THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY. NOV. 8. 18S2. Esteroi at tho P::t:5eo, C:lzais:. Kel.. wceai elus sitter. DARKLESS. Come, Wesed Darknc39, conic, and bring thy balm Forcjoisrowu weary of thcnrish Day! Couicuithtliy soft, slow steps, thy garments JCTHV, The veiling liadows, bearing in thy palm The poppy-seeds, of slumber, deep ami calm I Come with thy pationt stars, whose far-off mv SteuW thi- hot lever of the -oul a ay, Tliv stillness sweeter than a chanted p-alml O, blessed Darkness, Day, Indeed, is fair, Atid I-Icht is dear when summer days are Ion. And one by one the har esters ko bv; But so is rest sweet, and surcease from care, And folded palms, and lmMi of evensong. And all the unfathomed silence of the sky I Julia C. li. Dorr, in Atlantic Monthly. OUT OF DANGER. "A letter, Miss," said Sarah, Miss Baiclay's maid, presenting herself at the side of the work-table, on which were heaped variously tinted crewels with which Mi3s Barclay was executing a composition in the Kensington outline work. "A letter!" repeated Miss Barclay, taking it into her hand; "and from Cousin Elizabeth, to be sure!" Then carefully cutting the envelope lor tearing a letter open was not one of Miss Barclay's habits she perued the contents, which, after some prelimi naries, ran as follows : And now, Heter, I want you to do me af or. I hope It will not Inconvenience you; but I am iery anxious to have my daughter Abby leave home for uwhUe, and I should be so fileased to have her come to j ou. She is deep n a love ulTalr w ith a man I hate. His name fa Fnincls Oholmondly. I'd lather have ber inHn- unv other decent man on earth. I do not know" whv I luiio him so, except that he is a puppy, fte'4 not so poor that he could not take good C!lre of a wile, and he is rather handsome. In his nasty, foppish w ay. People rather like him generally, and hts social po slt'on is irood. I've no doubt I'm unreasona ble, but I won't have Abby marry him; uud if I can KCt her aw ay, I can get i ill of him. So I tell ou franklv my reasons for asking you to Invite her, and I know how ood-natured you wo. Jt will be a thankless task, for she's ter ribly gulky Just now, but I'll be ev er grateful to von. And then the letter wandered awav again into matters that do not concern tlTis storv, and ended in the signature Elizabeth Marsh. "Poor Lizzie! she always had such strong whims," said Miss'Barclay, go ing on with tlie folds of the purple robe of a thin blondo figure traced upon the background. "One of them was to marry Caleb Marsh. I don't believe that has turned out quite as well as it might. However, I'm fond of Lizzie, and I shouldn't mind having Abby here. I'll write at once and ask her. And by the way I'll invite Brother Kich aid's boy to comedown, and bring a friend with him. Every one is glad of a week's country visit in summer. They'll both fall in love with the girl in this lonesome place; and there's no such cure for one love affair as another." Miss Bat clay was a lady of prompt and decisive action. Two letters were at the office before the next mail went out, and three bedrooms were being put into apple-pie outer, and the cook was instructed as to certain provisions to be prepared for the expected guests. "Brother Isaac and myself will be all the better for having the young people about us," said Miss Barclay; but cook, an old servant, who prided herself on being "free spoken," was of opinion that "peace and quietness would be broke up by all sorts of racket, and that she'd no doubt they'd be obliged to buy butter." However, as cook afterward re mai ked, she was well aware that was not her lookout. And ou Saturday the lUige paused at the door, and from its top clambered down two youths; one big and rough-headed, the other small and sleek, but both armed with port manteaus, gun-cases and fishing-rods exactly resembling each other. " All right, driver," cried the rough hended j-oulh "all right, driver." "This is the young lady's stjpping- Clitce, too," shouted the driver. "This 1 Mia-. Barclay's." But by this time the young lady was getting out. She was a pretty girl, with a splendid head of black hair, which, when Miss Barclay had seen her last, he had worn in two long braids down her back. Now she was wondei fully grown no longer a little girl, but a young lady, with a coiffure of putfs, and crimps that was a myter 10 prim Mis B.uclay. A co quettish hat was set very inueh on one s'de of her head, and instead of the sul len scowl Miss Barclay had expected, she greeted the lady with the most beam ing smiles. " Dear Cousin Barclay," she ex claimed, "how good of jou to ask me to this lovely place! I adore the coun try, and I am so pleased to see you again. How sweet you look ! I must kiss you. I just feel that I am going to be perfectly happy all the time I'm here." "Is she acting, or does she mean it?" asked the spinster to herself. "It's a oomfort to find her so pleasant, any how." But she answered heartily and merrily, and sending Sarah to show her young cousin the way to her room, that she might 1 efresh herself after her journey, turned her attentions to the youths, with whom she had as yet only ihakcn hands. "1 am so glad you came at once, Fied," she said, "and so pleased that you brought Mr. " "Mr. Oakley," said Fred. "My col lege chum Frank Oakley. My dear aunt, we're very much obliged to you, and father sent his love, and mother wonders when you intend to come to see her: and I've a letter, and some pat terns and things in my bag. And, Aunt Hester, what a pretty girl that is' She's traveled all the way with us in the ears, and from the depot in the stage. Never saw such a pretty girl before." "That's cousin Lizzie's daughter, Abby," replied Miss Barclay. "She paid a visit to your house when von were twelve years old, but you wouldn't speak to her. You said" yon hated girls." "What a cub I was," replied the shock head, "ravely. "Well, I don't know, Aunt Hester. As for Frank, he adores them. Don't yon, Frank?" Frank looked modest. "There is so much to admire in all wo I mean in all ladies," he an swered, with a little lisp. "What a very polite young .man," thought Miss Barclay. It was a very merry tea-table. Old Mr. Isaac Barclay, to be sure, did very little but eat, after having solemnly shaken hands all round ; but Fred was a host in hiinself,and Miss Barolaj' chat tered as merrily as the young people. That very night she wrote to her Cousin Elizabeth : Lizzie, mv Dkau: You'd be delighted to fee the success of our plan. Abbv is as happy a a queen. he lias found two "beanx het my nephew Fred, and u friend of bis. Fred seems ery much taken. I've no doubt lie wdl cut our"puppy" iilie out, and Abby couldn't make a bettei match; u ood fellou ith a little fortune aid line prospect- In his Srofession. I hope it will come to something, eannhile, comfort outelf. Abby U heart whole. Yours truly, a eer, Heteu. The weather was bright for the next three weeks. The skies seemed to smile upon the spinster and her guests. They ( ijuh. iuiuj Hiiuv, unves, excursions, anu Fied was devoted to his aunt. Mean while, Mr. Frank Oakley did his best to please Miss Abby, who did not refuse to be pleased. " Don't -tick to me, Fred, if you want to cut Frank out," Miss Hester would sometimes whisper, but Fied always answered that he felt well contented ; and, on the whole, Miss Barclay de cided that Abby was too frivolous for Fred. ' Bat your friend is a good fellow, is fee not?" she atked. You know Abby Is in my care." And Fred thereupon swore that Frank was a gentleman, and a good fellow; well to do also. "As good a husband as any girl could have, n he does lisp and blush," continued Fred. "Don't trouble yourself, aunt; nothing better could happen to Cousin Abby than to marry Frank." "Then he really means to offorP" queried Miss Barclay. " O, he's desperate," answered Fred. And that night another letter was written to Cousin Elizabeth, which con tained this sentence : Now, Cousin Lizzie, I am in a dilemma. Fied and Abbv are not smitten with eath other, but Fred ha. brought a frieni of his here, a Mr. Frank Oakley, w ho is making love to your girl. Give me my instructions. Fied assures me he is an excellent match and a good fellow, and I consider him most agreea ble. But am I to foster the affair or S"nd hi in packing? Abby is your daughter. I await instructions. I know your temper, Eliza beth. We quarreled once; don't let us do it again. The answer was brief as a telegram : Any young man but that detestable Francis Cholmondly. Foster it. So the young people were left to their own devices; the house rang with laughter, the orchard was robbed, the horses driven out for moonlight rides, the boat was forever on the river, and the voice of the piano told all passers-by that "Miss Barclay had company." There were parties at the old house, too, and even old Isaac Barclay was sufficiently interested to sit up until nine o'clock, and to tell a very long story without any end about a visit he had once made to Boston, where he had his pocket picked. The pleasantest days that had ever been known at the Barclay were these, and they had been prolonged two months, and now Fred must go home must indeed nor could Frank linger longer. "And I must go, too, aunt," said Abby. "I suppose I must, but I shall never forget this happy time, and I want you to kiss me to-night and tell me that you'll always love me.for you've been kinder than ever ma was to ine.'' Abby said this late at night, sitting on a low stool at Miss Barclay's feet, and there were tears in her eves. But next morning when the confiding old lady arose, Sarah met her with an omi nous iook, and the declaration that something must have happened. "How you scare me, Sarah!" cried Miss Barclay. "What can have hap hened? Brother Isaac is well, isn't "lie's well enough," replied Sarah. "But Miss Abby haint been abed all night, and her trunk is gone, and here's a note that laid on her pillor." Miss Barclay seized the missive and opened it with shaking hands. It read thus: Deaiilst Auntie Don't be angry. Remem ber your promise to love me alu ays. When you read this I shall be married. I shall be Mrs. Francis Oakley Cholmondly. Fred is Frank's best man. und litt'e I.ihy Jones, from the village, my bridesmaid. 1 ou see it, don't vou? Fred was in the Plot, ami he introduced Frank O.ikley to vou. You never guo.ed that O.ikley was onlv his middle name. We liatod to deceive you You were -.0 good w e all adore ton, l..t ma was cruel, and I'm ot ago slnoe last week. I'm very liappv. only if vou don't fonieinc I shall" n cr lorgive mjself. Mk will hae to, a'ter awhile. Your affectionate niece, ABUT. No. I must write it all Aiiiiy Cholmondly. "I shall die!" screamed Miss Bar clay. "I'd rather, than to face Eliza beth." But she did not; nobody did. Every body is alive and well at "this moment, and even his prejudiced mother-in-law has come to admit that Frank is not so bad a fellow, after all. N I". Isdgcr Turkey's Dilemma. The interest of the moment centers about the question whether Turkey will yield to the demand of England, and agree to punish Arabi for his war on women and children. The Turkish Government is controlled by two oppos ing forces. It has its thoroughly po litical party, made up of men who know something of the world, who are well read in foreign literature, have studied history, have mingled with foreigners, and w'ho know something of the weak ness of the Turkish Empire. But these men of politics are hampered in their discussion of measures by the fact that they are Moslems and are responsible to the Moslem world for their thoughts and acts. Of the same religious faith as the purely political party among the Turks, and yet opposed to its methods in al most every particular, is the religious party. This party is composed of men of great weight in learning, and is sup ported by the mass of the people. But the learning of the great men of this party is learning in the Arabic philoso phy of by-gone centuries. Thee learned men are occupied with problems of hair splitting in the interpretation of the Koran, and are as completely out of the world as if they were in equatorial Afri ca. They live in an age long gone by, and have no idea that science has made :my progress since Arabian science led the wot Id, or that infidels can have any knowledge or any moial greatness or any physical power that can cope with Islam. This party sees Turkey ham pered by demands of infidels. Here in Constantinople, as in Egypt, the sole measure that it has to propose is the ad hesion of the Turkish Government to the ancient principle of Islam : "If a man is an unsubmitted infidel, kill him." This religious party has been enormously strengthened of late by she adoption by the Government of the Pan Islamic theory of recovering strength. It is fully capable of thwarting measures concocted by the Porte in open council. It is undoubtedly the case that the same party in Egypt, with its massacres and outrages, has gone far beyond Arabi Pashas originalintention. The Sultan has thought to use this religious party to strengthen his position, expecting to bo able to control its fiercer tendencies. But now he finds it a mighty power and stands before it in a great dilemma. This ignorant party of action has made Arabi Pasha its hero, and sings aloud his praises in all our daily papers. If the Porte decides to condemn Arabi it will have to face the whole religious ele ment of the country and risk a revolt. If it does not condemn Arabi and his works, England will move on to the conquest of Egypt. Then the Porte must still face the religious doctors, and answer the question why it allows infidel England to attack and crush Moslems who are only guilty of carrying out the precepts of Islam. The dilemma is terrible. To punish Arabi is to side with infidel Europe against the faithful. Not to punish him is to be forced sooner or later into the adoption of the principle of a holy war, with all its "chain of mighty oonse quences. The political leaders know what the end would be. They know that Turkey has not a gun and not a cartridge that has not come from Chris tian workshops. The religious leaders know no such thing; they do not know that the difference between Islam and Christendom on the battlefield in the difference between the sword and the Gatling gun. So these religious leaders, with their belief in divine interposition, in astrological signs, and with their hope of a glorious era soon to dawn, are pressing the Government to throw down the gantlet to all Christendom. The fact is that the little issues in Egypt are quite obscured by the looming of the mighty struggle, between all Islam and all Christendom, whose occurence is now hanging in the balance. The Turkish Government would hail with double joy any break in the agreement of the Eu ropean Powers. Such a break would not only relieve the Porte of the neces-. sity of answering for the acts of the Egyptian fanatics, but would also de prive the Constantinople fanatics of the power to insist on a miscellaneous at tack on all Europeans. ConstantinopU Cor. N. Y. lYibune. Points in Economic Feeding. Broadly stated there are five cardinal points we are compelled to observe in the East in economical beef production. Theso are, good steers, warm quarters, thoughtful food, combinations arranged with some reference to manure value, and early maturity. Not without m.ieh observation I affirm our Eastern cattle are of too low a type. Experience teaches me that as distinguished from the scrub, the good steer, well-bred grade even of the larger breeds, is a better feeder of the so called coarse foods straw, swale hay and corn fod der than the poorer sorts so often han dled to consume the hard fare of the farm. A beast of this sort will not only eat better but thrive better on these food's than the scrub, provided he has enough, and this "enough" becomes more productive per pound eaten. This "enough" makes the difference between the early matured and the later matured steer. The steer turned at two years, weighing 1,200 pounds, eats m'ainte naucs fodder for two years less than a steer weighing 1,200 pounds turned at four years. The maintenance fodder for a 1,000 pound steer is about eighteen pounds of hay a day, according to my te3ts. Thus the good steer I find is not only my most uncomplaining eater, but the earliest turned, and hence the most economical. Economy dictates that his winter quarters must be warm the tempera ture should average, say, forty-five de Srees. In carefuldaily tests by scales, lermometer, etc., I found that I re ceived about 100 per cent, interest one winter on the outlay for arranging bet ter quarters than those of average New England barn stables. We can not afford to attempt to heat space with hay. Lumber and paper are cheaper than grain. The ration for the good steer in good quarters should not oe of oheap foods alone, nor entirely of the best foods. The latter is not the most eco nomical ration, .is a practical feeder, I should not regard a hay and grain ration as a good ration where the price of hay is high. As I have before stated in the Rural, I know of no more eco nomical ration, where hay Ls to enter into it at all, than clover (called hay) and straw mixed when moderate growth is desired say one pound a day. When fattening is desired tiie addition of grain will make an effective food. With fairly bred grade Short-horns I can make from 1,100 to 1,200 pounds by easy stages of growth, turning my products at full market rates as follows : Now milk for first two or three weeks; then skim milk, middings and corn meal. At a little more age, cotton-seed meal is substituted for middlings. The first winter, clover and clover rowen with some corn fodder or straw,or both, are fed with cotton-seed and corn meal. The second winter, clover and straw are often the only food, or a ration of three pounds of cotton-seed meal and straw or corn fodder or both alone is fed. As we raise much corn, often half of this meal is fed. When we purchase meal, my general practice is to buy cotton-seed meal, as it is so valuable as a manure as well as especially valuable to supplement straw for growing steers. The growth by this system is not the rapid growth of high feeding, but hav. ing no pasture near home, this is adopt ed as an economical one. My expe rience is that high-pressure feeding in winter is not consistent with di-tant and ordinary pastures. When ordinary pas tures are near at hand high winter feeding can be supplemented by sum mer pasture feeding with grain to ad vantage. By the system named, September,sales are made. This gives three summers' growth (summer growth costs me but about one cent per pound) for two win ters' feeding. The weight named in sures a good sale upon an economical growth. The expense I could easily irive, but it would be for local rates. Better data are at hand. If the ration is entirely hay the calf will consume three per cent, of its live weight daily, and the year-old two-and-one-half per cent. With urging each will eat more. When grain is given, a pound, in round numbers, takes the place of a pound of hav and insures faster growth generally. When straw or clover is fed, or straw and grain, less is eaten. A steer that will eat 25 pounds of hay will not use over 15 pounds of straw when accom panied with three pounds of meal, or generally three-fifths as much. When corn fodder is given, with what is wast ed, nearly as many pounds have to be fed as of hay not quite. Swale hay and two to three pounds of cotton-seed meal are often fed for an entire winter, in terchanged with straw or corn fodder. fi A River Romance. Seated near us was a lady and her daughter, about nineteen years old. She, too, was listening to Captain As bury's yarns. They were about his ad ventures on the river, his trials and tribulations, his joys and sorrows. "About eighteen year ago," he said, "when I was running between St. Louis and Keokuk, there came on the boat at Hannibal one of the handsomest young women I had seen in all my life." She had a little girl with her, more hand some than she was. The ladv came up to me, for she was a lady, and asked me to take her to Keokuk, as she desired to go to Burlington to her friends, and that she had not a cent in the world with which to pay her fare. Her pleading eyes wero too much for mine, and I bade the clerk consign her to a state room, as it was in the middle of the night. The boat was delayed by a heavy fog, and wo were compelled to lay at the bank until long after daylight. The lady approaohrd and thanked me ever so much, and told me that she was the wife of a Confederate Captain who had been shot and killed by a party of scouts or guerrillas: her home had been robbed and burnt, and she, with her child, succeeded in fleeing from the sceue of carnage, and was the next day brought to Hannibal by a kind farmer, in whose house she had sought protec tion. Girls, that woman's story and wrongs and suffering made my heart softer. I know it did, and I put my hand into my pocket and gave her a $20 greenback, for I thought she needed it. Well, I haven't seen or heard of her since, but I hope she is happy, and that little girl of hers a handsome and grown up woman." The lady who was listening to the Captain's little story arose from ber chair, and, taking the hand of her daughter, approached the Captain, say ing: " Yes, we are both happy, and I will havft vnn iuricrp nhnnf thr cmrul looks of the grown-up daughter, for nere she is." Captain Asbury stood as if struck as dumb as the fellow who caused the miiden to hurl herself off vonder rock, for we were near that noted landmark. He peered into the lady's face, plainly dicernible by the reflection of the elec tric light, in utter- astonishment. The Captain recognized the lady and even the now grown up young lady, and ex pressed himself pleased to see them again. After mutual greeting and in troduction to us girls, the lady, Mrs. Russell, who now resides in New York, went into the cabin and soon returned upon the "roof " with a piece 01 paper in her hand, which she handed to the Captain. It was a check for 200 which she desired to return to him for his kindness eighteen years ago. Captain Asbury refused the proffered check, and no persuasion ould iiidnce iiim to accept. Of course Mrs. and Miss Rus sell were admitted to our circle, and the trip up the river was made more joyous than ever, as she proved to be a very intelligent and worthy lady, and wealthy, and her daughter proved to be as lovely in disposition as she was beautiful in face and form. Dtibuquc la.) Herald. Fl hcries at I'ancale. The fishing lleet of Ca c.i!e, both for dredguig oysters and curbing lish, numbers more than 2.U lugger-ribbed craft of small tonnage. These boats are owned pirlly by s'ngle individuals, partly by their crews, whuhuxe ch.bhi'd together for copartnership 'Ihe'r tackle and gear cost ::s in 11 h as 'h boats and sails; the no s, wh'eh are ch'olly ma le at Nantes, iteia the giu it item of expense The m:iic is n.'er used: the traul, whi h is 1 lie i with a lmge head-bagor recfjUa !. I.e ng he sort of sn.ire generally "adopted httcii boat has a funetliiiitn c-l.d a ni s-ties-,:" that is. a woman uho litis ton- I trflcted, under certain cou iitiuns, for j the sale of the take ot ih craft. The 1 crew ha thuicoru, nothin; to do with the disposal or the fish. The pro due; of the sale llec e 1 b -he "mis tress" is geiifralL ili.ided ,nto live parts two o tin m nor o. owners of the boa , one o he -tipper ami two to the crew, the worn 11 haung pre ious lv deducted her nitimaie profits. The life of a anoalai,," as these fishermen dub tlietnehes, is one even more rife with danger than that of oth 'rs of ti-eir catling. The Bay of Mont St. Michel is one of the most perilous seas in the world. E juinoctial tides rise in it to the height of fifty feet, and oidin u-y files to thirty-five feet The distance between high and low water marks is more than six miles in some places, and the rapidity of the currents, especially ou a stormy day, maelstrom-like. Quicksands, too, are numerous, and a boat shoaled on one of them during ebb-tide has little chance of its ciew being saved; as re gards itself, none. In calm weather the boats fish in the shallowest waters, their keels occasionally heeling in the mud; and here they take soles, turbot, doree, brill and skate in considerably quantities. Government forbids fishing within a mile of the shore; but so soon as night sets iu and screens the fisher men and their fleets from the look-outs of the steam gunboat at Granville and the coast-guard sailing schooner at Cancale. the boats arc run within the prescribed limits, and the forbidden fruit is t:tsted. Oysters are allowed to be taken onlv on certain days at certain times of the year, a .strict watch being kept by the two vessels above mentioned, lroni which signa's are made when dredging is to commence and to cease. Fshmg proper, how ever, goes on all the ear, the only re striction, with the exception of the fixed distance fiora shore, as already mentioned, being that of mailage, or size of the meshes of the nets. Meshes wider by a fraction of an inch only, having beeu ordered bv the Govern ment to be iwed and their use continued for a few years, brought the population of Cancale to the verge of starvation, fishes that were entangled before escap ing now. In fact, so momentous a question is this one of mailage among a class of individuals who earn their living from the depths of the sea that candidates for State or municipal offices in v ariably promise the elootors to ob tain for them the privilege of smaller meshes for the fishing nets, that prom ise, whether carried out or not, being the only safe "card" for securing suc cess. Mailage is the bug-bear of Can oalais. Frt'TH'Ji Ptrr Yiorutuu 111 ni i'dings It is easy to understand how a mill or factory may tremble or vibi ate with its own machinery; that it will also vibrate to the motion of other objects, outside and removed from it. is more difficult to understand. Yet this is fully proved by observers. It is on the principle by w hioh a note struck on the piano will sometimes cause other objects in the room, sa a brass medallion in a cabi net, to tinkle iu response. The piano wire itself will respond when its key note isstruck. Other vibrations are not always audible, because they may lie outside of the range of the human ear. Synchronous vibration has come to be )U te a study in the construction of mills; the jar of their own machinery is not all that has to be provided lor. Some apparently trilling causes vibra ting outside will not only add to the strain upon the building, but may act ually interfere with the stead1 working of looms, etc., causing; breakages and stoppages. Mr. C. J. H. Woodbury re lates some instances of this in a recent book on mill construction At one of the print works at North Adams, Mass., a new and unoc upied building was found to vibrate in consequence of the puffing of a small steam engine sixty feet away. At Centerdale, R. I., it has been necessary to change the height of tle column of water ilowing over the dam to prevent the excessive vibration of the adjacent mill At Amesbury, Mass., out of eleven mills that are near the river two vibrate when water in 1 er tain quantities flows over the dam, bat the tremor can be wholly stopped by changing the How of water. The mot fi-equcnt cause of vibration is due to the runn'ng of the machinery, and it has repeatedly happened that a complete cessation has been obtained by increas ing or lessening the speed at'which the machinery is run. This is not always profitable or possible, and the fact that this vibration results in a loss of power ariously estimated at from ten to twen ty per cent., is a strung argument in favor of the construction of one story mills, which would necessarily vibrate much less than factories having a height of six or eirht stories. Philadelphia Ledger, Struck Dumb While Committing jury. Per- A strange story comes from the east ern portion of this couuty of a woman being struck dumb while giving false testimony. The facts as related are as follows: On last Friday a colored man named James Price was on trial before Esquire Allen, a Justice of the Peace, who has an office on the Macon road, between Germantown and Bartlett, Tenn. Price had been beating a num ber of men in the neighborhood, and Isabella Jackson, a colored woman, was placed on the witness stand to tell what she knew of the matter. She bo gau her evidence, and was soon after asked by the Justice: "Do 3toh not know that you aie lving?" She an swered, "Yes, Sir." These were the last words Isabella Jackson ever spoke. She had appeared quite independent, and to some extent impudent, when first put upon the stand, and after her last remark a number of questions were asked, but the woman made no reply. Believing that she was sham ming, the Justice directed Constable W. II. Allen to escort the witness from the court-room, but when ordered to follow that officer she did not move. Two men of her own color were then to!d to carry her out of the room. While in the act of carrying her out it was ob served that she was in a helpless condi tion. She had beeu paralyzed in every part, her limbs were motionless, her tongue had no power, aud it soon be came apparent to all present that the hand of the Almighty had been laid heavily upon her. For two hours or thereabouts the woman remained in this passive state, after which she was placed in a wagon and conveyed to her home. She never moved or spoke afterward, but on Saturday evening she expired, no antidote applied during the interval having availed in affording the slightest relief. The inc dent is verified by 'Squire Allen, before whom the woman appeared, and also by a number of per sons present at the time of its occur rence. Memphis Cur.Louhcille Courier Jo umal. An exchange asks: "What is Pe troleum?" It is a very easy method ot getting rid of fire-kindling servant. Marathon Independent. The Pea Wc'iil. The pea weevil ii so destructive in very part of the United Stutu- except, perirtps, from Centnl Wise itisiu north, a-5 to have m st seriously inter fered w: h the ciltiva'ion of tim pea -as a seed r food crop. Hence the ino,t of our seed .uid foad pots are riised in C.inad i, ami corresponding latitudes where the season is too short or too cold for in. insect, the ravages ot which occur muic freely as we approach the trooics. This in-ect is one of the snout beetle', and closely allied to the cuculio,and no means have yt b.'cu found to stay its ravages. The egs .ire laid on the pods of the young iipa. to w'lieh they are fas tened by a vi-cid fluid. Tin insects work at night and on dark, c! ti h days, and the eggs hatching, t'i. minute' worm finds its way through ih. pod and into the peas, upon which it IV mIs, avoid ing, ho wevrr. the g'rm, so that a pea may de nearly e.iton mit a. to its meat, and yet su I retai i tin :.owcr of nation, alth iigh weak. ffdrml. o If the p as. as oo as gathered, are threshed, aud dried at a temperature of 140 degrees, the youutr ins 'els are said to bo killed, but the seed will not germi nate. Imiu.'r-ion of the dry peas in scalding water for 100 seconds is said to kill the pupa without injury to the pea. An immerjion of about threo minutes totally destroys germination of the pea. Late-sown pe is usually escape the attacks of the insert, but the crop is then liable to mildew in the We it. So far, it must be confessed, no cer tain practical means have been found to subdue the insect, and it is now feared the allied weevil lintchus Fatx?) which attacks tho bean, will create great loss in this crop. In fact the weevil family curculionidu:), or snout beetles, one of the largest families in the order of bee tles, and comprising over 10,000 distinot and described species, and preying upon all grain, legumes, fruits, and nuts, are the most difficult to check of any of the destructive insects As to effective means for killing all insects infesting seeds, the weevil tribe generally, we have lately seen the bisulphide of carbon recommended. It certainly is deadly.and a small quantity poured in the bottom of a grain bin would permeate the whole mass. Half a pint of the liquid is said to be sufficient for fifty to 100 bushels of grain, since it is both volatile and penetrating. The Miller advises placing the chemical in connection with the grain, in order to got it duly in the bottom of the bin, as follows: Take a hollow iron cylinder a gas pipe will do well and fit into it a wood en rod, whioh shall be a littlo longer than the iron tube. One end of the rod is to be made sharp ; now place the rod inside the tube, and with the sharp end down force them both to the bottom of the grain ; then, having withdrawn the rod, turn in the liquid through the tube, which should be pulled out. The inseot icido, of course. Is left at the bottom of the grain, and boing ven volatile, soon diffuses through the mass and oonverts the bin into au insect cemetery. Prairie Farmer. Liability of Contagion. M. Hillairet, in the name of a com mission romp'ts'ed of MM. H. Roger, Bergeron and Hil'airet, rc.id before the Academie de Medecine a report in reply to the inquiry addressed to the Academy bj the Minister of Public Instruction, as to how long a pupil affected with a contagious disease should be kept away from school. The report considered the following diseases : Varicella, variola, scarlatina, rubeola, mumps and diphtheria, and the conclusions are as follows : Varicella, whose progress is often ir regular, may require ten or twelve days for the fall of the crusts. The isolation should be about twenty-five days. Variola has prodromic period of three to four days; four or five days for erup tion : three or four days of suppuration desiecation requires three days ; fall of the crusts, six days. Then comes a period of furfuraceous desquamation without definite limit. Isolation should not be less than forty days. In scarlatina the period of invasion occupies . from six to forty-eight hours, or exceptionally three days ;the eruption is completed in from live to eight days; desquamation commences on the four teenth Qr fifteenth day and lasts from fifteen to twenty-six days. Isolation should last forty days. Rubeola has a prodromic period of three to four days ; exceptionally, from six to eight or even twelve days ; the eruption is completed in twelve or forty eight hours, then it declines for twenty four hours; desquamation lasts from eight to fifteen days. Isolation for forty days will be sufficient. Mumps, as a rule, has a duration in ordinary cases of six days. Convales cence lasts from six to seven days. If any complication of metastasis occurs it lasts usually about nine days. Isola tion for twenty-five days Is sufficient. The duration of diphtheria is very va riable, but isolation should be maintained. for at least forty 'layt The commission consequently pro pose tho adoption of the following meas ures: 1. Pupils affected with chicken-pox, small-pox, scarlet fevpr. measles, mumps or diphtheria should be strictly isolated from their comrados. 2, For small-pox, scarlet fever, mea sles and diphtheria isolation should not be shorter than forty days; for chiokon pox and mumps, twenty-five days is enough. S. Isolation should last until after the patient has been bathed. 4. Tho clothing worn by the patient at the time he was taken sick should be subjected to a temperature of 90 deg. C. (194 Fahr.) and to sulphur vapor, and then well scouted. 5. The bedding, curtains and furni ture of the sick-room should be thor oughly disinfected, washed and aired. 6. The pupil of a school, after recov ery from one of the above contagious diseases, should not be readmitted to the school unless furnished with the certifi cate of a physician that the above pre cautions have been observed. These conclusions were adopted by the Acaderav. Medic ti Xetrs. Snakes as Troat Catchers. Mr. George W. Morris, of Bridge, water, thinks fishermen had hotter go into the snake-killing business along the brooks if thoy wish to have any trout fishing. The other day, while he was at work near a brook near the Bridge water and Roxbury line, the cries of a man m the field close by attracted his attention, and going to his help he found a very large water snake, as saucy as you please, jumping at the man. The snake was 'disposed of, and, noticing that it had something inside of it, he pressed upon the snake with his foot, and a trout, which was about six inohes long, appeared in view. Altogether he forced three good-sized trout from the snake, the last one being pretty well gone. At another time, as Mr. Morris was passing along the bank of a brook, he saw a large water snake glide from the roots of a tree into the water. He thought nothing of it at first, as he sup-1 posed the snake had disappeared be- ' cause of his approach, but soon there was a commotion in the water, and looking down into the pool, where a number of stickers had gathered, he saw that one of them hid been caught , in the head by the snake and was whip- j ping ine water wun its tau at a tre mendous rate. The snake succeeded iu landing its prey, when It was killed, and the sucker, whioh appeared to be unharmed, was spt free by Mr. Morris. New Milford (.) Gazette. SCIENCE AM) INDUSTRY. Dr. IsadorKitsee, of Cincinnati, his patented a device for disc -vering fire- 1 damp in mines before the miners enter them. Electricity is used to fiue little pieces of metal at various points in a mine, and it an expl--.iou of damp occurs I a bell is rung. A'. Y. Pot. I Spirits of turpeUine is now mul from sawdust and iefuse of the v mill. It is extracted by a swe itin process, and yield fourteen gilloiuof spirits, three to tour gallons of resin, and a quantity of tar per cord. Tho spirits produced h:is a diiforent odor from that produced by distillation. The Journal uf Science says that at I the soiree of the "- ciety of Chemical j Industry, held at Owens College, Mr. Fletcher, of Warrington, Eng., d mon- strated the possibilitv of the combustion of gas without visible ll ine, the heat obtained from a quarter-inch gas-pipe being sufficient to fuse iron into drops. A gun invented bv a man inRiplcv, Miss., is, if it is what it is claimed to be. one of the most wonderful inventions of the age. It oii be fired from ten to twenty thousand tim-s a minute, can bo elevated or depiessed or turned, to tho right or left, incline 1 to c ver the slope of a.hill, contracted so as to bring the fire to bear on one spot or expanded to cover a wide area, and all with the great est ease and in the simp'est manner, by merely turning a crank. Chieauo Time. It is aid that alcohol equal to that mule from grain can be pioduoed from acorns. The acorns are freed from the shell and ground finely ; then they aro mashed with malt and allowed to fer ment. Acorns contain about 20 per cent, of starch ami IS per cent, of glu ten. They would be a valuable article for human food if it were not for the tannic acid (about 3 per cent.) which they contain. Vast quantitias which go to waste every year, where hogs aro not fed in the woods, might be gathered by boys and converted into alcohol for uso in the arts, thus freeing an equivalent amount of grain for ue as food. Considerable progress is being made in reviving the mining industries of tho Isthmus of Panama. For many ears its mines exeited the ouptdity of Span iards and buccanpers. Indian and ne gro slaves were made to work iu quart, and placer bv the most primitive proc esses, and almost entirely without ma chinery, but their labors were very pro ductive, according to tradition. It is centuries, however, since most of the mines were abandoned. Some were worked O'tt, others were uot rich enough to pay with hired labor, and all required an investment of capital which the un settled condition of the country, and especially the fear all foreigners enter ' amed for isthmus fever, effectually pre vented from being made. .V. Y. Sun. An impetus has been given to the nickel indii3tryby the improved process es of making it malleable. Many useful is well as ornamental articles are now m.tde of this material. N.ckel table iteusils especially are in great favor abroad. This clas-" of "goods is now be mg manufactured largely in Prussia, mil is p'referred to similar articles of other materials. The hardness of the net il renders it capable of receiving a hih polish, which is not readily in iured by friction of any usual kind"; on tccount, too, of the peculiar smoothness f the surface, matters do not adhere firmly to it, and cleaning requires but ittle attention or effort. It also pos- esses the advantage of not tarnishing, like some other sub-tances, when fre quently used. Chic 1 w Tribune. PITH AXI) l'OIXT. I'll make you dance," said an irate mother, pursuing an erring son, slipper in hand. "Then," remarked the juve nile, "we shall have a bawl.-" It is the easiest thing in the world to tell a man of braius from a fool, half a square off a man of brains never acts as if he owned the whole street. Said a little daughter: "Oh, mam ma, I do love Sunday so much." "I am glad you do, my darling; but why do you love the Sabbath so much?" "Oh. because we have fiss-balls for breakfast." Once, when papa was carrying Ava across an icy .spot, he slipped a little several times. Ava tightened her wee arms around his neck. "I'll hold you up just as tight, papa," said she, "and then you won't fall down." "Confound those cats!" exclaimed old Xylu, as he reached for his gun and crept stealthily toward the back window. "Why, those are not cats," calmly re plied his wiser seven-eighths; "it is only our new church choir, practicing for to morrow," N. Y. Commercial. "See heah, ole woman, dis heah water's done got flip-skippers in't," said Uncle Mose, as the old lady passed him a blue,decorated mm; with the han dle broken off. "I'm, s'pose'n devis; dey won't hurt yo' carcas much, nohow. Go 'long; doan' reoken dcy'll be alibe w'on yo' dune swallered 'em, do yo' ? Drink t it down, niggah, drinkt it down. Yo's gettin' pow'ful techy." Texan Oddities. The elder Weller.of facetious mem ory, expressed himself strongly on the -iibject of widows. There be people in this land of tho attorney and home of the breach of promise suit who are dis posed to side with him. "Come," said a Cincinnati man, showing a Chicago friend the institutions of the city,"come, let us go and see the Widows' Home." "Not much," cried the terrified .visi tor. "I saw a widow home once and it cost me .$10,000 for alleged breach of promise. No, sir. Send the widows home in a hack." N. Y. Herald. "Do they play tunes on fish horns," Medora? Cortainly they do. They play scales. They also make sounds. One dollar for information, please. No, pay hpre. Never leave any money at the business office. Why not? Well, if yon knew what a rastle the editor had with he business mana ger every rent day you wouldn't ask "Why not?" Thanks, but there's fifty cents more now for answering the ques tion about the business manager. The lever that moves the world has to be kept greased, some way. Burlington llaivleye. Water Finders. One of those individuals who poses what used to be called an impossible power of detecting water beneath the surface by the turning of a forked witch hazel or apple-tree twig in his hands when passing over the locality where water was desired has made his appear ance on Cape Cod. A Frovincetown man says that the "water finder" is quite old and nearly blind. He locates water for well-diggers, or pretends to, simplvby moving about over the surface with his eye totally blinded. He pre tends to give also about the number of feet below the surface at which the wa ter will be found. It is said that the old water finder is a farmer and a lime burner; also, that he ha" been employed at Beverly and Newport at 8 per day this season, and succeed"d in Inciting water; also, that he succeeded in de tecting the presence of metals." Inves tigation shows that a person somewhat answering this description ha3 been quite successful in locating water veins this season along the line of the Eastern Railroad, and that there are others in New England who have fully shown themselves posse sed of the .same "pow er of divination." In upper New Hamp shire wells are often located by such means. Dayton HeraVl. Ninety million postage stamps, worth $2,550,000, are sold annually KENDALL'S THE MOST Si CCES-FUL JIKMEDY EVhi: ii-; OV KENDALL'S fMlVflt.A SVB BijfciMgffiiSjFHy : ei:ki; ai r i I CEKi A IX IN 1 I'Psi rcii'ifi.-frr-.i AND DOES NOT l.LISTER. From COL. X,. T. FOSTER. Ynunsstimn, Ohio, May lilth. 1380. B. .1. Kendall ifc Co.. (U-ut-: I had a vrr valu.tldo II:imbI,-toi:i:tti colt which I piized verv highly, lie had a l.ire bone spavin on one joint and a small one on tne other, which made bim very lame; I leid him under the charge of two veterinary sunrooiis who ftilel to cure him. I was one 1l.1v rctiMm; the advertisement of Ken dall'H Sp n in Cure in lhc Chicago Express. I determim d st once to trv it, ami ot our diugL'isis here to send for it. they ordeied three bottle. I took tbem'all and thou'-ut I won id give it a thorough tri-il, I used it according to directions and the fourth dav the colt ceased to be Jatne. and the lumps had disappeared. I used but one bottle aitd the colts limbs are -is free from lumps and as smooth as inv hoise in the state H-is entirely cured. Theeuiewai so remarkable that I let two of mv nei"hbora have the remaining two butties who are now uiii; it. " Very respectful!, L.T. FOl'KU. FROM THE ONEONTA PRESS, N. Y. , - Oneonta, New York, .1 in. Uth list Early last summer Messrs-. IS. .1. KVtidal! ,t Co., of KiiDhurs!i Falls Vt mule contract v ilk the publishers of the Press for a h ilf column advertisement' for on? v eiir setting lorth the merits . f Kendall's Sp iv in Cure. At the same tiuie we secured from the tin-i a quantity of books, entitled Dr. Kent! ill's Treatise on the Horse and kis Disease-, which we are giving to advance nixinsr subscribers m th- .,., iiretni tm About the time the advertisement lirt appeared in this paper Mr I (i Seller merkorn. w ho resides near t oilier, had a sp t ined horse He read the 'advertise uient and concluded to test the etlicaey of the reined v. although his friends juhei! at hiscrcduatity. He bought a bottle of Kendall's s-.jMVjn f lire aud commenced uVin" it on the horse in accordance with the directions, and he informed us this week Hi it it effected such a complete cure that an expert horseman, who examined the inimit recently cou'il lind no trace cdthe spi i or t. pi ue where i' h id been located Mr .- liermerlii.ru k.i since seemed a copy of KenthU's Treatise on the Horse ui.l hi Diseas s w hieh he prizes e.v highlv and would be loth to j. irt with at nnv i.rice pi ov tiled he could not obtain another copv. sounuh loi -idvertisiii-'reli thleaVtcle KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE. Columbi 1:1-1, Ohio. Dee 17th Kx It. .1. Kendall A Co.. (I. nts- You will tind below a recommendation iroin i.r express,,,;,,,. v, ,ell Komi ,11'- Spain Cure and fin. I all who use it are !,. ,,ed viiii. it. ion 111 1 send us more ulveriisimj matter, and a few nice eircN uith m,rillr.! on them. CON'MIY .V KIM; B..I. Kendall Co.. Cents--1 am Using :ol,r Spavin Cure for a bone i.avm (bought ot Ci.nley.v. h :,,. l)i uggists. Columbia,, ,, Ohio.) I tint! it jus the thin- t . cuieasp-,iii: the I imenes, h is all telt ni ,.,re, icd bv further Use , the eu?e 1 look lor the Mimp to Ieive. Tin- one bottlt Was worth to me ten times the cost Yours truli, FKAN'K I5KI.I.. KENDALL'S II 01 at tin LsvM'um.?. ne ..vii using te entiniy cured Iionr ,..iii.i. One boti luincb. -Milwaukee, Wi., Ian. SU, Is,s II.. I. Kindali.fc Co., Cents: I have the highest opinion of Kend ill's s,,., n, "tire I hud it eijt:i!l uood to, manv other troubles named bv ion, and narticiil irlv tor -iuvr "n - "ciicu l " Your KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE. Kendall's Spavin Cure is s,,re in its ellects, nli! in its actum is it does not blister, yet it is penetrating and powerful to reach .mv dcp seated piin or to re move any bony growth or anv other enlargement :i used for several tins ,. ., spavins, splints, callous, sprains, swelling, anv lameiies- and all ei.I u'enieiits ot the joints or limbs, or rlii 11111 itisin in nun and tor anv purpose for which"-! liniment is ued for man orbeast. It is now known to !. the best hi,lm -nt t r mm 'ever use acting mild yt t certain in its ell.-cls. t ,, ,,M..l 111 hilt strength with j, rtect s,f.t at all seasons of the year. ' Send address for Illustrated Circular, which we think gives positive proot ofiM virtues. No remedy has met with such unqualified success to our knowledge Tor beast as well as mm. Price $1 per bottle, or siv bottles tor $.". ., ... . t , , , ALL DRUGGISTS have it or can get it for you. or it will be sent to any address oil leceipt ot pi ice, bv the piopi trtois J 18 Dr. II. J. KENDALL ic CO, k-iosluirg Falls,' Vermont. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. TRAVEL ONLY VIA THE KNOWN AS VOlt ALL POINT EAST AND WEST. Daily Express Trains are now run to Chicago, Omaha & Denver Via LINCOLN, AND BETVVKKN KiinsiiNCil, At-Iiison A: Heaver. 2:llti:S 'l'ltAI. Ikuily -BBTWBBN- OMAIIA AND LINCOLN. All Through Trains are equipped with new and elegant Pullman Palace Cars, Day Coaches and l.iggige ami Express Cars of the latest designs. Through Tickets at Lowest Rates Are on sale at all principal M.itions, where passengers can obtain inform tlioii .n to Koutcs, Kates and Connections, and can secure Sleeping-Car aceoiiiinod itlous. Quick Time, Sure Connections, No Delays, As trains run to and from Tnion Depots at all prim-ipal points. I. N. Kuvti. Uen'I T'k't A'gt, tSJy . Omaha, .Nkh. LAND, FARMS, AND CITYTROPERTY I!0R SALE, AT TIIE Union Pacfic Land Office, On Long Time and lov; rate of Interest. All wishing to buy Hail Road Lands or Improved Farms will tind it to their advautage to call at the L. I. Land Office before lookin elsewhere as I make 11 specialty of buying and .selling lands on commission; all persons wish ing to sell farms or unimproved land will find it to their advantage 'o leave their lands with inc for sale, as my fa cilities for atfecting sale are unsur passed. I am prepared to make tina! proof for all parties wishing to get a patent for their homesteads. tSfllenry Cortle, Clerk, writes and speaks (ii rman. SAMUEL C. SMITH, Aft. t. I Land Derurtment. i;2I-y COLUMBUS, NEB I $66i week in your own town. ?" i Outlit free. No risk. Kverv- m: new. ( anital not re-1 diiired. We will lurnish you everything. Many are making fortunes I Ladies make as much as men. and bo 1 and girlt make great pay. Reader, if' you warn a nusiness ai winm im tan make great pay all the time vou work, wntefor particulars to II. IIallktt & Co., Portland, llaine. 4jan-y MMM SPA VIN CUEE I AI.X) A i 1-LLhNT HK HITMAN F L K S II ! PROOF BELOW jqr SPA VIN CURE. uoenesier. liui.. Nov. :;uti Issj, i: .1. Kendall .V- Co.. Cents: -pic is,- M.,j is a -. ppii .. advertising m itlei f..r Ki n dai! s p i i . Cure. It has .1 good s ,le here .v gives the l. st of s-it,.sf.u uoii. Ot all we h ive sold we have yet to learn the tirst unlavori bk report. Verv respeettullv. I. DVVOX.vaON Winthrop. Iowa. Nov.i'.'Id. sn It. .) Kendall ,t Co., Cents:-K closed ,)lease tind ". cents for your tre-itise on ih.- your Spavin Cure on oneot mv hoia.-s tor the laineneis and lomovcd most all the . . .j ---. ...., cm us a pcciiiiiy, I.KKKO M. CIJAHAM. t'rv tru!, . F. HIMHLEY. 18T0. 1882. TIIK jolaii(bus SJonnral Is conducted as a FAMILY NEWSPAPER, Devoted to the best mutual inter ests of its readers and iu publish ers. Published at Columbus. IM-itte county, the centre of the agrit 11! tural portion of Nebraska, it is rest! by hundreds of people east ulioaru looking towards Nebraska as their fnture homi. Its subscribers in Nebraska are the staunch, -olid portion of the community, as is evidenced by the fact that the Juukn.u. has never contained a "dun" against them, anJ by the othor fact that ADVERTISING In its columns always brings Its reward. Uusiness is business, ami those who wish to reach the solid people of Central Nebraska will tind the columns of the .IoukNal a splendid medium. JOB WORK Of all kinds neatly and ouickly done, at fair price. This species of printing is nearlv alwavs want ed in a hurry, and, knowing this fact, we have so provided for it that we can furnish envelopes, let ter heads, bill heads, circulars, postern, etc., etc., on very short notice, and promptly on time a we promise. 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