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TR, I.-WERK'LY. EDITION. WINNSBORO, -S. .,OCTOBER 30, 188-VL&V.N.11 BOBOLIRL Little'Bobolink, flying tbrough the meadow, Lighting on tall gras. nodding at his shadow; PoPing down onto the ground, Where his mate is sitting On fi'e tiny, speokled eggs, Round her he is litting. Here and thete, and everywhere, Catching Ailes to bing her I Then he lights above her nest A sweet song to sing her Lovely song. so full and strong, With sweetness bubbling over; How I love to hear him sing, dwinging on the clover I Soon the little birds will hatch, Then they'll fly together After food to fill their mouths Through bright and rainy weather ; Here and there, and everywhere, Seeking food to bring them, Hardly stopping all day long One sweet song to sing them. But the birds, so tiny now, Will soon their wings be trying, And through the meadows all the day In happy sport be Alang. Then Bobolink will stop to think That summer's almost over, And so a parting song he'll sing, Swinging on the clover; Lively so full and strong, Wth sweetness bubbling over, How I love to hear him sing, Swinging on the clover I The Haunted Oven. It was in the days of our grandmothers, when there were brick ovens In the land, that Mr. Hubbard bought his house, and bought it very much against his wite's will. IL was a lonely house, and reported to be haunted. It was next to a graveyard, which although unused, was not cheerful, and which, likewise, had the reputation of a ghost. However, Mr. Hubbard did not believe in ghosts, and was too cheerful to be depressed by warnings, and never In tended to be lonely. "Mrs. Hubbard," he said, wnen his wife shook her head over the purchase, "I got it cheap, and it a good one. You will like it when you get there;if you don't, why, then talk." So the house was bought, and into it the Hubbard family went. There was scarcely a chance for a ghost to show his face amid such a family of boys and girls. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard counted ten of them, all noisy ones. Having once expostulated aud spoken out her mind as to the house, Mrs. Hub bard gave up the point. She scrubbed and scoured, tacked down carpets, and put up curtains, and owned that the' place was pretty. As not a ghost appeared for a week, she made up her mind that there were no such inhabitants. She even began not to mind the tombstones. So the house got to rights at last, and bAking day came about. In the press of business they had a great deal of baker's bread, and were now tired of It. Mrs. Hubbard never enjoyed setting a batch of bread to rise as she did that which was to be eaten for the first time in the new house. "For I cannot get up an appetite for stuff that nobody knows who had the mak ing of," said Mrs. Hubbard, "and all puffy and alumy besides." So into the oven went the bread, and out it camne at the proper time, even and brown, and beantiful as loaves could be. Mrs. Hubbard turned them up on their sides as she drew themi forth, and they stood in the long broad-tray, glorious proof's of her skill and the excellence of the oven, when Tommy Hubbard bounded in. Tommy was four, and when at that age, we are prone to believe that anything will bear oua weight. Tommy, therefore, anxious to inlspc~t the newly-made bread, swung himself off his feet by elutching the edge of the bread-tray, and over it came, loaves and Tommy and all.. Mrs. Hubbard fle w to the rescue, and picked up the loaves. All were dusted and put in the tray again but one. That lay, bottom upward, under the table, "A bothering child to give me so much trouble!'! she said as she crawled under the table to get It. -"Ah---ah--dear, sister-oh--O-my-." And there on the floor sat Mrs. Hubbard, screaming, wringing her hands, and shak ing her head. The children screamed in concert. Mir. Hubbard rushed in from whore lie was at work. "What's the matter, mother I" hie gasp ed. Mrs Hubbard pointed to the bottom of the loaf lying in her lap. "Look there and see 1" she said. "It is a warning, Willham; I am going to be taken from them all." And ho looked; and he saw a deaths head and cross-bones, as plaInly engraved as they possibly could be. "It is ad accident, said Mr. Hubbard. "Some queer cranks do come, you know." But Mrs. Hubbard was in a troubled state of mind, as was but natural. "The stories about the haumnted house. were true," she said; "and the spirits have marked thme loaf. I am afraid It is a warn lng." And the loaf was put aside, for even Mr. Hubbard did not dare to eat any of Mrs. Hubbard got over her fright at last, but 'tw news of the awfully marked loaf-spread through R--, and -tue poo ~ple came to Hubbard's all the week to look at it. It vias a death'uahead and cross bone., certainly--every one saw that at a glance; but as ;o its mehning, people differed, Some believed that it was a warning of approdeohing death; others thought that the spirit, wanted to frighten the Hubbard's away, and get possession of the house again all to themselves: This latter supposition - inspired Mrs. Hubbard with courage. Finally. being a brave woman, she adopted the belief; and, when another baking day arrived, put her loaves iuto,the oven once more, prepared for cross-bones and not to be frightened by them. The loaves baked as before. They came out brown anderusty and as Mrs. Hubbard turned each In her hands there were no cross-bones visible, but on the last were sundry characters of letters. What, no one copld tell, until there dopped in for a chat a certain printer of the neighborhood, accustomed to reading things backward. "By George!" said he, "that is curious. That is curious-r-e-s-u-r-g-a-m -resur pm; that is what is on the loaf-resurgam." "it is what they put on tombs, Isn't it?" asked poor Mrs. Kubbard, faintly. "Well, yes,".said Mr. Hubbard, being obliged to admit it. "But it is not so bad as cross bcnes and skulls." Mrs. Hubbard shook her head, "It Is even solemner," said the little woman, who was not as good a linguist as breadmaker. I feel confident,W illiam, that I shall soon be resurgamed, and what will these dear children do then?" And now that the second loaf was be fore her eyes, marked even more awfully than the first, Mrs. Hubbard grew really pale and thin, and lost her cheerfulness. "I have a presentment," she said. over and over again, "that the third baking will decide who the warning belongs to, I be lieve it is meant for me, and time will show. Don't you see how thin I am grow Ing?" And though Mr. Hubbard laughed, he also began to be troubled. The third baking-day was one of gloo-n. Solemnlyas a funeral,the f amilyassembled to assist In the drawing. Five loaves came out markless; but one remained. Mrs. Hubbard's hand trembled, but she drew it forth. She laid it on the tray. She tut ned softly about. At last she ex posed the lower surface. On it were letters printed backward, plain enough to read this time, and arranged thus: Died April 2d, lamented by her large family. "It is me I" cried Mrs. Hubbard, "I am am going to go to morrow-this is the 1st. I do feel faint-yes, I do. It is awful,and so sudden. And Mrs. Hubbard fainted away in the arms of the most terrified of men and husbands. The children screamed; the cat mewed; the dog barked. The oldest boy ran for the doctor. People flocked to the Hub bard's. The loaf was examined. Yes, there was Mrs. Hubbard's warning-her call to quit this world. She lay in bed, bidding good.by to her family and friends. her strength going fast. She read her Bible, and tried not to grieve too much. The doctor shook his head. The clergyman prayed with her. Nobody doubted that her end was at hand, for peo pie were very superstitious In those days. They had been up all night with good Mrs. Hubbard, and dawn was breaking, and with it she was sure that she must go, when clattering'over the road and up to the door came a horse, and on the horse caime a man, who alighted. He rattled the knocker and rushed in. There was no stopping him. Up the stairs he went to Mrs. Hubbard's room, and bolted into It. Everyone stared at him as he took off his hat. "Parding," said he breathlessly; "I heard airs. Hubbard was dying, and she'd warnings on her bakings. I came over to explain. You see, I was a sexton of the1 church hero a few years ago, and I know. all about it. You needn't die of fear just yet, Mrs. Hlubbard, for it is neither spirIts nor demons about, nor yet warnin's. What marks the loaves is old Mrs. Finkle's tomb stone. I took it for an oven bottom, seeing there were no survivors, and bricks were dear. The last folks before you didn't get them printed off on their loaves because they used tins; and we got used to the marks ourselves. Crossbones and skulls we put up with,and never thought of caring for the resurgam. 8o you see how it is, and I am sorry you've been scared." Nobody said a word. The minister shut lis book. The doctor waiked to the wIn dow. There was a deadly silence. Mrs. Hubbard sat up in bed. William I" said she to her husband, "the first thing you do, get a now bottom to that oven." And the tone assured the assemblage of anxious friends that Mrs. Hubbard was. not goIng to die. just yet. Indeed, she came down the next day. And1 when the oven had been reconstruct ed, the first thing she did was to give in vitations for a large tea-drinking-on which occasion the loaves camne out all right. ______ A Perpetual Skating iFond. There Is a lake on the 5aw Tooth Moun taint, Calitornia, that probabaly has no equal in the United States, .It is about sixty-five miles from Bonanza, and at an altitude of nearly twelve thousand feet. The lake lies in a basin among the sharp crags of the snowy Baw Tooth, and is a sheet of perpet ual'ice, It was disovered in Auguist of last year by a party of prospectors, and named the Ice Lake. Tjae sun seemed to have no effect upon It except in places ad joining the shore. It is simply a great nowl in the hard mountain rock brimful of solid ice, upon whicli the rays of the sun descend with no powet' t'o penetrate. THU head-acenter-Pomade, Mygwene at the'Seashore. Dr. Boardman Reed of Atlantic City, has written a most useful paper upon this a subject. He says people visit the seashore t for various reasons, but mainly for health 1 rr pleasure. The pleasure-seekers really t require more attention from the local prac titioners than the health-seekers, simply i because they violate more flagrantly all < bygienic laws. But even the invalids who < visit this great sanitarium in such numbers, I both In summer and winter, do not always t take the best cre of themselves. In the t irst placo many make an unfortunate i ohoice of location. Patients with soften- t Ing tuberculous deposits ineist upon spend ing not only their days, but their nights i also, down very near the beach instead of being content with the more moderate t stimulation of the milder air a square or u two back in the town. Sufferers from t dhrenic malarial poisoning, on the other a hand, frequently select as a dwelling place f 3ome shady bower in the centre of the f Island, Instead of a sunny spot close to the f beach where the clhorine and iodine com- < pounds in the ocean spray could, undiluted, 1 axert their antiseptic and undoubted anti- b malarial virtues, not to speak of that mys- s rious chemical agent, ozohe, of which we c boar so much and know so little, but which, 1 whatever its therapeutic power, is thought to be most abundant near the salt water. 'l Supposing a favorable location 'to have a been secured, there are numerous points a apon which most invalids need minute u instructions, either from their own medical I advisers or from a competent resident phy- a dclan. First In Importance perhaps is the u liet. The weak stoinach which neither r guinine, gentlao, malt, nor any other pro- 1 product of pharmaceutic art could compel u o welcome a hearty. meal at home, soon i acknowledges the superior tonic powers of 1 ialt air. 'Ilhe appetite becomes uncontrol- i able. The patient now felicitates himself a and receives the congratulations of his too a udulgent friends upon his rapidly improving a iealth. But the appetite is stimulated t nore than the d.gestive powers, and unless u -estralned, the result is a bilious attack. If it )o in the winter time the patient may es- I xape with a headache, furred tongue, com- 1 plete loss of appetite, and the cessation of ] all Improvement. Then deciding that the d place no longer agrees with him, he returns u 0iome, perhaps little better than lie came. d if it be in the summer, the same over-eating t nay produce a diarrhoa or cholera morbus, d just as it would any where else, and the c ?atient, when the local iEsculapius -has a atched him up sufficiently, goes back to b he city roundly denouncing the seashore. a So with exercise. Persons debilitated by f lisease and foul urban air feel themselves e itimulated here to perform extraordinary j ,eats in walking, bathing, dancing, etc. By c iuch excesses they rapidly dissipate their b iewly acquired strength, and are left more n prostrated than before. The item of bathing well deserves a a ihapter to itself. Next to imprudence in r -ating and drinking, bathing too long, at I te wrong time, or in the wrong way, causes t more mischief here than any other one f agency. It is obvious enough that invalids U oo weak to react from the shock of the I )reakers, and from the chill of contact I with water twenty or thirty degrees colder i han their bodies must suffer severely from I Jathing in the ocean at all even if they do t iot stay in half an hour to an hour, as r onie misguided ones do. f But the great luxury, and, when scien ifically employed, most valuable therapcu ic agent, the in-doorsea-water bath, is now to )e enjoyed at several places on the Island. It is especially advantageous in the winter a ind spring months, but even in midsammer 8 rifords the benefits of sea bathing to thous- 0 inhd who dare not venture into the ocean. b A Night With a Panther. P In the autumn of 1852, after having < raversed a great part of the Western ter- . ritory, 1 found myself in the pleasant andi aealthy little villiago of Fayetteville, in a ~he north-western part of Arkansas. Here L n consequence of the large quantity of a game with which the neighborhood abound- t id, I determhaed to devote a few weeks to a eccruiting my strength, which owang to I he laborious manner in which I had traveled e aad become very much exhausted, and also 12 o enjoy the pleasure of my favorite amuse nent-himing. Upon one of my hunting excursions I had r >een singularly unsuccessful-not having a, aad a shot (luring the whole day, and, as o night be supposed, felt in a not very joy- 1 us mood; for upon all previous occasions t [ had met with great loss. This ill luck i iaused inc to remain in the forrest much c onger than I anticipated; and when I first a egan to think of returning, I found a ~hat it was already beginning to get dlark, s and I had quite a distance to travel through a ~he forest before reaching the village. i Weary in body and harassed in mind, in i eonsequencoet ofny want of success, I r slowly retraced my steps. Soon the dark t mantle of night was spread upon the forest, y and I as yet,perceived na signs of the open- L ing. I hastened my eteps, thinking, to reach j the clearing erc it became too dark for the e Iravel. Faster and faster I walked, until I s round myself going at a brisk trot,although t at every step my clo'thes wero torn by' the g brush, and my flesh considerably lacerated. a Boon, however, I was compelled io slacken c my pace, as It had become so dark that 1 a was unable to distinguish the trees, and t athier reluctantly came to the conclusion r that I would have to take up my quarters I; for the night where 1 was.t As my mind was thus employed, trying j to arrange some plana for my night's e accommodation, I was startled by a piercing f ihriek, as o1 some person in distress. j r stopped suddenly, and endeavored to peer 12 ato the darkness for an explanation. Again I heard the sound, although apparently at iot so great a distance fronm me as the first. [ stood then irresolutely. Were it a huanan a 3eing, it would be my duty to render any C assistance that might be in my power, and I --. At this point of my meditations, I 8 perceived through the underbrush, a short I Iistancefroinme,twoobjects,close together, t resembling small balls of fire. Iliad now di- I rinod the cause of the noise I 1uad heard. It t proceeded from a wild ainimal,and that ai- ( malI, was now watching me with Its fire-like t >rbal I hastily raised mny gun anti fired; c ut as the object was somae distance from t uue, and not being able to draw a sight, I a nust have missed It, for no sooner Ihad I i pulled the trigger-than with two or three r agunds, it was before me. I now discov- t ured, from~ its close proximity,that it was a i psnther-that much dreaded and savage f animal, whi'ch old hunters, oven wrhen well aquiped, are 1oth to moot. I drew my a mnting knife, not having ima to reloa a ay rifle, and waited for the fatal spring; iut to my surprise, the panther crouched >wn about twelve feet from me, and azed into my eyes in a manner not suited lesset my excitement. Steadily I ratched it, expecting every moment to be rn in pieces by the ferocious uninal, ithough 1 was determined to defend my ife to the last extremity. Once I endeav red to reload my rifle, but the moment I omnmnnced to move, the panther rose, as about to spring upon me. I determined. herefore, to keep myself In readness for le attack, for I perceived, frot the move ehts of my eneiy, that should I attempt > movo,it would be upon me in an instant. "here we were in the midst of a dense for. it, eyeing each other with a bitter enmity. Tihus was I kept in suspence for a long ime-I know not how long, for each min te seemed an hour,, until the panther robably becoming hungry, slowly ad mnced toward me. When within about six oet of me, it again stopped, and prepared >r the spring. I retained tny composure man ully,for although I ha4 been much excited i the first appearance of the animal, the 3ngth of time that had intervened, and the opelossness of my case, had given me new trength, and I determined that if I must Ie, It would be bravely defending my 1e Suddenly the panther gave a spring. his I had anticipated, and planted myself s firmly as passlble, holding my knite In ich a manner that the animal would jump pon it. The shock knocked me down; but knew that I had buried my knife in the nitmals body, for the warm blood that fell noU me, convinced me of the fact. I had ot killed the panther, however; for, ef ore I could regain my feet, it was upon ie ; and as I had lost my knife Iunimediately pon the first attack, I was almost power. .ss, having nothing to defend myself with, ut what nature had bequeathed to ne. It gain jumped upon me, and we rolled over nd aver upon the earth. I clasped It with 1i my power around the body, and from lie tightness with which I held i, it was nable to do me much injury. I felt, with leasure too that its strength was decreas 3g, and concluded that the knife must ave entered a vital part. I hold firmly, nowing, that should I relax my efforts, oath would be the inevitable result. Every oment I felt the strength of the panther iulnish, until finally it ceased its hold al 3gether. I know now that my enemy was *ciid,in consequence of the wound it had re aived in Its first attack; and,after I became ware of the fact that its life was extinct, I egan to examine my own injuries, which Ithough not severe, were numerous- I Dund that my breast had been torn consid. rable on the first attack. I bound up my in iries with my handkerchief, as well as ircumstances would permit, and then, cing much exhausted, lay down near my ow defunct enenmy, to rest. I lay there upon the earth for some time, nd must have slept; for, when I again umember, the first gray streaks of morn ig were begming to break through the all trees. I now, for the first time, had a air view of the object of my nightly com 'at. It was an innense panther; and, as gazed upon it, I shuddered at what would ave been the result, had I not been so ertunate as to disable it on the first attaok. now skinned the animal, and hastily re :rned to the villiage, whed, on measure ient, i& proved to be ten feet and a half romt tip to tip. Livinc In anIanht House. Light-houses are strange and lonely outes for men to live in. Some of them re perched out on the ocean, with the land Larcely in sight, and the restless sea for ver beating and mnoaning around them. 'he keepers of these do not see other uman faces than their own in a quarter of year. Night and day they are on the ratch, gladdened awhile by a sail that ap. ears for a little while and then floats out f sight, below the horizon. Tho might e out of the world, for all they know of 5 co.acerns, Its losses and gais, its battles utd its victories, the changes that each day rings forth. TChore are other light-houses Ltuated on the coast, but so remote that ecy are scarcely visited, and ethers that me surrounded by the civilIzation of a fish g village, and on summer days are crowd i by fashionable people from the neigh oring watering places. But for the most art, except in tihe approanes to flourish ig portsi, they are built out on the farthest targin of the land, on far-reaching capes a peninsulas, on iron bound headlands, n detached rocks and sandy shoals. The ght ships are still worsts off, anchored as 'iy are in stormy waters, and forev'er roll g, plunging, leaping ini perpetual unrest, lipped or their wmngs, while other vessels re passing and repassing, shortening sail they enter port, and spreading their can as as they start out anew. T.ihe light dips are manned by men alone, but in the ght-houses the keepers are allowed to aye their wives, and children are born uto them and brought up with the sea and -o sea-birds and the distant ships for coin anions. Mlany a pretty story or poemt has eon woven aibout children living in tis shion. T1hey learn the secrets and won ers of the sea, and feel glad when it sings >ftly on the calni days and sad when its oenni is rufiled and white ini the storms. 'heir little heads are iunil of strange fancies bout Nature, and I do not believe they mnld understand or enjoy the life that you aI load at huome. siomehow I cannot lIk of thoem as real children. They seem lore like water sprules that have their ome in the blue depdths among other deli ate plants that blossomns there. But they ave lessons to learna from school books, nd a great many things to do in their thier's nousehiold. Their lhfe, with all its =manee, is not one of idleness, you may e sure. 'ovtry of .ae able. More appetizmug thnu 41u patent tonics is lperfectiy arranged table ,sparklng with ieal ness. Soe let us be a little extravagant our fresh table-cloths, when soap, water ad a little labor are all we have to pay. Lad now we nusat decide, shall we have eo best china, and do with sonme stoneware ~r every day? or shall we pay ourselves e respect usually reserved for comnpany? learly,we are the persons to whom It is of e mnost importance. Shall we sit down to: dd plates amid cracked( saucers six dnays. at we may enjoy gilded' china the soy-. uth? By no means. We will have plain rhite French china, which can always be taced when broken, and we will sit own to it every day. in the same way we 1li bring out the plated knives and silver arks,and partakeof our food, with a sense of ur own deserts. We shall feel increased spect for ourselves, also,'with napkins a butter plates; so those we will have. The Mystery of Tempered Steel. In the whole range of the mechanic arts it would be nearly Impossible to fl1 auother process at once so simple and Donunon In practice, and yet so little u derstood in theory, as the hardening ai tempering of steel. It was probably tli ract which led the Institute of Mechanic Engineers (of England)toplace this subje among those to be specially investigated I a committee of Its own members, who Irst report has recently appeared. 'I ilustrate the facts which require scientil xplanation, the process of hardening at empering a cold chisel, which is usual tone at one operation, may be briefly d scribed. After heating, the point is dippt in cold water, and thus the tool is har< med. After cooling, the smith lifts tl steel from the water, and watches it close] ts the heat remaining in the body of ti netal diffuses itself throughout the har aned portion. As the heat spreads ti 3olor passes from a white luster to a pa yellow, to straw color, to brownish orang rhen the point is (topped into water aali mad In the full confidence that after coolit 'ie temper will be that desired. If ti smith delayed, the brown would becon lappled with purple, and would then pa successively into full purple, light blu full blue, dark blue, and color would gly its own temper upon cooling as bright bit ror swords and watch springs,dark blue f< saws, etc. h'lhese are the well known fact md yet their "how" and "why" has al ways been equally a mystery to the artiss mad the scientist, although upon thecorre solution of the problem depends so impor mt a matter as knowledge how best I reach that judicious compromise whic Phould blend the maximum of hardness ai oughness. Now, either can be produced i ieasure as the colder the bath the harder t: teel,andthe slower(as in oil) the tougher Jut extreme hardness Is produced at the e. ense of tenacity, and vice versa. - TI sommittees' conclusion was suggested b) dison's experiments upon platinum wirt which he made public in 1870. These o; eriments showed that the incandescei wire became covered with minute fissure lue to expiration of the occluded gas inder the action of heat, and that wh he wire was cooled in a vacum the fistur ,losed. By a succession of heatings a: oolings the gases were entirely expellei md the platinum became much hard( and denser. As thecommittee suggests it mal )e that the first and extreme heating driv4 )ut the gases occluded at ordinary ten eratures, thus producing the denseness 4 iard steel. When the metal is slight] ieated, as in tempering, reabsorption bi lne, and the characteristic colors ar lue to the changes in the surlace, ti gradual opening of minute fissures, whic %re produced by this reabsorption. In coi mection with this latest theory may be me. Jioned one or two earlier ones. One ;hat when steel is heated the carbon bi comes liquid, and is absorbed by the mrc as water is by a sponge,, and that upon slow cooling the carbon becomes amorphol and the steel Is soft, while, if cooh quickly, the carbon crystalizes, takih the properties of diamond. and the ste becomes, as if it were, diamond set in irQi This theory of Julion's is, perhaps, t most striking one, but while accounting f hardness, it does not explain the temper i steel, to say notlung of objections to tl p)ostulated liquefaction of carbo Another theory explains the process of ti contraction and compression of coolin Finally may be mentioned the theory tha at high teinperaturea, steel assumes I amorphous wax like form, on cooling fro which it crystalizes into large crystals, the process is slow and undisturbed, bl into small crystals if the process is rapid i listurbed by hammering. Such are tU leading theories; scarcely one of them sot sustained by striking analogies, bi mone of them, Including the latest, entire] 3xplains this exceedingy simpnlo and con non but bailling mystery. Putnam am a sp'y. Among the ofticers of the Rievoluitional trmny, none, probably, possessed moc >riginality than GAeneral Putnam, who w; secentric and fearless, blunt ini his mai iers, the daring soldier, without thme pol1k >f the gentleman. He might well lbe call he Marion of the North, though he dislik< liguise, probably from the fact of his usa ng, which was very apt to overthrow as rickery which lhe might have in view.. At this time a stronghold called Hors tock, some miles fronm New York, was lhe hands of thme British. Putnam, with oew sturdy patriots, was lurking in t1 ricinity, bent on dirivinig them fronm t lace. Tired of lurking in ambush, tI nen began to be impatient, and hinportun< ~he General with a question as to wh<s hey were going to have a bout with LI oe. One mormnig lie made a speech som hung to the followIng effect, which col rinced thoem there was something in tI sinid: "Fellows, you have been idle too ion mad so have I. I'm going to Bush's ilorseneck, in an ih ur, with an ox tea mad a bag of corn. If I come back I wi et you know the particulars; if I shmou sot, let themi have it, by hookcey. lie shortly afterwards mounted his< 3art, dressed as one of the commonest ord< f Yankee farmers, and was at Bush's ta srn, which was in possession of the Brith ~roops. No sooner dhi the oflicers espy i han they began to question him as to hi whereabouts, and finding him a comple simpleton as they thought, they began iniz ham, and threatened to seize the coi tad fodder. "How much do you ask for your whol :oncern?" asked they. "For mercy's sake, gentlemen," rephik the mock clodhopper, with the most d phorable look of entreaty ; "only let me of tad you shall have my hull team and los for nothing, and i8 that won't dew, I give you my word I'll return to-morro and pay you heartily for your kindness as aondescension." "Well," said they, "we'll take you your word. Leave the teamn and proven sr with us, and we won't require ball f your appearance." Putnam gave up the team, and saunter about for an hour or so, gaining all the 11 rormation he wished. lie then returned1 als men and told thoem of the foe, and hi plan of attack. The morning came, and with it sal tnt the gallant band. The British we sandled with rough hanis1 and when thi murrendered to G*eneral Putnam, the clo topper, lie sarcastically remarked: "Gentlemen, I have kept-my word. old you I would call and pay you for ye' kindness and condeooension." Business Laws In Daily Use. The following compilation of business id law contains the esence of a large amount s- of legal verbiage: - If a note is lost or stolen, it does not re a lease the maker; he must pay it if the at consideration for which it was given and the amount can be pr( ven. Notes bear Interest only when so stated. ) Principals are respOab.nJle for the acts of their agents. E Each individual in a partnership is re td sponsible for the whole amount of the debts of the firm, except in case of special part y norship. Ignorance of the law excuses no one. he law compels no one to do inipassi bihities. 'An agreement without consideration is void. A note made on Sunday Is void. Contracts made on Sunday cannot be en ieforced. A note made by a minor is vold. A contract made with a lunatic is void. A note obtained by fraud, or from a per ig son In a state of intoxication, cannot be ke collected. It Is a fraud to conceal a fraud. I Signatures made with a pencil are good in law. e A receipt of money is not always con r elusive. r The act of one partner binds all the rest. l "Value received" is usually written in a n note, and should be, but is not necessary. If not written it is presumed by the law, or may be supplied by proof. The maker of an "accomodation" bill or h note, (one for which he has received no con sideration, having lent his name or credit for the accommodation of the holder) is bound to all other parties, precisely as if there was a good consideration. No consideration is sufficent in law if it be illegal in its nature. Checks or drafta should be presented . durimg business hours, but in this country, except In the case of banks, the time ex - it tends through the day and evening. If the drawer of a check of draft has changed his residence, the holder must use due or reasonable diligence to find him. It one who holds a check as payee or (I otherwise. transfers it to another, he has a right to insist that the check be presented r that day, or at farthest, the day following. A note endorsed in blank (the name of endorser only written) is transferable by delivery, the same as if made payable to f bearer. rhe time of payment of a note must not depend upon a contingency. The promise iurt be absolute. e A bill may be written upon any paper or h substitute for it, either with ink or pencil. The payee should be distinctly named in the note, unless it is payable to bearer. is An endorsee has a right to action against all whose names were on the bill when lie n received it. a If the letter containing a protest of non Is payment be put into the post office, any Id miscarrirge does not effect the party giving ig notice. Oi Notice of protest may be sent either to 1. the place of business or of residence of the 10 party notified. )r Ai oral agreement must be proved by )f evidence. A writen agreement proves Le itself. The law prefers written to oral . evidence because of its precision. ie No evidence may be introduced to con . tradict or vary tihe written contract; but it t, may be received in order to explain it, when the contract is is need of explanation. In If Asnoran Newspapers. it There are 10,131 American (United r States and Canada) newspapers-899 dai. k lies, 8,428 wecklies, tri-weeklies and Is monthlies. The total circulation of a sin it gle Issue of each of these papers-omitting Y 1,920 not given-reaches the enormous Saggregate of 20 677,588 copies, divided as follows: Daliles, 3,540,158; weeklies, semi.. weeklies, and tri-weeklies, 18,511,424; monthlies andl semi-monthilies, 3,625,598. .yiThuis is an average of 2,041 to each paper re to a simgle Issue, and taking all issues of as the whole for one year, a grand total of 1, i- 830, 473,592 copies. Trakiig ordiniiry hi forty-pound newspapler at its average d measure of 4,000 sheets (solid) to a foot, d one issue of all these, piled up, would .measure 5, 170 feet (iiearly a mile) ini y height, or, for a whole year, 459, 119 feet (over 87 miles) high. Counting them alt e. at thme average size of 27x41, and placed in end to end, one issue would extend 70, a 048,255 feet-18,880 miles ; for one year, ie 0,247,618.100 feet-1,188,874 miles-or io forty-seve~n times around the earth, and me lve times the distance from the earth to the ad moon. In a thousand ems of type there in are nearly 2,000 pieces, and In an average ie four-page eight-column paper set, In solid [l. brevier type, there are 148,000 ems, about i.. 420 pounda, or 290,000 types in one news a paper. TIo print one issue of thme total 10, 181 papers of this average size, there must , be handled nearly 5,000,000) pounids of ~ttype. or 2,998,776,000 .types. Trho total n number of issues of all-these dalies, week. Ulies and monthlies, for one year, would d make 724,796, and to print thecm occasions the handling of 2,173,499,849,690,000 ix types. These averages are minimum rathier er than maximum. There is usually twice as ,-. much type, at least, In ani ofice as will set i up the p~aper; consequently, for this pur n pose atone, there must be 10,000,000 is poundis in use, the vahie of which is about Ic $5,000,000. A nloy Kill a aorgo lamer. A few miles west of Culbertson is a *e ranch, and near by a herd of horses. About a week or so ago four meon, one of whom dwas supposed to be an Indian, suddenly B- camne upon the herd, and commenced to 7, "round uip'' the horses. "Round up is a Ki herdsman's phrase, and means driving the 'Il horses together, and in doing so the horses 7, walk or run around in a circle, and are id thus more easily driven away. One of these men approached a boy, 14 years of it age, and the only person in sight, and I- jokingly asked to sec his revolver. The >r boy saId he guessed not andl stepped back. Th~e man then attempted to get the revol id ver, but the boy was too quick for him,and -instead of getting the revolver the man o got a bullet in his breast and fell to the is earth, In the meantime another of the herders,hoaring that something unusual was id goingon hastened to the scene. The three re robbers became alarmed and fled without by taking the herd of horses. The man and 1- boy then approached, rather canilogely, the man lying on the ground, but they I soon found that he was dead, and, only ir two or three months before, a herder and companion with them. Boy Inventors. Some of the molt important inventions have been the work of mere boys. The invention of the valve motion to the steam engine was made by a boy. Watts left the engine In a very Incompletecondition, from the fact that he had no way to open or close the valves, except by means of levers operated by the hand. He set np a large engine at one of the miies, and a boy was hired to work these valve levers; although this was not hard work, yet it required his constant attention. As he was working these levers, he saw that parts of the engine moved in the right direction, and at the ex act time that he had to open or close the valves. He procured a strong cord and made one end fast to the proper part of the engine, and the other end to the valve lever; the boy had the satisfaction of seeing the engine off with perfect regularity of motion. A short time after, the foreman came around and saw the boy playing mar bles at the door. Looking at the engine he soon saw the ingenuity of the boy, and also the advantages of so great an invention. Mr. Watts then carried out the boys inven tive genius in a practical form, and made the steam engine a perfect automatic work ing machine. The power-loom is the in vention of a farmer boy who had never seen or heard of such a thing. He waittled one out with his jack-knife, and after he had got it all done, he, with great enthusiasm, showed it to his father, who at once kicked it all to pieces, saying he he would have no boy about him that would spend his time on such foolish things. The boy gathered up the pieces and laid them away. Soon after that his father bound him out as an apprentice to a blacksmith, about twelve miles from home. The boy was delighted at the idea of learning a trade and he soon found that his npw master was kind and took a lively interest in him. He had made a loom of what was left of the one his father had brokenup, which he showed to his master. The blacksmith saw he had no common boy as an appren tice, and that the inveation was a very valuable one. lie immediately had a loom' constructed under the supervision of the boy; it worked to their perfect satisfaction and the blacksmith furnished the means to manufacture the looms, the boy to receive one-hmlf the profits. A stranze Oleek. A strange clock Is said.to have once be longed to a Hindoo prince. In front of the clock's disk was a gong swung upon poles, and near it was a pile of artificial human limbs. The pile was made up of the full number of parts necessary to constitute twelve perfect bodies; but all heap.d to gether in apparent confusion. When the hands of the clock indicated the hour of one, out from the pile crawled just the number of parts needed to form the frame of one man, part coming to part, with a quick click; and when completed, the tligure sprang up, seized a mallet, and walking up to the gong, struck one blow. This done, he returned to the pile, and fell to pieces again. When two o'clock came, two men arose, and did likewise; and at the hour of noin and midnaigbt the entire heap sprang up, and marching to the gong,' artuck, one after the other, his blow, mak Ing twelve in all; then returning, fell to pieces as before. Before clocks were so common, hour glasses were much used. Sometimes they served as pocket watches. They were al ways kept in the churches to mark the length of the sermons. In England, dur lug Cromwell's reign, the sermous were very long. An hour was seldom sufficient for their delivery. he one old minister when the sand ran out in his timc -piece, is said to have turned it saying:. "I know you are all good fellows: so let's have another glass.'' Occasionally, when the speaker was prosy, the congregation would either slip out or rebel. This Is not to be won dered at, when the spaaking continued two or three hours. There' Is a story that one of the Puritan preachers was just turning his glass the second tIme, when the sexton Interrupted him with the request that lie would lock up the church and put the key under the door when the sermon was over, as the few auditors left were going home to their dinners. TIhien another, It is said, let his hour-glass run while talkiug against, drinking, ie reversed it, exclaiming. 'Brethren, I have somewhat more to say on the nature and consequences of drunkeness, so let's have another glass and then.-'' which was a regular toper's phrase. .,, for all their gravity, the Puritans did net lack humor. A Iiver Among the Fishes. Fishes are as playful as birds, and sonic speLcIes may be tamed as readily as any other pets. Divers In diving-bells have had sonmc curious experiences with them. A prolongedi stay In arne place gave a diver an opportunity to test this intelligence fur. tiher, and to observe the trustful faemiliarIty of this variety of niarine life. Ho was con tinually surrounded at his work by a school of gropeis, averaging a foot in lengcth. Anm accident having identitled one of them, lie noticed that it was a daily visitor. After the fhs, curiosity, the gropers apparently settled into the belief that the n'ovel moni stor was hat mless and cmumsy, but useful in assisting them to their food. The spe cies fed on crustacea and marine worms, which shielter under rocks, mosses,. and suniten -objects' at the sea-bottom. In raising anything out of the ooze a dozen of these fIsh would thrust their heads Into the hollow for their food before the diver's hand was removed. They would follow himi about, eycing his motions, dash ing In advaente or around in spore, and evi dently with a liking for their new-found friend. Pleased with such an unexpect ed familiarity, the man would bring themi food and feed theni from, his hand as one feeds a flock of chickens. The resemiblance In their familiarity and some of their ways to poultry was, In factvery striking. As a little chick will sometimes . seize a large crumb and scurry off, followed by the flock, so a fleh would sometimes snatch a morsel and fly, followed by the school, If he droppud it or stopped to enjoy his tidbit, his mates wtould be upon-him. Somnetinies two woul get the sanie morsel hand there would be a trial of strengths accompanied with muoh flash add gllttat azic shining scales. Bat no matter h',w dalled off,'their. ~ interest '.nd cutiosity renmal Wgh the diver. Trhey wguijl ten, a n thete, noses atblut him4 arrqsnaes worm and shell flil