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begente suddenly illumittated at the mid, Net01117 Pt43),,r1;, ;liallatih" AttlgajOAN INDIANS.
night hoer and ar tie they were gazing et there was .no In le 0 by t e ey
' the strange spectacle, thc front door wine not only land °taint to the entire propeTtn, writte wraftoita taeak a malabar
CE1APT4R was lying dead, pnahriven and unannee,led,
in the leuely farm honse—hi the naidat of a
rnrx nueJAartisas t;Etrunhat„o FOAMec`to, the full enja oyment life and
zs,hiS To sT ()WOMB, ABA wigter sTbAttos) nitnun4
health, Remy of the members of which had
xythtiTs ruLLOWBD niaradt. known, lovedeand admired him trete the
"At the date of Felix's return,' oentionecl days of hia early childbood, and seine of
he harrahor. "M, Deeietruiers, the elder, where had, perhaps, once envied hie may
wed leen &ma five yeara. Several, years par nal social advantat'es. Consultetions
etreretoutt to his decease, he had sold the were held, and, at length ftt was divided that
greater portion. of his farm to the lord of the M. Lim, the cure, ecoonnpanied bysome of
enamor who was glad. to purchase land whit% the elders of the village, thould visit: the
haaltlx:en so (=entity cuitivated and improv. farm house, mid ascertain for their own Bat-
ed, and had only reserved to bilneelf the isfaction whethet ita unhappy inmate were
delds inunedietely. surrounding the how*, lying or dead.
Thus he had Wawa possession of a very " 1:ln
ie visit was duly made. As o ad.
large sum of ready money, which he had mittaerte could otherwise be gained, the
deposited in the Dank at Quebec), and vrhich door of the house wee forced open ; and. the
be was ematinually adding to, rather than party entered the dwelling, and cerefully
dineinbilaing ; fer, though lect was atill °hetet. **arched every chamber.
abls to the poor, lwecl very frugally, and "Nothing, hovvever, was to be seen of
did not spend a third part of his annual in- Felix. The apartment appeared to have
tome. I been allowed to remain for years in the
"M. Dacjarniers bed never truly believed , condition in which they were left by the
that his Eon was dead, end to the hat hour old couple who had charge of the farm after
of his life he expected Felix's return. A the death of M. Dee) trniere, the elder.
Hier thing was in pertect order, except
that the costly farnitare, and carpets, and
pictures, were thickly coated. with dust.
One room only—the kttohen—appeared to
have been lately tenanted. in that room
was a sofa bed, upon whioh Felix had
doubtlese been accustomed to sleep. A
table near the fire.place, was laid out for
supper. There was a plate and knife and
fork, and a saltdieb, and a decanter of
water and a tumbler, and two empty dishee.
Over the .fire -place hung two saucepans,
which contained vegetables, mouldy, and
evidently boiled to rags, and on the table
waa a candlestick, the candle which it had
contained burnt down to the socket The
chair, however, opposite the plate and knife
and fork waa overturned, as if its ocoupant
had started from his aeat in a great hurry ;
a chair near the door of the room was
overthrown, and several books had fallen
from a shelf near by, and lay strewn over
the floor, leading to the inference that a
struggle of some sort had taken place in the
room. it was also remarked as very dup.
lar, that though the man they searched for
was certainly not in the house, the front
door was locked on the inside, and the key
remained in the lock. The windows, like-
wise, Were aecurely fastened from the inside,
"Ib was suageated that perhaps robbery
had taken place, and that Felix Decjsralers
1 forms came forth, and tbriee :Tiede the dr. eaves. The clergy demanded their third; " e 1,4404 14 e7 I
Quit et the garden, narrowing the eirolethe lord a the manor aitto elainiftel a third on When one is hi the dyibg agony the Pelee I
Suddenly there arote, as if out of the earth, the part a the parish; and all alike relatives tives give veal: to their grief iit loud wails,
the :shadowy oatliaea of a scaffold, surmount. included, employed their own lawyers tle The crying continue e at latervala until death
contest the several olaime. The result has takee place, and also up to the time of
been as 1 have said, that the money has ail barial. This cry bets boon by Settle White
&decried awAy, and the lawyers alone have persone mistakeu for a e0eR Or Chant, but it
boasted irom it. No doubt, if ib were in no way Partakes of that character: it le a
that 1
noe at teattera are atin ill Abeyance, mad gentilue expresaion of anguieh and grief.
no one dares to seize ppm the house and. The wail or erg is interapersed with terms
fm, arthey, in spite of the evil repute attach- which express the relationship between the
ecii to them, would long ere now have one deceesed and the , person grieving. The.
the way of the money. As it al, the fields I writer he many timee heard the ory of
may remain uncultivated for years yet to Indian men and women, and has teen the
come, mid the home and outheusea may fall tem Row down their cheeks, There is
utterly into ruins, before any one party eau ; something bruly awful in the sound tvben
claim the nrcenertnt able° there . eXietS DO ' men and women together lift up their voices
throttn open, and a plooeatsion of shrouded but they likewise (patrolled amongst theca, Y
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twelvemonth provtons to his decease, he
made his will, lo, queathing his entire
poperty to his son in case of his return, or
of bin beiug heard of, or item. In case, how-
ever, of absolute proof of his son's death, he
bequeathed the interest of his property for
ever, one eel to the ROHM]. Catholic clergy
Auld of Quebec, and the other half to
the poor or the parish of St. Glenda, pro.
vlded none of his relatives in Normandy
everts living. If such relatives were living,
and could furnish proof of their rela,tionship,
cue third of the entire property was to be
divided atnoogst them, aud the remaining
two thirds was to be subject to the previous
conditions of the will.
"As yet, nothing had been known in the
?emote quiet parish of St. Claude of the
evil doings of Felix Dajerniers, in Pans.
Es was received, thereeare. as one dem
from the dead, and heartily welcomed by all
who had kuown him in his youth, and nuin.
terlees were the regrets that the good old M.
Detjarniers, his father, was not ad/ living to
tejoice over his son's return. Much curios -
was felt respecting Louise, and the
good folk vciondered whether she were still
alive, and whether M. Felix had met her
in Paris. But a natural feeling of sympathy
prevented mop one from alluding to Luisa
in the presence or hearing of her once be-
trothed and deceived lover and foster -
brother. had been foully deelb with. But tete sug-
gestiou was immedietely over -ruled, since
however, returned brief and
n
medy replies to all questions put to him.othing of value appeared to have been re -
Ile seemed to shun the advances of his for- moved.
iner friends and companions; and after a " Someof the visitors averred that a strong
law dilY8' shut himself up in his house, smell of rimstone pervaded the kitahen ;
b
st read ho old cimple who and but M. le Cure was unable to perceive the
having firdisci:ret
ed by the fearful gnillotuie ; a'hie on t e
seaffold, the figure of the exemtiloaer was
dimly visible. Tee ahrouded forma halted
oppestte the gait's:eta°, ancl,; one by one,
slowly mounted, the eoeffotcl, and placed
thennelvee beneath the beam. Thrice the
knife fell, and then, amidst mingled shrielte
of awe and peals of demonitte laughter, A
eheet of theme shot upwards from the earth,
and enveloped the terrible instrument of
death. Then, in an inetant, all was darkness
and silence.
" Curtosity induced some ot the vil-
lagers to view the Epee on which this
shadowy tregedy was enacted ; and they
found, as in corroboration of the &her -
mode story, 'hat a alveolar Fp et in the
centre of the garden. was charred as if by
the action of fire. This epee remains here
of vegetation to the p :went day.
"Once only—about a twelvemonth after
the disappearance of M. Felix DasjArniers—
a farmer, from a distant parish (tempted by
the offer made by thcse who took upon
themselves the task of acting as executors of
the property, of the dwelling and farm, rent
free, for a certain number of yeare), came to
live at the farmhouse, with his wife and
family ; but it is said that he only occupied
the house three days. The eights seen, and
the sounds heard after nightfall, were Bo
frighful as to terrify his wife and children
inte fits, arid almost to cosh the life of his
youngest child.
" Since that date, the farm has re-
rnained 'intermitted. The villagers fear to
approach it, and do not like even
to opeak ot is. ' As I have observed,
it is said thee awful eights and sounds are
occasionally atilt seen and heard in the
house and surrounding gelds, but thougd e
have occupied the post of euro of the parish
for a quarter of a century, and have frequent-
ly passed near the spot ab all hours of the
night, on my visite to sick or dying parish-
oners, I must confess that I have seen no
fearful sights; nor have I heard Any sound
more awful than the eighing of the night-
breczi as it swept, over the tops and amidst
the branches ef the fir and cedar trees in the
woods and copses ; and now, monsieur, you
have heard the Watery of the accursed
farm."
" May I ask whether you, monsieur, entre
credit to this strenge story ?" I inquiree
M. le Cure shrugged his shoulders and
smiled, as he replied .—
"That the sad story of the abandonment
of her betrothed husband by Louise Legrise-
of the grief of her foster -parents and the de
*air of her lover, and the subsequent fear-
ful vengeance that the latter wreaked upon
the Viscount de Lavigny and his unfortunate
wife ancl infant daughter—is perfectly truth-
ful, there can exiat no doubt. Also that
Felix DeEjereiers'after a villainous career in
Paris, returned to St. Claude, a moody,
heaven-foreaken man, and that he suddenly
disappeared in a mysterious manner, is but
too true 1 but I strongly suspect that the
tales told respecing the evil spirits believed
to haunt the dwelling, had, and have, their
origin in the superatitiousfanoies of ig,norant
and simpleminded villagers."
smell, and therefore, it was probably mere
had hitherto had cliarge of the place,
the few farservants who had been retain-
fancy on the part of some of the helf.terrified
m
ea by the eider M. Diejerniers, and who 1lmrtY.
" Atter some time the perty quitted the
"nail, since the old fanner's death. contin-
dwelling, unsuccessful in their therein The
ued to work on the small farm. He denied
garden, orchard, fields, woods, and °epees
himself to all visitors, and V75S seldom
were subsequently searched thorughly, with
'seen abroad, ewe in the dusk of the evening,
a like result ; and a small, deep streamlet,
when he was accustomed to walk &bout the
through the farm, vras carefully dragged,
fields, or along the river shore, or on the
but withcut semen.
eummit of the cliffs, talking aloud to him.
."Athlase ths. m pertyeetureied totheir homes,
eel', and gesticulating wildly ; but never,
Meee.mare tatting with lua diary which he
en any occasion, did he enter the village,
had. picked up from the floor of the kitchen,
or approach any human habitaticn. Nor
and which had evidently been kept by Felix
was he ever eeen at the parish. church. He
raiers himself, ui the hope that through
lived solely upon the fruits and vegetables Desjar
its mama some light might be thrown upon
Wilie121 were supplied by the orchard and
the mysterious matter. This diary had been
garden ; and so far as was known, drank
commenced shortly after the return of the
nothing but the water from the epring man to St. Claude. le was prefaced with a
near the hou3e." brief history of the wahappy writer's career
" It is little marvel that the simple -mind- in Paris after the execution of Madame de
ed and somewhat superstitious villagers COM Lavigny and her little daughter, which. re -
began to entertain strange suipictone re. veideci a variety of atrocities perpetrated by
epeating one who conducted himself in ao the author, which humanity shudders even
singular a manner. And when, a few months to think of. it was written, however, in
later, a packeb of old newepepers found their such a disjointed style that it is to be
way, by eotrie chance, to St. Claude, and the hoped, for the sake of our common humani-
lew villagers who were able to read, read by, that the writer was insane, and that
aloud from these newspapers an account of many of these atrocities were perpetrated
the cruel death suffered by the Viecounb and only in his diseased imagination. He allucb
Viscountess de Lavigny, and their young ed frequently to the terror he felt at being
and innocent daughter, and of the prominent continually imitated by the apparitions of
art taken byone Francois Moulins (alias the murdered Louise and her mild, wlaioh
Felix Dasjarniere), in bringing about their would not permit him to rest by night or ky
tragic: fate, and alao of the subsequent atm- day. The spirit of Lenin demanded per.
cities perpetrated by the so called Francois petually what had become of her infant boy,
Moulins, the suspicions of the villagers were and he (the writer) expressed his most earn -
changed into feelings of dread and abhorrence. est wish that he could find the child, and
They no longer had any doubt but dame Felix protect him, and thus, perhaps, appease the
Desjarniers wasetaunted by the ghosts of his spirit of the mother, and, in some slight
victims, and they now shunned him, as he measute, make Atonement for nis many
had hitlaerto avoided them. Men, women, crimes- but ib appears that the child had
and children fled homewards if they chanced been altogether lost sight of, and every
to the him approachieg towards them vrtien search maim after him proved futile. He
they were abroad after nightfall. They even was not to be found.
avoided approaching the farm house after --
dark ; and fishermen who were out with CHAPTER 1V.
their boat3 on the river, and farmers who
"The diary proper is written in a similar
were sometimes compelled to be abroad until '
a late hour, deolared that, near the midnight disjointed and maniacal style, and, singular.
hour they heard etraege sounds proceeding ly enough, is carried up to the date just one
frorn the farm.hourie, and aaw etrange lights moath previous to that on which the house
in the interior. As time passed away, these and farm was searched. On the day pre-
thories aesurned a more definite and dreaded vions to the final entry, Felix was seen by
form. Fisherraen, who were compelled by more than one of the villager'', taking his
the tide to a,nottor their boats in the creek wonted exercise about eight in the evening
epposite the farm -house throughout the on the summit of the cliff, and was never
night, declared that, as soon as midnight seen &gam
mane round, singnlar noises, as of human "The entry rune as followa .—
beings in mortal agony, were heard corniog " 'June 16, 1788. This day four years ago,
from the dwelling. At other times, they r arrived, a miserable, haunted wretch,. at
evened that the eatire front of the house my once happy homi
e n St. Claude. During
was suddenly illuminated, as if by hundreds these four years, heaven—I hardly dare
of candles, and that the lights flaunted dif. writs the sacred word—alone knows what
lereht colors; while through the windowa torments of mind and body I have endured,
They could discern shadowy, shrouded human When will be its ending, and what will be
forma flitting to and fre ; until, in ernOmenn my ultimate fate? Aia3 1 1 know that but
amid wild shoats of laughter, or shrieks of too well. But for my dread of meeting
woe, the lights would be as eaddenly ex -that fete, I vvould at once end my mortal
tinguished, and the houte and ite surround- 1 °veer. But I will not add to my crimes
Inge would be left shrouded in funeral by commttting suicide. Ah, to what featful
gloom. lengths will the uncontrolled—nay, the
"M. Ligny, the then cure of St. Claude, cherished desire for vengeance drive man -
who felt it to be his duty to endeavour, if kind 1 It will change a man's very nature,
possible, to reclaim the unhappy M. Felix Iso that he shall not know himself. I who,
from th.e evil spirits who, it was believed, in my youth, would not willingly have
had claimed him, body and soul, as their harmed the meanest creature that breathes
victim, more then once visited the farm- 1 the breath of lie, have becomts a very tiger,
house, and sought an interview with its un- thirsting for blood, until at length, with -
happy tenant. On one ocoaeion he succeed- 1 out repentance, which I cannot feel, I have
ed in obteining the Interview he soughb ;1 sickened at my own atrocities! Ain Louise,
but M. Felix dimply ridiculed the stories
that were told in prejudice to his derellitig,
mad was so taciturn and retioent; respecting
his own affairs, that the good father'O be.
nevolent intender* were completely frus-
trated ; and when once again he sought to
accomplish his object, he was rudely ordered
Ito quit the house, and requeatecl nou to Visit
et any more.
'For four years 3/1. Felix Desiereiere
lived doge, holding no communication. with
his fellow -men, and ahunned by every one
who lead formerly known him, yet dill 00'
seen after nightfall, walkhot, to
and fro ata rapid pace in the vicinity of
'his dwelling.
"At length there came tittle When be
Was ono no trim, A Whole Mouth
peened away, end he hied hot been ob-
served taking his wooled eicereise on
the cliffs, Or along the shore, A eurnotir
went abroad that he mast be dead. It Was
melanchely thirig to think of, that a Man.
more money to cortanue the lawsuits, '
Thus ends M. le Carets story.
My host and I now conversed upon other
matters; and shortly afterwards, though not
until a very late hour, I. took my departure
for my lodgings.
Subsequently, during my stay atSb. Claude,
I was frequently the goose of M. le Cure.
We became excellent Mende, and when
I was compelled to return home to Montreal,
we parted with expreseions of mutual regreb.
end with earnest leopes that we might meeb
again during the matting summer. Before,
however, the next summer came round, I
had removed my resIdenee into the United.
Stetes, and I have never since seen nor
heard of my hospitable host, M. le Cure of
St. Claude.
I trust, however, that the good euro still
lives as much beloved and respected by hie
pariellioners as ever ; and I have no doubt
that visitors to the "natty, retired village
of St. Claude may still be enabled to gratify castas,tand pierce them lege with a eharp
their curiosity by a visit to the Deeerted knife until the blood runs fast from the
Farm. . wounds, The old men ¬ scarify them.
selves. ta
With every new arrival, whether the per-
son be of near kin or not, the wailing ste
afresh. By this long-oontinued crying, the
excitement of grief, and the pain of wounds,
the relatives become exhausted before the
time of burial arrives, and unable to epeak
above a whisper. Soon rafter death the
corpse is placed in a sitting position facing
the east and dressed in gala costume, orna-
ments are put upon the hair and person, and
aometimes
TIM TAPE IS Tun; TB D
in the wad of grief. It is far ftora bong
like a Fong or chant*
'When the breath has left tbe body ot the
one dying, the nearest reletiven snoh as
parent or child, brothers or sitters, husbend
or wife, hegira veith
h Nan UAL TO seem. TtChmsELVEs
of every ornament and out their hair, soat.
tering the shorn looks ebony the fireplace.
The older married women who heve borne
children olip their hair there to the oar
while the young women part with but an
inoh or two. Young men do not eaorifiee
their lecke, but the older men sheer theirs
short. The older women pull of their leg.
gins and mot:attains, and. gash the flasla of
their lege below the knee, lengthwise and
crosswise, till the blood flows freely. All
tlao while they wail and mill upon the dead.
The young men who are near relations to
the deceased remove their leggins and moo.
TETE ELM
Eyes and Lips.
"1 judge a man by hiseye, but a woman
always by her lips," said Benjamin Franklin,
who undoubtedly was a good judge of human
nature.
Abdallah, the Shells of the Persians, who
was noted for his wisdom in many things,
once gave some advice to his courtiers about
°homing a wife. "Let her be a woman
whose eyes turn not away when you speak
to her, and whose nose hath no tenieney
upward, for the first is an owner of deceit,
the second of bad temper; but above all,
look you to her lips. Choose no woman
i
whose lips droop at the corners for your
life will be a perpetual mourningtime ; nor
yob ehould they curve too ranch upward,
for that denotes frivolity. Beware of the
under lip diet rolletle outward, for that,
woman bath more desire than conscience.
Seim* for a wife ore whose lips are straight
—not thin, for she is a shrew, but with jut*
the fullness nm
necessary to perfect symetry."
"Can you, then, a:0count for the strange
disappearance of Felix Desjerniers ?" I
asked.
"That I cannot account for," returned the
euro; "though it is my belief that the un•
happy man, goaded by remorse, committed
suicide by throwing himself over the cliffe
into the river beneath, which, in certain
places is of great depth up to their very
base.
"I have seen the diary that Felix Das.
*niers left behind, him ; and althoughain
his !tub hnperfect entry, he ,diseliows any
intention to end his earthly misery by tak.
ing his own life, still hare DO doubt that
he was insane; and it is not improbable that
even. while the ink was wet with which he
zrtade this disavowal, he suddenly sprang
from his chair, quitted the house, and com-
mitted the last awful deed."
"Still, monsieur," said I, "there surely
must have been some foundation for the
stories, other than the mere superstitious
imagination of the villagers ?"
"Probably there was," rep fed the nar
rater. "I will tell you my own secret opin-
ion, thouith even I, with all my influence over
my flack, dare not express my own doubt of
the appearance upon earth of ghosts and
evil spirits. They would think Inc guilty
of heresy were so to do. You must know
that smuggling was extensively practised at
that period; and I have little doubt thab
smtugglers made the house, after the dis-
appearance of Felix Dasjarniers, a depot for
thier coatrahand goods. You recollect, that
it was after his disappearaace that the most'
alarming of these eights and sounds were
seen and heard; and, in all probability, they
were the creation of the smugglers them.
eelves, with the object—in which they per.
featly succeeded—of terrifying the simple-
minded folk."
"How, monsieur, do you account for the
strangely barren circlet of earth in the centre
of the garden, which I myself have seen ?"
" I believe it to have been the work of
smugglers, who contrived by some means to
personate the shadowy figures that were
seen, and, by the use of certain cheinicale,
to illuminate the how*, and to create the
flame which charred the soil, and rendered
it unfit for the growth of vegetation. That
was probably their chief aim, since, alter
that, it would appear that the supernatural
appearatices wme leas frequent. As to those
said occasionally to be aeen at the present
day, I believe them to exist entirely in the
imagination of the people of the village."
"Is it not strange,' said I, " that' the
valuable furniture aud pictures, &e., put -
chased by M. Dtsj cinders amnia have been
permitted to remain hi the dwelling by a,
horde of lawless smugglers ?"
"I suspect," replied M. le Care, "that if
the truth were known, the greater portion
if not all the more valuable furniture was
removed, shortly after the disseppearence of
the anhappy men, and thet that which re•
if thou didst bat know—' mains—kft for the sake of appearances—is
"Here the page is blotted veith ink, and of comparatively little value, Still, eetthio
a
the entry is broken abort oft, as if the writer
had heen Suddenly startled, end itterrupted
in his task ierid 1ehould add that the pen
and inkstamil Were found on bhe floor be-
neath the table.
"I need not say that the superstitiouto
villagers firmly believe that the time allotted
by Satan to thie unhappy Man expired at
this inomeat ; that the archfiend came to
claim the soul of his tiervant, and that Felix
Desjarniera Was spirited away, boolir and
soul, to the ihfernal aegiona. That belief
prevails to the present day arnotigat the in-
habitante of St. Cllaude.
"The 'Atte° wag still shunted after the
disappearance of VeliX. It is amid, in foot,
that aftet his disappearance, the fearful
tights and iitiunde, whielo had frightened the
fisherrrien and belated farmers, were seen
and heata more frequently tarot before,. A
party of fishermen aVeited that having oast
aotde the supernatural portion of the etory,
it oontaine wine of the moat shocking of the
many shocking incideuta that ocourrcsd
during the Belga of Terror."
"That I acknowledge," said 1. a l'oor,
Unhappy Liaise suffered severely for her
offenees, and it hi pitiful to hear Of a happy
hormoteted being brought to initery and
desolittioe. But, inondeur, there ieniet have
been a large emotint of money left, beeidoe
the house end farm. Pray whet beeeme of
that ?"
" It met the fete of most propefty left
in a shriller matter. The greeter portion,
if not the whole arnonut, het both expended
ixtt lawsuit, M Polk Desjerniere left no
Will, and hi was thought that aotioa would
be taken upon the will left: by hie father, and
that the paopetty 'Woad be Shared hetweeia
the Churoh, the patiali, mad the I'ftterich re.
1atietoftheDasarerit,iftalainitnttit
Michot one rtighb opposite the farm -house, their part; preeezeted thetnnalvere It tttrned,
The Record ofa Me,dstone.
The Terra Haute madstone, at this writ-
ing, has adhered eleven hours to the leg of
the eleven -year-old daughter of John Kirk
of Ruth county, Incl., who WAS bitten two
weeks ago by a pup whioh afterwards died
with all the symptoma of he droplaobia. Tbe
dog bit two sisters of this child, and either
Ecrat ihed or bit a four-year-old brother.
The madstone was applied to the boy, but
would not adhere, and this confirms the im-
precision thet his injury is from a scratch.
The wounds of the three girls are not deep,
but blood was drawn, The madstone is
thoroughly saturated and the cloth about
it is soaked with the poisonous -looking mat-
ter, The longest time tbe stone ever ad-
hered before this application was fourteen
hours, and thaa was may years ago. The
stone has an authentieeted record of more
that eighty years, end no death has ever re.
suited if it once adhered. When it drape
off the child on whom it is now applied, it
will be tried on one of the sisters.
Mrs. Langtry as a Binger.
In a recent mterview Mrs Langtry said:—
"I will tell you something funny that hap-
pened to me at my first -professional appear-
ance, which was in Janurary, 1882, I was
to play Blanche Has, and, if you remember
she has a song in the second act. I do not
sing, consequently it was necessary to have
some one behind the 'screen to sing for me
while I played the accompaniment and imi-
tated all the movements. The first night it
was a great success, so much so tktat So that
Clement Scott insisted tbat I was doing all
the singing, but the second night the singer
had either got intoxicated with her own
melody, or had looked too often on the wine
when it was red, for long after tlae time for
her to stop she kept on singing, and though
she was conducted off the atage the audi.
once could still hear her warbling away as
she was taken out of the stage door."
TBLEGRAPIIIC Tiaa.
The sprIndralas have alit in la Dekotee
Tint earmen of Vienne are organielug
iterilte.
A foot Of anew fell at Staunton, Va., on
Seturday.
Three neer gest wale have been struelt in
the Andover, N. on,
Ex King Men of Servie has started on a
eix wk' tour in Paleatfefe
Greet dennegei wasdoe to sloipping oh the
Atiantia Cow* by the repent "norther."
aeAvy ensnowatorme prevailed' in the
soueheru Atlantic Sterne on Sitherdayt
Blown, the big wheat specelator, of Chi
cage, has lost e165,00Q on the May deal
Very' favorable reports are beleg reeeived
from the spring wheat fields of tile North.
wont.
A for local government in Scotland
hes been introduced in the British House of
Sixteen collieries, employing 2,700 men
and beys, have roamed work in the Wilkes.
barre dietficie
Miss Louisa Mackeloan, who diseerpeered
from ber home in Hamilton a few daye ago,
hint been found.
The French Patriotic Leaguers have bee
acquitted of the charge of belonging to
secret moiety.
Thirteen Indians are reported to have been
drowned neer Victoria, B. C., by the sap
sizing of a small eohooner,
Mrs. Theodore Thomas, a ife of the cele
brated leader of Thomas' orchestra, died '
New York the other day.
The barge Sundae has foundered in Dela
ware bey and the captain, his wife and two
children And a seaman were lint,
in the same manner as the Hangs, in the
ceremony of the saored pipes, that is, if the
deceased belouged to one of the pates own-
ing a sacred pipe. The " Hungeeketunee,"
as this mode of paintbag is called, is done by
painting the entire face red with vermilion;
then a black line about the breadth of the
little finger is marked across the forehead
horizontally and down both cheeks to meet
a line drawn across the chin, thus forming a
square. A centre line starts from the ode
acroez the forehead and falls along the nose
to its point. This black paint is made of
charcoal and prepared Jae. Men. WOMen,
and children belonging to the Nenebaten
(tittered pips owners) gentes of the tribe,
with few exceptions, are painted in this
manner after death.
When a member of a society dies the
body is taken care of by tkte fraternity,
and the burial ceremonies are traueferred
from the family to the management of the
society. For instance, when a member of
the Mawcidane Society dies the body is
taken immediately after death, while the
body is yet limber, to the lodge where
the society is accustomed to meet. On
its arrival it is placed ha a sitting pos
tare facing the east, and decked with
the regalia of the society. The face of
the corpse is painted in the manner in
which the man while living was accustom-
ed to paint when attending the meetings
of the society. en his tight hand is
placed the Tie -she -gam' or deer's
hoof natio, which is carried only by the
leader of the society, Thia preparation
of the body is done by the relatives of
the deceased and one or two members
of the aociety. When all is complete
the crier summons the members, and
these wend their way to the lodge
WHERE THE DEAD MAN SITS
A Tragedy Caned by Carelessness.
Aaron York, a farmer living five milit
east of Peru, Ind. , was the accidental
cause of the death of his wife and daughter
and the severe injury of two other members
of his family. York had been blasting
stumps, and used dynennitei Several sticks
of the explosive had frczen during the cold
weather. Preparing for Monday's work,
York, last evening brought into the house
several sticks of dynamite and placed them
under the kitchen stove to thaw out,
Then the farmer went to the stable to
attend to his horses. The family had gath-
ered in the kitchen, and haoluded Mrs.
York, two daughters, and a son. They
were not aware of the feet thet York had
placed the dangerous stuff under the
stove.
Suddenly a loud explosion occurred, and
when York turned to !earn whence the
report CaMe he saw his home ehattered to
atoms, pieces of wood and atone being hurled
great diatances away. The horrified man
ran ab once to the scene. Getting such
help as he could, he res cued one daughter
and the son, who were severely, but not
fatally injured. It was some time before
bhe dead bodiee of the wife and eldest
daughter were found.
The Latest Craze,
Tbe latest craze in Boston is the photo.
graphing of hands mid mints, and the Beck
Bay is flooliieg to the fashionable photo.
grapbers to bo BO imrnorteliaed. The riv.
airy is said to be waxing haat 'led furious
among the fair "totes' end fairer "bride,"
and cornperbions between hands, 'anis*, fi 11 -
gm and even arm are the ell-alesorbieg
ocoupetion of af torte:ion teat and heneheons,
the gentlemen present being often ealleal
'epee to cite their opitione. SM110 of the
faithionoble reireption tomes look like email
enatomieed moan*, se greet ie the variety
of photographs anti caste spread about
thorn.
Self•sacrificing tne.n.---Mrs. Brown—My
husband hi one of t,he most generous of men,
Mts. Terwilliger,--That'sniee, Mrs. trown
—Yost I made him a pteaent of 5 box of
eigars for Christmas and he hes gieen theist
all away to hie filo-Ade. He heath smelted
a single pee hieheelf.
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Welt plaoer diggings are said to have been
diewevered in the Bear Paw mountains, fif
miles north of Fort Benton, Montana.
Itt'nowappeats that there is no chance fo
the passage of the Woman Suffrage BIll du
ing the present session of the British Parli
ment.
Ali the peneenger conductors on the Be
falo, Reoheater and Pittsburg railway hay
been discharged, as a result of the trai
agent systena.
A meeting was hell in Montreal and
committee appointed to bring about the ere
tion and endowment of a medioel college f
women.
At Savannah, Ga., on Saturday, busin
houses, a church and many dwellings we
consumed by fire. The loss is estimated
over $1,500,000.
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Oa Saturday night and Sunday a furious
snow storm raged in Virginia and North
Carolina. The wires are clown and railway
traffic is delayed.
A wreck occurred to a freight train on the
York River branch of the Richmond and
Denville railway, near West Point, Va., on
Saturday night. Four men were killed.
The carpenters and painters in Buffalo are
still on strike and have been joined by the
mill hands. The Ede switchmen asa41 tbe
stitehers of the National Harness Company
areealao on strike.
as a silent hosb. The Mawadane songs
which were the favorites of the dead mem-
ber are then surg and the rhythmic steps
taken, while presents are laid on the drum;
these latter are offerings toward the funeral
ceremonies. As each gilt is made the crier
sings forth the natue of the giver, that all
the village may hear of the deed. While
the body lies in state in the lodge, either
of the family or the society of which the de-
ceased was a member, if the pereon or his
family are held in high respect by the tribe,
the young men, those between the ages of
20 and 20, getherifoeether to perform a
ceremony expressive of their esteem and
grief. Having stripped themselves of their
garments, except the breech cloth, a. loop
is cut through the skin of the arm, midway
between the point of the shoulder and the
elbow, and the end of a willow twig, about
e foot, long, hawing the leaves on, is thrust
through the loop of skin. The blood trick-
les down the willow stem, and Benders the
hanging leaves, The young men then walk
slowly to the lodge where the dead Hee, and
stand abreast before the tent entrance, sing.
ing the funeral song, each man accenting the
time by striking together two short sticks of
willow. All shed tears as they sing. This
acing is an old one, having been handed down
from an unknown past. It is the only
funeral song in the Omaha bribe.
The estate of the late John Bright is valu-
ed at £750 000, which, by die terms of his
will, is divided among a large number of
persons, even his distant relatives being re
membered.
Won Kwang Pei, formerly of the Chinese
embassy at Washington, advocates the,ex-
pulsion of every Atnerican in the servide of
China, as a reprisal for the exclusion of
Chinamen from 'America.
It is asserted that the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, aunt of Qaeen Victoria, bas be-
queathed to the Prince of Wales and the
Deka of Cambridge, oommmndsr-in.cbief of
the femme enormous sums of ready money
and considerable land.
aw-essestennei
Atlantic Travel,
Didn't Want to go Back.
"Mr, Benkereley," said a young traveling
man as he evalked in to the head of the firm,
"1 would hike very much to have ray route
ohenged, if voseible, So as to omit the town
of Jayville."
"What's the matter with Jayville ? You
have a vety good customer."
" Yea sir," I know I have; or at least I
used to have. But reoent eventa--"
"You haven't been doing anything wrong,
have you?" '
The traveler lowered his gaze and was
811131101i.omo 1 Come 1" mid his employer in a
fatherly tone, "ball ine all about it.
Lab us have a friendly coeficience in the
mat tor,"
" Well, sir ;" paid the man, "Ib was this
way. 1 Was walking along the street with
this customer in Jayville, when we heppen,
el to pass a watchmaker's eetablishment,
He reniarked that ib required very close ep-
plioation to succeed at a trade of that kind."
"And whab then ?"
" Nothing, exeep dug thet 1 replied ' Yee ,
it is momeateua thew the minutest care
should be obeerved in making watches.' The
poor old man thought and thoeght, and jnot
after 1 wrote it out for Lan on ui piece of
paper, a number Of hy,shadderti helped rile
to carry hilta int0 5 drug store. 3. really
think you hEka better eend tome OHO 111/30 oub
tnere,
ata the merchant thought so too,--(Wler,
chant Traveller,
afe-
Self-metle Mee aro most tdwus apt tow I
a leetlo tee prond ov the ioh.
Hope for a new era in Atlantic steamships,
which was momentarily dashed by the fail-
ure of the City of New York, is again re-
awakened through the reported trial of the
City of Paris. That vessel, in which doubt -
leas the defioiencies demonstrated in her
elder sister, the City of New York, have
been remedied, is said to have averaged
twenty one knots under not favorable
circumstances for a sufficiently prolonged
period to indicate a strong probability of
her establishing that splendid rate of speed
as the standard for her running time. At
twenty-one knots a ship would do the 2,800
miles between Sandy Hook and Reche's
Point in 5 days 13 hours and 20 min tea.
That would be a difficult mark for the
leviathans now building for the White Star
line 580 feet long, to excel, and perhaps it
would remain the record until the ap ma-
mma of that fabulous monster whiob we are
told is being made for another line, wh'oh is
expected to cross in an even five days.
And why shouldn't that be done?
days vvould mean e. epeed of 23e knots,
there is nothing impracticeble in that.
Marriage is a railure
Five
and
When either of the parties marry for
money.
When the lord of creation paya more for
(tigers than his bather half does for hosiery,
boots and bonnets.
When one of the parties engages in a busi-
ness thab is not approved by the other.
When both parties persist arguing over a
subject upon which they never have and
never oan think alike,
When neither husband nor wife takes a
vacation.
When the vacatione are taken by one side
of the haute only.
When a man attempts to tell his wife
obeli style of bonnet she Met wear.
When a man's Christina* presents to his
Nile consists of bootjacks, skirts, arid gloves
for hinuielf. •
When the watchword is Each for
Liteself.
When dinner is nob ready at dinner time.
When "be' notes his loucleat while she"
kindles the fire.
When "father' takes half of the picii and
leeves the other half tor the one that Made
it and her eight childrev,
When the children are given the neck and
back of the ohloken.
When ohildren are obliged to clamour for
their rights,
When the money that should go for
gooefor what only etc gide of the
knOws anything about.
When politmese, fine manners, an
ly attention are reserved for oomp
vieits abroad.— [Springfield Union,
More Money is Reid to have been speet by
the 'United States Governmeat in the haves.
tigation of the disoaaes which affect awine
than of thee* which affect the human speciite.
At Columblisi S. 00 the Other day the
tea pallbearers ea the funerel of the Itev.
Thomas E. Clarkson, an EpiecoPal minister
men.
at in
a book
house
hied-
oy or
of high standieg, were o.11 colored.
Such a thing had never before been s
the fiouth,