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v . - . . .... . . ... . -T ABBEVILLE PRESS & PANInER . m ' ? 1 BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, Si JANUARY I, 1879. NO. 16. VOLUME XXV. The Evening Time. Together we walked in the evening time, Above us the skv spread golden aud clear, And he bent his head and looked in my eyes, As if he held me of all most dear, Grayer the light grew and grayer still. The rooks flitted home throngh the purple shade The nightingales 6ang where the thorns stood I high, As I walked with him iu the woodland glade. And onr pathway went through fields of wheat; Narrow that oath aud rough the way, o naor on/1 tViA Kir/la uonrr frnn And the BtarH came out in the twilight gray. | 8oftlv he spoke of the days long past, Softly of blessed days to be; Close to his arm and closer I prest? The cornfield path was Eden to me. And the latest gleams of daylight died; My hand in his enfolded lay ; We swept the dew from tbo wheat as we passed. For narrow and narrower wound the way. ! lie looked in the dopths of my eyes and said: "Sorrow and gladness will come for us, sweet; 1 Bnt together we'll walk through the fields of lifo Close as we walked through the fields of j wheat." _ "in U Wiod that Blows Hobofly Good." i j With the exception of Mr. Bruce, who, j with an interest in the Ice Company, was j going out to India, aocompimied by his 1 wife and two children?with the exception of this family, Miss Serena Selden, and Mr. Anson Surrey, there were no other passengers on board the Fairy, bound for India and Japan. Indeed, Mr. Shrrey had 110 idea that they numbered so many souls, and was quite stunned one morning, when they had ocen some : weeks at sen, at the sight of n real live j youug lady sitting on deck, crocheting , and'Miking with Mrs. Bruce as if she , had not rained down over night. "Where in the deuce did that.heaven- j ly creature come from, Bruce ?" said he, j tossing his cigarette away. " Have the j skies fallen that we catch larks ?" "That is our friend Miss Selden," re- | turned Mr. Bruce. " She has been too j ill to leave her fferth, before since we | started?Tom and Amy's governess. Let j me iurroduce you, Surrey; it's a pity not j to embrace all the advantages of travel. | We're a small family on board. We j really ought to know each other; it's a j duty we owe society;" and Mr. Surrey I was immediately presented in due form. " I could hardly believe my eyes, Miss ! Sel'lcn, when I saw that we had another passenger just now," said Mr. Surrey. " It is a most agreeable surprise, I assure you." "Thanks," she returned. "I hope | you will have no occasion to change your \ mind. They tell me that long voyages j are very trying, and betray one's natural j infirmities of disposition. We shall ! probablyYliscover all of eaclfotlier's weak j points." " Mine are at your service, if they will amuse you," laughed Mr. Surrey, not at all certain that he had any. " You are really too generous. Don't expect to hold out so good-naturedly. We are all pretty sure to quarrel and i hate each other before the voyage is ! ended, you know. Doubtless, Mrs. j Bruce and I would be at swords'-points | I this minute, if my illness hadn't post- j poned the entertainment." " When my lesson's done, Miss Sel- j den, will you play cat's cradle with me, j r?1oncn 9" intomirkfrvl littlo Amv " Tt.'si such a long day." "Yon son tlio demoralizing cflecta | of travel already, Mr. Surrey," she : Bftid. " Yes, Amy, imytliing to pi-ss the time." "Well, it's done'now, this minute. Three turns two in six, three turns three j is nine," rattling off her table in a breath. ] " Have you got a string ?" Miss Selden j off? d the ribbon on her fan. "Thatlll do splendid. We won't leave Mr. Surrey out, will we? He might feel mis'ble," suggested Amy. " You might pass the compliment to j him." j " O h, I don't like to do that." " And why not?" "'Cause I heard mamma tell papa not to give her such things?before peoples." "Compliment.K !" laughed both listeners; and by the time that Amy had wearied of " cat's-cradle," they were established on easy terms of conversation,and had found mutual acquaintances to discuss. "How narrow the world is, to b?> oiii>a I*' coi/1 ftnronn " Tf unnmo or) r?? LI that yon, ft total stranger yesterday, should know some of ray friends, perhaps even better than I do." " We were, speaking of Professor Lombard. I believe his nephew, Ned, is in India somewhere; perhaps you will meet him out there." "Who knows?" murmured Miss Selden,struggling with a knot in her thread, | and smiling to herself. _ " Have you ever j seen him?" ' We weie classmates at Yale. Wei played many a foolish prank together, i He used to swear that lie should die a ' bachelor, in those days." ''Like Benedick, because he didn't j expect to live to get married. Tell me ; about your ' foolish pranks' at Yale j and as everybody is aware that these | stories have a family resemblance to ! those of Scherezade, one being only 'the j sequel to another, it was luncheon-time j long before Mr. Suorey had finished the recital. On shipboard one generally grows into a closer acquaintanceship in a briefer season than would happen elsewhere. A handful of people drifting about together, cut off from com muni- j cation with the rest of Christendom, con- I tract the habit of relying on each other for comfort and entertainment, and become more intimate with each other's resources than would happen on terra firma. Thus Mr. Surrey came to know a great deal about Miss Selden's thoughts and habits of mind, the sentiments she expressed, the opinions she formed of men aud things, and he took a great deal for granted. In the mean- j time they spent their lei ure hours talk-1 ing about everything, from Utopian , plans for the amelioration of the present, / ./ vrwlifinn fVio nnnr fn tVinoripft fnn. cerning a future existence and the inhabitants of the farthest planet. Mr. Surrey read aloud during long afternoons, a?d chatted in under tones during long twilights, or sang her little love songs full of tender sentiment and regret, while they watched the shining wake of the ship. Sometimes they spoke a homeward-bound ship, and felt; as if the strange ship's crew and passengers were dear friends whom they | would like to hug; sometimes a storm crept upon them Like a painted Pawnee, ana shook every stout cable like a ribbox, &nd again they swung in latitudes of calm, and watched strange fish dart likesun beams throngh the sea; ami (luring these seasons Mr. Surrey aud Mist Seldon must have grown either desperately interested unawares?seasons dur iug which the flight of a sea-bird, tli< plunging of some restless sea-monster, the floating fragments ot some wreci;, was au episode and an excitement. "Dear me!" yawned Mrs. Bruce " even a water-spoilt or a tornado would be a welcome change. This is uttei stagnation, isn't it, Mr. Surrey ?" " Do you find it so, Miss Seidell?" he asked, relegating his reply to that young lady. "Would you welcome the seaserpent, or a piratical crew swooping down upon us from no matter where ?" "I?I?shall be very glnd when wc reach Calcutta," said Serena. "In the mean while I am not unhappy.'' " I don't believe we shall ever reach Calcutta," groaned Mrs. Bruce. "I think we are just like the pliautom ship which sails ou and on for ever and ever." "I, for one, shouldn't object, ' said Surrey, lightly. '' Certainly not. You are going round the world pour parser fc tcmpx. Heavens ! I can't understood any one choosing this everlasting voyage of his own his will for pleasure. It's a perfect marvel to me that Serena consented to come." "And perfect godsend to me," interpolated Surrey. " Some other people ought to think. But I wonder you're not mot e impatient to reach Calcutta, Serena; I do indeed." " All impatience in the world wouldn't carry me there a day earlier." " Well, I wasn't so philosophic at your age," as if that were a feather in her cap of peculiar luster; and taking up her novel: "Here's a goose of a heroine who doesn't know which of her two lovers she prefers. I would like to set her adrift with them on a voyage like this." " And the consequence would be that she would hate both, yon think ?" asked Mr. Surrey. The following twilight Miss Selden aud Mr. Surrey were pacing the deck together and he was opening his heart to her?a sanctuary always pretty securely closed to most people?telling her of his boyhood and his travels, his flirtation and his lirst hobbledehoy lovemaking. "And where will you go after you have done up Japan ?"' she asked; " and after you have made the world's tour, will you not long for more world's like Alexander?" " After all, I may not go to Japan," he began, drawing a camp-stool beside the deck chair she had just taken. " I ?it depends?it depends a great deal upon?yourself, Miss Serena," lie said, boldly, aud leaning forward to look into her eyes. "Upon me, Mr. Surrey?" repeated Serena. "How can I possibly have anything to do with it?" " It all depends upon?upon?whether you could consent to love me, Miss Serena, as I have learned to love you ?" "Love you, Mr. Surrey?" rising and withdrawing the hand he had taken in his own, while the light that broke in upon the proceedings of the last few months, showed her no fluttering picture of herself in the attitude of a flirt. "Love you? Oh, Mr. Surrey, don't you know ? Has Mr. Bruce never told you ? Don't you know that I am going out to Calcutta to be married ?" " To be married ?" repeated Mr. Surrey, in a stifled voice?" to be married? I give you my word, Miss Selden, that I never dreamed of such a thing. Perhaps it would have been well to have mentioned it yourself. I supposed you were Mrs. Bruee's governess?Mr. Bnice did tell me as much as that. I bog you will pardon my confession, and forget it. Shall I take yi>'*\to Mrs. Bruce?" 0 "Yes, thank you. I ought to have mentioned it; only I thought you knew, or it wouldn't signify to you," said Serena, humbly. " You will pardon me for taking so much for granted. I never meditated mischief, believe me. I was Mrs. Brace's governess before?before my?engagement, or till I decided to take this journey. "Good-night." Then, hesitating, and offering the hand she had withdrawn: " We are friends still, Mr. Surrey?" timidly. '4 Only friends the merest keep much that I resign," iic quoted. " I don't feel disposed to verify your prediction that we should be sure to quarrel before the voyage ended, though it might prove a diversion. Pleasant dreams, Miss Seidell." In a community so small, imprisoned in space so limited, two people could scarcely avoid each other without remark, especially two who had been almost inseparable the day before; therefore, by tacit consent, they fell into the same apparent intercourse in the presence of others. To be sure, embarrassments aiul anuoyancos waylaid them; but people who will full in love, or inspire tl? tender passion mul a propoxt must suffer the conseauences. There were not as mauy trie a-tctc as previously ; or if unavoidable circumstances threw the two together, there followed oppressive silence, or conversations upon every topic but that which occupied their thoughts. They 110 longer killed the lagging hours with chess, or read from the same page. For want of other recreation, Mr. Surrey unearthed his Cremona, and drew melancholy, beseeching airs from it which made Serena shiver. "It is like the song in a sea-shell," she said. "Why will you play those dolorous minor chords ? They remind me of nothing but desolation." Mr. Surrey put his violin away. "Have you and Miss Selden been cross with each other?" asked Amy, one day, climbing jipon his knee, after seeing them sit silent for half an hour, looking out on the sea, or anywhere but at each other?" have you and Miss Selden been cross with each other ? Then why don't you kiss and make up, like the way Tom and me does ?" "Perhaps Miss Selden and I don't wnnf. in miikA 1m " said Surrev. amused in spite of himself " Oh, Tom and me always does. The Sunday book says love your enemies ?you know it does." Miss Seluen awoke that night with a dreadful sound in her ears. Was Mr. Surrey consoling himself with those dirge-like airs at dead of night, or was it the shout of angry waves besieging the ship, the sound of voices hall drowned by the blast, of winds chorusing in the rigging, of feet hurrying from stem to stern ? Had they been boarded by pirates, struck a reef, or spruDg fi leak ? She dressed hastily and opened her state-room door. Mrs. Bruce wat already up, wringing her hands and pacing the saloon. " I always said so; I /:uen< we should go to the bottom sooner or later," slit cried. "Oh, Sereuu, you'll never see Calcutta, nor any body! And there's all your troasseau '11 never do any one any good?and that splendid peacock silt I j that was so becoming?and to think h< i' never see yon in it?and I going frc Dan to Beersheba to match the tri j mings!" i I "Are?we?going?down?" asked ? , rena, steadying herself and her voi ? with an effort. " Any minute, for all I know. I cn: ; | find out exactly what's happened, bu I know the Fairy has become unmanaf :! able, and she's drifting about at her 01 i sweet will. We might as well have a < > j at the helm. The three men who we : to sea in a bowl aren't a circumstance , us. They've cut away heaven kno , what, and there was a noise like the era I of doom iust now. which must have be ! 1 a inast." (i "Where?is?Mr. Surrey?" j ."I don't know. Swept overboard, f t ' all I can Bay. Mr. Bruce would have i . ; lowed me to go to the bottom in r 11 sleep, I do believe. He never so mn : as called me. Well, Mr. Surrey," as th i | gentleman appeared, "this ix a nice sit ! ation for Mr. Bruce to drag his innoce . ' family into, isn't it? Don't mind ir | Comfort Serena, if you can. If ho w] j has promised to love and cherish leav ' me at such a crisis, what can I expect ' a stranger ? Will the ship hold togeth till sunrise, do you think ?" " I've no doubt of it," he auswere 1 crossing Serena. At that instant the j was a sound as if the heavens themselv j rolled together like a scroll; the sh quivered at every fibre, and seemed crack at every beam. Mrs. Bruce tlire j up her arms and uttered a prolonged cr ! " I think we have struck," said Mr. Sn I rev, solemnly. " I'm afraid our days a ' numbered. Miss Selden?Serena?hatli we better take Amy's advice and mal I up? If I may not live in the light t your countenance, you will not deny e i the privilege of dying with you ?" For an instant it seemed to him th j her figure swayed toward him, that si I trembled and half turned to him, wi i an unwonted softness in her gaze, ai ' flinn alio W>1 <1rftwn* liPVKfilf III) DrOlldl j and had left him with outstretch) : arms, alone. It proved that thoy had collidi I with a merchantman, bound homewai ; from India with a cargo of juto ar guuny-bags; but while the Fairy w, ' found to be in u sinking condition, tl | Comet, being a heavier .vessel, had su l taiued but slight injuries, and was e I at?led to put about to the rescue of ere ! and passengers. It war a ghastly scei tlint followed, 'photographed iudelib upon Miss Seidell's memory; the aw struck faces of the rough men who we: gashing little Amy upon Mr. Surrej shoulders; the ineffectual flare of ligh against the twilight of dawn ; the boi iug sea which tore the life-boat ini chips; the slippery cable across whk she toiled to the Comet's side, hand ov< hand, now suspended above some deatl ly ocean chasm,-now almost shrouded i the spray of its angry waves. "I shut my eyes tight," said Anv afterward, "and hugged Mr. Surre; It was awful dark and lonesome. Ha^ we got to do it again? Do we alwa; stop that way ?" "Heaven save us!" ejaculated Mi Seldeu. "I don't believe but I slioul | slip into the sea and have doi^e with i i if it were to do over;" and she learn ; back indolently in her seat under tl j canopy which Surrey had improvisei being on deck for the first time aft days of illness, the reaction from excit meut. "What are you reading M Surrev ? I really begin to be persuad( : that I am still a denizeii of this breatl i ing world, and to take an interest in n I species." ! "I am reading the Calcutta Daii | and it's like a newspaper issued the dr ; before the flood. It tells us things v didn't know, to be sure, but which a: old stories at the same time." " We are finding a new road to the Ii dies, like Yasco de Gama, only it isn't short cut. What is there new in Calcn I ta, or rather what is there old ?" i "I see that my old classmate, N( I Lombard, has forsworn himself and ma | ried?a Begum princess, for all I kno^ | That won't interest you, though. Here j an interesting account of the receptk of the Prince of Wales, and? Are y< i faint, Miss Seidell? Shall I take you b 1 low?" " I must sec the Calcutta J)ai/,i/ firs | please;" but the letters all swam befo: J her eyes. "Who did you say was ma , ried ? Your old classmate ? Who ?" " Only Ned Lombard. You knew him, didn't you ?" "Married! Ned Lombard marriei I Yes?I?knew?him. If you could gr me your arm, Mr. Surrey; the ship I pitchiug badly, is it not ? I was goir to Calcutta, you know, to marry?M ! Lombard. I suppose he ha? treated 11 very badly, but I can't feel as sorry as j ought. 1 may as well tell you, Mr. Su ! rev, that it is six years since I saw hi ! ?out of sight?out of mind?and ' tin ! say that absence conquers love.' Thai j some excuse for him, if not for me. Im gine me sailing into Calcutta and findii Mrs. Lombard iu possessirL ! Wouldu it have been awkward?" and she tried i laugh, and broke down. "I'm sure j don't know why I should cry, only j isn't so pleasant to be jilted, even ifHowever, would you ask Mrs. Bruce come here ? I must let her know that shall bid you all good-by when you lea' j the Comet, and keep on to New York, suppose she will consider it horribly ii proper without a chaperon; but wh else can I do ?" "There's the Eev. Mr. Hymen < board, the missionary from Upper Indi j though he has hardly been out of li berth," mused Mr. Surrey. "Yes; Mr. Bruce might intrust mo ! his ghostly care; but he's so bilion j looking, it wouldn't be cheerful." "I think, Miss Serena, since you a my advice, the best thing for you to < ; would be to marry your humble servai Anson Surrey, before the Bruces lea us." "Here? Oh, Mr. Surrey, you tn me by surprise ! Married and jilted tl same day ! To be sure, tho Rev. ft] Hymen could read the service, if lie yellow and jaundiced. And you real nip 9 Do von know, it was on when you proposed to me on board t | Fairy that I discovered I was going | Calcutta to marry a man I didn't lot 1 What will Mrs. Brace say ? What w every body say ?" " They will say, 'It's an ill wind til I)lows nobody good,'" answered h * lover.?Harper'x Jiazar. ;i i s l i It is predicted that within fifty yeai 1 n district of 100 miles square, includii ; the comities of Athens, Peny, ai [ Hocking, in Ohio, will equal in produ< i iveness any coal regiou in the worl i This section has twenty-two feet of sol : coal in live seams, the greatest vc ! j being in some places twelve feet thic I and nowhere less than six. Mingl '' among the coal bedB are inexhaurtit ; o iee of iron. 3*11 [ Thoughts for Saturday Night, )m j The sure way to miss success is m* j mif-s ihe opportunity. je_ j Philosophy, if rightly defined, ico I naught but the love of windoni. | Hypocrites are beings of darkness d n't! guised in the garment of light. 11 i He that keeps his temper is betl je-1 than he that can keep a carriage. i Though fnncy may be the patien :a? | complaint, necessity is often the doctx to ; He who will not reason is a big* : he who cannot is a fool, and he w k dares not is a slave. eu If all the year were playing* holiday to sport would be as tedious as to wor. but when they seldom come, they a or ! wished for. il- Vanity is our clearest weakness, uy more senses than ono : a man will sac ch fice, and starve out all his inclinations iat keep alive that one. u" There is nothing evil in life for hi who rightly comphrebends that death |e* no evil ; to know how to die delivers '10 from all subjection and constraint. Cp Likfc many virtues, hospitality ? practiced in its perfection by the poc r If the rich did their share, how wou ^ the woes of this world be lightened ! re We die every day ; every moment d es prives us of a portion of life and adva jp ces us a step toward the grave; o to whole life is a long and painful sicknef >w Death opens the gate of fame, a: y. shuts the gate of envy after it; it u ir- looses the chain of the captive, and pn re the bondsmnn's task into another mai l't hand. ke Many an honest man practices upi of himself an amount of deceit sufficient, tie practiced upon another, and in a litt different way, to send him to the Sta at prison. 10 By what strange law of mind is th that an idea long overlooked and tro den under foot as a useless-stone, su denly sparkled out in new light, as 2(1 discovered diamond ? "Death alone of the gods loves n 5'-' gifts, nor do you need to offnr incen r,l libations. He cares not for altar n u* hymn ; the goddess of persuasion aloi ftS lias no power over him. Persons who practice deceit and ari fice always deceive themselves mo " than they deceive others. They mi \ feel great complacency in view of tl ? success of their doings ; but they are ^ reality casting a mist before their ov nroo Qnstli nor arm a nnf. mile ,, | false estimate of tlieir own charactc ^ but they estimate falsely the opinio! j_ nml conduct of others. No person j. ~ obliged to toll all he thinks ; but bo I duty and self-interest forbid him ever makewfalse pretences. ;l" Capt. CrajKi's Voyage. ! Tiie New Bedford (Mass.) Mcrcw y publishes a letter from Capt. Crapo ai ' some extracts from u little volume whi< ,q has been published in Eugland,in whi< ,,8 the captain " spins his yarn," giving d tails of his experience in crossing tl 3S Atlantic in a twenty-foot boat. He sa; jj he has crossed the "big drink " twent ^ ouc times, that he is not a captain e >(j cept of the New Bedford, never havii je risen above first mate. He undertoc j this last venture from a desire to ouU everything previously recorded in tl e_ way of crossing the ocean in a sms boat. Hiu wife accompanied him becau ; j she could not consent to his going alon jj_ The passage was a good deal rough ,y than he had anticipated; it was like bad winter passage, and had they n t succeeded in getting from passing vesse fresh meat, bread and water, their fa ? would have been sealed before th< reached England, though they had tak< rc u supply of corned meats, fish and fru calculated to last through, even if mo a~ than ordinarily delayed. The only e tt citement experienced was when, 011 tv or three occasions, they found ther selves in a school of whales, who spouting and blustering frightened Mr r" Crapo. In rough weather, sometim T- for two or three days at a time, th< 18 would lie to, attached to a drag or buo )u and on these occasions the captain g )U most rest, for when favorable winds pr e* vailed he dared not leave the helm for moment. In fine weather he never to< t, moro thau four hours' rest a day. On re he kept at his post seventy hours coi r-1 secutively without rest. His wife hi scarcely a good night's rest during tl of -whole voyage, which occupied forty-ni] days. They spoke a dozen vessels ai L! steam ships, and were kindly treated \ re all. Once the rudder of the boat w is twisted off, but an extra one was at han )8 His wife has now crossed the ocean foi r. times, but will never do the journi 10 again in so small a craft, nor would tl I captain, for he declares the task a gre r- deal rougher than he looked for. Tl m boat is schooner-rigged, with two mae jy carrying leg-of-mutton sails. She drai ;'s only three feet of water; her keel a- thirteen feet; her total length is bare 10 ftvonfv fppf* )if?r tonnatrft is 1.62. and si -o V,,V"V *vvw> o * 11 is thirty-four inches deep. to - I A Tennesscean's Bad Bargain. ^ Last Thursday morning a raffle w ~~ made up by some of the citizens of Pai for a box of five hundred cigars. The * were twenty-five chances at one dollar p? chance. The plan was that known the shot-gun plan, in which each mi n" taking a chance puts his mark on t-1 ft^ blaak paper surrounding a target. T1 target is placed on a pivot and whirle )U and while thus whirling is fired at wi a gun loaded with small shot. The mi 118 whose mark comes nearest being h takes the prize. In this case Geori to Leflis took a chance, but would, not p is- I down his mark until all the other mar had been placed around the target. I sk then went to each of the rafflers ai lo said: "You and I have each got it, | chance in this cigar raffle ; let us go ve ' cahoot/?if you get them divide wi | me, and' if I get them I'll divide wi ke j you." This arrangement he made wi ie j eighteen of the chance holders, tellii It. j each to Keep uieir pariueruuip u own is To prevent, any possibility, as ] ly thought, of winning the cigars himse ly lie made His mark as far from the targ ho as the paper would allow. He then f< to sure of half the cigars, and already, p. imagination, was puffing the fragra ill weed, and laughing iii his sleeve ov the sharp trick and excellent joke he hi at played the "other boys." But, ala er the joke was soon turned, and visions a cob pipe floated before his astonish eyes. "The gun was fired, and a str shot knocked the center out of Georg< s, mark. Eighteen men stepped up ai ug said: " I'll take my half now." Let nd thus found himself booked for S3 ;t- worth of cigars. Ho compromised, ho Id. ever, after somo wrangling, by dividii lid | the cigars equally among his partner. I r? fir? \ in i arm [jziui.j iww(yti(u?r ;k, ? ed Two million acres of cultivated lai ile hardly auffloe to produce the grain co 8umed in New York breweries yearly. WONDERFUL RAILROADING./ to i i How One Train Punned Another on a Single Track on the Union Pacific. *s I The Beloit (Wis.) Free Press says that | Dr. H. P. Strong, brother of the general is-1 superintendent of the Chicago, Barlington and Quincy railroad, who has re;er cently returned from Colorado, tells the I following exciting story: t>s ' Last Saturday our train was running jr> from Denver to Cheyenne, to connect with the Union Pacifici at Cheyenne. , ' When within 18 miles of Cheyenne and 1 about thirty-five miles of Greeley, and wxiixc x uuuiu^ ib icu-mac giuuc, uuu 'fi? of the axles of the tender breke, and the k ? whole train, with the exception of our ire car, was thrown from the track and badly jammed up.- The assistant superintendent in i of the road happened to be on board, ri- and, as we surveyed the ruins, he told us to that there was no engine at Cheyenne that could be sent to our assistance, and im we must look to Greeley, and that we j8 were probably booked for an eighteen U0 mile walk to Cheyenne, where we would have to remain over Sunday. While thinking of our hard luck, I happened to look back over the road, i(i and observed that we had been running 1 ( on an up grade for a long distance, and at tbe same time I remembered that ^e" about fifteen minutes before we had n" jumped the track we met a train on a nr side track going to Denver. A thought !Si struck me that there was a way out of ad our dilemma. I turned to the engineer n- and asked him if there was any up grade its toward Greeley. He said that there was i's only one?a heavy one, about eight miles back. After that it was all down grade, an I called for crowbars instantly, and two if or three train men ran out thirty or forty le rods on to the prairie and dug up the to bars. You see, the railroad company have coupling irons, crowbars and such it things "cached " in the ground all alorg d- the road, so as to have them ready for d- use at any time. They have to keep il 41 (V tliClU UUUCl LUC UCIUUBC IJLLU U1X is sorarifie'd that iron and all the coarser 0(. metalB, wliei exposed to its action, very 8e soon : lose their density, the particles or separating and the metal becoming like so much sand, -without strength, and perfectly worthless. While the boys . were after the crowbars, I explained to our party that I believed we could pry re our car loose from the coupling with the train, and having a down grade, we !e could catch the train we hnd met. We m soon had the car uncoupled with the m aid of crowbars, and a dozen or more of a us started on the car. She glided along ir? faster and faster, gathering speed every "?8 second. j1,8 Not only familiar with the grades, the J only fear I bad was that our car would not gain sufficient momentum to overcome the up grade, though, of course, I hoped it would. We very soon Btruck it, and I assure you I watched the pro y gress of the car with a good deal of inid terest. And it just made it and that was ?h all. We jumped off and pushed her a 3h little, find down we started on a twentye five mile down grade. I looked ahead ie and several miles off could easily see the 78 ti ain wc wero after, but it was almost y- instantly shut out from sight by our x- suddenly running into a dense mass of )g flying gasshoppers, evidently seeking to >k alight on the ground. Wo had all been lo standing on the platfoj m to this time, ie but when we met those grasshoppers we ill were driven into the car, as they struck sc our faces with the force of hailstonen. e. Looking through the windows we could er see nothing but grasshoppers, so thick a were they, and only now and then could nt we get a glimpse of the ground even. 'is After ft minute or two I became a little te anxious, as I knew we were going very 3J fust, and, ns I liml engineered the brake, ?n I started up from my seat, and tyiDg a lit heavy handkerchief about my face, went re out to the platform and seized the brake, x- For a minute it wasn't clear in my mind ro whether I could hold out against the Q- pelting of the 'hoppers or not, but sudse denly, when I was about whipped, our s. car emerged from the swarm, and as es soon as I realized it I tore the haudkersy chief from my face and looked out for y, the train, with my hands on the brake; ot ready to avoid running into it. I felt o- queer, when, in looking, I couldn't see a that train, and when I took ene look Jk around ftnd sftw that our car was running ce on bare ground, with the track about a* twenty-five rods off to my left, I tell you "1 the cold shivers ran up aud down my 10 back to a considerable extent. If a man 2e ever put " down brakes," it was mi. I >d laid right back and tightened that brake >y wheel three more cogs than had ever &s been done bj? the stoutest man on the d. road. She stopped, aud as I opened lir the car door to call out the crowd, I sy heard an engine whistle "down brakes." lie I jumped off to the ground, and, looking at backward toward the Bound, saw that ae flnm'ne slowimz un behind us on the 0 U -1 'te track. y8 I hadn't a word to say. I began to is think that I would like to get out of that ly country right away, and be tucked up in h? ray little bed at home uutil I got well. The other fellows were soon jumping out on the ground, and they were astonished as I was. We started for the train, us which had now coine to a standstill, the is conductor shouting afi we came up: re "Well, boys, you did that pretty well." a Says I: " See here, mister, we're as strangers in this country, and though ra we've had some experience in the East, lie we'll be blamed if we know what you lie mean when you say we did that pretty d, well." " Why, taking your car past us, th of course. We were afraid some green!m horn was managing your car when we lit saw it coming down the grade, before ge the 'hoppers struck us. We knew, liowut ever, we were leaving you a 'hopper bed ks to do the trick on." Well, to come to le the point, the train ahead of us had id mashed so many dead 'hoppers on to the a road bed that it was filled up full, even in with the rails, so that when our "car got th along it slid right off the rails, and the th ground was so hard and even that it ran th close on to four miles before I put on ig the brakes and stopped her, and while it. she was running those four miles wo lie passed the train we were trying to overlf. take, the dense mass of flying 'hoppers ;et preventing us from seeing it as we ;lt went by. in In conversation with the conductor nt afterward I learned that it was quite a er trick of the engineers on the Union ad Pacific road to pass another train. They s ! will pull their trains off the track, go by of j undiscovered by reason of the density yf ed t the 'hoppers, pull back on to the track, ay | nnd when the passed train fetches up at j's th? next station its engineer has to "set ad 'em up " for all hands. As it is supper lis time, and to get down to results, we got 00 our car back on the track, hitched a w-1 'hopper plow 011 to the rear car, and the :ig j engine and train backed up to the wreck, : J rum v lliuu wo nau ut cu ^uac J uou xiujuj teen minutes, in which time we had trav! eled eighteen miles twice. ad n-1 Ten thousand glass eyes are sold anI nually in the United States. LARGE VS. SMALL CITIES. The Enorutouft Gro%vth of Municipal Inricbt* ertiiona? Some Saiffcmive FiKurc*. Mr. Robert P. Porter, of Rockford, ! El., in an article in the September Oal! axy, makes a rather forcible comparison 1 of the management of large anil small j cities. To present the sad defects in our management of municipal affairs in densely populated cities, he selected twelve of the largest cities on the continent, and shows their debt, valuation, tax levy, and population now and in 1866. The cities taken were New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Baltimore, San Francisco, New Orleans, Brooklyn, Louisville and Pittsburgh. The aggregates of the four elements in these cities are as follows : 1876 1866 Municipal debt....* 436,008,119 $152,055,877 Assessed valuation of the property. .4,008,580,081 2,300,842,000 Annual taxation... 79,153,777 42,523,574 . Population 5,043,618 2,671,554 The writer then takes twelve cities of medium size, and presumably governed by those who pay tho taxes. Iu such communities the proportion of the pro prictors to the whole is larger than in the twelve cities given above. In the twelve smaller cities the reckless and vicious part of the community is small,. and incapable of being* organized and led by unscrupulous men. That these conditions diminish the daugers of abuses in the management of municipal expendtures seems proven by a comparison of the following table of aggregates with the one above given. The cities taken for the second comparison were Alleghany, Columbus, Chelsea, Davenport, Fort Wayne, New Haven, Patereon, St. Paul, Taunton, Troy, Utica and Burlington, with the following aggregate results: 18fi6 1876 Municipal dobt $ 11,685,060 $ 5, WW, 248 Assessed value of the property 278,873,913 12G,230,714 Annual taxation.... 3,431,227 1,645,082 Population 441,121 308,861 In the first table, representing the dozen large cities, we find debt increasing at the enormous rate of 187 per cent, in ten years ; in the serond table, representing the twelve smaller cities, the rate of increase is nearly 90 per cent, less, or 98 per cent. In the largo cities valuation increased but 74 per cent.; in the smaller, 121 per cent. Of course the rate of increase in population was higher. in large cities tne amount or debt per capita of the population is $86.50, and yet it must be remembered the praportion .of the proprietors or taxpayers to the whole population is much greater in the small than in the large cities. Below we give a table showing a summary of these comparisons : Small ('ilie* iAirgr. ritin percent, per r en/. Aggregate increase of debt in ten years 98 187 Aggregate increase of valuation iu ten years 121 74 Aggregate increase of taxation in ten years 108 8G Aggregate increase of population in ten years 42 8& i Amount debt per capita ?26.50 $80,50 From this it seems that the great danger aud disgrace in the management of municipal matters is confined to our large aud densely populated cities, the facts and figures presented certainly indicating that such is the case. Horrors of the Eastern War. The London Times war correspondent in Armenia writes: I have received j fresh details concerning the lamentable ! occurrences at Bajazid, and -as they come from an official source, I am justified in claiming some attention for them. Aft? deliberately murdering a detachment of 900 Cossacks, the Kurds under their fanatical leaders, entered Bajazid. The scene that ensued was one of unparalleled horror. The town contained one hundred and sixty-five Christian familes, and all of the men? women and children were ruthlessly I put to the sword. A Turkish officer j who visited the town a few days subsequently states that there was not a single inhabitant left; all liad fled, and, including Russian prisoners, upward of 2,400 people had been killed. In every house ho entered small groups of dead were lying shockingly mutilated and in the most revolting positions. Captain M'Oalmont, who visited the place shortly after the Russian relief, states that it is entirely deserted and a mere heap of ruins ; also, that soldiers I wer?TemployeU lor six miys in uuryiug the dead, the number of whom it was impossible to estimate. On hearing of this massacre Mukhtar Pasha at once scut down orders to have the Kurds disbanded and disarmed, and their ringleaders shot. They, however, anticipated the first of these instructioLS by I throwing down their arms and deserting cn masse on the approach of TergukassofTs column. Safe in their mountaiu fastnesses, these miscreants will defy the commander-in-chief's orders, and unless Europe sternly demands their execution, and deputes officials to | sec the sentences carried into effect I they will escape. Legend of the Jasmine. We are told that a dukj of Tuscany was the first possessor of this pretty shrub in Europe; and he was so jealously fearful lest others should enjoy what he alone wished to possess, that strict injunctions wore given to his gardener not to give a slip,not so much as a single +/-> miT ruirnrvn Tn this command : the gardener would have been faithful, i had not love wounded him by the : sparkling eye of a fair but portionless j peasant, whose want of a little dowry, j and his poverty, alone kept them from I the liyjnenial altar. On the birthday of j his mistress he presented her with a I nosegay, and to render the bouquet more acceptable, ornamented it with a branch i of jasmine. The jwvcra jlglia, wishing | to preserve the bloom of this new flower, put it into fresh earth, and the branch i remained green all the year. In the following spring it grew, and was j covered with flowers. It flourished and j multiplied so much under the fair ! nymph's cultivation, that she was able to amass a little fortune from the sale of the precious gift which love had made her; when, with a sprig of jasmine in her breast, she bestowed her hand and wealth on the happy gardener of her heart. And the Tuscan girls, to this day, preserve the remembrance of this adventure, by invariably wearing a nosegay of jasmine on their wedding day; and they have a proverb which says a young girl worthy of wearing this nosei gay is rich enough to make the fortune of a good husband. Texts from the Talmud.?If thy wife be small, bend clown to her, ami speak to her; do nothing without hor advice. Everything in' life can be replaced; thy wife of early days is irreplaceable. An honorable man honors his wife; a contemptible one despisetli her. The loss of a first wife is like the loss of a man's sanotuary in hiB lifetime. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Celery Culture. Tlic soil on which celery is designed to be grown should be such as is not subject to drought, in common seasons. The seed-bed should be rich and mellow, free from stones, sticks or like obstructions; and specially prepared by thorough, deep pulverizing of the soil, and mixing therewith well fined, partly I decayed stable manure ; that which hns been prepared and kept under cover is best. Fine the surface soil thoroughly, 1-- ? ? <1 asviir muiilllfj lit VVVU UUU Blliuubu , nun viiv/ seed thinly in rows, eight or ten inches apart; make the beds of convenient width to weed handy. After the seed is sown, roll the bed with a garden-roll, or spat it over to have a compact surface. Seed sown in the open ground in April is early enough for early garden culture. Give all the after cultivation necessary to keep perfectly clear of weeds, stirring the soil to keep the plants healthy and growing. "We have found that much stronger roots are produced if the plants are sheared or stopped, once or twice previous to transplaming. The ground for transplanting into should be rich, freshly prepared, and well worked. Lay off in rows three feet apart for the dwarf varieties, somewhat wider for the larger kinds, having the surface ns even as possible ; a convenient marker does this to best advantage, and set plants six inches apart in the row. Much depends upon the care and skill used in transplanting, to have it done well, so that the roots are properly inserted, tne soil being put in contact with them all, and properly firmed, so that there will be the least possible check of growth of the plauts, Moist or damp weather is the most suitable for transplanting, and July the best time for general garden culture ; often that planted early in July will mature quite as early as that planted a mouth earlier, give sufficient cultivation to keep the soil loose, free of weeds, and a healthy progressive xu At?? i. i.1.^ A gruwiij. AUUUb LUC JUOb Ui AUIjUOU LUC plants will have made sufficient growth to begin to earth up?this earthing is necessary for the proper bianchirig and rendering it eatable ; be careful in earthing to close the stem up so that no dirt will get into the center, and never cover the crown. Earthing is done some three or four times, as the plants grow, the earth from between the rows being used, hauled each way to the rows ; the last or finishing earthing, is done with the spade, banking to the top of the plants. Some three to five weeks are needed to thoroughly blanch so as to give the stems that crisp, tender quality bo desirable. Earthing should always be done when the foliage Of the plants is free of wet or moisture, that the dirt may not stick to it .?Rural IIovic. IIonnclioldNofex. Tooth Wash.?The safest, cheapest, most universally accessible and most efficient is a piece of white soap, with a moderately stiff tooth-brush, every morning. ? * ?? To Kid a House of Fleas.?Sprinkle plenty of common table salt all over the carpets just before the sweeping is done'i and sweep often: If this is followed closely the fleas will disappear within a few weeks. Inflamed Eyelids.?Cut a slice of stale bread as thin as possible; toast both sides well, but don't burn; when cold lay in cold spring or ice water; put between a piece of old linen and apply, changing when it gets warm. Simple Remedy for Burns.?Common whiting mixed with water to the consistency of a thick cream, spread on linen, forms an excellent local application to burns or scalds. The whole burnt surface should be covered, thus excluding the action of the air. The case it affords is instantaneous, and it only requires to bo kept moist by occasional sprinkling of cold water. To Take Rust Out of Steel.?Place the article in a bowl containing oil, or wrap the steel up in a soft cloth well saturated with kerosene. Let it remain i. L- t \ ? 1 s\v\ rtai* fl, an a/tnnr lwclil/j-luut liuuxo ul luu^li, wvvu4 . the rusty spots with brickdust. If badly rusted, use salt wet with hot vinegar. After scouring, rinse every particle of brick dust or salt off with boiling hot water, dry thoroughly, then polish off with a clean flannel cloth and a little sweet oil. To Wash a Black and White Cotton Dress.?Have a tub partly filled with hot water, add one large tablespoonful of powdered borax; wet only one part of the dress at a time, the basque first; use very little soap, and only on the most soiled pieces; wash quickly, rinse in warm water containing a tablespo mful of table salt; starch on the wrong side, v ring vAy dry, shake out well, and hang where it will dry quickly; next wash the overskirt and then the underskirt in the same way. To Remove Grease Spots.?In removing grease spots from clothing with benzole or turpentine, the usual way is to wet the cloth with the detergent and < *ai ii il.? i;i,? tueil rill) 11 Willi me ayouye ui nil- imc, This only spreads the grease aud does not remove it. The proper method is to place soft blotting pnper beneath and on top of the grease spot, after the latter has been thoroughly saturated with the benzole; then press wfill. The fat is thus dissolved and absorbed by the paper, and entirely removed from the clothing. I.ons in Hwlne. Investigations by the department of Agriculture, at Washington, according to Mr. Dodge, the statistician, show losses from diseases of swine during the past twelve months of 4,000,000 animals of all ages, or a money loss of more than $20,000,000. One-fith of the reported loss occurs in the State of Illinois. Next in prominence are Missouri, Iowa and Indiana, which together lose 810,000,000. Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana have nearly as large a percentage in loss of numbers, aggregating in value 81,500,000. The losses are very small in the country bordering on the great lakes and the Pacific coast. Of the remaining districts West Virginia eomes nearest exemption, and Ohio and tho Atlantic coast States stand better than the alluvial districts. The apparent loss is equivalent to a third of the sum of the exports of the pork products last year. Where an Acorn Sprouted. Out on the Indian Valley road, in Nevada, there is a pine tree, with a diameter of nearly two feet, in which is an oak limb growing which has already attained a considerable length and a diumeter of three inches. It does not seem to thrive in its strange Quarters. The theory is that an acorn by some means got lodged in the bark of the pine tree, and dust settled around it in sufficient quantities to make it sprout, and that it gradually became a part of the tree itself. To Be Dead. BY MRS. 8. M. B. PIATT. If I should have void darknesa in my eyes While there were violets in the sun to Bee; If I should fail to hear my child's sweet cries, Or any bird's voice in our threshold-tree. If I should cease to answer love or wit: Blind, deaf, or dumb, how bitter each must be! Wind, doaf, or dumb?I will not think of it Yet the night comes when I shall be all three. Items or Interest. The key by wnicn a man gew mio prison?whiskey. From observations, made in the far West, by naturalists, it has been proved that grasshoppers, like spiders, can foretell the changes in the weather and provide against the same. A New York chemist says, he wanta nothing more than three pails, a barrel of old water and twenty cents' worth of drugs to make six gallons of just such champagne as fools pay a dollar a pint for. Japan baa perfected another evidence of her adoption of Western civilization. She has established twenty national banks, with a capital of $22,276,100 yen. The yen is nearly equal to an American dollar. The eighteen thousand bombs thrown by the Russians into Ears cost them one million, live hundred thousand rubles, or about $1,096,000. Thus far they have not collected the interest on that large sum. Capt. Beaufort saw neat Smyrnn, in the East, a cloud of locusts forty miles long and three hundred yards deep, containing at least 169,000,000,000. That beats all the Kansas grasshopper stories. In England it has been proven by a series of careful examinations that coun- . try boys of fourteen years, average, an inch and a quarter more in height and ' ?~ in Yrrm'rylif thflll ueveu punjuuo muic m ?... boys of the same age. Thomas Jefferson's birthplace, Shadwell, /in Albemarle county, Ya., is advertised for sale. Martha Washington's house, in the same State, where she lived before she married George, has just been sold for $1,225. The loveliest, sweetest flower (humility) that bloomed in Paradise, and the first that died, lias rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it her'B, proves by that single thought she has it not. , If you ask a boy to break up a piece of lump coal so as to keep himself from freezing, he regards his lot as one of exceptional hardsliip ; but let him find an old torpedo lying around loose, be "will hammer at it with a stone until the perspiration stands in great drops upon hifi forehead, or an explosion lelieves him from his self-appoiutcd task. The operations of the internal revenue officers against illicit distillers in the South during the last six months have resulted as follows : Illicit stills seized, forty-one ; distillers arrested or surrendered, 1,064; officers killed, including Lieut. Mclntire, United States army, four ; officers wounded, four; citizert assisting officers killed, two ; wounded, two ; distillers killed or wounded, four. Going to School. "The cause of education be hangedI" ho muttered, as lie sat down on the curbstone on Shelby street. He was a lud of thirteen. -His pants ^ were supported by a piece of wire clothes-line girted around his waist, his I hat was imcient and greasy, and his big ' flat feet seemed to be waiting for a thunder shower to wash them clean. " That's what, ails me !" he went on, as he pushed his toes into the wet sand. "Idon't believe in a feller diffing in and learning all there is to learn, and I not letting other folks have a chance. There's lots of other folks in fhis world besides me, and I ain't going to be a hog, and try to learn all there is to learn." After a minute he went on: "Don't I know 'nuff now? Three ! times two are six, four times five are twenty, and four and four are eight. That's as correct as I could get 'em if I went to school for-a hundred years. And don't I know how to spell? C-a-t is 4 cat' the world over, and I'll bet on it every time. H-e-n spells Mien,' and 1 know it as well as if I weighed a ton." He rose up to throw a stone at a dog across the street, and after resuming his ! neat, lie went oa: " Jogerfy kinder wrestles rue down, j but I don't go much on jogerfy. What I do I care whether an island is entirely j surrounded by water, or whether there j niu't auy water within ten miles of it? j S'pose I'm going to buy and sell islands | for a living ? I don't care which is the ; highest mountain or the longest river, i do I ? I'm goiug to keep a feed store, I and when I'm rolling bales o' hay around j will I care about mountains and rivers ? : I've heard the boys go on about exports and imports, and straits, and seas, and ; capes, but what's them to me ? If a i feller wants a bng o' oats, is he going to j wait and ask me when the Island of | Madagascar was discovered ?" ; He carefully examined the big toe of his left foot and the heel of his right foot, and gloomily observed: " The old folks are making ready to push me into school, and I've got to ! make ready to keep out. I can't take to : school, somehow. I could sit here and j study all day, but the minute I git into a school-house I'm nervous. Something's I going to happen to me this week. I'll j be taken home in a wheel-barrow with a : big gash in this heel, or this toe* almost j cut off. That will mean four weeks on , a crutch, and they don't allow lame boys I to go to school and crutch up and down the aisles. Or, sposin I go home with palpitation of the heart ? The old lady ' lias had it, and I won't more than get j into the house before she'll have me I tucked up on the lounge, the camphor bottle down, currant jell and sponge cake in the distance, ami she'll c.ill out | to the old gtnt: M j Father, it's no ufc of thinking of | sending this boy to school. Lie looks I stout and healthy, but he's a mere shaddcr. The close atmosphere of the school-room will kill him before snow flies.'" The bov looked up. There wag a grin -11 i'-- e l,? ol?w.l-1?.1. ail over jus iuuc, uuu uc uiuu?vu. " Palpitation is the key note ! A sort) toe can he seen?a palpitating heart is hidden away under hide and fat and ribs. Now then?oosh?Wooah, u-m-m-m? hold yer. breath, roll yer eyes, kick out ver left leg, and make her bob around like a fly on a hot stove-cover."?Detroit Free Press. . '