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l . in^_ _ ... . i__ -1 n - . _______T__^__ ^___ ^ ^ BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T.~WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.~ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1881. NO. 24. VOLUME XXVI. Itj Hip Uivt r. River, oil river, that sirgeih all night, Nor waited for light To pour out thy uiir*h Along the* chill earth, The wonls of thy sour h t 1110 know. ' i conn.1, and 1 ^o." River, oh river, with s\\\ll ami with fall, Thy musical call WHketli, summoneth juo; What thought is in thee v That lulls me, yet rouses me so ?? "Icome, and 1 go." River, oh river, a word thou must give To help me to live.? " Then sin;? cm thy way: Sing the jov y; To-Day? Time's ripple, Eternity's llow. 1 ctmie, ar.d I go." River, oh rivt r, thy message is clear. Chant on, lor I hear.? "What the mountains give mo Bear 1 lorth to the sea. Life only is thine to I ostow. I conic, anil I go." River, oh river, thy secret of power I wiu from this hour: Thy rhyihni of delight Is my song iu tho night: I am glad with thy gladness; ior, io I come, and I go. ?Lucy Larcom, i;i Harper's ifagatiw. A DEAD YEAR. ' I took a war cut of my life and story, A. dead year? and I said, 'I will build thee a tonik'" Honeysuckle was wreathed about the window, but its straying branches, gemmed with " arabesques of balm,"' only made a loyely frame for the two young heads that were always to be found nt this hour bent over their books. I used to stroll half unconsciously to a coigne of vantage in the garden and watch them?ray little sister Nest, with her tumbled bronze curls, and her German teacher's small graceful head, with its crown of gold. J had spoken to her but seldou, still I knew by heart the uplifting of those calm-lidded forget-me not eyes, the face with its pure coloring, the slender and lithe young form in its dull blue dress, with the tiny lace rathe on the round white throat, and tiie sweet mouth with its wistful smile now and then at my sister's odd blunders. I found a, strange pleasure in meeticg her as if by acci dent as she Jeft, and noting the faint roseleaf flush stealing tip into her pale cheek. I wouhl have been at a loss to account for the sadness of such a young face, but Nest had told me that she was all alone in this new land where her father had brought her, and my heart was touched at the thought. ' She has tohl me about her father so much," chattered Nest, "ho was such a weuder.'u! man - like a wizard, I should think?but he was only a doctor, Hilda sais. She thinks the doctors in i Germany know more than oure?at least f-he is sure her father did." "Poor child!" I said. " Do you know," whispered Ernestine, with an air of mystery, "that there is something very curious about Hilda- she forgets things!" I laughed outright. "Scarcely a| peculiarity in?" I began. "Oh, now wait. I mean vc-ry im-i f Ki-n rro "Mntr fcllA TCAR in frPV. many when the war broke out with j France, and I wanted to know all about i it. Well, do you believe, she couldn't i tell rne anything, not tiie least fact! '! and Nest looked very serious and wise. 1 "What did sho say about it?" "Oh, that she forgot. Now, JIal-: com, you l?now when our native land is j in peril we don't forget." My little lister was quite patriotic, i and it seemed to her a phenomenon ' that one should not have a thorough knowledge of all that regarded one's own country. " Oh, well, she might have^been at a convent school, or?"' "That's the strange thing about it." " What?1' "She don't know where sho was!" I own I was somewhat startled by this announcement. " Does she say so ?" "She says she don't recollect." j "Perhaps she has had brain fever and | forgotten the past." " No, she remembers all the past very well." " Except how long?" " One year?the year of the war. She | seems troubled about it, too." "Then you must cot dwell upon it," I said. "You don't want to annoy] her?" "No, I lovo her?I love her dearly!" i said Nest, flying off after a very tempt ing black velvet butterfly with golden trimming on its polonaise. I felt like echoing my little sistt-r's 1 sentiments, tun! then I smiled in scorn of myself. How could I love a woman of whose mind aiul heart I kne-w noth-1 ing?I who had always raved about; sympathy of soul. I could not explain it as I paced the garden walks. It was fate?fore-ordination, perhaps; but one thing I knew? It was a fact?I loved my sister's teacher, Hilda Blnmentkal, with a feeling I never experienced before, and I suddenly discovered that the German language would be exceedingly necessary to me in my profession. I used to sit and study the girl's face, I and I fourd it very puzzling. Innocent, angelic as it was, there were strange experiences of pain written upon it. it did not seem like tbe face or one who had only turned over a few of youth's white pages in the book of life, but rather as if she had looked into many a blotted and blurred one ?blotted with tears, blurred by the soul's agony into a mist. I can scarcely explain how from the eyes, so blue and childlike, something seemed a* times to look out with unutterable experiences from their depths, lurking there like some wild ?i 41? i. l.i ? i ~t ~ l. i.:i ti hpirii iiiiib ' uuiii iiub iiuuu ut? 11 i* in vain tr try and explain it, but it would come over me with a sudden agony at times that onoo some one had held the fair white hands clasped so listlessly in her lap. that 'the kiss of love had pome time been laid on that sweet, pathetic mouth. I thiuk that feeling came over me the most painfully just after the fullness of joy when it was my hand that clapped Lc-rs, my lips that had touched hers as reverently as if she had been a saint. "Darling," I said, "did you ever care for any one before'/" "Never," she answered, promptly, in a tone of sweet content; <;and I am fflad, Malcom. I'm sure I could not love twice." ' So no one ever held you to his heait as I am doing?" I questioned. " No, no. \Vhv do you ask?" " Because I am a jf-alous monster," I said, with a lanxh; "because I would not have a thought or a memory dwell on any one else." "Ah, well, you shall be satisfied. Only you will not mind if I think of my father and remember him ?" << AL L T ^ t ,.A " WXJ, DO, my net. J. a III JIUl hU uureasonable.'1 " He would be so glad that bis child had found so good, so true a man to protect her," she said, tears dimming her sweet eves. "Ah, if he could have lived to have seen this day! You would have revered him, Maleom. He wai frill of wisdom. He had wonderful learning and wonderful power. He was a doctor, you know, and he conld do as much for the mind as the body. I will show you his papers some time?his diary?and then you will know him better. I can't bear to look at them myself, but I long for you to know something of him. And he died?oh, sc suddenly?in a moment!" I could not feel such an intense in terest in the dead doctor as my deal girl seemed to expect, but I feigned i' for her sake, and a few days afterwarc took the package of papers as rever ently as she gave them, promising my self that I really wonld look througl them some time. But I know I though more at that moment of the knot of lilies of-the-vailey at my darling's throatand how virginal and pure she lookedand I wondered if ever on God's eartl a saintlier fouI had looked out of tho eyes of a woman. Ard yet, sometimes, I seemed to catch vanishings of a world of thought and fueling remote from me [ ?a region where I had not entered, ! where t did not belong. One day I ; suddenly remembered Nest's confid- nee j to mo. aud it occurred to me to test it. ! " W ere thov very much disturbed in ' Heidelberg that summer the war broke ' out?" I asked. She Hushed and hesitated. "You were home?weren't you ?" "I?I can't remember," she said, in j a constrained voice. " Why, it is only live years ago, my i ; pet; don't your memory go back fur live j ; years ?" "Oil, further tlum that," she said, j quickly : " but Malcolm, I have been j puzzled about it, very often. I will tell j you, there is just that one year I cannot j remember anything about " (Treat heaven ! eouul it be that she i bail lost her reason during that time and been in au insane asylum ? The thought came to me like a Hash of elec-1 trio light, and thrilled me with pain, j , Was there the taint of insanity in my j 1 darling's blood ? The donbt stung me. j How else could she have lost a year out; of her life? ' Were you sick or sad when you re- i member your life again ?" " Oh, no; we were full of hope about! the new country, for wo were coming j here." " And did you ever talk to your father j about it ?" " My dea?- Malcom, would you be; lieve it that I never discovered till lately that a year had slipped out of my life "in such a mysterious manner ? It was uxiug dates about tho war that did j it, and then poor papa was in the churchyard." And she looked so sad that I kissed j ! her, saying: " Never mind about the lost year, I darling. I will make the coming years j : so bright that yon will soon forget it." [ " I ilon't care for it now, if you don't," | she whispered, with her head upon my shoulder; " only it makes me strange, j unlike other girls." " So you are unlike them!" I ex-! claimed, in a lover's rhapsody; " bo | much sweeter and purer an;l saintlier," 1 and so on through the rosary of love, j; But still, once in a while, like a dis- i ! cord among the sweet notes, the thought I : of that year wonld recur to me. 1\' knew all my darling's iife, all her pure, i ' i sweet thoughts, and I grew jealous of1 those closed aud sealed pages in a very I' . unreasoning way. One night, a week before our wed- J j ! ding day, which was fixed in the rosy i ] month of June, I sat at niv window j: ; idly looking out into the moonlit gar- j5 ; den, when a thought struck me?the j3 ! diary?why had I not thought of it bo-1 ' fore"/ Surely that would throw sonic j i lifihi upon this year. I own I did not j ( take it up without a thrill, as if I werj j 1 disturbing some dead and buried sor- |( i row. I had a very curious sensation j . about it, a cold chill creeping over me, j I as if I were entering a grave. And was i] I not about to interrogate the dead i! about the living? I turned over the ! pages without interest till I came to a i certain date, and even then I was not; 1 thoroughly interested till I saw Hilda's j name as follows : ' " July 12.?I'm glad Hilda likes her j school. It was a struggle to let her go, js but best that she should not spend her i j young life with an old man so absorbed : in science. She is out of the way of j lovers, too, and will be better guarded. ! 1 I began to fear an interest in young j 1 Von Ebersteiu ? dissipated young ! spendthrift as lie is, nas just u:e mud | " of romantic appearance, with his large [( melancholy dark eves, that would fasci- j nate my fair little girl. But Madam Gerhard will look after all this-the! child is only sixteen?too young to | think of love, and I would rather lay r her in her grave than give her to Yon j Eberstein?she knows it, too. * " August 2.?1 am drawing near to i a wonderiul Jiscovery, and I tremble as i * one who stands on the shore of the in-!1 finite at this new shell of knowledge that I have picked up. Why should it J not be that ono might learn to forget. * Oh, the torture of memory to the sin-; ner, it is the hell that is the penalty of * his sin. If one could?" " Well, I did not finish on this topic. | J I was so eager to go on about my dar-; ' ling, so I hurried over the leaf till I: saw her name again, and then I dropped I ? the book paralyzed with terror, for this 11 is what I read: "September 30.?God in heaven have j * mercy ! My child is gono! She went j out on some little shopping expedition, * they write me; she was seen walking under the trees with ayoung man. Ach, ( Eimmel! I know who he was! may God Almighty punish him for ever?and 1 * thai was the last. Oh, Hilda! oh, my j ( little white dove! Oh, my heart is!1 breaking ! But I will find her! I will1 c kill the miserable wretch, the?" j There was a sudden break here, and I j j could have read no more. My heart j' seemed to standstill, and I wondered if, . madness had not conjured up the whole.!1 I passed my hand over my eyes, stared I 1 out into the moonlight at the familiar ; scene, took up a rosebud that Hilda hat'l given me that evening, and dropped it * again and crushed it under my heel. J Was she so falsa and such a consummate ' j actress, too? Hou innocent, how guile-! * less. Ah ! my brain burned and every ! 1 pulse beat "painfully, but I picked up j the book acain. Perhaps there was some mistake. I must know the worst-. ! * There was ft long hiatus?no entry till? j "Jan nary 31.?Thank heaven! I Lave ! found her- so miserable,so abject, that r I have only wept and taken hc-r in my l | army and whispered that, though all \ the world turn against her, her father's i < heart and home ere oppn. She has told , j me tho whole story?the lovers' meet-: i ing, and how ho wiled her away with ! j lies abyut :i priest waiting, and his j i mother's wedding-ring. No ouo would j ] know my girl now, and no ono shall ' ; have a ehanco to see her; the neigh-. j bors do not know she is in tl>o lionse. | But when I liud the accursed villian | who has wrecked her life?" Here followed the most, blood-curdling threats and vows, bnt 1 conld not i read them, I hurried on. " February 10.?I d/> not write much here now?what have I to tell? I have forgotten all the other wrecks of hu- 1 inanity in the one that sits beside my I hearth, looking vit.li listless eyes on j 1 all. I cmnot rouse her to anything. ! Life seems at an end for her. Tho horror, the amaze, seems to have turned her to stone, and in this marble image a heart pulsus painfully, a brain dazed, ] ] yet forever recurring, m ternuie mono| tone, to o^e experience, throbs on. My i | God, I must do something ! I waken j ' each day with a horror that J shall find j ; her dead by her own hand! She was so | ! white a thing. Oh, God! Thou know-! j ebt that shu shudders at hcr.self. "March 2' >.?I laid the first pnow-' drop of the year in her hands thi-* morn-! : ing, and she burst into tear*. She has I ! always loved flowers so much, my poor little girl. Last year she gathered them ; ! herself, and they crowned her their 1 I Queen of May. Oh, my God! if she ! could forget! " March 25.?If she could but forget!1 "Why not? 1 hold the key and can lock j up the past at will. It is memory that i is killing her. Then I will kill memory, j and she will be my own pure little girl j again?for she is pure. It is only the i j good who are tortured by memory?the | evil do not suffer. It is only to paralyze, ' 1 by electric shock, a certain knot of! ' nerves, and all this misery will be wiped off, as with a sponge, from the i tablet of memory. Thank God, the power is in my hands. I believe He | has given it to me to save my child. "Anril 10.?Oh. God in heaven. I! > t thank Thee. It has succeeded beyond j i mv hopes. She is growing well?rosy ' ' even?and she has forgotten ! I have j r | found my child again, and she has re-1 t gained her happiness and innocence! I; She remembers nothing?nothing of -' the slow hours of despair when the - burning plowshares went over her. I a have tested her, I have even mentioned t his name?the accursed one?and she did i- not know it! We are going to America, - where no echo of her 6tory can ever - reach her, and we will be happy once lx more together." I only iookeil at one entry more, \ which spoke of Hilda's happy smiles ' and tender love to the father iu the | stiango land, and .he pleasant little home that she hrightenid with her presence, and then there was the end very soon after. I closed the book. I knew all now, and wished V it I could, like Hilda, forget. I s.it motionless, not heeding whether it was night or day. Hilda! my Faint with the holy eyes! I knew why I had seen strauge vanishings of exj ressions so hard to interpret in those eyes; why there was an inexplicable sadness about them as of eyes accustomed to tears; why her month held such possibilities of pain. She had not deceived me, after all. There was nothing in her past, as she knew it, that could bring a blush to her cheek. And yet I knew, and the knowledge seemed to build up an invisible wall between lis?a gulf that I could see alflirmoTi ?li?? r>r?n]i1 nr>f.. "fTnur 7 betray her childlike tmst in me? On what plea could I break tho bond between us? Her wedding-dress was made. Sho had shown it to me in innocent, girlish pride, and it was wreathed with white lilies-of-thc-valley?as pure and as sweet as herself. I had said, I would write to her; I could not look her in tlx face and give her up. No; it would be dastardlv to write, to give her the slab in the dark, and not know what she suffered. After all, she had been sinned against, and the very memory of it was past, her htart was as pure as a little child's. So the reader will guess the sequel. Lovo conquered, and we were married. Never a more innocent, girlish face beamed beneath a bridal vail; never purer, j shyer eyes were raised to receive a husband's kiss. I was happy; only now and then a torturing thought would torment me. Could that certain tangle of nerves of which the doctor spoke ever regain its power? A paralyzed liino sometimes recovers a f?eblo motion. What a horror if the slumbering brain woke aud tno terrible past, with ali its hideousaess, should dawn suddenly upon my , Hilda 1 I found her as good, as gentle, as I bad dreamed, with a tender, loving i heart, and quick, generous impulses.! Ve did not go to Germauy on our wedding journey, although she urged it, i lud it was my first negative to her I wishes. I was afraid?afraid of an ; 2cho from the past. But we went to Pari.-?, and I dazzled : ny aim pie wife's eyes with the pretty ! things I bought for her. Wo went in i ind out of the grand o.d galleries, too, I ind she developed a taste fo:- the old j masters, and a knowledge cf art tb.it i jharmed mo. Each day seemed to oriu? up from the clear pellucid waters ; >f this young life some "pearl of purest! ray serene" that I accepted with new I lelight. One day we had gone back lo our; aotel weary of the day's work, although j t had been all pleusnre. 1 did not. I notice the unusual crowd at the entrance, j jcing somewhat absorbed in my own j houghts, when I felt Hilda's grasp on ; ny atm. "Oh, poor man!" sho cried, "he| nast bo terribly hurt." Then I saw that several persons were J supporting a young man, with a ghastly, leath-liko face and closed eves, mto I ;he nearest room. " Kun over," vouchsafed. a stranger! Dear?"must have been blind or j lrunk." At that moment the youug man j ipeneu a pair 01 jarge, oarK, meiau:holy eyes, and looked at us. "Hilda! God!" be groaned; "Hilda, ron are avenperi!" And he was dead. Xo one seemed to notico the words? I 10 one but I. Even Hilda, who bad ! ieard them, looked only shocked and i ull of pity. "Corny, we cannot help him; let us i jet away!" I exclaimed, shaking as one [ n palsy. " How very, very sad!" said my wile, i is she laid oti' her hat. "Perhaps he i jas a little wife at homo, for he said J Hilda.' There are so many Hildas. )li, my darling! I am glad L am not : hat Hilda. And he looked as if he had J ed an evil life, though he was very . landsome." I held her close to my heart, lor it ieemed to me a ghostly hand was pluck- I ng her away. I was not surprised when, ou asking ho name of the unfortunate man the ' lext day, I was informed that on the j etters in his pocket wps this address:' ' Graf Rudolph von Ebersteiu." " A hard nut," someone volunteered, i 'they eay he'd swallowed three for-: unes, at.il would have soon been in the 1 gutter, so be slipped out of tbo world n good time, to save him the trouble j >f shooting himself." " His name was Von Eberstein, ' rlilda," I said, with a wild desire to 1 iuow the worst. She was holding a bit of olive plush j n her band and working some won- i irous arabesoue of pold upon it. ?? -? . - -i ---n- i uerinan, men," sue taiu. quieuv. . 4 Alalcom, won't this be pretty for a ' able-cover in our new home V Then my heart was at rest, and I hanked God and took courage. The ! ost year was dead anil buried beyond ; he power of resurrection in this life. i I Scene in tlio Ohio Legislature Eighty Years Ago. Michael Baldwin, tho irrepressible md incorrigible, was no more digniiod, abstemious or. moral in his pcei;ion p.s speaker of the iirst Ohio house J n representatives than he had been in former years in lesser .stations. He pre-: sided over the chamber in 1803, 3801, and 1805. It is a matter of tradition Lhat for his own pecuniary benetit, and for the entertainment of those among ; tho legislators who had a penchant for gaming, ho established in his rooms the gamo of " viugt-et-uo," himself acting as banker and dealer, aud as a mailer of course winning more frequently than any of tho other players. On one oc- j casion, after mncli drir.kiDg and :i late sitting at tho gambling-table, lialdwin fomiil himself in possession :ot only of all tho mom y oi his companions, but of many ot their watches. In the morion;? t!:-"> hou?>e oi' representatives was four.J to l>o without a quorum; but Baldwin, accustomed to heavy drinking and late hours, was in his piaoe back of tlio speaker's desk. savagely with ijis gavel, he demanded tlio ioil call of the house, and then sent the sergf ant-at-arrns out with orders to bring in the delinquent members. After an hour or so that innetionarv returned, followed by about a dozen neubers of the Ohio legislature, whoso bloodshot eyes, suffused faces, unstead'., sham bling steps, and general air of shamefacedness indicated the late hours they had kept and their heavy indulgences. With much anstpjiry of manner, Bald wiu reprimanded tho tardy members, reminded them of the cost to which the infant State was subjected by payment of their perdiems, ami was proceeding to further elaborate his censure on their late arrival and the consequent delay of legislation, when one of the delinquents, exasperated beyond control, cried out: " Hold on, there, Mr. Speaker, hold on ! How could we tell what time it was when tho speaker of the house had all our watches??Hurler's Ma'/izinc.. The English postoflice authorities are trying tiie experiment; oi snppiyinp postmen in country districts with bicycles and tricycles. This has been done particularly in Ireland, where the distances to be traversed by foot-messengers are longer than ih Great Britain. The authorities are watching tho experiment with a considerable degree of I interest, owing to tho fact that not a few casualties have occurred in the use of their new means of locomotion. The Seventh Day Baptists have ten native families connected with their mission in Shanghai, China. The mis^ sionary forc8 includes eight missionaries, two native Biblo readers, and d Bible woman. Two day-schools are taught. SCIENTIFIC NOTES. Lacquering gives tin and articles cov1 ered with silver-leaf the appearance o! brass. Blistered steel is made by exposing layers of bar iron and carbon to the action of heat. A stationary engine of two hundred liojse power requires in one hour 1,10(J pounds of coal. Phosphorus, when perfectly pure, is ! a colorless, transparent body, soft ?-.s I wax and easily cut with a knife. ! The elevation of the tide at St. Malo | amounts to fifty feet, while on the Nor! wegian coast it is hardly perceptible. It requires twice as much heat to : raise water to a given temperature as it .1 i._ :i ~c *l,? UUUH IU UIMLIg Uii U1 lui jJCULiUU tv luo same point. An ounce of silver covered witb eight i grains of gold baa been drawn out into j 13,000 feet of wire, covercd through its entire lengtli with an unbroken coating ' of gold. In Leipsic lately some experiments were made with a cuirass made of a ; newly invented preparation of steel, i which seems to present groat resistance to missiles. The metal was only threefiftieths of an inch in thickness, and the inside of the cuirass was lined with . a tbin layer of wool. Tlie entire weight of the piece of armor, which was intended to protect only the heart and lungs, , was two pounds and a half; but of ' eleven rounds of ball cartridge fired at : ttie cuirass at & distance of 175 yards, although eight of the bullets struck it, only two penetrated the metal, and these were found to be flattened and retained in the woolen lining. Mrs. Eliza liarfleld. A letter from New Lexington, Ohio, to the Cincinnati Commercial, says: It will not bo ont of place to give some facts in relation to the eventful career of the aged mother and almost idolized son, upon -whom tlic eyes of tlio wliole civilized world have been turned, as they were never turned upon mother and son before. Eliza Ballou and a sister, about 1820, by the death of their parents, were left alone in the world and unprovided for, so far as the inheritance or possession of property was concerned. Preferring to livo among relatives, one went to reside with an uncle in Northern Ohio, and the other, Eliza, came to another uncle, the father of Samuel Arnold, who then lived on a farm near Norwich, Muskingum county. Ohio. There Eliza Ballon made" her home, cheerfully help-) ing at the house or in the field, as was then sometimes the custom in a pioneer country. Having something more than what at. that day was an ordinary education, Eliza procured about twenty pupils and taught a summer school. The schoolhouse was one of the primitive hind, and stood in th<3 edge of a- denso and heavily-timbered woods. One day there came a fearful storm of wind and rain, accompanied by thunder und lightning. The woods were badly wrecked, but the wind ieft the old log schoolhouse uninjured. Not so thy lightning. A bolt struck a tree that projected closely over the roof and then the roof uf the building itself. S.)Die of the pupils were greatly alarmed, and no doubt thought it thy crack of doom or day of judgment. The teacher, as calm and collected as possible, tried to quiet her pupils and keep them in their places. A man who was one of the pupils, in speaking of the occurrence, says that for a little | while lie remembered nothing, and then 1 he looked arouud and saw the teaclur; and all the pupils lying dead on the floor, as he thought. Presently the teacher began to move a little, and rose to her feet. Then, ow? by one, the pupils pot up, with a single exception. Holrv vrtpdiwil nnd otherwise, was ob- i tained as soon as possible for this one, | and, though life was paved for a time, i reason had forever fled. This was a j fearful experience for a young female i teacher, and it probably ended her career as an instructress. Eliza Bullou's sister married in North-1 em Ohio, and while on a visit to her the i former made the acquaintance of Abrnm i Gariield, and subsequently married | him. When James was sixteen yeaisj old he and his widowed mother visited ' Muskingum county in search of a school for the young man. They visited the family of the older Arnold at Norwich, and also the family of Samuel Arnold, now u citizen of New Lexington, and before referred to. The unusual intelligence of the boy and the astonishing I affection between mother and son were what chiefly impressed itself upon the minds of those who entertained the poor humble boy who was to become a future President of the United States, and die a martyr to the high official position, more widely lamented than any other man had ever been. There appeared to be no opening for a school in the neighborhood of Norwich, and mother and son went to Uncle Ballou's in another part of the county, where .Tames gut a school and taught a single term. The money thus earned he applied in further educating himself. And this was why ho and his mother were | hunting a school. I Scandinavian Hospitality. The most striking quality of Scandl- j naviar- character seems to bo hospitality. Throughout Norway, Sweden and the far North the author was heartily received by ever? one, lrom the king in j his palace to the Laplander in his tent. ! During tivo years ot' almost incessant j travel, in the course of which every ! part of the peninsula was visited, Mr. I Dn Chailluwas cooil\\treatedonly once, j The Swedes and Norwegians have the j reputation of being reserved and cold, ! but this is truo of thorn only when they ! meet strangers of the class best sug- ' gested by the word "tourist." To any j one who-o interest in them cannot be 1 measured by a stare or two and a few impertinent questions they are unsuspicious and commuuicativft, as well as cordial to the verge of affection. Mr. Du Chaiilu went among them freeiy, conversed with them in their language, wore garments like their own, and took part in their labors, sports and ceremoj nies. The treatment ho received in re! turn causes him to speak most enthui siustically in praiso of their sociability i 1/ As in all other countries that retain I primitive habits, hospitality in SeondiI mi via always implies eating and drinkI ing. Tho poorest farmer or fisherman i always has something to offer the visi, tor, and lack of appetite is generally i construed us a slight. The anther menj tions cno occasion on which, to avoid hurting auy one's feelings, he ate thirty times in two days, and drank thirty four j cups of coffee. 'Jften strong cheese is of' fared just before a meal to provoke appetite, and in the cities a formal dinner is preceded by a smoryas or lunch, at a | table crowded with alleged appetizers. 1 On a single amorgm table the author noted smoked reindeer meat, raw salmon with poached eggs, raw salmon : freshly Baited, hard-boiled eggs, caviare, fried sausage, anchovy, smoked goose ; breast, cucumbers, raw salt herring, | several kinds of cheese and as many of bread, and a salad made of pickled lierj ring, boiled meat, potatoes, eggs, beets i ar.d onions. There were also three ; kinds of spirits on the table, and from j these and the various dishes the guests 1 helped themselves bountifully, and then did justice to an excellent dinner. I ?Harper's *Iag<izine. What is It ] What in that which has three feet but 1 no legs, is all body but no limbs, has 1 no toes on the feet, no head, moves or i great deal but never uses its feet 'for ! that purpose, has one foot at each end j aud one in the center of the body ? i This is a queer creature in some respects, and is very popular among the ludies and some gentlemen. It never walks ont, but goes with one footwhere the head might be, dragatincj the other ' foot behind. These feet have nails, but no toes, no heels and no bones in the j feet. Answer?A yardstick. ) A fire has destroyed nearly the whole town of Jerome, Hayti; loss 8300,000. LiTe Among the Icelanders. ! This quaint and carious town is as ; I odd in its way hm t!i? fatuous Lap city of Hamuierfo-jt, the most northern in I Europe. In 1871:, when they colebratt d ;! the llUOth anniversary of I he foundation i j of their republic?two years before ! America made such a fuss about bei lit| tie ona hundred years?there has been a 11 spirit of European innovation abroad j which hreatens in time to destri y the nu! live characteristics of the place. Al[ ready the houses on the outskirts of tbe i city "begin to appoar over ground, and at I a glance one gets a fair idea of the place. | In the past the people of Reykjavik were ! troglodytes, as moat of the other I dwellers on the islaud are yet. They j lived in bees, or holes in the gronnd covered wirli peaked roofs, and so sodded over tbat at a short distance one could :aot tell them from tho s^rronnding award. In riding about tho interior or' tho island one comes unexpectedly on these' houses in tho midst of the plain, without surroundirg fences or anything rise to give indication of a humaa habitation. Of all the dirty holes iu the world, these native boos are tho dirtiiest, and how people live i in them is beyond comprehension. Onehalf of their clirt in a temperate climate I would breed pestilence. In the winter | time the cattle, chickens, dogs arid sheep j herd together here. The bees are about : twenty feei long by ter. wide, and ! alwavii two of them are built close together and connected by a narrow passage. In one. which has no furniture, the cooking is done at an open tire built on tho ground, from which the smoke escapes, through a hole iu the roof. At all times tho floor of this i apartment, which is on the ground, is j dank and soft. This tire in/winter is the ' only means of warmth the natives have, ! and so they accumulate the animals j in their dwellings to borrow some of I their heat. To attempt to warm a bee with | one of these tires is about equivalent to j tiying to warm tho United States with a match. The fires are of turf and seaweed, and, what with the blinding I cmnlra omittnrl l?v flio frtol tlio ompll nf I cattle, and the not sweet odor c i the j father, mother and lit*4-* of yonngbrats, | one imagines what a good metropolitan j sewer might be. This is not the exception, but the rule; for in Iceland, as elsewhere, owing to the non-adaptability ; of means to ends, there are more poor | people than rich. Reykjavik proper is mostly made! I np of well constructed houses, as! comfortable as could be wished. ' As with the Germans, fine linen is the ! ?^bition of every thrifty housewife, and ! I have dined from off damask as thick as chamois and wiped the sparlciug I drops of Danish whisky from my lips j with napkins as soft as Pongee silk. ! Some of then are proud of their pedigrees, too, nnci I diDed with a charming lady who allovred me to stir the sugar j in my tea with a silver spoon with ! j which her hjnored and piratical ances- [ j tor used to rai:c his punch. Tea out of! an iron spoon of contemporaneous j manufacture has tasted quite as good. In some of the houses I saw bits of j cabinet work and wood-carving that; would so intensify the utterness of the j adorers of broken china and dreamera in wood as to make their present ravings ! seem mathematical und scientific. i They were nil pirates here at one time, j even as the Eagleiuen, the ancessors; of the English nation, were, and it so ; happens that unless you din reach back . your pedigree to piratical time3 you j don't belong to tho aristocracy. Some j of tho descendants of tbc pirates hive j been so busy petting a living that they J lmvo lost the count further back than i their grandfather*, and sothe aristocracy j here, as all the world over, is confined i to those who have nothing else to do than to think of their groat-grandfather's great-grandmother. Among the j lower classes the women aro not treated as well as one ci.uld wish, but they have some inestimable privileges. II need not enlarge on this topic. Public { spirit is liberal enough to allow women j to ride astride, but they have no voting | capacity, and in the matter of labor i they aro much favored. In other re- j spects, tho people here do credit to their I 1,000 years of' civilization. They sup-j port five newepapers, which, for a coun-1 try of 80,000 inhabitants, very scattered, is good.?New York Herald. Humors of the Trpamir? Department. A vfkrtiinf Wocln'nrrfnn loffav cover* An ! " *? ???.. ...,U1US.VU ,v.vv. .... I old gentleman from the interior of Ohio j arrived here a few days ago with 817,000 in United States six percent, bonds which ho purchased in 1SG1 and which j were called in July last. Ho first vis- i ited the loan division, where he said ho came to obtain gold for his bond s as he had paid gold for them. "When told that a draft on the United States treasury was as good as gold he insisted upon the gold, and would not listen to any explanation regarding an equivalent in , another form. To-day, a little before j noon, lie appeared with a Urge leather i valise in which ho carried off the full i amount of his claim iu S20 gold i pieces, wi-ighing in all about seventy- j five pounds. Ho became very much i provoked with Treasurer Gilfillan when j that officer endeavored to persuade him i to accept drafts and to have them cashed j when ho reached home, reiterating that | he came here for gold and declining to ; take anything 2lse. He staggered under ' his heavy load as far as Assistant Trea- > surer Wyman's room, where he expressed ; a wish to count his treasure before leaving town. A room was assigned to him : for that purpose. After the entire I amount had been carefully counted and ' found to bo correct, tho old gentleman j was persuaded to express tho coin tohui i home. During the timo he was engaged i in counting tho money a city detective ! who had been summoned kept watch over tho bag. A number of United States bonds, amounting to $800, and several United States notes, aggregating in value about : $150, were received at the treasury de-1 ??v-? Art/kAm?\nm'A/1 Ktf ! I'ilL llU'JUL I lli> liiUiUHJfi, UtJCVJUJf/amtrvi irj ( j an unsigned note, requesting that the j ; wnole be placed to tho credit of the I ; conscience fund. Tho sender, evidently ; ; intent upon defacing the bonds so effec-1, j tually that they could never be used, ! j cut them into strips. The bonds, there- | i fore, cannot be identified, hence the : object for which the owner intended i them is defeated. None of tliennmbers I of tbe bonds were found upon them, ! having all bct^ cut off. The package | i will be ret lined at the department until j j the other bonds and notes are received, ; ; or until the owner call.s for its return, j , The package came from Cincinnati. . A (Ilieap Wilding. ' A correspondent of the Scientific j j Awmmn says: I have bound twenty I volumes in this way: Pack the papers | I smoothly, hold firmly and drive a thin j chisel through tho pilo about half au inch from the back. Push a strong tape through and leave out nbout two inches; put three or four tapes through at even intervals. Cut common thick I paper boards large enough to project a j little cveiywhere, except that one edge j I must come front of the tapes. D:-aw 1 ! the tapes tightly and glue down to the ! boards outside. Skive a piece of leather ! ?common sheepskin will answer?wide enough to cover tho back and como on tho boards an inch or two, and long enough to project a couple of inches at the end. Pasto the leather well; put it on the back; fold tho ends in so as to come over the boards on each side. Paste any fancy or plain paper over the bides; and, lastly, paste the blank leaf down to the cover inside, and you have a presentable book and very durable. Trimming the eiges can be easily djne by clamping betw?en boards and cut ting tho edges with a thin, sharp knife by a straight-edge. Of course, this is 1 done before the boards are put on after tho tapes are in. This makes a llati edge book, but for a thin book answers very well. J tmm^mmmm There was an awful state of affairs in ; a little Michigan town where a types setter substituted the word "widows" for "windows." The editor wrote: "The windows of the church need i washing badly. They are a disgrace to the village." FOK THE LA.IHES. (Jrrinnn Wlven. ; Some statistician has discovered that ; in Germany the best apes for marriage { among women are from twenty five to j thirty-five year*-; tbat few lake place ; before nineteen, the number slowly increasing until twenty-five is reached, when the high numbers appear, receding after thirty five. Few German girls i marry before nineteen and few after { forty. The German girls are taught I housekeeping thoroughly, and by the i timo th?-y marry they are able to take ! excellent care of a house, relying but i little on imported cooks. A German i lady's kingdom is her kitchen; her j parlor she enjoys, but to display her I talent as a pianist; or conversationalist she would not sacrifice her ability to i appeal to the hungry sentiments of her | husband and his fiiends. Probably if j there were more marriages before nine. teen there would be less happy homes ; in Germany and less wives of experi; ence, discretion and good temper. New* nnd Note* for Women. i Amelia Wells, the queen of the gypj sies, is said to be worth $60,000. A Michigan woman has gone to EngI land to bring back 300 servant girls. ! The Philadelphia School of Art Needlework receives "workers," charging I them 810 for a course of lessons, and ; paying them by the square inch for j their work. Mamie Richards, a "Wisconsin school' mistress, is to have a medal because i she walked daily to and from her i school, through five miles of dense fori est, in which were prowling wolves, j Miss Abby T. Pierce, seventy-five ! years old, raveled the stockings made j from the fleece of " Mary's Little i Lamb," and arranged bits of it on pieces j of card to sell at the Old South fair in ; Boston, earning thereby ?150. The empress of Austria is a woman i of simple habits, but she nevertheless 1 spends a great deal of money. It is said that her last hunting trip to England cost $200,000. She smokes a great many cigarettes, practices gymnastics regularly, and rises at 5 o'clock in the morning. Moorish woman dress very gayly in their homes, but when they appear in the public streets they are enveloped in white muslin or calico from head to foot and glide along like ghosts, thick, white veils covering their faces. In private life they are fond of gorgeous coloring. A pretty anecdote about Queen Christina of Spain is related by Mrs. Lucy Hooper in the Philadelphia Teleyraph. A short time ago a foreign lady of rank, who was converting with her majesty respecting Spanish manners and customs, asked the queen how she could endure to sit through a bull-tight. " Ah I" said Dona Christina, " you know I am very near-siglited, and whenever I go to a bull-fight I always forget to take my eyeglasses with me." FrkIiIoii Notcn. Balaycuses remain in voguo. Bridal roses are again in voguo. All midwinter wraps are very long. Moire is again used as half mourniDg. ! Two box plaits form the back of new skirts. Ostrich feathers trim new evening dresses. Leoonrd plush is worn by young women and children. The new colored ties are finished with ' chenille fringes and embroideries. The muffs matching the bonnet, and | fantastically trimmed with anything j that one has in the honse, will be carried this winter. New linen colors have long points in front, and needlework borders; although sometimes they are nearly covered with embroidery and edged with lace. Fall triple-plaited fraises are in vogue, made after the fashion of the rnilles in portraits around the neck of Sir Walter Ilaleigh. They are called " Raleigh cuffs." Now shoes of silk velvet for evening j wear are laced up the fronts with slender j cords of gold or silver, and the toes are j covered with embroidery worked in j silver or gold threads. Velour ottoman silk is a novel dress j fabric which promises to be very popular for bridal and evening costumes. It comes only in white and very delicately tinted shades of color. Half-fitting paletots of plain dark cloth, more especially of a dark green tint, aro very fafahionablefor the autumn season. They havo no trimming beside large fancy buttons. Carriage and traveling shawls of j camel's hair beaver in plain colors, with [ gay plaid linings, ate a novelty; so are i T-rtfTTat- Vwornr slifiwlq OTaV Oil One side ! T V W WVM . V- J O V I and black on the other, with bright j borders. Among high uovelties in plush are the \ Siberian bullion plushes for cloaks and I trimmings. lrhis material often costs I as high as ?35 per yard, and shows a very heavy pilo pointed with either si I-1 ver or gold flecks. The lust extravagance in French hose | is a new stocking of cream white lace j in open work designs to be worn over ; another one of spun silk tinted a flesh ! color. The lace stockings cost twenty- j five dollars a pair. Itich moire antique, such as delighted j the stately dames of olden times, is to j be a favorite material for bridal dresses j this winter. The new moire fabrics, | however, show smaller wave than the j watered material formerly manafac-1 tured. A Mistake. It happened in a rough mining town in Colorado. There was a grand ball a) ? ? TT-> -V I T .1. 1| i tilC rancil 01 WUISKV uuen, H with'nuwwu character in tbo " diggings," and the ! "elite " of tbo district responded to the j call in full force. The party was held : i:i a rickety old barn belonging to the! 1 ost, and with a few red strips of red : fiannel, a grotesque accumulation of j mountain roses und a row of dripping j candles, the appointments of the place j were perfect. My lirst partner in the j giddy danco was the wife of the man who killed the village pest master be- J cause he refused him a letter; she was J fat, fair and forty, and danced with the . grace of a cow. My next partner was ! the daughter of this charming pair, a ! young girl just bursting into the loveli- j net's of womanhood; she w.s badly | freckled, and sported a warfc on her : nose. My nest partner was a blooming ; grass-widow, a fresh arrival; and then I j rested. 1" begau to comment on new i faces in the room My companion in j this pleasant pastime was a heavy- ; bearded miner, uncouth,roughly dressed, tobacco slobbered and very profane, j This was our first meeting and 1 hoped j it would be the last. "There goes a hard-looking case," ; I whispered, as the wife of the man j who killed the postmaster sailed by. " She's a bad 'un." "Yes," replied the man. "I'd hate | to have the critter step on me. What! an elegant target she would make for a .poor marsksman!" " Yes," I said, and turned my eves ! on a tall, raw-boned creature sailing toward us, supported by a Jittlo innn ! with sandy whiskers and red-top boots. ' Here'comes the boss." " How?" " The boss, I say; ain't she a lovely . chimpanzee?" " A what?" "Chimpanzee!" He glared at me a moment, and then j reached for his revolver. " What is a chimpanzee?" ho growled, fiercely, his red eyes growing large. I saw that I had made some mistake, and hastened to explain. " Why?why," I stammered, backing off, " a chimpanzee is a lovely creature found in Africa?nothing so gorgeously beautiful as a chimpanzee. That is the highest compliment a lady can receive." " Oh !" and .the man looked relieved. " Yes, I think so myself, stranger; ehe is a lovely chimpanzee; she's my wife." t .. IN THE MOKMON HOHES. I Ilow Tliey Bulntrr Up Polyenmy by Thrcnta in Their Creed. i When a good Mormon dies who has "Jived up to liis religion," and has bad ; a doz"C or two wives and fifty or bixty children, he does not become a mere angel like an ordinary Christian?he becomes a god with a world of his own to reign over. A Mormon wife who opj poses the polygamous marriage of her j j husband goes to perdition and is " de- i j stroved." A Mormon who obeys the i mandates of the church in most respects, but neglects to "go into polygamy," becomes a mere angel, who must be a kind of celt stial servant to the gods and other angels. His wife must share the same humiliating fate. The doctiine of "blood atonement" is simply this: That if an apostate's throat is cutl the spilling of his blood upon the ground will save his soul. If he is left to die a natural death, his soul will go to perdition. A great many apostate souls have been saved in Utah. This, iu substance, is thr Mormon religion. | Its vagaries, however, are constantly j branching out in every direction, and in the course ot time aq enormous miei-1 lect will be required to comprehend and i expound the entire system. One of the oldest citizens of Minersville is Judge Eollins, who passed some time in California in the very earliest days of its settlement, and was formerly the possessor of a handsome fortune, which ho lost in mining operations, He is an American by birth and is strongly attached to the Mormon faith. If my memory serves me right he has onlv'two wives, with whom he dwells in peace and contentment, I was surprised that a man of his intelligence could believe in all the Mormon jargon about visions, angels, revelations, the | casting out of devils, miraculous cures, the laying on of hands, etc. He was firm in the faith, however. He took me ' over one evening to witness a meeting of the choir of the Minersville church. The structure in which the little convocation was held was plain and unpretending. The Mormons pay great attention tofthe musical department of their religious services. The "young people" present were gay and light hearted, and in no wise different in appearance from a similar gathering in a Protestant community. They sang " the songs of Zion" with effect, and evincod great interest in the musical art. Evidently the female portion of \ them gave little thought to the dark future which polygamy unfolded before them. Afterward, at the judge's house, I met Captain Sam, an Indian chief, who was on a begging tour. The Mormons are liberal in their dealings with the Indians, invariably treating them with great kindness, regarding them as the descendants of the Lamaniteu, who couquered the Nephites. Considerable success has been met with in converting the Indians. Tho entire Navajo tribe are said to bare become Mormons. I aiw a delegation from this tribe at Beaver City. The chief was decked out with feat.ier3 and gewgaws in a manner to qaite come up to the standard of one of Cooper's coppor-colored heroes. The humbler members of the party were also well udorned, and all were well armed and well mounted. They were a liae body of red men, and in answer to an inqniry, stated that they were on ! their way to Salt Lake City "to ask j President Taylor a question." At the hotel in 'Frisco I met a very | intelligent gentleman who had passed J half a lifetime in Utah, and bad traveled i through almost every portion of it. In j the course of an interesting conversa-! tion he said: I was intimately acquainted with the ' late Joseph A. Young, Brigham's most; talented son. He was a man of noble j personal appearance, and of the most j brilliant talents. I havo heard him preach wi'h an eloquence that drew ' tears from the eyes of his Mormon list-j eners. In the pulpit he was the embodiment of dignity, graoe and intellectual power. Then, after the audience had departed, I have known him ! to laugh and make sport of the de- j luded creatures who had been listening to him. To me he made no secret of ' the fact that he was an infidel of the ! most pronounced type. Ho took mo j into the library once and pointed out elegantly bound volumes of Hume, Voltaire, Paine, Volnev, and other diatin-! guished writers of that school. He j believed in no existing religion. I re-! proached him for continuing such de ception, and urged him to go forth into the world and wiu tho noble name his abilities entitled him to. " Pshaw!" he replied, with a smile, ' the human race ! loves to be humbugged. Somebody j will get their money, and I might as ! well have a share of it,as anybody else." j His mental splendors were clouded by an unconquerable vice. At times he drank to excess and made great trouble for the church. On one occasion, when under the influence of liquor, he pointed to a party of Mormons on their way to | labor in the fields and derisively re-1 marked : "There go some of my father's j slaves." His contempt for human nature [ was unbounded. Ho died a premature j death at Manti from the effects of a pro-1 tracteii spree. Ho was tiie only realty promising son in Brigham's family. ? San Francisco Chronicle. A Terrible Death. Mr. Kalph Gore, a contractor, was : superintending the work in a new j sewer, at Erie, Pa., and while he was at the bottom of the excavation, the earth 1 began to give away. He stepped aside i and let all in his employ escape ahead j of him, and thc-n the earth fell on him.' His head could be seen just above the : earth. " I think my legs are broken,; gentlemen," he said, " bat set to work j and dig me out of my grave." He | spoke encouragingly and made light of ! the accident. While the workmen were i digging the other bank was seen to be i giving way. It was over the spot where j Mr. Gore stood wedged in iw in a vice. Fivo or sis hundred tons of earth and rock must come down unless a miracle intervened. The laborers had cleared j a way the earth as faraway as Mr. Gore's shoulders, but now they had to fly for their own lives. Next moment the man was aloue. Above him was the totter-! ing avalanche, and on tho south bank i stood a crowd of people with pallid ! faces. Tho look of despair that he j gave when he took in the situation will | never be forgotten. He made one more ; desperate struggle to extricate himself, ! and then resigned himself to his fate, j He fixed his eyes on the slowly moving ! mass, und watched it creep nearer and j nearer to the point where he knew it: would receive suflicient impetus to be j hurled down upon him. " God help mo," he exclaimed, and the awe-sdicken ; crowd cchoed the wish. Then his lips J were seen to move in praver, and the j landslide moved faster. It received a temporary check, but again glided on toward the brink. The suspense at this j moment was terrible. A large school opposite had just let out, and the teac i- j ers and children had gathered on the 1 brink. Wen, women and children sobbed aloud, and some knelt in prayer. J The avalanche was now within two feet of the poiut where the bank became 1 steeper. Slowly it crept; inch by inch ' the point was reached; its pace quick-! ened, thero was a rush, and the next! moment 500 tons of earth plunged over I the brink and fell with a crash on top of the man's head. Later in tho day the j body was recovered, a shapeless mass, j Two young ladies iu Gandaloupe, j Cal., do all tho work on the weekly : paper called the Telegraph, from writ- j ing editorials, working at. the press, | down to mailing and serving subscribers with their papers. The young ladies are said, moreover, not to be at all masculine, but are gentle and fair to look 1 npon. i I The burglar Ben Brown, alias Bob i White, now in jail at Charlotte, N. | C., awaiting execution for burglary was, j it is said, a United States deputy mar- i shal in South Carolina, during recon-! strnction days, and was one of the most notorious colored political characters in I the county during all ttxat dark time. SUNDAY READING. Be Happy* It is the easiest thing in the world to be happy, if men and women conld only think so. Happiness is only anj other name for love, for where love J exists in a household there hsippiness j must also evist, even though it has pov| crty for its close companion; where love | exisfs not, even though it be in a palace, happiness can never come. He was a | cold and selfish being who originated the saving that "when poverty comes in at tho door, loves flies out of the win dow," and his assertion proves conclusively that he had no knowledge of love, for unquestionably the reverse of the axiom qaoted is nearer the truth. When nrworfv pnmoa in nf. flip rlnnr lnvfi?trne fW. love?is more than ever inclined to tarry, and do battle with the enemy. Let those who imagine themselves miserable, before they lind fault with their surroundings, search in their hearts for tbe cause. A few kind words, a little forbearance, or a kiss, will open the w^y to a flood of sunshine in a honse darkened by the clouds of discord and unamiability. Rclleiona Sew? nod Note*. A Swedish Baptist church has been organized and recognized at Worcester, Mass. A training school for evangelists, colporteurs aud Bible readers will soon be opened in Paris. Four missionaries sailed recently from Philadelphia to the Presbyterian Gaboon and Corisco mission, Africa. The French council of state is considering the project of a decree for assuring religious liberty in the army. The total membership of the Methodist churches in the world, as reported at the late general conference in London, is 4,705,116, of whom 3,700,000 are in the United States and Canada. A recent religious census taken in Prussia shows that country contains 17,615.462 Protestants. 9,205,136 Catholics, 363,790 Jews, 42,518 Dissenters, and 22,006 persons professing no religion. The Methodist Episcopal Church South has eleven mission stations alonsr the Bio Grande and the Mexican border, with sixty-one preaching-places, 447 church members and 373 Snndayschool scholars. The Ohio Congregationalists made a gain of 500 in membership the past year. The total benevolent contributians were 863,548, a gain of ?27,161 over the preceding year. They have 230 churches in all. The California Methodists have begun to raise a " Haven memorial fund" 01 n nnn : HI I IU mCUiUlT Ul IUD JrtKO JUiOUU^ Haven, who died in Oregon, for perfecting the library, cabinets, etc., of the University of the Pacific. The Congregational ehuroh in Stratford, Conn., organized 240 years ago has published a manual giving historical sketches of its sixteen preceding pastors. It has furnished twenty-two* for the ministry, among thera the Rev. H. L. Barnum, of Turkey. During the recent absence of Rev. E. F. Fales from his church (Congregational) at Carthage, Mo., the services were conducted by a delegation of Modoc Indians, to the great satisfaction of the congregation. Seven years ago these Indians were savages, but now all their chiefs and many of the people are Christians. Bishop Crowther, of the Niger, in Africa, was recently called upon by a wealthy chief from Okrika, a town which had never been >isited by a mission agent, who stated that Christianity had extended from the Bonney mission to that town, and that the people had built a church accommodating 500 people, where the pervice was read every Sunday to crowded con gregations by a school-boy from the Brass mission. Paying for the Chickens. Governor Murray tells a laughable j i * i . ! xi. ~ n.. ! story or ms experiences m mo vieurgm : march to the sea, which is worth re- j peating: " Speaking of the famous march j through Georgia," said the governor, " I! t ever shall forget the amount of money j it cost us to keep an old woman from I crying herself to death. Of course we ! had to subsist off the country as wo j vient along, and we naturally took pos- j session of a chicken ranch kept by an old lady, who stood at the front gate with a broom and .threatened to lick all of Sherman's forces if they did not move on. Now, chickens were considered as oflicers' meat, and, as we were hungry, we went for those old hens pretty lively. When she saw that her favorite i fowls were being caught and killed she j keeled right over and began to cry. j Presently she began to scream, and ! finally yon could hear that woman's! yells clear to Atlanta. I sent the sur- j geons in to quiet her, but they failed, ; and then all the oflicers took turns, but I the moro attentipn paid her the more | she howled. I then got pretty nervous . over the noise, because the whole army ; would hear it, and they might suppose j somebody was torturing tne woman i Finally Sherman rodo up and asked j what was it all about, and when wo told , him he said: 'Give her a bushel of; Confederate bonds for her hens, and fee : if that will stop her.' Acting on this hint I proceed**! to business. We had captured a Confederate train the day before, with 8-1,000,000 of Confederate money, and I hunted up the train at once. The money was worth about two cents on the dollar. Well, I stuffed about 8500,000 in an old carpet-sack i and marched into the house. " 'Madam,' said I, opening the sack, i ' I'll give you 850,000 to quit this! noise.' It was as still as death in a 1 minute, and then her face expanded in j a broad smile. I laid the packages of ( money on tho table, and I never saw , such u delighted woman. Ths effect 1 pleased me, and I continued: ' General ; Sherman presents his compliments and J 8100,000.' I never in all mv life saw such a pleased old woman, and wound up by dumping the contents of the sack right down on the floor and telling her that when it came to contributions to distressed females I could not be outdone by no man living. "She invited the olEcers to supper ! and she cooked every chicken on the raiicli and sec oat ciuer no ntc a* ??ici. We were having a pretty good time when a long, lauk old coon came in, and j she said it was her husband. Pretty ! soon his eye fell on the money. " 'Sirah,' slid he, 'where in the! dence did you pet all this truck V "A present from General Sherman,' j said she. ' "Tain'fc worth a continental cent, j They're Kimtlia' fires with it down at New Orleans.' " The old woman rose tip, her face as white as your shirt front, and her eye wasn't pleasant to meet.. " ' So you are the bilk that gave me i this, are yon?' she called out, reaching for the old broom. " The eutire mess rose and started j from that house. We never beard any 1 more of her, and there isn't a man of! the crowd who would meet that old | woman for all that Confederate money, | if it would bring 100 cents on the dol lar at the treasury department,\Wash- i iogton." An Immense Hammer. _ The largest s'eam-bammer in the j United States has gone into operation ! at Pittsburg. It weighs seventeen i tons, while the anvil block under it j weighs l(j|) tons. With a full head of j strain it will strike a blow of ninetv 1 tons, but, as this tremendous weight is not always necessary in hammering, it can be made to strike as light as do-! sired. It has a thirty-eight-inch cylin-; der and nine-foot stroke. The ponder- j ous blows make the earth quake for a ' radius of nearly '200 yards. The big hammer is for forging steamboat shafts and other heavy work. Life is hardly respectable if it has no generous task, no duties of affections that constitute a necessity of existing. Every man's task is his life-preserver. Man. Liko to tho falling of a star, " Or as tho flights of eagles we; Or like tbe fresh spring's gandy ha#. Or silver drops of morning dew ; Or like a wind that chafes the Hood, Or bubbles which our water stood; Even such is man whose borrowed light ^ 1.1 straight called in, and paid to night, The wind blows out, the bnbble die*; The spring entombod in autumn lies; % The dew dries up, the star is shot; .. '*S| Tho tlight ia past?and man forgot. ?Dr. Henry King, HUMOR OF THE DAT. You can always judge a tailor by the nuke he wears, and a potter by the ware be makes. A fish is a dependent creature, and it ; 19 never comes out of the water on its own hook.?Steubenville Herald. "How does that soot yon?" askedjjSl the chimney. " I think that you are a -' w thins of fines habits," answered tha<^|jj fi It is not strange that when the sexton peals the wedding bells the contracting parties should be paired ott.?Toledo ' 'M AmericanL flj A boot and shoe shop hangB out the . "ll sign: " Cast iron lasts." We all know I it does, hut we don't want any boots i 1 made of it. ??o|aW A church choir consists of one ac- 1 eomplished musician and a lot of other I folks who are densely ignorant of music. | The accomplished one is the one yon 1 are talking with. When the ruined physician placed his I door-plate in pawa he was heard tore? v/j I mark: "HadI signed the pledge, I I would not now have to pledge my sign*" . Ijk An old man who had been badly hurt -;<JB - ?il?J Arlmoi^ 4A'4^H in a rauruuu cuuioiuu, uciug au>*owu sae the company for damages, saidr.3 "Wal, no; not for damaies. I've had " yenough of them; bnt I'll just sue 'em U for repairs." " Lay off your overcoat or you won't r-'' feel it when you go out," said the land' lord of a Western inn to a guest who was sitting by the fire. " That's what jSj I'm afraid of," returned the man. "The last time I was here I laid off overcoat. I didn't feel it when I went SS out, and I haven't felt it since."? Cin- " \ cinnati Saturday Night. :i A group of superstitious folks were talking over charms, amulets, fetiohee * tmkiAAf vf 1 nni\r rronorollr "All fctliU Clio OUUjCVU VI AUVBQVMv*w*v. ?? old uncle of mine." says one of them, finally, " when he died, bequeathed me a talisman, thanks to which I have always got along well in th-? world." I "And it was?" "Fifty thousand a J A MATTER OF PBOKTTKCI^TIOV. i&M Said Master Jones, " Now must we go j Without delay to the dee-pot." I Laughed sweet Misw Jones, "I should say 80? | Let's start at onco to the day-pot.'1 I Smiled Mrs. Jones, " In quick ?tep, oh, ' | We'll all run uown to the dep-pot." T-j Groaned Mr. Jones, " It's wighty hot <51 To drive you all to the dee-pot." | These conflicts of pronunciation' I Would not be if they'd call it "station." V SxCTj ?y-rristoven Herald. ' fftjjM Cowpcr'8 Hymn. j Co wper's beauti fnl hymn, "God Moves'^ in a Mysterious Way," was universally I sung iu the recent memorial services to : 1 our late President. By order of Bishop. -#|S| Littl^john it fomed part of the services J in all the Episcopal churches of Long island. No hvmn could have been written more appropriately lor toe o?? '*?gn casion. There is a sublime sermon is .'^^J that composition; every veree, aye. 'ftsM every couplet and lino can furnish a ] text for an entire discourse. There is - J something interesting and pathetic in j| the origin and composition of this hymn which is not generally known, . nor have I ever seen it mentioned in ^?|| the biographies or sketches of the life I of the author. It wa9 told me by an j old clergyman who was well acquainted j with the circumstance. Cowper, it will be remembered, was of a melancholy turn of mind, and his mind became morbid on the subject of religion. In fact, at times he had fits of insanity. In London, while ruminating on the uselessness of human life, he was seized with the sudden impulse to deatioy himself?to go at once and drown himself. He ordered a hackney coach to be brought to tne door. When it arrived ' \-22 he rushed downstairs and into '-ffW it without giving orders where it was to -1 be driven. Waiting some little timey the driver asked where he would like i to be taken to. " To the Thames." The manner and look in which these words were uttered convinced the -*A driver, who appears to have had more ' ?? than the usual intelligence of men of his class, that his occupant was de-.r^B ranged. He drove off, but not to the river where Cowper had ordered him. '.fig He drove up one street and down an- ^ other for a long time, while Cowper sat ?3 back in his seat in mental abstraction, V|g which convinced the driver that he was crazy. After a long, roundabout drive he drove tip to the poet's lodgings and told him he had arrived " where he was V3S ordered." Cowper descended from the . 3 vehicle, entered the house and went to bis room. Then iu his returning con? <|rB sciousnesa the truth of the entire trans- ' action entered his mind, and he found ^ that he had not seen the river at all, '|| nor had he drowned himself, as he in- g? tended when he left the chamber two hcur3 before. In this he saw the hand ''Sag of Providence, and immediately composed the hymn: N God moves in a mysterious way His womlers to perform. Which will be sung as long as hymns ^jjj are sung in religious worship.?New York Mail. Opium Smoking in America. Four thousand is a moderate estimate . * of the total number of native American '% victims to tho opium habit, an<^ these, it is eafe to speculate, consume 100 grains of the drug a day. This gives a daily consumption of 400,000 grains, or cbout 19,000 pounds duriug the year. ^ About three drains of the smoking opium, equivalent to six drams of the v crude dm*, make the average quota of j a day's consumption, and this mnoh /J costs from fifty to seventy-five cents. Some who go to perpetual excess, how- \ ever, luve been known to consume as much as a pound and a quarter dur- .*2 ing a day. Taking the average, how- ; ever, it will be found that the man who hankers after the de eterious and shortlived enjoyment of the drug can gTatify ;! his taste only at an expense of 8200 a year, and the combined indulgence of t| all American opium-smokers will be :M found to be earned on at a cost of over $750,000 yearly. And yet this waste is :; constantly being increased and the ranks of the fools multiplied, notwithstanding that in some States and cities f-tringent laws, with penalties of heavy fines and imprisonment, have been resoited to stay the hurtful progress of the habit. Arrests ar? constantly made in San Francisco, under a city ordinance, but seemingly witnout avail, and the vigorous legal prohibition of Nevada eti'ects but little, if any, abatement of the evil. The importations of smoking opium into America have steadily increased during the last ten years, and - ;3 the returns for 1880 show the enormous qnantitity of 77,196 pounds, valned at C77'-* 70^ no aoainst, pounds, valued at $353,334, sent hSe in 1871, being an increase of 17,000 poands in a single year, and ibis increase not being attributable to the increase of Chinese emigration at that. Aged 116 Years. Centenarians in America must look "v to their laurels. French papers report that there is now living at Luzv, in the department of the Saone et Loire, an s r, old woman who, born April *21, 1766,' is now in her hundred aad sixteenth year, and who is in complete possession of ail her ficulties. She was a daughter of one M. Pidault, who at his death, in 1787, was a tenant of the Marquise d'Aiguilly. She has lived under the government of Louis XV., Louis XVI, thn ronnhlic in all its phases, the A rirst ccipiro, Louis XVIII, Charles X., Louis Philippe, the republic of 18 the eecond empire, and the repTibli^flH^B to-day. ^