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.4 riiOTEST. Wht preas we no airalust the door tbat Fate ilaa barred upon "our hearts' desire? Whr hold oar lire bereft and desolate Because iod writes their almanac in fire? Whr sbon'd wo sadden with dark-clouded skies, When others make a ladder of their love. And while we deem ourselves too weak to rise. They've climbed above? Why sit and dream in spring's sweet labor time Unreal dreams, whou saduees makes them sweet, And since we mar and break onr life's full prime, Ieein that we rest contented at tiod's feett Why cry to heaven for lout and broken hours. For faith and hope that faded lone ago. When still within our hearts new fruitful powers Ar budding now? O eyes, turned inward on our darkened hearts, Open to see God's beauty on the earth, Self-pityine tears that flow upon His smarts Krnctifv all our barrenness and dearth; O folded haDd. close claspt in dull dcupair, tirow busy with God's work of love and peace; O heart, forget to grieve, aud rise to where Siisgivings ceaxe. Caroline A'ortn, in Sunday Magazine. A MGHT OF TEltKOR IN AFRICA. The tiualifications of a perfect terror are three. It must be unexpected; it must be absolutely incomprehensible, and it must culminate like a nightmare. Once I had a terror which so perfectly fulfilled these requirements that no man may hope to have a better. This thing happened to me in the city of Pieter-Maritzburg, in the colony of Natal; and in order that I may tell my tale intelligibly I may be allowed to give some short description 01 iue pmcc Jlaritzburg (as the name is commonly abbreviated), is the seat of government and the headquarters of the garrison. It lies on a shoulder of table-land sur rounded on three sides by an amphithea ter of hills, which, to a European eye, are singularly brown and barren of as pect. In the midst of this great, ugly basin Maritzburg absolutely blossoms. All its roofs are of red tile, all its hedges are rose-hedges, and nearly all its trees are peach-trees; and thus, when peaches and roses are in bloom, there i3 red and pink enough to make the town look like a gigantic nosegay. One, two, or even three streams of bright, clear, swift-flowing water run down each street. A large head of water comes downward on the town from the top of the shoulder on which it is built, and this water supply is subdivided as it en ters the town into a multitude of stall rivulets, or sluyts,&s the Dutch call them. Thus, a street in Maritzburg is formed In the following way: Each house stands well back from the road in its erf or plot of ground, then comes a thick and lofty hedge of roses, then tisluyt, then a raised footpath or causeway, then another sluyt, then the roadway. Now these sluyts, however much they may add to the cleanliness of the place, are exceedingly awkward to the pedestrian. Every sluyt is about a yard below the footpath, and, lieing bridged over by innumerable slabs of stone and logs of wood, form in fact a series of traps and pitfalls. If I have drawn my picture rightly, the reader will tee that to walk along a footpath in Mar itzburg on a dark night, without the as sistance of a single street lamp, requires some care, even if the mind is unoccupied and the senses under control; but to walk there on a dark night, hearing behind one the . Uut I must proceed in due order. On the night when the terror came to me I was returning from the fort at the top of the town to the hotel where I was staying, which was at the lower end. I had a distance of about one mile to walk. It was midnight. The night was dark, but not with a thick, murky dark ness. There was no moon and the sky was clouded over; but the edges of the horizon could be just distinguished and roadway and hedges made out with little trouble. In short, the night was not one in which a man has to grope his way, though he could hardly walk quickly and boldly. Everyone had gone to bed and not a light was visible in the street except an oil lamp hanging before the hotel, the glimmer of which, the street being quite straight, I could see in the distance almost as soon as I started on my walk. There was no wind. All was so still that the liquid warbling of the frogs in the uley below the town sounded near and loud. Besides this and the multitudinous murmur of nature, which she never wholly intermits in her most silent watches and w hich one hears and hears not, there was perfect quiet. I had got but a little way on my journey, walking cautiously along the raised footpath, when I became aware that I was followed. Close behind me the sound very soft and gentle, but un mistakable of a footfall made itself heard. I stopped, and the footfall stopped also. I could see nothing what ever, and the sound though so faint as to be almost like an echo of my own steps had appeared to be close at hand; not more, in fact, than three or four yards distant. I thought I had been mistaken and walked on again. Yes! again came the footfall, and no not an echo. Whenever an echo is heard there is a certain interval of time between the sound and its reverberation. This in terval may be momentary a mere frac tion of a second but is always apprecia ble ; or, rather, to put it another way, if the echo is appreciable there must be an interval. Now the rhythm the "time," as rowing men would say of this footfall was exact. As my foot touched the ground so did that other foot, in precise and unvarying coinci dence. The character of the sound was very remarkable. The path , was hard and firm, with many small stones scat tered here and there, and with gravel sprinkled on it. My boots made a crunching noise as I walked. But this footfall was evidently caused by feet that were neither shod nor (being unshod) of a horny or hoofy kind. And yet, on the other hand, there was nothing of the dull thud that would be made by the naked foot of a man, or by any animal with a soft paw going pit-a-pat over the ground, as Bun yon describes it, " with a great padding pace." There was an undoubted impact on the gravel - of that I was sure and beyond that I could liken the sound to nothing earthly. Again, the supposition that my follower was a beast was nega tived by the too-evident mockery of the sound. No beast, surely, would go to the trouble of "keeping time" with a be lated wayfarer, and the cessation and re newal of these footsteps concurrently with mine proved that mockery was de liberately intended. I say no beast ; but, perhaps, I ought to have excepted the ape tribe. A monstrous ape, whose mind was just developing to a human en joyment of mischief, might have pleased his genius with this hideous mimicry. But an ape always walks with a shuffling, shambling gait, and for him the tripping levity of these steps would have been impossible. An ape is not accustomed towalkontwo legs, and the creature that pursued me was so accustomed; there was a regularity and firmness in what I may call the accentuation of the lread, however gentle, light and aerial that tread might be, which left no room for doubt. When I first became conscious that I was being pursued of set purpose by a footfall 1 was startled, but scarcely terrified. A savage beast was out of the question, and Maritzburg was entirely free from crimes of violence; the white inhabitants were too well off to become highway robbers; while to attack one of the superior race was quite alien from the habits and ideas of the Crolie or Kafir population. I began, then, by be ing more curious than alarmed. But as the strangeness of the circumstance forced itself more and more on my atten tion my curiosity soon passed through fear to horror. 1 tried in vain to con vince mj'self that I was mistaken. I stopped short at least half a dozen times, and then walked on with a quick im pulse. I walked as fast as I could; I took short strides long strides; I sauntered slowly (this was very diffi cult); but all to no purpose. Exactly as I did so did the footfall; stopping when I stopped, and keeping perfect time with my varied paces. Only one thing I noticed, and that was a slight hesitation when I suddenly changed my steps from fast to slow, from long to short, or 'vice tersa; as if the thing that followed me could not instantaneously accommodate itself to the change. But this hesitation was only momentary. Indeed, the ver- policy to speak canny a ghost, ever you meet who seems likely eatile quickness with which its gait was made to correspond with mine through every mode of puzzling alternation was something marvelous. No drum-major ever had Buch command over the rhythm of motion. In the surprise and terror now gradu ally stealing over me it will easily be imagined how difficult it was to kep a footing on the raised causeway. More than once I all but slipped into the sluyt, and whenever I did stumble a feeling of insurmountable alarm came over me that, if I fell, something would be on me and at me. It was better to be upright on two shaky legs, which might be called on for instant flight, than prone in a ditch, helpless, and with I knew not what stalking jauntily around. No; I was sure I could walk no longer on the causeway. With a sudden resolution I jumped a floundering, stumbling, head long jump from the path, over the sluyt that ran on the roadway side, and get on the broad road itself. HaviDg gained the middle of the road, I stood still and listened. At first there was a silence. Then I heard my own jump exactly re peated in faint, ethereal mimicry. I heard the same stumbling jump, the same long strides, the same little run of recovery on the road. I could bear it no longer. " Who's there V" I shouted. The only certain theory respecting "The Night-side of Nature" at which, after diligent study of Mrs. Crowe and other approved writers, I have been able to arrive is that it is bad, fatally uau, to anything un for instance. If with a companion to turn round the corner of bogeydom, remember mat " Silence is golden," and that speech is exceedingly base metal. By speaking you personify, where it is for the interest of your sanity that per sonality should be out of the question. Treat, then, a ghost with the insular pride of an Englishman. Consider him a foreigner and therefore a suspicious character, of whose social status you can not be sure. Domineer over him by not saying " How d'ye do?" If you so much as " pass the time of day" with him your acquaintance ripens with awful rapidity into intimacy of the closet. I had made a shocking blunder in speaking. And yet I almost think I should have been relieved by an answer. But not so much as a Hem! was vouch safed in reply; there was not the faintest whisper of a voice; it was nil, et pnv terea nil absolute nothingness, made sensible by a footfall. There was noth ing for it but to talk on. But now I had not the smallest remnant of reason left; that ditiniB particula aurm had quite de serted me. I now pursued my way, as Coleridge says: Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread. And having once turned ronnd, walks on. And turns no more his bead. Because he knows a frightful fieud Doth close behind him tread. Just so I walked, and the lootfall pat tered softly behind me. The question " What is it?" had by this time tenfold horrors. It may, per haps, be suggested that I was no longer able to follow out any inquiry; but I was; only, by my insensate rashness of speech, I had sent myself out from any natural explanation. I he thing that dogged me was," i was compelled to think, either, first, a visitor from supe rior regions ; or, secondly, a visitor from the inferior (very inferior) regions; or, thirdly, no visitor at all, bift a lingerer who ought to be elsewhere when the cock crew. Oh, for the welcome sum mons of an ear-splUting cock-a-doodle- doo! Oh, for asteam-hrc-engine fed by a river of noly-water! I was thus reduced to the last hypothesis, namely, that a ghost was dogging me. I do not mean, of course, to assert that in the rush of excited surmises which passed through my mind I actually rea soned as consecutively as I am now set ting down raj thoughts. I only wish it m . - . a . a t f . 1 to ue unaersiooa mat, auer tawing leave of mv scientific senses bv the unniirclon- ablc folly of speaking, I came finally to some such conclusion by some such method. 1 was now walking with all my speed, but my utmost speed (though 1 have al ways been reputed a pretty good step per) seemed that awful no-speed of dreams, when one is agonized with an imaginary need for haste or flight, and is yet ridden by the inexorable night mare at a snail's pace. I was very warm in front, but cold chills shivered down my spine. The distance still to be trav el sed seemed interminable and hopeless. What with the darkness, and what with the dire necessity of turning my head every moment to look backward, I walked a dreadfully zigzag course. The footsteps I never ceased to hear; regu lar when mine were regular, irregulai when mine were irregular. Again and again l called, out no response ever came. Once, in a fit of desperation, I stopped, flung my arms about, stamped violently, and shood with all my might, like one attempting to trighten away in truding bats or birds. When 1 had made this silly demonstration there was first a pause, and then the footsteps disdain lullyand olowly danced round me in a half-circle, from right to left and back again. When I proceeded they followed, as they had done, directly behind. alking in this way 1 came to a part of the road where it became a little wider, and also there being fewer trees to overshadow it. Now for the first time 1 saw something. In one of my terrified backward glances I saw that the foot steps were accompanied by a globular apparition. It seemed about a foot in diameter, and of a dusty gray color This dim, undefined ball of misty hue moved with the footsteps, but not, as far as I could distinguisn. having any other connection with them. On the contrary, it moved through the air at the distance of about a yard from the ground, as if self-supported. I Bay " moved," because I could just discern a sort of undulatory rise and fall, and be cause I could not but notice that the in terval between me and it was never di minished by my greatest efforts. The arry phantom neither approached nor re ceded. Soon after I saw this apparition I also heard something I had not heard before. It was a rustling noise, repeated once or thrice, and most like a quick snudder passing through stiff drapery. If any doubt remained, if any accession of terror was possible, that doubt now fled, and that accession of terror now came. It occurs to me that some reader may ask why in the name of fortune or mis fortune, there being houses on both sides of the street, I did not seek shelter and protection. Pride, my dear reader, pride, stronger than all terror, strongest of all human feelings. What would you, my reader, say if you were called up at midnight by a gentleman with a scared look and an incoherent story of a spec ter? Would you not take the strongest horsewhip, unchain Pincher, and (while your spouse's eloquence flowed " sweet er than honey" from her chamber-window, and all your children screamed in their cots) go forth to drive the intruder from your curtilage? Of course you would. Would you not tell the dis tressed suppliant to go to him-from whom and from whose emissaries and shadowy liegemen he was seeking de liverance? Of course you would. If you happened to know the disturber of your peace, would you not reproach him the next morning, hint at soda water, and generally wonder at him? Of course you would. And if you believed his story what then? Hospitality has its limits. Could you be expected to open your door to a friend who mitrht be arm in arm with " the Black Man," as Mat thew Hopkins would have called him? Human sympathy docs not extend to helping one's fellow-creatures against the supernatural. I had walked perhaps two-thirds of the distance when I became aware of the ap parition, and how I got over the remaining ground I can hardly tell. I did not dare to run. I felt that, if I ran, all self-control, all resisting power of will would be gone. 1 had a sort of suspicion that, if I even appeared to hurry, I should be over powered by some force which could only be kept in check by the exercise of a defiant volition. I was now within a very short distance of my hotel not more than 300 or 400 yards away. But I had a foreboding that I should never reach it before an other phase of the horror ias disclosed. The thing was growing on me. Some denouement must come. It did come. I had by this time arrived at a large Duilding used as a Kafir chapel by those natives who had been brought by various civilizing agencies to wear trowsers and sing hymns. Turning the corner of the chapel I came upon a party of devotees seated round a fire, and even at that late hour in full tide of song. How it was that I had not heard theni ibefprc, nor seen the reflect ion ,"f their Are, I cannot say, but When 1 did hear and see I felt with a thrill of conviction that the Zulu is indeed " a man and a brother." They were a party of bLx or seven. One or two were Hottentot wagon-drivers and the rest Kafirs. As soon as I saw the absorbed group I jumped across the sluyt and rushed toward those dusky brethren. As I got within the light of their fire I turned round. Out f the darknees there stalked sdr erunly, with a grave and self possessed alr a large crane not one of the ordi nary sptxies, such as is seen in Europe, but the great, gaunt "Katir crane," as he is called in Africa (I know not his scien tific name), which is at least twice as large. He did not seem in the smallest degree abashed, nor was he disconcert ed. If anything was discernible in his bearing, it was, perhaps, a little conceit, as though he felt that he had done a clever thing in keeping pace with me so long; but 1 cannot say that he displayed much emotion of any kind. As I came to the fire he walked up to my side, hold ing his head absurdly far back, though he gave one or two drives or ducks for ward with his long neck, as if saluting the company. lie then stood still, rubbing his beak a few times against his legs, and regarded the Kafirs with great contempt, evidently not thinking much of their hymnology. Meanwhile the Kafirs looked at me and also at the crane, which they knew quite well. I tried to mutter that I wanted a light for my pipe, but something in the nervous haste of my manner gave them an inkling of the truth, for they all with one accord rolled over on their backs in agonies of laughter, and I was derided by sets of black toes in ecstasies; and therefore I withdrew with that dignity one of the higher Aryan race can always assume, and sought my hotel, Btill ac companied by the mimetic crane. When I reached the door of the hotel, I grieve to say that in a sudden wrath I shied a 6tone at the crane, who went off again in to the darkness with a hop and a skip of offended pertness and a flourish of his leathers, much as an ancient dame of r uality might trot over a muddy street ho. dine up and shaking out her flounces. 1 emple Bar. A Raffle for a Beautiful Young Lady. One of the most novel as well as excit ing rattles that ever took place in Sey mour came oft on Saturday evening last. Miss Minnie Clarence made the novel proposition of putting herself up to be rattled off at fifty cents a chance. At first the matter was treated as a joke, but when it became known that the offer was a bona fide one chances went rapidly, and in less than one hour every chance was taken, and heavy premiums were paid by young men anxious to win the beautiful and lovely prize. Miss Minnie is" a most bewitching beauty of eighteen summers, an orphan, of respectable parentage, and a member of the best society of the State. She was decidedly the belle of Seymour, and was loved and admired by all who ever ueciimu ucquaimeu wiui jier, ana prooa bly envied just the least bit by the young ladies. She is a bright blonde, perfect in form, fair complexion, and has most ravishingly beautiful eyes. Ever since she came to Scyrnour she has been the center of attraction and the admiration of the men. In justice to Miss Minnie we should state that she gave the winner the privilege of accepting or refusing her, and reserved the same privilege for herself. lucre may have been several in the crowd whom she would have re fused, but there were none, we venture to say, who would have refused her. How could they? The hour set for the raffle came and found all ready to try their luck. Miss Minnie was there in person, dressed in the height of fashion, to lend a charm to the scene. She stood leaning gracefully against a show-case, never speaking a word nor betraying the least emotion, or showing the slightest preference lor auy of the contestants, excepting there was a perceptible twinkle in her ees w hen some young and handsome "lovier" would shake the dice. Name after name was called and each one in turn would shake the box with nervous hand until all but three had thrown and nothing higher than thirty eight had been thrown. Then came iynn raikconers turn. Liynn ;s a blonde himself and a clever, hard-work ing young man, and perhaps the twinkle of her eyes nerved him to the work. At any rate he tossed the ivory with steady band and the scorer called torty-six The other two throws were made amid too much excitement to be counted and the prize was awarded to Lynn. Minnie came forward and took Lynn's arm and the two went out together amid the cheers of the crowd. She accompanied him to his father's hotel, where she was presented to his relatives, who had not had the pleasure of her acquaintance before, after which she was escorted home. We of course do not know, cer tain, but as Lynn is a good, clever 3 ung man, and she would be an honor to any household, we are inclined to think neither of them will back out. Seymour Una.) friar. After all the virtuous comments of the newspapers on that young lady who put herself up to be rattled for at fifty cents a chance, at Seymour, Ind., on Christmas night, it turns out that she was only a large-sized doll. Cincinnati t,nquirer,Jan. 10. Habits of the Alligator. A Southern naturalist has made some observations on the habits of the alliga tors. Among them he records the fol lowing: " I hat alligators swallow their young I have ocular demonstration in a single case. I was engaged in making a survey on the banks of the Ilomochitto Lake, near the Mississippi Kivcr. The day was warm and sunny, and as I halted near the margin of a pond nearly dried up to pick up some shells I started a litter of young alligators so that they scampered off, yelping like puppies, and retreating Borne twenty yards to the banks of the La Ilomochitto I saw them reach their refuge in the mouth of a five-foot alligator. She evidently held her mouth open to receive them, as in single file they passed in beyond my ob servation. The dam then turned slowly round and slid down beneath the water, passing into a large opening in the bank beneath the root of an ash tree. Doubtless this refuge is tempo rary.and the young arc released at their own or their mother's pleasure; the de scent being but partial, and in no way reaching or interfering with the process of digestion." The police of Nantes have been in vestigating a curious matter, namely: the discovery in the river of a hand, cut off at the wrist, holding a violin. The explanation is as follows: An old teacher of the violin named Sotta lived at Villedeuil-sur-Seme, and used to argue that the left hand was more honorable than the right, because it manipulated the strings and was served by the right hand holding the bow. When on his death bed, the other day, with his violin in his band, he begged one of his old pupils who used to visit him, and who resided at Nantes, not to allow his left hand to be separated from his violin (a Guiseppe Guarnerius of the year 1725), but to anni hilate them together. The young man imagined that the best way of carrying out the wishes of the deceased was to cut off the hand at the wrist and to throw it with the . violin into the river. He seemed surprised at being interrogated by the police, and has been discharged. But he is nevertheless closely watched, some doubt being felt as to the state of bis mind. A Mammoth Care In Aetada. j A correspondent of the Winnemucca (Nev.) Silver State writes to that journal a description of a mammoth cave which has recently been discovered in the Hum boldt range of mountains. The entrance to the cavern js located about three miles northeast from Star City, and about 2,000 feet higher than the town, in the Humboldt range, eight miles from the Central Pacific Railroad. It has been known td the Indians per haps for ages, and they say that many years ago it afforded a passage through the mountain to a point opposite where the Humboldt House now stands. A Piute legend says that it has been the home of the evil spirit for many genera tions, and the bravest warrior of the tribe will not venture near its mouth for any purpose whatever. They 6ay that be fore the whites came among them they put bad Indians in the x&je to appease tb? wrath and hunger of the 6plrit that inhabited it.. The last Indian put in there was hot as bad as represented, and was guided to the opening on the other 6ide by the spirit. The cave was par tially explored in 18G3 by Capt. Prescott, James A. Banks (who was since killed by the Indians near Camp Scott), and A. J. Simmons (now an Indian Agent in Montana Territory). Some time ago a party of four, of which your corre spondent was one, proceeded to explore the cave. We had heard a great deal about it, and were anxious to see a little of it ourselves. On arriving at the place we discovered, to our surprise, that the entrance was fifteen feet above the ground rock on which we stood. The rock rises almost perpendicu larly 150 feet above the mouth and for several hundred feet on each side. Having been provided with ropes, one was thrown over a point of rock which projects over the mouth of the cavern, by means of which the entrance was gained. Lighting our pitch-pine torches we proceeded cautiously in single file about 100 feet in what appeared like a large mining tunnel. The ceiling was from ten to fifteen feet high in this dis tance, after which it narrowed down to a crack iust large enough to get through. Suddenly we came to a square jump-off or perpendicular drop of thirty feet. Again the rope was brought into requi sition, and by means of it the bottom was reached. Immediately under the road we had traversed we found large chambers, the largest of which I should judge to be forty feet square and sixty feet high, the entrance to which was scarcely large enough to crawl through. Here in this chamber we noticed a verifi cation of the adage that "constant drop ping will wear away a stone." In several places drops of water from the ceiling, which continually fell in one place there being no air current to change their course had worn holes in the solid flinty floor from hve to seven inches deep. Ye explored the cave to a distance of a mile from the entrance, and our lights burn ing well showed that the cavern is well ventilated. We did not find a passage through thofrgh we traveled for three hours and a half by the watch, and ar rived at the entrance very much fatigued. Wc started two bats at about three fourths of a mile from the entrance, and they screamed like wild cats when they saw our lights. Hydrophobia. A little over two months since Tommy Kelly, a boy of fourteen years, while playing with a puppy only a month or two old, received a bite that barely broke the skin just such a scratch as per sons receive every day when playing with dogs. One week later the puppy died in spasms, but as this scratch had healed and disappeared nothing was thought of it. Tommy went on with his work and his play the same as usual un til Sunday evening, when he came in the house complaining of a high fever. He was at once put to bed. A glass of water was brought him, as his lips were parched. The mere sight of it threw him into convulsions. Dr. Frayser, the attendant physician, was called in, and at a glance saw that he had a genuine case of hydrophobia before him. Dr. Willett was sent for and a consultation was had. There is no cure known for this horrible disease when it is fully de veloped, as in the case of the boy. All that could be done was to administer powerful soporifics and sedatives, so as to deaden the paroxysms as much as possible. The poor little fellow lingered in untold agony until Monday evening, when the kind angel of death came to his relief. One of the physicians, who has had years upon years of practice, sajs that the scene was ' the most heart rending that he was ever called upon to witness. A negro was bitten at the same time the boy was, but no symptoms have shown themselves as yet in the case. Memphis Avalanche, Dec. i0. The Steain-Haiumer. This was invented by Nasmyth about man, and patented in l&i'j. it is true that there existed a description of Dev ereau's hammer in 1800 which recited the main features, but it seems to have excited no attention and to have been followed by no hammer. To Nasmyth we are indebted for it; even he had to work against prejudice which prevented" its being used in England until after it had been tried in France by some more appreciative persons whose attention had been in some way directed to it. The helve of the steam-hammer is the piston-rod of an overhead steam engine, by winch it is luted, lo drop it, the steam which lifted it is allowed to escape from below the piston, and the force of the blow is, in some hammers, increased by admitting the steam above the piston, which adds the force of the steam to that due to the weight and fall of the hammer. The 6izes vary, having a very wide range, the weight of the hammer varying from fifty pounds to 80,000 pounds, the stroke from six inches to six feet. 1 hey arc single or double acting, have single or double frame, according to size, and ail nave a capacity for giv ing a blow of any required fraction of their full power and using any part of their range ot stroke, ihc anvils are made as heavy -as 250 tons weight. E.1I. Knight, in Harper's Magazine. Ants Enemies to Caterpillars. The Belgian Official Journal, referring to the ignorant conduct of those who de stroy all kinds of birds and insects indis criminately, insists on the necessity ot children In primary schools being taught to distinguish between useful and nox ious insects, and thus to exercise their destructive faculties against the latter only. The writer proceeds to say that the ant, which is very disagreeable and inconvenient in many respects, docs ex cellent service in chasing and destroying caterpillars with relentless energy. A farmer who had noticed this fact and had had his cabbages literally devoured by caterpillars at last hit upon the expedient of having an ant hill, or rather nest, such as abound in pine for ests, brought to his cabbage plat. A sackful of the pine points abounding in ants was obtained, and its contents strewn around the infested cabbage plants. The ants lost no time, but im mediately set to work; they seized the caterpillars by their heads. The next day heaps of dead caterpillars were found, but not one alive, nor did they return to the cabbages. The value of the ant is well known in Germany, and, although their eggs arc in great request as food for young partridges, pheasants and nightingales, there is a line against taking them from the forests. The ant is indefatigable in hunting its prey; it climbs to the very tops of trees, and de stroys an immense quantity of noxious insects. Science in Sweetness. Prof. Tykdaix writes in the Popular Science Monthly: "A few years ago 1 paid a visit to a large school in the coun try and was asked by the principal to give a lesson to one of his classes. I agreed to do so, provided he would let me have the youngest boys in his school. To this he willincly assented, and after casting about in my mind as to what could be said to the little fellows I went to H villsige hard by and bought a qua' tity of sugar-candy. This was my only teaching apparatus. "When the time for assembling the class had arrived I began by describing the way in which sugar candy and other artificial crystals were formed and tried to place vividly before Ihelr ydutig dl3s the rrchitctural proc ess by which the crysiali wef c built Up. They listened to me with most eager interest. I examined the crystal before them, and when they found that in a certain direction it could be split into Ihin lainlnct) with shining surfaces at cleavage their joy was at its height. They had no notion that the thing they had been crunching and sucking all their lives embraced so many hidden points of beauty. At the end of the lesson I emptied my pockets among the class and permitted them to experiment upon the sugar-crtndy in the usual way." SS An Ingenious Philologist. An English missionary found himself amid an extremely remote and savage tribe, who conversed with each othet by means of hard and rude sounds. The missionary tried long to get hold of the sounds in such a way as to represent them in signs. Having, after a year or so, obtained a clew, he had neither pen ink, nor paper; but he had a wooden leg and a knife, and he cut on his leg t letters which he thought corresponded to the signs. He then taught the savages the art of connecting sounds and writ ten signs. The missionary, I believe, died or left that region, but he left his wooden leg, and after a time the savages worked out from it an alphabet and a written language. By some mysteri ous means, to they got hold of a printing press, and an English traveler got hold of a few printed leaves, which he could not understand, but brought home to Mr. Norris. The Orientalist examined them carefully and was struck by the fact that the sentences were printed m single and paragraph style. It struck him that they might be copied from the Bible. He counted the number of paragraphs or verses in one of the un meaning chapters, and then searched for a chapter in the Bible which had the same number of verses. He found that there was only one a psalm and on comparing the words of the savage writing with those in the psalm, he made out the alphabet ot the tribe, and laid complete translation of the pages before the Oriental Society. Cor. Cincinnati Commercial. Facts Concerning the Horn-Ail In 'eat Cattle. Most farmers recognize the " horn-ail" in neat cattle as a disease of common oc currence, while intelligent and scientific veterinarians aver that there is no such disease. At a meeting of stock-breeders and larmers recently held at Amherst, juass., tne subject ot horn-ail was brought up and thoroughly ventilated. A number of dealers in neat cattle, who are advocates of the belief of the exis tence of the horn-ail, gave the prevailing symptoms of the disease, which are loss of appetite, loss of cud, coldness of the horns, dry nose, cough, fever and wasting away, and in fact almost any unfavorable symptom which the cow-doctor cannot account for is referred to horn-ail and treated accordingly ; but the sure indica tion is the nnding ot the horn hollow when boring into it with a gimlet, and if it doesn't bleed upon boring into it that is another sign of the disease, but if it is found full of matter, which ruiis out of this hole, this is still another symptom The treatment usually consists of boring the horn and stuffing it w ith salt, vinegar, cayenne pepper and spirits of turpentine, and the correctness of the diagnosis is mi erred from the fact that horns arc hoi low and the liquid runs out at the nos trils. Some get better and some die. One gentleman stated rather a hard story to believe, but he said it was true never theless. He said he knew of a case of horn-ail where the cow was taken by shaking the head while being milked, and she shook it until she shook both horns off close to the head. Mr. Dillon described two cases which had come under his notice in which most of the symptoms described were present and he had great difficulty in preventing zealous cow-doctors from boring their horns. But upon examination after death it was found that one died from tubercu losis and tne other irom the euccts ot a hair-pin in the reticulum. Prof. Noah Cressy, M. D., took his place at the desk, on which a student had in the meantime placed several scores of horns and a skull of a steer He said he was glad ot the opportunity of showing the farmers how prevalent the disease, called horn-ail, is in this sec tion of the country, and many of the old believers in the disease Bat in the most breathless horror as the doctor took from the basket horn after horn, and every one of them hollow. ' Imagine," said he, "the consequences of eating beef from cattle diseased with the horn-ail! and every creature that is killed in the Connecticut Valley, according to your symptoms, has this disease." Then taking up the skull with one horn entire jnd the other sawed down the middle, he sali: " This is a skull of a two-year-old steer. This animal was never sick in his life, yet you see his horns are almost entirely hollow." In stating that he never met with horn-ail, he wanted it to be understood that he never met with a disease for which the name seemed def inite and approf riatc. Had known so called horn-ail ever since be was a boy. His father always doctors for that dis ease; but instead of stuffing the horns he pours the medicine down the nostrils. The doctor here exhibited the formation of the skull of the ox, illustrating his re marks by his specimen, calling attention to the position and use of the frontal bone, sinuses, diploe, etc., and the inner and outer horns. He then proceeded in detail to account for the symptoms of the believed horn-ail, and to demolish the impression drawn by them. The hol low horn was a natural, healthy condi tion; the presence of matter he attrib uted to catarrh: the failure to bleed when bored was the result of the tearing process of the gimlet: the running of the liquid out, of the nose a matter of course ; dryness of the nose was a symp tom of fever; loss of appetite and cud indicate dyspepsia, cough a sign of pneu monia, while coldness of the horns would indicate a lack of free circulation of the blood, and losing flesh might re sult from a thousand causes. About shaking off the horns, he said he would rather see the case, but if such an inci dent did occur he attributed it to a disease called nwltitie ossum, or soften ing of the bone, caused by the reabsorp- tion of the phosphate into the system. This is quite a prevalent disease among cattle on poor farms; it generally afl'ects them in the form of " cripple-ail." The best remedy is to furnish the animal with phosphate of lime in form of bone meal, but the surest way to be rid of it is to keep the land well supplied with phospnatic manures. Speaking of tail ail, he said he could conceive of many ways in which the poor animal might have this important organ injured, such as twisting it by an angry milker or teamster, or being stepped on by a neigh boring animal while lying dorn. In such cases the bones might be and often are broken apart, and never grow together again, which leaves the part below the fracture a dangling nuisance, and in such cases it may as well be cut off as not ; but he considers it cruel and even wicked to cut off this handy appendage if sound. N. r. Uerald. A lady in the Treasury Department reported to Gen. Spinner that she wanted to marry Mr. Smith, in the department, to which the old watch-dog consented. Presently came another young lady who wanted to " marry Mr. Smith." She was an old young lady and wanted another Smith, but Spinner did not see it. He sent for the first Smith and ordered him to marry the old young lady or be dis charged for bigamy. Next day the two Smiths married the two yourg ladies, and Spinner discharged them all four to make sure that he had no bigamists in his office. Chicago Tribune. Keep the romp from Freezing. Ose or to nights recently Jack Frost gently hinted that we ought to be ready for him when he comes in earnest. On going to the pump in the morning I found the water frozen inside so that it required quite an effort to break the ice. But I am ready for him and I want to tell the readers of the Farmer how I managed it. , , At home on my fathers farm we bad no wells or pumps good springs belUg abundant. Hence it is 1 got caught the first winter after 1 had married and moved on to a farm of my own. I was not used to freezing pumps,, and so one bitter cold morning I found both pimps the one at the house and the barn pump locked tight. I will not describe the annoyance that followed every farmer who has a pump has had some experience of the kind at some period c-f his life. It took three, days to thaw those pumps out, and I wds compelled to take my stock to a neighbor's, half a mile away, to water them, and also had to ob tain water at the same place for house hold rise. I never get caught the 6tcond time oh the same trick. As soon as the pumps were clear of ice I procured two good brass faucets, and boring holes in the pumps, five feet below the platform, i inserted the faucets in them securely, then procured a narrow strip of board of sufficient length, and bored a hole in one end large enough to slip over the handle of the faucet. With this I could turn the handle easily, either way; and I have never had any trouble since. Some have a plug, simply, within reach of the hand, below the platform; but this is insufficient in the coldest weather, besides being inconvenient. The faucets are better every way. Care must be taken to provide enough water before turning it off to start the pump in the morning. I use these faucets also in warm weather, when the pumps have been standing undisturbed in the hot sun half day. The water above the platform is then unfit for use, but it is usually pumped into the trough for the tired, thirsty horses, when the owner knows that a sip of it would be as good as an emetic for himself. Cor. Ohio Farmer, Won we Treat Onr ItodJes. Our bodies grow slowly. Develop ment is the work of time and the result of conformity to the fixed laws of diet, rest, etc. Now if growth is a slow process disease is none the less so. But when once a large part of the organism Is im paired the abnormal processes go on very rapidly. When checked in some impro priety how often we hear people say: " Oh, this never hurts me! I have done it thousands of times." But I tell you there is no margin allowed to any of Nature's laws, nor exceptions in favor of individuals. All throughout the ma terial universe we have laws capable, of mathematical demonstration that the lapse of aires never varies; so in the'gov- ernment of our bodies there is an equal ly demonstrable code of action. A slight exposure now may not be felt to-day; but the system has been shocked, its equilibrium disturbed, and ex penditure of vitality must occur for its restoration to normal action. But as only a given amount of vitality is fur nished at the outset these exposures finally result in total loss of strength and action, and we talk about "acute attacks," or sudden cases of disease, and seek in vain for the cause. The cause has been a series of wrong-doings, ex tending through a long period of time. and showing the effect of the whole by one grand manifestation of suffering to which the wise (?) irive some wonder ful name that savors more of supersti tion and alchemistic empiricism than of common sense or even reason. Now, while habits of body and euccts thereof may be perpetuated from generation to generation, it is never too late lo begin the remedial efforts of reform, and often the victims of prenatal ignorance or willful abuse may, by strict observance of legitimate rules, greatly modify evil tendencies, and perhaps utterly remove them from the system. Science of Health. Frlniitlve Plowing. A Mexican correspondent of the Louis ville Courier-Journal writes: "On our way back to Temisco we had an opportunity of observing, more close ly than diligence or railroad can permit, the process of plowing as commonly practiced in this country. I be plow it self is almost a fac simile of the pattern used by the Egyptians in the time of Abraham, and certainly commends itself to all agriculturists on account of its great simplicity and cheapness. It con sists of a wooden shaft about four feet long and four inches thick, armed at its lower extremity with an iron point, slightly flattened and sometimes pre senting a feeble forward curve. I he other end is provided with a round stick passed through a hole to serve as a han dle. The pole, consisting of the stem of a small tree, from which the bark has been peeled, is fifteen feet long and at tached to the shaft bv means ot mortise and peg. The implement thus consti tuted is fastened at the extremity of the pole to the middle of a very light wood en voke about seven feet long, which rests immediately behind the horns of a pair of oxen, and is fastened there by thongs of rawhide passed around the roots of the horns. Not less than fifty such contrivances were crawling at a snail's pace over the field which we stopped to notice, scratching up the ground to the depth of two or three inches certainlv to us a very novel sight." a Winter Treatment of Stock. Lireral feeding is now needed. No stock should be allowed to lose now what they have made in the summer. On the contrary, they should be kept growing. And they may be by proper leeuing. "lie becometli poor that deal- eth with a slack hand" is very true in this respect. There must be close atten tion to this matter or money is lost in feed and in weight of stock. Don't trust too much to hired men or boys. Have exact measurements for the feed. A box to hold three quarts should be in every feed bin. This makes a fair allowance for one ox. or horse, or for two cows, or four calves, at each feed. A bushel basket of fine-cut hay is an average for one horse orcow, or two calves, at each feed. There should be no waste but as much feed given as will be eaten up clean. Give salt regularly, in small quantities, or have it accessible to the animals. Stop at the Sherman House when in Chicago. With its superior advantages and recent reduction of rates its claims for public favor are unequaled. OriNTONs ok the Pkess. The Texan New JVvfcrrays: "An old Scotch phy- hteian once said 10 one oi ma inuiuiu. Keep your feet warm", your head cool, and your bowels open, an' t.iere's little "ilsc" can harm ye.' This aphollrm is full of wisdom, and expresses exactly what Dr. Walker's California Vinkhak Bn'TF.ii3 will do for you. We speak of what we know fiOtn nearly two years' practical experience in tliC tjo of this indispensable family medicine. Its oH'cc is to attack a lazy, torpid liver and im part nev life to this vital organ a proper flow of bile and a prompt dis charge of effete matter.- A good diges tion and appetite are restored to the suf ferer. Pure blood, the ' life of the flesh,' is secured, and the paiicn'. soon feels himself a walking electrical battery. Good health is more precious than fine gold ViNKiAR Bitter" restores it, aud is, Ihercforej above price. The man who discovered it is a philosopher and a benefactor of his race." 18 ITIoderri IVomefi It is a 6ad commentary uion our blasted civilization that the women of our times have degenerated Hi health and "physique until thev nre literally a race ot iiivabits kiW, nerv ous, feeble and'biiek-achy, with mil litre, ami there a few noble exceptions in the jhtoiis f the robust, buxom ladies eliaraeteristie of Miss 6ex in days gone by. By a very larire ex perience, covering a period of years, and em bracing the treatment of many thousands of cases of those ailments peculiar to Women, Dr. Pierce, of the World's Dispensary, BuH'a lo, N. Y., has perfected, by the combination of certain vegetable extracts, a natural spe cific, which lie docs not extol as a curc-itll, but one which admirably fulfills a singleness of purpose, being a most positive and reliable remedy for those weaknesses und complaints that aillict the women of the present day. This natural specific compound is called Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The follow ing arc among those diseases in which this wonderful medicine has worked cures us if by niugie and with a ecrtiiinty never before attained by any medicines: Weak back, ner vous and general debility, falling mid other displacements of internal organs resulting from debility and lack of strength in natural supports, internal fever, congestion, inllam mation and ulceration and veiy many other chronic diseases incident to women not prop er to mention here, in which, as well as in the cases that have been enumerated, the Favor ite Prescription effects cures the marvel of the world. It will not do harm in any slate or condition of the system, and by adopting its use the invalid lady may avoid that sever est of ordeals the consulting of a family Shysiciau. Favorite Prescription is sold by ealers in medicines generally. wm j). Wilhoft's Fever and Agi e Tonic. This medicine is used by construction companies for the benefit of their employes, when en gaged in malarial districts. The highest tes timonials have been given by contractors and by the Presidents of some of the leading rail roads in the South and West. When men are congregated in large numbers in the neigh borhood of swamps and river., Wilhofi's Tonic will prove a valuable addition to the stock of medicines, and will amply reward the company in the saving of time, labor and money. We recommend it to all. Wheelock, Fini-av A Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. For Sale bv all Dkl'goists. We were pleased to see, not long since, in one of our exchanges, some pretty severe re marks addressed to several persons who, dur ing an interesting lecture by licv. Jno. S. C. Abbott, kept a continuous coughing, whicl prevented many from hearing. People who cannot refrain from coughing had better stay away from such places, or else take a bottle of Johnson's Anoilync Liniment with them. The importance of giving. Shrritlun's Cavalry Condition J'twylrrsto horses that have been out in the rain, stood in cold wind, or drank too much eotd water cannot be over-estimated; no man should be without them who owns a good horse. The Northwestern House-Nail Co.'s " Finished" Nail is the best in the world. Dr. .1. Walker's California Vin egar Killers aro a purely Vccrefabf preparation, mado cliielly from tiiO na-' tivo herbs found on tho lower ranges of the- Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor nia, tho medicinal properties of which aro extracted therefrom without tho uso of Alcohol. Tho question la almost; daily asked, ''What is tho causo of tha unparalleled success of Vixtoau IJit TEiisf Our answer is, that they remove! tho causo of disease, and tho patient rc tovers his health. They aro tho prca' blood purifier and a, life-giving principle, a perfect Keuovator and Inviorator of the pystein. Never before- in tlui history of tho world has a medicino bent compounded possessing tho remarkable qualities of Vinkoa r DrrrKna in healing th tick of every dUea.so man in heir to. They aro a pent'o Purgatives as well as a Tonif , relicVi:: Cotiyrcsiion or lullaminatinn of tho Liver and Vh;ccral Organs, ia Uiliou Diseases. Tho properties of Pi:, walker's Vi.nkoar Uittkrs aro Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic, Fedativo, Counter-irritant, Sudorilic, Altera tive, and Anti-L'ilious. It. II. .tIrIOVI. CO.. fniprri"t nnl i"ii. ActH.. S:m Frarieiseo. ('ntif'im'u, und cor. f W'nuhinirtoii nnil Chitrlton SIh.. N. V. 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J.ilrhflcl(I,Micll. KiKT.KKSiioT-r:n:vs.risTOi,sy rkvoiai:ks, Wr"tiraf ill TflimfMiiiiit'riii fifanvinil svr.rvlrtnrL Hcnd Hf .nun ..... M.i.t.m aT. a kt- - as4 V iat WrU. f TMBt'Ulill, P -aL i Nobody wears patent-leather boots or ehoes for full dress nowadays. How to Barn a House. Rra your furniture with linseed oil and preserve carefully the ola greasy rags used for this purpose m a paper box in an out-of-the-way place. If the fire in the stove does not burn well pour benzine or kerosene on it from a well-filled gallon can. When you light your cigar or gas throw the burning match no matter where and don't look after it, even if it cets into the waste-paper basket. Put a burning candle on the shelf of a closet and forget all about it. Always read in bed until you fall asleep with the candle burning near you. Especially for builders: Put the ends of the wooden beams into the flue walls; and if j'ou build hot-air furnaces be care ful to use as much wood as possible in their construction. Always buy the cheapest kerosene yo. can get. Pianos and Organ. Fine new rosewood ianos for $:00. Fine walnut organs, six stops, f 135. Good sorond-hand pianos, 150 to 300. lieed'8 Temple of Music, Chicago. Baked Potatoes. Have a hot baking oven, select and wash potatoes of uni form 6ize, and put them moist into a clean oven. Do not open the oven if you can avoid it for half an hour; try if they are done in a toweL Eat them hot. The most stylish collar that is worn now is the ImDroved Warwick. It fits better than any other on a low-cut shirt. An the cdjrcs beinir folded, and the surface looking so much like linen, we recommend all to try it. Ask your gents' furnisher for the Improved War wick. 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