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Shadow Land.
Far from the world that we live in to-day.
Cf/l/s*r" Ion/? Mac
Sljc ?cxitt|ta? Hiepatclj.
"Here Shall the Press the People's Rights Maip&in, Unawed by Influence, and Unbribed by Gain."
VOL. X. LEXINGTON. SOUTH CAROL]^l|WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 1880. NO 48.
LTliailV ?T muu uvo ,
None know how liar It Is, none know the way,
What are Its boundaries no one can say,
Only surmise;
So one In life has set foot on that shore,
Formed from the wreck of the sad nevermore.
Memory governs this shadowy land,
Reigning supreme;
Oft times there comes at her word of commaud
Forms we have known from the Car diRtant
strand.
Faint as a dream;
Forms of those dear in the days which have
flown.
Forms of beloved ones in life's morning
known.
With them they bring kmg-loet scenes of the
past
Back to our view;
Pictures of friendship not destined to last,
Love that grew weak 'neath ad vend ty's blast,
Painted anew;
Ridges and ripples in Time's shifting sand,
Hidden till now in the far Shadow land.
Tinsliy's Magazine.
From the Depths.
A sweet-face woman and a sweetfaced
child are wondering among the
L shipping-docks of the great city. The
1 woman is plainly dressed, but evident
ly in her best attire, and there is a touch
Rof gentility in her finery, in the real
Btace collar, relics of better days, perB^kaps,
the pearl ear-rings and neat
?Roves. The child is neatly dressed,
HB), and she clasps the woman's hand
fflm looks love at her guardian. But
^Bwoman's face is not at its best now;
HH^ve-worn look, and a faint wrinkle
^^^Bthe pale forehead that ages her
I^^B^ftssens the charms of her features.
inquiring of the dockmen,
?j i
R loungers huuui wie
tie brig Good Luck has
ways receives the same
ger question, for the
has been lost a month
lee shore, and ground
i sea, and will never
-never more,
across the street and
>f stairs to where the
e their office. They
a she enters with the
significantly at one
t as to say:
she's mad. No won'
} is mad with ''hong
'm
husba'hd, Caleb~T3nelter, master of the
brig Good Luck; to meet the master of
the brig, her husband and the father of
her child. Why does he stay away
from her so long?
"Is the Good Luck in yet?" she
asks of a clerk.
"Notyet, ma'am."
" She is expected, of course, to-day ?"
"Of course."
" There's a vessel coming in now. I
see the tall masts. Look! " pointing
out of the office window to the river
front. "Maybe that's it. Effie, dear,
look! there's father's vessel, with father
on board."
The child clans her little hands at
the sialic.
44 Sorry to say that it ain't, ma'am,"
gays the clerk, relapsing into his ealaticulons
and paying no more attention
to the woman.
She starts out of the open window at
the approaching vessel drawn by a tug,
and then with a blank look upon her
face and a moan that is heart-rending,
says:
44 No, Effie, no! That is not the Good
Luck. I can see the figure-head. The
figure-head of the Good Luck is an
angel; a white and gold angel. No,
no, that isn't it."
44 But papa will soon come home,
won't he, mamma?" said the child.
Old Mr. Tawman, who is the head of
the establishment, here came from behind
his desk, and, approaching the
woman, said, in a kind tone:
44 Mrs. Shelter, sit down; make yourself
as comfortable as you can in a
dingy office like this- Here, little one,
come here and give me a kiss. A bright,
pretty little dear, Mrs. Shelter."
44 She looks pale," said the mother.
44 She is very tired ; she has been walking
too much."
The old gentleman sits down and
lifts the little girl on his knee and kisses
her.
She winds her arms around his neck
- and says:
44 You will tell my papa to come soon;
won't you."
" Y?. rioar
It was a habit of this firm to pay a
sort of pension monthly to the widows
of captains who were lost in their service.
It was not much of a stipend,
only hall-pay, but it was certainly a
blessing in very many cases. Mrs.
Shelter had always received her husI's
money here, while he was at
?r it was sent to her when she was
>r the weather was bad.
h,Mr.Tawman,I'ni sure the Good
will be in to-day,"
jrtainly it will. What's to hinder
he answers,
puts the child down and goes
ito his desk, and unlocking his
pr, he takes out an account book
egins writing a receipt. Then he
lover into the cashier's room,
e he is there the telegraph operalls
him oVer.
jk clickety, click, goes the magic
? 1
instrument, repeating its dot and dash
message.
"Hear that?" says the operator.
" There's news foryou!" The proprietor
could read every word by its sound.
" It's like a message from God," says
Mr. Tawman, reverently. " I must
not tell her."
He comes back to where the woman
is sitting; his face is flushed with emotion?some
strange excitement. He
throws into her lap a bundle of bank
notes.
" There, Mrs. Shelter, now go home.
Take a car at the door."
"Oh, I'm not tired. And I should
like to be here when the brig comes in.
But I thank you." ^
"Here, little one," says the goodhearted
Tawman, "here's something
Tor you to buy candy with." He puts
into her tiny, outstretched band a
bright quarter of a dollar, and laughs
at the wonder and delight of the little j
recipient.
" I'll keep this for my papa."
Poor little thing, she is weary unto
sleep. She cuddles herself in the big
chair and sinks into slumber in an instant.
" Now, Mrs. Shelter, you've had no
dinner," says Tawman.
"Oh, yes, sir."
" Yesterday, perhaps, but I mean today.
Go down with Mr. Pelton, there ;
our young man wants something to
eat. You see we have arrangements
lor th? comfort of our clerks. We give
them a hot dinner, and a good one, too.
There's nobody there. Go down there
and ask the waiter, George," addressing
Mr. Pelton, "to give this lady a cup
of tea and a piece of toast, some chicken
and all that."
Then, pausing a minute, as if pro
priety and philanthropy are struggling
for mastery in his mind, he says:
"No, no, George. Tell Henderson
to send the dinner up here; that's better."
The young man leaves the office
again and consults the telegraph operator.
" Send the message at once, Lindsay,
if you please."
He writes something?a long message,
a very long message indeed?but
the President's message itself is not
half so important, so interesting to
those it concerns.
Then, by the time the message is
sent, the dinner is ready in Mr. TawMV'"'s-< -*-*.
"eti.cw,'.. ^.1 iv "tuisnjjnti?
ter partakes of it, but does not think
proper to waken the child that she may
eat also.
Then Mr. Tawman says:
"Now you had better go. I'll see to
the child; I'll bring the little girl up
with me to-night."
"No, no!" exclaims the mother, "I
must have my Effie with me always,
sir. You are good, though?so very
good. And is there no nefrs of the
Good Luck?"
" Not a word, I'm sorry to say."
" It can't be possiole. The brig must
come in to day."
"I'm sure I hope so with all my
heart and soul, Mrs. Shelter."
" I know you do," she responds with
a sigh.
" Now go. I'm sorry you have to
waken the child, but I sujposo you
can't help it."
" Come, Effie," says the mother,
touching her lightly on the shoulder.
The child awakens with a start and
cries: "It's my papa. Dear, dear
papa!"
Then, seeing her disappointment,
she bursts into tears.
" Don't cry, dear, don't cry; the brig
will come in. Don't cry."
The good old man speaks soothingly
to the sobbing child; and the mother,
catching her hand, walks sadly away,
followed by Mr Tawman, who lifts the
little girl down s airs, and helps her
and her mother into a car.
The next morning the mother is
again loitering about the wharves, with
the same agonizing inquiry. She again
puts the question to the wharfmen, and
again only receives the same answer.
Then, as before, she seeks the office of
the brig owners, still accompanied by
her little girl, and asks:
" Has the brig Good Luck come in
yet?"
"Not yet, ma'am."
She sighs and looks out of the window
at the shipping. She says she
will wait for Mr. Tawman, and sits
down.
When Mr. Tawman comes in as
usual, he greets her very kiudly, and
kisses the little girl, and says:
" I'm sorry the brig isn't in yet."
" Will it be in to-day ?"
" I hope so."
And then he goes behind his desk
and looks over hir letters. He has not
long been engaged with his correspondence
when a scream from the woman
startles him. She has risen, and
is pointing excitedly out of the window.
"Here is a ship coming in. Look!
Look!"
" That's not it," says the clerk, "that
is a schooner."
"Oh, no," adds Mr. Tawman, "that
is not the Good Luck."
" It is, it is! "
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the child after her; runs across the
bustling wharf, out to the very edge of
the water. Mr. Tawman rushes to the
it
j window, opens it, and calls to her. To
! no purpose, however. All the clerks
i cluster around the window to catch
: sight of her.
"The woman is mad," says one.
| " She's going to drown herself."
Tawman says quietly to the telegraph
operator: " Is it the Mary ?"
The schooner is beinc i )*yed up the
i river by a tug. She making prepara|
tions to anchor in the stream, opposite
; the wharf. All this time Mrs. Shelter
| is standing in the midst of a crowd of
! excited people waving handkerchiefs,
and the little girl is waving hers.
" Look?look there! There's a man
overboard!" cried one of the clerks.
A cry of alarm goes up from the wharf.
" Heavens!" exclaims Mr. Tawman,
thoroughly aroused. "Whatdoes that
mean ?"
"He is swimming like a fish," says
a elerk.
" He has landed. Listen to the
cheers."
"Look, look!" shouts the operator.
'fShe is hugging him; so is the little
girl. It's Capt. Shelter."
"Thank God!" exclaims Mr. Tawman,
"and pray heaven she may not
sink under the shock. Poor woman!
how she clings to the drenched man!
Dear, dear!"
Then he puts on his hat and runs i
down the steps like a boy, and darts i
over to where husband ana wife and ,
child are united and happy.
"Ah!" he exclaims, shaking the cap- j
tain by the hand, and not caring for j
the gaping,wondering crowd ail around 1
him; "this is good luck, isn't it, eh? j
Did you get my telegram?"
When the man can speak he answers |
"Yes."
" I planned it all!" chatters old Taw
man. "You see I got a dispatch yes- j
terday from Brakewater, saying that.
Capt. Shelter had been picked up on a !
raft by the schooner Mary. I told her
in the car yesterday that the brig
would come in, and come it did. Over !
to the office, every one of you, and after
dinner and dry clothes, captain, j
we'll have a talk about business, j
t)
VVUiC uu.
Burmese Umbrellas.
_
The umbrella, which the Englishman
under his threatening climate wisely
considers an indispensable accompaniment
of his toilet as often as he bi eathes
j c;x?uici '<*1 i, t'.v I<_<i ?cr$ crnrvric-. >.?|
sons in the East a necessity to the native.
In Siam and Burmah, China,
Annam and Cochin China it is not
only the necessary protection against
the destructive rays of a vertical sun,
but it has functions of its own to discharge
which are quite foreign to it
even in those countries where it is, as
it was, intended to be a "little shade."
It is a distinctive feature in the lives
| and characters of the natives of those
parts, and their Kings and Emperors,
when writing to one another, to allude
to their subjects as " wearers of the um|
brella," in contradiction to the ignorant
j and misguided people of other climes.
Thus we find an Emperor of China
writing to a King of Burmah : " From
the royal elder brother Tan-kwang,
! Emperor of China, who r-ules over a
a multitude of umbrella-wearing chiefs
in the Great Eastern Empire," to " his
I royal younger brother sun-descended
| King, Lord of the Golden Palace, who
| rules over a multitude of umbrellaj
wearing chiefs in the Great Western
I Empire." In Burmah, especially, the
I 11 m KppI 1 q Hoc u unH co/?rnt moon
, - ?f ??
ing to convey what is as double-Dutch
at first to the foreigner's ear. It is, it
need hardly be said, the necessary finish
to the out-of-door toilet of Peganau
or Burmese fashionable, but it is much
i more. It has very delicate duties to
I perform, which could not so well be al!
loted in Burmah to any other instru|
ment. Gold or gilded umbrellas, which
: in the provinces may be carried by any
! nobody, are reserved in the capital for
! princesses of the blood alone, and red
umbrellas areaflected by the gay sparks
i of Burmese society as being the next
; thing gaudy in appearance. Etiquette
| has also fixed the exact number of um|
brcllas that Burmese nobles may dis!
play when they approach the 41 lord of
' the golden palace;" and it has now
i been settled by theMandelay Herald's
i office beyond possibility of dispute that
no one but the Ein-She-Men, or heir
apparent,is entitled to have borne over
j his litter the full complement of eight
: golden umbrellas. To carry a letter
' under an umbrella is to accord to its
; royal honors in Burmah. Eight golden
; umbrellas are properly carried over a
; King's letter, and when the Burmese
| authorities would not permit the um
| brellas to be carried over the Govenorj
General's letter, according to custom.
! Mayor Phayre, our envoy to Burmah
i in 1855 insi-ted upon the Union Jack
: being waved over 011 its way from the
Residency to the palace.
j A German postal card was eshibi
: ted at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, upon
j which was written Voss'translation of
I the first three books of Homers'sOdyssey,
containing 11,000 words, and part
, of a debate in German Parliament,
j containing 22,000 words. It was writ'
ten in the Gabelsburg system of short
I hand, with the naked eye, and the
I matter would have filled nine pages of
j the London Time*.
Metfpf Letters
Mr. Maurice Mauris, in a recent
work on French pen of Letters gives
the following sketh of the author of
L'Assoxhmoir: {
Before Zola, tbeiuthorof " L'Assomnaoir
" and" Naii^-' acquired his fame,
| he was very poor.and often passed a
whole day sitting;on a bench in the
Garden of the Luxembourg writing
verses while his . Socket and stomach
o-im-nftr Oty. winf/^r a crirl
" ~ V?4rV . " ***W. ? O |
with whom h-jta^as acquainted ap- J
proached him, tTt teeth chattering
with the cold. " T haven't had a sou,"
said she, "and hare eaten nothing for
the last twenty-fo^r hours." "Neither j
have I," replied Zola. He thought j
awhile, and then,faking off his coat,
and handing to hefr added, " Take this
to the pawnshop. JQTou will at least be
able to get enough! on it to buy something
for dinner.'j^He returned to his j
garret in his shirt-sleeves. He had
parted with his on*y winter coat.
Of Theophile Gamier the same writer .
says;
Gautier was a superstitious coward.
He would rather starve than dine at a
table where thirteen were seated. He
carried charms andix>ins on his watch
chains to guard agaiifet people with the
"evil eye." He iWfeved that Offenbach,
the compose)* of bouffe, possessed
tnis malignant pov?tr, ana couia not i
be forced to pronounce his name even j
when he go^ some one else to criticise \
the composer for him in order not to j
incur his displeasure.' To him every j
thing was a caus^Of death, and the j
malevolent power^nningour destruo- i
tion. When beartjlisease showed its- j
elf his family examined all the news-1
papers coming into the house in order j
that he should not see their comments, !
as it was of the first importance that he j
should not know tb? nature of his mai- j
ady. He soon ceased asking for them, '
saying there was nothing in them, un- 1
til his family relaxed their vigilance, ;
and he who had pretended indifference,
had managed, to secure all the
newspapers. Next jmornfng he appeared
at breakfast wjtth pale and distorted
face. 4'So I heart disease^
he asked. 44 Heart dfcfeaa^.? What an
dea, dear papa !"^s^d one of his
daughters: 41 After dlj imagined It
was so," he rejoin; <! Wd from that
day gave himself a: a dead man.
A characteristic ^l>ry of Alfred: D*
"!'??u^Cvj;vutf ufTT&iaieu uy
j Mauris: >
One night the snow was falling heav1
ily, and De Musset passed without noj
ticing an old orgau grinder playing in
I the bitter night, and it was not until
! be reached his door that he fully real|
ized the old man's misery. He hurried
i back and gave him a silver piece, and
said to his brother who tried to detain
him, " unless I go back and give him
: something, his music will haunt
! me all night like a demon of remorse."
i He was fond of pictures, and once,
having no money, bought a beautiful
i copy which he was to pay for in instali
ments. The painting was hung in his
| dining-room opposite his seat at the
! table, and he said to his housekeeper;
! ' For four months you will economize
by one dish. By gazing at that picture
the dinner will taste just as good to
j me."
?
"Bumble Foot."?This trouble in
! the feet of fowls is a large bunch on
| the sole or heel, which sometimes sup,
purates and sometimes forms a calj
losity, and its origin is generally a
; bruise caused by alighting from a high
| perch or flight. Heavy birds naturally
; suffer more than those of small breeds.
| Bumble foot is often contracted from
i.: i i .1. - a.
ptrruij iiig uu <% uat puie, wuere tue toes
must be extended and the whole weight
comes on the ball of the foot. The best
way is to prevent the trouble by proper
arrangement of the roosting poles.
Round perches are preferable to flat or
square strips. The poles should be
| small?for a full-grown fowl not more
! than an inch and a half in diameter,
i A large fowl will roost on a small
j branch. One that is sufficiently large
' to bear the weight is all that is neces[
sary. When roosting on a tree fowls
I generally seek the outer branches, that
j are small and easy to clasp the toes
j around. Square or large perches cause
crooked breast bones, produced when
| oung while the bone is yet gristly.
American* Breadstuffs in Europe.?We
are among those who
j believe that the demand for American
breadstuffs for Europe will be as great
i for the year to come as it has been for
j the past twelve months. Russia's
wheat crop is fully 20 per cent, short,
j and she will be able to export but a
very small quantity, if any, while other
! grain regions have been equally uni
fortunate in their harvests, noiably
| large sections of Prussia. England
! admits that her crop falls somewhat
j below last year's ^harvest, which was
j a universally poor one, and, therefore,
j she will continue to be a great conj
sumer of our products. France is also
i complaining of il short crop, and alj
together we think that a demand fully
1 up to that of the last year may be
counted upon for the surplus cereals of
j this country.
W~".
If it were not pot ^opes, the heart
j would break.
The Jelly Fish. ; 1
A little more of the present fall j e
weather will soon fill the river-mouths i
and harbors of our coast with those t
curious creatures, the jelly-fishes. ^
Yachtmen and steamboat passengers, s
where the sea water is clear, will mark \
the familiar but ever-wonderful bell of j
glass opening and closing as it slowly {
makes its "way l>eneath the surface. ^
Children playing on the beach will c
find the shapeless masses of many a s
medusa?for such is its scientific term s
?helplessly tumbled on the sand, like t
a spilled mould of that jelly from which
its ordinary name is so reasonably de? ?j
:t?.i r
nveu. JDUl spujicu jciun, rojrcvianj
when gritty with sand, are useless to
play with, and the children quickly
tire of poking the dead medusa about
with their spades; nor is it very great
fun either to catch them alive; to say 0
nothing of the fact, dimly known even
to young naturalists that some species ^
sting severely. Yet beautiful as well
as marvellous is this creature of the j
wave. Its body, or swimming bell, is
a cup of crystal, clearer than any wine ^
goblet ever blown by glassmakere, and
gemmed around the rim with spots or ^
bosses of violets, blue and purple jewelry,
which Salviati could not equal for
brilliancy and effect. From the botr
torn of the translucent chalice hang
leaf-like processes encircling the mouth ^
which is veiled by a delicate mem- .
1]
brane, as if the medusa were an EastA
era beauty and kept the "yashmak"
over her lips. The sapphire and
amethyst-colored spots are rudimentary ?
eyes; the cavities seen round the lip of
the crystal cup are ears, and it has
countless hands or "tentacles" hanging ^
from the pellucid brim. Some of them,
even more modest than their simpler
sisters, cover their violet eyes, as well
as their mouths, with a hyaline hood,
? - 1 _:_n :.u ? i?^ H
ana omers same ai uigut wim a mm
bent white and blue fire which lights i 8'
up the sea as though with submarine
lamps. Seaside visitors are soon weary ^
of observing them, and the trawl fisher
and the shrimper hates them for clog- ^
gtng the nets; nevertheless, objects
more graceful and perfect are not found ^
in the wide waters, and it might more a
easily be believed that ethereal, dia- tj
phanous, and divine beings may conceivably
exist and move in the upper
ether when, the$p gemmed phantoms Q
of the wave have been seen winnow- ..
wsv. jhaywiytbp J?
j elemen t from the substance and color I
| of which only the most delicate outlines
divide them. Even the power
! of offence which some possess is an interesting
creative marvel. The "sea
| nettles," as they are styled, have
cnidoe or "thread cells," each of which
1 contains a tiny lash tongue, pointed at
the end and furnished with stinging
fluid from a sac. When the cell is
j pressed it bursts and shoots forth a fly*
j ing dart, which pierces the skin and
I injects the poison, from the effects of
| which?as many have found out who
I incautiously handle the "Portuguese
; man-ef-war"?a rash experimentalist
; may suffer for days, or even weeks.
Quassia for Mosquitoes.
j A few years ago I liaU some peach |
j' trees which, being on a wall exposed
! to draught, were annually blighted,
j One died, and the new wood of the
others was not more than a hand's
length. A scientific friend advised me
j to try a weak solution of quassia to
water them with, and the success was
j complete. Blight was prevented. The
| first year the trees bore well and the
| new wood was elbow length or more,
i I next tried quassia in the vinery. In!
stead of lime-washing the walls to get
j rid of the green fly, one watering with
quassia dismissed them in a day. My
! head gardener, who had previously
; much experience in nursery grounds,
: wondered that he nad never heard of
I
i it before. He now uses it in all cases
: as a protection from flies and blight,
j The dilution goes a long way ; one j
pound of chips of quassia wood, boiled
and reboiled in other water, until he
has eight gallons of the extract for his
garden engine. He finds it unadvisable
to use it stronger for some plants.
This boiling makes the quassia adhesive
onil heinur r*rin/?innl 1 v nrmliorl tr\
j t"*?r?j ?ri? ~|
; the underleaf, because most blight set- ;
| ties there, it is not readily washed off
i by rain. Quassia is used in medicine
i as a powerful tonic, and the chips are
! sold by chemists at from sixpence to a i
; shilling a pound. The tree is indigen:
ous to the West Indies and to South
; America. And now as to gnats and
| mosquitoes. A young friend of mine,
! severely bitten by mosquitoes and unj
willing to be seen so disfigured, sent
for some quassia chips and had boiling
water poured upon them. At night
after washing she dipped her hands
into the quassia water and left It to dry
on her face. This was a perfect pro- i
tection, and continued to be so when- i
ever applied. The pastilles sold in <
Florence and elsewhere, which are
j vaunted to be safeguards against mos- j
i quitoes, are, from my own experience, 1
! of no use. At the approath of winter, ]
; when flies and gnats get into houses, ;
! and sometimes bite veuomously, a i
! grandchild of mine, 18 months old, 1
was thus attacked. I gave the nurse i
some of my weak solution of quassia to t
be left to dry on his faoe, and he was not
ritten again. It is innocuous to chiliren,
and it may be a protection also
igainst bed insects, which I have not
lad the opportunity of trying. When '
he solution of quassia is strong it is '
veil known to be an active fly poison, i
ind is mixed with sugar to attract I
lies, but this is not strong enough to j
till at once. If it be true that mosqui- !
oes have been imported into one of the j
;reat hotels in the southwest of Lon- j
Ion, it might be very useful to anoint j
ome of the furniture with it. Then a j
trong solution with sugar set about i
he rooms ought to clear them out.
fhe Oldest Monument in the i
World.
The Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford,
ontains one of the oldest monuments
if civilization in the world, if, indeed,
t is not the very oldest. This is the
intel stone of a tomb which :ormed |
he last resting place 01 an officer who
ived in the time of King Sent, of the
econd dynasty, whose date is placed
13* M. Mariette more than six thousand
ears ago. The stoue is covered with
hat delicate and finished sculpture
rhich distinguished the early periods
f Egyptian history, and was imaeasurably
superior to the stiff and
onventional art of the latter ages of
Egypt which we are accustomed to see
11 our European museums. But it is
Iso covered with something more preious/still
than sculpture?with hierolyphics
which show that even at that
emote time Egyptian writing was a
omplete and finished art, with long
ges of previous development lying beind
it. The hierocdvnhic characters
re already used, not only pictorially
nd ideographic-ally, but also to express
yllables and alphabetic letters, the
ame of the King, for instance, being
pelled alphabetically. In the hands
f the Egyptian scribes, however,
Igyptian writing never made any
irther progress. With the fall of
rhat is ealled the Old Empire (about
!. C. 3500) the freshness and expansive
>rce of the people passod a way. Egypan
lifeand thought became fossilized,
nd through the long series of centuries
iat followed Egypt resembled one of
sown mummies, faithfully preserving
le form and features of a past age, and
f a life which bad ceased to beat in
s veins. Until the introduction of
"Christ lilni'ty the" onTy'I'ffJ'jge umier;
gone by Egyptian writing was the invention
of a running hand, which in
its earlier and simple form is called
hieratic, and in its later form, domotic.
Putting John In.
The trials of an artist who undertakes
to paint a picture " to order," are
many and vexations. It is related of a
well known portrait painter that he
received an order to paint a family
group. The family was large and the
happy head of it wanted them all included.
After many consultations and
weary interviews as to the sittings, the
order was finally given, and the artist
breathed freer, but hardly had he ordered
the canvas before the paterfamilias
arrived breathless at the studio,
and announced that he had " forgot all
about John."
" Well," said the weary artist, " and
who is John?"
" Mv son John." said the natron
" as went to the war. I want him put
in the picture."
The arti9t proposed that John be
sent to the studio for a sitting, to which
the patron of arts responded:
"Well, I forgot to tell you John's
dead." Despite the gravity of the information,
the painter smiled and
asked the father to bring a photograph
or anything that would give him an
idea of the lost son's personal appearance.
" John's " parent scratched his
head and said he would go home and
tell " Mother."
Before the artist had lighted his after-breakfast
cigar the next morning,
the fond father made his appearance
accompanied by a big bundle, which,
being unrolled, displayed to the astonished
eye of the artist and old pair of
blue trousers.
" Mother said she couldn't find no
photograph or nothin' of John," said
the perplexed parent, " but she run
agin his old army pants, and thought
they might give you an idea, and you
could put John in uniform."
All rivers, small or large, agree in
one character, they like to lean a little
on one side. They cannot bear to have
their channels deepest in the middle,
but will always, if they can, have one
hank to sun themselves UDOn and
another to get cool under; onesbingly
shore to play over, where they may be
shallow and foolish and childlike, and
another steep shore under which they
can pause and purify themselves and
get their strength of waves fully together
for due occasions. Rivers in
this way are just like wise men who
keep one side of their lives for play and
another for work, and can be brilliant
and chattering and transparent when
they are at ease and yet take deep counjel
on the other side when they set
themselves to the main purpose.
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Nebuchadnezzar's Hanging
Gardens.
Nebuchadnezzar, the ruler of Babylon,
had a wife who came from a
mountainous district, and who was dissatisfied
with the level prospect everywhere
about her, as she looked forth
from the palace of her husband. Ia
order to gratify her, he reared the
garden that is described below:
" The vast structure built by Nebuchadnezzar,
which has been celebrated
in all ages as one of the wonders 01 the ^
world, under the name ot the UMIgllJg
Gardens of Babylon, was really an artificial
mountain?or meant to besuch.
It was built to gratify the desire of
a wife of Nebuchadnezzar, named =
Amytis, who, having been a native of
a mountainous country toward the
north, soon grew tired, when she came
to Babylon, of the level monotony of
the country there, and, as young brides
on the Western prairies of America .
often do at the present day, when they
remember the green declivities and
summits, and the secluded and romantic
dells of their native New England,
she said to her husband that she longed
for the sight of a hill. Her husband,
therefore, undertook to build her one.
" The structure consisted of a series -j
of platforms or terraces, supported on * ?
arches of masonry, placed one above
the other, and raised so high that the
upper one was above the walls of the
city, so that the spectator, standing ? <
upon it, could not only look down upon |
all the streets and squaies of the town, 1
but could also extend his view beyond I
the walls, and survey the whole sur- J
rounding country. The several terraoes
were supported on immense arches of B
masonry. The lateral thrust of these B
arches was resisted by a solid wall B
twenty-two feet thick, which bounded B
and closed the structure on every.side^JB
The platforms covering the arches and
forming the terraces, were constructed
of immense flat blocks of stone, cemented
at the joints with bitumen. Above
this pavement was a layer of reeds, and
then another of bitumen, upon whioh, , |
at the top of all, was a flooring of brick,
which formed the upper surface of the s .j
platform. On this foundation was laid
a thick stratum of garden mould, de3p B
enough to afford support and nourishment
for the largest trees. The gardens
made upon these terraces were 1
laid out in the most costly and elegant JB
"jH(BS^^SuT '"^l" I 1'
statues and fountains, and
choicest fruits, and^the rarest a^^H^^B
beautiful shrubs and trees, an^B^^^B
terres of brilliant flower*, anqfl^^^^B
and bowers, and ornamental^&^^BHB
with everything, in short, whi^^^BB
horticulturists of the day could ^^^B9|
to complete the attractiveness
scene. The ascent from each of
terraces to the one above it was^^^^H
broad and beautiful flisrht of stem^^B^B
visitors who ascended from one t^HH
other saw on each successive plat^^Hfl
new and everchanging beauties, ii^Hn
varied arrangements of walks and
and beds of flowers, and in the^H^B
views of thesurroundingcountry
became, of course, wider and^H^H|
commanding the higher they aso^B^^H
"There were spacious and airy
ments built among the arches
which opened out upon the succrasl^H
terraces. These apartments oomman^^H
ed very beautiful views, both of th^^H
gardens before them and of the countrj^H
beyond. The interior of them was^f
splendidly decorated, and they wereS|
fitted with all necessary conveniences Vj
for serving refreshments to guests, aadV^
for furnishing them with amusements! 1
and entertainments of every kind. On . I
the upper platform was a reservoir o 1
WflLU, ouppiicu UJ v OOL CJU^IUCO WU"
cealed within the structure. Pipes and
other hydraulic machinery conducted
this water to all the lower terraces, in
order to supply the various fountains, .
and to irrigate the ground. In ?act, so
vast was the extent, and so magnificent B
the decorations of the artificial hill, fl
that as long as it endured it was con- I
sidered, by common consent, as one of B
the wonders of the world." j
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The Girls at Long Branch.
A full-blooded brunette, with a iaoe
of scarlet and amber, and a form as
! pliant and sinuous as a well-fed cat's,
wears rich, dark costumes. One of ber-M
dresses makes every man turn his head
to look, yet it really makes no exten
sive exhibition of her person. The
sleeves are slashed at several points
from her rounded wrist to the top of 9
her plump shoulder. Spaces of her JM
smooth, warm skin are thus left hare,
and with a wonderful alluring effect.
If her arms were wholly nude they
would gain no more than a passing
I glance; but these spots of exposure are
| just enough, as I plainly see to fix the
male eye upon her. She is well aware
of this, and has a way of shrugging
her shoulders that brings dimples to
the precise places that are uncovered.
The expression of unconsciousne^^-;
which she simultaneously assume^^^^
worth going a mile to see!
Country doctor to a lately berearoi^HI
widow.?" I cannot tell you how
: pained I was to hear that your hus!
band had gone to heaven. We were
i bosom friends, but now we shall never
i meet again."
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