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B , . . . ; ,# r,; ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. v * 1 ? BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY If), 1880. NO. 50. VOLUME XXV. 1 ' The Answer. Yog ask me why i love thee, little one; Go ask the leaves thai beckon to the rain, Go ask the flowers that worship in the sun Why thus they love, then ask me once again. Go ask the clotnl* that through the silent night Lie still and gray beneath the stars' cold kiss, Why with the coming ol the morning light They blush to rosy lile, then ask me this. Go ask tho wild bird why his sweetest song Rings through tho wood-aislos with the dawnirig day; Ask the mad brook that leaps its path along Why to the re^tlexs sea it sings its way; Go ask the violet why its incense sweet Should recompense tho one that orushed it low, Then question why I kneel at thy dear feetWhy I should love?why I should worship so. * The sea holds many an isle to its great heart, But each isle know* and loves a single sea; I know no life 'rom thy dear are apart,. I lay down all the world can give but thew. Perchance lor this when some solt breeze is blown Aoross thy lips, thoul't breathe a loving word? A secret for my loyal heart^alone, Brought by the odorous summer wind unheard. Perchance lor this thoult whisper to the rose Thatnestles timidly upon thy breast, That somewhere in the world thy lover goes, Far from tliy love, but by that love con1ensod, And bid it breathe thy meaning on the air, Touchod lightly by thy lips ere last dismissed, And I will kiss the roses everywhere, And hy its sveetpees know which thou hast kixsed. -Louis C' Prinalt, in JV. Y. Evening Pent J:r *3 c? a ; " PATEN'S." " Ah, my dear Miss Flora!" I gave my friend Mr. Barnwell my hand but at the safne time I followed with my eyes my other friend, Mr. Frederick Leighton, who at that moment went cantering down the street, escorting his cousin, Georgie Neal. "1 suppose that may be considered an engjv cement?" commented Mr. Barnwell, following my gaze. "Or perhaps only a skirmish," I rejoined, hastily. Mr. Barnwell said no moru; he never argued. But I could see he did not agree with me. I. stopped in front of a shabby little house. " This is where Wagoner lives," I said. I had known the Wagoners, husband and wife, for some months. Mrs. Wagoner did my washing, and Mr. Wagoner carried home the basket. I employed her originally because she needed the work. She did it so badly, what with scorching, mildewing, burning, that I despaired and expostulated. She looked helpless; "hut her husband looked as though a bright idea had struck him. A' jer that there was a marked improver'.rat. I suspected him oi becoming my tfubliorman. It was on the occasion o! <?hc ot hi3 weekly trips to my house that ViP Ivifi rpnn^ctorl ?r? ottt wifK mo .and had presented me with a bouquet. | unpinned from a conical newspaper j bundle. I was not unfamiliar with liis bouquets, which were usually com- j pounded of balsams and marigolds, and of the unknown herbs of unsavory smell which grow in the gardens of Philistia. Having made this presentation, he said, with some slight hesitation, that he had something to show me. " A new paten', mins." He was nominally a cobbler by trade. '"Something you use in your shoemaking?" I suggested I thought he meant pattern. To this day I am not sure that he did not. "Oh, certainly, mis?." (He always i began by saying, "Oh. certainly," whether he ultimately agreed or disagreed.) "No, miss; its a kind of a little wagou I've been a-studyin1 out. It works r'jai easy. It's a right handy little thing, miss. I'd like to show it to you.'' " 1 would like to see it, the?whatever it is, W agoner.'* "Jjf you'd be at home to-morrow cvemn\ miss, I'd be proud to bring it cr. Evening in Port Royal means any hour after twelve meridian, so I rather expected to see the paten' put in an appearance long before dark. Instead of which it was eleven o'clock when Wagoner rang our bell, and inquired for me. He had made sure of finding me returned from any walks abroad. " I brought itover, miss. It'fl drawed xip close to the sidewalk. Will you look at it?" I went out, accompanied by various members of my family. There stood a rough little cart, wagoner pulled it backward and forward, explaining matters in his eager voice. "I'll showyou how it works, miss," he said, finally. He got in, worked a crank up and down, and started off down the Btreet at nearly a breakneck speed. " It goes beautifully," I said, as spokeswoman of the party, when he stopped at last, and stood before us, hat in hand, waiting to be congratulated. *' It's liKe * velocipede." " Oh. certainly. No, miss, it ain't a oit use a veiocipeae. it uas tuis nere principle different. I've been assured , by a gentleman which he understand tiiese things that there has never been 1 nothin' exae'ly like this here paten' of mine afore." "Why, Wagoner, that's splendid. : You'll make your everlasting fortune." "Oh, certainly. Yes, miss. I hope so, miss. Won't you try it, miss?" I mounted the trap, feeling myself somewhat ridiculous, and yet wishing < to encourage inventive genius. I moved the crank as directed, and off I started in the bright moonlight. The group in front of our house laughed encouragingly. Some one aaia I looked like Peegy some one or other, who went to some fair or other. " It is a capital tiling, Wagoner,"I said, havingclimbert outueain. " You aire Wagoner by name and Wagoner by nature, aren't you?" "Oh, certainly, miss. Yes, miss. You see, miss, I design it especial for child'en. There ain't but only the one seat now for a the person as works it, but I mean to * put another seat on, and to fix it up real Dandy. And I have another notion in i,, -,4 usy uuau tiicvu 11 iiian.c it ?u laoiei. ? c?->, miss, and! mean to set it up higher on it- wheels nor it is now. Stylisher. Ob, certainly." "Would it be desirable for it to be higher or go faster for a children's wagon? I>o you think it would be as ??> ?iUfc1 "Ph. certainly, miss. Yes. I reckon you're right. That's so." "It was extremely clevsr in you, Wagoner, to think it out," I pursued, relaxing Iroih criticism into complini"nt. " It is really remarkable." lit laughed a good deal?he had a li:if)itual, nervous laugh?in a gratified way nt^this, and presently, alter much bowing and scraping, clattered away down the street. Fred Leigh ton and Mr. Barnwell had both been spending the evening with me, and were present now. Fred took bis hands out of his pockets to say, "I saw a cart that worked on that same principle in Balti-' morp the othe r day." "Oh, Fred, you didn't!" "Fact. Pity about that inventive friend of yours." " I aui very sorry. I was thinking he might get out a patent for it, and make money by it. He is so poor! Oh! I wish vou would eive him vour boots to ' meud. That is his trade." " I'll try him," Fred agreed. Mr. Barnwell was more encouraging than Fred. He declared himself interested in my protege. " I would like to have a talk with him in his workshop. He tells me he has several other ' leetle ideas1 he has been studyin' out that he would like to show off.", " I know where he lives; I'll go with you." I said, grasping at the notion. Mr. Barnwell was one of those applecheeked, prematurely bald, natty persons who have a natural predisposition to benevolence. "In my mind's eye" I beheld Wagoner's fortune assured, if Mr. Barnwell would only befriend him. Which brings me back to where I began. That was day before yesterday. And here are Mr. Barnwell and I now. having " met by chance the usual way," : 4. TXT ^ - Fi ^ a^uuci o uuui. He opens it bimself, and ushers us first into a little shop, then into a little back room. "No need to knock."he explains. "Customers allays walks right in." The little shop was furnished with a counter. Under a glass case were a little candy, a few cakes, a few paper flowers. I doubt whether trade In these articles was brisk. I fear the Wagoners had too many irons in the fire to succeed at any one thing. Mrs. Wagoner was sewing in one corner of the back room on a gaudy patchwork quilt. In an opposite corner was a cobbler's bench. The husband and wife were in direct contrast to each other. Shp was: ft nrpttv vminrr mil latin wnrr>ftn. with soft gazelle eyes and a half-asleep air. He was wide-awake-looking as his companion was inert, of a light cafe ott la.it color, which he would have characterized himself as " bright;" eyes strikingly large and observant; hair almost straight. He was all action, with a hearty desire to please in every gesture. Mr. Barnwell rubbed his hands together in his hearty way. " So you sit and sew while your husband works," he remarked to Mrs. Wagoner. She replied, "Yes, sir," dreamily. Wagoner added, "Yes, indeed, miss," with quadruple animation. " It is certainly very agreeable for a gentleman to have his occupation, and for a lady to have hers, and for they both to carry them on together." Mrs. Wagoner produced a hair ring she had been plaiting. This was another of her industries. "It is really very nice, Lou," I said; at which praise she smiled and sighed, and cast down her gazelle eyes prettily. Wagoner had already remarked to both his visitors: "We would be extremely proud if you would set down. Oh, certainly. It's all in a lifetime, as the savin' is." After a brief period, ap parent! y designed for the purpose of taking breath, he proceeded to exhibit his "leetle idees." First of all an article which looked like a mouse-trap, but which he exElained was a paten' designed to litt eavy weights. He moved little bits of wire about, and explained to me the different points of the contrivance. It seemed to me extremely ingenious, and I told him so. "Oh, yes, miss, it's a very nice affair. There's nothing exac'ly like it. Certainly, miss ana sir. Look at this here other leetle notion, sir. It's a swing. It's a-worked back'an's and for'ards % jest a-pressin' this here board with the foot. I never see nothink like this. Certainly, sir. I am allays a-thinkin' i out these leetle things. Work is dull," j glancing at his empty cobbler's bench. | 44 Now here's the wagon you thought I so much ot, miss. I've put an entire I new crank into it to make it turn more easy and convenient like. Don't look at it too close, miss. It s put together real rough. But I'm not nothin' of a carpenter. nor yet a wheelwright. And so?" finishing off with his usual little nervous laugh. , I was cheered to see that Mr. Bamwell was giving the subject his close attention. But, alas, he said to me presently, in the undertone he knew so well how to manage: "They have some things like that on the railroads already ?like it to a T," indicating the mousetrap. He likewise criticised the construction of the wagon. "Springs crooked," he objected.* Next we were shown a go-cart which was propelled by a windmill. " It will be very niceon windy days," I declared. To which Wagoner added: "Oh, certainly, miss," cheerily, and put it aside. " It occurred to me it was a cur'ous aotion. I'm allays a-thinkin' up these , here cur'ous notions when I nave a j spare hour or so. But here's somethin' else, ladies and gentlemen, so to speak? somethin' for the fourth of July for the youngsters." " Another wagon!" Lou and Mr. Barnwell and I all laughed together. " Oh, certainly. Yes, miss. You see, sir, one ; in frnnf nrPQQPts rhic lioro ! spring with his foot, like my other ' paten*, and off we air. And another . youngster sits behind, and presses thiB ; here, and that sets thcee bells a-ringin' j and these here flags a-flyin\ Hail, ! Columby, miss!" "Decidedly. Why, Wagoner, this is I splendid," "Oh, certainly. Yes, indeed. That's! so, miss." i Mr. Barnwell had walked up to the I une window to examine yet another | paten' more minutely. The inventor , and exhibitor followed him. Mr. Barn- > well asked a number of questions in his ! easy, cheerful way. It ended in Wagoner I wrapping the paten1 up in a piece of j paper, and in Mr. Barnwell's putting it in his pocket. " We'll see what we can I do?we'll see what we can do," Mr. . Barnwell said, as he caught my eye, as i who should sav," Isn't it about time t-j i go?" " Well," I queried, when we were ou I of ear-shot. " Poor soul! poor soul! Nothing very ! practical about him. I have brought j away a rather ingenious little conceit, j I will take it up to Washington with me j when I go there next week, and show it' to a friend of mine there, a patent law- J ver. Wagoner may make a few dollars ; off it." " Oh, thank you. That is just like ! you. You are always so good! He is J so wretchedly poor!" I -jried, all in a breath. I communicated this possibility to ! Wagoner when next we met. lie al- j ways brought my clo'lies home. He 1 considered that emphatically a gentle- j man's occupation. "Certainly, miss, : I liked that ar gentleman's appearance, j miss," he averred. A day or so afterward I saw Fred, j " Tnat inventive friend of yours is a 1 fraud; he can't cobble worth a cent," i he declared. " I wasted a dollar and a j half on him; looked over those * idees ' ! ot his. That swine works crooked. ; Pshaw! Never heard of a colored inventor vet." "Wagoner mav be the earliest develoDment of the type." " Possibly. You're welcome to your theory." That was an uncomfortable period when Fred and I were forever having a difference, first about one thins, then about another. He says now that this fretted him as much as it did me. but I never dreamed that this was the case. Mr. Barnwell was always on hand to console me il I chose; he almost literally devoted himself to mv amusement ! and happiness. I liked him. I would j have liked him still better had I not j been distinctly aware that be wanted ' me to like him in a very different way | from that of my calm and friendly re- ] gard. SiBFrom time to time I asked him about j the patten' of Wagoner's on which he j had laid hands. He invariably rubbed j his hands and laughed, and laughed ! and rubbed his hands. He had been to i Washington. He had seen his patent- I lawyer friend. He hoped to be able to ! sell the leetlc idee." For how much? I Oh, well, say for twenty, thirty, forty I dollars. My face fell. I had fabulous notions of the value of these things " Oh, well, for fifty dollars, perhaps,' as though to console me for my disap i pointment. I had an impression tha I lie would mftkp lin n.nv dfifin.ieno.v frnrr his own pocket. He was a thorough!] benevolent man! I tried hard to like him?or rather t( love him?in those days. Sometimes ] thought I had succeeded?when I hac not seen Fred for some time, for instance; when he had been driving 01 riding all over the country with tha alarmingly pretty cousin of his. But i half hour?ten minutes?with Free would be enough to undermine all mj resolutions about making a sensible respectable marriage. Fred and I hac been eneaged once. No, no. If 1 evei married it could be no one but Fred provoking, aggravating, unjust, bu dear. I hardly expected that we ever wouk make up our quarrel. But we did, un expectedly, as all the beautiful, besi things in lite happen. Fred was ridic uloasly poor; but nevertheless, on ou reconciliation, we made up our mindi to be married out of hand. Our kins folk and acquaintance were informet of our indentions, and the time namec io** the event. When I saw Mr. Barnwell for the firsi time after my engagement was an nounced, he shook hands with me, hii lace as though cast in iron, in the like ness of his wonted smile, and deathly ghastly pale. I shall never torget thai i 1_ KHJU. The next day he was found dead ir his bed. Afterward poison was suggested?that he had taken his own life but at the time it was believed he hac died of heart disease. Whichever theory may have beer true, there can be no doubt that hit death was hastened by his pecuniarj entanglements. His affairs were founci to be in a very embarrassed condition It came out that he was deeply in debt, He owned a farm and a house in town It would be necessary to sell thesei e order to satisfy his creditors; and this done, there would only be three or foui thousand dollars left, to revert to ftis brother and sole heir. Fortunatelv this brother was above want; the dead mar himself remained the center of public pity. These developments were most unexpected. It had been supposed Mr, Barnwell was a very wealthy man, Had he lived he must have begun liff at the very foot of the ladder again. Judge Leighton?Fred's father?was employed in settling the estate. Thus 1 learned of a good many details that would otherwise have escaped me. One day Fred startled me by saying, "I had no idea that Barnwell was an inventor." "Nor had I." " It seems he was. He had taken out a patent for an invention, which had begun to pay moderately well. Five hundred dollars had been paid in alreadj on it before his death." "Indeed! Oh, Fred, tell me what it is like." "Like? Never saw such a girl for inventions and inventors. Like? Something like this." And he described it to me. That afternoon I went to see the Wagoners. Lou was placidly ironing, with the air of doing so in a moment ol 1-5 ~ 1IT extreme leisure, u- wzio uuubline; inventive genius wa3 not above the humdrum necessity of earning its bread. Wagoner anticipated presently my own introduction of the object of my visit. " Did you happen to have heerd any remarks passed about that ar leetle paten' of mine that Mr. Barnwell war a-seain' to for me, miss?" "Nothing very satisfactory. I wish you would describe that model to me, Wagoner. I will inquire particularly about it." Whereupon Wagoner described it minutely. His description tallied precisely with that already given me by Fred. I drew along breath. Mr. Barnwell must have been hard pushed to have stooped to defraud this poor simple soul. ' I wish Mr. Barnwell had a-lived to see m;interests throuch, miss. I allays liked his appearances. You may be sure that Fred and I saw his interests through. I told him nothing of his prospects, however, until I had made sure that his paten' could be identified. Then I announced to him that in a small way his fortune was made. It is my impression that this success will p:ove the corner-stone of a very gratifying career. Wagoner has more time now in which to perfect his Daten's. He has also more readv monev to put them into proper shape. Among other things, he has improved the Hail Columbia chariot. Last Christmas it produced the wildest excitement in Port Royal, emptying the pockets of their change of all the small boys in tovvn, to the placid delight of Lou, and to the pecuniary profit of her husband. ?Haiper's Bazar. Feet distortion in China. The binding of a child's feet is not begun until she has learned to walk and do certain things for herself, as it would be difficult, if not impossible, to teach her afterward. The rich bind their children's feet from the sixth or seventh year, but the poor do not be^in until they are twelve, or e yen older. Parents who have been forced by poverty to sen a daughter as a slave when she was a child, will bring her back afterward if they can, and then, no matter how old she is, they bind up her feet and marry her as a lady. But the pain of binding a full-grown foot is said to be most intense. Strong white bandages two inches wide, are manufactured lor the purpost. Those worn the first year are two yards lon?, and about five feet is the length worn arterward. The following, according to Miss Fielde, is the method adopted: The end of the strip is laid on the inside of the foot at the instep, then carried over the top of the toes and under the foot, drawing the four toes with it down upon the sole; thence it is passed over the foot and around the heel; and by this stretch the toes and the heel are drawn together, leaving a bulge on the instep and a deep indentation in the sole, under the instep This course is gone nvpr in successive 1 avers of bandacre until the strip of cloth is all used, and the final end is sewn tizht down. To please a Chinawoman, the indentation must measure about an inch and a half from the part of the toot which rests on the ground up to the instep. The toes are then completely drawn over the sole and the foot is so squeezed upward that in walking only the ball of the great toe touches the ground. Laige quantities of powdered alum are used when the feet are first bound, and always afterward, to prevent ulceration and lessen the offensive odor. The bandage is taknn off only once a month. Attheend of the first month the foot is put in hot water, and after it has been allowed tc soak some time the bandage is carefullj unwound, the dead cuti<He, of which there is so much, being hbraded during 1.:-J! TTtUA- it.. uie process 01 unmuuiuL'. ** ncu tut foot is on tire ly unbound it is not unusual to tind ulcers and other abominations. Frequently, too, we are told, a large piece of flesh sloughs off the sole, and it sometimes happens that one or two toes drop off. When this happens the patient considers herself amply repaid lor the additional suffering by having smaller and more delicate feet thar her neighbors! Indeed the desire tc have small feet is so intense that girlf will slyly tighten their own bandages ir spite of the pain!?Chambers' Journal. An exchange says: ''The business pulse is beating fast." Yes, we eaw hiir as we went by to dinner the other day hut we didn't know his name was Pulse He was beating carpet then, and letting into it pretty middling fast as you oh serve.?Marathon Independent. 3 FARM, HARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. 1 Salt for Treea and Vegetables. M I will give you a skebch of my experit ence with the use of salt in the orchard 1 and garden. Young fruit treea can be ? j made to grow and do well in places P1 where old trees have died, by sowing a ) Dint of salt on the earth where they are P' [ to stand. After trees are set I continue ? I to sow a pint of salt around each every year. I set twenty-five trees in. sandy m r soil for each one of seven years and st t only succeeded in getting one to live, E i and that only produced twigs a few ?j 1 inches loner in nine years. "? 1 Last spring I sowed a pint of salt 8t , around it ana Jimbs grew from three to n' 1 three and a half feet long. In the " r spring of 1877 I set out twenty-five ?* , trees, putting a pint of salt in tne dirt ki t used for filling, and then sowd a pint more on the surface, after each tree was ? 1 set. All grew as if they had never been - taken from the nursery. Last spring I Si t set thirty more, treating them in the Si - same way, and they have grown very di " finely. The salt keeps taway insects ? 3 that injure the roots, and renders the ei - soil more capable of sustaining plant 1 growth. d: I In 1877 my wife had a garden forty 11 feet square. It was necessary to water ai t it nearly every day, and still the plants - and flowers wvre inferior in all respects. 3 In 1878 I put half a barrel and half a h bushel of salt on the ground and turned t( , it under. The consequence was that u i the plants were of extraordinary largt d size and the flowers of great beauty. It i was not necessary to water the garden, j1 which was greatly admired by all who ; I saw it. The flowers were so large that sj I they appeared to be of different varie- " ties from those grown on land that was i not salted. p ? I had some potatoes growing from 11 r seed that had wilted down as soon as a 1 the weather became very hot. I applied n . salt to the surface of the. soil till it was P: . white. The vines took a vigorous start, w . grew to the length of three feet, bios- 11 i somed and produced tubers from the c' i sire of hen's eges to that of goose eggs. ^ * My soil is chiefly sand, but I believe that > salt is as highly beneficial today as to r< i common prairie land-?J. D., in Chicago gi i Times. tr Tomatoei. pi ; " Do tomatoes cause tumors and can- sj . ceis?" No; nobody will have either ir . from eating any fruit or vegetable. In- pi i herited tendencies, with whatever ol lowers the standard of health, produces ct i both. The acid of the* tomatoes does ai ' not agree equally with all persons. To 01 ; some it answers the same purpose as the n i apple or pear, without more irritation ir ' of stomach or bowels, while it acta ai gently upon the liver and kidneys, for cl others the acid is too harsh, and the tl action upon the system such as requires c: ; them to be eaten temperately, if at all. fi It is thought cancers and tumors are bi more common than formerly. It may m ' be true. There are many chaneed habits B! of living to account for this. Many peri sons have suffered from cancer who n< never eat tomatoes. If delicate persons ai who wish to eat them strain the seeds s< from them, they will find them much 0! ; less liable to irritate the stomach.? tl Cultivator. n Nome of itllai Corion'i Teaching*. {* Potatoes, any time of the year, can be 1 moftomnqlvi'f hnilnH in ?inH Wfit.fir ^ | and drained and then covered with a ? 1 thick towel and left in back of the F ; range five minutes. fl | To retain the color of any vegetable H plunge it into cold water after boiling. Cook9 make the mistake of boiling ' , things too much. After reaching the J ; boiling point meats should simmer. The toughest meats c?n be made tender by so p doing. 1 It is always beat to under-season , rather than to over-season food. When anything is accidentally made *v too salt it can be counteracted by adding J, a tableapoonful of vinegar and a table- ? , spoonful of sugar. {*, Meats of any kind should not be ?r washed, but wiped with a towel to preserve the iuices'and quality. ? P1 Packing App'es. C Choice apples are appreciated abroad. P Ft'cfc'a Magazine says: "We know of one j*1 gentleman who shipped a barrel of very lr choice spies, for which twenty-livu T dollars were offered, while the ordinary American apples were selling for about n three dollars and a half. We know of ai another barrel that attracted special ^ attention, and a plate was asked for a dinner party by a member of tae royal v " ? - - - J'- a. _ 1- 1 a. U * LL lamny, 10 grace a aimng-uioie hi wuitu the Prince of Wales was to be a guest, . and another dish graced the tables at ^ the lord mayor's aunual banquet." The P1 editor tells how he packs his apples for ir shipment. * Having obtained the choicest apples, |*J we wrap each one in manilla tissue- ?! paper, as oranges are wrapped. J They are then packed as solid as pos- :r sible.just putting a layer of soft cnaft at the bottom of the ban-el, and sifting " some of the same material over every c* layer, thu9 filling up the interstices. J7 When the barrel is full, plenty of soft u packing is placed on top, and the head * is pressed firmly down. In this condi- r] tion apples will (ravel for months without material injury. We have also found that boxes are a little better than H barrels for packing apples. The rolling of barrels, with the natural spring of the staves, is a severe test, and unless the packing is done in the most j* thorough manner, will injure, and per- 1)1 haps ruin, the (rn M. ?' VI - . . - . _ . P Drinking ice water. ? There is no more doubt that drinking ?< ice water arrests digestion than there is gj that a refrigerator would arrest perspi- q ration. It drives from the stomach the natural heat, suspends the flow of gastric t j juice, and shocks and weakens the deli- jj, cate organs with wnich it comes in con- ^ tact. An able writer on human dis- b, eases says: Habitual ice water drinkers a] are usually very flabby about the region _ of the stomach. They complain that their food lies heavy on that patient or- n gan. They taste their dinner for hours K atter it is bolted. They cultivate the S] use of stimulants to aid digestion. If ei they are intelligent they reaa upon food r( ana what the physiologist has to say about it?how Ion}; it takescabbnge and j,, pork and beef and potatoes, and other g(' meats and esculents to go through the e, process of assimilation. "They roar at 0, new bread, hot cakes, fried meat, im- g( agining these to have been the cause of a their maladies- But the ice water goes o1 down all the same, and lmaiiy menus ^ are called in to take a farewell look at 0 one whom a mysterious Providence lias e; called to a clime where, as far as is CJ known, ice water is not u?c d. Thenum- fr her of immortal beings who go hence, to a! return no more, on account of an injudi- C) cious use of ice water, can hardly be C( estimated.?Baltimore Sun. jf What Enters Into a Child's Life. ^ Into the lifeof every child, says are- si cent essayist, no matter in what class of S life it is found, imagination enters with p all the freshness and beauty of a puie si spring of water. Their games and sports n take them into some mysterious dream- a land of delight; their play is fully tl charged with fancy, and to make believe " that they seem to be what they are not comes as a comfort to the imprisoned ti 11 children of our crowded cities. They si ' have no sands on which to build their lc ' castles, and their little feet are seldom d 1 freshened with the salt of the ocean's ti ' waves; they can only live in grassy g ' meadows and llowered woodlands when F 1 they pet a passim; peep at a picture shop; ti the din of the city and its wheels is for- o ever in their ears; but the servitude of u i unromance to which they are born does v i not dull or deaden sweet nature's gift is , of imagination which makes mimic o . soldiers and sailors of the children a I whose playground is the pavement and a whose toys aie but too often the refuse b of the Btreets. s: * THE CITY OF MONTEZUMA, (exlco'a Romantic Capital Seen Through American Eyes. A letter from tbe city of Mexico to le New York Sun says: What tbe resent population of Mexico may be no ae here either knows or cares, but robably it is about a quarter of a milon of souls. The greater part are lestizos or half breeds, and the relainder either Mexicans of Spanish de:ent or Indians, while a sprinkling of nglish, French, Germans and Ameriins adds some life to the dullness ol le city by their clubs and balls. Ths ,reets are all at right angles, running orth and south, east and west, and, as le names are changed every block, it squires a lifetime to gain an accurate nowledge of the city. Thia is to some ctent ameliorated % a habit of using le same name for blocks in the same ;reet, but adding first, second or third, o there is First, Second, and Third an Francisco street. But this is rarely one, and by far the greater number of le streets have different name 3. Sev al squares and parks ornament differlt parts of the city, and the principal rive is along a fine road, withacharmig view of the fine hill on which the n.non<- noaflo nf PhorMllfuno^ ntRYlHs. In almost the center of the town is ' le Plaza Mayor, or great square, and ere it is that the famous cathedral is ) be found. The cathedral stands pon the site of the great Aztec temple, edicated to the god Haitzilopostli, hich was built in the form of a pyratid, or teocalli, as the Indians called . Here Corttz iound the aborigines icrificing human beings, and the house lat he occupied before Montezuma's eath is close by. The cathedral stands tick from the street, so that its imposlg dimensions at once ftrike the eye, rid in the open space in front are umerous stalls for the sale of religious amphlets, rosaries and other holy ares, mixed up with old book and lusic stalls and huge piles of bird iges, containing countless cardinal, locking and other birdo. In Mexico le mixture of the superstitious and irilieious elements is often exceedingly rotesque. One often sees a native probating himself before the shrine of his et saint and rolling a cigarette at the ? ime time, or an Indian woman groan- ? ig in grayer and claBping a bottle of ] lilque in either hand. A good instance * f this is to be seen on the outside of the ithedral, whc-e the advertisements id prize li3ts of the lotteries are stuck a the doors! Yet the slightest dis:spect shown by a stranger would be nmediately resented, and Americans :e generally advised not to enter the lurches lest something should make iem laugh. The wonderful Aztec ilendar stone, weighing some twentyve tons, and eleven feet in diameter, is uilt in the wall of the cathedral, a lute reminder of what was once in [exico. There is a rather interesting museum ear by, where the great sacrificial stone ad several of the '' boss " idols are pre;rved. The gtone is an enormous block f basalt, round and slightly raised in le middle. This convex shape was tcessary, lor tho victim was laid on is back on the stone, and when his /% *? ?f?n o nrvl'f tt itrmilH J L CZ131 uunC oynu iau ?uuj nuuiu aiurally open and allow the priest to ull out the heart at once. In the very snter of this dissecting table is a round ole of about six inches in diameter nnd iree inches in depth, from which acutng leads out to allow the blood to flow way. The Mexicans say that 75,000 ictims were slaughtered on this rock; ad, indeed, judging from its grimy apearance, it is quite likejy. The suburbs of Mexico are not by any leans beautiful, always of course exjpting the rock and grove of Chapulteec. Just wh^re the houses end stauds le statue ol (Jharles IV., the King of pain, whose lege were so strong that e could squeeze a horse until it was reathless. Luckily he is not represented i this act, and the sculotor has sucseded in making one of the best eques ian statues in the. world. From this oint there is a straight drive called the alzada de la Reforma, leading to Chaultepec, which looks at the distance Dt unlike Windsoi castle when viewed i.i J i * &UA T om LUfc! otiier mu ui uic laujuus uuujj alk. Here in the afternoons all Mex:o turns out to drive in carriages or to de on horseback. The carriages here re almost all made in Paris, and are, ith the exception of a few Victorias, together closed. The re ison given for lis is that there is a rainy season of iree months, and consequently during le other nine months of the year the [habitants are obliged to use carriages lly good for wet weather. As it is apossible to see into these carriages hen they are in motion, they are drawn p in lines every now and then so that te occupants can have a good view o leir friends as they pass. The equesain part of the promenaders is divided ito two classes, those in English and lose in Mexican saddles. It would be msidered very bad form for a person ding in an English saddle to dress in le Mexican style, but when mounted on Mexican horse and in a Mexican sadie the proper dress is the leather ousers, jacket and sombrero. The [exican " swell" is as particular about le number of buttons down the outde of his trousers, the size of his somrero, and the hang of his sword as an ngllSll JUA JiUiiLui 13 auuui tui; tuu ui is cords or the spotlessness of his , Dots. Many ladies also ride, but they : snerally po out early in the morning c hen there are no carriages in the ' aseo. Hall way between the statue of ( harles IV. and Chapultepec there is a circle," in the middle of which a ;:itue has been erected to Christopher : olumbus, and here the view of the vo volcanoes, with the rays of the set- 1 ng sun tinting their snow-clad sum- i lits with a delicate rose color, is re- . uarkably fine. A row of trees has , een planted at either side of this drive, ad they are quickly growing up; at resent there is no shade and a grea eal of dust, for the watering-cart has ot yet reached Mexico. However, ' ien carry some water in buckets and jri.ikle it over the dust, which is gen rally about six inches in depth, but the :sults are scarcely satisfactory. As a rule the streets are clean, but (idly paved, and before the rainy sea- , m sets in the sewers are opened'at 1 7ery corner and emptied During this , peration the smells, which are always , >uiewhat offensive, become intoler- . ble. and no doubt breed malaria and , ther sicknesses that should not be , nown in a city so hieh above the level j f the sea. Through many of the streets , itcellcnt tramways run, and the conjssionnaire, who has a monopolv, is ? millinnnirA Tt". i Q lau UtV/VUllUg UP m*4UV??M?V ?? .w . musing to see how easy the driver and ' jnductor take life. The driver has a : imfortable armchair on the front platirm, and the conductor comes in every j iw minutes to roll his cigarette and ask ( passenger for a light. Every one nokes, often at times which in the tates would be considered rather out of lace. For instance, a waiter will : uoke hi3 cigarette while serving din- J er, and if he wants to use both hands j t the same time, will lay it down on . le corner of the table or on any other coign of vantage." The waiters, who are generally mes , zos, are about as bad as they are made, ' ;upid, inattentive, and with a peculiar . >ping gait, something like the trot of a . onkey or Mexican pony. At the res- . turants in the city the food is generally . ood and well cooked. The cookery is . rench, with a few Mexican innovaons. such as the use of large quantities , f chillis in many dishes, and the perpet- J al frijoles, or small black beans, with , rhich every meal invariably ends. Fish . Astr.i'stA n++A **.?vnlrT frrtnrl f ho r?rfnr?innl ? 3UU.I ?JC tiUU l UViJ JB.wv/vt, www ne being the Hauchinaugo, a tish with very thick skin, and rather tasteless i nd dry. Now and then oysters are rought up from the coast; they arc very ' mall, something like those that grow i 5n the mangrove trees in Cuba. They ire salty, with thick, rough shells, ana the Mexicans eat them with their knives, a rather difficult proceeding. Meat is fairly good, the mutton being better than the beef. The butchers think that a bull fight considerably improves the Elavor of the beef, so each animal that is dlled is attacked in the usual toreodor style and dispatched after a tight of some fifteen minutes' duration with a jword which takes the place of abutchjr'a knife in other lands. The pork is ;ood and is much used by the people; it s cooked in every possible way, but rarely cured for bacon or hams. The aoultry is not good, and the game scarce ind poor. There is, however, a small love called the tortola that makes an jxcellent salmi, and a little bird, some ;hing larger than the reed bird, which *eeds exclusively upon the cantaredaor Spanish fly, is simply delicious. Vege;ables are plentiful, but inferior in size ind flavor; however, they can be prolured during the greater part of the pear very cheap. The people engaged in business, such is bankers1 and merchants' houses, (vork from eight in the morning until ;welve, then every one goes to breakfast, and the offices are closed until ihree. when they open lor another hour. PUa knntMAna mn O f/\rm OvItT LUC lAUMJli;iUl UUOIUCOO TT t*?D JV/AIUWIJJ Jone by English houses, but the Germans have now got almost entire control. Many of the shopkeepers are Prench, particularly the jewelery and Iry goods houses, and the best clubs ire the French and German casinos. The women are usually plain, dress rery badly, and use an enormous quan;ity of paint and powder upon their 'aces. Indeed, it is not at all unusual to tee a younu girl of twelve or thirteen rears of age with a thick coating of >aint, and if any adventurous spirit visbes to set up as an importer in Mexco, he cannot do better than open a itore for the sale of violet powder. Ladies rarely go out of the house in laytime, except to mass In the mornng or to drive in the Paseo in the afterloon. . DMmjI Vnf/irtlfrt tha Fnfrinoar. U1JL11U iUUlVlillC) KIIV AJUQ*UVV* * One of the most extraordinary initances of victory over adverse cireumitanoes is found in the career of John Metcalfe, of Knaresborough, the wellmown engineer and road maker. He vas totally deprived of sight by small)ox, when only six years old. As a ule the loss of sight scatters the whole ramework of mind and body, and the :hiid grows up selfish and moody, be:ominsf day by day more silent, reserved ind discontented. The very reverse of his was the case with little John Met:alfe; no boy ever entered into the sports )f boyhood witM a keener relish than he: le was a proficient climber and birds' lester; be knew how to ride and manige a horse, and enjoy a good gallop; he cnew how to swim, and on one occasion taved the lives of three of his comjanions, and on another the life of a nan after whom he dived to the bottom )t tne river JNioa iour uraes. nor was le less apt at indoor than outdoor amusenents; he could play the violin with considerable skill, and amuse himself in such a variety of ways that time never lung heavily upon his hands. As he ?rew up he devoted his time to useful jursuits, made a little money, and was ich enough to buy a horse of his own, Dn which he constantly followed the lounds and was as bold and daring a rider as any in the field. He even en;ered for a race and won it, to the chagrin of many who had long odds against liim. Among the feats which proved his courage and sagacity was a walk from London to Harrogate, a distance of two hundred miles, on an unknown road: ind what is more extraordinary, ana would be incredible, but for the good luthority 0:1 which the story is toia. he iccompli&hed the distance in the same time it took a Colonel Liddell to perform the journey by coach. It should *.!.r?i ur~?. s- ? i Jtf lUCDUOUUU lllltl l>uc iuuiu iruc 1U n terrible stale of dilapidation, rendering ;oach traveling not only very slow, but very hazardous work. During his tourney, with his mind undisturbed bv abjects which engage the thoughts of Jteing men, Metcaife considered the itate of thefroads, revolving in his mind whether something might not be done ;o improve them. Each fresh episode in ais journey, each rew difficulty?such is deep marshy places impossible for carriages to pass, rivers without any bridges across them, steep declivities fvith ruts in them sufficient to try the jprings of the strongest vehicles?imaressed the thought more and more jtrongly upon his mind; and although svhen he returned home the time had not pet come for the idea to be fully developed. it was destined at a later period o bear fruit. In the meantime he employed himself in a variety of ways in jrder to procure a livelihood, and among jther things played the violin at dances ind public assemblies, kept a vehicle for lire, then started in business as a fish talesman, enlisted and gained many volunteer recruits, afterward dealt in hosiery, then in horses, and finally be;anje a carriei bntween Knaresborough ind York, starting_the first stage wagon >n that road.?lYom the feroes or | Britain. Parents and Children all Dninb. JPoliceman Kennedy was informed yeserday morning that a little boy was irunk in the basement of 547 Greenwich itrect. H? entered the room of Alexmder McDevitt, a 'longshoreman, and ound it a dark apartment in the center >f the building. The only furniture was i tireless stove and a bed without coverng. McDevitt lay on the bed in a irunkcn sleep. His wile, Rose, was lelplessly drunk on the floor, with her lead under the stove She had struck Her forehead against the iron, and blood svas trickling down her face. By her lide on the floor was her baby, Charles, iged eighteen months. It was intoxicated and insensible. Another boy, A.ndrew, cged four and a half years, was racing about the room with flaming cheeks and flashing eyes. He was also intoxicated. On the stove was a bottle containing a little vile whisky, and a yin wnicn jihQ neia neer. The mother and children were taken *> the Prince street police station in a iiandcart. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children wa3 notified, Officer Chiardi came and said he knew she family. They were emigrants wno bad lately come to this country. The j society had received complaints against them of drunkenness and neglect of | their children, but had been unahle to j obtain proof. The baby was sent to St. Vincent's hospital, where it remnined , for many hours in a critical condition. After a long slumber, the boy Andrew recovered from the effects of the liquor. He said his mother sent him out after | ten cents' worth of whisky and a quart ! of beer. Khe gave him ana Charley the ! beer. McDevitt and his wife were arraigned before Justice Morgan in the Je^erson Market police court. The woman is i not over twenty-one years of age, but j has the face of an old inebriate. She j was clad in a thin sack and ski^t, torn, I ragged and filthy. The boy Andrew was placed on the desk, and he readily answered Justice Morgan's questions. He showed a bruise on his head and mid his father had beaten him. His mother ha<i given him beer for three weeks. He liked it, but, he said, it I made his legs funny?so that he cc uldn't! walk. Justice Morgan committed Andrew j find th^ baby to the care of the society and sentthe drunken parents to Bhckwell's Island.?New York Sun. The Eureka (Nev.) Sentinel says that j ft number of Indians recently buried a j warrior known as "Old Adam" alive, f he Indians explained that Adam was about to die anyhow. ~ MMII | III? THE KEW BRITISH CAB15ET. c Sketches of the NCft J&nfeil*h Premier and j the Men Selected by lllm i? Form Bli j Cabinet. j WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. The name and achievements of England's new premier, William Ewart c Gladstone, by many considered as " the j foremost Englishman of his time," have t been bo prominently before the public of t late that anything beyond the briefest 1 biographical data would be superfluous, a The first lord of the treasury and chan- t cellor of the exchequer is the fourth son s of the late Sir John Gladstone, Bart., t and brother of Sir Thomas Gladstone, of 1 Fasque, county Kincardine, Scotland, \ who is a stanch conservative and hearty e admirer of Lord Beaconsfield. Mr. t Gladstone's father became a wealthy i Liverpool merchant, and the future pre- 1 mier, though of purely Scottish ancestry, was born at the Lancashire seaport December 29,1809. Educated at Eton s and at Christ church, Oxford, where he g graduated with double first class honors 1 in 1831, he entered parliament for New- g ark, in December, 1832, as a conserva- ] tive. He is consequently one of the very . few members of the parliament of 1880 { who sat in that body prior to the jrreat f reform act of 1833. His earlier official j career was in subordinate posts in the j various ministries presided over by Sir , Robert PeeL Separating from his tradi- | fcinnal fismnmniinna hp became chancellor . of tbe exchequer in the coalition cabinet J of Lord Aberdeen in 1853, filled the same ] post in two ministries of Lord Palmer- ( ston and one of Earl Russell (1865), and presided aa first lordofthe treasury over the liberal cabinet of 1868-74. His eminence as a political and religious writer i and as a student of Homer is well 1 known. < EARL GRANNILLE. I Lord Granville, the secretary for ] foreign affairs is one of the veterans in 1 English public life. He had sat in the ' commons ten years when he succeeded ! to the peerage in 1846, so that although 1 he is now in his sixty-sixth year, he J has been in politics forty-four years. 1 His reputation as a courticr statesman maj be traced to his official relations with the royal household, where he ] held the office of master of the buck- s hounds during the first two years of ? Lord John Russell's first administration. < The expulsion ot Lord Palmerston from 1 the foreign office in 1851 enabled Lord i Granville for a few months to fill the t post which he subsequently occupied 1 during Mr. Gladstone's administration, t Injthe administrations ofLord Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell he was president of council. In 1859 he i narrowly escaped being made premier, i when the queen found it difficult to i choose between Lord Palmerston and . Lord John Russell. Under Mr. Glad- ' stone's administration he was colonial t and subsequently, foreign secretary, and , the leader of the Liberal party in the house of lords. LORD SELBORNE. Lord Selborne (Sir Roundell Palmer), the new lord high chancellor, was born 1 in 1812. and educated at Oxford, where ! he carried off several prizes, a fellow- ; ship, a law scholarship, and a chancel- * lor's prize. He was made queen's coun- ] sel in 1849, He entered parliament in * 1847, was defeated in 1852, and re- 1 elected several times. In 18R4 he j entered office as attorney general, and went out with the Russell ministry in 1865. Mr. Gladstone offered him chancellorship in 1668, but he declined on i the ground that he could not support the premier on the question of the disestablishment of the Irish church. His ; dipintercstedness in resigning a great prize which might never again come within his grasp gave him the reputa- i aion of a statesman of high principle, for few men in English public life, would have declined the office under ; the same circumstances. In 1872 he ! was counsel for the British government at the Geneva court ot arbitration,' and was subsequently raised to the peerage under his present title. SIR WILLIAM VERNON-HARCOURT. Sir William Vergon-Harcourt, secretarv of state for the home department, ' is the grandson of the Canon of York; was born in 1827, educated at Cambridge, was called to the bar in 1854, and was appointed a queen's counsel in 1866, and professor of international law at Cambridge in 1869. His essays, contributed to the leading English journal over the signature of " Historicus," fave him an international reputation, n 1868 he was elected to parliament fibm the city of Oxford, and in November, 1873,he became solicitor-general and was knighted. He retired from office in 1874 with Mr. Gladstone's ministry. Although he was an ardent supporter of the premier's legislation for Ireland, he has not been on very friendly terms *!- 1- ! J--? ?? Tl,n Willi lllUi UlU'lUg iccrut ycaia. auo uv sition which he had gained in parliament and in the1 councils of his party gave him a claim to one of the best places in the cabinet. His wife is an American, a daughter of John Lathrop Motley. THE DUKE OF ARGYLL The Duke of Argyll, lord of the privy , seal, was born in 1823 and succeeded to the dukedom, of which he is the eighth in the line, in 1847. In 1852 lie was appointed lord of the privy seal ir. the ministry of Lord Aberdeen. He retained the office under Lord Palmerston till 1855, when he was made postmastergeneral. In 1859 he was again made 1 ford of the privy seal and in 1808 he became secretary of state for India. He is 1 one of the great personages of English 1 public life. He speaks in a loud voice, : with a monotonous tone like a Scotcji preacher, and is intensely argumentative 1 and logical. His son, the governor- 1 general of Canada, is the husband of the Princess Louise. This is the first and 1 only instance of the marriage of a ' daughter of a reigning English sover- ! eign to a subject. JOHN BRIGHT. John Bright, chancellor of the Duchy \ of Lancaster, has been for forty years j one of the sturdiest figures in English : public life. Taking his stand with Cob- j den in the organization of the anti-corn j law associations of 1838, he entered \ parliament in 1843, and labored unceasingly until the corn laws were repealed i in 1849. As a member of the Society of ' Friends, he has always opposed war ? armaments and foreign campaigns. In ? consequence of this polity lie lost his ( seat in the commons in 1857, but was , subsequently returned for Birmingham. t In 1868, he became presidentoi'thehoard , of trade, and subsequently chancellor of , the Ducliy of Lancaster. Owing to the , failure of his health he v/:is compelled j in 1870 to resign his .seat in the cabinet. While with these exceptions, he has remained on the floor of the commons, disliking the restraints of office, he has acquired a mastery of public business i besides being unrivalled in debate, j Economic questions, the extension of the j suffrage, Indian financp, land tenure, . poor rates, colonial policy, commercial treatise and international arbitration ! have clinched the attention of this practical as well as eloquent Quaker. He is especially familiar with t'ie operations i of the Irish land laws. He returns now to the office formerly held by him. "WILLIAM EDWARD FOKSTER. The Right Honorable William E. Forster, the secretary for Ireland, has radical blood in his veins. He was successful as a manufacturer in Bradford, and has represented the borough in parliament since 1861. In 18R5 he wns made under secretary for the col onies, and in 1868 he was appointed < charity commissioner and vice-presi- i i cnt of the committee of council on i education. In 1870 ho introduced an < important education ] iw, and in th?s following year t.he ballot ant Altbought he is identified with these im- ! portaut measures, his liberalism is not < if a robuat and stalwart kind. He has >een accused of seeking to plense both T jarties in legislation, and has been amiliarly nicknamed the Chief Trimner of English politics. A THE VICEBOT OK INDIA. The Marquis of Ripon, the viceroy if India, was chairman of the hi^h oinfc commission which signed the reaty of Washington. Born in 1827, he son of a premier, Viscount Go<jerioh, le succeed^ to the peerage in 1852 T md w is made a jnarquis in return for lis services in Wa?biu5ton* He has erved under several liber*. adminisration as under secretary for Var ftnd indida, secretary of wat. He vRS >resident of the council in Mr. Glad-. tone's previous ministry. He resiglfcd I he office of Grand Master of tli? Free- f nasons of England wheif he joined the iloman Catholic church in 1874. THE EARL OF KlMBERLEY. The Earl of Kimberley, secretary of P ;tate for the colonial department, has lerved a lull apprenticeship in the ser- ^ rice of the state. He has been underlecretary for foreign affairs and India, t< ord lieutenant of Ireland and minister )lenipotentiary to St. Petersburg, and las discharged many diplomatic mis- a lions abroad. In 1868 he was appointed ord of the privy seal, andlmbsequently tie became colonial secretafy. He now * eturns to that department. Lord Kim- ? oerley has an intimate knowledge of * public affairs, has great readiness in iebate, and has been a consistent liberal. S Ee was born in 1826 and Was made an o sari in 1866. h JAMES STANSFELD. James Stansfeld, president of the local ^ S>vernment board, was educated at F niversity college, London, and was 1] jailed to the bar in 1849. His official service began in 1863, when he was r nade lord of the admiralty. Subse- P juently he was under-secretary for In- y lia, lord of the treasury and president )f the local government boara?a posi- n ;ion which he is now to occupy. He is tl i man of marked business capacity. He t? anks as a radical-liberal. h. c. e. childers. S The Right Honorable Hugh Culling n Sard ley Childers, the new secretary of a jtate for war. is fifty-three years old, a ind was graduated at Trinity college, Cambridge, in 1850. He was a lord of a ;he admiralty from April, 1864. untih n August, 1865, and financial secretary to ri ;he treasury from the latter date to July, ti 1866. In 1868 he was made first lord of ;he admiralty. j lord northbrook. 8 Thomas George Baring, the second g 3aron Northbrook, who is to be first a ord of the admiralty, was born in 1826. tie has been a lora of the admiralty, o inder-secretary for India, and under- u tecretary for war, being reappointed a o the last named office in December, i .868. 8: "" T Jonrnallsm as a Business, . v Literature can be and is made a desirible means of livelihood, 'a regular busiless, no more hap-hazard in it* nature ,han brick-laying, store-keeping, and )ther occupations regarded as extremely li sractical. The fact js beginning to be c generally acsepted, and would have been i. jerceived sooner had it not been for the lj .ong-established popular prejudice which las associated with literary work the _ Doorest pay, wretched poverty and con anual d iscouragemcnt. 0 What was largely true in the past haa f( been erroneously confounded with the r present. Men of genius who a century a igo wrote for a living, fared ill. They t were customarily deep in debt, and not infrequently thrown into prison because they could not pay their bills. They j] Lived in garrets, suffered hunger and E x>ld, and wore threadbare garments. c [ndeed, the consciousness of possessing a superior mental endowments was often- 5 times their only solace. It is even re- r lated of Shelley that he was obliged to r bring out his " Adonais " at his own expense, being unable to find any pub- fc lisher that would take it. As a contrast, f it may be mentioned that Eugene Schuy- c ler is to receive $9,000 for the right of s serial publication in Scribner's Monthly t of his life of Peter the Great, &t the same f time reserving the copyright to publish F the matter, as soon as completed in the magazine, in book, form. Literature g nowadays is full of encouragement and t promise to it. votaries, in comparison j with the paltry and doubtful induce- t ments it held forth to the ill-starred j writers of earlier times. ( Literature as a reliable business is al- j most exclusively pursued in its most in- c fluent ial and extensive department, that of journalism. Hundreds of trained men are regularly engaged in this pro- * fession. If not paid large salaries, many t of them at least receive good remunera- J tion for their services, and derive from ; their occupation as much, if not more, income than does a cierK or oooKKeeper. ? Journalists usually maintain theirfami- 1 lies as respectably and satisfactorily as do most business men, and are no more apt to suffer from the lack of the neces- 1 saries and comforts of life than are the t majority of persons engaged in rnercan- c tile pursuits. The protession of the I journalist, while it does not hold forth f the hopes of Anally acquiring the large a gains obtained by the most successful f practitioners in law ar>d medicine, ? probably offers to those adapted to it, a t wider and less crowded field in which to advance and develop, and its earnings indisputably are as regular and I certain. e Naturai fitness is more necessary for c success in journalism than in many oc- ^ cupations. The aspirant must have an t innate taste and capacity for writing. a And this is not all. As arduous nn ap- s prenticeship must be served as in any tdifficult trade, and a drilling undergone c which is not Jess thorough than that ]. through which all men who have :nas- a tered the details ol banking and other complex kinds of business passed. > Newspaper work is practical. Thedis- ? jiplined ability needed in its accom- ij olishment involves a sagacity equal to ;hat daily exercised by the shrewd busi- , -.not. mow onH nnahAtinp .mnlication n ind the most vigilant watchfulness igainst errors of statement and judguent are demanded of the attaches of f ;he press. e Journalism as a business is likely to widely receive favorable consideration. The popularity and power of newspapers ire increasing; many new ones will be itarted in various sections as our broad 1 :ountry becomes more thickly settled, ?' ind the profession of the journalist will " ;ertainlv be as desirable, probably more P iesirable, in the future than at present; ? while those who enter it must more and " nore expect to become trained special- 81 sts.?Paper World. 81 b p A Bad Day for Alligators. c The Orlando (Fla.) Reporter says: Monday proved a tield day with th? allirators. They came out in large numinn <?-? V>n?t in t.he w:trm sunlieht after ;he rain. Fatal recreation! everybody! )n board went to shooting them. Eyen ;he scullion would leave tiis dishpan to ?ke a shot. And it seemed hard to miss 0 ;hem. The champion slayer was an old hunter from the Granite State. When- v Jver he raised his rifle death was in tho ii iir, and its sharp report was the crack Df doom for some cousin of the croco- c iile. The 'gator-slayer expeuded bis c last cartridge in the evening; but not until he had scored his sixty-fifth alligator. Their vitality is remarkable. I ! ihopped off the head of one a few minute after he had been shot. Several minutes after the head was entirely sev- c Bred from the body, I thrust an oar at $ it. The jaws opened and snapped to 1 ngain, like a huge steel-trap, driving the ? teeth three-fourths of an inch into the ' c liard oak and splitting the oar handle, r Even twenty minutes' later that 'gator- ^ head would not have been ;t sale toy for ; s children. J e To a Wife. he world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine lollows the rain; nd yesterday's snter and yesterday's frown Can never come over again, Sweet wile, No, never come over again. or woman is warm, though man be 00I6, And the night will hallow the day; ill the heart which at even was weary aa old, Can rise in the morning gay. Sweet wife, To its work in the morning gay. ?Charlet Kingtley. imnica /tn rismcppsT. & . i I Hi O VJC AUAUMMMa* Tobacoo chewing has increased eight er cent in the past year. A boy ten years old tramped all thfl 'ay from Iowa to San Francisco. Jn the Turkish language there is said > be no word signifyin* gratitude. _ A mule is tame enough in front?but wfuliy wild behind.?Meriden Bender ? " " You're a man after my own bsart,* 8 the blushing maiden confessed when er lover proposed marriage.?New York Tews. The crockery business of the United tates is represented by about $7,000,009 f capital, and employs 7,000 skilled ands. Gold is found in fifty-six counties in leoigia, silver in three, copper in thireen, iron in forty-three, and diamond a twenty-six. A Rome CNev.)cirl has been made the ecipient of $25 by an insurance comany as a reward for the promptitude nth which she put out a fire. . A man will remember a broken leg luch longer than he will a favor, but tiat doesn't make a broken leganybeter than a favor.? Vallejo Chronicle. M. O. Button, the axTowmaker of antaCruz.Cal., recently brougncaown ine squirrels, three rabbits ana a jay in n afternoon's hunt with bow ahd rrows. Senator Davis, of West Virginia, now millionaire, used to bea raiiroad brakeian. He made bis money by not slamjins tbe doors of the cars, says the Deroit Free Pros. " You want a flogging- -that's what on want," said a parent to an unruly on. "J know it, dad; but Til trjr to et along without it," returned tho inependent hopeful. California has about 100,000,000 acres f land, of which 43,000,000 acres are nsurveyed. ?vTot much over 4,000,000 cres are under cultivation, although omething more th.*m 6,000,000 acres are nclosed with fences. "he days are lair; tho >tatol>* trees Put forth their beauties to the eye, Phile the small boy lies on tbe gffioa, green grass v And fondly dreams of pumpkin pie. ' - ? Williamspori Break/aft Tabic Dangerlield Stanley, the chief of a A~:MJoonnr! hna rtITT irge gypsy tn uc m uuooutui, 2? based a granger supply store near St. <oui?,and will make that city liis liomo ereafter. If these few lines meet the eye of the oung man who waa singing 44 Rocked a the Cradle of the Deep "about one 'clock the other morning, they will Inarm him that the only reason wo didn't ock him was because wc didn't have ny rock handy.? Marathon Independnl. A Williamsport man stumbled and all down five flights of stairs and when ie landed at the bottom, instead of ailing for arnica, he looked at bis feet moment, and then said: "Well, I hope nu haven't any more objections to carying my body about."?Oil Oily &tr~ ick. \ A Montreal butcher pleaded guilty to tavine sold a woman meat that was uu- ? it for human food, but the court disharged him upon the plea of his coonel that according to the existing law he court had not power to punish a man or selling bad meat, but only for 41 ex?osingfor sale " such meat. People who have a general idea of the ize or Colorado may vet be surprised by ' he statement of the Denver News, that t is the fourth State in the Union in his respect, and is larger than New lampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island. New York, 'Jew Jersey, Delaware and Maryland ombined. Charles Lamb says a speaker should tot attempt to express too much, but hould leave something to the imagine* ion ol his audience, and he tells how, >eing called on to return thanks for a oast to his health, he rose, bowed to his ludience, said: " Gentleman," and then at down, leaving it to their imaginaion to supply the rest. In the churchyard of Heyden, Suffolk, England, there is a stone which bears his inscription: Here lieth the body >f William Strutton, of Paddingtan, juried May 18, 1734, who had by his irst wile twenty-eight children, and by t second wife seventeen, own father to orty-Jive, grandfather to eighty-aix. rreat grandfather to ninety-seven, and ;reat-ereat-grandfather to twenty-three -in all 251. The Deadwood Times says Colonel Jenteen has located a stock ranch jast ast of Bear Butte, in the valley of the re?k of that name. He wiUatock it pith short-horns, and makfl*reeding horoughbrcds a specialty. He will .lso purchase this sea&on a thousand heep, including a carload of Hobartown flat-tails from California, imported riginally from Australia in 1852, the urgest sheep known. He will ?1j?o make , specialty of fine blooded horses. The celebrated botanist, Nicholas a? fasakine, in an article in the Corrf pondence Scienlifique, claims that the Mvor of fruits increases in proportion s they recede from the equator, wbiie t decreases as the equator is approached, 'he leaves and flowers of nearly all orthern plants contain also a larger uantity of oil than those of Southern Europe. Ho "believes that the phenomnon is explained by the longer presnce of the sun above tin1 horizon durig the summers of the North. There is a good deal of loose talk about be man who steals five dollars being eut to prison and the one who t*\kcs a undred thousand getting off without unishment. But supposing it is so, it nly shows the advantage of doing a irge business. You c:m seethe same ort of thin? in all departments. For intance, if a horse-car driver nhoula Teak a pane of glass, he w?.uld have to ay for it; but if lie breaks up a whole ar fifty time* a d.iy lie does not have to ay a cent.? Hoston Advertiser. Words of Wisdom. " V?n rrvnr\ f whioh IB TlOfc V.441I UVy g.V??V ft M.VM -w igbt. Self-distrust is the cause of most of ur failures. The boy ia father to the man; and it rould often he difficult to find a more njudicious parent. A generous man places the benefits he onfers beneath his feet; those he reeives nearest his heart. Wise nv.'n talk because they have omething to say; but foois talk because hey want to say something. It may serve as acomlort to us an in iur calamities and afflictions that lie hat loses any thing and gets wisdom by t. is a gainer by the loss. After a toneue has once got the knack >f lying 'tis not to be imagined how :n? tossible it is almoft to reclaim it. Vlience it comes to pass^ that we see ome men, who are otherwise very hon? st, so subject to this vice.