; it was my lover's. He hi id saved it

out of hia wages and given it to me to

keep. I destroyed his 1

my aunt would find is out. There's the

story, " Bu.t how did the old get into the garret?'

She carried it there

Her Feet Go Down to Death.

Springfield Ilepubl item.,

Forty-eight hours from the time Jen

nie Cramer walked tinder the Temple

street elms in New Jiaven, the pretti

est girl in the city, her doited white muslin fresh and starched, and her whole figure trim, trig and breezy, from her white straw hat and its brown feather to the little clinking brass plates on the heels of her shoes, her body was lying face downward iu a alimy pool on the edge of New Haven harbor, the tide rocking the motionless body back and fort n, and at. every motion winding her draggled skirts tighter about her round, full figure. How she came there iuquest, indictment and trial have yet to decide, but her death has written her last week's history at large, and the path by which the young woman went to her fate is familiar enough to any one who watches the young girls who swarm on the streets of a Saturday night, pretty, bright and loud voiced, skating on thin ice over depths of which they have the barest knowledge and that little delusive. Jennie Cramer was not a bad girl as girls.'go who have stepped over the line which keeps a girl at her mother's side and limits her acquaintances by her family's,. and the number of girls who do this is not large among those pretty enough to be admired and old enough to enjoy, the freedom of an American girl, not hedged about by a card case, a visiting list and formal introductions. The man with whom Jennie was last seen, James Malley, a boyish-looking fellow, with a narrow, black moustache she met one night about a year ago on the college green. It was doubtless one of the chauce introductions to be seen any evening on Main street ; but it was very far from being concealed from her parents, artel when Malley wrote three weeks ag;o, asking Jennie to put off an out-of-town trip to drive with him, Mrs. Cramer, with a "very sorry" that he was "so disappointed, " wrote him that Jennie had already gone, but would be back "Thursday morning," just a week before the Thursday morning tho mother drove the daughter from tho house for passing the night away from home in Malley's company. " N One -week more brought Jennie to New Haven harbor. , Three weeks ago the well-spelled, well-written notes which passed between, her and young Malley point to formal relations, formal from a sidewalk flirtation, hut Jennie had already known for a week Blanch Douglas, a pale, delicate-looking girl, dressed well, but not overdressed, whom Walter Malley had brought up from New York city. She was a professional prostitute. This acquaintance began at night on the college green, ripened by sidewalk and suppers, brought Jennie for the last fortnight of her life to be one of four,of whom two were men rotten to the core aud a third a woman fresh from a house of ill-fame. and she, the girl

the foun h. . For two

Brother Gardner on the New Edition. Detroit Free Press, "I take pleasure an' satisfaction," said the president, as he held up a parcel, "in informin' you a worthy citizen of Detroit, who does not care to have his. name menshun'd has presented dis revised edition ob de Bible to de Lime Kiln Club. We do not open our meetn's wid prayer, nor do we close by singin' de doxolcy, but nebberdeless I am suah dis gift will be highly appreciated by all. Day has been considuble talk in dis club about dis revesi edichun. Some ob you has got the idea dat purgatory is all wiped out , and heaben enlarged twice ober, an 1 hao' herred odders assert dat it didn't forbid lyin', stealin', and passin ob bad money. My frien's, yor adly mistaken. Hell is jist as hot- ah ' Ver, an' heaben hasn't gotany mo', roum. In lookin' ober some of the changes last night I selected out a few paragraphs which hab a general b'arin'. Fur instance, it am jist as wicked to steal watermelyons as it was las' y'ar, or de y'ar befo', and the skeercer de crap de bigger de wickedness. "No change has been made in regard to loallin' aroun' de streets. De loafer am considered jist as low an' mean as eber he was, an I want to add my belief dat he will grow meaner in public estimashun all tie time. "De ten commandments am all down heah widout change. Steaiin' anUyin' an' covetin',and runnin' out nights

am considered jist as bad as eber. "I can't find any paragraph in which men am excused from paym' deir hones' debts an' supportin' deir families. "I can't fhvwhar. a poo' man or a poo' raans wife, white or black, axn 'spected to sling on any 'ticular style. "Dog fights, chicken liftiu', politics, play iii' keerds fur money, an' ban gin' aroun' fur drinks, an' all sich low bis ness am considered meaner dan'ebtnv Fact is, I can't find auy. There are no ch anges whateber which lets, up on a man from bein' plum up an' down squar an' hones' wid the worlr. Dey have(3hanged the wordhcir to 'hades,' but at de same time added to de strength ob de brimstoneau' size ob de pit. We want to keep on in de straight path :if we would, avoid itDon't Jet any white man make you believe dat we's los1 auy gospel by dis revision, or dat Peter or Paul or Moses hab undergone any change ob sperri t regardin de wsiys oblibin' respectably aud dyin' honably.

JOCOSITIES.

now dead.

weeks there were trips and excursions, restaurants suppers and rides,al.lbringinar the end closer, and through it ail

Jennie seems to have been ignorant

that her companion was not like herself, a wild girl,runuiug heedless risks.

ja. nigiJit came u. imvt uuxioovij August 3, which Jennie spent away from homo with her companions. She may have wandered beiore, bu t if she had not the net in which the reckless young girl was caught with ths other woman of this party of four schooled to vice,migbt well have swept a strong er nature away. Thursday morning she was driven from her home.. Thursday evening shejwas again at 'a supper ami drank her she.re of four bottles of wine, and then she disappears, to be found when the tide came in, . Satui day morning. For awhile, there was more or less lying by tho survivors: but the arrest of the young Malleys and the testimony of Blanche gives clews which connect Jennie to the last with her evil companions. Down to the huit appalling catastrophe, this story might easily enough bo matched in any city and many a village. Nierht-idleness and petty dissipation work their sure result. Ignorance does much, but evil more, aud no man or woman can play with the devil's own fire and come .off uiweorehed. There appears to be no doubt that, in this case, the parents permitted a risk for whicli they are blameable; but it is tolerably clear t aat this young girl wandered along a path in which she

jostled the bad and the vjle. hi blank (es,

A Dive tor Life. Just below Kanawha . falls, in West Virginia, is an overhanging rock of immemse size jutting out about one hundred feet over a seething whirlpool and ii; was once the scene of a rematkable adventure. The Indians were in hot pursuit of Van Bibber, a settler and a mail of distinction in diose early times. He was hard pressed, and all access to the river below and above being cut off, ho was driven to this jutting roc k, which -proved to be the jumping off place for him. He stood on the rock, in full view of the enemy above and below, who yelled like demons at the certainty of his speedy captme, , He stood up boldly, and with his rifle kept them at bay. As he stood there he looked acros3 the river, saw his friends his wife and her babe in - her arms all helpless to render assistance. They stood as if petrified with terror and amazement. She cried at the top of her voice: "Leap into the river and meet me!" Laying her babe on the grass, she seized the oars and sprang into a skiff alone. As she ueared the middle of the river, her husband saw the Indians coming in full force yelling like demons. "Wife, wife!" he screamed, "I am coming, drop down a little lower." With this he sprfl.ng .from his crag and descended like an arrow into the water, feet foremost. . . ' . ., ,,,,.., The wife rested on her oars a moment to see him rise to the surface, the little

tekiff floating like a cork, bobbin e

about on the boiling flood. It was an awful moment; it seemed an age to her. Would he ever rise? Her earnnest gaze . seemed to penetrate the depths of the water, and she darted her boat further down the stream. He rose near her: in a moment the boat was alongside him,and she helped him to scramble into it amid a shower of arrows and shot that the battled Indians poured into them. . Tbia daring wife aid not sneak a word ; her husband was more dead than alive, and all depended upon her strength being maintained till they could reach the bank. This they did, just where she had started, right whore the babe still lay, crowing and laughing. The men pulled the skiff high onthe iand, and the wife slowly arose aud helped to lift Van Bib oer to his feet. He could not walk, but she laid him down by her babe, and then seating herself, she wept wildly, just as any other woman would have done under the cireumstaiices. That babe is now a grandfather, and that rock is called" Van Bibber's Rock" to this day.

Fears oi Death. .Tames Ilussoll Lowell. Why should men ever be afraid to die, but that they regard the spirit as secondary to that which is but its mere appendage and con venienoy, its symbol, its word, its means of visibility? If the soul lose this poor mansion of hers by the sudden conflgratiou of,disCase, or by the slow decay of age, is she therefor homeless and shelterless? If she cast away this soiled and battered garment is she therefore naked? A child looks forward to a new suit and dons it joyfully; we cling fio our rags and foulness, We should welcome dea th as one who brings us tidings .of tho finding of long-lost titles to a large family estate, and set out gladly to take posession . though it may be, not without a natural tear for the humbler home we are leaving, Deatn always means us a kindness, though ho has often a gruff way of ofterie it, . - T r: The sale of Moody and Sankeys

hymn books has reached 9,337,000 cop-

Why is a Zulu belle like a prophet of old? Because she has not much on'cr in her own country. Housewife : Is help scarce in these parts? Depends wheather you want help in putting uj a stove or eating a watermelon. When a New Orlean s man wanted his picture taken in an heroic attitude, the artist paiuted hini in the act oi refusing to drink. 1 'If you gragp a rattlesnake f firmly about the neck, he can not hurt you," tays a Western paper. Keeping about a block ahead of the snake is also a good scheme1 Musical: Jones, on hearing a band of "picked musicians" hrturiug a tune at a recent concert, said : "Ah, I understand ; they were picked bsfore they were ripe!" m "Tumefaction, "a medical term which appears in the Washington dispatches, to-day, need create no a? arm. It means simply "swelling," and is not as bad as it looks. After being married for nearly fifty years an Iudiana couple are trying to secure a divorce. The desire to end their last days in peace and quitness appears to be irresistable with the old. "Mamie," said he and his voice -was singularly low, "will yon be my wife? Will you cling to me as the tender vine clings to. to the " "Yes, I'll catch on, said she. , - : ... Some one wrote to Horace Greeley inquiring if guano was good to put on potatoes. He saitl it might do for thos whose tastes had become vitiated with tobacco and rum, but he preferred gravy and butter. Thero was a small boy named Apollo, Who used to get spunky and "hollo!" When h Is ii a wit h a strap Would con al toe young chap, And a sort ol a chorus would follow.,. The young la Jy who could not make her bangs stay bung said she was having a tuft time of it. One of the Boston aesthetes is writing a novel, every chapter of which is headed by a tuft of verse from Oscar Wilde. The hero is madly in love with a girl who wears golden freckles, and he has a hot-house strawberry mark on his near arm. The Irishman has his brains close to his lips. "Pat." said a conceited coxcomb "tell me the biggest lie you can on the instant and here are two shil

lings for vou." "Ah." said Pat, with a

significant leer, MYour Honor is a

gmtleman." Put away your linen duster, (rn.h vour ulster from the rack.

For the Manitoba wavelets,

Soon will interview your on ck. We can hear their chilly murmurs, On the breeze borne every day.Z

Aud they tum our thoughts to chilblains And the in -flu-en.-i-a.

A handsome ladv entered a dry c ods

hmiBH and inouixed for a "bow." The

polite clerk threw himself back and remarked that ho was at her service.

"Yes hut I want a bufr. not a crreen

one," was the reply: The young man went on measuring goods im

mediately. . '",

The name of Maria is so popular in

Oitumwa that when a cat s climbs a

back fence in a well-populated netgnwrhood, and plai utively vocalizes

"Mariar !" twenty wmuows are nastny thrown up anel -twenty female heads

are thrust out, wildly answering, "Is that you, Charley?1?

Mrs. Jones went to a picnic the other

day, one of those quiet picnics with no

fuss, where you get up at 4 o7ciock mjtne

morning, pack oil iour ennaren ana ten liunch baskets, and gad around. in

the heat all day and it made Mrs.

Jones so tired that she had to do two

days' washing before she felt rested; An editor in charge of a religious: newspaper during the summer vacation of its regular chief, announce the scientific disco very that elderberries are iaot so named because they are any older than any other berries. They derived their name from the fact that an elder of a church first discovered their color by setting down upon a bun ch of them at a picnic. "I never tire of reading Paradise Lost," said Miss Posigush, her eye beaming with a dreamy languor "Don't you admire it, Mr. Crab?" No I don't," replied Mr. Crab crisply. "I used to read it before I was married, but now easting a look towards Mrs. know what Paradise Lost is without reading it." No wonder Mrs. Crab calls Mr. Crab a mean old brute. A big, fat colored woman went to the Galveston Chief of Police and told him that her htep-son had ran away, and she wanted to know where he was. It bodders me. to know why he left. He had everything he needed to make him cumfable. "Has he any marks by which he may be recognized?" "Well, I don't reckon all de mark s I made on him wid a bed slat, while the old man was hoidin' him, has faded out yet."

PKACTICJB OF CANNIBALISM

The Horrible Practice Still in Voguo by tho Hayti Serpent Worshipers. Letter in Vanity Fair. The religion of thi 3 country is ostensibly Roman Catholic. An archbishop, four bishops and nearly one hundred priests are established in this country, but they are really powerless in the face of a secret religion called "Voudou" or serpent worship. The professors ol "Voudou," who have the "serpent house" in each village wood (as may also be seen on the west coast offrica), originally came from tho Congo coast, and were of the tribe called Mandingoes, celebrated for their skill as sorcerers and secret poisoners, and for being serpent-worshippers, child-slayers and cannibals. They appear to have brought their arts with them from Africa, but while Hayti was under French rule they were obliged to practice them in secret. It was, however, mainly owing to the power of "Voudou" that Hayti was lost to the French. Many of the Presidents have belonged to it; tne present President either cannot or will not suppress it.and it flourishes openly. It would be improper lor me to give up my authorities. H is, sufficient to say that they are of the highest, and that s the facts are indisputable, being vouched for to me by eve-witnesses, ftnt nf 700.000 inhabitants of Hayti

there are only 20,000 who do notopenly

belong to "Vouaou." , The priests of this religion have got absolute power, owing to their knowledge of herb poisoning and its antidotes. Owing to this knowledge, which nothiug vill induce them to divulge, they can poison either slowly or juickly, or painfully or the roverseand (jau procure a death-like sleep. They are consequently resorted to by people who wish to get rid of others either for gain, for jealousy, or the like. The secret poisoning is carried on to an enormous extent. It goes on, indeed, under the name of "Obi" whereever negroes are found. In Hayti, Avhile the French had the islaTid,it was sternly repressed more so than in Ja maica or Cubabut since tlion it has increased to such an extent that a suppressed terror prevails among all classes in Hay ti. The great feasts ox "Voudou" are at Christmas, at Whitsuntide anVat Easrter. The drum is beaten at midnight, and the people assemble. The ceremony CQmuiences by the most terrible oaths of secrecy. Then dancing begins, and the excitement is kept up by copious libations of rum till one or more of the performers fall down iu aflfe, when tho spirit of "Voudou". is supposed to have entered into them. These orgies las t generally three n ights, and sometimes longer. On the first night a cock Is offered up; at the altar, and its blood is drunfe warm. On the second

night a goat is treated in the same war ir But on the third night children aie brought in; their threats sire cut by tl e priest; tlieir blood is handed round ant! drunk warm, and their bodies are theii

cat up and eatenv v

.oeioro Uio mwa jjiuuc tuo priest orders as many children as he reof quires. They must be of pure Africandescent, aud not over tea years of age These children are invariably forth

coming, either by voluotarialy being, g ftiven no or obtained by beine stolen, z

by women who make a profession it. They are expert at their trade. Enf 4 tering a'house at nigh t,naked and oiled') they steal the child, and by administer- -ing a narcotic poison render it inseu si bio. It is then conveyed to a secret Ilace til 1 rctquired for the sacrifice, when an antidote briugs it to; then its throat is cut. Children are often voluntarialy ... given up by their mothers for, the sacrifice, .v r --- In order to be initiated into "Vondou'? it is necessary to have killed some s human being; a child is preferred. . ... Another horrible custom in Hayfciis the devouring of corpses - So strong is the taste for human flesh!1 54 that midwives have been Renown to devour the children they have just brought in to the world. Tne parte pr--ferred are the knuckles and hands. " -: Lest it should be lmaginel that these v are not facts, I Willi give, one or two instances. . ," ... '" ;': 1 In May, 1S79, two women were ' caught eating a female child. It was proved that the child had-been first " drugged and rendered iusensiblel The parents, supposing it to be deadburied it These women immediately disbic ' terred it, restored it to its senses by antidotes, and. then , inserted reeds. -through its sides and sucked the blood trom the heart, This happened at Port au Prince, A Haytian of good position wasakoaught with his ftunily eating a small boy. Another was found: tied to a tree close by. The man was . pointed put to me.,., ..,., v '-..J, ' -:.-y These offenses were punished, in' one case by a month'?, in the other by six weeks' imprisonment, the fear of f V Voudou" not allowing a greater pun-' : xshment. In January, 1881, eight people fined for disinterring and eating corpses. , In the same month the peek and" shoulders of a man wero exposed forr

sale in the market of Port au ranee, and were purchased and identified by an Englisn medical man. s (t ' In February, 1881, at St. Mark's, cask of so-called "pork" was sold to a? ship. In it were discovered the fingeri and fnger nails of a human ; beingi The 'por k" was all identified as humanl flesh., ,. ' - . . ;- A Haytian assured me that the kid-; neys of a child were first-rate eating. On my asking how he knew, he inlormed me that he had eaten thenar He did not seem to thinkit strange .orr atj all out of the way. 4 At Cape Hay tien a colored clergjr- 1 man of the Church of England .comnlaincd that a "Voudou" neutralized

ail the good he was doing, and declared tnat he had had human flesh offered him for sale, and that his wife-nearly bought it, believing that it as pork.; In February, 1881, four people .were fined for devouring corpses . ' At Jacmel two corpses were recently disinterred and partly eaten. Two men one in prison or this, not being able to pay the fine. A man caught eating a child was arrested on the day of my ai-riyal. At Christmas time 9,000 people assembled at the house of a noted "Vuudou" priestess (pointed out to me) living in the coun try and carried on 1 Voudou rites in the woods close by dur? ; ing the week. v r At Aux Caves the chi d of an Eug? lishman was stolen from its cradleon the 4th of March, 1379; The thieves being hunted, they, threw the child down a well killing it and escaped7. : These facts speak for themselves. :

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Arkansas Ager.; nohrol Ftaa lVfiSS. '.'7."

V Gentle men, let me harrer your souls with a few timely -remarks. Your. Michigan ager is a grasshopper, and one dose of kyneen knbeks 'er dead. Out in Illinoy the ager is IMggerabout like a squirrel." In Misisouri she's about the size f a woodchuck, and when she strikes down in to Ar kansaw she's a, wolf three feet highf eeven feet long, and built to take hold like; a thousand buzz-saws. : Great slams! but what tussles I've had with that 'ere critter ? Say, did you ever ride in a one-hosa wagon over a stone-quarry ? Was you ever seated on the top rail of a fence when a hurricane moved it at the rate of six miles a minit? ' Did. ye "ever have a cyclone pick you np and mop, ye over forty acres of river bottohi, wallop ye through ten -acres of woods and use you as a tool to knock down a hundred, acres of canebrake ? Well, that hain' t the ager not the Arkansaw kind; its only theht faint perlimjtoariesi" " . . .. : ''-

He stopped to religlit his cigar, and then continued:1' : - .': " :.; 1

"I hain't got long to live, and Idon'fc keer to stretch the thing any. Telliit' the truth has alius been my strong pint, and alius will be. Maybe ye'ki git some ideav of the Arkansaw ager when I tell ye that I once unjointtd both my shoulders in shakin? and- it was a sligh t shake at that. : When I; had one of my regular bouble bacik action shakes I could Jar a jug of whiskey but of the crotch of a tree tweuty-eight rods o. : Fobody dast pUe up cordAe ood within half a mile of my cabin, and that's a solid fact I devoured kv-neen just as you eat corned bee, and nay whole system fi nally at -so bitter that a dosc who smelt of my leg couldn't get the pucker out of life mouth inside of ten days; Gentltiinen I do not wish to prolong this agony. Mv failin' is srab. Fust I know TH

jump the ager and begin on Arkansaw i 'skeetersi and when I got thar' I'd hax- J , rer yes souls till you couldn't sleep fur p two weeks. We will now have souft '

lickir, and I will then seek a fewneedfe

reposes. ' s ' A N oc turnal Cow. .

The nre vailing cow for this season seems to be a seal-brown cow wittj a stub tail, which is arranged as a nipht kev. The other day I had just planiied r my celluloid radishes,and irrigated iwy royal Bengal turnips, and sown my hunting case summer squashes. That ; night the blow fell; The queen of nighf ' wa& high in the blue' vault of heavn;?s

so, too, the twinkling stars, nap.net n ; , waft hushed to renose. I heard dkr-. h -..

stealthy step hear the coiisersry w . arid I arose; It was a lovely sight.' '4m?t' the head of the procession was a wmgy-

oro wn creature ,. wiua-. a u. handle of a pump. This was a cow?

Following at a rapid gait was a oawKo nicture of alabaster limbs and gof hie joints and Wamsutta muslin iniguV 1 robe. That was the writer, y and by there was a crashj and the" seal- i -brown cow went home carrying the garden ate with her as a kind of kep J sake. She had plenty of garden gatesu t. linmft in her collection, but she had

none of that particular pattern; The. writer of these lines then, carefully ;; brushed the sand o If his feet with a pillowsham and retired to rest. The: next morning I went out to feed tuy 1 , royal, selu-Gtiug hen, aud found Uife -cow wedged into ths chicken-coop. I-

secured a large picket from the fenced and I took my coat off and breathed in? ' a full breath. I did not want" h) kill' her: I simply wanted to make her wish she had died of membranous croup when she wast young. ; I brought down the picket with: the condensed, strength, and eagerness, and wrath oft " two long suffering years. It struck; the corner of the hen house. There? was a deafening: crash, and then all: was stttt: save the low, rippling laugh, of the cow as she g tppd iu the alley t and encouraged me as I nailed up the, htm house acain. Ijookinc back over

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