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' " ' " ' ;/ '. * ' . .. ,. - r; '.>*?.-' '.'' '%% ' . "?>''. " ' ' "' ' :: "'' '*' ' ;cT?ST -M - '' "-w.-oairdW " x;|* ABBEVILLE PRESS & BAMIlf | , ">< : >. /.'j ;k4; ?' ir / - ' - , . .i: :?? '-?Ti<)?>. '?yjv Jnv/, * 'V%wS ; : * ./:'; ' it- -- ^ -.;? v? ' . ' v. ^ " }' ' , M BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBEK 17, 1879. NO. 28. VOLUME XXV. . V -.A.?? - - ' . : 5 II. -I I' .1 ?????J?? Turning1 Gray. Life's sands are running last away; " lo The buoyant step ot youth is gone; 'e Tbe falling hair iB turning gray; ^ And timo seems now to hurry on j More fleetly than In days ot yore? as Before the heart became its prey? ' or Before 'twas saddened to the core? a Before the hair was quite so gray. n( Yes, turning gray! Age comes like snow, th As still, and carves each careworn line; w< Its wrinkles on the brow will grow; The hair with silver streaks will shine; The eyes their brightness lose; the hand ^ Grow dry and tremulous and thin? m For life, alas! is quickly spanned, th And death its gates soon closes in. W! -rrr ,, t , rw An, turning gray: v> c mm wouiu mae The sign how long -with time we've been? nti Those deepened wrinkles, side by side, Cat by the sorrows we 'nave seen; gr M So fueblei beats the heart as years ^ More quickly cluster on our head; . . , And autumn rain-drops hang like tears a On some lair flower that's nearly dead. rei Like perished petals lrom the flower, Our hopes and wildest joys are laid? ar Burn only lor a day or hour? w Sweet gambols by the lancy played. ne . .. As age comes on we long for rest ] ar As saints near shrines will long to pray* ai1 ' But still we love that time the best l i_ i : . CO N , xjciuiu buc 19 RUTH S FATHER-IN-LAW. * tel as A curious trade to take, but then it has ""5 grown profitable. Things were at a low to ebb with me when I took it up, while yo now? There, I won't boast, only say that I'm fa< thankful for it. Poverty comes in at the a i door, and love flies out of the window, so wi your poor people will be always mis- wc *rable, while according to my experience your poor man is often more light-hiartcd th than the man with thousands. hi I was at my wits' ends for something to ca do, and sat nibbling my nails one day, ev grumbling horribly. I j ^ "Don't go on like that, Tom," Bays my bo wife; things might be worse.' Ai "How ?" 1 said. ab "Why, we might have Luke at home, an and he is doing well." as Luke's our boy, you know, and we had ha got him into a merchant's office, where he* to seemed likely to stay; but I was in a grumbling tit then, aud there was a clickety- by click noise going on in the next room that an fidgeted me terribly. th "Things can't be worse,"^1 said, angrily; foi and I was going to prove myself in the wc wrong by making her cry, when there was si{ a knock at the door. qu "Come in," I said, and a fellow lodger ! 'put in his head. pu "Are vou good at work, Mr. Smith ?" h<; said. _ kn "What work?" I said; "firework?gas- m; * workR?" wf > s, "No, no; I mean works of things as goes wl with wheels and springs." pi] "Middling,'' I said, for I was fond of wa pulling clocks to pieces and trying toin- shi - : vent, 1 ' -on "I wish you'd come and look at this sew- pri ing-machine of mine, for I can't get it to wi g0\ ' V L Sewing machines were newish in those (lavs, and I got up to have a look at it, and lik after about an hour's fiddling about it, i ha began to see a bit of the reason why?the ey< r purpose, you know, of all the Bcrews and wi Cranks and wheels ; I found out, too, whv he , our neighbor's wife?who was a dressmaker, ' an-1 h.nl just started one?could not get it ' to go ; and before niu'ht, and by thinkinar, di< mam and putting this and that together, had got thi her in the way of working it pretty stead- 1 ily, though, with my clumsy fingers, I thi couldn't have done it myself. tol I had my bit of dinner and tea with these ' people, and they forced half a crown upon cit me as well, and I went back feeling like a liv new man, so refreshing had h#en that bit of da work ? fel "There,"' said my wife, "I told you some- ( thing -vould come." 1 ' iv ell, so you did," said I, but the some- Su thing is rather small." hu But the very next day as we were living wo in the midst of people who were fast taking ter to sewing machines?if the folks from the 1 next house didn't want me to look at ' their's! and then the news spreading, as th< news will spread, that there was somebody wo who could cobble and tinker machines soi without putting people to the expense that ' makers would, if the jobs didn't come in yoi fast, bo that I was obliged to get files and ' drills and a vise?regular set of tools by de- til; grecs; and at last I was as busy as a bee from gii mAPninv fn wY\ iotlinrr c\\ray mw ? "V.? 1UI ; as happy as a king- ' Of course, every now and then I got a an breakage, but I could generally get over lai that by buying a new wheel or Hpindle, or cui whatnot. .Next we got to supplying shuttles, hie and needles and machine cotton. Soon after th< I bought a machine of a man who waa tired olc of it. Next week I sold it at a good profit; an bought another, and another, and sold them; ha then got to taking them and money in ex- ' change for new ones: and one wavor the go other became a regular big dealer as you i i see. sto W Hundred? Why, new, second-hand and 4 with those being repaired upstairs by the 1 men, I've got at least 300 on the premises, to while if anybody had told me fifteen years ' ago that 1 should be doing this I should Li have laughed at him. ' That pretty girl showing and explaining tw the machine to a customer ? That's Ruth, wi that is. No, not my daughter?yet, but she he soon will be. Poor girl, I always think of he her and of bread thrown upon the waters at ch be Bame time. eyi f Carious idea, that, you will gay. but I'll th tell you why. In our trade we have strange people to co deal with. Most of 'em are poor, and can't an buy a machine right off, but are ready and lit willing to pay so much a week. That suils to them, and it suits me, if they'll only keep th the payments up to the end. " th You won't believe me, perhaps, but Rome ni of them don't do that Some of them leave their lodgingB, and I never see them again; wi and the most curious part is that the sew- ar ing machine disappears with them, and I m never see that again. Many a one, too, that w< has disappeared like that, I do see again? of perhaps have it brought here by someone to ej De'repaired or exchanged for a "bigger or for m one by a different maker; for if you look, ni round here you'll see I've got all kinds? bi new and old,little domestics and big trades? there, you name any maker, and see if I al don't bring out one ot his workB. to Well, whenever I ask these people where they fcot the machine?for 1 always know m them by the number?it tujns ont that I they've bought it through an advertisement bi or at a salesroom, or maybe out of a pawn- b< broker's Bhop. w But I've had plenty of honest people to ii deal with, too?them as|have"come straightforward and asked me to take their machine gi back, when I'd allow them as much ael Ji thought fair, ?nd 'twould be an end of a fl - 'pleasant transaction. h * n?i T i L? Ui* JLne waj X nave uwn uuvcu, iuuu^u uj yv tome folks had mademe that case-hardened s< that sometimes I've wondered whether I'd d got any heart, and the wife had to interfere, ? telling me I've heen spoiled-with prosperity and grown unfeeling, h It was she that made me give way about t] Ruth ; for one day, after having had ray m bristles all set up by finding out that three a good sound machines, by best makers, had tl gone, nobody knew where, who should come si into the shop but a ladylike-looking wo nan ti in very shabby widow's weeds. She wanted a machine for herself and daughter to learn, si and said she had heard I would take the ^ money by installment. Now just half an hour before, by our shop-clock, I had made r ra vow that I'd give up all that part of the h trade, and I wan very rough with her?just t: as I am when I'm cross?and said " No." " But you will if the lady gives security?" p said my wife, hastily. t The poor woman gave such a woe tegom ok ua that it made me more out o. mper than ever, for I could feel that if ] opped I should have to let her have oni her own terms. And so it was; for there I didn't let her have a first-class machine i good as new, she only paying seven anc le-half down, and undertaking to payhal crown a week, and no more security that >thing! To make it worse, too, if I didn't sent e thing home without charge! Luk< ?nt with it, for he was back at home nov seping my books, being grown into a fin< tung fellow of twenty-five >d I sat and growled th< e whole of the rest of the day, calling yself all the weak-minded idiots undei e sun, and telling the wife that bueinesi is going to the dogs, and I should b< ined. Luke came back soon after looking ver} range, and I was at him directly. "Where's the seven an' six 7" I says, an ily. He didn't answer, but put three half owns down on the desk, took out his book ade his entries?date of delivery, firs yment, when the other's due and all the 3t of it?and was then going into th< use. ''Mind," I said sharply, those payment.' e to be kept up to the day; and to-mor w you go ' down to the Rollys, who liv< arlv opposite to 'em, and tell 'em to keep i eye on the widow, or we shall los< lother machine." "You need't be afraid, father," he saic Idly; they're honest enough, only poor.' I was just in that humor that I wantec quarrel with somebody, and that did it "When I ask you ior your opinion iung man, yon give it me; and when ] II you to do a thing, you do it,'1 lsays, ir savage a way as ever I spoke to the lad foil go over to-morrow and tell the Rollyf keep a strict lookout on those people; ao u hear? "Father," he says, looking me full in the ce, "I couldn't insult them by doing such thing," when, without another woid, he ilkea quietly out of the shop, leaving me >rse thrtn ever. For that boy had never spoken tome like u?r t at wiuir, aiiu x miuuiu nave ?,uiic auci in feeling like mad, only some people me in, and I didn't see him again until ening, and a good thing, too, for I'm sure should have said all sorts of things to the y that I should have been sorry for after, id there I was, fuming and fretting out, savage with everybody, giving short swers, snapping at the wife, and leeling a man does feel when he knows that he .8 been in the wrong and hasn't the heart go and own it. It was about 8 o'clock that I was sitting the pallor fire, with the wife working d very quiet, when Luke came in from e workshop with a book under his arm, r he had been trotting up the men's piece>rk, and what was due to them, and the jht of him made me feel as if I wanted to arrel. He saw it, too, but he said nothing, only it the accounts away and began to read. The wife saw the storm brewing, and she iew how put out I was, for I had not lit 7 pipe, nor yet had my evening nap, lich I always had after tea. She did lat she so well knew how to do?filled my pe, forced it in my hand- and just as I is going to dash it to pieces in the ashes b gave me one of her old look6, kissed me the fore-head, as with one hand she essed me back into the chair and then th the other she lit a splint and held it to 7 tobacco. T tvno /l<\nA QKo oltrovo rrota nror mo ;e that; and after smoking in silencc for If an hour. I was lying back, with my es closed, dropping off to sleep, when the fe said (what had gone before I hadn't arH): 11 Yes, he's aakep now." That woke me np of course, and if I in'? lie there shamming and heard all ?y said in a whisper! " How came you tc make him more vexed an he was, Luke?" said the wife; and he d her. "I couldn't do it, mother," he said exedly. " It. was heart-breaking. She's ing in a wretched room there with her ughter; and, mother, when I saw her I t as if?there, I can't tell you." ' Go on, Luke,'' she said. 14 They're half-starved," he said, in a Bky way. " Oh, mother! it's horrible, ch a sweet, beautiful girl, and the poor man herself dying almost with some rible disease." The wife sighed. They told me,'' he went on, " how hard ;y had tried to live by ordinary needlerk, and failed, and that as a last reiree they had tried to get the machines 'Poor things! said the wife; "but are ii onro rrmthpr waq n larlv 1A clergyman's widow,'' says Luke, hasy; "there isn't a doubt about it. Poor 1! afld they've got to learn to use it be e it will be of any use." ' Poor girl, Luke," said the wife softly; d I saw through my eyelashes that she d a hand upon his arm, and was looking riously at him, when if he didn't cover i face with his hands, rest his elbows on i tavle, and give a low groan! Then the 1 woman got up, stood behind his chair, d began playing with and caressing his ir like the foolisn old mother would. ' Mother,", he said, suddenly," will you and see them ?" She didn't answer for a minute, only od looking at him, and then said softly ' They paid you the first money ?" No," he said hotly, " I hadn't the heart take it." ' Then that money you paid was vours, ike?" 1 Yes, mother,'' he says, simply; and those o stopped looking at the other, till the fe bent down and kissed him, holding his ad afterward ,for a few moments,between r hands; for Bhe always did worship that ap, our only one; and then I closed my es tieht. and went on breathinc heavv and inking. For something like a new revelation had me upon me. I knew that Luke was 25, d that I was 64, but he always seemed :e a boy to me, 8nd here I was waking up the fact that he*was a grown man, and at he was thinking and feeling as I first ought and felt when I saw his mother, rIi upon eight-and-twenty years ago. I lay back, thinking and telling myself I is very savage with him for deceiving me. id that I wouldn't have him and hip other plotting againBt me, and that I auldn't stand by and see him make a fool himself with the first pretty girl he set es on, when he might marry Maria Tursr, the engineer's daughter and have a ce bit of money with her to put into the lBiness, and then be my partner. "No," I says, "if you plot together I'll plot one," and then I pretended to wake up ok no notice, and had my supper. I kept rather gruff next morning, and ade myself very busy about the place, and dare say I spoke more sharply than usual nt the wife and Luke were as quiet as could s; and about twelve o'clock I went out t. _ l.'iil !1 -1 a - .1 i iui a nine oil-can aim iwo or mree tOOii 1 mv pocket. It was not far to Bennett's' place, and 01 etting to the right house 1 asked for Mrs lurray, and was directed to the seconc oor, where, as I reached the door, I coulc ear the clic ing of my sewing machine, am hoever waft there was so bnsy over it tha ie did not hear me knock; so I opened th< oor softly and looked in upon as sad i ?ne as I shall ever, I dare say, see. There, in the bare room, Bat, asleep ii er chair, the widow lady who came abou ie machine,and I could see that in her f ao 'hich told plainly enough that the pail nd suffering Bhe must have been goini ^ronffh for veara would soon hp nw anri ituated as she was, it gave me a kind o urn. '* It's no business of yours,'' I said to my elf roughly; and I turned to look who i ras that was bending over my machine. I could see no face, only a slight figure i: usty black ; and a pair of busy whit ands were trying very hard to govern th hing, and to learn to use it well. "So that s the gal, is it ?" I Baid to mj elf. "Ah! Luke my boy, you've got t he silly calf age, and I dare say?" f I got no further, for at that moment the f girl started and turned around, and turned [ upon me a timid, wondering face that made i my heart give a queer throb, and I , couldn't take my eyes off her. , "Hush!'' she said, softly, holding up her 1 hand; and I saw it was as thin and transf parent as if she had been ill. i "My name's Smith," I said, taking out a screw-driver. "My machine; how does it I go ? Thought I'd come and see." i Her face lit up in a moment, and she t came forward eagerly. i "I'm so glad you've come," she Baid. "I can't quite manage this." i She pointed to the thread-regulator, and , ; the next minute I was showing her that it r was too tight, and somehow, in a gentle, 3 timid way, the little witch quite got over i me, and I stopped there two hours helping her, till her eyes sparkled with delight, as 7 she found out easily she could now make the needle go in and out of hard material. "Do you think you can do it now ?" I said. 'Oh, yes, I think so; I am so glad you , came." ' , t - "So am I," says I, gruffly; "it will make ! it all the easier for you to earn the money i and pay for it." "And I will work so hard," she said, ear. ?Qo?1r. "That you will, my dear," I Bays in spite i of myself, for I felt sure it wasn't me speak) ing, but something in me. " She been ill i long?'' I said, nodding toward her mother. "Months,'' she said, with tears starting 1 in her pretty eyes; "but,'' she added, ' brightly, "I shall have enough with this to I get her goods, to get her good medicine* . and things she can fancyand as I looked , at her, something in me said: [ " God bless you, my dear! I hope you i will;'' and the next minute I was going . down stairs, calling myself a fool, i They thought I didn't know at home, but > I did; there was the wife going over ard over again to the Bennett's place; and all ! sorts of little nice things were made and . taken there. I often used to ?ee them talk mg about it, but I took no notice; and that s artful scoundrel, my boy Luke, used to pay the half crown every week out of hia t>wn ! pocket, after going to fetch it from the widow s. s And all the time I told myBelf I didn't 1 like it, for I could see that Luke was , ! changed, and always thinking of that girl? s a girl not half good enough for him. I're. membered poor myself, and I hated poverty, ; and I used to speak h&rshlv to Luke and . the wife, and feel very bitter. At last there came an afternoon when I : knew there was something wrong. The wife had gone out directly after dinner, saying she was going to see a sick woman? I knew who it was, bless you!?and Luke : was fidgeting about, not himself, and at last he took his hat and went out. , "They might have confided in me," I said bitterly, but all the time I knew that I wouldn't let them. "'They'll be spending , i money?throwing it away. I know they've spent pounds on them already." At last I got in such a way that I called down our foreman, left him in charge, and took my hat and wenf after them. Everything was very quiet in Bennett's place, for a couple of dirty, dejected-looking women, one who was in arrears to me, . had sent the children that played in the 1 court right away because of the noise, and was keeping guard so that they should not ' come back. I went up-stairs softly, and all was very 1 quiet, only as I got nearer to the room I ' heard a bitter, wailing cry, and then I opened the door and went in. Luke was there, standing with his head bent by the sewing-machine; the wife sat in a chair, and on her knees, with her face buried in the wile s lap, was the poor girl, ; crying as if her little heart would break; while on the bed, with all look of pain gone out of her face, lay the widow?gone to , meet ner husband where pain and sorrow are no more. I couldn't see very plainly, for there was a mist like before my eyes; but I know . Luke flushed up as he took a step forward, , as if to protect the girl, and the wife looked ! at me in a frightened way. ( But there was no need, for something ] that wasn't me spoke, and that in a gentle | way, as I stepped forward, raised the girl ] up, and kissed her pretty face before laying j her little helpless head upon my shoulder | and smoothing her soft brown hair. " Mother," says that something from within me, "I think there's room in the * nest at home for thin poor, forsaken little | bird. Luke, my boy, will you go and fetch ] a cab? Mother will see to what wants do- i ing here." i My boy gave a sob as he caught my hand in iiis, and the next moment he did what he I had not done for years?kissed me on the I cheek?before running out of the room, i leaving ine with my darling nestling in my 1 breast. < I paid " my darling," for she has been the sunshine of our home ever since?a pale, ] wintry sunshine while the sorrow was fresh, I but spring and summer now. Why. bless 1 her 1 look at her. I've felt ashamed^sometimes to think that she, a lady of birth, ! should come down to such a life ; making 1 me?well, no, it's us now, for Luke's part- 1 ner?no end of money by her clever ways. 1 But she's happy, thinking her husband, that iB to be,the finest fellow under the sun; ; and let me tell you there's many a gentle- ! man not so well off as ray boy will be, even if the money has all come out of a queer trade. A Burmese Lady Gambler. The Burmese of .ill classes (says an old resident in Burmah) are great gamblers, and at a certain season of the year it is permitted by all. A father does not attempt to keep his son from gumbling debts. Nevertheless, here, as in every other society where gambling is practiced, it is the prolific cause of immor ! iMU.y ilUU UUUIC. t.'UC |ICUU1I>U VsCMC ITUO once brought before me judicially. As intimated above, both sexes are accustomed to gamble and many stake tneir bets as the boats come up to the wiiarf to show themselves off before going to the starting post. In this way a pretty girl of eighteen or so, of very respectable family, bet five rupees on the first race with a young man, a neighbor who met and joined her party at her stand. Losing this bet, and having no more money with her.shr Hacked her gold ring against the five rupues doubled ; on the 1 third race she bet her gold necklace against her former losses; and as fortune still crossed her, she next offered ' io lav her bracelets against her ring and necklace, which was accepted. Strange 1 to say the bracelets were also lost, and * all her ornaments were at once handed over to the winner. The girl was now driven to despair, for the jewelry bei longed to her mother, who, when provoked, was wont to punish her seI verely. The young man seeing his adl vantage, and having been for some time > a silent suitor for her hand, offered to I lay the whole of his winnings against , her promise that in the event of her losj ing she would become his wife. For a moment she started in anger at the ? whispered proposal. But then those . beautiful bracelets, that necklace that 1 her young friends all so envied, her i mother's rage when sue returned iiorae 1 Surely she could not lose a fifth time' t But the girl did lose; and having not t the slightest intention ot taking up her i 'IOU"on the following day she repaired to me. Her mother and elder i sister came with her up to my house in t the greatest grief, exclaiming, "un, e save?save us from this disgrace!" Then 3 the above account was given me in tears ? and sorrow, and the girl added, "Ho [ now demands the fulfillment of the ] promise! Oh, save me!" I sent for the young man; of course held the promise . null and void, and earnestly lectured t them on the folly of gambling, and the misei-y it usually produces. n 11 e In France locomotives are used on e canal tow-paths in place of mules. They make much better time than the - mu'.es; hut, unlike the mule, there is 1 0 always the danger that the locomotive may explode. A GILDED GAMBLING PALACE. pu wi Scene* In the Fynom Salons of Monte ^ifi Carlo?Deacrlntion of the Play?Pile# Of of Uold and Juank Wote??"The fireen tOS Table la a Great 1/eveier." as To come to Nice without visiting Monaco, writes a correspondent, is to go Joe to London and not see the Tower. M Caraivalistic festivities being at an end, I made a trip to Monte Carlo at Monaco,the 5,?1 most famous gambling place the world ? knows?and the oniv one in Europe now c existing openly under State patronage; for that of Nalais-Saxon, Switzerland, - k was shut a short time ago, the federal |os eovernmentcommission solemly reading J0* at midnight the law announcing the closing of the last gambling place but one in the o.d world. Our~12:35 p. m. bri train leaving Nice was packed with ?ac English, Germans, Russians, with here and there an American, some of whom 11 \ had come from Cannes. Our common 9U1 destination was Monaco, a half hour's J?u ride through the finest scenery on God's ?: L'HILIl. I descended from the train at Monaco, ter while my fellow travelers remained a ar5 couple of minutes longer, riding to the na< door of Monte Carlo; for your conveni- -J ence is so studied that you are kindly P?* left at the very gate of destruction. 8ai( Preferring to see the town itsojf first, I Jea climbed the steep rock, perhaps 300 feet eP.f high, on which Monaco is perched. 81i' The broad, white silk banner of the ofl smallest country in Europe fluttered E?r gaily on the breeze, and the little town lay bathed in sunshine and literally covered with bright flowers, palm , 1 trees, cactuses and aloes. I have Prc traveled far and wide, but I never have 16 1 seen as lovely view of mountains, water 0011 and sky as on the threshold of Italy. After visiting the remarkable castie and p*11' still more remarkable court, and gazing 1813 down from the lovely palace garden can into the sea, which lies far below, I PIa started off for Monte Carlo, twenty minutes'walk from the castle, on a road Iluei planted with palm trees and innumera- j?e: ble cactuses. This road by the sea tn,e wound around the tiny town and ^ afforded unrevealed views stretching ?ir! around a serai-circle of blue mountains "?J to Italy, and closed by the dim outlines e3ti of the city of Bordighiera. It would ?a? take me hours to describe one of the j?11 linest gardens of Europe, so I'll only l10* say that the garden of Monte Carlo re. commands the loveliest view and has un.1 the finest plants and flowers of the ?nI tropics. The promenaders have not the lun beautiful, peaceful look the landscape ha3; th e ladies, many of them splendidly attired, laugh and talk nervously; the rj men are wrapt up in their own thoughts, e t paying little attention to their fair companions. The women care but little for t , this want of politeness, for this gambling passion is the'stronge&t of all, swallow- , ^in up all others, natural and artificial. At the gambling table there is no sex; a j j man gazes as stolidly at the most beautiful women of Europe as nt the walls. ^ There are some formalities to be gone . through before entering the play rooms. ata) A man is not permitted to ruin himself j without complying with them. Every * journal in the department publishes l.2t each dav the following notice: " In accordance with the rules of the Strangers' Circle of Monte Carlo, en- _u trance to the playing rooms is allowed s only to persons with tickets. The en- g.A trance is forbidden to inhabitants of the principality, and to those of the depart- ,15 ment, with the exception of club mem- mu' hers. Entrance tickets given at the totf Casino bureau." UI] A Russian acquaintance of mine, who goes often merely to look on and play a _tj napoleon or so. was refused admittance i-ee lately by the secretary, who saw bv his r card that he had moved from his hotel to private lodgings, and thereby lost his > ? migratory character and became an in- ^ habitant of the department. " Oh, very well," returned the subject of the czar, " fc nonchalently, " then I shall save a thou- d sand franc bill." He was immediately JIaoita^ fa onfftr* nlrAiimflfonnofl oldnr* Q .IIIUWCU IV r.uiu , oiiv-umowuivto infr pases. The fact is, he had only twenty ,g7] francs in his pocket, with which he won fc ^ fKK); but he spent it in a day or two, j money gained in that way notoriously Lburning one's pocket. The wisdom of the above measure is obvious. If the , ^ inhabitants of the neighborhood were jj illowed to play, the ruin and desolation would cause the immediate closing of r the Casino; whereas when a stranger b ? loses, the next train takes him away, wid if he chooses to blow out his brains, it is purely a personal afFair. The Casino is a tine iarge palace con- 0 taininga large, elegant ball-room, a imp theater with a tine orchestra and a wai splendid reading-room, well supplied tau, with journals in all languages. After atr entering our name in a visitor's book, A i we receive an entrance ticket and are Th< permitted to pass into the magnificent one jaming-rooms. As we enter at 6 p. m., tiv< the rooms are softly lighted to harmonize can with the richly decorated walls. There wh ire two tables in the first room and poc three in the second, at which are played mo: the two games, roulette and rouge et the tioir. Several hundred plavers and the pectators are present. Silver stakes lent are predominant on the tables devoted bad to the first game, but only gold and sag bank notes on the rouge et noir tables, knt which are given up to the aristocracy of of t gamblers, of whom women are in the coi: majority. Not a seat at the tables is Th unoccupied. Behind the seated game- ma sters stands an eager crowd of players, pos as well as spectators, who prick with a ele< pin the progress of the game, prepara- leai tory to risking later tlieir money. Well- wit bred servants, in fine liveries, stand wh here and there or glide noiselessly if t around. Four men, cool and uncon- loo cerned, at each table, seated on elevated wit chairs, represent the bank, with piles of qui gold and bank notes before them. What car beautiful women one sees here, and tou what toilettes. But no one cares to re- fine gard either. Here beautiful blue Eng- the Fish eyes seem sinister and glassy; little ant cherry mouths look hard, and. pearly coi: teeth are firmly set; little white hands are convulsively clenched; bright faces are ruined by an expression of cupidity; oJieeks are flushed, and attitudes denote suppressed excitement. Some of these fair women would evidently feel re lieved by a shriek, but grim etiquette I prevents. Passing a roulette table, I del heard an English woman, who was of holding up both hands lull of gold pieces, tio: cxcitodly exclaim: "See! all that for gir one napoleon!" Her nervous laugh bui caused many a frown from those less eaT ortunate. in\ The green table, orlapisvert, is a great flo' leveler. Side by side sit an English " my tre; lady " and a fair fallen one from Vienna fi.n\ or Berlin; here a Russian prince and an( there a Parisian adventuress; here me stands a bright American girl, of twenty c. e or so, in a toilet worth at least $400; inr she throws down a single gold piece and wo loses it. She pouts prettily, twisting mo her glove, and I follow her to another sel table, where she risks another coin with ate tho same result. Fortunately she did sen not play high. Here is an Englishman fur however, who does; he is the center of ost all attraction, and a little crowd collect pre behind him; lie is winning heavy stakes! pa] How slowly and monotonously the cot croupier speaks. "Gentlemen, make tnc .your play; tn^'g"me is made; red wins the and black loses," and so on while the it game lasts. i uere is an instant s inrer- cei mission between each phrase; at-the up first the players hasten to throw down ob Mieir gold on red or black, and there are ha perhaps twenty different gold piles on the table. Here a woman-standing and ] new to the game timidly throws down lie three Napoleons on black, immediately me drawine back and gazing around as if ho fearful of being seen. There a Spanish in millionaire throws down negligently air handful of gold. My lord, the English- pa man before alluded to, a handsome Ba; young fellow with a florid ?ace, throws an a 1,000 franc note on red. After the sec- M ond phrase, no one is allowed to throw m: any money on the tab la or change the du position of that already place<L_^irda be Us in with a little rake the bank note lich he adds to a pile of bills under i elbow, leaving the newly won roll 1,000 francs in gold on red again, and j sing ten francs in silver to the bank ] the rules require on the gain of a )usand. The lady of the three napons looks sad, and her mouth quivers they are raked in by the bank. It 1 iuld not be merciful to say, '* Servos ' : right, why did she play P" I've seen J ristian men and women, who went inly to look on " come away without 1 ent. 1 Juicides are not very frequent, as the ] ers, thanks to precautions taken, be- J ig generally to classes that can afford lose. In cases of suicide the journals ! the department register the fact very efly, in a line or two. Probably as j :h journal receives 300 or 400 francs the short advertisement to players, 1 nuiuues a uu;il axretimeui/ nut iu m- ; re to deeply into tragic events. These 1 rnals do not demand the suppression a casino which brings thousands of \ hi visitors to the shores ol the Medi- | ranean. During the month of Febru\ 1879, 37,000 visitors came to Mo- ' :o. it Nice, a gentleman and lady ware 1 nted out to me who had lost, it was d, 300,000 francs made by fifteen 1 irs'toil in India. They seemed sad ' >ugh. The lady was resplendent in ! c, but her partner seemed desirous ; naking economies in his linen, and * haps making it up in that way." J e bank, I am told, handed him back )0 for traveling expenses to England. ' ?he bank at Monaco is not likely to : ak in spite of dreamers. Temporarily ' is occasionally - forced to stop, as a 1 iple of years ago when an Englishman 1 n in one evening 72,000 francs. I ' ak, however, that the bank's capital f oorc secure than that of many Amei ii stock companies; also that the 1 yers have perhaps as much chance ( ining as stockholders of said compa- ' 3. A croupier at Hamburg, in a mo- J nt oi confidence, tola me " tnat in end the bank must win." The elddaughter of Mr. Blanc, the deceased actor, married, a year or so ago, the ish Prince Raaetsky. and the youngthe journals here inform us, is en;ed to Prince Henride Bourbon (Sicilbranch,) having a dot ot fifteen mil1 francs. Mr. Blanc, the famous ditor, died a short time ago, and was versally loved and esteemed in the icipality, thousands attending his eral. The Labor'Saving Service. 'he annual report of the superintend-. of the life-saving service shows 1 t there are at present 172 life-saving * ;ions in the United States?136 on s Atlantic, tliirtv on the lakes and six ^ the Pacific. Wllhin the limits of the 1 rations of the service there was 216 f isters to vessels. The number of J sons on board these vessels was 2,107, i fhom 2,049 were saved and fifty -eight t :e lost. There were succored at t.:e ;ions 371 shipwrecked persons, 1,074 f s'relief being afforded them in the ? Teeate. The number of persons 8 ught ashore from wrecked vessels by J life-saving appliances of the stations i j 412." The estimated value of the I ole number of vessels involved was I J22.276, and of their cargoes, $965,- a ; making the total vjilue of property 8 ieril, $2,887,886; of this amount $1,- t ,086 was saved, and $1,442,800 lost/, t i number of disasters involving the a il loss ol vessels was tifty-lour. Trie ? aber of disasters of vessels, 1217?is c iter than that of any previous year ic highest former number having f n 171. This is accounted for by the I ; of the extension of the service dur- i the year to coasts not previously in- * ied in life-saving operations. It is I > accounted for by the occurrence of ? eral terrible gales, including one t lal hurricane, which did unusual v aage to shipping. The following ? 39 a summary of tue results since the c oduction of the present system in c I: Total number of disasters, 797; c il value of vessels. 810.722,733; total ^ ue of cargoes, $5,923,294 ; totaljvalue t iroperty saved. $9.510.408; total,value >roperty lost, $7,099,619; total numol persons on| vessels, 8,394; total aher of persons saved, 8,030; total aber of lives lost, 364; total number j ersons sheltered, 1,753; total num- j of days' shelter afforded, 4,790. c A LeornedPoodle. ( n^e an expert in Paris, finding it was I >ossible to convince people that he ' s right and t.-.e public were wrong, 1 ght a poodle to determine what was t lie antique coin, and what was bogus. * dealer would bring coins for sale, j sir false character would be stated at / e, but when the sellers were disputa- 1 3 the expert would say, " My poodle ? tell you without the lea9t trouble 1 Ich coin or coins are false." The < idle would be introduced. The < ney would be placed on the table, t good with the bad, and after nosing 1 m for an instant, the dog woula 1 >ck off the tablfi with his paw all the 1 1 pieces. Of course this trait of canine 1 acity was convincing. The man's ] jwledge was but secondary with that i ;he dog. and the party with the false 1 as would go away perfectly satisfied. < e fame of the dog extended over 1 ny countries. There was even the J isibility that the poodle would be < ited an honorary member of several 1 rned societies. People would come f ;h coins, asking for the expert, and | en he was absent would say: " Well, 1 he master is out, pray let the dog * k at them. We will be quite satisfied ' ;h his judgment." The tiick wa9 j tc simple. The numismatist took e to handle the bad coins and not to ch the authentic pieces. The dog's* 3 sense of smell at once distinguished : i pieces his master's fingers touched, 1 he unhesitatingly separated the bad ns from the good ones. Philosophy not Pistols. Ti's sweet to love, But ah, how bitter, To love a girl And thon not pit her. Ln evidence of the above, says a Philaphia paper, think of young Mr. M., this city, who has loved to desperan all summer a pretty Chestnut street 1; think of the many lines of loverdened lore he poured into her willing ; think of the theater tickets he has -estedpn; think of the buggy rides, the wers, the photographs, the ice-cream ats, the rings, the lockets, etc., ad inHum, that have been hers at his coat! i then meditate upon his disappointnt when, a few days since, the fair :ature informed him in a sublimely locent manner that her wedding uld take place with Mr. S., of Kalsiizoo. Did young Mr. M. drown himf? Did he snap a pistol at his lacerd heart? Did |he take laudanum, arlic, or lock himself up with a charcoal nace? No! but he acted likeaphil>pher. He referred to his diary. He >cured two sheets of commercial per. He made out an itemized aclnt of the money he had spent upon ; " gal who flung him," and sent it to s old man. The young lady pronounced all "O.K." and your g Mr. M. reved a eheck for the amount ($60.32) on a prominent bank, upon which he tainea the money, and is now bitterly ppy. _____ Ex-Mini8ter Washbume's latest pub appearance was as a defender of mule iat. During the days of the commune, said, " for months there was no meat Paris but horse meat and mule meat, tever ate horse, but I confess to have rtaken freely of the mule, and I will y to the credit of that much-abused imal, that I found him quite goo d y secretary assured me that of the xny animals he had assisted to devour ring the siege, the elephant was the stoifall. The stories of people eating ts.'rats and dogs and other animalsin trie are literally true." A Coffee Field in Brazil. From a very full account of the Brazilian coffee industry in Scribner, we take this description of the field-work, written from personal observation by Herbert H. Smith:' In southern Brazil, a coffee-field seldom lasts more than thirty yeara- The plantations are made on thp fertile hillsides, where the forest has been growing thick and strong. But the soil here is never deep?six or eight inches of mold at the utmost. In the tropics there ar.e no long winters with mats of dead vegetable matter rotting under the snow, rhe leaves fall singly, and dry up till they break into dust; logs and decaying branches in the shady woods are carried iway by white ants and beetles; hence the mold bed increases very slowly; in twenty-five or thirty years, the stronggrowing coffee-trees eat it all up. Most ; planters simply cut down the forest and I leave tne trees to ary in uie sua ior six sr eight week^, when they are burned. 3 , more provident, lets the logs rot where they lie, whieh they do in a year 3r two; in the open sunlight they are ; saved from insects, and the ground receives a iarge accession to its strength. Back of tne house there are two yard 3r small fields, four acres, perhaps, to 5??ther. The ground is covered with earthen pots set close together,. only leaving little pathways at intervals. , Each of the two hundred thousand pots contains a thriving young coffee-plant, rhe ground forms a gentle slope, and water is constantly running over it, so , ;hat it is always soaked. The pots, , ;hrough orifices at the bottoms, draw ip enough of this water to keep the , roots moistened. The young plants are , protected from the sun bv mat Screens , itretched on poles above the around. , This is a costly system. Most of the , planters take shoots at random from the , )ld fields and set tnem at on^e into unirepared ground. Sr. S 's experlnent lias cost him probably $20,000; the Dots alone cost $11,000. But he will nake at least $50,000 by the operation, [n the first place, he gams a good year n the start that he gives to these young jlants. Then they are not put b ick in ;he transplanting; the pots are simply nverted and the roots come out with ;he earth. They are set into mold or :ompost which has been prepared in leep holes. The tender rootlets catch iola of this at once, and in a day or two ;he plant is growing as well as ever. The nurslings come from select seeds )f half a dozen varieties. Sr. S has hem planted at first in small pots. A lozen slaves are encaged transplanting he six-inch high shoots to larger pots, kittle tired-looking children carry them tbout on their shoulders, working on as iteadily as the old ones, for they aie veil trained. Sr. S wants to make lis plants last fifty years, so he is careul and tender with them. The little ilacks will be free in 1892, so his policy 8 to get as much work as possible from hem while he can. The plants are set in rows, about ten eet apart. They grow, and thrive, and ire happy, out on the hillside. Warm unshine caresses the leaves; generous ains feed the tender roots; the ground b kept free from intruding weeds and tushes, and the planter waits for his larvest. After four years the trees are lix feet high and begin to bear. By the ixth year the crops are very larce? hree or even four pounds per tree at imes. Meanwhile corn and mandioca ire planted between the rows. Often in 1 ? ? *1?? i I nuw piUUUlblUIl UUCCAUUIDW aic uvaiij :overed by these subsidiary crops. ( In tliis month of November only a * ew of the s laves are in the new fields. * November is the principal gathering nonth, and almost the whole force nust be at work in the bearingorchards. i Trom sunrise to sutiset, men, women I ind children are gathering the berries m t >askets, working silently and steadily 1 mder the overseer's eye. Each day. , iach slave eathers on the average berries J tnouch to produce fifty pounds of dried i :offee. The pickings are collected in s arts and brought to the mill-houso, i vherc the seeds must be prepared for i he market. i Easy (iocs What Easy Comes. i A New York correspondent writes: | Snormous fortunes have been made 1 n New York daring the last few months < ? I i n the stock market. Tliere are reports i >f one gentleman who has cleared $700,- j WO by liis speculations, and another who jocketed a cool $150,000, of a judge who las made $60,000, and of many others ivho have been extremely fortunate in ;heir operations. But it is not in stocks ilone tnat money has been rapidij made. iVlmost every variety of property has ?one up in value, so that everybody eels richer than he was before, and coniequent'y happier. But it is aead fact ;hat as wealth has been gained, so has ixtravagance increased, and in a ratio >ut of all proportion in most cases to ;he money mode. Young New York Drokers, who a year ago had hard work :o meet the honest demands of landladies, fshoemakers, tailors, washerwomen and the like, now indulge in the nost profuse expenditures. They live n luxurious apartments, dress in English clothes, dine on the best in the land, irink the most costly wines and smoke ;he most expensive cigars. Quite a lumber of new equipages, dog-carts, T jarts and coupes have been started on j the strength of successful down-town , speculations. Some are based on stocks, aomo on grain, some on pig-tin, some on , lead, some on real estate, etc., but they ! all represent the general advance in values. New houses and apartments are being expensively furnished. Fash lonable tailors, aressmaKers ana i milliners never -were so busy. One Fifth avenue tailor boasts of having j made 119 dress suits for the regular j clientele since the opening of the season. I It is a notable fact that in all matters | pertaining to dress, both men and j women, among the. ^ell-to-do and mod- ! erately well-to-do classes, now choose i the most expensive articles. Economy j is no longer the order of the da"< One ot these days the reaction will come, ! and then the lesson which the people , ought to have iearned by heart during j the panic will have to be taught tiiera j again. Ifc is remarkable how little ! Bense the b^st of us have just as sooh as j we grow rich. A Disaster that Might Have Happened ' A Washington Sunday newspaper I publishes the following: In order to | lend fspecial brilliancy to the scene in the rotunda of the capital when the ball j of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland was eiven,every gas jet in and I around the immense space was put into | requisition. Something like one thou-! sand, therefore, were lighted that had not been used during the preceding eleven years. All at once, about eleven ; o'clock, while the gayety was at its ; height, all the gas in the upper lofts of i ~Aiif iMofawflif Thawa bliC lULUHUilr YVCllt UUU HiObOlll/iJ. XUC1C , was considerable commotion among the guests, while the officials ox the 1 building rushed around to repair the j accident. It was supposed that the 1,300 jets in use, whicli had so myster- j iously ceased burning, might be pour- ' ing out a great volume ef gas, which j might at any time explode. At this j critical juncture the Capitol electrician, j Mr. Rogers, quickly mounted to the ; top of the interior and turned off the | Rion-oock of everv burner. Almost mi- ' raculously, however, a valve in the j supply pipe had acted automatically, j not only thus shutting off the flow of ] gas, but holding it back also. Had not j this been the case, and if Sir. Rogers : had not been at hand, there would have j been an explosion that night which i would have brought down the entire ! dome of the capital in huge fragments upon the heads of the assembled hundreds, among whom were the president and cabinet officers. Persons whojattended the ball had no knowledge ntal the gas supply failed at any time. TIMELY TOPICS. # According to th* investigations of a Russian professor, Dr. Monassein, sing-! ing is an excellent means of preventing consumption, and for the development and strengthening of the chest it is more effectual than even gymnastic exercise. The professor has examined 220 dingers varying in age from nine to fifty-three years, and found that the chest is greater and strorger among them than among persons of any other occupation. Scarcely eight weeks have elapsed since Deadwood, the business center of the Black Hills mining region, was entirety destroyed by tire, and now the own is completely rebuilt with large rick.and frame buildings far superior to the original ones. The city presents a lively appearance to-day, and business is more active than ever. Mechanics' wages, which advanced just after the fire to $8 a day, have dropped down to $4.50. All the mercantile establishments are in full blast, and many firms are carrying $100,000 worth of stock. Theaters, varieties and "gambling dens have sprang up as if by magic since the fire and it is estimated that there are now in the city nearly 700 gamblers. A singular case of recovery from in- j sanity thro gh an injury occurred recently in the Homieopathic State Asy. lum for the Insane. A male patient, twenty-four years old, when in a state of violent irritation, sprang up to the il-i. 1.4. ?118 llAlUie, ^4UgliO JJUJLU KJk a OlCUUCi tubing, and swune himself with considerable force. The fixture gave way find the patient fell, striking his head upon the stone pavement. Instantly he irose, walked out of the ward, and gave i clear account of the accident he had met with. He had, in fact, recovered [lis mind, though he suffered greatly from the external injuries to his scalp. rhis case is not alone of its kind. Some physicians have seriously tried to raise ;he question of the application of sudden ind violent shaking of the head to the treatment of insanity; but as the question of the dose is one of gn. at difficulty, :he heroic method remains optional with :he patients themselves. An awful career of crime, an exhibition of juvenile depravity which would tiave astonished the country, has been nost fortunately arrested. There were ten young lads in London, Ont., who (vere all devourers of books about pirates rod buccaneers, and an ambition to ihed blooa and to freeboot it furiously >ver the placid waters of the lake took Dossession of their bosoms. One youngiter, who comprehended the financial leceasmes oi me enterprise, sioie irom in unfortunate uncle the snm of $180. With a part of this they bought revolves and ammunition, and it was their inlentionj with the rest of tine money to jurchase a proud vessel of the schooner iescription, and so sail out with Ihe. jlack flag flying. But they were caught, md at least, it is to be hoped, sent supjerless to. bed. The case is a turious )ne as showing (the dictum of Dr. Johnion 10 the contrary notwithstanding) ;hat reading about robberd does really itimuiate boys to rob. This isn't the irst instance of the kind which has re:ently occurred. These little fellows ;an, if they receive early treatment, be jleared of the perilous stuff, for tliere is 10 real harm in them, or in.a majority )f them. Considering the perils which ?n'viron boyhood and girlhood?it is a standing miracle that there are so many lonest men and virtuous women. Those who believe that women are mreienting to their sisters who have ;ransgressed will iind an indorsement of ;heir views in the following story, told jy the Bangor (Me.) Wing: "Mr. Joshua Nye, who recently visited the State prison, relates the following: The ' varden told of a young woman who served out a sentence of live years, and ivhile there found means of education md becomi g thoroughly reformed and i Christian, left the prison in appear ? 1. J Pt. ? iirno nm n IATTO^ UIT O UlUB u limy, Oiie vt ttfO v;mytxuj vj i? iry goods firm in Portland as saleswoman, and gave the mo^t perfect satis"action lo her employers for some time, ;ill one day a wealthy lady of the place mtered the store and recognized her. falling the proprietor aside she asked lim if lie knew who he had in his store, ;elling him that such a girl wjis a graduite from the State prison. He replied ;hat he knew it, bu, that she had done ler duty faithfully and that they were veil satisfied with her. "Well," said ;he lady, " if you keep her in your store [ will neither trade with you myself lor suffer any of my friends to, if 1 can lelp it." So the proprietor rather than ;ose his customer called in the poor girl md discharged her. .He had heard from ler since that she still maintained a joursc of conduct above reproach, beng employad in one of the mills in Lowell, Mass.' The Diseases of Wild Animals. While first surgeon of the Thirty- firs regiment of the fine, then stationed a ?r. t _ a, t j: aiaueni, in Algeria, i uusae^tcu vim sarcjisses of about fifty lions. Tne lungs jf twenty of them was affected; onehalf of them were almost gonq, showing that consumption is prevalent among the lions of the Sahara and the Sahel. At the Jarrlin des Plantes, in Paris, seven lions have died since 1869. All of them were horn there. I dissected them, and found that their lungs were entirely healthy. To what was the difference due? They received their food regularly, and were carefully protected from inclement weather, while the lions in Africa had to go without food for days, had to inhale the sandy air of the desert, and were frequently drenched by terrible rains. There is at the Jardin des Plantes, a wolf from the Ardennes. He was caught when about six years old. He was suffering from.a cough, and at one time we thought ho was dying. He hawked sind spat, and was always sullen and morose. Often lie abstained from food for several days. At last we chloroformed him, and examined his throat. He wat found to be suffering from nasal catarrh in its most aggravated form. Unde* proper medical treatment he recovered rapidly. Nine wolves born at the Jardin never Bhowed the slightest sign of disease. M. Jacquemart, the famous Indian hunter, often told me that he had seen tiirers snittins blood, which exhausted thorn so that they could be approached within a few feet with impunity. All monkeys are very delicate ani; mals. They are not gluttonous, and having so much exercise, they are rarely I afflicted with diseases of the bowels, i But they have weak lungs, and the rea- j son why so many of the most interesting among them die when brought to , Europe, is the too sudden change of air, | diet, and water. There is no more in- J telligent monkey than the chimpanzee, j a truly wonderful animal. While in j Berlin, I dined at the Zoological Gardens by the side of a pet chimpanzee. He j partook of every dish like a human be- j ing, put sugar "into his teacup, stirred I it with a spoon, and drank the bererage I with evident relish. But his eyes I looked supernnturally bright I felt his pulse. Itwas 125.. "He will not live long," I said to his keeper. " Why nut?" he asked, with a sorrowful mein. " He is a consumptive," I replied. " "Indeed! He often coughs." The chimpanzee died a month later' His left lung was entirely gone.?Prof. Jca>>, in Popular Science Monthly. We will not accomplish much without zeal and enterprise. But the mistake is often made of supposing that zeal is hurry, rush, recklessness and indifl'erenee. It is not po; steady momentum is often more effective than unrestrained viuor. Gen. Sickles' Daughter. The elopement of Miss Carrie Sickles, daughter of Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, from Paris, with a Southerner named McCarthy, has been given the public by cable dispatches. Gen. 8ickles pursued the pair to London, where he had them arrested. The young lady is about twenty-five years of age, and is very accomplished. She has a superb,figure and charming manners. The writer of this^while in Baltimore several years ago, was told a story about ' Miss Sickles by a school friend of hers, which is full of pathetic interest just now. A little patty had been given at the house of a lady in Baltimore, where the writer met Miss Sickles, and was . struck by her quick-witted repartees and her readiness to chat about current topics of interest. Meeting a schoolmate of hers next day, the writer alluded to this. "Oh, yes," was the. reply; "she was gay enough then,poor child, but I think she is almost brokenhearted notwithstanding her vivacity." A few questions brouaht out the whole sad story. Gen. Sickles' first wife, the mether of his daughter, as will be remembered, was connected in the famous scanda: with Philip Barton Key, the district attorney at Washington, 1). C. Sickles shot Kev in 1859. and killed him. was tried for fcis murder and was acquitted. His wife died shortly after and before her daughter was old enough to understand the disgrace of it all. Gen. Sickles, with jealous watchfulness, kept the facts connected with her mother's share in the tragedy a secret from his daughter, and she mew nothing about it until she was nearly nineteen. She was a.sensitive, loving girl, and worshipped the memory of the mother whom she had been tausht to love, and she frequently spoke of her to' her friends. Miss Sickles went to a school in Baltimore, and one day while reciting in a class she had a slight quarrel with a girl from Washington. After school a number of girls were seated together, among them being Miss Sickles and the girl with whom she had quarreled. Miss Sickles apologized for what she had said, but the other girl refused to be comforted, and finally grew very angry and began to taunt J Miss Sickles about the terrible story oi her mother's wrontr-doinir. Miss Sickles demanded an explanation, which was S'ven, and the poor young lady almost st her reason in the attack ol illness which followed. She left the school when she recovered her health, and soon afterward joined her lather. It wns said she acted very wildly toward him for keeping the story hidden from her, and reproached him bitterly. The effect of the revelation was that Miss Sickles1 manner and ! actions changed from what, they had 1 been before, and she began to worry her father by her apparent heartlessness j and fondness for the excitement con- i nected with the life of a belle in an \ American city like Washington. The son of Philip Barton Key f whose , father wrote the "Star Spanglea Ban- ] ner") is now an actor, and aa " James ] Barton," he took part in the performances of the "Pullman Palace Car , Tourists," who were the first company to appear at the Opera house in this j city this -winter.?Pittsburgh Telegraph. Borrowing Newspapers. 1 There is a large class of persons in 1 every community who make themselves 1 pests to their neighbors by the ill habit ( of boiTowing. They borrow everything. Witn a grocery store on nearly every 1 corner and a green grocer's in nearly ' every square, with " notion " shops nc- 1 cessible everywhere, these chronic bor- < rowers are continually sending into their neigbors on ricktand on left for a ' spoonful of lard," a " cup of flour," a ] little sugar," a " littlo y*ist." a piece of j tape." a " spool of cotton," a " No. 6 j needle," and ro on through a very long i and curious catalogue. These same i people, and many others beides, make its a regular practice of borrowing your 1 newspape , generally with the polite but i meaningless qualification that " they ] would like to look at it for a few min- ( utes, if you have done with it." Of 1 coursc they get it, whether you hava done with it or not. This practicc causes great inconvenience, and ought to be abandoned by all considerate persons. As a rule the paper is wanted for some specific object?to find out about trains, to hear how so and so got hurl, all of tnem sufficient reasons why everybody who can afford it should take a paper for : himself. We do not speak of the injus. tice of this system to the newspaper pub. 1 lishers. who have to pay roundly lor the news which the purchaser of the paper gets at a fair price, and for which the borrower pays nothing at all. That belongs to the equities of the' case, while all that need be considered here is the inconvenience?the nuisance in fact?of one class of nersons habituallv borrow ins: and getting the use of articles for which another class pay the regular prices, but of which the borrowers deprive them of the comfortable enjoyment.? Baltimore Sun. Peculiar Russian Justice. In the government of Volhynia, suwhia, justice appears to be administered after a peculiar fashion. The wife or a well-to-do peasant addressed herself to the court of the district with a co mElaint against her husband, chaging im with beating and torturing her, ana with keeping her in the cold without food until she had rfearly died of starvation. He had bound her stark naked 'to a post in the street and requested the passers-by to strike her. which lie did j himself each time they refused to do so. The brute had even fastened her down to the ground, and in audi a position had heaped stones and heavy weights upon her body until one of "her arms had been broken. When the wife's accusation was brought before the tribunal the map took fright and did not appear to answer the cliargc; but neither his absence nor contempt of court prevented the learned judges from coming to an immediate decision. The wife beater was found " Not guilty," on the plea that a husband has the perfect I right to beat his wife if he so chooses, I and it cannot be permitted to a wife to I iirnore the authority of her husband. I On the tollowing day the husband, em | boldened tlirougu tne generous acquiti tal by his peers, turned the tables on his better half by bringing a counter complaint against" her before the same court, which promptly declared arainst the unfortunate woman, and by its salutary judgment she was actually flogged pubh.:ly there and then on the sjrotT in the most shameful manner. Fompeii. 1 Though the victims of the great eruption of Vesuvius in A.l). 79 lived so long ago they were our fellow-creatures, and it is impossible to recall their late? especially, one might think, to recall it on the spot?without a feeling of horror. Sir William Gili estimated the number of people who perished at 1,300; but during recent excavations so many bodies have been found that it seems to have been far greater; and when we consider that, closely as the inhabitants were packed, Pompeii was still but a little place, the proportions of deaths appears large It is of course, satisfactory to the antiquary to reflect that the misfortunes of Pompeii have been a great gain to modern knowledge. The I manners ofthe ancient Romans are better I Ir.mim Mno hi; wlml 1ms hppn flise.overed I here under the ashes then by all the | pictures or statutes or writings existing i elsewhere. The town had been very rc! cently rebuilt, and the remains are i chiefly of one period; her decorations I are remarkable lor their rarity as well as lor their freshness. In fact, the stnt? j of pictoral art in the first century would be almost unknown to us out for the I frescoes from the house of tne tratric poet, and the beautiful wall-painJiigs now in the Naples museum.?Salurthy ' Night. I t. i x e> A Shaflow* iiiij. What laok the TaUeys and the mountains That once were green and gay 1 What Urt the babbling fountain? 1 Their Toioe is sad today. - >?< Only the soond of a Voiee ' Tender and sweet and low, A year ago! ? What lack the tender flowora ? A shadow is on the snij. ' What lack the merry hoars, That I long that they were donet < Only two smiling eyes " That told of joy and mirth; 'i: They are shining in the skies; x mourn uu etuui. -* . n rr . What lacks my heart that mates it So weary and toll pinion,. k ' That trembling hope lorsafcea it, Never to come again ? . ' ( Only another heart, Tender and all niy own;, In the still pfv* itUea? I weep alone. ITEMS OP WTEBEST, There is a good deal IK a name?to a bank check. Chickens can be bought in Florida for four cents apiece^ ..J: > Most of the ice consumedin California is made by artificial means* Young ladies who use newspapers fo n-;- i ? !- l u tilVJil UUBUCO piUCi UaVA ilUMfUOifl* Even the oyster crop In America, for 1879, is larger than over before.Sherman is fifty-nine; Grant, fifty seven; and Sheridan, forty-eight. i Potatoes in Ireland are selling to-day for about twice the price in Boston. Mexico wants a telegraph cable across the Gulf of Mexico to the United States. Chicago kilts six hogs tot evdry minute of every hour of every day in the year. . .. -w( . High rents?Those made in a balloon <V at an elevation of a. mile or so.?Oris- a wold. . . The circuit court in spssion at Ifiyette ville, Tenn., had toisusnend on account of a circus. ' The Montreal Witnai says the Canadian government is steadily advancing oward independence. ' A Missouri doctor paid a patient 403 visits, and squared the bill for -a barrel of cider and a load of bricks.A match factory at Osbkosh employs 300 persons and annually converts9,000.300 leet of lumber iq to matches, on which the internal revenue is f290,000.' Tlie American $30'gold piece is superseding the English sovereign as the cur rent gold coin of the world, says a news lispatch. ! ! '/ Senator Bayard is an athlete,_and has i reputation both as a pedebtmn ana boxer. He is broad-shouldered, grayliaired and clean-shaved. ... ,f Master Tom: "Staud in theoornerP IVhat for?" His Mamma: "Because !?ou arc a bad boy." Master Torn: " Can't I be a bail boy here just asf well?1 When Artemus "Ward was exhibiting lis show in Salt Lake City-hi* complimentary tickets to the city officers, read as follows: ' Admit bearer Jand 5ne wife." . .. < The price of leather belting lias advanced from fifteen to twenty per ccnt.; jut what does the stnali bojp cart? -He snows very well that though belting does come high, he iB bound to'' have it, -Chicago Times/ <>,, ?rt.? A drunkard handed a bottle of wilts*** cey to his son for safe-keeping, Stan Ford, Ky. Tjie tx>y drop pen ana, oroso it, spilling the liquor. The loss so en-agedtbe man that he shot and killed ;he boy offender. " White brocades strewn with plum boughs or with clover leaves ar? among ;he new importations of dress good*. Peonies on a tea-rose irround and velvet iahlias on pink satin are fresh novelties So be carefully avoided by quiet Women. ALL THE LETTERS. The following verse contains' every letter in the alphabet: 1 '/ Except with zoal.westm* to win God's just and holy love, ,, Wo cannot conquer strife ap<l a la Nor walk with Him above. "* A youug lady of Moultrie count^sends in a communication on somepresumably interesting topic, with the r*que#t to "Please print if not too fulL"i It is hardly necessary to say that wq hurl back the base insinuation with scorn? a'so the communication.?Cfiicago Tribune. * Wags s went to the station of one ot our railroads the other evening, and finding the seats all occupied, said, in a loud tone, "Why, this oar isn't going!" Of course these words caused a general stampede, and Waggs took the best seat. Thp train noon moved off. Tn the midst of the indignation the vwg was'queftioned, "You said tins cnrwjun't going?" "Well, it wasn't then," replied Waggs, " but it is now."?T/mtsvUle Commercial. Horse cars in Philadelphia are now comfortably warmed. Each car te provided with two small portable furnaces; arranged on either side beneath the. body of the car and between the two wheels. , By means of flues the heat is directed beneath the cane-covered scats, from which it becomes diffused throughout the car. The smoke is conducted to the front platform, and thence, by means of pipes, to the roof of the car. The Consumption of luel is small, a shove] of coal, and a few sticks of wood sufficing for the entire trip. ' | 9 A Conductor's Fortune. Our Hartford Sunday correspondent tells anew in this interesting way the story of the $1,000 good fortune of Conductor MeKinney uf the Southern railroad: Two of the conductors of this road have recently closed tlrnr connection with it, one of them after about' tiiirtv vftard of service. Thesomen?con duetors?meet all sorts of people. It is some time sinc? the story of one of Conductor McKinney's adventures on this road lias been retold. "Many years ago," one night while he was taking up fires, a man without a ticket offc-ed him a large hill, and.he, as conductors are apt to do, took it along, saying ho would soon return with the change. The purpose o! these delays is to make a quiet study of the hill in the boscage car and see if it is all right. When he reached the baggage car with the bill, Mr. MeKinney found wlmt he had taken to be $100 was a bill for $1,000. He returned to (he passenger and found he had shifted his seal. Telling him there was a mistake, tliat the bill was for $1,000. he was amazed to have, the fellow repudiate the whole arrangement. He knew nothing of it, and insisted, and was supported by a friend's testimony, that be had a ticket and that it had been taken up. Finally Mr. MeKinney went off with the bill, which the next day he turned into the company with his explanation. It was deposited here in the I'henix bank, as a special deposit, and drew interest lor several years, was never claimed, and tinnlly waseiven to the conduc tor y the com pany. The only explanation was mat pome hank hun;lars were on the train; that one of them carelessly took out the wrong hi 1. and that they decided it was better to lose the $1,000 than to risk being arrested. Probably they thought he knew of the burzlary. One story had it that this was a bill of the company's, and that the operation was the trick of a " spotterto catch this conductor stealing, but r company managed as this was in those days, would not go scattering 81,000 bills around even for the sake ot tempting an honest man to be a thief.?Springfield {Mass ) Rcpub iicun.