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Light and Work.

Statistics kept by oculists employed in
infirmaries for eye diseases have shown that
the habit of some persons in facing a win
dow from which the light falls directly in
the eyes as we'll as OF the work, Injuries the
eyes in the end. The best way is to work
with side light, or, if the work needs
strong illuminations, SO that it is necessary
to have the working table before the win
dow, the lower portion Of the latter should
be covered with screen, SO as to have a
top light alone, which does not shine in the
eyes when the head is slightly bent over
and downward toward the work. In the
schools in Germany this matter has already
been attended to and the rule adopted to
have all the seats and tables Sd arrange that
the pupils never face the windows, but only
have the side lights from the left; and as a
light simultaneously thrown from both
sides gives an interference Of shadows, it
has been strictly forbidden to build school,
rooms with windows on both sides, such IL
umina tions having also proved injurious
to the eyes Of the pupils. we may add to
this the advice not to place the lamp in
front of you when at work in the evening,
but a little on one side; and never to neg
lect the use Of shade, so as to prevent the
stloug light shining in the eyes.
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An Ext aorliaary Incident.

James Hancock, foreman of the repair
gang of the city water works, Springfield,
had narrow escape from horrible death
at Ludlow this afternoon. A twenty-fou1
inch pipe, leading from the great reservoir
to Higher Brook, has for some time needed
repairs, aud Golfer dam having been built
to shut off the water Mr.. Hancock crawled
into the pipe at the reservoir, intending to
so through, to ascertain what repairs were
necessary. After getting a quarter of a
mile, he found a section of the pipe having
sunk into the quicksand, it would be i'm
possible to crawl through, and he had no
alternative than to back out. It was in
tcnsely cold inside the pipe, and he soon
became benumbed and SO announced in a
feeble voice to the men at either end, who
were becomining extremely anxious. The
Golfer dam wasleaking badly and the men
had TO work with all their might at thc
pumps 70 keep from drowning him. Saw
dust was dumped up behind the dam, and
bags of sand were thrown in to stop the
leak. After awhile Hancock became so
much exhausted as to be unable to speak
in answer TO shouted inquiries rs 70 his
progress. Hour after hour passed, and q
large number Of persons gathered, expect
Ing that the man would never be got ont
alive. Finally, after an imprisonment Of
i've and i half hours, he backed out alive,
trembling, and nearly dead. Nssa Yora
] Times.
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Ed. GILMAN.
The Price Of a Home and a Vile.

SAN FRANCISCO, April ia Eureka,
New, press dispatch says the Sentinel will
publish tomorrow history of Ed. Gilman,
on this coast, who has lately gained consid-
erable notoriety in connection with the con-
fession of John D. Lee, as delivered to Dis
trict Attorney Howard on the field of the
execution. Gilman lived in Austin, New,
from 1868 to 1867, when he went to the
Sweetwater mines. At Austin he was re-
garded by everybody as a worthless fellow,
deserving of no consideration whatever.
He pretended to be a prospector, but was
never known to do days work. After
going to Sweetwater he got to be q deputy
sheriff at Green river. He also married
the widow of man killed in riot at the
same place. Returning to Salt Lake he
purchased small home and lived appar-
emily happy with his wife for time. FL
nally, however, he got tired of her and sold
both his home and wife to John Hale, for
mer White Pine saloon keeper, for $500.
The transfer was absolute and made in good
faith, Hale taking possession of both. Gil
man then married Mormon girl, and has
since been considered in sympathy with the
saints. His late exploits in the Lee matter
were probably prompted and paid for by
Mormons. The Sentinel declares him un-
worthy of belief.
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Al Trhnman Ministar.


Rev. S. II. MeGee of the Ashton, H.,
Christian Church, is in Jail, charged with
killing his wife to marry the daughter Of
one of his rich parishioners. The girl is 90,
pretty, and was engaged when McGee be-
gan to pay her special attentions, and ho
had been in the place but o few months
when he was caught Llssing tho girl at
camp meeting. His wife, who had borne
him two children, was much loved by the
people. Latterly she had been having mys
terious attacks of illness, and week or so
ago died in spasms, one of her last acts be-
ing to throw her arms about her husbands
neck and saying, "How can leave you?' ~
An examination reveals much strychnine
in her stomach, an6 it is proved that the
parson bought the poison of a neighboring
druggist and substituted 1T for powders left
by the physician. Moreover, lie at various
times before examination said poison might
be found iii the stomach, was very anxious
to bury his wife Immediately after her
death, and was once heard saying to him
self, 81 wish I had not done it. McGeo
is dandiiied man of 36, and his attentions
to til girl had broken up her previous mar
riage engagement, and there is no doubt
but that his intention was to marry her and
secure the large dowry her father was to
give her. One Of the peculiarities Of the
case is thai tile girls father sides with tbs
parson and viii probably pay the expenses
of his trial.
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The snaca Travelled IN Writing.

A rapid penman can write W woras u Z 7
,;npte To do this he must draw bis quill
through space Of a rod-iel feet. In ~
minutes his pen travels a furlong, and in oa !
hours q mile. We make on an average ~
curves or turns of tie pen in writing eacn
word. Writing 80 words Q minute, we
must make 4ss to each second /; in an hour ~
$4,000; in d day Of only 5 hours, IA 600, @,
.nd Il ! year Of 800 days, 40, 900, 900. The
nan who made i, 900, ,00e strokes with pen
Il month was not at all remarkable.
M,nv me,.. newspaper men for instance,
make 4.ooo, 900. Here we have in the ag,
,reoa,e - q mark 800 miles long, to be trac'
"a 3, ~ ,,apcr by each writer in year. ln
,,a,.;ng each ietterof the ordinary alphabet
NO ,,,,,st s make from three to seven strokes
u J ,l,e pen--or an average Of three and .
half To four.
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=" Jones, Of Montana.

A man who registered as 'sJohn ]. Jones,
Montana Territory" on March 18th, and
spent week at one Of the leading Balti-
more hotels, has been the hero of number
of rather questionable exploits. He gave
out that he owned silver mine or two
and was worth million or more. He
said his employees in Montana were bad
SET, and he wanted to engage persons in
Baltimore to take their places, including
superintendents, clerks, &C., and spoke OF
paying fabulous salaries. His offers crea-
ted quite a sensation amongst adventurous
young Baltimoreans, who locked daily to
the hotel, all willing to 60 to Montana and
help Jones to take care OF his silver mines,
but drawback always presented itself in
the fact. that he wanted the applicants to
pay sum of money, 500 or thereabouts,
before he would engage them at such re-
sponsible business. Jones ordered suit
of clothes from fashionable tailor aud a
pair of boots from we'll known builder OF
that article. The tailor sent the clothes TO
the lotel with the bill, and request that
it be paid before the goods were delivered.
This want of confidence irritated Jones to
sucb degree that he sent the tailor's clerk
away with the clothes, which he said were
Ut fit to be worn by a silver mine prince.
The bootmaker sent to Jones, who ordered
them to be left at his room, as he had
weiehticr business than trying on boots to
dispose of at that time. The bootmaker
was disarmed Of all suspicion when Jones
pulled a package of 'ssilver dust from
one his pockets and Submitted it forexamI-
nation. with the remark that he had a ton
of the same sort. At the close of the week
Jones was missing. leaving hotel bill OF
Sat and the bootmaker unpaid. 1t has
been discovered that Jones. while III Baltl-
more, sought relaxation from the cares OF
his business at restaurant, where he is
| reported to have shown himself an accom-
plished song and dance man. and while in q
conyiyial mood one evening let out that he
had at one time travelled with circus
Baltimore Sun.
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.r,EE LEE .HoWARD-GT1MAN MUDDLE.
Charges and counter-charges by the Living
Parties.
From the Salt Lake Tribune


The affidavit of Ed, Gilman, made for a
consideration, (which can be proven, regard
ing Lees Confession, is job put up by tina
Mormons, and a shyster in their inter est.
The man Gilman was not the guard of Lee
at Beaver; was not within 200 miles of Lee
when in prison there, but was guard en-
ployed as are others in the penitentiary in
Salt Lake City, with no opportunity or right
to talk with the prisoner, and never did
talk with him to the knowledge of the Of
ficers.
Gilman was discharged from the peniten-
tiary for conveying letters to and from the
prisoners. After his discharge, he was used
to break down and cast doubt over the con-
fession Of Lee. His affidavit was taken
privately, and he had absconded before it
was known that it had been taken.
| The whole confession of Lee is now in the
| officers hands, written in Lees handwrit-
| ing, and will be used in due time for the
ends of justice. Gilman is notorious liar;
ha- been impeached here in court, and there
are not ten men in the Territory acquaint-
| ed with him who would take his oath or
| his word.
| Lee, on his first trial, attempted to palm
off a confession exonerating himself, which
was refused by the prosecution. He made
the same attempt after his conviction, but
! was told plainly (and he understood IT'D
that it was not satisfactory, because he de-
MED the facts plainly proven on the trial
against himself, and refused to furnish such
testimony as would be acceptable in court
as to the criminality of any living person
in the massacre. lie then had q petition
gotten up 10y his family, which was signed
by Mormons, principally at Panguitch, and
presented to Governor Emery, but that Of
Ger declined to interfere. Lee himself, for
two weeks before he left Salt Lake for
Beaver March 5th), had been told by Mar
shall Nelson and District Attorney Howard
that his statement was not such a document
as would justify interference, and he ac-
cepted the situation. He had the kindliest
feelings toward the attorney, marshal, and
other officers, and so expressed himself to
the last.
When the statement made by Lee is ex-
amined, it will be found to contain more
and equally damaging revelations than those
referring to the Mountain Meadows massa-
ere. 1t is without change, alteration, or
mutlation, bears date and signature in his
handwriting, and will furnish materlal for
some other scapegrace under the manipula-
tion Of Jack Mormon lawyer to base an
affidavit upon.
We understand the situation, and shall
pursue it from our vantage ground.
The confession of Lee has not been sold,
altered, suppressed, or in any other man
ner put to improper use, butts in the hands
of the officers for further and, we hope, i'm
mediate use. We trust to the result of our
work to ovndicate us against secret attacks
by parties who are interested in enabarras-
sing our action. Next
SUMNER HOWARD, Z. S. Attorney.
WILLIAM NELSON, U. s. Marshall
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For whatever purpose the horse is used,
the shoe should not be too light; because ii
is then liable to bend, and becomes an insult
ficient covering to the foot. The web OF
the shoe should be broad, and continued
through the whole shoe to the heels, to
give increased covering and protection to
the sole of the foot. The outside of the shoe
should exactly fit the crust of the hoof,
thereby giving the entire hoof an equal
bearing on all its parts from the toe to the
heel. The usual practice is to have por-
tion Of the shoe projecting outwards, along
both the outward and inner quarters of the
hoof and when this form of a shoe is con-
nected with narrowing of the web at the
heel, the effect is to place the heel upon the
inside line of the web, thereby producing
an unequal bearing upon the ground sur
face of the foot The setting off of the
shoe at the heels is. a great inconvenience
TO the horse when his foot sinks in the
ground, and it is in this way the most of
the shoes a.e pulled off or lest in the
SEOulluS OT IfOuueu Oh WIFI IuG OjucT ICOU.
1t is evident when the shoe fits the hoof of
the horse exactly, that when the foot is
pulled up through the ground after sink
ing, the shoe must follow the foot without
detriment or difficulty.
The shoe should be made sufficiently long
to fully support the entire structure Of the
heels. The shoe should be of equal thick
ness throughout, and should be carefully
adapted to the foot; this we cannot urge
too strongly. If the shoe does not sit per-
.faotly leSel seil round. and if it extends SO
far outside the hoof that the nails are pre-
vented from entering the crust at the exact
spot, and in the very direction which they
should, there will be constant straining
ON the nails, which is injurious TO the foot,
and will be liable to chip pieces off the
hoof. The shoe ought to be made wide
across the foot, at the point where the two
front nails are situated. The greatest mis-
take frequently lies there. -NationaJ Lige
Stock Journal.
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AN UNTOLD HIsToRy.--Rudolph Fenere-
stein, painter by trade, registered his
name at i hotel in Lawrence, Kansas, one
night, and was round dead in his bed the
next morning. There was letter on the
table in which everything was explained:
sThe candle gives no time for details.
Valise stolen ON the way from Dalton to
Kansas City, at L. s. K. Junction, while
eating supper. Tired living. Struck a
streak OF bad luck on March Il. when I
was born. Another March I, 1854, when
my father died Another March 30, valise
stolen, and hand in my checks this night,
March 81 to 25, 1877, II morphine bought
At Kansas City is any account. ] am sorry
canllot tell my whole history If would be
worth s2o. 900 10 somebody; bat the time IS
over.a
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NILES AND TIE INDIANS.
Effects Of tho Winter Campaign.
CANToNMENET ON ToNTUE RIVER,
Via Bismarck, Dakota Territory, (
Anril G. 1877. \

CAEToNMENET ON ToNTUE RIVER, D
Via Bismarck, Dakota Territory,
April 6, 1877.
In response to the demands of General
Miles after the fight of January 6th, in the
Wolf Mountains, and pursuant to subse-
quent accommodations held with the hostiles
through friendly Indians, delegation ar
rived in this cantonmen5 February 10.
This delegation consisted of somo thirty
warriors and chiefs, and their object was to
know upon what conditions they would be
permitted to surrender and place them
selyer under protection of the government.
They were told that they would have to
give up their arms and poEies and go on
the reservations appointed by the govern
ment. They remained here until the Esd,
having frequent talks with General Miles,
and then returned to their camps to deliver
their message. When the terms were made
known Ia the hostile camp, they were. very
well received, and general cry to mako
peace was manifested. On the conclusion
Of the council criers went through the camp
of the hostiles proclaiming that the war
was over and that acts of hostility against
the whites must cease. The camps at once
moved toward the cantonment, and while
on their way here runner from Spotted Tail
Joined them. This messenger announced
that the Indian Chief was coming, sent by
the Great Father, to the offer most liberal
terms of peace. This news had good
effect, for on tho 10th of March 100 head
warriors, including sixteen chiefs, arrived
here to learn for themselves the terms of
surrender, which were stated to them as
before. Nine Of the chiefs and braves,
headed bv White Bull, or The Ice, and The
Hump Head, soldiers of the Cheyenne and
Sioux respe ;tively, remain here as proof Of
their good faith, and that their tribes will
either 60 to tbs agencies Or surrender here.
The remainder went out on the 23d to take
part in the council with Spotted Tail On
the Little Powder, where their future
many reasons for believing that the end of
the Sioux war will soon be reached, All
here are gratifed that the Herald has
treated this brave and untiring little COM
mand with such fairness, and defended it
and its commander against the envious and
belittling criticism from hostile sources.
Tie difficulties encountered and overcome
by it cannot be. overstated or appreciated
by anyone who has not known thoroughly
by experience.-N 7. Herald.
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POETRY
God Knows.

oh! Wild and dark was the winter night,
"hen the emigrant ship went down,
But Just outside the harbor bar,
In the sight of the startled town,
The winds howled, and the seas roared.
And never soul could sleep;
Save the little ones on their mothers breast,
Too young to watch and weep,
No boat could live in the angry SURF
No rope could reach the land:
There we've bold, brave hearts upon the shore.
There was many ready hand,
Women who prayed and men who strove
When prayers and work were vain
For the sun rose over the awful void
And the silence of the main.
All day the watchers paced the sands
All day they scanned the deep;
Allnight the booming minute guns
Echoed from steep to steep.
"Give up thy dead, Oh cruel scar
They cried athwart the space;
But only baby's fragile form
Escaped from its stern embrace.
Only one little child of all
Who with the ship went down
That night, when the happy babies slept
So warm in the sheltered town.
Wrapt in the glow of the morning light,
1t lay on the shining sands,
As fair as sculptor's marble dream,
With shell in its dlmpled hand,
There were.none to tell of it's race or kin
"God knOWeth, - the Dastor said
When the sobbing children crowded to ask
The name of the baby dead.
sowhen they laid it away at last,
In the churchyard's hushed repose,
They raised stone at the babY's head,
With the carved words-''God knows"
Julia G. r. Dore, In st. Nicholas for april.
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The Devil Killed.

A strange story comes from the north of
Spain. A moribund landed proprietor,
Notwithstanding the cntreaties of his fami-
ly and friends, refused to receive the conso.
lations of religion. His family thinking
they had overcome his scruples, sent for the
parish priest but upon his arrival the sick
man declined to receive him, and the priest
withdrew, declaring that the devil would
come in person to carry off so hardened
sinner as soon as he was dead.
A few hours afterward the sick man died,
and while the family were watching over
the body the door of the room was opened
with grea5 noise, and there appeared upon
the scene parsonage arrayed in red, braE-
dlshing pitchfork, dragging long tail
after him, and smelling very strongly of
sulphur. His appearance created so much
terror that the women present tainted and
the men rushed out of the room by another
door. A man-servant hearing the screams,
and thinking that thieves had broken into
the house, armed himself with a revolver,
duu Inseuo Ills "ay " aiio io"in hoii "is'.eS
they proceeded.
For moment he, too, was terrified by
the appearance of s'the DEVIL who by this
time had got the body in his arms but,
mastering his fears, he fred three barrels of
his revolver at him, and the supposed devil,
who fell to the ground, proved to bs the
parish sexton, who, BY the orders Of the
priest, had disguised himself,as he conceiv-
ed, as Satan. He was quite dead when
picked up, and four priests, who are sus-
pected of completely in this attenptto work
upon che supcrstitious feelings Of the fami-
" of the deceased, have been taken into
custody. Pail Mall Gazette.
The warm weather of the past few days
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A Comparison.

When California farmers grow faint
hearted over the comparatively insignif-
cant sums that are required to irrigate
their dry lands, and reclaim their wet ones,
they should consider what their cousins in
Holland have done and are doing, and make
a comparison. Croaking old fogies say the
tule lands of California can never be thor
oughly reclaimed, and that no levees can be
made sufficiently strong to keep out the
floods. Yet in Holland the entire kingdom
of sand, earth and willow fascines These
levees are required to resist the powerful
action of the ocean breakers dashing almost
ceaselessly against them, with a force equal
to score of rivers like the San joaquin.
The levees, however, serve the purpose and
the sea is Kept out The whole country
would be like a tnle swamp-if, indeed, the
sea did not wash it all away-wsre it not
ton the Dutch have dyked and drained i'm
mense lakes, and converted their bottoms
into fertile farming lands. A lake near
Rotterdam containing an area of 1880
acres, and an average depth of fifteen feet
of water, was drained and reclaimed be-
tween 1923 and 1910, that length of time
having been required to pump out the wa
ter. The work cost Sic an acre, and the
investment was highly remuneratiye. Haar-
lem Lake, containing 45 900 acres, was
drained in a like manner at cost of $95 an
acre, it having taken IL years to pump out
16 feet of water with hugh steam pumps.
In both these reclaimed districts the land
now sells for $3.50 and $400 an acre. I'm
aglne Union Island and Beacon Island in
this county covered to depth of 16 feet
with water, instead of, as now, being par
TALLY above high water mari, ,and the COM
parative ease of the reclamation of the lat
ter as compared with the former may be
understood. The Holland Government has
now undertaken astill more gigantic scheme
the draining of the Zuyder Zee, a vast
arm OF the ocean, containing ATS, 900 acres,
or more than one-half the area of San Joa-
quin county. 1t is expected to cost $780,
600, 600. The largest steam pumps ever
constructed will be employed in this work,
which will require 12 or Is years to COM
plete. The Government expects to double
its money in the investment. In propor-
ton to the cost of irrigation or reclamation
of lands in California, they are worth very
much more than those in Holland, and
comparison on all points is in every way in
favor. Stockton Independent.
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.Administratorss Notice.

Notice IL hereby eiyen that will make inal settle
snent Of the estate of Frank Elliott dtceaecd Mt fnt
ynly term of tine Probate Court OF Deer Lodge conn.,
oty Mofiana Territory and then apply to edischare
sed as administrator Of said esrate.
JAMES LAFOREADEs
Administrator of said eftate
Dated March eeth. 1877 4e475f