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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., FEBRUARY 5, 1880. VOL. IV.-NO.16. THE RIVER OF LIFE. The more we livo, more brief appear Our hfo's sucoerding stages; A day to childhoodl seems a year, And years liko passing at;e. The gladsome o rent of our youth. Ero paseion yet disordors, Steals lingering like a river smooth Along its grassy borders. But as the careworn choek grows wan, And sorrow's shafts fly thicker, Ye stars, that mea-lsured life to inn, Why scom your courses quiokor? When joys havo lost ihoir bloom and breath, And life itslf is vapid. Why, as we nour the Falls of Death, Peel we its tide more rapid? It may be strange, yet who would obango Time's cour;-c to elower speoding, When one by one our frioudls are gone And left our bosom bleeding. Heaven gives our years of fading stren gth it,dennif) l g fleetness; And those of youth, a soeming length Proportioned to their sweetnesa. CATIHERINE. If you think the lovers 1 am going to tell about were a pink and white girl, with sweet eyes and fine hair, and a tall, hand some fellow saying soft things to her, you are greatly mistaken. We had been at summer hotels, at the seaside, and among the mountains, where pert Irish girls, and sonietimesperter Yankee ones, flaunted around the table in parti-col ored costumes, and with hair frizzled and pulled over their eyes, a la poodle. We were tired of people, and wanted to rest; so we Induced a farmer's wife to count us among her family, and let us share their fresh butter and sweet cream. These and the strawberries, and the chickens, were all very nice, but the most refreshing sight there was a real genuine servant. She was a middle-aged woman, with horny hands, hair touched with gray, and a patient, sad exp:ession in her eyes. Her voice was low and pleasant, and her smile very winning, although she was uncommon ly plain, and bore marks of an encounter with that destroyer of beauty -the small pox. Catherine-she answered to no such pet name as "Katy," or "Kit ty"-always wore a clean, well-starched print, with a frill of the same at the neck; a checked apron, tied with tape around her wtaist, and her hair was always combed smoothly over her fore head. She was one of those rare women who can get up a dinner, and then, as if by magic, put herself in perfect order to serve at table. Catherine was doing d 'uble duty at this time.. The boy, whose duty it was to milk seven cows and feed two hundred hens, had gone home, ill, and ats the men were all busy in the harvest-fields, his work came on her. The farmer had gone down to New York to get another man, and was expected home the next day. That evening, we went out to see Cath erine milk, and, as we stood beside her and the delicate buff-colored Jersey cow she was milking, we fell into conversation with her. She told us she was well acquainted with her work, having been a farm-servant in "Hengland." She thought work lighter and wages better here than there, and re marked: "If servants were willing to be like ser vants here, and pot be always struggling to look like ladies, they might lay by a good bit for a sick day, or for old age,'" I said that it was cheering to meet one who was contented with her lot; upon which she heaved a deep sigh, and I saw that It was the same ol story-"an aching void,'' If no deeper soj;rowv. She did not look up, nor court smypathy, but I could not bellp saying: "I suppose you left your parents behind, and your brothers and sisters?" "No; my parents (lied when I wore a bit of a child. 3hy bi-other died ten year-s ago." "Well, one sighs for the very green earth of his native land,'' I said. "Oh, well, I don't know about that, ma'am; I never think of that. It's just a-s grecen and sweet her-e. God's earth Is about the same all over;" and again there was a deep, deep sigh. We followed Catherine s she bore the shining pals into the dairy, and there we met the lady of the farm-i. Yes, we mean just that, for she was a lady as well as a farmer's wife. She met Catherine with a smile, and said; "Be patient one more milking, Catherine. The master's coming to-mnorrow with a man who will be twice the help to you Joe was?" Catherine smiled and replied: "I'm not a-wear-y, and neither am I impatient, ma'ami." We left the l?rick-fbored dairy, and as we pas.sed itito the: slttim4-room, I said to the lady, "Thai womah has sonme great sor row.", "Oh, no; only perhaps a little "omesick for b.old Hengland ;' " was the reply. "She has hias been with me two years, and has. never spoken of any trouble. "I have had my suspicions, however," she added, "that shi'right have a husband somewhere, although sha passes for an old maid. The worthy man. in our cottage, who has a nice home and ;omeo money, wanted to marry her, last winter, to secure a good mother for- his boys. But she .said, 'No. that she 'ad no' eart foinminn.a a When the open wagon came up from the depot, about sunset next day, wd all went to the kitohen.door;to welcome . '"the mati Carine td ithe dorway, the pic ture of neattiese, ~h as dressed ia, one of her "~Hengiishe Au1"I hzch goods s1ried ebwslip ,11% setri o ,had of re. freshing lilac color4 I complimented her dress, and her high topped comb, and her: broad:nullin(Oo114r, wlyshesl,e,dynd rplied: '*eI' ete all,*were irig'up thia lftetnobn; 1 ed:t a it Nto pdeasoiydu, 1vhoJlie spokh s kind temheo.' "Trhank you, Catherine. Jeree odtnes the wagon. See what a great muscular. felwtemaster lhas brout1', 'I'ho Inaster gave th9r1i ,.6i o~ haY4iiacRVWho waf doxt d et 6~14 bade anditli to take l'f at~' gah1~ id ' ~ b~ M 7nS thedi hdralked into feel at home before you go to your room. Catherine 1" Catherine had fled; and the man, who had caught a glimpse of her, stood looking al the door through which she had vanish od, his eyes and mouth wide open. "Cat,herine, come now and give your countryman a good supper!" called the farmer. In a moment she appeared in the door way, as pale as marble; and the great, good looking, middle-aged man made a bound for her, and caught her in his arms, and showered kisses-which sounded like the report of patent pop-guns-on her pale face. lie then held her off at arm's length and cried : "is it ye, indeed, Catherine, that I thought (lead, found by a mericle?" "o Timothy!" gasped Catherine, "I'd long thought ye dead in iaustralila!" "I never set foot on it, sinner as I was to tell ye I was goin'." Here we all withdrew from what should be a strictly private conference. That night Catherine taliped at my door; and, when admitted, she said, with a cour tesy: "I couldn't let ye sleep, ma'am, till I'd explainel, lest ye might think me 'in on modest girl that a stranger would dare be kissing. "Timothy and me were 'trothed to each other at 'ome, and for four years we were struggling to lay up a bit to come to H1am erica with. I was by natur' a bit sad, and 'e was the merriest lad in the town. 'E would tease me at times, telling me 'e'd found a fairer nor me, and would marry her, and so used to fret me. "But we'd always inake up, and 'e'd say'o wouldn't change me for any girl in the land. But 'e'd soon be hat it again. " 'E tried It once to hoften. 'E came in, sayim' 'e was goin' hoff to Haustralin, and wouldn't. be back for ten years, and hid me farewell. I couldn't hear the mortification, and I made up my mind to leave Heng land. "When night came, I put my box in the wagoner's 'ande, and -went to Liverpool, and took ship for 'ere. I halways thought 'im in Haustralla, and 'e thought me crazed or dead when I was not to be found. But 'e's suffered enough, poor dear lad. "A 'e, thou'gh such long years ha' gone by, 'e a never loved another, and 'is 'cart Is just brealcin' wi' gratitude to God for bring ing 'im safe to me. " 'E's promised, ,sol ein as an oath, never to tease me more, and I've pledged me never to be a silly loon, but a wise, sensible woman, worthy to be 'is wife. I've asked leave of the mistress to go to the minister with 'hn to-morrow ; and the master 'imself offered to drive us 'hover in 'is best wagon.' "But you have no wedding dress," I said. "0 dear lady, if I 'ad a thousand o' 'em, I'd throw them all aside and wear the cow slip gown that Timothy gave mo at the fair 1" The next evenng, we had a wedding supper In the dining-room; and we all waited on Catherine and Timothy. - We gave them wedding-presents, and wished them -joy, and made them the happiest couple in town. The Sensitlvo Plans. The idea of subjecting this remarkable plant to the action of anmsthetics was na tural, and several experiments of the kind are recorded, the plant having been placed in vapors of ether or chloroform. Recently, Mr. Arloing has made some interesting observations of the effects of chlora, chlo roform, and ether presented for absorption at the roots. The pots were sprinkled with aqueous solutions of these substances, then covered to prevent escape of the vapors. After absorption of chloroform or ether, one notes primary and secondary effects; the former are phlenlomfena of excitation si millar to those arising from mechanical irri tation, andl complarable to those In animals wvhen anousthetized. Thiey occur'sucessively froml the bottom to the top of the stem. In thirty to sixty minutes the conimon petioles (or leaf- stems) straighten andkthe leaflets separate, beginning from the top of the stem; but the plant is nnw found to have lost its sensibility. The secondary effects consists of elimination of the aniesthetic. The sensibility often (toes not return, for one andl a-half or two hours. .Ohloral does not act anresthetically on the sensitive plant.- These observations afforded M. Arloing an opportunity of ascertaining ve locity of liquids in the stem and branchesof plants under strictly physiological condi tions whereas past experiments-on the sub ject have been made with withered or mu tilated planits. If the leaves are in good state, the common petioles bend down sud denly and successively from below upwards in the plant as the absorbed chloroform reaches~them. Hence, knowing the di mensions of the plant the velocity of the chioroformized water In the stem and primary potioles can be easily calculated. Within the stem, the velocity is nwodifiesl by the state of the tissues and folitige, the temperature, &c.; it was found in.difI!reit cases, at the rate of 0.00 met res, 2.22 metres, 2.40 metres, and 5.76 metres per hour. , The velocity increases from t.he base to the top of the stem In the ratio of 1 to 1.25 or 1.50, and It ise-one and a half times or twice as great In the petioles as in the stein. The time of absorption by the roots was found-to val-y( o two to six and a half mizjutes. [ining a tudg.. A Thanlel has conme to judgment mn the person. of Judge'Eldridge, of Memphis, Trenn., wvho requires the oflcors of the Cir cuit to be prompt in thelr1attendance under penalty of fine. ..One day recently he was late himsolf, anti business was,d of course, suspended until he appeared. Heomounted the be'nctwith thte stern aspect of -lBrutus. C lark," he obserye, "you will please Sah, enter up k'une against Judge Eldridge for' abibnde withobti an exitet> This was done amid breathless SIlence, butsooni after ward Attorney:General Duval made'a most eloque&t appgl 1rf4vor ;of remittih|g the finQ He re.ferreQ tiotte r terms to the un rinSi-ol tn dfJu e ldridg d 1#stibh.' henfollbWeti W. J. Rives, in A spocij in *hieni higlo mnd path9 . were *mAt: delicatelf Andlb~ieilouslyinto doid. 14thq 4oggencpnf iothl attorneys fell on ston ear. Th Cout oserved that whilae The Toaa Market of Parie. By the Jardin des Plantes, in the old and quaint quarter of St. Marcel, Paris, you will find, every Wednesday morning, from spring to autumn, a very curious market place. From seven to nine A. ,M., your attention is called to an open space of ground, separated by a boarding from the street by a noise like unto that which creets the ears of tired Senators when the sun of day is' meeting the twilight hour, and all frogdom on the banks of the Washington canal is chorously joyous and loud I1 We approach this market place so full of simp licity and sound. Young men in blue blouses, black silk caps, pert faces, jaunty airs, big finger rings, dandy buots, greasy hair-parted down the muiddle-and prim noustaches, are the venders. In one hand they hold a little stick, and when the sounds alluded to grow heathenish, whack! goes the stick on the top of a barrel whence these diabolical noises emanate, and silence reigns. The toads are momentarily dunb. We know there is a great deal of unlovable sentiment arrayed against toads, yet toads are full of love sentiment. A toad carries all its young in a most loving and senti mental manner, and why should not like beget like, if there be any truth in the doe trino of Aristotle? Much bad blood and hnalignity is got up against toads. This one of the young men in olouso tells me, in a foppish, half-philosophical way. l3arrels of toads! Think of it I Barrels packed like barrels of potatoes ! "Selling at 2 francs, 40 to 6 francs a dozen, prine toadsl nice toads!" Who buys them? Vegetable gar deners. Why ? For the reason that toads devour the insects that otherwise would de vour the vegetables. Who devours the toads? Contrary to some ideas-not the French people. But toads are being sold now, not devoured, and it is with the sel ling we are interested. How do they vend them ? Young man in blouse bares his arm and thrusts his open hand into the slimy swim and brings up two, three or four gym nastic toads, wriggling and writhing. lie points out their merits and delivers theuh in a box by the dozen to the eager market gardener who takes his choice and pays his price. The buying and selling is done ex peditiously and quietly. The license reve nue to the Government is great, while the profit to the venders is greater, arising from this other peculiar Parisian baseness, the selling of toads. I addressed inyself to one of the merchants: 'Permit me to ask-if you have been long in this business ?" 'Ncch ant looks at me and laconically replies: "Born in it 1" Then I resume and say, en couragingly : "You know a good deal about it ?" le looks at me again and replies: "All !" I am uneasy as to his feelings, therefore change the attack by asking : "Does it pay well ?" He deigns not to look at me now, but replies : "It, does!" "Do you suifer much toss by death by packing the toads all of a mass in a barrel l" "1. do not I" "Is it expensive to cultivate them ?" ''It is I" "How do you care for them and propagate them?'" "We don't care nuch, and they propagate themselves l" "Where?" "Marshes and rockeries 1" "Do you ever feed them?" "Never l" "How do you live?" "Pretty weil"l' "Have you a large supply ?" "Too large I" 1 look upon him as the concentrated assemblage of many toads, and I leave him. Trapping Rate, Having lured to destruction, many old Solomuons among rats I will detail my plan: Take a pan nearly full of bran, set a small steel trap without any bait, put a light wad of tow or cotton under the psn of the trap, which press down so it is just ready to spring; put the trap In the bran, making a place with the hand so that it may be below the surface when level; lastily scatter a few kernals of corn on the bran (pumpkin seeds are better), and you are ready for your vie tim. I hardly ever fail to fool some of the ring-leaders in this way, while younger oes are easily caught. If you cannot thus circumvent that shy and cunning old specimeri, 1 will give- you my plan with stryehlnine, which is as swift with rats as wit.h dogs. So much for the V\ isconsinl rats. We cannot but think thlat the "old Solomons'' out there are not half so wvise or canning as some1 weO have encountered at the East. Some years ago the rats made bad havoc in onr cellar, and we resolved to try the effleacy of the steel trap. It was set in a large fiat vessel and well covered and hidden wvith bran. We were more cautious than the writer above, for we used a large spoon to move the bran, fear Ing tihe rats might smell the touchl of f in gers and keep away. Mmall bits of cheese were then dIropped over all p)arts of thle covered trap. 'iThe next morning there were tracks of rats all over the surface, ex cept where the trap was buried; and the cheese was all taken, except directly over the Irap/ We were compelled to resort to a more effectual trap, which proved suc coiful-inl the shape of a fine old cat. A OhIld's Battle WVith an Eagle. 0. Wieland, Auditor of Lake county, Minn., writes: "Recently, while lIttle Au gust Burr, aged seven years, was playing with his sisters-one five years old and tho other three and one-half-near his father's house, an enormous eagle pounce down tipon them, throwIng thle .two girls -lo the ground. It Immediately attacked the younger one, grasping one of the child's arms with the claws of one foot, while the claws of the other foot were deeply buried in the child's .face; and it attempted to carry the child off, but was prevented by her struggled.- Little August, seeing that he could do nothing with his own:hands to help his sister ran' quickly to the house, got the butcher.knife, and came out and hacked.away at the eagle's legs, cuttIng one of tlieul severely near the f.oot, whereupon the savage bird let go the little girl and gtt Lacked the boy, knocking him over, tehring his pantaloons, and giving hiin sonme severe scratches. In the uiicantimo: tio screams of the children brought out their mother, wheroupon the eagle flew off to the barn, on which he sat and looked' as though he would like to renew the centeet, sbould a' favorable opportuanity offer. neighbor-wag called who shot the bird. It a h~tfp I'elittle gl1bbdly erached, btit not Sorioudly hiirt." Did yott ever think of praising God with yeur hammer and saw ? Perhiapa sweeter echo in;the hrbes; of, heaven. IA*ed 0te u thWork noA ~ e o The Now Ocean Cablo. North Easthain, where t ho shore end of the new cable has been laid, is near Prov incetown, Cape Cod. From North East ham the land lines of the American Union 'T'elegraph Company will atTurd transinis sion to all points in the United States and Canada. The Pouyer-Querter Coinpany is composed miostly of French and American stockholders, the former holding the bal ance of power, and has a paid-up capital of about '8,000,000, soon to be increased by an additional amount of $2,000,000. Its otlicers are practical men, experienced in telegraphy and in the management of telegraphic business with the outside world. The cable was constructed by Siemon Brothers, of England, who also built the cable used by the Direct company. It is considered heavier, stronger and moro nearly perfect than any now used by other companies. The process of its building is especially adapted to secure those results. A central wire of copper is surrounded by ten copper wires, twisted, insturing abso Inte conductivity in all weather. For insu i:uiug purposes three envelopes of gutta perch surround the wire, and outside of the gutta percha is placed a wrapping of mauilla hemp treated with Chatterton's compound. An armor of steel wire for protection is placed outside the hemp, the wires composing the armor, being laid in a peculiar manner, side by side, so that frac tures seem almost impossible to occur. Surrounding the armor is another covering of manilla hemp, saturated with an anti corrosive compound, which makes the as surance doubly sure that the cable will be always be ready for use. The cable ex tends from Brest., France' to St. Pierre, Miquelon, and from St. Pierre to North Easthain. At its conp!etion the Faraday will return to Brest, when another cable of similar conestruction will be laid from Brest to Land's, England, establlishing connection with that c.-untry. The distance across is only about two hundred miles, and, as the water is shallow, the Ulectritians regard this as an easy task. Next year the company will lay still another cable from Land's End to St. Pierre, thus establishing a double line between this country and Europe. The Faraday, which is well adapted to the lay iug of ocean cables, was in t lie v ry centre it the cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, but paid no attention to the unruly element, keeping en about its business of cable lay ng ju.t as if no.hing else was gol1 on. 'l'o secure a landing-place in the United tates the conipany gave th United States ovcrnm:nOtL a guarantee t'at the company will not consolidate or amalgamate with my other line, or combine therewith for tho purpose of regulating rates. A Married Widow. It was just before the opening of the rail way from 'Tagantog to Kharkof in 1809, and [ was driving these dreary distances in aut amn. For the first two days and nights the weather was lovely, but on the third morning, soon after sunrise, the sky became covered with heavy, torn and jagged clouds; a northerly wind arose,. and with thunder, lightning, cold gtlc, and snow, the winter burst on us as it yearly. breaks on Southern Russia. In half an hour the rich, black, rolling plains had become an ocean of inky mud, and we reached the post station of Donsli only to find the order, "Impossible to proceed." I called for tea, and the samovar was brought in by a line, upright, gray bearded man, whom, from his black velvet tunic and slashed sleeves, I took to be the post master himself. lie was followed into the room by a noble looking Cossack woman of his own age, who said, "Little husband, why don't you ask the little lord if hg will eat a partridge 'nd a bit of bread? The kurupatka is plump, and the day will be long before his troika can be harnessed to face'the storm." She smiled sweetly as she spoke-he smiled lovingly upon her ; then lie left us, looking lingeringly back. "Your wife's in love with you still, and you with her, postmaster," I said. "You must have beaten her well wheun she was young for her to love y >u so. How long is it since you wvere marr'ed?" "I am sixty," he replied ; "I wasmarried at twventy-live, thirty-five years-five years before I<iiedZ." "What ?" saId I. "Five years before my death. Is it pos sible that you don't know my story ? You must have come a long way off, for I have heard that it is told even upon the Azof." Anid, throwing his legs across a chair, without more ado, lie spoke thus, I was born in 1809 and can remembecr the return from Paris of my father and unele-Cos sacks ot the D)on. Th~lose were grand days, when every Cossack wvas an olleer by birth, and when the Hetmian Platot was King of Europe, conqueror of the Tu~~rks and o)f the French, and( friend and equal of thle White Trsar., Now this Pectersburst Tsar saya that we're no better than his Great I ussIan slaves, and for many years my sabre and long l)isto'ls have huing upon the wall uin usedl; andl when 1 have worn my red band ed cap and my red stripped breeches I've always hId as much as I could of the stripe In my boots, for I'm ashamed of it now; and they're even going to take away our privilege of the sup)ply of salt. "In 1884, as a young postmaster--for my father was dhead--with a good place atnd a handsome heard, I was the best match In the two church villages round. I could pick my wife, ad I chose Olga,. that you saw just now." "There!" saId-I. "Ah!I wait and( see. .Wait, little lord! Don't be impatient ! Olga was as !ivolv as she was good. You have seen her In her sixtIeth year. IHer goodness. is what It was; andI, though Imay be an unsafe udge, hiet beauty, I thInk, is not.yet gone.' He looked at ine... I .nodfled. 'W.e.0 were happy at first; but I wats young. I felI the chain. I was faithful toJet.as far as Womnen W6Vt,,but. not kind. WVe had no children. "One day, In 1889 she wa in low spirits about me, and flung her arb3 upon a sud den about my neck, with, 'De you really' hove .me, lhttle John ?' " 'Yo. know I do.' " 'llut iiot as I love you.' "T.tell yott what thoiglts-lashed in an instabt through my mind wouild be-impossi ble. .-Thiat whatM she saldt was true,., That while I did love her In a .klv way, I was bound to he (qr life, whie ir I would or no. In alfit of *ld rage,I struck her one shor ,esharp blow. Shle looked at;me, ;with 'deepatr'lnlher eyes; and wallied slowly Into. qur therroo:; Iran Into the stable yard., 7WWabef4%ia,"said I toitthe stay, eoicJ 1eaqat, e.fr(Irlt with I've found upon the floor. Quick I quick I the best courier horses." "In an instant they were ready. Merrily jingled the belle in the crisp air. Paul took the reins, and off I whirled. In twenty hours I was at Kliarkof. To my friend the starosta at the great Kharkof station, who was equal in rank and pay to most post masters themselves, I said, 'Do me a ser vice,' little friend, as I would do one for you. I am going to leave my wife to whom .1 have been unkind, and am going to enlist in the Guard. But I wish her to torget me, and she must think ne dead. Write to her in a week, and tell her I was taken with the cholera and died. Beg her to forgive me for my unkindness. Say that I was grateful for her love; and that it was my. last wish th it she should marry again, some lad more worthy of her than myself. Mahe interest to have the station continued to her as postmistress. She was a priest's daughter, and can write. "We crossed ourselves; he swore; we bowed to the image in the corner of the sta b!e ; and in live minutes I was gone.' "At the recruiting olice I enlisted for the Empress's regiment of Cu!rassicrs of the Guards as a fourteen years' volunteer, and in a false name. I'd of course no papers, but thcy nsk no questions, for I was a fine recruit. My beard was shaved, my hair was cut, and when I got to St. Petersburg, and was 1.ed with my uniform and eagle crowned hemlet, no one would have known me. I rose to be sergeant and second rid ing-master. From your padarojna I see that. you are English. "Now, in 1853, when I had served my time, there were rumors of war in Turkey against you, and tempting offers were made to me to stop and i-drill the recruits. But 1 was wretched, and home-sickness drove meI South; thcugh, if 1 found my wife dead or married, again, I intended to kill myself." "Petersburg is not a place for Cossacks either. By brooding over the past, 1 had become madly in love with my wife. It was no use for me to tell myself that i. had left her well off; that she was married again and happy ; that she was fourty-four and fat.; or else, perhaps, a scarecrow. I was madly in love. 1 got my discharge and pensiou papers, and started South. At Khiarkof my friend was dead. What if she too were dead?" " 'Who keeps the Donski post station now ?' I murmured, crossing myself the while under my long cloak. " 'The widow.' " 'A widow that has kept it fourteen years?' "'rhe same.' "In eighteen hours I was there. I recog nised two of the old men, but they not inc. I rushed into the house. She was at her day book, writing, not changed; only gra ver, and with silver in her black hair. 1y own little Olga, in the best style of old days. She did not turn to look at me, but threw up her arms and fell forward on the table. I rushed to her and felt her heart, with mine, too, all but ceasing to beat. In a moment she came to herself-our li ps press ed together. That was in 1853. This is 1869. Sixteen years gone like a (lay. We have made up for the past, little lord. "But woild you believe it? That wretch ed Government at Petersburg insists that I am dead, and that the Donski station is kept by a widow. Or else, they say, theelaas sier riding-master must be dead, and with him his pension. My widow accepts the situation with a smile, for our neighbors all know better than to believe the Government, but she keeps the books, signs the receipts, and pays the taxes. 1 draiv my pension in my cuirassier name. Some Little Things of Value. If your coal fire is low, throw in a table spoonful of salt, and it will help it very much. A little ginger put into sausage meat imp)roves *,he Ilavor. In icing cakes, diip the knife Into co1(1 water, In boiling meat for soup, use cold water to extract the juices. If the meat is wanted for itself alone, plunge It into the boiling water at once. You can get a bottle or barrel of oil off any carp)et or woolen stuff by applying buckwvheat plentIfully. Never p)ut water to such a grease-spot, or lhquid of ay kind. Broil steak without salting. Salt draws the juices in cooking; it is desIrable to keep these, if possible. Cook over a hot fire, turning frequently, Rearing bothm aides; place oni a p)latter, salt and )pper to taste. Beef having a tendency to be though, can be made very palatable by stewing gently for two hours with salt and popper, taking abont a pint of the liqumor when half done, and letting the rest boil Into tihe meat. Brown the meat in the pot. After taking up, make a gravy of the pint of liqnor saved. A small pilece of charcoal in the p)ot with boiling cabbage removes tIhe smell. Clean oil cloths with milk and water ; a brush and soap will ruin them. Tumblers that have milk in them should nevem' he put in hot water. A spoonful of stewedl toma toes In the gravy of' either roasted or fried meats is an improvement. Trhe skIn of a boiled egg is the most eflicacious remedy that can be applied to a.boil. Peel It care fully, wet and apply to the part affected. It will draw out the matter and relieve the scorenems In a few hours | : Dog andj DonKtoy. A singular encounter b)etween a dog and a donkey has just occurred at Blackpool, England. A retired gentleman, named Weddinigton, owvned a flue young donkey and a splendlid mastiff, The other day the donkey'was grazing in a field, when the dog rushed at It in a ferocious mnmer and fastened on its nose. Th'ie donkey (lid not decline the challenge, for It at once shook the dog off,- bit it about the head and shout de, trampled on It, and tossed it about, The dtog again seized the donkey and a crowd soon gathered, but all offparts to sep arate the combatantsawero of no avail. The dog repeatedly fastened on the donk'ey's nose. Blood flosyed profusely from bdth animals, and at the end of half an hour the owner appeared upon the scene, and fresh attempts were madeo to part thoem, but with out success. A fter the fight had lasted half an hour, the owner decIded to have the dog shot, as it had by that time fastened with a firm hold on ther donkey's riose. . A gun was proettred and th6 seirvices of a. good shot obtained. But so savage was the fight that It was difficult to ishoot one animal without killing the.ether. also. At last,.aim was taken,jnid a-bullet:put~Into. the idog's Iheadjand it dropped td tho-hrndt, TWhen the smoke oleared away tho ldog-wes deadh but the I.nfuriated-donlo lad- reiturned sto enlty,the danktita eMl A Doomed Family. A few nights ago Edward Scannell, shot and dangerously wounded Henry Wilson, in a low grogery in New York. The anile members of the family seem born to misfortune. which is a mild word to ex press what h.3, at tines, been tinged with crime. In the fall election af' 1868 Flor ence Scannell was a candidate for Assistant Alderman. A few nights before the elect tion he was in Thomas Donohue's saloon, at Twenty-third street and Second avenue. The place was crowded, an(1 much heated dicussion on politics took place. hot words led to blows - during the fracas some one fired a pistol, The bullet lodged in Flor ence Scnnnell's spine. After lingering for a few days ho died in Bellevue Hospital. John Scannell accused I)onohue of shooting his brother, although the charge was not made until several days afterwards, Noth ing could be proved against Donohuo, and the charge fell to the ground. lndeed, it ws said at the time. and it is current among polticians and sporting men, that John Ycannell hinnself fired the shot, in. tending to hit ano'her man. Be this as it may, John Scannell professed to believe that )onohue was his brother's murderer, and then determined to slay him. Dono huo was shot at once in First avenue, and an endeavor was made to show that Scan nell had mado the attempt to assassinate him, but the evidence was not sufficient to fasten the rine on him. All that could be proved was that a man In disguise had shot at )onohlue. "our years passed and Donohue still lived, but Scannell had not relinquished his purpose. Instead, his do ternlination grew stronger with time, and eventually consumed overy other desire : it became i mania, which controlled his wa king thoughts and dreaming hours. On the eve of the Presidential election, in Novem ber, 1872, the pool rooms in this city were crowded by euger investors on the result. One of the lost noted places at that time was T. 13. Johuson's at Broadway and Twenty-eight street, On the Saturday preceding the day of election that placc was literally pactccd. Standing near the door was Thomas )onollue, with no thought or care apparently for anything else than investing his mnonoy in the election pools. As l1e was turning to speak to a friend, John Scannell went down the stairs and saw him). Without warnin:t. ho rirew his pistol, and pointing it at 1 'oiohuo., began tiring, remarking, "I have yiu n,ow." Don ohuc fell at the tirat fire, and Scannel thou emptied the remaining shots in his pistol into the body of the fallen man. Death Onsued alnioat immediately, and Scanuell was arrested and indicted for murder. On his first trial he was sentenced to be huug : the case was appealed, a new trial granted, and by a jury of physicians Scannell was declared incane. He was sent to the State Asylum at Utica, and after a short contino ment there, was released on a writ of habeas corpus, the conrts which d"clared him in sane then declaring hin sane. At the time Donohue was shot Edward Seaunell was at Fordhaml College. ]t; was the desire of the family that he should be educated for the priesthood. ills brother's crime barred hl1n out from so amtbitious a calt ng, and from that day ho changed from a morl youth to a reckless man. When John Seannell was released from the asylum he1 entered at once upon the life of a profess ional sporting man. lHo became, and is now part owner of a gambling saloon in Barclay street and another near Thirtieth and Broadway. In botlh of these places his younger brother, Ed. Scannell, was dealer for a fare game, A Hot Waiter River. The projector of the Sutro Tunnel is of the opinion that the hot water which is so tr>ublesome in the Comstock mines comes from a depth of ten or fifteen thousand feet, whlere the rocks are at a hligh temuper ature ; also thlat there musit be some cou nection between tile water of tile Comstock lode and thlat of the boiling springs at Steamboat, six or seven miles distant. One of tihe great advantages of tIle tunnel is the means .it alordls for draining tihe minels. Thie tunnel discharges about twelve thou sand ton of waiter every twventy-four hlours. Tio lift tis water to tile surface would cost not less thaa $3,000 a day. Some of the water has a. temperature of 105 degress where all tile water mingles; four miles0 froml the mouthu of 1110 tunlnell tihe tempera ture ranges"from 180 dtegrees to 185 degrees. If left to ilow through tile 01pen tunel this water would so) 1111 the air with steamn as to make tile tunnlel Inpassable. In flowing the four miles through a tighIt flhnne made of 8 inchl yellow pine, the water loses but 7 dlegress of hleat. At the mouth of the tunnel tihe watcl is conductedi sixty feet down a shlaft to a wheel In tile macilne shop, wvhence it is carried oft by a tunnel eleven hlundr'ed feet in length, which serves as a tall race. From tis tulnnel tile water flows a mile and a half to tihe Carson river. This larg. flow of warm water is now used for many purpose, tihe first to utilize It having been boys who made small p)ondS to swim In-pioneers, It may be, in establishinlg a system of warm bathls, whIch may ultbinat ely become a great sanitary resort. The water can also be turned to account In heat log hot houses and for irrigation. The tunnel company have a farm of .ever a thlousand acres which, when properly watered, is very fertile. In course of time thlero will probable be many acres of fruit and vegetables under glass at.this point all warmed and watered by tile tunnel water. -The Alpane Hlorn. The Alpine horn Is an Instrument made of the bark of a cherry tree, and; like a speoaking trump)et, is used to convey sounds to a great distance, Whlen tito last rays of tile sun gild tile suinit of the0 Alps, the shepherd who inhabits the highest p ak, , of these mountains takes his horsi, ' d4 cries with aloud voice, "P'raised be tie Lord." As soon as thle neighboring stiephlerds hear him, they leave their huts, and-repeat,s these words. The sounds are prolonged many miIngtes, while tlAe echoes of the rooks re peat the name o$ God. Imnaginatian can not1 pictureanythilng morw aolemn or sub linle.than suchla scenQ. Dutring the silence that, succeeds, Ine shlepherds bend , their knees, and pray in the open air, then re pair to their huts .to ;rest. 'The sunlight gilsling the~ tops of these stupendous moun, tain, tipoP wlboh , theult of iInen .sceelm. tO rept,. j1q, mttgifcen~t .pscener $1 e ale r yel FOOD FOR THIOUG'T. A great head hag -great cares. Forgetfulness is no apolo y. Love is the crowning grace of the Christian life. The doctrine of the Atonement Is full of the love of God. People's intentions can only be deci led from their conduct. He keeps his road well er}ough who Weta rid of bad company. To openly offend virtue is toclandes. tinely defend immorality. By looking Into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged. Happiness and unhappiness are qual ities of mind, not of place or position. Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest of ttese is love I You ahould consider your adversity as absent when your senses are depar Led. Those gifts are ever the most aecep tablowhleh the giver has made precious. There wotld not be so natny open mouthls if there were not so maniy open Bars. Glye, if thou canst, an alms; if not iflurd, instead of that a sweet and gen ;le word. The mind hath reason to remetn jer that passions ought to be her vassals for her wastors. All virtue lies In a power of denying >ur own desires when reason does not tuthorize 11,hoin. A emperor in his night cap will not neot with hal' the respect of an un ,eror withi a crown. Expression is of more consequence ;han shape--it will light up features )therwise heavy. Generalizt.ioaa and great self-eon. Ott are always preptiring the most la nentable mislaps. People do not. retlet t.hat they may on die. 11 they did their quarrels vould qiickly terminate. 11unor, warm and all-enbracing s .he sunshino, bathes its objects in a eiI all nd.abiding light. At IeSent let us remove what is bad; vich miust always be done before gooia ,f any kind ann spring up. Ordinary apprehension, or a correct luw of humnan atlairs, lI the general Icirlouom of 0. conIutOn onse. Never neglect to perlui n the comi uiasiou which the friend entrusted to ou. You must not forget. Men are often more guilty of treach iry from weakiess of character than 'ron any settled design to betray, The universo is but one great, city, ul l of beloved ones, divino and huuan y nature endeared to eawt other. Perseyerlug mediocrity is much more espectable, and of unspeakably more sle than talented inconstancy, There are mtany manifestations of iod's love in nature and lir"ovidence, but the greatest of all is in Christ his Son. Covetous inen need money least, yet they most aa'ect it; but prodigals, who nced it most, have the least regard for it. Let every man sweep thwesnow frot before his own door and not busy liisolf about the frost on his neigh bor's tiles, To be vain of what you have learned Is the samae as to plume yourself on a piece of game yoa have received from a Ilunter. There can be no surer way to success than by, disolaiming all cotiidence in Durselves, and roferriig the events of thittgs to God with an impiceit cong lence. Suome parsons are chr9nically sour ; rotn foul every time you meet them as f you'd been eating lem.onea without mngar ; they stamp a sowil on you In aldo and out. While it is imnpossible, even after 3onvrsioni, to live without sinning, rot provision is made for tiae forgive nesms of'our* daily sins, and thie washing f the stins. Charaeter alone .is Iintertal. Not what we have, but what we are, is en Ideas, as ranked uin4er names, are ~hose that, for the most payp, men roa ion of wvithip tiaenigolvos, ,and always hewhich they commul botwt We c~an enjoyr fellowsabo witho >nly by walking where h dwells. It we would have the companionship of rurc. trienda, we must, go in the samue tociety in which they tuove. Wh ,u we are out, of sympathy with he you og. then we think our work in bhla world la oydr. That is a sign that hie heArt has beguni to 4ither-and that is a drea d.ful kind of' old age.. Hie who' spefidsr is you'nger days in. lissipat1on is paortgagiig 'himself to liseaso and poverty, twg9 inexorable uroditors, Whlit are certald to foreclose at lasa and take possessiona of the pro. inises. It is easy in the *orld's opinion ; it Is easy in solitudo to lhve~ after your owvn; bt the gred~ md is ho, who ila the midst ot' the crowd, lhaps with per feet sweetne'ss tjlf indintience of aol- * ,When y9u doutbt betwek words use the pIlinest, the commoiuosr, tho most idiomatic. Esclied e Wordls as you woIIld rouge; lave 'shnble rones as you Wtndld native roses utl yPbIli cheek. Theo best reo pefU go,pg throug h life in 'an oxqnistte wn vih beaufu manners, is to fool *ti' every body, no rj meatter how ribh'or hbw poor, needs hall the kiudness the? eai got from others in this world. If a man Wadte to be right and to do ~~N somO good intde'wrl he must not O discourageddlWidF"hae ld him~< wvith 'the hMd it?#'.'4t 'bne time o anothe r 16 'Who" t46du$lIshes uoh for the cattse 6f truth i#iWte to find the majority Agalhust hiim -' W hon mzetisforth 1 to satt fl diesent tradiln~z 'at.~ guhed totii~ 4t 00tfce to wth (9