University of South Carolina Libraries
Good-Nature. As welcome as sue shine In every place, Is the beaming approach Of a good-natured face. As genial as sunshine, Like warmth to impart, Is a g >od-natured word From a good-natured heart. Farmhouse Notes. Canning Fruit.?The time for canning fruit is at hand. Tin cans have been largely ns^d for both fruit and vegetables; but glass is certainly preferable. All fruits contain more or less acid, which, in some cases, acts upon metallic vessels. Tin cans are made with solder, an alloy into which lead largely enters. This < metal is easily corroded, and poisonous salts are foimed. It is believed by many chemists that persons have been serious- j Jy injured bv eating tomatoes, peaches, j etc., which have been put np in tin cans. To Boil New Potatoes. ? These should be out of the (. round but a sho~t , time before cooking. Wash them well, j rub off their tkiDs with a coarse cloth, , and put in boiling water. When per- , fectlv tender, pour the water from them, < and let them stand by the side of the fire, with the lid of the saucepan parti- , ally removed. When the potato's are , thoroughly dry, put them in a hot vege- ( table-dM), with a piece of butter the f sue of a walnut; pile the potatoes over } thii and serve. If the potatoes are too ( old to have t^eir skins rubbed off before boiling, they should be cooked in tveir "jackets;" drain, peel, and serve them as above. * How to Re-set an Old AsparagusL Bed.?In the fall when the seed is ripe, f instead of burning off the tops of the , Asparagus, as is the usual practice, I j cut them off close to the ground and lay them down on the bed, cover them with manure and let them remain until Spring, when I remove those that have not rotted and cover the bed again with man are. I find that by this process I can 1 re seed the bed without the trouble of t sowing tbe seed. The young shoots ' should not be cut until they are from one to three years old. The philosophy of it, I suppose, is that when the tops, 1 which are full of seed, are cut off and 1 . laid down, the placing of the manure on f them sprouts the seed aod in the Spring following they come up.?C E. T.,? Bvrlivgion, Ky. 1 Stir the Surface.?It docs not fol- 1 low that although we have plenty of ( rain, the soil will remain moist. Evapo- g ration is very active beneath our hot Summer suns. Heavy showers tend to L i-l- M - .'i ; J CUJjpUUL tut? SUil SUU icuuci 11 ILUpt-l" vious to water whi<'b remains on the i surface until evaporated. Li'tie benefit, c then, accrues, tin lees the hard crust v baked by the mio is broken up and the soil mellowed by cultivation. It is then 9 rendered porous and absorbent and is 1 ir <8 inclined to give up its moisture at t t he demand of the scorching heat, while j at night, cooling more rapidly than the air, it recondenses and retakes in abundance the moisture it has been forced to give up during the da.v. Thus the crop r never sutlers during a succeeding drouth, for the soil is always in a condition to supply its needs from the atmosphere c when denied a supply from the clouds. _ 1 Figures From the Census. The '"Tables of Occupation," which * have jnst been completed at the United States census office, show that of the 12,505,923 persons pursuing gaintul occupations, 9.802 038 were born in the United States; 836 502 in Germany: 949,164 in Ireland ; 801,779 in England and Wales; 71,983 in Scotland; 109,681 in Sweden Norway and Denmark ; 58,197 in France ; 189,307 in British America, and 46,300 in fOnna anrl .Tannn. Of the total number 5 022,471 were enpaged in agriculture; 2 707,421 in manufactures, mechanical and mining pursuits; 1,191.238 in trade and transportation, and 2,684.793 were rendering personal and j professional services. ! Of the Germans returned, 224,531 were ! engaged in agriculture, 308,231 in manu-; factures, &c., 112,297 rendering personal j or professional services; 96,432 of the ! ^ latter being classed as laborers, and 42,866 as domestic servants. Of the Irish returned, 138,425 were engaged in agriculture, 264,628 in manufac- ? ture, &c , 119,091 in trade and transportation ; 425,617 rendering personal and professional services, of whom 229,199 were classed as laborers, and 145,956 as domestic servants. Of the English and Welsh returned 77,- * 173 were engaged in agriculture, 142,631 in manufactures, <fcc., 8,440 in trade, <fcc., 12 683 in personal and professional services. Of the Swedes, Danes and Norwegians * returned, 50,480 were engaged in ag-icul- 8 ture, 21.283 in manufactures, 9,564 in trade, &c., 29.354 in rendering personal * and professional services. Of the natives of British America re- 1 turned, 48,288 were engaged in agricul- t ture, 76.457 in manufactures, 16,565 in trade and transportation, 48,003 in personal and professional services. Of the Chinese and Japanese returned, 2,S62 were engaged in agriculture; 21,702 in manufactures, <fcc., 2,250 in trade and transportation, 19,480 in personal and professional services, 5,421 of the latter being classed as domestic servants, and 3,657 as launderers and laundresses. Heat of the Srs\?Forever giving off caloric, vet its temperature never diminishing. This is a problem that exer- j cises the ingenuitj of philosophers who hold to the old theory, that the sun is a glowing mass of fire. According to that conception of its physical constitution, < the amount of radiating heat into unineas- i ured space would have reduced the size ' < of the centre of the solar system ere this, 1 since, unless a provision exists fer ac- 5 cumulating in a ratio exactly equal to the \ j waste, a fearful derangement of the uni- j t k ver-e must have inevitably ensued soon ! ^ after the morning stars saDg together in ,' ^ concert. To meet that necessary contin-11 gencv, another theory has been aunonnced, i 1 viz., that the sun's heat is kept up to the 11 required status for sustaining all worlds i i within its nebular jurisdiction by the de- i struction of millions of meteors, perpetu- i ally falling within its burning embrace, i Thus, then, otherwise sensible scholars have reduced the mechanism of the side real heavens to a level of a baker's shop, who keeps his oven hoi by regularly stuff, ing it with pitch pine. Items of General Interest. An Iow&n came near losing his life by the sting of a bee. ( A few drops of ammonia taken in j water wilt check excessive perspiration. The consumption of sugar in the United States amounts to 450,000 tons annually. Two French Communists, named Boudouin and Roillac, who were tried and convicted by a court-maitial, were executed at Satory. Ex Judge McCunn of New York died from physical prostration, caused by anxiety of mind induced by the recent proceedings against him. Thousands of barrels of flour are annually exported from this country to England, which return again in the form of fancy crackers and biscuit. The ship Omaba, which left Liverpool for Calcutta, was wrecked on Saugur Island in the Hoogely river. Seven persons belonging to the crew of the Omaha were drowned. In the San Joaquin Valley is a grain patch thirth-five miles long and eigbt miles wide, covering on area of 179,200 icres ; the average yield is estimated at 1 sixteen bushels, which will give a total ] 2,867,200 bushels, or 86,015 tons. Crazy Black Dick, who will be re- ( membered by all passengers who have traveled through Harrisburg, Penn., 1 luring the past four years, fell dead i few days ago. He was in the habit of , running ahead of moving trains and , loubtless saved many lives. Since the San Francisco authorities have offered a premium of 810 for every 1 lead body recovered from the bay, the i Chronicle advises drunkards and Oregon , lats to give a wide berth to the water j front. Ten dollars, it says, may seem a ii *? -j? i: ( small sum lur uiuiua, uui times axe aard and human nature weak. i i A Huge Undertaking. It is thought that about eighteen 1 nonths will yet be required to complete 1 ;he work at Hell Gate, New York harbor, rhe work is a wonderful piece of engineer- ! ng. Viewed from the head of the stairway it reminds <me ot a railroad engine 1 louse, being semicircular in form, and laving ten embrasures, with tracks lead- 1 ng back t? the terminus of the tunnels. \ turning-table in the center of the shaft nakes the simile all the more complete. )nly ten tunnels are visible from the outside, but there are sixteen all told, six :ommenciug in the interior of the work. ?our galleries or intersecting tunnels are low completed, and the fifth has been 1 lorainenced, thus leaving the rock above, rhich is about ten feet thick, resting on idid columns. Some of these columns lave already been pierced for the recep ion of nitro-glycerihe. The aggregate ength of these excavations exceeds 3,000 eet. The depth of the shaft is 84 feet. Visitors to the works should by no neans go in their best clothes. The leakige is so great that the pumps are kepi jonstantly going, and even with the use oi in umbrella the incautious investigator is ikely to come out with his clothes consid rably the worse for the journey. Supdied with a candle, the visitor gropes his vny through the dark, sometimes descendng at an an angle of forty-five degrees, intil he reached the dim light at the end >f the tunnel. Here the workmen are 'ound, some drilling and others shoveling lp the loose stones. If he is fortunate jnough to^et into the gallery where the liaraond drill is in operation, lie will be veil paid for his trouble, although it does leafen him with noise. There are two i_:ii. ii.:? i.* a i. v..*. ~~_ irtus ui tuis kiuu iiertr, uul uue is iju*> indergoing repair. The bore made by ;his machine is an inch and a half in diam}';er, and the cores, sometimes four feet in ength, can be bad of the miners. The 3rilling being over, the next thing in order s the blasting, which occurs three times i day, and is now done altogether with litio glycerine. When powder is used ;he stones are so large that the use of the laromer is necessary, while glycerine >reaks them in fine pieces. When the charges are to be so exploded, i gong is sounded, the workmen retreat o a place of safety previously indicated, ind an electric battery does the work of sxplosion. The thundering, smoothered lound of the successive charges, forcibly eminds the visitor of a battery of forty *KJ pa39 liJi uu^ii uic ouaiv unvi biiv vvuvj lam shall have been cut. Flow to Ccok a IIam.?The late General "Winfield Scott, an acknowledged mthority in the culinary art, was of the jpinion that few cooks knew how to cook jam because they did not boil it until toft enough to be eaten with a spoon! \ great artist once told the writer never ;o serve a ham under one year old; it was then to be soaked all night in soft water. and, if possibly, in running water; ;o be put on the fire in a large pot of cold water, and slowly boiled at least twenty minutes for every pound it might weigh ; and as for skinning a ham he held it to be an outrage, a sacrifice of quality to mere appearances, which no sensible man should be guilty of. If your ham is served cold, as is always done in Europe, it should be soured in snow or ice water immediately after coming from the pot, because the sudden cold prevents the flow and Escape of the juices. The Loafer and Ftm Lunch. Ken. The loafers and free-lunch men are dressed in various guise, but where they manage to procure their wardrobe is shrouded in mystery. In point of fact, it is exceedingly difficult to discover how they succeed so admirably in eking out an existence at all. They toil not, neither do they spin, yet they "get along;" though, to be sure, they generally come in at the tail end of the fashions. They do not as a general thing, cut anybody except bores. The knife is very seldom brought into requisition except for the purpose of splitting a pig's head at a lunch-table. But it is amusing to watch the movements of one of this class at that time of the day when his fellow lunch-fiends dive into saloons and rum cellars to partake of smoking soups and suspicious looking "beef," at which they tog and pull with fearful voracity. One of these will quietly enter a bar-room and patiently bide his time till he appears to see an expected friend saunter in ; alone or in company, he does not care. He then, in an offhand way, glances at the day's paper (which he never purchases) and indulges in loose gossip, spiced with blasphemy, without which he never could by any means pretend to "smartness." A few persons approach the bar-tender, and the lunch man approaches the dishes. A stray acquaintance loiters round to take a drink, *^ nmn ' /olioa InnnYtAP^ nnlrAQ hiQ AUU Wliuiuiuj yai&uo IUUVIIV j j'v?w nose into conversation and talks of everything and everybody, curses his luck, (a sonvenient term nowadays for laziness), and then wishes a war would break out, though the coward would be the last to smell powder. He is profuse in his boasting. He is lavish in his praise toward all disturbers of law and order, because he knows that tipplers belong to that class, and "set 'em up again" is sure to be the word when "full talk" is indulged in by such characters. Should this inexplicable lunch-fiend not happen to be called to drink, he devours whatever he can, and, while the bar tender is occupied, tiies to escape unnoticed. Thus he thrives on his low craft; and yet, withal, he leads a wretched life of mean dependance, with ability to do better, if that ability were properly directed. He will lounge for hours around the street-corner?and, to do him jnstice, he will say a thousand witty things and speak sensibly on a thousand topics; he will often entertain sound political views, and give solid reason for the faith that is in him, and manifest an amount of perception and shrewd sense which would procure for him a decent living, if he only managed to dispense his knowledge through the proper channels and in the proper manner. But no; he would rather loaf, borrow or beg lrom week's end to week's end, till theft finally, in the phrase of his class, "winds him up," and the penitentiary gives him a home and a shelter from perhaps a darker fate. - r ii. . i mis is no mere sKeicn or iue imagination. It is the simple and unvarnished truth. A Sad Story. The police of London lately unearthed a den in which a business was carried on more atrocious than imagination can conceive, and which one, even with the evidence adduced, can hardly believe possible to ex st. The plaoe was devoted to the manufacture of cripples,?children of ender age and babes, even, being taken there to have their lirnbs twisted out of -drape, their features burned and distorted, their eyes put out, or to le so mangled or maimed in other ways as to attract attention and sympathy from the alms giving public. The majority of these children were orphans or were taken?"adopted,' from almshouses or from very poor families, while others were undoubtededly stolen. The scale of prices for maiming va jounders in full play. When the volumes >f smoke have disappeared, the workmen 1 eturn, and the operations of drilling and emoving the debris are resumed. Specinens of stone can be procured from the >iles of rock on the shore. Garnets, mica tnd juartz abound. The apprehensions of danger, when the general explosion takes place, are entirely groundless, so cofident is Mr. Beitheimer, he general superintendent of this fact, hat he intends to remain in his office ibout 300 feet from the 6haft, when the inal charge is exploded. On completion if the work of excavation and the nitro glycerine ready, the coffer-dam will be ;ut, and as it is easier to raise a weight ander the water than above it; the shaft and mine will be flooded, and with the lischarge of the electric spark the dangers of Hell Gate will no longer exist. But should the explosion by any accident lot prove successful, or indeed, if it should lever take place, there will still be suffi;ient room for the largest ocean steamers .v wAon tha oKoff oftoi- fV?a anffuP, they are frequently compelled to succumb. One of the hottest days last week one of these little victims, apparently not more than six years old, fell asleep over her organ on School street, attracting a good deal of attention and sympathy from the passers-by. Not only are these children compelled to walk the streets from morning until night, but far into the night. There is no eight hour system ; rather, i twice that. There is a law in this State for the protection of dumb animals; is, there none for the protection of these in- | fants, who are as helpless in the hands of; their task-masters as the veriest dnmb animal that exists ? The Hofard Case.?The delay in Dr. Uonard's release is because Senor Martos wants Minister Sickles to ask for Houard's pardon. This Gen. Sickles refuses to do because the position assumed is that Houard is not guilty, and that he is, therefore, unjustly held. Sharp notes between Gen. Sickles and Senor Martos are being exchanged, and telegrams to and from Washington are transmitted regarding the ' affair. Dbink.?Drink kills many people. The more a man indulges in stimulants in this weather, the weaker he becomes?the more he drinks of anything, the thirstier he it. It it by n^lect of the moat ordinary precautions that to many people lose their lives. The Plot Against Hawley. CHAPTER I. HOW THE PLOT ORIGINATED. Near noon, the 5th of September, 1852, a man laboring under great excitement was walking hurriedly up Broadway, New York. His features were flushed and convnlsed, his glances wild and restless, his whole mien indicative of keen anguish. Turning to the right into Bleeker street, he soon reached a p'ain three story and basement brick house, to which he gave himself admittance. "Are yon there, Ruth?" he called from the hall. A step was heard overhead, followed by the rastling of a dress, and a young lady descended Via frAnf ataira 'haonifa bavpt&1 Dflints of marked contrast, there was a family likeness about the couple that proclaimed them to be brother and sister. " Why, what's the matter, Luke ?" cried the latter, starting at sight of the disturbed countenance that met her view "Are you ill?" "I've just received bad news," replied the brother,leading the way into the parlor?"news which has given me a terrible shock." " Shocked ? You! What has happened ?" " In a word, C'ara Aymar is married!" " Married 1" echoed the sister, recoiling. " Clara Aymar married 1 Is it possible ?" " Yes, married! the girl I've been laying siege to for years past^-the only girl I ever cared a pin for. Imagine the shock this event gives me. I'm nearly crazy." "Then you really loved her?" " Loved her 1 I must have worshipped her, or else this thing would not have so completely upset ir.e." " Oh, as to that, the loss of a thing always gives us an exaggerated notion of its value, said the sister philosophically, as she sank languidly into an easy chair, and smoothed out a fold in her showy morning robe. " You are simply shocked, as you say. But by to-morrow you will laugh at the whole matter." "Don't Ruth 1" implored the brother, sinking heavily into the nearest chair. " Clara Aymar, is more to me than my life 1 My love for her is a delirium! It's no such passing fancy as yon suppose, but an everlasting passion?a rage?a flood of molten lava ! And I've counted all along upon marrying her. True, she has rejected me twice, but I thought she'd change her mind?" " She wasin no way committed to you?" " No, of course not. She has never given me any encouragement. But I am none the less surprised. I supposed that everything was favorable enough to my wishes. I knew that she was still j oungto marry?an orphan?without money and without friends?presumably without suitors; and I flattered myself that she couldn't always remain insensible to my attentions." "Yon reasoned wisely enoHgh, of course. Luke; but reason never decides these matters," declared the sister, ?ith a sort of contemptuous compassion. "A whim?a chance meeting?a smile or a word?a moment's weakness?any trifle?theae are the things bv which marriages are brought about. But who is the bridegroom." ried according to age, tne cost or twisting the legs of a babe under a year old out of diape being only seven dollars, a variety of other injuries being thrown in tor ten dollars. Incurable ulcers and sores were manufactured for from one to five dollars and so on. It is difficult to write calmly in regard to such atrocious business, and is only to be hoped that some punishment severe enough can be inflicted upon the wretches who carried it on. Only less in degree is the cruelty practised upon little children in depriving them of their proper rest and sleep and compelling them to perform labor totally unfitted for their years for money-making purposes. In this connection, says a Boston paper, we call the attention of the chief of police to the fact that since the beginning of the Jubilee several little children of both sexes, from five to seven years of age, have been placed npon the streets by some wretched gatherer of pennies, weighed down with hand-organs, nnder the burden of which "Ah! that's a point that will tonch you a little, I think. Can't you guess who he is?" " I haven't the least idea." " Well, then, he's Will. Hawley." The sister sprang abruptly to" her feet, clasping both hands to her heart. Tho changing colors of her brother,his agitation,his anguish, all passed to her own features. " Will. Hawlev?" she gasped. "Oh, you don't mean it, Luke !'5 "But I do though. It's God s truth. Clara Ayrar and Will. Hawley are husband and wife." A heavy fall succeeded. The sister had fainted. She'lav upon the floor as one dead. " Did she think that much of Hawley ?" muttered the brother, astonished. "I didn't suppose?" He hastened to bring a pitcher of water and bathe the white features, and then set himself to chafing the clenched hands. Capt. Luke Pedder was twenty-seven years of age. with an originally light complexion, which had reddened with generous living and bronzed with exposure to wind and sun. His form was of the average size and height, and his features of the most ordinary type. He was singularly selfish and unscrupulous, but of gentlemanly manners, being well educated and u*ed togoocl society. His anility as a navigator was fair for a man of his age and experience, but he owed his position as commander of a fine Australian clipper, more to respect for his late father and to sympathizing favor than to h s own merits. Mi<s Ruth Pedder was two years younger than her brother and consequently twenty-five years of age, although she owned to only twenty. She was tall, thin, and a little inclined in her outlines, as in h< r temper, to angularity. She was not particularly bright, but she was bold and unscrupulous, and possessed a fierce energy which was capable of compensating in any emergency for lack of genius. The fat her of the couple had been a prominent ship-owner and merchant. But in his latter -d- ? T~)L?\/1 KAAm LkVL} a II1U SUI11UI JL CUUt'l IIOU UCUU Uillt'X lunaiVi and had finallv been broken up completely?a result hastened, it was wbisp red. by the "wild ways and financial irregularities of his son. The old man's failure had soon been followed by Lis death, and already?for such is fame ! he was generally forgotten. "How"odd it is!" ejaculated Capt. Pedder. as he rubbed his sister's cold hands. " She madly in love with Will. Haw ey, and /crazy after Clara Aymar 1 And now "Will, and Clara are married," and Ruth and I are left out in the cold." Under the vigorous treatment he had adopted, Miss Pedder soon recovered her senses. " Are you sure they're married ?" she demanded. "Ptrfectlv. I learned tho fact half an hour since from Hawlev's commander?Captain Greggs, you know. Captain Greggs was at the wedding. It took place last Friday evening? the very evening after Hawley's return from his last voyage to Rio. It was a quiet affair. Only a few friends were invited. But let me ask you a question. Did Hawlev ever propose to von ?" " No. But I expected that he would soon do so. He has been nere often enough?" " Yes, he came several times to ask me for a berth in my clipper. I promised to think ol him at the first opening, and I really meant to help him, for I knew in a general way that you liked him." " I thought he'd realize that you could be of service to him," explained Miss Pedder. "I thought he'd remember that mother left mc this house and a few thousand dollars to do as I pleased with. I was conscious, too, that J possessed a fair share of personal attractions. And as 1 supjioserl him to be entirely heart-free, [ took it for L'nnted that I should get him. Hif atfent ons seemed marked enough?" " He trea'ed you politely, of courpe," interrupted Pedder, "and he* couldn't have well done loss, after asking me to befriend him. Rut he never made a y formal declaration?'' " No, he didn't. As mate of a Rio ship, he was away seven-eighths of the time, and I didn't expect a regular courtship. Rut I took it for granted?" Pedder made an impatient gesture. " We've deceived ourselves," he muttered. " We've been carried away by our feelings. The girl's rejection of me was really intended to be final, and Hawley's visits here were m< rely visits of business and friendship. Rut why Clara should prefer Hawloy to me I can't imagine," added Pedder, drawing himself up haughti v. " Hawley has neither name, nor money, nor position!" "Nor can /see why Hawley should prefer Clara Ay mar to me/" "said Miss Pedder, as she glanced at her reflection in one of the 'ong mirrors near her. " She's a hired attendant, or something of that kind?the creature." "I'd no idea that you thought so much ol Hawley," observed the brother, as he strove to calm his painful emotions. Miss Pedder moaned. Her eyes filled with tears. " I thought all the world of him," she murmured. A long silence fell between the couple. " Well, well, tbev're husband and wife," at * * "* J 1 I .4 \ ? A tklo icngin muuereu rcauir nuainc-i?. aim ?u>o, I suppose, ia all tnere is to be said." Miss Pedder compressed her lips until they bled, staring at her brother with a fixedness amounting to ferocity. "No! no!" she breathed fiercely. "The matter shall not end here. That marriage? that abominable marriago?" She clutched at Ler heart again, as if suffocating. Pedder opened his eyes widely. " Why, what can we do?" he queried. "You wouldn't have me murder Hawley, I suppose? That wouldn't make him vour husband. And. >n the other hand, it wouldn't do me any good if you were to kill Clara A\ mar." " But there is a way, Luke, of undoing that marriage." Pedder started toward his sister, as if electrified. "Do yon mean it ?" he demanded. " I mean it, and I swear it 1 I'll never consent to that girl's having Hawley 1 IM dig a gulf between them as broad as the ooean 1 111 undo that marriage, or die /" ?? ' ' I "8oft]y! Where is Kate ?" He referred to their single servant. hi' u 8he's out for the Ay," answered Miss Pedder, arising and planting herself in a chair, of " There was little to do. you know, as I did not expect you home until dinner." he " Then no one will hear us." fie He drew a chair nearer to that of his sister en and sat down beside her. " What's your idea ?" he asked, in a whisper, sk " My idea is to separate them ; to turn tneir love to hate; to dig a pit beneath their feet ? that will remain open forever I" w< " But how ?" ta " Will. Uawlev is poor, isn't he ?" "Certainly; theie is no mistake about that. ti< His mother was a helpless invalid for Ihe last fn ten years of her life, and Will, insisted on her using for her comfort every penny he earned, br It hasn't been six months since he was relieved of that burden. He's poor, therefore, as you pi say?poor as Job's turkey I" lie " Then he'll have to leave his darling Clara," sn sneered Miss Pedder venomouslv. "He'll have to absent himself from his deary in order to co earn their mutual bread and butter. In short, Ci he'll have to go to sea again 1" " Well, yes; I suppose he will," assented bq Pedder. r'He can get better wages at sea than at elsewhere. He'll sail again soon, no doubt." " I thought as much. And the sea is full of in terrible dangers 1 When do you sail again for ve Australia ?" so " In about two weeks?possibly in ten days, tr as the ship's filling tp rapidly." ot " Hawle ; ii thoroughly competent to be your al first mate Pedder looked wooderkigly at his sister a wi moment, and the answered : sil "Of course. I know of no better man for the w] post." " He must be your first mate, then. You a hnvA infln?TiPA p.nnnch with votir owners. 1 oi hope, to turn out the present incumbent ?" lv " Why, the post is already vacant. Mr. Jar- Ai ding?you have him -Mr. Jarding has ai just been called home suddenly to Ohio, on ei account of hie father's il ness?" "GoodI That's fortunate. You must rec- pi ommend Hawley for the vacant place to your so owners, and get them to engage him. The m thine can be done?" . ca ' Without the least doubt. If was understood, you know, as I just now remarked, that hi I was to help Hawley at the first opportunity, th We'll accordingly suppose that he sails with me as first mate the next voyage. Whatthen?" m "You must have him?not dead, but a pr^s- be oner?on some desert island between here and Australia 1" Pedder looked his astonishment. " If it can be done," he said, after a pause, hi "what next?" cc " You must come back and report that he is dead, furnishing full details and good proofs, sc Those details and proofs will not be difficult to pi manufacture. Then you must be all kindnese di and sympathy to the young widow, as she will h< suppose herself to be, ana in less than a year thereafter she will be your wife." "Oh, if this thing" were possible!" sighed ai Pedder, beginning to look relieved. ca "Possible? It's as simple as kissing. And the moment you are married to Clara, I will tb take a trip to Australia for my health, and nat- b< urally enough, stumble upon the very island ai where you have left Hawley ; effect his rescue ; w tell him his wife is dead icondole and sympa- fo thize with him like an angel; and conclude the th whole comedy by becoming his wife and settling in Australia. You'll thus have your Clara, on hi this side of the ocean, and I shall be happy di with Hawley on the other." sc She was smiling now, with every sign of anti- ui cipated triumph. As to Pedaer he twisted nervously in his p chair, scarcely venturing to breathe. H " There's* just one difficulty," he muttered? "that of petting Hawley on the desert island di without his suspecting anything." ni " Tt can be done." and the Uds of Miss Ped- ni tier came together like the jaws of a vice, tl " There's no difficulty about finding & suitable a( island ?" -t "Not the least. I saw the island in mv tl mind's eye the moment you uttered the word, oi and a glorious one it is for our purpose." r< " It will be easy for you to get Hnwley upon ni it," suggested Miss Peader thoughtfully. " If i; it's near your route, you can call there f >r wa- si ter. If it's out of your way, you can be blown there by adverse winds, or be drifted there by unknown currents, or fetch up there by a mistake in your reckoning or a fault in vour chronometer. And once there, you can 6 ave Haw- S1 ley seized by some trusty agent, while he is ashore upon business, or you can send him vJ ashore under some pretence, such as looking |, for a deserter from the ship or f r a shipwrecked sailor, and then sail away without him?" is "Say no more," interrupted Podder, with 1 wild exultation. "I see how to manage the ' affair from its b ginning to its end." st " And you now see that we can undo that hateful marriage?" " Perfectly?perfectly. The affair will require h a little time* and patience, of course, and a lit- , tie expenditure of monty, but we are sure to -* triumph. Capital 1 glorious! What a load you Vl have taken from my soul, Ruth! What a genius you are 1" He leaped to his feet and began pacing to and fro rapidly, with the most extravagant signs and exclamations of joy!" tl 'First to get Hawley on his island," resumed Miss Pedder musingly. " Next for you to mar- ^ ry the pretended widow. Then forme to rescue ai the prisoner and marry him. And finally for ? you and me to be happy, you in your way, and " 1 in mine?you with Clara in New York, and 1 ei with Will, in Australia. You comprehend the whole project clearly ?" w "From the first"step to the last, rhere's n only just one possibility of failure?" " And that one ?" U "A refusal on Hawlev's part to accept the l post offered him?a refusal based upon his marriage." n Miss Pedder turned pale at the thought. "But he won't refuse," she soon declared, n recovering her equanimity. " He has leng been n wanting just such a place. Married or single, he can't neglect his bread and butter." P "Well said, Ruth. I think we can count upon him. The post he came here to ask me for is now vacant, and I will accordingly have h it offered to him, just as if nothing had hap- ?i pened." " Exactly. You needn't speak of his marri- tl age, or Bee'm to know anything about it. You can simply offer him the post in question, in e accordance with the old understanoing. And be will accept it. He can't possibly have any suspicion of anything wrong. Outwardly ana e apparently wc "are all on good terms witn one another, and will remain so. Let the wages offered him be liberal. Possibly he may object 81 i to leaving his voung bride so soon, but the next ii voyage after this one?" 8l i Peader interrupted the remark by a gesture , of impatience. He was all eagerness now?all , determination. f? " That next voyage after this one will not an- t' i ewer," he declared. M Hawley shall accompany p me on my very next trip. To make all sure on 1 , this point, I will have nim engaged this very ' day. In fact I will see to this now." i He seized his hat and gloves, addressed a few < i words to his sister, and quietlv took his depart- s< ure down town. The last glances the couple n ' exchanged at the door were full of jubilant i wickedness. i The next three or four hours passed slowly ft i to Miss Pedder. She was beginning to fear g ; that the whole project had miscarried at its p very commencement, and was fretting herself , into - fever, when Podder suddenly made bis ? i appearance. One glance at bis vivid flushes, at his dancing eyes, at his airy manner, was v sufficient. e I " We triumph then ?" she cried, tbrowuig herself into his arms tor the first time in years. 1 ' Completely! I saw my owners on the sub- t > ject, and they sent for ilawley. He at first t offered some objections, as was natural, but ~ ; the high wages, the great Htep upward, the * kindly interest we all manifested, soon brought n him to a grateful acceptance!" I ' Splendid!" murmured Miss Pedder, with a j| rippling laugh. " 1 knew the 'hing was feasible. And so in two weeks nore our fond bridegioom will lie plowing tbe sea again?" ' In two weeks more? Ruth ? We shall be off d in six or eight davs. The cargo is fairly tumbling aboard the Plying Chililers, to say nothing of a fair list of passengers. The heneymoon of , our loving doves will be abridged to six short " days more, you may be certain." I CHAPTER II. A OBEAT STEP TAKEN. 8 ' | In the midst of the Antarctic ocean, a little F off the route from New York to Australia, there j lice a large island named Kergn- len's Land, or ? as Capt. Cook called ii?the Island of Desolation. a It was discovered just a hundred years ago, (] (in 1112,) by the French naval officer whose name it oear's. It was uninhabited then, and a . i? to-day as deserted as ever. ^ The small* st schoo -boy among our readers ^ can find it upon his map of the world, abont a midway between the south end of Africa und i i Australia, well up toward the South Tole. It is a hundred miles in length by fifty breadth, and is consequently three or fou times as large as Rhode Island. < Its coasts are so wild and dangerous that its n discoverer, duiing the two expeditions that he ti made to it, did not once bring his ships to an- 'c chor in any of its bays ana harbors. ?: Its shape is very'irregular, but something ^ like that ot an hour-glass, it being nearly cut p, in two by a couple of large Days; but thes* two al divisions are unequal in size, the northern pen- cl insula being much larger than the southern. t Its coast line is wildly broken and jagged, ;ts tl innumerable gulfs being long and narrow, and frits promontories are correspondingly sharp and ? slender, reaching ont into the ocean like fin- F ffer* . ? The body of the island indeed resembles that e, of some huge monster of the antediluvian world tj even as its capes and headlands resemble such tt a monster's unsightly limbs and claws. ri A more terrific solitude than this isle of Dssotion does not exist upon our wrecked planet. Neither the snows of Himalaya nor the sands 8ahara can outvie its terrors. No inhabitant is there, not even a savage? no use, no tree, no ehmb, no fence nor road, no ild nor garden, no horse, so dog?not even a ake or a wolf. Lone, blasted and barren, it looks like the eleton of a land that has perished. It may indeed be (hat Desolation is the relic the surviving fragment?of a continent that >nt down here ages ago. with hosts of inhabits, in some vast convulsion of nature, it has certainly undergone dreadful visita>ns ; been rent by earthquakes, pulverized by 3sts, lashed and wasted by fierce tempests. Its mountains are only of moderate height, it are capped eternally with snow. Its vegetation is limited to a few dwarfish ants, including some mosses, a species of hen, a coarse grass, a plant resembling a aall cabbage, and a sort of cress. Its winds are raw and piercing, it summers Id and frosty, its winters those of the Polar rcles. The interior of the island is occupied by imense boggy swamps, where the ground sinks every step. The rains in Desolation are almost incessant, their season, and the island is accordingly lined with numerous torrents of fresh water, me of which have worn out of the solid rock emendous cavities and gullies. Tne only her scison than that of the rains is one of most constant snow. The fogs of that ghastly reeion are well orthy of the rains, being of a clond-like denty and hovering almost continually over the bole face of the island. The sun of Desolation is usually hidden by canopy of lead-colored clouds, and appears, i the rare occasions when it is visible, scarcebrighter than the moon in other latitudes. 3 to the moon itself, and the stars, the clouds id fogs rarely permit them to betray their ssteoce. v No tish worthy of note, not even fishes of ey, abound in the adjacent waters, by rean, pei haps, of their containing poisonous inerals, or deadly exhalations from the vol,nic fires beneath them. Yet the dark erim sea inclosing Desolation is done something to repair the sterility of ie island. Peguins, ducks, gulls, cormorants and other arine birds are plentiful in some of its har>rs. Seals also abound. Strange and terrible land 1 Not a single human being, so far as is known, is ever lived there, save as is,now to be re rded in these pages. Near the middle of a dull, dismal afternoon, ime eleven weeks later than the date of the eceding events, the good ship Flying Chtidern ew near lb the island of Desolation, shaping ;r course toward its northernmost bay, called t Captain Cook, Christmas Harbor. A fair breeze was blowing from the North, id the ship was carrying every stitch of her invas, including stud'ling-sails. Her crew?both watches-were busy about ie deck, and her passengers?a score in num?r?had gathered in groups, mostly forward, id were gazing with great interest upon the ild. rugged shore" before them, so far as the ig suspended upon those shores permitted i em to become visible. The ship had come here for water, nearly all sr water casks having been siove or started iring a souall ten davs previously, and every ml aboard of her naving been since that date fion short allowance. Upon the qHarter-deck stood Capt. Luke edder, l0"king unnsually happy, with Will, awley beside him. " I mean to get our water aboard before irk. Captain Pedder, and so avoid losing a ght here," said the young executive, totally nconscious of the plot to leave him alone on ie desolate island, and of the extraordinary aKnfnrfl Viim iTCUbUlOO nilivi HW4^ ^ wv?w?v - ?range events that liappened there, and indeed ie whole of this thrilling story, will be found ilv in the New York Ledger, which is now >ady and for sole at all tne book-stores and ews-depots. Ask for the number dated July 5, and in it you will get the continuation of the tory from the pla< e where it leaves off hore. Russian Fashions. The Russian serf, usually so mild and ibmissive, becomes terrible in his cups, lie glass of brandy and water renders im a wild beast. The vice of this people i that they driuk too much?an excu6a le vice, however, as the climate makes iraulants a necessity. A coachman aiting at the door of his master's house as recourse to brandy in order to resist ie rigor of the cold. The first glass prookes him into drinking a second, so that t length the remedy becomes worse than ie evil, and if, under such circumstances, ie coachman sleeps, it is never to wake gain. The effects of this extreme cold re sometimes alarming. Foreigners in Russia have often lost their noses or their ars, or even a piece of their cheeks, 'hich had suddenly become frozen. One lorning while on my way to Peterhof, I let a Russian who qnite suddenly, after aving picked up a handful of snow, comlenced to rub my left ear. In the first ' * - i-!._ Yl_ 1 * T 1 5 lomem 01 mis ineuaiy assault i naa laced myself on the defensive, but hapily I soon appreciated the humane motive bat impelled his action. Indeed, my ear ad already commenced to freeze, and tie sympathetic man had perceived it by tie white appearance of the part threatned. Gunpowder Burns.?Pieces of old linn dipped in cold water will afford relief 1 cases of burns from gunpowder. As oon as the pain is allayed, apply a dressier ot equal parts of lime water and lineed oil. If the burn is raw, apply to the urface well-beaten whites of eggs. A unpowder burn generally looks worse ban it is, owing to the deposit of black owder on the surface. Liver Complaint, Liver Disease, i. e. hi loubness. ? Bilious complaints ? by oin termed liver disease?are very comion ii. this country. The ordinary indiations, such as yellowness of the skin nd whi ts of the eyes, pain in the right ide undei the inferior ribs, with someimes difficulty of respiration and troubleome cough? re familiar to a host of suferers; but the liver, sometimes, is in a ery npsatisfactor state without the presnce of symptoms. When we reflect that he liver is the large t gland in the body, hat it secretes rhe bile which lubricntps he bowels and keeps the n iu order, is ihe reat blood purifier or cle nsing machint f our systems, it.may truly be called the foueckeeper of our Health. Bidden transdons of climate temperature, r impure ir, or water are disturbing elemen s which rrest the functions of the liver, an ; rener it torpid, producing diarrhea, aystniry, bilious remittents, intermittent 'lers, and a general prostration, and unealthy state of the whole organization, t is not surprising that a medicine which an restore the healthy operations of the ver, snould command general attention, ach a medicine isCAUFORXiA Vixkoar Fitters, the Housekeeper's Towel and Iroom.?Com. How foolish you art to be annoyed bv flies nd mosquitoes whi n you can not on'y kill and rive them out of tbo house, but keep them out -yet perfectly harmless to atrmal life, ana lso kill all buys, roaches, insects on plants, c., by using Chennock's Pat* nt Powder Gun Death Dealing Powder. Gun and large nackge of Powder sent free by express for *1.00. gents Want<d. Webb Man'f'g Co., 56 Cortind Ht., New York.?[Com.] Founded on a Rock 1?1The disappointed adsnturers who have from time to time attempted to in their worthless pot ons against Drakes Puurraioif Bittebs, tow thst they cannot understand what inndstion there Is for its amazing popularity. The tplanation is simple enough. The reputation of le world-renowned tonic is founded upon a rock, se Rocx or Experience. All its ingredients are are and wholesome How, then, could tricksters id cheats expect to rival it with compounds of leap drugs and refuse liquor, or with liquorless ash in a state of acetous fermentation f Of course te charlatans have corns to grief. Their little game is felled. Their contempt for the aagsdty of the immunity has been fit y punished. Meanwhile la in *tion Bittebs seems to be in a fair way of rcntually superseding every other medicinal prepration lncludsd in the class to which it belongs. In rery Stats and Territory of the Union it la, to-day, te accepted specific for nervous debility, dyspepsia, ver and ague, rh nmatfem. and all aflmsnta lnvolLng a dsfldsnoy of vital nowsr.?[Com.] |y As a remedy foi Bronchial Affections and Chronic diseases of the Langs, nothing ever before discovered equals Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. 604. If yoa wish to bay or sell any Railroad Bonds, write to Charles W. Hasbleb, No. 7 Wall Street, N. Y. * Try Dooley's least Powder, you will soon find it not only the best, but also the cheapest, Baking Powder. Put up full, net weight.-Cbm Elmwood collars fit the neck beautifully. Elm wood collars fit the neck so that you feel as if you had no collar on. Ask any first-claas Furnisher for the Elmwood collar.?[Com.] A fact worth remembering.?Five cents worth of Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders S'ven to a horse twice a week, will save double at amount in grain, and the horse will be fatter, sleeker, and every way worth more money than though he did not have them.?[Com.] Married ladies, under all circumstances, will find Parson's Purgative Pills safe; and, in small doses, a mild cathartic. They cause no griping pains or cramp.?[Com.] 1.1 fe kM few Cbarmi for the Dyspeptic, which is ^ not to be wondered at when we take into account the -a# Wyu?;lw rnantal anffflrinir f htf. thia difftrMIU ing malady generates. The Peruvian Sjrup (a protoxide of iron) has cured thousands who were suffering from this disease.?Com. AS QUICK AS A FLASH OF LIGHTNING does Cristadoro's Excelsior Hair Dye set upon the hair, whiskers and moustaches ; no rhameieon tints, but the purest Raven or the most exquisite Browns will be evolved.-Com IN ONE TO FIVE MINUTES. Headache. Earache. Neuralgia, Lame Back, Diarrhea, Groups, Sprairs, and all similar complaints, or* rtlitrai by Flagg's Instant Relief, OR MONEY REFUNDED. -Om. I Lest Health Regained. Self-neglect lays the foundation of much bodily suffering. As a rule men are more aoticitons to repair and preserve their houses, stock in trade and other perishable property than to repair and preserve themselves. They can see when a wall requires a prop, or a weak structure a girder, but appear to be unconscious of, or indifferent to, the cracks and flaws and evidences of decay in their own frail and sensitive organizations. The consequenee of this want of common prudence is that thousands fall by the wayside in the prime of life | every year who might have lived to-enjoy a hale and q I hearty old age, if they had resorted to the proper means of recruiting their failing vigor at the proper time. Seeing what that famous vitalising and invigorating elixir, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, has done for countless multitudes of the enervated and broken down, and with the long, unbroken record of its cures before him, it seems amazing that any sufferer from premature decay, nervous weakness, dyspepsia, biliousness, chronic constipation, or disease of a remittent or intermittent character, should delay, even for an hour, to seek the aid which its toning, regulating and invigorating properties have never failed to afford. It is no exaggeration to say that Hoetetter's Stomach Bitters is the moat faithful ally of nature, in her struggles with weakness and disease, that medical botany and honest chemistry have yet given to the world. /nnTY^iiV(TTTniT\ # Ihminl'lllllirlb lfo Person can take these Bitters according to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, and vital organs wasted beyond the point of repair. Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Ileadache, Pain In the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste In the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain In the region of the Kidneys, and a hundred other palnfnl symptoms, are the off-springs of Dyspepsia. One bottle will prove a better guarantee or lta merits than a lengthy advertisement. For Female Complaints, in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or the turn of life, these Tonic Bitters display so decided an Influence that Improvement is soon perceptible. For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheamatlain and Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Khjneys and Bladder, these Bitters have no eqnaL Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood. They are a gentle Purgative an well atf a Tonic, possessing the merit of acting as * powerful agent in relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, and 11 Bilions Diseases. For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, SaltRheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ring-worms, Scald-Head, Sore Eye?, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discolorations of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin of whatever nam? or nature, are literally dug up and carried out of the system in a short time by the use of thea? Bitters.' Grateful Thousands proclaim Vinegar Brftkrs the most wonderful Invigorant that ev< sustained the sinking system. R. H. !HcDO\ALD A CO. Druggists and Gen. Agts., San Francisco, Cal., k eor. of Washington and Charlton Sts., N.Y. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS A DEALERS. , NYU U-No ?t> ?10LiI..ECTI0N of all m&anerof />?bt?, hth-rliunce, J InierrM and R'nt*, in all parts Of Great Britain. HoiIan-1. Franc* and Germany, a -pedal'y of J. F. i'Rl'EAUFF Attn'n*?-at-Lnw, Columbia, Lanca*ter (jo.. P?drtwhittikb, " ff-ssftshet"Longest engaeed, and moet succesefnl physician of tho age. Con>ultJtion or pamphlet free. (-'all or write. A. Wellington Hart & Co., ADJUSTERS OF CLAIMS FOR INSOLVENTS & BANKRUPTS. 110 Leonard Street, X. Y. W Rkkkrkncm or Hiohkht Chabacteb. Send for Circular. iron in the blood. "MM \VIBKbJcn'C 'nPSsS?'' The PERUVIAN 8YRCP makes the weak strong, and expels disease by supplying the blood with Nature's Own Vitalizing Agent?IRON. Caution.?Be sore YOU get Penivi.in .S'yn/p. Pamphlets free. J. P. DINSMORK. Proprietor. No. 36 Dey St., New York. 8old by Druggists generally. THE GETTYSBURG RATAL. YttlSK WATEK w sold at the Sprinr at ihe following rates : Three-gallon demijohns, $JKX> each. Six-gallon demijohns, $5.00 each. Oase? of two dozen quart bottles, fsiaiuaoli If neighboring druggist^ do not keep it. invalids tnsy have it aent from the Spring by Railroad or Adam-.' ExDMa by enclosing Post office Money Orders or Checks. P lysieinu and Clergymen supplied for their own use with threo-gilioo demijohns at $2 50ea<T : with six-gallon denijohn* at $3.40 each; with caaeeof tw" dozen quart- at. $8.50each. Medical and clerical vocation iuu-t be certified bv nearest Postmaster or other responsible parties. Address. WHITNEY BROS. IW 8. Front 8> . Philadelphia. Pa TJbo Comfort. % The great advanAy tagre of this valuaytjr jr \ ^ ble cham'>er uten?r \ 'fc* eil are greater cm^ . ^svenienoe and comf mHKB^BKkSS^S^ \ ' fort in it? u?e. hav(flES^HflWI K ing ?*>?< < "?: VwKHnMRH HP fortable a* the beet W / wate--cl ^ 'J!^~ ' W^^SjaSfy / clraniinrrs. laval/ nable for famili-e. Adopted in male ? ? and female hoepitti nU and many pnV. rate families. Fin'J?^ ? <?Jeat di roond ch'na. Stone china. Sa Sent to any addreaa Maabjiakid on receipt of price. ? , 4 F. IMHORST. M'fr, I?9 Wooeter 8t.. New York- -. A XTKAOXDIMA IT !-The "Pron^m' *4 Monthly," Pitt-burgh. sends/rer, ard yswtnee- H paid.Uif" vnrx-rearlyBubecriber. < ither,at choice M ?a b antifnl Chromo in the *A?? (it "mount'd," 39 cent< more) or, tiro large 34x30 inch engraving*, of dif- fl ferent subject' ; alno, one 34x30 engraving for e?ery H yearly subscription in addition to on?*'e own; or. tbto fl -nperb 10-page family p'p?r sent en trial, from Jnne to H January. (7 mo?) with a 34x30 engraving, and only #L It Bj is the nefy illustrated paper of any pretens ons outaide of V New York ; is now entering its second year, and it* large ^ cumulation furnlahee the Ue teat of merit. P* ***** eanraaeer* wanted eesrywJUre. Big profits gweinnes^ *? -, 'V^^.-'So'sTHLr. ? ffiWimiMi Fa ^