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I The Beaufort gb Republican. ? AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLTTICS, LITERATURE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. 1 ?? YOL. ir. NO. 37. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1872. (SKS It OCR SEW TOR* LETTER. Bread upon the Watere-A Charity Girl in After Years Supports her Benefactor? A Sad Story, etc., etc. BREAD UPON THE WATER. One of those little episodes of life which illostrate the generous returns of benevolence that sometimes come back to us after long years, like " bread upon the water," has found its way to the point of ray pen, and I give it for the sake of the beautiful moral that is so seldom developed in similar cases ; for these visible returns npon charity are, like angels' visits, "few and far between." Away back in the years that are gone, a rich merchant of our city returning to his home one cold, dreary, November evening, -found a poor barefooted child of poverty upon his door-step, shivering and in tears from 'he most visible evidences of suffering and want. The impulse of many Tvrmlfl llQVLi })i<nn to V* O tro /I ri t?on Lam nn> av r^_ ?f vu<u jjuiv l/vvu iu iiaf c uutrn uci an aj j bat one glance at her face struck pity to V his heart, and he took her into his house, ^ warmed her by the fire, fed her at hi< table and clothed her in the warm, cast-off garments of his own little girl. He listened to her artless and unstudied tale of sorrow, believed it, and with a basket of food and an old though comfortable blanket, sent her borne, telling her to come to his house whenever they needed food, clothing or fuel. It seems that the poor family struggled on as best they could, and whenever poverty pinehed too bitterly the little girl came to the merchant's house for the proffered charity, until her little face became quite familiar. One day she came in great sorrow and hitter weeping. Her mother was dead, and she had no one to tnrn to in the bereavement of her little heart but our kind merchant. He buried the poor, dead woman and took the little girl to his home until he could, Irom the dying direction> of the mother, write to her relations, for. as the story goes, the mother had married * against the will of her parents, and had been disinherited. During her life, she had preferred to remain in poverty and obscurity rather than appeal to her unnatural parent*, hnl ?t lior nrl/lo tp?l? I . 7 I" ?Vswallowed up in anxiety for lier helpless child. The relations came and took the child away, and then her whereabouts were lost to the merchant. Tears rolled by, and misfortune overtook our man of generous heart. Death of his family and bankruptcy of his fortune lefr him a wreck on the shore of impecuniosity. Many were the ways he strove to rise again,but each time he only fell back lower, until a trembling, grey-haired old man, he silently pleaded with passers-by for his daily bread at a street 9tand until one day a runaway team overturned his apples and cakes, and injured him so severely that he was taken to the hospital, and a paragragh of the accident appeared in the papers, with his name and a sketch of his lite and failure. This paragraph caught the eye of a wealthy lady living in a neighboring city, ' and hastening to New York and to the hospital, she stood by the bed of the poor old man, and in her fine, generous face and adornments of wealth lie could not recognize the little girl he once befriended. But such she was. She had been raised by wealthy relations, bad married in prominence and lived in luxury. She had never forgotten her first benefactor, but bad lost all traces of him until, lo her surprise, she saw the paragraph in the papers. And now the hre?<l rn?t 11mm tb? waters l.?o been found,after many days,gloriously mult'plied, like tlie Savior's loaves; and taken to the generous home of the noble woman, he is passing his last days in peace and happiness, loved and honored as her own father, and the children even call him grandpa. A SAD STORY. Strolling down on the Battery a tew days ago?and here let me preface this incident by stating that since the commendable improvements of the Park Commissioners, the Battery again smiles in beauty and invites the lover of fresh sea bre. zetoa stroll over its fine walks, and grassy plots, under its shady trees, and around its splendid sea girt wall. Such a stroll I was taking near old Castle Garden, when one of the policemen,knowing my con nectton with the press, said to me, " Come and I'll show you a subject for a newspaper paragraph," and following him lie lei the way into Castle Garden and showe 1 m? an old man and woman apparently war their three ?corc and ten, and this is the story that makes up the la?t chapter in their old weather beaten lives. They are Svvis>, and passed the limiN of thoT humble lives in the mountain fa^tne^.es of the land ol Tell, and amid its green valleys tended their little flocks, nnd :d their little cot of moss covered stone, one child bies^ed their lives and grew np to manhood to lift toe burthen of toil from their shouiders. They were happy with only the care that "a lew paternal acres bound." The same little chapel, in which they stood and plighted thjir faith in the morning of life, still I reared its modest spire beneath the grandeur of Switzerland^ mountains, its sweet toned bell still called them to the simple worship over green heather and through worn paths in the rock that their parents before them had trod, and the rotine of their humble peasant lives wore smoothly on. And then tears of sorrow came ^ through smiles of hope, like April showers | I . " ^ through the sunshine ot Spring. Tbeir son was coining to America to gain wealth and a home in the land of promise, and then was going to send for his old parents to give ease to their declining years. They parted, and for years the old folks struggled on alone, and the loneliness only seemed lifted from the hearth when the regular letter came from the son inform ing them in glowing words how well bt was succeeding and giving proof in the remittance it contained. Then came the long-looked for lettei telling ihem to come on and he woulc rnee*: them in New irork, and togethei they would go to their future home in tb< West. The little possession in fatberlanc was sold and the sacred things?''the house bold gods"?were packed in the old family chests, and bidding farewell fo the onlj scenes they had ever known, the two ok people with their hearts all aflutter wit! hope and expectation embarked for Neu York, and landed, the day before I saw them. Kind reader, have you ever experiencec all that warm glow of excitement anc expectation at the meeting of some lovec one after long absence, and all the sweel charms of peace and rest that hop? breathes from repose. Then your's will b( heartfelt sympathy. When the great steamship reached hei dock, and relations and friends were greeting each other, 1 he old father and inotbei <tiained their eyes over the crowd but n< familiar face met theirs, the greetings wer< for others not for them. Shall I tell ! The son was dead. lie had come to New York bringing all his money with him, wa? Jaken sick in some unprincipled boardinghouse and died, and no one claimed tc know where the money went, but in a pauper grave the only son was laid and that was all The old couple sat upon one of theii chest" with their arras locked about each other, andonlv moaned low in their heartbroken anguish. Oh, pitiful was the scene No consolation could give relief. 11 would have been a blessing could death have come to them and kissed away theii agony with their lives; bet out of theii little moans they will go back to theii old and desolate home, childless, lielpksand heart-broken, and wander aboji its old scenes in a dreamy kind of way, and then relief will come to them, and in the little church-yard by the mou'ain side the villagers will point to the rude stone that rises above them, and tell their cbil dren the same sad story I've told you. A Touching Story, A touching and beautiful story is told of America's great tragedian, Edwin For rest, and related by Stuart Kobson, in his lecture on that eminent personage. The lecturer says that a few summers ago he had occasion to enter a street-car in Philadelphia, which, among other passenners, held au elderly, surly-looking gentleman, whose head rested on a stout stick, and a young and pretty lady who was accompanied bv a little four-year-'-11 girl who was skipping playfully about the car, The little girl looked so bright, and lively, and pretty, as she held in her hand a hunch of loosely arranged flowers,that the eyes of every passenger followed her, as -he gamboled from one end of the car to the other, with the single exception ol the surly-looking gentleman, whose head still rested on the stout stick. All at once the little creature stopped, looked timidly towards, him, then?as if hall afraid of the liberty she was taking? picked a rosebud from the flower bunch, and trotting to his side, with some difficulty plac. d it in an uninviting buttonhole of the coat worn hy the surly-looking gentleman, whosfc head still rested on the stout stick. The movement roused him, when he lifted his head, took in the situation at a glance, bent bis eyes on the little darling, who ran laughingly back to her mother, and?never thanked her! Said Mr. Robson<in teiling the story, "To some, the man's conduct may have appeared heartless and unfeeling; but I watched him closely, and, though?he scarcely changed his position, his eyes never left her until, the cai stopping a few paces off, he alighted, and, as he did so, I discovered that they were filled with tears. The car moved on. but until it was lo-t to view be stood looking towards us. This man was America's greatest tragedian. Edwin Forrest, and we may rest assured that -the unpremeditated act ol this pretty little child affected liim more than any ol the great honors which have been showered on this lonely, childless gentleman." Men of Brains. ? Wendell Paillips says: ' The biggest brains don't go tr Congress. The biggest brains in the coun try control the industrial enterprises, the railroad and the iion business and the cottcn business; it takes a Napoleon tc grasp it ?n his han 1. These are the great men, these aie the big brains?the Stewarts, the Yanderbilts, and the Scotts: while in the second line of intellect come tie editors, professional men, of vast strength, a- a then out of the third average come the Congressmen. And out ol 3b0 cf them you get. perhaps, 10 marked men, but the average arc only third xate men. A Connecticut paper says : " At present two thirds of the population of Peduenoc pa*s Sundav fishing for muskrats with snot-guns. This ib the way the other third know when Sunday comes." i * | What Killed the Eagle. At some distance off, 6ays Porte Crayon, I in one of his letters, perched upon a dead f tree which commanded a view of the pro- \ prietor's meadows and stack-yards, we ? i observed a bald eagle sitting like a statne t ' of Liberty, his golden head shining in the ? s sun. It was proposed that Adam should s try the range of his long rifle upon him, { > which he prepared to do: but ere a bead c s could be drawn, the eagle swept from his r perch and sailed grandly over the mead- ( r ows, and then poising himself, made a t I swoop at something near the stack-yard, f : 44 There goes a good hen, the thievin1 ( i devil 1" spitefully letting fly a wild shot j i at the rising robber. t The eagle evidently had something in t r his claws as he rose; and, strangely t r enough, after the shot, instead of sailing < 1 off to some comfortable mountain-top to i ? enjoy his dinner, he continued to rise 1 ' perpendicularly, wheeling in rapid circles i ' upward and upward until he was lost to < view. I 1 Old Adam chuckled as he observed, 441 < I think that chance shot spiled his fun for t 1 him, I do." And so we all strained our J t eyes into the blue firmament, endeavoring t ^ to see the eagle, instinctively the while ] ? rldinor tnwnrrla thp stnnk vflrd. But it is useless; he's gone, and the shot only < r frightened or crippled him. Then we were astonished at hearing a rushing p sound through the air, which rapidly > neared us, and the eagle came down like i a falling star, striking the earth a hundred 1 yards ahead, and about the same distance : from the spot where he struck his quarry. ? We dismounted and rushed forward to verify the marvelous shot, but found an> other explanation still more curious. The i eagle was stone-dead, without the mark t of a bullet about him; but under his thigh was a hole eaten into his very ' heart. A few yards off a weasel, torn and bloody, but still alive, trailed its way through the grass with a broken back. " A quafrel among thieves," said old ' Adam, " and the chickens will git their 1 due now." But some ot us, not so materialistic in our views, pitied the weasel, and regretted that, after his sublime ascent and ' heroic defence of his life, he had not es1 caped safe and sound. Mr. Pitt in a Frolic.?Great men 1 need to unbend and have a good frolic,- as t well as other people. The younger Wm. Pitt was noted for dignity of person and for power of overawing associates. But lie could play as well as rule. One day he was in a high frolic with Lady Hester Stanhope, James Stanhope, and ' William Napier. They were struggling to hold him down and blacken his face mntif /*nrL* wlion o aprvfint ?n. I ( nounced Lords Ca9tlereagh and Liverpool, ' two of his associates in the Cabinet, had 1 called on business. lie said coolly, " Let ' them wait in the outer room," and went " on with the sport. But Coding himself overmatched, he said: "Stop, this won't do; I could easily beat you all, but we ' musn't keep these grandees waiting any longer." His associates washed his face, ' hid the basin behind the 6ofa, and the 1 grandees were ushered in. The manner of Mr. Pitt suddenly changed. His tall, ' ungainly, bony figure seemed to grow up ' to the ceiling?his head thrown back, his t eyes fixed immovably in one position, as ( if gazing into the heavens, and totally t regardless of the two bending figures be fore him. He was cold and haughty; they, humble and suppliant. In a few e minutes, Mr. Pitt bowed them out, and j i then, turning round with a hearty laugh, 1 caught up a cushion and commenced the j ' battle again. <] C Pkof. Mouse's Wii.l.?The will of the late Prof. Morse provides for the payment j of the following bequests and legacies out of j the residuary fund: Home of the Friendless, Poughkeepsie, S3,000; Nassau Hall, j I Princeton, to found two* scholarships, to ^ be named Finley and Breese respectively, ^ S'2.000; Union Theological Seminary, Hampden Sydney, Va., SI,000; Old La- t dies Home, Poughkeepsie, Sl,000; Na, tional Academy of Design, New York, } "for procuring a suitable medal for the ^ encouragement of art," ?1,000; Araerican Geographical Society, a medal for the j , encouragement of geographical research, j SI,000; New York City University Scholarship Medal. SI,000. The cross of the Knight Commander of the Order of the c - Dannebroge, conferred on him by the \ King of Denmark, is to be returned to the j Chancellor of the Order at Copenhagen. Food Medicine ? Dr. Hall advances a theory that fcod can be used as a curative remedy equally well with medicine. t He relates a case where a man was cured of biliousness by going without liis supper, and free use ef lemonade. This paCent rose, hesaya, after he began the use ( of this drink, refreshed, and with a feel. ing as though his blood had 'iierally been cleansed. Ho further says that be cures ; cases of spitting blood by using salt; epi( lepsy and yellow fever by watermelons; . kidney affections by celery; poison, olive or sweet oil; erysipelas, pounded cran. bcriies appplied to the part adiected; hy. drophobia, onions. If this theory is correct, drugs would soon become " drugs" in the market, and people would soon learn that the way to keep well was t.o eat certain kinds of food. The world would thus become healthier and happier. Rev. Maxwell P. Gaddis died in St J Joseph, Mo., of softening of the brain c Small-pox on the Ocean. With the bark Athena, which arrived rom Bremen, comes a terrible tale of to voe. To the dangers and perils of the ac ea? were added the manifold terrors of ap he malignant srnall-pox, scarlet fever, H md measles, which chused the death of 1' leveral of tfce crew and many of the pas- 1* lengers. The vessel had been but two H lays out of Bremen when one ot the sea- m nen was taken ill, and in a short time his U1 lisease had so far developed that his ship- ^ nates were made aware that lie was suf- L "ering from small-pox. Huddled together 31 >n the ship were 474 passengers, emi- ai grants to this country. Precautions were it once taken to prevent the spread of ,ri lie disease, but others of tlie crew were tc ilready infected, and forced to succumb. 111 ^mong the passengers weremany women ind children. Soon deaths began to be ^ requent. The sailor who was fiist taken *? 11, died, and was sewed up in a canvas and ^ ;ast overboard. Already had the small- w mix communicated itself to the passengers. String men awoke in the morning unable w :o leave their berths, and the tell-tale red dotches that soon made their appearance ^ old all too plainly why they were weak. a; " : i-i.j d< rtapiaiy me aisease was muciuuieu imu ;he system of fellow passengers, and eacli ^ succeeding day brought fresh cases. w As the bark was a sailing vessel the u provisions of the law did not demand that ^ ts complement of officers should include ai i physician. Captain Christopher, who P* jomraanded, although an able sailor, was ~~ petter versed in navigation than medicine. ^ The only antidotes obtainable were those ts vhich were in the medicine chest. These w vere distributed as was thought best, and ivery effort was made to prevent the gensral spread of the disease. Hardly had ol ;he officers begun to hope for success P vhen new horrors were added to the neasure that seemed already to he overlowing. Scarlet fever and measles be jan to appear among the children. Moth- fi irs were prostrated with the small pox, ^ ind the little ones in many instances suf- ^ ered for the care that might have saved C1 heir lives. Many of them were mere inants, and their little frames withstood jj he ravages of disease but a day or two ^ it most. Thus whole families perished, gt ind one after the other were sunk into he sea. The log of the ship tells a mourn- ()| ul tale of mortality. Twenty children, a lumber of them babes, who fell sick in heir mother's arms, died before reaching jt >andy Hook. The majority fell victims o) o measles, but scarlet fever and small- tj iox also did their work. Fire adult pas- w lengers and one seaman died of small-por, tf ind one seaman of scarlet fever, during he voyage?twenty-seven deaths in all. cj STo sooner had the Athena dropped her inchor than she was quarantined, and or- ()( lered fumigated and cleaned. Those who vere still suffering with the disease were emoved to the hospital. ^ Although the emigrant officers were in- pf lined to lay the blame to inferior food, he captain avers that the provisions were cj >oth good and abundant, and seems to e, liink that the disease was fostered ^y the ^ lirty habits of the emigrants, who were jj, ihiefly Poles. Nothing, he declares, short j( >f physical violence could induce them to . vash. On their arrival, they were told f they did not wash they would be sent o prison. Men and women then washed rt >n the deck, and did so with great earn- cj jstness. c: tl Popular Orators.?Who are the speak:rs that move the crowd?men after the ^ lattern of Whitefield, what are they? ^ They are almost always men of very large t| )hysical development, men of very strong ^ ligestive powers, and whose 'ungs have tj ;reat aerating capacity. They are men ^ vho, while they have sufficient thought- ^ >ower to create all the material needed. t| lave preeminently the exclusive power by 9{ rhich they can thrust their materials out f|1 it men. They are catapults, and men go j lown before tliein. Of course you will iud men now and then, thin and shrill- ^ oiced, who are popular speakers. Someimes men are organized with a compact a, lervous temperament and are slender ()1 rained, while they have a certain concen- t( rated earnestness, and, in narrow lines, M] hey move with great intensity. John Randolph was such a man-?Henry W. j 'frecher. j An Army STORY.-Tbe boastful talk about ^ \v onversions, which we hear on all sides, swell hit ofTby an army story. Chap- w. ain X. called at Col. Z's headquarters, and el urning the conversation on revivals, told vhat an inteiest was excited in his own egiment. " What do yo mean ?" asked w 3ol. Z., puzzled at his language. TLe p( haplain replied that a revival was then g, ;oing on, and he had baptized thirty-four ()I nen in the river that very week. Col. Z., ar urning to an orderly, "Orderly! Tell nj dajor to order out one hundred p(| nen for instant baptism. If that, Sir'? f urning to the chaplain, "is to be the test ar >f regimental standing, this regiment shall cc lot be outdone by yours ci any other in he scjvice." An Introduction.?There is nothing r> ?flTprh'nf* in a child as a certain sweet re nborn spirit of self-abnegation. Sammy L cas a little boy, at school in a village far w rom his home. One day his father came vi o see him, and they took a walk together, a leeting the principal of the school, Sam- qi ny performed the ceremony ot introduc- or ion. "Mr. S.," said he, "this is a father lo ?f mine.". tc An Irish Lord. A curious piece of personal history comes ' us from England in reference to the icestry of Col. White, "who has just been pointed Lord Liutenant of County Clare, eland. It appears that about the year 75, his grandfather, Luke White, was iddling old books in the North of Ireland, aving by this means scraped up a little oney, be instituted book auctions, and tiroately started a shop in Dawson street, ublin, near the official residence of the ord Mayor, where he published books id pamphlets. By selling lottery tickets, id various other devices, be amassed a >od deal of money, and, being in a most apecunious country, was able to turn it ) excellent account. He advanced on lortgage, forclosed, and became rich. In i"93, when the rebellion broke out. the :ish Government was in desperate straits ir money. It advertised lor a loan, and ie best terms which could be obtained ere Luke White's proposal to take a milon of Government bonds at sixty-five, ith interest at five per cent.! At such ites it does not take long to grow richrhite became a member oi Parliament, ad had a son also in the House, and exended as much as $500,000 on elections, t his death he left an immense fortune, bich he divided between his sons, but ltirnately the whole of it passed to one. Ie married a clever, ambitious woman, id she "egged him on" in search o( a eerage. Nothing "Irish or pinchbeck" -as Lord Wellesley wrote in chagrin to itt, when be received his double gilt poito, as he called his Irish Marquisate? ould Mrs. White have, but a " peerage f the United Kingdom." So one day her usband became a member of the House f Lords, as Lord Annaly, without even issing through the mid channel of the aronetage. The Tariff. The Senate Finnnce Committee have nished their labors on the Tariff and Tax ill and reported it to the Senate. The ill makes gome radical changes, and in'eases the amount of taxes removed from irty-three millions, as provided in the ouse bill, to fully fifty millions. This is lainly accomplished by abolishing all amp dories in schedules B and C, which imprise about all that are left. The ther important changes are in tobacco, hich is fixed uniform at twenty-four ?nts, instead of twenty, as the House had . Whiskey is fixed in a consolidated tax f seventy cents, and all licenses and rentiers' taxes abolished. Tobacco bonded arehouses remain as in the House bill. > wit, abolished. Coal and salt are agreed > as passed by the House. Lumber is targeJ from ad valorem reduction, as rovided by the House, to a specified duty f $2 on pine. Books are changed from >ecifio duty, as provided by the House, id put*under the ten per cent. Yeduction ction, which will make the ad valorem ite twenty-two and a half per cent. The ee list provision in regard to books was langed so as to restoie the old language icept allowing the importation of text uoks for the use of schools, and to be mited to two copies for each school, ute was taken out of the free list, as ere guupowder and saltpetre. Fishixo ix Japax.?The Japanese have ire sport at certain seasons of the year, itching fish by the bushel, as fast as they m gather them in. In the spring, when ie fish are in the rivers and making their ay down to the sea. the young men and oys throw into the water the pulverized ark ol a certain tree which lias much of ie spicy qualities of pepper. The poor sh take it in greedily, and then to cool leir turning mouths they drink such uantities of water, which is now imregnated with the bark, as to prevent leir swimming to purer places in the ream. They drink and drink, making latters worse and worse with every rauglit, till they die, and are picked up r hauled in by the boys to land. The ark has no injurious qualities, so that the sh thus taken are as nice for the table i if taken with the hook or net. Anther way to entrap the unwary tribes is ? gather a certain kind of green persiinton, which is the strongest possible asingent, and cast them into the river, he fish swallow them, and are instantly fleeted as if by paralysis. The fins drop nwn powerless at their sides, as if they ere dead; and then the young Japs ade into the streatn and help themselves, ther by picking up their floating victns or by nets. A Counterfkiter Drowned.-G. Tyler, ith another notorious counterfeiter of ort Wayne, was discovered by t wo Unitcd tares detectives near Wellsville, Ohio, 1 the river bank. Tyler drew a revolver id fired a ball through the eoat ot one the officer*. The officer returned the :e, sh Kiting ?>ne man through the hand, yler then made for the river, jumped in id was drowned, leaving on the bank his lat, which contained ?1 100 counterfeit ventics, legal tenders The other man d to the hills. A Pertinent Question.?During a rent trial at Rockport, Indiana, Judge aird interrupted the testimony of a lady itness, remarking that it was not releint. The lady raised her head, and with look made up of injured innocence, inlired, "Well, sir, am I tellingthia story, are you?" The Judge wilted, and alwed her to talk as long as she wanted i, \ I Brevitia?. Rye came originally from Siberia. Confidence contributes more to conrcrition than wit or talent. In 1702 was built the first Episcopal burch in North Carolina. A man at Council Bluffs, Iowa, got ngry at his horse the other day, and terally beat him to death. In the U. S. Senate, the Ku-Klux, upplementary Civil Rights, and the Ltnnesty bills, were passed. Be thou what thou singularly art, and >ersonate only thyself. Swim smoothly a the stream of thy nature and live but ne man. An inventive Kentucky freed woman ias done away with hen monopolies forver by hatcliiog a brood of live chickens mder a stove. The strawberry season in Southern llinois has opened finely, and apples, teaches, pears, cherries and grapes never tromised better. In Tuftonborough, N. H., there is a at which appears to be half rabbit. It ' s destitute of a tail, and its habits are omewhat like those of a rabbit. 11 is an xcellent mouser A soldier who stole chickens when at ?ort Scott, during the war, has just sent tight dollars "conscience money" to the >wner of one of the chicKen roosts that lad suffered by him. A Missouri legislator clinched an argnnent against dogs the other day, by iu-pnrinor thnt, tho nionev exneuded in The Old Home. Jfes, still the same, the Bame old spot; The years may go, the years may come, Yet through them all there changeth not S( The old familiar home. The poplars by the old mill stream C. A trifle taller may have grown ; The ivies round the turret green a Perchance more thickly thrown. li Yet still the same gr;en lanes are here That brought their violet scents in spring, ^ And heard through many a golden year ^ The winsome echoes ring. Of children in the A^Hl morn, Knee deep in yellow cowslip bloomj; 0 Of lovers' whispers lightly borne Through sultry twilight glooms. ? v And out upon the red-bricked town, e The quaint o d houses stand the same ; u The same old sign swings at the Crown. Ablaze in sunset flame. I Yet still 'tis not the same old spot? The old familiar friends aro gone. I I afk of those who know them not * All strangers every one. c i The morning brooks may sing the same; 8 The whitethorns blossom in the May; c But each long-loved, remembered name Has passed in turn away. ^ j Farmhouse Notes. Cream Tie.?To make cream pie, beat two eggs well, in a coffee cup of sugar and one of thick, sour cream. Stir till 1 thoroughly mixed. Add a tea^poonful 8 of extract of lemon or vanilla. This quantity given will make two pies. Bake . with two crusts. Floor Cleaning.?"When a carpet is ] taken up to be cleaned, the floor beneath j it is generally very much covered with { dust. This dust is very fine and dry, ( and poisonous to the Jungs. Sprinkle , the floor with very dilute carbolic acid s to kill any poisonous germs that may be \ present, and so thoroughly disinfect the | floor and render it sweet. Ducks in Vineyards ?It is mentioned ( in The Grape Culturist that a large vine- t yardist in Illiuois keeps each season not t less than 100 ducks constantly among 1 his vines. He says it it wonderful with ] what diligence they dar; after all kinds i of bugs, t.hrips, flies, and small snails, < and he considers them among the best ( of inseot exterminators. They lay a good many eggs, too, and are not bad to take , when roasted. . t Apple Jam.?In making apple jam, 1 the apples should be ripe, and of the 1 best eating sort, and being pared and 1 quartered are put into a pan with just 1 water enough to cover them, and boiled 1 until they can be reduced to a mash. $ Tlieu for each pound of pared apples, a I pound of sifted sugar isadded, sprinkled < over the boiling mixture. Boil and stir f it well uutil reduced to a jam. Then t put it into pots. The above is the most simple way of making it, but to have it of the best possible clearness, make a at.: _i_ ?* 4. i. i.i ji_ iuick. syrup wim uiree pounas 01 sugar to each pi it of water and clarify it with an egg. Then add one pint of this syrup ' for every three pounds ol apples, and c boil the jam to a proper thickness. g Wax Bean.1?This snap bean, but re* c cently introduced and not yet generally t known, is one of the very best for gur- ] den culture. When planted and cared for in the same way. the wax is 10 or 12 days later than the Early Valentiue ; but c in every other respect it is superior to s either this or that other excellent variety, the Refugee. Ihe vines grow longer j than other kinds of the snap beans, pro-1 duce more beans of larger siz?, more |s brittle, and of better quality. Those i who are fond of young snap beans plant j sepd three or four times during the Spring?say two weeks apart?so as to get a succession for table use. Where it will take four plantings with other kinds, i two plantings of the Wax will be found >, quite enough, because this variety will t keep tender just twice as long as the sorts commonly grown for home con- 1 sumption. The pods of the Wax grow ' long, thick, tender, aud*of a waxy yellow < color. 1 Natural Curiosities.?Carter county, , Ky., appears to be rich in natural curio?i- , ties. Among them is a natural bridge t which is 210 feet in the span, 19G feet high, , and 12 fact wide, being arched under- ( ncath and level on the top. One hundred j feet below it there is a cascade with a fall of 75 feet, and^two miles distant there is , another with a fall of 200 feet. Near by j are two streams known as Big Sinkey and Little Sinkey, which emerge from the , ground good-sized streams, and after a s course of about two miles suddenly disappear. There is also in the same neighborbood a natural artesian well which formerly threw up a jet about four feet high, of the size of a common barrel; but t having been obstructed by stones and ] trunks of trees thrown Into it. by persons ] desirous of finding out its depth, it now ( only plays to the height of a foot above [ the level of the pool. r Sad Disaster. ? Buildings belonging 15 to W. G. Johnson, on Fall Creek, near ' Ithaca, were set on fire by an incendiary. One of the steamers cf the city was stationed on the high bridge over Fall Creek, just below the foot of the main fall. "When the (ire was nearly out, the bridge, without any warning by cracking fell, carrying with it the engine and the people who had gathered there, to the number of about two hundred. The bridge wa? twenty feet above the water, and the whole of it went down together. Fifteen persons wereseverly injured, including a number ot the students of Cornell Ui%ersity, some so badly that they are not expected to recover. Raisins-.?The finest raisins are grapes merely dried in the sun. The Mnscatel raisins have the stalk of tire bunch partly cot through and dried upon the vine, the li leavg^being removed to allow of full ex- ? posure. Commoner kinds are dried upon ? lines, and afterwards dipped into a lye to a which salt and oil ore added. e iupporting 21 .(K'0,0<0 flogs in the Unied States would buy 1,314,000,000 whiskey cocktails every ye.y. A lady belonging in Oxford County, \Ie., sixty year8 of age, has been workDg in one of the mills the past Winler o earn money to keep the stock through :old weather. L ist Fall the stock could jot be sold, and rather than see them itarve the energetic lady weDt to work n the milk, and earned enough to save lie stock. In the Insane Asylum at Stockton, Dal., there is a female patient whose iberrahon of mind was produced by ;ight lacing. In mentioning this fact a leathenish California editor gives the philosophy of the cause as follows: All vomen who lace tightly are ins inc?the inly difference is that one was found >ut. The others will be in good time." Au Indianapolis man writes to his favorite papci: "Please say to the party hat made an attempt to burgle No. 363 tforth Mississippi street, between the lours of 2 and 3 o'clock this morning, hat if his present infirmity does not in erfere with him doing so, to make one nore trial at his earliest convenience, tnd bring his winding sheet and coffin ilate with him. I have his burial eer iflrate ready, and signed l?.v Smith & Wesion in six volumes. Death to sneak hieves." ? Weather Eeports. The great success that Las attended ;hc efforts of tbe United States Signal Sureau, in furnishing the public with ac:urate summaries of the weather in evety ection of the country, has encouraged tl e ifticers in charge to still further extend ;he field of tbeir work and usefulness, hitherto the wants of commerce have been nainly considered, and therefore existing >r approaching storms on the lakes or the iea-coast hive bcen^ioticed or predicted. I'he marine interests of the country have seen greatly benefited; wrecks have been tverted, and many human iives saved. It s now felt, however, that the agricultural nterest of the whole country should rereive its share of the benefits aeeuring rom these accurate weather bulletins, and in appropriation has been a?ked of Confess to defray the necessary exuens"8 in hat direction. It h proposed to establish i series of signal stations tn the rural di3ricts in eveiy State thrpughout the Union, 'o that the daily report may be moro rhorcughly circulited among the farmers.. Phis is a step in the right direction; for :herc can be nodoubt that agriculturists Aoultl soon learn to rely upon these weaih;r forecasts, and cultivate crops with great tdvantage and increased protits. Under he new system, the reports may easily je made useful to farmers, for a citcful >erusal of them would save them labor ind enable them to plant more intelligenty. Work would not be delated, and :rops need not be leaped when storms tre imminent. Plowing and Rowing scions could be calulated, and the results jf the year largely increased to individuals md the nation at large. # The Kixo of Smokers.?A Dutch genletnan, who enjoyed the sobriquet of ving ot the Smokers, has lately died at Rotterdam, Holland, in the neighborhood >f which city he had erected a mansion n which he had a collection of pipes nr anged according to their nationality and chronological order. Mr. Ivlaes, who had icquired a large fortune in the linen trade, las made a most whimsical will. Ten jounds of tobacco and two Dutch pipes, ?f the newest fashion, me to he presented o all smokers who attend his funeral. Te further desired that his coffin should >e lined w ith tlio cedar of old Havana * b " - ? '1 lv?^i Aihahi f a r>ir\A 1 , a lni/1 'Igar 1>UAC?, uiiu jiij iaiuiuc l"l'? >y lii9 side, with matches and tinder, as here was no knowing what might happen, t has been calculated that during his life >f eighty years lie had drunk about fire mndred thousand quarts of beer, and moked more than four tons of tobacco, brewers and tobacconists should surely aise a monument to such a pear> of parons, whose career is calculated to throw he anti-stimnlaDt and narcotic school nto a paroxysm of despair. Says the Washington Star: "The atest thing in spring hats for yonng la lies is to have the rim so bent and rumpled as to be suggestive of a late upper, an over-portion of champagne nd a general mussiness. Jaunty, but tot judicious. - -I.' *