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' * u? 'C * . V r*p»y*», _* / ^ r ^S-.w **/r • 441 - " - A, ^1W- * s -. . ' • * \ > * ' isi'sL^w <»I.1> SCHOOLMASTER. ST OAOBOA w. BUSTOAT. t •'"; Win Tto luster's face in wrinkled now, • ^ ? ,, BCb thin, dark ha'r is turning h>Wi Deep furrows of th.> unseen plow ^ 1 Are on his forehead. Who can Slay Th< clock of time aii'l make it slow, , Ind lengthen out his holiday ? Bit earn arc dnll, his eye* are dim, He bends beneath a load of yearn; __ WUh feelile step and filtering limtt, * : Ht y inij>' -* aJong ft vale of te?r?, V , v; knti noon the beJl will rintt for hint J A summons from the heavenly BpMtNC.i t' <&»is a good old faithful man, * . Worn with hard study, toil and c«re; HI* head was ever found to plan, v His !:i»rt another's prief could shaW..,.. * Each one should do the best he cs%<? s:t:; "*% He wrote in copy round aud fair. , 'f ' _ •Uu old fwhooi-bouse is standing now, O'ergrown with moss upon the green. Aim the inhospitable bouph That furnished rods, looks bare and It Shivers in the winds that blow, And whispers at things that have been. 'A fountain sparkles from the hill, Adown the rocks the waters race, And fancy deems the trickling rill A tear stream on dame nature's face, For school is out, and some are still, And this Is a deserted place. We who survive are pupils ye*. • How many teachers we have had; Prosperity and scathing Debt-- Masters that made us poor and ml: Affliction, that made isusw wet, And Hope »nu Joy, that made us glad. .7. m ' i i V. - m tol I- ' .ii- • fO(' I la - , , . 1 ,4»: • £ *< '* 7 DEFORCED FINGFJU Two plasterers, named Tom Muldoon and Edward Harris, upon entering the rooms where tb?y were employed in on •unfinished building, on upper Fourth street, Pittsburgh, on the morning of May 14, 1843, were horrified at finding upon the floor the corpse of Griffith Jones, their employer. He had evident­ ly been murdered, and seemed to have been dead several hours, the body when found being quite cold. A little to the left of the thorax was a. ghastly wound, and from the quantity of blood upon the walls and floor, it appeared as if a long, keen kife had passed down behind the man's collar bone, literally cleaving his heart in twain, and permitting the life 'Current to pour forth in a torrent which must have brought instant death. Neighbors were quickly summoned, officers were called in, a Coroner sent for, and a strict investigation of the hor­ rible crime was entered upon with an energy which in these days would be simply astonishing if displayed by pub­ lic officials* Little result was attained by these labors, however. Griffith Jones had been rather a reticent, self- contained man, and the ciews upon which to base a theory for his mysteri­ ous taking4 off were very few. That which was learned was fib substance as follows: Griffith Jones had resided in Pitts­ burgh and its vicinity for a numbter of years. He was a widower, and some of those who had known him longest re­ membered his wife, a pale, little woman --Welsh, like himself--who died within a few months after her advent in the smoky city. His business had been mainly that of a coal dealer, shipping barge or flat-boat loads of the black dia­ monds down the Oliio.jpometimes, how­ ever, he speculated in qreal estate. Some " eight or nine months before his murder he had been introduced to a young woman named Julia "Williams, and after a brief courtship proposed to marry her, and was accepted. The house in which he was killed he had been erecting for > his own residence, and it was being builded under his personal supervision. Each day he used to visit it two or three times to see how the workmen were getting along, but on the day which must have been his last in life, he had only been there once while the plasterers were at work, and that once was early in the forenoon. A lantern had been found near the body, and it was conjectured that, having been kept away by business until after dark, he had gone to inspect the day's work, after the men had de­ parted, and in so doing had met his fate. But none of the neighbors had heard any alarm during the night, and the pad­ lock upon the temporary street door was locked on the outside. There were no fresh footprints under the windows in the mud about the building. Clearly the assassin must have either been se­ creted in the house prior to Jones' com­ ing, or must have entered with him, and twneool- er^oixg1! aft?!*. por^tr?.ti"n,T thn jmurdor to have go fair Julia's suddenly acquired wealth had attracted three new suitors to her side-- and that -vas before the sodding on Jones' grave got a good start--almost everybody ceased to worry over the mys­ tery of the murder. ., yfjiere wm one, however, who did not giVe it up so. This persistent person was a young man named Walter McGrew. of Scotch descent, clerk in a big hardware store in " The Diamond.** Detectives were unknown in Pittsburg in those days, but McGrow waS, by nature, /VVHA *%# v>«-> waoh oKi liHr A Oil aiUUV\ IU VAIW V* "W iUVIIU • «*v first simple curiosity and a desire to un­ ravel the mystery caused him to take a' lively interest in the matter, and he studied up the points in the case with a keenness of olwervutioh ana analytical care which would have done credit to a veteran in such service. His interest was, however, increased tenfold when the authorities offered a reward of one thousand dollar*--a very large sum in those days--for the discovery of the murderer. That amount of money would enable him to marry the girl he loved and to start in business for him­ self, so the canny Scot bent all his ener­ gies to its acquisition. Seeking through the rooms where the murderous deed had been done, for traces of its perpetra­ tors, he discovered in a narrow passageway between the apartmenl in which the body had been found and another some ten feet distant, an indentation in the soft plaster upon the wall, which, although unobserved by any one else, was full of suggestion to him. This indentation was at one end deep, almost an inch in width, and rounded as if made by some cylindrical body. From this point it tapered down rapidly and ended in a narrow blunt point, considerably less depressed than at the other end. The mark thus made was not straight but curved--or rather had one obtuse angle with the concave side uppermost, near its middle. Upon still closer investiga­ tion he found that one of the hairs mixed in the plaster had been torn out, leaving a thin ragged line extending about an inch from the smaller end of the inden­ tation. The height at which this mark appeared in the wall would have been almost upon the level of the chin of a person of medium height, and was on what would have been the left side of a person going from the scene of the mur­ der. McGrew at once concluded that the assassin, after perpetrating his crime, had gone through this passage in the dark, groping his way, with his hand ex­ tended before his face, as would be a natural action for a person upon strange premises and deprived of light, Jones' lantern having no doubt been instantly extinguished when he fell. The impres­ sion then, as he read it, was that of a de­ formed liltle finger of a left hand, and he set himself to work to find such a member. During a whole month he scrutinized closely every left hand that come within range of his vision, but without avail, and was almost upon the point of giving up his pursuit in despair, when chance threw within his way that which he had sought. Sauntering through the Alle­ ghany market one morning, still mechan­ ically watching all the left hands exposed, he noticed a veiled woman, poorly dressefl, making some small purchases at a butcher's stall, and his heart gave a great leap when he saw that the second joint of her little finger was swollen to two or three times its natural size, while beyond that point, to the extremity, it tapered with disproportionate rapidity. He was rather disappointed to find that it was a woman who was so marked, as he had accustomed himself to thinking of the assassin as a man ; but that did not prevent his pursuing the clew thus offered. From the butcher's stall to her home he unobservedly followed the wo­ man, and saw her enter a small isolated cottage in a poor section of the town. Entering a little grocery near by, upon a pretended search for a Mr. Travers, he easily drew the shop-keeper into a con­ versation about his neighbors, and so, without affording the slightest suspicion of his errand, found out that the woman whom he had seen was a Mrs. Harper, a widow with two children, who had lived in the cottage for several years. Both her children had been born there. She did not ovm cctfcigo. It belonged to I*V f I I A sejii-:- gentl'.'niiw in.Piti.iLur^.whocanio out tke_fro^t Tvajj liiiGiitLIy for his rent/ .and^ sometimes-' iockihg up the body of his victim as he- called tifjon the widov; when the rent left. The plasterers swore positively ) was not due, but who he «as the shop- that no one could have been left in the house when they locked up the front door with their key. Under the circumstances the theory At first entertained of the assassination beiug :>.e work of some desperate thief for mere purposes of robbery was neces­ sarily abandoned. True no money was found in his pockets, but Ins valuable watch and ehaia had not been taken, and he might have had no money with him. But could hatred have stimulated the dreadful crime ? Had he any enemy so vindictive as to be guilty of the horrible •deed? Suspicion now pointed at two persons. The first of these was John Matthews, a discarded suitor of Miss Williams, who " was known to have been very jealous of Jones. He, however, readily proved an alibi. The night of the murder and the .Rff,1 if-* I d«» preceding it he had been with some relative, fourteen miles away, down in the Sewickly valley. The second person suspected was George Robertson, a drunken, shiftleRg, dissolnte fellow, who tod been the brother of Jones' wife. Bobertsou had made use of his plea of relationship to obtain money from Jones on numerous occasions, as Was well kaown, and it was surmised that he might have hunted him up on the fatal evening, with such an end in view and being refused, have murdered'and robbed him. That he had not taken the watch was attiibuted to his fear lest it ttight lead to his detection. But the keeper did not know. Had the shop-keeper seen Kim { Yes, but could not describe him •' to save his life," further than that he was "a biggish sort of man with short red hair,"--char­ acteristics common to Jogies and an hun­ dred other men. It must not be supposed that McGrew wormed all this out at once. He was too cautious for that. But in the back part of the little grocery he found that some very good liquor was kept, and, appar­ ently on this account only, he called sev­ eral times upon the shop-keeper, and be­ came quite familiar with him. One day Airs. Harper came in to buy some candles when he was present, and he managed to get into a little conversation with her. Twice afterward he met her Accidentally, and having won his way bv presents of some peppermint candy#to her children, got upon easy chattering terms with her. He noticed thai she looked haggard, anxious, often pre-occupied, but could find nothing to warrant his looking upon her as the assassin of whom he was in pursuit. Poverty alone would have given her those signs of mental trouble. Still he suspected her. When he entered the shop one even­ ing, after he hail known her fully a fort­ night, he found her in a little contention with the shop-keeper about the value of a one dollar bill which she had offered in payment for some small articles. The grocery man averred that it was the issue of a broken western bank, which she de- studied over the bill and its inscription, wondering more and more why he had bought for a dollar something which he knew to be utterly worthless. The next day, albeit with very vague hopes of learning anything of use to him, he went to the ? awyer who had done all Jones' legal business down to the making of his will, and who was perfectly familiar - I -- lit ffHi n 4< W1I4I UU),U(U1U¥TXAUU^» AUttl ^OUUOUUUl at once recognized the writing as that of the deceased Griffith Jones. The in­ itials "G. J. • put it bsjCiid a doubt, they being made in & very peculiar man­ ner. What did the other initials mean, however ? For the first two, the lawyer had nothing to say. The last two, how­ ever, he suggested were those of a sa­ loon keeper, who was one of Jones' best friends. Mark Kennedy was liis name. Upon him McGrew now called, with the one-dollar bill, wliicli^ was fast gaining importance in his eyes. Kennedy, upon being shown the note, said : "Oh! I remember all about that. Jones came in here for a drink, after visiting his new house--just the morning of the day he was killed. He was going over to Temperanceville then, he said. That bill he offered me when he was go­ ing to pay for his drink, and I told him it wasn't good. I'd got word only the day before that the bank was busted. Yes, I'm sure that's it--Oskolono Bank, of Missouri. No doubt about it. He went right over there to my desk and indorsed tha£ upon it, saying lie had got it from Bob Harlow, and would make him take it back." Bob Harlow, upon being seen, admit­ ted that he believed he might have given the bill to Jones; in fact, thought he did, a couple of days before the murder, and had not afterward seen him alive. That evening Mrs. Harper was arrested and lodged in jail upon suspicion of be­ ing either principal or accessory in the murder of Griffith Jones. When charged with the crime, she scorned to deny it. "Yes," she said, "I killed him, and he deserved it. I did not avow it for the sake of my children--his children--but it is not worth, lying about. I did kill him, and I will tell you why. Seven years ago he persuaded me to live with him. I was & widow, poor and friend­ less. 1 sold myself to him because he swore to provide comfortably for me as long as I lived. I had two children by him, and got to love him, scoundrel as he was. I begged him on my knees to marry me, for the sake of our children, and he refused. He never loved either them or me. For three years he had barely given me money enough to keep meahve. He gave me the hovel where I lived, and used to come and see me not more than once a month, usually. I went out washing all day, and sewed at night as long as I could sit up, to feed and clothe my babies. Exposure brought on rheuihatism. See how my hands are swollen out of shape ; all mv joints are so. He did not care. He wished I would die. I heard he was going to marry another woman--that he was building a fine house for her. Then I became desperate ; I dogged his steps one night to his new house. He took me inside to prevent a scandal, through our voices being heard if we talked out­ side. On my knees I begged him to at least make some provision for our child­ ren. I believe I threatened to expose him and prevent his marriage if he did not. He refused, and struck me. Then-- well, I had the butcher-knife with me. I did not intend to kill him when I took it along--I only wanted to protect my­ self ; but when ne struck me, and called me the name he did, and cursed the 'bastards'--our babies--then I struck him back. I only struck once. I took the money in his pockets, for We were hungry, and I had a right to it. He was dead. Yes, I killed him, and I am not sorry for.it. Now do what vou please with me." Upon her trial she refused to plead iS not guilty," but her sad story, which was proven to be true, awakened popular sympathy so far in her behalf that the court refused to accept her plea of " guilty " to the charge of murder in the first degree, and she was only in­ dicted for murder in the second degree. Upon this, she was necessarily convicted. The evidence against her, even outside her own oonfession, was terribly strong, and she wa° sentenced to imprisonment for life. The priscn regulati^i. of'Peitii^lvuiua then, and indeed until vc-iy late years, TS?re merciless in their rigor. A prison­ er condemned for life was as practically dead to all the world as if life were really extinct. Solitude, silence, mental ago­ ny, dread suspense, hopeless ignorance of the fates of loved ones, often insanity and short lives of utter wretchedness, were what prisoners were condmuued to; and such the rigorous law prescribed as the expiation for Mrs. Harper's crime. But, before she went ty prison she was permitted to know that both her children had been adopted by kind people, who would rear and educate them as their own, and with this knowledge she en­ tered even cheerfully the gates of her living tomb. How long she endured her separation from her loved ones is a se­ cret only in the keeping of the prison register. Neighborhood, . blic has been re- 1 he-Cost of National The American Republic ferred to as a nation without neighbors. An acute writer has criticised and pointed out national traits of self-complacency and indifference to other interests and peoples, which he believes are evidenoes of our uhneighborly disposition. In other lands it costs a great deal to be neighborly, wiu the neighborhood feel­ ing that is maintained is rather the re­ verse of good fellowship. At least it seems to require an enormous police forcc to maintain the peace. It is very doubtful whether an acute knowledge and active interest in foreign affairs may not be bought at too large a price. It seems to be paying altogether top much for ""one's whistle." Thfe following statement of the men enrolled in the Eu­ ropean armies (without stating the naval force) shows what "good fellowship" costs: jSatiom. Austria-Hungary Belgium. Denmark. frar.ee {1874).,........... Germany.... British Empire..........., Greece Italy (1873) Holland. Portugal......... Russia Spain....... Sweden and Norway. Switzerland.. Turkey Peace. 278,470 37,391 36,782 545,000 401,659 105,725 11,000 199,557 86,966 30,128 733,729 150,000 20,111 84,869 148,680 War. 838,700 137,500 47,9i5 752,727 1,273,346 446,387 11,000 445,509 94,U0 68,450 1,173,479 200,000 162,775 201,257 459;360 2,869,66%,301,485 These figures include only those bod ies which are regarded as the regular ar­ mies of their different countries, standing or reserve, except in the case of Great Briton and Switzerland, in both of which the armies on a war footing are largely drawn from civil life. In the first named there are 340,662 of drilled militia, volunteer corps and yeomanry. In Switzerland, the active force is really quite small, as every citizen is obliged to do military duty. In Germany there are over 500,000 more of the "land- strum " who can be mobilized. Martin's Year Book for 1875, gives the Imperial army of China at 850,000 ; the standing army of Persia at 30,000 in time of peace, and 105,500 in time of war. The standing army of Japan is estimated at 80,000. The entire regular force pro­ vided for by all the American govern­ ments is but 96,026, of which the United States maintains 30,000, Brazil 28,933, and Peru 13,200. These figures; give the following total organized and regular force among the leading powers of the world : The American Continents 96,026 Asia 960,000 Europe 2,868,567 3,924,593 The foregoing figures are only the peace footing. Adding the two million men that could be raised and equipped in this country, with at least three more in China and Japan, were it necessary, and allowing for what the smaller States could do if imperilled, then adding those estimates to the 6,301,425, already pro­ vided for in Europe, and we have shown an array of at least 13,000,000 armed men in the world. We may be congrat­ ulated on being out of ,the vortex.--Re­ public Magazine. strictest inquiry failed to bring to light nied, and the mutter was referred to him. any trace of George Boliertson, beyond i He took the bill, casually remarking that the fact that two months before he had i tied on a flat-boat, laden with coal, for Louisville. Since then he had not even been heard of at Pittsburgh. Re­ luctantly the theorists were compelled to give up the promising prospect of fixing tht; murder where there waa so fine a there was at that time a great deal of worthies* paper money about, and looked at it. Upon its back he noticed written in ink the letters ftnd numerals "B. H. May 13, G. J--M. JL" He hesitated but a moment and then, acting upon •some impulse for which he could not lsfcsis of predisposition of character for it definitely account to himself, said : " I as this fellow was supposed to possess, think it is all light. Anyway, I'm sure At length conjecture was generally enough to give you the silver for it. Jl „ _ J AM >1 4-l-» 1-V /^An <1 TT _ . 1 - • . . a . •• abandoned, and the dead man having been buried, his will foun<| and the bulk of his property turned over to Julia Williams, according to the provisions of that document, the case ceased to be <K*£ndfc talked about Even before tiie Mrs. Harper thanked him heartily, and took the silver which he offered her. The grocery man made change for her . sHe went away. McGrew put the bill in his pocket. When fie got home that night he A Great Traveler. John Guy Yassar, nephew of the founder of Yassar College, is probably the greatest traveler the world has ever known. He first crossed the ocean in the British Queen in 1840, and has been almost constantly on the go during the intervening thirty-five years, returning home every year or two, only to remain *a few months and then take a new stait for a tour round the world, or to some remote quarter of the globe--almost every inhabitable part of which he has visited once or oftener. Humboldt twice sent for him in regard to some of the countries and races that he had visited, and which that noted writer had not. A Useful Invention. A Cincinnati genius claims to have discovered a plan by which the smoke and cinders from a locomotive can be carried to the rear end of the train and there set free without annoying passen­ gers. The apparatus consists of a sim­ ple tube-, a foot or so in diameter, run­ ning from the smoke-stack over the tops of the car to the rear, the theory being that the speed of the train will create a draught of sufficient power to suck in all the smoke and cinders and scatter them to the winds behind the train. A patent has been secured. Victoria's I aclit Runs Down and Sinks a Sail Boat. [London (Aug. 18) Cor. New York Herald.]' The royal yacht Alberta, with Queen Victoria on board, collided, at 6 o'clock this evening, while crossing from Os­ borne to Gosport, with the yacht Mistle­ toe, belonging to J. S. Heywood, of Manchester, who, with a party of friends, were on a pleasure cruise. The sailors of the Mistletoe were in the act of dip­ ping their flag in honor of the Queen, when a cry was raised that the royal yacht was running down the Mistletoe. Great excitement ensued, and efforts were made to avoid collision, but it was too late. The Mistletoe was struck on the starboard side, abreast of the main­ mast. The Alberta rode completely over her, losing her bowsprit and cutwater. It is impossible to describe the scene on board the vessels. The Queen witnessed the collision from the deck of the Al­ berta. She was deeply agitated, wring­ ing her hands, and in dreadful suspense. Every offort is said to have been made to save the party on board the Mistletoe, which was rapidly sinking. Several of the rescued were severely injured. The damage to the Mistletoe was so serious that eho sank in a few minutes, carrying with her a lady and the mate. It being impossible to render further aid, the Alberta proceeded on her way to Gosport, but had scarcely reached the Clarence Yard, when Stokes, the master of the Mistletoe died. Hey­ wood, who was seriously injured, was carried to the house of the admiral at Portsmouth. The following report of the accident appears in the Court Cir­ cular : When the Alberta was crossing the Solent, with the Queen and royal party on board, a sailing yacht ran unaer the Alberta, which struck her, and she went down in a few momenta. The Queen, though terribly shocked, gave orders that every effort should be made to save the persons on board, but it is to be feared that two have been lost, be­ side those who were injured. Her maj­ esty spoke to Miss Peel, the lady who was saved, and made constant inquiries after the wounded. On reaching Gos­ port, she gave orders to Admiral Elliott to spare no efforts on behalf of the suf­ ferers, and to pay every attention to their wants." V' Collision with a Whale. [From the Edinburgh Scotsman.] The Triumph, owned at Plockton, McKenzie, master, has put into Storno- way, bound from Liverpool for Burg- head, with salt, making a good deal of water. About midday on Sunday last, while the vessel was about 15 miles off the Lews coast, under full sail, and the Master and crew below at dinner, except one man at the wheel, all were startled by a severe shock as if the vessel had struck on some sunken wreck. The men at once rushed on deck and saw a large whale floating a few yards off, either dead or stunned apparently with the shock. The monster had crossed the bow of the vessel. On finding that the ship had sprung a leak the Master made for Stornoway. She is at. pres jnt making 8 inches "water an hour. The Triumph will be beached, and her cargo will likely be discharged. Information has reached Stornoway that a Greenland whale, upward of forty feet long, was towed ashore at Balranald, North Ulst, on Tuesday, having been found dead in the Atlantic. The Boomerang, A traveler tells lis something of the singular weapon used by the natives of Australia, the boomerang. He saw them used by the natives. They ranged from two feet to thirty-eight inches in length, and were of various shapes, all curved a little, and looking, as he describes them, something like a wooden new moon, They were made of a dark, heavy wood, and weigh from one to three pounds. In thickness thev vary from half an inch to an inch, and taper to a point mw OwCli One of the natives picked Up the piece of wood, poised it an instant, and threw it, giving it a rotary motion. For the first hundred feet or more it went straight ahead. Then it tacked to the left and rose slightly, stiil rotating rap­ idly. It kept this latter course for a hundred feet more, perhaps, but soon veered to the left again, describing a broader curve, and a moment later fell to the earth six or eight in front of the thrower, having described nearly a circle in the air. Another native then took the same boomerang, and cast it, holding it with the same grip. It took the same course, and made broader curves, and as it came round the black caught it handsomely in his right hand. Another native next threw it, and lodged it on the ground "about twenty feet behind him, after it had described a circle of 200 * yards and upward. After him they all tried it, and but one of them failed to bring the weapon back to the spot where they stood. Carnboo, a native, then selected from the heap of boomerangs anothe# ones and cast it with a sort of jerk. It flew very swiftly for forty or fifty yards, whirling like a top. Then it darted into the air, mounting fully one hundred feet, and came over our heads, where it seemed to hang stationary for a moment, then settled slowly, still whirling, till he caught it. Two others of the blacks then did the same thing. Meanwhile I had with my knife shaved a little of the wood from the convex side of one of the boomerangs. This is now offered to one of them to throw. He took it without noticing what I had done, poised it, but stopped short, and* with a contemptuous glance at my improvement threw it down, and ex­ claimed : " Bale budgery!" (no good). The others then looked at it curiously, but it was a bale budgery also to them. No one could be induced to throw it. Meyers asked them why they did not use it, but they could not give a definite answer. It Was plain that they did not like the way it poised, when held in the hand, yet I could not distinguish any difference whatever between this and the other weapons. Burleigh then walked to adistanoe of 200 feet or more from the blacks and bid Carnboo throw to him. The native looked at Mm a moment rather curiously, then, comprehending what was wanted, he selected one of the heaviest of the missiles, and, turning half round, threw it with great force in a direction almost opposite from that where Burleigh stood. The weapon sped smartly for 60 or 70 feet, then tacked in an instant, and flew directly at Burleigh, and, had he not most expeditiously ducked, he would have received a hard thump, if nothing worse. It struck the ground 20 or 30 paces beyond. This feat brought out a broad grin, and something like a chuckle from the whole of them. Carnboo even intimated that he would like to try another cast, but Burleigh expressed himself fully satisfied. Mr.---- (another of our party), how­ ever, offered to " take a shot," but not at too short range. We were standing in front of one of the store-houses. Carn­ boo placed in front of the door, and stood with his back to him, with '8 hand on his shoulder. Nona of us knew what sort of maneu­ ver he had in mind, not even Myers, Standing in this position, the black threw the boomerang straight ahead. Immediately it curved in the air. Then it disappeared around the right corner of the building, and, before he had time to guess what was meant, came round from the other end (having passsed com­ pletely around the store-house) and gave a sounding rap on the back, which made his eyes sr ap. 0 The Proper Cure. A young lady of Hairisbuig, Pa., Mis Minnie H. "Walters, spoke in a prayers meeting a few days since, relating a re­ markable cure, which she attributes di­ rectly to the interposition of Christ. The occurrence, related by the lady in detail in private conversation, is to the effect that over two years ago she was afflicted with a spinal disease so serious that she could scarcely move a finger, and she was confined to a couch pur­ posely suited for the disease. Nearly two years ago she became convinced that she needed closer consecration to Christ; in other words, she desired the blessings of santification, so prominent in the Methodist belief. She prayed earnestly without avail. Something seemed to tell her that consecration of body as well as soul was required, and it waa revealed to her that she would be healed. Thir­ teen months passed and no result. On the 26th erf January last she once more resolved to pray more earnestly for the fulfillment of the revelation. While praying the promise came to her, "What­ soever thou wilt, ask and it shall be given." She prayed first for her heart purity, and next for bodily health. The word came, " Rise up and walk," and to her great relief she found herself in ap­ parent health. The doctor next morn­ ing found her restored to health with­ out need *of medical attendance. Her statement was yesterday corroborated by four other persons acquainted with the circumstances, wlio rejoice with her over her restoration to health, which she un­ waveringly believes to have resulted from the stretching forth of Christ's hand in reward for liei>great faith. Little Rhody. Bhode Island has made a great, gain in population within five years, and at her present rate of increase will soon outnumber Vermont and New Hamp- sl#e. This shows how steadily manu­ factures and commerce are gaining on agriculture in New England. It does not pay to carry on small farms where the earth has to De dug up with a spade and mauured with a teaspoon when the great prairies of the West, which can be tilled by machinery, are made accessible to the Ewteru markets. A WARNING. I knew two friends m much alike AM ever you saw two stumps; And no phrenologist could flnif A difference in their bump|^ One took a paper, and his lififc ' • Waa happier than a King'sii ., ; i His children all could read and write,' And talk of men and things, ™ The other took no paper?, and While strolling through ihs wooa.f^ A tree fell down upon his crown. And killed him--ae it should. H^1 £e reading of the Oefca, 'h Z. ' ? home like neighbor .Tiirs, \ ? I'd_bi!t a cent this accident * * * * not befallen him. ', • "i .m Pith and Point. How TO get along IN the warld - ISEVCR get short. , CoanroRTABiiE quartera--Twonty-fhfe oent pieces. AFBOPOS to the county fairs. Prayer to Ladies with Parasols. (At the Pig­ pens of Agricultural Shows.) "Tte rude four fathers of the hamlet sleet). ** --Punch. "WHY do "you show favor to your enemies instead of destroying them?" said a chieftain to the Emperor Sigis- mundi, " Do I not destroy my enemi«^ by making them my friends ? was tlte Emperor's noble reply. "TKEK you won't lendme your veloci­ pede, hey?" inquired one boy of an­ other. "No, I won't." '"Very well, then the next time our chimney* btjitna you shan't come into our back yard toller,"--Dea Moines Leader. THERE'S an old antiquarian who has been traveling about the country for twenty years, looking for a rock frbm which, according to some story, an In­ dian maiden and her lover didn't throw themselves when pursued by a vengeful tribe. He hasn't found such a rock yet, and is getting very old and very hope­ less. ' A MANCHESTER firm which takes all its employes for a day's trip to the sea­ side during the summer, decided this year to visit Blackpool. It is the general custom of the workers to have a dip in the sea before beginning the usual amusements. "Eh, mon, how dirty ye are!" said one hale Lancashire lad to his fellow-bather. " Missed the trip last year," Was the laconic rejoinder. SHE sat with folded hands, And neither turned to right or left; So mute and sad, she looked like one Of hope and home and friends bereft. Poor thing, I thought, and dropped a tear, Thy loved ones aU have gone before, Have sailed away o'er death's dark stream, And left thee pining on the shore. I gladly would have cheered her, but f A stern cold voice held me in check-- "There's nuthin' ails her much," it said " She's got a boil upon her neck." As A woman was stepping off a Michi­ gan avenue street car the other day the horses started up just at the right in­ stant to throw her down. She fell heavily on the cobblestones, but scrambled up with a smile on her face. A portly old chap, who had witnessed the accident, stepped up to the lady, held out his hand for a shake and remarked: " Gimme your hand I I've seen millions of wom«n fall that way, and you are the only one in the whole lot who could rub her elbow and smile at the same time!"--Detroit Pre* Press. You can't get an old shoemakert o blunder. The other day when a weighty woman sailed into a Detroit shoe store and selected a pair of No. 4's and sat down to have them tried on the shoe- man saw that she wanted sevens. But he didn't tell her so, and start her out of the shop on a gallop. He smiled and softly said : " Madam, all the aristocrat^? ladies are now wearing shoes three sizes too large for their feet, in order to have cool extremities, and of course you want to fallow the style." She smiled like a duck in reply to his smile, and replied : " You are in a position to know best* and I leave everything to your judg­ ment." When she went out she said she never had such an easy-fitting shoe on in her whole life.--Detroit Free Press. \ YICKSBUBGER, who prides himself on his choice language, was over in Louisi­ ana, the other day, on business, and stopping at a farm-house to get a drink of water, the woman Remarked that the crops stood in great need of rain. "Yef;, rain is the great desideratum," he re­ plied, as he handed the tin dipper -back. " Mary I Mary I" yelled tho woman in loud tones, A white-headed girl of 16 came out of the back-room in response to the call, and the mother continued : "Take a squar view of him, Mary! He ddn't look as though he knew enough to plow cotton, and yet he just got ofl£ a word as long as from here to the mule- pen and back, aud he may be holdin* on to more!" The Yicksburger walked right away from there. -- Vicksburg Herald. , High Heels. Dr. Washington Atlee, at a recent meeting of the Pennsylvania State Med­ ical Society, referred to the "delicate girl" of the period, and pointed out some of the causes at woi'k in the des­ truction of her health. Among these, reference was made to the present style of high heels. " Her heel mark," said the Doctor, " is scarcely larger than the' thumb-nail. Look at her shoe, with its narrow sole, a heel two inches high, shaved down nearly to a point, and placed almost under the instep. Instead of the points of support being on a levei, the heel is tilted up two inches higher, the foot is crowded forward, the great toe is forced over the others. She is constantly walking down hill, and in health is going down hill all the time. All this forces her entire frame out oi' its proper line, and she is compelled, in order to maintain her perpendicular, to throw her hips back/' He contrasted the real and the fashionable woman, and thus accounted for many of her ailments. He urged a change in dress, that woma* should no longer be thus travestied and injured by fcfibion. He alluded to the fearful increase in the use, bywomen, of tonics and stimulents, as partly the re­ sult of indisposition arising from her dress fashions, and urged, very emphat ically, a reform. WHEN the bodies of several persons killed in the recent railroad accident on Long Island, were taken to the nearest* station, the agent ordered them removed) saying, he was not paid to watch dead bodies.' A good many persons yrould like to watch his for nothing. i "putup1^^/^8 816 peQple we ****to 4r-s *