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ip r i . ^^y' ^ . WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDI^ESBAY, MABCH 19, 1884. /_ " r - I . ' ' m. t . ^ rj*3| " 1 j?' ** < Nothing to Lose. philosopher tells me that free from all care Is the man who Is penniless, homeless, and bare, Unbound by the tics of relation or friend No poeftien Co-boid and no-rights to defend; From onr common anxieties being: thui t ' freed, I Haying- nothing to lose, he is happy indeed. Ho may wander at ease through tho busiest ?**" streets. With a smile at the carc-worried crowd thai v he meets. And'in thought on his neighbor's pofcscsatoM M regale, Wk' While no worries perplex him, no trouble! DA assail; I Of all doubts and depression his mind must be clear? ; Having nothing to lose, he has nothing tc fear. . * I have pondered a while on the words of my ' friend. At a loss to perceive where their meaning might tend. For I wondered in troth bow the man could be blest ?.* Who was minus the gifts of which all are ii quest. But at last So my full comprehension'til shown ' -" I That he sneaks not of worldly powessfcri t aiooeu For 'tis so with our hearts, when life's stim mer is past, ? And the ways of the world are conformed tc atlastr Tben secure In tbo wisdom so hsrdly1 ac. - Gibed* f ' 8S ^e ,have nothing _ ?&ut \&A-&Vs^mBatzte ^ftSbbie^ ta^^^^y^c?dsts it ne^^-stirely ^ ^ ?*M,tO>wy\r\^n^7t K?tVff r- ?Wn tarter^' w^t^iiowaeswmfeiBirtislIy. - ' .ooiaioa "B?^g il-wusapoa-fee. d irtaTft itim tmrr n." whciu^mi<ihiag:^.o^ariTt -RpWlfes1 resolved not to^do^ J^nuups^&toed <?4lfe*a?3b& Ibisg^i 133&& S?8S* the a*V withyou^Iie replied, with a glance -- at the butler. r~ , "Tou may leave us Bowles," said I, and he withdrew accordingly, althoi&h ~ ~ Jr am bound to say, very Tin willingly. The thought flashed across mo Bke lightning, "Bowles has something jta fear from this man's disclosure," and ^ the'next words of my visitor confirmed P me in the suspicion. . "I am a member of the detective police forced' said he. "and I came to warn you that there is something wrong In your house." . . **JJothing to do with my plate, 1 -t hope?" said I with considerable anxiety-/ - "Very much to do with it, sir," re r turned he grimly. "There is a tfiiel harbored here and by this time to-morrow you will not have a silver spoon in your possession, unless I find -him ^ V. out* I must see every soul you hive ' ;got under your roof." "A thief!" said I; impossible, ] never have even so much as a strange waiter. That butler has lived with me T for ten years, and my two footmen * even longer. I will answer for titeii ; . honesty. 1 Let me see 'em sir; that's all ] r*.-? want" was the decisive reply. "It is not Bowles?" said I, appeal ' ingly; "don't say it's Bowles; but, although it agitated me beyond measure to think that I should have to trusi a ; " . new bntler with all my plate, I confess ; that I had a horrible idea that it wa* \". Bowles. "I think not,'* said the detectivc quietly. "Let me see the other men.' [ ' 1 turned the gaslight over tiio door j ai Kt* bisrh as it would go, and called them * into the halL ' _. "It is not them," said he. "Whal other men have you in the house?" r"None but my guests," said I; "hen in the room." "Do you know them all very well, t sir? Are none of them mere acquaint ances or neighbors?" | 4Weiy> ifiturned I with ^sito^n " }j; ^^nlmusi ^ihem-r.' . ^ r -uusigw;# yo^n^wK. T^TfaY ixiade oie ipd Sot sil ore?; ios stall 1 -vrasEot going to nm any risk witi ' -sfcj^-shape&^a^e** Sfcjoi 1 Knkey I nc^remembei^lsui: expressf.~ it seemed a very base thing to opei jfjggr^r- the dining Toom and let this felloe L^% V ,, *cratnrizenxy" guests, in hopes to find? K. >5;. jr scoundrel among them. ? ? -- "- '- i>V- n -_?j -r .,i>- rv_ 5T~ - : -feat- "Upon my me, saia 1, -m tectxre,. I can't do it.1' "Very right, sir?very natural," replied he. smiling in his quiet way. "? ^PPr^ would never do, would it? But, lool you, sir; fm a waiter, a hired waiter, r Who is ta know that I have not bus: ness at year side-board. In one minufc I could run my eyes over the whol< bk lot, and spy my man if he's there." I dipnoi like even this arrangement but sending for Bowles I arranged &> * with him the plan of the proceeding and then returned to the oining-roon! After a period of anxiety no measur tig} . -of time could indicate, the suppose waiterTGOk hls departure, f ? "You've got "a new man I see,1 ??'' Jir Twktln MtwlfWJilT- "With a jnuch plate about; I hope you are satis fiedabout'his honesty. " I was exceedingly glad to find ol< Tvrlstla was honest, and had not beei * 'Jg taken by the shirt frill, and walked oi toBw^eet, bat oi coarse I did no ISpr ' "Please sir, yoa Are wanted, again,1 yfeg 'Whispered Bowles as he brought h ?i^not&erboUle 0f claret. l onca mor w -sought tbe inspector _ "The one I am after is not among them, sir, as far as I know," observed ' this official jerking his thnmb in iho direction of the dining-room. "Are you sure there are no other men in | your house besides those I have already seen?" "Yes," said I, "there are no more." "Then 1 must now have a look at the ladies." 1 "The ladies!" cried I, aghast at the i proposal "You don't want to go in the drawinz-room?" i - -.X _ if "It would oe more satisiactory, wui served tho detective, coolly. "My information is very reliable. But at all ' events, who is there?" r "Well," said I, "my wife is there for one; jovl have no information against r her, l suppose?" I ne nocaea sausiucuoa so iar. "Then there's the honorable Mrs. 1 Matcham and her daughter." t "Safe," rejoined the detective, checking them off on his lingers. 1 "Mrs. Twistle, of Regalia Square, - and Lady Bobbington." "I suppose they're all right," re-, marked my inquisitor, doubtfully. . "Are you sure there are no more?" "There's my mother-in-law, and she ' is in her own room, and exceedingly . uri well" "Very good," observed the detective, inconsequentially. "There is & plant somewhere in this house, how ever; you may take yoar oath of that, an<i in the last ulace YOU would ever look for it; so now I mast see the maids." I was foil of suspicions that die detective himself was a "plant1' that 1 would soon blossom into a burglar; 1 but my overtaxed mind refused to bear this burden. If it was so, I would trust to his clemency, to leave me a silver fork or two to carry on the business of life. If this man turned out to be anything less than what he described himself to be, all authority henceforth would lose its effects with me. He had L r 4. ' CO repeat, "so now x musi* a do uis maids," in his undeniable manner, before I could collect myself sufficiently to lead the way to the kitchen. To say 1 - ihe cook and the kitchen-maid stared - at the phenomena of our presence, is ' to underrate their power of vision. "Now, J dare say you have no eharnrrvman ?iht tamnnmrr occiefjqnt; ' my good lady, even on any occasion like the present," observed my com1 panion urbanely; "but you and this young woman do all the work yourselves." That's true, sir; we don't mind hard work now and then," returned the cook, tossing her head; "and besides I don't like strangers in my kitchen*" added she with meaning, "es" peciallv when Tm busy, and would rather have their room tnan their company." The detective's tongue was suencea oy my aomesuc neeiue-guu, 1 and be retired much discomfited I | led the way to the nursery, he walked admiringly from cot to col 1 "Chanaing children," observed he, with a familiar nod (1 thought)-toward the under nurse. /'It's neither of them," he added in a low whisper "You're got a thousand or two 1 sap1 pose?" 1 The housemaids were inspected, and pronounced to be free from suspicion. "But I cannot have seen everybody,1 * he said decisively. "Yes," said .X "everybody except 1 Mrs. Maqueecby." 1 ^FViend of the family?" inquired the detective, with a dissipated air. "Well," said I, "I might almost say so. She came to us not only with the best of written characters, ant my wixe ' had an interview with her late mistress, > a Mrs. Ogilvie, who pronounced her a , perfect treasure; and we ourselves - have found her all that could be wished." "I should See to see the perfect ? treasure," quoth the detective, smiling grimly; "we often find them to be the ' very people we want." "Nay," said I, "but in this case your 1 suspicions are quite groundless; Mrs. 1 Maqueechy is a superior person, and takes an interest in us, which you selfln/l in a r1/vmoclir? BTPflnt. > UViU UUU AAA ?* > years of service. Besides, she is my > mother-in-law's sick nurse, and most t likely they have already made their ' arrangements for the night It would be a pity "to disturb them." [ "I must see Mrs. Maqueechy," re turned my companion gravely. "She ' seems ^altogether too charming to be ? missed." t "You detectives are clever fellows,'' t replied I with irritation; "but you often i spend your time very fruitlessly. It is t a pity that a man can't be determined, and yet avoid being obstinate. How> ever, since you have gone so far, you ' shall go through with the business.1" > With that I knocked at the door, i and, admitted to the sick-room, informed briefly of what was taking place; t while the invaluable Maqueechy retired with her usual delicacy to the dressing > room. Perhaps I spoke a little too loud?for that Mrs. Maqueechy could . stoop to eavesdroping, it is hard to be- | I lieve?bat at all events that intelligent woman mast have possessed herself of the substance of what I related, for when I opened the door to admit the officer, I found her already outside, * and in his custody. She had endeavor* ed to escape through the second door " of the dressing-room?"bolted like s rabbit," said the detective?but had I ma into the very danger she would Save avoided, and there she was with 1 a couple of handcuffs over her neat p mittens. "We know one another very well, I me and Mrs. Maqueechy," observed * the detective grimly, "I was told I > ahnnld find an old friend in this house. * although I had no idea who it would be until you mentioned Mrs. Ogilvie. 1 She is very charitable, she is, in get [ting.her fellow creatures, situations in 1 respectable families where there hapr pens to be a good deal of plate. It was k this verr night that this good lady here had engaged to open your front * door to her nttsband and a friend of ' is who keeps a light cart in the mews * yonder. Being a sick nurse, yon see, nobody would be surprised at her being : about the house at all hours. Wasn't * that your neat little game, Mrs. Ma * iqueechy?" * *'Weil, I suppose- it's a nine-year J touchH" observed that lady with philosophic eoolnoss. . ?_ _ "Well, fm afraid it is* ma'am; since L ^atr^ther iittte imsiaess fe-K felton ' IBrothors'siill remains unsettled. Gooi^ S^^S5- yott see i?rs* M. aga*3 ^^^^^5an_d the ^zneaatiino you r fcti^sie&^j&rse; for josr jBother-in^SSS?&&: - _ 1 y-. i -,s.O"* .?.? .. . ' t Lt?rvyfyr?ay- : Jft. . pptwgm wo: nnwwi, k- V . Coffee and Tea. Perhaps the most brilliant address which has jet been delivered at the Parks Museum since the evening lectures have been inaugurated was that given by Dr. G. V. Poore on quite recently. Sir. Henry Thompson occupied the chair, and among the audience were to be seen Dr. Russell Reynolds, Mr. Berkeley Hill, Professor Cornfield and other distinguished medical men. The subject chosen by the lecturer was "Coffee and Tea." After stating his belief that stimulants, both alcoholic and alkaloidaL had their uses, and that we ot?ght to be very sure of our ground before we attempt to override appetite by dogma?as the Mohammedans had done?Dr. Poore proceeded to contrast "Coffee with Tea." The cup of coffee, provided it were genuine, contained more alkaloid stimulantthan the cup of tea, and, owing'to the absence of tannin,, the; action of coffee was more rapid than tea. The specific gravity of a cup of tea, was about 1.008; that of strong coffee 1.009, and a ca/eaiir-lait, sweetened, 1.035. Tea was more of a tmre beverage than joffee. and hence it was impossible to use it as a mere luxury, for it required scarcely any digestive effort, and did not "cloy" the palate.' The danger of excessive tea drinking Jay mainly in the large amount of astringent, matter: This was a most potent cause of dys- * pepsia among women of the seamstress class, who frequently consumed tea which had been boiled When the system stood in need of a stimulant, there was nothing equal to & cup .of; strong coffee; and if it were desired to win a drunkard from his spirits, a real stimulant must be supplied, and not the sickly, bitter, unwholesome stuff which was called "coffee" in this coun*: ..j?-?1_~ j try. in oruer uj muKe gwu uuuee we berry must be fresh-roasted and ground. There was no difficulty whatever in roasting coffee, and this ought to be part of the daily routine of every well-regulated household. It was important to use enough coffee; one and a half to two ounces to a pint of water made a first-rate beverage. Elaborate coffee-machines for grinding were by no means necessary. If the coffee required for breakfast were put into a common earthenware jug over night and cold water poured upon it, it might be heated to the boiling point in the morning by being allowed to stand in a sauce-pan of water over the fire. Violent ebullition was thus avoided, and the aroma was not thus removed. Chicory and other allied bodies are in no way substitutes for coffee, for they possess no stimulant properties. Out of ninety samples of ground coffee purchased in London shops only five were said to be genuine.?Lancet .. . AUV1W W OVICjfMVAM Nobody cares for the swearing of an hab;cnal swearer.- His volleys of profanity have no terror in them. They mean nothing. It is the man who sever awears.who scares. yon oat of your boots if cnccia a lifetime he does swear. So far as we can learn Washington only swore once during the eight years of the revolutionary war. Bat that one time counted. It tnrnea back the tide of retreat, changed a ronte into a vie-; torv, and made things' hum.- But the fellow who swears on-all occasions, and swears hot and cold with the same month, the intellectual panper who ekes oat his barren supply of ideas; with an abundant crop of profanity, whose conversation is a lon<* chain of mill privileges, and who talks as a beaver works; Ms swearing -is weak, tiresome, dismasting. So, if yoa want to swear with any effect, my boy, be very seldom about it Be exclusive in your, profanity. If you can't get along without it bring it oat occasionally lie the' rare old family diamonds,; don't keep '-in. j?iru.? ic running six or eigns uuu? ? uaj ii&a the.kitchen hydrant. And?you won't be offended, my son ?but if you will observe closely you will perceive that young men, boys, fledglings of about your age, swear more than men?more frequently,more awkwardly,with less point and direction. A man becomes ashamed of it It belongs to the cigarette and matinee period of life, my boy. It is & habit that flourishes in the bread-and-butter days, along somewhere between the high-school and college, and while the Mha rihhon on tha-dinloniA is bright. It belongs to what Fuck, so aptly calls the "nasalted generation;" the fresh young men. So put it away and put on manly airs. \ I know some good men, some of the = ; best in the world, who will confound it" i and even dog-gone it, and even in New England a deacon has been known under a terrible strain to *'condemn." . "Bnt as & mlp_ mv son. don't do it.' Do^t swear. It isn't an evidence of smartness or worldly wisdom. Any fool can swear. And a good many fools do it I, my son? An, if yon could only gather up the -useless, uncalled" forv ineffective swears 1 have dropped' alongtbep$thi^ay of my-life, I know ' I would remove, stumbling-blocks from many inexperienced feet; and my heart' would be lighter by a ton than it is* to-day. But if you.are goin<* to be &fool just because other men nave been* *, nay son* jvhat a hopeless fool, you will ' be.?cB.- JT BurdeSte. ' - - ? -T-no?- Wh?t TTa Wnntftd. 4Say, mister,, ain't you the orator man what made a speech to us yister-.. day?" asked a country bumpkin of a Newman politician a.few days ago. "I have that honor," was the reply! "D'ye remember what ye said?" "Well, no?yes, I remember the substance of iny remarks. But why doyou ask?" . "Why, you safd that you made the welkin ring, aud Fve tried all over town to get one big enough fur Mariar's finger, and there ain't any big enough, ana I thought as how I would, come to yer shop and git ye to make her one of them thar welkin rin^s. She's a stunner, and it'll take' lots of welkin to make one big enough fur her."?New ? 7?# i Titan J.7U*cjKrr?Miin~ Babies. Speaking of babies brings to mind a lovely Christmas card I bare seen-r-a baby s. photograph;., the little dimpled face exquisitely tinted, surrounded by. a wreath of berried holly and mistletoe^ and underneath the words, "We send you the^only flower Jack Frost has left us." Jtiow a woman a neart goes out. to a baby! The most frivolous young girl will stop, in the; street to kiss a pretty baby's face under a blue or scait let hood; and nothing pleases a young auntie or an elder sister so well as to lavish embroidery on_a tiny, cashmere cloak or Mother Hubbard, dress. Even bachelors are not so hardened as is supposed towards: the "well spring'of joy. Only the baby*s cry opsets them. It strikes consternation to the manly heart No matter how valiant, be becomes helpless as a sheep whenever the baby he has rashly taken begins to ; show that it possesses lungs.' The Gay Head Indians. The Gay Head Indians- inhabit the I recently incorporated town of Gay * x Head (brought into notice by the wreck + of the Columbns), on the westerly end _ - * *-*- - -i ( * 01 IXH3 vounLy 01 xsu&es, niuw w braces the whole of the island of Mar- -* tha's Vineyard. This Indian town has t an area of about 2.400 acres, which is divided into 1 }?-< peninsulas, N&sha- ? quitsa, SquijM. -i, and Gay Head. ? This town is n .severed from the ? rest of the island by Menemsha pond. f j" At. the present time there are about 200 s ! Indians at Gay Head, and unlike many other remnants of Indian tribes in the * Commonwealth, they have for a few ' years past been gradually increasing in r numbers. There are about fifty famil- * ies, and the people here have been a marked through a series of years for v seeking more profitable sources of income tnan their isolated situation natu- i rally afforded, and some of 'them have y achieved some distinction as efficient ^ masters of vessels. iThe morals, education and marked indications of civilized advancement among- them are so striking that they, attract attention v among those who chance -to visit their j sequestered island home. if there is a spot in all Hew England | where a recluse might wish to find per- ^ petual repose, free from the troubles j and anxieties of life, Gay Head Is the placc, and yet the Gray Headers are ? quite jealous of the influence and ap- Q proaches of foreigners, having had a Q food deal of trouble with those who c ave married some xd their daughters u &nd settled among them. * j Formerly any member of this tribe "at x Gay Head could take up, fence in and improve as much of the land as he ? pleased, and when inclosed it became _ his own. It might very naturally be j| inferred that such a state of things v would engender many disputes -and ^ quarrels, but such was not the case. ^ Such a state of things was a kind- of ^ "imperium in imperio," not conducted ^ by any code of laws except bone and ^ muscle of those taking up the land./ * The Gay Head Indians are a mixture of ^ the red, white and black races, and - ? * ? * meru is, ww, DUUIC v LIUUUMIU UIWU ^ among them, and also Portuguese and. n Dntch; for listen, here are some of the ^ names among them, to-wit: John Ran- n dolph, Madison, Corsa, Sylvia and ^ Vanderhoop. Through the intermarrying and the coming in of foreigners it* ^ has almost pushed out the purely In- _ dian names. They are, on the wholo, a a moral, a frugal, industrious and tern- & perate people, and are quite equal in ^ these respects to white people, with. ^ similar surroundings.?Boston Post. ^ m 1 * ; a Not Born, to be Hanged. u It is probable that John Boyle was ^ born to be hanged, but, like Greenwood ? and Phipp . he declined to be present ^ at the hanging. His crime was the' 61 shooting of an officer of General Wis- jjj tar's command, placed over him during ^ the late civil war. When General tar was approaching Richmond in the"TV early part of 1864 he had a pian laid to capture the rebel capita}, set free the prisoners in Libby Prison; seize-Jeff Da-j g vis, and burn the bridge over the James hi Pnra*- ' nlsn'ms.tnnilorf Htr OnmA U U1T04*,/- AU?V m*j WflMW U one.giving' information to the enemy. n ffow: the rebels-learned of Wis tar's ex- fc pedition was never known with cer- b tainty, bat & prisoner taken shortly af- f< terward declared that a man giving his. ti name as John Boyle had been captor- 0 cd, nearly dead from exhaustion and h exposure, who had given them intelH- ri gence of Wistar's plans. John Boyle ^ recently wrote his New York relatives b that he was employed in the Crested ?< Butte mine, where the recent explosion s< occurred, and the belief is that Boyle jj is one of the victims. The exposure of % Wistar's plans thwarted one of the ^ most brilliant and important, move- $ mcnts of the war.?Detroit Free Press, fc First sight of the Caspian Sea. tl One of the most singular mental fects I noticed on myself was that produced whenever I walked on the * quay, and saw the large fleet' rocking . in the port. Shelley's Alastor had . from early youth haunted toy memory, and given me the impression that the Csspiairwas' a weird, half-ideal sea, F olinMo tonontoH hr thn nKnsta rA I 5r nil'U OUV1VL7 wuuuwvvi WJ ?, deadempires;; witha eoaat which was ^ crar ??fli tho^iazei'of^wbetTial twl- ?! Bgh^^w^f^sg&pwffissafe^fcuch ? & part it islta mB^?stern shore, but J at Balm tha'Ca^istt^eonveys no such ? Id'e^^Sqaare-rfeged-jships ride at an- " 7Aor_T^scot'esj^^ port js_busy with whefe?&?4?& -sail- bo?te v b?1ing hither" ? fcD3*,*bBther,'an& ^arpwlieavBy-KpaiTed . steamcfrs^liT? hjmdrfcdlfc one thousand terns are constantly entering and v leaving, the-docks; The only pecoliaritjr^&tdistingxiishes'theso -sbipj from' , those trf other seas-as-' /the^Tfe; ifliich ** camed ine hack tpnay ^^IxkkL Two- ?j top-sail schooners -w=fth -*ery * rakish ,, Shed laStogeSher iike vessels- common ? elsewhere thMy^fiVe years ago, but not Soriger^mnse except on the Caspian. BngAn^aes, with a Srmall topsail on the mainmast. sloops '^ith a square ^6be ^ ii*'l li T li aefc?riiaBfejiwg' iashions] .& eBf ta v^a^^as-nxy r^Kaa^is^with" K &py other ?<*a; wWcfe- ^ ztf ifteij ^resh ^ nor -saJt, aid also cmbys 'freak of ?> fyiag oyer owe handretf -Seet below the u level 6f thib oc ea^^M^thcUiain. . tl ' A Hartford Boy's Bead Sare Bete. ^ ?? .a '- For several monifcs ^Messenger, the fc dr^^igty^ii^ t\ It. is'a-good match, but he'failed to see' a &f % ce^ttw^wshby aeefle^so many ft . Vinirfn^.# Mt^AVlf Wv?>i " 5o an- at (tu< I M**J ? V. ? - ? ? ?^ pri-ciate-the ^>oiDk it must be noted that b the box has twolriciaohsides, on which h alonethe match wHl ignite. The other fc day the clerk asked the boy what use f( ;he made of the matches and clicked g\ thofollowing: "Well? soar, f buys them ti "matches ana I ^taYes that thing off b (pointing to the igniting strip) and a pins it on my clothes. Then I bets the -c< boys they can't light the matches ex- ' cept on the box, an' I wins. Then I bets them I can, and I reaehes down .? where that is pinned and 1 strikes it on k nay clothes and lighfe4t?" The-urchin o! stated that his revenue from this little 4< scheme was about 30 cents, a day.? T Hartford Herald. tc " 1 si General Pleasanton, the old cavalry v< leader, is a familiar h^ure at Washing- b< ton. He istall/slender, and straight. & as an arrow. He is called one of tht? A best story tellers at the capitoL Jri A veteran of eighty-one years was A recently seen dancing a double shuffle (X at Lubec, Me. A town treasurer in v< Lincoln county is eighty-two years old, tc has held office fourteen years, and has s< cut and'hsufetf ten'cfioroB of wood this' winter, besides doing his chores. dtf Wort: for Coantry Otrts. An oxchrjge, the name of which ;annot at this moment be recafiedto. 11 emery, lately urged girls living in he country to stay at or nearhom'e, vhere they and their special fitness far ;ome lino of work are well known, and o not allow any hopes of a bright fuure to lead them to go to the city to eek employment t The wisdom of this dyice will not for an instant be doubt* id by any acquainted with the truth iDoat me in tne cmes. in umcago, or Gamble, while there is a vast mount of work to &o, andthe wsgfcg >aid~to some for doing work which & -oung woman in t&e country believes he-can doaswelliwanybody seem to forgotten faces' which -would in the country, ron Its cheap food and-light expenses, >e an ample income will in the city be larely enough to pay absolutely necesary expenses. Competition among wage-workers in ay large city Is very keen,. and inust ontinue to be so as long as people can e induced, by the vague hope of sudenly becoming rich, to desert the rata and healthful life of' the county DT the town. Even in Chicago, where omkadtic servants have, usaaliy b6en in1 emand, there are more applicants brii tJiura fti thfl tii9 Is seldom the ease. Faijners1 wives an seldom secure help in the house, xceptr in those rare eases when she an coaxthe daughter of some neigior lo demean herself-Sofar as to help >r ja few days as a personal favor, tat it is not likely that cue American irl in a hundred, who, starts for the Itjr to earn her living las a thought of ' oing into a family as a domestic. Tsey- cannot think of becoming a serantr in a household where they would e fire of good sale Shelter, of surplus lOame* and of some degree of atten? on if sickness should come upon ttett; but they are- willing enough to z?$ge for the-owner *ofsome office, or to?j$or shop where the wages will no io?:thjmpay for food and lodging, here-are in this, as in most Targe itittjthdusandsiofgJrls whose psrentet vifig ifa the cifcy, - afce. giad-to hive lemwork, even U: they can - do ,no Lor&i&an pay. for the clothed they 'ea^rr No' doirbt - there are sow ] at r orifete this city many young women ho-%>end for cJothing and adornment fttSioy.earn. Their parent? give them home,and wilLuatu-somo man: sees bou$ the girl something wkich tnak6s Lot-think be would like to pay her oardt and she thinkB she would be tad to exchange her old employer and stated sum per week fora new master ad whatever money she can coax or : r?v? htm intn civinty her. Ajrainat xe competition of girls who bye at ame aria can have the nse of til their linings what hope is there for the ranger who mustpay for food, lodgigr and every other expenses ?? %tcoiTnlmne. ^ ' { Msv creSrge Swift's Bear Story. Mr. <ieorge Swift, a ranchman in the rand Valley, told a story .this mornig which Bhows how unenviable is the . fe of the stock-raiser in that wilderess. A few days ago -Mr. Swift ' let is 3 year old daughter ride upon his orse, and after she had ridden about aty rodslrom home he lifted her oft \ ie animal and toid her to run home, n returning home about an hour later a found that the little one had sot mched home, and, -gom* to the plaice here he had seen her last, he- found ear tracks in the sand. A posse was >rmed. and all night was spent in' ; arching for the lost child. In the torning, as the searchers were passing'; ? nA/M?o fWo wmAwlu'iftili OTVOiUpjr OL/VK TT vuv VA w> as thick, they heard her voice. They *Hed to thetjiri-to come -out of the ashes, but she replied that the hear craM not let her. Then the men crept .trough the brush and when near the x>t heard a splash in the water, which! le child said was the hear. They rand her standing'on a log, extending : Ekif way across the swampy and it , jemed as though the bear had- under- ?' iken to cross the swamp on the log, ad, being pursued, left the child -and. ot away as rapidly as - possible. She : ad received some scratches about the ice, arms and legs, and her clothes ere almost torn from her body, bat le bear had not bitten her to hurt er, only the marks of his teeth being rand on her back, where he-had taken old;of her clothes to carry her. The tiild told her rescuers that the -bear. ad put her down occasionally 10 rest, ad wp^ld put bis nose up to ber.iace, hereupon she would ' slip him and B would han? liis heJwi bj her de andpurraud rub against her-like est. Hot father asked ber if she had sen eoid during the night, and she rid him that the old boar lay beside er and put his "arms" around her ad kept her warm. "I believe the lite e one's stony," concluded Mr. 5wift, for there was evidence to prove its *uth, and I never knew her-to utter a ilsehood. Stranger than fiction* is it ot?r~~Leadville (CoL) Xthronicie. Hunting the Ostrich. In their-native desert the ostrich is' anted scientifically. : Certain - facts;; re known, one being' that the birds'' ill always tun in a semicircle, first ley run with the wind,,that they may: 3e their wings to help them. After! ley get what the sailors call "a bead' lad they go around the other way. hey must De rua down. irae cor?? mnot ''wind" them. The great troule is to keep them in sight They will in forty miles at a stretch. If they: rer get a breathing spell they will get cray. The hunter starts out with ft esh horse. A Bushman boy rides anther and leads one. As soon as it is jen which way the bird will run, the oy takes his cue and drives to where e thinks the hunter will need the esh horse. -One of the most singular matures is the location of the ostrich's xtmach. He<?rries it^n his back beveen his shoulders, and the food can e seen winding around inside of. his eck to get at this out-of-the-way re-'1 jptacle. The public scuoois oi lexas wiu soon' are a magnificent endowment Fifty >agues of land were donated to each -; f the two state universities, and 3S,X),000 acres for the public schools, hese lands are being sold it auction the highest bidder, under certain relictions, and $4;500,000 is now inested in United States bonds and other icurities, the interest upon which is annally applied to sustain the schools, bout 25, (XX),000 acrter'of school' lands jnrain unsold, and are rapidly in*aasing in value. The State will have pd^manent^chool fund of from |75,-' X),000 to $100,000,000, and the unisrsities will have from '$$000,000'1 > $$,000,000: esfch when the fends are; >ld. i i ' ' " ' i Canada's Indian- population: ir*estl-'' latpd at 131*000. I / I i Reluctance to Make Wills. It is curious the antipathy Which some JMOnge, however regular and methodical they may be in other matters. have to making their wills. The more money* they have to leave, the more averse they seem to be to do that which ought to be a matter of duty; but no, they put it off from day' to day until the last dread moment comes, and then'Gfteh it is too late. A man in health and strength Seldom or ever thinks ot death* . bat. always as ii he had years of life before himl So he may,' -out he may be shot down by a drunken loafer or ran over by a wagon in cross ing the. street If he has msd& ma will he is?so.fflxas worldly affairs are concerned, prepared to bat.? :he has not, 'ittfaoy-' snce^ ihay he hot leave behind him?. Jim -Fist, with all his millions to leave, never made hi& wilL until he lay bleeding fo death on a sofa in the Grand ho*. tcF, New York, and it-was then written on. a half-sheet of note paper. The writer once had occasion to go to'doctors' commons, to look at. a~ wilL It was easQy found, as he jbiew . the year and the aay brthe death, btt what surprised him was that the will'was dated' only the day before the man's death. This, was curious from the fact that the testator had/been a lawyer, arid one of the most exact and punctilious in his profession?<one who had probably drawn up hundreds of wills for.clients, and had advised many hesitating ones to make thefr wills. And yet although he had great wealth to dispose of, tor teaxs he had-pfflt off doing that which he had-adrisedothersnotto delay. in until' the day before "his death. To make matte rsworse, he had drawn the ittH 'httosdlf, and, although a man of great experience, he h&d drawn it so ambisruouSlv that it-save rise to lonsr and costly litigation. Another case of "putting off" was that of a man whose1 only clald,.a daughter, had married t against his washes." He hid'driven her from heme and resolved to leave all his wealth to a distant relative. He, however, delayed making' his will, as he' was hale and hearty. - One day ' he had ). a stfoke'of paralysis, and at once sent < for -his. lawyer, to draw but > Ms wilL ' Thia was done, but before he could sign it he Had a second stroke.and although ' his mind was active his" hand refused to hold the pen, and he died with the will rihsignetL?Gincfanali^ Enquirer: \ .j : ~ Fire Centsftltej. The cumulative power of inoney is a 1 fact very generally known, butnotgen- 1 eraDy appreciated There are few men ' living at the age of 75, hanging on to . existence by some slender enjoyment, 1 or pensioners, it may be, on the bounty 1 of kindred or friends, but might, by exexcising the smallest particle of thrift, 1 rigidly adhered to in the past, have set 1 aside a respectable sum which would ' materially neip mem 10 maintain tneir independence in their old age. Let us \ take the small and insignificant sum of J g-cemsr'WTn&Ii wedaJTfitev tn-hAva trnr i boots backed, to ride in a car the dis-tanCoWe are ablest? walk* .or to pro- 1 core a had cigar we are better without, ' and see what its value is in the course . oi years. We will suppose a boy of 15; 1 by blacking his own boots, or 'saving ' his car-fare, or going without his cher- ^ ished cigarette, puts by 5 cents a day; J in one year he saves $18,85. which be- x. ing bsnkedbears interest at the rate of j 5 per cent, per annum, compounded ! bi-yearly. On this basis, when our 1 thnfty youth reaches the a^e of 65, i having set his 5 cents per day relig- J iously aside during fifty years, the re- ( suit is surprising. He has eecumulat- 1 ed no less a sum than $8,898.17. A ] scrutiny of the progress of this result is Interesting. At the age of 80 our hero had |495; at 40, $877; at 50, $1,667; at 60, $2,962. After fifteen years sav- c ing his annual interest more than 1 equals his original principal^ in twenty- & five years it is more than double; in. i thirty-five years it is four times as ' pinch; in forty-five years ft is eight c times as much, and the last year's in- * terest is $86, or ten and a hat? times as 1 much as the annual amount he puts by. * oAf+iol rtotA omnnnf aovn/? in fiftxf. f AUG WOUU U4iAVUUV UM T V>4 MA MAWJ C years is $912.50, the difference between * that and the grand total of $8,896.17? f viz., $2,980.67. Is accumulated Interest, i What a xna^uiiicent premium for the t minimum of. thrift that can be well rep resented In figures.?Brooklyn Eagle. ^ Mr. Wattcrson on Egjpiog. Some cranky Virginian, a century or < two ago, betook himself to the prepa- 1 ration of a new beverage, but somehow i he beeame mixed in his calculations as \ he proceeded, and produced a. soup.? t He pronounced it good, and called it i eggneg. We elassify e^gnog among s the soups advisedly, lor it hath a due < consistency, a rich amount of animal j nutrition, and withal the process of t eooking is involved, for, as, the raw li- i quo? of concoction, whether whisky, c brand*. or rum, is poured into tie coldl* conglomerate of beaten eggs, It immediately eooks them. Nodntik is richer or more generous than this soup in respect to its immediate effect on the palate, -and none is more insidious and tricky when it gets in its work npon the interior viscera and gizzard. A iot internecine lend promptly arises between - the several incompatible ingredients,and they proceed to dissolve partnership, each element?the wMsky, the eggs, the scgsr, andthemdlk?setling ttp; business on its own account.? The result is confusion and chaos. The liver and the lights also -become involved in the demoralization in the . ??-*-??-i- --J ?j-i*;?' H?Igflogruiwu, JU1U uiumavsij wro i/iwu and the nerve centers. The patient, in \ fact, falls into a stage in which he , wotiid be liable to be called drunk or dmarily, thought in fact; he is merely the victim of overfeeding on a most ( treacherous soap. There have been t more useful inventions than this soup, j but-we would- not censure the inventor, j -r-Lotfisville Cotvrier-Joumal. . air ?~ j He Declined tWe Offer. t , A abort time since a certain aspirant ; | for journalistic honors who resides in Ottawa, wrote to the. proprietors of a j leading Chicago; daily offering, his ser- : vices -as editor in -chief for #2,000 per : annum. - A lew days later he-received A reply.^and was -jfcreatly delighted to findthat the opening tinesof the letter accepted-his offer; but he was not, how' ? > - ^ * - J-> J AL ever, so aeiigruea wncn ite reaa um remainder of the letter, and found that ' the editor-would be required not only to write editorials 3nd exercise a gen- i eral supervision over the paper; but alBOj -when occasion mi^ht require it, tofu&H. the dctiesoi hi^xt editor, city editor, reporter, - foreman, business manager, mail elerk, ^pressman and J devil; and that at a× he-mirht i be required to work day and night lor h several days at a-stretch. When the < freahyoung maa^bundrOat whatrwould .1 be reqriiredof him he concluded to giv0 np the fiieaof editing.a-Chicago tta$jy ;fcr|$000aryear.~<Mava (OjtL} A Century Ago. Colonel T: W. Hi Vinson thus writes ia. Harper's Magazine: "Mrs. Washington's receptions were reproached as inductory to the pageantry of courts,' "but it was very modest pageantry. Nothing could have been less festive or more harmless thaD the hospitality of the Presidential abode. An English manufacturer who was invited there to breakfast reports a meal of admirable simplicity?tea, coffee, sliced tongue, dry toast and butter?'but no broiled fish, as is the general custom,' he adds. At-her evening receptions Mrs. Washington offered iier guest tea and coffee with ^ plum-cake; at 9 she warned Jier visitors that .the I General kept early hours, and after this remark the guests hadno choice but to do the same. "At t.hpjip. entertainments of hers the President was but a guest?without his sword? and found it necessary also to retreat in good order at the word of command. His own receptions were for invited guests only, and took place every other week between 8 and 4 p.m. The President stood before the fireplace in full black velvet, with his hair powdered and gathered into a bag; he wore yellow gloves and silver busies, with a steel-hilted sword in a white leather scabbard; he held in his hand a cocked hat with a feather. This is the description given by William Sullivan in his 'Familiar Letters on Public Characters.^ "If it was the object of Washington to make these occasions stiffer than the drawing-rooms of any crowned poten-. tate, he succeeded. Names werer announced, gentlemen were presented, the President bowed but never shook hands; at 8:13 the doors were closed and .he visitors formed a circle; the President made the circuit, addressing a few words to each; they then bowed and retired. It is hard .to imagine that these mild entertainments could iiave been severely censured as' extravagant or monarchical; one can better comprehend how the censure could be applied to the street equipage of the .new President, the cream-colored carriage painted in medallions, and the - -livenes of white turned up 1 with green. Yet these were, perhaps, i more readily recognized as essential to : the dignity of his station. It was with the 'desire of promoting this dignity ' that fiie senators of the new nation 1 WBre anxious to give the President an j official title. The plan was said to ] have originated with John Adams, nrho believed, 'splendor and majesty.' to > be important in a republic; and there ; Bras a joint committee of congress to 1 consider the matter. ( "This committee reported against it, but the dissatisfied senate still favored a title, as it well might, at a time when the senators themselves were habit- 1 aally called 'Most Honorable.' They j proposed to call the Chief Magistrate 'His Highness, the President of .the Dili ted States of America, and Protect- J jr of their Liberties.' The House. ob- 1 jected; the country at large was divid- ' sa;-"Uniex WSUPb MtgeAu J 'His Serene Highness;.' somebody else suggested 'The President General,' and j governor Sullivan thought that 'His i Patriotic Majesty' would not be inapr < propriate, since he represented the l majesty of the people; Washington limself, it is said, favored 'His High j Mightiness,' which was the phrase ] Ised by the Stadtholder of Holland. < [t was the common sense of the nation ] hot 'cuttvnfr. tkMA AYtrnvnoran/ioa t was one of the. many occasions in American history when the truth of Talleyrand's saying has been vindicated that everybody knows more inybody." ji the Midst of Ldfe He was in Business. ? On Washington street, Boston, the >ther afternoon, the mass of snow from ; he roof of a high building began to iHde, and fell in a white and smotherng cascade upon the crowded sideralk. One unfortunate man was aught by it and completely buried !rom sight Immediately the people eho had avoided a share in his misfortme rushed to his assistance. One man nxraed into the snow and caught him by he leg; another got a purchase on his irm, and others gripping him by clothng - and body, in due time he was j UVUgUV 4AJ rno AAV ^r;wvur- j id. a sorrowful spectacle, hovrever. > Sis hat looked like a half-inflated consertina, his coat was torn, and his colar hung only by the button on the , jack of his shirt, and whereverhe disdosed a lodging place for the snow in lis raiment or person, there the chillng element had established -itself. He 1 ras apparently lifeless, also, and a 1 ,Treat crowd collected, with every man- ! testation of sympathy. The stranger 1 toon revived, he sighed and opened nis ] >yes? the flush of Bfe returned to his * ishen cheek. He saw the concourse ibout him and smiled, opened his nonth to speak, and as Ihe people * crowded around to hear him, said: S 4Ah?h! that was a narrow escape for j ne. The perils of winter, even in this 4 emperate zone, are indeed fearful j Jut now much more terrible are they I n the frozen regions of the pole. I i lave here"?ana he opened a sachel 1 rhich had survived the shock?"the ] lew book describing the sufferings and Leath of the De Long party, for which , l am taking subscriptions and which I j thonld be uleased to sell you at"?but 1 lere somebody yelled that another j mow-3lidc was coming, and the crowd 3 ranished like smoke. * ( An observant Bostonian, just return- < sd from a tour of the West, says: 1 '?The most wonderful thing in the 1 West is the rapidity with which the small towns are building water-works. 1 JTou can hardly find a town of 3,000 to ' 10,000 inhabitants without completed j >r protected water-works. The usual < jystem is a central reservoir, into which t the water is pumped and from which it i is fed by pressure. Such a system costs < from $40,000 to $80,000. "The towns 1 isually issue 6 per cent, bonds. This -i ?tails annual interest of $2,500 to \ |5,000. The water rents more than pay this, besides expenses, and provide j something for the sinking fund Enough , Is saved in insurance alone to balance j ie interest, while the increased health j md convenience is beyond compute- i tion." j Correcting a Poet. An amateur poet who is wasting his * sweetness on the desert air of Min- l aesota sends to a paper a poem begin- j ling: j "fmet her atoor trystiiiir place, , At edge of field beside the bars. And gating la her pure, sweet face, I kissed her 'aeata the cold, sweet face, j The fellow most be an idiot, or else , be don't know good goods when he , sees them. If the seraph who molds ; the religious course of this paper had , ione that job, his report to headquar- j iers would have read: , "I met her at oar trusting place, j At edge of field where davy stows, And, gazing In her pure, sweet lace, * I kSsed her 'neatn the cold, pale note. ] ?Bisrwrck Tribune. WIT AND HUMOB. "Light is gradually : breaking?me,n remarked the man when he paid a. gas bill twice as large as usual' ' _ Why are very young dudes like very ,. t new wheat? Both are too green to thrash. J . . -p * ? ** ? When a man declares his love in deeply-drawn breathing, young lady, put it down as only a sighed show. .. SpoakihgoTthe; matter of .close observation, did it ever occur "to you that women are clothes observers? Matthew Arnold calls a'cowa 4?coo." Ee has a ;cowriotta .style of proaxmcia- -? Saturday always reminds one of the wooden thing shoemakers use when mol'fl OIAIT ^IKAOO T+'a VAAV^jr illMlXv XV/11> n QUV^O* O.V o uuv last of the week, * ~v Paterfamilias (reading doctor's bill): "Well, doctor, I have no objection to pay yon for the medicine, bttt I will return the visits. Carlyle-said that everybody should have an aim in life. Some of the early settlers of Texas had two names iniife. ?* ?Texas Siftings. An eagle carried off a small. boy. at Waco, Texas, and the city'authorities are agitating the question' of hatching eagles as ah important local industry. They say dogs can't reason,. but no one will doubt that a dog tries to reach a conclusion when he chases his v taiL ' . r If there is one-time more than an- \ other when a woman should be entirely alone, it is when a full.line of clctihes comes down in the mud. A New Jersey widow has just been awarded $9,000 as a balm for a .broken heart This patches up the scars until it is almost as good as new. <40, professor!" exclaimed-setttw^ra^ ?? tal old Mrs. Fishwhacker, ^rtug a private organ recital in her new music ynn-m T\n11 /Mlt tVl-Otcnroof" TITI-T* V/->TT<_ ica stop once moreP . . The leading hotels of London gladly adopt the 'finest .American features, . & 3ays a correspondent Pretty orphan girls, now is your.chancefgo -to' Lunoofi. Lying on the left Bide is condemned by health journals. Bnt-if -one is on the right side what need is there for him to lie at all? " If hedoes'he-js'rery^ ^ liable to find himself left." ~y~^ O ver-scrupulous? VMy .husband is ricar of St. Boniface?but :I don't attend his church." "Indeed, how is that?'' The fact is I?I don't approve Df married clergymen/1 "Yes," said the old sexton, ' the bell tolls the age of the departed.". ''How onliie the society belle that coines and roes," added the graveyard wag,-"she 5as never told her age." . In answer to the query of Lazybones, *1 tow to arouse sluggish blood? we snouia aavise mm w> - sense s proiesnonal sparrer. -N- Bis .Be snre taSL - : jhjaaa rxard. ' J " - -" You've ncrlaea wnat a~~ ncapr. it ~~ " *ives a man to steal up Behind " a girl -?1 _ - ^ srho is scribbling, look over her shoulder, and find that "she's idly writing yonr . * name with a "Mrs." prefixed-. It is proposed in Iowa to-tax dogs tor the sheep they kill. This is wrong. So gooddog will stand up and let a sheep bite him without resenting it? Peoria Transcript - - -Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, wife of he author, is described as one of the, nost picturesque women in Boston by >ne of the papers of that city. 'v ' A last resort: "My poor man," said ;he doctor, "you are dangerously ilL [s there any word you want to'send to rour friends?" "Am I really so 21?" isked the sufferer. "Alas! I can offer rou no hope." "Very well, then," _ > laid the sick man; "Just telephone for ^ >-" mother doctor." "Just think. In Heidelberg I once ;ame across a negro that was actually so black that he could not be.seenwith>ut a light!" "H'ml?I saw a fellow >ne time in Mannheim who wasso thin ;nat ne always naa ro enter a room iwice before he could be noticed!"? 2erman Fun. V" . ' ?The newest color, according to a Brooklyn authority, is "the inside of a nule's ear by..starlight" We think hey've hit tins time on a shade that a nan can recognize when he sees it, enabling him, consequently, to successfuly match worsteds of that color.?LawU Citizen^ . . .. lit To empty a theater in case of fire, he drop should be lowered. All the nen will rush out by force of habit, . ?md the women will sit still, '-'as usual n such cases, and a panic will be prorented. -This-suggestion if freely offered for what it is worth.?Boston Transcript. Two young married French ladies sere talking about their husbands. said one of them: "Do you really think four Jules went shooting yesterday?" 14Well, I don't think he triedto deceive ne yesterday; I am inclined to think le went." "But he didn't bring back my game." "That's what makes ne sure he did go!" was the wife's re"Do you know," said an infatuated routh to a young lady, who preferred lis room to his company?*^do you , mow that the comet otl8l2," noy ?isi)le, is traveling1 away from us at the ate of many millions- of miles a day?" "No, I didn't know it; bat I wish a jertain young man would, imitate the ;omet and travel off at the.same.rite." 5e traveled?but not quite so rapidly isthecomet ; Cruel?Effie (to Mrs. Belw.eather,who las just been speaking of Mr." B.): "Why, Mrs. Belweather, Ithoughtyou ladn't any husband!" Mrs. B.: "Why, >f course I have, Effie. Do -yon mean ? say that you don't know. Mr.' Belfeather?'1 Effie: "Yes, but I didn't . suppose he was your .husband.; I * . bought you hadn't, any.' Papa aiad fou married for money, and !!*?.? was ill you got" A well known Detroit lady, who is a irifty provider, saw a load of pork, md concluded to purchase a couple of ine porkers, ior which she settled with he dealer on. the spot She forgot iowever to.give Mm ner address, ..and m hour after, as she stood conversing with some of her aristocratic friends, &e man of pork a^proachcd' and "nudged" her mysteriously with the Dutt end of his whip. The lady turned n amazement "Shzay, shzay!" he isxea in a ioua voice, ?vas you ue vonan dot belongs to dem hogs?" (Congressman Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, is described as a large; rotund man, with a big, fat, jpUy face, an# a general ..air of contentment* as-if he s?ere entirely satisfied that the world is sagging along'jost'abo.ut as it'should. 3e is said to be the onlyman,:;in'*C<Dnrress who neyer preparesa: speechibe- , +? tore delivery. In general.-, appjaur^jiee le looks very much like Colonel R. G. [ngersolL