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10 St. Louis Daily Sheet. A NEGRO CAMP MEETING HYMN. the Chicago Why don't you do as Peter did, A- walking on the sea? He throwed both arms above his head, Crying, Lord, remember me." Then remember the rich and remember the poor, And remember the bound and the free, And when you are done remembering around, Then, good Lord, remember me. I could stand where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, I'd throw these legs as fast I couldAnd I'd go for the milk white shore.

Then remember the rich and remember the poor, And remember the bound and the free, And when you are done remembering around, Then, good Lord, remember me. I saw in the Graphic, a few weeks ago, a fully illustrated exposition of the imposture practiced by the professed medium, Annie Eva Fay, who, nevertheless, continues to operase in her assumed capacity, just as if no effort had been made to familiarize public mind with the real method of her operations. She has for a champion at least one of the Protective Association, who, though he has denounced many pretended mediums as tricksters, is still beguiled by the little blonde. The number of the Graphic above referred to very forcibly impresses me with the value of pictorial illustrations of the tricks of pretended mediums. mere description, however full in detail, can not be readily comprebended by the general reader.

In the early part of 1870 I made an explanation, quite minute in detail, of the manirestations' which for some "time previously bad been exhibited in different parts of the country by Laura V. Ellis, the same "manifestations, in fact, so well illustrated in the Graphic, that Annie Eva Fay has of late exhibiting in Europe and America. I will here give an outline of the performances of Miss Ellis. Laura exhibited under the management of her father, who attended to the and did the A cabinet was provided, with a door in the frout, and a curtained aperture in the door. Inside of that cabinet, secured to the back of that structure, was a seat; and about eight inches above that a staple, with ring, was firmly fixed.

The ring was wound with twine to prevent its being rusted by the perspiration of the medium's hands, Ellis said, but really to keep it from rattling against the eye of the staple while the medium was at work. There was another staple in the back of the cabinet at the height of Laura's neck, when she was seated. By request of the manager a commitee was appointed by the audience to investigate the arrangements for the 'manifestations, the conditions under which they were given, and to report upon them as presented. Strips of stout cotton cloth, about an inch and a half wide and a yard long, were shown to the audience, and then with one of these strips Laura's wrists were tied together behind her, the tying been done by Ellis, or under his direction. Another strip of cloth was passed around the one secured to her wrists and between them, and tied with a number of knots to the ring in the lower staple.

A strip of cloth was also put around her neck and tied to the upper staple. Sometimes, in addition, her feet were bound together and fastened to the floor of the cabinet. Ellis offered to use needle and thread, if desired, to make the knots more secure. Thus situated it was, to the novice in such matters, seemingly impossible for Laura to produce any of the which followed, and some of which I will now describe. Putting strip of cloth around Laura's neck, with the ends crossed over her breast, Ellis then closed the cabinet door and requested spirits" to tie a knot in the cloth.

Aimost immediately thereafter a "spirit voice, halfway between that of a woman aud man, something like a hen trying to crow, cried out from the cabinet, in!" On the door being opened it was found that a number of knots had been firmly tied in the cloth. A tambourine and bell were put in the girl's lap, and as soon as the door was closed, the one was beaten upon and the other loudly rung, at the same time. "'Come in said the voice, and the door was opened simultaneously, almost, with the cessation of the sounds of the instruments, and on examination by the committee Laura was found to be still secured, as at first. A finger-ring put in her lap was transferred to the orifice of her ear, the end of her nose, her mouth, or one of her fingers in as short a time as it would take to say "Jack Robinson, the door during that instant, however, being closed. A tambourine frame was instantly taken from her lap and put over her head.

A glass nearly full of water put in the tambourine on her lap was conveyed to her mouth and she drank most of the contents, none being spilled upon her clothes or the floor. A stick, about three feet long, WaS laid on her lap and the door closed. Shortly one end of the stick was thrust under the curtain and through the aperture in the door, and one of the committee, by request, took hold of that end and made an effort to pull the stick away from 'the spirit." A vigorous tug by the committeeman and a sudden relaxation of the hold inside resulted in his drawing out the stick and tumbling over on his back, a demonstration that brought down the house in figurative sense, at least. With these and several other not necessary here to describe, the girl? filled out an evening's entertainment, very much to the mystification of her audience. That she could withdraw her hands from the fastenings and get them back again in so brief a time did not seem probable to those who were present at her performances, and few were likely to suspect the fact that without withdrawing them abe could, by slipping the cloth a little towards her elbow, and by means of slightly stretching the knotpart of the cloth and the play of the twoInch ring, reach to her lap or head with either hand.

To tie the knots in the strip of cloth that was loosely put around her neck, she took one end between ber teeth and put the other end through with her hand, being thus enabled not only to form the knots but to draw them tight. When asked why the instruments to be played upon or the articles to be handled were placed in her lap instead of on the floor of the cabinet, Ellis replied that spirits' could operate only within a certain distance of the medium's vital orgabs. During part of every year since 1856 I have made it a business to investigate and publicly expose the deceptive practices of professed spiritual mediums, and by particularly noticing all the conditions under which the operations of that class are performed, I am enabled, by persistent experiment under the same conditions, to produce the same results. When 'secured, as I have described in the case of Laura N. Ellis, I can play a tune on a barmonicon, beat a tambourine, ring a bell, and sound a triangle, all at the same time and In time with each other.

Being in Cincinnati, 0., in July, 1871, I learned that H. Melville Fay was then holding seances' in that city. I had been quite familiar with the operations -of Mr. Fay for several years previous to that time. To ascertain if he had anything new in the "spiritual" line, I availed myself of the opportunity.

to attend another of his seances. I found that be had a new mistress for a confederate. I had seen several of his old ones. This was a pretty, petite blonde, with highly interesting way of pouting out and pursing up her lips under the influence of a little excitement. Fay introduced her to the assemblage as his wife, Annie E.

Fay. His performances on that occasion were the same that I had witnessed at previous exhibitions of his in vari01ts places; but Annie introduced trick that Wag new to me. In fact, I was puzzled by it. Fay, her spokesman, announced it as the "ring test, and it consisted in taking a solid iron ring, about six inches in diameter. from a table' (in the dark) and putting it onthe arm of a skeptic while her hands, as he believed, were in contact with his.

Fay did not recognize me till I greeted him at the conclusion of the seance. Then drawing me aside, he asked if I was still exposing spiritualisin, and remarking that if I was in the city for that purpose, he might as well get out. told him I was not then doing anything pablicly on account of the warm weather, and that I would not interfere with him in that place if he would promise not to claim that spirits had anything to do with his (urther operations there. He made me such a promise. Next day I called to see Mr.

Fay at his boarding place, when he introduced me to his temale partner. They both labored with me for in on the they phrased it, and expressed the opinion that I could make more money and have a better time as a medium. We talked over the performances of Foster, Slade, the Davenports, girl, and other professed mediums. At length I proposed to teach them the tricks EXPOSURE OF SPIRITUALISM. What Laura Ellis Did, and How She Did It- The Fay Performances as Described by a Performer-A Detailed Account of Wholesale Jugglers.

the New York Graphic.1 of the "'Ellis girl," the "ballot of Foster, the slate-writing mystery of Slade, and other "wonderful demonstrations, if they would Join me in giving, under my management, a number of drawing-room entertainmenta in Cincinnati, allowing me onebalf the net proceeds, and would pledge not to communicate to other parties the information I should impart to them. I also stipulated that Annie should show me how she performed the ring They agreed to my proposition. I then drew up an agreement in writing to which they appended their names, and in which they further engaged not to impart to any other persons the secret of such performances without my consent. I procured at a hardware store two large picture-frame screws, and employed a blacksmith to insert in the eye of one of them two-inch ring. To these, after screwing them into the door-casing, I fastened Annie, and instructed her how to go through with the programme of the Ellis girl.

In short time the became quite proficient. As the mystery of these performances depended entirely upon the operator being 80 secured as seemingly to preclude the possibility of her making use of her hands, head or feet, I did not consider it necessary to present any particular series of manifestations in the halfdozen entertainments that Annie gave under my management. I told her to exercise her ingenuity, and suggest any change from night to night that would be agreeable to her and interesting to the audience. Instead of using cabinet, we stretched a curtain across the room and turned the lights low. She was particularly tond of throwing the bell and other instruments over the curtain; reckless to whose head was hit.

As she was immediately disclosed to view by 8 lowering of the curtain, it could be seen that she was still firmly fastened, and of course not personally responsible for any injury that might have been done. She did carry her recklessness to the extent of frightening people away. She simply kept up a mental excitement on the part of those present that was unfavorable to close investigation. After Annie's performances each evening Fay and myself held a dark-room seance, and, notwithstanding we were "'securely bound, we made a stunning noise with various musical instruments as we whirled them around the room. We also gave the "'holding and other mystifications.

In giving those entertainments in connection with Fay and his companion I made no mention of jugglery or. spiritual influence. I insisted upon my associates being non-committal, while I was with them. It was my purpose to give, later in the season, in that city, some lectures against spiritualism, and hoped by means of Fay and Annie to work up An interest that would lead a considerable number to attend my expositions. Then, too, there were certain 'points" that wished to get hold of as a medium detective.

But so strong was the force of habit with Fay, that he began to gabble about spirits and his mediumship at our entertainments, and not wishing to be such a way, I disposed his trickery. and Annie sudsolved my brief connectionle him and exdenly left the city. A considerable number of the impostors known as professional mediums, whose trade it is to practise on human credulity, and who make mortal bereavement the means of money-getting, are congregating in Philadelphia to secure as victims visitors to the Centennial Exposition. I wish that some bold and -hating American equal to the task would meet them there, and so thoroughly expose their false pretentions put them to utter rout. W.

F. VON VLECK. Lake City, August 4. Diseases of Animals. At the annual meeting of the Devon Chamber of Agriculture, Dr.

Blyth, the county analyst, read a paper on foot-and-mouth disease. He said that study showed the great predominance among animals of parasitic diseases-life feeding upon life. Whilst in human disease this class was subordinate, in animal plagues, the parasitic class held the first place. Sheep died from flukes, horses from worms floating in the blood itself, fowls were suffocated by living red threads in the windpipe, and the strongest and most robust animals were constantly falling a prey to despicable creatures immeasurably below them in the scale of creation, but whieh were enabled in some mysterious way to prey on the very centers of life. This predominance of parasitic diseases was due almost to the common neglect to provide a fairly pure supply of water.

He did not mean an absolute chemical purity, but water free from weeds and mud, and protected from the pollution of the cattle themselves. Many people seemed to imagine that any filthy shallow pool was quite good enough for cattle, and would use as an argument the fact that horses frequently, turned from a running stream and drank out of a turbid pond. The explanation of this was mainly the temperature of the two, horses preferring water of a moderate temperature, however polluted, to water that was extremely cold. -rot in sheep was a parasitic disease, and its origin was the opalina, a little animal which could only live in impure water, but when drank up by sheep it, by a series of marvelous transformations, developed into the fluke, which infected the liver of sheep and caused death. Another thing due to cattle drinking impure water was the existence of little cysts, the existence of which necessitated in India, in 1868 and 1869, the destruction of 17,500 pounds of ration beef, for these cysts, it swallowed by man, developed into tapeworms.

The almost unchecked disastrous diseases which swept the face of the country from time to time showed the utter neglect of veterinary bygiene. Let them look, too, at the dark, humid, unventilated stables attached to nine-tenths of the inna in Devonshire. Then again look at the farms. There were two methods of farming -in one the farmyard was neat and clean, and there was found nothing in any way offensive or repulsive, whilst in another kind of farm might be found an immense cess-pit in which pigs and cattle, ducks and dogs wallowed, pit into which every drain emptied, and which, in short, was full of filth unmentionable. One or the other of these systems must be wrong -which? It would hardly be suggested that this was good condition of things for the health of man, and there was abundance of fact to show -that conditions which operated unfavorably on men had a similar operation on animals, and that judicious sanitary improvements which prolonged the life of the former also prolonged the life of the latter.

The same effect that was seen in the eyelids of children kept in crowded and unventilated school-room was developed in the eyelids of pigs kept in close, filthy styes; and when they came to kill the animal they found, aS the effect of such keeping, that the flesh of the pig was more watery, it was flabby, and less nutritious than that of pigs kept under healthier conditions. Mice were affected in a most intense manner by skin disease caused by fungus; this was caught by the cat feeding on its prey, and from the cat was propagated. to children, becoming in them that loathsome disease, the honeycomb ring-worm. To complete the outline of the bearings which veterinary sanitation had upon human race, it only remained for him to allude to the well-known serious influence which diseased meat had upon the health of -tapeworm from eating meat affected with cysts, trichinosis from eating that affected with trichina, a little worm which multiplied in the muscles of the human body, and not unfrequently caused death. A Man in a Bear Trap.

the Bangor (Me.) Newell Alexander, a Micmac Indian, aged about -nine, who was on his way from Quebec to Houlton and Woodstock, and who passed through Winn last week, was caught in a bear trap last Friday night, which was set by Alexander McMain, of Mattawamkeag, in the woods about forty rods from the sunken bridge, two and a half miles from Mattawamkeag, on the old military road. He had lain there until 4 o'clock Monday afternoon, when Edward Hamel and John Savard found him, having been attracted to him by his hoarse and faint cries for help. He had heard the carriage passing up and down the road, and had cried for help, but the sound of the wheels probably drowned his voice. Some persons heard, but were afraid. He had plenty to eat with him, but could not eat, as he was nearly choked for want of water.

He had in his possession a dipper, with which he dug down three feet into the earth, and was dipping up the mud and sucking the water from it. He had an ax with him, with which he made a wedge, driving it behind his leg, thereby easing the pressure somewhat. He was caught just above the ankle of the right foot; but, fortunately, no teeth entered his leg. He is now at S. B.

Gates', with his wound properly dressed by a physician, and it is expected he will recover. GOLD in New Hampshire, gold in Vermont, gold in North Carolina, and new mines opening up all over the Rocky and Sierra ranges in the West. Verily, gold will soon be so plenty that its reflection will make us all look as yellow as Caipamen, TO PEKIN. Curious Experience of a Traveler' on the Peiho. Panoramic View of Chinese -TientsinProgress by Cart and Steamer--Characteristio Scenes on the Road.

the San Francisco Post. To appreciate the Peiho River you must. cross the Gulf of Pe-chihli. To come upon it overland would doom it to your everlasting contempt, for there is no doubt that, taken as river, and standing on its own merits, it is a a failure, being neither grand nor picturesque, but simply a dirty, common, narrow, tidal creek; at least the navigable portion of It may justly be called 60. Why it depends upon the gulf, into which it pretends to empty, but from which it really gets all the water to float its shipping on, for its relative good qualities, is that, as I know from sad experience, the gulf is the favorite home of seasickness, and very few are the happy wights who can cross it without paying tribute.

So when after crossing the bar -for even the Peiho has a bar -you come crawling on deck and look on the smooth water, it seems to you, in spite of all its dirt and mean surroundings, a perfect little gem of a river. After you have had something to eat, it loses much of its beauty; but you must always think of it with the happy feeling of A man who has crossed the gulf to get to it. But what are you on the Peiho for? ou certainly didn't leave the luxuries of Shanghai only to see THE PEINO? No, you are a globe-trotter, and having come to China, must visit Pekin; and to get to Pekin, must go up the Peiho about sixty miles to Tientsin, and from there it is another sort of journey to your destination. I have let you go to Taku, which is a small village at the mouth of the river, by yourself, for I vowed that I would never cross that gulf again; but you must take my word for the rest of the journey, or if you want. to go yourself, you may at least wait and hear how it is done.

It was nearly March, but it had been a cold winter, and the river had been 80 full of ice that ours was almost the first steamer up from Shanghai since' the preceding November. Even yet the junks which had made the Peibo their winter quarters were not gone, but laid along the banks of the river, making navigation anything but easy, and causing our Captain to indulge in various cursory remarks by the way. I can't begin to give you any idea of the trip up the river. I can only tell you that we bumped first on one bank, then on the other, then we run our nose into the bank, and them backed off; then the river made sharp turn and tried to get to sea, then it changed its mind aid went back to look. what was the matter, but before it got there changed its mind twice, and finally started once more for the ocean.

By this time the steamer was tired of such nonsence, and tried to turn around and get out of such an uncertain stream; but it was of no use, the river was too narrow, and so with bow six feet in the mud on one side and the screw digging out a big hole in the other bank in its frantic efforts to help us along, there we stuck till we got the hawsers out, and, fastening them to Rome piles placed for that purpose, hauled Away till her head pointed seaward, that seeming to be the only way of reaching TIENTSIN. I went to bed before we were half-wav to Tientsin, but they told me it was just the same style of going all the way, and as it was too dark to see anything anyhow, I was very glad of the chance to in" for a good night' a sleep. I was waked before daylight by the stopping of the machinery, but I only staid awake long enough to find out that it was very cold, and that Tientsin was at last reached, and then, giving a gentle sigh of contentment, I drew my knees up, and, hanging them over my ears (a way I have of keeping warm), went to sleep again, not waking till breakfast was ready. After breakfast- -it was a good breakfast, and made me feel so happy and peaceful that a child could have. played with mne-I walked to the door of the cabin with placid smile on my face and, opening it (the door, of course) poked my head out, said, and drew my head in again, putting off prospecting until I had put on some overcoats and hats, for it was very cold.

Getting head inside to of an and ulster, which covered me from. foot, putting on a cap that gave me a chance to see and breathe only, I didn't look very pretty, but I felt warm and ventured out on deck. Then I ventured ashore and began to look around me for items to. write to my eager friends at home. The first thing that claimed my attention was a performing bear in charge of a wretched-looking native.

The bear stood on his head, turned somersaults, balanced a pole by the middle on the end of his nose, and then whirled it around as if ou a pivot; but with all his accomplishments he didn't seem happy, and when I gave the man ten cents to speed him on his way, the bear walked off with an air that seemed to ask: "Is there no balm in THE FOREIGN SETTLEMENT stretches along the river bauk for a mile or so, and makes a very poor show indeed: in fact, it isn't worth wasting time over. The massacre of 1870, when the French Catholic missionary establishment was destroyed, and the sisters, priests and converts were horribly tortured, then barbarously murdered, gives to Tientsin A tragic sort of interest; though all a visitor can do is to gO to the place where the Cathedral stood, and ask questions, to which he will get very unsatisfactory answers. Let me warn you, if you be an Amercan, do not when in China inveigh too loudly against the danger a foreigner incurs in living in China. If you do, the chances are that one of those confounded Englishmen, who always know of all the wrong that is being done in these United States, will thrust handful of California papers in your face, and ask: "How about the way you treat Chinamen in your One of the most striking differences between the native of the North and of the South is the superior size of the former, he averaging quite as large as the European. The dialect, too, is harsh and gutteral instead of the high note and singsong of the Southern provinces.

His food is a surprise, being meat and millet, while the Southern Chinamen would not know how to exist without his traditional rice and saltfish. I tried to find out from some of the officers of the steamer how I should set about getting to Pekin. They thought the Captain would know, he thought the consul would know. The consul did know, gave me all necessary directions, got me a passport and a boy who knew all the ropes, both of Pekin and the country beyond as far as the Great Wall, and who, moreover, could speak English fairly well. On going back to the steamer, I found one of the passengers was also going to Pekin, and was anxious we should travel together.

There are two ways of going- -one by water to within a few miles of the capital and the other by land all the way. By water they said it took longer, but was more comfortable; while by land, though it took more than half day less time, it had to be done in a cart without springs, and over a rough road; and each person, as he told of the cart ride, would try to outdo the other in his description of the agonies to be endured. Bless them that they persuaded me to sacrifice time te comfort, even such as it was, though only comparative, for I was once afterward allowed the opportunity to test for myself the truth of their stories, and I found to my sorrow that they had not even approached the real facts. My. companion was Hungarian with an outrageous name, and as moreover, he was very dirty, I consulted both my convenience and the general fitness of things by calling him -for short.

We were to start early the next morning, so daylight the next day found us shivering and shaking through the DIRTY CHINESE CITY, on our way to the boats which we had not yet seen, having left it to our boys to have everything ready for us. We each had a boat about twenty feet long, six feet wide, and drawing two and a half inches of water; from about six feet from the bow to within four feet of the stern it was housed over, and looking at it from the outside it didn't seem possible it could be large enough to more than lie down 10, but on looking inside I found that part of the deck had been taken up, so that one-half of the cabin gave a height of nearly five feet; the floor of the other hall was raised little above the deck, and served as a bed for the passenger. The kitchen was in the after part of the cabin, robbing it of about two feet. It didn't seem large enough to keep a decent dog in, but nevertheless in there, and without any utensils that I could see, the Baron' boy cooked us conte very good meals in the daytime and slept there at night. For about three miles the river was fairly alive with Junks and smaller boats, making it a matter of considerable difficulty to get along.

Had we been in the south of China we should have slammed right and left with a boat hook, and cleared the way for our boats; but as we passed along we saw faces of such a villainous and piratical cast as would have done credit to any rogues' gallery; and taking that with the absence of the hurrying and skurrying we had been used to see in the native of the Southern provinces to get out of foreigner's way, we concluded not to force our attentions on these junkmen, but rather wait until we were once again in Shanghai, where we could kick and cuff to our heart's content. After we had passed the shipping and got through the CELEBRATED BRIDGE OF BOATSthough why celebrated I do not know, for It is only a pontoon bridge we at last had clear river before us, and the boats could go along as fast as the boatmen's skill could send them. After we had breakfasted we crawled outside to see how it happened we were going so easily through the water, when, as well as we could judge, the wind was not favorable to sailing; and it they had yulohed-as sculling with an immense oar or yuloh is calledthe boat would have rocked from side to side. Just aft the cabin was a tough-looking little mast about twenty feet in height. At the top of the mast was a ring; fastened to the deck and passing through this ring, ran a tow line, about a hundred feet long, at the end of which were three loops, in each of which was man, the loop running over one shoulder, across the breast and under the arm.

The men leaning their weight on the rope until their bodies made an acute angle with the earth, swayed from side to side as they stepped along, the head man singing A solo and the others coming in at the chorus. We were surprised to find so much melody in Chinese tune, and still more surprised to hear the natural voice instead of the falsetto of the cultivated Chinese singer. We were three days getting to Tung Chau, the days being cold and the nights colder. There was noth.ing to seeion the way except a few FORLORN LOOKING VILLAGES where the children eame out, threw mud at us and called us yang kwei-tze (foreign devils), and a dreary waste of level country on either side of the river. The only excitement was the grounding of the boat once in a while, and the giving out of our stock of bread, when we bought a few loaves of Chinese bread made of millet-dour and sand--the millet for the stomach and the sand for the teeth probably.

The Baron spoke very little English but was fluent in French; I spoke very little French but was fluent in English; but in spite of these disadvantages we managed to detest each other very cordially before we reached Pekin. We reached Tung Chau at night; and as we could not leave till morning went to sleep in our boats for the last time, I was not at all sorry it was for the last time. for what with the extreme cold and the boatmen sleeping underneath me, I had not enjoyed my nights very much. How the four men got into that small hold and lived until morning I do not know: but they did it, and smoked there, too, the smoke coming up through the boards and almost suffocating me. We were to have breakfasted at seven and started at eight; but the Baron had to wash first, not having done so since leaving Tientsin, and that took some time, so that we didn't start until 11 o'clock, the Baron on a donkey and I walking- our baggage going in carts.

Tung Chau is a small walled city some thirteen miles from Pekin, and being so near the capital is naturally of small importance either as a commercial center or a sight for globe-trotters. There is a well-paved road thence to Pekin, but as it was rough for springless carta, or what troubled us most was rough for our trunks in such carts, we went by a longer and softer road for most of the distance, taking the paved road for the last mile only. The temperature by the way trad become much milder and grew more so as we approached Pekin. Leaving TUNG it was to me like entering a new country, such as I bad never read or heard of before. Nothing was Chinese except the cue, and even it was of different style, being much heavier and longer than that worn in the Soutn.

All the way to Pekin it was one living stream of carts; wheelbarrows, camels, donkeys and people. Such agonizing things as those carts, to look at, Inever saw--small unresisting wheels, no springs, and with an air gleefully fiendish as they bumped into a hole and then bumped out again. They were all covered over so I couldn't see the sufferings of those inside but it was easy to imagine them. The wheelbarrow was, after all, the greatest novelty; very large, aud carrying an immense load, a man pushing, a mule pulling, and a sail hoisted, pressing the wind into service. Droves of great camels, with their stolid look and ag-' gravatingly slow and measured gait, going in Indian file, made a strong contrast.

to the littie donkeys as they hobbled mineingly along, watching slyly with their great innocent eyes for a good chance to upset their riders. Then there were the some walking, some riding in carts, some on donkeys, others on anules, and others again on seraggy-looking ponies. And such riding- a curious high saddle, and there sat the rider, perched up way above the animal's back, the stirrup so short as to bring the knees almost to the chin, the women riding the same as the men. It looked as it they must fall off at the least movement, but they did not; they sat there as securely as if screwed on. All along the road were stands of donkeys for hire, and when we came in sight the boys would mount and charge for us, hammering those poor beasts till it seemed their ribs must break.

When we struck the paved road and they told us we were only a mile from Pekin I was glad, for I was tired, hungry and dirty. Still i was doubtful about the nearness of the city, for there was nothing in sight looking the least like a great town, nor even like a small one. In fact, we were almost under the city walls before We saW them'-huge as they really were -there not being any spires or high buildings to overtop them makes the approach to Pekin very tame. Our passports were not examined at the gate, and so without loss of time we went to our respective abiding places. The order of, business with me was first a bath, next clean clothes, and next some good chow-chow; these obtained and I was ready to have a look at Pekin.

Funeral of the Khedive's Son-in-Law. The Alexandria correspondent of the Lon- don News writes as follows: The death of Toussoum Pasha, at the enrly age of twenty-one, is a severe afliction to the Khedivial family, for whom great sympathy is felt by all classes. This young Prince, only son of the late Said Pasha, was married in 1875 to the Princess Fetma, daughter of the Khedive, and it was an exceptional instance of marriage for affection. He was Museir (Marshal) and Minister of the Marine, and a member of the Privy Council, but, having been a great sufferer for many months, has been unable to take an active part in the details of his department for some time. The funeral of the deceased Prince took place on Saturday, the 8th of July.

From daylight crowds of natives made their way to the Mosque of Nebi-daniel, near the family palace, by the Mahmoudie Canal. At 11 a. 8 guard of cavalry escorted a large number of buffaloes to the place of burial, and these, according to the Mussulman tom, were sacrificed, and the flesh given to the poor. Next came thirty camels laden with bread, dates and small money, all of which was distributed to the crowd. A'few minutes later came 8 a procession of the municipal guard, followed by a squadron of lancers with their lances in the belts, and two regiments of infantry with their arms reversed.

son of Kbedive, was present as chief The rear the procession was brought up by boys from FEBE naval and military establishments. Highness Tuetik Pasha, eldest mourner, accompanied by Cherif Pasha, Minister of Foreign Adairs, the Governor of Alexandria, and numerous officials, by the consular body, and by an immense number of bankers, merchants and inhabitants of Alexandris and Cairo. A detachment of marines mounted guard, and their band, having no duties to perform, carried silver trays filled with perfume. Servants and officers of the Prince's household bore the decorations of the Prince on cushions of velvet and gold. The coftin, of the simplest possible kind, covered with a' priceless white and gold cashmere, was carried by soldiers and marines and deposited in the tomb where the Prince's father, Said Pasha, was buried.

About 80,000 people were present neighborhood of the grave. The city of Alexandria was quite deserted, all the native and many European establishments being closed. Never has there been seen here such a spontaneous and sincere manifestation of respect and sympathy. Killed with Cherry Pit. the Hartford Courant.

1 A New Milford lady named Evitts died of An unaccountable malady a few days ago. A post mortem showed that the trouble was caused by cherry pit, which became obstructed on its downward passage from the stomach, aud had, in some manner, worked its way through one of the smaller intestines, A SEWING WOMAN'S WORK. How She is Employed and Paid in Shops and at Home. The Making of Apparel for Men and Women Described -Competition with Charitable Institutions-The Ways of Employers. the New York-Sun.

1 The number of women in this city who earn a living by sewing would be difficult to ascertain. The business streets many hundreds of establishments in which needlework is done, or given out to be done. much are you paid for making those garments?" was the question put to two young girls who were briskly walking up Broadway, between City Hall Park and White street. Each carried a bulky bundle, consisting of four boys' jackets, warm, thick outside garments, to be worn next winter by lads of ten or twelve years. The girls had clean, bright faces that told, without speaking, of work gladly finished.

get twenty-five cents apiece, was the answer. you make them out and out for quarter of a dollar for each coat?" how long does it take "I do very well indeed if I make four in one day, said one. takes Inore than ten hours to make four," said the other. "You take your work home from a great they smilingly hurried establishment? on. The jackets were of thick, gray wool material, and were wadded, lined with alpaca, and had the finished appearance of a garment made by an adept, or struck in a mold, all exactly alike.

They were made mostly by machine-sewing, yet the -holes, the inside bindings, and other parts were done by hand. They were pressed on the seams, the ends fagtened. threads picked off', neatly folded, and were ready for the counter. Wages for the making of underwear, and, indeed, for gentlemen's entire apparel, except the "'tailor inade" articles, have dropped far down within the last three years. The pay of the girls and women who make up the many articles worn by men, from gloves and chest protectors to shirts, does not average more than $5 a week.

Many make less, and $6 is considered good pay nowadays in most of the great establishinents. Most of the work is done by the piece, the swifter and skilled woman making more than the ordinary ones or the beginner. can not make extra exertion, sew evenings at home, and in the morning early again in the shop, to follow it long, said an experienced sewer. "Some young girls work hard because they like to dress nicely. As long as we could make $7 or $7 50 a week we were She mentioned a firm which manufactures almost every article worn by the man of fashion--his undergarments, dress shirts, suspenders, neck-ties, gloves and chest protectorg -and which produces every grade of goods, from overalls to the best Broadway wear.

She said: "'Three years ago I couldessily make $7 a week there, but now I could not earn $3 50. I gave up after I had tried it a HOW CLOTHES ARE MADE. Garments of all sorts, inner and outer, are made usually by parts. One woman makes bands and nothing else, another the trimmings, another the body of the garment, another hemmings or facings; and another finishes it. The cutters are men.

They night be termed cloth choppers, for they use chopping knives. They take many folds of cloth and chop through the whole of it at one stroke. This mode secures uniformity. Then the forewoman, and in a mammoth manufactory the, four or fits forewomen give out the work; and mons of the labor is done out of the establishment than in it. Men's drawers are made complete for 50 cents a dozen pairs.

The "'hickory shirts" that laboring men wear, of stout striped blue, are made complete a dozen for 45 cents: All overalls are made for 50 cents a dozen pairs. Striped calico and white shirts are inade complete for 65 cents a dozen. The forewoman fixes the prices and sees that the work is satisfactorily done. If it is not good it is not paid for. "And rightly enough, said one of the sewing women.

Certain forewomen, even paying these light prices, are exceedingly popular. is not a better lady who has to do with, workwomen in the city of New York than she, said a woman of long experience in the shops and factories, referring a forewoman; 'she has ninety girls, and, she will not have one who can not make $7 50 Forewomen's wages range from $15 to $20 a week. A button-counter got $9 a week during the busy season, which was six months long, and dropped to $6 when slack times came. When the. new shirts come from the laundry she counts the buttons to see that none are missing, folds the shirts, and puts them in the boxes.

THE CUSTOMS OF THE TRADE. It is a general rule of the manufactories that those who work in the shop at a fixed price by the week are fined for a tardiness of five minutes, 5 cents if they get $5 a week, and 10 cents if they get $10 a week. don't really blame them, said one of the sewing women, these young girls would so many of them have excuses; and when you are employed by a firm your time is their money. I like the manufacturing proprietors generally. It is the subordinates who grind." She mentioned two or three proprietors who each provided work for 500 women, and said that they were kindly, pleasant men.

The pay for shirt making ranges from fifty cents a dozen to $2 50. according to their fashion and materials. Best Broadway shirts are made now at $2 dozen, out and out, button-holes and all. Allowing $2 50 a dozen for the making of the first-class shirts, which are sold for $36 8 dozen, all that in paid for the making and material is not more than $10 or $12. At these rates of pay there are more applicants for work than the manufacturers can employ.

Hundreds of women are turned away who apply. Many of them could do only poor work. A young woman who sewed nine years for the same concern in Leonard street was thus spoken of by her employer: when I came here at 7 o'clock in the morning I have found her at the door. She supported herself, a brother eight years old, and her mother, who was a chronic invalid. We never had a better operator, and only parted with her on going out of that line of business.

She still lives in Harlem, and sews in White street." A woman recently left a firm for whom she had sewed fifteen years because having been paid for the complete making of men's plaid flannel traveling shirts, $4 dozen, she was cut down to $2. One of the firm, to whom she romonstrated, replid: Sisters will make them for that, and don't care who does my work, so it is done various orders of Roman Catholic Sisters are supplied by the manufacturers with great amount of work. The Sisters, who have on their 'hands institutions full of helpless girls and women, are glad to get work for them, however small the remuneration. The self-supporting sewing women deplore this competition, but the Sisters urge the claim of wicked or orphan girls, who, without this supply, would be without sheiter. SCENES IN THE SHOPS.

can not have a dining room, said foreman; is too dear in these great houses down So, when the lunch time comes, and the -machine clatter is stopped for a half hour, the women eat in the midst of their work. is no play," said the foreman, as the writer looked at a congregation of workers. This was a sight to be found again and again, up two and three long flights of stairs, in great rooms. In this one the cutter was chopping out felt skirts for next winter's wear. The folds of.

felt were a pile several inches in thickness, and he chopped through it with a huge knife. He occupied the front of the room with his aids. At several tables, ironing women-were pressing the felt skirts after they had received the last stitch of adornment, the plaited trill with notched edge of blue or scarlet. It takes cleverness even to do that. Not every bungling washerwoman could give the neat, uniform finish that is required.

The ironers fold the finished skirts in piles; and their earning, the foreman said, doesn't materially differ from that of the needlewomen. On the floor below were the fall cloaks and the warm wraps. The season begins in June, and all through the hot weather of July the elegant styles of next winter were being shaped, and trimmed with fur or looped and graceful designs. The women thus employed earn more than the makers of underwear. MORE ABOUT PAY.

pay for making and putting on the trimming of a dozen felt skirts varies, according to the simplicity or elaborateness, the foreman, "'from 75 cents to $8 a dozen; for seaming, binding around the bottom, banding and putting in the drawing string, 50 cents a dozen. This is all rapid machine work. From 5 to 25 cents a dozen, say an average of 10 cents a dozen, is paid for the finishing of a felt skirt -that is, the fastening of the ends, taking off the threads, seeing that nothing is missing, and that the garment is completely ready for the smoothing touch of the pressers. In the making of the cloaks from 15 cents to $1 is paid for the machine work of each cloak; and for the finishing, 50c to $3 50 each, this being done by band. The cloak hands working in the shop make about $10 a week, and the masculine operators from $7 50 to $10.

Competent cloak hands are few in comparison. Two sons are required to make an adept. Many a woman who comes here to sew would not become skillful, tasteful adept in twentyfive seasous. There is no system of apprenticeship. We have little girls, whose business is to hand things from one to another and be generally useful, who begin with sewing plain seams and gradually work in.

Beginners are paid $2 50 a week up. The season of making summer wear begins in January, and generally lasts until June, but is longer or shorter according to the orders that come in. There was but a week's interim this season between the making of the summer and winter garments." This foreman. had under him nearly 600 women, in or out of the manufactory. The work done outside is not all applied for and carried away by the women who do the sewing.

Often one woman or man gets work for five to forty women. There are men who sell new and old sewing-machines, providing the purchasers with the work to pay for them. Much swindling is done by several of these operators. A very expert operator can make a dozen fine shirts entire, except the buttonholes, in a day and a balf. For every two who could do this, there are 250 who would require two.

days, which is the usual time. Twenty-five cents a dozen was taken off the partly- made shirts last fall. Young operators are given the simple work of making the shirt cuffs. They get 10 cents for making a dozen pairs all but the buttonholes. The work consists in stitching them around again on the outside.

A smart operator can make eight dozen pairs, 192 cuffs, in a day, between 8a. m. and 6 p. with half an hour for lunch. No operator could possibly make more than ten' or twelve dozen pairs in a day, and could maintain that rate.

Women's white skirts are made entire for $1 25 a dozen. The least profit is made by the manufacturere on 'disposed and "slope because it is of to -buying jobbers. LETTER FROM MRS. OLE BULL. Visit to Lyshorn on John's EveFourth of July Celebrated at Lysoen, in Ole Bull's Music the Madison (Wis.) Journal.

I LYSOEN, BERGEN, NORWAY, July Friend I am actually in Norway again, and have had very pleasant voyage. For the first time, life was not a burden aboard ship. I found my husband well, and Norway more beautiful than ever before. For three weeks after my arrival; the weather was bright and sunny, and vegetation and wild flowers seemed to spring forth almost miraculously. On St.

John's Eve (June 24), or Balder's Day, as it should be called, we had a most delightful trip. to Lyshorn, the highest peak above Lysekloster. Our party, fifteen in all, including the musical composer, Edw. Grieg and his wife, started from Lysoen at 10 clock and reached the top of the mountain before midnight. This peak is only 1,400 feet high, but so situated that one gets from it one of the most beautiful and extensive views in this region.

As we neared the top, though it was not quite midnight, the snow-clad mountains in Hardauger Fjord were already touched with a bright light, and when we reached the top the clouds along the horizon were colored with brilliant tints. The most of the peasants and servants from Lysekloster had gotten there before us and had been marshalled into line by one of the men, who, besides filling the office of Marshal, showed great talent as a drummer. When we finally stood upon the grassy plateau or knoll of the mountain top, a boat that had been brought up there for the purpose, was set tire to amid cheers and drum-taps, that were answered by some rockets from Lysekloster, below. We were all very merry aud not at all fatigued from climbing the mountain, for the air was fresh and bracing. The day had been unusually warm, and hence the evening was delightfully mild.

Our first preparations for coffee and breakfast were made with dispatch, and we soon found ourselves sitting in a circle and eating all sorts of good things. The remains of the bonfire have given us excellent coffee. Having appeased our appetite, we were in better condition to enjoy the mystic scene which lay before us- so real, yet so unreal. On three sides we could count seven ranges of mountains, shading and toning so marvelously in the distance, while in the east the Folge Fond glistened with that peculiar silvery gleam from the early morning light, so that one could scarcely define, its outlines, and readily confused it with the fleecy clouds above. On the north side the Sogne Mountains loomed up distinctly, and on the west the wonderful coast, with its numerous indentations, fjords and countless islands, with the open sea beyond, in contrast with fourteen lakes, at our feet and nestled among the rich dark fir trees around us, presenting a charming sight--all forming a scene, panorama, so rich in beauty, 50 varied in form and color, that words fail to give expression to the effect produced upon our minds.

As we stood entranced and almost overwhelmed with the supreme of the scene, the tones of the violin fell upon the ear, seeming in reality the voice of mountain sprites interpreting to us the grandeur and inspiration of the moment. The Hulder had indeed given us a cordial welcome! Every tone was as clear as a bell, and when beautiful mountain air was improvised, it truly seemed like 8 midsummer night's dream. Just as the tones died away the sun rose gloriously over the mountains, tinging the sea with a rosy pink, and gilding the small sails, that were winging their way upon the water, one in Samnanger Fjord, one in Kars Fjord, and one in Bjorne Fjord. The yachts seemed like fairies resting for a moment on the calm surface of the sea, which reflected in its bocom every mountain and peak around it. The morning was soon fairly.

upon us, and the peasants began their hailings and spring dances. We did not surt for home again until 5 o'clock in the morning. An old man told us that he bad many times been on the top of Lyshorn, but had never before witnessed such night. It generally blew so, said he, that one could scarcely light a pipe. About 6 o'clock we were descending the last little bill near Lysekloster, and the troops of boys and girls running down the path, with here and there a red jacket or bodice glaring through the green foliage, added much to the gayety and picturesqueness of the scene.

With drum taps and loud cheers we apprised those who remained at home of our return, and as our whole party numbered about 150, you can imagine what a noise we made in the quiet, peaceful morning. I have so often heard my husband speak of the inspiration he had received when a boy from these mountains, that I was eager to see them, and I must confess that, although I have seen many placee before that seemed wonderfully beautiful, Lyshorn and its surroundings will always, I am sure, remain in my memory as a sight too beautiful to be compared with any other. Yesterday (the 4th of July) we had a procession in our music hall; the American flag took the lead, marching to the tune of the Bauner, by the violin and organ, iu honor of the Centennial Fourth -the Norse flag flying from the staff outside. Though we were few in number, we were mighty in enthusiasm, and I think you would have been pleased to witness our patiotism. I devote part of my time to my translation of "'Den and a part to reading Egil's Saga.

The introduction of the latter is intensely interesting. Your friend, SARA C. BULL. Fight the Devil With Fire. the Virginia (NeT.) News.I old Indian fighter, who believes in Tom Fitch's theory with regard to good redskins, proposes that volunteers of Indian companies to fight the Sioux be received by the ment.

His idea is to take anything in that line -Piutes, Apaches, Washoes, or whatever tribes are willing to fight. Then it would not make much difference which whipped, for the expenses of the Indian Department would de reduced in any event. WORMS. Industrious Animals That Lay 850 Eggs in Twenty-eight Hours, and Then, Very Naturally, Die -Brazil's Advantages Over China in the Silk Business. the Philadelphia Times.1 Sericulture in all its branches, and the process of spinning silk from the cocoon, thoroughly illustrated in the Brazilian section of Machinery Hall.

Although Brazil makes no specialty of the manufacture of silk, the exhibit is the only practical illustration of the kind in the Exhibition. worms, from birth to extreme old age, are there greedily devouring mulberry leaves from trees growing on the grounds. They seek this food as soon as they are born, although they are then only about one-seventh of an inch long. Their appearance at this stage is that of meat blackened. For the first three days of their life they are fed with the tenderest leaves, the quantity being increased with their growth.

When twenty-two days old their length is about one and a half inches, and their appearance that of a cater-. pillar made of white lead. Instead of a mulberry tree, the worms are kept in an upright wooden structure, with openings very closely resembling in miniature pigeon-boxes. Each of these openings is intended to receive cocoon. On the twenty-fifth day the worm, or larva, is about two inches long, and of a yellowish white color.

At the end of the twenty-sixth its gormandizing of mulberry leaves is over forever, and it begins to build coffin around itself. The substance forming THE FIBRE is supplied from a gland of the insect, just as the material for a spider's web is furnished. At first the worm fastens the fibers from top to bottom and from side to side of its little pigeon -hole at perceptible distances, but gradually the web grows denser, until the worm occupies a cavity only a little larger than Itself in the middle of the mass. It then begins to weave around itself the cocoon proper, which resembles a groundnut shell in both form and size, varying in color according to the species of worm, and being as firm as it composed of half dozen thicknesses of newspaper, pasted together. The cocoon is generally white, or of a yellowish shade.

It is finished at the end of twelve days after the worm begins to weave. During the next twelve days the larva undergoes a metamorphosis, and becomes a chrysalis, remaining torpid until the end of this period, when it becomes a moth, and, with its antenna, breaks through to sunlight in the form of a butterfly. Male and female mate, eggs are laid, and after a life of twenty -eight hours the "miller" dies. These eggs are of the size of cabbage seeds, and each female lays about 350 of them. In color they are at first yellowish, becoming in turn, brown, black and white, during their hatching, which is effected by the sun, or a moderate artificial beat.

THE HATCHING requires from ten to twelve days, at the end of which time the little black worn mentioned at the beginning of this description appears and sets at once to devouring mulberry leaves. A cocoon broken open by the is worthless. The moth is not allowed to see daylight unless it is needed for reproduction of the race. The cocoons destined for silk are submitted to a steam bath soon after they are formed, This kills the worm without harming the The cocoons are then ready to be spun into banks of raw silk. Each cocoon contains from threefourths of a mile to a mile of tibre.

The ning operation exhibited is a Brazilian invention, very ingenious, and attracts throngs of spectators every day, Chinese and Frenchmen seeming to be. particularly interested, a circumstance accounted for by the fact that' China and France lead in the production and manufacture of silk. They do not seem to relish the fact that the silk worm in Brazil yields from six to eight. times a year, while in China and Europe it yields only once or twice in the same time. UNRAVELING COCOONS.

The cocoons, containing the dead chrysalises, are put into a metal-lined basin, supplied with cold water. which is heated by steam to a degree sufficient to soften the gum-. my substance, causing the fibers of the cocoon to adhere to one another. The cocoon is then readily unraveled. The outer ends of the fibers are gathered by gently beating the floating mass with a stiff Two sets, each composed of ten fibers, are passed through two small porcelain disks, or buttons, used as guides.

Passing upward the sets cross each other and their ends are passed throught two loops in a little reel which revolves by clock work, and then through two niches in two heart-shaped glass plates, fitted into loops at the end of spiral springs. Passing from these loops the sets agaiu cross, run through two wire loops several inches apart, cross a third time and are wound on a reel connected by belting with the shafting of the Corliss engine. The machine being set in operation the fibres, bing cocoons, brought together at the disks, each of which is less readily broken than fibre of wool, are unwound from the bobintimately twisted the little clock-work reel, and, in threads, wound ou the large reel, from which the silk is slipped of in hanks. RAPID INCREASE. With one ounce of eggs 40,000 silk-worms can be raised in 45 days.

Allowing a loss 15 per cent, there would remain 34.000 cocoons. These would weigh about 85 pounds, which, at 50 cents a pound, would be worth $42 50. As the yield is made 6 or 8 times 8 year in Brazil, a woman or child in that country may start with an ounce of eggs, and make about $300 by the end of a year. A curiosity in connection with this exhibit is the first cocoon imported to Brazil. It Wag taken there from Lyons, France, in 1826.

Precautions Against the Plague. Nature.1 Various sanitary measures (according to Dr. Tholozan) have. recently, been adopted by the Turkish and Persian Governments with reference to the outbreak of plague, which commenced in Mesopotamia in the early part of the year. Since the beginning of March 8 sanitary cordon has been established on the north of the invaded territory, on the most frequented route of Kurdistan and Syria, between Tecrit and Kitri.

On the south a quarantine of fifteen days is obligatory since April 1 on all vessels sailing on the Tigris and the Euphrates. It is at Kourna, at the confluence of these rivers. The ports of the Persian Gulf are protected by a quarantine, which vessels from infected localities have to undergo, at the island of Kezzer, formed by junction of the Chotel Aral and the Karoun. Since April 10 all communications by land between Persia and Mesopotamia are subject to a quarantine of fifteen days. For three years, it may be added, all pilgrimages into the infected country by Persian subjects have been interdicted.

To fully comprehend this system of protection it should be remembered that on the west and northwest for an extent of three degrees of latitud no artificial barrier has been or can be established against the plague: but there are, happily, natural obstacles which prove much more efficacious, the infected region being there bounded by the deserts of Syria and Mesopotamia. The greater rarity of communications there ders restrictive measures on the arriving caravans easier. Judging from past outbreaks of plague, it was anticipated that the present would decline in June (after reaching its acme in the end of May), and disappear from Mesopotamia in July. But it may send offshoots to Bussora, Bouchere and Arabistan, and a still greater danger is the introduction of germs of the plague into the high plateaus of Anatolia, Kurdistan and Persia. The red mullet, which generally confines its habitat to the south and west coasts of England, and there grows to the largest size, bas recently appeared in considerable numbers in the waters of Oulton Broad, above Lowestoft, and may be seen early in the morning swimming in shoals close to the surface of the lake.

Anglers have been trying, but with little success, to catch them with the book and line; but this is not surprising, as the mullet will rarely take a bait until the decline of summer, when they enter harbors and are fished for from rocks and pier. Their presence, therefore, so far inland is somewhat remarkable, but it may be that, having ventured through the gates which terminate the estuary, with an unusually high tide and favorable wind, they are now made prisoners in a situation they must be far from accustomed One of these fish, of about one pound weight, was secured by an angler while fishing for perch, and shown at Mutford Bridge, Oulton. The surmullet is still, as of the taste of it; but to obtain it in perfection it old, a luxury of the table, and it was once a proverb that those who caught it never knew ought to be in the hands of the cook within few hours after it has been taken out of the water. The ancients, therefore, used to assure their guests of their freshness by bringing them on to the table alive in glass vessels before they were submitted to the chef. Mullet..