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: > - ... . . . : - - -r- ,y; / - ,,,. - - . ^ " :.i -.- ^ ^^ . . J WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEE^iRY 1884. -'j;.-- " ' I a i T??; I .Ti. IViaitlOfiiil U-pibUUC. | [Larry Williams.] As the sun lifted his big red face tip ' over the lake a lurid gleam from his lusty eye fell directly across the sleep-1 ing face of Mistress Bessie Mcintosh, I aged 22, a bride of a year, resident of! Lake View, upening ner eyes in a rife wild and startled manner she sat np and looked around her. Her face, | framed by the raffle of delicate lace | which encircled the tiny pap, expressed ! wonder, doubt, distress, and finally, j .confidence. "Are you there, Fred? Oh, yes. It's ; . all light; I know now. Oh,I have had such a dream! And I woke with the son shining right in my face, i dreamed I was married to .Consin Chawly, and he bought me such a lovely white satin j drees. Isn't that an awfully bad sign? "What can be going to; happen? And he came home d-dr-drunk one night, and the itezt morning he had on a golden armor, and the visor was studded with diamonds, and?oh, how it did blaze, and how magnificent he did look! And I turned to admire hi .* and tell . him how much-I 1-loved him, when I saw lying at his feet a pair of bracelets, each with a dozen bangles, and each bangle a great, Immense diamond. those are for you, Bessie,' he-} said, and, as I stopped to pick them up, each diamond Beemed a glittering ser^ v pent, which was reaching up. to embrace me. Then I woke, so frightened. ~X am ^ing to-get right up and dress, , ^j^Liiarer, never can sleep again after sa<&tu3ream." SoTMt stress Bessie proceeded to put ? iier.words into execution. Two dainty - white-feet, which Cinderella's slippers might have encompassed, faced them~~"";jwfeesi-Bpea the soft rug. A pretty WKtifa f.Tirew hn/>V . -fVip rmwv ~ .'eomerifitte, and Undine emerged from - the sea. Her toilet having been ar. ,3 ranged to her entire satisfaction, though ? h wBBSt be said no great pains had been ~ taken, with it>she sat down in an arm.chair.nmch too large for her, and, in a j^jbrowsy, yawning way, began to repent _ . ";s,:of ier iasty conclusion to forego her - aeewtdmed morning nap. ^ "^Ohk-dear," she . yawned, "how aw:. !fa23ymrly it is. I don't believe there . ~is a sotd: astir in the house. But that r :3t horrid.-dream. iDon'tycu know, Fred, ^r:ltfc^~dresms of white wedding robes &e9ro?ew3g are always followed by the death ofr oke of those to be married or one near ? And what if Cousin H -aOkiwlyshould die? He has had such lijet always. Everything seems to Jic go against him," and she tied and un i,:: :fied;.ihe kercidef around her neck as jo fiher'talked. A long silence. "I think ?; ! liear Judith in the kitchen. '^Bo&aps you had better rise, Fred. V Wa-caa hare an early breakfast if we 1;w^-'a2sd then a "ride "through the park -v- before ydu sto into thft -citv.. But if is happening: to Cousin C&wly. perhaps we had better forego . -such-pleasure," she added in a tearful H^H^Sa^a^afag conoladed4i^xm?^^tJut^ ^_A^fiBen; jtt2eep. Going to the window 5**^ the tartteins and gave the push,, which-sent it to ;to|>:;mth. a whack,, much to her astonishment, and thereby letting in a fiood of radianc sunshine. She looked vei^lovely as she stood there, her dendeHigtrre enveloped in the sunny -3 glow. Her red-brown hair had been - coifed on the very top of her head, and the bangs had been deftly parted and h*na?uv3 hn/?Tr of ffiA si^Afl?thfl wholft classic grace to the small, .Wellpcased head. She was not thinking o?*her personal appearance as she - rtppd there, nor of the fine sunrise at k. wmch she seemed io be gazing. "Oh, if he should find out," she fought, "it would spoil all. Only a lev more days and there would be no secrets between us." So, stepping upon --ft-chair and stretching her arm to its --- greatest possible length, she grasped - - the cord and drew the shade gently down, and, dosing the curtains, she softly left the room. Left thus alone - "to sleep, perchance to dream," Mr. Frederic Mcintosh turned him upon his uneasy pillow and sought repose. With s slam of the blind he shut cut the - ainoti^008 sunbeams that had lain so lovingly .Xlf>011 Bessie's face, as if to lighten brighten her troubled sleep. Cousin Chiles had been a rejected " suitor of Bessie^'/ 00 he h^A. believed, upon the of ConsanguiiLity; yet he " was not positive of off to Dakota to gi>oy CP "W1"1 country, they said. Twa ^? 111 week Bessie had dreamed of hi^a and . tad been unusually excited &ich time. | Bosh! "What nonsense. Yet; it wa.s rather queer they had never heard from him. Come to-think about > it, Bessie had met some people from ' Dakota at Waukesha. Could it be she f had heard from him, was corresponding f with him, and was keeping the guilty secret? He remembered now that one evening he came home unexpectedly andfound her in her dressing-room : "writing, and she had hastily hidden the .isheet at his approach and thought he - v-'Ufcad not noticed. Phew! "What's in a dream! Never was one yet worth the sacrifice of a hap after sunrise. And thus-hctrted tb throw the subject from -fearnriBd or to account for it ail in a reasonable and legitimate manner. But .. .ail*to no purpose. The imp of darkness was dancing jigs in the chambers of his brain. Sle^p had^ forsaken the So afUir^Kti^-egorte -to court the ^od^he^Mterifeyed to arise ? f,ot .r jaaaag.; irom a * 3?d ^ ga?e ,a hassoeka send-off "'" ''^mdSlandedif fifclose proximity t^ a . .. waste-paper basket, -which in turn laid itself over on its side and spread out i?s -^i_gontegts on the carpet. Finally rolling ' \fetoweI in a bsll lio sent it spinning TrrffiwTftf^*11 n*r>~ gf~ a small plaqne on - WTivn was ornamem-eu uj ? ^?SKjfrT>y ia Mack and "white/' knovr and done bj - ^ytr^y?Atg <rcm^ Trftiv?. This fortunatel} ^ BS03e&rflre? bn.t a tinv vase containing Idoasfflas, which hac "g**> ^ small- writing tabl? flLr^^S.^Stoop^ >4tigHea3tipr"ias[r sy? canghfe.the nptnmed ^i#fidcet, 3i^ wBat does"ho find there; ^^^^p^^^^^^veEded-:the-address, Mr Gharles Barron; an envelope containing-apart ol the address, as the writer .hart ac& neon xrith her hand - * / ! | ana bad tried again. Tfien a lettei head commencing, "Dear Cousin Char- J ley." Searching carefully through the: basket he found no other trace of Bessie's guilt, and folding these up in a small package he put them safely in his pocket. He finished his toilet carefully and sat down by the window tc tmxiK it ail out. Jtie was qrucKiy interrupted by a rustle of starched muslins and the quick patter of slippered feet, and Bessie came into the room in a state of wild excitement. "Oh, Fred, there is a messenger ai! the door. A messenger. I saw him; coming. It toust be from Chawly. My j dream, my dream," and down went the I tearful face into the depths of a pillow.1 "If it is a messenger of death from him let us admit him with open arms,' said Fred. "Oh, how awfully cruel you are.! Chawly would never be so crnel tc; you. I think you really wish he was! dead," and her tears were quickly dried ; in the sudden heat of passion. She . looked at him with amazement. Then : he took the small package containing! the proof of her perfidy, and, rising np in his indignation, stood confronting i her: "These small bits of paper tell all I want to know of yon. It seems thai | though cousins may not marry, there! is no reason why they may not keep np \ clandestine correspondence, dream oJ; each other, and perhaps exchange i visits.1" "A telegram," said Judith, through! .A** cmrorjn' fn* IUC UW1* AV4 j for it, and, tearing open the envelope, J read aloud: Hcron, D. T., Aug. ?, 1SS3.?I was mar ! ried this 12 znu Congrats will be received. Charles Barron-, j "Oh, I am so glad," cried Bessie; and ; she danced all over the room andi laughed and cried alternately. "How that horrid dream dad frighteD me. It's safely over at last, but I won-j der why they hastened the day. Bui j you don't know anything about it Fred.1 ' i i.n ? xl. . i.TIi i i ana now 1 must ten you xae joiuesi secret. Yon know I met some ladies at j "Waukesha who had been to Dakota? ; Mrs. Kimball and her two daughters. | Well, I found they were acquainted with Chawly, and it came out that Chawly and Miss Lois were engaged, and we had such a nice time about it. Well, as they were to be married on our anniversary, I thought I would J keep it for one of the surprises on that; day. But it was awful hard to keep. Now that you know it, you must help me write the letter of congratulation. I nave oeen trying, out notmag jl can <. think of pleases me. What's the mat- i ter, Fred, you look so queer?" "That's the bell. Let us go down to breakfast," was all the consciencestricken man could say. Clema and Happy Dutch People. [Holland Cor. St Louis Republican.] The truthful record cannot say much for the taste of the Dutch in their domestic architecture. The houses are I lofty and irregular, without lines of. beauty or advantages usually of loca-1 tion. They are very clean and^are.wiite| Ill II r ItBTTg^?J1"* WHaamBB uncozy, rat it is pre eminently wholesome. The flower gardens are models of nertness, if featureless as to arrangement. The cleanliness ofihe people is not only proverbial but is pnrsued to an excess that amounts almost to a mania. One may rest assured of clean linen in Holland. The houses are washed inside and out. The chickens are washed, the goats, cows, ozen, mules and horses are washed. Everything is scoured religiously. Vermin are considered a disgrace. A Dutch housewife on discovering a cobweb, will not only remove it, but will scour and scald the place where she found it and will institute a hunt for the spider which is not; remitted until she has the insect's corpse under the dust- The houses HUY6 UIg glib JLCbt/cxD uyv/u Mtuouvo to express the sentiment of their owners. They are all expressive of content and full of kernels of philosophy of life. "Lust en Rust" indicates the pleasure and repose of the owner, "Mijn Genoejen" shows his entire satisfaction, ''Mijn Lust en Leven" indicates that the home is his pleasure and life, "Builen Zorg" discloses that the owner is without care : and "Vrengde bij Vrede" shows that he ' has joy with his place. Some have ; longer titles with fuller sentiments, i The whole tone of the country -life | leaves the impression' that the people j enjoy this life. Bowie Knives. [New York Sun.] Is the present bowie knife the same shape as the earlier one?" "There is not much variation in the. * shape of the real bowie. Many persons, call almost any broad bladed hunting knife a bowie knife. The real bowie ' knife has a 'clip*-point. There is a.; knife -which has a spear point, and. which is similar to the bowie knife in " every other respect. Nine people out' of ten "will tell you that it is a bowie knife. Formerly bowie knives had blades from ten to fifteen inches in, length, and were two inches broad, and ; proportionately thick. Now the blades are often made as short as five inches, and rarely are longer than twelve inches. A five-inch bowie blade is one inch wide and a quarter of an . inch The bowie-knife has a single edge. The point is sharp and strong. The 'clip' extends about one-third the length of the blade, and gives the knife aJtricked appearance." xne Tragedies oT tie Xest[Jofan Burroaghs in The Century.] The song birds nearly all build low; their cradle is not upon the tree top. It is only birds of prey that fear danger from below more than from above Viiorlior VrrAnrVhps for their VLLHV XCA LUJ-C ?? . nests. A line five feet from the ground would run above more than half the nests, and one ten feet would bound more than three-fourths of them. It is only the oriole and the wood pewee that, as a rule, go higher than this. The crows and jays and other enemies of the birds have learned to explore this belt pretty thoroughly. But the leaves and protective coloring of most A_ rtam aa offiv+nttllv Tlf? UeSl?> VOi-UO uuoiu ? j y doubt, as they do the professional oologist. Their Petting Propensities. The New York Journal has been ascertaining the petting propensities of a number of leading actresses, from which it is learned that Mrs. McKee Rankin's favorite is a Mexican dog, Ada Gilman's a squirrel, Agnes Elliott's a monkey, Mme., Ponisi's a cat called Methusalem, Agnes Booth's a parrot, Alma Stuart Stanley s a aog, given mj her in California; Ada Dyas cultivates white mice, Rose CogHan divides her affection between a png and a Skye terrier, Fanny Davenport keeps fish in an aquarium, Alice Harrison inclines to numerous dogs, Ettie Henderson dotes on poultry, Marv Anderson has a passion for flowers ana curious shrubs, and Sarah Jewett has no pet but herself. \ I True Dramatic Art. {Xabouehere in London Troth.] Art cqnpfts in eonce^ng art. Ni great" actpr or actress tfcat ever livec | was resSy natural, al though mar I ; have pretended'that they were. If s; girl on a stage approaches a precipice: of cardboard, over which she is to b< burled on to a confts&ed^feaiher bed she may portray the.' emotion, of fear, but she cannot really feel it. If she h imploring some one to save her life | with whom she knows .that she will b< i gossiping five minutes later, she car; not herself imagine that her life is ir | danger. In both cases she must simu ; late, and she is a good or bad actress in proportion as she does this effect j ively. Tragic intensity is nothing mor< J.1 XV i* i. til ail i/JLlt; pcjciwtxvil U1 ttJL U. I remember once being behind tht scenes in a. theatre while Bachel was thrilling an audience before the curtain When she came off she -was perfectly - cool and collected. I asked her whethei she really had felt what she had beor portraying. Her reply was to parodj the scene. That Miss Anderson mighi i with advantage thro-w a little more in- j tensity into some of her scenes is true j but to expect her really to believe thai: she is in the power of a savage, or thai j her father is about to be enslaved, h j simply to ask her to be a.fool. "Tiie 'sensibility that Talma says is the basis of true acting is nothing more than a nervous organizatior which enables its possessor t< simulate sensibility at will. Talma wai supposed to excel himself by the wa} in -which he pronounced the words Tie might have died.' Now, evidently, h< had studied how to say them, and hov to look when he did say them; and h< certainly never imagined that he wai actually the stern father in whose mouth the words are placed; if he *hao" V? a rvrrtTroWrr tttatiI/? Katro f}>oty most ineffectively. Full allowance mus be made on the stage for what may b< called 'stage perspective.' Nothing ii more erroneous than to suppose thai 'natural' acting is natural. An artist doing precisely on the stage what in t like situation would be done off it woulc j look ridiculous, except in 'tea quj comedy.'" JLUC VI IHUC19 VI I.UC> V/ [New York Journal.] Prof. H. J. Rice, employed to attend to experiments in fish-hatching, said addressing a reporter: "I will sho-vs yon the proboscis of an oyster, something rarely seen except by scientists experimenting lite myself. You see in this little bowl of water something that looks like a piece of thin scale; with a fragment of substance to it, all the size of a lady's finger-nail; well, that's an infant oyster, about a month old. I will now place it under the miRronfionft. and von will then discover the proboscis." In a moment the professor had adjusted the lens, and the reporter looked. He at once drew back in horror, and grasped for the table. The professor smiled.. Through the tubes of the mithere rose a great!atrpemme coll wuma swayed hither and thither as if searching for a victim. "We are not certain of the functions of the proboscis yet, but think that, lite an eiepnant s trunK, ia mauo use of to catch and pass the food to the month. When the oyster is five months old it loses its proboscis; :that is, it is absorbed and becomes part of the lips." "I have counted the pulsations of the heart," said the professor, "and it ran from thirty-five to fifty a minute; that of a full-grown oyster does not beat so fast. I will now show you its tentacles." Again the lens was adjusted and the monster examined, and from its sides stretched away out into the sea were a number of long arms, but without hands or fingersTandtfhe monster kept stretching them ouVand pulling them in. The Chinese In Ore son. [Portland Cdr. Baltimore American.] ^ We all made another visit among the Chinese quarters, and found that afcHeYillard party had almost depleted their stock of curios, leaving for us a lot;. o|, dried meats, fish, and such uninviting!; f and unsavory things. These Uhmesa shops are to me .great curiosities, as are the Chinamen who conduct them. Zou ? often~see -the finest of Chinese goods,'., like silks and crepes and a general as-., sortment of the costliest articles, mixed up with a. butcher shop and a vegetable-; store. When you go in to buy you-are at once-surrounded by ten or a dozen of.the Celestials, who chatter like magpies, and seem to be engaged in consultation as to who you are, or whether .they will allow you to purchase their . goods or not. When a bargain/air' struck they all seem to be. delighted?-' and a peculiarly child-like and bland'-, expression covers - their'idiotic-looking.' faces that resembles a streak of sun-.., " ^ * 1- A - LL _ atnne over tne snaxe river at Ainswonn . station. They are very honest in their dealings, and one 'Chinaman ran six squares to give me . a.bundle I had left TbeTund. " "* Taxins Baelielors. * j [Cincinnati Ikiqairer.] " > r The colonists in America were not slow in adopting measures of taxihg, bachelors, for in 1695'the local anthoritiesof Eastham, in Massachusetts^ voted that every unmarried man ia-ihe ; township shonld kill six blackbirds-or-: three crows yearly while he remained; single, and that as a penalty fo^not/obeying the order he shonld not get * mam'pd nntil hA had destroyed- the requisite number in area. In 1856 i the assembly of Maryland laid a.-tax ; of 5 shillings a year upon all bachelors . above 25 years of age who were possessed of $500, and of 20 shillings a, year upon all bachelors >nd widowers without children who were above that. sge and possessed of $1,500. a. strttmanne simoon. [Cassell's Magazine.] At the forthcoming international exhibition of Naples will be exhibited in action a submarine observatory, or balloon, which will sink people to the bottom of the Mediterranean shore waters, where they can enjoy the natural aquaria there to be seen. It is a balloon of steel, with three compartments ?one for the actuating mechanism and heating bladder, one for the captain, and one for the passengers, to the number of eight There are glass windows for looking out at the fishes, shells and weeds, and the height of the balloon in the water is regulated at will by means of a collapsible bladder. A telephone connects the balloon, which is captive and can not float away, with the shore or a boat above. rv nat "iff a woman ET called "curiosity" in a man is grandiloquently magnified into the "spirit of inquiry." George "Washington weighed 209 ' * At. 1?1^ pounds at tue ciose 01 we revtuuuuu i ary war, ' Deserted Varaas la Vermont. [Rutland (Vt) Herald] Vermont fairs show better butter and cheese, better cattle and sheep, than they did forty years ago, but the farmers' teams do not stand for as good horse stock as they did then; there are fever farms we suspect in Vermont; there are as many deserted farms and decayed towns in sonthern Vermont to-day as there ever were in our history; at least that is the testimony given ns by a very intelligent farmbred lawyer who has recently personally visited the towns that touch either side of the Green mountains, from the Massachusetts line to Addison county. In Stratton, where Webster, in 1840, addressed the great Whig mass-meetin f?. the farm honse where Webster spent the night is a rain and the farm deserted. In the woodland yon meet the reins of the old four-foot stone wall; in Somerset you find in the forest stone walls and the remains of an old highway; the decaying abutments of a former L. idge across the stream are all that remain of the civilization that was once represented by a church, a grist mill and a country store. The woodland has so encroached upon tnese deserted tarms tnat; our friend is confident there is more woodland to-day in the mountain towns of Vermont than there has been at any time during the last forty years. In the old counties of Bennington, Windham, Windsor, and Rutland our informant found, he assures us, plenty of evidence of deserted farms and decaying towns aloncr either side of the mountain range, and these deserted farms are not being reoccnpied by any retnrning -wanderer, although, most of these towns are places of much natural beauty and attractiveness. Among these towns are Eeadsboro, Somerset, Searsburg, Sunderland, Wardsboro, Jamaica, Peru, Lanagrove, Weston^. Plymouth, Shaftsbury, Windhall, and;, several mountain towns in Rutland^ county. Our friend thinks that townstouching the mountains on either side have been permanently deserted. The future of Vermont, if she is to increase henceforth largely in wealth?. ana population, iies m manmaccuxes,not enlarged agriculture, and this Js; true, not only of Vermont, but of allNew England. If the railroads would" only give manufacturers a fair chahoe", to Hve, they would increase and multi-ply. The growth of Rutland, of Bel:,*; lows Falls and of the other places in: _ Vermont that show a large increase nr.; wealth and population, is due to thee development and growth of manufae-;; tures. There is water power enough1., wasted in Vermont that, if utilized:-is?' manufactures, would add a fourth torvnr nonnla+.irm svnrl wpalf.Ti iri t.wprvf.v.- . years. But, until the railroads stop"' nibbing out the manufacturer witlrt their exorbitant freights, the streams,-! mil be vexed by no new water-wheels^ nor the sky dimmed by any new .and I' strange smokes. ??$ "We presume that deserted farms dse f not so common in the northern half foff Vermont as in the southern part, an*, excellent lawyer of jChifctgB&lp acquaintance, informs tis tbat Hopelessly mortgaged farms in his county and section of the state are very common, and the number of snch mort- . gaged farms is something of a cine fo the severity of the average farmer's fight for a competence in Vermont. A Idfe-Lons Debauch. [Philadelphia Times.] "No, Fm obliged to you, I don't drink," replied Judge Gibbons, of Lancaster, in the bar-room of the Girard house. "I am 63 years old and have never used tobacco in any form, never Tio-o-ii Trialf nr smrifcnnns linnors. 1 never have been at a horse race or attended a circus or a theatre." "Yours has been an exemplary life, judge," replied The Times man. "Well, I don't know that it has," continued the judge, sadly. "I am,; after all, no better than other men; for the past forty-eight years I have been Cie i aJyject. slave to one ungovernable appetite. This indulgence has gained such absolute control ot me that I can n ot: exist four or..] five hours -without gratifying: it. I cBSolye?- and re-resolve to break it . ofi^Jjut l am weak? Very weak^and finally yield. I can not go h^a^ay-without it.. No, I daren't tE&v^|&ere I can't obtain it. It is killing., me; ^Twenty years ago I vdgh^^ap^nndar >:-Now % weigh 120. /-It Hs-.d^rbying jriy life, slowly i>ut.surely.'iffisTi all die of it." ~ : '-^Whai-fcsEa-does^this, deadly.dissipation the reporter, in amaz^men^Trcetoared for an appalling confessioiu^;^ .. solemn *4^y^c3^3ton Globe.] 'i^I^e^rrao^re ceiptSiQl^-iaot in fayor oL.ihe vies! that .thesis any seri"?ns"kck^T^^pliife -iHilie middle and 3e^&t^^^?b6la;cf?filxe empire. To . judge gymnasium, model oi )strictne^aiffi^opriety?' -The scholai is.kept g^rrgtfgr by rat^iramilhe verj in one ^Othe^^J^Iisli^^^^niere are mips " his- "attendance al church be^vio^dcring divine services^rules showing him-vrhen he is 'ta iiaye fii^cte^ au'd 'when to return <ft^^em; \mder-wj^p0fetests he maj - forsake his class, -gad" -with, '.Trhat dilitgene&bemust -li^e-up-ipr-time lost during Alness; r^^jknig^his behavior ?to his teaQher.in._and. pntof school hours^ and a variety of other .irules in; euleatiiig politeness, 'honesty, truth., -earlyrising; etc. r Relaxation must be indulged: in carefully; amusement lie cannot have at all if. it can_ only L~fcaKe\"'the" form ol ' 'theatrical representations harmful tc ?AV.4*w(A**4'rt ^ v iQQ JULUlttX _OVilCiXLlCAi us* . ..4a(w^Mcioug*; he must not visit, aaoraausb hesenter the wine cellar, the. coffee, javern, or the "confectioner's shop:" He is held tc cleanliness of person and forbidden tc smoke tobacco or drink spirits. Long hair is an abomination with the school authorities, and if the pupil has unwittingly encouraged the growth of a beard, he can only hope to escape punishment by a timely visit to the barber's shop. Ornament of. all kinds, in fact, is forbidden, and so into the same category with the "unnecessary* beard are thrust the unnecessary ring, walking-stick, and eyeglass. Saluting the emperor when met in the street is provided for by a very strict regulation, the observance of which has fallen into desuetude of late years rathei * - * i m L iVtAW IftrtTf owing XO want Ui UppUJTLiXLUtJ mau of will. Of course the scholar has a tmiform. This is indispensable. It teaches the military idea how to shoot, and it gives 4-IIA VU-lK/tA* ni/ii^n:u adOldMUiUC i/v vug jn?v are empowered to enforce the regulations prohibiting the visits of students to masquerade balls, wine cellars, and other objectionablejD&oes of resort, j \ V V i<r ' ' A MARYLANDCSTAT& i How the Xezroes Were Provided for Their Allowance of- Food and CInthinsr. Pred Douglass, in his autobiography, thus-describes the management of a i ! maryiana estate, in ice times 01 slavery: j ^?e men and the women slaves on., j Col. Lloyd's farm received as their ! monthly allowance of food eight ponnds | of pickled pork or their equivalent in i fish. The pork was often tainted and I the fish was of the poorest quality? j herrings?which would bring very little ' I if offered for sale at any northern I market. With their pork or fish they i had one bushel of Indian meal, unbolted, of ^hich about 15 per cent, was fit only to , feed pigs. With . tins one potftd of salt was given, and' this was the'entire monthly allowance of a fuHj gro|ra slave, working constantly in tlw , i op<?. field -from morning till night r i eve4y day in the month except Sunday, I and living on a fraction more than- a-i quarter of a pound of meat per day and: less than a peck of corn meal per week. ; The yearly allowance of clothing con| sistfced of two tow-linen shirts, such as | the coarest crasli towels are made of; two. pairs of trousers, one for summer aha one for winter; one winter jacket, one pair of yarn stockings, and only one pair of shoes. The slave's entire i apparel could Dot have cost more than S&ayear. - .^The little boys and girls were nearly aS in a state of perfect nudity. A- ; coarse blanket, such as cover horses, ,was.their only bed. The little children stack themselves in holes and comers about the quarters, often in the corner of the huge chimneys, with their feet'in oaliM IT-/-?/-> TV- fhow WATW MrtSPO W^y WV IT U&AUl ii*ViW s?&. we^ whipped1 for oversleeping t^^ioxL2^y_otheri3ttlt' Neither age nogaj^^aTOrl TKe overseer stood at &eiqn&ttier-door armed with the sjisxik andcowskin,ready to whip any who 3?Sjfradfew~ mraates^hand time. Yonng mothers - who worked in the field ."^rerjcompeiled to take!-their children : ^th^hfimj^d to' ieave^ them in the 4 ^ the fence to -prevent loss of time Jinnrsing; them, But in the great hanse of Gol.-Lloydthe'tablegroaned ' imfer '.3^ 3 'Wood-bought : JaESXori^i'r-gathLeredV with .painstaking 'ao^5K^ro%t^7-:~^ieids, for- 1 tribn- 1 H^4hera r ;Fifteen; servants -waited on 1 the- erroaniiirifaTDle^ some/ armed with .f&BB io cbdl~*fh& :h^^:jbrcrwa of the 1 a&basfcer- ladies 'thereJ Splendid c^Ses v&re in the stable, ..beside gigs, ' p^tosj barotujbes^ salkies and sleighs, 3 clye^mpnntecE harness - and -thirty-five 1 W&JkarBes."' * : I A Banter's JETamily Traveling Coach. j ?V "V ~ *?Gi?<?gOrTimesj . ( jf. Acoachin winch a banker of Penn- 1 (ylrania is traveling-with his family is i Seiscribed as SqHows: The ontside has j seats' for'.three in. front and two back; < two large lamps are on each side of the t front seat, and one large headlight is .< .on &e dashboard. ' Sere also are a < flockiian ax, ai:k^e; a:pi?tol a'nd other < willow trunk, immediately back of nrHiVli _ t.liA font,, camn chairs and blankets are stored. - Undsr the back step is a place for another large willow trunk, hanging behind which is a stepladder to be used by ladies when taking seats on the outside of the coach. In side the boot all kinds of cooking utensils are packed. On the side of the coach are willow cases for canes, umbrellas, fishing rods and guns. Inside are two roomy seats facing each other, accommodating six persons. In the cushions of the doors are map pockets, and on the cushioned wall.0 hang a thermometer, a barometer, a ipass, a 1 ' -'-tl 1 J w CiOCS, QigUb umip auu luiiKiu uuu near the top are racks filled with note paper and envelopes. The vehicle weighs only 1,370 pounds, and the reins are handled by the owner, who generally makes from twenty-five to forty miles daily. The party go into camp at 12 o'clock. The horses are then picketed and the camp fire is kindled. How a Pis 9ade a President. [Boston Globe.] Abont this time in knots about the sunny corners and around depots and hotels, when political stories are in order, you will occasionally hear some old stager remark that "a pig once made Andrew Jackson president." It was never my fortune to meet one who could remember lio-w it came about, but : in a copy of The American Traveler for December 19, 1828, being volume IV., No. 50,1 find all the particulars, which I copy for the benefit of the Society for the Perpetuation of Old Stories. It appears that away back in tne eariy 1 dawn of the nineteenth century, in the 1 town of Cranston, 11. L, Mr. Somebody's pig smelt, a cabbage in a neighbor's garden?Le rooted through' the fence and demoralized said garden?the , garden owner sued tho pig's proprie- ( tor?James Burrill was the prosecuting . attorney?the prosecuting attorney was a candidate for the United States J senate?the senator was chosen by the 1 state legislature?in that body there i was a tie, occasioned by the absence of . one of ?5urnil's party, who stayed away on account of the lawsuit aforesaid? ( the said tie was unravelled by the casing vote of the speaker in favor of Bur- * rill's opponent, Jeremiah B. Howell? Jeremiah voted for the war whicli James would not have done?the war was made by a-majority of one in the national senate?the war made Gen. Jackson popular?that popularity gave Jackson the presidency. The landlord's Verdict. [Cincinnati Enquirer. ] Actors are proverbially interested in the criticisims utteredfipon their performances. An amusing-story in. regard to this is told of the elder Mathews, who upon one occasion played "Rich- ; mond" to a friend's "Richard m,"and, as they were both good fencers, they the ficrht at the end with uncom -Q ^ mon vigor, and prolonged it somewhat unnecessarily. After the performance the two stars lighted each other to their inn,in the hope of liberal applause from the landlord, to whom they had presented a ticket. But, though thus handsomely treated, their host sat silent, and even when invited to join them in a glass and smoke, he maintained the same attitude of absolute quiet, till at length, finding that every circuitous approach to the subject was hopeless, Mathews attacked him with the direct question. "Bray," said he, "how did you like our acting?" This question so.put was not to be evaded. The landlord looted perplexed, ms eyes sought the ground. He at length slowly took his pipe from his mouth, drained his glass, went to the fireplace and deliberately knocked the ashes out of his pipe, then, looking at the expectants for a moment, he exclaimed, in a deep, but hasty tone of voice, "Darned goed j&gbfo^Aieft.tkaroonu * V ' * \ LIFE. [JamesLogie Robertson.] O fair is life, as foam bells on the wave; i Yet frail as fair, as fragile as the bell: A little while to flourish and look well, And a long while to molder in the grave! The beauty born of flesh what, what can save? . The lion's eye, tie leopard's glossy fell, The visionary grace of the gazelle, Life at its loveliest?gracefulyDrfn far t, brave! The land has. bubbles as the wafer has, And these-are thraa.- Com? the natal baart ? -i'v-'.-.-M ! 'iitt Taey iignten m toe sun; -conies late, toeypasa - - Alter a little, little leasftof power? Heedlessly "o'er them nuis the feeble frrass, And all .their monnment'-s an alien flower. ' ? .--UlliU V ? ^ ? -.? >-"I ... . *. A ' :-THE*MA<IOR'S?NEEZE. i . ~r ?*? r -> - . ' ' : How a Famous "Three-Times-Three*' Averted a Mllitaw DJsawtot. [Inter Ocean "Cmi^i^Ci^onsr',3 " ; The sneeze was .one. o?; the: .ol?-fashion^./whoopee-oc^wlioop,' lEfe^tiiBte3three order, and as the stalwaxfrsttanger. gave himself aip to the;-^rfonnance very much, as a frisky horse Would lot himself loose; in a friciring . exploit, the hackmen and the people generally gathered about in smiling encourage-, ment.' As the sneezer rightedhimsetf. after the- storm,;and was -wiping his face, with his handkerchief. I was stfr-' prised to see my friend, the captain, step forward \?ith eagerrspryness, and hear him shont, "with the joyfulness of !a man who had made a discovery," <^Why, how do you do, major V The two men clutched each other and shook each other by the hands ;and the shoulders, and finally made me understand that they hadnt seen one another for . nineteen years. . The major had, changed greatly, and he asked, in be-' wilderment, how the captain knew him. "By your sneeze," was the. answer. "There is no other sneeze like that in this country, you know. And when I heard it ring out, I remembered that time at Guyandotte, you know,-and I knew Major Mitchell was before me." I Then turning to me the captain said: "Thst was. our first scouting expedition early in the war. We landed in^the evening to look up some guerrillas who had made a dash that day to the steamboat landing. The regiment divided, and the men went scampering over the country in gleeful recklessness. Soon it became very dark, and both battalions j lost .their way. Moving forward in line, j one battalion came suddenly on a oodj of troops formed to receive them, with skirmishers out. Neither officers nor men were clear as to what the regulations called for in such a case, and there was a hurried, excited conference. The fcroops might be our own men. hut they ignored every challenge, and we knew that they, like ourselves, were ready to Eire. There was a minute of terrible suspense, everybody excited, everybody U1 UASlllSI/* OUUWMUJ vuww A 3nt from the ghostly Iirie in the distance she major's double-shotted sneeze. It sras like the ringing of a joyfal knell, md in our relief both battalions fairly . lanced as roar after joar of laughter succeeded the sneeze.-: _ It "was a narrow jscape from a mistake too common then, 5f one Union regiment poaringa mar-, lerons fire into another. The major's sneeze saved us,-dont you see?* Although the Webster; Spelling-Book is not so common in the New England rad middle states as it was thirty years igo, and in many places has entirely disappeared, the trade in it does not ibate. As long ago as 1847 the claim 3n tiie cover was "one million copies ire annually sold," and precisely the same claim is made by its publishers to-day. But the great bulk of the edition now, I think, goes to the south, and yest. The aggregated sales from the beginningof its. publication down to late, amount to the astonishing number af 75,000,000 million copies. The hundredth birth-year of a school book, still in successful life, is not an ordinary affair. But this year the friends of Webster's Spelling-Book can celebrate that anniversary. Few among those that are now happening are more ivortby of honor. But what pleasant memories remain troll those who long ago studied Webjter's Spelling-Book! The'very pages ii their precise form are pictured for as on indelible tablets. It was a great n-iumph when the young student got to 'Baker," for it was* the first step away irom monosyllables. But it seemed [ike a long road to him before he would jet to "immateriality'' and "incomprehensibility." How or when he was to it ineomt>rehensible enough then. Those who, in beginning to read, liscovered that "She fed the old hen," ' Ann can hem my cap," "Fixe will burn svood and coal," "A tiger -will kill and jat a man," and other similar facts, little thought that in all after life nothing they might learn would ever seem so touching and significant. Pueblos Thrashing; Wheat. [Cor. Inter Ocean.] In one or two places ^he thrashing of svheat was going on by driving a band ' Df horse3 around an inclosed ring into which the wheat had been, thrown; and it other places men were tossing over the grain and throwing it into the air, to let the wind blow ;the chaff away. This is the only manner of thrashing which the Taos valley dwellers practice. The process is slow, bnt time does not enter into the calculation of these people. \ Identifying a Sins. [Chicago Tribune.] The following incident is reported by the Belgian newspapers as having occurred at the recent Ostend horse races. King Leopold, who was present at the races, was talking to some gentlemen of his suite, when an English gentleman and lady passed by. The lady, pulling her husband's sleeve,rwhispered, "The king," and the Englishman calmly confronted the Belgian monarch, slowly produced a number of coins from hi? pocket, from which he selected a Belgian franc piece for the purpose of veri fying the truth of his wife's statement After a long and minute comparison between the impression on the coin and the original, the Briton called out, with . evident satisfaction, "Oh, yes, it is the king!" Sing Leopold, who had watched the scene, was highly amused at the process of identification Church Property in Gin Palaces. [Demorest's Jfonthly.] Canon Wilberforce is calling the attention of the people of England to the *rtTTAT>n oa .nrKii/?Ti fho TCsfcahlislied I gicavi A o * v/uuv^ ??? ?. j church derives from its gin palaces, beer houses and even more disreputable establishments. Of course, "the dignitaries of the Episcopal church did- not originally invest in this kind of property, but in the leases they negotiated for long terms of years, the houses were sub-let for disreputable purposes. A recent investigation shows, however, that a very large portion of the revenue r\t the rhnrfth comes from these unhal lowed resources. The agitation of this matter, will'hasten the. day when there will be a separation of chnrch and state in Entzlandf A 4 .. SECOND-HAND SCHOOL BOOKSDealers Who Sell to Sew Generations tlte' Books That Others Have Used. i';. ~ - '+ INew York San.] :<rThe trade in secondhand school books, through a recent indnstrji" said a cieaier, nas grown into consiaerame proportions, and to-day there is not an important city or village ia the country which has not ^'dealer in secondhand sehool books.- Here is -my last catalogue Andpnce4&t,- which will give you some idea of fee'-' Tuagtiitude of fee business;** '1 " ' * -i- ' The eaialogue^-ceatained a list of mora than thirty.tJioupajBd. text-books, mostly. :standard -works, all listed at . aljout'one-h^K publisKer^' prices. I ""Where doyou-gef foot books?? the ; Reporter asked:e*s! t -taw ' t>'. r;4? There.are apauy- soirees. -Publish.^'frequenJfly, introduce". their . books into schoolsi>y taking^"ihe. textbooks already ig-ttse; and :?nowmg sometmng fortbem." -We could formerly get these books lor a little advance . on: Jasper dealers' prices, but many publishers - now guard" against this by having chopr ' ping-blOcks and cleavers'in their1estal> lishments and.chopping each book'in two! crosswise. : There is no way. in wnicn sncn a dook can oe maae salable. Tlie old plan of tearing ;off covers was no. safeguard, since'iwe.can recover school books of medium size for twelve cents per hundred- We. get a great many books, most of -which are unused, from teachers in district schools, to whom they are mailed by the publishers. But of course a-majority of the books come from the pupils themselves, who are glad to part with them, an old school book, having no value to most of,' them- THeaa -we <re>t. an irrmpnsA rmrnhpr-frriTn tTiP<rinalTpr i dealers in other parte of the-; country. Our larger. -. -New- York 'houses have men constantly out-for that j purpose. It may be that a second-hand; dealer ih Omaha will be the man to supply me with the particular text books I need to complete my. stock. Publishers, try to meet our competition by constantly changing' their editions. / But these changes react again', both teachers and pupils in many schoola beinsr oi)T>osed to the chancres and ad Tiering to the old editionsThe only text-book, which is not much changed with each new edition is 'Webster's Spelling-book,'of which a million copies a year are pnblished, and which , has been changed in no important respect SIH CO 7as first published in 1800. Yon can bny one of the latest edition for 5 cents, bnt one of the first would be worth more than $5. Five years is the average life of a school book. After that time the editions have so much changed that the boot is valueless. " Boles Tor Rfdtng. [Bob Bardette.] In mounting, face the near side of the horse. The near side is the side nearest yourself.; If you stand on the right side of the horse, which is the wrong side, when you mount' you will face the cropper. Then everybody will know your name is .Tohan Got!ieb?rni three times, and jump over the horse's ears. You" will light somewhere on his neck, and yon will have plenty of time to adjustyourself while the horse is running away. Another method of mounting, largely practiced by youug gentlemen from the city, is to balance yourself on one foot on the fence, and point the other leg at the horse, in the general direction of the saddle, saying "whoa" all the time. The horse, after this gesture has been repeated a few times, backs away, pulls the alleged rider off the fence, and walks up and down the lane with him at? Timid crftllnt). This eivesthe rider. in- about ten minutes, all the exercise he wants for a -week. If by some miracle you manage to get into the saddle, hold on with both hands and say "whoa." The faster the horse goes the tighter you must hold on, and the londer you must "holler." If you are from New York or Philadelphia, you will shorten the stirrups until your knees are on a level with your chin. Then as you ride you will rise to your feet and stand in the attitude of a man peering over a fence to look for his dog, and then suddenly fail in the saddle like a man who has * * i mi ji stepped on a oanana peei. xxiis is rue English school. It is hard on the horse but is considered very graceful. A man can not wear false teeth, however, and ride in this manner. Bismarck's Superstition. [Chicago Herald.] Many distinguished persons in all ages have suffered from the influences of superstition. Of living men, Prince Bismarck is cited as an example of its force. He will never commence an undertaking on Friday, nor sign any important document on that day. He hesitated to accept the title of count because there had been great mortality among the counts in Pomerania. He is said to have predicted the month, the day and even the hour of his own death. He is very greatly interested in astrol ogy, and has been known to commend those who get their hair cut at the wane of the moon, although, as this is a very common German superstition, he is scarcely answerable for it. A Carious Flower. [Chicago Herald.] 3>. M. Taylor, of Indianapolis, has succeeded, after fifteen years' constant effort, in producing a bloom on the Damperil or Australia glory pea, a great curiosity in the horticultural kingdom The. flower is of striking beauty, the petals forming an outline 01 tile uummi ucu siumuuxiiicu uj a helmet. The leaves of the plant fold tip at night like those of the sensitive plant. It grows in dry sand, the least moisture applied to either leaves or root being fatal. Worse and Worse. The Boston Globe thinks it time to call a halt on the Anglomaniacs who a e substituting English terms for the American names used to designate United States money. It is bad enough to hear a nickle called a "tuppeneehapenny," but when it comes t -> calling a note un vmn." ifs enonrii to make the eafcle stretch his neck and scream. Cunnias Conjurors. [Chicago Times.] The performances by the Davenport brothers and other spirits are clumsy compared with the acts of the far northwest Indians. The conjurors are legion that will permit themselves to be bound, not merely hand and foot, but the whole bodv swathed with thon??s. withes, ropes and rawhides, and afterward tied up in a net, and then release themselves almost instantly on* being placed in a little "medicine lodge" of skins, constructed for the purpose, the bonds being thrown out through an opening in the top, without a knot being apparently disturbed | A PLAYED-OUT AMERICANISM. i ' The Danger Invited by the Independence/}* the&elf-Beliant Amett* can HrL [Chicago Herald.] The frequency with which violence is auw auue WJ ^uung w?nu?u m nn.i conntry suggests the idea that one Americanism-lias been carried too far. Europeans whoriave made a study ot oar social customs havebeen impressed . with, and not a little astonished by the , independence,' fearlessness^ and selfreliance of the American]'girl in the : homei on the street, on ears or steam* boats, in parks, at places of arnnse* ment, on lonely country roads, and, in^short,. in ..nearly every walk oi life, day or night, she maybe found sotoetifiies in company, but * often with-cot; When 'strangers have expressed their Amazement at the freedom granted the young t -women, and' their wondez that harm was..not, done them,?r.tfc9l "feeyf were not misled/tbe answer has* usually been that the American grri was smart enough to taie oare of herself, andthatthere wasnoimpropriety. and certainly no danger, in her enjoying the companionship of iter friends oi _*X1 1.1 _T 5 , earner sex nnwatenea. * This boast'does not hold goodinthes* ' days. The daily record of murders, assaults, elopements, and so-called abductions shows that advantage has bees taken of the custom -which throw? young girls entirely upon their own resources long before their arrival at-womanhood. Many a young woman over whose dead . V\/\i^Tr o r\$ cni/vi^o lias been passed has owed her destruction to chance acquaintances formed unknown to her parents ai times when, obeying the un nrritten law.of- the country, she hag - been "off by herself." Ptobably nc one will deny that, if the social custom* of Fmgtond had been in force in-this country,-Jennie Cramer would yet te .Olive. Zoe Watkins, :of St. Louis would-not have gone downto shame .and -death; Miss ."Churchill's parents wouldnot be scouring the country foi her in vain, and Rose Ambler would not have died by a murderer's hand or the backs of the Raven stream if, following the -salutary example of Euro' pean society,, their parents had exercised becomingcare and watchfnlnesg over themr" "c:~ These oft-repeated tragedies, mosl of them" deeply mysterious, can be ^ laid to the American habit of throwing the responsibilities of a man on the shoulders of young, weak, and inexperienced girls. In the light of these frightful crimes we can no longei afford to smile as of old at the alleged prudery of English society. It maj be irksome ,at times, but it preserves the young and fair from murder and s fate even worse. jsnslisli Art Progress. [Jos. nation 111 tiarpers?aiagazme.j Art schools have sprung np all over the land; Lambeth-has competed with Worcester, and both with the great potteries of the continent; Durham and Kidderminster have vied with the carpet looms of Brussels and the hand-weavers of Persia and Turkey; Birmingham and imu-1 iljulli. Manchester, Bradford-and Belfast have _ consulted the best schools of design and color for their textile fabrics; the illustrated newspapers have given the v cottage and the nursery artistic substitutes for poor German prints; famous draughtsmen have adorned, the fairy tales and fables of youthful literature . with characteristic forms of beauty; the painter has left his garret among the London chimney-pots; and once more English architects and build ers are erecting ?ingiiatiiioasesjn winch all that was useful and" picturesque in the "Old Kensington" and "Queen Anne" styles <is restored and adapted to our greater knowledge and better sanitary skill, and ^ more or less idealized through theiimpulse of the reaction that has set in against whitewashing church-wardens and the other Goths and Vandals of the interregnum now happily at an end. A Sew Industry. [Texas Sittings.] "Let's go out and take a drink?" "Well,?er?you see, I can't leave just now?not, anyway, until the affair - _ breaks up." "What's the reason you can't leave before the thing winds up; got a lady hero?" i, . "No, I haven't got any lady, but?er ?you see I'm hired to entertain these people for the evening?and?and? these clothes Fve got on belong to Col. .Yerger, and I don't think he has quite got enough confidence in me to leave the house with'em. I see him lookiqg___ down this way now. Fm a stranger' in in these parts, uut I've got a cnum down at the foot of the stairs. His clothes ain't good enough to come up here in, and I guess hell be only too glad to go out and take a drink -with vnru" Great .Edifices Abroad. [Demorest's Monthly.] - In Paris the law forbids the erection of houses more than five stories high; hence there are none of the eight and ten story buildings in the French capital, which are so numerous in New York. t? 'Cnfiicii rtifioc {-.Kara oTPAt edifices JUU, UUgUOU V*V?VW WMWWV D are forbidden on the ground that no land owner has a right to exclude his neighbor from the light and air. . X<esal Sagacity. [Detroit Free Press.] "My son," said a Chicago father, "I have just made my wi& and left all my property to you, with Smith as executor." The smart youth replied: "Then change it. Leave all the prop'* " -3 '1 * erty to smiui, ana sut&s xuc executor if you want me to enjoy any of if In Kansas tramps are mildly referred to as "itinerant citizens." The Comins Trotter. [New York Tribune.;] When the world sees a trotter cover a mile in one minute and forty seconds. a feat accomplished by more than one thoroughbred, it will see a wholly new type, so different from the present animal that the theory of evolution will never stretch far-enough to cover the prodigy. f ~ A Fortune Waits. A fortune awaits the man who will invent a penholder that yon can't stick into the mucilage-bottle, and a mucilagebrush that won't go into the inkstand. There is a man in New York ^bo manufactures diamonds-for actresses to /' lose. The.v are sold at so much a quart. Told Her No. Dion Boueicault says Mrs. Lan^trv asked 1dm if she was as handsome as Mary Anderson, and'Be told her no. North Dakota is as large as England, f twice as large as Ohio, and nearly hall as large as France.