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I . m/. :a " _ .... " 1 r " \ . . - - ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNE? | ' ' " ? ; .nviij. -..ft ifi (I (C Wl y. ' k ? - - j BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1879. NO. 8. VOLUME XXV. ' ' ' ??t rnjD I What; it Menim. i , ,i Who? Who is the sweetest baby That ever said " A-goo ?" Who is the dearest baby, With eyes so soft and blue? Who is the prettiest baby ? I think I know. Do you ? Who has the softest golden Little rings of hair ? Who has the rosiest cheeks and The smoothest lorehead fair? Who has the sweetest kisses, Enough ol them and to spare? Who ha9 the cunningest fingers, And who the pinkest of toes ? Who has a mouth like a rosebud, And who the daintiest nose ? And who is as sweet altogether As the very sweetest rose ? Who has the prettiest dimples, fc Dancing in .chin and cheek ? *"* And who is learning the dearest Of all dear names to speak ? r And whose blue eyes are learning Mamma's dear eyes to seek ? " i ; j r Ah! surely, there's only one answer To the questions asked you here; Only one true, glad answer, Awaiting the mother's ear. t Who is the prince ol babies T Why, ot course, my baby dear! ?Mary D. Brine, in the Independent, j IMPROMPTU FIREWORKS. i "Are you my Uncle Robert?" said a sweet, cnildish voice. And stopping the cheerlul whistle that always ae- j eompanied his work, :md looking up from the plane that was loudly lisping as it. ranidlv skimmed alone the board he ' was planing, Richard Foster saw, stand- j ing in the doorway of his workshop?a .bright June sunbeam resting on her i pretty head?a little fair-haired girl. Lost in astonishment, he did not an- j swer the child, but gazed at her with wide-opened eyes. She had appeared so suddenly and quietly, and, moreover, ; she was so unlike the round-faced, rosy-, cheeked, white-haired, chubby little j ^ ones of his native village?so lair, so | fragile, with a str:inge, yearning look in her large violet-blue eyes, and a tint of j purest gold on the long flowing hair i that fell about her small delicate face? | that she seemed to belong to an entirely ; different race. "Are you my Uncle Robert?"she repeated, coming a step or two into the | shop. "No, I'm not,* baby; I wish I were," answered the cheery young fellow, recovering from his surnrise; lor he , dearly loved children, ana this, child ! touched some chord in his heart that had never been touched before. "My name's not 'Babyit's Eva," ' said the child, shaking the black hair from her face, and regarding him with a seriotis look. " And mamma's name is Eva too.11- And then, with a little sigh: ; " I fought perhaps you was him." - "What made you think so, baby?I raaan Eva?" asked the young man, with a pleafeant smile, tossing his plane aside, i ana flftting down on a huge block of that stood near. ,rYou?look like him"?speaking with quaint preciseness. " He went away I when I was a very little girl?I'm 'most five now?but I 'member him. He had a face^'like you, a nice laughing face; 1 but"?glancing at the shirt sleeves? ! " he wore a coat, and he used to give me candies for kisses?two candies for ' one kiss; and mamma cries because he . does not come back and take us away : witfi him.". '-** J J WaII "nv*lmi/1 ort/1 lntiff ?n lilt UlilUCI UCll iuuu iuu^ u? , ^ the-eottage adjoining. The young cur- j penfcer mechanically rose to his feet, and then deliberately sat down again, as he said, with a tender look in his honest brown eyes, " I'm sorry mamma cries." ' "Xes, she cries "?in a lowered voice, and, completely won by the kind look, ; coming to,his side, and putting her mite of'a hand confidingly in his?"because papa has gone up there" (pointing to , the sky).: " I don't 'member him; 'twas long, long, long ago; and Uncle Robert dofiVeotfie back; and she's a beggar!" ?Ms? remark evidently quoted, ' . with a dramatic little gesture. Aeaiikilwrelinner bell rang violently, j J WiU you tell me where you live, ! Eva?" asked Dick, paying no attention to the summons; but before the child i could reply a stout, buxom, black-eyed girl flew into the room from the rear ' aoor, and a slight, graceful, fair-haired woman came in at the other. . "Dick, why on earth don't you come to dinner?" almost yelled the buxom girl; and, "Eva, mv darling, what are you doing here?"cried the pretty woman. "I fought he was my Uncle Robert," said the child, smiling at the young workman as she dropped his hand and went toward her mother. "He?" exclaimed the pretty woman, scarcely glancing; at him. "Why, he" ?with a light laugh, and a slight inflection of scorn, or something very like it, in her voice?"he's a carpenter." And catching the child in her arms, she disappeared as suddenly as she had w arrived. Goodness gracious sakes alive!" said Dick's brown-faf-ed, red-cheeked sister, with ran- inflection but a whole volume of scom in her voice. "A carpenter. indeed! si A nd what is she?" . " What is she?" repeated Dick. " Oh, come along to dinner. Dick, and donlt bother. I'm hungry, if you ain't?" giving him a by no means gentle pull. "Stop a moment, Lib?" jerking away from her?" that's a good girl, and tell me all about it." "All about it? Pshaw! you men are all ajftfe! All about her, you mean. Do you think she's pretty?" "Well, all about her, then," said Dick, utterly ignoring the question. vMrtfhpr'll be hormitiff mad. and the Vitftuahil be stone-col(T but I'sposc I'd better hurry and tell you what I know at once, or you'll be pestering the life out of me till I do. She's a widow? 'Mrs. Leonard Deraing, M. I>.,' that is, Mr.'Leonard Bemingwas ' M. D.;' and sh? came here two days ago to live in the Brack cottage round the corner, with her aunt, old Mrs. Pauldinc, who is always talking o/' better days,' and boasting tffcet J&e*e kfever has been a mechanic in TiCTTat iniy.-3 V'nd yet she's as poor as jwi-hureh mouse, and no one knows how she manages to liveu" "Go oh. Lib"?as she stops to take breath. " Th^-goo^j-Uie bell again!"?turn^ ing toward tfcetloor. i " You shall not stir a step until you finish your story,',' says Dick, detaining hW with firm but gentle force. 'Oh, Richard Foster, what a tease yc*rrf*ei and only yesterday you was ?inin ?.:(?nssin. nnd savinchow WO tppgiies ci^T run on, and?eh!" (WKk shrill ifci'rewn) "what a pinch, you txjfttfeOtffcjnhiifflfr Wei], her husband 'wr? a'doctor, and went off to some p^Efjjbr pJiBET when they'd been married a year or so, and caught the yellow fever, and died, and left her nothing but his 'M. D.* And she's as poor as old lady Paulding and just as proud; and, oh, Dick, the funniest thing?she's filled one of hei* aunt's windows with wax flowers for sale, just ns though any one in this place would buy wax flowers! Come along." "Lib, I think wax flowers are beautiful"?he had Clever thought of them in his life before, and ' t fact knew nothing ' about them?44 and ; wish you'd set'the other folks a good < sample and buy a lot of them frofti?Mr- . Deming for our parlor mantel," and he thrust a bill into her hand. 44 Die k Foster, are you%razy? Wax ^ flowefs, 'ftnd mother wanting a new rook stove this minute!?the old one's falling into pieces?and I haven't?" '44 A stitch to your back," savs Dick, smiling. 44 You" never have. But buy : the flowers, Lib, dear, and mother shall ? have a new stove and you a new dress c 1 before the week's out. 111 work nights." \ " But, Dick?" t But Dick had rushed away at a fourth t and most furious ringing of the bell, and i she was fain to follow without another c ; word. r i Day after day Dick Foster set his shop door wide open, and replenished the \ : prrtty bonbon box that was hidden li ! away behind some tools on a shelf in the n corner, in hopes that he might some day - ? 1>nnA A?Am lno nn/1 n JilKnr mr? ii\/m mo nvta .?n^* vj i see the fair-haired child standing before o him. But day after day went "by, and " June merged into July, and she came no li more. The wax flowers had been bought a } few clays after Dick had so suddenly r discovered how much he admired them, t and wonderful imitations of nature they p proved to be, but, alas! wanting nature's s wonderful fragrance; and they stood between the china dog and cat that Dick i. remembered from his earliest boyhood, v on the hich, old-fashioned wooden man- b tel in the low-ceilinged sunny parlor. j " Lib had come back from purchasing them with a quiek s'ep and a snap in her fi black eyes, and had immediately?as fi Dick knew she would the moment he h caught sight of her?rushed into the p shop to?as she was wont to express it- it "free her mind." u "There, I hope you are satisfied," she a began, with a toss of her head, putting w the vase of lilies and roses into his hand; a " but I think you'd better saved your k money. Not but what they're pretty h enough, and I don't see how she makes n cm; l couian c. jbui or an me stucK-u^ a things I ever saw. she's the worst, a 'Your little girl thinks your brother looks like my brother,' says I, trying to p make myself aoreeable: 4 does her' 4I'm o sure I don't "know; I didn't look at L him. My brother is a very handsome w man, and an artist. We were a family p of artists, although my share of talent it took a very lowly form,' says she, hand- ing me the vase-^-she called it a 4 varse.' Good-afternoon.'" t( To all of which Dick replied not a word, but turned away and sawed like rr.ad, which so offended Miss Elizabeth Foster that she never referred to the B pretty widow again until the afternoon \\ of the 3d of July, when, with a gleam of mischief in her face, she burst out at the h supper table: 44Oh, Dick, I've a nies- ai sage for you. I met44 Miss Eva," as the E little servant-girl calls her. They say a that girl serves Mrs. Deming for "love; ? wish I could get people to serve me for d that. 4 Please tell the?the shavings | r< man,1 said Miss Eva, 'that I wanted to d come again, but mamma won't let me.' E And, oh, Dick, if they haven't put fireworks for sale in the other parior win- 44 dow! Wax flowers and fireworks! m ? . i* -a. r. 31 . ] ,i /VIn l 11 lining r , I u But, judging from Dick's clouded brow j and closely set lips, Dick thought it any- j ir thing but funny; and Lib, wisely j a dropping the subject, devoted herself to : ir mother's soft gingerbread with undivided attention. And the cloud still lingered on the fe carpenter's brow as he, pail in hand, just after supper, bent his steps toward j?? the old weH that stood a few feet beyond j ft the brick cottage. He had developed an j extraordinary fondness for the water of ai this well; it seemed as though nothing c< else could quench his thirst, albeit until ri a few weeks ago he had been perfectly h satisfied with the cold as ice, clear as crystal water drawn from the well in y his mother's garden. ai As he drew near the isolated cottage si he saw the fireworks in the window, and gi his heart came up in his throat. " So ir poor, so proud, so lovely," he thought, h " I'll buy them all to-morrow." And at this moment the pretty woman stepped tl out on the old-fashioned porch, and Dick c< turned and fled. J w But a few hours after Dick was again I tl ?;?i ?in. _ 4.?_:io? I StJIWU Willi ih HT111UIC tllll^t i\ tllilSC I CI that he was firmly convinced could only I he assuaged by a draught from the brick ' n (cottage well, and again, pail in hand, he \ h set out, this time to reach the place of j p< destination and begin slowly to return, tl It w;is ten o'clock. In the cottage all o: was silence and darkness. Dick paused as he reached it, and leaned against the e< maple in front of the door and gazed at b the shutterless windows where*the wax j tl flowers and fireworks entreated. "Come I buy me." And as he gazed, smash went p a pane of glass, and a blue light shot past him and fell with a prolonged I hiss upon the ground. Then in quick a: succession came another and another, p Then fizz! bane! pop! pop! fizz! bang! k and the pyrotechnic articles were shooting about in every direction, and the E white muslin curtains were in flames.- I *1 In a moment the strong young fellow j c had burst open the door, thrown the | li pail*ot water upon the crackling fire-1 works, torn down the blazing curtains ' ci and stamped out the fire. And in | s1 ! unotluT moment some one in a Ion;/ 1 white robe, her golden hair silvered by L : the moonlight, came flying out of tne l> ; room just beyond, ana, llinjjing her /, i arms About him, cried: "Oil! dear i brother Robert, you have come back at last. But?but"?looking about her in ! a bewildered manner?"what h:is hap- a penpd?" 1) I " I'm not brother Robert," said Dick; b 1 hut he didn't loosen the clinging arms, b ' as it behooved him to do when he made si | the declaration. " I'm?the?the shav- i < I ings man, and your window has been on I y . fire. Fortunately, I was passing?" Rut , ' he got no further, for the white-robed i \ ' figure uttered a little shriek, and tied j C with precipitancy a* old Mrs. Pauid- I ing entered t lie room from the other ! " door, her best bonnet perched on her j 'I : head and her night-cap dangling by its , . strings around her neck, a silver teapot , 1 in one hand and her favorite cat, grasped j i by the throat, in the other, on a queer | n little run, totally unlike her usual digni- j j" fied tread. To her did Dick explain the cause of . s the wet carpet and the smoke-begrimed ] ? walls, and, amid her profuse thanks for ' 1 his timely help, was taking his leave, J Jj when Mrs. Deming, lamp in hand, again > 1 made her appearance?tills time in suit- ] I able evening dress. "Oh, aunt, what an escape!" she be- ! gan, setting the iamp on the table; "and to think I never awoke until the very last, I was so tired; and Eva has slept through it all. We might have been burned in our beds." And then, turning to Dick, she said, her sweet voice trem. bling in spite of her great effort to main- I : tain her composure. " I beg your pardon for the absurd mistake I made: but I was so bewildered, and only half awake, and I'd been dreaming of my brother, whom you"?looking him full in the face?"resemble very much." And : breaking off suddenly, her voice trem; bling still more, " IIow can we ever 2 I thank you. Mr. ?" "Dick Foster, the carpenter," said Dick, with as much dignity as though he ! had said " doctor " or " artist." c "?Mr. Foster," her lips quivering and c ] her fair cheeks flushing red, ar.d she 1 i held out to him her dainty hand. ] I Dick flushed as rosy red as she, but i ! made no movement toward her. His ( right hand hanging listlessly at his side, liis hat held in his left, lie stood in j silence as though uncertain what to do. " Do you refuse to shake hands "with j me?" she asked, a look of pained sur- i prise flitting across her lovely face. "Why, God bless us! "he can't," : I screamed the old lady; " his poor hand j is dreadfully burned." And she hastened f : away in search of old linen and sweet 1 ! oil. 1 j And it was?his working hand?ter: ribly burned; but when Dick went home i | that night he scarcely felt the pain for ' tlio memory of two violet eyes shining 1 through tears, and a sweet voice saying, i "Oh, I'm so very, very sorry?so very, i very sorry!" j The next morning Mrs. Foster had i just cleared away the breakfast things, I and gone into the sitting-room where i ; Dick sat, installed in the only easy chair i j the house .possessed, his rignt hand en- . ; velnped in'bandages, a book in his left, i and the vase of wax flowers on the i table before him, when there came a jentle knock; at the street door. The jood mother, opening it, beheld a pretty )lue-eyed woman, holding a pretty )lue-eyed little girl, standing upon the hreshold. "Oh, it's you, Mrs. Deming," said the ild lady, bridling and fluttering her cap ibbons. " Good morning, ma'am." "Your son," said the young widow, ritli a hesitation strangely foreign to icr, "is he better? Has he suffered ouch through the night?" "His sufferings can be of no conscience to you, ma'am," returned the Id lady, sharply, in spite of a warning 'Mother!" from the room she had just eft. " He's only a mechanic, ma'am." "He's a noble fellow!" exclaimed ilrs. Deming, seizing the wrinkled, toiloughened hand that was raised as hougli to wave tier away; "ana, 011: lease don't be cross to me. I haven't lept all night thinking of him." Mrs. Foster's face began to relax, and lie stern look completely faded sway jhen little Eva. looking up with pure, eautiful, beseeching eyes, entreated, Don't be cross to poor mamma." " Well, I suppose the fire warn't your lult," she saia; "though how them reworks exploded passes my compreension. There must have been some owerful carelessness somewhere; and ;'s my opinion that folks that doesn't nderstand things should let'em alone; nd his hand's very bad indeed; and he ron't be able to work for a month, just s he had the most industrious fit I ever now a mm 10 nave?uiougu a iazy uov e never was?and was earning lots of loney. And his hand'll have to be ressed night and morning, and take bout an hour each time?" " Oh, then I can be of use," cried the retty widow, a bright smile breaking ver her face. " I am a capital nurse, -et me come every day and dress the rounded hand. Your time, I know, is recious; and it is the least I can do, for , w:is in my service?I mean my aunt's -that it was wounded." "Well, that's clever, and I'm obliged > you; but me and Lib? " Mother!" from the parlor. "Well. Richard ?" " I shall beonly too glad to accept Mrs. eming's kind offer;" and Mrs. Deming rent in. Three weeks had gone by, and the and was nearly well. " I never saw nything heal so quickly," foliloquized ?ick, one pleasant, fragrant morning, in tone that implied that he wished it wouldn't. " She can't come here but a ay or two longer, bless her!?I don't ;ally nerd her now, though I pretend 1 i>?and then I'll be notliiDg to her but lick the carpenter again." "Dick," cliirped a bird-like voice, mamma's got a letter from Uncle Robrt. I run in to tell you," and little Eva anced into the room. " Great heavens!" thought Dick, turn- j lg pale, "he's coming to take her j way;" and a moment alter Mrs. Dem- ; ig came in with the letter in her^hand. "Are you worse this morningp" she ;ked, anxiously, looking at the young j How's pale face. j " Yes, much worse," he answered, ryly. "Eva tells me you hav*a letter om your brother." " I have?at last. And he's in Paris, nd does not expect to return to this juntry for many years. He has marked a beautiful French girl, and, I fear, as almost forgotten me." " Your brother married and forgotten ou?" burst in Lib, poking her head in t the door. "Well, that's nothing! range. Brothers will marry and foret sisters till the end of timeand calllgto Eva to come and see the newly atched chickens, away she went a^ain. "And personally I resembled him, lat is, I suppose, as much :is a mechanic juld resemble an artist," said Dick, ritha feeble attempt at sarcasm; " but lere the resemblance must end. I never luld have forgotten you." And then they are both silent for a few j lomcnts, Dick breaking the silence at j ist. " I am very sorry for your disap-1 ointment. You had hoped to leave ! lis humdrum place, where there is no ne you could care for." "No one I eould care lor," she repeat3, slowly. "I am not so sure of that; ut I am sure of one thing, Richard, and T .1 4. lilt 1$ LI Kit 1 UUIIUlUlxu JUUi aj uij'diij >? have learned to love this pretty, quiet lace?" "You have?" shouted Diek. "Oh, if were not a poor carpenter?if I were an rtist, a physician, a lawyer, anything rofessional?I'd ask you to try and ;arn to love me, and stay here forever." "Try to learn to love you! Why, lick, you dear, splendid, darling old oose don't you know I've love(f you rer since the night qf the impromtu re-works?,' "My blessed darling!" cried Diek, ntching. her in his arms and kissing her weet lips. "Goodness gracious sakes alive!" said rib, appearing at the door again. " My rother's going to be married too."? Inrper^s Weekly. The Twa Brigs " or Ayr. The town divides itself on the sides of river, which is spanned bythe"twa rigs" celebrated in one of the poems y Burns. In the dialogue that occurs etween the two structures the new on iceringly asks the old: Will your poor narrow footpath of a street, fliere twa wheelbarrows tremble when they meet, 'our ruin'd, formless bulk o' stane au' lime, lutnpare wi' bonnie brigs o' modern time?" And the old one answers: Conceited gowk! pulFd up wi'windy pride! 'his mony a year I've stood the flood an' tide; Liid though wi crazy eild I'm s:iir forlairn, '11 be a brig when y?'re a shapeless cairn!" There was prophecy in the air that light when the poet, impelled by all-diecting fate, wandered by the Wallace ower on High street to where the tidewollen Frith was sullenly dashing .long the shore, and the new " brig" was ndeed a 44 shapeless cairn " last autumn, virile the old one was still bearing its >urden of traffic. The former becoming nsecure. had been closed and partly deQolished; the latter, narrow and incomoodious, looked like a solid natural ock thrown across the stream. There s a sun-dial in the middle of the <Md tridge, and the cobble stones ot the >avement are interlocked with the coicsion of hornblende in granite. Eastvard the river becomes shallow, and bams upon the rocks with which the jottoin is strewn: the banks are green it no great distance above the bridge; ind below, a mixed fleet of fishing boats, )arks and smaller craft is moored to the vharves, that extend to the breakwater, >ver which the water of the Frith flies n southwesterly gales.?Harper's Magaint. Beating the Boat. The other day one of the ferry-boat aptains found 'aboard of his craft a adaverous - looking chap who had seaten his way to and fro so often that mtiencew.is no longer a virtue. When t was found that he had no ticket the :aptain roared out: "What did I tell you the last time I massed you over?" . "You said you'd throw me into the .lvur next imiu l trieu iu uuui ui^ w?j icross," was the calm reply. "And now?!" yelled the captain, is he started to pull off his coat. "And now you won't. You are a ;ood-hearted man and I don't want you :o get into trouble on my account. I svill go overboard on my own hook." He stepped to the gangway and made i dive before any one could prevent. Hie boat was stopped, life-preservers thrown out, and, after hard work, the man was hauled aboard. The captain seized him,braced him against the cabin, find, shaking his fist under the beat's nose, exclaimed: " Look-a-here, you miserable, sinful man, I've been put to ten dollars trouble trying to collect your five-cent fare! After this it is understood that you are always to ride free, and if you offer to pay fare I'll lick you!"?Detroit Frr* Press. The Water Perambulator. Mh When Cooley read the accounts of A Paul Boyton's exploit in swimming the froi English Channel, it struck him that he acci could improve a little on Boyton's life- Mo! preserver. He said he had invented an a hi apparatus with which a man could walk use' on the surface of the water, and with a fool little practice glide over it with the stri velocity with which a good skater skims moi over the ice. So he invited a party of app us down to the river one day to see him pra; operate the machine. At the appointed jerl time he appeared with something that che looked like a small gunboat under each on 1 arm. Then he strapped one on each cess foot, and we saw that the article was sho about four feet long, and shaped like a ofb snallow scow. uic-i As lie prepared to lower himself over at 1 the edge of the wharf, he asked us to opci designate the point on the other side of stat the river at which we wished him to qui1 land. He said it was immaterial to him clos whether he went one mile or six, up est stream or down stream, because lie was could just hop along over that river like and a swallow. His general idea was to was produce a revolution in navigation, and clos to make men independent of steamers vict and other vessels when they desired to as i travel upon the water with rapidity. whi Then he dropped into the stream with tain his scows, and s'teadied himself by hold- size ing on to the side of the wharf until he as a was ready to start. At last he said the all i experiment would begin, and he struck to ? out with his left foot. The front end of and that particular scow scuttled under the his water, and as he tried to save himself app with his right foot, the end of that scow The also dipped down, and Cooley tumbled, tain The next minute he was hanging head lie t downward in the river,'with nothing thei visible to the spectators but the bottoms ers, of two four-foot gunboats. The patent roui apparatus simply kept all the rest of him not! under water. Then a couple of men imn paddled out to him in a skill and hauled sick aim in. Then we unbuckled his scows, snal tnnl- nfFhis r.lotlies. ana rolled him over box a vinegar barrel to work the water out den' of him. In about an hour he came to, witl and, uttering a groan, he Said: eled " Where am I?" * and We explained to him, and he asked: witl " What drowned me?" der, We told him that he was injured by ting an attempt to revolutionize navigation, the and he demanded: mor " How'd T trv to do it?" the We reminded him that he had started and ' for a skim up the river witli a frigate in li tied to each foot, and then he jiskod: the "Where the dcuce are them ma- b;icl I chines?" thei We showed them to him, and, calling Bi Ben Martin to him, he said, faintly: pro< "Ben, I wish you'd cuss them things liad I for me. Cuss 'em vigorous, and then the j split 'cm up into kiniin' wood for the heai ! poor. I'm too weak to do justice to the viol subject." him T'hen we took him home, and he,was ing in bed for a fortnight. He says now that sity ; all he wants to live for is to "see Boyton the1 ! some day go chuck to the bottom, caln ' Then he 11 he perfectly happy.?Max obse | Adlcr. and I ? roUi Lake George Rattlesnakes. One denizen of this region cannot be spoken of without a degree of respect ^iffi combined with aversion. It is the rat- onei tlesnake. lie flies the haunts of men, 0VP1 and is gradually disappearing from that an(^ vicinage; but, like inferior races of man, for , which, before they altogether vanish be- sam fore an advancing civilization, cling des- out perately to a few strongholds, so this C!igt reptile yet retains certain positions ])e e around the lake, which are infested in a tjon way that demands caution on the part of p0jt the tourist, It is not uncommon to see t|ia^ these snakes swimming in the lake, pass- 0f j ing from cove to cove or isle to isle. tjie Leaning over a boat one calm day, I saw gjgn one swimming unaer me stem, ne ^ raised liis head when lie saw me, and the |irol expression of his face was neither amiable nor assuring as he darted his heaa |ur; spitefully forward. I hit him with a on j stick, when he dived and disappeared. on t Tongue Mountain and Shelving Rock an(j are most infested at present. An old xiie man and woman who occupy a solitary .lira; cabin on the former have long made a \vh( business of catching rattlesnakes and pen1 supplying the market. The demand is tjir{ much larger than one would suppose on piul the part of showmen and naturalists, mas and also from the people of the neighbor- ;nt0 hood, who have the notion that rattle- vvjti snake oil is an infallible remedy for the ^m( rheumatism. Doubtless this superali- unn tion?for it is nothing else?arose in the tate same way as the belief in former days in jy jr a newt's eye, a baby's finger, a sliver t0 Si from the finger-nail of a mummy, or the jng baboon's blood?objects remote or difficult to obtain. The quotation for good healthy rattlesnakes at Lake George averages one dollar apiece, caught and The delivered. Those who do|pot mind the " trifling annoyance of being oitten by one pres are allowed the free range of the rattle- coui snake preserve^. and may catch them for the; nothing.?Harper's Magazine. edit ? gre: ? . chei The Dnnon Canal. l)ett M. I)e Lesscp's announcement that the ous Darien canal will be much easier work reac than the Suez, and that the total cost The ought not to exceed ?50,000,000, will it i: doubtless be gratifying to all who are oeei interested in the Aspinwall-Panama in t route. Whether Vasco Nunez de Bal- rapi boa, the first explorer who crossed the its Isthmus to the Pacific, did or did not self propose the canal scheme to Charles V., half it was undoubtedly familiar to the men Nev of that age, and might possibly have been pap achieved by Cortez, but for the disas- Hue terous issue of his Honduras expedition, itse Curiously enough, tjie proposed route is ter, almost identical with that followed 200 " years ago by Morgan's buccaneers, wno, is n after unheard-of sufferings among the gres swamps and thorn-jungles of the in- can terior, reached Panama on the ninth the day, defeating the Spaniards, and dis- mof persing, with lighted torches, the wild ing. cattle driven against them by the latter, tenc They returned with a vast booty, most the of which, however, was lost in theft' moi subsequent shipwreck. Morgan was af- bar, terward knighted and made governor of so-c the West Indies by Charles II., his first moi act being to hang all his old comrades as sire: apiratical thieves." The _ , him and A Button in n Letter. can A lady in Troy, N. Y., has a common w.l! military button which has something of cdl' ?i lncfnru llni'innr tho lnfn wnr fT C, V6f Corace, of Jefferson county, a Union sol- ere' dicr, was, with a number of comrades, |'ar taken captive and confined in Libhy pri- [eiu son. Some time after he managed to 100 change his suit of blue and sent it home ^ to his wife. About two years later one licl{ of the brass buttons which had adorned the coat was used as a plaything by a child of the soldier. The lower part of the button unexpectedly became detached, and revealed p in the hollow space a quantity of paper estj which was very neatly packed. An onc examination of the button s mysterious c]ie, contents disclosed a letter consisting of the five pages, each sheet being about three jn j inches wide and five inches long. The j!U}i missive was addressed to Mrs. Comep. aiuj and contained an account of her bus- par band's captivity and also related to Unc family matters. The letter and button f]na are still in a state of preservation, and tha are highly prized by the lady who sue- ;ng ceeded in obtaining them. rCp ? Th< tllCi Pearls Jrom Emerson. tlie What is a weed??A plant whose vir- qua tues have not yet been discovered. ha\ Them is not a nronertv in nature but " N a mind is born to seek and lind it out. plei War is the extension of a gun-barrel. "C Cant is useful to provoke common A i sense. the The flower of civilization is the fin- Thi ; ished man; the man of sense, of accom- suit j plishment, of social power?the gentl< - atei I man. par Here (in the United States) is all man- tak ' kind in lii> sMrt-nl-'evcs. lov acles of a Mohammedan Sheikh. l New York Sun correspondent writes n Damascus, giving the following 1 Duntof "miracles" performed by a 1 hammedan sheikh or priest: Taking * andful of skewers similar to those * d for cooking purposes, cach about a t ; long, lie called the wildest half- 4 pped disciple to him, and opening his { iitli, muttering tne wnne wiui great arent intensity of concentration a yer or invocation, he with a sudden * : forced the point clean through the I sk so that it could be seen projecting c ;he other side. He repeated the pro" ' i with the other cheek, the man * wing no sign of pain and not a drop I looa flowing from the wound. He T 1 went to his son, who calmly gazed * lim with his large swimming .eyes, 1 tied his mouth ana received a similar * ) through the cheek without the f per of an eyeiid. I was watching him c lely and could not observe the slight- 1 muscular ccntraction. The point c ) clearly projecting through the skin, 1 deception was impossible, as there 1 i every opportunity afforded for the s lest inspection. Leaving the two 1 ;ims witli their mouths thus trussed, * t were, the ahiekh took a square box, f ich, when opened, was found to con- 1 i several live scorpions of unusual * . Taking up one of these, as large f n ordinary land crab, he handed it, . ivriggling, darting its tail in its efforts J iting, to a man who came forward, 9 calmly but rapidly dropped it into ? . 1- 1 : I LXIOU111 ZWU ClUL'UllCU it nuu gicnu arent relish, eating it completely up. 1 n we saw a much larger box, coning serpents of various sizes. These umed out upon tliQ floor, dominating n after the manner of serpent charmand allowing them to twine and curl tid him. In this, of course, there was ling marvelous, nor indeed in what lediately followed, though it was ening to behold. Drawing a live m about two feet lone out ot the , he held it up by the tail, when sadly a tall man, afflicted apparently li St. Vitus1 dance, with hairdishev, rushed forward with a loud cry, with foaming lips seized the snake li both hands, tore it violently asunand plunged its bloody and palpitaend into nis mouth. This seemed signal for a general scramble. In a nent three or four men were tearing writhing fragments with their teeth, with eager greediness devoured them irge mouthfuls until not a particle of snake remained. They then drew i with seeming reluctance, wiping r bloody lips with their hands. ufc the excitement seemed to have luced a sort of tit in the man who first seized the snake, from which \ sheikh restored him by clasping his i with both hands and pressing it ently, while he again concentrated iself on incantations, the veins startnut. nn his forehead with the inten of his efforts. In a few moments dervish had become comparatively u, though lor the rest of the time I :rved that he continued to twitch jerk convulsively, while his eyes sd wildly. Meantime the man and boy who had 1 pierced watched the proceedings :i the utmost unconcern. As it was cult to believe that to remain with s cheeks skewered did not at all its produce a feeling of discomfort, as they must have been standing at least a quarter of an hour in the e attitude, I told the sheikh to pull the skewers. Tim he did, in each preceding the sharp pull with which xtracted them by an earnest invoca. When they were drawn out the its were bloodless, while, excepting ; there was an apparent induration he cheek at the spots through which skewers had passed, there was no , of what had happened. brazier full of livecharcoal was now jght in, and fanned into flame, en it was glowing with a blue and d light, the sheikh, calling suddenly Ulan several times, jumped literally he blazing mass with his bare feet, stood there for nearly a minute, n getting down, the charcoal was. in fannea into flame, and the men ) had eaten the scorpions and sorts. and who had been skewered >ugh the cheeks, rushed forward, 1 iged their hands into the burning s s, and tossed the glowing embei* c their mouths, crunching them up f li the greatest unconcern. Mean- t 2, the smell of burned flesh became ( ristakable, whicli somewhat mili- F s against the theory that their flesh r npervious to fire, though I am bound ? ny no one showed any signs of feel- " pain. t c r c Country Press as a Rising Power. r It is not true that the ability of the is is declining. The papers of the t atry are better written now than <; f ever were before. They are better a ed. Their average courtesy is r iter; their average morality is purer; n r average tendency higher. They a ,er hit the wants of great, micellane- ( communities, and so they have more r lers in proportion to population, f * Ull f I 1 ur powur umy uu muiu umuauu, uuu i s unmistakably greater. There has c i no more remarkable phenomenon a lie history of the profession than the s id growth of the country press and I increass in ability, in resources, in a -respect :ind in" influence. There are c * a dozen towns in the interior of j v York which now have better news- < ers. with Jarger income and more in- j nee, than those of the metropolis i If a third, or perhaps even a quiir- t of a century ago. p No! The power of the newspaper 1 ot declining. Never before was it so -\ it. Never before did it offer such a c ;er. But it is power accompanied by i usual conditions ? greatest when 1 Jt self-respecting and least self-seek- a There is more good young blood t ling to this than to any of a other professions. There is 1 e movement in it than in 1 , or pulpit, or whatever other ] ailed learned profession you will? c :e growth, a larger opportunity, a t iter future. We are getting the best. !se young men will Jeave us far bed. They will achieve a usefulness command a power to which we not aspire. Very crude and narrow * 1 seem our worthiest work to the able ? :ors of a quarter of a century hence; * ir crJnnrlifl will hft tllft StrUCtlin* tllGV I :t. We sha.il not rear the columns or ve the capitals for that stately pie. Lot us at least aspire, with icst purpose and on a wise plan, to ariglit its foundations."?Whitelaw d. Where a Flirt Missed It. orney's Progress describes an inter ng scene in a theater. The flirt for e met her match. Seated in the orstra a certain lady and gentleman; former much enamored of the latter, fact, desirous of winning him. The p, however, has flirting tendencies, indulges them with a handsome ty in the circle. The escort is not ibservant of this little by-play, and .lly asks, smilingly, "Do you know t gentieman with whom you are flirt?" An embarrassed negative is the lv "Then n-reusnmn for a moment.1' 5 escort immediately crosses the : [iter, and puts a similar question to 1 other conspirator. " Sir, are you ae- 1 tinted with the lady at whom you f re been smiling this last half hour?" 1 o." "Would you like to be?'1 i isantlv. -Very much. surprised. I ertainly." "Then come with me." < moment later the escort introduces < not altogether comfortable pair, t sn the mild expression leaves the in- ! < ted gentleman b face, and he says 11 *nly: "Now. sir, you may accom- I I ly this lady home!" With a bow he j es his leave, and the woman who j t es him never hears his voice again, i < Russian Tea Honses. A large hall, wainscoted with oa minted in rich colors, where blue an ed predominate, and at the further en t grand organ which is playing a choru rom M. Lecocq's last operetta. But fo his tune, and for the fact that some cus omers are seated at little wooden table irinking tea, you might fancy yourse! n a ritualist church. A statuette of th Virgin, fronted by a night,light alway iickering in its bath of oil, stands i )roximity to the yellow advertisemer >f an English firm that exports bittc jeer, and a glaringly-illuminated poi rait of St. Isaac, who is, perhaps, tli >atron saint of the landlord, faces th )lay-bill of the Imperial Theater c French Comedians. We are-in aMos :ow tea-house. It differs from the new angled cafes in having no looking-glasse >r velvet settees. There is a pile c :ushions in the corner near the countei vhere the landlady sits with a spangle liadem, neither reading or sewing, bu ust folding her arms and smiling vaguel ill waiters shall come and ask her fo mall change. When a habitue of th ea-house enters he signs himself befor he statuette, bows to St. Isaac, perhaps md makes for the pile of cushion: vhere he selects his own and carries i o the wooden bench on which he 3 joing to sit. Regular customers kee heir private cushions at the tea-hous( ust as Germans keep their pipes an choppen at the brauerei. If a strange :omes in, one of the waiters in whit inen tunics, with red-topped knee-boots jrings him a folded red rug to sit dow lpon. These waiters are not alwav lussian; in a good tea-house there wi )e one or two Germans speaking Frencl: >ut they all wear the miyick costum ind have their hair clipped short. The icver ask a Russian customer what h vants; they bring him a small bras amovar containing about a pint of tef lalf a lemon and a cruet of vodki. Th ihanre for this is five copecks. A Russian goes to the tea-house t Irink tea only, with a flavor of spirit n it; if he wants other beverages, h Irinks them at home. In summer h akes cold tea instead of hot. an queezes more lemons than vodki into it hat is all the difference. He seldoE akes sugar, and the waiter does no >resent it unless asked for. Cigarette ire the rule in the tea-houses, not pipe ?r cigars; and the Russian never twirl hem himself, Spanish fashion, but buy hem ready-made. On his sayin ' Papyros," the waiter brings him ; >olished brass plate holding a doze: oose cigarettes of divers dimensions an if three colors?white, buff and pint ['he last are the most delicate in flavfli ,nd are reserved for the bonne boudu. rhe Russian epicure begins with th vhite ones, ana as he sits divested o lis furred touloupa and wrapped in hi :aftan, with his head leaning against th vainseot, and dreamily beating time t he music of the organ, he offers a pei cct picture of Oriental repose. Th vainscots are marked with rows c ;reasy black circles made by the head >f customers. There is scarcely mor alking than in a Turkish cafe; but off :ials in uniform, who may have imbibe he taste? o?the West, sometimes gotu james of cards, and intersperse thei >lay with squeaking interjections ex iressive of their emotions at winnin ?r losing. Only second-rate official jatronize the tea-houses; and if haply >ersonage of colonel's rank strolls i vitli his crosses on his bosom, all th >ther customers stand up and salani ?or this reason an honorary Russia :olonel (perhaps an upper telogrup ilerk) when he receives a foreigner wi generally take him off to the tea-hous( n order In give him an idea of wha lignities are in Russia. The prudent reserve which Russian ixhibil in the tea-houses does not pre fent them from engaging very readil ii uuiiveisuiiuii wiui mij IUIUI^IICI nrn :hooses to introduce himself; only th orcigner will hear from them nothin >ut praise unstinted about everybod; .nd everything that he may talk oi Che doors open twenty times in an even ngto admit itinerant sellers of food; fo 10 edibles except, biscuits are sold by th andlord. An old woman, booted, mul led and wrapped in a sheepskin, come n with a basket of bard-boiled eggs alted sardines (which taste like the ski ?f a red herring), and little rolls. Thei :omes a girl with selvas, or apple-cakes hen a man with slabs of raw ham o 5erman sausage; then another with >ortable stove, which lie installs in th liiddle of a tea-house, that he may coo! ritters for nil who may order them rhc waiters provide salt, wooden plal ers and knives to the customers for :harge of a copeck: and as the refresh nents sold by the hawkers are ver, :iieap, a mau may get a long supper a 10 great cost. The tea sold in the tea-houses is ver rood, and Russians swallow surprisin luantities of it; three or four pints, wit! *. L-.L.. ,~:1 i piupui iiuimuj quH.uiiLjr ui vuiim, n h lot seem an excessive evening's allow mee for a sober man. Coffee is neve isked for. _ In the lower kinds of house where hand barrel-organs disnours nusic) the tea is said to be a rebrev rora the; leaves that have been used b arger establishments; and here it i ustomary to serve the tea ready flavored vith vodki. It makes a potent bever tge, which will send a clow all over th >ody of an isvostchik (cabman) in coL veather, and make him drive his sleigl >r drosky in wild zigzags, with man; rells. In the tea-houses' of the lowe >rders the shrine of the Virgin stand ust within the door, and a custome vould no more think of taking tea with >ut paying his devotions than he wouli ;o out into the snow without having hi joots on. When he has well drunk h vill make another stand at the shrin incoming out; and if a customer cannc emain quite steady on his legs durin lis brief orisons, some Good Samaritan a liolninnrlinn^l lpc 'Vlli iUW?lJ3 wuai[iuiii < ? he unsteady brother, going out un ihriven with so much whiskyfied teao joard him, should come to grief throujr lis impiety. It is a common phrase i lussia to say of a man who has rolle lead drunk into the snow.and got froze: here, "He forgot to pray after his tea. ?Harper's Weekly. Calculating Machines. Staflel has invented an arithmcticf nachine in which three cylinders are s irran<red that they can work all th iimpler rules of arithmetic, earryin nultiplication up to millions by mil ions; if the machine is required to solv in impossible sum, such as subtractin i larger number from a smaller, or di riding a smaller sum by a greater, it rc uses,"and rings a bell as an admonition Colmar invented an arithmometer i: vhicli the action is rather by plate iliding in grooves than by rotating cyl nders; like StafFel's it can perform add' ion, subtraction, multiplication, ai vision and evolution. Wertheimer, b tncans of a metal plate with indice lotclied teeth and holed, has contrive in apparatus for adding and subtractin, mms of money. Baranowski's inven ion is for calculating wages, prices, in ?rest and other sums of money; it i cnown lis the Ready Reckoner, and i worked by means of a handle which re reals figures or numerals in openings ii i brass plate. Schott, Lalanne, Rogel Vlaurel,Roth,Slovinsks and Sellouts hav n like manner invented machines fo lolving arithmetical problems. Ofthes( nvnitoo <rrnnt. ?ul mi ratio 3V..IIL* liL/i a UAV-HV.J v,.? imong- scientific men: Mr. Kabb/ig liglilv extolled it. and deplored that, i uid found a purchaser in America in itead of England. It can eomput nathematioal tables, calculate to sixtee >laces of figues, and stamp on a plate c end the result up to eight places, pre lucing a matrix or mold, from which :liche cast in type metal can be ob ained suitable for printing from. ] Iocs its work at the rate of twent.v-fiv igures or numerals per minute, calcu a ted, recorded and stamped in metr -nn error either in the calculating c he printing being almost impossible.ymrnhcra' Journal. r ABM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. k . d Recipes, r d Hobseradish Sauce?Mix a stick is of grated horseradish with a wine-glaw ir of cream, a teaspoonful of mustard, and A i a pinch of salt; then stir in half a the is urn bier of the best white vinegar. Bruise cov_ IC with n Qnnnn an H when thnrmifflilv win U i* ?IIW4VU6UIJ ?? "I e mixed together, serve in a turreen. figu s Tomatoes ok the Half Shell.? n Have toasted a few slices of bread nice b0CJ it and brown ; butter, cut in half and place t where it is warm. Select tomatoes ^?3 > which are smooth and not overripe; cut stre e in two flatwise, and put, skin down, on a j1? ( e hot gridiron; serve on slices of toast '"j? )f with Dutter, pepper and salt. A"' [" Grape Jelly.?Take perfectly fresh grapes, then remove the stems and put r i !S. the berries over the fire in an earthen- jr ware pan or porcelair-lined kettle; crush : t vj a few berries on the bottom of the kettle co_. J to prevent burning; let them boil up ? lt ana remove from the fire and hang up in t y the ielly-bag to drain; when the juice is i ir all drained off weigh it and return to the b e kettle and fire; boil it twenty minutes, e skimming when necessary; then add 5, thron.nnortiipa nf o nnimn nf oiitrnr tn i ?? every Hpound of juice, and boil It till lt thick enough to suit. ? Bread and Butter Pudding.?Butter ash " a mold well; take any stale bread crusts Co\ ^ or cake, grate or crumble it; pufa layer wh< r of crumbs an inch thick in the mold, fall e then strew some jam or sultana raisins, run } then a layer of crumbs, and so on alter- Mr. ' natelytill the mold is full; then pour CUe g very equally over it a custard made as II follows: Beat up one egg, add a tumbler -win or breakfast-cupful of milk to it, then a and g tao.espoonful of sugar and a little grated bey ? nutmeg. It requires to be poured slowly i W01 g into the mold, that the crumbs may ab- shc _ sorb the whole. Bake it about twenty on t minutes or half an hour, according to den g the heat of the oven. Mr. Peach Marmalade.?Take ripe free- dor o stone peaches. Pare, stone and quarter A y s them; to a pound of fruit allow three- Mo] e quarters of loaf sugar and half an ounce row e of almonds. Blanch the almonds in intc d scalding water, and pound them until Coj smooth. Scaid the peaches in a very wh< n' little warm water; masli them; mix A 1 it them with the sugar and almonds, and wh< s put the whole into a preserving kettle. Poi a noil it to a thick, smooth paste. Skim left s and stir it well, and keep the kettle cov- peti s ered as much as possible. Fifteen min- sav g utes will be sufficient to boil them. Hel a When cold, put up in glass jars. test n Tea Ice-Cream.?Scald four table d spoonfuls of Hyson tea in a pint of sweet "uu cream?it is best to scald it either in a ? r< % custard-kettle or in a tin pail placed *?oa within a kettle of boiling water. When *n e partly cool, strain it into a pint of cold cap ?f cream, bring to a scald and stir in four den s beaten eggs and three-quarters of a pound e of sugar. Let cool, and freeze. I have ]101' o founa that in making water-ices, if the |iar - sugar be not well stirred in before freez- }ns e ing, it will sink to the bottom and give >f the mixture a sharp, unpleasant taste. It s is best to make a syrup of the sugar and * 01 e water by boiling, and, when cold, to add nea i- the pure juice of the fruit.?Rural New ca" d Yorker. p ' In the Orchard. of t r Watch tor insect pests. If the trees dis< are infested with bark lice, take them at tw( g the time the young are moving forward, s and kill them with a wash of strong ftid a soapsuds, in whicli a little carbolic acid ^ n is mixed. When canker worms are ine festing the trees, syringe thoroughly a8< i. with London purple and water. Set P*18 ci traps for codling moths', or use hay left h bands about the limbs of the trees. wh II Look for the first appearance of tent hsu 5. caterpillars early in the morning and Co; Into in thp pvpninir. when thev are clus- I tered in their nests. After they get size an<1 s they are not so gregarious. Have an old soh !- broom along, fastened to a suitable pole; ai3( y with this tiie worms and web may be hor o ciisily taken away. Kill them in any sidi e manner that may^ suggest itself. Beating infi e on hard ground is pretty effectual. to ? y Do not scrape trees because the bark P f. is rough. Many people keep their trees cup i- scraped down to the quick. They think n(> r it looks nice. It is wrong; the bark is a*k c for protection. If the trunk is mossy, test it snows the tree is not doing well, and Chi a that it wants fertilizing. Scrape the old me' i, scales away in this instance, wash with wh n very strong soapsuds, and cultivate and con a manure the orchard. So if insects have so ; ; found a lodgment in the rough bark, r scrape it away so the trunks may be easily a washed. Do not scrane to the quick; the ^ e bark is the skin of the tree and should _ k I not be wounded. A light scraping is ^ i. good, but moss shows that the soil is too | y wet, and probably poor. Under-drainage (lay a and manuring will help this. In going over your orchard, keep an " y eye out for bad-shaped heads and abrad- n??*< ,t ing limbs. When you iindthem.jprune. SI0r Do not wait for the regular pruning sea- sc,}, y son. There should be none such in a P011 % well-regulated orchard, Let your prun- PiLS! li ing be as lieht as possible. The more 'Ulr 11 top, the more root; and in the West a rtay - thick head is not objectionable. In fact, vo,( r the thicker the better, so all parts of the (:nn s tree get a fair amount of light. There is, An( e as a rule, more damage done by injudi-1 Pov v cious pruning than by no pruning at all. j mv< v ?Prairie Farmer. j r'-n( * I ctoyi s Thinning Grapes. i d one good bunch of grapes is wort h | P1 1 a half dozen poorly matured bunches. e Much depends, of course, upon the j J:. ' rt strength of the vine and the quality ol i , ti the soil. A recent writer oilers some j.' y sujrgestions: -hut r No one can tell exactly what would j h be a seasonable crop for a grapevine to '' r carry without knowing something of; . - the age and strength of the vine; a pound ! tl per foot of rod may be a reasonable j ' ? 1,n.,1fliv vino nn f 11r? awnurfito ! V ? UlUJi 1W1 rt 4iV4?&U*Aj v ? , e produce; and something may be done j e in feeding in critical times, such as the ; jt^s it stoning period, to enable a plant to bring , " g tf> perfection a heavy crop. But plants ; j ':5 s will not maintain their health long if j r.j it overdosed with stimulants, therefore, , - the safest plan to pursue is to find out , n the limit of production and not exceed J ' h it. If it be necessary to form a correct j n estimate of the bearing power of the j _ d vine before deciding as to the numberof ; , , n bunches it shall he permitted to carry, | p p " it is still more so before thinniftg out the ? . berries, as some vines will produce ber- ' ries half as large again as those of others, * , and that, too, independently of the skill l".? J: brought to bear upon their cultivation. . , The sooner grapes are thinned after it i jj . *r can be seen which berries are taking the p lead the better, cutting out the small " hemes, as some of these may he imperil; fectlyset. At any rate, those that take 3 the lead generally keep it, and asufli' cient number of such berries should be ,Ti left to form compact, handsome half " bunches. With some loose bunched tion kinds it is a good plan to reduce the pre< _ bunches a little by cutting off their ex- " tremities. It is not easy to say how ! and 3 large a proportion of the berries should the be cutout; in fact, without seeing the I "d( ' vines it must be mere guess-work, but I mie "j at least two-thirds. I " g ~? = | qui' What " Boom " Means. I 44 The current word to express a pc- >< s culiar and frequent phenomanon in | >trt, a American politics is "boom." It is do- - i- rived from the "W re tern idiom describing .. n the ireshets in rivers and creeks, in . t, those streams that are far from the .. e stable .equilibrium of tidal waters there ? r are very great inequalities of volume. .. Some of them vary from six inches of i .. n dust in a dry time to sixty feet of water | ?? e during a season of rains, and all have > it their times when the usually thin and .. i- shallow streams come pouring down in i t|)C e a yellow flood, bearing fence rails and j ^ jn n corn stacks and other signs of the inva- i ' j: >f sion of the riparian farms, and laden | t|'e )- with the dog-gone expletives of the set- , S(m, a tiers and the vexations of the travelers i' i- delayed at the fords. The stream is pow- j !t erful while it lasts, but that is on ly for j T e a day or two, and while it is at its heiglit I niu i- of temporarY greatness it is called a an I il " boom." "Lost Creek or the Dry Fork ' uinl ir is a-booraing," is the way in which the free - natives describe these prising: obulitions left of nature. iflMfiii SAYlflU StVK?S UI Jjl T . A 'jtrtlal Record of the Brave Deeds of Patrick Coyne of Boaton. Boston reporter, while strolling on sands at South Boston Point, dis- " ered a little boy in the water, and, lie hastening to his relief, saw the re of a man shoot from the stone ? xrf and hold the almost inanimate y partly out of water until assistance A ved. The man was Mr. Patrick ne, who lives at O and Eighth ets, and in the struggle with the boy T :ame near losing his life by having foot caught in a crevice in tne rocks. B er he had reached the shore the retcr, in a conversation with him, ued that Mr. Covne had saved scores ives, often at the risk of his own. " is forty-two years old, and was born he County of Sligo, Ireland. The re1 of his services, as given from his Election only, is as follows: ? 1 1862 he was awakened from his p on board the schoon'er N. Ward cries for help. He sprang into the ?r, sculled away in the direction of sound, and rescued six men, the crew the yacht Tornado, with Captain nund Tarbell, whose boat had sunk er them while attempting to come si ore. Three months afterward Mr. rne saved tho lives of three boys, v, Dse sailboat had capsized. The next * the dory of two ciam diggers was . down by a yacht and capsized, and F? Covne was on hand in time to res- tl] them. The following spring, at ig Island wharf, lie saved three men fa )se boat had been jibed too suddenly, pi the next August two little boys got ond their depth at the Point, and cl lid have drowned but for him. p< irtly after, while four soldiers were their way from Fort Indepen- :t ce, their boat was overturned, and jE Coyne, who was out gunning in his y, saved them from a watery grave, ear after this two young men, named ?c Donald and Lovace, entangled their "" boat in a chain, were overturned > the water and were rescued by cl Tie. Next he rescued two children in 3 had waded out beyond their depth, tt few months later he saved four men )se boat had been swamped off the tl nt in a heavy sea. In July, 1871, he m the race in which he was a com- a] tor with his yacht Water Lily, and ed the crew of four of the yacht ? >e, for which he received a handsome imonial from the Dorchester Yacht g b. Six months afterward Mr. Coyne Capt. Andrew Thurfein put off in 5wboat and rescued a man whose ? thad upset off Fort Independence. h 1872 Capt. M. J. Kiley's yacht was o: sized in a squall near Fort Indepence. Mr. Coyne was one of the crew, p , after being in the water over an d ir, swam to a .boat manned by trreen it ids, clambered on board, and saved al companions, who were nearly existed. Last year he saved six persons, tl ose boat had been swamped off the u nt. He also rescued a boy who was ^ rly strangled by having his head h ght in the broken panel of a door; i last year, as he was passing the yard j. he Fourth street primary school, he ri covered a little ,boy with bis necfc be- j :en two iron rails of the yard fence, i, I took him from his position by the ^ of ajackscrew. in one occasion, as Sir. Coyne was iding on the wharf in the moonlight, minambulistic soldier marched down t him, looking neither to the right nor . The soldier reached the end of the arf, and a step or two more would re carried him into the water. Mr. p ^ne called,-"Halt! Right nbout face! c ward, march! The soldier obeyed, d [ marched back up the wharf as D ;mnly as lie came. ?Ir. Coyne has a: ) stopped a number of runaway tl ses, either by riding or runninfealongjofthem, or planting himself directly j ront of them, and watching his chance e, icize them by the bit or rein, and thus venting the death or injury of the oc- tj lants of the carriages. He has kept record of his feats, and has never c ed or received any reward, except the ~ imonial of the Dorchester 'Yacht a] b. His only desire is the establish- t? it of a lifeboat at City Point, with ioh he may more safely and surely ' ( tinue the work in which* fortune has favored him.?New York Sun. j tr The Power of the Printed Page. fa he power of the printed page so far li iscends any personal speech, in these H s of universal reading, that any com- d< ison would be futile. si /"hen the strongest array of facts, the 5t cogent reasoning possible, persua- b< i that melts into pathos, or ringing at tences that leap electric from point to ic it in the argument, can all be com- c( sed in a form, and struck off by the ? idred thousand and transmitted in one tl; to the people of a whole State, what is io, even tliough of a siren or saint, hope to compete with its influence? ^ 1 this power of print, wonderful as it ^ r seems, is only at the beginning; for ?ntion is already.rife with methods of _J iering it vocal as human speech, in- (lf it. m nhntoQTanhv. and infinite in re- hi Auction. ? nets are what the world wants to see ^ print, and facts are short, sturdy tgs, just fit to put in print. Opinions *a of value only as they hold facts in ttion. Your moving eloquences are . f:icts on fire. Iteration, too. and re- ?a ition are essential. Facts which come J? >ugh the eyes are more permanent, n fixed, than those qot though the " yet, like telegrams, they require to be t0 ated to make sure. ;SF i aright cause the printed page in its lu dity of reach and result is past belief. in i with such weapons that reforms are Pc ;ed. MultiDl.v impressions and effects ni >nie cumulative. Scatter a few scores lese documents in the quiet by-ways A 're the wrong is being brooded over soon there will be a neighborhood o blaze. Feed the flame, extend the le, spread the papers, and in a few fc iths a good result will be accomlied. nrj rint is at its cheapest, and the amount ft nvaluable publications to be had by t\ poorest fully equals his time to pe- (]i ! it. When a good paper is sent the L?i >le year for a dollar or two, it re- -i. es a calculating machine to fix the imum of prices paid for every right ft; d said in it.?B. Oratz Brown. tl . <1 < His Idea of Bnsiness. ti immie Harvey, aged two years and a , ', came into the Southern Police Stai this morning with both thumbs '5 ising against his eye-balls. ~ Don't cry," said Lieutenant Faman, tl then everybody in the station echoed lieutenant's words and as each h rn't cry" fell from an earnest lip Jim- " only bellowed the louder. jj1 What's your name, little one?" in- y rod the lieutenant. Vi Jimmie." Jimmie what?" .Tiramic Ilarvcy," an''I lives on Front w et." ' " Have you lost your way, Jimmie?" J1 Ves, sir." t( IIow old are you?" s,' Dunno." d Who's your father?" ' . Dunno." . Is heiti husiness?" '/ Yes, sir." " Wlwt does lie do?" ;s! Why?why?lie?lie?lieksnie," was H bubbling answer, which, beginning tly. Muled in a downright bellow. iinmi<' w:i< j>1:k*ed on a chair to await ril arrival of his father, when perhaps ? lenioiv ' business"' will he transacted, j ^ " I p he younu" i:*dy strolls by the mur- | a i'insrs' :i, filled with romantic thoughts r< f'ltiries, and returning to her hotel fi Is that seven large and three small li k.'e: have suddenly appeared on the a sine of hi r nosu, and she is horrified a ond nu'iuiOf' ' n rayed in snow-wti; e pants and vest, . And other raiment lair to view, n,, > I stood before my sweetheart Suehe charming creature I love best. . Tell me, and does my costume suit 7" I asked that apple ol my eye, And then the charmer made reply Oh, yes, you do look awlul cute!" lthough I frequently had beard My sweetheart vent her pleasure so, I must confess I did not know ^ he meaning ot that lav'rite word, at presently at window side We stood and watched the passing throng And soon a donkey pnsscd along mm lflrn sflila ftxtendintr wido. d gazing at the doleful brute My sweetheart gave a merry cry? I quote her Ion juage with a sigh? Oh, Charley, ain't he awful cote ?" \i ?Eugent Fitli ITEMS OP CTTEBE&f; " * .:' i I I f>;ik -nc>i A scratch makes light of a match. Hope softens sorrow, brightens plain irroundings and eases a hard Jot. Russian physicians cure hydrophobia j causing the victims to inhale oxygen. Sailors ai e never averse to getting snared. It is always the maritime with lem. Three hundred members of the Moore mily lately gathered at Nfew Philadelphia, Ohio. V. : , > No newspaper canvasser <Jan raise a ub as quick as the avotage New York ilifeman. .:,rr ;? .1 " There's a woman at the bottom of ??i UJ? ?xe*. roi HS uie man imuu v^ucu jus mw i?i i the well. . . , Delicate health is a great blessing to ime people. It always excuses them om doing anything for anybody. Between 1871 and 1878, both years' inusive, 3,860,000 persons were employed i British mines, and 9,058 of them' lost teir lives. The " man in the moon" is formed by le gray plains where once, as astrono ,ers think, an ocean spread.. But it is 1 a mystery. Mr. Henry Smart,who wrote the hymn From Greenland's Icy Mountains,''has iceived a pension of 8500 from the ritish government. Diwrnod i loni calon pob Cymro wladgarol fy.d Gorphenaf 23,?Utica lerald. D ojtund er sta ndabl amedw rdo nt.?njme oeminei. The wagon tongue presents an. examle worthy of following. It never inulges in scandal or bitter words. And always precedes wheel and keeps head of whoa. If the man who gave us by mistake tie lead quarter he was saving to put ithe contribution box Sunday will call _ rc will cheerfully allow him to rectify is error.?jStillwater Lumberman. The Muscogee mills, at Pensacola la., have sola to a single New York lilroad 4,000,000 feet of lumber, to be elivered in sixty days. This is the . irgest summer order ever filled by a outhern mill. The circus poster decks the fence In country towns remote, And wakes a beatific sense 01 joy within the goat? The Wm. * . ?JtVw York Stat. The city council of Pueblo"' Col., assed an ordinance against carrying oncealed weapons, and on.the following ay most of the male residents-*peared on the streets with revolvers nd daggers stuck in belts, ottside ol leir coats. A man asked for admission to a low for half price, as he had but one ye. But the manager told him it rould take him twice as long to sec le show jvs it would anyDoay eise ad charged liim double.?Cincinnati liurday Night. To render a MSS. suitable to the editor, Iways roll it up, write on both sides of le paper in pale red ink, and tie ift with small rope which requires hours of Tort to untie. It will be sure o? an irly insertion?in the waste-basket.? "ntao fihv/vmirlp ' '' V??? Edward Payson Weston, the pedesi.an, was once a newspaper man. This tct was carefully concealed as long as e was achieving nothing but failures. :is great proficiency in walking was subtless acquired by collecting Ins own ibscriptions.?Norristovn Herald. A curious ancient Mexican library has jen found in the ruins of a vast palaco ; Xaye, near Chiapas, in Southern Mexo. The writings are inscribed on terra >tta tablets, half an inch thick, and e supposed to be sacred records, but* le language in which they are written not accurately known. Hemp first came into use in the cord;e.?New York News. And wind inruments in the band-age.?Borne Scn>iel. And arithmetics in the ad-age. Salem Sunbeam. And money in the >in-age.? Waterloo Observer. Andcracs in the crib-age.?Whitehall Times nd slaves in the bond-age.?Rome Sentel. And the trees in the foli-age.? Ibany Argus.?And the dogs in the lus-age. A San Francisco man named IIownd has invented a machine that will 11 to within a small amount the quanty of gold a person has about him. rlien this machine collides with an edir it is so hard worked that the perliration rolls off its face in big drops, id it falls exhausted in two hours. The ventor should build one of forty-horse )wer for the especial use of newspaper en,?Norristoum Herald. Remarkable Feat In Railroading. A St. Louis paper of a recent date eaya: ne of the most remarkable feats ever :complished in railroading was perirmod to-day by the St. Louis, Iron [ountain ana Southern in a chaneeof luge of 700 miles of road. Heretofore a Kflfln fivo fppt Rlnri? IC liao utvu u? v *w?. velve o'clock last night it has been reuced to the standard width of four feet gilt and a half inches. About six weeks ro the board of directors of the Iron fountain adopted a resolution providing ir change of irauge, and immediately lereafter Mr. Thomas Allen, the present of the company, gave the oni r for le work to be done. Active prcp.iraens were begun at once. Extra men were employed, and a!. th Vtnfrnn tv> Mm r>n ovtrn. time. KvCI'V .WJJO ... . w.. - >comotive and every car hud to be cut own for the new gauge, and much of lis had to be done Beforehand. so there rould be no interruption of business, lie actual work of changing the track egan last night at some points as soon 3 the midnight trains had passed. Over ^100 men were employed for the ooision. The men were divided into juads, and each squad was put under le charge of a " boss." The " bosses " rero under the direction of the roadiasters, and the road masters were under le direction of tl?c division siipmn?ndent, the whole heini? under the * jpervision of the general superintenent. There are four divisions of the Iron fountain railroad. The Texas division t 145 miles in length; the Arkansas ivision is 180 miles in length; the Mis)uri division is l'.H> miles in lencth. and le St. Louis division is 172 miles in >ngth. A number of sections were finished by ix o'clock this morning, and by two 'clock this afternoon the whole vast rork was accomplished. Over 600 eight cars, sixty engines and all the :issenger coaches had been cut down nd are ready for t!ic new gauge, and the ?guiar business of the road was interred with only about six or seven ours. Regular trains will start this fternoon, and will arrive and depart s usual. The cost of the change will ot fail short of ?200.000. ? J