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ADVERTI'SINC RATES. THE HERALD at 18 PUBLISHED ounacrimetstnprcnonaoe EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING,o At Newberry C. R., BY THOB. F. GRENEKER, Editor and Proprietor. Terms, $.50.er .*1unnn, A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, Invariably in Advance. r The paper is stopped at the expiration oO time fumr which it im paid.t t 77- The;o< markdenotes exPiratiou of s~ub-]~1Noe of metns s and ibute crii~peruine. - MJPiscellaneous. J. B. LEONARD &CO I WholeSaLIUIad Retail Deiders in TOBACCO, Imported and Domestic Segar Of which we always have on anud a lar and superior stock. Imported and Domestic Wines and Liquor OF BEST QUALITIES. Always in store Pure North Ce.rolij CORN 'WHISKEY, APPLE and PEAC BRANDIES. J. B. LEONARD & CO. Nov. 4, 44-3m. JNO. e. Es BB & CO, COTTON BUY ERS, Will always PAY THE 1iGEST MAI KET PRICES FOR COTTON, and ali ake LIBERAL ADVANCES to parti, wishing to bhip to either New York, Bo ton or Charieston. STORIGE ! STORIGE ! STORAGE !!! Parties wishiug to STORE COTTON w do well to call on MESSRS. JNO. E. WEB & CO., who will store on the most rensoi able ternis, also insure when desired. Sep. 23, 38-tf. F. N. PARKER SUCCESSOR TO WEBB, ,ONE1S & PARKE] (Between Pool's Hotel and the Post Office DEALER IN HARNESS, SADDLES and LEATHEE Having bought the E N TI RE ST O C of the Ha rness and Saddle Manufactory Messrs. Webb, Jones & Parker, I am pr pared to do all kindsof work in this in Also will keep on hand for sale, HARNES SADDLES, &e., HARNESS LEATHE SOLE LEATHER, UPPER LEATHER, &< of the best and cheapest. REPAIRIN and all work done to order At Cash Prices and at Shortel Notice Apr. 15, 15-tf. THE FALL SESSION OF THE NEWBERRY FEMALE ACADEXI WILL COMMENCE ON THE 16TH SEPT. A. P. PJFER, A. M., Principa WITH COMPETENT ASSISTANTS. The advantages aftforded by this instil ion for a thoror:gh and complete edu< tion, are second to no other ini the Sta whle the Tuition is low, viz: from $12.50 to $r22. in advance, or on satisfactory securities. Boarding in private families at moedera For further particulars enquire of t Secretary of the Board, Mr. S. P. Booz< or of A. P. PIFER, July 29, 30-tf. Principal. A. B. MORRISON, MER IIHT TAILOll NEWBERRY, S. C. Having permanently located in Newb< ry, I respectfully iniformi the citizens oft town and surrounding country, that I prepred to execute all orders which mn be entrusted to me in my line. My to experience as a Merchant Tailor, makes confident that I will give entire satisfactic and all I ask is a fair trial. Cutting in latest style, and all work done in the ne gt manner. Place of business over Capt. J. F. Spec Jewelry Store. Cleaning and Re.pairing done promipt WiM. C. BEE & Co FACTORS AND COMMISSION MER01IANT Adger's Wharf, Charleston, S. 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THE NEW YOR RIBBE, "The Leading American Newspaper." FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY. In the recent elections the people have declared in favor of houe-ty in politics and independence in journa lisni. i HE TrBz;E, which ) ears ago declared that it was not and never more would be a party organ,caims the verdict, as the popu lar vndication of its course, and recognizes in the result the voice of the people for reorm and integrity in government, for candor and mude pendence among newspapers. During the cam pan which has just closed TRE Taiau,Nx has fuy maintained its right to the title of the -Leading American Newspaper." This position it has earned and retained < 'ie following, among other reasons: It publishes all the news, earis..r. more fully, and more intelligently than any other paper. It insistson peace throughout the whole coun try, the right of local self-government, and the tion of allelasses in the exercise of their st and legal rights. It advocates confidevce and good feeling be tween North and South, and lators for an hon est and abiding reconciliation. It maintains fairness and candor toward all public men and questions. and dignity and cour tesy toward associates and rivals. It publishes scientific news, reports, discussions and discoveries to a decree of fullness and accu racy never before attained by any paper. It gives every week ten or inore culumns of the noct carefully prepared agricultural matter du ring the year. much m 're in the aggregate than the entire contents of any other agricultuial publication. and the whole forming a department of which an emineLt agricultural editor said: "It has done more to make good farmers than ary other infuence which ever existed." It has published a series of scientific and liter ary extras which have met a wider sale and more emphatic popular approval than any similar publication of the kind. WHAT THE SOUTHERN PRESS SAY OF THE TRBUNE. We consider Tuz Tamvzz a very valuable paper.-Asheville. N. C., Citizen. Ta NEw Yoa TaIBUxa, in its faithful and searching exposure of outrage slanders on Ala hm and other States, has done immense service to truth and justice.-Macon, Ga., Telegraph and Xessenge We k THE Nzw Ya= TyizuixE for its and powerful words in demanding justice fr peopia of Alabama.-Montgomery, Ala., News. The best newspaper in the world is the NEw YoRz TzauNz. It combines the dignity and sagacity of the London Times with the repre sentative news enterprise of America.-Baltimore Bulletin. Apaper to be admired for its independence of tone and its reliability of news.-Episcopal Methodist, Baltimore, Md. Any one who wants a first-class paper' which keeps fully up with the times in literature, science and art should subscribe for Tax Tamrsuz. Spartanburg, S. C.. Carolina Spartan. The imperial sheet of the world. TEz NEw Yonx TvnyaN-.-Jacksonville. Fla., New South. We recard it as the best pper of an,. published in the United States.-3U=istown, Tenn., Ga sette. To-day, THE Nw YoRK TaiBuNE is undoubt edly the first of American newspapers; whatever may be said of its rivals, it has clearly won precedence of all, and very creditably does it represent the journalism of the country. Ibile dealing with all the topics coming within the range of a newspaper, fs TwiastN makes a specialty of the great subject of agriculture. It becomes therefore a matter of vital importance to the country that the direction of the ideas of this vast section should be in able and conscien tious bands, and a matter for congratulation that the farmer's newspaper par excellence has the high standing of the Tnz TaBuxi.-The N. Y. South. Tx NEw Yorm TiaUNE is doing a great work in popularizing Science, by the publication ofcheapextrastothatgreatdaily.-OurMonthly, Clinton, S. C. American newspaper enterprise is probably at this time more fully illustrated in the daily issues of Tuz Nzw Yoax Taisu than in any other journal.-Wilmington, N. C., Star. Unequalled in culture, dignity, comprehensive breadth, polish of expression and intellectual; fettered by no party ties, bolted indecencies of eh, and hysteric with no wild senstions. reigh, N. C., Agricultural Journal. Surely the paper has maintained successfully the high popularity which he bequeathed it. and the name of an ably conducted and independent journal, which it now deserves even more justly than at' any time during Mr. 6Greeley's life. Petersburg. Va., Index and Appeal. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. Daily, by mail, 810 per year;.Semi-Weekly, 32 per year; five copies, 82.5.. each. Weekly. 82 per year; ten copies, $1.25 each; twenty copies, 1.10 each. 07 Postage in all eases paid by THuE TRanBUNE, and papers addressed to each subscriber without extra charge. Agents wanted in every town to whom liberal cash commissions will be paid. Specimen copies, circulars and posters free. Address THE TEIBUNE, New York. Nov. 25, 47-tf. THE TRUE SOUTHRON. THE PAPER FOR THE TIMES. Independent and Fearless-Devoted to the interests of the Good and True People of the Country, and especially of the SUPREMACY OF TIlE WHITE RACE. Published without the aid of any Official Patronage whatever, and appeals alone to theFRIEaNDS OF HoQYEsTY AND GOOD) OVEEN2MENT for suipport Il its fight atgainst villainy. We call upon the wHITE MEN OF SoL'THI CAnoLLNA-those who desire to redeem our State from the aboinatiort of thiev'mg im truders, domestic scoundrels and mongrel leeches. wvho have acquired place and pow er through the instrumentality of negro su premacy, combined with corrunptioin and bribery-to come forward and sustaim us by a cordial and liberal support, and show to Itadical corrulptionlists and Scallawag trai tors, that they are determined, henceforth, to sustain a fearless exponent of their views and principles. We say. cand(idly, we need your support. The party in power have (lone their utmost to crush us by endeavoring to deprive us of legitimate business, and all we ask is the suibscriptionl of every true Carolinian which will place us beyond the reach of contingencies. We arc no adventurers, but Carolinians, to the mianor born-have been engaged in the publication of this patper over_ eight years-nnd ask your patronage, believing that it ill be given wvithout hesitation.. SUBSCitIPT10N PR1WE, $3 A YEAlt, Ih ADVANCE, with reductions to clubs.. To Business Men and( others, desiring to advertise, we beg to say that, our circula tion is much larger than that of any other apr in this County, with largend lincreas ng lists in all the Middle and Eastern Coun ties of the State. Send one cent stamp for specimen copy. DAEE & OSTEEN, ProprietorS, W. G. Kr.NEDT, Editor. SUMTER, S. C. July 29, 3d-tf'. The Newberry Hotel, C. C. CHASE, Proprietor. I would respectfully inform my friends *and the traveling public generally, that I am renovating the Hotel preparatory to the approac.hung seasons5.. The house is supplied with competent, faithful, polite ar,l attentive servants. Liberal reductio.n mad-e to w.eekly and monthly b,oarders. A pr. 22, 16-tf. Regular and Transient BOA RDING, BY MRS. BREAZEALE. 43 PLAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. The loc.ation is conivenient, being near the bu~ sess portion of the cit-ad jace~nt to the Gentral hotel. Transient Boara $2 perdayMar. 11, 10-tf WHEELER HOUSE. PRICES NOT REDUCED. The Proprietor of the Whelieler House -would respe.ctfully in form the traveling pub lic that, in Order to mintain the reputation of hsis House as a first class Hotel, he will continue his prices as heretofore, and guar antees to give that satisfaction .which has secured to the House the reputation it now has. T. M. POL LOCK, Nov. 12, 45-tf. Proprietor. Who Wants an Organ? Any one in need oi one of Needhamt & Sons Drgaus, will find it to their advantage to .al ,o th HER~ALD OFFICE LOVE IN WINTER. BY ROBERTBUCHANAN. I. "Oh. love is like the roses, And every rose shall fall, eF1or sure as Summer close.i They perish, one und all. Then love, while leaves are on the trees, And birds sing in the bowers; When winter comes, too late 'twill be S To pluck the happy flowers. It is a m.aiden singing, An ancient girl, in sooth; The dizzy rooru is ringing With her shrill song of youth; The white keys sob as swift she tries Each shrill and shrieking scale: "Oh, love is like the roses!" cries This muslined nightingale. In a dark corner d.zing I close uy eyes and ears, And call up, while reposing, A glimpse from other years; A genre-piciure, quaint and Dutch, I see from this dark seat, 'Tis full of human brightness, such As makes remembrance sweet. Io N. Flat leagues of endless meadows (In Holland lies the scene), Where uauy pollard shadows O'er nut-brown ditches lean; Gray clouds above that never break, Mists the pale sunbeams stripe, With groups of steaming cattle, make A landscape "after Cuyp." A windmill, and below it A cottage near a road, Where sono meek pastoral poet Might mak- a glad abode; A cottage witi a garden, where Prim squaresof pansies grow, And, sitting on agarden-chair, A dame with locks of snow. In trim black, trussed and bodiced, t, With petticoat of red. And on l.er bosom modest A kerchief white bespread. Alas! the breast that heaves below Is shriveled now and thin, Though vestal thoughts as white as snow Still palpitate within. Her hands are mittened nicely, And folded on her knee; Her lips, that meet precisely, )f Are moving quietly. She listens while the dreamy bells O'er the dark flats intone 'Now come, now gone, in dying swells The Sabbath-sounds are blown. Her cheek a withered rose is, Her eyes a violet dim; Half in her chair she dozes, And hums a happy hymn. But soft! what wonder makes her start And lift her aged bead, While the faint flutterings of her heart Just touch her cheeks with red? The latch clicks; through the gateway An aged wight steps slow, Then pauses, doffing straightway His broad-brimmed gay chapeau! LSwallow-tailed coat of blue so grand, With buttons bright beside, He wears, and in his trembling hand A nosegay, ribbon-tied. His thin old legs trip lightly In breeches of nankeen, His wrinkled face looks brightly, So rosy, fresh and clean; For old he is and wrinkled plain, With locks of golden gray, 50 And leaning on a tasseled cane, lIe bobbles on his way. Oh, sky lark, singing over eC The silent mill hard by, r, To this so happy lover Sing out with summer-cry ! _He hears thee, though his blood is cold, She hears, though deaf and weak; She stands to greet him, as of old, A blush upon her cheek. In Spring-time they were parted By some sad wind of woe; mr- Forlorn and broken-hearted e Each faltered, long ago; ni They parted: half a century 7Y Each took the path of pain II e lived a bachelor, and she Was never wooed aan eBut when the Summer ended. When Autumn, too, was dead, s When every vision splendid Of youth and hopc was fled, y- Againithese twain came face to face As in the long ago; They met within a sunless place In the season of the snow. "Oh, love is like the roses, Love comes and love must flee! Before the summer closes Love's 3apture and love's glee!" Oh peace! for In the garden there Hie bows in raitment gay, Doffs hat, and with a courtly air ts Presents his fond bouquet. r- One day in every seven, d While church-bells softly ring, IThe happy, silent heaven ofBeholds the self-same thing: The gay old boy within the gate, With ribbons at his knee; "When winter comes is love too late?" O Cupid, look and see! Oh, talk not of love's rapture, When youthful lovers kiss; is- W\hat mortal sight may capture A scene so sweet as this? Beside her now he sits and glows, While prim she sits, and proud, Then, spectacles upon his nose, Reads the week's news aloud!I ry Pure, with no touch of passion, True, with no tinge of pain: .Thus, in sweet Sab'batb-fashion. 5 She ses'inim'na'happy bo Swift, agile, amorous-eyed; lie sees in her his own heart's joy Youth, hope, love vivified ! Content there he sits smoking ad- His long Dutch pipe of wood; Gossiping of: and joking, As a gay lover should, -And oft, while there in company - They smile for love's sweet sake, Her snuff-box black she hands, and he 49A grave, deep pinch doth take! There gravely j-::venescent, In sober Sabbath-joy, al, Mingling the past and present,, a- They sit, a maid and boy! "Oh, love is like the rosec!"-No I Thou foolish singer, cease! ds. Love finds his fireside 'mid the snow, re And smokes the pipe of peace1 WINNING A NEW DRESS. "Stich a beaultiful new silk as Mrs. Leith has got,' exclaidi0, Tom Vernon's wife as they were eating breakfiast. "The loveliest sh:ale of a lavender. and trimmed with lace that must have cost at least th'eO dollars a yard." It's just exquisitc!" "' course,'' latghed Tom I can foresee what all this cithu sian is leading to. My little household diVility 3 has an idea inl her head that she would look well in lavender silk." "1 didl not say anythin g of thI kind." said Mrs. Vernon , but Tom knew by the way she said it that he had guessed pretty near tho tru t b. "And the way in which she got it makes it all the more enjoyable she says," went on Mrs. Vernon. "You know Leith's always telling how easy it is to get the start of a woman in a joke, or anything of' that kind. It seems Mrs. Leith got the start of' him in some way, and he felt so cheap over it that he prozuised to get her the pretti est dress in regard to it. That's the way she earned her lavender silk." "Poor Leith !" laughed Tom. "I don't pity him, though. iIe ought to be able to hold his own with a woman. I'd like to see a woman get the start of me!" "I'll tell you what I'll do," said Mrs. Verncn, with a merry twin kle in her eye, and a view to busi ness. I'll agree to get the start of you in some way if you'll get me a lavender silk." "Agreed !" responded Tom. "But I'm afraid you won't have your new dress very soon, my dear." "See if I don't," said Mrs. Ver non, wisely. "it isn't such a hard thing to get the start of' you men as you think it is. We could do it any day if we cared to try." "Oh !" laughed Tom, giving her a kiss as he spoke, "we are not conceited at all; are we!" "Not the least," answered his pretty wifle; "you wait and see how the case stands by and by." "Well, I'll wait," answered Tom, rushing round distr-actedly it sear'ch of his hat. "W here the dickens ?-I hear the tr'ain comn ing, and I've only' thrzee minzutes to get to the depot in. Oh, here it is, good -bye, Kittio, arid remiem ber, I p)redict that you will lose your new silk dress," and with another uiss lie was >ff. '"Rather a poor show for comn fort," thought Tonm Ver-non, two or thr'ee days after. as he entered a crowded ear and looked about him for a vacant seat. Every seat was occupiedl. The poor fellow thought he had got to make the best of' it and take a standing i-ide homneward, when a young lady, at least he considered sIhe was a young lady fmrm her style ofdress,but could n't be cer tain of anzything, because her face was hidden under a brown veil, beckon ed him toward her, and offered him half her seat. Tom was always very suscepti ble. The fair sex had kept his hear't in a continual flutter before he married. Nowv, he felt sur-e that ther-e wasnr't a woman like Kittie in the wor-ld, and yet he couldn't over'come his suscep)tibil ity. A pair of' br'ight eyes be witched himi for tho time being. A smile from the pretty face was too much f'or him to resist. Therefore, when this veiled lady offered him a seat beside her, Tfom, with a faice that was very expres sive of' the pleasur-e with wvhich he accepted the offer', came for ward and1 sat down, wondering who it could be behind the br-own veil. Sonme young lady who knew him by sight, he was pretty sure, because there was something in tire tr'im little figur-e that seemed rather familiar to him. The train started with a jerk, and tire young lady wvas nearly twitched off the seat. Tom help ed her to become settled, anid in some way his hand got entangled with hers, and he didn't try to disetangle it. The young lady didn't seem to have any very so riouis objections to the situation, for she permitted Tom's fingers to cling to her own daintily gloved one under cover of her shawl. Tomn said something once or twice, but the lady didn't seem in clined to talk much. It was per-haps a half-hour's ride from the city to the place wher'e Torn got off. A half-hour doesn't seem very long for Torn to get up a flirtation with.his young lady companion. Once or twice ho wQndowl what his wife wonid say at' she kneV ail ab,)ut it. 1u thl it was jilst to Ja)-S Awn O time, ami there wasnt any hairi in i'. Merely an inllocent ailuso Just before roehing the statioi whe-re Tun lives, the train p throuigh a tuinnel Inlfto this tunnel P!lungCd t!ui trai: on this mororable cvviein.,4 Tle lamps had not been ilihtti it tle Car. and (I course everythin W:as wrap'%:ped inl midnighL dark ness. "MaV 1 have a kiss ?" Whilispel 7r Tom, leaning toward the brown veil. "Just one," he pleaded. There wasn't any reply in words but Ton, whos arim had stoler about the silent young lady' waist, Felt a curious tremble shak. her. Ie didn't know but what she was laingim at him. "Silence gives consent," sai Ton, and pu!lcd an. ay the brown veil and plumped a whopping kis somewhere in the vicinity of thc car'. Jiust then the train dashed out of the tuinnlel, and Tom hoped tc see the face of his queer con. panliun. But the brown veil wa down. The train stopped, and Tom got I1l) to get off. So did his companion. A cold shiver ran all over him What if the story should leak out! lie hurried out of the ear, and looked around at the door, to find the brown veil close behind him He made a plunge for the plat form, but he couldn't escape hi fiate. The brown veil followed him. "Who the dickens can it be?' thouglt Tom. "If it's any on< who's going to stay hero awhile Kittie will be sure to hear of it and I don't know how I could ex plain it to her satisfactorily. Wo men are so particular." "Hello, Toni !" called out friend, coming up just then. "Jusi from the city?" "Yes," said Tom, who was medi tating a hasty retreat. -Who i: that woman in the brown veil Bernard ? She came up on th< train with me." "That woman in the brown veil?' said 13ernard, looking about amoia the crowd ; "I don't see any." Tom breathed freer. "I don't see her now. I don' know who she was, but there wa somneth irag kind( of familiar in lhe appearance, I fancied. Good grn cious ?" Tomn's last remark was cause by the aIppe.ararnce at his elbow ii the identical lady in the browl veil. "I'd like to walk home will you. if you have no objection, she said, with a queer little tremn ble in her voice, as if a laugh wer not far back of' it. "With me !"' cried Tom11, agh:-s "-that is-'' "Oh. it doesn't make any', diei ae'. laughed the lady, and Toma' ees wer something worth seeir, when lie hecard tha. laugh. "Den dear ! It's too good! to keep ! 01 Tomn ! Don't you know mei?" Up went the brown veil, lan there stood Kitty, lher face, p)e fectly eonuV ised( wi th merrimeni "1-l! be sh,>t if' it isn't my wife ! ried Tomi, looking as lie w"arte t' faint, or do something equall '4Didn't know your own wife! cried Bernard. "I declare, if theL isn't the richest joke of the season I say, Tonm, I must tell the boy about that. Oh I must really." "Just one," whispered Kittiet Tom, with her eyes full of mi chief. "Silerie gives consent." "Wouldn't you like another one? Tom's face was as red as the roi in Kittic's hat. "If you'll k eep still about th at "You'll get me that lavendt silk," finished Kittie. "Yes, I'll do it," cried Tom. "Just say it's a bargain." "And you'll never~ do soa again added IKittie. "Never, as sure as my name Tom Vernon," said Tom, solem: "Well on these terms, I agr< to say nothing about it, but was so rich !' and Kittie couldn help laughing till she cried, '"O Torn, to think of it !" Tomn declares that he knew wli the lady in the brown veil was a the time, but he can't make hi wife believe it. She got the lave1 der' silk, and the transaction bit fair to be a lucky one for her, b cause if she wants anything she h: only to say : "Just onc !" and 'S lence gives consent !" and Tor looking decidedly sheepish, is su to conie to terms. A belle, upon being asked h father's profession, said he "en almd--ork," she believed. I PATTERW)AIS E BY t is a true saying that "there ai, indled, there is no tic-on so h L' a- the rII . Li nIoroUS ineidents 1 of or boyhood day, at leLt to us. who call so v mniber every kook and gesture of S,Ille comi(c adventurC or incident, OVer which at the time we so near ly split our sides, that we can't bear to have a woman's finger pok ini us in the ribs even to this day without gttng excited. With this brief prelude, I will intod uiee "Pat terson's B3oy." Now it has always been an unanswered qion, Who struck Billy Pat terson ?" but I am fully propared to aniwer for "Patterson's Boy." and solemnly declare that it wasn't j I who pulled Ihe string. In my younger days "Patter son's Boy" and I used to go for a swimming bath every Sunday mi-riing during the sumner in the Ohio rive r. We would go at an ear ly hour, before sunrise, and, as he was a sleepy-headed youth, it re quired a voice of thunder to rouse him from his snoring. I got tired of the strain on imy lin p. and of seeing so many night-capped heads poked out of the neighboring win dows, so I suggested to "Patter son's Boy" that he tie a string to his big toe every S5aturday night, with the other end tied to the fence, and I could just quietly and gently pull the string, and wake him nithout disturbing the neigh bors. This plan worked well for a time, but one night "Patterson's Boy" could not find any other string to attach to his too. but a strong, closely twisted cotton cord, called in the West a troll-line, strong enough to hold the largest fish in the river; so he tied the string securely to his too, and with the other end fastened to the fence, he went to sleep in all the sweet sec-rity, of innocence, and soon his childlike snore was ming liung with the joyous music of katy dids and jar bugs. There was also an"other Innocent Vouth who lived aerioss the street from the pater nail mainsion of '-Patter-son's Boy.' The course of true love ncvcr did run smooth.' Now, of cour-se, these boys loved each other, but a little un pleasatness sprang up once be. tween them, owing to a little game of mar bles in wvhich ":Patter. so's' 1Boy" caime out so far ahead that the other boy could never an . derstand it ; and it had been a apuzzle t.o him ever since, although he never cast any imp)utation on Sthe honor of "-Patter-son's Boy,' and, generously overlooking it. he . loved him as well as ever, and Swould go over and eat pie with ,him, whenever they had a baking r at Patterson's. One morning, however, this boy got up early to solve the pro. blem of that game, and seeing th string tied to the fence, lie thoughi that might throw some light or the subject, especially as lie knew the other en d was tied to the toe of "Patterson's Boy." Now Patter son's calf' was lying down by th( fence near the string, so the boy 'ent up quietly, and patted thc calf' on the head, aiid petted it uni tilllie had gained its confidence by false pretences, andi then he unufast Ienedi the string from the fence and Stied it on over the little stubby horns of the calf; then he wen1 " over and sat on the gate.post tc *e watch the result. In a few minutes I came walk ing along to wake "Patterson' rlBoy-" for our sw im. and w~hen app1roachied the fence the cal j unmped up in fright, and starLt on a run across the lot. 1 heart a terrible racket inside, and th< tumbling oveir of' tables, anti chairs Iand then a yeIl f'rom "Patteirson': -Boy," as he came through the win dew with nothing on but his shirt e ad, with a kind ot "hialfhammon hop. step and jump, he went afte that calf', while the tail of his shir sailed oat on the breeze and flop ped liked an election banner on windy day. IAway they went around th s yar'd, over, the wood-pile, throug. 1the garden, over beans, and peat and tomato vines, and then disap peared in the corn, where the rat Stle of the dried corn blades an< the yell of "Patterson's Boy" wa all that indicated anything inlte resting down there. But, rocket' clack, they came back again, an< "Patterson's Boy" had taken: death grip on that line to relierv r the unpleasant strain on his tot nand as the calf had got warme< [e up to his- work th-ey-were T-rakius hauLer time than over. The - made all the near cuts and anv ~i hrp Mizrns :: I minrves arouind that yard'u; they p--t arrels panls. broke down aL1l te preClty 'owrs in, t,he f:'9nt yaLr. they knickcd dowTI a a>: and smasli :l1 tie jears of preser and! then they -iiSaMppar-d f'r a iIQ mn it und'Ier thle wood shed c, where -Pattc-rsn's Boy" coid be- heard thampi his newl ai.ong the old traps piled up there. But it CVCer got reall v liVely. and interestin,g until the calf up set the beehive. Then the buz Zing of the bees, on that sweet S-bbath morning, was so sugges tivo of the land where milk and ioney flows that it was strange if "Patterson's Boy," didn't appre elate it. I think he did. from the way he hopped, a:id danced, and yelled and kicked and roared. By this time Patterson came ont. and got an old scythe, and inowed around with it untfl he Cut that blasted ol string, and got his only son i., the house, and by that time the neighbors began to t-Oie in to look at him. They had pnt Some more clothing on himln, however. as that shlir't he started out with was now all g)ne. You couldn't reasonably expect a shirt to last that boy long, seal loping around as "Patterson's Boy" did that morning. I went in to look at him too. It was interesting to look at him. His nose stuck oat like a large, full-grown tomato ; his ears were as large and thiek as your hand ; his mouth looked like a hole in a huckleberry dumpling; and his eyes-well, he didn't have any eves; at least you couldn't see any. It was an extraordinary occasion to the family, but when I asked him if he was going swimming with m!e, and that other boy w,ant ed him to play marbles, the Pat terson family thought we didn't appi-eciate the situation ; and old Patterson lifted us with his boot. THE LENGTHENING YEARS OF MAN.-In an interesting paper by Dr. Edward Jarvis, in the fifth an nual report of the Massachusetts board of health, the following vital statistics, past and present, of Va rious countries, strikingly show how the advance of civilization has prolonged life: In ancient Rome, in the p)eriod of 200 to 500 years after the christian era, the average duration of life in the most favored class was 30 years. [n the present century the av er-age longevity of persons of the same class is 50 years. In the sixteenth century the average longevity in Geneva was 21.21 years; between 1814 and 1833 it was 40.68, and as large a portion now live to 70, as lived to 43, 300 years ago. In 1693 the British -government borrowed money by selling annuities on lives from in fancy upward, on the basis of the average longevity. T he treasurier received the price and paid the annuities regularly, as b ng as tihe annuitants lived. The contract was mutually satisfactory and pro fitable. Ninety-seven years later, Mr. Pitt issued another tontine or scale of annuities, on the basis of the same expectation of life as in the pr-eviou.s century. These latter annuitants, however,!lived so much longer thani their pr-edecessors. that it proved to be a ver-y costly loan for- the governument. It was found that while 10,000) of each sex in the lir-st tontine died under- the age of 23 only 5.772. males, and 9.416 females ini the second tontinte died at the same age of 100) year-s later. Theaverage life of the annui tants of 1G93 was 26.5 year-s, while shose of 1790 lived 33 y-ea:-s and 9 m tonths after they were 30 years old. From these facts, says D)r. IJarvis, it is plain that life, in many fforms and manifestations, anti pro. Ibably in all, can be expended in vigon-. intensity and dur-ation, uin der- favorable circumstances amid which, and the conditions in which, any for-m of life is placed, should be birought into hai-mony with the law appointed for itsdee A WRIo TO WIvEs-No man ever- ti-uly pr-ospered in the world without the co.operation of his wife. If she unite in mutual endeavors or rewvard his labors with an endearing smile, with what confidence will he resort to his merchandise or his farm, fly over lands, sail over seas, meet difficulty and encounter danger, knowing that his labor will be r-e warded by the sweets5 of home ! SSolitude and disappointmen!t enter the history of every man's life, and he is but half provided for the Svoyage who finds an associate but for happy hours, while for months of darknBess and distress no sym I pthi~zin Darker is prepared. LONI-WINDED TALKERS. Men are ofte talked to death. It is a hard deatLh to di.. a is often the case that they ve to dio st"anding. Thv lon-winded talker is worse than tihe droul'th in Jun"; he set Lies down on you liko a .swarui of rd-hot mosquitoes and acts as though he iutended to sLay. He lever has anything of im portance to tall, if he had he could 1o it in a minute. While he is talking to yoe he is 11ways looking the other way, hunting up the next victim. He will hold you by tle button and alk for tiree h,urs and a quarter; Ind when he has got through you Veel as weak as though you had ust comie out of a hot bath. Long-winded talkers are the Very Vainest o mortals; they IoU't never talk to interest you, but to amuse themselves. They are as cheerful and as 1ightv as a bladder blown up with 'he wind. You can't escape one of these 'ellows any more than you can an ,ast wind. They are the worst thieves in the world, they steal time, a thing that cannot he replaced. I had rather be attacked by a two inch auger and a dozen gim lots all at once than have a long winded talker get after me. They are worse than a female committee of five, to raise moucy to white wash the basement of the church. You cannot only get rid of the women, but make them all respect you by subscribing seven dollars, just about twice what it will cost to do the whitewashing.-B1iings. .-ow. A GIGANTIC PROJECT.-The pro ject of converting a portion of the Sahara Desert into an inland sea continues to find favor, and it is un derstood thorough surveys with a view to determine the precise mode of accomplishing this object are under way by the French government. As to whether the result aimed at is desirable or not is at present a question of conside rable discussion. On the one hand, the replacing of a large amount of desert-waste by water, and making seaports of interior points in Algeria, and the expected restoratiou of an ample rain-fall to various parts of rnorthern Africa, are vie wed with favorable anticipa tions. On the other hand, it is maintained that the sea will be simply anr immense evaporation basin, which will soon be clogged up with sait ; or that a serious in terference will tarke place in the amount of heated air carried across the Mediterranean, which at present prevents the extension of) the Alpine glaciers. Sh1ould this be initerrupted, it is feared that inmcreased glaciation will en sue, p)ossibly restoring a large por tion of Central Europe to its con di tion du ri ng the r*einrdeer epGch. W hatever be the result of this great enigineering operation, it is extremely probable that it will be attempted by the French authori ics. IN SmAs.-A lady once writiig a ietter to a youing naval oficer who was alnost astraniger, thought, "Shall I el-se this as anybody would or shall I say a word for my Master ?' :al lifting up her for heart a momenrt, she wrote tel! in~g himr that his constant chrange of scenec anid place was an apt illus tration of the words. "HIere we~ have no continuing city,"'anidak ed if he could say, '-1 seek one to comec." In trembling hand she folded it arid sent it off. Back cane the answer: "Thank you so :nuchm for those kinrd words. My paren ts arec dead. I am an orphan, and no one has spoken to me like that since my mother died long years ago." Tr be arrow, shot at a venture, hit home, arid the young man shortly after rejoiced in the fullness of the blessing of Fthe grospel of peace. Christians. Ihow often do we close a letter "as anybody would," when we might say a word for Jesus. A singular circumstance is re ported to us by a gentleman from Booneville, Ky., who is reliable authority, as having recently oc curred in that place. An old hen came off her nest with a brood of bran-new little chickens, hatched out all her eggs save one, which remained in the nest. The old cat belonging on the premises took possession of the nest i.ud came off with a flock gf little cats and a chicken, she having hatched out the remaining egg. The whole family are doing well. Buffalo has a female burglar on ly seoeteen vears old. A NEW WEAPON. The New Orleans Picayune ives the annexed description of Snetes: instrument for a street fiht that has yet been produced : It is a weni-cn with a sinister and eynicl appearance that would make even the bravest man tren 1l. It consists first of an ordinary pair of brass knuckles, rather sharp, in order to produce a telling L:ffect. To one one end is attach ad a gimlet knife, to the otber a revolver, whose trigger forms one of the divisions of the brass knuckle. Thus armed a man might iefy an army. If he were to get hold of one individual man, the 3ffect is appalling; every blow he strikes with the knuckles would not only break the assaulted per ion's skull, but lodge a half.dozen bullets in his heart, while the gim let attachment is cutting away at his throat. A man who had been treated to that weapon would be killed at least a dozen times be fore he knew what was the mat ter; not only killed, but so bat tered, bruised, and cut to pieces, that a sardine box would prove a roomy coffin for his remain. Somebody ought to name the wealon ; it deserves a name. It is small, but telling in its ef fects. DON'T ScoLD.-For the sake of your children, don't do it. It is a great misfortune to have children reared in the influence of a scold. The effect of the everlasting com plaining and fault-finding of such persons is to make the young who hear it, unamiable, malicious, cal lous-hearted,and they often learn to take pleasure in doing the very things for which they receive such tongue-lashings. As they are al ways getting the blame of wrong doing, whether they deserve it or not, they think they might as well do wrong as right. They lose all ambition to strive for the favorable opinion of the faultfinder,since they see they always strive in vain. Thus a scold is not only a nuisance, but a destroyer of the morals of children. If these, unloved dread ed people could only see themselves as others see them they would flee to the mountains in very shame. VIcKED INGENUITY.-One of the subtle methods of catching fish,em ployed for years by poachers in England, is to fill a large stone bottle with quicklimfe, then to pour in water enough to near-ly ill the jar, and cork it up, secur ing the cork to the neck of the bottle by copper wire. The bot tle is thr-own into the water, and the pressur-e, caused by the work ing of the lime, explodes the bot tle and stuns the fish, wvhich then float helplessly on the surface of the water. Little Toby Foster's first com position was as follo ws : ROOsters. ROOsters can cro wich HlenF. cant they swallow their vittles h'.le cause they hant any Teeth. Sc.me of them Can fight orful they are Good to pick Wurms and Siom times helpl A lien build A N est tecy never have but 2 Legs ROOsters never lay Eggs. A correspondent wants to know how to break a cow that is afraid of a woman. We haven't thought suficiently on the subject to give an answer, but in New Jersey, when a cow is afraid of a woman, she q:liets the animal by simply hiding her back hair under the milk pail. The anmount of grain shipped by the Amecrican line of steamers to Liverpool from Philadelphia (lu ring Aug~ust was nearly 350,000 bushels. Do not allow y-our daulghter-s to be taught letters by a man though he be a St. Paul, or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints arec in heav en. There is a spell in woman's laughter, but not so dangerous as in that of man, for his spells nanslaughter Utica girls all wear shoes with Ian L on. Without that they wouldn't fit. Have the couirage to prefer com fort and prosperity to fashion in all things. Have the courage to wear your old clothes until you can pay for new ones. Hint to storekeepers: To make money-Advertise. Good seldom or never come un miad with avii.