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liumtcaUci WH SLYKE ,r ~<v->r^fFy «/ T| ^;r4T £ Editor antf PublUhsr. |€cH*KRT, ILLINOIS WINTER TWIL1G CLINTON SCOT.^ARO. Pfsf. % v r.v w b,- y f. Tb« silent onowflakes glance and ;1WT Adown the chilly northern air; ' IBM West has thrown its dying bnom ~t Athwart the forest gray and bai!i»» J4 f \ And bow a gradualtiimness veils e . *'; The wintry landscape near and And while the windy daylight pa'M Out glimmers clear a single star. Lulled liy tbe so'ind of tinkling string* Where "nimble fingers weave their cpell, I qaite forget the north that sttng* . wit i out the cosy oriel. And on the wings of music borne, ;3jj •\gl'">w with floods of colli, f see ? j The blue of skies t hat rarelv mou«|' Arch o'er the slopes < f 1 taly. ^ The melody seems wafted Town From laureled heights where roan blow, That shimmer like au eme>altl crow, Abo^e embowered Bellagid. • • * " • • : f ' A molten sapphire commo lies, ? And opal saila across it»kim; Green stair on stair the mountain* *|M And cut the calm horizon's rim. ' "" Allfl'r.« nr. {lias the rart urine Itrafat ! Once more the deepening •itink 1 Ms; the • strike tlip silent cnords again, ' U bat I may dreum of Italy. v SILVESTER'S WIFE. £•*• ' \ f".' *• i\ 'S'- •-* 0W : I * ^ J !* - '* Th« prisoner was mtsH, handsome' S\ ~ tolonist, with dark, gleaming eyes, ^rr^rSjlaclc beard, and a skin, the paleness & • // fcf which had been ripened into swarthngss by the tierce African sun. lie was erect and fearless: he threw a f*~'r ' ',;v4 Iflance of defiance at his enemies, he I f -K fx*?. podded and smiled at his friends, and •. " -then, as the door of a private en- ranoe to the body of the court op^ntd, * „ and a figure draped in purest white, 5,," " )? - with bright golden hair rippling in IX< * • profusion over the shapely shoulders, sKv' ^ glided in softly and quiet like a sun %j r) Cv- Iteaiu from the free world outside, he /,/*• leaned over the rail which interposed •?'*. i^Cietween him and liberty, and p*> ' " tioarsely whispered her name--the '•* .^earest name in the world to him. |F? « j, | It was Sylvester's wife. She re- $T . *'/•- ;$ponded quickly with a look more ; Eloquent than words; and then the fe '" »' '/ prisoner drew himself up to his full jJi eight, folded his arms, listened in­ tently as the clerk of the court, an • ;«id friend with whom he had spent /{Hinany a roystering evening in his ' liacbelor days, droned through the Indictment, and in a clear voice re-" blazed witn passion. The French­ man tried to elude hire, but in a mo­ ment Dirk had dashed him to the floor, and was standing over him rag­ ing with fury. A silence fell on the> cpmpany standing around the fallen Frenchman, and as he Rlunk away into a side room, where the rattle of the dice went on all day long and far into the night, no one found so much as a word to throw after him. I met Dirk on several occasions af­ ter this curious episode, but, as if by mutual consent, We avoided the sub­ ject. One night, however, when the moon was sailing majestically over- tread and lighting up thedusty road be­ tween "the Pan" and Kimberly with a Hood of lambent light. I was riding slowly into camp when I heard the i it's dark enough! rapid pattering of horse's hoofs be- j pining for freedom; hind me, and turning in the saddle nor, stepping to tne nttle cuoboard, turned the key and took out a little blue packet "I have had Xo forbid Mrs. Syl- vester'st \islts,"ih«> said, " and when I tell you the reason 1 think you will agree that 1 am right in sending Dirk to Cape Town. You see, he seemed to expcct, when the reprieve came, that he would be set at liberty; so did she, hut^ as you know, the death sentence has only been com­ muted to imprisonment for life, and how on earth they , managed to per­ suade the governor to do that I can't tell. Well, since that has been made plain to Dirk he has been a changed man. He talks hopelessly of his fu­ ture--and Uod knows, poor fellow, -he seems to be he savs the con yict's dress clings to him like cere confronted and angry, Dirk, anl without a word of greeting plunged into the subject up­ permost in his mind. - "Do you know, old fellow, that rascally little Frenchman has been repeating his lies about being»intl- mate with my wife in Paris before she came out here? T?ot only that, but he says he has her minature set. in gold which shegnve him. The un­ mitigated liar! If 1 find time I shall canter over to liis cabin the other side of the mine to-night, and if he can't produce that souvenir it will go hard with him. If he does it won t be in his possession long!" "Don't do anything rash, Dirk. Remember there is another to think of beside yourself,'? 1 said. " "That's what bothers me, old fel­ low," he replied; and then reining in his horse, and jogging along by mv side, he told me about his trouble. It appeared his wife denied any intimacy with the Frenchman, but stated that her father tried to force her to accept his attentions to her in the old days when he was a half- starved ballet master, and she a struggling aspirant at a1 Paris the­ ater. . The miniuture was a new feat­ ure in the story, and Dirk firmly be­ lieved it to be a myth, but was bent upon finding out whether it was or not. * After a while he grew calmer, and paid more attention to my entreaties that he should proceed with caution. At parting he shook me by the hand, and his last words, shouted to me as he galloped off at the turning for The Oasis were-- "I won't trouble the 'little French­ man to-night, but let him kcepoutof my way!" The next morn i n? the body ot ,|)lied to the charseof wilful murder, j jujes LaCTOiI was found lyiIU on the ' "Not guilty! i p W ^ Crown. Protector, in slow and * ^ (neasured tones began to sketch the story of thecrime: the Judge loung- W:Md back in his chair ani leisurely Bought for the clean pages in .f..,.,* Jiis record book; the counsel for the defence pusfied his wig back from his- V . ,perspiring brow, and bunted out a a. ^ "/^reference in ah almost forgotten ^ ^'Vork of the Roman Dutch law; the Spectators hushed their murmuring; J ; ; the punkah swayed regularly tu and Jro overhead, and Sylvester's wife, " fitting there in the well of the sti- V V filing court, with her sweet blue eyes ;// .rivited on the prisoner, and her luxu- . y V^-iant locks rising and falling with the He was agitated j cloth, and tjie other day just after his wife had visited hi in. I saw such a queer look in his eye that I quietly turned over his things. At the bot­ tom of the basket of, -comforts' she had brought him I found this." He opened the pack and poured out bsfore my eyes a whitish powder. ; "VVellV" I said interrogatively. . ••Poison!" he briefly replied, as be swept the powder back into the packet. "And now," he &dded, "don't think me bard If I send „IKrk t o C a c e K • ! < • • > .-;.r x- •• *. ; • *, • « There was M berley; the streets were crowded with men and women whose faces bespoke every kindly emotion, from despair­ ing rage to rejoicing malice; while hither and thither among the thrqng in the market square rode officials in the dark blue uniform of the Capo Civil Service. At length there was acloud of dust in the Transvaal road; the crowd swaved and parted, and at a hard galop two heavily laden mule wagons passed through the*urging ranks and halted tor the escort to close round. A wotul freight those wagons bore, a load of human misery; a company of wretched convicts, into whosesoul the iron of captivity had already en­ tered; a consignment of baffled, trapped and forsaken seekers after illicit wealth. Youth and age were there, and the galling fetters bound all together iu the links of a com­ mon despair. Chained as they were, like wild beasts, some stood up and in agonized voice called upon friend, wife, and child, who answered not; while others, crouching piteouslv in the corner of the rude conveyance, J bowed their heads between their I trembling hands and sought to keep | out the light of a sun which Jiad j become hateful to them. } Suddenly I caught sight of Dirk | Sylvester. He was silting on the ! side of the foremost wagon, his arms i j folded across his'chest, and a look of | eager expectation on his finely moukle:! face, thin and pale with confinement and suffering. I called to him, but he heard not; his gaze seem­ ed fixed on some far-away object, and by the side of her husband In the cfemetery, white with many a memo­ rial stone to ruined hopes, lives "•recked and shattered, and affections sundered by the cruel hand ot death, a Kafir, sentenced to the extreme penalty of the law for an atrocious murder, confessed that he, and he alone, was the cause of the french­ man's tragic end. He had watched, through the half- drawn blind, the miserable man toy­ ing with a golden chain to which a miniature was attached, and, his cu­ pidity fired by the sight,crept on him unawares and tried to wrest it from him. A, struggle ensued; the Kafir snatched a revolver from the French­ man's hand :m:i shot him; then, fear­ ing discovery, fle:l with only the min­ iature in his possession. The size of the bullet and spoor were coincidences only; but there is one mystery which will never be cleared upi Was the miniature that of Sylvester'^ wife?--Waverly Maga­ zine." TWAS EMMA ABBOTT'S WAY. me see but the figure in and the floor of his cabin."with an ugly hole in the left temple. In one hand he trrasped tightly part of the gold chain and the swivel of a minature. There was the fresh spoor of a horse not far from the door, and the bullet found in the brain fitted pirk's revolver tb a nicety. It was not long before Dirk was in custody, and the case looked dark against him. His threat to shoot the \ a smile played on his lips. irtiflcial breeze, looked to me even 1 stron2. Frenchman was well "emembered; his excited demeanor in Hali's bar at i the Pan, when the news of the j Frenchman's reiterated assertion of a former intimacy with his wife was brought to him was commented upon, and the circumstantial evidence was f?TJ •' Bl0re beautiful than two years before, ^ when she nightly ravishe.l the hearts -of susceptible diggers in the make-' ishift theater in the Dutoitspan road. x fyr i In those memorable bygone days $ . tshe was Mademoiselle Marie La Cour. add the star of a traveling theatrical company, which visited the diamond , fields. In the zenith of her fame she •. > married Dirk Sylvester, and if ever a h '"Vi ,7 V .XudD deserved his bride he did, for !/;•< 'r %is passion wore him almost to a • IV'" shadow, and his dark eyes gleamed s^^-'t^^Jiaagerously If a rifal presumed as Mjsriinuch as to speak to her. And before •* 4Dirk came upon the scefie there were / r- rivals in plenty; but though Marie ' and he accounted for the fact that lie , did not reach home for nearly an hour ! after leaving me by saying that, feel­ ing hot and excitcJ, he went lor a ! scamper over the veldt, and the ; beauty of the moonlight caused him , to stay out longer than he intended, j He pressed me to tell all 1 knew about the matter, and I reluctantly did so, making the most of his ex- ! pressed determination on leaving me j not to visit the Frenchman that even- | ing | The trial dragged on until late in U aoToveQ accented'3their^dlamtfhds' 'thG ni"ht' a?d at 12 * t!f Stewart spent Saturday ana en accepted their diamonds, came into the court with the vc 1 J nmi^uu .f"*-lc~s»he laughed openly at all o- them Dirk was the proprietor of one 6t ?•yy. the richest claims at the New Rush, ji^. and the moment he and Marie met fy the host of more or less hopeful i-.uit- ; j)jrk stood up to l)e sentenced ors saw their chances were over. She ) death, or the calm, proud ; • -seemed to have fallen in love with -sliim quite as much as he had with , " her. and would have married him ; long .before she did but that n6r fathertbesought her to continue on the stage for his bene tit. At length the old gentleman drank himself into .the Carnarvon Hospital, and only which he heard his doom. ••Mark my words, boys, Sylveste wife will get him reprieved." The speaker was lounging at counter of the Yellow Bar in Transvaal road, and his words eVo J came out thence to occupy one of the : a murmur" of sympathy. Ever t graves wtiich are always yawning, | the conviction efforts had been L- ready dug in the Kimberly cemetery. IU). in all directions to prevent the drea for victims to fever and alcohol:/ind sefttence of the law being carried out Jthen Marie La Cour became to us and and Sylvester's wife had become *hc all our world "Sylvester's wife." : heroine of Jhe camp. There were few They took a Tittle villa* at tne1 ex- j who did not believe that he shot the tremity of the Dutoitspan road; a j Frenchman, but why should he die I'.ervt veranda-surrounded residence, i for an offence which was light corn- screened from the dust and heat bv | pared with some which lay quite easily tall blue gums^and half covered with ' on the consciences of not a few of the creepers and tropical flowers. After : inhabitants of Kimberiey? ; that we saw little of the once so well As the hum of approval subsided knowo Marie La Cour, Occasionally, ! some one directed our attention to a at long intervals they would invite a | lady walking rapidly in^,he direction few bachelor friends--myself included j --to witness their bliss, and on such e v e t ^ U L ' s t h e g r e a t b i ^ i f r o g s w h i c h j i n v a d e d t h e g a r d e n o f " T h e O a s i s , " j as their place was rightly named, i Would bush their vile- croaking as 1 Sylvester's wife trilled forth some | gay chansonette to the accompani-! inent of tho Broadwood which Dirk ; a telegram from Cape Town, cpeciijllv inipbrted from Europe for ' cheers for Sylvester's wife!" " net. or sometimes the happy pair would ride ovei to a picnic on the banks of the meandering Modeler River.and Mr.-. Sylvester would deign of the jail. We rccosrnized her at once and respectfully saluted as she drew near. She stopped for a mo­ ment and Spoke to the foremost man, who. as she hurried on gave a great shout. i "Hurrah!" he cried. "DirK is re­ prieved! The little lady has just had 1 doubt if the attention was pleas­ ing, but the kindly jailor told nie that she smiled for the first time since Dirk's conviction as that cheer r-,c to astonish us with the feats of m a r k s m a n s h i p w h i c h s n e c o u l d a c - j complish with the pretty lfttle re- I volver*-ivory handled and chased' ^Vith*old, which Dirk had given her. j One night, as I strolled into the Alb«rt saloon for a game of billiards. I found a knot of diggers gathered around a new arrival--a handsome little Frenchman who had come to the Fields to look after some claims in which a Parisian firm had in- i next lot of I. D. ve-ted. He was laughing conceit- uiond Buyers) ediy, and stroking his carefully waxed imperial with a self-satisfied j air when Dirk came in, and was im­ mediately hailed by a man who was no rriend of his -- the manager of some ground which was always tum­ bling into Dirk'f claim and smashing bi,< gear. 1 dkl not hear exactly what tie said, tout my at tentieon was suddenly jar- reached her ears, just as she stepped into the prison yard. ' Three weeks' afterward I had oc­ casion to call on the governor of the jail, and as we sat in his cool little room, "discussing his Martell and smoking his Boer tobacco -he looked up suddenly with a troubled air and said.-- "By the by, do'You know that Dirk Sylvester goes to Cap.3 Town with the And the Car Rattled On.) The car stopped with the tisiial lurch, and the conductor assisted to the platform a tall lady, evidently young, but whose face was hidden by the heavy folds of a long craf>e veil. Her gown and gloves were of the same sombre hue as the veil.. She was followed by a little girl, also dressed in black. As the car started 00 its way. down town the lady and the little girl took seats in the cor­ ner. Neither spoke for some time- Then the little girl looked up, and in a voice that was heard above the rat­ tle of the car exclaimed.-- "Mamma"' '•Yes, my dear." ••I want to see papa." "Hush, dearest," and a biack- gloved hand reached over and took one of the tiny hands of the child. Then there was silence for a min­ ute. Suddenly the childish voice was heard again. "But I do want to see papa. Why don't you let me see him?" . - •Don't, dariing, please don't," came the answer, as the head ol the little girl was tenderlv drawn over until It rested against the folds of the crape veil. "But why don't you let papa?" persisted the child. There was no answer, shrouded head of the black the corner was bent low black-gloved Jiand was reaching for something evidently hidden in the folds of the black gown. • "Mamma!" ^ "Yes, dear," answered a tremulous voice. , "Can I see papa to-night?'r Almost fiercely the little figure was drawn to that of the larger one, and, a whisper--more a sob--was heard to say, --' "Oh, Elsie dear, hush. Don't you know that papa lies way off there on Litchfield Hills? You can't see him to-night, darling, aqd may God help you and help me." And the car rattled on, but the big, portly man in the opposite corner turned about in his seat and looked steadily out of the window for several minutas. Ho Wasn't Kxalted; They were rehearsing for the wed- ding/ Tire organ had ceased its roar­ ing, and the bride and groom stood frith clasped hands before the altar. There was a stilinass throughout the sacred edifice, and the solemnity of the sanctuary exalted almost all the hearts of the group gathered at the chancel. The most notable exception was the heart of the professional master of ceremonies. It was not exalted to any apprec­ iable extent. "Do you take this woman to be--" The master of ceremonies critically contemplated the happy pair. "Your wedded -- don't squeeze hands--wife?" The groom's lips moved. "Don't open your mouth too wide." The groom looked soared and whis­ pered something.' "Look pleasant, please--do you take this man to l>2 your Wedded--• the chin a little higher--husband-- eves not quite so much obscured-- there." ! The bride trembled and gasped un- ; Intelligibly. , "Will you cherish, protect--a little j more on the right foot--and defend-- ; loo.c to the altar--until death doih-- | not quite so much bend iu the knee-- : part?" The groom nervously signified that he wouid. • "WiU you love--don't be thin King ; how your dress hangs--honor and-- j don't get too close to the groom-- J obey?" *-Yes," ventured the bride. | "Don't make the responses too con- 1 fidently--whom God hath joined let I no man--don't exchange glances--put | asunder." i The organ roared again. The party I wended its way from the church, but | the exaltation was in a measurd | abated. j Not Avail t l>le. i A writer in Harper's Magazine says j tliat Gen. Donaldson, himself a vet- I eran of the Mexican War, used to tell I an anecdote of Gen. Zachary Taylor, lance; he looked like the careless, i J he incident, occurred duririur hostili _ l happy Dirk of former days; the lines [ ties with Mexico, and while Gen. Three ] care and deep dull agony seemed I Baylor was ptesent at an advanced I to softerrand disappear from his face, j output. . ^ | He made a motion with his toft | A IVxan scout m the employ of the hand to his breast: with his right hind he pointed to the awful blue of the cloudless heaven, and then--a i thin stream of flame leaped from the j midst of the creepers, a sharp report i rang out upon the morning air, a puff j of smoke curled upward from OAs for Dirk himself, he utterly de­ nied going near the Frenchman's cabin on the night of the murder, J understand, but which seemed to have a wonderful effect on Dirk. I hurried on in advance of the calvalcadc toward The Oasis, which 1 knew it must pass on its way t:> the open veldt. I remembered that the Governor of the jail had'told me the night before that h6 had allowed a last interview before the fearful journey uo Cape Town, between man and wife, and that they spoke some words in-French, which he did not As I neared the gates'of The Oasis, i over which the blue gums.cast their ' shade, and where the sweet trailing I flowers were in their full autumnal j beauty, I saw Sylvester's wife stand­ ing motionless. She was attired in ' the plain white'dress she wore on the dav of the trial, and also when she crowned Dirk's dark hope* and ren­ dered him the envy of the bachelors of the Fields by becoming his owii. Her golden hair floated unheeded an came diet,-- "Guilty!" I shall never' forfcet the look mute agony on his wife's face h 'ion being his birthday, and they report way i very pleasant time. vc lap in Chicago. Miss Belle Rattera is visiting with riends in Chicago: The little folks gave Bertie Ford a sdr- >rise on Friday evening last, the occa- Our home talent will bring out a ramain the near fntare entitled "The oldier of Fortune." Mrs. John Schroder returned home from McHenry on Friday, after a two weeks visit there. Mrs. D. W. Thomas was on the sick list last week. Walter and Leon Helm bought a fln« ew cutter ol W. H. Ogbin last week. are crowd riSSned"*on through the eddying dust, till sud-* denly they caught a glimpse of the lonely watcher in the gateway. Thc/c wj^i not a man who did not know that the slight, pale woman standing with her hands clasped convulsively to­ gether, and her whole gaze concen­ trated as it were in one long look, was Sylvester's wife. Even the of­ ficials kqew his h story; they knew he was no midnight purchaser of stolen, gems, but only a passionate, helpless man; and, as if by instinct, the melancholy procession slowed arid paused before what was once the borne cf a pure and happy love. Dirk was standing now; the smile q:i his li'i* lit up his whole contcn- Hustling in low* Twenty-Five Tear* Ago --Her Onn Manager. Twenty-five years ago I was living In DeWitt, Iowa. One morning I was at my office, when a young gipl about sixteen years old, poorly clad, entered, and, first bidding me good morning, said: "I come to you to secure the Congregational Church, in which to give a concert this evening." It was so unexpected and the request was so strange from such a source that my manner must have betrayed my sur­ prise. Her quick eye detected it, for she immediately added: "lam travel­ ing alone; l domy own advertising; I am the only performer; my concert is both instrumental and vocal." This was said modestly but promptly,with self-assurance and in a business way. It challenged my respectand enlisted my sympathy. I asked her how she would advertise in so short a time. She replied that her mode was to se­ cure the names of as many persons as possible who would take an interest in such a concert and invite them to a free one, and then give a second concert to which she charged an ad­ mission of 25 cents,-and she expected those who were present at, the first would interest themselves to secure a good house at the second1. I let her have the church Tind gave her the names of those I thought would take an interest. My wife became much interested in her and spent the day in advertising the concert. She had a fair audience* and gave a very pleas­ ant and interesting entertainment. She repeated it the next evening, but the attendance was not large and the receipts were small. The ingratitude of those present the first night was very manifest In pilace of aiding her to a good house the second evening they remained away themselves and took no pains to encourage others to go. And those not invited to the first were mad and would not go to the second. I had suggested this danger to her when she first started her mode of advertising, but she said it was her way and had been suc-^ cessful elsewhere. But she had found a few friends who became much in­ terested in her. She was gointr to Maquoketa to give a concert and would return in a few days. We as­ sured her we would get a good house if she would give us another date,and to this she consented. But the last was another failure and did not meet expenses. However, the friends she had found paid her expenses at the hotel, remitted the charges for the church and presented her with a well filled purse. 1 met her a few months later with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lum- bard, who were making a concert tour through the State of Illinois. The lesson of the life of Miss Abbott is a rich heritage. The grand purpose that took possession of her soul and became the inspiration of her life and the base of the tongue. The tongue carried her to the very front of her is then seized between the finger and nmftkcainn whnh ia nncaihln t.n mKUk V* profession teaches what is possible to those who preserve and work to at­ tain a noble end.--Chicago Herald. United States Government, a man whb spoke nothing but Spanish, rode headlong into camp, and leaping to the ground rushed up to the (ieneral, whose uniform showed him to be an officer of high rank, and iu the most the ' excited manner began to ix>;>r forth a gateway, and Dirk Sylvester, with that strange, glad smile upon his lips, fell heavily forward, shot right through the heart by his wife! She never lived to take the trial torment of Spanish., Gen. Taylor, who knew nothing of any language but tnglish, w:»scum pletely taken aback, and so plainly did his face express his. feelings that indeed, she was unconscious from the ! a sentji on duty near by burst into a time when by one supreme act she B.'s?" (llucit Dia-! broke the fetters which were wearing i Dirk Sylvester's spirit down into the dust and ashes of a misers too keen for his endurance, till within a few minutes of her death. Then a new light shone In her fast ciosjng ,qy;es; she stretched out her arms as if to embrace a- viewless form, and with the Words, "Di(k! Dirk! Free forever, dear! Free, Dirk, free!" trembling i expressed my surprise, as I knew the governor had "the selecting of the prisoners to be transferred to the breakwater at Cape Tow'n and had heard that he-had.an idea of making Dick a clerk in the- Kiwiberley prison office. There was but little chance of his ever being a free man again, but it was somet hing that he should ! serve his weary years at Kimberley him rest?d by seeing Dirk make a bound j among fr'ends who could visit at the Frenchman and seize him by j and close .to his faithful wife, the thr at, while his evcj jfoirly i I mentioned this, ami |jbo on her lips, her soul went forth* re­ joicing qn the mvstic iourney to the. dark hereafter. laugh. Noticing this, the General frowned, atrJ called to the sentry; "Fellow, come here!" Trembling for the consequence of his ill-timed mirth, the ' solfiiei' obeyed. "Fellow," said the General, "do y6u know any one around here who can speak Spahish?*' ••Yes," replied the, abashed soldier, pointing to the scout: "that man does." back to the van to his perch on the rear car, whistles thrice on a tin or metal whistle, which is instantly rie- poated by the brakeman at the front end, and the train starts." Oldest Bell tit America* The congregation of the African Methodist Episcopal,ehurch at Haley- ville, N. J., has a rare relic in the shape of a large bell which is said, ov those who have traced its historv, to be the oldest bell in the western hem­ isphere. The bell was procured by Capt. Elias Newell on one of the Bahama islands, ard presented b? him to the church. It is one of the bells which Ferdinand and Isabella placed upon the Alahambra in 1492, and in 1502 was presented by Queen Isabella to I Christopher Columbus upou his fourth and last voyage tc America It was placed in the chapel which was the beginning of the great cathredral of Carthagena in New Granada, in 1697, upon the siege of Carthagena, it fell to the share of the French ship LaRochellc. Afterward this ship was wrecked up­ on the island of San Andreas, one of the Bahamas. A few of the crew were saved, to­ gether with the bell. From the de­ scendants of the survivors the bell and its history weie obtained by Capt. Newell,' of the bark Ezra H. Fisk, of Haleyville. There is a debt of $100 resting upon the church at Haleyville, and so highly do the peo­ ple value the relic--the Columbus bell--that they will not place it in the church lest the latter may be sold for debt, and they lose the beli, but it is securely kept at the residence ot Trustee Alfred Green. It will be 400 years old next year, and it is pro­ posed that it shall be exhibited nt the Columbian Exposition. • * Ne» Method of Artificial Respiration.} | Dr. Laborde, who presides over the physiological laboratory of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, has discovered a new method of artificial respiration in cases of suspended animation. Its value is enhanced by the extreme simplicity and facility of application. It consists in drawing the tongue well out of the previously opened mouth, and then imparting to that organ energetic and rhythmic backward and forward movements. This man­ euver has the effect of stimulating the respiratory reflex through the reaction on the tongue and the excitation of ite base. Theideaof applying this method to the human, being was suggested to Dr. Laborde by its success iu the lab­ oratory in cases of animals. Dr. Laborde cites the case of two individuals whose lives he saved by. this method. The manner of carry­ ing out the movements is extremely simple. A spoon, the handle of a knife, or any such instrument is util­ ized for the double puriose of keep­ ing the jaws apart and pressing on An Eighteenth Century Coaeh. The carriage in which the recently married Crown Princess of Austria made her entry into Vienna is a marvel ot the coach-builder's art The carriage was built in the year 00 at Madrid, for the Emperor Charles IV., in the rich baroque style then in fashion. It is lined within with cramoisy silk, and adorned with gold fringes. The roof is also similarly lined,and from its four corners hang tassels of gold. Round the edge of the roof is great deal of elaborate bronze work, at the four corners aro bunches of olden flowers, and vine tendrils, whilst over the center of the whole is gilt crown adorned with precious itones. On all sides are windows filled with Venetian crystal glass; the pillars which support, the roof are adorned with costly carved work, the panels inside below the windows bear painted representations ol' princely virtues^ it is usually supposed that these paintings were the work of Rubens; such, however, is not the case; they were made in 1763 bv the Viennese irtist Wragenschon. The carriage swings by fcur straps, which are adorned with gold ornaments. Very conspicuous are the double imperial eagle, sword, sceptre and crown. What little wotid work there is is covered with red lacquer; all the iron work is giided. The form of the pokes of the wheels is also note­ worthy, they appear to be platted to­ gether, and were the work of a sculp­ tor. The whole of the wheels and the axles are brilliantly lacquered. The harness of the six horses was of the same style as the carriage, adorned with silk and gold. The only >ther carriages of this kind anywhere in existence arc one at^ Madrid and one in the Trinanon coach-house at Versailles. . EVEX Washington's gracei'uT^cSij- riage didn]t make as lasting impres , sion on history as the ha i c be took been laid to rest i at his father's cherry twe How a Germ in Train in Started. According to the Railway Review an official of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad recently returned from Europe, refening to railway practice in Germany, says: "The roadbeds are about perfect, while the stations arc magnificent, even in the most in­ significant places being fine. The road-beds are quite rigid, but this is mainly due to the iron and steel cross-ties that are used. The locomo­ tives are fine pieces of mechanism, but their capacity is scarcely equal to those oh this side of the Atlantic. Their entire passenger equipment is awav behind that in use here. Their' trainsj however, run like ^lock work, and the connections are perfect The method of starting trains is altogether unique and peculiar, and will cause local agents and trainmen to smile. The agent is an imposing, dignified, ancl solemn-lodking official, attired in elaborate uniform, literally gilt-edged, and he acts as master of ceremonies on the imposing occasion. When the train arrives at a station he is standing bolt upright in an almost military position, and he is on dress parade. One minute before the train fitfurtS hte reaches up and taps a gong three times. Then a strange scene taxes place, and it would seem "that lie had pressed a button, for at the last tap the conductor, who has been at the rear car, comes galloping along the entire length of the platform, shouting in German the name of every station the train will stop at. When the engine is reached he wheels nbout, and on his return quickly tloses and locks the car doors, darts thumb--which, to avoid slipping, are enveloped in a handkerchief--and pulled forcibly forward out of the mouth. The organ is then subjected to the to and fro movement, eighteen to the minute, until success crowns the operators efforts. While advisiug recourse to the methods usually em­ ployed, Dr. Laborde believes that his own proceeding is the most effectual and that it will often succeed even when all hope is apparently fled. Japan'* Historic Tree. Garden and Forest has a descrip­ tion of the great pine of Japan, called Dai Matsu, which stands on the shore of Lake Biroa, some three miles from Otsu. The tree is attended by priests, who declare that it is men­ tioned in the records of their cloister eight hundred years ago, and that it was planted in the year A. D. 675. It is counted among the eight won­ ders of Japan, and its singular as­ pect, as it stretches its long branches out on every side oyer a scaffolding formed by more than 300 pales, hail been pictured in many books of travel. Although it is fuily exposed to the wind, and although it$ trunk and branches bear more than one light­ ning scar, it is still vigorous,.and only a gradual thinning out of its foliage bears witness to its great antiquity. At two feet above the ground the diameter of the trunk is fifteen feet nine inches: its height is eighty-four feet, and the diameter of its widely- stretched crown is 242 feet. Four houses formerly stood among its branches, but two of them were ruined in a great storm ^ few years ago. -The other two are still largely resorted to by supper parties on sum­ mer evenings, and the Japanese take especial delight in listening to the dripping of rain into the water rrom the boughs as they overhand the sea. The Kailwxy Telephone. The Port Defiance, • Tacoma, and Edison railway has in operation an appliance designed to prevent delays when an accident happens to any of the cars along the -line, or when trouble of any kind occurs. The ap­ pliance is an ingenious telephone ar­ rangement so connected with the main office that the conductor or motorman can telephone What the trouble is and all the d&tails, so that arrangements can be made at the office to avoid delay of other cars oh the line, thus discommoding patrons. Along the line between Point Defi­ ance and Edison a telephone wire is strung, and there are special poles, down which proper wires run to an average man's height from the ground. Each car carries a telephone instrument, which can be connected with the wires and communication with the main office obtained. After notice of trouble is received the re­ maining cars on either side of the break can be operated by office orders through the telephone, and thus kept running on time. It would seem to be to the interesWof almost every railway in the country to adopt such a telephone system. Even Some Men Are Vain. They were talking of the vanity ot women, and one of the few ladies present undertook a defense.- "Of course," she said, ."I admit that women are vain and men are not. Why," she added, with a glance around, "the necktie , of the hand­ somest man in the room is even now up the Dac-k of his collar," And then she smiled--for every man present had put bis hand up behind his oecW --Drake';- Magazine. HF.Lt, is the coolest place God can find anywhere iu the universe for a lost sinner. TJRAMP EVIL REMEDY* Bo# a Verman Xown Cares br t}i« . .. .. employed Horda. - • A possible remedy for the tramil nuisance might, Philip Koster, ol ,, i "i Berlin, believes, be obtained by copv. p f ing the German method bf treatment. ,H 44 ; "In America I find the same deplora* < ble--I use the word deplorable in ref * lation to the ultimately beneficial re?; ; 1 suits--methods obtain as in England,'*- /g ^ Mr. Koster remarked this morning, * "In either country idleness receives./ /ij from the charitable institutions 1 r« positive encouragement. This I hatfj* . concluded not simply from observa-* •••'3 tion but from conversations with tho^ heads of charitable institutions. Of course there are subjects deserving of < charity and whose only hope of life charity. Those I do not class as re^ celving encouragement in idleness! I refer to the army of tramps who ar3 t ^ well aware of the fact that the poof ^ houses will afford them shelter and* -v; Germany. * food to pass* their winters in, an(j* With6ut obliging them to work. Such men are seldom kpowx* to re^rm^t? Thev become instead orore and lhoiti > confirmed as tramps. r "This was the case }n Since 1882, however, the situation has been gradually changing, untij % \ now such a being as a tramp is one ow the great rarities of the Empire. Ii*. > 1882 there was established at a placq^",,/ * j called Wilhelmsburg a labor coldny.*/**;-;^ t And so successful was it that others / '% in different parts of the country wen» established and havo proved blessing*^ to everybody except the viciously digent. For them the jails are good' enough. At these labor colonies, to ^ which all candidates or inmates o< trampdom are sent, the beneficiaries* ,'j are compelled to work. For working \ 7̂ ,J they are paid a small sum, none of which, however, they receive until \ the cost of their meals and lodging * IfV' h a s b e e n c o v e r e d . T h e f o o d i s p l a i n / ' j naturally, but it is good and in pbnty. r. And the lodgii^j is clean. Thdp amount of money received by th<» - bcneficiaries after the deduction 1$ made is. of course, not large. But it is enough to encourage the great ma> . , iority of them to work, and when they see that they are able to lay ? something aside the ambition to be-' • come self-supporting creatures ofthfl '*4/ t world--an ambition taat may have long been smoldering, is fanned again ; into a flame and the reformation it began. But this is not all. Thf authorities of the Colony are conk: stantly in receipt of applications fot help and the most worthy of th*. , beneficiaries are. selected. The systeni is working admirably, and, what is more to the point, is dearly self-sup- porting. Since 1882 nearly fifty thousand persons have been assisted, and the viciously indigerft does nojSr^ average 5 per cent." •iSf • •• si ^ ^ id •a -Chicago ..Post. Wife • elUu? in Engjaad. No later than fifteen years ' ̂ ^8 a wife was sold for forty pounds, and, what is more remarkable, the articles of sale were drawn up and signed at a solicitor's office, the money paid, and the chattel handed over with ail the gravity of law. In J-he course of a coanty court case at Sheffield in May, 1881, a mau named Moorer stated that he was living with thd wife of one of his friends, and thafej he had purchaser her for a quart o^ beer. During the hearing of a school board case in the ^course of 1881, at Ripon, a woman informed the bencif that she had been bought for twenty^ five shillings, and had assumed tb4" name of the purchaser. At Alfreton, in 1882, a husband sold his rib for a glass of beer in a public house and the rib gladly deserted her legal lord. Two years after this a bricklayer sold his wife for one shilling and sixpence! a legal document being drawn up to make the bargain binding. In 1887,. the paper published an account of a well-to-do weaver, at Burnley, who was charged with having deserted hit wife and three children. He ad­ mitted the soft impeachment at once, but urged that, inasmuch as he had sold the whole family to another in a ft- before the alleged desertion, he be ao' quitted of all responsibility lor their maintenance. It wasnothing to him whether their purchaser provided for their wants; the law .had? tobfctef se« to that. For h|mself he had duly received three half-pence, the amount of the purchase money, and there his interest in the affair began .and ended. During 1889 a paragraph went the round of the papers to the effect that a man connected with a religious body in a'village in the mid- tand counties had disposed of his wife ior the small sum of one shilling. ' "/'J ••'f' 79 Not Much of an ABMrw • The tall Lord Stradbroke served uiv der Wellington in Spain and arteif""5" ^ ward fought at Quatre Bras, but wat ; somewhat disabled at Waterloo; he was, moreover, almost the only Tory landlord whose abilities I ever beard Charles Austin praise. When he was staying with my father, the conver- | sation turned on the extraordinary passage in which Victor Hugo at­ tributes Napoleon's fail to the Divine jealousy (ilgenait Dieu),and in which, so far as he assigns to hruman, or rather to British, agency and share ia the giant's overthrow, he would have , us believe that the credit was due ta. the British army .alone, and no^ 'ft Napoleon's rival -- would have u? jk lieve tnis et quantum GaUia mes Audet in historia. "1 heard the Duke say, -" remarked Lord Stradbroke, "that if he had had his old Peninsu­ lar army at Waterloo it would have ->edii an affair ot four hours. These were his words." This is remarkabii as 1 cing the utterance of one who was nevkr g'ive.n' to,bofoflnfrir7>.f*6fb>' nightly Review. v 'III , . ..... • . I ' ,U .' '(Sansuiiiptioit from Bedbn^ j r> Dewevre (Revue de Medecine, €?«?pt. 18, 185)2) reports a youth of 18 whos(j two brothers had died of pulmonary phthisis. Eighteen months after thfj death of the latter brother, wit.l whom lie had lived, the patient fell i\ with pulmonary tuberculosis, whic| manifestly was of reccnt date, as re pea ted examinations beforo showed him 'to have healthy lungs. Dewevi discovered a number of, bedbug bit on the patient's l^bdy,' ahd/as tf house was. infested by the inseots, h^ suspected them as possible carriers< the infection. Sixty per ceht. the bugs, crushed to a pulp and fll tered, were foun'd tw contain tul cular bacilli. Three guinea pigs In1 whom the pu!p was injected died gcneral^l^u^p^.,.^( l/> • A j? &