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\ EB i 5 V ► i i *A TRI-'WEEKt¥ EDITION. , WINNSBOSO. S. C.. MAY 29, 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 SANCIITY daie not molest The* Thete Is a Where winds The sea folks, safe They say within the rude cyclone There is a place revolving not, They say the fiercest Hame must own One cool, nubuming spot. • ‘ So in 1he s human heart should lie A place where cares may not intrude, Where peace and lyve, secure and free, Maintain sweet solitude. A ROM Jn(;k q« H1STO ini that the uiere sighfcof the <walla which shot it inis faterly coveted. • It was a pretty sight to enyoue who blight have been Asuianet a M laat. came a dow tosee4hat blooming procession^!? VrogetBe'iBftioa-i It was nutting time. A uioeihing band of peasant children had gathered frdbi far and near to have a merry day amid the, nut ttfcfiB and hedges. I say children—hut, girls of fifteen aiid lads of eighteen and twenty were scattered through the scattering group. The nut harvest was a joyful time to them. The young are always attractive in a certain way. The undiimn d bright ness of the eye^rthe happy smiles hov ering around the rosy lips—esich has a beauty to itself; but add to the youth ful face the charm of chiseled features, and of lustrous brown eyes, looking out upon the world with an innocent wond er at the changing scenes a loveliness so constantly unfolding themselves before them—frame it in a mass of shining, wavy gold of natun’s own crimping— and poise it upon a form so lithe and slender in its exquisite grace that Prax iteles might have chosen it for his model—and you can form an idea of Rika Bremer—the acknowledged beauty of the whole surrounding country. And there was a romantic stoi-y about her going the rounds. It was said that no less a personage than Riince Eric, the son of the great and good Gustavus, had been standing one morning by one of the palace win dows to witness a rustic procession, which had been gdtten up in honor of some important victory, recently won by his famous father; and as he stood gazing listlessly out, his eyes brightened suddenly, and he. turned to an atteiufeuit and whispered a few words which caused him to hasten away. When he return ed he was not alone—Rika w’as with him. Prince Eric’s beauty-loving eyes had been attracted by her, as she had stood amid a group of other maidens, looking at the gaily dressed columns of her countrymen filing-by. She, too, was in holiday attire; and the black velvet jacket, fitting closely to her slender figure, and adorned with silver-gilt buttons, brought out so vtviuiy me ea-ceitem launeas oi uer skin, with its rose-leaf tint" of red upon her lips and cheeks, that she looked like of a different sphere as she stood amid her mates. Confused and blushing, she now awaited the prince’s pleasure. She dared not raise her eyes to his face. Had she done so, she would have been overpoweerd by the earnestness of the gaze with which he regarded her. From the moment his eyes rested upon Rika’s face, the world held but one peerless woman to him. It mattered not that Ids yohnger brother, Duke John, was even then in another kingdom, wooing for him a- royal bride, upon whose brow rested a diadem, whose splendor far exceeded the one which he was to inherit upon the death of his father. No. In that moment Elizabeth of England was forgotten. The peasant maid who stood before him had become the queen of his fancy. “Thy name, little one?” he asked. Rika raised her eyes to the handsome, earnest face, but dropped them timidly as she met his glance. ‘T am Frederika—the forester’s daughter—your Majesty.” “Nay, not yet cfave I for that .title, .maiden. Young blood must have its vent, and I am glad to know that the cares of government are not soon to rest upon my shoulders, broad though they may be.” With a smile he glanced at his stal wart frame, which was acknowledged to be one of the finest specimens of physical comliness in the country, as was his face called the handsomest of any prince’s in Europe. Rika courtsied respectfully, but did not reply. If the gracious prince chose to address as an equal one of the humbleas of his father’s subjects, she knew well her position, and was to the full as proud of her unsullied ignorance and iniegrity as the haughtiest maid in the realm Her shy modesty added.to iler beauty in Eric’s eyes. “Where livest thou, Frederika?” he asked, softly; “for I would like to send thy father a commission to fell some trees which must interfere with the comfort of the king’s hunting parties in the forest.” This he &id, knowing intuitively that it would startle Rika to give her his true reason and jay that he intended to start out himself in quest of fairer and more precious game, which must be en snared in tenderer toils than those at the command of the keenest sportsman at his father’s court. After a few words more he suffered Rika to go. But the sweet memory of her presence went not with her. It nestled deep within his heart. After this interview, scarcely a week passed that did not find Eric’s steps turned in the direction of the forester's cottage. A glass of milk from Rika’s own white hands was the draught most ferred by the Royal hunter—although, out of courtesy, he would sometimes accept a mug of mead from the sturdy old father. Matters were in this stage at the time our story opens. Tfie nuts were gathered, and the groups had dispersed to their various homes, with the understanding that they should meet again the next day und go together to the palace and dis pose of their treasures. The next yaorning found them on their way, dressed in tf’etr best as be came so eventful an occasion in their usually monotonous lives; foi Royalty has such a glamour to uninitiated eyea ■Beatty'dressed lads and lasses, as they wended their way along, with many a merry laugh and jest, until at last they halted in the great square before the jialace. But to the watching eye of the Prince —who had received a hint of the coming of the nut-gatherers—there was but one face worth lookmg at among the throng “Como,” he said to the courtiers who were standina dean “let’s go down to the squarq ig a Dody and make the hearts of yon merry rustics even merrier to-day by exchauging some coins for the mJts they have lyitli them.” A prince’s suggestion never lacks for listeners, nor for followers; and soon the rich toilettes of tlie * court people were scattered about amidst the crowd in the square. ( , Eric’s steps were at once turned to wards Rika. He soon possessed hiiqself of her nuts; and after paying for them lavishly in golden .coin, he took from an inner pocket a locket and chain, which he gave to her saying: “Wear it for my sake. There is no one who would look fairer in it. You ought to be a queeu, little Rika, and I will make you one.” Before Rika had time to realize aught but that his words had filled her heart with a bewildering sense of happiness, he had gone, his gift alone remaining to prove that she had not been dreaming. But she soon came to her sober senses. It was well known that King Gusta vus had been holding negotiation with, the maiden Queen of England, to induce her to bestow her jeweled baud upon his elder sou, and it had reached Rika’s ears. Such a thing had been known as a maid of low degree being wooed and won by a royal suitor. The tale of Grisel’s happiness, and of her woes as well, was a favorite one among the folk-stories tqld around the humble hearths of the peasantry; and if fate had ordained it to happen to her also, Rika would have been as glad and proud a maiden < as ever the sun had shone on. But she would listen to no words of love from one whose hand was as good as given to another. Thus she thougnt as sue walked, slow ly homeward. So the next day a little barefooted boy—the child of a neighboring farmer —was sent to the palace by Rika with Prince Eric’s gift, carefully tied up in a piece of linen cloth cut from the cor ner of a web, which she herself had woven from fiax raised from the seed Could the unconscious trinket have told Eric that Rika’s bright eyes had lingered lovingly and regretfully upon it, and that she had pressed it to her red lips again and again, it might have lessened his chagrin in receiving his present back again. As it was, it only kindled anew his determination to win Rika for his own, be the consequences what they might. It should uot be said of him that a lowly peasant girl had given him, the Crown Prince of Sweden, such a re buff. He threw a large cloak over his rich court suit; aud thus disguised he mount ed Olaf, his favorite hunter, aud hast ened towards Rika’s home. Hot auger was contending with his love for the rustic beauty as he rode along. But when he at last reached the borders of the cleared patch of laud in the forest which held the little cottage, had dismounted from his horse and tied him to a sapling, and found himself standing at the door, awaiting her an swer to his rap, all was forgotten but the thought that he was soon to gaze upon the beautiful face which had oung, impulsive, and his own mast er; with his heart filled with but one image, is it to be wondered at that he suffered no obstacle to delay his union with the maiden of his love, after the days of his mourning were fully accom- >lished, and that the pretty nut-girl of Sweden became its crowned Queen? Search the annals of history, and you will find the romantic story of the mar riage on record, adding still another i'oik-tale to those the country maidens tell over to each other at that witching i;ime between daylight and starlight, when all nature is going to rest, and young hearts are attuned to sympathy with all true lovers. Cardinal Manning is in his seventy- 1 ourth year. He is the son of the late William Manning, M. P. and Governor of the Bank of England, and was edu cated at Harrow and Baliol, migrating 1 hence, after taking the highest honors, no become a Fellow of Merton. He is a typical public school man, and could scarcely have been at any but a fashion able public school. Men who have not had such training may have courtly man ners, may be thorough men of the world; hose educated at home may have equal, sometimes more, erudition; but the com- linatlon of learning worn lightly like a f ower, great frankness of manner with ; lower of reticence when needed, aptness 1'or being at home in any society, from the rough to the courtier, and simple, un conscious ease, are generally to be found among Englishmen oidy in those edu cated at our first-class public schools, hese were the qualities which, in his own communion since he joined t. They have also given him influence among very various classes of society especially among the great, so that his brother-in-law, the late Bishop of Win chester, smarting under the desertion of ns friend, and unable to deny himself I ^h® boat; the creature lies there a pal le use of epigram, called him the “apos- pitating, jelly-like mass, and I can hard- leof the genteels,” He became Rector K " ,! 1 ^ of Lavington and Graffham in Sussex in 834, and married the youngest Miss Serjeantj one^^ ^gi^vief laving married Samuel Wilbeiforce, srfterward Bishop, and Henry Wilber- bree, his brother. Mrs. Manning sur vived her marriage but a fev, months. * * * * Whenthespiritualgraee of baptism was denied by Mr. Gorham, and his view pronounced to be tenable within the Church of England, Arch- (eacon Manning, with many others, felt haunted his fancy so persistently since fate had first brought it before bun. Rika opened the door and stood for an instant in glad surprise, gaziug up into her lover’s face in utter forget fulness of the differences in their sta tions. “Ah! little one, thy face for once tells me all that I wish to know. Thou lovest me. I see it in those eyes.” And before Rika had time to retreat he caught her to his heart and imprint' ed passionate kisses on her trembling lips. She drew herself from his encircling mars, and stood panting like a fright ened fawn. Then she threw herself at his feet and clasping her hands entreatingly, tfie said— “Oh, most noble Prince, let it" not be put'against thy record tliat innocence virtue received no respect at thy bauds. Go, 1 entreat you! Should my father return and find .thee here, he would surely first kill me, and then kill him self, in shame and despair. Oh, go!” “I mean thee no harm, Rika. 1 ove thee; and when one loves he hurts uot the object of that love. To win thee will give up my heirship to the crown to my brother John; and while he wears the diadem upon his brow, 1 wil edntent myself with love and'happiness with thee.” “Not so, noble Eric,” said Rika firmly; “if thou wouldst make such sacrifice, 1. for one, will not be a party to it. After such a marriage—entaiUni as it would, so much loss—love wouli prove but a transient guest without a home. - Reproaches would drive the fickle god away.” “Tell me the truth, Rika,” interrupt ed Eric, ^vith passionate earnestness, itdo you love me?” / • “So well that 1 would rather die than harm would como to one so uoble through, any influence of miue.” “Aud yet you refuse to make me happy?” , “1 refuse to work your ruin, noble Prince. ‘The present is not all of life But see—the sunlight has already reach ed the middle point of you diall In ten more minutes my lather will be here, If thou wouldst shield me from harm go.” “I will obey now; but I will not promise to give up the hope which lur ed me hither. Farewell for a time most -obdurate maiden.” \ Then, with a long, lingering, regret ful look, the Prince turned and depart ed. Days and weeks passed on. time,’which was to into foaming. The good and great Gustavus was stricken with a mortal illness. He died, and was laid beside his kingly progenitors, and Eric was the reigning Youni! sovereign in Sweden. Cardinal Mannlnr Found Fusing. An Eastern correspondent says; direct ly across the harbor from my hotel, on the Long Point Shore, Provincetown, Mass., barely two miles away, are two large pounds—perhaps the most efficient traps for taking fish that the ingenuity of man has ever invented. Making friends with their owners, I was invit ed out one afternoon to see them “take up” the day’s catch. At the fish-houso I am furnished with “jumper” and overalls. We embark in the dory, ami in lialf an hour reach the pound. This is made of strong netting attached to peats firmly fixed in the sand, and rising a few inches above high water mark. There are three posts or divisions. A line of netting extends from toe shore several hundred feet into the hay. At its end the leader begins, forqfeft of two walls of netting that describe'jan ellipse, and open by a narrow aperture into the pound proper—a small, circuiar suace, inclosed by walls of netting, aud having no outlet except the opening from the leader. The fish—mackerel, soup, floun der, cod, bluefish- coasting along shore are stopped by the wall of netting, fol lowing it to get around by it, and, hav ing a tendency to go straight ahead when started, keep on at its end through the mouth of the leader, follow its walls, and pass through the narrow entrance into the pound, where they am as effec tually caged as though in the fisherman's net. Not one in a thousand has wit enough to discover the door by which it came in. The fisherman plush their boat through the opening in the leader into the pound. Within is a sight to stir a landsman’s blood. The water is alive with fish, its surface lashed to foam by their fins, while the netting that in closes it is bending aud shaking with the mad rushes of the victims. It is not often that one finds himself in such proximity to these rovers of the sea; within reach of the liand blue, mottled mackerel course around in joined I schools; bluefish make wild dashas with his birth and his father’s position, amon 8 them; ugly flatfish and horsefeet gave him, even as a very young man, a grovel on the bottom, and crabs gyrate commanding influence in Oxford society, I about, attacking everything weaker which raised him to be Archdeacon of tlian themselves. Here, too, are num- Chichester at the early age of thirty-two, I ^ ers °f the squid, or devil-fish. These and which made him so great a power are the smallest of the genus, however, about a foot loug, of a dark brpwu col or, and furnished with a valve-like pro jection in lieu of a tail, by ineaus of which they dart through the water like a flash of light. The flshemi&n strikes one with his hook and throws him into FiusySave* • Man’s Ufa. K!«phanUfcii<l Ivory. ly believe that beneath his fringe of tentacles there is a beak that can gnaw like a serpent’s tooth. We haye an in- Itance oLhkyojscity^Jfter Ihexifitaare el is injured aud floats helpless on the surface. “Look here,” says the fisher man; and turning we see that four of the polyps have fastened on the poor creature. A blow of the hook drives them away, and we find that they have eaten four gaping holes in his back aud sides. The fishermen secure tneir catch with the very ground on which they stood cut a net brought with them in the dory, rom under them. If the Church of They drop one end before the entrance, England deniedsacramentalgrace,which they pull the boat around the side of to them involved the very essence of re- the pound, dragging the net with them, igion, there was indeed nowhere to turn They allow it to slip over the squid, but to the Church of Rome, however flatfish, and horsefeet which lie on the impossible it had once seemed that they bottom, but drop it as they approach should do so. Immediately after the | the food fish, which are gathered at the Gorham judgment was pronounced, Archdeacon Manning shook from his ;'eet the dust of a heretical Church, to , oin that toward which his steps had so ong unconsciously been advancing;when no doubt he found that the boundaries were by no means so difficult to overstep as they had seemed to him on that No vember day. After the short retirement, inevitable on his change, preparatory to furthest possible point from the boat. By and by the circuit is complete, and the fish are enmeshed. There are five barrels of mackerel and a few bluefish in the net, and the landing them is an exciting struggle. The fishermen haul on the net—one steps overboard and lifts it bodily; the victims struggle vio lently as they feel the water shoal, lib erally besprinkling their captors, but ; ■ Vincent Morgan lives up at the head of Grizzly Gulch, about six mde? from Helena, Montana. He keeps bach and his only household companions are a cat and a dog. A few evenings ago he was down to Unionville until after night, and while there drank a glass or two of beer, but uot enough to affect him. About eight o’clock Morgan went home, accompanied by a friend, who stopped and took supper with him. After supper the two friends smoked and talked awhile and then the guest coutinued his way to his own cabin, farther up the gulch. Morgan washed his dishes carefully, put the kitchen in order and then lav down on his bunk to read. His cabin consisted of two rooms. One of these was used for a kitchen, and from this a door led into a back room which was used as a sleep ing chamber. From the back room there was no outlet except through the kitchen or else through a small square window at one side of the room. Into this inner room Morgan went and, tak ing off his coat, lay down upon his bunk to read. His dog and cat went to sleep in their accustomed places— the dog under the bunk and the cat on a pile of blankets. Morgan was tired, the room was comfortable and in a few moments he read himself to sleep. How long he was sleeping he does not know, when he was partially awakened by the cat scratching gently at his arm. Oblivious to everything else except that he was being disturbed Morgan drowsily pushed the animal away and slept on. Again the cat scratched him and again he pushed her away. This was re peated several times. Finally the cat became thoroughly in earnest and, springing upon the sleeper’s breast, liegan to claw him vigorously. Mor gan awoke with a start and, rising up in his bunk, saw with consternation that his cabin was on fire and that he was almost surrounded by the flames. The partition between the two rooms was blazing brightly, and the kitchen—as he could see through the burned door was reddened with a hot glow, which showed that the fire had been in pro gress there some time. All chance of escape in that direction was shut off, aud the only remaining outlet from the sleeping room was through the little square window mentioned above, and even this was surrounded on all sides by flames, which were spreading rapidly along both sides of the roof and beneath the roof. A moment more aud his tmnk would have been on lire. All this his eye took in at a glance, and mowing that every moment lessened his chances for escape he took the cat VvnMi was sleeping peacefully beneath the bunk, he dashed through the (lames and sprang out of the window—not, however, without being painfully Dunied about the face, head and neck. The dog sprang out after him. The cabin, wiiff all its contents, Was con sumed. Mr. Morgan related the above circumstances to a reporter of the who met him on the street. He looked like a man that had been through a tire. His hair and whiskers were singed, lus face was blistered and lis ears were almost crisped. He said le had come down to replenish his wardrobe, for the lire liad left him without even a coat. “Yes,” he said, “everything 1 had was burned except the dog and cat, and as for the eat, 1 propose to save up enough money to buy her a gold collar, for if it hadn’t been for her I would not be here talking to you.” taking orders in the church of his adop- the net rises steadily, and at last with a tion, his rise was rapid and signal. He, Charles Borromeo, filling in the interim uhe dignified office of Provost of West minster. In 1865, Monsignor Manning was consecrated Archbishop of West minster. In 1875, he was created a car dinal with the title of Saints Andrew and Gregory. Since his appointment as archbishop few men have ever been more jefore the world. Not only is he aeon stant preacher in and a frequent preach er out of his diocese; not only has he seen a combatant in intellectual contests, especially in the Mitaphysica. Society.a final effort is rolled into the boat. Five barrells of blue beauties lie there strug gling and threshing. We row back across the bay to the dock and fish- house. Eight bronzed and rugged vet erans in oilskins and top boots are awaiting our approach. One in the dory shovels the fish into a bushel bas ket, which another hoists with pulley and blocks to the dock. Six others are stationed near by at three tubs filled with clean water. One takes the fish from the basket and deftly slits it down the back, beginning at the head; three club which met monthly, where he held others clean it; two wash the fish; a iis own with such disputants as Dr Martineau, Mr. Frederick Harrison, and Professor Huxley,—he has also taken part in the social life of London to such an extent that there is hardly a philan thropic work in which he could consist ently cooperate wherein he has not been sharer. Conspicuous above all has been the aid that he has given to total abstinence societies both in and out of Ins church. In politics he is understood to take a strongly democratic view, and has been heard to say that, were he not what be is, his choice would be to be a demagogue. On the Irish question, and , to some extent on the extreme Irish side, I No sight that the fair afforded was he has been very outspoken; and should more entertaining than tliat of the dude seventh cuts a slit on each half, tliat the inspector may judge of its fatness; an eighth trundles the cleaned fish into the fishhouse, where two men with wheelbarrow of salt between them are packing the product in hogsheads. One throws a handful of salt on the opened fish, and hands it to his fellow, who packs it in the hogshead with more salt, where it remains until sufficiently “ pickled,” when it is sorted Mto three “ culls” and marketed, The Military Dad* It is hard to say whether mankind in general, and this nation in particular, would be worse off for the loss of ele phants or for the loss of ivory. Tne noble beast has, indeed, been of such infinite use to us in India—sometimes as a contributor to the amusement of British sportsmen, who, perched upon his back, securely enter the jungle in pursuit of the tiger, and sometimes as the transporter of mountain cannon up a rocky pass—that it is as difficult to conceive of India without elephants as of Ireland without agitators. Yet in this aud every other civilized country the loss of ivory would be more sensible felt than the gradual destruc tion of the elephant in the land of his birth. Hitherto neither science nor re search lias been able to discover any substance so weighty in its specific gra vity, so linn of texture, fine in grain, and elastic in quality as the core of the elephant’s tusk, out of which billiard balls are made, with which, as with tortoise-shell, costly cabinets are inlaid, and which contributes the finest ma terial for turners and decorators. As for what is called vegetable ivory, it is but fit to furnish toys with which the venders of worthless books, of maga zines, and of trash of all kinds torment passengers upon the railways of the United States. It is not billiard balls alone that will lie missed when ivory lias risen to such prohibitive prices as to be practically beyond the reach of com merce. What substitute can be found for the handles of dinner knives and pocket-knives, for the backs of hair brushes and the boxes which adorn the toilet tables of ladies? Some sanguine Americans tell us, indeed, that pajier, in the form called “papier maclie,” will take the place of ivory, as in the United States it is displacing “wrought iron” for the wheels of railway cars, and fur nishing material out of which canoes, boats, and even larger vessels are made. But, how as regatos specific gravity, beauty or color, capability of taking the highest polish, and elasticity, can mashed pai>er pretend to bear compari son with ivory? It is useless to conceal from ourselves that the world seems about to lose one of its most valuable and beautiful substances, and to lose it forever. Under these circumstances, with what patience can we think of those elephant hunters who have killed the noblest of animals in wanton sport and with needless cruelty? The prohibi tion to slay elephants in certain districts of llindosiun lias come too late for their general rescue, while South Africa, whither hosts of British marksmen—we will not call them suortsm?n—have di is beginning to be ns destitute ut game of all kinds as the continent of Europe itself. In those “Elephant Haunts” of which Mr. Henry Faulk ner, “late of the Seventeenth Landers,” discoursed in a book bearing tliat name and published in 1868, there will soon apparently be no elephants, no hipopo- tamuses, no lions, no buffaloes left. The advancing armies of man are, in short, extinguishing the native fauna of the “Dark Continent,” and the same mischief is going on in every other quarter of the globe. FOOD FOR THOUGH1. We seldom repent of having eaten too little. Frugality provides an easy chair for old age. An ill servant will master. neverj be a good Never spend your money befpre you have it. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. If you are in debt, somebody owns part of you. Trust not the man who promisee with an oath. Always look on the bright side ot everything. The sweetest rose grows upon the sharpest thorns. A true man will not swerve from the path of duty. Buslie is not industry, nor is impu dence courage. Desperate diabases must have despe rate remedies. Nothing is so reasonable and cheap as good manners. The first and worst of all faults is to cheat one’s self. Search others for their virtues, and thyself for thy vices. Experience is the name men give to, their follies or their sorrows. There is no sweeter repose than that which is purcliased by labor. Every man has his gift, aud the tools go to him who can use them. Grieve not that men know not you, grieve that you know not men. True independence has no difficulty in accepting necessary kindness. to wait only when anything to wait We usually learn we have no longer for. The company in which you will im prove most will be least expensive to you. There is more folly involved in sus pecting every one than in trusting every one. There are many vices which do not deprive us of friends; there are many virtues which prevent our having any. A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. Never can well up, and with you, take more in hand than you accomplish, or you will break the work will be broken up lufberK and Foj{ lnvealii;atiouti. Hlntaon What to Wear at Home. it hereafter prove to be possible that the Catholic Church, at least In the West- should ally herself with the cause of the people, as distinguished from the cause of the oligarchs, Cardinal Manning’s name will be found on the roll of those who have helped the fusion. An Accurate Time-piece. * * * While on the subject of Wal tham wa'dies, we may mention that we have seen a letter from the Commander of the Gordon Cattle (Castle fine of Steam Packets) who was fortunate enougn to save life at sea, and who for his gallant conduct wai pr< aented in September last with a 0 >ld Keyless Waltham Watch bv the President of the United States, or be half of the London Local Marine Board. Referring to this Presentation Watch, he says: “When i left L mdon the watch was six seconds fast, and on my arrival at Singapore it war only three seconds slow, a most extraordinary performance for a watch, as i < arned it on my person the whole t me. I compared itwvery day with my chronometers on the passage oat, and it seldom or ever differed one second from toem; in foot, 1 found it almost, if not as good as my chronometers, which Is a good deal to say for a watch earned about and subject to all kinds of Jolts."—London, England The Watchmaker, Jeweler and Silvertmilh, Ftb. 6, 1883. in uniform. He was tail and narrow. His belt reduced his waist to the girth of a shapely belle’s, and the spreading epaulets broadened his shoulders so that, if I may be allowed a feminine expression, his corsage was given the real taper. I suppose that real soldiers in war carried cotton on their breasts as a protection against bullets. I remember reading tliat General Jack- son found cotton bales of utility in the fortifications at New Orleans. But it seems to me that militiamen in times of peace, aud particularly at a dauger- less fair,- might safely dispense with such armor. It was not so, however, With this dude. His bosom was very thickly protected. This was in harmony with the other girlish outlines of his figure, but of course that was merely accidental. In keeping with the rest of him, too, was his bang. It had no parting, it hung nearly down to his eyebrows, it concealed whatever indi cation of intellect his forehead might otherwise have shown, and it occupied his most solicitous attention, even to frequent inspection by the furtive use of a little mirror stuck in the cap which he carried. Very sweet indeeft was he. We have done our work for years and know from experience it is possible to do it and be tidy. Most ladies require some amount of neatness from their servants, and rightly too. The lady of the house surely ought not to appear in a dress that she would not allow her servants to wear. Of coarse, w r e don’t mean the work can be done in nice dresses. Have dark calico or gingham made with short skirts and little drapery; button these up to the throat and have a turnover collar sewed to the band. That will in sure a presentable neck without the ob jectionable white collar, or even the trouble of putting in a pin. Tlie hair need not be curled or frizzled. Just take the trouble to comb it out smoothly and put it up closely when you rise, and you won’t need to run up stairs to fix it when breakfast is ready. We have always in our kitchen a wash- stand with a large washpan—bowls are too easily broken—a clean towel and a comb. This makes it very easy to go to breakfast with a face that does not look as hot as the food ought to be. The sweeping cap, made like a nun’s cape, protects tlie hair, neck, and ears from dust. A long housekeeper’s apron catches the stray (lour and other things that would soil the dress. A clean wliite apron and white tie makes the dress presentable for any emergency, Sew the buttons on at the right time and they will be all in place at breakfast time. We think a woman’s self respect re quires this much for her, and I have heard the wise ones say it is the surest way to keep a husband’s love which ought to be the chief end of a wife’s life. However, I will leave tliat subject for the wives to enlarge upon. Let me advise all the girls of ‘ Tlie Household” to get in the habit of dress ing neatly while housekeeping cares do not press you; then, when you liave homes of your own, it will be an easy matter. Make long cloth gloves to sweep in; they protect and do not bind the lingers; have a mop to wash dishes and a large one to wash floors. The last sa « < * many a back ache and many :» doctor’s bill. Don’t wear slovenly wrappers and say they are good enough for home. Your brothers see them. Dress for them, in stead of some other girl’s brothers. Make yourself an attractive companion for them and they will not leave home to be entertained, it may be to meet temptation which will work their ruin. Ah echo: January 8,1888—Have re- I solved to quit resolving to keep a diary. Be not friend. the first to quarrel with a The countless and colossal ice masses reported by Atlantic vessels recently appear to be phenomenal enough to justify a more scientific investigation than can be given them by passing inercliant ships. The detailed account of the icebergs encountered by tlie German bark Olbers, shows that this year’s ice drift is transporting large quantities of earthy matter, and proba- ily heavy rocks, to the Newfoundland Links. One of these bergs observed by the Captain of the Olbars, and es timated to be four hundred feet high and half a mile wide, was of a bluish green color on its highest peak, while another, said to liave risen tiUU feet above the sea, “was much darker in color than the rest. ’ ’ According to the Suglisli hydrographer, Findlay, “the blue stripes in icebergs are formed by a tilling up of tlie fissures in the inland ice with water—perhaps mixed with snow, gravel aud stones.” In the Antarctic summer of 1841 Sir Janies toss passed a berg with a large piece of rock upon it and nearly covered with mud and stones.” One of his officers boarded the berg and found the rock of “many tons weight.” Ross saw multi tudes of Antarctic bergs transporting stones and rock, and his companion, Dr. Hooker, held that most of the southern icebergs contained stony mat' ter, though it was concealed by the quantity of snow falling on them. Although Arctic bergs are supposed to lie freer from such matter tlian those of the usual seas, Scoresby in 182*2 reported passing a fleet of five hundred towering bergs drifting along in latitude 69 north, “many of them loaded with beds of earth aud rock” of such thick ness tliat the weight was conjectured to be “fifty thousand tons.” It is im probable tliat the rocky debris deposited on the Atlantic floor by the melting glacial masses can imperil the safety of the telegraph cables n&r Newfound land, though it is conceivable that large rocks falling on a cable might seriously interfere with tlie operation of raising it for repairs. Still it would be a mat ter of great scientific interest to de termine tlie constitution and drift of these colossal icebergs by actual ex amination, and perhaps no better ser vice can be rendered to hydrographic science by some of the Coast Survey steamers than such an investigation. Last year Captain Shackford, of the American line, pointed out the urgent need for an investigation by the gov ernments interested to ascertain the southern limit of the Atlantic fog belt in the ice months. “Two of the least expensive vessels in the British or American navy,” he says, “in one season could almost determine the matter. ” Such a research as he pleads for might include both the phenomena of icebergs and fogs, as well as the Arc tic current off Newfoundland, of which but little is known. Its" results could not fail to be of great practical _ benefit to navigation and commerce. nral voirsnouiu always empaasize tne second ra Syllable, though your meaning is con tained in the first. Love, and the passions which it ex cites, are almost always a subject of ridicule for those who do not inspire it or exjierience it. The difference between what is called in this world happiness or unhappiness is so little that we ought never to envy or pity anybody. The iuqiatient man, however bril liant, seldom wins, because he destroys his own chances of success by not waiting for the harvest. Firmness is as different from its mean substitute—obstinacy, as rashness is from true courage, prudery from virtue, aud bigotry from religion. A beautiful godly life, a noble man hood, tilled full of fidelities and heroisms, is itself tlie very best statement and the very best defense of Christianity. Wiien we disagree with another man as to tlie details of an event, there is a great deal of difference between history aud mystery or his story and my story. It is said by those who liave made themselves acquainted with good society tliat fewer ladies than ever be fore suffer from any form of heart dis ease. The best definition of “step mother” tells us tliat she is a mother who spoils her own children and steps on those which she has unwillingly inherited by marriage. All those things which are now held to be one of the greatest antiqity, were, at one time, new; and what we to-day hold up by example, will rank hereafter as a precedent. To preserve ourselves liappy, it is not enough that we have external sources of comfort; we must keep open the well-springs of contentment and peace witliin. Real foresight consists in reserving our own forces. If we labor with anxiety about the future, we destroy tliat strength which will enable us to meet the future. A man is always a fool. If he be young, the world says when he is older le will know more; if he be older, it says he is old enough to know better; aud when he is old, it says there is no kind of an idiot equal to an old fool. Cardor is often nothing but another name for rudeness or malice. Cold words will break a fine heart, as win ter’s frost does a crystal vase. Those who have no patience of their own, forget what demand they make on that of others. n+F. 3 • , : <*. *. , y Let us cherish sympathy. By atten tion and exercise it may be improved in every man. It prepares the mind for receiving the impressions of virtue; and without it there can be no true politeness. Nothing is more odious than that insensibility which wraps a man up in himself and his own con cerns, and prevents his being moved with either the joys ot the sorrows ot another. Social positions are like the key board of a piano. Y on start according to the intelligence, fortune or rank that you have, from such and such a note; but the diapfaaaon once given, the gamut of cares and pleasures is the same for all. Yon sing, laugh, suffer, hope, despair in do, in re, in me, or in sol. It is a scale of sensation, more or less elevated; but it is a scale analogous to all other scales. Everything there is relative in the events of life, except death, which terminates it.