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tffi? W -T'fl' Ofa -Wing Wi -iy. g m- .. Zm m lift VOL. XIX. A MOUNTAIN OUTLAW. By Wallace P. Reed. For The Constitution. The last rays of the setting sun bathed tho tall summit of Mount Olah in a Hood of mellow splendor. Down in the valley it was already twilight, and a gray shadow was creeping over the red hills opposite the mountain. On one of the hillsides was a little log cabin. Back oi it stretched a eo-.niield, and in front ■was a rugged pathway leading down to the Shad which sometimes followed the course of the valley and sometimes branched out eccen trically over the hill:'.. Up the winding pathway Jeff Wilson crawled ■wearily, and with lagging steps. It was easy to see that lie was a tired man, and that his day’s work had fatigued him. His young wife, as she stood in the door of the cabin, saw him, and ran half way to the road to meet him. “Jeff,” she said as she took him by the arm, “I tole yer not ter wuk yerself ter death. What's the use? Yer mils'take life easy, man. Hit’s ther only way.” “Thet's what you say, Nancy,” said the man, •with a smile on his careworn face; “but how kin I? Yer disremembers ther nioggitch.” “No, I don't.” replied Nancy; “but 1 knows this place, and wuk is jist throwed away on liit. Thar’s nothin’ ter be made, an’ < f ther moggitch i ngwiiie ter cat us up—why, jist let ■'er slide. Thet's what I say.” “Hit won’t eat us, Nancy,” said the young fellow witli a smile. “We’ll beat ther" inog gitcl: yit.” In his wool hat. homespun shirt and jeans trousers, tho young fellow looked eycry inch a snan as he straightened himself and patted his •Wife < n the head. “I dunno,” said Nancy, dubiously, as she looked up into his face. “Hev yer fouu’ a golo mine?” “Nuh.” hyar, Jeff, hev ver bin a-wvkin’ in Oak’s still?” _ “Yes, 1 hev!” answered Jeff defiantly. “I kin nick good wng< s ther, an’ why shouldn't I •■wuk th,ar? Hit’s ther only way fur us ter git even.” Hi wife, lowered her head. She was alarmed at the prospect of a new. danger. “Jeff.” she spoke pleadingly. “Well. Nancy?” . “Jeff, I’m ’fre.id ter hev yer wuk in ther fltill. S’pose ther gnv’meut gits yer?” “Dura ther guv’inint!” broke out Jeff. '‘Hit : in’t g' I ole man Oaks yit. The revynoo men never come hyar. Hit’s safe enough, an’ lift v Hl mek me able ter smash ther mog giteh ■’ 1 he two walked on quietly to the little cabin and sat down to their frugal supper. That night they talked it or r. Nancy was out spoken in her opposition to her husband's new emp! >• m mt, 1 ■■■ rhe kinghed at her fears. Ho told 1 er that there had never been an arre t in - r.iet, mid 111 11 < ak.i w gr ■ lie: rich, lie s’: -.- ■<! i-.-r tha* ii l:e gi-ve un bis job tiie • ■ •„ . ~ a and they would btr.'-bmekss and penniless. “Gimme a year,” he said, “an’ we’il be out Os debt.” And so Nancy yielded against her better judgment. But from that day there was a cloud on her brow. She grew thin and nervous, and started at every ur.u •ml sound. One tiling Nancy Wilson did without telling her husband anything about it. She found the shorie t route to the still through the woods, anti all daylong she was on tho watch. Site determined that if she ever saw any f uspicious parties riding over the hills she "would rush down into the ravine at the foot of Mount Olah And warn her husband in time. M nth after month rolled on without any trouble. and Nancy was lulled into a false se curity. Late one afternoon she heard the sound es voices, and looking out saw a party of men armed with carbines riding in tiie direction of thy ravine where her husband was at work. She had not a moment to lose, and in the twinkling of an eye she slipped off her dress and put on one of Jeff's suits. In this garbshe felt that she could make better progress through the woods, and would be less likely to attract attention. Then she ran out of the back door and darted off with the speed of the wind. The crack of a carbine rang out, filling the ycaoeful valley witli a hundred echoes. “What did you do that for?” growled the leader of the posse of raiders. “Don't you Jknow that it will scare tho moonshiners On?” “It's all right,” said the deputy who had fired tiie shot. “I saw a boy skinning along ion tho mountain side, and I knew from the way lie tr od to hide himself that lie was one of the gan ; we are looking for. I don’t know whether 1 bit him or not, but I don’t see him.” “You mayliave killed some innocent person, or anyhow your shot has given notice of our Approach.” , “Oh. no,” answered the other carelessly. ’‘By this time tho men we sent around the mountain have reach d the still. When we get there we'll find our game.” Ami so it turned out. When the raiders •joined their comrades they found Jeff Wilson .a prisoner in their hand . The stillhouso was demolished in af‘ minutes, and the officers Started off with their capture. Wilson pleaded hard to bo allowed to go by In's home to see his wife, bet his captors pre ferred to take another read, and they lost no time in got tin gout •■! that region. Wilson was • tied to a horse, and was helpless. * * * * Far up the mountain -idea motionless figure jby across a narrow f<>. i with. A white, girlish ) face was turned up to the sky. and in the glow i of the sunset it hid a life-like appearance. I Night came on. and th stars mirrored them- | selves in tho glassy eyes, and when morning came the sun looked upon the same ghastly eight. And so tho rude mountaineers found her, ami 1 ■ i-.i her tenderly home. “The revynoo men 1” they muttered as they look'd upon the corpse. Tit. y aid no more, but they clutched their Title...and the grim 1 on their bearded faces Lo h.d no good to the r■■ nue inideri. The rough riders hurried Jeff Wilson on 9ver th.' mountains until a railway station was teacl ed, and tb.-n the prisoner was handcuffed ' And shipped to the city, where lio was lodged . in i"il. Wilson was in a fever of anxiety about his I .•Wifi . He wanted to and her an encouraging I Tnc<- >ge: but a simple mountaineer, unable to ' read or write, and locked up a hundred miles , from home, is in a 1 id fix. Jeff brooded over ' the ‘ ituation until he awoke one morning with a fei t. and it was weeks before ho was con- ' «ci.>. .. Then he wont into court in a half- j tdazed condition, and almost b m.re he !:r. :w it found that ho was sentenced to six months in ’ jtiil. 'J i.o big. stalwart follow had neve.'hern him- ! self - nee his illness. His mind wa- ■ > •'• •!, ■ ami he amped through il.ej.criod oi hi.,imi .N- | dnmei t. v. ndet'e why lie heard n tiling from bis wife an i his friends. ***** “Mcint Olah! No, timi.k you,” said a r-v- I W" r day to i.'s sti’ eriur; “I am not ( "1 flight'ii-fl fll . Wil n. Youha-clgaid ' “Xkaoirit. IR ~><.» in the woods on the i 1 I mountain, and whenever he sees a traveler who i looks like a revenue man he brings him down with hisriile. Lt is useless to tiy to catch him. He is a regular wild cat.” ”1 have heard oi him,” said tho other. “Let me see. Wasn’t his wife killed by a party of our raiders ?” “Yes; something of the sort,” yawned the other. “But no doubt she was with him in his moonshine business. Yes. she was killed by one of our men, and Wilson, when lie got out of jail and went home, was nearly crazy. ■ Then his farm had been sold under a mortgage, and ho took to th'.’ wcmds and waged war 1 against all mankind, or rather against tho ; government.” “I'll not send you un there this time.” said the marshal thoughtfully. “Hangedif 1 don’t feel a sympathy for Wiison! I can’t blamo him much for taking a shot at you fellows 1 when he gets tho chance.” I It was years before. Jeff Wilson ended his I career, lie made himself the terror of the mountains, and the moonshiners nourished in j his vicinity* The end camo at last, and the outlaw died ' game. Surrounded by a posse of twenty mon i he gave battle to them all, and after receiving a mortal wound ho raised himself on his elbow ami shot the leader of the party dead in his tracks. He deserved his fate, many will say. Per haps. The simple mountaineers have their own opinion about such things. They say that Jeff Wilson was cruelly persecuted, and' that he was murdered by the government. FLOWERS INSTEAD OF CREPE. I “Ever since the death of Henry Ward Becchcr it has been noticed by gentlemen iu our line oi business that for one death out oi’every three instead of crepe being hung on the door knob, beautiful wreaths of white flowers are placed as em blematic of another soul gone to glory,” said an un dertaker of national reputation. ‘ Wi.y is that?” inquired the Al ail and Express re porter. “Before Mr. Becher’s death he requested that ev erything be bright and cheerful, and that no stream ers of black be hung on the door of his home. Every thing that he said was eagerly read by thousands all over the country. His admirers were doubtless struck with his idea as to flowers instead of crepe, and it has become the style. The custom of spread in; flowers about the cotiin in which lies tl e body is b;ingrevived. During the past few years the notice “Please omit flowers” was added to nearly every funeral announcement. Walk up Fifth ave nue, or any of the other fashionable thoroughfares in New York or Brooklyn, and whenever there is a death you will very lik-.ly sec flowers instead of crepe. I am informed by undertakers in oth-T cities that the same custom is growing steadily in favor.” Misery by Mortgage. A Muino farmer asked in a Bangor store about neg •tiating a loan of U IO?. Tais led to in quiries and advice of which the Lewiston Journal makes effective use: “It seems that the man had work hard all his days, had boughtand paid for a H ,200 farm, had taken a wife, furnished a L< use, and now, < nvlous of some of lus neighbors, wanted to build a S”00 barn. To do this 1 e proposed t > bor row the cash, giving n, mortgage on his farm. Said the druggist, ah- r ‘.he story was told: ‘Yourfarm is vtu.u- nTa7* ‘X~ s T<.ii iovj“ybur wii ~ *¥• s i > a-’-.c- 7 i’ is t should do. Go earn rhe SBOO and then build your bam. If you borrow now, you will think each night as you lie on your bed that you are in debt. You will fret and worry; your wife will do the same; sickness and ac cidents uny come, or a poor crop be ymir portion; there will be a ?:’>oo skeleton in yov.r house, and ten to one, you don’t fret and grow peevish and l ave a row with your wife. Don’t go into the mortgage business! Live within your income. 1 o indu- trious, and when you do build your barn and own it, you’ll be as proud of it as an Englishman is of his castle.’ For a moment tho young farmes hesitated. On each side wore interested spectators, and all was silence. Gradually the head lowered, and a tear rolled down the cheek. Theman took 1 ride in his.occ-.pition, and wanted that barn. At last be said: “Than’-: you, sir. To t-11 the (ruth, my wife was crying wl < n ! left home because I was go ing to niortga e the place. I’ll take your advice and go heme as I camo down, and she’ll wi 1 be glad to see me.’ ‘There,’ said the Bangor man, ‘tin t fellow came to a good, wise conclusion. I have seen lots of misery on account of this mortgage business. He wim gives one, often gives peace, comfort and contentment with it.’ ” Nina Van Zandt’s Murderous Plan. From the Chicago Tribune. “I am sorry that I did not do jis I intended and blow up the j di.” This modest assertion was not made by any long-haired, shaggy-bearded an archist. Miss Nina Van Zandt is responsible for it She Las locked up in her heart’s deepest recesses carefully calculated plotsof a most startling charac ter. In a recent conversation with a trusted friend she said: “The murder of Parsons was the most diabolical of all. Think of it, a man believing himself inno cent gi . es himself up to the authorities and is mur dered by them! Parsons should have been saved, and could have been if his ca-e had been prov-.-rly managed. It was different with my husband. Nothing could have saved him but one thing, ami 1 was a fool not to do as I intend 1 ; nd should have done—that was to blow up the jail.” “Kii-h, what arc you talking about?” said Mrs. Van Zandt, who was prosen’. “Mother, you talk like a jabbering idiot!” said Nina, at winch lilial remark t7e methc;-sub.-ided and did not venture to interrupt the flow of Nina’s remarks. Trying to < liml) to Heaven. From the Ko-«-insko, Mi. - . M - ig ■ OiH3 day last week a demented Loy, about twelve years of age, wandered p.way from his home in the couutry and r jache I Kos iusko. The Mcthodht steeple now being flniJu.d, 120 f t in i height, first excited Ids wonder, an I h made a l.ce | line fir it. When first seen by the workmen h • had i climbed upward on the steeple to a dizzy height, I near ICO feet from tho earth, with a bucket on Lis arm. The mon below yelled to him to come down. | Ihs answer, “I’m gwine to h avi n to kerry Go! j some butter,” somewhat surprised them. An Irish man. with commendable prescnc oi mind,hoiloc<l to him that he had gone up wrong, ■•ome down hn l go up the other side,” which ’advice brought i the would-be angel to solid cuitb, whc:e he was kept. Refined Cruelty. From tho P’ttsburg Chronicle. Johnny More proposed to a girl. She said she would send her answer next day. He was sur- I priced to receive a green leal He took it to a bo- I tan.'st, and since then he has Lceii mournful. It was ; a leaf from a sick-o'-Jlore tree. The Truly Geiitlemauly Laugh. i From the I‘hiladelphln Press. i “There is always one sure sign by which you i may know a well-bred man,'’ says a cosmopolitan I ! who ii Jl: t now in I’lJlailc-lphin. “And. pray, what is that sign:' he was asked. "It is his laiirb. The butcher and the bnk .rnnd { i the cnnillistick maker, not to sp.-u'-j of the tailor, 1 | may do agood deal tor in in, but only thorough re- I i ilnemc-Lit can make hi... laugh hie a gontlemnn." "Abd, now, wl at is that 1- . B Hke?' 1 "AS Willi the i.usl.ly wo Cali : •; : ; it eannot be de- ' ’ fint'l; but, just 'lie-' tl. re is no a'-:iug the : I 1..J.1 <fa g itle- t-.n. I.i-t- :i mil note the next time you go to a rec ‘pilon cr dinner partv. Somebody is agit.n : u;;-the quo-tion of erect ing I moi ntto Johnlir,•.•.!! iu Kansas. And L- fre : y 'i s’■ . .’.. 1 '■_■. ‘ t" ’.ta' ■ and Lis ' - : :y - - , ‘ . - ! G ■ d “JoiiU ; I lir • I. .. 1>! JJttk h. n. ■ J ■ ... ' in the pul be .... ~. .■> H V L'jUOI CaUz h ■ in Knasua. i ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, ISSB. SOME OLDTCI-E GIANTS. Rate of Growth Increased by Certain Kinds of Exercise. RACES OF TALL NEGROES IN AFRICA. Inhabitants of latnrstonc Regions Taller than the Average Interesting Facts About the Inheritance of Stature. BY UK HARD A. I’HOCTOR. [Copyrighted, 1887, by the Author.] There are many who regard certain sayings in the Bible as injunctions to men to attempt no advance and to make no researches. When they read the words, ‘The poor ye have always with you,” they arc prepared to teach that any attempts to raise the poor from poverty are necessarily sinful. Because Christ told his hearers, with most perfect truth, that they could not tell whence the wind came or whith er it went, the attempts of mon like Maury and Myer to track the courses of the winds are to be ix gardcd as a sort of rebellion against tho will of Him who is poetically described in tho Bible as holding the winds in the hollow’ of his hand. Christ asked in like manner, “Which of yon by taking thought can add a cubit to his stmur ’?” and therefore some regard tho growth of each and every person as something predetermined and predestined, which can in no way bo affected by careful thought as to diet, exercise and place of abode, to say noth ing of a principle of election by which later generations may be modi lied, and great grand children grow greater by inheriting in concen trated degree the greater stature of their male and female progenitors. Yet at a first view there seems no reason why stature should not be increased as well as tho size of the chest or the girth of the individual limbs. It is true that in developing tho chest the action of inferior organs is culled directly into play to increase the span of tho chcst-en eb sing I ones and integuments by mechanical action, while in developing girth of limbs tho tho tiesh is increased on to which exercise and f«»od’apt car to : ct more directly than they can be expected to act on the bones, and especially on the h ngih < f bones. Yet it may bo regarded as fairly w:ibin the bounds of possibility that forms both of food and of exorcise can bo in vented which would act directly on stature. We are naturally Jed in consid( ring thissub ject to inquire und« r what cor.diiL»ns excep tionally tall men a id exccptb i ally tall races of men have appeared,as also the converse case of the appearance of men and races exceptional ly slx.: t. Vi lih regard so giants tiie evidence is most perplexing, jet in some degree .suggestive, in iioariv every case tlicir excejitii nai growth lias come irregular; and in many cases tliey liave grown sev< nil j’curs alter tiie a ;<• when growlli os...'iv ceases, :.p-i when their own grdwt h - k ’ ' >'C oniplctr'i, \• J ii: : <>.' tiicse e:.ses wa: there any cieuusttin' .-in which tiie sudden mid irregular increase of stature could ho supposed to nil. J lio strong; t evidence v.o have on this point is that '(-.‘i'ered i'.v tiie cxpi rimnnts of Hi Imp Bi l ie-ley accoiding I<> the respectable ; iithuri ty of Gi-iiflroy S.>mt-H ilairo (quoting Watkin sou’s “I hiiosophiiml Se.ivcy i f Ireland”). Tiie right, rcvcrcml gentleman took a poor or phan named Mauratl: ami f< d him with certain niticilagiimiis foods ami liquors—according to Virey—which were specially selected to in crease liis height. The re-nit was successful in one sense, sineont tiie ago of it; Magrath was 7 feet high mid still giowing. But in another and more important respect tiie resuit was le.-.s satisfactory, for from about tiie age of Iti Ma gratli, though still a growing boy, began to show all the signs of old age, and’ lie died a dotard at ?0, having grown by tliat time to a height- or rather a length- of 7 feet H in-lies. How Bishop Berkely’s episcopal emu: enco was affected by tiie result of his experiments history sayoth not. Wo naturally feel less inter-v ‘n considering tiie exceptional growth of giants when wo note that in every recorded instance giants have died young, showing early the signs of a weak constitution, though often possessing marvel ous muscular strength. Dwarfs, on the contra ry, have usually been fully of vitality. Gcoff roy St. Hilaire, after remarking that giants are usually of a lymphatic tcinpcrament, often de formed, weak voiced and short lived, proceeds to note such eases among dwarfs as that of Borowlaski, (or Boruslawski) who attained tho ripe old ago of 80, (though iio cannot be said to have lived long) and of tiie ladjr, Theresa Sow ray, mentioned by Virey, who at tho age of 73 was bright and gay anil danced her two feet eleven incites witli admirable agility a la mode de son pays. This contrast between the aver age vitality of giants and dwarfs suggests the consideration that possibly the regimen suited to promote growth may not tend to increase vitality. I think, however, wo may dismiss tiie doubt tints suggested, explaining the wcaknc.- s of giants us duo to their excessive bulk, not to . the conditions under which that bulk was at- I tained. l-imilar conditions resulting only in I talki" s, not in gigant’c proportions, would , proiia’cy not impair vitaiily. At m y rate, in regions v. liere n i-n are taller than the average I it lias not I -i-n observed that they are wanting 1 in vital energy. A mem.'these tail-r races of man soini pcr- J::-,p ; arc not of interest in conne' lion with my p:-- - i.t nil;■' 1 , li'-ea-iso ii-anifi :t.ly owing their ext::: iu mill, io iiiherit'im'i-. When we see rac s of tall and w- il developed negroes,forexample, living clo- -- i,y I'm re; iom occupied by such dw: rfi <1 r.-' >. in tin- i.l. 'S and Obongos, we perceive tout the dillerenco of height must lie due to dim rence of ra-: ,u- .t to peculiarities .n ibe place of abode. But tie re arc causes where a mark-'-.l 'iitfcr .-ncc of height is cer tainly due to difference in tiie conditions of life, for it shows itself in one and tho same rrn-e. Dr. Prichard, for exam; Ic, long limo since remarked, on tl:o change which tl.c race of short, plump, round faced farmers of Eng land un<b:i v.ij.i when they settled in \ irginfa and Caroiina, “:!.o race becoming mlj, Jan!:, gaunt, ami otlierwise remarkable.” Sti!! more striking is the evidence afforded within tho j comparatively nairow limits of Switzot-laml I and Tyrol, where it lias been found that in habitanUMf limestone regions are measurably I taller than those living in granite orchist districts. M. Durand confirms tho statement ‘ of Dr. Albespy that by liming tiie lands in tho noncalcareous portions if the Avcyron, tiie average height of tiie inhabitants lias b'-cn raised in some pari.-, by ,j’ of an inch, in others by l.i iiiclu s. and iu others by more limn ati ’ im ii and a half. In the lime-ton'' r'-gions < f Ireland, ns I’ri' li- . ard long • Ince noted, men of remarkable stat- : urc arc often seen, though all tl:'- British 1 -1< i , derive their stock of inhabitants from the ■ :mm , sources, despite the ideas comnu-nly 'mtert.iin cd in tl.c Emerald Island r‘-pe>t-ii ■ the i icial ! difference betwet n themselves and “tim ba e, ' bloody and brutal Saxon,” (an alliterative :.c- | count atiout as just as tJm famous rcfeicuce to I Hum, Homanism and Rebellion./ But tin; evidence given by K; i tuckj' in this re pe I tnioreahtiKing titan any othe- I er. Eor tlii'ie, o'er tiie v holo limestone re- i gion. the average height ot mcnlia , rc.e-.ed i until tl.c size of Kenlcckim. i < w: p:o- : verbial, and has given rise to inn tin' r. blo | j lies - .nil.- lent evidence, d' •; it* the ah mrdi ! iv of s .1.0 of them, the : : .- 1..- •■- th'-a'i-ragc K't.timl.ian. It v.as ,i Ke,,t> • i who was afraid to walk abroad at night iu ■ I EnglanJlest hcsnouldfall off tlielittle island; i tho Kentuckian invariably requires at L ast five chairs to sit upon, and so forth. Now. that the limo has something to do with this excep tional height, (for these standing jokes an*, not wholly lying ones) is proved by the circum stance that cattle also partake in tho unusual development. What had been noticed on a small scale in the well known experiment of La Camargue, in which case a breed of horses >vas measurably iucr ased in height through careful t< « dmg. is s.*en throughout Kentuckv and in all kinds of cattle. I think we may fairly conclude from the evi dence, imperfect though it is, that stature may bo increased by judiciously selected food, anil probably that lime should in one form or an other be given in inert ased quantity in the food, where growth is to bo encouraged. Yet, such nieasures ought lobe carefully guided by medical experience: for the same ovideneo which shows that special conditions may en courage abnormal growth shows also that they inay cause abnormal growth -which is a very different thing. For instance,it has been shown that goitre is chiefly prevalent in regions w here lime prevails largely as a geological formation. This is not only *>ticed in Switzerland, w hich might almost be calh «l the native home of goitre, but in England, whore goitre occurs sjuxsinodically in Derbyshire only, the most calcareous point of the island. Exercise and general regimen may be more safely trusted than articles of diet so special that they may rather be regarded as medicinal than alimentary. \\ ith regaid to regimen it need bo remarked only that good nourishing food in which sweets and pastries form but a small proportion, much Open air exercise, and occasional marked changes of climate and occupation, as from sea air to mountain air, or from the habitudes of farming life to seafaring ways,appear strongly to favor growth. If records of tho growth of young people were carefully kept. 1 believe it Would be found that marked increase, in the rate of growth was almost always connected W’ith some change of the kind. 'I bis is a point, however, on which I shall have more particu larly to dwell in my next paper on the way in w hich our young folks grow . Exercise is generally taken without any dirc< t reference to th. nicrese of bight. Thus it often happens that, the gymnastic feats cliietly indulged in tend rather to check than to increase the rate <»t growth. This applies par- I titulary to tho lifting of heavy weights, tho I use* of large dumb bells, involving compara tively slow movements, and ail exorcist s w iiicli I tend to increase the sujipoiting power of the ; fpino and tho Jog bones, oven though they may i |>e exercises primarily directed to incrcrs’o . |ho muscular pow’er of the arms. Pulling ex ercises, though they lend to increase the de velopment <>i the arms in length a ; well as in fcirth, (round the fore arm ehielly) do not on the whole favor the development of length of limb. Sailors, who from boyhood upwards are much employed in pulling and hauling, are on tho average short men, though often tho development of .strength and weight resulting from tin ir active, open air lives, is remarkable. \Yo see oftener among them ; than in other ('lasses, brawny chests, .should ers and upper limbs in company with lower : limbs, which, by comparison, appear almost ■stunted. On the other hand, men engaged in hunting, or in occupations requrring Turrctr •calking, nr.iujif leaping and the like, ac- • o’u< \ eloper! Inv. er limos, ind :;rO, un to ‘ average, taller than other ela cs. Exer isos intended to develop lieight should be guuic !by the principles thus suggusteil: A sutiiciciit time should l» devoted each day to exercise for the legs, but tending to stretch them, no! (chiefly at any rate)" to increase their supporting power. The same appliances may sometimes be used for tho developin' nt oi the lower limbs as that for the upper, in this respect: Thus, though heavy dumb bells aru almost invariably used in such away as to stunt or at least to check the development of tho lower limbs, I’m y Biay bo used ad vantageously even for this purpose if the legs aie set wddcly apart and tiie whole body swayed both towards one side and then both towards tho other. Hut tor su» h action tho clubs are far more eff -'flE e ; indeed, 1 know few exercises more generally uselul for the developing a well proportioned frame than the swaying oi clubs simultaneously from the f !; | range of Loth towards the right, the body well slanted over towards that side, to tic ir full range towards the left, then again to th?■ right and so on,—tho legs being planted about as i widely apart as in the drilling shed, I mother earth doing duty for the horse, clubs should for this exercise b<s rather I short, as the slant oi the body would tend to biing them in collision with the ground as they an* swayed from side to side. This exer cise is one of those I shall have occasion to touch upon in a later paper. It has no quali ties fitting it lor ambit ious record makers or record-breakers, but apart from its good quali ties for lumbering, an I in good time (I b- licve) lengthening, the lower limbs and trunk', it has an excellent effect in improving the proportions of the whole body r i he ill-shaped, sometimes almost de formed, bodies seen in the symnasiuin, ami among athletes gt nornlly, (see tor s-»me re markable examples, Mr. Sargent’s illustrated article in the November number of Scribner’s Magazine) would ho le s comim.n if soim of the exercises employed were thus directed rather to slrpc'im st than to spci i:d local d< - i velopmcßt. 1: it Lc remembe r-.d Ihat s’iapeli | ness m< ans general fitness and servicc-abh n<s, I and that the strength of a chain isthatofits I weakc ;t Jink, tho imporinnccof this con >id« ra tion v, ill L-e ri ccr. nized, but “th<3 bearings of ■ this observation,’* as the judicial Bum uy lias it, “lays in tho application on il,” and while our young me n thinlc i.vm'. ol rivallii’g p/oh's sionah in special athlclie, frats well .ha <<l bodies ami limbs arc nut likely to be commonly seen. With regard to Iho inheritance of na 4 ure, Mr. <'odt'.ns rc’scar he: seem toshowc|r ( i i.< - ly that while the inllm jicc of jjendity in this respuct is marked, if i; not nearly so decisive as has hoc n commonly supposed. It wa . a ro mark of Mrs. Nils r’; father, (who must have been ;i most agroc-J>’c* man, I imagine; that “a family c.f whale:-, me : not ally th'.n "1. c s with sprats,’’ and apart from ac< i tain biolegiral vagueness characti rizing it. the remark is just, if wo understand it to signify that tho offspring of pare Jits very unequal in height are likely to bc> bedow the average in height. But it appears further that even wh< n both parents arc above the average the children show on the ave rage but one third of i that exec- , in he ight, the grandchildren but one: ninth, and the great grandchildren no ap preciable excess at ail. 11 wo wish to find the stronge ,t evidence of the* family superiority in h ight characterizing the parents we murt not look for it among their children or grandchil dren but among their brothers and shters. Y t if v.o consider the matter carefully wo shall see that the Lipid return to the average ( iicight indicates instead of disproving the influence of heredity. The children hare not only the qualities of the ir parents but I of remoter progenitors; and w<j may bo 1 J urc that in passing back beyonel the tall par- I I cuts on both sides we slmiihl come upon gr. n<l i pare nts an<l gn at pr.cndparenV; of only the | i average, or even bedow the average size. ! Some among tl:e childicn of flu tall pare nts * ' must be expected to show the ecimparative; | I shortness of their parc-nL ’ prov' chou ; ami ’ I though some among tlp-m may be f dl their ! ave* tgc lieight must l?c thus retimed. The statue of a race could only Ln effee- ' , tivcly in<Tea>ed by taking fully in'c a<<’ount i ■ the; laws of heredit■ . If < nly the t il’cjr mar- I riml, the average height of tim rac.-e wo dd f»o ! I im r • <-d |ir-/'..uly in e-.u h genu ration, mid i certainly in t;m j «a» jtl g ; < 1 That lu . Hfy tells in E.< . | 1 way wo may be y-ru. not only frm.. ! ■a t . ■ n in the hr*.’ -<! d<m <-1 <: jlivi.. i , but Iran l observed facts ie the case of tho human race divine. A regiment of the tall soldiers in whom the father of Frederick tho Great de lighted, wes stationed during half a century at Potsdam. This regiment of whales seems to have scorned alliam o with sprats, and con sequently (w<* may fairly a • imd wo find a larger proportion of exceptionally tall men and women in Potsdam than anywhere else in the world. Dr. Forster dwells par tjeular’y on “numerous gigantic figures of W'omen ” in Pots dam. Ho considers that tin* peculiarity is cer tainly due to the intern.arria js of the very tall soldiers of Frederick William I with the women of Potsdam. \Ye se<‘hero Imw by such selection as that amiable I russnin king ensir.ed, ami subsu qm iitly by e<>n v t:int ini<* •m,’.: r’.:ge < anion ; tall men and women only, a cubit might bo added to tho stature ol future races. But it is to bo feared (c>r rather hoped) ik.it too hr.nia.ir race i will not show niy more n .irl.e l liking hore after than lier< I'fore iorseh . la n ho artitieial, even for the perhaps qm -.t iom.blu adxantage of breeding races of giants. ~ Jew’s in ludim From the Chicago News. *1 here are w hite and black Jews in Cochin, India, whoso traditions j»tato that they have stilled t lit re since the dt struetioa ot th-- temple of Jerusa lem. 'I he women of th? white Jews are extremely lair, mid (heir skins look dm- dim.dy white by con trast with the black mi l bambo >-( t'l-»ied popula tion around ikcm. They <he s in [intmlhi mbrs, with gay cloths about their heads and golden cuius about tluir uc. ks. An Amusing Reception Incident* Special Dispatch to tho Globe-Democrat. Wa ■ . are licjiiont sc. nes witli oiVieesoekersmid claimants ol var.'H.is kind- al the white luar.-o afterno m rect'p tioiis, and the ; ■•: lormauce are otlcn as hi Ueroa • as the performers arc p i <-?’it. Uno <■! the be t known characters of Ibis kind is a wmnn who has a pension claim, ami she is on hgn l at every recep tion, and haiims the president With a p ••-everai’ce that must bo agonizing. Yt sterday as ernooii she was present as usual, and ml - iiu her chance a?, the other visitors paved, she rushed wildly nfier tho pre.'ident ns lie walked down the cuiridor. She headed him off, and grasping him by the liand ic rmfiked: “How do you do, Mr. Cleveland.’ A happy New Year.” Then r.ithciing him by the coat collar, before ho could make mry regions'*, she L aned over m d whispered conlid- n'.ially iu his car, at (he samo linioforcin ; into Lis han 1 a ibrmid ibio document. “Th-y Lu . e ordered the payment ot the < hum, Mr. Pi sldent,’ Hire fin Uy cxcli in iloud. “They have ordered payment, or al least tb.ev vv ill if 1 can only get your sirualuro. Oh!d.)si;m it, Mr. Cleve land, and l will :>'• so ratoful to you,” an I In her cnthusinsni .-he i H upon ihe pr>‘<i I* it's broad ex. pause of shirt front and smlk 1 olfluslvely. The president tried t•> return the smile, but it was a sickly dibit, and ns lie glanced gloomily at the document now in h;s posße c.ou, ho only said: "1 will do what I can.” The few livgerhi ■ vi.-itors who witnessed the scene w rev! bly amused, and the president, with a weary air, de- a I 'd. ♦ I <>it< J or r. aBI i, only. '‘Gioncd Inkers' U bays “God IHue*; Vo»a” t<» a iV- tiir; » i. New Y cl: Corroßjiyi le. i 1 e'lo'i .' /.mi'*. Il would have Nt*' n cinious for a pas r-by so have heard the wo d ‘lmi pi • d i - !«.■< n UuL.nol Bob :(<». Ingersoll and one of his |.artiii •_ bil <at 10 o’clock on a rec. nt . inday n. 11. The Laid, round and cheriiu Lu d m.'idel u.« ■ in hff d ■>i way with one hand gnv-p.’n ; that ol n yaina num mounting the stairs an I with the o'.her leturniug tiie gi ip of it liir.ii taking Li < leave. “Guo I night,” said the c lonel. “God bless you,” ivniiod th” ( ther. It wasa nv re 1 ai'it ofsi <■ eh with the unbellcv ingnmnwbo uttered li.e p'. ;,se, but to Scarcely any one in New York, iihh.s it might I c Jinny Hill or Tom Gould, th<; dA •• keep, r, ( ould 1t have be. n address with n Mr > ” ;. r c.. < t upon the car. Tiie lugersoil pnrb r windows Ida • I with light, the (io ,r bell jangled Lu u .-a.'lly, th-! parlor w.ts full of visitms and was bumming liken Leu hive, in thi tlu e. text lor a i w chi In t o in - I(>ry of this evcr-piowin •. con I mtly changing m< top »hs. The chapter should be headed “Hero WorMnp.” Tic lhti'o should be 11m magnetic quality of genius that dr r.vs men'.l brain -to th” prismee of t!;C m<.. t or.’glind, aggressive or brilliiuit leader of though:, in town. Among these ci.l Italns Colonel Ingersoll has a commanding jUiitioa fuiily won|hy his int' lle.ct, but otieugthcued by his good fellowship to men. A I'ainou Beauty of Bygone Days. Lady John Manners in tho* London <.p-a. It would be. difficult to n tnio, among tho tho women who si..ne in the nr. .toe mi in cirelesof the hist century, a lady nmre d tinguished by personal and mental endowin' ids than Ge > gsin t-' >• necr, the eldest (laughter of John, first I . ;l of Sjm <r, born In 1757. Alter her nuirrla:?? t> Wm. Cr.ou (li.di, tilth Duke ol D< von-hire, in 1771, she became thcccntur of a brllliftntuii< i<- in the •.,<) 11 of fashion wh. r * her wit, ta.ste and aceompl. I.men’s rendered j ■ . 'y ive, mil In • round her the political and literary <• h l;ti(!<-, of the period. Besides b' in * a ba” r of fashion tho beautiful Duciu -i of Lcv>ms:!ilro i j . ! 1 . as a poet (o wr.s of the Lind which nftm ted Jrn:.fuh; a-, p i.'ill L'r n Ic t cir< Ic. V.' she nipearcdin public, al eh-ctlon tin: *. on rate com..'-, etc. s. rnct with the most c .nh.d n eep tioi'. Her iviv .. ; ur •. w.t i ’ii»* butch’ r, v. I.<> ■ vote so. l’’ox .-J.c I ni' liu’od v/it'i ak. ,Is well !;iiu •, i, and the < e ,1a y (,; n youuj; l.irmer, wl o st «■ ! L e to tier at fi mH. race-, and, lapt In itd.ninitlon, cx chum I, “Ah, il I w.r only G ' -he Abai o.ty the wo'd 1 he the (pi.cn of h< a veil,” i; but 0.. c tnbihc among mnijy j aid sj ontanc vr.ly to ll.c i hom <,l her iq.pi hiiiiD'o. I.\< ulo u. t nd-.’l. \ h.ithe h- a’i’y ol the Duclb o! D. von. hlf , pre: r vingthe atti.ie'ions ol iu.r lincam'jit:-; di hue and figure to 1 • lost me ol lx r c;.i s hi.orlly befoie she died, in pv.G. To HarncMs Niagara 1 alls. From ‘he Ibjffid t (Joinmerci d. “Yes, the SIOO.WJ pm to be presented to the fl i o . ■ ioth* (xl of utilizing the wttt< r power of the Niagara rivet ha all boon Bubscrlbod t and I amgladofit, 0 remarked Mr. Jam -• B. Sinflbrd, pr< s. lei.t of the Business M- n -. a so< inf imi, to a Commercial re |>oi h r tills morning “Im you thin,. ;u.c”inv a*.l n will cv* r Lo com- I succ . lully?" “M > t certainly, fl ■■ the luGcrs I have rce'.lved from C’n.qfonilu, N'*w York, hlcin'o mid a dozen ether place , this morning. VZny, we h ivo over a bushel of them altogether, some from the he-’t en gineers In thu country, and some from ernn' > of every rmo and size, J should ju lge. The best cn ■ . hoi • o pov i can be ut Ita d, uid,;; we all kiiow, gre.ater invention < than that have happened d lig thupa*»t t up - rs. Now that ..ep j n i all la ii s' fl* cribvd I • hall call n m'.ct u r.b-isits soon its lio holiday ru.h dbo .in i 1 O'. •r,j rfl ably 11 ■j • Idle of January, Lo ort’.udz', a p'-rmanent us.so' In’am and determine the Kpeeilic terms and condition's on which tho oflei of said prize rew.irl shall be nub Hi. d to the world, and to doh rain” the mu in er and time of paymeutof 1t ■ ■•’:’ ' rlptions. J-.'h Fuhs-rlbcr O t will be c nilile<i to <n .oto at this meet mg. Wo have met v itti run i lor i 1 h. dv- o r ap.ur.ju in try ing to Loom ihi !i'-w cn’crprl: a, v» hb h, J L. 11 vo, 1’ ”.i’’.ly l>c the nm' in ; < . blifl'tlor.s one of tne Ij. La ci ::< of t. . ■r. ■ ■ j,we Bro be.ng favored with 'dr. .n I j><,j L Courthndt Palmer, otlCew York, is said to LqL. lichf t in the Cnlted btaur, His 1 fortune <s e»‘4nm‘.‘ 1 at scvv’.xl iniliiuai. i miCE FIVE GENTS TREATED AS MAI) And Cast Into an Asylum for tha Insane, WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN 13 YEARS, A ivo Investigation Develops the Story of a Most Start ling Crime. CoNcoitn, N. 11., January B.—A retnnrkabl* story has Just been made puldie through the decision of tiie eomniittoe appointed by Cover* nor Sawyer to investigate tiie circum .tanecs connected wilii theca e of Ilk-hard Woodham mid wife, of this city, who liavo been confined in an insane asylum for thirteen .years, and whom file commissioner decided to be sano. Tiie beginning of tiie trouble camo about tlnoiigli a mortgage on a Tyler street bouse. A payment, whlcli was past due, and which had not been indorsed on tiie moitgagc, Mrs. Woodham declared site had paid. Tho holdef denied it. She stuck toiler declaration, and would neither move nor pay. City Mondial ' Mnidougli, in thocapacity of a doj.uty sheriff, evicted thorn from tint house. They refused to r -iiiovo tiie furniture, which lite officers piled into tiio street. The police uf terward took the goods to tlio city hall, where they were stored on the bare ground in the basement until W. O. Clough was city slial, when, as they had grown moldy and worthless, ho had tliom itnentoiicd mid de stroyed. Tin; Woodlimns appeared before I’olice Juo. tieo Emerson, but would not p iv, persistiutf that tiie money had been paid and not put down on tim mortgage, tit.d tl,e matter was temporalily dronpoi. A little lot, r the farm, honso of Colonel llmerron,mi (in- Lowell ro id, was burned to tins ground. His b autiful granite nionmmmt in lloliis street, ceui ctery was badly broken ami c-.v --on d wi:h tar a short time uft rw. ds, Tlu n the barn of Captain Banks, city mar shal. was Imr.ii-I down, and Condi’s i■ sidenco would l ave mi. er.d tiie same Into led not the tin b n sloni '.lby a I:!■ !. pm Elim . liad bor n evidently .' ct on tiro by sunn- per* sons, mid llto Woodham.: were clan ;e<l with tiie crime, mid a: re:n d. They had of.i n ex pressed spite asiiusl tiie : on .-mint of tlioovietion irotn tlioir own house. On t !:a nnrdy drenmstant i. I ovidi neo of knowhia t item to 1-- cm mi: s to tiie ones win ..u ;uopcri'y was destroyed they were tri- .!. On tiie Jth of .iainmi v, 18,0, the I. st paju-rs were madd out and they were sent to the asylum for the insane at < '< -ncord. Tl.c ill- ir.-crnt’on of tim Woodl: mis did not stop tin many ineemliary tiles, 'limy semued to inere.i .-. Em.-illy on:: moinin.,- citizinv w< re .1.11 lb d to hear tlist •■ i-'..tts " J’mkcr and Miis AVil-on had Inen arrested tor stealing- buttm- from Co-idi’s st; o on !■ ianltlin street. ’l'loy had als.diecn d.urged With startiiig tho many i... . Th, ~ enc« pom.l in u- dnst. them, mid they wrchd'l >< i . . i. • - ' < ' , -.id . her .-.inn iitli-d s: i. id. in Id:. . ||. jh u y, ~~u was tried, foi-nd ; uilty of all tim e.imot i-har ■ d to tim W a nml si .-u. m . I to a ion;; term in tim state prison nt < on. ..;-d, wlmic Ii - now is. lln mil.apo - ■ iinple wi ul I have been pris ... .rs for j - in. tn come had it not L. h sot d " I■ in llnir !- -h ;!: i. ■ <’j. ;-l.: in At a t-.:i. He Hill-, dll -I -I II .-ill n Hi-- 11-,:: eof I- -pr. cntal tiy. to ii . , tii. , .- i. fri-u al . n -. Aeo.n --i | i- .i l iv. app. mt .1, a.;d U.r .nvcstigat.on lias ju.-.t been comj let. d. N. n of Mirny Millions, Armour, tho packing, king, is worth $50,- OOti.OM). Mnekuy mid Eulr are said to be woith t'O.i/KXJ each. I >l>r A' •!! (<> hav inn 13 £ >.(): (), ,0 out of the Baltiiii’ re ,‘ un. Tile ri-venne < l-a s Spied!,-.- d-.ilves from sugar has been a hl’fl: ns slß,oqo n day. lanky Bah; .11 wc.iith ic taunted at. y:0,000, mid Ids Income at SI,CM),OW a year. V. ('i' htnum, the Phi) idelphi 1 c’lpinht, owns ?20 a -000,(X»', made mostly 01’ •>!' ciflrdne am! :1 at n-cx < ’.tim ' i' 1 , of I’ltr-.dUi a. Is worth L 0 ooo.OCu, and jh’vh hi" luL- nui'i a : nlary equal to that of the j.resfr dent oi tin.’ I’nlhjd States. I .'and S'auf a I unco thought 1 0 wn.s doing wo ll when he made td.flOO oiit ol lawyer.- f,., x is worth from (?,•!),000,(03 to tiloo,CoO,ooo. l alali Wllllai dim, of ]*; .! idelj hin. the richest Ift '!i’ b>r In the I ’nil • I ta.h’3, Inn m.>d • 1. 0 hjo/kxi out ol Pry goods, ami him an Income oi tl, *M),',uQ ftn’jii dly to dispose of. Ruf; iitmb.r, Hit.' coal oil baron, is worth $70,00(V Offi, and a i it is p<i«a' Stand'.rd (>H stock which doe i’’t p v m >: * thin ti n | ,r cent, his income Liust be iuU >,OOO a month, at 1 ~' t. Three eights in siu'ces :ion. It is 111 years rlr.co our heroic griindfulheis and great grand fh i.'.' i . wi'f.’i* tin’ fl;,- 'lecer. ve sevens, in the yeaf' -ii.' : 1■ ■! lence. it w ill be 111 j” rs h »re *>ur ma'i Ichihlrcn an-1 greaU grftndch .i i'. : 1 good litk t > tin di' writ© the threS ■ . iiilm. '1 hen :2; yenr; Inf r, il the v/orld still live iri I t ”mom 1 . imt y<*t tumbled. Tim® will d-ala hand \ ItL Imrof a kind- four fwoSj ' 2 'Z- 1 ■ hin , tl. il 1 , nut i a.'ji.sc 1 since th* daj s of 1 eter, the he) ji.it. Tho (Hrl m I runt. :I (■ >'it b' so) me dov. 11 th • aisle, 8 > 10-fl I . ■, 1 , >;o e horn guile, I mu I v.iU'li -I her for awhile, '1 .10-ightiu ' of pniy’r. Sin . '.d n fiishlomii I" hat in ■ ha' ■ .. o p: . <tc of flat. Ai d I thnt I' iiid see wus that And her Luck i>au. Unh'-edf-d wa*’ t’m organ’s noiso, i ■ . <>■ in fl) whim iil'.’l'.t rowned >xiys Wi H : I adifdj • ; h< j small Jjend'e no Ise- H( r sh'Jil'lc:’ trim . And. m< dir..l n ; on I 1 die 1 s, While oil er with ousnesi, J sat ah a" .11 J, ! ( unless, Forgot the Lymn. Buch shoulders, Ml( h a jerf'-' t waist, A Grecian Vemm mg ‘ I.am graced* J! j l/>!) ’im v»a.s In p' r.'cct taste And fa*h:on new. “i know that siic m fair, ’’ issid. “Ai fiilr im dainty and w< !l bred,” Tl; ii, wl ).' tur.-ie I 1: 1 pretty head, bhe turned mine, two. 1 he Outcast. J a«k< d of 1 bo world bm a Hille piece, A< ’ • ’> be Loii'.d tn I • <on my Lreedi J . t. k' I my nil In the game of life; I I / i, and have nowhere to lay my head. ’Tv. v.'»ftry ellmhlng -tho mountain l-elghK With no on*: to h ad Ju* n helping bandi 1 t>i< 1 Cu i :.i. v.-, Lu- I trie I and failed. My feet sank into the portion saud. Th'- play Imo. Os the land beyond 1 know o little---my heart is sore; •. Ms l.re lilii. edng j fair.' and fdl- My eyea are dim—there ii nothing more. I know wbf re the il ’o”,ln ; f l aider if 1 c aid > r • ’ the brtrvkr N.'.'ht t ,’!1- no tn' l ': ’,l;':if i*e ilid| My Lialn Is rte'lnx I camiut think. No one I miss ii ie. rm o won hl curt, Ha i ’ n I d n cftflii t- uiydt. Itl led to lie D‘a <o I k’.i) ■ blit Mnvy Thro'th ; .i‘ 4 liing -adu. i y-c- no HghK I know wl oic t: e f. .cr is flowing fast, 'I i... V ’•■( 1 fl .. ;n I C')l 1 •>.. I d'-ujy— -1 M. L ain I rv Hu.- 1 ini )’ and full— Mj c,, j . .'.im -u, xt d-ui;. U. blucU