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IN OUR NEXT!

A New Story by the Popular
EDWARD l. WHEELER,

Billy Bub.

THE PRIZE DETECTIVE;

OR,

THE BOOTBLACK’S LUCK.

A life romance redolent of the byways and
highways of a great city, in which a street
Arab enacts an original Idle. In incident it is
of the liveliest interest, while in delineation of
character and the evolution of plot it is a very
happy performance. Readers of detective and
city-life stories will greatly enjoy it.

 

The Wide fluke Papers.

Oh 2 These Men!

“' On! these men l” exclaimed a young wife to
me, just the other day; “it is simply astound-
ing how crosseyed they all are] And such
method in their madness, tool”

“Explain!” said I, though I imagined what
the explanation would be.

“Why everything a man does is so straight,
and he can see all the whys and wherefores of it
so clearly, and there isn’t the slightest deviation
from the most correct line of moral rectitude
and mental perspicacity; but let his wife do ac-
tually or relatively the same thing, and he can’t
.soo stl‘aig‘lt, to save his life. The rapidity with
v. arch he gets cross-eyed (and crossmouthed,
to i, gen :rally) is something only equaled, never
exceiled, by the swiftest motion of an experi-
enced prestidigitator. When he 'did that par-
ticular thing it was all right: but when she does
it that unfortunate visual affection of his causes
him to see it all wrong. Really, it is a very pe-
culiar fact. The other night I kept dinner
waiting precisely five minutes, while I finished
dressing myself. We had just moved, you
know; and I had had an exceedingly busy day.
Well, you should have heard Charley go on!
He nearly set me frantic shouting at me, for
you know how delightful it is to be scolded at
and hurried when you are already straining
every nerve to hurry; and when I got down to
the table he did nothing but growl all dinner-
time about my delaying dinner and making us
late to the club. He couldn’t have said more,
or talked longer about it, if I had been fifty
minutes late instead of five; for he never drop
ped the subject until we reached the club and
found ourselves in excellent time. But the
very next club~night he went to a ball’match
and delayed dinner threequarters of an hour,
and, bless you! there wasn’t a bit of trouble
with his eyes—he saw everything to be perfectly
straight, and correct, and as it should be! It
was quite the proper thing to spoil the dinner,
and quite the proper thing to keep me waiting
and in a state of suspense as to what had hap-
pened to him, and worry as to whether there
would be a decent mouthful to cat by the time
he came, audit waSn’t a bit of matter if we did
get to the club a trifle late. Everything was as
it should be—oh, yes! Quite sol—because he
did iti”

“ It is a peculiar state of affairs,” I admitted.
“ As you say, men are tremendously cross-eyed
at times, and most methodically so. And even
in the matter of growling they can’t see
straight, for they see unlimited license for
themselves and no license at all for any one
else. Charley could have found fault with you
for two or three consecutive hours, and if you
had amiably suggested that a subject gets mo-
notonous when harped upon too long, he would
prohablv have accused you of flying into a tem-
per; or if you had been more succinct and asked

im to ‘ Please stop growlingl’ there is not the
slightest doubt but that he would have declared
you unladylike, and slangy, and would have
worked himself up into a considerable rage or
a fit of the sulks. That is all because his cross-
eyedness leads him to think that he has a mo-
nopol y of ungoverned and unlimited scolding.
But if you had nagged him for fiva consecutive
minutes about being late he would have lost his
temper; and it is almost a foregone conclusion
that if you had evar referred to the subject a
second time, or longer than that unendurable
five minutes, he would have indulged in some
such unvarnished language as ‘ Dry upl’ ‘ Oh,
shut up, will you?’ or ‘Give us a rest about
thatl’”

“ Of course! And the most remarkable part
of it is that he would not have considered him—
self slangy or uligentlemanly at all; and he
would have thought it unwarrantable of me to
get angry at him, and would have declared I
had a vicious disposition. A man may scold
all day, and if a woman intimates that she is
tired of hearing him, or loses her temper, he
thinks she is unjustifiably ugly; but if a woman
scolds the least little bit—even when she has
every reason to speak exceedingly reprovingly
—a man thinks he is unjustifiably idiotic if he
does not lose his temper and bid her ‘ Shut upl’
immediately. Oh, I tell you these men are
methodically cross-eyed! They cannot possibly
see a fault in themselvos, but they can see it'
like a flash of lightning in a woman, and their
spotless souls are always shocked, then, at its
enormity l”

. “ They forget that ‘what is sauce for the goose
is sauce for the gander ;’ but it is a good thing
to remind them of it occasionally. You have
no idea how it opens their eyes. You know Ruth
E? One day her husband did not come home
to dinner nor show up until midnight. She
said nothing; but a few nights later she went
out just before dinner, and did not return until
midnight. Of course there was a scene, but
Ruth was as cool as a cucumber. “Then her
husband asked her where she had been, she re-
plied, pleasantly, that she did not ask him

he declared he was willing to tell her, she smil-
ingly replied that so was she willing to tell him;
and that when he gave her his confidence she
would give him hers. He said he had a perfect
right to stay out when he liked, and as late as
he liked, and to do it without notifying or con-
sulting her. She calmly replied that she_had
never denied that, and had never found one
word of fault with him for so doing: and that
she had not the slightest idea of interfering
with him. She considered him quite old enough,
and possessed of sufficient sense to do as he
thought best. And as far as his doings affected
her they would, of course, be regulated by exact-
ly the amount of love and consideration he felt
for her. As for herself, as she did not deny his
‘perfect right to stay out when he liked and
as late as he liked. and to do it without notify-
ing or consulting her,’ he could not deny her
perfect right to go out and stay out when she
liked, and as late as she liked, and to do it Wlth-
out notifying or consulting him; and that as she
did not find fault with him for so doing he could
not find fault with her; and that as long
as she did not interfere with his free moral
agency, he must not interfere with hers.
That she, too, was quite old enough and
pomessed of sufficient sense to act as she
thought best. That he knew she loved him
sinCerely, and that she loved him no less be-
cause she claimed—and expected to have
through life—fair play Their relations to
each other could never exist on any equal basis,
or any true love, unless they were founded up-
on mutual confidence and consideration and
practical equal rights. Their “rights” were
identical and neither could find any fault with
the other for making use of thorn—That was
unvarnished common sense, and Ruth practiced
it faithfully, and you will not find. anywhere,
a couple who are franker and better friends,
and companions. and confidante than she and
her husband. She attends to her work as care-
fully as he does to his, and she sees that the
children are well cared for: and then she is as
free to act at her own discretion as he is; but
as a rule they share their pleasures, she always
cultivating a taste for his likings, or moderat-
ing them by the constant feminine influence of
companionship. But she carries out to the let
ter her claim of fair play, if she sees any dan-
ger of being imposed upon.”

“ Well, I wish more of the cross-eyed men
could have their optical organs straightened,
and see that a fault’s a fault whether it 133
man or a woman who commits it, and that
what is deserving of reproof in a wife is equal—
1y deserving of reproof in a husband, and that
what is fair or right for one to do, is fair and
right for the other to dol”

BELLE BRIGHT.

 

. Happy-Go-Eplly Papers.

My Jersey Shanghais.

I HAVE been making some experiments in
keeping poultry at my summer residence in‘
Harlem this season.

I did not do so for the prospective profits, nor
because I wanted to, but solely for the reason
that my wife insisted on it.

She said other people who resided in the
country raised their own poultry, and had
fresh laid eggs, and omelet-s, and custard pud-
dings, and chicken pot pie, and other poultry-
produced luxuries of that sort, whenever they
felt like it, and she couldn’t see any good rea
son why we shouldn’t do the same. And I must
confess that I couldn’t, either, when she put it
in that light. I told her it had been a hard
winter, but business was beginning to boom
along a little livelier n0w, and she should have
the whole back yard full of hens if she wanted
them; and I asked her what brand of poultry
she preferred, and whether she wanted a night
gang and a day gang so that some of the hens
could be busy preparing omelets for breakfast
while the day squad went to roost; also if she
wanted me to chip off a piece of the back yard
and take it along when I went after the fowls
to see that it matched with their complexion,
and how she wanted the aesthetic poultry busi-
ness managed, anyhow.

She mildly replied that there wasn’t any
complexion- matching in poultry buying as
there was in the dry-goods business; and she
said she guessed a steady old married rooster
and his family—say a dozen hens or so—would
be just about what we needed. «She thought
the White Leghorn Durhams or the Southdown
Shortrhorns were a good kind (she got this in-
formation, as usual, I presume, out of the back
art of Professor Snakemoflf’s Cathartic Medical
uide and Almanac for the year 1859. It
sounds like it, anyway). but she said she wasn’t
very particular as to the kind so long as they
were good layers, and she would let me select
the breed to suit myself.

This was very kind of Seraphenia, but it gave
me a peck of trouble all the same. I was kept
busy for two weeks after that dashing around
among all my poultry-raising acquaintances
trying to secure a suitable breed of fowls for
my purposes.

Finally I found them, or thought I had, at
least.

They were Jersey Shanghais, I believe. Any-
way that is what Nubbins, the man I purchased
them of, called them, and he ought to know.
He was a poultry fancier, Nubbins was, so he
said, and I was afterward informed that he—
for once in his life—spoke the truth. The peo-
ple around there said there was no doubt about
his being a first-class, Wide-awake, enterprising
poultry—fancier. They said he had such a fancy
for it that nobody in that section could keep
any—unless they hired a man to stand alongside
of the roost with a shotgun and watch it. I
was told that Nubbins was a very extensive
poultry-raiser, also; but it seemed to, be the
general opinion that he raised the most of it
after dark. On almost any dark night, if Nub-
bins wasn’t too closely watched. it was cur-
rently reported that he could go forth into the
highways and byways, and “ raise ” more mar—
ketable poultry between midnight and sunrise
than any other man in the neighborhood could
produce by broad daylight during the whole
summer.

This may have been so. I have no reason to
doubt it after the dealings I had with Nubbins,
for he cheated me most amazingly on those won-
derful Jersey Shanghais. '

I don’t know the name of the man from whom
Nubblns “ raised” them (I wish I did; I’d make
him come and take them away or sue him for
damages), but it must have been a mighty dark
night when he lured them in. A man who would
deliberately pick out such a lot of poultry as
that when he had the whole barnyard to choose
from ought to serve a term in some reliable in-
sane asylum.

Those Jersey Shanghais stood about three-
foot six inches in their bare feet. and weighed
somewhere in the neighborhood of fifteen pounds
apiece. They were long-legged, slab—sided fowls,
as rough—looking and homely as an Osage orange
fence in January, and in general appearance
theylooked something like a cross betweena
turkey buzzard and an ostrich.

I hinted to Nubbins that I didn’t like their
looks exactly. But he said it was all right; one
couldn’t expect beauty and usefulness, too, in
poultry. The Jersey Shanghais were not the
handsomest fowls in the country, but they were
steady, reliable layers, and besides. they were
not at all particulvr about their food. The
would eat anything they could get hold 0 ,
from a cold pancake to a mustard-plaster, and
thrive where other less hardy fowls would die
of slow starvation.

Nubbins didn’t exaggerate a particle in this
respect. I was forced to admit the correctness
of his diagnosis before those Jersey Shanghais
were in my possession a week. They were pos-
sessed of cast-iron appetites, every hen and
rooster of the lot, and they were hot particular
about their food—Oh, no: they Would devour
anything they ran across just as Nubbins had
advertised: but I noticed they generally pre-
ferred to dine at the first t-lble with the family.

yard for them, they would gobble up the last
solitary morsel of it in less than five minutes,
then hang around the door and watch fora
chance to dash into the kitchen and secure
something off from the dinner-table by way of
dessert.

Those long-legged and long-necked Jersey
Shanghais could pick things off from any ordi~
nary stand or table with the greatest ease, and
it seemed to please them immensely to be left
alone for a moment in the diningeroom when
dinner was about ready. Generally on such oc-
casions we would have to postpone dinner until
the next day, because there wouldn’t be any-
thing left but empty dishes. One of those Jer-
sey Shanghais when it was feeling real well
could clean off a well-stocked dinner-table as
quick as the average tramp. I

When the outSide door was left open acol-
dentally, and those remorseless fowls carelessly
strolled in and got the first whack at the
victuals, it used to create a good deal Of sad-
ness in the family—also a wild desire to go out
and massacre that whole collection of Shang-
hais.

At such times life used to seem like a hollow
mockery and an empty delusion, as it were, for
the time being; and I usually wouldn’t get OVer
that feeling until I had had a chance to fill up
at the supper table.

Besides their pleasing trait of dining at the
first table ahead of the family every time they
got a chance, those Jersey Spanghais were
possessed of many other playful little eccentrici-
ties and charming idiosyncrasies too numerous
to mention.

One thing that I cannot quite understand is
their fierce and uncontrollable predilection for
dig 'ng post-holes in the back yard. They are at
it aII the time—when they are not busy eating.
I know 'ust how the do it for I have watched
them. he of those oose geared, back-actioned
Shanghais will go out in the middle of the yard
and stand still for a few moments as if in deep
reflection; then it will begin to paw the ground
slightly, first with one foot then with the other:
and pretty soon both feet will get under morion
at once, and the Shanghai settles right down
to business, and paws, and digs, and scratches,
and kicks. and tears up the earth by the cubic
yard, while the dirt flies clear over into the
next lot and the air in the immediate vicinity
is obscured with dust and feathers; and finally
when the frantic struggle is over there is a new-
laid post-hole right there where the Celestial
fowl (or foul Celestial) has been at work by the
‘ob.
J There are so many of these post-holes laying
around loose out in the back yard now, that a
fellow is liable to break his neck if he goes
prOwling around out there after dark.

If I had a contract for digging post-holes for
the Government or excavating the foundations
for public buildings, those energetic Jersey
Shanghais would just come in play; but, as it
is, their efforts in that line are chiefly wasted,
as are also the majority of their efforts in other
directions, so far as I have noticed!

“But they lay, don’t they i"

Oh, yes! they lay; I think I am safe in say-
ing that. IVe have had thirty-seven eggs so
far this season. Thirty-six of them we got
from the grocery store; the other one I found
out in the back yard, and if one of those Shang-
hais didn’t lay it I don’t know where it came
from.

I am saving that egg as a curiosity. It has
cost me just thirty-nine dollars and a half, not
counting the original price of those expensive
fowls. An egg of that sort is too costly a lux-
ury to be eaten. I am going to save it till it is
old and stale and full of inherent strength; and
then I am going to throw it at the villain who
cheated me on those Jersev Shanghais—in one
I ever meet him. Thus I will glut my ven—
geance, and cause Nubbins to even wish he had
never been born—or had sold his fancy poultry
to somebody else.

Vindictively,
NOAH Nurr.

 

The Winter’s “ Cut” in Pine.

THE St. Paul Pioneer-Prcxs gives a statistical
review of the season’s lumbering operations ill
the Minnesota and “'isconsin woods. The ag-
gregates reveal the stupendous magnitude of
the business. The total cut of the two States
exceeds 4,000,000,000 feet. This represents the
trees growing on 1,250 square miles. The Chip-
pewa Valley region of Wisconsin contributes
nearly 1,000,000,000 feet. the Mississippi above
Minneapolis nearly 600,000,000 feet, the Wiscon-
sin i‘iver 441,000,000, the Duluth district 297,-
000,000, and Black river 228 000,000. The
streams on the west shore of Lake Michigan,
grouped together for convenience, show a cut
of 785,000,000. On the different railroads in
Wisconsin and Minnesota between 500.000,000
and 600,000,000 of feet were cut. The cut is by
far the greatest in the history of the Northwest.

 

“ Banging ” Horses’ Tails.

FASHION is responsible for many follies, but
for few sillier freaks than the prevalent “ bang-
ing” of the tails of horses. A horse’s tail is not
only highly ornamental when properly cared
for, but indispensable to the animal. To cut
the tail short as is now done is equally an offense
against good taste and humanity. It is both
idiotic and cruel in fact. It spoils the appear—
ance of the horse. and it deprives him of the
means of brushing flies from his flanks. The
stupid servility which characterizes the follow-
ers of fashion was never more clearly illustrated
than in the prevalence of this ugly and senseless
practice. Hundreds of fine horses may now be
seen in and around Central Park every day,
made to look awkward, ungraceful and ridicn»
lous by this vile docking of their tails. In the
case of riding—horses there is some consolation
in the fact that the absurd appearance Of the
poor animal is communicated to the rider, and
that it is quite impossible for any one to " witch
the world with noble horsemanship” while he-
striding a creature with a “ banged ” tail. But
the wretch who invented this detestable fashion
was no doubt equally capable of “ shingling” a.
woman’s head; and nothing worse than that
can be imagined.

 

A Camp in the Air.

A LETTER to a Chicago paper, describing a
mining-camp on Needle Mountain, in the San
Juan country of Colorado, eleven thousand, two
hundred feet above the sea, says: “ This canyon
which we now inhabit has at present five other
camps, and there are tidings Of a multitude on
the way here. The canyon next to us is known
as Bear Roost, and has as many grizzlies in it as
probably any spot on earth. The noise Of the
blasting has driven these kings of the forest out
of our own little valley, but a mile’s walk can
at any time procure an interview. None of a
violent nature has yet taken place. as both sides
preserve an armed neutrality. We never can
encounter Bruin among the trees where there is
a chance for reflection among the boughs after
firing; and we dare not take bini on the bare
mountain-side. which he affects for both den
and promenade. We have seen a dozen or so
of the members of this interesting family, in ap-
pearance about the size of an ox, walking along
the bare mountain-sides of this valle . They
seem at this season, on account of their young,
to be very irritable, and as a grizzly can live
long enough, with a dozen balls under his huge
ribs, to kill a man, each interview has so far
been terminated as quickly as the nature of the
ground would permit.”

 

Is Cremation Christian Burial?

THE movement in favor of cremation has its
Origin, not in any difficulty'in finding a place
where the dead may be conveniently and safely
laid, but in a Pagan renaissance. Even though
many of the advncates of cremation are, at
least nominally, Christians, yet none the less is
the movement a heathen one. A few eccentric
enthusiasts may be found to advocate almost
any novelty, especially one which has Certain

 

 

No matter how much food was placed in the

strength of the movement is to be found in the
desire to throw OVer all that is distinctively
Christian. Many among our literary men are
open advocates of Greek and Roman as distin-
guished from Christian Civilization, and such
men are instinctively cremationisfs. On the
continent, the anti Catholic and anti-Christian
nature of cremation is far more clearly marked
than in England, just as Freemasonry comes
out far more into relief when it is in the midst
of Catholicity, and implies a hostility to all re-
ligion which it does not profess iii Protestant
England. The cremationists are. but repeating
the policy of the persecutors of the early Chris-
tians. They burned the bodies of their victims
in order to demonstrate thereby the impossi-
bility of the resurrection. When they scattered
to the winds the calcined ashes they cried in
mockery, “Now let us see if they will rise
again.”

 

Dreadful Slaughter of Buffalo.

FORT CONCHO is situated on the brow Of a
plateau, just above the junction of the middle,
or main, Conclio and the North Concho rivers,
Texas. The post commands an extensive view of
the country, and at a distance it presents the ap-
pearance of a miniature city. Withinafew
hundred yards of the post, on the opposite side
of the ’North Concho, is the village of San
Angela.

Besides the trade from the post, much of
which is done by the merchants of San Angela,
here is headquarters for the army of buffalo—
hunters during the_winter months, and acres of
ground are covered,‘even up to April, with buf-
falo-hides, some in piles like large hay-stacks,
while great numbers are spread out to dry, pre-
paratory to being shipped to San Antonio. It
is estimated that over one thousand men were
engaged last winter in killing buffalo for their
hides in Tom Green county alone, and that at
least 50000 hides have been brought into San
Angela during that time. It is also believed
that 150,000 buffalo-hides have been shipped
during the winter and spring from Fort Griffin.
Two hundred thousand is probably an under-
estimate of the number of buffalo destroyed
annually in Texas only for their hides. The
flesh of these animals, which is superior to beef,
and which is thus left to rot or to feed the
wolves and buzzards, could it have been availed
of, would have furnished an ample supply of
food to the starving poor of our cities during
the past winter.

 

Snake-Shooting.

ONE of the “ sports ” of Maryland is the shoot-
ing of snakes, to which a Baltimore paper thus
adverts:

“ One of the most novel and exciting sports
that the warm weather of spring developes for
the sportsman of Baltimore is snake-shooting.
Woodcock, partridges, snipe, and pheasants do
not flock within a radius of twenty-five miles of
this city at any time, but Baltimore and Anne
Arundel county seem to have aCcumulated the
legion of reptiles which St. Patrick boycotted
in Ireland. As this is the season in which the
black» snakes, the garter-snakes. and moccasins
are engaged in making love to their mates, it is
the best time to go after them. At this season
they are not only bold and fearlem, but they
will even attack an intruder if provode to an
extremity. They hover together in dry spots.
and make so much noise with their hissing and
wriggling that they can be ‘ stalked’ from
fifty yards distant.

“ The moccasin snake looks dull and rusty on
land, but his back lightens up into beautiful
kaleidoscopic cross-bars when in the water. He
is the eaSlcst snake to kill. When the warm
spring sun shown-s its rays down on the pools
in which they live and get their food they come
to the surface and hang on to a jutting weed, or
else crawl out on the bank and lie stretched out
on the grass or sand. One of them will run be—
fore you can tread upon him. but if he bites the
wound is apt to be exceedingly poisonous, ill
though not fatal. The copperliead, or cotton,
mouth or stump-tail moccasin, commonly called
in the South the ‘dry-land ’ moccasin, is the
terrible cobra of America. He is Worse than
the rattlesnake, because he is more sluggish and
gives no alarm. He waits quietly until the un-
happy wayfarer steps on him, and then he turns
up and puts in his fangs.

“The proper and sportsmanlike manner of
hunting snakes is to go out with a small rifle.
It is only a ‘chump’ who would shoot snakes
with a shotgun. It would be like catching fish
with a Seine. It is easy to see the moccasins
when their heads are poked up out of the pool,
and fifteen yards range is enough for the aver-
age shot who can plug a shooting- gallery bull’s-
eye. When the bullet goes true the little rep-
tiles give up the ghost after a few excited
convolutions. A parlor rifle, or a 22-caliber
Remington, is the best ‘ snaking- piece.’ ”

*

Focused Pacts.

 

THE Kamschatkans are rapidly dying off.

THERE is a call from the West for the coinage
of half-cent pieces. Thus the lessons of the re-
cent panic are bearing fruit in a desire for
economy.

JAMES RUBENS, a full-blooded Nez Percé In-
dian, is in the East making addresses on the
wrongs of his race. He speaks English well,
and is eloquent.

THE population of Texas is estimated at 2 000,~
000 souls. Galveston, the largest city, has 40,-
000 inhabitants, while Houston, Fort Worth.
San Antonio, and Dallas have each over 20,000.
THE recent report of the National Board of
Fire Underwriters shows that no fewer than
2.872 hotels in the United States have been de—
stroyed by fire during the past eight years, an
average of 359 yearly.

SPOFFORTH of the Australian eleven, the bowl-
er of the century, in a recent cricket match in
England, took seven wickets in six overs and
three balls, and the entire eleven opposing him
were dismissed for seven runs.

THE run of salmon in the Sacramento river
diminishes year by year. How could it be other-
wise so long as the stream is choked and the ad-
jacent fields rendered useless by the washings
from the placer mines in the upper country?

THE recent Papal encyclical against. the Free-
masons is aimed at no less than 138 065 lodges
throughout the world, with 14 160 543 members,
whose annual receipts are estimated to amount
to about $890,000 000. Of which sum fully two-
thirds are expended in charities.

THE streams emptying in Tulare lake, Cal.,
are swarming with fine perch, which farmers
find it profitable to throw out of the water with
pitchforks and pack away salted into barrels.
Two men easily oad a wagon with the fish in
the course of an hour.

THE census report makes a very unfavorable
showing for doctors, especially at the West.
lllinOis, with a population Of 3,077,871, has
5,890 doctors, or one in 521; Indiana has 4.993.
or one in 396 of population. The average for
the Western States and Territories is one doc-
tor for each 524 of population. a proportion not
equaled anywhere in the world.

WESTERN lumbermen report that the pine
forests of Michigan, lVisconsin, and Minnesota
begin to show signs of exhaustion. In the States
named the shortage of production last year
footed up 600,000,000 feet. and the quality of the
logs has deteriorated ill recent years. \Vasreful-
ness is the characteristic of lumbermen, and
they are ilOw beginning to reap the fruits of
their past inlprovidence.

THE Toledo (0.) Blade believes that silk-
grovsillg soon will be of more importance to the
country than cotton-growing. This industry
may be most profitably conducted in South Car—
olina, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky and Tennes
see, where the mulberry tree is indigenous, and
where cotton can no longer be produced in com—
petition with the fat lands along the Mississippi,

 

plausible arguments in its favor. But the

nor cereals be grown so easily as in Kansas Ne-
braska and the Great Northwest. ,

Correspondents’ Column.

[This column is Open to all correspondents. In-
quiries ansWered as fully and as promptly as cir-
cumstances will permit. Contributions not entered
as “declined” may be considered accepted. No
MSS. rel urned unless stamps are inOIOSed ]

Declined: “Old Zebedee,”ctc.: “Mad Horseman;”
“A Ballad;" “Life;” "Jesse J:iines;" “Growler
Peppers?” “Babe‘s Pard;” “Sag Harbor Sociable;"
" ay to \\'iii;” “Well-Played;” “Ambushing a
Brownie;” "Under the Grecli:" " A Potent Agent;”
“The Pound of Fact:" “Three Stabs,” etc.: “NO
Extrasz” “A Sore Respite;“ “ A Hookwinked Du-
enna;" “ A Day in Love‘s Calcudar;“ “ Sad-You-See
Joe:” “The Big Boy‘s Loss;” “ All Old—OldStory;"
"Last is Best.”

E. L. C. Your verses are too crude to print.

FRANCIS M. You can have the papers by calling.
All back numbers in print.

TOM MERRIE. Send your real name, to authenticate
your ballad. If original, we will use.

BIG MOUTH. There are, thus far, thirty of the
stories sprice by mail, fivc cents each —-The gentle-
man named is, at present, acting as agent for a
traveling troupe. The story of “ Buffalo Bill‘s Grip ”
ran [in nine numbers of our WEEKLY. Price six cents
eac .

C. D. B. Black Frida was September 24, 1869.—
Jim Fisk was shot by Stokes. J an uarv 7, 1872.» Stokes
is now pro irletor of the Hoffman House, New York
city—We ave no knowledge of Josie Maiisfleld’s
whereabouts.

GUSTAV. Read Tenllyson’s “Princess,” or Owen
Meredith’s “Lucile.”—- We are so crowded with
sketch matter that only the best has an chance of
use. Try your hand in writing for the out/1‘8 Com-
panion, Boston.

WILLIE. Consult any one who has studied law
about the course. The first thing is Blackstone;
next, Story’s Commentaries: next, Chltty, etc., etc.
Or obtain the catalogue of Legal Department of Co-
lumbia College. That gives the full course of study.

H. C. B. Persons rarely row much after twenty.
Still there is a crance, and be change you propose
is just the step to take. Out-of—door ife will develop
you, bodily, if anything will. You must not, how-
ever, ooerwork; that, of itself, will retard body-
growth.

JOE W. Clara Louise Kellogg’s residence, as we
have heretofore stated. is in Brooklyn. She is now
in Europe, and is not a married woman—No gentle-
man is justified in dropping a lady’s acquaintance
without a good reason. If that reason no longer is
in force it is for her to decide if you shall renew
the association—The size given 2's “above the aver-
age.

JACK S. Horses are of all prices in Montana.
Thirty dollars will obtain a good pony.—The way to
get to the Yellowstone Par ' is by horseback from
the Northern Pacific R. R.—a six days’ ride. An es-
cort is not needed if you 0 in with a party. A
great deal of game is in the ark, but it is not to be
shot unless under strictest obedience to the law,
which the guides all enforce.

LAWRENCE. Your note is far too long to repeat
here. It seems to us a simple matter. Your wife is
singularly perverse if the facts are as you state.
The better mode of treating such a case is to say de-
cidedly that you cannot and will not have your life
so pestered. If she has parents 0 direct to them
and say as much. Stop the troub e where it is. Act
firmly, but with the strictest justice.

BAREOUR‘S FLAX. See the N. Y. Clipper Almanac
for the time of all the reported best races at all dis-
tances.—~A two-mile run, in 11:2, was made at Sara-
toga, July 20. 1870, by E. C. Stimson—a Dartmouth
College studciit.——Wash the violin-bow with weak so-
lution of ammonia spirits—Your liigllt and weight
for a boy Of seventeen are up to the full average.
——’I‘hc best way to learn the violin is to take lessons
of a thoroughly good illaslci'. A poor player for iii-
sti'uctor is WOI‘Se than no teacher.

MARY M. Being lllarried should not. in the. least,
change your interest iii your brotllcrs. If the ill—
llueilcc has been good, retain it by all menus ill your

ower, leltiug them see [but your love for tholll lids
iii no sellso been estranged. II. is a hard stroke to
loving brolllci‘s when their only sister gives them
up for another-’24 heart and home. Your course. is
plain— to take. the lime and claim tbc right to be to

 

vourllrotllcrs what you always have been. Your
husband not only ought not to object but should
cheerfully accede to your wishes ill the illntll-i'.
KENT AND AARON. A “dccrelul " is an “:lutllori—
tltrivc (ll-llcr or llccrco; especially 1i. lottcr of the
pope, (li‘I(’l‘lllllllllf.’,‘ some point or qucsl ion ill cot-losi-
listicnl law;" also—“a collection of the poch «luv
crees.” ’Ille “ ISIflUl'Illll Doclctnls " wr-rc a collec-
tion of documents published during lilo llintll coli-
fury and treating of church rights and church pl'ivl-

legcs. This series of decretuls, it, is admitted, wore
forged Their aim was the exaltltlioil of tho Epis—
copal dignity, and the protection of the. lowcrs and
privileges of the church dignitaries against secular
force.

M. IV. C —-It is not considered etiquette for a per-
son to inclosc postage stamps for replies, except ill
addressing a business letter—one requiring an an-
swer——to an entire stranger, or to a person very
much above the writer in social position. The word
mull when applied to a public walk, square, or an
level shaded walk, is pronounced mu! to rhyme with
the feminine nickname Sal. The mall at Central
Park is pronounced to rhyme with Sal.—-1’etroleun1
V. Nasby is the nmn de plume of David Ross Locke.
He is fifty-one years of age, and is a satirist, wit and
politician.

7—20-8. 1. If you give the lady a. present of brace-
lets. it should consist of two odd ones, as it is no
longer fashionable to wear a pair alike. 2. Plain,
fine, white cambric handkei‘chiefs, with an initial or
monogram done in white. are the proper ones for
gentlemen to use with evening dress and they are
fashionable and desirable at all times. 3. It is
not etiquette to break a slice of bread when it is
handed to you at table. Take the whole slice. 4.
In abuslness letter to a strangeryou write in the
third person, as: “Mr. Green begs leave to ask of
Mr. Gray,” etc.

PICTURESQUF. Daguerreotypes were first produced
in Paris in 1839, and in this country in the autumn of
the same year. The first likeness ever sucressfully
obtained iil America by the Daglierrean process was
taken by the late Professor J. W. Draper. A spec-
tacle lens placed in a cigar-box was his camera.
During the winter a small gallery was Opened and
the ictures of some notable eople were taken.
The Ollowing winter Professor orse, the inventor
of the telegraph. succeeded Professor Draper, and
the art of photography, from this small beginning,
grew and flourished. A

J. J. R. We cannot tell you the greatest wei ht to
which the tusk of an elephant has attained, ut a
single tusk has been known to weigh as much as one
hundred ouuds. Such a tusk is worth four hundred
dollars.— ourself and wife should greatly appre-
ciate the calls that have been made upon you. and
should repay them prompt] . First calls must be
returned in person, and wit in two weeks, if os-
sible.——From two to five in the afternoon are cal in
hours: but where a gentleman wishes to call wit
his wife, and lie is engaged during the day. it is per-
fectly proper for them to call in the evening.

TOM D. Offer the lady your arm as you leave the
theater. It is not necessary that a lady should wile
heir thanks to you for taking her to a place of enter.
talnment. If she expresses herself as having en-
joyed the evening, that is suflicient.—~If your horse
positively will not stand. you may help the lad ill
by extending her one hand from the carriage. t is
better. however, to tie the horse and help the lady
in before getting in yourself—It would be perfectly
prOper to give a present to a married lad ' who has
shown you considerable hospitality. 0 man of
sense would resent his wife’s receiving such a gift.

DAN S. 1. If a lady docs not wish to drink wine,
it is not rude for her to quietly refuse It and ask the
waiter to pour u ater for her, instead. You should
not insist upon your wife or sister “giving in ” to
you upon such matters: they have as mi-cll right to
their Opinions as you have to yours. and it is their
right, too, that their opinions shall be respected.
2. When a lady gives a small afternoon too. she ma
make tea in the parlor. An aloollol lamp is required:
over which a kettle of water is kept boiling. The
tea~caddy and tea-pot are placed beside the lamp.
English ladies thus make tea every afternoon in the
par or.

INQUIRER. The turquoises that turn green are
called, by the French. "turquoise malaria “ and are
esteemed very highly.—The hyacinth is a gem—red
—also called zircon; the Arabs consider its. charm
against sickness. a banisher of care, enmity, sor~
row, and COId, and a seal of true love. The helio-
tropcntoo, is a precious stone, of a pale green color:
sometimes green stri ed or spotted with blood-red.
It has talismanlc qua ities, the Orientals say, topre-
Vent poisoning or treachery. Aquamarine, it is
said. will protect the wearer from blindness or
treachery; but it will, ill solitude and moonlight,
arouse jealousy.

V. A. N. It is not proper to put your salt upon the
table-cloth, nor to make a noise in sprinkling it upon
your folld. Takeasaltspoonful and place it upon
the edge of your late or lipon one-half of your
butter solitaire. I hen you Wish to sprinkle it upon
your food, take upa little upon the point of your
'iiife and sprinkle it noiselessly, without knocking
the knife against a fork or spoon as so many people
do. Neither should you knock your knife against
your finger. If you cannot sprinkle the salt from
the end of the knife without jarring the knife
against something, use a small piece of bread to

 

shake the knife against.