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IPOIFLT ROYAL Standard and Commercial. YOL. IY. NO. 35. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY,'AUGUST 3, 1876. $2.00 per toll. Side Off 5 Cents. j Looking Forward, Why torn, faint spirit, to the vanished past ? Why grieve that eome vain longing might have been? Why brood o'er broken hours no long< r thine, Or sigh tsr conquests thou m&v'st r ever win ? Leave the poor faded hope aud trast long dead, And nurse the heart's unfolding bloom instead! Fling your misgiviogs to the idle wind! Fruition is the patient soul's reward? Thy path through trouble to the good man's goal Let not these petty weaknesses retardTread with unfaltering step the rugged way That leads this tnal to the perfect day! Press not thy bosom, like the imprisoned bird, In sad repinings 'gainst the bars of fate; What thongh the skies are sometimes hang in cload, Deem not, therefore, thy whole life desolate; Make thy own destiny, though dangers throngFearless advance, with every step grow strong ! Torn not thy mind's eye inward, where a waste Spreads 'neath the spirit's sky of donbtfnl glcom, Bat look thou rather to the eoenes without, Where all God's fairest, holiest treasures bloom; Forget thySelf?cast each dull clog aside? And look in trust above, white'er betide! Fold not thy hands in weary, doll despair, Whatever shadows thy fair hopee enshroud? Sleep not thy life away in idle dreams ; Nerve thee for God's own work?nor heed tee cioaa That breaks above thee; toil will briog release, Care fade away and straggle end in peace! A FATHER'S REVENGE. A Duel With the Blind. Major Buford, called by the way of eminence, " The Major," was one of the most noted duelists of the day. A dead shot, a perfect master of fence, and in his enmities utterly relentless, his name had become a terror to all who knew him. In the midst of a knot of admiring friends, one day, the major was discussing his last "affair," and complacently explaining how it came that he mortally wounded his adversary, instead of killing him on the spot, when one of two , men advanced and struck him in the face. The spectators stood aghast What eould have tempted the stranger to rush thus madly on his fate t He was an old man. Already, to appearance, had threescore and ten years passed over his head. He must, indeed, have been weary of life, whose brief remnant he was ready to cast away so recklessly. The major was astonished. The very audacity of the act struck him with amazement. "Is this provocation sufficient, or must I repeat it," inquired his assailant. The major's first impulse was to return blow for blow. But, fierce and violent as were his passions, he schooled V: ? .?1* xuuiscu 1><J uumpAotc ui2?W3J[jr uyci tucm, and a moment's reflection told him how bootless, under the circumstances would be a public brawl. The indignity he had received would admit of but one reparation, and that he determined to lose no time in seeking. "Theinsult is sufficient,"he answered, with a forced calmness. "Oblige me by" naming a friend." And the two strangers took their leave together. At sunrise on the following morning _ the principals and their seconds made their appearance on the ground selected. No one else was present?not a surgeon. The major, in his own past experience, never had needed one, and his opponeut, it was plain, was careless of the consequences. There was no necessity of delay. The preliminaries had been settled. The k parties were to fight with pistols at ten paces, the combat to continue until one or both had fallen. Oae condition had been insisted on by the stranger which called an indig nant blu^h to the major's cheek, as it seemed to imply an imputation upon his honor, though he submitted with the be-,t grace he could. It was, that before placing the combatants the bodies of both should be inspected to see that no secret protective device was employed by either. The ground was measured and the men placed. There was a marked oon trast between the two in more respects than that of years. The old man, erect J i.j i i.i L:. 3 auu urjuouitxro as a suitut?, uis wmwiiou locks floating in the breeze, never once looked at bis antagonist, though his side was turned. His faoe was stern an 1 determined, but nothing malignant in it. The major, on th9 other hand, glared fiercely at his foe?seemed even to grudge him the few moments of life yet eked out to him. " Were he my own father I would kill ^ him," he answered audibly to some whispered expostulation of his second, who was evidently touched by the old man's venerable appearance. The pistols were put into the hands of the principals and the giving of the word explained. "Gentlemen, are you ready?" "Ready," both answered. Still the old man moved not, nor did he dire3t a single glance at his adversary. His eyes were fixed in front. His attitude was one of rapt attention. He seemed like one listening intently. " Fire 1" Without changing the direction of his gaze or other movement than that of his arm, which arose with the precisijn of a nicely adjusted machine, the old man brought his pistol to the level of his enemy's breast For an instant he held it there. Still the same appearanoe of eager listening. The major was in no hurry. He could afford to take his time with a man who held his pistol at random, without looking wither ward. He was determined to make snre work. If his ball missed his adversary's heart, even a fraction of an inch, he would never make any pretentions to kill again. The sharp report of the stranger's pistol was followed by a convulsive jerk of the major's arm, causing the discharge of his weapon far wide of his f mark, while he, staggering a few paces backward, fell heavily to the ground. " Conduct me to him," said the man to bis friend. * ' The latter took his principal's arrc and led him to the prostrate form of th of the major, whose second, kneelin by his side, had torn open his garment? exposing to view the fatal wonnd in hi breast, made by the stranger's bnllet. " Is your friend seriously hurt ?" ii quired the latter, coollj. "Toucan see for yourself, sir," th second answered. " There you're in error," replied th other. " I am totally blind I" The wounded man, who by this tim revived a little, and his second looke at the stranger in astonishment. Ther was no visible defect in his o gans c vision, but there was a fixity of lookthat " blending of eyes on vacancy which so unmistakably evinces the ah sence of sight. " Who are yon, and what is your mc tive in seeking this encounter?" th major faintly murmured. " First, are you in a condition to re new it ?" inquired the stranger. " There is no need. I am dying." " When I have told you who I am,' the stranger resumed, " you will scare require my motive for what I have done No wonder you have forgotten Jame Merton," he*continued, "for he is great ly changed, no doubt." The dying man started and groane< bitterly. "But I have not forgotton you Richard Baford, nor the injuries yoi have done me. A cherished daughter the pride of my eyes and the joy of he mother's heart, you entioed from he home, deceived by a sham marriage, an< then abandoned her to die of a broke] heart. My son and only remaininf child, ill a rasn attempt to revenge im sister s wrongs, fell a victim to your ac carsed skilL You even robbed him o the ordinary chanoesof combat, unequa as they would have been, by incasing your cowardly body in conoealed armor The loss of both our children unsettlec my wife's reason, and she died in a mad house. Could I have found you then I would have given you no chance foi your life, bat, valliant as you alwayi professed to be, but coward as you are you evaded me. Yet I knew we shoulc some day meit, and I registered a vov when we did I would offer you a sacri doe to your infernal art. " To this end I studied to become ai adept at it, and succeeded. And whei at length blindness cast its shadow ovei rae and seemed to render hopeless tin fulfillment of my vow, instead o; abandoning it I betook myself to a nev species of practice. I sought to mak< hearing take the place of sight. Agaii I succeeded. I learned to take aim witt ear instead of eye. When I heard yoi answer ' Ready ' to-day, I knew the ex act direction in which to point ray pis tol as well as if I had seen you. Be sides, I could hear you breathing when you stood. You lost your chance in de laying your fire. You wished to mak< sure work and overreached yourself." More than once the major looked ap pealingly at the speaker's face, but ii those remorseless, sightless eyes then was no sympathy. And as the laborec breathing grew fainter the old man re snmed his listening attitude. At last al whs still. "He is dead !" he said; and it* wonted expression of sober melancholj settled on the old man's face, as, taking his companion's arm, he turned anc walked leisurely away. Advice to Young Men. P eeident Porter, in his sermon be fore the senior class of Yale College, gave theyoung men the folio wing advice 1 The last ship must soon be taken, and you will find yourself each fighting hit battle, no longer a mimic, but a sterr struggle for what are called the prizes oJ life. You will stand upon the threshold and wistfully inquire whither will lift take me and what will life give me ? ] hear a voice replying in the distance tc each of you, gentle but clear, tender bul firm, loving in its accents yet capable ol sternest command, and its answer is Life will bring back to you what yor bring to life in purpose and resolve, only with ampler returns. It is a good time for an honest and earnest man tc beg n life. It would seem that there has never been a time, for a generation, which is so full of hope to a yonng mar w ho is willing to make full proof of ar earnest, intelligent, courageous and lov ing Christian life. The oountry ha? bxjn chastened. If it brings wealth and power and culture and freedom as the fruits of the first century, of its inde pendent life, it begins the second with some just convictions that the manhood of the people and their rulers aie itf only security; that truth and honor are the only reliance of a free commonwealth which hopes to remain. Gc forth, then, in this time of fear and oi hope, of thankfulness and of chastening, go forth in the name of the Master, tc labor in His service and to live for Hif kingdom. Yield to no fear. Remem ber that you are not brought to this oper doer by your own hand. No man if self commissioned except he cuts himself off from God. He who has broughi yon to this place will guide you to the end. May we now and then hear oi each one of you that he is a high-toned and intelligent servant of his countrj and his time, and that the world is dailj the better for his living in it, that bis life is guided and blest by the living God. With these wishes and this prayej I bid you an affectionate farewell." The Power of Politeness. A young lady abruptly turned th< corner of a street, and very rudely rai against a small boy,hat!ess and shoeless Stopping as soon as she could, sh< turned to hitn and said : "I beg you; pardon ; indeed I am very sorry." '!rhe small, ragged boy looked up ii bLmk astonishment for an instant, then taking off about three-fourths of a hat he bowed very low, smiled until hi face became lost in the smile, and an swered: 44 Yer can hev my parding an' welcome, miss; an' yer may rui agin me an' knock me clean down, an'! won't say a word." After the young lady passed on h turned to a comrade and said, hal aj>ologetically: 441 never had any on a*.k my parding, an' it kind o* took m off my feet." Cholera infantum is killing babies i: Baltimore at an unprecedented rate. THE MISSISSIPPI JETTIES. e g The Difficulties and Triumph* of the Work as Performed by Captain Eads. is The greatest difficulty that had to be solved in building the channel at the i- i month of the Mississippi river was how ! to control the waters of the great river, e and so compel them to cut out the much needed channel. A hundred e cubic yards of flowing water, spread over a wateroourse of one hundred e j ards wide, would give only a yard of d depth. The problem was, speaking ? relatively, to confine that one hundred I cubio yards into a channel which should - compel it to scoop out a deep channel. Masonry had been used at the month of the Dauube, but masonry for such gigantic work would far exceed in expense any ?- possibility that was within the powers o of the engineer of the Mississippi. At this juncture some one suggested that >- willows had been used to direct the course of streams and to confine their | channels. (Japtain mads and uoionei Andrews consulted, and the result was e that they hit upon a plan for utilizing ? the willows which grow in great thickets 8 on the alluvial soil of the Delta to help i- them in their work. On a bar, or rather island, which came into existenoe in the 1 river forty years ago in front of a crevasse known as the "Jump," there ? is a willow thicket covering some thirty i square miles of land. Here was the ma, terial if it could only be utilized. After r long and anxious discussion, a plan was r agreed upon and patented in the names 1 of the inventors bv which willow mata tresses were brought into use. I The mode of construction and subses quent handling of these mattresses is - particularly ingenious. On the bank of f the pass there is, first of all, constructed 1 a "launch way," consisting of a lumber I built inclined platform, six feet above . the level to the landward and gradually 1 sliding down to the water's edge. On - the platform are two ribbands of well , greased pine which serve as the "ways," r to use shipwrights' parlance. On these 5 ways are laid, first of all, strips of pine, three by six inches in dimensions and 1 five feet apart, till the total width ref quired is reached. These strips are - pieced on end till a total length of about one hundred feet is achieved. The numi ber of strips is determined by the rei quired width of the mattresses, which r vary, according to circumstances, from i fifteen to fifty feet. The strips being f placed in position, a number of holes r are bored in each, into which are insert> ed hickory pegs at6hort intervals,which, i when bolted in with 03k wedges, stand j i out thirty inches from the platform. On t the foundation thns made are laid the - willows; the first layer is laid crosswise - of the strips for about six inches, and - then lengthwise, and so on the layers i keep alternating till the top3 of the pegs - are covered. When this point is reached i other strips are laid crosswise on the whole mass, in which holes correspond ing to the hickory pegs have been t bored. ) Then, each peg having Deen nttea to I the superincumbent hole, powerful lev orage is brought to bear and the bindl ing cross strips are forced do^n on to the pegs and securely bolted with oak } wedges. This completes the manufact tore of the mattress, which is then slid \ down from the " ways" and floated on I to the water. A steam tug then takes the floating mass in tow, and tugs it to the position where it is to be sunk. The mattresses vary in width from fifty to fifteen feet, and supposing a depth of twenty feet has to be filled up, ten of , the mattresses are sunk in the spot, the : lower one being of full width and the I upper ones graduating down to the minor dimensions, each of them being about two feet in thickness and a hundred feet long. In placing them in position they are first floated on the spot and attached to guide posts, when a stone barge is towed alongside and rocks thrown on the mattress till it sinks. In this manner the jetty is made. An alternate layer of willow mattress and rock, broad at the base and gradually narrowing toward the top, makes a wall which is impregnable to the assaults of the water, and so, as the jetties stretch out, the current becomes confined and its force concentrated. Not only is the stream thus deepened, but by a curious reflex action the jetty walls are strengthened. The littoral current of the gulf runs from we3t to east, and the debris thrust out into the gulf by the concentrated stream, being caught by the littoral current, becomes filled up on the outside of the westward jetty, making a firm wall against all the inroads of the sea. So marked is this effect that in the bay to the west of the south pass, where a year ago a steamer drawing nine leet ot water ) would move with ease, now a skiff would f be grounded at high tide. The present , indications are that the commerce be ) tween the Mississippi valley and Europe j will pass through the mouth of the Miss issippi inside the next twelve months, l and if the same mattress system can be ) adopted for the river generally, a depth of water sufficient to carry heavy toni nage can be made permanent between > St. Louis and the gulf. f ?? 1 ' Fortune's Freaks. r j Postmaster-General Jewell recently \ spoke most feelingly to a lady who apr plied to him for a clerkship. She is the daughter of a member of the cabinet under a former administration, a gentleman of large means who lived in great 3 state in Washington, and subsequently i was minister to one of the most important courts of Europe, where also he 3 maintained an expensive establishment, r as his great wealth justified him in doing. That was a score of years ago. 3 The war so greatly reduced his fortune that his childran are now compelled to labor for their own support. When g Postmaster-General Jewell had respect. fully listened to the lady's application he said, in tones of deep sympathy: "It Q makes me sad for you to ask this of me. I Twenty years ago, when I was a mechanic, I was in , and your father a was minister there. I desired to call on f him, but doubted the propriety of my e doing so under the circumstances. Now e you, his daughter, come to me to ask a $900 appointment. How do I know but what in twenty years my daughter n may be compelled to ask a similar favor of OA* of my suaeessors. An Indian Dwelling. There has been erected on the Centennial grounds at Philadelphia, on the east side of the Government bailing, a front elevation of one of the peculiar dwellings used by tho Hardee Indians of the northwest coast of the American continent. A large and most valuable collection of models of these structures has for several weeks been exhibited in the buildinsr, but the facade now in position on the outside was taken bodily from a Hardee house and sent to the Exposition by Dr. J. W. Swan, a well known collector of Indian curiosities in Alaska and British Columbia. The facade is of cedar, eighteen feet high by forty feet in width, the distance from the base to the eaves being about fourteen feet. Its peculiar interest arises from the fact that it is completely covered with grotesque paintings, representing the mythological characters of Indian religion. The tribes inhabiting the islands of the north Pacific coast have an endless number of traditions or superstitions, which are :-li_ i iiivurmuijr Hjriuuuiiitiou ujr ptuuuugo ui engravings on everything they make, whether it be a house or a button. The figures are sometimes very faithfully drawn, but usually they are conventional representations of some strange idea. On each side of the door are two rudely painted whales, but these are made up of at least a dozen other animals. The body of the one on the right is filled with pictures of salmon heads, eels, human faces with glaring eyeballs; hideous figures, which may be either human or mythological. The blow-hole contains the distorted figure of a man, and on the back is a large salmon. The other whale much resembles this, except the human faces are even more hideous. Partly abov6 and partly on each side of the door is painted a grotesque picture somewhat resembling the human form, but the feet are represented as claws and the hands have each a large eye in the palm. Whenever the natives paint or carve a hand this eye always appears in the same spot and with the same number of lines, though the significance of the combination still remains a mystery. The elevation is bordered with green, dumpy pictures, supposed to be intended for human heads and bodies, with fearfully distorted limbs. The most curious part of this exhibit is the totem post standing directly in front of the door. It is about twenty-two feet in height, with a large hole in the base, which serves as a vestibule to the door, and the post is carved from top to bottom with the most tedious forms imaginable. The first represents a monster bear; above this is a grotesque carving of Itl-tads-dale, the mother of the Haidalis, and on the top of this are two separated dumpy reliefs, supposed to be imitations of the faces and forms on the border. To every house erected by the Haidaii, or Sitkatrites, the " totem " posts are regarded as indispensable, and it is believed that every ornament and every line had at one time a significance, which may, however, have been lost in the lapse of time or only t i i J vaguely unaersioou. | Fish for Dinner. How to have a fish dinner when you | please, is provided by Seth Green as follows?always provided you know something of management and are in the I right locality: Never take any more than you want for present use, and stop fishing when you have got enough. If you catch a small one, take him carefully off from your hook and put him back , in the water ; don't throw him down in the boat and take him ashore for the purpose of counting him, and then throwing him away. That little fish, if put back, would grow to be a large one in time, and the man, woman or child that does not put the little fish back is worse than a brute ; for the brute, with few exceptions, will not kill anything for fun. If parties living near the lakes that were stocked with salmon trout in the years 1872 and 1873, will anchor a buoy in the deep water and bait it with small pieces of small fish twice a week, they can go to that buoy and drop a hook baited with a piece of the same kind of fish that you have been in the habit of scattering around it, and take a mess of fish whenever they please. This fishing will last the season through, provided you manage taking the fish with the same judgment that you do your stock of chickens, and stop killing when you have got a mess. Fish are local, and there is a certain number of fish that ilYU 1U Hit) uol^uuuiuvan^ ui iuui uuuj, and tliey do not go ranch further from it than your chickens do from your barn; and there is a rule among fishermen that is generally observed?if a man sets up a buoy, and keeps it baited, it belongs to him, and no well meaning man will fish hear his neighbor's buoy. Bright but Naughty Boys. Mr. John Ormsby, in his "Stray Papers," tells the following story of the London street Arabs: We once saw the Strand thrown into terror, confusion, and distress by the unaided wit of t\ro boys. It was one of those foggy, damp December evenings, when the lamps looked like blurred moons, and objects twenty feet oft are all but indistinguishable. These playful youths had got a suit of old clothes and some straw, out of which they made an image sufficiently like a man to pass muster in that unoertain .light. With this, counterfeiting the action of affectionate sons leading home a beloved but intoxicated father, they would suddenly appear in front of some passing omnibus, and then, affecting to lose all presence of mind, allow their helpless parent to fall almost under the feet of the horses. The soene may be imagined. Terror ol the passengers, horror of the driver, horses down through having been sharply turned aside or pulled up on the greasy J pavement, general agitation, which culminated at length when an omnibus with more way on than usual, actually passed over the body, the wretched driver, of course, suffering the mental agonies of a homicide, until relieved by seeing the straw intestines of his victim. O'Donovan Rossa has collected $10,139 for that " skirmishing fund." An Irish barkeeper always looks a little crestfallen when he has to draw lager beer. The Pennsylvania Mennonites. The Mennonites of Pennsylvania, says a correspondent, do not intermarry with people outside of their society. Parents pick husbands for their daughters, and wives for their sons. Courtship is very limited, and then only in the early hours of the evening when parents are present. The marriage is agreed upon by the parents first, and the young folks i make the arrangement and set the time. This privilege alone is extended to them, and their conclusions are respected if < the date suits all the parents interested. < The marriage ceremony is very simple, < and i 1 devoid of all display. The min- i ister, a very plain, practical person of : not less than fifty years, rides to the residence of the bride's parents on horseback. He finds his way into the house i and to tlie people as best be can. There i may be a dozen people present, com- ] posed of the nearest of kin of both < parties.. The Bible is read, prayer de- i livered; the couple, arraved in the ' plainest attire, walk across the uncarpet- 1 ed floor to the center of the room ; they \ are baptized with water, they join hands, i and in the name of their God and their i families they are pronounced husband i and wife. There is less display or re- f joioing at a Mennonite wedding than is 1 to be seen at the most straight laced of i Quaker weddings. t Prior to the marriage, the fathers f agree upon a settlement of money on the t young folks. With this money, a house, i barn, outbuildings, and a farm of about i fifty acres are purchased, which enables < tho couple to go to housekeeping at t onoe. Thus the Mennonitea maintain 1 their distinct society. t They are kind and generous to a c fault, helping each other in distress and ? alleviating each other's wants. If a e man's horse dies, the society will buy ? him another. If his barn burns down, y they will contribute and rebuild it for 1 him. If thieves enter his premises they 1 will replace that which has been stolen. 1 If a crop fails on one farm, a portion of c each of his neighbors will be hauled to y him at the proper time. They all be- t long to one family; never marry out- i side, and thus they flourish, and beoome 1 enormously wealthy; not by specula- x tion, bnt by farming and stock raising. 1 They have their own flocks, fields, mills, t looms, gardens, and cattle, and pur- 1 ohase very little at the village stores, s They do their own shoemaking, hair cutting, shaving, and weaving, and they plait their own big straw hats for summer. The woman folks spin, sew and t attend to the household duties. Calico ^ is their principal article of dress. They { never wear either hoops or crinoline. ji Few strangers would imagine a young fc woman in plain calico and gray woolen t jacket, riding to the village on a spring- ? less wagon, to be the only daughter of a 8 man worth several hundred thousand r dollars; yet such a thing can be seen a every day. A man is seen riding along $ the road horseback on a big, uncouth f looking horse. He is dressed in brown 0 overalls, and is barefooted. His black 0 hair streams out from under an old a slouched hat; on one arm dangles a c tin kettle filled with molasses, his lower 0 limbs stick out at an angle of forty-five D degrees from the horse's sides, and the y stranger is astonished upon learning y that that singular looking horseman is T | worth at least $350,000 in clean cash, I and has but one son in the world. If he y were worth a million dollars he would D go to the village store in the same manner, and would not change his style of ^ living in the least. ? h To Restore Drowning Persons. >] 1. Lose no time. Carry out these di- ? rections m the spot. o 2. Remove the froth and mucus from t. the mouth and nostrils. v 3. Hold the body, for a few seconds y only, with the head hanging down, so ^ that the water may run out of the longs t! and windpipe. r t 4. Loosen all tight articles of clothing o about the neck and chest. 1< 5. See that the tongue is pulled for- I ward if it falls back into the throat. By * taking hold of it with a handkerchief it A will not slip. * 6. If the breathing has ceased, or h nearly so, it must be stimulated by pres- a sure of the chest with the hands, in imi- h tation of the natural breathing; forcibly b expelling the air from the lungs, and al- t] lowing it to re-enter and expand them by the elasticity of the ribs. Remember that this is the most important step of all. ii To do it readily, lay the person on his back, with a cushion, pillow, or some J1 firm substance under the shoulders; j' then press with the flat of the hands a over the lower part of the breast bone 9 and the upper part of the abdomen, i< keeping up a regular repetition and re- o laxation of pressure twenty or "thirty ^ times a minute. A pressure of thirty * pounds may be applied with safety to a * grown person. 8 7. Rub the limbs with the hands, or tl with dry cloths, constantly, to aid the b circulation and keep the body warm. n 8. As soon as the person can swallow, b ?- ? - ? i?Ul/?or.Ann#n1 rtf anin'fil in hot 0 give a utujcopjuiuiu v> u^u<?u ? water, or some warm tea or coffee. J 9. Work deliberately. Do not give np b too quickly. Success has rewarded the t< efforts of hours. b v An Army of Them. p There are 168 employees at the Cen- J1 tennial gates, divided into six money J groups, four groups for complimentary 81 and exhibitors' gates, three return pass 8 check groups and the wagon gate keep- b ers. The chief inspector is assisted by thirteen general inspectors. The money groups are so divided that they are relieved twice a day, and are consequently p changed from one post to another. The o return pass check men are placed near v all the exit gates, and are under one in- b spector. Nos. 55 and 56 are kept open tl all day and night, except between the ti hours of twelve midnight and four a. m., ti for the accommodation of guards, mem- p bers of the fire department and persons e residing in the grounds. Gates Nos. 63 c and 64 are for the admission of work- t men from four to eight a. m. After a that hour no teams are permitted to en- a ter the grounds except on special t passes, which are only issued in cases of t absolute necessity. c ? c One of the earliest printers on record c is said to have been the Emperor Tra-- ? jan, who set up a column in Borne. ii A Strange Suicide. The Overland China Mail gives ai account of a strange suicide that wai lately committed at Fuh Chow Foo. A young lady, who had the misfortune t< be left a widow while yet in her teens was urged by some injudicious relative! to enter again into the bonds of wed lock. The thought thus suggested o: supplying the place of her late husbanc was so repugnant to ber feelings that in order to escape from the persecutioz of her advisers, she determined to " as cend to heaven on the back of a stork,' or, in other words, publicly to commii suicide. Having arrived at this deter mination a day was fixed for the cere mony. Early on the fatal morning tb< lady, dressed as the "queen of heaven,' and surrounded by a large following o: admiring relatives and fiiends, startec from her late husband's house in ai open sedan chair for the scene of hei self-inflicted death. By the way, sh< visited her parents, to bid them fare well, and stopped occasionally en rouU bo taste the viands which were placec at intervals by the side of the road, as ai i funeral. On arriving at an open spac< it the back of the Hai-ehaou temple, aha mrvnnf Arl nn a. araffnlriinfr whinh nftd been erected for the purpose, and, hav Ing bowed to the vast crowd whioh had issembled to witness the proceedings, )he cried with a lond voioe: t( Heaver aid eartu 2 and my friends I I am quite latiafled to die in this manner." Hay ng said this, she stepped on to a chaii >n the platform, ana thrust her head hrough a noose of a red cord, whioh lung suspended from a cross-beam ibove her. At the same moment a red doth was placed over her head and face, rnd then, without the least hesitation, the jumped off the chair. Death was ilmoet instantaneous, and she expired rithout the least apparent struggle. Jnfortunately, the effects of this young ady's self-devotion did not end with her ife, for so deep an impression did hex >onduct make on some boys who had ritnessed the spectacle that they amused hemselves on the following day by nahing believe to follow her example. By a misadventure, while one of them ras adjusting the rope round his neck, lis playmates ran off, and on their rerun they found that he likewise had ' ascended to heaven on the baok of a tork." They Waited, Beside what was once a church in Detroit, the Free Press tells us, a vine one [ay took root in the dry clay soil. Men ramped past it, and around it and over b, but somehow it clung to life, and iy-and bye it reached up and caught the >rown clapboards and pulled itself along. Ls years fed away and the vine was unrounded by great buildings, and burying feet were ever bepide it, it covered lattioed window and the birds built heir nests in its shade aid chirped joyally at the roar of traffic. Thousands f men have halted during the last deade to wonder how the vine could live nd flourish among the dust, smoke and obbleetones, but it lived on. Hundreds i workmen have eaten their noonday leal in its grateful shade, and more .uiututwa men tutu uuvd luvc uicpt ktoiind it to sleep. Wreaths from the ine have been laid upon more than one ittle coffin, and thesongsof the nestling >irds have more than onoe reached and iade glad some heavy heart. Progress digs open the graves of the lead and sacrifices the tender est houghts which men can hold in their earts. Progress has removed the vine. ?he little ground it covered had a cash alue, and sentiment cannot hold its wn with cash. Still, there was one hing to console those who will miss the ine. The birds had nested in it everv ear for this long time past, and "cash 7&s not heartless enough to disturb hem. When strong hands took hold 0 pull down the vine a mother bird flew ut in wild alarm, and five little birds x>ked over the nest into men's faces, t was a great, strong, sunburned laborer rho said : " Let us wait until they can y," and they all went away. They did rait, and onlv after the five young birds ad winged their way to the shade trees nd the clover fields was the vine pulled 3 earth and rooted out Can the world e very wicked when men will do his? The Healthfulness of Lemons. When people feel the need of an add, f they would let vinegar alone, and use smons or sour apples, they would feel ist as well satisfied, and receive no iniry. And a suggestion may not come miss as a good plan when lemons are 1 *1>a a naminn fih/lllu. Litaip 1U ?UC UUUAOVf A ^vauvm i those times, purchase several dozen at nee and prepare them for use in the rarm days of spring and snmmer, when cids, especially citric and malic, or the cids of lemons and ripe fruits, are so rateful and useful. Press your hand on ie lemon and roll it back and forth riskly on the table to make it squeeze lore readily; then press the juioe into a owl or tumbler?never into tin; strain it all the seeds, as they give a bad taste, temove all the pulp from the peels and oil in water?a pint to a dozen pulps? 3 extract the acids. A few minutes' o ling is enough, theD strain the water rith the juice of the lemons; put a ound of white sugar to a pint of the nice; boil ten minutes; bottle it, and our lemonade is ready. Put a tablepoonful or two of this lemon syrup in a lass of water, and you have a cooling, ealthful drink Wife Whipping. The last Legislature of California assed a law authorizing the infliction f corporal jpnishment upon men for dripping their wives. There have een several cases of wife beating since lie enactment of the statute, but magisrates have heitated in ordering he use of the lash. A justice of the eace in Colusa, however, resolved to nforoe the law, and sentenoed a man onvicted of beating his wife to reoeive wenty-one lashes on his bare back. The ttorney for the defendant has appealed gainst, the conviction and sentence, and his will probably raise the question as o the constitutionality of the act. The onstitution of California says : " Exessive bail shall not be required, nor ruel and unusual punishments be inlicted." It was claimed that whipping a both a cruel and unusual punishment Fashion Notes. 1 Byzantine is considered the handsom9 est thin f&brio for mourning dresses, and L is also the most expensive. It is all silk, > thin and wiry like ganze, and with cloee? ly woven smooth surface. It is made np 9 oyer silk, and is trimmed with plaitings ' and with crimped taped fringes that | modistes call mourning fringes. Next ' this comes the iron grenadines of mixed > > ilk and wool. | In making grenadine suits no one now \ uses a lower skirt of grenadine. The l dress must he worn over silk, so that the grenadine flounces are at once put [ on the silk of the foundation. Taffeta " silks, or else the gros grain that cost , from SI.50 to $2 a yard, are used when . new silk must be bought, but it is more , usual to utilize some partly worn skirt of black silk by turning it, and cleaning r with diluted ammonia, j Henrietta cloth is a favorite material . for the woolen dresses that are worn in ? this climate all the year ronnd. Mer{ chants say their customers demand it in [ finer qualities every year, and that it is ) now preferred to the English bombazines, as it is not so hard to the touch, [ and is entirely without gloss. Very fair . qualities, heavy enough for summer and [ the demi-season, are sold for $1.50 a yard, but finer clothn are $3 50 or $8. i Wraps to be worn with mourning are > r\1 tfiA mftfpn'ftl of thfl ? dress. To wear with various * dresses are saeks of thin silk oov1 ered entirely with English crape. l When greater warmth is required there i are graceful muitlee in scarf, mantilla, 1 or Dolman shape, made of the soft and , lusterlees camel's hair, trimmed with crimped fringe and folds of repped silk, i or else with wool brtid in many parallel ! rows. Bough finished but soft camel's hair is also used for handsome polonaise suite. ' Nice qualities cost from $2.50 to $3.50 a yard, and are a yard and three-eighths 1 wide. Some are made up entirely plain, 1 with onlystitched horns; even the sleeves have no cuffs, but arc piped around the wrist and left open two inches up the outer seam. Othei \ are trimmed with crimped fringe, and with many rows of narrow wool braid, or with one or two rows of very wide braid. Those who * are tired of twilled surfaces select tho basket woven cloths that cost from $1.25 to $1.75 a yard; these are especially liked for young ladies who begin to ' lighten their mourning /with folds and i pipings of silk. A Picture of Marie Antoinette. ! Once upon a time there was a young princess, beautiful its day, according to 1 her flatterers, red headed as the March moon, so said the envious, who, at the age of fifteen, was married to the heir of the throne of a friendly state. The prince was but one year older than she, but of a very different disposition. He was as dull and heavy as she was gay. No one had ever heard him utter a word in public, and his only taste was for hunting and masonry. After his marriage he continued to hunt the stag, to help the masons whon they came to work off the palace and to sit at the table without opening his mouth, except to greedily devour his food. As to the pnnoess, she cared for no other society than that of a number of dirty, noisy little dogs, that tore and spoiled her dresses. Her 1?1 nC.snM Trraa frt nn a don. f?Z~e?*bC&b picaouiQ naa vu >H>v v_ ? ? key at the risk of being thrown, and she liked to have some one point out to her all the old visages of the court?a proceeding that amused her so much that she often burst out laughing in people's faces. Her only intimate friends were ladies who were as fond of talking scandal as herself, which is saying not a little. Called by the decrees of Providence to govern a great country, one day, side by side with her stupid husband, she despised her future subjects so much that she ceased to respect herself; she neglected to put on corsets when about to appear in pubHo, and she never brushed her teeth, although, as we have stated, she was very fond of laughing. Knowing well that the slightest of her caprioes were to be obeyed, she refused to learn anything. Her ignorance was ezoessive. She could scarcely form her letters, and although she had a reader she could not endure to listen to him for more than half an hour a day, and then only by dint of playing with her dogs or with little children who were brought to her expressly. Neither music nor even singing had any charms for her, because to study them would require some application. Choctaw Courtship. The Cheyenne (Wyoming) Leader has this bit of description : The Indians talk little under any circumstances. Thus it is naturally to be supposed that when a young fellow dons his best (which is generally set off with a calico blouse, having large flaming sleeves and his hat stuck full of feathers, with two or throA varda of scarlet ribbon hanging down his back), he would be about speechless by the time he arrives at the old man's mansion. After dismounting from his pony be takes his position on the fence and sits there till he sees his fair one at the door, when he grins audibly, and if she does likewise he takes it for granted that he is welcome and goes into the house, which generally consists of one room and oontcuns ail the family, and therein he has to make his speech, which, at the furthest, amounts to three grunts. His success depends very much upon an invitation to smoke by the father of the courted lass. If the old man has any respect for him he lights his pipe and, after taking a whiff, nands it to the young man, who in turn takes a whiff, and so proceed, whiff about The length of time they smoke depends altogether on the esteem the hither has for the beau. After a certain number of such visits he finally masters op oourage ? enough to say: " Che-te-ha-li-dela-liurn-mi ?" which means, in English : 1 "Will yon have'mef" If she says: "Ky-yo," which means " No," he takes himself off. If she gives a grunt the preparations are made. There are men so constructed and constituted that the easiest thing they can do is to make fools of themselves, Av / A