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TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. in Epitome of tho Principal Events Now Attracting Public Interest A Terrible DlNnxtor. Chicaoo. The Times' special from ."Forest, Illinois, says : All tho railway .horrors in tho history of this country were surpassed three miles oast of ChaUworth, when an excursion train on tho Toledo, Peoria it Western road dropped through a burning bridge, and over one hundred people killed and four times that number more or less wounded. The train was composed of six sleeping, six day coaches and chair cars, and three baggage cars. It wa3 carryiug 900 passengers, all excur sionists, and was bound for Niagara Fulls. The train wasso heavy that two engines were hitched to it, and when it passed this place was one and a half hours behind time. Chats worth, the next station east of here, is six miles on", and tho run there was made in seven minutes ; so tho terri ble momentum of those fifteen coaches and two heavy engines shooting through space at tho rate of a mile a minute can bo understood. No stop was made at Chatsworth, and on the heavy train with its living freight, sped through tho darkness of the night. Three miles east of Chatsworth is a little slough, where tho railroad track crossed a dry run, about ten feet deep and fifteen wide. Over this was stretched an ordinary wooden trestle bridge, and as the train came thun dering down on it what was tho horror of the engineer of tho front engine when ho saw tho bridgo was on iire. Right before his eyes leaped the bright Panics, and the next instant ho was among them. Thero was no chance to stop. Had there been a warning, it would have taken a mile to stop that on-rushing mass of wood, iron and hu man lives, and tho train was within one hundred yards of the red-tongued mes senger of death beforo they flashed their final signals into tho engineer's face, but he passed over in safety, the iiret engine keeping tho rails. As it went over the bridgo fell beneath it, iind it could only have been tho ter rific speed of the train which saved the lives of the engineer and his lire man, but the next engine went down, and instantly the deed of death was done. It lacked just five minutes of mid night. Down in the ditch lay tho sec ond engine, Engineer McClintock be headed and Fireman Applegatc badly injured. On top were piled the three baggage cars, on top of each other, like a child's card houso aftor he had swept it with his hand. Then came the six day coaches. Tlioy wero tele scoped as cars never wero before, and three of them wore pressed in just apace enough for one. Tho second car had crashed through tho car ahead of it, crushing tho woodwork asido like tinder, and resting on tho tops of tho seats, while every passenger in the front car was lying dead and dying un derneath. Out of that car but four people came alivo. On top of tho sec ond car lay tho third, its bottom smeared with tho blood of its victims. Tho other three cars were not so badly crushed, but they wero broken and twisted in every concoivablo way, and every timber and boam represented a crushed human frame or a broken bone. Instantly tho air was filled with tho cries of tho wounded and the shrieks of those about to die. Tho groans of men and tho screams of wo men united to make an appall ing sound, and abovo all could be heard tho agonizing cries of littlo chil dren. In somo instances they lay pin ned alongside of their dead parents. One man with both legs broken crawled through tho corn to tho side of his wife, and feeling her loved fea tures in the darkness pressed some brandy to her lips, and asked her how she felt. A feeble groan was the only answer, and the next instant sho died. Tho man felt the forms of his dead Avifo and child, cried out: "My God, thero is nothing more for mo to live for!" and taking a pistol out of his pocket pulled the trigger. The ball went straight through his brain, and the three dead bodies were lain side by side in Chatsworth until identified. No sooner had the wreck occurred than a sceno of robbery commenced. Homo band of unspeakable- miscreants, heartloss and criminal, wero on hand. Like the guerrillas who throng a bat tlefield the night after tho conflict, to filch from the dead, so last night did theo human hyenas plunder tho dead from the torriblc accident, and took even tho shoes which covered thoir feet. They went into tho oar when tho firo was burning fiercely under neath, and whon the poor wrotches who wero pinned thero begged for God's eako to help them out, stripped them of their watches and jowelry and searched thoir pockets. When the dead bodies wore laid out in tho corn fields these hyenas turned them over in their search for valuables. Who theso wretches aro is not known. "Whether thoy aro a gang of piokpock cts who accompanied tho train, 01 somo robber gang who woro lurking in tho vicinity cannot bo said. Tho horrible suspicion, however, exists, and there aro many who give it credence, that tho nccidont was a deliberately planned caso of train-wrecking, that tho bridgo was set on firo by mis creants who hoped to seize tho opportu nity offered; and tho fact that the bridgo was fo far consumed at tho time tho train camo along, and the added fact that tho train was an hour and a half lato, aro pointed out as ovj dencoof a careful conspiracy. Oklahama boomers are contomplat ing another raid into tho Indian Ter ritory, and U. S. troopi have been sent to head them oil'. AGRICULTURAL. Devoted to the Interests of Fanners and Stockmen. Keopliic l'l the (Soil. In a paper road before a promincn agricultural association of Canada, Mr. llobert Braoro of Montreal, says, in the older and thickly populated countriis of Europe, where tho toil had become barren and sterile from long-continuous cropping, tho attention of tho farmers was directed to tho fact by scientists that something must bo done to pre vent the country from becoming a bar ren wilderness like ancient Palestine, which at one time was exceedingly fer tile. The farmers took with tho idea, and on tho recommendation of the scien tists wont into a nioro systematic cul tivation of tho toil by better tillage, drainago and rotation of crops. The expectations of the farmers wore sat isfied for a time, as this system utilized a largo quantity of plant food that was lying-latent in the soil, but after n few years they wero again abruptly aroused from this mythical dream by tho fact that their land was again becoming ex hausted, showing that this better sys tem of tillago did not prevent thu de pletion of tho soil, but only made avail able tho remainder of tho plant food that was lying dormant in the soil. Tho same kind of thing is now on something of a boom in this country. Most of tho agricultural papers aro recommending drainage, more thor ough culture and rotation of crops as a means of keeping up the soil. Tho drainage and thorough tillago may be classed as a permanent good, bat tho rotation of crops cannot bo so classed. It is simply taking from tho soil with one crop tho plant food not needed by another, and eventually all these ele ments will have been exhausted, and then tho soil will bo poor, indeed. The rotation creates no new supply of needed demerits, and hence unless something bo added to make up tho losa caused by tho crops removed there can bo otherwise than nothing to re movo sooner or later. A supply can not como without a source. This failure to keep up tho lands in Europe on the now plan put tho chem ists to work, and thev learned that the soil must contain certain elements of plant food to be productive, and since long cropping had exhausted them thoy must bo supplied, not by mechan ical means, but by direct application. This theory is still recognized to bo quite correct, with tho further theory that the soil, however fertile, contains inexhaustible supplies of these essen tial constituents. With theso facts staring tho farmer in tho face ho had either to let his land becomo barren and sterile, or got a supply of theso in gredients, in some shapo or other, to take tho place of tho waste going on. A new departure was then adopted in the shapo of mixed farming that is, keeping a certain number of stock, principally dairy stock, to utilize all tho rougher produce of tho farm and havo it converted into manure and put back into the land. This was to bo the great cure-all for tho prevailing evil, and, indeed, is now considered by a largo school of our own farmers as be ing all that is requisite not only to keep up, but also to restore tho fortuity of the hardly used soil. Thisisamyth, and ono science finds it very hard to eradicate. Tho theory is greatly strengthened by personal observation, for in many cases where this method is fairly woll carried out, tho land be comes much more productive than it was when crops wero taken off contin uously, and although wo are pleased to admit this fact as far as it goes, yet we may rest assured history will repeat itself, r.nd wo have only to look up the records of some of tho older countries to find that, with tho most careful sys tem of mixed farming, whero nothing is sold ofi' but milk, butter and cheese, as tho case may be, along with some beef, tho soil gradually becomes de pleted of plant food, and although it may take much longor tinio to accom plish this end as compared with rais ing and soiling off crops direct, yet tho fact remains tho same exhaustion is just as surely and steadily going on. As already stated, nothing now is be ing created. Tho nianurial matter re turned to tho soil by tho s-tock had been taken from it by tho stock, and henco every particle of it not returned is just that much toward eventual ex haustion. In a word, tho farmer who ufcs nothing but farm-yard inanuio pro duced on the farm from crops grown on tho farm, is all tho time exhausting his land. Mr. Braoro holds that farming found ed solely on tho use of tho manuro made on tho farm alone is, economic ally speaking, against common sense. Thero is but ono means by which the soil can bo permanently kept up something of a suitable character must bo drawn to it from a source beyond the farm. Such draft may exhaust at some other plnco, but tho farmer do siring to keep up his soil has nothing to do with that. Business is business, you know get all you can, honestly, is tho only lulo that can lead to per manent prosperity. Tho Plow, The plow in somo form doubtless dates back at least 3,500 or -1,000 years, as proved by chiseled slabs upon an cient monumonts. For many centu ries it was but a crooked limb of a troo. Ono of tho earliest representations shows it as being drawn by fwur men, who took iwrtions of tho branches upon their shoulders, whilo two other mon walking behind held it to tho ground with hand or feot. Tho first plow drawji by cattlo woro guided by a single handle, while the plowman, with his frco hand, sowed the grain. Other men followed as attendants to ecnru away birds and prevent thorn from picking ! up tho grain before it should bo eov I crcd by tho plow. Tho Greeks believed the plow was tho , gift of the Goddess Ceres, and proba i bly would havo considered it a saeri i lego to improve it by any human in i genuity. This is doubtless one reason ! why tho ancient plow remained so long in use without any material improve I nient in its construction. It was ' sometimes shaped so as to raise the j soil, as by a fiat wedge; at other times ' tho wedge was turned on edge to movo j tho soil to ono side and secure an open furrow for the seed to fall into, but it was not till tho fifteenth century that thero was any indication of tho idea of combining the two forms of tho wedge into tho twisting mold-board. It was only a littlo moro than a century ago I that tho plow began to take tho gen- oral form of tho plow of tho present i day. and tho improvements aro duo to a number of inventors in different j part of the world. The Dutch of Hol land gavo the pattern for all our sub sequent improvements, but to Thomas Jefferson is due tho discovery and demonstration of the principle of tho twist in tho mold-boaid. Webster took much interest in tho improvement of plows, but it remained for Governor Holbrook of Vermont, to givo us tho perfect plow of the present day. Celery. Though a native of tho swamp, when cultivated celery needs well-drained land and is very Biisceptiblo to injury from an excess of moisture. Peter Henderson says that the soil best suit ed is a deep, rich loam. Nothing is better than well-drained meadow or bottom land. If black and peaty it will answer, but it is absolutely nccos sary that it bo freo from too much moisture. The greatest difficulty in raising colcry is in starting tho plants, tho seed being delicate and slow of germination. Abed of rich soil should 1 bo prepared and the seed sown in the ! drills and lightly Covered. Whon an l inch high the plants should be thinned out to an inch or so apart, and when I threo or four inches high they are ready to bo transplanted. If tho trench system is to be followed, ditches should j bo dug a foot wide, two feet deep and four feet apart. Into the bottom of theso trenches should be put ten to twelve inches of well -decayed stable manure, thoroughly mixed with soil. In this the plants should bo set out a foot apart, and shaded from tho hot sun when iirst transplanted. In cul tivation care must bo taken not to handle the plants when tho dow is on tho leaves, and dirt must not be al lowed to reach tho center of tho plant, or the stalks will rust and bo unfit for market. Whon tho tallest stalks aro eighteen inches high tho banking-up process must bo commenced, but caro must again bo taken to keep the earth from the center of tho plant. One successful grower of the plant states that he has had good success in blanching celery by tho uso of sawdust instead of earth in banking up. Thero is no danger from rust, and tho stalks are much whiter and tenderer than when earth is used. Tho honey crop in California will bo only one-tenth of last year's yield. Cheese-making is a safo business to stick to, for it is not as liable to bo overdone as butter-making, and tho produot will keep longer and bear transportation better. The spring litter of pigs should bo removed from the sow and turned on the clover. A warm mess in the morn ing and at night of scalded ground oats and middlings will cause them to grow very rapidly, as they will also i-c-cure a largo share of their food ri the field. In twenty days tho eggs of ono hen would exceed the weight of her body. So of any bird. Yet the wholo of that mass of albumen is drawn directly I from her blood. If stinted in food, of j course it, would limit tho numler as well as the size of tho eggs. Pick out your breeders, tho pigs with long bodies, broad backs and deep, round hams. Select a breed that has hair on it. A good coat of hair counts on a hog as well as any animal. It is a protection in summer and in winter. In pruning trees of any kind it is better to leavo ono strong branch or limb than two or three weak ones. It is bettor to keep limbs thinned out than to cut back and make too closo heads. Let tho sun's rays in all through tho tree. Young chickens, as soon as weaned, should bo provided with suitable porches. Make them low and on a level. It will bo hotter for their health to get tho young fowls oft' tho ground as soon as possible. Do not neglect to provide a door or blide. Experiments show that when cut hay and ground grain aro fed to stock the cost of feeding is lessened suffi ciently to pay for labor necessary to pro paro tho food and grind thu grain, and that the increased growth of tho stock is noticeable when compared with those fed upon wholo grain and uncut hay. Farmers residing in tho vicinity of tho great Shrader gas well near Ko komb, Indiana, go on record as har vesting tho first wheat by natural gas light. A dozen self-binders and men shocking wheat at tho lonely hour of midnight, was truly a novel sceno, which was witnessed by hundreds of people who surrounded tho fields of grain in carriages. Tho constant roar of tho Shrader well can bo heard eight miles away, whilo tho light can bo Keen at Utirlingtou, fifteen miles west of bore. The estimated flow of gas from this well is 15,000,000 cubic feot every twenty-four hours. COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to "Washington Territory and CaMornia. Seatile has ,1,591 children of school ago. Clarke county, W. T., has S.000 in habitant?. Kittitas county, W. T., has a popu lation of 5,-MU inhabitants. Spokane Falls, W. T., has a new $1,S00 hook and ladder wagon. Tho Salvation Army at Marysville, Cal., has made a Chineso convert. Walla Walla countv's assessment shows property worth .$5,200,000. Fire at Needles, Cal., destroyed the principal business portion of tho town. Tho assessed valuation of Seattle is $ll,S72,:i2S, and of King county $10, SO 1,720. Tho Seattle it West Coast Railroad is to bo completed to Snohomish by October 1st. A faihiro to vaccinate is punished at Pluenix, A. T., by $300 tine or six months in jail. Lightning struck and killed fourteen cows belonging to Mis. Fred Tollman, in Colfax county, N. M. A narrow-gaugo railroad, extending from Reno, Nevada, northward, will probably bo built to Susauvillo within a year. A now town has been laid out on the lino of the Spokano it Palouso Railroad. The company will put up shops. thero. An explosion of tho Giant Powder Works at Berkeley caused tho total de struction of tho buildings and death of several Chinamen. Tho population in California ad vanced from SO-i.OSli in 1SS0 to 1.117, 952 in lSSll. In the last six mouths it has gained more rapidly than over. Win. Rhoades, a pioneer miner, was found d"'ad in tho Hitter Boot moun tains, Idaho, recently, lie was buried in the snow which was fifty feet deep. Two sons of II. S. Hollingsworth, of Colfax, were drowned in the mill-race at that place. They woro aged 12 and 9 years, and wero both good swimmers. At San Francisco Michael Kennedy was shot four times and had his throat cut by a woman named Fanny Hen dry, who then 6hot herself and outlier own ihroat. Ex-Union soldiors of California havo requested tho Congressional delega tion of that Stato to present a bill to allow each prisoner of war $2 for each day spent in prison. W. P. Schuslor shot himself doad at Butte, Montana. Ho had lost somo $700 on tho Butte races and other gam bling, and in despair ended his life. Ho stood high in nearly all tho orders in tho Territory. Chief of Police Crowley, of San Francisco, has sent to every officer on the police force a circular, btating that the Police Commissioners havo firmly determined to dismiss from tho force any officer whocntors a drinking place whilo on duty. A number of prominent citizens of California havo sent an iuvtation to Ro8coo Conkling, New York's ex-Senator, to visit this coast and deliver a series of speeches and orations, tho proceeds of which aro to bo forwarded to tho Grant monument fund. 0 An attempt was mado, presumably by tramps, to wreck a largo Santa Monica (Cal.) excursion train, by plac ing tieB on tho track. Fortunately, the engineor saw tho obstruction in time to avert a calamity. Twelve hun dred peoplo wero on tho train. Thomas Wilson, captain of tho O. R. it N. steamer North Pacific, drop ped dead on tho deck of that vessel at Port Townsond, W. T. Ho was aged about -11, has been in the O. R. it N. employ for many years, and was the I most popular man in tho sorvico. Capt. A. H. Payson, United States onginfcer recommends appropriations I for next fiscal year's cxpcnditurca as ; follows: San Joaquin river, Cal., I $119,000; Mokelumno river, $2,000; Petaluma creek, $2,000; Sacramento land Feather rivcis, $10,000; Hum li.ni.i 1. ....,1 i..... or,nnon uuiuv inn nui mm ntin, c-.iw,w. Over $55,000 havo beon contributed to the relief of tho sullbrers by tho Na- 1 naimo disaster. Tho committee havo determined to book widows and chil dren to their original homes, providing transportation and all incidental ex penses, and subsequently purchasing an annuity for them. Tho salo of tho Camas mino No. 2 in Idaho has been consummated for $2,750,000 in rash and mortgago bonds, and $1,250,000 in tho company's stock. Now Yoik parties aro tho purchasers. An expert says there aro from twelvo to twenty feot of quartz, averaging $!1U in carload lots. Golden trout aro found in but ono place in tho world that is in tho brooks of Mount Whitney, up near tho banks of ovorlasting snow. Thoy havo a golden etripo down each side and aro tho most beautiful fish that swim. Those who saw tho first specimens of theso trout that wero brought down from tho head of Whitney creek thought that thoy wero mado up for show that strips of gold-leaf had been glued to their sides. At tho Uank of Mnrrny may bo scon a nuggot recently taken out of 0110 of tho fow placer claims which aro now being worked, which woighs XI ounces, 1 pennyweights and 10 grains, being ovor four ounces larger than any horo toforo produced in tho Cmur d'Aleno placers. Ilia not as smooth as most of the largo nuggots, appearing to havo beon washed but a short distance. Tho owner is unwilling to stato whoro it was found. OREGON NEWS. Everything of General Interest in a Condensed Form. Clackamas county has 4,5S9 school children. Benton county is to build a $50,000 courthouse. Cougar scalps bring $S bounty in Columbia county. A lodge of Odd Fellows is to be in stituted at Ontario. A railroad from Baker City to Granito creek is projected. Sixty men aro at work in the Mal heur valley surveying a railroad line. Tho corner-stone of the new agricul tural college at Corvallis will bo laid soon. Tho Freemasons of Hillsboro laid the corner stone of the new P. of H. brick building. Tho 0. 11. it N. Company aro build ing an iron bridge across the John Day rher on their road. A son of Win. Gregory aged four teen years, was drowned in Butto creek, Jackson county. A forest firo in the coast ranco de stroyed Jones it Co.'s sawmill at Nes- tucca and did other damage. A German sheop-horder named De mason, was killed by rocks rolling on him, in tho vicinity of .Mount Hood. The Douglas county fair will bo hold on tho fair grounds near Dillard's sta tion, commencing September 1 Ith and ending the 17th. A colony of Illinofs peoplo havo pur chased o.dUO acres of land 111 Hood river valley, and will cultivate fruits largely for outside markets. A new and rich mineral district has been discovered near Joseph, Wallowa county. Somo fine marble quarries have been discovered there. A twolvo-year old son of Dob I lager, of Mikccha, on tho summit of the Blue mountains, Umatilla county, died from the effects of a rattlesnake bite. Since tho institution of tho Order of Good Templars in this State, 557 lodges havo been chartered up to date. Of this number only 70 are in exist ence. Charles Keen, a teamster, employe of tho Southern Pacific Company, was shot fatally by C. II. Caldwell, keepor of a danco house located 111 Bunch town. Julius SoHnor, a coal miner intho Newport mines, was buried under a mass of coal which fell on him whilo he was loading his car. Ho was in stantly killed. Tho Pendleton it Wallula Railroad is graded and ready for the rails. Thoy aro expected in fow days, and tho road will bo finished in tinio to move gram this season. The County Court of Benton has refused to construct an armory for tho militia of Corvallis, holding that it is tho Stato s place to furnish tho money for such a building. Groat excitemont has been caused in Jacksonville over rich strikes in tho mining district near that city. Oro assaying soveral thousand dollars per ton has been found. Moulds and counterfeit coins havo been found in an old cabin in tho Bluo mountains. It is not known who left them thoro. Parties in Pendleton havo them at present. About soventy-fivo men aro at work on tho jetty at tho mouth of tho Co lumbia river. It is now out 1,100 feot Tho results of tho work up to data are excellent, tho channel being broadened and deepened. W. C. Halo shot and killed a largo pelican from tho courthouse window with his "pea-gun" that' measured eight feet live inches from tip to tin. The bird was on tho lako at a distanco of soveral hundred yards. A cougar broke into a calf pen of Win. Mollingor, of Veronia, and tooK away a three-mouths' old calf, proba bly weighing 200 pounds. Tluucoutrar 1 1 ... : ...(l t ;. ..- mm 10 jump a six-raw icuco in gouing away, and it only lcnuulc.nl oil' one rail. A loniporary connootion of tho tele graph lino between Coos bay and Roeo burg has been effected at Coos City by running a wire over tho slough at a sufficient height to allow vessels to pass undor. A now oablo for tho slough is expected shortly. Tho Farmers' Aliianoo, having head quarters at Lexington, and composed of about 900 members, rocontly mado a freight proposition to tho Oregon Pa cific so satisfactory lo tho company that the road, supposed to bo building to a junction with tho Chicago it Northwestorn, will probably take in Lexington on tho way. Tho body of Wm. C. Hathaway, a druggist of llalBoy, was found in tho Bluo river mining camp, whoro ho was prospecting. Ho left tho camp of Mr. Goodfollow to go to another camp about a mile distant. Several days af ter Mr. Goodfellow learned that ho had not arrived at his destination, and search was inslituccd with tho result abovo stated. Tho body was found about two miles from the camp. It is thought ho accidentally shot him self. A singular and distressing nccidont happoned recently at tho residonco of Mr. Potor llondcrsou, on tho John l)nv. Mrs. Hondcrwm wnnt intn thn yard for some wood, leaving her four- . .1... -1.1 .-5-l 1 11 , , leeu-muwiwH-uiu gin lying on 1110 ucu, When sho returned s)io found that tho hahv had somo wuv rolled off anil ffillnn head first into a pail of water that stood ly tho bed. Tho child was standing on its head stono dead when found by .its niothor. It was unable to extricate iUelf, and was drowned in less than six inches of water. THE CHLOROFORMISTS. t A New and Dntigcrnun Itnre of Criminals Developed In Km nee. The chloroformists, as they aro t ailed, aro tho aristocracy of the crim inal race. They aro generally broken down society men, and very often med ical students who havo gone to tho bad after having learned, in the course of their studies, tho properties of nar cotics and an.-vsthetics. Their chief fields of operation aro tho railway carriages and the hotels, tho compart ment sytem of the former giving them every facility for carrying out their designs. Their method of pro ceeding in the last instance is as fol lows: Ho seeks what is technically known as his "portfolio" i. e., a rieli. traveler who affords profitable oppor tunities for the exercise of his skill. Ho goes to look for him at the rail way station of one of tho long lines, such as the Paris, Lyons & Mediterranean road. He watches each person that, approaches tho ticket officii to buy a ticket, and scJectA some ono who, shows, on opening his pocket-book, a goodly collection of bank notes. Tho chloro formist buys a ticket for the samu destination, takes a seat in the same, compartment, gets into conversation with his fellow-traveler, and finally ends by producing a well-filled lunch basket, lie was to havo been accom panied by a friend, he says, but at tho last moment ho received a telegram (which he produces) announcing that the friend had beon hindered from de parting at tho last moment. That is why he has a supply of provisions for two persons, two silver cups, etc. Ho oilers to share his supper with his now acquaintance. If the offer is accepted, the wine, which is heavily drugged, soon sends the traveler to sleep. If, on the contrary, it is refused, tha ehloroformist partakes heartily of a solitary meal, and winds up by light ing a cigar, offering at tho same tinio his cigar-ease to his companion, who. not to seem rude or churlish in tho presence of such gonial friendliness, al most, invariably accepts a cigar. It is "prepared" with a strong narcotic, as the wine had been, and tho unlucky traveler is soon plunged in a heavy stupor. The chloroformist opens his phial and places it for a fow moments under the nostrils of die sleeeper, gen tly applying to the mouth at the samo time a sheet of lino parchment, known, as tho ".stiller," and having the shapo of a carnival mask, its function being tho exclusion of the outer air. Tho victim is soon rendered wholly insensi ble by the vapor of the chloroform. The thief then commences operations in perfect safety. Ho takes possession of tho pocket-book, and empties it of its bank notes, replacing a few of tho smallest value. Ho then puts it back in the pocket from which ho hud taken, it, removes the parchment mask fiom the face of the sleeper, and, leaving the victim's jewelry and coined money untouched, gets out of tho train at tho next station. Tho motive of leaving his victim in possession of his jewel ry and porlmonnaio is twofold. If tho traveler, on awakening, finds that his watch and chain and his supply of coin are all right, ho docs not usually investigate his pocket-book, so the theft has a chance of remaining undiscovered for sevoraX hours or even days. Ho may, too, at tribute the loss of his bank notes to a piece of carelessness, or to a mistake on his part. If, on tho other hand, as often happens, ho docs not wake at all but dies from tho effects" of tho narcotic? and tho chloroform, the authorities, finding themselves in tho presence of a corpse presenting not tho slightest trace of violence, and with money, pa pers and valuables apparently undis turbed, can only attribute tho deceaso to natural causes. It is a startling fact that eases of sudden death in tho earn of tho great French railways havo o late become singularly Irequont. The chloroform that plays so impor tant a jirt in this form of crinio is. contained in a very small fiat phial of black glass, which can easily bo con cealed and is readily gotten rid of in ease of capture. According to our au thor, a band of ehloroformists was ro eentlv organized in Chicago. Paris Letter. To Methods. First Young Wife "Oh, dear! 1 wish I'd never been horn." Second Young Wife "What on oarth is tho niattor now?" "Pvo just worked and skimped mid turned dressos and iixed my old bonnets over and done every thing so as to lutvu money to make homo pleasant for my husband, and ho just goes off and spends nearly every night at thu club." "Humph! My husband bad to leavo tho club, mid ho stays at homo, because ho is ashamed to smoke a pipo among his old associates, and can't afford cigars now." "Why, ho has n. bigger salary than my husband." "Yes, but it costs nioiioy to keep 1110, decently dressed, and ho knows It. Catdi 1110 fixing up old bonnets.' Uiinvm World. It is quite noticeablo that a largo number of teachers all ovor tho coun try have coased to seek quietness In the movements of tho children, em phasizing, rather, prompt, quick movements. As a matter of fact thuro is little more noise and no moro dis turbance than under tho old-tima tip-too method. Jloston Journal of Ed ucation, ' ' What li tho loading branch in your sehoolP" askod a lady of a teach er. Before the teacher could vouch Bato a reply, a littlo boy interrupted the conversation with: "I know-. "And what is it, littlo boyP" asked tha lady. "That switch in thof country ma'am." A'. Y. Lcdaer-