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Walk rlKt in the ttln'-roora, Pcaoon ; lt'a all in a
xuudiMe, you see,
But I hadn't no hurt to right it, solve Jest let
everything be. ....
Besides I'm a-gc lu to-uiorrer-l calk'late to start
with the dawn
And the bouse wont seetn so heuie-like il It u
upset and forlorn. ' '
I sent off the children this inomin ; they both on
'em begged to stay,
But I thought 'twould
ie
easier, mebbe, If I as
alone to-day.
For this was the very day, Deacon, Just twenty year
That Oal?'b and me moved In; ao I couldn't forglt
It, you know. ... . . .
Wo were so busy and happy I we'd ben married a
And Caleb would clear the table and brush up the
lie said 1 was tired, and he'd help me ; but, law I
h.t wa iivavi hi way
Alwaya haudy and helpful, and kind, to the very
Don't you rt'roember, Deacon, that winter I broke
Why, Caleb skursely left me, not even to 'tend to the
There night and mornln'I saw him, a-acttln' ao
c'oe to my bed.
And I knew him in spite of the fever that made me
si miltl in tnv head.
lie never did nothin' to grieve me, until he left me
behind .
Yea, I know, there'a no uie in talklu', but aomehow
it easee my mind.
And he aot such atore by yow, Deacon, I needn t tell
But unleaa he nad your judgment, he never would
buy a caw.
Well, our cows ia pone, and the horse, too poor
Caleb was fond of Jack,
And I cried like a fool this mornin' when I looked
I hope he'll be kindly treated ; 'twould worry poor
uaieD ao
If them Joneses should whip the cretur but I
roia he ain't like to know.
I've ben thinkin' it over lately, that when Mary
sickened and died,
Her father's sperrit was broken, for ehe was alius
his pride.
He wasn't never bo cheery; ho'd sniiie, but the amile
wa'n't bright,
And he dldnt care for the cattle, though once they'd
ben his delight.
The neighbors all said he was ailin', and they tried
' to hint it to trie ""
They talked of a euurch-yard cough ; but, oh ! the
b:md are tnosa who icon i see, .
I never believed he was goin' till I saw him a-layln
hpre dead.
There, there I don't be anxious, Deacon; I haven't
no tears to cued.
I'te tried to keep things together I've ben slavln:
early and late
nt I couldn't pay the int're6t, nor git the farm
work straight.
Bo of course I've gone behindhand, and, if the farm
should sell
For enough to pay tie mortgage, I s'pose 'twill be
doin' well.
I've prayed ax'inst all hard feelin's, and to walk as
a Christian ounht.
But It's hard to nee Caleb's children turned out of
the Dlaee he bought :
And readin' that text in the Biblo 'bout widows and
orphans, you know.
I can't think the folks will prosper who are willin
to see us bo.
But there I I'm a-keepin' you, Deacon, and it's
nigh your time for tea.
41 Won't J cuiiue over f" No, thank you ; I feel bet
tor aloue. vou see.
Besides, I couldn't eat nothin'; whenever I've tried
it to-day
There's somethin' here that chokes mo. . I'm nar
vous. I s'pose, you'll say.
I ve worked too hard ?' No, I haven't. Why, it's
work that keeps me strong ;
If I sot here thinkin', I'm sartain my heart would
break before long.
Not that I care about livln'. I'd ruther be laid ftway
In the place I've marked beside Caleb, to rest till
the jedgment-day.
But Here's the children to think ol that makes my
duty clear.
And I'll try to foller It, Deacon, though I'm tired of
this earthly speer.
Ojcd-by, then. 1 sha'n't forgit you, nor all the
kindness you ve showed ;
'Twill help to cheer me to-morrcr, as I go on my
lonely road.
For What are you sayln'. Deacon ? I needn't
needn't go ?
You're bought the mortgage, and I can stay
Stop ! s.iy it over slow
Jest wait now jest wait a minute I'll take it
bime-by
in
That I can stay. Why, Deacon, I don't know what
makes me cry I
I haven't no words to thank you. Ef Caleb wan
ouly here.
llc'd sech a head for speakln', he'd make my feelin'i
clear.
There's a plcter In our old Bible of an acgel from
the skies,
And though he hasn't no great-coat, and no specta
cles on his eyes.
lie looks jest like you, Deacon, with your smile so
good and trew.
And whenever 1 see that picter, 'twill make me
think of you.
The children will te so happy I Why, Debby will
most go wua ;
She fretted so much at leavin' her garding behind
poor child !
And, law ! I'm as glad as Debby, ef only for jest
one thing
yow I can tend the posies I planted there laBt spring
On Caleb's grave. He loved the flowers, and It
soems as ei ne 11 Know
They're a-bloomin' all around him while he
sleepin' there bflow.
Harper's Magazine for September.
BIlOUUllT TO TERMS.
"You are surely not in earnest,
father?"
" I assure you I am. I will not give
my content to your marriage with that
girl," said Mr. Cameron, angrily but
firmly.
You are unjust to her; you admit
that you know nothing of her"
Except that she ia the daughter of a
farmer, a poor illiterate farmer who has
half a dozen other children."
"Mr. Littlefield is poor, I grant, but
neither he nor his children are illiterate;
Sophie has as good an education as any
girl I know."
"Bah I" exclaimed the old man con
temptuously. Of course sho is perfec
tion I Why couldn't you have had sense
enouch to fancy Lottie Felton or that
pretty little Hilliard girl ? I'd welcome
cither of them willingly enough, but this
girl I will not receive."
"Simply because she is a farmer's
daughter ?"
" Simply because I choose not to !"
answered Basil Cameron, all tho obsti
nacy inherited from his Scotch grand
father rising up against his son's cool in
flexibility. "I say you shall not marry
her and you shall not."
"And I say I will," replied Maurice,
angry in return. "I defy any one to
hinder me without showing better cause
than her poverty."
"You seem to forget, young man, that
Jjovl have not a penny of your own 1 Pray
iow do you propose to support a wife
that I disapprove of ?"
"By my own exertions, sir, as thou
sands cf better men than I am are do
ing; I am neither an invalid nor an im
becile." "Ha, ha, ha 1" roared the father.
"You work! That is rich I Go and
tell your sweetheart that your father
will not give you another dollar during
his life or after it, and see how quick
Bhe'll repent of saying 'yes to you."
"On tho contrary, sir, her father's
only objection to me is that I am an idle
young man."
"Don't talk about the matter, Mau
rice. Come, give me your word to
break off this engagement, and "
" Never, sir 1"
"Then the sooner you get out of my
sight the better. I wash my hands of
you, you thankless boy 1 Oo to work,
and come to mo in a year begging bread
for your wife. I'd see you starve before
I'd give it to you then."
Miurico Cameron was the only son of
Basil Cameron, one of the richest and
most influential men in the busy town
of Nelson. lie had received a liberal
education, 'and his fatherwho accumu
lated wealth only for rum, looked to see
him take his plaee (arnxmgtha leading
men of tho State. Cautious, persever
ing, obstinate, he had marked out a cer
tain course' tot his handsome, talented
bov. and determined that he must carry
it out, forgetting that the son usually
inherits most if not all of nis stronger
parent's characteristics. Mr. Cameron,
too, was proud; proud of his good
Scotch descent, of ms auimies ana posi
tion in society; and the idea of Mau
rice taking as a wife this daughter of a
small, unknown farmer was bitterness
indeed. It is true ho knew nothing
whatever of the girl, but that made no
difference; he had made up his mind
that Maunoe must marry into, e lther
the Felton. Hilliard, or Stuy vesant fam
ilies; therefore this unheard-of Sophie
Aiibcnnuiu wtuj su iukjuuuv.
1 11111
Mrs. Cameron worsmpeu uotu bus
band and son. consequently this dis
tgreement ripening, as it did, into an
on en ruDture between tne two cost ner
many a tear, but against two such stub
born natures she was powerless.
The Litchfields were, as Mr. Cameron
had said, poor, but they wero honest,
cultivated, sensible people. Sophie was
the second daughter, and was as pretty,
well-read, graceful a girl as any Cameron
ever wooed, and would do honor to any
position in life. Mr. Litchfield talked
seriously with Maurice when he heard
of the nuarrel between him and his
father, and. finding that he was deter
mined to pursue his own course, told
him that a little adversity, a little genu
ine work, would probably make a man of
him, and that he would give him Sophie
more willingly now than ever. So Basil
Cameron was a false prophet
Maurice left home, bag and baggage
the day of the conversation above re
corded. His father felt very much curi
osity to know what he would do, but
would not condescend to mane any in
ouines or show any interest.
A fortnight passed away. Mr. and
Mrs. Cameron were dining with the
Feltons (a very quiet family dinner) one
day, when there was a very fine leg of
mutton on the table.
"Yes, thank you, Felton, I will take
another slice," said Mr. Cameron
"that is the best mutton I've tasted
this long time, far better than Brooks
gives us you trade with Brooks don't
you!" ' ' "
"Y-es. usually," answered Felton
hesitatingly, while Lottie and her mother
exchanged amused glances, and l'J-year
old Susie frigtrled outright.
" I shall go to Brooks to-morrow and
tell him to send me just such a leg as
this." continued Mr. Cameron.
We we didn't get this of Brooks.'
"No? Who then?"
"Of a young man who has reopened
liVans old place, said Mr. reiton
smilingly.
"Then I'll patronize him."
" You could do no better; he is a very
worthy young man, said Mrs. Felton
her husband was too busy carving to
reply.
" What is his name? Is he a towns
man?"
" I I didn't ask him. Is it true that
Latimere has failed ?" said Mr. Felton
"These good friends evidently don't
want me to deal with their butcher, but
I will, soliloquized Basil Cameron.
On his way down town the next morn
ing he took pains to pass the new butch
er shop ; glancing over the doorway
(fancy his horror 1) he saw a spick-ami
span new sign with "Maurice Basil
Cameron, Jr., Butcher, Poulterer and
Fishmonger," plainly painted thereon,
Young Cameron had indeed gone to
work; this was the first, indeed the only,
opening that presented itself, for Nelson
was a steady-going town where business
rarely failed or started up very vigor
ously, and chances to establish one
self did not occur twice in a lifetime.
Maurice was standing near the door
when his father approached : with his
immaculate apron and snowy shirt
sleeves, glossy collar and narrow black
necktie, he was a handsome picture in
spite of his very unromantio surround
ings.
" Good morning, father," said he cheer
fully. " You see I have gone to work
took that money I've been saving for
trip to Europe, and opened this little
place. I've eot Evans' son with me. an 1
he knows all about meats and things ; I'll
learn alter a wnile. You 11 give me
your "
" Great Heavens ! It is is it you ?"
"Yes, sir, I, Maurice Basil Cameron
Jr."
I think that "mnior" was the bitter
est drop in the whole cup for the old
man; I really believe that, for a mo
ment, he repented naming his son after
himself. Too angry, too much aston
ished to know what to say, he turned on
his heel and walked away, but he could
not escape the memory of that awful
signboard; three times that week deli
cate straw-colored handbills were thrust
under his eyes by boys who wero dis
tributing them through the town, and
all bore tho same legend; every time he
picked up a newspaper ho saw Slaurico's
advertisement; all of his acquaintances
were laughing over Maurice's freak, as
they called it, and not a few men ap
plauded the young man and blamed his
lather. It was genuine agony.
Then, too, ho loved the boy and
missed his bright face from the house
that was so quiet without him; he knew
his wife mourned deeply over the sep
aration, and strongly suspected that she
visited the obnoxious shop every day;
he did not want to hurt her feelings, so
he never asked her where she bought
their meat and poultry; and as the new
butcher was doing a thriving trade there
was no hope of his suing for mercy or
for help.
Three months passed and a day came
that for twenty-eight years Mr. and Mrs.
Cameron had held a home festival
their wedding anniversary. The night
before it dawned Basil Cameron knew
that his wife had cried nearly all night,
now could she keep a festival without
her boy?
" Oh, dear 1" he groaned as he left the
house after breakfast. "I must do it.
The boy is as stubborn as I am; and I
can't see his mother fret. He shall have
his country girl confound her just as
he had the hammer and the looking
glass when he was a baby."
Richard, the coachman, also fancied
himself crazed when his master told
him to drive out on the Barton
road to Farmer Litchfield's instead of
down to the bank as usual early in tho
morning.
' Does Miss Sophie Litchfield live
here ?" he asked of a pretty girl who
was just coming out the front door of
the house pointed out to him as Litch
field's. " Yes, sir; please walk in; she's here
in the parlor."
Instead of a slipsnod ulowsy girl, Mr.
Cameron found Sophie to be a very at
tractive young lady; quite as well-man
nered and pieaaam as ijouie r eiton.
His visit was far longer than he Intend
ed, for he ended by going all over the
farm with the father while the daughter
was making a few changes in her dress
reparatory to spending the day witii
er future mother-in-law. Mrs. Cam
eron had smiles instead of tears that
day, for she not only had her boy at
home again, Dut discovered mat eopme
was just exactly the sort of a girl she
had always pictured as jMaunce s wile.
"I could not have chosen better my
self." was her verdict.
Maurice stuck to his determination to
go into business instead cf playing the
fine gentleman all his life, but readily
agreed to his father's proposition to buy
him an interest in the only wholesale
dry-goods house in the town, saying that
he certainly preferred that to his former
occupation, " but then I was poor, and
beggars must not be chooscrs,youknow."
Practical Farmer, .
First Impressions of the Eclipse Obser
rations
It is of course too early to expect any
strictly scientific or conclusive estimate
of the bearing of tho eclipse observa
tions on current solar theories, there hav
ing been no opportunity for a critical
study and comparison of the photographs
and other records obtained, let tho lm
prossions made upon the observing as
tronomers by the more striking phenome
na are not without interest.
Touching the effect of tho varying
constitution of the corona, Dr. Draper
said to the Herald correspondent:
"It is rather singular while the sun
has been in such a quiescent condition
for more than two years that we have
not seen more changes in the climate of
tho earth. This would seem to show
that tho abnormal condition of the sun
at tho maximum period of sun spots
which occurs every eleven years, counts
for but little against the total amount of
heat that is sent out from the sun at all
times. The present observations go to
show that tho activity or quiescence of
tho sun makes no perceptible difference
in tho earth s condition. I do not re
gard this most marked change in the
corona as portending aDy change in tho
condition of either climate or crops.
Mr. Norman Lockyer interprets the
evidence very dinerently. He savs
" The present f clipse has accomplished
if nothing else, the excellent result of
intensifying our knowledge concerning
the running down of the aolar energy,
With the reduction of the number
spots or prominences for the last fomf
years, the terrestrial magnetism has
been less energetic than it has been for
the preceding forty years. This would
evidently account for it, as well as for
the great famines in India and China
which took place forty-four years ago.
The sun is the great primo mover of
earth. Every cloud, every tide, every
air current depends upon it. When in
a state of activity the sun throws out
an atmosphere which serves as a shield
to the earth, protecting it from abnor
mal influences of the sun. The absence
of the green lines shows a great reduo
tion in the temperature of the sun, and
such a marked change in the sun should
produce a corresponding change on the
earth. A continuation of this changing
of the sun u condition muet mevitablv
be followed by serious results and radi
cal climatic variations."
President Morton says that tho marked
changes in the sun's condition would
seem to call for corresponding marked
changes in the condition of the earth,
and it is a surprise that no such changes
have occurred.
Ho is of opinion, however, that the
evidenco tends to sustain the theory
that the sun's heat has been maintained
by the impact of meteoric matter, which
is known to vary very largely in consti
tution, and it is possiblo that the sun's
fires may bo fed at times with purely
mineral matter, and again for consider
able periods with meteorites highly
charged with hydrogen, giving the sun
a far-reaching atmosphere of ignited
gas. "If such changes go on indefi
nitely it may not bo irrational to inquire
whethor they may not in futnre produce
such extraordinary climatic conditions
in the earth as geology teaches us have
existed in the ages of the past, or, in
other words, the polar regions become
tropical, as the fossil remains of animals
and plants found there indicate they
have been. Scientific American.
Two Hundred and Mxtf -five Thousand
Kinds of Insects.
There is now on tbo way to New York
what is probably the most wonderful en
tomological collection in the world, and,
strange to say, it has been made by an
old actor, Mr. Henry Edwards, of Cali
fornia. He commenced tho task when
he was only 10 years of age. Since that
time, by purchase, personal efforts in
various parts of the world, and a system
of exchange with something like 137
correspondents, he has secured not less
than 78,000 species, comprising 205,000
specimens. To pack these for trans
portation around the Horn occupied
three weeks of haid work of several
persons. They fill 1,03G boxes, requir
ing aipaee of 750 cubic feet, r eighteen
tons of ship measurement. The im
mensity of the collection may bo in
ferred from tho statement of this fact.
Mr. Edwards is a member of Borne six
teen learned societies in various parts of
the world; and has to maintain an im
mense correspondence with tho great
scientists of the world, including Dar
win, Lubbock, Wallace, and other prom
inent naturalists in this country, nad
Prof. Agassiz lived the collection would
undoubtedly have passed into the hands
of Cambridge University. Its future
disposition is in abeyance, but before it
passes from view it may possibly be ex
hibited in public for the benefit of sci
entific admirers, in some accessible hall
in New York, whioh is yet to be chosen.
Those who have seen the collection de
scribe it as wonderful. New York
Herald.
TrrEnE were 110 failures in Kentucky
during the year ending Juuo 30. The
I total liabilities were $1,033,017, and the
assets were $135,251.
TKEAKNDOUS FIUUUEH.
The Immense Products of th HonanM
Mines.
From the Virginia City Enterprise.
On Tuesday last there was a shipment
of bullion from the bonanza mines which
completed the aggregate of $100,000,000
shipped from thoso mines. The exact
figures were from the California, $10,
1317,522,20, and from the Consolidated
Virginia, $59,293,f32.28, a total of
$100,011,085.05. From this sum the
California has paid twenty-six dividends,
aggregating $28,080,000, and the Con
solidated Virginia has paid forty-six
dividends, aggregating $11,010,000,
making a total of $09,140,000. There
nave been since the last dividend was
declared shipments amounting to $670,-
boo.v.1, wnicn will swell the dividends
$140,000, leaving the full amount of
dividends $69,580,000, or within a frao
tion of 70 per centum of the whole
gross products of tho mines.
These are tremendous ficrures. and are
altogether unprecedented in mininsr.
Turn them about or analyze them in any
way and tne result is magnificent. The
yield is equal to one-sixteenth of the in
terost-bearing portion of the national
debt; it is equal to the value of all the
property of all kinds in an average city
of 125,000 inhabitants ; it is more than
the value of. all the real and personal
property or this State, and the compan
son might be extended indefinitely. This
amount has been taken from a little spot
of ground less than 800 feet in length
and from 60 to 300 feet in width. And
the marvelous deposit is still yielding
princely sums. As one looks upon tho
figures he finds himself wondering why
there are any poor in this world, and
why, so long as gold and silver will pur
chase any luxury and all reasonable ser
vices, there are so many in pecuniary
distress. .
The thought is cured, however, by re
fleeting that in all the mining of the
world no other such success was ever
won before. For five years, from 18G7
to 1872, a company worked the ground
.all the time, expending $161,410.41 upon
the property without realizing one cent
A 1 A "1 i A !
in reiurn. ai last u was lorcea w give
way, and on the 11th of January, 1872,
the property fell to the present manage
ment. These men expended $277,150.12
on the property before rcah'zing $1 from
it. It was a stubborn fight against the
heat and the barren porphyry a steady
pouring out of gold on a hope, which
continued altogether eight years, and
which would have been abandoned in
any other country but this, and by any
other class of men in the world except
Nevida miners. Call it judgment
sagacity, faith, plucTc, or what you will
it is a faculty, or rather a combination
of faculties, which exists nowhere else
on earth.
The old stock (only 108,000 shares for
each mine) was worth but $2 per share
and some who accepted it for services
rendered bewailed their hard fortune
Since then it has made them richer than
they ever dreamed of being, and their
word is held in great estimation because
of their shrewdness in purchasing bo
nanza stocks when they were low. At
last, in a drift which' was run from the
Gould and Curry shaft through the Best
and Belcher mine intc the Consolidated
Virginia, the crest of the bonanza was
cut, explorations followed, and tho more
work that was done the more ore was
exposed, until at length, in tho autumn
of 1874, it was fully revealed that an ore
deposit had been discovered that ex
ceeded in extent and richness anything
ever found before in a mine. On Oct.
18, 1873, the first shipment of bullion
from the Consolidated Virginia was
made. That was three months less than
five years ago, and now tho product, as
we have shown, lias exceeded $100,000,
000. almost seven-tenths of which have
been in profits. Of the whole amount
about 45 per centum has been gold and
55 per centum silver.
Pierced by a Needle.
Death conies at laxt, and with a little pin,
bores through his caotle-wall and farewell, King
What Shakspeare said of the vanity of
Kings lives describes equally well the
frailty of human life everywhere. The
following singular story comes from
Toronto. Canada:
A young man named Henry Hubbard
aged 38 years, fell dead while walking
the streets. Of courso, the usual in
quiry was instituted and examination
made. It was at first supposed he was
the victim of heart disease, but the most
vigorous search failed to detect any
signs of disease in that organ.
Tho doctors were puzzled; the man
was healthy, and in tho full posses
sion of his powers; what could have
caused his sudden departure from this
world?
It was at last traced: in one section of
the heart, while under the microscope.
was discovered tho minute point of
needle. Death had been brought about
by this broken point of a needle. But
how did the needle get to the heart ?
The doctors renewed their researches,
and were at last able to follow the course
of tho needle's point, which had first
entered the man's foot, and from there
had slowly worked its way throngh the
body to the heart, when death resulted.
This is one of the most remarkable cases
on record, and shows from what slight
accidents death may result All the
time the deceased man had no knowl
edge of his impending doom; slowly and
surely the fatal piece of steel pursued
its serpentine route until it came in con
tact with the vital organ.
A Nomadic Town.
Garland, Col., is a town on wheels;
whenever tho Denver and Bio Grande
railroad finishes a section of road the
town moves to the end of the line. The
people of Garland are determined to live
at the end of the narrow-gauge, no mat
ter where it takes them. As tho line
will bo extended to Alamosa next week,
the festive Garlanders are now preparing
to pack up and move it. The houses are
being taken down in sections, and in a
week or ten days the present site of
Garland will bo deserted both by friend
and foe. Garland was built in a week,
and at one time had abont 1,000 inhab
itants. It is a healthy place; it was
located about one year ago, and there
have been but seven deaths. There are
few that die, but when they do die they
die suddenly. The cemetery on the hill
contains seven graves, and we climbed
the steep declivity in the early morning
to inspect it. One is the grave of a wee
babe, whoso little lamp of life went out
after an existence ol two months. The
second is that of an aged man "The
Judgef".as he was familiarly called
who died a natural death. The remain
der met violent deaths; one was hanged
by tho Vigilance Committee, and four
were shot dead in tho saloons. Cor,
San Francisco Chronicle,
k Battle In South Carolina.
About 2,000 men assembled in the
village of Edgoville, S. C, yesterday,
the occasion being the opening of the
Democratic campaign by Gov. Hampton,
Judge Mackey, Gen. Garry, and other
leaders. Several companies of State
troops were present for review. Tho
speaking took place in a grove half a
mile from the village. Among the au
dience were James Booth. Thomas
Booth, Benjamin Booth and S. Booth,
and Brooker Toner and Mark Toney.
A bitter family feud has long existed be
tween the Booths and Toneys. Several
years ago several men named Booth went
to the house of Abram Jones for the
purpose of attacking him. They were
accompanied by Luther Toney. Jones
was prepared, and tke assault was aban
doned, but young Toney was killed by
- . XI T it ?1 IA 5
one oi iuo .uooms, accidentally, u is
claimed by the latter. Toney's relations
regarded it as intentional. On yester
day Brooker Toney, a brother of Luther,
remonstrated with a man who was abus
ing a Democratic negro. James Booth
walked up, took the part of the man and
drew a pistol. Toney drew his also, but
the parties were separated. About 2
o'clock Toney left the ground where tho
speaking was going on and rode to the
village. He was followed by the Booths,
and a meeting took place in the public
square. A terrible fight ensued, partici
pated in by friends of both parties.
Toney killed James and Thomas Booth,
and was himself shot in the back and
killed. Ben j. Booth was mortally, Mark
Toney and W. L. Coleman senousiy, and
S. Booth, o. li. llyan, J. W. Lott, Dr.
Sanders and Clarence Seiglor slightly
wounded. The serionsly wounded were
spectators, not in the fight. About
thirty shots were fired. Gov. Hampton
ordered the : company of State troops,
under Adit. Gen. Moise, to quell the
disturbance. Moise ordered the crowd
to disperso, but they refused, and then
instructed the company to procure am
munition, and 4firo upon the crowd if it
did not leave, whereupon they dispersed.
Brooker Toney killed a colored Deputy
United States Marshal about three weeks
ago. Charleston S. C.) News.
1 Criminal Matlstlcs.
F. B. Sanborn has been collecting
facts regarding crime and criminals in
the United States. The number of con
victs is now twice as great as in 1871,
the relative figures being 31,000 and
10,000. Tho greatest increase is in
Georgia, Tennessee and sever.il Western
States. The number of persons in
prison as convicts, or awaiting trial, is
00,000, of whom less than one-sixth are
women. About 10,000 of the whole
number are in New York and 4,200 in
Massachusetts, where the proportion of
prisoners to population is greater than
in any other part of the country. In
the South the higher prisons are gener
ally made self-supporting by the labor
of tho convicts, who are leased to con
tractors, who may employ them any
where in the State. In Arkansas the
contractor pays nothing, but meets all
expenses. In Tennessee, Georgia and
Mississippi stated sains in money, be
side expenses, are paid by the contract
ors. Mr. Sanborn figures as follows :
"The general result of the labor of con
victs in the State prisons of thirty-seven
States (for Delaware has no central
prison) falls $1,250,000 short of the
earnings requisite to support the 29,000
convicts in those prisons last year.
That sum, divided among an average of
29,000 State prisoners, gives an average
cost of something more than $13 a year
for each convict. It we add in the sum
paid for the support of short-sentenced
prisoners in jails, the total cost of the
60,000 persons in prison throughout the
year 1877 would probably exceed $5,
000,000, or something more than $80 a
year for each prisoner."
American Exports to (jermany.
Some interesting facts and suggestions
respecting American exportation to
Germany are communicated to the De
partment of State at Washington, in a
report by tho United States Consul at
Mannheim. Large quantities of Amer
ican meat are imported into Germany by
ono firm at Mannheim 10,000 hams in
a singlo order, and an enormous amount
of beef and sausages, cent in thirty days
from St. Louis, equal to German sau
sage. The fear of trichina is the only
obstacle to large purchases of American
pork. A single ham infected condemns
the whole cargo. Rigid and trustwor
thy inspection is recommended before
shipment. Fresh beef twenty-one days
from St. Louis finds a ready market in
Baden. American stoves begin to be
seen in Germany, and glass from Pitts
burgh meets with approval owing to its
strength and clearness. American cot
ton cloths are bought carefully by the
German housewife. Sole-leather from
the United States is preferred to the En
glish article. American preserved veg
etables, fruits, oysters, lobsters, etc.,
are sold in largo quantities in Germany.
Sewing and knitting machines are every
where accepted with a change of name.
There cannot be a doubt that tho United
States are year by year taking away from
us somo of our best customers.- Pall
Mall (London) Gazette.
An Important Decision.
A very important decision has jnst
been rendered by the Supreme Court of
Wisconsin. In the case of Benedict
against Westover, for libel, on appeal
from the Waukesha Circuit, the Su
preme Court held that communications
from the agent of a commercial agency
are not privileged, and that an action
will lie for a slander in such a communi
cation if damage is proved, and if the
defendant does not prove the truth of
the libel, and that it was published from
justifiable motives. Commercial agen
cies may inflict much damage on busi
ness men by reports touching their char
acter and standing which have no solid
foundation in fact. The Wisconsin de
cision will go far to correct tho evil by
rendering commercial agencies more
cautious in their statements
The Bible is now sold all over the
Turkish empire. At Constantinople the
scriptures are publicly exposed for sale
in more than twenty languages.
II OMR. S
I iuv guns I oannot always f9, yon know "
liest lis so-
Home across the distant ridges of the years,
Wltn in y tears !
And the old house, standing atl'l on the old ground,
There I found.
In the parlor, In my fancy, I could trace
jamer since; .
And my mother, with her old accustomed air,
Hltt'ng there:
While beside them brothers, sisters, t-ue and goad,
Silent stood.
Throngb the stillutss swam the song of summer
bird.
And there stirred
On the wall the leaf-flecked sunshine, and Its glow
raded slow
Uut from ail the loving lips I watched around
Not a sound.
Then I went up stairs, alow entering 'mid their
glooms
All the rooms :
And I trod, with softened step, along the floors ;
Opened doors:
But I never beard a votie or met a soul
In the whole.
Of the breaths that stirred the draperies to and fro
Long ago;
Of the eyea that through the casement used to peep
Out of sleep;
Of the feet that in these chauiters used to run
Now are none.
Of the sunshine pouring downward from the sky,
Bine and high;
Of the leafage and the ancient garden plot,
Brewn and hot;
Of the streamlet, and the shiogle, and the tide
These abide.
But beyond its a zuie vaulting overhead
Are my dead:
Though their graves were dug apart in many lauds,
Joining bauds.
They have gathered and are waiting till I come.
That is home 1
Prenlyteruxn.
WIT AJfl) HUMOR.
The whole thing in a nutshell The
worm.
- The flower for -young fathers The
Ax old saw new set A miss is as good
as a smile.
A thorn in the bush is worth a dozen
in the hand.
Wild waves, what do they say? At
the sea-sido, $1 a day.
The defaulting cashier's motto Non
el y is the best policy.
"A milk punch" nitting the cow to
make her stand around.
The most notorious girl of the period
i3 known as Em. Bezzle. . t ,
. .. A.UA6KED ball is defined " a merciful
institution for plain women."
Who ever yet saw a horse fly?
Or the day when it broke 7
Or knows the colors of dav'a-cye ? ,
Or what a wagon spoke ?
The man who refuses' to go beneath
the water in submarine armor has diver's
reasons for it.
" Let mo kick him for his 'motor," is
what the disappointed stockholders now
say about Keely.
"Heke's your writ of attachment,"
said a Town Clerk, as he handed a lover
a marriage license.
TnE whale-oil business is now a great
industry, but Jonah is the first man
that ever went into it. . . .
"WnATaro you giving us?" as the
charity collector said when he inter
viewed a wealthy citizen.
" Patrick, this comb wants two new
teeth put in; take it to be mended."
Patrick carried it to the family dentist.
Thi musical, merry mosquito,
Most certainly is very net, oh!
For he gives you sharp pain,
While he siDgs a sweet strain,
Unheeding the cry, " You must quit, oh !"
The only difference between an ele
phant with a broken ivory and a town
in Alabama is, one has a loose tusk, sir,
and the other a Tuscaloosa.
The flying-machine cannot success
fully wrestle with currents; and the
same may be said of the small boy, if
the currants happen to be green.
" Heat is a mode of motion," heads a
newspaper article. Philosophically it
may be so; but practically it is provoca
tive of the profoundest indolence.
Upok the green sward with my most adored
I sat. au1 we whinpered our love,
While the dear little bird repeated our words
In the great drooping willow above.
A modest surprise beamed out of hr eyea
As I pressed her dear form to my breast
When dropped from the wilier a big caterpillar
Down her neck ! Just imagine the rest !
Two lawyers, whilo bathing at Santa
Cruz the other day, wero chased out of
the water by a shark. This is the most
flagrant case of want of professional
courtesy on record. San Francisco
Post.
An orator who was much in demand in
political campaigns, being asked by an
admirer the secret of his success, re
plied: "When I have lacts, I give 'em
facts; but when I haven't, I yell and saw
the air."
" I sigh for one glance at your rye,"
warbled an impecunious fellow, as he
wandered into a leading saloon a few
days ago. no got but a " glance," his
range of vision being suddenly trans
ferred to tho outer air.
A little 5-year-old boy, who had seen
a peacock for the first time, ran into the
house exclaiming to his 6ister, "On,
Lizzie ! I've seen a great, great big,
monstiferous tail walking around with a
hen tied to it."
"Did you ever dabble in stocks?"
asked a lawyer of a witness who was
known to have fled from his native land
to this asylum of tho free. " Well, yes,
I got my foot in them once in the old
country," was the reply.
. A Wisconsin dentist recently received
the following from a patient writing for
advice: "My mouth is thre? inches
across, five-eighths through the jaw.
Sum hnmoky on the edge. Shaped like
a hoss-shoe, toe forrard. If you want
me to be moro particular I shall have to
cum thar."
" Did I ever see a flying machine ?'
remarked a man with a cabbage leaf in
his hat, at the horse market the other
day. " Well, I should sorter conclade
I had. You'd just orter seen them fast
trotters of Hen Keller's run away with
the reaper on the down-hill side of the i
field. Fly I Well, I should reckon I"
Cincinnati Breakfast Table.
Many, many years ago a gentleman
callod on Mr. Hoby, then the most fash
ionable, most extravagant, most flour
ishing of bootmakers. "I bought a pair
of straps here last week," said he, "and
think they turned out shamefully; I will
never buy another pair of straps in this
shop ! " "Put up the shutters, John,"
said Mr. Hoby, turning to one of his
men, "its no good our going on witn
the business; this gentleman will never
buy another pair of sixpenny straps
here." London World,
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