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I . ' > # ' i ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. * * - % ' ~ BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARD LAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1880. NO. 42. VOLUME XXV. ' 1 ' I~ WAMT. Remembered and Forgotten. i What shall we remember; jj What shall we torget T g Seems the vexing question, c Over which men fret, ^ 1 Till the shining angel, c Charity by name, c Points to her white record, Known to earthly lame. c What shall we remember ? s Every kindly thought; j Every well-tought battle; I g Every good thing wrought; { Every thoughtlul saying; Every honest deed, ^ Done by triends and neighbors For each other's need. ^ What shall we remember ? ^ Nothing that will harm; Nothing that will scatter I W Trouble and alarm; ^ Nothing that will fostor Hatred in the heart; 8 Nothing that will make us ( * Act the vengelul part. f What shall be forgotten ? Everything that mars; Ev?r> thing that brings up Old foigotten soars; Everything that rankles; Everything that stingsSlaking room lor treasures And all beaateous things. What shall be forgotten As we |UL8S along ? Every jealous feeling; Every grudge and wrong. ' If we close our journey With onr faalta forgiven, What shall he-iorgotton T Everything but heaven. ANNIE'S HUSBAND. \ Vrodfrev rnme was a very ncn ana successful merchant. c He had no wife, and but one child, a a daughter, whom he loved, and upon - whom it was his delight to I^ish every- a thing she asked for, if money would a uyit. Annie Prime was beautiful, nnd she s was a girl of considerable sense, too h much so, indeed, to be'easily suited in * her choice of a husband. Slfe bad many suitors, but none of h !i.J U t-1 xuem suiLcu uer. " One day the merchant came home to Jj his spiendid mansion, looking like a b ghost he was so pale. His hair seemed ? to have grown several degrees whiter " since he went away in the morning. sj Going to his private room he locked the door and loaded a pistol. ? "If I kill myself," he said, "Annie " will be obliged to marry some one of her rich admirers, because she will P have no home without. I could never h ?endure to live and see her suffer the mis eries of poverty which her rearing has &1 ill fitted her to bear." ' " Then He took the pistol in his hand a' and looked at it calmly. t J "You will do neither if vou please, 11 papa," said Annie herself, coming for- r( ward from behind ihe curtain of a window in which she had been sitting since S{ he entered tbe room. "What is the al matter? Why do you wish to kill yourself?" H " Annie," said the merchant, sadly, b "eversince your mother died I have 11 lived only for you. But of late I have r< been unfortunate. I stand to-day on the verge of bankruptcy. h . "Well, I am sure that is bad enough. ^ without your killing yourself," said Annie. "Doyou imagine, oh, foolish j? papa, that ail the riches of the world " could make up to me the loss of you ?" The merchant started and looked n down as if ashamed. Then he opened 'wide his arms and his daughter flew 11 into them. M 44 Promise me this moment, papa," she said, 44 that you will never thins of such a wicked, cruel thing again." J1 44 My darling," answered the mer- u chant, with emotion, 41 never will. I ? can stem the tide a m?nth longer?possi- " bly six weeks. I should not care mynelf how soon the crash came, if I could see you provided for. Will you not, in '> that time, choose yourself a husband from among the many who are so am- 8 ious to marry you?" ^ Annie, seeing how earnestly her father looked, said: 8 " I'll honestly try, papa. But whoever 1 I choose must know the truth about u your affairs before I shall marry him." \ ~ "Certainly," said her father, "but 1 11 am sure it will make no difference. You are too sweet and beautiful to be loved d for anything but yourself." j! Upon the following evening, when ?; Annie received company, she made a careful toilet. 5 She was a brown-eyed blonde, and she ll wore a pale green tissue of silk, looped 1 with water lilies, in her floating hair. She looked a siren; but no Siren was 11 ??ver so indifferent to the homage lavished at her feet. 5 One after another thev came?the tall, s the short, the fair, the dark. She looked a mf in the blue eyes,and she looked in black; "out not a heartbeat quickened, not even J when the handsomest man in the room bent low before her, and murmured flattering words in honeyed tones. v All would not do. She felt a positive ? aversion to some of them, and I laving 11 everything she wanted, because of her 9 fnther's indulgence, she could not bring c herself to the idea of marrying a man c whom she did not care half so much for j3 aa she did for a pet canary. When the month was nearly up, during which the merchant, while he 8 waited anxiously, said nothing, Annie P spoke: " Papa," she said, "you are worth a r dozen of them. I would rather live in c poverty with you than in affluence with . any one of them." 1 " You don't know what poverty is," eam nur iainer, gioomny. " But I have a curiosity to know,"said a the daughter, bravely. "I am sure you can save enough from the wreck to furnish two rooms, and the cook has been giving me lessons. Won't it be fun ?" The ruined meffehant sighed, but he ? was not altogether displeased. t The girl had such a sweet and coaxing e voice?she looked at him so lovingly, e and he was in the habit of giving ner i everything she wanted. So the end was he let her do as she liked in this. i Godfrey Prime saved nothing from the 8 wreck. He was an honorable man and ? """ "* gave ap everything to his creditors; t even his daughter's many costly orna- c ments?with her consent, too. f But even then, all was not paid, and i humble as was the home to which they i 0 brtook themselves, tbe saddest thought ( was that a dollar remained unpaid f against the name of Prime. I " It must be paid, somehow," said 1 Annie. " Oh, is there anything great, ] nnvthini? rrrand that I could do! It is a i ehame there is not, after all you have c laid out for me, papa. Why, I am the ( worst investment you ever made. I be- i li?-ve. Help me to think if there is no i way in which I can earn money to make j you even with the v^orld again. I could < n<>t be an artist, for though you paid < my drawing master such fabulous sums, i 1 Jim mirfi it I were to skpteh an animal. ( y -11 would be able to distinguish that it t i a I four legs and a head, ana that would s 1 e all. I never could make any differ- i between a horse's head and a dog's I he id. I don't think I ever should sue* 1 < vi-d as an actress, and though I have a i t' rrible voice, rshould bAo frightened < if I tried to sing in public, that I could i not utter a note." < ^ " Ah, my child," said the father, "if ] jy.u had only married some one of those 1 ii *li admirrrs of yours." < Anire laHjrlied. j What is the use ot saying that. < papa? Not out* of them has bee* mar , I ts since your failure. I always sus>ected they were not to be trusted. Jut it one of them did care enough ibout me to come forward now and >ffer to pay those dreadful debts, I beieve I would fail in love with him out >f shee r gratitude. I would marry a :lod to see your name clear of those Ireadful debts." The father and daughter had come >ut for a short walk at evening, and leither of them noticed that as Annie aid these words a gentleman who had )een walking behind them, passed them lowly, with a lingering glance into the cirTs beautiful face. Some days passed, and then a very lueer letter came to Annie Prime. It ead. ? rip aw AT iqq?i Iirv watnht vnn nffn vhen yudidunt no it. i hurd wat yu ;ed to yure fother abowt enny wun hoo cut pa hiz dets. I ken doo it, if youle lev mee, will ime clod, but ive got the | nunny. Ware a red roze in yure hare, i ven yu go out to wauk the next tyme, f you acsep, ana tiie jent that gives yu i bokay will be me. Clod.1' Annie spelled this epistle with some lifficulty, for it was miserably written iside from the spelling. Then she showed it to her lather, and laughed ill she cried. " He spells rose with a t and father vith an o. But I think I shall4acsep,1 >apa, if you do not object, just for the lake of the 4 bokay.1 YouUl be with ne, you know.11 Accordingly, the merry girl, when he went to walk that night, wore a red osecoquettishly b^low one ear, where ts crimson and velvet beauty brought >ut the golden tint of her matchless lair brilliantly. Her fatlier was walking with her. fhey had not been walking long before hev noticed approaching them the itrangest specimen of humanity that litherof them had ever beheld. He was tall and awkward in his novements, his hair long and straight >n his shoulders. He wore a broadirimmed slouch hat of soft felt, a swalow tail and plaid urmentionables, vith patent-leather boots, narrow of oes and high of heels. In one hand he arried a bouquet, which he held at rm's length, as if something explosive. " Here he is, papa," said Annie, with , smothered laush. " Now be sure you re civil to him." She accepted the bonuet which the tranger proffered her smilingly, and ,er father invited him to go with them, rhieh he did. Annie noticed with some surprise that er bouquet was made up with exquisite iste. But that she attributed to the crist, of whom the " clod " had probalv purchased it. But. what surprised her most was to nd, when the evening was over and the trange guest had departsd, how much be realTy enjoyed it. In spite of his dditiesand awkwardness, the "clod" ad contrived to be interesting. " He has line eyes and good features, apa," she said, "and if he would cut is hair and dress with some regard to iste, he would please me better than ay of those others whom you would ave liked me to marry, and whom I m sure would instantly withdraw : ieir suits had they known the condion of your affairs. 1 wonder if he is i ?ally so rich as he says?" " Have no anxiety about the money," 1 lid Godfrey Prime to his daughter, fter a few days. "The fellow has sme unexpectedly into a large fortune. f r\ ****** rtnUfo e>ot w/* iin 1 n IC IUU1U VtxJ LL1J UCUUO "liU Otl XXIV uj.' tu usiness again, if he choose, without 1 rissin* the money. And he stands ! ?ady to do it if you will marry him." " I am ready," said Annie, gayly. "My eart warms to him already." The marriage took place soon. ^ i The merchant was i einstated in his usines?, and in a grander and more ourishing manner than before. The splendid residence which he and is daughter inhabited before his bank- ; uptcy was purchased and refurnished i 1 the most magnificent manner. Only one thing troubled Annie. Her 1 clod " still remained a "clod," do what i lie would. All her efforts?though she i ad made him cut his hair and banish is rainbow suit?could not make him ny different from what he was at rst. But he was devoted to her, and, benuse of his riches, everybody courted im. His very awkwardness became lie fashion, and his most ungrammatical peeches were passed from tongue to angue as profound wit. Besides all this he had a good heart, o much genuine kindness of disposiion, being always ready to succor the nfortunate, and he loved her so well hat Annie could not help loving him a return. 11 Hoor " clin coirl to him ori a ay, despairingly, when, in spite of all ier instruction, he would flame out in a ancy necktie, and persist in saying 'hain't" for "have not." -dear Clod, ou are too stupid for belief, but sotneiow I can't help loving you lor all hat." The "clod" smiled, and kissed her aost tenderly. "I have been stupid," he said, "and ou have been more patient than I deerve. But from this hour you shall see . change in me." Annis laughed indulgently. She had esigned herself to see him always a clod." But to her amazement, that evening yhen her parlors were filled with the lite and fashionable of the city, her iusband presented him.?elf attired inexuisite iaste, and so altered in every ither respect that only the eyes of love ould have traced in thi3 elegant gentle nan any ui uie ciiaracierisucs 01 lue 'clod." Everybody started, and Annie, undertanding that he hid been playing a iart. was grieved and offendea. 4k How could you, sir." she asked him eproachftilly. "I don't know how I an ever forgive you." Her husband laughed in her lace a ittle roguishly. " I'd do it again for the same reward, ,nd if you don't forgive me I'll go back nd be a ' clod' for the rest of my days." The threat was sufficient. Aural Disturbances from Bathtng. The frequency of attacks ol aural inlammation lrom bathing demands more han a mere mention, for complete denfless may result from the injuries to the ar from this cause, and partial impairnent is frequent. These injuries from bathing are nainlv due to the fact that man is not kfforded the protection to the ear which unphibious animals possess, and hence he water may act injuriously in vari>us wavs. In surf bathing the mere orce of contact, when the water flows nto the ear, may injure the tympanic nembfane, and when an incoming wave lashes against the face, water may reely enter the mouth or nose, and thus >e driven into the ears through the Eustachian tubes. The presence of cold water for a long time in the canal leadng to the ear, as when much diving is lone, may set up inflammation in the ;anal or in the tympanic membrane, firKioh mor f>rtor?H tn tVin Hnim nmritw nr 111 VIA UKVJ VAWVUV4 IV Vlitrf Ui U1U V? T 1 KJ tself. Ill effects may be produced by illowing the ears, head and body to iry in a current of air after comine out jf the water. Sea-water is probably nore obnoxious than fresh, on account )f its comparatively low temperature, md the large quantity of salt it holds in !o'ution. A long continuance in the water should be avoided. The Russian jath should not be taken without proacting the cars when the cold plunge is isfd. Diving, is, however, the most iangerous practice connected with bath* ng, for it is difficult to keep water from mteiing the ears or nose and mouth, [n diving, the pressure of water on the tympanic membrane from withoutmay jause vertigo. Even syringing the ears gently is known in some instances to occasion decided dizziness.?Dr. Samuel Sesclon, in Harper. FARM, HARDEN AJfD HOUSEHOLD Ileclpea. Apple Jrllt.?Core and cut out all ( bad spots from the apples, then add a j very little water and stow as lor apple ^ sauce; when done put into a bag and v hang up to drain; when cool enough f squeeze gently; be careful not to get tlie j, pulp through. To a pint of juice add a y pound of sugar; boil twenty minutes and it is done. Bkead Cake.?Four cups dough, two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup cream, two eggs, one teaspoon saleratus. * Mix with the hand? and add a little flour, also fruit and spices to suit the ; taste, and let it rise well before baking. ? Cokn Meal Pones.?Three cupfuls of 0 milk, warmed a little; two and a half f cupfuls of yellow Indian meal; one and v a half cupfuls of wheat flour; a good t pinch of salt; one cupful of good sweet s yeast. Set to rise in the morning (if ^ wanted for supper), and when the v sponge is light stir in three eggs well v beaten, one-half cupful of molasses and n a small lump of butter, melted. Let it a stand another hour or two, and bake in \? gem pans, takine care to grease well v and heat before dropping in the batter. H) Bake at least half an hour in a quick y oven. As a " set'', of gem pans does not .n bake a sufficient Quantity at one time v for rs, I use my ola tea and coffee cups j that are "chipped" or with broken a handles, and out of use; they turn out a in just as pretty a shape, and then only ij the one baking is necessary.?Bessie h Burton. a A Nice Custakd.?Scald a quart of a milK ana pour it not on nroKen eggs. w Take five eggs, throw out the yolks of a two, three teaspoonfuIs of sugar, a o pinch of salt, and add a little vanilla. \ Set it to steam in a close'covered vessel p for six minutes, then set it on ice until v wanted for use. V Spinach.?Boil twenty minutes in J plenty of boiling saltwater; drain and lf chop very fine; return to tiie sauce- P pan, with a little sugar, pepper, salt and a tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour; P stir until hot and dry enough to be molded; turn out, shape into a flat- ^ topped ridce upon a hot dish, and lay ff the chops at the base. Sharpening Tools. g( Among the hints most seasonable on either the garden or the farm, few ^ things are more serviceable than those S( relating to the sharpening of tools. Too _ often these things are not thought of C( until the articles are wanted, when Ci much valuable time is lost in putting g( in rirHor whnf miirhf na wp 11 hnrp ViPPn done during the dull winter days. ^ Even the smartest of us do not think enough of these things, and indeed U! hardly know how much we lose by hav- w ing dull tools to work with. It has been tolerably accurately computed that the same man can do as much in two days with a sharp scythe, as with one a but comparatively dull and the same w expenditure in force, in three. And it 8( is just the same in regard to all other n( tools or implements, whether operated y( by hand, steam or horse power. The c( engineer continually oils the machinery, sj and a good saw or file is oil to hand im- a] plements. We know of one who has a great deal of hand hoeing to do by hired labor, and he believes that the continued use of the file on the hoe makes a 0j 'iifferenceof nearly one-half in the labor. m His calculation is that every ten-cent w file he buys saves him ten dollars in his w laborers' bills. Now is the time to look (j after the spides, scythes, hoes, chisels, 3aws, etc.?Qcrmantoiun Telegraph. Zinc Labels for Trees. A correspondent of the Rural New Yoiker says: Unless frequently ex- F amined, the wire used to fasten labels to trees is apt to injure the tree by cutting into and sometimes girdling it. An improvement on this ;s to make and at- ? tach the labels as follows: A conven- ? tent size is five or six inches long, and " an inch wide at one end, tapering to a point at the other. Write the name. ^ date of setting and anything else of special interest in connection witn tne ? specimen, on the widest end with a com- :( mon lead pencil, and wind the pointed end round a )imb. As fast as tlie tree M prows the flexible zinc unwinds without ? injuring the tree. The pencil marks j( unite chemically with the zinc and soon become indelible. Bltlic Cana. ^ Particular care should be used in v cleaning milk cans. Many cases are on tJ record of diseases in families from using ri milk infected with noxious germs, from S1 foul milk cans. Milkmen upon again g receiving their cans should cleanse them with boiling water and, it Bhould boil, y Very hot steam is better, but few have jj this facility. It is one of those where v the buyer must depend upon the integ- d rity of the sellers. The safe way is for j the city milkman to scald the cans thor- e oughly and when received by the dairy- t man to again scald. The buyer if at all { in doubt, may prevent danger in a great 0 measure by thoroughly boiled milk, but, j again, boiled milk is not what ouyers c wish in a majority of cases.?Prairie t Farmer. f] Hayfor Hogi. y But few men, sajis the Nebraska v Farmer, are aware of the fact that hay ^ is beneficial to hogs, but It is true, e nevertheless. Hoes need rough food as ^ well as horses, cattle or the human race. 8 To nrenare it, von should have a cuttins? r box (or hay cutter), and the greener the hay the better. Cut the hay short and t mix with bran, shorts or middlings, and f feed as other food. Hogs soon Jearn to j like it, and if soaked in swill or other c slop food it is highly relished by them. ^ In winter, use for hogs the same hay c you feed to your horses; you will find t, that, while it saves /iran, shorts or other j food, it puts on flesn as rapidly as any- ^ thing that can be givon them. t Properties of the Homp Plant.. r It is known to many, though not per t haps a matter of general knowledge, that the hemp plant supplies Asiatic -j natives with a cheap intoxicating stim- r ulant. Mohammedans, Hindoos, Sikhs, and others whose religion forbids them the use of alcohol, find in this plant a substitute so perfect as to reconcile them to keeping the letter of their law; not ^ caring much in this or any other respect ifor the spirit thereof. Hemp has nothing pleasant in its taste, and therein it lies at a disadvantage with many forms of alcohol; and when mixed with tobacco and eraoked in the hookah, it has an exceedingly unpleas- t ant smell, that clings for some time to y buildings. Its effects are very different i from thoBe of alcohol, acting powerfully j on ccrtain parts of the constitution when ? taken in excess, but being less generally n injurious, though in extreme cases it i produces temporary madness. rj It m*iy also be taker, in decoction, or ^ in a solid form is put into sweetmeats. n In ordinary doses it is merely a gentle r and pleasant stimulant, and excites none j of the brutal coarseness produced by y alcoholic excess, though Quarreling r sometimes results from over-indulgence. Probably there is nothing so powerful as hemp for annihilating fear. It is very cenerally taken by the sepoy of India before entering into action, and Mohammedan fanatics brave death under its influence. This latter r excitement has been common in Afghanistan lately. Afghans believinc that r paradise awaits tbem if killed while , fighting the infidel, have deliberately j intoxicated themselves with this drug , and rui hed jnto British camps?to which 8 the country people were allowed en- ^ trance for the purpose of selling pro- ' visions?cutting down all who came in n their way till they were themselves t killed, or taken alive to be tried by $ drum-head court-martial. In English petty wars with the hill tribes in that region, determined rushes have often been madf by small bodies of men simi- 11 larly deadened to fear by the fre? use of ! a hemp. , I j A Grateful Indian ChieFs Letter. A schoolboy in Cincinnati was moved ecently by a letter published in the 1 Commercial of that city to write to the ndian chief, American Horse, and send lim some pictures. vThe great chief ras pleased, and dictated to his young riend the following letter, in which was t ticlosed a photograph of himself and r yife and daughter: t Pine Ridge Agency, I). T.,) J February 20, 1880.-' ) s M\j Friend Kola: Although you are et a boy and I am a man forty years t Id, I call you my friend. I asked lor f lictures to make my house pleasant, and t ou have answered me very nicely. |1 \ eceived your letter with the pictures c f our great father and his wife day be- ^ are yesterday, and you made my heart i cry glad. All the white people saw e hem?the agent, the traders, our mis- s ionaries, and all, and that made me 1 ery happy. And then I took them 1 nth me to a big council of the chiefs, s rhere Red Cloud and all were, and they \ 11 shook hands with the great father j nd his wife. I am so much pleased c rith what you have given rr.e that I, s rith my wife and daughter, am going to f ee you ? I mean our pictures. When 1 ou see me (my picture) think of me as s ear you; lor now I am going to talk f nth you. My young friend, now that have come to your house, I seem to be t t home, for I find you living just as we r re, (or we are living just as you are. ? ike white men.) So I will not tell you r ow we are living. My friend, we have a n agency with a great many buildings, \ nd we also have a large schoolhouse c rhere our missionaries live, aud they i J TT. - _ rC {III gOOQ. W c ijiiiijv a ^Lcab ucai ut j. ur teachers and the holy prayer men. f Pe also like our father [the agent;] we t rize him very?much. Now, my friend, r re are beginning to live like white men s Pe have built a great many loe houaes. i Vehave plows, and are beginning to t arn how to use them. We are now ? leased with all those things, and so we r re learning how to be like white peo- f le. li We were asleep, as it were, and we p 'ere lost, as it were, but now we are , etting awake and finding our way. "The reat father is helping us, and the s rayer [the church] is helping us, and s > we are beginning to live. a Kola [friend] Edwin, I am going to v sk you for something again. I want to a ?e you and you v father and your mother c -I mean your pictures. If you could ^ :>me to my house I would take good c ire of you, and you would see some t x>d people. We are Indians, but are v nw trying to live like white people, t [y picture was taken four years ago. ^ My friend [noia,] if you should see 3l 3 freighting you would say we are :? >)?[> ,n?K if TToii ahnnlH lnnlr lilUC 1LAC1J, iuiuuu^u 11 jvu .. y ose you would ?ee that we are Da- ^ 3tas. 0 Now, my friend [kola,] I have said ^reat deal to you. 1 want you to tj rite me ae;ain, now we are iriends, and g > will write to each other often. I have at seen the paper with my letter. Will a >u send me one? I wish you could t >me out and see how we are living. I j, lake hands with you and your father, a id all your friend.*. Your friend. Wasicuntaiunka, h (American Horse.) t P. S.?In this letter I have told you a f our new ways, our trying to be white a ien. If you give me another letter I a ill tell you something about our eld y ays as Indians. I wanted to tell you I le best first. , Written lor American Horse by the j ev" H. Burt, missionary. a ii r rom Boston for Australia in a Small ! TlAOf i*v?n Included in the " free list" of passen- ^ firs on board the steamship City of e ara, which arrived in New York from t ,io Janeiro, Brazil, a short time ago, f 'ere Herbert Burrill and Andrew B. t loomhes. These two men, at 3 p. m., g n July 9 last, in a boat nineteen feet ? >ng, five feet tour inches beam, and two 1' ?et six inches depth of hold, 1 14-100 a jns capacity, the hull built of cypresr s rood and decked over with white pine s nd schooner rigged, sailed from Boston h )r Melbourne, Australia, where they c oped to obtain a fortune by exhibiting a lieirboat and themselves at the world's ? xliibition. The boat was named the a loiden Gate, and with a supply of pro- * isions, mostly canned meats, and three t inks of fresh water, they hoped to i each Melbourne without making any t Lons, excepting in the Straits of Ma- s ellan. , 1 Each of the men stood six nour c ratches, and they succeeded very well 1 their voyage, having moderate s rather, until they reached the Cape v p Verde islands, fifty-eight days from s toston, when, feeling tired and partially t xhausted, they put into St. Iago, where s liey remained twelve days to recruit t heir health and replenish their supply t f provisions. They sailed from St. e ago September 17, ar.d soon alterward a ncountered stormv weather which con- c inually increased in violence. The f loods of water wtiich came into their I ioat damaged a large portion of the pro- a isions, which they were compelled to i hrow-overboard. They worked forsev- c ral days without relief, and then, as c heir provisions were fast becoming t hort, they eagerly scanned the horizon r or some friendly craft. With diaam>ointed hopes they con- 1 inued on until they had gone nearly as 1 ar south as Cape Colony, and close to \ he west coast of Africa, when their s anned provisions being entirely gone i hey determined to make for the island t ?f St. Helena. For twenty-five days t hey subsisted on cocfla, and then find t ng that the adverse weather would pre- i rent them from reaching St. Helen a t hey concluded to make for the coa t ot s irazil. The two adventurers bythip, t ime were completely disheartened and \ i early prostrated with exhaustion. As I hey were about to give up all hope f hey sighted land, and tlvpir boat was t un ashore in a few hours afterward at ? "orre, about eighty miles north of g lahia, Brazil. i They then secured passage for them- c elves and their boat to Bahia on a < ehooner, and left that port on the City i f Para. The two men thought they t ad had a tough experience, but be- j ieved they would come out all right. r c A Sad Story of the War. In the midst of the great events of he war, such incidents as the following rero comparatively unnoticed, and left o be long afterward related in print: | liss Annie Pickens, daughter of the 1 overnor of South Carolina, was to be J aarried on April22,1863, in Charleston, : o Lieutenant Andrew ])e Roehelle. ! .'he wedding party was assembled in 1 he Pickens residence, and the clergy- f nor, woo nclfintr t.hp hririe if nhfl was ' eady, when a shell from a Union gun n the harbor broke into the room and >urst Nine persons were hurt, but inly Miss Pickens' wound proved moral. She bore the p:iin with wonderful ortitude. and was unmoved when inormed that she had only an hour or wo to live. De Rochelle snid that he vould like to have her die his wife, and he poor girl smiled .sadly in assent, rhe guests remember the scene as far nore" pitiful than they can describe. ?he bride lay on n so/a, hor white dress labbled in blood and her hair disleveled, while her pallid face was so ming with agony that her efforts to mile became futile. The ceremony was turriedly performed, though the bride's ' Yes" was in a faint, labored whisper, ,nd her lips hardly moved in response o her hiTJband's kiss. She died immeliately afterward. There are in the United States 727 mper-mills, making 1,800 tons a day of ill kinds of paper, but the writing >aper used is not 200 tons daily. HIE FAMINE IN IRELAND. Plaiting the Starving People?Soenea of Abject Misery and Sickening Squalor ?" Thank God, America Haa IVot Forgotten Ireland." The Rev. George Hepworth, one ot he New York Herald, relief committee, nakes the following report of the conlition in which he found the starvine jeoplo of Ireland. It i3 a vividly told itory of want and woe: It is easy to understand the causes of he present poverty. The people have lad three had crops in succession: hings have been growing worse ana vorse until the almost utter failure of :rops last year brought them to the rerge of starvation. Thev have nothng to plant?a want which the British ;overnment will supply by the loan of eed potatoes on very easy terms. They lave nothing to eat, a want wmcn you lave yourselves so generously helped to upply by gifts which I am sure you vill supplement by other gifts when rou know what is the real state of the :ase. In order to understand for myelf the condition of affairs, I spent a fiw days under the leadership of Colonel ung-Harman, covering about thirty quare miles on the first day and over orty on the second. I visited a large number of small eetlements on the west bunk of the Shanlon, in the counties of Roscommon and iligo. For about ten hours each day I ode and walked, entering altogether .bout a hundred wretched hovels, rhich this afflicted people delusively all their homes, and where from mornng till night they encounter the dread onotony of want and misery. While liiv nronnrpd to meet more or less dis ress everywhere, knowing through foraer visits something of the chronic tate of poverty in which the people ive, I was not prepared, nor could anyhing I have ever before seen in anv de;ree prepare me, for the scenfe of abject nisery and sickening squalor which I ound at every turn. The people did not :new of my coming, and could not preiare for any dramatic display of wretchedness and want. Unawares I searched every corner of cores of houses for any means of subisience, and came back at night with n aching heart. I had seen what it would do you all good to sec. Even fter hearing it I am sure you will inrease your gifts, generous as they have ~*n nlmam r?f distress I >een, unin nils gicou ? an be bridged over. When -I tell you bat I have seen men utterly break down rhen I slipped a paltry shilling into heir hands, and women clutch alonfof read as though they were afraid that omeone wou,d suddenly appear to take t from them, you can faintly imagine rhat I have experienced in the last few Ays. The friend who accompanied me bserved that 1 felt a large lump in my liroat all the time. I could find no iiting language in which to express my orrow and my sympathy. The first case I remember wns that of n old woman who sat on the muddy hreshold of her hut as we went by, liftt 1? onnnligation. Qg up ner uncus <u n .1* ~-r, , nd crying, "Nothing has passed my ips for twenty-four hours." I never new the value of a loaf of bread till hat moment. When we gave her half . loaf she took it'with the eagerness of . famished dog. She trembled with age nd weakness, for she was over seventy ears of age, and hunger had reduced ler to the likeness of a skeleton. There ras a plare in her eye that told of fumne. She stood in the middle of the road nd thanked God that Americans had lot forgotten Ireland. It was hours beore I could get away from that hauntne. haggard faee. Nor shall I soon forget the sight rhich I saw in another hut. The aother of seven children was holding he youngest, a girl of a few months, in rantic embrace, moaning as she rocked o and fro. She looked up with startled ""t-ornd Mm Hnnr. which We I iiav IU nccu^itu wiw ouid only do by bending, and gave u ow cry as though in very terror. After .lew minutes she w:is reassured, for lie thought me an aeent of the landlord enl to evict her. Then she told me she iad nothing to eat lor many days oxept a poor dole of Indian meal which . relief committee< gave her, and for rhich she was thanlcful enough. She dded that being half starved herself it ras impossible to supply milk for her iabe. She would be compelled to see t die by inches in her arms. But for he meal which the relief committee upplied the family would have literally iad nothing to eat. But I cannot reite all the individual instances. I?et me give you a sample of what I aw in many scores of huts, and in a few rhich are thatched and of stone, and t?nd nn the edceof a hoc which affords hem peat for fuel. They contain three mall rooms. One is the room where he household lives. Through a small Lole in its roof the kitchen smoke ?is ;enerally forced to escape. There is ilmost a peat famine this year on acount of the wet weather. The only uel consists of a bunch of green twigs. Another room is for the co?v, if they ire happy enough to possess one, which s very rarely the case. The cow is patt >f the family, and always goes in and ut through the front door. In the hird room, which is perhiips eight or line feet square, the family sleeps. They have one bed, with two thin, vornout blankets, and here four of a iqusehold of nine must sleep, rot lengthvise, hut crosswise, covering themlelves as best as they can. The rest pile ip a small bundle of straw in the corner ind sleep on it. Pressed by hunger, hey have eaten all their store of potaoes. The only food in the whole house s a few pounds of Indian meal, which ;liey mix with water, and make into a itirabout. This is ?11 they have and all ;hey will have until the autumn. What vonder, then, that they should he dis. /I ionntirn cr*vl P T have lcanciicu ivau lupvi/u.i.pjVM. Lsked again and apain what part of heir wretchedneRs is due to intempermce. I am assured that it is caused lolely by the ut'.er failure of the crops. \nd with all this poverty the majority >f the Irish is^cheerful. The people are >nduring the great stress of suffering vitli a pluck and courage which are ruly admirable. It is my hoi>e and irayer that the American people will lot feel that enough has been already lone. Our Bodies After Death. Within a very nenr approach to truth, he human family inhabiting the earth las been estimated at 1.000,000.000; the innual loss by death is 18,000,000. Now, he weight of the animal matter of this mmon?u> hndv ffist. i?to the crave is no css than 034 000 tons, and its decomjosition produces 9,000,000,000 000 :ubic foot of matter. The vegetable >roduotiona ot the earth clear away rom the earth thegasses thus generated, ind decomposing and assimilating them or their own increase. This circle of :hangcs has been going on ever since nan become an occupier of the earth, lie feeds on the lower animals and on ,he seeds of p'ants, which in due time become a part of himself. The lower uiimals feed upon the herbs and trasses, which, in their turn, become ihe animal; then,-by its death, again jiisses into the atmosphere and are ready >nce more to be assimilated by plants, ;he earth or bone substance alone renaming where it is deposited, and not 2ven there unless sufficiently deep in ;he soil to be out of the insorbent reach >f ihe roots and plants and trees. It is lot at all difficult to prove that the elements of which the living bodies of the .uesent generation are composed have i issed through millions of mutation.0, ind formed parts of all kinds of animal ind vegetable bodies, and consequently tmay be said that fractions nf the elements of our ancestors form portions >f ourselves. FOB THE FAIE SEX, Fleel* and Ere?> Sneaking of the "torturing high heels set in the middle of their feet," which ?oung ladies wear, a Boston correspondent writes: By the way, now I am on the subiect of tnese wicked heels, I want to tell a story that ought to scare every one of these pretty little sinners out of her insane fancy. The story was told to me by one of these girls who had a foot small enough not to be tempted into the French heel folly. One of her companions, however, not so wise, went one day to an oculist with a trouble with her eyes that threatened all manner of frightful results. She was already in a state where reading was out of the guestion, and other entertainment was fast becoming a torment. "lean walk and ride and drive and do anything with my strength; if it wasn't that my eyes are in such a condition I.could enjoy so much, and now I enn enjoy nothing," was her woeful complaint. The oculist looked at her with his professional wisdom, asked her various questions, and then suddenly amazed her by asking her to put out her foot. This n?vnrifipd likfl f.hp mnah PTtranrdinnxv rp. quest. Had the good doctor lost his witsP and. thinking something of this bind, the fo?tin the smart kid boot with the wicked tall little heel the young lady was so proud of, was thrust forth. The doctor eyed it a moment with a stolid face, then?" Go home," he said, "and take off those heels?keep them off for a month, and then come to me again, and we'll see how the eyes are!" In a month thp eyes were well, and the young lady learned by her experience and a little wise talk how near she had come to having no eyes at all. It may not follow that all young women equally devoted to wicked heels jvill be affected in a like manner, but it serves to show that th'ere is the possibility, and always the certainty, that with that instrument of torture constantly at work in the center of the foot, where all those delicate nerves and tendons lie that are so intimately connected with all the other delic&te nerves of the body, there must presently come some disarrangement nrirJ rtiupoan t.hn.f, mav wnrk tn.hn.1 mis chief with the health, and consequent^ with the enjoyment and good looks, of the wearer. Fashion Facts. Waistcoats are going out of vogue. Satin bridal toilets are still fashionable. Guimpo is again a fashionable trimming. Tulle continues to be the preferred bridal veil. Buttons with invisible eyes will be much used. White faille is again in vogue for bridal dresses. The bonnet of the day and hour is the flat turban. Beads ot every color appear in bonnet decorations. The Fanchon is the coming shape for chip bonnets. ? !!_ C m oiiK musun urowiiu ior uuuucis wm be much worn. Ruby bends and yellow pearls are the latest novelties. All fashionable coiffures in Europe are worn low cm the neck. Black satin is very fashionable for evening parties in Paris. Languedoc lace bids fair to precede Breton for millinery purposes. Bridal dresses are made high in the neck, and with elbow sleeves. The fashion of wearing powder in the hair for evening toilet is to be revived. The fez shape for ladies' indoor caps, either for morning or evening wear, is nuch used. Sleeveless habit corsages of velvet or satin are worn over ball dresses of tulle or gauze. Tinted pearl and enamel buttons have eye? in the middle so deeply indented that they are invisible. Lilac flowers of two kinds and shades are listened together with a silver ribbon for corsage bouquets. Puffed or plaited plastrons take the place of waistcoats, but they are unbecoming to any but slender figures. Light woolen and silk and wool materials will be more fashionable for full d mis even in the summer than silk it self. Ecru lace of the same shade as the chudda cloths and French buntings that they trim will he much used this season. Elru of a darker and richer shade than of former seasons appears in most of the latest importations of spring dresses. A great panache of feathers, of two or three ostrich feathers, placed far fcack on the left side of the bonnet, is very stylish. The high flaring Valois collar, kept in place with wire, is found among new styles of neck garniture on the richest toilets. Ladies' morning and evening caps arc made of figured tinted foulards and s .tins in preference to lace or tulle, and thf fez shape is preferred to all others. A " Daisy Pinafore," or long tablier ol tulle or organoie, completely studded with daisies sewed on it, flat and in rows, is the latest novelty in floral dress garnitures. aquare nanaKercnieisoi Dngnt-coiorec 6triped foulard are twisted into pretty dress caps for ladies, and fastened on tin head with large Spanish pins or bouquets of artificial flowers. The latest novelty in dress goods is ecru cotton, thicker than the heaviest unbleached musiins of Jast summer, and with bayadi re stripes of bright shades ol blue, Bcarlet, yellow and black. Ovei these bayadere domestics are sometimet draped the cheese cloths of last summer Black will be the principal color foi street wear this summer, in spite of the use of bright tints. Painted waistcoats are worn even with gineham gowns. The material used is fine sateen. New hosiery includes not only th( most fashionable plain colors, but alsc many striped stockings in two or thret tints, and open-work and embroidered stockings withcflit end. Lisle thread hosiery is more handsome than that ol silk this season, and costs only half as much. ' Coffee In Typhoid Fever. Dr. Guillassee, of the French navy, in a recent paper on typhuid fever, says: "Coffee lias given us unhoped-for satisfaction; after having dispensed it, we find to our great surprise that its action is as prompt as it is decisive. JNo sooner nave our patients tuicen a icw f .> klncirinnri fn la r\f if tllilTl t.llplr fpJltlirnQ become relaxed find they come to their senses The next day the improvement is such that wc are tempted to look upon coffee as a specific against ;yphoid fever. Under its influence the stupor is dispelled and the patient rouses from the state of somnolency in which he has been since the invasion of the disease. Soon all the functions take their natural course, and he enters upon convalescence " l)r. Guillassee gives to an adult two or three tablespoonfuls of strong black coffee every two hours, alternated with one or two teaspoonfuls of claret or Burgundy wine. A little lemonade or ci trade of magnesia should be takin daily, and after a while quinine. From Jit' fact that malaise and cerebral symptoms appear first the doctor regards typhoid fever as a nervous disease, and the coffee acting on the nerves is peculiarly indicated in the early stages before local complications I arise. How a Newspaper Secured a "Beat.' To a correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal Mr. Henry L. Stephens has told the following story.* It was about 1860. The Illustrated News, published by Demorest, and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper had been fighting for months over Sickles' trial ana the John Brown trial and execution; and it was about nip and tuck, for the News had Nast. Then came the Heenan-Sayers prize fight, in England. It was a mortal struggle between the two papers. Both sent artists to England. About the time the fight was to come off, and a week or two before we could possibly hear of it, for there was no - II. .1 a. UfiOIW UlL'U, LI1C illiUWlHOU U1U1V oat with the announcement that they had sent Mr. Thomas Nast to England to draw a picture of the fight, ana Mr. Anthony to engrave it on wood on the Vanderbilt while coming home, and that it would be published on the very day of the steamer's arrival. Something must be done to save us from wreck. Next morning "the governor" (Mr. Leslie) called me to a vacant room upstairs, and locked the door as I went in. " We must have a picture of the tight," said he, "on this." And he laid his hand on a creat block on the table, large enough for a four-page picture. Said he: "Take this room. Keep it locked. Admit nobody but me and the two or three other artists that you will need, and compel us to give a certain specified signal. We must knock the Neu>3 out of time." He told me to call for anything or any man I wanted. I sent for Perkins, who was English, who knew the low country around Fransborough. Leslie, who was English too. thoueht the tight would come off on level ground with a background of English farms. Pejrkins struck the ring and laid out a vague perspective with English trees and nedge-rows. Then we sent-down to "The Pewter Mug" for Brown to represent Heenan. Brown was a strapper, standing at least six feet three inches and weighing not less than two hundred pounds. We got Thad. Glover to do Sayers. He was a very lively and pretty sparrer. They went at it hammer and tongs, as I waited, crayon in hand, to catch their attitude when it was right. I can see them now skittering and hopping around the little room, driving one another into a corner, and getting one another's heads in chancery, and finally, when Heenan Rrnwn crnvp. Savprp-filnvpr a viciona side winder on the ear, taking pains not to hit him though, the governor cried "stop!" and they posed in that attitude, and I caught it on paper. Then the pugilists went out ana took a drink. I drew the faces of Heenan and Savers on the bodies; then I put a lot of figures and heads, and then sent for Wollin, an Englishman, and he putin a dozen or so typical English heads, with English hats, etc., and then I sent for Twaites, and he added a great lot of English spectators. I took it then and finished it up, and then the block was sawed into sixty pieces and divided among sixty artists to be engraved. About naif of it was sent to Philadelphia and Boston. Of course they didn't recognize Iheir own work when the paper was out. Then the whole was electrotyped, and an immense edition of the paper was printed on ona side, ready for tho type on the other. When we came to write out the acrmmt of the fiffht we made it very vague, making much of fcbe preliminaries already known here, with biographies of the men, etc. Everythincr was ready. One morning I came down-town and found the streets Hooded with Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. It seemed to me there were millions of copies. I never saw so many papers in ray life. It was the. biggest success there ever was. The News, with Nast's picture, was not out till six hours after 1 ?j 4.1? WIIFU, UIUl L/llUJl lilic vy U\JiC pl^buic iliauc only two pages, and looked mean enough by the side of our four-page cut. And the best of it was that we had ten times as much landscape and perspective as Nnst, his picture showing nothing but conventional tree tops over the heads of the spectators, while we had miles and miles of mead and woodland. Leslie ?as delighted. I never saw him ;a such a happy frame of mind. He must have made thousands of dollars that week. " What's the sense ol de' wincing such pictures as bogus," said he, " when we nave ten times as good a Eicture as that, taken on the spotr" The oauty of it was that by accident we placed the men right? Heenan's back to the sun, as it actually was in the tight, though of course we couldn't know he i had won the toss. This puzzled even i those who knew we must have made ; the picture here, and everybody was bewildered. The Greatest Tunnel in the World. The nractical completion of the Mount St. Gothard tunnel under the Alps , makes the following account appropri. ate aDd timely: In 1870 Italy, Ger; many and Switzerland signed a convention guaranteeing $17,000,000 to the company that would construct the St. 1 Gothard railroad and tunnel, Italy giving $9,000,000, Germany $4,000,000 ; and Switzerland $4,000,000. The original estimates of $37,400,000 proved under ! the mark, and it was found that $57, 800,000 would he required instead. Ger! many added $2,000,000 to her subsidy, Italy $2,000,000 and Switzerland $1,600,f 000. The work was begun in the au| tumn of 1872. The tunnel begins at t Goeschenen, in a defile where the river , Reuss dashes beneath the famous Devi l's bridge, and ends at Airolo, where it , overlooks the pleasant pastoral valley of 1 the Ticino. Its length is nine and a i third miles?48,936 feet, to be exact; it ' is nineteen and one- half feet higli and twenty-six feet in maximum width. Twenty-six hundred men have %een 1 employed?Italians with few excep' tions. The rock, which has varied ' from hard granitic gneiss on the Swiss ' side, to gravel, sand and pebbles on the Italian, has been operated upon in a ' similar way to that followed in the Cenis tunnel, dynamite being used in blasting operations. Owing to the greater homo? genelty and the abscnceof water, more rapid progress has been madeintuni neling through the harder rocks than , in dealing with the softer material when the excessive infiltration of water i necessitated special drainage arrange! ments, besides retarding more or less all ' branches of the work. Thus, in piercing ! a bed of schist, water was discharged 1 in torrents, and often the work had to . be carried on under liquid jets descending with the force of those from a fire1 engine pump. The bt. Gothard tunnel is only one section of a railroad running from Lake Luzerne, in Switzerland, to Lake Magglore, in Italy, Besides the big tunnel, i there are twleve others, the shortest ot which. Warren, is l,10"- yards long, ' while the longeBt, the Olb rg, reaches 2,027, yards. The totu length of these i twelve tunnels i3 very nearly ten miles ?15,578 meters. Then there are five tunnels between 220and 550, and twentyfive between 110 and 220 yards, making _ii c<i.. 4? ?,,u, Ill till 1uij-iwu ouuan iaijr iuiuh id vjt uu aggregate length of sixteen miles. Between Imruensee and Goeschenen there will be thirty-three tunnels, between Airlo and Gi'lbinsco seventeen. The line will be carried over sixty-four bridges and viaducts, the longest of which, that of Cadennazo, in Tessin, will consist of tive arches each Kntrtnrr a onoti nf VQVfiQ TIlO total length of the Gothard line will be 151 miles, seventeen per cent, of it being t.u?nels an#pne per cent, bridges and viaducts. Tt is now about five hundred years, according to the best information obtainable on the subject, since the first clock was invented and put into operation; ??nd for more than two hundred years their manufacture was carried on onl'fr upon to limited a scale that kings and nobles alone cenld nurchase them. Musical Taste in Animals. A remarkable instance of a toad's enjoyment of music came under my notice some years since. I was on a visit with my husband and one of my daughters to my father, who lived in the south of England. He had a verv pretty garden and fawn; and it was his delight in the evpning to sit at his drawingroom window while I played on the Eiano and sang to him. One evening e said to me: "My dear, here is a toad under the window. It has been here a long tine without moving. I believe it is listening to your singing." When I ceascd playing, the toad slowly crept away; out every evening when I sang the creature came, took its place under the window, and there remained. One evening, at my father's request, I suddenly stopped the music, and in a few minutes it went away. We watched it until itreached the path when, commencing another song, it stopped, listened, and then slowly returned to its place under the window. When I left and went home, th*re was no more music. The toad was never again seen. Some years previous to my marriap e, my father lived in an old hall in the neighborhood of one of our large towns. Tlie erounds were extensive, it -was his delight to have a sort of model farm, which gave me many opportunities of studying the different characters of the various animals upon it. Then I saw the influence of music upon man) of them. There was a beautiful horse, the pride and delight of us all; and like many others, he had an unconquerable dislike to be caught. My father bad so trained him to obedience that he gave very little trouble; a whistle and a wave of .he hand, and Robert would come quietly to be saddled, but if left to our old gardener, Willy, be would lead him a chase, generally end- , ing in defeat. One very hot summer day I was sitting at work in the garden, when Willy appeared streaming w)th perspiration. "What is the matter, Wiilv f" " Matter enough, Miss. There's that Robert, the uncanny beast; he won't be caught, all I can do or say. I've give him corn, and one of the best pears off t:ie tree; but he's too deep for me?he snatched the pear, kicked up his heels, and off he is, laughing at me at the bottom of the meadow. I was very sorry for the old man, but I did not clearly see how to catch the delinquent. I could well believe he was laughing at our old friend, for ne was a curious animal. "Well, Willy, what can I do? He won't let me catch him, you know." "Ay, but miss, if you will only just go in and begin a tocn on the peann#; cook says he will come up to the fence and hearken to you, for lie is always a-doing that, and maybe I can slip behind and cotch him." I went in at once, not expecting my stratagem to succeed. But in a few minutes the saucy creature was standing quietly listening while I played "Scots wha ha'e wi' Wallace bled." The halter was soon round his neck; and he went away to be harnessed quite happy and contented. There was a great peculiarity about his taste for music. He never would stay to listen- to a plaintive song. I soon observed this. If Fplayed " Scots wha ha'e," hi would listen well pleased. If I changed the measure and expression, playing the same air plaintively, as for instance in the "Land o' the Leal," he would toss his head and walk away, as if to say: " That is not my sort of music." Changing to something martial, he would return, and listen to me. In this respect he entirely differed from a beautiful cow we had. She had an awful temper. Old Willy used to say: " She is Mie most contrariest beast under the sun." If she were in one of her ill humors it was with the greatest difficulty she could be milked. She never would go with the other cows at milking time. Nancy be milked wi h them! that was a tiling not to be thought of. She liked the cook; and when not too busy, cook would manage Miss Nancy. But if she was not very careful, up would go Nancy's foot, and over would go the milk-can ana its precious contents. When the cook milked her, it was always close to the fence, near the drawing-room. ]f I were playing, she would stand perfectly still, yielding her milk without any trouble, and would remain until I ceased. As long i as I played plaintive music- "The Land o' the Leal," " Home, Sweet Home," " Robin Adair," any sweet, tender air? i she seemed entranced. I have tried her, and changed to martial music, whereupon she invariably walked away. 1 could give many instances of love ; for music in animals. I will give ahother. I was sitting in the drawingroom on? evening, singing to mamma. It was a double room, with foldingdoors. She was in one where there i was a lamp. In my room, which was unlighted, the window was open, and close to the window was a stand for i music. When I ceased plajing 1 heard a peculiar sound, and was conscious there was something in the room. I called for a light. There, sitting on the stand, was a large White owl. He 1 1_ ~-I ativnvifl/J/l than WP HiH iUUhCU lai 1COO oui^/uovu vuuu tf v ? ? In a minute or two he stepped quietly out of the window, and flew away. After this we did not leave the lower sash of the window open; but the owl still came, and sat upon the stone outl side, listening.?Chamber''s Journal. He Conldn't Miss the Chance. The other mgnt, when a certain Detroit club had gathered in its hall, a member announced the serious illness of one of the officials. A second member at once moved to the platform and said: " Gentlemen, no one can regret this sad news more than I do. It seems to me that the occasion calls for a few remarks expressive of sympathy and condolence. I do not wish to occupy your valuable time, but I feel it a duty to say of the ailing brother?" Here a member came upstairs and announced that the person was dead. He had just heard the news on the street. "Very well, then," continued the speaker, "remarks eulogistic of his many virtues are certainly in order after this announcement, and I can go ahead without fear of transgressing upon the time of the club. We all knew the deceased. We were familiar wi ;h his many noble traits of character. A brothei has died and a king has fallen. It wili belong ere we?" Here another dilatory member put in an appearance and announced that the person referred to was not (h ad <>r even ill, but was in perfect health. Without the least ciianire of countenance the speaker continued: "That being the case, I deem it my duty to indulge in a few remarks on the happiness we all must fi el at knowing that our dear brother still lives. I Life is but a span, and man cometti up I like a llower and is cut down. Ths j familiar faces beside us to-day may rect j in the grave to-morrow. Death comes so silently' and swiftly that?1' Here the person himself entered the hall, having been detained beyond his usual time by some occurrence on the street. The speaker didn't seem in the least put out, but waved his hand around the hall and said: " I certainly am not trespassing upon the valuable time of the club when lsriy that we ail rejoice to see our brother here. I am now more than ever convinced that I should indulge in a few remarks. I will go back to the beginning and?" But the clu!> r< se up as one man and choked him off. and the meeting opened for the dispatch i?i business.?Free PreHS. ' * ADS1TC1 Jliui krvwmmjw Answer him softly. Tou cannot know, In the depths belo m, How sharp was the struggle, the light )? made, Ere the price he paid. \ And yielded his soul to the Umptar's power In a hasty hoar. Answer him softly; for it may be? Like the sturdy tree, Which tested in many a storm its stron^tt f To be rent at length? He struggled fall oft, and reaistol well, Though at last he fell. Answer him softly, lost you be tried On your weaker side, ' And fail, as before you so nrnny hare dono, Who in thought had won; Fail, too, ere temptation hud ?pent its lore* In ita subtle course. Answer him softly; for none can tell. When the storm-clouds swell, Whooe bark shall weather the tempest, or whose Ita venture shall lose. Speak gently; the weakest may stand the gftle, The stoutest may tall. _ 1 ITEMS OF INTEREST* Brightest when it's bluest?The sky. One Chicago man has dug 27,000 graves. Thirty Englishmen are preaching in Madagascar. Nearly 15,000 plows are sold in Little Rock, Ark., annually. A poor relation?The crude effort of a story-writer.? American Punch. Mummy-cloth, much improved, will * ? i-~ be among tne iasuiunauie d^hh* J(UUUDt An army of drummers in th> Southern trade make Atlanta their headquarters. Funny thing, this English language; _ witness: How much cold can a bare ' bear bear? . It should always be remembered that " advertiser " rhymes with " wiser."? New York News. When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. Kentucky paid last year $10,000 for fox scalps, and the auditor's estimate for this year is $ 13,000. " Ah, yes! Tim^ flies!" said he, gazing on tne thief running off with h'S watch.?Salem Sunbeam. Prrmnnaia are in order, girls. Re member no bachelor should ~be without won.?Yonkers Statesman. The Baltimore bridge company have contracted to build* three bridges in Australia, to coat $175,000. There is no surer way of telling whether an eg* is eood or tot than by tasting it.?Rochentrr Express. It takes about fifteen per cent, of the entire revenues of the United State* government to pay pensions. Professor Proctor finds that Americans take more interest in scientific matters than the English people. " Quail on toast1' was what he ordered, "Quail on trust "was what the innkeeper called it some months afterward. It is now thought that instead of its being dynamite which blew up the czar's dinner, it was baking powder.? Oil City Derrick. diruntrtn, nf Louisville fof AUG \J lwjr v??ww?^ 1880, says in its introduction: " Louisville to-day has 25,000 housed, and a population of 174,000." The great interest in a certain variety of corn and also of a certain variety of young men is whether it will pop or not.?McOrcgor News. Oregon farmers propose to test the practicability of raising the rugir-beat n that State. A premium ha- been ffered of $100 for the best acre ?id f 50 or the second beat. Young ladies are now wearing coachmen's coata instead of the ulster. This is to show how they will take the reins in their hands when they choose matrimony as a vehicle for happiness.?Boaton Courier. When a California editor gets ready to call a contemporary a "prevaricator" -or some other word of a little higher proof ?he is always careful to first tell the foreman the style of funeni notice he wPMts.?Middleiown Transcript. The consumption of writing paper in the United States is one and tljree-fourth tons daily to each 1,000,000 inhabitants, * ' * ?hn wlinlfl or eigiuy tons a unj >u. "ountry. Holyoke is producing fifty tons of writing paper daily. A Chicago man has had a lost tooth replaced by one transplanted from the mouth of a young girl, and now at a party, when the rest of his mouth is watering for salmon, salad and quail on toast, that tooth aches for ice-cream and rozon pudding. There must be something wrong when any kind ot a subsidy (roes bogging. A Na83au correspondent writes that there is a standing offer on the part of the Bahama legislature of $10 000 a year for ten years to any company that will lay a cable between Nassau and the United States. The German government has recently rechristened no less tlinn 680 places in Alsace-Lorraine, giving them German names in the place of French. The Official Journal explains that the name3 were originally German, the same as are now assigned, and that under French rule they were simply translated. A MODERN WAT. Darling, I'm waiting lor thy reply, Waiting thy nnswar to my request; Thy lipd are mute, thy eyes are clowxl, * *1 * J nn mv lireftHt. Ana xny neuu nm |>n>un?. Oh peak! b? thy answer whit it may; Speak, and my whole life blight or blow? Whether the cold, har.ih, crnel " No!" Or whether tho longed-for, heavenly " Yea." Thy lips do tremble, but, ah! my dear, T cannot hear o'en the slijjhtoat moan! Speak moro loudly?or, stay, my love, Breathe it into my audiphone. ?Salem Sunbeam. The Rev. Burr Baldwin, the oldest surviving graduate of Yale, and the only living membpr of the class of 1809, died at Montrose, Pa., aped ninety-one. lie was regarded as the founder of the American school sssteiu, and a school was organized ltnder his direction at Newark, N. J., in the tirst quarter of the present century. The application of a colored woman for admission cau?ed much apprehension, but she was admitted, and the school at Parsippany r~>. tho <vhirsuinn of colored teachers was soon instituted. The Reporting and Typc-SettJnp of the Future. In the London Times newspaper office, one of Edison's loud-speaking tel phones is to he used. The reporter in parlia ruenf, in place ot goine witn niseinjuhand notes to the office, and reading them to the copyists, reads ihent before the telephone, thus saving t tie time of travel, while at the other etd of the line in the ofliee the copyist hears it as well as if the short hand writer wn? witli hinj. Now we expect that it will come to this: Such a telephone will he placed close to' the operat"r of a type-settinr machine, so that he cad hear what is spoken, and by manipdlating his keyboard it is at once spf Up in type. Tho speaking may he iOOxir 1,000 miles away, it d >en not make any difference. In this way night speech** i: ad?- in Congress in Washington lyy be tut up in type in New York vjf the uiormnt they aie spoken, ant^'i'riiiit'd within tic same hour. We/i#k th?- uronhery that it wij] be so.?JVfwictf Amtrrir.nu