m ir^x T1r 7 10 PORT ROYAL. S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1874. * ?8.WBu.. " y uju. i y . xiv/. jl*j Little jnaude. 0, where is our dainty, our darling, r The daintiest diling of all ? 0, where is the voicj on the stairway, O, where is the voice in the hall ? The little short steps in the entry, The silvery laugh in the hall ? 0, where is our dainty, our darliog, The daintiest darling of allLittle Maude ? The peaches are ripe in the orchard, The apricots ready to fall, And the grapes are dripping their honey All over the gardfen wall. But where are the lips full of melting, That looked up so pouting and red, When we dangled the sun-purpled bunches Of Isabels ever her head ? 0, rosebud of woman ! where are you ? (She never replies to our call!) O, where is our dainty, our darling, The daintiest darling of allLittle Maude ? AN OLD LAWYER'S STORY. X am a very old man now. So old that ' x work no longer as I used at my pro fessioii. The time of rest has oome. It is a happy time. I am not poor. I have all life's luxuries. Best of all, I have a * dfe who loves me still, and whom I \ove as well as when I wooed her?nay, better, if that can be, and my children are beautiful and prosperous. What can a man wish more ? I read my favorite authors. I smoke' my oigars. I take a glass of wine of an evening. Sometimes we go to a play. Every Sunday morning to church. It is alf holiday-time for us. It will not last long. We are both old, but we are happy. There is no romance about a lawyer's profession. People are disposed to sneer at it, and to speak of its followers as tricky sort of folks, more anxious for their own gain than that of their neighbors. If this is so, we do not stand alone; but I will say for my brotherhood, that they have hearts as well as other men, and that it is not always merely for what we can make by it that we undertake a cause. Odd things fall into our way very often. I have had no need to read romances. The real stories that have fallen beneath mv notice are quite as interesting, and far more singular, than any tales of the imagination oould possibly be. I tell them to my children sometimes of winter evenings. Perhaps it is only to flatter the old man that they assume an interest in them, nevertheless I will tell one of the tnlpd tn vnii_onA which I have alwavs had cause to remember. A greftt many years ago, while I was comparatively a young man, and still unmarried, I resided in a certain city of Pennsylvania, and enjoyed the reputation of being the cleverest lawyer ever known there. It is not for me to say the praise was merited, but I certainly f'juud myself able to discover loopholes tof escape for those whom I defended, whioh surprised even my fellow-lawyers. 1 possessed by nature those qualities which would have made me an excellent detective, and I was a thorough student of the law. There was no mystery about it, but among the more ignorant classes I had gained a reputation for more than human knowledge. Perhaps it was not polite for them to say that the Devil helped me, but they did. However, I began to tell you about Madame Matteau. 8he was an old lady who owned a little house in the suburbs ef the city. She herself was of American birth, but her husband had been a Frenchman, and so the title Madame had been bestowed upon her. She was now a widow, and her daughter Gabrielle, and a son named Henri, were her only living relatives. Her income was but slender, and she eked it out by taking a few boarders, generally steady old people, who had known her for many years. These respected and liked her; bat the city generally had a prejudice against her. There had been two sudden dpaths in her house. Each time the victim was a stranger who came at night, and was found dead in his bed in the morning. Each time the jury was divided?some believing that strangulation had been the cause of death, some that the man had died in a tit. It was a terrible thing that two such deaths should have occurred beneath her roof. Madame's friends pitied her. The rest of the little world hinted that these were strangers, and that their trunks, with no one knew what amount of money and other valuable property, remained in Madame's possession. No one said she was a murderess, but every one said it was " very strange," in an odd tone, and no one since that second death had visited Madame Matteau. I myself?perhaps because I admired her a great deal,and her daughter much more?had always insisted that it was merely a coincidence, and that in a world in which apoplexy and heart disease were so common, it was no such marvel that two men should have met sudden deaths in the same house. But my faith in this theory was shaken when one morning it was published over the city that another transient boarder had been fouud dead in Madame Matteau's house, and that she was arrested on suspicion of having murdered him, his watch and chain having been found in her possession. Before I had recovered from the shock of this terrible piece of news, a message came to me from Madame qv.? ,1?:_?.i 4-^ rtt iUttUCau. uxir ucoucu i<\j occ uiu* vi course I went to her nt once. 8he had been taken to prison ; and I found her in a little grim room with a barrel window, and an insufficient fire upon the hearth. The logs had burnt in two upon the andirons, and the white ashes were scattered over the hearth. Almost in them sat Madame Matteau, in her widow's dress of sombre black. She was chilly with grief and excitement, and had drawn her chair close to the fire. She Bhook violently from head to foot, and her face was deadly pale as she turned it toward me and 'held out her hand. " Oh, thank Heaven, you have come 1" she said. " I know you can save me. Is it not horrible ? How could I kill a man ? Why should I ? Why do peaple i oome to my house to die ? To die horribly, with black faces and starting eves, as if some one had choked them ? Ugh ! and he was a pretty young man the night before. Ob, good Heaven, how horrible ?" I sat down beside her. I took her hand. "Madame Matteau," I said, "be calm ; collect yourself. As your lawyer, .1 must know all. Tell me from first to last what happened?what was said, what was done. If you?" I paused ; her black eyes had flashed upon. me. I could not ask her whether she had any confession to make. I saw she had not. Unless she was the best actress who ever lived, Madame Matteau was innocent of any crime. " If you have any suspicions," I added, " tell them all to me." "There is no one to suspect," sobbed the poor woman. "In the house were Gabrielle, my daughter, whom you have seen, old Hannah, the cook/Mr. and Mrs. Beauchamp, friends of my poor dear husband in his bnyhood?the best, the kindest people?Mr. Gray, a very old man, too feeble to leave the house, poor deformed Miss Norman, and the librarian, Mr. Bassford. None of these could or would murder a mouse. See how kind they are; they remain in my house; they send me word that they have no doubt of me. Ob, how can " Ancf this man who?" I began. "Yes," said Madame Matteau, "I will tell you ; he was fair, young, handsomely dressed; he asked Mr. Bassford at the depot, if he knew of any one who oould accomodate him. Mr. Bassford brought him home. My only empty room was the one in which those other two strangers died. I could not bear to put him there; but Mr. Bassford laughed at me. We had supper afterward. He talked a long while to Gabrielle. It was late when he retiredlate for our quiet household. Hannah had made his fire. She came and told us that she had done so. He said good-night After be bad gone, we found that he had left his watch on the table. He wore it only with a buneh of seals, and he bad been setting it by the clock, and showing it to us as something very handsome. I knocked at bis door to restore it to bim. He bad not left us but fifteen minutes before, but he must have been as'eep already, for he made no answer. So I kept it for the night, and wore it down to breakfast next morning. As I came down I met a gentleman in the hall. He inquired for Mr. Glenn. That was the new comer's name. I sent Hannah to wake bim. Sbo ooulil not do so, and grew alarmed. She hod a key that would open the door, and used it. The next thing I knew wo were all in the room, and the windows were wide open, and the doctor had been sent for ; and the young man who had called was screaming that bis brother bad been choked to death; and then there was the inquest, and they arrested me. The brother said the first thing he noticed was that I wore Mr. Glenn's wrtch and seals. I had forgotton it in my terror." "So Hannah had a key to the room?" I said. " Yes; at least it was a key that would open it. It was the key of Mr. Bassford's door. She knocked the other out with a stick and put that in." " The people who were there on that nifrbt were vour boarders when the other two men were found dead?" I asked. " Oh, yes!" " And Hannah was there also ?" "Ail my married life Hannah has lived with me." " Tour daughter oversees the household in your absence ?" "Yea, poor child, with Hannah's help." I thought a little while. " Madam," I said, " there is some strange mystery in this affair. I do not despair of proving to all the world your entire innocence. Meanwhile, be as calm as possible, and endeavor to remember everything connected with the sudden deaths that have occurred in your house. The incident that seems the most unimportant may really bo of the most immense value. So I left her and went homo. Strangely enough, on the way I met the doctor who had been called in. Ho was a dull, heavy sort of person, considerably given to beer-drinking, and ray opiniou of his ability was not very great. However, I questioned him on the subject, and he replied : " Well, you see, I don't say the old woman murdered him. If she did, I should say it was by nittiug on him, or smothering him with the bolster. I suppose the cause of his death was as phyxia. Well, then, wnat is aspliyxin? Why, too little breath to keep 011 living. He died because he was short of breath. So we all do. I wash my hands of the matter. Only there's the watch ; that looks dark." I had learned nothing from the doctor. The coroner lived near me. His jury had been twelve of the most ignorant men in town. This is all he told me. "He was smothered, that man was ; so were the other two. Men don't smother themselves. We made it inscrutable Providence t'other time. Wo made it murder, this. That there watch, you know." Thus, without any new light, I went home and formed my plans. There was but one way in which to penetrate the mystery. I must enter the house; I must see the people there; I must penetrate to the room in which these men had died so suddenly, and I must not be known in my real character. That Madame Matteau was innocent, I fully believed ; but that some one be neath her roof was guilty, 1 made no doubt. It might be Hannah. It might be the librarian, Mr. Bassford, whoso key fitted the dead man's door. It was possible?but no, I would not harbor a mad superstition. There conld be no supernatural power beneath which human beings drooped and died. Death as it came to us all was mystery enough. What had been said to me by a woman, who would have been a spiritualist had she lived to-dav, was a mere absurdity. ' I believe tLat there is some horrible unseen thing in the robin," she had aid?"some awful, shapeless spirit, - " ^ that when it is locked in with its vie- onon tim, mnrders him. Let others believe kind. 1 what they will, I believe that" at th The words haunted me, bat I laughed norai at them, of course. Whatever it was, I coalwould try to know. I had a plan. awak At dusk that day I went into my the b bedroom myself. I oame out a changed dead , man. I wore a white wig, a pair of bilitj great green goggles, and an overcoat. As the tails of which reached my heels. I nor | had a muffler about my throat, and a have little hunch on one of my shoulders. I deep carried a thick cane and stooped a were , great deal as I walked. In my hand I thati . carried a carpet bag, and in my bosom blue > a pair of pistols, well loaded. Of As I passed out into the street the my < early moon was just rising ; Bhe lit me equa on my way to the door of Madame Mat- was i teau's house. but It was opened for me.whenlknooked, symj by old Hannah. Her eyes were red and to m swollen. Then I told her that I was givin a stranger and had reoeived Madame hand Matteau's address from a gentleman in riage New York, and desired to stay under , her roof all night. Sh6 shook her head. "I don't think you can," she said. ^ " The lady is away from home. Be- a sides, we are in trouble here. I don't Girai think Miss Gabrielle would?" for t] But here Mi6s Gabrielle herself appeared. "I am an old maD, Miss," I said, Mexi " and, as you see, quite infirm. I dread Ta another step. I should take it as a cotto kindness if you would accommodate grinc me, and I will pay any price you ask." tract Miss Gabrielle looked at Hannah. tate 1 i " We have only one room," she said, ter n " and that?" suffic I ended the question of my stay by in th i begging to be taken to it. tient " You will have supper, sir ?" asked dose the girl. fount But I declared that I had eaten and disea only wanted rest. fuse Her reply was : sistai " Hannah, show the gentleman to the ordei blue room, and make him a fire." Havi I was in the blue room, the scene of tient the three sudden deaths or murders. It ly, al was a small apartment, painted blue. aesp< It had also blue window-curtains, and a gradi blue silk coverlet on the bed ; a neat, until striped carpet, a set of old mahogany state, furniture, and very handsome ewer and must basin of costly cnina. It was at the lies v time almost a universal custom to burn kens wood. In this room, however, was a safe t small coal stove. 1 alluded to this as relap Hannah came in with the scuttle. time "Yes, sir," she said. "Missus does patie: burn coals. Her son is a clerk, or the well-] like, at thorn new mines in Mauch tack, Chunk, and he sends it cheap to her; plyin but it's a dirty, nasty smelling thing and willii I hate it. Now it's built and lit and 'twill warm up in fifteen minutes. It takes longer than wood." . She went out of the door and came A ? back in a minute with a little tray on chart which stood a pot and cup and saucer, in tl also a little bowl and a tiny pitcher,and howe something in a napkin. "Miss sent a bite and a sip," said 1D&* she. " Tea rests us old folks mightily, room -;-u ?? VJOUU LI IK lit. ouuuj "Goodnight," 1 said. "I expect I wate, shall sleep soon; I must bo up early, , . though, for I have bills to pay. I have some hundreds of dollars with me to your pay out to-morrow, and it's in this shoul bag." Parei Bhe looked at me in a queer sort of way, and lingered beside me. At last , she spoke: "Look ye, sir," Bhe said, n?aK " I think that folks of your age do 8m ( wrong to lock doors on themselves. mon3 You might be ill at night, and who'd ov,er get in to you ? Leave your door un- ?u ef, iocked." ;orV The moment she was gone I turned ,. the key. cahc< J some Was it this woman's praotice to beg ajr 0j travelers who stopped with her mistress jnvai not to lock their doors ? Was there dreBg some baleful potion in the cup Bhe had Pftnil, given me ? awk? It was aa innocent looking cup jjer ; enough?au old-fashioned affair covered nejgi with little gilt sprigs. The tea was fra- y0Ur grant hyson; but the suspicion that had Appa: crept into my mind tainted it. I fancied make a strange color, a curious smell. I put can ( it from me and would not have tasted it y0U' \ for a kingdom. I had not intended to sleep, and I did not undress myself. I merely re moved my disguise, and sat down be- A side the table, with my pis 4> Is beside Detn me. That some attempt might bo 0Q q shortly made to murder me I felt to be , .. possible. I thought of all the old tales that I had heard of trap-doors, been and sliding panels, and secret entrances away to travelers' rooms. I was not a cow- t ard, but I felt strangely nervous ; and i , singularly enough for a man of my perfect health, my hands were growing ?re"t1 cold, and my feet were lumps of ice, 'audl while my head was burning hot. parlo Fifteen minutes had passed, and the ro?ve fire was kindled, but the room was not r*W5 warm. The blue flames struggled lan(" among the black coals, and flung P^0 forked tongues tipped with yellow into a g?? the room. There was nothing cheerful a't ^ about the stove, though it was of that aged open style now called the Franklin. hous< Yet, I drew a chair toward it from an" 1 habit, and sat with my feet upon the }^aV hearth. I do not know hew long I sat h?6 8 there. Suddenly I became aware that I was doubj not myself. I was losing my senses. If unseen hands had been clasped child] about my neck, and an unseen knee an(* t had been pressed against my chest, lnB a my sensations could have been no dif terent. ~1 A thought of the evil spirit which my Dr. friend had suggested, faintly struggled know into my mind. As 1 staggered to my tjon8 feet, a noise like the roaring of the sea was in my ears. The flame of the can- Rn" 'J die tnrned to a great yellow blur. I ture9i barely retained strength enough to treatr stagger to the window and fling it open, in lie* The fresh, cold winter air rushed in at the lc it. It gave me intense pain, but it re- to ch< vived me. In a moment more I was is the able to clamber out of it upon the shed ment below. pitala There I remained until the day- amon dawn. With my returning senses the the p: truth came to me. That which had geone murdered the three men who had slept whicl before me in the blue chamber, was minis nothing more or less than the coal a pre stove. ? many It was provided with what is oalled a the e damper, and this being caught in a testec manner which olosed it, sent the poil- at a v a gas into the room. It had been tea as a wood fire would have been e hour of retiring, by one quite igat of the danger possible from 5 gas, and they had slept never to a en. Had 1 thrown myself upon h ted, I also should have been found ^ at daylight, in all human probar. for the fact that neither doctor ti coroner discovered the truth, I l< but to say that they were not g ly scientific men?that coal stoves . scarcely used in the place, and J1 it had not been mentioned that the 8 chambor was thus heated. v course I rej oiced the household by il discovery the next morning, and i] lly, of course, Madame Mstteau tl aot enly freed irom all suspicion, c became the object of universal ? >athy. She was always grateful fi e, and she proved her gratitude by n ig me what I soon asked for, the ri of her daughter Gabrielle in mar- c i.?Ledger tl = e Hydrophobia Cure. c >. Morales, the Mexioau vice con- jt Washington has furnished Mayor o ad with the following prescription h tie cure of hydrophobia, which has ? irieu 1U It greab mauj luswuibco 111 ^ co, and never known to fail: n ke the most tender sprouts of the e n plant, fresh, with leaves and all, h 1 them well nntil all juice is ex- t< ed ; sprinkle it with water to facili- h the operation; the grounded mat- u lust be pressed hard. Whenever a tient quantity of juice is extracted, tl e manner indicated abo\e, the pamust be oompelled to take a strong w of it Those patients who are a; 1 in the very highest stage of the u se are generally dilatory and re- el to take the medicine, but the as- ii its may recur to other means in tl r to obtain the effect desired, h g succeeded in getting the pa- a to take the medicine, it will sure- sj rter great efforts of convulsion and j< oration, bring him so that he ai lally oommences to quiet down n he falls asleep, soundly, in which tr , and with great precaution, he V be placed or so arranged that he tl nth perfect ease. When he awa- d from that rest he feels himself b ind oured then and thereafter. A w se of the same attack has at no r< taken place. In times when the q at shows no symptoms, other than ft founded fears of suffering an at- u then there is no difficulty in ap- o g the medioine to him, and he ol igly takes it. . ci Neatness. - ,w firl's everyday toilet is part of her w icter. The maiden who is slovenly g ie morninc is not to be trusted. I b ver fine she may look in the evenNo matter how humble your ^ may be, there are eight things it w Id contain: a mirror, washstand, 1< :, soap, towel, hair, nail and tooth P les. These are just as essential as a breakfast, before which you tl Ld make good use of them. b< nts who fail to provide their child- ^ with such appliances, not only a i a great mistake, but commit a c )f omission. Look tidy in the g ling, and after the dinner work is C) improve your toilet. Make it a n of your daily life to "dress up" g le afternoon. Your dress may, or C) not be, anything better than a] 3 ; but with a ribbon, or flower, or ^ i bit of ornament, you can have an ! self-respect and satisfaction, that iably comes with being wellled. A girl with fine sensibilities 3t help feeling embarrassed and C1 rard in a ragged, dirty dress, with hair unkempt, if a strunger or lbor should come in. Moreover, w self-respect should demand decent fi reling for your body. You should Cl > it a point to look as well as you .. pven if you know nobody will see jut yourself. " o Getting Them Out. y family named Prather, says the tl oit Free Press, occupying a house 31 roghan street, have paid no rent P ireo months, and the landlord has ^ trying to get them out. He took tl the front steps as a gentle hint, si hey lived right on. Then he got of the front door key, but they around to the side door. The ^ ord then put a carpenter in the jt r to make repairs, but the family ]j d into the kitchen, and were stiil jc y. After due consideration the p! ord took the windows out of the p r and bedroom, but the family hud d stove and plenty of wood. Next, 8(. learning that he hadn't discour- r( his tenants, the owner of the 8( 3 went in and removed all the doors C( vindows, leaving the pure air of V( sn rushing through the old coop rj i runaway mule. He thinks they leave in a day or two, but it is p. tful, as pedestrians who passed houso in the afternoon saw the m ren playing horse in the windows 8( he father seated on the bed mend- r rat-trap. jE tl iew Treatment for Consumption. w William Koch ef Berlin, well ?t n to specialists from his investigain the domain of modern surgery, 8j rom his treatise on gunshot frac- tb l-ino /1inprir#?rpi1 a iwvc nf *li nentfor c nsnmption. It consists " iling up the affected portions of s{ ings by injections of iodine, so as st jck the process of festering, which * ' origin of the disease. The treat- ti< has been tested in the great hos- m of Berlin within a short time, g others at the Royal Charity, in 6t resence of the most eminent snr- bi i. All the reports of the cases in cc i this treatment has been ad- lo tered are favorable, and hold ont la >mise of a complete cure. For tr years Dr. Koch has been trying ar ixperiment with animals, having m I it with more than three hundred, hi ait outlay of time and money. B . The Highway Bobbers' Art. Ten years ago, says the New Tori nimes, it rarely occurred that any peren unfortunate enongh to fall into the ands of the highway robber escaped rithout suffering serious bodily injury !he favorite plan was to seize the vie im from behind, and render him power ;ss during the process of purse-riding, cores of men have been irreparably in a red by such treatment. In ever] tate the highwayman adopted this de ice to fill his pockets. Now, whethe: t is to be oredited to an increase of civ lizing influences, or to an advance ii he ait of the robber, or to both, w< annot exactly say; but whatever th< ause may be, it is a matter for thank illness that the skilled highway robbei o longer finds it necessary to add gar otting and murder to the list of hii rimes. Heretofore the New Tori hi eves, were supposed to be the clever st in the country. Things have hanged very greatly in this as in othei espects?so greatly, indeed, that th< Tew Torkers have not only lost muol f their reputation for cleverness, bu ave begun to be considered stupic unglers by the outside professionals 'he highway robberies that have lateb een committed in the city willcertainlj ot change this opinion. It is quit< yident that the "great" highwaymei ave been oompelled by oircumstancei > carry their talents elsewhere. The] ave gone to cultivate new fields. Nu terous evidences of their success hav< cme to us from time to time througl 26 reports in the Western newspapers We occasionally hear of the man wh( a rtonflnmou nf f.VlA fAA/1 ttfl DUUpJ/CU 1J J u ^ouvtvuiwu w? i)gratulated in having the most chivIric, as well as the most finished, highaymen in the United States. SaTlng a Train. The Troy Timca says a landslide oc nrred in a curve on the Troy ant treenbush Railroad. A looomotive as coming up to be attached to the rst local train down, when it wai aught by the landslide, forced fron ae track, and partly turned so that iti ead light was pointed west. The slide ccurred just at the moment the Nev ork and Boston express was leaving ae Troy depot. The engineer of No 9 knew that the down train could no' ass the obstructions. He told hie reman, Al. Bascom, to take a rec intern, go up the track and intercept ae train. Bascom started on his mis on ; in the darkness he stumbled anc ill on the track ; tho light was ex nguished. The time was too short to allow hin: > return and procure another lantern was impossible in the strong wind tc ght a match. Covered with mud, but ising scarcely half a minute, lit ushed on ; the headlight of the aproaching train came in sight; he ew his voice of warning, be it evei ) loud, could not be heard above the >ar of tho train. He had but a few iconds in which to determine upon hie mrse. What did be do? Something sry few would have thought of doing, aking aim as best he could he raised is lantern and hurled it at the aproaching locomotive, and then awaited le result. He could not see where hie issilo landed ; the intervening secondf ;emed ten minutes. I3y what we musl 'gard as a mysterious and beneficent iterposition of Providence, it entered le cab window, breaking the woodork and ooming within an inch ol riking the fireman inside fairly in th< ce ; if it had hit him he would have sen seriously injured. When th( mttering and shattered lantern fell at le engineer's feet, he knew that someV>o/l rrnrta vmno unit irViintlod ""6 uuv* down brakes the train slackened >eed, and at length came to a ful op within a hundred feet of th< recked locomotive, saved from destruc, on by the presence of mind of tin en who had thrown the lantern. At the point where the way was ob meted the track is built on an em inkment close by the river, and had f illision occurred between the disabled comotive and the moving train, th< tter would have been thrown from tin ock into the river, and the horror id loss of life, the wonndings and aimings of New Hamburgh would ive been repeated. All honor to AJ, uoom. Tbe Saltan in all Ills Glory. The people of Turkey oelebrated the Mohammedan feast of Bairam, daring which a singular ceremonial took place at the Dolma Bagtche Palace, which is thus described by a correspondent of the Swiss Times : "The Hall of Audience is a magnificent apartment, large, spacious and lofty, situated in the centre of the Palace, richly gilded,-And glittering with crystal and silver; his Majesty AbdulAziz On his throne; a very ruae bench oovered with plates of gold, but without any beauty either of workmanship or design. It is placed, however, at the head.of a carpet which for beauty and magnificence fully compensates. It is of the richest orimson silk thickly wadded, and covered with gold embroidery. Behind the throne stands the aides-de-camp and the principal officers of the household, his onamberlains and ohief eunuch. On the right side of the carpet are the ministers of state in an attitude of the deepest humility, their heads bowed low and their arms folded across their breasts; while to the left of the throne, but a little behind it, stands an aid-de-camp holding in his hand an embroidered band of oloth which is attached to it. As the first offioer reaches the carpet he salaams in the usual manner and then steps forward. In the centre of the carpet he salaams a second time and then moves on to the throne. Beaching the side of tbe aide-de-camp (ha ornld frintra at the end of a uo wonwo *"v O"*" o" ? -j the band, and tonohing first his month and thon his forehead with it, salaams ' again and has performed his dntj. Retiring backwards he forms in the line [ behind the others who are advancing. After the Beys have passed the civil 1 officers pass round. There is then a f lull for a few seconds, as the Sultan I rises to receive the Sheik-nl-Islam. The venerable prelate is advanoing at the head of a long line of Oadis, Muftis and other members of the Ulema, supported on either side by two high officials. On reaching the Sultan he stoops to kiss l his feet, bat is raised by his Sublime Majesty, and he then takes his place along Ttith the other ministers of state. This is the most picturesque portion ol the ceremony, for these oivil officers in their flowing robes, and large turbans r bound with gold, and their long beards have a very fine effect. As soon as the [ last one has phased ronnd the Sheik-ul[ Islam says a short prayer and his Majesty then retires. "The next three days are spent in festivity. The Turkish qnarter is like a huge fair in England,for in every avail" able space booths are set up as tern, porary cafes for the enjoyment of the elders, and swings and merry-go-rounds ( for the amusement of the children, as l well as stalls for the sale of sweetmeats ' and cakes. The streets are crowded ?/.niw.drocood Turkish Indies coiner WIVIi g?UJ UiVMUwv. about visiting, and fathers taking their \ children out to view the wonders to be seen in the Frank shops of Galata and [ Pera. For the official world this is, however, an anxious time, as they know ' not what changes may take place. Their time is ohieflv taken up in paying visits ' to the heads of departments, and dancing, attendance upon great men 1 from whom they may have expecta' tions. This, however, is all over now, and every one has settled down again to ; work." 1 Sensation of Starring. j For the first two days through which s a strong and healthy man is doomed to ' exist upon nothing, his sufferings are perhaps more acute thau in the remaining stages?he feels an inordinate, unspeakable craving at the stomach night and day. The mind runs upon beef, . bread, and other substantiate, but still, in a great measure, the body retains its 3 strength. On the third and fourth days, ) but especially on the fourth, this in, cessant craving gives place to a sinking and weakness of the stomach, accompanied by a nausea. The unfortunate J sufferer still desires food, but with loss 3 of strength ho loses that eager craving 7 which is felt in the earlier stages. Should he chance to obtain a morsel or ' two of food, he swallows it with a wolf ish avidity ; but five minutes afterward t his sufferings are more intense than 3 ever. He feels as if he had swallowed 1 a living lobster, which is clawing and t feeding upon the very foundation of his ?:-i?? On tin, fifth day his cheeks CilOtCUUC. V U I suddenly appear hollow and sunken, his body attenuated, his color is ashy pale, and his eye wild, glassy and cannibali ish. The diffeient parts of the system ; now war with each other. The stomach > calls upon the legs to go with it in quest of |food; the legs, from very i weakness, refuse. The sixth dav brings with it increased suffering, although ; the pangs of hunger are lost in an over' powering languor and sickness. The > head becomes giddy?the ghosts of ' well remembered dinners pass in ) hideous processions through the mind. The seventh day comes, bringing increased lassitude and further prostra1 tion of strength. The arms hang life lessly, the legs drag heavily. The de1 sire for food is still felt, to a degree, i but it must be brought, not sought, s The miserable remnant of life which : still hangs to the sufferer is a burden k almost too grievous to be borne ; jut 1 his inherent lore of existence induces a desire still to preserve it. if it can be f saved without a tax upon bodily exer? tion. The mind wanders. At one mos ment he thinks hio weary limbs cannot ! sustain him a mile, the next he is ent dowed with unusual strength, and if there be a certainty of relief before I him, dashes bravely and strongly forj j nhm/iA nrnoeeds his i waru, wuuuuuig I 1 new and sudden impulse. > A country fellow entered one of the 3 New York banks, and, walking up tc the counter, exclaimed, " Here I am ; I - want you to take a fair look at me." - Without a word further he strode out. i The next day the same customer reap1 peared, uttered the same words, and ) again disappeared. The third day, at a about the same time, he walked in, and s advancing to the teller's desk, threv ( down a draft payable three days afta I eight. "Now," said he, "you've seei , me three times r I want the money foi Thoughts for Saturday Right, * i A willful man had need to be very , wise. Plenty consists in tb?poweg to eurb your wants. stated. It is not legally neoessary to say on a ' note*'for value received." A note drawn on Sunday is void. A note obtained by fraud, or from a I person in a state of intoxication, oani not be collected. I If a note be lost or stolen, it does not a 7*.'JgV r release the maker; he moat paj re. r An endorser of a note is exempt from i liability if not served with notice of.* r r dishonor within twenty-four hoars of its non-payment. *:MkM