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Vol. IX. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8, 1873. No. 1. THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MONING, At Newberry C. 11., By Thos. F. & R. H. GPnekep, Editors and Proprietors. rA?Xs 8 PE IsyNO Invariably in Advance. gy Tb.a per is stopped at the expiration of t ime for which it is paid. 97 The X mark denotes expiration of sub scription. "11ie OUNst aid Best of the EcUmtis" 1873. Eclectic Mlagazine. or SUBSCRIBE NOW! 03 With the number for January, the ECLECTIC enters upo its twenty-nir,th year. It gleans the choicest articles from the entire field of foreign periodical literature, and offers The best SCIETIFIC ARTICLES. The best ESSAYS. The best REVIEWS. The best CRITICISMS. The best BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. The best NOVELS. The best SHORT STORIES. The best POEX3. The best XISCmZ-TANIES. The inest STEEL ENGRAVINGS. The aim of the ECLECTIC is to be instructive without being dull. and entertaining without be ing trivial. 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Like a breeze from a garden, MAde sweet with te scent Of the fresh blooming ilacs, She came and she went,; Pure spirit and vision, Felt rather than known, Fain would I have held her And made her mine own; But as the unconscious Breeze blesses and goes, So went she, more blessing And blest than she knows. IN THE GARDzy. When lilacs were in blossom, And all the air was sweet, I saw her standiug tip toe Upon a garden-seat; One hand drew down the clusters, The other bent a spray, Held it a little in nute And let it slip away. Lilacs, your life is lengthened, But you've missed the very best, The best brief life of lying And dying on her breast! NOT JUST YET. BY E. LOWERY. Fifteen years ago, London was a much jollier place in every way than it is now. It had an indi viduality of its own then ; its big hotels were unbuilt, its Houses of Parliament were unfinished ; it was just a big, brown, busy city, with a splendid river running slap through it. For it had a river then,with shores and noble bridges; now it has but a stone trough, with iron drain-pipes across it. Oae rode on the top of 'buses then, or darted about in hansoms; now, I declare, when I visit London, I spend all my time in a coal-cellar, where there is an escape of gas, and where all the hot cinders from the kitchen fire are emptied-I mean the Metropolitan Railway. Fifteen yearA ago I was in Lon. don,.living on a slender pittance, and much troubled in the matter 6rdinners. One Sunday. I remember, my funds were getting low, very low. I had determined to remain in my lodgings and support nature on tobacco-smoke; but my hunger was too strong. I had a few shilr lings left, and the evening wore on, and as theciravings of my ap petite increased, resolution broke down. I put on my hat, and hur ried out in quest of a dinner. When 1 made up my mind to go to the Recesses for a dinner, it was because I knew that there was no other place open the prices of which would be within my means. Row dismal it looked this Sunday evening, that long low room, its tables almost deserted, save for one or two men here and there nodding over a plate of bis cuits. There was pea-soup that night, I remember, and it was ra ther good too. The fish was fishy, the joint was reduced to a stump. "Waiter," I cried, noan .1 dis pense with the other courses, and dine off the soup ?" "If you wish, of courise, sir-," said the waiter. I had three helps of that excel lent pea-soup, and in each plate I put a spoonful of dried mint. But the after result was not exhilara ting ; it rather clogged the pores, I think, that soup. Miserable and depressed as :I went, into the Rie eesses, I felt still mor'e miserable, more depressed after my dinner. I had spent my prescribed allow ance. I couldn't go anywhere or do anything. I could only go back to my gloomy lodgings through the sloppy strecet, and sit, and lonely chew the cud of bitter meditation. The idea seemed to me horrible; and yet now, as ever, there ap peared to be no escape for me from the embraces of this dull melancholy fiend. I couldn't help saying to myself, as I sat with my chin resting on my hands, "I wish I were dead !" I didn't mean to say it aloud, but I suppose I must have whis pered it audibly ; for a man who was sitting opposite me at the ta ble-who had been sitting ther-e, smoothing his heavy red mustace all the time I had been dining, his eyes fixed on his plate-looked up of a sudden, and gave me a quick and searching glance. I knew him then ; it was Med hurst, an old schoolfellow. As a boy he had been always a mystery! to us; that quick sudden glancee of his had such a strange effect up-~ on all on whom it fell. We used to say he had the Evil Eye, and w onderful tales used to be told at' school about the effect of Med burst's look. Still, I was glad to see him ; any relief from the lone linoss and monotony of my life was ,pleasant. He recognized me also, and came over and sat beside me. "Well," he said, after we hai shaken hands-he had a strangf flabby, chilly hand, % hich some how sent an icy thrill to my ver, heart-"well, and so you wish yoi were dead." "Did you hear me?" I said. "Oh it was nonsense, of course. I of ten say so. A foolish habit I have I don't mean it." "It wasn't nonsense !" he said ie talked in a low, monotonou: voice, intelligible enough to th, ear for which it was intended, bu not to be overheard by others. '-It wasn't nonsense, but a ver3 rational, prudent wish. I wist so myself; and what is more," h( said," "I have the means to carr5 .out both our wishes." I laughed uneasily. "You ari joking." "1 never joke. "Tuntil now,' he went on, "the great deterring influence which has restrainec those wise men who see the fblly and emptiness of life, who meas. uring their feeble capacities fbi suffering, would gladly resign v possession which has no advan tage for them-the great deterrin g infiuence has been, the doubt who, ther death be really a complete severing of the body and the soul, whether, indeed, there is not a lingering capability of feeling still -hanging to the relaxed nerves, a lingering consciousness in the de. caying brain; that, in addition to the bitterness of death, one may taste also the gloom of the grave, and the horrors of the charnel. house." "Good heavens!" Icried. "What a horrible idea!" He fascinated me, this man. I would gladly have risen and gone away ; but he stopped me with his eye. "Listen," he said, "I have over come this impediment; I have opened the gates.of Death to all mankind. To you, my young schoolfellow, I will reveal tha se cret; least, tempted some day to cross the boundary, I should die, and leave mankind as %N rete4ed as ever. You see this powdered herb; it is like mint, is it not? the smell, the taste, everything is like mint -you woql4 not inq%v them 4par1t; an*d yet in a small quantity of this powder lies a release from all the miseries of life. Don't shrink back ; it is innoeous in small doses, produces merely a pleasing languor; but in such a quantity as a teaspoonful, it produces leth argy; twice the quantity brings on syncope ; thrice, inevitable death. I have often ventired as far as the second stage, but have always stopped short of the third. But I have brought back thus much assurance from the world of shadows; consciousness ceases al together at the second stage. There are no dreams in the sleep of death. "The preliminary stage of leth argy is deligh tful-I often indulge in it; but I have had a doubt sometjmes whether I might not possess an exceptional physical or ganization ; whether the h er b would produce exactly the same effects on others. I determined to try the experiment on a large scale. 1 came here to-night to do it. I have noticed that each fr-e quenter of those rooma, on pea soup nIghts, which are frequeut, takes one plate of soup, to which he adds one spoonful of mint. Well, I watched my opportunity. I came here as soon as the room wais opened ; and, whilst the wait er's back was turned, I emptied the contents of the plate of mint into my pocket, and filled the plate with my own powder. The experiment was a bold one. I migrht have caused the death of innocent persons. However, I persevered; the interests of science overpower considerations of hu manity. The experiment has com pletely suoceeded. E~ach habitue of these rooms has swallowed his plate ol soup, his spoonful of pre cious herb ; each has gone through the stage of lethargy. There aie some now, you observe, passing through that stage.'' I threw an agonized glance around. Yes, sure enough, there were two or three men lying back in their chairs, their heads sunk on their breasts, in a state of com plete lethargy. "And," he went on, "I can see the symptoms of the approaching lethargy upon you-the dilated pupil of the eye, the expression of anxiety in the face; yes, all is perfect: the symptoms are--" "But," 1 gasped, "1 have taken three spoonfuls !" "Martyr of science !" he cried, springing up and grasping me by the hand, "how carefully, how painfully I will watch every sy mp tom of your declining vitality! Dear friend, your ease will be an era in the history of humanity. Like Curtius, you have leaped in to the chasm for the public weal." "But isn't there an antidote ?" I gasped ; '-a remedy ?" "There is none; and were there, you would not go back from the noble path ? My dear friend, imi. tate the example of the ancient Roman ; a quietude and serenity in onr lIst hours is indispnabla I for the proper noting of your phe nomena." "But I won't die !" I shouted, getting up. My limbs trembled i beneath me ; 1 felt the very chills of death upon me. "I won't, I won't!" Here I screamed, "Send for a doctor-for policemen. Quick! Quick! I'm poisoned !" All the lethargic men jumped to their feet, the waiters came run i ning in, the proprietor appeared, pale and wondering. "I'm poisoned !" I shouted; "poi soned in the mint! Send for a doctor, you fools! do you hear?" "Mad !" said a quiet voice; "mad as a hatter. Poor fellow! he's subject to those fits. He'll fall down directly; look out for him !" "But I'm not going to have the character of the house taken away for no mad freaka. What do you mean, sir, by attacking the quali. I ty of my victuals, sir?" "It was le," I shouted,,pointing to my friend, "who now seeks to screen himelf by calling me mad. But, good heavens! will you see a fellow-creature perish, perish, PER ISH ?" "There, don't aggravate him," said my friend. "Put him into a cab and send him to a poliee sta tion ; he's sure to have been sd vertised for." I was dragged and hustled from the room, and burled into a cab. Two or three policemen had come up, and one took charge of me in side, while another mounted the box. I was quiet now, overcome by my struggles, and lay exhau st cd in the corner of the cab, waft ing the insidious advances of the deadly narcotic. Presentlv the cab stopped. "We've got that chap they adver tised for," cried the man outside, to a policeman who was lounging at the door of the polico-station. "The deuce you have !" said the inspector, coming up. "Then you've done a good job to-night. There's fifty pounds offered now. Take him right off to the asylum at once. Let's have a look at him, though. - Why this ain't the min at all gis ain't Medhurst! Low, you ought t> have known better. Red full mustache, drooping eye lids, aquiline nose-why they're as different as light from dark ness." "What! is Medbrst-ma4-?" I said, a light bursting in upon me. "Yes; 'as'he been playing any of his pranks upon you, sir 9 making believo to give you poison, or anythink of that sort? Lord, he's the cun ' gest chap in crea tion, that Mc nrst. He's a small fortune to the police to bring him back after his escapes. He's quite 'armless, too, though he's always up to so many tricks. Quite a gentleman, too. I've swallowed a pint or more of his p'ison just to please him, and then he'd stand a bottle of champagne afterward. That's how you had ought to have served him, sIr. There, you won't get hold of him to-night, chaps; he's miles away by this time." I have never wished myself dead since then.. The Blggest Lie He Ever Heard. THE LYING CHAMPIONSHIP AGAIN THE PRESENT HOLDER OF THE BEFT. A dilapidated old bummer, much given to sitting on an inverted po tato barrel which ornamented the banquette of the grocery, was the perennial spectacle which greeted those who traversed the main street ot P-. Not a large town, P--; rather a poor little town, busily engaged in verifying the truth of the an cien t saying, "Facillis descensus Averni," etc., and meeting with brilliant success in its efforts. As is customary in the case of such towns, everybody knew eve rybody else, and felt an interest in his neighbor which verged on the frightful. In these neglected re gions Mrs. Gr-undy reigned sq premne, and took grim cognizance of all things, from a marriage to the number of~ stockings on the family line. Taking his share in the general distribution of privi leges, the bummer found that share to consist in a species of reputation as a story-teller, and an artist in the particular of crab e ho wder. Properly primed with whiskey and seated within the benignant influence of the grocery fire-place, old "Ad." was "some." Especially when some rival was present to put him on his mettle and spur the inspiration which, in these de clining days, was sometimies tar dy. "Old Ad." had his favorite seat at the fire ; the night was disa g'reeable; he had an appreciative audience, and the proper amount of "bald-head" had been ad minis tered. Added to this a stranger was present-a disgnsting impos to: with a Texas hat and enor mous spurs, who wore backskin trousers, and had a large and ugly scar across his face. This absurd ceantura had- been loafing'- about P- for some days, playing po ker, drinking whiskey, and literal ly galvanizing the inhabitants with the recital of hair-breadth adventures in the flar West. Old "Ad." under these circumstances had languished. His potato bar. rol was deserted, and the base rab ble that erstwhile bad listened, open-mouthed, to his productions, now thronged about the new com er; and, to cut it short, old Ad. was desperate. As he squared himself upon his chair and lit his pipe, it was quite evident that he~ meant business. There was a look in his eye that thrilled "the boys," and before which even the confident stran ger would show signs of waver ing. Old Ad, launched forth upon a fearfl encounter with thirty-eight Indians. Circumstantial as to the vaious manoenvers and deeds of woodcraft by which he beguiled those ill-fated savages, he wrought his audience gradually to a pitch of unwonted excitement, fo,v he lagged, bow he trailed, how ie gave the Hi.you-muok-a-muck, and how, in the course of these things he managed to slay twenty-seven of his enemies, will never, never, be forgotten in P-. The boys were at once delighted and appall ed, Such fighting as that had never been dreamed of in their hilosophy, and they regarded old Ad. with feelings approaching rev erence. . ".But," said the hoary old sin ner, with the most innocent coun tenanoe imaginable, "just at this troment I stubbed my toe against a pesky old root, and here came the eleven red devils howling down on me, with their spears and toma. hawks lifted. I managed to kill one more with my Derringer, and laid another out with a purely in spired kick in the stomach, but the other nine were on me in a moment, and I saw the jig was up for me. They were wild with rage and revenge, And I knew there was no hope of pity. I thought of the folks back in Caro lina, and the dear girl--." "But," said the stranger, unable to restrain his excitement, "what became of you ?" "Why," said old Ad. getting up and putting on his hat, "they kill ed me, of course!" "Gentlemen," said the stran-or, violently, ''thats the blgest lie I eveil heard." Buried Alive. A HORRIBLE DISCLOSURE. For some time past the work of removing the remains of the de parted from the old Roman Catho lic burying ground in Ottawa, Canada, to the new cemetery has been quietly going on, and noth ing more than might be expected under the circumstances occurred until the other day. The sacred ashes have been reverently taken from their narrow beds and remov ed by the hands of loving friends to the new city ofthe dead. Affeoct ing incidents have naturally oc curred, and some scenes bordering on the revolting have been wit nessed in the cemetery. Recently unburied bodies have been uncoffned that fond eyes might gaze upon their features~for the last time before covering them with the sod again. One such in cident of a startling natur-e occur red last Tuesday. A gentleman who was engaged in removing the remains of some of his deceased i'olatives, was asked by an ac quaintance, who was similiarly engaged, to assist him in lifting a coffn from a grave. He did so, and the lid was taken off. To the horror of tbe small body of specta tors who gathered around it, they discovered that the body, which was that of an uncle of the gentle man who was removing it, had been disturbed in the coffn. It was terribly contorted, as if the deceased had died in great agony. The face wore an expression of intense pain and horror, the arms were drawn up as far as the coffn wvould admit, and the head was twisted round to the should ers, from which the flesh had apparently been gnawed by the struggling nTan. Sickened by the horrible sight, the spectators drew back from the coffin and looked speechlessly into each other's eyes. Not a word was spoken, but there was not a man present who did not feel that the deceased had been buried alive-probably while in a trance-and had awakened only to perish in his living tomb. The coffn was closed again and taken to the new cemetery, where it was decently interred. The Fairbanks, scale manufac turers, borrowed five dollars to make their first scale, and are now worth $3,000,000. Go and bor row five dollars, young man, and; pay a years subscription for the Newberry HERALD. A bad m~arriage is like an elec tric machjpe; it makes you dance and yon can't let go. The Aldine for January. T bis superb enterprise is bein. steadily and surely carried forwar< to an artistic development tha even its most sanguine frien, would hardly have anticipated The issue for January, coming ai it does upon the heels ofthe greal Christmas number, might possiblv miss some of the attention whici the enhanced artistic value de. serves. As the initial number ofa New Year, it is most important as a sort of justification of the expec tation excited by the promises of the publishers in their widely scattered prospectus. While it would be hardly possible to note any marked change in the uniform and unrivaled excellence of the mechanicl execution, which has given The Adine a - world-wide reputation, we think there is an advance in the art standard of the designs-at least, it is very evident that the conductors are now able to give their subscribers designs which aside from their intrinsic merit, are interesting and valu able as expositions of the style of our foremost artis.s. The prospec tus gives a list of contributors wvhich includes nearly all the pain ters of high standing in the coun try, men who have never before condescended to come before the public through the medium of the wood-engraver. In the January number we have no less than three large designs from Thomas Moran, whose large picture of the Yellow Stone Valley was purchased by Congress for$10,000. Probably Mr. Moran is the strongest man in his line in America, and the exhi bition of designs from his pencil was the best card, The Aldine could possibly have played. Mr. Moran's pictures illustrate an ar ticle on "The Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior," and while they are all extremely good, the storm scene (full page) will take the palm as a powerful and successful delineation of Nature in its ster nest mood. Peter Moran, a youn. ger brother (E. Moran, the great marine painter, is an elder), gives us a sketch, which he entitles "The Critics." The Aldine certain ly has bad no special reason to introduce this picture, and from the great merit of his drawing, we can hardly think the artist's experience at their hands should suggest such a zepresentation of that much abused class. Still the picture is good humored, and eminently worthy of the position it occupies. An artist, seen in the distance,sketching, hasleftapartly finished picture on his easel, by the margin of a piece of woods :wo donkeys, a calf, and a sheep come to inspect. The drawing of the animals is simply perfect and would make a horse laugh, to say nothing of good-natur-ed donkeys! John S. Davis, the rising man on the figure, gives a very pleasing design, "After the Frolic," in which a child of tender years is caring for the benumbed lhmbs of a still younger specimen. The kindly parental care which a slight advantage of age always gives a child, has been caught, and very happily rendered by -Mr. Davis, and his drawing manifests the care and thought which is chairac teristic of this artist's work and which is sure to give him a high position in American art. The literature is varied and excellent. Mr-s. J. 0. Ri. Dorr contributes a pleasant sketch, entitled, "Hal's Mistake," and Mr. William Perci val, '"Lady De Sade's Chaplet," a romantic legend, of which Pe trarch's Laura is the heroine; Miss Clara F. Guernsey objects, and very properly, to that brute in fiction. 'Thbe Lady's Hero; "Our Noses" is one of the most enter taining papers we have read in years; the difference between "Puritans and Cavaliers" is well stated in a brief but scholarly article; and "Eton College" and "The Pictured Rlocks" are clever descriptions of these localities. The poetry is charming, as usual, Mr. Stoddard furnishing "He is Late! a dainty little lyric; Mr. Henry Richards, a witty "ChineseSong," and Mr. Robert Kelley Weeks, a little cluster of airy "Love Songs." Literature and Music receive due attention, as does also Art, the latter department being mainly devoted to a memoir of Rogers, the sculptor. The subscription pr-ice is $5.00 per annum, whieb includes the pair of oil chromos that are making such a stir. The publishers are James Sutton & Co., 58 Maiden Lane, Ne w York. These are Spanish proverbs: Love, a horse, and money will carry a man through the world. Thbree things kill a man: a hot sun, supper, and trouble. To shave an ass is a waste of lather. If the gossip is not in her own house, she is in somebody else's. Don't speak ill of the year till it is over. The motber-in-law forgets that she was a daughter-in-law. Men are as grateful for kind deeds as the sea is when you fling into it a cnn of water. - Reminiscences of a Famous Actor. A London paper. answering a Corr-espondent, revives the memo ry of ie oice famousJoe Haines, wIho died in 1701. He is said to have beenl a person of great face. i(ousness :nd readin:ss of wit, which, together with his inimita S perflorilances oin the stage as a comedian, introduced him not Uldy to the acquaintance, but the faillliaritv of persons of the first rank. His forte seems to have been in speal:irig prologues and QpiOgueCs particulariv those writ ten by himself. Anthony Aston s:Iid: "Joe Haines is more reniar kaLble fOr the witty, though wick ed pranks he played, and for his prologues and epilogues than for acting. lie was at first a dancer. After ho had made his tour of Franje he narrowly escaped. being heized and sent to the Bastile fur iersonating an English peer and running 3,000 livres in debt, but happily landing at Dover he went to London. However, this affair spoiled Joe's expiring credit, for next morning a couple of bailiffs seized him in an action of X20 as the Bishop of Ely was passing by in his conch. Quoth Joe to the bailiffs: "Gentlemen, here is my cousin, the Bishop of Ely, going into his house; let me but speak to him, and he'll pay the debt and eharges." The bailiffs thought they might venture that, as they were within three or four yards of himl. So up goes Joe to the coach, pulling off his hat, and got close to it. The bishop ordered the coach to stop, while Joe, close to his ear, said softly: "My lord, here are two poor men who have such great scruples of conscience that I fear they'll hang them solves." "Very well," said the bishop; so, calling to the bailiffs, he said: "You two men come to me to-morrow morning and i'll satisfy you." The men bowed and went away. Joe, hugging himself with thisdevice, also went his way. In the morning, the bailiffs, expecting the debt and charges, repaired to the bishop's. "Well," said he, "what are your scruples of conscience?" "Scruples," said the bailiffs, we have no scruples. We are bailiffs. my lord, who yesterday arrested your cousin, Joe Haines, for ?20. Your lordship promised to satisfy us to-day, and we hope your lord ship will be as good as your word." The bishop, reflecting that his honor and name would be exposed it lie complied not, paid the debt and charges. Quin told the follow ing story of Haines: "In James II's time, when Popery was a road to preferment, he, among others, professed himselfa convert, and declared that the Virgin had appeared to him. Lord Sutherland sent for Ilaines, and asked him about the truth of his conversion, and whether he had really seen the Virgin. "Yes, my lord, I assure you it is a fact." "How was it, pray?" "Why, as I was lying in my bed, the Virgin ap peared and said, "Arise, Joe." "You lie,you rogne," said the earl; "if it had been the Virgin she would have said Joseph, if it had only been out of respect to her husband." A QL-EER DELSoN.-Here is a queer story, the truth of which is absolutely guaranteed by one of the most respecta ble of Paris newspapers, Le Temps. A certain M. de Bi. has long been insane. IIe imagined himself a Chinese, wore the costume of the Celestial Emipire, and spoke a str ange jargon invented by him self, and which be seriously believed to be pure Chinese. This was a very in offens.ive monomania. His famrily had therefore taken no precautionary mea sures further than that of preventing him from going out. M. de. B. awoke the other day covered with cold sweat, declaring that the Emperor. Tehong Tcheou, had condemned him to impale me-nt. He asked to be left alone. When at the end of two hours, his friends re entered his room, be was found on a chair sittmng boll upright, with his hair standing or. end. "Heavens, how I suffer," gasped he; "it is going through and thro:igh me." A doctor was sent for, and M. de B. was placed by force in a reclining position. "It is too late," be cried, "the stake is broken in my body!" and he expired under the full conviction that he was actually impaled. His LAsT CHANcE.-A man bad an unreasonable grudge against his minister that lasted twenty five years. But at last the band of death knocked at the door of the parishioner, and he sent for his pastor. The good man hastily obeved the summons with a solemn delight, as his being thus called show.ed a mellcwing of the heart of the dying man, which promised reconciliation both with heaven and himself. "You sent for me?" he said, as he approached the bedside. "Yes," answered the dying man, whose breath was short and diffi cult; "I have but a f'ew hours to, live, and I sent-sent for you to say that-that this is your last-I your last chance to apologize!" Gravity is no more evidence of wisdom than a paper cAlar is of a shirt. - ADVERTIS)NC RATES. Advertise'nents inserted at the rate o O1.50 per square-one inch-for irst insertion, amid S1 for cach siuIsequent insertion. Double column ^dvertisements ten per cent on above. N otices of meetin., obituaries and tribu te o respect, same rates peraquare as ordinary dvertizemenC13ts. Spceai notices in local column 20 cents pri line. Advertisements not marked with the num 1wr of inserions will be kept in till forbid and cliarged accordingly. Special coi,tre:s ma,!e with large adver tisers, wi:hliicral deductions on above rates Done with Neatness and Dispatch. Terms Cash. Hazing. A FR ESHMAN'S EXPERIENCE AT THE WESLEYAN COLLEGE. A student at Wcsleyan College, Middletown, Conn., relates a por tion of his experience while being hazed. He says he was taken From his room in the scantiest clothing. by a party of masked nien, who, after leading him over cella r doors, stoops and stones, thr<w him beadlong into a ditch, from which he was taken thor oughly exhausted. After being taken up several flights of stairs, a bandage was removed from his eyes, and he was placed in a cof fin, the lid of which was securely fistened. After he had been car ried about in the coffin for some time, the lid was unscrewed, and be was allowed to rise. Then he was taken before a mock court, where there was hideous masked ngures, clad in black gowns and cowls. "The Worthy Mogul" was the presiding genius. On the left sat the "Scratchitos," on the right the "Advocate." Death's heads and cross-bones were grinning at him. Over these in phosphorescent let ters was the name of the order, "The Sacred Order of the Hobgob lins of Hades." Under this K. K. K. After a short interval of si lence, the trial began. The charges against him, eight in number, were read, and he was obliged to plead guilty to them all. The jury, after a few moments' consul tation, rendered a verdict of "gail ty of all the charges." The sentence of the Worthy Mogul was that the student be handed over to the Immortal Guards, and he was forced to trans late from Latin and Greek, to dance for an hour, first on one foot, then on the other, his face was covered with India ink, one half of his mustache was shaved off, he was told to sit down, and sat down sprawling on the floor, the chair having suddenly been withdrawn, and finally the "Sacred Tripod" was brought-a three: legged stool. WI n it was brought the tormentors cried : "Transpa dan useicum," and placed him on it, wvith a Chinese cap on his head, compelling him to sing, "Put Mo in My Little Bed." They did other things to the poor student, but he does not reveal them. Finally, he was obliged to re peat the following: "Most Wor thy Hobgoblins. I do humbly con fess the commission of the crimes laid to my charge, and I clo, here and now, m,ost solemnly pledge my faith that those crimes shall never be repeated. And I do beg the gracious pardon of the court of justice, whom I honor and obey." After this forccd confession, he was again put into the coffin and carried into another room. There, with his right hand resting upon a death head, he was asked, "Do you solemnly promise-"Diisinter nissuperisque'-not to reveal the name of any one who has assisted at this court ? Do you promise to pay all respect to upper classmen, and to deport yourself as becomes a freshman; in short, to behave yourself?" To this he had to ans wer, "I do, my noble lords." The Worthy Mogul then said; "iNe buchadnezzer Beefeamer,if this, you promise, you do not keep, death shall be your portion. You will be taken to the river: 'Cheap John' Doughnut will be fastened about your neck, and you will then be sank into the waters of the Connecticnt, never to be heard of more ; for so heavy are those doughnuts that even Gabriel's trump could not bring your body up." "After this he was again blind folded, led back to his room and released. The faculty took the matter up and having ascertamned who the parties engaged in the. transaction were, had them brought before them, and two of the ringleaders have been expelled, one of them being a great revival leader. Aa Englishman and a German were traveling together in a dili gence, and both smoking. The German did all in his power to draw his companion into conver sation, but to no purpose. At one moment he would with a supera bundance of politeness, apologize for drawing his attention to the fact that the ashes of his cigar had fallen upon his waistcoat, or a spark was endangering his neck erchief. At length the English man exclaimed, "Why can't yon leave me alone ? "Your coat tail has been burning for the last ten minutes, but I didn't bother you about it." The longevity of mankind kept up well to near the flood. After this, it decreased with every gene ration down to Joseph, who lived to be only 110 years. From that period to this, the age of man has varied but little, though but few men attain to greater age than thre scora and ten. - -