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# # YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. XSSUBZ3 TWIOH-A-WHEIK?WEDNESDAY ANX) FRIDAY. l. m. grist * sons, Publishers. } % Ucrcspager: 4or M $nmtoiion of ih$ Social, ^ricultuiial and d?ommei(rial Interests of the ?outh. {TER8^GlE0c?oPYyra^EE ce^08' VOLUME 42. " YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1896. NUMBER 34. - i ~ " . i STRANGE TRAGEDY. By W. GLARE RUSSELL [Copyright, 1396, by the Author.] It is proper I should state at once that the names I give in this extraordinary experience are fictitious. The date of the tale is easily within the memory of the _ middle aged. The large, well known Australian liner White Star lay off the wool sheds ' in Sydney harbor slowly filling up with wooL I say slowly, for the oxen were languid up country, and the stuff came in as Fox is said to have written his history?"drop by drop." We were, however, advertised to sail in a fortnight * ??? ? ninw rsr> an/3 ITUlli ULIW lUk^ X Upou IUI40 DWiJ VU| MUV4 A * there was no doubt of onr getting away by then. I, who was chief officer of the vessel, was pacing the poop under the awning, when I saw a lady and gentleman approaching the vessel They spoke to the mate of a French bark which lay just ahead of us, and I conolnded that their business was with that ship, till I saw the Frenchman, with a flourish of his hat, motion toward the White Star, whereupon they advanced and stepped on board. I went on to the quarter deck to receive them. The gentleman had the air of a military man?short, erect as a royal mast, wun pierty ui wnjeutera tuiu mustache, though he wore his chin cropped. fiis companion was a very fine young woman of about six and twenty years, above the average height, faultlessly shaped, so far as a rude seafaring eye is privileged to judge of such matters ; her complexion was pale, inclined to sallow, but most delicate, of a transparency of flesh that showed the blood eloquent in her cheek, coming and going with every mood that possessed her. She . wore a little fall of veil, but she raised it when her companion handed her over the side in order to look round and aloft at the fabrio of spar and shroud towering cm high, with its central bunting of house flag pulling in ripples of gold and blue from the royal mast head, and so I had a good sight of her face, and particularly of her eyes. I never remember the like of such eyes in a woman. To describe them as neltuer large DOT smaii, me pupiia ux the liquid dusk of the Indian's, the eyelashes long enough to cast a silken shadow of tenderness upon the whole expres. don of her face when the lids dropped ?to say all this is to convey nothing, simply because their expression formed the wonder, strangeness and beauty of them, and there is no virtue in ink, at all events in my ink, to communicate * it I do not exaggerate when I assure you that the surprise of the beauty of her eyes, when they came to mine and rested upon me steadfast in their stare as a picture, was a sort of shock in its way, comparable in a physical sense to one's unexpected handling of something slightly electrio. For the rest, her hair was very black and abundant and of that sort of deadness of hue which you find among the people of Asia I cannot describe her dress. Enough if I say that she was in mourning, but with a large admixture of white, for those wero A*- - UL1U UUt WWAfl JLU UJ UAIUJ. "Is the captain on board?" inquired the gentleman. "He is not, sir." "When do you expect him?" "Every minute." "May we stop here?" "Certainly. Will ycm walk into the cuddy or on to the poop?" "Oh, we'll keep in the open?we'll keep in the open," cried the gentleman, with the impetuosity of a man rendered irritable by the heat. "You'll have had enough of the cuddy, Miss Le Grand, long before you reach the old country." She smiled. I liked her face then. It was a fine, glad, good humored smile and humanized her wonderful eyes just as though you clothed a ghost in flesh, making the specter natural and commonplace As we ascended the poop ladder the gentleman asked me who I was quite courteously, though his whole manner was marked by a quality of military abruptness. When he understood I was chief officer, he exclaimed: "Then, Miss Le Grand, permit me to introduce Mr. Tyler to you. Miss Georgina Le Grand is going home in your ship. She will be alone. We have placed her in the care of the captain." "Perhaps," said Miss Le Grand, with another of her fine smiles, "I ooght to introduce you, Mr. Tyler, to my unole, Colonel Atkinson." Again I pulled off my cap, and the oolonel laughed as he lifted his wide "I ought to introduce you. Mr. Tyler, to my uncle. Colonel Atkinson." straw hat I guessed he laughed at a certain naivete in the girl's way of introducing us. The colonel was disposed to chat Qut of England Englishmen are among cue most talkative of the human race. Likely enough he wanted to interest me in Miss Le Grand because of my situation on board. A chief mate is a considerable figure. If any mishap incapacitates the master, the chief mate takes charge. We walked the poop, the three of us. in the violet shadow cast by the awning. The oolonel constantly directed his eyes along *the quay to observe if the captain was coming. During this stroll to and fro the white planks I got these particulars, partly from the direct assertions of the colonel, partly from the occasional remarks of the girl: Colonel Atkinson bad married her father's sister. Her father had been an officer in the army and had sailed from England with the then governor of New South Wales. After he had been in Sydney a few months he sent for his daughter, whom he had left behind him with a maternal rfhnt. her mother hav ing died some years before. She reached Sydney to find her father dead. His exoellency was very kind to her, and she found very many sympathetic friends, bnt her home was in England, and to it she was returning in the White Star under the care of the. master, Captain Edward Griffiths, after a stay of nearly five months in Sydney with her uncle, Colonel Atkinson. Half an hour passed before the captain arrived. When he stepped on board, I lifted my cap and left the poop, and the captain and the others went into the cuddy. Our day of departure came round, and not a little rejoiced was I when the tug had fairly got hold of us and we were floating over the sheet calm surface of Sydney bay, past some of the loveliest bits of scenery the world has to offer, on our road to the mighty ocean beyond the grim portals of Sydney Heada We were a fairly crowded ship, what with Jacks and passengera The steerage and 'tween decks were full up with people going home. In the cuddy some of the cabins remained unlet We mustered in all, I think, about 12 gentlemen and lady passengers, one of whom,needless to say, was Miss Georgina Le Grand. - ? ? i.i? ?? I naa Deen dusy uu iuxouoouiq when she came aboard, but heard afterward from Hobson, the second mate, that the governor's wife, with Colonel Atkinson and certain nobs out of government house, had driven down to the ship to say goodby to the girl. She was alone. I wondered she had not a maid, but I afterward heard from a bright little lady on board, a Mrs. Bumey, one of the wickedest flirts that ever with a flash of dark glance drew a sigh from a man, that the woman Miss Le Grand had engaged to accompany her as maid to Europe had omitted to put in an appearance at the last moment, in perfect conformity with the manners and habits of the domestic servants of the Australian colonies of those days, and the young lady having no time to procure another maid had shipped alone. At dinner on that first day of our departure, when the ship was at sea and I was stumping the deck in charge, I ob o - 1 j ? u serveu, iu giiujciijg tuiuugu uioiu^ugui, that the captain had put Miss Le Grand upon the right of his chair, at the head of the table, a little before the fluted and emblazoued shaft of mizzenmast. I don't think above five sat down to dinner. A long heave of swell had sickened the hunger out of most of them. But it was a glorious evening, and the red sunshine, flashing fair upon the wide open skylights, dazzled out as brilliant and hospitable a picturo of cabin equipment as tho sight could wish. I had a full view of Miss Le Grand, and occasionally paused to look at her, so standing as to be unobserved. Now that I saw her with her hat off I found something very peculiar and fascinating in her beauty. Her eyes seemed to fill her face, 6ubduin& every lineament to the full spiritual light and meaning in them, till her countenance looked sheer intellect, the very quality and spirit of mind itself. This effect, I think, was largely achieved by the uncommon hue of her skin. It- accentuated color, casting a deeper dye into the blackness of her hair, sharpening the fires in her eyes, painting her lips with a more fiery tinge of carnation, through which, when she smiled, her white teeth shone like light itself. I noticed even on this first day, daring my cautious occasional peeps, that the captain was particularly attentive to the young lady, in which indeed I should have found nothing significant, for she had in a special degree been committed to his trust, but for the circumstances of his being a bachelor. Even then, early and fresh as the time was for thinking of such things, I guessed when I looked at the girl that the hardy mariner alongside of her would not keep his heart whole a week, if indeed, for the matter of that, he was not already head over ears. He was a good looking man in his way; not everybody's type of manly beauty perhaps, but certain of admiration from those who relish a strong sea flavor and the color of many years and countless leagues of ocean in looks, speech and deportment He was about 86, the heartiest laugher that ever strained a rib in merriment, a genial, kindly man, with a keen, seawardly tilno ottq TiTanfVicir rrtlnrprl fftfifl. short whiskers and rising iD his socks to near 6 feet I believe he was of Welsh blood. This was my first voyage with him. The rigorons discipline of the quarter deck had held us apart, and all that I could have told of him I have here written. For some time after we left Sydney nothing whatever noteworthy happened. One quiet evening I c-vne on deck at 8 o'clock to take charge of the ship till midnight. We were still in the temperate parallels, the weather of a true Pa cific sweerness, aud bj day the ocean i dark blue rolling breast of water, feath eriug on every round of swell in set flashes, out of which would 6parkle th< flying fish to sail down the bright, milr wind for a space, then vanish in some brow of brine with the flight of a silvei arrow. This night the moon was dark, the weather somewhat thick, the stars pah over the trucks and hidden in the ob scurity a little way down the duskj slope of firmament. Wind sails wen wriggling fore and aft like huge whit* snakes, gaping for the tops and writhing out of the hatches. The flush ol ennsftt-. was dvinor when I came on deck I saw the captain slowly pacing the weather side of the poop with Miss Le Grand. fie seemed earnest in bis talk and gestures. Enough western light still lived to enable me to see faces, and I observed that Mrs. Buruey, standing to leeward of a skylight talking with a gentleman, would glance at the couple with a satirical smile whenever they lame abreast of her. But soon the night came down in darkness upon the deep, the wind blew damp out of the dask in a long moan over the rail, heeling the ship yet by a couple of degrees; the captain sang out for the fore and mizzeu royals to be clewed up aud furled and shortly alterward weut below, first handing Miss Le Grand down the companion way. I guessed the game was up with the worthy man. He had met his fate and taken to it with the meekness of a sheep. He might do worse, 1 thought, as I started on a solitary stroll, so far as looks are concerned, but what of her nature?her character? It was puzzling to think of what sort of spirit it was that looked out of her wonderful eyes, and she was not a kind of girl that a man would care to leave ashore So much beauty full of a subtle endevilment of some sort, as it seemed to me, must needs demand the constant sentineling of a has band's presence That was how it struck me By 11 o'clock all was hushed throughout the ship?lights out, the captain fnT-nert in. nnthinff stirrinc forward save the flitting shape of the lookout under the yawn of the pale square of fore course. It was blowing a pleasant breeze of yjind, and, lost in thought, I leaued over the rail at the weather fore end of the poop, watching the cold sea glow shining in the dark water as the foam spat past, sheeting away astern in a furrow like moonlight I will swear 1 did not doze. That I never was guilty of while on duty in all the years I was at sea, but I don't doubt that I wae sunk deep in thought, insomuch that my reverie may have possessed a temporary power of abstraction as complete as slumber itself. I was startled into violent wakefulness by a cannonade of canvas aloft and found the ship in the wind. I looked aft. The wheel was deserted?at least j believed so till on rushing to it, meanwhile 6houting to the watcb on deck, J spied the figure of the helmsman on his face, close beside the binnacle. I thought he was dead. The watch tc my shouts came tumbling to the braces, and in*a few minutes the captain made He lay on the deck. his appearance. The ship was got to hei courso afresh, by which time the mar who had been steering was so far recovered as to be able to sit on the grating abaft the wheel and relate what had happened. He was a Dane and spoke with t strong foreign accent, beyond my art tc reproduce. He said he had been looking away to leeward, believing he saw ? light out upon the horizon, when or turning his head he beheld a ghost al his side. "A what?" said the captain. "A ghost, sir, sohelp me"? and hen the little Dane indulged in some very violent language, all designed to con vinco us that he spoke the truth. "What was it like?" asked the cap tain. "It was dressed in white and stooc looking at me. I tried to run and coulc not, but fell and maybe fainted. " "The durned idiot slept," said th( captain to me, "and dreamt and drop ped on his nut." "Had I droDDed on my nut, shoalc not havowoke op then?" cried the Dan< in a passion of candor. "Go forward and turn in," said th< captain. "The doctor shall see you anc report to me." When the man was gone, the captair asked me if I had seen anything likely to produce the impression of a ghost or an ignorant, credulous man's mind? J answered no, wondering that he shoulc ask such a question. "How long was the man in a fit, d'y< think?" said ho, "that is, before yot found out that the wheel was deserted?' "Three or four minutes. " Ho looked into the binnacle, took ? turn about the decks, and without say- 0, ing anything more about the ghost g went below. ja The doctor next day reported that the ^ Dane was perfectly well and of sound mind, and that he stuck with many im- t; precations to his story. He described t( the ghost as a figure in white that looked at him with sparkling eyes and yet blindly. He was unable to describe the ^ features. Fright no doubt stood in the way of perception. He could not im- jj agine where the thing had come from. g( He was, as he had said, gazing at what looked like a spark or star to leeward a] when, tmrnincr his head, he found the shape close beside him. > The captain and the doctor talked the ^ thing over in my presence, and we decided to consider it a delusion on the 8 part of the Dane, a phantom of his im- fc agination, mainly because the man swooned after he saw the thing, letting go the wheel so that the ship came np s* into the wind, and it was impossible to 0 conceive that a substantial object oould nave vanished fu the time that elapsed ^ between the man falling down and the 8 flap of sails which had oalled my atten- w tion to the abandoned helm. However, nothing was said abont the matter aft The sailors adopted the doctor's opinion, some viewing the thing ? as a "Dutchman's" dodge to get a 81 "night in." e? CONCLUSION NEXT WEDNESDAY. I ================ f0 ?ttiscettanf<rojs pending, m DOWNTRODDEN ARMENIA. J, Some Interesting Facts Abont an Interest- ai Ing People. ai Written for the Yorkvllle Enquirer. Ol This country upon which for months > past the world, shuddering and as- 18 tounded at the spectacle, has kept its 1* eyes fixed?Armenia, of such unhappy ?i and fatal prominence in our day, has 01 > little about it to suggest the grace and 1* sweetness of "Eden's dawning day." P< And yet it is in this elevated tableland B of Western Asia, among whose moun- cc tains rise the Tigris and Euphrates 8." ' rivers, that the Bible narrative places D > Eden?the home and abode of our P< > first parents. And it was on Mount ai i Ararat, the great central mountain ' i peak of Armenia, that we are told the r ark rested, when the waters began to ' abate after 150 days. And it was on >' the slopes of this mountain in the centre of Armenia that Noah ^ffrred ' to God in joy and gratitude for his ,Al S preservation a burnt offering, and ^ received from God the token of the m bow in the heavens?a promise and cc covenant that the "waters shall no B 1 more become a flood to destroy all re flesh." And it was here, too, that to in Noah the promise was made: "While la 1 the earth remainetb, seedtime ana re harvest, and cold and heat, and w summer and wimer, and day aod tb night shall not cease." This promise cc is being fulfiled today in Armenia; it 1 is a rich and fertile country. And ol yet the oppression and devastation ar ' wrought by the hand of the Turk "1 has made it necessary to appeal to al 1 the world to aid in keeping this at ancient people from perishing of ca hunger. As a Christian people the Armenians sh first come into notice about 302 A. D., gi when Gregory the "Illuminator," a m member of the reigning family was al , converted to Christianity, and aided ki " largely the introduction of the religion hi } of Christ into the country. From that al time to the present the Armenians w have maintained themselves as an uj independent and national branch of oi the catholic, or universal church, ta they have never bowed the knee to n< the pope of Rome, and they have been w free from the anomalies and eccen- be tricities of our divided Western Chris- hi tianity. They have kept the faith Y\ pure and free from Roman and Prot- m estaut corruptions and additions. M They are catholic Christians then, be and neither Roman nor Protestant. at The Turkish rule began in the Four- its teenth century, and it began with ap- ec ? ?i* 1?: A "EV.r T! pumug cruellies auu uiuuuoutu. a v> . centuries there has been no Armenia 1 nation, and Armenians like Jews have a gone in considerable numbers where- M ! ever trade and commerce have invited Tl ' them. Today two and half millions of p? them live under the rule of the Otto- cu k man empire. They are subjects, but ro > not citizens, of the Turkish empire, or ' But one avenue is open to them by en 1 which they can secure citizenship? er 1 conversion to Mohammedunism. They o\ ^ are thus without civil or political th rights ; their testimony in the court of ps justice is not admitted against that of a h? 5 Mohammedan, and they have no re- Ri ' dress for the constant robbery and h? spoiling to which they subjected. pe In the year 1875 Abdul Hamid II be was called to the sultanate, and his is pi the one mind a id will that has insti- m . gated, and openly accomplished, the ba massacres of the past two years. When fo Abdul came to the throne he found fir himself absolute ruler of forty millions a of souls, and wielding a sceptre over th ^ more than one million square miles of df i the earth's surface. He is a man of great industry, astuteness, and in cer- th j tain ways, of great ability. He toils ro at his desk in giving personal super- er * * ?? -a. 1 _ j vision co anairs ox state uuu auuiiuisua- cu l tion about eighteen hours a day. When bl r he ascended the throne Turkish finan- sc ( ces were in so had a way that loans bi [ could be negotiated only at 12 per cent, ot I today the sultan floats his bonds at 5 m per cent. To a ruler such as this, the hi j presence in his dominions of more than T< , two million people of different religious st - and race sympathies from the vast w majority of his subjects must be an un- te k welcome sight; and perhaps a cause of 'w ppreheneions of danger to the empire, esides as Christians, it would be a iudable undertaking to convert the rmenians to the Mohammedan faith, We are told of Abdul that, "Ambious even in piety, be is not content > emulate the modesty of bis califl redecessors and be known simply as le 'Servant of the servants of God nt gradually has made inordinately resumptious claims in spiritual, as he as in temporal, domains. For inance, the titles. 'Shadow of God,: tefuge of the world,' 'Slayer of men, ad 'Father of all the sovereigns ol le earth,1 were unknown to former iltaus and find no support in the !oran." And so the sultan will rengthen the empire, and add lustre > his record as a pious Mohammedan y converting the Armenians. The Bath of thousands is a matter ol nail moment in the accomplishment f such an end as this. He is covetous f the title "Slayer of men." He has on the epithet, if 50,000 Armenians ain at bis behest during two months, ould entitle any man to such an ppellation. And yet, as sultans go, bdul is not a monster. He has ac>mplished considerable good results t his own people. Schools for the udy of special swbjects have been itablished ; 2,000 elementary schools ;commodating 100,000 pupils be has unded. He has encouraged the edition of women by providing nuerous girls' schools in the cities and twos of tbe empire. Jtie is me nrsi urkisb monarch who ever allowed a hristian woman to sit at his table ; id it is said that it is easier to gain i audience with him than with any ,her European ruler. The massacres were begun on a rge scale in October of the year 194; they continued with intermisons of a feW weeks between each ltbreak to the end of November, 195. During tbe latter half of this iriod a fleet of warships, mainly ritisb, has been off the Turkish >ast, part of the time off Beirut, yrria, and latterly just outside the ardanelles. Yet tbe discords of the iwers have kept the fleet at its ichors. The massacres have ceased; it no guarantee against their occurmce once more has been made. Robebt A. Lee. EARLY MINING DAYS. dvantage of Big Fingers In a Bartender. Gathered in and around Butte are en who ih>?e mined in-almost every >untry under the sun. It was a utte Inter Mountain reporter'#* iuck icently to run against one who talked i an interesting way. tie was a rge, rather fine-looking man, appantly about 70 years old, and a man ho bad watched with close interest le progress of mining on the Pacific >ast since th historic days of '49. "Yes, I was out it Californy in the d days," he replied to a question, id then added, with a pleasant smile, [ was thar from '49 to '89, and took 1 the courses, from pan to little giant, id from handmade black powder irtridges to dinnymite. "When gold was discovered by Marlall in that tail race Sutter was digng for his sawmill at Coloma, not a an in that country knew a thing >out mining. Never heard how they jew it was gold, hey? We!!, there is been a great many stories told >out it, but here is the right one. It as a little nugget Marshall picked j, worth three or four dollars; Each ie of the gang looked at it, bit it, sted it, rubbed it, smelled it, but )ne of them had a clear idea what it as. Several thought that it might s gold, but none was sure of it. A ippy thought struck Marshall. Mrs. reber boarded the bands. She was aking soft soap from pine ashes lye. arshall proposed the lady should >il the nugget in lye a day or two, id if it didn't change color nor lose i substance in the test, it was sure lough gold. Well, it stood the test, be world knows the rest. "Among the first on the ground was lot of greasers, a cross between exicans and a lower class of humans, he greaser brought his willow-made in and knife as his mining tools. He it and scraped among crevices of cks at the water's edge for 'chispas,' , as we call them, 'nuggets,' An iterprising white man made a 'rock.' That was a great improvement rer the willow pan and knife. In e fall of '49, picks, shovels, iron ins, and sheet iron for rocker screens id been shipped in from the outside, ackers sold for three ounces, shovels ilf an ounce apiece, picks the same, ids for a quarter of an ounce, gum >ots an ounce a pair, and whisky a nch a drink. That was the price in ii..ng camps. A pinch was what a irkeeper could take between his refinger and thumb. They had big lgers and thumbs in those days, aud barkeeper's salary was measured by eir size. Wages was an ounce a iy. "The 'Georgia bumper' displaced e rocker. It was something like a cker, but much larger, and bad seval 'rifles' to catch the gold. The ids of the rockers bump against ocks of wood to jar the gravel in the reen and between the rifles. A >mper cost $200, a wheelbarrow two inces, and a China pump $25. That ade a bumper mining outfit. The imper didn't last long, for the 'Long Dm' soon took its place. That was a ationary affair with a long screen in hiehthe 'pay dirt' was thrown. War was conducted on the screen, the 'ash' falling through the perforations , while one of the hands forked out the i rocks or small stones. ! "A sluice or two were added to the , Tom. These, as well as the Tom, were supplied with rifles, which generally , caught about all the dust. Long Tom 1 r were first used in Nevada City in 1850. i Improvements in modes of placer min ' ing rapidly followed. Sets of sluices without the Toms were used; then ground sluicing came next,ana nyarauiic mining, where water and fall could be obtained, displaced the rocker, bumper and Tom. Hydraulic mining is an old thing now." "How about underground mining inquired the reporter. "Goldbearing quartz was first discovered by some miners in the bed of Deer Creek, below Nevada City, in the summer of 1850. It was found in a narrow vein, but the discovery led to the opening up of the magnificent goldbearing quartz mines of Grass Valley, in Nevada county. All the equipments of the mines were at first crude, but the mines were rich and paid well. Black powder was used in blasting where blasting was necessary. Some years after nitro-glycerine was introduced in the State, but an explosion of the stuff* in a San Francisco;express office knocked it out, and giant i powder came into use. You know the i rest." Longliyed Descendants of Consumptives.?A writer in the Pbiladel, phia Press from Mount Holly, Pa., , says: Probably tbe most remarkable case of longevity in tbis county is to be i found in tbe Wilkinson family, tbe majority of the members being residents of Mount Holly. The ages of , tbe eight persons now living are Mrs. > Martba Groom, 91 years; Priscilla . Wilkinson, 88; years Margaret F. , Lamb, 84 years; Ann Curtis, 83 years; Mrs. Ruth R. Barton, 82 years; La| vinia Wilkinson, 79 years; William E. Wilkinson 79 years; Abel Wilkinson, i 79 years; their aggregate ages being. 662, an average of 82 years. They are 1 all well, active, possess tbe best of i health, sound minds, memory, and nni deretanding. ; "There aro many remarkable cir, cumstances connected with tbe lives of these people, particularly tbe fact that both father and mother died at an early age, both parents being the victims of consumption. Abel Wilkinson, a Welsham, died in 1828, at tbe age of , 48, and bis wife Deborah, a German, , died in 1832, at the age of 62. Not ! one of tbe children has bgd the slightest trace or sympton of that dread ^ 'disease." * Dr. Mary Walker's Idea.?Dr. Mary Walker, who 40 years ago preached the gospel of dress reform to the women of this country, and who was arrested in many cities for dressing and appearing in puclic in male attire, is the apostle of a scheme for the bloomer girls. Through Lawyer Henry C. Benedict, of Oswego, N. Y., Dr. Mary has bought a farm containing 185 acres of land seven miles west of that city and proposes to form a colony in which man shall have no part. Only females who will bind themselves to a life of celibacy while members of the community and to wear bloomers for life are to be eligible. They will work the farm in all its details, plant and harvest the crops, dispose of them in market and take care of the stock. She has drawn up an elaborate plan as to the manner of conducting the farm.?Chicago TimesHerald. One of the queerest and yet more important inventions for which a patent has been receutly issued was that of Emil Reyer, a resident of South Bend, Iud., for a poison bottle indicator." The "indicator" consists of a metallic crown or cap which bristles with sharp, needlelike points. The affairs is placed over the neck of a bottle containing a poisonous matter or fluid, like the tinfoil cap of a champagne bottle. In case a person should grasp this crowned poison bottle by mistake or in the dark, he or she whould soon # discover their mistake, as the tiny points projecting from this bottlehead would enter the flesh of the fingers. His Composition.?Teacher?Have you finished your composition on what little boys should not do in school ? Little Johnnie?Yes'm. Teacher?Read it. Little Johnny (reading)?Little boys when at school should not make faces at the teacher and should not study too hard, 'cause it makes them nearsighted, and should not sit too longrin one position, 'cause it makes their backs crooked, and should not do long examples in 'rithmetic, 'cause it uses up their pencils too fast. Effect of Light on Metal.?A curious fact has been noted by the fine - - - 1 * t> sieei wurtiera at gucuiciu, ^u^iauu. is this: Fine edged tools assume a blue color and lose all temper if exposed for any considerable length of time to the light of the sun, either in summer or winter. A similar effect is exercised by moonlight, a large crosscut saw with which the experimenters were working having been "put out of shape and ita temnpr mined bv a sincrle nicht's exposure to a first-quarter moon." S&" Yeast for bread-making was first manufactured in 1634. It is computed that over 2,000,000pounds enter into the daily bread of the people of this country, while treble this amount is used in Europe.