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ISSUED TWIOE-A-WEEK?WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY, lewis >1. gri8t. Proprietor. J g, <jj[amilij geirspaper: |for the promotion of the political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the ?outh. {TERsingS:^ centsN;CE' VOLUME 41. YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDX.MSDAY, JUXE 5, 1895. NUMBER 33. GONE. BY J. H. CONNELLY. [Copyrighted 1893, by American Press Asso.] CHAPTER V. The suddenness of that wholly unhoped for and amazing discovery seemed to paralyze us both. W e stared at him and then dumbly at each other. There could be no mistake. We knew him too well for an erroneous identification to be possible. But, though he was found, the mystery was now as far from solution as it had ever been, indeed past all hope of explanation apparently. Out of the throng by this time gathered bustled two doctors, who after careful and critical examination of the lightning's victims determined that one of the meu and one woman were dead, but life still lingered in the other three, and one of those for whom resuscitation might yet be possible was my former partner. A 6tout, elderly gentleman of kindly face and hearty manner received this verdict with evident pleasure and immediately began giving orders for Harold's removal. At this point Mr. Bunker seemed to wake up and asked the stout gentleman, "Are you acquainted with this young man?" "Acquainted with Henry Lessingl I should say so. He has been in my employ, and a worthier young man never lived." "May I ask what is to be done with him?" "Certainly. I'm going to take him to my house and carry Dr. Harris here alone- with me to fetch him around." "I have also known the young man and would like to know if he recovers." "Well, come and see him. Here's my card. I shall be glad to have you call. Any one who is a friend of Henry's will be welcome in my house." By that time an old fashioned "dearborn" wagon had been brought up, its seat taken out and Harold slid in upon the floor. The gentleman referred to as Dr. Harris got in with him; the stout gentleman took the reins and drove rapidly away. We read upon the card Mr. Bunker had received, "H. E. Trimble, commission merchant," with a business address, and penciled upon its back his residence. "What do you think now?" demanded Mr. tmnaer as we siariea dsck 10 town. I never saw a face more expressive of sorrow and sympathy than hi3 was when he believed my old partner dead, but the altered conditions had altogether changed it now, and I 6aw at a glance all his suspicions were again fully awake. "I don't think I feel like expressing an opinion just yet," I said, "for beyond the possibility of his being alive we know no more than we did yesterday." "We know at all events that he has been here a year under a false name? and I have a thunderation curiosity to learn why." When we reached our hotel, he went to his room, as 1 supposed, to change his clothing and lie down; but, as I subsequently learned, no such supine self indulgence was 011 his programme. Whatever he did I saw him no more until hroalrfncf firms next unnrmno'. when he said to me: "Merrivale, I'm going up to Columbus this morning to get from the governor the necessary papers for Harold's return to Bridgton Last night I hunted up a magistrate, got a warrant, and this morning if the young man woke up I guess he found an ofiicer by his bed waiting to arrest him on a jharge of embezzling $7,500 from Ransom Merrivale. They won't let him get away again before I return. What's the matter with you? You look dumfounded?" "So 1 am." 1 replied, "by your unholy energy in this matter. Why in thunder couldn't you wait even to know if he was alive or dead? Why didn't you let me know what you were up to?" "1 couldn't afford to take any chances. Now, see here. I have that doctor's assurance he can pull him through and take it for granted he will Suppose he does. What will Mr. Linden do when he wakes up and finds somebody has laenuneu nnnr c>Kip again. vn course he will. But 1 say 'No.' I've too much at 6take. That mystery has got to be cleared up My daughter Annie?and she's all I've got in the world?things just as much of that rascal as she ever did, and I've got to have him straightened out definitely one way or another for her sake. And I should fancy you: interest is a pretty strong one, too. if, as you have more than hinted to me, his sister will not marry you until he turns up again. So I'm going to take him back by the serutf of the ueck with my own hand if there's no other way, but 1 won't trust even my hand when 1 can make use ot a bigger and stronger one? that of the law I didn't tell you because 1 know you have a sentimental nature which is apt to get the better of your practicality, anil I meant to protect myself and you, too, against it There's the card. Go and see him while I'm gone if you choose and sympathize with him as much as you like, but 1 go with the comforting assurance I shall be able to put my hand on him all the same when 1 get back." I could not get angry at the old fellow, for his view of the situation was undeniably practical, but neither could I approve his radical measures, so I said nothing and pocketed the card he gave me. But when a train had carried him off toward Columbu9 I did something he had not thought of. I believe. I telegraphed to Celia: "Come immediately. Take first train. Harold is here. Needs you greatly Do not lose a minute." Perhaps I repeated my insistance upon haste more than was necessary, but 1 have always deemed it best to be so explicit in_ giving directions to a woman that she shall" not imagine herself required to use any judgment of her own. That dispatch had more effect than I anticipated. Celia and Annie Bunker were closer friends than 1 knew. Their common love as sister and sweetheart for the same man?and he the core of a seemingly insoluble mystery ? had brought about a bond of more than sisterly affection between them. Consequently when 1 went to the depot to meet my dear girl I was electrified by the sight of Annie in her company and felicitated myself not a little that my colleague had not yet returned from Columbus. Some good news 1 had for the girls. Dr. Harris had reported to me that, though Harold's consciousness had not yet been fully restored, his recovery was assured and in a few hours more probably his uarrow escape from death would be simply a memory. Incidentally I learned that a policeman was indeed, as Mr. Bunker had declared, sitting by the young man's bedside to arrest him when he awoke, to the indignant bewilderment of worthy Mr. Trimble. While taking the girls in a carriage to Mr. Trimble's house 1 narrated the remarkable circumstances of our discovery, so preparing them against the shock of finding Harold an invalid, and, last of all, gave them the gratifying intelligence I have just repeated from Dr. Harris. By that time we had reached our destination. Mr. Trimble met us at the door, and it appeared to me his expression of angry surprise?induced by the officer/1 unwelcome presence?had been supplanted by one of dejection mingled with disgust. When I had introduced him to Miss Linden and Miss Bunker, he requested them to be seated in the parlor aud conducted me to another room and said gloomily: "I guess you've got him right. He has waked up, and of all the cheeky cusses 1 ever met he is the worst. And all the while he lav there like a wax image. when you and I were talking by his bed yesterday afternoon, he muse have known what was going on. Yes, sir. He knew he was caught and never let on until Inhad rolled it over in his mind and laid out his new game. Oh, 1 tell you, he is a deep one! And to think he has been with me a year and I never suspected it!" "Tell me what makes you think 60 now?" "Well, this morning, when he judged the time had come to declare himself, he opened his eyes, stared around and sprung on us that ancient chestnut, 'Where am I?' just as if he hadn't slept in that room .50 times before. From that minnte I had a cold eye. on him. but 1 never let on. 'You are in bed in my house, Henry,' says 1, 'and you've had a close call.' Says lie: 'Why do you Cull me Henry? Who are you, and what close call have I had?' 1 don't km w wha-t. 1 might have answered him when 1 got my breath, but jnst then the policeman chipped in with the question. 'Your name is Harold Linden, isn't it?' 'Yes,'says he, without a blush, promptly. 'Then.' 6ays the policeman with a satisfied grin. 'I arrest you for embezzlement.' 'The devil you do!' exclaims the young fellow, affecting surprise. 'Bv what authority?' The officer showed him the warrant, and he read it .ttf 'The devil you do"' over as if he had been wool gathering in his mind instead of getting the 6ense of it. "Hamilton. Butler county. O., September. 1883." lie reads off. slow and doubtfullike. 1 don't understand this at all. Why, this is June, 1N82. Ar 1 I suppose I'm in the Astor House, tho'"'th i I cannot remember how 1 got to bed st night, and this doesn't look like my room. I came forward again and gave him one more chance. Says L, 'Henry, don't you know me?" Ho seemed to hesitate ab- ut I throwing mo over after being the friend | to him I have been and looked at my j face a tuinute before he answered, hut finally said. '1 really ain not aware of having met you before, sir and I don't know why you persist in call ing mo Henry. That made me uiad and 1 said. *1 call you Henry because you said that was your name when you came here, and it is the name you have drawn a good salary under in my emI ploy for a year past, and if you were able to stand up I'd kick you for your I impudence i don't stand up for the ! sake of being kicked," says he quite deliberately. "but it seems to me I've got to stand up even at that risk in order to find out something of what and where and who 1 am." And with that he tried to get out of bed, but though his head was clear enough the electricity hadn't | all got out of his legs yet, I guess, for he couldn't stand and would have tumbled in a heap if the policeman and 1 had not grabbed him aud put him back in bed Then we sent for the doctor, who came and rubbed some stuff on him and gave him something to take every half hour. That was only about an hour ago. The doctor has just gone away, saying he will be all right tomorrow at the furthest Then I shall kick him." I did not think he would when he knew all, but wasted no time in argument. Harold was coDSciona.aud iiLthe mood to acknowledge his Identity, so m> time was to be lost. I conducted his 6ister to where he lay. CHAPTER VL What a scream of joy the dear girl gave when she caught sight of him. anil with what a glad shout he answered it: And his next "hurrah" was for me as l entered the door behind her. "Is it indeed you. dear sister?" he ex claimed. "And you. too. Ranse? H<>w on earth did you find me? And where in heaven's name urn I? It seems to me I'm in either a hive of mild lunaties or a den of practical jokers, and I'm not sure which." "Oh, Harold," she replied earnestly 'How I thauk God that I see you alive againl Alive! Alive! And almost well And, oh, I've mourned you so long as dead. And you so near it too." I never 6aw so puzzled a face as his was lutrii. "Mourned me a long time? 1 nearly dead? Why, you dear little goose, it was only yesterday I left you to come to the city." "Ah, brother, it was 15 long, weary months ago." He turned very pale, passed his hand over his brow slowly and moaned: "Good GodI Am ' mad and dreaming all this?" Taking his sister by the shoulders am raising her from his shoulder, where she had hidden her weeping face, he fixed his gaze intently upon her countenance, muttering to himself: "Yes, it is Celia: it is Celia. Yet she said '15 months!'" Suddenly a look of anxiety swept over his expressive countenance, and he cried: "And Annie?my Annie! Tell me about her!" "She is here, Harold," answered Celia. "Here!" he exclaimed, attempting to rise. She put her hand upon his breast and pressed him down, while I opened the door Urn "How good God la to bring you to my nrma again!" for Miss Bunker, who had been waiting outside. Then there were two more rapturous cries, and again the lucky young fellow was folded in the arms of a beautiful girl, who murmured in his ear, indifferent to our presence: 'Oh, Harold, my darling, how good God is to bring you to my arms again, my love! How could you be so cruel as to stay away from me all this while?" 'My joy in our reunion is no less than yours, my angel," he replied, "but somebody else will have to answer yourquesion. Only yesterday, as it seems to me i bade you 'goodby' at the garden gate, and yet you, like Celia, speak as if I bad been away from you a long time. I do not understand you: upon my soul I do not.'' Intent as we were upon him nnd standing with our backs to the door neither of us noticed Mr. Bunker's entrance. but he had come upon the scene and standing in the background was listening intently. 'Let us see." I interposed, "if we can not make some progress toward straightening out this tangle by taking hold of the striug at one end and following it up Begin at the point marked by both your knowledge and Miss Bunker's? her garden gate yesterday, as you say? and tell us exactly fchat you did, step j by step, as far as you can remember." 'That's easy enough, old fellow." he answered, with a laugh. "I went back to the store and got out $15,000, which 1 had drawn from the bank before 3 o'clock and temporarily locked up there in the safe. I took the money home with me and packed it in my valise, with some things I would want in the city during an absence of a day or two. Then Celia : and 1 took an early dinner 1 harried to 1 the depot, caught the train, got a sleepmg car berth went to lied and woke up in New York There I took a room at the Astor House, tixed up a little, breakfasted and then went down to the offices of Douglas & Jones, brokers, with whom | 1 depositee I the $15,000 as a margin on | the purchase of 2.000 shares of Memphis and Charleston Air Line stock, which I they took in before I left there at 30}. | 1 put a stop order on it for sale at 40 i and started over to Newark to get manI ufacturers terms on that enameled j leather we were talking about laying in i a stock of I landed at the Broad street depot, went up Market street, and?and | ?that's all I remember. I don't know | how 1 got to bed last night." 'What in the name of all that is in| comprehensible put it into your head to j make that break on Wall street," I dei manded 'It wasn't a break, my dear fellow," j be replied confidently. "It was a mane. I I'm sure of it. 1 had private informaI tion from an old friend, who was on the I inside, that the stock was to be put on i the market that morning, with a strong pool behind it pledged not to lot it get below 30. and manipulation all provided for to force it up to 40 anyway, and perhaps highev The safe 40 was good enough for me. And I meant to give you a joyous surprise by doubling our bank account without your knowing how it was done. Aud I have." ' W ouldn't it be as well to wire to those brokers and find out if you have," suggested Mr. Bunker, pushing himself forward. 'Hello. Bunkeri You here tool Well. { this is a reumou Why, certainly, wire , thein if yon want to, though it is not j probable there is much of a rise yet." , 'Whatl In 15 months?" 'Ah: Fifteeu months! There you go r again." exclaimed Harold, with the troubled look coming back in his faoe, "and * yet 1 could swear you are all real." Well, to make a long story short, tho ? message of inquiry was sent to Douglas & Jones, who promptly replied they had sold his stock ont at 40. as ordered, net- ^ ting him $18,500 by the deal, which, with his deposit ol $15,000. hud been for 15 months lying in bunk awaiting his order . As may readily be supposed, Mr. Banker made no use of his extradition 1 papers, the policeman was sent about his business, and Mr. Trimble's good humor, when he was taken into the general con- 1 fidence. was fully restored. The next * day we all set off*together for home, but ? went out of our way to investigate at Newark the hypothesis suggested by Dr Harris, which we found perfectly correct. While hurrying along Market street, going to the leather manufac- c turers, Harold had been prostrated by sunstroke and was carried by the police t to a hospital There he soon recovered c physically, but with the entire loss of nia identity until his memory was restored in the sudden and mysterious way J already described by a no less severe ? shock, that of the lightning stroke at the t camp meeting. That ho had suffered such a loss was not suspected by the doc- t tors or nurses at the hospital, who upon , referring to their records remembered his case perfectly. He had no papers or c anything else upon him to give him an Identity when he was picked up by the t police, so went down on the register c simply as "Unknown man." c One of the nurses, however, noticed the initials "H. L." on his cuff buttons and invented the name "Henry Leasing" c for him. which he when he was able to 1 J go out placidly accepted aa his ami thenceforth wore. How he strayed away c off to Ohio nobody ever knew, but there ] was nothing to prevent his going any- : where and getting along very well. His physical condition was good and his mind all right, with the exception that 1 he had lost his past, in finding which ? once more, 1 am glad to be able to record. 1 he also found a nappy future. THE END. , ? _________________________ ^ iHiscfUanrous grading. 1 TEN REMARKABLE WORKS. ? The following are considered to r have been the ten most remarkable works of human labor. 1. The Pyra- 1 mids of Egypt and Mexico, the largest ( i of which, near Cairo, known as the y Great Pyramid, built by Chepos, king of Egypt, took 300,000 men 20 years I to build. 2. Tbe artificial reservoir? y Lake Meoris?built by Amanemha of r the twelfth dynasty, which served to store up tbe waters of the Nile, during the season of floods, and distribute * them by canals over tbe land duriug * the dry season. Its circumference was , 3,600 furlongs and, on its being allow- ( ed to fall into ruin, tbe fertility of the region became, to a serious extent, a y thi'nir r?f ihe nast. 3. The Tai Mahal, ^ a tomb erected at Agra, in Hindoostati, by Shah Jehau over bis Queen Xoor Jeban, described by Bayard Taylor in a poem. It is built of the purest white marble, and yet seems so airy, that, when seen from a distance, it is so like a fabric of mist and sunbeams, with its great dome soaring up, a silvery bubble, about to burst in the sun, that even after you have touched it sun! el imbed to its summit, you almost , doubt its reality. It cost $1(5,000,000. f 4. The Temple of Baalbec, in the ( erection of which, stones (52 feet long, 20 feet broud and 15 feet thick have been used?more prodigious masses than have ever elsewhere been moved by human power, and much exceeding in size any stones used in the Pyramids. 5. The Temple of Karnack, f described.by Ferguson as the noblest i effort of architectural magnificence i ever produced by the hand of man. It covers twice the area of St. Peter's at t Koine, and undoubtedly is one of the < finest buildings in the world. (5. The t great Wall of China, 1,280 miles in i length. It is 20 feet in height, and in s thickness 25 feet at the base and 15 at t the top. The Eiffel Tower, erected in t | the grounds of the 1SS9 Paris exhibi- J tion, and 984 feet high. 8. The Suez i canal, with SS miles of waterway con- f neeting the Mediterranean and Red 1 sea, and forming the principal route 1 to India. It cost more than 17,000,- 1 000 sterling, and 172,002 out of the t 397,677 shares were purchased by, and belong to, the British government. 9. \ The railway bridge (the largest canti- 1 lever bridge in the world) over the e Forth, with two spans each of 1,700 1 feet, erected at a cost ofnearly ?4,000- 1 000. 10. The leaning tower of Pisa, t which deviates 13 feet from the per- \ pendicular. The following works were f by tlie ancients esteemed the seven t wonders of the world : The Pyramids, | the Tomb of Mnnsolus, the Temple of 1 Diana, the Hanging Gardens of Baby- 1 Ion, tbe Colossus of Rhodes, the ivory and gold statue of Jupiter Olympus, 1 and the Pharos or Watch-tower of s Egypt-. ^\ Somk Costi.Y Tiiixos.?'The most costly pipe in the world is that used c by the shah of Persia when he smokes j upon certain State occasions. It is in- 1 crusted from the top of the bowl to the r umber mouthpiece with diamonds, ru- 1 hies and pearls, and is valued at $320,- t 000. I The most valuable bound book in the a world is the Hebrew Bible now kept s in the library of the vutican at Rome, c Within the last half dozen years a syn- a dicate of rich Jews have offered $103,- 1 000 for it. f The most valuable manuscript in 1 he United States is that of the origilal book of Mormon, which is now cept in the vault of one of the Richnoud (Mo.) banks. It is in the possesion of a family named Whitmer. rhey have been ofFered $100,000 in ^old for it by the Salt Lake faction of he Mormon church. The largest sum ever asked or offerid for a single diamond was $2,450,000, vhich the Prince of Hyderabad, India, mill for the "Imperial." The two most costly prayer rugs in he Orient are those made specially for he shah of Persia and the sultan of rurkey. Each is bordered with dianonds and pearls and valued at $2, >00,000. The most valuable modem painting s Messiouer's "1814," which was sold 0 a Frenchman a few years ago for 1 sum equal to $170,000. MANNERS OF GREAT MEN. Monroe was, even in his own time, ailed "A gentleman of the old school." Henry Clay was said to make the nost engaging bow of any gentleman >f bis time. Andrew Jackson was rough in his nanners, but he could be polite when ie pleased. He was always courteous o ladies. Byron was affable to his equals aud o those whom he wished to please, >ut haughty and distant to most >thers. Talleyraud owed his success in life, o no small extent, to the uniform ourtesy with which he treated every >ne. Haydn was the personification of :ourtesy. He once said, "It does not >ay to be impolite even to a dog." Geueral Greene had the reputation >f being the most polite man in the Revolutionary army during the war for ndeperdence. Goethe's manners were simple aud luuftected. He greeted all men as his tquals, and delighted every one whom ie met. John Adams was so reserved that he generally gave the impression that he vas suspicious of those with whom he vas talkine. Daniel Webster was lofty and digniied. His abstraction sometimes ereited the impression of incivility where 10 discourtesy was intended. Gladstone is polite to everybody. Yt his country home he knows every>ne in the vicinity, and has a kindly vord for even the poorest farm laborer. William Penn's formal, but kindly joliteness impressed even the Indians vith whom he dealt. One of the lames given him by them was "The jJood Big Chief." Madison made it a point to touch his mt to every one who bowed to him,and he front part of his hat-brim was alvays worn threadbare in consequence if this punctiliousness. Cromwell, in spite of the position vhich he attained, never departed Yom the simplicity of life of an English :ountrv gentleman. In conversation le was quiet and unassuming. George Washington had a stately iourtesy, inclined to pomposity, that cept everyone at a distance. He al vays wanted it clearly understood hat he was the Father of his Country. Thomas Jefferson had the dignified >earing of an old-time gentleman. In lis manner he was generally cold, but vith friends would unbend his dignity ind he as sociable as any one could lesire. A ROMANTIC STORY. In KMti'siiiged I'uir Keunlted Through a Newspaper Item. Here is a story that is the aftermath >f a romance and t he prologue of a wedling. It occurred recently in a Ciuiinnati store: A handsome blonde gentleman walkid from the elevator at the third floor, evidently in a state of expectant perurbation, and after a hurried glance ibout the room walked hastily toward i pretty black haired saleswoman. The ?oung lady, hearing his approach, urned half around to wait on a proslective customer. The gentleman crabbed the lady before she had tumid completely around, and drawing ler close to him planted a kiss upon ler rosy lips. Clerks and customers until tin PYnltinn. WUIV CI I UIJ UOi\(Ui\ v until Ml. ion was made. Mrs. Ella Grueumeier was the salesvoinan, und the man who embraced icr was Mr. Charles Grueumeier, her x-hushand. Four years ago Mr. and ilrs. Grueumeier occupied a handsome tome 011 East Fairfield avenue, Day011, Ky. They had been married two ears, and a pretty little girl was the hut of their union. He began to inlulge in mild dissipation and lost his losition. Strained relations between insband and wife followed, and they inally separated. For three years Mrs. Grueumeier leard nothing of her husband. She ought and obtained a decree of divorce upon the grounds of desertion ind failure to provide. Their little* daughter became danger usly ill of typhoid fever, and she mblished the fact in a newspaper. ? ?*?i i? a i? r..*i t,:? ['(lis was noiiceci uy me miller ui mo lew borne in Chicago, and he wrote to lis former wife as to the condition of lie little one. This led to a correslondence between the separated ones, ind learning that Mrs Gruenmeier had ecured a divorce Gruenmeier had iome to her. The scene described ibove resulted. Mrs. Gruenmeier took ler daughter to see her father, and or the first time in four years the ittle family was reunited. He returns to the Windy City to wind up his business affairs, after which he will remarry his wife. LETTER FROM LOWRYSVILLE. Weather anil the Crops?Story of the Recent Shooting?Unique Proposition for a Compromise on the Silver Question. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Lowrysville, June 4.?May was surely a record-breaker. We had frosts in this section to kill entire fields of cotton, where the ground was disturbed by cultivation the day previous. At the last of the month, the hottest weather ever felt at this'season of the year. The little corn had not grown scarcely any until ten days ugo ; but is growing well now. It is fully three weeks behind last year. The Negro Hope, shot by R. C. Guy recently, is now thought to be in fair way to recovery. The report of the difficulty published iu The Enruirer was substantially correct. The swap had been fairly consummated, for Hope had given a mortgage on the cow he got from Guy, subsequent to the swap. Hope, with several members of his family, followed Mr. Guy a mile or more for the purpose of forcibly taking the yearling from him, and by force and threats, and by assaults, proceeded to do so, and after Mr. Guy had exhausted his ammunition, he succeeded in driving them back, until exhausted by his wounds, he drove them into another Negro's pasture. Miss Florence Guy has been quite sick, but is now thought to be better. At the risk of being called a "fool," "free silverite," "repudiationist," etc., I believe T will make a 'suggestion on the financial question. The chief objection to the free coinage of silver* urged by the "gooldbugs" is that it would make money too cheap by establishing silver monometalism, and the objection to the gold standard is that it makes money too dear. Then why not let the government make an alloy of gold and silver, at the ratio of 16 to 1, and coin it into money. This would make the true bimetalic dollar, weighing 217 9-10. Require all money or bullion for export, to be composed of the two metals at 16 to 1, or coined into the bimetalic dollar. Then England could not take our gold without taking our silver also. It appears that this would be fair to all and establish true bimetalism. w. o. G. LETTER FROM HOODTOWX. The Crop*?Speeches by Flntey ami Strait? A Sermon on Hard Times. Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. Hoodtown, June 3.?The warm weather of the past few days has put a move on the crops and everything is looking well. Our farmers are about done "chopping" cotton, and are generally very well up with their work. The wheat crop bids fair to make a very good yield. If we have another good rain this week, spring-sowed oats will be fine. They look very well as it is. Prof. H. R. Chapman's school picnic was well attended, considering that it was such a busy time. It was pronounced a success at dinner time, there being as usual an abundance of tempting and substantial eatables on the table. Hon. T. J. Strait and Senator D. E. Finely were here and made instructive addresses on education, which were listened to quite attentively by the older people. Very good music was furnished by the Bluirsville cornet. hiint) Mr. James C'bilders, Jr., is quite sick from the effects of a "lick" from a cotton harrow. Rev. James H. Thacker will preach, on Sunday, the 16th, at Shady Grove church, frqni the subject "Hard Times? the cause and the remedy." HOW TO FORETELL THE WEATHER. The different colors of the sky are caused by certain rays of light beiDg more or less strongly reflected or absorbed, according to the amount of moisture contained in the atmosphere. Such colors do, therefore, portend to some extent, the kind of weather that may naturally he expected to follow. For instance, a red sunset iudicates a fine day to follow, because the air when dry refracts more red or heat-making rays, ami as dry air is not perfectly transparent, they are again reflected in the horizon. A coppery or yellowy sunset generally foretells rain; but as an indication of wet weather approaching nothing is more certain than halos round the moon, which are produced by the refraction of light iu the suspended globules of water, and the larger the halo, the nearer the clouds and consequently the more likely to fall. The following has been advocated as a fairly successful way of prognosticating : Fix your eye on the smallest cloud you can see, if it decreases and disappears the weather will be good; if it increases in size rain may be looked for. The reason given is: when electricity iu the air is on tbe increase the larger clouds attract all the less ones, but when it is . decreasing even large clouds will be seen breaking up into small pieces. 8A postal card mailed at Harupstead, Eng., to an address not five minutes' walk from the sender's house, made a journey of 25,000 miles. In the mail the card slipped into a newspaper bound for Tasmania. On reaching Tasmania, the card was discovered and returned to the sender in a letter.? London Times.