SOME DAY.
You thread your dainty Angora through raj
hnlr,
With ten lor touch cftremlnr each dark curl
Bmllliic tint while to lienr mo Bravolv
"Vou'll tli nU of tlili again, omo flay, raj
Kirl,"
Bomo day.
With wistful oyos you look Into my own,
And touch my forchoiid with your snow-white
llttllil.
Half doubtful of my moaning, half dltr?Mod
And jot mhiio day, dear, you will under
ftluml
Bomo day.
Bomo day, dear. wIiimi you look Into my oyea,
Or Mticotli tlio dumpened rlnglots on mj
hrow,
If Tin unmindful of your Unlit carcM
You will not chldo mo thon tin now
Bomo day.
Bomo any from out thin mnss of waving hair
You'll fnvlly cllpono llttlo inomory curl,
And my white faro will thon bo hid nw.iy
Forever from your loving eyes, my girl
Somo day.
Thon you will think of every tondor word,
And every llttlo loving nwcnl curcss,
And you'll lio glad, dour, that our prcolouf
lovu
Through nil tlicno many yours grow novel
lOiS
Bomnday.
Unit 0. Ifnrity, In Intrr-OctJn,
SEhlf-ACCUSATIONS.
Innocont Pomona Confoasing tc
Criminal Acts.
Oil" by No Mnium Uiirnmtnon Ner-Do
ct'lvcil Oiiiiloiiuilliii; Drenma with
Jttiulltlcn MoIIvkh fur Fulso
ColilVmloii.
I propn-o in this papor to show tlmt
His no uncommon oit'ciiiiistniico foi
IKirsoim to confess to having perpetrat
ed crimes of wliloh thoy woru cortnln
ly 01 probably Innocont, nml that
Lliuro aro forum In operation in tlio hti
timn mind which may jirom pt to tlio
making of u falsa confession, ovon
though by so doing Hfo, liberty or
property bit put in danger. Thin thoro
In ii dltllonlty In tlio minds of flomo
poisons who exhibit no other ovldonco
of mental aberration to discriminate
between tholr thoughts orlholr d renins
mid iibsolnio fact n. Thoy brood over
some real or imaginary clrcumslanco
until tlmy bring themselves to believe
in its reality. '
Kuoli a person, for liHtnnco, roads in
the dally io-.h of some shocking mur
der Ihat has Imon comnillloil, tlio por
potraior of which lias escaped tin
recognized, lio romlH it in olio news
papt'r ami In another and auothur,
hoars ll talked up among his com
panions, and begins by wonder
ing whether or not tlio mur
derer will ovor bo discovered. Ho
knows thai iiiiudon havo been com
mitted by persons who at tlio tinio
wore in a stitto of soinnuinbullsin. or
who wero Millerlng from an upilupl io
paroxysm. Perhaps ho has himself in
Ills youth walked In his sleep, or has
had u lonvtilslon, as hi.s mother 1ms
told htm. Suddenly tlio Idoa strikes
him thai ho may ho tlio guilty man.
At first the notion is horrible to him,
but lis very horror rondo rs ll nttrnol
Ivo. Ho goes lo the Acadomy of Mod
icluo ami reads up on the subjoin of
epilepsy. Thero Is scarcely a dhuaso,
cspociady of tlio nurvous system, of
which any pors in at some time or
other of his life has not had oao or
jnoro symptoms. Tho q unck inoiLo no
advertisers are fully awaro ot this
fact, mid make full use of It, to fright
on tho Ignorant iiuo the purchase of
tholr trash. O ir iiiclplout solf-ueousor
lias, therefore, no trouble in (hiding
what ho is looking for, and ho goos
home fully convinced that ho has had
an epileptic paroxysm, during wliloh
ho may havo bom a niurdorer. Tho
transition from a possibility to a real
ity presnut.s no ditUoulties to his mind,
and ho ends by fully believing himself
lo bo tho murderer for whom t lio polioo
nru seeking. Ho visits tho place
where tho orlmo was committed,
questions tho residents of the
neighborhood In regard to all
tho particulars, and even in
terrogates the polico relative to tholr
plans for semiring tho murderer and
tho secret evidence thoy may havo in
tholr possession. At lust suspicion is
turned toward him ami eventually ho
is arrested. The accounts that In has
road in the newspapers and tho gossip
he has hoard, that regardless of his
orignal Idea that ho ha I perpetrated
tho crime during an epileptic til and
therefore in iv state of uuconsclon
tlousness that forces him to mako
atonement, ho confussos that ho pur
pot ruled tho murder and gives a full
ami circumstantial account of (ho
crime. Inquiry soon, however, shows
thai ho could not by nay possibility
havo boon tho perpetrator and ho is
therefore, after a fow days, during
whioh tho nowspnpors have given the
most sensational accounts of his
brutality anil remorse, discharged
from custody.
Suiiiotlmus however, tho termina
tion is not so fortunate for tho false
confessor.
Sovornl yoars ago n boy, Fra-icls.
Lnvlllo Kent, four years old, was found
murdered in an outhouse on his
father's promises in England. Tlio
throat was cut to tho bono and
l hero was n wound in tho chost
which piiiotrated to tho heart,
'lho corpse was wrapped in a
blanket which belonged to tho bad In
which tho child Had slopt tho night
bolero, a ploco of flannel, such ns
women somutlnios wear on lho chost,
whs found under tho b.uly and a por
tion of a newspaper which had evi
dently been used for wiping a bloody
knife lay upon tho Hum Nothing else
wan discovered calculated to Indicate
tho perpetrator of tho deed and ovon
lho owuetalilp of lho ploco of llannul
loulil not bo trncod. lluforo going to
bed lho night bafoto Mr. Kent had
toon that nil tlio doom and windows
of tho houio wcro securely closed.
Tho hotisomnld in coming down-stair
Ihat morning had found tho drawing-
room door and ono of tho window
open, but as thoro was no evidence
of forco having beon in nil It was sup
posed Ihat thoy had boo'i opened
from lho inside J hero wa no vl
donco whalovor lo fasten the criini
upon anv ono. Stfplcloii fell b. lnni
upon Mr. Kent, the nurse, and upon
a daughter of Ims for .nor bv hl li
wife; but nothing was dice vor d
mi IHdent. to j istifr lho committal ol
olthor for trial. The young lml v had
boon heard to uttor oxprorsTons ofd
like ngninst (ho inurloro I child, mid
had on several occasions shown so .
slight degree of jenloiiy toward
him. A night dross of hors was ni's
Ing and no satisfactory accounts wi r
given of lis whereabouts, bill then
was iioihlng iiioiv. As was vor
natural she had sh"d lours wliou In
fi rnied of the cause of her arrest, I u
l ml bor.no herself throughout the ex
amination with wonderfd fiititud.
ami apparently with the utmost con
sol usiiess of innocence.
Shortly nflcnvaid sho ontorcd u
a soiiil-convenlual ordor connected
w ill) the Church of Eiglnnd, remain
ing in seclusion about five years, when
sho voluntarily camo forward, con
fess id hor.solf guilty of hor brothor'.i
murder and was cuninlttod to take
1 1 or l rial for tho crlino. When ar
raigned sho pleaded guilty to tho iu
ilicnnonl and on her plon nloni, with
out any further Inquiry and withoiH
veil lho ens i being lent to tho jury.
aim was o iiidoiuued.
From the report of tho trial I mnk
lie following extract:
"At iiuo o'clock tho loarnod ju lgc
ook his seal on lho bench and tin
risonoi- was placod at tho bar. Sli
lood lirinly but meekly, with horovix
isl down and her ban. Is clasped bo-
lore her.
"Silenco having boon proclalmod
the D-puty Clork of Arraigns said:
' 'Comlanco E iiillu Kent, you are
c'iar;ed with tho wilful murder of
Francis Lavlllo Kent on tho 20th of
J mo, 18U0. Aro you cuilly or tun
,'UlltvP'
P.isnnpr: (In a low tone): (iullty.'
"Ii.djo: 'Aro j'ou awaro that 3'ou
aro charged wi h having wilfully,
Inientlnnally and with mallco nun
dored your brother?'
"The prisoner mado somo nnswer,
but in ko low a tone that it could not
l.o heard.
"J.nl'ret'I must ropoat tho quos
llon. You aro charged with having
wilfully, Intentionally and with malice
killed ami muivlered your brother.
Aro von guilty or not guilty?'
"Prisoner (in a low lone): 'Guilty.'
' Judge: 'Tiio pUa must bo recorded."
Tim j ul'go, evidently a kind and gon-
orous-mmdod man, thou assuniod lho
black cup and with great feeling in
which the prisoner Joined wllh hys
terical sobs, sentenced her ns his duly
and the law n quired. And thus with
ou 1 any inquiry into lho character of
the liilluoucos which had been brought
lo benr upon her, and the tendencies
of her disposition w hile in the n llglous
Institution, the sanlly or insanity ot
her mind, hor ant ciidonls, her hero 11
tary predisposition or any other point
which might havo sorved lo throw
llj:lit uixin the case, to lesson her crim
inality if really guilt', or to weaken
lho force of her plea if liinoeo'it, Con
stance Kent left the court ouivlcted of
ho highest cr ino known to the laws
of man. If innocent, her enso Is one
more added to the long list of others
monomaniacs, ecstaths, enthusiasts,
hysterical persons and liars who
have confessed to tho commission of
oll'euses which thoy did not perpo-
rate. If guilty, she is, so far
as 1 know, tho solitary instanco
of an individual confessing to a
crime and being sentenced to death
upon no evidence than that of admls;
don.
Mm and woinon boforo this, In tho
face of ovorv, helming testimony
igainst thorn, or while in a drtiukon
lobauch, or on their death-beds, or
s'audlng on the scaffold with no hope
f escape, or unintentionally, like tlio
r'bh rs in tho Cranos of lbycus. con
fessed their crimes; but if any crimi
nal or sano mind has ovor yot voltiu
lardv supplied all the ovldonco that
could consign htm or hor to an igno
minious gravo tho caso has cscap ed
ny observation. It can not bo doubt
ed that during hor sojourn in the semi
conventual house in which sho re
mained nearly live years Constance
K-nt was subjected lo intluencos cal
culated to act with morbid forco upon
a mind already of abnormal charac
ter, Sho know that hor father and
others had been accused ot tho murder
of her brother, an 1 that oven to Ihat
day the suspicion was not nltogothor
removed. Sho had boon taught that
solf-sacrlllco was a glorious thing, and
sho know that sho had only to oorno
forward and accuse herself of the
crime in onlor to fivo hor father ami
at tho sarno tlmo Immolate herself.
That these wero sullleloit motives
out not bo qucailoued; that
ihoy wero potential with her
is. 1 think, a roasonablo
supposition. At any rate so doubtful
d d the authorities fool in ivgard to
her guilt that her sentence was com
muted to Imprisonment for life, and
throe or tour years ago sho roooived a
full pardon.
1 suppose that in this country Mioh
rt i'Hmo coul I not possibly ooj.ir with
out tli vordio of a jury In 0 mtlrma
lion of lho plea. lln no instance
oould, 1 think, tmoro ofrciually a
Idblt the wrong of autlug soluly upon
a confession than this 004 f Cututauoa
K nit.
It sometimes hnppns that persons
and thl Is ivspoclttlly true of young
ohililnii are unable to dinooiulc
thuir diotuiu fruiu 'ronlltlus. 1 have
own chlldron to be piinishod for
dllng lies whnu full inquiry showed
liatthny wero rolatflig circuinstancos
if which (hoy had dreamed.
A pationt, a lady, inform m! mo tip
on ono occasion that sho had rison in
the night and gone to visit a gontlo
uuin of hor niq laliit.iuco who lived in
a distant pari of tho citv and had
stayed in ills hoiiii until morning.
Thorough Inquirv showed boyond lho
possibility of donb Hint thoro was not
a word of trill Ii In hor story; that sho
had not left ill ho.isn al all, and that
tho pontloinan In question was not at
tho timo in lho city.
A desire for notoriety will somn
Ifuics b- tho pr'domttmut forco In
causing a falso confession. A fow
venrs ago I was requos'o'l by Colonel
Whi iniy, lho clilef dotcctive olHc'r of
the G .vorninonl, to visit in the Tombs
prison a man who had confessid hlm-
s)lf to bo a inoiuliorof a gang of coun
terfeiters. This indivi lual had writ
ten a letlor lo the S-crotaryof tho
Treasury in which he detailed in the
n osl consistent and minulo manner
lho organization of tho baud and ns
nipinbeis of which ho guvo tho nanios
if the most cminoiit and rcspoclablo
citizens 'f the U ntod Status ot both
politic il parlies, li s siatonionts wero
belli v.iil and Colonel V lutoly was di
rected (o Investigate lho wholn nfl'alr
with the ut'iiost socivsy and coinploto-
iioss. Uolonel Wliitoly, witu 1110 por
silc!illy for which ho Is noted, soon
hud his suspicions ixellod th-it lho
man's story was a fabrication. Nover
theluss, the evidence tlio fellow had
son L to Washington was so far
cro litod that if was undor con
sideration to nrrost tho mllcgod
mouthers of tho band, embracing Gov
ernors ot blatos bonators, 1; ipro
seiitativjs and high officers of tho
army. 1 found tho man to bo insane,
but it wns a form of Insanity ihat only
ono skilled in dlsoasos of lho mind
would bo onablod to detect.
Frequontlv lho only mollvo for a
confession is tho hopo of somo person
al advantngoj to tho co .fossor, who
knows full woll that when tho Ii uo
(oinosto procood to cxtroinitios with
him ho will bo abln to show his in
line nice. A railway journoy, thodosiro
to shield a friend accused of a crimo,
or to obiatu for himself or othors a ro
wan! that may havo boon offered, and
even lho wish to pornotrnto a joko at
ihe exponso of thu idllo rs of justice,
have all boon causos of falso self-ac
cusation. Vl)on so many incontivps
and irodlspo3itlons exist it is not go
ing too far to say that confession
without supporting evidence of an
allirmalivo character is not outitled lo
the slightost conddoralion. William
A. Hammond, in HI. Louis Posl-Dis-
THE COUNTRY EDITOR.
WUy ill I'lMltlnn C 111 Not lio Held in Too
II Kit K ileum.
Thoro is an idea in tho minds of
many who ought to know better, that
the "country editor" stands on lho
lowest, platform of tho profession, nml
that ho who is employed in any capac
ity, no matter how humble, on a mot
r.ipolitau j uiriial is superior. Thero is
no greater mistake. A'i editor who
has hold important chairs in metro
politan olllces, nud wiio has tlio repu
tation of having beon sucossful. re
marked: "1 do not hositate to writo
the leaders of the most, important
j iiiruals, bul 1 would Iromblo to un
dertake lho inauagomont of a village
newspaper." Uh-ri is no place in lho
profession so ditlleult to fill ns that
of a country otlitor. In cities a
man who can do ono depart
ment woll bothers himself about no
other. Nor nood ho; ho gots tho knack
if his specially, and continues at It.
But tho country editor must bo good
in all departments; ho must bo woll
read on all subjects; ho must bo ablo
to discern tho trend of lho public mind
m politics, religion a id social topics;
'10 i. ust discuss agriculture nud nu
irchy with equal precision; ho must
no lluonl on polemics and politics; ho
oust wrlto of tho President and puinp
dns; ho must mind mon of high do
;roe, and descond to things of low
state; in short, ho must be an "all
round man." It is this that makes
ho position of a country editor so hard
0 (111. It is this training that makes
ho good country editor such a splon-
1 id manager for a metropolitan dally.
Tliero Is no place, except in a country
itllce, where such all-round training
an bo hail
Tho position of a country otlitor Is
tot held in tho esteem it should be.
Country napors aro not respected as
liey ought to be. If a family can
ill it rtl only ono papor, lot that bo lho
lonio paper; for it oincerns a family
noro to know what is being dono in
ts own country than It doos to know
tho nows of distant places. Tho city
paper can not glvo. and does not pro
tond o give tho local nows that its
.ounlry roadqrs must havo; but tho
jjood country papor doos glvo a very
fair cpltomo of tho world's nows.
N other publication can supply tho
place of a good local papor. If both
can not bo retained if either tho city
j uivnal or country newspaper must
:s let It bo tho formar; for nothing
cm supply tho place ot tho local paper
Winter's Circular.
When n person from any other
oily noks a C dcago man what tho
o'piilation of his city K ho doesn't
ay eight or nine hundred thousand,
nit in rly remarks in an olT-uanil
niiHiier. "about a million.''
A gam of pokot took pUco in
ll-lona, M. T., roonily, iu which
.Us'tn was $10,000 In one pot. Out
anyer lost $IU.Q0Q and another $G,000
.luring; tho ovculug.
THE NEEDLESS OCEAN.
An Argument In FnTiir or nt Once rilling
It tn to (irndp,
Any ono who has given thoughtful
attention to tho subject must, it Booms
to us, havo been impressed with tlio
tisclessness of tho ocean, and our
readers therefore will agree with us
that tho time has conic when it should
bo Idled in to common grado.
Thero aro many good reasons why
this should be done. In the iir.st placo
Inasmuch as the submerged stirfneo of
the globe occupies two-thirds the entire
superficial area, the amount of land re
claimed would be enormous, and ns tho
sontimont seoms to bo growing that all
taxes should bo laid upon real estate, it
follows that the more real estate thero
is to lay taxes upon tho greater the
revenue accruing from that source,
tnd by consequonco municipalities
which now havo great difficulty in
making both ends moot would no
longer bo obstructed in tholr appro
priations for such internal improve
ments as wine dinners for tho city
fathers, and, incidentally, for the im
provement and embellishment of the
city; though, to bo sure, tho larger tho
proa of land tho greator tho number of
street widenings and street openings
for the accommodation of the several
varieties of pipos of tho various corpo
rate bodies for whoso uso and emolu
ment cities are called into being.
lint let that puss. If the sea were
tilled thoro would be no more seasick
ness, which is a great point and should
not be lost sight of for a moment, and
there would be no moro drownings,
savo and except an occasional drown
ing of one's sorrow in tho flowing
ftowl, and thon thero would forovcr bo
an end to those interminable fishery
fusses, which havo strained tho other
wise friendly relations betweon tho
United States and her Majesty's mari
time provinces of North America. Pos
sibly lho amateur fishornian might bo
como a truth teller. This, however, is
annost too much to hope for.
It might bo urged that tho filling of
the ocean would ruin ourshoro resorts,
but this is an objection which is of lit
tle moment. It is quito possible Ihat
tlio resorters could iind other places in
which to swallow vinous and cereal
liquids and totakoon their annual coat
ing of tan; and it is probable that
cooking quito as atrocious could bo
obtained without tho niarino propin
quity which now romler the abnormal
culinary interest so fashionable.
Iiut, says some ono. thoro could bo
no shipping without water for ships to
sail in. A foolish objection, truly,
when it is rcmomberod that the United
States has no shippin at tho present
time. Tho fiiliug in of the sea would
not affect us; lot others look out for
themselves. And it so happens that
tho officers of our gallant navy aro al
ready thoroughly inured lo land ser
vice, so that it would bo no hatdship
to them to continue to servo on shore;
while, on tho othor hand, the grand na
vies of foreign nations would bo ren
dered useless, and thero would be no
further fear of our great seaports being
under tribute by tho seagoing Kings of
lho earth, and, consequently, no nood
of disfiguring our environment witli
hideous fortifications.
Tho more ono thinks upon the sub
ject the moro convinced must lie bo
conic of the uselessness of tho sea, and
of the expediency and wbdom of at
once filling it in to grade. It will givo
land to tlio farmer and tho real estate
magnate; it will offer to tlio railway
constructors now and virgin fields for
track laying, and, in short, it will bo a
general good thing for cvory body.
My all means, thon, fill 'cr up! Uoslon
Transcript.
CHEVREUL'S SYSTEM.
riirre Kumlninenlitl Onlor to Which
All
Other .II11 llx IttMlut'i-tl.
Chevreul, tho eminent French chem
ist, whoso hundredth birthday was so
gloriously celebrated two years ago, if
not the first to discover, was tho first
to make plain to all tho world, tho
system of contrasted colors which, in
France, at least, bears his name. How
true it is that to givo nn idea universal
circulation it must bo spread by a
Frenchman! According to Chevroul's
system tliero aro in nature three funda
mental colors to which all others may
bo reduced; red, bluo and yellow. If
thoo three wero to bo had in absoluto
purity, and wero to bo mixed together
in exact intonsity and proportions,
tliej would neutralize ono another,
and no color, or pure white, would re
sult. If tho three bo put in imagina
tion nt equal distances about a circle,
thon directly opposite tho point occu
pied by any ono of tho three will bo
tho point on tho circlo whoro tho mix
of tho othor two will constitute its di
rect opposite; or, as it is called, its
compliniont. For instance, tako rod;
its compliniont is bluo and yellow
mixed, that is green. Tho compliment
of bluo is red and yellow mixed, that is
orange. Of yellow, rod and bluo mtxod,
that is purple. In other words pure
rod mixed with puro greon will givo
white; so will pure bluo mixed with
puro orango and puroyellov mixed
with puro purple. And so on all
around tlio circlo with the intermediate
hues, every hue finding its compli
ment at the other end of its diameter.
Throughout this pnpor I avoid tho
technical and uso cvory-day terms and
adjectives.
Now tho inner oyo apparently always
desires white light; so that tho outer
eye is constantly manufacturing tho
compliment of tlio color of tho object
at whioh it is looking so as to transfer
a whito imngo to tho inner oyo. For
Instance, let tho oyo rest on a rod
DbjiH'U " After a while turn the o'o to a
rVMfosiufce. In a second or two tho
object will AppsMtr on the surface, but
greou; stiowlng that tho eye has becu
manufacturing tho complimentary
color of tho object, and in a manner to
cover it exactly. Of course this is only
ono of tho various ways of putting a
well-known phenomenon. The fact
remains, put it any way you please,
that to mako tho oyo comfortablo and
to relievo it of extra work, whenever
you present it to a strong color, present
along with it somo of the compliment
ary color. This is tho reason, why a
blue houfio needs green blinds; why
a bluo ribbon looks well in golden
hair; or why purple trimming go
with a yellow dress. It follows, too,
that as tho compllmental color assists
the oyo to soo tho original color more
easily, it assists it to see more of it;
that is, to sco it moro Intensely. A
red disk surrounded by a greon rim
appears stronger than when tho rim is
away. A rcd-hoaded girl is always
moro striking in a greenish-blue dress.
Vet she is always wearing one; and
the carrot-headed boy is always at his
happiest when he has under his chin a
blue, or green, tie of vast dimensions.
The two, intuitively, select the colors
that relieve their own eyes, though
thoy thereby make their peculiarities
more conspicuous. There is no law of
iostbetics of moro extended or of easier
application. Prac'ico first with strong
colors of tho gre:' to t attainable purity.
Soon the eye will be ablo to apply the
law to (he most delicate tints and the
most varied hues. The secret of the
success of Worth, the great Paris
dressmaker, is his skill in using many
colors and still keeping woll within
this simplo law. The law is as valu
able in the mnuHfacturc and decoration
of lho humblest garment or utensil, as
it is in the production of tho grandest
work of art. D. Cady Eaton, in Talc
Jlcvicw.
CALIFORNIA'S SAVIOR.
Stnrr Uliis'n "Night With the Cannibals
11 n! What Ciune of It.
General Scott declared that "Call
fornia was saved to tho Union by tho
oloquenco of a young minister named
King." This was undoubtedly true.
Mut, nevertheless tho cannibals had
something to do with it
Before he entered upon his glorious
mission to our Pacific shores, Rev. T.
tarr King was ono of our most gifted
and popular lycoum locturers at the
East.
Ho had been secured for the evening
of October 18, 1859, by tho lyceum
committeo of tlio nourishing town of
Wostboroiigh in Worcester County,
Mass., where I had settled after a
twenty years' exilo in tho Hawaiian
Islands. Our families having been ac
quainted in Charlestown, wo hail the
pleasure of entertaining him, as well
as being entertained by luni, during his
visit. Our other guests wero all Ha
waiian friends, two of them natives,
born of English and American parents,
whoso fathers were officers of tho King,
and one tlio widow of the former Chief
Justice of tho island, who since her
husband's death has been living in San
Francisco.
As Mr. King entered our premises
his attention was arrested by a majes
tic elm, tlio pride of Worcester Count y,
which ornamented our grounds. Ho
stopped short, took oil' his lint and
mado to it a low bow, saj'ing that ho
never saw a magnificoiit treo without
feeling that his respectful obeisance
was due to it. Among tlio stories with
which lio entertained U3 I romoinbor
one of a cynical relative who had beon in
clined to belittle his work as a lecturer.
Desiring to convert him ho persuaded
him to attend 0110 of his most brilliant
and successful ones. Tho audience
were delighted and at tho close of the
lecture many crowded around him to
express the pleasuro it had given them.
Turning to tho old gentleman, at whom
ho leveled his most impassioned shaft
of orator), ho asked him what ho
thought of it. "Wall." replied he, de
liberately, "you warn't half as tejus as
1 thought you'd lie."
As we sat down to supper, I said
"Mr. King, do you know you aro
among the cannibals?" Ho replied
that he hadn't been awaro of it, but
trusted that his lean condition would
bo his safety, as nono of us could be"
toniptcd by it. I explained that of tho
H"Ten at table lio was tho only one
who was not either a native Hawaiian
or had been for years a resident of the
group and of California.
Laying down his knifo and fork, he
exclaimed: "Is this really so? My
good star has b night mo hither. I
am in just tho company in which for
weeks I havo longed to find myself."
Ho then informed us that ho had re
ceived som e time ago a call to tho Unita
rian Church in California, which ho had
declined. That tho invitation had now
been urgently ronowed and most
llattering inducements offered him,
and ho had felt anxious to meet somo
ono from there who could givo him
tho information ho wanted about tho
placo, the people, state of society, cost
of living, etc., about all of which ho
was utterly ignorant. Fooling thai he
was just the man for tho impending
crisis, whoso magnetism and eloquence
was needed to givo the right direction
to public sentiment on our Pacific
coast, wo with ono accord urged him
to accept tho invitation and gave him
tho information ho needed. Yo talked
earnestly till it was time to go to tho
hall, and on our return resumed tho
conversation till midnight, ami the
next morning at breakfast, the discus
sion being kept up till wo loft him at
tho cars. Ho warmly oxprossed his
great satisfaction with his visit.
A fow weoks later, I met Mr. King
g j
on the train, when ho said, "1 havo
decided to t"UH,"rrH!w' an? I"tme '
snv to van that I roceivtul mv dn!iliiur
. , , i i . j.V .i P
impure from my nlghi wi h the ennui-
UhIs. W. Ii. I Marshall, m Uoslon
7'raiuaripU
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
It is estimated that one per cent,
of tho wealth of church members in
the United States, if devoted to mis
sionary work, would amount to ten
millions of dollars.
Chaplain McCabo says by the end
of tho next gonoral conference Method
ism in this country will havo thirty
four bishops and ono hundred and
fifty-four presiding oldcrs.
One of the oldest Presbyterian
ministers in tho country is Uov. Will
iam C I'ankin, of Farniington, la.
II'! is ninety-two years of ago and has
spent sixty-one years in the tninitry.
Itov. G. H. Filian, missionary,
started a little church in Massowan,
Turkey, with GOO mombors. Now ho
has 1.0D0 members, and tho Turks
waut to build a now church. Thoy
have subscribed 2,500.
Tho Superintendent of Public In
struction in North Carolina report!
that itGSo.OOO was expended on public
instruction in tiiat State last your.
Thirty-six per cent, was used in Hie
instruction of the colored race.
Mr. Vanderbilt's four sons Cor
nelius, William K., Frederick W. and
George W. have together contributed
$2.50,000 in which to erect a building
on the now college grounds, to be
called tho Vanderbilt Clynic of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Thero will bo divided among the
superannuated preachers and widows
and orphans of preachers of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, next year,
$100,000 out of tho profits of tho Meth
odist Mook Concern. Tho Book Con
cern will bo a century old in 188.
The Baptists of Wales possess 701
chapels which provido accomodations
for 201,902 persons. Tho number oi
communicants is given at 75,44't.
Thero aro in connection with the
chapels S..')35 Sunday-school teachers
and 77,818 scholars. Tho ordained pas
tors number 307.
Every State ar.it Territory in the
Union is represented among thisyoar's
batch of students at the University ol
Michigan, and. in addition, thoro aro
students from Ontario, Japan, En
gland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
Sandwich Islands. Italy, Turkoy, Costu
Rich, Quebec, Russia, Scotland anil
United States of Columbia.
Tlio total enrollment of pupils in
the Chicago schools for tlio school
year onding last July is given at
87.902; averago attendance per da',
07,187. with about 7, 000 of theso at
tending school only half-day terms.
Tho school expenditure for the year
amounted to $2,020,737.99. Tho avor
ago cost per pupilfor tlio year wna
about $15.29.
The Church oi England Zunana
Society is the most enterprising society
of it kind pn.b ibly in t he world. It
has 8S missionaries, with 415 Bible
women and other agonts locally en
caged; four normal schools with 123
pupils, and 133 other schools with
fl. tll scholars. Last year 2,304 zou
anafl were regularly visitod. Finan
cially it received 19.497 rupees in Gov
ernment grants. 7,910 rupees in foos,
and 18.953 rupoes looilly subscribed.
Its homo receipts during lho year
amounted to $118,185.
A CASTLE OF TERROR.
I'rlclitful Secroti of a Grim Fortreu In
I'm ijco.
Just time enough was left us to visit
that terrible castle of Torraino, as
soino writer once called the fortress of
Leches. It stands on a lofty eminence
overlooking tho town. From the
battlements one can sco tho River
Iudro as it winds in and out of tho
wooded country that lies alout tlio
town. Tho fortress is a somber pile of
ancient stono and masonry, of groat
oxtont and vast strongtlu It was tho
favorite residence of Charles VII., and
of that supoi stitious tyrant, Louis XL,
who first made it into a stato prison.
It is surrounded by walls, towers and
bulwarks, which crown a rock so in
accessible that tho English, when in
vading Franco, always failod to storm it.
"In t.iis castle," writes Do Chesne,
"thero was an iron gate, terminating
a long and gloomy passago hewn
through the solid rock. For ages nono
dared to exploro this corridor or open
that mysterious gate, the bars of which
had becomo a mass of rust. At length
it was opened by orders of a Governor
who had loss suporstition or more
curiosity than his predecessors, and be
yond it. hewn out of tho rock on which
the fortress stands, was found a square
chamber wherein thoro was a man
nearly eight foot tall, sitting upon a
stono and leaning his head upon his
hands ns if asleop, but ho dissolved
Into dust upon tho air being admitted,
all savo tho largor bones and skull,
which wero long presorvod in tho
church of Our Lady." But who tho
tall prisoner was, so long and 60 mys
teriously confined tliero, there was
neither traco nor record to show,
though by somo traditions ho was sup
posed to bo ono of tho lovers of Mary,
of 1'orgundv. most of whom wora
tlayed allvo about tho time sho was
stranglod by her husband, Louis X
ll was also in th.s ciistle ihat Louis
XI. kopt the unfortunate Cardinal do
la Maine, and that Louis XII. hold
Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, tor
turing him daily until doath relieved
him from his misorv. A largo under
ground room was shown us, in which
w.is kept every imaginable instrument
of tortnro that tho human mind can
conceive. Our blood ran cold nt tho
sight of thumb-screw-, barred hel-
inoLs, in whioh, in olden times, a livo
Mnfortunnto prboner; stocks, thu dm
..
mi was put to gnaw tlio face of the
,us ami 1110 tnrriiMo nun
nutldan. besides ninny olhrr that lill
3.,e with i 1
J Hon of thorn Argonaut