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THE TRIBUNE. : i '' ,L ~-irr? , ' ' " ' '' <f H A T VOL. T.--NO. 48. . BEAUFORT, S. C., OCTOBER 20, 1875. $1.50 PER ANNUM; / ' ' ' ' ' 7 ... . y fc? Her Answer. I If the lovo that yon ask for 1 offor you horo, * Can I promise to follow yon without foar ? 8 Will yon take my bands in your own, dear, And keep them soft and warm ? t Will yon teach me to trust each word yon say? ^ Will yon keep my feet so they never can stray ? 1 Will you be my guide in the one right way, My refuge in every storm ? * \ Then I'll lovingly follow wherever you guide, g Though our way may lie through a desert g wide;. * e All through the journey, safe by your side, s V -t " ? iuii bubu ioau me everywhere. t It is sweeter to walk by faith than sight, 8 If only yon feel you are going aright. May I trust you always to find the light, *1 And guido mo safely there ? i EDWARD BROWN, STOKER. d " Polly," I sayh, one day after b convalescence, and we were taking a bit r of a wnlk in the-churchyard, "ain't this h heavenly?" - 1; "And yon feel better?" says she, lay- S ing her hand on mine. d " Better 1" I says, taking a long h draught of the soft, sweet-scented air, and tilling my chest; " better, old girl! v I feel as if I were growing backwards into a boy." y "And yon fifty last week 1" sho says. a " Yes," I Fays, Rmiling, " and you forty-seven next week." ? And then wo sat thinking for a bit. v " Polly," I says at last, as I sat there drinking in that soft breeze, and feel- B ing it give mo strength, "it's" worth being ill to feel as I do now." r For you see I'd been very bad, else I daro say I'm not the man to go hanging < about churchyards and watching funer- ^ als; I'm a stoker, and my work lies in n steamers trading to the East. I'd come B home from my last voyage bad with fever, caught out in one of those nasty, a hot, bad nmelling ports?been carried 0 home to die, as my mates thought; and j it was being like this, and getting better, j] t.linf. llflfl flpf nin 1~ ... VJ viUUAlUg DO DCUUUOlJ'i 1 Q and made me so quiet; not that I was j| ever a noisy sort of man, as any one-who knows me will say. And now, after get- ? ting 1 Hotter, the doctor hod said I must g go into the country to get strong; so as there was no more voyaging till I was strong, there was nothing for it but to j leave the youngsters nnder the care of (] the eldest girl and a neighbor, and come e and take lodgings out in this quiet Sur- ?< rev village. , ? Polly never thought I should get bet- n ter, and one time no more did I; for v about a month before this time, as I lay n hollow-eyed' aind yellow on tho bed, j knowing, too, how bad I looked?for I used to make young Dick bring we the looking-glass every morning?the doctor came as usual, and like a blunt English- ^ mnn I put it to him flat. " Doctor," I says, "yon don't think I shall get better ?" and I looked him straight in the face. > ' x. " Oh, come, come, my man 1" ho says, ft smiling, ' we never look at the black side like that." " None Of that, doctor," I says; ,rout Q with it like a man. I can stand it; I've 8 been expecting to be drowned or.blown up half my life, so I shan't be soared at ^ what you say." "Well, my 'man," ho says, "your ^ Srmptoms $re, of. a very grave nature. on see tho fever hod undermined vmi before you came home, and unless"? "All right, doctor, I says; "I un- r derstund ; you moan that unless you can Jget a new plate in the boiler, she won't ' stand another voyage." > 8 " Oh, come ! we won't look npon it as v a hopeless case," ho says ; " there's al- f ways hope and after a little'more talk, 1 ho shook hands and went away. Nl?xt day when he came, I had been * thinking it all over, and was reedy for 8 him. I don't believe I was a bit better ; 8 in fast, I know I was drifting fast, and I J saw >t in his eye as well. I waited till he had asked mo his different questions, and then just as he was getting up to go, I asked him to sit ? down again. * " Polly, v my dear," I says, "I just 1 want a few words with the doctor and 8 she put her apron up to her eyes and G went out, closing the door after her very c softly, while the doctor looked at me very curious like, and waited for me to 1 speuk. "Doettof,'r I sajfc, "ycu've about 1 givon me upf There, don't shake your head, Ipr I know. Now don't you think 1 I'm afraid to die, for I don't believe I 1 am, but look here : there's seven chil- J dren down stairs, and If I leave my wife * a widow with the few peuuds I've been J. able to save, what's to become of them f * Can't von nnll me thrnncdi t" ^ " Bjjy?*bl?r fellow," he nays, honestly. 1 "I've done everything I can for your c case." . 1 I " That'awhat you tkiuk, doctor," I * aaya, " but look here : Tve been at sea * thirty yeata^ and in seven wrecks. It's ' been like dodging death with me a score 1 of tintoe, . .Why, I pulled iny wife there 1 regularly out of the hands of death, and 1 I'm not going to give up now. I've 1 been"?T "Stop, stop," he nays, gently, t " You're exciting yourself." 1 " Not a bit," 1 says, though my voice f was quite a whisper. "Ivehad this i over all night, and I've come to think I < must be up and doing my duty." <. " But, my good man"?he began. < n t ~ j?i? i " a uininu mj um-wir, x tiixyn. " A scoro of times I might have given up ""S and l>een drowned, but I made a fight v for it, and was saved. Now I mean to make a fight for it, here, for the sake of the wife and bairns. I don't mean to die, doctor, without a struggle. I l>oliovo this here, that life's given to us all as a treasure to keep ; we might throw .it awuy by v.\vr ? wu folly at any time, >ut there's hundreds of times when nay preserve it, and we never ki whether we can save it till we try. Gi i drink of that water." He held the glass to my lips, an ook a big draught and went on, teeming all the time to be stopping tumor me in my madness. " That's better, doctor," I si Now look here, sir, speaking as rho has sailed the seas, it's a terri tormy time with me ; there's a hore close ut hand, the fires are dro d ont, and unless wo can get up a bi ail there's no chance for me. N hen, doctor, can you get up a bii ail?" " I'll go and send something that 1 [uiet you," ho said, rising. " Thankey, doctor," I says, smilinj ayself. '' And now look here, I'm ;oing to give up till the last ; and wl hat last comes, and the ship's go town, why, I shall have a try if I a wim to safety. If that fails, and I eally foel that it is to be, why, I*hoj hall go down into the great deep ca p, liko a hopeful man, praying t something above will forgive me all 1 !ono amiss, and stretch out His fath? land to my little ones." He went away, and I dropped asle rorn out with my exertion. When I woke, Polly was standing he bedside watching me, with a bo nd glass on the little table. As soou as she saw my eyes open, hook up the stuff, and poured it int rine glass. " Is that what the doctor sent? ays. "Yes, dear ; you were to take it octly." " Then I shan't take it," I sn ' He's give me up, and that stuff's o a keep me quiet. Polly, you go f lake me some beef tea, and mak? troug." She looked horrified, poor old g nd was about to bog of me to take h f flio rrvf foil life Kol f a vuv> awinai IIIU-UVIV UU U OCUU 1X1^1 U] hold out my shaking hand for it, t< ke glass, and let it tilt over?there 1 nly about a couple of teaspoonfuls i, and the stuff fell on the carpet. I saw the tears come in her eyes, 1 he said nothing?only put down lass, and ran ont to make the b so. The doctor didn't come till late n ay, and I was lying very still i rowsy, half asleep like, but I was aw nougli to hear him whisper to Po 1 Sinking fast and I heard her % uch a heart-broken sob thufc ' as oxt great wave came on the sea whei ras floating, I struck out with all light, rose over it, and floated gor own the other side. For the next four days?putting it drowning man striving for hiH life 1 true-hearted fellow?it was like gi Darning waves coming to wash over i >ut the shore, still in sight, and me 1 Dg hard to reach it. And it was a grim, hard fight; a do imes I could have given up, folded rms, and said good-bye to the dear retching face safe on shore ; but a I i iuui aiways ciieereu me, aua x ion >n again and again, till at last the eemed to go down, and, in utter we k'-hb, I turned on my back to float r nlly with the tide bearing me sh< pard, till I touched tlie sands, crept hem, and fell down worn out, to si n the warm sun?safe ! ' That's a curious way of putting it,; nay say, but it seems natural to rnt nix it up with the things of sea-go ife, and the manner in which I've s 0 many fight hard for their lives. p;is just like striving in the nndst < torm to mo, and when at last I did nto a deep sleep, I felt surprised-lik hid myself lying in my own bed, \ 3olly watching by me ; and who tretched out- my hand, and took h he let loose that which she had 1j lidden from me bofore, and, falling icr knees by my bedside,she sobbed 'fry joy. Aa much beof-tea and brandy as ; an get him to take," the doctor si hat afternoon ; and it wasn't long be! got from slops to solids, and. then eut, as I told yon, into the conntrj ;et strong, while the dootor got no >f praise for the core ho had made. I never said a word though, even 'oily, for he did his best; but I di hint any medicino would have cu no then. T ! - 1 - i 11 ~ t- M - 1 t. 11 J. WilM Miyillg U 111UU Willie UUCK I 111 >tillod my wife regularly out of lands of death, and of oonrse that rlien we wero both quite youug, thoi or the matter of that I don't feel m lifferciit and can't well see tho char Chat was in one of the Cape stean ?hen I first took to stoking. They ? ittle ram-shackle sort of boats in tl lays, and how it was moro weren't inzzles me. It was more due to feather than the make or finding of ihips, I can tell you, that they usee' ind their way safe to port; and yet lassengers, poor things, knowing letter, used to take passage, ay, nake a voyage too from which t lever got back. Well, I was workingon board a ste >r as they used to call the Equator, leavy laden and with about twenty ] lengers on board, we started down cl lei with all well, till we got right d< iff the west coast of Africa, when tl airoo one of the heaviost storms I iver in. Even for a well-found stoat mch as they can bnild to-day, it wc acvo been a hard fight ; bat with poor shaky wooden tub, it was a hope 3ase from the first. Our skipper made a brave fight < though, and tried hard to make for if the ports ; but, bless you, what i man do when, after ten days' knocl ibout, the coals run out, and tho 1 that have been kept going with w wo aud ?U? everything that can b low thrust into the furnaces, are drowned ve'a when the paddle-wheels are only in tb way, every bit of sail set is blown clea (1 I out of the bolt-ropes, and at last tb he sbip begins to drift fast for a lee shore r to There was our case, and every hoe the sea seemed to get higher, and tb ivs. wind more fierce, while I heard froi one more than one man how fast the wate ible was gaining below, lee My mate and I didn't want any telliu wn- though. We'd been drives up out c itof the stoke-hole ljken pairof drowned ratf ow, and I came on dock to find the bulwark k of ripped away, and the sea every now an then leaping aboard, nnd washing th will lumber about in all directions. The skipper was behaving very well ? to and he kept us all at the pumps, tur not and turn in spells, but we might as wel lien have tried to pump the sea dry ; an ing when, with the water gaining fast, w >n't told him what wo thought, ho owned a can it was no use, and we gave up. >e I We'd all been at it, crew and passer lm- frora nlmnf fm-fw nf na " QV..W, t.uv/UV iUiWJ Wi no illivgctliui 9 1U hnt eluding the women?five of them the; ['ve were, and they were all on deck, lashei jrly in a sheltered place, close to the poop And very pitiful it was to see them fighl op, ing hard at first and clinging to the side but only to grow weaker, lialf-drownei by as they were ; and I saw two sink dowi ttle at last, and hang drooping-like fror their lashings, dead, for not a soul couli she do them a turn. 0 a I was holding on by the shrouds whei the mate got to the skipper's side, and " J saw in his blank face wliat he was tellinj him. Of courso we couldn't hear hi Ji_ words iu such a storm, but wo didn' want to, for his lipp said plainly enough lys. " She's sinking P' nly Next moment thero was a rush mad ind for the boats, and two of the passer J it gers cut loose a couple of the women place was made for them before the firs irl, boat was too full, and she was lowerei old down, cast off, and a big wave carrie lien her clear of the steamer. I saw her fo 10k a moment on the top of the ridge, annas then she plunged down the other aid 1 in out of our sight?and that of evarj body else ; for how long she lived, wh but can say ? She was never picked up o the heard of again. eef Giving a bit of a cheer, our cliajp turned to the noxt, and wore getting i ext when thero came a wavo like a mountain ind ripped her from the davits, and when ako shook the water from my eyes, ther 11 v, she was hanging by one end, stove it jve and the men who had tried to launc the her gone?skipper and mate as well. :o I There were only sovon of us now, am T could see beside the three womei lt]y lashed to the side, and only one of tlier was alive; and for a bit no one moved > a? everybody being stunncd-like with hoi ike ror ; but there came a lull, and feelinj "eat that the steamer was sinking, I shoutet me, out to the boys to come on, and we rai try- to the last boat, climbed in, and wer casting oil', when I happened to catcl zeii sight of the women lashed under th my "bulwarks there. old ?? Hold hard !" I roars, for I saw on ??k of them wave her hand, ghfc ?? Como 011, you fool!" shouts m sea mate, " she's going down!" ari- I pray I may never be put to it agai est- like that, with all a man's solfish desir 3re' for life lighting against him. For up moment I shut my eyes, and then bega eeP to lower ; but I was obliged to ope them again, aud as I did so I saw a wile jron scared face, with long wet hair clingin s to round it, and a pair of little white hand ing were stretched out to mo as if for help, eeu " Hold hard !" I shouts. It " No, no I" roared out two er three if a "there isn't a moment!" and as th fall boat was being lowered from the davitf e to I made a jump, caught the bulwark ritli with my liondB, and climbed back o n I board, just as the boat kissed the watei era, was unhooked, and floated away. :ept Then as I crept, hand-over-liand, t Oil flia flrirl'fl qiiIa U'limnnrl nnf. m XT lrni# v..~ "-*rru" v,"u '"j ...... ?or and Wii8 cutting her looae, while he weak arms clung to me, I felt a horribl you feeling of despair come over me, for th *ys, boat was leaving us, and I knew what Fere coward I was at heart, as I had to figb was with myself so as not to leave the girl t r to her fate, and leap overboard to swim fo end my life. I got tlio better of it, thoughwent down on my knees so as not to se 1 to the boat, and got the poor, trembling * clinging creature loose, ired " Now, my lass,"! says, "quick! and I raised her up ; " hold on by th I side while I make fast a rope rouni the you." WftS And thon I stood np to hail the boatthe boat as wam't there, for in thosi uch brief momenls she must have capsized *8?- and we wore alone on tiki sinking steam iers or> -which now lay in the trough of th rere sea. . lose s?oii as I gotovor the horror of th lost feeling, a sort of stony despair cameove tu? me, but when I saw that little pale, ap the pealing faco at my side, looking to m * *? for help), that brought the manhooi "*e back, and in saying encouragiug thing to Jier I did myself good. kU'l My first idea was to muko somothin, "?y that would float us, but I gave that u; directly, for I could feel that I wftslielf am- loss, aud getting tho poor girl more int and shelter, I took a bit of tobacco in a nor pas- of stolid way, and sat down with a cor! ion- lifo-buoy over my arm?one which Ilia< )wn cut leoso from whtue it had hung forgo! lere ten behind ilio wheel, was lint I never used it, for the atom oer, went down fast, and the steamer floatei mid still, water-logged, for throo days, who; our we were picked up by a passing vessel less half-starved, but hoping. Ami dnrin; that time my companion had told m >f it that she was the attendant of one of th one lady passengers on board, and at l:vs| can when we parted, she kissed iuy hand ting and called me her hero, who lirfH suvo< ires her lifo?poor grimy me', you know, ood Wo waru't long, though, before w to met again, for somehow we'd settled ; that we'd write, and a twelvemonth after ie Mary was back in England and my wife, n That's why I said I took her like out of ie the hands of death, though in a seltlsli f sort of way, being far, you know, from ir perfect. But what I say, speaking as e Edward Brown, stoker, is this: Make a n good fight of it, no matter how black ir things may look, and leave the rest to Him. g What they Eat. a To get sorno idea of the enormous eat(] ing power of guests who reside in < e hotels, it is only necessary to say that in one ordinary day's feedings one of the i . leading hotels in New York city con- i ' sumes 1,959 pounds of beef, short loins < Fj and ribs, 1,800 pounds of mutton chops, i , nearly 4,000 pounds of spring lamb, 80 i 1 dozens of sweetbreads and 1,000 pounds ] e of the hind quarters of veal for roasting 3 and cutlets. The same hotels averaged ( 40 pounds a day of prime corned beef, i or from 1,400 to 1,600 pounds of corned i ueei per weeic. JijXtra uoef, which only ) ? includes the fonr quarters. and excludes < the hides, fat and offal, brings $13 to i ' $14 a hundred weight nt the yards. The I f best comes from Illinois, and it is stipe- < '* rior to the beef raised in any other State < in the Union. Many butchers will, how- 1 a ever, tell their customers that the beef i l} which comes from Texas is native to II- 1 linois. Ohio sends a fair quality of beef. < But if it were not for the vast quantities i brought from Texas to tho city beef t would bring fifty cents a pound in the < ? market steadily. Dutchess county and < ? Orange county occasionally send some 1 _ fancy beef to private parties, but it is < only a drop in tho ocean. Somo meat is 1 hardly fit to cat when brought to market, i o and one morning at Washington market i i- Superintendent Devoo seized no less ' ; than 357 quarters of bob veal, which i >t were almost in a state of putrefaction, i d This slides the danger formerly encoun- i d tered by housewives who were fond of < r roast veal or nice little cutlets. Tho 1 d worst kind of beef brings nt tho yards $8 1 e a hundred weight, and Texan beef brings ] r- about $9.50 a hundred when it is in good < 0 condition. About 250 goats and kids i i" are brought to market every year in this ( city, and they will average 45 pounds a i s carcass dressed, but their meat is never < Q in any great demand, and is only eaten '? by people whose palates are in an ex1 hausted state. Sixty roasting pigs are e sold weekly on an average and woigh i? from 15 to 20 pounds each. The conh sumption of hams in the city amounts to from 5,000 to 7,500 hams per week, and d they chiefly come from tho Western a States. Of tamo turkeys, ducks of all ii kinds, geese and guinea fowls there are |f delivered to the Now York markets about - 1,500 tons a week, and their price varies ? according to season, but they are at the j maximum rates about tho holidays.? a New York Herald. Wanted to Pay Taxes. One day a residont of tho northern o part of Detroit, says tho Free Press, called at the city hall, and finding the y official who received taxes, ho said: "I called here to pay some taxes, n How muoh shall I pay ?" e " Where's your property ?" asked the a official. n " Haven't got any." n " And what arc you going to pay taxes 1, on ?" g "I dunno, but I want to pay 'em. s I've had it flung up to me a dozen times lliat I hain't no taxpayer and hain't no business talking around, and now I want i; to pay in whatever is right and bo as j e good as anybody." ?, " But you are not taxed." , ;s "Why hain't I? Ain't I as good as n anybody ?" r, "Yes, but you can't be taxed when ' you have no taxable property." < 0 " "I can't, eh? Well, there are other i 0 towns besides Detroit, and if I can't feel ] ,r as good as anybody else here I can pack 1 e up and leave." ^ e And he put up his wallet and went ] a out. < * ! 0 Shade Trees. i r Many farmers now see how much they ~ have missed it by permitting the wliolo- , e sale destruction of forest trees upon '? their lauds. From the nakedness of tho n country, droughts are becoming com- j mou. From tho scarcity of timber trees, , ? the cost of fencing and erecting build- , ings is annually increasing. But there is one way whereby amends may partly ~ be made. Let thero bo one united plan 0 to have rows of beautiful and useful '? trees set out on both sides of all our * public highways. Lot sugar trees, wal0 nut trees, oak trees, chestnut trees, loom t trees, catnlpa trees, silver-leafed 6 poplar trees, etc., strotch their long nver nues in every direction all over tho country. How it would relievo the naked? ness of tho land ! What a grateful shade ^ they would givo to tho weary traveler! d The value of farms would become id most immediately enhanced oh soon as ( K theso rows of beautiful trees were plantP ed out. And in the distant future, , when those trees should arrive at matu0 rity of growth, the value of the timber . ^ itself would become a most important ] * item. Let grangers and others take hold . J* of this matter. r* i n Chuelty.?Some Pnissian army ofti- | il cers are under arrest for cruelty to n I n soldier. They compelled him to go I, through with exhausting drills, and when 1 g lie complained of sickness, they added i o increased tasks as a punishment for i e "shamming." Ho died nt last, and then 1 ;, it was found that he had lieon suffering ' i I, from n brain disease. The cose reminds \ < it one of th it of Connolly, tho It lack well's i island convict, who was tortured by the o keepers. i T1IE POPULATION OF CHINA. What an Authority at flame Hayi A bant U. Says tlio Shanghai Courier: The subject of the population of Ohina is the riddle of the Sphinx, ever guessed at but never solved. And if it were solved no one would ever know it, because there can bo no verification. In connection with our first knowledge of China we are taught that its population is immense. Its millions teem. The delusion of one or two generations ago that Jeddo and Pekiu aro the world's great centers of population is scarcely yet dispelled. Many of the cities of tho eighteen provinces, esi>ocially in tho south, ire undoubtedly enormous, and to the casual traveler all Chinese cities are presumptively tho same. He has learned in his geography or read in his encyclopedia that the population of Tientsin is 500,000, and that of Pekin from 1,500,)00 to 2,000,000. These round numbers ire generally accepted without question, md on this scale smaller cities aro gauged. Thus we meet the most confident estimates of population, formed on jcanty data, or on no data at all, by every 1 latest traveler, who, like a supreme court, has the last guess at the case. The difference between tho high soole and tho low scalo of estimating Chinese cities is a difference of nearly one-half. There are those who cling to the old tra- ' litiou that the population of Pekin is : 2,000,000, and there aro others who consider 700,000 a liberal estimate. Little i cr no dependence is to be placed on the ] sti mates of transient travelers. Even 1 long residents hesitate to express a decided opinion, for experience has taught j them that such conjectures are often | Misleading. It is as idle to inquire the , lumber of families in a large city of " intelligent natives," as it wpuld be to isk an " intelligent native " tho death ( ate of Liverpool. There is, no doubt, i death rate, and somewhere it is recorded. But it is not in the line of any but physicians and coroners to know I what it is, unless it may have been pub- 1 iished in the morning paper. But the ! Chinese have no morning papers, nor wiy other papor. At certain yamens, no iloubt, some approximate statistics are on file, but such things aro utterly foreign to the thought of ordinary Chinese. In small villages the munber of families is known to all ; in large cities it is practically not known at all. It would be wrong to disturb the world's faith in the proposition that China contains 400,000,000 inhabitants, a proportion now generally accepted in spite of De Qninoey's skepticism. Hut let this multitude of human beings be apportioned in a fair and equitable manner among the smaller towns and villages, and not thrust by hundreds of thousands upon half empty walled towns where they will find no visible means of support. If these remarks should lead the casual reader to inquire the population of Tai-yunn-fu, he is informed that according to the doctrine of the relativity of human knowledge, if Pekiu still keeps her 2,000,000 as iu the geographies, then the capital of Shansi has 300,000. But if Pekin is reduced to 750,000, then does Toi-yuon iu orop w) iuu,uuu, " ue mo same more or less. The average Englishman, whose faith is said to be such that if a safety valve were only labeled "statistics " he would sit on it with perfect safety, is invited to take notice. If Not, Why Not A medical journal published in Cleveland addresses the followiug queer query to the profession: "Qiteby? Has any pbysioian ever seen or treated a bald-beaded consumptive V ' Wo should say that there must be, and that there must have been, bald-headed consumptives ; yet the fact that donbt is thrown over the existence of snoh persons by a medical journal would seem to show that they are not so common as to be within the knowledge of every physician. We ourselves have not, of course, seen as many sufferers from the malady in question as liavo come under tho observation of some doctors; but we cannot at this moment think of any :>ne of those we have seen who was baldlieaded. Consumption is a disease that preys upon old people as well as young nid middle-aged people; and we suppose its victims are subject to the ordinary aws that regulate the growth of hair. If not, why not < New York 1 lata. We do not mean the flats who stand lbout hotels and street corners with their hair parted in the middle, but those largo buildings, each floor of which constitutes a dwelling house. Of these Llata a writer says: No flat that is of any dimensions or surroundings above a brown stone tenement-house can be hod diort of $1,000 a year, or $80 a month. Indeed, uiue-tenths of these flats are tenement-nouses cauea ny a less injurious nnmo. It is n good way for lazy women and people with small furniture to affect to live. It is better than boarding, in that you eat your own hnsh. It is purgatory, between the heaven of householding and the topliet of a dyspeptic's public table. It is a device to make unrentable houses rentable by farming out the floors And putting in wash-tubs. Said Jeff. Davis at one of the fairs in Missouri, the other day : It gladdened my heart as I drovo to these grounds to =teo the number of side-saddles on the liorses hitched along the way. I had almost begun to fear that my American countrywomen had lost the art of riding, it, least the art of ridiug on horseback, rimuk you, ladies, for coming on sid-*mddles. Jack and JUL " To climb that stately eminence," Says Jill to Jack, "I go; , And if thou lor'st, then follow me. Follow in weal or woe." , Says Jack to Jill: " Wbate'er thoo wilt, Thy will is law to me; And if to climb tbon dost desire, ? Lead on ! Til follow thee *" They climbed the hill, bnt all too soon Bepentaace camo to Jill; For Jack he tripped upon a stone, And tumbled down the hill. " O Jack ! O Jack ! My own true lore ! Oh, * What a fall was there 1' Behold 1 Like thee, I'll crack my crown, For what thou dar'st, I dare! ' " I called on thee to follow me, Whil'st climbing up the hill." With one wild shriek, VI follow thee Were the last words of Jill. ?Items of Interest. Ode to my landlady?three Lvteeks' board. ' "?, " * ' A new definition of an old maid is?a woman who lias been maid for a long time. , The leather business of the United States represents a working capital of 570,000,000. " Shingle weddings " are now comiag into fashion. This novel wedding takes plaoe when the first born m old enough to spank. , , . . , A St. Louis woman enumerates among Iter friends twenty-two women who have become bald from wearing heavy masses of false hair. An aspiring lady of Utica, N. Y.? is expending $16,000 to put aspire two hunIred and fifty feet high on one of the zhurches of that city. Col. Arthur Oinn has a ten-acre orange ijrove On Lake Monroe, Fla., which contains seven hundred trees, yielding from 510,000 to $18,000 per year. A Poltney (ft. Y.) girl put in a lively ten hours' work the other day. She nailed in that time 900 grape-boxes, driving 10,000 nails and handling 3,000 pieces oi wood. Miss Hnlett, the Chicago lawyer, will not move in a divorce case, believing, as she says, that " any woman who will marry a an ought to be forced to live with him." " What makes your face so red ?" said an inspecting generalto a hard-drinking soldier. " It'B modesty,"'replied the soldier. I always blush when spoken to by a general." , It is stated that the Philadelphia confectioner who advertised " Centennial Kisses" can't sell any. They are too old. The sixteen-iafci are- preferred by men of taste. : _> , , , The Booheeter Express suggests that the baby without a , back bone, recently born, be brought up with especial reference to the art of conciliating political opponents. As a novelty, the application of the camera obscura has been introduoed in English railway carriages, exhibiting to the traveler a moving picture of the country through which he is passing. The editor of the Kearney (Neb.) Press acknowledges the receipt of a cucumber five feet eight inches in length. And yet some people insist that Nebraska is not an agricultural country, An impressionable Indiana, journalist has " seen swaying lily-like above the churn a beauty more perfect than that which bloomed fdllgro^n from the bright foousof the sea's ecstatic travail." When a foreigner finds that plague is a word of one syllable, and ague, a part of the plague, is a word of two, he wishes that t\io plague might take one-half the English language, and the ague the other. It is hard to say who the happiest man is, but the happiest women, according to the Danbury .Areu>8) is she who is called upon to decade the question as to which is the cunningest of two of the cunningest babies "that over lived. There is sanotity in suffering' when meekly borne. Our duty, though set about by thorns, may still bo a staff, supporting even while it tortures, Oast it away, and like the prpphot's wand, it changes to a snake. The Grand Duke Alexis, third son uf the emperor of Russia, who some years ago, owing to a secret marriage with a lady of the court of the empress, had incurred the displeasure of his father, has now been divoroed from his wife. An uub?npy nine year-old boy, near Reading, Pa., oomplains that he sees reptiles all around him, and his friends are laboring under the delusion that he has l>een bewitched by an old woman, whom he saw sitting ou a basket at a neighbor's house, and laughed at becauso of her eccentric movements. Since 1824 New England has received from the general government for improvement of its rivers and harbors the sum of $6,375,488; the Middle States, $11,758,915 ; the Southern States. $6,400,833; Indiana, Illinois and Ohio, $4,580,510; Missouri, Iowa, and Minneflota, $675,500; and Michigan and Wisconsin, $8,799,776. A man thirty years of age, a platelayer on the Settle and Carlisle railway, England, hang himself on a poet in m public drying gronnd at Carlisle the other morning. Before doing so he wrote with a piece of chalk on a neighboring wall the following message: "I take the pleasure of ritiug these few lines if it will be a warning to all young men, and never live with a mother-inlaw. Now I end my misopible life."