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THE DEMOCRAT. . 1U A HAMS. rv-hU.S.r. CAPS GlRRrKVr GOOD NIGHT. Ttia saads win ail rv dnppd fua boob. Cawn has crept slowly icto coco. The evening eoiaes to me. .ni yet it Batten coth'r.- now. Peace broxieth as a dove! GJ has been very kind to rae! Goi-ciM. Rood-nijht. my love. Ah must you wee;v my chSd. my chlMT Then listen whtle I tell Bow oa life's billows tossing will. He steered my fraa sea shell! Just tfcirty years to-morrow. dear. The sate swung wide above. Tour fitter wh:s;ered in my ear: Mood-nisht. Fvxtd-nht, my lover Tive little hearts lay close to mine. Closer than e'er before. Te: ret for these could I repine. But loved them daily more. you were one cf these, my dear. Who made my laNr liht Br loYiajr much and ci:r.inf: near; Eut now. good-night, pood-iuht. Eow pood cf God to make so fair Our firs: sweet child of love; 6he lived her marriage robes to wear. Then passed you weep, my love! A3 father went, one came to me. Came with the angel's flight. Cut yesterday so Joyously He reached home good-night. True, dark to me seemed many a day. And Iocs the weary night. But God has blessed me ail the way. And rrar.ted pure delight. Bo many that are dear to me Are waiting Just above. Their beckoning hands I almost sea. Good-night, good-night, my love, F.y.l me cot back 'tis better so; Ah. feeble are ray feet: Jiv hands are weary let me go; Rest, darling, will be sweet. The "pastures' are so green and fair. The "waters" stiU and bright. And love is there, for Christ is there; Good-sight, my chiid. good-night. Margaret K. RadelXe. in United Presby tctnan. S SAVED BY A NEGATIVE. W BY S. A. SMITH. I. FATHER." said my son Donald to me one cay; -father, tow do they ia.e Lese wonderf-n photographs os lightning flashes that are printed i roagazines? They don't know when a Sash is coming, and can': make It stay still while they photograph it, can. t.jrjl . "Not likely." I laughingly replied: ""the lichtcin? 'take' itself. If there is a thunderstorm at night all that is r.eeessary is to pat a sensitive plate in the camera, uncover the !ens and point it at the sky. when the next Sash of lichrnirg will record itself cpon the piate. which must then be developed in tie usual way." "Is that all?" returned Donald. "How very easy. Couldn't we take some? Do let us try." -All right." I replied, "but first of all p. e mist wait for a thunderstorm, so when there is another at night tret your photographic traps ready, and we'll see what we can do." Dar.a'.d and I were enthusiastic cy clists, he heir.? one of several years" sati'i'r?. but I only since we came to live here in Woodford, on the borders of thr new forest, and I found it very con venient to ride to the railwiy station five miles away or to Salisbury or Southampton, as our village lies mid w?.y on the highroad between those towns. Charmed by the lovely forest scenery. I bad lately practiced the facirat: science cf phooirraphy and thereby se cured manv a beautiful scer.e of wood land jrlade. Donald, too. soon waxed enthusiastic over it. and many a cycio photographic day did we spend secur lr.ir pictures of the exquisite scenes that .boccd around our home. The marvelous photos of lightning flashes that appeared in the Strand had excited Donald's wonder ar.d cu- riositr. leading to the conversation with which this story commences. We had not Ion? to wait for a thun derstorm, for on that very eight raged one of exceptional vioience. It began about 11 o'clock, and Donald, who had retired to bed some time before, burst into my room, fully dressed, and houted: "Come on, father; there's a tremen dous thunderstorm coming up. and sucn flashes of lightning! I'm off to the dark room to pnt some piates in the slides, so get the camera ready. The front bedroom window is the best place to expose from." Here let me state that our house stands about ten feet from the road aide, and the view from our front win dows comprises the road and the com mon opposite ns. a small piece of waste land partly surrounded by the coble trees of the New Forest. By the time that I had made the nec essary arrangements at the window Donald rejoined me, bringing three double dark slides loaded with the sen sitive piates, "We ought to get at least one successful photo out of this lot," laid be. Soon the storm, which had graduaily been drawing nearer, burst over us wit! terrible fury, the lightning flashing with amazing brilliancy, the thundej rolling with deafening roars. One by one the plates were exposed under con ditions that justified the expectations of good results, and Donald was in high glee. Just as I was about to expose the sixth and last plate he said: "Why don't you take a flashlight photo of the common with tbafcone? Illumi nated by the celestial electric light, you know. Point the camera towards the center of the common, just for fun. I'd like to see how it comes out." I acted upon bis suggestion, and no sooner had I got the camera in position than a flash of lightning, so vivid and aViUUat ia iu intensity as to momen-. tartly blind gs and wring from us a fea-ome and terrified "Oh: imprinted the scene on the sensitive plate. Tm glad that's the las; plae." said Dorald, when the deafening pea! of thunder sllowed him to make himself heard, -for I should not care to stand st the window daring' another such flash as that. Shall we develop the plates to-night?" Xot if I know it." I replied. -Be of! to bed now. and well do them the first thing in the morniag." n. But we didn't; for we were awakened early by a violent ringing of the bell, and upon going down in mv dressing gown and opening the door I beheld the village constable, with white, haggard face.oc which fear was strongly marked in every line. "Oh. sir!" he gasped, "will you come over on the common with me? There's the corpse of a man lying there, and I fear he's been murdered, for there's a knife stuck in his breast. I want you to come as a witness before I touch the body." "Lying on the common! Murdered! Impossible!" I said. "Eut wait a mo ment till I have dressed and III come with yon." The constable's tale was only too true, for there, lying on the camp grass his hair and clothes sodden with last night's rain: with upturned face, and with the blade of a large knife burled deep in his heart lay the corpse of Ivan Sclecski. the handsome young ten ant of "The Hermitage." and suitor for the heart and hand of the lovely Marie Devereux. of "Forest Hall." While the constable guarded the body I hurried for the doctor, who upon his arrival de clared that life had been extinci for some hours. "Good heavens!" he ejaculated, "this knife belongs to Gerald Merrilees! See. here are his initials!" and there, on the silver-mounted handle, were the letters "G. M." That evening Gerald Merrilees. the handsome, well-built young owner of "The Home Farm." and Solenski's rival for the affections of the beauteous j Marie Devereux. was arrested on a charge of murder, upon the sworn in formation of the butler of "Forest Hall." who deposed that on the pre vious evening Merrilees had had a stormy interview with Miss Devereux. in which Solenski's name was men tioned several times, and that Merrilees had suddenly dashed out of the house, mutterinsr: "I'll kill him! I'll kill him!" Upon this evidence and that of the knife found in the dead man's breast Merrilees was committed for trial at the forthcoming assizes about to be held at the Guildhall. Winchester. III. Doubtless the reader remembers the account of the trial, which was pub lished so fully in the daily papers of the time, but in case he may net recall it to mind I might here briefly give Merrilees defense. In spite cf the strong proofs of his guilt he persistent ly declared himself innocent and pleaded "not guilty." He fully admit ted the truth of the evidence of the but ler of "Forest Hall." and his counsel cApiuined that he had that evening pro posed for the hard of Miss Devereux. but had been rejected, upon which he had accused her of favoring the suit of Solenski. ar.d when she admitted that she had that day accepted Solenski his it-alousv and race overpowered him being a very hot-tem ereti r,w causing him to muttering the rush from the house, erriblv ineriminatinsr threats now -.ised as evidence strains: j him. After leaving "Forest Hall" I his ! counsel continued) reason gradually i prevailed, and he proceeded to sro home, ; his path lying across the common in . front of my house. Felrg anxious to arrive there before ' the threatened storm broke, ar.d partly j to cool his fiery temper, he ran: b;::. his ! foc-t catching in the stump of a furze ; bush, caused him :o fall heavily to the j ground, and with such force as to ren der him unconscious. He declared that his pockets must have been rifled by seme malicious passer-by. while he lay in that state, for whereas he fell on his face, when he recovered consciousness he was lying on bis back. He reached home, too weak and dazed to think or observe, but great was his surprise the next morning to find his pockets empty; watch, chain, purse, loose cash, hunting knife (which he always carried), and everything, all gone. Counsel dwelt stronelv upon this fact, and maintained that the accused was not the eulprit, but that whea lying unconscious the real murderer robbed him. taking, amongst other things, the knife used with such fatal effect upon Soler.ski whose pockets he also rifled leaving the murderous weapon in the dead man's breast, to divert suspicion from himself to its innocent owner. For further details. I must refer the reader to the very full reports of the trial which appeared in the local papers at the time, merely contenting myself with stating that the jury smiled, in that supercilious, superior sort of way common to the British juror, at the palpable weakness of the defense; but having satisfied themselves as to the prisoner's guilt, after a short considera tion they returned their awful verdict of "Guilty!" Gerald Merrilees was sen tenced to death. IV. Some time after the foregoing- events. I was sitting up awaiting the arrival of my wife and son, who were return ing from London by a midnight train, or, rather, an early morning one reach ing Dean station at three a. ni., after which they had to drive the intervening five miles borne. It was weary work waiting. I had finished reading ni novel, and was lookingaboutfor something to do, when I suddenly thought of the plates we had exposed on the night of the thun derstorm, and had lain undeveloped and forgotten till now. "The very thisg!" I exclaimed. "I set to wort and developed them at once, it will pass tie time nicely." The first plate developed was a fail ure. Why. I don't know, for I im mediately threw it away and com menced ancther. "Ahl" I thought, -this one is something like a photo graph." Truly, it was a most wonder ful photo, of lightning; the wavy line of fire there were four, springing Vra one stem streaming down from the dark and angry heavens right on to the earth, where the trees of the New Forest in the background were sharp ly silhouetted against the tongues cf fire, from which little side-streams spread out in all directions. I felt, and still feel, proud of th3t photograph, for it caused no little excitement in the sci entific World. The next plate was a bit of a mystery to me. for it was a negative of the landscape in front of our house, and I wondered when it was taken, until I remembered that Donald had asked me to take it as a flash-light land scape view with the last plate on that memorable evening cf the storm. As development proceeded and the ob jects became more and more distinct I was surprised to see several human fig ures portrayed in it. With a magnify ing glass 1 gave it a closer examination, the result cf which made me tremble with excitement. "Good heavens!" I exclaimed; "this is a photo, of the murder of Solenski!" and indeed it was; taken at the iden tical moment thai the crime was com mitted. There was the whole scene un erringly depicted on the plate by that brilliant flash of lightning! I examined the plate more minutely, and the result was startling in the extreme; there was the murderer in the very act of plung ing the knife into Solenski's breast! The faces of both men were plainly distinguishable, and that of the mur derer was not Gerald Merrilees. but of a short, thick-set man with a heavy beard; and there, farther in the back ground, was an inanimate form, with upturned face, lying upon the earth. "Good heavens!" I again exclaimed. "So Merrilees is innocent, after all! How wonderful that we should have taken this photograph, and thus be able to prove his innocence! To-morrow I will go to Winchester with it, ad pro cure his release." Suddenly I reeled as if shot. " To morrow." did I say? Why, to-morrow Is the day of his execution! It is to morrow' now. for it is after three o'clock! In five hours all will be over; another victim sacrlned to miscarriage of justice." What was I to do? Twen ty miles from Winchester: with no means of communicating with the au thorities to avert the tragedy which would soon be enacted here was I w ith evidence that would save an innocent man's life; and that man a dear friead, tcol What could I do? I groaned aloud ia my anguish, and great beads of pers piration dropped from my brow. Just then my wife and son returned, and were alarmed to see my agitated state, but upon explaining matters, my w ife's ready wit suggested t! at I should ride to Winchester on my bicycle. The very thing! I jumped with jay. and soon after started on my dark and dreary, but fateful ride. v. ith the price less negative carefully packed to avoid the risk of breaking and its terrible consequences. I will not go into details of that ride, for only those who have ridden over strange cross-roids on a pitch-dark eight, when a friend's life depends upon their speed and dispatch, can sympa thize with me. At 0:43 that same morning I rode up i to Winchester gaol, and demanded to : to see the governor immediately: and '. upon being admitted to his presence showed him the Heaven-sent witness, which he deemed of such importance ; that he telegraphed at once to the home secretary, giving him details of my marvelous photograph, w ith the result : that in this eleventh hour Gerald Mer rilees was reprieved he was saved! ; 1 j The nature of the ciider.ee that es tablished Merrilees' innocence, and ai particulars concerning it. were kept strictly secret by the police, who had ; my negative enlarged, and sent copies ' of the photograph whereupon the features of the murderer were clearly , portrayed to all the police stations ia ' the kingdom, with the result that w ith- j in ten da vs the real culprit was arrested i in the foreign quarter of Soho, and upon j being charged with the murder con fessed his guilt, statins that Solenski was an absconding nihilist, who had fled to England to avoid earn ing out a horrible task imposed on him by the particular rules of that dreaded so ciety. By so doing his life became forfeited, and to the murderer was allotted the duty of carrying out the society's ven gence. Hoping to escape, Solenski had lived in retirement in our village, but was tracked by his inexorable execu tioner, who stated that on the night of the great storm he had come across the prostrate and senseless form of Mer rilees, from whom he took everything available, including the fatal knife with which he stabbed his victim (whom he accidentally met immediate ly after leaving Merrilees). just as the defending counsel had surmised at the trial. In due time. Merrilees received a full and unconditional pardon (for a crime that he had never committed!), and I should not at any time be surprised to hear of his engagement to Mis Devereux. He and I are the strongest of friends, as he says he owes his life to me. but I tell him that it is not so, but that he owes it to the magazine that promt ted us to take the photos, on that eventful night. Tit-Bits. Why He Felt Badly. A Bath (Me.) man explains that he wouldn't have minded so much the re cent loss of his wood-pile if the thief hadn't waited until after he had cat and sawed it into stove length. THE MESA ENCANTADA. Aaceat avW EiylenuiM ( the FaW as Bwk. For the first time in the history ot nan the celebrated Mesa has beta mounted. The honor belongs to Proi. William Lib bey, of Princeton universi ty. "tw Jersey, and the fact has been scientifically established that the sum mit is uninhabited, and, as far as the party could discover, has ever been. There were absolutely no traces cf ani mal life. It may be that new specimens of flora Lave been found that existed in the prehistoric world, but sufficient exam- ination has not yet been made to de ! termine this fact. The Mesa Encan ; tada is said to be the only spot on the face of the globe where the flowers of j the period of long ago can exist without j the contamination and war of plant life J with the world of the present day. ! Prof. Libbey succeeded in making his ! much-talked-of ascent of the encantada i a few days ago. The trip to the summit was fraught with great perils, and the result is of little value from an arch ' aeolcgical standpoint. ! The party consisted of Prof. Libbey, ; H. L, Bridgeman, of Brooklyn, and the correspondent of the Times-Herald. ; Every preparation had been made for j the ascent, there were great kites and i balloons ready for use. butitwasdecid . ed to throw a line across the top of the I Mesa with a gun. borrowed for the pcr ' pose from the United States life-saving j service. ' The first shot was too low. The sec ond, carrying a steel wire, went over the summit, but took two days to draw the cord which was attached to a long er rope over the rough, rocky surface , of the spot described by Coronado in : his report to the king of Spain nearly three centuries ago as being the strong est natural fortification in the known world. When the ropes were made fast a Mock was arranged, and a great chain , 3'" boards. 20 feet across, was fastened to it. A huge rock was sent to the sum mit without tipping, and then Prof. Libbey mace the ascent. It was dan gerous, exceedingly so. As the pro fessor came close to the summit he had to hang on by one hand, while with the ; other, he disengaged the ropes of the chair, which had caught in the rough rocks. The remainder of the party then made the ascent, and werj assisted on the surface by the professor. Next a great ditheuUy presented it self ia the form cf a gaping chasm. This was crossed on the ropes, and the ten acres of the surface of the rock were ex plored by the daring scientists. They scent the entire day there, searching for the evidences of the vil lage, said to have existed 500 years ago, but there was nothing to indicate that it ever had existed in reality. There were monuments of rock, such as the Indians built in the ages that have gone by. but that was all. There were some pools of water that had caliected. but whether they were worn by the action of small particles of rock carried by the winds or w hether they were in reality constructed by the Acoma Indians in the centuries that have gone dow n into the silence of the past is not known. Search was made for the bones of the human beings whom the legend of the haunted rock describes as having been starved to death there, but they were not found. ( It is assumed by botanists that this great rock, which rises over 70 feet from the surface of a desert of sand, protruded cut of the ancient sea that covered this section of the world in the distant past, ar.d that the flora is the same to-day as it was in those days, when the world was young and of which history has no account. Specimens, such as there w ere, were collected, bet Whether they belong to this day ar.d age or to tl:e realms cf the prehistoric world is not known. This rock, enchanted or haunted, as it has been called by the Accrna Indians, has been the center of scientific inter- '. est for years. Nuiucrous attempts have been made to mount it, only to be ; doomed to failure. i The legend of the Indians is that the summit of the reck was once reached j by a natural ladder in a pillar. On this place the old and decrepit were kept to j shield them from the attacks of hostile foes, while the men were in the valley at work. Once a great torrential rain ; came, like a cloudburst, and ate away ! the sandy foundations of the pillar, which fell, and the inhabitants on the ' rock, several hundred in number, ! starved to death. i It has even been asserted that the ' place was inhabited, and the ascent by j the Libbey party was made to set at ! rest the rumors and determine once and ! for all whether or not the stories as told were true. Chicago Times-Herald. Cooked by Cold. Anyone who has ever picked up with a bare, hand a piece of intensely cold iron knows that the touch burns al most as badly as if the metal were red hot. Indeed, the action of great heat and extreme cold are so similar that a Hungarian chemist has turned the lat ter to account to prepare meats for food. He subjects the meat to CO de grees cf frcst. and then seals it up i:i air-tight tin cans. The result is that the meat, which is practically "cooked by cold," will keep any time, ar.d cai be eaten with very little further prep nration. Cincinnati Enquirer. The Depth of Sna-Spots. Within a few years the question ha jeen raised whether sun-pots are real ly depressions, or holes, in the sun's surface, as they have generally been considered to be by astronomers. Prof. Ricco. of Catania, concludes, as the re sult of a long series of observations, not only that the spots are cavities in the sun, but that their depth can be approximately measured. He states that the average depth of 23 sun-spoti measured by him was about M0 miles! Youth's CootMnion. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Gome bicyclists of Portland, Or, wear pneumatic shoes. At Colon, Mieh a fanner found a fold ring in a potato hHL Ia a storm at Marion, Ind.. light ning tore up 30 feet of tiling five feet be low the surface of the ground. Marriage at midnight, the ceremony being performed by a coroner, is Use last Kansan eccentricity reported. The value of the house property of London is. $3,363,000,000, that of Paris $1,430,000,000, that of New York SL35S, 000.000. A man and wife and their 16-year-old daughter were arrested at Jackson ville. Ore., for stealing vases and dishes from a graveyard. During the last especially hot spell, work was suspended in the granite quarries at Concord. X. H because the stone had become so hot. Xear Alvord. Ia a can of stamps, which were stolen from the post office at Lester, in that state, two years ago, was plowed up recently. For assaulting a servant who was alleged to have alienated her master's affections, the master's spouse was fined one cent at Mobile. Ala. While asleep in the woods a sawyer of Evansvilie. Ind was bitten on the chin by a spider. He died of the effects of the bite some days later. At Jonesville. near Birmingham. Ala., a young woman whose name used to figure in Birmingham's social chron icles has established a frog farm. Wyley Xusbaum. of Middlebury, Ind., fell a victim to sunstroke, and there were 393 teams in the procession that followed his body to the grave. Philip Julius, of Kossrille. Ind., fried to alight from a train before it reached the station, and he struck on his head and has been insane sinos. The airship craze is said to be near ly as strong in Germany and on the con tinent as in this country. Prof. Hoff man, an imperial councilor, has in vented a machine constructed on the principle of a dragon, with steam pro pellers, which he is confident will work all right. RICHES FORCED UPON HIM. Kept in tie West by Poverty, He FI aallr Fttnnd Fortnme. The old gentleman who is back from the west on a visit made some astound ing statements. He had grown rich ir. spite of himself. He had actually tried : by small stakes floating tricclored pen to run away from a fortune, but it ' nants. would not permit him to escape. Then "ln the park at the commencement it was insisted upon by his friends that j ef the course is a large drove of sheep he give them something more explicit j which are to play their humble role in "WelL I went out there with just ! he spectacle, enough money to make the first pay- j "Each shepherd is required to drive meat on a farm, stock it in a modest : B eroup of 15 sheep over the course, way, get the necessary implements and j which has been made difficult by bar buy seed. The first season the grass- rjers. ditches and hedges, and it'is the hoppers came, and they came like tht , duty of the dog to see that none of them locusts of Egypt, in devastating clouds, j wanders from the flock. They left the ground as smooth as th j -n,,. troop should pass over all ob palm of your hand. I was forced tc j atacles, climb the hillocks, descend into stay, because I had no money with J ditches and pass between the hedge which to get back. By borrowing anc j which form a choked passage in a corn saving we managed to live and plant j pact band Ironl w hich no sheep should the next season. When everything j be allowed to separate itself, promised a bountiful harvest a cyclon, -Amusing incidents are not lacking, struck us. one of those rip-snorting fel- j 0f the 32 jotrs entereJ few succeed in lows that carries everything with it j conduotinff their 15 sheep safely to the We were like people stranded on a des- j p,aU wnd chases over the lain and ert island, but we found a speculatoi between the feet of the spectators are willing to loan, with nothing but out , frejuent. More than one of the shep dismal prospects for security, and sim- ( herds, exasperated bv the stubborn ply stayed there because there was ce ! ness of ,he sheep the obsUcles. escape. My folks in the cast could af- j Beizes the leader bv the tuft of wool ford me no assistance, and I cftet ! Bt ,he nape of the "neck known as the wished that the cyclone had picked ut j vhiTion' and drags him through the up with the other movables. difficult passages, thus inducing the m,c .,r.-kl .wr C uau glorious crops. That was 20 years ago. and w have had them ever since without f break. Xow I have 2.000 acres unde: cultivation. I have a big ranch and a sure market for my cattle. In a shoil stretch of mountain that I bought just to get good water for the stock there if a gold mine that will always do a little better than keep the wolf from the door. Could I have returned when I wanted to I would now be working op some man's farm for about S20 1 mon;h." Detroit Free Tress. A BRIDE'S TROUSSEAU. Clothes Shonid Be Chosen Suitable la Her I'oxltlon ln Life. The girl who has a fortune at her command needs no suggestions, but the girl who has to think out the wis dom of every dollar spent on her trous seau is the one who asks for advice. Taking it for granted, then, that you will live a more or less social life, hav- ing your day at home and visiting your ! friends, and going occasionally to hear good music, you can decide exactly what you will need. First of all, fresh en all the gowns you possess, then you know their possibilities: then I would aivise one handsome silk dress, com bined, perhaps, with velvet, and hav ing, to go with it, two bodices one for wear when you are visiting, tht other to be used when rather mor elaborate dress is required. Have on simple, but smart-looking, wool dress, for street wear; if required, you might better omit your visiting costume than this. A black skirt, either of moire, silk or satin, will be useful, since with it there can be worn any number of elaborate bodices. Then you will want, also, a comfortable wrapper, to wear in no place except your own room; two pretty, well-fitting house dresses: a coat suited to the season: a wrap that is a little more elaborate, if yon can af ford it; but do not make the mistake so often made, of buying clothes thai are not suited to your position in life, or. what is equally as bad. of buyins such an elaborate wardrobe that it wiL' go out of fashion. Isabel A. Mallon, ii Ladies' Home Journal. True Mnafrnl Instinct. Keillj Couplings is a fireman with a true musical instinct. McCarthy I didn't know he had any talent in that line. "Well, he has. When the music store burned yesterday Couplings played at six piaac all at once." Jadga. SHEPHERD DOG CONTESTS. Haw tk At Trie aa He4 Tor two years there has existed in, France a society known as the "Clui da Chien de Berger Francais," whicfc is devoted to the improvement of thf breed of shepherd dogs in that coon' is seconded in its efforts by the ministry of agriculture, and its work has been of such a nature that shepherd and drovers take more than a little pride in possessing membership in it, The dogs used in France for guarding and driving flocks and droves diffet considerably from the Scotch collie. Two of the principal breeds cultivated there are known as the dogs of Beauct and of Brie, the country of the fragrant fro mage." The dogs of Bcauce have a rough coat, sharp nose, erect, pointed ears, and something of a wolfish appear ance. Those of Brie have long, shaggy hair which conceals their eyes and to a great extent the form of their limbs. As both these localities are at na great distance from and on opposite aides of Paris the greatest rivalry ex ists between them. The club held its first competition last year in the neighborhood of Chart res and the second was held just a month ago at Angerviile. a village in the de partment of Seine et Oise, on the plains of Beauce, where shepherd dogs are numerous and which are easy of ac cess to the drovers of the stock yards of La Villette in the northern suburbs of Paris. In judging the dogs entered in compe tition their jwints of beauty and the purity of breed are first considered, and then follows the most interseting part of the competition, the conducting of a flock of sheep over a prepared course by each dog entered. This con test is described by a writer for LH lust mtion : "At half-past 1! the procession starts from the town hall of Angerviile for the proving ground, two mounted gen darmes opening the line of march, fol lowed by the Opheonic society" (the name with which brass bands dignify themselves in French Tillages). "Then follow the spectators and the com petitors, conducted by their masters. "The route over which the sheep should pass without deviation is traced on the plain by two furrows turned by a plow, and marked from place to place , remainder of the stunid band to follow like sheep." "The best dogs are those who do not become nervous or excited, but by their calmness and by taking their time pre vent the scattering of the flock. "A good shepherd dog should not nip the hind legs of a sheep, as a cut from his sharp teeth may spoil the shank, which furnishes the nicst salable cut of mutton, but should seize the animal by the 'chignon.'" After the trials of driving, the sheep are placed in hurdles, and a competi tion of placing and separating into lots is held, and the day is terminated in a fete in the village with illuminations, merry-go-rounds, dancing, and like amusements. X. Y. Herald. Moslem Aattatlon. There are ominous signs of an awak ening of Moslem fanaticism, following the Turkish victories in Greece. When those victories became known. Mnslema jn India. Africa and Arabia sent mea- sages to the sultan, appealing to him to lead a war against unbelievers. The commission called the Council of the Jehad, or Holy War, which has been sitting at Constantinople, has sent en voys to the various sheikhs and ulema of Egypt, Arabia and India, admonish ing nil true Moslems to be ready to make any sacrifices at the demand of the caliph. In India a British officer has been murdered, and the lives of others threatened, by natives; and a Mussulman mob at Calcutta was so violent that a considerable force of troops was required to subdue it. Suc cessive disasters of plague, famine and earthquake have caused a kind of de spair among large classes of the popula tion, and an intense feeling against the government, which is blamed for all the misfortunes. Youth's Companion. How America Vas Xaned. Vespucci himself must not be held responsible for the usurpation. The unconscious criminal was a certain Mar tin Waldseemuller. of Fribourg, an emi nent cosmographer patronized by Bene, duke of Lorraine. The duke probably showed a letter of Vespucci's to his geo graphical friend, who incorporated it contents with the treatise which he was issuing under the assumed name of "Hylacomylas," and, as these pub lications had a wide circulation, the use of the name America thus became prop agated throughout the world Scrib nex'a.