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> . . . , - f. ^ WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1885. : " ? ? - u lUad Poet. J Tc Oertg* ifajrbard. fain on downy win? ' Would tr 7 witb toucher'mills to soar and sing! Younjr larks, Ow whom tut* cast-door ne'er has slauraed, M ' To lock ycu ia, "ali silent ar.d all damned 1" These pert* ?.?*?nted jrreat in other days. In writirg now, would have to mend their ways. They thought too much, and, cn their blinking Dert. With p]#in heroic couplets were content. gay But wo- to him who rashly now repeats p| The tne? *ure of a Goldsmith or a Keats I M Dnc fern, and only one, could serve him ^ Let no 13 poet venture on blank verse. If you'"?? orifrinality disguise it: Be surv that Aristarchus would despise it. ? " ? U'olfO tveep o* ?ne stuss. itemi-mocr (hjui u.u a..*. Be insifcoiflcant. and shun his fault. Bcctnn' sophisticate, and ne'er reveal Aujyht? f emotion you may ch:uice to feci; 'Tis ex* crabie form, 'tis most ill-bred: Son# c St.es not from the heart, but from the h'*??. ' -nte ,;hr;stmas verses in the month of June: J ax aary sin*: a summer tune; ohuDt elegies before the victim's dead? Tor Kiigazi nes want verse six months ahead /fc a. following' my advice, you've conquered fame, F* I not to sijrn in full your middle name, Mv lot in this regard was very sad; I oad no middle name?they thought me mad. v-... i ?v,? "SARNING THE RIGHT. jfae was young and delicate, and fair with the fairness of purity. Mark Mannering stood by her side, a | world-worn man of fhirty-ir e: not nee- ! essarily a man whom the world had taught her cruel ways, but a man who had buffeted fortune, who had earned his living from boyhood by close application to work, that had left him no time to become a pet of society. Yet for all "Brutus was an honorable man." lie felt so far the inferior of the graceful girl beside him that he could not summon sufficient nerve to tell her how dear she was to him, ! and how he wished to marry her and show the world this fresh creature, ! with her frank, speaking eyes, as the bright fairy who was lo lead him upward and onward through all the future. "Mermelie!*' called a high treble voice, and the golden opportunity was lost. Mermclle entered the sitting-room jyhose pleas nt white-curtained window's opened upon the honeysucklecmbowered veranda upon which they had been standing. She entered to meet a young, attractive man advancing toward her. "Mr. Tremnor, my dear, is not acquainted with Mr. Mannering," said her mother softly, "so I thought I had better call you."' Mermelle turned back to the piazza with her graceful, frank air. "Mr. Mannering, let me introduce yuu iu liiai.iut. The men bowed, but Mark bannering stood for a moment, then began making his adieu. The j'oung man h:.d ycd him with a look bordering on disiike, and was doubtless only too well pleased when the lirst caller took his departure. Theodore Tremnor was evidently a _ favorite with Mrs. Chesborough, and Lg of this he was doubtless aware, since her marked preference for the young man as a visitor at her hou-e was open1-T? ov>-*iKt? f \y avuiiitiwi </ ? in . tuvmv?? * Young Tremaor knew why his attent'ons lo Mrs. Ciie borough's daughter were enco_uraged. His father had recently died, r.nd lie was reputed to be worth property to the amount of near y half a million. The Chesboroughs were also wealthy and of a good family. Two weeks passed away, and in that time M:;rk Manneri:<g left the field clear for h's rival, for he absta:ned from again visiting the girl he loved because he knew so well her -mother destined iier fo :i wealthy marriage, and he k w his ciiaa e> with Mermelle w re leaned should his attentions become too frequent and assidu ous. The gay season was at its he'ght, when one night a party had be?n formed, comprising young Tremnor, Mrs. (Jliesborougti, ana Aievmene, to auenu the o era. Mrs. Chesborough, at the last minute, found her>clf unable to join them, and Tremnor, promising to call and take an aunt of his with him in her stead, the mother at last consented to allow Mermelle to accompany him. But his v orthy aunt, as Tremnor was well aware, was a large body who not only moved slowly, but rarely. Her opera days were well over, and though her nephew made a fe'nt of urging her ehaperonage, he knew well, beiore entering her abode, that nothing would induce her to leave her warm fireside on th's cold night The exclusive iife of the old lady (Tremnor's only relat.ve in the city) prevented her from hearing the many rumors current about her nephew. That he wa* eading the life of a fa;h&glfifc^onable young man she was '.veil aware; Baftit that rumor accredited him with ^Krge wca'th slie did not know. Had any one uhi -pered the word "money" in connection with her nephH|e;v she would have looked aghast. B "Money! Don't speak to me of his money!'' would have been her emphat1 ?' (4 IT a vrtn fViO 1 j MV IfjU iiUUi. XiL A 4.?.iX tiiwu^u ?.uu small property Lis father left him speedily enough, and now the debts his fashion anil folly have*led him into have made hi:n a disgrace to his family. What his wild course will lead him to is only too plain. Never mention his name again to me. His position in fashionable .-ocicty is Iought with disi hoi or " ? But the indignation of this frank spo .en iaay a a not rea?n ine outsiao world, so Mrs. Chesborough was not alone in 1 elieving Theodore Tremnor a young man o? fortune. It was the fashion for the party, ivl.cn, of cour-e, as on previous occasions, it had included a chaperon, to resort to a select dining-sa oon for supper when the pi rformance was over. To-night, as usual, young Tremnor drove to their select d resort. first his companion hesitated, but cscort took it so n:uch as a matter ! ourse that she found herself seated j d the lights and company of the kg-hall almost before she had t'.me Ibk. ?^ua;. wine was served, and preswere agaii whirling over the Bf t e c.ty. unconquerable drowsine.-s ^^po^session of Mcrmclle, and Hfciat she was yielding to a Hkep, yet utterly unabfb to SBshe at last lay back in the |^Ktate of complete unconM * ? ? * H?oded fields and woods |l| sea of light. H-ndor the ocean rocked EeRi tiie beach, while its away in the distance, Bee unbroken and perm this bleak shore, with m lighthouse, might have [ ceen seen a boat our rpon tne waters, j Slowly it i:cared a point o" nd : about which some lisherm n's nuts ! were gathered, and where a few >a lj boats lay rocking upon the waters. To reach tlii> point, however, the i boat n:.n must pass the promontory where stood the old tower like struc j turo we have described. As he drew near something lUc a f >i:it cry reached his ear. He listened; it came again, and seemed to c.nanate from the lighthouse. Then : small dame lit up. the h'gh window ; t flashed, then fluttered down ?the rucrcred old orav wall to the J ?~ ? CO o / | ground. He made all speed to land at the i nearest ointof safety, rnd made his way at once to the lighthouse. As he reached the s ot, lie again heard a woman's scream, and it wa> plain th t some one was calling for help at t e -umrait of the edifice.. He >pra z up the broken stairway. Dark r nnr! darker it grow, lit, only by the occa ional gle m from a slit-lik-.; window. Hj stru km t-hc> to ight his way. Suddenly he 1 enrd just ahead oi hira other fe t treading the winding stairway. They halt d, but the man from the boat persevered, and presently | stood facing a fashionably-:! ttired young man. I Hi - face was white as chalk. He at| tempted bravado, however, as-Lc saw i determination upon th? face of his pur suer. "Mr. Theodore Tremaor, what does this mean?" "It means chat you're a cursed fool, and you'd better turn back and go about your business." "Not until 1 find out who is in d:.sin this hnildinor at ?uch an llOUi*," said the other. As he spoke he attempted to pass the man, who now completely barred his passage upw. rd. As he tc&k a step forward, the other snatched from his } ocket a revolver, and took aim. Anticipating this, his companion dashe !, with one blow against Tremnor's shoulder, himself and his weapon scleral steps below him. It was the work o'' a moment, and the next he was l umuii" up luc sum Tr-mnor, struggling to his feet, scudded down th stairs, and lied through foot-path and field, till lie rcachcd a po'Dt where stood a carriage :ind driver. ' Drive like mad?stop for nothing? to Station. You will be well paid!" And the next train which left for London carried away Theodore Trorcnor on his way to the continent Meanwhile, Mermelle Chcsborough looked up from the rotten planks where hsrl lain hpnrintr naiicmt but the waves and the scuttle of rats near : t hand, to encounter with a shudder the fa e, not of the one she most dreaded and expected, but that of a deliverer ?the face of her friend, Mark Maunerir.%. How he came she did not ask. Briefly she told him of the evening's performance?of the circumstances which |>KfcCvT~R0~i :.i j.Vcuiuur*o puvrci4*I knew nothing since we left the restaurant till I opened my eyes to find myself alone here. Yet, I recall the circumstances, and guessed at the rest. I was drugged?drilled and brought OD {JO O here. K:\rk?what is that? He may come at any moment. Where can he have gone?"' "I met him on the staiiway on his **?? "? ? Ua IT'i 11 rtAf AAmn r?AW naj U|7. A-JUC iiu t| 1U uvt V.V.UV uv n Fear nothing; he is but too well pleased to Uee after meeting ir.e. Come with me?Mermelle?Miss Che?borough ?my beat is near. I will get you safe home to your mother." Mermelle broke into wild sobs of relief. "Oh, what kind fate was it that sent you to my deliverance?" She rose, and attempted to feel her way, with Mannering for a guide, down stairs. Monnnrinor o cfrrnncr r?rm about her, and bore her below as he would a child. Mrs. Chesborough was in a condition impossible to describe when her daughter, with Mark Manncring for a com1 panion, made her way into the house at four o'clock in the morning. Almost frenzied, the mother could not for some time comprehend the circumstances. When at last she did so, she rose and seized Mark by the hand. "What?what great thing," she cried, "can I ever do to thank you for this?" "There is one thins:,1' said Mark, modestly, "and it is a great thing, and it is this: I love your daughter dearly, and if I cannot give her great wealth, I can give her the protection that an honorable man can bestow. Will you give her to my care? Will yon consent to her becoming my wife?" Mrs. Chesborough hesitated but a minute. She saw that Mermelle was not to be questioned. She had already consented. , Without a word she took the hand of J her daughter and placed it within that of Mark Manncring. < "You have earned the right,'* she said, "and she is yours." c 1 Cane Sujjar as an Antiseptic. Professor Lueke, a Straslourz surgeon, strongly recommends powdered 'iane-sugar as an antiseptic dressin^.-fopwounds. Hitherto it has b en used in equal parts with napthaline, or with' one part of iodoform to five of sugar.,, In eases of wounds united by suture-! the mixture is put up in gauze nnd applied to the part; where the:*, is less-of j skin the sugar is sprinKiea airecuyover the part. The sugar dressing is iixed in place by some layers of gauze de-J prived of fat, over which a layer of gutta-percha was applied, and the Whole; secured by a bandage. The sugardressi ing may remain from eight tp.f^bk days without the sugar dissolving; Theciw^ratinn fmm tll<? WOllftd 15" '(TdUallV'l distributed through the sugar; arni it is j only when the layer of sugar" is "too thick?more than about one-fifth ot an "i ' inch?that lumps are formed.- -The n | wounds have a healthy appcaranceTrrr-1 j der the sugar, the dressiugs are not of | fensive, and bacteria can not be found I in them. ' ' i Bishop William Taylor, who is about1 to go to Africa to engage in missionary work, has determined to teach the - natives English by the phonetic system of Mr. Eiias Longley of Cincinnati, one of the oldest and best-known phonographi cnril ??r? rr rnfrirm ore r?f t p IT VlO auvi v States. He believes that this stup"wiTl largely aid the spread of religion; - He quaintly says: "If taught to read the Did orthography, as soon as they are enabled to understand the Holy Scriptures the Devil would thrust under their eyes all manner of infidel and corrupting reading matter, but the purity of the fonetie alaphabet has not yet been detilcd in that way * V ! COL. HAiJNHY'S 1SEVENGE. ! ! i "Xed BuntlinoV Ite;n:nisccnc'j of the ! Seminole War. When the massacre of the Caloosahatchie ended tlie truce which had for : a brief time suspended operations ! against the Scniinoles, writes "Xed ! I v , j,r t,._ ! I Jtsuntime in uie i\ew iotk it unu, uiu j war opened with renewed activity. The ' naval force on the coast?to which the i writer hereof, then a midshipman, act- j ing as lieutenant, was attached?con- i sisted of the topsail schooner Flirt, j Wave, and Otsego, commanded respectively by Lieutenant Commanding I J. T. McLaughlin. Lieutenant John j Rodgers (lute admiral) and Passed Midshipman Edmund Templar Shubrick, about whom I will shortly write a tragic h story. The army force consisted of the 3d art llery, 6*th infantry, 2d dragoons, and a part of the 7th infantry. The 8th infantry came later, under command of Col. Worth, who | soon alter was promoieu. ami, reuevj ing Gen. Ztchary Taylor, pushed ac! tive operations until the war was pracJ tically cn?i<*I am thus particular I now because in these pa2>e s all thi'se parties w'l have a place. Col. Har :ey was raging mad when he reached Key Bi<cavne on onr schooner, swearing the bitterest vengeance on the red murderers of is brave men For it was murder in the broadest sense. The men fell not as soldiers in battle, but were surprised in bed, shot down, slain and seal ei, with no chance for n'<i>ta:;cc. On the island ' . . . - ? j WUicll iorms uape rioriua mere ^ere I several companies of the 8-.i artillery I and twocompani s of tli<- 3?1 dr goons. ! Harney as lieutenant coloncl ranked all I the officers at the \ ost, and the naval men having a la go number of cypress ! canoes that had been made expressly i for our use in following the Indians np J the river, lagoons, and bays along the I r?n?(c(- ni?.in hi>! nl.iiis e:isv of accom plishment. Calling for volunteer? to go on the expedition, tin; brave Harney soon had 20 1 picked men, sailors and soldiers, ready for a start. I forget just now the names of all the officer- who went along. 1 am almost sure that General Sherm n. now retired, was one?or he was at t!i-' o?t. a lieutenant. I knowthat the late Gen. Ord \tas there, as will be scon in later lines i, this sketch. Lieut. Rodn y. of Delaware, a gallat dragoon, aiso Capt. Fulton, of the same regiment, Francis Key Murray, John Contee, and Lieut. Roger were in the naval contingent. "Young man," said Harney to mo when v e were litting out the canoes, "have you : ny small, strong ro c oa board of the Otsego?" "Yes, col;> e'. Here is a coil of deep-sea lead-1 ne, v? h ch will hoi I a strain of 5 0 pounds, and it is small, as you see!" "It is the very thing! Send the < oil of roue to mv boat. I'll make srood use of it before we setback!"he answered, clinching his remark w th one of his usual bitter oat lis against the "murdering red niggers-.'1 To,make the story - .short, we- jrot aw:.y just alter dark, provisioned for ten days, but armed and munitioned for a week's ste. dy fighting, if it came to that. We had thirty boats and fanoes, averaging about seven men in ea-h. We pad it led as silent v as pos-i1-1 ?i.i r.._4. T-\ n..? Die lip IV UlU run .is 'iius, ao tuc muuiu of the Little Miami river, and entering it pu-hed rapidly up into the ev rgla ics. Everything depended on our taking the Indians by surprise. The strictest ord rs were given not to lire a gun, o: even give :m order in a Iuud tone. An experienced guide was in the first canoe, and tiie others followed in line as close as one * ould be kept to another. It took all n ght to | ass up th sha | low, sinuous stream and get fairly into the glades. I lien, leai-ing to De a seovered, wc lay all day close on a little island, wat li ng through otir glasses for smoke or igus of occupation on distant islands in sight of ours. Our vigilance and care were rewarded. We | saw on one of tiie large t islands evident signs of occupation, but no s'gn of alarm to show that our presence in the glades had been discovered. We knew that we were near the haunts of "Sam i Jones.'" or Aro aka. the oldest chief in the Seminole nation, and of Chikik:t the giant fishing cnie', who was supposed to be at the head of the party that committed the mas acre we were now to avenge. All day, resting andsleep'ng as much [ as wc could, we laid by, eating cooked provisions, making no fire, and wa'ting I for night to cover our further rnoveI ments. And right glad we were when ! it came, and just cloudy enough?not too dark?to cover our approach to the island, which we knew was occupied. Every man was now on the alert. Arms were inspected, orders given to keep in line until close to the island. Then certain detailed boats were to lay off around it to cut off escape, while;throo i landing parties were to advance and ! surprise the enemy, not a shot to be I fired until we were discovered by the Indians. "Then," said Harney, with a bitter oath, "go in for work. Kill or capture all vou see?young or old, he 1 > r> ? ^1 1 ! or sne. op are mem o my ks lucy joined my poor boys over on the Caloosahatcfiie!'" On, slowly and steadily, muffled paddles rising and falling with measured cadence, we pushed through shallow water and stiff saw-grass. It was not | more than six or seven miles, apparently that we had to go, yet we were j fcill near midnight getting into position for action, close up to the tree-covered i -island. We had so far heard r.o sound except the occa^onal yelp of some Ini dian dog on the island. But now, understanding the:r order?, the officers of j each detachment moved forward. l....Harney and his dragoons, with car[ bines, took the center, the artillerymen, farmed witii musfcets, tne rigni; me na;Vy,men the left, supplied with United [;Stites Yager rifles. r. Soon the landing parties were on shore. Yet no sound of alarm. "For; ward" came the order, passed in whisj.pers from offic r to man, along the ! Jme. On?and soon a scent of smoke t jrreets onr nostrils. Still onward, and I. D a chorus of 3-elping curs break the stillness of the ni^ht. . 'Forward?>iouble quick!" | Then in a few seconds we bu-st into a village of palm-thatched houses, | with smoldering tires aro :nd and among them, and a horrible yell and a scattering fire from the startle ! redskins greet us as we rush in, firing as ws go. It was the quickest bit of work I ever saw, yet the surprise was so complete that it was hardly like a fight. Fifteen or twenty shots on their side, a full volley , on ours, and we had nothinsr more to shoot at, for all who were not- down, dead or wounded, fell to the earth in submission, except four or five, who fled off in the darkness among-the trees ; and shrubbery. Among these was seen the gigantic Chikika, dropping his rifle from a broken arm as he ran. A bravo private in the 2d dragoons?his name was Hull, and be was made a sergeant soon after?saw Chikiki as be ran, and followed, carbine in band. He never lost sight of the chief, tut kept cm untfl i he could get a sure shot. Wounded and bleeding Chikika found he could not escape. He halted, threw up his left uninjured hand, and cried out in his broken English: "\Tr? cVmnf! mn trnod Iniun?heaD good! No shoot!" "Take tlx t for Caloosahatchie!" shouted Hall, as he sent a ball through the chief s heart An instant later ho tore the scalp from Chikika's head, and then ran back to the vil age to present it to Col. Harney. The colonel was standing by some wounded officers and men of the comma d looki gsternly at the "roup of terrified prisoners and a small i ile of? ead a:.d dying India: s. - -t' ? ??. -~:i -fwvtv. mv "X>nag uiiitt luu vi 1XVS14X *jjj boat!" he cried out to one of his men; "and be quick about it We'll na\ e a hanging-bee before sunrise!" "Woman's Devotion. My son, I am pained to learn thai you are becoming somewhat cynical in your views concerning the natural tendencies and qualities of womanki-d in general. Remember your mother was a woman. The only thing I can recollect at all derogatory to her blessed memory is that she was too coy with rod and household boot-jack. The natural consequence is, you are rapidly running to seed, and fast becoming a tit suoject ior <onnemnaoon Dy au members of your mother's sex. Your mother was a good woman, but she just escaved being a perfect motlier when she held her hand aloof from the bump of your self-esteem. it is a wonder to-me that the Lord don't permit the spirits of departed irothers to come back to this realm just to shake the nonsense out of their offspring, or paddle them with the proverbial golden slipper. xou sneeringiy remans, m tnc casual manner akin to your class, that woman's devotion is a sham. You also add that the greatest devotion of woman is laid upon the shrine of fashion. Now, my young limb of the sidewalk posture, your mother was a lady of fashion. I cannot say that she wore out your fathe's patience teasing or ^ a s ealskin sacque and a forty-dollar bonuet. I have no recollection of this; still, she may have done s-o. Once, I well remember, you got into a street fracas and had your Grecian nose demolished of its pristine line of beauty. You ran to your mother; she applied a twenty-dollar lacc handker chief to staunch your life blood, when a ten-cent towel would have sufficed. She didn't stop to question the cause of the fracas. No; bnt she ruined that i elegant bit of lace in the utter aban? ? aonmenc 01 maiernaiinsuncianu uiuw erly devotion. The genuine cause of your nasal organ's disaster was?you tried to walk over a poor little street Arab, who proceeded to do you up after the style set down in the volume known as "The Manly Art of Self Defence.11 --Thgt.*my noa.-ht ? ?fti??plo 'ol'Wgttaan's t' *x cn/v?im/?n going beh'nd the retnrns to get at the cause. While you are horning the midnight gas, busily eagaged with the hemispherical ivories on a green-baize table, there's a light in a sensible girl's parlor not burning for thee. One of these days you will open your eyes to the tact tnat trie iusty-iimoea mecnanic got the deadwood on you, also got the girl 1 you thought you had, sure pop. A'ter he's gone and married her, you'll lu? 1 around a big lump of misanthropy and swear that woman's devotion is all a ' myth. Boy, you've got to come down from I your perch. There are too many of the ! prime articles, homo sum, floating j around this part of the globe, for wo- ' men to yearn after such game as you \ are. You must drop this vapid ignis fatuus of vour foolish brain and buckle down to biz, else you'll get left when 1 the cake of domestic bliss is passed. A woman's heart just gushes foun- 1 tains of pure devotion. If you don't 1 receive some of the pellucid drops it's ' bccause you are proving by your daily 1 comings and goings that you are only worthy of an existence which is envir- 1 oned by the cold walls and chilly sheets yt a poor old bachelor's proscription.? IT. S. Keller, in Cambridge Tribune. j Advantages of Limited Museums. i . ; The value of every collection intended ] for scicntific purposes and public use? i books, natural science objects, ethno- < graphical specimens, it matters not; , what?does not depend u:>ou quantity | or variety, but the completeness of its . classes or their subdivis ons. A refer- | ence library for instance, that contained every publication of consequence relating to the Mississippi Valley, would be preferable to one more numerously supplied with books on American history, but wanting many in every department; or an ar, hajoio^ical cabinet able to show all that can be shown of | the flint implements of the United States, but little else besides, is of a i higher order than one in which there < are more and varied specimens, out | every class incomplete. What thor- t oughness is to the intellect, complete- . ness is to a museum: one, an adequate i knowledge of whatever the mind pro- i fesses specially to occupy itself with, , its parts and its relations; the other, | the possession of all the types, sorts j and varieties in fulness, or books that , go to make up one or more classes. If | thisview is correct, its practical accept- | ance may be insisted upon: for, if in- 11 corporated into a museum undertaking . not as a theory but what should be realized, it would, by keeping before it a | definite and fixed aim, steady and direct | efforts into proper channels of activity, j and check nap-hazard collecting? j Oscar W. Collet, in Popular Scicnce | Monthly for Jan. i A well-educated person who possess- ! es a college sheepskin, reads his Bible, I his Shakspearc and the daily papers i seldom uses more than 3,000 or 4,000 i words in actual .conversation. Accurate thinkers and close rcasoners, who : avoid vague and general expressions i * -i? K-.i j , ana wait 1111 me} uuu a num mat c.x" i actly fits their meaning, employ a larg- i er stock, and eloquent speakers may ' rise to a command of 10,000. Shaks- i peare, who displayed a greater variety of I expression than probably any writer in < any language, produced all his plays i with about 13,000 word*. Milton's < works are built up with 8,000, and the , Old Testament says all that it has to say with 5,462 words. In the English language there are, all told, 70,000 j words. I - ? I Sierra Valley, Sierra count)', CaL, is Dne of the prettiest but most isolated places in the State. It has no telegraphic communication with the rest of the world, and can only be reached by a difficult stage ride of twenty-five niles. I Over-Population in Germany. Germany is growing fast a prc-cmihefctly industrial country, for which the export of its productions is the condition of providing the population with food and raw materials, and at the same time her nonulation is increasing more cgpidly than that of any other country. The average yearly increase on 10,COO inhabitants since 1881 was in France 26, inj Great Britain 101, in Germany 115, notwithstanding a large emigration. Tie population of the German empire irfsts p csent limits was in round numbers 26,000,000 in 1816, it U now 45,2?,000, while 3,500,000 have cmiirratefL o This increase results almost exclusively from the excess of births over deaths, while the feeble growth cf the Fnench population is still partly due to immigration, which proves that the increase of wealth is stronger than that of the people. In Germany it is the reverse, the amount of expenditure caused Dy tne acceding num Ders is aoc equaled by a correspondingly growing income; In Prussia the number of those exempt from all direct taxes?i. e., whose income did not exceed ?25, had risen within five years by 1,500,000; It was more than 7,000,000 in 1882; the statist cs of other Germany states shcjjv a similar result, the poor fates have increased everywhere in an alarming pro pqiuon, ana ine auiuuci ui vagxauis aiid tramps have become a general P%ue. Our industrial production suffers from chronic plethora, its net produce does not correspond to its immense expansion, still less is a real amelioration of the situation of ihe working classes to.be discerned. The supply of labor gfecerally exceeds the demand; consequently wages do not rise, and the lower straia of the population can absorb comparatively little of the mass of products which are daily thrown upon the market, because the scantiness of their earnings does not allow them to satisfy eorresnondin^lv their wants. But in theiigher classes, also, all the callings are overcrowded, the increase of academical students has been abnormal and fat exceeding the demand, and a considerable part of this surplus of trained forces, finding no employment, perishes or launches into adventures. In short everywhere we find an enhanced struggle for existence, which engenders dissatisfaction and hopelessness, and furnishes social democracy with fresh re cnnis. " ft, is this overpopulation which is the source of the large German emigration. True, without it the pressure would stall be stronger, yet the opinion which would consider this outflow as an unmixed boon is erroneous. Germany has comparatively more children under 15 years than any other country?16,016,045 in a population of 45,500,000? and they represent unprotective elements to be sustained by the rest. With the emigration it is very different; 44.8 percent, of it belongs to persons of 20 to 40 years; thus the same number of emigrants represents a much larger of lakor^ than the corres punu-l-oj^ UUUlUCt Vi LilC ?YCI ilgC fcion. We educate at a great expense productive forces in order to lose them when they are grown to maturity, and the foreign countries to which they go reap what we have sown.?Dr. Geffeken in the Contemporary Review. Tolled By a Dog. "A man can get along without friends if he has an intelligent dog,1'said a Jackson street bookkeeper, yesterday, is a Day reporter entered his store, riie bookkeeper touched a fur rug at bis feet, which got up and shook itself. "Dinner time, old fellow," ho said, nnintincr to a low table standing under r~ o v a peo; in the wall. "I shall never forget, said the bookkeeper reminiscent[y, as he buttoned his coat and shook himself into shape for lunch, "that old Kew England village where stood a *rav, moss-grown stone church, and by its side a little weather-stained cottage. A. lonely old man, the sexton, lived there. He had outlived the hopes and Eriends of his youth, but was utterly ilone but for the companionship of a coble dog. It was a familiar sight to see h'm hobbling back and lortn to rne cottage, always accompanied by his faithful companion. "The old man could often be heard muttering fragments of talk as he went lis slow,unsteady way.as if in conversation with his dumb friend, who never left his side, but gazed with a look of human intelligence in his master's face at the least sound of his voice. At tee tillage the sexton would exchange a j quiet word with a friend, and making ! little purchases for himself and his dog i set out for the cottage, liis basket upon ' bis arm. But even here the dog would relieve his care and gently but firmly take the basket in his mouth, trot on before with an air of joyous satisfac- J tion. He seemed to. take a peculiar pleasure in the ringing of the bell of the church, and waa always with his nld master when he summoned the people to holy service. "Once when the bell-rope broke he :limbed the stairs of the old bell tower with the sexton and repeatedly watchjd him ring the bell from the loft. But irif? dav the old sexton wlio was seized with his last illness, and in spite of the mxious solicitations of the dog, could not ring the bell the following Sunday and soon after passed quietly away, his band resting on the head of his poor follower whose mourning was inconsolable. The dojr was visibly affected by the tolling of the bell. From the grave the faithful creature had to be taken by force, and would return there immediately on being released. "One day he was observed to go to the ihurch and soon after was seen in the j belfry where his master bad lor a time rung the Sabbath chimes. Sere he appears to have reached the bell with his paws and to have swung it, for it tolled Dut a single mournful note as of sorrow ind despair. Immediately after the log was seen to look down from the tower into the churchyard, where his master lay buried. Then with a low mournful whine, reaching slowly forward, lie suddenly leaped out into the iir and fell a lifeless moss on the ~ ' ^ AtfAT* rl?r? 1"?. ? LLiUUliU. A5 SU1C OO uiu uw died of grief, feeling with unerring instinct that life without affection is worse than death. So, you see, I take my friend to lunch and he keeps my feet warm and soothes my perturbed spirit by the intelligent sympathy of his eyes. I tell you a man?a lone man? without a dog is a subject for pitv."? SL Paid Daij. Only two women in the world's history have ever been honored by eauespfnfMrto on/) nnviAiic tr\ itiiau otakuuj) auu vui.*vv?w ?v Queen Victoria is one of them. Fancy tier Britannic Majesty on horseback. The Prince of Wales is only forty-five. But if you count his age on the littlo darkey's plan, by the fun he's had, he'd be most three hundred, says tas Boston ; Globe. ] { . An Armless Woman's Feats. "Now, let me show you what I can do. Dinner'U. be here in just a moment. Thread a needle! Of course I can; see?" and suiting the action to the word, Mrs. Thomson picked up a fine needle with the large and second toe of the right foot, held it tightly between the tips, and taking some yarn in her left foot, rolled the end deftly on a small smooth stone, put it to her mouth by bending her body almost double, and deftly inserted the yarn in the needle, more easily than a bachelor threads a large needle with very fine thread. Next she took a hand some tidy on which she was crocheting and with remarkable deftness held the work with her right foot while with her left she guided the needle in and out, catching the threads with ease and fashioning the figure as fast as "my lady" in the sitting-room does with her soft hands. Her right eve giv.'ng her some trouble during this work, she deftly pushed back the spectacles which she wore and with the second toe rubbed the eyelid Tuen she bent forward and brushed back a few stray hairs from her forehead. Taking up the pen between the large and second toe of her left foot, and nolding a slip of paper with her right toes, she wrote in a feminine hand, small and rather neat: "He that lends to all shows good will but 11 - * -C T ItlliO StJIlbe. 2i.nu jzj. xj. jliiuiu-vu. Born without arms, Dec. 23, 1839, Ga." This written, she put the pen down, took up a blotter with her left foot, placed it over the writing, and dried the ink. Taking up a pair of large scissors with the large and third toe of the left foot, she cleverly cut off the portion of the paper on which she had written. "Here comes my dinner. Now you can sec me eat?not that it's such a sight, but you may find it odd. to see one eat with toes instead of fingers." Mr. Thomson spread out a napkin on the platform, and placed on it the dinner of a person in good health. Mrs. Thomson turned around in her seat, took a cup of tea in her foot, stirred it up with a spoon held in her right toes, and half bending, half raising the cup to her lips, drank oft' the tea and placed the cup on the platform. Then she grasped a flat-handled silver knife in her 1< ft toes, caught a fork between the first two toes of her right foot, and cut some steak into piece-. Part of it was tough, but she had no more trouble in cutting it than an ordinary person would have. A piecc of merit held on the fork was transferred to her mouth, and was followed by a piece of bread broken from a slice by her large and second toe . As soon as she had finished this novel meal, Mrs. Thomson continued: -"Iforgot to tell you about my schooling. O, yes, I went to school. The pupils were kind, and I had a little raised platform for my use. I held my books in my toes, and read ard -*udied as well as the rest of the g. is. I held a slate in my right foot and the pencil between the toes of my left and managed to figTire as well as" anyone. My right limb is shorter than my left, and I learned to write with my left foot, a; you have seen. I learned all that was taught in the common schools of Georgia Tbefore the war."?Detroit Times. To Find Gold And Silver. A well-known contractor and builder now living in this village has recently perfected an instrument by means of which he is able, as he says, to discover the location of hidden gold or silver or of either metal in the shape of ore. He won't talk mnch about it, because he has not yet obtained his patent. He calls the instrument a mineral rod. To a friend he said: "I take a small, wide-mouthed b-'ittle and put into it a combination of minerals. Then 1 insert two slender pieces of whalebone about ten inches long; after which the mouth of the bottle is closed air-tight with wax, and a buck[ skin cover is drawn over the mouth and ! tied around the neck of the bottle with | a strong cord saturated with shellac varnish. The combination of metals I fV./ > pnwot ti-ViioVi will nnf Via ^ivnlo-pd JO U.V OV!.lVU O ' even when tho patent is obtained." To operate this rod the inventor takes the ends of the whalebones in his hands so that the bottle is above his hands and his thumbs between the ends of the whalebones. In'this position he walks over the supposed location of the precious metals until the right spot is reached. 'J hen the bottle drops down, bending the "whalebones double if the attraction is great. "There is no magic about it;" he said' ! to dav. "It is simple enough. Certain combinations of metals produce certain, magnetic effccts. By experiments I found the combination which would, in my hands, be attracted by gold and silver. A ?20 gold piece was placed under a plank without my knowledge to see if it would attract the. boltle. I was directed to tell under which portion of another plank it had been placed. The bottle bent down and over toward the right plank while I was twenty feet away. I really believe that it would be attracted by ?11,000 in gold placed one mile away if there were no counteracting attraction. 1 can make a rod to find copper, one to find iron, or one to find hard coal. The rod is good onlv; F/->t fnr TrViirh it } * intended. ? ? | When l explained tbe matter to the ed! itor of The Scientific American some time ago he laughed, and said if it would work in'oue man's hand it would in another's. My only answer is an j actual trial. I can do it. Other men who happen to have as much. electricj ity in them as I have c.an handle the j rod successfully. Theory may laugh | at it, but I am ready to do the deed any time." The inventor is. about 65 years old. tie has Dcen in tne iumDer ana piaining-mill business for years, and has also taken contracts for all sorts of buildings, including wooden bridges.?Keio York Suji. * * , America promises to become the greatest wine-producing country in the. world. Ten years from now our annual wine product will j robably amount to 100,000,000 gallons. Even theu the industry will be only in its infancy.. I California is a jgp-eat wine State, but as yet she has cultivated very nuie 01 ner | grape area. 'J here are three great wine centers in this country. The lirst is the Pacific slope, the second is the Piedmont region, or table lands between the Allcghanies and the Blue Ridge, including Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and parts of Kentucky nnd Tennessee, the Indian Territorv, with large parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Ohio and New York. We have 100 acres adapted to grapes for every one acre that France can show. ' A learned professor claims that he las discovered lately that "Nystagnus, or oscillation of the eyebails, is an epileptiform affection of the cere- [ cellular oculomotorial centers." MALTESE AND ANGORA. Something About a Sort of Pets that Many Ladies Prefer to Small Dogs: "Is it possible," asked a reporter, "that Maltese and other fancy eats are taking the place of dogs as ladies'pets? It is said that in Washington ladies go out shopping taking with them Maltese cats fastened with gilt chains to their girdles.' "Well, I don't know whetner cats will ever snpplant dogs in the affections of the ladies," laughingly replied Surgeon B. G. Dovey, as he sat in his office at No. 26 West Fourth street* in ront of a door marked "Private, where both dogs and cats were for -sale and under medical and surgical treatment; "but there is no .doubt that the Maltese and Angora cats have become great favorites. Still, there is no great c r demand for the former tiian tnere was three years ago. The Angora cat has probably increased in popular favor, and now, on any line day one may see ladies driving in Central park with the bcnntifnfr wwtluies in their Iapi The Malte e, too, are often taken for a dr to, and both they. and the Angoras seem to enjoy the fresh air fully as much :'s their rn "stresses do. .No, .cats are not often taken out walking. 1 A cat IS not iUiJU Ui lOLia nroi&a nunc t ere are no fences to climbs and dogs may b * encountered, but the lazy lux-' ury of a carriage seems to suit" theml The Maltes and Angora <-ats -are very docile and affectionate. The Maltese,; probal ly, can.be more easily and, thoroughly domesticated than any other of the feline tribe. They are less expense than the peerless Angora, but still they come-prettylngh. I can sell a full-grown male for about $12, and male kittens fcr from $8 to $10 each. The females are cheaper, being worthabout $2.each- A well-grown Maltese cat should weigh about twelve pounds. They are long-lived, and, if ' properly treated, should : tta:n a score of years. 4 f l%i* n 1 f A a periwl iU'dllCSU * an 3ijvuiu wu (uivgel her ?late-colored, without a particle of white. Most of them have six toes and verv lar<re feet, i-ut thev mav be pure-bred and have small feet and only fire toes. They came originally from the island of Malta, but to-day America, or even New York state, produces more Maltese cats than Malta does. "The Maltese cats, as a rule, are hardy, but they are usually kept so closely confined to the house, and often feed so injudiciously, that they; are liable to :et indigestion, torpid liver, and fit-. When the fits appear -death is likely to be close behind They axe brought to me often when there is no time to treat them. Somc-tmes I am called upon to attend a cat afflicted with what the owner think* is an abces-, or u tumor, but which :requently proves to b: a cancer. Nothing then can help them except an operation, but if the disease has not made very great progress I can generally operate sue cessfully. With do<rs cancer, is much' more common, and I often have to remove it. Sometimes. I u?cother, sometimes not, as the circumstances require^ ,but I can save life far more frequently than surgeons who treat human patients. "A litter of Maltese kittens numbers from three to seven. They grow quickly, and are very playful and interesting. The Angora cat is as different as possible from the Maltese. My wife takes exclusive charge of our stock, and is ay devoted to them as though they were children. The Angora came, and cornea yet, from Persia, lut we raise a good many in this country. They are jf various colors?pure white, black, rvhite and black, yellow and white,..; gray and white, steel and white, and mottled?but all are alike beautiful. Their hair is very abundant, long, fine, and soft as silk. Their tails are as bushy as those of foxes. Their ears are small and far apart, and. their eves are large, sagacious, ana of a lijht olive color. They live from twenty-five ?o thirty years. In price they average, for male kittens $40, and for full-grown males ?125; for female kittens $2o, and for full-grown females $ll0. The Aneora cat is, i think, the handsomest, small animal that lives."?X. JVSuru ? ? - w. A Fall Moon in His Room. A.n extremely dignified elderly bachelor who was wi d in his youngeridavs, but who had been a choice blossom of propriety, lo! these many years,4 lives at oar house this winter. There-is an ancient stovepipe, hole. through the wall which divides the bachelors room from an unoccupied one, which hole is covered and hidden by wall-paper, and the bachelor knew not of its existence. He had made a few bets on the election as js .the custom of bachelors,-, whether old or young, and on Saturday night last he collected those bets and treated the "boys," aged from 50 to 70 years. He is such a stanch old democrat and had lost all his bets for many .-years; hence it is not at an strange mat upon this occasion he became as "glor.'ous" as Tarn o' Shaunter aforetime- At a late hour he came home in what had been his normal nightly condition twenty years before, and stumbled up to his rpom. Now, it so chanced that there . was a visitor in the unoccupied room that night, the gaslights rwhereby clir??r? WimR- .t.hrt' TOOm through the paper that covered the; round stovepipe hole. The bachelor saw that light at once, and gazed at-it with eyes of horror. Terror-stricken, he ran" to a friend's room, and bursting the door he wailed in a > voice loud enough to waken everv. inmate in the house: "Take care of me Charlie, I've got them again. I have not had them for.twenty-seven years, but .they Have come back, again. . Save me, Charlie,v save ine!" Charlie endeavored . to soothe him by asserting that he was all right, etc., whereupon the old fellow roared: "I know I have them for I saw a full moon in my room! as full as a tick'l"?Cor. Portland Argus. m ? ? j Tricking a Wild Duck. : j A Manitoba paper t lis of .an ingenious method of securing a ..stock of-bens practiced by a bachelor vrho lives in a secluded 'corner of the hills, di tant from neigh'- ors. Discovering the nest of a wild duck near his shanty, he removed, the eggs and placed an equal cumber of hen's eggs n the nest In due time the wild duck found that she u-n> the bewildered mbther of a flock of chickens. Not that she knew they vv'cre chickens?she did not know, what they were. Their bills were net right, their' feet were all wrong, and they were of every color; they could not swim and. could not understand. A more astonished wild duck was not to be found in Manitoba. The bachelor placed lm misbegotten chickens in a basket and took care of them, while the old duck returned to a neighboring pond, feeling that she had in some way been shamefully imposed upon. A colored citizen of Lowndes County, Mississippi, has named his thirtieth child Grover Cleveland. wnrx X&-HH5IOK. ' ' < - The Jersey farmer felt the, shake -: On Sunday's sudden fierce earthquake. And shivered, as if racked with-pain; He looked around, in mortal dreacL And, seeing- nothing, shook his head, iiut leeoiy-smim ^, iimpiy saia: . "I've got the blasted '*hakes' ?gata." ?New Tori: Journal. Dr, Paxto:\ of New York, says that the Scotch arc the; only people who have succeeded in solving the difficult problem of combining punch with Piety. The latest freak in ladies' head-gear IQ tKo ur?ow^Tviru>r hf?Tinpf; " Tfc has a hug t rosette, simulating a penwiper, on top. Must be veiy "handy for reporters in pnblic: Jgathetingsu^-"3tfttrlington Free I'ress. * Twenty-five years ago there were fifty cats where there is only one to-day, says a statistician^jind the' Philadelphia Call adds th'-Tfc .twenty-five years ago. there was one set of furs where * there arc fifty to-day. At bay: He?"Sow snnbby yoa are < with these young -men. ' ~ThatT last one is quite b??jccn up.'; She :(who lives in a collegiate town)?"I really. cannot help it; I ani'sotired or educating other people's children."?Life. A mendicant approached a Weitchester man on the < anC.the oQier day, and said: "Dear sir, I hive lost iny lesr^' to which-the Westchester man "replied, as rhe hurried aw y: "My. de^r jirieaad, I have not seen anything of it."'?Westchester Local yews. . "is your overcoat at f nomer; assea a merchant of hisr clerk, who came shi verio ?~irrfo Ifis'Sffi'ee, '/^o, sir," he cheerfully rrpl ed; "fcrnt my otrter is at my uncles.'' - "As neither of them knew what the other, thought, the business of the day proceeded 3.s usuaL-^ ... A lawyer in one of- tho courts lately threw an inkstand1" 'at another's' head. The court required him'to'apologize for it He did so. and. added, "WhileJ am about it I may as weil apologize beforehand for throwing another inkstand at him the jQi^t chance 1 get/" wnac is tue .ufflerence oetweeii toe man who is "temsfixed, .with horror" and a leopard's tail?. Answer: One is "rooted to the sp6t" and the other is spotted to the root. ' (P.. the leopard's, tail is not spotted to the toot, this conundrum is declared o^-Norristown Herald. . * The well-grounded belie? that money is all-powenul h:is sustained a severe blow. A theatrical company is traveling over the State with..& play called "Power of Money,"-and it doesn't'pessess sufficient power to draw a house big enough to 'p;iy their hotel bills.? NcrrisloiDK-IkrcUd7~ - ner laying rt qnesc.-L.uy is Tciy ill -^dangerously iIL Her mamma is'very anxious about her. 4'Say, mamma, am I going to die?'1 asked the little patient "Hush, child; you surely don't want to break your poor " toother's heart?" "No, ma dear- only, if I die, I want you-.to put all my dolls into mourning!'';?Zondagsblad. _ -Parson-Wbongdoodle Baxter;, distin- - iiniHnil gu shed himsei once more at the funeral of an aged colored manr "Our diseased brudder was married foaa times durK*g-lHs4ife," sa d Whangdoodle; "but only one oh de widows am so fortunate as to be able to survive him l/inor pnnno"!i tA hp nrpspnt nn Hi< Itooh soieninious occasbun.'''?Texas Siftings. An inspector, who had been explaining to a class that the- -land of the world was not continuous; said to the boy who happened-to be standing nearest to him: ''Now, could your father walk round the world?" "" "No, 'sir," was promptly answered. "Why not?'1 "Because lie's dead," was thealtoeeihcr unlooked for response^?AU theTear Bound. He had-jttst'had'kis hair cat and returned home- 'Hum T- h? says, after examining himself in th? glass jcritically. "I gue*s I shall have to go ba<ck to the barber's shop again. This'll never do!" "What's the matter?^ "says his wife; "has' he cut your hair too long?" "No, confound him; he's gone and cut it too short . Til make him cut i$ over again.'1?FrencJi-Paper.. ... . . There are a number of .very! eligible young men of Pembina County, Dakota, but no young women. ' Although it is not spring, the young, men's fancy lightly turns to thoughts "of love, and. pooling their issues, they, have deputed one of their Dumber to" go to Boston and secure wives for the rest. It is commendablefor theyoung men to take unto themsol .es wives,' but why go to Boston? r V; The Tartr-.ry young man who breaks his engagement with his girl does so at his peril, for then he has to' engage himself to the next older sister, if anything happens to her he has to take the next one; ami so ondowa. .The/family that matrimonially catches a Tartar doesn't let go its grip until grim .death has been very busy, for Tartar families are always blessed with a large bevy of girK?Water bury American. A Texas cattleman married a refined vmmcr Lftdv belonging to the besLsocic ty of Daila-. Afnerid meeting him shortly after his marriage congratulated him on his hapj>v fortune! "It's all right, but I had to" make sacrifices," replied the newly-made husband,..shaking his head. . "What , sacrifices?" "Pre had to sire up going to bed with my boots and s?>nrs- on when <f come home tired.''?Texas: SifUngs. ,\f_ At a -sewingockcle all the women were talking,, and some of the subjects eot hopelitssly confused, ?or instance, the snbject of < rickets and -'ehnrch choirs, "I never heard sneh &;-fcorrid noise as they mad* lust 'Sunday,-' said one woman, referring to the .choir. "Nor I either," said another, thinking she referred to the Fall crickets. "They say they make that noise with their hind legs.1'?Cleveland Leader. Col. Elliot, who isthelexas-Commis sioner at tne jxew vrieans j^xposition, has got himself into trouble. " A Dallas youth, who imagines tbat-be is an artist, brought him a beautiful landscape he had painted, and told him -he- wanted it exhibited at New,Orleans!.., "Certainly, sir; certainly,7* replied Col. Elliot. "But I want a card 'put on it statinz that'it is not for salfe*' "I don't think that there is the slightest necessi for that,." remarked Commissioner Elliot, taking another glance at the work of net.?Texas Si/lings. Husband?"It looks like rue, my . dear.* Don't'you-think we* Jfctad- better take an umbrella?'.' -Wife?".O, no! we .don't want to be bothered with it." Husband?"You take great chances, my love.'1 Wife?"I know I do.' If I were a man I would be a bold speculate r novor lilra LV1* I TTVUiW UVf V4 -- ?W you, to {la an ordinary humdrum business that wou'll' just bring me a living." '[Ah hour later, the couple standing in a narrow doorway with the rain beating fiercely io.] Wife-r-4tHow do I look?? Husbahd-^'Yery much like a speculator, sharerof my joys aid sorrows." " < - ;