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YOL. IV. NO. 18. PORT ROYAL, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1874. tgggkVgS t A Farewell. I Lore, if it live/or a year and a day, 8hall do well, shall it not? Tls a moet fickle thing, so they say; ** And a year and a day is some time, ie it not ? r Oars has lived for so long?yes. a year, And a month too, I ween ; That is well?if it die now and here, It will do full as well as moet loves, I ween. , ' 80 let us kiss?hold each other once more, ] Then,?Farewell,?ehali we not ? 1 Love has parted from us?let us part before Something come in its place that is worse,? f shall we not ? E For us both there are fields that are fresh, 1 Pastures new for us both ; New loves we shall find who'll be dear, more or 8 lees . Than a year, or a year and a day, to us both. There, enough?let ub take what the Fates shall allot; 7. Fare the well, fare thee well: ? Mv beet wishes are vours : yours are mine, are 1 they not ? They should be at least?once more, fare ' thee well. r? OX THE BRINK. I have known Arthur Gravely well and intimately. A part of his story came to my knowledge through my own observation, and a part he told me himself. Arthur came of an old, well-defined and respectable stock, with just enough of aristocratic pride inherited from his progenitors to give him refinement and self-reliance. At an early age he was left an orphan, and received most of his education under the care of an uncle. "When he was one-and-twenty he was admitted to the employ of a banker named Yaaderlain, and very soon took a position of trust and responsibility in the house. A year later he took for his wife Fanny Summerton?one of the fairest and sweetest of earthly treasures. He had loved her long and truly, and her love in return had been single and devoted. Thus was life opening 9 for Arthur Gravely with bright and happy promise. He had friends whichever way he turned ; his business prosEects were of the very best; and his ome was an earthly paradise. One enemy, and ono enemy alone, at ,l-'- in Art.bnr'n nath. His til 1(9 tJUUt? OWVU AU AM? x wife did not see it then. She loved him so fondly and so trustingly that she ( could not see a fault. 1 A fesr of Arthur's friends feared dan- ' ger, aad one of them, more bold than ( the rest, spokjp to him warningly, but kindly-; bnt he turned away from the 1 wnrmng with a sneer of derision. c The mpnth3 and the years went on? i from twenty-two to twenty-eight. i yix-years of married life,?six years 1 of blessing so far as the outer things of 1 life oan give blessing. In the bank Ar- l thur had assumed a place very near to the head, and his salary was munifloent. i Prom early youth Arthur Gravely had I found the wine-cop among the symbols 1 of life's social phase. He had kept < wine in his own house; he had used it < upon his sideboard and upon his table ; i and he had partaken freely abroad. In i fh? earlier years it was wine, and only < wino of the best and the purest. Later, 1 strouger liquors were reqnired to keep up the tone. At the ago of eight-and- t twenty, there had come an uudue flush 1 upon' Arthur's cheek, and there were 1 blotches in the eye which ought not to have been there. Ho now tcok brandy before breakfast, and through the day 1 he was foroed to supply fuel to feed a fire which else might have oonsumed all j bodily comfort. As yet he had never i I?'helplessly intoxicated. He was t confident in his own strength. e Alael for the mau thus failing! He t knows not that his powers ot under- ( Rtandinc are dying out as the body fades and perishes!" i At length Mr. Vanderlain called 1 Arthur into his private closet, and told him that ho was going to suspend busi- f ness. Jv V 1 "I have money enough," said Mr. i Vanderlain, " ana I know that my close application to business is weariug upon me. I* am growing in years, and need rest. I think of going to Europe." t '! Aud of closing up vour business ?" "Yes." t " But, sir, there is uo need of that, i If you will trust your bank under the * guidance of some cupablo and responsi- 1 blc agent, with your name at its head, it might go prosperously od, aud you ] could go away upon your trip at will." j A cloud came upon the banker's face, ] npd he shook his head. " It is too late," he said. " At some i time I may tell you more." Shortly- after this, in process of 1 closing up his business, Mr. Vander- lain sent Arthur to a distant city to j mnko some important settlements. Ar- t rived at his destination, the young man < called upon the correspondents of the ( bank, arid having made preliminary ar- < rangemcnts, he fonnd himself with a few days upon his hands which he might enjoy iu pleasure. On the very evening of his arrival, he had fallen in < with John Hatton and William Roberts, < two friends and classmates of earlier j1 years. He was startled when he saw i them. They were evidently going down hill?were drinking to excess. ' ] Yet thev were gentlemen, and Arthur j joined them. He spent a first and a j i second night in their company. On . this second night, for the first time in I his life, Arthur Gravely drank to a j ] state of helpless stupefaction. ' He ] awoke on the next day feeling sad and > i humiliated. When he met his compan-,1 ions in a private parlor connected wnn i thfir sleeping apartments, he found them with a bowl of hot brandy be- 1 twfeen them. A spirit of true friendli- j ness came upon him when he saw the ] marks of the destroyer so deeply fixed < upon the companions of his boyhood. " Boys," said he, " this won't do. i You are going down," i They regarded him curiously, and 1 asked him what he meant. 1 He told them what he meant. They j i were in a dangerous way. " You forget, old boy," said Hatton, ] 4< Chat yo^ are in the same boat. If we took Manage before you, it is no less 1 sure xnat our route now is the same. )on't preach, Arthur. Try a bit of h trandy." There are moments in a lifetime ;reatcrises?when the events of thepi lash before the mind as upon a maf uirror?when a man, in a brief i tact, recalls every salient point of 1 jarthly career. Such a moment w he present to Arthur Gravely. "Let it alone," he said, solemn 'I tell you, Jack, and you, Will, tl rou are going down. You can't h nuch longer at this rate." " Well," retorted Roberts, with ittemptto laugh, "it appears to i bat what is sauce for tne goose lauce for the gander. Hadn't you b er try to let it alone yourself ?" " If I will try it, will you try it ?"< isked. " Will you try it ?" demanded Hi on. "I will if you will join me." " Done !" And they did it. They joined han ind promised one another that th vonld be true and steadfast. A new surprise was in store for 1 ,hur Gravely. He found upon cutti >fT his spirituous liquers that his bo weakened and that his hands shook ;hough with palsy. He applied to physician for help. Fortunately ipplied to a man of sense and und standing. "Can you give me something steady my nerves and restore my ap] iite ?" Arthur asked, after he 1: frankly stated his case. " This shows you, my dear sir," si the physician, " into what a dangerc state you had fallen. I can give j something to steady your nerves, 1 it would not help you in the end. pou will be brave and true you v some out all right in a very few days Arthur said he should not go ba He wanted no stimulant?no more that. The trial was a severe one, and may have been a 'blessed thing krtliur Gravely that it was so. He 1 more heroism in the conquest, and llso saw more clearly how deeply 1 ml habit had become fixed upon hi On the morning of the fourth day lis trial he awoke with an appetite food, and was able to eat a hea ireakfast. He was a new man from t :ime forth. The physioian had gr lim certain hygienic directions wh 10 followed implicitly, and thus he h fast upon his health "as it came back lim. And on this fourth day Arthur ? Elatton and Roberts. They had k :he faith, and had been unoxpecto prospered. An excellent opening insiness Had been presented and jepfced. On the fifth day the business wh lad brought Gravely from his home i ontrtudea, and he set out on hisretu \.ud the last struggle had passed. 1 lerves had become steady; his appet lad started up as if bv magic; hisch< lad grown fair; and the white of his < vas growing clear and pearly again. He reached his own city in 1 morning, and went first to the bank e rave in a return of his business. I Vanderloin had glanced quickly s jagerly into his face when he fl rntered, and a wondrous change ca mnn the banker's manner as the bi less proceeded. Something outs ,he business in hand was evidently lis mind. Arthur did not reach his home ui ime for dinner; but he had sent a I rom the bank with word that he shoi jo there. " Fanny!'! " Darling! 0, I'm so glad to see 3 lack!" Something made the wife even h lier than she had thought as she res vithin her husband's embrace; but he sudden joy she could not see it >he could only feel a great warmth, 1 ,he glow of heaven, as Arthur's k sane, sweet and pure, to her lips. As they entered the dining-ro \rthur saw the decanter of wine n 11s plate. " Take it away, Fanny," he sa mailing. " If you want it hereafter 1 medicine, keep it. For myself I si lot want it." " Not want it ??Arthur?" " I have done with it forever!" He spoke solemnly, with a manlin ;hat was strong and reliant. And the wife saw whenco had co lie great warmth to her heart?sai n the pure cheek, and in the clear e; is she had caught it in the sw ireatli. "Arthur?my husband," Bhe wh pered, as though hardly daring to tr aer own senses, " is it true ?? do 3 mean?forever ?" " While I live, darling," God givi me strength and reason." Fanny was upon the opposite side die table. She tried to speak, bnt 1 roice failed her. Sho turned whit :hen she pressed her hand for an itaut upon her heart,?and then, as jrimson flood once more bonnded on jourse, she covered her face, and st lown, weeping like a child. Arthur was by her side in a momt " Fanny !?my wife !?what is it She looked up, and caught itartled gaze through her tears. Wit juick movement she threw her ai iround his neck, and pillowed her k< apon his bosom. "O, Arthur !?bless yon ! bless yc [ could die for joy if I did not feel t [ could find more happiness in liv now for you !" Here was a new revelation. Artl Bravely now learned how his sweet v had suffered without daring to cc plain?how the worm had gnawed her heart!?saw it all the more clea because he saw in this present time j surpassing joy and ecstacy. Not many words were spoken. T was not the time for such a heart-m ing theme. And now, as they eat meal, Arthur told of his trip to distant city. After dinner Arthur went out to ca a budget to a neighbor, and when 1 alone, Fanny sat down and cried ag for joy. And so Mr. Vanderlain for her. He had stopped in passing to in errand, ' Mrs. Gravely ! What has b. pened ? What is wrong ?" " Wlong?"she repeated, looking i "O, sir, it is for joy I am crying." And then she told him the source tot the new happiness that had opened t her. i? Mr. Yanderlain listened, and after wt deal of thought he slowly said, with hi pc hand upon Fanny's fair head,? in- " Dear child, you may rejoice witl lis out fear. If Arthur has pledged hi as honor to this new life, be snre he wi 1 (-1,,. /..'It, !<> uuc iai?u * ly. Most of the afternoon Artlinr spec mt at the bank; and as he sat at the tab] ist in the private office waiting for th banker, a feeling of sadness and regri an came upon him. It would be hard t me leave the old place, and it might be is long, long time before he could fin et- another so pleasant. It was toward evening when Mr. Vai he derlain came in, looking flushed an Belf-satisfied. . , it- "I have kept you waiting, Arihtn but I have been busy. I have made most important change in my pre gramme. ids "Ah I And then you are not goin ey away ?" " Yes?I shall go to Europe; but kr- shall not give up my banking busines ng I have found a new man?one safe, n dy liable, and competent?who, I thin) as will take my business while I am al a sent." . he " Mr. Vanderlain," cried the youn er- man, frankly, "I am glad of this, for know I shall be able to persuade yc to to let me keep my place in your en pe- ploy." tad The banker shook his head. Arthur trembled, and started 1 aid speak. >us " Tut, tflt?not your present placi 'ou Arthur. Know that xoc are my ne jut man. If you will take charge of ir If business, I shall not let it go from m pill and I shall leave it in your hands,knoi ." ingthat both it and you will prospe ck. 'What say you ?" of " Mr. Vanderlain 1" "Ah 1 my boy, I have seen your wif it. I found her crying for joy. And wh< for she told me whence her joy came, elt knew there was joy for me also. I be the new man I give my entire ooni tho dence, and in hie hands I fear not < im. trust my name and my honor," of It was Arthur Gravely's turn now 1 for weep ; and he could no more help it tbc rty he could have helped the great flood < his peace and blessedness that flowed : ren upon his heart. ich " My dear boy," said the bankc eld afterwards, " I did not speak to you : to the other times as perhaps I ought. 11 knew how you treated others who d: )flw speak, and'l forebore. I had intend* j. to speak, however, before I went awa; o} and, if possible, to get you a good plac J Tint, it is, all done now. God bless an ac" keep vou." And now, looking back, Arthur Gray . ly sees how near upon the fearfi lcb brink he stood. From his position < vaB wealth and honor and love, no can s< J?* the dark pit from which ho escapei .18 and he sees hundreds upon hundre< sinking into it yearly. He helps the fal ->ek ing ones when he can, and finds unfai 3y? ing satisfaction in the work,?Ledger the lDd Debt and Dishonesty. ind ^n0 W^? *S anx*ou8 discover tl rgt causes and remedies for the prevailii me lack of honesty traces the matter to tl isi- credit system as well as the financi luC calamities now upon us. A thousar honest men aro put at the mercy of itil single dishonest man to pay his debt >oy If the one pockets his money and r aid fuses to pay, he deprives a thousar who are anxious to do so. The be way to get capital is to work for i -on Work for wages till you have mom of your own. To use another's capita ap- if you lose it you must replace it. Win ted a man finds he owes more than he ci in pay, he begins to inquire how he ct ? get rid of his debt. If all he has w. ike uot pay all he owes, then less than a iss he thinks, will pay a part, and he hid a portion or all from creditors. Lea: om to make money a year before you spei ear it, then you will buy less and bi cheaper. Other things being eqm id. dishonesty prevails in proportion to tl for facilities for escaping obligations. Tl iall wise man has said that the " borrow is servant to the lender," and he ongl m?4'1 I?nfn?na rnliaf. hft hofl lin IU Ut" until UO ICVUIUD rowed. When one has the benefit of ai ess other's labor, property, person, skill ar all are bonnd for the equivalent. The a mc cient Roman and Jewish codes he ?it that a man's life and labor should 1 70, bound for his debts. This may appen cet and sometimes is, severe; but stri justice says, " What doth the Lord tt .is- God require of thee but to do justly ust "Owe no man anything," if you cf rou help it; but if you do, place what yc have at the disposal of your creditor ti ing all is paid. 1 of (iood Old Times. her L,_ A relic of the " good old times " h; in- been discovered by an old world pap the in the shape of a bill of charges su^ lt8 mitted by an executioner at Bonn to tl lU authorities of Cologne in 1688. Tl nk following are a few of the items co: templated in his estimate : "To qua j"8 tering by means of four horses, eig] I * thalers; to beheading and burnini ?ad eight thalers ; to strangling and bnr ing, six thalers ; to burning alive, s ?a ' thalers ; to breaking on the wheel aliv hat eight thalers ; to beheading and faste: m8 ing tUe body to tne wneei, six tuaien to beheading, four thalers ; to beheai l.nr ing after cutting off one hand, fb r^e thalers ; to cutting off a hand or t* fingers, one thaler. Tearing with rei L hot pinchers, to be paid for at so mn< J-ly a gripe. Drowning or burying alb her not being usual in these parts, the ex cutioner will, in the event of such ex hi? cutions being required, ask as much i ov- for beheading or fastening to the whe tho ?namely, six thalers. To fastenii the screws on the thumbs and driving tl same, one thaler for the first quarter ny an hour; for every subsequent quart 6ft of an hour, one thaler. The exec f"n tioner reserves the right of afterwai ind receiving what may fairly be due to hi d? for liis trouble in setting limbs to tigh again." ap A jury in Iowa recently awarded Ljp. J looomotive engineer $10,000 damag i for injuries reoeived while in the dJ pi1 charge of his duties. +~\ i o My Deaf Wife and Aunt. a I had an annt coming to visit me for g the first time since my marriage, and I don't know what evil genius prompted l* the wickedness which I perpetrated I? toward my wife and ancient relation. " My dear," said I to my wife on the it day before my aunt's arrival, "yon e know Annt Mary is coming to-morrow; ? well, I forgot to mention a rather an0 noying circumstance with regard to her. a She is very deaf; and although she can d hear my voice, yet yon will be obliged to spetdc extremely loud in order to be ?* heard.4 It will be rather inoonvenient, 11 but I know you will do everything in your power "to make her visit agreear? ble." a Mrs. announced her determina)m tion to make herself heard, if in her power. 8 I then went to John N , who loves _ a joke about aa well as any person I 1 know of, and told him to be in the Bf house at 6 p. m. the following evening, B" and felt comparatively happy. ' I went to the railroad depot with a carriage next night, and when I was on my way home with my aunt, I said : ? "My dear aunt, there is one rather 1 annoying infirmity that Annie (my wife) IU has, which I forgot to mention before. a" She is very deaf, and although she can hear my voice, to which she is accustomed, in its ordinary tones, yet you will be obliged to speak extremely loud in order to be heard. I am- sorry B? for it." w Aunt Mary, in the goodness of her heart, protested that she rather liked e>. speakiug aloud, and to do so would v~ afford her great pleasure. r* The carriage drove up?on the steps was my wife?in the window was John X , with a face as utterly solemn 6a as if he had buried his relatives that afternoon. , "I am delighted to see you," shrieked ? my wife, and the policemnn on the opr1" posite side was startled, and my aunt t0 nearly fell down the steps. , "Kiss me, my dear," bawled my aunt; and the windows shook as if with the fever and ague. I looked at ? the window; John had disappeared. ln Human nature oould stand it no longer. I poked my head into the carriage and r? went into strong convulsions. 1 ^ When I went into the parlor my wife . * was helping Aunt Mary to take off her K| hat and cape ; and there sat John with :a his face buried in his handkerchief. f? " Did you have a pleasant journey ?" e* suddenly went off my wife like a pistol, icl and John nearly jumped to his feet. " Rather dusty," was the response, in ?r a war-whoop, and the conversation oona! tinned. aI The neighbors for blocks around musl have heard it. WhenJ wo* in the third '? story cf the building I heard every Is word. ? !}' In the oourse of the evening my aunl took occasion to say to me: " How loud your wife talks !" I told her deaf persons talked loudly. and mat my wiie Demg utseu mj it, wm not affected by the exeition, and thai 16 she was getting along very nicely witt g her. ie Presently my wife said softly?" Alf, al how very loud your aunt talks !" , " Yes," said I, " all deaf persons do, You're getting along with her finely a she hears every word you say." And 1 s. rather think she did. e. Exalted at their success of being un J(j derstood, they went it hammer and at tongs, till everything on the mantelik piece clattered again, and 1 was soriouBly afraid of a crowd collecting ir ~j front of the house. But the end was near. My aunt bem ing of an investigating turn of mind, in was desirous of finding out whethei ill the exertion of talking was injurious tc [1 my wife. So?" Doesn't talking sc ea loud strain your lungs ?" said she, ir rn an unearthly whoop, for her voice was 1(] not as musical as it was when she was ly young. j "It is an exertion," shrieked mj ie fe" Then why do you do it ? " was the er answering scream, ht "Because?because?you can't heai ir. if I don't." q. " What!" said aunt, rivaling a rail 1(| road whistle at the time. n_ I began to think it time to evacuate Id the premises ; and looking around and 30 seeing John gone, I stepped into the r back parlor, and there he lay flat on hit ct back, with his feet at right angles with iy his body, rolling from side to side witl his fist poked into his ribs, and a moal in agonized expression of countenance, m but not uttering a sound. I immedi ill atvly and involuntarily assumed a simi lar attitude, and I think from the rela tive position of our feet and heads and our attempts to restrain our laughter, apoplexy must inevitably have ensued, as if a horrible groan which John gav< er vent to in his endeavor to suppress his risibility had not betrayed our hiding place. ie In rushed my wife and aunt-, who bj ie this time comprehended the joke, and a- such a scolding as I got then I nevei r. got before, and I hope never to gel Li again. I know not what the end would have n i it T_i? u:? v>/> 55? Ul'l'U II O UI1IJ, 1U liio cuucitiuio iu uu ic a- spectful and sympathetic, had not giver jx vent to such a groan and a horse laugh that all gravity was npset, and we ' screamed in concert. a* I know it was wrong, and all that, tc I' tell snch a falsehood, but I think that 1 " Mrs. Opie herself would have laughed ? if she had seen Aunt Mary's expression r,? when she was informed that her hearing was defective. re e_ Smart Gmn.? During a raid through e_ Florida a bright little girl was found at M one house, her parents having skeel daddled. She did not know whether lg the troops were Northern or Southern. ie Two fine dogs made their appearance 0f while a can vers tion was being held er with the child, and she informed one ol her nnestioners that their names were U" ?? 1 r(j Giilmore and Beauregard. "Which it m the best dog ?" asked a bystander. " ] don't know," said she ; " they're both mighty smart dogs; but they'll eithei of 'em suck egga if you don't watch a 'em." The troops left without ascer es taining whether the family af whicb s- the girl was a scion were on their side or not. % What Is C&rlism ? Scribncr'a has a timely and interest ing paper on "Carlism in Spain, "whic' at this juncture of affairs in that nn happy ceuntiy will commend itself t many readers. The fact is that whs are now painfully notorious as the Cai ist troubles had their birth no longe ago than March 29, 1830, when Ferdi nand VII. caused to be republished with additional sanotions, the Pragmal ica of his father, Carlos IV., in order t remove every obstacle which might b in the wa^r of the Succession to th f.limnA r\f a then extracted child, wha1 OMVUW ? * C # ever its sex might be. As the chil proved to be a daughter, since we known as Isabella II., her birth becam the signal for a civil commotion in th interest of Don Oarlos Ferdinand brother, aiming to revive the Frcnc Salic law which Philip V. had intr< dnced, and which the Pragmatics ha nullified. We have not space to gn the writer's rapid but grapnic summai of historical events occurring durin Ferdinand's lifetime, nor the lucid an interesting record he reproduces,toucl ing tho celebrated Salic law itself. Bt our readers will be glad to look over tl following clear statement of the Carlii question proper, and its present pos tion as an element of discord in Spaii "In a little less than a year then after (the reaffirmation of the Pragma ic Sanction), September 29,1833, Ferd nand died. " His daughter, Isabella IL, wi proclaimed Queen of Spain, under tl regency of her mother, Maria Ohristin and immediately thereupon commence the war of revindication, or of the riv claims to the throne of Spain. Sue was tho origin of the Carlist party. " The Don Carlos of that day style himself Carlos V., as though he were reality a king, unjustly deprived of h throne. His son, Carlos VI., Count Montmolin, perpetuated the claim, bi died in 1861, without issue, when h brother, Don Juan de Bourbon, inhe ited his brother's rights, but instead pursuing them signed an act of abdic tion at Paris, October 3, 1868, in fav of his son, the Duke of Madrid, wl now represents the Carlos interes under the name of Carlos VII. " As between tho opposing claims | the Duke of Madrid and Alphonso, t] Prince of Asturias, it seems to ns th there can be no question. The right , Alphonso rests upon the anoient ai undeniable law of the Spanish mo archy. If it be asserted, in opposite to his claim, that Philip V. changed tl 1 old Spanish law and substituted tl Salic law, wnicn prevailed in rranc with the consent of the Cortes^lt m be answered that Carlos IV. and Fer< | nand VII. changed the law back agai with the consent of the Cortes, and i stored the ancient law of the realm ' and their act was surely as valid ai effective as that of Philip V. Alphon is the son of Isabella II. and Francis 1 d'Assise, Duke of Cadiz, who were mi I ried October 10, 1816. The Duke Cadiz is son of the Infant Francisco 1 Paula, brother of Ferdinand VII. " The Duke of Madrid, Carlos VI 1 the Pretender, Prince of Bourbon ai Este, was born at Venice, March 5 ; 1818, of Don Juan de Bourbon ai ! Donna Beatrix d'Este, Archduchess Austria. He was educated in the Mi tary Academy of Vienna. In 1867 . j married, at Gratz, Styria, the Prince Margarita de Bourbon, daughter of t Duchess of Parma, and niece of Com de Chambord, the claimant of t 1 French crown, as heir of the eld branch of the house of Bourbon." i Oar Advantages. > Had Qaeen Elizabeth lived in o ' day, her extravagance would be 1 , more extensive than it really was, i imagine ; for the old dame?I beg li pardon, maiden?knew little of r< 7 luxury. During her reign, people won j not eat meat on Wednesday and Sati day, except in case of sickness, a: r then a license must be obtained ; o object of this prohibition was "t . sparing and increase of the flesh victn of the realm.'' They had eggs, butti j honey and cheese, bat almost no veg [ tables except a coarse sort of beans ai j peas, the former being sometimes, j case of scarcity, ground with grain 1 , the bread of the poor ; but it was t unpalatable that even beggars refus t it when there was a possibility of g( ting anything better. Herbs of i I kinds went into the pottage of the pot . which had not always so much as a bo a A fliooa . IU glVU lb li ICJioii* auv4 menu aiviish 1 bitter, often?helped to flavor mei and flab. " Whcaten" bread was scan the poorer classes using a combinati ^ of bran and meal. The popular dri: , for men and women was ale. We re . that royal Bess consumed her full shn of this beverage. Certainly she had r other inducement to become guilty [ excess in appetite, and was thus jus f fled in making the most of her pri' t eges, perhaps. > Co-operallrc Boarding Honse. ' New Haven has a United Worke Society, from the annnal report of whi i we get interesting particulars as their women's boarding-house. In 1 honse which accommodates 18 boardei [ and gives an average of 38 restaura meals weeklv, the working forco is ' matron, a housemaid, a cook, and woman to wash one day eaeh wee The boarders' washing is done out the house, and paid Tor hj tliemseiv* AVERAGE WEEKLY EXFE^ES. Salary, $7 69 Provisions, $27 ! Wages, 7 00 Fuel, 2 Kent, 1154 Gas and water, 1 , Incidentals, 3 24 ? [ Total, $60 [ FARE OrVEX FOB THIS AMOU>"T. 1 Breakfast?One hot dish, bread ai ? butter, tea or coffee. Dinner?0 kind of meat, two vegetables, bre 1 and butter, fruit, or pie, or puddin ' Supper?Bread or biscuit and butt* 1 stewed fruit, and sometimes cake, &1 ' tea. I !-? i A Circuit Court?the longest w ^lome from singing school. A Model Stock Farm. r [j How a Long Island Fanner Make Money at his Business. Beacon Farm is one of the mode ^ farms of America. The farm is occupie ] by Willian Crozier, and is situated upo an almost insular headland near North !r port, Long Island, which is washe upon almost its whole boundary by th ' waters of Long Island Sound. It cor sists of a light sandy loam, in som 0 parts being almost whollysand; its sui ? face is picturesquely rolling, and divei 'e sided with hill, dale, and valley, and i covered [in large part with such shrul d berv and timber as are found upon th 11 sea* coast. Six years ago, when Mi ie Crozier entered into possession of thi te farm, it was a neglected wilderness ( 's impoverished barrenness, overgrow h with wide hedgerows of rails and tar J- gled bushes, which oocnpied a consic d erable portion of its cleared acreage. J re .furnished precarious subsistence to si y cows and one horse, and its farm buih g ings were mere weather-beaten wreel id useless for shelter. The unsightly an i- obstructive fences or boundaries of th it numerous small fields have been swe] ie away, their sites cleared and grubbei at and the tilled part of the farm has bee i- divided by straight post and board < i. post and rail fences into six fields i 0- from 60 to 120 acres each. t- A rotation of crops suitable to th 1- soiling system of keeping cattle hi been adopted, and by the necessary t is action of food upon manure and manu: ie upon food, which results from this sy a, tern, the farm now keeps abundant! >d supplied from within its own resource al forty-nine horses, 111 head of oow :h bulls, heifers, calves, and oxen; sixt; seven heavy sheep, 150 hogs,and poulti |d of various kinds in great numbers. Th hi stock, fed in stalls, in wliieh plentif is bedding of leaves, straw, and other li of ter ie used, with tho addition of swan at muck spread in the yards and oompos is ed with the droppings, together pr r-. duces over 10,000 loads of manure p of annum, all of which is worked over ai a- brought to the finest condi.ion for u or upon the corn and root crops, and tl io meadows. This is the key to Mr. Cr ts zier's success?soiling stock and makii manure. of The stock is all thoroughbred, tl lie horses are pure Clydesdales (the wor at ing and breeding mares weighing 1,6 of pounds each) and Morgans. The coi id are pure Jerseys and Ayrshires,in net n- ly equal proportions. The sheep a in Cotswolds and Southdowns, the ho he are all the choicest Berkshircs, and t! he poultry are Aylesbury and Ron :e, ducks; game black Spanish, Buff G n7 chin, and iioudan fowls; bronze turke 1 - ' n - j m i " ana .uremcn uuu iuuiuiud krvwi . n? this stock having been bred from t best strains, and with gr?fct care aj ? judgment, aild being kept in exoelle id condition and health, are pe#fect spc< so mens of their several races, co The crops raised last year were 1 if- acres of grass, 35 of oats, 40 of barle of 12 of wheat, 40 of corn, 10 of foddc do corn, 5 of potatoes, 40 of roots, 6 cabbages, 8 of vetches or tares, 60 f-. rye and 10 of rapo. Of these cro ad none are sold, all being consumed up !7, the farm. The produce sold consis id of butter, which brings 75 cents a poui 9* on a yearly contract, wool, pork, whii li- brings 18 cents a pound, occasionally he carcass of beef, and mainly live sto ,p8 for breeding purposes. The sales fro he the farm the past year were 818,000, i to increase from $13,000 for last ye? he Stock is shipped from Beacon Farm cr every Stute in the Union and to Canad and some other foreign countries ooc sionally. The crops raised are wh would be premium crops anywhei Two hundred and four bushels of ea "r of corn per aore have been measured < ar from the field, and thirty-eight tons I mangels, without weighing the hea ier and vigorous tops, which all go to ma j feed. The barley and corn a ' boiled for the hogs. The corn-fodd l'd and hay are used for winter feed, c lr- and steamed, with sliced roots, mei D(1 and bran, (the latter purchased) for i ne the cattle, horses and sheep; the cn ho bage, rape, vetches, and rye, are us ial for the summer feed for cows or f 3r( sheep, fed inside of movable hurdl rg! upon the growing crops. The rotutii nd is corn, roots, oats, or barley, rape in other green crops fed off by sheep, ai or rye or wheat sown with grass seed, so which orchard and timothy are the ma ed varieties, and which are always c et- when in blossom, all The plowing! upon this farm )rt probably excelled nowhere. Thefam ne English ploughing is not more accura _ in the line, more even in the width, n ds more regular in the depth of the ft "A*" K/x nlATPi'nrr nnnn Rpon 50 lUVt kUUU iuc |/iuntu^ on Farm. The plowing, eight inch nk deep, is done by Scotch plows or En ad bsb plows of tho Scotch pattern, t ire harrowing by the chain harrow, also no English pattern; the cultivation I of long-tined grubbers, which stir the si ti- to a depth of twelve inches, and whi ei- are of English make. The roller used to finish the snrface when t holds are laid down to grass. The barns ^'and stables are built quadrangles, each with a spacious ya rs' in the centre. The main barn is 60 fc ch by 48, with a basement, in which are ?0 grist mill, circular saw, shafti. to run tho fodder, hay, and root ci 11 ters, which are upon the main flo< rfl. and the steam-chest for preparing t ut food. At a short distance from the ba a is the steam-ongine, boiler, and tanl n The engine is 20-horse power, and, wi tho boiler and attached machinery, which motion is communicated by wire rope running over tho pulleys, w about 83,000. The cattle-sheds, 00 which there are two, each 250 feet lor 50 and others of less extent, are furnish 35 with capacious loose box4s for bul young stock, or incoming cows, a 32 with stanchions for the milking cov Two pens, of over 100 feet in lengt each with a spacious yard, are provid Qd for the pigs, in whioh they earn a go ne portion of their living by working ' ad compos^ of leaves, muck, etc., wi their droppings, into the rich* 5r? manure. 80 1 : " I have lost flesh," said a toper his companion. " No great loss,'* i ay plied the other, "since yon have ma it ap in spirits." Items of Interest. Homeopathy has again been refnsed admittance to the University of Michigan. >1 Georgia planters are dividing their d acreage nearly equally between cotton q and oorn. The amonnt of grain sealed up on i the Erie Canal is 8,000,000 busnels, principally wheat. 6 An enterprising farmer of Essex l* ceunty gives a chromo to every pure chaser of a load of manure, r- Our nervous editor, whenever he gets r. excited, goes into the composing room [8 ?and becomes "oomposea." In less than three months more than e thirty women have been appointed r> Postmistresses in the United States. ib A well-dressed, able-ooaiea mau uu>f tonished people in State street, Boston, n on New Year's day by walking up and 1- down with a large placard on his hat I- bearing the inscription, " I want work." ^ Before taking prusic aoid a young j* lady in Chioago indited the request * that she be consigned to her narrow M home in her silk dress, and that her * ?j d bracelets glioma not oe reuurcu uuu ?? her wrists. The rolanteera in Saragossa, Spain, incited by the municipality rose against In the Government on Snnday. After 'J fighting eight hours they were de51 feated with a loss of 200 prisoners and six pieces of artillery. iB The Supreme Court of Texas has dee_ cided that the law under which the late re general eleotion was held is unoonsti8, tutional, as the polls were kept open u only one day instead of four as provided g for by the constitution, s, A Green Bay woman whose husband y. kicks her down stairs every second ry night, sayfl she likes to look over his old is letters commencing with : " My dear* ul est, darling little angel Minnie, heaven it- alone knows the depth of my love for ip you." t- The free tioket system on railroads o- has received a severe, if not fatal, blow er in the new Constitution of Pennsylid vania, which provides that "No railse road or other tran^iortation company le shall grant free passes, or passes at a o- discount, to any person except officers Jg and employes of the company." The Washington Home, of Boston, for the treatment of drunkenness as a disease, has moved into a fine new ' ? * .?1. -l ?. w building, erected on ? annum DblCOV, *8 at a cost of $100,000. The Home has kr" been open for sixteen years, during re which time, the last report says, 4,210 j?8 patients have been treated, one-third of whom have been permanently cnred, 0n and the remainder have been greatly ?* improved. 7.? General sympathy was elicited some . two weeks ago in favor of the express j agent-at Franklin, Kj., when the tele. graph aniloanoed that he had had1 his face terttblv cnt, his sknll mashed, and "" his safe robbed, by parties unknown. -q It now appears that Wood himself took the money from the safe, and then, to y allay suspicion, cut his gums with a I knife to produce blood and disfigure his mouth, and then knocked his head against the corner of a counter to proP duce the " mashed skull" result. in id Tweed In bis Prison. A New York Sun reporter who visick ted Wm. M. Tweed in his prison at >m Blnckwoll's Island, says: While standan ing in the corridor of one of the wings the cell occupied by Tweed when he a arrived in the plaoe was pointed out |iy (a| the Warden. While glancing up and down the long oorridor the reporter .p" saw a large form emerging from a cell. ^ Keeper MacDonold was with the man. ' ff The reporter hod a full view of him. It 0? was William M. Tweed. He walked ^ quickly along the balcony and recog nized the reporter. am iks re flashed, and he seemed mnoh fleshier er than when he first became an inmate U? of the institution. It was evident, liowj] ever, that his mental anguish is great, and that he feels his degradation terrify bly. His hair is very short and his e(j face smooth. He wore brown pantaor loons, vest, and short coat, bnt with es the disgaise which would be oomplete au in many others, no one who had over or seen him would have failed to recognize Q(j the man who onoe carried New Turk in hiB pocket. He hurried up the staircase to the hospital. He had been visiting ut a sick convict in his cell and adminiatering medicine to him. Dr. Partridge, who is in charge of e(j the prison hospital, has never seen a ^ more faithful orderly in the place than 'or Tweed. The ex-Boss arises at six ir o'clock every morning and attends to 0Ij the wants of his patients. There are CH seventeen convicts on the sick list in the hospital. Those who are able to ^ sit np eat at the same table with Tweed and the head orderly. Tweed has a I place at the head of the table and his snperior officer at the foot. All fare I alike, and the wealthy orderly never . complains, lie iB as much in earnest ke and as thorough in ids work as he was in other and brighter days when ho was Tammany's chieftain, and none of rtl the sufferers in his care arc neglected ;et l'-v ^im* ^ 'a a8l?n'H'lulP/ the keepers say, to see how active he is. When a 4 * J ?A1% a /iwnolin/1 ~ convict 18 carried m wmu ? v. Uuu?. 5 toot or injured in any war Tweed loses no time in attending to him. He oar , * ries a little book which containa the ^ names of the patients and the phvsi[H cian's instructions about the time when .medicine must be given them or when . a bandage or plaster should be removed and .others applied. Thus t "John Smith* two pills every two.. . hours." is never forgotten, and Tweed's usefulness is apparent to alL Some tiink he works so incessantly to kill . time, but he seems to take a wonderful J interest in everj one in the hospital, and frequently in the middle ot the J,' night arises to attend to the wante of a ' j poor, suffering wretch. As the army of prisoners in the oorridors sat olosely together at the narrow ?P wooden tables eating their oold roast >jit beef, soup, and hread, William M. Tweed, whose saddened countenance plainly showed his misery, took his to sest st the head of the plain table in re- the hospital, and ttfed to look oheerful de aa he and hia fellow suffering convicts ate their scanty meal.