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H ?? .? vtfT^A^IAFTER SUNDAY, APRIL 0, the Passenger Trains of thia Road wai he run as fo?ows :> Leave (Jbarleiloji.................-..*... 8 15 a m "to 1 00 p m Leaver Sujnter?~......~....-1 45 pm Amv*-at Charleston..._...... 6 45 p m ?P^LM)LR??)Ri F.;DIVB?B, G^'l Ticket Agt. Geu'lSopt. . CriERA^-AflD DARUNBTQri AND CHE8AW ^ ^WSAilSBURY B*JLROA0S._ PRfiSHXENrS OFFICE, Socrnr Knx, S. O, Msy 23, 188L f%S^I^^SKXEIS DATE, TRAINS \!7&g&ii*-_0 00 a m Lesv?. .Morreti.-. 9 15am v J?aW>T?F*rlan>l??^.>?2_ 9 35 ? m :^v3^ ^v?.?.^..?.-??? 10 15 am Leave Soe?^y Hill .-.._ii 10 50 a m Hi leave Darlington .......... Il 35 a m Arr?re at Florence...... ...... ..M.* 12-10 p m UP. ^Leave Florence.:.^....................... 12 ?0 p m Leave Partington..?.?... M 1 20 p m k Lear? tf?eiety.Ba ........-ii 2 10 p m I Arrive at Ch craw... 2 50pm r Arrive at Wadesboro 415pm r '.. The freight train villle&ve Florence at 6 30 A '.-.Ifevery day exceptSunday; making the round -;trip W Oieraw ?very :day, and to Wadesbora ar '". oft? aa may be necessary-keeping out e? the ? w*yof passenger train. ? B D TOWNSEND. President. tf0RTH-E ASTERN R. R. CO. QXTPEBINTEK DENT'S OFFICE, ^ ^BMSASXERN RAILROAD CO. -. XJEsJtrirjrX)*, S.Tj., March 23, 1882. P Onueed after this date., the following Sche? dule will be run, Sundays included : Leave Charleston. Arrive Florence, k -8-15 a. -31........~..~....12 55 P. M. - ML ,7 00" P. M........ 3 50 A J?. K 8 30 P.. M-.~.~._^TV.l 30 A. 3?. ^?&tav^JFloreoce. Arrive Charleston. JrWr-l.2 4D^uTC^-.^~^..^$ 50 A. M. : 1 45"p.?i^ ^^-.....5 45 P M. " 12 15 A. k..............-.9 00 A. - y Traintearing Florence at 2 40,A.-T??. wilT Stop for way passe ?^j^?f^0^ ^^^^^f?pi^^L^cketAgent?^ PAVILION HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. nr^HIS .POPULAR AND CENTRALLY ii located HOTEL having beef entirely renovated during the past Summer is now - ready^ibrjtbe..reception of the traveling public. Popular prices $2 and 2.50 per day. Special rates for Commercial Travelers. ,,>^; E. T. GAILLARD, -Oct>2&_ Proprietor. THE AIM AR HOUSE, ^CORKER OF .y^l^^^rat and King Sts .^^^^IbiT?^-BE;?H, LEASED BY Wm?lmm Heriot, 0I" Meeting-St., ) 18-NOW OPEN for th? accommodation of "Boarder*. Parties visiting Charleston wi!' find Ibis House eonrenlentry situated -for busi ,^?*s, ar^dir?e% on the line of Street Railway. Terms, per day, $1 50. FtVW ^ LBEBS HOUSE. Street, next to Masonic Tem ?H /pie, Charleston, S. C $1.50 per day, reduced rates by the ^;$50ek o? month, According to location of j rooms. - . ;J This bonse, so- well and favorably known as being a strictly first-class boarding bouse, is centrally located, accessible tb wholesale and retail stores, theatres, and places of In? terest, and especially desirable for business men or families visiting the city, nothing be . : lng neglected to make i ts guests comfortable. . Ask for carriajre at depot.-Respeetfully MRS. B. H?LBERS PBOPWKTRKSS Sept 20-^1881. SHORTHAND! "A iv?IT cccr?R from Wilmington and all points north ! thereof; with Charlotte, Colombia A Augusta Rail RoatL-froin Charlotte and points north thereof. B-With Asheville A Spartanburg Rail Road for points in Western N. C. C-With A. A C. Div. R A B. R. R. for all points Sooth and West. D-With A. A C. Div. R. A D. R. R. from At lanta and beyond. JE-With A- A C. Div. R. A D. R. R. for all points South and -West. F-With South Carolina Rail Road for Char? leston ; with Wilmington, Columbia A Augusta Rail Read for Wilmington and the North ; n i h Charlotte, Columbia A Augusta Rail Road for Charlotte and the North. G-With Asheville A Spartanburg Rail 3oad from Hendersonville. H-With A. A C. Div. R. A D. R. R. from Charlotte 'A beyond. Standard time used is Washington, D. C., which is fifteen minutes faster than Colombia. J. W. FRY, Sup't A. POPE, General Passenger Agent. Aneust 30. 1881. tf. South Carolina Railway Co, COMMENCING FEBRUARY 13th, 1382. Passenger Trains on Camden Branch will run as follows, until further notice: EAST TO COLUMBIA. Leave Camden.....--. 7 40 a m Leave Camden Junction.-.- 9 50 a m Arrive at Columbia.12 13 p m WEST FROX COLUMBIA-BAILY EXCEPT SUNDAYS. Leave Columbia......-.. 4 05 a m... 4 15 p m Arrive Camden Junction, 12 ll p rn... 6 00 p m Arrive at Camden. 2 15 p rn... 7 13pm EAST TO CHARLESTON AND AUGUSTA. Leavo Camden-.3 00 p m Leave Camden June'. 4 19 p m Arrive at Charleston.. 9 00 p tn Arrive at Augusta. 7 35 a m WEST FROM CHARLESTON AND AUGUSTA. Leave Charleston. 7 45 a m Leave Augusta. 4 45 p ai Arrive Camden June'...12 01 p m Ariive at Camden. 2 15 p m CONNECTIONS. Columbia and Greenville Railroad both way?, for ali points on that Hoad and on the Spar? tanburg, Union and Columbia and Spar^TCurg and Ashville Railroads, also with the Char lotte, Colombia and Augusta Railroad to and from all points North by trains leaving Camden at 7 40 a m, and arriving at 7 15 p m. Connections made at Augusta to all points West and South ; also at Charleston with Steamers for New York and Florida-on Wed? nesdays and Saturdays. Trains on Camden Branch run daily except Sunday. On main line, Colombia and Augusta Divisions, trains nm daily. Pullman Cars are run between Charleston and Washington, on trains arriving at Columbia 12:13 and depart? ing at 4:15 P. M. Local sleepers between Charleston, Columbia and Augusta. On Saturdays ROUND TRIP TICKETS are sold to and from all Stations at one first class fare for the round trip-tickets being good till Monday noon, to return. Excursion tickets good for 10 days are regularly on sale to and from all stations at 6 cents per mile for round trip. THROUGH TICKETS to all points, can be purchased by applying to James Jones, Agent at Camden. D. C. ALLEN, General Passenger and Ticket Agent JOHN B. PECK, General Manager. _ Charleston, S. C. RUBBER STAMPS NAME STAMPS FOR MARKING CLOTHING with, indellible ink, or for printing visiting cards, and STAMPS OF ANY KIND Call on C. P. OSTEEN, At the Watchman and Southron Onice. THE FLOWN BIBD. The maple's leaves are whirled away ; The depths of the great pines are stirred ; Night settles on the sollen day, As in its nest the mountain bird. My wandering feet go up and down, And back and forth from town to town, Through the lone wood and by the sea, To and the bird that fled from me ; I followed, and T follow yet I have forgotten to forget. My heart goes back, but I go ot?, Through sommer heat and winter snow ; Poor heart, we are no longer one, But are divided by oar woe. j Go to the nest I built and call I She may be there after all j The empty nest, if that remains, i And leave me ia the long, long rains ; My sleeves with tears are always wet I have forgotten to forget. Men know my story, but not me For such fidelity, they say, ; Exists not-such a man as he Exists not m the world to-day. ; If his light bird has flown the nest, I She is no worse than all the rest ; . j Constant they are not-only good To bill and coo, and hatch the brood ; He has but one thing to regret i He has forgotten to forget. All day I see the ravens fly, ' I hear the sea-birds scream all night ; The moon goes np and down the sky, The ann comes in with ghastly light ; Leaves whirl, white flakes around me blow Are they spring blossoms or the snow ? Only my hair? Good-bye, my heart, The time has come for ns to part ; Be still ! You will be happy jet For death remembers to forget. Translated from the Japanese. A COLORED EDITOR. ! How He is Trying to Build up a Newspaper in New York. Becoming a Force in Politics-Bow Reconstruction Worked-The Colored Men Independent. [Special Correspondence Philadelphia Times.J NEW YORK, April 13.-For some months past I have seen occasional quo? tations from the New York Globe, usu? ally described as the organ of the color? ed men, which struck me as evincing a good deal of sense and independence. Finally I became carions to find out something about the character of the paper and concluded to look up the editor. Its office was given as No. 4 Cedar street and proved to be a moder? ate sized room on the third floor of that building. As ? opened the door I found two or three men engaged in set HBlptyp?l and jDcrurf??^g for Ste Fortune, the editor, one of them came forward and said that was his name. T. Thomas Fortune-for he parts his name in the middle-is a pleasant faced, bright looking young colored mao, not far from thirty years of age. He has knocked around the country a good deal and bas profited by bis ex? perience. Born in the western part of Florida in the days of slavery, he re? mained in his native State through the reconstruction era and was an office holder during the period of carpet-bag supremacy. After the Democrats came into power he drifted North, spent some time io Washington and finally came to New York. He is a type setter by trade aod worked for a while io the office of the Witness, the religious pa* per which hadsnch a hard time of it trying to publish a daily edition. Like a good many white men before him, young Fortune, after putting io typs the thoughts of others for some time, conceived the ambition to get be? fore the public, and especially his own race, some of . his own ideas. There was a paper published here in the inter? est of the colored people called Rumor, but it was about as bad as its name. Fortune, however, believed that it could be changed io name and character and made eventually a successs. He found a fellow-compositor who had the same faith and a third negro who was willing to help them with a little capital. So not quite a year ago Rumor ceased, to appear aod io its stead came out the New York Globe, 'published by George Parker & Co , T. Thomas Fortune, editor.' THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. They bad a pretty hard time of it the erst three months. The firm bad but little money, the good will of the Rumor was of little account, and so many ventures by colored men in the newspaper line had proved failures, that even their own race bad grown suspicious of every attempt. Indeed, if two or three of the publishers bad not been practical printers, Mr. Fortune says, they would probably have had to give up. As it was he wrote his edito als and prepared his other 'copy' on Sundays and at other odd times of leisure, and a'ter doing a day's work in the composing room of the Witness, the two printers would spend the evening in setting type in their little shop for their own paper. But pluck and per? severance had their usual reward. By slow degrees at first, and afterward more rapidly, new subscribers sent in their subscriptions, and at length, when it was evident that the paper had come to stay, it was possible to secure some advertising. The Globe is a four-page paper, with five broad columns to the page, and the subscription price is $1.50 a year. Its constituents are found in all parts of the country, only a small proportion of its circulation being in this city. Its sub? scription list is growing rapidly in the South. Several postal cards applying for sample copies are received every day, and a package of fifty such copies had been sent to the post office just be? fore I called to-day. A glance around its plaio office showed that it bad been run on the economical plan of 'pay as you go,' and the result is that the end of the first year finds the paper thor? oughly established, with subscription list and advertising patronage both in? creasing and its publishers contempla? ting various improvements in the near future. A FORCE IN POLITICS. All this would be interesting as any story of triumph over difficulties always is, but not especially important if the Globe were simply a sample of the ordi? nary weekly published by colored meo, of which there are probably a hundred I io various parts of the country. Bat is so different from the average, it ] manifested so mn ch independence a it is gai ni ogs o large an indoonr tba ought already to be recognized ?ot 01 as a force io our politics, but as a si of great possible changes io the re tions of the colored voters. I believe the Times bas quoted 01 or twice a striking passage from t Globe, which suggested that its edit like the Times, was a good deal of independent journalist. That is p cisely what Mr. Fortune is. As I hi said, he was was brought Ap a Reput can, but be kept his mind open a ready to learn new lessons if experiei should teach their wisdom. He is clear and fluent talker, remarkably c . rect in his use of language and with t full courage of his convictions. Mo of what he said was so significant tba think you will be glad to publish it. 'I was brought up a Republican/ answered when I asked his politi creed, 'and I clung to that party for long while, with the rest of my rai because I distrusted the Democra But on many of the constitutional qui tions, which are suppose?Vi? under parties, I hold to the Democratic vie and if the younger and more progrei ive element of that party could seco control of its organization, I should quite content to see it come into pow< As it is, I hold myself free to commet or criticise either party as I think deserves. HOW RECONSTRUCTION WORKED. 'I had a chance to see for myself part how reconstruction worked, and have studied its history in other parts the South than Florida. It was full grave blunders and it was inevitat that it should end as it did. Indee when I reverse the situation-when suppose that the negroes bad for gene ations ruled those States and held tl whites in slavery; that suddenly tl whites, ignorant and degraded as mo of them must be, bad been given po session of the Government, and, und the lead of unscrupulous men from ou side, had treated tbe negroes, who po sessed nearly all the wealth and in tell gence, as the whites of the South we -treated under carpet-bag rule-I Bi when I imagine this, I think that, ui less my humanity had interfered, should have considered almost ac means justifiable to throw off such yoke. 'Qf-course-tbere was-te? rifele-misgo^ ern ment while the 'Republicans bel possession of the South, but what cou] you expect of a race just released froi slavery and whose white leaders wit few executions were of the worst cbarai a ter ? But the failure of carpet-bag ml does not prove that the negro is iocapc blen?T^e?^^vernjaient; it onlyshowsth? he must have education and intelligent before he can rule wisely. 'The most hopeful feature.in the situa tiob is the growing disposition of colore men to think for themselves. The Reput Hean party freed us, and at first, c course, gratitude allied us to it. The for a long while we were suspicious c the good faith of the Democrats wbei they professed to accept the result c the war and self-protection seemed t require that we should still cling to tb old organization. But wben Republi can Senators make such speeches a were made by Jones, of Nevada, darin! the debate on the Chinese bill, 1 don' feel as though there is much incentiv to hold to the Republican party on tb score of gratitude. On the other band I believe that it would be infinitely bet ter, both for the colored race and fo the country, to have the negro voti divided as the white vote is. Whenev er and wherever the Democratic part; is ready to take a progressive stand a far as concerns our race and to remov? the lingering suspicions of its goo? faith, I am ready to see it carry tb< day.' THE COLORED MEN INDEPENDENT. I asked Mr. Fortnne how generali] be thought his independent views wen shared by bis fellow-people. 'Tbe bes answer I can give/ he said, 'is the suc? cess of my paper. I have been preach? ing this same doctrine in the Glob* and it has been constantly grow? ing in circulation. But I have othei evidence than this. I am acquaint? ed with many of the most prom inent colored men in the country, and 1 tell you that at heart they bold the same views as I do. Most of them wouldn't express themselves so freely for- publi? cation, because they would fear the loss of office where they hold it or of influ? ence with the more conservative of oui people, but in confidential conversation they will agree with me. As for the young men of intelligence, the day bas gone by when they can be marched up to the polls like a flock of sheep and made to vote any ticket that is thrust into their hand. In many parts of the Sooth I find that they are ready and anxious to join bands politically with the intelligent and progressive young whites and it is the best sign for the future of both races that I see.' I asked Mr. Fortune what he thought about the policy of the present Admin? istration in the South, and his reply must certainly be considered the crown? ing proof of his independence, for he said that he thought that it was making a miserable mistake in appointing so many negroes to office ! In Louisiana, for instance, he said that Pinchback, since he was restored to power in the New Orleans Custom House, was filling the Federal offices largely with negroes. Of course, Mr. Fortune believes that the black man is capable of holding office ; but, taking a philosophical view of the situation in the light of past ex? perience, he deprecates the policy of ap? pointing large numbers of negroes, be? cause it has an inevitable tendency to revive the race line, and to enable the Bourbons to maintain their supremacy with the old cry of 'Africanization.' I left Mr. Fortune, after a half hour's talk, with a genuine respect for the man and a more hopeful view for the future of his race. He is a young fel? low, and the Globe is but a small paper, it is true, but the spirit of independent joui .i: i;e>m is in him, and it and a peo? ple cao are coming to support such journalism are certainly making en? couraging progress. A Boston doctor says high-heeled j shoes ruin the eyesight, and yet he cannot be persauded to look the other way. BILL ARR On Orchards, Corn Planting, Politics &c. Nipped io the bad. It looks like there is DO security from anything. Oars was no second-hand orchard ; we plant? ed it and the blooms have for three years looked so sweet and promising, and now this is the third year the fruit has been killed. I suppose we could have built little fires all about, but who knows when to build 'em. It is poor comfort to bnild 'em when there is no danger, and it is hard to tell when there is danger. Reckon we will just have to keep the orchard for the flowers, like we do a crab apple tree, for they are mighty pretty. One of my nabors lives right under the western slope of a mountain and his fruit is never killed. He had plenty last year, but the sun dont rise at his bouse till its about two hours high, and it wouldn't suit my folks at all. Well, it might suit the folks but it wouldn't suit my business. It would be dinner time before break? fast. The peach crop is very uncertain among these Cherokee hills, but most everybody can have a few trees around the bouse where they are protected. We can't expect to have all the good things in our place. My Irish potatoes were killed down the other morning and that hurt my feelings, for I was a little proud that I was ahead of my nabors. But they will come ont again and so there is some comfort left and a good deal of hope. Hope says the peaches are not all killed for a man can't exam? ine all the blooms and maybe there will be enough for tbe children. That is the main thing after all ; enough for the children is what the world is work? ing for ; enough money, or land, or food and clothing ; enough pleasure and happiness. How we do love 'cm and worry over *em by night and by day. If we had ?o children I think I would jost quit work and toil right suddenly and-go a fishing. But there is not much time to frolic on a farm at this season of the year, for my almanac says : 'About this time plant corn,' and we are doing it all around these parts. I can sit on my piazzer and look into five farms and see the darkeys and the mules and hear 'em, too, and its gee and haw, and git along, Pete, and whar you gwine, Nell, come round dar, I tell you; and theres no end to this affectionate one-sided discourse until the horo blows for dinner, and then the most knowing mules give a bray all round. It's astonishing, how much lucy do know and can be made^-to^os derstand. I bad a big mule who would never give but one pull at a root unless the darkey who plowed him hollered ont, 'Kotten root, I tell you 1' and then he would break that root or something else, for he bad confidence in the nigger. lt. always did seem like there was a kind of confidential relation between niggers and mules, a sort of a treaty of peace and equality, for there is no other animal can stand the darsey aad there's JO; other human cao get along in peace wifth the mule. When they are alone together in a big field with long rows, th? darkey talks to bim all along the lin/e, and the mnlc listens in respectful silence, but if two darkeys are plowing together they talk to one another and thu mules are snubbed. There is a power of coro being planted this spring, an d not much more than half a crop of colton, so far as my observation goes. I hope we viii make enough food for the conn try, for we can do with less cloth? ing better than be stinted in vi tte ls. There is a power of folks dependent upon the farmers aod a great responsi? bility opon us. Politics raises a migh? ty .rumpus and takes'up a sight of room in (the newspapers, but when you com? pare it with farming it all seems sorter likie a monkey show that is going on foij amusement, and the farmers feel like doing like Jndge Stewart's Texas Banger, who went to see an amateur musical performance in Rome one night during the war. He was a rough speci? men about six feet and two inches, and a bat like a umbrella, and boots like stove pipes, and spurs that jingled like trace chains, and a couple of navy pis? tols to set off his beard, and he paid his half a dollar and took a stand behind an empty bench in the rear, and looked on with a lofty contempt, and when? ever the performers closed a piece and tho cheering began, the ranger rattled th??} old bench most alarmingly, and ex? claimed, 'sony, sony, sony,' like he wai driving bogs-and he kept it up until be monopolized the show aod had it t)\r. to himself. These premature cao . didates for governor aod so forth, re? mind me of Judge Loeb ran e's story of an Irishman who thought be had a fast horse, and so he put him in the races anld bet on him. He ruo pretty well, but seemed to run better behind than before, and the Irishman clapped his ha^ds with delight and exclaimed, .fd/th and St. Patrick, just look bow be drives 'em.' But its all right. I'm glad to see the independents waking up. Its alli for the good of the people, ana will ketlp the old democracy on its good be? havior. There's nothing like having sentinels on the watch towers. Some? t? mies the party goes too fast, and these independents acts like a balance wheel, a regulator, a brake-sorter like Tinny Blocker's yearlin, for they say when Tinny was a boy he tried for an hour to drive a yearlin out of the pasture, ani finally be got him by the tail and they run and run and bellowed and run un til somebody hollowed to him and said: 'Tinny, you can't hold that yearlin ; what arc you trying to do ?' 'I know I can't bold him,' said Tinny, 'but I can make him go slow.' Jesso. That is all these independents are after. They don't ezpect office, bat they have more abounding patriot? ism than anybody, and are holding on to the tail of the concern just to make it go slow. Some of 'em I reckon, are a little disappointed because the train wept off and left 'em, and it don't do any good to laugh at 'em, no matter whether they didn't run fast enough or started too late. Let's be tender with 'enj, for maybe their turn will come af ter?awbile and they will be tender with us.j There are a power of ups and downs in this world, and in politics they are mostly downs-especially^ down south. -r^- *. 'At what age were you married ?y in? quired one matron of another. 'At the parsonage/ demurely answered her friend How He Came to Kill his Wife. It is not often that a more remarkable story is beard in ? court room than was told last week by Lawyer C. J- Lansing of Eureka, Nev., on taial for the killing of his wife. When he took the witness stand the grief in his face hushed the bar and the spectators into a pitying silence. He began by declaring that he had consented to say what he would have to say about the dead only upon the urgent requirement of his counsel, and for the sake of his daughter. Then he gave the jury the history of bis mar? ried life. Ever since 1864 it had been, he said, wretched in all ways. His wife took to liquor. She was a powerful woman-fully his equal in strength. She repeatedly attacked him, threaten? ing to kill him, and as he believed at the time, meaning to carry out her threat. She threw stones at his bead, poured boiling water on him, tried on several occasions to stab him with the carving knife, once at least drawing blood. She followed him into court, making such a disturbance that the po? lice bad to remove ber by force. She burst into his office and beat him over the head with a rawhide till the blood streamed down his face. She beat bis little daughter with an iron poker. 'I felt like letting loose all bolds,' he said, *and I drank heavily, too.' Once or twice he decided to leave her ; once he bought poison, and was on the- point of swallowing it when be thought of1 his daughter and threw it away. Last year matters grew worse, until a night came when he did not dare to sleep under the same roof with ber, and called in a neighbor. They tied ber wrists and ankles with silk handker? chiefs. 'I'll kill you for this, sure,' she screamed. At daylight she promised to behave, and they unbound her. At ber request be sent out for two bottlea of champagne for her to 'sober up on.' He wandered about all day, shunning his acquaintances, trying to straighten himself up. 'I could not be still in any place,' he said. 'I could neither stand up nor sit down-had to walk all the time.' At dusk he went home.' The Chinaman had finished his work and gone for the night. His wife came through the kitchen and went down cel? lar, as he supposed to get whiskey ; .sh? often hid a bottle down there.' When she came up he spoke of going down town. 'You-,' she said, 'I'm fixed for yon, and you shan't leave this bouse !' He tried the door ; it was Jocked. He turned around ; his wife was righfTh^liiCTM^him, her band pressed to her bip. T?Tk^y^>?v-jni kill you !'she screamed. In a frenzy" of utter nervousness and terror he caught up something-it was a kitchen chair-and struck her. He saw ber lying at bis feet. Then he fouod him? self out in the street-be bas no remem? brance of bow he got there-looking up at the dark windows of his neighbor's house and deciding not to wake bim up Tu29 all is blank again in bis mind un? til a later nour, when he was standing in front of the Sheriff and uttering the words, 'I have killed my vife.' The jury were out twenty minutes. Wben they came their verdict was^Noi. guilty.-Hartford Courant. Prehistoric Mining in Mich? igan. The Lake Superior mines have the advantage of producing metal free from any alloy of antimony or nickel or arsenic In many of the mines great masses of native metal are found so large that they must be cut in place with chisels. All the more important mines are situated on the ancient workings of a prehistoric race. They seem to have been ignorant of the fact that copper could be melted, for they left behind them tbe fragments too small to use and the masses too heavy to lift. Every day they subjected it to a temperature nearly high enough, without making a discovery which would have lifted them out of the Stone Age into the Bronze Age, and perhaps have enabled them to survive the struggle in which they per? ished. They must have been very nu? merous, and have reached the point of development where they were capable of organizing industry. In Isle Boyale, near thc Minong Mine, their pits, excavated to a depth of from ten to twenty feet in the solid rock, cover an area of from three to four hundred feet wide and more than a mile and a half in length. The labor ex? pended here cannot have been much short of that involved in building a pyr? amid Isle Boyale is ten miles from the nearest land, and is incapable of producing food, so that all supplies ex? cept fish must have been brought from some distant point. Their excavations could of course never go below the point at which water would accumulate. Their hammers, frequently to the num? ber of several thousand, are found in heaps where they were evidently placed at the end of the season. As no graves or evidences of habitations are found, we can hardly doubt that the ancient miners lived south of the great lakes, and made yearly journeyings with fleets of canoes to the copper mines. The aggregate amount of the metal which they carried off must have been very great, and it has, I believe, been gen? erally thought that the copper imple? ments of the ancient Mexicans came from this source. M. Charnay in a re? cent number of the North American seems to think that the Mexicans reduc? ed copper from its ores. A chemical analysis of their hatchets would solve the question, for Lake Superior copper is so free from alloys as to be unmis? takable. The superintendent of the old Cale? donia Mine in Ontonagon County kind? ly took me to the top of a cliff where three Cornish 'tributers'-miners work? ing not for wages but for a share of the product-had cleared out one of the an? cient pits in the outcrop of thc vien. They had brought out a quantity of copper, and had just uncovered a large mass which would weigh certainly not less than seven tons. Many battered stone hammers lay around the mouth of the pit. The active little Englishmen, b-.'longing to a race of hereditary rainers perhaps as old as the Mound-builders themselves, bad come around the world from the east to finish the work of thc departed Asiatic race who reached here from the west at a time to w?i< date can be assigned. Not far another party had cot down a cedar to make props for their tu As they were putting the log in ti OD, from its centre dropped a i bnt perfectly formed stone hat which had never been used. Ii made from a stone found, I bel only on the north shore of the This tree was not far from two hun and fifty years old ; but as cedar i most indestructible in this clima may have been dead several hun years. The axeman said that he found several hammers in thc centi cedars. It won Id seem barely pos that this hamme; had been placed cleft of the tree, when it was a sap: that the wood might grow around groove and serve as a handle. A events, this one, which I have, was tainly placed where it was-about ty inches from the ground-by hu hands, undoubtedly by the ant miger himself, when the tree w twig.-F JOHNSON, JB., in Har? Magazine for May. . Love at First Sigkt The marriage of Sir Sidney Wi low and Miss Margaret Hamilton announced recently in a cable disp from Paris. The bridegroom ii wealthy printer of London, former] member of Parliament, and in J Lord Mayor of the metropolis. As dence of his immense wealth, it is n tioned that be has 25,000 tenants London and that he once spent $2. OOO from his private purse for the tertainmeot of the Shah of Persia, passed- some time in Philadelphia as of the British Centennial Commissioi and afterward came to America to \ General Will:?ms, Charles Crocker other friends in California. While, proacbiug Mr. Crocker's boase he m young woman with whom he fell in 1 at first sight. The young woman pro to be Miss Hamilton, the daughter c widow in comfortable c?rcomstani and at that time a guest at the Croc mansion. Miss Hamilton was witty well as handsome. She went horseb riding with the Baronet and beat 1 at billiards every time. Her charm manners and other excellent qua li tie; impressed Sir Sidney that at a din party shortly after the first meeting proposed marriage. Miss Hamilt accompanied by Mrs. Hearst, of $ Francisco, went to Europe and lived some months with various members the Waterlow family, so that they mi become acquainted with her, and, jo neyiog to Paris the other day, man b?rNHH?Uionaire lo*cr.-Philadelp> Times. Playing She Had aTeacTBu?bs was Just too Sweet for Anything Mr. Henhoper had his life insui for $10,000. Several nights afterwai while he and his wife sat by the fi he remarked : 'Look here, Jane, T been thinking this matter over, and now seems to me that I have made mistake in having my life insured.' 'Wnv: Jody-' replied the wife 't J 2?nney, will bo paid in case of ye death.' 'Yes, in case of mvdeath. But ha it all, I don't want to^fc^ If I had store I could have it insured, burn down, and make several hundred d lars on the transaction, and you do suppose that a man wants to come suicide, Ido you ? Wonder ? if I ca .rig up some scheme for'beating t! game V 'I don't see but one way, and tl would result in the death of us bott for Jody, if you were to die I wou take poison. I would cut my th rc with an old case knife rather than li without my Jody,' and she put her ari around his neck and wept. 'I tell you,' said the husband, aft a few moments' reflection, 'I'll be foui dead. Don't look frightened.' E then unfolded his plans. He won j get a skeleton put a lot of braised me around it, stuff the whole arran gem ci into an old suit of clothes, pot it in tl bottom of a well not far. from the hon; and cave! the walls in. The idea was happy one. The coroner would hold a inquest when the remains were brougl out, everything would be ?satisfactory and the insurance company would pa the money. Then the husband woul elip hornet take his wife and leave th country.! The oner morning a report was cit culated Vo thc effect that a well ba caved in upon Mr. Henhoper, and tba his wife was almost crazy. Hen hope was well known io Little Rock, and th accident?caused a sensaci?n. Afte three daJ? of hard work the manglet remains; were reached. The corone held a hurried inquest and the jury mei held tbel noses and said, 'Poor fellov what a horrible death !' The mone^ was paid to ?Irs. Henhoper. At om time it w^s thought necessary to sene her to al asyl?n, bnt she improved gradual]/ until people said the blov would not kill her. Henhoper waited and waited expect? ing to receive some word from his wife, and failing stole, home at night. Thc house was dark. Crawling through a window,1 he entered his wife's room. On a table lay a letter addressed tc him The contents were as follows : .Jody;: The idea of playing you are dead is too sweet to relinquish, and I have concluded to go away with anoth? er man who tells me that he can judi? ciously invest my ten .thousand dollars. I am still your friend, however, and ii you ever get hard up and tramp up my way, you may rest assured that I'll give you a lift' Just ss Henhoper finished reading the letter, an officer entered thc room and led him to jail.-Little Rock Gazette. Mr C.- A. David, who returned from New Yotk a few days ago, brought with him a fae simile of the flattened bullet which was fired at Guiteau by Sergeant Mason. ' The strange part of it is that j the bullet wheu it struck against the stone wall, after it passed Guiteau in Cae jail, was flattened into a shape which is quite a perfect profile of the assassin's head and face. Mr. Davis, bas also a copy of the sworn statement of the warden of the jail that the bullet was found in exactly that shape after it was fireAmy Mason..-Greenville News. I soap urease, At one time darinji; the civil wary when the Yankees made a .raid into Ou ach i ta Parish, La. j a good many negroes went off with thein.^Among thc number who started was an old wo* man living in Mooroo. She seemed quite rejoiced at the idea of being free | she clapped her hands and shouted and called her friends to go with ber. .Come 'long wid me, folkses, Pm gwins to glory! Gwine to- glory in die here, waggin ! Come 'long all of you, and go wid me to glory ! Glory !' But when the baggage was inspected it was found that Aunt Malissy wal taking an undue allowance, for besides her trunks she had several kegs, bags and barrels, some containing ashes and others full of old bones and meat skins for soap grease. The officer had them all thrown out in the street, declining to transport such freight. This high? ly incensed Aunt Malissy. She quit shouting 'glory7 and indignatly jumped, out of the wagon and refused to go a ? step toward freedom without her trea sures. 'You 'speck me to go an' l?avi? half my plunder behind ? Hice me down dat ar' bair-kivered tr ?ink er mine, an* my blue chis1, an' my dogiruns, an''dat' y nth er yaller trunk ; Fae gwine to stay here, I is ! Ketch me leavin' dese dig gin's widout my little bags er bones an* my lillie barril er ashes ab4 my little kags er bacon-rines !* Some other darkey reminded Anni Malissy that she was losing a glorious opportunity for gaining her freedom, bot she muttered i 'What's use bein' free if you ain't got no soap gTease V -Detroit free Press, How Leather Scraps are ?ti* lized. Every little" scrap of leather (hat flies from the cottera's knives in the Auburn shoe shops is saved, and either goes into leather-board, shoe heels, or grease. Who says this isn't an economical age ? About two months ago a factory was started foi making shoe heels in Auburn. They now have about twenty-five hands afc work and are making about 120 cases; of heels per "day, or about 15,000 heels. The heels are made entirely of small scraps of upper leather. The scraps are first cut into the right shape by dies. They arc-then packed and sent to Chelsea, Mass., where die bil is extracted from them by a secret process. They come back dry, and are then pasted together in wooden heel molds. The grease is extracted in order that the beek may be bur? nished. They take as nice a polish as a genuine sole leather heel. AH the pieceB that will not go into heels, are tried out, and the firm gets two or I ?Fi?ee barrels of grease per week from, this Source.' Tt isx-8sed--?gain for leather dressing. The firm luT-so* deavoringto obtain possession of the naphtha process of extracting the oil from the whole pieces, and thus save expense of shipping to Massachusetts. Their heels are largely used in. Au? burn, and sell at $1.30 to $2.40 pei case.-[Lewiston (Me.) Journal.] He Used to be a Boy Himself! The other day a show came top Little Boca: and was shamefully im? posed upon by Uncle' Isom. While \ standing near tbe tent he saw a crowd orW-spkHed boys grieving on ac? count of financM-?e?ression, "Does ye youngsters wanter go to der show ?" he asked. - . The boys responded ia noisy, chorus. "Well, come on. den. I uster to be a child myself, an' unlike the most of men, I ain't forgot it. "Count these boys," he added, ad* dressing the doorkeeper. The man began counting, and by the time the' boys had passed in Isom Was Walking around, talking to acquaintances from the plantations. "Here," said the showman, "give me twenty tickets." " What for ? Docs yptt think me A lottery agent?*1 "You passed in twenty boys, and I want the tickets or the money ?" "I doant owe yer no tickets, and I doant owe yer no money. I didn't tell yer to pass the boys in. I said count 'em. I'se alwas heard that showmen is good on rithmatic, and I wanted ter satisfy myself. Yer say dat dar was twenty boys. I doan 'spute yer word, ease I ain't no mathe? matician. S posen I take a jot ob boys ter de cashier of a bank an' axes him ter count 'cm, does dat signify dat de cashier is gwine ter pass W into de money room ? No, sah. Go back ter yer tent ; I see a crowd goin' in*" The showman, remembering that be had left the entrance unguarded* turned, aud Isom walked away. From the "Agricultural Primer."-? This Man tills the enfeebled Ground? Is be a Farmer ? Oh, no; he is not a Fanner. He is a Man who raises Cotton in order to trade it off in the Fall for an autograph held by a Guano . Dealer. But you roust not laugh, Children. This is a very serious Business. Tn the merry, merry Spring? tho Cotton Planter will hear eleven of his Neighbors say they will raise their own Hominy this Year. Then he will smile under his Hat-b?nd and go and buy a bale of Hay and a bar* rel of Corn on Credit, and plant all hts Land iu the Fleecy Staple, and then he will stand around in the Sun in front of the Village Grocery and say that Times are very Hard and grow? ing Harder. Children, always sow your Wild Oats and plant your Cotton before you get old enough to become a Farmer. .Kinder close, is she?' 'Close? Why, last month her husband died-fourth husband, mind-I'm blamed if she didn't take the door-p'r.te off the front doer, had his age added, and theh'nailed - on to the coffin. Said she guessed like? ly she'd be wanting a new name on the door soon, anyway.' .Ah!' he.exclaimed, as he pressed ber tenderly against hjs^vest at parting, .shall I hold you in tw^^arma. again to-morrow and paint *t?;ft?wi*h100 * ^_r the ?wag.