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# ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. ? ? - - ? ------ ---=. 1 . BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1878. NO. 19. VOLUME XXVI. i ' ! Adonais. i ! ? xhamir.u?. eamo next behind, "0 Whose annual wound in Lebauoti allured ! wa The Syrian dan)?<-ls lo lament bis fate ' u In amorous dittien ail a summer's dav." u. -Milfoil. mg 8hall we meet lo more, my love, at the bindiDg ^ of the sheaves, ! In the happy harvest lie ds as the san sinks j 8 . i ter When he orchard paths are dim with the drift ; j of fallen leaves, ! ijijj An the reapers sing together in the mellow 1 ^ misty eves ? Qa Oh, happy are the apples when the south for winda blow! j Love met us in the orchard ere the corn had al? nt gathered plume? |1 Oh, happy are the apples when the fouth I wicds blow! | ? Bweet as summer days that die when the months j jyjr are in the ir bloom, j ? When tho peaks aie ripe with sunset, like the trv tassels of the broom to I In the happy harvest fields as the sun sinks hei low. j ' I Tb Sweet as summer days that die, loafing sweeter [ each to each? j ? Oh, happy are the apples when the south j ]jjj( winds blow ! : a 81 All the heart was full ot feeling : Love had sta j :_i v. ! n rtpUHeU 1UIU DUCCl'U, | j Like the sap that tarn. .? ueetur in th<* velvet | bo; of the j oiscb, ! 1 In the happy harvest fields as the sun sinks j get low. y?T I dai 8weet as summer days that die at the ripening I naj of the corn? | ? Oh, happy are the apples when the sooth j wit winds blow! I 8weet as lovers' fickle oaths sworn to faithless did maids forsworn, cid When the musty orchard breathes like a mellow j wei drinking horn i fou Over happy harvest fields as the sun Binks hoi ,ow' the Love left ns at the dying of the mallow autumn bar eves? ste] Oh, happy are the apples when the south ? winds blow ! * the When the skies are ripe and fading, like the | colors of the leaves, i waf And the reapers kiss and part at the binding of | COD the sheaves J the In the happy harvest fields as the sun sinks da} low; ' ! gre j ant Then the reapers gather home *-->m the gray Qn and misty mores? I pus Oh, happy are the apples when the south ! the winds blow !? , to t Then the reapers gather home, and they bear j whi upon their Bpears j wei Love whose face is like the moon's fallen pale 8id< among the spheres j Pre ?? i rea TV luu IB? UttVllgUl B UUKUl UyVLl it ao VllD OUAl , ..." Dla tanks low. | ^ Faint as far-off bugles blowing soft and low j lesf the reapers sung? He Oh, happy are the apples when tho south ! lag' winds blow ! ; ev? Sweet ms sarcmer in the blood when the heart 1 ^ ' OVP is ripe aud young, " . Love is sweetest iu the dving, like the sheaves . out he lies among ! j In the happy harvest fields as tho sun sinks j low. > <i Will Wallace llariiey, in Harper's Magazine. | er> walter?radley'o secret. bI . i - I c I gas When Asa Bradley was sentenced to j wil< the State's prison for life for the double j ? crime of forgery and manslaughter, many ; mm people said that a wicked man was now ! wag where he could do no harm; but it was a ! ?< dreadful misfortune to his wife and son. 1 yph Six months afterwards, Mrs. Bradley | ?< died, end the friends of the family j wji] asked, " What will become of poor hon Walter ?" hor But this little burst of sympathy was'l an(j all "poor Walter" ever got of them; j i and when the boy was sent to the alms- w]2( house, it was agreed that the place was ! ?iV( good enough for the son of a convict, i eh0 For five years the almshouse was Wal- er8 ter's only home. Then the overseers of jj0the poor informed him that he must be wei " bound out," and earn his own living. ; mu: Young as he was (he was scarcely thir- i teen), Walter had a stout heart, and it : p]^ needed only this sudden send-off to ear' rouBe his latent sense of independence, j ca]] For the first time he realized his posi- cee tion clearlv. and found his native pride. ! fool He declared with spirit that he would no j pjcj longer be beholden to pauper help, or wh< would render pauper service, and with Th< this resolution he went his way to fight but the battle of life alone. for He little knew the difficulties he would j de? have to meet and conquer. After apply- : 80 1 ing in vain at several places in town, he i tho went to Rockland, a thriving factory vil- ; the lage, and spent three days in a fruitless ! kin search for work. Weary and discouraged, j \ he finally met a farmer who wanted** me] Bome help in his haying. I qjj " I'll work for yon cheap, and hard, Qgj( too," said the boy, with a brightening I w^( eye. ga "That sounds well. Where do vou live?" COD "I came from Stony Brook." 8^0 " Come a little nearer. I want to take a good look into your face." ^V? Walter approached the wagon for in- ! pre spection. . i ? ' Yon look willing, at any rate. What's; j yonr name ?" I Bto< ' Walter Bradley, sir." . ro "I hope you aint no way connected t^e with Asa Bradley, who killed Thomas > Miner." i.J "I am?his son," faltered the boy, j x with averted face. iro? " Well, that's unlucky! I want to , r hire a good likely boy, not a son of "? ; , Then came a long embarrassing silence. , " Well, I guess on the whole I won't j10^ hire you," said the farmer, reflectively, j ^ "I know you ain't to blame for what;, your father did, but I guess I'll look a little further." And starting his horse, j ^ he was soon out of sight. j ~ Poor Walter 1 A sharp pain shot ' through him as he recalled afresh how j hard and unjust the man's decision was, ^ and his own friendless condition. Butj . .* at length his elastic spirit took hope v14 again, and he walked resolutely on to j the next village. Here he was more i Pei fortunate. A placard with " Boy C0E wanted " was conspicuously displayed j ,ner in the window of a large dry-goods I store; and he applied for the situation. j nea His open, manly face made a favorable j P16 impression on Mr. Lewis, the merchant, j , and he agreed to take him on trial for !, . one week. ; ri* Walter was active and faithful, and j , gave perfect satisfaction. But Mr. Lewis !.. . chanced to hear that he was " the son of I ^ the forger and murderer, Asa Bradley," j and when the week was out, he coldly j told Walter he could look for a place , elsewhere. I , The boy took this dismissal grievous- j ly. Knowing as# he did the reason, it! 5,.' touched him like a death-chill. Was he : to be crushed through life for inheriting i ' a name loaded with disgrace ? The | Mr thought filled his soul with bitterness, j ' and prepared him for the Btern, almost ! t?n fierce, determination which followed. ,wai This tainted name Bhould no longer be a : a I hindrance to him. He would discard it j forever. as Walter's maternal grandfather was ; He Gilbert Henshaw, a man whose charac-1 it.' ter was above reproach, and to be called j J after whom would be an honor to any lef descendant. Henceforth he would be mi: no more Walter Bradley, but Gilbert inp Henshaw. He would go whero he was the unknown, and the secret of his old name j see t-bould be revealed to no one. I More than three hundred miles he j 1 ;veled on foot, begging food by the j ii y after the little money Mr. Lewis { d j given him waB gone, and often at | jht having only the damp ground for j w i bed. He reached the boundary line of j 1 lio, and at once began anew the weary b irch for employment. $ 3ne warm summer evening he ened a field, and found rest and refresh- tl j sleep in a heap of new-mown hay. t< e sun was far above the hills before V 4-1* ?A/1 Kat? o Trnl?rt \Ty* w 7 bUCU) uvj anuao. \yiu xui u rdiner and bis man came out with ks in hand to open the hay. b ' Jiminy!" exclaimed Abel; "if here a 't a boy asleep, and I came near a- b ching my fork right into him !" h Valter opened his eyes and looked n d and frightened. h 'What are you here for?" demaaded ? . Gardiner, gruffly. ci 'I?I?lam going to Ashburton, to b and find work. I hadn't any place j t< sleep, or any money, and laid down | :e for the night." j ft ' You won't get work in Ashburton. > n e mills have stopped," said Mr. Gar- j g ler. in a mollified voice. ' a ' Do you know any one who would ' b to hire a boy ? I'd be glad of even 1 ci nail job, for I must either work or : tl rve." ; It Che farmer gave a sharp look into the j n p's face. j tJ 'Well," said he kindly, "go in and | i some breakfast, anyhow; and if h I're a mind to, you may stay here to- tl r, and I'll try you. What's your E ne?" g 'Gilbert Henshaw," replied Walter, E h a reddened face. fc le toiled faithfully all that day, and h . so well that old Mr. Gardiner de- j ed to keep him a week; and when the ( ai 3k was ended, Mrs. Gardiner had li nd hini so obliging and useful in the el ibo that she said to her husband: r< ' I think we better keep this boy till tl i harvesting is over. He's very idy, and will save us a great many h ps.'' 'Teg," responded Mr. Gardiner; and > matter was settled. ?.3 Veeks and months passed. Gilbert ( i happy in his adopted home, and the ; ^ afort and plenty arcund him made : long autumn like a continued holi- 111 Old Mr. Gardiner and his wife rl ?j ?j I w ?w more uuu rnuru hiuiuiicu lu jui^u, i l their kindness to him was unfailing. ! e peculiarity in the boy, however, J* szled the worthy couple and piqued "1 ir curiosity. Gilbert never alluded j P ;he past, and never would tell directly i 9re he came from, or if his parents I p :e dead or alive. But they were consrate enough not to press him, and | ferred to think that he had. some sad ; son for his silence wliich involved no , nl me of his own. 9hen winter came theGardiners were j 8? } inclined than ever to let Gilbert go. j u' stayed with them, attended the vil- j ai 9 school, and worked morning and j a? ning, taking care of the cattle. )ne day Mrs. Gardiner was looking 1 Ti r a large mahogany box which con-' ted valued family relics. She took Cf an ambrotype, and after gazing at it j >'< g and tenderlv, she said to Gilbert, ; d was near, with much emotion: { ' This is the picture of my only broth- i Thomas Iding. He came to a dread- 1 n< death. A wicked man, named Asa j *? idley, murdered him." i & filbert's knees 6hook under him. He ped for breath, and his face looked i I and white. I 1 The jury brought in a verdict of S ^slaughter," she continued, but it r. s murder?^deliberate murder!" j 1 Why, Gilbert, how pale you are! ,, at is the matter?" j , 11?I don't feel very well. I guess I , PJ I go-out." And hurrying from the j ise the poor boy, overwhelmed with , ror and distress, went to the barn . sat down alone. { 'hat his best friends, his benefactors, J1 3 of all the world had in his need j M en him employment and a home, j w uld prove, after all, to be the suffer- ,, by his father's crime, was too much, j r1 w would they feel if they knew they e harboring the son of their brother's j rderer V t seemed as if he must fly from the : 3e at once?fly to the ends of tho th, hunted by a paternal ban. But \ ^ ner thoughts returned, and he sue- , ded in quieting the tumult of his }? lings. To run away would be a pusious and cowardly act; to confess ; P3 o he was could do no possible good. : 1B ?re seemed to be nothing leffrfor him ! , ; to seek to atone, as far as possible, j his father's crime by self-sacrificing i Ul otion to those whom that crime had j ;erribly afflicted. Ho could do this, j 1 ugh he should never break to them j dread secret of his real name and i, area. Ij" Vinter and spring passed, and sum- | j{ r came again. One morning, as q bert was returning from the post ce, he saw a man riding up the street i Dm he instantly knew to be Peter j y rrington, one of the overseers of the >r in Stony Brook. Great was his ' 8f sternation. If Mr. Harrington j uld recognize him, and reveal that j was the son of Asa Bradley, and had ! ^ h1 five years in the almshouse, all his ! sent hopes and happiness would be ; w in end. j ^ le quickly turned his face away, and C( ad leaning over the railing of the 1-stream bridge, gazing intently into j Q| water. . j Ir. Harrington stopped his horse. ' fa toy," he said, pleasantly, "which _ d must I take to go to Ashburton ?" al Jo answer. Gilbert seemed not to p. ir mm. ' I say, boy! which is the right road \ehburton ?" Itill no reply. p 1 Can't you speak, or don't you j J" >w ?" touching Gilbert's shoulder i h the handle of his whip. f, Itill Gilbert neither moved nor spoke. . He either can't hear, or won't hear," ' ttered Mr.-Harrington, as he started , horse and rode on. Jilbert stopped to call on a sick !nd, and an hour later reached home. ! he entered the sitting-room, the first i son he saw was Peter Harrington, in j* iversation with Mr. and Mrs. Gardi- ' ' . With a crimson face and wildly- ! iting heart he slipped out by tho ?, .rest door. As Mr. Harrington had ! t, rely glanced toward him, he hoped j had escaped recognition. Jut Gilbert was mistaken. Hardly j? I the door closed after him when Mr. j . rnngion asueu, ill muvu cuijiuot-,? , 'Is that boy, Walter Bradley, ng with you ?" i K [ That lad's name is Gilbert Hen- j w," replied Mr. Gardiner. " He ^ i been with lis over a year." 1 Ha, ha, ha ! You have been well , | ?ed. He is the son of Asa Bradley, _ 0 killed vour brother, Thomas 1 ? '"* ' Impossible 1" exclaimed Mr. ann t( s. Gardiner, simultaneously. fi( ' It's a fact," persisted Mr. Harriug- tl . " I knew Walter Bradley well. He j jj 1 in the almshouse a long time. Over ! rj[ fear ago he disappeared, and most i t( >ple thought he'd gone to sea. So he ! n i passed himself off on you as Gilbert nshaw ? A pretty bold push, I call i jj i1 Is may be supposed, Mr. Harrington i t< t the Gardiners greatly disturbed in a ad. Their astonishment upon learn- c ; that they had befriended a son of e 3 dreaded convict, Asa Bradley, n smed overpowering. ii 41 understand now why he never al- I b 1 ades to his past life, and will say nothag about his parents," said Mr. Gariner, reflectively. 0f " And this explaius why lie turned so e3 rhite when I showed him brother j 'liomas' picture, and told him he had p] een murdered by Asa Bradley," said jn Irs. Gardiner. "Well, wife, this bo/s father took tb lie life of your brother, and it's for you Br 5 say what we shall do with him." ' p] Mrs. Gardiner was silent a few mo- i1( lents. m "Husband," she said, at last, "Gil- d ert has lived with us over a year, and m 11 that time he has evidently tried his est to be a good boy. We have caught tl im in no wrong-doing; and have seen "<j( o signs of a bad disposition in him. He ar as been industrious and faithful. All d{ e can charge againBt him is that he 0] lme to us under a false name. He has aj een an outcast once : it would be cruel ) send him adrift again. Let him stay." "That's just my mind!" exclaimed tL Ir. Gardiner, fervently. 44 We have 6a 0 children, and it may be that God has Cl iven ns thi3 boy. We will not turn him I a way for his father's sin." 0I When Gilbert came in to dinner, he q, ist an anrions look into the faces of th 16 old people, but no trace of any reve- m ition was risible. They were even -p tore gentle and tender toward him than iey had ever been before. ftI Five years passed. Gilbert lived, h, appy and beloved, under the roof of I ai le good old Mr. Gardiner and his wife. w [e had attended school, and received a Bj ood education in the ordinary branches. n( [is benefactors had no cause for regret <|( >r taking the friendless youth to their Be ome and hearts. T. One night Gilbert suddenly awoke, j0 nd was startled by a strange glare of Bt ght. Through his window he saw the | w [ins and poplars outside glowing lurid j Vl ;d. He sprang up, and hurriedly raised ' m le sash. j th The shed was on Are, and the flames j m ad just seized the house. | ca Gilbert rushed down stairp, shouting le alarm, and in a moment every sleep- j ^ r was awake. The family worked va- j w: antly to put out the fire, but in vain. i gj fresh wind was blowing, and in half th 1 hour the house and all the out-build- j ftr igs belonging to Mr. Gardiner were in w lins. The good old man and his wife j or ere homeless. j gj 41 It came hard to pay the interest on \ ^ le mortgage," said Mr. Gardiner in a , w] ollow tone, ' and now we haven't a ^ lace to lay our heads." wi " God will provide," responded Mrs. nc ardiner, trying for his sake to stifle . er own sadness. ' p( 44 You have me left to you," said Gil- ! ert, lenuenv. "x um. ?iroug iu ?i?&, i ^ id you shall never want while I live/' , ac A portion of the furniture had been j u. ived. This Gilbert removed to a little ! apainted house offered by a neighbor, id the old couple -were as comfortable aE } circumstances would permit. (]8 A month later the following letter was as iceived: |a? " Friend Gardiner?If the boy who I fr, illed himself Gilbert Henshaw is with ! 0, du, or you know anything of his where- j ?,j xratB, please inform him that his great- j C|1 Qcle, Joshua Bradley, has lately died jp ; t. Louis, without family, and has left j t0 j will. By law he is one of the heirs | i0l i the property. I regret your loss bj th re, and believe me j ^ * Truly your friend, 6n "Peter Harrington." j to The next day Gilbert started for j pC tony Brook, and was Absent two weeks. 4Q hen again his happy face brightened ; ie old people's humble home. i i " I have news for you," he said, which will give you both pain and ; tit leasure." : f0 " Give us the worst first, and the bet-1 re r last," said Mrs. Gardiner, smiling. WJ " I have a secret to divulge which will ; aD stress and astonish you. In all the j t,lt me I have been with you, I have never ' fei Id you my real name or parentage. I i jj n not Gilbert Henshaw. I am?" j ^ "We know who you are !" exclaimed pc [r. Gardiner. " You are Walter Brad- an y, son of Asa Bradley." ' ori A look of utter astonishment over- j ^ )read Gilbert's face. How had they 1 a : ,thomed his secret? * 1 mi " Mr. Harrington told us all about 1 ^ du five years ago," said Mrs. Gardiner, j ^ " And you have given me a home, and | ive, and sympathy, knowing all this j ^ me I was the son of your brother's j 1 .urderer!" said Gilbert with moisten- j jj, ig eyes. | in " Dear boy,'' roturned Mrs. Gardiner, ; to >ndly, "we could not drive you from ! eE 9 for your father's sin 1 You have been j ^ constant comfort and blessing to us? ?c ie child of our old age, given us by the ord." Ul " And I shall not forget your generous fa" indness and true love. My share in j ur ncle Joshua's estate is five thousand j m, allars. We will build a new house on an ie old site with our money," said Gil- j vp ert. The worthy pair looked at him in d?- ^ ghted wonder. j gp "Your money, my boy," they both i Q, lid. ] tr( " No, ours. What is mine belongs to du?to my second parents?who made ; jj] iy hapless, forsaken life happy again." j B0 In a few months a commodious house ! 0?( as erected where the former home of ! 0>( ie Gardiners had stood, and the old i \wr?la infn if Tm'fVi ar?n " ' /upig iUVTSU iUUV XV TTAV&A tuvtl OVUi I ?fY Gilbert gained a right to his adopted I Qr ime by making application through J irm of law, and he is now a prosperous : re Lrmer?a generous, noble-minded man j -in whom the unfortunate and destitute | 0E ways find a friend. ? Youth's Com- j aE ^ion. j th j CO A. Thief Detected by a Mind-Reader, j m A Bloomington (IrnL) dispatch to the j he incinnati Gazette says : An incident ' is come to light here which seems to j rove that there is such a thing as j mind-reading.'' I can vouch for the \ tii uth of the following, as it was revealed j se i our midst a few days since: fir Last April the Harmon family, of . th lis county, who are reliable, and are i ib ciown as good citizens, had stolen from | ne leir home 81,065 in rather a mysteri- j ui is manner. Amateur detectives had Oi een employed, but could get no trace in } to the robbery. D. O. Spencer, a su continent newspaper correspondent of ef lis city, at present representative of gc le Albany Ledger-Standard,, claimed wi lat he possessed a mysterious power lit hich enabled him to read the mind of m le human being. The Harmons, hear- si< >g of his boaBts, determined to let him va y his hand, allowing him a small com- so onsation if he succeeded in discovering ue le guilty parties. ' ; to Spencer visited the house several ; fit mes and, after no little difficulty, sat- I ified himself as to the guilty one. By j al btaining the confidence of that person , cj -whose name is wi:hheld at the request; ae f his relatives?the process of reading i m is mind was begun, resulting in a vie- re A ftar lininw fnllv nnrA nf fVlfi llfir- in v ? i? , ? 3U 8 guilt, and knowing that be had I tt 30 money, Spencer charged him with | re . and named the place where it was. ! of 'his so frightened the man that he wen*, i cl ) the exact placo named and produced a early all of the money stolen. st Mr. Spencer received word this even- st ig from a prominent town in Central tl adiana that he was wanted immediately qi j work np a bank robbery, committed w short time since. This mysteiioue in- fo ident has, of course, created no little ai xcitement throughout the ocuntry, and a] inch experimenting has been indulged ai 3, all adding proof that the mind can g< >? read and that D. O. Spenoer can do it. e: m The Citj or Dublin. Mr. C. 0. Fulton gives us a glimpse Ireland's chief city in the following :tract from a letter to the Baltimore merican: Iiishmen may well be la roud of the city of Dublin. It has e% iproved wonderfully during the past cr renty years. For twenty miles around ar ie city there are bright little towns and oiling villages, and as we approach it, fe easant country seats, good roads and ds mdsome houses make the landscape ? ost beautiful. In the city itself the ot lange and improvement are no less d( arked. There are no longer any of or ie thatched cabins, with the pig and se ie baby wallowing in the mud at the is jorsill in the suburbs, nor are there t* ly more beggars on the streets, as in 0 iys of yore, except some superannuated la d women, whoso age and decrepitude nc >peal to the sympathy of the passer-by or ronger than their words, though they se lower the most profuse blessings on cr iese who heed their appeals, and rumor wi ys they are equally fluent in their he irses on those who fail to respond with th penny. Dublin has but few furnaces sp manuiactories auoui u, uuu, wudo- o?j lently, the heavens are not blurred or hi le Bun a strauger, as in Glasgow, Bir- di ingham, Manchester and London, at ublin is Bubject to sndden attacks of lai oomy weather, but when the heavens e at all favorable, few places look ba mdsomer, brighter or livelier. There Ie e a number of fine views, any one of th hich will bring satisfaction to the d? ranger's eye. The 'sweep from the bi jrthern end of Sackville street right re )wn throngh Westmoreland street lems a grand avenue of huge masts, so tie buildings are severally and con- of intly admirable, reared up in the real or ateliness of stone and marble, free from th hat is considered her? as the gaudy hi llgarity of staring clay?handsome, be assive, majestic. From Carlisle bridge tij leview, look which way you will,at early in orn, when the sun gilds every lofty se .pital; or at noon, when throngs of ui isy men and rosy-cheeked women hurt by ; or at night, when the moon tips ex ith silver the quivering water, and the he oomy walls and fading ships?in all pi ese hours Dublin appears at its best, be id leaves a lasting impress of quiet, be ithout loneliness of a throng, with- fo IU U JUUitiLUUO y KJk tiAuuuuu oom. Whether you look up or down to e river, and take in the line of quays, of liich stretch away on one band with b e dome of the courts, and on the other ru itli the custom house; or, looking qr >rth, catch the lofty monument of pa elson, the stately grandeur of the an jstofSce, and the pretty squares in the en stance, with Trinity college, the bank, tu e memorials to Burke and Goldsmith, to id the trees of College park looming } in the distance, the unbiased stranger te: ill concede that Dublin has claims to te: iauty which it were unjust to challenge id untruthful to deny. Still it has its sli irk sides, as the river Liffy is almost ha odorous as our Basin ; and on a rainy co iy the black mud appears to rise up pi am the paving stones and spread itself wl 'er the whole thoroughfare. The river fr< iffy passes through the center of the on fcy, and is spanned by eight very fino one bridges, which add considerably all the beauty of the place. The city is cr wited only a mile from the entrance of so e river into the bay of Dublin, giving th commercial advantages which, as the co rrounding country improves, continues 01 add to its wealth and importance and ex >pulation, the latter being now over la< 0,000. OE 1 th Irtemus Ward's Power of Ridicule. 8p "Artemns Ward at Cleveland " is tho til ,le of an article in &cribncr, and the hi [lowing extract shows how apt at la< parteo the great American humorist foi is : In repartee Browne had scarcely in ? ? * ? 1?_A. _t l:? ~ . l equal among tue journalism 01 uiu u j lie, and his pen was held in wholesome wi ar by rival members of the fraternity, se e had always a ready answer for any lai at attacked him, and he used his >wer of ridicule in reply to his assail- sei ts. One day he found a neat package Se i his desk, which, on opening, he dis- to vered was a jack-knife. A reporter of sh morning paper?a notoriously homely itj an?heard of it, and made a paragraph wt the effect 'hat Browne richly merited th e knife. That evening Browne re- br rted by naming the person, and say- su f?: ag " He is the homeliest man in America, de e has broken five cameras in endeavor- A g to get a picture of himself to send the children of a bitter personal eray, maliciously intending to frighten em to death. He has been offered a ?od salary to stand up in a corn-field j co a scare-crow. He is compelled to %et i I > three times every night and rest his i pc 36. In his courting days he was utterly ' lsuccessful until he had procured a wj ask. He has a gait like a saw-horse, id when he walks the sidewalks the ve ry bricks recoil in horror." Not content with this chastisement, in e next issue, under the guise of a w* ecial dispatch from Charleston, where ssawatomie Brown was on trial for co sason, he said : I " The jury in the case of Ossawatomie lai rown, charged with murder and trean, brought in a verdict of guilty at ten j( slock this morning, and at eleven 3lock he was sentenced by Judge arker. The judge, after dwelling with eat force on the enormity of the pris- i ler's crime, sentenced him to sleep one vr ght with [naming the rival porter], 'and,' said the judge in a an enabling voice, ' may God have mercy pc i your soul 1' The prisoner fell with i agonizing shriek to the floor, and pi ere was not a dry eye in the vast con- an urse of spectators. An effort will be ade to get his sentence commuted to og mtrinp." or o O' . ^ What Makes Success. In business life two things are essen- m iltosuccefls: First, sound judgment; ne cond, activity. In all departments we id a greater deficiency in judgment an in other requisites. Long familiar- pe j in a given department does not do scessarily produce it, though this will cr idoubtedly aid and strengthen it. ' pi uly by reliance on one's self, and feel- rn g individually responsible for the re- pi ilts of action founded on one's own br forts, can the fact be established of >od or bad judgment. Special talent ill not furnish it for a man who may ive capacity for acquiring information, ay be able to enter into learned discusDns on supply or demand, may have Ri ist knowledge of productions, their en urces of supply, and their various op ies, and still lack the ability to apply co practical and everyday use the bene- ex ;s of information. he So, also, one may become familiar with au 1 the details of business through long* qt :perience in the service of others, and wj i a servant, or in an executive capacity, xj? aking himself invaluable without ever of a]izin?*the responsibility attached to qi dividual discretion or judgment. In in ii? belief we find an answer to the oft* sIj ipeated inquiry why so large a portion di 1 business men are unsuccessful ; to w< aim that so many fail to meet fair snc- of !sb through folce of adverse circum- ed ances, instead of permitting circum- m ances to control them. Men who have it. te capacity to comprehend the whole ec uestion presented to them, to properly at eigh not only the side of success but of cc lilure, and who understand the import- ac ace of right thinking and the full pen- ju ty of mistake, are the ones who succeed, gi ad whether they get oredit for having ar ood judgment or not, they oertainly p< cercise it. ar FOR THE FAIR SEX. Tiny Feet or Chinese Ladles. Just imagine the foot of a full-groi dy but five inches in length! 1 en this is large, and in highly arisl atie families four inches is the star d. This queer custom of compressing t et of Chinese girls is of very anci tte, and in our day is almost univen only nuns, slaves, boat-women, a herB who are obliged to perform 01 >or drudgery, being exempt. As to t igin of the custom, the Chinese thei lnao dm nnt tirrrPArl Afnnv ounnnnfl a fashion intended to draw a line I reen the higher and lower class< thers Bay that its object was to ke dies within doors, where they won >t be subjected, like common marl boat-women, to the gaze of the otb x; and some boldly declare that ipple them was known to be the or iy by which women could be kept >me, and rendered of use working f eir husbands or fathers, instead lending their time in gadding and gr p. Some of the most reliable nati storians state that the oustom beg iring the reign of Take, somewhe lout the year 1123, with a whim of t at empress of the Shang dynasty. The time for putting on the fli mdages varies in different familie i some, the process is commenced wh e baby is only a few weeks old, othe >fer the ceremony for a year or twi it all begin before the little one h ached the age of four years. No iron or wooden shoe is used, me travelers have stated ; but a str cotton cloth, some three inohea wid ir1 ahnnf, bit fflfttlnnc. is wnnnd arnni e toes, over the instep, and then b nd the heel, after which it is broug ick again over the foot and drawn jhtly around the toes as to press the to a point?all except the first ai cond having been previously doubli ider the sole. These bandeges are never remove cept for purposes of cleanliness, pe ips once a month ; and they are r aced as quickly as possible, each tic >ing drawn tighter, until the insb inds into a bow and the ball of tl ot is forced against the heel. The stockings are made of white cc n or silk. The dainty little shoes a silk, richly embroidered and oft< sautifully adorned with tiny pearls bies. The soles are of white sati lilted, and stiffened with lining isteboard. The heels are very hij id pointed, and the white satin th itirely covers them, as well as the u rned toes, presents a pretty contra the blue or crimson silk uppers. White satin seems to us an odd m rial for shoe soles ; but they are i tided only for carpeted floors. When one of these tiny satin-soli ippers is cast off as " worn out," is probably never for a single tir me in contact with terra firm a ; ai obably the wearer, when robed in tl lite slippers for her last sleep, has n Dm her infancy had odo gleeful roc Lt-doors. This compression produces, durii 1 the years of childhood, the most e nciating pain, followed at length bj rt of numbness. I never saw one ese compressed feet entirely witho vering, but I saw enough when tl iter bandages had been removed cite both pity and disgust; and dy who had seen the bare foot le of their greatest belles, told r at she had never even conceived of ectacle so shockingly revolting as tl ly foot when divested of all that cou de its deformity. Although the youi Jy was full grown, the sole of h Dt was but three and three-quart ches in length. The great toe form point that was bent upward and bac ird, while the heel, of natural siz emed by contrast disproportionate rge. Chinese ladies of rank are seldc en abroad unless in closely-curtain dan-chairs ; but we nsed occasional meet those of the middle class makii ort excursions in the immediate vici r of their homes. Their attempts liking were pitiable in the extreme, ey hobbled along, leaning on an ui ella, or the shoulder of a servant, f pport, or with hands outstretch ainst the houses as they passed, e avoring to keep their'balance.? Wi wake. tfnnhlon Notes. Silver, lynx is the leading fur of t ming winter. Square and round trains divide t pular favor. The latest sleeve is the "Jane Shore th its Edward IV. cuff. The bonnet shapes of this season a ry like those of last year. Plain and flat trimmings ara to )rn most; oll winter uiodocd, The poufs and paniera on import Btumes are scarcely discernible. Some of the new linen cuffs and c< rs are hair-stripe like the new hosier The long twelve or six-buttci k Dve, with the opening at the si am, grows in favor. Persian brocades and old English a] sdiffival French brocade stnffs are i ?ed for parts of costumes. Ribbons with graduated stripes other color are among the latest ii stations in millinery goods. One of the new shades in the fan ushes to be used this winter for hf id bonnets is called " Gramoise." Evening bonnets composed entirely trich feathers on a transparent frac e among the novelties in millinery. A new freak of fashion shows the d< an with a double skirt. It is n larly as pretty as the graceful sing! irted dolman. Bronze, olive and neutral colors a :ar in dresB-goods, with all shades irk red, including ruby, currant a: imson. For millinery and trimmi irposes the fashionable colors c by, garnet, amethyst, emerald, sa lire, turquoise, topaz and old a ight gold. Unable to Grant the Petition. A story illustrative of red tape iiesia is told by an English correspoE it, wlio declares that it is true, i leratic singer connected with a Mc w theater, wishing to make a sh( cursion into the country, went to g t passport countersigned by the lo( ithoritieB. The presiding official j lired for her "writtenpetition." "5 ritteu petition!" cried the lady, ' ive none ; I uever knew that anythi: the kind was required." "Not) lired, madam ? On the contrary, not g can be done without it. Take tl eet of paper and write according to e ctation." She transcribed word f 3rd a formal petition requesting lea absence, which was then signed, fol I and Bealed. "And now," quoth t. an in office, " you have only to deli\ " " To whom, pray?" "To whom' hoed the official, with a smile at t (surdity of the question ; "to me, nirse." The document was hand toss the. table. The great man a sted his spectacles, broke the aei avely read over his own oompositio id said : " Madam, I have read yo jtition, and I regret to tell you that n unable to grunt it." Suttee in India. Suttee, which meanB the burning of Qn women on the funeral pyres of their de- an(j a rej. ceased husbands, and various other re[0. ligious rites of a cruel and inhuman l(j. character, have all been suppressed in game the provinces under the immediate con- o8afo ke trol of Great Britain; and even in for fa ,nfc regions of that vast continent which lie HiroE ial beyond the borders of our territory, our cj0Dj Q(j influence has been made use of to put a stop to these and similar revolting prac- . , ^ tices. It is then with no small surprise ^ m. and sorrow we learn that on the death of Jung Bahadoor, the prime minister of ( )e. the N opaul government, which took 3a< place last year, three of his widows were , gp burned to death on his funeral pyre. b ^7 jjj The circumstance naturally gives rise to ~~ ;ej. the question,as to whether these widows, ,er and the numerous others who have been q to burned to death in days gone by, were jly voluntary victims, or were compelled to ai.eej. sacrifice themselves by the friends of ? ii f .i t ,1 ? grave or | ineir ueceaaeu iiuhouuub. 0f It is possible tbat in solitary instances ever * )8_ of this horrible practice, force may have ve been resorted to; but the question is an surrounded by circumstances quite po- ? ,re tent enough to induce voluntary immoh6 lation; and it is therefore not to be wondered at that the natives of India firmly In i 9t assert that among the higher castes, such undei 1H. as Brahmins, Rajputs and Marathas, He wi 0n widows are always ready to come forward leath< ,ra and seal their fidelity and devotion to bis ne 3. their deceased husbands by sacrificing round as themselves on the funeral pyre. The men Hindoo doctrine of the transmigration of oontai aa souls is wielded with no small power to his ip and influence by the priestB on these oc- action 0j casions. For the soul to have succes- tion v id sively to tenant the body of some un- aQd tl ,e- clean beast, some vile bird, Bome loath- was o ht some reptile, or {some degraded outcast pl&nk so of the human family, is not only revolt- move< m hag, but appalling to the mind of- the into 1 3d devout Hindoo; and this dire penalty is ?nt oi ed held over the head of the bereaved nothh widow when stunned by sudden calamity and e; d, she feels that her earthly hopes are ?f a^S r- blasted, and that the dreadful calamity e- is sure to overtake her in case she re- The ae fuses to become a suttee. Besides she has b< sp knows too well that life-long widowhood, inspe< tie with all its discomfort, hardship, scorn, below and perhaps disgrace, awaits her, in case into r >t- she prefers to survive her husband; and tainin re that not as a penalty for refus- were: an ing to immolate herself, but as the beeni or natural consequence of the barbarous that - nnnotnrol nnqt/im nf Viat nAnnlfl. thickl JJ, ?UU l&UJ-LMVM&fc**. r-?r-w. of On the other hand, she is led by the such i jh priests to believe that by smbmitting to turner at become a suttee she follows her dear cookn p- lord to the realms of bliss. roofs, tat As the funeral procession on such oc- der st casions is very remarkable, a few words Firep a- may be said regarding it. The pyre? with t q- consisting of wood or other material, for. cl and straw, according to the means of the burni ed deceased?having been prepared at the prote< it usual place of cremation, the dead body wood* ae of the husband, covered with a white all di ad sheet, and decorated with flov.ers and tie colored saffron, is placed on an open A fc ot bier. This is carried on the shoulders repor up of four bare-headed and nearly naked visit 1 men, followed by a fifth carrying a cen- as he ig | ser with burning incense, from which by st ix- the pyre is to be lighted. The wife fol- and a r a lows the bier on foot; but before being rus p of led forth, she is attired in costly gar- a slig ut ments, decorated with garlands of flow- tentic lie ers, and feasted with sweetmeats, in came to some of which ingredients of a stupefy- then a ing nature ar. mixed, with a view of He v of rendering her less sensible than she statio ae otherwise would be to the dreadful suf- decla a ferings through which she has to pass, arm t lis She is accompanied by a band of gayly- on P1 Id dressed dancing-girls, who chant and houre ag dance around her as the procession whotr er moves on, showering flowers on and the Is ?r occasionally doing obeisance to her as to too la ed a deity! A band of noisy musicians edth< k- come next, then the friends of the de- ?Pera ' ceased, and last a crowd of idle specta- The 3 >ly I tors. Arrived at the place ?f cremation, ??er the bier is placed on the pyre ; and the im wife having been assisted to ascend it, ed seats herself on the bier, placing the ly head of her husband on her lap. These Roi Qg arrangements having been completed, range Q- the pyre is lighted in several places; bridei at aDd amid the deafening sounds of bar- a m as j barous music and the shouts of the as- parisl sembled crowd, the scene closes. The frienc or screams of the victim, if any, are un- statu* ed heard ; and she soon becomes invisible broca ?and, it is to be hoped, insensible? jewel de in the clond of smoke which rises from donoi the burning pyre. After a time, the Russi multitude disperse ; and when the fire doves is burned out, the ashes and any uncon- paren . sumed parts of tlie bodies are collected unm . and thrown into the nearest sacred men, stream.?Chamber a'Journal. youn; h? ? the ci ( j Drinking-Water in Turkey. The Turks are as great connoisseurs of for ^ drinking water a3 western Europeans are ^ m( ,re of wine. To suit particular tastes the peonJ water sellers at Constantinople supply jjje q bo the beverage by the names of the sources 0f th i from whence it has been procured. The decisi ed | water of the catchment basins of rain rathe: : water, known locally by the name of Thes( }1_ " Taxiom " (the Pera reservoir) though Russi y. muddy is not nnwholesome, and when djgpo; I j allowed to settle, or if filtered, it is held middl j0 in great esteem, as is also the water from twent the Cara Koulak, a spring near Tokat, script on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus, younj 3d and that from Tchamadja, near Scutari, i befon e" A copious spring at Beicos, also on the I betroi Asiatic side, supplies the shipping at j lady of Constantinople. The water at Kanli- Then u- kavak spring, near Arnaout Kioy, is maidf perhaps the purest spring water in the reach cy world, for by careful analysis it has findir its proved to rank next in purity to distilled on wl water. Two sources in the Valley of ?on 0f Roses, beyond Buynkdere, called Fun- eithei Qe dulih and Kestaue, are in great demand later among the natives; but the water most- as old ly drank by the highest class comes whos< from two springs in Asia, called Goztepe ] more [ot and Tush Delen. * forbic le' husbt A Family of Lepers In Kentucky. some! Pj j An Adair connty (Ky.) letter says :? are. ? , j Many people will be somewhat surprised ? . I when they are told that there is living-in nai,r c ? j Adair county a whole family afflicted an, ? 1 I with leprosy. The name of this family *eturj I is Slavey. The disease takes the hair off , j of the head entirely, not leaving even r*1 a j the appearance that there ever -was a ,w . | covering to the scalp. skin of the J^e i head looks as slick as a peeled onr'on. .fi , : The skin of the entire body has a bright, . ^ ! deep pink, or rather scarlet, color, and ^ . i peels off in dry flakes about the size and wjj0C j shape of moderately large fish-scales. .. )S. The finger-nails and toe-nails become . . , )rt ! six or eight times as thick as by nature , ! p?t j they should be, and the patient becomes 5u] i a hideous sight to behold for years be- ,, . :u. fore death relieves him of a life that has jv long since become a burden. Years of - ft . j humiliation and suffering are endured .V " nff ; by these afflicted people, detested and J ,,; <(f I scorned almost by their fellow-men, , e~|' L ; while they patiently, or probably impaji8 I tiently, wait that inevitable death that is ' /vrtltr vol 1 Qy ! ,uca wreat or i worn, ve i Number of Persons In Employment. ^' j The latest, published statments giving ,, he | the number of adult male persons em- J j6* ! ployed in varions occupations in the ? United States present the following 10 f figures: car6,'; of . . ? road i ? Agricultural pursuits 5,922.471 ? nn, e,d Domestic Rervants + 975,734 Vd Ordinary laborers 1,041.665 claim ll, Trade and transposition 1,191,238 mone; ,n Manufacturers 2,554.315 came, ui- j Minora 153,106 jn hjj ^ | Total non-profefibional 11,828,530 Par*ei i Profecoional men 677,813 '^ady TIMELY TOPICS. e person oat of every thirty-nin half in thiB country is color blind ay have libel suits in Japan all th as in America. The editor of th a Nippo has been fined thirty ye Isely stating tliat the governor c ihima had been arrested on snspi Jew Haven policeman has devise ' kind of policeman's club. It cor }f a brass covering to an ordinar attached to it by springs, an 3d to resemble rosewood. If a ma: d seize it he would only get th cover, leaving the policeman ampl rtunity to wield the club itself. lie of the boys at Oarrollville, Wis. a rm'jinicht rwirflrJfl. wranned i] 3, and starting from the villag yard. Their idea was to scare whc saw them. They succeeded. Thre n went into convulsions at th one sick man was thrown into ie, and a girl broke her arm by; i climbing hastily over a fence. the public gardens of Vienna a bea went an operation for cataract as blind in both eves. A stronj 5r collar was firmly buckled aronn< ;ck, and the attaoned chain passei ! a bar of the cage. Two powerfu pulled him up, so that a spongi ining chloroform might be applies nose. The first evidence of th i of the chloroform *as a dim inn q his struggles; one paw droppe< len the other. The door of the dei pened, and his head laid upon i outside. The cataracts were re 3, and the bear was drawn bad us cage. Next morning he oam< ' his den staring about him, carinj 2g for the light, lioking his paws vidently glorying in the recover ht. j Chinese quarter of San Franciac sen undergoing a thorough officia jtion. One house had two stone 1 the level of the street, divide* ooms about five feet by eight, con gtwo to six occupants each. Leper found, and one of them was said t< ?aged in tbe manufacture of cigar were sold daily in the city. & y inhabited is this quarter, and b use is every foot of indoor spac 3, that in hundreds of houses th ag is done in the streets or on th* Some kitchens are built on slen lpporta overhanging the sidewalks laces are built on the window sills shields of old tin bending outwan liimneys. Fires were even foun< ng on heaps of ashes laid upon un jted wooden floors and againa m partitions, the sparks flying i rections. errible death from phosphorus i ted. A young man left Paris t lis friends at Lyona, and as soo: got into the carriage he lit a mate! sratching it with his thumb nai] piece of the incandescent phosphc enetrated under the nail and mad ht burn, to which "he paid no a( in. But after an hour the pain be very great, the thumb swelled the hand, and next the forearm ras obliged to alight at the fire n and send for a medical man, wh red that instant amputation of tb v&b necessary. The patient.ineiste Dstponing the operation for a fei i until the arrival of his father, fo i he had telegraphed. But befor itter could rcach the spot, it wa te; the poisonons matter hod gain 9 arm, then the shoulder, and an tion henceforth was impossible 'onng man died twenty-seven honi the burn, in horrible suffering. Russian Marriage Customs. ssian marriages are generally ai id through priests. A well-bre groom mast present a gift t onastery and another to hi 1 church; the bride, through he Is, is expected to clothe som 5 of a virgin with a gown of silve de, enriched with more or les s, according to the piety of th ; and in some parts of Southern a she adds a gift of two whit to the pope. The consent o ts is necessary for a marriag the age of thirty in the case o twenty-five in that of women, bu j people are at liberty to appeal i vil authorities if consent be arbi y withheld. In this event th ts are called upon to show reasoi eir refusal. The reason must no jrcenary, unless one of the youni e be heir to a landed estate ; the] nestion is referred to the marsha e nobility in the district, whos> ons are based upon expedienc; r than upon fixed principles i appeals are rare, because th ans are a marrying people, an< se of their children early. In th< e and lower classes men marry a -3?? Vv?p? 4-V* r\ /lrtfl y, Wnen null urmicu vy HUD wu ion. Jn the higher aristocracy i j man goes the "grand tour: b settling down, but he is oftei thed, before starting, to a younj not yet out of the school-room ) is no country that has so few ol< i as Russia. When a girl ha ed the age of twenty-five withou ig a mate, she generally sets ou lat she calls a pilgrimage, if poo a round of travels if rich, and ii r case she turns up some year as a widow. Widows are plentifu [ spinsters aro scarce, and widow 3 husbands were never seen ar numerous than the rest. Etiquett Is any allusion to a lady's dea< ind in her presence, and this i iimes convenient. When a coupl ngnged a betrothal feast is held lie bride-elect has a lock of he ;ut off in the presence of witnesse jiven to the bridegroom, who ii a presents a silver ring set with : oise, an almond cake and a gift c and salt. From this moment th re plighted, nor can the relative : the match except with the consen i parties themselves, which is sig by a return of the ring and loc r. So much importance is attach the ring that among poor peopl annot afford silver and a turquoiee id a bit of blue stone are substi These betrothal rings are kep irlooms, but must not be made t twinfl?a Hon rtnnnnt civfl his brid rig which his mother received, fo ice, though why this should be & lystery which the clergy, who sel ing, could best explain. On th ing day the bride comes to churcl 3d in white ; but it is only amoni lighest classes that the brida mes arc entirely white and that h of orange flower blossoms i ry Haley, a supposed widow, wai in Steubenville, Ohio, by a rail tccident. Her baby was left to th >f her brother, who sued the rail n its behalf, securing a verdict o ). Soon a husband turned up t< the custody of the child and th y. Afterward another husbam with an insurance policy of $5,00 favor on her life. Both men ha< 3 from her years before, but wer to profit by her death. Opium Eating in China. The great vice of the Chinese is the 6 use of opium. In a single year the im^ portation of opium amounted to nearly $45,000,000?more than half the impor6 tations of the empire. The people are 6 enslaved by it, and the government is & wholly unable to eontrol it Once they destroyed 20,000 cheBts, for which had * been offered $11,000; but they had waited too long, for opium-eating had become a national indulgence. The native cultid vators now compete with the producers i- of India, and each year send to the mary ket millions of chests. The native artid cle is less destructive than the foreign, n I and in the hone that its use will lessen e the evil, the government encourages e home cultivation, believing that the nativo article will soon exclude the foreign. Many of the Chinese believe that , opium is the instrument in the hands of q some mysterious power to effect the dee Btruction of their people. They say: k "All the stems of the bamboos of the e south, if converted into pens, could not e record the evils of opium." A Chinese a society has published an appeal, in a which they say: " If this evil is allowed to go on, there will remain no remedy, no salvation for our country. We asa, in the name of heaven, what unheard-of crime have we committed that we should ' thus bo punished ? Since the creation j down to our days no plague has so muoh j ravished our country. In the provinces j where the drug is cultivated the peo3 pie were formerly Bober, thrifty and j prosperous; but they have become idle, 0 corrupt and hopeless, oommitting crimes for opium, dying of hunger, and in not j a few instances, eating even human flesh. The number of opium consumers ^ is not known. The lower classes do not alone use it, but the very highest, and ? these offer it to their guests, as wine is offered in Europe. The city of Ningpoo, with a population of 400,000, has f 2,700 opium shops. It is estimated that ' throughout the empire 600,000 opium ' victims die annually. Though the use of the deadly drug does not produce the violent effects of some other intoxicants, ? at first, it is in the end more pernioious J and irremediable, its victims become ? livid, their eyes lose their brightness, * their cheeks wither, labor becomes un| endurable, and all their evil instincts are natroraliy excitea. among me iauii0 drymen of San Franoisco there are eeve8 ral slaves to the opium habit. They can 0 readily be distinguished from their fel3 lows by the symptoms described above, 0 and fct times, especially on Sunday 0 afternoon, when there is not much work 0 on hand, they can be seen lying in the * dens where they eat and sleep, stupefied * from the effects of the poisonous drug, !? or smoking from their peculiar-shaped | pipes, and gradually becoming intoxi* cated. The Chinese say that cnly Eng* land can assist them in recovery, if re1 covery be possible, from this dreadful a curse, and that by restraining the merchants of India from offering it for sale in their countries. Once assured that 8 none would be allowed to be sent from 0 India, the imperial government would jj prohibit its home production; and with k this result in view they have applied to ? England for a restrictive policy. ? Natural History In Chunks?The Elephant. 1 " What is this ?" * " This is an elephant! He is the ,j; largest animal on legs. He is not as 0 long as the whale, but he can eat twice I e as much hay." j " How much does an elephant n weigh?" ,r "As much as eight or ten loads of e hay, and he is all meat. When you s come to unload him you don't find any j. cord-wood hidden away." y "What large ears he has 1" ' "Yes; this is the only animal now g living having feet as big as the average St. Louis foot, and ears larger than those seen on the streets of Milwaukee. A A 1 />?nn nlanliAnf li'voa fllHOA t.XPrt ?XO ao IUO ClO^UHUV UTVW WMWWV .? cities will have to brag in whispers and be careful how they put up money on ? wagers." 3 "Are elephants fond of musio ?" 0 " They are very fond of some kinds. 8 They like to hear a horse fiddle or a r brass band, but they don't go much on 0 the sad strains of a guitar or the meltr ing notes of a hand-organ." 3 " Are they an obedient animal ?" e "About some things. When a bale a of hay or a bushel of oats is placed be0 fore them, and they are commanded to f eat, they obey with the greatest cheere fulness.' f " What is their principal food ?" & "An elephant loves grass, hay, beans, 5 corn, peanuts, gingerbread, small boys, - mud, trees, camels and other vegetae bles." 1 "What is the price of an elephant ?' t " Dan Rice used to buy 'em for about 5 $6,000 apiece in the spring and sell 'em a for twenty-five dollars in the fall. By 1 dividing the first sum by the last and 6 subtracting Dan Rice from the result 7 you will get a fair average." " Is an elephant very brave ?" 6 "No, not very, if you catch one 1 nosiDg around the yard don't be afraid 3 to tackle him." t "Why are elephants so large and " balky?" * "In order to take the conceit out of grasshoppers. Until the elephant beQ gan to march in circus processions this % insect imagined he was the biggest thing on fodder in tne woria. i "What is the need of an elephant's 8 ears being so large ?" t "No one knows. Any one can see at ' a glance that it would improve his looks r if he had more tail and less ears." a "Is there any danger of hurting an 8 | elephant by hitting him with a ' shinny '1 club ?'" 9 " Not mnch, but no good boy who 0 wants to grow up will ever think of e rushing in and clubbing a poor ele1 phant. That's all, bub, and next week 8 we'll make a howling among other ani6 male."? Detroit Free Press. y * The Costliest Xonnment in America. I j By far the most expensive monument ft or crypt in this country is the new one now in course of construction at the j e expense of Mrs. A. T. Stewart in mem- | 8 ory of her husband. It is to cost over I j $80,000, and will be very elaborate and imposing. A few days since seme ninety ^ tons of fine marble, cut by skilled workt. men, were sent to Garden City, Long e Island, to be placed in position under ( the chancel of the Cathedral of the Incarnation, also being built at the ex. riAnnfl nf Afrs. Stewart, and in the center will rest Mr. Stewart's body. The crypt j e in form is a polygon with sixteen sides, r twenty-two feet in diameter and twenty 0 ! feet in leDgth. Each angle is ornamentH j ed by clustered pillars of different-cole ored marble imported from Italy, and k so placed as to render harmony and to _ allow of the light giving the proper 1 tone through tbe sixteen windows of a stained glass. There will be sixteen s clusters, each having three different-1 colored marbles. Between the pillars i the space will be paneled and carved in | pure white American marble, the ceiling I 9 being of the same material. The floor- i ing will be of white and black Italian ; e marble set in pretty design. There will [ be two approaches to the crypt, leading f from handsome vestibules which connect o with the cathedral above. Mrs. Stewart e takes great interest in the progress of i 3 the work. The building of tke cathedral 0 is progressing rapidiy, and when finished 3 it will be one of the finest pieces of work e to be found, no expense being spared in the design or materials employed. ; . , .... . ? Life's West Win flow. We stand at life's west window*, And think of the days that are gone; Remembering the oonaing snnw*. We too mast remember the morn ; Bat the son will set, the day will close, And an end will come to all ear woee. As we watch the western casements, ' Reviewing onr happy yoatb, We mourn for its vanished promise Of honor, ambitiap, and trath Bat oar hopes will fall and pride decay, When we think how soon we mast pass away. We stand at life's west windows, And tarn not sadly away, m *-* JL O waicil OUT OUUUIUU a lawn The noontide of sparkling day ; Bat our sun mast set, oar lips grow dumb, And to look from our windows our children come. * ; Still looking from life's west windows ; And we know we would not again Look forth the eastern lattice, And live over all life's pain; Though life's sunlight be brilliant, its sunset is sweet, Siaoe it brings longed-for rest to our weary feet Items of Interest. Object of interest?To swell the principal. Cheap out-of-door breakfast?A roll on the grass. An experienced boy says it is a mistake that misfortnnes never come shingle. Agricultural fairs are making sad havoc among pop corn and red lemon, ade. A storekeeper advertises thirteen ponnds of sausages for a dollar. That's dog cheap. The papers speak of a man who has " turned up missing." In other words, he was found lost.. ? Moore county, ^N. 0., has twentyeight gold mines, six silver mines, eight copper mines and ten iron mines. The ware called " tin " is only a wash of tin over sheet iron. As well might we speak of plated ware as being silver. The seven colors of the rainbow ue violet, indigo, blae, green, yellow, orange and red. The three primary colors are red, bine and yellow. We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves, We eueonrage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. ?Lamb. The Duo de Laragnois, a French nobleman of the last century, had his first wife's body reduced to a email compass by some chemical process, and wore it set in a ring. " How long," said a crashed tragedian to a ticket clerk in a depot, striking an attitude, " how long will it take a firstclass actor to get to Podunk ? " " No longer," replied the clerk, "than it* would any other first-class blamed fool 1" An inquiring man thrust his finger into a horse's mouth to see how many teeth he had. The inquiring horse closed his month to see how many fingers the man had. The cariosity of each was fully satisfied. "Why don't you limit yourself?" said a physician to an immoderate in- dulger in the ard^bt. "Set down a ? stake that you will go so far, and no farther." "I do," replied the bibulous subjeot; " but I set it so far off that I always get drunk before I reach it." Statistics show that for the present year the value of gold and silver produced in California is $21,000,000, while the agriculture produce of the same State exceeds $91,500,000. As compared with miniag, agriculture stands nearly five to one in values produced. A young fellow in San Francisdo sudn - - 1_ i--i- - J - o fin art r\ aeniy bubiuiiou a &ica nuui ? i?uj and excused himself by saying that it was a sort of temporaryinsanity that now and then came over him. When he arose to take his leave the pitying damsel said to him : " If you ever feel any ' more such fits coming on, you had bet- * ' ter come right here,where yourjinflrmity is known, and we will take care of yon." The public debt of Europe was divid-. ed as follows in 1876 : France, 84,687,921,400: Prussia, $229,852, 375 ; Italy, 82,000,000,COO ; Russia, 81,254,810,000; Spain, 82,650,000,000; Turkey, 8927,000,000; Great Britain, 83,884,852,720. * These are the heaviest debts, and they bear hardest on Torkey, Italy, Russia and Spain. While some of the debts may have slightly decreased in the last two years, others have greatly increased, as ia the cases of Russia and Tnrkey. TBEAST:HZ TBOVE. Something I've found on my way Throngh earth to-day; Something of value untold, ' Briehter than eold ; Something more fair than the tint Of morning glint; Something more sweet than the song Of feathered throng; Something that lovelier glows Than qneenly rose; Something more sparkling by far Than yon bright star; Something I cherish?how well? worda cannot tell. Something?oh, can you not guess? Then I confess. Some one has said " Love is blind ? Yet do I find, Deep in the heart of my love My treasure trove! Bismarck's Courage. It was in 1866. Bismarck?then Count Bismarck?was returning from the palace, where he had been to see the king. While passing through the large street of Berlin called Under den Linden, and near the place where Hoedel and Nobiling have since attempted the life of Emperor William, he suddenly I heard a shot fired close behind him. Ho turned sharply rouud and saw a young I man who, with a smoking revolver, was aiming at him. He strode at once up I to the man and seized the arm that held I the revolver, while with his other hand j he grasped the throat of the would-be j murderer, who had had time to pass his weapon on to his left hand, and now fired three shots in quick suscession. Bismarck felt himself hurt in his shoulder and in one of his libs ; but he held his furious assailant fast till some soldiers came up and took hold of him. Then Bismarck walked home at a brisk pace and reached his own house long before anybody there could know what had happened. The countess kad some friends with her when her husband entered the drawing-room. He greeted all in a friendly manner, and begged to be excused for a few minutes, as he had some urgent business to attend to. He then walked into the next room where his desk stood, and wrote to inform the king of the accident. Having attended to this duty, he returned to the drawing-room and made one of his littin nfamlinir iokes. icrnorinsr his own un punctuality, anil saying to his wife: "Weill are we to have no dinner today ? Yon always keep me waiting." He eat down and partook heartily of the dishes spread before him, ami it was only when the dinner was over that he walked up to the countess, kissed her on the forehead, wishfd her in the old German way, " Gcsr.gnctc Mahlzeit (May your meal be Weaned!) and then added: " You see I am quite well." She looked up at him. "Well," he continued, "you must not be anxious, my child. Somebody has fired at me; but it is nothing, as you nee."?Blackwood $ Mayazlnt.