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NEWS SyMMARY.
Important Intelligence from All Parts.
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Congress.
The Senate on the 32d passed the House bill
for the relief of settlers on restoredjrailroad
lands. A number of-.private bills were also
passed. Mr. Morgan's resolution, offered by
him in June last, declaring- that the President
of the Senate is not constitutionally authorized to count the Electoral votes so as to determine what votes shall he received and
counted or what; rejected, was taken up and
discussed, but not acted upon. Adjourned to
Januarys In the House Mr. Bowman alluded to the disorderly proceeding-3 of the
day Before, and. offered a resolution for
the expulsion of Messrs. Weaver and Sparks;
Mr.MeLane proposed that the offenders be
required to make an apology*-to the House;
Mr. AVeaverthen expressed his sorrow at having nsed such language on the floor of the
House, and Mr. Sparks said he owed an apology to the House, and freely tendered it; on
mo*iOn the matter Avashere dropped—104 to
4-1. Mr. Clymer, from the Appropriations
Committee, reported the Army Appropriation
bill (§26,190,800), and it was ordered printed.
On motion ot P. Wood it was ordered that
when the Funding- bill is next taken up all
general debate upon it shall be limited, to one
day.  Adjourned to January o.
Domestic.
Mks. Mary Fergcsoi"*, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
was so terribly poisoned by a wound from a
pin that her Avhole body turned black after
death.
By an explosion of giant powder on the
Beaver Meadow Division of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, on the 23d, one man was killed
and three seriously injured.
Forty-six of Sitting Bull's warriors reached
Pine Ridee Agency on the lSth, and nearly
one thousand more were said to be straggling
along to that point.
A Gaia-well (Kan.) dispatch of the 23d
says most of the Oklahoma raiders had gone
home to spend Christmas, but four or five
score remained in camp.* Two scouts whom
they sent into the Territory on the 8th had
returned with the report that hundreds of
settlers had evaded the troops, staked out
claims, and laid the foundations of future
homes.
Four men were killed on the night of the
23d by the explosion of a locomotive boiler
at Belmont, Pa., on the Reading Railroad.
The loss of life in the railroad accident
near Lincolnton, N. C., on the 22d was greater than first reported. Five men were killed
outright or burned to death in the debris of
the train, tAvo were seriously injured, and one
slightly bruised.
The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the total value of exports of petroleum, and petroleum products from tbe
United States for the month of October,
1SS0, were §3,840,602; during October, 1S79,
5*1,037,177. For the ten months ended October 31,1S80, §28,829,945; and during the same
period in 1879, §30,0S7,0S7.
A prominent banking firm in' Boston distributed to its clerks oyer §30,000 in Christmas gifts.
Albert Magee, residing some distance
north of Bradford, Pa., on the 24th put a can
containing thirty-seven pounds of nitro-gly-
cerine, which had congealed, into a tub of
warm water to liquefy it. An explosion followed, and Magee was blown to atoms, and
Thomas Perry,, a companion, who was some
distance away at the time of the explosion,
was thrown against a Avail and badly bruised.
He has lost his hearing. Windows a mile
away were shattered. r
A Washington special of the 26th says Dr.
Wilson, whom the Oklahoma colonists had
sent there to seek to induce the* President to
withdraw his proclamation and permit them
to pass through the Indian Territory to the
tract of land which they claimed as public
domain, and upon which they Avished to locate, had had his audience with the President and had been unsuccessful. The President informed him that the undertaking of
the colonists was an unlawful one; that it
had been so decided by the Attorney-General, and that the decision would stand unless
Congress should, by some enactment, abrogate existing treaties, or direct the Executive
to pursue some other course.
John Baxendale, a shoe manufacturer at
Brockton, Mass., has been forced to suspend
on account of the embezzlement of §10,000
by his son.
The residence of Patrick Winne, Brooklyn,
IST. Y., was fired on the 25th by an explosion
of kerosene, and Mrs. Winne was fatally
burned.
One hundred citizens of Munfordville,
Ky-, recently strung to a tree two negroes accused7 of robbing and nearly murdering J. A.
Gardner. One of the lynched men confessed
the crime.
Seth Foster, an old woodcutter, living
nearKirkwood, N. J,, who was bitten by a
mad dog on the 6th of November, died of
hydrophobia on the morning of the 24th, ten
days after the disease first manifested itself.
His case is considered remarkable, as nine-
tenths of the deaths from that disease take
place between three and four days from the
time of the first symptoms of the malady.
A ereight train and a passenger train ran
into each other about eighteen miles from
Atlanta, Ga., on the evening of the 24th.
Pefcer Keys, the engineer, and. John Collins,
the fireman of the passenger train, were
killed.
Three men, John Shea, Chester Morse and
J. Space, while recently attempting to cross
the '^Boston & Albany Railroad track near
Natick, MassT,' in a wagon, were struck by a
passing train,- and all three were instantly
killed.
Barney Duffy and John Mahoney, two
vagrants, went to sleep on a heap of rolling-
mill cinders near Paterson, N. J., on the
night of the 25th, Duffy was overcome by
the gas which escaped from the smoldering
heap. His companion came to his aid, made
coffee for him in an old tin can, and afterwards "tbofc him to a hospital. Mahoney then
returned- to his former resting place, probably riot knowing the cause of Duffy's sickness. He was found on the cinder-heap the
next morning burned to a crisp.
The centennial anniversary of the establishment of the first Universalis!* Church in
New England by the Re*v. John Murray was
celebrated on the 26th at the Old Murray
Church at Gloucester, Mass.
Frank Savage, a freight engineer on the
"Mobile and Ohio Division of the Louisville
& JT-fshvHle Road, and three persons in a passenger coach were killed by a collision at
State Line, Ala., on the 26th.
Personal and Political.
The United States Senate on the 22d confirmed the nomination of Judge Woods to succeed Justice Strong as Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court
A. L. AcKBRarAN, "United States'Attorney-
General during the first Presidential term of
General Grant, died at CarterSville, 0a. on
the night of the *21st, of inflammatory rheumatism.
The people of Austin, Texas, having faith
inhjs professed reformation, have elected (b
City Marshal Ben Thompson, one of the most
noted desDeradoes of the Lone Star State.
" Gentl-!ma*!s- Joe," the man Avho persecuted the Rev. Morgan Dix, of New* York, ,
with letters and postal cards last summer,
died in the hospital of Sing Sing Prison on
the 23d.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the celebrated
Norwegian poet and dramatist, arrived in
Chicago on the 23d, and was tendered an informal reception by some of his countrymen
residing in the city.
Sir Thomas Hesketh, of England, was
married to Miss Flora, youngest daughter of
Senator Sharon, at Belmont, Cal., on the 23il.
The wedding reception was the most brilliant
ever seen in California.
James M. Tarleton, who Avas Consul General at Melbourne under President Pierce,
died recently at Washington from exposure
and want.
The Vermont Legislature, after the longest session on record, adjourned sine die on
the 24th. Among other bills passed was one
taxing the gross earnings of express and telegraph companies two per cent.
James E. Owen, the famous wrestler, died
at Fairfield, Vt., a f eiv days ago, of a bronchial
affection.
Jerome B. Stillson, for many years connected with the press of New York and late
managing editor of the World, died in that
city on the 26th.
Forelg-n.
The Grecian Premier has Instructed the
representatives at the Capitals of Europe to
decline any proposal for arbitration.
The first spiral tunnel on the St Gothard
line, in Switzerland, has been completed. It
is one thousand meters in length, and was
bored through granite entirely by hand.
The Norwegian ship Juno, while unloading
a cargo of arms on the banks of Clare River,
in Ireland, on the 23d, was seized by the
British customs authorities and given in
charge of a force of marines and artillery.
The authorities at Havana are fitting up the
bark Josefina to carry two hundred negro
conspirators from Santiago de Cuba to the
penal settlement of Fernando Po.
The Emperor of China has consented to
the construction of a telegraph line from"
Shanghae to Tientsin, a distance of twelve
hundred miles.
In its alarm over the Irish uprising, the
London Times affects to see the work of
American filibusters who planned the Fenian
revolt in 1867.
Another international monetary conference has been proposed by Italy.
The British military authorities have telegraphed for a regiment now stationed in
Canada to be sent to Ireland.
George Eliot, the English novelist who
married J. W. Cross last May, died in London
on the evening of the 22d,   aged sixty years.
The Supreme Court of Mexico has indicted
Governor Teran, of Vera Cruz, for the unauthorized execution of one of the insurgents
of June 25, and it 13 rumored that he has.
fled, under a false name, on an American
steamer:
A recent Berlin dispatch reports that
many Jewish families were preparing to emigrate to Belgium, France or England.
A great snow-storm visited Scotland on
the 25th. Traffic in that country was partly
suspended in consequence.
Eight persons Avere drowned, sixty houses
were destroyed and about §350,000 Avorth of
property was washed away by floods at* Lime-
sol, in Cyprus, a feAV days ago.
A train on the London, Huron & Bruce
Road, near Clandeboye, Ont., ran into a
sleighing party on the 25th, killing four members of the family of James McGrath and
badly injuring a babe.
M. Anderavert, Avho was elected President
of the Swiss Republic a few weeks ago, committed suicide on the 25th, in the public,
parade at Berne, by shooting himself. The
cause of the act was unknown..
A London telegram of the 25th says the
Boers were accused of having fired on the
British troops at Pretoria under cover of a
flag of truce. Loyalists were having a hard
time in the Transvaal. Four of them were
reported to. have been murdered recently in
one of the A'illao;es of that Province.
A eire at Bridgewater, N. S., a few days
ago destroyed four houses and burned tivo
children to death.
"LATER  IfEWS.
General Walker believes that the census, when completed, will show the population of the United States to be 50,000,000.
The number of immigrants arriA**ing at the
port of New York from January 1 to December 27, 1SS0, was 31S,937.
The Chicago Common Council has passed
an ordinance requiring the manufacturers or
substitutes for butter to stamp upon each
package the ingredients of the article.
The Ponca Indians had an interview with
Secretary Schurz on the 27th, and at its conclusion signed a paper expressing -their desire to remain in Indian Territory, and Avill-
ingness to relinquish their Nebraska and Dakota lands, and requesting that Congress
grant them §148,00J in compensation for
their removal from Nebraska, and for depredations by the Sioux. They expressed a de-
Bire for school-houses and teachers.
A Quebec newspaper of the &7th stated
that the soldiers in the Qu ebec citadel had
had fifty rounds of ball cartridges served out
to them, double sentries had beeu placed on
the walls, and every precaution taken to
guard against surprise. It was reported that
anlmperiat spy had been there, and had left
for Montreal on his way to the United
States. His mission was to ascertain the
strength and position of the Irish in America and the movements of the Land Leaguers.
According to a Dublin telegram of the
27th many of the jurors in the State trials
would not answer to their names, on account
of, the system of intimidation prevailing.
The authorities had prohibited a Land-
League torch-light procession at Kildare. At
Monasterberce a Mrs. Dunlop and her daughter had been flrel upon by some of the discontented. The authorities had stationed two
gunboats in Galway Bay.
Two men perished in a recent snow-storm
at Red Bank, N. J.
An explosion of fire-damp occurred in a
coal-pit at St. Etienne, France, on the 27th.
Up to the morning of the 28th eleven corpses
had been recovered.
On the 27th thirty-seven Home-Rule members Of the British Parliament held a council
in Dublin, arid resolve-* to oppose every Government refusing just demands by the Irish
people. The horses Avere detached from
Parnell's carriage, and the vehicle )vas drawn
through the streets by the people.
Rev. Dr. E. H. Chapin, the distinguished
New- York Universalist preacher, died in that
city on the 26tb, aged sixty-six years.
A terrible tragedy took place near Bethlehem, Pa., on the 27th. Jacob Gogei and
wife were found dead in bed, their heads
being nearly severed from their bodies. Joseph Snyder, who boarded with them, was
believed to have been the murderer, and an
infuriated mob of citizens caught him, and,
after a detailed confession of the crime,
hanged him to a tree, ft Knems he had been
refused the hand of their daughter by his
victims, and he thought to possess her after
their death.
OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST.
A "Doctor'a Devotion.
The funeral senlces for Dr. Wilbur F. San-
ford, of Greenpoint, L. I., Avho died of diphtheria on Sunday morning, Avere yesterday
performed in his natiA*'e place, Middletown,
Conn. Dr. Sanford Avas only thirty-six years
old, but he had attained an eminent position
in his prof ession. All the people of Greenpoint
seem to mourn his loss, especially as he lost
his life in trying to saAre that ofapatient. Two
weeks ago Dr. Sanford was called to the bedside of a child who Ava3 suffering from diphtheria. It Avas a A'ery malignant case, and Dr.
Sanford Avatched the child day aud night. At
last the air passages Avere tilled up, and the
child would haAre been choked to death had
not Dr. Sanford, who had his knife in hand,
immediately made an openingin the windpipe,
through which, with a small rubber tube, he
drew outAvith his own mouth the poisonous
fluid. He prolonged the life of the child for
several hours by the operation, but sacrificed
his own life. This Avay of conducting such an
operation is regarded by all surgeons as extremely hazardous to the operator. Three
French surgeons are known to have lost their
lives in the same Avay, Young Dr. Hutchinson, the son of a distinguished surgeon of
Brooklyn.Avas the only American victim, as f ar
as known prior to the case of Dr. Sanford.
A short time after the operation the poison
Avhich had inoculated Dr. Sanford's blood began to do its work. As soon as it was known
that he was suffering from diphtheria all the
allopathic doctorsin Greenpoint offered their
ser\**ices. Two or three were with him continually. The patient had always been very
delicate, and this was against him. If, by
strong nourishment, he could be kept alive for
a certain number of days, it was kuoAvn that
the crisis Avould be passed and he would re-
CoA7er. Frozen beef blood Avas introduced into
his stomach, and brandy Avas injected under
the skin. Wheu the patient Avas able to swal-
Ioav anything at all he was given ice-cold
champagne. Food in the most condensed
form was introduced by everypossible means.
But nothing could saAre him, and he llnally
saidina Avhisper, "It's no use, gentlemen;
I'Are got to go." He died of asthenia, or general weakness, and did not live long enough
to reach that stage of the disease in which a
surgical operation becomes neees3ary.
Dr. Van Giesen, speaking of the case of Dr.
Sanford yesterday, said:""H* he had been a
strong man I have no doubt that we Avould
have pulled him through. Years ago I strongly adA-isecl him, as a good many other friends
did also, to give up the practice of medicine,
as he could not stand it. He Anally accepted
our advice. He Avent through the course of
the Columbia LaAV i?fchool, <graduatiug Avith
honors. But soon after being admitted to the
bar he returned to practicing medicine. He
was liked by eATerybody, and he immediately
picked up all of his old practice."
Speaking_of diphtheria, Dr. Van Giesen
"said: "IfaaA-e studied this disease for more
than thirty years. I have read many Arol-
umes devoted to it, and I have had a great
many eases of diphtheria in my practice. Sometimes I have said to myself",
' Well, at last 1 know what diphtheria is.'
But if you Avere to ask me now to describe the etiology of this disease, I should
answer, 'I give it up.' Fortunately, hoAvever,
we are able to treat it successfully in a great
many cases. My method of treatment is told
in just one Avord—sustain. There are physicians Avho assert that they have never lost -a
case of diphtheria. Those physicians are either humbugs or else they have neA-er had many
cases of diphtheria. I have sometimes treated
as many as thirty cases successfully; and then
I have lost half a dozen, one right after the
other. It -is a disease that has different degrees of malignancy. One year its attacks
may be A'ery mild, and at its next visit it may
kill almost every one Avho becomes infected
with it. As lor the present epidemic of diphtheria, I am afraid that Ave haA-e only seen the
beginning of it. AVhen I see a diphtheria
patient, I can generally make up, my mind
whether he can be saved or not. But the
treatment is tho same for alt—food and stimulants."—X Y. Sun.
The Senate "Educational 11111.
The follQAving is the substance of Mr. Bum-
side's Educational bill as it recently passed
the United States Senate:
The net proceeds of sales of public lands and
of patents are forever set apart for the education of the people. The Secretary of the
Treasury shall yearly apportion to the several
States and Territories and the District of Columbia, upon the basis of population between
the ages of live and twenty years, the said net
profits for the previous year, which shall be
credited on the books of the Treasury as an
educational fund, on which four per cent, interest per annum is to be paid to the States as
abOA'e; prOAi'ded, that for the first ten years
the apportionment shall be made according to the numbers of the population
of ten years old and upward who cannot
read and Avrite; and proAided, further, that
one-third of the income from said fund shall
be annually appropriated to the completed
endowment and support of colleges established or which may be established under the
act of 1802, until the amount annually thus
accruing to said colleges in each State shall
reach §30,000, after which the whole income of
said fund shall be appropriated to the said
States, Territories and District to the education of all children between the ages of six
and sixteen. The Secretary of the Treasury
is authorized to add to the fund any sums
given to the United States for that purpose.
A sum not exceeding fifty per cent, of the
amount received by any State, etc., the first
year, and not exceeding ten per cent,
in any year thereafter, may be applied,
at discretion, to the maintenance of
schools for instruction of teachers of
common schools. To be entitled to the benefits of this r.ct any State, etc., must maintain
for at least three months in each year until
January 1,1S85, and thereafter four mouths in
each year, a system of free public schools for
all children between six and sixteen years of
age. Any State, etc., misapplying any of the
money received under this act shall forfeit
further grants until tne amount so misapplied
shall have been replaced by said Stato, etc.
Nothing contained In the act shall be held to
alter any previous laAv regarding the disposition of publicjand nor to limit the power of
Congress over the public domain, nor to inter-,
fere Avith granting bounty land to soldiers and
sailors. The bill also authorizes colleges
established under the act of 1802 to establish
schools for.the technical education of women.
A Singular aiuliid*r.
Mr. "William B. Ferguson, of East Springfield, Avhose peculiar and dreadful malady Avas
fully detailed in these columns afow years
ago, is noAV passing through the period of
frightful spasms Avhich recur at this time every year. It is noAV twenty years since Mr.
Ferguson Avas first attacked with this unknown
disease. During this annual season of horrible
suffering the paroxysms come on regularly at
seven o'clock in tho evening andcontinue, Avith
slight intervals, for about three hours, leaving
him prostrate and exhausted. Precisely at seven the next night they recur, and so on for three
or four weeks, when they suddenly stop and
leave him for another year. When in these
spasms the musoles become rigid as bars of
steel, and the body is throAvn into frightful
contortions. No known cause for the malady*
has evor been assigned, and although Mr.
Ferguson has spent largo sums of money in
search of medical assistance no relief whatever, even of a temporary character, has over
been found. A few years since he spent a
week in Cleveland, and tho faculty and all tho
loading, physicians of the Olty for Several
nights witnessed his spasms, but none of
them had ever seen a similar case or could
diagnose tbe disease.—Erie (Pa.) Dfe-patcft,
LITTLE NELLIE IN TEE PRISON.
The eyes of a child are sweeter than any hymn
Ave havesung,
And Aviserthan any sermon is the lisp of a
childish tongue!
Hugh Falcon learned this happy truth  one
day;
('Twas a fair noontide in the month of May)—
When, as the chaplain of the convicts' jail,
He passed its glowering archway, sad and pale,
Bearing his tender daughter on his arm.
A &ve years' darling she! The dewy charm
Of Eden star-dawns glistened in her eyes;
Her dimpled cheeks Avere rich with sunny
dyes.
'Papa!" the child that morn, Avhile still abed,
Drawing him close toward her, shyly said;
" Papa!" oh, wont you letyour Nellie go
To see those naughty men that plague you so,
Down in the ugly prison by the Avood?
Papa, I'll beg and pray them to be good."
"What, you, my child?" he said, with half a
sigh.
"Why not, papa?  I'll beg them so to try."
The chaplain with a father's gentlest grace,
Kissed the small ruffled brow, the pleading
face;
"Out of the mouths of habes and sucklings
still,
Praise is perfected," thought he; thus, his will
Blended with hers, and through those gates of
sin,
Black, eAren at noontide, sire and child passed
in.
Fancy the foulness of a sulphurous lake,
Wherefrom a lily's snoiv-AVhite leaves should
break,
Flushed b3r the shadow of an unseen rose!
So, at the iron gate's loud clang and close,
Shone the drear twilight of that place defiled,
Touched by the flower-like SAveetness of the
child!
O'er many a dismal vault, and stony floor,
The chaplain walked from ponderous door to
door,
Till now beneath a stair-Avay's dizzy flight
He  stood,  aud  looked up the far circling
height;
But risen of late from feA-er's torture-bed,
How could he trust his faltering limbs and
head?
Just then, he saAV, next to the mildewed Avail,
A man in prisoner's raiment, gaunt and tall,"
Of sullen aspect and wan, downcast face,
Gloomed iuthe midnight of some deep disgrace;
He shrank as oneAvho yearned to fade away,
Like a Arague shadoAVon the stone-Avork gray,
Or die beyond it, like a A'idwless wind;
His seemed a spirit faithless, passionless,
blind
To all fair hopes which light the hearts of
men—
A dull, dead soul, never to Avake again I
The chaplain paused half doubting Avhatto do,
When little Nelly raised her eyes of blue,
Ai.d, no wise daunted by the downward stir
Of shaggy brows that glowered askance at her,
Said—putting by her Avealth of sunny hair—
" Sir, will you kindly take me up the stair?
Papa is tired and I'm too small to climb."
Frankly her eyes iu his gazed all the time,
And something to  her childhood's instinct
knoAvn
So Avorked within her, that her arms Avere
thrown
About his neck.   She left her sire's embrace
Near that sad convict-heart to take her place,
Sparking  and trustful—more   she did not
speak;
.But her quick fingers patted his swart cheek
Caressingly—in time to some old tune
Hummed by her nurse, in summer's droAVsy
noonl
Perforce he turned his Avild, uncertain gaze
DoAvn on the child!   Then stole a tremulous
haze
Across his eyes, but rounded not to tears;
Wherethrough he saw faint glimmerings  of
lost years
And perished loves!   A cabin by a rill
Bose through the twilight on a happy hill;
And there Avere lithe child-figures at their play
That flashed and faded in the dusty ray;
And near the  porch  a graeious  wife Avho
smiled,
Pure asyoungEve and Eden, unbeguiled!
Subdued, yet thrilled, 'twas beautiful to see
With what deep_ reverence and hoAV tenderly,
He clasped the infant frame so slight and fair
And safely bore her up the darkening Stair;
The landing reached, in her arch, childish ease,
Our Nelly clasped his neck and whispered:
" Please,
Wont you be good, sir?   For I like you so,
And you are such  a big strong man you
Know "
With pleading eyes, her sweet face sidewise
set.
Thensuddenly herfurrowed cheek greAv wet
With sacred tears—in whose divine eclipse
Upon her nestling head he pressed his lips
A3 softly a3 a dreamy west-AVind'ssigh—
What time a something, undefined'but high,
As 'twere a new soul, struggled to the dawn
Through hisraised eyelids.   Thence, the gloom
Avithdrawn
Of brooding Arengeance and unholy pain,
He felt no more the captive's galling chain;
But only knew a little child had come
To smite Despair, his taunting demon, dumb;
A child whose marArelous innocence enticed
All Avhite thoughts back, that from the heart
of Christ
Fly dove-like earthward, past our clouded ken,
Child-life to bless, or lives of child-like men!
 Thus he Avent his Avay,
An altered man from that thrice blessed day;
His soul tuned ever to the soft refrain
Of words once uttered in a sacred fane;
" The little children, let them come to me;
Of such as these' my realm of Heaven must
be;"
But most he loved of one dear child to tell,
The child whose trust has saved him, tender
Nelll
—P. H. Hayne, in St. Nicholas.
KIP'S MINISTER.
" 'Jack and Jill went up the hill,'"
piped Bud's shrill voice from the hayloft in the barn Avhere she was hunting
eggs. "■ "To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown.
And Jill ' "
If Bud's OAvn name had been Jill she
could not have come "tumbling after'-'
any more speedily than she did. A
board tilted, her foot slippe"d, and in a
moment she was sitting on the floor below. Fortunately a quantity of hay had
fallen with her, so there was no broken
crown or other crushed bones; but her
dignity was considerably jarred, and
glancing around to see whether anyone
had witnessed the mishap, she discovered Kip looking out toward the
road from a'door at the farther end of
the building.
■" Kip Crail! what makes you stand
there for?"   she demanded,' severely.
"I'm a-Avatching my minister," an-
SAvered Kip, slowly.
It is not every boy Avho owns a minister all by himself, but Kip spoke as if
nobody else had any claim upon this
one; and as he seemed to have noticed
neither her tone nor her downfall, Bud
regained her chubby feet, shook the
hay from her yellow curls, and going to
Kip's side looked curiously after the
slightly grey-haired man, in clothing
somewhat Avorn, who was quietly picking his way along the road. Her blue
eyes discerned nothing remarkable, and
she turned aAvay disappointed.
"Ho! Why, he's everybody's minister; he a'n't yours."
Kip knew better than that. Did not
he remember who always knew him
and stopped to shake hands and say
"How'do you do, Christopher?"—a
name that made him feel nearly as big
as anybody. And Avho always asked
after his mother? And did not forget
Avhen he told him little Bob Avas sick?
The people in the house hitched up
their sleek horses and nice carriage and
drove two miles to the city church
every Sunday; but Kip, Avith freckled
face shining from soap, head Avet and
combed till not a hair could stir from its
place, and red hands thrust into his
pockets, trudged whistling over the hill
to the little frame church where most of
the people from the straggling villages
and the neighboring farms gathered.
"So he is my minister," said Kip,
stoutly, as he considered the matter.
He would have liked to share the
honor that day, however, with the inmates of the large comfortable farmhouse; for they Avere really the mosfc
prosperous family in the A'illage, while,
he, only a distant relative, Avas "chore
boy andgener'ly useful" as he phrased
it. And there Avas to be a "donation
party" at his minister's home that very
evening.
" If they'd just give something handsome!" he said to Nancy, the "hired
girl," who was busy in tbe kitchen.
"They Avon't never think of it no
more'n they will of flyin'," replied
Nancy, dextrously turning a flapjack,
and the subject also, by requesting Kip
to " run for an armful of Avood."
Somebody always wanted wood or
water, or something from the cellar, or
something from the attic, Avhenever Kip
Avas in sight. But he scarcely thought
of the constant calls that morning, so
full Avas he of other thoughts. Nancy
might dispose of the question earelessly.
but he could not. He Avas connected
with the house and he felt that the honor
of the house Avas iuvolved. Besides, he
wanted his minister well treated, and
heknew—few knew better than Kip—
how sorely the " something handsome"
Avas needed in the shabby little parsonage. He did not mean they should
lk never think of it," as Nancy had said!
he would remind them by bringing up
the subject naturally and innocently in
some Avay.
So he lingered in the room a f eAv minutes after breakfast, Avhile Mrs. Mitchel
was gathering up the dishes, and Mr,
Mitchel consulting the almanac. He
coughed once or twice, and then, staring
straight out of the Avindow, observed.as
follows:
" There goes our big rooster! He's
most as big as a turkey, a'in't he. Aunt
Ann? Turkeys always make me think
of Thanksgivings, Christmases, Donations and such things—oh yes! there is
going to be a donation down to the minister's to-night!"
Kip considered that very delicately
and neatly done!
" Eh? what?" said Mrs. Mitchel, paying no attention except to the last sentence.
" Who's going to have a donation?"
"Down to the minister's," repeated
Kip. " Everybody'll take 'em things,
you knoAV—flour and potatoes and Avood
—something handsome, I hope—the
folks that can 'ford to."
That Avas another masterly hint. Kip
chuckled to himself at his success in
managing his self-appointed task, but
his spirits sank with Mr. Mitchel's first
words.
"Well, noAV, I don't know as I approve of that way. The folks here can
do as they please—it's no affair of mine
—but seems to me it's better to pay a
man a decent salary and let him buy his
OAvn things."
■" Don't know as I 'prove of that Avay
either," soliloquized Kip, indignantly,
Avhen he found himself alone behind
the wood-pile. '%Don't know as I
'prove of folks giving me their old
clothes," looking down at his patched
knees. " Seems to me 'twould be better to pay me decent wages and let me
buy my. own clothes. But seein' they
don't, these trousers are better1 n none;
and I guess if Uncle Ralph had a sick
wife and three or four children he'd
think a donation party was a good deal,
better'n nothing."
Ideas that found their way into the
brain under Kips's thatch of light hair
Avere sure to stay and the cows, the
chickens and the Avood-pile heard numerous orations that morning—all upon
one subject.
"Now if I owned all these things, do
you s'pose I'd go off to the big .city
church every Sunday and wouldn't go
down now and then to see what was
a-doin'for the poor folks round here?
And when I Avent, don't you s'pose
I'd see hoAv his coat was gettin' shinier
and shinier, and her cloak fadeder,
and all the new clothes they have is
their old ones made over? A boy don't
like that kind of dressin'-up partie'lar
well, and how do you s'pose my minister feels? Don't you -b'lieve I'd know
when she got sick, hoAv the bundles
from the grocery-store was smaller and
fewer 'count of the bottles that had to
be paid for and the doctor's bill? And
wouldn't.I hear the tremble in his voice
when he prays for them that has 'heavy
burdens to carry?' Just wait till I'm a
man and see!"
Old Brindle looked at him meditatively, and one pert little bantum mounted the fence and- ennved with enthusiasm, but no member of the barn-yard
offered any suggestions; and going to
a little nook behind the manger. Kip
drew forth his own offering for the important evening—a little bracket-shelf,
clumsily designed and roughly whittled
out, but nevertheless the Avork of many
a precious half-hour. He looked at it
rather doubtfully. It did not altogether
satisfy even his limited conceptions of
beauty.
" But then if you keep it kind of in
the shade and look at it sort o'sideways
—so—it does pretty well," he said, scrutinizing it with one eye closed. "I.
guess Mis' Clay will, seein' she's had
to look sharp for the best side oHhings
so long."
But hoAv he did wish the others
Avould send something—"something
that would count," as he said. He Avas
doAvn on the ground gathering up a
basketful of chips Avhen one of the Avell-
kept horses and the light wagon passed
out of the yard and down the lane bearing Mr. Mitchel away to the town. A
host of brilliant possibilities suddenly
trooped through Kip's thoughts as he
watched the vehicle out of sight. His
wish greAvinto something deeper and
stronger.
" O please do make him think and
bring back something nice for them!"
he murmured.
Bud, who had a fashion of appearing
in the most unexpected times and places,
looked at him Avonderingly from around
a corner of the Avood-pile.
" What makes you do that for?" she
asked solemnly.
" 'Cause," "ansAvered Kip, briefly,
with a flush rising to his freckled
cheeks. " I don't care," he whispered
to himself. " Tlie minister's folks are
good and care for other folks, and it's
"bout time somebody was takin' care of
them."
Bud did not quite accept the lucid explanation given her. She seated herself
on a log and pondered the subject until
she reached a conclusion that she considered satisfactory; and after that,
though she said nothing about it, she
watched quite as eagerly and much more
expectantly for her father's return than
did Kip.
There certainly was something new
and unusual in the light wagon when at
last it drove up to the door again. Both
children discovered that at once—Bud
from the window. Kip from the piazza
—a great, easy, luxurious arm-chair.
Mr. Mitchel lifted it out and carried it
into the house. 0
" See here! What do you think of
that?" he said to his Avife, trumphandy.
"I happened into a furniture store
where they were auctioning everything
off and I got this at such a bargain that
1 took it in a hurry. Isn't that as comfortable a chair as vou ever saAV? Just
try it."
Mrs. Mitchel examined and admired;
Nancy, who came to the kitchen door,
exclaimed and interjected; and the
household generally bestowed such unqualified commendation that Mr.
Mitchel1 s gratification increased.
"I think IknOAv a good thing Avhen
I see it," he declared, "and this
couldn't be bought anywhere else for
that money. Nothing in the Avorld the
matter Avith it either, not a flaAV about
it except1'—shoAving where the back
could be lowered to make it more of a
reclining chair—" this spring works a
little hard. But a cabinet-maker could
fix that in a few moments, and Ave'U
have it done right away. Kip!" as the
boy passed the door—"Kip, could you
take this down to the parson's this
afternoon?   I Avant it to go at once."
Kip could hardly believe his ears.
" Yes sir!" he said, with his eyes fairly dancing. "You mean to send it to
him Uncle Ralph? guess 1 can take it!"
He never called his minister "the
parson"—it scarcely.sounded respectful enough—but of course he knew who
av.us meant and he was far too happy
for any criticising thought. Thathand-
someeasy chair! Woul-antthevery sight
of it rest" poor tired Mrs. Clay?" Kip
could see just how her pale face Avould
look leaned back against the cushions.
"It's pretty heavy for you to carry
so far though," Mr. Mitchel was saying
Avhen Kip recalled his wandering wits
far enough to understand. "Jim could
take it in the wagon, perhaps "
"I might put it in the hand-cart and
Avheel it over," interposed Kip, Avith a
sudden inspiration. He could bear no
delay and he wanted to take it himself.
Mr. Mitchel commended that suggestion as-" not a bad notion on Kip's part.''
"And what shall I tell him, uncle
Ralph?"
"Tell him—why, hell understand;
he can see for himself. Tell him I sent
it and he'll know what to do with it, I
suppose."
Kip supposed so, too. He waited for
no farther directions, but made a partial toilet very expeditiously and was
soon safely out on the road with his
treasure. To say that he was pleased
and proud is a very faint description of
his feelings. He trundled that handcart by no out-of-the-Avay route, and he
Avas not long alone: the village boys
hailed him:
"Hello, Kip!   What you got there?"
"It's our folks1 present to the minister," answered Kip, grandly, and one
after another the admiring boys fell into line until the chair formed the center
of a triumphal procassion. The village
soon knew of the gift, as the village ai-
Avays did know of everything that happened within its limits, and Kip had the
satisfaction of being stopped several
times and of hearing that Mr. Mitchel
had done " the handsome thing," and
that the chair was "out-and-out nice."
So, in a beatific state, he reached the
gate of the little parsonage. There Avas
no lack of assistance. Every urchin
was anxious to share at least the reflected glory of helping to carry it, and
it vras borne to the house very much as
a party of ants bear off a lump of sugar
by swarming all over it. The minister
came to the door, the body-guard fell
back, and* Kip presented his" prize.
" Here's something that Uncle Ralph
sent you, sir; he bought it in town today. He said tell you he sent it and he
fuessedyou'd know what to do with it."
e said, with shinieg eyes.
The minister's eyes shone, too, and
then grew dim. This was so unexpected, and it meant so much to him! It had
sometimes seemed hard to that kindly,
tender heart that the one of all the village who could haA--e done most had
never manifested any interest in nis
Avork for those poor people—had not
lifted with even a finger the burden of
care and sacrifice, or shown any disposition to aid or encourage. But there
must have been sympathy after all.
This was a generous gift in its luxu-
riousness—a thoughtful one, for it was
for the dear invalid. He opened a door
near him and said, softly:
" Rachel/look here!"
How he had Avanted just such an easy,
restful cushioned niche for the Avorn,
slight form! The boys could not understand what it was to him in itself
and in what it represented—" Only his
voice had a tremble in it like Avhen he
prays," Kip said to himself on his home-
Avard way.
HoAvever
he hated " fixed up com
pany" in general he would not for anything miss the gathering at the parsonage that evening, and Avood and water,
cows and kindlings must be looked after
early. So it happened he did not speak
with Mr. Mitchel again until nightfall.
Then that gentleman bethought him of
his commission.
" Ah,* Kip, carried the chair safely,
did vou?"
"Yes, sir."
"Weil, what did he say to it?"
"I wish you'd seen him, Uncle
Ralph!" said Kip, radiantly. " Not,
as he said much either, only something
'bout he didn't know how to thank
you •"
" Hoav to thank me?" repeated Mr,
Mitchel, in amazement. " Why should
he ? He isn' t so short of work as all that,
is he?"
"Short of Avork, Uncle Ralph!" It
was Kip's turn to open Avide eyes of
astonishment, "I should think not,
Avith all his preachin' and Siinday-school
aud poor folks! I don't s'pose he thought
he'd haAre time to sit in it -much him-'
self; but Mrs. Clay, she's sick "
" What have the Clays to do with it?"
demanded Mr. Mitchel, with clouding
brow and a dawning suspicion of something wrong. " I told you to take it to
Mr Parsons—the cabinet-maker's—to
have that spring fixed."
Kip saw it all then, but he wished the
floor would quietly open and drop him
into the cellar, or that he could fly
through the roof. He thrust his hands
deep into his pockets, and his face
flushed and paled.
'' I—thought—you said the parson's,"
he stammered. "I s'posed 'twas, for
the minister's donation, and so "
"You took it there?" Mr. Mitchel
completed the sentence. " Now how in
the world •" *
But it was too much to be borne. Kip
waited for nothing more, but rushed
from the_house, and if in the shadow of
the friendly Avood-pile he leaned his
head against the rough sticks and cried,
there was no one to see.
"They may fix it up any way they
please, ""he said. "I can't doit! I can't
and I Avon't!"
A little later he stood by the old gate
watching the great yellow moon come
up, and digging his red-fists into his
eyes now and then to wipe away some
stray tears of shame, indignation and
grief that still gathered there. This
was not a very nice world anyhow, he
decided, with a queer aching spot at his
heart. Almost it seemed as if he had
asked for bread and received a stone—
a sharp heavy stone at that.
Indoors Mr. Mitchel had expressed
very distinctly Ms opinion of the carelessness and obtuseness that could have
caused such a blunder, and the " awkwardness of the whole thing," and in no
little vexation Avas trying to find some
means of remedy.
" I might write a note and explain,
but then—I declare it's the most awkward disagreeable thing I ever knew!
Such a stupid blunder."
*" Papa," interposed the slow, wondering voice of Bud, "I didn'tknOAv
there could be any mistakes up there."
" Up where, child?"
'' In Heaven. Kip prayed you' d bring
something for the minister—** cause I
heard him—behind the wood-pile,"
said Bud with slow emphasis. "I
thought that made the chair come. I'm
most sure 'twasn't any mistake papa."
Mr. Mitchel pushed aside pen and
paper, put on his hat and walked out.
He really did not Ioioav the best way
out of the difficulty. It was very vexatious, and in his perplexity he journeyed towards the parsonage. When
he came in sight of the house hepaused.
What did he intend to do? Go there
when others Were making their offer-
ings-and explain that he had not wished
to show any friendship or appreciation,
and wanted to take back what had been
proffered through mistake? Certainly
not! He turned, but at that moment
some one j oined him.
"Ah, Mr. Mitchel! just going in?
That was a generous gift of yours—exactly the thing for poor Mrs. Clay."
Others came with similar comment.
There was no chance to say anything,
and scarcely knowing why or how, Mr.
Mitchel found himself in the well-filled
room, saw the sweet, pale face, with its
smile of Aveleome for all, -looking out
from the cushion of the new chair, and
felt the quick warm grateful clasp of
the minister's hand. Something in look
and clasp and murmured words brought
a sudden throb to Mr. Mitchel's heart.
a moisture to his eye.
Then, before he had time to recover
from his bevpilderment, some one had
called on him to '' make a few remarks,''
and others echoed the request, and he
found himself pushed forward to the
front and heard his own voice saying,
" How much cause all had to value Mr.
Clay's work in the village," and expressing the hope that he might "enjoy
thjese simple offerings as tokens of esteem and friendship." Aye, and he
meant it, too, for catching the spirit of
thjose around him, and swiftly comprehending more of the good man's life and
W(j>rk than he* had ever done before, he
only regretted that he had not sent the
offering of his own free will and pleasure.
(He found an opportunity, however, to
whisper to Kip, who had slippedin later
with a very sober face—a face that
brightened at sight of him.
" It's all right. Don't say a Word fco
anybody about it."
He had a pleasant evening despite a
feeling of strangeness about it, and on
his homeward Avay muttered something
to himself about " a blessed blunder."
What he told at home Kip did not know,
but when the boy arrived, a little later,
Bud, wide-awake and listening for his
step, raised her yellow head from its
pilloAV and called:
" Ke—ip! it all corned out right,
didn't it?"
Kip thought it had, He was sure of
it afterward Avhen he saAvthe friendship
that from that night began between the
Mitchel's and "his minister."—Nate
W. Hamilton, in Wide Awake.
Poison Rings.
Poison rings still exist in many antiquarian collections. They are generally
of two kinds, one intended as an engine
of destruction to its Avearer, the other
simply as a convenient receptacle or
hiding-place for poison. Some years
ago a ring of the former description was
purchased at a sale of curiosities. Its
device AAras two sharp-pointed claws
holding a stone. The purchaser, slipping
it on his finger, received a slight scratch
from these claws, the points of which
bent inward. His hand, and arm very
shortly became swelled and painful; a
doctor Avas sent for, Avho pronounced
the slight scratch poisoned. Examination of the ring sliOAved that the claws
wejre IioIIoav, and that a poisonous matter had been contained in them; doubtless when first made, the ring would
hate caused death, instead oi merely
inconvenience, to its Avearer.
IJings intended to contain poison are
frejquently mentioned in ancient history;
it Avas common to carry one as a convenient means of suicide. By such a
ring Demosthenes probably destroyed
himself, and some historians say Hannibal likewise. M. Crassus, the overseer
of the Temple of the Capitoline Jupiter,
being arrested on a charge of purloining some of the gold deposited there,
broke aholloAv receptacle of his ring
with his teeth, and fell dead onthe spot.
The Emperor Heliogabalus is said to
have had a collection of these* poison
rings among his ]ewels,-^L0\don <jlobe.
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