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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND'BANNEH _ _ i Sgjjj|| BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 25. 1882. NO. 34. VOLUME XXVI. 7 ' Tho Best That I Can. " I cannot do much," sail a little star "To make the ilark world l>rii^ht ! My silvery beams cannot struggle far, Through tho folding g'oom of night : But I'm only a part of God's great plan, Aud I'll cheerfully do tho beat I can !" ' What is tho use," sai l :v lleeey cloud, "Of those few drops that I hold ? They will hardly bend the lily proud, Though caught in her crp of koKI ! Yet I am part of God's great plan, So my treasure.1? I'll give as well as I can A child went merrily forth to play, But a thought, like a silver thread, Kept winding in and out all day, Through the happy golden head ; Mother said : "Darling, do all you can, For you are a part of God's great plan !" one uuuw iiu iiiv'ic mau uiu ^luauuu^ eiuj. Nor the cloud with its chalico full, How, why, an i for what, all strange things , were; Sue W83 only a child at school! But she thought, " It is part of Goil's great pten, That even 1 should do all that I can!" So she helped a younger child along, When tho road was rough to the feet, And she sang from tho heart a little sonx That we all thought passing sweet; And her father, a weary, toil-worn man, Said J, " I, too, will do the best I can." i; Our best! Ah! children, the best of us Must laid? onr faces away, < When the Lord of the vim-yard comes to look | At our tssk at the close of the day! But for strength from above, 'tis the Master's . plan, We'll pray, and we'll do the best that wr< cau A CONFESSION. Most men would hesitate at telling such a story of themselves. But I am J convinced that it will afford a sngges- j * tion of mercy toward such as do fall, jc and some may ho turned away from : * temptation by its recital. : I had been an under clerk in a large ! establishment for many years. Katnr- I r ally economical, my savings had at-1 r tained to such a respectable sum that I v ventured upon married life, quito as I much as a refuse from the monotony of j t my inexpensive Btyle of living as in j a obedience to those yearnings of nature j t which a man is either very foolish or ! j very bad not to heed in due season, e Like most men, however, whoso atlven- j n tures of this kind are not followed by ! v the comfort and ease which depend j c upon money for their possession, in the j e nonroo r?f tim? T nar\\Ck f.r? ranonf tho nn_ li dertaking; for I was iu debt, and my j t: family had increased, while my income s had not kept pace with my expenses, j il My wife lacked tbe courage to practice j t] the proper self-denial which wonld be n consequent upon a retrenchment of our d expenses. I was daily annoyed by duns, j g I had borrowed money in every avail-: ii able quarter, and a walk in the public o streets was literally denied to me by f< the fear of encountering some one to I whom I was in debt for house expenses, u Returning home late one night, jaded g by a listless stroll through the town, I i f< found tho junior member of the firm a awaiting me. The house had received n intelligence, after business hours, of a , tl transaction entered into on their ac-1 ti count, which secured the immediate c transmission to an isolated inland town I) of several thousand dollars, together t< ... with certain papers and statements b necessary to conclude the affair. It was n too important a matter to be ir.trnsted a to the insecurity and uncertainty of the o mail. Upon a consultation of the mem- d here of the firm I had been selected to i t] perform the neces?ary two days' jour- a: ney. I accepted the mission with alac- fl rity, for the reason, amonp r-thers, that ei it would be such a rccreation as would v; divert my thoughts for a time from the ! k perplexities of my miserable condition, i 1 With the usual foresicht of the firm I e everything necessary to rr.y prompt de-1 L parture had been prearranged. The a: needful papers and accounts, and ibe h indispensable money required to finish w the transactions, were placed in my! o handa in an envelope addressed to the i v. gentleman who had acted as agent of a 'the concern in the matter. A letter of tc instructions were also inclosed. li I remember well the bright Septem- d ber morning on which I started on si horseback and alone on my journey, of! h which I accomplished half the first day, w arriving at a farmhouse, whose occu- w pants unhesitatingly granted my peti- n tion for a share for the night in its 0 humble hospitality. ' t" The weather bad grown colder as tbe b< evening came on, and by the time I had reached the hou*e I experienced a sen- si bible chill. I had with mo a flask of s; liquor, and wa* furnished, at my re- | s' qnest at bedtime, vvith a small quantity i b of hot water with which to compound a h ,1.- 1.1 - OJlb VI ?'UUIU) ?*<3 t u auuuuiu t KJ 111 K. wuiu . L I apprehended having taken. o I had removed the package of money t< from my pocket and laid it cn the table, t with a view of putting it under my pil- a low before going to bed. As it lay on j p fhe table the address was uppermost; & on the left-hand upper corner was a! t memorandum, "85,000 inclosed." I t was standing with my back to the door. \ k Succeeding a few moment of entire t L silence I heard a stej; behind me, and I' t almost thoagut a breath upon my face, v Taming suddenly round I beheld my s host with the hot water l had called for a in a tumbler in his hand. He was1 o quite beside me, and his eves lested, or | t I fancied they rested, on tbe package a upon the table. I must confess I was | v sensibly startled by this incident. My t concern was not diminished by observ- ii ing that he had removed his boots from c his feet, and was then standing as he had t come np. in his stockings. My first iin- t pulse and act was to take the water out of i <] his hand. Not being quito ready to use , t it I put the envelope of money on the top of it as the most convenient thing h to keep it hot. I did not turn the su- I psrscription downward,because I feaied t it would betray the suspicion which 1 . x now positively entertained of evil in- t tentions on the part of my entertainer, t who bad quitted the room as noiselessly i as he had entered. I imagined a great1 i many ways in which he could have i uecome acquainted with the cause ci t my journey, and came rapidly to the 1 conclusion that wy employers' funds i were in danger. That they were actnaily , ( so became evident before the night bad passed. I recalled the man's conute-! i nance vividly to my recollection, and < examined from memory his features, so ? as to make some estimate of the char- i ; acter with which I bad to deal. Phy- < sically be was more than my equal, j 1 When I fiast alighted at the house it: ] struck mo I bad seen bim .before, and 11 after seme moments of further and pro-; found reflection I distinctly recalled i 1 bim to my mirid as a merchant who had , i . dealt with our firm during my early j: connection with it, and who Lad failed j through the dishonesty of friends whom lie had assisted. I remembered bim as j having been spokf-n of as disgusted with | trade, and as having sought a home in the wilderness with his family, and ; earning a living literally by the'sweat] of bis brow. Tbere were but two bedrooms in the j house, both on the same floor, a passage | * which commenced at the bead of the stairs dividing them. While the i thoughts which I have related were i passing through my mind I beard voices ; in the other bedroom and quietly; ooened mv door, which mv host had closed behind him. Standing out in the passage I could distinguish a man's and woman's voice. At first their language was unintelligible, but gradually 1 my ear became accustomed to the duty ! I endeavored to put it to, and I could : distinguish that the burden of their talk wae their domestic expenses, and i the general current of their thoughts ! was the difficulty of getting through j with certain undertakings they had in ; contemplaion or had commenced. It I was ovident that the man was more hopeful than the woman. My excited imagination at onco framed the theory that the treasure in lay possession was designed by them to solve this difficulty, and that the reluctant man was being urged on by the lees scrupulous or braver wotnan. i ; . I A sudden movement of one of them j toward the door caused me to retreat into my room. I beard the bolt of their doov moved, and supposing1 it was to unfasten it, hurried back into ray own i apartment and caught at the envelope, j intending to hasten it ont of sight. In j my eagerness to grasp it, it Ml off the j tumbler with the watered sido upper most and opened ! The wafers bad 1 been so far dissolved by the heat and ; py " syb't in two, leaving one- j half of each (there were three) on the 1 riap, and the otber half of each on the j body of the envelope. Meanwhile, there was no sign or sound of an inroadinto my room, which I had seen it was j impossible to fasten tbe iloor save by i moving some of the furniture against it. I became convinced that as yet i everything was safe, and yielding to a ! feeling of curiosity I drew the money I from the inclosure and counted it over. ! mi i. - i.i .1 1 .lucre wexu leu uut? uiuumuiu uunurs bills! I was astounded, and for the time forgot tfco fear thufc so recently harassed me. I looked i-.t the memorandum on the barl; of the envelope. It was "85,000." The letter was j opened before mo. I read it over. It i named ?5,000 as the sum inclosed. There was evidently an error. I counted it over again. Ten thousand dollars was the sum before me! Again and again I counted it. I had been used to j handling large sums and counting, large sums of money daily ; but I actu- j ally found more difficulty in arriving at the actual count of ten bank bills before me than I ever before or since encountered in counting any sum, however large or however numerous the cotes. Finally, putting a chair against the door, I spread* the notes out singly r>n the little table, in a row, and counted ! them with my finger. Then I made 1 ;wo rows of live notes each and again j * counted them ; then five rows of two j J :ach and counted them. I finally, j1 ;hongh slowly, became satisfied that I J lad in my possession double the amount * )f money I was expected to deliver j1 o my employers' agent. Temptation iE >n+n>o/1 mv cnul ' 9 Five thousand dollars would relieve ? ae of all my debts. Here it was within , ay grasp. I had but to seal up the en- t elope by rewetting the wafers, inclosing f )ut half the money, and deliver it sealed , o the agent, and my trust would be, to . 11 appearances, faithfully discharged, -j )nce the thought occurred to me that ossibly it was a trap set for me by my mployers. But their confidence in Qe was unbounded, and the suspicion , ras formed only to be dismissed. I do , ,ot attempt to glaze over the disbon- j *, sty of what I contemplated, but I had ! . ieen so unceasingly worried by domes- j ic troubles arising from limited re- j. ources. and so persecuted by cred- I tors, that I almost argued myself into lie conviction that appropriating the j ? loney was simply authorized self- j, efense. I would pay all my debts, et clear with the world once more, | isift upon my wife's adopting my views j * j f living, save money, get into business | c' or myself and finally pay back the sum. ' I concluded to leave the envelope :, nfastened until the morning, so as to ;. lve myself that much more time be- ; jre finally deciding upon an act which i . 11 my arguments with myself had not j iade entirely reconcilable. Arrived at j ,. liis conclusion, my attention again j arned to my host and his wife. 11J ould hear his voice alono now. It had !. een sounding alone iu an elevated ^ Dne for some moments. I crept quiet- i 7 to the partition dividing their apart-: lent from the passage. The bright atnmn moon, which was on their side i f the house, shoiie through their win- ? ow, and through tho spaces between 1 ie shrunken planks of tho partition nd out into the passage, and upon its ? oor in briliiant bars of light. It was _ isy for me to see what was passing it'hin the rootn. Man and wife were w neeling at their bedside in prayer. 61 ho man with uplifted head and closed ^ res, uttering an earnest supplication, j is wife beside him and one arm passed i ( Efectionately through one of his, and her J " D4/1 rocfinir orroir ?* . liiu hroncf. I ere kneeling at the side of their bed ? pposite me, and liis face was plainlv isible. Its calm and pious expression i the moment was a sufficient rebuke ) my unjust suspicions. I begun to sten in time to hear him say: "Par ! P on, Oh, merciful father, not only the j : ns of Thy humble servant and his . ousehold, but turn the hearts of those j ? ho have done evil unto him, who have j j, iahed him injury, and who harbored . njust suspicions of him. Bless such, , ?h, Lord, and preserve them in order . lat they may turn from their ways and uek the path of righteousness." . His serious, earnest and manly vc ico ^ truck a chord in my;.heart, not only in i vmpathy vrith the honest and tender j,. application that was passing his lips, j t ut contrition fcr tho wrong I had done im by my suspicions. I involuntarily { ompared him, whatever were his good ! r bad deed', at least an humble peui- ? ent before his God, with the wretch haf. T liar! rloniriod Vmf. a farc mnmar?tc go to make of myself by the misappro- _ iriation of my employers' money, and till, however, by the relief it could obain for me would not quite give way to P he feeliu;? of lepentance which was u nockiue for admission at my breast. I : g iatl half decided to turn away and drive i a heso bettor thoughts from my mind, 1. fhen I observed something mo^e iii a ;, mall crib that whs placed at the side ; lid toward the foot of the bed. Its : ooupant, a grandchild, whose parents j hey had informed me were dead, j f wakened probably by its grandfather's j ^ oice, res? up, looked around, and set- j a led down upon its knees, and clasping ! ts little hands as its grandfather's were j v lasped, and looking upward, out i s hrough the window at the moon whoso | E iriorl>f. f?>l I frill nnnn its i larling face, began moving its Jips as if 1 c rying to repeat the words. ! Nothing so like an angel ever met my j ight. The grandfather began the ; lord's pruvrr. The little fellow seemed o have this by heart. He repeated it vord for word, his tiny, silvery voice lounding in sweet accord. I could not nrn away nor any longer resist the >ctter emotions which I had hitherto cept down. A rush of repentant feel- { ng passed through me with an effect ; hat shook every fiber. I fell upon my | :nees, and with tears streaming from ! jy eyes joined in the concluding words | )f the prayer. i I need not say I changed my mind | vith regard to the money. I pas3ed a ; juiet night and rose early, hastening ;way toward my journey's end, so as to ^ive myself the least possible time or opportunity for changing my newformed resolution. In handing the package to the agent I said to him that, , 13 there was money in it, it might as ( well be opened in my presence to fco j that it was all correct, etc. He, of coarse, discovered the error aud handed j, me back the amonnt that was over, with i ! which I returned home and delivered it ; tip to its prr.per owners in due time. It was fortunate for me in every wuy that I pursued the course I had adopted. It appeared that the money had been obtained from the bank after bank "hours, in the absence of the teller, from one of the officers. There were no loose notes on hand of the larger denominations, but there were sheets of thousands and livo hundreds signed by the president and cashier. Either two sheets were picked up in mistake for one, or the wrong batch of sheets selected from?that is, thousands were taken instead of five hundreds. The notes were hurriedly clipped, strapped and indorsed "S5.000," without recounting, and so enveloped and handed over to me. The bank had discovered the error, and no 1 ?l ^ ~ V\nf fliof { Itn (lOUUU Wtt? Gil LCI ICI1UCU uau luwu liiu missing money was with me. Whether I shoald have had the face to withstand the imputation, even with the apparently undisturbed condition of the envelope in my favor, is more than I can say, but I doubt it. But the notes, in pursuance of a precaution still in uso in some banks, were pcyable to the order of one of the clerks and had not been indorsed by him. I could not, therefore, have used them, or if so they could have been traced back to me. I found also that the numbers had been carefully ascer tained of all I had taken with me, and thus another chance of detection existed, What an escape 1 Upon returning and enteiing the cotiuting-rcom I handed the snrplriK back to mv senior, with p. feeling some-' what of pride, but mixed up with other j feelings not easily described. My precaution of having ti e money i opened by the agent in my presence j wus highly commended, and the possi- i bility of his misappropriating the nndae amount, as very little personal knowledge of him was possessed by tho , firm,' was dulj discussed. What was i said on this point brought blushes to ; my own cheeks. In course of time my senior account-t ant was taken into the firm. I was put J in his position, and with his salary I saved money, finally got into business j on my own account, and am now, as you | know, rich. I never forgot my former ' host and his grandchild: but at the 1 death of the former I took charge of the : boy. Ho is n.w ray partner Mid the i husband of ray daughter. * s New York's Kiver Thieves. New York has a large number of professional thieves, many of whom ap- j parently lead an honest iifo and are not i known as dishonest members of society J except to a small circle of friends. Chief among the elavs referred to, says a metropolitan paper, are river thieves or pirates, all of whom at some period of their lives learned tho art of bandling an oar either as an accomplishment or in the line of duty. If one of these should bo found basking in tbe sun-! light and mentally mapping out his 3nties for the night, ho could easily , plead that he was an honest man out of ! ;mployment. Groups of these fellows ;an be" tjeen lounging around the Erie aasin in the daytime, playing cards or jazing at the vessels at anchor. As a ule these men are rough-looking fel- j ows, although many appear hone3t,, ?nougn. oome 01 mem live m tene- i , nent houses in New York or Brooklyn, ! i md have good reputations not only ] imong their neighbors but also in their i ^ >wn families. Many are young men, j} he sons of honest parents with whom ; ] hey liVe. Each one knows how to dis-; ( >ose of the articles which find their way \j nto his possession. There are a num- j, ler of persons who make money by buy- j x ag stolen goods from river pirates. 1} ?he junkmen, at best, are regarded i ? rith suspicion. Some of them, beside , mrchasing junk from the masters of j j essels, will steal whatever they can j s ly their hands on. If a boy or an ap- ; r rentice should be found alone on a t essel the junkman will offer him a j rifling sum for some of the gear or j Lores. "Watchmen on vessels at anchor c i the stream are sometimes in collu- ! r ion with tho junkmen, by whom they ; r re well paid. According to the genu- c Knofmnn oiinli qq fVinRA nf. ?)ia Raf.. ' - ?ry, the junk business, althongh it is ' i censed by the authorities, is dishonest, j t nd the men who follow it should be ! T lassed as pirates. j t On dark nights the watchmen of the ! j eesels at anchor in the bav are told to a eep a sharp lookout. Every approach- t lg small boat is viewed with suspicion. , jf the latter should be hailed and should a lil to answer, but row hastily away, t jo watchman can feel himself free to jre at the retreating boat without being ailed to account for his conduct. a 'here are usually two or throe pistols j c i the cabin of a vessel, and a crew, j hen warned, is able to repel a boatload i ? f river pirates, or at least to attract E ae attention of the vessels in the | j eighborbood. Consequently the 1 ^ irat^s have to proceed with (Trent ^ lution. They usually select a dark ^ ight for making an attack on a vessel1 t anchor. If it is summer Ihey gen- ! ^ rally pass themselves as honest work-1 jj len enjoying a quiet row, but if it is ! t inter they gj on their dishonest mis- j r ion with tho expectation of meeting j t ith danger. If the captain of a IT shooner anchored in the bay is known ; ^ ) have monoy iu liis possession the | B irates are apt to select that vessel. v When trade is brisk and quantities : t f rum, molasses or other liquids are j j. ift on the piers, the river pirates row ^ 1 under the docks and bore holes; t lrnugh the planks in the flooring and ! ^ lto tho hogsheads above. The liquid f. ours through the holes and is caught c y the men in the boat below. One r ight in tho spring of 1880 a boat con-, a lining four river pirates approached a 'r eet of coastinpr schooners anchored in i a lushing bay. But the alarm was given j s 1 time and tho crews were prepared to j ^ efend themselves. One of tho pirates j ^ l endeavoring to escape fell overboard j ^ lid was drowned. Several of the crews (^ i the neighborhood were aroused and , , jo three remaining pirates were caught | v ad were arraigned before tho authori- j ? ifs next morning. In a day or two the . a rio were "railroaded to Sing Sing."; ( 'his proved a wholesome lessor, aud f ?r some time afterward no attack was j. lade on a vessel at anchor. There 11 ave been a number of cases of collu-j ? ion between dishonest dock watchmen j j nd river pirates. Tho former wait { ntil the coast is clear and then give i ^ heir confederates tho signal to ap-! roach and begin operations, while they ! . lount guard and stand in readiness to ive them warning of the approach of ; ny one. But for tho watchmen on tho , essels tho river pirates would como on j card and cut all tho ropes below the elaying pins and carry them off. i ? j r? lie Future or the Mormon System, In tho Century tho "Legal Aspects 01 ! ho Mormon Problem" aro discussed ! y Arthur G. Sedgwick, who concludes j s follows: i The failure of the attempt to break | ip the Mormon system by congres-! ional legislation does not by any i oeaos show that the Mormon system ' rill ultimately prevail in Utah. The : peration of natural causes is certain ! n the long run to sap the foundations if polygamy. The railioads have al* eady brought the Teritory into com- j nuuication with the rest of tlio country, j md the development of the mines must ( iltimutely bring in a large Gentile popilation?almost altogether male. A ; itrong tendency in the direction of; narriages between Gentile ruen and ; he daughters of Mormon parents muit j 1 spring up. Indeed, this is mid to show j tself already. There is uo surplus of ( romen in the "West from which to re-' J sruit polygamous households; the, ' ?irtlis ot the two sexes are always very 1 jeurjv equal, and the Mormon popuja- ; ! ;ion is no longer being rapidly in-!; ;reased from abroad, as it was in the j j imes of the early persecution of the ihurch. It is now stationary, or nearly ; o, and being rapidly hemmed in by a j1 community having a social system K-hich all experience shows is the only ane pernunentiy adapted to modern j industrial life. As the Territory fills up andtheMor- j mons are brought more and more into 1 relations with tho rest of tho world, ! one of the strongest internal causes of ; disintegration will unquestionably be the seuse ot shame operating upon the , younger female generation. in the j natural course of things some of the daughters o? Mormon householders j must marry Gcntilev, and others, who j do not marry outride the church, will | be made keenly aware that they are j surrounded by a community which re-; gards their position a;; a degraded one. i As long as they could keep themselves , separated from the rest of tbe world : this Gentile feeling was of little couse-1 quence to them. It did not affect them in their daily life; it was something re- | mote from them which they did not j even need to disregard. Tiiis cannot j continue forever, and indeed a change must begin if it has not begun already, j as soon as the stirrounding monogamic j Gentile system of marriage has a fair | ??nntov infn cnmnAtitinn bULUVJ la/ VUWV-* | with its rival. Under theso circnm- j stances there is nothing to be done : with the Mormons bnt to let them i alone. Persecution has been tried and j has only served tc strengthen and in-1 crease them. Law has been tried and | has proved of no avail, becanse it hus j not been enforced. From the circnm-1 stances of the case it cannot be. There are 50,000 children in Chicago debarred from attending school for lack of accommodations. . THE LASH IN DELAWARE. How It linn Been Cecil In tho J'nst. A recent letter from Wilmington, Del., to the Philadelphia Tim essays: The whipping post in the New Castle I jail yard had seven victims yesterday. Three hoys, who had stolen something like $15, got ten lushes apiece. Twenty lashes were applied to the backs of four i other prisoners who had been convicted j of larceny. Sheriff Clark did not handle ! the cat in a particularly forcible manner, and the men who were strung up in the pillory didn't seem to mind the blows much. The whipping post has greatly degenerated in late years. There was a time when it was applied indiscriminately to thieves and felons of high J and low degree. Now it is mainly used . as a sort of scarecrow for chicken ^ ttieves, sneak thieves and errant tramps Known .18 * peaen-piuciis. xuere arc ; Delawareans living in this city who remember, as children or youths, a time ( when some of the Blue Hen's most re- i spectable chickens wero put in the peu ] known as the pillory and made to ex- ] piute their offense3 against law and ] morality by a forced embrace of the t whipping poBt. i As a child the writer remembers hav- ] iug seen men who, after being whipped, c were by law compelled to wear the t letter "F" (felon) over the backs of ? their coats as long as they remained t within the boundaries of the State, i Other people, a little older, will reeol- c lect how in Dover a man who had b.en a a prominent church member and most e highly respectable citizen for some act of dihiionesty was publicly whipped and v condemned to wear the stigma of din v grace, the letter "E," as long as he e lived, or to abandon bis Lome and biisi- li ncss and take up his abode in another c State. He resolved to stay where las ii interests and affections inclined him to e remain. Although he was a storekeeper li and his occupation necessitated hiscDn- v stant appearance in public, he attended p to his business in person, and it is said ti by those who frequented his store as a purcuasers mat ne naa ms stock so ar- o ranged and was so adroit in Lis move- p tnents that :io one ever caught a sight tf if the badge of his disgrace while n :>eing waited on by him. In the old; time, t vhen Delaware was more rigid in her B ighteousness than she is to-day, it was b leld by those who made and those who n idminietered the laws that dishonesty h: vas much more heinous whoa engaged fc n by those placed by social position fi ibove want and amid respectable sur- tl oundihgs than when indulged in by p: hose tempted by necessity and evil com- a< )anionship. Consequently, when a sc >rominent citizen was caught stealing b >r forging his punishment was always oi aade heavier and more severe than that hi neted out to rogues of either of the I ti ilasses contemptuously hnown as "poor ! ai whites" or "free niggers." In fact, a ct lalf-century ago so large a proportion , ft if the criminals punished by whipping i pas of the respectable class of society | m uai a way on voicing ueiaware some fo ears ago, having heard that this, that, w .nd the other distinguished citizen was in he descendant of some one who had ca >een publicly whipped, asked: "Do not b< 11 the aristocrats of Delaware derive b< heir patents of nobility from the whip- "t >ing post ?" j a Toward Ihe close of the last century wi n eminent and well-beloved gentleman hi if Sussex county, a public benefactor, tb listinguished for piety, fell from his fij iigh estate. He was a magistrate, and Re toted for wisdom and excellence of i lo udgmc-nt. On one occasion there was nc ironght before him in his oflicial ca- wi mcity soino counterfeiters who had I <-f leen arrested for passing bad money, a le arge amount of which was found upon er heir persons. The magistrate, as was er tis duty, took possession of tho conn- be erfeit stuff to destroy it, it was suplosed. The rogues were committed for rial and subsequently pilloried and rhipped. Years afterward the neigh- m torhood was flooded with "bogus Cc Qoney," at length traced to the "squire" hi rho had committed the culprits alluiicd o, and who, it was afterward discovered, u] lad been for a long time passing ihe il; aoney he had confiscated for destrnc- G ion. Every effort was made to shield b< his beloved and respected citizen from ni he consequences of his offense, but with-1 w mt any avail whatever. Hewas whippet! pj aost severely in the jailyard at Dover, p] nd the sheriff who inflicted the pnniah- U oent was so fearful that he might be tr ccused of partiality for a rich and re-' fe pectable criminal, that he cnt eo | ai leeply into the flesh as to causa the | tt >lood to run off the end of the lash and j oi lown his own hands, while the back of tl he unfortunate offender was a sight on aj yhich the most stoical could not look sn without horror and pity. Some thirty- hi ive years ago a well-known and very ce ,ble politician of Wilmiue;to;i ran for at Congress, and camo within tbree votes sr f beingelected. He spent more money is ban ho could afford, and in order to ti ido over a temporary embarrassment, o1 rged the indorsement of his brother- y* n-law, a distinguished physiciau of the ci sitv, to a note given by him, intending n< o take i: up before it came to maturity at md so escape any bad consequences. o< 3e was not on good terms with the It >rother-in-law, and this the teller of y< he bank at which the note was pre- tl lented for discount knew. It was there- h oro retained until the matter could be b nquiiodinto. The teller took occasion k: ipeedily to see .he doctor, andsaid.sud- b' lenly: "Why, you have made your ci piarrel up witb J? and have com- ii nencod indorsing for him, eh ?" " I w iave done nothing of the sort," said y, ho doctor, who was thrown off his b >uard, and who, for family reasons, ri vould have cut his tongno out before n jiving his relative away, had he taken p ;imeto think before speaking. His after t( ittempts to hush up the matter were b s-ithout avail. Political opponents of g ;he unfortunate cuiprit got hold of the p story, and he was indicted, tried, and 0 Vmnd guilty of the crime oi' forging, p iod fipntencud to be whipp -d. That ho s] ivould have been so punished there is n no doubt had not his lovely and loving j ivife gone to the governor and to the j governor's wile, and eo wrought upon ? :he sympathies of both as to securo his i> pardon. But from that time forth he i c was politically and socially dead. j b Among the mo.st beautiful, highly r: 3ultured and charming women of the a state some thirty-nine years ago were ^ the four daughters of a high ofticer who had had the misfortune to be born kleptomaniacs. It was well known to fill the citizens of the town in which j, they resided that they had inherited a this mania from their mother, who was a constitutional thief. These girls 8 would take anything they could lay 8 their hands on. from mouse-trana to fish- ? iug tackle. The acquisitions made in I ? tliis way were, in nine cases ontof ten, j j wholly useless and worthless to them, i ^ Their father, knowing this propensity j of his wife anil offspring, visited the c different storekeepers of the town and r requested them to send the bill to him ^ for any article they might mis3 after ^ visits from the female members of his ? family. There was, therefore, no par- ( ticukr trouble about the peculations c of these young ladies until a new store- r keeper caniu to town, who, on receiving . the usual intimation from their father, ? said to some of his neighbors: "Klepto- f mania be hanged ; it's nothing but thief- j omania, and if they were poor women ( they would have it thrashed out of thorn , at the whipping post. If they come into ? my store to do any stealing I'll have j them arrested and whipped as quick as ( if they were chicken thievoe." No one ( believed the fellow would carry out his ? threat, but he did. Twojof the sisters , came into his place, and aster they were | ( gone he missed a bnndle of gloves. He ( followed them up the street, called a j constable, had them arrested, searched, , and would have had them committed to . jail as common thieves had not bail been promptly offered by a score of citizens for their appearance to answer the charge at court. Now began tho tug of war. It was known that if the case came to trial tho youug ladies would be centenced to bo whipped and that this sentence would not be remitted by the governor, who was one of the sternly righteous men who believed his position demanded of him the exaction j of the sentence pronounced by law, save in case of after-discovered exculpating evidence. The only thiDg left for the afflicted father, who bad already been mnch impoverished through tho peculations of his family, was to buy the prosccntor off. This bo did, and ro dnced himself tc almost absolute want by complying with the demands made ;:pon him. Tho father never recovered from this public disgrace and died soon after. The daughters, however, who never seemed to understand that they una Deen gunry 01 uuj unuuuauty, held up their heuds bravely, and all married well. Some of them aro living to-day, beloved wives and good mothers, who. under the very shadow of tho shipping post, it is said, got their dry ?oods and other merchandise in the old Fashion, while husbands or sous pay up, iuat as their father did. A Hardy Chinese Pirate, In the village of Waug Ye, injjtho district Ning Li, which is near Ningpo ind the Ohusan isles, so renowned for piratical exploits, stands tho castle of a j pirate chief named Kwang-king-man. Ele is head of a strong nest of pirates, j ind ho styles himself King of Kinguan, which signifies the King of Gold. Kwang-king-man is a native of Ningpo )f the Nicghi district. He is an unusniliy powerful man, and can lift with mse weights more fitted for a Milo j han an ordinary man. He is proficient i n the use of all warlike weapons and an use the rifle as well a3 the bow ^nd arrow with equal and remarkablo fleet. It happened while Kwang-king-man [ as acting as a "brave" that his father ; ras arrested by the government for ! ome offense and shortly afterward be- J leaded. Kwang-king-man, who de-1 lared his father innocent of the crime | mputed to him, was so onragedat his I xecution that he swore to devote his ; ife to avenge his death and take re- I enge on the imperialists. He shortly i ut the design into execution. He es-1 iblished a rendezvous and stronghold ud gathered around him a large number i f followers. His arsenal was made com-1 lets and a factory for gunpowder was esiblished. On tho third day of the Sixth loon of this year he suddenly entered ie city of Ningpo with his followers, [is plan of action had been determined i 7 the reports of his spies. In the ight time of the date already given is band marched toward the prison, >rced open the doors thereof and I eed the prisoners, all of whom joined j ie pirate's gang. The next day the ; irate chief perpetrated a more daring ! With a few hundred men he de- 1 ;ended upon the Whoopin lekin tax oard, killed the officials and carried I the money. He spared, however, the ] 3ad official, whose nose ho cnt off so I lat he might return to his superiors .] id inform them of what the pirate j ] lief had done and what the nature of 1 iture enterprises would be. 1 His exploits on the water aro truly i arvelous. It is said that ho can stop <r twenty hours at a time in the water ; hen either in pursuit of or when fly- ] < g from his foes. Recently when a j, iptain with 300 men attacked the rob- j ] ?rs the pirate king dived from his \ >at and killed the captain with a 1 sen tzen," a kind of a sleeve catapault, ] weapon in the use of which the pirate as most skillful. He then beheaded m, and the assailants, losing ieir leader, desisted from further I, jilting, after having acquitted tht;m- i ] Ives with creditable valor and having i, st considerably. The pirate chief is ', )t only an expert in the use of this J j i?apon, but hi', employs with equal |; feet u crcssbov/ furnished with a bill- j j t instead of a bolt. Sinco this last , igagement no one has been hardy I, lough to distnrb this ruthless free- ! )oter.?Shanghai (China) Courier. Recreations of Some Eminent Men. Swift relieved hi* tenso and tragic |, oods by harnessing his servants with ' >rds?on ono occasion he insisted on j irnessing his learned an<ir respectablo ' iend Dr. Shoridan ? and driving them | j and down the fairs and through ( lo rooms of his tl janery. Peter the reat sought to unbend himself by ?ing wheeled owr the flower-beds and L'at parterres of his host's garden in a j heelbaTrow, as poor Sir William Tem-;. le found to his cost. That uccom-', lished diplomatist appears to havo |, :lt his chagrin at the failure of the I jple alliance rnero child'n play to his I elings at beholding the Russian mon-; ch riding roughshod over the priceless i ilips of Moor park. Glover, the | ico famous author of "Leonidas aud le Athonaid," had the same dis-! jreeallo weakness, though, not being I ife in the " divinity which doth i sdge a king," his plebeian back re-; ;ived on more than ono occasion infnri- j :cd "'udgelings at tho hands of in- i ilted horticulturists. Cardinal Mazarin said to have been fond of Rbut-1 ng himself up in a room and jumping i ?er tho chairs, arranged in positions i irying according to tho degrees of difli- j ilty in cleaving them. Of this weak- j bss on tlio part of his excellency an | nusiug auecdofo is told. On one j :casicn, while engaged in these ath j (tic?, he forgot to lock the door. A 3ung: courtier, inadvertently entering I io room snrprised the Rreat man in is undignified pursuit. It was an emirassing position, for Mazarin was, he new, as haughty as hc> was eccentric. at the youDg man was equal to the risis. Assuming the intensest interest 1 the proceedings ho exclaimed, with ell-feigned earnestness: "I will bet our eminence two gold pieces I can eat that jump." He had struck the ght chord, and in two minutes he was leasuring his leaping powers with the rimo minister, whom he took care not 3 beat. Ho lost his two gold pieces, nt ho gained before long a miter. amuel Clark relieved his theological ursuits in the same way, and on one ccasion seeing a pedantic fellow ap-! roaehing, said to the pupil who was j [wring his amusement: "Now we j mat stop for a fool is coming in." Old ! Surton, the author of the " Anatomie of lelancholy," the only book which got >r. Johnson out of his bed two hours - i- ~ --i.? eiure ii? luieuufu tu noo, iuium mao | hief recreation in goiuR clown to Folly ; ridge, at Oxford, and listening to the ! ibaldry of the barges, "which did cleare j way his vapoures and make him laugh i s lie would die."?'temple Bar. ?? f A Mean Trick on a Tailor. A few days ago a young man with his I eft shoulder elevated about six inches , bove the right entered a merchant ; ailor's in this city, and asked to be hown some diagonal cloth. The worthy hopman was only too happy to comply >*ith the request, aud after half an hour's nspection a coat valued at $16 was or[ered, and a " perfect lit" guaranteed o this deformed specimen of humanity. Ie paid a small deposit as a " guarantee >f good faith," and was told to come ound in the course of two or three dnys o try "it on. Punctual to appointment ho " specimen " put in an appearance, tud the diagonal cloth was fitted to the liagonal back. Finally the day arrived j >n which the "perfect fit" was to be eady, and the customer was there a;? punctual as before. It was again tried >n, but this time there was evidently lomething wrong. The shopman opened lis eyes in astouishmcn^, for one ahouller covered his customer's left ear, vhile the tails on the opposite side stuck out at an angle of forty-five de- j *rees. Thero was nothing for it, howjver, but to lose the cloth, for, as even he tailor admitted, it could not be iltercd to a "perfectfit." The mistake ft'ii.8 explained when the deformity Iropped his shoulder to a natural posicic>n and bolted through the door l efore bb-3 tailor had recovered from his as hoaislimcnt. It was done for a bet, but was a mean transaction after all.? Toronto Miil. Last summer, says the Journal of Scicncc, some common hive bees built a comb against the flat wall of a house in Dorsetshire, England. A few pieces of the comb were exhibited r.t the November meeting of the Entomological society, London, and they had evidently contained bee grubs This is an unexampled departure from the habits of the species. SUNDAY READING. Lnylnsr.I'p Sorrow. A consciousness of integrity gives moral strength: an erect man may carry a heavier load than ono who stoops, and an -upright m^n has a strength which those who have bo^ed down to fab.e gods know nothing of. A hollow heart makes a feeble hand. Whenever wo try to persuade ourselves that wrong is right, that duty is unimportant,that the i thing we wish to do we may do, even , thoucrh it is forbidden of God. we ma7 ; bewilder our conscience, and blind our j eyes and drift away from the path of j God's providence and our own daily I i duty, but wo are laying rip sorrow for \ ourselves. And when tha day shall j come that will demand courage, fortitude and f aith, we shall find that we i I bav? cut the sinews of our own , ! strength, and done ourselves an injury i j which we are powerless to repair. ltellulonN New# anil Note*. j The order of the sisters of morcy has ' celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its j existence. The New England Southern Motho- i dist conference will meet in Providcnce j on April 5, 1882. Tho contributions to missionary soci-1 eties in Great Britain for the year 1880 j amounted to 85,542,950. Three Congregational churches have i beon dedicated in Denver, Col., within j fivo months, all free ?rom debt. i The missions of the Russian holy I synod are said to have converted five i thousand pagans in the course of the j Jast executive year. The Englisn Baptists have now at ! least 400 missionaries in charge of! nearly 600 stations and sub-stations, ! with an aggregate membership of about I 40,000. There are but three Southern Methodist bishops now able to do regular J duty. It is thought that at least three j or four bishops will be elected at the ' session of the general conference to be I held next May. In five years the work of the Ameri can Baptist missionary union has in-! creased as follows : Missionaries from j1 138 to 186 ; native helpers from 942 to 1 1,107; churches from 778 to 1,001, and j members from 63,329 to 89,593. The women's hospital at Tien-tsin I China, established through the influence I of Miss Howard, an American mission- i ary physician, through whose care the ! life of Lady Li, the wife of the viceroy, was saved, was opened October 8, several Chinese officials of high rank being present. Mr. Joseph M. Bennett, of Philadel- i phia, has given a site in that city, em- j bracing about eleven acres, for the pro- i posed Methodist Orphan asylum which Mrs. Bishop Simpson is especially interested in, and fcr which $20,000 has been raised. The site is at Five Points, on the Schuylkill. The largest increase of Baptists since 1870 has been in the fifteen Southern 3tates,where the gain is 761,418, mostly imong the colored people. In the six Eastern States the gain is 16,760; in ;ho Middle States, 34,803; in the Western States, 64,776, and in the Ter- | riSeries, 6,000. , The Lost Child. t tt ff? xu - i.*xxi_ xl i d in uvaiuu, icias, wie iimio uiree* t * rear-old daughter of Mr. Sam Johnson, !1 living on the Sabinal, wandered off < lfter flowers. Its absence attracted ' lttention before it had been gone an ] hour and the family began to look for i it, but not fioding it ou the place at 1 once roused tlieir neighbors to assist in tho search. CJalifonria Brown, who had ! < stopped over night in the place, Ben j t White, Hc-nry Shane, several Mexicans : t and the distressed parents hunted all \ < that day and night, and at about 1 j ' o'clock on the next day the dim t.ack ; 1 of the child's shoe was discovered by 1 tho practiced eye of Mr. Brown. Tho j < party, bouyant with hope, followed the : ( trail with great difficulty until night, when tires were bnilt up in the hope of , J attracting her attention. On Friday morning tho search was resumed and t fresh tracks found, which were followed j by Mr. Brown, Mr. Shane and a Mexi- 1 can. the rest of the party having divided : i and keeping up the search in different | i directions. About 10 o'clock the little 1 one was discovered on a high hill by a | < hole of water, three and a half miles j' t i. * i, ~ +<-. i : jruin uume, witu its uutuiu^ ium iaj i shreds by tho thorns and prickly pear through which it bad worked its "way. On the approach of the liuntera the child commenced ciying, and the first remark she made was that she " wanted to go to her mamma." Signal guns wero immediately fiied, which soon brought the balance of the party to tho spot, and tbe feelings of tho overjoyed but heretofore frantic mother at the finding of her living child, instead of its bones, can be better imagined than described. It was out two days and nights, without any food whatever, and ; where the tracks of panthers, and wolves j and wild-cats are found thick by the hunters. The Boy's Heart, Get hold of the boy's heart. Yonder i locomotive comes like a whirlwind | down tho track, and aiegiment of armed I men might seek to arrest it in vain. It j would crush them and plungo unheed- ; ing on. But there is a little lever in its ' mechanism that, at the pressure of a ! man's baud, will slacken its spoed, and ! in a moment or two bring it panting j and still, like a whipped spaniel, at your j feet. By the same little lever the vast I steamship is guided hither and yon, j upon the sea, in spite of adverse wind or ' rri??f cnci'f itto onrl roonnncivA tUULUbt XllUU niyuc*u? ? v uwi spot by which a boy's life is controlled,is j his heart. With your grasp gently and firmly on that helm, yon may pilot him I whither you will. Never doubt that he | has a heart. Bad and willful boys j very often have the tenderest hearts ! hidden away somewhere beneath in-1 crnstations of sin or bohind barricades ; of pride. And it is yonr business to j get at that heart, get hold of that heart, j keep hold of it by sympathy, confiding in him, manifestly working only for ! his good by little indirect kindness to , his mother or sister, or even his pet , dog. Seo him at his home, or invite ! him into yours. Provide him some i littlo pleasure, set him at some little I service of trust for you ; love him prae- ! tically. Anyway and everyway rule j him through tho heart. A Change at the White House. , President Arthur has certainly intro-! dnced a new order of things at the i White House. He seems disposed to j profit by the lesson of the murder of j Garfield. Ho has made the rulc-3 <?overnin2 the admission of tho public to the White Houso as strict as they J should have been made long ago. No j stranger is admitted to see him now 1 until he has told his business to the pri- j vate secretary. Verj few persons are ; allowed to ascend the stairs aad take j their places in the waiting rooms, j where last spring 150 to 200 persons were often to be seen at one time. He : proposes to abolish the practice of seeing people simply for the pnrpor-o of shaking hands, and will not go cut into the ante-room, as Garfield used to do, and shako hands allarotrd with the i crowd. The attendants at the Whito j Honse say they never saw anything like j it before.? Washington Letter. Hadn't Arrived. We regret toporceivea disposition on the part of some people in Austin to belittle the efforts of our lire department. Yesterday afternoon a gentleman from San Antonio was examining a photograph of the ruins of the burned oapitol. " I don't see any firemen in the picture," remarked the stranger. " Wnll. vnn sea tlie tnuture was taken two weeks after the fire. The firemen haven't got thero yet. That's why thoy arc not in the picture," said the artist. ?TexO-* Siftings. The widest part of New York city is Twenty-third Btreet, where from the I!?st to the North rivers the distance ic tTO miles and a half. -Vl.; /; V -v SCIENTIFIC NOTES. I Sulphurous acid is rare among the i products of Vesuvius and the volcanoes of eqnatorial America; more c immon j in iF/,na,and abnndant iu the volcinoes of. Iceland and Java. A paper recently read before the 1 -British association contends that coal must have been formed from a compact mass of vegetation, and could not have ariseu from large trees. After experimenting for a quarter of a centnry on the variation of plants, Doctor H. Hoffman inclines to the opin iuu iuub vuriuifiuii luut'a yiutju iu ueunite directions, and that its causo is in a preponderating degree internal. Adamscobite stone is found in only one place in the world, and that is in the State of Missouri. The company which now owns the whole (juarry will transport the stone quarried to Winchester, N. H., where it is to he manufactured into such articles as are deemed salable. The stone is very peculiar in it3 structure and properties. Its cutting power is diamond-like, cutting^ away steel very rapidly and still retaining an exceedingly fine edge. The general experience of observers has been that the removal of forests results in diminishing the size of rivers and smaller streams traversing the territory. This effect is often very marked ?-Bmall streams disappearing entirely and large rivers dwindling to mere brooks. Quite a different experience is reported from New South Wales. A tract of land embracing the watershed of three creeks wa9 partially cleared in 1870. Soou after, these creeks?which had been dry water courses for years? became permanent streams, and have so continued to the present time. Tho explanation offered to account for this phenomenon is. that a larcro nronortion of tho rainfall formerly taken np by tho gnm trees and evaporated now finds its way to the streams. Prison Life in Sing Sin?. "We have a great deal of tronble with prisoners in consequence of their stealing," said Warden Brush; of Sing Sing, to a reporter recently, as he sat in his office in the prison at" Sing Sing. "They take to it naturally and perpetually, and it is not for fun, but for the simple satisfaction of getting possession of some other person's property. It may be that they are afraid they'll lose the knack if they don't < practice it here. They steal each other's shirts and towels and shoes, if < they get a chance. They will make more ] sf an opportunity than you can possibly : imagine. When the men are given 1 jlean shirts they have to be watched with eagle eye or the keeper will find aimsel? 'out' a dozen or more gar- < aents." i "Yes," remarked Keeper Fury, "1 < lave to put my foot on the dirty ones i is fast as they are changed, and deal | jut the clean ones, one at a time very larefully; and even then I am liable to ] oae a shirt or two. The other day I illowed a man who is ' square' and all right to go into the middle mess-room ;o change his shirt. He laid the clean shirt down at his feet and was just pulling the soiled one over his head, Then, quick as a flash, one of the convicts whipped up the clean garment, ind it was gone when the fellow's head mmo oat from the shirt. The gaiment i7as found afterward 'planted' in an )ut of the way place. They always plant' or hide anything they steal, mtil a more convenient season, expectng perhaps that they will get away* with it when their time is up." "Mr. Fury had an interesting experimce some time since in the egg trade," ibe^warden went on, drily. "The men ire* allowed a good supply of eggs laily. On this occasion several of them saved the shells carefully and filled ;hem with potato. They then sent ;hem back and complained that the igga were rotten. They managed to jet about twenty extra eggs that time." "That happened only once," the oiess-room keeper replied quickly, 'lhoydid not catch me in that way again." " It is really remarkable, though, svhat an almost insane propensity the men have for stewing," Mr. Brush said further. " I took a fancy to a colored boy who was sent up here for a couple ( r?f vonro nn/1 mo/la liim mxr xrnif/vr. On the very first day what did the fellow do but steal the soap ! He might Lave had all he wanted: but no, he must steal it or he wouldn't be happy. "We had a fellow here who was in for five years, \>ho ought to have been in an asylum for idiots. Ho would walk along by the tables and steal everything and anything he could lay hands on, cups, knives or anything else. He was sentenced in New York because he went up to a baker's window, thrust his hand tnrough the glass, took out n pie and went on eaticg it in the open street. A policeman came along and arrested him, and ho was sent up here. He had been at Blackwell's Island before, and ho supposed he was there all the while ho was here. Some of the keepers liked him and taught him a good deal for a fool?the prisoner, I mean." India in Hot Weather. I will briefly indicate the thermometric features, say at c, central position like Allahabad. In January the indoor temperature will reach its minimum, perhaps standing at fifty-four degrees. The rise is very gradual, aud gets into the "eighties" toward the middle of March; when steady at eighty-five dewti v* tr r> 1*\ a l\nnnmn n onnocoVTr 1CCO uuuaouo uuoucnst** ? Above ninety degrees the heat is oppressive, and at ninety-lived egrees horribly so. This is generally the temperaturo during the lull between the monsoons. In exceptional years I have known pillows and sheets to bo uncomfortably hot, requiring sprinkling with water; and I similarly retired to rest in drenched nightclothes. Lint the hot weather is mercifully interrupted by two remarkable meteorological phenomena. First, at its commencement we have almost always violent hailstorms, which beneficially cool the air, and then at its acme we have thoso very remarkable electrical dust-storms, which impress fresh life and vigor all around. Let mo describe one. Nature seems subdued under the great heat, and is in absolute repose. Not the faintest breath is there to coax the faintest movement in the leaves; silence prevails, for even the garrulous crows can't caw because their beaks aro wide open to assist respiration. Suddenly the welcome cry is heard, "Tufa- ata!" (A storm is coming ! and the house soivants rush in to) close all doors. Anxious to witness the magnificence of the approaching storm, you rem .in out to brave it, anp soon feel its approaching breath on your cheek. .booking 10 winuwmu you see a black cloud fli>prcacbing, and before it leaves and sticks kites and crows circling aroun i in wild con fusion. You now bear its r. ar wbilo rapt in admiration, yon are enveloped in its grimy mantle, and have to lock to your footing iu resisting its fury; and this is no joke, for oyes, nostrils, and ears are clouded with dust. As the blast approaches you may see a flash of lightning aud hear its clap of thunder, and then feel the heavy cold raindrops which sparsely fall around. Darkness black as Erebus surrounds you, daVkuess which literally may bo felt, for clouils of dust occasion it; and if you aro within doors night prevails, requiring the lighting of lamps. The storm passes, light returns, aDd you find everything begrimed with dust. Every door is now thrown opeu to admit the cool, bracing, ozone-charged air, which you eagerly inhale witb dilated nostrils, and feel that you have secured a fresh lease of existence. Presence of Jlind, When an Austin schoolmaster entered his temple of learning ft few mornings ago, lie read on thn blackboard the touching legcud: "Oar teacher is a donkey." The pupils expected there would be a combined cyclone and earthquake, but he philosophic pedagogue contented himself with adding the word "driver" to the legend, and opened the school with prayer bp ufiual,?Texas Si/fingt. ; ; \ ' : ' ? > WISE WORDS. A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather. The truly wise man nhould Lave no ! keeper of his secret bnt himself. The only Bin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion. It is the care of a very gTeat part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. Youth is the tassel and silken flower of life ; age is the full corn, ripe and solid in the ear. I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country. It is with antiquity as with ancestry: nations are proud of the one, and indi- j viduals of the other. If you could give as alms to those ' who could employ it well the time you I waste how many opulent beggars there would be? One is never pardoned for his talent, his success, his friends, his j oys?nothing is forgiven save one's death. And not always that 1 Character is a mosaic which takes a lifetime for its completion; and trifles, the little things of life, are the instruments most used in preparing each precious stone for its place. Vinegar's Votaries, "Do you know or have you ever heard why it is that negro women drink vinegar?" asked a gentleman of a Times reporter one day last week. The scribe professed the profoundest ignorance in regard to the matter, but he immediately set to work to find an answer to the question. In the first place he inquired of several negro women if tbey ever drank vinegar. " Yes," said one, "I drink it all the time, especially when I am ironing, and tho women in our yard drink it, too." "Does it do yon any good?" " Yes; it is cheaper than whisky, and it keeps up a person wonderfully. I don't know why I began it?because the others did, I reckon. It hurt me at first, made mo feel sick at the stomach, but when I got over this feel, ing I felt a good deal better. It's especially good after smoking a pipe, and leaves a kind of cooling feeling behind." " How much of it do you take at a lose ?' "About two tablespoonfuls. The first lose I took was about a teaspoonful, but I know some ladies who take as much as a quarter of a teacupful. If I took that much it would make me sick." " How did the habit first begin?" " Some of the ladies used to take it, when feeling badly, and it did them so much good that others followed the sxample. The men folks can't drink rinegar, and don't like the women folks to take it, but they do it though." The reporter subsequently saw an J uptown ladjr who is at the head of a 1 large boarding'house. In answer to 1 questions propounded to her, she said: ' :< /"Kt. T - _ ?< / V/U, J CO J x jinvo X1UU U UUUlUCi \Jl lui- jred women in my employ who were jreat ''vinegar drinkers. The way I found it all out was in this way; I had i washer and ironer who ate very little, t [ always kept a bottle of vinegar in my i kilchen where I could get it easily. 1 Dne day I went to take it from the shelf i md found that the bottle was nearly l empty. I was not annoyed at tliis, al- I ihough a little bit surprised, but con- 1 ;ludod to keep the vinegar under lock t ind key. The next day the servant ? jametomeaiidaskedfor a little vinegar. < [ asked her what she wanted it for and c she answered, "to drink." She then told 1 ue that she always drank it, and that t :t did her a power of good. I have no- f ;iced that those women who are the t . reatest whisky drinkers, are also the 1 jreatest vinegar drinkers."?New Or- < 'cans Democrat. J ? i The Teeth of the Ancient Greeks. One of the most remarkable features ' uf the discovery of the band of The- 1 bans who fell at Chteranca is that, ac- 1 wording to ihe report, all the teeth of J each member of the sacred band are ( ;<.nnrt and p.nmnlflfcp. Either these I 1 ijallanfc patriots were exceptionally lucky, or the condition of teetli in old 1 Greeco was enviably different from : that of later and more degenerate 1 days. The Romans were well acquainted with the evils that attend on i the possession of teeth and had some littlo knowledge of the use of gold in counteracting these evils. If we remember rightly, an exception to the rule of not burying precious objects with departed Romans was made in favor of geld that had been used for stopping teeth. We moderns may compare favorably with the skill of our dentists, but we cannot pretend to rival the defenders of Thebes in their superiority to the necessity for theso gentlemen. Rare irdeed are the happy mortals of to day who can truly boast that their teeth are in the perfect condition that nature intended, and that the craft of the dentist has never been employed over them. It would be exceedingly difficult to select from our army, or any modern army, three hundred men with teeth as sound as those of the Theban warriors are reported i to be?London Times. A .Mexican Salutation. Mary fiallock Foote, in "A Provincial Capital of Mexico,'" in the Century, says: As the white mules pace sedately down the roughly paved streets the ladies keep a hand ready to make the customary signal of greeting from the carriage windows to their friends at the windows and balconies of the street. It is an indescribably fascinating gesture ?so swift and subtle, almost like a fleeting expression across the face. It is made by a quick flutter of the tecond linger, the hand being raised, palm inward, to a level with the eyes. How much its charm is enhanced by the J beauty of those dark Southern eyes it half conceals it would take a very stolid j observer to decide. It seemed to me j excessively intimate; in Morelia, I be-! lieve, it is kept for one's friends only, I but in the capital it is the usual greet-1 ing at a distance between acquaintances. 1 have seen nothing prettier in I their social customs, except the way ' the ladies meet and lean their cheeks together, and pat each other softly on ; the back of the shoulder, From Candles to the Electric Light. j Tho materials used by the ancients for producing light were wax and tal-1 low, oil of various kinds beingalso used I at a later day. Their caudles and ! lamps wire exceedingly ronch and un couth, and tho light yielded was of the feeblest description, and gave out tbe most disgusting odors. Even up to the present century little or no progress ' had been made, gas being unknown, and the perfect-burning oil lamps with which wc are so familiar having no existence until many years later. Gas was first introduced in 1802, but as late as 1842 the Hay market theater, in Lon- i don, continued to be lighted by can-1 dies. Mark the contrast. Less than j -rr^nva ? rrn T nnilnn tritnPRnpd tbe I druiua by tho dim, flickering light of | foul-smelling candles, while within the i past few days Paris has hail the privi-1 lege of listening to the opera beneath the brilliant, uoou-day glare of the c-lectric arc! Twouhi Jlako .>o Difference. A bright youth, undergoing examination a low days since for admission to ono of tho departments at Washington, found himself confronted with the question: "What is the distance from the earth to the sun ?" N' t having tho exact number of miles with him, he wrote in reply: "I am unable to state accurately, but uont DPiieve me suo is near ruuugu n interfere with a proper performance of mv dutie* if I got this cierk3hip." He got it. Eighteen steamboats are now plowing the waters of the St. John's, Florida, carrying passengers and freight-, exclusive of thoee employed in towing and for logging purpose?. K5WWV!. _ _ - - At Peace. Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew, | In quiet she reposes ; Ab ! would that Z did, too I Her mirth the world required ; 8ho bathed it in smiles of glee; But her heart was tired, tired, And now they let her bo. . Her life was turning, turning, In mazes of heat and sound; But for peace her soul was yearning, And naajgeace laps her round. Her cabined, amplespxrit, It fluttered and failed for breath ; I To-night it doth inherit iiiu Ysustjr luui ui ueuui. . ?Matthew Arnold. , ; HUMOll OF THE DAY. .'<* The paragrapher who wants to get off some dry humor during the day % should eat salt codfish for breakfast. The man who cannot name the ingre- *<| dients that enter into the manufacture ^ of soap, when he sses "them, cannot tell. - "'?? Talk as we may about philarthro- M. pists, yet the fact stands, after aJJ, . . \ that the money-lender has the greatest interest in his fellow-men. "Don't sit so far fr-im me, Harry, -Ai dear," she satd to her lover, while they '--jS were steaming up the river with the excursion; "don't sit so far away and turn your back to me in tbat way; peopie will think we're married." "Did you break that window, boy?" ;\j. said the grocer, catching hold of the fleeing urchin. "Yep, sir." hat do -M you mean, then4, by running off in this 0jL manner?" "Please, sir, 1 was running home to get the money. I was afraid if I didn't run quick I might forget." gfj Said the sailor to his sweetheart: " I -. JH know that ladies care little about nautioal matters, but if yon had your ohoice -'>& of a ship what kind of one would, you 'A prefer?" She cast down her eyea, : X blushed, and whispered: "A little ;fjS| Rmar?V."?Camhridnp. 7Vihune. "Alice" writes to a New York story paper: "A young man comes to see me six nights a week; should I consider it M as being engaged ?" If we were her 4$ father and mother we should consider. that she was "engaged" altogether too much, and tell the young man to cur- _ > ,?; tail his visits afc both ends.?Norrittown Htrald. She was a real sweet-looking lady, . '-'M with a sealskin sacque and a big plush hat, and she stood on the steps of an ^ uptown residence, having just pulled the bell. "I called to see," said she to ' the lady of the house, who was very red in the face from frying doughnuts over the kitchen fire, "if you wished to give mything to the heathen to-day." "No, |j [ don't want to give anything to the heathen to-day. I just give the woman . ^ next door a piece of my mind about her jcallawag of a boy that broke down my plants. That's all I can afford for the . heathen, just now."?New Haven Regit' n.11.1 i-~ ii.. n- 1 c.u r -1.^ dinning in uiw ureal .-juii juukc* After lookiDg at the water for & little r-^j he next step was of course to get into t. The Mormons and Gentiles of Salt [jake Oity make good use of tneir lake or bathing purposes. At convenient ' joints tbev have thrown out wooden jiers provided with dressing-rooms and . flot water apparatus. Betaking ourselves io one of these erections my companions ' rnd I were soon fitted out in bathing '? :osturces of approved pattern, and ~ lescecding into the lake at once realized he heaviness of the water. In walking ;he leg that is lifted off the bottom leems somewhat bent on rising to the \ -'H lurface, and some exertion is needed to "orce it down again to the mud below. ^ Dne suddenly feels top-heavy, and $gj seems to need special care not to turn feet upward. The extreme shallowness of the lake is also soon noticed. Wo found our- ? 3elves at first over the knees, so we pro- 'M :eeded to march inte the lake. After a long journey, eo l. Dg that it seemed we DUglit to be almost out of sight of 3hore, we were scarcely up to the waist. A.t its deepest part the lake is not more 3, than about fifty feet iu depth. Yet it . measures eighty miles in length, by about thirty-two miles in breadth. We made some experiments in flotation, but always wun lue nnccmioriauie ieeiuig that our bodies were not properly bal- $ lasted for such water, and that we J might roll over or turn round head downward at any moment. It is quite possible to float in a sitting posture with the hands brought round the knees. As ono of the risks of these experiments, moreover, the water would now \|j and than get into our eyes, or any halfhealed wound which the blazing sun of the previous weeks had inflicted upon our face*. So rapid is the evaporation in the dry air of this region that the - ^ skin after being wetted is almost immediately crusted with salt. 1 noticed too that the wooden steps leading up the pier were hung with slerder stalactites of salt from the drip of the bathers. . ^ After being pickled in this fashion we had the luxury of washing the salt crust ^ off with the douche of the hot water ;J1 wherewith every dressing-room is pro vided.?Professor Oeikie. Why Some are Poor. Cream is allowed to mold and spoil. i-ilvcr spoons are used to scrape kettles. The scrubbing brash is left in the water Nice handled knives are thrown in hct water. Brooms are never hnng up. Dishcloths are thrown where mice can destroy them. Tubs and barrels are left in the sun to dry and fail apart. < ^ Clothes are lei t on the line to whip to pieces in the wind. Pie crust is left to sour instead of making a few tarts for tea. Dried fruit is not taken care of in season and becomes wormy. Vegetables are thrown away that would make a good dinner. Tho cork is left out of the syrup jng and the flies take possession." Bits of meat are thrown out that would ina^e excellent hash for breakfast. Coffee, tea and spices are * | left to stand open and loso their strpncrth. Pork cnoils for tho want of Fait and because the brine wants scald iDg" 11 Electricity and Swarming Bees. Among the many unexpected developments of electrical bcience is an app:ication to the hiving of beea when they swarm, successfully tried by German experimenter?. It was thought th it by utilizing the electric force the bees might be stupefied for the necessary period of ticue without 1 eing injured, and the result proved tbe correctness of the idea. The first attempt was made upon bees that had gathered upon trees, th -> insects falling upon the ground in a kind of trance, which admitted of their being safely handled. The uext sta*e in the experiment was to capture the bees when they were about to swarm. By introducing the eDds of two connecting wires into a fully-occupied honeycomb, and turning on the currenc, the bees were rendered inactive for about thirty minutes, while no bad results appeared to follow their awakening.?London Times, ; *-?1 A Big Cattle Farm. The ranches of Cattle King Powers, all making up a riv. r frontage of eighteen miles, and including a number oi very productive meaaowt?, areexiuiueu on the south side of tho Arkansas, and all are uuder fence. Directly opposite these, beginning at Fort Lyon and reaching down the river twenty-two * miles, and extending back far enough to include an expanse of SO,dOO acres, is another pasture tinder fence, the titlea for which are in the same name. Here, then, are forty miles of water front and 100,000 acres oi pasture under fence, all owned by one man. The fencing on these ranches wili sum up ever 100 miles. Northward to and even beyond the Kansas Paci&c, and southward to Cimarron and beyond, into the Pan Handle of Texas, graze his cattle, more than 12,000 in number.?Denver tiepubicon. t. W*| | The orovrn of England is valued at i ?184,000. ^