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VMM.YKE. cwriM rnbiishe* hUcHENRY, ILLINOIS ??; i\, RABBAKA FRIKTCH K KKVISKtt. IMM VKH!,ION OI" OJ.D /.SLL POP0IABPOM If'li. "#•' M vss rtroo d r rt eed» of Fr:*der ckedewa, . B>nd hot (SB In *u thine him don M, t- * V'" 11 v"t« ' B«<4 der ta'o n* all flit mit bier Der rebel Tellers va ked on his car. !> ^ All dny drno FT dcrfcksdo«n so fast, Hi rsos tind gnu.- und ogenMiask * - .p Deri*'«l flache shone him oat •> btMti: As If, by Jenks! he grot some ridt. 5ere v»s de Oil on flag! Der mm •* e i» k him down not on a vou. Qp jumred d >t old M s« Friet. hie dA, Bo old I y nine score years aud ten. ghe grabbed up der old flag der men hauled down Ctad fastened It gnlck by her nlghtgawn. Den she sot' y der v'nder vere all could see. Dene vae vone vot lof; dot fl g to fit®. ftirtv soon come ridln' up old 8tonewal Jack. OTttilr from ih • mlt le ot his horse's back. Under his brow ho eqnintsh'B eyes, *»' . Dot flag I dot make him trreat surp .im. * . "Halt!" Each feller, male? him sditt - "FITJ {"WAG echoed rom h.lt t h>ll. It fonster d r string of dot niltsowi. Hut Barbara 1 rietchie she vas urmnt She grabbed <'er flair ae»1n so gnlck. ^ ^ Ujnd ond of der vindow her arm did sdidt. "Obrt-*, if yem w mid, dis ole bilt h>«A, Bat leave alons dot Hatt!" she said. -< ; 1 So scon, so irnick a1* Jack could do. He h l.er him oud mid a face so blue, "Who bull® a h Ir out of dot bait head, H Dies awtull^jtcb! Goaheat! he s-aid. Und a'l dot d>y, u -d all dot nits. Till etfery rebaiwas ooJ of sits, (*» Und leave behind h m dot Fre lericksdown, Di»t flag vae suhickm' uy dot uitegjwn. Dame ltarh ric Frictchir-'s vork is done. She don't forever hive cot some fun. ; lolly for her! und drop a tw Fordo old voman's mido.it sotn? fear. An Old Time Boy. la this age of bacl boy literature, it «iny be interesting to read of the mod- ** em imp's prototype m the days agone --prototype in mischeif, if not in years, f Theodore Hook was probably the best ' .kowii of ail the jokers of lus age, and , Mthoeo who were the butts of his numer- * * ous, and most generally reckless tricks, never were permitted to forget him. Of <?, , hie famous jokes a considerable number "*»• were of a very practical character, a \ U.'kind ot frolic Ui.-tt modern society has .1 " »" declared to be intolerable. Such, for •\ * ; example, was the "Berners Street /r 'r* Hoax," which is thns retold in the Ed- * inburgh Ladies' Journal: Hook's mo- 1 ,-vtive for perpetrating such a trick is not . f' definitely known. Some say that the ,'t - 'lady who was the victim of it had of- Jt t fendtxl Hook in some way, and that this was the singular fashion in which he re- , taliated. Another reason, which we may charitably conclude to be the more prob- of the two, assigns it to a bet which ^^5 Hook made with Mathews, the actor, ' / b while the pair were passing along Ber- , ^ nein stret t, to the effect that he would ;^ps: Ipm&ke one of the houses in it (to wiiose . ̂ neatness Mathews had drawn his atten- t'; r.' tion) the talk of all Loudon. Out of •; V curiosity, perhaps, Mathews accepted ,the liet, and Hook thereupon seclud d himself for a week wr ting letters, of > he despati-ed two or three thousand to || various tradesmen and others in ^ ,• ^ London, asking them to deliver • goods at Ka 45 Berners ;| street on a certain day and at a partic- . ̂ alar hour, which he specified. Hook >f|" himself is said to have taken lodgings t apposite the hoase, that he might get a good view of the fan and confusion , whfch he anticipated would ensne. At ..J the ap|>oL-ted hoar carts and wagons # a began to pour into the quiet uttle g£ street, carters, undertakers, cabmen, 1 bakers" and butchers' vans, and brew- .. x ers' dray# with barrels of ale, while on " " * f fout came doctors, lawyers, nurses, i f ministers, Membtrs of Parliament, and ; to crown all, the Lord Mayor of Lon­ don, to whom Hook had audaciously written, asking him to attend, to hear V- "5^* the confession of a dying oonncilor. Soon the street was blocked from end " to end, and a scene of the most in- ? - $ describable confusion ensued. In at- 1 ,v temping to extricate themselves from - the densely wedged mass, vehicles ^ were smashed, and their contents scat- '*"• | tered °n the ground; barrels fell from J| tho brewer s drays aud their contents • flowed down the gutters. All was con- : ' ' fusion doubly confounded. By this v • time, of coarse, the hoax had become apparent, and only with the utmost dilliculty was the street freed from the W motley mob that had taken possession > ' of it, after which it presented the ap­ pearance of a street in some town, that ha ~ •» ir<»m you yesterday, on mv Liver" ool, to din© with you to-day, sc vou see I have taken you i t your word; t am only af aid 1 have kept you wait^ ing." "No, no, not at a I. Jiut permit me fo observe, my dear sir, my name is n^t txftf tly Thompson--it i« Jones, and--" "Jones?" repeated Theodore, pretending to be thunderstruck at the intell.pence, "I nrnst liavo come to the wron<r ho.ise. My dear sir, wli%t an un ortunate blunder! What must you think of such an intrusion? I am really at a loss for words to apologize. You will permit me to retire at present --so awkward, ton, and I have a-ked a friend to eall for me at ten." Tne host, thinking that such a lively and witty personage would lie a dec ded acquisi­ tion to tiie party, begged him to stay, and amply was he repaid for his for­ bearance, for Hook exerted his extra­ ordinary power that night to such an extent that he kept the whole eompany in the most uproarious laughter. About ten, when Terry was announced, he fin­ ished the song he was sintzkig. and woundup the night's performance "I am verv much p cas> d with your f»fe ' Yourc 11 r's as tine a* vour cook; My ri nd's Mr. Teiry, the player, * A ii I'm J.lr. Tli odarc Hook." "With these specimens let us take leave of Hook as a practical joker, and glance at him as a punster, in which capacity lie lias never been excelled, Lven by the famous Torn Hood. He, liowevo , strongly inveighs against tite practice-of punning in a rhyme, in which he gives various examples ol puns. Two verses will suffice • sample: "Thus one micht pay whoa to tr^at Oood friouds a,eoc|>' our eve; in sr. . "T s mee. th t men who meet to eat >,' Show d ea ti.eir mu t when m etinf. Erjiwn on the l> ivrd't* ro bort- indeed, AltiioiiKti fr ni b ar prepared? No can the owl oa wli;cii we feed. Foul fee J las be declared." "Th" dyer who by dyeing lives, A d xc li!e maimams, Ti:e glai er it is know n receives. 5 III p li from tils panes. Bv-Ka.tiene-s thyme is led,'tis t'.ne, \\ uen *, rinu is iu its pr>ine; But time or tid • wo rt w .it for you , If you aie tied o time." While entertaining some frien§&Pi£t his house one evening, just as he was in the midst of one of his famous extem­ pore songs, his servant announced to him that Mr. Winter, tax-gatherer, had called for the taxes. Hood paid no at­ tention, but went on with his song, add­ ing at the end: i ero con es Mr. Winter, collec'cr of taxes, advise ys n >o pay him what ver lie axes, Ex list s won't do, he stands no sort of flmn- mry. hough Winter his name is, his process is sum- hiary. His power of repartee may be illus­ trated by the following: There were, in London, two silly brothers who were remarkably like each other, and who took a delight in dressing alike and puzzling their most intimate ac­ quaintance to distinguish the one from the other. Hook, disgusted with such silliness, was conversing with one of their admirers, who, seeing that Theo­ dore was far from echoing his senti­ ments with respect to them, at last ex­ claimed: "Well, you will at least ad­ mit that they resemble each other wonderfully; they are as like as two peas." "They are," returned Hook, and quite as green." On another oc- ision, while walking past a bill-post­ ing station, a friend drew Hook's atten­ tion to a poster, part of which had been torn off", and which read, "Warren's B "Oh." replied Hook, "'tis lac-kin that should follow."'--Toptlea Lance. d been sacked after having sustained a long siege. Hook, alarmed at the gigantic proportions which his silly hoax had assumed, and dreading the vengeance of the civil authorities, it' bis share in the plot were discovered, thought it expedient to rusticate for few weeks till the affair blew over. The following is of a more civilized nature, and has withal a piece of ro mance. But no one without Hook's re­ markable talent, could venture to emu­ late his audac ty. One night Hook was passing through one of the streets of London with his boon companion. Daniel Terry, the actor, and he hap­ pened to notice down an area a splendid dinner which some servants were pre­ paring. "A party, no doubt," said Ter­ ry; ".oily dogs-- what a feast! I should like to make one of them." "Ill take a bet I do," said Hook. "Call for me at 10 o'clock, and you shall find I shall Le able to give a tolerable account of the worthy gentleman's champagne and venison." So saying he left his friend Terry, pounced up the steps, gave vigorous rap to the knocker, and was admitted by the servant, who of course, imagined him to be one of the invited guests. Having entered the drawing- room, which already contained a pretty large company, he m ngled with the crowd, and was laughing and joking with those around him be lore the gen­ tleman of the bouse discovered h>m. Even then, owing to Hook's volubility, it was ome time before the host got an opportunity of demanding an explana­ tion of his presence. "I beg your pardon, s r," at last he contrived to get <ut, "but your name, sir--I did not ^nitecatch it; servants are so abomina- o'y incorrect, and I am really at a loss." "Don't a|>ologize, I beg," replied Theo­ dore, with the most unblushing ef­ frontery. "Smith--my name is Sm th. "Ton are quite rijrht, sir; servants ; are preat blockheads. I remember a jrem&rkab e instance," etc. "But really, ttj dear, sir, interposed the host, "1 oectainly di 1 not anticipate the pleas- nW of Mr. Smith's company to dinner. IST&kk d& vou supper you arc address- • f "Mr Thompson, of course," re- Book--"an old friend of my t received • Uad invitation How Pocahontas Looked. An original painting of Pocahontas has been found in the family of Mr. Peter Elwin (Obit 1798) of Booton Hall, near Aylsham, in Norfolk, Eng­ land. .Mr. Elwin was the descendant of Anthony Iiolfe, of Tottingham. The painting is without signature. Around the portrait (on the canvas) are these words in Latin: "Maloaka Rebecka Mia potenti#*; Princ; Foichatini Imp. Virg'tnifp," Who was the painter? At the same time Yandyck, Jansen, and other Hollanders were in the first rank of painters at the Court of James L, and alterward at that of I. Charles. Then there were others like Nicola Loc ;er, who, as Mrs. H. Jones informs us. painted an oval portrait of the then Bishop of London, who was the special Jrit-nd of Pocahontas, and in whose palace at Lambet'.i she was a guest. It seems probable that he was the painter. The painting of the face, and of the detai s of the dress, is chear and finish­ ed, and shows great de icacy and beauty of execution. The portrait is slightly smaller than life, the face stamped un­ mistakably with the Indian type, and denoting intelligence and thoughtful- ness, with much dignity, bo'h in its ex­ pression and in the carriage of the head. * * The features are handsome and well formed, the lips bright red, the skin dark, smooth and vellum like, with a suspicion of a copper tint. The eyes are remarkable r.nd prolonged at the corners. The color is a rich, de­ cided, undeniable brown, with blue tints on the white eye-balls. The eye­ brows are straight and black; the short hair by the ears throws out a glistening pearl ear-ring. The deep lace ruff, ris­ ing behind, sharply defines the face, which shows the high cheek-bones, and the outline narrowing abruptly below them, so characteristic of her race. The hat which she appears in sinks, in the oil painting, unnoticed, into the scarcely less dark background, while the richly-chased golden band round it gives the effect of a coronet, and is in happy combination with the coloring of the face. &he is depicted in a mantle of red brocaded velvet, much orna­ mented with gold; theunderdressdark, buttoned with gold buttons. A small taper hand holds a fan of three os­ trich feathers. Making It Up* Western Railroad President--"I te 1 you, sir, it is ruinous. I can't reduce fares between those points from $14.50 to $5. You must be crazy." Superintendent--,-lt must be done, sir, or the new B. Y. W. and Y. line will get part of our traffic." But it costs more than that to carry them." "Oh! I have that all fixed;, we ^11 make it all up every trip." Jn what way?" My idea is to run nothing but palace cari" "Well." "And then, before reaching the end of the road, you and I. disgu sed as two of the James gang, will board the train' "Capital idea; but that would only work for a while. The passengers would complain and the authorities would get after us." "Oh I but we won't touch the passen­ gers." "Not?" "No; we will just roh the porter."-- Philadelpli a Call. FOREST fires in eastern Maine are driving lumbermen out of the woods, showers have checked the flamed in •ome locality How TO GAIN A CHOP OF ASPARAOTTS. --Many market gardeners advocate the application of sa>t on asparagus lieds. J. B. Moore, a Massachusetts grower, says that salt is no use to this crop. His plan for growing a full asparagus crop is briefly as follows: Plough deep, manure heavily, plant in furrows eight inrhes deep, gradually filling np as *he plants grow. The rows are marked four feet apart, and the plants are placed twenty inches apart in the rows. KEEPING SKED BKAXS AXD PXAS.--I have saved my seed beans and peas for the last two years from the weevil by shelling out the seed and putting in empty baking-powder cans along with small bits of gum camphor. Before I tried this remedy I lost nearly all the seed I saved, but since then I have had no trouble. Three pieces the size of a bean are sufficient for a pint can, one in ti e bottom of the oau, one in the mid­ dle and one on top. By the way, I find these empty baking-powder cans very handy and convenient for keeping seeds.--Rural New Yorker. SCALE INSECTS.--A writer in a Lou­ don exchange says: "For plants under glass, infested with bug aud scale in- st cts, J araffine has proved a most effi cie it remedy, and will do more in an hour than could be effected in a day by sponging and brushing. But its pow­ erful nature should never be forgotten, and it must not be applied too strong, or without continual stirring. The crudest and least pure oil, being heavier and less inclined to float on water, is best. Two or three table- spoonfuls to a gallon of water is strong enough to kill any of the above-named insects. Ftfr bogs on wood-work it is used unmixed and brushed over like paint into every crack. On some ten* der growths it may prove hurtful, even if largelf diluted." SAVING SQHASHES FSOM BUGS.--In former years I have been greatly an- uoyed by squash bugs, and sometimes lost my entire crop by the maggot. Last year I was entirely successful in combating these enemies. My method was as follows: Spread the main part of the manure upon the land and plough under, putting one shovelful of finely composted manure in the hill, with a handful of salt thoroughly mixed with it. If the maggot should appear, pour water mixed with Paris green about the roots of the plants. My trouble with bugs was to the extent of two applications of Paris green in water, requiring but little time. As tuese applications are made before the plants blossom, I see no d .nger.-- Farmer, Way land, Mass. CHARRING POSTS.--Some years ago I built a board fence, and before put­ ting in tiie posts (oak) I burned them to a hard coal where they came in con­ tact with the ground. I am impressed with the idea that they will last several years longer by so doing. I would be glad to hear from others in regard to the subject, as it is an important mat­ ter. The old-fashioned rail fence must soon give way to young America, and consequently farmers must use posts of some kind, and if we do, let us get the most possible service out of them. The old-fashioned rail fence is the most ex­ pensive that the farmer can build, and it takes too much ground for it to stand 3pon. The cheapest and best fence we can build is posts twelve feet apart, fofrr smooth wires and pickets four feet long woven into the wire.--Levi RUs- inger, Preble County, Ohio. WORK HORSES.--The following item from the Western Plowman ehould be considered by every farmer who thinks it is policy to "save"' by cutting down the feed of his working teams during the winter: By all means have your woric animals in good, sound, healthy condition, and fine flesh before the spring work sets in, or it will be utterly impossible, no matter how well the ani­ mals are fed, to ever get them to lay on tlcsh while they are kept steadily at work. A work horse which commences the spring work poor will continually get poorer, and not be able to do as much work as one which has com­ menced in good, healthy, heavy flesh, even if all are fed equally well during tho work season. Farmers, it is not yet too late to put your work animals m fine working trim before the spring work opens up. It will not merely pay you to do this, in the decreased ap­ pearance and value of the animals, but they will do much more work and easier than a lean, light, and under-fed animal. MARKETING OR FEEDING GRASS CROPS.--One of the questions In agri­ cultural economy which will perhaps never be settled to the satisfaction of all concerned, is whether it is better for the grain raiser to market his crops direct or feed them to his stock. Not­ withstanding that the weight of testi­ mony is in favor of the latter p&ata, great many farmers persist in cling ing to the former one. Granting that an occasional man is so situated that it advisable for him to sell his grain altogether, and that there is an occii" signal phenomenal period of a year or two in which feeding appears to bp in somo degrees a sacrifice of grain, there is no doubt whatever that the average grain raiser should also be a stock raiser. The cases re'erred to are only such exceptions as can be found for al­ most any generally accepted agricul­ tural rule, and do not in any sense dis­ prove o> a claim wlrcli is substantiated by the best farming brains and exper­ ience in the country. It is hardly nec- ssary to arcrue at this day that stock raising and feed ng, taking any consid­ erable term of years together, will pay, or that land that is cropped without feeding will in a term of years lose its productiveness and value, unless fer­ tilized in some other way, genera' ly more expensive and le<s satisfactory These things are pretty well under stood, and yet some men find that in their own experience they do not get tiie value out of their g>. ain in feeding, although they see in the experience of others that this use of it is profitable. Excepting the off years (each branch of agriculture having its off years in which it fails fo pay) the man who fails to profit in feeding his gra m must be at fault in method, must be lacking in economy, or muxt in some way fail to properly man-ge his business. When two feeders, similarly siturtted, one suc- < eeds and the other fails, the difference must of necessity l e in the men, an I Uie failure of one furnishes no argu­ ment n gainst the general ave»aore irofit of ra*s ng. feeding and marketing omestic animals.--Pittsburgh block- nan. ^ * pinto} boiling water, toil the parsley almut 10 m.nuU-e, druin it oti a sieve, minoe it quite tine, and then bruise it to a pulp; put it into a s*aee boat, and mix with it by degrees abont one-half a pint of drawn or meltod butter. Serve in the sauce l>oat. S I R W E D CHICKKN.--Season and stew a cliioken in a quart pi water until very tender; take it out on a hot dish and keep it warm; then put into the liquor a lump of butter the size of an egg; mix a little flour and water •mooth and make a thick gravy, season well with pepper and salt, and let it come to a boiL Turn orer the chiqken a d serve :.ok OAT MEAX. GEMS.;--Take one cup of oat meal and soak it over night in 1 cup of water; in the morning add one cup of sour milk, one teaspoonful of saler- atus, one cup of flour and a little salt. They are baked in irons, as other gemi and muffins. If on first trial you fiud them moist and sticky, add a little more flour, as some brands of flour thicken more tlian others. FRUIT CAKE.--Five eggs, one-half cup of milk, five cups of flour, flavoring to taste, three cups of sugar, one cup of butter, one-half pound of raisins, one- half pound of currants. Work butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs well beaten, the flavoring, and sift the flour, stirring thoroughly, flour the raisins and currants and stir in last. Bake slowly in a moderate oven, two hours. BREAKFAST CAKES.--One and a half cups of Indian meal, one and a half cups of flour, half cup of sugar, but­ ter, teaspoonful of soda, milk, and one egg. Mix the meal and flour together thoroughly, then butter, sugar and egg; stir cream of tartar in the flour, and dissolve the soda in a little cold water; mix all this quite soft with milk; bake in shallow pans. To be eaten hot with butter, and is very nice. TOMATO SAUCE.--Peel ^pd cut in small pieces one dozen large, ripe, and juicy tomatoes; add six small green peppers and two medium-sized onionB; chop these very fine, stir in a coffee- cupful of vinegar, two or three table- spoonfuls of brown sugar, a heaping tablespoonfnl of salt, a teaspoon each of ginger, cloves, allspice, and cinna­ mon ; stew the tomatoes and all the in­ gredients but sugar and vinegar five minutes before taking from tho fire. PEACHES CANNED.--Pare and stone yonr peaches; put them in a syrup made of two cups of water to one cup of sugar. .Ju^t let them get tender, and while boiling hot fill into your jars and seal; make only enough for two jars at a time; measure the raw fruit after it is pared and cut into a jar, making it full, and then allow half as much again for the shrinkage after boiling; thus one and a half jarfnls raw will make one jarful after boiling. Hussian Police. Ih fiussia, every one who has the friis- fortune to fall into the hands of the po­ lice as a political offender--no matter now trivial his offence may be--is, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, a lost man. The preliminary detention is made at the arbitrary pleasure of the prosecution, which in Russia is another name for the police; they can arrest and detain whom they will. No blame at­ taches to a mistaken arrest; on the con­ trary, the more the arrests the greater the merits of the prosecutor. For in­ stance, at the time of the trial of the "hundred and ninety-three," in 1878, there were, over and above this number of the accused, about 1,400 persons ar­ rested. Of these, half were set at lib­ erty after a few months, but the remain­ der were kept in]prison during the whole four years that the case lasted, save only seventy-five who died, some by suicide, some of consumption, some in­ sane. And in more recent times when the white terror followed upon out­ breaks ot revolutionary terrorism, and especially in the reign of Alexander 111.--who invented a species of political proconsuls, such as Strelmikoff, to dev­ astate towns and provinces and arrest r ght and left--the severities have been even greater. But I have no positive figures at hand. The normal penalties for political crimes are simply Draco­ nian--ten years at the galleys for a single speecli or for reading or preserv­ ing a proclamation. And whenover a prosecution follows an outbreak, tho tribunal receives special orders to ag­ gravate the penalties so as to make "a salutary example," and the verdicts be­ come legal assassinations of the most monstrous character. The lad Rosov- sky was condemned to death and actu­ ally hanged at Kiev on the 5th of March, 1880, for merely having in his house a proclamation of the executive committee. The same judgment was passed on the student of Efremoff for having lent a room in his house to two revolutionists who were concerting a plan of escape without even taking their young host into confidence. But his sentence was commut d to a life­ long condemnation to the galleys in consequence of his having the weakness to appeal for mercy. Drobiasgin, Mai- dansky, Lisogub, 'i'chubnrov, were all banged--some for having subscribed money to the revolutionary cause, oth­ ers for conveying a box. of which they did not know the contents, but which the actual law of the country punishes only with exile or a few years of im­ prisonment.--Contemporary Review. HOUSEKEEPER*' HELPS. YORKSHIRE PUDDING.--One pint of .'our, three eggs, one and three-quarter pii ts of milk, salt two t ^-spoonfuls of baking p°wder: pour into a i « Idmg ilfeh spread with beef drippings and bake one-half hour. PARSI.ET AND JSCTTER--Wash and jtck leaf ligi leaf some parsley, put a Been to The Club. Where have you been at this late hour?" sternly asked Mrs. Tongue- lastier, as her liege lord staggered in at the door, bowing to the hat rack. "Been to club," he answered, with much difficulty. "You know this is not club night,1 she howled emphatically. "Was call meetin' by Sec'terry," he replied thicker than before. "Oh, yes, it may have been called a meeting* the Secretary, for he runs a gin shop; now tell me. what was the object of this called meeting?" "Was call meetin' to confer with crowd lawyers," he returned, feeling his way to the water bucket "An'1 tellyou, 'Liza," he continued, "I met sliev'al mos't prom'nont members of bar." Sorrowfully she looked at him and said, as he. snugly tucked his boots be tween ti e sheets, and threw himseli un der "the bed: Yes, f om the way ypu smell, should think vou had met all of the raentb raof the bAt."--Atlanta Consti­ tution. <j__ TIIF.ODOITE PARKER once said of Wen dell Phillips that whether he bel «ved in tli-* 1 five points" of orthodoxv or no' he practiced one of them, the persever ance of the Saints, which was better t an a belief in the other four. In reality, Mr. Phillips was a rigid Oal« viuist (Th* Krmil not A Ol nt Kiwn In Arlsnna. •' Arizona luis a history which has nev­ er been written, saytf n letter to the San Francis- o Chron 'u le. It is only ito d by the empty irrigating o annels, the ruins of populous towns, vacant cliff dwellings, inscribed rocks, md broken pottery found in many parts o. the territory. Before the European saw this continent two races had lived and died in Arizona. The earliest peo­ ple bui t tiieir houses in valleys that are now deep ravines, and the cliff dwellings that are seen to-day rest np in the sides of deep arroyos, 200 feet above the bottom of the gorge once stood upon solid ground, and yet so many years have elapsed since then that now the houses are high and dry accessible only to hardy climbers. Time has dug away the foundations as well as scarred and chipped the, habita­ tion's'. JBetwee i the age of the cliff dwellers and that of the white man come trie race who built the ca mis and furmed the val!eys. Dry and parched and burren as a great part of Arizona is to-day, there was a time, of which abundant proof exists, when the valleys wero rich and fertile and when great citioa were populated by an active, ca­ pable, aud energetic people. Who were these industrious beings? No one can tell. Toltec or Aztec, black or white, from I'gypt or from Peru, none can say. Time has nearly de­ stroyed evidences of their existence In the lapse of ages their history has grown almost a mythology. What a ra. e they were, though! No farming for them, if you please, on any small scale. They had'ditches to bring wa­ ter to their crops that would astonish the soil-tillers of to-day, and their hous­ es were castles. Perhaps the most extensive of their ruins now are at a place called Cassa lirande, in the Gila liiver valley, six miles below Florence aud five miles south of tho river. When first discov­ ered by the Spaniards, in 1540, the largest bgilding of the group was four stories high and had walls six feet in thickness. A hundred years ago one house still remained which was 420x- 260 feet. To-day there is but a sug­ gest on left of the former magnificence of the houses, but one may still see (hat the walls wero made of mud and gravel, held together by a hard cement, and the rooms were still coated with cement. Near Cassa Grande are the iemains of an irrigating cannl which has been traced for forty miles, and which must have watered thousands of acres, which to-day are dry, neglected wastes. Miles of these wide canals can l>e seen scattered over the territory. Everywhere are the evidences of a pre- hi toric occupation of the )and. In building the city of Prescott, workmen unearthed not only household and farming implements, but discovert d old foundations as well, and as Arizona is settled and explored there may yet be found more traces of the people who lived and died here, leaving sugges­ tions as to who they were, where they came from, whither they went. What care we for. Pompeii? We have a vaster, richer field in which to search for treasures hid for untold ages. How Clay Took His Defeat. The following interesting incident was related many years ago by Mrs. Robert Todd, of Kentucky, -the step­ mother of Abraham Lincoln, and has never before been printed: The Todds and Clays were always on- intimate terms, and in 1844 were living aear each other in Lexington, Kentucky. Henry Clay and James K. Polk were then rival candidates for the Presiden­ cy, the chances, as was generally sup­ posed, being strongly in favor of the great Whig leader. As it turned out, iowever, the contest was much closer than had been anticipated, and finally advices from other States showed that the result hinged upon the vote of New York. There were no telegraphs in those days, and news had to come by the slow course of the mails. The New York mail was due in Lexington about 10 o'clock in the evening of a certain day, and it was known would tell the story of victory or defeat. As it happened a young lady relative of Mr. Clay was to bo married on the same evening, and insisted upon his presence, though under the circumstances he would much rather have remained at home. Mr. and Mrs. Todd attended this memorable wedding party, which was not large and composed almost ex- iusively of the family connections and intimate friends--all ardent Wliigs, and of course deeply interested in the pend­ ing political event. As the hour for the arrival of the mail approached Mrs. Todd saw two or three gentlemen quietly leaving the room, and knowing their errand watched eagerly for their return. When they came in she knew by the expression of each countenance that New York had gone Democratic. The bearers of the bad tidings consult­ ed together a moment in the corncr, and then one of them advanced to Mr. Clay, who was standing in the center of the group, and handed him a paper. Mrs. Todd, aware of what it contained, fastened her eyes upon him. He opened the paper, and as he read tho 7ara<rraph which sounded the death- tnell of his political hopes and life­ long ambition, she saw a distinct blue shade begin at the roots of his hair, pass slowly over liis face like a cloud and then disappear, Without saying a word upon the subject which must have monopolized all his thoughts, ho laid down the papier, and, turning to a table, filled a glass with wine, and rais­ ing it to his lips with a pleasant smile, said: "I tirink to the health and happi­ ness of all assembled here." Setting down tke glass he resumed the conver­ sation as if nothing had occurred, and was as usaal the life and light of the company. But Mrs. Todd said that as soon as the contents of the paper were known, "a wet blanket fell ut on every body." and in La'f an hour all the guests had departed with heavy hearts --feeling that gallant "Henry of the We^t" had fought his last Presidential battle, and lost the prize forever. A NASHVILI K man was fined $800 for kissing a bi hool-t sober. If it had net l«»n for two or three of the scholar^ who caugi t them at it. she Woul«brt have charged Hint a eenv m • * \ I- • , . They Had Mel Before. A young man who had been follow­ ing a lady through Thirty-seventh street drew alongside of her at Fifth Avenue, lifted his hat, and observed: "Haven't I met you somewhere be fore?" "Once. I think," answered the lady. "I knew it," said the yonng man, with a self-satisfied smile: and you've been in my thoughts ever since." "I thought you had not noticed me particularly,said the lady. "I met you two weeks ago at your wedding Your wife ia nay cousin "--New York Hun. ' "IMPROVE your opportunities," said Bonaparte to a school of young men "every hour lost now, is a chance of future misfortune." TEN silver dollars in eaeh vent pocket ! will keep the toat down soma. r • * ' y i i . r , A - ' I BAtMBR my.HP. W UiwoJa W.»u rn U«t with M» Aid wi s Mongrel « nr. An amusing incident in the unwritten history of Abraham Lincoln is toll! bv the Hon. Ward H. I.amon of this city. While the gentlemen wero law4>art ners in Illinois, and bele e Linrol was thought of lor President of t United States, thev happened to visi. an agi ioaltural fair in an inland town of lennessee. Lincoln was in high spirits and see d­ ed bent on fun. While casting about for such amusement as the exhibition afforded, Lincoln discovered an at­ traction in tho aha >e of a turned-down Hour ban el containing a badger. "iifty dollars for a dog that will haul the badger out of the barrel," si o.ited the red-faced man who owned the outfit. "Fifiy dollars, I sav. to the dog that can haul out the liadger." There were a few takers of the bad­ ger man s offer, but the luckle-s dog- owners who inve-ted 25 cents in the experiment invariably lost in the spec- u at ion, for the bidger's teetli were sharp, and every dog that eutered its s ronchold came out in a jiffy, while the ferocious animal inside held the fort and grinned all over. Mr. Lincoln hit. upon a happy thought. Taking Ward to one side they found a lank countryman with a still I anker mastiff. "Want to make $50 with that dog?" asked Linboln. "< 'ourse I do," replied "the hayseed. The dog was bartered for, and as Lincoln approached the badger man, elbowing his way through the erowd, he said: "I'll invest a quarter in your game, sir." The badger operator looked at Lin­ coln's hungry dog, and smiled as he took the silver quarter. Lincoln caught the dog and led it up to the barrel. Hastily grabbirt- the mastiff, he threw it into the ODBH ing 'tother end first. There was a pans, only of a second, and then followed a lively scrap inside the barrel. " Hold on, there," cried the manager. "Fair play--" But he w as too late with his remon strance Out sprang the badly fright­ ened dog with the badger stic king to his hindquarters. The crowd p;irted, and away went the dog and badger into the inner field of the race track. The badger stuck like a brother, teams ran away, women fainted, and the crowd roared. Lincoln fairly went into spasms of mirth, the fun was so enjoy­ able. The countryman owning the dog was paralyzed, as was the badger owner, who set up a great howl and was mad enough to fight. "Produce your $50," said Lincoln to the badger keeper. "Foul play, foul play,* cried the cha­ grined gamester, "and Til never pay it." Here is where Lamon came in ser­ viceable. Catching the badger's friend by the neck, he cried: "Give up the $50 or Til wallup you." Lamon's herculean proportions wire too argumentary to be trifled with, and the money was handed to Mr. Lincoln, who in turn gave it to the countryman. The dog was well paid for, and the badger business closed up for want of a badger.--Denver Tribune. ' . Matters at Whoop Up. Whoop Up is a town in Canada, on the border of civilization. It was orig­ inally what is called in the Northwest whi&ky Blockade," but has lately grown into something like a village The stockade was built by men who ha>, a practical knowledge of Indian fight­ ing and truding. It inclosed three acres, and the buildings were of heavy logs, with openings only on the inner square. The business consisted in buy­ ing skins from the Indians, and paying for them as much as possible in whisky. The Indians would fill themselves full of the reduced high wines or adulter­ ated whisky of the taders and, when they wero fighting drunk, would be enticed outsides of the wall. Then the gates were shut,<and the savages were left to fight out their fury among them­ selves. Next day the thrifty traders went out to bury the dead, succor the wounded, and driye away the rest. "I never get drunk, myself, when I trade whisky with the Injuns," said David Akers, the present owner, who consid­ ers himself a reformer of the old meth­ ods. "So of course I can watch its effects on them, an' as soon as I see one ;ettin' a leetle too much I put more water in his licker, I give it to the critters weak enough to begin with, but the second cup is alters weaker'n the fust. But I never kick 'em out, or re­ fuse to give 'em a drink as long as they have atliing io trade. I never kick 'em out anyhow, and I seldom refuse 'em a drink. You see after they get so fur I give 'em good, pure water out o' the river,, but I never refuse 'em. They like me, too, coz they don't have a headache next morning. I jist keep em feeling good and rich and jolly, but they never get drunk enough to hurt one another, or cut, or shoot, on ray whisky. No sir-ee, not as long as there's any good water in the river." Surgeon-Dentist Barber?, I was astonished the other day in my barber's shop. I was just about to leave when a woman entered whose left jaw seemed to be indisposed ^ It was considerably larger than her right t > and seemed to be inflamed. There were tears in her eyes. My sympathetic heart was touched, and I put on my overcoat and my gloves leisurely so at I might discover the cause of her trouble. She said something in Ger­ man to my barber, and my barber led her to a chair in the cen'er of the shop^ On this cha-r she sat My barber then pushed her head back, said something to her in German, and she threw her mouth open. I knew all abont her trouble then. She wanted to have a tooth pulled. I have had several pull­ ed mvself, and I know something about that delightful sport. I sympathized with the woman, but I left before the fun c mm< need. My barber is one of the regular old-fashioned surgeon-bar­ bers. Thev will not only pull a tooth for you, but they will up you, set your arm or your leg, patch up your head, amputate your finger, or straighten your eyes. They are employed to do these things only by the poorer classes, however. There sr© BODI© of th© best surgeons and dentists in the world in Saxony.--Letter from Chemnitt. ^ A Kahroud Disaster. - Dumley was tellii g how narrowly Tte escaped from being run over by a rail­ road disaster. "Why," he w«nt on, "it fairlv took my breath away." •Did you say the train had two en­ gines?" asked young Featherly, very m u c h i n t e r e s t e d . . . . "Certainly not; I said nothing about two engines." "WeU " responded young Featherly, "I don t see how a train with one en- e could take your breath away."-- F» Uadeiphia QdU, • rnM POIST. MANY a man run < tor office, when ii reality it is only his under-jaw that fc keeping up a JocomU.on--Winston header. THE wife who aits up until 2 am. far her frolicsome hnxband to eojH "mine's waiting for the fast / itlslmrgh Chronicle-Telegraph, A WOMAN in Canada has been grast- ed a divorce because her husband yoked' her up with a steer. Now, wiiy doesn't she sue the minister or 's juire wW yoked her up with tin other brute? f A CERTAIN professional lieauty hat b^en photographed in 1B0 different positions It i» said that tfac only per­ son who can beat her lor variety of at* titmles is a boy told to sit st.H en ft fell air. A GENTLEMAN who had been bitten by a dog was asked. "Do vou suppose the animal was mad?" "Mad. What right had he to be m d. He wasn't half as mad as I w a<."--drkansaw Traveler, a HOTJSEWIFEIIY--Butcher: "For din­ ner? Yes, ma'am. Nice quarter of lamb, ma'am." Mrs. Turtledove (a bride of two weeks): * Oh. but there are only two of us. Don't you *Mnlr an eighth would do as well ?" IN ARKANSAS the law forbids the erection of a saloon within five hundred fards of a school house. This is a wise aw. It was verv^ annoying for the children to have to go to the saloon every time they wanted to recite their lessons.--Haw key e. AN OLD lady from the country goes for the first time to the opera. After a lew solos the troupe all stng together. "Ah!" remarks the old lady.' they don't care now that they have our money. See, all singing together so that they may get through sooner."--Le Figaro. "ONE of the errors of the youth of o-dav," remarked a venerable observer, is that the majority of the young men liink they aie regular bricks when in fiict they are only half-baked clay. They are unwilling to learn that whieh will be of service to thorn in tHe fu­ ture."--Peck's Sun. IN NEW Y RK a woman is paid 6 cents for making a shirt that is sold for 30 cents. It won d be asking too much, perhaps, to demand a reversal of these prices--30 cents for making a shirt that is sold for 6 cents--and yet these are about its making aud wearing values.--Norristown Htrald. A POLICEMAN leaned over the area railing, and addressing Brid ret, whe was at that moment engaged in shift­ ing an ash barrel, observed: "Bridget* my darlint, the loight av yer oyes makes the dawn same loike darkness." "Tliim's the very wurrnds that yer sa- payrior, the Sargint, sphoke to me. I suppoaz it's a part of the discipline of the fource." AN Athens, Georgia, lawyer, accord­ ing to report, is the greatest railroad. manager in the world. He was em­ ployed to defend a Buit against a road and then took the road in payment for his work. Tiie stockholders consider him a generous m m as he oida't levy an assessment on the stack before he cobbled up the road. Where were Vanderbilt and Gould?--Peck's Sun. A WASHINGTON physician, savs an exchange, who has be n studying the effect of different profassi >ns on lon­ gevity, discovers that the average life of female chorus singers is 100 years; but he omi s to say that, so far as*gen- eral observation goes, they rarely be- : ti singing until 4liey have past the riiical period of fenvde existence, erhaps if tbey started earlier would not last so long. AN EXPLANATION. He came t > *sk for something? ¥es! A '< rifle. lie o nld n t oxi> ess Hlmsel' c xac ly so * * * lie sla d Sometime. Yon wonder what delayed? Ton see * * * I know it'ncli Jdishneas 'I o s. and here blushinit at my drecS; Bat--but it was ioolisiinesn That I've been tryini; to ovade. He cime t > askt T was very simple, can" yoa gnesnf It ha<l a "y" n i " and "s." lie* so resolved, 1 can't <1 ssnade Him any longer, 'm afr tld. I'm here, Mamma, de r. to »JI6MM He came to aukl , --Life. I cannot endure that woman," said a lady to her husband, referring to a neighbor. "Sh-sh." "Well, I can't help expressing mvself. She is a thor­ ough vixen."' "Sh, don't say a word, I hate her husband and I'll fix 'em both." "What are yoru going to do." asked his wife. "I am going to buy their ten-year-old-kid the biggest ana most discordant drnra I can find, the day we move out of the neighborhood." --Pretzel's Weekly. ^ How Some Haudcuffi Were Saved. A young British police officer was out with a detatchment of colored boys" hunting for some of the Myall tribe of blacks who had been suspected of stealing a quantity of flour. "They came upon a camp of Myalls," says tho account, "surprised, surrounded them and forced them to l e hospitable. They ate their kangaroo, drank their water and made them corrolioree. After all was ended, that the blacks might not get away in the night and steal more sheep, the officer said to his boys: Just you pull out your revolvers an I shoot them.' The "boys' did not liko to at first, but the o'licer was peremp­ tory, and they oboyed. When the Myalls were ki led there were threo old women wailing, who did not seem worth keeping. 'Kill them, loo,' said the of­ ficer, and they were killed. Threo young gins (wives) were not killed; ono of them was handcuffed about the ankles and tied to a sapling. The 'boys' rode on in he morning, leaving the officer and the young gin thus se­ cured. Presently a stranger came along (and it is he who tnlls the story), and the two ate and drank together. When it became time to move it was re­ membered that ti>e young cin was tied up. 'We must loose her first,' said tho chief, and felt for the keys. He had no keys; the 'boys' ha.l taken them away. What was to be done? 'I cannot lose my handcufts,' he said, aud before there was time for remonstranco he had drawn a pis ol and shot tho gin through the brain and then hacked off her feet at the ankles, and so saved his irons.--Sydney (Australia) Mail. IT IS NOW stylish for gentlemen to bedeck themselves with as many jewels as they can conveniently dispose about their persons, ladies no longer having the monopoly in diamonds. This grow­ ing fondness for display up h the part of gentlempn points to a time not far distant when satins ami velvets, with silken hose, will be «-a'.led into requisi­ tion to adorn their h>tnds me persons. IT is a secret known to but few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conver­ sation, the first thin? you should con­ sider is, whether he has a greater incli­ nation to hear yoli, or that you should hear him.--Steele. ' . HE WHO «ays he is a woman-hatajf ii either s fool or a lia*( or botifc • - '.A