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M.LTai)Mi8 Kriitor.
RED CLOUD.
NEBRASKA.
Morning-Glory.
Wondrous Interlacsment!
Holding fast to threads, by green and silky
rlDgs,
With the dawn It spreads its white and purple
wings;
Generous In Its blom, and sheltering while it
clings.
Sturdy morning-glory;
Creeping through the dsement.
Slanting to the floor in dusty shining beans.
Dancing en the floor in quick, fantauic gleams.
Comes to the new day's light, and pours la tide
less streams.
Golden morning-glory.
In ihe lowly basement.
Booking In the sun, the i aby's cradle stands;
Nrwthe little one thru ts out Us rosy hands;
8on bis ej es will opei; tbr n in alt the lands
Mo such mor lng-glnry!
THE LAST LINK.
I waB alone and friendless, with the
exception of my brother "V illis, and he
was far away when Miss Lestrange took
me to her home took me weeping from
my dead mother's arms, and soothed me
with gentle wordF. All my early Hfe I
had been a petted child, and I shrank
from coldness as sensitive natures will
ever do, but in my first wild sorrow for
my mothers death, Mildred Lestrange
was so thoughtfully tender to me that
my lonely heart turned to her, giving
love for love.
In all my life I have never seen a wo
man as beautiful as Mildred.
"What though some sorrow lay in the
depth of her eyes, were they less deeply,
darkly blue, and were not her features
perfect from the lowbrow, with its halo
of golden hair, to the daintily round
ed chin?
One evening Mildred and I were sit
ting together in the twilight, that
strange, weird hour between daylight
and darkness, she gazing with weary,
wistful eyes over the shadowy green
fields, and I, with my eyes fixed dream
ily on her face, was thinking of my
brother Willis Willis who, a year be
fore, had been Miss Lestrange's guest,
who had eome down, his heart filled
with love for his sister, and no woman,
save the memory of our mother, hold
ing a hicher place in it, and had gone
away loving Mildred Lestrange loving
her, but knowing his love was vain.
I thought of the day he kissed me
farewell, and for the sake of Mildred he
was going abroad again.
"Oh, Willis 1" I had cried, "why will
she not be your wife? Does she not
know it will break my heart for you to
go forth a wanderer ? Oh ! , Willis, you
will not go?"
He smiled.
"Little sister," he said, "better men
have done that before, and for wo
men less fair than she, but I, Clare,
have gone abroad before, and what bet
ter could I do than go again, where,
amid other scenes, may hope to over
come my love for Mildred? Good-by,
Clare," he said, folding me in his arms,
"and love Mildred as you have always
done."
"Clare, little one," Mildred said, turn
ing from the window, "what are you
dreaming of?"
"I-1 was thinking of Willis." I ans
wered; then, after a moment's silence;
"Ob, Mildred, Mildred, why could you
not love him?"
A shadow fell over the beautiful face,
and her sweet blue eyes grew sadder.
"Clare," she said gravely, "I must tell
you the story of my past life, then judge
is my heart one to be given in return for
the first loyal love of WiPis Stanton.
"When a child of six I went to live
with my Uncle Charles, my father's on
ly brother. I was left lonelier even than
you'and I in my childhood, Clare, for I
had i ot even a brother, and I got no
share of my uncle's heart, for all the
love he had was lavished on my cousin
Ralph, my uncle's only child. Love
was no name for the passionate love his
father gave him it was little short of
adoration. To me my uncle was always
kind, but he had no love to spare it
was all to Ralph.
"Ralph and I grew up like brother and
sister, but like very quarrelsome ones,
for he was a haughty, imperious boy,
and, having no one else to lord it over,
he generally spent his temper on me,
and I being seldom submissive, a day
never passed that something disagreea
ble did not occur. Still we played to
gether and liked each other in a certain
way.
"About four miles from us lived Dr.
Carlyle, my uncle's family physician,
and his son Deane spent a great deal of
his time with Ralph and me; in facr,
being our constant companion, and even
then I liked Deane much better than
my cousin. He was the complete oppo
site of Ralph, being gentle and courte
ous in his manner to girls, but to me in
particular. He was a handsome boy as
well, though not so handsome as Ralph.
"When I was twelve years old my
uncle sent me to a fashionable boarding
school, and Ralph went to college at the
same time, because Deane Carlyle was
going, and they might as well enter it
together.
"Six years pass6d and then I returned
to my uncle's.
"Ralph had been home tne year be
fore, but had gone abroad to travel, and
Deane Carlyle was studying law in
London, but when he heard I was at
home he came to see me, and spent a
month at his father's, resting himself,
he said.
"One evening he came to me, grave
and earnest, and asked me in imploring
tones to be his wife.
"My darling,' he said, with the old,
tender smile I liked so well, 'can you
give me your love, and wait till I am
able to claim you? It may be many
years, dear, though I will work hard for
your sake.'
He was the Deane of old, and my
heart went out to him with a thrill of
joy.
"He loved me that was enough. It
may have been his old love for the child
deepened, or another may have sprung
up in his heart for the slender girl of i
eighteen; but he loved me and 1 was
content.
"You lore me, Mildred?' he said,
and, reading his answer in my face, he
folded me in his arms. 'Yon will wait
for me, Mildred?' he added. Then, kiss
ing my lips, he bade me farewell, and
went back to his life of toil.
'Six months later Ralph came home,
handsomer, statelier, more imperious
than ever, and forgetful of our child
hood's battles, he and I became the best
of fnends.
"Rest of friends? Oh, Clare, I must
have been blind not to see that he was
learning to love me me, whose every
pulse thrilled for Deane Carlyle. God
knows I neer suspected the truth till
one fair June evening, standing amid
the flowers, he told me his love. Pained
beyond measure, I tried to stop him,
but he would not listen.
" 'Mildred, my darling, tell me you
love me!' he cried: 'tell me your heart
is mine!'
"1 cannot tell you that, Ralph,' I ans
wered, 'for, save as a sister'
"As a sister? Oh girl! do you love
and why w il you mock me with that
expression ? I ask for corn, you offer
me the husk! Think you, Mildred, I
will accept it?"
"His face was flushed, his eyes flash
ing, the blood of his Spanish mother
leaping in his veins, and I shrank back,
pale and trembling.
"ne laughed mockingly.
"'You are pale,' he said, 'and you
shrink from me cow; but I tell you
Mildred, you will yet be my wife. Do
you hear, Mildred my wife?'
"And then he held me in his arms,
and kissing me passionately,murmured :
" 'Darling, darling!'
"Mad with shame and horror, I strug
gled to release inyself.
"'Deane, Deane!' I cried in my terror.
" I am here, Mildred,' said the voice
of my lover, as Ralph loosed his hold.
"With a glad cry I sprang to him, and
the sight must have maddened Ralph.
"'So this is your lover, Mildred,' he
said ; and then he raised his hand and
struck Deane across the face.
"Deane was by far tne stronger of the
two men, and my heart stood still as he
put me gently aside, his face colorless,
his eyes blazing.
"'Coward!' he said, facing Ralph.
"'Deane, Deane!' I cried wildly, 'do
not strike him, if you love me. Ralph,
for God's sake'
"I heard Ralph say, Scoundre!!'and
the next moment they had closed in a
deadly clasp.
"Oh, the anguish and fright of that
moment, as, pale and trembling, I sank
on my knees, a wild shriek ringing from
my lips.
"I saw Ralph dashed to the ground
and lie there motionless, saw Deane
bend over him, and then I sank sense
less on the ground as hurrying footsteps
told me my shrieks had reached the
house.
"When I came to my senses again
Ralph was dead, and the man I loved a
wanderer on the face of the earth.
"Yes, Ralph was dead dead in his
pride and beauty dead in his strong
young manhood, a red stain oozing
through his chestnut curls.
"When Deane had dashed him to the
ground his head had struck the root of
a tree, and when they raised him up he
was almost unconscious.
"He only spoke once after they car
ried him into the bouse.
" 'It wag all my fault,' he said. 'I I
loved Mildred, and she and she' ,
and then he had fallen back dead.
"I never looked on the face of Deane
Carlyle again, for I could not wed the
mau who had taken the life of Ralph
even though it was his own fault and
so it was better we should not meet
again.
"Without a word of farewell he went
abroad and those who saw him before
he left could scarcely tell the Deane
Carlyle of old.
"Clare, little friend, is my heart that
has known wh .t it is to love and suffer
one that you would wish your brother
to win?"
"Mies Lestrange, a gentleman down
stairs," said a servant, opening the door.
Looks like you, Miss Clare," he added
"It is Willis, Mildred," I said; and
then we went down together, and in a
few moments I was folded in my broth
er's arms.
After kissing me tenderly he released
me and turned to Mildred.
"Miss Lestrange," he said, "I am the
bearer of a message to you from a dying
man. On my travels, almost a year ago,
I became acquainted with man who,
somehow, attracted my sympathy, but
why I could not tell. We became friends,
but not confidants, for he was strangely
reserved about himself, and, though, we
were together for many months, we
knew little of each other at least I
knew little of him. One night he met
with an accident, and was carried home
fatally injured, and the" next morning
he was raging in brain fever, and and,
Mildred, he raved of you. 1 stayed with
him and did all I could, but he was
doomed to die. The night of his death
the fever left him and the light of rea
son returned to his eyes.
"'Willis,' he said, 'when I am dead
will you seek Mildred Lestrange and
tell her tell her Deane Carlyle is dead,
and ask her to give one tear to my mem
ory, for I have loved her to the last?
Tell her I have looked on her face when
she never dreamed I was near. Mildred
-Mildred! he cried, holding out his
hands as if you were near him, as if he
saw you. They were his bst words.
He gave one weary sigh and sank back
dead, your name lingering on his lips.'
White as death grew Mildred's face
as memories ot the past swept over her.
She turned to me.
"Clare," she said, piteonsly, "I may
bury my past; the last link is broken?'
Without another word she left the
room, and then Willis, turning to me
said:
"Clare, Clare, think how she is suffer
ing. Did you see how white her face
wasf and I could give my life for her
happin
"Willis," I said, laying my hand on
his arm, "did she not say that the last
link to the past was broken?"
His face grew pale, and his eyes met
mine with an eager, questioning look.
"Clare, do you mean there is no hope
for me do you mean she can ever love
me?"
"Ever love you, Willis? She loves
you now, but she is unconscious of it
She loved Deane Carlyle with a girl's
passionate, romantic fervor, but her
woman's heart is yours. Willis, you
would not refuse one hour's sorrow to
the memory of Deane Carlyle, and the
memory of the love he gave herf
"jSo," he said ; "and in the future, if I
can teach her to forget her early love
and sorrow, I will be content''
Years have passed since then and
Mildred is my sister, happy and beloved,
as well as loving, and it is seldom a
shadow crosses her beautiful face; but
if ever it does I know that the voice of
Willis, spearing tenderly to her, can
banish it as quickly as it came, for I
know that Mildred is very happy in the
loyal love of her husband.
The Discovery of Quinine.
The discovery of the medical proper
ties of cincho a bark is enveloped in
great obscurity. All that -we know
about it for certain is this : Before the
year 1638 that is to say, 150 years sub
sequent to the discovery of America
not even the Spaniards were acquaint
ed with the febrifuge qualities of cin
chona bark ; but in this year, or there
abouts, the Countess del Chinchon, the
wife of the Spanish Viceroy of Peru
was cured of a violent intermittent fe
ver by drinking an infusion of the bark,
and this led to its introduction into Eu
rope. Were the natives themselves
acquainted with it? Humboldt ans
wers this question very positively in
the negative, and refers the discovery
of the Jesuit missionaries, who, being
in the habit of tasting the bark of ev
ery tree they hewed down, at length
discovered the precious febrifuge. Oth
er authors of repute contend that the
virtues of cinchona bark were known
to the Indians long before the advent of
the Spaniards; but the question again
arises how they first became acquaint
ed with its properties. To account for
this the ridiculous tale has been in
vented that certain animals, while la
boring under fever, happened to gnaw
the bark of one of the cinchona trees,
and were cured forthwith. Far more
probable is it that some cinchona trees
having been laid prostrate by the tem
pest in a pool of water, and the latter
becoming charged with the medicinal
principle, some person laboring under
fever drank of this water, was cured,
and published the result But however
this may be, it is certain the remedy
first became popularized in Europe
through the agency of Count del Chin
chon, "Viceroy of Peru, whose wife, as
we have said, was cured of intermittent
fever by its administration. The new
remedy, however, was badly received
in France and Italy. The faculty set
their faces against it Physicians who
dared prescribe its use were persecuted,
and it was only the patronage of Louis
XIV which ultimately rendered it pop
ular in France. This monarch, suffer
ing from intermittent fever, was cured
by an English empiric named Talbot,
by means of a secret remedy. This was
no other than cinchona bark. Louis
XIV purchased the secret for 48,000
livres, and bestowed yearly a pension of
2,000 livres on the Englishman, besides
giving him letters of nobility. Three
years subsequently the remedy was
published. It was a highly concentra
ted vinous tincture of cinchona bark.
Cinchona trees grow in the desert for
ests of Peru. The task of discovering
them, removing their bark, and convey
ing it to the place of export, is trouble
some, difficult and dangerous. In these
forests there are no roads. Frightful
precipices intersect the path of the cas
carillero, or bark gatherer, across which
it is difficult to pass, even while unem
barrassed by a load. So soon as the
treasure of bark has been secured these
difficulties and dangers proportionately
increase, so that the comparatively low
price at which cinchona may be pro
cured is in itself a matter of surprise.
CasseWs New Popular Educator.
Carrier Pigeons in Germany.
A German paper gives some details
of the extraordinary development ofTi
the breeding and training of carrier
pigeons in Germany since the late war.
During the siege of Paris, as is well
known, pigeons afforded the only means
of communication between the outside
world and the inhabitants of thebe
leagured city. In order that similar
messages might be available in the hour
of need, pigeon houses were established,
after the conclusion of the war. in most
of the larger garrison towns of North
and South Gernany, and now pigeon
flying is rapidly becoming a favorite
pastime and sport throughout the coun
try. The increased attention thus given
to the subject has resulted in the obser
vation of many peculiarities in these
birds.
Carrier pigeons of good breed, it is
noticed, although they may be started
in company and bound for the same
place, fly quite independently of one
another. Each one selects its own
course, some taking a higher, others a
lower flight and speeds on its way with
out taking any heed of its neighbors.
The birds, in fact, seem to know they
are racing, and each one exerts itself to
the utmost to arrive first at the goaL In
the neighborhood of every pigeon house
there are always certain places, trees,
eto, which are usually favorite resorts
of the birds, but when coming in on a
race the well bred pigeon never stops
for a moment at any of these haunts,
but flies straight to his own particular
house, frequently arriving there in so
exhausted a state as to be unable even
to eat the food it is mo3t fond of. Birds
which are sitting, or have lately hatched
young, are generally taken in prefer
ence to others for racing; but instances
have been known in which carrier pig
eons of good breed which have batched
young there, have deserted their brood
and fl)wn to their original home at the
first opportunity they had of escaping.
Hold the Homestead.
In the midst of these gloomy days and
falling fortunes, wheu men of wealth
are becoming bankrupt and families are
reduced from Effluence to poverty, there
is one lesson that should be thoroughly
learned. Everyman, in the period of
his prosperity, should settle a home
upon bis wife, .in-order that she and
their children may be placed beyond
the casualties of his business losses.
Noooly is it honorable to do this, but
it Ja. dkbxmorable jwt to do it We
know the high-toned philosophy and
the argument that bears itself upon the
toploftieetand moral stilts used by the
grasping creditor, and the skin-flinted
usurer, when he urges the broken busi
ness man and his frightened wife to
yield their last dollar to his exactions.
Again and again have we heard the
maxims of a false code laid down by
the bloodless and exacting creditor, who
demanded, in the name of commercial
honor, that the last dollar sho ild be
given up rather than an honest debt
should remain unpaid. This is false as
it is cruel ; as meau as it is unjust. Un
less a business man owes a higher duty
to his creditors than to his wife and
children ; unless it is a holier obligation
to pay debts than it is to provide home
and bread to his helpless and dependent
family; unless his standard of personal
pride is so selfish and false that his com
mercial credit is dearer to him than
wife and children; then by yielding his
last dollar, and depriving them of com
forts and himself of a chance to redeem
his fortunes, he is doing a mean and
cruel and wicked and cowardly act
We lay it down as a first and perma
nent duty for every honest man who
respects himself, and honors his wife,
and loves his children, as soon as he is
able, to place a roof over his family that
shall not be subjected to the vicissi
tudes of his business fortunes. It is
then the!duty of the wife, as she loves
her husband, and feels the responsibili
ty to her children, to resist the entreaty
of creditors, and the command of her
husband, and keap the home forever in
violate from incumbrance. The man
who asks his wife to mortgage her
homestead to pay his debts or to get him
out of a tight place, is guilty of a moral
wrong. He has less right to do it than
he has to go to any business man and
ask him to mortgage his property to do
him a favor for which he does not in
tend to compensate him. It is better
for creditors that the debtor should have
his home left It nerves him to renew
ed efforts, and encourages him to exer
tions which, if he were homeless, he
would never have the resolution to
make. A thousand times we have seen
men under the depressing influence of
failure so stunned as to lose their busi
ness sense. Then the creditor comes in
upon the despondent, downhearted, sen
sitive and honorable man, and from hiro
and his frightened and shocked wife
gets a deed of the house. It is felony,
grasping avarice and heartlessness, that
commits burglary by breaking into the
afflicted dwelling-house, and it ought
oy statute to be declared an offence
punishable by imprisonment at hard
labor, with shaven head and striped
clothes. We have sympathy for the
wife, pity tor the husband, and con
tempt for the creditor, wheu we see the
conveyance of a homestead to secure
the husband's debts. Exchange.
A Registered Letter.
What distinguishes a registered letter
from any other is a question very often
asked.
The difference is that a registered let
ter does not go into the mail proper. It
passes from hand to hand outside the
mail pauches, every person through
whose hands its passes b.ing required
to sign a receipt for it on receiving it
and secure a receipt for it on passing it
over to the next in transit The person
holding the last receipt is thus always
able to show who is accountable for the
loss. The responsibility rests on the
man who has signed a. receipt for the
registered package and who is not able
to .produce the package or a receipt
from somebody tdse fcr it The safest
way fo send money is by money-order
Where it does upt go to a money-order
office it should always be sent in a reg
istered package. Money ought not to
be sent in an ordinary letter under any
circumstances. There is no possible, way
of "tracking" such a tetter.
A Wonderful Cave in Missouri.
A cave has lately beeu discovered one
and one-half miles east of Galena, im
mediately under the middle of Jo pi in
road on the farm of 'iquire Moore. This
cave is being opened, and its various
rooms cleared of debris by it3 discover
ers, E.D. Jamson and John Strothers,
who design making it accessible to the
public.
On my visit to this subterranean won
der, If ouad the accomodating proprie
tor at' the windlass, who lowered me
about thirty feet, where I entered the
care proper. Although the ceiling was
very low I groped my way for several
hundred feet in variooe directions.
AtTariotM points I saw small open
ings fearing into larger chambers but
the openings were too small for entrance
The fljor and rocks in many places
were covered with beautiful crystalliz
ed formatiODS of various colors.
Stalagssitos of the most fantastic
forms were scattered in wild profusion
over the rocks, which appear to have
fallen from the roof in some primeval
age. In fact the whole cave appears to
wear an air of antiqaity which has
never been ruffled by human hand.
There is no indication of lead, as yet
although when the cave is thoroughly
explored it may bring something more
to light From the Joplin News.
"Does this corn belong to yor father?
asked a straner driving by a cornfield,
of a youngster standing by the roadside.
Tes, sir, that's popcorn,' was the prompt
reply,
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THE WORLD OF SCIENCE.
A New Antithetic.
There is a new ai.sesthetic Prof.
McKendrick and Dr. Ramsay h ve been
experimenting in England with substi
tution products obtained with Dyridine
and chinoline. The latter of these bases
is extracted from quinine by means of
caustic potash, but may also be procur
ed by some of the coal tar series of sub
stitutions. Three grains of the chloride
of chinoline introduced into the circu
lation of a rabbit rendi red the animal
unconscious in eight minutes, but the
pulsation of the heart continued and the
I breathing was vigorous. The rabbit
recovered after two or three hours, and
the experiment is deemed highly suc
cessful. Sjme of the other derivatives
from these bases proved to be very pow
erful poisons, having specific action
upon the vital centers, and likely to be
of use in the materia-medica.
A Valuable DIncoTerjr to Steel Worker.
D. H. Tierney, of Forestville, has hit
upon certain mixtures of chemicals
J which seem likely to prove a regular
bonanza for him. One of his prepara
tions is for hardening steel. He exhib
ited to us the other day a file into whose
flat surfaces various figures had bee'i
chipped with a cold chisel hardened by
his process, the work having been done
as if the file had been made of soft iron.
Another preparation is for shrinking
steel. Dies which have expanded in
the process of hardening, or which have
become worn too large.can.as heclaims,
be shrunk back as much as desired, and
this can be done repeatedly. Dies
shrunken in this way work as well as
new ones. These preparations are not
1-patented, but the one for hardening is
sold by the inventor, and the recipe for
the other. Mr. Tierney will not dis
close his secret for hardenine, not even
to secure a patent Bristol (Conn.)
Journal.
Electric Ware.
A new method for measuring the
speed of waves, and at the same time
their exact contours, has lately been
invented by Mr. Robert Sabine, and
tried with excellent results upon lengths
of the Red Sea cable at present in course
of manufactory at Enderby's wharf,
Greenwich, England. Mr. Sabine's
method consists in sending currents
into one end of the cable (the other end
being the earth), and at regular inter
vals testing the potential or some given
point in ttie conductor. This is done
by means of a mica condenser, which
is kept in connection with the point in
question until the right interval has
elapsed, when it is discharged through
a galvanometer. A rotating time appa
ratus is arranged to close the circuit of
the battery at the end, and after a given
interval to separate the conductor and
discharge it The interval may be va
ried from 0.001 to 2 seconds. A similar
reading is taken for each interval from
0001 second upward until the maxi
mum of the potential due to the posi
tion of the point tested is attained. This
gives a curve of the exact contour of
the wave. The speed Is measured by
sending two waves of opposite size into
the cable, and noticing the intervals at
which their neutral point passes two
niven points in the cable. The diffei-
ence of the intervals and the distance
between the points give the speed.
SebAitln A Mew and Safer Dynamite.
An improved nitro-glycerine com
pound has lieen invented by Mr. Gustaf
Fahnehjelm, of Stockholm, the chief
modification being that the second main
ingredent is charcoal produced from a
special wood, and selected and prepared
in such a manner as to be able to ab
sorb and solidify the greatest possible
quantity of nitro-glycerine. In order to
render the combustion more complete,
and to augument the rapidity of the ex
plosion, a small quantity of nitrate of
potass, or other suitable salt, is added
to the mixture of the two ingredents
above named.
The composition of the new sebastin
depends upon the objects for which it
is to be used, and the effects intended to
be produced. The strongest compound,
and even in this there is stated to be no
risk of the separation of the nitro-glycerine,
is composed of 78 part, by weight,
of nitro-glycerine, 14 of the wood char
coal, and 8 of nitrate of potass; anu
when less power is rt quired, the propor
tions are varied, the second quality con
sisting of 68 ppr cent, by weight, of nitro-glycerine,
20 of the charcoal, and 12
of the nitrate of potass. London Min
ing Journal.
Egyptian Mavery How the Dealer
Evade the Laws Against the Trade
Prices of the Male and Female Slaves.
Mr. J. H. McOoan, in his book "Egypt
As It Is," furnishes some curious in
formation respecting the methods em
ployed by the slave dealers to evade the
law and smuggle their wares into the
cities where they bring the best prices,
and adds:
"Once In the capital the dealers dis
tribute their stock among their agents
in vanous quarters of the city, and
there, although the police are supposed
to be on the watch to prevent it buying
and selling go on under the thinnest
vail of concealment An intending
purchaser goes to one of the private but
perfectly well-known entrepots to
which the dealers and their slave) are
lodged, and after examining the latter,
selects what suits him, haggles for a
time about the price, and finally closes
the bargain then and there, or scbie
quently through a broker, who receives
a small commission forthejjb. The
dealers object to show their wares to
Europeans, unless they oe introduced
by a native who is not merely a drago
man ; but with that voucher, and the
thin disguise of a fez and a Stamb julee
coata sight of whatever is on hand may
be easily enough had. Erauks are, of
course, now forbidden by their own
laws to buy or hold slaves, but the pro
hibition is not always regarded by resi
dents in the native quarters of the city,
where, indeed, a single mux can not
hire a house nor obtain lodgings, unless
he have a female slave. Prices range
from 10 to 12 for a black boy or gUi
of as many years old to 70 or IC0 for
an Abyssinian girl of from 12 to 17 or
18, and from i."0 to300 or even 1.000.
for a high-class C.rcassian. Adult wo
men slaves wh" have already been in
service are cheaper, unless their skill
in cooking, needlework, or some other
useful art balances the vice of temper
or other defect, but for which they are
rarely resold. The price of mules above
the age of childhood varies from t'20 or
o0 to 90 or 100. Abyssinian youths
and men ranging considerably above
negroes. The neutral class of eunuchs
have still higher value, but these are
now found in only the very wealthiest
M jsiern families, the rigorous prohib.
tion which the law enforces against
their production within Kgvptian terri
tory having greatly reduced the suply,
and corresjondiugIy heightened their
price It may be added that
the whole of the slaves imported into
E.:ypt readily adopt the established
faitn, and soon become the most bigot
ed and fanatical section of the Moslem
population
The Iwms of a Life.
O.ir old friend is in good health, and,
although nearly three-score and five en
joys the use of all his faculties. He is
pos essed of a good moderate compe
tence, won by his own exertions, and
leads a quiet simple life, as he has al
ways done ; for in passing through the
world the best practical lessons he has
learned as to the enjoyment of life are
policy of always keeping the whole btnly
evenly and comtortably but not excess
ively warm, and uf using simple food.
In these respects he was lamentably led
astray at an early period, and it nearly
cost him his life to get rid of the false
ideas then instilled. He was taught as
siduously that the way to be hardy and
strong is to defy cold and exjtosure, and
to eat strong, hearty food; that oatmeal
gruel and milky slops were only for the
sick,and that strong meat made a strong
stomach and a strong arm that would
flinch from no work. But he was weak
constitutionally, and did not know it
He sunk under the efforts made to use
or win the strength he saw others em
ploy, and to endure as much as they did.
He became dyspeptic and bronchitic,
and his nerves went as many ways as a
bundle of sticks, lint two or three years
in his quiet harbor of repose, the hours
all occupied with work suited to his
taste and fitted to his strength, with
shelter always at li.mil, wonderfully re
cuperated him, and his thread of life
still spins out evenly and gently. He has
learned that drugs and medicine are
harmful, and that a frugal diet imparts
strength, comfort and content. Another
thing learned with much surprise is
this, that so little is really required to
satisfy all the real wants and desirable
comforts of even cultivated humanity,
both for body ami mind, that we could
all of us, and millions more, be happy as
the day is long, but for the pushing,
fretting, and struggling after the allur
ing, infatuating, blinding, cheating fg-
ns fatui the artiiicialities ol society.
Waverley Magazine.
A Mreet Firm.
A boy and girl, aged 11 and l.'J res pec
tively, named Reedy, attract consider
able attention about reuu street hotels
and in the vicinity of various public re
sorts.
The girl has her apron gathered in u
bag-like shape in front of her, into
which is piled and uacked any n. fuse
she happens to see on the pavements or
m the gutters. The other day she had
two soft and spoiling canleIop&t,a lot of
tobacco steins, old paper, a horseshoe
and a few other articles. The boy had
his pockets full of cigar stubs, and he
is generally very busy hunting for them
The twain are always together. The boy
in reply to questions said:
aWe just goes out and gets all we can
git right and that ain't in a wrong way.
D.m't must go ; just goes out ourselves,
don't we sis? We goes all about and
gits what we can git. Ain't got no shoes
and no good clothes, must do something
to git along. We can find many things
in the gutters that the peop'e don't
know nothin' about. We can sell what
we find. Ain't many lookin the gutters
as we does. O no! It's a new business,
I smoke, I do. She eats the candelopes.
M.m give us these. If you've got a cou
ple of pennies we'll take 'em, won't ws
sis?"
While the boy was talking the girl
was munching her melon, and wheu her
opinion was asked she smiled, nodded
and said :
That's all right, Tommy."
And the unfortunate waifs went
down street with one-half of their at
tention to the pavement and the other
half to the gutter. It was a picture of
one phase of city life, anyhow. litad
ing (Pa.) Eagle.
Tea Culture.
The peasantry collect the leaf, each
family its own little parcel, sun-dry it
before the doora of their cabins, and
convey it to some pack-house in the dis
trict loosely packed in cotton bags. In
every district there are many pack
houses, owned or rented by native tea
dealers from the porta, and the peasant
has the advantage of competition. He
sells, of course, where he gets most, and
he is not wanting in cleavercess at a
bargain. The tea dealer empties the
bag3 in great heaps, from which the
leaf goes through the srocess of firing
in cast-iron bowls, made for the pur
pose. He then sorts into qualities,
packs in the leaded chests and sends to
a treaty port to be sold In open market.
All these processes go on in the most
open manner, and in the face of the
keenest competition from the first to
last Everybody knows where th best
ea is packed, an runners daily convey
to the porta the news of the price per
picul wich i3 being paid for the sun
dried leaf, and, at the ouUet of the sea
son, when only the finest teas arc and-,
this news is of the liveliest interest
alike to Cninee and foreign dealers.
The finest tea, composed of the tender,
budding lear, ia necesarily limited in
quantity, as the leaves are very sm-Ul.
and only assail portion can be picked
without injuring the plant When the
chops of such tea reach the treaty porta
they are again th object of ;icttve c m
petition, this time to for igfiers. E zh
foreign house has its friends amnn the
dealers, and exerts all its Influence to
secure those so-called fancy chops. The
finest congous and souchongs go to Rus
sia and to England. The finest colongs
and greens go to England and tho
United S:ate.
The Sand In K-ypt.
The sand has played a preservative
part in Egypt, and has saved for future
inveafgators much that would have
otherwise disappeared. M ss Martineau
says, in her "Eastern life:"
"If I were to have the choice of a
fairy g ft, it should be like no"t of the
many things I fixed iion in my c'uld
hood. in readiness for such occasions. It
would be for a great winnowing fin
such as would.without injury to human
eyes and lungs, blow away the sand
which buries the monuments of Egypt
What a scene would be laid open to
them! One statue and sarcophagus,
brought from Memphis, was buried a
hundred and thirty fvt below the
mound surface. Who knows but what
the gre.iter part of old Memphh.and of
other glorious cities, lies aim -t ini
tial ined under the sand ! Who ran say
what army of sphinxes, what sentinels
of colossi might start up on the banks
of the river, or come forth from the
hillsides of the ii.terior.when the clouds
of sand have been wafted niv.iv?"
All will be discovered in god tim.
we are not yet ready for it ; it is desir
able we should lie further advanced in
the power of interpretation Ik? for the
sand be wholly blown away. Hut in
truth it will need a high wind to do It.
begin when it mav.
A Dead .Mint.
William Spencer, alias Oregon Hill,
is in many respects a rein irka'ilt man.
His birth place is Irt X itul. South
Africa, and he has hardly yet rearhed
40. Hi was atsea for years, and during
the time distinguished himself for his
bravery in two engagements with pi
rates on the coast of Afriei. Ilepir
ticipated with credit to himself in the -
last war with Russia, and was present
at the fall of H daklava From l) to
l"(to. he was an Indian tighter on tin
frontiers of Kansas and Texas, and in
an engagement with the red man on an
occasion in which th whites were vic
torious, after a bloody hand to hand
fight, he is said to have killed seven
warriors with his pistol and bnvie
knife. In Portland, Oregon, he h id a
friend, John )'M idigtn. now of this
city. While, O'Midigiu was walking
along the street .smoking his pipe, and
at a distance of ten feet, and at about a
right angle, Hill sml lenly drew his pis
tol and tired, the ball taking the pipe.
from the mouth of t.is friend, butd ung
him no harm. Again, last fall. Hill was
in Lake City with deer for sale, and
seeing his old friend, O'.M idtgiu. pass
ing up tin same street on tin opp wite,
side, he called to htm lostop. When he
h id drawn his revolver, .1 dm did so.
facing him at the time. Hill fired and
tho ball passed through the top of the
hat of his friend. O'.M iligan. in the.
IwMt of humor, called out: "Hill, don't
nhootany more; It Is too close." Pen.
cer I'ribun
A (JeiMTjiI'M Treatment.
A man who hadn't any good clothes
worth mentioning, and whose rod nose
was more prominunt than his old hat,
entered a Congress street saloon yester
day, gave th barkeeper a military Ha- .
lute. and said:
"Let me introduce myself as (Jtieral
Rarton, just from the plains."
"How do you do, fJoner.il g.mtly now
ih, there you go!" replied the. barkeep
er as he took him bjthe neck and push
ed him out on the walk.
The dead neat stood at -the curb-stone
and looked b ick in a d . . 1 sort of way
and when he fin.diy crossed the street
he growled:
"It's a dark, dark, mvstery to me that
I can never go into a aulo-m to ask how
far it is to Chicigo, that the proprietor
does not stind ready to raw a curium
cle on my nck. I Vrhaps it would have
been better h.ul I Killed myself u Sena
tor form Nevada"
In I'eterbor,. England. Ui- custom is
kent up of rj. til ng for H.bles by six
txys and six girl i. in order i carry out
the provisions of the f will of queer old
Dr. Wildrie, a 1'uri n minister who
died early in the eighteenth century. A
laucer con tu trig the die is pbu-e.I on
the communion fible and hix of the
twelve young persons who gt th
largest munor are to have a H We
apiece. The six R bles are to Iw pur
chased at iirnl of not over seve . nhil
lings ea?h. I i order to make, this r?
markabl prawning as religious as
pi.HJible. the minister kneels at the com
munion table, and prays for divine u
rection on the throwing of the dice. A
part of the service on the day annually
appointed for Una is the preaching of a
sermon by th minister on the -xr-l
Iencr. urfectru-Hs. and divine authority
of the Scriptures. The will provide
for the pr. merit to the mn later for tins
service of ten shillings, aid to the clerk
welve ptfnc.
HL'JlUitoiM.
"Do those WLs sjunil an alarm of
fire?" said a stranger Hi other Sinday.
the church Delia were calling togetb
the wrr-diipper. -Yea," wan ih- reply,
but the fire is tn the next world."
It is related of Dr. Garth, in his l-4a'.
illnas. whe he saw hb fellow doctors
conavlting together at his beside, that
he raised his head from hia pillow and
said, with a smhV: -Dear gentlemen,
et me die a natural death."
B.ddyaay?! she dots not & anything
so very heroic in scaling a ramp i.rt s'he
has scaled many a ahrrp'j head and
that's about the sarne thins
Recently, while the President was at
the Washington Sjhue'z-afmta facV
tum, wi3hing to do the handsome thing,
said: -Mr. IJ resident, I vaa ghui you
corned. Ve yoost vaa keepin some
water on ice for yoo, sb"
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