Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 10 February 1883 — Page 3

The New York Graphic describes the quaiVeating -port ormance of Mr. Walcott: A stranger, unaware of the cause, and se?ing one man thus silently eating and forty other men standing by and as silently watching him, might with some show of reason imagine he had stumbled on s lunatic asylum. It has a luny look. The by-standers talk in low tones to each other. They seem sad and serious. The The quail-eater is the saddest and most serious of them all. 'When he rises and sadly departs, the crowd closely inspects the plate of bones to see if any tiesh adheres."

The present- King of Portugal is fully abreast of his fellow-sovereigns of Europe in education and advanced ideas. Bte keeps close watch on new inventions and discoveries, and is quick to adopt any that may prove of real merit, lie has just had an elaborate telephone system established between his library, the offices of the various Ministers, and the opera, so that he can, without moving from his chair, alternately occupy himself with his books and the translations by which he has distinguished himself, with music, and with the duties and cares of State.

The reader will be surprised to hear of cannibalism in this day and yet information has been received at Brisbane, Queensland, that a three-masted schooner was lost on the shore at the mouth of the Fly river, New Guinea. Thejcrew, seventeen in number, were killed by the sav

ages; their heads cut off, and distributed among the native villages. Captain Pennafeather, of the schooner Heart, made a search, but found only a lot of wreckage, with nothing to identify the vessel. His party was frequently attacked by the natives. One old woman confessed the murder of the crew. Pennifeather burnt the native villages, and destroyed their canals. .,.,.,

will be. This city now has a population of 6,000, and is in all respects a full grown city, possessing among other features three daily papers. The Northern Pacific Kailroad is expected to extent! its line to Seattle, and when that is done, it is said a saving of five days can be made in the transportation of freight from China and Japan, over shipment by way of San Francisco, an inducement which it is claimed will of itself be sufficient to cause the transfer of the receiving port far Asiatic commerce from San Francisco to Seattle, The future metropoliswhatever it may be. will also be an extensive shipping as well as receiving port. The finest timber in the United States is now found in Washington Territory, and a very large portion of it in the vicinity of Paget Sound. The mills already running turn out about a million feet of lumber daily, and the demand will greatly increase after the completion of railroads to cities on the Sound. Much of the lumber now sawed is exported, and the trade is certain to increase largely in the future. While the nr forests of Puget Sound are by no means inexhaustible, they possess advantages over the same variety in other parts of the country, being capable of perpetuating itself. Instead of being followed by growths of deciduous trees, the

young firs spring up where the timber.

has been cleared away, forming dense thickets, which in twenty years will grow trees from twelve to fourteen inches in diameter.

TYING HER BONNET UNDER HER CHIN.

LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

Samxtetj Scott, of Wartbarg, Tenm, h2s just diedhis weight being ooO pounds. It is thought that his death was due to his. extreme obesity. He was about five

feet eight inches tall, but his body was puffed out to an abnormal size, and he could scarcely walk. His physicians would not allow him to be in bed, and he slept in a very peculiar position, usuaUy kneeling,with his head resting on a chair. It is said he would sleep as well in this apparently uncomfortable position as any one in a bed of down. He disregarded Iris physicians advice, however, and went to bed as any other person, and died during the night, it is thought of asphyxia. A "white-haired, fine-looking old gentleman, giving his name as Maurice Moray, was arrested at Boston on Tuesday for parading the streets with a placard on a pole bearing the following: "Notice The Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a court of conspirators and perverted Judges conspiring against the iifeVliberry and property of the people, udge Gray and his associate are a bod$ of conspirators, their reports are forgeries, and the State is the most supreme despotism that ver ruled over free people. MAUHICE MOBEY." It appears that Morey was sent to prison in 1878 on a char rf

has just finished his term of sentence, and has always maintained Ids innocence. When released he secured testimony chat he felt would vindicate him, but was told that lie could not present it except in defense. He then took this method to be arrested in order to gain his point. A ghost which had.annoyed tie good people of Broad Creek Seek, on the Eastern Shore, of Maryland, finally brought matters to a climax by so frightening a young man who was walking on a lonely road with the girl of his choice that he tied icgloriously, leaving his beloved in a dead faint. He aroused the town, however, and a nnmber of citizens, including a courageous and practical man by the name of JonesiviTWi rt

w spot Mr. Jones had taken the-precaution to carry his gun, and when, on peering through the bushes, he saw a white ohject and heard an uncarniv smmi 'W

nred,with the remark: "I think I have lard that ghost; if any of you choose you can go into the thicket and look him up." No one chose, but from that dav to this no ghost has

. .WVvi muqu viee ieCK.

a wee ago however, Mr. Jones was i

Drougnt into court by his neighbor, Mr. Hambelton, and compelled to pay for the full value of a hog whose dead body had been found iu the bushes at the spot where the ghost was laid.

to preserve the view oi Niagar a Falls and prevent its being turned into sites for mills. The New York Tribune says: A plan to arrest the impending ruin of this priceless posession has been reported by a commission appointed for that purpose by the state. It is practicable. It is not expensive. It simply nrnviffo that.

. , ' ' " ' VUUW Lilly , state shall acquire a title to a strip of land bet ween the crest of the natun 1 terrace and the .river bank. This strip is about 100 feet wide along the rapids and broadens out at the falls i0 a more spacious area for the accommodation of visitors. The space is not to be tracked out with the finery of so-called decorative gardening. No attempt is to be made to present nature in full dress. But the growth of native trees and swinging vines and rice under wood is to be restored so that all the elements of the origins Niagara shall again group themselves in one harmonious picture and every dis tracting object be shut away from sight. If this well considered and simple plan can be carried out, none of the grace or grandeur of this unique spectacle will be sacrificed and Niagara will continue to make its solemn and consistent appeal to the nobler nat ure of all beholders.

Washington Territory is regarded as

the brisrhtest nrCiSneote of anv of

the sparely settled territories of the West and Northwest, and this for the reason that Paget Sound, situated within its boundaries, is one of the finest harbors in the world. Hopeful people, especially railroad men, express the opinion thr-t

somewhere along the shores of Puget Sound, a city will grow up within a few decades that will eclipse San Francisco, and rival Chicago and New York. Z Paget Sound is large enough and deep enough to float the abips of the world, and there is no ship so large that it could not easily float at any point where the future metropolis is likely to be located. Whether this future metropolis will be one of the towns already in existence, or whether it is yet to be located, is a question which greatly interests those who are now settled along the Sound, or who have interests there. Seattle is by many looked upon as the city, and it is said that the Onion Pacific Railroad is extending its lines to that point in. expectation that it

Mrs. Edwin May has filed a claim for S1S,000, which she alleges was due her late husband, as architect of the new State House. A Senate bill just introduced provides that applicants for teachers' license shall pay the county superintendent fifty cents the fund thus raised to bo used for defraying the expenses of county institutes Senator Benz has introduced a bill pro

viding that townships or corporations j

may vote appropriations for the construction of gravel roads under certain circumstances, when such a vote is petitioned by

twenty-five property owners. As a point for the location of the new insane asylum, Seymour is about ready to present her advantages. The railroads passing through that city make it accessible from every part of southern Indiana. An extensive correspondence in regard to the matter is now being carried on. . ..; representative Chittenden has introduced a bill providing for a State inspector of gas metera, to be appointed by the Governor at an annual salary of 52,500; and it shall be the duty of himself or his deputies to at least once a year inspect all the gas meters to see if they are accurate. If enacted this will introduce a system that has worked advantageously in other States.'. Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, of Boston, Tuesday afternoon addressed the Senate at considerable length, urging the passage of a Law providing for a course of instruction in the public schools on the effects c f alcohol on the human system. Mrs. Runt is a forcible speaker, and her remarks were listened to with much inter's: t by the Senate and the large audience in attendance. The amendments are deadall of them, including the female suffrage and tenure of office propositions going down in the defeat of the prohibition amendments in the senate Monday afternoon. The The majority report of the committee on judiciary, that the amendments are not pending in this legislature by reasyn of the omission of the full text from the journals of the last general assembly, was concurred in by a vote of 25 to 23. The railroad companies are seeking to have section 8 of the present scalping law repealed. This section permits dealing in special, half-fair and excursion tickets. Under the ruling of the supreme court on the construction of the word "special, the scalpers are satisfied with the law as it stands as they can legitimately deal in limited tickets. It is probable that nothing will be done to disturb the present law.

Since the defeat of the constitutional j amendments a very strong feeling has de- j veloped in both houses for a stringent high-license law, carefully guarded in its provisions, and such a measure will prob

ably be introduced in a few days. It is understood that the House committee on temperance has such a measure under contemplation, which provides for a State

license of 200 for incorporated cities and towns, and a conviction for any violation of its provisions involves a forfeiture of the license. Senator Van Vorhis has introduced a bill to reduce the number of justices of the peace. He proposed that there shall not be more than three justices in any township, with one additional for each incorporated city situated therein. The present law allows two for each incorporated city and one for each incorporated town in a township. The bill would work like a charm n Indianapolis, where almost every other man is a justice of the peace, and the 'Squires Courts do not have a savory reputation. The House committee on fees and salaries has prepaied an elaborate bill on

that subject, which will be introduced in a day or two. In many respects it is similar to the present law. It makes the compensation for clerks and sheriffs, fees almost exclusively, while the oilier officers are to be paid mostly by salaries. It cui s off many of the present extortionate fees of the clerks in probate business, but otherwise, by its provisions, these officials will remain about as heretofore. The bill i3 said to be very ingeniously constructed, and when it is introduced a closer inquiry will be made into its provisions. The sensation of the day, on Thursday in the Legislature, was the action taken in the Senate immediately after the noon

recess in removing Vincent Kirk from his office as doorkeeper. The fight upon him has been kept up constantly by Senator

Duncan, on the ground that he had too many employee. His resolution, which brought about the action, recited that he had twelve emuloyes to do the work which had been done in other years by seven; and it also directed that the Senate proceed immediately to the election of Mr. Kirk's successor. The resolution was passed by a vote of 24 to 20, Senators Benz, Puncan, Fleming, HiUigas, Lindley and Mcln tosh voting with the -Republicans for Mr. Kirk's removal. Amidst considerable confusion the Senate proceeded to the election of C. A. Edmonds Assistant Doorkkeeper, which was done by 24 to 21. The new Doorkeeper has been sworn in and commenced the duties of hia office.

Tying her bonnet under hor chin, t$ho tied her raven ringlets in: But not alone in the silken snare D'ul ahtv eaten her lovely . touting hair, For, tying her bonnet under her chin. She tied n young man's heart within. They w ere strolling together up the hill.

Where the wind comes bio w ing morry and chill .And it blew tin emla i frolicsome race All over the happy peach colored face. Till scolding anil laughing she tied them in; Under her beanlif nl dimpled chin. And it blew a color I right as the bloom Of the pinkost fnshia'sto sing plume. All over tho cheeks of tho prettiest girl That ever imprisoned a romping ourl, For, tying her bonnot under hor chin. She tied a young man's heart within. Steeper and steepe-. grew the hill; Maddor, Merrier. Chiller still. The western wind blew down, and played The wildest tricks with tho little maid. As, tying her bonnet under her chin, She tied a young man's heart within. 0 Western wind do you think it was fair, To play ffiwh tricks with her floating hair? To gladly, gleefully do your best To blow her against the young man's brit Where he as gladly folded her in. Ai d kissed her month and dimpled chin. Ah! Kllery Vane, you little thought. An hour ago, when you besought ttiis country lass to walk with you. After the sun had dried the dew, What perilous danger you'd be in. As she tied her bonnet under ohin.

GOLD AND GILT.

She was a very pretty girl, and did her bat, in an innocent sort of a way, to let oilier people know it; and she conld not help thinking as phe walked along the Eltham road, that keeping company with Tom Dawlish who was just a plain, honest, hard-working young fellow was rather a waste of time, and that marrying him wonld be altogether throwing her set away. Her reflections came to an end at the door of Messrs, Bradbury's office and she walked in, wholly intent on the bill she had to pay. A smart looking yonng man received the money; and when the receipt was made out.and she turned to go, she found that the shower which had threatened for some time was coming down with a vengeance. 4Oh, dear!" she exclaimed, aud I bnve'nt any umbrella." "Wait here a few minutes. Miss; tt will soon be over" said the smart young man. And i hen, having accepted his offer of shelter for a minute or two, thinking he "was a very nice-looking young gentleman. s i ho afterward described him to the cook,) and that he had beautiful hair it war ru) nicely curled and he had a little da:k mustache and wore sucji a pretty bine neck-tie. Oh! he was very nice-looking indeed. "Are you Mr. Poole's sister?" he asked after a Jew minutes' conversation. Mary Unshed as she replied truthfully for shj was far too good a girl even to equivocate that she was not such a disiuguished individual, but only the housemaid and chambermaid combined, and then he asked her what her name was; and with another blush she told him it was Clara, but Mrs. Poole said it was too Hue a name for a servant, and called her Mary. "I shall call you Clara,"he said "shall I?" he added, with an appealing glance, Mary felt her heart beat faster; something seemed to tell her that her destiny had come, and she had'no words to say; so he followed up his successful sally with another one. -"Do you ever get out of an evening for a walk?" "Sometimes," she said softly. "Will you go out with me for a walk nest time?" he asked. . "It wouldn't be right; you are quite strange, you see." she said, slowly. "Oh, we'll soon get over that, you know. Perhaps you are engaged, though?" Mary's inconvenient heart gave a great thump, for here was a good practical question, which certainly showed that he meant business that is to say, matrimony. "No, I'm not; but I'm wanted to be." Not a very lucid answer, but lie evidently understood it. "Who to?" he ashed coaxinglv. "Well, perhaps I oughtn't to say his name," she answered slowly; for in this, the most impel ta-,t jioment in her life , a she felt it to be, words seemed altogether to fail her. "What is he?" "Hefs he's a carpenter." Mary never felt the truth more difficult to tell in-all her life. "A carpenter!" he said in a telling tone of injury not uuniixed with scorn. "Well, of course, if I am not better than a carpenter" "Oh, you are; you are sir,' ? said Mary, in her excitement putting out a hand aud resting it for just a moment on his sleeve. M try lost her heart to the smart young man with the blue neck tie and the well olcd hair. He never saial anything more deiiuite than he said that first day: but

he was always ready to take her out, and j most particular aboit her dress; and the j

res a It was that all her little hoard of savings went in more or less ill-chosen finery and Tom Dawlish wae forgotten. There was only one tiling she refused to do, and that was, she would not give up her Saturday afternoon to 'him. She had always had it to take little Franky

Poole out for a long walk on that day, it being his half-holiday, and she would never consent to his being allowed to run about wild in Kensington Gardens, as Alfred Hill (for so the smart young man was called) suggested, while she walked about with her fine sweetheart. "He is such a wild little fellow; nobody knows what he might do if he had the chance," "Ah ! you don't care for me," said the

hero of the coal raerchaut'a office, and the proud recipient of thirty shillings a week M ft

income. No answer came save that her clasped handB made one in their dumb movement of contradiction. Not love him! Why, every moment of the day was devoted to thinking of him; her work was neglected, her money spent, her place in a fair way of being forfeited, and poor Tom Dawlish nearly heart-broken, and yet he said she did not love him! "Ah! you don't, care for me," he repeated, artfully enough; for no avowal of his own feelings had aver escaped his lips. "Oh! I do, I do!" she said; and coveriug her face with her hands, let her head droop down upon his shoulder. CHAPTER IX. "I hate school," Frank Poole informed her one morning, as he sat on the table while she sewed a button on hia trousem "I should like to be a sailor.'

"Gooduess ! Master Franky, what's put that into you?: head ?" "Oh, uothing ! only Tom Dawlish was telling me about it ; what they did in wrecks you Iuidw, and all that. 1 should like to bo on a raft, t should and lie drew his naked toes up on the table and wriggled them about at the thought of the great things lie would do. "Tom's coming to-day, I heard mamma say so ; and if he isn't gone when I come back this afternoon, I shall ask him more about it." "I'd tell him not to go filling ti e child's head with such nonsense, only I don't want to get in his way," Mary thought. But somehow Tom got into her way that afternoon. "Look here, Mary," ho said: "I want to speak to y ou. It isn't that I want you to look at me if you haven't a mind to

though goodness knows Pd do anything for you ; but I don't want to see a nice girl like you a lowering of yourself by walkinir out with a chap liko Alfred

Hill." "What's it got to do with you ?" she asked angrily. "Why, just this, that I've found out a bit about him, and he's only laughing at you, and thinking you are a nice looking girl when you are dressed up. to walk about with, but as for marrying you, he'll no more do it than that," and he snapped his fingers, though what that action had to do with Mr. Alfred Hill's intentions he did not explain. "Why, he's going to marry the daughter of Mr. Brooks, what travels for the firm, that's what he's going to do. Ask him, and see if he can deny it. AVhy, it's coming oft directly, only 6he's nothing to look at, so he isn't fond of showing her off ; but she's got some money, she has, and plays on the piano, and looks like a lady." "How do you know ?" Mary asked, her very lips turning white, for her exacting heart knew that he had fallen oil' lately, and that he was not what he had been in the spring (the summer was over.) Not that for a single moment she: believed Tom's worda "Why, I work there, and tin;' servant told me. Beside, I've seen him go there courting." "I don't believe it. You ought to he ashamed of yourself ;" and she rushed away to hide her gathering fears nm frightened face. She wrote to him, asking her to meet her that night ; but he replied with an excxiso that made her heart sick. He would meet her to-rnorrow (Saturday afternoon) in Kensington gardens if she liked, he said, and to thi she consented, and for the first time, and for his cake, was false to her charge of Franky. 'You run about, Master Franky, dear " she said; "I want to talk to a friend of mine but don't go out of sight;" and then in her bewilderment she forgot all about him. Alfred Hill looked rather boared than otherwise, but he was smiling and shiny as ever. She hardly greeted him when ho appeared, but she looked at him with all the admiration she had ever felt for him intensified by her fear. He sat down' beside her, and elegant ly crossed his legs, bean tapping his highly-polished boots with his bone headed cane. "Alfred," she said, crossing her hands and looking at him straight in the face, "is it true that you are going to get married direct! v?" "Who's told you so?" "It isn't any account who told; is it true that you are going to marry Miss Brooks because she plays on the piano, and has money, and " The tears came into her eyes, and her lips quivered with anguish. "Oh, it isu't true! I know it isn't !', and she touched his hand in her dismay, and looked up into hisi face with all her heart's story written in her eyes. "I don't see why it shouldn't be, and so there's the long and short of it. It's no use making a fuss about it, my dear girl." "But it isn't? it isn't?" she said appealingly. "Well, yes, it is true," lie said slowly, not daring to look her hi the face; so you may as well kuow it at once." She stood up before him. "True! Do you mean to say, Alfred, after all that's passed between us, that you are going to be married to some one else?" "I really can't understand your Svhat has passed between us.' You really couldn't think I was goin? to marry you?" "Why?" "Well, 1 don't wish to hurt your feelings, but consider the difference in our positions. One walks out with a pretty servant girl, but one doesn't marry her." "You are not a gentleman as you think yourself," she said slowly. "You are dressed like one, but you are jnst a bit of

a clerk, not any better than a respectable girl like me. A gentleman doesn't try to taken girl's good name and win her heart as you have done." Mary often wondered how she fought her battle as she did; but she seemed to have no feeling then, only to realise what would come after. "I am very sorry that you let yourself fall in love with me," he aaid, tapping his boot again. "I fancied that

you would have had more jride, at any rate, till you were asked." "More pride ! What do you take me for?" she asked, her cheeks flushing. "Do you think I'd go out with one, and let him talk to me as you have don e, if I hadn't cared for him? I lu.ve too much pride for that, and I shouldn't be St eonr pany for any honest man if I hadn't. And you know it ; but it isn't you that I like, but the man I took you for, and he isn't there at all." "Well. I'm sorry you are disappointed in your hope of bettering yourself by

marrying above you, and I think, after all you'vo said, we'd better part," "The sooner the better," mid ehc let him go, and then sat down and sobbed her poor heart out, and spent the bitterest hours of her life beneath the trees from which the leaves were falling. Then she got up to look for Franky ; he was nowhere to be seen. She called, but no answer came. With a fear that deadened all other feeling she ran to and fro in a wild endeavor to find him. She asked the po-iceman at the gate ; he had not seen him. An hour passed in fruitless search, and then, pale with fear, and rembling in every Jimb, she went home to relate the terrible news. Just as she

got to the door she saw through the gath-

"I was going to walk there," said Franky, stonily. "You would have killed jour poor

mamma. "M mnna," asked Franky Poole the next day, "would it kill you if I ran away to sef V" "Yes, dear, T. think it would." "Oh, well, then, I won't," he answered patronizingly. It was spring time again when Tom Da wish asked Mary a quest ion once more. Ho had a good situation, had a prosrect of a rise ; and he'd always been daft on her, and he wanted to know if sae could love him. She looked up with a face 1 hat had grown pale and thin, and said dimply,--"I don't think that I do now, Tom ; but if. you like to wait I think it'll come.' "Bless you !" said Tom ; "Pd wait sever years sooner than lose yen1 But ho haid only to wait one, "Ho is gold and the other was gilt," said Mary on her wedding day ; and she was right.

Embarrassing Questions. Arkarsaw Traveler. "Pi," said the Bev. Mulkittles little son, 'Samson was a strong man, wasn't he ?' "Samson was the strongest man that ever lived." "Tell me about him." "It was intended that Samson should bo the strongest man, and before ho was born - " The bewildered exipression on the child's face arrested the minister in his narration. "Before he was born?" "Yes ; before that is before he was found in the hollow stum " "Just like little sister V "Yes ; just before he was found an angel appeared and foretold of his strength, saving that no razor must touch his

head." "Was the angel afraid that the razor would cut him ?" "o, the angel meant that his strength lies in his hair and that his hair must not be cut oir." "I I let my hair grow long can I lift more than I can now?" "I don't know about that." "Are women stronger than men?" "No." "But they've got longer hair ?" "Yes; they have longer hair," A woman couldn't whip you, could she r "Not, not easily." "Was Samson a Democrat ?" "3 don't know." "But you do know. I'd know if I was as old as you. How many was it that Samson killed ?" "One thousand." "He was bad, wasn't he V "No." "But when a man kills anybody he's bad ?" "The Lord was with Sainson.' "But the Lord says you musu't kill anybody, Did Samson go to Heaven?" "I suppose." "He is the strongest- angel there, ain't he r "you are getting foolish again," "But T want to kuow. Will you know Samson when you go to heaven?" "F suppose so." "But you won't fool amund him will yon? If hd was to hit yci he'd break your wings, wouldn't he ?" "Go to your mother. The next time you attempt to question rue about the Bible I shall whip you."

Holding Produce for a Rise. Indiana Letter in Country Genthrnan. The present prices are a lesson to those farmers who are always liDlding their produce for a rise, which nine times out of ten does not coma Wheat sold in July and August at Sl.O-i to $51.10 ; corn November, 50c : December, 47e ; hay, in August, $12 to 13 per ton, and the indicacations are that they will not reach tho top figures before another crop. They

I not only lose the difference in price, but

uierest, shrinkage, ratage, damage from weevil, and all the other ills that stored grain is heir to. They renew their notes and let their store bills run., thus not only losing themselves but discommoding others. My invariable rule is t o sell as soon as the crop is garnered, and my average prices for the pust five year:, have been as fo lows : Wheat, 1.05 ; com, 43c, and hay, 81'J, which is a very satisfactory price. The wheat weighed 108 bushels per 100 measured bushels, aud the corn re dized 060 dry, aud no cribbing. A great many of our fanners do not realize the value of fertilizers, especially clover and a rotation of crops. Hundieds of acres of land have lost their fer tiHty by the the raising of corn year after y ar, and if, as a result, tho owners come out behind at the end of the year it is because luck is against them." If farmers would sow clover with their wheat each year and turn it under for the next crop their crops would soon he doubled. In experimenting with clover I have brought tho yield from 16 bushels of wheat per acre to 43' bushels, aud have had an average of 34 bushels per acre on 70 ares.

PA'S MARVELOUS ESCAPE. Tin?- Bad Boy'r Pa Tackles His Kcw Fir Escape, and Finds Use for Vaseline. Peck's Sun, " "Got any vaseline?" said tho bad boy tothe giocery man, as ho went in the store one cold morning, leaving the door opt n, and picked up a cigar stub that had been thrown down by the stove, and began to smoke it. "Shut that door, dum you. Was you brought up in a saw null? You'll freeze every potato in the house. No, I haven't got vaseline. What do you want of vaseline?" said tho grocery man, as he set the syrup ksg on a chair by the stove where it would thaw out.

"Wan't to rub at ou pa's legs," said the boy, as he tried to draw smoke through the cigar stub. "Why, what's the matter with your pa's legs? Rheum atiz?" "Wuss nor rheumatiz said the boy, as he threw away the cigar stub and drew some cider in a broken tea cup "Pa has got the worst looking hind legs you ever saw. You see. since there has been so

many fires pa has got offul scared, and has bought three lire escapes, made out of rope with knots in them, and he has been telling us every day how he could rescue the whole family in case of fire. He told us to be cool whatever happened, and to rely on him. If the house got on fire we wore all to rush to pa, and he would save us. Well, last night ma had to go to one of the neighbors, where they was going to have twins, and we didn't sleep much, cause ma had .to come home twice in the night to get saffron, and an old flannel petticoat that I had broke in when I was a kid, cause the people where ma went did not kuow as twins was on the bill of fare, and they only had Uannel petticoats for one. Pa was cross at being kept awake, and told ma he hoped when all the children in Milwaukee were born, and got grown up, she would take in her sign and not go around nights acting as usher to baby matinees. Pa says there ought to be a law that babies should arrive on the

regular day trains, and not wait for the

midnight express. Well, pa he got asleep,

j and he slept till about eight o'clock in ' the morning, and the blinds were closed, ! and it was dark in his room, and I had j waited for my breakfast till I was hungry : as a wolf, and the girl told me to wake pa i up, so I went up stairs, and I don't kuow j what made me think of it, but I had j some of this powder they make red fire j with in the theater, that me and my j chum haci the 4th of July, and I put it in j a wash uish in the bath room, and I

touched it oil and hollered fire. I was going wake pa up and and then tell him it was all right, and laugh at him. I guess there was too much fire, or I yelled to loud, cause pa jumped out of bed and grabbed a rope and rushsd through the hall towards the back window, that goes out on a shed. I tried to say something, but pa ran over me and told mo to save

myself and I got to the back window to

tell him there was no lire just as he let himself out of the window. He had one end of the rope tied to the leg of the wash stand, and, he was climbing down the back side of the shed by the kitchen, w th nothing on but liis night shirt and he was tho horriblest looking object ever was, with his legs liying and trying to stick his toe nails into the rope and the side of the house. I don't think a man looks well in society with nothing on but his night shirt 1 didn't blame the hired girls for being scared when they saw pa and his legs come down outside the window, and when they yelled I went down to the kitchen, and they said a crazy man with no clothes but a pillow ease around his neck was trying to kick the window in, and they run into the parlor, and I let pa in the kitchen. He asked me it anybody else was saved,and then I told liiin there wasn't any fire, aud he must have dreamed he was in hell, or soinexvhere. Well, pa was astonished, and said ho must be wrong in his head, and I left him thawing himself by the stove, while I went after his pants, and his legs were badly chilled, but I guess nothin' was froze. Ho lays it all to ma, and says ii1 she would stay at home and let people run their own baby shows, there would be more comfort in the house. Ma came in with a shawl over her head, and a bowl full of something that smelled frowy, and after she had told us what the result of her visit was, she sent me after vaseline to rub pa's legs. Pa says he has demonstrated that if a man is cool and collected in case of fire, and goes deliberately at work to save himself, he will come out all right."

would leave that night for incineration. The furnace nre was lighted between 4 and H o'olrek yesterday morning, and long before the corpse arrived the retort was in fine condition. The train at 11:30 a. m, brought the body, accompanied by Dr. Hoppell, a friend of tho dead child's parents. On arriving at the crematory the remains were removed to the brick building where the burning is done. The usual preparations were made, the corpse lifted into the iron crib, wrapped in sheet saturated with alum water, and slid into the retort. The lid was closed over the opening, and the incineration commenced. The child was a son of Dr. Samuel Halm, of New York, whose body found its way mto Dr. LeMoyne's crematory in March of 1880. The Doctor's widow, believing in the plan of cremation, had the remains of her son sent here. The corpse was dressed in a white shroud, and enclosed in' a metallic casket. There were no services. At precisely 12 o'clock the retort door was opened. In a few minutes the alum-soaked sheet disappeared, and exposed to view what was left of the corpse. The flesh had entirely burned away, leaving nothing but the bare bones. In a comparatively short time these begau to crumble and melt away, falling upon the iron rack upon which the subject rests. It generally requires two hours to complete the incineration, but to-day it was completed in much less time, owing to the smallness of the body to be reduced. The retort will not be sufficiently cool to allow the removal of thi ashes until Monday ,when they will he taken out, and after being neatly packed in a little tin box, forwarded to Dr. Kaufman, the child's grandfather. The casket will also be returned to New York.

AN IRATE EDITOR

Half a Century iisi Jail. t niontown (Pa.) Special. William Staudford, known throughout Fayette county as "Cras'.y Billy," died this morn iug in the county jail, where he had been a prisoner over fifty-one consec

utive years. In 1851 Billy drove Ale.van-, began, Billy Patterson ran in the crowd

William Patterson's Will Caruosvillo Register. William Patterson was a very wealthy tradesman of Baltimore. In the early days of Franklin county, Ga., he bought up a gTeat many tracts of laud in the county, end spent a good portion of his time in looking after his interests there. He was said to be as strong as a bear and as brave as a lion, but, like all brave men, he was a lover of peace, and, indeed, a good, pious man. Nevertheless, his wrath could be excited to a fighting pitch, On one occaskm he attended a public gathering in the lower part of Franklin County, at some District Court ground. During the day two opposing bullies and their friends raised a row, and a general fight was the consequence. At the beginning of the affray, and before the fighting

der Crow and wife out of their home hi Spring Hill township. The neighbors came to Crow's rescue, find by strategy overpowered Billy, who Mas armed with Orow's gun, butcher-knife and axe. Billy was sent to jail, at Uniontown for trial. j$oon afterward William Upde graft was locked up for drunkenness, aaid during the night Billy asked a stack of wood if he should kill UpOegrs-ff. The billet said yes, and Billy crushed in the drunkard's skull. The following Jmie Billy was tried and acquitted of murder on account of insanity. Pcff eighteen years he was chained by the leg to tho floor of his cell. Since 18-18 he has been allo wed to roam at will, beiug harmless. Eighteen sheriffs have gone in and out of office while Billy was a prisoner. Four ex-sheriffe will serve as pall-beareiB at his funeral to-morrow, and the en tiro baa will turn out. Billy was about eighty years old, and was born in England, but beyond this nothing is known of his

erincr shadows Tom Dawusb. and in his I .earliest history. Just before dying he

arms a little figure, which her heart told her was Master Franky. UI met this young gentleman as he was running off to be n sailor, and brought him back." "Running away ! Why, how were you going to get to the sen ?"

called for his mother : "Dear mother." This was the only time he was ever known to refer in any way to any one connected with his childhood. The population of Syria and Palestine is estimated at 2,070,m Of these only 8,000 are Protestant.

to persuade them not to fight, but to make peace and be friends. But his efforts for peace were unavailable and while making them, some of the crowd in the general melee struck Billy Patterson a severe blow from behind. Billy at once became ighting mad aud cried out at the top Of his voice, "Who struck Billy Patterson?" No one could or would tell him who was the guilty party. He then proposed to give any man 100 who would tell him "w ho struck Billy Patterson.'' From $100 he rose to 31,000 but not 1,000 would induce any man to tell him "who struck Billy Patterson." Years afterward, in his will he related the above facts and bequeathed 81.000 to be paid by his executors, to the man who would tell "who struck Billy Patterson." His will is recorded in the Ordinary's office at Carnesville, Fnnkliu county, Ga, and any one curious about the matter can there find it and verify the preceding statements. Cremating a Body. A Washington, Pa., special says: A telegram was received by T. V. Harding, trustee of the LeMoyne Crematory, on Wednesday,, from Dr. Kaufman, of 212 East Tenth Street, New York, stating that the remains of a three-year-old child

The Granville, N. Y., Sentinel presented a bill to tho Board of Supervisors f?r $18375 and wns allowed $1.75. In this rcek; issue of the Sentinel the editor gets -ven with the. supervisors for portion of Ms Iosh in the fell owing verses: "Whoever cheats the printer Out of a single ceni . Will never roach the joavenly land Where good Elijah went.' So tho Board of Supervisors, . In their future homo so hot. Will have no printer's bills to cut, For there thoy enter not So wreak your vengeance while you cfln. Yon'il scarce make us sick; , You'll have tho pleasure. bye and bye Of chewing red hot briok. When we in transient glory Look down In your worm hire, .We'll send the following message: "One dollar and seventy-live."

ALITTLF SPICE.

The Phenomena of Death. A Philadelphia physician has made a special study of the phenomena of death, hoth through his personal observations and those of others, and his conclusion is that the dissolution is painless. 4iI mean," he explains, "that it approaches as unconsciously as sleep. The soul leaves the world as unconsciously as it enters it. Whatever be the cause of death, whether by lingering malady jsv sudden violence dissolution comes either through syncope or asphyxia. In the latter case, when resulting from disease, the struggle is long protracted, and accompanied by all the visible marks of agony which the imagination associates with the closing scenes of life. Death does not strike all the organs of the body at the same time, and the lungs are the last to give up the performance of their functions. As death approaches, the latter gradually becomes more and more oppressed; hence the rattle. Nor is the contact sufficiently perfect to change the black venous iito the red arterial blood;

an unprepared fluid consequently issues j

from the lungs into the heart, and is thence transmitted to every other organ of the body. The brain receives it and its energies appear to b lulled thereby into sleep generally tranquil sleep filled with dreams which impel th dying to murmur out the names of friends and the occupations and recollections of past life," How Montreal Girls Dress. The New York Sun's Montreal correspondent relates this: "I must tell you how these girls dress," said a New York woman to her husband. "First, they start with flannel from head to foot and such flannel! Why, it's an eighth of an inch thick. Then they go on like other women, except that they put on more skirts, and usually a quilted one that's as warm as a wood fira Then they put on a dress, and - ver that a chamois jacket that fits like a shoe in the mud. Then they put ribbed woolen stockings over their stockings and arctics over their shoes. They don't care any more about the looks ot their feet chan the St. Louis women do. Then they put on knit wristlets, then gloves, then a fur or eloth dolman, then a fur cap, and finally a coil of worsted comforters. When they are dressed, if they are hurled at a speed of a mile a minute from a toboggan they are unhurt. If they fall through the ice they are not wee. If the thermometer drops to fifteen below they read of it next day and wish they had known it at the time." How Governor Stephens Works. Atlanta Correspondence. Governor Stephens is a steady, methodical worker. He keeps doing. He never seems to tire. And he does everything thoroughly. He is never in a hurry, and always deliberate and painstaking. He sees all th-a company that comes to him, and he has a constant stream of visitors. He runs his company and his work right along together. He goes to bed at 9 o clock, but sometimes will dictate correspondence for several hours lying in bed. His method of receiving visitors is different from the general practice of public functionaries. There is no red tape or ceremony. None are kept waiting. He i eceives them promptly, hears their business patiently, and gives an immediate action. He still plays whist in the evening when a hand can be made. The social quality is very large in Governor Stephens' nature. He really enjoys company. Ho is a charming talker. He is fuli of reminiscence and anecdote, and he tells things well. The Dairy Interest. The returns of dairy manufacturers as shown by the census, (now in press), show an immense growth in that industry. The capital invested amounts to $in,()00,0X). They consume materials valued at; 818,000,000, and their total products ara S2t,000,000. The value of material used in condensed milk manufactories amounts to $1,000,000. Statistics were taken from the cheese factories combined butter and skim milk factories and condens milk factories. The total number of these establishments reaches 4,000. The SUite of New York leads any other in the number of factories, and the amount of capital invested in this investment. But Freddie Didn'.t Go. Atlanta Constitution. If Mr. Freddy Gebhai t will refer to the files of the New York Evening Post he will discover that he is about to enter that fervid land where the glittering results of capital do not stand in the way of the shotgun and revolver. We men

tion this because it is currently reported that Mr. Gebhart recently made some un

friendly advances to a St Louis reporter. !

In the land of the orange, the clime of the sun, where the song of the birds to melody run, the reporters are primed for this sort of fun. 'Tie the beautiful land where gushers are gashed, and mashers are most everlastingly mashed. The Persian clonks are sold for half the price they brought laat spring.

A New York plumber has died from overwork. It is suspected that he attempted to make out a dozen bills in one week. A French paper says that Gambetta used to recite whole poems of Victor Hugo's while dressing. r His mysterious death is no longer a matter of surprise. Cheyenne society is harrowed up over a question of etiquette. People are divided in opinion as to which coat-sleeve a man should wipe his mouth with after eating soup. A Nashville woman has been arrested on the charge of stealin g a pavement,and the Philadelphia News can't imagine what in the world she -wanted of it. The probabilities are that she was formerly a Philadelphia servant girl, and intends shortly to move into the country. She designed to take the pavement with her. A Philadelphia domestic can't enjoy life unless she has a pavement, to wash off every morning. A good old lady, speaking in a prayermeeting and giving expression to the joy and confidence she felt said: "I feel as if I was ready this minute to fall into the arms of Beelzebub." "Abraham! You meaai Abraham!" hastily corrected a brother sitting near. "Well, Abraham, then," was the response. "It don't make any difference. They're both good men." Boston Journal: "Now girls," said the teacher, "I want you to read up about George Washington, who was the father of his country, and on his birthday I shall question you regarding him, and also about his wife. I suppose you know who was the mother of this country and her name " A little head popped up in the rear seats, and the teacher resumed: "Well, my dear, you may name the mother of our country." "Lydia Piukhauij shouted the five-year-ld in a shrill voice. The teacher went home wondering whether life was worth living. a Back from off his fevered temploR. Drua his straggling locks of gold, 1 Hear Ms deep, stertorions breathingLittle Darl ing's caught a cold. Hasten, get the soapsuds heated Place it at his chubby toes i3ieed thee for the mwton.tallow. Grease the little Barling's nose. - Religious Intelligence.' As Sidney Smith says, it is a vast deal better for a man to be an everyday Ghris tian than a week one. - The Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon is infailing health again, and is only able to preach one sermon each Sunday. A movement has been started in Italy to hold the services of the Protestant Episcopal Church ia the Italian language. :; The new church m Mooreaville, Ind., was dedicated on Thursday, February 1, Bishop Bowman and Dr. J. S. Woods officiating. -..- . The Lutheran church in the United States has : Ministers, 3,504, gain 197, churches, 6,171; gain, 320 ; communicante, 801,486, gain 62,073. Bev. W. Hitchcock, the popular nunister of the American church in Paris, has resigned his charge and will return to this country. ...... f. Part of the religion of the Hindoos is to be kind to animals. They carry this into such practical operation that they erect hospitals for sick and homeless brutes. ..v---A biography of the late BiBhop Ed

ward Thomas is in process of prepara

tion by his sou 1'r. Edward

President of the Nebraska Conference Seminary. v,. ,: Bishop Ravanaugb, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, has his residence in St. Louis. But he roccatly aW tended the Florida conference, and was prostrated, and will be compelled to., remain in Florida daring the winter. The Otis bequest has yielded already to the American Board $778,982.89; leaving $271,409.12 to be used in the next ten years. Fifty thousand dollars has been appropriated to educational institutions in Ceylon and the Turkish Empire. The United Presbyterian Church of Scotland mourns the loss of nearly all of the fund providing for the support of its deceased ministers1 wives. It amounted to 35,000, 30,000 of which has disappeared with the defaulting treasurer, Pcddie. The undergraduates at Oxford, England, have formed what they called a Salvation Army. The object is to do Christian work in an aggressive way, but to avoid the clap-trap show of the foU lowers of General Booth. At Lincoln Cathedral there is a beauti

ful stained-glass window made by an apprentice out of glass rejected by his master, who was so mortified by recognizing it as superior to any other in the church, that according to tradition be&illed himself, ' . , Mere noise and vehement gesticulation are not accompaniments of. the., divine

presence in the souls of believers; but rather the deep emotions overleaping the bonndries of usual expression, the falling tear from reluctant eyes, and prayer from devout hearts. , "In all its multitudinous foraiftV says Bishop B. J. McQuaid, "Protestantism is decayingis dying. On all- aides this confession is heard. It comes from the review and the newspaper, from the pulpit and the platform, from friend and foe alike," The Hon. Charles Wbeaton, of Aurora, III. a city where high license has been tested under the most favorable auspices or a yearin a recent lecture on 'The Public or the Individual, Which V' says: "The license system has been tried fo moro than two years, and has only been a failure in practice, and has not a single principle to support it." East Versus West Rochester PostJ&piwa. :, About the SAfest way to spend the night in a Western hotel is to stand on the steps and have the porter play the hose on you til): morning.

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