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t&W- . - . - . .. . ABBEVILLE PRESS AND B A XN E Bj BY HUGH "VVILSO.N AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C? WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1881. NO. 21. VOLUME XXVl^jB Climbing:. Not at a bound, But round on round, Up the ladder we're climbing! Striving to aim at something higher, Striving to win the heart's desire, Up the.laddor we're climbing. Each step we count The while wo mount, Up the ladder we're climbing! Ladder of learning, ladder of fame, Ladder of wealth, it is all the same; To gain a fortune or win a name, Up the ladder we're climbing. Pause though we may, Yet every day Up the ladder we're climbing! Not content with a low degree, Anxious still at the top to be, Hand over hand, continually Up the ladder we're climbing. Johnny and Fretl And little Ned Up the ladder are climbing! The ladder is big and they are small, And better for them not to mount at all Than to break their necks with an ugly fall Down the ladder they're climbing. A little Wiflow aM Her Sailors, CHAPTER I. Mrs. Beresforil, young, pretty, or, to be more precise, just twenty-two, v/itb i.i?a o.\.i UUCOlUUt UittiUO| WIUO OTC3 OilU <4 U UU U1 sadness, came to the Beach?our little seaside resort?for her daughter's health. It was soon known that the lady was a widow, and wrapped up in her child. Every day the frail little one was seen in her baby-carriage, with her mother and maid, moving to and fro under the shade of the trees, and Mrs. Berebford's cottage was the favor-! ite resort of the best people of the place. These were ladies only, since Mrs. Beresford did not mingle much with or ! make the acquaintance of gentlemen. The moment came, however, when she was to become less exclusive. Marie, as she called her child, was! taken quite ill, and Doctor George i Meredith, the lesident physician, was ! sent for in haste. He obc-yed with great; promptness. For just two weeks he; had been following the little widow about with h?s eyes, thinking of her j when ho retired at night, and specu-' lating vainly on the possibility of inducing her to become permanently i associated with his household in the character of Mrs. Doctor Meredith. In other words, George Meredith, twenty- j eight, tall, good-looking, and a man ' esteemed by everybody, had fallen in j love with Mrs. Beresford. He went in haste to the small cot tage, ami announced himself. Mrs. j Beresford exclaimed: "Oh, doctor, I am so glad you havo cornel Marie is so ill!" Then her blue eyes filled with tears, and she drew him to the small bed. The manner in which she did so, laying her hand on his arm, was childlike and confiding. Iler eyes interrogated him with earnest feeling as he felt the child's j pulse, and ho could hear her suppress a little sob. When Doctor George Meredith went j back to his office he found his brother Will there, smoking a cigar. They were not unlike, but Will was two years younger. lie had already acquired a i very gratifying practice in his profes-! sion,the law, and his cordial manners j made him a general favorite. "Well, old Galen, where have you j been this hour?" ho said. "To see the little widow." "You don't say? Then she really allows a man to look at her." "Her child is sick?is going ^to be very ill. I am very sorry? and she has j other trouble." Mr. Will Meredith listened atten- j tively. "Other trouble?'' he said. "She told me all about it in the simplest manner. I don't know how it j came about, but as the little one was i asleep under the effect of an anodyne, ! she made a confidant of me. She has I a claim under her husband's will which j is disputed. Everything depends upon ; it. Without success in tlio lawsuit j which is about to bo brought, sho will ; be penniless. Sbe asked me to recom- j meml counsel, and I recommended you." | " Me 1" exclaimed Will Meredith. "Why not? It was natural. You are ; thoroughly competent to conduct the ! suit, and 1 promised to bring you to see her and consult about it." Will Meredith smoked for some mo-j ments m an absent way. At last he said, quietly : ' Oi course, I will go at once. Have j rou made an appointment V" "For this evening. Como at sir, when I will make little Marie another i visit and present you." At fix the brothers entered Mrs.' Beresford's cottage, and Will Meredith : was presented to the lady. Sbe received him with the same air of childlike confidence, and then all her attention was given for the moment to Dr. George Meredith, who wa.s st the bedside of Marie. The little sufferer had a burn-! ing fever, and Doctor Meredith, who i was too young to have become pro- j fessionally hardened, looked very much i troubled. The lady saw his expression and again her eyes filled quickly. "Oh, doctor, she is not worse:" sho exclaimed. "No, madam," he said, "but it is my j duty to tell you that sho is very ill. I | trnnf, liv tomorrow. Iinwpver " Mrs. Berosford sank back in her cliair, and, covering her face with her hand- j kerchief, uttered a hopeless sob. There was no legal consirltation that evening. The child had plainly driven from her mind every other thought. All considerations of business, of money and lawsuits had disappeared from vievr. Doctor Meredith returned to his office an hour afterword with his brother? j they were to call again in the morning. This was the sirnplo manner in which George and Will Meredith made the uoqnaintance of Mrs. liereeford. They returned to the cottage in the forenoon of the next day, and this time had the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Beresford's fan? under a new aspect. Little Marie had slept well during the night, and her fever had sensibly abated. She was still quite ill. but there was a new hope, and hope is the sunshine of the bureau countenance. Mrs. 13ere?ford was a new being. Her face plowed as she looked at Doctor George Meredith, her beautiful hands Iving in her lap were clasped and a little raised?sho was the picture of iov a.nd. her visitors added to them selves, of loveliness. The Tmsiness consultation followed. Mr. "Will Meredith was soon put in possession of the points connected with the will. The lady famished him with a copy, and made a brief statement which was very simple and clear. Then the brothers retired together as before, and Doctor George taid to Will: " What do you think of her?" "Ithink she is charming," was the reply. " Ion are right, Will?why don't you make love to her?" " What an idea ! I'm not a marrving man." "You will marrv, some day. Here is your opportunity. Go and gain her lawsuit?you say it involves a large property. Then she will be grateful, you see?you wi'l bo married and live happily afterward ." Will blushed a little and said : " Well, as you have so high an opinion of the little widow, why not court hei yourself ?" "Pshaw 1" said Doctor George, witli something very much resembling hit brother's blush, "you can't expect an old fellow like myself to fall in love with every pretty patient I have!" "Not with all?with this one." "I have no time, my dear fellow?tor busy. There is some one coming aftei me now." A summons came for the doctor to ee< one of his patients, and the conversa tion ended. Thereafter, as the days wore on, i closer and closer intimacy grew up be tween these three persons. The widow V?^ .. . . ' ; who had lost all her color, ami becomc . as white as a ealla lily at her child'? I danger, was all roses again. Little j Marie?thanks to the assiduous attend' ance of Doctor Meredith?had recovered from her illness; and ten times a day the happy mother told him how grateful she was for all his kindness. ! After a while this close friendship ripened into a charming intimacy and unreservo. Mrs. Berosford was one of . those persons who give their confidence j unasked to those who win it, and her relations with the two brothers were full of frankness and sweetness like her bearing. She came to call one of them Doctor George and the other Mr. Will, and a part o! every day was passed in the society of one or the other of them. Xofc with both together. They did I not visit Mrs. Beresford in company with each other. Was this by design ? Probably. The truth is, the brothers were both very much in love with Mrs. Beresford. She seemed more and more worthy ol it as they knew her better and better. Some persons i:<:r>rrss at first?afterward not so favorably; others more as one knows them better; a third class please in the beginning, and end by becoming charming. To this latter class belonged the little widow. She was perfectly natural, and knew no more of the world than a girl of seventeen, j Certain words coujnre up certain ideas and images. The word "widow" is one of these. You conceive a person dressed in black who does not smile, having buried her sunshine; or a gay some one, not dressed in black, who makes eyes and beams on everybody?provided the ; everybody is of the opposite sex. There ! was nothing at all of either in Mrs. Bcresford. She had been married at seventeen, lived in the most private manner, and had only emerged from I this retirement on the death-of her lms band to come to the beach for the benefit of her child's health. It was irnpos- j sible to imagine any human being more 1 innocent and confiding. She wore halfmourning, but it did not resemble j mourning. Years had assuaged her j grief, and her smile was fresh and ! young; tbat the had ever be^n married j would have seemed impossiblo but for I t!ie presence of little Marie. It was not so much to be wondered I at, therefore, that she fascinated the brothers. What would resnlt from! that? It seemed a great misfortune, j Whs this pretty little face, with the ! blue eyes, the chestnut braids and the j iunocent lips, comiQg to cause dissen-1 sion between the two brothers? That would be a terrible pity. They had loved each other with the warmest affection from their childhood, and never I before came into collision. Was a j woman now to interrupt this brotherly love? Not a word on the one subject had j been said between these three persons. I The little lady and her friends seemed united by no more than the ties of a close and affectionate intimacy. But the old careless unreserve had disappeared. From time to time a stolen glance from the blue eves of Mrs. Beresford interrogated the faces of the brothers, and a shade of sadness, like the tlitting gloom from a iloating cloud, passed over her face. At such moments she sighed and said nothing. CHAFTEK II. " George!"?" Will!" " I am going to look after the matter of the suit now. The trial comes on in ten days, and there is 110 tim9 to lose. You know it is full two days' travel to . I had better start, therefore. But I'll be Lack pretty i soon?as soon as possible. Look after the little widow while I'm gone." Will Meredith said this in the simplest way, and walked to the mantelpiece to relight his cigar, which he had snflered to go out. A light movement of his breast thus escaped Dr. George, who for a moment made no reply. " But?you are not obliged to go at once?you In fact, Will, I was going to recommend the little widow to you," said Dr. George, with a forced laugh. "To me? But you 'are!going nowhere." " I had thought of making a trip. I will tell you about it another time. Are you obliged to go ? My own absence would be for only?not for so much as a month." The brothers looked at each oilier, but neither read anything. " If I am tu try the case, I will have to ro," said Will, quietly. George reflected and colored a little. "Well, if you must?and then you know there is nothing co detain me here! As to the little widow, she has plenty of friends, and will get along very well without either of us." " Certainly." There the discussion ended. Mr. Will Meredith, fortified with all the necessary documents, set out for the distant city where Mrs. Beresford's suit was to i be tried ; and Doctor George Meredith j packed up his valiso and went to tell | the widow good-bye. He would bo ab- ' sent, ho said, probably for about a month. This notifica'ion was made to ! the lady aBout sunset in her cottage. J The long, red rajs plunging through j the window fell upon the rosy cheeks j and blonde curls of little Marie, who I * -- ii - -- i r T> was asieep on ine soia ; una iurs. xjerHHford. with a Japanese fan in ber little | white band, was gently fanning the j child. "Going?" she said, when Doctor George Meredith announced his in- I tended departure. "Yes; I really must?I need not tell yon how?how little I wish to?go."' Was the composed Doctor George j Meredith blushing, and was his voice ' faltering? It ceitain 1,7 seemed so. "Why arc vou going, Doctor George?" said Mrs. Bero^ford. Now, when Mi'ri. Beresford looked at envbody in that manner it was not possible for a pcrsonugo of tne other sex to remain altogether unmoved. Her cheeks, ordinarily with only a faint color, came to resemble blush-roses, and ! her blue eyes seemed to melt and swim in?could it bo tendernesb? The baud which he had taken to tell her good-bye i shook in his own, and her cordage rose ' and fell?if. really seemed that fome alien element had suddenly entered the bracing sea air, and that Mrs. BerosK'id eould not breathe without taking very short breaths. Doctor George Meredith was a little more composed?not much. To a philosophic eye contemplating his deportment, the fact would have been obvious l.f> m>?vwT imifh i?i lnv?v Witltr.rf knowing precisely what ho was about, lie raised the little willow's hand to hi* li};s and kisseu it. He then performed a more mysterious ceremouy. She wore a white dress, with close fitting sleeves, terminating at tho wrist in deep cnffa, which just touched with Iheir edges tho small jeweled hands. Doctor George Meredith, apparently in an agitated reverie, pushed back tlie cuff on the hand which he held and kissed the white arm just above the wiist. Then ho looked up ami their eyes met. There i was nothing in her own, or in her face full of blushes, which was calculated to chill the lover. He said : " I love you so much ! I havo loved you almost from tho instant 1 tirst saw you?and Will loves you, too." Mrs. liereslord drew a long breath, hesitated, and then said, in a low voice: "I am so sorry !" It was ambiguous. Could she mean that she was distressed at the announcement made by Doctor George Meredith that he loved her, or that his brother loved her ? He was in a maze. No . foVkc.Mirt/i n? rninr? Iin rnfninnrl her hand. " Do you know why I am going away ?" i he said. i! " No," .sotto voce. i "Because I do not wish to remaiu > near you. 1 cannot help loving yor | and showing you that I do?and \Vil] loves you, too ! You do not know ho'j >; hard all this is?what a tcrriblo tempta ' i tion. Will and myself have always I loved each other, and there never was : 3 day when ho would not have given uj -' his own happiness for mine, or I min< \ for his. Now this ono thought confront i: mo. Will loves you and I lovo you, ! - I cannot he happy unless ho is mad , I happy. " Oh, what am I to do? Wha ! 51 can I do but go away and leave my dea i Will to show you, without my glun ) face by, how much he loves you." The' quiet Doctor George was no I recognizable. His voice shook and hi i1 seemed agitated by the strongest emo j tion. " You see, now," he said, "Iliad no the least intention of telling you this I feel as if I had done something un manly and disloyal. I pride myself 01 my loyalty and my love for my brother I What can I do but go away?as he hai gone." The little widow had said nothing for a long time ; but her heaving cor [ sago had spoken for her. Would sh( add articulate words now in reply tc I Doctor George's passionate protests I tions ? And if she did so would she ad' vise him to go or stay ? She did | neither. She said, in a voice which scarcely rose above the lap of the surJ | near: I " I should be so lonely with both oi yon away." " You'have your lady friends." "I do not care for them." "Will will soon come back." j No reply. " He loves von?I am sure of it." | " But-" She stopped. " You mean?" "I do not love him." "You will do so in time," said Doctor George, with a beating heart. She shook her head. In spite of himself?in spite of his I love for Will, George Meredith felt ! overjoyed. Human nature is a poor ! oO'.,;,. UiltUi. "Women never know their own ! hearts." " I know my own." "You are aiono; it is a terrible word for a young ami beautiful woman, l'ou will marry?for a companion." "Marry," sho saiil, with a little tremor in her voice and figure, " marry for a companion without love ? How cmldI? How could jou think it possible?" " Yon will love, some day." It really was curious to see how ccmpletely this man of twenty'eight had lost command of his voice. " You will meet with somo one who wiil touch your heart." Then tho weaker vessel?the mere girl?showed herself calmer than the superior creature; without lusing a particle of her innocence, she looked up to him, and eaid, in the merest whisper: "How do you know that it has not been touched already V" These words were of a commonplace nature, but tho glance was not. Consequently George Meredith put both arms around Mrs Beresford's neck, and drew her face to his breast, wbero it rested without making any effort lo changc its position. Poor Wiil! On the very day when Doctor George ! ? nvwl "Rnrovfnr/1 lm/1 mtwlo their arrangements definitely to be married, Will Meiedith wrote tiicm : " Kejoice with me, my friends ! Mrs. Beresford'a suit is gained in every point, and I am very much mistaken if u fuli settlement of the estate does not make her a young (and charming) millionairess." It was one of the most difficult of all things to George Meredith to write back, but he did so, and Will responded : "You think that's news! What a faucy! I have suspected it for ages. So bo it?bless yon, my children! I'll be in time for the wedding." But this seemed most doubtful. Will did not even return. Ho made a full ; settlement of his law business by mail, said that he would now take a jaunt to Canada, and that was the last heard of him for many a day. * Doctor George Meredith and Mr3. Beresford wero married in the autumn, snd, as the cottage was a more agreeable place of residence than tho doctor's bachelor quarters, ihe young married people resided there. It was a homelike little establishment, well protected frnm t'm cr>i-l>TW/f? arid snvitlff nf the ! ensuing year found thorn still residing there. Nothing could be brighter or happier than the appearance of the small menage, but a lurking sadness would linger in tho bottom of George Meredith's heart. Ho Lad loved his brother dearly, and he now knew all? | that Will had gone away to leave the | coast clear, and not become an obstruction to his brother's happiness. Ho deserved all the praise imaginable for that proof of love and loyalty. He had never "spoken" to Mrs. Ueresford, this mercurial but cautious Will. She had treated him and George with an afl'ection so equal as to tell him nothing on tho subject of her preferences. For aught he knew to the contrary, he, Will, was the best beloved, and he went away and staid away, and his brother now understood all. Doctor George Meredith and his wife were seated at dunk in tho little drawing-room in the cottage. The lamps had just been lit, and the doctor had taken up a newspaper. Madam was engaged in curling mound her liDg^r one of little Marie's ringlets, the child leaning on her lcnee;?. Doctor Georpre looked at the pretty picture over his newspaper, and said, suddenly: "The fact is, Annie, you and Marie are delightfully homelike. I ought to care to se j no one elso in the world; but do you know I want someone else." "You do not long to sto him more than I do," said Mrs. Lerosford-Meredith, sadly. " It is strange ! Where can he be? lie has not even written." " But coming is better by a Ion? way ?don't you think so?" exclaimed a laughing voice. Will Meredith walked in and shook hands with George, who had started up, after which he embraced Mrs. Meredith. "Oh, Will I" she exclaimed, "I am so happy you have come back." "Then you will bo ulad to Fee my better half also, I hope." " Your btIter half?" " There she is?in tho shadow behind the door." A figure passed tho speaker quickly, and a laughing face confronted Mrs. Meredith and kissed her. "Nellie!" cjied that Indy. "Yes, madam; formerly vour cousin, now your s^sk-r-in-luw." "In fact," said Will Meredith, " it is the simplest thing in tho world. I made the acquaintance of this amiable young person in , when; I tried : your case, my sister Annie; was at lracted by the relationrhip, and have captured the prize. We have just been married, and 1 thought wo had better come to see you. Are you glad to see ' us?" Mrs. Annie Meredith walked up to ' the speaker and, putting her arms around his ncck, kissed him. j "Yes, brother Will,"she said. ! "All right," said that gentleman, : " and now, I say, brother George, you never took that trip, after all, did you ?" tteep-Sea Waves. According to a cure/id investigation the locgest sea-wavei observed appeal ; to have been a little mum than '20U yards in lenpth, with a period of about i cloven seconds. The highest regular i sea-waves accurately observed appear tc | have had a in ipht of not more than i forty feet,. The highest waves are gen ; orally very long; but, for that very , reason, they aro not the deepest. It if I believed that the greatest slope of tht i external surface of a wave in thr> open | sea never reaches thirty degrees, and 1 seldom exceeds fifteen degrees. It i> pjnsiblo that in a storm there may b( i short portions of a wave-surface ex ceptionally steep, as the result of super imposed waves, and tlieso may bo ven dangerous to boats; but they do not oci cur at all in simplo swells, nor do tli?i i determino the slope of the largo under I lying wave from which a ship receive; ' ' its motion. Moreover, the vessel's owi : depth carries it below the surface wave * and the mean effective wave acting upoi i the ship is always less steep, especial 1 ) i in the c.?se of short waves, than in th ^; surface wave. s | From these facts we see that the well I knowji waves which "run mountain e high" have tbeir existence only in th t imagination of the poet. r | FACTS AM) COMMENTS. a The New York Commercial Bulletin t estimates that the total Jobs by fires & during tho year in the United States - J and Canada will be ?30,000,000. t J Since 1871 the assets of the life in. snrance companies doing business in -1 New York State have nearly doubled, 1 increasing from 8211,8-19,110 to 8-417,. 797,554, or ninety-seven per cent., while 5 their surplus has increased about eighty-five per cent., or from 838,585,l j S25 to $71,561,670 51 No lino in England carries the same > i number of passengers, or carries them j so cheaply and pays so large a dividend, j as the underground railroad of Loudon. 1 | The passengers last year numbered [ | 110,000,000. Several of the underground | and overground railways carry work I men twelve rmles a day for two cents, j thus enabling them to enjoy cheap houses and country air. It is Raid by some one who has apparently looked up the facts that only seven days of national fasting and humiliation have been appointed by Presidents sinco the establishment of tbe government, and that they have been designated as follows : May 9, 1798, by Adams ; January 12, 1815, by Madison ; tho last Thursday of September, 18(51, April 30, ]8(5:j, and tli3 first Thursday of August, 1864, by Lincoln; May 25,18G5, (postponed to June 1) by Johnson; and September 2G by Arthur. | One way to serve pork and beans, which is relished by some of those persons who have a constitutional aversion to pork, is this: After preparing the beans in the usual way for baking (this is staking over night and parboiling in two waters next day), cut the small [ piece of pork you allow to season the ! iicar.s in thin slices, and lav them over the beans; they will be sufficiently flavored, but wilt not be gieasy; the pork will bake to a crisp, and will not taste | us well as it does when it is baked in a square piece down deep in the bean j dish. Intelligence from the Bodgers, sent out by the United States government to search for the -Teannette in the Arctic regions, has been received. Tho dispatch is, in substance that the whaler 11. 33. Handy reports the Esquimaux at Point Barrow as saying that they saw ' four white men going toward Alacken- j zie river last spring, and found where j they had made snow huts to live in 1 : duiing the winter. They saw dead men : in llie huts, and also saw tracks of a ' sledge, with dogs, aud footprints of ' men, supposed to be survivors of the ' .Teannette. The Bodgera and Strelock will investigate the rumors, and expect 1 to send more authentic news. Professor Tliwing has, in an article ' on colleges in the International Rtrieir, ! given an interesting account of these 1 institutions in the United States. He j says there are 1358 colleges, with grounds and apparatus, valued at thirty-seven millions of dollars, having fully thirty-seven millions of producI tive funds. Columbia college has an income of $315,000, Harvard of $231,- J 000, Princeton, 87"),000, California, ?105,000, and Ihreo others with over < 8100,000. Seventeen of the above number are State universities, and the others are founded by private or denominational liberality. Tie gifts to j colleges since 1SG0 have been larger than during all tho previous history of . ; the country. j! Dr. ?T. S. Jewell, of Chicago, in writing upon the treatment of insane crimi- ! nals in a journal devoted to the discus- 1 sion of nervous and mental diseases, has the following very sensible wordfi to say: Whenever, in the case of murder or any other flagrant crimo against society, the plea of insanity is set up i and successfully maintained, then the : penalty should bo the incarceration of the criminal for life in a prison asylum. ! Under no circumstances should such a ( person lie turned loose into society I again after having manifested such flan- j gerous tendencies. It is our hope that one 'of the results which 1 may grow out of the event which 1 has so shocked the nation may be the passage of simple, stringent, well-considered laws providing for the disposal in this way of ail dangerous insane criminals. In this way only can society protect itself and justice con- ' siderately avoid blind and useless se- < verity. If such a plan were adopted and rigorously carried into effect the plea of insanity would be made more | rarely than at present. Speaking ot revaecniation the Sanitarian fays that "the repoit, recentb * furnished at the local government board of London relates to un average nnm- ; ber of 10,501 persons permanently cm- ; ployed in the postal service, all of whom have been required to undergo revaccination on admission to the service, unless that operation has been performed ' within seven years previously. Among , theso persons during tlie ten years? 1870-1870?there has not been a single : total case of smallpox, and in only ten instances have there been non-fatal ' attacks, all of which were of very ! slight character. In the telegraph department, where tho enforcement of revaccination has not been carried out wiih the same completeness, twelve ' eases have occurred in tho same period among a staff averaging 1,458 in number. I Eight of these attacks were of persons : who had not been revaccinated, and one 1 ' proved fatal. The remaining four were ! of revaccinated persons, who all per fectly recovered without pitting. This ' experience like that of tho nurses at ! the smallpox hospitals, seems to show i that revaccinated persons enjoy absolute ' ; immunity fi\ m severe attacks from ! smallpox, and that their risk of catching i that disease at all, even in its most j modified form, is infinitesimal. Diamonds and Ignorance, j I observe with dislike the complete i obliteration, at least in our Eastern j States or certainly in our great cities , of New York and Philadelphia, of native : born Americr.n boys in the trades and , ! useful departments. It is common to 1 hear these young men tay that they ' ought to have licli fathers, thereby ad' mitting there miserable incapacity to ! maintain themselves. The women, I urn sorry, to say arc very much responsible for the worthlessness of their children. They have got the notion derived from our im! perfect fecial type and rapid growth in money without any corresponding eduI cation of thg head and habits, that it is | demeaning to their girl* to do any ! work, and to thorr hoys to be anything i but brokers, lawyers, etc. You look around our hotels nnd see ' the diamonds worn in tha ears of eveiy | gill and every woman from sixteen I years old up. They represent rail lines i of dollars in ono of these bi<; hotels. ' What is it all for? Do these heads j contain anything corresponding to the : Hash of those diamonds? "Why, a young girl with a pair of dia' ! monds as big as the end of your thumb, 1 came up to me only anight or two ago, and hearing me mention Benjamin Franklin, said, "Who was Franklin? WTasn't. ho the inventor of printing?" 1 "Yes," said T, "and of thunder and light1 ning." She said, "Oh, thank you,' and 1 went away without the least idea that ' there had been any satire.?AW York ! Letler. Tim lf:iil\v.iv Tunnels. i Tho following is the length and *! nnir.es of the three longest railway tun nels in tho United States: Hoosac, 7 i built in 1851-7(5; length, 25,081 feet; - j mean height, twenty feet; mean width, ? 1 '.verity-live feet; throtigh mica schist, i decomposed rock, and granatoid gneisr. , Sun Fernando, or No. 20 Southern i Pacific railway, built 1875-76; length, v 0,fJ9(i feet; width, sixteen feet; height, o nineteen and one-half feet; through sandstone. Under Baltimore: built in l-|]b71-7y; length, 6,948 feet; width, i- twenty-seven feet; height, 18.5 feet; e thiough rock, clnv and earth; arched throughout SUN HAY READING. Jiixt an We Mnk'S It. V.'c must not hope to be movers, And to gather the ripe, gold ears, Until we have first bi.cn eowcrx, And watered the ground with tears. It is not just as wo takr itTins mystical world if ours; Life's field returns as v o make it, A harvest of thorns or flowers. ?Goxpd Banner. Rellalou* Ncwn end Note*. Tlic revised New Testament is said to be in regular use in at least twenty of the leading New York churches. Tho English Wesley an conference has j authorized the use of tho revised New j Testament in the church catechisms. Tkf* Hocietv of Friends liavo formed I a small congregation at Constantinople, j having al; times twenty-five members. As an indication of the general atten-1 tiin the Christian religion is attracting ; in Japan, it is stated that a society has been formed whoso members solemnly ! pledge themselves never to become j Christians. A Presbyterian journal figures that "Presbyterian church members form about one-eighth of the church membership in South Carolina. More than one-third of tho State senators and three-fifths of tho Congressmen from South Carolina are Presbyterians." In seventy-six years there have been but two pastors over the Congregational ' church at. Barnstead, N. H., tho first, , tho Rev. JCnos George, being ordained ' at twenty-years of age, and serving fifty- i six years ; tho second, tho Rev. W. O. j Carr, having served for tho last twenty years. The Swedish Lutherans in the United | Stutes number 300 congregations, 150 | pastors, and 70,000 members, 40,000 of J whom are communicants; and they, with other Scandinavians, havo established four colleges, five theological seminaries, and numerous academies and schools. The Rev. James Calvert recently gave an account in a London lecture of his t L-. na n lun v-iurec ^cuio ui uu cajkhcucu uo <* missionary, chiefly in the Fiji Islands. Ho found tho people in 1838 mostly cannibals, and now leaves^ them nearly oil Christians, but the king of the Friendly Islands was already a preacher. A Methodist lay college has been i1 opened in Boston, to prepare young | people for religious work. It is open ! to both sexes and all ages over ten, on condition of conformity to its rules. Instruction is given by lectures on tho 1 Bible, tho church, Christian work, church mnsic, English literature, etc., md is free. ( A " solid block cf Methodism," a , unique appointment, is whatMethcdi6ts j :all Antioch circuit in Middle Tennessee, ! which occupies about fifteen miles | square, and has nearly seven hundred i members. In this whole territory there i, is no other religious organization, and j orobablv not moro than a dozen mem-1 IT %> bers of otliev clmrcbes. WISE WORDS. Ragged clothes cannot debaso a man !1 is much as a frayed reputation. It is not life to live for one's self I ik no. Let ns help one another. | Fa.Tors of every kind are doubled |' when they are speedily conferred. Always do a kind act in a kind way; to do it otherwise destroys all it-i value. ( When one gets so much humiHty that , be is proud of it, he is just too good to i live. There ere three classes of men?the retrograde, the stationary, the progressive. True benevolence is to love all men. Recompense injury with justice and < kindness. There are some who seem to have no appetite for mirth; others appear to have uo relish for anything else. , Many men claim to be firm in their j principles, when really they are only i obstinate in their prejudices. 1 There never were in the world two 1 nnininns nlilcA. nr> more than two hairs 1 or two grain a. Tho most universal!: quality is diversity. Talent is tho capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry, and it is a voluutary power, while genius is involuntary. When wo feel a strong desiro to thrust , our advice upon others, it is usually bo-1, cause we suspect their weakness; butj i wo ought rather to suspect our own. Practical Knowledge, . The world little imagines how largely | it is indebted to the laborious researches j of scientific medical men for many of ! the most important truths relative to j human health, happiness and life. As population increases, and thcvaluocfj food is enhanced, the knowledge whiai i1 chemistry has elicited is becoming more ! and more valuable in a practical point (' of view. j Sorao kinds cf food arc more nutri- ! tious than others, and if it should be j found that articles which are cheapest ' have most nutriment and give the high-I est ability to labor, then knowledge be- j comes money to the poor. Tables vaiy, j j but some of the general results are as follows: One pound of rice, prepared j for the table, gives eighty-eight per' cent, of nutriment, and, consequently, a J relatively proportional ability uo labor, j1 compared with other articles of food, j A pound of beef, costing fifteen cents, j gives only twenty-six per cent, of nutri- i' mei:t. According to these estimates, i1 therefore, rice, as an article of food, is i 100 per cent, cheaper, 100 per cent. | more valuable to tho commou laborer ! than roast beef, yet countless numbers L>f tho poor in tho largo cities I' straiif a point daily to purchase beef I at fifteen cents a pound, wlier. they j; could get a pound of rico for! one-third ox the amount, tho rice, too, j1 having threo times as much nutrimont : 1 as the beef, makiug a practical differ- j j enc? of (>00 per cent,, aside from the !! fact that boiled rice is three times easier 11 of digestion than roast beef, the nco i being digested in about one hour, roast ! 1 bee. requiring three hours and a half j There is meaning, then, in the reputed ! fact that two- fths of the human family | live on rice. Wo compile, therefore, ;' tho following tables for preservation, as being practically aud permanently usefill. All the economist requires is to j compare the prico of a pound of food i with tho amount of nutriment which it 1 attbrds: i Kind of Mode of Percentage of Food. Preparation. Nutriment. Oils raw {(.> l'eas boiled !):[ Parley boiled *12 ! Corn bread baker'. HI 1 \\ In at bread hake d ill) | Kice boiled Ms j Heans boiled S7 I Jive bread baked 7!) Oatmeal porridge 74 ; Clinton broiled ISO' Plums raw l>!> ( (i rapes raw *27 1 Beef roast utl Poultry roast 20 Pork roast 21 Veal tried 21 1 Venison broiled 22 ^ Codfish boiled 21 Kggs whipped l;l j Applet) raw 10 I Milk raw 7 j Turnips boiled 4 ; Melons raw ;! ; Cucumbers ia v 2 | Catching Herring in Winter. In winter there is a different and a I novel method of capturing herring i Liko mackerel, they go in schools, and i for home reason they will always follow ! a light. Ttfi or threo fishermen pro- j pid/i tbpmsplvps with tnrelip.p. inndn of 1 birch bark or cotton batting, Maturated j with kerosene oii, and on dark nights row along the shores with a torch in the j bow of the boat. Tlio boat is rowed as i swiftly as possible, and when u'^chool" j is struck tbo chase begins. The her- j ring dart after tbo boat, coiningclose up to it iu swarms, and while one of the men rows the other dips up the herring with a dipper. Horatio Seymour desires to see a j board of trade in every town or grain I raising neighborhood in the country. FOR TllK LADIES. Walking for a Wife. Miss Swivell, a "magnificent creature," was engaged teaching school on the river below Little Rock, Ark. She boarded at the house of Henry Muckle, a widower and the leading citizen of the neighborhood, and George and John Muckle, pons of the old man, were rivuls for her hand. Both of the young men proposed marriage to Miss Swivell. She told each to appear before her at noon the next Monday. They obeyed. She said that she loved John and adored George, so they must enter into some contest for the prize. Would they walk twenty miles in ten hours ? The lover who could make the bettf r time ' was to iiave lier. jjienner woum win | unless the specified ground should bo , covered in the specified time. The lane I at the houso was a half mile long. The young men started. At the expiration of three hours Mr. Mucklo approached, with the fair teacher on his arm. " Wait a minute, my devoted sons," said the old man, "each of you have shown your affection for your htepmother." "Stepmother!" exclaimed George. "Stepmother!" echoed John, j "Yes. stepmother, for while you were : walking I married the girl." Fanliion Note* The pelisse is revived. Outside garments grow longer and j longer. Feather bands will be used for trim ming hats. Bonnets grow larger, and the poke j shape prevails. For children what is called the Ameri- i can frock remains fashionable. Elegant cloth jackets for fall wear are ; made tight-fitting and double-breasted, j Bound, plain, plaited, shirred, pointed and belted bodices are fashionable. Collars of dresses are worn so large that they can scarcely be told from pnnpfl. v*"rvw* Many fall bonnets are trimmed with j moire, and have long, wide strings of' the same. Silk and surah dresses are much | trimmed with puffing, combined with i borders of lace. Sleeves are long, demi-long, or three- j quarter lengths, according to fancy;; tight, shirred' or puffed, as the wearer j prefers. Plaited collarettes of mull, plain i white, dotted, embroidered, and polka- J dotted in black and colors, are much worn, with scarf-bows to match. Some of the striped goods, in bright colors, with gold and silver hair-lines, are crossed diagonally with stripes Formed by the weaving of the cloth. The Princess of Wales wore a toilet of silver-gray tnlle, much puffed, plaited, and draped, and brightened with dia-; mood ornaments at the queen's list! ball. Terra-cotta shades combine well with j porcelain-bluo, peacock-green, black, j mstroon and white, especially in stripes ; outlined with gold and silver threads shot in. Dresses composed entirely of tulle, puffed, plaited, shirred and gathered, are not at the moment considered too | youthful for young married ladies for ; ballroom wear. White and cream-colored mull scarfs, , with the ends edged with tine creamcolored (imitation) Mechlin, Valenciennes, and Breton laces trim English ; straws for fall wear. Plush chenille fringes, with each | small strand lipped with ono fino cut: jet bead, are brought out to be used I with the plush bands, ehirrings and | laitings that, trim cloaks and cos-! itnmes. Habitual Month Breathing:. Many pooplo sleep with the mouth Dper., and thus make this organ per- ! form a duty which should be transacted i by the nose. There are many objec- j tions to this, and Dr. Wagner clearly ! points them out. The air in passing ' throngh the channels of the nose, for instance, is raised to the temperature of the body before it reaches the larvnx. j Thuu breathing, now matter how low the temperature may be, the sense of cold is never felt below tho border of the soft palate. But when one breathes through tho month on a cold day the , sensation proceeds as far as tho larynx, i and an irritating cough may be caused. ; men, again, m nose uieiuinug mc uu is moistened by the natural secretions"! which cover the turbinated bones in a condition of health, and the tliort bristly hairs at the openings of the nos- i trils act as a filter to arrest impurities : and reduce tho likelihood of larynginl, bronchial or pulmonary ditease. Iu-j fants, athletes, savages and animals breathe through the nose; the ordinary, civilized man employs the mouth to an unnecessary, and often to a very injurious, extent. Tne causes of mouth breathing are j myriad. Complete or partial closure of | the passages, polypus, congenital bony i closure, enlarged tonsils, protruding' teeth, adhesion of the soft palato of the ' posterior wall of thephaiynx?all these j are sufficient causes of mouth breathing. The indications aro not so subtle as not | to be readily recognized. Ketracted ' lips, open mouth, receding gums, protruding teeth, shrunken alae, decreased size of the nostiilo' oritices, wrinkles at tho eyes' outer angles, and lines extending from the alae to tho mouth angles aro the predominant signs. The j effects of mouth breathing upon the j pharynx arc often most deplorable. The j liucous membrane becomes much irri- j tated. A chronic engorgement of the I blood vessels may take place, until permanent dilitation of the vessels is produced, and so on until tho disease 1 known as clergyman's soro throat is I produced. The writer devotes a part Df his space to showing tho bad results ! of sleeping with tho mouth open, and j suggests an appropriate remedy. If all! snorers were to adopt ,t one of tho most I disagreeable noises of the night would ' ' ir 1 _ ?1. _ i .il... ! !)Q Hlienccu, xor people wuu urauuc through their noses wLile sleeping nevt-r snore. Tire fifty short and clearly- ( printed pages of which this monograph ; L-onsiftts appear to exhaust the subject, j ?Dr. Clitdun Woyner. j A riticky Preacher. Edward Irving, the famous London preacher, had a strong sense of justice, and would never permit his rights to he trampled on. When a young man, his : immense stature, six feet four inches, and finperh physical frame were strong argument* in his favor, when he chose to assert himself. On ono occasion he was wailing with a ciowd for the open- , ing of thy doors at a great public meet-. ing. Some Indies, whom ho had escorted, were by his side. A self-important doorkeeper appeared on tbe steps, and began to threaten the people if Ibov did not move back. Laying hold of Ii-ving, ho ordered him, in an authoritative tone, to move backward. Irving quietly lifted his cane, and said, in a voice of thunder : "Bo quiet, sir, or I will annihilate you!" and the frightened doorkeeper retreated amid the ieer.s of the crowd. At another time he stopped with ft friend at'a country inn for ilimier. 15eing on a pedestrian tour, ' they loft coat* and knapsack-; in the ; room, and wont out to explore tho! neighborhood. On returning, they found another parly eating their dinner having thrown equipments, into tlie corner. Irving courteously stated their claim, but the intruder# answered contemptuously, and sought to excluile him and his friend from tho room. Irving , strode to the window, threw it open, and called to his comrade. "Will you toss out, or knock down?" His resolute bearing so startl- d the intruders into politeness that they at oue.a invited him to the table. A prominent clergyman being asked why he accepted the call (one of many) with tho largest, salary, replied that " he desired to go where thero was the most sin "?consequently located where I the money was most plenty. THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. Wenninu Fonts. Nothing that a farmer can do at this season of the year will pay better than a little extra care and a small amotmt of oatmeal and phorta, with a little skimmed milk added if convenient, given to the foal morning, noon and night at the time of weaning. Stir a handful of oatmeal and the same quantity of shorts or middlings into a pint of boiling water with a pinch of salt added, and let it cook a few minutes; then add a quart of skimmed milk, and when bloodwarm offer it to the foal in 1 a clean dish; it will soon learn to eat it, ! and if supplied with all the sweet earlycut hay and pure water it needs, will continue to grow as well alter weaning as boforo. The quantity of oatmeal and shorts should be increased until a pint of each is given at a meal. If it is not convenient to feed skimmed milk, give the gruel without it.?Cultivator. About Cattle. G. W. Hoffman says: Lard is gooe kerosene is good?both together ard good. A mixture of the two, half and half, is better than either separate, and there is less risk of injury t^ the hair than from kerosene oil alone; besides the lard, which has the efficient element ?grease?is soltened and mere easily applied. While we are on veterinary mutters, I may report an experience of to-day. I have a cow that got choked by a tnrnip that resisted the usnal treatment?pressing upward with the thumb and fingers below the obstruction. I got a piece of inch and a quarter rope and soaked it thoroughly in warm water, then in cold water to stiffen it, wound cloths at one end and used that to push the turnip down. The trouble was soon ended and the cow retnrned to her mess. I prefer to effect dislodgment of the offending substance by pressure applied externally. This is done by grasping the gullet just below the obstruction and squeezing it upward. In most cases quick relief maybe obtained by this method, and it has the merit of being free from risk. But in the case to-day it was not effectual. I even resorted to the harsh treatment of trying to mash the turnip by placing a block at one side and striking a blow against the turnip on the other side, but without effect, Soiling. A correspondent of the Imra HomeMead, who keeps live cows on five acres of ground, from which, besides supplying his family with milk and cream, he manufactures 1,300 pounds of butter annuallv and raises a calf from each cow, thus describes how he does it: I have five acies, about two and threefourtha in pasture, mostly blue grass.. I have a strip fourteen rods long and four rods wide that consists of timothy and clover, which I cut twice and somelimes three times a season. As soon as it will do to cut I feed it regnlarly to the cows twice each day, and it lasts till the corn is ready to use. There is a strip fourteen rods long and ten rods wide which [ plant with sweet corn for fodder. I made a dropper that I attach to a two-horae planter, which makes the stalks about two inches apart in the row. I plant at three different times, so as to have it early and late. About the 1st of July I commence to thin out, leaviug a stalk about once in a foot, iiy the time I get over the piece, that which is left is nearly all eared out. Then I commence cutting it up clean. When I get it half cut up I plow the ground and sow with winter 17c. I sow the balance as soon as the corn is off. This makes Hood pasture late in the fall and early in the spring. We feed our cows six quarts of corn meal and bran, mixed equal pans by weight, each day. This is the way I summer live cows on five acres, and have done so for three years past. I mnnuro the ground high, and that is what makes good crops. Full Care 01 Poultry. Take care of the early hatched pullets. At no time will they bear neglect. The early Latched are to produce eggs in the late autumn and early winter months. A mistake that many make in the management of their poultry (and it i3 a grievons one) is turning fowls off to shift for themselves at this season of the year. It is a sensitive period with the old fowls as well as tho young. The old birds, if worth anything at all for egg production, have hceu layincr eggs for tho past six or eight months, and their strength is nearly exhausted. The body requires the stimulus of strong feed. The new feathers are forming. In fact August and September are the two most critical and Irving months in the whole year, for it is tho regular molting season for the majority of fowls, l>o'ih old and youner They must be kept up all through this season. This practice, as a rule, holds good with all egg producing breeds, and if eggs are not produced their flesh is ever in demand, either at home or market. A pound of chicken meat is easier made and at less expense than a pound of beef, and by many persons it is greatly preferred. Farmeis need not depend on tho butcher as long as fowl can be raised so easily. Fowls do not pass the final molt until September, and if late hatched the period is further post poned. Many lute batched birds come I to maturity before being half grown ; | beforo attaining the fuJl size intended for a grown bird maturity is attained. Disease or weakness frequently dwarfs the fowl and renders it valueless. None except thoroughly healthy and full grown fowls should be used for breeding. Health, cleanliness and good feed should be expended at this season, so that the pnllets may attain their full size without a drain on the sjstcm. The older require attention also, that they may keep up the production of eggs and retaiu sufficient slrength to molt before cold weather sets in. Another very neecssaiy thing at this season is to j look well to the roosts and keep them in a cleanly condition. As the warm weather approaches a certain portion of the vermin leave the body and congregate in concealed nooks and crevices of the roosts during the day time, and come forth to prey on the fowls at night, j These roost lico are quite prevalent in j neglected houses. If not thoroughly j destroyed, they prey on the fowls to a : g.^at extent, reducing strength and j vitality, and in course of time remain i on the body altogether. Remove them j as soon as discovered, and give the fowls clean roosts. Exercise care con- [ corning the young fowls, that they do J not become infested with vermin. 11 have seen young fowls drop the feathers j to a certain extent in early winter from being troubled with body Jice. The i !?. ! < ?..stnmo (inf. anil tllfi whole, plumage presented a ragged, dead look. ! They destroy I lie root of the feather, thus giving it a lnsrerle.?s nnd faded j a ppearan ce. ? Co uu tru (Sen /! em an. lEoclpoi. Scotch Tart.?Take a deep, square . tin ami line it with rich paste, select, pleasant tart apples, peel and core, J quarter and cut iu hits. Fill the paste j with apples, aud cover the whole with a layer an inch or more thick with sugar, ] and sprinkle with small bits of butter, j Bake in a quick oven, and hava it well browned. When riplitly made the apple is soft and candied. Serve warm, i To Can Green Corn.?Take one and . a half ounces of tartaric acid, dissolved in one-half pint of water. Cut corn from cob and cook. When cooked, j add two tablespoonfnls of acid solution j to ea?'h quint of corn ; can nnd Heal immediate)?. . When wanted for use, stir j one-half teaspoonful of soda into two j quarts of coin, and let it stand threo . hours before cooking. Apple Tkifle.?Scald as many ap-j pies as, when pulped, will cover tho; dish you design to use to the depth of two or three inches. Before you place | them in the dish add to them tho rind | rf half a lemon, grated fine, and sugar ] to teste. Mix half a pint of milk, half 1 a pint of cronru and tho yolk of au egg; ! scald it over the tire, keeping it stirring, and do not let it boil; add a little ! sugar, and let it stand till cold, then : lay it over the apples and flni?b with j the cream whip. Bread Omelet.?One teacup bread crumbs, one of sweet milk, let the milk come to the boiling point, pour it over the crumbs, let it stand a few minutes, then take six eggs, break in a disb, stir until well mixed (not heat), pour the eggs into the milk and crumbs, mix well, season to taste with salt and pepper ; now pour the mixture into a hot skillet in which a large tablespoonfal of butter has been melted, let it fry slowly, cut in squares and turn, f'.j to a delicate brown ; serve at once. Veal Stew.?Cut four pounds of rami ? *-? /> innlioa Inner ami ftrtl llilllS VlliCW *VW0 ?"V. one inch thick; peol twelve large potatoes, and cut them into slices one-inch thick; spread a Jayer of veal on the bottom of the pot, sprinkle in a littlo fait and pepper, then a layer of potatoes, then a layer of veal seasoned as before Us.} up the veal thns: over' the last layer of veal put a layer of slices of salt pork, and over the whole a layer of potatoes. Pour in water till it rises an inch over the whole; cover it closely, Jieat it fifteen minutes and simmer it an hour. Household Iiint*. A lump of saleratus large as a common bean put in the water for the crust of three pies, after the lard is in it, will make it light and tender and more easy o digest. Cold boiled beets, carrots and turnip?, and the whites of hard-boiled eggs, stamped out with a fancy vegetable cutter, make a pretty garnish for cold or hot meats. Take a bias piece of unbleached muslin, two inches wide, pin tightly around the tin or plate after the pie is made. The pie will bake beautifully and retain all the juice. White ostrich plumes may be renovated by dipping in a thick warm lather of curd soap, rinsing and drying, ? J II - 1 lLi.1 ,11^ ixuu curim^ over a juiibuug xiucuio before the tire. To whiten and soften the hands take one-half pound of mutton-tallow, one ounce of camphor gum, and one ounce of glycerine. Melt, and when thoroughly mixed, set away to cool. Rub the hands with tbfc every night. Two Pictures. Many years ago an Italian artist, while wandering through the streets of his native city, saw a little boy whose countenance bore a beauty so wondrously pure that, in contemplating it, he forgot the troubles and anxieties thrust upon him by pecuniary embarrassments. " How I should like to portray those features," soliloquized the rrtist. " Will you come to my studio, my little lad ? I should like so much to"paint your picturu" Most willingly the boy accompanied the painter, and soon enjoyed the pretty sight of another little lad?his second self?smiling down upon him from the artist's easel. The painter often sank his every thought in contemplation of the lovely picture. When the bitterness of life made him weary of living, he needed but to lift his eyes to the beautiful picture that graced the wall of his studio, and its look of innocence and hope would drive the shadows of despair from out his heart and lill it with happiness. Many were the offers to buy the portrait of the lovely child ; but the artist, though often in want, steadfastly refused to sell "his guardian angel," as he called him. Years passed. Many times as he sat and gazed upon the blooming beauty of the face before him, the artist questioned himself as to the probable fate of the pretty child. " I wcmld like to see him once again; would like to sea how he looks." He would say to himself, "I wonder if I would know him? j Has he grown to be a man, good and true, or a knave?a ne'er-do-well; or dee3 he dwell in heaven?" And, as once again the artist sauntered through the streets of his beautiful town, he came upon a youth whose features bore the stamp of vjces so terrible, of a degradation so low, and an expression so diabolical, that its sight caused him to hem his steps. What a picture! ''How I should- like to sketch those features I as a contrasting piece to the beautiful, pure innocence of the boy I portrayed years ago," said the artist to himself. The jouth, having noticed the inter I est with which tho artist scanned him begged for money, for he was both a I beggar and a thief. " Come with me to my studio; let me paint your portait, and" I will pay you what you may demand." Tho youth followed the artist. When the sketch had been completed, and he had hidden in his pockets the coins the artist gave him, the beggar turned to go. As his gaze fell upon the picture I of the little boy he started as if stung by a serpent; while his eyes s'emed riveted on the painting, he paled as if > in *deatb. It seemed as though he'd I ask a question, but tears appeared to choke his utterance. He pointed to the j tmftfcnrp. iithI. throwincr himself down on | liis knees, ho wept and wailed aloud. "Mau, man, what ails yon?' asked the astonished painter. "But twenty years ago you bid me come to you, as now, and then, as now, j you portrayed me; see?yonder face was j then?mine own! and now? You see; me a wreck?a ruin? a human being, j so degraded that all the pure, the good, will turn their faces in disgust!" The astonished artist could hardly i credit the testimony of his senses. "But tell me man, whence this terri- j ble change The youth told his sad stcry : An j only son and of great beauty; his pa- j reuts spoiled him; bad companions; taught him their vices; brothels and ' gambling dens became his home, until he had lost his all, and then?unable, or, rather, unwilling to work, and, as yet, ashamed to beg, he began to steal; caught ia the act, he was thrown into | prison; and then he went on to tell how each bad act appeared to contain the germ of another?appeared to i create ihe desire ; aye, the necessity to i commit another and a worse one. His story, as told by himself, sounded ' terriblo and brought tears to the paint- j er'seves. He adjured the youth to j givo up his felonious career, and offered | liis assistance in so doing. His kind j endeavors came too late; sickness, the conseqaeuce of vice and dissipation, threw the unhappy youth upon ? bed < of pain. He died before he had an opportunity to prove the sincerity of Lis repentance. The .irtiat placed his portrait by the side of that beautiful bov; and when his patrons asked him why lie put rio terrible a face beside another of such wondrous beauty, heanswered, sadly: "Be tween yon demon and yon angel, there are but twenty years of vice."? \Ym. Ji idler Temper. Happy is ho who can command his temper even under trying circumstances. The evils wrought by unbridled tempers ure beyond calculation. The violent temper of a fretful and irascible man gives his friends much concern. His conduct while under its inJlueuee renders him nuami-ihlc, and, of course, greatly diminishes their regard for him. And' this is not all. If he has any real responsibility, the emotions he feeds t.rc as paiufnl as tho^e he causes in the blasts of others. When the calm of retirement succeeds to the bustle of ?ompany. his solitary moments are embittered by very mortifying rellectious; frr it hr.3 been well remarked 4< that anger begins with folly and ends with repeutaLve." A few bitter words spoken in anger may rankle for a lifetime. Self-command, besides preventing their utterance, enables us to maintain the dignity of our nature as intelligent beings by establishing the empire of reason over passions. It rentiers a person the master of himself under all tho various circumstances of life; in prosperity, ehe&rful without insolence; and in adversity, rosignrd and calm without defection. It gives an effectual check tn all the vicious propensities of envy, malice snd anger; and in the same proportion as it restrains them, it encourages the prowth of virtue, presents them from running into extremes and fises their due bounds. Reconciliation. H| If thou wort lying, cold an 1 still an 1 white, In death's embrace, oh, mine euuinyt I think that if I came and looked 011 thee, I should forgive; that something in the siglra^^^H Of thy still face would conqner me, by right, Of death's Fad impotence, and I shonld Bee tjSBHH How pitiful a thing it is to be At feud with aught that's mortal. So, to-night, My soul, unfurling her white flag of peace'? Forestalling that dread hour when we may The dead face and the living?fain would cttoHHB Across the years, "Oil, let our warfare ce&seiMH^B Life is so short, and hatred is not sweet; Let there be peace between us ere we die. ?Caroline A. Ma ton, in Scribner^^^^^B HUMOR OF THE DAY. ' |9HH now lO 11 void uruwujug?oioj homo. H| A cook ought to be at tbe head provisional government. .JHB Advice to a married man : Pntasafkjfl^^H valve upon your self-esteem if you ?BH not want to get "blown up." "I would not strike you for S10,"nuH^9| J., playfully, to his friend E. "WengMH you would not get it if you did," replieS^SH E.?Philadelphia Sun. % "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal bo proud, Or take in its strength such a boabtfnl deljgh^^^H| A singlo bald hornet can scatter a crowd, And a wasp that means business can put to flight. iMMB "You want a floggin/r, that's whafljjj^H you want," said a parent to an unnil^^H son. "I know it, dad, but I'll try to gel JH along without it," said the independ^^^^H Lesson for young housekeepenjjf^HH "How can you tell a young fowl an old one?" "By the teeth?" "BuflH|ffi fowls have no teeth !" "I know thej^^^H haven't, but I have !" HMN A newly married couple riding in 4h3H carriage, were overturned, whereupon standerby said it was "A shocking^^M sight." "Yes," said the gentleman, see those just wedded fall out so soon.*~SHH A clergyman remarked the other day: jflH T? it. _ Atnal^^H "Alas! now times cnange: in cue via vna Testament days it was considered a mir- H acle for an ass to speak, and now seems as though nothing short of a acle would keep one quiet." j^H The cable has informed us that I czar and the Emperor "William kisdeujflHn each other when they met at DantzigaHH but it forgot to add that after the oseu-. lation the czar gave a significant sni&jSH and remarked in an "aside": "Great 1 Caesar, Bill! you've been eating A young lady became so much satisfied with a gentleman to whom she^flS was engaged to bo married that she dis<:^^B| missed him. In revenge he threateaed^WB to publish her letters to him. "Very wexl," replied the lady. "X have no rea$nH| son to be ashamed of any part of letters, except the address." H| HEALTH HINTS. JB The leaves of geranium are an exeet>r5*|^B lent application for cuts, when the is rubbed off, and other wounds of same kind. One or two leaves musLM?|BHj bruised and applied on linen to the parMft^H and the wound will become cica(riziedr'^HB in a very short time. flH For those people whose embonpoin$1|MB is a matter of solicitude, whether be*.J|^B| cause it is uncomfortable or nnfashion-^ HB ablp, the follovriug diet is proposed by~ -A Dr.George Johnson in the Praditiontr:: j!9H May eat?Lean mutton and beef, veti>|g^fl and lamb, soups not thickened, beef te?j|gwg and broth: rioultrv.earae.fijh and bread in moderation; greens, cressep, lettnce, etc.; green peas. cabbage, flower, onions,fresh fruit without sugar.-Jt^H May not fat?Fut mea(, bacon or ham; butter, cream, sugar, potatoes, carrots, '< /H| parsnips, rice, 5ago, tapioca, macaroni, custard, pastry, puddings aud sweet cakes. May drink?Tea, coffee, cocoa from nibs, with milk, but no sugar; dry wines in moderation,without sugar, -flE light bitter beer, soda and seltzer water. May not drink?Milk, except .fll spariDglj; porter and stont, sweet ales," sweet Mines. As a rule, alcoholic liquors should be taken sparingly, and jflfl never without food. ' We have all a great horror of being poisonel, without exactly understand- JwD ing what it is. Poison is a disorganization of flesh or blood, or both. Poison?3j|9H are of two kind.-; onetbe result of medi-T^^H cinal agents token into the s.omachffij^H or circulation; the ether the result of bites or ttings of living creatures. I will now state two ideas which, if gen?'J|^M erally known and remembered, would save thousands of lires every year. you have swallowed a poison, whether laudanum, arsenic, or other thing poi- "SB sonous, put a tablespoon of ground mustard in a glass of water, cold or warm, stir and swallow quickly, and y H instantaneously the contents of the stomach will be thrown up, not allow* iBH ing the poisonous substance time to be absorbed and taken into the blond; and ns socn us vomiticg cease?, swallow the white of one or two rew egg.-*, for the purpose of antagonizing any small por* JH tion of the poison which may have been left behind. Let t!<e reader xi*' member the principle, which is to get ^SSHj the poison ont of yon as soon as possible; there are other things which will have a speedy eniefio effect, lmt the advantage of mustard is, it is al-.rays at hand, it acts instantaneously without any after medicinal effects. The use of --J9S a white 0/ an egg is, tliut although it JM does noi nullify ail pois;ns, it antagonizes a larger number than any other agent so readily attainable. But while taking the mustard or egg, send for a physician; theeo ore advised in order to save time, as the difference of twenty minutes is often dtath. .fl A Nervous Rid*?. He had descended to the bottom of the mine?many hundred feet?and was -fl| returning to the upper regions. The 'X^D ascent wis by means of n bucket, lifted by a common hempen r pe, arid only one person could go at a ii-e with the miner who had churgo c( i \ l imitive lie itood upon one side of the u ket while the miner stood upon the otiier, both grasping the standing part of the , '^H rope. When two-thirds of the way up the gentleGian observed th.it the rope was woin and frayed, seeming, iuplaces, V^B to be really unsafe. Said he to his com- H panion: " See, my friend, isn't it about time -B you had a new rope here V" ^B The miner nodded assent at once, .-',B and then volunteered tlie information B that they made a practice of changing BE tho old rope for a new every three -jijfl months, at the furthest; and sometimes when tho rope had become un- of|H| usually worn, as was the care at present, >^B they made tho exchange ar an earlier ^fl "Mercy!" oriod our friend, casting a hosriiied elaneedown into the Stygian darkness of tiie awful abyss below him, _^sj^B aiiil tJu-n looking ?t u terribly demoralized sccthin of ti:o hoisting rope, " and _.'*B when do tou intend to put a new rope ^ -Jfl on here V , g|0 " Wa 1," answered the miner, ?s coolly 'jB as could be, "if we get cop alive, wi'a fifl whole rope, she'll have a now one afore Jfl she goes roou agin !" fl Fancy the ietdings of the visitor during tho remainder of the aseeut. ra The Fourteen Wonders of H e World. Tlie seven wonders of tho world, in B ancient times, wore ?lie pyrairnus ui b Egypt, tlio Pharos of Alexandria, tho fl wails and hanaring gardens of Baby'ou, B thoTemple of Diana, ili<* statue of the * fl (,)lyuipian Jnpit. r, the Mausoleum rf Artemesia and t':e Colossus a' Khodes. I Tho sewn wonders of the world in '9 modern times are tho printing-press, tho steam-engine, the telephone, the phono- fl graph, photograph, telegraph ftud clec- H trie light. Tlio so-called ' seven wonders" of tho M ancients were mere tiitles compared with those of the present time. The .1 Brooklyn bridge, for example, would 0 make the hanging gardens ?>f Babylon I a mere toy, while tho whole seren won- B dera put together would sink into in- .9 fcigniticancc could their bmlders Lave n seen a lightning-express train at full ;V| speed. ,<tni