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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNERS BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1881. NO. 52. VOLUME XXV. gj No Time for Hating. Begone with feud ! away with strife; Oar lmnian hearts unmating ! Let us bo friends again ! This lifo Is all too short for hating! So dull the day, so dim the way, So rough the road we're faring? Far better weal with faithful friend, Than stalk alone uncaring ! i The barren fit;, the withered vino, Are types of seliish living; But eouls that give, like thine and mine, fienew their life by giving. While cypress waves o'er early graves, On all the way we're going, Far better plant, where seed is scant, Than tread on fruit that's growing Away with scorn ! Since die we must And rest on one low pillow; There arc no rival* in the dustNo foes beneath the willow. Bo dry the bowers, so few the flowers, Our earthly way discloses, Vir liftft/'r ?tnrm uln rf ilnisip-4 ilrrum Thau tramp o'er broken rosea! Of what are all the joys we hold Compared to joys above us! And what arc rank, and power and gold, Compared to hearts that love us? So fleet our years, so full of tears, So closely death is waiting; Gou gives us space tor loving grace, But leaves no time for hating. ?.1. ./. II. Ditganne. PRING-LE'S FLAT. " You will have a beautiful day, my ! 1 Ar,.0 TTni-,,1 r,o n,l. la fill, Cttiiu atxio. ii'.'jjc, tio nuc iuunvu au- i miringly first at her son Dick, who was j driving up to the door in his new buggy, ! then at her daughter-in-law, Mary Hope, j whose honeymoon was at its full. " I am so glad !" said the young wife. I " What lovely weather we have had | ever since I came here ! not at all like j what some of my friends predicted when i they said we ought to spend our honey-! moon in the East.' Dick Hope at that moment sprang out of his buggy lightly, aud gallantly j extended a hand to his wife. "Nonsense!" exclaimed Mary Hope. |i " I am not such a helpless creature that j i I can't get in myselfand she stepped lightly into the buggy, with a merry : laugh. Mrs. Hope the elder gave an approv- < 1 TH A 11 i. _ 1..4. T\: -?1. ing noci: " jli s jusi as wen kj j-'h.-js. j kuow you can help yourself. These j Western men ?" 1 "Need managing like other men,", interrupted her daughter-in-law, with ] another laugh. / Old Mr. Hope, coming down from the ! stables at that moment, eyed the horse, |1 buggy and harness (Dick had expended I ? . --sevenjiiindred dollars on that turn-out), | tTieu^stoo(l"^)atting" "TheTlorse\s neciTp kindly. He was an admirer of line ; horses, and his judgment was sought < far and wide on all points of horse- : flesh: " There's tine mettle here, Dick." " I know it," said Dick, proudly. 1 "Cheap at four hundred," said Mr. ! Hope. " Have you tried her yet ?" I " I think she's go od for two-twenty 1 one without much of an effort." 1 " Why, isn't that a fast horse, Dick?" I ] asked his wife, whose curiosity was ' i aroused. i i "Just middling," answered her husband. " We have them out here faster i than that." "It is fast," said his father. "We!] used to think it impossible, but we have 11 got so far on now there's no telliug ; I what's in a horse. I like this mare very j j much. If it was anybody else's, I'd? " Come,- now, what would you give, 5 father ? " said Dick, banteringly. "It's all in the family, so I'm saved ] a hundred dollars at least." "A hundred more wouldn't buy her, ! ] father. Just say to anybody that covets i my new mare I won't take a cent less j than seven hundred doL'ars. Why she ! goes like wind.' 1i " That reminds me, Dick, you'd best j take the road round by Drake's." I " And lose a good half-hour," said Dick. " That's a long way round, father," j, said the elder Mrs. Hope. i j "You takemvadvice," said her hus-j ? 1 1. Ti ! Dana. I mean coming ukck. j.i \ doesn't matter going. If it should blow j j you will find it safest." Dick, who was adjusting a strap, j; looked off east and west, smiled in a j satisfied way and observed: "I don't i see any signs of a storm." , " Nor I," said his father; " but no ; one knows anvthing about the wind | ( here. I'll never forget tho sweep I got j j twenty vears ago coming over Pringle's i ( Flat." * |, " That is where we are going, iin't it, , Dick?" Mrs. Dick Hope looked the j least trifle anxious as she turned to her husband. " Was it so bad, Mr. Hope V" ( " Bad! Bad's no name for it. Why, -L ^ -~ no fay* oc frr*m liova tn i . lb Ult'W ill* n <%o iui mo *iv*w , j the barn, blew the horses oft' their feet, j tore up trees and lodged mo against a j ( rock that saved my life." j ] " That must have been terrible," said I Mary Hope. "Don't let him frighten you," said Dick, smilingly; "lightning never > strikes twice in the sai^e place. I'm all right, you see. The only time I was blown away was when I went East for you. Are we all ready now? Basket i in, mother?" j Mrs. Hope nodded gayly, Dick lifted ; ihe reins lightly *nd away the new | ] buggy with its happy occupants sped j j over the prairie. ; It was early morning. The lingers of j tne aew sireicnea upwaru, uisr.uiv.iuy j the shadowy "mist that hung over the \ j prairie and the thin line of woodland j. that lay away off to the west like a j, fringe on a neatly-cut garment. The I. young wife inhaled the perfumes exhaled from the flowers, filling the atmosphere with rich odors. There were lines upon lines of variegated tints ] above the horizon. Such a sunrise !; Mary Hope had never looked on except i among the mountains. There were tints of crimson, amber and gold ; and above j all white pillars roneu majesncaiiy, i palaces more magnificently and stately j than any that the human mind could ; conceive. "How grand!" she sail, us Dick looked smilingly at her. "The mind of man cannot measure all its beauties," said Dick, as he lighted a cigar and settled himself down for some " solid enjoyment." As the red and golden glories stretched above the horizon i: light breezo sprang up, fanning Man- Hope's cheeks, caressing her hair lightly, and sighing | through the thin selvage of trees which ; Dick's father had" planted along the \ roadway before his son was born. The j god of day wheeled his chariot aloft, ra- j diating, as only the summer can, the rarest tints of amber, and crimson and I gold, until the purple glories, rolling \ aloft like great billows, gradually arched ! themselves into the semblance of a gate- j way ; through which Mary Hope caught, in fancy glimpses of the celestial city. She did not speak, but sat perfectly quiet, drinking in the beauties of the most beautiful morning Dick Hope had ever witnessed in the West. " There is Pringle's Flat," said Dick, suddenly, pointing ahead. "Surely we have not come seven miles, Dick?" " Scarcely. How far is that ahead ?" "Is it a mile, Dick?" "That's what the smart hunters from the East say when they shoot and miss their game. It's the atmosphere, Mary." "It's a small place," said his wife, as she looked forward to Pringle's Flat, lying a little below them. Beyond it there was a ribbon of molten gold, made by the sun's slanting rays falling upon the river. And that is the river." " We'll be there in twenty minutes," said Dick Hope, " when I want to introduce you to some of the nicest people in this end of the State." The people Dick referred to received the young couple in a manner that made Mary Hope's cheeks glow with gratification. Her husband was a man universally admired?as fine a specimen of his kind as was ever produced west of Pringle's Flat. The bride during the two hours they remained in the town created a ripple of talk. There was something -about Dick and his wife that made peo-few. pie turn to look sit then. When thev drove away a score of friends waved good wishes and tossed kisses after them. " Now for Dan's Rock," said Dick, as he gave" his mare the rein and casta! backward glance at Pringle's Flat. "Pretty, isn't it ?" "Pretty?" said his wife. "Why, j Dick, it's lovely! See the light on the | church windows; it looks as though it j were really on tire. The houses are so ! iivAtfc tnrv tlir> sf roots <?o wide. and i r*v j ? / I there is such an air of peace and com-1 fort about it! Why, it is like a town that has grown up in a night, it is so wonderfully clean and neat?just what a painter would make if he were painting towns to please people." " I'm glad you like it. That reminds me; do you see that house above the church, to the left V" ' It looks charming?the prettiest house there." I " Glad voii like it." "Why, Dick?" "It's yours. I bought it before I went East for you. We'll look inside of j it when we return, if we have time." That was Dick Hope's way. The drive to Dan's Rock occupied an j hour. "Now for a trial of your strength,"! said Dick, a i he tied his horse to a tree at the base of the great rock and assist- j ed his wife to the ground where they I were to lunch. " Must I climb up there, Dick?" said ' Mrs. Hope. "That's the programme, what we; came out for to-day. You've heard so j much of the view from Dan's Rock that; you want to see it for yourself. Do you know you remind me now of Parthenia fetching water from the spring ?" " Farthenia tamed her husband, didn't she, Dick? I'm glad your mother saved me the trouble." That was a lunch Mary Hope often 1 recalled in after years. Dick persisted in forcing all kinds of dainties upon her, " Irish fashion," as she said afterward. It was the iirst time she had ever had liim to herself in the glad day with no curious eyes to peer on them, anil she subjected her lord and master in Jut turn to such straits that he gladly nried quits as he put his hair out of his eyes and viewed his tormentor. Then they slowh mounted the massive heap called Dau's liock. Such a view! A sweep of forty miles in one iliroction, east, and almost as grand a , view to the west. Dick sat down and handed his wife j the glasses as he lighted a fresh cigar. " Do you see that hill away off to the left there?" "Hasn't it a curious shape?" " That's where the wind comes from, j They manufacture it up there." " What do you mean, Dick ?" " There's a valley back there that, extern!* foU-forfo JT.Uss vou come to prairie land line ours uacK Df Pringle's Flat, only there is ten times j more of it. The wiud rolls down the valley and plays the very deuce with tilings 011 the river about the Point. Sometimes it rains, and then you'd I think the heavens wore emptying; all the water in the valley sweeps down below us here, fills the valley where it j narrows thero like the neck of a bottle, j md then?look out for trouble. I saw it once; that is all I want to see." "Isit so awful, Dick?" " It is really awful, Mary." "And now it looks like?like the plains of Egypt. I can't conceive of , mything disturbing the perfect peace of .his beautiful scene. See that cloud j lway off there, Dick." "About the size of a man's hand? I see it." 1 i "It's the only speck in tlie sky," said : lis wife. "It's not like onr sky, then," said Dick, as he kissed her standing on the rery top of Dan's Hock. "Do you know ,1 it is time we were moving now?" "Wo have only been here a little arhile." "It's three hours since we stopped at :lie foot of Dan's Hock." "My goodness, Dick!" "That's what I'm always saying to myself when I think you took me be- j tore all the other fellows.'" " It can't be." " Look for yourself," said Dick, hold- ! ing out his watch. "It's the grandest day of my life, j] Dick. I wouldn't have missed it for inytliing." i' Ho gave her his hand and helped her j1 lown the rough places. Once in a,' while Mary would stop to gather bits ) c?f moss and flowers as mementos of a | red-letter day. At least an hour was ! consumed in the descent. Then they , i jot into the buggy and turned homeivard, but not on the road leading past Drake's. . 1 " We want to see all that can be seen, i lnn'f. weV" saiil Dick. " By all moans," answered liis wife, ' is she tied her hat loosely and pre-; 1 pared to enjoy (he drive home. "But! iidn't your father tell you to go homo i ( by Drake's?" "The other is the better road." "You know best, Dick." 1 Dick's mare went at a slapping pace. " She smells oats," said Dick. " Look at Pringle's Flat, Dick." "Pretty, isn't it?" "There is not a leaf stirring, one would think. It looks so restful over there! It might be a deserted village." j " It does look unusually quiet, now I notice it. But then this sun is terrible. 3ee if you can find our house over there, Man*." There was a long silence, then the I voung wife gleefully pointed out the bouse, and there was another long silence which was broken by Mrs. Hope saying suddenly: " "What is that curious sound I hear?" " I hear nothing." " There ! Do you hear it now?" Dick inclined an ear. They were fairly clear of the rough land at the base of Dan's Rock now and the mare was trotting rapidly. Suddenly her driver's j firm hand brought her upon her, Launches. Dick listened intently. His j wife was right; her ears were keener j than his. There was something in the > air. At that instant Mary's hand clutched his arm convulsively as she cried out:! "Oh, Dick, what is that back of us?" [ She was looking back with horrorstricken eyes i id pale lips. Dick turned. A cloud like a black* wall was rushing down upoa them; it seemed to Dick Hope's eyes as black as ink. An awful fear possessed Lim. There was a hush, a stillness, in the air as chilling as the terrible cloud behind them. " Go 'Jong !" he exclaimed desperately, cutting the mare fiercely with his wiiip. The mare shot out like an arrow, and at that moment another sound smote their ears?a sound that was like the crash of worlds. The mare plunged, , roared, then resumed her onward course, i Her owner had lost all control over her. 1 Hut one thought auimuted Dick Hope as he clasped liis wife with his right arm, while he held fast to the reins with his left hand, shutting his teeth like a vise. That thought was, "Pray God we reach the river bottom !" The earth groaned under their feet. A sound like the rush and roar and scream of a million locomotives deafened them. Dick Hope instinctively turned and clasped his young wife in his arms. He did not see the mare; he saw nothing but his wife's face, and something in it struck terror to his heart. His own was ashy gray at that moment, as was his young wife's when she turned lier last appealing look upon him and moved her lips. His one prayer was that they might die together. It seemed to them then that all the sound in the air and earth was condensed, gathered into one awful shriek. Earth and sky were obliterated. Dick Hop-'' felt himself lifted up and flung like a flake through tlio air. "When he recovered his senses he was } lying where he had prayed to be?in the river-bottom, with his wife close beside him. The awful storm (lid not divide them. Tho tornado, like a! raging beast, had simply taken them up , in his teeth, so to speak, tossed them j aside, and pursued its path. Where, they were lying the water was so shoal i that it icarcely covered them. Dick sat up and spoke to his wife; did not answer. Then lie put one h up involuntarily, in a weak, help way. There was Mood ou his face ; could not see ; his eyes were full sand. He struck himself in desp and, again grasping his wife, said, i hoarse voice: "You are not dc Marv?"' Whether it was the water from river he dashed into his face or the r of tears that came into his eyes, I) does not know to this day, but suddc his eyes became clear, and he could his wife lying with her face next 1 and the water washing her long 1 over her breast. He lifted her up. felt her hands, her checks. Then s lw* cnv>nnni-?nil oil liie vmnoin strength for one supreme effort, : dragged rather than carried her up the dry shelving beach under thcbl Mary Hope slowly opened her eyes t looked at her husband. Then she ; her hands slowly up to her face i co'. ered it. Dick saw the tears coursing down cheeks. "Don't ? don't, Mary!" said. " I can't help it. I am not cry: with pain or grief; it's because you living, because we both are spared." Dick's strength returned to him. stood up nrnl looked about him. Ui that moment he did not know that was coatless and without vest or slii he was naked. He pressed his eyes w his hands and looked down on hims like one awakening out of a dream, looked at his wife, still sitting with 1 face covered with her hands: "Ma we arc almost naked. Th-re is nothi on me, and your dress is in ribbon He looked up and down the river i: helpless way, still pressing a hand his heart "Idon't see?any sign o the buccrv or the horse." Then he c his glance at the blulT back of the Come, let us go up on the bank." Ho had to carry her. "It is the horrible fright, dear Di? I'll soon get over it," she said, when set her down gently on the level grow " Mary, look over there. Do you i anything? My eyes are so full of sai so sore, that I can't make it out qui Everything looks blurred." She did not answer him, It was l because her eyes were not clear. As flooked wondcringly, her hand, that li never relinquished her husband's fr< the moment he seated her on the praii clasped his convulsively. Then she 1 tered a loud cry. " I?I expected as much," said Di< speaking more to himself than to ] wife. " Notliing?nothing mau ei moiln r*nnl<1 ?t<inil lipfnrfi flint, storm." "Ob, Dick," she exclaimed, s( binglv, "there is nothing left of t town?not .a house. I can only sec heap here and there?something li fallen chimneys and smoke and fire." " That's the end of Pringle's F1 Maty-:" He looked back over "Hro prairie back to the fringe of trees that skirt a portion of the road near the base Dan's Rock but a little while since. ] could not recognize the place he li looked on a hundred times. The trc had d'?appeared; they had been swe from the face of the earth. Then shaded his eyes with his hand a looked across to where Pringle's 1\ h.'id stood in all the pride of a n< Western town. Dick Hope sudder knelt by his wife's side, still lioldi her hand, saying: " Let us pray." Among all those who witnessed t awe-inspiring tornado that swept Pr gle's Flat- until not one stone sto upon another, killing, maiming t living creatures in its path, none ha such vivid recollections as Dick Ho and his wife. When they refer to tin experience on that terrible day th speak in a low tone, reverently, though standing in the presence of t dead.?David Lo>rr%, in Lippincott. Resisted. Four young men, clerks and studeu while on a summer vacation trai through Northern New England, e gaged for a guide to a certain roman forest waterfall a boy named Torn Graves. Forrest was a tine, athle fellow, who could outwalk and outclii any amateur in the mountains, and ] moral courage was quite equal to ] physical health and strength. After he had guided the young men the waterfall, and they had satisli themselves with sight-seeing, they i vited him to lunch with them. "Thank you, I have my own lnncl and the boy went away by himst Later, when full justice had been do to their repast, and a flask of bran had furnished each of the young m with a stimulating draught, Graves v called. " You must drink with us, if you w not eat with us," now said the owner the llsisk, and the most reckless of t party. " No, sir, thank you," was the bo courteous response. " But I shall insist upon it." " You can do as you please, and shall do as I please." The young man sprang to his fe nnil with a bound stood beside the b( too mnch absorbed in his own pnrpr to heed the quivering lips and llaslii eyes of another. " Now you are bound to try i brandy. I always rule." " You can't rule me." These words were scarelv uttei when the llask was seized and hurl into the stream, where the clinking glass betrayed its utter destructic Then a clear, defiant tone rang out: "I did it in self-defense. You had Slit to tempt me. My father was or a rich and honorable man, but he di a miserable drunkard, and my motl came here to live to keep me away fr< liquor till I should be old enough take care of myself. I have proinis her a hundred times I wouldn't taste and I'd die before I'd 1 treak my promis " Bravely said. Forgive me, and us shake hands. My mother would a happy woman if I was as brave you. I wouldn't tempt you to do wroi I shall never forget you, nor the less you have taught me." The most reckless was the most erous, and seeing his error apologii trankiy. How many boys need to be kept fn strong drink; aud, alas, how many n: and women ! Who dares tempt tliei Let it not be you and I.? Youth*s Cc panion. II Looks Suspicious. It seems suspicions for a drama critic at a play to laugh until his v buttons rattle oft' like peas from a pi be all'ected to tears until he has to b row an extra handkerchief to absorb 1 moisture, applaud till lie seems to li an "encore," and then to write a cr cism next morning condemning the p as execrable and the actors as wor It seems suspicious for a young n to call on the same girl every other evi iug and on another rirl eveiy otl evening. It seems as if 'twould " s'mother evening " with him befor< great while. It seems suspicious for a grocer to j up a sign "None but diary butter si here," when there are a dozen kegs something or other with the lab scraped oil' just unloading at his sti door. It seems suspicious for a woman wh you have lcnowr since she was a girl a decidedly fivjkled specimen, to : pear on the streets without a freckle sight. It seems suspicious foi r. rostauri keeper to carefully avoid dining at own place of business, just for the s; of walking two miles to dine with family. It seems suspicions for a clerk w gets SO a week salary to appear in a 11 pair of mauve pantaloons and suit match at least four times a year. It seems suspicious for a man to br down a cotton umbrella in the morn: and carry home a silk one at night, also looks like a good trade.?i* Htrren Register. Beware of him that is slow to anf> anger, when it is long in coming, is stronger when it comes, and the lonj kept. she FACTS AND COMMENTS loss Professor Bell, the inventor of t! he telephone which bears his name, h of carried his experiments in sound so f n.ir, that when he struck a sunbeam it mai 11 a a noise. Indeed, it gave forth a cles 'ftd, musical tone, the pitch of which (1 pended upon the frequency of theinte the ruption of the light. It is not impro ush able that I his discovery has alrea< ick suggested the construction of a harp, nly a tiddle or a banjo, upon which su see shine would take the place of string Jhn to the everlasting banishment of catg lflir and silver wire. He l.u^* Ilorc is a moral lioro for tlie dramati inR ?Buckshot Bill, of Nevada, a scon u|" a pupil of Kit Carson and successor fj- Buffalo Bill, llo speaks twenty-lr 11 j Indian tongues; once saw eleven of li im; comrades burned alive by the C l,u^ manches; signed with his blood, b.efo UKl a magistrate, a vow to have the seal] of eleven Indians who killed b .or brother and stole his diamon I pin; pn sued these Indians with one comrat and killed six; and now " has 117seal] inS hanging in the Smithsonian insti'utic aie in Washington,, which were taken wil his own hands.' Ho Professor Tidy, in a paper read befo rj. . the London Chemical society, restate in reply to Dr. Franklin, his lirm co: ..it viction that a fairlv ranid rive jje having received sewage in quantity m [jer exceeding one-twentietli of its volum rv regains its purity after a run of a fe miles, and bccomes wholesome and goc s ? for drinking. This opinion is in enti: i a accord with numerous analyses < t0 water in the Western rivers of tl f_ United States, which has always bee ast found purer, even when taken a few mill ra< below large cilies 011 their banks, thi water from a majority of the intern lakes. ck. lie The Dement family were travelin id. through Arkansas 111 a wagon. The see camped one day 011 top of a hill, an nl, the father went oil' to lisli in a stream te. mile away, leaving the wife and t\v children to mind the horses and baj lot gage. When lie returned he saw ;!ifi r>vnin'o fivo mnvinrr 1111 tlm lnll. Tl ad halloed to awaken Mrs. Dement and tl: ">m children, for night had fallen and the ief were asleep. They found themselv< nt- approached on one side by flames, wlii! on the other was a precipitous rocl -k, They endeavored to escape by climl ?is ing, but had reached only a little heigl or when the lire scorched them, and the met a horrible death in sight of tl. >b- powerless father, lie a A statistician declares that the large , number of suicides take place in coun . tries where life is thought easy an a ' happy, as in the kingdom and duchit of Saxony, in the smaller Germo !-v -slatas jmjl in Denmark. Trustworth 0CJ statistics prove"that there-ar?3r i-K> cas? r? of self-murder in France for every sixt; ? nine cases which happen in Englam Suicides arc least frequent in Spai] n't is, perhaps, of ail .European com jie tries the most superstitious. There ni I only thirty female suicides to every 1C la(. men who destroy themselves. Tl: ew greatest number of suicides occur i summer ; the fewest in midwinter. Ch * of '23,304 French suicides, 8,-413 died I strangulation, 4,65G by drowning, fir i ? arms disposed of 2,4G2 and poison < in- onlJ 281Singular Marks on a Woman's Face, ve Mrs. Marcil, of St. Jeau Baptistc, pe reported to have her face marked wit eir mysterious figures and letters. A r I linv nnil rrivn? tlin fnllnt CV J^Wi. LV>X uonvw mi as ing account of the interview: One wee he from last Thursday, it is claimed, tl tirst appearance was noticed on the le check of the face, and sincc that time has appeared and disappeared contini ouslv, always in the same place. Tl ts letters and figures the first few daj Up were of a brown color, but later the n_ have become of a bluish hue. The fo tic lowing figures and letters, as taken dow on a paper by a party present and show tj{. to the reporter, are said to have appea nlj ed on Monday afternoon, viz.: I, G, 1 ,js E, D, A, I, J, A, E, C, 9, X and F. Mr [jjs Marcil is of a prepossessing appearand rather below the medium height and n< t0 | averse to the visitors who have callc 0(] j upon her lately to become eye-witnesst n_ j of the remarkable occurrence. SI; seems to be entirely unconccrned lie self as to the appearance ordisappea df ance of the phenomena on her face an nc conversed with the reporter and A. Col dy lentz, of Morris, who was present at tli en time, quite freely on the subject, sta as ing that before she went to bed on tb previous evening she looked into tb ill mirror and the figures 1, 8 and 1 coul 0f be distinctly seen. At the request c 11C the reporter and the evening drawin to a close, she drew her elm; y's to tlie window and exposing her face t the light in a short time both vieitoi were astonished at the result, for, 111 j reporter adds: "We must confess thr previous to this our credulity did nc ct; make us easy of belief, but thereon tb j,.' left cheek on Mrs. Marcil's face, a though not so colored as we l ave bee n?r led to believe, the letter E was stampec ? I plainly to be seen. The letter resen jjy I bled to us more the appearance in co I oring of a smart slap having been give ; on tlie face. This, disappeared, to 1: e(| replaced in a short time by the figure t and almost immediately by the Jettc 0f It, it being closely joined to the figui )n_ 4, in the shapo of a monogram. Sa isfied with what we had seen we too no onr departure, totally unable in any wn ice to account for the appearance and woi e(] dering in our minds if it had any r< ier lation to old Mother Shipton's prophecy -,m Here is a circumstance for some sciei t0 tific man to investigate. ? Wiunipc ;0(] (Manitoba) Times. it, """"" e." Artcinns Ward's Pranks. let The May Scribner has an anccdoti l?o paper on " Artcmus Ward; his horn as and family," with a drawing of tL lg. homestead, a portrait of his motli( ion and a new drawing of Ward as a ie< turor, based on the obsolete sketch i en- the olil "London Illuslratnil Times," an :cd which is said to be the only satisfactor portrait of the humorist. Tho follov run ing is vouched for by the writer c ion new: 31 ? " Among his youthful diversions wr nn- the writing of letters to prominent pel sons in all parts of the country whos names he happened to see in printentire strangers to him. These usuall tjc referred to some prospective businef es^ arrangement. Thus ho would write t 5(j some gentleman in New York: 'Dor orl Sir?I'm sorry to say I shan't be abl (j10 to got that harness done on the day ,.uj promised;' or, ' I will not bo able t i'tj. call at your house, as you requested juv etc. In this mystification of unsui pecting pcoj>lo he was not unlike tli laii German Owlglass, who, while alwa\ en- lJKvin? the fool, never lacked fool u,r j upon whom he might try experiment jJ0 Nothing seemed to please him moi 3 a than to get the better of his brotlu Cyrus. One very cold night in tli winter, when he had come home at late hour from an entertainment, ii ()f stead of going quietly to his room, fc 0]s which his mother had provided li ore leaving the doors unfastened, he sti tioned himself in the street and callc oni to his brother as it in deep distre.' as about something. Cyrus was slow 1 up. wake and appear. Charles continue jn calling, and with more agony, 'Cy! C] Ho! Cv!' When Cyrus at last came I U1j. the window he solemnly asked: 4II .lis yon really think, Cyrus, that it is wroi; t]{(, to keep slaves ?'" A man testifying before a Philadi ])hia justice made use of a profane oatl ? The justice indignantly overhauled tl lCW statutes and found a law punishing tl t0 olTense. He applied the penalty promp lv. It is a lino of sixty-seven cents. f"g . The amount of lisli annually coi ^ sumed in New l'ork city aggregati tr(fr nearly 31,000,000 pounds, of which cc comprises about 0,000,000 pounds, bli fish neariv 0,000,000 and maekeri the ;i'500'()n?- ' ger Pennsylvania has 83o newspaper eighty-seven of which are dailies. M?MMtnnnnKzicBnBRarwMaOT9BHninMMaaii UNCLAIMED MILLIONS. llO IiitoreHlinx 31 a tier for the Steven* ami Lawrence Fn milieu. ar ("From tlic Ktoneham (JIatss.) Independent.] For many years it lias been known i Ll"> that a Mary Townley, ol' Townley llall, ! c" in Lancashire, England, ran away from !r" her father's home and married a John k" Lawrence, a seafaring man, afterward ly coming with him to this country. A or large property has accrued to her heirs, ! n* who have frequently been advertised j !s> for by the authorities of Great Britain i u' and who have never been found. Ever : since these advertisements first ap-1 peared the decendants of the Lawrence ! st families of tins country have been imleit, fatigable :in tlieir endeavors to connect of themselves with the person aforesaid, re and establish a title to her estate. Wn ; lis give below the substance of what has j o- actually been learned by them during ; re all these years of labor and research. pS WHAT THE LAWRENCE FAMILY HAVE ; is LEA Ii NED. r- In 1093 John Lawrence, of Live] pool, le of a good family, and a scion of Aditon [>s Hall, second oilicer of the ship Higli)n flyer, plying between the ports of Engtb land and Holland, Captain Graham, 1 commander, sued for the hand of Mary Townley, of Townley Hall. John Law- j rc rence being a Protestant, and Sir Richard j _s Townley, Mary Townley's father, being ' nI a Roman Catholic, his suit was refused. ; r Notwithstanding this, the couple eloped i rvi and were married, in the citv of Hague, | e in Holland. As several have seen this j marriage record, there can be no doubt j )(| as to its existence. In 1()'J5 Mary Town- j re ley, who by the above marriage had j become Mary Lawrence, about to become , ie a mother, went to England with her' ,n husband, and tried to effect a resoncili- j ,s ation with her father. Sir l.ichard re- i fused to receive her, and she returned to -j. the ship Highflyer, which had brought her from Holland, and on shipboard -<ave birth to twin sons. The ship put fnto port upon the Sol way that was l? nearest to Corby Castle, where Dorothy ; Townley, who had married Francis How-! aril, resided. JL>orotny rowniey was a Mary Lawrence's own sister. At, the j 0 Episcopal church in the village of With- i 5" erell, the twins were baptized as John , Jl and Johnathan Laivrence. In a few1 ^ months John Lawrence and wife, with i 10 their twin sons, returned to the city of! y Hague, iu Holland, where in a short: '!1 time their son John died, .Johnathan I surviving. In 1G97 a daughter, Mary Townlcy Lawrence, was born, and her | J" birth and baptism arc properly recorded. ' ^ John Lawrence and wife, though occa!.Y sionally visiting Erglaud, resided for ie the greater part of tae time in the city of Hague, until 171i> when, with their son Johnathan and laughter Mary, they ;r emigrated to America, landing at Plyl mouth, Mass. They stayed in Plymouth d only a short time, moving from thence ' js to Nova Scotia. In the fall of 1711 they n returned to Massachusetts, where they ' iy located permanently. j- _The Lawrence family who have secured f- "the" above ~mf5iTtt&tion, claim to be | 1. descended from Johnathan; tne son 01 a, John and Mary Lawrence, who, they ;.! i- say, married Hannah llobbins, in Wal e pole, Mass., November 1G, 1738. Of the : 10 daughter, Mary, they know nothing. ie They do not know whether she remained n single, or married, or whatever became j it of her. That the Lawrence family have . )j done their work well on the other side e- of the water, we believe; but that they )f have failed to keep Johnathan Lawrence in sight on this side of the water, we i know beyond a doubt. The writer can prove that Johnathan Lawrence, whom j! they have tried to follow all these years, 1 k they have completely lost track of. p. Now, while the Lawrence family have | Vm been thus earnest in their endeavors, the ,]r Stiffens family, descended from Robert m and Mo.ry Stevens, who lived in Canter f? bury. Conn., about 100 years ago, for jj. the most part ignorant concerning "The ;l. Townley Estate " and of the efforts that l0 vrere being made to gain possession ' s of it, have had in their possession a j' ,v document handed down to them by j. Mary Stevens, aforesaid, and pur-1 u porting to be an explanation n of who her ancestors were and r_ where they came from And, aside : ' ^ from this document, they. have known ! 1 s' absolutely nothing of their early ances-1 j p" tors. That the render may the clearer '' understand what follows, we here give ' ^ {] this document in fall. ,s The confession of Mary Stevens, of J ie Canterbury, Connecticut.: !< r. "When I, Pamelia Ingalls, now Fame-! ' r. lia Cutting, wife of Abijali Cutting, was 1 t] I 18 years of age, my mother, Sylvia In- j 1 j. I j;alls, told mo tho following history j 1 ,c I from her mother, Mory Stevens : < { t ! "In the vear 1791 vour father Installs - lC and myself, brother Lemuel Stevens ,c and wife, paid a visit to In-other liobert d | Stovens, residing in Canterbury, Conn. ,f j My mother, Mary Stevens, lived with g ! him at that time. One day, during our jr visit, my mother led me aside, telling 0 me in tears that she had something im g portant to reveal. This is as near what1 e she told me as I can remember, not; tt having copied it: ' My dear daughter, I have been very ill, and fear I may c never see you again, as we live widely , ! apart. I do not know what my children j n j will think, but hope they will forgive : me when I tell them that they have not' jl known their correct names. My father , 1 } and mother lived in England. My n ; father was Lord John Townlev, of Lanlfi cashire; my mother's maiden name was [ ' Mary Lawrence, sister of John Law- ' ,[ lence. My mother (Mary Lawrence) e was possessed of a 1* " e property before t_ she married John To nley. I myself ]- ; had property in my own name when I y left my father Townley's liouso. Fran{.! cis Townley, a relative of ours, was be2. headed in 17-iG. The government, at | r J the time of the excculion, set aside a j.' portion of Francis Townley's estate for ,g i the heirs of Mary Lawrenco Townley, I the remainder of his estate being given to her sister Dorothy, who married ! Lord Eflingham. They died without . i issue, and Lord Eflingham willed his I property to Mary Lawrence Townley's 0 heirs. This title (Lord Ellingham) i [e j was derived from the district ho reprc- 1 'r sented. "When I resided at my father's ' j home my property and my sister's prop-1 " ! orty was in my mother Townley's pos- t (l j session, in trust, and I should have had 1 J | it if I had needed it. But when I left i '' j home I did not dare claim it, as my in- ? IS j tentions to leave might have been sus- ' I peeted. When I left home my sister, i 13 j who was the only heir to my father's i r" ; and mother's property besidesi myself, 1 1,3 j wus very sick with consumption. My i " l .Tnlin Tijitprr>nr?o. niv mntlior's 1 ^ ' brother, is a merchant living: in Nor- i j folk, Va. His wealth is estimated at > ? I ?500,000. Ever since I became five J u" j years of ago my uncle, John Lawrence, ' '!? I promised my father ami motlier that ] j his property should be mine, and after t ^ 11 became old enough he told me the ( ? | same thing himself many times, lie t 5" ! traded with this country long before I e ! came hero to live. Since I l ave Jived ] 's j in Connecticut I have seen Uncle John's f '3 ; advertisements for me in the papers. 1 s* I knew my uncle was my friend; but, f e from what had happened, I did not { :r have the courage to let him kuow where < ie I was for fear we might be taken home 1 a and your father would suffer severely 1 1_ for running away with me. Your 1 ,r father's correct name was Williams. 1 '.V His father's family lived in the borders t l" of our neighborhood. Young Williams i j became acquainted with me; I loved ] ;s him and promised him I would marry > ? him. "When my father heard of this he i d forbade our marriage. Williams'father i '' also forbade our marriage. We tried to t 0 persuade them to relent, but could not t 10 do so, and our affection for each other 1 1S being strong and sincere, we ran away, < took ship and came to this country. 1 < brought with me my mother Townley's ; i Ij" Bible. It had the record of her family 1 ' and relatives and the memorandum of j her estate, with other records. I also lt brought with me one of my mother's gold lockets. She had three lockets exactly alike. Each of us children had i n. gold beads, with a locket attached. r,s Each of the lockets had engraved on it . the coat of arms of our family. My ' ie mother often told mo that it was a I ;1i custom in England, where there was a 1 large property, i!' it was not settled : wlnlo the giver was living, to leave ' 1 i some token with it for proof of heir- j 1 ship. I have always understood at,! home that these lockets were given to b my sister and myself for that purpose. n "When my husband and myself went g on board ship wo were afraid to have o our proper names put down on the pas- n Fcnger list, so I told my husband to ft have his name registered as John Law- fi mice, the name of my uncle. The rest o of my husbaud's family, knowing that L my father Townley could prove their S knowledge of our plan to elope, and n that their punishment for not informing tl him would be severe, being by name r< John and Mary Williams, took their ir brother Joseph, eight years of age, and followed us and we all came to America lc together. Wo were married a short fc time after we landed. When the min- si ister asked my husband's name he gave w him the name of his younger brother, ri Joseph, not daring to give his own for fear we might bo traced and trouble cj would come of it. So my name was b placed upon the marriage record with fi< the name of Joseph Williams. We h moved from place to place and finally b settled in Canterbury, Conn. Fearing g pursuit from England we called ourselves Robert and Mary Stevens, the b only name my children have ever known, o, When I had a family of children, four b sons and live daughters, my husband ir left me and I have never seen him since, it I have kept my mother's locket very f>; choice. My children have seldom seen it. When I was sick last year at my li son Robert's house I left it in his wife's w possession. She docs not know the value w of it. If the other locket is left with ii the property, as will be the case, this p one will be proof of my heirship. There u is a spring to open it on the back, show- g ing the coat of arms and name. I want you to see it. After dinner I will ex- si plain to you more. I (Sylvia l'ngalls) n; did not expect to lea re mother's house si on that day, but after dinner my ./ brother Lemuel and wife, who had h planned to visit some other relatives, p determined to start immediately and si hurried me to get ready so as to reach p the house they were to visit before the ir storm began, wliich there were threaten- ti ing indications of. I promised my h mother to return to her house on my hi way home. At Robert Stevens' house h 1 asked his wife to show me the locket, si She did so. It was broken and she asked me not to tell her mother about it. The w part the coat of arms was on was broken h: into three pieces. After our visit to our a other relative's house, brother Lemuel lc and wife determined to go home by an- tl other way. I have never seen my mother E since. I believe my mother told me hi that Lord Townley (the husband of Mary Lawrence) received the name of ri Townley with the property title, L but that she could not remember w what his former name was. His w property was not large before he married Mary Lawrence. The property L came to her. Mother was very particu- L lar to tell me that the property was b called the Townley estate. Of the three c( brothers and one sister (Williams) who m came from England to America one married widow Mary Dean, in Canter- S bury, and they moved to Plainfield, B Conn. She was a Lawrence before she a1 was roarried. The youDgest brother I (Joseph) married Experience Lawrence, si of Plainfield, Conn. My father changed fa names with his brother when the above n: marriage took place, Joseph resuming Ins own Christian name and retaining ei it to his death. I am not sure whether N mother said the other brother's name n: was John or not, but I think she did. Ci Mary Williams, the sister of the three L brothers, mai-ried a Driar. Her son, n Joseph Driar, joined the Shakers at n Ed field, N. H. I remember distinctly h that mother repeatedly said the place re she had lived in in England, and where her home was, was Lancashire." ci It will be only through the above C confession that the descendants of a< Johnathnn and Mary Laicrence are dis- k covered. h When he undertook to discover the al parentage of Mary Stevens, he regarded M the so-called confession simply as a doc- m ULiiUlIl, tUUiaiilliJ^ OulLl IT XI vjl U 111 1U ti ALJ key to the solution of the question of ^ who she was. He began the work cle- tc termineil to find out the truth and re- cc veal it to the family. Tn common with A: tlio rest, he at first believed that Mary M Stevens was herself the veritable Mary ri lownley, whose heirs have so frequently C< 1 >een called for by the English autliori- wi ties. "Within the past three months we liave come into possession of facts that Ci clearly show this was not so, and that Hie story Mary Stevens told her daugh- fii ter Sylvia, in 1794:, related to the doings al 3f her grandfather, grandmother and Si another, and only in a small way to her- cl self. We have ascertained the following: cc Robert Stevens and Mnru Hatltciwmi icere 7lurried under tfteir correct names. Bob- fo rrt Stevens' father served as an officer v.i b? me of the rebellions against his king, a si: Trice was put upon his head, and he was w obliged to Jlee from England. Mary Hath- w. tin a},'s father was John Hathaway, whose cl irandfather was one of the early settlers it. f New England. . R The Stovens and Hathaway families, p< "rom whom Robert Stevens and Mary va flathaway descended, were both famines of great character and prosperity in bi he early days. ar The ancestors of Robert Stevens we T enow back to a remote date. The ancestors of Mary Hathaway, on her fath- m jr's side, we know equally well; while ive only know the maiden name of her uotlicr was Mary S</mebody. The V( rarname of this lady we have not been ible to discover up to the present writ- re ing. The discovery of the maiden j1( lame of Mary Hathaway's mother is of rital importance to the Stevens family ti. t* i * r r ?i ^ jecause, // sue wris luury jMicrence, u is _ he only record needed to make the chain >/evidence complete. If you will call to nj nind thb confession, and remember the -j] ;raditions and sayings that have been * ( n the family for the last century, we L hink you will agree with us that it .fi ;ould have been but one of two names, (i o wit: Mary Lawrence, or widow Mary Williams, whose maiden name ,vas Mary Lawrence. Everything points :o this conclusion as the correct one to >e arrived at from what we actually enow. Let us sec what we can find to make ac his theory good. Near to where John cc Elathaway resided, lived Jonathan Law cnce, the identical one whom the Late- re 'emuft unity hare tried in vain to trace, ca \\c can prove this. Mary Stevens states Al n her confession that when she left her to 'ather's house she had one sister, coleir with herself to her father's and ad nother's estate. We can prove that this an vas the case. She also states that her us nother's maiden name was Mary hue- no ence, sister to John Lawrence. If she lad said sister to Johnathan Lawrence, M ;he would have told precisely what the th [jawrences have. What more natural of hau, that Sylvia Stevens should have in railed Johnathan John, in her recollec- ni ion of what her mother had told her? is] Or what is there unreasonable in sup- on losing that John and Mary Lawrence, ca if tor their settlement in this country, sai oared another son named after his th ather, who settled in Norfolk, Vir- ^ jinia. Mary Stevens speaks many times )f her uncle John Lawrence, living in ro Norfolk, Virginia. This man died a p] jachelor, and heirs to his estate have j >een advertised for. We must romem- j >er that Mary Stevens did not tell all st] o her daughter. " After dinner I will tei 'Xplain to you more." The further ex- Gf Sanation was not made because Sviav tfc Stevens went away without giving her i 0n nother an opportunity to nuke it. Who ! 11 our family doubts that Mary Stevens ! n{ old a straight story and that her j laughter very much mixed it up by a wd memory? Wo do not. In the light j on >f what we now know we must read the m confession anew, read it with t .e un- th lorstanding that Alary Stevens was L: celling of the doings of hor grandfather Ci uid grandmother. Heading it thus it of issumos a new meaning?daylight is let tli ill throujrh it. ro In the light of what we now know and ' as issuming tlie maiden name of John ]a Hathawuy's wife to have been Mary tli I.itirrehc, let us rewrite the confession of ar Mary Stevons and it will read some- h< thing like this: 14 My dear daughter, I d< have been very ill, and fear I may never tli ;ee you again, as we live widely apart, sn I do not know what my children think, m but liope they will forgive me for nevoi sa having told them a history of my family ni efore. My grandfather and grandlother lived in EDgland. My greatrandfather was Sir Kichard Townley, f Lancashire. My grandmother's maiden ame was Mary Townley. My grandtther's name was John Lawrence. His tther's family lived within the borders f grandmother's neighborhood. Young iawrence became acquainted with her. he loved him and promised she would larry him. When her father heard of lis he forbade their marrying. Lawmce's father also forbade their marrv lg" They tried to persuade them to resnt but could not do so; and their af;ction for each other being strong and ncere they ran away, took ship and ent to Holland, where they were mared a short time after they landed. "After some years they took ship and ime to this country. Grandmother rought with her mother Townley's imily Bible. It had in it the record of cr family and other records. She also rought with her one of her mother's old lockets. "This locket had a string of gold eads attached to it and had the name f Mary Townley engraved upon the ack of it. It also contained grandlother's likeness, and had engraved on ; the coat of arms of her father's imily. " Grandmother had often been told at omfi that it was a custom in England. here there was a large property that as not settled while the giver was liv1 g, to leave some token with it for roof of heirship; and she had always nderstood that this locket had been iven to her for that purpose. " When grandmother went on board aip she was afraid to have her proper ame put upon the passenger list, so le told her lover to register herds ihr.s. ohn Lawrence. When she resided at er father's house grandmother was ossessed of a large property, before ie* married John Lawrence. Her [ roperty and her sister's property, was j i her mother Townley's possession in ust, and she could have had it if she ad wanted it. But when she left ome, she did not dare to ask for it, as er intentions tr leave might have been ispected. " Francis Townlev, a relative of ours,as executed in 1746. At the time of Is execution the government set aside portion of his estate for Mary Townsy, who had married John Lawrence, le remainder being given to her sister, orothy, who had married Lord Effingam. "This title, Lord Effingham, was deved from the district he represented, ord Effingham died without issue, and illed his entire estate to his wife, who illed it to her sister, my grandmother. " My mother's maiden name was Mary iawrence, sister to John and Johnathan awrence. She and her brothers were orn in Europe. She came to this )untry with grandfather and grandtother. "My husband's name was Eoberc tevens and my maiden name was Mary Hathaway. My father was John Hath!vay, and lived in , Mass. When 1nfh rr>v fn+liov TTot.li<iTuav'<: 1innnf> mv ster, who was tbo only heir to my j tther's and mother's property, besides j lyseif, was very sick witli consumptior. : " Mvuncle, John Lawrence, my moth-1 rs brother, is a merchant living in ; orfolk, Virginia. His wealth is esti-1 tated at ?500,000. Ever since I be- i. mie five years of age my uncle, John i lawrence, promised my father and j Lother that bis property should be j line; and after I becune old enough e told me the same thing himself lany times. " He traded with Connecticut before I imo liere to live. Since I lived in j onnecticut I have seen Uncle John's | Ivertisements for me in the papers. I j new my uncle was my friend, but | ave never let him know my where-1 jouts on account of my children, [y mother has always impressed it upon ,e to keep the elopement of grandother a secret from my children, lien we moved from Massachusetts Connecticut some of our neighbors ime on the same ship with us. mong them were John, Joseph and : !ary Williams. Johr Williams mar- j ed Widow Mary Dean in Plainfield, | onn. She was a Lawrence before she j as married. Joseph Williams married i t ???? i xperieuce XJUWieaco iu x lumuciu, ann. i " Wo moved from place to place and i aally settled in Canterbury. We have ways lived as Robert and Mary | :evcns, and this is the first time my j lildren have ever know who their anistors were. "When I had a family of children, | ur sons and five daughters, my hus- j md left me and I have never seen him ! nee. The locket I have told you about i as given by grandmother to mv mother I lio gave it to me. I have kept it very ! loice; my children have seldom seen I , When I was sick last year at my son : obert's house I left it in his wife's j )8session. Sho does not is now the j ilue of it. "There is a spring to open it on the ick, showing a likeness, coat of arms, id the name of my grandmother, Mary ownley. I want you to see it. "After dinner I will explain to you ore." In tracing the ancestry of Mary Ste-1 ;ns, the writer has been able to ascer- \ in the whereabouts of Johuithan Laic-1 nee, above referred to; to know where j e lived and died and what became of I is estate. Everything now indicated | tat his sister?Maiy Tovmley Laurence ! -was Mary Stevens' mother. Therefore the discovery of the maiden ! nne of John Hathaway's wife (who was ; rary Somebody), is of vital imjrtanco to the Stevens family, because | she was Mary Laicr&ice it is the only cord needed to viake the chain of eri nee complete. HEALTH HINTS. All stimulants, even tea and coffee, :t upon the system as poison, and are msequently injurious. The Family Physician says: Digestion quires leisure. Never eat until you n be sure of leisure for digestion, j iter rest then "givean hour of exercise ! every pound of food." Terra alba, or white earth, is used to , Illiterate white sugars, cream of tartar, ; id other commonly used articles. Its ie tends to produce disease of the kidys, bladder and stomach. Writes Mr. Laboucliere: I arrived at ilan from the Lake of Como. I felt : e symptoms of malaria, and, instead j sending for a doctor, shut myself up i my bedroom for two days and two ! glits, during which time my only nour- [ lmcnt was lemonade. This regime tirely cured me. Were those who : tch any malarial fever to pursue the rue course they would find it worth all e prescriptions that doctors ever ote. Dr. Guillasse, of the French navy, ports that in the early stages of ty- j loid fever coffee is almost a specific j ainst typhoid fever. He gives it to 11 ults, two or three tablespoon fills of j ong, black coffee every two hours, al-11 mating with one or two tcaspoonfuls claret or Burgundy wine. The beneial effect is immediate. A little lem- : ado or citrate of magnesia should be veil daily and after awliilc a little quiue. The proclamation of a king of Poland ulil not b? made without the free and < idivided consent of every member of e nobility. At the coronation of idislaus, the eldest brother of King isimir, the primate having demanded the nobility whether they accepted at prince, one of the iuferior nobility plied that he did not. When he was ked what objection he had to Ladisus he replied that lie had none, except iat he did not wish him to be king, id persisted in this for more than ah >ur, during which time he necessarily 'laved the proclamation. At length he irew himself at the king's feet and .id: "I only desired to see whether y country was still free. I am now .ti? tied, and give my suffrage for your ajesty." NEW YORK'S FRUIT SHIPS. .Something About the Cnrgoen of Frnlt that Cmnc to the ."Metropolis. A New York reporter in quest of information about the business done in the importation of fruit obtained some interesting facts from Major Bostwick, inspector of customs at Burling slip. The consumption of fruit in New York is said to be greater than i*1 any other city in the world. The imports at Burling slip have increased 300 per cent, in the last twelve years, and now there are annually received about two and one-half millions of bunches of bananas, thirty iwu uiuiiuii urungea, tt?u WUJLLUU wuuunuts and about three million pineapples. ^ Last year 199 cargoes of fruit were landed there, and this business is crowded into about five months, from March to the end of July. Major Bostwick says that he has seen twenty-one vessels in at one time. The juicy fruit of the West Indies is of so perishable a nature that it is An essential to the trade that cargoes shall be landed and marketed as soon as they arrive. Major Bostwick has known a whole cargo of pineapples, which arrived in marketable condition, to be spoiled in one nisht, when the air was wi hot and humid and a thunder-storm came on. The loss by decay last season An amounted to about twenty-five per cent, on pineapples, something less on bananas and almost forty per cent, on oranges. The manner in which oranges are gathered greatly affects their condition. "Whea they are beaten from the trees with poles, so as to be broken from their stems, they do not keep their soundness nearly so long as when they ^,c are clipped from the stem, leaving a small portion adhering. The shorter the passage the better the condition in Pu which the fruit arrives. If the. passage du takes seven days the condition is first rate; if ten days?the average time?the c<0 condition is fair; if 'he passage takes a ? longer time the chance of getting good "A fruit is poor. For this reason the schooners of from 100 to 180 tons regis- 1 ter engaged in the trade havo lines sp like yafchtS, and skim the water at racing op speed. But even a fast sailer, if caught sh< by northwesters, will sometimes be de- Ti layed so as to lose her cargo. a 3 The red-skinned bananas come from mt Baracoa, on the northeastern coast of , Cuba; the yellow ones from the island . of Jamaica. The banana plant bears ri but one bunch, and is killed when that F11 is gathered. Fresh plants are raised irom tiie seea sups wmcn are iouna clustered around the base of every ?P' bunch. They take from six to eight ? months to produce mature fruit, and .3 the bunches are cut for export while Pu still green. Cocoanuts are obtained at 1D| the same ports, and the usual method of loading vessels is to put in first a in load of cocoanuts and then a layer of pr banana bunches above them. A plat- wi form is then put over, and on this an- so other layer of banana bunches is placed. M: The hatches are kept open as much as th possible in order to keep the fruit cool, wc and if the run takes only ten or twelve tal days the bananas are fit for market when - -y? they arrive. A schooner will brinar do from 20,000 to 50,000 cocoanuts ana th from 2,000 to 3,000 bunches of banana? at a time. W& Pineapples come from the Bahama islands. The plant is killed with the gathering of the single fruit that it bears, fu and is reproduced by planting seed slips, pc a&. in tho case of bananas. The ordi- Hi nary pineapples are piled together in the tic hold, and the loSS* from decay is often bn very great. The sugarloaf pine is a pr fine, juicy variety that is vety^perish- lit able, and to have it in a condition at all de marketable a good deal of the buslr-g? must be taken with the fruit. ch The oranges brought to this port in an sailing vessels come from Porto Eico. vo They arc stored on platforms in layers, dc each about fifteen inches thick, from lis 350,000 to 400,000 coming in a single co c?.rgo. Any delay on the passage causes icl gi eat loss from decay of fruit. Orange hii and cocoanut trees are perennial bear- sh ers, and well-established plantations fei last a long time. wi The business of fruit growing is pre- ba carious. The season for hurricanes is ? inst wlipn flip hanfinn. nlants arevminc. lei ? X O t and it is not a rare thing for a planta- of tion to be destroyed in a day. The m< orange groves also suffer greatly from po storms at times, and are also injured wa by the attacks of a fly, whose larvae im- In bed themselves in the rind of the fruit gn and the bark of the trees. The chances tei of a good pineapple crop in the Bahamas toi are said to be so precarious that some- go times the negro planters working small it. plantations are reduced to an exclusive I en fruit diet, which is as near as one gets mi to starvation there. wi Burling slip is not only the landing ne place of the fruit, but also a market for (as its sale. There is no necessity to an- su: nounce arrivals. As soon as a cargo is th< in dealers cluster around it. Fruiterers, pli marketinen, grocers and street peddlers ab are there, and what one dealer will not: ha + nrill Pwiiil' ia faa I IUO.U aiiUtXiCl UUit XXU1U CUlL* U 10 IUU ripe to be taken by a storekeeper is ani taken at a low price by a street Arab, a s who begins to cry his stock as soon as aid he leaves the wharf, and before the day by is over it will be not only sold but tu eaten. The trade is active from the latter part of March into summer, but when the pcach and berry crops get r into the market tne West India fruit trade is flattened out as if by a storm of me the tropics. jj The value of the green fruit imports , of New York was ?4,192,831 in 1880, le!, paying duties amounting to 8745,437. njg USl Substitutes lor Kissing. so* Some rude races have strange substitutes for kissing. Of a Mongol father, j f. a traveler writes, ' he smeiled from j time to time the head of his youngest j j son. a mark- of natemal terwlprnftss i ' usual among the Mongols instead of j ^re embracing." In the Philippine islands, j ' we are told, "the sense of smell is de-1 sm veloped to so great a degree that they | .' are able, by smelling at the pocket j n.c handkerchiefs, to tell to which persons Pir they belong; and lovers, at parting, ex- ?rt change pieces of linen they may be wearing, and during their separation te<* inhale the odor of the beloved being." . ( Among the Citagong-liill people, again, it is said, " the manner of kissing is pe- W?l culiar. Instead of pressing lip to lip, ?X? they place the nose and mouth upon the ' 8 cheek and inhale the breath strongly." *fee Their form of speech is not "Give me a tiss," but " Smell me." In the same me way, according to another traveler, | ? ] " the Burmese do not kiss each other . I in the Western fashion, but apply the "u lips ami nose to the cheek anil make a strong inhalation." Moreover, " the ("j Samoans salute by juxtaposition of ( noses, accompanied not by a nib but a (l!jc hearty sined." There is Scriptural pre-; ^ cedent for such customs. When blind SJ?C Isaac was in doubt whether the son who came to him was Jacob or not, "hesmelled the smell of his raiment, v and blessed him." car _ w? Curious Habits. Great men often fall into curious 1 liahits, which they tind it impossible to wit conquer. Augustus Hare, one of the it i ripest scholars in the English pulpit, ke^ and a retincd gentleman, when he had Pai ended a train of hard thinking, would am spin around 011 his heel a few seconds mo and then resume work again. thr Neander, the famous church historian, ani could not lecture to his students unless the lie had a goosequill to pull to pieces as hit he talked, and it was necessary to sup- po! ply a second quill when the first was ke; completely stripped. Th William "Wilberforce became so ab- to sorbed in conversation in evening com- coi panies as wholly to forget himself. He ho would lift himself from his chair in his inj earnestness, move forward a little, and gk gradually approach perilously near to the ] tlu edge, it was a tradition in'fashionable j en English circles that he had fallen several, gr< times to the floor. But in families j at where he was loved it was the custom j po to station one of the older children be- j wn hind his chair to move it forward as he j inj moved and guard him against peril. ; we Some who afterward became leaders in [ en< English society retained among the' wl pleasantest memories of their childhood inf the recollection of the services rendered j hif of this brilliant and elomicnt converser. J cui At the Gato. Now the spoony rural lover Round the moonlit path doth hover That his girl he may discover At the gate, gate, gate. Sharp at half-past eight he meets her, And in ecstasy ho greets her, And to ices later treats her? Lovers' bait, bait, bait. And they swing upon the gato Till the hour's pretty late. Lots of sentimental chinning lile he hangs, hangs, hangs, O'er that gate, the maiden winning; "While he feels against his face X/1U3 1UVI/J iUV-Vj iHVVj d the raoro divino sensation of her bangs bangs, bangs. And ho e'en forgots her freckles While ho dreams about her shekels, And ho vows her Grecian noso \ '3j Is a rose, rose, rose. And each eye a dreamy pansy, And her love a nceromancy. d then appears her father witL his boot, boot boot. As swift as any lapwing, Just watyli that spoony chap wing Down the opalescent lane Like a Western hurricane, rile the owls in. every treetop loudly hoot * hoot, hoot, d the parent lista tho music of his scoot "In scoot, scoot? its tbo scootinabulation of bis scoot. ?Muiikitlrick, in Puck.' HUMOtt OF THE DAY. A. water-epout?A tetiperanco ora^^g Motto of the good collector?Nevei^i t off until to-morrow what can be i .nned to-day. ^ SHE BELIEVED IN ADVERTISING. j| h, where are you goinfc, my pretty maid?" *.'2% ' To do some shopping," she sweetly said; ind where," I asked, in a glad surprise; ' Oh, anywhere, where they advertise 1" The mythological representation^ of % ring as a young lady dressed like' an' era-bouffe singer, bringing flowers e has received over the footlights pi met are things of the past. Spring? ^ roung man with an ulster and rheor r? itism. They had been tengaged to be marid fifteen years and still he had not "% istered up resolution enough to ask r to name the happy day. One ening he called in a particularly' ? oony frame of mind, and asked herjg sing him something that would -.3 move" him. She sat down at the mo and sang, " Darling, I am grow- 7^ 1 old."?Brooklyn Eagle. A man who was too poor to indulgtf -vd any luxuries other than children was Jyfc esented by a loving but unreckonii^<j|| fe with triplets?three boys?and 1(9,^ nght for some family to adopt Blfmi. ?v r. Clark was rather inclined tq^fca. * em, but his good wife thougMw&jgx )uld perhaps be enough. They^w^w iking it over before their little at-old.daughter,, who said: n't 70s take one of than, n^MMpj|gi ey want to break the set T J}? 'T &. The Cafrrpfll|j nr(! thfPiy.;^l|r A corpulent caterpillar is stuffing najijli: rred or velvet doublet with the juicr ^ tip of a young and tender oak leair^ is thoughts?at all events his sensa-^ig ms?are completely centered in isiness which he has in hand?more "0 operlv in mouth; and he dreams as ~'M tie of approaching danger as an al* JS irman at a c;ty feast imbibing tfirarSj een fat of turtle, while a sparkling " un&Bljer hangs, perhaps suspended by' . all butN^vered chain, over his d?- ^ ted head. No-chandelier, indeed, buiCja struction in a-living form as bril;9p| mfc, hangs suspended over the unnscious glutton of fEe^atJeaf. meumon fly, poised in the m, her iridescent wings and black x-\ ining body glittering in the sun, is*>i* irfully vibrating her tail-like piercer, C th intent to plunge it into the fleshy ^ ck of her well-fed victim. She stoops '. jj her weapon enters?is withdrawn, and 'Jvj ives behind it, in the wound, a germ 3 nascent torture a thousand times Jw sre dreadful than a drop of deadly ? ison?a tiny egg deposited within the . *, irm orifice pierced for its reception. a few hours this egg becomes a < awing worm, which thrives and fatis on the juices, leaving carefully unached the vital organs of the helpless 'V i rmandizer thus compelled to fosterIts growth completed the parasite terges, and then, in completion of ita- - v lrderous part, spins a silken thread, -^ th which it proceeds to bind the " ^ arlv exhausted bodv of its sun Dorter a i Gulliver by Lilliputian cords) to the ; rfacc of the oak leaf. Thus mangled,, | a shrunken remnant of the onod -W imp crawler exists yet a few miser- ^ le days, while the young ichneumon,, ving inclosed itself within a shroutpV' silk, undergoes its transformation^' , : cl finally emerges into a perfect life, "?j parking fly, like its parent, close be-* $ [e the then dead body of the creature- -,'ji which it had been nourished to marity. ?" Episodes of Insect Life. " I How to Preserve the Teeth. Die following directions for the care 1j the teeth have been issued by the "i'jj idical committee of the National 53 mtal hospital, London: [1.) The teeth should be 'cleaned ak^ ist once a day, the best time being?^ jlifc?the last thing. For this purpose a a soft brush, on which take a little ip, and then some prepared chalk} * '? usliing up and dcm-n and across, s^jsj lere is rarely any objection to the ction causing the gum to bleed ;2.) Avoid all rough usage rt the .53 ith, such as cracking nuts, biting ead, etc., as by so doing even good, ind teeth may bo injured. 3.) When decay is first observed ad- ^^ e should be sought. It is the stop* ^ ig in a small hole that is of the^S* tatest service, though not unfreonflv a larcfi fitlintr preserves the S th for years. 4.) It is of tlie greatest importance it children from four yt ars aud up- ?3 rd should have their toelli frequently *' imined by the dental surgeon, to see- ~'v? it the first set, particularly the bade Vl th, are not decaying too early, and to re the opportunity of timely treatnt for the regulation and preservation the second set. 5.) Children should be taught to se the mouth night and morning, and begin the use of the tooth-brush early cewise the toothpick). G.) With regard to the food of chil- * >n, to those who are old enough -'a ole meal, bread, porridge and milk "3 mid be given. This is much more V; olesome and substantial food than ite bread. 7.) If the foregoing instructions were ried out, comparatively few teeth ull have to be extracted. The Monkey and the Crab. i. careless assistant to a fishmonger, ; h a basket of crabs on his arm, took nto his head while passing the mon-. ^'s house in the Jardin des F'antes, ris, the other day, that it world bo using to give a crab to one of the mkevs which held out its "hand" ongli the wires of the cage. The mal, we are told, looked at it curi ously, ;n raised it to his mouth. The crab, ; herto ineit, now recovered its self3session, and took hold of the mon7*s nose between his large claws. i e other, with a piercing cry, rushed 4 the roof of the building, clingirg to a rd. Jt continued to maintain its ' Id, the monkey frantically endeavorj to tear it away. Weary of the strug; he suspended himself to a bar by 3 tail, hoping thus to throw off his ^ emv, the other apes sitting on the * jund, looking on with astonishment ? the strange spectacle. Suddenly the ^ or aumal became motionless. He s s, as an eye-witness suggests, think- . aud his reflections, we are told, re of a melancholy character, as they ^ tied in suicide. He let go the bar to lich he had been suspended, anil fall- ; r head foremost was killed instantly, i nose still in the claws of his perse- 'i tor. A