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r ; w' ' . ' ? ' ? v .._- . " /, . ' ' - - - ' -' : :; - ' ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. ? ; i BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1877. NO. 24. VOLUME XXV. $25,000! TIIE Tiinnwm mm nnniinnnm JiMM&l JIM! UUflTW STOCK OF Goods EVER BROUGHT TO fiPFFIUVlL LE ! m. mm mm m m m m Twenty-five thousand dollars worth of GOODS which he intends to dispose of ".A.T OR BELOW NEW YORK Betail Prices! In is tie Time for Bargains. COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. CAPT. ff. R. WHITE Is with me and would be glad to meet with bia old Frie dd and CuHtomera, and will 8 <TE THEM SOME MONEY. A No. 1, Wagon Yard IN REAR OF STORE* FREE TO ALL. Respectfully, T. W. DAVIS, MAIN STREET, \ GREENVILLE. S. C. Oct 17, 1877.?3moB HEADQUARTERS FOR CHEAP GOODS, MORGAN A BRO. ' / Jv * ^ ' * HAVE RECEIVED THE Largest General Stock ..;1' 3 -OFGoods ? ?#- JL -? i * In Greenville. TTfE OCCUPY OUR NEW STORE AT OUR VY Old Stand on BUNCOMB STREET, and with our facilities for doing business we claim to be second to none. We make BOOTS, SHOES, DOMESTIC AND FANCY DRY GOODS, A BPEOIAT.TY, And in them can Offer Great Inducements. We were at the manufactories in person, and bad our Boots and Shoes made to order, and will guarantee both quality ?.nH price. Buying from first hands we save the profit of the middle mau, which will be a ** wring to the consumer who buys from us. Our Dty Goods Were selected with great care, and embrace >11 th? VnvultifiH of the Reason, and in this Department we make POPULAR PRICES. Our Graery Bepariment Is well enpp'ied at all times with CHOICE GOODS, which will be Bold at HARD PAN PRICES. Come and see for jounelret. No charge showing goods. We grrre a free exhibition. ': JAMES H. MORGAN & BRO., Buncomb Street, GREENVILLE, S. C. W. A. LATIMEB, Prom HO^EA PATff, is with us, and will b< pleased to have all his friends call and see him. ' :,tv a i ,?j a - ?rWe alio have in connection with onr store, The Largest Wagon Yard In the City, fitted dp wj<h Troughs, 81eepinj House, etc., for the accommodation of ouj friends and customers, free of charge. - October 8, 1877.?3mos '' .. V% " . iw- ^ ... . . C.T.WILLIS, ,, !Peiidleton Street, He WEST GREENVILLE, 'A WILL PAY THE Highest Market Price <*> FOR COTTON, s AND SELL 9 KB, DB! HOODS, i CLOTHING, 7 Hi CU Arte Th 0UUL9. WII UC3j ^ Hats, Caps, etc., ? At the Very Bottom Figures. Oct 3, 1877.?tf ga J. C. Alexander, Joseph Allen, "1 Vardry McBee. An Stf ALEXANDER,ALLEN & McBEE, Ad Manufacturers of and Th Wholesale and Retail Dealers in ^ W; nmrn) o. in DITTO Tpatuipd Io ui i mi a iiAiinuou muLiiiuit, ad Th Kip and Calf Skins, j p GREENVILLE, S. C. tl ' ?3" HigheBt cash price paid for Hides. x>U Sept 26, 1877.?12m 1 ?] GREENVILLE 1? _____ Dr Machine Works 2 AND lQ IRON FOUNDRY, no Redmond, Macdonald & Co,, PROPRIETORS. An S' TEAM ENGINES, Boilers. Saw and Grist He Mills, Cotton Gins, Presses, etc., promptly In repaired. We have recently added to onr estab- jg \ lishmeut an IRON FOUNDRY and are prepared A to furnixh all kiDds of CASTINGS, equal to the best furnished by any foundry in the country, *e at short notice, and on reasonable teriDB. Cash Un paid for Old Iron delivered at our foundry. <j>0 Work* on River Street,rear of Cagle's Planing Mill. October 3, 1877. -12m I T. C. GOWER & QO., t pa] spf GREENVILLE, S. C.f ooi 1 cal DEALERS IN ?ai >|jfc HUB' MITIJU | i the Of Every Description. De tlifl no THEIR STOCK is the largest and cheapest in I the State, and Builders and others in Abbe- boi ville will find it greatly to their interest to con- the suit our Agent, bul be Mr. C. V. HAMMOND, not or send their orders direct to us when in need of anv goods in our line. We make a specialty Qe^ ?' the fou DOORS, SASH, 80i BLINDS, SHINGLES, ^ NEWELS, BALUSTERS, HANDRAILS, Etc. the wh We have a very largo stock of the best fou PUMPS ?' ' 110 t now in use, to which they invite special ttten- ptu tion. Ra\ ? boi Lime and Cement wa ? tin Of the best quality can be furnished to the people of Abbeville County che iper from Greenville than from any other point. Our stock of n , ; these goods is always laige. I T. C. GOWER & CO. wh October 10, 1877.?12m , P<* I inn ; THE PALMETTO COTTON GIN, ? of I MANUFACTURED BY dai J.M.MATTHEWS, S 7 del NINETY-SIX, S. C. Ml an< DEALER IN FURNITURE, Coffins, Belting and Gin ijij] Material generally, and Agent for St?ani JMlglUUS, J. urusuurrt, ivu&jiuib auu Jiuircio, ^ Cotton Pre-ises, etc. .J Con leasers, Feeders and Seed Crushers ?, ' attached to Gins when desired. vei Repairing Carefully Done. jia( All communications receive prompt attention, ha' Purchasers should call or correspond with (]e? I him before purchasing elsewhere. be I June 15, 1877.-tf ^ ! ?? rifl O. A. TRAYLOR, WITH St WILLIAM MULHERIN, ? DEALER IN bee Boots and Shoes, a | HATS AND TRUNKS, ? 29 3 Broad Street, jjj[j Half Block below Planters' Hotel, hei AUCUSTA, CA. Durable Boots and Shoes a Specialty. sui Seotember 19, 1877.--3m TO' : in IE. J. WHITE. E. M. HUOHEB. ^ i .va 1 Fashionable Hat Emporium, p?: WHITE & HUGHES, _ ] nrt nvitvqfl tv -i *" Hir lis, Gaps, Firs, IMlas, ETC., ok 269 KING STREET, OPP. HASEL, an CHARLESTON, S. C. flo' "W8 Umbrellas Made and Repaired to Order. pa October 3,1877.?3m eai STEAM Planing Mill, | COLUMBIA, S. C. Id , . F. W. WING, Proprietor. en Manufacturer of Sash, Blinds, Door?, 411 Window and Door Frames, Inside Pivot lo' Blinds and Shu'ters, Pilasters, Mantelpieces, gr Moldings, Brackets, Handrails, Newels, Balua- ^ \ tern, Scroll Work of all description. M r All Work Guaranteed A No. I. wi Feb. 28.1876.?tf Catching a Tartar. i rat with a greedy appetite, jnt fishing with his tail one night; > once had seen a fox do that? nd if a fox, why not a rat V r surely he iB quito ?s knowing any other beast that's going.' eking his eye in fond conceit, .at he knew fish as well as meat, i silent sat upon the Bhore, i<3 bobbed for half an hour or more, last a hungry bite he felt, id deemed it roach, or perch, or smelt, ger, but cautious did he wait let the prey grasp well the bait; en, like a fisher, skilled and nice, i jerked ; but lo ! as in a vice s tail stuck fast; and, strange as true, e more he pulled the worse it grew! is way and ttiat in vain ue mrueu i vain he jerked, and jumped, and squirmed, vain ho yelled with pain and griefvain cried murder, fire and thief! vain ; for lo! an oyster vast ,d caught his tail and held it fast! It length the rat perceived the case, d putting on a smiling face? lying meanwhile his tears anil groans, ough pain and terror thrilled hi? bonesdressed the oyster thus : ' My friend, ere's some mistake: my latter <nd is never made for feast or feteinly put it in for bait, d as you've taken it, I opine at you are caught, and so are tine; ; ray, therefore, oyster tender, ] at oome ashore, and thus surrader.' i rhe oyster answered not a wink ! t in the wave began to sink. ] Vnm dnwn hv slow decrees he-vent ' the wild rocks in sheer descent, agging the rat, 'mid ories of dlaghter, eneath the dark and stormy watr.' sank, and o'er him danced the ubbles mockery of all his troubles; thing was left but this, his story d the plain truth it sets before puttie cunning rat, who apes the fx, d risks his tail among the rock a edless of dangers dark and awfi, Bearch of pleasures all unlawfulby a stupid oyster caught, d made the prey of him he sougt, cunning human rats beware, lawful pleasures should you dan seek along the shores of Bin, it some huge oyster pulle you in" Chased by Wdves. ilome forty years ago the northern :t of the State of New Yorkwas very 0 irsely settled. In one of te romote 8 inties, which for a name's sre we will c I Macy county, a stout-hearid settler, a ned Devens, posted himstf beyond i borders of civilization, anaewed for a little family a home in th< heart of ^ >rest that extended all the -ay from fi lie Champlain to Lake Ontrio. His o ireBt neighbor was six miles way, and c i nearest town nearly twentj bnt the tl vinses were so happy and on ten ted h ib the absence of company f.ve them * concern. f< klr. Devins' first attack on io stub n forest had been over the brow of a< i hill,some four miles nearer'wenton, si k his house was burned do^\ before ^ had taken his family tire from n mnv. He had regretted thu he had ft] ; " pitched his tent" on the-.lope of! n ;er creek ; so now he began rith re- j r< ved energy his second home,:i which | tl > closing in of the winter >f 1839 j" md him. He had sixty acre of rich ; st 1 under cultivation at thetime of ! h: ich we are to speak, his riit-hand j n being his son Allan?rrugged, tl idsome, intelligent boy of sieen. Che winter of '39 was a terriie one ; w >w set in before the end of Niember, P1 1, even in the open country, y upon &l > ground until the beginning April, fc ile in the recesses of the fore it was m md a3 late as the middle June. b< ere was great distress amon^ie set- m rs outside of the bounds of ivilizu- w n, to whom the deep snow w$an im- oi ?able barrier. The Devinsereither bi e nor heard from their neare:neigh- st rs from the 1st- of December 11 near to i beginning of February, when, crust s formed upon the snow Buiiently m n to bear the weight of a mi; and a D mdly Cayuga Indian, broug them b( vs of how badly their neighbo fared, ec klr. Devins was especially toned by d? > bad case of his friend WiJL'urnan, fa o lived on the nearest fart The de 5r man lay ill of a fever; rs. In- fo n was dead and temporarilymried, di til her body could be remov to tho be --j. 4.? | A1 qolrery ill vwcuiuu, uiiu. ail o v;<ucj the family devolved upon Essr, his na ighter, fourteen years old. Aftu short lsultation, the next morning ;aking pc ght and clear though very col it was M ;ermined to allow Allan to go er the 1 to Inman's, bearing medioe, tea, th 1 other little necessaries for t fami- st< He was impressively warneto bet his return at so early an he that no might reach home before tb short he fs end, especially because of i dau from wild animals. The se^ity of s winter had made the wolv*more co lturesome and dangerous thi they hi 1 been for many years. Mr/evius 1 lost several sheep and ho, and P? ;med it unsafe for auy of his faly to ho caught far from the house alight. Lllan armed himself with hi light frc e, put some biscuits and coLmeat fr? a pouch strapped to his waist, :?unt- hi one of the strong farm-hors; and *hi nnf nn his ionrnev. Tlirnad thi ough the forest was tetter ta he bo >ected to find it, and the srn had bil >n drifted off, but at the turns id in i thickest part of the wood, liiaorso mdered through drifts morthan 4r >ast high ; and more than ondllan lit 1 to dismount and beat a path :ead. ca| erefore, he did not reach Inms till > o'clock, and, by the time 1 had 1?' ped Esther about her work, ?sted mc : young brother to get i. ojood ho jply of wood, aud made 1 jngioro ' nfortable for the invalid ..wasnost wa idown. He Btoutly refined t? ^t for an iper, declaring that the luuchestill ov' his pouch would serve, and rted 8U: the short twilight came oi He dei s a brave lad, and with no thout of 8^r ril, went off, kissing his handailv 8ni Esther. f A1 Ltlook him an hour to traverthe J 8^e st three miles, and then he carco a j c? etch of comparatively bare gind I f?b iding through his father's old oleng, da d almost to the top of the hill be of [ r. Devins' house. He was just ling J dr< 1 Bob into a trot, when a long ear fQ1 wl broke upon hi? ear ; then aiher 1 ' d another answered from easind | to i.th. He knew what that meat It j do ib the cry of the advance guarf a {th< ck of wolves. The howling sounded nearjnd '' me swiftly nearer, as thougUhe j ^ Ives had found his tracks and sited eir prey. Old Bob trembled inary of ab, and seemed powerless to ve. fis Ian realizod that he could not,^bre rk, reach home through the <ts oil ead, and the increasing cold ohe yo vuicing night would render a rt%e ' a tree-top probably aa deadly nn eounter with the pacft. wa Presently there came a cry, shijr d sharper than before, and Aif bo aking back, saw a great, lean, hniy wf ay wolf burst from the underbh de to the road, followed by dozens m?; ar id in a moment the road behind i T] ia full of wolves, open-mouthed ant go ?en chase. Their yells now see: notes of exultation, for the leader of the pack?the strongest, fleetest, hungriest one among them?was within a dozen yards of Allan, who was now riding faster than ever old Bob had gone before or ever would go again. Excitement made the lad's blood boil in his veins, and he determined to show fight. The moon nad risen, and the scene was almost as . light as day. Now lie could count the crowding host of his enemies, and just as he broke from the forest road into the old clearing, he turned in his saddle and fired. The foremost of the pack rolled over and over; the rest gathered around and tore their leader in pieces. By the time they resumed the chase, Allen was a hundred yards ahead with his rifle loaded. Ho determined to make a running fight of it to the hill, where he was sure of meeting his father, or would take to a tree and shoot until help came. This had hardly flashed through his brain when, right ahead of him a detachment of the pack sprang into the road and answered with double yells the cries of the rest coming up behind. The horse wheeled suddenly, almost unseating Allan, and dashed across the clearing, toward the wood ; but he had not taken a dozen bounds when a wolf sprang upon him. Old Bob reared and fell, pitching Allan nearly twenty feet ahead, and was covered with wolves before he could regain his footing. That was the last of poor old Bob. But Allan I What of him ? When he recovered from the effects of the shock, he found himself over head and ears in 3now. He had no idea where he was, but struggled and plunged in vain endeavors to extricate himself, until at last he broke into a space that was clear of 3now, but dark as Erebus, damp and slose. Feeling about him he discovered Dver his head logs resting slantingly ' igainst the upper edge of a pit, and then lie knew that he was in the cellar of the aid house his father had built, and which tiad been burned down nine years be- : "ore ! The cellar 'n as full of snow, cx- 1 jept at the corner roofed over by the 1 "alien logs, and Allan, bursting through 1 :he snow into the empty cornor, was as : secure from the wolves as though seated sy his father's fireside. J t was not near- 1 y as cold in there as outside, and he 1 :ound a dry spot upon which he lay ' iown to think. j He was in no danger of freezing to ] leath, his food would keep him from 1 starvation a week at least, and Allan con- ( sluded that, with the first glimpse of 1 lawn, his father would be in search of 1 nm, and, following the tracks, find old 1 Bob's bones, and quickly rescue him ^ rom his predicament. He reasoned 1 risely enough, but the elements were 1 igainst him. Before sunrise a furious < torm of wind and snow had completely ] ibliterated every trace of horse, rider ' nd wolves. J At home, as the night wore on, the nxiety of the family hal increased. J Vhile they were watching the gathering . torm, they heard the long, dismal howl c f the wolves coming over tha hill. The 1 hill of fear that they should never see c tie boy again settled down upon all their j; earts. until the house was as dreary ithin as the winter waste and gloomy )rest were without. a Meanwhile the brave youth was sound ^ 3leep, dreaming as peacefully as though v lugly resting with his brother in his a arm bed at home. He slumbered on 8 nconscious of the raging storm without, ad did not wake till late the next foreoou. It took him several seconds to ;alize where he was and how he came ri lere, but gradually he remembered his ^ de for life, the falling of his horse, his I ;ruggle in the snow, and his breaking " ito the protected space where he lay. o The storm lasted all day and far into P le succeeding night. Allan ate slightly, iieuched his thirst with a few drops of 11 ater obtained by melting snow in the w dm of ^his hand, and began casting t< Dont for means to get lout. He soon h iund that to dig his way up through the ? iass of snow that filled the cellar was h syond his powers. If he could have N ade a succession of footholds, the task f* ould have been easv: but all his efforts t lly tended to till his rvtreat, without iE ringing him nearer the air. Ab ir >o . as he saw this, he gave himself up w i calmly waiting for help from without. Ci" The second morning of his imprison- W ent broke clear and cheerful, and Mr. Y evins set out to search for traces of his hi >y. He visited the Iumans' and learn- t.1: I the particulars of Allan's stay and ^ jporture, then mournfully turned his tl ce homeward, his heart filled with "] ispair. When ho emerged from the G rest into the clearing, he met the In- m an who had visited him a few days T. sfore, and he told the red man of n( ilan's loss. The Indian stood a mo- U ent in deep thought, and then asked : m "No horse, no boy back there?" w >inting to the road just traversed by If r. Devins. hi '* No. I have looked carefully, and if tr ere had been a trace left by the recent jrm I should have detected it." si| " Ugh! well, me come over the hill; m ithing that way either; then they dc re." . ai " Why do you think so ?" " Ah ! me know wolves. When Allan UI me to this place they ahead; horse ?f rn; wolves caught 'em this side woods; s look there." and Tavenathonto inted to the very course taken by the m rse and rider. . co It so happened when Allan was thrown >m'the horse's back that his rifle flew fo >m his hand and stuck, muzzle down, a hollow stump, where, imbedded in 9 snow, it stood like a sign to mark 3 scene of the last straggle of the lost sa y. The snow had whitened all its ca ;her side. When the Indian came th reast of it, he cried : th " Told you so ! Sec ! Allan's gun! se id here reBtof'em," pointing to the fu tie heap over the loins of the old at bin. fo: Kicking the buow hastily aside, the j to dian examined the ground carefully a j ra >ment and then said: "No, only jo] rse; Allan further on." tic rhe Indian, with head bent down, ch Iked quickly forward, threw up his T1 ns, and disappeared. He had stepped go er the clean edge of the cellar and hii nk exactly as Allan had.' a few an 3perate plunges sufficed to take the M ong Indian through the intervening he 3w and into the protected corner where a lan, just rousing from his second I se< ep, sat bolt upright. The Indian's J th ming disturbed the snow so that a | th mmn*. r\t lmlif v?flnnfrof^ i ati rk space. Allan supposed a wolf Lad j pn ind its way down there, and hastily toj 3W his large knife, bracing himself for yo an encounter. ar rhe Indian sputtered, thrashed about yo clear himself from the snow, and in so co ing rapped hiB head smartly against 3 low ceiling of logs. "Waugh! wangh!" exclaimed he. roo much low; Indian break'em head; uf )K oui. mi Allan instantly recognized the voice m< the Indian, his comrade on many a wc hing and hunting tour. on " Tayenathonto!" he cried, "dear rei 1 fellow, who would have thought of in u finding me 1" re; The Indian quietly replied : tie "Tayenathonto no find; oome like is iterfall; couldn't help his self." mi A very few minutes sufficed to put re; th on the sriHace again, where Allan or is received "like one oome from the sy ad," and olosely folded in his father's oo ms. Oh, the joy of that embrace I pa iq past grief and suffering were for- do >tten in the bliss of that moment. gc The Indian had to return with the di happy father and son to their horn where he was hailed as Allan's resent and enjoyed to the fnll a share of tl festivities. In after years Allan married Esth Inman, and now, by the fireside winter, he tells his grandohildren of 1 escape from the wolves, and the litt ones never tire of petting their faithf old Tayenathonto. ? Oeorge Dudlt Law8on in St. Nicholas. Russian Beggars and Tramps. A writer in an English magazine sa; of Russian beggars and tramps: J October their preparations are over, ai they start by "the first winter-road On arriving at the spot where they i ' a i-1, . tend to commence operations, ui< branch off in different directions, : groups of twos and threes, first comii to an understanding about meetii agaiu in a week or two at the neare town, to sell whatever they may lia1 had time to collect. On driving up to village their horses are left on the hig] way, and the beggars trudge from do< to door, asking for charity in Christ name, "for the poor burnt-down, Corn, barley, coarse homespun linei money and old clothes are given to thee There are experts who maim themselve or dress up in half-burnt fur jackets < smock-frocks, without even a shirt b neath them, and ascribe all this to tl effects of "the fire." Many of then just before entering a village, give tl children they have with them a whi] lashing, in order that real tears and sot may t more effectual^ soften the hear of tlie cliantabie public. Travel in along the highway, the beggars see froi afar a long train of sleighs?a littl business may likely be done. So th octogenjrian of the party is stretched i a little sledge, a piece of matting throw over him, and when the sleighs com alongside, the drivers and occupants ai implored, with tears and moans, to gb a little help toward burying " the poc old father " (or grandfather), " who hu died on the way." I knew a peaaan Alexis Egoroff by name, who led abot his wife on a chain, and told the sa 3tory of how she had gone mad. H always had a crowd of listeners, and th woman did her best to corroborate he husband's statements. She beat he head against the walls, tried to crav into the stoves, stooped on all-fours t Irink out of cattle-troughs, and alwaj finished up with a rush at her husban to strangle him I This line of conduc resulted in such bountiful donation c ihat in a year or two the a'oresai peasant built himself a fine izba* culfe rated a large field of onions, and live jomfortably with his wife, ''whom h inew to be a clever woman," he said ' when he married her." The Russia jeggar trade demands a spirit of com rination, a dexterity and quick-witted less worthier a better cause. There ar Jchouvalikoffs, it is said, who buy chil Iren from nurses in foundling hospitals UUtUUtC liilCLLIf auil ftKJ IIUUUI VY1UU WUOUi ollecting alms for '^the poor, foolisl tatural. The gangs all return hom< lefore Easter by the " last" winter-road nd remain at home until the end o utumn. Only very old men and women [uitd unfit for field labor, or familiei rho have for some reason or other quito bandoned husbandry, follow the beg ing trade all the vear round. How Jay Gould Travels. Not leftag ago a New York Tribum eporter waylaid a special train whicl fas transporting Jay Gould and Sidney )illon out west on their annual tour o: ispection of the Union Pacific and iti ranches. He- found these railway rinces in one of the latter-day combinaon cars, which serve for sleeper, draw> lg-room and dining-car. Mr. Gould ha: ith him a short-hand secretary and ? ilegraphic operator. Mr. Dillon onlj is short-hand secretary. Mr. Goulc splained to the reporter that every liom l the twenty-four when absent from ew York he wn? in communication with iends and brokers of that city. His ilegraph operator had all the necessary istruments attached to one of the tablee t the car, with ground and connecting ires running through one panel of the ir. On arriving at a terminal station, [r. Gould notified his friends in New ork upon what line of road he would a the next twenty-four hours. Should tey desire to communicate with him le despatch was directed to the care of ie train despatcher of that road, who, pon its receipt, knew jnst where Mr. ould's special was, and dropped the essage down one station in advance. i. i.? U,?i. iiu upertttc/JL ui tuui> ntuLiuu vruuiu D1B ~ vl tbe special and deliver the message, pon its receipt the special would imediately pull out, aud Mr. Gould ould consider and digest the message, it needed reply, he would dictate to a short-hand assistant, who would anslate for the operator. When the ply was ready the engineer would be gnalled, the train stopped, and in two inutes the main wire would be hauled >wn, cut, attached to the instrument, id the message winging its way to New ark. To twist the wire together, let it 3, and start the train was only the work another minute. Mr. Gould kindly Ided that he used his private signiture, liich insured right of way for his mesgea, which were always in cipher. Of urse Mr. Dillon availed himself of ould's facilities, whenever necessary, r his busifless. A Perplexed Deacon. When Governor Gerry managed Maschusetta, a country deacon happened to tch a fine salmon, and knowing that e governor had a particular liking for at sort of fish, he determined to prent it to him. So the salmon was carelly packed, and the deacon, in the isence of railroads, started in his wagon r Boston. On the journey he stopped dine, and telling at the table his ernd in regard to the fish, a practical ker present could not resist the tempta>n of slipping out to the wagon and anging the salmon for a poor codfish, le unconscious deacon went on to the vernor's house, and after announcing a gift, the two worthies opened the box d discovered the fiavorona codfish, ortified, the poor deacon started for me with liis oodflsh, and stopping for lunch at his dining place, the wag cretly removed the codfisk and replaced e salmon. When he reached home, e deacon mournfully told the story to incredulous wife, who had herself eked the salmon ; they opened the box gether. The deacon stared. "Well, u are a pretty good salmon when you b in the country," said ho; "but when u are in Boston you are a miserable dfish." Newspapers of To-day. The newspaper of to-day is the marvel the century, says a New itork olergym. It-is a miracle of system. It is a jnument of human industry. It is a rader of foresight and insight. It not Jy stirs our gratitude?it compels our spect. We may well take of our hats the presence of the newspaper, it presents so many praiseworthy qnali!B. By its instrumentality everybody next door neightor to everybody. It ikes the whole world akin. The daily port of the doings of the globe inos3ea human knowledge, broadens our mpathies, naturalizes us in every untry and unifies our raoe. O for the ,y when these white-winged carrier ives shall convey peace on earth and od will toward men in their multitunons flights! e, AN INTERVIEW WITH TWEED. ir, Remlnlseenccs of His Associates ? His Opinion of Sweeney, Hall, Jim Fiskc and Jay Gould?What He would do If Ont of . Prison. \n A reporter for the New York Herald recently interviewed Tweed in Lndlow , street jail with the following interesting 3 result: Reporter?Are you the only member of the Ring now held in duress ? Mr. Tweed?The onlv one. Ingersoll and Woodward are both out. SweeDey yS lives up town. Connolly is in Switzer[u land. Hall is in London, or therel(j abouts. ? " Are you on good terms with any of q. these persons ?" 3Y " No, not at present." ijj "Why did Hall rtin away?on the ,g score of your confession ?" jg "Hall, I think, has been crazy, or at going crazy, for years. He was a dreadjre fully tiresome fellow, with his weak little a puns." h. "But he was useful, was he not, in >r the way of drawing up advantageous or 8 cunning bills? ? "He was fair at that; not accomplished; not a real expert. Hall was 3] pretty good on his legs, to preside at a a dinner, or make a ready speech." " But vou never quarreled much with \ gt your associates?" l6 "No. They didn't quarrel with ine, lf because I was the only man who would !e go to the front. They couldn't rely on y. each other if anything desperate was on )S haud. I remember once there was a tg meeting to be held where Elijah Purdy g wanted me to preside. Said I, ' Now, m .boys, I tell you frankly, I'm afraid to e go to that meeting. You may go, but I ie don't want to.' 'Pooh, pooh I' said _n Purdy, ' we didn't expect that of you, B Tweed ; I'll go myself.' So I went that ie night, and, behold! no Purdy came. e 1 Come on,' said I, ' I'll preside !' So I 6 took the chair, and wasn't very comforta,r ble in it, either. A man from California, a bythenameof Doyle, was running for t( recorder against Barnard. (This recollection is at random.) I saw, as the roll a call proceeded, that Doyle had the ma;e jority of. delegates. Said I to a secree tary: ' Have a motion made to dispense )r with calling the roll!" It was done. ir ' All in favor of Mr. Barnard as the nomr] inee of this body say aye. Carried! o The meeting is adjourned!' Well, thore 8 was a riot and I was driven into one (j corner. Isaiah Bynders had a pistol as ,t long as my arm drawn and cpckod. Said he : ' I'll pay you for this l-I wa (j scared but I didn't say so. * I'm not [. afraid of a whole ward of you fighting a villains,' said I, and we all got out" e "Then yon never quarreled with [, ^eeny?" Q " Oh, Sweeny is a hard, overbearing, r revengeful man. He wants his way and [. treasures up wrath. He has considerae ble ability of its kind. We were so op. posite and unlike that we got along very ^rall ? ; nvii* ' "How did you ever take into your j confidence Dick Connolly?" 3 " Connolly was before my time; I had to take the world as it was and not make f it anew. He was a powerful man in his ward and district. H you would walk [ through there and talk against Connolly 3 it would be at your peril. We could . not get along without Connolly, and annexed him for the vote he controlled. " Which of those men was the abler, Gould or Fisk ?" ' 'j "Oh, Gould; he has not his equal in [ America as a financier. Jim FiBk was a r pleasant fellow, full of anecdote. Nothj ing discomfited him. He was never : j ashamed. He always had a fresh Btory. 1 r I liked his company. I#remember when ] he was before the committee of Congress 1 and used that expression: 'Gone where ] I the woodbine twineth.' He explained " t that to me. He said that when he used < r to peddle around the country he noticed i L that the country outhouses always had j , a sprig of vine climbing over them. He j . simply meant by that illustration that f L the investment bad gone up the-spout , ?gone to nothing." < " May I ask what would you do if you , were out of this prison and free to begin i , | me agam r~ . | "I should go to New Orleans or to the West. Idleness is my aversion. I i do more work in this jail than anybody 1 in it. Look on that window-sill at those f piles of books?the Daily Transcript f and other documents?pertaining to my ] examination. I spend hours ransacking ( them every clay. During the height of c my prosperity in this city I made every- 1 body around me work, and it used to be a saying: ' There comes Mr. Tweed ; 1 now we will have to sweat.' My son-in- n law is in business in New Orleans, and I 1 could make myself useful to him as I traveling agent or in some other way? r enough to give me employment and a r living. If I did not go there, I would start life far out West." f "Perhaps you mistrust yourself. 1 Would not the thirst for politics in New v York resume its place ?" t " No, I am too old and indifferent, t and would not even vote in this country r again." ? s The Chain-MaKera. v Billy Dawson, the celebrated York- a shire farmer, once appealed to a drunk- Q ard in the following lauguage "Sup- 11 pose yourself to be a servant, and your r master were to come in the morning and j x order yon to make a Btrong chain ; on I e the following morning he came again, k and urged yon to get on with it; and I thus, day by day, you were ordered by e your master to do the same job. Suppose again, that while you were work- ft ing, a person came in and asked if you ? know what it was for ; and tliat yon b answered in the negative, adding that & you did not care so long as you got your c wages. But this person tells you that : e lie knows it to be a fact, that it is your | ^ master's intention to bind you with it ^ in perpetual bondage ; would you, I ask, 0 add another link to it ?" 8 The man answered, "No; and all the 0 j money in the world would uot hire me " | to do it." d Mr. Dawson then told him that the j habits of drunkenness are Satan's chain, ! in which he keeps poor sinners in perE1 etual bondage, and that when they i tl ave added the last link, he chains them ! r< I in his dominions forever. These words p i so impressed the mind of the man, that fi his conscience continued to remind him, c< "I am making another link for my w chain 1" until he relinquished his wicked T course of life. . si d A Haunted Cell. A A n f/i 11 nVlnnlr i> ur ^ auuuu ? V|UCU W* W J.A V VAWVM| A* M, | I 1 turnkey Pardon, while making his rounds j past the cells of the old Treme Station, i discovered that a piece of twine was tied ! C( from the inside of cell 16, better known j ? by the police in that precinct as the ? " haunted cell." He immediately opened ?( the door and found a young Italian, j? named Armand Orse, who had been locked up for having been found at the corner of Dumaine and Rampart streets under suspicious circumstances, in the ret of placing the twine around his n' .lAnlr The turnkey asked him what he was trying to do j. and he answered thut he if wanted to hang himself. He said that w from the time he entered the cell he felt c< strange things creeping over him, and te heard some one oalling him. nl He was handcuffed and taken down gi stairs for safe keeping. Strange to say, w that in the past three or four years nb m less than seventeen persons nave at- gi tempted to destroy themselves in this T cell.?New Orleans Picayune. ai TURKEY IN WAR TIMES. A Picturesque Scene at Constantlnople?T Turk* Becoming Desperate and Keaolt ?Aid for the Wounded?Suleiman and I Brigadiers. A Constantinople correspondent of tl New York Tribune writes as follow Sunday, shortly after midnight, I vi awakened by a strange noise which vi not quite a din and yet which dominat all other sounds. This was the combin voice of hundreds of bass drums beat with might and main in the streets all Constantinople in honor of the 1 pulse of the Russian army from Plevn The myriads of lamps hung on the min rets by reason of Ramazan had been i lowed to burn out, but were now i stored to their pristine brilliance. T] streets, the squares, the coffee-shop were full of people discussing with tt [utmost enthusiasm the bulletins jn Eublished by the war office. On evei p was the word: "It is God's jud j ment on the proud J" and in fact tl I Turkish publio was as near being grea ly excited as possible. The night w dark, and as I looked off from my h: upon the great city, partly hidden by white mist which filled tne harbor ai covered the valleys, I could see none < the deeper shadows, but only the ligh on the minareta, which seemed to flo in mid-air above the sea of mist. B tween the minarets, lamps were so hur that they formed words in Arabic. Ju above the horizon, on the left, blaz( the words: " Bismillah irrahman irr him " frVio inv/v??.finn nf nam A i the Merciful. Over the mosque < Noori Osmaniye was "Oh, Graciox One I" High over the dome of tt mosque of Suleiman the Magnifioen you could read in letters of tremulot light: " Mohomet sent of God " ; an far around to the right was written o the sky, in letters of gold: "Allah El ber," the old war civ of the armies of th prophet. The whole arch of heaven we transformed into the dome of a vast cf thedral, to the minds of the great surg ing crowd of Moslems which filled th streets; its base was inscribed in letter of fire, with the praises dear to the heart of the faithful. And one could nc doubt that this cathedral magnificenc thrilled the hearts of the joyous multi tude below as they gazed upon the evi dence of the glory of Islam in the le gends written on the sky. The splendid fighting of the Turkis] soldiers has astonished every one, be cause it is contrasted with the feebl efforts which they made early in the war The change is due to a final awakenini to which the entire people have come that the question is one of life and death This awakening is the work of thi refugees who have really been in contac with the Russians. Their tales an< proof of the atrocitieq committed by th Bulgarians and Cossacks upon all Mos lems, have deeply moved tlie popula heart. The other day I was crossmg tti Bosphorus in a caique and passed som lighters full of refugees who looked s< wretched that I said : " Poor crea tures." The Turkish boatman burst ou with a vehemence which astonished me " Yes, they are poor creatures, and th Great God will never bless the Russiani who have made them poor creatures May His curse follow them, and ma; thev get from Him their deserts." The Turkish successes are partly du to the advice of some of the best strate gists in Europe. It is reported tha Von Moltke, after giving the Russians i plan of campaign, has with laudable im partiality accorded the Turks a simila: favor, and watches with peculiar interes the .developments which result. Tli< feverish activity of the provincial an thorities in forwarding the new leviei lias also told in the campaign. The rail way to Adrianople and PhiBppopolis ha.< carried an average of 2,000 men per daj jo the front during the whole of August, ind, finally, the arms furnished bj imerican manufacturers have exercised > ?vr>fjint inflnundfl in nrrrtnno'ino' thif rurkisb defense. Their guns have exjelled European ones. The wounded soldiers now here are ibout 5,000, distributed in fifteen hospials, which are kept in the best of order, ["here are only about fifty severe cases n all this number of wounded. Che severely wounded have died on the ield, except a few who are being; oared or at the Philippopolis and Adnanople Hospitals. Baron Mundy, of the Bed 3ross Society, formerly of the Wateriure at Florence, Massachusetts, is lere, and is about to go to the front, to establish a great hospital of his own. The amount of foreign aid now being .fforded Turkish wounded is very great. Che Turkish people contribute lint, >andages, clothing, and tobacco, but Qonev is scarce, and where .uoney is teedea it comes from abroad. The contempt of the private soldiers or their officers is often well-'funded. . have been told that the only reason rhy Beouf Pasha, who commanded in he battle of Jeni Saghra, now lives, is hat in that action he kept so far to the ear as to be out of range of the bullets Ired at him by his own men. Turkish oldiers are as ready to obey officers rhom they can trust as those in other rmies. The wounded men from Shipka re unbouuded in their praise of Sulei"R.-if M>or? rrir-o a Anminnl LLUil 1 UOUU. JJ>uu iajwj ?) * ?w v. eason for liis successes. If Suleiman Joeha orders one of his brigadier-genrals to. take a certain position, it lias to >e taken. If the man fails, Suleiman >asha call3 for a guard, and has the genral's uniform stripped off, and sornoimes even has him shot on the spot. "I ssure you," said the soldier, "that in lontenegro Suleiman Fasha had several rigadier-generals shot for failing to ike positions they had been ordered to ftrry. And if he treats brigadier-genrals so, you can imagine what he does j subalterns who disobey. He has illed lots of them." Of course the story f Suleiman Pasha shooting brigadierenerals off-hand, has not alarge amount f foundation. But it shows that his ten have a wholesome fear . of him as a isciplinarian. A Shower of Salt. During a recent violent storm a geneman living in North East, Md., waa iturning to that town from Philadelbia by the midnight train. On stepping om the cars to the platform, he disivered that the planks were covered ith a white substance resembling salt, he next morning, after opening his ;ore, he went up stairs to see what amage, if any, the storm had done, round the doors and windows he dis >vered a substance similar to what he ad noticed the night before. Having is curiosity considerably aroused, he included to examine into the matter, ) he tasted the substance and found to is astonishment that it -was genuine mrse salt. The circumstance was reited to another gentleman living near y, and he immediately recalled the fact f a pen of his having been out in the lin on the same night, and, having put le pen to his. mouth before using it, he oticed a briny taste about it. In France a murderer is never hung the jury appends to its verdict the ords " with extenuating eircumstan)s." The consequence is that, no matir how atrocious the crime may be, it is most impossible to obtain a verdict of ailty without the addition of these ords. A few years ago a man killed his other and his father. He was found ailty, with extenuating circumstances, hese circumstflnces were that he was 1 orphan. OYSTERS AND STAB FISH. 'he ,te How Oysters are Destroyed**-A Fish that Ilfl Tarns Itself Inside Out to Feed. As the oyster culture is so important he a business here, says the New Haven 8 : Journal, a few words about the oyster's 40 most dreaded and deadly foe, 41 the star as fish," will be appropriate, and we ed have gathered from authentic sources ed the following tolerably reliable inen formation on the subject. The star fish 'destroys and devours the oyster eagerly, 'e- The star fish is well armed, having five a* of those useful members, and to make &- matters worse for the oyster, has an eye *1- on the end of each arm. It is also fur's nished with hundreds of small legs and feet. Its mouth is in the center of the IB> body, and it moves slowly but very sure, 10 when after prey. It can propel itself over rough surfaces and into all nooks J and crevices, and is found generally near 8' rocks, upon which they fasten, If one 10 of its arms becomes broken in any way, it- as by getting entangled in a crevice of a rock or having it bitten off by a voraw cious fish, determined on making havoc ? of this particular star, the deficiency is *d soon remedied, as another arm grows, which replaces the missing member. t0 Some species of the star fish possess the at power of demoralizing or breaking itself ?" in pieces, and thus multiplying its kind as each piece retains its vitality, and b* grows into a perfect specimen of the >d tribe again. The star fish is a sociable e" animal. It generally travels in schools, or mass meetings, when, doubtless, rf schemes for raids on the unsuspecting 18 oyster are devised, and nefarious infor'e mation and ideas interchanged. When he is hungry he gets outside of his dinner by, as it were, turning himself inside j d out, a novel process, not to be recomin j-j a- it. i ! - meuuea wtjp? genua rwmo as a means c" of appeasing 'appetite. He turns his 16 stomach out of his mouth and envelops : a the morsel to be engulfed. The starfish ^ are set down by scientific men as a mere 1 "walking stomach," being such a tre6 mendous gormandizer of sea food. They 1 B are particularly fond of oysters, and a when the presence of a fine bivalve is J discovered, nothing can exceed it in lively : ? appreciation of the morsel, not even an 1 [' American at a clam-bake. In our harbor l~ and immediately adjacent waters our 1 oyster culturalists are not troubled with ' the star fish seriously as yet but in Nor- -1 & walk and vicinity it is said that they have 1 become such a pest as to awaken no little i 6 concern and apprehension, and our oyster ' culturista watch with dread their appear- y ? ance in plentiful numbers in our waters, j > Though traveling in schools, single ones ? * are often found, apparently meditative \ 0 and morose, and bent on forming a new t ' administration of aflairs. It is said that ? * a number of them often roll together and 0 float with the tide, and when in this oon- j " dition are often " half seas over. ' A ^ r school of star fish will settle down on t 6 an oyster bed, and then settle right . e down to business. They will completely t 0 destroy the bed in a short time. Each ( * star fish will close upon its particular oyster, clasp it in its numerous arms, and . * wait for it to open its mouth (a solemn 1 0 warning to be close-mouthed), when the ? 3 star fish turns his stomach inside out 1 * over the oyster, and sucks out the entire ? y living substance. In this way they will 1 destroy acres of oysters in a very little ? 0 while, a spectacle which the culturist ? " beholds with anything but cheerful ? emotions. Owing to their ravenous na1 ture, they are truly the bane of the oyster culturist. The star fish will cling to a 1 f rook so tenaciously as to lose his small * legs, or feet, rather than loosen his hold, e 3 wherein he resembles some of the human t species devoted to a particular idea, f 3 They also eat fish when they can get ^ .. " t -i i _ai ; i # tnem, ana ao not reiuse ouier unnimi ' matter, but their deatrnctiveness prin- f ' cipally centers upon the helpless and a ' toothsome oysters. It will be seen that [ oyster culture is attended, like all other ? 1 business, with hopes and djffeppoint- n 1 ments, and is not a business that a sine- if curist would devotedly covet. n ? fi ! 'School's Out." ? b Reader, did you ever pause and con- p emplate that particular and peculiar g phase of human nature developed by ^ the existent school boy when released _ from study and discipline?when ?< " school is out," and he is on his way y home ? ig Ordinary humanity, when released y from the toils of the day, is prone to seek rest and xelaxation. The boy scorns all such effeminate ideas. He is composed of but three parts?legs, arms and yell, and the yell is the . biggest part of him. His legs and arms fc have been kept in irksome compulsory quietude all day, and must now be exer- is cised. His voice has been seething and swelling in him for hours, and now must ni have vent. tr As soon as he is clear of the schoolhouse steps he stops and deliberately yells a yell that is ear-splitting, but ^ wjiich has no more object, meaning or direction than the midnight vociferation Q of a mule.-and yet it appears at a full run with his arms flying about like the J scintillations of a pin-wheel. He is no respecter of persons and is utterly indifferent as to whether he runs down a w smaller boy, spins an aged citizen three b times around or mashes a girl's hat over 8( her eyes in his headlong career. Nervous ladies hug the sides of the m houses as he rushes by in a drove lii^e a ct whirlwind and screams like a steam bi whistle. " Mercy on us ! If that boy was only m mine I'd?" but just then her own boy fe flies past, falls over a dry goods box, w bounces up, kicks at another boy, and m is chased across the street and around m the corner before she can get the " You tfc i>> ?-ii. ?u~ IfcUUCil I Willi ? JLi Ivil OHU mi^ilUD IU annihilate him, ont of her astonished f throat. ^ There is bnt one thing that has the ^ slightest soothing effect on the boy when gc he is on liis way home from school. He can see his old man further than Prof. ^ Hall can see a haystack with a telescope, ^ and the moment that parent dawns upon ^ his vision he becomes as proper as a model letter writer, and the neatly modulated voice with which he wheedles the author of his being ont of five cents on the spot, is a lesson for futufe ambitious ^ savings banks and passenger railway P^OlUOlllOt . The amount of racing, jumping, pull- m ing, and liauling and howling that a school-boy can concentrate into a transit jjj of two squares is positively astonishing, K and the preternatural coolness and ?( quietude with which he takes his red ft face and panting breath into the kitchen ^ and asks if supper ain't most ready is a human conundrum that calls for un- ac qualified admiration. ? Ea&ton Free Press. \ ______ tb B Railroads of Seven Great Powers. ^ The Railway Age prints the following tuble of the comparative population, hi railroad mileage and debt of the leading hi countries of Europe, and remarks that tr it is not cenerallv appreciated that the ea United States, with a population leBS nt than that of Germany, has more miles of P? railroad than all the seven great powers "1 combined?their total mileage being 76,- 00 620, while ours is nearly 80,000: kh Popii- Miles of National ^ lation. liailroad. Dtht. ne Russia as,000,000 14,000 $1,840,000,000 Turkey 28,000,000 1,137 1,500,000,000 bli Germany 42,726,844 17,472 671,345,000 m( Austria 35,904,435 10,155 1,532,634,536 Great Britain.31,783,700 16,644 3,025,296,585 France 36,202,921 12,376 5,000,000,000 Italy 26,801,154 4,817 1,951,522,640 ei The Philosophy of Life. In church and in State, It is role or be ruled; In conrtflhip or marriage, It is fool or be fooled; In logic and lav, It is nick or be nicked; In gambling and trade, It is trick or be tricked In treaty and war, It is beat or be beaten; In the straggle for life, It is eat or be eaten. Items of Interest. Getting fat?Buying lard. How many peas are there in a pint? One p. A New York storekeeper sells only cast-off shoes. The sun, according to prevailing proverbs, is vory stupid, for when if goes early to bed it gets up late, and when it goes latest to bed it gets up earliest Thirty-five years ago a lady now re siding at Hollidavsburg, Pa., had a gold chain stolen while attending school. It was returned by mail a few days since. Edward Everett, Martin Van Buren, Harrison Gray Otis, Josiah Quincy, and Edwards Pierrepont, all descendants of the men whose names they bear, aro students at Harvard. George Stephenson^the great engineer is to have his memory honored at Chesterfield, England, by the erection of a great hall, which will cost $60,000. It is to be used for purposes of higher education. The failing of vanity extends, throughout all classes; the poor have but little time to bestow on their persons, eaxf&f Vtavi in the selection of their clothes wepaift^.'' v they prefer such as are of flaruUgf aad The enduring odor of musk is mflfve}nifa 'Whan .Tnafininn in rpfhnilt * (rhat is now the mosque of Si So?fcfaL the mortar was charged with musk#55l m to this day the atmosphere of the HI0&ing is filled with the odor. A boy undertook to torture a , by touching a lighted match to it the wasp applied its warm side to*|fii .; soy's hand, and as it flew away it fvre' she boy those words of wisdom, " Newt ay to beat a man at his own game.'^ One Harvard student is paying; hk vay through college by turning hi* ' room into a stationery and book staBL $ ind another, a graduate from WeeHjjifc University, is meeting his expenses at8*^ lie law school by working ?n a baroer's ihop. * To be forgotten as soon as dead is the nelancholy lot of man everywhere, but " t is only in the more populous places of he world that this forgetfulhess anticipates the two-fold oblivion of the grave, ind that men are considered dead because they cease to be remembered. He who will do his work aright will ind that his first lesson is to know himlelf, and what is proper for him ; and he vho rightly understands himself Trill lever mistake another man's work for lis own, but trill love and improve himlelf above ^all other things, will refuse tuperfiuous employments, and reject til unprofitable thoughts and proposiions. If we subtract from the twenty-four lours the time spent in eating, sleeping txercise, and the other indispensable lares of our existence, what a fraction of ~ ime is employed on oar intellectual * acuities! Again, there are few who tave the means to enable them to study; ewer the talent requisite; and stfil ? ower the inclination, if they have the bility The maps show that in Bulgaria somehing like hfflf the village names terlinate in hoi. This is simply the Turkih word for "village," answering very early to the English ton. Thus we nd several times the " new village ". 'enikoi, which corresponds to the Engsh Newton while the " Priest's village," 'apaekoi, corresponds to Preston, and ultankoi to Kingston. Next, perhaps, 1 frequency, come the Turkish prefixes -Yeni meaning "new," ana Eaki old." Thus we find close together, eni Z&gra and Eski Zagra. Yeni Bazar i exactly equivalent to Newmarket and eni TTiwaar to Newcastle. r ?????? Words of Wisdom, JTi/- svfm We should esteem virtue, thdttgh in a >e; and abhor vice, though in a friend. He who has guineas for his subjects, * 1 i~l_ 1-J Maai f UUlUHiUUUiiiA3ijr, me ui zuudv nmw% ^ v Moderation is the silken string rtmng through the pearl ohain of tir ies. Though charity may make your jhter oneday, yetit -will make it heat&tf lother. 0 ., A man may start at impending danwr * wince at the sensation of pain; lad it he may be a true philosopher and )t be afraid of death. A passionate man should be regarded ith the same caution as a loaded lunderbuss, which may unexpectedly > off and do us an injury. To enjoy life, you should be a little iserable occasionally. Trouble, like tyenne, is not very agreeable in itself, at it gives great zest to other things. Every man, in his more serious mo - it - i i . 1 J - ents, muse contess mat ne nas uujju w things in the course of his life ho ould not wish undone; and experience ust have shown him that the things he ost feared would have been better than Lose he most feared for. The reason why there are so few inances of heroism in modern times is the ital decay of political virtue; we arc roken up into small parties, and asiciate oruy with our families, thus foritting the public* iu our regard for rivate interest. The ancients wera uglit rather to live for the benefit of ie whole community. Train the Working Power. It may be a very good thing for a boy i have a great deal of native talent, to 3 noted among his acquaintances pe " a sit smart boy?one who is sure to ake his mark in the world." Bnt it is ill a very dangerous thing. It is a ttle curious we seldom hear of those imarkable boys in after life. They snerally sink into very common peoplo i the very best; oftener they are spoill by injudicious flattery in after life, o boy, however talented, will ever scomplish much whose working power not well trained. Iu whatever line tat work may be, he must apply hin:ilf to it with au intense pnrooso?a reless industry. Sir Robert Peel was not a boy of illiant talents, and he doublless owe I s greatness more to his father's early aining than anything else. He wan ,rly drilled in the art of extempore:ous speaking; and when lie went to the irish church at Drayton he was called x>n, on his return, to repeat all ha -uld remember of the sermon. At fln>t is was very little, out by a steady per verance lie at last came 10 repe;n. arly the whole sermon every Sabbatn. No doubt those who listened to his irning words in the halls of parliaant, and were astonished at kin >nderful memory in recalling point terpointusedbynia opponents, ouorlJed this a remarkable gift of natnre.