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WICKED PATTY CANNON. are only modified epidormis. Corns are among the "excrescences" of civilization. A higher civilization, however, which shall conform the shoe to the foot, instead of the foot to the shoe, will know of them only as we know of the crushed feet iof Chinese women. A thickening of the epidermis having been caused at the points of special pressure, this inflames still further the skin beneath, giving rise to successive layers of thickened epidermis, which can" not be thrown off like ordinary scarf skin.

Between the vital force beneath, and the pressure of the shoe above, the central portion comes to have the hardness of nail. If a splinter is left in the finger the flesh above and around it will die, and new skin be formed bdow, which will in time lift the spinter out. But in the case of corns, nature's efforts are thwarted by the persistent pressure from above, which constantly enlarges the corn from below. The first step toward relief is to secure a shoes anatomically correct in construe- ing with a foot on each car, was torn in two. One-half of Jim went on to Utica, the other half went back with the wild car to Binghamton.

The half of him on the smoking clt had his ticket and watch, so that section got through without any trouble. But the other half had his pocketbeck and no ticket. It had to pay local fare ail the way back to Bing-hamton, although its way was paid clear to Utica, but the company refused to allow that on hi. return passage, nor would it permit him to ride half fare. It is just that unreasonable sort of a companion.

And then he was going up to Utica to be married, but the half that went back to Biinghamton got awfully mashed on a Coventry girl and married her, but before he could get word to the other half of him, it had gone on and married his old Utica first love, she accepting what there was of him for better or worse. Then he was afraid to come together, you see, for fear he would be arrested on a charge of contributory bigamy, and in dividing up his property so that the two families might live separately, he quarreled with himself, accusing each other of trying to get the biggest half, and at last he sued himself and went to law about it. But when the matter was decided, of course he had to pay the lawyers on both sides. This drove him to financial ruin. Then he tried to commit suicide, but every time one side of him took poison the other side took an antidote or went howling after a doctor and a stomach pump, and when the Bing-hamton fellow tried to shoot himself the Utica half dodged and spoiled the shot.

And so he dragged out a miserable lingering existence, and didn't more than half enjoy his life." "Did he ever come together?" asked the t3ll, thin passenger. "No," the sad passenger said, "he was unreconciled to the end. To both ends, in fact. Finally one of them started a daily paper to fill a long felt want, and the other half taught a private school in Amsterdam, and they starved each other to death in six weeks." BURIED ALIVE FOR A DAY. The Miraculous ISscape of Two Miners Imprisoned by a Fall of Hock.

New York Times. A thrilling experience of two miners, John R. Price and Daniel M. Davis, who were buried alive for twenty-four hours in the Watkins and Williams mines, near Carbondale, Pa. The two imprisoned miners were employed on the night shaft in constructing a head to connect the old and new workings of the mine, when a terrific fall of roof, about twenty feet in extent, occurred between themselves and the entrance, completely pletely shutting up their only avenue of escape.

The "heading" was about seven feet in width and six feet high, and the space was exceeding narrow where Price andjDavis found themselves with a horse and coal car, alter the terror of the fall had passed away. Their unfortunate situation was not discovered until the morning following, when Morgan Reese and William Davis were going to take their places. The new comers were horrified to find the entrance to the heading barred by a rough and jagged mass of coal and rock, and they thought surely their comrades must have been crushed beneath the ruins. called with all his might and was answered from within-by Davis, who said they were all right and in a place of perfect safety. The news of the accident spread rapidly, and in less than half an hour the people of Carbondale were hurrying to the scene in scores to assist in the work of releasing the buried miners.

The rescuing party went to work with great earnestness and was making splendid head way, when another crash came tearing down the crumbling rock and burying the horse beneath a huge mass. It was surely thought that the imprisoned miners were struck by this last fall, but the ringing voice of Davis gave hope to the workers outside. Another force of men was then pressed info service to sink a shaft from the the yielding nature of the earth and rock made their progress somewhat slow. Just as it was thought success had crowned the undertaking, and one of the rescuing party was in the act of talking to Davis, through a narrow opening, a fresh slide of earth filled up thespabe and brought new terror to all. Thus, all day lone, the earnest, excited crowds without worked for the release of the imprisoned men, who were finally rescued at 8 o'clock at night.

As soon as Davis and Price staggered out of their living tomb, they were greeted with a cheer and surrounded by joyous friends. Price was unable to speak, but Davis appeared in good spirits, and gave an intelligent account of the adventure. He said: "The mines closed in Monday night about 12 o'clock. When we found ourselves shut up we used short rails the manner of props, as we had no other timber to use in propping up the edge of the broken roof. We then brought the coal car from the face of the heading, placed it close to the fall, took up the road truck and built a log support on top of the car with the ties.

All this was done in a few minutes. B3'' this time our lights went out, and, having no oil, we were compelled to struggle in the dark and do the best we coufd to await relief. The second fall came about 12 o'clock Tuesday morning, when the horse was caught and killed by the crash. We were taken out about 8 o'clock Tuesday night." The scene of the accident is only a short distance from that of the forty-acre fall of roof which occurred many years ago, and under which several men and mule3 were killed. That fall ia especially noted because of the experience of the late John Hosie, who was buried in.

the mines for nearly a week, and was mourned as dead by all his friends, when he struggled home. crime, but I recon I have done enough other bad things to stretch hemp." He was proceeding to say further, when Brewington, perhaps to shield his mother in-law, interrupted him to exclaim "Never mind, now, Jesse Griffin. Say no more. We are at the end of onr rope." Grifi5n is buried in the woods, near a mill pond, on the road between Seaford and Cannon's Ferry. The Bed Room.

Good words. The room in which the enfeebled person has been sitting before going to bed has been warmed probably up to summer heat; a light meal has been taken before retiring to rest, and then the bed room is entered. The. bed; room perchance has no fire in it, or if a fire be lighted provision 3 not made to keep it alight for more than an hour or two. The result is that in the early part of the morning, from three to four o'clock, when the temperature of the air in all parts is lowest, the glow from the fire or stove which should warm the room has ceased, and the room is cold to an extreme degree.

In country houses the water will often be found frozen in the hand basins or ewers under these conditions. Meanwhile the sleeper lies unconscious of the great change which is taking place in the air around him. Slowly and surely there is a decline of temperature to the extent, it may be, of thirty to forty degrees on the Fahrenheit scale; and though he may fairly covered with bed clothes he is receiving into his lungs this cold air, by which the circulation through the lungs is materially modified. The condition of the bodv itself is at thi very time unfavorable for meeting any emergency. In the period between midnight and six in the morning, the animal vital processes are at their lowest ebb.

It is in these times that those who arf enfeebled from any cause most frequently die. We physicians often consider these hours as critical, and forewarn anxious friends in respect to them. From time immemorial those who have been accustomed to wait and attend on the sick, have noted these hours most anxiously, so that they have been called by one of our old writers "the hours of fate." In this space of i time the influence of the life-giving sun has been longest withdrawn from man, and the hearts that are even the strongest beat then with subdued force. Sleep is heaviest and death io nearest to us all in "the hours fate." The feeble, therefore, are most exposed to danger during this period pf time, and they are most exposed to one particular danger, that of congestion of the lungs, for it is the bronchial surface of the lungs that is most exposed to the action of the chilled air, and in the aged that exposure is hazardous. Crying Over Spilt Milk.

Harper's Bazar. There are some people so unfortunately constituted that they cannot as easily appreciate the blessings that belong to them as those which they have missed, are perpetually groaning over something lost, or denied, or wasted, the disparagement of the goods the gods have provided. If a dish is broken or a garment rent, instead of quickly making the best of it, since no amount of chafing or crying will restore any injured article to its pristine glory, they recur again and again to the disaster, till one might suppose nothing less than a convulsion of nature would demand such a hue and cry. A stolen purse is a text on which infinite changes may be rung among this class; and one might believe that the loss of a night's sleep could be readily repaired by weeping and gnashing of teeth, while the lamentations of Jeremiah are weak compared to the bewailing thev make over a ruined enterprise or a fickle lover. "We have gains for all our losses," says the verse, but surely the gain is not to'be secured by making ourselves and everybody about us miserable on account of our mishaps; the one who bears with fortitude calamities which, great or small, are beyond her control, wins whatever advantage there is to be derived from them, aad makes adversities, no less than prosperity, minister to her development.

If oar friends disappoint us bemoaning will not recompense us; if "youth, the dream, departs," deploring it will only hasten the ravages of time; if moths corrupt our will not act as an exterminator; though the early frcst kills our favorite violets dead, the sweetest showers can ne'-sr make grow again." Although we are well aware that crying over spilt milk is but so much wasted time and energy, yet many of us practice it with ja total disregard of consequences, which would be heroic if used in a more unselfish cause. In the meanwhile there is a sort of hopeless pleasure in sorrowing over tle spilt milk, which however blue or sour it may have seemed when ours, becomes all that milk should be the instant it leaves our grasp. "Blessings brighten as they take their flight," and sometimes it is only when we have lost a thing, that we grow capable of estimating its value, and discover how necessary it was to our well-being. It is cold comfort, perhaps, but one which we are apt to hug, to reflect with bitterness upon what a different aspect the world would wear for us if certain pails of milk we wot of had not miscarried; if Angelina had married old Goldpill, instead of a country parson; if Aunt Goodenough had remembered us in her will instead of the Feejee Islanders; if the love of our youth had proposed in person, instead of trusting tender avowals to the mercies of the postman. The Jacksonville Journal is authority for the statement that "A railway conductor leads a Sunday-school in Kansas City, attended by 300 scholars." And another railway agent, Mr.Reid, formerly of Jacksonville, or vicinity, conducts a Sunday-school in Kansas City which has an attendance of from S00 to 1,400 A Gang of Outlaws, Id bj a female, Who Made Things Lively Some Sixty-Tears Ago.

Cincinnati Enquirer. At the clo3e of the war with England in 1814, the violent spirits engaged in privateering from the Chesapeake where most of the fast Bailing privateers were built, on this very eastern shore returned and found the most congenial employment to be negro stealing. Georgia and Carolina traders or dealers were regularly visiting this region, and among the low families they found to be tempted into the trade of kidnapping from Delaware was old Patty Cannon and her connections, the Johnson family. This woman wa3 a thick-set, large-breasted powerful necked athlete of a woman, with black hair and dark eyes. She was beautiful in youth, and had a beautiful daughter by her husband, who was a plain farmer named James Cannon, tempted to marry into her low condition by her beauty.

He Boon died perhaps harassed to death or p'iX out of the way and she consorted with the negro traders, and set the example of raiding the free negroes of Delaware, putting on male attire, riding her horse astraddle and leading her young kin folks and familiars on midnight enterprises. They made the roads of Delaware terrible to any black man, and even white people were afraid to go out. Patty taught her boys not to fear to shed blood, and as this band had their imitators, the entire boundary line of Delaware became a dark and bloody ground, its low forests and marshy spots abounding with man stealers, who went about like the dog catchers of these days with cords and nooses, to run down, tie, and take away blacks of all canditions. Any unscrupulous Delawarian who had negroes which would be his only for a term of years, made arrangements with these gangs to steal them and divide the proceeds. Frolicking or dissipated apprentices and white men were encouraged to decoy away negroes, or to steal their own or their neighbors property, and to transfer the prey to Patty Cannon and her gang.

The gang Goon found a more rapid way to make money than even negro-stealing this was by murdering the negro traders who came with large sums of. money to the neighborhood to buy kidnapped blacks. It is believed that Patty Cannon was the instigator of this system of murder, the extent of which will never be fully known. The first one happened in 1814, and will be presently described. At that time Patty Cannon was perhaps forty years of age.

Two other southern traders disappeared about her premises, and one of these, whom she killed single-banded in 1820, was bo far from his friends in the cotton States that his name could never be put in the indictment, though he died in a town of 400 people, riding in dead or dying, as they had" shot him on the way. "One day a negro trader, with an appearance of being loaded with plentiful money, came to Patty Cannon's well-known resort to buy kidnapped negroes. He was a stranger, driving a vehicle in which was supposed to be his money, and he said he wanted a large drove of negroes, and was ready to pay for them well. At the time the gang had no human chattels, but the idea of murdering this man without further trouble, unknown as he was in that isolated region, far from his home in Georgia, or Louisiana, immediately occurred to old Patty, and they used many arguments to have him stay over night. He suspected them for some reason, and resolved to drive to the town of Laurel, about eight milea distant, and put up there for the night.

He had to goby Cannon's ferry to cross the Nanticoke river. As soon as he started old Patty Cannon and two brothers named Griffin, and her" son-in-law Brewington, with probably the Johnsons, galloped for a place called Slabtown, a mile above Cannon's ferry, and crossed the river in a skill', and reached a point in the road to Laurel town in advance of the trader, and hastily obstructed the road with brush, or saplings, so as to force him to a halt. Patty Cannon was in man's disguise and the spirit of assassination, and urging her son in-law to the deed and driving the Griffins an. Others say she only instigated Brewington, and he alone knew of her complicity. As the man came to the felled brusn the gang arose from concealment and shot him fatally, and also wounded his horse.

As the animal, leaped wildly with pain, the man fell forward, but, with swooning faculties, drew his pistol, and with dying eyes, presented it, while the horse rushed over the barrier aud, running wildly, carried the sttanger into Laurel town. lUin scatter he is not dead," cried one of the gang, said to be Brewington, still young in blood. The dying man dealer lived till next day, and his horse, it is said, also died, but the blood of a white man shed in that unlawful business, did finally cry for vengeance, and the murder was tracked to the two Griffins and to Brewington and to other masculine parties unknown. Brewington wa3 Patty Cannon's first son in-law, and that matronly relat'on probably saved Patty from exposure. John Cxiiflin, the more guilty of the two brothers, swore the murder upon his brother Jesse and Brewington.

Brewington is eaid to have related on the gallows that his first act of crime was while a blacksmith's eon, to observe a stranger who entered the smith's shop and dropped a piece ot money, and Brewington, then a boy. immediately put his foot on it. Yv'hen the man passed out, the boy's father clapped his hand on his shoulder and exclaimed: Smart boy John Griilin, who turned state's evidence, confessed when he himself hanged at Princess Anne, Maryland, some time later for another crime, that he had been more prominent in the Kidgeway murder than who, dying at Georgetown, Delaware, said to the spectators: "I am innocent of this tion. JMeanwnile, remove the pressure from the corn in whatever way may be possible. A pointed knife run downward between the layeis will easily take out for the time the central" core.

Sometimes it can be picked out with-the nail, after soaking in warm water. The soaking swells the core and like posts lifted by the frost, it seldom returns fully to its place. But as the cores always fill up again, the only permanent remedy is the removal of the cause. lleplevining a Dregs. Omaha Herald.

Constable Edgerton had a trying and peculiar experience in the performance of his duties yesterday, which he is not anxious to repeat. He was authorized to replevin a silk dress, which was the property of the wife of a professional man, and was in the possession of a young German who lives near the depot. Edgerton proceeded to the residence of the young woman in company with the husband of the owner of the dress and proceeded to serve the writ of replevin. The woman strenuously objected to surrendering the property, and when Mr. Edgerton started to open the trunk in which it was contained she undertook to baffle him.

Quick as thought she began to unfasten the dress which she wore, with the intention of changing it for the gown in dispute, seeing that if she could succeed in putting it on she could hold it, for the constable would not attempt to take it from her person. Edgerton comprehended the situation, and having objections to witnessing the impending diehabille performance, no less than to being defeated on his writ, interrupted the woman's movements, and directed the husband to take out the dress for himself. The woman, who was large and muscular, made a stout resistance, and called in her brother, who entered the room brandishing a spade. Edgerton succeeded in overawing him in the name of the law, before any blood was shed, and the husband retired in good order with the dress, leaving Edgerton to cover his retreat and with the enraged woman and her brother. The room looked as if it had been the scene of an impromptu Grteco-Roman wrestle as the officer left.

The Freezing Cure. The Physician. By means of freezing parts may be rendered wholly insensible to pain, so that slight surgical operations may be easily performed. When the freezing is long continued the frozen parts may lose the vitality entirely, which will cause them to slough away. By this means, excrescences, as wartsj wens and polypi, fibrous and sebaceous tumors, and even malignant tumors, as cancers, may be successfully removed.

Small cancers may sometimes be cured by repeated and long-ccntinued freezing. Their growth may certainly be impededby this means. A convenient mode of application in cancer of the breast is ta suspend from the nsck a rubber bag filled with powdered ice, allowing it to lie against the cancerous organ. Freezing may be accomplished by applying a spray of ether, by means of an atomizer or by a freezing mixtuie composed ot equal parts of pounded ice and salt, or two parts of snow to one of salt. Mix quickly, put into a gauze bag and apply" to the part to be frozen.

In three to six minutes the skin will become white aiid glistening, when the bag should' be removed. Freezing should not be continued more lhu.11 six minutes at a time, as the tissues may be hardened, though usually no harm results from repeated freezing, if proper care is used in thawing the frozen part. It should be kept immeised in cool water or covered will. ciotns tept cool oy nequent wettir; with cold water, until the natural feeli is restored. Felons may often be cured COJJCiailJT UUU IUCJ UlOb UCJjm, UJ freezing two or three times.

Lumbago and sciatica, as well as other forms of neuralgia, are sometimes almost instantly relieved by freezing of the skin immediately above the painful part. We fcave cured some of tne most obstinate cases of sciatica by this means, after other remedies had failed. Emigration to Cape Colony from Great Britain is fast increasing. For 1875 the returns show nlv 1,332 emigrants; for 18S0 the number" was for 1881 it was 4,163. These 4,163 consisted of 324 men for the government railways, 2.61 artisans and domestic servants, 758 agy culturists, and 468 recruits for the Caj Mounted Riflemen.

The agriculture-took out with them, in money aloi an aggregate of $77,325, or a little ov 100 for each man, woman or child ax organization Known as tne enna-ren's Scripture Union was formed in London, England, in April, 1879, and has since spread through different paits of Europe, until now there are about 0,000 branches, comprising nearly members- The object is to promote among children and young people the regular daily reading of the Bible. Men Who Faint and Powder. N. Y. Sun.

There are men in New York who paint and powder. The number is saialf, but they exist, if the statements of druggists and barbers and dealers in toilet preparations are to be trusted. They are usually young men, not of the highest fashion, and are to be found occasionally in the lobbies of theatres, or speaking English at the French balls. The practice began a few years ago, and nas not flourished. The "custom of banging the hair among men, on the other hand, grew very rapidly.

Capoul, the tenor, gave it impetus, and now in almost any assembly frequented by the well-to do youth of the city there are one or more men's heads with banged hair. A druggist of this city, in speaking on the subject, said: We sell many bottles of cosmetics, blooms, lily whites and the like, to men, and the inference is that they buy for their wives or sisters, but in some instances they unquestionably buy for themselves. It doesn't need a practiced eye to tell this. The effect on the face is easily discernible." Speaking of cosmetics, are any of them absolutely harmless "I could not recommend a single one conscientiously. They all contain ingredients more or less injurious, and should not be used with any irequency." A barber whose place is near Twenty-third stre3t, and who counts inany young men about town among his customers, said "The desire to look beautiful is about as strong in an idle young man as it is in an idle young woman.

Many of my customers have no end of trouble in fixing themselves up. I sell a good deal in the way of liquid cosmetics, though nothing like lily white or pearl wash. Young fellows will come here twice a day to have their faces well rubbed with a mixture of bay rum, glycerine and several other fluids which have a soothing eflect on tne skin. They come ostensibly to be shaved in tne morning, and to have their hair dressed at night, but they really want their faces attended to. They often say Tut a little powder on my chin, it looks so black but if you put a little powder all over the face and then smoothe it down, and make a feint of rubbing it off with a towel, they're sure to come again." There is quite a house in Fourteenth street devoted entirely, according to its many signs, "to the beautification of the person." The reporter climb to the second floor, opened a glass door and found himself in a small reception room.

A girl was addressing circulars at a table. Her complexion was decidedly bad. Perhaps, however, she is only a subject. Again, sne may be a result. "What did you wish, sir?" she asked.

"Do you do up men's face3 with a critical look "I'll call madame." Madame came and the reporter stated his errand. She thought a moment and then said "I see no reason why a gentleman should not improve his complexion. I have seven regular male customers. Two of them come thiee times a week and have their nails and hair attended to, besides the "Vhat do you do to the face 1 "First we use a stringent iotion with considerable camphor ia it, which takes the natural oil out Of the face. Then we remove the blemishes.

Moles are taken out with a preparation of iron. Then we build the complexion up with and she went on to give a list of concoctions. "What kind of men are these, madame?" "Oh," said she, "they're nice young men; quite nice." Corns and Their Cnre. Corns consist of layers of thickened, epidermis the transparent coating that protects the sensitive true skin beneath. This epidermis is in constant process of formation from the true skin, and is as constantly being thrown off in minute particles.

It is as destitute of feeling as the nails; indeed, the nails asalso the scales on the legs of fowls and on bodies of fishes A Disgusted Widow. Capt. has just returned from the Warm Springs. The Captain is a widower. At the springs was a widow who rather set her cap for the Captain.

The girls told him to loot out, and the Captain replied, "Well, he was ready." Sitting out on the portico one evening, the cool breeze fanning like a ten-cent palm-leaf, and thinking of his daughters far away at school, the widow moved up and opened the conversation. "I hear, Captain, you have grown-up daughters?" "Yes, Madam, I have." "How I should like to see their pictures." "I will show you a picture of eldest daughter," said the Captain, handing her one. "Oh, such a sweet face," said the widow; Vand such a fine eye. Isn't she called like you, Captain?" "I don't Madam, that she is." "It is a wonder to me, Capt. you do not get married." "Well, Ma'am, I never think of it; for the woman I'd have might not have me, and then, you know, vice versa." "Yes, but what kind of a lady would suit you?" said the widow, looking her sweetest.

It was right here the Captain's nerve did not forsake him, but, setting bis eye steadily at the widow's, he hardened his heart and replied: "Madam, she must be 95 years old to a second and worth "It's getting so chilly out here I must go for my shawl," said the widow; -and aDd she looked frigid zones at the Captain as she brushed him by with a toss of her head. A Thrilling Railroad Story. Burlington Hawkeye. "He was on the morning express," remarked the sad looking passenger, and was back in the rear coach. Just when they were climbing the grade near Kich-fielci Junction, he started to go lorward into the smoking car.

As lie stepped across the couplings of the platform, the train suddenly broke in two. In less time than it takes to tell it, the rear car started to run back down the grade, and the forward part of the train went howling on to Utica. The young man, stand.