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i'- ? ' ' ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER!1 " ~--J> BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1880. NO. 27. VOLUME XXY. ^ ' ' I mu i My Wants. V I want not wealth? the yellow gold J J hnt ch.lls the fio.sl like Arctic cold. ^ That turns to ice the warmest heart, ^ And withers all its belter part. (] I want not wealth; jt Only enough to soothe distress, j U To cocl the brow (if wretchedness, . To bring glad smiles to eyes that weep, /j A nd all my loved ones safely keep? ? This wealth I want, and nothing more. v i1( I went not j?ower?to sway my kind, | And blindly lead a world ol blind, j ^ To silt the tcene on life's great stage, j li And make mv imnre?s on the : U ? .... I want not power; But rather strength to lilt the soul Bound down in pas-ion's base contrci; To aid it in its upward flight (j To yon high realm ot love and light? This power I want and rr>thing more. it st I want not fame?to have u . name ?] Encircled by a garnish flame tl That, like the flro's dcceitlul ray, t! A moment gleams then dies away. I want not fame; I only want it may be said, gj When I am gnthereJ to the dead: Ji: "He lived unknown and died content; e? His life should be his monument." Ui Such fame 1 want. and nothing more. ^ rs . But this I wont?a Iriend that's true, fc Who will my virtues kindly view, And all my faults as kindly scan, ^ Nor count me more or !ess than man. Ana even more; I Jji I want p. hand my own to hold m When days are durk, and drear and cold; m An arm mv Inhering feet to stay y* While here 1 tread my weary way. j Such iriend I want, and even more. fa I want true love?true woman's love, As pure as that which rules above, w As deep a> the unbounded sea, And bioad as is in mensity. And even more; lu I want a smile to light my home, ce A kiss to greet me when I come, T. A heatt whose sweet and holy chime Shall with my own keep even time; Such love I want, and even more. sj I want a calm, secluded place In the kind thoughts ol all my race; al I want that men should speak of me r< In gentle tones ol charity. hi And even mote; as I want to It el deep in my heart, I've acte<l well my humble part; And, when my earthly coarse is run, Sj I want the Master's kind "well done!" fr All this I want, and nofhingmore. fa ?James It. Gilmore. tl Pi ti RODNEY'S RETURN. ? tL A li; Four years f.co this present Thanks C givintr, Judge Cleveland's house of vi Co., N. H.. was tiie scene of unusual hi festivities. The most extensive prepara- tb tions bad been made for the comfort and pleasure ol sotuc thirty or forty ]a invited ^uestf, for t!ic judjze whs an old- ^ lasnioneu nost ana uuea 10 entertain sumptunusly. Rodney, the judge's son, jj? was Lome from col lego ior 21 week, and Lad brought with lnm a few friends st] wL'*se homes were too" for awav to es enable t hf m to roand leturn in the short, M time allotted icr a vacation. w Sirs Cleveland was a delicate little se lady several years younger than her jn husband, who delighted to please him by keeping open house, seconding his en desiro and Lis whims wiih astonishing ay patience, tor Judge Cleveland was known ar] to be something of an autocrat, and hau ^ been heard to' say that his will was ^r always law in his own house. The ^ gentleman's will was also law on the nc bonch and while very generous to the (;] poor and suffering, was sure to give evildoers the severest penalties t i:c statutes afforded. .Judge Cleveland's father had a3 always bad a sideboard in Iub house, s.. and the judge insisted on perpetuating w the custom, although hi3 wife by p ,-r- w suasion, and even tears, had constantly ^ used her influence against it. Judge m Cleveland believed in wine at dinner, fr and a drink of brandy whenever he felt or like it. " A man with a mind," he was gj( accustomed to say, "knew when to be leave off, a lid a nwn without a mind w would get drunk anyhow." e? The judge frequently ooasted that he jn was sure his son would never imbibe <3 any bad habits with the wine he drank at his father's table. Wine had always j, been as free as water in the Cleveland ar family, and from first to last there had ^ rever been a drunkard by that name. ja The judge was accustomed to close his remarks on this subject by declaring ^ that "it such a thing should happen m that Rodney should ever become the r,( worse for liquor, and he fou d it out, ,j( then Rodney and he parted company for ra the reit of their lives." Mrs. Cleveland, who knew that her boy would be ban ISiiru at uwuc aiiu iuicvli, ii au utuiucut ^ of this kind should occur, which, under the circumstances, seemed to the anxious mother more than likely, was always ill at ease during the time of any Uk extraordinary festivities. Just before sitting down to the sumptuous Thanks living dinner, Mrs. Cleveland took ad vantage of a spare moment, to give her son the usual wnrnicg. "What a funny V little mother!" the young man laughed J? as he put his arai about the slight figure and lo.-ikcd down into her eyes with unutterable love. " I shall tfrink only the ^ mildest C:ttawba,and only juct enough of . that to kesp up'.the cood-will of the es- J* tablishment. I wonder if I were to get * a little top heavy," he continued in the ^ same tone of badinage, "if father would ^ turn me out a3 he hns always ^ threatened!" "Rodney, he would!" ^ Mrs. Cleveland replied, with more em- R1 phasis than seemed necessary to her laughing sen. "I have suffered more c with nervous horror about that possible circumstance than with everything else I have had to bear pat together. Oh! my boy, you will never know how cruel and wicked ?? it seems to me to put temptation before , a youne man and then threaten to disin- s herit him if he succumbs to it. Oh! sc ir\y r.Mir n Yil lior'c CmVo Kn nam. 5^ ful." At this moment dinner was announcor, and Rodney led Lis mother to 7? her sc:.t, and. then loaning over her said !r softly: " I wouldn't do anything to hurt , you for all tho world, mother. Trust 01 me, lor I'm a Cleveland, you know." ^ Tliis h.st was a quotation from h'is lather's oft-repeated words, and Mr. tl Cleveland smiled a faint little smile as tl her son's exact reproduction of the " judge's manner. C "There is nothing sure but theun- li foreseen," says an old French proverb, v and it certainly seemed ti\ e in this case, s Dinner passed off in" excellent style, b Rodney's behavior being as usual entirely satisfactory. As the young man t never touched anything from the side- \ board, Mrs. Cleveland's fears were quite c lulled to rest. One oi Rodney's friends seemed a little flushed after dinner, but s after all Rodney's fi iend wasn't liodney, a although Mrs. Cleveland would have j shielded from temptation every young l man at he table with the same motherly t regard which she threw about her own i son. t There were old-fashioned games for ? the chi idr ;n in the afternoon, ana a seven ? o'clock tei. After tea Rodney and his f friends went out for a stroll, and when t at eleven o'cloci: the Thanksgiving party < broke up, the young men had not re- 1 turned. S irs. Cleveland had been grow- ' ing3teadi!y anxious, and when twelve 1 came wimout nny signs of the truants, i she was sure that the worst had hap- ] V.- ' J &*< ?-. r lencd. If she could only induce Ine i uciRe to so to bed, then there might he a i iossibility that the belated parly could orue in and retire without being seen; J >r t he judge was a good sleeprr, usually i ropped cfi as soon as his head touched s lie pillow, lint no! the judge had made < ip his mind, and nothing that'his wife | ouid say was ot the slightest avail. At j < tst he exclaimed, irritably: " (io to bed 1 I you want to and Ic-t me aione. I tell 5 ou I am .coin.e to sit up and tind out t flial has kept those boys out so late. It, 1 ioks very suspicious to me, and it an v. i [ling has happened you know the resuit, ' rite; for I've been pretty careful for the t lit ten years to see that ycu and Rodney t nderstood.'' r The clock chimed out one, two, and 1 till the judgt; sat erect, in his chair, 1 rhile his wife, pale as a ghost with ter- 1 :>r, flitted from room to toon:, and win- * ow to window, peering out into the ' arknefS, listening for some sign, until I , seemed to her as if the very blood * .ood still in her veins. It was almost t ireeo'clock wiifn her quick ear caught le sound of mutlled voices by the back r oor. The judge's hearing was as keen }l 3 his-wife's on this occasion, and he 3 umediatelv sprang to the door and [ irew it wide open. It needed hut a J lance to see that all of the young men ' ad been drinking heavi.y. The judge a >st one glance of supreme disgust at tlie I astcady group, ihen said, in tones of lunder: "Got out of here, the whole s tftofyou! You can send a messenger t ir your traps in the moraine?you, ^ odney, with the rest; and never, a3 mg as you live, do you dare to cross my } ireshoid, for from this to the day oi my i1 ;ath you are no son of mine." "Oh! ^ jsband!" shrieked the wretched P other, "let them come in! oh, for a y sake let them come in! Do not turn i: >ur son from his home for this his first iense!" Here the door was slammed d the five, by this tine, almost sobered t ces, and .Judge Cleveland with an iron s 'ip led his wife to the library. Then sho'd relaxed, and the heartbroken oman fell to the floor in a merciful anee. , A whole year passed after this dread- s il affair, and Mrs. Cleveland had rc- E lived but one letter from her son j; his w is sent under cover to a neigh;>r. Rodney was <;oing abroad with a i iend, ir. hopes of getting something to g 3, so that he might continue his G udies. At this time Mrs Cleveland r.t her son all the money she could n rise without her husband's knowledge, t id now another Thanksgiving day had e >lled round without any more news of r im. Judge Cleveland kept open house v ; usual, and his wife sat at the head of t is table and entertained his guests; t at they all knew that her heart was a 3t in the festivities, and when t.;e wine f( jarkled in the glasses, and talk flowed \ eely around the table, the mother's i ,ee wa? as ashen as when, on that c wful night, she waited her son's re- j. irn. There was no wineglass at her e ate, and when the judge insisted on fj lasting her, as was his custom on fes- t ve occasions, his wife replied, with un- i; cpected spirit: "No, I thank you, e idge. I am not thankful for wine, e lerefore you must always excuse me." r s this was the tir3t time in a married , v fe of twenty-two years that Mrs. : it leveland had ever, in public or pri- ! ite, addressed a pointed remark to her Ih usband, perhap3 it was not strange ]( at the judge had no answer ready. " ! v A few month: after'his Judce Clove- | tl nd died very suddenly; and when his j ti ill was opened, it was found tnat he j it id not oniy disinherited his son, but i ei id arranged his property so that, in the | fe rent ot his widow's recalling her child, j ir ie should have only two-thirds of the j s< tate, and this under a protest of such tl i inflammatory nature, that the lawyer ; a' ho read the document stopped short I si veral times, and looked round wonder- ! fl gly on the a>s mbied company. A j g ird of the estate would be more than j r< ough to support the widow comfort- si >ly; but in case that she accepted the ! tl aount, which the testator seemed to ! ii ink very doubtful, she was to be j k iven from the homestead, and in 11< ery possible way straitened and an j tl >yed. All those who knew Judge tl evelaud well, felt sure that.he would t< s hard to the last, but no one'supposed a at even hi- obstinacy could*go so far T this. Friends flocked around to g mpathize with this doubly bereaved j b omau. To the numerous questions of i a hat she would do, Mrs. Cleveland made I ti it one answer, and this was: "Help r< e to tind my sonand all understood o am this that the property?the whole j n a third?was to her but a triflins con- , ii demtion. for three months every- v >dy did help. Letters and telegrams p ere sent in all directions, and every d Fort ma<?e that human ingenuitv could t! vent; but all to no purpose. Rodney t ieveland was either dead, or purposely t< :eping out of the wav. The news of v jdge Cleveland's w i 11 had spread far IS id wide, and a lev/ of Rodney's inti- j p ate friends were convinced ,hat the m st theory was correct. " He would ! 1* ;ver return to impoverish his mother," j v iey said ; lor, although Rodney had i s uch ol his mother's gentleness, he also i v assessed considerable of his father's ! li jggedness, and would doubtless die J s ,ther than bring poverty to the mother j t 3 so idolized. j r At last 3till another Thanksgiving j ? ly dawned upon the earth, and the !1 idow, childless and forsaken, satalone ? her home. She drove to church as j >ual in the morning, and there was |s xrdly a dry eye in the house, when the :1 neiy woman, clad in the deepest c ournins:, walked slowly up the aisle, ) id took her seat in tiie deserted pew. J h! how she prayed for help, and how c r away seemed the divine hand! After s ie service was over, her friends pressed i(! und to speak to her, but her eyes !c emed looking far a way, and her man- j J ;r was so strange, that it wa- not to be i \ ondered at?they all thought the poor I f dy was losing her mind. At noon she ;s it down to her solitary dinner, out sue ~ )uld not bear the great dining-room, L ith its memories of former Thanks- 1 vings, and the dinner was taxen away J atasted. In the afternoon several of 1 le neighbors dropped in, but she , ifused herself to all, and when night ime, she had tea made in the little sit- | ng-room, where she and Rodney used j >metimes to taketheirsupper when the ;1 idge was away. 44 Oh! do, for mercy's ; ike," said one* of the servants, who had i { ved with Mrs. Cleveland ever since ! le was married,44 let me go and invite 1< >mebody to come in and have tea with 1' 3U It breaks my heart to Fee you ere all alone!" 44 You shall have tea 1 'ith me, Sarah," said tier mistress, try- \ ' ig to smile, "for it doesn't annoy me j1 ) have you with me, and we will talk j' f the old times, Sarah, when Rodney ; < 'as a little boy." i < Sarah drew up the tab'e, and hung , j ie kettle over the; glowing fire, with , lie tears streaming down her cheeks, j ] I shall he awful company, Mrs. j, Ileveland, if you don't chirp up a j. ittle,"' Sarah replied. "I don't think I ' ras made to be of any use in trouble,' ! i he continued, 44 for I always get to j ilubbering so." { " Oh, Sarah!" said Mrs.Cleveland, in he old agonized tone, 44 if I only knew whether my boy was alive or dead. Tell ae again what you think." Sarah at that moment was adjus ing a ; lice of bread to the toasting-fork : ill of a sudden the bread fell to the flooi, ! ind Sarah uttered a slight serf am. She ! lad seen a pair of eve3 peering through he partly closed blinds, and had recoglized them at oncc. For a moment or ,wo she busied herself with her work, ibstaining carefully from looking again it the window. "I think, just as I ilways have, that Mr. Rodney is alive," ;he woman answered with considerable leliberation, though every nerve in her nody was tingling witli excitement, '*andl t-'*nk, when somebody gets the Destof him, he'll come, popping in upon you all of a suddeu. Say, Mrs. Cleveland, if you'll please to hold this toastm tag-fork a minute, I'll go out and get tlx nilk." 1 lie sittine-room windows opened to thf Jcor, and Sarah passed carelessly about he room, adjusting the curtains and slyly unfastening the sash of the winlow through which she had seen the jair of eyes. Sarah had always been >ne of the number who believed that Rodney was purposely keeping away, md now she had but one thought, and hat to surprise him before he could cave again. "No, you don't, young nan!" said Sarah, chuckling to herself, 'not if I have to holler fire and rouse lie whole neighborhood." She opened lie iront aoor careiuny, ana iuun, wim t slep fis light as a cat's, stole round the riazzato tho sitting-room side of the icuse. There he was, sure enough! and villiout waiting a second Sarah stepped id softly behind him and threw the French window wide open, at the same ime administering a push to the young nan's shoulders that sent Uim ilying to he middle of the room. This was a coup d'etat with a venroance, and the excited servant shrieked it the top of her voice: "Don't be eared, Mrs. Cleveland! It's Rodney, hat's all; and I thought I'd invite him a to take tea with you." Mrs. Cleveand did not faint nor shriek, but with .fervent "Thank God!" laid her tired tead on her son's breast. A half an hour later turkey, cranberry auce and pumpkin pie were seized by he delighted Sarah, and Rodney revi.rded her by eating as in the old days. What did they do about the property? Voil, Judge Clev eland's brother, another ud?c. came on from California and iroke the unjust will, as was the only >roper thing to do; and Mrs. Cleveland nd her son celebrated the Thanksgivnc of 1879 in the old place. Rodney Cleveland has never tasted a rop of liquor since the night he was urned from his father's house, and the ideboard is a thing of the past. Strange Discoveries in a Cave. The Silver Cliff (Col.) Prospector of a ate date lias the following account of a trange experience underwent by three ainers who took refuge in a cave duras a storm: S. J. Harkmnn, F. R. Oliver and H. L Melton were prospecting in the iangre de Cristo range, on the San Luis ide, about two miles north of what is ;ncwnas Dead Man's camp, on Sunday ftornoon, when the storm came upon hem in all its fury, rendering it dan.erous to travel. Being near a deep anon, they sought shelter fro n the ;ind by entering. Not far from where hey stopped, on the same side, they noiced an opening, and concluded to make ,n examination. Drawing near, by eeling around, they found that there ras a long tunnel, though not very deep. ?hey determined to enter, and proeeded to gather dry pine for torches. Lfter getting a sufficient quantity they nterc-d on hands and knees in single i!c. In this position tUey crawled for en or twelve feet, when they entered oto a large chamber, where tliey could asily stand upright. This chamber nlarged for twenty feet, where they cached what seemed a second passage, /hen, as before, the walls closed, and ; became necessary for them to proceed t single file. The sccond passage, owever, was not more thau ten feet in 'ngtu, wnen tuey emergen mio a somewhat deeper ar.d much "larger chamber, ic walls widening to such an extent iat in order to tell the size of the room was necessary to follow them up from ither side of the entrance. About ten iet to the right Mr. Oliver, who was i advance, struck his foot against jmething that moved very easily, and linking it strange, lowered his li?hl, nd to his horror found a human cull. A fire was then kindled on the oor out of extra fuel in order to at a better view of the floor and surpundincs. Not far off lay four other *.?1!q XTrvf cofiofiofl roitli f Iiiq H isnnVPrw. icy retraced their steps, and obtaining resh luel, re-entered, determined to cow the secrets of the cave. Returning j their lire, which was still burning, ley lighted new torches, and continued [ieir exploration. About twenty leet j the left, and near the western wall, no!her skull and bones were found, 'here was no trace of any tool, knife or un?notl :ng but the half-decayed ones. Tue cave extended to the north, lid, as in the previous chamber, conracted somewhat, leaving another nardw passage. This passage, unlike the ther, however, was much longer and by o means as narrow, it leading them lto a smaller chamber, the walls of rhich were very irregular, havine largo rojecting rock3. resembling in some laces the shelving in a store room. On iie western side of this chamber, near he north end, one of these shelves exsnded to a considerable wid h from the /all, about ten inches from the floor. Ir. Melton, who was examining this larticular spot, out of idle civ u?ity awercd his light and stooping dewn ooked under the ledge, and noticing chat seemed to be' peculiar-shape:*, tones, concluded to draw them out, 7hen, to his amazement, he found them icavy enough to require his entire trcngth to remove them. He pulled hem out, however, and called his companions, who were examining the oppoite side of the room. They were not long n discovering that he had found three :old bars that have since proved to be vorth about $900, Elated over that trange and rich discovery, they renamed long enough to notice that the :ave extended in a northerly direction, md through another small passage, ["hey did not, however, follow it, but se:ured their treasure and retraced their tepa to the first chamber, where thej :amped until morning, when they shoullered their gold and departed for their rr if in Qrtfpf.V _ TllPV rcfllSC 0 tell the exact locality of the cave, but ioclare their intention to return to it as oon a3 the weather moderates and make 1 more thorough examination. We obuined our information from a gentlenan who has just arrived in the city, ind who vouches for the gold part ol he story, having seen it and handled it, The Farmer and the Painter. One of those men who go about th< :ountry disfiguring nature by paintine id vei tisements on rocks, trees, etc., hai ieen giving his experience to a Ne^ Fork Sun reporter. He tells this storj >f how he was worsted on one occasior )j a termer: "I had a warm time one day near An lapolis. I found a low house uuil! i gainst the gabie end of a barn, and gol >u the house to paint ' Tutt's Pills ' 01 iv^v u.?-v, T m.iu MfArL-infr onrutT jliu U.liii. X ?uirtin?, UUHJ M.vw.j an the *P' when the farmer saw me am ordered me away. I tried to reasor withiiim but he wasn't open to convic Lion. I had to go; but I hadn't eone fai When I thought what a pity it was tha the sign wasn't finished, and then I con eluded to go back and finish it. I wa working away on the last 4L' when th( farmer saw me again. He insisted upoi my getting right down. I paid noatten Lien to him, finished the 4L' and begai on the '8 ' as if there w;is no one withii a thousand miles. 'Oh, you won' stop, won't yout" yelled the farmer 'Well, we'll see,' and he rushed into ?h little house on which I stood and begai thumping arou>d at a ere at rate 'What s he up to?' thought I, and I be gan to shade the 4 S.' I soon found out tor just then b-z-z z, a bee spotted m on the left ear, and another jabbed me ii the cheek, and before I knew it about : million of them were around my head I didn't wait to make the period. I jus finished that4 S' in a hurry, picked u my paint pot and litout in double quie time. 'I thought I'd stop ye,'yelled th farmer aft-.-r me. 1 thought he had. Th house was a bee house, and lie waked u t he inmates and that fetched me. I ha hard work to get rid of the bees, an had to keep mud on my cheek nnd ea all that afternoon to keep the swellin down." - * - - - r - , i :THANKSGIVING DAY. ! Origin of the Day, and How It 18 Celebrated. 1 ' Like all good customs the origin o.f [ Thanksgiving day is almost as old aa ! the hills, and its observance by Christendom may be traced by analogy to ( ' that perennial race whr> inhabited the i Holy Land and to whom we owe the ] Old Testament. In the old Levitical t law, Moses ordained that every forty- e ninth, or, as some commentators say, 1 every fiftieth year should be held as a a year of jubilee-a year of rejoicing, and | t the re-establishment of the old order of ' s things. With every recurring jubilee, \ tte lands which had been alienated by sale were restored to the;.r original own- "] ers, or if they were dead to their cliii- \ dren or children's children. All debts t then remaining unpaid were also to be t forgiven, and great must have been the a gladness of the poor in Israel at this, to o them, all important period. As time v elapsed the rigid fulfillment of the duties 1: exacted became neglected, but when Solomon dedicated his great temple to the Lord he instituted new days of i thanksgiving, which have ever since v been celebrated. Vast multitudes a flocked to Jerusalem to witness the t triumphant ceremonials and the city c was unable to house them. Booths i were, therefore, built all about and t, around the holy city, and the feast of j; booths was proclaimed. It marks two a mighty events in the history of the na- j, tion, for the annual feast is also the an- v niversary of the delivery of the tables of I the laws upon Mount Sinai. It was in 0 the middle ages that Christendom f<51- 0 lowed the example. Pope Boniface c VIII. declared every hundredth year a t year of jubilee, and during its progress a every pilgrim who visited the churchcs B of St. Peter and St. Paul at Rome a pre- 0 scribed number of times, received cer- c t-nin nnpoifip/! indii/(rences. and in the t first jubilee over one hundred thousand t pilgrims availed themselves oi it. But y a hundred years was too long a period a for the common life of man, and subse- f, quent popes appointed, first every fif- f tieth, then every thirty-fitth, then every i twenty-filth year as a jubilee. This was fc in a single generation, and at length the E obligation to visit Rome was dispensed t with, and pious works performed at p homes were declared sufficient to secure v the religious blessings. D Time passed on, and from the reform- t ation to the present time, Thanksgiv- d ing days have been appointed among the s Protestants, but they have gradually s lost that essentially religious character f which prevailed in the earlier apes. As f ascetism has passed away, so Thanks- a giving day has become more joyous. c Amorg hundreds and thousands it is c still considered most right and fitting to ? return thanks with all due solemnity to a the common giver of all good things,but o alter the "Service High and Anthems a clear" the remainder ol the day is gladly a given up to feasting and merriment, and 1 if the weather be line, to picnics and excursions intoJtJie country. Many keep y open houses, p ad the lordly turkey and \ rich plum pudding smoke upon many a n table, upon which on other days they I are seldom seer ; and, thank God, it is not 1j the rich alone who feast themselves. To a our honor, be it said, that there is scarce- b ly a home for ihe friendless, a refuge or n a bethel, throughout the land, where p some of those to whom plenty of this v world's substance ha3 been given, do not b contribute of their abundance to thoss p who have but little or nothing. Diekene 3 in one of his novels, or tales, paints the s eager eyes of the little Arabs of ihe n streets peering into the windows of the v Christmas game and cook-shops. With n their hungry desire their ncses are fiat- c I hpnflH nffftinfit fclie mines to enable them f< the closer to see what they may never s devour. On Thanksgiving day, to thou- a sands of American children, thanksto n the charity ot the wealthy, the appetiz- y ing sight of good cheer is no mirage, n What, to so many London street boys is v but a dream, to "them becomes a very o substantial reality. Thin is the noblest b thanks man can return for all His bless- ti ings. It is no tithe nor tax, it is the vol- 1< untary offering of beartii grateful for a b thousand mercies. Let those of us who c can then, for this one dr.y in the year, n cheat tlic bitter old jailor, hard times, n out of an army of his vicl ims, and to the s! bethels, the hospitals send good cheer, a and oncc again light ui* with a smile n the worn faces of the si2k, the unior- v tunate, and even the guilty. a In the old days of Greecp, Damagetes p wrote: " He whose stoDy eyes ne'er melt v with tears is':hated to the skies." and in o our great national day of Thanksgiving, a let tnc dewdrop of kindness fall upon c the sterile soil of want and of misery, and waken into being the buds and bios- t sorns that should gladden the heart sand inspire with brighter hopes the children 1j of men. $ a Tripping info Matrimony. c A nice little romance appears in the ^ columns of the Springtield (Mass.) v Republican. One of the rosiest maidens 1 m that city, while Hurrying to the depot t to take a train, tripped, and so grace- t fully recovered herself as to win the ad- t miration of a very substantial-looking ^ old gentleman. He assisted the young j woman on the train and to a seat beside . himself. Conversation flowed pleasantly ,, and acquaintance ripened fast. On j: parting at a station not many miles west v of the city the. couple exchanged ad- \ dresses. The old gentleman proved to J i be a wealthy Chicago merchant, who j: opened a correspondence with the f heroine. She apparently wrote as agree- g ably as she talked. Letters winged their }] way^between the city by the river and t the\city on the lake. Then came a s proposition?not of marriage, but that . the wort.<y son of the susceptible parent * i J ? De IlUIUlllA-'U LU LUC IxnitajJUllwcuuv. x lit . ; father gradually drew out of the field, * i and tlie son more than made his place 1 food. Then came an offer of marriage, t was accepted. Three souis are happy, , a brillir.nt wedding and luxurious home are in prospect, and the railroad c lli- . 1' cials have been greatly puzzled of late , . by the number of Springfield girls who } are stumbling, with more or less grace, . aboard trains bound for the great and j glorious West.?New York Tribune. , ; Tcrrilleil ?>j a Mirage. ' In Watchapreague Inlet, off the i county of Accomac, Virginia, about 1 : twenty tishiTig boats were ridine at i anchor. The sun arose behind a thick I v.nnij- ProapnMv thp fnir crpw thin- 1 . IUP - --J -co j. ner until a few pale rays shot up above. '< i Ail the crews were busy at their lines, I j when a shout from one of the boats was : . heard. A great transformation scene j had occurred in a single minute. Apj parently not a quarter of a mile away lay the island ol Chincoteague, with its " tall white tower, its dwellings, its trees t anrl shrubbery, and a little boy driving 1 a flock of shoep along the shore, ana " even a littie girl sitting in the door ot g tne lightkeeper's house with a doll in " her arms. In another minute another fog bank rose up between them and the " shore, shutting out from their vision j their own homes. Imagining that by 1 some unaccountable and mysterious influence they had been suddenly transg formed a distance of thirty miles from . where they actually were, they broke anchor <ge in the greatest consternation, * many of them in their fright steerinc directly out to sea. An hour afterward g the mist vanished, and the sun shone Q out. The mirage had disappeared, but a there was no more fishing on that day. it A person called at the quarters of a p man who was!training for a prizeIt fight, and seeing him diuing on a plain e chop with unbuttered bread asked: e "Why do you live so poorly?" "Oh," p said the tniner, " he is a very closed fisted man."?New York Herald. d ? ^ Thunder has been heard in Iceland in g only twenty-threo hours during the last fourteen years. A (JUEFK OCCUPATION. 1 Mau Who Manufactured Mermaid*, Sien-SeriicntB and Other Cariosities to Order. Roonne, a New York taxidermist, was jverilowing with humor, and as queer i customer as most of his curiosities, le was an old sailor, had lost an eye in he East, several fingers in Mobile bsy, md nearly parted with his head in Cuba, finally, alter wandering all over the vorld, lie opened a curiosity shop, and >eing himself a part and parcel of his tock, he succeeded well. To < reporter vho called one day, he said: "Yes, this is a queer sort of business, fou might think, now, that a man vould get gloomy worKing over luese lodies, but it never seems to me as if bey were dead. I soon have them alive gain, leastwise as regards looks. Some if them old monkeys I wouldn't part vith for love or money; they're just ike old friends." "Who buys such things?" "Well, I have my regular customers, jadies have a good deai done in the ray of stuffing canaries and pet dogs nl cats, and they come in here some* im s weepin' si you'd think it was a hild. But it pays, as I make it a rule o charge accordin' to the grief, not to ake advantage of'em. When the grief 3 great they always bring photographs nd want me to give the dog the wery 30k he had when alive, so" you see a axidermist has to be a sort of sculptor, f I hits it exactly they wery often insists n maKirr me a present, auuiuki cmss f customers is a few gentlemen who ollect birds, and they don't want anyliing except it's new arid rare. I have , good trade in birds' nests. A good aany bovs go in for that; but the best >f the business, that is, the most money, omes in from the show business. All hey want i3 somethin? startling, and bey always pay for it; but trade ain't ?hat it was twenty years ago. Here's n old order I had from a man in Caliornia, a sea-ser.)cnt to be 100 feet; long, our feet in diameter at largest part, and o be in sections and have an authentic listory. That was for a big side-show nan, and, as the man's dead, I suppose le won't object to my giving it away., le didn't put no limit on me, so, as^it ras my firs'. ord?r, I thought I'd mak ay own reputation and his fortune at be same time, and I came pretty near oing it. At that time there was a big hark fisher? on the Tybee river, so I ent down a piece of shark skin about a oot square* and offered a cent a piece or all I could get of the same size, and .s they threw the skins away, I soon -ot all I wanted. I made the frame iut of wood, and covered it with canas, and then softened the sharks' skins nd put them on, overlapping each ther like scales; the j.iw3weie modeled fter an alligator's, only ten times as big, nd in them I put whales' teeth, .'he inside of the moutli was lined with ,sh-3kin and painted red, and when it /as done you couldn't find a place that wasn't natural. The man gave me $100 lore than I asked, and shipped it West, made the jaws so they would lift, and in nspfl to show it with a vouna cirl -standing in its mouth. He fooled everyody and made lots of money. I once aade f. wbale. It was on the balloon rinciple. Every night they tilled it mil gas, and after the show drew it off; ut one night when the shouter was exlaining it, the people commenced to mell gas, and some one yelled, ' There he blows,' and sure enough the great pass was settling, and in five minutes it ras flat on the floor. A rival circuslan in the town had hired some one to ut it. I made gorillas fifteen feet high jr a South Carolina showman. It '.ook ix black bear akins to make each one, nd they had alligator teeth and real jan-skin faces, taken from bodies by a oung student friend of mine. He put ae up to the dodge. When the gorillas ,rere exhibited a scientific professor said ne night before a crowd that he didn't elieve they weie gorillas, and that the ices showed that tney were notuing out ?ather. Tlie showman offered to bet im S1C0 they were, and asked him if he ou'id tell the difference between comion leather and the skin of an animal ext to man. He said he coald, and the bowman offered to let three doctors exmine it. They went to work with llcroscopos, and found that the pores rcre almost exactly like those of a man, nd that settled it in the minds of the eople. Of course the show men knew rhat they were, and I got a good many rders on them at $200 apice; but there in't any demand for them now. You an1t fool the people with old things." " I see you have a sign outside relating o mermaids?" "Yes; I sell one once in a while, and lave two or three orders for South Lmerica now," he said, as he pulled ,side a curtain and showed in glass ases some mummified sirens. "Twenty 'ears ago I sold one like tins," ionaung me in iiis hunds, " for $1,500, nnd they vere cheap at that. It takes almost a ifetime to make one and have it so as 0 stand close examination, and then he pedigree costs nearly half. People hen were mors particu.ar to have lies veil braced up. Now here's one," takng up a specimen about six feet long, 1 that was made in 1857, and has a pedl;ree signed by the captain and ere w of lie bark R. M. Lnwson. That will give 'ou an idea how much trouble and exjense people went to. I made this; myelf, on an order, for ?1,000, but it was lever taken, becau?e the raan died beoi*3 it wa?i done. He wanted it perfect, o that people and scientific professors ind that Kind could look it all over as nuch as they wanted to. One of the itipulations was that it should have a jedigree, showing the sworn statements if the finders, also their names and adIresses, so that tlicy could refer to .hem." "Was this all complied with?" "Every bit; and I'll tell you how it vas. I got the oldest female monkey I :ould get. and a fish called the grouper ;hat would skin well. The old monkey was killed, and divided below the waist, ind prepared and stuffed regularly, and ,he fish done this same way below the liead. Then the two parts were joined :ogether. This is the nardest part ex3ep'; the face, which has to be stiffened :opivc a look of anguish like. The ;ca.es, which you see are very small, iiave to be put in by the thousand, one it ?. time, and graded on to the skin of the monkey, so that the joining will look natural. This done, it i3 treated with acids to make it look old, or natural, as the case may be, and then the making part is done." " But how about the pedigree P" "Well, I hunted around, and at last found a friend who was master of a ship bound for China, and he and I fixed it up that he should take the mermaid to China and pretend to find it. So I took it aboard and the ship sailed, and after a while arrived at Yokohama, and here the mate was fixed. One day all hands were given liberty, and you may be sure they were all jolly drunk when they came down to the boat. The captain took the tiller, and the mate waa in the bow, and when they were off-shore the mate gave a yell and told them to stop pulling. Then he grabbed th" boat hook and struck very savage at something in the water, and finally ho reached down and to all intents and purposes lifted out of the water the mermaid. ' Is it dead?' yelled the captain. 'Yes,' said the mate. ' I billed it the first hit,* and stepping over the seats he took it to the captain, just letting the men see that il was a regular mermaid, and every ont of 'em signed a paper say in' that thej saw it swimmin1 around the boat, and saw the mate kill it and haul it aboard and also tiiat if any one doubted it thej could send to their address jishore which waa so-and-so. The mermaic was taken aboard, and with the papei packed away and brought back to New York and handed over tome, and woulc have been delivered, but the man died That's the way the businesu waa done ii those days. Now I make them, and Ie the party that takes them make up hi own yarn. In fact, I got married nbou ten years ago, and my wife bping a stric churchgoer, came near breaking up th business." French Farmers. A very common type of farmer i; ifrance is tne man wno 1103 receive what we should call the education ol gentleman; that is to say, that he ha been brought up at a first-rate publi school, and has afterward learned farm ing scientifically at the agricultural col lege of Grignon. Such a man is preciou in the wine-growing districts, wher new experiments have constantly to b tried to combat the phylloxera and t( improve the quality of the vine soil. J wealthy vinegrower will pay a fine sal ary to a farmer capable of adding t< the renown of bis vintage, and it stand to reason that the farmer almost alway ends by setting up for himself when h marries a wife who brings him a dot Another pretty common type of th French farmer is the one who has beei obliged to sell off lands of his owi through pecuniary stress, but who con tinues to occupy his old dwelling am farms the land that was once his lor it new owners. This man is not likely tx be very ambitious; failure has mad' him wise, and he Is inclined to thin] that his lot as a farmer is, on the whole nreferablc to his former condition as 1 starveling peasant proprietor. For om thing, he has given up all idea of amass ing money lor his children. A larg family springs up round him, but he ha made up his mind that they shall shil for themselves, and what money he cai make he spends on himself. Just fo: luck's sake ho keeps $100 or so investe< in some municipal loan having tiragei a primes, which gives him a chance o winning a gros lot of 100,000 francs; an< possibly one bright morning he ends b] winning this gros lot, or an equivalen* prize in a lottery, which enables him t< laushforthe remainder of his days a the'more parsimonious race of farmer who pinoii and screw all their live: lone. Generally speaking, the French farme: is not a jolly soul. Whether he be i man of education or not, he settles dowi into a grub sort of life, faring frugally on soup and ttie thinnest ol ordinary rei wine or cider. The stock of his soup ii bacon, and he eats butcher's meat onl: twice a week; that is, on Sunday an< market-day. When he attends marke he makes a succulent dejeuner, an< drinks a good deal of beer afterward a the cafe. This is his only cheerful time at ordinary seasons he is morose troubled about the weather, the con scription which is going to take his soi into the army, and about politics, o which he understands ju3t enough to b in constant dread of revolutions. He i a conservative; that is to say that he up holds the government of the day, what ever it i3, for fear of anarchy ; but m government is popular witti mm, 10 every administration finds it necessar to lay on new taxes. Taking liim al round, however, the French farme ought to be more contented than lii English brother, for he has a much les inclement climate to contend with. 1 bad harvest is not a common thing ii France, and a succession of bad harvest never occurs. It is lucky /or the Frencl farmer that this is so, for there are fe* French landlords who would be in position to remit any pari of a jear1 rent after a bad harvest. The rule i France is that the farmer's rent must b paid a3 punctually as lodgers' rent. 1 it be not paid, ejection is resorted to a once, and nobody thinks of looking upo the tenant as an ill-used man.?Harper Weekly. Removal of Hair from the Face. The Sciefilific American says: W frequently have inquiries, chiefly froc ladies, who find their beauty marred, a they think, by growth of hair on the lio or other portions of the face, for a recip or method by which they can get rid c their trouble. Caustic alkalies hav been recommended; but they injure th skin and the hair soon grows again; th razor no lady likes to use. The onl; permanent remedy appears to be th absolute destruction of the follicle b; electricity, the hairs being killed one b; one. The operation is tedious, and i thus performed by Doctor John Butler of this city: The patient being seated in a chair i> a semi-reclining position, the head wel supported, and the face opposite a stroni light, the operator pelects the hair fo the first attack, takes hold of it in apai of lorceps, making it tense by gentl traction. A moistened sponge electrode fror the positive poleol the battery havin previously been placed on the back c the neck, or fixed at some other con venient adjacent spot, a three-cornere needle with sharp cutting edge3 set in suitable handle and attached to th negative pole of the battery, is made t enter the hair follicle, alongside th hair, care being taken to make th needle penetrate to the entire depth c the follicle. The action of the curren soon causes a few bubbles of the visci froth alluded to, to be observed. A soon as this evidence of electrolytic df composition manifests itself, the ncedl should be rotated ji few times, so as t cause the sharp corncrs of the needle t scrape away the debris, and allow clec trical contact with a fresh surface. Th operation is continued until the hair be comes quite loose, and comes av/ay wit the {very slightest traction, the who! operation Listing a very much shorle time than it takes to describe it. Th operator then proceeds with ilie nes hair in like manner, and so on with tb whole series, as many as there are to b removed, or as long as the patient ca bear it. It is by no means a painft procedure (except in trichiasis), but i usually complained of as a disagreeab] sensation. There is a great difference i patients, however, in this regar.i; som will tolorate a seance of half an hour o even more; indeed, I had one patier who stood it, or rather sat it out, ur flinchineiy and uncomplainingly, fc over anliour, and would willingly hav allowed the seance to be continued muc longer, but that the operator's eyes be came so tired that it was impossible t proceed. I should not omit to mentio that I use a modification of a jeweler magnifying glass, which I had made fc me by a weil-known firm of optican: It consists of a lens with a lour-inc focus set in a cork cap, for the sake < lightness, and made of such a sliape f to tit the eye, and is readily held thei as a single eyeglass is made to do. Eve with the lens"the operation is fatigi ing to the eyes; hut without it it almost impossible to continue the seam uninterruptedly for over ten or tweh minutes, and then it must necessarily t done in an unsatisfactory manner, ; it is impossible to see liow the detai are being carried out With the lens, skillful operator ought to be able to d< stroy about three or four hairs a mil ute, and continue the seance half a ; hour. It will be noticed that I ha\ ; laid great stre?s upon the noi ' removal of the hair previous to the d ! struction of the papilla; this is one i tlie principal point? in the operation, f< as long as the hair remains in, we ha^ : a positive guide as to the direction of tl i follicle, arid wheD it becomes loosene , from the action of the current, it may I ' taken as almost proof tnat the paDil ; has been entirely electrolyzed. I use tl ; word 41 almost" advisedly, as about h | to twenty per cutiL. ui two hairs act< ; upon return, and have to be electrolyz< the second time. r So extensively is the adulteration , tea now earned on in China that M I Medhur-t, the British consul at Shan : hai, recently wrote that 53,000 poum r of willow leaves were in course of m I nipulation at oneport alone, to be mix* . with tea lor shipment, at the ratio 1 from ten to twenty per cent. t fABM, GABDEN AND HOUSEHOLD 3 _____ t Improvement and Care of Hogs. e A writer in the Chicago Times paints the following picture of the modern hog, and adds some sensible suggestions in regard to the care and management of this " artificial" production: n That the pig has been improved too i much, both for his own and his master's a good, is now generally conceded. His s bones have become so small that he can c only with difficulty sustain his weight i- when fattened for market. His limbs - have also been reduced in size and s length to such an extent that he is ale most deprived of the power of locomot tion. His neck has been well-nigh o eliminated from his system. A poor apology for a head is attached direct to - the shouldere. Had the animal leg3 to a. 1 ^ iL L- 1 J 1 A.! r. " J natural iengm uu uouiu not uikk ioou or s drink from the surface of the ground, s Being virtually deprived of legs, howe ever, lie linds little difficulty in eating . and drinking. He experience! the e most trouble when he attempts to trave a about. a The first lard package was a bladder - or the entire skin of a small animal. I This was the model which modern s breeders have tried to imitate in con3 slructinga pig which should have " all e the modern improvements." Tney have ? succeeding in producing a skin inclosing , two hams, an equal number of very i small shoulders and a large amount of e lard. It is claimed that the demands of - the market have been supplied bv a pig e ot this style of architecture. The des mands of nature, however, have not t been satisfied. The modern pig is an i artificial creation. Being such, he canr not be expected to obtain his living in a i natural way. He cannot obey tbe in3 junction. "Root, pig, or die." If lis f was obliged to obtain his living by the 1 process of rootin?, as his ancestors did, 7 he would die in a very short time. 6 The modern pig by necessity is a sel dentary animal. Like a human gormand he requires his food brought to him. Se3 dentary habits'have served to make him 3 an epicure. He delights to satisfy his pampered appetite on dainties, and he r prefers to have them well cooked and 1 seasoned. He is deficient not only in the 1 tusks which ornamented the head of the I wild boar, but in strong and sound teeth. * " t - 1 TT * tie is no longer a grazing aminui. xie 3 no longer frequents the forest and J streams. He requires a roof above him J and a soft bed beneath him. He needs P protection of all kinds; because he is in J no condition to protect himself. Like t most creatures that take little exercise ? and live an artificial life, he is delicate !? in constitution, susceptible of injuries, and liable to many diseases. The * catalogue of the diseases of swine has 1 been greatly enlarged since the animals e began to be improved. 9 The improved pig is not prolific. The " more it is improved the smaller the lit" ters become, while the difficulty ofrais0 ing the youDg ones increases. Sows that r are not active and muscular are not ? like-Jy to be good mothers. If kept in 1 confinement they often kill their young, r through accident or design. Domestic 9 animals that do not graze do not, as a 9 rule, give much milk. There is no food " equal to green grass for the production a of milk. All the so-called improvements Is n pigs have seemed to injure them as d breeders. Dry corn is not a good kind * of food to feed animals when they are a suckling young. They should have green 3 grass, clover and other succulent food. n They should a*so be allowed a wide ? range, so that they and their young may * have sufficient exercise. lt If a pig baa a good start on milk drawn P from tlie teat it is much more Jikely to s do well than if the supply of this kind of food be stinted. Pigs that suckle their dam in a pasture will learn to eat erass in a few weeks and will form habits of e grazing that will continue through life. q Green grass is not only the cheapest but 3 the best kind of food for ail young ani3 mals kept on a farm. It is excellent food q for the formation of bone and muscle. ,f Milk and grass should constitute the e chief food of pigs till they ate four e months old. On the approach of fall they e should be fed cornstalks, roots and j pumpkins. Artichokes are excellent for e pigs in all stages of tbeir growth, and y their cultivation cannot be too strongly j urged. The supply of food for pigs 3 should always be abundant, but in the i. earlier stages of their jrrowtb it should beofakiad less stimulating man corn j and small grain. ] Pigs that have been raised on milk, e grass, clover, tubers and roots, till they r are of a size to weigh 150 or 200] pounds r are generally healthy. They are the-iin e a good conation to fatten. Theyshouid not, however, be put in close confineQ ment as soon as corn is fed to them. It ?, is much better to allow them the run of ,f a good pasture that is well supplied . with clean water till the approach of j quite cold weather. It is not necessary a for corn to be fully ripe before it is fed e to them. If cut up with the stalks and o green leaves, nearly the whole of them e will be devouied. The change from e green to dry food should be gradual, and ,f on this account the feeding of green corn t with the stalks and leaves is desirable. d | itpreparss tne pigs ior suuag muic 3 j hearty food, as dry corn, which will be j their principal food till they arc slaughe 'tercd. 0 j After pigs have eaten dry corn during 0 ! several weeks their teeth are likely to .. j become sore and their appetites imc I paired. It is then best to change their .. j food, or at least the manner of prepara: tion. As a general rule it may not pay 0 j to grind or cook com that is to be fed to r j ho s, but during the la3t stages of the e j fattening process it generally pays to dc X i both. An occasional feed of boiled ape 1 pies, potatoes, cabbages or pumpkins is e : relished by pigs that have had little but n ; corn to eat for a considerable period. ll | Hyacinth Culture. 13 A few bulbs of hyacinths well grnwr e give as line a show in the windows durn ing the spring months as any planl e crown. Not only is it the colorings ^ which are attractive, but a few plant* 11 in bloom will perfume the whole house. l" They can be grown in a great manj ? different ways?in glasses tilled witt , water, in pots filled with soil and ir , moss or sphagnum in a box or orna mental pot or vase. The great seciet ir (? raising hyacinths is getting g.od root* ,n upon the bulbs before ihe ilower SDikee 3 begin to appear. In selecting bulfr !.r always get such as are firm around the V j bud and well shaped, if such are se ^ 1 cured, there is no trouble in getting 51 j them to start roots soon after^ beint Is ; placed in the material in which they :ir< :e i o be grown. n j When potting the bulb3 fill the pot! ?"! early to the top with soil; then mak< J3 j a small hole, into which place the bulb 5? i then add more soil, and press it firmlj j around the bulb, lor, if this is not at tended to, as the roots start they ar< Is apt to lift the bulb out of the soil. T( grow them in glasses, fill with watei a suflic:ently high t" o lth< c" bulb to touch it, and, as it evaporates | keep supplying when neceisary. re j Whether planted in pots or placed ir j. glasses, set them away in some dark e_ cool place, which induces them to mak< roots, and do not remove into light unti )r the pots and glasses are well filled witl re them They can then be brought into i warmer room and placed in the light, j cj few at a time, so that a succession o bloon s can be secured. ]a The single hyacinths generally bloon ie earlier tlian the double and to me appeal >n just as pretty. The Roman hyacinth: '(j are the most useful for tlorists, as the; J(j can be forced into bloom much earlier and, although the spikes are not so large several of them arc usually proiueec from the same bulb. of The culture of hyacinths in beds i r. very simple. Enrich the soil with wel! e- rooted manure, dig deep, and level tin ds bid on the suriace; then plant the bulb a- about six inches deep. Give the bed i ?d good mulching with manure, or an] of material which will prevent frost fron getting too deep into the soil. Befon m the bulb3 begin to grow in tbe spring, remove the mulch. The flower-spikes soon appear, and the labor upon them is repaid with beautiful flowers at a sea son wnen out iew nowers are uj u? seen. After they have finished flowering and the foliage has decayed, lift the bulbs, dry, and store away in paper bags, for next /all's planting.?^. Milton, in Prairie Farmer. Household Hints, To take the brown discolorations off of cups in which custards are baited, rub with damp flannel dipped in best whiting. Scouring sand or sand soap will answer the purpose. It is a mistaken idea to cover.a carpet with drugget in the belief that it saves it. What wears out carpets is the grinding on the floor, and the protection should come from beneath. Crackers that are not fresh can be made to appear so by putting them into a hot oven for a short time. Watch them carefully, as a minute too long will serve to brown and spoil them. When about to cook anything get together everything that you expect to use. See that the fire is right to begin with, and remember that as much depends on the btiking as on the making. To take white stains from dark wood use equal parts of vinegar, sweet oil and spirits of turpentine; shake all well together in a bottle; apply with a flannel cloth and rub dry with old silk or linen. American Wealth. lb IB H? S5WJU& remain tuab iiiiicuuauo love the dollar. The sayine, like most stock sayings, misses the point; the reai point is, not that Americans love money more than other people, but that they love comparatively few things besides money. We have fewer objects of serious pursuit than other Western nations have; we do not, as a people, pursue the fine arts, or literature, or scholarship, t>r society with the zeal or the fruitfulness that we find in European communities, and so we are regarded as still being somewhat deficient in our duties as a civilized nation. We love these ttiines less than the old world communities love them. We do not love money more than they?probably, indeed, not so much as they, it is the exclusiveness, not the zeal, of our pursuit of money that is the thing to be regretted. Some day, perhaps, we bhali try to do better than this: meanwhile, most of us pursue the dollar without thinking of stopping much for rest until we take rest where no work is. No community thinks so little about 'rest from work a3 ours. We seek money and we find it; yet do we love it either well or intelligently to 1100 if. fmihfnllv. to keeD it ^UVUgU IA/ uww aw ..J r . safely, or to bequeath it wisely? First let us glance at the wealth we possess as a nation. Let us sec what place a century oi money-making has given us. We call ourselves a rich people; how rich a people are weP And first, where do we stand as to the total valuation of the national wealth? We stand near the head of the list ?third on the list of all the W estern nations. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland heads the list with a capital valuation of $44,400,000,000; then France with 336.700,000,000; the United States with 832,000,000,000, Rus sia with $15,000,000,000, and the Low Countries with $11,150,000,000 of capital collectively. Thpse are the valuations made by those countries of their entire resources. What is the average annuaL income per inhabitant in the various countries P We come to the front in this comparison. The average annual income in the United Kincdom is $165; in the United States, $165 also; in the Low Countries, $130; in France, $125; in the British colonies, $90; in Germany,and also in Scandinavia, $85. In this reckoning, Russia, with her 90,000,000 of people. is out of eight as yet; she will not be very long. Once more, taking the question from another point of view, let us ask: What ?? ? ? ? 1 A! WOQ 1 tfl I IS OUr &HDUU1 ilULUUiUiawvu VA vtvm?VU) as compared with the annual accumulation'of other nations? And here we step lar in advance of any community which gives us full estimates; it should be borne in mind, however, that the rate of interest for agricultural capital, with us, is double the average rate for Europe. ? The annual accumulation of wealth, then, in Germany, $200,000,000; it is $325,000,000 in the United Kingdom, $375,000,000 in France; in the United States $825,000,000. Oar increase of national wealth since 1830, says a good English authority, would be enough to purchase "the whole German empire, with its farms, cities, bank3, shipping, manufacturers, etc. The annual accumulation has been $825,GOO,(00, and therefore each decade adds more to the wealth of the United States than the capital value of Italy or Spain, livery day the sun rises upon the American people it sees an addition of $2,300,000 to the wealth of the republic." These are figures to make a poor man expect wealth; but let us hasten to say i that they do not prove us any happier or wiser, or more estimable in the sight of the world, than many Janother poorer i nation is. What thr se figures prove is a different thine; they prove the bounty of nature toward an energetic race; tbc-y do not prove what we sometimes take i for granted on the strength of them, that our nation is great or admirable in ' the greatest and most admirable things. No; we have been busied with necessary things; in great and admirable things i our record is still, for the most part to i be made.? Harper's Magazine. j His Load or Coal. ; There are some men in this world j who are smart enough not to be cheated. They don't propose to let the sharks and sharpers of the world get the best of them. Mr. Gallagher is a gentleman wlic weighs nearly 300 pounds, but he isn't too proud to loo* after his own interests. The other aay he purchased a load of coal, and went himself to see it weighed. The driver, who was also a very heavy man?3omehow the coalcart drivers are all heavy men?didn't get down from the load, and when Gallagher called his attention to it, said he had to hold the horses. But that didn't satisfy Gallagher. He made the driver go to the horses' heads and hold theif. Then he discovered a doe: that would weigh about ninety pounds under the seat. He remarked that he wasn't paying for any dogs these days, and wanted i the brute removed. The driver said he couldn't leave the horses t remove the dog, so Gallagher climbed up on the wheel, grasped the dog's collar and yanked the canine out It immediately umped back to its place on the wagon. Then Gallagher yanked it out again, and again it jumped bick. Again ho * !**. otilmol s\ff fhof fimo xxrifrn puucu I lie; tin 1 UJUfci uu , ? 4WH } much difficulty, tlie dog resisting, [ though not i ffering to bite. He tried to 1 hold tcio dog that time, but the animal was as big as a yearling calf and too strong for him. 1 It got away and back upon the load. , Then Gallagher was mad. "ll.ame 2 your peit!"~he cried. " l'.l fix you." 1 He seized a pitchfork, an<i mounting the i load, grabbed the do? and hurled it off. i " Now," he cried, bracing himself upon i the load and pushing the animal back, f "go on and weigh the coal!" and there he stood and with the fork kept the dog i off while the coal was weighed. Then r he cot down from the car\ and, re9 marking ihat they didn't make him pay 7 'or the dog's weight, went home happy. ; And the driver went off happy, too, as . h.' reckoned that iiimself :ind the dog 1 together didn't weigh over twenty-live pounds more t ian Gallagher 3 2 The Croton aqueduct is taxed to Its 3 utmost power for supplying the wants i of the people of the metropolis. New p York daily consumes 94,000,000 of gall Ions ofrwater, while the aqueduct is put 9 at 95,000,000 of gallon*. ...... umiJKBKmun. Let us thank Him tor the rose Which the summer season lends; . % A For each blade oi crass that grows, And the sunshine that He sends; For the daisies' drift ot snow, And the sunflowers' golden shields; . ~ ; For the strawberry plants that sow ^ Small white stars throughout the fields; ' > .J ii/ For the thistle's purple orown, ^ % And the hawkweed's yellow hood; For the crocus in its gown, * * * f And the wild bird in the wood; " . For the milkweed, spilling out - .**?. All its hoard of silken skeins; For the brooks that sing and shout Louder after heavy rains; i * vSfl For the stars that nightly rise, jp All the heavens brimming; For the rainbow in the skies, And the crickets' hymning. ? , ? -'vr-%N Thank Him tor the red leaf's glow, For the vine's increase, - % IT ! ?l It,. {' ' rur UiO piUlUJUJO VI IUO ouuny And the wide world's lease! ?Mary JV. Prucrtt. N HUMOROUS, . ?3 ? " - - The astronomer's; pastime?Shooting. ,4f stars. If you want to make up for lost "time" buy another watch. Some of the most timid girls are not ; frightened by a loud bang.?Lowell Citizen. y . ? "How do you find Uncle JohnPn "In apple-pie order." "How i3 thatP :J- ''J " Crusty." ' 4| Charles Lamb remarked of one of hla * " J critics: " The more I think of him, the > les3l think of him." " Well, wife, you can't say I ever con- ' r'*r tracted bad habits." "No, sir; you generally expanded them." A tali man Having ramea nis mena- ,.> on the shortness of nis legs, the friend repljed: "My legs rea?h the ground; wbat more can yours doP" A medical writer asks: " Does position t affect sleep P" Well, rather. If you're hung up by your trousers on a spiked fcnce, you won't sleep very soundly.? Boston Post. J. "What do you use your fingers foi . when you blow your noseP" asked a gentleman of a bootblack. "Do you expact me to blow my nose with my legsP1 ?Galveston News. The fust thing a man thinks ov iz himself, the seckond thing he think? ov " iz himself agin, and the third thing he '$ thinks ov iz himself once more. Bully for man \?Jcsk Billings. A sad-looking man went into a Bu?? lington drug store. " Can you give me," he asked, "something] that will * drive from my mind the [thoughts of sorrow and bitter recollections P'f And the druggist nodded and put him up a v little dose of quinine and wormwood, and rhubarb and epson salts and a dash * * of castor oil, and gave it to him, and for % ; six months the man couldn't think of anything in the world except ne# schemes for getting the taste out ofrhia " mouth.?Burlington Hawkeye. New York has more lun out of its transit lines than any other city in the world. On the street railroads a highwayman enters the cars at convenient - \ intervals and robs the passengers; on the elevated xailroads tUey let a mas into the inclosure, and then the train jumps oat and leaves him. He graft the hand-rail and is jerked down on -' somebody's head below. A man can ride down town in the stseet cars-and be robbed, and go back iu the elevated train and be maimed for life. Thus do I he New York lines combine pleasure with business.?Detroit Free Press. "TEAB8, IDLE TEAKS." She wept, and she wept, and she wept, And she sat with her head in a whimple, " Why this griet ?" I exclaimed, as I stept To her aid; and her answer was simple: " They said I could make either side In my cheeks a most keantifnl dimple It I cat out a piece; and I tried; * And it isn't a dim?it's a pim?pie!" ?????????? Statistics or Lire Stock. The department of agriculture at Washington has prepared a table, compiled from the latest returns, giving the umber of domesticated: animals iu Europe and the United States. It shows that there are in Europe 31,573,663 horses, Great Britain having 2,101,100; Russia, 16.1PO OOO; Austria, 1367,023; Hungary, 1,158 819: Prussia, 2,278,nOA Q 7A.0 7ftS thp Othpr /.6-x, auu x imivv countries having less than 1,000,000 each, while the United States has but 10,938,7(10, or 20,631.963 less than all Europe. Europe has 4.136 031 mulea and asses, Spain havmg 2,319,848; Italy, 718,252; France,705 943; Portugal, 188,640, the other countries bavin? leas tban 100,000 each, while the United States has but 1,713,100, or 2,422,931 less tban all Europe. There are in Europe 89 678.24? cattle, Great Britain having 6 003 100; Ireland, 4,142 400; Sweden, 2 026,330; Russia, 22,770 000 ; Austria, 7,425,21*; Hungary, 5 279.193; Prussia, 8.612,150; r j Bavaria, 3 066 263; France, 11.721,459; Spain, 2,967,303; Italy, 3,489 125, the . J other countries Having less than -2,000,000 each, while there are in the United States 33 234,500 cattle, or 5e.443.748 leas than in Europe. There are in Europe 194.026.236 sheep, Great Britain having 29 495 9 0; Ireland, 4,482.000; Russia, 46.432,000; Austria, 5.0*26,398;' Hungary, 15,076 997; Prussia, 19 62 1 758; France, 25 035 ll*; Portugal 2.7oC777; Spain, 22.468 969; Italy, 6,984,04'J; R omania, 4,786,317, the other coururiea having less than 2.000,000 each, while the United States has 38,126,800 sheep, orj 155.902.436 less than all Europe. There are in Europe 42,686 493 swine, Great Britain having 2,519 300; Ireland, 1,052.244; Russia, 9 800 000; Austria, 2,551,473; Hungary, 4.443 279; Prussia, 4,278.531; . France, 5,755 656: Spain, .3 4,351,736; Italy, 1,553,582. the other * countries having i*ss than 1.000.000 pnoh. while the United States has 34, 766,100 swine, or 7,920,393 less tlian an Europe. 1 j Electric Discharges from An!malB# >' Touching the electric brush discharges which sometimes takes place from the ' hair and fingers of men, and the coats of j animals, as well as the leaves of trees, a 1 recent note by M. Amat to the French .1 Academy mentioned some curious facta 1 which came under his observation cut in Algeria, in 1876, between Djeifa and J Lighouat, among the Atlas mountains. j He says that he has frequently drawn ( j large sparks from the hair of his horse ] by means of his pocket comb. The best results were obtained in dry weather, in the evening between 7 and 9 p. m. If the ba'"r was a little moi^t, or the sky j cloudy, no sparks or cracklings could be got. Animals, and especially horses, t present in a higher degree than iran the power of exhibiting there discharges. Travelers on tde high plateau of Central j America have remarked that the ccats j of their horses discharge sparks under J the brush or currycomb; and ic South Algeria it is common to see the hairs of thj tail so much aiive with the electric forces that they diverge Irom the center. j 0:i strobing thp tail by hand, distinct crackling sonn'Is may he heard, especially duriiig th? rfuy. One reason why J man accumulates less electricity than ^ the horse is perhaj s that tho horse is better insulated on his horny hoofs. " Landlady," said he, " the cofl'ee isn't settled." She replied: "But it comes 4 as near to it as your last month's board. ' ' bill does." He never spoke again. J ' *' . --