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WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. P., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1882. ESTABLISHES IN 1844, Eclio Song:. ^ From the French. I call across the rolling plain, " Oh mountains from your sleep awake, Oh stupid rocks your slumber %reak, Hear and give back my words again i" And hark! the Echo doth rebound In accents made the eoul of souud, Replying to my laughing voice, Tbero loitereth by a flock of sheep, Above whoso clamorous bleating swells The tinkling of their hundred bells. In sympathy with me, the steep Takes up the wild pell-mell of sound, Hakes jargon human in rebound, Compels uproar to flow along In SDng._ Where curves the lakes green crescent coas:, The fishers flock with net and boat, With song and shout ashore, afloat; Yet all the babble of their host Melts into music in rebound, Confusion into tuneful sound, One heart of overflowing cheer I hear. l Behind me is the murmurous'sigh And rustling of the forest trees, While loud or lc>v as flows the breeze Comes song of birds afar and nigh, And, sheaved into the one rebound, One note on Echo's lips is found, As if from one poetic brain, The strain. And thus from all the race ascends Earth's myriad sigh and song and prayer ^ Of hope, or aDguisn, praise, aespair; Bat gathered iato one descends Divine?not Echo, not rebound? One answer from the bine above, . 'Tis love! ?Austin Anderson, in Our Continent. 111 Click. HUhr. HarkM^tain, Kb withM5nd little M&io the Yer RoosIt costumed HSwio had closed her BBte!" sighed Mrs. Baldwin, Kttr daughters of her own, and yeat deal of money to bring them ^55, "what is tc become of the child ? JPWshe's weakly and feeble, and perhaps Providence will see fit to take her." Bnt Providence didn't. Click grew and throve, and blossomed out, somehow, among the New England sheeppastures', into a strange, foreign-sort of beauty-. Nobody wanted her, it was very plain. She was tolerated, and that 5^ was all. Plenty to eat, a little pallet bedstead in the corner of the farm^ \ house garret, a calico dress now and } then?she certainly did not cost them { much. And no one ever knew the y yearning heart-hunger that she resolute) Jy repressed within herself. - At the district school she picked np, now and then, a little learning; at husking-frolics, quilting-bees and ) apple-parties she got an odd idea of social observance; and. as fcr the rest, her soul grew and expanded, and reached out, like a wild convolvulus vine, guided only by the great hand of l^^^yT^^^ner's^ii^j^o had a "store Jfr carpet" in her best room, and kept city boarders in the summer-time. "Do you want any strawberries?" suid she, pushing back the hood of her lb- green gingham sunbonnet as she leaned against the kitchen-door. "Strawberries!'' said Mrs. Barley. "Didn't know there was none ripe yet. Ain't it dread fnl early for strawberries ?' "Yes," nodded Click, with conscious pride. "Bat these grow on the south A side of Lyndon Hill, where the cedartrees keep off the wind. Nobody knows of the patch but me. I've been watching 'em this long while. And last week's sunshine dead-ripened 'em. "Yes, I'll take 'em," said Mrs. Barley. "But I can't pay you a very high price, Trh^a w?r? Tmmmi/? A oil /*ATV?a Trnf k. IWJL HI J LSVCLl UCXO QUI U Oil VV/.UXt7 J OU. ' How uracil ?" said Click, with the speculative greed which belonged to one side of her ancestry. "There's sixquarts here, full measure." "Three cents a quart," said Mrs. Barley. f Click's face fell. ; "Not more?' said she. "Not a penny," said Sirs. Barley. "Oii, dear!" said Click. "And that will only make eighteen cents. And 1 wanted to get money enough to buy a ticket to Mr. Cheveuix's Historical Leo tures." . ,. "How much would it take T said Mrs. Barley, kindly sympathetic. "A dollar," said Click. "There are f four lectures." "Oh, d?ar, dear!" said Mrs. Barley, with hftr totienft. "That's a fdeal of money!" "Yes, I know," sighed Click. "And the lectures begin to-morrow night, and there won't be any more strawberries ripe for two days!" "Can't yon think of any other way of ? earning money?" said Mrs. Barley, good-natnrally. "Not nnless I discovered a pot of money on the sea-shore, where Crazy Simeon is always digging for Captain ,r- Kid's treasures," said Click, with a little Wy laugh x "Click, look here," said Mrs. Barley, "Have you seen the hair man yet?' "The?what V said Click, opening her great black eyes, fringed with curl^ ing silk. 3F "His name is Lemuel Price," said Mrs. Barley, laughing. "He has taken the agency of a Boston hsir store, and he's through the country buying hair. Sidonia Simonds sold hers to him for two dollars, yesterday. You!re got nice hair, you know, Click." Click smiled. "Yes," said she, taking off the green c gingham sun-bonnet, and withdrawing one or two hair-pins, so that the luxuriant mass of blue-black tress ess fell nearly to her slim waist. "It's well ^ enough. And it would soon grow 8gain ^ you know. Oh, Mrs. Barley, do you ? * * ' * * A 3.11 jp 126 worna give me iwo aoiiars iur lK-5 "There's nothing like trying," said ry the good-natured miller's wife. "He's It putton' up at The Three Crooked Keys. Sidonia Simonds will go there &S& ^oaHm^^JDp doubt." B mr w->n do went tov *he shrewd-faced ffip mail dated his le^tcT* from "The Three Crooked Keys," and c~. o away '* shorn of her lovely, shinicej haii, ^-nt jf with the two-dollar bill safe_ in the pocket of ner dres?; and tne .Bareness Burdett-Coutts herself couldn't have felt richer than Click. "Two dollars! two dollars!" the girl kept repeating to herself. "Enough for the historical lectures and a dollar over, all for my very own 1" Mr. Charles Cheveuix was a gentleman who came sometimes to the wilderness of Cedar Steeps to deliver lec--y tures, to rest from the fatigues of city literary work. Click knew him a little. He had once walked home with her from church, of a rainy evening, when she had no umbrella; he had now and again spoken pleasantly to her at pic. nics or spelling-matches; and, nnconB sciou8ly,the girl had learned to idealize him. And -this opportunity of attending this course of historical lectures, which he was to deliver at the cornei - school-house, seemed almost like a g&lc0-: glimpse of Paradise to the poor, unsoV phisticated CDuntry damsel. With her mind full of the coming treat, she opened the kitchen-door of the Baldwin farmhouse and went in. The family were at dinner?for the the primitive Cedar Steepites dined when the sun touched the noon-nrark on the kitchen-floor?and, for a second, ?* i - < 1 - - il- 1 3 mere was a sort 01 Dreauuess, appauea. silence, followed all too soon bv a shriek of derisive laughter. Click looked inquiringly around, her color deepening a little as she saw, sitting close to her Uncle Elihu's right hand, Mr. Cheveuix himself. "What's the matter?" she said. "What were yon laughing at, Sarah and Ketnrah ?" And then all of a sudden, she remembered?her poor shorn head! Eeplacing the green gingham sun , bonnet, with a cry, she darted out of the room, and never stopped until she bad buried her face among the pillows of her own little garret bed. Thither Sarah Baldwin presently followed her?a heavy-fcoted, good-natured girl, with a muddy complexion and a thick nose. "Click!" she panted, "whatever have you done with your hair ? Do just look in the glass and see what a frigM you have made of yourself 1" "Click sat up on the side of the bed, nnA/Mac/iiATlc flr^ofnro AP V* 1XJLL llLiO U1U) LUi^WaOViWUO w V4. pushing back the hair which was no longer there. "I look like a brigand," she said, passionately regarding her reflection in the scrap of cracked looking-glass. "But, oh, Sarah, I did so want tha money to go to the historical lectures !" And then she told honest Sarah all. "Well," said Sarah, "I don't blame you, Click. I suppose the lectures will be splendid. And ain't it nice, Mr. Chevenii coming here to board, because they've got the scarlet fever at the tavegt? And he's to have the big spare chsfciber, and?" uJi'Oh, dear?oh, dear!" said Click. ' breaking forth into fresh tears and sobs; I 4 'I shall never be able to come into the I mnm Trifli rnv hair shnrn rcflf HVa a convict's! Bat I ui'.l go to the lectures, if I have to wear Aunt Dorcas' black poke-bonnet and a green barege veil over my face. I will?I will!" She kept her word, and it was some time before Mr. Chevenix fairly comprehended who was the silent, intent auditor in the corner, whose figure was so young and so exquisitely molded, ; and whose costume was so laughably antique. "Why does Clarissa never come into the room ?" he asked Aunt Dorcas, one day. 4 Gals is queer," the old lady sagely made reply. "And Click's had her hair cut off." "Do you know what prompted her to that strange caprice ?" the young man asked. Axint Dorcas' spectacled eyes twinkled. ' Oar Sally says it was to earn a little money. She sold it to Lem Price, up at The Three Crooked Keys, to get money to buy tickets for your lectures. And now she's so awfully 'shamed of her looks she won't come in, and so she eats her meals in the buttery every day." Mr. Ciieveuix smiled to himself. "We must try and embolden her a little," he said. The walk up and down the gardenpath, where the interwoven boughs of the cherry-tree3 formed a cool, green awning of shade, was more than ustially I prolonc-eot^t^ ^3^-' V?t<-* f^/\nnrTlf.D V?rtU7 1 UUlLiU UiliJ iiCfc v C iVUU UlO WUVI*^*4WWJ **wu amazed would she have been 1 "She is a diamond in the rough," he said to himself?"a wild-rose, blooming in these rocky wildernesses. Her eyes are an inspiration, her voice sweeter than the lark's whistle. I have been dimly conscious of it for some time, and now 1 am quite certain that I love her. My city fnends will probably say that I am a fool. Well, let them! If I succeed in meeting here the full, rounded perfection of my life, why need I care for the babble of the world ? I love her, and that is enough." AnrJ so nnipflv rrossinfi' the meadow. where the tall, blue flower-de-luces lifted their banners along the course of i;he stream, and the silvery-leaved willows kept up a dreamy rustle, he came upon Click, sitting, all alone with her book, upon tho rustic bridge. Sweet as a wild-flower sh6 looked. True, the long, dark luxuriance of heT hair was gone, But the tiny, silken rings curled all over hor head, like a baby's locks, and dropped in picturesque tendrils on her brow. A faint crimson burned on her cheeks; her eyes were full of changing, limpid light. ''Mr. Cheveurx!" she said, starting up. 4iDon't move, Click," he said. -'No; stay just where you are. I want to talk to you. You give me no chance in the house; I will seize my one opportunity here." Click looked at the deep, brown-rippled water, then at Mr. Cheveuix. There was no way of escape, unless, indeed, she choose to swim like a wild duck. She lifted her large, startled eyes to his face. "Opportunity ?" she replied. "I have a great deal to say to you, Ciick," he began. "Have you?" Oh, surely, surely he must hear the wild, tumultuous beatings of her heart! "Whv do vou avoid me so svstemati cally?" he asked, gently taking her hand. Click was silent. "Tell me!" he pursued. "Do yon dislike me ?" "Oh, no I" "Do yo a like me, Click?" he asked, looking intently into her eyes. "Of course I like yon," she naively answered. "Ana is there nothing deeper, tenderer still, Click? Were I to sue for your love, what answer would you maise to me ?" When they came up, beside the flower-de-luces and the hoar-leaved willows, to the house, Mr. Chiveuis and Click were engaged to be married in the spring. Mr. Cheveuix was to assume a chair in a Western college, and Click was to be the professor's lady. And Mrs. Baldwin and her fair daughfpr f?nnld scareelv believe in -Click's gocd luck. "Of all people in the world, liow came he ever to propose to yon, Clarissa 7* said Aunt Dorcas. "I don't know, aunt," said Click, h&nging down her head- "I?I suppose becanse he loved me !M Something' to Bring the Stars Nearer. A Georgian of scientific attainments, residing at Darien, has discovered that lenses for telescopes can be manufactured from the virgin drip of rosin, pgl^elargest lens made of glass is only ttiirt^Viiches in diameter. The magnitude" can be greatly increased by the new method, and, consequently, there is ne telling what wonderlu1 astronomical results may flow from its adoption. The main difficulty is in securing a favorable oninion at head Quarters here. My Darien correspondent is unfortunately not sitnated for pushing his discovery, and I can only aid him with my pen and tongne. He reminds me, and I repeat it for public edification, that no less a person than Mr. Calhoun stood in the way cf Professor Morse's electric telegraph, and Mr Stephens says that he was the only Southern Congressman who stood by Morse i through thick and thin. Gentlemen who are conversant with science assure me that the Darien discovery is worthy of a thorough test.? Washington Letter. i ? Adam missed one of the luxuries of life. He couldn't laugh in his sleeve. WORDS OF WISDOB. There is a blessing attending the ministry of mercy. Faith and hope cure more diseases than medicine. Give neither counsel nor salt nntil you are asked for it. T.. a i. * l T_ J 1 - industry neeo. not wish, ana ne wxit lives upon hope -will die fasting. Cheerfulness is an excellent wearing quality, and has been called the brighl weather of the heart. No school is more necessary to children than patience, because either the will must be broken in childhood or the heart in old a^e. The grandest and strongest natures are ever the calmest, but without earnestness no one is ever great or does really great things. f> 1 - .1 A. t_ + reopie wno are always rasing care 01 their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance and irregular life, do as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or drown themselves. The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful?wise in saying that which I see not; faithful in plain admonishment not tainted with flattery. Beyond the river of time walk the brave men and the beautiful women of our ancestry, grouped in twilieht upon the shore. Distance smooths, away defects, and, with gentle darkness, rounds every form into grace. It steals the harshness from their speech, and every word becomes a song. Substitutes for batches. People who light their pipes, cigars or lamps, or kindle their fires by the instantaneous ignition of friction matches, have, unless they are old people, very little conception of the labor and tribulation attendant upon the same process fifty years ago. Every well-regulated family at that time was provided with a tin box of tinder, produced by the combustion of rags, and a flint and steel and matches which had bean dipped into brimstone. When fire was wanted the flint and steel and tindei were produced, and the tinder being ign?fed by the sparks precipitated from the sLeel by means of the flint, a match was touched to the burning mass and, being lighted, was applied to some prepared kindlings and a fire thus produced, the whole process occupying from five to fifteen minute3, ec^ording to the skill or luck of the operator. This was attended with so much labor, and productive at times of the use of so many naughty words on the r>art of the person operating, that they w,re generally kept all night. This was done?there were few stoves, and hard coal had not come into very general use then?by covering the huge and blazing back-log in the fireplace with ashes, and in the morning there was generally fonnd in its place a bed of live coals, which, by the application of fresh wood, and with the aid of the then universal bellows, usually produced a blazing fire in from fifteen minutes to half an hour. Sometimes, however, from some cause the back-log would be wholly consumed, leaving nothing but a bed of ashes. In this case, particularly if there was an absence of dry kindling in the house, some member of the family must take the shovel, and oftentimes, through the snow knee-deep, trudge to the nearest neighbor's "alter fire." And pometimes, indeed, the nearest neighbor's fire would be out, too, in which case the walk would have to be extended till the fire was procured. The live coals were borne home upon the ehovel, often carefully guarded with the hand to preveut blowing off, placed between two brands, the bellows set vigorously at work, and the fire abLzing. In lighting a candle, a live coal was taken up upon a pair of tongs and blown upon with the mouth until a blaza was produced. Pipes were lighted by placing a live coal upon the tobacco, and cigars by holding the burning coal to the end and puffing with all one's might. The first improvement on this in New England was the snbstitntion of a bottle of phosphorus, into which, the cork being removed, a brimstone match was thrust, and being thus ignited the bottle was quic'sly closed in order to retain the strength of the liquid. This was such an emancipation from the thralldom of the tinder-box and flint and steel and other inconveniences of the old method that people rejoiced greatly, and believed that the ne plus ultra in this direction had been reached, and every well-regulated family was provided with its bottle of phosphorus, while the flint and steel and tinder-box were laid aside to be used only in case of emergency. This invention was known by the name of "loco foco mo?/?Vioc " Tinuwrftr fhprA was another invention, that left the phosphorns bottle as much in the shade as the other had the ?int and steel. This was the application of a preparation of phosphorus and brimstone to the tips of matches, which only required to be drawn between the folded leaves of a piece of sand-paper to produce a light, so that the smoker had only to carry his matches in one vest pocket and his folded sand-paper in the other to light his pipe at any mument. xubbb i&iter were &uuwu ?o "Lucifer matches," as taking, it is presumed, of the character of the scriptural "son' of the morning." But the spirit of invention was net satisfied to stop here, and the result was the present world-used friction matches, that alike serve all people, and the making of which at the present time, in all probability, consumes almost as much wood as there was burned by the whole United State3 for all the purposes of warming and cooking a century ago.? Providence Star. Soul Bur} in?. "Whenever an Abchasian is drowned, his friends search carefully for the body, bnt if this is not found they proceed to capture the soul of the deceased, a measure which then has become a matter of importance. A goatskin bag is sprinkled "with water and placed with its mouth, which is stretched open over a hoop, looking toward the river, near .the place where the man is supposed to have been f i 'tTTA nVA of TV* uruwiieu* J-rtv WJ.UO aio obxcbi/ucuixuiii the spot across the river as a bridge on which the soul can come over. Vessels containing food and drink are set aroond the skin, and the friends of the deceased come and eat quietly, while a song is sung with instrumental accompaniments. The scul, it is believed, is attracted by the ceremonies, comes over on the bridge that is laid for it, and goes into the trap. As soon as it has entered? that is, when the bag is inflated by the breeze?the opening is quietly closed, and the ba<? is taken ut> to the burial place, where a grave has already bees prepared. The bag is held with the opening to the grave, and the strings are untied, and the bag is squeezed intc the grave, and the burial is afterward completed. This rite 1 " equivalent value with the burial - 'dy, and the grave is treated wL . j tae honor as ii th< body was re. - ithin it ?Popula) Science Mc 'I POPULAR SCIENCE. Remarkable transformations have been made in the Algerian Sahara by i irrigation. Under its operation a soil i * i* - -i _ __1 l nas Deen lormea in wmcn pianis grow with great vigor. By an experiment ms.de with a chest, nnt tree thirty-five years old, to calculate the amount of mois:ture evaporated , from the leaves, it was found to lose six1 teen gallons of water in twenty-four ' hours. Within the last fifteen years no fewer ' than 2.800 houses in Edinburgh, Scotland, have been pulled down as unfit for ! human habitatio .. In 1863 the death rate in that city vas 26 per 1,000 ; now ' it is down to zu per jl,uuu. The vegetation on Behring Island is ' exceedingly luxuriant. The sea in the neighborhood is especially rich in alg?. Forests of it from sixty to one hundred 1 feet high render dredging exceedingly ', difficult in some localities. By a registering apparatus, contrived for the purpose, the frequency of the strokes of the wings of different insects has been determined. It is found that while the common fly vibrates its wings 330 times per second, the honey-bee makes 190 strokes and the dragon ly only twenty-eight. It is maintained by some scientists that the aroma of fruits increases with the lattituae, while the sweetness de creases. Many herbs, such as caraway, are richer in essential cils in Norway than in more southern regions. This effect is ascribed to the influence of the prolonged light of the summer months. Attempts have been made in Spain to substitute orange for grape j uice in wine making. Four kinds of wine, one a sparkling wine, have been successfully produced. They are all of an attractive color, perfectly clear, of an agreeable sweet, slightly acid flavor, and of alcoholic strength of about fifteen per cent. Mr. W. R. Brown has published a paper proving very satisfactorily that the main agency which keeps clear the cnanneis 01 maai river is not me run ot the tide passing up and down them every twelve hours, but the upland or fresh waters which pass down them at j the period of low tide, more or less aided ! by the oozing out of the salt water ' which may have soaked into the banks while covered with the tide. Much has been heard of toughened glass, but Frederick Siemens now proposes to adapt that made by his process to the manufacture of street lamp posts, water mains and other articles now made of cast iron. He claims that his class is stronerpr than iron castings, im perishable and incorrodible. The cost per potind allows more profit to the maker than can he obtained from iron, is twice as much as the cost of the latter, but the specific gravity is so much less that the consumer will be able to obtain glass articles about thirty-three pef cent, cheaper than similar goods in cast iron. Siberia as it Is. The tales which Americans 1 ave read in regard to Siberia have always been of snch ti harrowing and repulsive description that they have come to associate the name of that country solely with chain gangs of Russian criminals and slow, lingering deaths, resulting from the brutalfty of officers and- the rigors of the climate. A Washington lecturer, however, throws some .light upon the resources and occupations of the inhabitants of that wild country which will have a tendency to modify this pessimistic view. The population is now aocut o,uuu,uuu ana tne people are settled mostly in the fertile zone, for it must be remembered that the area of Siberia is 6.000,000 square miles, its length 5,600 and its width 2,500 miles. The lecturer referred to, Mr. George Kennon, commenting upon letters in the London Standard and Pall Hall Gazette, depicting the inhuman treatment of exiles:, their slow death frcm poison in quicksilver mines, out of which they are only allowed to come to die, and the agony they suffer from the long Siberian winter, says: There is not a quicksilver mine in all Siberia, and in that part of Siberia, where, according to the Standard, exiles are dying of cold, in 1876 100,000 pounds of tobacco were grown. In the first half of the seventeenth century exiles began to be sent to Siberia to rid the country of those convicts maimed by punishment. As methods of punishment have relaxed, banishment has token the place of most of the other forms of punishment?as for murder, assault, laiceny, \agrancy and desertion from the army, tte purpose constantly kept in view being the population of Siberia. Between 1827 and 1847 159,755 exiles Fere sent to Siberia, of whom only 413 were ex 1 . 1 < _ A ^ il - uea lor political onenses. ui mete 443, two-thirds belong to the nobility. From 1867 to 1872 G4,274 persons were exiled. Of these, 5,000 were sentenced to hard labor and the other ninetj-two per cent, simply banished and allowed freedom within a smaller or larger district in proportion to the gravity of their crimes. There are only two mines now worked by Russian convicts, one a coal mine, the other a placer gold mine. Both are worked above ground. The pictures of the horrors of trans portation of Russian exiles by Mr.Ureen ville Murray and English 'journals are absurd. They are transported by rail, by boat and by "wagons, and are supplied with the necessities of life until they find work or get into business for themselves. Trade between China and the provinces of this fertile zone is large and carried on by 2,000 merchants. Millions of bushels of grain are raised and tho manufactured products are valued nt millions oi dollars. These exiles are, as a rule, prosperous and 1 A *1 ? T nappy, .a. rous a political esue 1 once stopped with was a prosperous photographer. I would rather be banished to this conn try for life than spend five pars in Sin<? Sine. Alcohol Experiments on Pigs. It may not be generally known that systematic experiments npon pigs are being made these days at Paris by a group of scientific men with the view of ascertaining the precise action of alcohol upon the processes of digestion, , respiration and secretion. In a very interesting paper upon these experiments by M. Dujardin Beaumetz we find it stated, with a touch of unconscious] humor, that the pig has been chosen to be experimented upon because, in the first place, his digestive apparatus closely resembles in all essential respects that of man; and, in the nc.%-f r-\lqod Ko^qtico f)iA cr iq rml v . AAVAW *kJ Vi*4J i animal (besides man, we presume) that i will ungrudgingly consent to be , " dosed" with alcohol. The congress, at which th9 final resuj ts of the investigations of M. Beaumetz and his coadjutors are to be made known, will be held ( in the autumn at The Hague.?P.-.ll Mall Gazette. A personal item says thai Christine Nilsscn has been visiting a country [ house belonging to Qaeen Isabslla, I where she shot a quantity of pheasants > "in the royal preserves." And they 5 deserved to be shot, too, for getting > | into the royal preserves, A woman in II Hainesville last week nearly broke her son's back vith a broomstick for getting i into her preserves. Christine visited 5 i tie queen's country house at an onoor i I tone moment, bnt, no doubt, somV of - the royal preserves will have to be 1 thrown out.?Rorristown Herald, JOHN JACOB ASXOB'S START. The Stream of Wealth that Becn.ii With a Free Permit front the East India Companr. . i A business acquaintance of Mr. Astor once a3ked him what particular transaction, or peculiar kind of business, first gave him his great start. He said, in reply, that at one period of his life he had accumulated a large quantity of furs, such as beaver, which were unsala ble in the American market, and they were packed away in whisky barrels down it. the cellar. Ee had no correspondent in London to send them to, and no disposition to do so if he had. After talking the matter over with his wife, they concluded it wonld be advia-i-i n j r . _ ? 13 J.-1 iv. ? aDie teas ne snuuiu uik.? iue xius uu London himself, and he did so. The prospects of the venture were very uncertain, and therefore, in order to economize as much as possible, he went ont a3 a steerage passenger. On arriving in London he found a ready market for his furs, and sold them at a very high rate. He then mads a list of such goods as he thought tfouldfseXL.to advantage in the New^fork market, and purchased and shipped them. After he had transacted all his business he was detained in London for a couple of i weeks iu consequence of the ship not being ready to sail. He employed the time in looking about London and picking ud all the information possible, 1 T At J_ 13 especially sucn aa ne tnougnc wouia benefit his business in New York. Among the places he visited was the great East India house, and the warehouses and offices of the company. On one occasion he asked one of the porters what the name of tho governor was. The man replied, giving a German name very familiar to Mr. Astor, who then asked if the governor was an En-g lishman,' ard was told that he had come from Germany when a boy. Mr. Astor thereupon determined to see him, and watching for an opportunity, sent in his name and "was admitted, un entering he asked the governor, "Is not your name Wilhelm?" "Did you not go to school in such a town?" The governor replied, "I did; and now I remember you very well." A long conversation followed, old school days were talked over, and the governor insisted that Mr. Astor should dine with Mm. He declined for that day, but on the next day they met again. He asked Mr. Astor ii there wss nothing he could do for him. Mr. Astor said no; he had bought all he wanted, and needed neither cash nor credit. ' They met several times after that, and the gover nor continued urging Mr. Astor to name something that he could do for him. He asked what present would be acceptable, and Mr. Astor declined accepting any. Their last meeting took place two daj? before the sailing of the ve3sel on which Mr. Astor was to return to New York, and for the last time the governor asked him if he would accept any present he made him. Mr. Astor, seeing the anxiety [o? the governor, replied, "yes." The governor, who was much affected at parting with his old German schoolmate, handed Mr. Astor two papers, saying: "Take these, you may tind their value." One of the documents was aimplv a Canton price-cxuxenfc. The other was a carefully engrossed permit or parchment, authorizing the ship that boro it to trade freely knd without molestation, at any of th'3 ports monopo1 ized fcy-ths- E-safc l^d^Oompany^- Mr. Astor returned to New York, without giving the documents a second thought. He had u.o ships and never had any trade with the East Indies, and at that time never expected to have. He then, of course, little imagin ed that the parchmeut would be the foundation of vast shipping operations and a trade amountin^ t-n millions of dollars and embracing the Pacific Ocean. The permit was No. 68. On arriving homo Mr. Astor showed the docn'ment to his wife, and asked her advice, and he always did in all matters relating to his business, as to what disposition he should make of them. "I have no ahips ; it is no use to us," he said. At chat time there was in New York a merchant named James Livermore, who was largely engaged in the West Indian trade, particularly with Jamaica. He owned several vessels, some of them a good size, and Mrs. Astor advised her i husband to go and have a talk with him. Mr. Astor went, showed the East India Company ship pass and the Canton prices cnrrent. "Now," said he, "if yon will make up a voyage for one of your largest ships, yon can have the pass and the prices cnrrent on one condition: Yon are to furnish ship and cargo, but I am to have one-half of the profits for my pas3 and for suggesting the voyage." The West India merchant laughed at the proposition, and would not listen to such a one-sided operation. Mr. Astor returned home, reported progress, and for a time the matter rested. Mr. Livermore, however, thought it over. At that time no vessels traded to Canton from New York. The Revolutionary war had j ast ended, and the East India ports were as hermetically sealed to American commerce as if it had not existed. Only a few weeks elapsed before Mr. Livermore called at Mr. Astor's store and asked: "Were you in earnest the other day when you showed me the pass of the East India Company r J.T- - "1 was never more so, was me i prompt reply, and again they talked over the matter. Sir. Livermore finally ' thought he saw his way clear, and an agreement was signed by which Air. A.stor was to receive one-half the profits, and Mr. Livermore to fnrnish vessel and cargo. The ship was selected and loaded partly with specie, Spanish milled dollars, abont $30,000 ; and the other half was ginseng, a root some what resembling licorice, which is highly ? *? 3 . ? i? it. rn. vaiuea as a meuicme uj iiie uaiuese, and lead and scrap iron. The ship sailed for Canton, and the pass enabled her to anchor at "Whampoa, a few miles below that city, and she loaded and unloaded her cargo the same as if she had been a vessel belonging to the East Endia Company. The ginseng, which cost twenty cents per ponnd in New York, was suld for $3.50 per ponnd in Canton. The lead and scrap iron also bronght enormons prices. The vessel was then loaded witn tea and sola in New York at SI per pound profit on cost in Canton. "When.the return cargo was sold and the accounts make ont, Mr. As tor's half share, which was $55,000 all in silver, was packed in barrels and sent up to the store. When Mrs. Astor saw the barrels she asked what was in them. " The fruits of our East India pass," replied her husband. Mr. Aster got his pass back, bought a ship, loaded with an assorted cargo, and dispatched her to Canton. On" her voyage out she touched at the Sandwich Islands to take in water and fresh provisions, anrl ftlorofl fifn/Vlr nf firp.nxiwas nlsn taken on hoard. On the arrival of the vessel at Canton, a Mandarin came on board, and noticing the fuewood, immt diately anked the price of it. The captain laughed at such a question, "but signified that he was open for an offer The Mandarin offered ?500 a ton and it was all sold at that price. That was sandal-wood.. For seventeen years Mi. Astor ecjoyed the lucrative sandal-wood trade without a rival. No other concern in the United;States or Europe knew the secret, ane>it was only discovered when a shrewd jJoston iship owner detailed a ship to follow ofle cf Mr. Astor's and observe the eventsi of the voyage. Then for some time t&at house was a participant in the trade J Ca.pt. "Whet ten coinnanded one of M* Astor's ships, and he mairied the <|&ptain's sister. Mrs, Astor imew more jabout the value of furs than did her husband, and she could select a cargo for the Canton market and never make any mistake. When they became very wealthy she demanded, as an expert, $500 an hour for using her judgment and knowledge of fur to promote his commercial plans; and he paid her whatever she asked. >*ew York Pawn Shops. Ia former years the habitations of Gotham's money-lenders were clnstered in Chatham street and the Bowery, says a New York letter to the Texas Siftings : As the island became more popnlons the emblem of the three gilded balls was found pendant, here and there, far np the East and West side avenues. Pawnbroking in the hands of shrewd and thrifty men, is a good business. Fortunes are made not quickly, but surely. One of our traditional names is Simpson. Net to have known Simpson is synonymous with freedom from impeenniosity. I have been well treated by Simpson in my " time," and he's held careful "watch" over it for months together. The largest capitaliof i-r* TMn-n/iinol TCTQTr la best known as a lender on pledges. He amassed soild wealth in a little dingy, brick tenement on Chatham street, near the City Hall park. And it's really marvelous how much business "my uncle" can do in a single year. There is a leading establishment here that received in the twelve months prior to yesterday no less than 870,000 pawned articles, on which over two million dollars were advanced. This house has branches in Paris, London and Vienna. i Anr AAA a very ordinary enop win loan $zo,uuu a monih on preferred merchandise. Of course the big profits accrue from unredeemed pledges. The law requires that the security for a broker's loan must be held at least one year. It is calculated that hardly a tenth of the tickets are ever seen again by the brokers that issue them. For a long time a prominent window advertisement at Simpson's was an elegant goldmounted sword which had been voted bv Concrress to one of our naval heroes. After his death, trouble came upon the family, and its treasured heirloom went for bread. What an unwritten history in the distress that prompted the sacrifice of this inscribed relic of a father's bravery and his country's pride ! Well do I remember a similar case. A man, honorable and honored, failed in business during one of our monetary upheavals. One by one his household luxuries were pawned or sold. Among other prized articles and comforts was a superb dinner set of solid silver. It had been presented to him by the Ma sonic fraternity in recognition of his integrity and services as a grand treasurer. I tell you, my dear sifters, a proud man will fight adversity at terrible odds and bo crippled nigh unto death ere he will part with such tangible proof of his brother's esteem. But solid, silver, ornamental^ chasings and scrolled resolutions are baubles and mockeries when wife and children are stinted for food. So the pawn-shop becomes a repository for needles and anchors, and clocks and pianos, and heartrugs and diamonds, accordeons and pistols, cassimere trousers and seal-skin dolmans, kid gaiters and dress shirts, overcoats and under-garments, brass instruments and what not. Volumes have been printed about our theaters and lyric temples, but the inside history of Manhattan's great original spout shops" will never be slung into type. Advancing IhrongL Sad Periods. Evidently man has a nature which needs to eat not a little of the bread of adversity. If not every individual need do this the race must cave mucn 01 mis food, that there may be a certain drift of thought and feeling for each member of the family of man. Not all must be wounded by assassins or smitten with disease or early death, but there must be enoagh of these griefs to touch all hearts and fill all eyes with tears. Personally you may have suffered no great affliction, but the ills of others have always incompassed you, and you have been modified by the convulsions of the surrounding scene. You may have wept little, but you have seen tears; not having died you may have seen the marble face; so that in some deep sense the adverse winds of life have blown over all souls, and as a result civilized man stands to-day the embodiment of much humility and pathos! His natural vanity is rebuked, his language is made more musical, the tones of his voice are lowered and sweetened, and his steps will turn to save the life of a worm. His love and friendehiD are made more powerful, not only by ills that once passed along, but by ills that may make a sudden return. As the storm drives doves into a flock and makes them seek shelter together, so have past and coming trials hurried the group of mortals to join hands for a common fate. It is said mothers love most tenderly some sickly or disfigured child. The principle is deeper than this incident. ?&rth lias maruea some misfortune npon us all, and we all love each otheT more deeply because our world is not a paradise by any means, but a land where pity is so needed that it is called divine. Thus what the atheist and stoic call the cruelties of nature are for the most part only a method of transforming the dust of the earth into sensitive and appreciative soil. I The Press. Every intelligent citizen, says an exchang e, acknowledges the power of the pres3. Every public enterprise appeals to the press for support, and it seldom fails to secure it if it deserves it. The modern newspaper is itself a public institution, an d4therefore sympathizes with all others. It is not subject to the narrow and rigid rules whicb apply to merely private callings, but to the broad and enlightened principles springing out of its relation to the public, and its duty to the people in the collection and publication of information relating to their interests, Tbe ousiness or journalism is no longer a mere incident to the printer's trade. It has become a great learned profession, with honored fraternal organizations similar to medical societies and bar associations. The newspaper is the great educator of the masses of the people. It visits them from week to wee?, induces them to read, and compels them to think. The intelligence of a family can be judged by the number and character of newspapers taken and paid for by it. The man who reads a newspaper is a citizen of the world. He feels an interest in the people of all lands, for their doings are brought home to his door. He rejoices with them in their fortunes and sympathizes witn tnem in tneir misfortunes. A good newspaper is next to the Bible in ennobling mankind. The newspaper is also the great agent of progress and reform. Abuses do not reform themselves. The newspapers bring them to the attention of the public opinion as often as it proclaims its imperious decrees. This glorious nation is blessed with a free press, and as long as it remains free from official censorship the liabilities of the people are safe. Usurpation and tyranny cannot prevail against a free press. The wife of a West End man *as re cently correcting a little son at the f . . . ?l. - - A- ? table. "ie isn c mce If B&J iaoouo j darling," said the mother, "you must say 'molasses.'" "And if yon want it right bad, my son," suggested the father eating his turnip greens with his knife, "yon must say 'morelasses,' "?Denver i Tribune. ' "<4r . : ' f OR THE FAIR SEX. A StartliDC Costume. We trust that none of our Americar belles will follow the latest freak oi fashion exhibited at the races at Nice by a facinating Parisian actress. This adventurous young lady appeared on the course in a toilet of light colored Sicilienne, embroidered in a most artistic majircr TTifli Ufa CITO/I arMntrod round the skirt. The bodice was plain, with paniers, and at the back the material was so draped that two tabbies came face to face, and seemed to be engaged in mauling each other in the most improved back-yard fashion. The effect was startling, to say the least, and Wfft f n +A OO TT +T-* O f + k*? A TTTfl/i?AH TITrtO wc v^ULULO i/W onj u.ux?u UJUO ncaici >T*AO eminently snccessfnl in creating a sensation. How Japanese Women Wear Their Hair. My new friend, the teacher, writes a correspondent in Japan, was a widow, and meant never to marry again. But yon say how aid yon know, when yon conldn't talk together ? I know by her hair. If is a sc&nce in Japan-^this stndy of doing np the hair. The age and sex of a baby may be known by the tnfts in the back of the neck, or the ring around the crown, or the bnnch leff in front while all the rest is shaved. A girl of 8 or 9 has her hair made np into a bow on the back and * wound around with red crape, while the front is shaved bare and bangs dangle at the sides. A young lady combs her hair in front and arranged as a butterfly on the back of her head, and plumaged with gold or silver cord and gay hairpins of gilt balls. A married woman must keep the waterfall style, while a widow who is willing to think of matrimony wears her hair tied and twisted around a long shell hair pin placed horizontally across the back of her head. But when a widow firmly resolves never to change her liooiic oguuu. one v^uua vjix uui u<ui ouviu in the neck and combs it back without any part. This is the way my new friend, the teacher, wore hers. Shoes. Take the most recent fashion of shoes. The heel of the human being projects outward, or rather backward, and gives fcteadiness to "the sure and certain step of men." But fashion has decided that the heel of the boot or shoe shall get as near the center of the instep as possible. Instead of the weight of the body resting upon an arch, in the modern fine lady it rests nnnn with the tofts in front. which have to prevent the body from toppling forward. Them the heel is so high that the foot rests upon the peg and the toes, and the gait is about as elegant as if the lady were practicing walking npon stilts. In order to poise the body on these two points a bend forward is necessitated, which is regarded as the correct attitude of the "form divine." It is needless to say that there are few ankles which can stand this strain without yielding; and it is quite common to see young ladies walkftl Ar> V? f Uai*! or>V1na f rrn cj< irift oil ax\/ug VTlbU txxcxx tuiAigg tniouug uxi ways, or perhaps with the sole of their shoe or boot escaping from tinder the foot and the side of the heel in contact with the gronnd. With snch modern improvements on sandals?which allow the feet perfect freedom and play?the present mademoiselle when she attempts to run is a spectacle at which tfiui gods?well, nei- quite tnat, oat at which her mother might well weep.? Good Words. Hosiery and Glove*. Hosiery is costly and beautiful enough to please the most fastidious. The favorite styles this season are quite dark and black, even worn with the brightest colors. It is said that stockings and gloves must match. Some rvnrfl orarnAf. fiilk fifcnr:kino'3 arfl orna mented on the sides, reaching quite above the ankle, with an insertion of finest point lace edged with white embroidery. Some styles of raw silk of dark wine and deep blue colors are embroidered with gold and silver thread j Some lace like open-worked black silk I stockings are elaborately embroidered j in old gold silk. A great deal of intricate hand work covers these objects of luxury. Some exquisitely flue lisle I " 3 J -I t ? J j inreaa siocfiiagsuave upcu luut? ucstgjuo on th9 instep and are also embroidered. The variety in reds includes the peculiar red of copper, the red-brown of the wallflower, dregs of wine, and all glowing wine colors, dahha and maroon. Finest qualities of ballbriggans imitate the more costly styles. Children's hosiery simply duplicates those already described. Long lace strings or brides are more fashionable on bonnets than ribbon stiings. Crepe broche in all shades of color, pure white and cream, are used in trimming bonnets. Lace and gauze brocade in lace designs for millinery purposes are brought UUO XJJL ^uauuuxgc. Prevailing styles in silks are rich brocades, moires in antique styles, and satin striped and brocade striped moires. The Robespierre collar, in pale tints of satin, overlaid with pearl-beaded open-worked chennile netting, grows in popularity. Anne of Austria belts, thickly studded with beads, pearls and semi-precious gems of every color, are worn with costly evening toilets. Red cloth is nsed under white drawn lace-work cloths to show the pattern of the work. Put a few drops of ammonia in the water you bathe "your hands in to prevent perspiration, The looking-glass beads used in millinery are toned down with cpaline, iridescent, and milky pearl effects that modify the glitter. The history of gloves and glove making is like all things in human life and eocietv?an exceedingly interesting matter to look into and thoroughly trace, but the extraordinary "hand shoes" produced within the last year or two should be condemned by women of taste and good sense. The perfaction of a glove is its smoothness and delicate elasticity, its unexceptionable fit. While ugly colors and incongruous materials An i-i/i/vnnf. Q {-.lua tasffi in these modern days of lnxury; the coarse chamois skin, the wash-leather loDg gloves, never qnite clean, always wrinkles, always ungraceful, it is sincerely hoped will be abandoned this 6eaeon. It is a stnpid thing to follow blindly a fashion set by a woman who desires to hide an ugly, bonev arm and wrist. Fashion Notes. Get watered silk to combine with your black cashmere. The favorite. millinery lace is tiie oriental or moresque. There is a threatening revival of gros grain as a dress fabric this season. Gentlemen wearing mourning dress should use blacti-eyed stationery. The Mother Hubbard cape reaches low on bust, but not to the waist line. Black nun's veiling and grenadine dresses will be appropriate in the spring. Colored Spanish lace appears on manj of the Paris trimmed hats for spring , wear. Artificial facetted glass beetles, coc cinellas, dragon flies, and butterflies ; appear as ornaments on the first impor. tationa of Paris bonnets. The most elegant white wash dresset of the coming summer will be of liner lawn and sheer linen cambrics, soft as Indian muslin and almost as transparent. Manila and Panama braids are again \ in vogue ; but English Dunstables and : split straws and Milan braids form the largest part of the first importation of " spring millinery. Fourages or draped cord trimmings ^ can be bought at the trimming stores in colors to suit the new cheviots. Gilbert cloth, flannels, and other woolen goods for early spring suits. Mustard yellow china silk pajamas, dotted with small circles of navy blue, i are the latest novelties in these goods, i seen in some of the best houses in the furnishing departments. Cheviot, cloth, and velveteen suits, when tailor made, are frequently made more dressy by fourages or draped cords across the, front of the basque, and sometimes down the skirt or other parts of the dress. The queen of the Belgians is a good nraflfcieal bonnet-maker. Her nets hav ing recently pulled to pieces the hat of the Princess Clementine's music teacher, the queen and: her daughter made the hat much handsomer than it was before. A plain Jer3ey basque, with a skirt - 'trimmed across theftont with puffs and Spanish lace frills alternating, also a puffed panier and a fall back drapery, will be the best design for your black silk dress that must be worn in the summer. A gentleman's full-dres3 suit for a wedding is a biacJi ciotn swano y-mi coat, black cloth vest?not a white one ?and black doeskin pantaloons. For the traveling stiit he might use a Cheviot suit, or else his morning coat of black cloth, vest to match, and dark gray trousers. A stylish model for a spring hat, in the "Queen Mab" shape, is made of amber-colored straw, with cascades of gold lace veiling, a wreath of mignonettes and chenille mess rose-buds of a deep crimson. Inside the hat is faced with crimson shirred satin, with a narrow band at the extreme edge of amber beads. Kentucky's Mammoth Care. One's general idea of a cave is that of an open space under ground, or in a mountain side. Mammoth Cave is made up of passages, avenues and tortuous crooks rather than of vast open spaces. You can take the short route (seven miles), to be done in two hours, the long (sixteen miles), to be done in four, or the combined, to be done in from five to twelve or more. "We chose the combined. There are avenues down which one could drive a coach and four if fairly cleared up on the floor. There are places that are mere cracks, justly named " fat man's misery," " tall man's abasement," and ' corkscrews." Here is the River Stvx, Lake Lethe and Echo river, running under an arch so low that a little iise in the water renders passage impossible. Sometimes it rises unexpectedly and leaves parties in the dark beyond the arches unable to return till the water subsides. I saw the eyeless fish of these dark rivers; their principal nse in this world being to serve Dr. Bushneil for an illustration in his sermon on " the extirpation of unused faculties." Here and there amid these .long pass aces are ouen spaces called "domes," o " ' w "AT where the water-carved rocks rise ninety, or a hundred* or a hundred and thirty feet from the floor. When these places are lighted np by the brilliant Bengal lights they are both weird and grand. The variety of formations in this cave surpasses anything I have ever witnessed. In most caves the stalactite and stalagmite systems are easily understood, but the lower ends are delicately grooved in various directions, by what process it is impossible to imagine. Intermingled with these bam-like figures are variously-sized guttae, as delicately cut as those of the Greeks on the Parthenon. In some parts of the cave the gypsum has crystallized into snow-balls that glitter over the whole roof; in other places there are delicate flowers, some eight inches in diameter. The stalactite pillars are comparatively few, but exceedingly curious, in one piace half a dozen form a kind of bower in which, four couples have been married. The first bride had promised her mother not to be married while she lived on the earth. A, very foolish promise, and this was her way to keep it, and also get married.?Bishop Warren. The Wliite House. Its corner-stone was laid on the 13th of October, 1792, under the superintendence of Captain James Hobson, an /3i*x^skf TinMin TTIIA 1X1MJI tUUIiibCV/Vj UUCV/u uwiM jy uviuij iimm accepted the awaid of $500 (then thought to be a large amount) for the design. Ee is buried in the Catholic cemetery at Washington, and his descend ants still live in that city. The British -destroyed the building in the year 1814, but it was rebuilt by Captain Hobson, and was first opened for the reception of visitors pn January 1. 1818. The portion of four lofty columns on the north side was added in 1829, during the administration of President Jackson. It is a lofty building, two stories in height, with a frontage of 108 feet and a > depth of eighty-five feet. The vesti " ' ___ i. 3 H Dole wiinin tne irons aoor is any jcci long by foicy wide. The famous East room, T-hich was furnished fifty years ago, is eighty feet long, forty feet wide and twenty-two feet high. Eight large mirrors and three chandeliers of crystal and silver adorn the room. Tne wans are coverea wnu gray paper, and the furniture is trimmed with gray and maroon velvet. With the exception of our public halls it is the largest in the country, and for its size is considered the handsomest The President's office, which is in the second story, and which is the Cabinet room also, is not very large. It is thirty-five or forty feet long and thirty or forty feet wide, with a ceiling about twenty feet high. In the middle of the n i Iajiw cnrr/mn^fl'1 Tw LLUKJL AO a ivug VMVAW j leather seated chairs, long lambrequin curtains of a dark, blaish-gray color adorn the windows, and the carpet is of a red tint, with large figures, and a largo map of the United States is on the wall. "Washington is a government creation, and the "White House is chiefly memorable on account of the men who | have lived in it. Every one of cur ! Presidents except Washington has rej sided in this famous house. The original cost of the building in 1792 was about $3^5,000, and tbe total cost up to this time is about $1,800,0.x). ? Golden Bays. A Surprise Party Surprised. There was a "surprise party" last Saturday night in which the members of the party were the ones who wt-re r articularly surprised. Miss Esther G. is a popular and charming young lady of ; Sc. Cimr street, and a party in her honor and or her pleasant surprise was gotten [ up by some friends. An enterprising yoang gentleman who was not invited, but who is quicK at expedients, invited ' j the young lady to accompany him to the theaier. He called for her at 7.30 o'clock, and a half-hour later the com pany appeared. Of course tbey failed to find Miss G at borne, and three and " a-half hours of a dreary, monotonous 1 wait ensned, and by the time the recip' ient of the "fcurprise"' arrived, Sunday was so close at hand that the festivities } were brief. Thus did the young man i who was le:t in tne coiu, ireeze ou? nii' adversariea,?Cleveland Hercdd. Fights Among Seals. , About the first of June the seals seek the breeding-grounds, or "rookeries,** as they are called. The bulls come first, and there is a constantly sustained fight between the first comers and the succeeding ones for advantageous positions on the ground. Those that come first are best served. It seems to be a well-understood principle among fcheia that each one shall remain undisturbed on nis ground, wmcn is usuaiiy sooat six to eight feet square, provided that from the start until the arrival of the females he can hold the ground against all comers. It often happens that one able-bodied seal, having first arrived % and exhausted himself by fighting early and late, is finally driven by a fresh animal back further and higher on _ Jg the rookery. Mr. Elliot marked ore veteran at Gorbatch, who was the first one to take up his position early in May, and that position, as usual, directly at the water line. This* male seal had fought at least forty or fifty desperate battles, and when the fight- ^ ing season was over he was still there, J* covered with scars and -Mghtftdiy/ cashed: rawLfastericsr and bloody! eye gouged out, but lording it bravely over his females, who were huddled together oil the same spot of his first location, around him. The fighting between the males?for the females never fight?is done entirely with the mouth. Mr. Elliott says : * "They usually approach each other with comically averted heads, jast as though they were ashamed ol tne rumpus they are determined to participate. When they get near enough to reach one another they enter upon the repetition of many feints and passes before either one or the other takes the initiative by gripping. The heads are darted out and back as quick as a flash. Their hoarse roaring and shrill pip4*ig_ l whistle never ceases, while their fat ;r-l bodies writhe and swell with exertion and rage; furious lights gleam in their eyes; their hair flies in the air, and their blood streams down; all combined makes a picture so fierce and so strange that, from its unexpected position and ir<s noveiry, is peraaps one ox me mveu extraordinary brutal contests man can witness."?Boston Globe. Detained bj Business. "You were ont late last night, dear," said Mrs. Breezy, taking her seat at the breakfast table and fumbling nervously with her fork. ; " Oh, no," saidMr. Breezy, " it wasn't late. You see, darling, you "were asleep - 'M: when I came in?" ? Mr. Rrppr?. T was not asleeix but as you say it was not late. Nothing will convince you that the clock struck 3 as you closed the hall door. Of course business detained you, my dear. It is wonderful how mnch business a \ jfM man will find to transact after midnight, but of course we women know nothing about such things. We can never understand you men; can we, dear? We are always imagining all sorts of horrible things when yon happen to stay away a day or two without sending us a line. Women are so nervous, are they not, dear ? What silly creatures we are, to be sure. If we would only go to bed "?2; and go to sle^p it would save us a world of trouble, wouldn't it? We might know that you great, strong men can take care of yourselves. If jou ? are obliged to sit up until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning talking business with your casiomers, is is really i ungrateful in us to complain, for of course you have the worst of it, don't you, darling? How it must have bothered you, and now sirea yon muss get, and thiDk it is for onr sates. When you come tottering home so tired thafc you can hardly get upstairs, and -it throw yourself on the bed without even the strength to remove your boots, we should appreciate your devotion in thus laboring to .support us. Now, last night, dear, when you stumbled over the rocking chair and found yourself obliged to cling to the headboard to support your weary form, you presented a really sad example of the overworked husband and fathfi. When your shattered nerves caused you to upset my fresh bottle of cologne and scattered the contents of my work basket over the floor, you really looked the typical martyr of married life. Of course too tired and worn out with that horrid customer to remember anything." The Keason Why. Many years ago, when a certain place in Texas was a very small town, quite a number of prominent citizens went out <vn a hrmtin.or fixnedition. One night. when they were all gathered around~the camp fire, one of the party suggested that each man should give the time and reason for his leaving his native State and coming to Texas, whereupon each one in turn told his experience. Judge Blank had killed a man in self-defense; Gen. Soando had forged another man's signature to a check, while another came to Texas on account of having two wives. The only one who. did not make any disclosures was a sanctimonious-looking old fellow who, although a professional gambler, was usually called "parson." "Well, parson, are you ready to tell no urViv v/in l?sffc TTAntnefeV 7* "-J J ^ "I don't care to eay anything about it. Besides, it was only a trifle. None of you would believe me, anyhow." "Come, now, old boy, out with it. Did you shoot any one V "No, gentlemen, I did not Since you want to know so bad, I'll tell you. I left Kentacky because I did not build a church." . . Deep silence fell upon the group. No such excuse for coming to Texas bad been heard of before. An unexplained mystery was evidently at the bottom of it. The "parson" was called upon to furnish more light. "You don't believe me V "No, but we are trying to. Suppose you illuminate your church ?" "Well, gentlemen it happened just this wav. A concrecation raised thirty thousand dollars and gave it to me to build a church?and I didn't build their church." i||? The Game of Rhymes. The game of rhymes may be made quite amusing, if the company of young folks who play it exercise ingenuity. Oae of the company thinks of a word rhyming with another word which he mentions. The aim of the party is to ?*-.Vio+ +v>? flmriiriifc of can lie. Li coo vuv ?v. ?v-n ? The rnle is that no one should give a name to what they guess, but describe it instead, and each of the company in" turn is entitled to a question. Sup? ose the word thought of is "bag," rhyc ing wi h "tag," then the questions would be put as follows: "Is it a necessary part of a bootlace ? * "No, it is not a tag." "Is it the name of a horse V "No, it is not a nag." "Is it tbe name of a joker?" "No, it is not a wag." .-Ji "Is it the name of an elegant horned / animal?" "No. it is not a fta*." "Is it the Srars and Stripes T* ' No, it is not a flag." "Is it good to go to mill with ?" j "Yes, it is a bag." The aurochs, or wild oxen, which survive only in the imperial forests of Lithuania and Poland, threatened a i few years ago, to become extinct, and , strict orders were issued for their pre- pga ' j servation. Under imperial protection ' they have multiplied to about 600 head, i' and a hunt was recently permitted near " aaa i j Bielostok. Two aurochs were killed -^i&aSk j and sept to St. Petersburg. zMWIrSm