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"; Sftrly in the Mresent centnry the Kiltingworth colliery was one of the most mportant mines in England. Railroads at that day had not been dreamed of, bnt the smoothest turnpike1 road in the kingdom made transportation from the mine to the city an easy matter. A long July day was melting into the shades of evening when John Dale emerged from the village tavern "and walked across the common. He was'a young fellow, stoutly built, and his rough garb showed him to be a laborer. Bale's face was flushed, and, as he fanned himself with his hat) it would have been plain to even a casual observr in the twilight that he had taken more strong drink thau was good for him. "r" The y ouna: man had spent the day . in
the tavern and had reached the wideawake, surly and dangerous stage of intoxication. As he walked slowly along he cursed the tavern weeper for refusing him credit
ur; xuaa my wouco. uicwu UXUIi uc
aaid, and now he tells-me to get out, ' Well, k is all right," .V' :
He paused and looked back. He
could see a score or?more of miners making their way to the tavern. They had just been released from their work, k and were going to make a night of it . I wasa fool," mutteredVvBale, "to - spend the day there by myself, when if I had saved my money and waited I could have been with those good fellows. But H is too late to mlk about it." e sound of footsteps attracted his "attention, and he saw a feeble looking old man with a nack on his back moving slowly across the common. 4The peddler," said Dale, bitterly, Hthe stingy . old rascal . who laughed when Oakes oruered me off the premises. Curse him! I heard the gold
clinking in his pack, and he stood there
jeering at me when I was burning up
for a drink!" ;
A cloud settled over the young man's
neavy, sodden face, and his frowning
brow and lurid eyes had a menacing
look.
For a moment he stood motionless, struggling with the devilish idea up
permost in his mind, and then he dart
ed off after the vanishing form of - the
peddler. It was perhaps an hour later when John Dale, under cover of the darkness, slipped into the grimy , workshop of George Stephenson his employer. HeKt a tallow candle and : looked at his hands. Bloodt" he exclaimed,uI thought so, Jeltit," The ruddy glow had left his face, and nothing but his flaming eyes indicated his condition. Going to a tub of water in one comer of the shop, he carefully washed his hands, and then examined ; his garments. "Good!" he cried after a brief but searching inspection. "No traces are left now, and I am ready for the other part of the job. The devil! But I woner what Master Stephenson would think of this! Who would have thought that the old'; crank's invention would : prove my salvation?" , When he uttered these words his ey es were upon an odd looking machine in the middle -of the room. It was a queer, clumsy-looking contrivance, but t it was., destined to revolutionise the , world. It was the first locomotive! Month after month John Dale had worxed in secret with his crankv master on- tiiis machine. Outside of the shop nobody knew exactly what was going on, and the hireling grew so interested in his work that even in his drunken momenta he kept Stephenson's secret to himself. Kow as he stood there, looking at the little iron monster, emitting jets of steam and fired up ready for a start, Iie could not repress a smile of satisfaction. He pulled a handful of, the peddler's gold from his pocket and jingl'dd it in his hand. ? $ 'Iknow whatit eano' he said; "it r WiH run twenty-five miles an hour, and ,: that will be enough to make me safe." The simple preparations that had to fs be made did not take long. Stephenson had made his machine with a view to meeting the requirements of turnpike travel, as there were no railway tracks to try it on, and the concern was more like a steam road wagon than any thing else. Occasionally at midnight the inventor had tested it on a lonely country road, and more than once Dale had stdlr en off with it for a solitary ride. It was 11 o'clock , by the timepiece over the oar at the Bed Lion, in the hamlet of Medburg, when John Dale walked in and cajled for a drink of bvandy. Every man in the jolly crowd knowthim, and he received a hearty greeting. J "What is the hour?" asked Dale, carelessly. ' - - iwd elevenl "shonted a dosen voices. ' "Well, IH stay awhile," said the newcomer, and he took a seat at one of this
tables. For an hour or so the bottle was
passed around in a livery way, but after a while the revelers found that their generous visitor had taken his depart-
' "When did he go?" several asked.
Kobody could answer the question, and after another round; of drinks the men dispersed. At t o'clock in the morning John Dale locked up Master Stephenson's steam monster in the workshop and sought his bed in the loft overhead. He had had a good time. As the crow flies, Medburg was just fifty miles from Kilift- ingworth colliery. The coroner's inquest over the murdered peddler lasted three days. It was y the moat exciting event that had ever occurred in the annais of Killing worth. r. Circnmstantial evidence was strongly against John Dale, He had left the tav
em and crossed the common at 7 o'clock. A few moments later the peddler had
cone in the same direction. A few min
utes before 8 the peddler was found
dead, with bis throat cut, and his pack
rifled. Between 7 and 8 all the men in
the village could be satisfactorily accounted for except Dale. Unless L could prove ;an alibi he was in an ugly
fix. ' .
The suspected man was arrested, but
he stoutly asserted his innocence, and
even declared hat he was at Medburg at U o'closk on the night of the murder. This was denied by the illingworth tavern-keeper, who declared that he hd
put Dale out of his house at 7 o'clock. He fnrthermore said that the prisoner had spent most of the day boozing in a private room, but, as it chanced, he had not been seen by any visitor except the peddler. On the second day men began to come in from Medburg, and by the third day of the inquest more than a dozen reliable-witnesses had testified that Dale had been in the tap room of the Red Lion at Medburg at 11 ojclock on the night in
question. '
In those days It was nonsense to Sup
pose that a man could be hi Killing
worth between 7 and 8 o'clock and turn
P fiity rrJes away at 11. Horseflesh
was not equal to sneh a trip. The Medburg alibi was held to be amply suffi
cient to warrant the discharge of the
prisoner, but the Killingworth tavern
eeper rushed away from the inquest
declaring that he was either crazy or the
devil had taken a hand in the business.
Dale had a hard time pushing his way through the crowd, as nearly every man present wanted to shake him by the
hand and congratulate him upon his
success in establishing his innocence.
Throughout these demonstrations
Dale preserved a stolid face. He had but little to say, and as soon as possible he started for Stephenson's workshop. He had gone about half way when he met Stephenson himself. The inventor's usually mild countenance wore an expression of stern reproof. "Where now, JohnT" asked Stephenson, in a strident tone. "To the shopsir," replied the workman. "You will never darken my door again," sai Stephenson. "See here. John, I don't jcuow thatlyou killed the peddler, but I know how you made out your alibi" V .
. Dale started, and his face blanched.
"I passed the tavern late in the afternoon and sa you at a window," said Stevenson, "so it is useless to pretend
that the landlord lied about y our pres
ence. He told the truth. The other fellows told the truth, top, about your
arrival at Medburg at 11 o'clock. Now,
you villain, we two are the only living persons who understand the mystery of
this thing. I know what my machine
can do, and you know. Whether you committed the murder or not, you rode on my steam machine to Medburg that night. I know it; I have seen the marks of rough usage, and the fuel that I had has all been used." "Well," said Dale, sulkily, "what are you going to do?" "I will save you, if I can," answered Stephenson; "but you must leave here at once, and never return." Dale reflected a moment, and then held put his hand. "I will right about face and march off
now," he said. "You have treated me
well, Master Stephenson." "None of that," answered the old man. . "Go at once, and I will be silent, but I will not take your hand." The young man hung his head, and
turning his back to Stephenson made
for the highway . He had not gone ten
steps before he. heard a shout.
"Dale!" He stopped an waited to hear what
was coming.
'I say, Dale, did she run smoothly?" "like lightning, Master Stephenson." "And you averged twenty-five miles
an hour?"
"A little more than that." . "Then my fortune is made," said
Stephenson. "Farewell, and may I nev
er see your face again."
John Dale pulled his hat over his
eyes and walked off with his face toward
the city.
He was never heard from after his de
parture from Killingworth.
Two years later Stephenson's machine
was perfected and took its place among
the wonders of the world.
RUSSIAN TERRORISM. The Manner of Securing Testimony Against Political Revolutionists, The following is from George Kennan's account of "Prison Life of the Russian Revolutionists" in the December Century: When General Strelnikoff was intrusted by the Cznr with almost dictatorial power in order that he might extirpate sedition in the provinces of
southern Russia, he arrested and thrw into prison in the single city of Odessa no less than 118 persons in three days. He went to Kiev and arrested 89 persons almost simultaneously, and ordered the imprisonment of hundreds of others in Kharkoff, Nikolaief, Pultava, Kursk, and other South Russian cities Most of these arrests were made entirely
remorse as she Bees her relatives dearest Mends arrested, imprisoned, and exiled to Siberia upon information and clews which she herself has furnished, It frequently happens, however, that a girl remains steadfast and refuses to answer questions oven after months o solitary confinement. The authorities then resort to other and oven more discreditable methods.
TRADE AND LABOR.
Inhabitants of Mar . The recent improvement in the tele
scopes has enabled astronomers to learn
a great deal that is new about our neighboring planets. It is now asserted pos
itively by Sig. tfchiaparelli, of Milan
who- has the finest instrument in the world, that Mars is inhabited by a peo
ple somewhat like ourselves. Under
the clear Italian skies he has made the wonderful discovery of a series of canals
in the planet Mars. They are nearly a hundred miles wide, and run from the seaccast to the interior. It was in 1879
that he first noticed this phenomenon, and then again in 1882 he was surprised to find that the canals had been lengthened further into the interior of the land. He made also his observations when Mars was at a point in the ecliprical course nearest to the earth. Many of the canals run parallel, while others diverge at right angles from each other, show that nature could not have
followed such precise methods. It is a well-known fact that Mars, in contrariety to the earth, has far more land than water, and these canals running to the interior of the continent must be useful water routes to the inhabitants of that far-off sphere. Sig. hchiaparelli is acknowledged to have the best and most practiced eye of any living astronomer,bnt since he hasH?announced his discoveries others have seen the same phenomena. The geography of Mars is better known than that of our own polar regions. It
is known positively that Mars has snow
and rain,' while there are indubitable
evidences of animal life. It would be
intersting to know who these strange
beings of our nearest planet are, and
the question may be solved some day.
' A Shrewd Adverttwr.
"My stars!" exclaimed a man, shov
ing some one who stood, near him, "you
have trod on my corn."
The fellow snatched out a box of oint
ment and replied:
"Xcan relieve you, sir, in a few min
utes. Only ten cents. Indorsed by the medical fraternity everywhere. There
is no useinsuffering, One box? Thank
you," he added, as he put the money in
to his pocket
"It was an accident you found him."
eome one remarked to the salve dealer.
lOh, noj-it wasn't If you ask a man if he's got corns, he doesn't want to talk to youbut when you find out that he's got 'cm, the chances of , selling him
meaicme are gooa. x naveruse my
medicine by going into crowds and sly
ly feeling for corns. Yonder stand s a
fat fellow; When the crowd gets thick
er I'll go 'Over and tap his hoof. Oh,
yes, it may be painful, but, my dear sir,
the business of this country must he Gsrfifid en regaardlsia of sentiment
without what is known as "probable cause," and for the sole purpose of obtaining clews to plots which the police believed to exist, but which they had not been able to discover. Many of the persons arrested were mere children immature sohool-boys and girls from fifteen to seventeen yeais of age who could not possibly be regarded as dangerous conspirators, but who might, it was thought, be terrified into a confession of all they knew with regard to the movements, conversations, and occupations of their older relatives and friends. General Stretnikoff's plan was to ar
rest simultaneously a large number of the "untrustworthy" clans; throw them
into prison; keep them for ten days or two weeks in the strictest solitarv
. .. ..-;,-- .. . -j... .... ...-. . . confinement, and then subject tnem to
a ternrymg inquisitonal examination
with the hope of extorting scraps of information, here a little and there a
little, which might be pieced together,
like the parts of a dissected map, so as
to reveal the outline of a revolutionary
plot. If, for exam pie. a voung girl be
longed to an "untrustworthy" family,
and a ''suspicious" letter to. her had
been intercepted by the authorities; or
if she had been seen coming out of a
"suspicious" house at a late hour in the evening, she was arrested in one of these police raids, generally at night; conveyed in a close carriage to the Odessa prison; put into a small solitary confinement cell and left to her own agonizing thoughts. No explanation was given her of this summary proceeding, and if she appealed to the sentinel on duty in the corridor, the only reply she obtained was "Prikazano ne gavarit" - "Talking is forbidden." The effect produced upon a young, inexperienced, impressible girl, by the overwhelming shock of such a transition from repoBe, and security of her own bedroom, in her own home, to a narrow, gloomy cell in a common criminal prison at night, can
readily be imagined. Even if she were a girl of courage and firmness of charac
ter, her self-control might give way under the strain of such an ordeal . The sounds which break the stillness of. a Bussian criminal prison at night the
Btealthy tread of the guard; i.the faintly
heard cries and struggles of a drunken
"casual" who is being s trapped to his
bed in another part of the prison, crieB which BUggest to an inexperienced
girl some terrible scene of violence and outrage; the occasional clang of a heavy door; the moaning and hysterical weep
ing of other recently arrested prisoners
in cells in the same cor ridor, and the
sudden and noiseless appearance now and then of an unknown human face at the little square porth ole in the cell
door through which the prisoners
are watcnea all combine to make the first night of a young girl in prison an experience, never to be
forgotten while she lives. The
This experiences however, is only the
beginning of thcjtrial which her cour
age and self-control are destined to undergo. One day passes two days-
three days ten days without bringing any news from the outside world, or any
information concerning the nature of the charges made against her. Twice every twenty-four hours food is handed
to her through the square port-hole by
the taciturn guard, bun nothing else
breaks the monotony and the solitude
of her life. She has no books, no writ
ing materials, no means whatever of di
verting her thoughts or relieving the mental strain which soon becomes almost unendurable. Tortured by appre
hension and by uncertainty as to her
own fate and the fate of those dear to her, she can only pace her ceil from corner to corner until she is exhausted,and then throw herself on the narrow prison bed and in sleep try to lose consciousness of her misery. At last, two weeks perhaps after her arrest, when her spirit is supposed to be sufficiently broken by solitary confinement and grief, she is summoned to the dopros,areliminary examination,
without witnesses or counsel, conduct
ed by General 8trelnikoff in person. He
begins by saying to her that she is
"charged with very serious crimes un
der such and such sections of the Penal
de, and that she stands in danger q
years, in view, no woven oi ner youtn
and inexperience, and of the probability that she has oeen misled by criminal associates, he feels authorized to say to her that if she will show repentance,and a sincere desire to reform, by making a 'cristo-serdechni,' 'clean-hearted' con fession, and will answer truthfully all questions put to her, she will immediately be released. If, on the contrary, she manifests an obdurate disposition and
thus proves herself to be unworthy of
ciemency. it win oecorae nis duty, as
nrosecunng omcer or tne urown. to
treat her with all the rigor of the law."
The poor girl is well aware that the
reference to Siberian exile is not an
empty threat. Belonging as she does to
an "untrustworthy" family, she has oft
en heard discussed the case of Marie
Prisedski, who was eariled before she
was sixteen years of age because she
would not betray her older sister, and the
case of the Ivitchevitch children, one
seventeen and the other fourteen years
of age, who were arrested in Kiev and
eent to Siberia in 1879 for no particular
reason except that their t wo older broth
ers were revolutionists; and been shot
dead while resisting arrest.
It is not a matter for surprise if a young girl who has thus been torn from
her home, who is depressed and disheartened by solitary confinement, who is without counsel, without knowledge of the jaw, without the support of a single friend in this supieme crisis of her
life, breaks down at hist under the strain;
of deadly fear, tells tfcio inquisitor all she knows. She is at once released, but on
ly to miff? agp&iee self-yeprcaofe ad;
A North Chicago rolling-mill will shut down during January In spite of the lateness of the Season there is a less than usual falling off in building permits throughout t he eouu-
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Hundreds of families are waiting for
houses to he completed at Findlay, 0.,
where there is already a population o 15,000.
The pre33ed-brick-niakers of Chicago
say there is such an urgent demand for
bricks that the railway facilities are un
equal to handle all that are offered. The workingmen of Virginia wil
meet at Staunton to take steps to have convict labor abolished, and to estab
lish a State Bureau of Labor Statistics. The trades unionists of Rochester,
N. Y., are giving the manufacturers
there a good deal of trouble. The shoemakers are taking the lead. Low wages
and harsh rules have caused the
trouble.
The miners throughout the Western
States are preparing to hold a convention at Pittsburi? to arrange a scale of
wages to be paid in the various districts
throughout the country from and after May i. Manufacturers, large and small throughout the Ohio valley are more or
less troubled on account of the shortage of coal. Several large brick-yards have shut down because of the high price of fuel. A pound of ten-penny cut nails will do as much work as two pounds of wire nails. Taking the average of all cut
nails tney are wortn neanv aou Die as
much as wire B ails, according to tests made at the Watertown government arsenal. The manufacturers of tile and drainage material in Indiana will meet on Dec. 13 and 14, at Indianapolis, to form a stronger organization. A meeting of the National A ssociation of Clay Machinery Manufacturers will meet at the same time and place. The brick-maker's convention at Chicago agreed that American bricks shall be 8J inches long, 5 inches wide and 2J inches thick. This gives twenty bricks for a cubic foot of wall. Two hundred years ago parliament endeavored to regulate, the size of bricks. A gwat many lines of business heretofore confined to the East have, dur
ing the past two or three years, been
moving Wast. A Western newspaper
claims that more cloaks and suits are
made in Chicago now than in any other city in the coun try. All kinds of manu
facturing are springing up throughout
the West. By the new process in engraving.
which promises to revolutionize the arts, a picture is made direct from the photograph, and is done altogether by the
action of the light. By this method it
is possible to produce plates for printing with photographic accuracy from photographs, washed drawings, pencil-
sketches and mezzotint prints.
The experiment is being made in Chi
cago of paving a street with steel rails sixteen feet ten inches in length, with a grooved surface on top, so that horses will not slip on them. The rails will be placed a few inches apart, and the space between will be filled up with a patent composition that is said to be very hard and durable. A trial of fifty tons hits been made at the Bay View iron-works, Michigan. The best information to be had con
cerning next year's probabilities is that work of all kind will be abundant. No changes in the hours of labor of its wages are anticipated. Employers believe
that no extreme steps will be taken unies an attempt shall be made to equalise the rates of wages in different
branches of trade. There is a possibility
of trouble with the brick-makers, but
efforts are to be made this winter-to ad
just all differences.
Builders doing business in twenty-
seven of the larger cities of the Union
are .represented in the National Asso
ciation of Builders, the second annual convention of which is to be held in Cincinnati next February. A vast
amount of valuable statistical informa
tion covering the question of the hours
of labor, wageEi paid per day or hour in
the idle and busy 'seasons, strikes and
lockoutsin fact, information of all
kinds relating to building interests, is
now being gathered to be submitted av
the meeting. The builders throughout
the country will have the advantage of
a strong and compact organisation.
The colored, strikers in the Teehe
country of Louisiana who have excited
the ire of planters, seem to be justified
m tneir moaest oemana ior Deuer
wages. Tneir oemana was ior a dav durins the crinding season of the
cane, which lasts only about six weeks.
Their regular wages is reported to oe by the Terrebonne Times "65 cents per
day, and all rainy days and lost time
deducted." The same paper adds that
per day is paid during the grinding
season, but the total wages of the year
does not exceed $180, and this not in
cash, hut in tickets redeemed in goods
from the store owned by the employers. A Nashville business summary says business in and around that city is very brisk. Plans and contracts for new buildings next year are plentiful. News from surrounding towns within thirty miles show that there is great industrial activity. Stocks of goods of any and all kinds are not excessive, and lumber has advanced from 50 cents to $1 per thousand feet. . This is due to an unexpectedly large demand for lumber from the Western prairie States.
PEOPLE WE BE 41) AB0DT
A story is told ol the late Rev. William Drury, vicar of Bracldan, isle of Man, to the effect that lie was once oh the rocks with a picnic party, when a sea bird, known As a 4 'diver," was seen on the water some little distaiiCe from the shore. The vicar, who was then about 60 years of ago, said: "Watch me catch that bird," and in a moment, without taking off any of his clothes, he rushed to the edge of the rocks and made a quick dive into the water. The bird dived too, but the vicar caught it under the water and brought it ashore alive the party, President Eliot,of Harvard University, who has just returned from a trip"
through Europe, says that English is rapidly spreading oyer the continent as the universal language. He traveled through Spain, Northern Africa, Greece
and Austria, as well as tiirpugn many m ore commonly visited coup tries, and he found that he could travel comfortably through all of these coun tries with no language but English. Howard Potter has a large family, one of which is James Brown Potter, his grandfather's namesake and favorite. He was educated as an airchitect, and was pursuing that profession, when, some ten years ago, he met the New Orleans belle, Cora Urquhart, whose mother was a Slocomb, one of the best families in the South, and whose father was David Urquhart, George Seaverns, of Chicago, is worth
$2,000.p00 and the bulk of it was made in "cleaning" wheat. This process is
not allowed in the "regular" elevators,
and Seaverns has asked to have the one
that he owns taken out of the list of the
egular" and returned to the category
of "private" elevators.
A dispatch from Buda Paath to the
Frankfurter Xeitung says that Baron
Hirsch has decided to distribute 100,000,-
000 francs among all the existing
European Jewish charity institutions.
His private secretary has started for
Russia to begin tne distribution there.
Miss Sarah Burr has left about $90,-
000 to the Mount Sinai Hospital and
the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in New
York. It is unusual for Christians to
take bequests to Jewish institutions,
and the Jewish Messenger advocates a
memorial to Miss Burr's, memory.
Gen. F. J. Marshall, the first Gover
nor elected by the people of Kansas,
now resides in Denver and is interested
in mining enterprises. He is a middlesifed gentleman, a little stout, with
sharp eyes and prominent features.
Mathias Splitlog, a rich Indian rail
way builder began life on fifty cents
and borrowed ax and went to work cut-
ing wood for Bteamboats at twenty-five
cents a cord,
The King of Oorea furnished his win
ter palace with J 18,000 worth of Ameri
can chairs, beds and tables. He also
bought an American steamer for $28,-
000.
The Duke of Argyll's latest hobby on
his Scoth estates is the American star
ing. Inverary is said to literally swarm
with species of thiB plucky, hardy warbler.
A correspondent writes that the Em
press of Brasil used to be a plain, com
mon-place little woman, but that now
she has a really heavenly countenance.
ON THE WILD IRIS H C0AS1.
Then the H oung Doctor Had a Fit. St. Paul Globe.
i oung jjoctor i on say you nave a
pain in your side. ;
t Patient ires. "How long have you been troubled with it?" . "Since last night. I was walking down town about nine o'clock; all of a sudden I fel t a sinking Herniation on" "Knilepsy!" "A hen all was dark. I ha" .pilep&y, sure; go on!" ul stopped into a sold hoIeY'
How the Peasants of Baatry Bay Toil
Unremitting ly for a Pittance.
London Daily News.
Besides fishing up herring and hake
the poor people at the head of Bantry
Bay fish up sand. "Sand raising," as it is called, is as important an industry as
catclnng nsn. This xrnd ot sand, is known sometimes as "coral sand," is used for farm manure! and costs from
eight to nine shillings a boat load a poor price considering the toilsome character of the work and the cost of the
boats required to carry it on. A sand boat costs 435 when new and JB2 a year
n repairs. The utmost a boat owner or
owners in a boat can do in a day is to bring to shore two boat loads. The proceeds have to be divided among a num
ber of workers, while the working seison
lasts for a portion of the year only. In Bpite of all their lifelong labor from
morning to night, in -winter and summer
and in calm and storm, these crofter fishermen are in a state of chronic poverty. They do not live by their scrappy patches of holdings. They earn with difficulty from the sea barely enough to buy sleeping rcom anfl a foothold on the land. They even do more than that; they partly create, with the help of the sea, the very soil for which they pay rent. The calcareous deposit, which they call "coral sand," they have used to reclaim these shores of rock and bog. They have used the -seaweed for the same purpose, cutting it up from the deep water with a primitive machine which may be described as a marine scythe; and the seaweed has to be paid
for, if not as a separate item, then as in
cluded in ihe holding. Coral sand, sea
weed, the refuse of house and pig sty,
and basket loads of soil round among
the boulders, these are the ingredients out of which, after years of work, the
crofter fishermen have produced the
tiny green patches which dot innumer
ably the rocky shores and the graybrown sides of the sterile!hut incompara
bly picturesque mountains that surround
Glenaariff the beautiful. And the
dwellings of these hard-working people)
They are more fit for the pigs that go grunting and snouting in and out of them than they are for beings created in the image of God, A dr y stone box with earthen floor and without windows, two
or three recesses stuffed with straw for beds, and the whole filled with peat reek, such is the ordinary house where
a fisherman and his wife live with hat! a dozen or more children. In one such house which I visited there were seven children.
Sack tfHOM HEAVEN.
ATennessee Girl is Dad Twenty -Av
Minutes. Mat1 Frtyettev ille (Ttaxt.) Obst rv ei .
There is one vounif lady, Miss Delia
Street; of Giles country who claims .to
have 'spread her white wings and sailed ovflr the eea" to the celestial citv last
March. The fact has not until the ptea ent time been in print, and would pxoba
bly never have bsen published had she
remained in that lethargic country.
There have been at different times per
sons who have made similar claims, but
the public Instead of listening to them with credulity, looked upon the claim
ants' rather with commiseration, and re
garded the fervid aCCodutsof what they saw as the imagini ngs of a diseased mind or perchance the product of a dis
ordered liver.
Miss rifcreet is what is known as a
"country girl," and has not enjoyed the
educational facilities of large citiesYbut she is lively and vivacious, and in point
of intel (igence is the equal of those raised under the same circumstances) but it is not reasonable to think that a
person of such limited advantages oould,;
unassisted, describe anything in as glowing language as she doe. It can not belaid that she is more observant than her associates and displays Wisdom begotten of years of experience, for she is . ; Standing with reluutant foet W bare the brook n nd river meot Womanhood and girlhood fleet
Her description of the new Jerusalem,,
which is vivid, is reduced to writing,and is offered in girlish diffidence and youthful innocence. It is clothed in the most elegant and chaste language,
and describes a country more glorious,
than any upen which the feet of fancy have ever trod, and bears the imprint of a superior mind. There are coincidences
connected with this case that challenge, attention and show that there was a! power greater than the finite involved.!
About the first ol: February of the
current year Miss Street informed her
parents that on the 27th of March fol-
lowing, at four o'clock in the after-, noon, she would be token violently ill;
that she would grow worse until the
following day at 9 o'clock p. m., at Which time she would die and remain in a state of death for twenty-five minutes, . and during that period of suspended, animation she would vieit that "house
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." She asked het father not to send for doctors, as human instrumentality could not prevent her journey to Paradise, and also to lot him not be alarmed, declaring with implicit confidence that, after enduring the sting of death for twenty-five minutes, her mortal and immortal natures would reunite and she would again become a living soul. , ' . , Of course the parents were uneasy about the idol of their fireside, and began to think that her reason was abdi eating its throne. On the arrival of thci day on which she announced she would be taken ill they evinced great solicitude, inquiring hourly as to her condition , She answered cheerily and continued to admonish them not to be alarmed. The hands of the clock toiled around until 4 was finally reached, and to the girl's parents they never seemed to move so rapidly. While the time-piece was upon the stroke of the hour the young lady was prostrated with sickness and violent pains racked her body. Despite her entreaties, the father sent for skilled physicians, who vainly administered their most potent remedies, and at 9 o'clock on the 28th they pronounced life extinct. The sickness and death occurred an she had predicted, and in time so did the resuscitation. .'LTie father remembered the declaration" that sh would return to life and looker, at the clock, and lo! the uendulumr had ceased to vibrate, and the time piece
that had for years :!aithfully tolled i off the hours had stopped while upon the stroke of 9. WhenUhe girl returned to
consciousness the clock started of its own accord, finished striking the hour and
has run since witnout interruption.
By reference to the watch of one of the
doctors it was found that she had been
insensible shall we say dead? for; tpren-
tv-five minutes. .
After the return of animation her
tongue was paralyzed, and.she indicated by sign 8 that writinir material was wanted, which was provided, and she wrote
letters which she says were dictated by Christ, and the description previously referred to. The whole covers nineteen
pages of foolscap paper. She says she
is commissioned to: read her manuscript
wherever she goes. ... X-
While in the house of the blest' she
was asked by a woman to write afte r returning to her great-grand daughter,
Mrs. Annie B. Shelton, of Kintenash, Sumter County, Ala., and tell her bow anxiously her grea-grandame waited her coming Our informant is4: not
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. -She farmer stores his elder now And is a fcppy fallow; . The harder that the eider jet The quioker he'll get mellow
Tallv-ho coaches are to bo run from
' -. .... - ;. :! Washington, I). C, to Mount. Vernon. A novelty in parlor ges fixtures
resembles a rose bush standing in a cor
ner.-, . . ' . The, pedal sither, a new musical in
Htrument, is coming intci If e w fork
!avor..
The New York Central is putting down
railfl Woiehinir eighty nounds to the
yard. ... " . : ;. ., ,.
The newest cut in corsete m a cut of
10 per cent, in the wages; of the, employes; who make them . Broadway, the longest strees in New
York, extends ten miles, while Benson,
the shortest street, is not m ore than one
hundred fleet long.
"Why do you drink so mucitif 1 said a
ftlp.rovnlflii to a honeless drunkard. "To
drown my trbttblei."- ."ind do von
succeed iii drowning them?" "No, hang
'em! they can swim."
Sam Bernbatt was asked by a report
er: ut)o vo know. Mademoiselle, that
you fire reproacuen ior naving roar
children and no huBbafldT"- That is
absurd. Isn't it better than having,
like some women in this couiQtry, four
husbands and no children?" i
Theire are in the State of Kansas 1,80?
flour mills, with an invested capital ol
$90,253 9(). During the yeair they ground
115,480,392 bushels of graha, and turned out 1?,97,382 barrels ol flour. The number of mills was doubled during
the past eleven months, "
A man clad in nothing but a shirt
walked up to the ticket office on the platform of a station in Duolin and applied for a ticket. He liad delirium tremens, and had gone into the waiting-
room, taKen on nis ciocnes, ana iert them there. He was dressed and ar
rested and fined five, shillings and costs nt the Police Court.
The Baltimore American tells this
quaint litle story: Said an aged matron to me once: "When my cousin Wil-
iam ipame home from a th;ree year's
crhise his old blue cloth suit with brass
buttons looked very old-fashioned, and
I said, 'Cousin William, you iihouldbuy
yourself some new clothes; you can af
ford it.' But he answered, 'I do not
worry about my clothes, cousin Mary; I have brought home four shot bags full of gold pieces, and the girls will marry me now " And to my "Bid any one marry him?" she replied, while a faint tinge mantled her aged cheeks, "Yes, I married bim." Following the example of Frederick, Douglase, IVtisa Flora Batson, who is recognized as the greatest female balladsinger the negro race has thus far pro duced, will shortly marry heir business manager, Mr. James G. Bergen, a white man. Mr. Bergen is a handsome man
of the blonde type, and has seen about forty-five summers. He was born in Petersburg, 111, He has been a widower about a year. He has a son about twelve years of age. Miss Flora Batson was born in Washington twenty-three years ago. It is said that the profits from Miss Batson's eoncerts have amounted to $20,000. The venerable bu t vigorous General
F. E. Spinner, formerly United States
Treasurer, writes from his camp at Pablo
Beach. 11a., to his friends, tee boys of
America., to spare the birds; "I well
recollect." he says, "that I once shot a
robin. He flew some distance, and fell in the tall grass. 1 went and picked him
up and liound that I had inflicted a fatal
wound in his breast. Tne pMMV wonnd-
ed bird looked up into my ice so im
ploringly that it caused me to shed tears,
and now, to day, at the age of eighty
five years, I am haunWby-the pitiful,
imploring look of that poor, innocent,
dying bird, and feelings of deep remorse
come over me whenever I see a robin.
I would be willing to make great sacri
fices to be made guutless ot the wanton
murder of that poor, innocent bird."
The General makes a special plea for
that sweetest of all Amsricaii songsters,
the ill-named cat bird. But as for the
English sparrow, he says with righteous
wrath, "kill him wherever you find him,
in Beason and out of season. He has
never been known to do any good, and
is of no use. Give him no ci uarter. but
go for him as you would for any other
thief.".
RE.U&10US NOT ES.
Presbyterian ministers at St. Paul,
Minn., are to hold a meeting to discuss
whether a person can believe in "faith
cure" and at the same time be a good
Presbyterian.
During the prevalence of scarlet fever
m JfJamneid. Mien., ail the churches
were closed. The Baptist minister sent
his sermon on a printed sheet to all the
members of his church.
A Christian lady- an Bichmond, Va
has rented her fine home and moved
Qn oa tn tlirt norreetneaa of theso . "w ulfi.H.w mwt&i.v
narnes, but thinks that of the old Hady vvv vyvv) iure w uuiurwy
to Mrs. AnniA Be aiont. wno said.: Bne """" v,vu0a nvviu Wv? y.
had been dead ninety-five years. By wmaa paper states tnat "at Vienna writing to the address the girl gay it year no less than 88 Jew? beeame
.acUpH th.Uimmaii of that name nnBlianB' ana anotner .lournai says
AiA i tht nl in 1772 and that penuu buiuw we orsr, ceniury
she had a great grand-daughter resid ent
''Miftii' mail m manwxw nr k 1 Ki&
A Stately Bort of Garment lPWi
Oommaiitlfjchfl Reap uoo of W omen J-
The winter cloak Btands upon its dignity It is a stately so it of garment to which low bows are in order, ani in whose presence 'ft.nir.7.:? the1 proprieties of life, a punotillious deco , rum, suggests itself as the only behavior allowable; It is a long cloak covering the 6 euro Lorn head to foot: it :i A K
costly cloak, never djppihg, in price below the hundre -aweVh spiring cloak, with its air' of warmth, -
bud luxury, and carrtaire crishions; and full pocket-books. The city is prosperous and everything goew well when such a cloak is not the ocsiojD
constant apparition. . ; ' .
Tne winter cloas is ffi rich, almost a
rip gal, silk plush, that avoids, as if it were contamination, the loot of seal plush. It is black, it fits the figure be hind with long, simple draperies, adjusted over the busle. If itr, perhaps, halt fitting, perhaps loose in front, and it has a broad edge of long bear's for compassing it every where iibOUt. v.,,: ::.rJ. ' It .doesn't condescend .to. let on beads It's hobby its one
Sometimes it has a network of intricate
woven silken cords laid ove: ;itamtt laticg the short wrap w hose place the
cloak has usurped. Sometimes it has -av? cape or a yiBite form upon its shoulders ;
concocted of this same rich delicately,
silk braid. Sometimes it contents, it-
self simply -with a bridded vest, and
nearly always it has panel draperies of
elaborately wrought braid works- Thi
cloak in fact aspires jt6 be a lavishly
rich outer gown of plush lor streets or
carriage with gown shape, gown draper
ies, gown pane) trimuiiogs, and to corn
plete the illusion a semJoi3e of con- ..
quettish short wrap adjusted above aUi
:
mm
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Two Remarkable New Vetiel.
The" new vessels which will be added
to the White Star Line fleet next season
may revolutionise ocean travels -It fa r"
said that the boats will be able-to makcl1 ,
the passage in five ; days. To vessels :
are built on a new-plan. There are two of them, just alike. ' They wiH -haw
win screws and two engines. bulfcr .'
head extends horn the" bow td the stern, ;'y: completely dividing thrves⪙ and the
only -passage from one aide of I the veJ -$
sel to the other will be through an ma-
omatically closing dor oi the fii
neer's platform; The engines will ?h
built on a new modelvsnd are expected1;' v
tp give great speed. .l" "f'.l i "
TI'4 first-class saloons will be fitted ujj
or the accommodation of 300 passengers' . ;
only . They will be di vided into suits , ;
of bed-room, parlor and bath-room:
The secondVclass accommodations these vessels will be tlie same as
first eabin of the orJinary
linoa. Thera will be no steera ire.
are built for a double purpose. -It ba been arranged thmt the; 0overnment il ' J to pay the White Star .mnt:;.fr' -;t;7 000 annually in order to retain ,theae boats in case of war. Specially designed ;
plans are being followed bo that each vessel can be changed from an ordinary
liner to a naval' cruiser to- three daya. The armament will? consist oi forty ' pound guns,, and it is ixpected that tha triple expanson engines' will1 make the vessel very desirable said of much prac-
tirAi service as cruisers or transports in r .
case of war. The main framework of these vessels is all up, and they wiU be:-
the Largest steamers ffloat, except the.
on
Atlantic
:4k
there. Miss Street says sne will ne wa
in 1889 the date of her death. .....
The statements jis given above are
established by unimpeachable witness-
Aft W attempt no explanations but
simply jpve the facts. I
The Walk Did n 't Grow. Melrose Journal Mr. Bean and Miss Alliboue were walking in Green's pasture la9t Sunday, and sat dowu on a mossy bank.
"Isn't this moss beautiful?" said Miss
Allibone. "I love to loofc at it; how it grows upon you." M Very likely it does on you, Miss Allibone, but it does nt on me; Fin not a mo.sback."
Thia remark ghortoned thir walk
bQct two hours.
Natural iat ion, ?
There is one pec uliar thing about the
nationalities repreionted by the hun-
dredR of applicants to be natnra'iaed
daily in that there are but few Eagtish
. i mi. n.
men among inera.i lne-unuHaon ap
pear to be adverse to throwing off vheir
alleeiance td the lather laud, end al-
cs r .. .- . though there are hundredij of the m m
St. Louis but few of them becorrif na
turalized. Tho Germans take the lead
in the naturalization uusinees, ana a majority of them take out their "pajiera"
as80onasthey arrive in America, and
take the oath of allegiance to the Uh ted
States. The Irish follow the Germans, the Swiss come next, the French -next,
the Canadians nexii. and tho Austrians
and Italian are aljcut equally represent
ed. ;i-
have conversions from Judaism to Chris
tianity been so frequent as they are at
present" ;
Sir Walter Raleigh's leister to his
Bon: jmow lor tne won a, near cnuu. i
know it too well to persuade thee to
dive into the practises of i ; rather stand
upon thy guard against all those that
tempt thee to it, or may piraetice upon
thee, whether in thy conscience, thy reputation, or thy eBtate. Be assured
that no man is wipe or safe but he that
is honest." ?
Bishop Keener, oi New Orleans, , has
published an article :in one of the Southern Methodist paperfi, giving his reasons
for believing that the Garden of E3en
A Prafrle Yacht.
UlnneaoUs fxibo&e, ,.' V v For some time Mr. Henry Ir; edigar, of Iroquois, has , been experimenting witii wjaat he called a 'irind--wagou y and; at last has been succesiifui 'in so attach ing a sail to an ordinary road wagon that the vehicle is rapkdly propelled by
tho wind. Mr. Snedisar was in we ciiy
a day or two since, and. gave an exhibition of his wind-wagon. The sail was some six feet highof ree-oorner o jibsail shape. It was attached to a onehorse road wagon -by a mast and stay ropes.' Two men occupied the1 wagon; one managing the sail, the qtjher did the steering. This, wiu: done bj? ropes fastened to the thillstha such a nianner
as to easily turn the f runt wheels to; the right or left, quickly guiding it in the direction desired. The wagon
and its two occupants went through the
streets at the rate of six .miles an hour;
when out ot the busimsss part of the city
it was allowed to u'mtett.to twelve
miles an hour, with a !retty stiff breese;
Mr. Snedigar earner from Iroquois to Huron, a totence 6f ightew m
an hour and a half, the wind blowing
only slightiy. Mr. Snedigar says ttat
when the wind has a; velocity ot twenty-
five miles an hour iue can travel from
twelve to fifteen miles witi easOi Thejf
sail is so arransd tat it can be used: on either a heavy rftsd wagbnwligj
buggy. Hundreds of ; people witnessed the exhibition here, imd w?ere delighted
with it. It is not UJaukely tnat otnera
will adopt tuis
sail wagons become numerous ra
prairie countryi whei-e there is usual wind sufficient; to f iirnish the power f . wiaH i 'am alwAVfi found.-' :: '
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method of travel and.,;w.;;;
IHtreit Fret.Pretti :"..f,".: 'Madam," he began asine door open ed, "I am selling a new h-g quette and 060060 " ' ' h 't "O, you are!w ahie reeiwnded. Qo down there on the ?ass .ajad eea3 tia j 'JmLizZL 4- m - v -. .... -
muu oil yuu
ill?!
amsell"; :
saying,
Never address 'B?-.
; 'JLUXO on your naiii wujw:j.: -
strange laay at neruor uuuw wmuf vX r-
" r ".i- rs
iifaa, TO H
Take your bands out o
was in the vicinity o phai leston, 8. -0., No gentleman eyr..eawiee
AUogechor 1Foo WiUinjc.
Wife a. box came tp-Utvy,
dresped to yon. Husband Did you open it? Wife No. Husband Woll , X wish you may 'be onu of these dinged aaachiats
John,
ad
had. It hifarnal
and Havannah, Ga. He bases his belief
upon the remains of large mammals, o
the construction of the ark from gopher
or pine and live oak.in which this region
abounds, and the abundance, of herbage
for the animals in the ark, . Peter Gertwright was dying. For fifty
yearei he bad' been a presiding elder in
the ohurrh. Dr. Trotte.; a friend, was
by hie bedside. ''Trotter," said the old hero. 'I have often wondered what I would say when I was dy ing, and now I have it: 'Give the ospel a fair chance.' " That is the ritrht motto for all who. are anxious about the race problem in America. Give the Gospel, as
I represented in the Christian schools of
the NaUon, a fair ohanee
hwi han ds
Now, mam, this
en
there.,, -: Yes'm; c.;
"Throw out your cud If a gentleman uBestobaceohei
others by the habit;" v 'Ts'm; Nowr miiasa, inanjynn4 J
Wait! Put that dirty handkerchief;
out ot sights and use less greases you hair. ow'Sjii: Iftefe t'1 ' You have a book or Etiquette ad Depprtment? Very? well; J I don?t want
5 T aW thft ifrtH ffttl. Vfltl tMUlf r
' 1 ... 2 ' V.X.-.. ' with ihA . jfcS ''. -i
aF 4Ka hnnaa . nna AailMI ma n nap ;.-?yJ-
ana I thiiaa-
this morning,
touasthtttgof tfeskiud,
- .3 ' ,
i
i
p . :. jsa&y sat