Bloomington Telephone, Volume 11, Number 23, Bloomington, Monroe County, 14 October 1887 — Page 2

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BY AIiBIOX MARY FEXLOSFS, the cottase door she sits.

Jet where the sunlight, softost t;here, ttaata down on snowy 'korcblf f fa bands, Oil folded hands and silvered hair.

garden pale her world shirts in.

A ftbuple world, made sweet with rhyme, "Where life, soft lolled by droning bees, Views to the wiU-atream'a lapsing rhyme. Poor are her cottage walla, and b ire, Too mean and small to harbor Pi ids, Yet with a musing gaze, she sees fier broad domain extending widtn lre,sn slopes of hills, and waving flelds, Wtta blooming hedges set between, Through shifting veils of tender mist Smile, half revealed, a mingled scene. All hersfor lovingly she holds yellowed packet in her hand, Wnose ancient, faded script procl alms Her title to this spreading land. Old letters ! On the trembling page Irop, unawares, unheeded tears. These are her title-deeds ; her lands spread through the realms of by-gone years.

All this happened more than a year before I saw Katy; but we three "factory girls, who lodged at Mrs. Howbell's with her, of course knew nothing bout it She came to the factory and applied for work. The Superintendent thought her too delicate for such labor, but she persisted; and in fact, she improved in health, spirits, and looks after she became used to the work and simple fare of the factory girls. She was a stranger to us all, ;ind it teemed likely that she would remain 00. But one day Mary Bascom's dress oaught in a part of the machinery, and before any one else could think what to do, Katy had sprang to her side, and pulled her away by main strength from the terrible danger that threatened her. After that, Mary and Lizzie Payne and X, who were her dearest friends, were Katy's sworn allies. We all lodged together then, in the big "Factory Boarding House.'9 But Katy took it into her head that we should have so much nicer time;) in a private lodging to ourselves; and when the took anything into her head she generally carried it through. Ia less than a week she had found the very place she wanted, arranged matters -with the Superintendent, and h id us sheltered under Mw. Howell's vine and fig tree. We four girls were the proud possessors of a tolerably large, doublebedded apartment, with a queer little

dressing-room attached "and the lib

erty of the parlor to receive callers in" a proviso at which we all laughed.

This was "home" to us after the labor

of the day Indeed and in truth, Katy

taade the place so (marmmg that we for jot we were "factory girls" whon we got to it. She improvised cunning little 4kings oat of trifles that are uitually

KATY'S TRIUMPH.

BY AXDEES0X K. LOVE. Does it please vou, Katv?"

"Oh, it is splendid! I could not have auited myself half so well, had I been

loft to choose." "But you have not seen the wineeli r yet It is a treasure of its kind. Xjet'8 go down again. n They went down the stairs together, be talking gaily, she with a troubled look on her face. After duly admiring the place, she put a timid hand on his arm, and said, "But, Arthur, dear, let s Jhave no wine in it" aWhy?" he naked, in surprise. "Because I have resolved if I am aver the mistress of a homie, there ahallbe no liquors kept in it no 'social glasses' for friends. n "Why Katy, you are unreasonable. I did not know you carried yen? temperance opinions so far as that. Of course I shall keep wine in my honse, and entertain my friends with it, too." She raised her face appealiiigly. "Arthur!' she said, in a tone of voice Which he knew how to interpret

Arthur s brow grew clouded. But you cannot fear for me?" he Mid, with half-offended pride. "I must fear for you, Arthur, if you begin as he did. And I fear for others besides for the sons, and lrasbands, and fathers, who may learn at our cheerful boards to love the poison that shall slay them." They went up the steps and sat on a aofa in the dining-room for a few moments, while Katy put on her hat and drew on her gloves. The argument was kept up. It is unnecessary that we should repeat all tha was said on both sides. It ended at last as similar discussions hare ended before. Neither was willing to yield Katy, because she felt that her whole future happiness might be involved in at; Arthur, because he thought it would be giving way to a woman's whims, and would sacrifice too much of his popular

ity with his friends. He had bought his house, paid for it, and furnished it handsomely, t.ud in a few weeks was to bring Katy as its mistress. All the afternoon they had been looking over it together, happy as two birds with a newly-finished nest. But when Arthur closed the door and put the key in his pocket, in the chill, waning light of the December afternoon, and gave Katy his arm to see her home, it was all "broken up" between them, and a notice, "To Let," was put over the door of the pretty house the very next morning. It was the most foolish thing to do ; but then lovers can always find something to quarrel about They parted with a cool "Good evenfag," at the door of Katys lodgingbouse. She went up to her room to cry; he went home hurt and angry, but secretly resolving to see her again, and give her a chance to say that she was in the wrong. He would ws.it' a few days, however; it would not do to let her see that he was in a hurry to .-keitnp." He did wait, nearly a week, and -when he called at the modest Icdgingihouse, where he had been want no -visit -mo oftea, he was told that Miss Ghurdi .4ier had been gone three days. "Gone where?" he asked," slow to berlieve. "She did not tell me, sir. She said t-ahe was not coming back. Her aunt livea at Bristol. Heathen took the next train to Bristol, and investigated; but neither there, nor in any other place, though he searched for months afterwards, did he find sign or trace of Katy Gardiner.

thrown away us useless, and the flowers growing in broken pots in our window were a glory to behold. She always had a fresh book or periodical on our table; and better than this, she brought to us the larger cultivation, and the purer taste, which taught us how tc use opportunities within our reach. "What made yon take to our style of life, Katy?" asked Lizzie one evening, as we all sat in the east window, watching the outeoming of the stars, and telling girlish dreams. "Destiny, my child, " answered Katy, stooping to replace the little boot she had thrown off to rest her foot. "But you might have been an authoress, or a painter, or a a book-keeper, or " Lizzie's knowledge of this world was rather limited; Katy broke in upon her. "There, that will do. I was not born a genius, and I hate arithmetic." "But you did not always have to work for a living, Katy ?" said May. "You are a lady, I know."

Katy laughed a short, queer laugh. "Yes," she s:iid, "and that's why I

don't know how to get my living in any

uLuur way dub iuif. 00 ucnoitt me a

healthy and honest factory girl." . t T. J 1 "l -

one rose, maae a niuo uow, ana a

nourish with her small hands, and we

all laughed, although she said nothing funnv. ' Milly," said she, "please light the

lamp, and get the magazine, while 1

hunt up my thimble aud thread Ladies, I find myself under the necessity of mending my gloves this evening. Oh, poverty! where is thy sting? In a shabby glove, I do believe, for nothing hurt;? me like that, unless it be a decaying boot." Katy's gloves were a marvel to us. She never wore any but of good quality and always the same color a brownish neutral tint, that harmonized with almost any dress but just now anew pair would seem to be the one tiling needful, from the appearance of the ones she brought out. She sat and patiently mended the

little rents, while I read aloud ; and when she had finished, the trloves

looked almost new. The next day was Saturday, and we had a half-holiday. Katy and I went to make some trifling purchases, and on our way home stopped at the big board -

'ug-house, to see one of the girls who

was ill. "When we came out, Katy ran across the street to get a magazine from the news-shop, and came hurrying up to overtake me before I turned the "corner. She had the magazine open, and one of her hands was ungloved ; but it was not until we reached home that she found she had lost a glove. It was too late then to go and look for it. We went and searched the next morning, but could not find it. Katy mourned for it.

"It was my only pair, girls," said she, tragically; "and it is a loss that cannot be repaired."

Howell, quite out of town, almost she was hero to see me yesterday." "Oh, I see!" said he, not the most relevantly. "And can vou tell me how to find Mrs. Howell's 'house? I pose I could go by and restore this glove to its owner." Maggie thought this unnecessary trouble; but she gave the required direction, and ho went out, saying to himself, "It can't bo my Katy, of course ; but the glove shall go bade to its owner.

Mary and Lizzie went to church that Sunday morning. Katy declared he couldn't j?o, having but one gove. I stayed at home with her, and oTered to

keep Mrs. Howell's children i:or her, add so persuaded that worthy -froman to attend worship with the girls. And this is how it came about, that while we were having a frolic on the carpet with the children in Mrs.

Howell's room, we heard a rine' at the

door; and Bridget having taking herself off somewhere, there was no help for it but for one of us to aniiwer the

summons. "You go, Katy," whispered I, ia dismay. "I cannot appear." Katy glanced serenely at her own frizzy head in the looking-glass, ffave a pull at her overskirt and a touch to her collar, and opened the door. Immediately afterwards I was slocked by hearing her utter a genuine feminine scream, and seeing her drop on the floor; and that man, a perfect stranger to me, gathered her up in his arms, and began raving over her in a xianner that astonished me. He called her "his darling," and "his own Katy," end actually kissed her before I coulcl reach er. I was surprised at myself afterwards, that I hadn't ordered the gentlemen out; but it never occurred to lueat the time, and when Katy "came td" and

sat up on the sofa and hea:rd his speeches, she seemed so well pleased that I left them and took the children up to our room, feeling bewildered all over.

What shall I say further ? Only that

Katy lives ia the pretty house in the

town known as Dr. Craig's residence, where we three factory girls" Lave a

home whenever we want it. And there are no liquors found on her sideboard

nor at her table.

One day I heard Arthur say. "You

were a silly child, Kate, to run away from me. I should have given up the point at last, I know. " "But there would have been the splendid cellar and the ten thousand a year," answered she. "It would have been such a temptation. We aro safer as it is, dear."

What people call a "panic" had occurred in financial circles in the spring after Arthur Craig had lost his Katy, and almost without a day's warring he found himself a poor man. He left his affairs in the hands of his creditors having satisfied himself that they could gather enough from the wreck to save themselves and set his face to London. He had been educated for a physician, though fortune made a merchant of him. Learning from a friend that there was an opening for a doctor in Fewick, he came thither and began to practice. Doctor Sewell had gone off on a visit, leaving his patients in charge of the new doctor ; and so it came about that on that Saturday evening he wason his way to visit Maggie Lloyd, the sick girl at the lodging-house, when,, just after turning the corner near the newa-shop, he saw a brown glove lying on the pavement. He was about to pass it by; but a man's instinct to pick up anything of value that seems to have no owner, made him put it in his pocket. He forgot all about it the next minute. But when he had made his call and returned to his consulting room, in taking a paper from his pocket the glove fell out, and hs picked it up and looked

at it witn idle euriositv.

It was old, but well-preserved. It

had been mended often, but so neatly as to make him regard mending as one

of the fine art. It had a strangely

familiar look to him. Little, and

brown, and shapely, it lay on his knee, bearing the very form of the hand that

had worn it

And as he gazed at it there came to

him the memory of an hour, manv

months past, when he had sat by Katys

side on the green sofa in the diningroom of "their honse" (alas !) and

watched her put her small hands into a pair of brown gloves so much like

this one. Ever since that never-to-be-forgotten day, the vision of his lost love, sitting there in the fading light, slowly drawing on her glove, her sweet eyes filling as they talked quarreled, we should say, perhaps had gone with him as an abiding memory of her, until he had come to know each shade of the picture the color of the dress, the ribbon at the throat, and the shaded plume in her hat. He looked at the little glove a long time. He had thought it might belong to one of the factory girls, as he found it near the lodging-house. But it did not look like a "factory hand's" glove. He would ask Maggie Lloyd, at any rate ; so he put it carefully in his pocket until he should make his ealls the next

morning. He had suffered the glove to become so associated with the memory of a past that was sacred to him, that he felt his cheek burn and his hand tremble, as he drew it forth to show it to Maggie, who was sitting, in the comfort of convalescence, in an armchair by the window, watching 'the handsome young doctor write tha prescription for her benefit. "By the way, Miss Maggie, do you know whose glove this is? Maggie knew it at oace It "was Miss

Gardiner's glove. "Miss Gardiner!" The name made hvft heart beat again.

"Is she one of tbe factory hands?"

Causes of Sudden Deaths. The number of sudden deaths is large, perhaps increasingly so, though the popular impression may be false,

since the daily press and the telegraph have made a neighborhood of the if hole land. One source of sudden deaths ii accidents, but many events pass under the head of accidents which might have been foreseen and guarded against. Americans, particularly, are apt to take great risks; for example, in their eating, their clothing, their building, in crossing railway tracks, and ia many other ways. How careless we aire! No string need ever fall, and it would not it proper care were taken in the choice of material and in construction. Think of the frightful list of deaths resulting from the use of oil poured upon a lighted fire to cause it to kindle saore quicklv t With many other causes of sulden death ear own personal ill3 seeaa at first sight to have almost nothk g to do. Tbere may he a fatal bretik in ihe physical machinery at a point where weakness has not been susjpectecL The heart, perhaps, becmes unnaturally enlarged, or its toagh, muscular fiber turus to fat, and; sud

denly there is a mortal rupture.

Or th enfeebled heart fails to- send blood to the brain, and the man drops dead ia the street, or at his bnsfrtesE or, more fortunately, perhaps,, ia tha midst of his family. In other cases there may be a degeneration of the cerebral artery,, and high lining, or a glass of wine, o:: an excitement of passion, may arouse- the heart t send the blood to the Harain with a force too great for the weakoned arterial walls to withstand.. These walls may give way at one on more points, ihe out-poured blood: pntrsses against the nerve centers, and; this is cut off the necessary supply of narve force to vital organs. The iaa& falls unconsoious, and within a few days dies. We have not space to speak of other causes somewhat similar, but iis most of them the weakness of the lank at which tho chain breaks :s,due to overexertion, to too continuous braic work, to excesses in eating audi drinking, to passion, to worry. The weak ijpot being? ascertained, the fatal re&alt may be prevented for yeacs, perhaps indefinitely, by a earef ully-reguiated life. --ompanio7U. Driving Away ISosquitoes, Various substances are used to drive mosquitoes away. In. some parts peo--pie anoint their bodies wiilfa fish oil as a protection against them Tho Chinese are- said to be very clever ia the use of such protective unguenta. In India, m&squitoc&are smoked out of a room by burning chips of wood -ad incense. A few sprigs, of wormwaod placed abtfnt the pillow sometimes pao tect the sleeper fjfiom tke-ir attack. A correspondent of the Standard aan rts that if apiece of paw meat is hung over the sle&per's hc&d the mosquitoes will fasten greedily onto it, leaving the human being ;& peaces In the morning scores of tile gorged creattxea can be destroyed by dipping the i&et into a bowl of boiling water. Dark, damp, or ill-ventilated rooms are the favo ritev

haunts of mosquitoes, whi$h seklora molest yoa when you sleep in ave anda or on the house-roof ; or if fom have the punkha going all night cver you, wUh the doors and windows wide open, ou are pretty safe. Lotxaion Gvwphic.

BllMWISCEJiCES OF PUBLIC MEN.

William A. Wheeler's wife died while he was a member of the House of Kepresentatives, in the April before be was elected Vice President. That evening some of his brotherCongressmen;, with a view of rousing him from the stern silence of bis flriof, went in

where ho sat beside her remains -.and told him of the exposure of Gen. 13elkn;ip, coupled as universally was

with Mrs. iielknap irname. There was a long pause, in wfcich he did not seem to have heard wU(,t they wero saying. Then ho uncovered tho dear face, and casting upon it fc look full of anguish, said: "Iwcultf ratier my Mary were lying here thnA her to be that unhappy lad." Mr. Wheeler was a schoolmaster; while studying his profession aftd while occupying for the first time he master's desk, in a country rilage in .Vow York, a little 10-year-oldmaiden came tripping in as one of his expectant tlock, and gave her name moieatly as Mary IvinR. At 18 Mary frug became Mary Wheeler, and for ihirty years they shared a union thit was infinitely sweet and tender. Early ia the M ar 100 army wagons were jnanufactured for the " Government ju New Hampshire, undor a contract which provided for their delivery at Kingston, wheae they were inspected, accepted, and sert by railroad toPerryville od. the Susquehanna liiver, opposite Havre de Gr?e, When they arrived there they ere again inspected by

Gapt. C. G. Sawtelle of the quartermaster's department, who refused to accept them or to approve the bill of $1-4,100 for hem. So the wagons were packed an remained at Perry ville. in full view o the passers-by on the Philadelphia, vVilmington and Baltimore Hailroad. In 1863 a committee of the Senate mde a report, recommending that the wagons be accepted and paid for, and n item in an appropriation bill for his was about to slip through when Ofces Ames heard of it. While on Gov.Andrew's council early in the war he had purchasel army wagons, and he tnew that this lot of them were

flimsil' made, of cheap stuff, and worth

less, de at once sent to his friend Feltoit the President of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Eailroad,to have one Of the wagons put on a pisiform car ani sent to Wasliington that night, without f;iiL The next

moiling the wagon was in fronof the

Captol, and as the Representatives arrfred, Mr. Ames requested them to sto out, and examine for themselves. Nesd I add that the claim was defeated-

Tlis was one out pf many instances in

wiich the sterling good sense and

practical houestv of Mr. Ames (the

ftthw of Gov. Ames) was of great use to the Government during the war. Such a man should never have been made the scapegoat of a lot of politi

cians, who at tlteit time were greedily enriching themselvt-a. John C. Colt 1 who afterward perfected the revolving tire urmsi came toWashington with his submarine torpedo, which he exhibited one pleasant afternoon iu the Potomac, in the presence 01 at least hfteen or twenty thousand paople, who thronged both shores,. At the hour appointed, a salute was fired from the Nary Yard, in compliment to'the officers of tho Government:, etc. Presently afterward, Sir. Colt .sent up- from tho center of the river a magnificent wateiupour, or jet, which

was the signal for the commencement

of the experiments,. Lieut. Bovle then

got the ship under way, with all her

colors flying and awls set. He then

went through the aeiemonv of christ

ening her, and cave the appropriate

iaame of "The Styx." After she had.

isailed some distance end was steady in. her course up the river, aud her helm lashed she was abandoned, and a rocket was sent up by Lieut. Boyle, to notify Air. Colt tM I15 might com-: mence-the aotionv The s' xip was going with the wind and tide, at the rate of about six miles an -hour. JVIr. Colt first discharged a heavj battery at some distance ahead' ofi the ship, and then two more, simultaneously, at a distance near enough to her toftgitato her somewhat.. This was.-dc&e to ahow that the

batteries could be-exploded separately j

:n done. Hence the dif Thl ffr a?6 WaS Widel accentuated. 2 an lefd to look upon the Aeapohtan with something more than But there is a much more intelligible reascn, and one which the granger is not slow to discover for lumseU, For lying and cheating the

erne -Neapolitan has no equal; his ways are as childlike a:id bland as those of ur friend the heathen Chinee, and it ia a marvel if, in any transaction, he does not succeed with equal cunning in transferring some of vour cash to his

own pocket without an adequate quid pro quo. Even the Jew is found to be beaten at his own. game here, and has never gained a foothold in Naples. Self-respect and shamefacedness are unknown to the Neapolitan; he preserves the moat unruffled demeanor in the face of being caught in downright robbery. It is (icarcely to be wondered at, then, that his more upright neighbor protests against being confounded with a race ho despises. jZurray's Magazine. fravfi Light." A venerable old clergyman whose wife died lately -said: "We lived together more than forty years, suffered pain and sorrow together, bore poverty, comforted each other iu all kinds of hardship and trouble, yet it is strange that of all our life, when I look back, one week comes up before me moat vividly, and is tho most tender and sweet. "It was a week we took once for a holiday ; we went f way up to the mountains. I fished, and she carried the basket. Everybody thought we were foolish, but ah. hew sweet it was! I

learned to know h-3r better than ever before. " In American cities there is a large class of persons who live to amuse themselves, but in ;he country there is a still larger :aumo3r who never amuse themselves at all. There are men and women in our villages and farms who live solely to provide the means to keep alive; incessaat drudgery and the perpetual friction of their minds upon each other make their tempers irritable, their judgment narrow, and even their religion hard uxd bigoted. "Nothing wider s and lightens our lot so much as travel, w says Brunot. "It is like putting windows into a prison. We look oat of ouar own narrow life into all the chances and ehanges of human destiny." Travel does not, however, always widen the life and taind of the tourist. Arctic seas or African deserts have nothing new or instructive for the man who goes about the world wearing his own petty needs and opinions over his eyes and ears, liko ;he man im the iron mask. UI had a miserable time," said an old woman, whose son had taken her to visit the Atlantic cities and Niagara. "I couldn't get a decent cup oi coifee anywhere," Many faehionabl American) worn en, who run over to Europe every year, know nothing of Paris but tae modistes; of Brussels but the lace shops; or London, bat the farriers. A more pitiable spectacle event than these purblind trailers is to be soen in all ouivsunimer resorts, where countless commonplace Blanks and Dashes, who are leaders of fashions in their owa little towns, stand haughtily aloof, wrapped in their sell-importance, afraid to make acquaintance with their feilowcreatures lest they ahould not receive the homage which they think their due. "Travel light, if you mean, to enjoy yourself," says Dr. ltupp, in his adrrice to bicyclers.. "Leavs all your heavy clothing, jewelry, and self-conceit at home. The sovereigns of Europe, when they wish thoroughly to enjoy, a journey, travel incognito. Queen Victoria, when la3t upon the continent; was known only as a bcroness. Would it not be wise for the great people -of our villages, when they go abroad, to asEunie someauch comfortable disguise? Or, wiser still, should they nob recognize the fact that- this haughty aloofness and assumption of superiority aaarks then ae belonging to a-, small provincial circle? Ii: sbrws that? they have not gained breadth and liberality by travel or intercourse with the warld. rYouth sGompanion.

1 . A if

m. t,WW. nn,1 ,iin a rive or bar-4 rums auuhwiw

hnr. friftndlv sbimwould be exempted !; Only i;hie bast singing wiU be-tofor-

from the destruction, while a hostile

ship could be blown up very near her.

Soon ; afterward, the water was seen

ited bv a Madrid audience, fac of

which I man illustration tha&fwaa almost traeic. A voting American; had

awAllinr iuuIai ffc hffflr of the shiv. .6 come tuse, ,sucn ner&loea, ana tnacier

And shA wim burled with tremendous an engagement for cix nighis.. She

In analyzing the character oi heroes it is hardly possible, to serwurale alto

Lgether the share oi fortune ixom their-

"Yes; but sh lodges with Mrs J own, i&Wam.

fores into the air. For same time nothing was distinguishable but wheai the vapor had. cleared away, it wan. .seen that tlra-wheJe of the ship, as far astern as the naizzenuast, had beem torn into smaU. fragments. There vjwrs. not a piece of; tln& forward . part of theship left i&large- as a hanikpike. Thestarn, with a part of the mizzen-nast, appeared above water, lait not a'loah; it; settled down into the-mud. If:she had been struck amidships, there -Mould not have ueen. &ne timbsr left fastened io anothen Another kwutiful tollman of water-was trhen sent jop at a distance from tho shipv which dosed the axhiibiifcion. Ifce NeupUftan. The waiteff who usafr hi fasailfebfis of observation is not bng making the

discovany that the Seapolitsn is of a different nace to ih& dwllaas ia the surrowdiag oounty,, aIl heiaprobablv ammsed to hoar with whai scorn he is. spoken of bykis neig&boasL Ko greater- iasult con. be offered to a man hailing ir-om Prcu3a or Capri or one. of the ias:ignifictntdghbvaiiaffisland8H th&ia to assume him to be & Xeapolitan And so finely this distinction draw. that the people living in fcanta Lucia, thie very heart-e Naples decline to. be dassified as Neapolitans In fact, ihe different "swumi," ca districts into which Napap.a is divided, speaks a distinguishftlh) patois, and though a stranger . has some difficulty in discovering whv the Luciini consider ithemseivt'S superior to the ot&er fleethere is ob-

viou&r a wide difference between an inhabitant of Naples and an ordinary ItaVian. In tho rtrst plw the Court of Naples in the Hourbon times always flpoke French or Neapolitan, and utterly discountenanced Italian. Nothing that could be done to keep Naples Neapolitau was omitted, aiad everything that oould be due to distinguish it

had already sung oner night oexore I

heard her,, and hail, failed to please. For thiaewadng another priatad&nna had b'ftft. announced but she had. been taken ill, and the A;jaeriearugiri smexpeefcedift appeared her steadL The rest of the company was good as could, be desired, and ncfe with a heartTvwelteonie. When the American seirsg &be was

quid iJV Usxe&r ut ui, aavo wuwrci, ikt w

and then a distoct hiss would come j frolicsome of the l&aut fashionable por- jJ tiorof the house. How! pitied her-j

as l-law her stand: there, with all those, j;

hosfciik eyes looking her over, all thafk sea, of scornfnl) fae-as toned toward! he'-v! How could she go a? But nab to.dfr so would have oeen to forfeit hair e&gag&nient oad lose alii that was Ser

daew Upheld, by I know not wtaub &an&eof sterm necmsity,. she stoedlliy sang her part through When a soease was- applauded she stood aside, with her pale face and her set lips, knowing

ihaxno sh&ate iu the applause sjca&ifor

ther. Not one expression of Knaiush

approval or encourssgement sustained her from Wginning to end. I &lb that no gladiator tighter in an arena ever displayed a more dauntless ccrsige. The Gto&miojwlitxn First Governor of Uliuois Few people nowadays, if asked who w as the rirst Governor of Illinois, would! answer Patrick Henry. Xet this is tU case. An act wa 3 passed by the authorities of Virginia in October, 17 78, creating the county of Illinois (in the State of Virginia.), which embraced the territory now forming the Stages f Ohio, Indiana, Illincis, Michigan, and Wisconsin, making probably th largest county ever organized, exceeding the whole of Great Britain and Ireland; and thus the great orator o the American revolution, Patrick Henry, then Governor of Virginia, became the first Governor q( Uliiiohu -Chicago Nwik

18 IT A PIECE OF A COMKTf A Metallic Fragment from Another Woridf W. K. Hi.lden, in The Cmtury, There has recently come into my possession the ninth ircn meteorite whose fall to the earth has been observed. It is, moreover, the lirst n meteorite which set in s to evidence a direct connection with a star-slower. The mass acquires atill further interest from tiie fact that it is presumably a frag ment of the famous comet of Biela A brief account of tliis celestial wanderer will doubtless be of interest to the reader;) of The Ceniury, in which magazine the essays 'of the astronomer Lcngley have recently appeared. Astronomers have waited iatiently for the fall to the eartb'n surface, at the time of the periodical star-showers, of something tangible, but until now thy havo waited in vain. In looking over a considerable amo int of astronomical: literature, only one record can be found oi the falling of m body to the earth at such a time; this was near Paris, on the 10th of Apiil 1094, when "ms.ny shooting-stars were seen and a very large one was said to have been found on the giroucid as glowing substance. From the 24th to the 29th of Nove ber. 1885, the e;rth was paspig (Through? a train of meteors that proceeded from the constellation Andromeda, and once formed a part of Biela's comet. Thesj meteors are now known to sistroncMnenT an Andromedes or Bielids. The maximum of this shower occurred on the 27th, while it was yet broad daylight over America, and at an hour corresponding to 11 & m. at Mazapil, Mexico. Thus, at the time of the fall of tffeis meteorite, ten hours after the maximum nrimber of meteors was observed, the earth was meeting with only tho stra giers of the train. It cannot be doubted that the cosmical dust proceeding from the disintegration of Biela's comet wholly enveloped tl earth and was seen as meteors front every part of it. Such was the magnificence1 of the celestial phenomenon thatin. some parts of the Eastern continents, uneducated people believed ther d would, be no stars left in the sky. Of the countless lost cf meteorswhich crossed the earth's pth on this26th of November,, only one is as yet known to have reached th es&rth's surface, and this fell near the village of Mazapil in tho State- of Zacatecas, Mexico; at about i) o'clock in? the evening, litis of the rate iroanaiclel variety, and weighs tenv and' quarter pounds troy. This meteorite was presented to m by Sr. Jose A. y Bonilla, Direct r-Pro fessor of the Zacatecas Observatory, w'10 received it, five days after its fall, from the-rar chman who saw it descend from the heavens.. This ranofcman related the strange occurrence a follow (translated from the Spanish It "It was abou t 9 o'clock on the u gbt of November 27, .when I went out to tha eorr&l to fe3d certain horses; suddenly, I heard a loud Biiszrag noise, exactly as though Hooethingradhct vra8 being plunged into cold iratar, and almost instantly tuere followed wmewhatIc id thud; At once the corral we covered with a phosphorescent l.'g&t, -while snepended in tho rdr. were tmall-: luiinon!- sharks as though f?om a rocket. I had net reoovored from my sarp:rxse bofore-Isaw th It minoua air disappear, and thre remained on the ground yuly much, a light as if mtde whea a lnatch ia rubbed. A number .of puopJe came running toward me ffom the rtagiiboring houses, and they aviated me in quiefcng horses xrtuch bad bscesae very muc'A xcitei W13 all asked each othor what ijQvitl be the . matter, and we were afraid to'Wolknuh co::ral fc fear of being;burned. TZtte:i, in a fev min-itea, we had recovered from o'frhi, wc saw theliglit disjippear, and bringxig lanterns to kok for tho canae, we found a hole m tho ground and in it a bsOi of light Vo re tired to adistance, fearing it wouift explode and harm ns. Ixo!tmg up to the slcy tte saw from ties to time esliuiahona or stefs, which aoon went out without; noise, Wr ntnrned after a iittlo, andfeund in the holeitthct stone which could barelhandle; tliis onthenext dav, wedsaw, looked Uke a piece oC iron. AH nifijht it rained stares but we saw.non-3 fall U the grc nd, as they-ill Beemed to be exfciftguished while yet very high up. Ul5 further inquiry we ifcni thathere Tra3 no expiibsion or? detonation., hoards and that the mass penetrated the earthonly to a depth of twellfe inches. This very ciarcumstantisJJ account -leadn3 to believe that tliis meteorite is the first one to be secured imd pre served that has aoiae to the earth during & star-shower. The Drought of 1818. Erom the anpttbiished lettera of Jefferaon recentdy appeKiBkg ir the Southern Bivotuxc the Mlowir g description of the drought of 1113 im taien: From the :?0rk of James Biver andi the falls of other rivers, vpwnrds andk vaestwardly, e have th mosn calami tons year eve seen since 1755, It bin with the blockade, so that the fine otrops of lasttyear madoin tiieue upper parts, w hich eould not be at market till after Christmas, were slkut up by that arid lost their sale, Mtet keeping my flour till the approach ol tho jaeir liar

vest, I was obliged, to sell it, lest it should) spoil on my hands, at a pmse. which OiilV netted suv47 cents a bushel for my wh-t, of cdutee a to ial saertrice. In the year it neve r 1 aiaed from Annil to November. Tliere not bread enough ts-eet, and man; died of famine. This yeaor in thesie dipper' regions we have had! not a sin rain from April 14 to September 20 five month. except a slight shower ii May. The wheat was kitted by thadr-oght as dead as the leaves of the ti& now arc. The stems fell before thc c-cythe wi thout being cub and the lifcie graio in ihe head seattei'ed on the grouncL Vizm 500 acres, sowed hero 1 1 we not gob in 1,500 bushels, not thwe timea t&ti seed. Our corn kis Buffered eciually. From 270 acres jvlanuect, and which in eommon yea world havei yielded from 800 to 100 barrels, I til i all not get a barrel an acrs and a great portion of that rid! bo irhat a ccilied nubbins, being haifforntel earn with little grain on them. Corn conoe quently stasis with ma at 13,513, and, being the principal Ibod of our ilabor ers, its purchase will be a heavjr tax I am told the drought has been eciuallji fatal &a fr Kentucky. Th have btsen a few local exceptions li9e from euaall bits of clouds aoeidentjaJ lj passing over som$ farm. Should ibe little wheat we hare made be ofeiri up by k continuance of the blockade through tlie wiaUrr we shall be absolutely lwmkruj hy tht loss 4t two &uooew

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