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The Exeter Advocate, 1896-9-3, Page 2THE ENDICOTTS. By 01{ARLES L LEWIS (X. QUAD), LOopyright, 1893, by Charles B. Lewis.] The old king's highway, running al- most due east and west between the cap- ital cities of Indiana and Illinois, was the favorite route of people "moving west" by wagon. It was a stage route, and there were roadhouses or country taverns at frequent intervals. Many of these buildings, con,verted into farm- houses, are still standing, while others were abandoned when the railroad was opened and have long since passed out of sight. Within a few miles of the line dividing the two states the highway winds up a long hill. On the crest, on the north side of the road, are the black - MAL There was a tavern live miles west of Golden Hill. The pece.le were up at 5 o'clock, but no such man as War- dell had passed. Hooper, as the officer was named, lo- cated the disappearance between the two taverns. Then he went over every rod of the foiest, found nothing and prob- ably came to the conclusion that War- dell was put out of the way at Golden Hill. It is judged that he did, because he exchanged horses, shaved off his full beard, exchanged his clothes and took a new start, which would bring him there about dark. That night there were three other guests -all men. One was ill and did not go to the table or sit in the barroom, while the other two saw a • fourth man about and even talked with him, but could not remember whether he wore whiskers or not and did not see his horse at all. One thought he ate breakfast with them, the other not. Well, it soon came to pass that the deputy was being searchedfor. He made No. 3, and now there was, a demand that the gang of robbers and murderers be broken up at any cost, Everybody said there must be a gang, but no one could locate them or advance any proofs. At one time more than 100 people were searching the woods and fields along the highways, and in the course of a month a score of strangers were arrested on suspicion. All identified themselves and were discharged from custody, and the mystery was complicated instead of be- ing cleared up. Just as the hue and cry were begin- ning todie out a man named Abner Williams, living in Grand Rapids, had business which called him to Indianapo- lis. He drove across the country with a fine team, and the horses were sold in Indianapolis. Williams was an invent- or and had twit or three patent rights. It was in connection with. these that he traveled about the state and finally set out for Illinois by the state road, as it was called. He had heard all about the three mysterious disappearances, and like all others he supposed it was the work of highway bandits. He had sev- eral hundred dollars in cash with him, and he was also well armed. He rode a valuable black horse, and he gave out to his friends that he should keep his eyes wide open and give a good account of himself if attacked. Mr. Williams, as he afterward related, reached the Golden Hill tavern about 8 o'clock in the afternoon. He intended to ride on for at leas; 10 miles, but when his horse came out of the barn after a light feed he had cast a shoe. It was two miles back to a blacksmith shop, and Endicott offered to send his man Tom with the horse. The blacksmith afterward said that the shoe had been pried off in the barn The horse was not returned until about dark, and Williams then decided to remain all night. Some immigrants ate supper, and there were three teamsters to stay an night. In pursuance of a policy he had out- lined, Williams told each of these men who he was, his business and where he was going. He told them that under no circumstances should be set out until after breakfast, and something was said aboet trading horses next morning, Williams was given a bedroom off the dining room. It had a window and a second door, both opening on the back yard. There was only a strip of carpet on the floor. while the furniture was poor and scanty, but it was the beat room in the house. A. TaaPDOon was LIPTED ened foundation stones 'of the old Golden Hill tavern, destroyed by fire years ago, Forty rods east of the site is a deep gul- with a creek at the bottom, except in dry weather. The farmer who owns the land will tell you that this place is called Dead Man's gully and that for the last 26 years the number of sight- seers has averaged 500 a year. They have worn a broad path from the site of the house to the bank of the gully. The Golden Hill tavern, as it was known in the old days, was presided over by a man known as Bill Endicott. It was not a stage station, but nevertheless a favorite house with travelers. The man was scarcely 5 feet high., weighed only about 100 pounds, and it was the general opinion that he was about gone with consumption. His wife was a sin- gular contrast. She was 6 feet 1 inch in height, weighed 160 pounds and was as stout as the average man. Both man and wife were glum and unsociable and the very opposite of other landlords, but the fare was better and the price cheap- er than anywhere else on the road. No one ever found out whether Endicott was their real name or just where they name from. but it was generally sup- posed they had come up from Kentucky. he. landlord was assisted by a man about 30 years old, whom everybody called Tom, and the landlady by a young woman who might have been single or Tom's wife. They were as glum as their employers -even more so. Tom had so little to say thatmany travelers thought him dumb. The wants of guests were always promptly attended to, however, and while they thought the quartet "queer" there was no cause for com- plaint. The tavern on the hill had been. open about two years when strange rumors passed up and down the road. Many people passed to and fro on horseback. One day an Indianapolis drover named Alonzo E. Baker set out for Illinois to buy cattle. He was a well known char- acter, and the horse he rode was known to stage drivers and others. Nothing being heard of him for two months, his wife sent a man over the route he was supposed to have taken. Baker was traced to Golden Hill and no farther. He was met by acquaintances within two miles of the tavern, and it being al- most dark it was inferred that he would put up there. Endicott kept no regis- ter. When asked for information, he stated thatBaker had stopped there for supper and to feed his horse and had then pushed on, saying that he had been delayed during the day and must make up for it. The search was continued for weeks, other parties having been induced to take it up by the reward offered, but neither Baker nor his horse was to be found. While this search was going on. a sevond was instituted. A resident of Columbus, 0. named John Wardell made a trip to 'Indiana to visit a brother. While there he was offered a bargain in lands near Hillsdale, ilis., and he set out on horseback with over $1,000 in money on his person. Wardell was a very tall man, with very long black whiskers, and he roe a white horse. When noth- ing had been heard from him for several weeks, his brother began a search, lie was not only traced to the G -olden Hill tavern, but men were found who put up there with him. When Endicott was questioned, he replied: ••1 remember the man very well. On going to bed he requested to be called at daylight, and my wife prepared. a special breakfast for hire. He rode away to the west." It was useless to ask further questions, for Endicott knew nothing more. None of the other guests was up at daylight, and so none could dispute his statement. When a most thorough search failed to unravel the mystery, people settled down to the belief that a band. of robbers made their headquarters in a thick piece of 4voods between the Golden Hill tavern and the next stop. This forest was pret- ty thoroughly searched, but the search- ers made no discoveries. No tavern , keeper on the route was under suspicion. Horse thieves and highway robbers were plentiful in those days, and they were held accountable for the two murders. The reWara. offered in the case of -W ar- dell induced a deputy sheriff at Decatur, Els., to take up the trails ffe began at 'the Indiana end and followed it to Gold- en Hill. He got 1: P Same replies from Endicott that others had received, but he did not give up there. He found, for instance, that a stage going east had stopped for the night on that night at a tavern 10 miles to the west. le had. left at 5 o'clock in the morning, but had not met "Virardell. It had been followed by three tearastere, but they had not met of after vision. According to his own story, he did not lose consciousness when struck. The landlord evidently thought one blow suffioient. After striking it he opened the back deor and let his wife in, and as they stood before the bed she asked: "Do you think you finished him?" "He's dead as a log?" was his reply. "Well, let's get the money and. dispose Of the body. Tom went away with the horse an hour ago." After removing ewerything frona his garments the woman made a bundle of them. • She then sat down on the edge sf the bed, Worked her •right arm under WilliatuV body, and with a half twist got him on her back. He was a man weighing 160 pounds ,and was all dead Weight, but she carried him without an effort, and the husband. went ahead with a lantern which had been left at the back door when she came in. At 50 feet • from the back door they were in the scrub. They inade‘straight for the ra- vine, and upon reaching it the body was flung into its depths. You will think it curious, but the liaree teamsters arose in the morning and made no inquiry after Williams. When Endicott incidentally remarked that his other guest left before they were up, they did not regard it as strange. • They went their way and even forgot his name. Williams remained at the bottom of the ravine the rest of that night and all the next day, dimly con- scious all the time of his situation. Soon after dark he revived sufficiently to quench his thirst at a little pool, and then he became fully conscious. He could not walk, but all night long he • was crawling through the woods to get as far away as possible, expecting the murderers would come that night to dig his grave. He spent the next day in the woods, but about dark reached the highway and hailed a passing team. Being left at a tavern about 10 miles from Golden Hill, a doctor was summoned, and it was a week before he could tell his story. Meanwhile the Endicotts had taken the alarm and fled, and none of the house- hold was ever captured. In Dead Man's gully, only lightly covered with earth, were the remains of the three missing men. The tavern keeper doubtless worked. in conjunction with a gang of horse thieves, and Tom was the man who rode the animals off to the point where they were turned over. Failing to get trace of the murderers, the indig- nant pe.ople gutted the tavern and then applied the torch, and the stranger who travels that highway today will be told by every farmer he meets to be sure • to stop and view the spot. ae, _ — - e Tun ITCSBAND WENT AllEAD WITEI A. LAN- TERN. Williams was not a drinking man, but he took a whisky after supper, and upon his retiring to his room the landlord in- sistea that he take a "nightcap." This was imbibed when the traveler was ready for bed. He saw that the doors were fast, but it being in summer and the night rather close Williams left the win- dow open. The drink left a queer taste in his mouth. He fell asleep almost at once, but after about an hour suddenly awoke. Instead of beingnervous or rest- less he was calm and quiet and felt that it would be a great exertion to even move a finger. He lay on his right side, facing the room, and there was enough light to enable him to make out all ob- jects. Willianas had no doubt been given some sort of narcotic inthe liquor. After the first effects he was stupefied only to a certain extent. His brain was . active enough, but his nerves were benumbed and his muscles relaxed. He heard the old clock in the dining room strike 11, Nail he theught it was about 10 minutes later when a trapdoor in the floor of his root/land just opposite the bed was lifted ap. A calelle was first lifted up and placed on the flout by an arm, and then Endicott followed. Williams could neither move MT cry out. • It flashed • aceoss his mind that the three missing men had been killed in this very room anti that he was to be 'victim No. 4, but he was helpless. The landlord was armed with somethings which looked like a club, This wmipou afterward proved • to bean iron bolt wrapped in a cloth. Ho came over to Williams, looked at hien for a few seconds and then struck him on the head. , Medical men have differed as to Wil- liams' condition.. Some believed that everything happened just as he relaiad it, while ethers insisted that it was a sort Modern Book Criticism. The "new criticism" again! In a no- tice of the works of the great Hungarian novelist, 'Moritz Jokai, the Pester Lloyd gravely observes that up to the publica- tion of his latest story. Jokai has used exactly 70.816.404 letters. The compil- ing of a concordance to an author is a severe work, but is arithmetical ,child's play compared with this novel feat of reckoning up his precise amount of debt to the alphabet. But the very newest criticism is not to end here, it would seem, for the critic goes from the A B 0 book to the compositor to inquire the exact weight of the type used for Jokai's 70,000,000 and odd letters, He is in- formed that Jokai's contributions to the national literature, estimated from the leaden point of view, weigh nearly 35- 500 kilograms. "If the type was laid lengthwise," says our end of the century critic, "it would extend to a distance of 145 kilometers" - that is. say, about 20 English miles - "while," he continues, "if it were piled up on end it would attain to an eleva- tion 48 times as high as the Eiffel tower." This is certainly treating Jokai as a man of letters. -Westminster Gazette. SOME ODD STORIES.. INTERESTING TALES OF ADVENTURE ON SEA AND LAND. k Voyage to the West Coast of Africa Forty Years Ago -Attacked by Cannibals and Saved by the Vision of a Vessel In the Sky -The Mutiny Ended. [Copyright. 1893. by American Press Associa- tion.) "1 was only 19 years old when I shipped the first time," said my friend, the old sail- or "The craft was a brig called the Swal- low, and she was bound for the west coast of Africa, having a cargo of cotton cloth, boots and shoes, ruin in casks, needles, brass kettles, cutlasses, old muskets and other stuff that could be readily traded for gold dust, nuggets and ivory with the nee lives. In those days, more than 40 years ago, fortunes were made in this trade, but times have changed since then. "We had another object besides taading, tor we were instructed to look after the schooner Ella Noble, which had sailed for the very locality to which we were bound and had never returned. What had become of her was a mystery, for although she was spoken when within a day's sail of the African coast no further tidings had come from her, and it was feared she had met with some fatal disaster. Labouehere Talks of Love. On few subjects is there more non- sense talked than on love. .9. girl begias life with a dose of unattached affection. Some one asks her to marry him, on which she concentrates this affection upon him. If some one else had asked her, the concentration would have taken place on the some one else. Having be- come betrothed, she considers that she is in that peculiar condition which is called being in love. The best guarantee, how- ever, for a happy marriage is not so much being in love as a certain fitness of things and a reasonable liking between the contracting parties. If both tee pleasant in their relations to each other, the mere fact of living together and. hav- ing identical interests develops affec- tion. I know that this view of matri- mony is contrary to the ideas accredited in novels. It is, however, true. -Henry Labouchere in London Truth. Good For Man and Beast. The movement started by a company here to have its drivers scientifically informed concerning horses and their proper treatment cannot be too highly commended or too widely imitated. While some men are naturally cruel and take pleasure in inflicting pain, they are very few, the majority injuring the ani- mals under their power more from ig- norance than from their intention. Be- sides the gain to humanity this step. is also one of sound economic policy, as the proper treatment of horses preserves their health. and strength; and thus pro - 'bugs their usefulness. Men cannot too on discover for their own good that eruelty, voluntary or involuntary, is a reactionary evil. -Baltimore American. "CANOES KITTEN (ter FROM SITOREin "The crew was mostly made up of the roughest men tound 10 shipping offices and atoms the water front, for the voyage was not a desirable one, as there was sure to be no little risk of life, and the food could not be the best procurable by any means. I was not at all favorably impressed by my messnuttes. but my head was full of foolieh notions about the romance in a cruise to Africa, and 1 was more than eager to go. Some of the romance faded what I was put an salt rations and compelled to do the duty of a common before -the -mast sailor. be captain was a brutal fellow. as he needed to be in order to command such, a crew and keep them in subjection. He bad IL voice like a foghorn and a scowl that was black as a thtualerclond. The first mate was a Spaniard named Corello. He had a fiery temper and a heavy hand. but I fan cied faira more than the skipper, 'For Rome reason Corello seemed to take a liking to rue, itud L afterward had cause to thank nip good fortune this was true. He was not nearly so hard ou me as he might have been, although I felt that my lot was quite hard enough. "It was not long after leaving port that I observed queer actions among the sailors. There was a great deal et' muttering, and sometimes I wonld espy some of the men with thew beads together, talking in low tones. I did not like this, and so I told the mate about it. He looked at me queerly, saying guardedly: " 'Marc caire. Zese men no like a tate tier If zey hear you tell t'ings, some time you get'- He finished by drawing his fin- ger across his throat in a significant man- ner "From that time 1 felt sure there was trouble brewing, but I remembered the warning and was careful to keep my mouth shut. My dislike for the captain increased, and I actually grew to detest the mau after saw him knock down with a marlin spike a sick man whom he had ordered aloft, but who was unable to mount the ratlines. "During the first part of the voyage the captain and Corello got along well enough, and we had sighted the African coast when they had their first quarrel. The skipper attempted to bully the Spaniard, as was his custom with the regular men, and Cor- ello flared up in an instant. Hot words followed. All at once the master grabbed ap a light running block and flung it at the mate's bead. "The aim was true enough, but Corello dodged. Then the skipper caught up a be- laying pin and started for the Spaniard. I saw a flash of steel, and Corello fell back against the main hatchway, a knife in his band. With a Spanish oath, he swore he would out the captain's heart out if an at- tempt was made to strike him with the be- laying pin. -For a little time the two men looked straight Into each other's eyet, and then the captain's hand fell. 1 expected. he would order that Corello be seized and put in Mous, but he did nothing of the kind. In- stead he retired to his cabin, and I saw a singular smile playing about the mate's month. while 1 fancied there was a burning power in his black eyes. ''Th at night Oorello came to me as I stood my watch. He touched me lightly on the arm, whispering: '"I save you. Don't you be scare when time come.' Then he was gone. "I felt that a mutiny was threatened, and I was in doubt about what to do. 1 did not mean to join the mutineers, andI had about determined to report my suspicions to the captain when I was relieved from the watch. A.s I was going forward I saw two forms and heard the voice of Corello saying: 'Not this night. Tomorrow.' "rhis relieved my feelings somewhat, and I dared not attempt to arouse the skip- per then, as 1 knew he would make a terri- ble racket about it, so I went to my bunk. I didn't sleep much, but thesnight passed Without further iacident. "Morning found , us becalmed at the mouth of a large river. The sun came up red and scorching, making the water shim- mer like burniehed silver. Not a breath of air tippled the surface of the sen or fluttered the canvas we spread. By 9 o'clock a eort of bluish gray haze crept over the sky, but She heat was none the less oppressive. . "The captain walked the deck and raved. 'Do you know where we are?' he snarled. at Corello. 'The natives who inhabit this .country are cannibals! What if -they should take a fancy to attack as now? We'd all be served iti soup and roasts!' "The skipper seemed to blame the mate, and in les.s than three minutes another row bad begun. This time the master did or- • der 'Soren° seized and ironed. But the m- ike was tot obeyed. Not a man moved to carry out the command. Instead the sail- ors stood scowling at their captain. " 'What's this?' he roar'ed, his face grow - • trying a Stork by Jury. What wonderful stories are told about storks! A certain Baron Burchink told Mrs. Andrew Crosse the following, which she had printed. It is a story of a trial 'by a jury of storkS; A male stork, having some grievance with his mate, determined not to take, the law into hie own hands, but let a jury of his peers decide mathe case. The baron says the storks selected an open , field, where they formed a circle and met eliagailty lady M their midst. They had a discussion, the outetasie of which .Was that six birds left the ring and pecked theniafertimate offender to death: ;ng black. 'Do you refuse te obey roe? By e-1, this is mutiny!' " 'We are seek of you,' calmly said Corea 'o.• 'We serve you ze way ze ()instable of ze Ella Noble was serve. Grab him, ladsr 'Me skipper snatched out a pistol and retreated a few steps, swearing to. blow out the brains of the first man who, tried to' touch him.' I saw a Portuguese creeping catlike up behind the man, and I knew the brig would soon be in the possession of the mutineers unless some unforeseen moues rence prevented. , "At this very instant landed Downes, a cock eyed old tar, shouted: "'Canoes puttin off 'from' shore loaded with blackskins! There's piles of 'em, an they're all armed, We're in for a fight!' "In one instant the mutiny was over. Every man realized our peril, and they jumped to the rail to get a look at the 'ap- proaching canoes.' Downes had told the truth. A regular war party of the canni- bals were coming off to attack the 'brig. 'Muskets and cutlasses, men!' thun- dered the captain. 'Train the gun on 'Lem auchblow 'era Out cif waterr "Oar Only chance was to fight, and that chalice was really a slim one, as we were badly prepared for such an • encounter. Our heavy gun was a rusty old thing, and it was doubtful if it would do much excel/ - don. But we were not destined to fire a. shot. "Suddenly a great cry went up from the throats of the natives, and the canoea sat motionless on the glassy water, while the blaek faces of their inmates were turned upward. "'Great God! Look there!' "The sailor who uttered the cry pointed almost directly overhead, and there we saw a most astounding spectacle. A 2 -Masted schooner turned bottom upward seemed to hang susganded in the air amid the bluish haze that overspread the sky! Every sail was set, but they hung idle like our own, as if she were also becalmed, We could look directly upon the deck, but not a liv- ing thing seemed stirring about her. She was deserted. "But the most singular part of it all is that I could read her name, and I ssvear she was the lost schooner Ella Noble of New Bedford, Mass. "In a few moments she began to fade from view. Dimmer and dimmer grew her outlines, and she was filially swallowed up and lost in the haze. When we looked at the cannibals, every canoe was scooting for the shore as fast as paddles could send them, Those natives were the wont scared lot you ever saw, and 11e had no mere trouble with them. "1 suppose it is easy enough to account for the vieiou of the vessel in the sky by calling it a inirmse. but sailors are mighty superstitious, and there were some sober men on the Swallow after that. No further offer at mutiny 1111S made, and everything moved sinoot lily to the end of the voyage. "13ut we didn't find the Ella Noble, and she has never been heard of since." • THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON X.,. THIRD QUARTER -IN- TERNATIONAL SERIES -SEPT, 6. 1 €reictan Text-`41lessed are they that dwe11,1 in thy house ;„ they wiU be still praising thee.."--resalm 311: 4. • After the dectisive Victory describedin our last lesson, David returned to .Temsalem. Then followed several years of - peaceful development of the Kingdom. • David's early exposures, his wars, and. great cares left him a worn-out man be- fore he was seventy. • David had accomplished nearly all of his liciart'S desire as to his kingdom. He. found it small, he left it great. He found religion at a low ebb, and left it earnest, active, • organized for work. But there was one great work on which he had set his heart which he could not accomplish, the rearing of a temple worthy of the, religion of the true God.. David believed that If the heart was , right with God, things' would of them- ' selves go right with men. Solomon ware willing to, receive the counsel of David. Though young, high-spirited, of princely , rank, and already annotated King,he bowed to listen to his aged father. Les- sons of reverence for age and respect to parents are to be drawn from this. The Lesson -1 Citron. 22 ; 6403. ' 7 And. David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it is in Iny mind to build. an house untothe name of the Lord my Clod. 8 But the word of the Lordl mime to me, saying, Thou hest shed blood abund- antly, and hest made great wars; thou shalt not build an house unto my liarue, because thou hest shed much blood upon the earth in my sight. David is not blamed for his great wars. They were necessary wars, not wars of aggression, but defensive wars, OP keep the enemies of tho trne religion from destroying the nation and the re- 1 legion it represented. It was fitting- that the temple of the true God for all the world sbOuld be a temple of peace. It wee, intended to pro- . claim peace, to bring peace, to teach - peace to individuals and to nations. 9 Behold, kt son shall be bora to • thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him 'rest from all his enemies round about; for his name shall be ,Solom on ; and I will give him peace and quietness unto Israel in his days. 10 He shall build On holm for name; and he shall be my son,and 1)9 his father; and. I will establish tempo of his kingticen over Israel The Leap of the Puma. We were following the mule path that winds over the Andes from Santa Rosa, Chili, to Mendoza, in the Argentiue confed- eration. We had left the Rio Blauco behind US at midday, and now with the declining sun turnieg the $uowy sununits above us to molten gold we paused aud gazed upon the awe inspiring masees of mountains piled on every band, below. about and above as. It was a scene that struck me dumb - a sight never to be forgotten. Suddenly the gaucho touched me lightly on. the arm and polluted far down the mail. "Look, senor!" he said excitedly. saw a dark, crouching figure climbing steadily and swiftly up the trail, steep and difficult though it was. There was some- thing familiar about that form, which I perceived to be a man. "Who is he?" I asked in Spanish. "A ladrone-a mount:tie robber, We saw him at the Ilio Blanco. Ile seemed to be sleeping in the shadow by the station." I remembered the fellow, although 1 had scarcely given his a second look as lie lay curled up by the mud wall of the mouutain station, apparently sound asleep. Now it was plain he had been shamming slumber, and he was following ue with evil intent. When we were sleeping soundly at night, it was his thought to creep in upon us. With swift and deadly thrusts his keen cu- chilla would steal away our lives, and then our mules, our packs and all we possessed would be his. He had not seen as, and so was uncon- &Mous of being watched. All at once a low cry left my lips: "What is that?" I had seen a huge, tawny, catlike figure Shat crept swiftly to the brink of an aver - hanging rock rock and crouched close on its belly. My companion saw it also, but be- fore he could answer my question the beast shot through the air. Fairly on the shoulders of the mountain robber lauded the great cat, knocking the man flat in an instant. Over and over they rolled, fightiug fiercely. The struggle was brief and terrible, being brought to a ter- mination in an unexpected manner. Over the brink of a great precipice plunged the combatants, disappearing in the unmeasur- ed depths of a mighty abyss, the death cry of the doomed man mingling with the howl- ing snarl of the animal, "That was a puma," said the gaucho calmly. "The ladrone will not trouble us tonight, senor." Pt/eventing the Cattle Plague. As our tarantass approached a small Rus- sian village an tlee river !shim we observed signs of nnusual excitement, Coming near er, I saw a large number of cattle within the limits of the collection of huts and poor houses, while a strange procession was mak- ing its way laboriously and noisily in a cir- cle around the town. First came a haglike' woman who must have been at. least 8J years of age, and to my amazement I saw she was dragging a plow, while other women wore beating her and goading her on with sticks. The en- tire female population of the village was following ba a long line, carrying pieces of irou wbich they clanked together, beating on tin dishes and chanting in a weird and doleful man n er. But what astonished Inc most was .the sight of a woman who kept pace with the one who was dragging the plow. She was stripped of every srmed of clothing, but about her neck she wore a horse collar. A howling dog, evidently having espied us, darted oat of the town and attempted to cross the mark made by the plow, hut he was immediately caught ad instantly killed. • Turning to my companion, I asked what they were doiug, "They are taking precautions against the cattle plague," he replied. "The woman who draws the plow is the oldest fenfale of the village. The one wearing the horse collar is a widow. All their cattle are with. - in the circle they will make with that plow. The dog they just killed was supposed to he possessed of the plague, which caused htm to try to escape from the eirele." ' They did not seem to notice our appear- nitutoclevatuatie Isnap-eartsethiteidoutshopesatsraalangt: ueneiteall the taraatass carried me beyond view. WiLeaseet G. PATTEN. my will the Lan - even. David hail brought his kingdom to the most favorable condition for a vontinued peace. All the eouquered nations were tribntary, and paid heavy taxes. But what NVI1S the principle thing, true fear of God prevailed througont the land. Solonion means Peaceful correspond.. ing to the German Friedrich, Bich in • peace. 11 Now, my son, the Lord be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the hous of the Lord thy Gad, as he bath said to thee Id Only the Lord give the wisdom and # understanding, and give thee charge con- cerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the Lord thy God. God will be with us when we go to him, live in communion with him, and meek to know and do his will. Solomon's great work was to build the house of the Lord. It was for this work that God chose him to be King. No work requires more wisdom than the Lord's work. And only lie can give the true wisdom. Wisdom and understanding would lead lain to keep the law of the Lord. There is no way to usefulness and success in doing God's work exoept by a careful obedience of bits law. 13 Then shalt thou prosper if thou ; takest heed to fulfil the statutes and . judgments which the Lord. charged elosee with concerning Israel; be strong and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed. God wants to prosper us. He greatly desires our happiness but he cannot re- ' ward disobedience or prosper those who refuse to walk in the only way that can ' bring true prosperity, through holiness. Therefore, we must fulfil our part of the covenant. There would be hindrances, enemies, discouragements, delays, and inaumera- . ble trials, as there always are in doing a good andgreat work, so there was need for him to be strong and. of good courage. 14 Now, behold, inemy trouble 1 have prepared for the house of the Lord an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone hews I prepared; and thou mayest add. Ciento. 15 Moreover, there are workmen with thee in abutalance, hewers. and workere of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work. 16 Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise, therefore'and be doing, and the Lord be with theo. There are two ways in which talents of gold may be reckoned. One is to regard talent as 150 much weight of gold. In which case a shekels weight of gold le worth $9.60 and a talent's weight $98,- 800. ..A. talent of silver is worth $1,900. But there is another way of reckoning. It is possible that the talent meant . a certain value in silver, whether the Amount was accumulated in gold or silver. •' * God IA building a spiritual temple in : the world, and. also one in the soul of each of his children. For both the same things are needed. In both it is blessed to see the Work going on. • God's temple is built in peace. • Clod needs not only the gifts of the rich, and great, but the gifts of all. The blessings have come to all. Let all give • foi: the Lord's work. A Perfume for Clothes. A pleasant powder for perfuming elothest packed away, which' it is said, will keep out moths, is madeas follows: I Put in a mortar an ounce eaoh of clove% I nrameg, mace, cinnamon, caraway seeds, wed tonquin beans. Pound them to a poevder with six ounces of MIS. rasa Fill little bags' made of muslin with tali powder, and lay them among the cloth- ing. - • rtnowtoneetteg. • The sunnier girl evil° goes in for colt looting everything • is sure to be f esche- ated by all the new pillows. Many Phil- adelphia girls have' already 'large pollee-, tious at downy cushions. 0310 girl In parameter, who is soon to leave town on t hoe summer venation, has bought an extra size trunk for the express purpose. ef carrying her pillows.