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 .ever pui,. CO. et-t a sample the bf3t 28- i/ine iiublish- list rf books h y.arlv sub- •r. S Kl.A^'K A'lf'aide St., uada. ry Thursday, .M.i in summer â- ilJin^at Lon- .^'.â- ntlainl anil and St Johns I'iitT nonth- iiiriug wint^-r I ini (ilafigoH i.iutbec ami THEtflZA'"' OF WALWORTH. -ectly in company with the medi- I «â- *' ^^"i tiealth connected with a parish a'A^'-^^ y^:Yi\ch need not be here men- tfieDi'B* ^^^ ^^ g_ dilapidated-dwelling t:"°"^f.:,„ si,(l in a dieidful little room m reditK^n' ai.d jspeoik'--^ row of rotten old houses we oae 'â- ' n ai.il his wile. It needed but a ' "° glance to discover tta-; they were ' °"f- nlucged " poverty. The woman a^P'yP^tly much Oder than the man, wasapP „,;,,^ ^.nt have been mote than ae cculd not have been more than ""'^d »he-in a dirty, tattered gown, and -*!â-  *^/'head tied in a rag as though she "'i d from ceuralgia â€" was about to sit â-  "to a m" °^ w^'ch dry bread and a '"'° 1 herriDS were the chief ingredients. '^**Tvra5 "lo^'t struck with the husband s "^! ancf. It; was unmistakable that he "PP'"*J^^ I,, tiif common backbtrett type of "" anit}. II' ^^^ intelligent looking and """ilv i.iult, and, attired in decent clothes, '"'^Vi hu^c- presented quite a genteel ap- '•^abce. A- ordinary iimea he might pro- f^f' .,.,',0 riQs-^ea a.i good looking, but he ;t so now, with his face dia- ..ruil i"ty '"' ""'l"'i^' fecowl ng sneer, oc- " „j,,l J. eiiiint: y, by the medical tfla-ei's ;iirue. "'ou in th'.a place, Ham- re 'â- " hi iei!;fkL-d. lo which, with a irl iltti ii' manner, the man (the iio s^riiiiel nervous aud afraiU of „, bfLMu to tr\ I niidi answer, "Here â€" ' V(,i jiVe piccious sorry for me, no â-  ,,' " ' "'^^- ^o'^ry still for Mrs. Ham- ,„re,' wl.o is hUaya glad of something to ^ct her on tniveliug. You may go to h 're whole lot of you, for all 1 care, and •ike tier with you.' Wh.n we l.iid exaTiined [thehcusoand emerged c!.-cidfiil pas as I' an rare ' .m^ the other rooms in the street, I crked to my companion: "You appeared ijr'i:i=ed at Hading that nraa, who was without his coat, living here with his wife. r,,j acd what ;s he?' "He is about ai •aorouehpaced a racal as you woula find m Jay's maichiug," vras the reply. "I oer- â- ,inly was surprised to see him. I thought '-- i.ai 'ett the neighborhood months since. -boulti have supposed he would have been hi to ilo 80, considering how narrow an -iuipe he had of being seat to prison â€" to -.Tal servitude, probably. His wife, the soinan you just now saw â€" wa? impli.aied 3 the affair 1 am alluding to. But 1 believe â- ne was more to be pitied than blamed for â- :e share she took in it. A stupid creature. ae;hould have known better than marry â- .e IlIIow. and she old enough to be his T.olher, it was a (J ueer story altogether." Niturally I was curious to know in what :.;,;.ieeri;i"-s consisted, and enquired to that ,:.:k. "\\ til, the truth is," was the reply, â- 1: 1 knew all the derails of the story I :i:oaIil oul/ spoil it by attempting its recital. ...ere is only one inaividta' who can tell it .pcrl\-, ai.d th?.t is the victim himte'-f, or ';;::'-:, "i 'â- iioula bay, lie whom cur friend in •.:.;iiuty siiirt-sieeves designed as his victim Trr!' is not nim h of romance m tlie matter, " ..c ont II led, Uughing, "as regards the ..1:,, trs who pla.yed the Italing ].arts in ,: .ju have seen Mr. Haniehire and his .*;â- . Tner cfuieiieiate vms a vagabond ',!,.j, i.i niary years, had been pia3ticing as ,-A- fi.utuiie teller, but he has judiciously r.rp' i:ut o! the way sine j the exposure. The ..cij 0: the t^ie ii a foolish old fellow who i.rps ag' ueralatore in one cf the bystreets jitw minutes walk fiom this. If you have -s.re to hiu-the story, 1 will introduce y;u:o tiie chandlery storekeeper by and by, i;:l n;'ll relate it rea lily enough. Bat you •.v.:i ua.lcrstiind it better it you are first :..i .0 av 'luaittcd with the circumstances that hi up to it. "The crandlery business I lave mentioned 5-tii not always in the possession of its pre- â- :z: proprietor, it btlonged to ai old ptr- â- :. ^ihose name 1 forget, but we will cill â- rr V-3. Ingledew. Tne won an who is now H. i.stiiics wife 18 her niece, and lived with :.:r assisting in the business formtuy years. :: was a v.ruable concern, in a small way, â- ..egooil-will and lease being worth £G00 or •.:00 pro' ably, and it was generally under- ".ool in the neighborhood, as a matter of .OuFse, that the niece would come in for and -iuiiiiue tilt business when old Mrs. Ingle- vwdit.l. It seems to have been so under- itood at ail events, by one individual that oed thtrtaooutâ€" by Mr. Hamahire. I can't ^e'llyou anything 2s to his aatecedents, but ts-'ins to have been a fellow who lived by "i w:ts without resorting to downright "Hiinihty. lie was al»ays, as I am told, â-  "tly liiLSjed, had some pretension to :ii:^ yoodiooking, and a large share of iin- ;:ud.eu-H, tipl on tne strength ot that capital â- - h.irm'.d the design of making love to irthaâ€" tiif! niece â€" who was turned forty, â- ^;:"avit\., to marrying her and stepping "â- ' tne iinfortalile little property that old â- â€¢â-  I \. h.tw must presently leave behind And slie, like the weak minded 'â- i-;-t. 1. .iiic is, listened to and encouracted ugh bl.e ta-ed not do so openly, for I'liy, her aunt, though past eighty, 1 a ' ixer.ish temper.and if there was iij, more than at^other she strongly •.!.' e.:tt( th. Utii, (lb u ' i.a.'r â- : â-  tiui "â- 'i " \V:til(j "-ie. :;.. and it W.1S Mirtha getting married. n't prevent it. Tne aunt's eon- n.eu to be* at laat breaking up, Hamthire, t linking he had so J, HI hand thit he had best ut de'ay, pressed his suit with ihty were fjuietly married â- â- ^p:.d "tsi '.e â- â€¢â€¢â€¢- lu: 'â- â- â€¢â-  turr. tn. howevei, but ihat the old ^â- â- â- â- - \\a htdiiiiden by this time, 'â- '-â- "â- â€¢ h-;i-(l of it and was so deeply " that si hra.(".e anew will in p a;e of â- "â-  'â- , .n v.r.lch the niece appeardd as "•'â-  '•, :i ' .--^einingly with no other t...,n 'o ji i-cssf the bitterness cf her â- '-= 'l:-.ippontmtnt she bequeathed J.s.a'i tx cpticn, the whole of her ' V, :!'/;, ill :r the bh. p biisincsf, to a â- â- â- â- 'i'lo-. ',; Laclulor lodger, who oc- n the Louse â€" a slow and '• ";:â- ' lual who lived ou a small ' P-'i h'lii r:ir.re his retirement from s"-t 11 â-  I, ' liiee. 'J'ne exception '-1 ^â- â€¢â€¢iH v.y^i tile neicu was to have '" d-i'Muod in two roinn ou ir.r,., privilege of residing lite for the term of tv^elve er ti car.i.t'a demise. That event -hpCEed ahout. ,: mouth after the marriage, "'"' need 1,0' be told that Ham- Ui.cusuhen the will was read. oispcs'd to q arrel with the tiitcr, but discovering what a "'1 ner\uua p rscn he was, and how tf.ctg' ^°'ild be to impose on him, he *ith h- "'-^'^^ "S" °^ ^^^ matter, and, ' tnuu re "â- "'tr.= aft 1 veil ;â-  :te Was. ;â- ' was tir 'imid provided for them, while Mr. ment3 P^fticular t "",~"""' naving uubuiuii cion •*. chaQdi(f ° ' '^solved on cariying on the b .. ,i""'aei tor them, wmie mr. icula t '°"' having nothing else in liji bus ivitig ' ""^I'Jees himself. Bui now, siicli V • ' ^° ™°ch to you," ^aid my '"end in conclusion, '"Mr. "Wicks himself «hall tell you what next happtn^ " Mr. Wicks, on whom we called E^J^e evening, was nothing loth. He l/aTeLT going looking man, of short stature anHo stout that the only indicatioos of hi^° hoS apron being secured with strings ap^ar^n h!]'°'^i""°' .H«ha« a pushed bad head and large, mild blue eyes, and is I that f .i^^^\°-^ °**" so ui,uspi"oUB that if tde credit system is a r^oognizad fea- ture of the concero he will probably extend the business far beyond the condition in which old Mrs. Ingledew left it, whatever his ultimate profits may be. He exhibited eraat trepidation when he was informed that Mr. Himshire was still resident in the neighborhood, but became somewhat reas- sured when he was informed that it was h'ghly improbable after what had transpired that he (M.-. Wicks) would ever be troubled by him again. "I am heartily glad to hear you say so, sir," faid the chandler, "but one never knows what buch a cunning raecal as he is nray be up to. I pity his wife, and forgive her, though tha did very nearly Irighten out of my life by appearing 10 me as the old lady's ghost. Bat no doubt it was he who put her up to it." "Bat it was some timp before you sucpected him " "My good sir, I had do reason for doing so. He used to laugh at my ridiculous nervousness- I well rpmemberhow he laughed," continu- ed Mr. Wicks, wincing a little still at the unpleasint recollection, "when I found the devil's coachman in my bed." "Found what.?" "The devil's coachman, sir. That was the first of it, and it happened when they had been in the house not more thai a Week. Three nights in succession the con- founded thing reappeared there, though, of couise, I killed it each time. 1 didn't know what it was called till Hamshire told me. It is a sort of beetle, long and narrow,, with two little horns on its head. I showed the last one to Hamshire, and he laughed, and said it was a good thing I was a man of too much sense to believe in the supersti- tious nonsense ignorant people put so much faith in. 'They eall the thing the devil's coachman,' said he, 'and they believe that is sent by Old Nick to make known to the person to whom it appears that he will be making a journey his way shortly.' 1 never was a superstitious man," continued the in- nocent chandler, "and of course I wasn't frightened, but I had lived in the houie a good many years, and such a thing bad never happened before.and it wasn't a pleas- ant thing to happen now. 1 had the bed- ding all turned out and the bedstead exam- ined â€" Hamshire's wife used to attend to that sort of thing, j ist as she had always done and I fa.T no .iic.e 'coachmen.' Bat some- thing a great deal worse was in store for me. Two or three nights aftei, when I had been in bed a little while, and the clock en the mantel shelf had just done striking 12, I heard a sound that caused my head to bounce up off the pillow as though it was an inoi;. rubber bail. It was the most horrid dismal groan, sir, that ever was heard by hiaiian ears, and it seemed to come from in- side the pillow. I am not a drinking man, I never was. All I hal in that way all the evening was one glass of warm rum n 1 spruce after 1 shut up the shop, so there could be no mistake as to my baing sober. The sound was like that of a person with a dreadful pain in his inside, and who was giving vent to his feelings with his lii a ti^,ht shut to keep him from screaming I thought tha' perhaps I might have been in a half dose and fancied it, and I got up and moved the pillow and the bolster and while I was doing so, a% plain aj joa hear me speaking, I heard the horrible noise again, not in the pillow this time, but in the wall, just at the spot where my head lay, Hamshire and his wife slept in the room overhead, and wishing to be convinced that 1 was not mis- takenâ€" the awful noise was repeated every two or three minutesâ€" I slipped on part of my things and went up and knocked at their door. They were abed and asleep, it seemed, and wh^n I told him through the key-hole what I had heard, Hamshire an- swered in a pet that I had been dreaming, and advised me to have a glass of gr^g and go to bed again. However, he got up after a little persu.asion, and so did his wife, and they came down to my room. I had heard outside the door that she did not wish to come, and I heard him mutter, 'What good will it be, you fool, if you don't come?' 'I sla'l faint with fright if I hear anything dreaiful,'iaid she. 'AH the better,' said Hamshire. I have been told since, that overhearing this should have opened my eyes, but it did not. I think I wanted her to come down, and rather liked his in- sisting on it. iN'othing had baen said over the coachman business, io reference to the old lady, but, somehow, I couldn't help con- necting her with the awful noise in the wall, and I had some idea that her niece, who knew her way so well, might be able, per- haps, to throw some light on it. But she was no more able to*do that than he was. As we all three stood close to the Wa'I, the stifled cry, or whatever it was, was heard again quite plainly and Hamshire's wife V as as good as her we ri ab 3ut the fainting and went off dead, crying out 'Oi, aunt, aunt " as she was doing so. Of cDurse 1 didn't faint, but I funked, 1 oonless it. But Himshire kept as cool as a cucumber. 'I wouldn't care about being her aunt, wher ever she is,' he remarked, 'if that is her present voice. Ton my word,' said he, 'it is enough to make tn^ believe some of the rubbish we hear aboui unquiet spirits, who repeat ^omc great wrong thty did m this Hie and haunt the place where they u.sedto r-side.' Then he suggested that the sound might have come from the room at the other sidt of the wall, and when he had earned his wife up-stairs, we went there and listen- ed Bat there could be no mistake about it. The unearthly noise wa« still to be heard, and It was in the wad. It was hesr 1 ()n a.nd off-sometimcs gently and sc metiine lOuder â€"until the clock struck 1, and then it stop- p.d I didn't go to bed again th.it night, but II imshire did, but next morning he cMue aown and told ma he was very sorry bat his wife was that nervous on account ot her aunt's spirit haunting the house, that he was afraid they would have to leave. If 1 had any suspicions be ore of his having a hand in aasingthe noises-which I candid- Ty confess I had not-this was enough to LZl them and 1 begged him not to leave the house, or, at aU events, to wait a little and see if the strange «oune^s were repeated Thev were repeated that night and the nex. in elaltly the same way and at exactly the ^me time, and what with worrying and Kg my nerves unstrung by the want of rest the matter began to tell on me. I con- u U with Hamshire as to havin, a clergy- rida:«.ia^siro^fttp^s:: be rendered worth next to nothing 'B sides,' said he, in an off-iiand sort of way It 8 no use talking to a man like me, who never went to church in his life, about cler- gymen. I'd just as soon, if not sooner, ap- ply to old Plauchardâ€" Blanchard, whatever his name is, the Wizard. Hs's got quite a reputation for squaring matters with un- quiet spirits, I'm told." But when I asked him who told him, he replied 'Hinged if I know. Surely you don't believe in such humbug V Neither could he tell me where the wizsri lived, nearer than that he had heard it was somewhere in the neighborhood of Walworth cjmmon. 'But you take my advice,' says he, 'and keep the matter to yourself. Y'ou saw the 'coachman' three times, remember, and you've heard the noise three times, a"i now. perhaps, you won't hear 'em any more. My wife,' he says, 'is going away this evening to stay with a cousin for a week, so you won't have her to wcrry you, and I shall sleep at home as usual.' Well, his wife went away. She bade me good-bye before she went. There were no noises in the wall that night, nor for two nights after. But the night after that I had a twister I had ventured to go back to my bed again, but I didn't lock the door, in case anything happened and I wanted to run up-stairs in a hurry, and tell Himshire. I burned a lightâ€" a small night-light â€" standing on the hob in the fireplace. I don't know now long I had been asleep, but a strange sound awoke me, and there was the ghoat of old Mrs. Ingledew standing in the doorway, with the door wide open. I was wide awake and sitting up in bed, and ther^j could be m mistake about it. There she was, as though she had just got out of the coffin I had seen her lying in, with one hand screening her eyes, aa though to see me bet- ter in the half dark, and vengefully shaking her other fist at me. Thea the door closed, and she vanished. "I won't deny, gentlemen, that I was in a mortal fright, if ever a man was, though my conscienere was easy enough. If I had ever wronged the old lady, or done anything to induce her to leavp me her property and dis- inherit her niece, it might have accounted for her vindictive appearance. Bat I had done nothing of the kind. I jumped out of bad, and at first thought I would go up and tell Hamshire; but on secord thought I re- solved that I would not. He was such a disbeliever, as he had made out to me, that he was almost sure to laugh at me, and he would do so more now that his wife was away. I turned it over in my mind, â€" and a pretty sort of distracted mind it was, as you may guess, â€" and I came to what certainly was a most foolish conclusion â€" namely, to go and find out the wizard Hamshire had mentioned as being somewhere near Wal- worth common, and take his advice on the subject. 1 said nothing about the ghoat, but, next morning, making a pretence that I wanted to go to Thames street to see about some butter and bacon, I asked Hamshire te mind the shop for an hour or two, and he consented, and cff 1 went. You must un derstand that I wasn't so much off my head that I went prepared to believe anything the fellow might tell me. If he really was a wizard, of course he would know m'^re than an crJinary man possibly could, and going along, I laid my plans for testing him. I found w'aere he lived without mucn trouble, and without giving niv name obtained an in- terview with him. He took me all aback by his reply to my first few questions. 'Did he undertake.' I asked, 'to hold com- munication with spirits of the other world?' To which he answered coolly that he under- took to try: but when, as in my case, the spirit was that of an aged person, and a female, it was sometimes difficult. 'Our friend here,' remarKedthe simple old fellow, breaking off' in his narrative and directing my attention to my companion, who was looking much smused 'cai hardly keep from laughing; but he should bear in mind that at the time I had not the least reason to suspect that there was a conspiracy be- tween the three, and that, therefore, when the wizwd made mention of an 'aged person an 1 a female,' and further, when, by way of 'going straight to business,' as he said, he offered to write the name in full of the de- ceased if I would set down the first letter, an I hs did so, right offâ€" 1 say it wasn't very surprising if I began to think that he was what he pretended to be. I told him about the hauntings, about the 'coachman,' and the awful noises in the wall, but about nothing else, when he shook hi^ he a land said he was afraid more v.ai to follow. 'The next manifestation,' said he, 'is the appear- ance to you of the old lady herself. By your statement I am surprised that you did not see her last night.' A^ I have told you, she had already visited me, and 1 was more impressed than before with his supernatural talent I asked how many such ' appear- ances' there were likely to be, and he re- plied that it was uncertainâ€" it all depend- ed on how so. n what the old lady required was a certained and her wishes csornplied with 'Tne sooner the better,' said he, as no doubt she would continue to trouble me in some shape or otherâ€" and some of the slaoes were tuch as I shouldn't care to see twice-as long aa she remained dissatisfied. Could he give me any idea of what she was dissatisfied with, and what I had to do with it' Not without communing with her. Would he do so? For a fee of £20 he would; but he was afraid she would prove a trouble- some subject, and it would pro'oably take a week "Well gentlemen," ccn';inued the acitated chandler, '-lam ashamed tc say that I thoroughly believed in the lellow, and agreed to give him £5 down and tne rest it he fSlbUed his promise. I said nothing to Himshire, though all through the next week I wa3 troubled; some nights 1 heard th»mcaiings in the wall, but the ghost aid not appear again. It was late m the even- ins and he said he was ready for me if i wis ready fe r him, which, of course, meant ,f 1 had brought the fifteen pcuudi. I paid him the money, and then he advised me. I since what he had to show me might give i we a shock, to b:a3e my neryes with a gl^s ofbiaadv. I did as he suggested, and he sealed me in a chair and told me not to move, and then he put out the lamp, mak- ^g it pitch dark.-and in a few minutes there began to appear in letters of flame re- flectedln a mirrorW-^t the wall opposite me the 'spirit's message.; T^%1««^/«*P. peared cne at a time, quivering for several ^conds and then disappearing and, speak- iBg m the dark, the wizard told me to re- member the letters and make out for my- self what they speUed. Thatw«nt ve^ diffioalt. What they spelled way Give back to my niece what I have robbed her of. or I will haunt you to the end That WM all. but it was enough for me l^^J^^J know how I got home, or what I did when ^^Tthe^.^ I had only one thing m my tl^ughts, and that was to obey tha 'ghostly mesia^e,' and get my pea^e of mind restor- ed. I lost no time about it. The very next morning â€" Hamshire's wife had come home from her coasin'a â€" I had them down and gave up to them all the ready money old Mrs. Ingledew had left me, and I gave up the lease as well, asking nothing in re- turn but a receipt for the property, that I might show it to the wiz ird in proof that I had done what the spirit required. Bat I wasn't to g:t off so easy. My nrrves had been so upset that I hiid braia fever, and came so near to dying that Hamshire's wife when closely quastioued by the doctor as to certain thingji I «ai always talking about in my 'wanderings,' in a fit of fright, went on her knees and confessed all ab'jut it. It was she who, under her husband's directions, had placed the 'coachman' in my bed. The horrible noises in the wall were made by a cat. muzzled and suspended by a string tied to its tail, and let down between the double partition of lath and plaster through a bole in the floor of their room. It was she who acted the ghost, whic'i the could well do. being much like her aunt in features, and of just her stature. She explained, also, how that the wizard was in the conspiracy, aid that the flaming letters of the ghostly mes- sage were made with phosphorus on the dark wall behind me, and opposite the mir- ror in which they appeared. Tde money was to be divided between them; bat luck- ily the division had not yet bsen made. It was equally lucky for me that my doctor was a man of determination, su i that he had a lawyer friend cf hii own sori. Be- tween them, and by threatening to put the whole affair in the hands of the police, they got bask every pound of my money, and that was the pleat a it news t'ney lal to tell me as soon as I got a bit better, and wa? strong enough to bear it. And here I am after all, as you see, and where Hamshire is you likewise have seen. As for the 'wizard' he hasn't been seen since. Famous Cayes. The Famous Kentucky Caves, in the United States, have a formidable rival in Fish River Caves, New South Wales, which form one of the national wonders of Austra- lia. From the official catalogue of the New South Wales Court at the Calcutta Ex'aibi- bition we learn that these caves are of vast extent, and singularly attractive, having a variety of very intricate galleries or pass- ages, only to be traversed in safety under the care of the experienced local guide em- ployed by the Government. The subter- raneous scenes herein disclosed are indeed magnificent â€" well worth the time and trouble of paying them a visit. There is a whole group of these grsnd subterraneous halls and bewildering galleries, and each one of these series is known by a different name: â€" The New Cave, the Lucas Cive, the Bell Cave, the LurlineCive, ;. Sev- eral objects of interest are to ha viewed at and in the Fish R'ver Caves and pmongst these are the Great AT-chway, the Ciilotta Arch, the Meeting of the Greeks, tne Fin- raile Rock, the Interiors, the outside en- trances, and the adjacent woodlands scenes. The Cirlotta A-ch â€" a curious catural arc^i- way in the roads â€" excites much astonish ment and admiration. These caves, so re- markable for their stalactitic and stalaijmi- tic formation?, are of such aa immense ex- tent that whole days are necessary for their due exploration. One of these enormous caverns is estimated to be no less than 500 feet in height, and of a proportionate length and breadth. The strange form 3 gradu a' ly assumed by the drippings of the limestone rocks throughout are almost infinite, and not to be anywhere else surpassed in beauty. In one place there is the weird, rock like semblance of a well- stocked menagerie and in another place the pendaits from the roof and slabs below are of a still more faatastic and extraordinary character. When lighted up with the magnesium wire these sublime palaces, "which Nature's hands have deftly formed," present a truly gorgeous spectacle, being filled with delicate pen Ian 'a and droopiug rprays, gigantic columns and shadowy arches â€" all resplendent with daz- zling, illusive gems. In the New Cave, the scene developed by the magnesium light is described (by Barton) as "one of surpass- ing loveliness," the appearance of a heavy fall of snow being prodneod the rocks in the rear presenting to the imagination a black, frown ng sky. Occasionally a spark- ling waterfall heighten) the effect of the scene. The Government Vai had construct- ed a number of wire ladders for the con- venience of visitors inasoendinjanddescend- ing some of the caves. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. A LITIN6 TOMB. A Colorado KIner Rosenad From a Horrible Fate. R'chard Siran, a mining speculator of L^advi le. CjL. was rescued from a horrible fate recently, being found in the bottom of a deserted mine shaft, into which he had flU n six days before, and which had since been his living tomb. His rescue was by the merest accident. James Birry and Chailea A Dean, two miners, while on t'neir way to work heard the groans of some one in distress. For some time they were un- able to locate the sounds, but finally found the opening of a shafs i^hioh had tl-ucst beon closed by the snow and ice. Taey could then more plainly hear ibe distant cries, and knew that the person who utter- ed them must be lying at ihe bottom. How deep the shaft was they could not tell, for the depths were black as midnight. Ropes and mining timbers were procured, aad Barry was let down the sfiaft. 1 reaching the bottom and striking a match, h found a man lying face downwarl just in the en- trance of a drift leading from the shaft. The man wa'j unconscious, and his face un- miitakeably depicted the agonies of death from starvation. The unfortunate man was raise el to the surface and carried to the city, wherei, after restoratives had b3;a applied, he recovered consciousness. He says that six days a^o he was walk- ing up the gulch to look at some mining property, when all of a su Id'jn he was pre- cipitated down the deierteJ shaft spoken of. He was not aware of it? prosei-ce, as the moath was completely blocked over with snow. From the faU he Buttered a fprained ankle and a bruised arm, lut was no- 1 t'lerwise hurt, as he a 'ruck upon his feet. All that night he nude attempt3 to climb oat of the shaft, and only ceased his effjrta when his strength had completely given cut. His suffering was tirrible. As near as he can tell, fi r three days and nights he kept up the endeavor to escape from his tomb. Frequently he says he heard men pa3.-ing by, but he called to them in vain. Finally the hunger and the exposure made him so weak that h= could not etaad up, and giving up in despair he lay down ou the spot where he wai found. He m:sthave \oa consciousness soon afterward, for he says he knew nothing m Dre till he awoke in the cabin where he was taken after bein^ rescued. Never neglect a cold. The attack may not seem severe, but a cold is a cold, and therefore an enemy to be looked after with the greate.st watchfulness. To ensure the crackling of pork bsing crisp and eating ahor:, just before the pork is done moisten the skin all over v-ith a little butter, dredge it with flour, and place it near the fire to brown. It may not be known to some housewives that if flour is kept in a closet with onions or cabbage it will.absorb unpleasant odors from them you may not notice this until the fljur is cooked, but then you will. Irish poplin is likely to be once more fashionable, and interest in its manu- facture is again instanced by the ac .ion of theQaecD, who has selected this material for tne bridal dress of her granddaughter. Princess Victoria of Hesse. Pickled Onioks â€" Boil so.-ne water with salt, pour it over the onions hot, let them stand all night, then peel and put them into cold salt an! water. Bail double distilled vinegar with white spice, ani when cold put your onions in a j ir and ponr the vinegar over them tie them down t'ght with leather. Mmd always to Keep pickles tied down close, or they will spoil. To Whiten Lisex that has Turned Yellow. â€" Take a pound cf flue whice so^p, cut it up into a gallon of m:lk, and hang it ov. r the fire in a wash-kettie. Wuen the soap has quite melted pat in the linen, and boil it for half an hour. Now take it out, having already a lather cf Eoap and warm water wash the liuen in it, and then rinse it through twu cold wattrs, with a very lit- tle blue in the last. A large moustache with elaborately curicd ends was the pride and delight of the bar- tender of the Chicopee Hotel at Chicopee, Mass. He woke from an afterdumer nap the other dty and found that "the boys had shaved it off. Now "the boys fand strange and uncomfortable drugs in their drinks. Salmon Fishing on the Coast of La- brador. On of the most imr.;rtan' of the Lt'-jia- dsr fisher. ea next to riie cod is thit of the salinoo, though they ari by no m-a^s -.is ex- tensive here as th?y are m the lower Cin- adian provinces, esp-^c ^ll^' cf Ros^itjTUiji.e and the Bvv o! Caaleiir, on the south side of thf! R'vei " ;. Liwr-iiic-j. Tne salmon go up the v.vcT to spawn roturning, they are fouu'l in the aijicent waters of the river a'o og the coa'it, iu the ^ate summer inl early fall. Tiie number of hjh siaua'.ly captured is itnmenae. The best, ard in fajc only real season fr r capturing the.ie fish is a few weeks in the ei^rly autumn. T.iey are caught in gill nets, lar^e cr .small, with a regulation mesh of six iuches. The nets are placed along shore at the mouth of the river, or across some channel of the stream, and visit- ed every day. The fish entangl themselves ia the meshes, whic'a are made sutfieiently large to allow the youug fish to escape by paesing entirely through lliem, and are held until the fisherman comes and secures his catoh. The fish arj then cut open from head to tail, and carefully cleaned inside ani out, all the blac'K skin beiag peeled cff the back- bone. Taey are then soaked in fresh water, then in salt brine, and finally packed in car- rels. There are seldom more or less than twenty-three fish to a barrel. As each bar- rel brings about §12 cash, eaeh fish is valued at fifty cents. This, ol course, is the first cost of the fish. Salmon-dsliing is only in its prime for about four weeks, between, say, July "25 and August 25 This fishing is plentiful all along the river J on this coait, and thei'e ia seldom one taat haj not sevnal fisheries upon '•. I should say that a barrel of salted sahnon will avirige abuub 200 pounds in weight. Salmon are, other than above, pre- served by e) lying, smoking, and canning. The latter process is rarely, if at all, em- ployed in Labrador the other two seldom. Tiiey are smoked mach aa herring are, and iiried in the sun much as codfish on the fish- flakes. Salmon are caught with the hook aud line by those who ca-e Co angle for them and as the rivers and bays are cjuite full at the proper season, it ia a worii of pleasure end profit to practice the rod with this king of fi^ih iu hisnitive element aud at h ime, when he is most abundant. Ear.'y Life of Osman Dlgma. With reference to the esrly life of Oiman D.gma, the Saakim correspondent of the Londcn Times writes that he was originally a broker and trader, and principally a slave trader, in Saakim and Jeddah, where he re- ceived a severe financial blow when, some years ago, a British cruiser captured two slave dhows full cf victims, ou the way to Jeddah. Osiaan D gma's trade tiien fell from bad to worse, his house property in Saakim was all mortgsgjd, aad he became hopelessly involved. Being of no great dis- tiuc.ion by birth, his seleccicn by the Mehdi to lead a religious rebellion is attributed to the ocjivleut that 0.-;inan Digma, iu one of h's irjcursions far scui:h for slaves, m^C the Mi'udi, who formed a liigh estimate of his abii ty and of his iudueuce, acquired through Buocessful trading. It this history be trustworthy, passions for other objects tha-.i holiness are the key note of Osman Dig- mi"3 character an I motives, and it is against all probability that he will cast his Iris p.i'-ii.iGn into the brokeu bal- ?;ood ]^. ,nce of battle. He is no ignorant fana.ic, and he canno: him-.e.f believe the myths which he multipliss in order to control iiia followers. T.iere is a ph3'aician in Rochester whose he-sr; makes only twenty-six pulsations a minute. He is 44 years old, and enjoys ex- cellent health. The average of healthy men is sixty-five heart beats to the min- ute. M, Jules Claretie said that a high medi- cal authority told him lately that tie attri- buted the great inceease of drunkenness among women in Paris to the war. During the siege, especially, they contracted the habit, when there was little to eat and they wanted to keep themselves up. Fifteen years ago, he says, habits of intoxication were tare among P^risiennee. if 11 4 " I- â- â- 11 !â-  11 J