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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-6-27, Page 3THE BALLINOTON GHOST. When it was lemma that the Welfarcis had purcattaea 01 the old Balington Placa" ani would move into the great house which had beim etending _empty for years there wee* heed -leaking in tbe ceennteeitit and more, then one bay was heard to say, 4oWe111 not Sttperatitiens, aut I'd hate to live in that house." The Balliegtons had, for remota meliora- tions been orte of the wealthiest families in the neighborhood, and it had been a part of the family policy to marry wealth. it Was filmfgailY; Qadersteed thee the marriage of he 1440 representative of the name-eor rather the lest one who had reathed man's estate, for be had A little eon—had been Mended QA this consideration, end had been of his father'S Meking rather than hie own- Hia young wile, a pale, qulet, dreamy - eyed lady, never mode may tient) to mass - vete faieudty relatiou with her neighbors. She returned the calk which she received, but; ber visite Were alweys brief and forme' and her convereation confined to the more elegmt commenplecee. Ir vom remarked by them who vieited her, that she always received them in a leeSe white wrapper, In eumeneroloade% f mualin Or nom° light wool material t in winter of cashmere or aorta trintreed with velvet or mtge. Tiecugh sire waa never heard to eoMplein of ieyandlere, and the WM elweye mope loue y not—even elegant—hi her *Wee, preeented the eppearaace or at .eggestel the Idea, cf baiting Plat vetsut fpou 'seine peace et iewaddike lonng- leg, She had 'Ora ellUdren, A bey, a Stark( little amp rent* illto hie father, who cerried the ohild with him everywhere he went, as soon as he was large enough to take out of the WM an MIteit, and a little girt, the mieinture of her mother, and like her, alweye clad In white, WAS rumored *het the conjugal afhetlen exiethag between Beroatel Bellingtou and hie wife was not very .istreseg, and that the peer lady did not reettves the Ithaca treet• meet trOM her husband. Certein t Weti he k4 teemed moody and restlem ever Ono hie Marriage, md there eeenied, etnne truth 4 In the emerilon of the gotapa Oa Ma affection waa centered on bleatoT. The mother was left to comae herself with her Jjttlo .girl, of whom the mooed very fora, in A hatter4 ant a When tlile 4114 WAS tWo yeartt old she siekeued and died, After this, the mother lookest paler ead mere dourly then ever, ma It as everrea, by the ever -buy geniis that her Itealtattel gave her not a pee:Tole a satepethy in her beet:wet:mt. Within a few menthe elettotoe, Mod, suddenly and etwateziously. Thus event mused no alight sundlen In the neighborhood, ma it isss whttp.ered by some that the peer tidy Med cf poweetieg; by otheon thee the was ad- dietorl to the opium bath and her death hed tenet/ f:914mesevezdeee of the drug. Whether the ene or the other a those re porta WAS Una, TM one ever koew. The feral ly eihyslebut, in learnea terra', sere an ex -- &manor; of her death whieh the soneetlen- Molest leanly refuted to believe. Inameelletely sites the lantwal, Bernard Beillegton left for parts unknown, taking with "Aim hit little mu, ma report oda be had another companion In the pereen a a beentlful and feselnating hely of a neighbor tuft city. Since then nail the Itutcbeee of the Bat liogton pine by Mr. Watford, through Batliogtonte agent, the home had been unto belated e• hub tumor dealmea that A A40 ;0;1311 vhdtent, ciad in e loog white robs, was frequently leen wesederIng about the place, slowly moving Rebind, up end 40WD and Aries vont to the mot pitimust and eepolchrel meanie lids it wee which led ao homy unsuperstitions ladie-e to declare Apra. pellets agaitutt Ilving In the Ballinglon Liam. Bet Mrs. 'Welford was rot welly on superatitions, but unprejudiced *leo, end being an affectionate and dutiful spouse, and baying ties ntraoat confidence In the n0Art• eltil togecity of her husband, when he re prevented to her that the purelwee of the Ilellington property would be a good invent =ant, ate unpopularity having brought the price clown very low, elle consented without -demur to take up bar abode in the 44 Omuta ell house." The Welforde took posttest= of tl3eir naw home In midwinter, tar. 'Welford, the .energetic, declaring thet he did not want Ua moving scrape" on hand in the spring at the time when he ought to be pushieg the farm work. He would take time by the forelock, and spend tbe yerneinder ot the winter in getting everything In readinese for vigorous work durnig the "cropping season." The day on which the over-tab dreaded moving took place was clear but cold, and the earth was covered with a glitteriug sheet of tmow. The great old house was dank and dratty, and diem:alert reigned enpreme. But by dint of unremitting labor, tuggiug, tacking, hammering, arranging and"fixang' generally, by evening eeveral carpets were put down, curtains hunt!, furniture arrauged and cheerful fires burning in sitting -room, dining room and kitchen. Still, it was not until almost eight o'clock that the family, vary tired and very, hu ngry, seated themeelve!. • around a bountifully epreel supper table. Said Mrs. Welford, 'I was determined to hewn somethiug good for supper as we had to put up with a cold dinner.' gamete!' his wife, " and perhaps it would be better tor Eorae moo to be at the cid Place tal-igllit to tte that nothing is dis- turbed," And you 641111e:it won't be afra, id I the ghtate with nobody here but Mollie and the chit:Tree ?" keeled, Mr. Welford. "1 Ata not at ell Afraid of the ghost. I think we have already elianged the interior of the house SQ meal that the would leer to enter it; and besides I don't; think &eta over care to vialt persons et my tempere- went.' replied Mint Welford. "No, 1 don't think they do," answered Welford, looktog at his bandatime blotimilig wife, and mentally congratulating hiratelf that few women were lip mart 0, and independent as she. The laorsea were mete brought cut and hitcbed to the wages), and, the father and one were speeding off over the mist) mew which apex kled in the bright moonlight. By ten e'eleck the itemetee el the 31,11- 114gton Imam were enogly ensconced in bed. Mollie- the cook, waa not eo rateregeom as Mrs. Welford and iesisted SQ c arn.eatly that she, Mrs. Welford and the three little girls all deep in the wine room, that emit an arraugemeue was made. Mre, Welford had slept she knew not how bong, when she was roused, she fancied, by e step coining Slowly down the Altars which Led up from tbe hall, It waa a heary lighb step! if to panacea:tel. A elmeription might be given, & lingering, languid, and withal, :stealthy tread,. The estop mine nearer and presentiy the door was peslied noieelotitly open and a white -robed female figure glided into the meet. Terror -bound and enable to move 1re, Welford ley eed wetcleed it, It primed alewly up and down the tome, suoviugire bands up ma demo and utterlog diurnal, sespetithrel tmenate It appresteted the trundle -bed in tebtch two of the children were eleepiom With tearer tbe egoolza mother, atill uoelele to move anaemia or utter it mod, gazed upon the gheulitle creetere MI it blot ever her dar- ling& It breathed upon their faces end !suddenly the Change of death cartle over tbem. There they ley upturned in the bri ht moonligitt. Tale and rigid with ages breathed upon there. The deatreyor turcel fora them and re- sumed her pacing up and down the room, totelog and catetting semettlieg watch looked A ball of ouguleted Mood. Watching ber with the famiaatiott of hor- ror 010.0(1 abente hire Weliord ab - served thet her bend, were pecelier, ound, fingerlern meralsere, like nothing elm le the world eat much es weitier, At Ieugth, as the eeutietted leer movement% to the mooraight, witich :teemed to grow brighter and still more auperoaturally Might, Mra, Welford noticed that the thing which the iiret thoaght tee * ben of Mood nor appeared to be a pickled Izabal pooh, seal as Iss,d been on the table for yapper. 'Whatever it was, the horrible apparition dropp ed it road slowly approached the bed lettere the terrided woman lay. She, er bent over her and clasped ite cluaray, email shaped, beers Ahem) her throat duet at thee moment the child who lay beside her cried out eta pulled at her ton, end aire. Welford Matted up, her brow 4overed with cold perspiration. She glancea *bout the room. A patch a moonlight we,s still shimmering an tbe floor, but not so bright as it hid appeared a few moments before, and the ghostly visitant had venial - 65 lankly eterisig tinfee et her who ad Samething good 1 She did have "some. thing good" indeed. It was such atnmper as might have made a dyspeptic shudder. There were hob 'Awaits, fragrant coffee, waffles, light and hot, with tender, crisp, curled edges, the loveliest of golden butter and the richest of cream, 'scarcely the worse dor having been shaken and frozen on the way, cold boiled "old ham," the best ot fried manage, clear, delicate•fleyored honey, fried potatoes, pickled pig's feet and aweet-pickled "Indian" peachea. "This is something like ,comfort," said Mr. Welford, as, after a hastily Raid "grace" he conveyed to his plate a steam. ing forkful of waffles. " This does not look much like a place that a &est would care to come toe he added, glanein' g over the well.filled table and around the oozt. room. "1 don't think her ghostship will intrude upon um,' said his wife, smilingly. I saint afraid of no ghost," asserted Fred, the 'second hopeful eon, cutting a " pat " of sausage in two and eriusiming half of its into his raouth. They reallydid not look like persons with whom &ghostly personage could have much in common, that healthy, ruddy fazed family, with their facer!, rendered still more. ruddy by the day's exposure to cold and' the subsequent backing by the glowing fire. The family contested of the father, mother and five children—two boys, aged reapeot. ively twelve and fourteen, and three little girls. After Ripper Mr. Welford said to his wife, "1 believe I'll just take the boys and go back to the old place and !stay all night. We can make it, eamr, by ten o'clock, and In the morning we can get up and load tm the things that are left there, and be beck here in time for breakfast, if you don't get it too early; and I don't think you will feel much like ruing very early.* " hiaannia." cried. the child, "I am utak Nucl ray hod ether, and want a drink of weber.' Mrs. Welford rose sea haetily lit * lamp rhere ley her two children in the trundle bed, eleepleg eweatly, the rate+ flute of life end health upon thelr cheeineatel Mollie wee mating ;Way comfortebly, on the lonoge at the other aide of the room. For the first time in her /ife, alum child - toad, Mrs. Watford felt a nervous fear cf going into a room alone, and reaped Mollie to go with her to east elevator for theohlid. Her dream had been eo horrid, so vivid, the was trembling in every limb ; and it war not until She had related lb to her husband, end laughed over -it at the cheerful break feet table, that she was able to shake cff the diemeteeable impression it len npon her. The Belliogton ghost has never been seen since the 'Welforde took poesession -of the place; but Mo. Welford says that she tlalnks she could get up a aumatr wbich, if liberally partaken of, might conjure blip, at Any time—VI/pod Housekeeping. "Twouldn't Wotle „ He was farmer -like mac, and be was in charge of a young man with his head bound up and otherwise injurerl. After tele of hie trips to the water corner to give his patient a drink, one of the passengers ioquired That young men met with an accident ?" "That% Exactly what he met with, sir, Goal: arum him 1" " Relation o'yours ?" "My second oldest boy, Bill. I'm taking him home to be nu.rsed im. Liked to have had his empty head knocked off." "Omelets, ehe How was it!" "Wall, a young feller up our way tumbl- ed off a. train on thie road and broke a leg and got nni000 damages. It aort o'give our Bill annthite to think of, and after getting a good ready he starts out to go up to Roches- ter. What does he do after riding a ways, but 'dick his noodle out of the window, and putty soon along comes it switch board and flattens his face until you can play marbles on it. He's unending fast, but hetegoing to carry a phiz around with him whieh'll scare a yeller pop .out of a year's growth." "And the company refuses to come down I" "01 course it does. Bill went -agin the rules and regulations, and he's left, If he'd had his head knocked off I might have got it few hundred on a compromise, but as it is he'll have to grin and bear it. That is if his grinner -mama smashed all to flinder alone with his nose, Hey, Bill, how you feeling now ?" "Party weak, father." " Shouldza wonder, but its all right. Boy of your age, who hain't got no:hin* buss marsh hay in hie head, deserves no pity. Jiat lay back and take it easy and reflect on whether you are going to hire out to a dime museum or hunt a cave in the Mlle."— IN. Y. Sun mum lir faux, evsdlaillnetdheearz,okfrgirgehntnired leevitelete, youtio FoLKs., The Thrilling Experience ol Some /illicit • "All that day we could hear the ;ndiene 11111 Miners Ewing the Gad keaer at 'to. "In the atermer of '70, when the 13Iaok Hine' k2oftemer.0 first began in reel ear - neat," said gr. Coate, to a reporter of the Chicago Times, "I WAS the owuer of e fine farm in nerthwestern Nebreeks and in addition wm doing * good businese as a our veyor. One of my neighbore, narned 33e11, was an oln California minor. He at once became infatneted with, the idea of going to theenew El I/oracle, and 1, toe, seen ought the fever. Againse the advme of. my wife and friende, !me even 'against my ewe, better jadanteat, a determined to seek a fortune in the Mlle Hastilyarranging my affairs 1 feet out, accompanied by Bell. We made oar way by atearaboat to Fort Pierre, where we jcined a heavily armed company of forty I tt t Trawling trowel outside, but they made no TE 13MON LIGHT. farther deMenstratione. Toward evening ourf omen / was beyio. sag old miter suf5ringa fr°rn third becadne Winwick, "there was no light MA yon head - awful, We licked the damp stones for wig, and man), a good boat and, amp wow; moietere. About dark the Indiana tried to to her doom among aheee reoeg amoke us out by dropping a great beep of el wen remen,oeo the gret owe I wentto burning wood in front of the entrance fron Row proud I felt My temie owned the ledge above. The smoke went straight sea. ! up, however, instead of cominginto the cave. a fishing boat, and he took me for htts 'sea- -After filet they let ne eleee Ma next day hts;Yik' wthznomY /4'164iveldte, idmell,ighwt.aeGair o1p4hthaner) noon. We were gettiog weak from hunger, was loomrg ed and reed too. oo in the thirst, and hiss of blood, and had nearly wed, wettyit he said to 1114:1,0* 41.10 01010109a! given up hope. alt mut awe been about. 0,0/00/4 when We are all lame ;seller e, and hope youll find tee ma as good a frana as I've done. wel °liae4aiti:leam°twatrtrckLin:1tkeeP°fher°kaanaseetlirnthrQlghtheaelc:Wettiedt°Il°ut41il7in4wellbuatv"il'4n4t°iYr prayer of gratuleaawelekid:pthepre:0hafeneooapeyodlbeallrigt.' mous field, bet our perched throats utsereel ne A0014 S3011 the area= increased until feitlhCAnwIrdEP3Y:ira41111tiacitthe:vtei°,10teoege, faeurdi we were ataudiot kuee deal° in Cold, 81413g was youog, and ray, heal, a. bit Mated with excitement "The old matt atood oe the shore and watched us sail out from the 00)10. 48 We got fully seeder weighT waved my cap to him, and he nodded to me. "I had often been out eating, of course, before that day ; but never tat sea' as A 'hand'; and you may be Orel was eager to help and prove ray ekill at pulling repos, reefing, and steering.. "That Sat night was (alba my last, for a storm came on very suddenly, and it grew so clerk we mad net me ahead. We trial to make our own leMboar, but the villages atreggle for mlies along shore. and we egad not distinguigh the lighte of East Ling*, front them of Watt Linea. Some of the ocke rim in precipices of feerfaheight ; mem run oot in straggling mete acroaa the bay. When it is light any man of so out Matg. a boa tole to lend, but in the darkness it is a diffisult meteor, and in A atonia ir mettne daring death. The open ma is to be preferred. "On the night[ speak of it wee imposeible to eentein at:, and We merle for home with auxioue hearts, hoping to eteer elear of smoke, yet doubtful of our cocoa, "Mole sad once, 'Perhepe the old man will think of lightbsg bit beacon an islage headland. Ab, poor old father 1 manyes the time lave helped him drag the broken tho- bora to the top of the headland to make a light for them at sea; and many a good boat's orew has Mengel Km for it. I hope he'll think on't to eight,' I uswered that the boys a the village were always reedy to lend grandfather a hand in getting up hie beefere. And by and by, as we were peening throe& the darkness, hearing the oar of +he toad mom the rocks, and being confused by the teeny light* *long the bay, we sew— high up on our I-halt—the merry blaze leap towards the loweting clouds, and 1 shouted hurrah, !for gout/father's bestron. 'So we were guided eafely to our harbour. 4 Grandfather (flea at e good old age; and the Mat thing Ids eye; looked upon was the atm lightheas,e on langa boaraiagoi, and he mid„ 'Lord, now latest Thou Thy sanvent depere in poste.' Ife was a devout MATI, said bed been* light among Ms tellows all hie Jays. He had estate exempla to them around him, and as I watched Isita die 1 thought, if Ioh verye hadboy4eonntlataorizyould thew their light "The jeurney to the foothills was without water. Then we understood that the .Endo incident, although the country was alive aot had dimmed the creek 40 414 to turn it in - with murderous Sioux. We molted e mum ut°0tbttg°atoviv'hbaC'ut wre al'erw4vbtetedeffnfitIrneg. were on Spring creels in the eouthern aille the 20.12 of July, where we found dat,y other, were soon numb with cold and in our weak. already Ahead ,)f us. The gret wow, had ened condition It required our greatest ex etehedont claim Aug gam a very etaoe8 ertiom to keep from siatiog &WA 1140 the fortress upon a rocky knoll. They were ee water and drowning. How we ever lived eareeeed by theJndiana too they eomody though that long afternoon I do not knew. dared venture outside their fort Being re- We determined to make a dash fer our lives Inforeed by cur oompany they felt able to defy the redeleine And determined to begin active mining operation& Yet so preaang was the danger that the entire company WAS divided tato four equal parte which wee to alternete week about in the various Tabora Tile firet divielett WM to hunt at a eafe tutees from the fort, Thle Was an iMpartant duty, for our only provialone wore the game brought in by the Mutters. Only a email supply of food bad been brought from, °bin- zation, and of course there were no meene of as SoOn as it became dark. "Fortune favored us in our attempt for heavy downpour of rain began at sundown and kept up nearly all night. An hour after dark we dropped on our knees and. crept 4itOm T410 wetter el nearly felled the entrance that we abate strangled. The night eves inky black and the heavy aorta had driven the beelegete to etteltese, to we were not diet covered. "We followed tbe creek for half a mule feed then started out la the direction of gating more. •Sprieg creek, Ouse out of trnmedeete den "Tao second divndon did garreens duty at ger Intare smarted hereon and we both oe, fort ; the eeteeteatoo oelf of tbe party emit utterly exlmulted before we had pro workea the :Mame ; they le oneasof of ,i,,.ceefled mother Milthau e, Luckily Bell ced eggete edge ee gee tieele .4110 ebo oasere to drop clown near a young rabbic which plied pieig And allovog, /c wee very eiewi, we caught and tore to pima and devoured very hard werk. In the bille ell tbef plaem while the firth was Yet Iluivethsgt Thio norm are ite dry gelobee instead oe loam, revived aa eamewhat and after rettieg a the etremna as in California. All the "pep white we got up end %treated oteagaita dirt " bed to be witeele4 a qtlar;/r Of a Mile "Abate; noon the next day we crawled to get to water. Oar beer exertions only into the camp at Spring Creek more dead yielded 44 or ppm man per day. Divide than alive. Some a the Men. Were jeet this amount with the three others who were Preparing to return to Fort Pierre and 1 gastrdieg or Ituatieg for the ratter and you, was Permittea to dret°11 my (rip ra°1"4 getting :Iola• reached home. bad 6 081 fever all the tees thee e week, eve heel come to melte kept my bed for six mouths !afterward tated 100A07 ma not to tett eta tterre for A pit, 1304,,Ve been disebled by rho:maims:sever alum been that 41, fiecttiell hind. would nem. r.eiturned to ,theeee Ave Yeata later stroodead eterao were tem ea the tteoueee tifla pave eccurammea some Tomato, but earl tee that ao me bed utueh pooped a 1"e" nr°1' the t°P 5' IQ° w4Y 4 Alit suci I Imo thor000ty ategeeteo wsy and wee delitione PaTt 0 ;136 time, 1 oe the rages on reegge creek. twelve mges for an the wealth of the Bleak lila I would Muth. There we determined to go, though mot small endure the horrors of those two we were tad ie would he teptivelent to dor and nights in tilt one" waking tete our greyed. 133 sal that gone patty of feerlem pioneer; not one would entertain the Idea of accompanying es for it moment. "Nothing would. about Pe, however, and weitiog for ft dork alibi*, 40 VA to elope observation by prowling tudiene, we placed sha scintiest of outfits an se mule and eat oue, after bevies secured careful eltreotIons from an old scout who was thoroughly ao- quabated with the couutry. We reached French creek wifely at dor- tree& after an extmentleg enmesh In the darknees and over tbe fearfully rough bine. After meaty breekfest we moved ap the creek elhort distance and catne to 4, plan Bell sad bad a good appearance. I mounted guard wbile Bell sank it proapece hole. lie found bed took at a depth of two feet. Sereping up A panful of dirt he took it to the meek, eta to our Juanita delight it yielded almost a6 in very comae gold. Yon can judge the value of our find ethen I tell you that dirt that will yield 3 cents to the pan, under ordinary orannetances, is worth working. Throwlug prudence to the winds to bath began to dlg and waste never 'top ping until de*. We were utterly exhaust- ed by that time and were glad to roll our. solos la our blankets and go to aleep with- out is morsel of supper. Next: .xorning while Bell hurried out to shoot something for breakfast, I exarained our eurroundings. We had stopped just be- low a poinb whore the creek burst througla it narrow deft in the mountains and made a !beer descent eerier's° twenty feet. At the base of the ledge and tamest directly -under tteath tbe witterfall 1 noticed a hole in the -rooks Hutt seemed partially braided from the rear. 1 could readily enter itby orawlieg on my hands and knees. I foand the hole was the entrance to a passage about twelve feet in length that, lifter an abrupt turn, ended 111 All irregular chamber 10x20 feet in i ts great eat measurements. It WAS clean and fairly lighted beside the creek above the falls. It WAS it splendid stronghold, furniehed right to our hands. Oae man. could have held it against 100. "When Bai returned we morel our few effects into the cave and considered ourselves secure. For aweek wwworked hard together, not even taking ordinary precautions against surprise. so greedy were we for the yellow dust. Looking back at it now it seema nothing less than miraculous that we were not 'surprised and killed and I can not com- prehend how we could be so omelets. Oar buckekin bogs filled rapidly and we were talking one morning just out side onr cave of returning to Sprieg creek to tell of our good fortune when a ecore of bullet's came whizzesg from the rocks and trees around us. Bill was struck in the thigh and I received alight wounds in the leg and arra. "We darted into our hole with the Indians yelling right behind us. One savage fiend seized me by the heels and had nearly drag; ged me back in reach of MS compe.nione tomahawks when -Bell 'meta bullet through his brain. Before I coald be 'caught again I was inside and out of danger. The Indiana poured a perfect storm of lead into the month of the cave for it time. Ali we anade no sound in reply they conoluded we were killed and crowded up to get our scalp. Thee of them were good Indians before they eould realize that we were not in scalping condition and could get out of range. Then they began their howls and their shooting anew, but their bullets simply flattened against the tangle in the wall. "Finding this useless they began to look for other means of dislodging ria. They soon discovered the fissure and began shooting dawn it with renewed yells. Presently they • tried the effect of their fusillade by wavieg One Thing &gotten., one of their headdresees befcre the entrance on the end of a pole. As we did not 'sheob Pfeiffer: "Are you sure you broneht go yea, id it they felt certain they had finished US everything we need?" iHeoffer and crowded up to the hole again. It coat I've a dczen bottles of wine, the same a whale .i.t.t.he o f them to find out their ads - amount a beer, it pint of brandy, After this they settled lot of things to eat, and games of all kinds." "aa° ""s" """e• Pfeiffer I "And the fishing tackle ?" Heoffer "No, by George, I forgot that. Well, that doesn't matter." A Sad Case. , Mrs. donee (who is reading the morning papei)—A prominent coal dealer was para- lyzed in his office last week. Mr. Janes--Partelyzed, wan he? Probably the driver forgot to weigh himself before he " NO, 1 fatal' pot he anxious to rise early, drove off with 1,600 pounds of coal. themselves for a regular siege. "We then had to dress our wounds es best happened to be a brothewminister, and there f a privileged °rite " he's lost his grand we could and consider our predicament. t -°re ' i long since, and hets just swimming 1" We were safe from the bullets of the ay s ages, but we had nota mouthful of food nor a drop of water, and our wounds already be- i • To Bucouraze Informers. 1 gan to make us thirsty. How we cursed our improvidence then. We would gladly have Over a bridge at Athena, Ge., is the fol. given all our gold for a single days's rations • lowing—"Any person driving over this of food and water. Besides, it was chilly in bridge at a pace faster than a walk shall, if it the cave, even in that August weather, and white Ulan, be fined Eve dollen', and, if a our wound trete very painful. ijar shoe, ' negro, receive teenty-five lathes. half the Om wee one of ho-urly inoreasitig horror, ' penalty to be bestowed on the informer." , 1 The Accumulation of Interest. mottle Itatimet Deem:mita Wattioztra, Some cou caption of the accranoletiee power of interest, and its effect upon the producing intlfeetry of the netion, may. be Ma frOW the following calculetion. Not only dote this exempla allow the burden put upon the pop% through interest, bete ale° the enorm otm salsa to tbe National banks through their control of the currency, and makee clear the reason of the growing povetty el the indoetrioue =Welt eod the ettormoue econmulatiott nf wealth in the Monde of the :speculative few. Tart estimate la made from the Statistical Abetract of the United'Statee for 18$7, prepared by the Bareau of Statistics, tinder the direction of the Smeltery of 11110 Tre3s. AM% This document reports the total flambee of National banks on °stater 6, 1887, to be 3,049, and that these bulks had out on loan et that time $1,680,000.000. For banks which abeam:termer, mike taunt loans, and take all the advantages intereat gives, 10 tser cent. Is not an nurea. seeable rate. The arum* they are cffi °laity reported to ewe out on loan, with interest maculated sa ten per cent., and compounded only every ten years, .would yield in fifty years an aggregate of $50 • 560 000,000 ; which amount is far in exams of the total valuation of the entire property of the whole nation, such total valuation being $44645 90000 Tr one hundred years (which is as noth- ing in the life of a nation), by compounding only every ten years, the aggregate would reach the incomprehensible amount of $1,• 617,920.00001000, or nearby forty times the total of all present vainee—au amount be- yond the possibility of any race of people being able to pay or create in a hundred times that length of time. "'Selling on life's solemn make A forlorn and shipwrecked brother Seeing may take heart agates Vve tried, be my moat way, to follow in tits footsteps; and, I never look at the light - bongo yonder tbat I don't tlaink of the good a 0340 mod his beaconfire and his exem- plary life. "As Intend by the shore and, watob. the boetago mit and /xi, with merry. boys and etelteere men alecetd,—es think on the tong 'mega of life I've made, and how rye teen kept or the rock' by God's spirit, --it hes seemed to methat yon beacon on the eeight its the symbol of that which has hien •say guidinglight. Ells word, the tower; His spirin the letup. And I pray that every ley who launolam upon the omen of life unid the rocks, and storms, And darkness:a and wild waves of e. troublesome world, may to led safely to -their desired haven by thee heavenly beacon. Joss= M. E. Hexer. Medoil1aIBanta. The cathartic jalap is the powdered roob of a convololue or bindweed, C. jablapa ; root Urge, full of a milky juice; Bowen red tnd purple it native of Mexico; name de- rived from'Xilapa, it province of Mexico. Squill is obtained from a pilule called still& by botanists. This word is derived from the Greek, meaning to dhquiet, it being a strong emetic. It is a native cf the $outh °Metope. Its dowers, like many of he class, spring up -before the leaves. The flowers are =spikes white and green; Do Not Sign Sp:cious Contracts. :he binds erelong, tonics:tad roots, la large is theism:in head. 15 woula mem that the Bohm:dui oat The common 50666 le °Maned. from a swindle will never come to an end. In the plant called cassia aenna, a native of Egypt Madison County., Ia, court, ten suite were and Barbary. Another, C. Fistula, is nee lately decided m favor of the "innocent sive of the West Indies, where it is much purchasen" of the notes. The court held cultivated for the sake of its pulp, which thatehe notes were given in consideration o a mild and pleasant laxative. The Eest of it bond executed and delivered to the Indian variety, however, is of very old re - Maker of the notes, and as such were not pute, and, in time of Avicena, the Arabian gamblieg contract's within the meaning of physician, was known by the name of °aegis the statutes. The court denounced the or solutiva. These planes are totally .different ignale traneaction as a fraud, and said that from lateens canes, or bastard cinnamon, the notes as between the original parties che bark of which was, as a spice or would have been void, but having been sold perfume, so much in favor with the and - to an innocent purchaser before maturity, ents. were protected by the' rules of commercial Oxalic acid used to'be obtained from, and kw, and were oolleetable, The Supreme is the bask of our common woodeiorreL court has not paned upon any of these cases, The family have the leaves of a trefoil or though there have been various decisions in olover, the flower of a geranium and the the lower courts of this and other states. taste Of sorrel, but the fisvor ix more grate- • There is an easy way not to be taken in fel, nearer to lemon and is sometimes used by travelling fraud. Bay your goods of cut tip in salad. Itns celled in Italy lujala, regular and well-known firma. who advertise which has been corrupted into shouts.. Old their wares legitimately. Bat so long as English e,uthors name it cuckoo -meat, it She cupidity of ignorant men exista—then flowering there at the time of the arrival who think themselves smarter than those of that bird. Oxalic acid is useful to take whose haeineas is fraudulent misrepresent- ironenold out of linen, and under the name ation—we suppose that the courts will have of the essential oil of lemon used to be plenty of businefie to untangle the meshes by obtained from this plant, as well as from ethical deceit lives and thrives. We have others. It is now, however, obtained moat - of tea advieed farmers not to sign contracts ly from the action of nitric acid upon sugar, with men who were not known to respeet- able bedtime mea of the vicinity whose word was known to be gooh. TIGfiT1NG STRENCFrg OF TILS IL •- , The Weakness of the America* Avow •- Shawn by the "St, dames 6a.zette.0 ephave reeently drawn much tattered= to tbe attempts whir& the Ailleft0A114 are' making to develop tepowerfel navy, and you have tainted thee in a few years an addivion mey be made to the great potential agliti Spates ef tat, world. I beve passed a goo many years 1'0 America, and from etteat have seen there I More come to the cono/a. ales that you, in oomOsny with most En.- lighmen, enterMin ?south too bith an opimon of the potable cffensive power of the Unitoda States. Now for orte improvised cruiser that tato Americans could put on the ocean. or thee lakes, it is certain that we could pat at lova,. twenty and better ones at that, Their - "outwore " woad elenply osago steenetnes armed and manned anyhow, pat as Omen were during their oivil war. The army or 300,000 to 500,003 woulit be composed of out olel friends the "new men with teuellete,r" totally " uuamenable to discipline," to whom-. plenty of good eorouves for mutiny wc red bet supplied by the army oontraotors. The overgrown repablie is always, frosfa differing and jarring interests, natnrallye disposal to Split into halvew and ouarterree and the "shaking up" which a foreign WAX would give Its rather env inetitutionte would be an excellent opportunity for malcontent States to "gel Mese" fora ane another. The vast Southern and Western, ei (Avow remedies States have net forgotten Inset followed the wer, or the feet thee they - have been bled, ever them for the letnefft the Northern eapiteelista end munsfacturera who corgeerect, plundered, tad trod. theme dowse. Then there Is the terve awl furcate ing negro pop/arable, who feel that the entit is not yet, enel live in shoe and tuteertaietio rereading the teal Inoue, perbape re-enalave- meet, perimps maasacre deportatlen), anything in stecie is oeue.ry and sueb condo. done being on tint cards. Agate the egrioeltntat papalatieu tvvodiairos at least of -whore, are tereigner5sfrom every nation im Europe—Germane preporelereting—would noted:are being conscripted to fight the, _Hagfish in order to Value, the politician:It and oblige their Irish patrons. Them the Indiane (miettreed by considers.- ble eombera heir breeds and "Indian white men" who have refueled t q laws and become. affilated with, the tribse or Adopted into them) would be very likely—they are alt Well armed with repeating weapone take to the war posh, ievilog been merciless. awiralle4 for the pest thirty piers or so, =v101.14104 0! the most solemn treaties. Some, people maintain that the cowboys—who, isa Gan. Sheridan remerked t i'Fsght pretty well -ellen they are drindt," and are regaling- rsomads averee dieciplize ea a Kurd^. or Bedeuin—would held tits Wiens fue cheek ; bat this le doubtful. TA0 intend* both of cewboys and 'adieus are ideate ea, as are their pursulta Both hate ;11A 4 Granata,' or agrioalturel tesettere, who continualy pear in foul tire Eastern Stites, encroath upon and break up ;settle rt1114 and reservations, ana arc a growing danger end menace. both to red raen area cettle oweers. A big foreign war would Imo the tater le free hand, and the Gran - gent might poseibly—as thee- my la Texts., —"hear eomethisig drop." Had Lost His Ground - In Scotland tha topio of a sermon or die - oeuvres of any kind is called by old-fashioned folk its "ground," or, as they would say, its "greed." An old woman, bustling into kirk rather late, found the preacher had coat. menced, and, opening her Bible, nudged her next neighbour, with the inquiry, " What's his grund "Oh," rejoined the other, who Indian Corn as rood. One of the interestingfeatures of the Perin Exposition is the exhibit of Indian corn and the food products made from it. As yet corn is yap little need as food by Europeans, and it is to prove to them that it is both palatable and healthy that this exhibit is made. Boston brown bread, Indian pudding, Johnny cakes, hominy, and the other vitamin that are familiar to everyone in America, will be dispensed free to all who care to partake, and 15 18 hoped enough of an appetite for the food products of corn will be created to coneiderably extend the export of corn to Europe. Certainly, if the people of Europe realized the value of corn as food, it would speedily take the place of the bitter black bread and poor wheaten bread that coned tutes the chief cereal food of the working dames in some sections of Europe. The exhibit is it very commendable piece ot enterprise, both from tbe standpoint of trade and of increasing the quality and variety of the food of the poorer °lessee. All hail to the Poeta omit& in fever of _King Corn. , The rutureof Canada. (Ertm "rsole Valles filuttrabed Newtpaper, Jon tk. The apprehenaion that the monaroldee of Europe fah, a little over a (=tarp age, re- garding the establishment of A great republic: on this ontinent Was just Med. Eagles:de with itr Canadian pesteasione, naturally Mood for the loyalty of ite subjeots to the north of tlie United States if Otte republic - were firmly planted. It is is matter of his- tory that the Bestial Government tried, law every effort, to 40411ra it f(30d101d to the southern limits of the original. thirteen. &neve and thee hem ire the new republic on all aides; but the graoious Providence whieh planted the American Bepublio.gas a seed that thould in time apread republioanieut throughout the world, fostered the insti- tution of American liberty, and bee pre-.. . served it until this day. The recent agi itation n Cenade in favor or commercial union, closer reciprocal relations, and even annmetion with tha United States, Is sigalficut. It is prediJted that the trie umpti of the Liberals in Canada at the pending election would be the triumph of those who favor separation from the Mother Ceuntry, and separation would inevitably lead to eecessIon, sole next to annexation. So orifice' is the situatien, it is said thee, Sir John Macdonald shortly expects to viaiti London and consult with her Mateety's Ministers upon the erdetect canadieu lationa with the United Stave The building of the Canadian Pica& rail-. road, at enormous expense to tbe Imperial and Dominion Gevernmente, the strengthen-. 1114 s4 -tau. tobssUmaestst sat Frftlifax and other • points cn the Atlantio coast, and the state- • ment that it is the intention of the Imperial authorities to make improvements in the de- • fames of the Pacific seaboard, all reveal the. - perturbation of the Home Government as well as of the loyal followers of the Crown in, Canada. Meanwhile various questions agi- tate and divide our Cenadian neighbors, - Closer relations afforded by the facilities for travel and the cheap rates of transportation have inepired in our neighbors on the north a feeling of kinahip and friendship, and have drawn them farther away from the Mothew Country. It is inevitable that this relation- ship, m a social and business way, must con- tinue to grow warmer as the benefits of our , - republican form of Government are more 'men - more appreciated, and the spirit of unrest . which has taken possession of a large part of the Canadian people will increase until the cry for separation will beccme so general thee it must be heard. It wouidibe indeed singular if, one hundred's '• years after the thirteen colonies had torn themselves loose from the Mother Country, their example should be followed by the re- - whining British colonies of the American t continent. In the event of a revolutibre Canada against the imperial Government, the sympathy and aid of the United Statea would be manifested for the rebels to such an extent that the triumph of the seceesionists. would be assured. A Sucoessfal Straggle. '"Charlie stayed pretty late last night, didn't; he, Lil ?" aeked sister Kate next, morning. • wed Lil, "we were try- ing the pigs in clover puzzle tilt nearly eleven o'clock." "And did von get the pigs in the pen,e, Lil ?" asked Kate'eagerly. "No, we didn't; hut 1 gob my finger in , this solitaire diamond ting." The Emprees Eugenie, moving about Eng- land now, attracts very little attention. In, BirminglAm recently she and her companion, the daughter of the duke di %mane, ani theft courier Waited a hotel and a restaurant in the town without; Cater identity being e sweated. The empreere ebony walking - stick and darkened eyebrows are notieeable. featuree. She seems in excellent ePirits.