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The domestic felicity of Mr. and Mrs. Hend- ricks was a proverb in Indian. At a. wed- ding ceremony in Shelbyville three years ago the officiating clergyman, after shaking hands with the newiv married couple, gave them his benediction in these words : “May you be as happy as Mr. and Mrs. Hend- ricks are.” As far as making a fortune is concerned farming is a slow way to accumulate money. But there are other paying qualities in the farm that are taken into account for too little. The greed for money making is fast unsettling the human mind, and erroneous- ly solving the problem of life. Instead of being satisfied, contented and happy with a good comfortable home we are thinking of nothing else but riches, and sacrifice what might be a comfortable and harpy life by scrambling one over another in an eager and everlasting struggle for the “ almighty dollar." or the dollar which. I am sorry to say. is the Almighty. We do not even measure the paying qualities of a home ex. cept by the dollar standard. Does any farm- er, or any one else, ever realize what a fear- iul condition of things this money making mania is producing? Judging by the past what the future will bring, we can see how fast the distance between wealth and pover- ty is increasing, and imagine What twenty- five years will bring in the form of a few men of wealth with their thousand millions cantrolling nations N ow a very large ma- jority of the people are working for these very men, for nothing but food and ralment, for the imperfect laws of nature will admit of no equality in the faculties of men. and there will always be those whose “ dish” will be right side up to catch the porridge that other men will spill, and do what you will the profit on the labor of the many will always go into the hands of the few, as long as money making is the prime object of life. Now this can be remedied only in one way, and that is to substitute the art of obtaining the most happiness out of life for the art of making money. This would in time kill out the great curse of selfishness, which is the natural result of money‘ making, and leave man a social and happy being, pre- pared to enjoy life in making others happy as well as himself. The best fortune in ex- istence is a good productive farm, arranged and managed to produce a full amount of comfort, happiness and pleasure, without excessive labor. And the family that owns it. with everything on it needed, and paid for, and that can abandon the idea of get- ting rich, can get more pay out of it in this life in the form of happiness than can be ob- tained in this or in any other way. The oldest fence the writer has seen, is a. chestnut post and rail fence one farm in Pennsylvania, which was built more than fifty years ago. It was set in the following manner : The holes were dug larger than is now usual, and with the old-fashioned spade or shovel ; the posts were of good size, and the holes were filled with stones, tightly rammed down. No earth was put in, and the bottom of the post was consequently dry and exposed to a circulation of air. Large stones were laid on the top, which served to turn the rain from the hole. The posts and rails have been whitewashed with lime at intervals, and this has prevented the growth of moss and helped to preserve the timber. The fence has never been dis- turbed by front. but remains upright. 'Butter tubs should be thoroughly cleansv ed and then soaked in brine before packing down butter in them, which will material» 1y assist in preventing the butter from being We generally expect better results from clover than from timothy, but this year some farmers have reason to congratulate themselves on planting potatoes on timothy sod without manure. The potatoes have not rotted so badly, and though the aggro- gate yield is smaller, 9. larger ?ortion are sound. ', Flax raising has become one of the lead- ing industries in Minnesota. 126,846 acres having been devotedto this purpose last year. It is said that in a. good crop of wheat the grain gives nearly or quite as much weight as the straw. With oats and barley the grain is usually in excess of the straw so far as weight is concerned. In the rye crop straw usually weighs more than grain, and near a. good market is often worth more. fainted. Astrsnge and fatal disease has broken out among the milch cows in Evansville, Ind.I and vicinity. The animals are first afi'ected in the eyes and become entirely blind. The disease continues until the eyes are entirely eaten out. It then eats on until it results fatally by going to the brain. Farmers should go carefully ovrr their pastures every little while and scatter the voldings of their stock, and not have the fields dotted with great blotches of rank gms, so rank by the over richness of the menurlng that no kind of stock will else it. An unnamed disease has decimated the apieries in the West the peat season‘ The been havea. shiny, black appearance, and, though unhealthy, in other respects do not differ from those that are well. ' Hogs differ as much as other animals do in their ability to take on fat. Thrifty young hogs ot the Improved breeds will gain much faster on the same amount of fond than old and unthrifty animals that belong to no recognized breed. r Sheep husbandry is steadily decliningmin France. the present number of sheep find lambs being less by 11,000,000. Mutton is imported from Germany Algeria. and Eat- ern Europe, and sells 20 per cent. higher than beef. ‘» Sod is an excellent protection to an or- chard in winter, and should not be plowed under in the fall unless through necessity. When plowed in the fall a coating of man- ure, which has been well decomposed, should be applied as 9. mulch. A few years ago grain growing was the main reliance of the Ohio farmers, but they are gradually drifting into dairylng, experi- ence having convinced them that it is much more profitable than grain gxowing. In testing goats for milking purposes a London society found the beat to be a. kind known as the Maltese. They gave from three to four quarts of milk per day, and were able to aubaist on the scantieat of herb- DUBABLE FENCE POSTS. FARMSTEAD NOTE-BOOK. DOES FARMING PAY? FARM. I remember how we school-children pitied that baby, and looked with horror upon the pictures of the barbarous parents. In the au- tumnjof 1882, and again in the Summer of ’83,I visited the Flatheads on their reserva- tion which lies near the northwestern corner of the great Tegritcry 9f Montana. x I then learned that the whole story of the flattening of babiee‘ skull: was untrue, so far as these Indians were considered. There used to be a. tribe living on the Pacific coast, in the time of Captain Cook’s voyages, who practised the custom described in the geo- graphies ; but the Flathead tribe are not kin to them. How they got their English name, I could not learn. In the geography which I studied when Iwas a. boy at snhool, there was a picture of a group of Flathead Indians. The foreheads of the men and women were quite flat, and to show how this deformity was produced, a. baby was represented strapped to a plank with achunk of wood tied down just above the eyes. _ . The Flathead Reservation is of irregular shape, sixty miles long at its greatest length and about the same distance in width from east to west. Its area. is about two thirds as great asthat of the State of Connecticut. The main divide of the Rocky Mountniha runs across it, and nowhere in the whole of How much could Father Time borrow on his note of hand I Not a. centâ€"“we take no note of Time. " What was the motto of the thief that late- ly atole Henry Ward Beecher’n timepiece ? Watch and prey. Three awful bores came to pay a. long visit. What time was it 2 A time to weep. A clear-headed, energetic tallow chandler made his fortune one season. What time Was it 2 \Vhen grease was in its prime. Peter the Great was crowned one fine morning. W but time was it ? The begin- ning of a reigny season. The champion contortioniat turned a ret- rogreasive somermult. What time was it '2 A backward spring. Methuaelah having died and been gather- ed to his fathers, What time did the old Dutch clock that stood in the hall of the Methuselah family mansion keep '2 It didn’t keep any time, the pathetic fact being that “ it stopped when the old man died.” Adam having been offered an apple by his wife, in whom he had entire confidence, took it and fell to eating it. What time was it: ? September lâ€"the first day of the fall season. It rained oats and dogs on a holiday. What time did the children any it was ? Mean time. Richard Cmur de Lion on his return from the Holy Land was taken with a severe pain at the pit of his stomach. What time was it? It was twelve p. m.â€"that is to any, in the middle of the knight. 1Eneaa,‘ whlle fleeing from Troy bearing the aged form of Anohiaee upon his shoulâ€" ders, tripped on a bit of banana peel and was hurled violent] to the ground. What time was it ‘3 Son- owu. If yeast ever was transformed into aim of the hours of the day what time would It be]! Why, ’leaven, of course. Dan Rice at the zenith of his fame as an equestrian made a successful attempt to ride half a score of careering horses at once. Whrn he was in the act of mounting them what time was it 2 Going on ten. The Rev. Dr. Scudder Judson, of the Can- nibsl Island mission, was devoured by one of his converts in a moment of temporary de- generation of the moral tissues. What time was it 7 Ate. A cor but dishonest importer of pork de- acen ed from a. prominent French family asked Bismarck fox-the hand ofhis daughter. What time was it ‘3 Certainly nein. The poet Wordsworth “ met a. little cot- tage girl,” and taking the child by the hand he went before the lending notary public of the lake country and took an affidavit that it was high noon. What time was it 7 As the poet emphatically exhibited the affidavit to the tiny maiden she shook her head and exclaimed after consulting her own jewelled chronometer, “Nay, master, we are seven" It was at a. Christmas dinner. Just as in spring syoung man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love, so on the 25th of December all {An- eies give way to thoughts of charity. “ Speaking of charity,” said one of the fair partskers of this dinner, “ Mr. Middleman: met three tramps this morning ; to the first he gave 5 cents, to the second 10 cows, and to the third 10 centsâ€"what time was it .9 Ail give it up ‘2 Want me to tell you? \Vhy, it, is easy to see what time it Wasâ€"a quarter to three,” ’ Half a dozen reckless men,maddened with lemonade which had been served to them at a church fair, went out to fight a. duel. But such was their ferocious thirstâ€"not for more of the lemonade but for each other’s bloodâ€"that only half of them took the pre- caution to provide themselves with seconds What time was it ? Three seconds to six. Once when Captain Kidd was sailing o'er the Spanish Main, taking out a cargo of Bibles,to the heathen, a row broke out among the passengers which we: speedily quelled by the Inboard watch felling five of the ringleader: of the disturbance to the deck What time was it ‘2 The watch struck five. The day fv-llowing the propounding of this cunundrum the propounder received a note from one of her fellow diners-out of the day before in which the opinion was respectfully but firmly expressed that there are as good horologicsl v uuundrums in the sea as ever had come‘ ua of itâ€"at a quarter to three. The note uad appended to it this casual postscript : .. . p , "WLAA- A-.. Paul,‘aftvr courting her for seventeen con- secutive years, succeeded in gaining the land of Virginia. . When she became his, what time was it T J uet won. Two of an honest old farmer's hired hands were sent out at the merry Christmas time to gather ivy for the decoration of the bou- r‘nir ,uf the honest old farmer’s second wife. What time was it ? Both hand! at IV. Alexander Little,Eeq,, discovering that} is only and fondly dated-upon daughter had eloped in her best gown with an ab ndoned circus man, hurried in pursuit. What time was it? A Little after two. Apollo was sitting upon abank where the wild thyme grew, having two of the Graces on one side of him and the remaining one on his other side. Apollo, what time was It ‘! Near three. Among the Flathead Indians A HOLIDAY DIVE RSIflN. The ocean fisheries of France and Algeria, according to the 15st Government report, employ over 87.000 persons and 24,000 ves- sels, while the value of the fish taken is be- tween sixteen and seventeen millions of dol- lars. The fresh water fisheries amount to about one-third as much more. The cholera epidemic interfered with this trade very ap- preciably, especially in the items of sardines and oysters. As a whole, the Mediterran- ean fisheries were deficient last year, and fishermen suflered greatly in some districts. In the Memoirs of Gustave Dore some interesting statistics are given with regard to his earnings. It is estimated that be- tween 1850 and 1870 his illustrations brought him $1,400.000. A morning’s work has been known to realise $2000. But it was the number of his works, quite as much as the unprecedentedly high rate of remuneration which he commanded, that made his earn- ings so large. Everything brought grist to his mill, from Dante to an almanac. He was not actuated bye. greed of grain, but by the desire to establish a monopoly of talent in his own person. About the age of 23 he conceived the plan of illustrating some forty of the great masterpieces of lit- erature, from Homer downward, and in 1865 he had executed seven. Thomas Stevens, who is attempting to make the tour of the world on a bicycle, had some rough experiences in Asia Minor. The people did not know what to make of his strange steed. In some places they would not let him enter their villages, and would have no dealings with him. In other places the inhabitants decided that he was the devil, and threw stones at him. As a rule, however, he was very well received. He is now at Teheran, where he will spend the winter, and will start next spring on his long journey mross Khorasan, Afghanis- tan, and China. A French chemist has brought forward a new method of manufacturing gunpowder. The requisite quantity of sulphur is dissolv- ed in sulphide of carbon and this solution is then mixed with the carbon, which, in- stead of charcoalâ€"es in other modes of powder makingâ€"is cotton or some other cellulose fibre, which is reduced to an im- pelpable powder. To this mixture is finally added the proper quantity of a saturated solution of saltpetre. The compound is now evaporated and the orystalization broken up, or it is evaporated in a vacuum. A very perfect incorporation of the several substances is thus secured. In Germany apothecsries are not allowed to sell miscellaneous articles, on the ground that such sales are likely to divert the clerk attention from the delicate duty of comâ€" pounding medicines. There are drug stores where miscellaneous articles are for sale, but no prescriptions can be prepared in them, under severe penalties. Poisonous articles are kept in a. room reserved ex- clusively for them. As an lllustrat ion of the fact that school attendance during epidemics largely contri- butes to the spread of infectious diseases, it is stated that during the late serious out- breaks of diphtheria in the ironstone vil- lages of England the closing of a school prov- ed in every instance an effective means of bringing each local epidemic to an and. The-fimna and Medical Mission School of India is reported to have been very auc- oeaeful, sixty-one women having already been graduated and aided in the prosecution of their work of healing the sick and teach- ing Christianity to the neglected women and children in the East. The Emperor of Germany, who makes unctuous speeches declaring that religion is all in all to him, deems it coneietent there with to tear from their homes in winter women on the eve of childbirth and paraly- tic old men, and pack them over the frontier for no other cause then that they were born Poles. 7 He is thus responsible for the death of drzefli. Mme. Modjeska’a eon. Mr. leph Mod- jeska, according to the London Court Jour- nal, has received a special Papal dispensa- tion permitting him tomarry his cousin, and the wedding will take place in New York in December. The lady is only 17 years old, and her name is Felicia Benda. that great mountain-chain are there found peaks and lofty, serrated ridges of more strikingrnppgaranoe. The Earl of Dysart, who married Miss Florence Newton a. few daya ago, does not come of age until he is fortv, but he has an allowance from his trustees of £20,000 a year, which will be multiplied by {our when he has his income in his own hands. Dr Pringle lately demonstrated before the British Society of Arts that in tha Him- alayan portion of India inoculation against small-pox “had been practised from what might be termed time immemorial.” The :bfifidanoe and variety «sf the flowers are simply wonderful Even in the depths of the densest fowsta wild roses growZin pro- fusion I have picked bouquets of a dozen different blossoms, while riding through the woods, without dismounting from my pony. The exact expense of the funeral of Vic- tor Hugo has only juat been added up and given to the world. It amounts to 101,- 532 francs, $20,306.40. The Chamber vot- ed 20,000 francs toward it. And as to the 23pm valleys, they art; like immense fields and parterres of bloom,â€" natural gardens which for richness of color- eflucns no art cbn surpass. Otter hunting with trained dogs is still 9. favorite British sport, notwithstanding that this shy animal In one of the most difficult to “preserve” in a populous country. Efforts are making toward restocking with trout the Les, near London, now an exhausted stream, but revered by angelera because it was there Izaak Walton plied the rod. The Indians are kind and hospitable to travelleralmready to lend and rowa. boat for a small fewS or to hire themselves and their ponies for long trips in the mountains. They bomt that their tribe never killed a white mam. The latest popular song in Australia is said to be “Straighten the Toes of My buried Leg." A recent ba.tch of Austrian life peers, 14, included a cotkn spinner, the Director of the State Printing Office, and three profes- SOI‘E. November was a mouth of unusually favorable weather in the fox hunting dis- tricts of Great Britain, and the sport was extraon din n‘y. FokElGN ECHOES. “ RITA, MY RITA !” hugging and kissing her, end crying at the same time, the tears, probably the first shed tor years, rolling down her cheeks. The frightened girl endeavored at first to disengage herself, but at a reassur- ing sign from Mrs. Clark submitted to the caresses of the insane women. With consid- erable difficulty they tore themselves away from her, and, making a. solemn promise to return next day, they departed. On the following morning, according to promise, they called at the institntr-w and learned that a. wonderful change thl come over the patient, that instead of raving the whole night long, she had by 0 very quiet and had wepta great deal. Btl"é shown into her After rechvering somewhat from his sur- prise, he endeavored to question her, but could get no intelligent answer, and after some little delay left the asylum. The in- terview, however, preyed on his mind, and on his return home he communicated to his wife the strange interview. She, with a woman’s quick perception, at once jumped to a conclusion, which succeeding events proved to be correct. It was finally ar- ranged between them that Rita should be taken with them to the asylum and Mrs. Clark’s theory tested. Accordingly on pre- tense, 01 an excursion the three took the train one day and v arriving at Pueblo pro~ ceeded at once to the asylum. After a slight delay they were shown into the crazy wo- man’s room. At first she did not see the 'rl, then in looking at her visitors she sud- enly discovered her and with a cry that was hardly human in its intensity she threw herself upon her screaming: HAD TURNED HER BRAIN, as when found she was insane, and ever since the burden of her talk has been mas- sacres, fights, and all the horrors of Indian brutalities. Then she seems to have a child for whom she is constantly calling. The party entered the room and found quite a lady-like looking person, who at first re- ceived them pleasantly and as any sane per- son would. Something about her features, which, although oarowom and haggard, gave evidence of former beauty, struck Mr. Clark as of some one he had seen before. After a few moment’s conversation with him, she startled him with the question: “ Where is my Rita. '1 You have taken her from meâ€"my beautiful child.” Mr. Clark was so astonished for a moment that he eonlgl not speak: \ A'I’TAC‘KED BY morass, i the women carried off, and the men all kill- ed. The child tried to indicate the place ‘ of the massacre, but was so bewildered by her wandering that it was im ssible to learn anything from her can used talk. One of the men took the little thing on his horse in front of him, and after a fruitless search for an hour or two, the men pushed on, as the sun was getting high in the heavens and there was a long journey be- fore them are arriving at the ranch the cat. tle corral for which they were bound and wished to reach before night. After some hours of hard riding their destination was reached without incident. On the following day one of the men at the ranch, having busi- ness in Denver, brought the fonndling to the then young city. The child’s sto excited considerable attention and sympa- thy from the citizens, and a childless marri- ed lady of West Denver» named Clark, who had crossed the plains some years before, adopted the waif as her own. The only name the child could give was Rita, and there was nothing about her clothing or person to indicate who her parents were or where she came from. All she knew of her former home was that it was in a large city far away. Rita grew rapidly and in the course of several years bid fair to become A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADY. fier foster parents were in thriving cir- cumstances, and lavished their means freely on the education of the child, whom they cherished and loved as if she were of their flesh and blood. One day Mr. Clark, hav- ing business at Pueblo, was induced by a friend to visit the insane asylum. ’1'he of- ficial, in accompanying them through the different wards, explained the various phas- es and peculiarities of the fancies of the patients. Finally they reached an apart- ment occupied by a woman, whose case, the official explained, was rather peculiar. She was rescued from the Cheyennes several years ago by the troops. How long she had been a captive was not known, but it is sup- posed that the indignities she had suffered. and the horrors she had passed through WAlli‘ ON THIS \VATERLESS SEA, and discover a ohi‘d of perhaps 5 years of age, now walking then falling to the ground in its apparently aimless journey. Upon reaching the lonely atom of humanity it is found to be a girl with face and hands scratched and bleeding, and clothing torn nearly to shreds from frequent contact with the thorns of the cruel cactus. Upon the approach of the men she ceased her crying and gazed at them with a frightened look. Where did she come from and how did she get here ? Did she drop from the clouds ? Nothing else of life was visible ; the whole expanse of plain was a blank. It was some time before the child could be reassured to talk, and then only inooherently between her sobs. The men gathered that some time about daybreak an emigrant train of two wagons with the child's parents and several other persons had been History of Two Survivors of u Cruel Indian ' Massacre. An endless sea of sandy plain, almost a dead level, save the sand-dunes which here and there, like billows from some far-(iii sea beating upon the endless shore, crossed the country in long lines lost in the distance, cactus, sage-brush, and a few wild flower» of vivid celering. whose very existence on the dry desert waste was a marvel, composing the only vegetation visible. Occasionally in the distance,‘along the banks of the slug- gish, turbid river which flows hundreds of miles acro:s the desert, could be seen a few cottonwoods and willows which form the cover for numerous antelope. Away in the o posits direction, however, stretching into the far distance until 10st in the horiZOn, was the same dreary, monotonous level waste. It was early morning, and the sun was shooting his horizontal rays across the glistening sands. Two horsemen were rid- ing along the trail, when a small object, moving slowly along. sometimes seamingiy walking upright, anon crawling on the ground excited their attention and curiosity. Nearer the object comes and, wonder of wonders, the men discover while yet at some distance that it is a human being, ap- parently a child. Turning their horses they rapidly approach the THE WAIF 0F TIIE PLAINS An English workingman, just past the middle age, found that his pipe, which for many years had been a great comfort to him, was beginning to seriously afl‘eot his nerves. Before giving it up, however, be determined to find out if there was no way by which he might continue to smoke without feefing its effects to an injurious extent. He acoord~ ingly wrote to a medical journal, and “3w” recommended to fill the bowl of the, pipe one-third full of table salt and press the to-~ bacco hard down upon it, as in ordinary smoking. The result was very satisfactory" During the process of smoking the salt soL ldifies, while remaining porous, and when the hardened lump is removed, at the end of the day's smoking, it is found to have ab- sorbed so much of the oil of tobacco as to be deeply colored. The salt should be renewed daily, At a. recent grange fair in Lunenburg. the wife of Rev. Mr. Allen exhibited a curi- osity in the shape of a lady’s bonnet made entirely of fire-cured tobacco. It was a beautiful specimen of ladiea’ handiwork. The period of 424 years is not so signifi- cant ; but it was the exact duration of Solo- mon’s temple. Then as to 480, it was the measure of the dynasties of Pepin end Clov~ is, and likewise of the Roman rule in Britein. Even in modern days these coincidences have been gravely ascribed to the influence of the planets upon the lives of men. They appear not to have been noted by the astrologers of the seventeenth century, who were fer more ingenious and resourceful than their predecessors, over whom they had the ad- vantage of the real, if smell acquaintance with science. These wonderful things have been mainly discovered by the astrologers and mystics of our generation, of whom the world holds not a few. Going to ancient history, there were kings of Rome for just as long as there were Planâ€" tagenet kings of England ; in the last year of the fatal term, ended the early Hebrew monarchy ; there was a similar period be tween the death of Elisha and the capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzer, and be tween the beginning and the end of the line of the Seleucldze. Also, although it is not strictly A case in point, there was an interval of 244 years between the death of the Em- peror Julian and the establishment of the Papal suptjemecy. The 244th year of a dynasty has so often proved to be the last, that the coincidence is extremely odd. The Plantagenets reign- ed exactly 244 years ; so did the Meroving- ian kings of France, and the Lombard kings of Italy. Taking the accepted dates as correct, 244 years was the length of the Saxon rule in Britain from Hengist to Ina. The St. James‘ Gazette, in an article on numbers, gives this curlous fact, which any one who will, may verify, thatcertain numbers have constantly proved fatal to dynasties" These mysterious figures are 220, 244, 224, and 480. It would be easy to collect a long string of proofs of the fatality which hovers around each of these members. Ins Description of the Charge ofonc Canad- ian Soldier upon 11 Hundred Indian 19, and His Heroic Death. Mason Mitchell now a member of a travel- ling theatrical company, in a late interview, said :â€"“The papers had me dead in the Riel rebellion, obituaried me, and worried my people to death. I was pretty close to it several times during the seventy days of course. How did I get into it? I was with Kate Claxton at Winnipeg when the rebellion broke out. The Canadian troops needed scouts, and as I had seen a great deal of frontier life in the way of trapping and fur hunting, I volunteered and left the Kate Claxton company. In the succeeding seventy days I went through enough excit- ing life to last me for several years. It was a proud day for me when I brought Big Bear into headquarters. One man who died up theve deserves a monument. He was a common soldier named Elliott. A ‘ supply train had been started for Baitleford and I put after it the next day. There were but three guards with it, and, using my glass, I saw the terrified train drawing together as they were being rounded up by an encircling band of howling Indiana. Being only one man against a hundred, I sat still with a rifle across the saddle and watched. A way ch" in the right I saw Elliott, who had been out for some distance, bearing back toward the train, riding with full knowledge of his death. Withont lesâ€" sening his gait as he came on he gave shots from his Winchester. At last it was emp- tied, but he rode on until they lassooed him and he fell. While on the ground he drew his revolver and gave them defiance while the charges lasted. He was badly wounded and I saw him shift his weapon to his other hand and with difficulty fire his last shot and then throw the empty pistol at the fore- most man. They then went for him with knives and hatchets. The squaws new cut- him across the abdomen and pulled his heart out. While this was going on others Were digging a hole, and into this they put poor, Elliott head 'first, and buried, him with his heels sticking out. With leisure on their hands now for the first time they sighted me, and gave chase for six miles, when my grain fed horse, distanced their Indian ponies, and in the chase their shoot- ing was not as accurate as mine, for they never gave a scratch.” '1‘ch LONG LOST MOTHER of Rita. Her discharge was easily secured, the Clerks agreeing to care for her, and she was taken to the pleasant Denver home, where she entirely recovered after a. time. Rita, blessed with the i ve of two mothers, was happier if anything than before. and some time afterward married an estimable gentleman: of means, beingcomfortably dow- ered by her foster parents, is living in a cozy dwelling on Broadway with her moth- er snd husband, an ornament to the circle in which she moves. presence, she seemed only to see Rita, who, having been instructed by her foster par ents, submitted to the caresses lavished up- on her. put in a more quiet manner, by the unfortunate woman. Feeling satisfied that her suspicions were correct. Mrs. Clark in~ siated upon remaining in Pueblo for a. few days, during which fraquent visits \were made to the asylum, the woman seam is to become more sane with each visit and $119 ing more coherently about the past. Final- IV the whole cruel history was told by he 1*, proving beyond a. doubt that she was AN ACTOR’S EXPERIENCE. Put This in Your Pipe. Fatal Numbers.