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times I was ten inches off the hoor How
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is that2
Five mon caught a chair and held tc
the floor. She put her hands on it and
as the men held it securely the chair wa.
completely shattered in trying to gel
away from them. Another and stoutel
chair shared like fate. A heavy bed
stead was made to run across the room
twice simply by the laying on of her
hands.
1 sat in chair. She touched it, and
dumped mo onto the floor six feet away.
All these tricks were repeated several
times and fully convinced me that she
possessed some remarkable power that l
leave for the scientists to eXplain.if
they can.
did not have time to see her attempt
to move bed by getting on it and sim
ply commanding it, as that required an
hour or two more time than I had at my
disposal. Neither did she attempt any
spirit rapping. There is no doubt of
one thing, aud I mention it briefly for
the benefit of those who may choose to
study the matter, and that is this ::
Whatever inanimate object she touched
appeared to be charged with force that
impelled it to move and that too most
vigorously, and always from her, and
with IN irresistible force. Her touch has
no effect on animal objects.
Some local wiseacres accredit her with
animal magnetism, others electricity and
still others the "odic influence" develop
cd. For my own part have not made
up my verdict yet.
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An Ugly Tale from Newberry,

COLUMBIA, January 14.-A shocking
story comes from Newberry County. My
informant is gentleman who visited the
spot to-day, and his account is corrobora-
ted in its essential particulars by other
advices. Mitchael Kinard, an old white
man nearly 80 years of age, lives between
Prosperity and Newberry, about Z miles
from the former place. He is we'll to
do, but has associated for years almost
exclusively with negroes. He is root
doctor and is called by the negroes ma
gician. He has been living with negro
woman for many years. He had white
daughter, Laura, about 80 years old, who
had recently come into some property.
She lived in an outhcuse in his yard.
On Tuesday morning last she was
found lying dead in the fireplace Of her
house so burned about the face and up.
per portion of the body as to be almost
unrecognizable. Her father refused to
admit any white person to the place, and
one of the neighbors having his suspi-
cions aroused went for the coroner who
had to enter the house by force. He be.
gan an inquest at which Doctors McIn-
tosh and Gllder, OF NeWberry, were pres
ent:- The father said that the evening
before his daughter had been unwcll and
that he had given her powder to cure
her. at first refusing to mention the in.
gredent of the powder. He finally gave
them as bay.berry, boneset, alder and
schulz cap. The physicians thought
that there was no indication of poison in
the powder or in the stomach, but the
jury were not satisfied, and sent the
stomach to Charleston chemist to have
its contents analyzed. They will not
render their verdict until the analysis is
made. The father had declined to allow
the body to be buried up to noon to-day.
There is said to be much fealing on the
part of the neighbors and strong su,pi..
cions against the father, which it is hoped
may not be verified,
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Light on Brewster.

WASHINGTON, January, 19.-Judge
Bond, who is known as a radical
Republican, and whose methods on the
bench in the circuit over which he pre-
sides have provoked much criticism, has
recently dismissed the election cases in
South Carolina as having no foundation
nor proper standing in court.
The cases have been nursed with special
care by the so.called Department of JUS
tice. Not satisfied with the services of
the United States District Attorney on
the spot, a lawyer ofability and eloquence
and an extreme Republican in politics,
Brewster, Attorney General, has EN-.
ployed no less than FIVE special assistant
council to aid the prosecution:
Dallas Saunders, of Pennsylvania, was
paid 5000 month and his expenses in
these cases. He began March 6, 1882,
and stopped recently.
W. w. Ker, of Philadelphia, was ap-
pointed Jan. 81, 1882, with retainer Of
81 900 and expenses.
w. P. Sydner, of Pennsylvania, was
appointed in February, 1883, at 5000
month and expenses, to aid the prosecu-
ton.
Benjamin Butterworth received re.
tainer of $1,000, Nov. 13, 1883 "in the
matter of the prosecutions of violation Of
the election law pending in South Caro-
lina," but it does not appear that he ever
went to that State or rendered any ser.
vice, except to draw the fee.
Emory Speer, present United States
District Attorney of Georgia, was en-
ploy::.l as special assistant, but his fee
is not yet reported.
ALI the cases failed before the juries
that tried them, and the others on the
docket were dismissed by Judge Bond.
From first to last, in all their parts, these
we're political prosecutions and nothing
else. That fact was we'll known through.
out the State and to the local District
Attorney.
Now that the trials are all over, and
there is 40 longer any use in conceal
ment, revelations are made of an attempt
ed conspiracy in the jury room to con.
vict some of the defendants and to let
others escape, "to help the Republicans
during the campaign of 1884" One Of
the jurymen charges that the officials
representing the Government were privy
to caucus in the jury room where this
subject was fully discussed in its partisan
relations.
This disclosure, following swiftly as it
does on the heels of others made in the
Star route cases, whore spies and inform
ers were regularly employed by the De-
partment Of Justice, has naturally pro-
voked resentment and indignation. The
committee now investigating the De.
partment of Justice can not pass this
matter by without searching inquiry,
which will bring out the truth.-Me,o
York Sun.
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Railroads up Mountains.

America is the scene of many notable
railway enterprises. We have such q d.
versity of surface that great engineering
difficulties have to be overcome which
are not thought of in other countries.
One of the most difficult feats is to get
to the top of mountain in steam car.
This has been accomplished frequently,
however, and by different devices. At
Mount Washington the railway climbs
the uprise, advancing forward like cat
climbing tree. The iron clamps or
claws are advanced and the train of cars
pulled up by main force. 1t is novel
sensation to ascend Mount Washington,
while the descent seems still more peril.
Gus. At Central City, Colorado, a diff
ferent method obtains. The cars move
forward, then backward, but each change
switches them off to higher elevation.
After plying to and fro like bobbin in
weaver's loom, the cars at length reach
the top of the mountain. 1t is now pro-
posed to build a railroad to the top of
Pixies Peak, the summit of which is
$4,000 feet above the sea level-that is,
5000 feet higher than Mount Washing
ton. In this case the road will run
around the mountain, in sort of spiral
path until it reaches the top. The en-
tire distance from the base to the sum-
nit will probably be forty miles. When
completed this road will be one of the
wonders of the country, for the traveller
in ascending Pixies Peak will meet at
every mile q new scene, the one more
picturesque than the other. The first
twelve miles will be of surprising beauty.
Camping grounds will be located at vari-
GUS points, where people can live in
tents, enjoying the pure air and weird
grandeur of the Rocky Mountains, while
in constant receipt by railway of all the
necessities and some of tue lu1uries OBJ
tanned in large cities. Another noun.
tain railway will be up the Catskills,
which will carry travellers to some of the
grandest and most picturesque scenery in
the world. An ingenious dreamer pre-
diets the construction of railway ex.
tending from Alaska to Patagonia and
running on the top Of the mountain
ranges OF North and South America.
Who dare say that even this wild scheme
may not some day be realized Demo
rests Monthly for February.
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counties, and still later they are working
around us on the sly. Now profess to
fear God and regard man, but if one..of
them was to come slipping around my
house I'd get nabor Freeman and the
boys and we would tar and feather him
and ride him on rail and leave him in
a condition that would make Utah a
very uninteresting place for him.
So hope that congress will fix up
some bill that will blot out this national
disgrace and when they make it law,
then execute it. General Cummings was
sent out there once with $500 troops to
regulate 'em, but Mr.. Buchanan weak.
ened on it and advised compromise and
nothing was done. If Cur government
is strong enough to subdue the Southern
States aud get four millions of niggers
free, I reckon it can regulate affairs in
Utah and free those white women. l
reckon so. BILL ARP.
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Some Cold Days.

1t is bit of coincidence that the COM
ct upon which Napoleon's soldiers gazed
several years ago, when they were making
that dreadful March from Moscow, which
resulted in the death from cold and e1-
posure of 100000 men, should be accom-
panied on its reappearance with bitter
cold spell of weather. When it swept
out of sight the world witnessed an un-
usually severe winter. The incident, as
we'll as the present cold snap, recalls 9th.
er severe winters. In October, 76S, and
February, 764, the denizons of the cities
of mosques and minarsts were astonish-
ed by cold spell of weather. and the
two seas at Constantinople were frozen
over for twenty days. In 1868 the
weeks. In 1407 the cold was 30 intense
in England that all the small birds per.
ished, and in 1888 the large fowl of the
air wore driven by the terrible cold into
the towns and cities of Germany.
In 1863 the winter WAS 30 severe in
Flanders that the wine distributed was
cut with hatchets.
The year 1868 was noted for cold
weather in England. Thousands of forest
and shade trees were split by frost, hares
and stock perished, a line of stages ran
on the Thames for several weeks and
shops we're built on the ice in the middle
of the Thames.
In 1910 the wolves were driven by the
cold into Vienna, where they attacked
mon and cattle on the street.
In 1910 quicksilver froze in tho ther.
mometer bulbs at Moscow. Ors of the
most remarkable changes Of ter .,erature
was witnessed at Hornsey and Hammer
smith, near London, in 1867. The ther-
mometer was three degrees below zero on
the 4th of January and seventy-four
hours later it had leaped to ffty.hye
degrees above zero.
With respect to America some of the
remarkable cold spells were as follows:
In 1870, and again in 1921, New York
harbor was frozen over SO that teams
were driver across tho ice to Staten
Island. The neighboring State of Iudi.
ana saw weather cold enough to CONCEAL
the mercury in 1855. The winter Of
1881 was made memorable by cold wealth
or. On the 18th and 26th days of jan
uary many deaths occurred from the in.
tense cold, and the residents of Mobile
saw the thermometer sink to zero.
A record of cold sieges would be i'm
perfect without mention of the terribly
sudden storm that swept over the coun-
try in 1853. which lad gone into history
as the cold New Years. A drayman was
frozen to death in Cincinnati while driv-
ing along the street; a man climbing .
fence in Minnesota froze to death and
toppled over into the snow, while the loss
of human and animal lives in all parts Of
the country was IMMENSE Cleveland
Herald.
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Equal to the Situation.

"I'ye got some good news" said a
handsome Philadelphia girl to her com.
panion, who was visiting her from out of
town.
"What is it2" she asked breathlessly.
"Why, George and his friend, Mir.
Smith, from New York-that delightful
gentleman We met last evening, you
know-have invited us to take sleigh
ride tonight"
Gam to ride with Mr.. Smith ?"
EYES,"
"But be has only one arm"
"That doesn't make any difference.
George says he is accustomed to horses,
and can drive with one just as we'll as be
can with two"
"It makes a great deal of difference" F."
said the young lady from out of town.
Zone can not find any pleasure sleigh
riding with one-armed gentleman un.
less"Sand hero her face lighted up hope
fully-"she drives herself" -Philadel'
phia Call.
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= Two gentlemen were walking along
the street. Meeting colored woman,
one of the gentlemen raised his hat and
bowed. "Why do you bow so politely
to that woman?" asked the courteous
gentleman's companion. because she
cooks at my house."
WASHINGTON, D. c.. May Is, 1880.
GENTLEMEN-Having been sufferer
for long time from nervous prostration
and general debility, l was advised to try
Hop Bitters. l have taken one bottle,
and have been rapidly getting better
ever since, and l think it the best medi'
cine l ever used. l am now gaining
strength and appetite, which was all
gone, and l was in despair until tried
year Bitters. am now well able to 60
about and do my own work. Before
taking it, was completely prostrated.
MRS. MARY STUART.
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"Your little boy appears to be par.
ticularly lively, madam" "Oh, yes"
responded tho lady, sweetly, che thinks
he is in church."
- The life of woman can be divided
into three epochs; in the first she dreams
of love, in the second she experiences it,
in the third she regrets it,
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"Now we must totter down, John,
But hand in hand we'll go
And sleep together at the foot,
.Iohn Anderson, my Joe."

There is no record anywhere in history
of happy married state where man
had more than one wife. Lamech had
two, but the scriptures say nothing more
about him. Adam dident have but one
and Noah one, and they started the busi'
ness of peopling the world. Old Father
Abraham had one, and when he took
another on, the SLY old Aunt Sarah got
after him and she frailed out the second
with thrash pole and run her of. Jacob
had two, and if ever man deserved two
he did; but they dident get along well,
even though they were sisters. Moses
dident have but one. King David had
several, but he was curst with 'em, and
actually committed murder to get one OF
'em, and lived in anguish ever after, for
he said, "my sin is ever before me-"
Old Solomon must have had an awful
time of it, for he had thousand, and
they kept him so harrassed and be-
deyelled that he flew to his inkstand and
wrote that he had found one good man,
but good woman in thousand he had
not found. Of course not. How could
a woman be good when she was only 8
thousandth part of a wife. But Solomon
repcuted of his folly and said it was all
vanity, and advised all men to Give joy.
fully with the wife whom thou lowest" :"
and to "beware of strange women" l
never think of these surplus wives who
are sealed to the Mormons without a
feeling of sadness and pity, for every new
one causes the others pang of shame.
They are all in prison and their depen-
dence is like that of the Gagged bird that
tamely looks to its keeper for food.
There is no escape, for woman is proud
creature and will suffer in silence rather
than parade her folly to the world. Did
you ever notice how woman will suffer
and be strong, especially if she has q
child or children to keep her company?
The Federal government ought to
amend the constitution and declare that
in these United States and Territories no
man should have but one wife at a time.
This much ought to be done for the pro.
lection of women and for her elevation
in society," There is no religion in this.
Let them fellows believe in Joe Smiths
bible or Brigham Young's amendments,
if they want to, but l wouldent let them
have but one wife. Governor Brown
says we had better let them alone and
work on them through the pulpit and
press. We might as we'll try that on the
Mohamedans, we have been trying it for
forty years, we can't get at them that
way, they wont hear us, But on tho con.
lrary, they send out their emissaries all
over the world and compass sea and land
to make prosclytes. Why, few years
ago they took of caravan of clever ig-
norant people from Floyd and Polk
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"This is the rock of ages" said a
tired father who had kept the cradle
going two hours, and the baby still
awake.
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- Gods almanac has but one day,
that is to day; Satan's almanac has but
one day, that is to- morrow.
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By William, B. Parsons.

AS the man had said, Little John was
delirious and talking of his home and
associates away back in Ohio, but most
Of all of his mother, piteously begging
her to forgive him for deserving her, and
never to believe him guilty.
Beyond this brief hint there was moth
ing ineligible in his sayings. Now and
then word of pity or SORROW was
spoken by some one, but not word of
hope, until suddenly Bill Lewis quietly,
but firmly and confidently, remarked:
"Pards that yer kid must be saved.
IF YOU fellers have mind to turn in an
help-well an good but, anyhow, that
kids po;n' to be saved for his mother %
It was thirteen miles east over the range
to the nearest cabin. The summit was
nearly fourteen thousand feet in heig ight,
and upon it storm was raging. The
spurs to the north aud west were utterly
impassable. The only way out was
down the gulch by the same route over
which they bad recently come in. AL
though by this trail there would be nc
storm. there was worse. There were
slides. precipices and difficulties innu.
merable. Besides, it would only lead
into the broad valley of the Gunnison
The range must yet be crossed to the east
before railroad town could be reached
or the advantages of shelter and medical
attendance secured. They believed the
boy would die before morning. How,
then, could he be saved? Bill, seeing
their questioning looks, answered them
.'See here, pards; the boy amt near
so sick as ye think he is. He's tired,
wore out, an teetotally discouraged but
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ly between each crop in the rotation and
interest on the value of the land, and on
the cost of all permanent impru veTre?tt.
such as understanding, clearing OH the
stones, etc. Take one OF your best lets,
~ciearit OF ali distractions, and under
drain every wet spot. If it all needs
draining, drain it all Get the best
tools in the market for thoroughly work
ing and pulveri2ing the soil, snd then
use them without stint. Manure your
land if it needs it, and do not forget
to ~pulverize the anu Put
in the crops best suited
to your locality. Select a good rotation
the one best suited to your soil and
crops. Do everything just when 1T
ought to be done. Get the best of seed,
and put the products Of your land into
incest possible shape for market. If
you do all this honestly and faithfully,
1 think you will be surprised, before you
get around once with your rotation, at
the profit of such farming. You will
not go back to the old way after having
once tried this kind of farming, nor will
You need to be urged to try it on an
other lot.
am speaking of improvement in til
lage, but of course with this you want
other improvements, such as improved
breeds of cattle, sheep and swine to
which to feed your products. 1t you
have not the capital to do allthis, sell a
part of your land and get it. If you
have 200 OF 300 acres of land, and are
"just about making a living" from it,
sell half and make more money with
less worry from the other half. If you
have but little land, and are in debt for
that, why then you must start in a small
way, but start all the same, and, if you
are faithful, it will be the surest way to
get out of debt.
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TWO More Dakota Justices.


passed delegate 1aymonds piii prosiu-
ing for two additional associate justices
for the Territory OF Dakota and the es.
a-h1;shn,aot of I've additional districts
making slA luuaclai uiS'fp's a.
The new Fifth district is composed OF the
counties of Brookings, Kingsbnry,
Reaala Ds,,al Harnl;n Grant. Cod;ng.
r,.rl NJ sn;nL prown uand
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Reesipts for strawbsrrtes.

Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book,
which has been recently published is
admirably conceived and carried out.
As the strawberry season is at hand, a
few of her ideas regarding the disposal
of the delicious berry might be timely.
STRAWBERRY SHoRTCAKE-One pint
sifted -four, ] teaspoonful salt, scant, J
t~easpoOnful soda, measured after pull
verising, l full te~aspoonful cream of
tartar (omit if sour milk be used mixed
together and sift two or three times, /
cup butter, l cup butter, or melt the
butter and add it hot with the milk,
gradually, mixing and cutting with a
knife, and use just enough to make it
light, spongy, consistency. Either bake
on a griddle or in the oven. When
baked tear open and spread each half
of the cakes with softened butter. Put
half of the cakes on a hot plate. Mash
a pint of strawberries, sweeten to taste,
put in a large spoonful on each cake;
then put another layer of cakes, and
whole berries, we'll sugared. Serve with
cream.
A favorite variety of ~shortcake, not
given by Mrs. Lincoln, is that served at
the Adams House. A Washington pie
is filled with whole strawberries, held
together by the beaten whites of eggs
and sugar.
To SERVE STRAwBERRIEs.-Straw
berries, if gritty, should be rinsed and
drained, then hulled and not sweetened
till served with the stems on Pass
sugar with them, that those who prefer
may roll them In it.
STRAWBERRY SHERBET.-One pint
berry juice, ] pint sugar, / pint water,
juice 2 lemons, / tablespoonful gelatine.
Or, / pint preserved fruit, / cup sugar,
/ auart water, 2 lemons, tablespoonful
gelatine.
STRAWBERRY CHARLOTTE. Line q
bowl with strawberries and fill with Ba-
yarian cream. The cream is made of /
box gelatine. cup cold water soaked
together. Whip / pint of cream till
you have three pints of the whip. Boil
the remainder Will 3 cut vi uSa anu
when boiling add the gelatine. Add
| teaspoonful vanilla. When the mix
ture is cold add whipped e
STRAWBERRY IcE CREAM.-Sprinkle
aga over the berries; mash and rub
through a fine sieve. Measure the juice,
and use1 pint Of juice to 2 quarts OF
cream or custard. Add more sugar ~
the berries require.