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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND' BANNER] : . ? BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22. 1881. NO. 3. VOLUME XXVI. : . : m ' ? -M A Jmio Day. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tunc, Aiul over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or win tie r we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct within it that reaches and towers And, groping Mindly above it for light, Climbs to a sold in grass and llowers; The flush o! life may well l>e seen Thrilling back over hills ami valleys; The cowslip startles i:i meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits :\t his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'crrun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in htr dumb breast flutters uiul sings; lie sink's to the wide world, aiuL STio to her nest? In the nice ear oi Nature which song is the best? Now is the high tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back, with a ripply cheer, Into every bare inlet and crick ami bay; Now the heart is so full that a drop overtills it, W'o are happvuow because God wills it; No matter how barren the past may have been 'T is enough for us now that the leaves are green; We sit in the warm shade and feel right well How tin' f?aj> creeps up aim me uiossoms sweii We may elr.it our < yes, but we cannot help knowing Tbat skies are clear ami grass is growing; The breeze conies whispering iu our car, That dandelions are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted, that streams are flowing, That the river is bluer than the sky, That the robin is plastering his house hard by; And if the breeze kept the good news back, For other couriers wo should not lack; We could guess it all by yon heifer's lowing? And hark ! how clear bold chanticleer, Warmed with the new wine of the year, Tells all in his lusty crowing ?Jamft Iiu^ell Loiri 11. THE MUTINEERS. " Good-morning, Mrs. Herbert!" said tlie captain's nephew, Malcolm Sherwood, who was also first oflicer on board the Albatross. Helen stepped out of the cabin on the main-deck, and the young man?who could boast a certain kind of good looks, but whose assurance and self-conceit were too apparent for a gentleman? carue toward her, cap in hand, bowing gallantly. She avoided his glance of bold admiration while returning his greeting, and looking out over the ship's side at the smooth and shining waves, exclaimed : " Oh, how lovely the sea looks this morning!" " V J 1 T "1 "Wisli u were a garueu, wuere x could gather you a bouquet." said Mai- j colm. "Beautiful women like you, should always be surrounded with flowers. But isn't there something I can ' ofter yon ? Ah, yes, a nautilus ! I saw some a few moments ago, and remembered TOUT wish." -He turned quickly. Only two men "were in sight on the Jeeward-side of the galley. One was coi.' ing rope in front of a locker, the othf r was tarring the bung of a water-cask " Drop that, you ubber, and swing a bucket over the side, d'ye hear ?" cried .Mr. Malcolm Sherwood, first mate of the A $o. 1 government-built clipper Albatross, among wnose graceiui accomplishments the art of addressing his men as if they were brutes was pre-eminent. " Sccop me a good specimen nautilus, and don't iipoil it with your bungling either." As he had not spoken to either of the sailors by name, it would have been difficult to tell which he meant. Only one turned round?a tine-looking seaman, fair-skinned, ruddy, blue-eyed and Haxen-haired. He dropped his calking-pot, caught up a wooden bucket, made its rope-liandle fast to another rope by a running-knot, and throwing back his broad shoulders with a lithe motion of his shapely figure, he prepared to launch it over the gunwale, when the mate roared out with a gush of oaths that he didn't mean him. "You're too ready with your desire to show off," he muttered between his teeth ; and, seeing that the other sailor continued to quietly pursue his labor, as if unconscious of his existence, the brutal tempered officer rushed on him in a rage, and with a violent blow felled him to the deck, where he lay without a motion. "You've struck a sick man, Mr. Sherwood," said the fair and brawny sailor, who was a Dane, and bore the soubiiquet of Neptune among his fellows. " Poor lad ! he fell on his marlingspike " off the Plata, and he hasn't been himself since. He's deaf, too, and didn't hear you." Helen had uttered a cry of horror as trie mate s ciencneu nsc uescenueu on the slender rope-coiler. She knew him by his pale face and painful cough ; and although her father's illness had heretofore allowed her little time for any duty except waiting on him, she hail sent many delicacies to the forecastle by Zillah, her maid, fo:* this same sick sailor. As he fell, she ran to his side. Neptune stood with his arms folded, with a strange expression on his deadwhite face. " Don't fret yourself, miss," ho said, in a cold and bitter tone; "if poor Pierre has got his discharge he's in u ck. There's plenty more willing to leave this service the same way. forwaut of a better." A gleaming smile, full of contempt and suppressed anger, played round his thin lips, an 1 lie looked steadily in Malcolm's face, as it defying him. Such daring could not pass with impunity. If the mate was silent a moment," it was because his fury mastered his utterance. " Mr. Shelton?Mr. Frero !" he ejacu' lated, as soon as he could speak. An elderly man, whose originally fine face was marred by signs of habitual intemperance,sauntered out of the cabin, _ i _ _1 * 1- i. J T.,1 r~ll ...M. ana a sjigut uuu yuiuiihu iujiuw, wim ' flashing, black eyes and a quick, nervous movement of the body, seemed to drop from the shrouds on deck. Both made an inclination of tbe head in reply to the savage mate's call, and addressing first the younger of the two., by the name of Frero, he ordered him at once to put the sailor Neptune in irons. For a moment the young man, who was third mate and also ship's carpenter, stood sileni; the next, he flatly refused to obey. Meantime, the frightened girl had helped the young Frenchman to rise irom the deck, and was gently supportfng him toward the forecastle when two Norwegians, called Christian and Oddo, relieved her of her charge, and lifting him in their arms bore him away. She stood looking till his poor, drooping head disappeared down the gangway, and then, hurrying around the windward sides of the galley, tried to gain the cabin without encountering the man whose brutality made him odious in her eyes; but just as she reached the main deck she saw Sherwood with his own hands snap the irons on Neptune's wrist, while his maudlin assistant did the same for Frero. Her heart beat high; she trembled from head to foot; and, clinging to the water casks as she passed along, Bbe gained the cabin-d"Or. The cabin was fitted up with unusual elegance. Sofas of blue damask, blue silken hangings, handsome mirrors and well-cushioned fauteuils, rendered it a really luxurious apartment. At its upper end were two very large x staterooms, in which every appliance for comfort ai.d pleasure were arrayed, and where taste, ingenuity and wealth had united to foil the exhaustion aud tedium of a long voyage. This unwonted splendor was readily explained. The ship belonged to a very wealthy merchant, who, with his . only child, took this long westward voyage, in the full conviction that it would thoroughly establish his health. As yet it had boon unsuccessful ii ! this most important item. Mr. Herber was so entirely an invalid that his af j feciionate and unselfish daughter hie ! all the painful and alarming scenes t< | which she was exposed, and never ap peared in his presence with a shadov ! on her fair l'aco. ! To achieve this required not only i most disinterested nature, but a con ; rageous one, and Helen Herbert's wa , flio lw?orf urwl cmil o linvnino j Entering the cabin, her lirst glanc< was directed toward her father's tloor i It v. us closed, a sign that his rnerninj i slumber hud been prolonged?and sh< I rejoiced at the evidence of needed rest i It gave her time to quiet her own ex I citement, and also to think of the poo: ] French sailor. Once or twice she called her maid'i ! name, in a low voice; but no one re ! spouted, and she concluded that Zil lah, -HKyWtv quadroon girl and a tireTess flirt, u\s showing oil' her graces as j usual for the benefit of the steward, i ; mulatto from the Isle of France. ' I cannot lei the poor fellow suffer,' I she said, by way of encouragement tc ! herself, and immediately walked up t( ; one of the small doors opening out o , the cabin, and tapped lightly. I f 4- nwfon flv o ti il n ilovl* noniT Al UJ'UUClt 1'BWU.i;, """? j some young gentleman stood before her i who bowed profoundly. " Oh, Dr. Conroy, pray excuse me!' she said, becoming confused the mo luviit she found herself face to fac? with the silent young physician. "] am sorry to trouble you, I am sure, bul poor Pierre is ill again, and I will bo sc j glad if you will go to him." Percy Conroy, the ship's doctor, bowed again to Miss Herbert, and ii j her presence he was always strangel\ J reticent; but he strove to prove, by tin j extreme readiness of his movements in serving her, the deep respect which was I already expressed in his every look ami : action. ! She and he had not been stranger; ' before their meeting on shipboard. H< ! was a young man of excellent positior | in society, and they had met occasion i ally in fashionable life, when ho had in spired her with a decided admiratioi ! for his maimer and abilities. j Bat, to her pain atul surprise, he re turned her outburst of cordial pleasure al I discovering him to be their fellow-voyI ager with a distant and reserved respeel which had continued despite his devotior to her father, whose untiring nurse, as well as physician, he had constituted himself. This ceremonious treatment chilled poor Helen's heart. She shrunk within herself, abashed at his deferential si' lence, and often sought her own stateroom, after one of his distant but profound bows, with a heartache, eager tc hide her bitter, burning tears. She did not note how, do as he mibhl to conceal it, his color changed at sighl of her, nor dream that silence only preserved the secret of his emotions in hei presence. " He a'voids me. I am actually dis! agreeable to him," she often exclaimed, in a burst of tears; and then added, with a heavy sigh: "And yet he is sc kind?so very kind?to my dear father. I am grateful to him. I cannot hell that, I am sure." Or. this morning he was in such haste to obey her that ho started at once, fi,,! e\C'Il ttlkUUUb UttillU? IV tiuov iuv/ ouuv room door. As be loft the cabin it blew back and lodged against the wall, leaving, for the first time, open to Helen s inspection the little room in which he had spent the greater part of their long voyage. It was neat and pretty as the chamber of a young girl. Everything was in exquisite order, from his tiny library ol books to his still more compact case ol medicines. A few small pictures were fastened to the wall. One was a crayon sketch ol a fair, girlish face, with fluffy, golden curls, aqd a broad-brimmed liat, just such an one as she wore on deck to protect her from the sun. There was a familiar look about it. Had she seen the original anywhere? The thought made her unhappy. She dismissed it quickly, and cast her eyes on the stationary desk before which his arm-chair was placed. It was covered with books and chemical apparatus; but 011 its top stood? j Could it bo? No, no! her eyes deceived ! lior; and vet it really was her own dis! carded slipper! j Its mate had slipped oft' her foot on i deck, and been carried through a llowing senpper into the sea. While she stood merrily laughing at the mishap j Zillah had brought out another pair, which she put on, forgetting the odd one until alter it had disappeared. She recalled how she had searched for it, merely from idle curiosity a:s to its fate: and here it was. " "What could have induced him?' she began, but did not complete the Question. A footstep sounded without, and she sprang up ami shut the room door be fore any eve but hers should rest on its simple treasures. Mr. Sherwood came into the cabin The angry cloud was gone from his brow, and he stood beaming on Heler most amiably. "I am afraid our timid dove was alarmed at our harsh sea discipline," Ik said, with a caressing gesture that his daring did not qidte carry to her shrink ing form. " But, my sweet friend, it if necessary. We cannot sail without it, T+ ie 00 -nnn/lfnl Ia f? cliin ncn fVnr trim! ' "Helen!""' I " Yes, papa!" exclaimed the irulig j nant girl; and, delighted to escape fron Malcolm's unwelcome presence, sh< hastened to join her father. She found him very mu^h .shaken lii a painful dream, from which he had no! been quite able to arouse himself. " Where's the. captain, Iieleu ? " he in quired. " Where's .Tohn Sherwood, thi sailing-master of the Albatross? I hopi lie doesn't ]eavo his work to boobies am' land-lubbers, but does his duty like i man, and watches his ship as if it wert a human lifp! Eli. child?eh?" " Yes, yes, papa?certainly!" Heler tried to say calmly, while in Iter hear she knew that Captain Sherwood in trusted the vessel and ali it held to tin management of his nephew, Malcolm while he gave himself up, day after day mere and more completely to the bale ful influence of intemperance. In times past the captain had beei an excellent and accomplished ollicer Such he was, in Mr. Herbert's ex peri enee and belief; aud it was owing to his unwavering trust in his seamanship tha he had not only engaged him as com mander of his ship, but yielded to hin the entire selection of the crew. Had the unfortunate captain securet an able and reliable assistant ollicer his.own failings might have been con cealed, or, at least, productive of n< absolute evil; but ho was entirely rule< by his nephew, who had contrived t< establish a strange influence over him and Malcolm Sherwood was, as w< have seen, a man of narrow mind am brutal passions. " You look pale and appear nervous Helen," said her father, observing he uneasily. "Is anything wrong,J When is Doctor Conroy, child? I do wis] you would be more agreeable to tha young man. He is of inlinite servici to me, and I can't get on without his at tentions. It would make it so mud pleusanter if you were friends am seemed at ease with each other." Mr. Herbert, like all sick people, wa at times fretful and impatient. Such was lus tone on this occasion but his daughter was a loving, unseliisl being, who thought far more of hin than of any petty annoyance of her own It was impossible to explain what sh could not quite understand?namely the coldness of Percy Conroy's manner and secret devotion of his acts. It made her heart beat to huilbcatioi to heav his name, and then to be rc proaclied for want of courtesy to him. She tried to smile and murmur som reassuring reply; but presently he ap peared, and her father called to him Then, as was her habit, sho slippe* quietly away. ****** * There was an ominous hush, on th ship all day. Helen felt, sho knew no why, as if some fearful storm was bre-u i ing. Contrary to expectation, not a t word of comment, not oven a look of - insubordination, had followed the arrest 1 and ironing of the ship's favorite's?the 3 quick, flashing-spirited mute, and the - handsome young Dane. v "I've got the dogs under!" said the boastful and loud-mouthed Malcolm, at; \ the supper-table, with a b illving air. j "There was a couple oi sailors came j s to the captain's door at four bells. They had a paper in their hands," said Sliel-! i i on, uic seconu mare, wno iookcu i . sorious, ami scorned to Helen to be quite j sober for the first time since they had j rounded Cape Horn. " J3ali!" cried his superior, in a tone - of intense disgust. " The idiots had j v drawn up a remonstrance; but it will be the last job of that sort they'll try. I s tore it up and threw it in their faces!" j Helen, looking up, suddenly met the j - , steward's eye while he was busily wait-; - ing 011 the speaker. Its expression was j i simply murderous, and his eyes glared I i like a basilisk's. In a moment it changed 1 and a mask seemed to have been pulled j ' over his features; but the remem- j ) bianco of the look chilled her blood, | ) and tilled her with vague, distracting l f fears. Her father was unusually weak, and j - needed more than ordinaiy attention i , that evening. It was quite late before J she had done waiting on him and he ' fell into a peaceful doze. - 1 Leaving Zillah io watcli him within . t __ii I.. T _..j. J C'illl, SI1U SLtJppL'U UUb U11 V4C\-xx, [ anxious to learn poor Pierre's condit tion from one of the sailors. > | It was quite dark. She moved so ! silently, wrapped in a gray mantle, that , she reached the mainmast unobserved 1 by two sailors, who were cautiously as cending, one after 'die other, the steps ; at the side of the galley-door, on the i roof of which, exposed to the blazing > sun of a tropic skv, the petty tyrant, I Malcolm Sherwood, had chained and ironed the objects of his fun* all that > day. > I They were there yet, bound in a i kneeling posture, side by side, and they | leaned eagerly over to converse with the two men who moved stealthily toward i them. I Helen listened in breathless terror; 1 her own and her father's safety hung t j on their words, for a growing dread 1 within her soul had taken form, and was t now cither to be dispelled or realized. l Coming within the shadow of the > almost windless sail, her ear strained to I agony lest she should lose a word, and her eyes lixed with a fearful fascination [ on the coarse forms that seemed to dei cide her destiny, she waited, dreading, yet eager to hear. | The two bound men spoke in sharp, incisive tones; the two free ones listened > and agreed. An awful compact had been made and ; attested. A few hours would see it ; fulfilled. Ah, it was true, too true, then. Her instincts had forewarned - her, and her worst fears were about to , I be verified. She pressed one hand on her heart, , j the other over her eyes, and called her , courage and cunning to her aid; for ?i Helen Herbert was in the midst of mu- i . tineers She had heard their plans dis cussed, and knew that in live hours law; less madness would reign aboard the ! ! Albatross, as a fitting successor to I .1- -C 1 i~l 4- *l,?f , ILlUIJlll^ Ui Ul UUll illiu liiuv iu;i I muid was in the plot, ami the willing | I conquest of Francois, the Mauritian I I steward, while she was to fall to the I II share of Manuel Frero, the young i 11 Spaniard, the future commander of the I ; j Albatross. She stood so long in the cool, silent I i darkness, gathering her frightened wits ! i that it was well her form was slender j : and her cloak gray, or she would iiave : been discovered. ****** * J j Dr. Percy Conroy had visited the j captain that evening, and finding a j ! threatened attack of fever, persuaded ' j him to abate his libations and join him I in the cabin at a game of cards. TL il 1 I J. I >\ :is Liiu.*5 UMgUgUll 111UU XXU1CU 1UUUU them both, unci though hor manner was a little nervous, she looked so charming 11 when she said she had a boon to beg, 1 that old Sherwood, once famed for galf I lantrv, yielded at once. It was the freedom of the two prison-j ' ers whom Malcolm had, she said, for- j gotten. i While the captain gave orders for ' | their liberation, she went to her father's stuteroom and tilled two glasses with wine. Into each of these she poured a strong sleeping potion, and quietly ! slipped out with them to meet the mutiI neers. II Every pretty woman knows her power. 1 Helen calculated largely on hers; with gentle words of sympathy and 1 I kindness she soothed the savage mood > of Manuel and Neptune, and with grateful respect they drank her health in the classes they drained, allowing her to ! till them again and again. When they retired, anil she returned i : to the cabin, she quickly locked the I " door behind her, and, first of all ex-1 J torting from the captain a signed par-! don for the offenders, she told the story i of their wrongs, as only a roused woman 5 can. 1 j Day l?y day .she had endured to see j her father's ship the scene of basest J > cruelty and meanest persecution. Hour 5 by hour she had shrunk more aud more ; from the ungoverned coarseness and in- j - solence of Malcolm Sherwood. } J " My father is ill, and mine is a ! . i friendless position," sho said, bursting j ' iuto tears. Percy Couroy's face was very pale ; its J changing expression betrayed many! i powerful emotions, one of the strongest I ; being a sensitive pride and reserve, I which at last gave way with a sudden j * burnt of feeling. t " Miss Herbert, if I dared?if I might | presume?I would be only too happy to j - devote my whole life to you," he cried, j She turned to him with streaming j eyes, but with a light that like a raiul bow spanned her tears. i " Oh, Dr. Conroy, help Captain Sher: wood to gain his command of his men ! Advise him t^ pardon every one, and asri tor.ish them at once by his decision and t his clemency; help him to save us all in [ - this real ueriJ. aud i apa will owe you a j 3 lifeloug gratitude; wliilo I?I?" , She sobbed ami covered her face with , ouo hand; but the other was held per snadiugly toward him. He seized and kissed it fondly. 1 i "First these two, Frero and Neptune, . must be secured," he said. "I think they are perfectly quiet for i > the night," Helen said, gently. t And she narrated the way she had j -1 taken to quell the mutiny, or at least i 1 gain time on the mutineers. It proved effective; the sudden and | 1 prolonged slumber of the leaders de- I , : ferred the attack. Captain Sherwood, I - { roused to his duties, deposed his bully- j 5 ! ing nephew and took command in per1 son. 3 The plan proposed by Helen worked j ; like a miracle, and Percy Conroy, whose I a poverty (for his skill was his only for- | 1 tune) had held hira aloof from the beau- j tiful heiress, was made so active in her , and her father's defense that he never ' r retired into himself again, for he became I e his patient's son-in-law at the end of the | i voyage, and was, in spite of himself, | t made a rich man. e " i'ou saved papa and saved me, too," j - Helen said, when for a moment a sense j i of his own poverty made hi in uncom1 fortable. "If you don't think we are worth anything then yen had better s have let us go with tlio mutineers of the Albatross." ? i i Harvest Figures. 1 A good many curious calculations hav been made in connection with the c enormous crop of wheat produced by > | the Dalrymple l'arm in Dakota. A cor> j respondent of the Chicago Inter-Ocean j has been indulging in some new ones a relative to the last harvest. From the !* speed of the harvester and the length of the cutting-bar he calculated that 0 there would be 1)00 bundles to the acre, ' or seventy-live shooks of twelve bun' dies each. As there were 18,UD0 acres 1 in tho tield t he shooks numbered 1,.'550,000, and tho bundles 10,200,000. Allow* ing thirty inches of wire to the bundle, e over 7.U70 miles of wire wero needed t for binding the crop?almost enough to r- rcach through the earth. Stciun-Powr by Ilorsc-Powor. A few clays ago as we passed a door in Gold street, away down in the dense i wholesale quarter, Maryantlia said: \ "Billy is a turning that crank!"! " Who's Billy ? " said I. " Billy is Patrick's pardner," says Maryantlia. " Let's go up and see him!" We wont under a turning wheel and belt in a dirty alleyway, and up by several more wheels and belts and bits of shafting, j winding up irregular stairs till my knees j began to ache, and I said: "Is ifc a shot-tower?" "Take it slow," says Maryantlia, never altering her gait; " I come up here every month." As we proceeded upward a noise as of a grist | mill grinding increased in power, and | also the sound of the cracking of a | whip. The roofs of the surrounding j blocks fell far beneath us, the pano-1 ninm of both rivers extended to the neighboring green of Battery park, and the white light of heaven at afternoon tilled every window and aperture. " Here's Billy," exclaimed Maryantha, pushing open a door. We entered a little shanty built like a cupola on the dizzy summit of a decrepit and aniiquatcd tenement roof, and there all; alone fnlly 200 feet from the ground, j was a gray, lean, starveling horse, haul- j ing a lever or bar behind him in a cir- j cle. lie stopped bolt still when he saw ; Maryantha, and this brought from some | other spot of shelter, a little down the stairway, an aged Irishmau with a whiplash well worn, which he cracked smartly and shouted: " Billy, git up, ye lazy crature 1 Why, Molly, how is the times wid ye, darlint ? " Maryantha took an apple from her pocket and gave . 4. i T iu tu iuu nuimr, vumjii ? iu vc about of her own age, bordering on forty. From the same pocket she produced a pair of old cotton black gloves, i newly darned, and said: "Patrick, they're done for you." "Now, in the name of sonse," said I, " what is this horse doing at this height above the ground? "He's furaishin' staine power, sure enough," cried Patrick, hitting liilly over the raw with his whip-lash. "Steam power, do you say?" " Yis, indade. He turns the machinery in fifty shops below, for the cutler, the lathe-maker, the carpenter, the butter-cliurner, the box-maker and the cooper !" "And you sell this power made by the horse, as you would sell steam power from shafts and. belting?" "That's it," exclaimed Patrick, "and by the same iligant invintion I have lived and brought up a family for twinty years. In the city of Bilfast it was my trade. Between Frankfort street and Wall street, east of Broadway, there be above twinty horses furnishing power like Billy there! G'lang, Billy, and let industry continue." " How do you get the steed up her e Pat?" " On the lift, Johnny. Wo hist him up once, and here he stays for life. When he is foolish enough to die, be jabers we lower him down upon the same lift and kim to tLo mayor and corporation." " Then he never feels the solid ground under his feet at any time for years?" "Niver. but lie h^>-a-520(li Iiuurju UllUCi 111LU) uuw. u> Diauit utjuui there, upon the same iligant roof. A blacksmith shoes him when necessary or convanient. He takes all the national holidays ating oats, and ivory Sunday the swate church bells remind him that it's a day of rest, and he's av the highest bloou in New York. Billy is the twelfth horse, my friend, that has divided me solitude, and me altitude, too, at No. ? Gold street. I turned to Maryantha and said : " How did you over come to climb to the top of this house, my belle soeur ?" " Paid for it," exclaimed Maryantha, automatically. "A gentleman with an electric light wanted to get what he called the census, or senses, of this district, to know how many little shops and people used power. Ho supposed it was steam power ; but I followed tlio belts and shafts up and discovered Billy, and Patrick, and lots of other horses."?Johnny Bouquet, in Nete I u>\t Tribune. Anion? the Turks. As the character of the Turks, it has been said by one of the highest consular authorities that the poorer and humbler he is, the better he is. As he gets money and power, he deteriorates. In the lowest classes you may and do meet with honesty; in the middle classes, seldom; in the highest, never. The Turk, above all, is a good host. Indeed, hospitality is enjoined by the Koran. Wo may well take a lesson from him, too, iu politeness, especially in conversation. If you are privileged to have an interview with a Turk, you will find a good listener; he never interrupts, and never wastes words to make talk. When he has finished, he asks permission to go, and vanishes. He is not given to ine ouions, uecnuse abuseil, custom of the " shake-hands." His salute, the Temenas, is most graceful. He makes the motion as if to sweep the ground with his right hand, bringing it to his heart, lips and forehead, thus indicating that all ho has on earth is yours, as well as showing his friendliness and constant thoughtfulness for your welfare. Listen to a true story illustrating the Turk in all his dealings, whether commercially, politically or as a diplomist. A peasant was summoned before the cadi for stealing a sack of onions. " Now we havo thee on the hip, and thou shalt know what it is to incur our displeasure. Bismillah! Choose, slave: Wilt thou pay a thousand piasters, receive a hundred blows of the bastinado, or wilt flirMi Mt. tlin nnnfontn nf t.ho sack of onions V Quick, choose!" " Gracious lord, I Lave no money wherewith to satisfy thee; I fear tbe bastinado; and j will choose rather to cat my onions." ! Hi! ate, and was fain to stop, and preferred tbe bastinado. After some lifty strokes he repents, and thinks he can find somewhere in his house five hundred piasters. But this money was not enough to release him from his troubles; lie ate more onions, then there was a | little more bastinado. Eventually lie j received eighty strokes, ate nearly all the onions, ami paid the penalty of a thousand piasters in full. What is to bo done with Constantinople ? Tho exchequer is at the lowest ebb, the power of borrowing reduced to nil, the civil list nearly ten million dollars, and an increasing deficit in the revenue. All oflieials' pay, civil and military, in arrears for months, and gen- j eral destitution not only ia the capital, j but in the proviuces. Notlling but the i halo surrounding the titles of caliph, | padishah and pontiff of Mussulmans j could have hitherto prevented the people breaking out; but, tolerant as they are, the camel's back is well-nigh broken. Costly Bookbinding. Mr. Joseph Sabin, in a conversation 1 with a New York Ereviwj Po t reporter, i gave the following information in regard to the binding of books, which is to be ! classed among the line arts : The finest modern binders are in Paris. David is at their head. He does not bind probably more than a thousand volumes a year. But he charges his own prices and works only for a certain set of rich men who put nothing in their libraries that is not perfect. Lortic is is another Frenchman who does exquisite work. Two years ago I saw two volumes of Lnfontaine's Tales bound by him at a cost of one thousand dollars for each volume, and they were octavos at that. If the covers had been in solid gold they would not have costso much. But each volume represented more than a year's labor by a first-class workman, who used more than ten thousand different tools in the work. Zahnsdorf in an Austrian who has made Paris his home and who does excellent work. Some of tho unique bindings that may be found in the great private libraries of Europe show how little advance the world has made in the art of bookbind-! ing in the last two hundred years. One of the fine t bindings I ever saw is in the library of the Earl of Ashburnluun a?prayer-book given by Henry VIII. to Anne Boleyn, the covers being of open fretted gold. Some of the volumes ; in this collection would cost &j,500 to : bind to-day, if such wTdrk can be done. ' i ?\ A FEARFUL HALF-HOUR. Mvck of (,'inclniiitli D1 illionnliTH in IntMillion* PiipII. In the curly days of the Cincinnati i Southern, before it had attained its j present system, and immediately after i the road had been opened for traffic to Somerset, occurred an event the recollection of which even to this day serves to bring out gouse flesh on those who at the time were cognizant of the impending disaster. Within a few days after passenger travel began the officers of the Southern sent invitations for a trip over the road to all of Cincinnati's wealthiest men and heaviest taxpayers, and on the morning of the excursion dozens of carriages left the Burnet house, the place of meeting, and conveyed them across the river to Ludlow, where the "special," headed ! by No. 1, the crack engine, with Mat. j Coombs at the lever, was in waiting, j Miles N. Beatty, now superintendent of the southern division, was conductor. I When all the excursionists were on j board the engineer and conductor went j into Train Dispatcher Cooledge's office, where they read and signed the follow- j ing order, and placed copies in their pockets: " Meet and pass No. 2, north-bound j passenger train, at Williamstown." To Williamstown for delivery to tbc north-bound passenger train on arrival, was sent the following order: " ? Conductor: " Meet and pass south-bound special at Williamstown." So that the situation stood thus? either train reaching the place indicated , first was to go on the siding and wait there until the one coming from the op-! posite direction had arrived and gone ahead on the cleared track. Of the wealthy passenger load some were seated chatting, others were standing on the platforms, and still others on the summer car, wben, glancing up and down his train, the conductor, finding . ,1 ??/] 1 every mm g 111 guuu uiuci auu icauiuu?pj waved Lis hand to the watching engineer, and the special pulled out, slowly at first, but as it moved on the speed increased until it went out of sight around the curve a-flying, and a little later a rumbling sound told of its crossing the trestle, and that it was well and i'airly started on the way south. It was understood that extra fast time was to be made, and to offer no obstacle the track had been cleared of; everything save the passenger train referred to. One half hour after the start from Ludlow, No. 2, fifteen minutes behind time, reached "Williamstowc, at which place the standing rule was impera ive that conductors should at all times stop and inquire for orders. Stopping only long enough to unload a passenger in the mud, the conductor, thinking only of making up lost time, signaled the . engineer, and the train went on. The horrified operator from his window saw No. 2 dashing northward to Wnut <u>emed inevitable destruction, as the telegraph nue n his room and Ludlow was unbroken by a i?u;ty]e jn. stmment. and at that moment twHfci^^ afT^n 1'aFes (ft-spFei'Twere rapid^^WH ening the distance between each other on the single track. He telegraphed at once to Ludlow that " No. 2 had passed without stopping for orders." All color left the face of train dispatcher Cooledge as he received the message and as lie communicated the dire intelligence to Jack Redmond, master of transportation, tliat individual's countenance assumed a similar hue. With him to think was to act. Stepping to the station door he quietly beckoned several men to him and composedly gave instructions to each. One-half dozen of them went on the double-quick in diflerent directions for physicians. Tho storekeeper went into the warehouse and gathered together sponges, baskets, materials for splints and soft muslin for bandages. Meanwhile other employes bad run up to the engiue-liouse, and starting a lire under au idle locomotive had hitched on to a caboose and backed down in front of the station where the car was transformed at once into a hospital coach. To all save Redmond and Cooleilgo these preparations wore mysterious. The relief tvain was soon in readiness, but did not start. Redmond, seated at the desk and estimating the rate of speed at which the trains were moving, calculated about where the collision would take place. Some of the passengers would esci.pe unhurt, and one of them would hasten at onco on horseback to Williamstown, the nearest point for medical aid. Hear the operator would learn the exact locality of the accident and send a dispatch to Ludlow. Possessed of Ibis information Redmond could send his waiting engine and car, with its corps )f physicians and nurses, to the spot at ihe rate of nearly a mile a minute. The other and slower plan would be to have let the " relief" start out and cautiously lind its way arouud the many curves. He chose lin trie;/vr ("nill-SO. The SCenO ill tbo train dispatcher's office was painful. Cooleilge, leaning over the silent instrument, witched it wit!j feverish eyes as if to read its secret before transmission. Oa another chair was Redmond, with bitf globes of perspiration coming from the pores of his face and rolling down unheeded. Neither man spoke. Five, ten, twenty, thirty minutes that seemed like ages past, when came a sharp click. It was Williamstown calling Ludlow. Cooledge's hair rose up on end as ho gave the response, liedmond stood up an.l placed a hand on the door-knob. The next moment Cooledge fairly yelled, "No collision. No. 2 has just backed j into Williamstown." The two men j shook hands with the same vigor as :.f they were twin brothers; and hadn't met for a thousand years. It was then ascertained that, by the most fortunate circumstances, the trairs had simultaneously entered from opposite ends upon the longest piece of -i.?x?i. *i.? j Htrni^llb LIULU UU|.Wi:tU cug vw\j uuiw graph stations, and iustantaueous ettion of brakes liad brought them to a stop within twenty feet of each other. No. 2, recognizing the ' special's" right of way, hacked to Williamstown, wheie it went in on the siding, and Cincinnati's millionaires and capitalists proceeded unhurt on their journey.?Cinch) nati Com vurcial. What They Want in Colorado. Wo want girls?girls who can get themselves up in good shape to go to a dance. The hoys are getting tired of receiving invitations with a request that they "bring ladies." They are like oranges and apples?scarce. We want girls who will go to church and to Bible class on Sunday, and that kind who can draw a congregation of ! the other sex. and who will take a buggy ride after the lesson is ove r. This will help the livery business, and J will also hasten the sale of residence lots, for buggies are the vehicles in which homes are first thought of I v many. We want girls that can wait on the table, who can smile us into an appetite when stomach bitters are impotent, and who will make the boarders regular at meals. We want girls for sweethearts, so that when we get an arm shot oil', or are kick by a mule, or are thrown from a bucking horse and are laid away for I repairs, we may hear a gentle voice and J see the glitter of a crystal tear spoken and dropped in unconscious sympathy. | ?Duruuao Record. Appreciated Her. A voting lady who recently arrived at a llocky mountain mining camp proved so popular, that, within a few hours after her appearance the delighted miners, many of whom had not seen so young and charming a person for years, ilocked around her and gave her a bag of gold dlist, a dog, a town lot, a year's subscription to the country newspaper, four tons of coal, a box in the postoflico and six bottles of soothing syrup. The soothing syrup will for two or three years to come he tho most valuable present of them all. On smooth ice "he velocity of wind is only ten miles per hour; the best ico boats sail sixty miles per hour, or six , times faster than their wind, SCIENTIFIC NOTES. Some of the samples of ice analyzed by A. Iiudiger yielded large quantities , of albuminoid ammonia. M. Hlondoau gives the following , recipe for purifying and bleaching , sponges: The sponges are first washed . in tepid water and then in a solution of , hydrochloric acid, which frees the pores from carbonate of lime. To bleach them they are immersed for twenty-four hours in a solution composed of five ( parts of hydrochloric acid to 100 parts of water, with the addition of six pints . of hyposulphate of soda. In this way i siinn/rps mftv be bleached more efl'ectu- , I O 4/ I ally and rapidly than with sulphuric acid. , In the Comptes Rendus, No. 12, Professor S. P. Langley maintains that the total quantity of heat poured upon the earth bv the sun is much greater J than is generally supposed. Previous 1 to the atmospheric absorption, this [ maximum must be nearer the violet ' than the red. If the whole of the rays of the sun reached us, the eye would ' receive a sousation of blue rather than 1 white. The atmosphere of the earth, ' which we are accustomed to regard as 1 transparent, acts as a strongly colored ; medium. Oil of a green color, transparent and ; flosving freely, has been extracted by : Dr. C. 0. Cech from coffee. He is continuing his researches on this substance, and will publish the results by-and-bye. The coloring matter of tlieliubus chain- , lemcrus berries, he says, when boiled with cotton, wool aud silk, impart to hem readily an intense and permanent yellow, and, as the juice of the berries is altogether inocuous it might well be used as a cheap and useful dye for bnff, amber and orange shades, anil for giving i white wines a Tokay or sherry color. Lobster Factories. The lobster factories are very numer- ; cms, and cau hardly escape the notice even of the fashionable visitor to Maine. He is confronted by one, for instance, at the landing of Harpswell, the principal island of Casco Bay, another at the historic old town of Castiuc, another at Southwest Harbor, 1 Mount Deseit, besides the one at Green's Landing. Deer Island has factories at Oceanville and Burnt Cove, forming part of a series twenty-three in number, which belong to one linn, and stretch all the way down to the Bay of Fundy. They cannot be called intrinsically inviting, owing to their wholly utilitarian character, although they are apt to have redeeming features in an occasional touch of the picturesque. 1 The factory opens at one end on the wharf, close to the water. Two men bring in the squirming loads on a stretcher and dump the mass into cop- ' pers for boiling. At intervals the cov- 1 ers are hoisted by ropes and pulleys, 1 and dense clouds of steam arise, through TvliinVi Tvn visffty nf mfln. WfiniftTl anil children at work. Two men apnrnachthe coppers with stretcher and H|^^^MU^^irm^apid scooptheir shon^^^BHBHflS^B^^HHHH stretcher, the jP^^flHBBG^HHH tables, in scattered in^^^^Hi^HBn floor, in a large pile of shells and^^^BJ seen through the open door, and in an ox-cartload of the same refuse, farther oil', which is being taken away for use 1 as a fertilizer. The boiled lobster is separated, 011 long tables, into his constituent parts. The meat of the many-jointed tail is thrust out with a punch. A functionary called a "cracker" frees that of the claws by a couple of deft cuts with a cleaver, and the connecting arms are passed on to be picked out with a fork by the girls, in another department the meat is placed in the cans. The first girl puts in roughly a suitable selection of the several parts. The next weighs it, and adds or subtracts enough to complete the exact amount desired (one or two pounds). The next forces down the contents with a stamp invented especially for the purpose. The next puts in a tin cover with blows of a little hammer. Then a tray is rapidly filled with the cans, and they are carried co the solderers. who seal them tight except for minute openings iu the covers, and put them in au other tray, which, by means of a ])ulley-tackle, is then plunged in bath caldrons, in order j that the cans may be boiled till the air is expelled from their contents through j the minute openings. Then they are | sealed up and are boiled again for several i hours, when the process of cooking is complete. In the packing-room the cans arc cleaned with acid, painted a thin coat of g.-een to keep them from rusting, pasted with labels displaying a highly ornamental scarlet lobster rampant agaiust a blue sea, and placed by the gross in pine boxes to await the arrival of the company's vessel, which cruises regularly from factory to factory, collecting the product. Nine-tenths of the supply at present goes to the foreign market. On "loaf-days," the hands occupy themselves with making the neat j cans which it is their ordinary business i to nil.?ocribner. Fasting ami Fearing in Russia. There is in ordinary times plenty of cheap bread in Russia, and plenty of eabbagos and dwarf cucumbers, which, with tea and perhaps a little quass, form the staple food of the moujiks, who, j naturally abstinent from everything but strong drink, are artificially encouraged to spare living by their long and strictly observed religious fasts. The Petrof, or Peter's Fast, is of a duration of two or live weeks, according to the incidence of Easter Sunday; the fast of the Uspenski fast?called by the people the Gospoziaski?lasts from the lirst to the fifteenth of August; the Philippoff, or St. Phillip's fast, endures during the six weeks preceding Christmas; and between the Carnival and Easter there is another most rigidly observed fast, j Beides these, Wednesdays and Fridays j in eiery week throughout the year are fasts most scrupulously adhered to?by t lie common people ami, as a rale, by I females of all classes. But if the upper J ranks were as religiously abstemious as j their inferiors I fancy that the restaur- j ateuis of St. Petersburg would very | speedily exhibit a very remarkable una- j tiimity in going bankrupt. As it is, j well-to-do Russians arc perhaps the j most persistent gormandizers on the earth's surface. I have seen a considerable amount of eating and drinking in my time, in a good many countries, wholly or partially civilized, but never have I witnessed such determined knifo and fork play as that which goes on in the Muscovite capital. And I have abided there in spring and in summer, in autumn and in winter. The great grief felt by the I'etersburgers for the assassination of the Czar Alexander II. failed certainly to have any i perceptible effect on their appetites. They ate and drank like so mauy Grandgosiers during 'he whole of the period tntervening between the translation of ike imperial remains to the fortress and the linal net of inhumation; and the j Pro/ins i/rs Heucenra was continuous, and 1 as Rabelaisian as the gendarme-infected j; atmosphere would permit.?Ltnatyn i Telajrajih. A Story of Vaccination. Apropos of vaccination, says the London Truth, some members of a certain noble English household were desired to submit themselves to the ordeal of revaceinatiou. The lymph was to be extracted from the arm of the infant son of the house. All to whom the operation was considered needful underwent the process quietly enough, i until it came to the cook's turn. This cook, who was a brawny Scotch wo- i man, steadily and positively refused on i the ground that " no English blood should enter her veins." After much expostulation and delay she was vao- < ciuated with lymph taken direct from a < Scotch calf. Her arm alone took among ' those revaccinated, and with much triumph she asserts the fact as showing the unmistakable superiority of a " wee Scotch beastie" over a noble English lord. FACTS AND COMMENTS. A colored man, George H. Williams, lias just fallen heir to 850,000. He is the only negro in the Ohio legislature, md proposes now to retire from business aiul polities, and devote himself to i history he is writing, entitled, Negroes is Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens. Since 1871 the grain crops of the United States have been valued at the snormous sum of ?10,000,000,000, or an averago of $1,000,000,000 per annum. Of this total about one-half, or 55,000,000,000, has been the value of tho corn crop, while the wheat crop Juring the same period has aggregated l value of ?3,500,000,000. Scott living in New Mexico had a friend who wanted another man murilcred, and being of an obliging disposition, Scott agreed to do the favor. Herode fifty miles to accomplish it and found Donovan, who was the victim, in i saloon, bo bcott sat down ana played cards with him. Donovan observing that Scott was a good deal excited about something, drew his revolver, cocked it, and put it in his lap, without Scott's noticing it. So what was Scott's surprise on crying out: "I'm going to kill you," to find himself, instead of Donovan, falling dead 011 the floor. During the year ending March 30, 131 railroads in the United States constructed 0,113 miles of road, which was 128 miles less than was built in the preceding year. The miles of road constructed in these two years was.never but once exceeded in any two consecutive years in the history of the government. That was in 1870 and 1871. The miles of road constructed in 1880 and 1881 was nearly equal to one-seventh of all tlic roads in this country in 187*J, and at tlio rate in which railroad building is now progressing, the construction of this year promises to exceed that of last, if not that of any other year. It is related of tho late Colonel Thomas Scott that once, about ten years ago, when making one of the swift trips which he was in the habit of making over the lines under his control, his train was stopped by the wreck of a freight train. There were a dozen heavily loaded box cars piled up on the road, and it would take a long time to get succor from tho nearest accessible point, and probably hours more to get the track cleared by mere force of labor. He surveyed the difficulty, made a rough calculation of the cost of a total destruction of the freight, and promptly made up his mind to burn the road clear. By the time the relief train came the flames had done their work md nothing remained but to patch up a few injuries done to the track so as to enable him to pursue his way. The figures of the report of the veterinary departmenLoitlie privy council oflice recently isitteiltefcbft graphic tale of the sufferings whi<&aaimals undergo fcjj^^the stwage from America to also in striking |9j^HB0B|fM^^)?tter accommoHOHHBiHHflHHMMiil? exist hist swine ports in Canada anc^^BHSHBfl Of the animals originallysi^^M^BM were thrown overboard in the^SHRH the voyage, 510 were landed dead^lM 384 were so much injured or exhausted that they were killed at the place of landing. Humanity cortainly ought to devise some plan to prevent this suffering and loss. The Scotch fasting girl Christina Marshall, continues to live on a teaspoonful of water two or three times a day. She is thirteen vears old and lives at Chapelton, a small village near Strathaven. Her illness dates from August or September last, when she was treated for pulmonary cold. She gradually got better, but instead of reaching complete convalescence, fell into a thoughtful mood and betook herself to bed. She expressed the greatest disinclination for all kinds of food, and it was only by the most urgent entreaties that slie could even be persuaded to take wine or grapes. At the New Year, however, she expressed herself unable to take any kind of food at all, and her parents, seeing that their entreaties only caused her pain and sorrow, forebore to ask her any longer, and since then she lus subsisted solely on a few teaspoonfuls of water per day. A thorough examination of the patient failed to discover any trace of internal disease. The girl is, of course, growing grad ually weaker, but so slowly that the change is almost imperceptible. At first she did not care for any one sitting up with her, but latterly she has insisted on having either her father or mother by her bedside all night long. AHlinniVh nnt, rnrinrr tn enter into con versation, she answers all questions put, and appears to be fally aware of whatever takes place in the house, either by night or day. Edwin Booth's First Appearance on the Stage. Edwin Booth's first appearance on the regular stage was made September 10, 1849, at the Boston museum, in the little part of Tressil, in Cibber's version of Richard III. Junius Brutus Booth, his father?the rival of Edmund Kean, and one of the greatest tragedians that ever lived?was then keeping an engagement at the museum, and Edwin was in attendance ou him as dresser. Tressil hud been cast to the prompter of the theater; but it chanced that this person wished to avoid the duty of acting it, and that he succeeded in persuading Edwin to undertake it. This arrangement was made without the elder Booth's knowledge, and lie only became aware of it by readine in the plav-bill the announcement of his son's first appearance, duly underlined. " Fool!" was all he said when he read this announcement; and this remark was not understood to signify encouragement. When the night came, and Edwin had dressed his father for Gloster, and himself for Tressil, the eccentric parent?who, beneath an outward aspect of indifference, loved this son with the fondest affection?took a chair, lit a cigar, and viewing the youth with a critical eye, mado this inquiry: "Do you know that you are supposed to have been riding hard and far ?" "Yes, sir." " Where are your spurs?" "I haven't any." "Take mine"?holding out one booted leg. The boy took the spurs, and went on for his little scene with King Henry VI. "When he returned his father was still sitting negligently in the chair, and smoking the cigar. "Give mo my spurs," he said, again holding out his leg; and this was all the comment that Edwin Booth's first professional appearance ever elicited from the parent whom he idolized. He learned subsequently, though, that his father had been down at the wing, and had watched this first effort with evident interest and satisfaction, and then hastened back to his nonchalant pose in the dressing-room. There never, surely, could have been a more singular being than Junius Brutus Booth. This little trait of character is but one of thousands that marked him as a unique person.? William Winter, in Harper's Magazine. Aphorisms by Josh Billings. Some of Josh Billings' aphorisms done into English spelling: The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any otber. There is a great deal of religion in this world that is like a life-preserver, nnly put on at the moment of immediate danger and then half the time put on hind side before. Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. The man who doesn't believe in any hereafter has got a dreadfully mean opinion of himself ond his chances. SHOOTING IN SPOItT. A Number of Itccrnt C'nnr* Which Were Dcciileil bv the Courtn. A recent English trial will be in- . stnictive to American "target-shoot- , ists." Three young Englishmen visited a vacant fi?ld for amateur rifle shooting, j They placed a bit of board in the I branches of a tree for a mark, and com- -J menced firing, without any special pre- ltJ cautions as to who or what might be in the distance beyond. They tired in i3 turn, but before they had gone twice 0 around people came running fiom the rear of the target to tell them ? that they had killed a little boy. And 81 so it was. The rifles were able to carry a bullet nearly a mile. In a garden, far beyond the target, two chil- JJJ dren were at play. The little boy climbed into a low apple tree. Just ,. then these balls came whistling by, and ,1 he fell from the tree, dead, at his sister's J feet. The three young men were fried . for manslaughter, Now, it was not pos- , sible to ascertain with certainty whose bullet did the mischief. But the judges said that all three must be punished . alike. It was not necessary to detect ! the individual. Rifle shooting under such arrangements, and with no precautions to avoid doing mischief, was a dangerous and unlawful practice. The killing of the little child was manslaugh- ^ ter, and as all three of the young men 1 had participated in the shooting they gj were all liable to the punishment. A curious shooting case is related from Illinois. A young man had lately j" been married and had brought his J wife home to his father's house. Apparently?although history does not say so in express words?the match was dis- ? pleasing to the neighbors. At all events, .* the house was visited late one evening, soon after the wedding, by a " charivari." Now, a charivari is a serenade . turned wrong side outward. It consists of a great crowd surrounding the house, m hooting, shouting derisively, beat- ? ing burlesque drums and tooting mock . instruments, tiring guns, and the like. The father and head of the household , rushed out without much deliberation J and commenced chasing the riotous ? visitors, and in the melee one of the latter was shot by him, as several wit- . nesses said. Now, it is a well-estab- , lished rule in the courts that nothing in .1 the nature of mere words, threats, abuse or ridicule will justify shooting in retaliation. But the judges said that they thought the charivari might fairly be deemed a provocation sufficient to , exempt the father from punishment. As the constitutions generally say ? that the right of tho people to bear , arms shall not be infringed, it seems to be established that laws cannot be passed to forbid men from carrying fire arms. But most of the States probably have laws declared that these g weapons shall not be carried concealed; whoever wears a pistol must wear it Si openly, so that his neighbors can see that he goes armed and may take care 8] accordingly. Alabama has a stringent law of this kind. One man lately at- ., tempted to evade it by carrying in his pocket a pistol which could be taken apart and put together; the 11 cylinder would unscrew from the bar' tel. He earned the pieces separate, h but they were all in readiness and could be ufcrawed together and imt fc . jjTorder for use at short notice. He H^h^ueccs of the pistol wen not a j 9^court decided against ^^^^^^^^^ fttpistol cannot be Hn9HflB8^HB^^^^say that carrypocket HRHnHnM^on ? made useful, it is a weapom^J^^^^^ ^ The courts continue te take the ut- ai most pains to discourage the pernicious ^ practice of brandishing pistols or pointing gans, whether loaded or unloaded. K In Mississippi two iren "loafing" in a Q] country store were drawn into a petty Q] quarrel arising from the rudeness of one, who was eating nuts, in scattering the shells about so that they hit the 8? other. When the quarrel grew somewhat serious, the other van forth from 12 the store into the street. The shellthrower followed, and in the race dis- 31 charged a pistol. It was quite plain si from all circumstances that he did not ^ j intend to hurt the runaway, or even hit j him ; but meant only to alarm him, or st I demonstrate his own prowess. There- h fore his lawyers argued that there was ei no criminal assault, for, they said, I ft** f/-\ Vin*f id i>nrf nf fliA vflrr i/lpfi t, of uii assault. The judges said that this q is a difficult question: shall shooting in j. sport be judged by the intention of the " shootist" or by the apprehension of , the "shootce?" The true rule is that u no assault is committed when the per son at whom the gun or pistol is aimed knows that is empty, and that the assailant does not intend to injure him, but is acting only in fun. Cut when he C1 does not know these facts?when the j1 circumstances are such as may reason- |? ably lead him to believe that he is in 11 danger - his lights are just as truly violated as if the intent were serious and v: the danger actual. Also the effect of sj such conduct to disturb the public ii peace is equally objectionable. There- sj fore they pronounced the make-believe ai shooter guilty. ti The Hat. C( Every schoolboy is familiar with the "0( storv of Gesler's liiat, and how it was the ! indirect instrument of giving freedom fl j to Switzerland, and of first developing } the heroic spirit of William Tell?pro- rj viding always that William Tell, Walter Fnrst, Arnold von Melchthal, aud the rest ever had an existence out of the I delusive library of legendary lore, and ' the busy brains of the romancers. The el j Phrygian "cap of liberty" o? its pole ]\J j stands in direct opposition to Gesler's I hat in the market place at Altorf, yet ^ j patriots who would seem to have bowed b( I to the Austrian's lint, very reverentially j acknowledged the supremacy of the cap , of liberty. The only rule which hu- ? nianity will chiefly obey is the Rnlo ol ^ Contraries. Christians take off their .. hats when they pray, or when they enter a court of justice* as Jews put theirs upon their heads. A Turk accounts it 18 an act at once degrading and irreligious ^ fo remove his head-covering?although, tr bv-the-bye, the Pasha of Egypt took oil his "tarboosh" or "fez" the other day to w the Princess of Wales?a fresh symptom I that the Eastern question is rapidly ap- m I proaching solution ; but among Chris- bi ! tian people, to lift the hat from the c< head is accounted a mark of profound 2! respect, and even to point the finger p upward toward the hat, or simply touch ai its brim, a work of extreme politeness, h The instinct which makes the hat? tl either in its removal or irremOTal aspect ti ?an object of reverence is universal, and must spring from some psychologi- sj cal law of our nature. s| But the hat has not been always a jfi j symptom of honor ; it has sometimes h ! been made an emblem of degradation, q Abating one marked exception?that of w the white night-cap, which, from mo- c, tives of decorum, is drawn over the face S1 of the unhappy wretch who is about to ti be hanged?it has been the universal o | practice, in all ages, to conduct erinii- {j J nals to execution bare-headed, nor do I S( | know an instance of a soldier or sailor ai being t'ogged with his hat on ; although such punishment is ordinarily inflicted n in the open air. There have always tr | been, neyerthelcss, certain hats or caps js | of contumely and of infamy, of which tt i the simplest is the "dunce's cap" of our ff ! dame schools, called by dominies be- C( ! yond the Tweed an "antic cap." A cap ni with bells has always been held typical jt of folly, and in the middle ages was tl especially atlected by court fools. In t? some parts of Italy, Jews were once compelled by law to wear high yellow tl caps ; in Lucca the prescribed color for u the hat of an Israelite was a dark orange. n j But perhaps the most peculiar mark of a| distinction which the hat ever conferred n | on its wearer was in France, when bank- C1 I rupt Jews were forced to wear a green ]j ! hat, so that people might avoid losses /j j by trading w ith them. I wonder whether this strange sumptuary law has any; thing to do with the slang phrase, "J)o k i vou see anything green about meV" tl h Colonel John A. Sutter, the discov n crer of gold, is to have a splendid monu it j xuinent San Francisco. 5 FOR THE LADIES. TnrUlnb Wlven. * First among the Turkish social topics that of the harem. The Koran alws a Mussulman to have four wives; id manvpersons haye consequently im;ined that polygamy is a rule in Tur- a jy, whereas it is "the exception. A Mussulman may only have as man^ ives as he can keep in comfort; and it only the very rich who cau afford ur. The middle-class Turks have lly one wife apiece; the men of the west class are often obliged to remain ngle from not haying^ the means to ipport a consort in the style which the !oslem law enjoins. Nothing can be ore un-Turkish than the Mormon idea : accumulating a number of women to ve under one roof, quarreling in the . Itchen and parlor and acting as houseDid drudges for their husband. The nrkish wife is not a slave; the chief nit to find with her is that she-ha*- too ifty a sense of her own dignity. An Ivocate of female rithts would have )me diff culty in persuading her that ar lot was pitiable; she has never en- ,1. led the emancipation of' Christian omen, whose freeways shock her; while le has noticed that they get much less :spect from the men of their faith than lat which is invariably vouchsafed to erself. She vuils her face with no more igrct than a Western lady unveils her loulders. Turkish women are not shut p. They go out when they please, ;tended by their odaliks if rich, or -S aiding their children by the hand; and - *leir magpie voices fill the bazaars, for * S ley are noisy talkers. Whenever they Ms, men of all creeds stand aside defer- ^ itially. If a husband meets a wife in le street he makes no sign of recogition; if he perceives her halting before draper's stall and gazing significantly >." a silk dearer than he* can afford he .ust possess his sonl in resignation, uttering "Masshallah." This respect j ir women prevails also in the home mlfl. and it comes naturallv to the [nssulman, who has been taught from is boyhood to behave courteously tt> <" 10 softer sex. The Western conjugal cpression about "wearing the breeches" is its Turkish.counterpart in the phrase ' ij ? " live under the slipper;" and it is to ? 5 feared that not a few Turks know tl^^V! ,ste of thin implement of uxorial per lasion. A hamal (street porter) once'^frj ime before a cadi to complain that his ife trounced him too frequently. "See hat mine does," answered the magiaate, opening his gown and showing i )me weals on his neck and shoulders. . J Go thy way, my son, and thank Allah iou art luckier than I." Fndhlon Notes. . _ . jjj Chenille flowers are embroidered, on renadine gowns. The mitt will continue in fashion this 1 immer in all colors. Steel stitching appears on some Ijga ippers of new designs. Stockings shaded from the toe up are "a? le newest folly in hosiery. Spanish lace is used to trim elqflfedp lantles as well as those of silk. Flowers are not used on coarse strait; -/ ats bv good milliners this year. The striped silks in shaded colors ave seventeen tints in one stripe. The "white lace frill basted in th^K^ drts of gownsfmot worn in the street The draperies of muslin~ dreabea. are -"tj ot hemmed, but turned under antf After all there is' Boiup more. beimSM ful nor more generally becottrfaf^j^^^ S l^^^onnets are worn with white 'J ^^HBkj^ltoilets, and vice versa-5^ hite or dark costumes. Pretty andin^P^t^ dresses are tade of challies in JapSfifi^?^?8^118* a grounds of pale blue, rosiTgitJ^ifreen Porcupine straws are trimmed witti - -Ij; itin ribbon and silk tufts, smooth de-t-'*' nations apparently meant to neutral-.-^ e their rough eftect. The favorite finish of borders this immer is to cut them into long Vandykes lpported underneath by plaitings of jjK 10 materials of the dress. Lambrequins are made of the Algerian. ;riped goods, fringed at both ends and ung by large rungs attached to the ids of the curtain poles. The brocade grenadine is only used . r >r mantles now by the best dressmakers. owns are made of the plaiu grena- 'g ine, almost covered with Spanish lace. The new Scotch ginghams are .very rilliant in coloring, and the fabric is nusually fine. They t-re as handsome i appcarance as the plaide d silks of last 'f ?ason. Bishop sleeves, with shoulder cap and ? jffs of jetted black lace and collars to latch, are seen in many of the black ? ^ ^ "v?/. /Iwrtoono lafalv ? ice liUU UiUCft. greuuuius u i coo to ixKutj -. nported. " '|ftVj! White cashmere, nun's veiling or igogne, trimmed with lace and white itin, are favorite material for graduat- , j ig dresses. Broad sashes of the white >" v itin fasteued with buckles of cut steel ^ * re very effectively worn over these coa^' lmes. ' * White petticoats are little worn ex- > ?pt with long evening dresses, surah 1 eiug the most fasionable material for . !iy wear, black surah with narrow ounces edged with lace, and headed by ro or three lace insertions over colored bbon, being excessively fashionable. health" hints. ? A good liniment for cuts, bruises, ' :c., can be made by soaking common [aywood leaves in alcokoL As soon as a felon is ielt, put a fly lister over it, and in six hours it can a picked out with a needle. An exchange says an ounce of cream t n m'nt irofor /Ivonlr of. in. I till till 111 O. JSA1AU U1 .Ti.vvM ^ rvals, is a certain euro for smallpox. at an ounce of preventive by vaccinaon is better. A wash made from the spotted alder recommended for ivy poisoning. Iso the s'lop water of a blacksmith's jugh as a sure cure for poison ivy, and agwood and strong salt and water as . i antidote for the poisoning of sumach. Contagion is largely propagated by teans of the clothing, and clothing is est disinfected by heat. No form of 'ii intagion can withstand a dry heat oi 4 20 degrees. The clothing should be laced in a box or a closet maintained t that temperature for perhaps an our. Carbolic acid Rill not destroy le effect of vaccine virus but for the 3$ me being. Nine times out of ten the cause of "ij ck headache is in the fact that the & :omach is not able to digest the food % ist introduced into it, either from its aving been unsuitable or excessive in /y uality. A diet of bread and butter, ith ripe fruit or berries, with moderate, sntinuous exercise in the open air, lfllcient to keep up a gentle perspira!on, will often cure in a short time. >ne teaspoon ful of powdered charcoal > i half a glass of water, and drank, jmetiines gives relief. And yet the l)ove remedy will not avail in all cases, sovereign remedy for this disease is ot easily found. A correspondent conibutes the following : Sick headache periodical, and is the signal of disess which the stomach puts up to intra us that there is an over-alkaline judition of its fluids; that it needs a j itural acid to resto:e the battery to s normal working condition. When le first symptoms of a headache appear, ? ike a teaspoonfnl of lemon-juice clear, fteen minutes before each meal, and le same dose at bedtime. Follow this p until all symptoms are past, taking o other remedies, and you will soon be ble to go free from your unwelcome nisance. Many will object to this bemse the remedy is too simple, but I ave made many cures in this way?Dr. Jairc. It is only fair, we suppose, and in eeping with the eternal fitness of lings, that the lady who has pot her onse plants ont into the garden should ow lay for the hen that has been layig for her all winter and summer.-? tmervUfo JwrnaU A