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I : _ . _ .. ' _ - ' " ^ " ? ~ WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1884. I __ An "It" Which Saved a Life. |R R- .Tnhn<! in Ti?elftv's Mncazin^.l I was sauntering down Regent street one evening, as twilight camc on, when I suddenly ran np against my old friend, James Kay ton, whom I was as glad to see as he to give me a hearty greeting. ''Whence comest thon, O dreamer ?n -? * ~ ' were his first words, "and whither art thon bound, wandering on in this blundering fashion, and driving even an old friend off the curb into a slush of mud?" "A thousand pardons, Rayton,'* said I. "You were the very last man to come into zuy thoughts, and I am of tVin i'^oi nf vonr dress boots u. v^v. J in such weather as this. But, come home, man, and smoke a quiet pipe with me, and we will talk over all that has chanced since yon and I discussed that strange dream of old 'Stragen,'tho Dutchman, on board the Nile boat." Half an hour later found us by the aide of a cosy fire, with a fine aroma of Latakia floating about us. "You were talking just now," said Rayton, at last, "of that queer dream in the Nile boat. I can tell you a much queerer story now, that chanced here, not so many years ago, in this very PoV?t-1a? if T-nn trt Tipar if:." IVilj U JVwk ?v ? "Cars to hear it?" saidl. "Of course I do. But first give me chapter and verse, witness and authority?most sage of necromancers." "Wen," replied Bayton, "all I can give you, by way of chapter and verse, is briefly this: The dream, if it was one, has been told over and over again, -for years past, at our club, the Megajtherium, and is firmly believed in by all Mjggj^^ltbemen -who know Osborne, what a ^^^^^?|B?iNWfi65^jkepti?j>ys^how slow to fait- of iiimse!!, ana utterly ^fcLo?a7iv> i~ ~ of all dream lore and stories of dreamers. You must remember (Voome ^ yourself?" - "What! the gray-haired, wiry little - barrister," said I, "who had rooms in Dixie's court?" "The very same man. Well, one . * evening in September, about 7 p.m., Osborne came out of the club, and ..... _ slowly descended the broad steps into ;r the -well-lighted street. As he did so, he chanced to glance across the way at ^ an opposite gas-lamp, when, to H a his utter amazement, he saw staud tag underneath it, in the full blaze of light, his own identical self; his own . white hat, C3ne, dress, figure, tout enK w ? _ semblo. He looked once and again, but there was no mistake whatever. There he was, like Cerberus, two gentlemen at once.' 'Oh! it must be Smiife/ he thought (the practical joke man who was always 'rigging' some . fellow or other), purposely dressed up.after his, Osborne's, cwn fashion. He therefore ran across the road to detect the said Smith, but, to his further astonishment, when he reached the eas-lamu. the practical joker was coolly standing on the club steps which he I himself had just left. As he re-crossed . the road, his seeming double descended .. the steps, and gravely walked down "TSfcjzssm Place Jill he got to the next ' ' street, -where he turned the corner and . 7 disappeared. 'Til have raj revenge," tlionglit : Osborne, as he strode wratlifully down the broad pavement, 'when * - ' I catch that .fellow to-morrow.' Meanwhile, he walked on. ? "At the centre of Ebrington street, as everybody knows, is a mighty gaslamp, which flings a broad ray of light, north, south, east, and west, into the gloom of four diverging right lines. Standing under the shadow of that gaslamp was now to be seen, clearly, unmistakably, the thing with a white lxat, ?. bearing the well-known cane, and dressed as Osborne dressed. "What was to be done? In his extreme hurry and agitation, Osborne nearly dashed up against the post, de VTA UMIICU nv gvv caw AAW iAiv*iu demand an exjunction. Bnt no sooner had he reached the lamp than the thing was gone. - Atrihis Osborne began to feel ccdd and chilly; in fact he was frightened. He-clenched his stick, pulled his iat firmly over his brow, -walked resolutely on, and tried to think that the whole affair was the mere bilions result of indigestion; but-all in vain. He knew, full well, that he was in perfect health at that moment, as he had been for months. He had-tried walking fast, he would now try a slow pace; but neither availed him in the least. "At every main street corner, there stood the thing looking like Smith, -whether really he or not. But, . at last, when Osborne was almost desperate?it vanished. It was with great satisfaction, therefore, that he at length rang at the doorway leading to his lodgings, in one of the highest rooms of which, the next to the roof, was his peculiar sanctum. - "He half expected, as the door swung back, to catch a glimpse of the ghostly likeness of himself, peeping over the servant's shoulder. But, ail was as usual. Mrs. Tom kins, sleepy and grumbling, gave him a lighted bed-room candle, growled out, 'Good night,' and disappeared. The three flights of stairs - . - - . vera soon cleared, and in a few mo^ meats his hand turned the well-known door-handle. The door opened as jV usual; the fire blazed cheerily: the servant, knowing Osborne's punctaaKty, had lighted both his candles. His arm chair was in his favorite place, between the tcble and fere, bat it was not, as usual, unoccupied. There, in his own chair, reading cosily, with his .back to the door, sat the thing, shade, spectre, or whatever you choose I - to call it. "This was-a climax beyond bearing. ^ . At the sight of it, Osborne flung down i japanned candlestick, cleared flights of stairs as with seven-leagued boots, joshed through passages, annihilated . : - HrS^Tompkins, and at last breathed freely^shen once more in the crowded . street. night he tried to sleep at ' : aneighbor&g hotel?not successfully, asmay b^st^posed. The nest morning, with infikite misgivings, he made .. up his mind to go to his chamber as "usual. On his\arrival there, he found the house full of C' istle and confusion. During the niglrfc a hugh beam, supporting the roof, aad given away, and coming down with\a great crash had dashed his bedsieafi into a dozen fragments. Had he slept there as usual ho would have been a^ one of the fragments." I "After that," addeSk Kayton, "Osborne changed his lodgiJJgs." "No man could do othe^^ise," said I. "But what does Osbor^ say to_tho story now, after all these -tiow did he loot when he told it "Well," replied my friend/nte^\?ays was queer, as you know, ancTOl^ in his manner?but that day at thcq club he was queerer and paler than j ?ver. He told the storv once, but -i woura never xen ic again; some ox tne fellows in the smoking-room quizzed him unmercifully. But, all the same, in spite of quizzing they believed the ! storv?and Osborne sticks to every j word of it. Smith, the joker, chaffed ' lika one day about it, bnfc he got such a ; look from Osborne,?who at the same | time knocked his hat off?that he never : tried chaffing again." "And you, Ray ton," I asked, "what do you say ?" i "My dear fellow, what can I say? I i heard liim tell the story; it was cuincuii j not to believe it when you looked at j such a face, and, besides that, in Osborne's case, there was something like a reason lor an interference or something more than human power, providence, I or what you wilL It saved a man's j life." Monster rapes. ("RuhamahV Santa Barbara Letter.] Eastward over the hills lies Mon| tecito, a scattered settlement.of beautiful estates that stretches down the four mile slope from the mountains to the 1 cm Trns flm hnrrtfi nf thai i wonderful old grapevine that was ex: hibited at the Centennial. The old grapevine was 81 years old at the tin.e it was cut down and sent east ; for exhibition. Its trunk was fifteen ; inches in diameter, and it produced five and six tons of the common Missouri grapes each season. The Spanish family who owned the old vine ! had the arbor for a dancing floor, and i high revels used to be held under the great canopy of leaves. A family of good Ohio people have succeeded to the ownership of this his; toric place, and consider it no advantage' to have a score of curious people corning tliere every week to take a look at the other great grape vine that : now ranks as the largest vino in the I state. i The present prize grape vinegss^ from a cutting from th?~^f5ous 0ld ""TliTe, and was set ?rattwenty-seven years ago. Already its trunk is twelve inches in diameter, and it spreads a thick canopy of leaves over an arbor sixty feet | square. One drives under it with a : carriage, and looking np like a fox in i the fable, sees immense purple clus ; ters of the sourest grapes he is ever j likely to tast6. The little girl who I brought a chair for us to stand on could i hardly hold the heavy clusters. We picked and passed some to her, and after looking at the countless four and five-pound bunches that hung all over the arbor, we believed the story of their gathering three tons of grapes from I this one vine last vear. " a iTlma Donna's Relatives. i Gen. Lew "Wallace is a figure in literature and politics that does not become any less by reason of his absence. It is i not generally known that he is a brothi * f "rr v i n ? xl^ ^ A er-m-iaw 01 z.eiaa oegxun, me yicun . contralto. A correspondent from the I north-west tells about it in the following ; fashion: I met Dave Wallace during the AbI bott engagement, and had a talk with ; him. Dave is partially off duty this ; season, and is a good man to chat with, j Mr. Wallace served last year as treas( urer for the Max Strakosch company, j and is just now arranging for a comI pany under his own management, with ! his -nrifA as tlie star. Mr. Wallace, by the way, is a man | of ratlier noted connections. His father : was at one time governor of Indiana, ! And a man honored by his constituency. : The well known author of "The .Fair j God" and "Ben Hur"?two widely read I novels?Gen. Lew "Wallace, is a brother. ! Gen. Wallace is now serving as United j Skates minister to Turkey, and, with ; his wife, is living at Constantinople, j Mrs. Wallace- that is, Mrs. Lew Walj lace?is, like her husband, a very grace, ful writer, and man\ of my readers will ! recall a series of letters in The Cen1 Ir? fwA CLCrr\ Ipf? j IUIJ Othk JLLC C? JVU* v* ?'?V -WW | ters from 2sew Mexico and Arizona, i and very sarcastic ones. One of Mr. j Wallace's most noted relatives is his I charming and model wife. Zelda Sei guin, who shares the honors with Miss J Abbott during the present season of j English opera. Mrs, Zelda Seguin is | one of the most noted living contraltos, i and her performance in the "Gypsy j scene" in "II Trovatore" is one of the j finest pieces of acting and singing that i have been witnessed on the stage in j this generation. j. In talking with a member of the Abj bott company about Mrs. Seguin, he i o ttoW Tioartv frrfhutfi to lier rftlier ions principles and her pluck in adhering to them. The Strakosch company, with whom she was traveling, was billed to open "the season a year or two ago for a St. Louis theatre. On reaching the city the manager was apprised of a fact with which he had not been acquainted and that was that the opening was ad I vertised for Sunday evening, Mrs. ! Seguin, -who had a leading part, refused to appear, and the door A the house had to remain closed. At another time Mrs. Seguin was with a company just beginning its season?I think it was j Abbott's. She found the company j billed to appear in an Indiana city on a I Sunday evening and at once notified | the manager that she wished to sever ! her connection with it, as she wouldn't I travel with a troupe that did not respect | the Sabbatic His Last Chance. [New York Journal] As Mr. Popperman threw himself on j the sofa last Monday evening, and took tip tne evening paper, ms rae saia to him: "Charles, I went to a wedding to-day." "Did yon, indeed ?" said he. "Whom did you mariy?" ""What an ideal I saw a conple marI ried in church." i "Oh." "Yes. They were married according I to the latest fashion." "The latest fashion? What is that? ! For the bride and groom to give j presents to all the guests ? What did j you get?" "No, no. I mean the latest fashion ; in regard to entering the church. ! Formerlv vou know the bride and ! groom both came down the same aisle. ; Now, when the couple leave the cari riage at the entrance of the church, | the bride comes down the aisle followed ! by her maids, but the groom goes } around the corner, comes in at the side i door, and meets the bride at the altar." | "What's that? Do you say that the t groom goes around the corner and i comes in at the side door?" I <4Y6S "That's a splendid idea." "Why?" ! "'Cause it gives him a good chance ! to sret awav." Giants in Those Days. [Scientific American.] i A party of Italian scientists have just | returned from an expedition to the J south Pacific, having proved to their i .own satisfaction that a race of giants konce existed in Patagonia. In wanderover Terra del Fuego they found bodfvs of marvelonslv larcre aiza GOULD AND KEENE. j The Two Xoted Trail Street Operators Contrasted. (Philadelphia Press.] Probably no two men on the street differ so -widely in temperament as do J these two operators. Tliey both have ! in them the elements of unpopularity, j and that's about all they have in com- i mon. The unpopularity of each, how- j ever, will be wrought for very different j reasons. Keene would be generally unpopular because he is indifferent as to the opinions of othe:*s, and is some- ; what. frrif-jiKlo in disposition. and not always agreeable in manner. Gould, i on the other hand, while not seeking j the favor of those with whom he comes i in contact, is not averse to its bestowal, j ; and in temper and manner is as soft . and fine to the social touch as the wool j of the lambs whose symbols he has j ; lleeced by the thousands. Gould is said to have some kindly 1 traits, but they are not so plentiful j that he carries them around with him j during business hours. Probably no j ; man in the world has so many and so : fji-eat opportunities as he to assist ! others in money-getting, by merely i speaking a truthful word now and then. ; : Yet. if he has a business friend who lias ! not lost money on words and opinions ; uttered by him, or through his office, j i within the past two years, it is because i i that frie'nd has not heeded his utter! anees. ! Keene, on the other hand, while he is ! j unstable and suspicious, and neither in- j ! vites nor accepts confidences, is above j j any little petty misrepresentations for J the purpose of sticking an acquaintance j with a few hundred shaAs of stock, j If Gould should give an *inion to a i -man r\f rn nr? nrafrp rnp.ins tflc a certain I stock -was a safe purcha^K abcmt as : i^ucbj^iianc^coa],^^ i upon, the varying winds of March; j while Keene, if he could be induced to : give an opinion at all, and if he bej lieved his opinion was to be acted i upon, would express himself sincerely and on his best judgment Of course, this does not apply, in either case, to utterances made to active traders in the market?it is considered entirely the proper thing on Wall street to deceive any one who might exert the smallest fraction of influence on the market's ! general course. I A P^Ttr a fn-nr cx/31f.n*r<2 ftnrl A ! j?U6WJ M AWfl ? ? few legislators, have made money ; tlirongh Gould's office points, but the ; line must be drawn there. The more j faithful the service, the more close the i relation, the greater the confidence re! posed by an associate or friend, the j greater the official loss inflicted. This, i at least, cannot be said of Keene. In no respect do these great operators differ so widely as in business scope. j Keene is a speculator, pure and sim- ! pie, and so thoroughly imbued with its spirit that he has never made his mark ! in a single outside enterprise. He is ! one of the ablest and most expert operj ators in that line, however, that ever j came to Wall street, and had it not been j ! for one mistake?that of extending himi self into every branch of speculation, i I and particularly liis dealings in "privileges"?lie would now have $1,000,000 I for each $100,000 that he has. But Gould is one of the shrewdest j and most successful speculators in the j world, and at the same time the organ- i izer and promotor of stupendous business enterprises. One of the surest evidences of Iris wonderful ability is the class of men with which he has become | surrounded, and of whom he is the j 1 O? O COA- I I lu&uer* JUL?S IB XLVI oai.iU.V4 vi WWJJV ciates outshining him, and so well poised is Lis leadership that his staff is not jealous of his supremacy, which is so j naturally attained and so discreetly exercised as not to irritate those who ac knowledge it. Keene is agile, needle- j witted, and bold in his operations; Gould is slow, patient, deliberate, broad and conscienceless in his. The Bed Man's Welcome to Yillard. [Iron Bull, of the Crows, at the Spike.] This is the last -<f it?this is the last thing for me to do. I am glad to see you are here, and hope my people of the Crow nation are srlad to see you, too. There is a meaning in my part of ! the ceremony, and I understand it. The J end of onr lives is near at hand. The I days of my people are almost numbered ; already they are dropping off like the rays of sunlight in the western sky. Of onr once powerful nation there are now but few left?just a little handful, and we, too, will soon be gone. After the savage, though, has given way to civilization, the whites will come. They will enjoy the same bright skies, the same glad sunshine, the beauteous mountains, lakes and rills, where once we delighted to roam. They will probably live in' it, populate it with the flowers of their race, but will they forever remain in undisturbed possession of this grand domain ? Who knows | but that some race, at present unknown, will make its appearance and overpower and take away the land from them, too ? Then, as the last chief of the pale face nation stands before the conqueror, will he bid him welcome to his all, to i his home, to his life, to his very soul, with more, earnestness and with as much sincerity as his red brother welcomes him now ? I am glad to see you A Judicious Darkey. [Texas Sittings.] Old Uncle Mose had never been to the theatre, but having struck up bills for a theatrical troupe and having received a complimentary ticket to the gallery, he concluded to attend the performance. He went dressed up in his Sunday attire. He had not been inside of the theatre more than an hour when he emerged shaking his head. " Mi r .n "JJon t you iiKe zae periormance, oia man ?" asked the surprised doorkeeper. "No, sab, I don't like dem performances no way ye kin fix it." "Why, what's the matter?" "Nuffin' much, 'ceptin' a 'oman on de platfum got to talkin' 'bout family 'fairs wid de husband ob anudder 'oman, an' I didn't perpose to stay. My ole marster in Virginny got shot plum ter pieces for doing dat berry foolishness, j Dars allers trouble wbar dat sort j ob foolishness is gwine on, an' Ise a judishus nigger, I is. I don't want ter j be siiot in ae leg Dy misiaKe, or oe brunged up as a witness in de case when it spikes de courts." The Climate for Good Voices. [Exchange.] An English newspaper says American singers have made a much greater mark in Great Britain than American actors, notwithstanding the conspicuous absence in America of long-established academies and colleges of music. "The climate," it adds, "clear and dry as it is, will scarcgjy account for the number of srood voices produced in America, for one effect of the American climate is apparently to pinch the throat and cause the high-pitched tones and the usual twang by which the enunciation of so many Americans is marked." / / THE "VAN-DEN-BELTZ" FAMILY An Old Lady of Sew Brunswick (!?. J.) Tells of a Reigning; Family's -1'nteecclents["R. D. B." in Chicago Herald] Tlte old lady sipped ner tea complacently. " ' Corn-jcl' Vanderbilt's people," she went on, half retrospectively, "were not, of course, people that -we would have been apt to know personally," and sho smiled at her granddaughter. T A /IAOI AP 4iKaii> CUUT5U A iiCd? a u^ai v* doings now, but it makes no impression on me, except as illustrating the power of money and impudence." At this point The Herald man ventured to ask if the Vanderbilts had really not descended from an ancienl Dutch family called "Van der Bilt." "No sir," thundered the old lady, "f have seen this statement going the rounds before, and it is an impudent assumption. The old and honored name /Iatx.'KAHT O mirfnra TTrtMon/5 19 V (lU'UUU'UCLUO U UUAUIUV V4 dkAVAAWUM anil Flemish. In the sixteenth" century it was simplified to Yan Den Belt. Those who came to Long Island finally got ifc down to Van-Belt, and now the old family are known as 'Van Pelt.1 The Vanderbilts?I don't know where they came from. They claim?o!r at least, old 'Corned' used to say to my uncle, Abram "Wykoff, who knew him well, when Corneel used to keep the' old tavern down there, that 'he was Dutchj but didn't know how much Dutch he was.'" "What are your reminiscences of the original Yanderbilts?" The Herald correspondent ventured to ask. "Oh, I hardly know?let me think. You see my family never knew tlie'm, oi course. Dear, dear, no. If they had'noi got so rich, and in everybody's mouths, I suppose I would have forgotten them "'altogether.^ see"?and the granddaughter fiile^u^anothercup oi tea. The kind old lady sippeisi^the while deep in thought. "I wasfnto: eight miles from here, and I was 12yeari > > ? < t j. - cua wnen o. came in iuwu w buuuui. j Tlien the 'Raritan house' was; :in jfnl blast. 'C. Vanderbilt, proprietor.' ] remember was on a big sign. W< school girls, I know, for several summers used to go down town past the steamboat docks and up on Shuneman'f j hill, to pick blackberries. We wer? always a little shy of Vanderbflt's hotel for even away back in those days it was rough. But old Mrs. Vanderbilt wa? kind and good, aud when she wasn'l too busy scrubbing and so on, sh< always had a kind word for us. Sh< was a young woman then, and vigorous, I and how she did work. Of cours< we girls from "up-town" didn'i dare to let anybody know thai j >IC CTCI OyWAO WV ttiij V* IfUV JLUAVVJL/^i. people, but she was good to us. Manj a glass of milk I've had from her. Bui I never liked to see her serve out run to people. She did that while 'Corneel was away. The boy?the first boy William?he's now the great William H. I remember well as a chubby-faced lit tie chap about 10 or 11 years old. Hi father used to bring shad up in his shallop in the spring?Hudson rivej shad. Mrs. Vanderbilt used to have ? market for it always and the boy woulc deliver it about. I know in our ..ok boarding-school we never could get^ujd in the spring till Capt. wV,anderbiltfi shallop got in. Since they've all got sc rich, a story came out that young "Van derbilt's veritable old basket in whicl he used to carry the shad is still in existence here, but that is untrue. Th? boy never had a basket. He carried the shad strung on a hickory 'withe, such as they used to have in the old days. I remember it welL" "When did the Vanderbilts leave New Brunswick, madam ?" "Oh, that I couldn't tell you. I left sfllionl about 1833. and I believe the'v were here then. I remember hearing it said that more children were bore here, but then, you see, we never kne^ them at all?tliey were, of course, nol in our circle. Since they hare growr so rich we naturally know of them and hear of them, and remember who the; are, but that is all. I remember old Mrs. Yanderbilt most kindly. She was a good, motherly woman, and, by hei thrift, excellent sense and untiring industry, I've heard said, she made 'Corneel's' fortune. I am glad to have seer you, sir. You will excuse me now Whilfl I alwavs like to talk of old times I'm just now a little tired." He Carried, the Last Flag. [Arkansaw Traveler.] "Talk about my war record." said an Arkansas orator at a political meeting "my war record is a part of the state's history. Why, gentlemen, I carried th< last Confederate flag through this town." "Yes," replied a bystander, "for ] was here at the time." "Thank you for your fortunate rec ollection," gratefully exclaimed the or ator. "It is pleasant to know that there still live some men who move asidf envy and testify to the courage of theii fellow-beiners. As I sav, gentlemen my -war record is a part of the state's history, for the gentleman here will teU you that I carried the last Confederate flag through this town," "That's a fact," said the man w'ju: had witnessed the performance. He carried the last Confederate flag through this town, and he carried it sc blamed fast that you couldn't have told whether it was a Union jack or a smallpox warning." "Oar First. Daughter."7 [New York Post.] It is told of the wife of Buchanan's first postmaster general, Mr. Brown, that she had been married before, and liarl Tier 'hns'hnTxl and ha/1 a daughter by the first marriage. Ther they had another daughter. Mrs Brown used to present the daughters at her receptions in this way: "This is Miss Brown, Mr. Brown's daughter bj his first wife; this is Miss Sanders, my daughter by my first husband, and this is Miss Brown, our joint daughter I" What's In Their Names. [Chicago News.] It is developed that Jay Gould's froni name is Jason, that Dio Lewis is Diocletian Lewis, and the editor of The New York Tribune Jacob Whitelaw Reid. This reminds us that the gentlemau we call Frank Hatton rejoices in the imposing name of Francesca da Rimini Hatton, and Charles A. Dana'f middle name is Augustus. a i^inanclal Lav. [Arkansaw Traveler.] "And you wont pay me?" "No, sir." "You acknowledge that you owe me?" "Yes, sir, and I've got the money." "HV) uroll t.TiAn_ vat! nAA^n't r>av mo. I didn't think you liad the money. It's when a man ain't got it that we want ltiTn to pay. As long as you've got the money keep it, but when you find yourself without means remember that I must be paid." v A thousand Texas convicts are to bt employed in reducing iron ore. 1 r1 e defeat. [Edgar Fawcett in Harpers.] By bitter pilgrimage he sought to win Those far dim towers that he would roam within. I I Through paths of peril, loud with dying ' groans, ! . ! . wV^'fA wfK VmmQTl j oyuv> li ^jfco^ixio \jl lauvuc, niuw ****** ** > ?-. ,! bones, i i 1 Past brakes of treachery, whence the tiger ; ! sprung, ' j ; O'er swamps of envy, where the scorpion ! stung, - . ; His eager feet pressed onward to attain j The luring bourn of that desired domain? . > And thereat-last, worn fugitive of fate, clutched: the mighfy clarion at the gate, i j'A moment more, _-and. while its proud peal Toe towers wcoia rocK, too poraus woma uu- . j* dose- $ ? -X 4 ij Bat ihecj.^ea then, by some foredoom pro [i He dropped'deadere bis lips bad waked one ; Dj{? ; : sound! * ~s rt**: .BMgtoBaftng In India. I' " r:-: ^;jV .Racing in Indiaisboth good fun and j good sport. -There^eitwo elasses ,first j j 'and- second;;va^;a^ there are races < ,k for fonr breedsand races -where all come : 4 together..^ tare Arab races, races | [-1 Engl^ bred;-j|orses,> and ''W^ers," I Australian- horses are called- ! hordes "havS- to give weight, | J iwiueh always raises a growl, as tney are ; ' j neverreally fit -in ..tbfrfr stewy climate, j ; i :Tb e second cl^*aces are generally the r\'best fan; as^verybodybrie knows has ;1 something, evisn-if it can only go on j three legs, entered- 'The subaltern ha3 f} his charger, and-the competition wallah, .! and sub-collectors buggy horses are for j ' j the nonce trWformecL.Tito race "cond- j '.I ries," as: thfr natives call a race-horse, j 1 Ajod no w^ner ?f the Derby ever reiceivcd. suclr attrition as the old buggy-; ' horse does for abont two months before j J the "meeting" comes ofil His stable is | ut^'^,-^!^^ce^morning J [ gaLIop* and is tlien scraped down???_: [ I his did broken-down legs swathed in ^ 'clean"bandages and new sheeting, with j the owner's initials blazoned thereon, carefully pulled over his weary old , back; and after breakfast the owner | and his friends, all with the inevitable j! straw in their mouths, stroll over from' j the bungalow, and Mary Ann is led out | j aad carefully punched and felt all over, j i and her chances for the Maiden stakes , 1 rlnlv Of course. the owner j1 must say to Sipkins, of the 107th dashj ers, "Look out for her heels !" as if the dear old lady had a kick left in her. j And then the sun comes out hot and j. strong, and they return to the bungalow, t to long armchairs; brandy and soda j and cheroots, the proud owner of Mary , Ann backing her against the field all [. | round for R.s 100, which she has about j; as much chance of winning for him as > | the chair he is sitting on. I I IBC .llgBt aiiwicr. [Forest and Stream.] In tlie Adirondacks once came a re3 markable episode in the annals of the 1 night shooter, but which is true to a word. We had paddled barely 200 | yards from where I killed a deer, when [ we heard another one walking among the grasses at the head of the lake. The j I moKWJovexed log rustled through the J rushes, with the weird half-circle of ' light spreading shoreward -with each ' sweep of the silent paddle, and again 1 the white outline of the deer seemed-to, " grow out of the gloom ahead. Splurge I *! splash, it is walking toward us. Now [; it stops, and in the full glare of the ! headlight we see a beautiful, fat doe, L i VIA* AArtf VkAmnniTir# +A OOOTlTna fllA WMA I ilCl W41U 1 W OCOUiMU VUO UIUV i tint of the -winter covering. With head r | outstretched, she gazes earnestly at the j lantern, while we sit silent and ad> miring in the impenetrable gloom en r shrouding the dugout behind the light. > After satisfying her curiosity, she 1 turns to feed, and the canoe steals upon ' her. Now she is watching her shadow, ? cast by the light on the lily pads and 1 grassy water. Another quick stroke 1 with the paddle, and I prod her in the ' ribs with my gun. At the first punch ^ { she stood like a beautiful statue. At 1 i the second?I would stroke her with my ' j hand, but I fear she, waking from her I ?J. -J J. iJ astouisiieu irauue, wuuiu ikiuo. utca viu j dugout in her terror?she gave one I great bound, causing our log to oscillate violently, and showering us witU > cold spray, and then we heard her bounding up the hill. Hagie Vegetation. II [Felix Oswald's Letter.] :! The boxes seemed to be filled with a i j sort of gray loam, but presently a green j j film appeared upon the surface and j j swelled like a mass of rising dough, till j it divulged into a multitude of yellow| j ish-green sprouts. The boxes were | then handed around. The vegetable . j sprouts were apparently some sort of . j legumina, perhaps Chinese garden peas, > I but the substratum was less easy to de11 fine. It was of a pale chocolate color, ?; viscid, and about the consistency of , i half-melted tallow. To say that the igerms grew visibly would be an exag[; geration; but in the lapse of ten minutes . i their growth from one-third to threej fourths of an inch could be ascertained i! by actual measurement. That their ?! progress was not due to a mechanieal ;! expansive force could be implied from I !|the cireamstance that the leaf buds [ | unfolded as well as uprose. It waa . j clearly a case of vegetable develop* ; ment, accelerated by some unknown I stimulant. . "To say the truth, I am myself unable i' to explain it," the professor replied to ! another leading question; "but from I | tliC JUiXiliS Ul IUJ OUC^U) X ViiliJ ""I"J HUMJ i much, that the solution of the riddle ij would throw a new light upon the secret , I of creation/] ' j Whisky and Talent. I [Texas Siftings.] "Take that bottle and go out nnd get ' me some whisky," said Col. Jimjams to i the sad-eyed woman whose misfortune ! it was to be the wife of a convivial inej briate. I "Give me money to buy it with." i "Give you money! Why, any darn fool can get whisky if he has money, i but to get whisky without money is ' what takes talent. I thought you iiad. some talent." Taking up the bottle with a sigh, the patient, long-suffering woman went out. in a snort tune sne returnea. apparently she had been successful, for she placed the bottle before him, and said, in low, reproachful tones: "There! take it, and drink to your heart's content." "Now, that's what I call smart. You have got real genius or you couldn't get whisky without money;" and placing the bottle to his mouth he was about to quench his thirst when he discovered the bottle was empty. 14 Why, what does this, mean ?" ':It means that anybody can drink whisky when, the whisky is in the bottle, but it takes real talent to drink ? ' - - --- - - 11.. t..!' tvinsky "wnen mere is none iu tue wir i tie. Drink away. I know you have] cot talent." UP IN A SA&fcOGn An AeroaMt'i Aee?ant of Hi* Toyage Across the BagM>fc tliiwiwi [London Standard.] "We started from Hastings," says; Mr. Simmons, "under" somewhat unfa-;: vorable auspices, the wind being north- j easterly at- the time. A crowd of some' 40,000 persons had gathered to witness our departure, and as we ascendedthey gave us a tremendous eheer. My fellow passenger, Mr. Smafl, a photog-; rapher, was so lost in ^admiration of we magnificent panorama of .Eastings lying below us that I had to warn him that he must be quick if he wished 4o obtain o nTirtfnfyranir. and wa inat eotthe anrva* ? r**wwvO ? * * o- . . ratus ready a6 we passed over the beach, the balloon being at that moment (3:25) to an altitude erf 3^000 feet. At 3:30 .-we had a long range of coast: line, Eastbourne pier being exceedingly.' distinct. I thought we were a trifle too near Beachy Head ever <_t0 make any point of land on this side of the 'Atlantic, but when we attained an altitude of 7,500 feet we southed a trifle more^ . Appearances wore, however, much against our ever.Teaching land, and I must acknowledge that I was sorely tempted to aAP 'DaaaTiv TTcqiI flnA trak. VV1UC UUWU VU VWVUJ MVWU MW picked tip. But this would haye been ratlier too ignominious, and I decided to keep on our course. Wehad the satisfaction, a few minutes later, to find Beach Head receding north of us, and we quickly settled our minds to 'make a night of if if necessary. "At 4:30 we were over a magnificent cloud scene; here and there patches of the coast line could be descried f&r away to the west, while at a vast distance there was a gap through which we got a patch of sea, with three or . four ships very distinct.:. A moment later and the great .Qoetain. of ekmds had shut out our last laadrmacfc< Mr. Small got his apparatus ready to secure a cloud effect, but his shutter missed fire two or three times, and this suggested some 'iftle improvements -for -g^^xperimeiits in future. From 4:30 to nearlyltn^Ktothe people cm earth) our altitude range^issi^^eu 8-000 and 9,000 feet During this inwri^&I^G got peeps at the sea many times, buV~noland was seen. We could see the sun's rays two hours after he had withdrawn from earth and sea. The shadow of the balloon on a cloud looked very much like a shuttlecock, the car forming the butt end, and the balloon and cords forming the feathers. ! Thfi transition from divto nicrht 'was very slow and gradual, and as daylight departed the moon's rays from' dead gold gradually changed to bright silver. Mr. Small said, *Did you see that shooting star?' I said, 'Wait 4 minute, and I will show you another.' Tlie balloon had commenced to 1 evolve, and this motion made.it appear as though a bright star was darting through the air. It was, of course, an optical illusion. "A remarkable appearance was caused by the refection of the balloon in thq focnssing screen of the camera. "When we surrounded witii a DiacK ciotn ine frame round the glass we could see the. sky, sun, moon and stars inverted, and the balloon cleaving its headlong downward course through illimitable space, the effect being more extraordinary. Soon after T o'clock we began to get cold, and set to work to don our flannels, etc. Our large wrapper got tightly jammed in the rigging, but the hard ~puUio~^rj-ess&rj to cret it loose soon made us feel warm,_Sad, havmg ep^. got up a good circulation, we did aot j during the entire voyage again feel'cold. [ The cork jackets, which were supplied by Mr. Cornish, contributed greatly to warmth. During the night, for more ! than an hour bur altitude did not vary twenty feet. This was exceedingly encouraging, for upon-our power of poising so nicely depended our chance of flnafinor nlnff. n.11 nicht. When_ ?hn balloon did take a slight downward tarn I carefully noted how much ballast it would take to'stop her.' The temperature of the air was very regular, and I found that seven pounds or eight pounds was sufficient. "At 10:15 we saw a vessel almo st under us, and came down low enough to hail her. This we did as lustily as we could, but at first got no response, only a remarkably distinct echo from our own voices. At last a voice was heard on deck* 'VoQa, balloon, balloon f 'Areyou English?No reply. Tarlez vous Francaise? 'Oui, oui,' we replied, but with all our French we could not ascertain our whereabouts, and wliotlioF tto Trara nv/xr F.ncltjch I channel or the Atlantic. "At 10:25 something slightly darker than the normal horizon could be faintly discerned. We kept ourselves absolutely motionless, and, listening intently, ~we seemed to hear in the same direction a sound as of a far-distant rolling surf. I looked long and eagerly, until I exclaimed. 'It's nothing but a mist,' for it seemed to change its form, ftf infA Ail* ' T auu ov ioov:vu tmuou auw vamm * passed nearly another hour intently watching for lights until a similar dark portion of horizon was brought under our view. We could not possibly bring ourselves to believe it was land, because no lights could be seen up to this time, but at last there was an unmistakable flicker in the exact direotion where I was gazing. 'Look along my finger as a telescope. .."What do you call that?* 'A lighthouse/ exclaimed Mr. Small. I said, 1 believe that okn*%- luv/yvwa;- caq mjixiv uivuawta. buu %jj uiuj confidence, and then the; told us we were on Cap de la Hogue, the extreme northwest point of France. We then found that oar informants were M. Augusts Lavem, of Canton de Beaumont, Arrondissement Hanche and bis wife. They most kindly helped us to empty the balloon of ita contents, and gave tts supper and shelter'for the night. Next morning at 7 o'clook, we / r _ M -\im jl ou:y jlua. io haiu ov? just beyond it again. If it tarns ont to be so, be prompt in doing everything I tell you, for it vrill be sharp work to land on that strip.' "The sound of surf was now unmistakable, and in about the same time as I am faking to tell this, the line of coast was presented distinctly to our view, every nfinute getting more distinct. The sea now began toripple up sharply. Ten minutes and we were passing the coast line, and sharply darting toward the other sea beyond. 'What sort "or ground are we coming down on ?'?said Mr. Small. 'Bugged rocks and stone walls, I believe,' I said.. 'Hold on firm. Otit rrrtoe tlio nrannlinflr rrnno ' 4't first it would not hold, but soonit got wedged into a crevice in the rocks, giving us just tether enough to pass over the precipice and down on to the beach. There was just room for us between the needing tide and the rocks* and sons to spare. Had we gone ten yards further and half A.seeond longer we should have been in the sea. "We heard whispering nea^ ns. In a few moments a matt and a woman appeared, btifc wcraJd not at first approach us, fearing, I supposfe, we were 1 D -J U? ?,, went to yieiratB" Scene'of our descent, and Mr. Small photographed it. We afterward piooeeded to Cherbourg, and the?ce home." A raerim 3Ur?ett? Avoids. " -'[Chicago News.] ,v Robert; J. Bnrdefie, the humorist, has never been invited to. make a second ap pearancein St. Jonnsoury, vs. xne first and only time lie was billed for a lecture thereaeveral prominentcitizens* including ' Mri Fairbanks, the scale 7 manufacturer* called on . him and told him there was a regions revival in progress in thetown,and they expressed the^hope&at he would omit every humorous feature from his .lecture, for fear.hiaiun mightjdistracfc^the minds of theyoui^ people from the religious subjects. Mr. Bprdette promised to comply with their request, and. when he appeared before on overflowing hoQse^ thai evening he care f^y.;.dinwftted. from his lecture every, sentence and word thai could possibly be snapeeted of conveying an idea of hnmor or levity. occasion was more aciema than a watch-meeting. Tbepeopie^cajae to laagb, they stayed fr went away to swaur. Bardette was voted three-ply, fonr-story frand, and the emotions awakened by the failure of his lectnre were ci such, an uochristianly and permanent natare that the religious revival in tie town dated its declinefrom that very night. And nowadays, whenever Bnrdette has occasion to go through St. Johnsbnry, he stops just walks aroupd. Some Facts la the Far Trade. * [Philadelphia Times.] ?T *k- MftW' IvMlrtrlll 4-mnn wmv a ooat, the ornamental skin of which came from Maine. He wanted somethong striking and cheap, and what do you suppose he got? Give it up? Well, he calls and thinks it Australian mink, but it is good, honest American skunk? a good fur, too, and sells well, only the name would kill it if we retained & Over 350,000 skunk skins are handled by the trade every year: . Hew York and Ohio-furnish the majority. They bring from the trapper 50 cents to a $1. TTiov ftra AfirAinrir^A t>v a haw and satis ap^ y1] 1" under fancy names. '""** .,, "What wecall fur in the trade," said the expert, taking up a-skin, "is this. You see, by spreading open the hair of this seal there are two kinds of hair; one, the fur that is short and lies close to the dan, and .another-the. overliair that is long and what we see at a first glance of the animal. The difference Kofurcsttn' .VIA' TOTV m-Aat frrr being soft, downy, silky, and sometimes curly, while theoverharr is coarse and rigid; Each, has a peculiar value for many purposes, but particularly in felting; the fine, upon treatment to hot water, readily joins in a solid mass, while the long hair can be woven and span. When the animal is alive the uses of the two hairs are seen. The fine nnderhair keeps out water and cold, while the overhair prevents felting and entangling. In hotba carat one is ATfremftlv;valuable alone, and in others the combination is equally so. "The house oat is one of the most valuable -of thfe far-bearing animals, and Then they mysteriously disappear from the back fence they often find their way to the furrier. It is an actual fact that in 1882 over 1,200,060 bouse cats were used in the fur trade. Black, white, Maltese, ana tortoise-shell skins are- mgst in dejuand. Thej are made into liningSr asd used in philosophical apparatus. Mormon WIt?L[Cor. Inter Ocean.] The Mormon priests tell the Mormon woman that plural marriage is the or*, dinanceof God! That all it brings her of anguish is necessary self-denial to wrn God's love, and that to submit to it is her duty. A ghastly burial ceremony-thai is practiced by the Mormons rivets; the hold polygamy has on the superstition of these creatures. Every wifs that is buried has a black cloth IttiU Uu UCX iOWf MlU DUC iUVlUlVU YTUU1CU are taught to believe thaton the resurrection day, when the righteous are called into the joys of their Lord, no hand but that of a husband can remove the doth , and that unless the cloth is lifted by his hand she must remain in outer darkness forever. Jl woman who believes thai?and the Mormon women believe it?can't help behaving herself, no matter how many wives her husband talcea. She . has to keep on the right side of .the only man who can take o8 that cloth. . Heart>Brokeii kat LeTel>Eeid?d. [Philadelphia Times.] A lawyer for a husband who is being sued for divorce had a visit yesterday from the client. The client is madly in love with his wife and believes that she wishes to be rid of hiqronly to be free to marry another. "I oant live without her,"-he said to hslegaladviaer, "and I am sure ihai away down in her heart she has a little feeling for me. I am going to test" her," Be palled out a pistol and said:-"I am going to ner witn tms -anatiay-Here, ghoot me down; I don't care to live any mare." "Yoa had better not," aaid the cautions legal man; "she might pall the trigger." "I don't care for that," replied the heart-broken husband. "I don't care for that; I have filled the weapon with blank cartridges." ' - ' A Special Vessel f?r Stanley. [Exchange.] A vessel of special and ingenious design is being prepared" for Stanley's nse a r_r r* -,;it iw ? m ib MUX iro uj a stern paddle-wheel, and the hull will -will be arranged in such a manner that it can be readily-subdivided into a number of sections, each being floatable and provided with fittings for receiving four large wheels. These wheels can be attached; to each section while afloat, so that ft can be drawn oat of the water for transport overland without difficulty. Eaih of the subdivision of the hull. forms, when fitted with the wheels, complete wagon of itself, capable of carrying, the machinery of the steamer, merchandise, stores, etc. - It is to be completed by the end of-this year, and will be tested afloat under steam on the Tham<?? . In Greenville, as you are aware, Tine late President Andrew Jackson lived, as tailor, alderman, legislator and president; and here he is buried. The shop in which he labored as tailor now stands in the eastern part of the town. Just over the entrance to the shop, which is a small frame building, and in which a colored .family is now living, is a pine board, upon which is written, in letters now almost erased by rain and storm, the following: "A. Johnson, Tailor." A little out from the western bpfdQr of the town stands the monumept-of mar* U" *r???Vo fVio TMftiur nlaea of VJLD w aivu umi wn 4 ? "Andrew Johnson, President ol tin United States."* GOOD-NIGHT AND GOOD-DAY. | [Effice Hopkina] When Love's white stars had dipt amid Dark hoflerjrsadHesin (be lane; And in the~cfcarmed dark, dose hid. The nightmgkfe poured forth her pain; OT>ATv-,a?mlrirt?^mi?<w>M< liit^ ghnt Tbeir goleJeti fringes "to the lightHeaven's starry world on world o'erhead, Love's world on world within outspread? Her handid hushe shyly pot. And in the porch they, said ''Good-night* ~ ; And when, with meeting steps tbey bruised . The earliest dews beneath their feet, And Lovers' delicious shame confused . Their gaae with consrioosnem too sweet, That hid. in fngruvl indifference, Yet dashed her cheek with rosy day, K "WtfteiftH his thoughts stood up to sin& --Hispmse whomade so sweet a thing; ! ThAn thntM thmnffh^mr faaimr sense. He toadied her hand and saii^%kx)d-dsy." But now .so deep, so windless deep, "Has sank the sea of their content, It hathaxr shore to break its sleep, Or loose it into ravishment; } No siftOT reach of morning gray, i, I No golden edare at iadhur lizht: But hashed their hearts as brooding bird, Tbeiriips by no good wishes stirred; " . For by his side 'tis aft ''Good-day," Ana in hfa arms tis stall "Qood-mght.'g Htfit rtwwt, Ancient and Rodent. {Demoietfs Mdnfiily.l % . .. The first lights that flashed out over the stormy -waves were the beacon fires on a hill/by whose blaze the mariner steerfed clear of therocks that environed him. These were not "inextinguish: able lights," therefore recourse was had I to something better. The Egyptians i built their fire towers and dedicated f them to adivinity. On thiB summit they ( placed ft bronze apparatus in which a I fire was continually burning. Other nations followed the example of lighting tHe mariner's perilous was, and thus light-houses were established all oyer : the world, one of the most ancient and most celebrated being that on the island of Tbaxos, at Alexandria. I The system of lighting has varied at amurem hhkh uuu w uuu?cu? y?nw?? __ There are five varieties of limits?the "revolving," the ''flashing," the -fixed," the "intermittent," and the "doable i lights" placed in one tower. Wood and coal fires were at first used, then candles, and subsequently lamps, with [ metal reflectors. The greatest care has i to be observed to keep the lamps and washed or burnished, and sometimes _ ' stoves are introduced in the room, to "~~v"" , equalize the temperature, and prevent ; a mist garnering on tne glasses. Tte glass of the lamps is sometimes 1 shattered, not by the -waves, but the I sea-birds; dashing' against them, attracted by the light. Sometimes it becomes necessary to protect the lamps -with a network. The %irds, bewildered and ; dazzled by the light, fiy at the glass, dashing themselves with so much force against it that they not only break the panes,, but in jnza themselves in the onslaught. j_ * A 8t?ty of George Peabody. [Pall Mall Gazette. ] The proceedings at the first meeting of the Library association were enlivened by Mr. Henry. .Stevens, the well-known ffobliographer and lover of books," who related with his nsaal~?s humor some literary anecdotes, which, 4s he said; were not' generally to be mat with in irablished books. One of tbese- reistmg to the late Mr. George Peabody is too aransing not to deserve < a "wider circulation. The eminent phil- ... anthropist, anxious "to do something in a literary way" lor his native city, Boston, applied to Mr. Stevens for advioe. "How are books?"1 inquired Mr. Peabody, as if they were stocks and shares. "What can I> get 3,000 # volumes for?" "Well," replied his adviser, "you can get them at a shilling a volume or a pound a volume." ^"Then I will have them at a shilling a vo&Qie," was the answer; and he forth- ' -with commissioned the book savant to procure and have delivered to him at Boston, -well boiiirrl^in good condition, and free of chargfe*<3jQOO volumes for the - same numMfc^of shillings. Thiswasin due ccw3??%aoeom" phshed, and the munificence of theSonor lost nothing by the fact that amistasqn account of the transaction afterwar2h.J found its^way into the newspapers, de- \ ; scribing how the library had been selected and founded at a cost of ?l per volume^ The r?rt? tke Theatre ' [Providence Press.] - Some of the- peculiar people are no-fit again thia 868800. They.include-the man who drops his programme regularly from the balcony totne parquet; the woman who always lays her head on her male companion's A shoulder when "she laughs at-?nything?-->^ fanny .in the play;, the man who tells .. his neighbor about what is cominghe's seen the play before; the woman who annoys the person on the seat back of-her by constancy moving her head from side to side; the man who stands up and very deliberately removes his rvcamtvcA. in " Ktt m/vd; infeTooKri er rva-rf. rti the drama;: the man.with "squeaking ^ boots who comes, in late, walks with a good deal of emphasis down to the front tow of seats; tht man who laughs so loud as to remind me of an earthquake; and last, bet not least, the baby who is sometimes,too small to be seen .out, but always large enough to be heard. Finish ike Woe4she<L ^?[Lime-Bjln Club.] Judge Congo secured the floor to od serve tnai anoiner comet was in sight, and thai some people were predicting thatrit wonld strike the earthHe would like to inquire what the result would be in case of such collision. i fl has ixebter bin wenry clus to a comet," replied the -president, "but from what I have seen an'read an* heard I is prepared to blieve dat de airth kin take car5 of herself. If I war* in jour place I should go right on an' finish dat woodshed an* take my nhoBCflO." v..^ Died Under Cwvleflon. [New York World.] An EngBslf clergyman recently talked his dbg to deaths The animal had killed two hens on a Sunday, but buried tKom insufficiently, which impro* a rm i uence ieu to ma aeiwuuu. xue man graspedthe situation with a firm mind, and instead of soundly drubbing him?ft punishment which charitably inclined people would have advised? took the brute into his study and preached a new sermon?something of a masterpiece, by the way?on "Vicious Propensities.'' There was no one to in. terrade between the hanless canine ? Lis cruel tormentor. TLe discourse occupied in its delivery just seventy^x^/C two minutes. After its conclusion the oraior complacently anticipated the sensation it would produce on his congregation the next Sabbath, and went ' away to another town to transact some necessary business. When he returned he learned that the dog was dead. The simnlfymirwlfid minister was thunder struck at the deadly effect of his boraling reproof; "Bemorse," he said, in* :-v pressively, "has killed my.do(?.n '.