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The Century.
Through ntorm and calm the years hare led
Oar nation on from stage to stage,
A century's space, nntil we tread
The thresLold of another ago.
We see where o'er onr pathway swept
. A torrent stream of b!oo 1 and fire;
And thank the g-ua.dfan power who kept
Oar sacred league of States entire.
Oh ! checkered train of years, farewell,
With all thy strifes and hopes and fears;
But with ue let thy memories dwell
To warm and teaoa the coming years.
And thou, the new beginning age,
Warmrd by the past, and not in vain;
Write t n a fairer, whiter page
Tho record of thy happier reign.
? William CulUn Bryant.
A BIT OF LACE.
_ It'8 a perfectly exquisite pieoe of
lace, papa."
: v>*" I (Jare say, Flor.
44 But I want you to look at it."
"I shouldn't know any more about it
if I did."
44 Well, then, I want you to buy it"
* "Buy it! What for?''
4 Why,for me."
41 Pay five hundred dollars for a handkerchief
for you t"
" i'es," indeed. Why, papa, I should
think it was something atrocious. All
the other girls have tbem, although
certainly this is a little, the least little
nicer than theirs. I don't know why
.Lucy should have a nicer handkerchief
7 than I, jmt because she married. Any1ix>dy
else would say it was enough to be
married, and eo let mo hare the handkerchief.
Married women have everything?love
and lace and diamonds.
Now, papa, just take out your pooketbook."
It was a coaxing voice.
44 Do you suppose I carry five-hundred-dollar
bills in my pocketbook ?"
" It makes no odds. Your checkbook,
then. I've set my heart on it,
'; it's Buch a beauty. If you only look at
it?look at that wreath of flowers so
delicately shaded; here the close work
in thd light, yon see, there the opeft
work in the shade, so perfect you can
quite fancy the colors; and all done in
it this one thread. See, papa, there's a
. dewdrop, that round hole in the mesh."
" Nonsense, Flor; I can't see anything
of the kind there."
V l That's because your eye isn't educated,
sir. Mine is; for I have studied
- other people's laces till I could almost
work them. That's a good man! I knew
. you would. You always do. One, two,
three !" And then there was a shower
of kisses and tinkling laughter. And
that was the conversation of a millionaire
and his daughter that Lucian Malt
via heard over the open transom ot' the
next room to his in the hotel where he
staicbovernight a year or two ago, seeing
r ather people- nor handkerchief, 'and
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oosting five hundred dollars, which was
one-third of the mortgage on his little
place, that ho was trying to pay off,
he*rt and soul?a conversation that cow
incurred to him in a moment of real,
ngonv, as the housemaid stood before
him holding a little limp rag in her
hand Jhat ahe had just snatched out of
the washtub, and that last night was a
bit of dainty lace that Miss Rose Merrier
had called her baudkerchief, and
lad giveu him to hold during the galop.
* 'Good heavens, how was he ever going
to restore it!
. . .He was a young lawyer, just entering
, upon what in time would probably be
? fine practice, but which was nuw rather
i empirical. He hid started in the race
for wealth and honor with good legal
ability, good name, and good morals,
and with no other impedimenta than a
f little patrimony in the shape of a modest
dwelling in the suburbs, which he had
been obliged to mortgage for the means
to get a part of his education and his
profession, which mortgage he was sfcrivng
to pay off, that he might begin the
fnture clear of the world. He was a
handsome fellow, this Luoian Malvin,
an ambitions one too, in pome degree,
and very nearly as prond as Lucifer.
He used to feel many a pang in the association
with those so muoh wealthier
than himself to which certain circum.
stances had subjected him. He bad
had an important case accidentally
thrown into his hands, and had acquitted
himself so well that the wealthy client
took him up and would not fat him
down; and, when Lucian remonstrated
that it w&s out of his power to keep up
each association, and was mortifying to
his pride besides, the client had assured
him it was not pride, but vanity, that j
was mortified, and that the way to be as
wealthy as those he met was to keep
their company and get their casos ; and
i ho thought, on the whole, that perhaps
1 his friend was right, and he began to j
yield with an ignobly motive, had never-;
. theless become very loud of the ways of J
' the people to whom wealth had given j
every opportunity of culture and grace,
* nnd who knew how to treat life like a
work of art. Moreover, it was not a
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these good people. Certain motherly |
ladies made him at home with them,
and won his confidence aud hisaffection,
notably Mrs. Barnetta. Parents with
good rentrolls of their own, as Mrs.
Barnetta nsed to toil him, were not so
insistent in the matter of rentrolls as of
Mrtue "Jtnd talent in their daughters'
husbands; and he tos invited here and
there, and given to understand a great
deal more than ho choose to understand.
Proud Lucifer, as it was
previously stated, he was going to marry
no heiress of thorn all and be the thrall
of her money; he could not marry a
rich woman, he could cot marry a poor
one. When he married, he was going
to give, not take, and at present he bad
. nothing to give. Perhaps he wonld
have been a nobler person if he had not
been quite so strenuous in this matter
of obligation; but then, as Mrs. Barnetta
' ne would not have been Lucian
.. M&lvin, and Lucian Malvin was a very
good fellow, after all, and there aro few
of us but have our faults.
It was among these people that he
kftppeqed to meet Rosa Mercier. She
* had oo'mo from a distant place, and was
Visiting his pleasantest acquaintance;
and certainly the house was pleasanter
still after her sunshiny little presenoe
dawned on it It seemed as if, for instance,
there never had been any flowers
in the house before, although it had
always been overflowing; it seemed as if
there had been no musio there, no light,
or color, or cheer; and now the place
was too dangerously delightful for a
yonng man who did not want to many
to frequent. She was such a lovely little
thing; not exactly beautiful, that is,
she would not have been beantifnl in a
picture, but in flesh and blood, and in
Lucian Malvin's eyes, she was exceedingly
beautiful, with her soft oolor, her
clear dark gaze, and her bright hair that
broke into a oloud of sunny rings about
her sweet face; such a gentle gayety
went with her wherever she did, such a
tender grace of manner, too, in the intervals
of her buoyant spirits, her voice
was such a warbling voice, her ways
were 6nch winsome ways. Lucian
Malvin felt that he must forswear her
presence unless he wanted to make life
a burden to himself; and he ceased going
to Mrs. Barnetta's, where she was staying,
almost as suddenly as day forsakes
the horizon in that dreary season when
twilights are net.
But if he could shut himself out from
the Bainettas', he oould not shut Miss
Rosa out from general society; and go
where he would, he met her almost
nightly, laughing gayly, singing sweetly,
danoing lightly, till he declared to himself
that if this was going to last, he
muet indeed cease going out at alL But
that was a little too much; he did not
know how positively to deny himself the
mere sight of her. Tet things were
growing very precarious when ho could
not take a book but he saw that blushing
face slide in between the pages,
when he could not make out a writ
without being in danger of slipping her
name into the blanks, when he heard
the delicious voice murmuring in his
ears when he walked, and walked all
night with the little spirit when he
slept. He made a compromise with
himself?it was all he could?and declared
that at any rate he would not
danoe with her again.
It was an idle effort. He might almost
as well have danced with her as
have stood looking at her, quite unconscious
of his general air, and all the lover
In his glanoe. Mrs. Barnetta beckoned
him to her side ; he stood there
jubt as Rosa came up from her promenade
and left the arm of one cavalier to
be carried off by another. "You are
not dancing, Mr. Malvin?" she said.
"Oh, would you hold my fan and handkerchief
f" He followed them with his
eye again as the musio crashed into a
dashing galop.
What right had that other man with
his clapp about this darling ? why did
she suffer it? what deoency was there in
the society which commanded such sacrifice
f In his embrace?whirling wildly
to this wild music I.
"You do hate him, don't you?" said
Mrs. Barnetta, in his ear. "If looks
could slay"? He started. Was he carrying
his heart upon his eleeve for daws
to peck at?? "Oh, I don't pity you a
bit," laughed Mrs. Barnetta, low toned.
And putting out her hand, she took Rosa's
fan and opened it as she talked.
"Anybody," said she, "with such a
power of making misery, ought to eniry
it."
" I?I beg your pardon, Mrs. Barnetta,
but if you read me riddles, I must
ask you also to be their sphinx."
" Oh, no; it was the function of the
sphinx to propound the riddles, not to
solve them." And*- Mrs. Barnettii
laughed her low, pleasant laugh. "You
do not come to us any more," she said.
"And as I used to be in your confidence
before you deserted me, I can imagine
the reason. I do not like to say it is very
shabby treatment of an old friend. 0/
course I cannot say that it is rude. Bui
if you do not dance with Miss Merrier
this eveniner. I shall be fearfully offend
ed. I am not goiog to have my little
treasure made unhappy for the Pake of
the safety of the prinoe of all good fellows
himself."- .
Luoien chauged oolor so suddenly that
Mrs. Barnetta put out her hand in affright,
half expecting to see him fall;
but in a moment he was himself again.
"Do you? Is Miss Mercier he
began, and paused half way.
"As if I should say another word,
and had not already said altogether
tou much!" said Mrs.
Barnetta. "There, she has left dancing
and gone for an ice. What do you think
of round dances, on the whole ?" And
they were, to all appearances, deep in a
discussion of the subject when Rosa returned
and swept her late partner a
courtesy, and took shelter on the other
side of Mrs. Barnetta. Perhaps she
had seen the way Lucian's eye had fol j
lowed her, and it had given her a certain
illumination that made her shrink.
Just then the band began one of the
Hungarian waltzes, a sweet and rapturous
measure that sot the blood itself to
dancing in one's veins. Why not ? One
last dance, one last moment of ecstasy,
ere he went out forever into loneliness.
, Directly be had crampled the bit of laoe
into his posket, and was bending before
the little Rosa, who seemed suddenly to
have lost all her light gayety, and who
put out her hand to him with a conscious
burning blush upon her face that
his heart reflected in a melting glow.
And then there was no thought of pride,
or of negation, or forgetting ; the music
was swinging them at its will; they circled
in each other's arms to its delicious
and delirious movement. Yet only a moment
was it, a few moments, a brief
sweet space of half conscious time; and
then a faint recognition crept through its
spell and warned Lncian of the poison
in this honey. He was in the act of surrender;
he was about to seal his fate and
that of this dear girl; to take her away
from her father's wealth and her luxurious
ease, and condemn her to the carking
cares of poverty. All his nature rebelled;
ho chose not to be swayed by
this melody of horns and strings; he
would have no passion, neither musio
nor love, so master his soul as to beoome
the element in which it swam, an exclusion
of thought and fear, of sight and
sound, and all other emotion; and with
his imperious determination he chose to
break fcli? enchantment? thu real world
arept back nnon his senses, he heard the
tune, beyond this olond that wrapped
them, breaking again into its distinctive
measure, and exertirg hi* will, he controlled
their stepB aud paused at last beside
Mrs. Barnetta, and with a low bow,
and without a word, gave Rosa back into
that lady's care, and passed into the
crowd and out of the place and home to
his lonely rooms.
It waa daybreak before he sought repose,
walking the floor till then, hardly
knowing what he did or what he
thought, but intent upon conquering
himself. He would give the world for
Rosa Mercier's love, but he would not
give his prido. To him that pride meant
self-respect; to marry her, the child of
opulence, meant either to sell himself
for a price, or to reduce her to trouble
and weariness in which her love might
soon wear out. He did not doubt that
bvenow; without a syllable's speech,
he felt sure of it. While it thrilled him
wildly and deeply, it cast a sudden shadow
of regret; he only hoped, and
cursed his fate that forced him to hope
such a thing, that presently the love
would pass, and some one who would
make her happier would claim her. At
length, with maledictions in the act, he
emptied bis pockets of the gloves,
handkerchief, and trifles there, and
went to bed, with the sun coming
inrougn me curtains, ana, worn uus m
body and mind, slept to the blessed and
thorough oblivion of all the world. When
he awoke it was late in the
day. All his trouble rushed over him,
bnt in a moment all his will to repel it
rose too. Ho dressed himself leisurely;
he meant to call that night on Miss
Mercier, restore her handkerchief that
he had forgotten to give back after the
dance, and in some indirect way let her
know that he intended never to marry,
and so seal his doom beyond hope. He
went into the next room when he had
completed his toilet, and, after attending
to one or two other affairs, looked
for the handkerchief that he remembered
to have taken from his pocket and to
have tossed upon the table there. It
was not on the table; it was nowhere in
the room. In a panic, he rung the
bell; and when it was answered, instituted
an inquiry concerning the thing.
Yes, indeed, Susan had seen it, and
thought it was so yellow and soiled she
would take it down and wash it. "Lore,
sir, it was the dirtiest little rag," she
said. "Just straw color. And I thoiight
I'd give it - a run throngh the tub and
the bluing and make it fit to be seen."
"Good heavens!" he cried, with a
horrified flash of remembrance that the
yeilower lace was the more precious was
on/1 tViof if riAnor was wnAhnri on anv
account except by people who did
nothing else. " Let me have it at once."
And in five minutes afterward Susan
stood before him holding up the little
limp rag, and with a pang as from a
blow of something unknown and dreadful,
the conversation that he had heard
over the transom of the hotel door, a
year or two ago, swept back upon his
recollection.
Five hundred dollars! And gone to
grief in a moment I And he could no
more replace it than he could fly, without
what was the same to him as absolute
ruin. Of course he must replaoe
it; he could not be indebted, through
the stupidity of his servant, or through
any other means, to Miss Merrier in that
sum. Without any doubt, slje valued
such a bit of lace; and if anything were
needed to demonstrate to him the wisdom
of the course he had derided on,
and tho utter absurdity of having dared
for a single moment to look with love on
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the fact thather handkerchiefs alone were
items of five hundred dollars. What a
shame! what a wickedneness! what a
preposterous folly! How could a young
man marry ? He burned with indignation
then.
But to replace it; one-third of the
sum he was saving to redeem his little
property from mortgage?all the money
he really had in the world beyond that
for his daily expenses ! It was the ruin
of his hopes, his ambitions, his pride,
that scorned so to be anybody's debtor ;
it threw him back in the race, how long!
But it must be done. He had a trifle
over five hundred dollars in the bank.
Ee drew his check for the neoessary
sum and folded it away in his pocketbook,
and then went about his business
till nightfall, when he came back to his
ireary rooms, and made himself ready
for a call at Mrs. Barnetta's.
The night had Dever seemed so beautiful,
the stars so krge and keen and far
'ibove the earth, so remote and oold?
they typified all the dear and happy
things of life forever removed from him.
j His heart was chilled, and his face was
white when ho stood at" last in Mrs.
Barnetta's drawing room, and she floated
forward to meet him. He had not asked
for Miss Mercier.
"Itis a delicate errand, Mrs. Barnetta,"
said he, with a dreary attempt
at smiling. "But the truth is that my
maid, in her officious kindness, has done
such damage to a bit of Miss Mercier's
property that I must replace it. And I
have corau to beg you, out of your
friendship for me, to transact the affair,
. if such au article can be replaced here,
t believe these little trifles are rather
costly, and if you will procure one "?
and he laid the check he had drawn that
morning and the little limp rag in Mrs.
Barnetta's; Imnd?" as like the original
as possible, I"?
"My dear Mr. MalviD, what in the
world] are yon talking of ?" cried Mrs.
Barnetta. " Have you raoney to throw
about in'this way ? Fiv? hundred dollars?what
is it for?"
"To replace Miss Merci?r'R handkerchief,
if you will be so good as to make
the purchase."
"Like this?" said Mrs. Barnetta,
holdiug up the little limp rag by one
corner.
"Like that," said Lucian.
" Oh, that is too good f" oried Mrs.
Barnetta, with a peal of laughter. "It
is too good, it is too absurd ? What creatures
men are ! Did you imagine that
this bit of finery was worth all that ??
this little ficrid of gra^s cloth and German
lace ? No wonder the young men
don't marry, then I My dear Mr. Maivin,
this miserable handkerchief cost exactly
two dollars and t half, and was
nearly worn out at that. Did you imagine,
too, that my poor listle Knsa could
wear five-hundred-dollar handkerchiefs,
without a cent to her name ?"
"Without a cent to her name ?" cried
Lueien, springing to his feet.
"Exactly. Aha I Is that the trouble ?
Now why didn't you come and talk it all
over with me in the way you used to do,
and save yourself all thia vexation, and
save my little Rosa, too ? What an absurd
boy you are 1 Another would have
waited to hear that she was an heiress;
you wait to hear that she is penniless.
Well, she is, if that satisfies you, except
for what I shall leave my little goddaughter
when I die?which will not be
at present, D. Y. And there she is in
the next room now. But, bless me"?
Lucien hud not waited for the rest of
the invocation. He was already in the
next room, and Rosa wag already in his
arms.?Bazar.
Circassian Girls.
The sale of Circassian girls to Turks
still continues. A correspondent of the
London Times says that a Moslem
dealer makes choice of fonr young, unsophisticated
girls, imports them to
Constantinople, sells them and then goes
back for more.' If he can achieve four
suoh trips in a year he can make a good
living ont of sixteen women. Many of
the Circassians are living in Turkey, and
there actnally breed ohildren for sale,
having no more shame about it than a
fashionable English mother may feel
about bringing out her girl* for the
matrimonial market.
Germany to America.
Mr. Oadwalader, acting secretary of
state of the United States, presented
Mr. Sohlozer, the German minister, to
the President for the purpose of delivering
an autograph letter of congratulation
from the emperor of Germany. Mr.
Sohlozer in presenting the letter stated
tbat he was instructed by his majesty to
deliver upon the fourth day of July to
the President in person an autograph
letter of congratulation upon the occasion
of the centennial anniversary, and
wished to add his personal good wishes
for the United States.
The President briefly replied, assuring
him of his satisfaction in receiving
this evidence of good feeling on the part
of his majesty; that his kind expressions
toward the United States were fully
appreciated, and that the letter should
be properly acknowledged. The letter
is as follows:
William, by the grace of Ood, Emperor
of Oermany, King of Prussia,
etc., to the President of the United
States:
Gkbat and Good Friend : It has
been vouchsafed to you to celebrate the
centennial festival of. the day upon
which the great republic over which you
preside entered the rank of independent
nations. The purposes of its founders
have, by a wise application of the teachings
of the history of the foundation of
nations, and with insight into the distant
future, been realized by a development
without a parallel. To congratulate
you and the American people on the
occasion affords me so much the greater
pleasuie because since the treaty of
friendship which my ancestor of glorious
memory, King Frederick II., who
now rests with God, oonoluded with the
United States, undisturbed friendship
has oontinually existed between Germany
and America, and has been developed
and strengthened by the ever increasing
imnnrtfl.np.fi rtf their mntnal relations.
and by ail intercourse becoming more
and more fruitful in every domain of
commerce and scienoe. That the welfare
of the United States and the friendship
Qf the two countries may continue to increase,
is my sincere desire and confident
hope. Accept the renewed assurance
of my unqualified esteem.
(Signed) William.
(Countersigned) Yon Bismarck.
The Difference.
There was a man who said to himself,
whenever I devote a dollar to pleasure
I will devote ten cents to charity. This
idea he got from personal experience,
for he had been chosen for a single day
collector for contributions to oelebrate
an anniversary, and also oolleotor for a
fund for poor widows. He went fortH
with the two appeals; in the right
pooket he put the money secured for the
celebration and in the left the money
given for widows. When he got home,
he took aooount. and found that five
hundred men had contributed for the
celebration, and only five for the poor
widows. Then he moralized. Now
here, said he, in this hand I have two
thousand dollars, all to be burned up in
bad smelling fireworks, and with this
five times as muoh value in buildings
that these fireworks will destroy. On
the other hand, I have twenty dollars
for a thousand of hard working widows,
who to-day cannot be sure of their din:
ners, and then this reckless man saidl
loud enough for all the world to hear
Go to the average citizen with an appea,
for a starving fellow creattire, and you
may get a penny and you may not; but
show him that you can waste a thousand
dollars in five minutes in noise and
smoke, and he will immediately give
you his cheok for the thousand and
thank you for calling. If Hail Columbia
were a poor widow, she might starve
unless she could eat firecrackers.
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How Hesiug Received Sentence.
When sentence was pronounoed Hesing
stood as if deprived of the power of
movement. It was one of those moments
which occasionally occur in a
court of justice when there is suoh
painful intensity of excitement as for a
few seconds to rob every one present of
their power to say or do anything.
Hesing clung to the railing behind which
he stood, and the fearful whirlwind of
emotion that passed over his face was
only observable by the judge and the
automation-like clerk. Consternation
was plainly visible upon the facet" of the
ten defendants left sitting in the jury
box. The judge at last considerately
came to the relief of the fallen giant.
" You may take your Beat, Mr. Hesing,"
he said.
The eld man turned, stumbled baok
to his chair, and without raising his
eyes to gaze upon theourious crowd
watching his every motion, buried his
face in his handkerchief and burst into
tears. It was, indeed, a bitter moment.
?Chtoago Paper.
A Smart B"oy.
A traveler etopped at Brussels in a
post chaise, and being ebarpset he was
anxious to buy a piece of cherry pie before
his vehicle should 6et out; but he
was afraid to leavo the public conveyance
lest it might drive off and leave
him. So calling a lad to him from the
other side of the street, he Rave him a
pieoe of money and requested him to go
to a restaurant in the near vicinity and
purchase pastry ; and then to make assurance
doubly sure, he gave him anoth-.
er piece of money and told him to buy
some for himself at the same time. The
lad went off on a run, and in a little
while came back, eatiDg a piece of pie,
and lookiDg very complacent and happy.
Walking up to the window of the chaise,
he said, with the most perfect nonchalance,
returning at the same time one of
the pieoes of money which the gentleman
had given him:
"The restaurant had only one piece of
pie left, Mid that I bought with my
money that you gave me I"
The Centennial Legion.
The Centennial Legion, which joined
the great procession in Philadelphia on
the fourth of July, was commanded by
Gen. Heth, and oomposed of the following
organizations: - Rhode Island Light
Infantry, Col. E. B. Bollock oorr.Tnandiug;
Clinch Rifles, of Georgia; Phil
Kearny Guards, of Elizabeth, N. J.,
Capt. W. H. DeHart; American Rifles,
of Wilmington, Del., Capt. 8. M.
Wood; detaohment of the Fifth Maryland
regiment, Col. Loney ; Boston
Light Infantry, of Boston, Mass., Capt.
N. N. Noyes; Washington Light Infantry,
of Charleston, S. C., Capt. M. G.
Moore; Old Guard, of New York city;
Fayetteville Light Infantry, of North
Carolina, Major Haigh; a section of the
First New Hampshire Battery, dismounted,
and acting as infantry; the
New Hayes Grays, of New Haven,
Conn.; State Fenoiblee, of Philadelphia,
Capt. J-W. Ryan; Norfolk Light
Artillery Bluee, of .Norfolk, Va,, Capt.
Hodges, with guns and oainons.
THE COLORADO BEETLE.
Where It Came From?What It Eats, and
hew to Destroy It.
The Colorado beetle, or potato bng,
was first discovered in the canyons of
the Colorado mountains, where it fed
npon several weeds, natives of that region,
and was known to entomologists
long before it became a ptst to the
farmer. Until potatoes were plpnted in
the far West, it had nothing to subsist
upon in a journey eastward, but when
the country became settled, the insect
rapidly increased with the abundance of
food; it was first noticed as injurious to
the crops about I860, and since then has
progressed eastward and into Canada
with accelerated rapidity.
It attacks tomatoes, and especially egg
plants, of which it seems to be more fond
than of anything else. Ornamental
plants of the family are attacked by it.
It seems, since it has come eastward, to
have acquired a taste for other plants,
not at all related to the solanum family;
pig weeds, mullein, thistles and smart
weed among wild plants, and the cabbage
among those in occasionally culti?
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vauon, are piauwj *i> uaa uoou auuwu wu
attaok.
So far as experience has shown, the
insect on its progress eastward does not
wove on, bnt some remain, and while
tney do not seem so nnmerons after the
first few years, potato growers apparently
must accept thn beetle as a fixed
fact. It has kept a foothold wherever
it has come, and there is no present indication
that it will soon leave. It is in
vain to hope that it will onre itself, bnt
it demands the serious attention of all
who cultivate the potato and related
plants. To be sure, there are its natural
enemies, which we may hopp, judging
from other inscct soourges, will increase
sufficiently to keop it in subjection, but
these slowly follow the pest. There are
several of these, one a genuine parasite
that deposits its eggs in the larva of the
potato beetle, and several others that
attack, kill, and feed upon the larvae.
Several larv? of the ladybirds are very
active in this respect, and should be encouraged,
or at least not destroyed, as
wo have known to be the case. Tney
move with great activity, and destroy
nnmbers of the young grubs of the potato
bng; these are usually lead colored,
with bright orange spots; these and the
perfect ladybirds should be unmolested,
as should their pupae. The ladybird
larva enters the pupa state on the potato
vine, attaching itself to a stem or leaf;
it ooils up and may be, by a careless oboawtaw
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grub, and destroyed. This is perfectly
dormant and attached, while the other
will move, and is readily picked off.
Other insects in the perfect state, and as
larvae, aid in the work of destroying the
larvee of the potato bag. The only safe
way is to watch every other insect found
among them, and do not destroy it until
it is found to be injurious to the potato
plant.
When the potatoes firsi; appear above
ground, begin the search for the bngs.
The first that appear come out of the
ground after their winter's rest. If
these are captured at once, before they
breed and lay eggs, it will materially
diminish their future numbers. Much
may be done by mechanical means when
the insects are not in overwhelming
numbers. Some have been very successful
in simply knocking them off by
means of alight paddle made of shingle,
and catching them in a pan containing
water. We have successfully used a
pan of sheet iron thirty inches long, with
the other parts in proportion. The
edges of the pan curve inward and make
it difficult for the insects to crawl ont.
With this in one hand, and a light brush
in the other, one can knock off the :nsects
in large numbers very rapidly.
mi * *_ _i 13 i L
me oruBQ snouiu ue ami eiiuugu iu remove
the larv? and not injure the
leaves; we find a wisp of straw, or a
bunch of some strong growing grass, as
handy as anything. There are patented
contrivances for mechanically removing
the bugs, bnt they promise no better
results than these simple means.?Agriculiuris
A Story About "Worms.
The Allentown (Pa.) Register oontains
the following curious narrative : Mr.
George T. Hersh, of this city, while on
a reoent visit to Hellertown, met an acquaintance,
who related a most singular
story concerning. an ar.ny of worms.
The occurrence took place in Bucks
county, and the story is this: "As I was
at home they told me that about a mile
and a half way there was an army of
worms marching from one given, point
to the other and thence back again.
This seemed very strange to me, and 1
came to the conclusion that I would go
and see for myself. Consequently I
hitched in the carriage and dr^ve to the
plaoe. I tied my horse to the fence,
and commenced to examine, and to my
great astonishment I beheld the worms
in great numbers creeping at the plaoe
named, just from one given point to the
other, a distance of about three or four
hundi ed yards. No worm is to be seen
anywhere else. This worm travels
only mornings and evenings?evenings
after eunset and mornings till about
eight or nine o'clock. In the daytime
they lie concealed under rocks and in
openings. I saw them lie nnder rocks,
one ngainst the other. It is so full at their
marching time that you cannot help
killing a number at every step you take
when walking through that place. It is
a worm about an inch or an inch and a
quarter long, having a whitish or yellowish
color, with a blaok stripe over its
back. It has sixty-six feet, with which
it hurries itself along at a very lively
speed. When you catch the worm it
screams. It has also a very offensive
odor. It is so tender that if you touch
it a little hard it goes to pieces. It is
not a destructive worm, as it only oats
aa?4Vt T nAWAn OAtrf on aVi a an/1
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the curiosity of them prompted me to
prooore some; so I caught a number of
them and put them in alcohol. Hundreds
of people flock to that place to
see the worms."
In another paragraph the Register
adds the following: Mr. Charles Eckert
was in Bucks county, and by a
friend taken to the place where that
singular army of worms holds forth. He
reports that the place is visited by many
people from all sections of the county
and from distant places. An immense
crowd was on the ground watching the
marohing of these curious worms.
Scientific men who have seen specimens
of the worms say that they never saw
anything like them, and can give no
reasonable theory for their presenoe in
this peculiar locality. The place where
this curious phenomenon, if we may so
oall it, oan be sees is about three miles
from Dnnnelltown. near Pleuant hill. '
THE LATE SANTA ANNA.
A Sketch of the Lire of a Notable Mexican
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, formery
president of the republic of Mtxico,
died on June 24. He was born in the
city of Jalapa, February 21, 1798, and
entered the army in 1821. He met with
some bu00683, but having been dismissed
for insubordination, he raised the banner
of the republic in Vera Cruz in 1822,
and commenced hostilities against the
emperor, Iturbide, and accomplished his
overthrow. Defeated in the elections,
he shortly after secured the overthrow of
Fedraza and the elevation of Guerrero,
who made him his minister of war. He
subsequently headed two other success
ful insurrections, one to replace Guerrero
by Eustamenve, and the other in
the interest of -fedraza. In Maroh,
1833, he was himself elected president,
and was a favorite with the people,
though suspected by the army of imperial
ambitions. He took his turn at
suppressing insurrections, the most formidable
of which he suppressed May
11, 1836, by a victory which proved a
fatal blow to the Republican party.
Shortly thereafter a revolutionary feeling
in Texas showed itself in open insurrection
against the government and early
in 1836 Santa Anna took the field and
crossed the Bio Grande at the head of
six thousand troops. In March he
stormed the Alamo at San Antonio and
massacred its defenders. At San Jacinto
he was defeated by the Texan army
under Houston, and in April, 1831, was
by bim taken prisoner. Bos functions as
president were thereupon suspended.
He came to the United States, and in
1837 returned to Mexico and stood for
re-election, but was defeated. Upon the
bombardment of Vera Cruz by the
French, the same year, he assisted in its
defense, and there received the wound
which resulted in the amputation of a
leg. During the long contest between
the Centralists and Federalists he was a
leader of the former, and from 1841 to
1844 was virtually dictator, under the
title of provisional president. Under
the instrument of reconstruction of
June 12, 1843, he again became constitutional
president, but September 20,
1844, he was deposed by a new revolution,
taken prisoner and banished for
ten ye*rs. He then took up his re-idence
in Cuba. In 1846 he was recalled,
appointed generalissimo, and subsequently
made provisional president. He
at onoe marched northward with 20,000
men, and Fobruary 22, 1847, attacked
the American troops at Buena Vista, five
thousand strong, under General Taylor,
who repulsed him the next day. He
then raised a ?ew army and was again
defeated by General Scott at Cerro Gordo,
April 18. He at once retreated to i
the city of Mexico with the fragment of
his army, and organized a new one,
30,000 strong, for the defense of the
capital; but the storming of Molino del
Bey, September 8, and Chapultepec
September 13 and 14, 1847, opened the
city to Scott's victorious army. Santa
Anna made a last stand at Pnebla, but ,
was attacked by General Lane at Huamantia
and forced ; o retire. By permission
of the American commander he
sailed for Jamaica April 5, 1848, and did
not return to Mexico till 1853, when he
was appointed president for life, with
power to appoint his successor. His
rale was bo despotio that a revolution
led by General Alvarez overthrew him, and
August 16, 1855, he signed his unconditional
abdication and sailed for Havana.
During the French invasion of Mexico
he returned and was appointed grand
marshal of the empire by Maximilian.
In 1865 he conspired aarainst the em
peror and was forced to retire to St.
Thomas. - In 1867 he made his last attempt
to regain the mastery of Mexico,
but was taken prisoner at Vera Ornz and
condemned to death. Presided Juarez
pardoned him on condition of his quitting
Mexican soil forever, and he came to the
United States. After tho death of
Juarez he returned to his native soil and
lived in seolusion in the city of Mexico
till the time of his death.
The Sioux Chief Sitting Bull.
Mr. Maginnis, of Montana, in the
United States House, during a discussion
on the Indian question, gave the
following history of Sitting Bull:
The first time that Sitting Bull became
known to the people of this nation
was during the great Minnesota massacre
in 1862. In 1863 he fought Sully in
the Black Hills. In 1864 he ravaged
the Missouri river, attacking several
steamboats. In 1865 he made war upon
the peaceable Indians. In 1866 the
government sent out a peace commission
to Fort Yuma, winch gave him |
presents, including twenty kegs of
powder, and as soon as he got the presents
he broke up the commission and
omou fVio ^nmmiRHl'nnAWL In 1867
he oontinued a career of predatory warfare.
1868, when this treaty waa made
at Laramie, he refused to come in and
be a party to it. In 1869 he attacked ,
the settlement on the Mnsser Shell, (
which was the first time he was ever de- (
feated, because the settlers had got notice
of his coming and had ambuscaded
him and killed thirty-six of his war- ,
riors. In that same year he made war
upon the Crows and the Mandaus. In
1870 Gen. Hancock thought of an expedition
to subdue him. About that time
this peace policy fever was raging, and
on consultation with the other generals
of the army, Gen. Hancock recom- '
mended that another effort should be :
made by the government to make a
treaty with Sitting Bull. In the suo- i
ceeding winter Congress appropriated |
$750,000 to buy peace from Sitting Bull.
That was the celebrated Teton-Sioux ap- '
propriation, in regard to the expendi- (
ture of which some criticism had been
made. Any how, they succeededin get- j
ting abont one-half of his force into the |
agency at Fort Peck, but he himself re- f
fused to come in. In 1874 he still car- ,
ried on war upon the settlements of
Montana, and ravaged them constantly. ,
He also carried on war upon the Crows,
whom he drove from their reservation,
upon the Shoshones, and upon every ,
Indian tribe friendly to the United
States. In 1875 h? attacked two gov- ,
ernment stages, run off the stock of j
the stage company, and again drove the ,
Crows off the reservation into Montana. ;
By this time the peace commissioners
saw that he was intractable, and that he
must be disciplined. Messrs. .Brum and ;,
Stewart, and peaceful men of like character,
petitioned the Indian department j
to take steps to subjugate Sitting Bnll. j |
This petition resulted in the Wur de- ,
partment finally taking hold of the mat- \
ter. I ask whether the government has ]
violated its faith hi making war on this j
intractable Indian, who has never re- i
cognized its flag; but who defies its ,
authority, and boasts that, if he could (
get the Sious nation to join him, he >,
would drive this government into the
ocean.
Mr. Townsend (Rep., New York)?Is
this the same Indian who organized the
conspiracy to murder Senator Allison
and other citizens, last summer ?"
Mr. Maginnis?It in the man who
planned and organized that conspiracy.
A true American 1b tooproud to beg
and too honest to steal. He gete trusted.
THE UTOIAN SLAUGHTER.
The Battle and the Battlefield?Narrow Escape
of Rene's Command from Annihilation
? Forty-el*ht Bonn Flffhtln* with
Indians?The FrWrhtfnl Fate *1 Caster's
Force Gradaallr Discovered?No Llrlni
Men Left-Total Loss 861 Killed In Both
Commands?Future Operations.
Farther particulars of the desperate
enoonnter which OoL Reno had with the
Sioux Indians on the twenty-fifth of
Jane tell of the sufferings which his command
experienced while it was so oomploJy
hemmed in by the Indians. For
thirty-six horns the troops were without
a drop of water. The appeals of the
wounded for drink were heartrending,
while the others were almost exhausted,
in many instances their tongues protruding
from their mouths, and few
of them able to speak aloud. They
tried to eat crackers, but oould not
moisten them. Others attempted to
ohew and swallow blades of grass to secure
relief, but these clung to their
parched lips and intensified their agony.
It was while thus suffering that they determined
at all hazards to gain the water
from which they were out off, and made
the desperate dash whioh, while it cost
them a number of lives and many
wounded, secured that which they so
much needed. It was then early night,
and when firing ceased Col. Beno at
onoe took steps to relieve his animals,
which, like the men, were completely
exhausted. He knew well that the Indians
would resume the attack in the
morning. ?
It was in this position that Qen. Terry,
with Gibbons' command, consisting
of five companies of infantry, four of
cavalry, and the Gatlin battery, found
Beno. Terry bad started to asoend the
Big Horn to attack the Indians in rear,
while Custer attacked them from his
point of contact. The maroh of the ^two
columns was so planned as to bring Gibbons'
forces within co-operating distance
of the anticipated soene of action
i? IL. ; ? i.i-~ noiL mu?
uy but) evening ui mo auuju xuo iuuiuing
of the 26th brought the intelligence,
communicated by three badly frightened
Crow scouts, of the battle of the previous
day and its results. The story was
not credited, because it was not expected
that an attaok would be made earlier
than the 27th, and chiefly because no
one could believe that a force such as
Caste? commanded could have met with
disaster. Still the report was in no way
disregarded. All day long the toilsome
march was kept up, and every eye bent
upon a cloud of smoke resting over the
southern horizon, which was hailed as a
sign that Caster was successful and had
fired the village. It was only when
night was falling that the weary troops
laid down upon their arms. The infantry
had marched twenty-nine m;ies. The
march of the next morning revealed at
every step some evidence of the conflict
which had taken place two days before.
At an early hour the head of the
column entered a plain half a mile
wide, bordering ine xeic oanK 01 lue
Little Big Horn, where had recently
been an immense Indian village, extending
three miles along the stream,
and where were stancLjg funeral lodges
with horses slaughtered around them,
and containing the bodies of nine
chiefs. The ground was strewn everywhere
with carcasses of horses. Their
camp was strewn with robes, gaudily
painted, with finely dressed hides and
interesting and valuable trinkets. The
ground was covered everywhere with
carcasses, of horses, besides buffalo
robes, packages of dried meat, and weapons
and utensils belonging to the Indians.
On this part of the field was
found the clothing of Lieuts. Sturgis
and Porter, pierced with bullets, and a
blood stained gauntlet belonging to
Oapt. Yates. Further on were found
the bodies, among whom were recognized
Lieut. Mcintosh, the interpreter
from Fort Rice, and Reynolds, the
guide. It was evident also that the Indians
had shown little solicitude for
their wounded, as the ravines were oovered
with dead.
main n a tViflflfl ffloomv difiOOV
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eries a scout came up in breathless haste
with the announcement that Col. Reno,
with a remnant of the Seventh cavalry,
was intrenched on a bluff near by waiting
for relief. The' command pushed
rapidly on and soon came in sight of a
group surrounding a cavalry guard upon
a lofty eminence on the right bank of
the river. Gen. Terry forded the
stream, accompanied by a small party,
and rode to the Bpot. All the way the
slopes were dotted with the bodie3 of
men and horses. The general approached,
and the men swarmed out of
the works and greeted him with hearty
and repeated cheers. Within was found
Reno, with the remains of seven companies
of the regiment. In the oenter
of the inolosure was a depression in the
surface, in which the wounded were
sheltered, covered with canvas. Reno's
command had been lighting from Sunday
noon, the twenty-fifth, until the
night of the twexty-sinth, when Terry's
arrival caused the Indians to retire.
Up to this time Reno and those with
him were in complete ignorance of the
fate of the other five companies which
bad been separated from them on the
twenty-fifth to make an attack under
Ouster on the village at another point.
While preparations were being made
for the removal of the wounded, a party
was sent on Custer's trail to look for
traces of his command. They met a
sight to appall the stoutest heart. At a
point about tb>"3 miles down tne ngnt
bank of the stream, Gen. Cnster had
Bvidently attempted to ford and attaok
the village. From the ford the trail was
found to lead back up the bluffs and to
the northward, as if he had been repulsed
and compelled to retreat, and at the
game time had been out off from rejoining
the forces under Reno. The bluffs
ire cut into by numerous ravines, and
all along these slopes and ridges and in
the ravines lay the .dead, lying in the
order of battle, as they had fought.
Line behind line showed where defensive
positions had been taken up and
held, till at last few were left to fight,
and then, huddled in a narrow compass,
horses and men were piled promiscuously.
At the h'ghest point of the ridge lay
Ouster, surrounded by his chosen band.
Here were his two brothers and his
nephew, Mr. Rccd, Capt. Yates, Licuts.
Cooko and Smitii, all lying within a cirule
of a few yards, their horses beside
them. Here behind Yates* company the,
last stand had been made, and here one
after another of these last survivors of
Custer's Jive companies had met their
death. Xiie companies uau nuotx??iveiiy
thrown themselves aoross tho path of the
advancing enozny, and had been annihilated.
Not a man had escaped to tell
the tale, bnt it tree inscribed on the surface
of these barren hills in a language
more eloquent than words.
Two hundred and sixty-one bodies
have been buried from Ouster's and
Reno's commands. /
The history of Beno's operations comprises
all that is aow known of this
sanguinary affair. It seem? that Ouster,
with eight oompanics, reached the river
in the forenoon of the 25th, having
marched continuously all the previous
day and night. Seeing the upper or
southern extremity of the village, and
probably underestimating its extent, he
ordered Beno to ford the river and
charge the village with three companies,
while he, with five companies, moved
down the right bank and behind the
bluff, to make a similar attack at the
vill CT end. Beno made his charge, but
finding that he was dealing with a foroe
many times his own numbers, dismounted
his men, and sought shelter in
the timber which fringed the river bank.
The position appearing .to him untenable,
he remounted and cut his way
to the river, forded under a murderous
fire, and gained the bluff where he was
subsequently found. Here he was afterward
joined by Capt. Benteen with
three companies which had just reached
the field, and by Oapt. McDougall with
his company and the pack mules. The
position was immediately after competed
invested by the Indians, who for
more than trwenty-fonr hours allowed
the garrison no rest and inflicted severe
loss. Bat for the timely arrival of relief
the command wonld have been ent
off to a man. The number saved with
Beno was 329, inducting fifty-one wounded.
The loss among the Indians was
probably considerable, as bodies have
been found in every direction, and they
left behind only a small portion of
their dead.
Declaration of Independence.
The Declaration of Independence of
the United States was dralted by Jefferson,
and examined and slightly amended
by Franklin and Adams. It was written
by Jefferson in the first room of the
second story of the house of Jaoob
Graff, southwest corner of Seventh and
Market streets, Philadelphia, which
is still standing. Jefferson was a boarder
in that house, and in that chamber,
oravirdtnff tn hio own ntjitflmAnt. marl ft in
a letter to Dr. James Mease, September
16, 1825, the Declaration of Independence
was written.
Congress adopted the declaration in
secret session. It was already known
on the fourth that Lee's resolution,
which was the vital act in the opposition
to Great Britain, had been adopted on
the second. The declaration was merely
an assignment of reasons for the
passage ol the resolutions, a vindication
of an act already done. There was,
therefore, no excitement in Philadelphia
at the time the declaration was adopted.
In fact, the character of the declaration
was not known until two days afterward,
when it made its appearance in Dunlap's
paper. On the tifth of July Congress
sent out circular letters, to all the assemblies,
conventions and councils of
safety of the various States, asking that
the Declaration of Independent^ should
be proclaimed. Saoh proclamations
generally followed. In Philadelphia,
the declaration was first read to tna
people on Monday, the eighth of July,
by John Nixon, in the State house yard,
from an observatory erected there in
1769 to observe a transit of Venus over
the sun. Nixon was a member of the
council of safety, and read the declaration
instead of the sheriff of the
bounty, who was originally requested to
perform that service. In the afternoon
the declaration was read to the five battalions
of associators on the oommona.
The king's arms over the door of
the supreme courtroom were torn
down by a committee of associators appointed
for the purpose. In the eveniiig
they were burned amidst the acclamations
of a large crowd of spectators.
Bonfires were lighted, bells were
rung, and the most noted of all the
peala which sounded over the city was
that of the old State house bell, whioh
had been cast twenty-four years before,
bearing upon its side the prophetio and
remarkable motto: " Proclaim liberty
throughout the land to all the inhabitants
thereof."
Tlio Bill to Suppress Lotteries*
The fact that both Houses of the United
States Oongress have passed a bill
??n liA?tA aff/irtt if /varriod nnt
WU1UU VTUl UOTO l/UV VUVW) M WMV|
of entirely suppressing the lottery business
in the United Stat**, or even the
circulation of lottery tiokets or advertisements,
has escaped publio attention.
Suoh a bill was sent to the President for
signature. The first section relates to
the circuhtion through the mails of obscene
literature, and is a slight amendment,
of the present law. The second
section amends section 8,894, so that it
will read as follows:
No letter or circular concerning lotteries,
so-called gift conoerts, or other similar
enterprises offering prizes, or concerning
schcmes devised and intended
to deoeive and defraud the publio for the
purpose of obtaining money under false
pretenses, shall be carried in the mail.
Any person who shall knowingly deposit
anything to be carried by mail in violation
of this section shall be punishable
by a fine of not more than $500 nor less
than $100, with costs of prosecution.
How They Fined Tories.
The Frederick (Md.) Examiner prints
the following : In looking over the old
records of the clerk's omce or tms
county, the following criminal proceedings,
among others, were discovered in
the prosecutions for Toryism instituted
near the close of the Revolutionary
war :
State against one A. 0., presented for
saying " he wished all persons who went
about warning people on militia duty
might be hanged, not by the necks, but
by the heels." Fined ?25 specie.
State against J. H., presented for
"da*nning Gen. Washington and the
Congress of the United States of
America." Fined JG15 specie.
State agai'ist E. L., presented for
" drinking a health to King George and
damnation to Gen. Washington.'
Fined ?5 specie.
Tho minutes of the court show numerous
orders passed by the court appropriating
money for tho support of
the wives and children of soldiers in the
Maryland line.
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A Concentrated Jury.
In a land case being tried in San Antonio,
the jury having been dispensed
with, his honor acts as judge and jury
both. To Lave a single man acting for
twelve seems very simple, but it is be-1
wildering to the deputy sheriff, who has j
been attending juries for a long time. i
One morning, for ins tan oe, he looked j
fixedly at his honor, and after counting '
him several times, inquired :
" Where is the rest of you ?"
"When court adjourned, the sheriff'
said, rather sternly, we thought, to his
honor:
"Now, don't you go talking about
this case among yourselves, ana all of
you boys be on hand promptly, or I'll
hunt some of you up in a way that you
won't like."
What the hog laoks in culture he
makes up in sealjand enthusiasm,
Items of Interest.
The longest periods in a boy's life are
those between meals.
There is no man clever enough to
kstiw all the evil which he does.
Two hundred liquor sailers of Portland,
Me., have just gone out of business.
" Leisure is sweet to those who have
earned it," and it is very comfortable if
your uncle has earned it for you.
Dobba says the first time a girl kissed
him he felt as if he was sliding down a
rainbow with butter and honey in each
hand.
A couple of young women at Fryeburg,
Me., appeared on the road hoe
in hand a few days since to work ou
their highway taxes.
Ask no favors of any one, and you
will suoceed a thousand times Deiter
than those who are always beseeching
some one's patronage.
A man in a neighboring town who had
a good spyglass looked at his third
consir through it, which bronght him
as near as a first cousin.
This is the season of the year when
man delights to lie beneath wide spread- ing
shade trees, communing with nature
and getting bugs in his ears. * .
The nominating days have come, the maddest
of the year,
When every politician chap strata round like
chanticleer ;
He flaps bis little wings and crows, and makes
a mighty noise,
And then he strikes the candidate for oash to
treat the boys.
To feed sparingl y and irregularly is .
to lose all you give to fowls; but to study
into their wants and anticipate theja is ?
to render them very profitable.
A woman who was purchasing some
cups and saucers was asked what color
she would have. " Why, I ain't particular,"
she said ; *' color that won't show
dirt."
"How ministers are killed" Is the
caDtion of an article circulating through
the newspapers. Ton may not have one
to kill, bnt it is well to know how it is
done.
Agricultural journal: Question-?Will
the editor please inform me how the ,
Hollanders salt cucumbers ? Answer?
The most common way, as we observed
when abroad, is to salt them with salt
Young ladies who intend celebrating
can do so to the best advantage by inserting
the butt of a firecracker between
their teeth before igniting it It
often crimps the front hair splendidly. \
And now sorre one says that it is
idiotic to suppose that sunstroke is
caused .by a stroke of the sun; tha t, in
fact, it frequently occurs at a time when
there is no sun fat all, and that the - '
physical break down called sunstroke is
simply nervous exhaustion aggravated
by. excessive heat, whether in sun or
shade. All this may be -true, even
though it docs knock over a venerable
pet theory. 7-'
The Indian Question.
Mr. Steele, of Wyoming, in the
United States House, dnzing a discussion
on the Indian bill, said it was not a
fact that the military operations were
carried on without reference to the
peace policy. In 1888 the United States
had made a treaty with the Sioux nation,
which was a grave misUke, if it was not
a national dishonor and auugraoe. That
treaty had been the foundation of all
the difficulties in the Sioux oountry, and
the cause of the death of Ouster and his
men in the Big Horn oountry. In 1856 . <
Gen. Pope established posts at Forts
Phil. Kearney, Reno and 0. F. Smith, .
so as to open the roads to Montana and
fn fvmntrv of the friendlv
Crows from the hostile Sioux. In keeping
these posts and opening that road
many men, citizens and soldiers, had
been killed. Notable among the actions
that had taken place there were the
massacre of Fetterman and his command
at Fort Phil Kearney?ninety-six men
and offioers; and vet after these men had
sacrificed their lives the government
went to work'and made a treaty by which
it ignominionsly abandoned that oountry
to these savages, dismantling its own
posts, and leaving there the bones of the
men who laid down their lives in the >
wilderness. Was it to be wondered at,
nnder these circumstances, that Sitting
Bull and his men believed that they
were superior to the general government?
Anybody who knows anything
about the Indian's nature, knows that
the legitimate result of that cowardly
policy of "peaoe at any prioe" was
only to defer the evil day which has now
come upon us. Sinoe that time the
Sioux have been constantly depredating
on the frontiers of Nebraska, Wyoming
and Montana; and more men have fallen
there in the peaceful avocations of civil ,
life, without a murmur being heard, than
fell under the gallant Custer on the
twenty-fifth of June, The friendly
Crows have been raided upon with every
full moon, so with the Shoehones, and at
last these outrages have become so great
and so long continued that even the
peaceable Indian department could not
stand them any longer, and called on the
military arm of the government to
punish these men. It was in carrying
out this poliov that Custer and bis men
have been sacrificed. I was up in that
country at the time that the commissioners
were there attempting to
negotiate with the Sioux. At that time
Young Man Afraid of his Horses, the
hereditary chieftain of the Ogallala
tribe and the man wno oy Dirin is entitled
to rule over these people, told me
that there was not in that northern country,
under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse,
more than from one hundred to two
hundred lodges, which would not give
them over eight hundred fighting men,
all told, and yet the report which we
now get is that there were 1,800 lodges,
aggregating 3,500 or 4,000 fighting men
in the encampment or village attacked
by Custer. Where did these men come
from? They came from the agencies
where they had been fed and fattened
by our government and where they had
been better armed than the soldiers are.
They came from those reservations to
fight our troops, and if the present
policy is continued they will go back
there as soon as the snow falls to feed
themselves and their ponies for new
operations next spring.
To Make thb Hath Grow upon a
Spot which has Bsoohb Bald.?Bum
and sweet oil; mix equal parts ; then
wash the spot three times a day. Bum
constantly used to wash the hair keeps
it very clean and free from disease and
promotes its growth, and is also very
strengthening to the roots of the hair.
Bhobt Gakb.?One pint of buttermilk
or sour milk, one teaepooafnl of soda
dissolved in the milk, one tablespoonfu
of lard, a little salt; mix soft, and cut
with a tumbler or cake cutter; bake nti
a griddle.