THK FRONT GATE.
An old n rilpp:d
Ai d iwinif y ' w'l
Buue I ud( up hn tod aij
Vetvlxt tti potu m lut;
Bui now I'm srowu to powerful weik-
liu pued li; mm and brtil
I'm Mirralj ttroit cuiuxt, lo iqnetk,
Altaougti I'm tlTif tuak.d.
Tu lirrnly jetn no, I it,
Wbt-uMr. KuoiWbit
Cm kiud 01 huln round ouy wy
'Mutt rtry oilier D'.ihl
Bt buotupuii n turtxxrd !!
And be upon ttie toilier
Till un t-uilio brtom nil brld,
ADd lu due Um tnoiner.
I rroined Irtrntel when I brd-
itttplta 1 tm no churl
Ml d.wra farroktd lo ailuits word:
Tbebibjf WMaelri!
And ill f rtw ind na Fm
I lend btruutoed my feie:
For bt l" lu
Aud 1-1 u lb(u!
Tbo. to due Urns a lever wme,
Vrtoitnlif my rum,
A !rper friiow. Bnm tt nmt,
7b grown up Ubjr wcolu'l
Tbry ipreui upon m lo the lotm.
Aid ulktd el muoo ami tar;
Tbcjr are narrrlid ow tud live At bom
Along WHO mi tod pt
Vr lot wi fcppy for Jf
No countt f ulht or day
I had no bruiht. I bad no f-r,
Had lurk wi uld come my wj.
But bl tbli mornlne;. ee lb mirk !
1 be re nnel wild turpr w.
A rh low 11. tied It tiro aud dirk
Aciot my luuuy klca.
A doctor, wlh I knowlnc imllt, '
A liur wllb face rercne.
A bu'tle lu the bou liie while
(it it t-coli! what ran It nirei.T
Mt hirnwerhe; the luck lurtl.
Mr po'keu In whir:
1 btu that ful decur rpetk:
Illeaiiu.bcrilil-
IXnitr Trlbnuf.
Clrlf on Farm.
And what has already boon said about
out-of-door work, for girls, the question
comet up whether any have ever triod to
manage a whole farm.
Yes, ono of the best managed and bent
paying of flie amaller farms in a certain
rocky New England town, is at this mo
ment owned ard is being carried on by
two maiden women, sinters.
Tbeir.fathcr lost his property when
the younger was thirtceu, and after that
he hired a futm, tuking it on shares; but
he seems to have mado bad trades, was
unfortunate, and though he changed
abont from place to pluco. did not bettor
himself.
Meanwhile the children scattered as
they grew old enough to take care of
themsolvos, the boys eventually settling
in life and having families of their own.
The three girls went to a cotton factory,
where they worked until they had hid
by money enough to buy a small farm.
One died, and tho two othois took her
earnings and put with their own, and so
were ablo to accomplish tho sacrod pur
pose of all thoso years of toil, and secure
a pluoo which should bo a home for thoir
parents, now gutting nlon? in years.
It took nearly all they had to pay for
it and buy somo cattlo to stock it with;
so they were not ablo to hire a man to
help, snd it was clearly tho duty of ono
to work out of doors with her father,
while tho other cured for tho lion so.
Tho very small sum thoy hud left they
put into a savings bunk for a "rainy
day;" and then and tliero they begun lifo
anow, owing no mnn anything, ami re
eolvod nover to bo in debt. Tho mother
was foeblo, and tho father not very
strong, so thero wus enough for these
two bravo girls to do. Dorothy stayed
in the house, attending to the dairy and
general work; Rebecca went out with
hor father into tho fields, helping plant
and hoo ami do tho haying und harvest
ing; and in winter sho took all tho cure
of tho barn to save him from cxposuio.
As he grew older, mora and mora do
yolved upon her, and for the lust eight
yours of his lifo ho did nothiug at all.
The farm bus sixty acres, au orchard, a
pasture, fields for tilhgo and mowing,
and a pieoo of woodland which supplies
the 'umily with fuel just enough land,
and none to spare. They do not have to
buy wood, buy, graiu, fruit or vegeta
bles. They appeur to have selected wise
ly, and their littlo "pluco" is all thoy
could ask for.
This last year they raised thirty bushels
of oats, fifty bushois of corn ou tho ear,
and thirty bushels of sizabla potatoes bo
sides many small oues suitublo for feed
ing out to tho cows. They dried ono
hundred weight of apples, and sold over
one hundred pounds of butter, having
on hand at the time, they told me, a
hundred and twenty-five pounds, wait
ing for a rise in tho prico. Besides they
had some profit from eggs; and thoy had
boiled down two barrels of cidor ready
to be nssd in "Shaker apple saueo."
Those were the cl icf items. Tho hay is
fed out oi the place.
Thoy keep four cows, and generally
find the dairy part of tho farming tho
most profitable. Their butter is so nice
that it always commands the highept
prioe. "We have to plan according to
oiroumsUnces about our produce, Baul
Rebecca, "and watch tho market as men
would."
Neither of them has ovor hold plow or
driven, mowed or roaped, but they have
done nearly all other kinds of farm work.
They hire a man to do the harder part.
And they ask th advice of some experi
enced neighbor of the other sex, abont
"laying down" a piece of land, and tho
"rotation of crops. They manage cure
fallv. and sell what thev have to snare
They have now speut by far tho greater
part of their lives on that sunny littlo
farm in the hollow, and are getting to
be elderly women.
They have more than they hoped for
a borne for the parents, who both lived
to be over ninety, and who had no cares
or debts after these filial daughters took
matters in their own hands; and they
Lave bad a good liviug, and are better
off than when they began. For, besides
owning the land and the modest house
with its substantial and well-kept uu
tique furniture, they have considerable
money ont at interest, "enough to carry
them both through."
They have a common purse so fur as
their mutual interest is concerned, but
if one wishes to buy a book, or subscribe
for a newspaper, or go on a journey, she
uses her own money. They have labored
no harder jhan thousands of women who
have nothing to show for it, while they
have prospered in every way. They are
aounu-minded and intelligent, and have
the respeot of every one.
Tney were healthy and cheerful, and
it is a pleasure to talk with thorn and to
aee their snug home, with ita cosy out
buildings for the cows and piga and
poultry, and the picturesque bit of gar
den and orchard, and tho out-lying
Such is their simple, truoitory; and
why cannot other girls who have laid by
a fow hundred dollars do as well?
Another woman in the same time hat
done even more than these, bne has
bad tho entire eiro of a farm of one hun
dred torts fur twenty yeais the old
homestead of her family whero she was
born and brought up.
In her youth she learned a trado and
worked in a shop, but the confinement
was injurious to her, and so she went
homo and began to help her father in
the corn fluid and abont tho haying and
harvesting; and she feels suro that by
the change sho saved her life.
From being in a dangerous condition
with death threatening btr she became
robust, and now, at GO, is so strong and
well that sbo looks as if she might live
to be a hundred.
From necessity she gradually began to
assume tho wholo management of the
farm, having no brother, and the prop
erty eventually camo iuto her hands.
She now dots hor own work, just as any
man-farmer would, plows all day, har
rows, plants, sows, reaps.
Hho told me that she cuts twelve tons
of hay (iu which, of oourso, sho has
help) . And last year sho herself picked
from her orchard '250 bushels of apples;
she raised thirty bushels of potatoes, do
ing all the work, besides a groat deal
more.
Asa saraplo of her in-door work, it
may bo said that she ma lo and sold from
hor threo cows two hundred pounJs of
butter, having churned seventy between
the middle of October and tho followiug
January.
She seemed ou my visit to her, per
fectly willing to tell about her mothods
and her success; and her opinion was
that women would do bjit iu tU diiry
business. She has tried raising young
ttoek, and in some years it is profitable,
selling the animals when two or three
years old. She always kept an excellent
horse, and does most of her work with
him, but occasionally has a neighbor
oome with a yoke of oxen.
The day we called, which was in mid
winter, sho had just driven into her
dooryard with a load of wood, which she
left on the sled while she took us in sod
entertained us. Sho was then liviug
alone (though generally, I think, hav
ing somo ono with her,) and her or'y
companion besides a cat was a most vig
ilant dog wlio kept a suurp waicu on us.
Tho interior of her houso was as tidy,
cosy and comfortable us it its mistress
made it her solo care; a pleasant, roomy,
s.inny, old fashioned New England in
terior. And outside it represented t!
typical New England farmstead, a ramb
ling, ftiitiiino rol House, lurgo cnougu
for two families, with a front door and a
sido door, and a groat cliimuey sngges
tivo of open tlropluces and baking days
and profusion of substantial fare.
It faced tho south, a id a few liluo
bushes grew besido tho "wlk;" and at
the L wus a grass plat crossed by a hard
trodden path to tho big barn. There a
long row of windows let sunshine in on
tho dusty mows and the stalls, and bo
foro it wus a grtut yard where a herd of
young cattlo wero sunning themselves
altogether a thrifty, homo-like, uttructivo
pluco.
Sho said sho enjoyed her out-of-door
work; and sho seemed as cheerful us she
was clear-headed; a shrowd, bright, busi
ness woman, who knew just how to lay
out her work, how to buy R id sell, what
crops would bo mont profitable, aud ull
about farming. Sho was very compan
ionable and interesting, full of informa
tion nnd of excellent judgineut, but, as
may be inferred, nn original sort of per
son. This is an exlremo case, with which
tho pressure of eircumstano s has had
niuoii to do. Hut health, a cheerful
spirit and absolute independence have
been gained.
All threo of these wero in part forced
to follow farming; and daughterly care of
failing parents seemed to liavo had a
largo share iu deciding their life's work.
They have been exceptionally successful,
aro contented, are respected; ami though
no cirls who read this may wish to ven
ture on ne.rionlturo to such au extent,
they may gain some suggestions about
what women cau do.
The i'arental Itelatlon.
"Children are a heritugo from th
T,nr,l " Tho earo of thorn is a saored
trust, and for tho discharge of this trust
pnrjuts are responsible to society ami to
God. The child is the sum of inherited
traits from his parents and their ances
t,tm mmlitled liv tho ciroumstauoes at
tending bis introduction iu life. Iu tho
hands of Ins natural or nppomiou guar
dians ho is "as clay iu the hands of the
potter." They may not change its ele
mentary constituents, but they may elim
inate what would mar its porfeci beauty
when iu its completed form, and they
may incorporate with it somo new qual
ity! thev eertuinlv can mould it and
make it into shape is they will, if they
have tho requisite moulding skill. II ere
is the great difficulty, lue motuer may
be called on to train a child that by
somo unknown law resembles her hus
band's father, and has qualities widely
.litTerent from those she or her husbsud
possesses, qualities which she sue knows
not how to manage. nai wisuom uoes
sho need that she may do th? right
thing, and especially that she should uot
do tho wrong thing. This she can learn
only by careful study of the child's char
acter, and by close observation of
the results of various methods of manag
ing him. Marriages oontraoted between
partios of widely different nationalities
or temneraments or antecedents result in
just such conditions of parental perplex
ity, aud result also iu satisfying tuougut
ful parents that systems of training for
children should be flexible and adaptive
rather than rigid and uniform. What is
tho making of one child may be the mar-
ring of his own brother. To hold, for
exumpla, a clear headed, matter or lact
child to the utterance of the simple, un
varnished truth is au easy matter, but to
hold an imaginative, enthusiastic, im
pulsive child to the same thing is impos
mbie. ami vet uotu cuiitircn may oe
equally desirous to state the thing that
is, or that seems to them to be. 1 lien, in
the matter of obedience, some children
with a hearty frankness easily do just as
thev are told to do.othert with an appar
ently proud concession, while both alike
may be equally disposod to do what is
lawfully required of them. The sou who
said, "i go not, air." but "afterward re
pented and went," was the ton who
really did the will of hit father. 0
It would seem that lb first tiling lor
a parent to do is to get acquainted with
hit child, and to to place his mind along
thi level of hit ehild't min 1 and in tueh
contact with it that bo may understand
its woi kings and so becomo familiar with
all its approaches. Ho will then easily
know Low to regulato, direct and re
strain iU action, until tho child becomes
hit own intelligent master, and no more
neods the parental guidance. Most par
ents in a general wuy caro for their chil
dren, nud are disposed to do everything
that e in promote their interests, iiicy
provide a home, clothing and other com
forts and necessaries, but never givo
time for exchange of ideas, of prefer
ences, and fur that intimate mutual un
derstanding; which ia tho basis of sym
pathy and friendship, and wuicli leads
tho child to reposo the most sacred con
fidences in the parent. Thero are no
friendships purer or sweeter than those
between parents and children, aons
who find in their father an elder brother,
daughters who find in their mother an
elder sister, seldom stray from the paths
of virtue. Suid a mother: "I scarcely
ever playo.l with ray children, for I
found that when I did to I was after
ward unablo to coutrol them." If
that mother had learned to play
with her children without ceasing ail
tuo while to coutrol thorn they
would uot have broken her heart as they
afterwards did, by throwing off, with
their minority, all restraint, and indulg
ing nnlimitodly in everythiug she ha
forbidden them. The most successful
and beloved teachers and parents aro
thoso who enter most earnestly and
heartily into tho sports aud enjoyments
of the young in their charge, and
through their afflictions thus acquire un
bounded influeneo over them.
If men and women are but children of
a larger growth, children are men and
women of a lesser growth. Though
both statements are equally truo, we ore
much slower to accept the last than we
are to accept tho first. However tinyand
puny and young tho baby man may bo,
ho's a man for a' that," and when he
comes to hisfstato, tho wrongs and in
justices done to the child will be the
wrongs and injustices iiono to tue man,
and will bo remembered as such. "If
my father had only given me, when I
was young, the one hundredth part of
the money he left me when he died, I
could havo gone to school and could
have made a much better record than
havo. lie kept mo cultivatiug tho farm
when I ought to havo bcon cultivating
my mind. But ho meant it for my
good.'1 So said ft thoughtful farmer to
his son, who was urst leaving uomo to go
to school.
A fow fleeting years sufllco to brin
parents and childreu to the common
plane of uiauhood and womuuhood,
where they aro ull subject to like condi
tions, llunger, thirst, weurincsn, pain,
sicknesi, doath tho burden of life, like
the pressure of tho atmosphere which
none escapes in ono form orunottier
press with equal weight on all. Tho
parents are for a little timo permitted to
pioneer for their children, to ruuko a
way for them aud to prepare them and
fortify thorn for the labors they must
perform, tho responsibilities they must
assume, tho sorrows they must suffer
to fit tho u to act well their part ia tho
great drama of life. N. Y. Tribune.
Pure Ulie Oil.
"Nine dealers out of ton don't know
what real choice olive oil is," said the
buyer of a largo importing houso, "and
it is not very strange, either, since but
littlo of it is sent to our market."
"Cau it be bought from any first class
grocer?'' he was asked.
"No, indeed. Olive oil can be bought
but not Iho finest gradis. If you hud
ever tasted tho best you would readily
believe what I have just said when you
dressed your salad with the other. Oil
of tho finest quality has a faint, agreea
ble odor, and a dolieious, indescribable
taste. Whon nprcad over nice, crisp
lettuce or used to dross a cucumber, it
lends a llavor that requires actual ex
perienco to appreciate vVhy, its a
pleasure almost to look at its palo,
creenish color."
"Why dou't we get more of this oil?
Tho best of everything else usually
comes horc. .
"It is easily explained. Thero is not
as much demand in America for choice
s 1 at thero is in Europo. Thousands
f Americans will not tasto oil under
any consideration, whilo in Italy and
tho south of Franco the poorest person
would thiuk his meal incomplete without
it. The best grades are kept for home
consumption, w hile the rest is exported.
Do you know that thero is as many
qualities of olive oil as you have fingers
and toes, to say nothing of the almost
hundreds of adulterations and imita-
liuus?"
"A high degree of skill is shown in the
manufacture of ouveoil. lliethorougu
ly ripe olive yields about 70 per cent, of
oil. Tho persons who make the finer
kiuds gatbci the fruit ny band as soon as
it begins to color, it is spread under
sheds, where it is allowed to remain, un
til most of the moisture is evaporated.
The ripe olive la of a dark, purple color,
and yields coasulerably more oil tban
that I have iust spoken of. So you can
see why the two oils should bo of differ
ent value. The process of manufacturing
the oil will give you a good idea of the
craves.
"The o'ives are crushed to a pulp in a
mill and then placed in sucks of loosely
woven cloth. These sacks aro piled one
upon another and are submitted to pres
sure. The oil wuicli llows irom ttieui it
rnn into a vat containing water, from the
surface of which it is afterwards dipped.
The first pressing is called virgin oil. A
seoond quality ia obtained by mixing the
pulp with very hot water and submitting
it to additional pressure. '1 hen there is
a third pressiug, after which the pulp is
chemically treitod for other grades."
"What kind of oil is used in tho ordi
nary eating hous?"
"It is an oil made from cotton seed.and
has no more the taste f olive oil than it
has of ginger. It is thick and, tome,
very unpleasant. It is only in first class
ho els and restaurants that olive oil of
any grade at all is served. There is also
an oil made from ground nuts.wnicn doe
not teem to be very popular. Of th
cotton seed oil there is an immense sale."
-X. Y. Suik
ITncprtiintv and icnorance can hardly
produce anything bat cowardice and
rashness: true eourace it associated with
judgment aud reflection.
Crloso In tbo Blrtd.
" It there such a thing as hereditary
criminal iustinct?" askod a St. Louie re
porter of the force of detectiveswho cou
grogatsd at hcUquartcrs "to sign up
lor the day," with a viow of getting mod
information from thuir unanimous opin
ion. "Such a thing as crimo running in
families?" repeated Detectivo Lawier.
"Yes, there is, and there is no better
proof of it than we can show right here in
St. Louis, wbbre there aro several fami
lies, nearly every member of which has
been convicted of criule. In one of tho
murder cases now before the criminal
court a defenso of hereditary love and
yearning of strong driiik is to be intro
duced as a defense, and on just as good
grounds some of the criminals locked up
in our jail and in Jefferson City penitou
tiary might set np a defense of heredi
tary inclination to be criminals. It is
not an extremely uncommon thing to find
whole families participating in and living
by crimo. Only a few days ago we had
a caso in the jail. The sheriff of St. Fran
cois county, Mo., ouhis way to the pen
itentiary, hcd five prisoners iu charge
'going up' on sentences of from two to
six years. They had been detected in
burglary of a farm honse in St. Francois
county, and it was supposed that this
was not the first job of this description
in which they had taken a part. Tho
principal prisoner wus under a six year
sontenco. His wife was going to tho pen
for four years, and his brotuer and sis
ter for threo and two yeais respectively.
Tho father aud mother were dead or they
would probably have hud a place in this
family group. This however, is rather
an instanoo of a family uniting efforts in
the perpetration of a single felony."
"Have we any families of thii descrip
tion in St. Louis? '
"Yes, only they aro a stronger proof
of the fact that a tendency to commit
crime is transmitted from father to ton
and pervide a whole family. There is
ono lamily here named Mctiuire. The
old man has been in tho pen, and two of
his sons are making tull efforts to follow
in the foot prints of their respected
father. There is another family here, all
the members of which are crimiuuls, and
as the two respectable persons in it bear
the family name, it would be wrong to
implicute them by a publication. They
will bo readily identified by any officer
on the force and many of their victims
when you state that tho most daring of
the batch are Tommy M s and his
sister Kate. Thero were five boys and
two girls. Throe of the boys turned out
to bo thieves, and the two girls as bad.
Tho girls are living with two men enjoy
ing tho reputation of tbieve-3, aud dock
eted iu the ltoguea' Gallery as 'palls' of
their throe worthy brothers-in law. This
batch has been repeatedly arrested, but
we havo never succeeded in getting more
than ono of them out of harm's way.
Another fami'y named Bryland worked
St. Louis for a loug time. Thero were
four boys in this gaug, but all died of
consumption, brought on by the night
work done by them in bad weather and
dissipation."
"These aro not blooded crooks from
their birth, aro they?"
"Well, you would thiuk they were if
you knew them, for they have a regular
growth. The littlo ones begin at pitty
thefts from hawkers' aud farmers'
wagons, market stalls and grocary store
exhibits and railroad freight car3, for
which, on account of tho smallueas of
tho offense and offender, they escape
punishment. TLo next step is pulling
dampers; that is, tapping li'.Is of small
shops. 1'icking pocoets, which requires
a littlo more science, is tho next btep,
and about this stago they aro taken in
tow by their elder brothers and setve as
'kids,' to bo lifted iu a window, to open
a door, or perform, similar functions.
After this they are fall fledged uud
capable- of performing jobs for themselves."
A Sew England Farmer's "ISiimuier
Hoarders."
This change in the method of uispos
ing of milk has greatly nli'ected another
branch of farming the raising oi hogs.
In years past every family had a num
ber of porkers, who wero fed on butter
milk. Uv this means tho farmer killod
two birds with ono stoue, for the refuse
of the butter-making process was thus
converted into American pork, that bug
bear of Bismarck. But, with tho ftop
patio of butter-making, buttermilk be
came extinct, aud the hog that is to
say, tho tour-legged variety has become
almost a rarity.
With this source of revenue cut off,
the farmers looked about for an oppor
tunitr to reimburse themselves, and
they found it in "city boarders," who
come out every summer from comforla
ble homes in Xew York, to stew and
broil in the country, under the impres
sion that they are having a "good timo."
Anxious to know something about the
promts arising from this business, I in
it aired of an old farmer as to the result.
The old man was meek looking and
talked affably. J said to him:
"Doyou make much money here from
summer boarders?"
The veneroblo cutter of grass looked
pityingly at me over the tops of his
glasses, as M replied:
"We farmers don't invite these folks
out to the country 'cause we want
society. Oh, no; we don't take
in city boarders to lose money. I
got a round dozen, all wemeu and cliil
dren np to my bouse, and the bouse
ain't very big nuther. I got $72 a week
out o' them 'ere people and I reckon I
make 810 a week out of 'cm."
"Does not the bracing air give them
heavy appetites?" I inquired.
"Stuff and nonsense. Why, when
they first come you'd think thi) d never
had nuthin' to cat; thev want to eat all
the time. When we first took boarders
I kinder held in on 'em, but I found a
trick worth two of that. I just let'em
pour down all the milk they want and
eat all the apples they can, and soon the
milk jiakes 'em billions and the applet
give Viu the collie, and then they settle
down kinder steady like. I'm generally
about $300 ahead at the end of the sea
son. I munt git ont here," added the old
man as we came in front of a pleasant
farm house. "Come down to prayer
niee'.in' to-night." I thanked the old
man and promised to attend, but failed
to keep my promise. Corr. Boston
Transcript
J. W. Mackay and hla wife will spend
he coming winter ia Xew York.
1 Dounicd Mau's Frenzy.
A Philadelphia telegram of the 8th
Says: lUero was a verj n-ummuuiu
scene in a condemned murderer's coll in
Moramensing prison this afternoon.
More than a year ogo John MoQinnis
as convicted aud sentenced to sutler
death for the deliberate murder of Mrs.
Keod. his wife's mother. Every legal
effort to save his lifo lias beon made by
his counsel and failed. His death war
rant, signed by tho governor.reachod tb
sheriff this morning. This afternoon,
accompsnied by two deputies, the sheriff
went to the ptiion tz read the death war
rant to the doomed man, as provided by
law. McGinnis had been told to prepare
himself for bad news. The superintend
ent and one of the prison physicians ac
companied the sheriff and deputies to
tho murderer't cell. As the turnkey un
bolted the lock and threw open the door,
MoQinub rose from the bench on which
he was half reclining, hulf sitting. He
was very palo and nervous. hen he
saw who his visitors wero his emotion
overcamo him and he foil upon hit
knees. Raising his hands, be repeated
earnci-t and fervent prayers in a loud
voice. This labtoil a few minutes, and
then he was soircwhut calmer, but still
very pale, and a nervous twitching was
noticeable at tho corners of hi month.
"McGinnis," said the sheriff.with con
siderable feeling, "I am truly sorry that
1 am the bearer of bad uows for you."
The sheriff paused. McUinnis face
had turned to the color of ashes; bis jaw
fell, ho staggered, and had to placo his
hand ugainst the wall to steady himself.
In a moment, however, he recovered
control of himself, and in a low voice
said: "Go on, sir; I can bear the
worst."
The sheriff proceeded with his
melancholy task. "I suppose you
understand what has caused this painful
visit. The governor last week signed
the warrant for your execution, and it
was received by mo to duy."
"My God," the doomed man mur
mured hoarsely, and then ho said more
distinctly, "Go on, sir; I um'erstand
yon.
"It is now my painful duty," pro
ceeded Sheriff Keim, "to read the'wur-
rant to you. The sheriff went through
with the task. As soon as he had read
the introductory phrases, McGinnis
dropped on the bench and buried his
head ia his bauds. For a few seconds
be shuddered violently, but after that be
Timained quite motionless.
W hen tho sheriff had finished he lifted
his head from his hands and got upon
his feet. For a second he gazid steadily
at the litle group, aud then he dropped
on his knees ugain and began to shout
and yell. "My God! my God!" he cried,
"am I to die ia this way? I call upon
you lo protect mo. Ai Christ was crucified
by Pouiiiu Pilate, so am I to bo cruci
fied by these men. It is a
shame, an outrage," and ho arose,
flinging his arms wildly ia the
air for a moment. Theu he beat tho
walls of his cell and shouted like a man
bcreit of his senses. Superintendent
Perkins took him by tho arm aud whis
pered a few words of consolation ia his
ear, but the mun would not bo com
forted. He was wild and threw tho
superintendent from him. Mr. Perkins
then took hold of him in a maimer which
plainly indicated that ho was tired of the
scene, and McGinnis calmed down suffi
ciently to listeu to what Sheriff Kiem had
to say. The Rheriff said if there was any
thing he desired, not forbidden by the
rules of the priton, it should ba fur
nished to him, aud every effort made to
make his position as comfortable as pos
sible. At first ho said there was nothing.
Then bo thought a moment and said:
"Yes. thero is something I would liko. I
would liko to havo a smoke and some
tobacco." This was promised him, and
preparations mado to ratiro, when ho
broke foith aijaiu, calliug upou God to
protect au innocent man. When he had
calmed down ag iia ho sn:d: "Oh, yes, I
would like to ba hanged upon my
knees." Tho sheriff shook hands with
him and bade him good-by, and the
heavy door wus closed upou McGinnis.
A Western Mystery.
A letter from Milwaukee, Wis., says:
A great sensation was caused lately by
the publication of statements concerning
one Michael Holmes, who died in this
city a few days ago. Holmes came here
but a short time ago, and no ono ap
pealed to know anything about his ante
cedents. He was non-communicative in
regard to his history and made but few
acquaintances. About two woeks ago
he had a misunderstanding with a follow
countryman named Patrick Johnson,
which ended iu his receiving such in
juries that he has sineo died from them
It now appears that he made a partial
confidant of another Irishman named
Fitzgorald. So much of his story as is
known is now made public. Wkh three
others he secretly loft Dublin the night
following the Fbremx I'ark murders and
camo to this country, and after drifting
about from plaee to place finally came
here. He told Fitzgerald in coufidence
that be bad not written to his wife in Ire
land for fear that his wheacabouts would
be learned, and also said that some of
those charged with murder were inno
cent men. The opinion is universally
entertained here that Holmes was con
nected with the assassination, if not
actually engaged a it.
Iteming Pigeon Flight.
The birds of the Boston (Mass.) Hom
ing Pigoon club, ooantermarked ia this
city last Wednesday for record in a five
hundred miles journey, were liberated
in Stratford, Ont., on Saturday morning
Returns oa tho day of loosing were
looked for, as the birds were in good
condition nnd had done well in their
journeys through the season. The storm
on Saturday sfteraoon, however, proba
bly defeated this. The returns on Sun
day were: One bird at 8:38 a. u , to
George Darby, of Itoxbury, the winner
of the special prizs for the first bird
making te record to the vicinity of Bos
too; one bird to F. Schworra, of Boston,
at 10:33 I. M , and one to K. Hooper, of
Boston, at 12:30 p. M. All of the birds
that entered in the race were flown thia
year for the first time, and none of them
hod been nearor htratford, Ont., than
Rochester, X. Y., lti'J miles distant. In
this race, flown on July 9, the 336
miles were made by four birds less than
ten hours, and more than half the dis
tance was throngh a storm. Xew York
Tribune.
ALL hOUTS.
A iwrt tn!. . .
the don't want to'l.wi, bea
t i- , , T-r """"mead.
In fashionable London t,.. ,
a great increase in tho number Vf
tho drive gigs. 1 "wi
Bancroft, the Listoriar. tlio..i,
yeart old, it reported ua or, ..r 'ut
equosttians at Xewport. u' wt
A Zulu belle may be said to U i t
the prophota, because she has not .-7
on-'er in her owu country. UlUt
Queen Victoria ban received i
physician. Mrs. Scharlieb, with nnnf 1
favor at Windsor Castle. D,1"ul
In India they pauible on the w.a.t
but in this country they bet on wr'
-to lose, every time. l0D'8giw
"Never mind tie wire !,... ..-.
theagonv evolved by a PhiUdeUu
paper of rinaforical proclivitioa 1
A Philadelphia paper thinks tier. j..
should bo put on ice immediate'ly.Uanlrj
A well-known actress, Mrs. Kendal
was presented at court rcceutlv L
cbaperon being the Countess Rosso'
lucodore lilton is now ia Euron.
Mrs. Tiltoo is said to be aoniBwi,,,..
Central Xew Jersey, taking in sown," fa,
a living. 0 ur
There is one thing about Muncbsan
sayj a Philadelphia paper to bin credit'
The baron nevor tried to bo a weather
prophot.
Robert Buchanan intends to cometo
merica next wiutor to superviio limn..
formance of a play made out of his "QqA
and Man."
An Arkansas editor says that the niin.
giest man in bU town talks through his
nose to savo the weor and tear on his
falso teeth.
Tho Truthseeker, the organ of tl U.
fldols, counts among its constituents "all
tho judges in the supreme court eura
Justice Strong."
The treasurer of a Long Island
ball club and 70 belonging to the or
ganization are missing. Iu whom an
we put our trust;
The heading "Another Safe Rublwr
on the South sido." leads the Oil City
Blizzard to remark that most robberies
are safo nowadays.
Up to tho hour of going to preu
David Davis' brido had not addressed
him as, "You dear little baby," or "you
fat littlo ducky darling."
Rev. Thomas Harrison, known as "the
boy preacher" when he was younger, hu
announced his intentioD to convert the
city of St. Louis next winter.
"Dwo vos schoost enough, built dree
vos too blendty," remarked Hans, when
bis girl asked him to tako ber mother
aloug with him to the dauco.
Au Alabama judge has decithd that a
man who puts bis sutchel on a seat in
tho cars reserves that Beat unless the
man that moves it is bigger that he is.
Thero is now no living member of the
group pictured by Carpenter's celebrated
painting of "Signing the Proclamation.1
Montgomery Blair was the eighth and
last.
"The difference," said Twistem, as he
thumped his glass on the bar, "between
this glass und a locust is simply that one
is a beer mug and tho other's a mere
bu3."
Prince Bismarck has becomo suspicious
nnd crabbed in his disposition to a degree
that makes it impossible, for any public
official but the uiobt obsequious to Bcrve
under him.
Even Socra'os, says the Saturday Re
view, could make no head against an op
ponent who argued "that if a dog was
yours and was also a father, theu the dog
was your father."
Count do (Jliambord's Custlo Frohs
dorf, one hour's distanco from Yienni,
which "shines out of a dense forest like
a snow-white Easter egg in a green nest,"
is a plain square building.
The rheumatism which has driven
Princess Beatrico to tho continent, is
suid to have been caused by the low
necked and short sleeved dresses which
tho quoen makes her wetr.
When tho riflo team returns, the mem
bers will feel like scooting home aoroBS
lots. The boys doubtless did the best
they conld. Angels couldn't do any bet
tor than that. X. Y. Com.
A contemporary, in reporting a case of
attempted suicide, alludes to it as the
"rash act." Such language strikes the
mind of the intelligent reader with a
"dull thud." X. Y. Com.
"Xo," said Mrs. McGill, "we don't
celebrate All Fool's Day at our honse.
The 'squire never pays any attention to
legal hollow days; and at for me, I feel
just as foolish one day as another."
An up-country exchange asks this
idiotic question: "Did Romeo for wbst
Juliet?" Tho man who wonld perpetrate
such an atrocious one as that would not
only pick a pocket, but steal an entire
clothing house. X. Y. Com.
The wild agony of a man as be kisses
bis wife and children good-bye at thede
pot before they "go to see grandma," is
only equaled by his intense exuberance
as he applauds the BiLgers at the circm
a few hours later. Syr. Herald.
The Xew York Morning Journal makes
the remark that "There were no water
melons in the Garden of Eden." It is
more than likely that the watermelon
was the real forbidden fruit, and that it
doubled np the existing population a
once. X. Y. Picayune.
A famous Xorth Carolina clergyman
while preaching from the text, "He giv
eth His beloved sleep," stopped in th
middle of bis discourse, gazed upon his
slumbering congregatiou and said:
"Brethren, it ia bard to realize the un
bounded love which the Lord appears to
have for a large portion of my auditory.
A new use has been found for cotton.
Manufactured into duck U has been suc
cessfully introduced as a roofing mater
ial. Aside from its cheapness it pos
sesses the advantage of lightness as com
pared with shingles or slate;it effectually
excludes water, nnd is said to be a non
conductor of beat.
The editor wrot it: "Toronto Odd
Fellows have endowed a cot in the hospi
tal of that city for the benedt of sick
children;" but the new compositor, who
was not familiar with the scribe's chirog
rapby.setit up: "Twenty old fossils
have dossed a cat in the horse pond of
that city for the bone-pit of t.x Chins
men." X. Y. Com.