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p / f > - .'.T ..VjS ^ VOL. XLIL WINNSBORO, S.~C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1885. NO. 3. j The Homeless. It is cold dark midnight, yet listen ggk v To that patter of tiny feet; Jt is one of your Dojrs, fair lady, MbBbl Who whines in the bleak, cold street? W& J t is one of your silken spaniels, |3i&, Shut out in the snow ana sleet: HgiHaw No?my Doys sleep warm in their baskets, pjjy Safe from the darknesp and snow: All the beasts in our Christian country W Find pity wherever they jro. Those are only the homeless children, W ho are wandering to and fro. " Look out in tbe gusty darkness. A iJUttr OCVii it auu That shadow that Bits so s:owly ?<t Up and down past the window pane; - >w It is surely some criminal lurking Out there in the frozen ram. % No?our criminals are all sheltered. * 1 They are pitied, and taught, and fed: jpt/ That is only a virtuous girl, Who has got neither food nor bed? And the nijrht cries, "sin to the living," And the river crie*. "sin to the dead." Look at the furthest corner. Where the wall stands blank and bare? Can that be a pack which a peddler Has left and forgotten there? His goods lying out unsheltered. Will be spoilt by the damp, night air. No?goods in our thrifty country Are not left to lie and grow rotten. For each man knows the market value Of silk, or woolen, or cotton; ^ But in counting our riches and wealth ggj* I think our p<. or are forgotten. |m. Our Boasts, and our thieves, and our chattel* fpiS^ Have weigh t for good or for ill: ^ But the Homeless are only His image, H.t> 5 resence. His word. His will? And so Lazarus lies at our door-step. And Dives neglects him still. ?Messenger of St. Joseph; Rockwell College, Ireland. k . _ = EltOKEX HEADS & HEARTS. Scences in an Irish Dispensary Forty Venr< Ago. "Docthor. dariing!" "Docthor, I'm here since mornin'!" ^ "Docthor, let me go, an' the heavens bless you. I'm as wake as a piece of wet paper." ||k "Glory to your soul, docthor, asthore, IL an' gi' me something for this thremBsalffi blin I have. I do be thremblin' alf ways, like a straw upon the water." "Docthor. I hear a ereat Dain in mv foot, sir. I declare I cried that bottle L full to-day morning, with it." ? "That was a fine physic you ga' nie last night, long life to your honor." "There isn't a bit I ate, docthor, this time back, but what I get a conceit again' it the minute afther." "Docthor, I can make no hand p' my head at all, these days." pL "Oh, docthor, what'll I do at all with these cars o' mine? I'm partly - deaf always, an' when ever I do be, B I hear great sounds an' noises, waves dashin' again' the bank, and birds gjf whistlin' an'?boo! an' candlesticks; |p? an when I'm deaf entirely, }ts then I BT I hear all the bells in Ireland ringin' in r- my cars. * "Docthor, I have a great express upon my heart" "That girl, sir, that you saw yesterday evening was bad" entirely afther you goin'; Oh, she began screechin' in a manner, that if the priest was at the doors, you'd thiuk he wouldn't overtake her; an' every bit of her so hot, ^ that you'd imagine the clothes would h light about her, an' her face the whol? k time as red as if you threw a bowl o' ^ blood in it." "Docthor, a' ra gal! Docthor, dar lin'; Docthor, asthore! Oh, ma gra Ma orien chree hu. Docthor! an1 fletiuc go!" Such vere a few of the eloquent sen& tences accessed by the throng of patients, without the rails, to Doctor ft Jarvis, one of wi'.e attending physicians W- to a dispensary :ji a district of Ireland. Accustomed to the din, he remained with an undisturbed countenance, looking alternately into the haggard, robust, blooming, pale, fair, young and ancient faces that were thrust forward ^ through the wooden rails, and soliciting his svmpathv. Two or three voung P disciples were hammering away at their mortars in different corners, coruK pounding, like so many Cyclops, the thunderbolts of thig^ffyrf^dispenser of (Ugje^f^Cpposi te. The scene i!??undhim was one which might have -sj usmo-ii pyo aq; sy -osicq tnoa; t :jq5noiq pcq Xaq; UBqi }nrC{dtnoo jo asnno a jo ni -qiiav 'jood aq; ;uoq;iii uwSv 3{OBq Suii?soC put: Suiureaoos ft WmlOxo ana mas ou mua s;sg paqouap tsiq qiua. jjoj put: ?q?u ?saiq? sjj panojS siq poojs Xxiaj* ?ng -panuo^jf iisnounj snqj daros-ja^anoo aqj ai*s aq tioqw ntjcu 3so{ v joj an jjasanq qx?3 urpiSAqd oqx soApsxuoq? passassod ^sorapj psq Aoqj qoiq-u. jo qouajq eq; hi sjapbaai aqi pa;nojjuoo ptre 'aaStm siq ut 3soju aq 'sopooQ sni^aog puooas v a2ji[ ^ng *aom:pjq siq raoaj paaaSSt^s svii jpscciq audj? puB 'szajz stJ03D0p aqj 0501 Simp bVM. iretnoM PI? 8IfX "opi^no squoiisd jo qotc aq? _ _ Iq apum svm. qstu y \raq limps oj ?t rpanado (pouoiiuara ajojoq usra paipoq -siqu sip) 5iqn(j ?uaf? uoop 9q; 05 soqo?nao uo pa^qqoq u-ccnoM pjo ay *ai poput:q uaoq qsnf prq qoiqiv ?3^oi; n taojj Saiptrai 'asp -islqd oqj paao nlXqscqnpC aan59J jtaqj no Suuajioj mojj raoq? saaAOid 03 pus arnTi *1 ir sffEd nmous aaoca oa ism oas o; 'ano iq auo sjuaijsd aqj ^trap's oj lip' sva\ ?r Ajnp asoqav 'asm pszpoq-aiqt: us pooled seal Sni[itm oq^ hi aoop v ?y |1| -tun; in s?ubm. jiaqj oj Snipnaw^pas 'apis siq o? japao ||L hi uosa Snijpo ^spooq Jiaq* q^aaaq b0t > uiojj jno 5H3S 'SariOA oq? jo sireoni sqj pav 'uomoM. p;o aq? jo snoiifciajiooA ?m 'najpnip jo Smnsnbs aq; 'sa^sad tf , aoai jo eq$ pim? 'paAotaan. oousaasanoo -c qiiAv oquosaad oj pan -nt;aoo aq pau *)objp rcoiurqoan: oaaai LjU v qjiAi idapu p:oxpaiu aqj jo xvo aqij rjfc. pa^npis Sauajyns put: oom jo spunog osoqi XT'1 *n9 "3saud on; aoj SuiutoxS * ' pat: *[iojq stq jo co^oajpooj aq^ J9A0 Snpuoratq 'no^ojq praq put paig -moosrp uopocj v jo jopraj aqs aaq^o -ar ui 'drj s^oq^otr s^i no SuiSunjd pur Sujuunbs ircjm u? sba aauioo ono ht TjarracS v sv usaij sr tji3 v jo looj .??9jd oq; ni UIOA on^q 9qj Maoasj kg, ss9{q;ru q?iM *SaipnnoM 'smdcpios^ W SanOA v 4ponanj-dn dasdjs q;tAi eiaqj pee 'Anioioqojqd jo aoi;caado aqj . Xq poonpnt uaoq p?q qoiqM. sdooaXs jo ^ 5g oqj raoj; q?is v qjm lJn-U3A00aj ;snf *^ooqo suojoAvptiD pUB hub paSspireq j q^iAi 3ni|du?s v abj oaoq iMoaios Sni > -qoBoaddc umo siq J9ao Siuj-cuimai pire Mojajjns oqi jo oan;ao; oqj Saptqdina; -uoo 'avvI o; pucq qjui 'innpoM. tjrs u'sasttasip is jo Goaub,, arass aqj ^v? *. <nniftnr nft 'SnrUtUTWITIOOl SpJ _ jo soinoSx: aq; ut pnop; Snusoa ntm j?||~ ' ^nojs c suav opts 3no uo "douoa s jo P|ip ijjuaq oqi at soiqjudcaAS isvaun pa^U-tt turned, Jerry, vexed at the outrage of which she had been the innocent oc Icasion, caught her by the baci: oi tne neck, and seat her out at the door, crutches and all, at a rate more rapid than she had traveled since she was a f young woman. She tumbled and fell among the crowd, exclaiming, in a tone between surprise and terror: 4 Oh, heaven forgive you your sins, you conthrairy man. Here's usage! Here's thratement!" The doctor proceeded. 1^. "What is the matter with your head, |S my good man?" r "A little difference I had, sir, with 3 naighbor, an1 he " 4%roke it?" "No, sir; only he hit up to me about my brother that was thransported for night-walkin\ an' out o' that " "He broke your head?" "No, sir; only 1 retorted on him, in reo'ard of his own father that was hanged for cow stealin', an1 " "He broke your head?" "No, sir; only then you see he made up to me and call'd me a liar, an' witn that I sthruck him, and with that he " "Broke your head?" "Broke my head across." "Aye that s the point. One would think I was a justice of peace. What is it to me what you fought about? The broken head is all I want." "Faix, then, I could spare it to your honor now, an welcome.' ' tiUA?/v fA fKa turwv l>UUU wv wuv r young gentlemau in the blue coat that's rolling the pills in the corner. "Well, ray young girl, what's the matter with you? Jerry, mind the door!" A sudden roar from without proved that Jerry took the hint. The young patient just addressed was a timid and pretty creature of sixteen, who hesitated for a considerable time, and glanced shyly on each side, as if afraid of being overheard. Pitying her embarrassment, and interested 1 I- ? ? XT ? *-'? 4-U.xv Kn*? ifn I u\ uur kuc uui;wi k\j\ja. u?t iukv | an inner'room. "Well, my dear," lie said, in a kind tone, "What's the matter? Come, don't be afraid of me. I'm your friend, you know." And he patted" her on the shoulders. The girl only sighed and looked down. "Well, my dear, what have you to tell me?" "Something that's come over me, t sir. I'm in dread." "How is that?" "A great pain I have on my heart, sir. There's a boy livin' over, near the Qntran on I'm nA isn't actin' well." "How so?" "I dou't know, sir. But ever since I met him I feel quite altered some way. I'm always lonesome, an' with a pain mostly at my heart, an' what makes me think 'tis he that done it to me is, because when I go to his mother's aa' 1 find him at home, from that minute the pain leaves me, an' I feel nothin' at all until I come away again." . "Oh, ho!" said the doctor, ' well, my dear, I'll order you something; but how is it you suppo^ that this lad isn't acting well, as you say?" The girl lifted the corner of her check apron to her eyes and began to cry a litfle. "Come now, my dear, don't ke?p me here all day. I can't cure you if you won't tell, you know." "I danced with him of a night, sir,"" she replied in a timid voice and with a trembling lip, ,4an' when he was sittin' next to me he gave me an apple, an: they tell me now that " Here she lifted her apron to her eyes and cried a-fresh. "Weil, well," said the doctor, soothinglv, "what then? Don't be afraid of ?>v me. "They told mq he put something in the apple, sir, to?to?make a fool of a rtArcnn " r?~? And, so saying, she hung her head, and drew the hood of her cloak around her face. "Pooh! pooh!" said the doctor, "is that all? Then you might be quito at peace. Is this boy comfortable?1' " 'Tis Harry Lenigan, sir, that keeps the Latin school near the Seven Churches, an' holds his place from Mr. Darner, of Glendearg." "And have you any fortune yourself, my dear?" "Fifteen pounds, my uncle left e me, sir." "A very nice thing. Well,'my dear, take one of these pills every second ? ? ? t- * ?J r u _ j-.: mgm; auu a wuutu auvisc \uu ^vuoially, since yon find it relieves your pain so much, to get into company with Harry, to be near him as much as you can conveniently; and come to me again when those pilis are out- If Harry should call at your house any time between this and Shrovetide, I would advise yon not to be out of the way. Do you hear?" "I do, sir. Long life to your honor." "But. above all things, be sure you take the pills." The girl promised to be careful, dropped a courtesy, and, heaving a gentle sign, departed. A loud knocking at the door now startled the physician. "You're wantin' over, sir, in all haste," cried the harsh and stormy voice of Jerry Duhig, "here's Aaron Shepherd come to call you to see Mrs. Wilderming, that's taken suddenly ilL" This startling announcement occasioned an instantaneous bustle. The doctor's horse was ordered to the door, and he hurried oat of the house, leaving the crowd of patients storming at Jerry, and Jerry roaring at them like Dante's Cerberus, who, thundering, stuns The SDiritg. that they for deafness wish Jn vain. ?From Gerald Griffin's Rivals. Congressmen and Gentlemen. A good and perhaps true story is told of Bob Icgersoll and Secretary Laraar. Bob called at the Interior Department and asked to see the Secretary. \De Sec'tary is occupied, sah, with members and Senatahs only. Won't * -~i- *1 M see noooay cise now, suu, sum mo colored messenger at the door. Bob waited a moment, with his hands in his pockets. Then he pulled out half a dollar and dropped it into the janitor's hand, after giving a few whispered instructions. A moment later the messenger walked into the Secretary's room, where a large number of S/mftirvrs w?re assembled, and address ed the Secretary: "Mr. Sec'tary, Mr. Bob Ingersoll am at de doah. He says he understands that dis am de time when you won't see any but members and Senatahs, an1 he wants to know when you receive gentlemens." "Show the Colonel in," said the Secretary.? Washington Star. An old legend of St Louis is revived, which says that the ground on which thn Snnthern Hotel was built was cursed by a poor and aged French woman, who was dispossessed of her humble home, which stood on its site, by the city's march of progress, far back in tho early days of the settlement St. Louis is cobwebbed with traditions and old legends, and there seems in this case a curious fulfillment of the traditional curse. There is a theory that the magnetic fluid that pervades everything is affected by a foul wrong done, and that a repetition in the same place is more probable, but all such airy speculations may well be left to Ue Le d occuJ tism.?isoston Traveler. BEECHEK AND TALMAGE. A Wicked Xewspapcr Man on the Thunderers of Brooklyn. While Beechcr is thinking away in Plymouth church Ttilmage is not idle in the Tabernacle. As the bovs sav. "Talmage is a corker." He draws "a much larger crowd than Beeeher, but it is a different crowd. It is the crowd without brains, the crowd that likes to be amused and finds Talmage a cheap man to amuse them. He is sensational and so is Beeeher, but they do not conflict. Beecher's sensationalism consists in presenting startling facts about education, or religion, or politics. Talmage's sensationalism consists in a monkey-show, girating on the platform like a clown, and by raking up old and disputed topics for discussion, and in reopening old sores. The cornetist who leads the singing helps oMfoAf Mio ornwd and knows the chords of the human heart, for he plays on them unceasingly. He does not seek to educate in religious matters. He selects a text, and around that he weaves a garland of words, and here and there lie intersperses old anecdotes and stories that sometime cause a smile or a tear. Beechcr does none of this. He is above it, and there are some things that he will not plunge boldly into. Taliuage will undertake anything for notoriety. He would write a Bible if ho were asked to. Both Beechcr and Talmage have had their tussles with Bob Ingersoll, but haven't you noticed that Beecher has not had much to say against Royal Bob lately? Talmage, however, seldom misses a chance to hit the great orator. His blow is a blow of a sandbag, though. He doesn't sharpen a delicate stiletto and stick it into his opponent's heart as Beeclier does. Talmage exhausts himp-jlf at one swoop and then Ingersoll jumps on him, and if one man ever gave another a drubbing on the p' 'form Ingersoll certainly did Talm. ;e. A few years ago Ingersoll wrote a paper on "The Christian Religion" that was published in the NorLh Arnercaji Itevie'w. It was a very able article and attracted great attention. It was nothing more than the old views that Ingersoll had so often expressed in rmliLio hnf scntftnec was effective. and having been published in so prominent a magazine they were given more weight than they really deserved. Thorndyke Rice, editor of the lieview. had engaged Judge Jere Black, of Pennsylvania, to reply to tho article. Black had given the subject much thought and study. He was the ablest constitutional lawyer in the country. He was a splendid speaker, a man of rare attainments a cl?*ar logiciau, ho was just the man to reply to lngersoll, and to smash into atoms the indictment that lngersoll had drawn up. The church people seemed confident. They believed their knight would slay tne mnaei. Well, the article was published, and candor compels the admission it was a lamentable failure. Black seeiucd to have lost his grip but he severely denounced Ingersoil as a charlatan, and in a general way scoffed at his unbelief. To this Ingersoil replied, and Black* admitted that lor ouce he had been worsted. The great infidel didn't spare his man. He took off hair and hide at the same time, and left his victim without a word to say. It was at this juncture that Beecher came to the front, and this wi;l establish the point that I have made, that there are somecoutracts too big for him to enter into. Editor Rice called on Beccher. "Have you read the discussion be tween Col. lngersoll and Judge Black?" he asked him. "Yes, very earefifily," was Beccher's reply. "Which do you think has the boat of it?" "Ingersoli, decidedly." "But the argument is not finished. Mr. iiceclier, auu 1 cume to asJc you to take up the case against Ingersoll and refute his statements." "I should like to very much." "Then why not do it? I will give you So,000 for a paper ou 'The Christian Religion' that will dispose of the atheistic question at once and forever." "Yes, Iguess you would," concluded Beecher, "but I won't undertake it. I can't do it. No man can do it. It is an impossibility. We may believe that Ingerso:l is wrong, but wc can't give positive proof of it." That was manly anyhow.?Xew York Cor. in Providence Telegram. Atif Twenty-six years ago a young clerk in the city of New York stole a pocket dictionary from the law office in which he was employed, and, soon after, thirty-five dollars in money from other employers in the same city. He removed to China, where as it appears, he lived virtuously, and became a prosperous man. He is still a resident of Shanghai A few months ago he lost a prayerbook. which was returned to him by a Catholic priest, to whom the theft had j teen confessed. At lirst, indignant at I the injury done him, he demanded the jxposure and punishment of the thief. But the recollection of his own similar transgressions long ago came to him with such force that his an^er was swallowed up in contrition, and he determined to make a similar restitution. He wrote a letter in the New York Eerald, confessing his thefts, enclosing the stolen dictionary and money, ana requested the editor to forward the same to their owners, or in case they could not be found, to give the money o inafitnfinn The proprietor of the book had been dead for many years, but the rightful owner of the money, once a prosperous New York merchant is now a tobaccoplanter in North Carolina, and so poor that the'stolen money is really an important addition to his year's revenue. It has been sent to him. A remarkable circumstance is, that the contrite man gave to the Herald his full name and address, and in mentionKn AIH nnf noil if Kir nv ! Jii? mo vums, " "J -~j line name, or attempt any excuse. He says in plain English that he "stole" the book and "pilfered", the money. He is a wise man. He-has won back a portion ofH lost treasure, most precious, his self-respect! More than this, while it was not necessary that he should have given his name to the public, he has made such restitution as lay in his power for the wrong he had done. To show what a girl can do, it is related that a Miss Taylor, who went to Wahpeton three years ago, took a preemption and had an offer of marriage the'first year. The second year she took a homestead and a tree claim and had four offers to "jine" farms. She now has a section of land, twenty-seven cows, and innumerable calves, and is ready to consider offers to marry Grains of Truth. The clever turn everything to account. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. Avt??A?Y*nli? orn litre i.CiOUUO C.M ItllitlJf l\iOV1IVU UiV ii^v old enamelled watches, which had painted covers that prevented you seeing what .o'clock it was. Thare scarce can be named one quality that is amiable in a woman which is not becoming in a man, not excepting even modesty and gentleness of nature. Smile not at legend as vain, thai once in holy hands a worthless stone becomes a heap of silver. Let thy alchemist be contentment, and stono or ore shall be equal to thee. The world deals good-naturedly with good-natnrcd people, and I never knew a sulky misanthropist who quarreled with it. but it was he, and not it, that was in tho wrong. If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand. 'I he difficulties of education lie deeper down than the curriculum. It is not so much finding out to teach what is needful; tho all-important thing is how to develop the mental and moral energies. Bring up your children to joy. Give them just as much as they can take without intoxication and without reaction. If you take too much of any one essential, you cheat some other. Equipoise of the various elements of our being is what we want TCnt.linsiftam th<? orlnw of t.hfl snnl: enthusiasm is the lever by which men are raised above the average level and enterprise, and become capable of a goodness and benevolence which, but for it, would be quite impossible. Nothing so establishes the mind amid the rollings and turbulency of present things as Doth a look above them and a look beyond them?above them to the steady and good Hand by which they are ruled, and beyond them to the sweet and beautiful end to which by that Hand they shall be brought The man of talents possesses them like so many tools, does his job with them, and there an end; but the man of genius is possessed by it, and it makes him into a book or a life, according to its whim. Talent takes the existing moulds, and makes its castings, bitter or worse, of richer or baser metal, according to knack or opportunity; but genius is always shaping new nr>p<3 and rnns thA man in them, so that there is always that human feel in its results which gives us a kindred thrill. Mental burdens will be far more easily borne if they are placed, as far as practicable, out of sight When we gaze upon them, they increase in size. When in our thoughts we emphasize and dwelt upon them, they sometimes grow almost unbearable. It is well enough to face trouble when it comes to us, to measure it and know. it? weight, that we ^nay-"sarimoa*op^ courage and strength sufficient to endure it; but this done, let us place it where it may no longer be in constant sight?let us carry it manfully and bravelv, but not drag it to the light, to dwell upou its" weight, and to claim sympathy for being obliged to bear it. When the emphasis of life is laid on the checrful and attractive side, its real burdens will be borne lightly, happiness will abound and be diffused, and the value of life be multiplied tenfold. A Miner'* Dream. A-party of Cheyennese. who are oldtimers and have seen citics <*row on the plains and the mountain sides and UJ LUU 11IC1C, Ui ?? IIV U.MV I V.J to show for it, except memories of auld I lana: syne, were sitting around a table j in a back room, last night, talking ! about what th-y had done and what [ they would like'to do. "I wish I had that drawer full of [ gold twenties," said one of them. | "Not the little drawer; that big one on [ the other side." "What would you do with it?" asked | another. "Do with it? Why, I'd retire," he I replied. "Retire from what?" savagely asked vpf finnfh<>r. "Well, I don't know exactly; I'd i just sorter retire, as it were." "Yes, you'd retire to the gold-room, j or somewhere, and come back here in abont three week* asking me to set 'em up. That's the way you'd retire." "No, I wouldn't, either, for I'd know vou wouldn't do it; otherwise you'd set 1 em up now." That was a clincher, and the other man did "set 'em up." "Now," said the lirst man?the one who wanfed the twenties?after the refreshments had arrived. "Now, the fact is that if 1 had nil the money 1 could use, I'd hunt mc up a valley in Wyoming, where the land is good and the water plenty, and I'd build a little town, and on one block I'd put a fine row of tenements for all my friends to live in, and the middle house should be a splendid theatre, which would do for a church on Sundays, and I'd havo a railroad to the town and let her grow. We'd all start in on equal footing, and the first fellow who got so rich that he felt himself above the other follows, I'd fire him out of town and let him make a fresh start somo place else, and "Oh, hush, that ain't natural," said Arthur; "money will make a beggar think he was born in a castle, and ne'll get a coat of arms off a fruit-can, or something of the sort, and swear that he inherited it inside of ten years. Your town's busted already, old man.1' "Well, the faet is, I haven't built it yet," said the. castle-constructor," "but the truth is that if I had even money enough to set ;em up now again, I'd do it" Somebody else had, and the stimu* * 3 I At. - lants appeared once more, ana oy me time the party broke up all cf them were as rich as they wanted to be and voted unanimously that nothing succeeds like success, and this morning they will feel as if they had succeeded in securing a head which will require them to have a shoe-horn to get their hats on good.?Cheyenne Leader. This is from F. Marion Crawford's new novel, "An American Politician:7' ' Boston is quite too funny about driving, too. A lady may go out with a man in a sleigh, but you couldn't possibly go with him on wheels?on the same road, at the same hour, same man same everything, except the wheels. You agree to go ouc next week in a sleigh with Mr. Vancouves. If it has happened to thaw, and there is no snow, and he comes in a buggy, you couldn't possibly go with him, because it would be quite improper.Long Island Times. BUFFALO AS A IfAILROAD centisk. ? - All through the summer the harbor is fell of life?tugs dart hither and yon, lake vessels, big and little, receive their cargoes, huge steamers and propellers take on passengers or freight lolrac tt?i 1 nnrtiornno *Vi, U^yvi. ?? UUV> UUU4VXVU4 pleasure-yachts, named lor sea-nymphs and dryads, steam toward the International bridge, which opens in the center with massive swing, and permits them to pass through on their way "down the river." Finally, and most important, stretching in all directions, are>.the iron rails over which the commerce of the great West reaches the Eastern seaboard. To win the heart of this queen city to-day you must court her in the role of ^railway kmg. You must come as theiprojector-of -a new trunk line, prepared W *lay your millions at her ieet in ijitpni jor a sue irom wmcnio mrow anoBfer girdle around the city, and witiSPhousands more to invest for a commanding lot on Delaware Avenue, "Tfee Circle,'* or fronting one of the many park approaches, whereupon to ere^t a palace of Medina sandstone, or a cypress- shingled villa rivaling those of Newport or the famous Jerusalem Road. Never was the imperial position of Buffalo appreciated as now, when all signs point to the realization of the prophecy that she is destined to sit "like a commercial Constantinople stretching along the Bosporus of the broad Niagara, and holding the keys fk a ? n a11 fUrtf o 1 1 Ar\An n n ui IUC j^iiiuauciiud mat suau auu. shut the gates of trade for the regions east and west'' A study of the globe will show why, from the founder of the city, in 1797 down to the latest railway manager of 1885, eager to obtain an approach to the International Bridge, already inadequate to tho demands of traffic and mooting the revival of the old scheme of tunneling under the Niagara, every sagacious person has predicted a "great commercial future for the Queen City of the empire State. With the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad the whole world will payjier tribute. Not only will the products of the immense wheat lields of the Red River, the coal, oil, and iron of Pennsylvania, the lumber of Michi gan and the Southern States, the ores' of Lake Superior, and the live stock of tlie great western prairies pass through her gates, but the commerce of Asia with the Atlantic States, with England, and the Continent. In the year off Buffalo's incorporation, 1832, when there were but one hundred miles of rail in the United States, was granted the hrst permit to put a railroad through Erie county. Now, without the repetition of a rod, over nine thousand miles of travel are possible on the lines centering at Buffalo alone, as the starting point or terminus of twenty different railway lines. [ No city, save one, owes so much to railroads as does Buffak). Her terminal facilities are unequaled, and her transfer yards at East Buffalo are the largest in the world, with the outlying country encompassed for miles about by^a; net-work of tracks, approachi*gc3^x!oser and closer as they near the city," and extending around the harbor-side to pour their freight of coal, salt, and petroleum into the lake vessels in return for a cargo of grain, flour, lumber, iron, and copper ore. Commercial Buffalo is like a portly and self-satisfied spider, supreme in the center of her web. The business man has his choice among six different routes to New York city. Tne New York Central and Hudson River; the New York, Lake Erie, and Western; the New lorii, west &nore, ana uunaio; tne Delaware, L.ickwanna, and Western; the Lehigh Valley; and the Buffalo division of the Buffalo, New York, and Philadelphia? ail lead cast amid the beautiful scenery of the interior of the State. Stretching away in an opposite direction toward the western prairies are the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, the Michigan Central, the Grand Trunk of Canada, the Great Western division, and the New York, Chicago, and St Louis, or "Nickel plate" The remaining nine roads are local lines. Among the most important of these is the "Buffalo Creek Rail-, way, a belt freight line four miles in length, extending down on either side of the ship canal. Every railroad entering the city has conncction with this, and by the terms of the city's grant its rates arc uniform to all, thus placing the railroads on equal terms. Within the city limits railroad corporations own 2.74G acres, or more' than four square miles of territory. There are 43G miles of standard guage' track?more miles of rail than are contained in any other city on the globe. Within the corporate boundaries of his own town the Bullalonian could enjoy a railroad journey equal to a trip to New York over the Lackawanna, with twenty-six miles to spare.?Jane M. Welch in Harper's Magazine for July. A. DreadTu! Blunder. Speaking: of bustles, says Clara Belle, 1 went to church lust Sunday with jus^ the most sensitively devout girl that breathes the air of this sphere, whence she will arise to the azures and delights of heaven. She is truly fashionable. too, and her summer costume was a dream of beauty. She ought to have been spiritually composed and religiously happy, but I plainly saw, as I watched her through the service, that she was ill at ease. "What's the matter, clear?" l wnispered. "I can't imagine," she sadly replied; "but somehow or other I am getting no consolation out of the exercises. The rector is as enchanting as ever, the weather is perfect, my own religious experience was comforting, up to the time I sat down in this pew. I am positively miserable in my mind. Some occult influence is at work, I'm sure." After we got home and were disrobing to dress anew for dinner, a sudden exclamation from my friend arrested my attention. "Clara, oh! Clara!" she cried, "I've solved the mystery. Look here," and ? - i * - -r ~ 3110 WIlippCQ OUI a copy 01 tue Gazette from her bustle. "That's some brother Jack's horrid literature. How blind I must have been! I am so careful always, pretty nearly, to select the Christian Union to put into my bustle r when I am going to church. Then I I seem, somehow, to get an ease of soul from the services that is due, in some I degree, to what I am sitting on. But to rest on a Police Gazette! No wonder [ the religious exercises went for worse than nothing." A telegraph operator who copies diwwvtlw frnm tlm sounder UDOn a tVDC *WV-J - * A. writer is reported from Nashville, Tenn., the first and only operator in - the world who has succeeded in doing this. One night recently he received I and copied 15,000 words of press roatI ter, delivering it to the news editor in | handsome type-writer copy. One Dog Saved By Another; We have received the following interesting narrative from a correspondent in Greenock, who thus writes: "A remarkable case of life-saving by a dog occurred last summer in Grccnock, in a timber pond attached to a sawmill. The strip of land upon which the suwmill is built presents a frontage of about fifty yards to the public street, nnri p\tf>nd<; fnllv two hundred vards towards the Clyde. Two-thirds of the ground is wet ground?that is, ground entirely covered by water when the tide is in. Three sides of this portion are inclosed by a stout paling, through which inclosure the tide ebbs and flows. The fourth side is formed by a perpendicular embankment of four feet deep, which also forms the termination of the dry ground. The inclosure, or "pond" as it is called, is used for storing timber afloat. At high water, the floating timber and dry ground are nearly level. And as at the time of the following incident the pond was closely %\o/tVn?4 mifli timVior thnrp at high water to be little apparent difference between dry ground and wot ground"For several days two dogs of the bull-terrier kind, whose owners were at work in one or other of the adjoining ship-yards, were cnioying themselves in their masters absence by chasing each other in play, rushing impetuously hither and thither, sometimes along the street, occasionally making a dart into the yard round about the sawmill, and as suddenly disappearing again?out inio the street and up one of the many closes at hand. One of these charges led to a rather sudden and somewhat disastrous terra:- I nation. It was high water. In at the I gate of the sawmill premises rushed the two dogs, tiie one close at the heels of the other, across the yard and on to the floating timber. One of them was soon made aware of the. instability of its footing by its slipping into the water between the logs which were floating a few inches apart. The two logs between which the dog fell were floating on their corners, and therefore formed a slope on eaeh side like the letter V, which caused the dog to slip back into the water at every effort to scramble on to the top side of its temporary prison walL Its more fortunate companion retreated to dry ground; but on seeing the struggles of its friend, it at once returned, and, by intelligent gesture, invited it to terra flrma. The efforts of the unfortunate dog wore of no avail, still it persevered, during which time the other had twice returned from dry land. On making the third visit it seemed to grasp the situation, for with its teeth it at ouce caught its submerged companion by the back of the necK and assisted so effectually as to enable it to scramble out of the water and join in another romp, but not within sawmill premises. They were never afterward seen within ihe gate, confining their fun to the streets on all subsequent occasions. "It may be of interest to note that it was a male dog which fell into the water, the other, its rescuer, was of the gentler sex."?Chambers' Journal. Home Conversation. Nothing in tiie home life needs to be V/..H ) ? more oarciunv wiuunuu auu mum uui gently cultivated than the conversation. It should be imbued with the spirit of love. No bitter word should be spoken. The language of husband and wife, in their intercourse together, should always be tender. Anger in word or even in tone should never be suffered. The warmth and tenderness of their heart should How out in every word that they speak to each other. As parents, too, in the intercourse with the children, they should never speak save in words of Christ-like gentleness. It is a fatal mistake to suppose that children's lives can grow up into beauty in an atmosphere of strife. Harsh rt AM.] .1 .1 ?/-* f/\ CArtci f?TT/l J >r us aiu tu souls what' frost are to flowers. To bring tlicm up in Ihc nurture of the Lord is to bring them up as Christ himself would, and surely that would be with infinite tenderness. The blessed influence of loving speech day after day and month after month, it is impossible to estimate. It is like the falling of warm spring sunsliine and rain on the garden. Beauty and sweetness of character arc likely to come from such a homo. But home conversation needs more than love to give it its full influence. It nno-ht to be enrichcd bv thought The Saviour's warning against idle words should be remembered. Every wise-hearted parent will seek to train his household to converse on subjects that will yield instruction or tend toward refinement. The table affords an excellent opportunity for this kind of education. Three times each day the family gathers there. It is a place of cheerfulness. Simply on hygienic grounds meals should not be eaten in silence. Bright cheerful conversation is an excellent sauce and a prime aid to digestion. If it prolongs the meal and thus appears to take too much time out of the busy day, it will add to the vnnrs in tho end bv increased healthfulness and lengthened life. In any case, however, something is due to refinement, and still more is due to the culture of one's home life. The table should be made the ccnter of the social life of the household. There all should appear at their best. Gloom should be "banished, conversatiou should be bright and sparkling. It should consist of something besides dull, threadbare commonplaces. The idle gossip of the street is not a worthy theme for sucn nauowea movements. A Doctor's Hint to WorkingOIeD. When you have heavy work to do, do not take either beer, cider, or spirits. By far the best drink is thin oat meal and water, with a little sugar. The proportions are a quarter of a pound of oat meal to two or three quarts of water, according to the heat of the day and your work and thirst; it should be well boiled, and tnen an ounce or an ounce and a half of brown sugar added. If you find it thicker than you like, add three quarts of water. Before you drink it, shake up the oatmeal well through the liquid. In summer drink this cold; in winter hot You \v.il find it not only quenches thirst, but will give you more strength and endurance than any other drink. II you cannot oou it, you uau ias.ts a j little oatmeal mixed with cold water and sugar, bnt this is not so good; always boil it if you can. If at any time you have to make a very long day, as in harvest, and cannot stop^for meals, increase the oatmeal to half a pound, or even three-quarters, and the water to three quarts if you are likely to be very thirsty. For quenching thirst, few things are better than weak coffee and a little sugar. One ounce of coffee and half au ounce of sugar boiled in two quarts of water and cooled is a very thirst-quenching drink. Cold tea has the same effect, but neither is so supporting as oat meal Toots and the Chicken. Mr. Toots and the Chicken have two imitators in New York. The fashion of going around town with a "heeler1' is "an old one, and wis particularly popular in London twenty or thirty years ago, when nearly every "blood" among the English nobility was accompanied around by a pet prize? ti.? i-u i. IlguMS IT. JLJUU jyutu ?uu 10 uvav auuvru in New York as a dude and swell is small, addicted tc the single glass, evening dress, absinthe, late suppers, and ladies of the ballet He is the owner of several horses that have achieved more or less fame on the turf, and his manner is blaze and careless. He has, in fact, an enormous faculty for sitting still and savin? nothing. At such mo ments he sits and glares composedly at his "heeler," who lounges carelessly in front of him and chats garrulously upon subjects of a sporting nature. The heeler is a large mau, and has a sincere and honest manner. A few ! nights ago, in Brown's chop-house, the 1 heeler and the dude came in to have some supper. The dude was in evening attire and a diamond ring of extraordinary size glistened on the third finger of the left hand. He ordered a golden buck and subsequently ate some pigs' feet and drank a iarge quantiti* nf ale. He is a man of rather weakened constitution. The heeler, a square jawed, bearded and heavybrowed man,ate a single chop drank a glass of milk, and lighted a cigar. Then he leaned back and looked respectfully at his companion. The dude screwed a single glass in his eye after finishing the last of his pigs1 feet, lighted a cigarette, leaned back in his cliair and stared for at least ten minuies at the heeler. Finally, with an effort, he said: "Mike, what do you weigh now?" "One hundred and eighty-six pounds 3 i. _i* al : J) ?_:.J ana a nan mis muruiu^, a;uu iui&c. * 'Any fat?" "Not an ounce," said Mike; "it'a all boric and muscle." This dialogue plunged the dude into the most profound thought For at least a quarter of an hour he did not say a word, but continued to stare at ihe man across the table. Then with another great.effort he said: "Can you lick Sullivan?" "No," said Mike slowly. "Why can't you?" said the dude irritably. "Coz he is too much for me," said the plug, showing the respect in which he held John L. Sullivan in every line of his ugly mug. "Well, you re a tine plum, you are, said the dude contemptuously. "What good are you anyhow?" The heeler did not say anything, but sat smoking composedly. "Mike," said the dude, after another long pause, "you make me very wearv." The. big man across the table continued to look at his master calmly, until that youngster gathered enough energy to deciue tliat he ought to go home,* and together' the two men went out and climbed into a cab which was waiting for them at the door. This goes to show -one of the uses of the heeler. 1 should think it would be great iarks to bull-doze and ballyraggle a bigger man than yourself, just because you happened to owu him. Recreation for Wives and Housekeepers. How many women we see day after day who seem to have no objoet in life; who go about their household duties in a mechanical sort of way, as much as tasay, I have so much to do and must get it done, and pusli through in as quick a manner as j.ossible. Now there is something radically wrong with such a woman. I know that doing the ?ame thing over and over, day after day, is onf fA rorv timn/\tnnnnc nn a^Vl VW I ViJ IliVUVbViiVU^) uu less the mind is diverted once in a while by other things. A walk, a ride, a night spent at some place of amusement, or in social pleasure will freshen tho jaded faculties wonderfully, and you will return to your pots and pans with new zest. Anything rather than being enclosed within a few rooms, no matter how pleasant they may be. All women know-how wearing the duties of wife and mother are. and unless cAmo rocf cr\ma illirnrttimi 1 ? r\r)r*o in a while, the incessant i:ibor and worry will soon break her down. And vet I have heard women who have large families and no one u> help them say, that sometimes two or three weeks elapse before they go out. Now this is not right Under ?ti< h treatment a woman, no matter how ?wcut tempered she may have been, will bccome morbid and fretful. The husband does not like to see her thus and unless he is very far seeing, will attribute it to sulkiness. Whenever y??ur wife is looking, as you think, sulky, propose A w?A11r n /v.vt. ft.l.i .-> ^ ,1 frtl'A a cv aiA, vi a aticui i av.v;, auu the children along, if you can't do any better. Or hire some trusty person to come in and take care of the little one for an evening, and take her out, and you will see how she will brighten up, and the effect of that evening's pleasure will last some time. Men who are out every day do not realize how tedious it is for a liberty-loving woman to stay at home, or how great an undertaking it is to go out with three or four babies. Husbands, as a rule, are not hard-hearted; they do not see that mother is pining for fresh air and amusement; that the drudgery of every-dav life is wearing her out; that the care and worry of the little ones is nearly turning her brain. If they fully realized it they would spend a little more money for that same trusty person mentioned above, and at least once a week, the partner of their joys and sorrows should have a real good time, something like she used to have when they were lirst married and without care. The need of recreation can not be too highly valued by both mothers and fathers. The wife will take more interest in her household labors, and the husband will see a more boautiful face when he conies home at night Change is rest, and one will soon become tired of life if there is no break in the monotony of every day work. Chicago girls dou't have to let themselves down with ropes or shin down ladders when they want to elope. The old man opens the front door for 'em, carries the bundle out on the steps, and locks the door with the remark: "When you get tired of your cowboy come home and take the cook's place C'O " at *20 pet tv wa. The number of stars visible to the naked eye is commonly greatly overestimated. Let one begin to count the stars and the false impression is soon dispelled- The whole number of the stars down to those of the fifth magnitude inclusive, is hardly more than 1,500. Stars of the sixth magnitude are the tiniest specks of light, visible only in a favorable state of the atmosphere, and these included will not bring the count much above 4,000, except for persons who have extraordinary keenness of sight GLRAJNTNGS. Spurgeon, the great London preacher, has become a vegetarian. Belle Boyd, the Confederate spy, i* teaching elocution ip Little Rock, Ark. Senator llansom, of North Carolina, is said to be the best dressed member of Congress. Abraham Lincoln, just before he died, was measured, and found to be six feet four inches in height It is said, on the authority of a druggist, that half a cent's worth of aloes makes 25 cents' worth of pills. Senator Evarts in the Hoyt will contest said: "Death may be, for all W8 know, man's most rational state." Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, a cousin of Bob Ingersoll, is a prominent contributor to the Pacific coast religious press. A new photograph of Mrs. Langtry irom one tasen at tne age 01 10 is a present curiosity in the London print shops. The interest bearing national debt of Great Britain in 1884 was $3,200,00S,000, and the annual interest charge ?142,672,560. London produces 50,000 tons of soot per annum, which is worth $200,000, and is used for a fertilizer at a rat? of ten hundredweight per acre. At Ash Ford, a station on the Atlantic & Pacific Railway, in Northern Arizona, the water supply is brought by rail a distance of sixty miles ana sold for 50 cents per barrel. The oldest book in the Congressional T.ihrorir ia coir} tn "The fVl?Tra Leaf," by one Hauser, of Georgia, a tune book concocted "for the glory of God and the good of mankind." Although as high as 250,000 alligator skins have been tanned in a single year in the United States and Europe, it is said there is not a single tanner of these hides in the Southern States. A Nevada woman took a fall of 885 feet off a ledge the other day,'brought up in a tree top, helped herself out, and went home and cooked dinner as if nothing but a circus procession had passed by. The dairy products of this country exceed the oat crop $350,000,000, the wheat crop $100,000,000, the cotton crop $220,000,000, the product of iron bars and steel $257,000,000, and the pig-iron output $419,000,000. "How to prepare Schuylkill water" is a lesson in sanitary science given to ' Philadelphians. The process * is elaborate, and consists of filtering, boiling, and packing in ice. The mud remainins: at the end of the experiment is not j hurtful. The tropical gooseberry, cultivated in xioriua, is a lruii. rawer smaller than the Siberian crab apple, and is in shape like a flattened globe; it contains one hard seed. The tree, which attains from ten to fifteen feet in height, is very ornamental, but the fruit is of little account The birds of Louisiana, papers of . that state say, will soon be exterminated. The colored people there not only make birds an article of food, but hare begun to use their eggs for the same purpose. The eggs of partridges, robins, wrens, mocking birds, and all others that they can get their hands on, are eaten. Paul Pinkham, of Millbridge, a blind man, has followed the lobster business for ten years. His boat is guided by his wife, but he hauls his traps, takes out his lobsters, puts on the bait as well and as quickly as if he could see. .tie nas caugac a ton a weeK ior mree weeks. Mr. Pinkh^m makes his own traps and builds his own boats. In the blueberry season he picks berries for the canning factory nearly as fast as those who can see.?Mount Desert (Me.) Herald. There is a current story that the rresident nas two mortal areaas? obesity and baldness. These were the skeletons that pursued Napoleon L About ten years ago a bald spot as big as a dime appeared in the middle of Mr. Cleveland's pate, and, although glycerine, gunpowder, salt, cantha * - 3 xj 1 A naes, Dorax, ammonia, ana ine execinc hair brush have been tried in succesion, the bald spot has steadily grown bigger, and the phantom of baldness still pursues the President While Miss Emma Thrall, of Oswego, N. Y., was sitting ai her piano one evening recently, the family being away, she was seized by a man who had entered through the only unlocked door and informed her that if she made an outcry he would cut her throat He then cut off her hair, which was very long and beautiful, and left the premises. She will not have much trouble in attending to ner iocks nereaxter, out the door locks will be taken care of witii greater industry than ever. Dr. Wormley, in a recent work, concludes as the result of a most searching study of the bloods of forty different mammals, that "a microscope may enable us to determine with great certainty that the blood is not of a certain animal, and is consistent with the blood of man; but in no instance does it in itself enable us to say that the J Wtnlle* Al* A UlUUU, id icauj uutuauf vi u vm what particular species of animal it was derived.". The statement has a high medico-legal importance. The beaux and belles of JSew Guinea are by no means forbidding. Imagine a man about live feet nine inches in height, his body a nice brown color, covered, if he be a masher, with red earth and varnished with oil, his face painted in different colors and a piece of polished earth through his nose, his hair long and frizzy, ornamented with bird of paradise plumes and cockatoo feathers, his teeth black or red, his ears weighted down with huge ear ornaments, waist compressed to waspish proportions with a broad belt of bark, shell armlets on his arms and dogs' teeth necklaces round his neck, a breast ornament of boars' tusks or pearl shell, a gayly painted waist ribbon, with long streamers in iront ana Demna, aniaeis and kneelets of colored flax, and a small netted bag over his shoulderimagine ail this and you have a typical New Guincan. The women match the men. Broad-Faced Hen. However dull an Irishman's ear may be, his imagination is always lively, a fact which this amusing anecdote illustrates: A rather stout Irishman was walking slowly through the market one morning with a basket on iiis arm. Un coming to a stali where a large owl was perched upon a bar, he stopped. After inspecting it for a few minutes with a troubled expression on his countenance, his face lighted up, and with a patronizing air he inquired: "How much do you want for your broad-faced hen?" With a very audible grin the pro nriotnr rpnliod.? "That's no hen; it's an owl." "I don't care howould it is; it's good enough for the hoardthers, and it will make soup.