Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 29, Bloomington, Monroe County, 19 May 1883 — Page 3

Oxb of the meanest adulterations, and one most likely to deceive the purchaser, is in teas. The cheat is practiced more than ever before, and the EniouuS of onrions tea in the market is very great Last week the health authorities of New York city stopped the sale of 3,700 packages of Pingsuey teas on the ground th ' t they have been adulterated, and were therefore impure and unwholesome. The teas which were thus condemned were said to be the property of a Boston firm, and consisted of over 300,000 pounds With no market in Sew York, these spurious teas will find their way westward. Consumers should be on the lookout for

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Not long ago there was a tremendous hurrah at Washington about the invasion of Indian Territory by white men, who were establishing Tancbes on the streams and occupying the pastures which the government had promised to preserve ard protect for the exclusive use of the Indians. It was announced by

official authority that the white man

must go, and that he must take his cattle with him from the Indian lands; and then the excitement died down. Authorative information from the Indian Territory is to the effect that not a ranch has been removed and not a steer disturbed. The ranchmen have simplifledmatters by taking Indians as partners. FoRonee the ubiquitous Chicago man bBh been outwitted, and that by a Louis-, villian. It seems that both woced and won the same' girL After engaging herself to both, the damsel concluded to many the Ghieagoan. Everything was arranged, and the mgiit of the happy day cast wn its sable mantle Then it was that the Louisville man rose to the situation. By ways that were dark, and tricks which were not vain, he succeeded in stealing the bridal trossean. Of course the wedding had to Be postponed. Before the second outfit was prepared, the crafty thief succeeded in persuading the voting lady that the best way to compro mise theimatter was to marry him, and be would agree to furnish as complete an outfit at a day's notice as she had before. Jilted lovers, and lovera in danger of the jilt, are expected to cut this paragraph out and paste.it in their scrap-bocks.

Repokts from the lumber regions of Aroostook stow that spruce trees are dying at a rapid rate. Last winter operations were begun on a part of a township

where it was expected that 700,000 feet would be cut. but only 75,000 feet of sound spruce could be found. Examination showed that the spruce in xh3 rest ot the township was m the seme condition. There is a township that Pish Kiver waters that is well timbered, and there is a fine chance for lumber operations. On this tract it is estimated that 5,100,000 feet of sound spruce -umber is standing

to-day, but at the rate the trees a?e dying in five years there nil not be 1,000,000 feet. So far as can be ascertained there

are no worms to work on the sprace, and the cause of its decay is a mystery. The tops of the dead spruce trees have a reddish color, and look as though tbey had been scorched by fire. There am a number of townships in which it is" climated that three-fourths of the spruce trees are dead. The loss to the owndrs of the land will be very heavy from the cau se- One genxieman suggests that the trees are dying from old age

The report that El Muhdi, tie False

Prophet, had been defeated by a British Captain is very likely to be true. These Orientals have never been able to stand up before the cold mathematical European style of fighting. If England has

not whipped this new Mohammed out of his boots, it is certain that she will do so at the first opportunity, and do it in her most matter-of fact" Aiiglo-8axoii.way.eb-

bl STclj rcg tiitUciaS OS J.V3 usavsui claims. The founder of a Hew religion in the

Orient irt-tbis day acd generation has to encounter a new kiad of obstacle. The indifference of the people and the attachment to their old idols are the least of his troubles. Great Britain has a perfect

apprehension of the consequanees to her Indian Empire of the dropping of the least spark of a new religious seat into that tinder-box. No pro: ;hei, false or true, will ever be allowed to begin his

propaganda among the combustible spirits of the Hindostan Peninsula. It the people of the Iutfia a Empire should ever manifest any desire for a new rehgbn they will . have an opportunity to take refuge in the Church of England There is a plenty of the raw material of prelates, aad Bishops, and rectors, and even enrates, for the bcightd Hindoos to be f i and among t bo ISnglish nob ility, who must be supported somehow and are just as ready to draw their oat door relief from the East Indians as from the Irish or any other of thair subject peoples. In fact, Great Britain has thoughtfully provided India already with several hightoned Bishops and ecclesiastical shepherds to show the Hindoos the way to the English purgatory at the Hindoos expense. The new Mohammed had best compromise, like Arabi Pasha, on a pen-

sion. ..Cingiantt nas no use tot any pa-

f s or prophets except thoseof her own

manufacture and export

present and the men who run thrashing ma

chines grow poor at itt' ...... There is a heavy iromigration to this Territory,

andmnch of it of a lftd-rrahbinjj nature. Six

months fictitious residence, then proved up.

morrtfricB or sell for 300-'to S5C0, then leave

"Dakota or repeat the gniue, irthkiiig a i.et guin of

iwrhaps $21)0 for the six months, is the prot:amme o. thousands. And many an honest pioneer

takes his claim, toils to make a home, and in a

yoar r tw& finds himself ulnin&t isolated from neighbors' and debarred from the blessings if society. If grasshoppers or a fsilure of crop orcur this year, there vrill be a bigger stampede than followed Mofcs of old. Any one intending to come to Iakota Territory ought to be prepared to accept the regular hard suis of pioneer life. Don't build your hopes on enorhiou . crops. Eery dollar you earn here is well earned. The busiest man in the t-onth Dakota is Shylock. His grip is on some qnarfrer or mr? of nearly every section, and five years will see thousands of farms in his hands. This is my view of Dakota from five years exP3riencc in the Jim Valley. I have no ax to grind -do not depend upon fees for my bread, which I raise on my own laud ' Thomas S. Sharp.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Dakota fever hss attracted many immigrants, this spring, and many who went depended wholly upon the representations of land-owners and companies. We append a sensible letter, written to the Chicaco Inter Ocean, wlueh we lelieve in a measure fits the cane- Persons who anticipate fortune without labor are no more liable to have their wishes realized in Dakota than elsewhare and the farmer, -who has a comfortable home and productive farm should think four times before selling ottt The letter is as folPersons East wil! do well to accept with cau

tion tne reports noons juaKota They appear

mostly written by jjersons who neve never raised a crop or seen one raised. Norti Dakota is a wheat region. South Dakota is not, and between is debatable land. .Railroads wanting to 6ell

land, prairie town-siters with lots to soil, bum

mers who lire on tihe fees of office, lire not likely

to make an impartial statement of the merits

aad demerits of Dakota Territory. I have lived

here five years oa a homestead. Dakota has

many disadvantages that are no. advertised.

There is plenty of good water, but more bad, and

some have dug several wells before they hit

palatable water. A man can raise timber very

easily; orcharding has not been, tried and determ

ined.

1 have not seen it crop of whfsit of twenty-live

boshels per acre, have asked old settlors and

they have not. Jist year the Depart ment of

agriculture naa the returns ror this county at

louneen onsneis. im was ratneriifjht, bat the crop was the best in five years. lWy lav l.ula of oats or thirty five of corn are goad crop, and it lakes five acres of praririe to pasture a steer through snmmer: Flax is our rmin.inarket crop and ia fas ruining lands devoted to it. Many ?h under take Sheep farntg l ave given it np. rattle-raising is tiie most profitable business at

Secretary Lincoln has refused to sup. port the petition for the release of Sergeant Mason at the end of his first year in the Albany penitentiary. He gives as his reason that it would be ruinons to army discipline and would undermine respect for the laws of the iaad. A statement prepared by the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury shows the re eeipis of the Po6tcffiee Department from July 1 to December 31, IS82, being the two first quarters of the current fiscal year, $22,033,979; expenditures for the same period, $20,64545, leaving a surplus of $ 1,389,534. The Commissioner-general of the Land Oflice has received complaints from the Fos oflice Department that, cattle herders in aska have recently inclosed with a fece for grazing purposes a large tract of public land andthereby cut- oh an important mail route. The case is being investigated, and it is thought at the Interior Department that measures about to be taken will result in breaking up this unlawful practice. The-story is current that Keim, the proposed Chief Examiner of the Civil Board, is an old flame of Nellie Grant. Their attachment was discovered by Mrs1 Grant a year or two before her beautiful daughter married Mr. Sartoris. She urged the appointment of Keim on some foreign mission. President Grant gave him the inspectorship of consulates, and when he returned from his duty Mis3 Grant was Mrs. Sartoris. The bureau of statistics of the Treasury Departs? est reports that duriug t he month of April there arrived in the customs districts of Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Huron, Minnesota, New Orleans, New York, PaseamaqnoddyjPhtf adelphia, and San Francisco, 78,675 immigrants; at the same districts during the corresponding month last year numbered 101,274, do crease of 25,799; arrivals in these districts for the ten months ending April SO, 41 7,689; for the same period last year, 554601 a decrease of 126,912. Among the scramblers for the vacant internal revenue commissionership is Collector Hqbart, of Cincinnati. Mr. Hebarfc is a distiller; cne of, his "boomers" is General Sherman. The General called upon Arthur on Saturday and urged Xobart's appointment. The President took in the situation at a glance. He looked Sherman squarely in the face and said: "Mr. Hobart is a distiller, is he not?" "Yes, sir," said Sherman. " Well," said Arthur, "I will not appoint him." The General of the United States Army left without another word. Secretaries Lincoln and Teller have been considering the case of Chief Moses, of the Nez Perces Indian tribe, who has been disposed to be troublesome because of an executive order issued some time since, cutting off a portion of the Nez Peres reservation in Idaho. Mosas laid his complaint before the War Department, positively refusing to enter into negotiations with the agents of the Interior Department. He desired to come to Washington to talk the matter over, and Secretaries Lincoln and Teller are considering the advisability of bringing him here. Open war has been declared between

the Greenough and Pred. Douglass factions, and the colon d people are in a state of turmoil in oonsequence. At a large meeting of Greenough's followers Monday night speeches were made and resolutions adopted denouncing the movement looking to the holding of a convention of colored people next September, and characterizing it as a scheme of s 1fish men who are seeking political advancement They held that there was no occasion for such a convention, and that it works injury to the race. Dr. Mary Walker has until eceiifcly been very popular in her division of the Pension Office. She would do jasfc as she pleased, and had a habit of taking work from clerk's desks and trying to do it herself. No one cared to make a fuss about it until one old clerk said to bis neighbor: "I would never strike a woman,but it- Dr. Walker, took work from my desk I

would naddle her pantaloons." Some one

probably told her of this, and f ince that

things have gone on different

The tax on matches will be taken off

after the 1st of July. A cent a hundred

is ne-w levied upon them, or $1.44 a gross.

The profits on a gross, assuming the price

on matches is not reduced, will not be

less than 1.95, instead of sixty-five at present. The match manufacturers are not disposed to reduce prices to consumers. If they do not do so, however, an effort will be made to induce Congress to restore the stamp act. It is not fitting that what was intended as a relief to the consumers should be turned into a huge profit for a monopoly. The payments on acconnt of pensions for the present month are expected to reach $5,000,000. Last month they went up to a little over $4,000,000, and fell slightly short of the latter sum in March.

These figures represent first payments or certificates, which are made as soon as the certificates are issued. The regular payment of pensions are made quarterly, and will approximate $25,000,000 for the current year. About j,000 new pension certificates are now being issued per month, representing an average of $1,000 each, and officials of the Pension Bureau think this rate will be kept up during the year. Applications for the increase

of pension allowed by the act of March 8, 1883, are coming in rapidly, am! 8,000 certificates, entitling holders to obtain increase, have already been iesned. As the increase, in most cases, is only $ 6 per month, payment on account of these ccr-

j ifieateo are comparatively of little im

portance, and will hardly be noticed in the millions paid out for arrearages. ' The Commissioner of Pensions i-j dVposirg of pension cases at the rafco of 300

. to 400 per day, , It takes three man Jo

carry the certificates over to the Interior Depart meat, and one man has all l ie can do to affix the big seal of the department to these certificate?. A new step will shortly be taken which will have the effect to close np a largo class of these cases. It is in the shape of a notiieation to attorneys and claimants that if the evidence called for in suspensions in no, furnished within a reasonable time the case thus neglected will be rejected. There are thousands of claims for pensions "hung up'' for the want of proper evidence, which cannot he passed upon fina.'ly, merely because they aro not complete in form. When the pension office works up the completed cases it will turn in and reject such as have apparently been abandoned. Such claimants as wish to revive their rejected claims will have to begin de novo. During the Inst fiscal year the exports of merchandise from this country were 151,000.000 less than the year before, while the imports were nearly $82,000,000 greater. The result was a large surplus of imports over exports, whereas

.there had been ten times as great a sur

plus the other way duriug the year preceding. It is not to be inferred, however, that this tendency will increase or continue. The falling off of exports can be traced entirely to diminished agricultural products, and these were due to exceptionally unfavorable weather. Corn,wheat

and cotton all produced poorer crops w 1881 than in the year preceding, the first

by thirty per cent , the second by twentythree, and the third by eighteen. The

items of exported cotton, breadstuffs, and

provisions for the fiscal year accordingly decreased by S166000,000. While the year 1S81 was one of great droughts, the occurrence of any good or even average

agricultural year can be counted upon to show an entirely diffi rent balance of ex

ports and imports.

The State Department has devoted con

siderable effort to an inquiry as to the

possibility of .American ffJa?sware finding

a market abroad, but very little encouragement is offered. So large a proportion of the cost of the glass is labor, and labor is so cheap abroad, that it seems almost impossible that American manufacture in this line can make any headway in foreign markets. Consul Wilson, of Brussels, writes that an American dealer in glassware there is offered articles. rlinMTT cf the American .d"? hr is selling, at fifty per cent less than he paid for the products of our manufactories. Consul Walker writes from Paris that the French manufacturers are ready to fight American goods, not alone as a matter of self-preservation, but because the Americans have captured their vainable styles and patterns and syfitem of fancy prices and have entire: broken up tneir trade in this coun' ry. Consul Vo-

geler, of Fraukfcrt, says r nnfk.usly

DXtKW TIIK WRONG K.EVEK,"

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that

if the American manufacture can compete as to the price and tasteful ness of his goods, he will not fail to do business by reason of any prejudice against American manufacturers.

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'1 lie hantls grow nttinb wit) . a nerveless touch, And the handles shake and slip in the clutch, So loog will ye have switchmen to say -"Drew the wrong lever take me awayl" Alexander Anderson in Good Words.

THE BEACH FARM.

Agricultural Notes. A dairy market is io be established in

Sy racuse,??, Y.

A creamery is to be established at EUs

Point, Dak.

New potatoes are $1 a bushel in Florida this 7,-eek. An Indiana man has recently patented a propber attachment to corn-cnltivatoif . Accordms to Prof. Wilder, no plant is

more benefited by a constant supply of

water than is the strawberry. The reping-machine came into practical us.- about the year 1853, and the selr-biiv der made its first p:ood record in 3S7fi. Up to Feb. 10 this season 50,10 bales of wool were received at Adelaide, South Australia. Last year the quanity landed at Melbourne was 60,428 bales. A skillful horticulturist uses thin gnfcta percha for grafting. Pieces about two inches square are put into hot water, and then wrapped around the graft at its insertion. Europe has just prodn ced a crop of beetroot sugar estimated at 2,000,000 tor s. Two-thirds of all the sugar consumed in European countries is produced from the sugar-beet. Near Wichita, Kas., Mr. Braves has a cheese factory in readiness for business, and has gone to V. Y, to get 15 car-loals of Hosistei cows and heifers. He will milk 700 cows. The offices of the National Grange tre: M., .T. J, "Woodman, Paw Paw, Mich.; H. Eshbaugh, Mo.: T., F. M. McDow ell, Wayne, N. Y,; S., W, M. Ireland, Washington, D. 0. Maine has 49 cheese factory, with ? n

average of 107 cows to each factory, GO being the lowest and 500 the highest number. The total produce of al l the fac -tones last year was 586,83-1 pounds of cheese, for which the average p rices received was 12 cents per pound. , The several kinds of pond lilies can be easily grow in almost any pond in which there is a bottom of rich muck. They arc beautiful- flowers, several of them have a most deligh tful odor, and their presence on the farm or in the house will prove a source of great pleasure, inexpensive and lasting.

Settlers whose land in South Australia and along the line between that noint and Victoria propose to pay one third of the co3t of bnilding a fence which shall be proof against rabb4ts and wild dogf the whole length of the border, provided the Governments of the two colonies will pay the remainder of the cost. Tho area over which the rabbits are most numerous is Gl C00 miles square in New South Wales. South Aushralia has appointed an agent to act in connection with tho Calcutta 'Exhibition, with the view of assisting the j . -ottos of trade ; between the Australia colonies and India. It is intend

ed to have a refrigerating chamber, where periodical shipments of beef, mutton, and fruits will be stored. These will be sold retail, in order to advertise the in

dustries and opoa up the trade. Breeder? . GazcUc.-Ho faculty of tho Kansas Agricultural College repot considerable diflbrence in the time of tho starving of the several varieties of grasses and clovers cultivated upon the college farm. On April 7 alfalfa showed tho larg st and raosi vigorous growth. Medow op.fc grass was second and tho lr.ttorhad blades (5 or 7 inches long. Blue was third Cif tho list, with orchard-grass roarth, closely folo7ed by rcd-clo ror. The Bos Moines, la., city council bus llxti saloon licenses at $1,000

"ind served him right 1" said Mrs. Wvr hart, irrimly. If Mrs. Wynharthad lived in ancient times, he. would most assuredly have been ranked among the Scribes and Pharisees. She was always criticising and Coding fault. Nobody suited her. And when hs cpoke out the short, sharp, decisive sentence above recorded, she set down the teakettle with an emphasis which jingled the very lid.

The neighbors had been thereto drink tea. Whenever anything of social importance happened in iSandvillc, the neighbora always went somewhere to drink tea. And Mrs. Wynhart had had plum oak and frizzled beef, fresh doughnuts and damson jelly, to celebrate the occasion. Now that the company was gone (Haudville people always put their knitting work in the bag and went home early on account of the beach road and rising t ide) Luella, the oldest daughter, was washing up the dishes, aud Winifred, the younger, was chopping raisins for a pudding, iSOh, mother!" pleaded Winifred, who was n fair headed, cherry-lipped girl, always hanging down hor head like a wild anemone, "don't talk in that way, please." "Mother's right enough,'' said Luella. "Why shouldn't I talk that way?" said Mrs. Wynhart.. "Tfs the gospel truth, ain't it? Jack .Tellifie was a wild fellow, always, careering around the country when he'd ought to be home, reading his 'Notes on the Catechiz!" "But, mother,' ventured Winifred,' yn V .iiv r(i',,,,ro lo rf :' I-uiUa, vht'U yon supposed he was old Squire Sandiman's hor.,, "I could n't put him out of doors, could I?,? rotorled Mrs. Wynliart,sevoroly. "Reside that's quite a different tiling. Squire Saudi mail ought to know his own nephews better th in any one else, and he's left all his money to Simeon, while Jack has only got the Beach Farm, where there's nothing on earth butsea-wpod and samo'iii'o, and long elcims.to t?e had!" "It's an unjust will," said Winifred reddening to the very roots of her hyir. ffotty-toityP ' said Mrs. Wynhart, wheeling suddenly around and regarding Winifred sarcaatically through the moon -like spheres of her big silver spectacles. "What business was it of yours, Pd like to know ? Ee never Dlbe Li5elhis husband now." "There nerer was an engagement said Luella cavalierly. "Of course a girl must amuse herself; but I didn't care for him." Wmif red looked up with her soft eyes brimming over with tears. Was there no such thing, she asked herself, as truth and loyalty in the world? Why did they all turn against nhn in this way, just when his nncles's will had so cruelly dis-

nppoirted him? So Mrs. Wynhart and Luella went to the Weekly Chorus of Song," where Deacon Thorny led the tunes very much through his nose, and Miss Betsy Boxfield labored after, on a leaky melodcou which wheezed audibly at every note,and Winifred remained at home to darn the stockings and put her twin brothers to bed. "Some one must stay to see that Benjamin and Abijah don't set the house on fire,' said Mrs. Wynhart. "And Winifred never cared for music,' added Luella, "nor for society either." It was the way in which nut tiers were always derided in the Wynhart household. Winifred was quite used to it, and never dreame 1 of making an appeal. Luella was undoubtedly the beauty of the family; but there were those who might have preferred the yellow loeks and limpid blue eyes of the younger sister, in spite of her round little nose, and the mouth which was perhaps too wide for classic comparison. But while she sat there all alone, with

the twins snonng up stairs, and the fire cracking on the hearth, there -ame a taptap at the door, aud in walked no less a personage than Jack Jehue himself. "Oh, Jack!" said Winifred, jumping up with, a slight scream. "Yes, it's I," said Jack, somewhat moodily. . "I just met your mother and sister. They wouldn't speak to me." "Wouldn't speak to you, Jack?" "Pretende 1 not to know , me until I spoke. Hi's ail the same. Winifred, you don't believe it, do you? he burst out abruptly. "Believe whal, Jack?" she faltered. "That 1 am wild and worthless that T deserve ! the slight my uncle has put upon me." "No, Jack," earnestly responded Winifred, with tears in her eyes, "I never bev

lievod it. Because we were playmates together, aud you were always, ob, so good tome! And reside, Jack, I hoped X thought, you might one day be my brother." r liked Luella well enough,"' said the young man, slowly, Suit it wasn't she I wished to make my wife. It was you, Winifred." 41 S !" cried the girl. hved you, Winifred," said Jack, in a f iHoring voice. "Whenever I dreamed of a home of my own it was your face 3 farcied beside my hearth, but ndw "Wei!," said Winifred, "now-" "I doct dare to ask any girl to bo my wifo. I wouldn't expect any girl to go to the Honk loneliness of tho Beach Farm,

wdh its acres of sea grass and shjngly sand, an d its old, olio storied house, wa 11 leaning to one side with the east wind." Wimfted looked at him with soft, glittering blue eyes. "Jnk," said she, "I don't mind the loneliness, nor tho east winds, if- if only y .-m lore me! I'd risk it all, if"Wriifred! Do you roalh mean it?" "Ye;, Jack," she answered, softly, blushing beautifully.

"You'll risk it all, Winifred, for my sake?" "Yes, Jack," she-said again. Great was the tumult and displeasure in the Wynhart family when it was discovered that Winifred had engaged herself to Jack Jelliflb. "If it had been Simeon, now," croaked Mrs. Wynhart, "I shouldn't have so much objected." "But T didn't love Simeon, mother," pleaded Wini fred. "Lovel" repeated Luella, angrily. "Bah! I've no patience with such sentimental trash, aud if Winifred is really determined to go to the Beach Farm, slip must make up her mind to separate herself from us!" "Luella is right," said Mrs. Wynhart "I never exported to sec a child of mine deliberately turn pauper." Winifred, who bad been secretly contemplating the idea of a new white alpaca dress to be married in, now resolved that she would have to wash and iron her old white muslin, because it was very plain that her mother would not open her purse string in her behalf. Winifred, soft and yielding though she was in other matters, was most true and loyal to Jack Jelliffe, in spite of the vehement opposition she met with f.;om her family. "I love him, mother," she said, piteous y, when Mrs. Wynhart was most merciless in her vituperation. "Humph!" said the stout matron. "It's a pity you didn't fall in lovo with Billy Seely, who has just been sent to the poor house." So matters stood, one gloomy, blowy April evening, when Winifred went out under the criinsomng maples of the woods to meet Jack Jellille. For Mrs. Wynhart had made herself so obtrusively disagreeable that all hopes of pleasant evenings

by the fireside were abandoned, and Win ifred lived cn?y in the brief bright moments when she met her lover in the winter sunset, with the frozen branches crackling over head and the chilly stars shining in the ky. Jack Jellific was there before her. "Well, lassie," he exclaimed, joyously, as she came up, "I've been waiting for you this half hour. I thought you never wTere coming!" Mrs. Wynhart was cutting out little cloth waist-coats for the twins, by the light of a smoky kerosene lamp, when the door opened, and Winif red came in leaning on Jack's arm! She glanced at them over her spectacles with most ungvaei uis eyes, "?Iciber," Hud Winifred, m a low voice, we have something to tell you. Jack ha4? sold tho Beach Farm-,, "Humph ! ' sa id Mrs. Wyuha :-t. "And you re evpteting to come here to live, are you? But you can't!" "To the city of Snndport," went on Winifred, as if her mother had not spoken "for a sensible park. And they have paid Iv'm twenty thousand dollars for it." "i'vohty- thousand dollars ' gasped Mrs. Wynioirt. "For a hundred acres of banv-u sea sand! It isn't true I don t believe it !" "And," added valiant Jack, "we have bought Dr. BuWs f irm gwith the stone house, au 1 1 can give Winifred a home at least as good as the one I take her from," "As good as you take her from! 3 should think so!" ejaculated Mrs. Wynhart, rernembering with regret that all this gol en prize might have been Luella's. "Squire B lily's stone hou-e, with a bay window and double parlors, and blinds to every window! Well, Winifred, I hope you'll not be too set up to speak to your mother and sister when you've moved there? ' "There is no danger of it," said Winifred, laughing almost hysterically for, brave as she had been in the face of trouble, good fortune took her almost by surprise. "But oh, mother, if you'll only kiss me and say that you're glad I'm going to be happy if you'll only do that!" And Mrs. Wynhart did so, from the bottom of her heart. Neither was it an act of hypocrisy. For Winifred engaged to a man worth twenty thousand dollars was a different sort of person from Winifred who had resolved to marry a pauper. Aad this was tho sort of logic by which Mrs. Wynhart argued her way through life. Squire Sandiman's will was sodirterent from the way in which people generally interpreted it. Simeon, with his live thousand dollars in cash, was all very well but the Beach Farm had sold for four times that amount, and the disinherited nephew became the hero of the day. How was Squire Sandiman to foresee all this? But Winifred had cared little for that. She ioved Jack befora and she loved him now. But it was nice to be married at home in a white d ess, with Luella to arrange her hair, and she was glad that they ail liked Jack so much. But she loved him nothing else mattered much she loved him, and that was enough. A Parrot to Testify . Brooklyn Union. Robert Strauss was arraigned yester

day before lust ice ICebl in the Eastern district on a charge of stealing a parrot. He claimed that the parrot was his prop arty. Jacob Brach,the oomplainaut,said: :I bought the bird store at 229 Flushing avenue from Strauss, Yesterday Strauss came tc the store ami took from it the parrot, saying that that parrot was not included in the bill of sale. I objected, but without eifeot. As the parrot was carried out of my store it cried cut in a loud voice; I belong to Braeh.' " "It's a wise bird that knows its own master," sententious Lv commented Justice Kiehl to the great merriment of the

court officials, who recognized the remark as the first attempt at a joke that had been perpetrated by the Magistrate nince he took his seat on the bench. Then the defendant had an opportunity to sneak.

He said he never intended to sell that particular bird, as it had boon for years his intimate companion and fnendi Counsellor Frank Oberivter, who fappsared for the defendant said: "We ate willing to have the parrot called as a witness. I am afraid it has conscientious obje ;tions to taking an oath, but I am strrc it will consent to affirm. Call on the bird and let it decide the case." Justice Kiehl, after studiously consulting legal authorities, said there was nothing to prevent th taking of a parrot's testimony, and tha case was adjourned to the 20tb, in order to give time to serve a subpoena on the new witnosg. Mis. B. A. Benedict, of I'awtnoket It L, has recently giveu 10,000 to the Benedict Institute, Now York, for the education of colored nam for the ministry and colored women as touchers,

THE BAD BOY.

Pwk'B Kim. ''O, your pa is all right. What he needs is rest. But why are you not working at the Hvery stable? You haven't been discharged, mve you?" And the grocery man laid a little lump of concentrated lye that Ic oked like maple sugar, on a cake of suftur that had been broken, knowing the hoy would nibble it. "$ol sir, I was not discharged, but when n livery man lends me a kicking horse to take my girl oufc a riding, Hi at

Settles it. I asked the boss if I couldn't have a quiet horse that would drive htsself if I wound tho lines a round the whip, and he let me have one he said would go all day without driving. You know how it is, when a fellow takes a girl out riding he doesn't want his mind occupied holding lines. Well, I got my air in, aud wo wenf out ou the Whitotlsh Bay road, and it was just before dark, and wo r'$de along under the trees, and I wound the lines around the whip, and put one arm around my girl, and patted her under the chin with my other hand, and her ni mth looked so good, and her blue eyes looked up at me and twinkled an much as to dare me to kiss her, and T was all of a tremble, and then my hand wandered around by her ear and I diew her head up tome and gave her a smack, Bay, that was no kind of a horse to give to a young fellow to take a girl out riding. Just as I smacked her T felt as though the buggy had been struck with a pile driver, and when I looked at the horse he. was running and kicking the buggy, and the lines were dragging on the ground. I was scared, I tell you. I wanted to jump out but my girl threw her arras around my neck and screamed, and said we would die together and just as we were goini' to die the bugsry struck a fence and the horse broke lose and went oiF, leaving us in tho buggy tumbled down bv the dash board, but we were not hurt. The old horse stopped and went to chewing grass, and he looked up at me as though he wanted to say philopeno.' I tried to catch him, but he wouldn't catch, and the we waited till dark and walked home, and I told the livery man what I thought of such, treatment, and he said if I had attended to my driving, and not kissed the girl, I would have been all right. He said I ought to have told him I wanted a horse that wouldn't shy at kissing, but how did I know I was going to get up courage to kiss her. A livery man ought to take it tor granted that when a young fellow goes out with a girl be is going to kiss her, and give him a horse acc rding. But IquH hin at once T won't work for a man that hasn't get sens. : Gosh! What kind of maple sugar is that? Jerusalem, whe w, uive mo some water. O, my,' it is taking the skin off my mouth." The grocery man. got him some water and seemed sorry that t'ae boy had taktn the lump of concentre ted lyo by mistake, and when the boy went out cf the grocery man pounded his hands on his knees and laughed, and presently he went out. in front of the ttoie and found a sign "Fresh Letti, been pi ked moro'js a week tuffer'n tripe

terror of those moments I often recall. I was somewhat calmer when 1 felt the help of One who has promised to be a present help in all our troublo; and perhaps this was a sense of the help that was at hand. I heard a low growl from the tigei, which sounded to me like one of disappointment rather than of attack,and then t had the unspeakable joy of seeing him trot off. Greater joy still I saw a company of pople in the plain, whom my enemy had recognized a .d wished to avoid.

Villages in China.

Hunted by a Tiger. H aviug some civil bus- ness in th e Bhundarajaud Bajpore districts of Central India, and thinking nothing abont tigerhunting. I was strolling at some distance away from the village where T wTas stopping, wlren I saw rt some distance a tiger. Ai first I was not much afraid, fetl ing sure that he would move quiet iy otT if not molested, and as I had no weapon at all, you may be sure I had no wish to make a clof e acquaintance. I was then in the onen plain, as W2s the tigerthough jus':, about to enter the .jungle. Judge of my horror when I saw him lash his tail forward and backwards a few times, and then start off at a trot towards me. I had that bi tter part of valor,which you know folks call discretion, not to think of opposing the brute; so at the sight of that ominous lashing of the tail I turned ao nd and intended walking away, hoping that I should not be followed. Keeping a pharp lookout over my shoulder, I saw that ihe tiger had marked me for his prey, f o that there wras nothing for it bat to run for the nearest tree that; n.se in the juggle, a tew hundred yardd distant, 1 knew my running would be the signal for my enemy to increase his speed, and a love of life, and a thought of my dear ones far away, nerved me with unusual agility ai d strength. 1 heard th tiger rake ihe firs; spring from the plain into the jungle, and the peculiar sensation that then ran through me I shall never forget. An impulse seized me to spring, too, and, with two or three kangaroo-like bounds, I reached the foot of the tree. I jnmped up against the trunk, trusting I mighs lay ho d of some branch which would support me, for had I missed other my foothold or giasp I should have dropped just in time to be devonj ed the very instant of the enemy's approach. I never made such good use of my feet in my life, aud they have been of some service to me where I have been; and, having on thin canvas shoes, 1

clutched the bark with my toes. One more bound and the tiger was jutt at the spot I had occupied but a second before. Aud now again my clothing came to my help, for had I had on a strong cloth garment I must have beau dragged from the tree, and wound have perished. As it was, my coat was made of a thiu native tibre, not unlike our muslin, but coarser and darker, and this garment, in my last spring, the tiger cant? lit with one of his claws. With all my might I made a half spring, half scramble higher into

the tree, and away went my coat tail like a bit of paper. This checked the brute for a second, and then I was beyond his reach when standing on his hind legs.

But this was but a small protection, and I placed the distance between us as much as I could by climbing into the higher

houghs. I by no means felt safe, Eor they

were- so thin that I feared they could not support me, and then I thought that a

spring against or up the tree might shake me oil. I thought that the tiger would not be likely to trust his heavy body to a moving brnuek. Such was my hope, and

Eiueh wns my safety had not other deliver

ance come.

1 can never describe what agony, and

terror I felt when in that tree. So long

as any eifoit whs to be made the miud

was centered in that, and goaded on the

physical powers to do t heir utmost; but when I had done all I could to be there,

with death literally staring me full in the

face, and I likely to fall into its jaws at any moment, was more than I could bear.

it was acrvousress orac'itauon, n you

like increased y exbuustiou and bodily

weakness; but I felt my brain reel an

my heart grow sick, rue suspense aim

Villages in China, not badly buil by any means, occur at intervals of a mile or more apart all along the roads of China. Very good brick much about the same size, shape and material as those made in the country compose the walls of the better houses, while for the poorer order of edifices mud is used. The brick wal's in China are excellent better than the cheap brick walls in America, and but little inferior to our beet pressed brick. When village sare constructed of mud, there is a striking resemblance to the villages of Egypt. The houses have no outside windows and but one opening for lights are upon inner courts or back yards, and are without glass. The eaves are made to project, so as to keep out the rain and in doing so exclude much light as well. Blinds made of slate are sometimes used, aud thin, light paper pasted over the stairs serves to keep out some of the cold air aud let in a little light. Tho houses are invariably one story high, and at the botton of this custom is a superstition that higher houses would interfere with the spirits of the air ("Fung Chui") and offend them, thus bringino disaster upon the house or village. In frout of each d or, and at a distance of eight or fen fcr, stands a detached wall, fifteen feet long and as high as the eaves of the house, concealing the door from any person standing in front of it. This is for the purporse of defending the house and family from the malignant "Fung Chui" or spirits, which are popnlary believed to fly only iu straight lines and to be incapable of turning a corner. It foil ws that wrhen traversing the air in search of a certain house when they come in contact with th- wall they are thrown off at an angle, and thus baftVd of their purpose, and fly in a tangent through inr finite space and are lost. A Chinese village has but little in common with those of the country either in detail or in general appearance. While villages of America, copied from English prototypes, are peculiar from their detached and sexariits build, with gardens and grass puts, th32 of China are compact, huddle together, snd present from a distance the aspect of mere dead wall. One, peculiar aspect of alt Chinese cities and villages is the absence of all steeples, spires or pinnacles of any kiu i While M3haoimedan countries have the mosque, with its flashing domes and graceful minarets

and E'lrcpeai and American centers of

population aro marked by lofty towers

and spires, China is almot absolutely with

out any of the3e striking architectural

points. Tiie result is great monotony and

dullness of aspect.

CONDIMENTS.

Vermont's maple sugar has suffered badly by winter's lap of spring business . . .... .... ... . 1 ! ot any more ocean for ihe; it looks too muoh like a vast dose of ipecac.; Becher. I indortie the foregoing. W. B. Chandler. Websteb pronounces dynamite dienamite; Worcester dm-amite. As it contains both death and m iso, the two distinguished lexicographers are equally accurate. . . , ,- "And this is married life!" exclaimed an indignant wife as her husband reeled into the room and tried to sit down on the door- knob. "Sherfe'nly, m dear ehert'nly . Marriage is only a loto rye!" . The Legislative lamp still holds out to burn. New London Day. But the vilest sinner, will he be returned next year? Hartford Post. He will unless cuitoms change' very materially. A Florida hotel keeper was charging a Western traveler three prices for bad accommodations. "What will you do when you have killed the goose that lays the golden egg?" said the grumbling traveler. Waitfor another goose!" said the hardfaced landlord. "If your boarding-house should lake fire at night what would you do to get . the people out?" asked the Fire Marshal of an experienced matron. "O there would be no trouble about that." was the ' reply; I would just ring the breakfast bell, and all the boarders would be in the dining-room in three minutes." Visiting Briton "Ya'as, Miss Wosalind but your politicans aw are a lot ot blawsted cads, y'knaw.f-Tou are aw rwilled by a set of wiotous wascals whom you wouldn't dweam of aw inviting to' your house." KceaJin d "True; but in England you are governed by persons who wouldn,t dream of inviting yon to their's." ... ;"v. Owing to criminal carelessness of at ending nawspaper reporters, the following starfceing incident of the President's visit to Florida was omitted from the regular press dispatches : "In straining to pull in a fish to-day, President Arthur leaned a little too far over the side of his boat and burst a button off his breeches. Secretary of Navy Chandler, with his usual presence of mind, caught ths filing button in his left eye.

A Dynamite Precedent. Although nothing has been received at he State Department concerning the dy

namite" conapiracias, alleged to have been organized in America against England,

the reply of Mr. Gladstone tliat he did not think it was in accordance with pub

ic interest to make any statement touch

ing conimumca lions witn tiie unitea States, leads many to expect that the at

tention of our government will be called to the matter. Should a communication

of that nature be sent, there would seem

to be a precedent for such act on in a complaint made by the United States in 186M, when Minister Adams, by direction of tho Secretary of State, laid before Earl

Russell, then at the head of the British

Ministry, copies of the official correspondence relative to the manufacture of Greek

fire at Windsor, Canada, to be used in firing certain cities of the United States,

bv rebel emissaries. The scheme, as is

well known, embraced Detroit, Louisville,

Cincinnati, Chicago, Buffalo, New York and other large cities, Mr. Adams re

ported to Secretary Seward that Lord

Russell had submitted the matter to the law officers of the Crown, and :t was thair opinion that the parties might at once be proceeded against in the courts, as guilty

of a high otieuse against Her Majesty's

authority and the peace of the Kingdom. If the people engaged were not acting under belligerent authority, they were lia

ble as criminals to the claim of extradition under the treaty. If, on the other hand, they could prove that they were so acting, then they were liable as violators of the neutrality of Her Majesty's terri

tory.

Nature in Siberia.

Ohamh . .!' .Journal.

"The history of aai a l asi 1 ve?afe&bl

life or: the tundra," says our author, "is a

very curious one. tf or eignr, niontns out

of the twelve every trace of vegetable life

is completely hidden under a blanket six

feet thick of snow, which effectually covers e ery plauk and bush trees there are none to hide. During six months of

this time, at least, animal life is only traceable by the foot -prints of a reindeer

or a fox on the snow, or by the occasional

appearance of a raven or snow-owl wan

dering above tho limits of forest growth, where it has retired for the winter. For two months in midwinter the sun nwer rises above the horizon, and the white snow reflects only the fitful light of the moon, the stars, or the aurora borealis. Early in February the sun only lust peeps

upon the s ;one for a few minutes at noon, and then retires. Day by day he prolongs his visit more and more, until February, March, April and May have passed, and continuous night has become continuous day. Early iu Juno the sun just touches the horizon at urdnigUt, but does not set any more for Home time. At mid-day the sun s rays aro not enougu to blister the skin, but thy glance harmlessly from the snow, and for a few days you have the anomoly of unbroken day in midwinter. " Then comes tho south wind, and often rain, and the great event of the year takes place -the ice on the great rivers breaks up, and the blanket of snow melts away. Tho black earth absorbs tho heat of the never-setting sun; quietly aud swiftly vegetable Hfo awakens from its long deep and Jr tV 'o nrmthft a hot summer produces a bri Hi ifc Vlnuit flora, like an English flower gar l-n inn wild and a profusion of Atom fu't, diversified only by skorsna from the uo-t'v which sometimes for a day or two Iron? cold and rain (Jown from the Artie ice."

Sea-Weed. The use o? sea-weed in Ireland as an article of food is not new to the people who dwell along the coasts. In the very best of times they consume a considera- -ble amount ot the choicest varieties for : medicinal purposes. That which hasthe greatest popularity grow3 luxuriantly on rocks that are submerged r during high tide. The saving process is a very simple : one. At low tide the wives and daughters of fishermen gather it in baskets and spread it in suah a way that it will catch the sun. The effect of this ' treatment

changes ito greenish cnr, to a dark purple, and it is then stored in bags. On the western coast the people call it dilnakand sell it to summer visitors. As an appetizer it is considered very effective. It is a common sight at the western watering places to see the children munching it during the mid-day airings on rock and beach. But as the effect of this kind of sea-weed is to increase rather than al- ;

lay hunger in those unaccustomed to its use, the natives of the coast tine can not i be expectecFio derive much nourishment from it as a continuous diet. As e matter of fact they do not A woman in th County Clare a few years ago, through, the desertion o: her husband and her inability to walk to a village a few mil s distant, was compelled to subsist wholly on sea-weed. She ultimately died bf starvation, and the stomach was found to b almost full of sea-weed. In the County Donegal, according to Jthe last cable report, the residents of the vicinity of Gweedore, a little postal village, hae been driven by the scantiness of provisions to make the principal meal -of the day on sea-weed. It is, therefore, n t surprising that every house has one or more of its inmates on the sick list. If the kind of sea-weed which is known in this country as Irish moss and in Ireland as carrageen was more plentiful in Done? gal, the sufferings ot the people would not be so great That is really capable of affording a much more agreeable and nutritious food than any of the 500 or more varieties. Scores of peasant women live by gathering it from the ro?ks in summer. They spread it upn the grassy slopes near the ocean until it whitens and hardens in the sun and then pack it and ship it. It is like Irish "miUbcure ' bacon too valuable to be kept for hon consumption. Carrageen is still used by

well-to-do Irish families for blanc-mange making. It is first steeped in cold water, then strained and the liquor boiled in milk. Whn poured into molds, sweetened and flavored with lemon or vanilla, it becomes as stiff a3 corn-starch, and far more palatable. Before its medicinal virtues were proclaimed to the woild the peasants of the coast had it nearly all to themselves. During late years they have been content with an occasional meal.

Some Big Bank JNo es. London Titbit. . The largest amount of a bank note in circulation in 1827 was 1,000. It is said that two notes for 100,000 each, and two for 50,000 each, were ones engraved and issued. A butcher who had amassed an immense fortune daring the war times. ; went one day with one of these 5QXK) note to a private banker, asking for the loan of 5,000, and wishing to deposit th

big note as security m ttte bankers hands, saying he had kept it for years The 5,000 was at once handed over, but the banker hiated, at the sanii fciuvs feo the butcher the folly of hoardiaor such a sum and losing the interest Wory traV sir " replied the butcher, "but I likes ttio look on't so wery well that I have tothct one of the same kind at home." I An eccentric geatleniau in Louden framed a bank post bill for 30,000, and exhibited it for five years in one of his sitting rooms. The fifth year he died, when the "picture" was at once taken down and cashed by his heirs. Some years ago, at a ntblenisuVs house near Hyde Park, a dispute arose about a certain passage in Saripture an I a dean

who was present denying that t here wo.

any such text at all, a Bible wus called for. When it was opened a marker wan found in it which on examination proved to be abauk post bill for 40,000. It might possibly have been placed tharo as a reproach to the son, who, perhaps, did not consult the Bible so often as lps mother could have wished,