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ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANEER f BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C? WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1880. N0. 9. VOLUME XXVI. ^ | " " " ? r : Castle ttorr. Proud Castle Morr, above the lake, For centuries stood in solemn gray, And round ita brow the thorn and brake, Entwined and trailed, as chapleta lay. From cliff and tower the eye might range Along the breast ol Scotia's isle, I And view, amidst no cosmos change, t The shaft of many a ruined pile. 1 1 Lord Melmont, proud of blood and name, i Was master long of Castle Morr, And grandees to his banquets came ( From sultry Ind and frigid Nor'. r The lights were lit in Melmont's halls, c As evening June had veiled her head; ^ And proudly shone along tho walls ^ The symbols of the glorious dead. I c Hie shield, the mace, the mail were thero, g l'he javelin, bow, the swinging glave; s And plaided clans, with strong limbs bare, c Smilpd . (rnin th*>ir nnrtmit.q nn thn hrnvn The banquet spread, the gallant guest e Was bowed to place around tho board; t The bow's returned with lolty crest, f( r And manner grave, and civil word. t< Si Ami lairest damrs ol high degree, f( With melting love npon their lips, ? And sbculrtors bare, and bosoms tree, ? Advanced with smiles and coyiah slips. And Dorah sweet, the nnptial bridfc, t< With curving neck and regal head, In all the wealth of beauty's pride, a; t By bowing valor forth was lead. A T"j The banquet o'er, the song went round? The knights sang praise of woman's love; Tho ladies, by nice lavor bound, J* Song Scotia's lords high over Jove. Now why doth Melmont's face grow pale, tl On this his eve of marriage vows ? g] What low, sweet voice floats on the gale ? 8( What sndden pain contracts his brows 7 A soldier proud was Melmont brave, Whose valiant deeds on India's plains v 8ei.t loes in legions to their grave, P And gave a peace to broad domains. s( ai When battle raised its ruelul head, 01 With waviDg plume and saber bright, r( On champing steed bold Molmont led, With Piincess Salla at his right. When " Charge the loo !" he guvo command w And quick and thick the missies flew, Pair Salla waved her dauntless hand, ?i And irom her zone her weapon drew. m She fought two battles locked in one; g{ While courage swept her to tho loe, To 8;>ur and cheer her troopers on, a Her love engnged her lover's woe. gj. Pale, sunk with (ear, she saw the bolts That rang in air round Melmont's bead, to And all ber prowess met revolts ps In sudden darts of love and dread. g? Nor laggard shown in Melmont's love; 88 Behind the window of his thought, And fierce resolve his name to prove, w Affection's web love's weavor wrought. C\W Nauttw Aartl OK lnftlflooo r?harcrA vu, ucu.j no;. "?*> ? n- m That bore iair Sal]a to tbe van, Whore, fighting on the battle's marge, i She captive lei! to Iliudostan! m ' hat doom awaita thia lover tree, m Who flod her rajah's royal balls, 0f / nd irom a Scottish ohieltain diew <}( That love whose thralldom disenthralls 7 Deep passion now was mixed with pain fa In Melmont's ardent, raging breast; hi But well the soldier could restrain All outward sign ol rude unrest. Ti The Brahman plot and Hindoo skill Returned 'he Prinoess to hor sire, Whoie kindly breast o'er captious will r Could never oi affection tire. As fancy's lamp pursues the light pi That floats around in Action's mind, B Throueh glcair.ingfi slight ol hope in night Sad^lelmont becks his love to find. Uj t He storms tbo shaman priest's retreat, Ho storms the mjah's lrowning wall; r. He's everywhere, with flying leet, And bulwarks echo at his call. U1 1 _ ?;.i u 1 ,V IV IIIIJII J WIU1UUI, UOj UUU LiHJ WUUUO 11J > Of priest'fa and rajah's stern control, hi Swilt vanished hopes and hollow sounds Are all that reach sad Melmont's soul. ?? Now ten long years their tides have rolled )? Since India's air his brow had fanned? 1 Siuce Salla sweet and Mclmont bold R Their love and lite had pledged and planned. " nd now that voice again is heard, UI Despite of friends, despite of foes, " That won the heart of Scotland's laird aAlong Himmaleh'a broad plateaus. She pings the song he loved to hear a" IMow the stars, when winds were still; 80 When lrom the heart there swelled a tear, a~ Which rose and lell at music's trill. p? A gem illumes his searching eye? of The ring he gave her with a kiss, gfc When love, like waves, rolled mountain high, m And all the world was vales of bliss. Now darker shades rise on the wall, And whispered words, in lighter tone, 80 Conjecture lorms, and keenly lall On fears that all dislike to own. ej 6\ All sa-lly from the banquet rose mi The noble hoet of C'astle Morr; And his proud heart seemod lull of woes, 9 Which nono divined the reason for. f 1 10 Now hurried looks meet anxious eyes, fo And Sall&'s calm and gentle mien d( The scrutiny ol all defies d( Of who she ia or what has been. m Her olive hands and olive face, ^ Her liquid eyes of Orient hue, ? Her gliding step and languid grace, Where'er she moved could all subdue. ^ In Sho quits the hall with gentle ways, ar And follows fast in Melmont's wake; cL While jealousy the bride betrays, m And speichless hurries to the lake. The kinsmen of the noble bride, At Melmont's conduct sore enraged, th Now flash their dress-swords lroro their side, al And hot in converse stand engaged. sb w Their worrls are lew, indignant, strong; From what they heard and what they saw j 01 Dorah's griet and Melmont's wrong, , Suspicion leeds on lines they draw. ,, Enough! enough! Revenge is near! th Through lawn and bower and vista lair fir The pride-stung nobles search and steer, ga But find not Melmont anywhere. ne There ia a room In Castle Morr, s!.' A lecrfit chamber, mmint umi mnd. Which lew e'er know the service lor, th Save he whose word was in command. lie hf To shield her from undue reproof, By tongues unruly, sharp and lree, pa There Salla's placed, lrom all alool. jjj And cautious Melmont turns the key. jn Now lrom the window where she sits t The Princess mu9es on the night; While shadow alter shadow flits SO By lern and fir, within her sight. th lo Fox Mclmont's life those shadows seek, cj And for his life he boldly stands, 8j In calm defense prepared to speak, ^ And lairly meet all lair demands. But passion rules the omened hour, B And lury strikes him to the ground; Which Saila sees lrom yonder tower, tc A i:d breaks her heart-strings ut a bound. hi Now pity's tongue the tale will tell fc flow gentle hands, unknown to famo, g( Had set a plant where Melmont fell, And called it by that hero's name. E'er since that honr, at midnight tide, r< A curtain ol the blackest lace tl On windowed Morr is drawn aside, fl And there it* seen a pallid lace. E It looks a'minnte down the lake, " Jlglancos round in secret pain, v As it it feared some foe awake, . And then the curtain's drawn again. For eons iolk have come to see, B O'er hill and dale and jagged tor, b The Dor&h lake, the Melmont tree, li v And Sal la's ghost at Castle Morr. ?Hugh F. McDermott. ? c An ingenious person has discovered lhat the three most forcible letters in s our alphabet are N R G; two which contain that nothing are M T; that four 1 express great corpulence?O B C T; I that we are in a decline?D K; that four r indicate exalted station?X L N C, and r that three excite our tears yet, when pronounced together, are necessary to a \ good understanding?LEG. I B* MRS.BLYSTER'S ROMANCE. u be Mrs. Sims' hoarding-school was a liV high building and it stood on a hill, loi My room was in its third-story, and I de iad often sat looking out over the cily w? rrom its " sightly " windowsJ(as!Peggy, cb ;he maid, called them.) The hill was sj learly conical in shape and terraced on w< two sides, my side being one of them. ' \.t the foot of the hill ran a broad, in landsome street, and on a prominent I :orner of this street, in plain sight from th ny windows, stood a large, rambling J >ld mansion, about which we girls had foi voven many a romance. We wondered thi vho lived there. Ladies and gentle- re; nen promenaded through its pleasant his grounds; carriages rolled up to its wide sp< :ateway many times every day; profes- ' ional-looking gentlemen went in and sai utofit. What could it be? "t One day I found out. There was great got xcitement that day in Mrs. Sims' hai oarding-school. I had been feeling ill ' Dr some days. My head ached and my Iss angue was dry and hot. The doctor fas aid at last that I had the scarlet " ;ver and must be removed at once, giv Better take her home," he said, yoi She isn't fairly sick yet." rue 41 Home!" groaned Mrs. Sims. "Doc- '11 / >r, she lives in India!" " "Good gracious!" said the doctor, thi ad he scratched his head thoughtfully. J .t last he said: "I have it! Here's wit ?r. Dolby's hospital right down here? " ist the place for her." So I was she 'rapped up and driven to " Dr. Dolby's we: ospital," which proved to be no other in : lan the dear, rambling, romantic old " ouse which, with its wildly over- sai< rown hut delightful shrubbery, had dea ) long been the object of our specula- am ons. Cri They put me to bed in a large, quiet do\ >om. The open fire looked wonderiully toe teasant. A quaint, old-fashioned tea clai :rvice, with cherubs and gillyflowers " id various other incongruous designs Mr 1 it in blue, sat appetizingly on the ' j; >und table at my bedside. Three or hin >ur easy-chairs were mingled among but le others, and in ono of them, after I put as nicefc " tucked up " and ready to kin ) to sleep, I beheld?yawning already I id casting wishful eyes toward her Bly wnue cot near oj?my Duiom unc irse, Mrs. Blyster, who had been en- I'll ured expressly for me. S How fat and good-natured she looked! jur< nd how the white cot creaked when ' ie finally sought repose! sai< The next morning I wa3 worse, and a v< r several days i tossed in delirium and " tin, but by a week more the fever be- saic in to abate and Mrs. Blyster said, re- in ? isuringly: ma; "You hain't dead yet, miss, and you hat's more you hain't a goin' to be? ha\ )t with Sarah Blyster to see to ye!" moi ben good Sarah Blyster gave me a Bly otherly kiss on my lorehead, fumbled gab rer my already painfully tucked in bed sill othing in an attempt to express still T ore forcibly her affectionate zeal for bill y welfare, and sat down with a sort ord ' good-natured grunt at the back win- sitt >w. far* I closed my eyes and was just about one lling asleep when I was aroused by a 4< ilf-suppressed sob. tat< " What's the matter?" I said, faintly, awi 0 see happy Mrs. Blyster in tears was her io much for me. fell ' She's dead, miss; the woman't lives hin . the little house back. They're a hejvin' her funeral this blessed minute." A "A friend of yours?" I was im- tibl :essed almost to tears mysell by Sarah felt lyster's manner. " "Law, no'."said that lady, starting che p and assuming her own radiant coun- his nance again. " And what I'm a a P hinin' around here and givin' her the to t lues for, I'm sure I don't know. Cheer put a, Sarah Blyster, cheer up!" for 1 smiled faintly and soon dropped oft was to the nap which Mrs. Blyster's sob ain id interrupted. nur A day or two after Mrs. Blyster was ?y snivelin'," as! she expressed it, again Ble t (ho txt i ri H r? w T cfrnnapr id better now, and asked, cheerfully: ? S "Not another funeral, I hope, Mrs. fev< lyster?" was "No," said that worthy lady, still tim lable to attain her wonted serenity; tior but there's a boy?her boy, I s'pose? tan workin' much inside, and he?and h ; eve: he's a shakin' out her clo'es and un<3 foldin' 'em up, and it does seem's it Bly me o' the female relatives oughter be Thf helpin'of'em." Peg Surely it did. There was considerable han ithos in the way of stating it, in spite prir "the "female relatives," which only T towed that Mrs. Blyster had mingled rusl uch in scenes of woe herself and knew the :>w they ought to be conducted. whi "I wouldn't look that way," I said, wip iothin^ly; "try the other window." to " I did," said Mrs. Blyster, " but my car] res would go that way somehow? w rerything shows so plain from here, said here was a black aipaca, as good as " :w. T see her out in it the very day " come here to take care of you. She "I ok sick the very next day, I reckon, fell< r I see her curtain was down and the don jctor there, and now I think she'a " :ad. and there's that alpaca dress re- hrul indin' them!" and Mrs. Blyster sobbed iool rain. awl I had been sitting up for some time, his I'll lie down, now,. Mrs. Blyster," I " id, hoping to divert the good creature rup om her sorrowful reflections. And in " ranging my bed and getting the pre: lerubs and gillyflowers set in order for you y tea she forgot the alpaca dress and twi j departed owner. t's But oniy temporarily, for, two or mo< ree days after, sitting solemnly and " most tearfully again by the window, lool ie began in the tone which people use 41B' hen they are tellingthe " particulars." " "You jest ortersee them, miss"?for firsl bad utterly refused to glance in the you rection of the grief-stricken house? clar it's so ouchin' iike. He's a-siftin' like e ashes now, miss. She done it that bea st day we come. She had on an old if y( .likar?they gave it to the woman a-ki :xt door afterward; and then she star icked up her kitchen and put on the " paca and went out a-callin' or some- Mrs in'. She seemed to tbink a lot of her ' 'ighbors and they of her. I see they ant id a houseful at the funeral." " pet "Mercy!" I exclaimed, quite out of to b itience with Sarah Blaster's prying 'Tai Bposiaon. iuu suouien t De iook- nen g in at their windows, Mrs. Blyster; on isn't polite." Y 44 Humph !" said the good soul, with me spirit, 441 ain't a-looking in at leir windows. I see it all without 0 okin'; can't help teein', they're so wai ose and low like; and I've seen a smf ght o' trouble and death, and it ain't and i me as it is to a giddy young thine do\> ke you," and with this "crusher" Mrs. peri lvster went out to take my tray. mel "the next day the doctor sent her out an 1 > take a walk and she came in radiant. 441 went by the front o' that little 4ouse, you know, where she died a fog >rtnit at;o. Jest as clean, you never 44 ;e ! Them two men must a' scrubbed ply le steps and front theirselves. An' -4 ach a nice rag carpet on the front- sha jom floor, an' the clock a tickin' on ae mantelshelf. My ! it must be aw- 41 il lonesome without her !" And Mrs. her tlyster drew her face down dolefully Ah, la!,Mrs. Blyster's heart was get- ow ing enlisted. The dear old house, if it dei ras only a hospital, was not going to ? e without its rnmanrn nftoi. oil " He goes to his stoop every mornin'," boi aid Mrs. Blyster, irrelevantly, as she the irightened up the fire a day or two 4 ater. chi "He? Who?' I asked, stupidly. ou Mrs. Blyster started like a child coi aught at the cookies. sis "1 jest sec that man over there," and to he nodded in the direction of the back de; vindow. " I see him a splittin' some cai cinllins an' then a goin' off to his work, pei ; rayther guess he's a carpenter, but nebb? its a mason, or mebbe its a shoe- ' oftker." Ki "Sure enough!" I rejoined. "But a vhat difference does it make to you, klre. BlyaterP" lw -" I, j f1' ^ -J-"r" , "Law!" said Mrs. Blyster, bridlin jrou haven't no interest in your felloi in's. Now here's a poor man, Lely a man as I've seen this many tig day, gone and a-lost his wife?tl arest creetur to him prob'ly in tl :>rld." And Mrs. Blyster's voi oked up. " And you haven't no mo mpathy with him than nothin' in t :>rld." There was an eloquence of reproa( this which quite silenced me?tnoug feebly protested my innocence?ar e subject was dropped. Sunday, however, was the grand dr Mrs. Blyster's observation, f< m the " inexpressive he "?it was il trial to her that she did not kno i name?was at home all day. SI ?culated on his name a great deal. ' There's a bearin' about his mien d that lady with some sentimen hat seems to sorter show he hain ; no common name; now I know t in't got no name like Smith." 'I'm afraid we never shall know, lid, soberly; "I'm getting well verj t, Mrs. Blyster." i in ?*v./> lis juu. uu; uiic ^uuu suu ing me an affectionate hug. ,;Y( 1 be; an' I'm triad enough if it do pi out of a job. But likely the doctc jet me here again." ' Oh. yes!" I said; " but what do yo nk that man's name is now?" Irs. Blyster returned to the subjec ;h evident alacrity. Likely 'taint nothin' like Perkins? said, interrogatively. The Perkinsc re a great lamuy, who uvea near o i grand mansion. You know I haven't seen him," 3, half ashamed of drawing out th ,r, old creature just for my owi usement. " Perhaps it might b ppen." The Crippen's lived iurthe vn the street and, though not so aris ratic as the Perkinses, had sti! ims to consideration. That just about suits him." said goo s. Blyster, with some enthusiasm Ir. Crippen! That sounds quite lik 1. I declare I'm ashamed at my ag( ; rainy as 'tis I could really aJmos , on my gums and go out. I feel s der anxious to git hold of his name. couldn't help laughing. "Mrs ster," I saia, "I do hope you wil >w some clay, and if I ever find ou tell you." omething in my manner quite ir jd her feelings. I s'po;e you think I'm silly," sh i, in a hurt way; "but, indeed, he' 2rynice man." I know he is, dear Mrs. Blyster," 1, penitently. "And I'm every bi sarnest, and I want you to promise t kc me some of that famous toast o ^ AT I T r T irs io-niguc. -ttias: i ieur i suaa re much more of it"?for I was al 9t well. This cleared good Mrs ster's face in a moment, and sh tened to set out the cherubs am yflowers and ran to get the toaster, 'wo days later I was to go. Th s were paid and the carriage wa ered, and Sarah Blyster and I wer ing before the pleasant fire having i swell chat, when suddenly in burs of the maids. Mrs. Blyster," she said, in an agi jd voice, "the doctor wants you righ ay. There's a carpenter lives bac] 1 1 a. e on iiic nine uuuk. suuta, nuu uc off the roof. Oh! it's awful. I sav l, and mebby he'll get well an' mebb won't." Irs. Blystcr's rosy face erew percep y paler and her comfortable han< cold as it touched mine. It's him. miss. Mr. Crip?" sh eked herself, " but likely that am' name. And, miss, I do believe there' rovidence in it, and here I'm a goin ind out his name without a havm'ti on my guns at all; but, mercy!1 she had suddenly realized that then i no time to ruminate, "Ihope h 't a goin' to die. He ain't if goo< sin' '11 a save him! Good-bye, mis es I'll call up to Simses sometimes ss your heart," and Mrs. Blysterwa ie. 0 I went back again to school. Thi jr had not spread and everything 1 as quiet and stupid as ever. Some es letters came, and I spent the vaca i with my mother's friends in a dis t place. I forgot almost that I hac r had the scarlet lever or had beer ler the care of good, efficient Mrs ster. The tall term beean anc mksgiving was close upon us wher gy entered my room one day anc ded me a card upon whicn wa; ited: " Mrs. Sarah Blyster." hen it all came back to me, and ] jediDto the reception-room to giv( good creature a loving embrace? ich quite upset her, and made hei ie her kindly, susceptible eyes?and ask, the first thing: "How's the aenter that was hurt?" trs. Blyster blushed violently, and 1, with a simper: You hain't a-forgot, sure's I live.' Of course I haven't," I said, warmly, take a great deal of interest in my >w beings, in spite of your thinking J 't. How is he?" Law, miss, he wan't hurt so awful ; still," raising her eyebrows and ling serious,44 he was pretty sick loi lile, and he broke a ieetle bone ir foot, which makes him rather lame.' But what's his name?" I interted, impatiently. That's it," said Mrs. Blyster, imssively. 44 Wasn't it strange enougL stiouKi a-saiu unppenr i Knew in't no common name, and it ain't Crimpton; now don't that sound 5t'y like Crippen?" It does, indeed," I said, trying tt i as surprised as I lelt I ought to at how did you get along?" Oh!" blushing again," we got alon-j t-rate, and tuat's what I come to tel ,. We?that is?well, miss?I de e," and good Mrs. Blyster lookef ; a fifteen-year-old girl vith her firs u. " I come a-expectin' to ask yoi ou would do us the honor, you havin aownall the circumstances from tin t, to?to?" To what?" I cried, as interested a 5. Blyster herself. Well, if you must know?it's a pleas room, you know, with the rag car and clock a-tickin', and we're goin e married there Thanksgiving day in't ben a year yet, but he needs me 1' lame you know?and mebbe vou'l le to the weddin'." ou may be sure that I irent. Called His Sister Names. n one of the hottest comers of Wood a avenue, ueiroit, ai uign noon, til boy with a bootblack's kit sa ler the full blaze of a sun pourin rn for all it was worth. The bo; spired, roasted, blistered and almoa ted, but he had stuck there for ha] tiour when a lady passing by haltei said: Little boy, aren't you afraid of be sunstruck?" Yes, ma'am." was the prompt rc Then why don't you get into th ,de?" I can't." ; Did any one tell -you to wai e?" 'No, marm, but I'm doing it on m n hook. It's awful hot and I'm mo< id, but I've got to stand it." ihe "looked to see if lie was tied, an s about to go and regard him as th 1 of a brutal father in a saloon aroun j corner, wiien the ]ad explained: ' There he is now! That boy is th ftp I was waiting for, and I had to s t here to see him when he turned tt rner- ne s me iener mat caiiea m ter a poke-eyed rabbit, and I'm goic jump in on him and lick him most 1 ath! I wish you'd hold my box so a get the bulge on him before he su its anything."?Free Presa. The Princess Eugenie, sister of tl ng of Sweden, ia enthusiastic to for society of the ladies of Sweden 1 pport missionaries among the La iders. g; Water Funeral In Norway. ?! One of the chief men of Christiansui had died, and was about to be burie u His body was to be conveyed across tl waters of the bay to the church, whe the funeral ceremony would take plac The day was intensely tiot; the si u poured down his rays from a cloudle sky; not a breath of air stirred in th landlocked, hill-sheltered bay. All n 1 tare seemed to rejoice in sunshine ar ! j prosperity. The bouses on the slope one above another, looked white ar tranquil. Nothing could be less in ha mony with the ceremony about to tat a place. In the distance, on the oppi site side of the bay, a crowd of peop 1P could be discerned, quiet, motionle3 A landing-stage was decked with gree >i boughs and garlands, terminating at tl 't water's edge in an arch of green leave At the foot of the landing-stage son ie eight or ten boat3 were waiting. Sue denly there was a siight stir in tl ? crowd. The coffin was being borne c r men's shoulders down to its appointe boat. A few minutes more and tl ] cortege set out. The first boat co ' tained the musicians, and anythin jt more sad, solemn, and mournful tha )r the dirge they played could not I imagined. It was distressing in wai u ing gloom and misery. A certain occi sional discord mingled with the ha: mony, the very embodiment of despa and heartbroken sorrow. Immediate! it following the musicians was a boa ,3 richly decorated with garlands of leave y and dowers in the form of a canop: that might rather have decked a brid I than the dead. Below this gorgeoi e and beautiful canopy, covered by n a pall, cumbered by no trappings, repose e the coffin. The boat had ail the ap T pearance of a triumphal barge. Th [_ sight was one of the strangest, most ir [1 teresting, most impressive I had eve seen?perhaps partly from its ver d novelty?this quaint mode of buryin i. the dead. For a quarter of an hour w e watched the procession in its sIots stately, and solemn march. The oai it were muffled, and not a sound marke o its progress save the wail of the musi( " which never ceased in melanchol Bhraina. Everv time the discord cam li it jarred the feelings and shot a shive ,t through the Irame that no self-contro could resist. On and on they wenl t- boat after boat, that one containing th coffin always the mo3t conspicuous, th e eye ever reverting to it with a mourn s iul fascination. The procession passe onward until it entered a narrow cant I between the islands, and was lost t t view. Less and less distinct, slowe o and slower grew the wailing sounds c f the music, until they ceased altogether t Then we knew that the procession wa . landing, and was about to make its wa on foot to the church. A state funera e in Westminster Abbey, with all th j glitter of pomp and ceremony, the stir ring strainsofthe " Dead March," ha e never impressed me ns did tnis simpl 3 procession. This water funeral re e mains among the most vivid and dis a tinct, most interesting and most solemi t recollections I have kept of Norway.The Argosy. Ireland's Eviction Law? s The laws by which evictions for non 7 payment of rent are authorized hav e been on the statute books in Irelan< only thirty years. It was not until 185 * that quarter sessions were empowere< J to decree evictions for non-payment c flint, and it was not until 1860 that th ? same power was given to other courts The attorney-general for Ireland in i recent debate laid stress on the fact tha 1 by the Roman civil law, and even th ? [aw of Scotland, if, through some super vening calamity, such as extreme in e clemency of weather, a tenant's crop ? does not repay his labor and his seed, h 1 is not liable tor the rent. In one ease 3 where the tenant's crop had been de * stroyed by a tremendous fall of hail, th 3 Scotch courts held that he had sufficien cause for not paying his rent. Th 3 London Echo contends tbat the Englisl * law of distress, as it applies to the land is an unjust law. It gives the landlon " a right accorded to no other creditor, fo j it permits him, by means of a short 1 easy and summary process, to obtain hi i ronta with nut. the exnense and delav o r legal proceedings. But it is generosit: 1 itself compared with that under whicl | the Irish tenant lives. Such a thing ai 1 ejectment for the non-payment of ren J is unknown to the law of England. B.< . the terms of the contract between land' | lord and tenant it is stipulated to observe J the covenant; but, unless there is s \ covenant that he shall be ejected fo: non-payment of rent, he cannot bi | turned out, except alter the usual notice ! whereas in Ireland, provided he is t , year's rent in arrears, or four month: 1 behind the time when his rent i3 ordin, arily paid, he can be summarily evicted r Make Friends, Life is very critical. Any word ma* be our last. Any farewell, even amit glee and merriment, may be forever | If this truth were but burned into oui consciousness, and if it ruled as a deep \ conviction and real power in our lives wouid it not give a new meaning to oui human relationships? Would it no make us far more tender than we some times are? Would it not oftentimes pu 1 a rein upon our rash and impetuou; r speech? Would we carry in our hear 11 the miserable suspicions and jealousiei 1 that now so often embitter the fountain! of our lives? Would we be so impatien ' of the fault of others ? Would we allov trivial misunderstandings to build up i wall between us and those who ough i to stand very close to us? Would w 1 keep alive petty quarrels, year afte : year, which a manly word any da; f would compose? Would we pass oli 1 friends or neighbors on the street with \ out recognition, because of some rea or landed slight, some wounding o 2 pride, or some ancient grudge? 0 would we be so chary of the kind words 3 our commendations, our sympathy, ou comfort, when weary hearts all abou " U3 are breaking for just such expres sions of interest or appreciation as w have in our power to give??Christiana Work. ' Curious Intermittent Spaing in tiaateinala, M. De Thiersant, charge d'affaires c France in Guatemala, gives, in L . Nature, tbe following account of a pht a nomenon witnessed by him in the lasl t named country. At about ten mile p from the capital, near a town called N? y japa, on the lowest declivities of th I volcano of San Salvador, there is spring known in the country under th ^ name of Rio Huido (fleeting river] which, for a period of seven consecutiv years, furnishes enough water to form true river. The waters of this sprin are crystalline and wholesome, and, i is said, are excellent for certain disease e like leprosy, and for strengthening th system when debilitated by the climat* As soon as the seven years are con Bomfltrflfflra Hiaonnoor aV pJCLCUy iillCSC OillliTT(*kVlo uunfj certain definite hour, the spring ceast y to flow, and the river bed, becomin ,t completely dried, exhibits thereaftc nothing but sand and dust. The intei d mittent periods have been as follows ie From 18G6 to 1873 the water flowed (1 from 1873 to 1880 the spring ceased; an in the month of January of the prosei l(. year, the spring began to flow again. it ??? ic During the last twenty years tl iy United Presbyterian church in th ig country has added to its number < bo communicants over 25,000. There wei I then 408 ministers, now 675; then 61 s- congregations, now 798; then forty-loi stations, now sixty-live; then 55,5^ communicants, now 80,(592; then 21,2( Je Sunday-school scholars, now 73,11^ then contributions to foreign missior to $8,574, now $36,290; then averaf P* yearly contribution per member for a purposes $4.31, now $10.35. ~i iT**"i r FROSTIER TRAGEDIES. id Two Incidents of tlte Old Days on t d. Plain*. tie re I was talking of starvation days, ai ,e> they recall to my mind as 1 think jn them many curious and some pathei sa episodes. If you want to experience ti is purely adamantine side of humanity, a. commend you to a community of adve . tnroi-a in oparnh nf wnalfch. T was on g present at an extraordinary scene in l(j large dog kennel. One of the dogs f< r_ sick ana lay down and whimpere ce" whereupon the other dogs fell upon hi "with angry tooth" and tore him jg pieces. Something of this wolfish spii g I saw manifested on several ocoasioi q among the two-legged animals wl ie were hustling and elbowing each oth s in that roaring and overcrowded tow: One beautiful summer morning, as I lay on my comfortable?well, on my se tion offloor?wishfully dreaming of tl >n possibility of some good angel lettir ,j down a bagful of provender as they di once to some of the apostles, a pai |Q laced young man appeared at the aoo ~ He was trembling all over, and seem< * to be almost on the verge of delirium. )e " 1 am sick," saia ne, in a pitnui ion i " and I want to get to the hospital." " "There is no hospital here," said ] " "there is no money tosupporta hospit any longer; it has been closed up." " But I tell you I am sick and hungr * What am I going to doP" * " When did you get your last meal , "Up to Fort Sanders yesterday." [' "You don't know your luck to lia\ fallen in with a meal so lately as thai It ought to last you a week here." ? The poor fellow began to cry. "Will can I do if I get nothing to e&tP" " "Do?" cried a gruff voice from tt other end of the place, " the best thin you can do is to get under a locomotive. ? It was a cruel remark, yet I almos ? forgave the fellow who made it, knov | ingtbat he had been existing jfor fi\ days on some dried apples which h stole out of a grocery barrel. f The stranger whined, "I suppose 1' a i j:- ? , ulive tu uie, iucu. '? "Suppose so. Can, if you <vant t< * you know," said the gruft voice. ? "Go around town, and see what ca i be done for you," I suggested, and th ' man walked sadly away. He was wel l' dressed, and had the air of a fellow wh e had been well brought up. But he ha e lost his grit. \ About two hours after that conversa , tion I was walking along the railroa 11 track when I saw the mangled body ( 0 my visitor of the morning, tue head tor * off the trunk and the limbs smashed int J1 a pulp. He had taken the advice oftb ' man who spoke to him, and had delibei 3 ately thrown himself under the wheel ? ot the engine. ^ That was rather a harrowing episod< e I T nnln rana 11 if oKnnr a r\Vio on r ?UU JL VU1J & VVMli AW IV OUVTT C* *. ' human nature in ita very hardest as pects, when the law of self-preservatio e asserts itself in the presence of calam 'r ity. Under some kinds of pressur " mankind becomes, " more fell than an Q guish, huneer or Ihe sea." I saw i - crowd of idle laborers on the railroai looking curiously at the torn remain _ us they lay there under the beatin sun and not one them would turn ove his heel to fetch a covering to hide th i- terrible sight from the public gaze e When called on to help pack the frag i ments into a box, they walked awa^ 0 with some contemptuous remark abou 1 the poorsoul who could not stand th if buffet s of that rough world. e A few nights after t&at I witnessed j i. scene of a more inspiring character i but just as characteristic of the man t mers and customs of the overcrowdei e dog kennel. It occurred in a dance - house, where the lamps shone o'er, no - fair women and brave men, but an as s semblage of cut-throats, gamblers am e women such as few lamps ever had th i, privilege of making visible. I ha< taken refuge in the sheriffs office tha e morning, and about evening tha t functionary was aioused from his lai K? on intimntinn 11mt. t.hfi vitrilanifi i were on the war-path, and that the; t had two horse thieves and a murdere i in hand. Sheriff Jim quietly turnei r over on his other side, muttering tha ,, he would see about it in the morning s but I wa3 curious to see a>-real liv< f vigilant, so I went forth into the dark p ness to take a peep at these ominou i birds of night. s Aaown the main street came a for t midablc looking body of men, al j masked. Instinctively I approached th . gang, as I had often done in street pa ; rades, but a score of stern voices cried 1 "Away from here, and mind your busi r ness." I obeyed without a murmur, fo 2 there was something grim and solemi , in the attitude of those avenging angels i Hearing the lively tum-tum ot a guitai 3 and the squeaking of a fiddle in a dance . house, I llew thither for shelter, and be f held a gay throng of revelers, cvidentl; mad with whisky, whirling around i: wild quadrilles?a veritable dance o warlocks and witches, as fantastic a f that in the celebrated ale-vapor drean I of the Scottish bard in the "haunte< . kirk." Plainsmen, clad in tatterei r buckskin garments, Indian fashion,wer > plunging luriously through the set witl , gay gamblers in nobby attire, and for r lorn looking types of femininity arrayei t in suits of " frayed magnificence." I moH mntlow r>rnwrf anr>h n?t Snl.ft] t might have piped to, and all engaged ii 3 celebrating the liberation of a desperad* 3 called Charlie Martin, who bad that da; 3 been acquitted by a jury " of his peera' 3 on the charge of cold-blooded assassina t tion. Charlie himself was the loudes t of the revelers, and was the hero of til v hour. t Just as the mirth and fun was at it e height, and the murderer was calling fo r a round of drinks lor the crowd a ma j entered and tapped him quietly on th i shoulder. " Come out for a minute,1' said h( 1 " there's a friend of yours at the doci ,f wants to speak to you." r Charley stepped out, and the ma i, locked the door behind him. I ha r managed toslip outunnoticed, and ther I I saw a semi-circle of men in mask i. waiting to receive their victim. With e out a word they gagged him, and witL II out a word they dragged him away t the end of the street wnere a tripod ha been erected. The fellow struggled an fought like a lion for his life. He fougli until the noose was fastened round hi r neck, and until the life was choked oi u of him. , It was a strange contrast to this grh scene to go back to the dance house an " see the revelers continue their orgy, a unconscious of the dreadful deed th? had been done just outside of their fe< e tivity. And when the sun rose thf a morning it rose upon a wonderful siler ,e city. Men talked in whispers and pointe '? to the dreary sight, while groups of me e wandered around to the " Elephar a Corral" where the body of a horse-thii ? hung in full view. lt The other horse-thief they dismisse 8 with a few scattering charges of bucl f shot in the rear, and sent him skippir for protection to Fort Davy Russell.Chicago Free Lance. 8 Caring the Bite of a Copperhead.; A little daughter of John Telford, < ' Moon township, Pa., was bitten by .. copperhead snake. Her mother toe iher to a grocery store near by, where J salt mackerel was applied totne woun and a pint of whisky forced dow the cxiiiQ s tnroat. la tne meantime chicken was caught and ripped op( alive; the mackerel was taken off; tl ie wound and the poison had turned is green; the warm entrails of the chickc were then applied, and another chickc re killed, and subsequently placed on tl *4 wound; the entrails of both were tun ir ed green. By this time the child wf 17 stupefied in consequence of the liquc she had drank, but seemed to suffer r I; pain. She was taken home, and the le is that had been bitten was placed in sa Sand water. These prompt remedies ha the desired effect, and the child was coi ftidered out of danger. William H. Erarts, hc A professional scribe has been mal a personal sketch for a Western ne paper of William M. Evarts, secrel a<* of state. Notwithstanding Mr. Eva ?* remarkable thinness, he is said to h 'ie extraordinary vigor and endurar ^ No member of his profession is caps * of greater find more continuous w n" He sesma to be composed of will i ce steel; he is never ill; he never sh< * signs of fatigae; and yet the amoun labor daily performed by him is p "? digious. An instance of this is givei P1 the Beecher trial, which lasted months, and wore out all the lawj and judges except Evarts, who atten 13 court every day, and at the close of 10 celebrated case addressed the jury er eight days without appearing any worse for it. The secret of his hea 1 and elasticity lies in his calmness i c* coolncss. He does not waste hims< ie ho understands the science of adapt: I? means to ends; he does not fret or fi ia He takes excellent care of himsi e" When he works ho works, and when rests he rests. He enjoys the pleasu :a of tho table, and lays a solid bar of sL between the days. e? Besides being a lawyer and statesm r. he has a rare talent for society, be; Lj distinguished as a host. His conv al sation is easy and brilliant,full of hun geniality, wit, sentiment, and ? ' touches of art. that shine like natu His house in town is old-faahion spacious, comfortable, abounding pictures, engravings, books, bronz . bric-a-brac, and his country seat, Windsor, Vt., is delightful, with its! t acres of highly-improved grounds a ample facilities for the entertainment many guests. As an after-dim ? speaker, Evarts has few equals even ft this land of natural orators. He it wise, witty, learned, and eloquent turns, much of his charm depending ' his variety. Professor Tyndall a g other Englishmen who have been table with him have expressed their i ji miration fa tale nt compa-atively ra in their own country. Evart's prof _ sional income is estimated at $75,000 J' ?100,000 a year?it has been as great $150,000?but he is not, in New Yc e sense, rich, owing to his liberal mc i of living and his large family, consisti " of twelve or thirteen children. He is I j head of the noted firm of EvartB, Sou mayd & Choale, of Wa'l street, N York, consisting of tenor twelve pa ^ ners, and many of the most promini bankers and merchants in the city i _ among his clients. His fees are amc 0 the largest in the country, $25,000 e $50,000 not being unusual. He is n< about sixty-two years old, though jl docs not appear above fifty, and he as alert as he was at forty. 1 ????^??? Fifty-Three Days WIthont Food. n The fasting of Dr. Tanner in Ni [. York has reminded one of the cor e spondents of the Albany Argiis of t . case of Reuben Kelsey, reported by t a ate Dr. James McNaughton, of tl $ city, as follows: Kelsey, on the seco s of July, 1829, declined to eat anythii g assigning as a reason for fasting tl: r when It was the will of the Almigt P that he should eat he would be lurnish i. with an appetite. For the first six wee i he went regularly to the well in t v morning and washed his head and fa< t and took a bowl full of water into t e house. With this he occasionally rins his mouth, and drank some of it. I j parents were of opinion that he did r drink more than a pint ot water 1 twenty-four hours. Compulsory mea 4 to make him take food were found v . availing. On one occasion he we t three days without taking even wat h but cn the fourth morning he was c 4 served to go to the well andtodri Q copiously and greedily. On the eleven 4 day of his fast he stated to his frien t that he had not felt so well nor so stro t in tw> years as at that moment, a r consequently denied the necessity s taking food. For the first six wee 7 (forty-two days) he wa'.ked out eve r day, and sometimes spent the great i part of the day in the woods. He walk t steadily and firmly, and hi3 friends ] ; marked that his step was unusua 3 elastic. He shaved himselt until abc . a week before his death, and was al g to sit up in bed to the last day. I mental faculties did not seem to becoi impaired as his general strength ( 1 clined, but, on the contrary, his mi c was calm and collected to the end. J . voice toward the last became feeble a . low, but continued distinct. Towa ^ the close of his life he did not go ir r the fields, nor during the last week ev a to the well, but still he wa3 able to up and go about his room. Daring t first threa weeks of his abstinence he f away very rapidly, but afterward he d . not seem to waste so sensibly. His col P was blue, and toward the last blackis q His general appearance was so ghasi f that children were frightened at t 3 sight of him. He died on the twenl 2 fourth of August, 1829, having liv 3 fifty-three days without food. At t j time of his death Mr. Kelsey was tw? e ty-seven years of age. 2 This case was perfectly authenticatf The post-mortem proved the man died j starvation, and that proved the sinceri [ of his delusion. i ?? Singular Animal Friendship. ? Mr. Adams, of Van Shaick islai says the Troy Press, id the possessor " a bay horse and black Newfoundla t vrrVtrv horrn fnrmec\ a "arrmHpr fill e tachmcnt for each other. They i inseparable companions, and one is r 3 easy if the other is out of its sight foi r moment. Whether in the stable or t n pasture the dog sleeps with his equi e friend. If the horse is harnessed t dog is on the alert and follows wheret !? driven, and when the horse stops t r dog is close at his head, and it is a pie ure to witness them exchange caress U The horse will scratch the dog's ba d with his teeth, which delights h e greatly, and in return the horse's ft 3 gets a thorough smoothing from t ' tongue of the dog. Sometimes in sp< l* the laorse will seize the dog by the na ? of the neck with his teeth and raise h d in the air, but the dog does not whi d per, but retaliates by watching his < portunity to give the ear of the horsi 13 pinch with his teeth. They will fit lfc for each other wickedly, If the dog attacked by other canines he seeks sb " ter under the horse, and tLe teeth a o feet of that animal are active in his d fense. What the result will be if one lt those devoted friends should die befi 5* the other is a matter of some concern Lfc the owner, who values both very big) it d n One dismal antagonist to all I brotherly, uniting, harmonizing fluenccs of the day lil!s us witli dire r prehensions?the war spirit of Euro] d It appears to laugh to scorn all the m but steady influences that are fitted l8 draw the nations together. It is p ? haps, the most humiliating fact c< nected with our modern civilizati< ^ that in an age of universal traveli: international exhibitions and c< af eresses, commercial treaties, Christ; a confederations, great common inter >k in the literature, the science, the ind ii try. and the institutions of differ d, ountrie3?in an age with so much n draw the nations together, and to c< a vince thorn that the prosperity of e; m depends on the peace and progress ie the re3t. it should yet be deemed nec it sary to keep up such tremendous m sn tary armaments, to discourage indus in by oppresive military taxes, and to ie vote the highest skill and science of i- nations to the contriving of engines is destroying human life and proper jr Such is the example that Europe seu 10 the rest of the world. sg ? It The annual potatoe crop of the Unil .d States is estimated at nearly 200,000,i i- bushels, ofwhich New York State al< furnishes 25,000,000 bushels. Hunting Wild Hogs In Tenness :ing A letter irom Tennessee appe: wa. the Cincinnati Commercial as fol] >ary The early settlers brought hogs Lrtg' them into Tennessee, ana having ave or no food for them, suffered the ices stray off among the hills to ro< tb]e their ewn living. The mast, whi ork very abundant in these hilis, coi an(j of hickory, beech and chestnut, as )WS as acorns, so that ho^s, deer t 0f turkeys grow fat on it in the fal ,ro_ winter. Hogs stray off miles i ! jn from their owners and become wi for deer, and it requires as much skil rers cunning to capturc the one as the o ded and in course of time their whole ni the is entirely changed. Instead of th for lazy lubbers as we see them 01 farms, or as a house-pet in an . shanty, they become ferocious in(j beasts. They grow tall and slab-s: ,]f. Their ears stand up straight, their [n? rows 21ong and wiry, and, in short iss. arc a different animal in nature, hi j]f* and appearance. 'he Mountain wolves are plenty in t res mus, out tnev seiaom attempt to eep ture a hog from the drove, knoi they are likely to be captured tl an> selves. ing The people who live in the hilli er_ pend almost entirely on game and aor hogs for their supply of meat. The ine hog is not fit for food in the sum Te. bnt grows fat in the late fall and ( ecf winter on the great abundance of i in' in these great forests. The wild ?3 here is not considered the proper at any one settler, but is looked upc 200 common stock property for all who n(j choosc to pursue and capture him. ; 0f After a hard night's rest on a bla ier before a big log lire, we are up by in light to find about three inches of s ia on the ground, just what we wai by Even the long Kentucky ride is on hanging in the rack in the cabin. ,nd outfit consists of a stout hickory -at and a butcher knife, the latter tig id- oenea arouna me waist in a iea ire scabbard. These are the only spoi es- tools.used for hunting wild hog to these hills, and they are very effec as as we shall presently see. irk Some seven or eight of us, wi ide many stout dogs, set out that mon ng and after a tramp of three miles or i the we begin to discover signs of game, th- now halt and hold a council of ew Our old bushwacker. Jack Newlan rt- chosen captain of the party, and snt plans of the hunt chalked out by hi ire " You see, boys," said Captain J mg " here is the range of a drove, and to see by the signs and fresh beds, as dw as the tracks in the snow, that the be about twenty hogs in the drove, big is little. Most on 'em is big fellows, will give a hard fight. Now, Jim Ned, take two of the dogs and go r< that pint of hill over thar. Sam, and Kob just kinder crawl around ew that ar' nob, and lay low. The re; re, us will follow on the track. Wh jjJ see the hogs I'll holler like an < Then you answer, hoo' hoo! hoo! s |at as me, case I see the hogs rootin'. 1 pitch in and head 'em off till the lg come up." The snow gave us a good chanc lty see the hogs a good away off, and had not proceeded <ar before we sig ka them a few hundred yards away, bi he turning up the leaves in search of f ,e Here we halted behind trees, and < jjg tain Jack gave the call in imitatioi |e(j the big-horned owl, which was {j8 swered by the other two parties. ' (0j. was the signal for attack. VVesto jn in on a run to surprise the game, n8 soon the doirs had brought the hog bav. The rest of the hunters now ,nt rived with all tlie dogs, and the I er commenced, each one urging his dc ,b' seize a hog by the ear, and, watoi nk his chance, would jump astride of ] and holding on with one hand, w< idg put his deadly blows over the head ^ n? his club, and as soon as down, out i nd his butcher knife and plunge it up tc 0f hilt in the hog's throat?then ofi ,]j9 another. The cbase and slaugbtei Ty thu3 kept up for a mile or nu re, or ier til the dogs and men are tired out o 'ed the hogs killed, when we retrace re_ steps and make arrangements for g lly ingup our game. mt We have seen a stout hog boun 3le through the woods with his rider w Ij3 the dog was last to his ear, and c ne both a considerable distance b< je. being killed. The sport is ludicrou nd the extreme, as well as being attei [is with considerable danger; and ui nd one is familiar with it he is pretty a] rd get severely hurt by the side wipi ito the hog's long tusks. Whenweengi en this drove the tight was exciting sit furious. As for ourselves, though r he coward, we must confess that we c ell preferred to take refuge up a sapling lid watch the light than to participate i or The day was far advanced when ih. sport ended. We all assembled b]y built a large fire, and proceeded to < he the slaughtered hogs into camp, w jj. proved a very laborious job. Whei ed the killed had been brought in he counted eleven large fat porkers. ?n. was now near dark, and we conCli to camp there for the night, retun ;d. to where we had left our provision of the morning. On first discovering ity game and bringing it into camp hung up the hogs to have them r< for transportation. We cut out ten loins and broiled them on the live & and enjoyed a hearty supper and br fast. During the night we 1 id awakened by a pack ol wolves w o had assembled on a neighboring hi Qd give us a grand serenade. We c at- not see them, but should judge, fion ire great noise they made, mere were l0t at least, and had we not eight oi ' a tout dogs and a large tire they wc be poubtless have made an attempt to ?e ture and carry off our game. ne rer " he as- The Color of the Sea. es* The changes in the color of the ^ have attracted the attention of seafa men irom me earnest wmua. j struck with wonder the Phoenic '~r when first they ventured out of Mediterranean into the Atlantic; t im exc'tcd the astonishment of Coluc and terrified his companions, whil search of the far-famed Indies; ,p" they arc no less a surprise to the mo V7 navigator, to whom the march of is covery has left few unexplored re^ j in store. One of the most remari j and most widely distributed contras j color is tliat which is known to < 'of between the intensely blue seas situ rrp between tbe tropics and the green F? of higher latitudes. It appears as ; ji result of recent observations, and i ' especially of a series of experin made on board the German fri li.. Gazelle, that there is an intimate tion between the color of sea water " the proportion of salt held in solutic the latter. On comparing the sp( oe. ?c ?th? MI glclvlLj Ui natci "nu uuc I blue water, it was found that the li JL? is always heavier thantbe former, therefore, at the same time more Jl the two differently colored waters ing supposed to have the same temj ture. In other words, the greate lesser intensity of tbe blue color of eat water may be taken as a direct ind u_ its saltness and of its specific graent so that when we observed the col< to the water successively change ; Jn. deep blue to a bluish green and a IC^ green, we may conclude that the v 0f has become at the same time iess; ,C8_ and less heavy. ilitry Queen Olira. of Greece. has a kit de- bo admirable in all its appointmer the to be tlie wonder of that classic: for It may be said that she has made < ty! ing a fashionable accomplishmer i to Greece. A fabric of dress goods is being n: teil factured in Germany from a prej 000 article of glass, that is to say, gin one the basis of the woven goods. It fine as the product of the silk wor ee. Concerning Members of Congress. arsin Five thousand a year sounds like a ows: little fortune itself to many a man in the with South whose hard earnings annually little fall to $500 or less. But as a rule m to Southern men coming to Congress since >t for the war have come with depleted purses ch is or involved in debt. To such men life asists in Washington is a continual struggle well between motives of economy ana a and laudable desire to creditably represent 1 and their people in social and official life, iway Many of them strike a fortunate middle Id as ground between the prevalent extrava1 and gance of the capital and that plainness ther, which in a Senator or Representative is iture put down as meanness. Some live in efat, high style, have a glorious time for a i the few years, and unless they strike a lucky Irish speculation in stocks or accumulate by wild fortuitous ways, peculiar to certain ided. classes of legislation, go home deeply in hair debt, and have to borrow money for , the their next canvass. There are memabits bers who Stage cheap] quarters, spend little or no money on receptions, thea'hese ters, carriages, etc., take thirty-cent cap- meals at restaurants, walk a mile or ving two to andjfrom the Capitol, or on rainy lem- days indulge in the luxury of a five-cent ride in the street cars. Men like these 3 de- save a considerable part of their salwild aries, and at the end of tbeir terms are wild richer as well as wiser men. In the ? A /iKiMrfin uier, meantime tiieir wivco wu vuuuivu sarly have been living in some country town, mast deprived of a share of eiyoyment of" the hog honors the old man gains, and of the ty of pleasure of a few years1 residence in the as capitol city. In most instances they may really had better be in the country though they probably don't think so. nket I knew one Senator, a brilliant man, day- but indolent in habit and shabbynow genteel in dress, who drew from bank ited. at the end of his six years' term the left comforable sum of twenty odd thousand Our dollars, accumulations oi savings from club his salary. He lived plainiy and re;htly mote from the Capitol; and would walk ither more than two miles to the Capitol 'ting when the thermometer stood in the s in nineties. He said he walked for his tive, health. Once I hunted up a certain member of this Congress for spccial Lh as reasons. He occupies a second-story ling, room on a street that might almost be nore called No Thoroughfare. The entrance We is through a narrow brown door at1 joinwar. ing the shop in the first story, and at d, is the top of the dark stairway, which the brings you to his chamber, you grjpe m. your way to the first door?the one with rack, a large square hole in it, near the top, t?/-m 11 hin Th?M on tirt arjo firfnrpfl in t.nfl well room. At night the long many-jointed re is fixture in the nail is drawn through the and hole in the door, and being doubled back and so as not to interfere with the movement and of the door, is lighted. Long strips o mnd ancient papering hang down from the you walls in some places, and the furniture over consists of a very plain bed, a few it on chairs, a square wooden washstand with en I a hole in the top almost losing the owl. china bowl and the pitcher, and a small ame painted table,covered with congressional Chen bills and documents sprinkled with dogs crumbs of smoking tobacco, stands on uncertain legs near the center of the e to chamber. Tne occupant of this room we receives a salary of $5,000 u year. He hted will not resign on account of pecuniary isily distress. ood. Members of Congress have many unJap reasonable demands upon their purses, a of merely because they happen to be in an- the public service. Day after day they rhis are importuned. Often an unknown irted man asks for money to get back to and Augusta, or Raleigh, or Cincinnati, or s to to some other place. Another wants ar Lis check indorsed, another wants a loan dght to go into business, another pleads his >g to war record and poverty to extract a hing loan. The forms of demands for money iim, are as varied as they are numerous, and >u Id I aonmpiv n. rent ia ever refunded.? 'Villi Charleston News and Courier. vith > the ' The Buoyancy of Water. un- Speaking of the Seawanhaka disaster r all the Trenton (N. J.) Gazette says: Presour ence of mind, and a slight knowledge of ath- the specific gravity of the human body, would have saved much of this frightful d off loss of life. There was loose wood rhile enough about the boat to have floated arrv ten times the number of passengers on ;fore the ill-fated vessel, if it had been used s in with judgment. The human body ided weighs about a pound in the water, and lless a single chair will carry two grown per3t to sons. That is, it would keep their heads es of above water, which is all that is necesiged sary when it is a question of life and and death. Thejburning vessel was close to lot a shore, the water was calm and warm, >ften and all these passengers might easily and have jumped overboard and paddled nit. laughing ashore, if they had only the possessed and used the simple knowland edge that one finger placed upon a stool drag or a ohair, or a small box, or a piece of liicu board, would easily keep the head above a all water, while the two feet and the other we hand might be used as paddles to propel It toward the shore. It is not at all neceslded sary to know to swim to be able to keep ning from drowning in this way. A littl is in experience of the buoyant power of the matter, and faith in it, is all that is re? we quired. We have seen a small boy who ?ady could not swim a stroke propel himself der- himself back and forth across a deep, oals, wide pond, by means of a board that eak- would not sustain five pounds weight, ivere In fact, that sometime small boy is now hich writing this. Children and all others U to should have practice in the sustaining ould power of water. In nine ca lf' out of 1 the ten, the knowledge that what 7/111 susfifty tain a pound weight is all that is necesr ten sary to keep one's head above water, iuld- will serve better in emergencies than caps the greatest expertness 03 a swimmer. A person unfamiliar with the buoyant power of water will naturally try to climb on top of the floating object on which he tries to save himself. If it is ** i a large enough, tJiat is au rigut. jdui it is sea generally not large enough, and half of ring a struggling group is often drowned in ["hey the desperate scramble of a life-and:ians death struggle to climb on top of a piece the of wreck or other floating object, not ,hey large enough to keep them all entirely abus above water. This often happens when e in pleasure boats capsize. All immediand ately want to get out of the water on dern top of the overturned or half-tilled boat, dis- and all are drowned except those whom ;ions the wrecked craft will wholly bear up. :able If they would simply trust the water to its of sustain ninety-nine hundredths of the ?xist weight of their bodies, and the disabled lated boat the other hundredth, they might seas all be saved under most circumstances, the An overturned or water-filled wooden nore boat will sustain more people in this lents way than it will carry. It would keep igate tho heads above water of as many peoreia pie as could get their hands on the gun and wale. These are simple facts, easily in by learned, and may some day save your ;citic life. it of 1 utter Teachers. Senator Bayard, in an address to the .an, Wilmincton hich school, said : Thprn 1 be" is not a nobler or more useful profes)era* sion than that of instructing young ? or minds and educating their faculties. I sea should be glad to see an higher encoure* ? agement and recognition given these 71ty? men and women in our midat who de< >r 01 vote themselves to this lofty calling. Were it in my power I would make the dar'? names of schoolmaster and scnoolmiarater tres3 t^mg 0f public as well as private salty honor, aud I would affix such just and proportionate compensation to theii services as would make their positions chen not on^ those of honor in society, bu its as profit, so that every inducement should land be offered to embark in the profession joofc- of instuction of the young. it in " There are now three Hebrews jn the United states congress? Messrs. jonas, ianu- Morse and Einstein. In the House >ared there are six German Representatives, .as is among whom are Heilman, of Indiana; is as Foeliler, of Minnesota; Muller, of New m. York, and Deuatcr, of Wisconsin. - - - - I HllldtoLULILL. To the Terrestrial GIob?.| BT A MISERABLE WRETCH. ' Roll on, tlioa ball, roll on!"i {. . v s rhrough pathless realms ot apace Si?i . What though I am in a sorry case? * v u What though I cannot meet my bills What though I anSer toothache'* ills What though I swallow countless piUit Never yoa mind; Roll on! ' f ltoll on, thoujball, roll on! Through seas of inky air Roll on! It's true I've got no shirts to wearf It's true my butcher's bill is duo; | It's true my prospects all look blue, - * * - -N Bat don't let tnai unseiuo you: Never yon mind! \ Roll on! } ; ? fV. 8- Gilbm i- < ===== ITEMS OF IHTEBEST. - * *-r, The simple flowers are sociable and r benevolent. The mule always puts his best foot .y . backward.?Boston Tramcripi. " 'Tis sweet to be re-membered," u the man said when he got a cork leg.? Aruireu sl" Queen. * " * The Emperor of Austria has set the < fashion ot wearing a golden nig as a pin > or watch charm. ' t There are 2,000 hives of bees in the United States, and the estimated annual reven nefrom them is $14,000,000, u : The demand for chairs that Washing f V -vV ton once sat in is keeping the furniture v makers very busy.?Boston Post. A Philadelphia policeman who, in the , discharge ot his duty, shot two rowdies, has become insane through remorse. One of the original tea stamps, which* ' . caused the rumpu3 a century ago,is . . advertised for sale by a London.. firja'./ -/ ^ The seal is especially fond of musfo, he will follow a boat to listen to a * ' musical instrument, or even a chorus of '* pieces. There is a Latin term for cod liver -. oil, but none for the taste of it. The. * ? Latin races were not well up in pro- ' fanity. 44 All work and no play makes Jaok dull boy." Very few Jacks will be' come dull boy if left to themselves.? . Boston Transcript. * ' * / An umbrella bird has been imported , for the Central Park zoological garden d] from South America, much to the de* light of naturalists. / Heliotrope is the prominent color in * '* most elegant toilets, and shirring is the noticeable trimming of all light and semi-diaphanous dresses. A tall man having rallied a friend on * > ^ the shortness of his legs, the friend re- ; ja plied: "My legs reach the ground?,'. what more can yours do P" Minnie Westerfield, of New York. . aged one year and four months, died from facial erysipelas, caused by having her ears pierced for earrings. A petrified canoe of good size and shape has iost been found at the bottom of Latce Neufchatel, Switzerland. It must be thousands of years old. - - c Grandmamma?" Now, Nellie, spell ice." Nellie?" I-c-e." Grandmamma ?" Do you know what ice is?" Nellia ?" Yes, grandmamma, it's water fast asleep?Philadelphia Times. That curious little fish, the stickle- " V 1. back, builds its nest like a bird, wher<**n its spawn is deposited and protected. This fish rarely grows to be over two inches and a halfin length. TT7" rooni^eH some verses from I! C uavv 4 vw. , w an unknown poet, beginning, "Hoir . can lease my throbbing brow?" Did * ' k.?ysj you ever try a wet rag bound around the head ??Cincinnati Saturday Night. It is a curious fact that Proatrum, Italy, was famous 600 years before Christ for its roses, which bloomed twice a year?in May and November? and the same fact is annually exempli- _ ... fied now. v St. Louis had in 1870 fifty-three flour 1 ishing kindergnrteas, with about 4,000 pupils, 130 paid teachers and sixty-five volunteer assistants. The entire cost for the year was a little over $20,000 * $5.70 for each pupil.| ? . *. Some woodebopper- at Canton. 111., ? sent a boy to the top of a tall tree,which they had cut almost through, to sway it . -.1 in the direction which they wished it to fall. The plan was successful, except that six bones of tho boy were broken A Chicago man makes a living by finding lost articles. He goes to puouo gardens, parks, etc., every morning be* lore daylight, and looks for anything which persons may have dropped dap* ing the previous even t*. i Breaking an awkward silence. Mrs. Montague Smart (suddenly, to bashful youth, who has not opened his lips since he was introduced to her a quarter of an hour aeo)?"And now let us talk of something else!"? Punch. A New Orleans lady procured, a year ago, over 2,000 siik worm eggs, from which she raised 2,000 cocoons, and from these she bas obtained over HO,000 eggs. The silk is pronounced by manufacturers to be of a very superior quality. The empire of Austria is composed today of the following countries, all of WillCD Have ai BOme lime enjujeu wiporate existence: Archduchy of Austria, duchy of Salzburg, duchy of Styria, principality of the Tyrol. Trent and the Trentine, kingdom of Bohemia, Margravate ot Moravia, duchy of Silesia, kingdom of Gallicia and Lodomeria, kingdom of lilyria, kingdom of Dalmatia, republic of Ragusa, Bocche di Cattaro and the Primorie, kingdom of Crotia and Slavonia, the Military Confines, the Voivodina and Banat, kingdom of Hungiry proper, priucipality of Transylvania, Sanajaks of Bosnia, Herzegovina and Novi-B izar (R ischia). Florida OrangesA letter from Florida to the Boston Herald says: Nine years ago a man and his wife came down here in the winter season. He was in bad health, and his , phrsician told hioi be would have to reside every winter in Florida. His financial condition was verv weak, and he calculated that it would be cheaper to establish a home and cultivate his eatables than to live at a hotel. He . came up to Palatka, and purchased and laici out a home. On three or four acres oi this land he sowed orange seed. An orange grove is one of the prettiest ; sights in the world, and gentlemen originally set out groves for their beauty and adornment rather than with any pecuniary result in mind. Such waa this gentleman's design. They told him that in eight years he would have a bearing grove worth thousands of dollars. He smiled, and said he bad no intention of remaining in Florida half that time. Circumstances, however, have 1 kept him here, and to day, instead of ' his Florida residence being a heavy drag ' on his business resources, his Florida ; estate pays him over $4,000 a year. Those men who, investing no capital, 1 receive from tho ground such an ini Qin nnn ftrf> singularly come 2u iaj v*v,wv , fortunate. With other orange growi 1 ing there is less romance and cauM no wonder at their success, siBce they buy a grove for from $15,000 to $50,000; ! but even then the income on the invest, rnenc is unequaled in business annals. ! Orange groves are, however, beginning i to.be appraised at their true commercial value, and bargains are getting scarcer and more difficult on the part of the purchaser to consummate, , i i