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B " . P^F - -. :* ' ^ :> r- JHHr>- vSfcJw ^"\ 4??'" FERGUSON S AVENGERS. A STORY OF PARTISAN DAYS. ' . 'This for the gallant Ferguson !' The foregoing five words had instituted < gi a reign of terror in one of the loveliest dis- ' HLvtricts of the Palmetto Stato?a district wa- J <jpr tered by the Cutawba and Paeolet rivers and I their gentle tributaries. In the month of September, 1780, Corn- < wallis detached the uotoriuus Col. Ferguson < to the frouticrs of North Curolin^for tho ( ostensible purpose of encouraging tho lories ] of that regiou to take up arms for the king. 1 Ferguson's force consisted in part of the a most profligate and abandoned charAOters of t the partisan days, uud his march wy mark- o <ed by atrooities of the most shoolujig.. des- * criptiSh.* Tho hardy mou of the.Uaroitnas, s Kentucky and Virginia rose against the ma- I raudcrs, uud, led by BonnR and other back- p wood's worthies, gave them a decided defeat at King's Mountain. Ferguson was slain a in the battle, and his fellow-foreigners, uum- r .bering'about one thousand, were nearly all A. captured or killed. p ID is conflict revived the hopes of South- Q ern patriots, aud forced Gorowallis to returu to Charleston discomfittod and cast down. si 'We shall have rest now,' the patriots ft said, after the battle. 'Ferguson, the dreaded, is dead, uud the fow toricswhocs- cl caped with their wretched lives are not strong enough to do us harm.' hi Everywhere in the vioinity of tho battle a field, the Americans breathed freer, and the fr loyalists in whose interest Ferguson had di marched to his. death, curbed their loyalty ..nd in seorcoy swore revengo. A But the settlements were soon to learn th that tho victory of King's Mountain had nerved the arhi of a foe more terrible than h< any whioh they had hitherto known. b( Tho existence of the new terror was dis- ot covered by a boy one morning about a fortnight after the battle. Ho found tho family of Archibald Meltson murdered in their 'F wn house, and to the corpses had been pin- ca ned a paper bearirg these words: This for tho gallant Fergusou !' II This terrible atrocity aroused tho couutry, and the exoitemeut was quickly heightened by the fiudiug of tho body of another mur- la dered patriot. Ou tho cold breast which wi had beern pierced by pistol balls, was the ro pallid paper and its words of terrible import, dn and the country kucw that a fearful ven goaucc would bo taken for Kiug's Mouu- th tain. ? cL During the week that followed the dis- un coverics I have incutioned, the work of the nc Avengers was terrible. They fell upon de patriot houses at the doad of night, and on the bosom of their victims tho nvtfwetlls to which had ulrcady terrorized tho country, gti It wj^in vain that the patriots summoned theircunning and energy for the capture of th the baud of demons, which, as it had been at discovered, numbered, six men, mounted on tc: black horses. They came aud weut like ghosts but always left behind th**[terrible sen- gl tcncc which had made their existence exc- th crable. At times they fell upon their huu- cd tcrs, and left them by the roadside, uinrked with the signs of vengeance. Fear begau of to paralyze the Caroliuiuus; many nbau- w; doncd their homes for the sake of their di families ; and it is probable that the cutirc h;i district would havo been depopulated in a ut ?hort time, bad it not been for the caurage fa of one woman. Ilcr name was Alico Beauchauipe. fcii It was a dark nigbt in tho last week of tii November, when tho heroine of my story th leit tnc House ot a tricnd. ller own house, sti which had been deserted for several days, an was not far away, and she hud dctcruiiued sti to return to it for the purpose of securing an fo article of apparel left behind iu the recent hi flight. he Before she set out on her journey, she in was warned of the dangers that environed it; but she smiled, and declared that she gc did not lear them. She could enter the F1 houso through the kitchen, in the rear, hud re the garment without a light, return safely uj to her frieuds. The path she had often traversed was wi barely discernible, but she made good head* oh way and reached her homo without inci- sh dent. The silence of the gtavc bung about g< tho forsaken place, and the lifting of the w latch sent a chill of terror to the young th girl's heart. Through the kitchen, across w the deserted parlor and up the stairs, she w crept up to the room where she had left the hi object of her nocturnal quest. Tho drawer fii of the old bureau yielded without noise, and Alice was drawing forth the garment when hi the voice of-men fell upon her cars. tl Shu started, dropped her prize, and with T her heart in her throat crept to the wiudow st that overlooked the porch in front of the 01 house. c< She could see uotliiug, for the uight was m too dark ; but tho voices of men mingled gi with champing of bits, continued to salute ct her ears. c< 'This is old Bcauchainpe's house,' said one. 'It has been deserted for several days, ci The daughter, frightened by the manner iu d which we treated her father, has tied some- u whore for protection.' V J hose words drove every vestige of color 111 from the listiucr's faeej they told her who st the ineu below were, though she could not a: see even the outlines of their persons.? gi One week prior to their visit, her father, d 0110 of tho Kind's Mountain heroes, was ai found dead in a palmetto grove, aud tho ? Words of Ferguson's Avengers lay on his breast. Then she had deserted her home, e< knowing that the hand that had struck the ci father, would not spare the daughter. Well might the lone girl tremble when she found herself.so near the dreaded scour- li gurs of the country, and she did not move h until she heard tho front door opened by a n kick, and heavily b >oted leet in tho room v below. I'h'Mi the cdm thought of lo r situation *1 dr ve fear front her heart, and Alice Beau r chainpe prepared to perform one of th? most tl daring deeds of tho Revolutionary War. The noise in the hcuso increased, and oaths and rude jests prececded and ^followed i the lighting of a fire on the hearth. Alice, who had louged for a sight of the 1 dreaded six, crept to a spot near the bereau Where there was a crack in the floor. Then applying her eyes to the peep-hole, she saw < )ix wild looking nion directly beneath her. Tbey were, beyond doubt, tho Avengers i )f Ferguson's death, for several masks lay < >n the table, along with throe or four bottles >f wine which they had taken from some ] ratriot's cellar. Tall, rougli-lodking fel- I ows they were, armed with pistols, carbines i md sabres, the kind of men who never couTt I he smiles of meroy or listen to the pleading f innocence. Just such fellows as they rere Alice had supposed them to bo, Jo? t he had "seen many of the prisoOors takenaf t ting's Mountain, and she longed for the 1 , ?? l W A "" xutwuue ui a oana 01 patriots. J There wore true men in South Carolina e t that time who would havo given their ight arms for a chance to exterminate the <3 Lvongers, nnd Alice knew where a little * arty of patriots lay, but, alas, they were g ot very uoar. c 'We'll rest here and finish that wine,' lid one of the leaders of the band, whose ice told that he had already imbibed freely. f< 'Bring in the poultry and on old Beau- " liampc's hearth, we'll prepare a feast.' d At his command one of the men left the use. but soon returned, bearing with him c< duck and several chickens, from whose h cshly wrung necks the warm blood was t< ripping. ol How's the horses ?' asked ono of the h vengers, as the man flung the poultry on , 10 table. " W 'Standing like rocks,' was the reply. 'Such u jrses as they are don't need watching, aud tl isides, there isn't a rebel within ten miles ' this Dlace.' tt 'Why, there's the widow Hartzell.' d 'I didn't think of her,' was the reply.? w low bitterly old IJartzell hated us, but we w uglit him at lust.' w 'And presented him with a breast-pin! e ! Ila!' In Aud the laugh went round the room. C Alice Beauchampo did not wait until the te ugh was ended ; while yet it filled the house oi ith devilish echoes, she glided across the tr om to a window that looked out upon the irk palmetto grove. bi There was uo sash in the window, and o cool winds of the night kissed the pallid ai icek of the partisan's daughter. For a uuieut she tried to pierce the darkness beath the window, but failing in her en- ec avors, she crept over the sill^ rfltolved to of for nl tt&Tground was not grdJW KtRFiyi daring ?h p alighted without injury. , Now she was free to make bor escape to oc e friend she had latoly left; but imuicdi- gl a flight in that direction was not her in- th ntion. P( Heaven aid me !' she murmured, as she ideu around the old house and approached to c horses which the tories had left tether- b< to a small tree a few yards from the door, th A glauce in the room revealed the forms }h the Avengers discussing the wine aud is itching the roasting of the fowls. They tc d not fear danger, for their horrible deeds iu id completely terrorized the country, aud ider tlio sway of their lawlessness it was st becoming a desert. C Alice counted them before she touched a N _ . ? .t ? ? - agio rein ; ana men in a Dnel period 01 i>( iie she loosened the horses and quietly led fc ctn into a small copse not far away. The tf seds did not refuse to obey her guidance, tl id when she had reached the copse, she ruck them with a whip which she had di und beneath a saddle. It was a smart ow that she administered, and the tl >rses started forward and disappeared iuan a! stant. lc Thus in a few moments, Ferguson's Aven- ni irs had been deprived of their horses.? li lushed with triumph, Aliee Beauchampe turned to the house, and again looked in fi >on its hilarious tenants. ci She uow held a pistol in her hand?a o! eapon which a holster had grauted her, and 16 crept to tho edge of tho porch before b u halted. There was a flash of ven- tl ;ancc in the dark eye of the partisan girl T liile she gazed upon the party beyond the c; ireshold. Oucc or twice she raised the eapon, but lowered it again, as if playing b ith the life of the leader of the six, whose irly form was revoaled by the light of the g e. w She saw the fowls smoking and well w hlnnnrl nnnn t.lin on/1 wofnhml I O le greedy men crowd around for their share, c heir tongues and movements told her that 1 olen liquor was doiug its accustomed work i all save the giant, who had superintend- t( 1 the cooking of the late repast. This an appeared perfectly sober, and the an- c; ry glances which he often cast at his is juirudcs told that he did not sanction their it mduct. 'Come ! enough of this !' he suddenly n ricd, rising from the table, which had been h ragged to the middle of the room. 'Get n p, hoys, and let's be going. I told you at i'iley's that you had wine enough, hut you u inst. bring some here and drink yourselves g lipid. Tom Scott and you Blakeson, I am diuuicd of you ! What could we do if a s ring of rebels should catch us in this con ( it ion? You know the mercy we would get, rid yet you sit there as cureless as statues -drunk as old Bacchus himself.' a Then an expression of contempt pass- s i over thu man's face, and stODninir lie u ried: ii 'Up ! up ! the rebels arc coming ?' Ii But his cry of alarm did not infuse much i fe into tiie men at the table. One or two a ends were raised, but the drunken leer that a inde the faces lii'leoua^Bkenougli to pro- ' oke a smile even Iroi^^Vmad torv. k Men!' he snoorcc^VMtcinptuously.? i; Dugx. every one of you. I've a mind to s ide down to the 1'acoh-t swamp and tell ti he rebels hfditig there that the men they r I I l' r' W ilT hate arc in their po#ef. * I haro thought that I commanded men, not d run tarda V and he struck the table with the butt of hie'pistol, bat could not rouse bis stupid followers. The next moment-, with an oath on his lipe, he strode to the door, which he jerked apen, aud steppedupoh<4he porch... 'Curse such dogs as 1 lead !' he hissed. 'I suppose I must lead the horses up aud tie 3och fool iu the saddle.' it ] He was stepping from the perch for the purpose of attending to the horses, which tio suppqscd. were still tethered at the tree, irheu a form rose befqre him and he started jaok with a gasp of terror. 'Wno in the mischief'? 'Alice Beauohampc !' was the iutcrrupion of the apparition. 'The daughter of htf'ftfd'nTnn basely fflrffdeffccl by you/ hands! jown on your miserable knees, Godfrey jaug, and beg for the mercy you have novr granted others. Down, I say!' Perhaps the shadow of tho window sash lid not permit him to sec the pistol that iras clutched in tho hand of the fearless ;irl, else his rashness might have been urbed. 'Kneel to you ? Never!' he cried. The weapon which he raised dropped be:>re the flash that followed his words, and rith a groao of pain he staggered buck to rop dead among his drunken comrades. Alice Bcauchampe, amazed at her own ournge, stood silent amidst tho smoke of er own pistol. She saw the bacchantes ry to shako off their torpor at the sight f their stricken lender, aud one rose to is feet to fall as soou as he needed supBrw> 'Now for the swamp! she (JYicd, with triuiph, aud the uext miuute rushed from te disgusting sight. An hour passed away and the drunken >ries begau to recover; their chief, who ropped to the floor, seemed to sober them ith his cold face and staring eyes, and hen they had all recovered their seattcrcd its, the foe they dreaded was upon thciu. Alice Beauchutnpc's voice bad fired the carts of the patriot Ijjpd for vengeance, in her way to tho swamp she had cneounired the partisans who had capture^, one f the flying horses, and were followihjpthc ail. ' The conflict between patriot and tory was rief and almost bloodlers. ~ The five avcugers were made prisoners 1 sued like cowards for lite rncrcv thev had jver granted to a liviug being. * I need not describe the scene that follow1. Suffice it to say that the trees in frout Alieu JjeauchaniDc's home bore the raugt^c truij.iim aim uiruui ' ftv log 4^^Srengeance of the patriots was ns mplete as it was terrible, and when th^ orious sun rose again, the dreaded uien of te lovely district had ceased to frighten ;ople with their name. , Alice Beachampe, whose courage had led > the extermination of the avenging band, >came the hcroiue of the day, aud after ic termination of the hostilities wedded a jutcuaut of Marion's men. Her heroism venerated, aud her gallaut exploit narrad daily by huudrcds of her descendants i the Palmetto State. Uncle William on "Dipping."?Dear 'hildren : I was at church last Suuday.? othiug strange about that, since I have 2cu going to church pretty regularly for ?rty years, or thereabout. Yet I saw souicliug that was very strange to me?some-, ting that X had never seeq befofp. A brother invited me to go with biui to inner. I got in his wagon to ride. Besides the man and his wife there were ircc young ladies iu the wagon. I noticed il of these had sticks about as large nud as mg as your little finger, sticking out of their louths. I noticed that they kept spitting ke their mouths were sore. Then there was a dark streak reaching 0111 one side of the mouth to tho other, ircling under the lower lip, in the shape 1' a new moon. l'rosently one took out her stick, which ad a swab ou tho cud, dipped it iu some liny; una put 11 uuck iu her uioutli again, lieu it occurred to me, that things what is died "dipping." So it was. 1 soon found out that 1 was in a neighorhood of regular "dippers." I had a conversation tiiis uioruiug with a ood woman, the mother of three children, ho is herself a "dipper." She said, "it is rong ; and as you do not use tohacco,l heerl'ully receive your reproof; but they who hew aud smoke ought not to condom us." 'rue. "They who live ii glass houses ought not ) throw stouos." Dipping, like smoking, drinking, playing ards, etc., is a social evil. 1 do not say it i worse ?thuu other evils. Hut I do say , is vile, dirty, filthy, wicked, wroug. Let me beg my nieces, who have coinlenced dipping to quit it. And those who avc never done such au ugly thing to proline me they never will. There arc but few things that would paiu ic more than to see my own daughters enage in this vile practice. Please, my little ladies, keep these ugly ticks out of your mouths. ? St. Louis Christian Advocate. .?. A rlirlrotv ou mo hi tAltfn traafnrJ % %r rlrli'inrv n ox named Hayes. While ho was in a , toro making some purchases a farmer came' ip with a wagon load of fodder and stopped n front of the darkey's cart. The ox puled up to the fodder and commenced eating t. In a few minutes the darkey came out, nd seeing Hayes as he was tryiug to get nother bundle, yelled at the top of his voice: Whaffer iz ycr catin' dat dar fodder ? Yer ;no's taint yone! 1 sed do berry day dat I lain'd ycr Hayes dat yer waz gwino tcr tck umtin' dat nebbor b'loog'd ter yer !' He Irove oft, giving the ox tbj full benefit of a eturuing board. _ -.t . ?*<? Mwru THS KMPTT CRADLF. , _ / * " " # Sad la the heart ef the mother >. Who site by the lonely hearth, Whore never again the children Shall waken (heir songs of mirtb. And si ill through the painful silence. She listens f* voice and tread, Outside of the heart?there only Sho knows teat they are not dead I Here is the desolate cradle. The pillow so lately pressed, liut fur away Has the birdling Flown from its little nest. Crooning the lullabies over That once were her babe's delight, All through the misty spaces She follows its upward flight. Little she thought of a moment So gloomy and sad as this, When close to her heart she gathered '**< - Her eMIdtor its goodnight kiss. 8he should be tenderly cherished, Never a grief should she know, Wealth, and the pride of a princess, These would a mother bestow. And this is the darling's portion In Heaven?where she has lied; By angels securely guarded, By angels securely led. Brooding in sorrowful silence Over the empty nest, Can you not see through the shallows, Why it is nil for the best? Better the htavenly kingdom Thau riches of earthly orown; Better the eatly morning flight, Than one when the sun is down; Better an empty casket, Than jewels besmirched with sin: Safer than these without the fold. Are those tbnt have entered in. 4 [Tht ScoUmarur* COTTON GROW 111 GAUD FOOD. It is now a settled thing that war is to break out between RiiRsin and Tnrlf?? In the coarse of a few days. Should the strug--' ele bo. confined to these two powers, we need not apprehend very serious results to the ccttou producing industry, although the effect will be depressing. Russia consumes in her maucfaclurce at least four huudrcd thousand bales of cotton and Turkey is a pretty large consumer of cotton goods.? Roth these countries will be crippled in those particulars by the war. Rut it is a very general idea abroad that o*hcr powers will probably be drawu into the strugglo in spite of themselves, and that there is real uud serious danger that a general explosion may follows in which all Europe will bccouic involved, and the political map of the continent be a good deal cliauged before quiet is restored agaiu. It is uuhappily the case that this is coming, (if it couies.) at a time when nil the itiiHi. Every one of Ihejn ;? head over heels in debt, and cannot carry any more. Ituss'yi and Turkey are already bankrupt. Austria and I My arc in not much better coudition, and Germany, Frauco and Great Rritain, cannot safely iucrcase their liabilities. There is no telling what disastrous financial results would therefore, follow a geueral war. Aud it is certain tint the common people, in poorer food, iu scantier clothing, in,higher tuxes, in lighter supplies of all the droniorts of life, the production of which rakes trade active and bring labor, and raw pfoducts in demand. Any such catastrophe would prob ibly put the cotton product back iu magnitude and demand half a generation. Now, the possibility of such a result is worthy of serious contemplation by the cotton producing people of the South. They may well remember that the cotton crop lU*>.y ore uew planting will most probably bo a largo one?not far from five millions of bales, as wc< believe; and that it may very possibly have to seek its principle uiarb nt ! rt n t l ivnnt #!?/> A/\?? ???l acv aii a i/u&iviuvpv > uviv^u %jj tuu vuu? ur sious of npfrr, and <|opeudcnt to a far creator extent t?an usual tm the surplus food product of America tor subsistence. Such a state of-things will uiako cotton worthless to producers, and if the latter arc compelled to relyMipon it to procure their food supplies, it rail not be easy to escape inconvenience an) suffering. It is a eonjunction of facts nd"possibilities which no prudcut man shoind Ibse sight of, and which should stiuiulatd'jveTy farmer to active efforts to render hfcsclf independent of other sources for bte food supplies.? Macon Telegraph. . Unreeling a Pull back.?A most amusing sccuo was wituossed on K street the other day. A lady with a vigorous pujlback and ay elaborate polonaise was walking up K from Fourth 6trcet. Iu that unaccountable outside pocket which the fashiou pi escribes shall be trained to the rear and hung as low down as possible upon the last named garment, she had a new, full spool of thread?just purchased evidcutly. An end of this escaping from the open pocket, caught the eye of a K street gamin?a six or seven year old specimen, lie deftly caught the end, and holdiug to it, found that it reeled off without the promenader being aware of it. He at once squared himself, sailor fashion, in the middle of the walk, and as she 'paid off" he 'hauled in,' baud ovor hand, to the infinite amusement of half n huudrod men who wituessed the operation. In a brief time the liue reached clear up to Fifth direct, from ucar Fourth, and as the lady stepped out on the flagging to cross the street, the cud ran off, and she went on with the empty spool, blissfully unconscious of the merriment behind her back at her expenee. The cruel men?and by this time a hundred had seon the process?then be^an to speculate upon the look of blank astonishment which must have overpowered her countenance, when on reaching home, she found the spool empty, which she could assert was full when she purchased it. The conversation turns upon the fastidiousness of the times. "Why," says a member, "they'll so ti say marriage is improper." I ' No, uo,"replies Douglas Jerrold, "they'll j always consider marriage good broediug." \ :i??v ^ I ~~ AM ZPXOBJf 10 OF mrBDBBO^m taiOIBM. Paris, March 20.?Paris today h*> * sufficient number of horrors to satisfy the 1 most morbid of natures. Simplo murders 1 are tho most common place of occurreucos, 1 and so we are to be congratulated on the ( extraordinary number of extraordinary ' crimes, which are constantly occurring. If 1 we seek parricide, there is the ease of George), who murdered his mother the other day j io the Hue de la Providence. He was a ( laxy ne'er do-weel, who, after taking all his x mother's money away from her and spend- ( ing it in a night's debauch, out her throat ( because she had uo moro to give hi in. Louis < Pitrnn Kno inct IsiDaJ k?o ?..111. > j??> KII1DU UIO U . HIU1 iur UUIilUg hiui a "gamiu." The disposition which murdcrors make of tho bodies of their vie- 8 tirns?such as cutting them into minute 1 pieces, burning or distributing them over a 1 great area?is also notable, but even what, 8 with apparent lightness, is called 'Taffuire 1 Billoir," or "l'affairo Moyaux"?although the Frcuch do not connect with tho word "affuire" the levity which attaches to the 1 English "affair"?is far outshone by the epidemio of suicide which has of late set in s and assumed most remarkable proportions, a Le Oaulois uewspapcr considers itself justi- a ficd iu saying that before long, if things con- s tinuo as they are at present goiug, the jour- g uals will have to issue supplements which shall bo devoted simply to chronicling the f number of self-murders that urc committed Q from day to day. Here is u notable case: f Day before yesterday a respectably dressed, g white haired gcntlemao, apparently about sixty years old, presented himself at the tower entrance of Notre Damct aud asked tho concierge if a good view of Puris was to ( be obtained from tho tower on a clenr day. c Of course he was auswercd in the nffiruia- 0 tive, aud so, giving the. keeper fifty cen- ? times, he mounted to the gallery and at once 11 threw himself fccndlong into the parvis, horribly crushed and mangled by the fall. _ formerly suicide was mainly confined to the grtfat cities, and especially to Varis, but 8 now it has extended its works iuto the rural 1 districts and is noticed in all the telegraphic J dispatches to tho newspapers. The suicides leave behind thcin such notices as *'I kill 8 myself because life bores me," and they do- ' sert the ranks of life for the most trivial and inconsequent of reasons, except the f1 "spleen" which cauie to us from Euglund . with jockeys and water proofs. A rich young fool falls in love with an actress, and ^ spends money on her. Presently he learns that she is uufuithful to hiui, so he purchases 0 a nicely-mounted revolver, goes to her home, 0 makes u speech as near as possible like oue v taken novej ^by^^uuias ^ bursts ^ peutauce, aud blows his braius out. A 1 )oung girl gels into a tiff with her family, aud anon is found hnngiug from a bcuui in 0 her futhcr's barn. Another falls in love ? with a man who in his youth has been condemned by some magistrate as a thief. She j' pardous his youthful indiscretion, und the \ two arc happy us doves. Then the father discovers the truth abjut his proposed son- 0 in law, and naturally enough objects to having in his family a forcat libcrc. The lovers do not hesitutc; they kill themselves. Such j, are the true stories of the day, and I doubt j( very much thut this recklessness of life is v due to books like"Joseph Noirel s Revenge, and to the sonsationul plays, so much as it is to the levity with which nearly ail the a journals deal with the most serious matters. j( Au atrocious murder is the cause of puns aud jokes, nud every crime is treated iu the u same way. It is to he hoped that before Q loug aiiuio tnenoo will |>0 found tn utap llu> epidemic of orime, aud especially of suicido, a even if the measures of the Middle Ages should be called in.?AT. Y World. J An Editor Who Loves Babies.?We a love babies, and also anybody else who loves a babies. No man has music in his soul whq " doesn't love babies. Babies were made to ^ be loved, especially girl babies?when thoy 0 grow up. A man isn't worth a'shuck' who doesn't love a baby, aud the same rule ap- j, plies ti a woman. A baby is a spring day c in winter, a hot-house iu summer, a ray of sunshine in frigid winter, and, if it's a heal- [ thy, goojl-naturcd baby, and if you are sure j, it's yours, its a bushel of sunshine, no mat- v ter how cold the weather. A man cau not (l be a hopeless case so long as he loves babies a ?one at a time. We love babies all over, no matter how dirty they arc. Babies wero t born to be dirty. Our lovo for babies is only bounded by the number of bibies in j the world. We also have sorrowful feelings ^ for mothers who have no babies. Women always look down-hearted who have no babies : and men who havo none always irruui- s blc and drink and stay out nights, trying to t get music in their souls ; hut they can't ( como it. Babies, are babies, and nothing { can take their place.?Atchison Patriot. ? i Save tiie Soapsuds.?However dcplor- < able washing day may be to the household | (and the careful house mistress or tidy maid \ has it in her power to greatly modify its dis- < comforts,) to tho garden it is a very bountiful day. Our hungry and thirsty grapevines and flowers are glad of every drop of 1 wash water, und will repay every bit of fa- 1 tigue it may cost us to give them this for- 1 tilizer. If the sun is shining hot when we 1 go out to dispense our favor, it is best for 1 us to dig a slight trench not far from the 1 root of the plant, and pour the water into 1 it, and cover agaiu with the top soil. This 1 ninftks the water go farther, and at the same ' tio^does not tempt the rootlets tothesur- ' face of the ground. No better liquid can be prepared than the soapsuds fiom the ( "woolen tubs" as they are sure to nourish . t/u roxrs?if any of tho liquid rests upon th& foliage of the plants, wash it off by ( syringing smartly?plants always pay for ( this extra care. A greased dog cannot ruu so fast as a boy i ! in a cellar who hea^s his mother say she l i must go down nn<>,\\ i's*\" rf)., * lb? i | preserves.?\, K:\bt Union f'if Tomato Catsup.?'Take a half bushel ripe tomatoes; out up and boil till done; rub through a sieve; to this add half cup of salt, one pint vinegar, ooo of sugar, nnd cloves, ciunamou, pepper and allspice, each one tablcspooufu); boil ono hour; bottle ind seal. Tomato Chowder.?Soak one peck ;reen tomatoes in nit water over night; ?hop fine and add n few onions, one eup nustard seed, with pepper, cloves and cinlamon ; boil sufficient vinegar to cover up he mouths of the jars, and you have au zcellcnt pickle. Tomato Pheskiivkh.?Scald and peel mooth, round, rips tomatoes; to seven >ounds add five pounds sugar; let staud all light; , boil aud skim ; idd the tomatoes; boil gently twenty niinite.s: skim tliom nut. into inn - Roil tlin yrup till just enough to cover them ; ns it tools pour it over the tomatoes, and you hnvo me of tho nicest preserves. Pickled Peaches?Rub the peaches mooth and steam until dono ; stick a clovo ind a bit of cinnainou in each, and put in i jar; boil vinegar to cover, adding one pint ugnr to each quart. These pickles will bo food iu ono week, and aTO vory uico. Icing That Will NpT Break?Tho rhitea of three eggs boaten very stiff; add me pound white sugar, with odo tablespoonul coru starch ; flod? the top of the cake as oon ns taken from the oven; put on the oing with a steel knife wot in warm water. Delicious Brown Pudding.?One cup }rnhuui, ouo of meal, one of sugar, ouc of ream, oneof raisins, one-half of^wcet milk, me egg, one tenspoonful soda; stir nil to;cther and bake one hour ; with sauce this b a delicious puddiug. Like in Texas.?A new comer in a Texas towu always enjoys himself. After pending a short time looking around the >lace, he grows weary und finally asks tho ilerk of the hotel if thero is any chance of laving fun that day. And the clerk, cratchiug l)is head a moment says : "Well, dunno; reckon we can got up something or you beforo night- Huvcn't been shct t yet, have you f No ! Oh, well, you will >c soon. Just loaf around the streets a iltle while, and even it you ain't shot at ourself, you cau dodge tho bullets intended or souio other person. Maybe you might bject to its coming in that way, sort o'sccmd hand, you know ; and if you do, why rait a little whilo uud I'll go out with you, md I guess wo cau get up something real jfrotwarii jJiat mail s studying tho timo fable For tne reaving lino rit* flin novt train nn^ aua?? lork's promise to let hiui carry the rcvoler that he shot a man with last week can ;cep the guest in town over night. Scene t n hotel?''Good morning, strungcr, it mkslikc rain ?" Stranger?"I think not." i shot is heard, and tho stranger is rolled ut of the back door. Moral?Texas is a fine grazing couutry. How to Haihk JL'o.matoks.?The French mode of raising tomatoes is as foljws : As soon ns a cluster of flowers is isiblc, they top the stem down to the cluster, rhich soon pushes strongly and producos anther cluster of flowers each. When theso re visible, the branch to which they belong * also topped down to their level; and this j done five times successively. By this ncans the plauts become stout dwarf bushes, ot above eighteen inches high. In order u pnjreuv a.u:.0 nuwr sticks or strintrs re stretched horizontally along tnc rows; o as to keep the plauts ereet. To addition 0 this, nil laterals that have no flowers, and ftcr tho fifth toppiug, all laterals whatever, re nipped off. In this way ; tho ripe sap 1 directed into the fruit, which acnuiro a icauty, size nod excellence unattainable by ther menus. Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, the rebel of tho lurem, in her 'Wife No. 19," tells of a ousin who married a Gentile. The girl's inrcuts wcro devout saints, and grieved over heir daughter as one dead. Tho discousoato father consulted theoraele of the Lord, vho gavo him tho following godly advice : Put flatten out of the way, it is a sin and snnme to nave so gooa a woman drugged round che world by a (ientiL." Of course be voice of the Lord spoke in bis chosen ervant, and in a few days came tho starting news that this audacious outsider had teen killed by Indiana Dancers will bo interested to know that cverul new contillion figures have been inroduced at private assemblies in Paris.? 3ne of thorn is called "La Poste." Tho ;eutlcmcn wear armlets, with bells attached, ind on these tho name of a post town is ivritteu, as "Postc de Montigny," "Poste do St. Cloud," &o. Fancy cards, bearing corresponding names, are distributed arnoDg the ladies, each of whom calls out the name on her card, and thus obtains a partner. ?*? It is a noteworthy fact that whenever ouo of our farmer correspondents expresses himself as comfortable and happy, with no creditors pressing him, he explains the fact by saying "plenty of oorn and meat of my own raising." That's the scorct of it. Show us a uian that raises pleuty of oorn and moat for hi* own uso, and wo will show you ;? iplendid, jolly fellow, beloved by his neighbors and popular wherever known.?Prcnft mm h HOO A 'Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long,' is a libel : Man wants everything be can sco, or hear ov, and never is willing to let go ov bis grab. Whenever you find a man who is thoroughly satisfied with what he has got, you will findchher an ideot, or won who haz tried hard to get loine more and couldn't do it. The older a man grows the more watchful he bekuins: az his hold on life slackens- hiat pinch ot: a " - ~row*grippy.?Josh Jfrittings.