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BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUAEY 16, 1876. MASONIC DIRECTORY. Clinton Lodge No. 3. F. A. M. W. H. PARKE U. WV. M.*. J. C. WOS.MANSKY, Secretary.' Meets 2d Monday in every month. Hesperian ChapterNo.17,R.A.M. J. F. C. DcPRE. M.\ E.\ H.\ P.-. J. D. CHALMEIIS, Recorder. Meets 3d Friday night in every month. DeSaow Council Ho, 16, R.US.M. J. T. ROBERTSON. T.\ 111.-. M.\ JNO. G. EDWARDS. Recorder. Meets 1st Tuesday night in every month. DR. JOHN S. THOMPSON, E DENTIST, j Offers hiB professional services to the citizens of Abbeville and the surrounding country. Office?Over Citizens' Savings Bank, ABBEVILLE, S. C. CUNNINGHAM & TEMPLETON Have on hand a large stock of Gits' Lint Bison SMrts, AT VERY LOW PRICE A large assortment of JLadies' and G-ents Merino Vests & Shirts, BOULEVARD SKIRTS, Silk Scarfs and Ties. GIYE THEM A. CALL. The star Shirt! Having tried these Shirts, vre can safely rc oommend them for a good fitting and durable Shirt. Collars, Linen and Paper, LATEST STYLES, With Cravats and Scarfs to Match. QUARLES & PERRIN. Cottaare Bedsteads! Two hundred Bedsteads just received, war ranted all bard wood, at prices from $5 00 to $10.00. 1 J. D. CHALMERS. Boots and Shoes! * ? _ - Oar stock of BOOTS and SHOE3 is now complete, and at the Lowest Prices for CASH. Call early and get a bargain. ? DttPRE, GAMBRELL & CO. C. B. BRUCE, Boot and Shoe Maker, Over'Parker & Perrin's Store, ABBEVILLE, 8. C., Doeiros to e&y that he is folly prep&r d to meet all demands the public may make 1 u bis line. He keeps constantly on band a large lot of the Deat nj.noriiu uuu emrrnvB oiuy tne nneHiworK men. Hei^ops & fall stock of custom made Boots and^ShoeH, and guarantec.8 the most entire tatisfaetion in every instance. M. OOLDSMI^a. P. KIND. GOLDSMITH & KIND, FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS (PHOENIX IRON WORKS), COLUMBIA. . C. Manufacturers of Steam Enffinea of all sizes; Hor*e powers, Circular and Muley Saw Mills, OriKt and Sugar Cane Mills, Fionr MUIh, Orna- ' mental House and Store Fronts, Iron Bailings, ] Agricultural Implements, etc. Bras* and Iron ] CaatiugM of all kiadfl made to order on short notice and on the most reasonable terms. Also, manufacturers of Cotton Presses. S. B. NORRELL, ; HARNESS ail SADDLE MAKER, \ AT HIS OLD STAND Over Parker & Perrin's Drug Store, Has a supply of Northern Harness Leather and other material for Making and Bepairiug Saddles and Harness. CARPENTRY. The undersigned hereby gives notice that he is prepared to do ali kiuda of Capter's fort aid Emldins. He aleo repairs Cotton Giis, Thrashers and Fans. A full supply of Gin Material always on hand. Fanners are requested to briiiK their Gins up early in the season to allow time to have them properly prepared. Also Agent for the Taylor Cotton Gin, the Brook* Coiton Press, and all kinds'of Rubber and Leather Belting. D. B. SMITH, Abbeville. C. 11., S. V. STEAM VII I IIIIIA fifiBI I fLANINu MILL, . Columbia, S. C. .FW.WING, Proprietor. MANUFACTURER OF Sash, Blinds, Doors, WINDOW AND UUUtt r xCAIVLtio, iisiitPirtBliilsiSlite, PILASTERS, Mantelpieces, HOLDINGS, BRACKETS, Handrails, N3wels, Balusters. OLL WORK of all Description. ork Guaranteed A No. 1. Tlie Lost Babies. C ine, my wife, put down the Bible, Lay your glasses on the book. Both of us are b it and aged? Backward, moth r, let u? look. This is Btill the sam old homestead Where I brought you long ago, When the hair was bright with sunshine Th?.t is now like winter's snow. Let ns talk about the babies As we sit here all alone, Such a merry troop of youngsters : How w. lost them one by one. Jack, th' first of all the party, Came to one winter'B night. Jack, you said, should be & parson, Long before he saw the light. Do you see that great cathedral, Filled, the transept and the nave, Hear the organ grandly pealing, Watch the silken hangings wave ; boo tne priest in roues 01 omce, With the altar at his back Would yea think that gifted preacher v onld be our own little Jack ? Then a girl with curly treesea U ed to climi upon my knee, Like a little fairy princess Ruling at the age of three. With the years there came a wedding Dow your fond heart swelledKrith pride When the lord of all the county Choae your baby for his bride ! Watch that stately carriage coming, And the form reclining there? Would you think that brilliant lady Could be your own little Clare ? Then the last, a blue-eyed youngster? I can hear him prattling now Such a tstroDg and sturdy follow, With his broad and honest brow. How he used to love hie mother ! Ah ! I see your trembling lip: Ho is far off on the water, Captain of a royal ship. See the bronze upon his forehead, Hear the voice of stern command That the boy who cluDg so fondly To his mother's gentle hand ? Ah ! my wife, we've lost the babies, cars ho long ttuu outb tuuuu ; What are we to these great people, Stately men and women grown ? Seldcm do we even see them : Yea, a bitter tear-drop starts, And we ait here in the firelight, Lonely hearth and lonely hearts. All their lives are full without as : They'll stop long enough one day Just to lay us in the churchyard, Then they'll each go on their way. They Tell Their Story. Midnight was past, and the lights of he vessels lying at anchor infche stream Fere beginning to be extinguished, when >VU IUUU UU111CU AkXJJUM uiuviuuv VMWV ions towards the shore. The elder of he two had already reached the strand ind was preparing to make a leap, the losign of which was not to be mistaken; >ut at that instant the younger seized lim by the arm, exclaiming: 44 Sir, I >elieve you want to drown yourself !" " You have guessed it. What is that o you?" This was the answer, spoken in the oost angry tone. " Nothing, I know. I would simply equest you to wait a couple of minutes ?when, if you like, wc will make the jreat journey together, arm in arm?the >est way of dying." With these words the younger extend sd his hand to the elder, whose wa3 not withheld. The younger continued, in a lone of seeming enthusiasm: " So be it! irm in arm ! Truly, I did not dream :hat a human heart would beat with nine in this last hour. I will not seels ;o know who you are?ap honest mar 01 i villain. Come!?lot us begin the journey together!" The elder held the young man back, ind, fixing his dim, half-extinguished jyes searchingly upon the countenance sf his companion, exclaimed: "Hold I Fou seem to me too young to end youi life by suicide. A man of your years ias still a brilliant, alluring future ic ais grasp 1" 44 Brilliant I" answered the young man, scornfully. " What have I tc liope in the midst of a world full ol wickedness, falsehood, treachery and anhappiness ? Come !?quick !" " You aro still young! You musl have had very sorrowful experiences tc make life already thus insupportable tc you." "I despise mankind." " Without exception ?" "Without exception ?" " Well, tlieu, you have now perhaps 'oundaioan whom yon willnot necessarily despise. I have, believe me, during mj whole life, lived an honorable man." " Really ! That is highly interesting It's a pity I had not earlier made you; acquaintance." " Leave me to die alone, young man Live on. Believe me, time heals al woximls, and there are men of honor ye to bo found." Now, if you take this view, why an you hurrying so fast from the world?" " Oh, I aifc an old, Rickly man, uuabli t<-> mol-n o Kvolilinrwl a m!\tl tclin f?ftn not, will not, longer see his only child bis daughter, blighting her youth, am laboring day and night to support him.' "How, Rir! have yon a daughter wh docs this for you?" asked the younj man, surprised. "And with what endurance, witJ what love, does she sacrifice herself fo me ! Sho works for me, she goes hun gry for me, and has only the tenderes words of love?a sweet smile for m always." "And you want to commit suicide Are you mad?" " Shall I murder my daughter ? Th life which she is now leading is her cei tain death," answered the old man, in despairing voice. " Good sir, como with me to the neai est inn that is still open. You will re late to me your history, and, if you like I will let yon hear miue. bo raucti however, will I say to you beforehand chase all thoughts of self-murder out c your head. I am rich, and, if things b as you say, from henceforth you an your daughter shall lead a pleasant life. The old man followed the youuge without opposition. A few minute later the elder began : "My history is soon told. I was merchant's clerk, but always uuluckj As I had nothing by inheritance and th young girl I married was poor, I wa never able to commence business on m own account, and remained on to an ol age in a dependent, subordinate pos tion. Finally, I was discharged on a< count of my years, and then began th struggle for a subsistence. My wife die of trouble, and now my poor child i wearied to gain my support. I cannc bear to see her working herself to deat t<\r mo?fhorfifore. it is better I C( Now, you know all." "Friend," exclaimed the young mai " you are the most fortunate man I evf encountered in my life. It is insane t call that misfortune. Nobody is easit to help than you. To-morrow I wi make my will, and you shall be?no r< sis tan ce!?my heir. The coming nigl is my last. Before this, however, I mui see your daughter, out of pure curiosity I would for once see how one looks wh ___!!. deserves tho naine of woman 1" " But, young man, ,what can it be thi thus early has madttjhn so unhappy S queried the - " I believe it was the wealth whic my father left me. I was the only so of the richest banker of this city. M father died five years ago, leaving m more than was good for me. Sinoe ths time I have been deceived and betraye by every one, withont exception, wit whom I have had any connection. 8om have pretended friendship for me?o account of my money. Others hav pretended to love me?again for m money; and so it went on. I ofte mingled, in ?he garb of a simple wort man, with the masses, and thus one da became acquainted with a charming be ing, a young girl, to whom my whol heart soon went out in love. I disclose to her neither my name nor my position I longed to be loved for myself alone and for a time it appeared as if I wer going to be happy?at last, at last I "Theyoung girl and I, whom shi still regarded as a simple workman, me every afternoon in tne jQiarcuspiaiz where we walked up and down together passing many happy hours. One da; my dear girl appeared with red eyes she had been weeping?and told mi that wo must part, confessing that he life belonged to another ! With thea words she tore herself from me and dis appeared in the crowd. Her faithless ness decided my destiny. Vainly did rush into the pleasures which so-callec 4 good society' has to offer, but founc my lost peace of soul never, never! ] then determined to bring my joylea existence to a close. '' "Unhappy young man," said th( elder, wiping his eyes; "from my wholt heart I pity you. I must acknowledge that I was more fortunate than you; foi I, at least, was by two women?my wife and daughter?tenderly loved." "Will you give me your address, good sir, that I may convince myself oJ the truth of your story ? It is not er actly mistrust, but I must see to be lieve. To-morrow I will arrange mj affairs as I have already told you. You will remain at this inn to-night, and ir the morning early I will return. Give me your word of honor that you wil] not leave this house until I come back, and that you will not in the meantime speak to any one of what has taken place between us ?" " You have my word ! Go to mj dwelling, to my daughter, and you wiL find that I have told you but the aim pie truth. My name is Wilhelm Salms, Here is my address. With these words he handed th< young man a paper, giving the addresi of His dwelling. It lay in a suburb in habited by the poorer classes, at som< difitance from the city proper. "And my name is Carl Teodor," here upon said the young man. " Take thi: bank note ; it will serve you till my re turn." Cnrl rune for the waiter, had the land lord called, commended the old man t< liis care in suitable terms, and left thi house. ******* Hardly hail the morning broke whei Carl found himself on the way to th< suburb where lived the daughter of thi old man with whom he had become ac quainted under such peculiar circum stances. It was a poor placc. Th( young man knocked, opened the door and involuntarily stepped back. The young girl whose inconstancy hai made his life a burden unbearable stooc before him! 1?J ^aIa V>n OUU I1UII glUWU IJUIV IWJ fUlV , ^14 lie knew her at tlie first glance ; it wai Bertha, whom he had onco hoped t( call his own. At his appearance the young gir sprang tfward him, overcome with joy holding out her littlo hand. The young man waved her buck, exclaimiug : "You did not expect to see me ?" The poor girl sank into a seat, ani ; covered her pale, beautiful face witl ( her hands. 1 " Are yon Wilhelm Salms'daughter?' asked the-young man, coldly, after i uouoa. "lam," answered the maiden, tim idly. " And who and where is that other t< whom, as you told me at parting, you life belonged ?" " That other is my father," answeret the young girl, looking up to the younj man with a glance in which spoke th tenderest love. With lightning quickness the trutl dawned upon him; the scales fell frori his eyes. Speechlessly he rushed to Bertha took her in his arms and pressed her t< his breast. << fnfVinv* " Via falfArorl vumu v\j j uui juvuvi-i 4?v " My father! Oh, heaven! I forgot Where is he? lie has bsen out al uiglit. I have watched for him in tear the long night through." "Your father is saved. ' Ho is wit; me," was Carl's answer as he hurriedth young girl out and through the street to the arms of her father. A fortnight later, in tho midst of th greatest splendor, the marriage of th rich young banker, Carl Teodor, t r* il CI .1 i. 1_ LKTlliU O.limS, U>UH pjtK*3. Massachusetts State Pebt. The message of Gov. Rice, of Mossi chusetts, says that the present funde debt of the Strite is $33,886,461, divide as follows: Railroad loava $17,768.91 War loans.. 12.724,11 Ordinary 3 393 21 Total t33,8S6,4( Net increase of the funded dobt during the year 54,421,21 Script i Bued during the past year amouuta to 5,090,21 Paid 011 vai ious loai a during year.. 009,(X Th<i estimates for 1876 are : Ordinary expenditures and pay ments from roveuue 4,9C9,7i The ordinary revenue of yoer, in cluding reserve ca*h in treasury.. 3,049,21 A State tax of $l,800,000or $2,000,0( will be necessary to meet the estimate deficiency. He compares the Stat county and municipal indebtednes which in 1865 was $43,169,543.02, wil th:it of 1875, which amounts to ?111 413,094.49, and shows that tho bui'dc r*C in/.i.Mi.o l>no llOOTI 1 /-ilfifkQ 011/I f OTT I \J I iuviruou UIVO L/UVU AM VAVtV-tJ I??V? vw ... rather than in the administration of tl affairs of the commonwealth, and is alf far in excess of the growth of popul tion. Celebrating the Centennial. The centennial year wa'?j " ushered it with a great deal of noisoand excitemei in various parts of the United State In some of the interior citios the celebr tion was quite extensive. Midnig] processions and parades, illumination fireworks, and salutes of one hundrt guns, were freely indulged in. Ne Yorkers were treated to a promiseuoi serenade of fiah horns, tho bells we: rung, and one of the great railroad lin< kept up a tremendous blast?half i hour long?from all its available stea whistles. As a fillip to the enjoymen in the United States, the inhabitants i Quebeo celebrated the repulse of tl Americans from that city a hundred yea ago and the house where Montgomei was taken to die was dccorated ui illuminated. A Bachelor's Choice.?"Oh, M Grabbles," exclaimed a young mothe " shouldn't you like to have a family < rosy children about your knee ?" " N ma'am," Raid the disagreeable o bachelor; " I\1 rather have a lot of y< low boyB in Russia's Grain Trade. The London Times, in a financial ar ticle, says : It seems from recent arti cles in the Moscow Gazette that great stagnation prevails in the groin trade in southern Russia. Russian agriculture and commerce are threatened with a collapse. Chief among the causes is the keen competition of America. Since the civil war in that country the British im port of American wheat has increased until it stands now where the Russian importation stood in 1864. Then Rus sia sent out forty-four hundredths of her total imports, and the United States only fourteen. In 1873 the United States sent out forty-four hundredths and Russia only twenty-one. This does not represent a decrease to that extent of Russia's total exports; on the con Knf trttry, iiiuj' nit vu oug ii vij xxiv^i. o?.ot?v4j *j*o.v America's have increased much faster. The causes are declared chiefly to be America's superior transit advantages, her virgin soil, and her more scientific agriculture. The Gazette therefore urges the Russian agriculturists to in corporate new lands, use better appli ances, and more skill; but says that cheaper inland transportation is the chief need. The Gazette's Odessa cor respondent writes that the oldest inhabi tants declare that Odessa was never at such a standstill since its foundation. No transactions are effected, and bank ruptcy follows bankruptcy. Houses have fallen to thirty-hundredths of their value, and wheat is lying ih the store houses. Repeated failures of the cropo ? J.1 T>??? 1X1 tilt) fctUUlIitJiU LUBWiUlB Ul ituooin OJ.O partly the cause of the difficulty. The Gazette, however, Bays the condition of affairs is largely influenced by the mis placed activity of private banking houses, which made credits absurdly easy and cheap, which occasioned a storm of feverish speculation and created ephemeral undertakings. Now, forced to curtail credits, they have re duced to the most awkward position many who thought such a state of things would last forever. Cannot Touch His Money. Probably the wealthiest young man in Boston is Joshua Montgomery Sears, son of the late Joshua Sears, who died T 10K7 1, JCUIIUUJ I | XUt/l) iOOlTiUg 1UO OVU MWM to bis large estate. The lieir reached his majority on Christmas, but by the terms of the will, which left the property in trust, ho now receives but a small fraction of the estate. The elder Sears left property of the estimated value of $1,500,000. Alpheus Hardy, Horatio Harris and Hugh Montgomery being named in the will as trustees. Under their management the property has in in TfilnA until it, amounts. jiceord ing to the assessors' returns of May, 1874, to 84,026,400 in real estate in Bos ton, in addition to investment in mort gages, etc., etc., of a like value. Young Sears is at present a student in Yale College, and lias been educated under the guardianship of the Hon. Alpheus Hardy. He is a young man of intelli gence, and is said to be possessed of many of the characteristics of his father. By the terms of the will the sou was to receive $30,000 when ho was twenty-one, 84,000 annually from that age to twenty five, $6,000 annually from twenty-five to thirty, aud 810,000 per year subsequent ly. * There seems to be no direct pro vision in the will that the son shall ever receive other of the estate than the above save in the matter of his education. WHO will inueric mis vast pruperiy in the event of the sou's decease is a ques tion for the courts. The Europ an Grain Trade, The Mark Lane Express, iu its re view of the grain trade, says 1875 has unfortunately x>roved a year of general deficiency and inferiority. Barley lias shown the best yield of the season, be ing only slightly below the average, but its color has been so generally alfected that its value for midtiug purposes is greatly reduced, perhaps eight to ten shillings per quai tor. Sales have been unusually dull. Oats and beans are be * ji i-..t low tne averago, uuu uctiet yiitco j?uu for the latter compensate tlio detect. Teas are considerably below the average, having suffered greatly in sizo and quali ty. The wheat crop has suffered most, only one-eighth reaching the average, while fiV'-sixths sink below it. What ever dullness now prevails, and may for a period continue, our large deficiency will crop up as the season advances. Should we have a bad spring an import ant advance must ensue. The Corn Trade Association of Liver pool publish a statement of the estimated stock of breadstuffs there on the 31st of December, 1875, as compared with the same time last year. The tables show the following: Dtf. 81,1876. Dte. 81,1874. Wheat (quartern) 793,613 144 211 Corn (quartern) 32.687 50.901 Flour (uttckb) 192 652 153,670 Flour (barrels) 52,068 59,140 Affairs in Cuba. The Spaniards in Caba claim that the surprise of Jagua by the raiders was not due to their daring, or to the negligence of the military commander of the dis trict, but to treason among the inhabit ants of the city, by whose assistance alone the blow could havo been attempt ed. Some arrests have already been made on suspicion of complicity, and among the prisoners is a Spaniard, who fy\ Iiqtta nlwciva tfrmrnrl in t.VlA L>~i OUHAiV.1 IV U(*TU ... loyalist ranks. The papers call for a rig orous investigation and exempbiry pun ishment in case of conviction. Arrests upon similar grounds are beiDg made in most of the towns of the interior, arul a correspondent writes from Puerto Prin cipe rejoicingly, that there are sixty odd persons in the prisons of that city whose conduct is being investigated in connec tion with charges of giving intelligence to the enemy. The Spauiards have derived much comfort from a cable dispatch announc lUg tnat Clie xsnusn puverumuiiu wuuiu probably defer answering for the pres ent the circular noto of jtfr. Fish, and as they fancy they would have the sup port of England in any conflict with America, they may be expected to be more grandiloquent, now, in their patri otic declarations, than ever. Death from Hydrophobia. Hugh Murray, nged nineteen years, residing in Brooklyn, was bitten by a cat, whose anger he Jiad aroused in some manner. The wound inflicted was not a serious one, and no attention was paid to it at tho time. Six weeks after, however,^he wound began to swell, and Murray's friends becoming alarmed, summoned a physician. All was done fo his relief that medical skill could suggest, but to no purpose. He died in ?ronf. nomnv. The case is nronounced one of genuine hydrophobia, and the progress of tho disease evinced all the symptoms of that malady. Bad for Papa.?" Pa, are you in favor of tho Bible in tho public schools?" asked a youngstor at the breakfast table the other morning. "Why, of course I am," responded tho father, pleased that such an important subject should engage the attention of his youthful off spring. "What makes you ask such a question, my son?" "Oh, nothing," re joined young hopeful; " only I thought may bo you wasn't, as you never hnvo had one at ltome." The urchin dodged, but he wasujt quick onough. Dyspepsia from Eating Hot Bread. General Clingman, -writing to the orth Carolina Agricultural Journal, lis some truths and offers suggestions )out the causes and results of dyspep a and indigestion, with especial refer lce to hot, doughy bread, which "will >ply to all parts of the country. Read id heed: . It has been said that the frying-pan is ie great enemy to our people. There ji be no doubt but that it has slain its lOusands; but bad bread is the slayer tens of thousands. While traveling Europe for eight months, I saw noth g but cold bnad, nor did I, while ere, see or hear anything that tended induce me to believe that anybody in arope had ever eaten a piece of hot onrl T invarifthlv. howflver. found e bread good, and the people' I saw peared healthy and robnst. Some, as e English and Germans, were espe llly so. ' With respect to the United States, the ndition of% things may be more strik gly and pointedly presented by refer ee to individual cases. Many years ice I stopped at the house of an ac laintance, and, on seeing him, I said: Fou are not looking as well as nsnal." No," he replied, "I have the dyspep i powerfully bad." When dinner was idy, there was an abundant supply of sats and well-baked corn bread, lere was also, however, something lied biscuit, which was, in fact, rather irm dough, with much grease in it. I w that my host ate this freely with his T /1i/1 ?Af TTTAYi 'abHi J. IDliltui^ou uiiav jl uxu uuu nvu r that he had* dyspepsia, for that I old not live a month in that way. I ggested that if he would eat well ked corn bread, or, better still, light ead, he would not suffer as he was ing. He answered vehemently "that 3 would rather die than eat light ead." I replied: "This is a free untry, and you have a right to die in is mode if you choose, and I have no ubt but that you will soon die." I en referred to cases in-which I had own people to die from such prac i68. My cool mode of discussing tue .estion evidently made aa^ppression his wife. Next summer,"TO meeting 21, I said: "You are looking much tter." "Yes," he replied,'bursting io a hearty' laugh, VI /ollcwed your vice, and took to eating light bread, d I am as well as I ever was in my A Margin in Soap. The fact that a confidential clerk and shier in a soap factory was able to ibezzle a sum of money variously esti ited nt from three hundred thousand liars to seven hundred thousand liars in a few years, and to escape de jtion and arrest for nearly two years jer leaving the soap man s employ, m eates a margin in tliis essential of the let which is surprising. Nobody sus clcd that the soap business was so ofitable that a soap man could be bbed at this fearful rate without find S it out. Yet the case of Beokwith ows that the safest place in New York r a dishonest clerk is in a soap factory, lis ingenious business man systemati lly laid aside for himself an increase ten per cent on all the 'disbursements his employer's establishment, and en escaped suspicion for a long period, is not of the crime we would speak, v that is of a kind which just now is mraon enough, nor of the confidence the soap man in his clerk, but of the ormous profits of a business which uld stand such a drain upon it without citing suspicion. What must Mr. ibbitt'o profits have been if Beckwith is able to appropriate nearly half a illion of dollars out of the ostablish 3nt without even so much as exciting apiciou ? Evidently the people of this uutry submit to the payment of enor ou8 prioes for the most ordinary neces ries of life without ho much as grumb ig. Reasonable profits in the Boap isiness would not long have withstood ickwith's assaults upon Babbitt's in me. As it is, the crime is not without i benefits in the exposure. People ay learn from this not only the margin ere is on soap but the enormous profits acted by business men for everything ev mako and everything* they sell. ideed, the corner grocer thinks himself ititled to a profit of from fifty to a mdred per cent, for bringing a barrel potatoes from Washington market id peddling it ont by the small easure. These exactions, criminally lormous as they are, do more to keep ir working people in poverty than any ns have suspected. When clerks can eal a fortune out of n single establish out in a few years it is time that people fused to pay prices that make such imes possible.?New York Herald. A Felon's Plea. Tom Scott, -who was convicted on the large of masked burglary at Utica, N. and sentenced to eighteen years in tate prison, was asked by the court if 3 had anything to say. He made the illowing speech: I have very little to say, your honor, id perhaps that will bo of very little sneflt to me. The verdict of the jury Des not surprise me, after the officers of le court had been sworn to tako oharge f the jury and then to have gone oIT to a ince, on a fandango, and got intoxi ited! Who knows but the jury got rank ? Who knows what was said jo lem or what was done while the officer as intoxicated ? I am convicted by a iry like this. I have very little to say, ut I want to thank the gentlemen who ave so ably defended me. * * * shall go to Auburn, and may probably ever see you again, l may cuo a con ict, and be dragged to a felon's grave, want you and every man on this jury ud all around me in this court house to j >member that I am innocent. You speaking to the jury and emphasizing is words by rapping sharply on the ible) have decided my fate for life; you ave murdered me. Is not eighteen ears a lifetimo for me ? The court, interrupting the speaker, iggested that he should not upbraid le jury. Scott continued moro calmly: Well, I'll stop here. As for your *lf I have nothing to say. I think you barged the jury as well as you could. >nt vnnr honor. I wish to s:iv that von j .? ? ' # lust admit tliat it was wrong for the entloman placed in charge of the jury ) get intoxicated. One thing ruore, our honor. I am twenty-one years of ge, and I hope you will not lecture me r give me any advice. All that you ave to say may not make mo better or mako mo worse. You can give mo hat you please, ten, fifteen, twenty, fty or a hundred yearn, and I'll turn off ke a man and say good-bye, but please o not lecture me. I have nothing more j say. Tlie Fcniau Prisoners. The " Shaughraun" is a sort of 'enian play. Boacicault, the author nd the actor, has been playing it ightly in London to audiences number ig 2,000 each with great success. He ow writes a letter to Minister Disraeli, lying that these audiences are a jury f the city of London and of England nd the play has full* tested the Fenian nestion in the English mind. In view f the verdict remlfrod each night he THE WASHINGTONIANS. How the Temperance Reform of the Last Centary Originated. Hon. Frank W. Miller, a son of one of the earliest and most consistent mem bers of the Washington Total Abstinence Society, has contributed to the Ports month (N. H.) Chronicle a brief history of that organization. He says : On the second day of April, 1840, six men sat drinking in a tavern on Liberty street, Baltimore. Notioes had been published in the papers of that city that a distinguished clergyman (Matthew Hale Smith) would lecture on temper ance that evening in one of the churches. This subject was mentioned by one of the six, and, after some talk, it was agreed that two of their number should attend the meeting, and report. This was done, and, after the report had been listened to, and the subject discussed, one of them exclaimed: " Jjet us lorm a temperance society, and. make Bill Mitchell president." With this under stands 3, and after taking another drink, they separated. On the next evening they met at the same place?the matter was again talked over, and they resolved to form, and did form, a society, naming it after l^he Father of their Country, as it ^ras quite common at that time to name most organizations after Washing ton; The names of those six individu als were William Mitchell, Pavid Hoss, Charles Anderson, George Steer, Bill McCurdy, and Tom Campbell. They then voted to meet the next night in a carpenter's, shop, and each agreed to bring a new member. These meetings were held almost nightly, and for re marks each related his own experience at the court of death. As might be ex pected, these meetings began to attract public attention. John Hawkins early became a member, but was not one of tb.o original six. xnose reiormeu ihjuu Were soon invited to visit other cities and towns, and who of onr older citizens has not listened to the thrilling and simple experience of John Hawkins as he has portrayed the misery of the drunkard and told the touching story of his little daughter TTannftVi persuading him to quit the drunkard's drink. This new movoment spread from city to city, and from town to town, until tnere was scarcely a place in the United States that did not have its Washingtonian m-1-1 AV-i.; TT,hn -1.UILU n.uaillicuua OV/Vlovjr. iuou nuu hod been drunkards for years burst the bands that had so long bound them, and became temperance reformers. The name being quite long, it soon became shortened by daily use, and these organizations became known throughout the country as "Washingtonians." The Washingtonian Society was originated in Portsmouth in 1841, and has been in strumental in reclaiming more than three hundred intemperate men, many of whom kept the pledge till their dying day. Others still live a blessing to their families and an honor to society. ? - i?J AT** fn I xney uemuusi/rttwju tuo gicut uuuu the drunkard could be saved. While nearly all the societies of this class in the country have ceased to exist, the Ports mouth Washingtonians have always maintained their organization. Statistics of a City. The statistics of a city for a twolve month contain much Of interest. From the official statistics we have the follow ing figures of New York in 1875. The number of deaths for the year were 30, 67d; the number of malriages for the year was 7,565; the number of births, *23,813, and the number of children still born, 2,2-10. The following shows the mortality for two years under the classi fication of deaths : ClarHJlcation of Death. 1874. 1875. Zvmotio dieeaee? 9,802 10,840 Constitutional diseases.. 0,023 6.002 Local dieaasos 9,987 10,720 Developmental diseases.. 1,607 2,080 Deaths by violonco.... 1,248 . 480 Dtatlm from all canaee. 27,727 30,122 DEATHS BY CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 187-1. 1878. 8mailpox..w 484 - 1,222 Meaaloa...........'.... . S19 * ; 148 Scarlatina ^.... 879 519 Diphtheria ?... j.,uuo z,io4 The following table, mode up from tho reports, is sadly interesting: . -1876. 1871 Infante fonnd in tho streets, alloy, rivere, eto., dead, from neglect and exposure, but principally stillborn 102 112 Deaths by suffocation, principally infants overlaid in bed.... 43 87 Deaths by accident 573 612 Deaths bv accidental ehooting, poisoning, eto 22 29 Deaths by being overheated 3 9 Drowning, pot including?suicidal drowning-kndwn, 114; unknown, fifty-ono 165 162 Suicide Homioide Infanticide Abortion Judioial hanging 143 1H4 (19 39 6 1 2 5 3 0 Total 1,110 1,190 The commitments curing 1875 for lar ceny were of males, 2,444, andcf females, 452. During the year 1,568 females were sentenced for vagrancy. Visiting the Pope. Miss Emma Abbott, whcse sweet voice promises to place her on the top round of iho ladder of lyric fame, writes as follows from Florence to her mother in "Wisconsin: "In Rome I saw the Pope; was presented with many others. The ceremony took place in tho palace of tho Vatican. All the gentlemen had to wear black dress suits and white ties; tho ladies black dresses and Spanish veils. Jilvory one was in pmce ana wait ing in breathless suspense for the I entrance of, the 'holy father' at 11:45 o'clock, the appointed time. I had just concluded that he was not coming, as a full hour and a half had elapsdd, but at length he was announced, and we all knelt down. He passed up one side of [ the room, speaking to each one, and then down on the other side. Every one kissed his hand, and devout Catholics kissed his crimson slippers. An Italian woman who was next to mo told me of the miracles he had wrought, and said I 1J TTtlmn Y\n primp. and that I would be unable to speak to lnm. But, on the contrary, when I saw tho kind, good natured face of his holi ness, f smiled, and he smibd, and asked mo where I wan from; and then said, as he i>assed along: ' Aildio carrmima'? ' Good-bye, dearest.' J ran acroas to tho other side of tho room, and when ho came to me the second time I told him I wa* an artist, and aaked his blessing on my voicc. He gave it, bnt said I must I ' pray rather than fling,' at which he l laughed, ami the priests and attendants around him laughed too. After that, the Pope addressed the people in French, and blessed them, aud the great ordeal was over." Would not Sell. A correspondent sends tho following reminiscence : When Congressman La mar was returning home at the close of the session of Congress in 1860 a news boy on the Memphis and Charleston rail road insisted that he should purchase a book ho repeatedly offered him. An noyed by his pertinacity and anxious to be rid of him, Mr. Lamar said to him, with a wave of his hand: "Ob, pshaw I don't bother me so. I wrote the boi'k." Quick as thought the little felloy an swered : "Ah! now I know, 'jpat's wlutt makes it bo darned hard to so The Year 1875. Another year has gone. As we wel- j come the new year, standing now at the threshold of the second centnry of our national existence, it is well to glance [ backward over the leading events of the g twelvemonth just closed. I The year 1875 has not been a very f eventful one. We recall but a single r change in the map of the world as a re- r suit of war, and that is nothing more r than a fresh extension of tile Russian r dominions in central Asia, a process that [ has been going on for many generations, r and that will doubtless continue. The c Dutch war against the Atchinese has c not been brought to a close. 1 The only other wars of note have been c civil wars; the Carlist rebellion in Spain, { the Cuban insurrection, and the rising j in Herzegovina?more important than either of the others. The Carlist cause seems to be at an extremity as the year wanes, and possibly before this review reaches oar readers, it may have come to an end. The war in Cuba continues with little change. The Herzegovinian revolt has gained an importance during the last mouths, and unless it oan be speedily put down, may prove a fatal calamity to the Turkish empire. Political changes and revolutions have been few. Near the beginning of the year Spain cast aside the Republican form or government, which had been a name rather than a reality, and called Alfonso, the son of the deposed Queen Isabella, to the throne. The revolution was bloodless, as was that which drove out the now restored Bourbon dvhasty. France, on the other hand, has by the action of the national assembly, set up a republic, framed a constitution, and made all the preparations to set the new machinery in motion a month or two hence. Elsewhere there has . been quiet political changes, or important reforms. Mr. Disraeli's government in Great Britain has met with no serious check. Neither in Austria, Italy, Russia, nor in anv of the countries of northern Europe, and good order, without has anything occurred to attract the at- 1 tention of the world. ' > 8 At home there have been bnt few e striking events. Two cabinet changes c constitutes the only ohanges in the gen- e oral administration. A law providing for 1 the resumption of specie payments at t the beginning of the year 1879, was the t most important measure of the Congress f which adjourned on the fourth of March, t The new Congress has as yet done little except to organize and to get into work- j ing ord.r. c It has been a good year for crops, par- t ticularly in the United States; but a ' very bad year for business, almost s everywhere. We have gathered a grain r harvest nearly equal to the largest, and a cotton crop more abundant than was o ever before known. Bnt trade has been L very dull, prices havs been falling, and many thousands of people have been un- t employed. Other countries have suf- e fered, but probably none so greatly as v the United States. As the year draws to an end, there are encouraging signs a that the worst of the season of depres- d sion is over. Death has removed many men of name and fame. The young emperor of China, who had ruled that vast empire but a x short time, was the only crowncd head i that has died during the year. Vice- t President Wilson and ex-President Johnson/ ex-Vice-President Breckin- I ridge, and Jesse 1). Bright, all of whom, 1 during their lifetime, presided over the t American Senate, have passed away. Science has lost Sir Charles Lyell, the i geologist, and Prof. Wheatstone, the r electrician. The mo&t noted preacher t who has died is M. Coquerel, the French protestant clergyman. Literature s mourns Charles Kingsley and Hans t Christian Andersen. The death of Wil- 1 liam B. Aator, the richest man in New t Yorlif if not in America, reminds us that t tho rich are not spared by tiie great ao i stroyer. A Hero and a Martyr. Few of thoso who read and -wondered at Charles Reade's thrilling story of James Lambert, as it was published a year ago, says the New York Tribune, imagined that we had here at home a hero in humble life whose achievements rival if they do not surpass those of the now famous cotton spinner of Glasgo v. John Horn, the hero of this story, is the son of a waterside tavern keeper at De troit. The list of men, women and children whom he has rescued from drowning numbers over one hundred. Repeatedly he has barely saved himself in the gallant attempt to sav e others, and the reward which he seems to have gen erally earned by his exertions is a fit of sickness. It has not been mere fair weather heroism. His most memorable achievements have been performed on dark and stormy nights, or when the water was full of floating ice. We can oimnof HflliAVfi that it is a custom in De troit when anybody is drowning to post- | pone other appliances for rescue and * call John Horn f for this young man g seems to have been repeatedly summoned j. from home to plunge into the water while crowds of spectators stand sympa- j thetio but helpless on the bank. How ? he has been kicked and bruised and strangled and injured internally and otherwise maltreated by the people he ^ has been trying to get out of the river ^ our readers can easily imagine. "Drowning men," as Mr. Horn ob serves, " are always crazy." j We do not find in his narrative an ; exact parallel to James Lambert's most fl remarkable exploits; bnt there is some tiling which comes very near if. iu theac count of what lie modestly calls " the worst night ho ever had," when he saved no fewer than nine men. That would be accounted rather a good night, we think, in most men's lives; but John Horn is not a boaster. The citizens of Detroit gave him a medal for his gal lantry, and ho lost it while saving the life of a young lady in 1873. Last year he applied to Congress for a medal, and his claims to renown were made through the agency of the Hon. Moses W. Field, who represented Detroit in Con gress and was au eye-witness of several 01 tllG events WlllCll tms letwir reuuma, There can hardly be a doubt that John Horn ought to have the little testimonal ho asks. United Stales >"avy. In the United States navy there are forty rear-admirals on the retired list, who receive ?4,500 per year salary. Fol lowing the list of rear-ad inirals there ap pears a list of thirty-eight commodores. Thirty-five of these commodores are on the retired list and receive $3,750 per year each. There are thirty captains ami com manders on the retired or pension list who receive nn average of $3,000 a year each. After the captains and commanders come the lieutenants, lieutenant-com manders, masters, ensigns, and even midshipmen. A "starred," or retired, lieutenant-commander receives 82,250 a year, a lieutenant SI,950, a master SI,500, an ensign $1,150, and a midshipman $750. After these come the staff offi cers, and the exhibit is somthing appall ing. Thero are twenty-five medical di rectors at $3,300 each, thirteen other medical officers at an average of $2,000 each, fifteen pay officers at an averago of $2,000 each, and thirty-eight engineers at about the same average. UNITED STATES PUBLIC DEBT. Ln Interesting Stateqienf of the Financial Condition of the Nation. The increase of nearly two million dol ars in the pnblio debt of the United States last month, a Washington dis >atch says, is attributable to the large ailing off in revenues, usual for the nonth of December. The receipts last nonth from customs were less than eight nillion dollars, and nearly three millions ess than in November, which was the ightest of the first five months of the iresent fiscal year. Compared with De ember, 1874, which was the lightest aonth of the last fiscal year, the receipts aat month fell off about one and one [uarter millions. The customs receipts or the six months ending December ??? nao?lTr t/vrrv millinnfl nlinrfc LLUVjr-iUOV (UU UWIUI^ J.VU* J ???. it the receipts for the corresponding leriod of 1874. For several years past he debt statement for December has hown an increase in the publio debt n December, 1873, the increase was 18,463,273; in 1874, $3,669,968, while in 876 it is $1,915,063, or about one-half rhat it was in 1874. Compared with last rear there is a marked improvement in iur financial condition. 'For the six aonths ending December thirty-first the rablio debt has decreased $8,866,631, gainst $4,089,930 for the corresponding teriod of 1874. The internal revenues how an increase over the month of De ember, 1874, which indicates that the Qcreased tax on whisky is being oollect d, and that frauds upon the revenues ehich have been checked have caused a erious loss heretofore. The debt state aent shows that during December the oin balance has fallen off $2,000,000, nd the currency balance nearly $900, 00. The coin certificates have increased rom $20,000,000 to $31,000,000. There ias been a decrease of legal tenders for he month of $614,552, and an increase q fractional currency of $1,079,967. A Scene in the Sheriff's Office. The newly elected sheriff was sitting a his office sad eyed and haggard. He leld in his hand. a stack of manu cnpc represeutuig iue appuutuuuo ui light hundred and. seventy-nine candi lates (or positions of deputy sheriff, iach of whom said he had worked for lim at the polls, and had gained him all he way up from two hundred to one housand votes from their personal riends who did not vote the opposition ickefc. A man attired in a blue shirt, with a >aper collar and a red nose, entered the iflice, and, grasping the hand of the irod official, greeted him cordially. 'Ah, Mr. Sheriff, but it's glad I am to ee you looking so hearty; don't you emember me ?" "I don't think I do," remarked the fflcial, "although there is something a your faoe which is familiar to me." "Ah. Mr. Sheriff, I thought you'd :now me. I worked for you all day lection, aDd got you one thousand ntPB and I come for that place." " Well, I am sorry to say that I have Jready promised all the places at my lisposal." " Oh, give me a place ; I don't care rhat it is." "Oh, by-the-bye," said the sheriff, rith a malicious grin in his eye, " thfte a a place, but it's not much, and I don't hink yon'd take it." " Ah, Mr. Sheriff, I'll take anything ; ! don't care what kind of a place it is. Pell me -what it is, and I'll jump at it rifch my coat off." " All right," said the sheriff; " there s a man going to be hanged at the jail loxt month, and ho wants somel.ody to ake his place. I think it will suit you." The man with the red nose ceased to mile, and asking the sheriff for a qnar er to pay for his lodging that night, he eft the office and mingled with the lu-ong of would-be deputy sheriffs on he outside. The Morrill Redemption Bill. The following is the full text of the )ill introduced in the United States Jenate by Senator Morrill, of Vermont: To provide for the redemption of legal ender United States notes in accordance nth the existing law. Be it enacted, tc., that to further enable the secretary if tho treasury to provide for the re lemption of the legal tender United ) bates notes, in accordance with the ex sting law, he is authorized to issue, sell >r dispose of, at not less than par in egal tender United States notea, either if the descriptions of tho bonds of the Jnited States, bearing interest at a rate if not exceeding four and one-half per ent. per annum, described in the act of Congress approved July 14, 1870, en itled " An act to authorize the refund ng of the national debt," with like inalities, privileges and exemption to lie extent necessary to carry onto full iffect the act of Congress approved Jan. 4.1875. entitled, "An act for the re umption of specie payments," and to ise the proceeds thereof for the pur >oses aforesaid; and the said legal notes o obtained npon the issue of said bonds hall be held and considered as a part of he final redemption of snch notes pro dded for in the act of Congress herein ast mentioned, and shall be treated ac jordingly and canceled; provided that he principal of the bonds herein author zed may be made redeemable at any ime not less than thirty nor exceeding orty years from the date of issue. . a x?j Seo. 2. Tiiat ail contracts euw;reu mw >r made after the first day of January, .878, shall be payable in accordance nth the legal tender standard of gold .nd silver, unless otherwise provided at ho time of the contract. Seo. 3. That all national banking as ociations shall be and hereby are re tired to hold in coin as part of their awful money reserve, on and after the irst day of January, 1877, one-fourth; .fter the first day of January, 1878, one " " - i.?-r ia.11, ftca aner ui? uxtt u^jr ui 878, three-fourths. Active Life. The trouble is, Barnum, the showmau, ays, wo do our work superficially; we lash ahead to make a fortune and retire; hat is a great mistake. About eight ' ears ago I tried it. I had three rnuse >mo Vinroml snnond fire I ;onsidered it a notice to quit. So I )ought a houso on Murray Hill, kept ny country seat aud retired. I felt very lappy to think I bad retired. Well, I vent along that way about two jears, ill I got rusty. Ono day a physician, irother-in-law to Baron Shurtz, came to lee me and said : "I hear you have re ared?" "Yes." "Well, you are going ;o die." " I suppose so, sometime." 11 No, but very soon. When you Ameri jans retire, you always die ; you work ind dig and are all business till you get rich, and right in middle life you retire, md your brain, hitherto active, shrinks fr<?m disease; your skull dou't shrink ; that creates a vacuum, and you die." Well, I have no doubt there is a great leal of truth in that. I took his advice md started a traveling show; I got out my programmo and told some pretty big stories; then I thought I ought to keep to thorn audi had to work pretty hard to do it. The doctor came to see me again and said : "Well, you have got into business again ?" "Yes." "Well, you die." I inquired why, and he said : "I did not tell you to work yourself to death; a man of your years (over fifty five) cauuofc exert his braiu as milch as a man twenty-fiyi The doctor wes quite right. Items of Interest. < The En glish riflemen have accepted the challenge of the Now York riflemen for a match in America (faring the Cen tennial celebration. Sir JETenry Halford ' will be the captain of the English team. A middle-aged gentleman, deeply in terested in the Centennial, asked a mia* of sweet sixteen if she knew what im portant event 1876 would be noted for, and she promptly responded : ''Leap year." Peter Herdie, a millionaire of Wil liamsport, Pa., made the Protestant Episcopal church of that place a Christ mas present of a new edifice, fully fur nished with an organ and other reqni sites. .' < ' ') n;i , If debating societies are out of sub jects, they cannot do better than to wrestle with the conundrum: "Why is it that, proportionately, there are fewer elopements in iargetowns than in small ones?-,'.. " Ob, I am so glad yon like birds I what kind do yon most admire i" said a wife to her husband. "Ahem! Well I think ar good turkey, with plenty of seasoning," said the hnsband, " is as nice as any." Daring the past fiscal year the.amount of money which went to the deaii letter offioe in Washington was $77,166.86, of. which $22,629.49 oonld not be returned to the forwarders, owing to there being no clew to their address. A fellow in Derrisville, California, had a mother who disliked the girl whom he had engaged to marry. Said the, mother: "I'll give yon the brindle tteers.aod the mole if yon don't marry her." fie took the brn tee in preference to thegirL An nViio ftnnnla recently celebrated their golden wedding on the forty eighth anniversary of their marriage. Some one chanced to open the family Bible while the festivities were in pro gress, and the mistake was discovered. The Louisville Courier-Journal says that a poetical New Yorker, learning that the kte N. P. Willis named his reriaenoa " G!en Mary," after his wife, concluded that that was just about the thing to do, and so he colls his house " Glen Matilda Jane.". ..... A nice point for casuists has just beea raised in Montreal. Two men were quarreling on St. Francis Xavier street; and A knocked E down, whereupon a 1 * "S-'-i '-A . |,uVa4 iiorse, aiavmea at one euxuggio, B on the head and killed him. What is A guilty of? A simple looking country lad, to whose lot fell the leading questions in the catechism, "What is your name?" re plied: "Carrots!" "Who gave yon that name?" "All the boys in the parish, sir," whiningly replied the red haired urchin. "Charles," said a young wife to her linoVionrJ as fhflv sat at the window ' watching the fashionables on their way to church, "when you die anfkl get hold of the insurance money I sHend to have a for cape and muff just like that lady has on over there." A man in New Hampshire had the misfortune recently to lose his wife. Over the grave he caused a stone to be placed, on which, in the depth of his grief, he had ordered to be inscribed: *' Tears cannot restore her?therefore ;I wocp." This is the kind of weather when a man sees his wife coming into therooin with a scuttle of coal, and after she h?s poured every bit of it into the top of the tall stove, says- " Darn it, Hariner, you ought to 'ave asked .me to do that. JL3UC lb a IUU IUUG uu >v W A letter from Fayal, one of the Azojre islands, holds out this incentive to im migration : " Hero you get a bottle of wine for six cents, a meal for eight cents, board by the day twenty-five cents, while fifty cents will buy as much as five dollars will in the States. .., A Western lady gives the following advice to girls engaged in looking up husbands: "Look out. for physical health and beauty for the sake of the race. Do not bestow a glance on the lean, dyspeptic, cadaverous biped ; shun him as you would a pestilence.", > Mr. Ruskin pitoheB into the young lady Sunday-school teachers. "At pre sent," he says, "you keep the dancing to yourselves end teach your scholars the catechism. Suppose you were to try for a little while learning the cate chism yourselves and teaching them to dance." * Candle light is generally considered to enhance the beauty of one's face and complexion, and we are told that it will be the fashion this winter to use wax candles at parties instead of gas. Young ladies who have more freckles than they frt /In rrifh will read this witn XU1UW VTJUtav irv uv > gratification. A correspondent of the National Baptist, Philadelphia, tells a romantic story of a young man named Randall, formerly a resident of New York, who was captured in Syria by the Bedouins, married a chief's daughter, and has con verted her and others of the tribe to the Christian faith. The bodies of Gens. Lecomte and rrru hw, Tn/yfimn nf the Com XLlULLi{lD) VUDAUOv vnv i ???... _ __ mane, who were assassinated on tha eighteenth of March, 1871, were recently exhumed from {heir original resting place, and, after remaining a day for solemn service at the Invalides, interred in Pero la Chaise. The Chinese entered California in 1850, drawn thither by gossip about the land oi' gold. Senator Sargent remem bers seeing the first Chinese jnnk that anchored off the California coast. At the present day the thin musclcs of the Chinaman are prominently effective as far east as Wyoming. One of the young men employed in a Daubury hat factory discovered a brass - .11? i?j,, ? nin.m nf minfvt Die he CUIilil iJUUUil iu w ^/avw v* r -- - was masticating the other day. He is looking for a new boarding place. He says what he want3 fire the comforts of a homo, and not the excitement and con fusion of a dollar store. It has never been accounted for, and probably never will be, why a boy Who will eat four fneals, play ball three hours, gorge himself with unripe fruit and ro in swimming sis times daily during all vacation, and be 'healthier than a tomb stone, will be seized with all sorts of maladies the moment the school bell rings. One of the curious incidents of the * past holiday season is a call from the I British Post-office department for a re* j mittance of 8150,000 on account of { money ordersdrawu in the United States I 011 post-offices in Great Britain, in ex j cess of similar orders drawn there upon | offices on this side of the Atlantic. The I iiwo lioionoj jo (imlained by uuunuanj W.6U L the largo number of immigrants from the British empire, who make uso of money orders in remembering " the old folks at home " at Christmas and New Tear's. The London Lancet calls attention to the - importance of early detection of scarlet fever at this tima of the year. In the initial stage the throat symptoms are most trustworthy, the soft part of the palate being extremely reddened, and not merely the tonnils, as in ordinaiy sore throat. If the nkin is hot in addi i tion, the pulse quick, and the tongue j thickly furred, scarlet fever may bo ' looked for. Sickness generally follows tho attack within twenty-four hour<s. Parents and schoolmasters should be t. ^^ont