VAT TV tma 90 POET EOYAL. S. C., THUKSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1874. {ffijS.'i&ySB:
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If Yoif Want a Kiss, Take It.
There's a jolly S.txon proverb
That is pretty mueh'like this,
That a man is half in Heaven
v When he has a womans kiss ;
Hut there's dangor in delaying?
And the sweetness may forsake it;
So I tell you, bashful lover,
If you want a kiss, why take it.
Never let another fellow
Steel a march on'you in tliis;
Never let a laughing maiden
See you sailing for a kiss;
There's a royal way to kissing,
And the jolly ones who make it
Have a motto that is winning?
If yon want a kiss, why take it!
Any feol may face a cannon
Anybody wear a crown,
But a man must win a woman,
li ne a nave ner ior ins own ;
Would you have the golden apple,
Yon niuwt find the tree and shake it;
If the thing is worth the having,
Aud you want a kiss, why take it.
Who would burn upon a desert,
With a forest smiling by ?
"" Who would give his sunny summer
For a bleak and wintry sky ?
Oh! I tell von there is magic.
And you cannot, cannot break it;
For the sweetest part of loving
Is to want a kiss, and take it.
TRIED AND TRUE.
It was the Carnival season in Paris ;
and Colonel Eugene Merville, an attache
of the great Napoleon's staff, who
had won his way to distinction with his
own sabre, found himself at the masked
ball in the French opera house.
Better adapted iu Ins tastes to the field
than the boudoir, he flirts but little
with the gay figures that cover the
floor and joins but seldom in the waltz.
But at last, while standing thoughtfully
and regarding the assembled
throng with a vacant eye, his attention
was suddenly aroused by the appearance
of a person in a white domino,
the universal elegance of whose figure,
manner, and beariug convinced all that
her face and mind must be equal to her
person in grace and loveliness.
Though in so mixed an assembly,
still there was a reserve and dignity in
the manner of the white domino that
rather repulsed the idea of a familiar
address, and it was sometime before
the young poldier had the courage to
speak to her.
Some alarm being given, there was a
violent rush of the throng towards the
door ; where, unless assisted, the lady
would have materially Buffered. Eugene
Merville offers his arm, and with
his broad shoulders and stout frame
wards off the danger. It was a delightful
moment; the lady spoke the purest
French, was witty, fanciful, and captivating.
" Ah ! lady, pray raise that mask,
and reveal to me the charms of feature
that must accompany so sweet a voice
and so graceful a form as you possess."
" You would, perhaps, be disap
pointed.
" No, I am sure not."
" Are you so very confident ?"
" Yes. I feel that vou are beautiful
?it cannot be otherwise."
" Don't be too sure of that," said the
domino. " Have you never heard of
the Irish poet Moore's story of the
veiled prophet of Khorasan?how, when
lie had disclosed his countenance, its
hideous aspect killed his beloved one.
y How do vou know but that I shall turn
out a veiled prophet of Khorasan ?"
"Ah, lady, your every word convinces
mo to the contrary," replied the
enraptured soldier, whose heart had
began to feel as it never felt before; he
was in love.
She eludes his efTorts at discovery ;
but permits him to hand her to the
carriage, which drives off in the darkness,
and though he throws himself
upon his swiftest horse, he is unable to
overtake her.
The young French colonel becomes
moody; he has lost his heart, aud
knows not what to do. He wanders
hither and thither, shuns his former
place of amusement, avoids his military
companions, and; in short, is miserable
as a lover cau well be thus disappointed.
One night, just after he
liaa lett ins notci on loot, a ngnre
muffled up to the very ears, stopped
him.
" Well, monsieur, what would you
with me ?" asked the soldier.
"You would know the name of the
white domino ?" was the reply.
" I would, indeed," replied the officer
hastily. " How can it be done ?"
? "Follow me."
" To the eud of the earth, if it will
bring me te her."
" Hut you must be blindfolded."
" Very well."
" Step into this vehicle."
" I am at your command."
And away rattled the youthful soldier
and his strange companion. "This
may be a trick," reasoned Eugene Merville,
" but I have no fear of personal
violence. I am armed with this trusty
sabre, and can take care of myself.
But there was no cause for fear since
he soon found the vehicle stop ; and he
was led, blindfolded into the house.
When the bandage was removed from
his eyes, he found himself in a richlyfurnished
boudoir, and before him
stood the white domino just as he met
her at the masked ball. To fall upon
his knees and tell her how much he
thought of her since their separation,
that his thoughts had never left her,
that he loved her devotedly, was as
natural as to breathe, and he did so
gallantly and sincerely."
" Shall I believe all you say?"
" Lady, let me prove it by any test
you may put upon me."
" Know. then, that the feelincrs vou
avow are mutual. Nay, unloose vour
arm from my waist. I have something
more to say."
" Talk on forever, lady ! Your voice
is music to my heart ami ears."
"Would you marry me, knowing no
more of me than you now do ?"
" Yes, if you were to go to the very
altar masked J" he replied.
" Then I will test you."
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" How, lady ?"
"For one year be faithful to the love
you have professed, and I will be yours
?as truly as heaven shall spare my
life."
" Oh, cruel suspense !"
" You demur ?"
" Nay, lady, I shall fulfill your injunctions
as I promised."
" If at the expiration of a year you
do not hear from me, then the contract
shall bo null and void. Take this
half ring," she continued, "and when
I supply the broken portion I will be
yours."
He kissed the little emblem, swore
again and again to be faithful, and
pressing her hand to his lips bade her
adieu.
He was conducted away as mysteriously
as he had been brought thither ;
nor could he by any possible means
discover where he had been, his companions
rejecting all bribes, and even
refusing to answer the simplest questions.
Months roll on. Colonel Merville is
true to his vow, and happy in the anticipation
of love. Suddenly he was
ordered on an embassy to Vienna, the
rarest of all the European capitals.
I o-~%J ? about
the time that Napoleon was
planning to marry the Archduchess
Maria Louisa. The young Colonel is
handsome, manly, and already distinguished
in arms, and becomes at once
a great favorite at court, every effort
being made by the women to captivate
him, but in vain ; he is constant and
true to his vow.
But his heart is not made of stone;
the very fact that he had entertained
such tender feelings for the]white domino
had doubtless made him more susceptible
than before.
At last he met the young Baroness
Caroline Von Waldroff, and in spite of
his vows she captivates him, and he secretlv
curses the engagement he had so
blindly made at Paris. She seems to
wonder at what she believes to be his
devotion?and yet the distance he
maintains! The truth was that his
sense of honor was so great that,
though he felt he loved the young .baroness,
and even she returned his affection,
still he had given his word, and
that was sacred.
The satin domino is 110 longer the
ideal of his heart, but assumes the
most repulsive form in hi3 imagination,
and becomes, in place of his good
angel, the evil genius.
Well, time rolls on; he is to run in a
few days?it is once more the carnival
season ; and in Vienna, too, that gay
city. He joins in the festivities of the
masked ball, and wonder fills his brain,
when, about the middle of the evening,
the white domino steals before him in
the same white satin dress he had seen
her wear a year before at the French
Opera House in Paris. Was it not a
fancy ?
"I come, Colonel F.ugene Merville,
to hold you to your promise," she Baid,
laying her hand lightly upon his arm.
" Is this a reality or a dream ?" asked
the amazed soldier.
"Come, follow me, "and you shall
onafimHHii nronlitv." continued the
mask, pleasantly.
"I will."
" Have you been faithful to your
promise?" asked the domino, as they
retired into a saloon.
" Most truly in act; but, alas, I fear
not in heart."
" Indeed."
"It is too true, lady, that I have
seen and loved another ; though my
vow to you has kept me from saying 60
to her."
" And who is it that you love ?"
" I will be frank with you, and you
will keep my secret."
"Most religiously."
" It is the Baroness Von WaldrofT,"
he said, with a sigh.
" And you really love her?"
"Alas*! only too dearly," said the
soldier, sadly.
"Nevertheless I must hold you to
your promise. Here is the other half
of the ring; can you produce its
mate ?"
" Here it is," said Eugene Merville.
" Then I, too, keep my promise,"
said the domino, raising her mask, and
showing to his astonished view the face
of the Baroness Von Waldroll.
She had seen and loved him for his
manly spirit and character, aud having
found by inquiry that he was worthv of
her love, she had managed this delicate
intrigue, and had tested him, and
now gave him her wealth, title, and
everyuuug.
They were married with great pomp,
and accompanied the archduchess to
Paris. Napoleon, to crown the happiness
of his favorite, made him at once
a general of division.
Can Paralysis be Cured.
Paralysis, according to an English
writer, is rare, much that passes for
paralysis being curable, especially
through the imagination. The opinion
is supported by the statements of ono
of the best medical men in Paris, who
iu 1819 was a physician in the great
hospital there, the Hotel Pieu. In
that year this hospital was particularly
famous for the cures effected in it, and
many were the hypochondriacs whose
imaginations sent them home well after
a stay in its wards. Quo odd case was
that of a young girl in the department
of the Ain, whom a sudden fright had
i rendered dumb and paralyzed. .Local
physicians could do nothing for her,
j and at last asserted that only the doctors
of the Hotel Dieu could euro her.
Firmly believing this herself, the girl
was sent to Paris and admitted to the
1 hospital, where the hurried physician
merely examined her as a matter of
form, promising to return on the next
day. When he came ho heard to his
astonishment that the patient was in!
elined to speak. He spoke to her, and
she answered instantly that she thought
(that she could walk with a little help,
and she did walk twice around the ward
very easily. The next week she returned
to her nativo village as well as
ever. "I knew," she cried, "that the
Hotel Dieu would cure me !" It would
be hard to find a more striking instance
of the mysterious power of the imagination,
and of strong belief npon the
physical struoture.
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The Moon as a Giver or Light.
This orb, the moon, that moves
around the earth, seems to be there in
order to give light during the night
time, says Prof. Proctor. Let us see
what astronomy has taught us. It
teaches that the moon is very much
smaller thau the earth, with a diameter
of 2,100 miles. She is distant from
the earth 238,828 miles. The surface of
the moon is less than the earth's in the
proportion of 1 to 131. In other words,
the surface of the moon is about 14,000,000
square miles, equal almost exactly
to the surface of North and South
America. It is also equal approximately
to the surl ace of Europe and
Africa taken together. If the moon is
the abode of life there is plenty of room
for life there, and it is an interesting
question whether she now can maintain
life. We know that the volume of the
moon is to that of the earth as 1 to 49 J,
while her density is rather less than
that of the earth, so that her mass i6 to
that of the earth as about 1 to 81.
first of all, as to the offices of the
moon. If it is shown that she discharges
important offices to the earth,
you will see that we are no longer
bound by the argument of design to
recognize her as the abode of life.
First, we know she serves for the division
of^time. She gives light by night.
God set His lights in the expanso of
i heaven, the greater to rule by day and
the lesser by night alternately. There
is a service performed by the moon
which is so regular as to suggest that
perlia, b the Almighty intended the
m^on for that special purpose.
Laplace went so far as to say if he
had made the moon he would have
made it much more useful to man. He
would have put it four times its present
distance away from the earth, when it
would be far enough away to be a full
, moon and give a regular light continuously
by night. The first objection to
this is an astronomical one, for of all
nuisances the moon's light is one which
the astronomer dislikes most, especially
at a time when when ho wants to
study some nebule, or some barely
visible comet; at those times the
moon's brightness seriously interferes
with his observations ; and I am surprised,
indeed, that Laplace, himself
an astronomer, should have suggested
so inconvenient an arrangement as that.
But there are other difficulties. If
the moon is in that condition she would
always have to be opposite to the sun.
The sun would go around once a year
and the moon also. The moon would
no longer be a measure of time, she
would no longer rule the tides in the
same way. She now raises a great
wave called the tidal-wave, represented
in height by 5. You have another
caused by the sun, represented by 2.
These two waves are sometimes com|
bined in a single wave, and act to
getiier, sometimes opposing, someumes
coalescing. According to these changes,
the tide varies in height from the difference
of 5 and 2 to the snm of 5 and
2. That is to say, 3 the least height
and 7 the greatest. That is a very important
matter. It is of great service,
as any one who lives by the seashore
knows; it is of great interest to the
shipbuilder and merchant that there
should be variable tides, that there
should not always bo high tides, nor
always low. That important service
would not have been subserved by the
moon if the consideration suggested by
Laplace had prevailed. There is another
very important service. The
moon enables the ustronomer or seaman
in long voyages to ascertain the
longitude, which is nothing more or
less than the true time at the observer's
station. If she moved 12 times more
slowly she would be less tit to indicate
the time in exactly tho same degree as
the hour hand of the watch is less tit
than the minute hand. Thero are other
very great and importsnt advantages of
the real moon over that suggested by
Laplace, which I wonder did not occur
to a mathematician such as he, the only
man who ever lived of whom it can bo
said, "Ho was the rival of Newton."
Ho himself said Newton was fortunate
in having lived before him. In another
man it would have been rank conceit,
but in Laplnco it was considered as a
just statement. Yet he failed to notice,
when lie suggested this moon's being
four times further from us, that under
his conditions if spread so as to give
tho same light, the material of which
the moon would be made would be
lighter than any solid element known
to us. I think it was well that the
Almighty did not take counsel from Laplace
in creating the moon.
Effect of African Climate,
It is really pitiful to look at tho faces
of young Europeans who have been out
here only a couple of years or so, says
a correspondent on tho African gold
coast. Their color is that of a pallid
yellow. They seem to benr on their
features that stamp of despair which
; only those deprived of all hope of
health can have. Though the oldest is
not twenty-three years old, I should
judge, yet one of them is as gray as a
man of fifty. They all look like old
, young men, with their jaundiced complexions,
from which every freshness
of youth has departed, their lack-lustre
eyes and languid movements. The
trade in which these Europeans, under
Mr. Croker, are engaged, is that of pur
chasing palm oil, gold dust and gum
' copal, while the Basle Missiou buys not
: only palm oil, gold dust and gum copal,
I but black monkey skius, cotton, India
Rubber gum, and almost everything
i! that can be turned into money remuneratively
in Europe. When the mer'!
chants have finished boiling the palm oil
i! they pour it in great puncheons coni;
taining over 150 gallons, wnitewash
both ends of the puncheons, and ship
them to Europe.
The currency of the Gold Coast is
gold dust, and, in some parts, cowry
[ | shells are still used, though they are
beiug rapidly superceded by British
i silver coin. An ounce of gold dust is
sold (or .?312s. The natives frequently
[ exchange among themselves the weight
s of even a small bead in the precious
dust, which they call a pessua?a trifle
i as insignificant to the Accra* as a picayune
would be to us,
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Pete.
" I'm Pete. An' I'm a newsboy. This '
story ain't writ by me, coz I can't write, tw
Nor I can't read, so if anything's took In
down wrong, it won't be my fault. In
" A gentlemnn in one of our offices th<
says to me : ' You tell me the story of thi
your young un, an' I'll take it down, pri
and git it printed in St. Hicholan.' An' rat
he says to begin at the werry beginnin', '
w'en I fust seed my young un?a little Co
chap what I foun' arter his father died, Co
an' he hadn't nothin' but a fiddle in the ^
world. When I fust goes up to him in m.
the park, down to City Hall, and asks
him to play, he takes his stio an' pulls ?u
it acrost an' acrost the strings, an' tei
makes the wust nise ye ever heord in on
ver life. He felt so took down when I wa
laughed that I asked him, serious, to Ar
keep at it, till he says, lookin' up inter a i
my face, drefful disappinted, ' Thcy's inj
awful n'ses, ain't they ?' I says, ' Wal, Th
no ; I've heerd the cats make ten times Pr
wuss ones nor that. I guess it'ill come ist
some time if ye keep a tryin'.' ou
" So he hugged up his fiddle an' we foi
started down to the corner. An' I says,
' Were air ye goin' ?' And he says, So
' Now'eres.' An' I says, ' Don't ye live Jo
now'eres?' An' ho says, 'No.' An' I toi
says they wasn't no nse in it, fur he on
couldn't no more take keerof hisBelf an
than a baby ken, an' he'd have to live ph
with me. An* he says, ' Will you take an
care o'me?' A n' I says, Yes, I will.' co
An' that's the way he come to be my fal
young un. al
"I axed him wot was his name, an' I liv
can't tell yer it, fur it was one of them ch
blamed furrin' names, an' I couldn't lo<
never get it right, so I alius called him to:
jes'Young Un.' An'he axed me wet ov
was my name, ah' I telled him, ' Pete,' cu
an' then we knowed each other. on
"Were do ye live, Pete ?' ho says; pe
an'I sez, 'Wnl, I live roun'?jes about of
roun'?here, I guess. Ye see, I moved ba
this mornin'.' An' that was a stunner. I i
warn't a newsboy then, ye know ; I was fo:
on'y a loafer. But I seed a airy ; sol an
says, " Wal, we'll wait till all the lights ca:
are put out down stairs in this house, tif
an' then we'll live here ternight. But le<
we mus' go fust an' get our bed afore re]
it's dark,' I says. So we walks roun' loi
to a lot w'ere they was buildin', an' he ho
waits wile I digs out the bed from un- na
der a pile o'stones. Yer see, I had to ba
bury it in the mornin's fur fear o' rag- T1
pickers, 'cause it was a worry good bed tri
an' comf'table, 'specially in airies. du
' Wot was it ? It was a olo piece o' su
carpet wot I foun' in front uv a house
wunst arter some people moved away th
from it, an' it was ez long ez you air, tei
sir, an' longer too. I takes it under sti
my arm, an' the young un hoi's on sti
to my other han', au' we finds the airy lal
agin. But we has to loaf roun' a good th
wile 'fore the lights is put out. When mi
it's all dark we goes down under the po
steps, an' I rolls up the carpet kind o' St
loose an' tells him to crawl inside of it. Gi
' Will tlier' be room fur the fiddle too ?' be
he says ; ' coz if ther' won't I don't fu
mind, I ken sleep outside, Pete.' An' un
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LIU lUUftM BU ?U1111CU lllilt X OJU^O VM4 I, M
'Of course thcr' -will! Do yer think I'd inj
leave the fiddle out tor cotch his doath tir
o' cold an' be laid up an' tookcn to mi
the orspital?' An' that makes him co
luugh, an' then he crawls in fust an' 1 fo
crawls in last, an' then thecr wo was, mi
all threo of us, sqneedged up comf'ta- At
ble together."??S7. Nicholas. ba
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Tunnel Under the British Channel. O.1
The feasibility of this project, and ^i
the advantages and disadvantages of va- sti
rious localities proposed for it, are still co
being discussed. Mr. Joseph Prestwick,
an eminent engineer and geolog- jjj
ist, lias recently investigated the con- m
ditions of the strata between the conti- gr
nent of Europe and tho coast of Eng-1 pi
land. These researches extend from ite
Ostend, Belgium, to St. Yalery, in Nor- ke
mandy, France, and from Hastings to hi
Harwich on the English side ; and by tu
them it was ascertained that a deposit he
of the London clay extends; from the in
mouth of tho Thames co Dunkirk, on dc
the northeast point of France. This th
deposit is from '200 to 400 feet thick ;
and the impermeability and homogeuei- of
ty of the clay, as shown in the works of he
the subway under tho Thames in Lon- en
don, point out the line between the hi
mouth of tho Thames and Dunkirk as tr
one of the most practical routes for the Ca
tunnel. But the distance (80 miles) is an de
important consideration, against which, m
again, must be set off the very great yc
depth at which a tunnel between Dover
and tho neighborhood of Calais would
have to be made. But the probability
of striking coal in the last named work
would bo an additional inducement to b(
take tho shorter route; added to which fc
must be considered the fact that tho
traffic between England and the conti
nent lays cnieny nerween Jjonuon nnu
Paris, in the direct line of which the to
Dover tunnel would lie.
Religious Statistics. ^
A valuable table of the statistics of
Christianity is presented in Professor .p
A. J. Schem's " Statistics of the world" ^
for 1873, just published in New York a|
and London. In North and South wl
America ,out of a population of 84,500,- bi
000, 47,000,000 are Roman Catholics, fe
and 30,000,000 Protestants. In Europe
out of a population of 301,000,000, 147,- ca
000,000 are Roman Catholics, 71,800,000 P
Protestants, and 70,200,000 adherents ti<
of the Greek Church. In Asia out of a j ti(
population of 794,000,000, 4,700,000! te
are Roman Catholics, l,800,000.Prot- j at
estants, and 8,50(1,000 adherents of the in
Eastern churches. In Africa, out of a | le
population of 19-'.500,000, 1,100,000 aro I T1
Rnmnn flnt.Vinlins. 1 500.000 Protpstnrits. I d<
and 3,200,000 adherents of the Eastern i co
churches. In An ;tralia and Polynesia, ! so
out of a population of 4,400,000, 400,000 J st
are Roman Catholics, and 1,500,000 tu
Protestants. Thn gives for the whole
world, out of a total population of 1,- m
377,000,000, 201,200,000 Roman Catho- to
lies, 106,300,000 Protestants, and 81,900,(XX)
Greek and Eastern Christians, fr
la
Dobson says his friends seem de- m
termined to give him the title of Dr. an
His butcher, baker, and all the rest do m
so, but they put Dr. after his name, in- of
stead of before it. ui
Tlie Latest Western Tragedy.
The tragic ending of a long feud b<
een two leading citizens of Andersoi
d., was briefly narrated by telegrapl
spite of the "leading" character <
3 actors in the affair, the details (
3 quarrel and its results reveal a d<
sssing amount of rather commonplac
icality.
The story begins with the rivalry <
1. Thomas N. Stilwell and John I
rwin for the social leadership of
vn of some 5,000 or 6,000 inhabitant
lis may seem a petty enough contes
t it was prosecuted with as much ii
isity as if half the nation had bee
lookers. Col. Stilwell, moreove
,s a man of mark beyond the limits <
iderson. He raised and commande
egiment of Indiana Volunteers dn
j the war, he was a member of tl
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lirty-niDth congress, ana in 101
esident Johnson appointed him Mil
er to Venezuela, a post which, wit!
t Senatorial confirmation, he fille
: a year.
Aibout the period of his return fro
nth America, Col. Stilwell four
hn E. Corwin, a native of Binghar
i, N. Y., married to the daughter <
o of Anderson's wealthiest citizen
d possessed with tho ambition of su;
mting him in the "social, politics
d commercial" leadership of th
mmunity. Stilwell succeeded h
;lier as President of the First Natioi
Bank of Anderson. He was a fr<
er, a popular fellow among a lar(
iss of the general public, and vei
)se in his dealings with his depos
rs. Corwin's father-in-law had bet
o of the latter, and the bank was a
stomed w, assist him in evading tax<
his deposits by certifying at statt
riods that it held his money in bom
the United States instead of gTee
cks.
On the death of the wealthy citizt
r whose benefit this fraud had bet
nually perpetrated, his son-in-la
me into possession of one of the ce
Icates for 814,000 of 7-30 bonds, e
jed by the bank to have been actual
presented by greenbacks which In
ig before been drawn upon. Corwi
wever, refused to accept this expl
tion, and entered suit against tl
nk for the recovery of the mone
le case was about to be brought
al when, owing to a run on the bar
iring the late panic, it was forced
spend.
According to a statement furnished
a Controller of the Currency in Se
mber, the assets of the bank we
ited at $223,000. According to tl
itement of the Receiver, two montl
;er, the assets were some 800,000 le
an in September. Thereupon ensu<
nch indignation on the part of the d
sitors, allegations of fraud again
ilwell, and an indictment by tl
and Jury, charging him with the ei
zzlcmentof somo $150,000of thebai
nds. Of late years Stilwoll has be<
isucceesful in most of his enterprise
hen it is added that he took to drin
g a great deal, the question of his t
nate ruin became obviously a me
itter of time. Smarting under tl
nscionsness of repeated failure, 1
und a convenient explanation of b
isfortnnes in the Inutility of Oorwi
; length when indictment followi
.nkruptcy, his rage against his riv
sumed the character of a monomani
ae afternoon, after some talk abo
s misfortunes, Stilwoll started fro
s home, was seen in crossing tl
reet to place his revolver in his ove
at pocket, and immediately after
ter the office of Corwin. The pari
ere was brief enough. Stilwell raisi
8 pistol to shoot; Corwin, who is
uch more powerful man, succeeded
asping his arm, and directed t
stol of his adversary downward,whe
i shot was intercepted by a bundle
ys in his pocket. Then Corwin seiz
s assailant by the collar of his eoi
rned him round till the back of 1
>ad was in line with the pistol ho h
his right hand, and, with appare
(liberation, shot him twico throuj
e brain.
Thus has Col. Stilwell, in the midc
a life that might have been a just ai
mored one, died the death of a rab
ir, and thus has his rival broug
mself before the bar of justice to
ied on the issue of whether his t
,n be justified on grounds of se
sfense, or whether it was deliberr
urder. The story carries with it
>ry obvious moral.
A Very Tall Tower.
The proposed centennial tower is
5 1,000 feet high. St. Paul's is 3
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L'l auuve 11IU tiunutu oucciii ui I
oat city at its base, overtopping,
impnrison, the dome of our own Ca]
1 at Wasliington fully 78 feet. Trini
eeple, in New York city, is 280 f<
om foundation to apex, and Html
ill monument 221 feet high.
The Cathedral of Strasbourg tow<
18 feet from earth to pinnncle, Michi
ngelo's grandest work, the dome
Peter's, has a height of -157 fe
hile a pyramid, that of Ceplm
other and successor to Cheops, is -1
et in heighth.
The material for the tower is \me
,n wrought iron, made in the form
lunnix columns, united by diagoi
a bars and horizontal struts. The s<
jn is circular, and is 150 feet in dian
r at the base, diminishing to 30 f<
the top. A central tube, 30 f<
diameter, extends through the ent
ngth, and carries tho four elevato
lie latter are to ascend in throe a
ascend m nve minutes, so as xo
pable of transporting about 500 pi
>ns per hour. There are also spi;
aircases winding around the cent:
be.
The site will probably be in Fa
ount Park, Philadelphia, in proxim:
the buildings of the Centennial I
isitioti. By calcium and electric ligl
om the tower, it is suggested that t
tter, with their adjoining groun<
ight bo illuminated at night. T
immit of the spire will also form
agnificent observatory, while the vi
the surrounding country would
ip*rall?l?d.
How the Chinese Catch Fish,
e- The cormorant is largely employed
a, an assistant to tlio fisherman, and
3. carefully educated to its work by pr
)f fessional trainers. When thorongh
)f trained, a pair of birds is worth for
e- dollars, the high price being explain<
:e by the cost and labor of instruction.
During the first seven months of i
>f life, the cormorant is left with the fl?<
2. and is taught by its elders how to fe<
a itself on small fish. After that ag
s. however, a collar is fastened about i
t, neck so that it cannot swallow its pre
3- and to one of its feet a cord, some tv
o feet long, is attached, terminating in
r> bamboo float.
At. a sicnal from the fisherman, who
Jl ... ? 0 ?
id solo implement is a forked stick son
r. ten feet long, the cormorants plan]
ie into the water and search for fish, ea<
37 bird, as fast as he catches one in b
a. beak, rising to tbe surface. The fisht
I), man then hooks the bird's float with b
!(j stick and draws it towards him, takii
the fish away from the cormorant
m soon as it comes within reach of b
l(j arm.
a. When the fish is very large ai
0f weighs seven or eight pounds, for e
s ample, the cormorants will assist ea
pi other, one catching the fish by tail, a
other by the head, etc. They rare
at catch anything less than a quarter ol
j8 pound. After every capture a small I
Q. of fish is thrown to the bird as a rewar
5e the piece being sufficiently little for t
jC bird to swallow in spite of its collar.
~ Chinese fishermen keep their feat
,1. ered assistants at work as long as da
m light lasts. Occasionally the birds 1:
c. come tired and refuse to dive, a pi
e8 ceeding which occasions a series
frightful yells and beating of the wat
j8 with a stick by their micter, whi
n_ frightens them to such an extent tb
thev resume labor instantly.
;n This mode of fishing, which is not i
terrupted even by severo cold, is qui
'w lucrative, as twenty or thirty birds c
r. readily catch about a dollar and a hi
worth of fish per da^. In general t
]_ fishermen are associated, and the bir
belong to a pociety which marks the
n with a peculiar brand of its own. (
a' of sesame is said to bo the panacea i
je all ills of the cormorant, which cc
y tinues its career of active work un
tQ about ten years of age.
ik
to The Condensed Milk Man.
to Gail Borden, tho " Condensed Mi
p- Man," died in Colorado County, Texi
re on Sunday, January 11, in tne sovem
jj? third year of his age. Mr. Borden ft
sg came to New York from Galvestc
>d Texas. In 1830 he invented what
e- called meat biscuits, containing, in t
smallest possible space, all the nutriti
u. properties of the beef or other m(
ik used in its manufacture. After tborou
3n tests, both in this country and Euroj
I8* the highest authorities pronounced t
meat biscuit an excellent article, ]
ll" taining unimpaired the nutritive pre
rc erties of its constituents. A coun
jie medal was awarded at the great exhil
tion in London in 1851. The report
118 the subject says: "A more simp
n- economical and efficient form of po
3CJ able concentrated food than the Ame
a' can meat biscuit has never been bronp
a- before the public. Mr. Borden toil
ut incessantly, and often under great d
!m couragements, in producing this artic
lie but he still saw a defect in it, whi
!r* was the agency used in desiccatic
to After further experiments for seve:
ey years, ho perfected a process by whi
pure broth is reduced to a solid for
.a He next turned his attention to maki
in condensed milk. Preparations of m
'ie were known in Europe and
ir? this country, but they w<
?* too costly to admit of general use, ai
e(* moreover, foreign substances wero
troduced which were less nutritive th
118 new milk. Mr. Borden was the man
a" overcome all obstacles in this matt
n' and he set to work with great zeal a
5" confidence. His experiments wero lo
and expensive, but ho at length si
ceeded. The first factory which he
l!(| tablisbed was at Litchfield, Conn., a
,1{* the demand fortho milk still increasi
In 1800 moro extensive works wi
erected in Dutchess county, New Yo:
l.y on the line of the Harlem ltailroi
whero three vacuum pans wero empl<
l^e ed, capable of working 5,(XX) guile
' a per day. Another factory was esti
fished at Brewster's, Southeast, P
naan county, another at Livermi
Falls, Me., and anothor at Elgin, Kt
county, III, tho two latter having et
a capacity of 2,000 gallons per d
At the latter place there is also a f
he tory for the manufacture of the extr
by of beef.
P1" Oatmeal.
Americans arc gradually waking
to the fact that oatmeal is by no mei
cer .
an unimportant article of diet. A
food, the merits of which have st<
?rs
the test of centuries, and which is <
^ culated to promote the sanitary int
^ ests of the nation by laying the foi
;n' dation for more hardy and vigor
constitutions for the coming generati
let us regard its general adoption as
rj_ article of diet as nothing short o
0f national good. Its phosphorese
ln| qualities act as a gentle and keall
stimulant to the brain, and on no ot
je" food can one endure so great or so p
>et longed mental labor as on oatmeal p
;ej ridge. Properl v cooked it is not o
re a most healthful and nutritious fo
r3 but it is decidedly palatable, as is fi
n'j attested by its wonderfully rapid ad
be tion as a p>opmlar diet by the very i
er_ tidious palates of our American peoj
ral
1 <~1 nf
ral WOMEN IN THE U1I.UUI..1,?uuu y?
features of the Granges is that no
ir- single one can be organized without
ity companionship of women. No chai
Jx- will be issued to organize a Gran
]ts even if a hundred of the best farm
he want it and ask for it, unless a cert
]a( number of women join.
he
i a A man write3 to the editor for
ew " beoause he is so infernally short," 1
be he gets in reply the heartless respor
" Do as I do, stand np on a chair."
it ' .
Items of Interest
as A great many children get on the
j8 wrong track beoau3e the switch is mis0.
placed.
, An old definition of salt?the stuff
y that spoils potatoes if they don't have
v any on.
3(1 Rhode Island is one of the seven
States in which the postal service pays
ta expenses.
The greatest pleasnre I know is to do
\ good by stealth, and to have it found out
by accident.
e' Genius is that power of man whioh,
ts by its strength and originality, gives
y, laws and rules others.
fo Out of the six million eggs a codfish
a has been known to spawn in one year,
less than a hundred survive.
8e Mr. Aston, of the U. S. Navy in the
10 South Pacific, savs that the Indians of
ze TCfon Ppm sDeak a language under
3.b stood by Chinese coolies."
llS
,r_ An Indiana paper says girls should be
j* taught that God made them in His own
' image, and that no amount of tight
a? lacing will improve the model.
,j8 Professor Reynolds has found that,
by means of a strong discharge of elecad
tricity, he could burst a tube which
IX. could stand a discharge of one inch of
ch powder, retained by wire slugs threen_
quarters of an inch long,
ly A couple of fellows met a Mr. Kellar
fa near Mount Jay, Pa., tho other night,
)it and requested him to give up his money
d, or his life. He thrust his hand into
he his pocket, remarking, "Well, I'd
rather lose my money than my life,"
h- but pulled out a revolver, with which
,y- he instantly killed one of the highway>e
men and wounded the other.
"?" An explosion occurred at a cartridge
?*; factory at Bel Air, in France, whioh
| caused the death of five women and
ch dangerous injuries to six others. One
ia* of the survivors states that it was a
common practice with the workwomen
;n~ to amuse themselves by igniting small
lte quantities of fulminate by friotion between
copper plates in order to produoe
a slight explosion.
The hen fever, whioh has prevailed
to some extent in this village, says the
Dover Observer, is abating. One man
: who kept a debit and credit accoant of
his "hen money," finds that thirty-five
' .j hens have netted just thirty-four cents
during the year, above the cost of keeping.
But calculating the number of
mfles' travel which they have caused at
four cents per mile, and he finds a
balance against each hen of one dollar
lla and ninety-seven oents. He will not
>? nnUimfn lir.nu nflrfc Vfiflr.
rat A Home of One's Own.
>n, Hnman existence implies the necesis
sitj of food, raiment, and shelter. A
he habitation is scarcely less important to
ve life than the question, " what shall we
;at eat, and wherewithal shall ye be clothgh
ed?" Happiness in civilized coun)e,
tries largely depends upon the cornhe
forts and conveniences with which a
re" home may be invested,
Every man in this country, says "The
Home Guide, especially if we have a
family, should possess a home of his
je own ; and generally this may be secured
rj.' in a few years by industry, frugality
and prudence. In large towns and
cities, the money expended for rent by
ed Persons engaged in ordinary avocations
8_ will, in a few years, purchase a modest
je" homo. To bo dependent upon landV
lords year after year for a habitation is
)Q often inconvenient and unpleasant, beruj
sides being very poor economy. There
v are many vexations and annoyances ?*
which few renters escape, attending
* their experiences as tenants of other
ilk PcoPle'8 bouses and tenements, while
the burden of taxation for municipal
purposes fall mainly upon the tenant;
l' as landlords charge the taxation im
' posed forpublic improvements on them
* to the rent-roll, and it therefore comes
out of the pockets of the tenants.
In a house of his own, one feels not
| only that he is less dependent than
' when occupying a tenement belonging
* to another, but there is an incentive to
" improve and beautify a home ; to make
j it attractive, and thus add to its value
I ?a motive not often present when a
' man lives in a rented tenement.
.1 From every point of view it is advisable
for a man of family, when he has
[ found a permanent place of residence,
to determine to provide a home for
, thosa^lependcnt upon him. Whether
in a town or the country, this is advis"
able, and the reasons for it aro so obvious
that it is scarcely necessary to
lob re*er ^em*
ay.
ac. | Old Laws.
act Home of the ancient laws of Mnssachusctts
are worthy of consideration at
the present day. In 1612 there was a
?p law providing that 14 those who do not
infi teach, by themselves or others, their
H a children or apprentices, so much learn)0j
ing as may enable them perfectly to
. read the English tongue, and knowledge
| of the capital luws, shall be fined twenty
er- shillings for each neglect therein." In
an- thoso days it was also thought proper
3ns that no interference should prevent
un suitable marriages. A law of 1641
an' reads that 4,if any person shall willfully
f a and unreasonably deny any child timely
ent or convenient marriage, or shall exertkv
cise any unnatural severity toward
i.?_ I them, such children shall have liberty
'jo* to complain to authority for redress in
)0r. such cases."
nl7 Anort Camel.?The camel is gener?
ally supposed to be a meek and narm11
v less animal; but recently one of the
.?P" camels in the menagerie of the Central
j '" Park violently attacked Mr. Conklin,
>,e' superintendent of the Animal Department,
and would prebably have killed
the him but for the intervention of the
kla keeper. Mr. Conklin was engaged in
the feeding the camels, when one of them
tor without any warning, seized him with
8?. its teeth, lifted him up,and then dashed
>crs him on the ground and trampled on
ain him. This unprovoked attack is thought
to be a coso of jealousy, the offending
animal having recently manifested in84,
tense dissatisfaction in oonseqnence of
ind Mr. Conklin's kind treatment of its
ise, mate when tko Utter was in a sick con- ^
dition. J
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