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jjjjj I L ' - .,,_ '. WINKSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1884. ''H s. r*.s f r-l r>r ?: ' if iiH^ jflTbftf^r . "Ijl* . * . " _ ___ _ . - ? tThe Boy Who ""Would Not Go to Bed. Yon may think him a dunce. But he bejrjred that foc-once. He mi^ht 6it up all night or as long as he _ pleased; ^ Tie nurse -was in tears, ' With her murmured "My dears!" But only the louder and faster ho teased. Overhearing the din, . His father came in; "Wish to sit up all night John?" he thoughtfully cried "Yon 6hall have your request ? jjgg - Tm you ve learneu we Know pest. Nurse can fro. I will stay at this naughty afi&* .When two .hours had passod, . ^ aJSF&F&X&S* so wo^d m >" from.Ms chair; Btrt, attempting to-sr6; Heard his lather's stern "No!" Keep your seat at the table. Your place, sir. Is there." ^ r" * Oh! how slow tifcks the clock, With its dickory dock ? k (Tor his father insists he should keep "Wide Till quite humlSly Be said: "May I please go to bed ? I've found you were right and, I made a mis-. ; - take." * His'father said yes; -' And now you can gness L If ever that boy did the same thing again, No sermon could preach, Noj>unishment teach, A <-? 1ar?? Ty? t)>on KnlanwnA/^ % a Now, boys, when you're tola That it's bed time, don't scold, A;id say-that you feel just. hke keeping? . _ awake; fitting' in> ail the night . ' Isri't'such a delight, L Jnst try it for once, and you'll own your |?v ' ' ? mistake. - % ?[Sophia E. Eastman, in the Indepondant. KESTOBED TO HEK LOVER. /Being about to lose my faithful cook, ^ I took a friend's advice and went to Ph Castle Garden to secure a capable emiHfc grant sirl | - - I found one. who had brought with fief flattering testimonial f from her ; |jp^ former mistress?a lady of title. She was a tall finely-builtf yO'utig woman, and would have been attractive-loo^mg had it'not been forapecu- ; liar gloom whicrr slumbered within the ; depths of her great black eyes, and dwelt in the sombre curves of" hej.fall j red lips. She-rarely' met - your plaice, and-if i she did so, would avert her eyes as \ though she had received a shock. But j > _ T. - .1- l-i.-T.-_ li not a him oeaa ixi me sitciien, sue ; , proved to be a treasure of neatness and j k efficiency; and I congratulated myself s on having secured her. j ^ After a while, however, symptoms of | dissatisfaction showed themselves/in j S the manner of my faithful Ksty^the ' waitress, who had been with me since ; I had commenced housekeeping.^- j "Mrs. Freeland," she said lkS*-$br ; k t ingly, "I'm sorry to trouble j really can't stand such carryiiflfflS^^ ^ longer. Either Frederika i K or. i: must. '. V *' ""Why, Katy," wEafHs the matter? I thought everything was going on alL right. What fault- have you to find L with Frederika?" jSL "Oh, don't ask me, ma'am," answered Katy with a shudder. 'I don't want to hurt anybody, * and horses couldn't .make me tell what I think of that ^ dreadful gprL The way she goes on. iho hei^gleep is enough to make one's hair. j. ft|A)i i '^^feactdstraightuy.1,!;?- ? ] "Why didn't you tell me she was an j nnuleasant companion for you at night, j w K&tjP I will do awsy with, that You j , shall have a separate room." Katy's face cleared. v r don't want to-.-pnt you tor- any 'trouble; Mrs. Freeland.'* : 4 ? waft be Vhalf^as'trou'Mesomeito fisnap afXQOH^fQr you Katy, as it wohld be to l^e^ofe.^ut'yOT mustn't think L - . badly of poor JRqoftaci% T>ecause she B has bad dreams. The best of us have ' them. They are caused by indiges. tion." > Katy looked unconvinced, but she was too mindful of her proper place to ,| argue with "her lady," as she was fond of calling 'me in" talking to her "comrades;" as' she designated- hen tuxaiioo* So I had a bedroom fitted up for her on the side of the house most remote from Frederika'-s room?which was * only accessible by the back stairway.: For if Katy had such, a feeling about being near her it was best* for -hor to feel entirely at"ease about ' receiving a chance visit from her. fttiL. After making this change everything "went on smootnly again for a while. - Bat one day I had occasion -to go . into" the kitchen to concoct Fred's EH favorite pudding, and-just as I had j j|P stirred iqi :tlie i^st ingredient, a siep-i sounSed'outside the door, followed by * bpsk rap. HL I saw Frederika ^ive a glance at the W? K new comer v through the window, and k ; tiien,wjtha face as white as the towel with which she was polishing the glass she held in her hand, she started W - for the stairway.' w Katy just then came in. "Go to the door, Katy," I said, feel- j k ing sure^that we were on the verge of a |g^ catastrophe. gjH For Frederika's blanched cheeks and 1 -3flmnt o cf-nrv of their HB 1AC1 OUUUCU VV4U. V w-V-J OWEL ^ . A de8p-toned voice with a foreign acI - cent in it asked: L >- "Does a girl named Frederika live m*. here?" ^ I did not wait for Katj to reply. An impulse to stand between Frederika and the trouble which I saw was coming to her, prompted me to go forward and meet the man whose appearance had so alarmed her. ^ But he was .far'from looking like a - " dangerons person. He was tall and of muscular build; but his blue eyes were full of kindly light, and his ruddy ' cheeks were as smooth as a girl's. ' He could not have been more than * eighteen. fe ne bowed respectfully as I answered his question. ? "Frederika lives here," I said, "but . I thmk she is not feeling -welL Will you leave your message with me and . call again another day?'' "X ^ish to ask after Zintha Ricker. : She is my promised wife, and she came L : ? *1-- r% ^*rv lr O r* over III WC same duly nuu j. . I have been to Castle Garden, and they > thinjj: that no such 'a girl came across the sea. But Frederika will know. I have the letter from Zintha's brother, * They knew each other in the old country." "I will ask'Frederika about her. k Will -rr?r? <wmA acrain fcO-niOrrOW?" ^ , ? J"~ o fflfc "Yes, I will wait until then. But it Sgife. ' will seem very long until I get tidpP : ings from my Zintha!" I felt pained to keep the honest fellow from hearing from Frederika's lips the "assurance ;'for which his. heart k ' longed; .hut the thought of Frederika's ^ iace as she had fied away, made me i-: m certain that I had best send him away . until I had first talked with .her. After he had gone, I went to Frede rxka?s room. She sat swaying herself to and fro upon the edge of u chair, g Her face, no'longer white, but looking as laouga me zrivou. wa>.:yauv tu uu^? fFy ' from her crimson cheeks, was full of s , anxious expectation," and her eyes y\ . looked as "though they belonged to some animal at bay. j She clasped ber nancls and exclaimJ ed, with wild vehemence: j "Don't tell him I am here! He has I come for her! Oh, -what shall I tell I him?" ; "The truth, Frederika," I'said, tryi ing to speak lightly. "It isn't anything : so hard, is it, to tell a young man | where to find his sweetheart?" 1 ? if T /*Anlrl foil Vnrr? if T Artnl/1 J Vj Ai. JL .VVVUU VWA1 WiA-U i4 & ?'VU1U j only send him to her! But ; . can | only be when. the sea gives up its dead!" ' and her voice rose into a wild scream, which made the blood curdle in my veins. "Calm yourself, JFrederika. It is a sad thing to tell him if his promised wife has been buried at sea,- but you are not~resp6nsible for it." ! "That is all you know about it!" she began with" savage earnestness. Thee, with: a sudden furtive look at me she said: "But of course he cannot blame me unless I had killed her " J But here she -broke down and threw i Tio-rcolf nnnn t}:ft r?A^ snhhincr and j moaning as though her heart would i break. "Hadn't von best send for the priest, j ma'am?" whispered Katy in my ear. j She had, uriperceived, followed or j after me, thinking, she said afterwards, i that I was putting myself in danger by ! going near Frederika". "I don't like to | tell tales on her, but she runs on that way all the night, and it's myseli "thinks -she needs ' to; confess to the .priest." - - . - -. ... ' "Is she a Catholic, Ea ty ?" | "Yes, ma'am, th> she is. :But she's ia mighty bad one, notwithstanding sne tells her-beadsby the hour. She never goes to confession." I " "Then go at onc.e for your own | priest, Katy," I whispered. j "Not for the world,..- tUl th? master comes. She might; go crazy ''and kill ! you dead at her feet! and surejt's best; ! to leave her alone entirely the while, i i She'll get over the turn all the soonei j i if no one is with her. I've seen her j i._worse than this." . ' i ! v 'Convinced that' .KatyV'advice was j : sensible" I went down stairs again, j | But my peace of mind had been exer- j h-sSwSn'J'? J... 3 -T?,. fCraWrMW tuv UHV, LiUU LKJ LUilt, IVAI : . man; davs. For Frederika went rav-; 'ing\ jnadT an'd'liad to' be carried from ' thk; house in a strait-jacket. Fortunately she did no harm to any of us in herfrenzy. But we all sympai thised so deeply in heir affliction that it j cast a shadow over our hitherto sunny j household. ( Zintha's betrothed husband came! again for news of her, and was much j troubled by what I told him. "I should think my Zintha had come j . to some harm through Frederika," he ; said, after a few moments1 thought, ! "out sue was so good-ana winning 1 Tb'^t no one could have felt angry at herX.-.Ancf asio Fredeffka,-though "she was'always alitfiegtraBge gnd^inbpdy, I don't believe she would have hurt a chicken, far less one-who had never done'her any harm."' ? "Could Zintha have made her jealous by her beauty and gentleness?" I asked. Herman flushed to the roots of his curly flaxen hair. - C'^Our families once made someJalk_ _ ""But rp"was in^fove with Zintha. So the proposition fell through." . This wab the key to the mystery. Prederikar had been scorned by her handsome young countryman, and, T V*s\v vJttaI in pcruuus, UUUIli^ ucx iiivu iu uvi J/V U W, nad tsS^Sw^ftw're^g% Poor ZintKa' firustecL. to cross the wi&e ocean a c\v.orbau -whoinewc.; her. to -be the'caus# of her lighted hope si WhafcChad b$bn&er fate? kl&afefian ttf?s astlo Garden, thinking to case his mind by mol-infr o-nnniripc rnvsplf. J .1 was met with the intelligence that they knew nothing whatever about a person of that name. Bat while talking with the gentlemanly superintend'ent, a group of new comers made their appearance from a shtjr'which had just come into port. .. Herrman, looking downcast enough, had stood beside mo and had heard the discouraging reply to my question. He glanced _up mechanically as .the strangers entered, and then with a wild exclamation of joy, darted towards u, young girl whe formed one of the group. """Oh, my Zintha! I thought to never, never see you more! Where is it you have been"?'* ; : "I have been near my death, "Herr man!11 was Ztntna's answer. \duc ior the gbod Gcd, and for these . kind people, i should now he lying white andi still at the bottom of the ocean! Ah, I /have such a drcadful*thing to fell you. Frederika pushed me oyer tho.sideof the vessel.* 'She meant to drown me!" "The wicked Frederika!" exclaimed i Eerrman, stamping his foot. "1 willc take the law on "her!" "Her sin has already found her out," * I said solemnly. "Sho is in a mad-< house.* I did not tell you all she said,*-; Herrman, because I thought it best to | learn tho truth about. Zintha, before j alarming you about the wild talk of having committed acrime." ; "It. is now clear to me why the once kind Frederika tried to kill me! She was not in her' right mind, and I?ave? always heard that a crazy one tnms against those she has best loved." t 'This explanation came from Zintha, and as it was as satisfactory to Herrman as it was to herself, I thought it best to let them remain undeceived as to Frederika's true motive, or, at least, what I thought it to be. Herrman was well-to-do, and he was married to Zintha within the month. I felt a great interest in the two so nearly j ! lost to each other, and went with them j I to select their furniture for the neat ; home they were-to dwell in, and where | they have lived happily ever since. Poor Frederika regained her senses, but she was*in a dying condition. She sent for me to come to her, and made a full confession. .. As I had expected, love and iealousy had driven ner to it, and not ?*. .ng naturally a wicked girl, the thought of what she had done in that moment of passionate impulse had so preyed upon her I xluhu. a.i> m vlhao uvj.. I shall never forget the look of peace. ; which came to her when I told her of J Zintha's almost miraculous rescue at the hands of some sailors who had been obliged to abandon their sinking ship, and whose boat had chanced.to be drifting near the spot where she had been pushed overboard. "God has been good, to me, a sinner. II can die-in peace," she said. "These I hands are no longer stained with Wood." j The Sunny South newspaper declares j that a woman makes^ a bungling mess ! of it whenever she tries to carry an um; brella on the street. It declares: "She ; can no more carry an umbrella as it ought to be carried than she can'throw : a stone without those indescribable I gyrations, or catch a ball when she 1 doesn't wear an apron." The cattle now owned in Colorado ' are valued at ?40,000,000. \ The Red Sunsets. The way in which men take the unexpected is-an excellent gauge of their state of mind. Sudden changes in the face of nature bring the man out of ; his burrow and exhibit his hidden moj tives. Fifty years ago the meteoric | shower of 1833 showed that the less ; cultivated class, even in America, still ! looked upon the accidents of the skies I as sio-ns of heavenlr wrath and t>or tents of coming ills. Now even llie least educated no longer ask, What does this presage? but What is its cause? Naturalism has advanced fast I and far in the last century. The autumn of 18S3 will always have-a large place in scientific history on account of the strange aspect of its heavens, as well as on account of the J preceding eruptions of volcanoes in [ the Straits of "Snnda, which in their ; grandeur and effects much exceeded j any disturbance recorded in history, j Although the volcanic outburst [ changed the geography of a large disI trict, destroyed somewhere near one i hundred thousand lives, and sent the | ocean waves and throbs of the air pro! duced by the convulsion over the whole circumference of the earth, its nature was not unusual; it differed from a thousand similar accidents of- this troubled world only iu degree,?only as the discharge of a twenty-inch canI non differs from that of a small fieldpiece. But the strange heavens of the later autumn, the fiery glow of sunrise and sunset, the brownish haze that girdles the- sun all day, are phenomena so out of the range* of common experience that at first all- tho experts in meteorology were at sea in their explanations. At the outset, many of these students. of the atmosphere l turned naturally, tosthe conjecture that some of the vagrant matter of space, such as we see in the comets or dustlike meteors, had been drawn down upon our atmosphere, and so enveloped the earth with a meteoric mist Others looked upon these movements as a mere intensification of the afterglow, or second sunset, which is not an unfamiliar phenomenon in all cxtratropical regions at certain seasons of the year, particularly in the autumn, and which is probably due to the con uensauun ui vapui au lllo upper regions of the atmosphere. Gradually, j as the facts have been -gathered in from all parts of the world, .the explanations have been overthrown, and the sunsets have been proven to be in ; some way connected with the Javanese convulsion. At several points in Europe the new-failen snow contains particles of volanic dust essentially like those that fell upon the decks of ships near the point of eruption, and which presumably are the heavier bits that have descended from dust-cloud in the upper air. btui rurtner, it nas Deen snown'tnat j these curious appearances' of the sky j occurred more quickly in the district |, near the volcano than in regions remote from it. It is not easy to: determine the precise time when the suusefr and sunrise became so brilliant; for at" first the phenomenon might seem acciiiguez, Mauritius, and Seychelles, Vinintc -fmm -t.Virpp to three I thousandjive hundred Inileff.-weat of Krakatoa, the red- sunsets were'seen on the 28th of August, withiir thirtysix hours after the eruption occurred. In Brazil, which is over ten thousand miles away, they appeared on the 30th of September. - In Florida, thirteen thousand miles distant,, on September 8th. It was noticed in England on tho 9th of September, but in Sweden not until tne :30th of -November; each: of these countries being about seven " t_ J J ?:l tliousanu nye-nunureu jiluus uuu tuo point of eruption^ " The volcanic mist spread more rapidly: in-the tropical belt between the parallels .of latitude in which Java lies than in the regions ' to the north and south of this line. Sweeping swiftly about the earth in this tropical belt, it seems to have been carried'thence by some slower motion to higher latitudes.?N. S. Shaler in April Atlantic. He Kept His "Word. .il'.vT:c-;. / . A few months ago a young man who had been in the employ of an express n 'r\ Wicennain loft. UUIU^aijUJf ?*U Jk/WiUU. AAA ?J WA4VAM ??* his position and home -on account of failing health, and went to Florida with the hope of receiving benefit from the change of climate. About a week ago he legended rstnrning to, his* Northern home l^ajshorttimex but i&onghV before Tearing the land "of "flowers' he sronld send a box of oranges to bis relatives smf-lrisnds in -Wisconsin. The oranges were, broughtr^ere. from Flor ada^^"ti^^ams--&p_r?ss - Company,' -&avm|j-i>een .franke^^OT^h.; ..From here.fo^thei^'^s -'.were to j bdfc^?d^dl5y4^ The i ;Jxad Ceensinppea^oyerxne ^aaams, ajuu , reqnesfeig:the Ahrerieaii^pwple^hen j they arrived'to put" a frart^Wlttch he enclosed in his letter, on the box, and . forward that, adding in conclusion, "I .be paSsingitbiougfr Cincinnati on Jmy~ way hoine -in s^few days, stiidj willcall upon you." A3 the" cldrk In "the American Express office was reading the letter a lotjof transfer freight from the "Adams was brought in, ana he was asked to sign for it As he signed, he j glanced down over the way bill to see ; what he was signing,, his eyes were sud- ; denly glued almost to the paper by see- i ing the name of the party whose letter he had just been reading regarding the oranges. The young man had Kept his word and called at the office as he j was going to his home in Missouri : He, however, neither recognized nor saluted any one, for he was dead, a d | his body was incased in a coffin on its i way home for burial.?Cin. Enquirer. Arctic Artillery. Miss H. Maria George, jn the April St. Nicholas, relates the folio-wing origin al method employed jy the Empress Anna of Russia to guard her great plaything, the first ice-palace ever ! erected: ! "The Empress ordered six cannon j and two mortars to be set up on each ! side of the front gateway. It makes ! us shake our heads when we read that i these cannon and mortars were likei wise of ice. And even her councillors ) and wise men said one to another: ; 'What will our old eyes do assea to see I next ?' But the Empress laughed, for | eke knew that so long as the sun kept to his old path in the heavens, her pal! ace would be secure. But to prove to j her friends that the wotk was. good, I I she bade them place a" quarter of a | j pound of powder and. an iron cannon j j ball weighing five pounds in one of the J ! ice cannon/ Every one tremblingly! waited lor a terrioie explosion, out ; I none came. The cannon remained in- ; , tact, and the ball was thrown to some j 1 distance, passing through a board two j inches thick, placed about sixty paces 'o S. ..... 'I "Wilkes Booth in Hiding. An impo *t ant feature of the April Century is George Alfred Townsend'a account of "How Wilkes Booth crossed the Potomac." There is a gap in the history of Wilkes Booth's crime, between his disappearance in the pines -x ?it. ?i,;,, I U1 SOUlil-ttaSlUlll Diaiuaiiu AMU xxxo X^! appearance in Virginia, where1 he was; killed, and this article (the information of which was supplied by Thomas A. Jones, an actor in the escape) it is bej lieved closes this gap. Jones' first en-, ! counter with the fugitives is described | as follows: "Booth and Herold were. ! sent into the short pines, and there ; Jones found them; He says that as he j was advancing into the pines he came I upon a bayv mare, with black legs," j mane, and tail, and a white star on the j forehead; she was saddled, and roving I around in a little cleared place as 5 j she was trying to nibble something, i to eat. Jones took the mare and tied I her tn'a trne or stumu. He then ad vanced and gaTe what he calls the ( countersign, or whistle, which he does,1 not precisely remember now, though he thinks it was two whistles in a peculiar way, and a whistle after an in-! terval. The first person he saw was j Herold, fully armed, and with a car-: bine in his hand, coming out to see who? it was. Jones explained- that he had been sent to see them, and was then j taken to Booth, who was bat a few.1 yards farther along. "Booth was lying on the ground, j nrrormfi/i nrv in msntpfs with nis foot, ( [ supported and bandaged, and a crutch ] behind him. His rumpled dress looked respectable for that country, and Jones says it was of black cloth. ^ His faca was pale at all times, and never ceased. . to be so during the several days that-' Jones saw him. Ho was in great pain from his broken ankle, which had suffered a fracture of one of tho two bones in the leg, down close to the foot It would not have given him any very great pain but for the exertion of his' escape, which irritated it by scraping the ends of the broken bone perhaps in the flesh; it was now higiiiy irritated, and whichever way the man moved he expressed by a twitch or a groan the pain he felt. Jones says this pain was more or less continuous, and was greatly aggravated by the perilof Booth's" situation?unablo to cross the river* without assistance, and unable to'walk any distance whatever. Jones believes that Booth did not rise from the groundat any time until .he was finally put on: Jones' horse to he" taken to the ' waterside some days afterward* "Booth's first solicitude seemed to. be to learn what mankind thought of the ftrime. That atiestion he uut al most immediately to.Jones, and con- f tinued to~ask-what different classes of people thought about^j$.-;" Jones told ; him that;Jfcw'aS gratifymg^a'ews to most of the meafcf'Southern sympathies- He frankly says that he himself at first regarded as good news'v but some what later, when he saw the injurious consequences of the crime to the . South,;' he * changed his mind. Bobth desired news-'j; papers if they could he hac? which* would convey to him an idea of public ffcSfei Js4es^Q0fl..0htained c^^==s^-; them in; and Booth lay there, where the pines were so thick that one could not see more than thirty or forty feet into them, reading: what the world had to say about Hs..case.. He seemed never J tired of information- on this one subject and the only thing besides he was solicitous about was to get across the riv^r'into Virginia: > . "Jones says Booth admitted that he was the man" who killed-Lincoln, and expressed no regret for the act, knowing all the consequences it involved. < He harped again and again- upon the nf hie Mv>ssincr the river. He ! o saidif he could only get to Virginia he : could have medical'attendance. Jones fold him frankly thatfhe^ould receive no medical attendance inf- -Maryland. Said he: 'The country is full of soldiers, and all that I can do for you is to get you off, if l ean, for Cox's protection and my own, and for your own safety. That I will do for you if there ; is any way in the world to do it' "When I received this account from ' Mr, Jones, Tasked him .question after question to see if I coula extract any information as- to what Booth inquired about while in that willderness. tasked if he^-spoke^ of His mother, of urTio-ro Via rfrns eroino-'xrlfftll he" reached O j Virginia, of whether he meant to act on the stage again; whether he blame' ] himself for jumping from the- theater ! box; whether he- expressed any appre- J hensions for Mrsr Surratt or Eis friends | in Washington. To -these and to many j other questions Jones uniformly replied: 'No, he did not speak-about any of those things. He wanted food, and to cross the river, and to know what, was said about the deed. V Booth, he ? - ** - - 7- - -1 1- ~ A. u n tnmirs, wore a sioucneu. nat. jxl jlusi/ meeting' Booth in the pines,, he proved himself to be the' assassin by showing upon his wrist,.in India ink, the initials J. W. B- He showed the same to Captain Jett in Virginia. Jones says Booth was a determined man?not boasting, but one'who would have sold "his life dear. -He said he would not be taken alive." ' ~ Slot Iji Politics.'. rX ' ' ' ?r-? ?rrI heard a very sensible thing recently from- a young man who had just i ^ "" 1 3 liiJ?I "piUCIvUU. lilt; puilt/iuux WCO UVUl uu UVM1 net:. ("What are. you going to. run for this spring?" I asked. (He has been a standing candidatefor some position or other for several seasons past.) "I j amnota candidate 'for/anything," he j .said, "and I don't want you to get me ; mixed up in politics any more. * If you j ever catch me running again before j I'm 50, I want you to proclaim me a j swindler. No, sir; I've bgen there and [ FVe been burned. It's only one man ! in a hundred that succeeds in politics, j -L JJLC UtUU 4*. WA4VJ the business, will wind up in the poor house &02, . what is equally bad, as stool-pigeons in a ^in-mill. I speak from an eiperience oi .three years, andI know T'te just stopped on the brink of a precipice. I'm going to attend to* busine'ss for. the rest of my life?at least till I'm 60?and. then, if an ad-; ! !??<? no+'/in- Vrro-n+o fr> rr?atp TO ft a .TllS llllL li^Liv/u nwuv^ wv ? w?, tice of the Peace, I'm willing. But no high aspirations, 0, nol" Ninety-nine out<>f every hnndred of the young men who make a business of polities ought to cut this out and :swear by it It is applicable to the . horde" of office seeking youth who come from all sec-" tions of the. State when the Legislature convenes, as well as to many who. are afflicted with the political' mania in Trenton.?Trenton N. J. Times. Georgo lfritciiard, who spent so mucn time and labor, and underwent so Mxvntr-VmTvJcVii'no in hrTrtrrrno* thA ' CVpnr o-"o ? ? 1 d Alcne mines onto prominence, has ! been robbed of his property in the new ; mining district, ana now all that ho ?as to show for his years of toil is one very ordinary (in value) placer claim, everything else having been'gobbIed*by the insatiate jumpers. The Trade in Modern Antiquities. One of the chief delights of Continental travel, as every person of exi perience -will admit, is the unlimited | opportunities it affords- for buying1 an| tiqriities. .The statuary, the coins, and I the pictures that mav be purchased in I _ ~z itwffj ujl lie vcjl inMerest to45r^3jsh".travelers and of never "failing profit to Italian- dealers. Andalusia, again, is a huge curiosity -shop. Being once upon a time in Seville, we came across a retired Brit,-ish girocer or tailor, or something of jthat kind, who had just purchased a rMadonna and Child?unhappily, unsigned?which he had picked up for a [ :.puiuiiL? in a umg^y uacj*.8trcuu JUL? riSs going"to send it to the Exhibition j of Old Masters, and, if he ever did so, | lie probably found that it wa;i worth [ only a pound or thirty shilling at the i^outside. ; ' It is the same, Indeed, ^throughout Spain. The altar cloths; j the broken fans, the inlaid tables and ^fribinets, as resplendent as anything in - liiecocve'nt of-the Cartufle at Granada, ! the -wonderful chairs, and the still ; more extraordinary scraps of ancient ' lace, upon which all who have ever i traveled in Spain have spent much ; money?these abound from Malaga to | iron, ana naturally one is inclined to j speculate a little on the odd circumstance that the supply is more fibun[ dant than ever, although the demand t'is fairly brisk. Tangievs is, we should [ say, a hot-bed of modern antiquities, t and even Mr. Chamberlain bought - some of them when he was over there * a' year or so ago. He ought to have known something about this class of goods, being a Birmingham man, but f.VlO -foif h nf tT>?> "ProcirJun-f: ' the Board of Trade in all things an,cient is notorious. America, oddly, enough, has taken to this business of. manufacturing the antique Dutch cabinets that, witn bronze panels, dingy ..and marked with the cracks of fictitious centuries, are turned out every day from Chicago furniture stores, and for some purposes they are quite as useful as if they had indeed belonged to some departed burgher in the dead cities of the Zuyder-Zee. New York experts in this sort of forgery make a specialty .of Queen Anne chairs and tables, and the imitation is so perfect as to deceive all but those who havo studied such things, minutely in Eu rope. lhe explorer of furniture stores may .come upon magnificent specimens ,6f English Gothic chamber pieces or ancient-looking Chippendale and Sheraton chairs, which might have belonged to Queen Elizabeth but for the fact that the j did not. It must be puzziing at "first to discover in New Tork shops stamped leather chairs of the time of Louis Treize, plentifully ornamented With brass nails, whosfc heads are fully ah inch -in diameter, - and the' citizens of that enterprising city are invited to become the happy possessors of as many of these treasures as they like, on ridiculously low terms. If, however, the explorer is inquisitive, and tha furhifcnre venders arc in a tolerablv candid mood, the visitor may be conducted into some "back yard where_ forinstance, be supplied with worm holes by the simple process of lilting it bottom side up and firing a charge of pigeon shot into the bottom and front, of the seat Old armor, too, is a good line in this business, the drawings required for the purpose being made from the collection in the Grand Opera House, in Paris. It is said that Birmingham knows something about this branch of the trade, and that helmets, shields, casaues. breast-plates, and complete suits of mail are regularly manufactured for the gratification of oil speculators and retired pill manufacturers. If a man starts a lot of an-, cestors, he likes to have dummies of them in his hall, rigged in their medieval ironmongery. If Birminghamdid not gratify him, 'Germany would. It is astonishing how many tons of antiquities arc annually sold along the Rhine, and it is. even asserted that in Castle Colburg, where- Martin Luther threw his ink: stand at the devil?and unhappily, missed him?the original splash was cut up and sold long ago; but that as the timber, is massive, the place is carefully reinked every night for the purposes of sale next day. We cannot sav how much truth or false hood there may be in this particular story. There' might have been some excitement in seeing1 the original transaction if both the distinguished parties to it were present There can be none in gazing on a patch of ink- The trade in modern antiquities, however, is a curious reality, as real as the sale of old clothes or tombstones. It is a fact calculated"to weaken one's faith in life. ?The British Trade Journal. J - ??? ?a > ?-r A Juror W lio "Would Take no Risks, General Thomas Hnrrison, who was j commander of n Texas regiment dur-1 ing the war, aud- known by the boys as I the "Jim Town Major," was soon after the war elected Judge of one of the districts of Texas. Shortly after his election he visited one of the counties in. his district for the purpose of holding court, and on his arrival in town impaneled a jury consisting of eleven white men and one negro. About the first case called was one against a party for murder. After hearing the evidence, arguments of counsel and charge of tne court, the jury started down stairs to consider their verdict, the colored juror happening to be in the rear. Following tnem was the attorney for defendant. At the head of the stairs (and" in hearing of the colored juror) the attorney was-asked by a friend-how he thought the case would be decided. The reply was: "I think the defendant will be acquitted or the jury will be hung." The jury went down the steps%and out in the yard, ???.>? ? -4*Vi/ai U*i?V/MUVly VMV VVAV4W I member was mis sing. Upon investigating they saw him making 2:40 time in the direction of the brush. -The Sheriff was called, and, after a vigorous pursuit, Mr. Juror" was captured and brought before the court and asked why he had run away. His reply was: "He 1"?->4-?a*wow pott fV\o man UOU ilCcitU. ? gcuuicuxau OO.J u uuu wasn't cleared the jury would be hung, and as he, hadn't done' nothing he didn't want to take any chances."? Venago (N. Y.) SpeetcUor. The Advance of Photography. A Cleveland inventor, named Fell, has perfected an invention by which a photograph can be taken on any substance which has a smooth surface and the expense need not be over a cent a picture. This would advance the lithographic art wonderfully, as there need no longer be any transfer by hand, which is clumsy and tedious, for now trie picture ean ce tasen ai once on me stone, from -which duplicates C3n be multiplied indefinitely. The inventor th'inks this new process is as wonderful, and will be as useful in its way aa the discovery of the electric light or the telephone.?Demorest's. The Evils of Railway Pools, Leading railway men are beginnin| to discuss whether the present systen : of pooling earnings is either politic qi profitable. Indications are cropping out in many quarters that the men wh( ! < 7- i:? i VUULiaUJL IUU vicciO tl UilA. lines aic giuwing more and more" restive under the restraints of the system, and to doub' seriously whether it pays in the lone ran to enter into poof arrangements. Tho pool is a costly method of adjust. ing traffic differences and maintaining traffic equilibrium, and,, its burdens fall more heavily on the great lines j than any good it results in can comnensate. It is. moreover, a vexatious system, complex in its details, expensive in execution, and to all btit the weakest of the lines sharing its supposM benefits, unsatisfactory in its results. ; " ' ; t f v The Pennsylvania . Company, is be lieved to'-be at the bottom cw a rogorted scheme to break np the system, so *ai as the Eastern lines are concerned. President Roberts, of that company, is open, in his hostility to the'system, and not averse -to any measures that will wipe it out of existence. He believes it is expensive, unsatisfactory, and its only good is to bolster up weak competing lines at the expense of the older companies, and also of the public. He sees no reason why the great trunk lines should devote a portion of their receipts to eke out the incomes of the weaker ones, or why the public should "U*. 4.* ? T uc wu?u tu mauiiaiu mou CXiUUgJLL to-accomplish it To the end that the main lines may bring rates low enough within the pool to discourage a further cut outside of it, once the pool is broken the Pennsylvania people nave, it is believed, brought about the recent reduction in east'boand freights- Once :the pool accepts the rate,, the nexkstep may be to: withdraw the Pennsylvania from the pool, and then let the "survival of the fittest" doctrine be applied with all its force. That the leading companies are tired ot the vexatious system mere can be no, doubt, and now that the time has come when so many of the weak sisters of the pool are tottering on the verge of bankruptcy, and incapable of maintaining a war of rates, it is regarded -as a fitting season to rid the trunli lines of the poc3 abomination. To the public the abolition of the system would be a boon, if for no'other reason than that" it would relieve the newspaper reading public of its daily dose of pool squabblings, rate cuttings, and general railway demoralization that now fills the press. The pool system is not, and never can "U ~ ^.1 T ?1 JL\- ~ ? "I- V - A _ ue iuj. tut; ueueuu oi tne puDiic. .as soon as the Western pool was "broken, and a single road left free to conduct its business in its own way, the western people gQt a fast mall. .Under similarconditions other sections would Vet it Pools result in high rates,' in the giving of unearned money to rival roads which comes out ot the public, and, viewed from every standpoint, the system is against public policy, and detrimental to good! The sooner the great lines break it up the better.? His Ijocomotives. ; w r But to my si .3. - When the new president, William H., first took hold of affairs, ho ran up and down the road very frequently to get the hang of the thing. He always hankered for fast pulls. The engine named after himself was usually assigned to his special trains. She would make the distance from Albany to Syracuse in three hours or a few minutes better. But once or twice it so happened that some other locomotive fell to the task, and then it was shown that the William H. Yander-. bilt was not so much of a runner anyway. Better time was made by No. 110 and by the Major Priest. So the first thing the engineers knew was an order _ o ,_ o , .. . - . _ IO HSTB UU U1B UiXgiUCS i CjJCii-LiLOLi. x guess I knew of the determination of the president sooner than any one, for he was a pretty mad man one day when I took his special; we made the distance in time that laid his machine in shade.- So one by one the names of Erastns Corning, Conrad Shnemaker, H. Chittenden,^ J. Tillinghast, and the rest were obliterated, the locomotives coming ont of the shops painted that peculiar brown called '"black crook" At last even the name of William H. Vii,UUt!ru.Ub W?uauucuuu UJ LUV Jju.iu.uers. It. was the last to so. At the same time the brass -work was also painted over?a godsend to the fireman who had to scour it, but a blow at the pride of the engineers. I don't believe the enthusiasm exists now among railroad men which used to bind us together in the old days. The duplex, has not been the only innovation. In those days you would never catch one conductor playing the spy on another. Railroading to my thinking has lost its respectability/'?Old Engineer in Albany Journal. A New Feature in Fruit Preserving. California fruit growers have discovered that apricots bleached with ' ? -3 4-Vift I stupnur uuu tucu. unuu uu un*? j sun are superior to those that are dried in any other manner or that are 1 canned They regard this fact-of very great importance to the whole State. It enables every fruit culturist, however limited his means, and however small the product of his prchards, to dry his own fruit for market, and make him independent of the canning factories. It is also- stated that fruit can be prepared in this manner more cheaply than in any other, that its weight is better preserved, and that it n? cnnprinr flavor. Lar<?e dealers in dried fruit say that the market for such [products of California orchards will always be greater than the supply can ; possibly be. The United States alone will readily take all the fruit of the kind and quality now being produced by the sun-drying process tnat California can ever raise.. Many -thousands of apricot ftces havo been planted within a recent date in orchard form in Southern California. Sun-dried apricots are being sold to California dealers at double the price paid for the LTCOb lAioiuc* Producers of Lead. In the lead productions of the different countries Spain still holds the first rank, the amount reaching some 120,000 tons in one year, or one-sixth more than America, which comes next on the list, while Germany follows with 90000. Of Spain's total production some 67,000 tons are derived from one district, that of Linares, in which more than 800 mines are registered. Of this large number, however, only a comparatively small portion are actually work j ed on'a large scale, and there are only laboutfiftyin which, steam power is j usecL The total number of steam en| gin'es employed- is stated at 130, nearly one half of this number belonging to English companies; in fact most of the mining machinery and pumping engines m all the mines are of English make. - " Health and Success. t , A sound body has more to do witl I success in life than most persons realr t ize. There are instances where mer r i in continued ill-health have achieved ) eminence, but this is not the rule. . : Alexander Stephens, of Georgia, and . mi _ T 3 _ ' rtj _ ? ft, .1 . ' 5 | -Lnaaaeus ocevens, 01 mis ocace, -oni t I old commoner, were considered rer j markable-men, because, despite illi health,-they impressed themselves on . I the nation. Thore^are other cases in j .distant- lands?enough to prove the j j rule. We do not, of course, hear oi j I the many failures in life resulting from . } ill-health. The failures, - either in ; i speculation or-, life; are not paraded. . But there are' examples where momeni -tary spasms of ill-health have clouded . the minds of men of genius and de. ranged their plans. Napoleon lost one of his great battles because of a fit of , <.. indigestion. And when the mind must i -?i cany th& ailments of a diseased-body, and yet do its legitimate work, it evidently must, perform double duty. It i cannot always dothis and succeed. Hence .a healthy body has much to do with success in life.1 a Ono rtf -fK? fillet" f-5fnnn . V/MV w* bUV u u vVUQAUV4 UUI/U) in family training-is.that which relates to health, and. this is the more important in our day, when so much of a child's life is spent in close schoolrooms, arid it is- compelled to breathe a vitiated, .super-heated atmosphere. Pure air and exercise are Nature's great restoratives, and these need to be intelligently and regularly imparted The play-cure for children is far better than summer resorts and medicated waters. Play supposes out-door exercise. It imparts buoyant spirits, I cheerful mind, gives healthy tone to .j the thought and makes the blood pure ! and strong. Bat play alone is not best ?as all work is not. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" is a true adage. Still some work is needed for its disciplinarys influence, and to make firm the. muscles and nerves. This work should be, as far as possible, out of doors. But if this cannot be gifren, a saw and buck for wood in the cellar is betterjban no .work at alL Among the elements favorable to good health is pure air when sleeping. If children are accustomed to ventilate j ed rooms, they will" ultimately enjoy them, and will feel oppressed in an unventilated room. And they will sleep soundly and healthily: when the cold air of-winter is pouring 'in?so it does not blow on them. Sleep under such conditions is not afiected by troubled dreams, nor is it followed by nervous, headache. Healthful sleep is dreamless. And this supposes fresh Tint. t/ir> Tinof A T room is better than an overheated room. But one that is sufficiently comfortable for- preparations for retiring to be made without a chill is best. Children thus reared will grow "up healthfully;, and this good health, with intelligent, practical- education and self-reliance, will be of more, value ! than thousands of unearned capital? Philadelphia Call. . . tFtAwsIPhenomflna in DnX-nt-u "Although, mirages are common here, especially in . the winter, -some three < weeks ago one .was -seen rivalling any r I had ever beheld. It lasted fromsun rise until noon. . In every direction : there were constant changes, one minute objects seemed, inverted, barns, houses, fences, cattle, and in. fact." everything visible &n the ground appear ed above us. Again they would spread . broader and further away, and again come quite near. Objects far off were : brought to sight Last night we had a ] m+ifnl or??J cin mi1Q T CITTKPfL YC1 y ucauuuux Just as the sun disappeared below .the horizon the western sky was one'flame ! of red gold and from the sun came' a ' far more brilliant flame; in tact, a -! broad ribbon of firo' entirely distinct ' from the general color. As night ber . gan to settle down, hues of green and blue appeared, producing something of ' an ftnrnrsi effect. -I will not worry YOU with what at best would only be a "tame description, but will tcH you of the last wonder. Often have I heard people speak of wild nights and wild effects at sea, but two evenings ago Occurred the wildest scene I ever saw on land. At this season the prairie is one vast plain of snow?a level white which at times is ghastly. The moon was not quite half full and was about two hours from setting, and the heavens in that quarter were black with clouds. From the m-'KJn, up'and down was a ribbon of light, and on each side, at equal dis' - -> * T- -A tances, were two more iigut suuuuga. Many persons went out to see the sight and returned with a tremor of fear! On the morrow came a heavy storm." Sweet-*Miaded "Women. So great is the influence of a sweetminded woman on those around her that it is almost boundless. It is to her that friends come in seasons of sickness and sorrow for help and comfort One soothing touch of her. kindly hand, works wonders in the fev erisii ciiua; a lew woras xet iau uuxii her lips in the ear of a sorrowful sister do much to raise the load of grief that is bowing its victim down to the dust in anguish. The husband comes home worn out with the pressure of business and feeling irritable with the world in general, but when he enters the cozy sitting-room and sees the blaze of the Ri-o on/1 Wlfp.^S STTlIl uiuu. amvvvw .. ~ ? ing face, be succumbs in a moment to the soothing influences, which act as the balm of Gilead to his wounded spirit.' Wo are all wearied with combating with the stern realities of life. Tiie rough schoolboy flies in a rage from the taunts of his companions to finH in thfi mother's smile: the ! little one, lull of grief with its own ! large trouble, finds a hayen of rest on | its mother's "breast; and' so one might 1 go on with instances of the influence i a sweet-minded woman has in the social life with which she is connected. Beauty is an insignificant power when 1 compared with hers. The Bite of an Epileptic. ' . I __ t f In England, recently, a young man was bitten in the band by a woman who had fallen in an epileptic fit Three days afterward he died, and the neighborhood "became greatly excited : over the occurrence. The case only ] tends to add additional testimony to ! the .fact that the public love sensations. I wow TnoTolrr I J. HID i_U.4J?jr iiv* T V wwu uv&vaj m coincidence, or, again, a bite from any person or any animal will occasionally, * or we should rather say might occasionally, set up a degree of inflammation in an already depraved and weakened constitution tnat might prove I fatal Bat to suppose that the bite of { j an epileptic is any more serious, sim- ; * ? - a*?3 T : H piy Decause it is innicseu uy ?u cjji- i leptrie, than would bo a similar wound received from any other person, is certainly unreasonable, and not to be entertained in the pathological light of to-day. ? Medical and Surgical Reporter. _ ' " ; GLEAXTS"GS. ?!' The Milwaukee brewers hare decided | to buy no more barley raised in Iowa. " ^ | i The deepest well in Connecticut is 1 i situated in Fairfield and is only 95 feet : i Sallie McCollum, of Allentown, Pa., * '. ; J claims to be the handsomest woman in t " W jaSa Tennessee now has thirty-three cot- . ton mills,'with' :;"1 looms and 78,877Atrip across the salty ocean and . * back gives the Maine sardine the tree In thirty-eight yea^s the number .oi " .. English daily papers has increased ' Walt Whitman has purchased a house v.' in Camden. N. J., which he savs i tends to die in. - . | There are. fifty illicit distilleries *aad only three Koensed-ones in one district in North Carolina. Mr. Charles-Oakley lias lived in New - - -. J?1 York for ninety-sey?n years, and is now approaching' his. 102nd birthday. It requires three days in which to complete the marriage* ceremony in China, but when it is done it is a strong 'JOD. A Boston gas manufacturer asserts that the demand for gas has increased in that city since, the introduction oi. electric lights. Buffalo Bill's suit to. recover sixtyone acres of land in Cleveland, valued at several million dollars,, has been thrown out of- courts ? ' ' Wolves are so tame in the northern I pan 01 ?jL jraso cpunxy, xexas, teat they come right up to the settlers1 doors to eat children. Dr. Vessmayer, an English vegetarian, tried to live on food costing no more than a penny a day, ana he is now at the point of death. .\ A Michigan minister who was about to be married asked ; the^ official to whom he applied for a license if. he didn't make a discount to the trade. - Hundreds of young women work for ? 45 cents a day making shirts-in New York City. . They think it more respectable to do this than to go xrafc to service. ...... Pittsburg boasts of the possession of a marvel in abov who "from sunrise to sunset enjoys good health andzomps arouhd like all children of' his age, but at dusk becomes entirely unconscious, and remains so .until morning." ; Tiller and McFadden remained for _ . three days a few doors from .the scene of their express robbeiy in St. Louis, and mino-led freelv with the crowd- It never occurred to the shrewd detectives to.-lookright under their noses for the thieves. When the Indians of Chili desire rain, they plant a sacred tree, which a sorceress climbs to " pray, while the others, dance around ahdnowl. Thenihe^all get drunk. If it doesn't rain, they get drunk again, and remain drunk until they fetch a shower. cember, -1877, for :F4isc<jvery tabling . ' electricity to be - applied economically * either as a sonree of heat, light; chemi- "?^ cal action, mechanical power, or as a means Of- transmitting intelligence. ]** .? Daring the year 188.9 there were posted in Great Britain S2,OOQjOOO letters^ of which one in every. thirteen - was franked. Next year the number arose to 169,000,000, although franking - 1 was abolished. At the present time the Q-umbtsr reaches the grand total of 1,280,000,000. a year. . .. By the last official returns, 244 per cent of the births in Nairnshire, Scot land, axe illegitimate, while in Aberdeenshire 50 per cent are of the same Idnd. In the county of Wigton L24 of the births are illegitimate, and most of Ehe .northern counties present an unslean bill of health. A new and formidable fighting ship has been built in England for the government'of Brazil She is named the Riachuelo, and is a steel armored turret ship, 305 feet long, having a displacement of 5,700 tons. She nas fiftyeisrht water tight compartments and "a *" ?- ^-*-1 v 7 ' ? n Deir oi steei armor eieven incues in thickness.. The grave of the celebrated Kit Carson is at Taos, N. M., and the Grand Army posts of that territory are about to take steps to erect a suitable monum'eai to his memory. A son of the old mountaineer is in the employ of exSenator Dorsey on his cattle ranche. . , ' , un the occasion of JSaker Pasha's battle at El Teb an English officer placed a revolver to the head of an Egyp- s tian and commanded him to advance. The Egyptian, quietly putting aside the weapon, said, in an astonished tone: "I advance!" adding proudly, '.'No; I am Van Egyptian," and he took to his heels. Nearly fifty years a^o a woman named Lois Lyman, of Cabot,- Vermont, began to plait the combings of her hair into a rope. It was half an inch thick, and of various shades, the hair having changed very materially during the half century. When she died a few days ago the rope was nearly 100 feet ' .long. Apropos of_the proposition to erect a memorial of Dickens, a correspondent of a London daily paper quotes a pass- " age from the novelist s will which will pjobably prove fatal to the project: "I conjure my friends on.no account to make me the subjectof?any monument, memorial or testimonial whatever.. I rest my claim to the remembrance of my country upon my published works." Carl Schurz, Franz Sigel and August Schelfert were fast friends in. their youth. Sigel and Schelfert were in tie same military class in a school in Ger- . . ^ many, the former being graduated forty-seventh and the latter fifth in a class of fifty. The three came to America together. Schurz is the Jioted politician and editor, Sigel became, the famous general, and Schelfert is a barber at Atlanta, Ga. Henry Watterson's short, trim, martial fizure is becoming very familiar to Washmgtonians. Ee'looks like an active young general as he shoots along the sidewalk or throughlhe capitol corridors without gloves or overcoat?his V right hand sheltered from the March wind in the pocket of his sack coat He has lived so much that you are apt to think that he I^PSived so long as to be old. But he is only 44. You see his youth: in the quickness with which he walks and talks and wor&s. ?10 is a veiy active man. You see him on the floor of the House, in the corridors, on the street, at a reception, at & dinner,, in his ofSce on Fourteenth street,* in his room at Welcker's, at John Chamberlain's late in the evening?always busy. He goes in for pleasure with -the same earnestness as though it were work. He is a thorough master of-the art .of living. He gets more out of a day in the '? , : 1 3 1 ai _T_ _ a way 01 Doca wurs anarpiay man a uoaea ordinary men.