* ; ' ' ABBEVILLE PRESS & BA$NER I ;t * '-" . : i- ::-^?mA 'WBL T O Bonet, - ./ .'? " -sip BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1880. ^ NO. 10. VOLUME XXVI . -- '0k Lost and Fonnd. I lost the brook a9 it wound ita way Like a thread of silver hue; Through green w ood and valley, thro' meadows ' Ray Twas hidden away lrom view; i But 1 iound it again, a noble river, Sparkling, and broad and tree, "Wider and tairtr growing ever, Till it reaches the boundless sea. , 1 lost the tiny seed that I sowed With many a sigh and tear, ^ And vainly waited thro' sunshine and cold ^ For the young green to appear. t But surely after many long days < The blossom and iruit will come And the reapers on high i he sheaves will raine | For a joylul harvest home. I lost the lile that grew by my own s For a short sweet summer day, ? And then it left me to wander alone And silently passed awuy; a ^ Bat I know I shall find it farther on, a Though not as it left me here, t For the shadows and mists will have passed * nil rrr\r\ n I shall see it fair and clear. ^ lost the notes ol the heavenly ohime That once came floating by, I have l?stene V about it; you cannot see to work ^ longer." g Perhaps after so many years of silence a a sudden longing for sympathy and con- P fidence seized the elder lady, for she let " her work tall from her hands, and smiling sadly, said: d ' Twenty-seven years ago I was stand- t< ing one afternoon by the gate at Rye- ei lands. Ail the work had been finished A early, and my mother and two eider si sisters had gone t j the village to see a li friend. I had watched them a little w way down the hillside, and was turning m ? to go into the house when I saw a stranger on horseback coming up the a road He stopped and spoke to mother, ti and this roused my curiosity; so I lin- I gered at the gate. He stopped when he a reached it. fa tened his horse, and asked, o Is ftlr. Wakefield in?' si "I said 'father was in the barn, and tl I could Jetchhim,1 which I immediately tl did. o "He was a dark, unpleasant-looking r man. and had a masterful way with him, even to father, thai. I disliked; but t ftft.pr ? ahnrt Vmcinoaa.litra onnnr. ft ently batisfactory to both, he went away without entering the house. Father a -put his hands in his pockets and watched t him out of sight; then, looking at me, g he said: * Put tl e spare rooms m order, p Phoebe.' "'They are in order, father; but is ii that man to occupy them ?" "'Yea, he ana bis patient, a young i; gentleman of fine family, who is in bad ti health.' t *"l)o you know the young gentleman, n iather?' 4,41 know it is young Alfred Comp- s ton?that is enough forme.' C "' And the dark man who has just n left? I don't like his looks, father.' _ k "'Nobody wants thee to like his looks. He is Mr. Alfied's physician?a a Dr. Orman, of Boston. Neither of ; them are any of thy business, so ask no ri more questions;' and with that he wen* I back to the barn. a "Mother was not at all astonished, li She said there had been letters on the u subject already, and that she had been ti rather expecting the company. 'But,' she added, 'they will pay well, and as Melissa is u> be married at Christmas, b ready money will be very ne:dlul.' h "Aboutdark a carriage arrived. It w contained two gentlemen and several a large trunks. I bad been watching for d it behind the lilac-trees, and I saw that ti our afternoon visitor was now accom- a panied by a slight, very fair man, 1< dressed with extreme care in the very b highest fashion. I saw also that he was li handsome, and 1 was quite sure he V mast be rich, or no doctor wou;d wait h upon him so subserviently. t "This doctor 1 had disliked at first t< r-? - .... sight, and I soon began to imagine h that I had good cause to hate him. His conduct to his patient I believed to a be tyrannical and unkind. Some days t lie insisted that Mr. Compton was too ill to go out, though the poor gentle- <] man begged for a walk; and again, mother said, he would take irom him a all his books, though he pleaded urgently for them. c " One aiternoon the postman brought j Dr. Orman a letter, which seemed to be i important, for he asked father to drive \ him to the next town, and requested mother to see that Mr. Compton did not leave the house. I suppose it was not a right thing to do, but this handsome sick stranger, so hardly used, and so surrounded with mystery, had roused in me a Bincere sympathy for his loneliness and suffering, and I walked through that part of the garden into which his windows looked. We had been politely requested to avoid it, 'because the signt of strangers increased Mr. Compton's nervous condition.' I did not believe this, and 1 determined to try the eipiriment. * He was leaning out of the window, and a sadder lace 1 never saw. I smileo and courtesied, and he immediately the low sill, and came toward nit-. I stooped and began to tie up - ' , * ' y - v. Borne fallen carnations; be stooped and helped me, saying all the while I know : not what, only that it seemed to me the most beautiful lnngua.ee I ever heard. ; Then we walked up and down the long ! peach wrlk until I heard the rattle of father's wagon. " After this we became quietly, al- i mo?t secretly as far as Dr. Orman was < concerned very ^reat friends. Moth' r i so thoroughly pitied Allred that she not 5nly pretended oblivion of our friend- ] ship, but even promoted it in many < ways ; and in the course of time Dr. 3rman began to recognize its value. I i was requested to walk past Mr. Compon's windows and say ' Good-morning,' 1 >r offer him a flower or some ripe 1 jeaches, and finally to accompany the t gentlemen in their short rambles in the j leighborhood. 1 " I need not tell you how all this re- ] itricted intercourse ended. We were 1 ioon deeply in love with each other,and 1 ove ever finds out the way to mar.e limself be understood. We had many * l five minutes' meeting no one knew of, ( md when this was impossible a rose- c )ush near his window hid for me the * enderest little love-letters. In fact, 1 rulia, I found him irresistible; he was I o handsome and gentle, and though he 1 oust have been thirty-five years old.yet, 1 o my thinking, he looked handsomer * han any young man could have done. c - as me weens passed on, tne doctor eem to have more confidence in us, or ;lse his patient was completely under ontroi. They had much fewer quarels, and Alfred and I walked in the ;arden, and even a little way up the till, without opposition or remark. I lo not know how I received the idea, >ut I ceriainly did believe that Dr. Oraan was keeping Alfred sick for some mrpose of his own, and I determined o take the first opportunity of arousing Ulred's suspicion*. So one evening, ?hen we were walking alone, I asked lim if he did not wish to see his rela l lves. "He trembled violently, and seemed * a the greatest distress, and only by the enderest. words could I soothe him, as lalf sobbing, he declared that they v Fere his bitterest enemies, and that Dr. e )rman was the only friend he had in ^ he world. Any further efforts I made j. o get at the secret of his life were fruit- a ?ss, and only threw him into pai oxosms a if distress. During the month ol Au- _ ;ust he was very ill, or at least Dr. Or- t nan said so. I scareiy saw him, there a Fere no letters in the rose-bush, and requently the dispute between the two aen rose to a pitch which father serious- c p disliked. t " One hot day in September every one D ?as in the fields or orehard; only the t octor and Alfred and I were in the a aikp F.nrli7 in the nffprnnnn a hrw v, ame from the village with a letter to d )r. Orman, and he seemed very much d erplexed and at a loss how to act. At ;ngth he said: 4 Miss Phoebe, I must go f 5 the village for a couple of hours ;al ii trink Mr. Alfred will sleep until my re- urn, but if not, will you try and amuse \ imP t "I promised gladly, and Dr. Orman v rent back to the village with the mes- t mger. No sooner was he out of sight b jan Alfred appeared, and we rambled s bout the garden as happy as two lovers a suld be. But the day was extremely ot, and as the afternoon advanced the eat increased. I proposed then that re should walk up the hill, where there 'as generally a breeze, and Alfred was elighted at the larger freedom it promled us. ? " But in another hour the sky grew jark and lurid, and I noticed that Al- |! :ed grew strangely restless. His cheeks j lished, his eyes had a wild look of ter- f 5r in them, be trembled and started, \ nd in spite of all my efforts to soothe 9 im grew irritable and gloom v. Yet he '' ad just asked me to marry him, and 1 j" ad promised I would. He had called j* le ' his wife,' and 1 had told him again ? ly suspicions about Dr. Orman, and , owed to nurse him myself back to per- ^ >ct health. We had talked, too, of ^ oine to Europe, and in ihe eagerness ? nd delight of our new plans, had wan- . ered quite up to the little pine forest at J le top of the hill. j "Then I noticed Alfred's exsited con- t ition, and saw also that we were going f, ) have a thunder-storm. There was au j; mpty log-hut not far away, and I urged f ilired to try and reach it before the j torm broke. But he became suddenly t ke a child in his terror, and it was only s rith the greatest difficulty I got him r rithin its shelter. \ " As peal alter peal of thunder crashed r bove us, Alfred seemed to lose all con- s rol of himself, and, seriously offended, t left him, nearly sobbing, in a corner, f nd went and stood by myself in the d pen door. In the very height of the t havm T com tyitt fnthor Hi* ( irm in unH t LU11U JL BiMYf J-UJ s t * *1 MUvt L liree of our workmen coming through v he wood. They evidently suspected i ur sheltering place, ior they came di- s ectly toward it. s "' Altred!' shouted Dr. Orman, in the t oneoi an angry master,' where are you c ix? Come here instantly.' p " My pettedness instsmtly vanished, r nd I said: ' Doctor, you have no right c o speak to Alfred in that way. He is i oing to be my husband, and i shall not i ermit it any more.' f " 'Miss Wakeaeld,'ho answered, 'this 1 3 sheer folly. Look there!' s "I turned and saw Alired crouching a n a corner, completely paralyzed with s error; and yet, when Dr. Orman spoke ? o him, ne rose mechanically, as a dog a light follow his master's call. t "4I am sorry, Miss Wakefield, to de- e troy your hne romance. Mr. Alfred r !ompton is, as you perceive, not tit to i; larry any lady. In fact, I am his? n eeper-' p "Oh, Aunt Phoebe! Surely he was not r lunatic!" d " So they said, Julia. His frantic terorwas tbe only sign I saw of it; but W? / \ f.. t li no i h K n \ n 'I. l/iwau luxu my iiiuici lu?l uc nns t all limes really dangerous, and that e was annually paid a large sum to r ike charge of him, as he became uncon- * roliable in an asylum." "Did you see him again?" ? "No. i found a little note in the rose- _ ush, saying that he was not mad; that j e remembered my promise to be his rife, and would surely come some day nd claim me. rfut they left in three ? ays, and Melissa, whose wedding outt was curtailed in consequence, twitted [ le very unkindly about my tine crazy ^ jver. it was a little hard on me, for ,e was the only lover I ever had. Meissaand Jane both married, and went t Vest with their husbands; I lived on t t Ryelands, a faded little old maid, un- j il my Uncle Joshua etnt for me to come e 0 New York and keep his fine house for ^ iim. You know that he left me all he lad when he died, nearly two years ,go. Then I sent for you. I remem- ( >ered my own lonely youth, and thought j 1 would give you a fairer chance < lear." j "Did you ever hear of him again, < iunt?" I " Of him. never. His eldest brother < Hod more than a vear ago. I suppose r Vlfred died ruany years since; be was ?ery frail and delicate. 1 thought it was refinement and beauty then; I know now it was ill health." "Poor aunt!" " Nay, child," I was very happy while my dreamed lasted; and I never will oelieve but that Alfred in his love lor me was quite sar.e, and perhaps more sincere than many wiser men." Alter tms commence Miss rooeoe | seemed to take a great pleasure in speak- j ing of the little romance oi her youth. ] Dlten the old and the young maidens jat in the twilight discussing the proba- j bilities of poor Alfrpd Compton's life : ind death, and every discussion bft ihem more and more positive that he had been ti e victim of some cruel plot. , rhe subject never tired Miss Phoebe, . ^nd Julia, in the absence of a lover of tier own. found in it a charm quite in keeping with her own youthful dreams. \ M 'it53'"'. I.".""' .nuary they had talked over the old sub' jeet until both felt it to be exhausted? ;it least for that night. Julia drew aside the heavv satin curtains, and looking out said: "It is snowing heavily, aunt; to-morrow we can have % sleigh ride. Why, there is a sleigh at our door! Who can it bep A gentleman, aunt, and he is coming here." "Close the curtains, child. It is my lawyer, Mr. Howard. He promised to call to-night." "Oh, dear! I was hoping it was some nice strange person. ' Miss Phcebe did not answer; her thoughts were far away. In fact, she tzad talked about her old lover until ;liere had sprung up anew in her heart 1 very strong sentimental affection for iis memory; and when the servant announced a visitor on business, she rose with a sigh trom her reflections, and went into the reception-room. In a few minutes Julia heard her voice n rapid, excited tones, and ere sne could leciae to go to her or not, Aunt Phoebe ;ntered the room, holding by the hand i gentleman whom she announced as Mr. Alfred Compton. Julia was disappointed, to say the least, but she met )im with enthusiasm. Perhaps Aunt Phoebe had quite unconsciously magniled the beauty of the youthful Alfred; :ertainly this one was not handsome, ie was sixty at least, his fair, curling ocks had vanished, and his fine fieure vas slightly bent. But the clear, sensiive face remained, and he was dressed vith scrupulous care. The two women made much of him. 'n half an hour Delmonioo had furrished a delicious little banquet, and Ufred drank "to his promised wife iliss'Phcebe Wakefield, beBt and loveiest of women." Miss Phoebe laughed, but she dearly iked it; and hand in hand the two old overs 6at, while Alfred told his sad ittle story of life-long wrong and sufferng; of an intensely nervous, self-conciou9 nature diiven to extremity by xuel usage and many wrong3. At the nention of Dr. Orman Miss Phoebe exiressed herself a little bitterly. " Nay, Phoebe," said Allred; " whatever he was when my brother put me in lis care, he became my true friend. To iio ob-511 nottonno T nvra TY1T7 rDafnrt uo uam (uiu puiivuvu ? vnv *vww* ition to perfect health; and to his firm idvocacy of my right and ability to nonage my own estate I owe the posiion I now hold, and my ability to come md ask Phoebe to redeem her never-forrotten promise." Perhaps Julia got a little tired of these >ld-la3hioned lovers, but they never ired of each other. Miss Phoebe was lot the least abashed by any contrast letween her ideal and her real Alfied, ,nd Alfred was never weary of assuring ler that he found her infinitely more lelightful and wou anly than in the lays of their first courtship. She cannot even call them a silly or oolisb couple, or use any otner reiievog phrase ol that order, for Miss Phoebe -or rather Mrs. Compton -resents any pnrH nn unnliprt tn Mr. AlfrpH i~Vimntr>n bat would imply less than supernatural nsdom and intelligence. " iNo one but bose wbo bave known bim as long as I ave," sbe continually avers, "can posibly estim .te ibe superior infoimation nd infallible judgment of my husband." -Harper's Weekly. A Battle With Buffaloes. An army officer tells this story of an xcitine onslaught made by a tribe of Jrow Indians upon a large herd of bufiloes: After riding over mountains for wo days the Crows came upon a fine ierd of buffaloes in a narow valley near he Yellowstone. There were four hunred Indians and four thousand buffaoob. The Crows had been forced by ear of starvation to take to the chase, ,nd the seen hunger they were suffering inly sharpened their eagernesB for a tilt vitn their old fellow-nomads, the noble tison. The game stampeded down the alley in the direction of the Yellowtone. The chase was hotly followed, lalf a hundred buffaloes biting the dust efore the river was reached. One of he most vehement of the pursuers, who lad distinguished himself for bravery in wo or three lights with the Sioux, fell rom bis pony in the midst of the flying ierd and was trampled to death by the rantic beasts. The Yellowstone, a roarng, rushing river even at the lowest ide, was Dooming with the regular ummer freshet, the outpour of the aelting snows in the high mountains. When the river was reached the game ade a bold stand, and for a time it eemed doubtful which held the maa ery, but the incessant fusilade from our hundred rifles, together with the lesperate proximity of the formidable >atialiou, drove the herd in dismay into he roaring torrent. Beside themselves vith the excitement of the moment, the ndians urged their ponies into the tream, unwilling that even a flood hould spoil their frenzied sport or cut hem off from their game. The terrific urrent, made tumultuous from the high tiles of rock here and tnere in the chantel, whirled buffaloes, ponies and Inlians along at a bewildering velocity tntil the thousands of beasts were rollng and writhiDg in inextricable conusion. In the dizzy evolutions of torses and riders the latter were left to truccrle for themselves in the water. md to be jammed to death between the urging masses of drowning beasts iome who foresaw the danger in time, ina turned shoreward, found safety on erra tirma, but those who ventured far nough to be embraced by the sweeping, esistless tide, and to become involved n the tangle of struggling animals, w>re .11 drowned. The story brought to the iost was that thirty Indians and filty ?onies were drowned, beside live hunIrcd to a thousand buffaloes. Story of a Mermaid. The merm-iid which served to help iarnum on to fame and fortune as a bowman, about forty years ago, caused , great deal of talk at the time. Barnum 10w tells the storv. according to the corespondent of the Indianapolis Journal: tfoses Kimball came from Boston with phat he declared was a genuine mernniri. TIip lower cart was the tail of a bark or some larte fish, but the upper >art was not of woman's form by any aanner of means. It was a hideous lead and shoulders?apparently of some ort of ape. Pretty soon a letter was vritten from Mobile to the Herald with he announcement that a man had landed here from the Sandwich islands, brintrng a genuine mermaid. It had not been >een and would not i e exhibited, for it vas on its way to the London zoological jardens. This was copied all over" the ountry. In another week a letter from Charleston announced that the wonder lad arrived there on its way to New fork, whence it would sail to London. \ more detailed account of the wonderul creature was given. This served to iweir the curiosity. From Baltimore :ame still other letters; and then I sent ny man to jrmiaueipma, uurryiug me nermaid in a close box. He put up at he best hotel, and cultivated the l'indord. To him, just as he was paying his Dill and leaving, he confided the secret hat he was the Englishman who had jaught the mermaid. "Now, see here," .aid the landlord, "you must let me see it.' After much persuasion the mermaid biunter yielded. Then he said: "See tiere, you must let me show it to one or ;wo reporti rs." Alter much -importunity the weak Britisher yielded, and a limited exhibition was permitted. The Philadelphia papers blazed with it next moraine- The next day it was brought to New York, and the same performance was gone through with at the Astor house. The papers weie lull of it and the city was all agog. Thousands flocked to see ii, but no exhibition was allowed, except to reporters. I was not known in connection with it until the proper time. Hints for Hot Weather. The following directions have been issued by the New York board of health, but may prove useful in any locality: NURSING OF INFANTS. Over-feeding does more harm than anything else; nurse an infant a month or two old every two or three hours. Nurse an infant of six months and ovei five times in twenty-four hours, and no more. If an infant is thirsty give it pure water, or barley water; no sugar. On the hottest days a few drops oi whisky may be added to either water or food; the whisky not to exceed a teaspoonful in twenty-four hours. FEEDING OF INFANTS. Boil a teaspoonful of powdered barley (ground in a coffee grinder) and a gill of water, with a little salt, for fifteen minutes: strain. Then mix it with half as much boiled milk; add a lump of white sugar the size of a walnut, and give it lukewarm from a nursing bottle. Keep the bottle and mouthpiece in a bowl of water when not in use. A little soda may be added. For infants five or six months old give half barley water and half boiled milk, wJth salt, and a lump of sugar. For olvder infants give more milk than barley water. For infants very costive give oatmeal instead of barley. Cook and strain as before. When your breast milk is only half enough change off between breast milk and this prepared food. In hot weather, if blue litmus paper applied to the food turns red thefooa is too acid, and you must make a fresh mess or add a small pinch of baking soda. Infants of six months may have beef tea or beef soup once a day, by itself or mixed with other food; and, when ten or twelve months old, a crust of bread or a piece of rare beef to puck. No child under two years ought to eat at your table. Give no candies; in fact, give nothing that is not contained in these rules without a doctor's orders. SUMMER COMPLAINT. It cornea from over feeding and hot and foul air. Keep doors and windows open. Wash your well children with cold water twice a dav. and oftener in the hot season. Never neglect looseness of the bowels in an infant; consult the family or dispensary physician at once; ana he will give vou rules about what it should take and how it should be nursed. Keep your rooms as cool as possible, bave them well ventilated, ana do not allow any bad smell to come from sinks, privies, garbage boxes or gutters about the house where you live. See that your own apartments are right, and complain to the board ot health if the neighborhood is offensive. When an infant is cross and irritable in the hot weather a trip on the water will do it a great deal of good (ferryboat or steamKno<-\ otiH mot? nrptronf nhnlftra Infnn turn/' J r Panama Hats. TheJipijapa, or Panama hats, say the Journal of Botany, are principally manufactured in Veraquasand Western Panama. Not all, however, known in commerce by that name are plaited in the Isthmus; by far a greater proportion being made in Manta, Monte Christi, and other parts of Ecuador. The hats are worn almost in the whole American continent and the West Indies, and would probably be equally used in Europe did not their high price (varying from $2 to $150) prevent their importation. They are distinguished frnm oil nthora hu pnnqistirnr nnlvnfn. single piece, and by their liglitness and flexibility. They may be rolied up and put into the pocket without injury. In the rainy season they are apt to get black; but by washing with soap and water, besmearing them with lime juice, or any other acid, and exposing them to the sun, their whiteness is eaBily restored. So little is known about these hats, that it may not be out of place to give an account of their manufacture. The "straw" (paja), previous to plaiting, has to undergo several processes. The leaves are gathered before they unfold; all tlie ribs and coarser veins removed, and the rest, without being separated from the base of the leaf is reduced to shreds. After having been exposed to the sun for a day, and tied into a snot, uie straw IB immeraeu into boiling water until it becomes white. It is then hung up in a shady place, and subsequently bleached for two or three days. The straw is now ready for U9e, and in this state, sent to different places, especially to Peru, where the Indians manufacture from it those beautiful cigar cases, wDich sometimes bring as higti as $30 each. The plaiting oi the hats is very troublesome. It commences at the crown ard finishes at the brim. The hats are made on a block, which is placed upon the knees, and requires to be constantly pressed with the breast. According to their quality, more or less time is occupied in their completion ? the coarser ones may be finished in two or three days, while the finest may take as many months. The best times for plaiting are the morning hours and the rainy season, when the air is moist. In the middle of the day and in dry clear weather, the straw is apt to break, and this, when the h it is finished, is betrayed by knots, and much diminishes the value. " CleoDatra's Needle." The Alexandrian obelisk, presented by the Khedive of Egypt to New York, is about 3,500 years old, having been set up in Heliopolis by Thothmes III., at least 1,600 years before Christ. It is an entire shaft of granite, covered with hieroglyphics descriptive of the power of Thothmes. The inscriptions on the side which has for nineteen centuries faced the Mediterranean sea have been partly destroyed, but the other sides are considered to be perfect, and have been deciphered by many scholars, including Champollion and Kircher. The pyramid ion on the first side contains a carving of Thothmes represented as a sphinx seated on a pilon or pedestal. In both hands he hoids a jar of wine, and the inscription on the pedestal calls him " the powerful bull, crowned on tbe city of Western Thebes, the Son of the Sun, Tahutim's" (Thotmesh). The monarch is represented as making a gift of wine. Before him is the god Ra Helios, or the Sun, hawk-headed, wearing a disk, seated on his throne, and holding a dogheaded scepter in his right hand and an emblem of life in his left. Above their heads are the words: "Haremakhu [Harmachis, a form of Horus. or the sub on the horizon], the great God. Lord of the heaven." whicli is followed by the words "the Harmachis gives all life to the good cod, the Lord of the two centuries, Menkhepera [Thothmes III.] Each side of the obelisk is also decumted w th three perpendicular lines of hieroglyphs, the central one on each side being that of Thothmes III., who first set up the obelisk. The side lines to the right and left were added bj Ramases II., of the nineteenth dynasty. (Thothmes was of the eighteenth.] nunoinmi, linoa onrl t.lip ltnpq (in the other side9, are full of lofty references to the "powerful bull," the "golden hawk," "Ra," "Remessu," and Thothmes III., which may be very interesting and important to the student, but are very monotonous to the general readers. On the metal crabs found or the base of the obelisk when excavating in June, 1877, are inscriptions in Greet and Latin, setting forth that the monument was erected in the reign of Augustus Cwsar by the architect Pontius Thii is taken as proof that the obelisl was set up in the time of Augustus, anc not of Tiberius. FOB THE FAIR SEX. A Wedding In Snmon.. A correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle, writing from the island of Samoa, says: We have had asocial sensation in the way of a great Samoan weddiner. For months past a leading . chief of Falefa, in the Atua district, has been courting the village maid of Apia, Moe, daughter cf Seumanutafa, high , chief of Apia, and the new governor of the Tuamasaga district. As the chief : is an old man and Moe is abont nineteen, ' it has required the most strenuous pffnrhs nf bnfcb families to brine fthout the match. The Falefa family have brought to Apia more than three hundred pigs, killed and cooked, and distributed them among the young lady's relations. In return for these, the family of the expected bride must give fine mats, eiapas, etc., and they have been busily engaged collecting them from all over the islands till the governor's house is half full. These mats are the most valuable property of the Samoans, and are given at weddings as more substantial presents are at home. They are the heirlooms of families for generations, and are justly prized, as it requires years to make one of them. Some of them are valued as high as $1,000 apiece. Many of them are fringed with red feathers, and are almost as soft as silk. A vast deal of ceremony is connected with these weddings. Yesterday all the maidens from Faleth went in a procession to the governor's house, each one carrying a stick with a bunch of red feathers suspended from the end. These feathers are very rare nowadays, and are much prized ior mat trimmings,etc. All the town fales (native houses) are filled with visitors. At the wedding some member of the government read a chapter from the Bible and then reads a ceremony. The happy couple are seated all the time and join hands toward the close of the ceremony, as in more civilized countries. In this instance the young lady is well and widely known, and is a favorite with the officers of the war ships of all nations. She is amiable and fnteresting. But as a rule, Samoan girls have very lit.t-.lp tr> fin wit.h the p.hnir>flnf a hna_ band. That is generally arranged by the heads of the families, and from interested motives. When the governoi was asked why he did not marry Moe to a young chief, he replied that if cha did not like her old husband she could run away from him, and it would be no disgrace, while a young husband might take a fancy for another wife, ana it would be a shame to the family to have him leave her. A young chief generally has wives all over the islands. Through them he becomes allied to numerous leading families, und acquires extended influence, and when he falls out with one family he goes to another and finds a wife awaiting him. Native dances are tailing place nigntiy ana are a part of the wedding festivities. All the young dandies appear on the stage at such a time, and display their fine, manly figures. Also, the leading maidens of different villages assemble on the scene. Their costume is the primitive garb of Eve, and their figures such as might have been seen in Sparta. Fajlilon Ifotea. Gathered flounces gain favor. Short skirts are worn for dancing. Handkerchief dresses of silk are the catest. Red parasols have already lost favor in Paris. Hoods are worn abroad on dresses as well as wraps. Open-worked white embroidery is to be used on silks next winter. For ball and festival dresses the rule is decoration to profusion with artificial a uowerB. Bodices are pointed 111 front, rounded on the hips, and have postilion basques in the back. The gold thread seen in fine white embroideries and in lace does not tarnish when washed. Dancing dresses are made of thin goods, and for young ladies white ones are the most popular. 2lBridal dresses are made of white satin with round dots, and trimmed with tulle and orange blossoms. Black silk gauze, trimmed with black lace and jet, the bodice lined with old f;old satin and a balayeuse to match the ining, is a favorite artistic dress. All these light costumes require foulard petticoats, muslin ones being too bulky for the scanty skirts now affected. Sheer linen is being made into large collarettes, almost as broad as a fichu, and edged with lace or embroidery. They are round at the back and are pointed low in front, being quite open at the throat. Square linen cuffs, or else those made ot two folds of the linen, are trimmed to match with the embroidery, and are then worn outside the sleeves. Fashionabie toilets for outdoor fetes in England are of white India muslin dresses made short and trimmed lavishly with lace; the bodices are lined with ponceau silk, and there is a ponceau Kilting round the edge of t le skirt. The quality of the muslin is exceedingly fine. The tablier is gather'd or drawn, and thequilles at the side are alternate bands ot muslin and lace. Fans intended for day use, and differing widely from evening tans.are quite a show. They are this season neither too large nor tuo smail, bat that desirable size, the happy medium. Oriental taste is conspicuous in ttie feather fans?peacocks' feathers, ostrich feathers, cocks' leathers are till pressed into the service, and the mounts are more or less elegant according as they are of ivory, pearl or shell. At an American wedding which recently took place in Paris, the rich dress of the bride was modeled after that worn by the Queen of Spain, with an elaborate double train, and a high wired Medicis collar, of historic shape,madeo pearls. The material was creamy white satin?plain, not brocaded?and instead of lace the trimming was made of eegshaped pearls that covered the Iront of the dress as though it was incrusted with them. The train was rounded at the end, lined throughout with satin striped gauze, and edged with three plaited frills of silk tulle, on each ot which was a band of satin. Orange blossoms and white lilacs were the flowers used. The sleeves were of lace and pearls. After Fifty Years. The Erie (Pa.) Dispatch tells this very large story: In the year 1820, when the great Napoleon was languishing in St. Helena and George IV. mounted the British throne, little Jennie Miller, aged four, poked a kernel of cofl'ee into ? i ? ml. - 1_: J lier rigm ear. JUie :iuu ciupeiui have passed away, but that little kernel, preserved in the clear head of Miss Miller for over a half century, is as lresh, fragrant and useful to-day as it moo whpn slip first shoved it into her auricular appendage. , It was brought to light yesterday morning as Misa Miller w;is sitting at breakfast with the family of her brother i in-law, Mr. John Ralph, of West Eighth street. The lady complained of an un! easy sensation in her ear and requested her niece, Mr. Ralph's daughter, to see [ if any foreign substance had got in. A . brown speck was observed and picked at with a needle. It came away and [ the kernel fell into the old lady's lap. ! Then Miss Miller's memory carried her r back half a hundred years and she reI membered the morning when she ! alarmed her mother and father by . thrusting it into her ear. c A y aoht, two miles at sea, was thrown I out of the water and capsized by the explosion of a mine near Ancona, Italy. "A GENTLEMAN OF LA PORTE/' The Flr?t Appearance of One Who Became a Juaiice of the Peace?A Good Story by Bret llarte. He was also a pioneer. A par y who broke through the snows of the wintfr of *51 and came upon tne triangular little valley afterward known as La Porte fuund him the sole inhabitant. He had subsisted for three ruonth9 on two biscuits a day and a few inches of bacon, in a hut made of bark and brushwood. Yet when the explorers iound him he was quite alert, hopeful and gentlemanly. But I cheerfully make way here for the terser narrative of Captain Henry Symes, commanding the prospecting party: "We ^em upon nim, gentlemen, sndden-like, jest abreast of a rock like this "?demonstrating the distance?" ez near ez you be. He sees us and he dives into his cabin and comes out aqin with a tall hat?a stovepipe, gentlemen?and, blank me, gloves! He ? 4-11 *-ur?n u-.ii? i-'ii.. WM n UVU L Li 1X1 JCilUYV| UU11CI 1U IUC cheek?ez might be?and off color in his face, ez was nat'ral takin' in account his starvation grub. But he lifts his hat to "s so, and sez he: 'Happy to make your acquaintance, gentlemen! I'm afraid you ex-per-ienced some difficulty in getting here. Take a cigyar.' And he pulls out a fancy cigar case with two real Havanas in it. 'I wish there was more,'sez he. "4 Ye don't smoke yourself P' sez I. " ' Seldom,' sez he, which war a lie, for that very artenoon I seed him hangin' ontu a short pipe like a auckin' baby ontu a bottle. ' I kept these cigyars for any gentlemen that might drop in.' " 4 I reckon ye see a great deal o' the best society yer,' sez Bill Barker, starin' at the hat and gloves and winkin' at the boys. "4 A few Ind-i-ans occasionally,' sez he. " 'Injins !' sez we. "'Yes. Very quiet good fellows in their way. They have once or twice brought me game, which I refused, as the poor fellows have had a pretty hard time of it themselves.' "Now, gentlemen, we was, ez you know, rather quiet men?rather peaceable men; but?hevin' been shot at three times by these yar' good' iDjins, and Parker hisself havin' a matter o1 three inches of his own skelp lying loose in their hands and he walkin round wearin1 ereen leaves on his head like a Roman statoo?it did kinder seem ez if this yer stranger was playin' it rather^ low down on the boys. Bill Parker gets' up and takes a survey o' him and sez he, peaceful-like: " ' Ye say these yer Injins?these yer niiiof. Inimo tror rroma P' ^UIVV AMJftAAtJ UUV.1 LU gUUiU ? " ' They did !' sez he. " ' And you refoosed ?' "' I did,' sez he "' Must hev made 'em feel kinder bad ?sorter tortered their sensitiv1 natersP' sez Bill. "They really seemed quite disappointed.' '"In course,' sez Bill. 'And now mout I ask who you be?' "' Excuse me,'says the stranger; and blame my skin! if he doesn't hist out a keerd-oase, and handin' it over to Bill, sez: ' Here's my kyard.' "Bill took it and read aloud, 'J. Trott, Kentucky.' "' It's a pooty keerd,' sez Bill. '"I'm glad you like it,' Bays the stranger. "' I reckon the other fifty-one of the deck ez as pooty?all ot 'em jacks 3 ii 11 D:II aim IUIL uuwerH, DIU. "The stranger sez nothin', but kinder draws back from Bill, but Bill ups and sez: " ' Wot is your little game, Mister J. Trott. of Kentucky P' " ' I don't think I quite understand you,1 sez tlie stranger, a holler fire comin' intu his checks like e? if they was tue bowl of a pipe. Wot'sthisyer kid glove husinessP ? this yer tall hat parading?this ver circus roolin'? Wot's it all aboutP Who are ye, any wav P' "The stianger stands up, and sez he: Ez I don't quarrel with guests on my own land,'sez he, ' I think you'li ailo?v I'm?a gentleman,' sez he. "With that he takes off his tall hat and makes a low bow?so?and turns away?like this; but Bill lites out ol a suddent with his right foot and drives his number ten boot clean through the crown of that tall hat like one o' them circus hoops. "That's about ez fur ez I remember. Gentlemen! thar warn't but one man o' that hull crowd ez could actooally swear what happened next, and that man never told. For a kind o' whirlwind jest then took place in that valley. T disremember anythin' but duBt and bustlin'. Thar wasn't no yelling, thar wasn't no shootin1. It was one o' them suddent things that lelt even a sixshooter out in the cold. "When I kept to in the cbapparel?being oncomfortable like from lievin' only half a shirt only I found nigh on three pounds o' gravel and stones in my pockets and a stiffness in my ha'r. I looks up and sees Bill jangin' in the forks of a hickory saplin' twenty feet above me. "'Cap,' sez he, in an enquirin' way, 4hez the tornado passsedP' "' WhichP' rez I. " ' This yer elemental disturbance?is it overP' "' I reckon,' sez I. " ' Because,' sez he, 'afore this yer electrical phenomenon took place I hed a slight misunderstanding with a stranger, and I'd like to apologize!' "And with that he climbs down, peaceful like, and goes into the shanty, and comes out hatid-in-hand with that stranger, smilin' like nn infant. And that's the lirsttime, I reckon, we know'd anythin' about the gentleman of La Porte."?Bret Harle. in Bclqravia. Smothered In Tiielr Beds. A Geneva correspondent of the London Times writes as follows: A strange occurrence happened a few days ago at St. Cierge, a village in the Jura. The principal room of an auberge, there imown ns the Cerf, was lighted by a hanging petroieum lamp, above which had been placed, for the protection of the ceiling, a metal plate. In course of time the woodwork above the plate became deasicated, and one evening recently it took fire, and wtien the innkeeper and his family retired to rest, was all aglow?a fact, however, which they do not seem to have noticed. From the ceiling the tire was communicated to the room above, and was first discovered by a neighbor, who, early next morning, observing smoke issuing from the auberge door, gave an a arm, when, as none of the inmates could be roused, the door was broken open. The fire, having gone on smoldering without bursting into flames, had done little material damage, and was easily extinguished; but all the people in the house?the aubergiste, his wife and sister?were dead. After the manner of peoplo who have often a honor of fresh air, they had firmly closed their windows before going to bed, and the smoke having no exit, had asphyxiated every ne of them. A sea-captain, who was asked by his wife to look at some pianos while lie was in the city, with a view of buying her one, wrote home to her: I saw one that I thought would suit you, black walnut hull, strong bulkheads, strengthened fore and aft with iron frame, sealed with white wood and maple Rigging, steel wire?double on the ratlines, and whipped wires on the lower, and heavier cordage. Belaying pins of stccj and won driven home Length of taffrail, over all, six feet, one inch. Breadth of beam, thirtyeight inches; depth of hold fourteen inches. Hatches can be battered down proof against ten-year-old boys and commercial drummers, or can be clewed up, on occasion, and sheeted home for a first-class instrumental oyclone. -'".''viiflr? TIMELY TOPICS. The highest peicentage of municipal growth shown by the census is that of Denver, Col., which has increased duriug the la9t ten years, at the rate of 650 per cent, Minneapolis ranks sfcond with a rete of 400 per cent., and Oakland, C.-tl. third with a rate of i.33 per cent. St. Paul and Camden, N. J . share the fourth place with a rate of 107 per cent. Grand Rapids, Mich., is credited with 93 per cent.; St. Joseph, Mo., with 87 per cent.; Fall River, Mass., with 80 per cent.; Omaha, Neb., with 79 per cent., and Atlanta, Ga., with 78 per cent. An inspection lias been made or all the factories in Chicago where men, women and girls are employed, to report their condition, and bring suit in case they were found unhealthy. The work is now about completed. The inspectors found over 55,000 persons, eighty per cent, of them men employed in the Chicago factories; most of these were found to he badly lighted, filled with vitiated air through defective or non-ventiiation, and sadly lacking in sewerage and closets. By pointing out the fault in some cases, and threatening suits in some others, a reform, radical in extent, has been effected. The correspondent 01 the London Guardian, referring to the enjoyment of summer life in Paris among the working classes, says: The best and most distinctive characteristic of all the popular assemblages in France is still, one is glad to sav. the absence of coarseness, and, above all, oi drunkenness. Thousands and tens of thousands of people poured out of Paris yesterday to Versailles, whither Grandes Eaux by day and illuminations of the fountains by night attracted them. But rudeness and not are unKuuwjj, auu niaiiiij ucv;auoc sobriety is still the rule. Aere, on the other hand, scarcely a week passes without the record of some brutal row on an excursion boat. At the last sitting of the international, congress of the societies for the protection of animals the following resolutions with regard to vivisection were adopted: That it is desirable to have the employment of vivisection regulated bylaw; that the rights of science should be respected, while abuses should be prevented; that vivisection be allowed only ior purposes for which dead animals cannot be used; that ansesthesis be obligatory in all cases where it is possible; that the animal, alter having served for the experiments, be killed immediately; and that it be forbidden to repeat experiments, of which the result is definitely acquired, for the purposes of science. A letter from Shanghai narrates an incident of Chinese fatalism. A man fell overboard from a boat and was carried away by the current and drowned, but neither his three companions nor the occupants of numerous other boats n the vicinity made the least effort to save him. His comrades screamed and tViaii* Vioir oq if in rrraof /fiafrooa i/v/x 1/ uutii uuu) uo 11 iu givcuu uiobivao) and when asked why they made no exertions to rescue their companion replied that a man who saved another from drowning was responsible for his debts! Also that the drowned man could not have been saved by any possibility, as he must have offended Typhoon Joss (the god of water), and, as a natural consequence, when Joss says a man must drown that is tne end ot it. The Electrician says that the life of a submarine telegraph cable is from ten to twelve years. If a cable breaks in deep water after it is ten years old, it cannot be lifted for repairs, as it will break of its own weight, and cable companies are compelled to put aside a large reserve fund in order that they may be prepared to replace their cables every ten years. The action of the sea eats thp iron awav c/imnlfftfllv. and it. cnim bles to dust, while the core of the cable may be perlect. The breakages of cables are very costly, and it is a very difficult matter to repair them in comparison with aland line. A ship has to be chartered at $500 a day for two or three weeks in fixing the locality and in avoiding rough weather, as cables can only be repaired in calm weather. One break in the direct cable cost $100,000. A Chicago man, who claims to be a diamond expert, gives to the Tribune of that city the following information, which owners of gems may be interested in: There are a great many socalled solitaires sold as single stones which, when put under the blow-pipe, will come apart in single pieces, put together for the American market. There is not one diamond in ten sold in our market but is the refuse of the London market. They are sold at a fictitious value, so that not half the selling price can be got when put on the market. Nearly all are off-color, speckled or feathered. Very few "old mine diamonds "are on the market. Those are the real valuable stones that are marketable all over the world. People that are investing in these jewels will be surprised, I expect, at these statements and yet they are true. The Hannibal (Mo.) Herald has an elaborate article on the losses by the break in the levee on the Illinois tide of the Mississippi river. After stating that the levee is fifty-two miles song, extending from a point nine miles south of Quincy to Hamburg bay, nine miles south of Charlesville. and that it redeems 101,289 acres of land, it makes an estimate of losses by multiplying the number of acres in wheat and corn, which were overflowed, by the average yield per acre, which, at present prices, woula show a loss of wheat of ?200,000, and about the same amount on corn. Other losses, as to fences,Ibarns, dwellings, farming utensils, etc., will reach fully $100,000, making the total loss half a million dollars. Not more than onethird of either the wheat or corn crop is lost. The overflow from the break was nearly seventy hours traveling twenty-four miles, which gave many farmers time to save much of their property outside the growing crops. Several correspondents have asked the New York Graphic to slate what is the law governing promotions in the United States army, and whether, in case of General Hancock resigning, the vacancy would be filled by seniority or selection. The Graphic replies that 44 there is no law nor custom governing promotions to the higher grades of the army. It is a matter of selection on the part of the President or through a special act of Congress. General Crook, for instance, was made a brigadier-general by Executive selection from the rank of lieutenant-colonel, being promoted over ail the colonels in the army. General Sheridan was promoted so rapidly over senior officers that in a few months from a captain to a major-gen eral. Officers, especially in times of peace, are inclined to look for promotion as a rule according to seniority, but they have no assurance that they will get it, and in fact usually do not, it appears, among the two or three highest grades. If General Hancock should resign, President Hayes might appoint any one he chose to the position, taking perhaps none of the brigadiers." Great consternation was manifested through Teesdale, England, 011 tbe fact becoming generally known that a tourist had been swept over High Force.the well known waterfall at the head of the dale. It appears that the two gentlemen, who had ascended the summit of the Force on a recent occasion, were seated on the rocks in the center, which, when the river is low, are usually dry. A roll of water, consequent on the rerant heavy rains suddenly and without warning made its appearance, and wi a deafening roar the now swollen wate of the Tees rushed over the fall, a dep of seventy-two feet. The tourists, b coming awafe of their dangerous poi tion, made frantic signals for assistant and at length they were observed by man who was staying near the falls. I speedily procured assistance, and party of men proceeded with ropes the top of tne Force. A rope w thrown to one of the tourists, who w dragged through the seething wate for a distance of about ten yards wi great difficulty, and landed in a gaspii condition. Afterward the rope w flung to the remaining man, bat unfo tunately it was broke as he Wats beii dragged through the water, and t companion who Had been already save together with those who had been i strnmental in the rescue, saw the bot carried oyer the rapids by the stroi current of water which was at tl lime rushing over the rocks. , A German physician has started pleasing theory with regard to insanit It is, he thinks, a mistake to look npc it as an unmitigated evil. It is in mai cases a boon rather than the reverse the person immediately affected. Tl loss of reason lands the sufferer from sea of trouble into one of comparati1 calm?often into one of decided happ ness; and attempts to restore such person to sanity would be cruel rath than kind. Moreover, he insists th without a certain amount of insani success in life, in the ordinary accept tion of the term, is quite imposslbJ All eminent men, he contends, are d cidedly more or less mad. Many of them are dangerous monomania whom it would be desirable on pub! grounds to shut up, but who neverth less achieve grand careers and are ere ited with doing a vast amount of goo This false notion he attributes toil fact that the greater mass of mankii are also insane, and quite unable to di tinguish between good and evil. Whc nations are, he says, occasionally seize like-individual persons, with attacks madness, and led by eminent fciadmc either destroy themselves or their neig bors. These paroxysms are, he admit undoubtedly dangerous, but when ma nets is blended with just sufficient -ei control to keep it within bounds, at prevent it from betraying itself, It di plays itself in nervous energy and en bles the lunatic to exercise immen influence over his fellow creatures. The Lightning Flash. The same stroke of lightning th ?? - -v m r* TTTfl??" ,Zrf*T? Klijea JJirs. weorge w niiama, 01 wj liam3town, Va., burned up two bar with a large flock oi turkeys and alot i swine. In King George county, Va., Willia Scott, aged twenty-one years, and Dani Scott, aged fifteen years, both colore were recently instantly killed by ligb ning. Just after leaving the harvest fie near Daytou, Ohio, two boys nami Hovey and Smith were struck by ligh ning and killed. They had t?ken shelt under a tree. While tying his horse to a telegraj Kle, in Carpe, Ontario, to seek stielt >m the nun, a boy named Sproul fourteen years of age, was struck 1 lightning and instantly killed. ? ? 1 - ? - 1U *11 Aioerc KODiey, 01 uarrouton, j.11., w almost borne, but concluded to st< under a tree near by until tbe show was over. A flash of lightning end his career a moment afterward. When lightning visited Independent Iowa, it struck a cow belonging Charles Leslie,which was standing nea] wire fence, killed her, then straddledt wire, and followed it for half a mi splintering every post. After a storm at Louisville, Ky., t bodies of William Prinz, Alfred Jon and John Ball, all colored farmhan of E. G. Miners, were found in a fie near a tree under which tbey had song shelter, killed by lightning. In Hartford county, Md., lightni: struck a large tree on tne farm of M: McUormicK ana spue ic into Kincm. wood. It knocked the child of Peter i Hermann, a near neighbor, out ot chair, and gave the mother a shock if from a giant galvanic battery, bat one was killed. Hold in Newspapers, A correspondent of the San Francis Call writes of the discovery of am flakes of gold on the surface of the pap upon which it is printed. He sayB: ' had observed, previous to last Februai that the Call often contained gold nuggets, but from the sixth of tb month to the end it was rare to have number without its golden show. Frc the paper of the sixth I took fifty-s pieces of gold, the thickness of the Ca and varying in size from that of a smi pin-head to nearly the size of a thr< cent piece. I think I have more thar hundred pieces of gold taken from t paper that month. All left a hole wh removed, as the thin film of paper < the inside was rendered brittle by t hard pressure when the calender ro gave as they flattened out the gold deposits. In addition to the gold I g platinum, silver, iron, tin and sor lead." The explanation of the disco ery is, says the Call, that in the man facture oi the paper pulp water is us that has been passed through a flut in which miners have washed dirt co taining all kinds of precious meta The gold is what is known as " flc gold," and escapes the miners who st follow the primitive methods of wat ing. Some of the water used is tak c Tlmmoniifo/tfiiM irouu 2U IC91UU WCilOi xuu uiauuiatvun say that they have often noticed a sr stance thai glistened in the water, b thai they supposed it to be mica, as t wells were bored through mica c posits. The Sultan of Turkey. A friend of mine who has} just , turned from Turkey, and who had < casion to be brought in contact with t sultan and manv of his ministers, tc me, says the editor of London Tru that the commander of the faithful without exception, the most uttei faithless scamp in his (iominions. Wh< ever he appoints a minister he says him :I'4 You must find means to resist demands for reform, and your tenure office will depend upon the length 1 time that you can do this without co promising me. Eventually the amb sadors will complain of you, whei shall pretend to be most indignant your not having carried out my poli ' and shall sacrihce you for having < ceived me." The sultan is the son of Armenian mother, and it is genera supposed that his real father was Armenian. He is neither a drunkt nor a voluptuary, and although by means an able man he has a consid able amount of low cunning He is lie ved to be accumulating a considers fund, for although the finances of i country are in a desperate condi ti taxe3 do come in. and yet neither i army nor the civil employees are pai< Cooking by the Sun's Kays. t Un f o llrml At l Ill LU Lliv; UIUV/U I.uia\.u V* % of solar heat for industrial purposi Mouchot gives an account of his ad< tional experiments in this direction, which he asserts that his smaller pie< of cooking apparatus have never fail to work during sunny weather. Soi mirrors of less than half a square met constructed with all desirable perf tion have sufficed to roust half a ki] gram?or about one pound?of bpof twenty-two minutes, and to cook, in hnnr n.nd a half, stews which rt'auii four hours of fin ordinary lire of woe and in half an hour to bring thn fourths of a liter of cold water to t boiline poin\ which latter correspon to the utilization of 9.5 colories i minute per square meter, which in be considered a remarkable result in t latitude of Paris. th 4s One Whom His Mother Comforteths ira tb - , ie- BT THE LATE E. N02MA1T GCKNISOH. ^ Aa one bis mother comiortcth f, > a In vadnea* ana unrest, Ie As one who lays bis weary head a Upon his mother's breast, to And flndeth there a tenderness, . The truest and the best, * / "jS ^ So God, our God! we look to ThM, th When earthly cark and care, ag And all the petty ills of life as Seem more than we can bear, Y r Laying our hand upon Thy breast ^ a,5 We And oar comfort there. - v liS * ? . d, As one his mother oomlorteth * W j1* When darkness Alls the skies, ^ And shadows overbrood the way [je Beiore bis doubting eyes, Looks forth, and sees a better land In whioh his future lief; a So God, our God! we look to The# . When storms of life assail, jy And mercy hides her heavenly face to Behind a shrouding veil, ie Through all the storms and darkness* .... '/ a We see Thy love prevail. i Ai one his mother comiorteth, " -.9 a Oh, tender words of grace! . CT in whioh a hidden soul of love T" The weary Heart may trace, a. And And a sweetness in the word* * e. For all onr fallen race. - 1 e- 80 Qod, oar God! we turn to Thee of In darkness and unrest, 9^ And find the One who oomforteth - - ^ e_ Upon Hla loving breast (j. Above our earthly oomfoxters, d. The truest and the best. 1 tie ?ChrUiianai Wtnk. is- e=====-===?--H d! ODDS AND ENDS. g ? Nothing is more easy than irreproaeb* a> able conduct. d- Despairing old maids look languish [f- ing even on rain-bows. yds id A reccnt discovery is a telephone talk- v?JJ s- ed to death by a barber. n- ' "i-- -t A. ? v' Si. XQ6 Dill CI KB OI liliO uuiuu? ?.' iguuv^ se between husband and wife. Durine the last half year Italy imported 260,000 tons of cereala. ? i , In Philadelphia a boy who ties a tin ? pail to a dog s tail is fined $10. Dg Olive oil is adulterated with the oil of cotton seed in Sonthern Europe. > A A tramp called his shoes "corpora^ m tions," because they had no soles. ,? lei The way to make a large hole in your ' ? ?8 d, pocket is to incur a large rent. t- Ducks are fond of flies. There is just f where they differ from bald-headed old !9 id men. 9 ' M 3d There Is a great deal of luck in a A - /; it- horseshoe when thrown, if it doean^fr la er hit you. 1 An English scientist attributes our V; >h cold waves to Venus and our hot waves ?9| " er to Jupiter. 'M e? George Morris, of Old Freedom, Mo. I was killed bv lightning while at work in . a wheat field. v 48 In Florence the royal lottery and )p the supreme court occupy rooms , < >& O* .1 a - , ^ on cue same noor. That there should be one man AM ignorant, who had a capacity for knowlPj edge; this I call tragedy. r? Authors are spoken of as dwelling in be attics, because so lew of them are able le to live on their first story. ?' .5 The man who fell out of his bunk on ' . . ^ j^g the steamboat explained that his blaok- *. ieg ened eye was a berth mark. ds A boy will dig over a square rod of ild garden ground for fish bait, and yet he .H ht could not be hired to work on a six-foot onion bed. Dg Fire, flood, mistake or accident may rs. rob us of our material possessions, but ng they cannot cret at the treasure of the G. immortal mind. a A little girl in church, alter the con- as tribution plate had been passed, comno placently and audibly said: " I paid lor lour, ma?was mai rigubr A bad little Philadelphia boy made co his mother's hair rise the other day. all He stole her switch for kite bobs.? ,er Philadelphia Chronicle-Heraltl. 41 The annual potatoe crop of the United \ r y, States is estimated at nearly 200,000,000 en bushels, of which New York State alone at furnishes 25,000,000 bushels. + i . a Raphael is to have a splendid monument erected to his memory by the peo- * 2 Dlerf Urbino, his native place, on the * ' fourth centenary of hia birth, April 6, ' 1883. t :e" The reason more umbrellas than " k" watermelons are stolen is thought to be ' " . "r because the thief doesn't have to plug "* . 'i the umbrella. It is always ripe for the S? hanrest. Us The man who grasped an opportunity en tried the same scheme with a bumble ot bee. He abandoned his last enterprise > ne quicker'n he did the first one.?Keokuk t v- Qeat City. . u- "If I have ever used any unkind ? -W ed words, Hannah," said Mr. Smiley, rene flectively, " I will take them all back." n- " Yes, I suppose you want to use tbem Is. ovpt aaraiu," was the not very soothing >at reply." :ihJI It is estimated that there are 500 ,n" florists establishments within a radios fn of ten miles of the New York city hall, . and that the capital invested in land, lD; structures and stock is not less than 0,000,000. je_ The manufacture of sporting implements has assumed large proportions in, . . this country. It is estimated that from CO,000 to 00,000 sets of croquet, 200,000 re. baseball bats, and 250,000 baseballs 0C- wil. be made for this season's trade by ,be a single firm in Chicago. ills A short time ago two boys in San h, Diego, Cal., built for themselves a small is, boat, and after, taking on board fly three months' provisions, sailed down ;n- the coast to Todos Santos Islands,where to they have established a camp and are all now actively engaged in seal hunting, of shell gathering, etc., with a profitable of return for their hardy undertaking. . The Sioux held their annual sun dance as" in Dakota recently and tno usuai eceuco 1 J of cruelty were enacted. One young' warrior held out for tit'ty-six hours ana then tainted. He was hanging all that ae" time by a stick run through the flesh of ,1n the back. He fainted before the flesh ~???? gave way. He was so grieved over his- . ^ failure that'he tried to kill himself. no A remarkable resonance has been ober_ served in connection with the great he_ staircase of stone in the Walhalla at ^]e Regensburg, Germany. From one of the bis landings, where two other staircases rise jon in opposite dinctions, a metallic ringing ing is produced by oviry footstep, j while a stamp of the foot is answered by ' * a tone so clear, resounding and musical, that the visitor can hardly believe that is, the stairs are r.ot made wholly of bell- _ ese metal. As the visitor passes up the li. stairs the ringing gradually becomes in weaker, and soon ceases. .eS TO THE FLT ed Oh thou insinuous tiling, whom I have seen 3ie Disporting in the butter-dish and soup-turee? er, Or gaily gamboling on the bald head ?C- From wheuco the once thick hair isgathlo ereil, in To thee I sing a song?yet not in pra'ae, an Thou bin! that lengthenest my days. 3 j . For oil would I in morning take repose ' * But lor thy peregrinations on my nose; M niyhi, when you should be hushed and ll.e still, ('8 Thy wing-wrought buzaiug ray repose doth >cr kill. ay Thus At both ond? my dayi are longer ipan, lie While yon, you 'tarnal varmint, think it's fon ?Marathon li'lep'.nd en