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citeam IHaintlcaUr C2> r? <3 J. VAN 8LYKE, EDITOB AND PUBLISHER. HcHENEY, ILLINOIS. OUH JUVENILEB. "if y I j- fe* f JsiP^L' Sing Slag » song of snow-flakes, Ictdes and troat; roar and twenty snow-birds In the woods were lott. When the storm wu ended, Happy birds were they. By some erumbs befriended, They lived to fly away 1 1 't » « -5, .i-fj • Sing a song of rain-dropa, ** •_. Clouds and April weather; Four and twenty redbreasts Caught oat together. J ' • »i ,* * When the shower was ended, k V' , What a song was heard 4 About the raibbow splendid * f'* From each dripping bird! r*1' v Stag » song of sunshine, .,5 f Bees a humming praises; .j 1 FOOT and twenty hours 7 V Zxwi among the daisies. . . J *«•, Hunt tho wide world oyer, v H ^ 1 ' 5 F r o m s e a t o c o n t i n e n t , |p:.' You never will discover •' ^ %S " • . ' Whore flw hours went! . , X /. rnfKmv N. Pretcott, tn St. Nichokt* for Jfty. Hi, 'ft'.: ' 'A Party in a Garret. • vs| It was the last week in April and everybody was planning May-parties. Many a blossom on mossy knolls in the Woods lay with wide-open eyes, wonder­ ing why nobody came to claim itl Bat with the dawn of May-drfjr came also disappointment and vexation to many happy little hearts, for such a perfect downpour of rain as there was, and no ||intest sign of the clouds lifting. /S"Oh, dear!" sighed Marion Day. *What shall we do? Was there ever anything so provoking?* "Fm sorry for you," her mother answered. "Of course, there can be no going into the woods, bnt I have been thinking yon might have a few friends hwre. Tom shall harness the ponies and go for them, and you shall have the garret all to yourselves and picnic there." _ Marion pressed back the rising tears al these words, for the garret was a most delightful place*, especially in a rainy day when the drops made such a merry pattering on the roof. It had four large windows, so there were no darksome oorners in it, and the children could Iftake just as much noise as they pleased, disturbing no one. Ton may thinlr that a May-party in a garret must be one of the most forlorn things in the world, but that proves that you have never tried it! Moreover, the garret at lira. Day's was full of delightful old things stowed away in trunks--ancient bonnets and cocked hats, satin slippers with high heels and pointed toes, gay- oolored dresses, and all sorts of faded •plendor of nearly a century ago. Such pretty masquerades as Marion and her friends had held often and often, up there under the eaves, with no one to see them but the doves that •at on the window-sills outside, plum­ ing themselves and cooing in the sun­ shine. Marion was called by many of her friends "May," so you see in summer or winter there was always a May Day in that house. Tom went off in the double-seated pony-wagon, and brought back half a dozen of the merriest children that ever frolicked together in sun or shade. First there was Mabel Flowers, who was also nicknamed Ma j, and there was pretty little May Meadows and May Banks; then there was Rose Mason, and Violet Farley, and Daisy Fletcher. Wasn't it a real floral party? But the funny part of it was, no one thought anything about their names till they were eating their picnic dinner. This was set out on the top of an old tea- ehest covered with a crimson and white table-cloth, and suddenly Marion ex­ claimed: "Well, if this isn't the queer­ est thing that ever was! We've got flowers enough. See, here's May Flow­ ers, and a Rose and a Daisy and a Vio­ let, and I'm May Day!" I would like to tell you everything they did to amuse themselves at that party, but it would make my story too long, and, besides, you can easily imag­ ine what a fine time seven little girls might have, if given the freedom of a garret, with seven dolls, seven picnic- baskets full of goodies, and a china tea- aet! If yon cannot, then I advise you to try it for yourselves, and I think you will agree with them that "a garret is , almost as nice as the woods, and some­ times a good deal nioer!"--Youth's Companion4 The Heart** JPaarw • I'll not forgive Fred as long as I live," said Dora, angrily, as she came into the parlor, holding up before her mother the fragments of a beautiful lit­ tle sofa, a piece of the set of furniture her Uncle James had given her a few days before. " Dora, my daughter!" " Well, I mean just what I say," con­ tinued th# excited little girl. " Fred, came rushing into the summer-house, just as he always does, and trod on it with Ms great boots; and, when I spoke to Mjn-afee# it* he said he didn't care a J j * bit, and wished he chairs, too." * Think before you say more, my dear. Perhaps you vexed Frederick by your manner of speaking." •" I only told him he was oarelees and ugly, and so he was. It's too bad. No, I will never forget nor forgive it.' And, as she turned over the pieces of |the ruined toy in her hands, her face Igrew dark with revengeful feelings. | " Hark, Dora! listen; some one is knocking, I'm sure." Little Willie, a 3-year-old younger brother, stopped playing with his Jblocks on the floor, and looked at the door as if expecting a visitor. What do you mean, mamma? I fion't hear anything," said Dora. " Have you forgotten, my daughter, that there is a door to your heart? You have opened it once this morning, and let in an evil, hateful tiling. No pict­ ure that could be made of it would be loo dark to represent wliat is now in lyour heart." Dora hung her head, for now she be­ gan to understand her mother. And now, il you will listen, yon will hear One, your best Friend, at the door. He is knocking gently. Dear little daughter, let Him in. He has a mes­ sage for you, and it is, 'If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Heavenly Father forgive you your trespasses,' and that word 'men' means everybody, even Freddy, who, you think, has offended you so much." Dora's heart was softening. The tears came into her eyes. She opened the door of her heart a little way. Willie, who had been listening, came, and, putting his chubby arms around her neck, kissed her, but said nothing. Her heart's door swung wide open now, and Jesus entered. Yes, mother, I will forgive Freddy," sobbed Dora. " I was as much to blame as he, and I know I spoke spitefully, or he would have felt sorry when he did it." " Then, my darling, thank that dear Friend who has found the way into your heart with His love, and now go to Freddy and make up with him." Dora laid away the fragments of the sofa, and went out with sunshine in her face and joy in her heart, for its door was closed again, and her Friend was within. AN INNOCENT MAN SAVED. Newspaper readers will remember the savage, scowling Tll-stab-you-yet"faoe of England's Criminal Phenomenon, Charles Peace, who figured so much in type and on tongue a few months «£o. Just before his execution, this notorious outlaw made it known that he had mur­ dered Cook, the Manchester policeman, for which crime William Habron, a young Irishman, was soon to be hung. A clever dodge on the part of Peace, the public thought, to provoke investi­ gation aAd thus gain respite. So Peace was hung. Shortly afterward the Cock murder was again looked into in ac­ cordance with the suggestion of Peaoe. It was found that the bullet which killed the policeman fitted the executed man's revolver, and that it did not fit young Habron's weapon. Other points were revived, and Habron was released from the Portland prison. He was not informed of the pardon, but supposed that he was soon to be hung. His neck had been measured a few days before. At last it dawned upon him gradually that he was not to die. The relief af­ fected his nervous system, but, under good treatment, he rallied, and is now a happy man. Thus, after an imprison­ ment of three years and within a step of the gallows, an innocent man is saved from martyrdom to law. CARLOTTA'S HOUSE. The ex-Empress Carlotta is now set­ tled in the Chateau of Bouchout, near Brussels. Her mental condition does not give the slightest hope ef a cure. The unfortunate Princess writes and paints with inconceivable ardor; her correspondence is almost entirely ad­ dressed to sovereigns, and her letters are sent to their destination. She says but little to her ladies of honor. She constantly thinks that she is at the Mexican Court, receiving the grandees of the empire, Ministers, Generals and Ambassadors, and converses as if die were in their midst. Her toilet is some­ times of the most extraordinary de­ scription, and the most garish colors are those in favor. The Princess is very fond of the society of the Queen, whom she loves extremely. Her confi­ dential servant is a Mexican, who not quitted her since she left America, and he always waits on her at dinner. The fact may be remembered that for a long time the Princess believed that people wished to poison her; and, shortly after her return to Europe, visit­ ing the Pope, she had scarcely left the presence of his Holiness when she re­ turned to the Vatican, declaring that she would only consent to take her meals in the apartments of Pius IX. Her income is estimated at 1,800,000 francs. A PABPXB in Gill, Masŝ got $5 from the Poormaster "to obtain the necessi­ ties of life," as he declared, and used the taking to jbuesslf a wife* A WEIX-KKOWW Deputy belonging to the Centre party, whom Prince Bis­ marck had invited to dinner, was much teased and a little terrified by the con­ tinual attention of Phylax, a huge dog, to his feet and legs. " To tell you the truth," he observed to his National- Liberal neighbor at the table, "I am rather afraid that this huge brute will finish his dose attention by biting me." " You may be^uite easy on that score," remarked his colleague; " the dog will not hurt you to-day. You have very day voted with the Government." SIB EDWIN LANDSEKB used to tell a beautiful story of a dog-stealor of his acquaintance who once restored to a friend of Sir Edwin a valuable spaniel two weeks after the time agreed upon when the matter was negotiated. Sir Edwin upbraiding the man for his delay, the latter finally said: "Well, the truth is, Sir Edwin, you see I had to steal him back from an old lady to whom I sold him for 20 guineas. She never higgled about the price, and she was so fond of the dog I didnt think it would be Christian not to let her have a few days' pleasure of him." CHARLES YANKAX relates the follow­ ing anecdote of Henry Clay: During the period when William Gaston and Henry Clay were both in Congress they had an oratorical contest which was not satisfactory to the latter and resulted in a prolonged alienation between the two statesmen. Forty years after the afore­ said debate these two men met at the table of Mr. Seaton. At first they were both disposed to be very dignified toward each other, and the moment Mr. Seaton observed this he remem­ bered the long-forgotten difficulty be­ tween the champions of North Carolina and Kentucky, and at once propounded this sentiment, "Friendship in marble, enmities in dust," and from that hour Gaston and Clay were warm friends until they were parted in death. AT the outset of his oareer, Gov. Palmer, of Illinois, was not a successful orator. He was a great stutterer, and the expression of his thoughts was dammed by this impediment. He was naturally bashful, and lost his ideas in the presence of ladies. His first attempt to address the public was made at the celebration of the Fourth of July, 1839, iu Cuesierneid, HI. The platform was crowded with rosy-cheeked girls. John had his argument all set in his mind, and started off in good shape. Sud­ denly he lost himself in a sea of soft blue eyes and fluttering bonnets. He began to stammer, and made a frantic effort to clutch the broken thread of his argument. "I could not recall a thought or form a sentence," he says. " My mind was a vast prairie, and not a tree on it." He broke down, and dropped into his seat in painful confu­ sion. John Chestnut, a fluent young lawyer, took the stand - and made a graceful apology for young Palmer. " He was my warm friend," said Palmer afterward in recalling the incident, "but when he finished that fifteen-min- ute apology I felt as though I wanted to kill him." SAGE ABTIC1S. "My dear Susan," said a sage mother, arresting her daughter as she was about to start for a walk with her lover, " if Will asks you to go in and have some oysters, even if you are hungry, don't Say you do not approve of girls wasting the money of their future husbands on idle trifles, when it might be applied toward furnishing a house. Point out that for the cost of an oyster stew you might purchase a couple of towels, now toweling is so cheap, and that a saddle- rock roast is the equivalent of a silver fork--plated, of course, but not easily distinguishable from solid silver--or a glass sugar-bowl. This always takes the young men; it sets them to thinking of housekeeping and matrimony; it makes them believe you are the inoarnation of eoonomy, and would make an excel­ lent wife; and so they often say thingw which give you a hold over them, or are effective before a jury." Susan treas­ ured up these sagacious counsels of the authoress of her being, and acted upon them with such earnestness and effect that when she came home she was an engaged woman. Perhaps some other Susans will profit by this hint. TABLE ETIQUETTE* There are some vegetables and pastry which it requires some management to eat gracefully. Let us mention a few things concerning the eating of whioh there is sometimes doubt. A cream cake and anything of similar nature should be eaten with knife and fork, never bitten. Asparagus--which should always be served on bread or toast, -so as to absorb superfluous moisture--may be taken from the finger and tjiumb; if it is fit to be set before you the whole of it may be eaten. Pease and beans, as we all know, require the fork only. Potatoes, if mashed, should be mashed with the fork. Green corn should be eaten from the cob, but it must be held with a single hand. Celery, radishes, cresses, and all that sort of thing are, of course, to be eaten from the fingers; the salt should be laid upon one's plate, pri son the eloih. Fish is to be eaten with the fork, without the assistance of the knife; a bit of bread in the left hand sometimes helps one to master a re­ fractory morsel. Berries, of course, should always 1m eaten with a spoon. POFULAK SCIENCE. UNDETKBRXD by former Ittilures, OaK* fornia will again attempt the culture of cotton. THE over 700 potteries in the United States will prevent us from soon running short of ceramics. POWDERED resin thrown between an iron pulley and a leather belt is said to prevent the belt from slipping. PHOSPHORESCENT paper, writing or print on which can be read in the dark, is the substance of a late European in­ vention. A LAMP-CHIMNEY manufacturing firm in Pittsburgh heats its furnaces with benzine. Thirty-three per cent, of the former cost of dbdnmeys is said to be saved by it. THE secret of the luminous clock-dial consists in mixing a phosphorescent salt with paints and varnishes, and making the figures with it. A mixture of lime and sulphur is used. ' COLORADO contemplates the intro­ duction of the yak, or Thibet ox, which flourishes in the high mountains of Thibet, and the hair of which is used in manufacturing the beautiful Thibet shawls. RECENT calculations represent that the Italian workman receives 17 and 20 per cent, of the profit on his work; the Frenchman 47 per oent.; the English­ man, 56 per oent., and the American 72 per cent. IN Russian railway shops the use of boiling water in setting tires upon car wheels is practiced. In six years such tires have furnished but one fracture, and less than 1 per oent. have become loosened upon the wheel. AN Albany man is reported to have built up an extensive business, within a few years, on a simple small iron cast­ ing for stiffening the heels of boots and shoes. About three tons of these cast­ ings are made every month. BY wiping. the glasses of o^fioal in­ struments and of mirrors used as field instruments witfi a cloth dipped in gijConao, no ucpuaitiuu of moisture takes place on the sudden transition from a warm to a cold locality, and the cloudiness is thus prevented. The glycerine absorbs any moisture that may form, and keeps the instrument clear. ' THE RUSSIAN NIHILISTS. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Cologne Gazette gives many inter­ esting details of the revolutionary movement in Russia. Acoording to his statement, the movement is a purely So­ cial one, and has little to do with what is known as Nihilism, and nothing whatever to do with the Internationals. It is the court that separates the Czar from the people that the Socialists are seeking to break down. They demand a representative Government. Accord­ ing to their programme, the Third Di­ vision--the police gendarmerie--must be swept away. They further demand the abolition of corporal punishment with the stick in prisons, better treat­ ment of political prisoners, reform in the courts of justice, and changes in the procedure in preliminary examinations under the secret polioe. One of their pronunciamentos says: "Since we are unable to obtain any redress in a legal way, and that because in Russia, not the Czar, but those about the Czar really govern the country, we shall, un­ less attention is paid to our wishes, en­ ter upon the illegal way, and we shall shoot, stab and murder until our de­ mands are satisfied and the Camarilla is swept from the face of the earth." INCREASE Of THE HUMAN MAC*. Aooording to the most recent calcula­ tions--those of Petermann--the popu­ lation of the world is now 1,424,000,000 It is well known that not a few thinkers have called in question the account of the origin of mankind, as given in the Biblical writings, on the ground that it was impossible that in the period in question so many could have descended from two ancestors--Adam and Eve. This objection, however, Euler has un­ dertaken to meet, by showing that, in a process of doubling the population from one pair, It might amount to any conceivable number. It has been laid down that a population can double it­ self in twenty-five yean. It is true that, if the population increased to its present pitch in 5,880 years, it may have doubled itself every 200 years. The inhabitants of the earth would thus,"in 200 years, approach 3,000,000,000; and at the same rate the difference between the birth-rates and the death-rates would be nearly oonstant, themselves varying widdy. - A HAN lately murdered a woman in London whom he did not know, and for no reason that he o^uld give, ex­ cept that he was tired jof life. He started out with the avowed purpose of killing somebody, and he seems not bmp eexed wfeo hie victim .might ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. PBTOAT, May a--SaHATEr-Twentv-flve House bills were passed, of which twelve re­ late to County Court changes. The others are: To exempt |50 of the wages of the bead of a family from garnishment; to abolish the Board of State House Commissioners; to con­ stitute the Auditor a custodian; to abolish the Ltnd Office at Springfield; to abolish the office of City Records at Alton; to reg­ ulate travel upon public bridges; two bills to enable cities and villages to contract together for water supply aud sewerage; to amend the act for the sale of un­ claimed property in the hands of inn-keepers and others; two bills relating to fish cultiva­ tion ; to revise and consolidate the Game laws, etc.; to dsclare saloons where minors are al­ lowed to gamble disorderly houses, and pre­ scribe penalties....The 8ny Carte Drainage bill was made the special order for Thursday. ....The Cheater Penitentiary Mil was post­ poned to Tuesday. Houss.--Mr. Hinds' license bfll was consid­ ered on second reading and ordered to a third by decisive vote, without amendment... .The two remaining bills of the three prepared by the Revenue Committee for the amendment of the Revenue laws were defeated on their pas­ sage, after a long debate, but House bfll No. which requires an oath to the schedule of personal property, etc., was reconsidered and recommitted. One of the bills defeated abolishes the publication of the delinquent tax list...., ^il! ifkekapi •jKriupaaisa purely lor msnw factoring purposes from taxation' on oapitsj stock was passed Bill* taxing the capital stock of railroads, and for division of work be­ tween the Appellate and Courts wer®5 defeated. SATUIUDAT, May 10.--SKUTK. --House Mils on first reading being the order, a large number of tfoew wore digposed of by reference,,. .The Senate spent the remainder of the morning considering two bills--one to prohibit the sale of liquor within two miles of a city or village, which was recommitted; and the other to the Practice act in regard to continuances of suits, which was sent to a third reading. HOUSE.--In the Hoaw much routine busi­ ness was done, and bills were passed to inter­ pret the law relating to actions to recover fines, eta, under city and village ordinances, and to require polls to be kept open at city and village elections from 8 to 7 o'clock... .House bill No. 843, to amend the Revenue law, was reported back by the Revenue Committee, with amend­ ments, and vas omlered to a third reading.... The Farm Drainage bill was made the spe­ cial order for Monday Bills passed: amending the Free School act; fixing toe time for holding County Courts in several counties; giving Judges, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace and Masters in Chancery power to com­ pel the attendance of witnesses. MONBAV;, May 12. --SENAT*. --Only twenty- two Senators being present, a recess was taken till afternoon, when, though still one short of a quorum. House bills were read a first time. HOUSE.--No quorum was present, but Senate bills on first reading were read and passed to the order of second reading. A number of House bills in the order of first reading wer, also advanced to the order of second reading, After this a recess was taken till afternoon, when McKinlay's Drainage bill was discussed: orderea to a third reading sad made the order for Tuesday. TUESDAY, May 1.1 --SENATE. --Bills killed: Authorizing any railroad company to extender shorten its line; to authorize County and Town Treasurers to pay the interest and principal of their registered debt at their offices... .Senator i/iSpuui S luciii anua ciiii, and Mr. Horrison:8 House bill to reduce the pay of the Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners to f 1.501) per annum were recommitted. The same disposition was made of tho bill complete the Chester penitentiary... Senator Joelvn sent up a new bill, which ap­ propriates $700,WK) to pay the State officers for the next two years and the expenses of the next General Assembly... .The House Militia bill, the special order for this afternoon, was taken up, and, after being discussed all the afternoon, was passed to third reading. HOUSE.--Mr. Powell presented a resolution providing that no member should hereafter be allowed to speak more than ten minutes without the consent of the House. Referred... .A long debate oocurred on the motion to reconsider the vote by which the Appellate Court bill failed to pass, resulting in the recon­ sideration and second defeat of the bill. ....Tho following appropriation bills wer« passed: Appropriating for the payment of expenses for the Second District Appellate Court; appropriating #1,3)5.11 for the pay­ ment of the expenses of me appellate Court of the Fourth district; appropriating #9,500 for the completion of the Douglas Monument; ap­ propriating #69.98 to pay the claim of the placing Jersey and Calhoun counties or; to authorise ofBeeis who aconit bcauTte to ellato propriating #2,000 per annum... .In the af­ ternoon, eight more small appropriation bills were passed, one was lost ana one temporarily postponed....The Senate bill to organize in­ dustrial schools for girls was advanced to a th'rd reading. WEDNESDAY, May 14. --SESAT*. --The bill to change the tims of holding Circuit Courts in several counties was amended and advanced to a third reading....The bill to complete the Soutnern penitentiary was reported tmefc by the Appropriation Committee, and advanced to a third reading, with an amendment requiring contractors to employ and allow the State for convict labor.... Mr. Collins' bill to amend the City and Tillage Incorporation act was advanced to a third read­ ing, without amendment.... .A long debate was had on the bill to reduce the rate of inter­ est on contracts to 8 per cent, resulting in the adoption of an amendment to matce liquidated-damages contracts usuri­ ous when in excess of the legal rate; and the bill was advanced to a third read­ ing....In executive session, Messrs. Hawkin- son, Prindiville and Demara were oontirmed as Chicago Justices. Mr. Brentano was rejected. Two bills in regard to Chicago parks were sent to third reading... .The Road uid Bridge law was taken tip and debated. Housi:.--Newly the whole morning was spent in making speeches on a bill to appro­ priate #30,000 for repairs of the canal, aid the bill passed by a vote of 111 to '<14 Other bills were passed m fol­ lows: Appropriating #2,000 per annum for the State Horticultural Society; #90,000 for the Chicago Eye and Ear Infirmary; #300 to the city of Metropolis; giving the State Board of Health #5,000 as a contingent fund... The Mil appropriating #50,000 for the Joliet peniten­ tiary was fiercely opposed, but was sent to third reading. THURSDAY, May 15. •--45EKAT«. --Ths entire morning session was spent in considerate!; of the House Road bill for counties under town- ship organization, which is substantially m m- enactment of the law of 1878; this was finally sent to third reading. ...A large number of committee reports were sent in, after which Senator Joslyn introduced the General Appropriation bill, had it md a first time, and sent to second reading....Senator MoClellan's proposed constitutional amendment in regard to the work of legislation failed to re­ ceive a two-thirds vote....The Revenue bill and the Township Consolidation bill were passed „. .The bill in regard to mines WM mads a special order " propriating money overflow at Henry HOUSE.--Two hoars were spent sat fhs bid making appropriations forjtlie^lusaucjAsylum St Jacksonville, resulting In ordering it to a third reading without amendment Ths appropria­ tion for the Normal University at Carbondale was reduced to #18,591, and for the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Jacksonville increased #5,000 and ordered to a third reading... .The balaoos of the day was spent in the mmad reading of Senate appropriation bills , .The Governor to-day received aud accepted the resignation of George Scroggs as Representative from Cham­ paign county. The vacancy will not be filled unless an extra session of to® legislators fee- oomes necessary. a FBIDAY, May 1€L -- BUAXB.--BUls w«n I Dili ID regBTU tU IU1UVO was ummv for Wednesday, and the bill ap- meyfor damages to property by nrv dam was lolled. oust j . ....... who swmpj j* administer oaths to persons offering as boaO»> men ; to amend the charters of the PathsrMattww Soraebes; the fey. Carte Drainage bill.... iw kilfed to insurance other than Ufa WUed....The afternoon was devoted m discussion of the Henry dam si but it was not acted upon.,, .The « setSenator Ment's Bank bill down as a, order for Tuesday next, read bills, and agreed to adjourn to Monday. HOUSE. A long deUtte was had on the Benf ̂ ate bill to amend the Refunding act, and it wal' amended and advanced to third reading Th|f Fann Drainage bill, which was prepared in th* Senate committee. * as read a thSitime ana WM©d... .Thei Wul to consolidate tits Svprema; Courts at Springfield was put on it#'? passage and defeated, as was the bin to1 P&Y the debts of (he Joliet penitentiary. . Bilfg were passed: To amend the Psnonal Property Exemption act; Loveil's bill to reeulata the wale of milk; to abolish the State HouseOo- ̂ missioners; to amend the criminal code* the re-election of a Clerk of the Superior <' of Cook; amending the law in relation tocouny> ties; authorizing convict labor upon the streetft and roads; two bills in regard to changes oi-S venueI'll© bills in regard to animals mnlij rang at large and in reference to townshic etecS? v tfyW were.lost . _ . : > INDIAN MFE 8TON0Z >•;', / • KT H. 0. WIL80K. natural curiosities. There are also many -:' places of'historic interest, and the caret* * ful and observing traveler finds her* and there places that have curious anjt entertaining legends connected with their early history, of which the oon*. mon populace hav« but little or n4 F knowledge. One of these is the pipe*, * stone quarry of Southwest Minnesota This is said to be the only place iflt ^ the world where this particular kind o| | stone is found. It covers but area, and has never been extensively . worked, except by the Indians, who im*; ^ ju­ rist that from time immemorial thai - _<'• have here obtained the material for thfT "pipe of peace." ; The stone as it is found in the quarry * ' is of a reddish or flesh oolor; is easily out or carved, and is quite durable. There is a beautiful little stream of jp limpid water running over and among ® the rocks, and at one point it falls ovet a ledge in such a manner as to fonn * y , truly-magnificent picture. Beautiful are the views one gets of the surrounding landscape, the rocks ift "'if the quarry, the sentinel-like towers, an4 the cascade. But to me the most bears* .. 4 * | tiful thing connected with locality is the Indian legend of the origin ;J ub65 o 1 ilie pipe stone: ' "Many, many moons ago," say the^ | "the Great Spirit stood on this sacrejl - " J spot, and oalled all the Indian tribes to* gether. • "He then broke from the rook pieoeof stone and molded it by haul ^ into a huge pipe bowL <. j "This he filled, and smoked it towarft % \ each of the four points of the compas^. thus indicating that its mild influencj| should extend over all his red ohildreij».; "He told them the ground on whic|| they stood was sacred. ^ "That no weapon of war should eve|| be raised there or made of the stonft •round them. . "That only the pipe, or other article^ emblematio of peace, should be ' out of this sacred material. ^ "That the red stone was their fleafa|v and belonged equally to them all. ^ "Here none were superior to his fe$" lows, but that always the red men froi% , every hunting ground should meet an<|t | mingle as members of one great famiijt M Then, at the last whiff of the the Great Spirit disappeared in th< cloud and the whole ground was melt " When it cooled, it still retained red color, but was found to be in iayerlb % and comparatively soft for their especuft * convenience in working or putting int# * - form." Such, in brief, is the " Legend of th« PipeStone." It doubtless had some*'"' : thing of a restraining influence upoi§ them, as repeated by Mk&t to son witl|' , f f careful admonitions to observe iteteaoht'Y ings. The remaining Indians of ihe North** J * west still believe and repeat the story. They are also very jealous of its use bji^ ; the whites, insisting that it is thei* , , flesh, and that if a piece is taken by > pale-faoe a hole or wound is made thai will never stop bleeding. Even an Indian will not take from tin* *; place a single piece without asking per* 1 mission of the Great Spirit and deposit r iting in its stead a quantity of tobacco^ . ,r Then, solemnly promising that it shalf * *, only be made into a pipe or other blem of peaoe, he quietly takes his da* ' parture. IOWA OR*, Iowa. ' TV-T " • • 1 • STOUT calico Is made vafterpvooI BJR the Chinese with a preparation whidi!»* proves efficient in any climate, and ia# supposed to be oomposed of the follow­ ing ingredients. Boiled oil, one quart Jp; soft soap, one ounce, and beeswax one|| ounce, the whole to be boiled until re-f^ duced to three-quarters of its quantity^ \ V, when mixed. The calico treated withk ' ^ } t h i s m i x t u r e a n s w e r s w e l l f o r l i f o - q » W ^ ing apparatus. •*-**- Aw old farmer once said to his fcoys^^S?' "Boys, don't you ever spekerlate, or wait for somethin* to turn up. Yc might just as well go aud sit down on a, stone in the middle of a medder, withar pail twix' your legs, and wait for % eow- M