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jm , ^ ? .i . ^ w , r* W1NNSB0R0, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1885. Tb^ Scent of a Flower. , The scent o? i .& Zowpr is a wonderful thin?! i .'. " It plays ronhd tX? bcart like the zephyrs of B spring:; r , So subtle, so soft, to t .gistless its power. Xo monarchy rules like the scent of a flower. } Some odori f hi*Tid with past happier years f They move *J? like melodies breathing through . tears: r( > For they bring b*Ck :be faces and forms that W are cOct, \ l ' And walks ih the wild woods 'mid sunsets of ? ~ ?r>7r1 j -4 . ^ ^ A fragraajr vt? xles from a flower that I know, |R Dear pledjps of a love in the sweet long ago, \ When taste* -wrre more' simple, and purer our ] pleasares, ( swlSr And gift# of fresh blossoms were holier ; treasure*. ] One e??wh#B the dew on the leaves glittered. -* bright, *"* TkmiproH thf, nrizft with a tender '"Good* 1 r f ? ?- ? - w night: j And mf fpirit grew faint with ecstatic emo < tton. Tot I felt in that flower lay a lifetime devo- , ttonHe ii *oo?; yet the 8cent of that delicate \ V i wSrer I 1 \ Still holds me with all the- old passionate P power: \ And oft my sick heart would lie down in i ? despair J Bat that mercy divine melts my sorrow in prayer. ( f "Consider the lilies!" Lord, ffrant us to be Ufly the field and the garden brought nearer to Thee, ( To read in sweet blossoms Thy goodness and power, i } And an infinite love In the scent of the flower. . * The Quiver. ??m? ? MRS. PEASLEE'S NEIGHBOR. "An old bachelor! It's just too bad," cried Miss Jane Peaslee, ex citedly. "I never could abide old bachelors, and here one of 'em's gone and moved in right next door. He's /?/\f o rmaof frtA TM1 War ^ MVHiU KVV* A ?? | ^ rant he'll be the plague of our lives." ^ * "Mebbe not, Jane," mildly expostulated her sister, Mrs- Webb. "Old j&K bachelors ain't apt to be meddlesome, gener'ly." c?|L "Him! I mean the dog," snapped IpT'* Miss Jane. "'Of course he'll be runf i . ning over here, tormenting the cat and V digging holes in the flower beds next summer fur a cool place to lie in, or a chasing the hens an' stealing the eggs * when they've made nests in the weeds. But I won't put up with it an' I shall . * tell him so plump the very first chance J I git." ' ! > f. "The dog, Jane?" \ "The dog! Of course not. I mean i v the crustv, crabbed old bachelor him' T self." 1 ^ "Oh, Jane! You don't think he 1J -1 J 1 Bip wouiu stem me cg?5 auu maivc uwica V in the flower beds, do you?" ..y "Fiddlesticks! Ain't you got 110 sense at all, Melancey? A body might V -as well talk to a close prop as you! I said the dog would steal the eggs, an' I shouldn't put up with it an' I should tell the old bachelor so, too. Now do \ *- you understand? An' so I will! I'll *< take the broomstick to him, too. See -A it T ,1 H ?> w 11 X UVJU WUW1UUCU, guiyuair . \ cally. $ ' Miss Jane and her sister owned the little cottage in which they lived, which was about all they did own, and l managed to eke out a living by doing Off* plain "sewing, dressmaking, or anvr thing of the kind they could get to do. "There's the gate open and Sam Pickles' old bell-cow a-tramplin' ^ round in the truck patch, of course." 1 ?. ^3% and snatching up a sun-bonnet she darted out to put a summary stop to the old bell-cow's depredations among " her "garden truck." |l?fc Meanwhile the old bachelor next f door was taking a survey of the situa V. tion. g&r "Two women folks, and one of them ' an old maid, I'll bet a pocketknife. The other looks like she might be a widow, from alius dressing*in black. Thunder! What did I ever move in here for? Paid six months' rent, too! % Confound it all, a man ain't safe anv...i .1.,,.,. nf .' > WJUdC HSiiUit utcm; utijo. va f. " they'll both be a-setiing their cups to ? ketch me, but I w.on't be caught! I'll keep out of their way as much as pos> sible, and even if I meet one of 'em facc to face I'll look another way. I see they keep a parcel of old hens; too. If any of 'em come a-scratching about ^ here I'll set the dog on 'em, sure. I v ain't to be pestered by old maids or their hens, either. I've hired a man servant a-purpose to keep out of their clutches, an' I ain't 'a-going to be took _ in by the smartest woman that ever ill1' " lived." jpc He was by no means the crusty, \ # crabbed old "bachelor Miss Jane had > declared him to be, but a rather finelooking man, with pleasant, .dark eyes, , m and only a few threads of silver shin, ino; in his abundant brown hair. >ji Moreover, his canine follower was not a "great horrid" do?r, but a verr curly and frolicsome Newfonndlana pgr p?ppy "There's that dog a-worryin' the j flflrin cr*K^omQ^ Hicc JftnA w one morning, and, snatching up the j l broom, she hurriedly gave chase. r Finding himself pursued, the puppy ; "v at once released the Leghorn rooster's } tail, which he had been playfully shaking to the great disgust of its owner, t and with a bark of delight seized the - J - * 1M T ^ L? it,: r" eage 01 iiuss ox.uk s uuumsuu-u petticoat wbieh shewed beneath the rim of ^ her dress, afid shook energetically. The outraged" Miss Peaslee in the . meantis^beat righH?m?left with her broom, nus$mg"i&B *ci&cit/;at each T lick, however, un'ST fiwrouglEiiy exhausted she dropped her weapon on * the ground, whsereupoa Cerly imme craceiv seize a n aiKi scampereu oa ^ irith all his might. Over the neat, gravely waik, over the tidy border of Hack berry lilies and , W Iris versi-color, rotmd and* round he ' whirled, dextejc^iyr;. s^roiding the avenging foe,-until- at last he espied ! ^Ar?or?or*-o fka Viin? frmr r-Q t loicnrolr taking his morning walk. Whereupon he at once dropped the broom and ^ gave chase to the cat. ?) Bonaparte fled up a tree in great terror, and Miss Peaslee, seizing the ft* demoralized broom, made a sudden ' ? sortie on the dog. Curly, however, discovering this rear attack in the a . nick ot time, scuttled swiftly across ^ the yard and through the ience~ to his d UUlUAiU) 4HIIIIVU*aiely unearthed a half-gnawed bone <from its hiding place and proceeded to solace himself therewith. "You had a real nice play with him, didn't you?" said Melancey, complav_ _ - cently, looking up as her sister made her appearance. : ' "Play! The vicious beast chawed & the broom to nitres an' tore ruv skirts I W half off o' me. if you call that play," sniffed Miss Jane wrathfully. "Jane! Jane! VrLat on airth is j * this that dog's ben a shakin' an' wal- j ' innin' ?r? the r?nct9" \fo1on- 1 ' f* coy a few days later. . * v The do?j was growling and shaking J some dark object fearfully. After a desperate struggle the sisters 1 succeeded in rescuing all that re- 1 mained of?a coat. A man's coat, of 2 fine, heavy, dark cloth, hopelessly mu- 1 tiliated by the teeth and claws of the j < ^ frolicsome puppy. 11 "Dear me, it's plum ruined!" cried Melancey. "It must 'belong to the ole bachelor an' the dog has stole it" ^nd she surveyed it regretfully, holding it up by the tails. "But?what's thft?" "That" was something . that had iroppfed out of one of the pockets. Jane seized it quickly. It was a let?r. - 1TT1 > f 1 5? _V _ 1 L iL "vviiy, ivieiancey, sue urieu, ureamlessly "it?it's directed to me!" And Jane opened it aDd read: My Deak Miss Peaslee: 1 never sopped the question in my iif-i before, so I ioirt know the proper way. But if you ire willing to be my wife just say so, an' I'll be the happiesr. inau in Honey Lucust Holler. Calvin Cubberleigh. "Jane, Jane, don't faint!'' cried Meancey, alarmed, as her sister grew irst pale and then red. "I ain't goin' to faint," declared lane, stoutly. "But look, Melancey, ;his letter is dated five years ago, vhen we lived over to the hollow. What on airth does it mean?" "Give it to. me," said Melencey, sromptly. "I'll soon find out what it ? * Tin ? means. 1 u LUC uusi< UUUIC, iwi seem' the dog's left it in our hands." In less than fifteen minutes thereafter the old bachclor, liatiess and coatless, ran frantically through the gate, never stopping till he found himself in the presence of Miss Peaslee. "Jane, Jane," he cried with breathless eagerness, "I've come for my answer. It's live years since 1 writ that letter, an' though* I'd posted it, when there it was hid in the lining of that coat all the time. But you haven't said yet whether vou'd have me or not" Somehow or other Miss Jane forgot her dislike of men folks in general, and old bachelors in particular, and said she would. "We ought to be thankful to that do?," said Melancey, with tears in her eyes, when she heard how it was all settled, and, indeed. Master Curly had no reason to complain of Lis treatment thereafter.?Helen W. Clark, in St. Louis Magazine. Origin of Familiar Proverbs. 'Truth is stranger than fiction" was invented bv an editor as a head-line to a twenty-line lie so monstrously extravagant, that he knew nobody would believe ten words of it The original use of this proverb is continued unto this day. Whenever you see that line m a newspaper don't believe a word you read under if. "I'll make a spoon or spoil a horn," was the thought of a man who never made a spoon in all his life, and who i 1,? StlBW pcnt:uw> ?CI1 luai ins V,uumu U make one, and only took a mean man's malicious delight in spoiling a horn. P. S.?For a man who likes to take his horn straight the introduction of a spoon always spoils it. "A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse," was said by a man with a stiff neck, who wanted to nod, -but couldn't; although why any sane man should wish either to wink or nod at a blind horse no man can tell. "A little more sleep and a little more slumber," commonly attributed to the e?fr\7*?r? Jir* Inm frnm till A a;UCOUiUf ?? fcVO J l V1VU WJ MiUA vv night watchman, who invented it in his dreams. - -"Fasrfcind, iastUndf was remarked by a police justice when he bound the tough over to keep the peace and fined him ?10.85. "All's well that ends w" " was said by a murderer who killed a dude. The name of the murderer is suppressed lest he should be overrun with more orders than he could fill, and thus be compelled to hire a cierk, who would eventually run oft" with all the money. "All's fare in love and war" was the inspired thought of a railroad conductor. "One swallow does not make a summer," was the brilliant remark of a man who was trying to see how many swallows do make a summer. Nota. Bene?If the thermometer ?;ot half so high as the experimenter did, the dogdays came right along on the heels of r'Uwofmop fit o t- r6or ronnrri VUliObU4iM buub jvuii AAV v the swallows, howe rer, was lost in the dim mists of O'Blivion, the great Irish swallower. "Dead men tell no tales," was the joyous exclamation of the first editor who slew a man who came in with a cont med story of sixty-five chapters. It was this same editor who, upon receiving a demand for 10 cents from a poet for au epic-poem upon which he bad labored twelve years, said: "Write makes smite." And then he smote him, that he died.?Brooklyn Eagle. A Verdure-Clad Country. A Hainanese landscape has its peculiarities and its beauties." It is always green, the outlines are flowing and varied by distant peaks of volcanic formation, the vegetation is luxuriant; here and there rise above the usual level cocoanut palmS, singly or in clusters, and an occasional pagoda adds a touch of sentiment. There is always enough variety to please the eye and enough of human interest to gratify the imagination. The roads, winding between thick bamboo hedges, seem not like the hedge-row lanes of old England. Hundred of wheelbarrows are met on the road, of a strange antiquepattern now rarely seen in China?the man at one end and the creaking wooden wheel at the other?the load being either a Chinese dame, sitting astride; with her feet in rope stirrups, or sugar in sacks, going to be exported to Hoilhow. Few birds are seen, except a ebattering magpie, which is so tame that it almost alights on your shoulder, and some of the beautiful brown and olive-colored cattle for which the land is famous. Beggars are strewn all along the highway, and blind persons ?especially women?are met with every few hundred yards of the entire distance. Some ancient Mohammedan f/wnkc Tvt? tKa rnoHatHp flnff tllP nW Jesuit mission cemetery?some of the monuments bearing the dates 1683 and 16S6, and about that period?are among the curious objects which attract the notice of the passing traveler. The. almost continuous burying grounds, the bamboo hedges, and the frequent vegetation of miscellaneous kinds would lfiake King-choo-foo a place difficult to advance against were there a vigorous resistance. The troops are not well furnished with rifles, the gingal being the weapon principally used in its place.?Cor. Han Francisco Chronicle. The London journals have not yet decided whether it is Suakin, Suakim, Souakin, or Souakim; but when General Graham <rets home he will be able j ,o settle it. - fie has had considerable j jf a spell at that nlace. ? New York World. Journalist to his wife?I feel very -?or? fk?c mAmino*. I don't see that it's ivorth while to go to work, for my head iches so painfully that I cannot think." EVife?Don't try to think any to-day, lear. Stay at home and work on your j wok."?Arkansas Traveler. I LANGUAGE OF THE EARS. Tbo Appearance of the Auricalar Appendage Indicative of Character. "I used to notice when 3 l^d," said a successful business man lately to a reporter, "that in making the final OTC-Jtvle nmm+rr fairs nn the QlialitV of all sorts of blooded stock, the judges universally examined the ears of the animals. Whether it were a thorough bred horse, a Berkshire hog, a dog of any special breed, from a toy terrier to ; a bull or a pointer, or whether it were ; a Cotswold or Southdown sheep, the ; car was always one of the chief points, and if that were faulty, all the other . good qualities went for naught. This set me thinking that, as men represent every quality known to the brute creation, the ears of men would bo likely to serve as pretty sure indices of character. I then commenced studying. First of all I procured a good specimen of what we will call the normal human ear, one tasen irom me neaa oi s man of good character and in whom all the various qualities and propensitiss had been about evenly balanced, a levelheaded, practical man of the world. This ear I studiod until I had thoroughly mastered all the convolutions and surfaces that it presented. I've bought hundreds of them and now have ABOUT 200 TYPICAL EAltS that I'll show you." Wijh this the old gentleman unlocked his ^afe and produced two packages tied up in oiled ' silk, soft and flexible as kid, and semitransparent Untying one of theso packages, there fell out on the table a number of nondescript fragments of mummified-looking stuff, which, on examination, proved to be dried, or rather partially tanned, human ears, all in a perfect state of preservation, so far as the retention of shape is concerned. "Why, where did you get all these?* "bought'emof course. "Of the hospitals?" "No, of the undertak ers. xne ears 01 criminals ana paupers would be of no use to me. They would serve no purpose in the way of study; the character of the criminal is so clearly marked-that one type is sufficient to know all by, while paupers have no character'at all It would make some people stare if they should exhume their deceased relatives and find that they are sleeping the last sleep with only one ear 10 uejp ineru listen lor .ine last trump. The most obstinate fool I ever had to deal with was a half-starving artist whose ear I wanted to get on account of its remarkable formation. He was a man of extraordinary business affairs, but a genius. I offered that man $500 FOR ONE OF HIS EARS, and the stupid fellow refused it. He wis poor, hatf starved; didn't I believe, know where to get the next meal for himself and his wife and children, and one would have thought ihat he would have jumped at the chance to get $500 for such a trifling inconvenience. 1 offered to supply him with a false ear, so as to keep up appearances, but he would not listen to me, and I missed one of the lincst opportunities of my life. I opened this particular package to show you one very remarkable example. Hero are all sorts of ears; ears of men who are greatly im^ -iaued-wafck-tdwr'"'1* ear, lor instance, of a revivalist; ears of pronounced atheists, cars of honest men and ears of rogues; ears of cute lawyers and ears of duH money-grab^ bers, whose only study in life has been how to hold on to a doilar. Here's the ear of a somewhat noted newspaper man. Now, just see how the lobe of that ear goes down into the check; in* r t *1?? 1^1. .,n 1IULIL tucic Id 1IV 1UW WW LilU vu. O.W au* I don't say, mark you, that every one who has an ear o; that formation is a thief, but I do say that he has the propensities o? one, and only needs opportunity or temptation to develop them. This ear., in its principal characteristic, is almost the counterpart of a pair that are worn by a man of former high standing in the business world, bat who is now serving a term in the penitentiary. It is only a week or two ago I had an occasion to let a contriyct for building an extensive wall, and among the bidders was one who oftered to do the work half a dollar a thousand lower than any one else. But when I saw the man HIS EJJJS TOLD HE ' ' ' * T t 1. ? ? cot to trust mm. i snow ue ?vu:u bave robbed me in some way had he got the contract. Here's another typical ear. You see this thin cartilage, with the roll disappearing in the' northeast corner and the ear itself coming almost to a point, somewhat like a fox's. That is the ear of a keen, unscrupulous, hard-hearted money-lender; one of those who seem to take a positive delight in oppressing the unfortunate and in wringing from them extortionate interest for small accommodations. Some of these ears set weU back like a fox's when it is snarling; they are the worst cases. In others the upper point stands slightly forward srcrth mfin are rather shrewd and cunning than cruel, but they are not very pleasant folks at the best Others of this sort, again, are movable at the will of their owners. These chaps add to their other amiable qualities a quarrelsome disposition that will make them snap and snarl at everything and everybody. The only way is to select a few noteworthy specimens. Study the ears of .some, men whose character you are well acquainted With,and mark their respective peculiarities. Then compare those of men of similar characteristics, and see where their strong est resemblances are; the first discovery of a principle for yourself is the only difficulty. If any one is abont to get married, I conld tell him whether the woman he is about to wed is likely to agree with him or not. Oh, you may set it down for a fact that the ear is the" true index of character. Tell me before you print anything about this, and I'll corner the ear-muff market, and we will divide the profits."?Boston Sunday Times. Burdette's Recipe. Miss Parloa, the cooking expert,says she "makes kisses by beating the whites wifK o Hnvor !\ngfor on/) Ui diA niw* I* ^VT V/fc MM\4 adding a cup of mixed sugar, which she stirs in very carefully." Well, she makes them sweet enough, certainly, but to make good kisses a girl need not be an authority on Bavarian cream and escolloped oysters. When she stands on the lower cross piece her face ought to come at least eight inches above the top of the gate, "with the moonlight on one cheek and the shadow on the other, then you know just where to aim, my son. And if you have any doubts about it, send for your old father. You needn't ring; just rattle a stick on the palings and I'll come down.?Brooklyn Bagle. It-is computed that 750,000 people go into London by rail every day to* earn their livelihood, and leave it at night, | and yet an accident rarely occurs. j ' V I Dr. Holmes on His Poems. i At a recent session of the BostonWomen's Educational and Industrial Union Dr. Holmes was greeted with perfect ovation by his audience. The' first selection was "Old Ironsides,'* that piece dear to the heart of every school-boy orator and almost as fami-< liar as a household word. It is one of Dr. Holmes5 earliest productions, but from the manner in which it was rendAriiVJ if. ksij pvidprit that the fire and? spirit which originally inspired the writer were not yet extinguished. "The' next .piece. 1 will read," said the doctor, "was composed at a time whea". physicians were not so much given to4 teetotalism as at present It wast, written for a gathering at the residence 6f Dr. Reynolds when I loaned him my 3iTver punch bowl.**"" "Dr. Holmes thenread his poem, "On -Lending a Punch Bowl." The-foilowiaglines, read with that unctuous humor characteristic ot Or. Holmes, caused great merriment: Tlrat night affrighted from hl6 acrt the 6creainkig eo^le flew: He beard the Pequot'a ringing whoop, the soldier's wild halloo; And there the sachem learned theiulehe taught to kith sad Ida; "-Run from the-white man when you And he saieJis of lloH&ad ?ia." The liext solectfon was tfie wellknown poem entitled "Contentment" John Quincy Adams;'1 said Dr. Holmes, "wrote- a p<>em somewhat similar to this, though i&ariy years previous to my production.;; Like my self, he borrowed a Iia&lrom unver Goldsmkfe, but we arrived at rather different results." The audience laughed heartily on the reading of this poem, and the modest requirements of the man who wished to be contented. "Bill and Jo" was then read. "This poem," the doctor said, "was a particular favorite of John G. Whittier." It was followed by "Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline." "This poem," said Dr. Holmes, "I am very frvnH nf for even amon? his own writ in^s a person has a preference. It was written before the war, when South Carolina first seceded, and I received a number of letters from gentlemen residing in that State which showed that even during the war there was some kindly feeling towards the Northerners. 1' That exceedingly comical poem, "A Farewell to Agassiz," written when the professor started on his trip of in i.; ? A YCSU^UtlUIl W tliC A.UUVO AIAVUUVUIUOf was next read, followed by "The September Gale" and "An Old Man's Dreams." 4This last poem," said the doctor, "was written in 1854, when I considered myself a very old man, much older than I do now." By special request, Dr. Holmes read his wellknown poem, "Dorothy Q." He gave a brief description of the portrait on which the piece was written, and stated that the picture had undergone repairs which would tend to preserve it for a long time. The original canvas had been removed from the back and new cloth had been applied. It was at nrosemt- hft saiil. in his library, where he would be happy to show it to any who might desire to see it. The familiar lines gathered fresh beauty from the lips of the author, particularly the oft-quoted verse: Soft Is the breath of maiden's Yes. Not the light gossamer stirs vrith less," P ~ leger a cable that hokla ? ty| rn.ll tho battj<JHBtei?voUUWttjH And never i?n ocbo ofspeecnT>r s That lives in the babbling air so long1. The last selection was "The Chambered Nautilus," which, Dr. Holmes said, was the most carefully-prepared of all his poems. At the close of the readings the doctor was thanked by Mrs. Gordon in behalf of* the ladies. Mrs. Isabel Hooker then stated that she wished to say a word before the assembly dispersed. She said that she remembered one morning when she met Dr. Holmes, and he was not in the. genial frame of mind that he was at present. Sho asked him what was the trouble, and he replied that three things annoyed him. First, he had consented to write for the Atlantic Monthly once more; second, that he had so much correspondence on hand, and third, that people would still persist in coming to him for advice. "I told him," said Mrs. Hooker, *'tnat ne snouia give up writing for the Atlantic. He had fnr* nished its columns with 'The Autoorat of the Breakfast Table,1 and that was quite enough. His correspondence contained nothing but flattery, and ho had had enough of that, and lastly that having passed all his life in killing people, he should not give any more pills or advice. I think that he ought to devote the rost of his existence to reading his excellent poems to delighted listeners. We all sincerely hope that he can favor us again." His Last Absent-Mindedness. A friend sends us th<* following incident as having happened in a neighboring village: "I would like to tell you of an incident of absent-mindedness that cured a scbool-master entirely of this often-comical mental defectiveness. The bell was ringing for school and the master's wife wanted a pail of water and a hod of coal. To save time the master strove to get both the water and the coal at. the same time. -He drew the water from an oldfAeh5r>ned well, and ^ettin? his hod filled with coal entere<f the house with bis hands full. He walked up to the sink and placed the hod of coal * where the water-pail was usually kept, and taking the pail of water into the sitting-room poured it into the. stove. The hissing steam blew open the stove doors, issued from the coal-chamber and every seam in the stove, scorched the master, put out the fire, and filled the house with steam. "Amid it all issued the agonized shout of the schoolmaster: 'Blast my eyes! I've made another mistake!' He never made another one. In the week that he was done up in linen bandages and goose grease his mind as well as his body was restored to a healthy condition, and now he says: 'Absence of mind is a phase of idiocy of which a sensible man ought to "be heartily ash amed.' 1'?Norwich Bulletin. A new order of physicians in Boston holds that mind has control over matter, and that all diseases will yield to mental force in the physician. It is uoDularlv called the "mind cure." and marvelous stories are told of the working of this new process in eradicating the most obstinate diseases. A scientific training is said to be needed for effective, work along this line, and its advocates have little sympathy with Christianity or its supernatural forces. But there is another party who aim to combine science and Christianity, holdin or that all disease is unnatural and the result of sin. No Christian who attains the true standard of piety need. suffer from illness, much less be the victim of painful disease. Boston is wrought up considerably over these matters. <m i m fV*a nf?Aniof ie o r?of?T*n r\4 JLUCi) UU& i.^T VlUblV/Ul^b) AO ** ilAUTb Vi Manitoba, and he is now 41 years ot age. ON A SLEEP ING-CAK. , The Peculiar Experiences* of a Pullman Porter o?i the Pa.11-Ha.mlle. "Yes, we do have some peculiar experiences,'1 said an intelligent Pullman car porter on the Pan-Handle road to a Pittsburg Dispatch reporter. "We run up against all sorts of people, I nan tell vou. I remember one case which left an impression on my mind i which will not soon leave it It was on this same train, Pan-Handle Xo. 4, and r we had just run into the station at Mingo Jnnction. A well-dressed young : man, who looked as if he was sick or j in trouble, came up to me and wanted ' to know if he could get a berth. Well, : T had nothing to do with letting him : have a berth, for there was but one . +1?A in on/) f V?0 f tCTO Q .ipiAIJUi KJ il tut U.1,11 ? "" ? ? } ?ull. So I told him that every-berth was taken, and that it would be impossibly for him to'get a place. He turned around and walked away about fifteen j feet, stopped suddenly:-and pulled a irei Volver from his bip-pocket, and before ?'any one could siop him sl?t himself J through., the- head. *He lived a few [minutes. He was out of his mind, ! evidently, for he kept moaning: 'I i didn't murder him! I didn't murder jihimr We found out afterward that his ; name was Frank Leighton, and that he i.lived in St. Louis, where he had relailtives of hi^h social standing. He had become dissipated, and in some club quarrel a man was killed'. He was never j charged with the crime, but he got the < idea that suspicion rested on him, and he disappeared from his home, and his friends did not know where be had gone until they heard of his suicide. "Another case I shall remember as long- as I live. A young New York Hebrew, named Nathan, died in my car. He was broken down in health and went south to get well He spent the winter down in New Orleans and Galveston. He didn't get any better, and in the spring started home. He . knew he was going to die, and was terjribly down-hearted. 1 had to be with J him most of the time on the way up. I rmade up his berth early in the evening, rand he went to bed. I helped to undress him and tucked him in. Two hours later, when we got in Pittsburg here, I looked into his berth, and he was dead. Well, he was taken out , here, but we didn't know any of his friends and could not telegraph them. They were waiting; for him, though, when we got to Jersey City. They didn't know he was dead. His father, ' a white-haired old man, and his sister, a beautiful girl not more than 18 years old, were at the depot, and were almost the first people I saw when I stepped down from the car. I had an idea that they were his friends as soon as I saw them, and It made me feel shaky, I can tell you. 'Is Mr. Nathan with you, porter?' asked the young lady, looking kind and anxious Well, 1 just looked at her and then at the old srentleraan, and I couldn't say a word. I couldn't bear to tell them that be was dead, and so I just said: 'No, ma'am, be got off at Pittsburg.' Sbe turned as white as a sheet, and said: - Why, was he worse?' The oidman ;^:was so nervous that he just clung to ; - the lady as"if-he was afraid of falling. A*I dpr1' Dettx'tsra.-' I managed to ' Just then: a young man came up, I who I took to.be her brother. I called I him to one side. I thought it would be better for him to let them know than for me. Well, sir, he was so badly broke up that he just blurted out: *My God, brother is dead.' It was the hardest thing 1 ever saw. 1 thought the girl wouid just go wild. They could hardly get her away to the carriage. The brother came back to Pittsbnrg and took the body on home. 1 never heard from them agaiu. "One of the funniest cases I ever rau across," he continued, "occurred this winter with a ucwiy married couple on their wedding trip. He was a young /vttiAAV T 1?T1AW ULLUJ UL 11UVJ> UlllUUly J. UVU u xvuwit which, ilis wife was a bashful, blueeyed little girl, not a clay over 17 years old. About 11 o'clock at night I saw her stick her head out of the curtains and look up and down the aisle to see if the coast was clear. She then slid out and pottered up to the water-cooler after a drink. When she started DacK she forgot her berth, and her bashfulness only made it worse. She got back to what she supposed was her berth and piled in. Well, I heard a swear and a scream, and then the littlo woman, frightened half to death, shot out of the curtains and up the aisle to the state-room, when I met her. You see she had climbed in with an old gentleman and lady from down in Texas, whose berth was next to hers. The old man was a cattle-dealer and a rough -folhvtv *inH his wrfp w?s a nprvnns. fidgety old lady. She just screamed and yelled 'thieves, murder,' till every passenger in the car had his head out of the curtains. The young husband had been woke up and missed his wife and he was almost wild, and came running up the car to where his wife was crying in the state-room. She just fell in his arms and pretty near fainted. He couldn't understand what had happened n:id wanted to go back after his revolver and shoot some one. I just iocsea tnem iu tae siaitjrruuix!, and then went back and explained matters to the Texas pair and got them quieted down. Then I told the other passengers that there was nothing the matterT and they pulled in their heads. The young fellow and his wife wouldn't go back to their berth for about an hour?until they were again 3ure every one had gone to sleep. I managed everything so that no one but the old couple ever knew anything about it or who it was that raised the disturbance. When they left the car the nest day he slipped $10 in my hand. Their names? Oh, no! I couldn't give you that "I had another experience, though, that floored me once. There is a pretty little black-eyed boy who lives over in Alleghany, who first saw the light of this world in the Pullman car of which I was porter. The boy is about 8 years .old now, and he and his mother and father went down over the road with ?ne this winter on their way to New Orleans." California red-wood was introduced in England last year, the imports being 81,000 cauic feet It is very suitable for furniture, inside house finishing, and the best joiners' work, besides many other purposes. So far two car goes of this remarkable wood iiave been landed In Scotland, where it has met with ready sale and has been highly appreciated by contractors, builders, cabinet-makers, and other consumers. The price realized was ^51.66 per 1,000 feet, board measure, ana ine curgous were carried a distance of about 15,000 miles. Two men in a Texas hotel were talking about taxes. "Which do you prefer, direct or indirect taxes?" "I don't want anv at all. That's the kind I am in favor of, and let me tell you there are lots of people in this country who think as I do." ?Hartford Courant. "Wild Birds in London. All of us have herd pathetic stories of Australian gold-diggers or Canadian ! backwoodsmen moved to tears by the | song of some imprisoned skylark, which reminded them of their English birthplace. It is to be feared that tears would not be so easily drawn from such I emigrants as are of Loudon origin, for he that spends all his days in London, with the exception, perhaps, of a week I aw f/\ t lm r?t Anflt A Miiriicf mov i vji. Z3kj auuub tiiV/ uiuubu va .iUpUov, iuaj ! very likely never have heard a lark sing in his life, unless from a cage, to the accompaniment of cart and carriage wheels. There are, however, still many birds to be heard and seen about the park anjLjgardens of London; where, ijdee^lraose which can iind food in ^uch maces have, perhaps,'a safer and i * / 1.11. i:/. 4t * 1 ; more comionauie me wian may can ever lead iu the country. Man de-i barred from the use of nets or guns is not very dangerous to creatures possessed of wings, and he drives away such, four-footed enemies as stoats and weasels, while birds of prev, hawks. and magpies, avoid his presence, even in towns where it would be harmless. Yet only one small bird, the sparrow, has deliberately chosen London for a dwelling-place. The pigeons which flutter about Westminster abbey and the British museum can not be considered wild birds any more than ducks on our ornamental waters. They receive much of their food at the hands of man, and are descended from ancestors which he imported into their present homes. The moorhens which feed rvr? cnmft T.nnilnn wnfera moxr AA.V/l/1 j vu ovu.IV/ juvuuvu iuuj possibly have found their own way there. They urc not so tame in their behavior as the ducks, with which it is feared that they are often confounded. The sparrow really has come uninvited, and taken up his abode in London, resigning all innocent country pleasures for an adventurous, and not altogether honest, life in the streets. His sooty presence graces alike Seven Dials and Hvde Park corner: indeed. there is no class of Londoners who is so much at home in every part of London as he. He is the only one of us that dares enter the lion's den. Buns tempt him down into the bear-pit much more quickly than they tempt the bear up. It is perhaps the corrupting influence of a town life which has given to this bold bad bird the evil qualities which transportation has made worse. In Australia the sparrow has gone forth like a bushranger, with the vices of the town upon him, into the country. where he steals grain on a colossal scale and is established as a colossal nuisance-?CasscVs Magazine. The Confederate Constitution. A gentleman of this city, says the Nashville Union, remarked that the o^ift of Mrs. Vanderbilt to Vanderbilt University of a photo-lithograph of the "Constitution for the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America" should be followed by a gift of the original document?say to the Tennessee Historical Society. "This, document," he said, "is for sale, and some one of our southern societies should fall heir to it It is valuable as being the organic law of the now defunct confederacy.'' "Who has the original?" ' :'z;: "Mrs. W. F. de Fontaine, now of New York city, who has had it in her possession ever since the fall of the confederacy. At that time her husband, Felix Gregory de Fontaine, a well-known journalist and war correspondent, was the editor and publisher of a paper in Columbus, S. C. After the evacuation of Richmond a rraimoaa or Doxes cod.earning paouc documents, etc., was shipped to Columbia. De Fontaine needed paper ou which to print his journal, but where to get it was a puzzling problem. George A. Trenholm happened to be in Columbia at the time, and to him the journalist explained the situation. 1Go down,' said Trenholm, 4to the depot and help yourself to some of the confederate boxes, in which something may turn up that will answer your purpose.' De Fontaine acted upon this, and one of the boxes contained the confederate constitution- Mrs. De Fontaine laid claim to this relic and has saeredlv urotected it ever since. In 1882," "remarked the reporter's informant, "I went abroad and was commissioned to negotiate its sale to the British museum. As the custodian of such papers was absent from England at the time, my mission failed. The price asked was ?10,000, but I believe half that sum would secure it now." "Have you seen the fac-simile referred to in the Union?" "One of the first copies was sent to ?j Of me, iiiiu. it tcixd a liiuuiiiiui aiuij. v/x the forty-nine signers over one-half have joined the silent army, and of the living only one, John IL Reagan, of Texas, is in public life.'* ^ A Big "Weir' In Arizona. In some sections of the northern portion of Arizona the question of water supply, even for domestic purposes, is a very serious one. This is particular ly the case at Ash Jb'ork, a station on the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad. A series of very lovely and fertile valleys surround the place, and plenty of grass grows for the support of large herds of cattle, but no water can be had except from an occasional "tank" during the winter season. At Ash Fork the railroad company attempted to sink an artesian well, but after reaching a depth of 900 feet the drill became fastened and could not be removed. Many futile attempts were made to extract it, but at last it was abandoned in despair. All water now used at that station and by the residents of the town is brought by rail from Pach Springs, sixty-hve miles to the westward, and is sold at 60 cents per barrel. A short time ago a prospector, stimulated by the inquiry for water, reported that he had discovered a huge well, about eight miles from Ash Fork, sunk in a level plain. Parties at once repaired thither with ropes and other paraphernalia to explore the wondrous discovery. They found the locality, but to this day they do not know the exact nature of the curious cavern that met their gaze. It is located on a level plain and cannot be seen until it is approached very near. There is no evidence of earth or rock having been removed from the pit, which was found to be 150 feet in diameter and 320 feet deep, with perpendicular walls. No IT* f V??-? nortrr Tiro n Krorn nnrvn rrh tr* WUV m kut j/Ui tl (M Wi U > W WW descend and explore the "weH," when the rope had been lowered, and the explorers returned to Ash Fork scarcely wiser than they were before their trip. It is certainly a great curiosity, and there possibly exists a supply of water somewhere in its depths or" in the numerous caverns or tunnels that apparently emerge into the dark earth below irom tuis curious tnresnoia 01 sunngnt. ?Tucson Citizen. Of the cat, bear and squirrel the latter only can run down a tree head first. TELEGRAPHY. An Astonishing Invention That Threatens to Supersede All Others. An invention has recently been perfected at Philadelphia that bids fair to revolutionize all existing systems of electrical communication, both telegraphic and telephonic. The secret of it has been carefully guarded by the inventors and the. small company of large capitalists who control it while it was being folly covered by patents, both. American and foreign. Isow that all is secure, it is to be suddenly sprung upon the public by an exhibition at the Continental hotel, probably during the present week, as one of the gigantic scientific surprises ui tut: uuutuiry. iu state in. brief what it is, it is nothing less than making telegraphy as simple, rapid, and easily within the command of everybody as is the operating of the caligraph or type-writer. Effecting what is claimed for it, it will be the means of greatly reducing the cost of telegraphy, of enabling the opening of some lorry tnonsancr new texegrapn stations in railroad and express offices throughout the United States where there have hitherto been none, and of taking the place generally of the telephone. Any person who can pick ont a word on the keys of a type-writer can transmit a message bs the system accurately and with rapiaity, only restricted by the speed of the picking, ! while, as for receiving messages, the ! instrument, does that automatically, I whether there is anybody superintending its operations or not There was a private exhibition of the system recently, the results attained at which seemed to folly sustain all thut is claimed for this most remarkable invention. The instrument used is boih a transmitter and a receiver. The two instruments used in this exhibition were connected Dy aoout one nunarea miies of wire coiled about the offices. Each appeared in its front part to be simply an ordinary type-writer, with the letters, numerals,- etc., on raised keys. Behind this rises a small column with blank paper wrapped around it and moved np line by-line as required 1^ a simple device. Inside that column is a small hammer that strikes outwardly, so as to? whenever a key is touched, press the paper against the periphery of a horizontal wheel that lies between the keyboard and the column. On that periphery, in high relief, are the letters of the alphabet, numerals, and points for punctuation. The wheel spins around with lightning-like* rapidity as the keys are successively touched by an expert. When it has to recede in the alphabetical order it flies back v to a fixed, point, as does the wheel of a gold and stock indicator, but mnch more swiftly. All the delicate and intricate electrical attachments necessarv are below. and. when understood are much less complicated than they seem, their apparent complication being caused by their multiplicity. A separate "wire leads from each key to a single common wire, and each of "those key-connected wires serves either for transmission or reception of messages. The sending or receiving of a particu Jar letter or figure is governed by the strength, of current required for just that individual -one, and for uo other. It seems very strange that all those various impulses should be flashed along a wire?even in opposite directions at the same time?without jostling each other or getting mixed up, but they do. Many messages were sent during tests by non-experts at a speed of from forty to fifty words per minute with greater accuracy than is usually shown by expert "sound" operators, and that speed, it was affirmed, could be very greatly increased. A noticeable and' valuable feature of the system is that it prints clearly in the sight of the person transmitting a message just vrhat is being sent to the receiver, so that errors are avoided, or if committed are readily corrected. The messages sent over a wire by this instrument cannot be read by sound, so that it is much more favorable to the privacy often desirable in business than either the Morse system or the telephone. Inasmuch as the instrument can be adjusted to any system of wire communication and will "work to as great distances as is required in telegraphy it will be of inestimable value-to railroad and express companies, bankers, brokers, mechanics and the general public. There are no formidable complications in its construction, and expert electricians who have examined it pronounce it ono of the most wonderful achievements of the age. Should it only do half what is claimed for it, and that it shows it can do, it tvi-knl/1 r?r9/>f-i/>nllv rATrnlufcinnizp fcplpcrra pfcyThe company controlling this great invention has been organized upon a capital of $2,000,000, but no stock is for sale, allining feeidas an investment. Coal-Tar Chewing Gam. The Standard Oil Company is a big thing on wheels when you get talking about oil, but it is just as big relatively speaking when you get into the province of chewing gum. They control .nearly all of the refineries, and it is from that the gum is evolved, so to speak. The refiners take the residuum from the crude oil after the refined article has been made and-work it in an agitator, producing a certain grade of paraffine, a wax-like substance. This is sent to two firms located in Boston and New York, who put k through another refining process and then scent the stui? cut it up into small pieces and then retail dealers take hold of it and make thousands of giddy girls hapnr with ' somefcliinor' to chaw." The XT J ? wax, as loaded on the cars, is worth seventeen cents a pound, but when pjjt through the second process, its cost is 30 cents a pound. A pound of refined paraffine will suffice for the making of 500 pieces of chewing gum; so the profit in the business is apparent when you recollect that it retails for one and two cents a stick.?Pittsburg Dispatch. It appears from observations made in France that the development of vegetable life is retarded bv an average of nearly four days for each additional 100 yards of altitude- The arrival of the chimney swallow is delayed about two days for caeh increase of 100 yards in height "I trust the current of my discourse last Sunday was not sufficiently formidable to hopelessly ingulf you,'' jocosely remarked a youug Detroit clergyman <i lorfv member in his con<*reo'a tion the other evening. "O, no! It was quite shallow enough for comfortable wading, thank 3-ou!" Three members of the Sanborn family, a brother and two sisters, ali of whom are over four score years of a^e, and now residing at Haverhill, X. H., were never married, never rode in a railroad car, and have never had a stove in their house. The old-fashion ed tin baker, fire crane and hooks have I always been u*ed by them. THE END OF GENERAL GRANT. THE MAN WHO CRUSHED THE SOUTH YIELDS TO THE COMMON ENEMY. Particulars of the X.ast Scene?Honors to the Memory of the Soldier -who Conquered Where all Others Had Failed?The Proclamation of President Cleveland. The papers of Thursday gave very gloomy acconnts of General Grant's condition. At midnight of Wednesday the physicians stated that he conld not live twenty-four hours longer. The end came about eight o'clock on the morning of the 23rd inst. ' " The papers contain full accounts of the last scene. A few minutes before 3 o'clock Drs. %; Douglas, Shrady and Sands stood on % ^4 the cottage veranda, conversing of the r 30* condition of Gen. Grant and discussing ? the, probabilities of his death and the i: ^c iUA aIV- i Huiic ui me ieib me MCii mau, waea Henry, the nurse, stepped hastily upon the priazza and spoke quietly "to the physicians. Tie toTcTthem W^haaght that the General was very neat* to death. The medical men hastily entered the room where the sick "man was,lyiug, and approached his side. Instantly upon scanning the patieut's face Dr. Douglas ordered the &mily to be summoned to the bedside. Haste was made, and Mrs. Grant, Mr. Jesse Grant and wile, U. S. Grant, Jr., and wife and Mrs. Col. Grant were quickly beside the doctors at the sick man's cot. Mrs. Sartoris and Mr. Dawson had followed the doctors in from the ^ piazza, and the entire family was pressent, except Col.- Fred. Grant. A hasty, summons was seut for him, but he entered the sick room while the messenger was searching for him. The Colonel seated himself~at the head of the bed, with his left arm resting upon the pillow above the head of the General, who was breathing rapidly and with siightlv gasping respirations. Mrs. Grant, calm, but with intense agitation bravely suppressed, took a seat close by the* bedside. She leaned slightly upon the cot, resting upon her right "elbow and gazing with tearblinded eyes into the General's face. She found there, however, no tokeu of recognition, for the sick raau was peacefully and painlessly passing into Vf miuLiKu inc. j-jLib. oaiturife uchind her mother and leaning over her shoulder witnessed the close of the life in which she had constituted so strong an element of pride. Directly behind Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Sartoris, and at a little distance removed, stood Drs. Douglas, Shrady and Sands, spectators of the closing life which their efforts and counsel had so prolonged. On the opposite side of the bed from their tr?AfV?Ai? on/1 ^iPfiAfltt VvA^AnA of UJUU civvu Jesse Grant and U." S. Grant, Jr. At the foot of the bed and gazing directly down into the General's face were Mrs. Col. Fred. Grant, Mrs. U. S. Grant, Jr., and Mrs. Jesse Grant. THE APPROACHING END. Dr. Newman had repaired to the hotel to breakfast and was not present, and the General's little grandchildren, U. S. Grant, Jr., and Nellie, were sleeping in the nursery mom. above ? f stn?rfi. nth??rwiBA prf/Wp fnmilv and household were gathered at the bedside of the dying man. The members of the group had been summoned not a moment sooner than was provident. The doctors noted, on entering the room and pressing to the bedside, that already the purplish tinge, which is one of nature's signals of final dissolution, had settled beneath the finger nails. The hand that Dr. Douglas v lifted was fast growing colder than it \ had been through the night, the pulse had fluttered beyond the point where the physician could distinguish it from the pulse beats in his own finger tips, y VIA vaen?i?of?rtn TTAC TTAVW iwynin a-r\A rrroc iV/C^/iiUMVU TT UO T VI J iUjUU AI1U Tf a<9 a succession of shallow panting inhalations, but happily the approach!ng v end was becoming clear of the rattling fulness of the throat and lungs, and as the respirations grew rapid and more v rapid at the close they also became less labored and almost noiseless. This fact was a comfort to the watchers by the bedside, to whom was spared the sight of an agonizing or other than peaceful death. The wife almost constantly stroked the facc, forehead and hands of the dying General, and at times, as a passio'nate longing. to prevent the event so near would rise \^thinjicr, Mrs. Grant pressed both his hands and, leaning forward, ten derly kissed the face of the sinking man. Col. Fred Grant sat silently but with evident feeling, though his bearing was that of a soldierly son at the nf 4 fofKai* TT C vi a iuiuvi c u? Graut, Jr., was deeply moved, but Jesse bore the .scene steadily, and the ladies, w hile watching with wet cheeks, were silent as befitted the dignity of a life sach as was closing before them. The jhorniug had passed fifty minntes beyond 7 o'clock, and there was not one of the strained and waiting watchers bnt could mark the nearness of the life-tide to its final ebbing. Dr. Douglas noted the nearness of the supreme moment and quietly approached the bedside and bent * ... i ? ? * - < a* . _ i _ . . over n, ana wnne ne aici so me sorrow of the gray-haired physician seemed closely allied with that of the family. I)r. Shrady also drew near. It was live minutes of 8 o'clock and the eyes of the General were closing, his breathing grew more hushed and the last functions of the heart and longs were hastened to the ending of the er-President's life. The peaceful expression seemed to be deepening in the firm and strong lined face, and it was reflected as a closing comfort in the sad hearts that beat quickly under the stress of loving suspense. A minute more passed and was closing as the General drew a deeper breath. There was an exhalation like that of one relieved of a long and anxious tension. Members of the group were impelled each to step nearer the bed and each awaited another respiration, but it never came. There v as absolute stillness in I he room and a hush of expectant suspense, and no sound broke the silence &itve iiic ?;n?uig ut tut? uirus xu me pines outside the cottage and the measured throbbing of tho engine that ail night had waited by the little mountain depot down the slope. "it is all over," quietly spoke Dr. Douglas, and there came then heavily to each witness the realization tkat General Grant was dead. Then the doctors withdrew, the nurse closed the eyelids and composed the dead General's head, after which each of the family group pressed to the bedside, one" after another, and touched their lips upon the quiet face so lately stilled. Dr. Xewman was not present at the lief mnmnnf crrooflv tn V?io ronrmf JUCC MAViAAV'UW plVMVM tV Uig but he arrived very soon after. THE BODY AFTER DEATH. Tweuty minutes after the aeath of Continued on Fourth Page.