Already, in Mesilla Valley, the peach, pear, and apricot buds of the orchard are showing white and

breakfast-table, "the Koshare fancy lightly turns to thoughts of Shala

noon a party of twelve set out from Alamo Ranch to explor

his excursion is copied verbatim by the presen

nlisted as a partner in his enterprise a man from that region of fads-Boston, Mass. To this chimera of the doctor's brai

Shalam died, leaving to his partner the wo

ing the doctor's widow,-a lady of unusual culture and refinement, but having

wenty-seven children selected for this experiment have light hair and blue eyes. Mrs. -- kindly presented us to her husband,-appar

ly have been more than presentable; in his Shal

me material, frogged together with blue tape, the ends hanging down over his left leg. Hitched somehow to his girdle was a plain watch-chain, which led to a pocket f

the banks of the Rio Grande, with a ra

through all the ditches; Shalam, the home of the children, has a big tank, with six windmills pumping water into it all the time. Near the tank is the dormitory,-a building ab

and the signs over the doors of the chambers, each wi

tive, this command seemed quite superfluous. After looking over the dormitory, we were led to the main building, projecte

p by the library of the doctor; on th

modation of guests occupy the

e by the deceased doctor, under the immediate direction of his 'spirit friends.' To look at them (believing this) is to be as

d written by him at the dictation of spirits. The drawing is horrible, the coloring wo

er seen so fine a corral nor such handsome horses and cattle. They are all blooded stock; many of the cows and calves having come from the farm of Governor Mort

of fare-compelled Mr. -- to enrich the children's diet with milk, and,

wed us all over it; and it is a beauty! With water flowing all through it, celery, salisfy, and lettuce all ready

rgely the offspring of outcasts, and you can't expect grapes from thistle seed. However, Mr. -- and Mrs. -- are both sincere, kind-hearted reformers, trying to do what they think right in their own peculiar way. They are doing no harm by their experiment-hurting no one; and if the children turn out badly, it is no worse than they would if left alone; and if well, it is a distinct triumph of brain over beastliness. It may be well to state that no ma

t must be said that they all look extremely healthy. Mr. -- informs us that he rises daily at three A.M., goes directly to his corral and milks, comes in a little after four and prepares the children's breakfast. They are called at four forty-five, and b

y run wild for th

n irreverent member of the party thus summed up the whole business in his own slangy fashion,-'a man who all winter long prances rou

to be a painter, but, as an author, flew the highest kin

revelation whose absurdity and fantastic assumption leaves the Mormon bible far behind, and before whose 'hand

of planets; the creation of man; the unseen worlds; the labor and glory of gods and goddesses in the etherean heavens with the new commandments

created, so in this bible it is revealed how the Creator created it. As other bibles have procl

e sinner is in them mainly punished by the forced inhalement of 'foul smells,'-so dia

tion.' A vegetarian diet is inculcated; and we are gravely informed that 'the spi

period of time than eighty-one thousand years. At quarter-past six," concludes our informant, "we arrived, tired and hungry, but glad to have gone, and g