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6 -rclur,I A Family Companion, Devoted to Li terature i scellany,es, Agriculture, Mrkets,& Vol. X. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1874. 25. THE HERALD IS PUBLISED EVEU.WEDNESDAY MUMLXG, At Newberry C. H., BY THO. P. GRENEKER, Editor and Proprietor. Terms, $2.30 per snum?, Invariably in Advance. r,- The per Is stopped at the expiration o ime for w 'h it is paid. I; The X mark denotes expiration of sib scriptioni. SLEEPING IN CHURCH. Tii follo%viig parody on Tenayso:i' "Ctarge or the Light Urigade" i, based up on the statement made by D>r. Gnthrie that, at a larce relizious :eeting lie once attend ed, ie actually counted six hundred peoph a-leer: O'er their devoted heads While the law thunder'd, Snug;:y nd heedlesiy Snored the six hundred. Great was-the preac'er's theme: Screw'd on was all the sterm: Neither with shout nor scream Couk! he disturb the dream Of the six hundred. Terrors to the right of themi, -Terrors to the left of them, Terrors in front of them Hell itself plundered Of Its most awful things, Weak-minded preacher flings At the dumbfounded. Boldly he spoke and well; All on deaf ears it fell; Vain was his loudest yell Volley'd and thander'd; For caring-the truth to tell Neither for heaven nor hell: Snored the six hundred. Still, with redoubled zeal, Still he spoke onward, And, in a wild appeal, Striking with hand and heel MakIng the pulpit feel, Shaken and thundered Called them the church's foes: Threatened with endless woes. Faintly the answer rose (Proof of their sweet repose) From the united nose Of the six-hundred. Sermon of near*an hour, Too much for human power; Prayers, too, made to match (Extemporaneous batch), Woeftlly blundered; With a service of music it to- turn every pew sick Should it be wondered? Churches that will not move Out of the ancient groove Through which they have flounder'<d, Swould lamg behind, ezpc,t find Jr such a kind As the six hundred. rMisrsRy OF THE GUN. -0 One of the carronazdes oft the battery, a twenty-four-pounder, had got loose. This is perhaps the mnost for rmidable of ocean accidents. No. thing more terrible can happen to a vessel in open sea and uinder full sai. Agun that breaks its moorings becomes suddenly some indescrib able supernaturnal beast. It is mi -aabine whc transtorms itself into a monster. This tmass turns upon its wbeels, has the rap.id movements of a billiard-ball ; r-olls with the rolling, pitches with the pitching ; goes, comes, pass seems to meditate; resumes its 3ourse, rushes along the ship from end go end like an arrow, circles about, springs aside, evades, rears, breaks, kills, exterminates, it is a lattering-ram which assaults a wall at its own caprice. Moreover, the battering-ram is metal, the wall wood. It is the entrance of muter into lilkerty. One mirh t sa9thNazthis et.ernal slave aveng~es itself. it seems as if the power of *evil hidden in what we call inani *mate objects finds a vent and burst suddenly out. it bas an air of hav ing lost patience, of seeking some fierce, obscure retribution ; no thing more inexorable than this rago of. the inanuimate. Tbe mad mass has the bounds of a panther, the .veight of the elephant, the agility of the mouse, the obsti nacy of the axe, the unexp~cted ness of the surge, the rapidity of of, lightning, the deafness of the tomb. It weighs ten thousand ponds, and it rebounds like ai child's ball. Its flight is a wild whirl abruptly cut at right an gles. What is to be done ? How to end this? A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes, a wind f:lls, a broken mast is replaced, a leak is stopped, a fire dies out ; but how to control this enormous brute of bronze? in what way cau one attack it ? You can make a mastiff hear reason, astound a bull, fascinate a boa, frighten a tiger, soften a lion; but there is no resource with that monster, a caanon let loose. You can not kill it--it is dead;: at the samte timo it lives. It lives with sinister life bestowved onl it by In finity. The planks beneath it give it play. It is moved by the ship which is moved by the sea, whicl! i-s moved by the wind. This de stroyer is a plaiything. The ship the waves, the blasts, all aid it .hence its frightful vitality. Hon to assail this f:ry of complication' How, to fetter this monstrous me chanism for wrecking a ship ? -o oee t cmnsadg Hows itoreturn its smings andtg ;n- ia utnme sie winnt iti rations! One has to deal wit h1 a pro jectile which tl,iiks. seems to pos sess ideas,a1jd which ch:1es its di rection at each instant. How stop the course of sonething which must be avoided ? The horrible Cannaou flingsitefao.ad vnces, recoils., strik S to the right, strikes to tihe left. flees, p a s s e s, diseoneer. s ambushes break down ob.statles. Crushes men like flies. The great danger of the situation is in the im:bility of its base. )w c-Mbat a : I clined plane which li:ii capricew ? The ship, so to sp.,-ak. has light ning imprisoned in its womb which seeks to ecae: it is like thunder rolling above an earth-. quake. In an instant the wh,le crew were on foot; the fault was th,e chief gunner's; he had negleted to fix home the screw nut of the mooring-chain, and' had so badly shackled the four wheels of the car ronade that the play given to the sole and frame had separated tihe platform, and ended by breaking the breceching. The cordage had been broken, so that the gun was -no longer secure on the earriaae. As a heavy wave struck the port, the carronade, weakly :attaclled reeoiled, burst its chain, and be gan to rush wildly about. Conceive, in order t-, have an idea of this strauge. sliding, a drO of water running down a pane of glass. At the moment when the lash ings gave way the gunners were in the battery, some in gronps, others standing alone, occupied with such duties as sailors p form in expectation of tlie ni mand to clear for action. The carronade, hurled iorwarl byh pitching, dashed into this kniut of men, and crushed fur at the iirst blow ; then, flung back and shot out anew by the rolling, it cu. in two a fifth poor fellow, glanai off to the larboard side, a: strck a piece of the battery with sh force as to unship it. Then ros the cry of distress which had beem heard. The men rushed toward the ladder-the gun-deck emptied in the twinkling of an eye. The I enormous cannon was left alone. She was given up to herself. She was her own mistress, and ids tress, of the vessel. She could do what she willed with both. This whole crew accustomed to laugh in battle trembled now. T descri be the uni iversal terror wotuld Ibe impossible. Captain Boisberthmelot and Lieu tenant Vieuville, although both in trepid men, stopped at the head of thestairs, and remained mute, pale, hesitating, looking down omn the deck. Some one pushed them aside with his elbow and descend ed. It was their passenger-, the peas ant, the man of whom they had bee-n speaking a moment before. Wh.en he i-eached the foot of the ladder he stood still. The cannon Came and went along the deck. One might have fancied it the living cbariot of the Apocalypse. Trhe marine lan ten oscilating f-rm the ceiling added a dizzying wvhirl of lights and shadows to this vision. The shape of the cannon was undistinguish able from the rap)idity of its course: now it looked black in the light. now it cast weird r-eflections through the gloom. It kept on its work of destiruc tion. It had already shattered four other pieces and dug two crevices in the side, fortunattely above the water-line, though they1 would leak in case a squall should come on. It dashed itself franti cally against the frame-work,; the s oli d tie- beams resisted, their curved form giving them gmeat strength, but they creaked omi uously under the assaults of this terrible club, which seemed endow ed with a sort of appalling ubi-|I quity, str-iking on ever-y side at once. The strokes of a bullet shaken in a bottle would not be madder or mor-e rapid. The four wheels p)assed and repassed above the dead men, c-ut, car-ved and slashed them, till the five cor.pses wer-e a score of stumpsl) rolliug about the deck ; the heads seemed to c-ry out ; streams of blood twisted in and out of the lanks with ev. er-y pitch of the vesse!. The cel- I ing d-amnagd in se-e rai laces, be gan to gap. Tile whole ship was filled with the awful tumunlt. The cap)tain promiptly r-eover-ed his composure. and at his or-der the sailor-s threw down into the deck ever-y thing whiebh could I den and check the mad rush of the gun -mattresses, hammocks, spare sails, coils of rope, extra -equipments, and bales of false as signats. But what could these rags avail ? No one dared to ascend to arrange them in any useful fashion, and in a few instants they were mere kjhapsa of lint. Ttiere was just, Sea ooulh t iender an accident as complete a possible. A tempest would har been desirable ; it might har thrown the gun upside down, an the i*nlr wheels once in the ah the isionster could have be9en ma D't the devastatilol illreased There were gas.s and even frac tur-,s in the ma.,ts, which, imbeJl del in the wood-work of the keel pierce the d ecks of slhips like gic r'ouild pill;jrs. The ml izzen-m11as was cracked. and1 the mainna itseif was injiued umier tie con vulsive blhwA of the ,,un. Th ilattery was buein destroyei. T pieces out of the thirty were di4 abled; tle breaches multiplied il the side, anI the corvette bega to take in water. The old passenger, who iad de scended to the gull deck, looke like a form1 of stone statioiMed a at tile foot of Ihe stairs. Ire sto motionless, 'azingf stely abou, upon the devastatioi. Indeed. il si.eied inpos.,ihie to take a sinl gAC step f'orward. Each bound of the liberated car ronade inenaed tile destructior of the vessel. A few minutes mort and shipwreck would be inevita ble. They must perish or put a sui mary end to the disaster-a deci ion must be made--but how ? W hat, a com latan t-t his Can1non Tlhev must check thiS mad mon ster. They must seize this flasi of lighting. They must OVCr throw this t hunlder- boll. Boh-,brthelot s:id to L:1 VieU vile. "i)o Vo beieve in God la \' iewvile replied. "lyes. -No "In a tel pest 7 "-Yus; and inl m mn --nts like thiz.' - y eall --lid uis hereo .Ui were Sil11t-Ohe u.ann1on kep Ile waves heat ,gainst I ship their hiiws from withow esponded to the st.-cikes of Lt it was like two h:anmers aller nlaunlg. Suddenly, into the midst of thih sort. of inaccessible circus. whler tile Sciaped cannon leaped an( bounded', there s :pg a m1 Witl an i roll bar illI his liand. It was thle auithorP of this cat:1ttrophe the gunne 11 w hose culIpabl e nxegl :rence had caused the accident th ecapitaini of the gull. Hlaving! been the means of brin11gilng aboun the miiortunelI, he desired to repai it. Hie hadl caught up a h2andslpik< in oneC fist, a tiller-rope witht slipping noUo ill the othier, an' jmped down into the gun-deck Thenl a stranige comnbat began; Titanic strite-the struggle of th< grun againfst the gunner, a lbattl between matter andc intelligence,: diuel bet weeni tile i nanimiate all the human. Thec man was posted ill an angle tile bar and rope ill his two fists backed againlst one of the ridiers settledI firmnly on his legs as on tw< pillars of steel, livid. calm, tragi rooted as it wer.e in tile p)lanks, hi waited. lie waited for the cannion i pasnear hlim. The gunner kne2w his p)iece, an it seemedI to him that she mius recognilze her master. He ha< lived a longr while with hler. l1ov manyI timie.s lhe hlad thru1.st hIs halm between hecr jaws! It was hi tamle monster. 1lfe begatn to at dress it ats he m1igZht ha;ve donell hi dog. "Conic,'' said lie. P'erhapls hI loved it. HIe seemed to wish thlat it woul turni toward him. But to come~ toward himu woub be to sprinig up~on himr. Thlen L wouIld be lost. How to av~oi'd it erutsh ? There was the question. All staredl in terrifietd silence. Not a breast respired freely except, perchlance. that of the ob mani w ho alone stood in the deel with the two combatants, a steri second. Hie miigh t hiimself be ec rushed b: the piece. lie did not stir. BeneathI them, the blind sea d ree.tedl the battle. A t theC instanlt when, acceptill the gunnerI appjroachedi to eba lenige the cannlon, some chiaue fluctuation of the waves kenti for a mxomenit immuovable, asi suddenly stupefied. '-C'ome on !" the man said to i1 It seemeid to listen. Suddenly it darted upon hill The gunner avoided the shoek. The struggle began-struggi unheard of. The fragile mnatchin itself against the invulnerabi The thing of flesh attacking thj brazeu brute. On the one sid blhnd force, 6n the other a soul. o It v: as ke the imllistinu vi_:, n 01 s a irale. e A soul-ztrange thing; but you e would have said that the cannon 1 had one also--a sOUl filled with -age anld hatred. This blindness Iappeared to have eyes. The mon .tel hadi the air of watcling, the man. Tihere Was-One might have -anliei ;o at lca.,t-CiInnin in this It also chose its IoIent. It became some gigantic insect of t nttl, having, or seeming to have, t the Will of a demun. Somnetimes t :his colossal grasshopper would - so-ike the low eeiling of the ul l deck, then I'Ml back oil its four I wleels 'ike a tiger Up) its fou 'r CIl:'s, anl d-irt anew on the man. Ile-suppie, agile, adroit-would glidle away like a snake from the reachl of thiiese lightniiing- like movye m e I ts. Ile avoided the ClICo0111 trs: but the blows which he e.saped feil upon the vessel oild I continued the havoc. An en-d of broken chain re L mained at tached to the calonade. This chainl had twisted itself, one could not tell how, abovt the screw - of the breech-button. One ex I tremity of the chain was fatened to the arriage. The other. lang. ing loose, whirled wildly about the gun, and added to the danger of - its blows., -The screw held it like a (linch ed hand, and the ehain, multiply. in the strokes of the battering ram by its strokes of' a thong, i Imnade a varfuil whirlvind about the caion--a whiip of iron in a fit of* brass. This chain compli -eated the battle. Nevertheless the man fought. Somiletilles, even, it wa. the man . who attacked the calon. Ile crept alongii the side, bar and-I I,opc ill haild. amlil tho c:almn lhd tie :ir of ulderstalilin"', and fled as * fit pe-le ai s:iare. The man :L:ll a du:il c0:;1d not ha hl -r. L end !" nnd it pa-used. ()ne tlt the appro:h of the crisis. The cam llon. aI s l iin SUSPeInS. appoared' to h-Lve. -r hld-beuse it seeied to all a sentient bveing-a uious prInmcit1atioI. It sp rang Iunex pCCtely upon tho gunner. He I unped aside, let i! pass, and eriled out with a laugh, h "Ty again !" s The gun, as if in a fury. broke a , arroniade to larboard ;th en seized - anewI by' the inisible sling whih - behcl it. w as flunug to st arboaril tc - Sward the mantt, who escaped. L Three carroludes gave way uii uler the blo.)ws of' the gilnf ; then as I if bliind, and i no hong 'er con scious Sof what it was doing. it turned its lI bazck on thle man, rolled from the -stern to the bow, bruising the Sstem andI mfakinig a breach ini the 3 plan kings of the pr'ow. The gun 3 ner had taken refuge at tihe foot iof the stairs, a few steps from the iold man, whlo was watching. The gunner held fuis hanidspike ,inl rest. Trhe cannon seemed to ;perceive him, and without taking ,the trouble to turn itself, backed >1upon hiim wit Ib the quickness of an .axe stroke. The gunner, if driven I back againfst the side, was lost. The crew uttered a simultaneous Bult t he 01(d p)assenger. un til no w 1 i mmovable, mh:IIIe a sprmig more L rapuid than ill Ithose wil wirl s. .1 lie seze a bale of the failso as v' signats, and at the risk ofI being~ .1 erushed, succeeded in flingin git s betwveen the whneels of the carron. - ade. ' The bale had the effect of a 1.1ug A p)ebble mayi~ stop a log, a tree Ibranch turn an avalanche. The cairronlade stumbl hed. The g~unner, .1 in his turn, seizing this terrible (ch)anlce, lunl~ged his i ron bar~ be A tweeni the spokes of onel of the. C hin md whIieels. ThIe cannlon was s stopped. ft staggered3. Theman. - usinig tile baLr as lever, rocked1 it to. and fro. TIle heavy mass turned over with a clanr like a i:aling' . bell. ar.d the gunner, drippiing withng Cwat, rushed1 forward head a og n asdthe slipping noose oft lie ti lcr-rope about thei bronze nieck of the' over'throwni monster. -It was ended. The man hiad c)nquleed. 'Te 'ant had subdlued le th astuoon; thet pigmy h;:;i ta Sken the 1.h.undler-boit prli'-one... l- he mlar'ines. taiJ sailors elappedCt e thei ir h ands. t The whole crew hurried down f withI cables and chains, and in ar instant the cannon was securely .lashed. The gunner saluted the passen . 'ger. The old man had resumed his e impassible attitude, and did not reply. ."Sir," he said to him, "you havt e Isaved miy life." e The man had conquered, but one might say that the cannor liud co-nueeda 180 Immediato shipwreck had been avoided, b the corvette was by no mea saved. The dilapidation of ti vessel seemed irremediable. TI ides had five breaches, one which very large, was in the bol UL oi tihe thirty Carroiade twenty lay useless in their fraeni The earronade which iad bec captueId( Lnd rechained was it( disabld; the scew of t ie breec button was torced, and the levc lo the piece impossible in col -qnuee. The battery was r uLeed to ine pieces. The hol iad spruu, a leak. It was neee S!y at once to repair the daiag andI set the pulps to work. The gnu-deck, now that one hi time to iook about it, ofiered terribL spectacle. The interior a inad elephant's cage could ni( have been more completely di mantI1l1 1ed. However great the necessit that the corvette should escal observation, a still more imperi:>l 'eccesSiL ty nesen ted i ts e I f-in iediate safety. It had been tw Ce.ssary to light ipl the de!k b lanterns placed here and thel :don- the sides. But during this whole time th trawic diversionl had lasted th cr,ew wei' so absorbed by the on questioll of life or death that the noticed little what was passing ou ,ide the scene of the duel. Ti !'. hal Lhiikened; tile weatli hadl ciangd; the wind had dris en the vessel at will; it had g out. of its route in plain sight Jer l : G GuLInsey, fart.iher t the south than it ought to hav go'e, and was surrounded be trouhld-I sea. The e1rat wav kissed the gaing woUi1s of il corvett~-ki~sses full of peril. Th sewa rockei er menaciinglv. 'T I nleze beame. a gale. A sin'all. (ceiolest perha :ips, t Irleaten1ed. wa impo ile t \see' beCore !nI Whilo th ('1%rW W'w're r'epal.illi i . iland in ha. e the re a of -nhgn deICk, stoppil.- th nnk i"d plittLing' bac1(k into p)os tionl tho g'uns Which had eSca:pe' disiaster,. thle old passen-rer hla guile oii deck. le stood with his back agair'z the mainnist. Ife lad paid no attelition to proceed illg whli ch 11ad takeni plia onl thle vessel. Thie Chievalir L1 !Vinill haIItid drawni up the m: r'!ineCs i in lie onl eitheri side of' th minmafil:st, anid at the whiistle< Ihe boatswain the sailors husv hie rigging stood uprighlt on th vardls. Coun t dur Boisberthelot advai ced toward thec passengter. B3ehin the cai t ai n maarch ed a man Iha:r 'ard,( breathless, h is drless ini diso r. yet wear ig aL satisfied lo( ituder it al. It was the gurnnu who had juL1!St now so oppor'tuniel s ho wn ii mself a tamer ofnmonstei andI whO had got the better of'tl eannion. The count made a military s: lute to the unknown in pleasar r'b, and said to him CiGenier. here is thI man.' TheI gunner held himself' erec his eyes downeast, standing in soldierly attitude. 'Count dii Boisberthelot contii Ued. :{ "eneral, taking in to consi< eraUtion whbat thlis mari 'has don do von iiot think there is som thing for' his coinmanders to do "I think there is," replied tl oldl man. "Be grood enough to give tl Iorders," recturined Boiisber'thelo "It is foi' y'ou to givo them. You are the captain."' "But, you are the general,'' a: I wer'ed Boisherthielot. TIhe old ran looked at the gunnher'. ":ApproaCh sail lie. Th'e gunner moved forward step). T[he old man turned tow: Conut dii Boisberthelot, detac ed the cross of' Saint Louis fro the captaili's uniform. and faste ed it on the jacket of the gul *ner. l[urr,ahi !" cried( the sailor The~ maine pre 1isen ted ar'ms. Thei old passeinger, pointing Wi h lis figer toward the bewilder gunner,' added. "Now let that me: Ibe shot. Stupor succeeded the a.plausC TIher in the mnidst of a si lem lie a' t of the tomb. Ii he old im: raiseCd hIis voice. H e~ said: "A negrligence has endanger this ship. At this moment she perharps lost. To be at sea is face the enemy'. A vessel at op; sea is an army which gives batti The tempest conceals, but do not absent itself. The whole s is an ambuscade. Death is 11 p'enalty of any fault committed the face of the enemy. No fat is reparable. Courage ought be rewa:-ded, and negligence pu isbed." These words fell one after tl other slowly, and snlemnly. wil it a sort of inexorable mea -urte, ,is the blows of an axe Uponl an C; >e And the old man turning to >e soldiers, added: of' "D your duty." '1.'Tle inanl uponl whlose hrt S, sh,wn the cross of Saint L( s. bowed his head. n At a sign from Cuniit dl B if berthelot iwo s:el,rs dlson - between decks. then returt 1- bringing the hammock windi i- sheet. The ship's claplain ace e- panied the two sailors; a serge d detached from tihe Iinei twclve I riWus. whion he arrTilned in t s ranks,six by six; the p1 C.:er, w odt uttering a word, pLacecd hiM d betweei the two files. The ch a lain, crucifix in hand. advan, >f and stood near him. >t "Marle !" said the ser"eant. The platoon moved with s steps toward the bow. The t y SailoIS who carried the shroud l lowed. A gloony silence fell upon .co rv aIte. A haurrica in monedC . tie ditance. y A few instants later there a flash ; a rep:rt fllo wed, ecio !I.ng the shadows; thea all % . iielit ; thenl camle the thid 0 e body fthing into the sea. e he old passenger still lea y back against the mainmast w .ui"Med ari, thinking silentlv. B Boioberthelot poin'ted towa Shimi with tihe forefinger of his hanld ad said in a low voice "The Vendee has Found a hea 0: o - C WN IV1.,I.IL STO0N. It is soI.What singular I we t )lons there are Who read:uy and zi nteres.tillf convel t iinahists. This is perhaps ow to he ,a1t that there is too Iil painls taken v. ith wiur youig FU to induce the habit of think oVei what they see, hear and re and then putting their thong in Ian.guage that will interest. OIu r 3 ouni,g people read but hi1 tLat is really improving, or being tirainled to put even that t!e to good service. their convel tiin is genlerally made up oftri and light nonsense, very Clos aresembling the froth ona a bum of ehmn bamagne-sp)arklin1g, but etreme:ly light. They grade earily ini the light persiflage e< iion in general society, and erule seemi to think it all that inece*ssary to entitle t hem to h - hinor's as enitertaininug and ce dI witr'y persoinages, and their sp)irits aLnd merry hearts i: thmeir ramther silly trash pass k ret for more than it is worth. rBut of an evenming when out ycormin, quietly listen to -eldersb-those who do not dane te and whalit is the general tor Servants, a little mnoreaui of s( tEl, or that never ending subj ot iinterest to some parents, j,sart say ings and dloingms of' tb remnarkabl e ch ildreni, and t, weather, comnprise about all a~ topies- undiier discusi5oni. wvithi r ecepc1tionis. Occasionally you inmeet wi th a lady who has r, . anmd is not afraid of being thou; eblue stocking, will discuss e- works she has read, and can fe and~ 've you an opiin ion ui e their merits and demerits, wi ,lhe has niot taken from a r'evit e or who hoving' the drama enot tto have a close acquaiintance wi h lakopieare, BeaumoniAt, G;old.ism F ietc her. and others of their is qite capable oif appreciat n at good play and of criticising too often i are. But these Iat a arei rarei acLa. somew ~vhat like on ron thIat, great desert of' socit b- where the light anid glitter. m the mirage the thirsty trav e. ever pri in ~g pleas a thelm iinte!!eet whieb it does 'e.M 31re talkativeness is * n liat the spe:aker is capt hheari ng or reinembering. So times it would be well if a bri could b.e pu uponi the tongue those who talk too freely, o wh,at they said could be ibrgot e as01 soo5a said.for it is too often chievou~ (hs in its nature. 'talk~ they kno.;v not why. and care dwhai t. or who is wounded by SThey do not converse, but bab to Some one has said that no one be brilliant in conversation v e. is not caustic and a little givel escandal. This is not true, for aofthe most delighrtful conversat ealists we have ever met.never sp n an ill-natured word, or made It! uncharitable remark. to There is no doubt that a e n-observant, fluent cynic does m an hour's conversation glide ra 2ly by, but you tire of the tone t.h ne.sided that it will not ackni like e; i,I to anything good under the ik. -a n. :u: you turn with eagerne.s the to Iie guntler nature that, though j -: :1.d m1"ay ie as witty. - Last I a si in g lar fiact that maiv d . k :"i pap. a::d th ng- 'i repartee. gush w'th a delicious >m *,:w- : e e n m t)>Y throw., top,n :tut her :i lined ebaibers, aid .ulls ma- Vht every iant Lem that wi!I wo 0 :.ane th. be;:tv o" the ',e .ect th- they .re handling. i- v. like ap- the y- rir-. to throw in all the ed bright sparkles uceded-r'Cea,so, with her solid beauties. is at her ;ide ege' 'o do dilt. alnd wit will ow guide the pen. 1ut1 place the wo:sa eprzons in coipany. uid fol- line times out of ten. all thLe:, ;--.eulties play them fal-e. and thcy the stIltter : 2stammer thougl 'me speech, whose o6scurity bri1,g vas the blush to their cheak as they illg think it oVer ,fterw%Vards. Cole 0as rie. one of the most noted con avers:ationlali:tas. or rather monolo istc of the literary world. is said Ied to have almost lost the ability to ith write well. before tle develop. Ielit of his grand conversational I'ds owers. and after they were so left stroniglyi' marked he wxrote little to or nothin'g. The persolis who can liiteln wve'll. I!'' '"i"d vet who can offer ready sug l' tis throwinlg ill here and the ellal'k that will b'rinr out a1l the eapability of those aro1-unid. are oftn deemed interesting allk rS, whiel in reality the scCret lie. inl the tact they posse's of(drawing oUt the power's of those with 111 whom they are ill contact: aid they are generally poputa. for Cv erv one \Vho can talk at al, likes a rood listener. Iks A eloseading of good authrl*s. al t memory, a grlaefil case in bringino in a happy (jpotaion. an obeivant eye, quick to catch what mqy be passing around, al travel. constitute all the ingredi not ents necessary to make a rea!ly b r i !ii a n t conversationalist. 'sa- ., T bough one may be eloquent With all these elenents, 110 one y can converse weil who has tnot thought thoroughly upon some e- subject. The mind must be train ed to analyze, decompoose and rec aconst riet, and lhen thle lanhguiage . .itLh w; hieh the thought is clothed will be eloquence. -Conversat ion c'anl be, and should en be, cultivated as an art. Like any keother acomp)lishmlent, it can be u-acqured with mrorec or less trouble, ac'cordinrg to tIhe natur ial capiacity . fo i arnd like r'eadinug aloud with i4xpression and ease. tissome thig that caninot cost too much trouble in its acquiremnllt. Tfhese IC two s tanid at thle topmost round o (f the ladder of elegant accomn eect pl~j)llihmenlts, for mrusic itself' must .li Id tile palm to them. the S ~lo con verse fr eely with all a .like ; others can not talk well are wit.hot congenlial spiits arounld -ll like the fire in the nint, it mlist 'Ad he str'uck with antagoniistic steel. tto flash ; but these talkers are of the ten the most witty and origin:al, rmlf and whlen once ill full vein, are >on'ell worth !isteniu'g to. In r'ead ich ing that i:. may be u. ser'vice inl . ouIverisationi. djo not r'ead as a pas htime, but reflect and digest thor ith o iughily the idea the author wishes tof i'enleate, and wei gh its merit: cI omparel' it with other writers on i~thet~ satme subject, arnd do not fer:' to re'ad and re-r-ead; then put your' though"Iits upon0 it ill w;ords alld( l' 'peak them to some fr'ienly(h eri tic. In this marner, you wvill acqu ire' the tarto of coinver'satloll. ii [.\6( (.c,'rlans T'ine. nire TIHE An-mr oi NO-r iIb:.uu.. riot Thie :rt of lnt ilearingi is fully as not rinpor'tan1t to domellstie happiness .le as a cultivated Car'. for which so the muc time anid money ale expenid. d. Somie people feel so er dI an~x ious to hear' eey thinig thiiat oflwll vex and annoy thecm. they' set r If aboult seairebingc it 0out. If all the ten pejotty thinIgs said of one by tile ms heedless or ill-natured idlei'' we ogto b.e brought home to him, lie lnot wioild become a mnere walking pin It. cushion, stuck full 01' sharp r'e ble- marks. It is not worth while to canl bear what your servants say w;hen c'ho tney have slammed the door:; to what a beggar says whose petition onyou have rejected: what your' on- eighors ay aout ourchildren; oke wvhat your r'ivals say about your an business or dress. I have noticed that a well-bred w. i..n never ose, hears an imlpertinenlt remark. A ake' kind of discreet deafness saves pid- one from not a little apparent con so nivance in dishonorable conver'sa )W L tin.--'Exha nge. T", (J'p the f,l0 wing roI-Um the wvill h:r the Lari hool to av we endors~e it : There ~ C a1wasto inanv(1 d,fer cuIIt ways.~- (I Undestlc,andinIg thet I a - a:li a- a!1I: red party. wez ive yhte to a 1ISqI-ItIonon teIL ubj'Ct. I ulit wV> kno) . wheref he Speak . It Will erve. pejlrhapS.Z as a mirlr in whifb ietai I parties Ina v "see them:e-SC)as othersI seeotem Many long and w-eary years of eixp1eriene in :e puktblishing IJusi ness has orc the conviction up on us that ie wspaper patroIage is:a word ofmany definitions, and that a great mu:rNy of imaikind are elithe ignorant of the correct de. finition, or are dishonest, in a strict biblical sense of the word. News paper patronug.e! is e0liomposed of as many coloS as the rainbow. an1d as changeable as a chameleon. One man cies in and sub scribes for a paper, and pays for it in advance, aml goes home and reals it, with the proud sati-fae ti,ln that it is his. lie hands in his advertisement, asks the price, pays for it. goes to his place of business, and reads the advantageQ thereof. This is patronfage. Another man asks you to send him the paper and goes oir with out sayinu a word about the pay. Tinie passes on, and you are in need of money, and ask him to pay the sum he owes you. lie flies inlto a passion. pahaps pays. perhaps not. and or%ers 1iS paper --topped. T hui is cal ed patona&. Another man h:a your paper ior a long time. and becomes tired ofyoa and wants a ebange. Thinks he will have anlother paper. But he don't pay ; oh, no ! he has to keep your money to buy another papel. Pay cones when von s% e him. Such mar be caled news pape patrO:ig. One ma b!ngs in a lifty cet advertisement alul want a two ll1ar puff tirowni in. and when yudcie. he goe:-.in ad. .veni this may be called newspaper patr.onage. Another man don't take your paper-it is too high-priced-but he borrows regularly and reals it. And that could be called newspaper patronage. One man likes the paper ;he tksa copy and p.ays for -, anid g'ts his' friend( to dno the same: he i.s not always gramnbling to you or others. bit has a friendh-v word. if an accident ocenrs in his sec tion, lhe inf;ormus the editor. This is ne wvspaper patroniage. Another man has taken the pa per sever'al years. but has not paid for it, and in he comes with an advertisement which he wants inserted free. because he is "'an old patron.7 Th isis called patron age. One hands youn a mnarriage or other notice. and asks for extra copies of the pa per con tai n:ini, and when vou ask him to pay for the- paper is. he loo ks su rpri sed vou surely don't take. pay for such small matters. That is called nuewspape r patronage. One man, it is good to see such. comes in and says, "The year for which I paid is about to expire, I wan't to pay for another." lie does so and retires. Thnis is news paper patronage. Now, isn't neCwspaper pat roniage a curious thing? In that great day when the gentlemnaa in black gets is -dues-as he sorely wi --how many of tihe patrions enua merated above will fail to his >hare? While it will be se-en that -chile certain kin-Is of patrons are :he veryv liI and ex iste nce o( news5papers.'i there are other kinds ''i t aiage that are: !fnore tie 5trucive'' than the -leadiv ly niht -rde by .\ J,*r*x*l of hlad pil, the Ch itd alue ofl themu L. ing pr b:dyly V !.500 ;4i -ecr&taryX !:ish. aii- -re silve r : akard: General andO .\Ir-.-- hrp-. of Newv York. a ring with a l)tone cun-) set wi'th amn: P-tn:t*-General C re-owell, a vtery :N :- 'ii-r ice er-ani service; ex Se:n uli. a ui:u,i nd r:n., !!ve .-: L. P.M~ .iiaa. -f New V-k. ai niur:ddl andi diamiondt ring; theCse two rings~ are probably worth one thousaud dollars each; Secretary Rob esorn, a toilet set anid side pieces. brass, elaborately finished of the style of Louis XIV; A. T. Stewart, of New Yor-k. the larg.est size lace pocket haud kerchief. such as sell for 8500; Gen. Babecek. an elegant valenciennes lace fan, with a smoked pearl frame, with the monogram of the bride in gold. 3Ir. Sairtoris presented to his wife a lart:e and choice collection of flowers. The present of tile father of the bride is ten thousand dollars; also all the immeiudiate members and relatives of the President's family. Av' handsome ADVERTISINC RATES. Ad veurzi-ementz iusred at the rate of $1.00 r -ueen : --f-rirst insertion :nd ~-x zrexh sub!eg nt iusertion. Doub!e k hunn adver'tilrntntz ten per cent on alive. Notices of meetings, obituaries and triLues of respect, same rates i,cr square as ordinay advertisements. Special notices in local column 20 cents pei line. Advertisements not marked with the num L.-i of insertions will be kept in till forld and charged accordingly. Special Contracts made with :Arge ad . r tisers, with liberal deductious on al'ove rat, s. Done with Neatness and Dispatcb. Terms Cash. PA ABLE FOR L IT T L E GIRLS. -NUom the young and lovely daughie of Salathiel and Judith wvas trou:bled in spirit, because a proaching feast oftromipets, hc would he compelled to appea' soic o her voung acquaintancs %uuid zippear in blue and purple :,nJ fine linc of Egypt. Her mo Iher saw the gloom that appeared iipon he face of the lovely child. Mjni taking ier apart. related to her thi parable: A deve thus made her complaint uth guta rdian spirit of the feath ered: tribe: "Kind Geniu!,%why is it that the hoarse-voiced and strutting Pea coc spreads his gaudy train to the sun. dazzling the eye of every passer-by. whilst 1, in my plain pnluage, am overlooked and for gotten by all? Thy ways. kind Gen is, seem not to be equal to n ards those under thy care and protection." The Genius. listened to her co plaint. and thus replied: "I wil grant thee a train sini lar in riebness to that of the gau dy bird thou scenest to envy, and shall demand of thee but one con dition in return." "What is that ?" cagerly inquir e1 tie dove, overJiyecd at the pros pect of possessinqg what seemed to promi-e so much happiness. '-i, is." said the Genius. "that thou consent to surrender those ualitties of meekness, tenderness, constancy, and love for which thy f'amilyv have been distinguished in all time.'' "Let m onsider," said the dove. "No: I cannot consent to such an exchange. No, not for all the gaudy p : m:ige, the showy train of that vain bird wvill I surrender thlose gnalities of my f:mily fromt ti me inmuemor'ial. I must declinte, good .Aeuns, the conditions you "Then why comnplain,dear bird ? lIas not Providence bestowe~d up On thee quliie which thou ad mirest ? Art thou discontented 1still ?" A tear- started in the eve of the dove at this mild rebuke of her guardai n s pirui t and she piomised never to complain. The beautiful girl who had ea tered into the story with deep and untder emnotion raised her fine ulute eyes to meet her mother's gaz.' and as they rolled upwards, ucnn-cd w ith penitential tears,she aid with a sudden tone, with a mil ik e that assumed by all humn nature when the bow of God appearts in the heavens, after a storm. 'Mly mothter, 1 thin.k I know Iwhat thatt story means. Let me be your dove. let me but have that ornament of a meek and quiet spilrit, and 1 cm satisfied to see o hers appear in rich and gaud.y appjr l. Tn-. m>~ Nt To-MOaRow.-TIc iay we gather bright andJ beauti il I.,jer. -to-mnorrowv they ale fade' i and dead. To-da y a wealth of leaves shades uIs-to-mtorriow,ser aC'C'nd fallen,they crmbinle beneath our tread. To-dlav the earrh is c'overed with a (-arpet of green-to-morrow it is brown with the withered g rass. To-dayX the vigorous stalks orJy bend before the gale-to-morrow leafless sapless, a child may break the bri tl e stonte. To-day'x the ripening fruit and wving~ grain-to.rnrow the laud is ting it ret after the toIL." To da w~ ~e hear sweet soigs:ers of in.adow.s anjd fores5t, the buzz an him of mnvriiadl insec'ts-to mo r.w--breathe softly'--::l na ur iv hiThed and silent. T, 1a a -lately . Mi lce, com-. peein iinish and sur-rounding, n'1. at '- h 1tasser-bv--to-mrorrow ithe"p ( e'itnima;k '.hle site. Toe . l;y there are cattle upon a :i1 in -1h<hter. Thie insh ion of the world pass I h away. But let Christ dwell within us, and though we may pass away like the faded leaf and sanless stalk, we shall "arise to newness of life." "Where everlastin.g spring ab.les And unever withering tiowers." R.wn>t Ga;lowTl.-It has been only a little more than five ye-ars since the order of" ood Tempiarismi was started in England. Now it has 3.S00 Lodg-es, and a membership of over 200.0. Of the 3.S00 Lodges. 2, 80) have been organized within the past two years. The order is very ac eeptable ~to the people in England, and is taking a deep hold upon their hearts and intd. Soi miuch for hay ing active. energetic. ea rnte prores sive workerCS. What might he a-ccome plished in this country the~re is no + tlling if men wounM la holm of