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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. C.. MAY 3, 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 A WINTER REVERIE. « ■ See the fern leaves and foliage bright Which In forms of fantastic display Have covered the windows by night, But fade* at the full dawn of day; So prospects and vision of hope Which flit through ray v earisome brain, Disappear when exi>osed to the light, lily Uaila c.^titnl ifp iiinm..^,- " I have dreamt many day—dreams so fair In fanciful scenes full of joy; ~~ 1 have pictured a future so rare Of bliss without tinge of alloy; But I wake to the s tem world once more, And I feel its broad glare once again, And my fanciful vision is o’er Like the beautiful frost on the pane. Will nothing ‘hat’s lovely ere lost Save to mock us with hopes and fears? Is all that 1» fair to glide past, Like the swiftly and fast flying years? Wake, wake in the world there is light, Oh, sing not this doleful refrain, Or your hopes will soon fade out of sight Like the l>enutiful frost on the pane. TWO LOVERS. High time declared the gossips of Granville, that Nannie Williams made a choice of a husband, and gave to the other girls, who doubtless would make better wives, if they had not as much beauty, some chance. Utterly absurd that the men followed, one after a rother, like sheep in a drove, wherever her caprices led. They were like a hive of bees con - tending for one flower, and blind to all the gardenfcl besides. Hut Nannie only smiled when some whisper of this reached her, and let the gossips talk. Full well she knew her power, this simple country girl, who possessed no dower save her beauty, and right royally she used it. Besides, it was not quite as the gos sips declared. There was no such butter ia all the county as that which came from Nannie Williams’ farm, and Nannie’s fingers, white and tapering as they were, moul ded; no creanf was so thick and yellow, and Nanny had sole cnarge of the dairy; no house was more neat and tidy, with a nameless air of feminine grace about it, and Nannie, since her mother’s death, reigned sole mistress. No wonder the young men felt the race well ran, with such a prize as its goaL True, she had a saucy word ever ready, but one readily forgave Us harm- loi»«TipnH for the sake of the swffit brilli ant smile which lent her pretty face its rarest charm, and seemed to mutely plead her pardon. However, when it was least expected, Nannie made her choice, and it fell upon Sydney Richards. There was nothing to be said against fvira He was a good-looking young fellow, with a farm of his own. He and Nannie would make a hand some couple, and doubtless would suc ceed weU in the wcrld. Bat for all that it was a surprise to many of them, and one or two of the more discerning ones said that she had flirted shamelessly with Dick Arm strong, and that qniet as he had ever been, he had grown more so since the betrothal was announced. Nannie did not hear this, however, nor had she seen Dick since her engage ment. until one evening some three weeks after. She had wandered down to the little gate opening on to the road, and stood leaning listlessly against it, when a quick, firm tread broke the stillness. She knew the step well, and a flush of crimson rose to her face, then receded., as a tall, stalwart figure came around a sharp torn in the road. He gave a quick start, too, as he per ceived her, and would have passed on, merely raising the straw hat from the close-cropped blond head, bnt that her voice, a little tremulous, detained him. “Dick!’’ she said. He halted then, bat made no move ment to approach her, until she holdout towards him a small white hand. “Dick,” she repeated, “of all my friends yon are the only one who has not congratulated me.” “Indeed!” he answered, with a strange, hard smile. “I hope it is not too late.” And teaching the liltle fingers for an instant only, he turned away again as if he considered all his duty done. Hot tears rose to Nannie’s eyes, ihongh from whence they sprang none could have divmed. “You are crael, Dick,” she said. “No,” he answered, “I am kind, bnt believe me, Nannie, I trust yon may be happy. Good night!” She spoke no further word to detain him, but stood and watched him walk away. Her eyes still followed the direction he had taken long after his figure was lost to her sight. “He never lovea me!” she murmured to herself. “He would always have been exacting and jealous, and he never asked me to be his wife. i'What right has he to complain?” But the girl knew that she silenced only her conscience, and no voice of his, when she thus spoke. He had uttered no reproach. Dared ahe to her own soul aay he could haye found no cause for dung so? Sydney Richards found something amiss with his pretty betrothed that sight. She shrank from his somewhat too demonstrative caress, and turned upon him almost angrily when he asked her to name the day for their wedding—in fact to let the banns be read at once. “You see, it’ll soon be harvesting time, Nannie, my lass,” he pleaded, by way of argument, “and there’s no deny ing that the farm needs a woman’s hand and t. woman’s care. “It’s ail ready for its mistress, and why shouldn’t its mistress be ready for itr “Simply because she isn’t your maid- of-ali-work, Sydney J&ioharcu, to be hirea when the season is most conveni ent and the demand for her most press ing,” was the girl’s hot reply. But her lover bore it good- naturedly, and just as he was leaving she penitently let her arms steal softly about his neck, while she raised herself, whisper iu his ear that her. But—wqll, the butter^uedTcTnot come to-day, aud so her.temper bad uot borne the test. — Pardon thus sought might readily enough be won for harsher sin, but Sydney Richards imposed his penalty for all that; and so it happened that the next Sabbath morning witnessed the reading of his and Nannie Williams’ banns. Poor little Nannie! She and her pride were waging a hard fight jnst then. It had been a lucky moment that Sydney Richards had chosen to ask her to become his wife. That very day she and Dick had had their first and only falling out. It had been snch a foolish matter, and she had known herself quite wrong, but she had determined that Dick should yield, ana instead he had quietly walked away, saying— “Nannie, when you acxuowledgo I am right, send for me. “It is only your pride that now re- fnses to acknowlege me so, and it u with your heart, not your pride, I wish to deal. Besides 1 nave something more I wish to say to you then.” Something more! Ah, how well she knew what this something more was! As if it needed to be put into words! As if she had not known all her life that Dick, earnest and tender and true as he was strong, loved her, and one day would make her his wife, though he little liked and illy brooked her coquettish ways. Indeed, on this account had been their falling out, but she had deter mined this time not to yield. And so when, a few hours after Dick had left her, it chanced that Sydney Richards came to woo her, his tender love phiases sounded very sweetly in her ear, and she gave him her promise, scarce conscious'of all its import, but glad to inflict on Dick some of the pain from which her heart was suffering. Tm going to try the new colt, father, this morning," she said, when it wanted but two weeks for her wedding day. Better not,” said the farmer. I doubt if he’s ever had a woman on his back.” “He would not be the first horse that I had broken to that, “was her laughing retort. Tbe farmer said no more. He had implicit faith in Nannie’s horsemanship. But wheu; a little later, she came down the stairs dressed in her habit, she started to find Dick Armstrong* holding the colt by the ran. *T had business with your fattier, Nannie,” he said quietly, “and the man brought the oolt round whilst we were talking together, so I stayed to tell you yon most not ride him. “He has a dangerous eye.” The girl smiled proudly. “Many thanks for your interest in my life, Mr Armstrong; but since yon have acquitted yourself of any responsi bility in the matter, I feel doubly tempted to try the experiment.” She stepped down beside the horse to pat him with one little gauntleted hand, a courtesy he acknowledged by impa tiently pawing the ground with his fore feet. Dick Armstrong’s face paled. Involuntarily he laid his hand on the girl’s arm. “You must not, Nannie, it is absolute madness. “And if it is,” she retorted hotly, “to forbid it is Sydney Richards’ province, not yours.” She could had used uo better argu ment to silence him. \ He had paled before, bat now cheek and lips alike were colorless, save for one drop of blood upon the latter, where his teeth had met. One‘instant, the small foot rested in his palm, in answer to her imperious gesture for assistance, the next, girl and horse had vanished from his sight, the colt—with bit fairly between his teeth and tanning like mad—running as only a vicious horse can ran, deter mined to rid himself of the human being he bears. Dick Armstrong forgot his anger, just though it was, forgot all save the great, sickening dread at his heart—the dread which was so soon to prove so fatally well-founded—as, hastening down the road, a riderless horse first came da h ing past him, and then, a full mile further on, he met a party of laborers, carrying in their midst a ghastly load. A.t first, poor fellow, be thought it that most terrible of ail bnrdens—a deac body; bnt as he bent over the face, so deathly white bnt for the crimson stain upon the forehead, a faint murmur of agony escaped her lips. Gently these rongh men bore her home. Almost as soon Dick was there with the physician he had summoned; but the latter, who had left him a full hour without the sick-room, could minister bnt little oomfort on his return tg where we waited. The girl might live, he said, though only her wonderful health .and youth would accomplish that; but she would be a cripple always. Nam ie Williams a cripple! No one could realize it as the news spread. But as the slow weeks passed and life as slowly as erted itself, the doubt be came certainty. Ah, well, the gossips declared again, it was sad enough; but better it bad happened then than Inter, when Sydney Richards would have been burdened with a crippled wife his life long. Bat Sydney himself, what did he say? mistress after all, Sydney,” she said, ;h a sad smile; “but it won’t have the we had planned for it. Igded a woman’*! band, mine are very useless hands now,” and she held them np—grown so white and thin. “It isn’t necessary to give you your release from any pledge, perhaps; for of course you understand I couldn’t ourden you this way. “But I thought you’d feel better, maybe, if you let me tell you so my self. ” The man looked down embarrassed. He had meant to say something like this himself for be wished a helpmeet, not a drawback, in his wife. But, somehow, the words sounded dillerentiy from Nannie’s lips, and made him feel small and mean. Yot they were just enough, and when, with » few murmured regrets, lie left xer, the bond between them was forever severed. “Alone—Iieuceferth alone and help less!” she whispered to herself, while the great tears rolled silently down her cheeks. But she was glad, too, that it was not Sydney Richards’ wife that spoke. That evening Dick came in. “lou can fomve me everything now, Dick,” she said. “How good you have been to me all this time. ‘ Sydney washere this morning, Dick, and—all is over between ns,” “You mean he gave you up, because —because— Ihj'gica W III < ul .A ] i aiatii'. “The coward!” “Husli, dear!” she interrupted. “it was I who released him. “Why, Dick, any man would be mad to take such a burden as I am on his bands.” “Then I am mad! “Oh, Nannie, give yourself to me, and I will be happier with my cross than any king that wears a crown.” “You are a Xing, Dick," she answered. “Oh, my love! would that I had proved worthy of you before it was too late; but now—now it can never be!” And plead as he might, he could uot change ker purpose. i love you—yes,” she said, “too well to accept now what once I threw away,” For weeks he pleaded, bnt Nannie was firm, until one day he brought to see her a young surgeon from the city man who had gained wonderful re pute, and who told her that by submit ting to a dangersus operation she might nfloui walk, “Is it death or entire recovery?” she asked. He answered— “Yes.” “Then let me be your wife, Dick,” She whiaporaA an Ear lo-vor’a car. ~~ “I shall have that to give me strength to recover, or I shall sleep better with your name on the grave above my head.” But, the operation over, Nannie woke to lile, not aeath, and strong and bean tiful as in the old days, wears only a tiny scar upon her brow to mark how near she missed her life’s happiness. The Great Russian Telescope. The great telescope for the Russian government has been completed by Alvan Clark and sons of Cambridgeport, Massa., and Is ready for shipment. . This instru ment has an aperture of thirty inches aud a local length of forty-five feet. To test it the Clarks erected in their grounds a tem porary tube on a pier of brick twenty-seven feet high. This mounting is in the open air. A few days ago some of the astrono mers of the country were invited to view the heavens through this telescope before it is sent to Europe. It is now tin largest telescope m the world and a number ac cepted the invitation aud visited Cam- bndgeport. Among those attracted by the great instrument was the astronomer of the Providence Journal, who desenbes what he saw in that paper. The night was very cold, but still aud clear. The objects viewed by the party were Saturn, Jupiter and the great nebula in Orion. The view of Saturn revealed the most delicate markings on tbe rings and disc, and gave to the moon Titan, perceptible disc. The planet did not ap pear much larger than in telescopes of less size, but the light was very brilliant, revealing features which are rarely seen. Owing to atmospheric or other causes, the definition was not as good as in smaller instruments. The view of Jupiter was exceedingly fine, the wonderful cloud coloring appearing in all its glory. The moons appeared like planets of consider able size. The definition was, However, far from perfect and it may be said here that there are but few nights in a year m which the air is in snch a condition as to give good definition in a great telescope. The loss of definition from atmospheric cause* increases very rapidly with increase of aperture, and the most perfect definition is secured in small instruments of good construction. The matter of definition did not affect the seeing In the view of the great nebula in Orion and this splendid object came out in all its wonderful pro portions. This nebula has probably re ceived more attention from astronomers than any other object in the heavens. The naval observatory at Washington has recently issued a large volume on it, giving drawings by the earliest astronomers. The' great telescope objective will now go to Russia where it will be mounted by the government for the use of O'to Struve in the observatory of Pulkowa, nine miles south of fit. Petersburg. There will soon be a larger telescope in this country, as one ot thirty-six inches aperture, is being constructed for the Lick observatory on ML Hamilton, California. Mr. George Clark while in this city last lall mounting Dr. Bwilt’a telescope In the Warner ob servatory,expressed the opinion that thr ./• six inches was the limit for uie prevent. Be bdieved that a second refracting teles cope of that size would not be made, but the tendency would be to the use of During a lecture course by professors who have at their disposal a complete set* of physicial apparatus, there are some experiments performed by them which at first sight seem very complicat ed but which nevertheless may be re peated by means of very simple objects. There is, for instance, the interesting Lissajons experiment, which consists, as the reader is perhaps aware, in throw ing on a screen, by means of the oxy hy drogen lamp, the curves traced by one of the arms pf a tuning fork in sonor ous vibration. An analogous experi ment may be exhibited by means of a common knifing needle. Fix one of the extremities of the needle in a cork to serve ns a base; then to the upper free extremity attach a ball di seuhug wax, and on this gum a small circle of paper about the diameter of a pea. Now, holding the cork firmly between the finger of the-left band, cause the needle to sharply vibrate, either by bending it far to one side and then suddenly releas ing it, or by striking it smartly with a. wooden rnler. The little ball of wax surmounted by paper will be saen to des cribe a morejor less elongated ellipse, or a circle, according to tie intensity or the number of vibrations. The phenom enon is very perceptible when care is taken to cause the needle to vibrate under a strong light from a lamp; and, in snch a ease the persistence of the im pression on the retina causes the vibra ting wire to form an image which has the appearance of a long and graceful bouquet holder, or a champagne glass. Among the experiments sometimes performed to demonstrate melecular at tractions, there is one which is execut ed by means of an apparatus of a pecul iar structure but the same phenomenon may be shown m a much more simple manner, as follows: Having cut two small spheres out of a bottle cork, place them on the surface of water. If one of the bails now be carefully poshed along un til it is in quite close proximity to the other, the two will be seen to quickly rash towards each other, just as a bit of iron flies to a magnet when the latter is brought near it A writer has pointed out a neat meth od of obtaining an electric spark by means of a simple apparatus which he calls the “tea-tray eleotrophoras.” A Opmmon metallic tea-tray u supported on two dry glass goblets. A piece of common brown paper, ont so as to be a little smaller than the tray, aud with round corners is warmed, laid on the table and robbed briskly with a piece of India-rubber, or with a clothes brush, It is then laid down for an instant oh the tray. If at this juncture some per son presents his knuckle to the tray he bright spark* fnvorabl* I •« • - of inches long. By simply patting the paper down, tonching the tray, and again lifting np the paper, the tray is again charged, and a large number ot sparks may be thus drawn one after the other in rapid succession. The paper may be lifted by the hands, but it will be found better if a couple of strip* of paper be fixed on with wax to serve as handles The sparks obtained by the tea-tray eleotrophoras may produce a slight pricking sensation, bnt to give a regular eieotno shock will oblige us to store up a charge in a Leyden jar. This import ant pieoe of apparatus may be improvis ed as follows: A round-bottomed glass tumbler is procured—thin glass is pre ferable—and is filled about three-quart ers full of small leaden shqt if shot is not at hand dry coal oust will answer, though not so well, and great care must be taken to wipe clean the upper part of the tumbler, Everything must be warm and scrupulously dry. Into the shot is inserted a silver spoon to serve the place of a rod and knob. The tumbler is held by grasping it well in the bottom of the haed, so that the palm may cover the whole of the rounded bottom. Hav ing thus prepared and grasped the im provised Leyden jar, it is to be charged with sparks from the tea tray electrop- horas. It shomd be held with the spoon handle near to, but not touching the edge of the tea tray, while another person performs the operations of lifting the paper np and patting it down, then touching the tray, then lifting np again and so on until a dozen sparks have been sent into the jar. On touching the “knob” a smart little shock is ex perienced in the wrists and elbows, and a short, bright, snapping spark announ ces the discharge of the jar. Llfe.ln a LiplithonM. There are horrible stories told of former days, when a couple of meu being on duty on some isolated rock, one of them hap pened to die m rough weather; when the | survivor, fearful of beisg charged with a crime, remained shut up in the closest proximity to the corpse of his comrade till the lull of the storm brought relief and the opportunity of explanation. Recently we beard ot a case which might well seem incredible were it not amply authenticated. The watchmen on the Wolf Rock, oppo site the Cornish coast, were cut off from all communication with their kind through the dreariest months of the winter; and it wns nearly the middle of January when r< lief reached them at last. Nowadays, however, the Ught-watders iu similiar circumstances Invariably consist of three at me least; and ix>th on the lignt-towers and in the light ships the men are sur rounded by all manner of material com forts. They have rooms as snug as tbe limited structural arrangements will admit they have ample rations of excellent food, nor are the needn of their minds by any neg'ected. Still it must be an unnatural life at the best aud one that is perilously fitted to nourish sombre fancies. We may conceive that in the men who take most kindly to the occupation, the imagination is seldom strongly developed; but never theless they must be quick and intelligent. General speaking, some moderate amount of exercise is believed to he indispensable to preserving tbe balance of the bodily and mental powers; rnd in the dullest routine of ordinary drudgery there are usually oc casional changes ot scene and company. But in many a lighthouse tbe occupants are held fast by the legs, for exercise be comes something more than effort when it is reduced to practicing the treadmill upon the steps of a corkscrew staircase, or to taking half a d< zen steps upon a slimy rock at low water. The crews of the light ships are somewhat more favorably cir cumstanced in this respect, since they can do their walking on a more or less roomy deck, and they enjoy, besides, a greater variety of company. But the life in both cases must he intolerably monotonous; and to a landsman there would be little to choose between the terrors of the one and the other, when the sea is wrapped in im penetrable fogs or is being lashed into fury by howling tempests. In a storm, the lighthouse is in reality the safer resi dence of our modern engineers, it is most unlikely that another Eddystone will be swept away. Yet as the waves rush up the sloping sides ot the tower, and toss their tons of seething green water against the lower courses of masonry, seeming ‘to shake the massive structure from the light room to the foundation, it must need nerve and long habit to resist the belief that the violence of the elements may bring about catastrophe. As for the light ships, be ing moored in shallower water, thev may be less exposed to the extreme fury of the But, on the other hand, m even moderate ly bad wocther they must always be emi nently disagreeable places of abode. The peculiar jerking motion, when the natural heaving of the ship is being perpetually checked by the straining cables, Is said to be trying to the most seasoned of mariners. I’m Nut Afraid. GRANDMAMMA. In her old arm chair she’s sitting, As in days of long ago. And she’s knitting, knitting, knitting, Gently rocking to and fro. And a darkening thought steals over me, Like the shadows on the lawn, Of the lonely days before me After grandmamma is gone. • Oh, when grandmamma is gone, When grandmamma is gone. And her pray’rs and tears and toil for us are o’er, Who will cheer us day by day, All along the pilgrim way, To the beautiful, the ever-shining shore Years ago, a dear companion, Promised her, a blushing bride, To protect, to love and cherish, Even till death should thorn divide, O’er a low mound ’ueath the willow, Summer roses long liave blown, They will bloom above another, After grandmamma is gone. ’Neath the hill the sun is setting, And the twilight shadows come; Still she’s waiting, waiting, waiting, Till her Master calls her home. And 1 weep for friends departed, While they’re going, one by one, We shall have one more in heaven After grandmamma is gone. The Art of Lying In Ue<l. A Mining Koinanca. One of tne most useful, yet neglected, of all the arts is that of lying in lied. The damage that is done by persons getting up is past all reckoning. All the mischief and crime, the counterfeiting and forgery the murder and thett are prepetrated by parties who persist in getting up. Not only individuals do wrong by leaving their ! beds, but rivers as well do an immense amount of damage. Witness the Ohio River, which left its bed a few weeks since. How much damage has its diver sion wrought ? What an immense, incal culable amount ot work, labor and expense has not its early rising caused 1 What man was ever dunned by a creditor, had bis eye put in mourning by a too close proxim ity with some one’s fist, broke his leg on a slippery pavement, was run over by an omnibus, who lay in bed ? What great achievements have been ac complished iu war, in poetry, m literature by genius abed! What nobl# thoughts have been born between the sheets, and, oice delivered from their authors’ brains, gone, Jehu-like, whistling down the race course of time ! “Coming events cast their shadows betore” -one of the most mem orable lines in the English language—o-ig. inated with the gin-loving poet, Tom Campbell, one morning before be had arisen. Longfellow thought out that ex quisite poem, “The Wreck of the Hesper us,” after he had retired. Ben Franklin said: “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. ” Now, Franklin parted out all right, but got mixed when he said “early to me.” There ia the fatal mistake. People who nse early are ?ure to catch the malaria; i- »..1l u-._l.-J ous germs; tee sun is notopananaa noT warmed teem into life, giving them wings and set them adrift Poor, misguided man, he arises, inhales them si!; they fructify and poison his entire system; hence chills, fever, malaria and half the ills that human llesh is heir to.’ Bliencer & Hiner, of Fon Due Lac are the attorneys for the saloon keeper, Alex ander McKane, who is one of the heirs to mines tp New Mexico valued at over $1,000,000. The circumstances are as follows: About the year 1871 Frank Mc- Kane went from Indiana to New Mexico, and, like nearly all men who go into a mining country, he located a number of claims. He was a bachelor, and lived the lile of a thriftless vagapond for several years, when he opened a saloon. He maintained himself in the busu ess, not keeping a very elaborate place, until 1880, when he died of smallpox, poverty-strick en and deaertid. lie had not even a friend left to communicate the intelligence of his death to his Eistern relative:, if it was known there be had any. His family, con sisting of three brothers, did not leam of his death until a short time ago, a gentle man appeared who was desirous of pur chasing their rights in the mines alluded to above. McKane’s family consists of Alexander McKane, of this city; James McK&ne./of Olay county, Indiana, where he is a /col lier; and Samuel McKane, now confined in the Indiana penitentiary at Michigan City. The last was incarc rated /tor bur glary, but prolonged his term of imprison ment by attemp.mg to hew a legj jff one of the prison guards. There waO also an other member of the family, wl reported, died of yellow fever m tl He was a fugitive trom justice, $10,000 reward on his head for committed in Texas some years Shortly after McK&ne’s death pired that some of the mines whi cated were exceedingly valuah] it was e South, there murder ICC. trans- he lo- and for her wmiuiug when Nannie sent for the long gone by, him. The lovely face was as white as the pillows on which it rested, and the great eyes looked larger than ever as they met his. - — - -* — “The farm has had to wait for its smaller instruments that could be used to The accident war. five weeta old, and areolar advantage aw^on- epre rjeserou* C awaao^t AaZovk au<t 2l6r VV CUUlliK iilAQ nn/tatfrkna 'ThxrPP ia rpnann KaHova thmt Gilding Clnnaware and Steel. occasions. There is reason to believe that the thirty-six inch telescope will he some what disapi o nling, however perfect it may be optically. The fire of vanity is led by the foe of fla ttery. The application ot gold leaf to china- ware, is done either by adhesive varnish or by heat The varnish ie prepared by dissolving in hot boiled linseed oil an equal weight of either amber or copal. This Is diluted with a proper qua. ‘ity of oil of turpentine so a« to be applied a^ thin as possible to the parts to be gilL Let It stand after varnishing about twenty-four hours, then heat in an oven until so warm as almost to burn tbe fingers when handled. The heat softens the varnish, which is then ready to receive the gold leaf, which may be applied with a brum or pledget ot eotton, and the superfluous portions brushed off. Burnish when cold, inter posing a piece of thin paper between the gold and burnisher. Where burning In is practiced, the gold reduced to powder is mixed with powdered borax glass (anhy drous borax', moistened with a little gum water, and applied to the clean surface with a camel hair penciL When quite dry the article is put mto a stove heated to about the temperature ot an annealing oven. The gum burns off, .and .he borax, by vitrifying, cements the gold with great firmness to the surface. Polished steel may be beautifully gilded by means of the ethereal solution ot gold. Dissolve pure gold in aqua regia, evapor ate gently to dryness, so as to drive off the superfluous acid, redissolve In water, and add three timea its bulk of sulphuric ether. Allow to stand for twenty-four hours In a stoppered bottle, and the tbereal solution and gold will float at top. Polished steel dipped in this is at once beautifully gilded and by tracing patterns on the surface of tbe metal with any kind of varnish, beau tiful devices in plain metal and gilt will be pioduoed. For other metals the electro process is bast. Mrs. Helen Williams tells the follow ing: Not long ago i stood by the death bed of a little girl, From her birth she had been afraid of death. Every fibre of her body and soul recoiled from the thought of it “Don’t let me die.” she said, “don’t let me die. Hold me fast. Oh, I can’t go.” “Jenny,” I said, “you have two little brothers in the other world, and there are thousands of tender-hearted people over there jvho will love yon and take ohre of you.” But she cried out again despairingly, “Don’t let me go; they are strangers over there." She was a little country girl, strong- limbed, fleet of foot, tanned in the face; she was raised on the frontier, the fields were her home; she shunned the pre sence of strangers with that childish embarrassment born of a beautiful ima gination and faith in the possibility of unknown manhood and womanhood in others, based doabttess upon the coming worth of her own womanhood. In vain we tried to reconcile her to the death that was inevitable, “Hold me fast,” she cried, “don’t let me go.” Bnt even as she was pleading, her little hands relaxed their clinging hold from my waist and lifted themselves eagerly aloft; lifted themselves with snch straining effort that they lifted the wasted little body from its reclining position among tne pillows. Her face was turned upward; but it was her eyes that told the story. They were filled with the light of divine recognition. They saw plainly something that we could not see; and they grew brighter 1 and brighter, and her little hand quivered in eagerness to go where strange portals had opened upon her astonished vision. But even in that supreme moment she did not forget to leave a word of comfort for those who would gladly have died in her place. “Mamma,” she was say, “mamma, they are not strangers. I’m not afraid.” And every instant the light burned more gloriously in her bine eyes until at last it seemed as if her soul leaped forth upon its radiant waves, and In that moment her trembling form relapsed among its pillows and she was gone. Nerve Stretching. The subject of nerve stretching was recently brought before the Harveian Society, of London, by Mr. Pye. In this case a patient had suffered for years from sciatica, and had been treated with huge doses of morphia without relief. The nerve was laid bare, and palled backward and forward forci bly, with from eight to ten pounds pres sure. The wound healed well, and the pain was lost, but some paresis followed which soon wore off. The patient was able to resume work. In regard to this matter we may add to the above that the list of eases of nerve stretching as yet performed is not large enough to settle the question of justifiableuess of the operation. It has been leas success ful in tetanus than neuralgia, and it promises beet where the nerve is compressed by an Inflammatory area. Rise before the sun. And make a breakfast of the morning dew, Served up by nature on ssme grass hill y; You’ll find It nectar. Was ever more arrant nonsense written? Fancy a man getting up cn a cold, rainy morning and climbing one of the high bills about Cincinnati on an empty stomach, and leaving his French coffee and hot rolls poached eggs and oyf/cr stew, to eat— what ? Why, dew. How long would that fellow last ? Wouldn’t he be a fit candi date for Longview, and ne questions asked? But, the early bird catches the worm. Y es, hut that sharp boy knocked that de lusion in the bead forever and eternally when he said: “Father, there’s the point; what iu thunder did the worm get up so early for?” He trifled with destiny; he tempted fate; he should not have done it That boy was a benefactor to the human race. He was sound on the lie- abed question. The French proverb says, De lit a la table, de, la table au lit—“irom bed to grub, from grub to bed.” That’s some thing like it. Get up and eat, eat and to bed again. Why not ? All the amtni do iL All nature, the grandmother of us all, teaches iL Every animal in the world eats and seeks repose. The eotf eats, and lying down, placidly chews her cud; the anaconda swallows an ox, horns and all and goes to sleep—*‘sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of caie; the birth of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, balm of hurt minds; great nature’s second course; chief nourisher in life’s foasL” And yet this is what they would deprive us of who say get up and who oppose tbe art of lying abed. ~ A Bpaniah Minister, suddenly raised to power, signalized tbe event by going to ood and slaying there for fear he might have something to do. It was in bed, at the little inn at Waterloo, that the Duke ot Wellington received the list of the terrible casualties of the fatal 18tb of Jone. Gray’s “Ode to Music” was written in bed, and Sam Johnson’s “Lobo's Voyage to Abys sinia” was dictated to the printers before the great author of the “Lives of the Po ets” and lexicographer had arisen. Peter Pindar (Or. Wolcott) was to fond of lying abed that be received his visitors lying be neath spreads and counterpanes. Rossini wrote one of his finest opens in bed, and was too lazy to pick up a sheet that had fallen away, George IV lay in bed to read tbe newspapers and Macaulay read twenty pages of Schiller before getting up. John Foster thought out bis sermons in bed k/t} the methodical Anthony Trollope used to read an hour before getting up. Cynical Pope wrote: I wake at fools come into my he Mrs. Macbeth strikes she shouts. “To bed! hunt the world over for pleasures, indulge in all sorts of mad pranks in their search for recreation and repose, roam from the North Pole to ’be Southern Cross, pene trate African j angle* and freeze witn Si berians and Laplanders, climb the Alps, swelter at Saratoga and Long Branch ia purauit of pleasure. Alas I they seek hap piness where it is not and neglect it Where it ir—in bed. Never get np 1 ’Tia the secret«(glory; Brown & Young of BL Louis, set getting possession ot them. The of the firm is B. Gr&iz Brown, who was a' candidate for the Vice Presidency with Greeiey. They sent out Daniel Murphy to hunt up the Mi Kune heirs and buy them off. Murpny obu'ned a quit claim deed from Jsmes McK.ne. in Indiana, for $1,000. lie made i.'\e same kind of a trade also with Samuel, <n the penitenti ary at Michigan City. He w&Apome time accomplishing his object with Alexander McKane. of this city, on account of the peculiarities of the person with whom he had to deal. Murphy represented that the mines were of little value, that they were undeveloped and involved m litigation, that McKanu’s claim had been sold out, and that he simply wanted to perfect his title to the property. Alexander is some what eccentric and rather superstitious. He was, it seems, a little suspicious, and employed Spence & Hiner as his lawyers. They wanted to look up the mines to as certain their real value, but McKane was unmanageable by lawyers and obstinate. Murphy offered him $5,000, and, despite the auvice of his counsel, he took it, giv ing a quit-claim deed of his interest in hb> - brother’s finning claims. Bpqpcc ^ n ‘/q and made inquiries by telegraph, learning enough to warrant beginning suit against Murphy, before he left the city, to set aside his conveyance on the grour d that it was obtained by false reprentations. Mc Kane repented of his rashness in giving the deed. Mr. Hiner afterward spent some time in hunting up James McKane, taking Alex- anoer along to assist him. James retained the firm to fight his case also. Mr. Spen cer has just returned Irom a two weeks’ trip to Mexico, looking up the legal points in the case. Bo found that McKane died possessed of a clear true to a one-half in terest in no less than five mines viz: the Viola, the Penelope, the Windward, the 8 Iver Bell, and the Webster. Murphy had been interested m securing titles to tbe first three are worth over $1,000,000, and have been improved to some extenL Mur phy transferred his tittle by a trust deed to B. Gralz Brown, of St. Louis, and John E. Price, of Grant county, New Mexico. Suits were therefore begun there to set aside their title and the whole matter is naw In the courts. rulllug a Tooth. A and so I write, the keynote when to beu!” People Nothing so true van philosophy preach; Think of the names that art lam ous in glory— Never get np Is tbe lesson they teach. Row have men compassed Immortal achievement*? How have molded the world to their will? TU that mid sorrows end threats and bereave ments ‘Never get jj ’ was their principle still. “Wool, Bridget,’” said Margery, “how did you got along with the doo- thur?” Bridget—“Says I, “Och Docth or, dear its my tooth that aches entirely, and I have a mind to have it drawn oot, and it plaze ye!” Says he til mo, ‘Och, murther, can ye ask me that now?’ Says I, ‘Sure have I slept day or night those three days?’ So thin the doo thur took his iron instrument in a harry, with as little eon arnment as Barney would swaps the knives and forks from the tables. ‘Be aisy, Docthur, says I, ‘there’s tinre enough—you’ll not be in such a hurr^ when your thorn comes, I’m thinking.” ‘O, well, says the Doc- thnr, ‘and yer no ready now you may come the morrow.’ Tndade, Docthur, I’ll not stir irom this sate wid this auld tooth alive in my jaw,’ says I; ‘clap on yer pinchers and mind ye get hoult of the right one—ye may aizily see it by its aching and jumping.’ “With that he dabs a razor looking weapon intil the mouth, and cute up the gams, as if it were naught bnt cowld mate for hash for breakfast. Says I, ‘Docthur, what are you afthv? D’ye want to make an anatomy of > living oreather?’ ‘Sit stili,’ says he, jitt v'ning something like a corkscrew into my jaw, and twisting the very sowi otu ~4 me, I sat still, because the murderin thafe held me down with his knees and the grip of his iron iu my Ing. He then gave an awful puli, hard enough to wring a wet blanket as dry as gunpow der. Didn't I think the day of judgment was oome till me? Didn’t I see tin red fire of the pit? “1 felt my head fly off my shoulders, and, looking up, saw something in the doothur’s wrenching-iron. ‘Is that my head you’ve got there?’ says L ‘No, it s your oniy tooth," he made answer ‘Maybe it is,,’ say* X, as my ejee began to open, and by putting my hand up I found the outside of my face on, though I felt as if all the ii side hade been hauled out, I had taken a dollar to piy for the op oration, but I thought I’d just axhim tue prise, so I says: ‘Docthur, hew much may ye ax beside the trouble?’ ‘Fifty oqnte,’ says he, ‘Fifty seats!’ says L ‘Sore I’ve not been submitting three days to that tyrant of a tooth for fifty cent*. Troth, this same to " pulling is not so very expensive, I’m much obleeged till ye, Doothttfi t: Vf V' : vc'Slip* '-mm NsSPl ■. % sf ..