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S.UPPLBM E1TT
THE 1 OÜSE BELOW THE IIII.E.
BY MRS. S. M. B. 1'IATT.
You ask me of the farthest star.
Whither your thought can climb at will.
Forever questioning child of mine.
I fear it Is not half ho far
As is the house below the hill.
Where one oor lamp begins to shine.
The lamp that is of death the sign.
Has it Indeed been there for years.
In rain and snow, with ruined roof
For (iol to look through, day and night.
At man's despair and woman'i tears,
While with myeelf 1 stood aloof,
As one by some enchanted ri?ht
Held high from any ghastly sight?
One of mv children lightly sid,
"Oh nothing, (Why must we be stillt
Only the people have to cry
' Ikn-ause the woman's child Is dead
There in the house below the hill.
I wish that we could see it fly,
It has gold wings, and that is why!"
Gold wings it has? I only know
What wasted little hands it had.
That reached to me for pity, but
Before I thought to give it oh,
On earth's last rose bud. faint and wtd,
Ts cold than mine had been, they shut.
Sharper than steel some things should cut!
I thought tho mother showed to me,
With something of a noble scorn
(Whfii morning mocked with bird and dew),
That brief and bitter courtly
Which awes us in the lowliest born.
Ah. soul, to thine own self be true;
-God's eyes, grown human. loU thee through!
"We need no help we neded it.
You have not come In time, ana so
Tlie women here did everything.
You did not know? You did not know?"
1 surely saw the dark brows knit.
To let the living die for bread ,
Then bring fair shrouds to hide the dead!
What time I cried with Rachel's cry,
I wondered that I could not wring,
"While sitting at the grave forlorn.
Compassion from you alien sky,
That knows not death nor anything
That troubles man of woman born,
have that he wounded Christ with thorn.
II v sorrow had the right to find
Immortal pityT I could sit,
Kot hearing at my very feet
The utter wailing of my kind,
And dream my dream high over it!
Oh human heart, what need to beat.
If nothing save your own is sweet!
Ah me, that fluttering flower and leaf.
That weird, wan moon and pitiless sun.
And my own shadow in the gratis.
Should hhje from me this common grief!
WasI not dust? What had I done?
In that fixed face as in a glass
I saw myself to judgment pass?
Atlantic.
KIDD'S MONET.
Goilelr-sn Jfrwjmen Itlgginz for It Day
and Mght.
.Letter to the Philadelphia Times.
In the unexplored little world cast of the
Delaware river is the province of New Jer
sey; in the eastern boundary of this province
is" the county of Monmouth; in the
eastern part of Monmouth is the
township of Ocean; through Ocean
township flows Shark river, and oti the
south shoure of Shark river stands Money
Hill. Money Hill is a ereat heap of sand.
It is tall (for New Jersey) and broad and
steep. Standing on its summit, and looking
east, the ocean may be seen, all its billows
smoothed down by the distance into one
beautiful sheet of blue. On the wcs4 the
vast forest of stunted Jersey pines, knotted
and gnarled, soughing in the wind, of
no earthly use but to fehelter
rabbits and pheasant?. North and south,
the broad river and other salt water ponds,
and beyond them, either way, nothing but
unendin; stretches of bleak sand. Shark
Island is another name that has been given
to Monsey Hill, and CotMn Island Is still
another. Shark Island, the natives say, be
cause there are no sharks there; CofiVn
Island, perhaps, because there are no coffins
there, and "island," without doubt, because
it is not an island at all, but a little promon
tory jutting out of the main land.
In the sands of Money Hill are buried the
countless treasures of Captain Kidd so sev
eral hundreds of guileless Jerseymen think
and scores of men are burrowing into the
sides of she hill in the hope of unearthing
the ca.sh. They have been doing this, peri
" odically for years, till all the outer surface
has been turned over and over scores of
times without any profitable results.
There are two things that make it abso
lutely certain (in the minds of the New Jer
seymen) that Captin Kidd's treasures are
buried in Money Hill. Some hunters one
day saw something shining at their feet.
They picked it up; it wis a Spanish coin.
Searching further they found several more
like it, but all in different places. For many
years these coins wepe shown to incredu
lous strangers, but at length their material
value proved too great for the strength of the
tradition, ind they went the way of all coin
hereabouts for cheese and applejack. Years
after this, but still many yeais ago, a South
Carolinian wandered up into eastern Jersey.
He was luxurious in his tastes, and break
fasted every morning on clams fresh dug from
the beach. One morning his host, Jimmy
Allen, the owner of Money Hill, said to
hi in. "Let ns go up the hiil this morning and
eat our clams where we can see the vessels
sailing by." So they went up. The grass
was green and the sand was soft, and they
enjoyed nature and the clams together.
Presently the southerner asked, ''What is
the name of this hill?" "Money Hill," said
Jimmy Allen. ."Why." said the toutherner.
"thafs curious; that's the very name of a
hill that a clairvoyant in Charleston told me
Captain Kidd's treasures are buried in; and,
by the way, this is just the hill she described
to me." Then he told the story the clair
Toyant had told him, and before the c)ams
were digested it was arranged that the south
erner should dig in the hill, and give Allen
ten per cent of all that was found. A few
' day3 afterward he went to digging.
One night the South Carolinian dissao
peared. The hill was furrowed and bur
rowed and bore the marks of many a hard
day's work. But with the digger' disap
pearance the excitement died away, and for
many a long day nothing mere was thought
about poor Kid's money A Ion; time
afterward, however, the southerner reap
peared. He went away in homespun and
cowhide; he came back in broadcloth and
patent leather, on his fingers were sparkling
lewels. in his pocket a costly watch.- "A
large fortune had unexpectedly been left
him," he said, but nobody believed this,
and everybody jumped at the conclusion
that he had dug' his fortune out of Money
Hill.
Then the excitement began again. When
ever a Monmouth count) farmer gets the
gold fever he goes to digging in Money Hill.
&o they attacked the hill aguin. Again they
found nothing, and again in a few weeks the
excitement began to subside. The southener
went south again and the farmers went to
hoeing potatoes. But a few weeks ago the
author of all their misery came back again,
tili wearing his broadcloth and diamond.
He looked about the countv for a few davs,
selected a piece of ground, bought it and Be
gan to build a house. The fine clothes came
off and old blouse went on; be Bet out to do
the building himself.
"Don't you see what that's for?" the Jer
seymen say. "He's ging to have secret
places in the house to store his gold away,
and be don't want anybody else to know
about them. That's plain enough. He
knows there's more money in the Hill, and
!ie's going to dig it out."
This the Jerseymen couldn't stand. They
"had been digging for that gold ail their
lives, and to have a man with a palmetto
tattooed on his arm come and take it away
was too much for them. So they went to
digging themselves, and they're digging
now. This, in brief, is the history of the
latest gold excitement at Money Hill.
Last night a dozen men were digging in
the side of the hill. From a side window in
my little corner room in the hotel, which
faced the sea, 1 could see lights on the hill,
one big light and several smaller ones, and 1
braved the snow and the sharks and the
dead Indians that are said to haunt the
place, and went up the hill.
Only two of the men were at work, the
others were looking on. The two
were shoveling sand out of a big hole
in the side of the hill, and they were
all within twenty ' feet of a little Indian
burying-ground, whose whereabouts was
made known by 20 or 30 irregular little
mounds nearly hidden under the snow.
Very little work was doing. They had
brought nothing out and were about to give
it up for the night. They did not gener
ally, they said, work after dark, but had
made up "a little party for the evening as
much for amusement as for profit. They
had worked at it a short time in the after
noon, they said, with the same result. They
would probably dig the next day and per
haj the next, as long, in short., as the ex
citement lasted.
When the diggers shouldered their picks
an ! shovels and went down the hill they
began to tell wonderful tales of ghosts and
gobblijs, Indians and gold hunters, legends
choice and rare. And when several of them
were seated about the hotel stove, a few
minutes later, the yarns (good yarns, too,)
flew fast that it was impossible to wind
them. I. managed to catch the most of them,
however, and, having a cord or two saved,
will send you down a box full of. assorted
legends to-morrow.
RREAR MAKIXU.
Some Hints a to the Manufacture of the
MafXorLlfe.
As a most difficult branch of a housekeep
er's duties bread making requires a generous
stock of patience and a vast deal of experi
ence. The skill of it is in no sense intui
tive, but acquired through repeated failures
and doubtful successes; and even the ac
cepted receipt of many a housewife makes a
poor apology for a perfect loaf of
bread. The best receipts get hard
usage in unskilled hands, and
the indifference which much bread making
betrays would spoil any rule and offend
any table. Teaching is worth something,
but in this, as in most other skilled employ
ments, experience is everything. The
women's centennial committee, who com
piled the national cookery book, consider
the chief evil of much bread making to be
the use of saleratus or other baking powder,
and enjoin upon their sisters to do away
with this vicious custom. Were there no
such thing as saleratus, considering the uses
to which it is often put, the
dining tables of the present genera
tion would, perhaps, offer a more whole
some diet, certainly a more acceptable bread,
where such a powder is now used; and
where the common and unhealihy biscuits,
with their so frequently sulphur streaked
surfaces, which require special training of
the stomach for even a passable digestion,
driven away from every dining room, the
effect w ould be of immense importance. Mr.
Tegetrueier, in his Handbook, explains the
process by which bakers make their bread
so light and spongy. They mix a little of
the Hour they are about to use with water
and the yeast, and set it to rise some time
before mixing up the mass of dough. In
this way less yeajt is required, and by this
whole "sionge" acting as a fer-
mect, the bread is much bet
ter and softer than made in the ordinary
way. The rising of the dongh is quickened
by adding to the sponge a small quantity of
mashed boiled potatoes. To make half a
peck of flour into bread on this system,
mash three-fourths of a pound of well boilea
mealy potatoes through a coarse seive or col
ander, and mix with a pint of flour; mix an
ounce anil a half of German dried yeast with
a pint and a half of luke-warm water and
strain into the flour and potatoes; beat the
hole into a batter; cover with a blanket
and set by the fire to rise. In two hours, if
kept quite warm, this will have risen con
siderably, and constitutes the "sponge."
Beat this with the hand very perfectly, and
mix with a pint and a half of nearly blood
warm water (92 Fahrenheit), and pour into
a half a peck of Hour, which has already
had one and one-fourth ounces of salt
mixed with it. Knead the whole into dough
and let rise in a warm place two hours in
warm weather, but longer in cold weather.
Then turn out on a floured table, divide into
pieces suitable for loaves, knead lightly into
proper shape with only flour enough to
keep it from adhering to the table. Fora
still lighter bread a portion of the dough,
when ready for the oven, should be well
kneaded, with flour enough to make it
rather solid, divide into small loaves or
rolls, place on a slightly greased tin, and set
in a warm place to rise again. Tben wash
ovr the loaves with a little milk, and bake
for about twenty minutes. Upon taking
from the oven cover with a cloth to prevent
the outside from becoming hard. Stale
bread, which is far more healthy than new,
may be made soft and palatable by covering
closely with a tin and placing it lor half an
hour in a very moderately heated oven.
A Sw Mania.
Cleveland Plaln&aler.
There is an old man nearly "0 years of age,
in the Fifth ward, who is a monomaniac on
the subject of wood. He collects it with all
the ardor that other monomaniacs do old
china or books. He is well-to-do, and per
fectly able to buy his wood, but it la said
that he has not purchased any for years. He
is a member of the church, but does not evi
dently think it a sin to steal wood, al
though he would no doubt be greatly
shocked should he hear the exclamation
made one day by one of his neighbors to
the effect that he hoped when the old man
died he would go where he would need
no wood. If a stick of wood drops from a
wagon or a board becomes loose on the side
walk, it goes into his wood shed,
is carefully sawed to an exact
length and placed in a certain de
partment where it belongs, for he divides
the wood shed into departments, one divis
ion -being for boards, another for split wood,
etc. Every dav the old patriarch goes
around on a foraging expedition and always
comes home bearing a heavy load of wood. A
few days ago some boards were placed on
the side of the muddy pavement to walk
on and two hours after they were put in
place he carried them off and placed them
in his alreadv over-full wood museum. A
short time after a mechanic was building a
new gate near his reidence, when be laid
down some of the moulding and boards a
moment and went after some tools. When
he came back he saw the old man going into
his woodshed with the boards on his shoul
der. An arrest and trial for petty larceny
would perhaps cure his lunacy. He has a
son who bids fair to be a chip off the old
blotk.
A teamster of Columbus named William
Behler a few days since received notification
of the death of an uncle in Germany, whose
will named Behler and five others as lega
tees of his estate, the total value of which is
stated at about $15,000,000 or $16,000,000.
T
FAILURE.
New York Evening Post.
The Lord, who fashioned my hands for work
ing. Ret me a task and it is not done;
I tried and tried since the early mornlriR,
And now to the westwanl sinketn the sua!
Noble the task that was klndlv given
To one so little and weak as I ;
Somehow my strength could never grasp It,
Never, as days and years went by. t , ,
Others around me, cheerfully tolling,
Showed me their work as they passed away;
Filled were their hands to overflowing,
Proud were their hearts and glad and gay.
Laden with harvest Fpofl thev entered
In at the golden gate of their rest;
Laid their sheaves at the feet of the Master,
Found their place among the blest.
Happy be they who strive to help me.
Falling ever in spite of their aid!
Fain would their love have borne me with
them.
But I was unready and sore afraid. ,
I know now my task will never be flnNhed,
And when the Master calleth my name,
The voice will find me still at my labor
Weeping beside It in weary shame.
With empty hands I shall rise to meet Him,
And when he looks for the fruits ol years.
Nothing have I to lay before Him
But broken efforts and bitter tears.
Yet when He calls I fain would .tasten
Mine eyes are dim and their light Is gone;
And I am as wearied as though 1 carried
A bundle of beautiful works well done.
I will fold my hands npon my bosom.
Meekly thus in the shape of His cross,
And the Lord who made them so frail and
feeble
Maybe will pity their strife and loss.
A FA. MO IS CRACKSMAN.
A Pre Interview with Rolland, tire
tileao Rtirglar.
The Harrisburg Patriot publishes an inter
view with Rolland, the noted burglar,' ar
rested in Chicago some time since and taken
east to answer for crimes committed in vari
ous places, notably the robbing of a Pennsyl
vania bank. He was detained in Harrisburg
on his transit, and there the interviewer
caught him, and describes his personal ap
pearance as follows:
The prisoner is probably five feet five or
six inches in height, sparely built, has a
broad, white forehead, hair thick, glossy and
dark, wears a thick mustache; face clear,
and of a classic appearance; nose aquiline;
mouth rather small, the lips indicating self
will and firmness; has, apparently, a full set
of natural white teeth. He wore no shirt
collar, but on his bosom was fastened a mag
nificent diamond stud, and a small gold ring
on one of the fingers of the left hand. His
clothing was of dark cloth, fashionably
made.
Reporter You appear to have been liber
ally educated, of good address and respecta
ble family. Why da you follow an occupa
tion so dangerous and unlawful?
Rolland It is a morbid desire for excite
ment and adventure. I have had adventure
enough, Heaven knows, but have never im
brued jy hands in blood. On the contrary,
when a "job" was planned or carried out I
have invariably instructed the men who
were connected with me to take the conse
quences if they took the life of any one
in carrying out plans or finishing tip
"jobs." Whv, sir, if I had been so dis
posed I could have silenced Mr. Messersmith
effectually on more than one occasion, taken
all the money I desired and tied long before
the fact would have been announced. I had
no desire to injure him. He treated me
with the utmost kindness and respect, and I
could not, under any circumstances, have
harmed a hair on his head. Some men in
the procession are bloodthirsty and villain
ous. I have no desire to be so. for I contend
that I have as much feeling as the
next man for my r fellow creatures.
I admit, sir, that my occupation
is unlawful and dangerously uncer
tain. But take your men in public places
now-a-days. They rob the people of
thousands of dollars nay of millions and
back out gracefully. Their friends come to
their rescue, make" a big ado and finally
worm them out of the meshes of the law.
by hook or crook. Now I take from the
vaults of a bank, where there is ait abund
ance of wealth. Besides the mortification
at the loss of money the public at large will
not sutler from the act Besides, I have al
ready told you, I give liberally of my ill
gotten gains. Charity, you know,' covers a
multitude of sias.
Alluding to oases of conscience troubles,
Rolland said:
I believe in religion; that It is a sacred,
holy thing. I am no hypocrite, either!
Whv, sir, when I was at Chanibersburg,
engineering this job, there was a great stir
of religion there, from the fact that Moody
and Sankey were carrying out the wark of
evangelism in Philadelphia, and its influ
ence was apparent all over the country.
My wife and I were frequently pressed to
attend church and the prayer meetings at
Chambersburg. I said to her, 4 Go, if you
like, with your lady frionds; I can not wear
a cloak of religion to serve the devil in."
Religion is too sacred a thing to trifle with.
I may have some glaring faults, but I
contend that I have also some redeeming
traits.
Reporter Are you an American by birth?
Rolland No; I was born in Marseilles,
France, in 1844; am in my 33d year. I have
traveled a great deal of my time, hence the
love of adventure and excitement is inhe
rent in my nature. I have visited all the
points of interest in Kurope, traveled
through the Holy Land, Egypt, Palestine
and up the Nile: have been in Australia
and over the length and breadth of the
United States in search of adventure., I was
tenderly raised, and received a liberal edu
cation before J left my native land.
WHOLESALE WARMING.
Mr. Holly's Plan for Heatlnar Whole
Cities by Steam.
The press has widely discussed the plan
of Mr. Holly, of Lockport, New York, for
heating cities by steam, diffused as gas now
is, from a common reservoir. He has lately
published a book on the subject, from which
the following is an extract:
In cities or towns of from 3,000 to 8,000
inhabitants, where the main business por
tion docs not exceed one-half mile square,
one set of boilers, located near the center of
the place, with pipes leading out in four di
rections, will do all the work. If the city
is one mile square, four sets of boilers will
be necessary. The main pipes that leave
the boilers will be 4 inch, ana diminish to 3,
2XA, 2, li and 1 inch at the extreme end
away from the boilers, the mains of 4 inches
continuing as'the use along the lines may
demand. The main pipes are placed about
four feet below the surface of the earth. The
iron pipes are first covered with asbestos, and
then put in a wood pipe1 4 inches thick, and
leaving a space for confined air between the
asbestos and wood. This outside pipe keeps
all water and moisture from the steam pipe,
and prevents condensation. The pipes, both
woou and iron, are put down in lengths of
two feet, when they terminate in hollow,
upright posts, firmly secured in the earth.
The upper part of this post is arranged so as
to receive the ends of the steam pipes
through stuffing boxes to allow the pipes to
expand and contract without moving the
post The posta are also arranged so as to
receive the ends of the service pipes either
with or without expansion joints. It will
be seen that the service pipes
are not taken directly from the mains, but
from the hollow supports, thus al
lowing them to be attached or detached from
the support instead of passing through the
outside wooden pipe to enter the steam pipe,
which could not be dope, because the steam
pipe expands and contracts, while the
wooden pipe does not Tests made during
the month of July with very small pipe
proves that steam may be carried through
well protected pipes for a distance of a mile,
and then be more economical than any
other system. But it is thought that 1,200
or 1,500 feet each way, .making a half mile
square, is about all that need be fin
ished f rom.one location. This, even in a
city with a population of 1,500, would in
clude nearly all the business places, hotels,
churches and schools. Buildings further out
could be reached by a single line of small
p'pe. Steam can be manufactured on a large
scale for one-fourth the' cost that it is on a
small scale for warming a single dwelling or
block. You can stop the expense at any
time by turning the steam cock in your
house.whereas in the use of a private boiler,
when you shut off the steam, combustion
goes on just the same.
DRIVEN TO DEATH.
Poverty ami Trouble Accomplish Thl
for n St. Lonls Profeanor.
The St Louis papers have lull accounts ot
a ghastly suicide of an old man,
Professor E. L. Seymour. He taught
classes in the modern lansuages and
came to St. Louis about three months ago
from Atlanta, Georgia, where he is said to
have lived for two or three years, and from
1apers found-in his room it is inferred that
ie was a man of no ordinary education. He
hac diplomas from several schools of differ
ent kinds in Germany, was at one time" di
rector of the Dillenburg mining works, in
Dillenburg, Nassau, Germany, and an hon
orary member of the, folytechnic school of
Dillenburg. His suicide, as was indicated by
a diary found in his room, was caused
by family and financial trouble, and
was accomplished by cutting his throat
When his room was opened late Monday
night, Seymour sat upright, his head was
thrown back, and his neck was cut nearly in
two. The basin at his feet contained blood.
The floor was covered with .blood, and in it
lay the razor which had done the greater
part of the work. On the bed lay another
and shorter razor, also covered with
blood. The razor on the Moor was
an odd looking thing. Its blade
had been straightened in a line with the
handle, a stick had been placed alongside of
it, a cloth had been wrapped around both,
and this had been securely tied with string.
The circumstances told a plain 6tory to
Praedicow. Seymour had first taken a snort
razor and made" a couple of slashes,, but the
blade wabbled so in the handle that it was
very unsatisfactory work, and liable to cut
the fingers. So he got out his long razor and
tied the stick to it as stated, making a
long, steady weapon, the blade of which
could not work back and forth. It posses
sed the further desirable characteristic of
being long enough to admit of being used
by both hands. The first slash had been on
the left side. The next one was on the same
side and a little lower.and the third one still
a little lower, but all ran into the same cut
Then he turned his attention to the other
side and made a deep cut. Then a second
one near it, and then two more. He now
had the front Of his throat all
open; and he sawed away till he
had no more strength, and until the blade
reached almost to the spinal column. While
he was doing this he held his head over the
basin on the floor, to keep the blood from
staining, bnt as he lost his consciousness he
straightened up and his neck fell back, so
that the balance of the blood ran upon the
floor.
The time at which he did it is, of course,
unknown, but it seems probable as the bed
wasjundisturbed, that it was done on Sun
day afternoon.
A MAD LOVER.
Jealousy Makes a 'Missouri Youth Bun
a 91 nek.
ISedalia Bazoo.
A young man named Silas Cunningham,
aged 22, is the son of a citizen of Sedalia
named Robert Cunningham. The young man
is a member of the Christian church and
treasurer of the Sabbath-school. He was
deeply in love with a young lady and ap
pears to have been repulsed by her, and this
fact, as well as his jealousy of a favored rival,
appears to have driven him crazy. He
went to church on Sunday night and
there saw the girl he loved in company
with another fellow. He returned home
very much excited, and took a heavy dose
of croton oil, and after walking up and down
the room where the family was, he had some
conversation with his father and mother,
remarking that he had taken poison. His
father started to leave the room for assist
ance, when his son drew a large navy revol
ver and bade his father '"halt," saying that
if he attempted to leave the room he would
kill him. His father tried to slip out, when
the son sent a bullet crashing after him. He
then bade his younger brother, Robert go
for the young lady he loved, to have her see
the tragedy through. He told him he would
shoot him if he did not go.- The mad
man then went out into a yard and took off
his outer clothing -and appeared to be in
great pain from the operation of the croton
oil. lie rolled on the ground in the slushy
snow and crawled on his hands and knees,
drinking the slush ravenously to appease his
pain. By this time crowds of people had
gathered but none dared to enter the yard,
because as fast as they attempted to approach
hira he levelled his navy revolver, and when
they came too close fired at them. All kinds
of subterfuges and strategy were practiced to
capture the mad man, but to no effect. It was
resolved to turn the water works hose on him
and so knock him down, while the crowd
charged upon him. Before this was done
the hour ot 12 o'clock arrived, and he placed
the pistol to his breast and fired. The bul
let aid not make a mortal wound, but the
shock knocked him down. He had fired
several shots at persons who had tried to
creep in upon him from various points, but
fortunately missed all of them. The wild
boy has recovered from the poison and is not
seriously injured. He says ne will kill him
self as soon as he can get an opportunity.
The affair caused the wildest excitement in
Sedalia.
A Burnt Child.
Nashville American.
When Theodore Tilton was shown his
birth in the sleeper at .Louisville Sunday
night he was observed to carefully put
aside the curtains and examine it with the
closest scrutiny. Having satisfied himself
that no one materialized, he sat down and
commenced getting ready to turn in. Hav
ing eliminated himself from his coat he cast
a glance toward the upper berth, but
changed his mind, muttered, "No, I won't
do that," and was about to place the gar
ment in his own half-section, when the con
ductor remarked, "You can lay your coat
up there, Mr. Tilton; I don't think that
berth will be sold to-night"
"Are you sure?" Tilton inquired, with
an anxious, startled look.
"Dead sure." responded the conductor.
doubtless attributing Mr. Tilton'swant of
confidence to that awkward little episode in
another sleeping car some weeks ago.
WITH PIPE AND FLUTE."'
With pipe and flute the rustic Pan
Of old made music sweet to man,
And wonder hushed the warbling bird,
And closelier drew the calm eyed herd
The rolling river slowller ran.
Ah! would, ah! would, a little span.
Some air of A read v could fan
This age ofours too seldom stirred
With pipe and flute!
But now for gold we plot and plan;
And from Beersheba unto Dan
An Orpheus' self might walk unheard,
Or find the nightjar's note prelerred.
Not so It fared when time began
With pipe and flute!
-Austin Dobson, in the London Examiner.
NEWS NOTES.
Cleveland has a street car fight.
Chicago is ravaged by scarlet fever.
Little Rock will celebrate Mardi'Gras.
La Salle, Ills., is devastated by the small
pox. There is a big temperance revival in Fitts
burg. There is a proposition to divide the state
of California.
Moody and Sankey find throngs ol listen
ers in Boston.
Another Chicagoan has been cured of dis
ease by prayer.
The municipal reform fight in Philadel
phia is waxing hot
The Louisville and New Albany railroad
is to be steel railed.
A libel suit against the Post is in progress
of trial in Pittsburg.
There is white lead in cigarette papers
which poisons the smoker.
Another colony of Bostonians has left for
Florida to look for homes.
Patrick Mowney was cut to pieces by a
train in Cincinnati Wednesday.
Three saw mills are in almost constant
operation at Deadwood, D. T.
Judging from the comments of local pa
pers, the Kansas senatorial contest is simply
an auction of votes.
The new Charley Ross in New York has
been found, minus his overcoat, which was
what tempted his abductor.
Oglesby, the counterfeiter lately arrested
in Cincinnati, once lived in Columbus, and
it is thought plied his trade there.
A litigation over a strip of land worth $25
has been in the courts at Ballston, N. Y,.
for over ten years, and the end is not yet
The school buildings of Manchester, Mich.,
are so crowded that a portion of the pupils
have to attend after the regular school
hours.
Sea Cliff, Long Island, has a camp meet
ing scandal between a middle-aged brother
and sister in the faith, both of whom are
married.
There was a council of prominent demo
crats at the Astor house, New York, Mon
day, presumably to select counsel before the
tribunal.
By the upsetting of a lamp in Labette
county,- Kansas, lately, David McKnight
lost his house with all its contents.and three
children were burned to death.
Sixty-seven of the inmates of the Illinois
deaf and dumb asylum were born of parents
of consanguineous origin, and 44 of these
were children of first cousins.
The body of a child buried in Oswego,
New York, 20 years ago, was lately exhumed
and found in a perfect state of preservation.
It looked as if dead only a few days.
John Kattor was killed by his fellow
workmen in the Barber plate works in
Cleveland, Tuesday, for refusing to partici
pate in a strike. The murderers ' are un
known. A vacant ho.use in Detroit was supposed to
be haunted until it turned out that a police
man was in the habit of beating a tattoo
upon its resounding wall as a signal to a
companion.
A number of gentlemen, residents of the
Pacific coast have formed a company with
a capital of $10,000.000, gold coin, to get out
lumber in Alaska for ship building and
other purposes. :
Governor Palmer, of Illinois, had an inter
view with Littlefield, clerk of the Louisiana
returning board, when in New Orleans, and
learned substantially the facts now devel
oped in his testimony.
In a single night at Memphis lately a fire
man's throat was cut in a fight, a citizen's
skull was crushed with a club, a man was
garroted in the public street, and there were
two unsuccessful attempts at assassination.
A Minneapolis man has contrived an ap
paratus for the collection and slaughter of
grasshoppers, which he has christened the
"Hopperdoser." He is a humanitarian, and
has not, therefore, patented his contrivance.
NOTES ON ART.
The London Royal Academy is holding a
sort of centennial" loan exhibition of the old
masters f,.oni the private galleries of Eng
land. Three hundred pictures have been
lent by their owners, among which are works
by Van Dyck, Del Sarto, Poussin, Tintoretto,
Correggio, Del Floiubo and Domenichino.
Semieradzki's ereat painting, "The Burn
ing of Rome Under Nero," which last winter
brought to the artist the golden laurel crown
of the Roman academy, will be a notable
feature in the French, salon next spring. It
is now on exhibition in Vienna, where it
produces a sensation, whether Nero ever or
dered the burning ot Kome or nou
Another portrait of Mary. Queen of Scots,
has come to light taken in the tenth year of
her captivity. The art critic of the Athen
aeum sees in it "the remains of considerable
beauty," and also "most emphatically and
distinctly a sharp, cunning look." The
English can not get over their distrust of
Elizabeth's pretty cousin.
The municipality of Antwerp have de
cided to abolish the fees heretofore charged
for the sight of Rubens's great paintings in
in the cathedral of that city, and are con
teniplating the removal of the "Descent
From the Cross" to the city museum for bet
ter preservation. Both the decision and the
contemplation will awaken the gratitude of
future visitors to Antwerp.
The latest discoveries made by the excava
tions now in progress at Pompeii are two
large mural paintings, representing respec
tively, "Theseus Abandoning Ariadne" and
the "Judgment .of Paris." In the house
where they are was also found the following
inscription:
Quls amat valeai; pereat qui
Nescitamare; bis tantopereat
" Quls quia amars-yetat.
The existing school of Spanish art, as it
flourishes under the direction of the Acad
emy of Madrid, is represented in a collec
tion lately exhibited in New York by a
number of works by young men. which
have at least the? merit of being originaL
They are strong La color, and remarkable foe
the strength arvd vigor ol their treatment;
but, unfortunately, their merits stop here,
for they are, with, one or two exceptions,
very sketchy and unfinished. These vrorks
give a better idea of the Spanish people than
the Dicturesaue compositions with, which
the Spanish Roman school has familiarized
the public. But though true enough to
their models, the common, every day opan
ish typ, they lack the conscientious finish
which distinguishes the picture from the
sketch.
The New York Herald says: The special
loan exhibition of objects of art was re
cently opened to the public at the.academy
of fine arts. Including as it does elegant
paintings and statuary from the finest pri
vate galleries in Philadelphia, together with
those belonging to the academy and the art
work specimens in the possession of the
Pennsylvania museum and school of indus
trial art nofable among which is the rare
collection of East Indian art presented by
the British government, and the gold and
silver work, bronzes, carved ivorv and wood
work, enamels, pottery, porcelain and tex
tile fabrics loaned by private collectors the
exhibition this evening opened excels any
thing of tne kind ever brought together in
Philadelphia, barring the Centennial art ex
hibit The collections are jointlv under the
charge of the museum and fchool of art
and the academy of fine arts, the bric-a-brac
and articles of virtu being in the care
of the former, while the academy is the
custodian of the paintings and sculpture.
A HORRIBLE DEATH.
Frightful Raving of a Victim of Ily.
drophobla.
Cincinnati Gazette.
Charles P. Wetmore, who lives in Hart
well, in this county, on last Thursday, feel
ing ill, thought to relieve himself by violent
exercise. For that purpose he went skating,
but found that he felt rather worse than
better. The morning following he attempted,
upon getting up, to drink some water, and
was terrified to discover that he could not
take the liquid in his mouth, nor even
raise the cup to his mouth. During the
day he was very ill and unable to drink
though tormented with thirst After going
to bed he grew rapidly worse, and at 1
o'clock in the morning, Mr. Wilson aroused
Dr. C. L. Armstrong, who called ' other
physicians in consultation, the decision of
all being that the young man was suffering
from hydrophobia. Nothing could be done
save to relieve, as far as possible, the pain
which the patient suffered. This was clone
by the hourly use of hypodermic injections.
The groans and cries of the unfortunate man
were most painful to hear. When the par
oxysms were at the highest, he gnashed his
teeth and made a snarling sound, as a dog
might, while the foam stood upon his lips.
The physician found it necessary to bind
him. The strength of three men was re
quired to keep him upon the bed. In these
paroxysms of pain and frenzy, alternating
with limes of quiet following each hypoder
mic injection, the hours passed from Fridav
night until Sunday morning at half-past 4
o'clock, when the unfortunate man became
quiet and grew gradually weaker and appar
ently easier until his death, which occurred
about an hour later.
DIVORCE SHYSTERS.
A Law Proposed to Suppress Them in
Illinois.
Chicago Legal News.
The attention of the profession all through
the United States has been called to the ad
vertisements of certain persons who have
a nominal membership at the bar of their
ability to procure divorces without publici
ty, and that residence in the state where the
divorce is procured is not necessary, etc.,
and the improper practices of such persons
in procuring divorces. In arousing public
attention to these practices the Chicago bar
association has taken a leading part On its
application, A. Goodrich, who has procured
more divorces than any other person in the
state, has been disbarred. The following is
prepared by the committee on grievances of
the association, composed of James L. High,
chairman, K. U. Mason, A. M. Pence and
Charles T. Adams, to prevent divorce adver
tising: Be it enacted by the people of the täte of
Illinois, represented in the general assembly,
that whoever advertises, prints, publishes, dis
tributes or circulates, or causes to be adver
tised, printed, published, distributed or circu
lated, uny circular, pamphlet, card, hand bill,
advertisement, printed paper, book, newspa
per or notice of any kind, with intent to
procure or to aid in procuring any di
vorce, either in this state or elsewhere,
shall be fined not less than $100 nor
more than $1,0U0 for each offense, and impris
oned in the county Jail not less than three
months nor more than one year. Tills act shall
not apply to the printing or publication of no
tices tor procuring service or process by publi
cation, upon defendants in chancery cases, in
accordance with section 12 of chapter 22 of the
revised statutes of 1874.
The Code in Wyoming:.
Chicago Times Hpeclal.
Last Saturday evening . Granville Peake
and George W. Via, two herders, left Whit
comb's for an adjoining ranche. Each hav
ing had four or live drinks before starting,
they. became excited over some money mat
ters, and while all alone on the prairie en
gaged in a moonlight duel. While riding
along, Peake, without a word of warning,
drew his revolver and shot Via in the leg,
then spurring his horse attempted to es
cape, but Via drew his revolver and fired,
Peake stopping his horse. Both contin
ued their firing until they had emptied
their revolvers. Peake was shot through the
hip near the spine, the ball passing through,
lodging under the skin of the abdomen. He
also received one shot in the jaw, passing
through and out of his neck. Via received
a ball in the wrist, one in the calf of the leg,
and one through his hat After the firing
ceased both rode side by side for six miles
till they reached the ranch, where they
rested. Via remounted his horse and rode
five miles further to a second ranch, from .
which place he was brought to this place in
a dangerous condition. It is thought he can
not live. Peake'a wounds are dangerous as
well as very painful, it is thought he would
not live over Sunday.
A Candid Confession.
Detroit Free Press.
After a small boy had leaned up against a
wall at the corner of Woodward avenue and
Congress street for two full hours yesterday
a policeman asked if he was waiting for any
one in particular.
"Waitin' for a runaway to come aiong.
replied the boy.
. "You want to see a team run away, do
vou7"
"I want to see a truck team come-zippin
alone here, hit that peanut stand in the
middle, and while the sympathetic public;
are picking- op the Italian I want t be pick
ing up the peanuts, was me irann. re
ply. The officer decided to enforce the twenty
second joint rule, and the boy was mad to
move OQ- .
A Constitutional Fronton.
Christian Union.
The congressional compromise is a pon
toon bridge laid to enable he natioa to cross
on unfordable stream. It is conceived in the
most excellent spirit; it the nation walks
quietly and gingerly over it, it may not
tome to pieces. That U the best that can be
said for it The stream is there; there is no.
ford, and a pontoon, bridge is better than,
nothing. The fault to be found with tld3
scheme is not in its details. It is in the ten
dency of which, it is the latest and most sig
nificant mauifestation. With whatever
veils it may be covered, it b in verity em
powering congress to determine, the presi
aency.