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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture Markets &e Vol. XI. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 18'5. No. 20. THE HERALC IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING,J Att Newber.-Y, S. C. BY TH09, F, GRENEKRt Editor aud Proprietor. Tavm., S.OprJnm Invariably in Advance. r,,The paper is stopped at the expiration of tim for which it is paid. D7- The X. mark denotes expiration of sub scription. PRESSED FLOWERS. BY KATHERINE H. GREENE. I have a dainty volume Enshirining here and there Between its leaves, some flowers Once blooming sweet and fair. Now faded, dead, and withered Though these sweet flowerets be, They hold within their glicstly forms A nameless charm for me. iiessed flowers! How very precious -T Jeiery human. heart Are these pale sweet mementoes W%h ich form of life apart! Thef breathe of happy moments They speak of golden hours And twine their fragrance in ad out Of these frail hearts of ours. kiisies! now but a shadow -fbatonce displayed Petals of gold and purple With dewdrops fair inlaid, Oh! the pansies of past summers! Sweet pansies claster still Within my hearts lo:ie garden, i 14ke those beside the ril. Liies! pure, spotless lilies Fair lilies of the vale! 4. blight bath softly fallen Upon t1jeir faces pale. TA~stillthe music lingers Within each snowy bell, Like tM-sweet, yet far-off murmur Within some pearly shell. Violets! sweet spring violets f hia onmeet i hmilit And the merchant, not doubt ing that Cleora herself was an swerable for the presumption of which this young gentleman had been guilty, reached home in a very irate frame of mind, and summoning his daughter reproved her sharply. Cleora laughed first, pouted afterwards, and ended by crying. Less than a week from that time, Miss Cleora received another lec ture, couched in much briefer lan guage, but eloquent beyond any thing that young lady had ever listened to before, judging from the -im-pression it made. "You ought to be proud of your work, miss," declared Mr. Daham el, angrily, "Frank Reeves has got himself into real trouble this time, and there's no doubt in my mind that he would never have done so crazy a thing, if his head hadn't been turned about you." "What has poor Frank done now ?" asked Cleora, incredulously but looking a little uneasy. "He has been forging the name of Duhamel & Co." Miss Cleora started, and turned red and white all in a breath. 'Papa, how do you know ?" "He don't deny it; had the ef frontery to present it at the bank himself, even." Silence some moments. Miss Cleora grew paler, and paler and twisted her curls with nervous white fingers. "Papa, what will you do with him ?" she asked, presently. "I? I do nothing. The law he has outraged will give him a term in prison, probably. Serve him right, too." "Doyou know where he is now?" she asked, tremblingly; but the merchant, absorbed in his own re flection, did not notice that. "In Newgate, of course." "Oh, papa !" Cleora Duhamel rose to her feet, white and palpitating. Mr. Duhamel lifted his -keen eyes to her face scrutinizingly. "It would be easy to imagine that you had some personal inte rest in this young scamp," he said, coldly. Cleora clasped her hands, and looked up at him with trembling lips. "Well?" exclaimed the merchant, angrily, rising also. "Papa, what made you let him o to Newgate ?" "Really ? Why should I not, pray ? Come, come, miss. It is a ood thing for you, I see, that he is disposed of." 'Papa, Frank Reeves never forged anybody's name in his life" -and Clec.ra burst into tears for the second time that evening. "He don't deny it himself," re peated-Mr. Duhamel, with added indignation and amazement at his aughty daughter's espousal of the young man's cause. As Cleor.a made her escape from th room, he began to pace up and down, muttering, "She's self-will ed enough to do anything. I'm glad he's where he is, though I al ways liked the young fellow. It's odd too that he wouldn't defend 'himself. Neither denied or;owned it. Some mystery there, but it's not my business to solve it." Frank Reeves was tried for for gery; pleaded "Not guilty," but refused to give any account of the forged check he had certainly pre sented at the bank and received the money on. He was sent to prison for five years. During the trial, a woman close ly veiled, was observed to be un remitting in her attendance upon the proceedings; and the prisoner, it was noticed, se.emed to watch for the entrance of this person, and to be uneasy till she came, when his handsome faee would flush slightly, his dark eyes bright en with pleasure, and he would re sume his usual air of mingled pride and determination. When Frank Reeve's bright young head vanished behind the ignominious prison walls, he car ried next to his heart a little scented note without address or signature, but written in an ex ceedingly delicate female hand, and having in one corner a most dainty silver and blue monogram, "C. D." It said: "You are a hero. I am a cowardly creature, un worthy of you. But the day you are a free man, if you do not do. spise me too utterly by that time, I will be your wife. Every hour of your heroic imprisonment I shall think of you. I love you already, and shall love -you more and more till we meet." Three years from that time, MIr Duhamel died suddenly; and his daughter, still single and stil beautiful, came into the posses sion of a large fortune. In th( course of the fourth year she ob ta,ind, by private and personalap peal to the Home Secretary, Fr: Reeve's pardon. The two met at last in Miss hamel's own magnificent draw room. The beauty and heii had attired herself with an ar tic elaborateness she had never stowed on any party or recept toilet. Her loveliness was bey< description; her eyes were fi ing with tears. Frank Reeves came calmly i the room, and stopped a few pa off, without offering to appro: nearer. He was very pale, his closely-cut hair altered I very much. The years, the c finement, and the companions of brooding thoughts, had grai upon his face sterner lines t had marked that handsome co tenance in the flush of eager, mantic youth. Some unexpected expression that face seemed to strike Clec "Frank," she exclaimed, and her haughty voice was a new v piteous accent, "you h4ve neN forgiven me, Frank! I have e fered too." He did not say more, but eye flashed, and he uttered 1 word "suffered" after her conteE tuously. "1 am a pardoned convict," said, proudly. "In the terri prison to which your coward condemned me,. my young a eager manhood, all those generc and self-sacrificing impulses whi made me yo'ur tool, even the he, which loved you, ha've been ? by one crushed out of me. 1 f gave you at first. Afterward grew bitter month by month, d by day. It was so little y needed to do, to have saved 1 all that long horror. Your fatt would have forgiven you. I mig have been spared my honor, z good name, if you had stood your own wrong-doing." "Ob, Frank, I will atone! I rich. We can go anywhere y are not known," Cleora exclai ed, sweeping towards him, and i tending her white hands entre ingly. He lifted his somber eyes or to her peerless face. "Miss5 Duhamel," he said, "th< are some thinge that even mon cannot buy-that even the ic of a beautiful woman cannot atc for. That is what I camne to t you, and-Good-bye." Without so much as touchi her hand, he was gone. In another country, F r a Reeves redeemed himself from 1 stain of that injustice once - dc him, and became an honored me ber' of society through his own:] tient endeavor. M.iss Duhamel never married SAVING 15 WEALT.-One gr< cause of the poverty of the prese day, wisely says an exchange, i failure of our common people appreciate small things. Th ey not realize how a daily additi< be it ever so small, will soon mna a large pile. If the young m and women of to-day will onlyI gin, and begin now, to save a tie from their earnings and plh it in the soil of some good si ings' bank, and weekly or mon ly add their mite, they vwill w< a happy smile of competence wbl they reach middle life. Not or the desire but the ability to crease it will also grow. Let cle and tradesman, laborer and ai san, mnake, now and at once, a ginning. Store up some of :y( youthful foice for future cont gency. Let parents teach th children to begin early to sa Begin at the fountain head to ci trol the stream of extravagal -to choose between poverty a riches. Let our youth go on the habits of extravagance fifty years to come as ti have for fifty years past, and shall have a nation of beggE with a 'moneyd aristocracy Let a generation of such as si in small sums be reared, and shall be free from want. Doi be ambitious fo r extravagi fortunes, but seek that which i the duty of every ons to obtaii independence and a comforta home. Wealth and enough of is within the reach of all. I obtained by one process, and< only-saving. Neenah wants some one to c cover a lead mine in that vicini to bring down the price of the m al. A policeman there has b shooting at a mad dog for th weeks and the city has to furn the material. A you ng lady in a neighbor town is engaged to be marnies a gentleman named Iomer P1: iand you can judge for your whether she thinks "there's Plhwe like Homer" not. ~istlaneons. Du OUR TIN WEDDING-THE CENTENNIAL. -ess tis- Whether marriage is properly be- to be regarded as the blessed even ion which it is considered by one-hal )nd the world, or as the fatal misfor .sh- tune which it is called by some thing less than the other balf nto certain it is, that much more that ces the half have agreed to considei ich it an occasion worth after-celebra md tion in festivals holding various m intervals of distance frora each on' other. So far as generally ui bip derstood, the initial event is not ren worth celebrating at all, until five ian !0 a years have gone by without cither uof'.the parties eloping from the once-loved presence or committing such bodily or verbal assaults upon the marital partner as to make ra- their disagreement a matter of no toriety. This first and mildest of ,nd the celebrations, after only five years, is known as the "Wooden Wedding;" and all the gifts brought by felicitating friends are his: t bi expected to be ligneous ia their character, embracing was h i ng tubs, ax-helves, saw-bucks, clothes he pins, ladies, breA-trays, cradles ; and the like; though an excep i tion is occasionally made in fa :i vor of a piano, on the ground n that w o o d enters somewhat us largely into the composition of ch' I ch i that instrument.~ It is likewise rt understood that on such a festivo ne occ.asion, tho parties wlQ ho vp r 1 only for that brief time kept their matrimonial contract, are ay not (using a common but very sig ne nificant expression) to "put ou er too many airs," as married people t ofadvanced age or long experience. Five years later, a second festival by occurs, in the "Tin Wedding," with the presents understood to be all of that harder b4t more flexible material derived from the OU Cornish mines, necessarily run )- ning into the direction of pails at and pans, and the happy couple allowed to bear themselves with Lee a trifle more of assurance, as hay ing longer braved the difficulties rofunion and given a little addi tional proof that they both mean ey and are able to live together for a considerable period. J?gssing eiover the nondescript affairs which the greedy and the impatient have sometimes managed to interpolate, so to speak, without any titles, at i k fifteen and twenty years from the he marriage day,-the third legiti ne mate occasion comes when twen rty-five years have elapsed, when children may be grown up around the knees of the couple who have thus long remained together, and when they may indeed be grand parents. This occasion, really pos ~at sessing a meaning, in the proof of nt endurance and at least reasonable s a compatibility which it affords, is to called the "Silver Wedding;" and aO guests who appear at it are ex Spected to signify their sense of its ke value by bringing nothing less en pure and costly than the argenti e- ferous metal, in all varieties from it- tea-spoons to full table services. ,nt Any lack of dignity in position, v visible in the married partners in th- the Wooden and Tin affairs, is now ~ar amply supplied; they have done en something, they have borne some Ll thing, they amount to some ~n thing, not only in their own rk estimation but in that of their lit Stie world of friends and admirers. be- Another long interval-a very ur long one, covering as much space in as that between the marriage cere ir niony and the occasion last alluded rve to-and after fifty years of unio~n 3comes the "Golden~ Wedding." A ice proud occasion, indeed !-proud as nd rare. The gifts are to be of gold, in now; but golden indeed must have for been the bond holding two hearts ey and two lives togetcher for that we half-century; and well may the ,rs, couple most concerned, gray-hair. '- ed, perhaps stooping, and possibly ,e great-grandparents, hold them we selves to be, in no limited sense. iot of the "salt of the earth"~ in use int fulness and endurance, and worthy is8 of being thus honorably surround 1ed and ministered to. There i bl yet a nother-t he "Diamond Wed t, ~ding;" not in the sense intended tis by Stedman in his capital poem ne but marking the rare instances it wvhich the supremely blessed cou .pie have lingered together for five 1- and-seventy y ea rs , necessarily ty> standing on the verge of their cen et-' tenary. Alas !-the demand foi aenl golden plate and Ornaments foi ree the occasion last preceding may ish come but seldom; but how seldoix indeed is there need to purchas a brilliant for this last and crown ing ing recognition of the possible ! tto as, indeed, ho a keen a mocker) ce; would be such an event, if it oc self curred even oftener,with the price no less gems held out to eyes too din to see them) and the echoes frou the land.beyond the flood soun ing much mgre plainly to ti waiting ears than the felicitatioi of friends and descendants ! Holding this practice and thei periods in view, let us glance ver briefly at the Centenary of Amer tan Independence, now commeni ing to absorb all minds and to coi trol much of public action-at il surroundings, its omens and il proprieties. We are a very youn nation-very yolng indeed-th very youngest on the globe, ui less we consider Italy as only lat ly having emerged from the chac of division and become a complet member of the national family. Beside that Iceland, which a fei months ago held what might b called its "Diamond Weddingr" c one thousand years, we are butth merest of upstarts,how ever sturd; and promising. Beside any on of the nations of Europe, we ca only be considered as standing i: tutelage. We have really bee: linked together, as a nation, s little while, that it is doubtfu whether our "Wedding" occasio; could not properly be called "Wooden" one, the very lowest c all; but let courtesy have its fu measure, and let it be designate the "Tin," at least a trifle mor dignified in its standing. And so much conceded, what are ou: surroundings, and what have w really accomplished, to give u right for wholesale, felicitation Our ancestors entered upon a wili and unknown continent, two bui dred and 'ftfty to three bundre years ago; and up to the time of on Independence, they pursued th usual course of colonists, holdin the lands they had acquired, wit the countenance and assistance c the countries from which the; had been derived or which hel territorial dominion o v e r th lands where they chanced to b located. With the Ieclaration c Independence and the successfu struggle which made that declare tion a reality, the former perioi closed: from that time and froE that time only, the national eist once is to be calculated. We have grown rich and populow True: we had a wide extent c territory ; the older countrie were swarming, needing addition al space and additional opportn ty, which our continent could a well supply. In this, the story c rapidly increasing populationi told; and there is really not muec matter for national pride in it, on of the laws of nature, invoivin, the vacuum and its filling, the de mand and it.s supply, having onl: been carried out as it might hay been by a mere dumb force. Wealth could not well do other wis than come to us, with so man; square acres of rich land to ever; inhabitant, with such amounts c the precious metais as have reveal ed themselves and to some exten developed themselves; with all th' s'trengths and favorable condition of youth in our favor; and wit] none of the embarrassing remain frora the past, inevitab!e with na tions passing through much lon ger periods and more endurinj struggles. We have become a pou er in the political world. T rue : power of peculiar position 'ant virtual isolation. What wve are in that regard, we have becom< through that position, combine< with the mere inert force of terri tory, and without any considera ble assistance from diplomacy o legislation, in the former of whic. wye have generally been little lee than contemptible, and in the lat ter of which we have usually bee1 dealing for sections and classes, t almost entire forgetfulness of th welfare of the whole. We ha% done wonders in invention. T rue the exigencies of a new and wide spread country have wonderfull; spurred the inventive faculty while the influx of people from a the nations of the Old World ha brought in to us that blendingc practical intellect, and that oppo: tunity for comparison as to plan and processes, which no other nt tion has ever enjoyed. In labo> saving inventions we stan dpra eminent. But how far this fat redounds to our credit, and ho' far it merely shows the wis to perform a certain work with little labor as possible, may t some time a subject of amused ii quiry. And more than half< what we have invented, we has by no means perfected as has some of the nations of the 0] World. We have roved our wi and our power to remain a natio; through two international conflict and one internecine struggle of it mense proportions. True: to certain extent. The first of ti two tiggles with Great .B.ritia does not ~ly come in to ti calculation ; 1 .v as part of ti throe of our bijth. Thie secor L d- was of very limited reach, bring ie ing out few resources on eithei is side, and with our then enemj hampered and crippled by th< ie wars of the continent, almost t< y the degree of helplessness. I i- is too early, as yet, to speak calm. ly of the internecine struggle; bal i- it is not too early to say that the 's less spoken of it in the way o ,s self-glorification,the better and the g wiser. At the best, it was the e somewhat slow and difficult de. i- feating ofa much weaker antagon 1- ist; and how far it has proved our s determination and power to re e main one united country, can bet - ter be answered twenty years v hence than at present-answered e when we shall have ascertained, if -through the course of later legis. e lation, whether we really desire y to resume the old status of friend. e ly members of one compact, or a whether personal or sectional pro a fit is to be made the dominant ob a ject, no.matter what other persons o or sections suffer or become de 1 stroyed. a Honestly, some of these things a had better receive calm and self f examining thought,before entering I upon the reception of the other peo I ples of the world, at our "Tin Wed e ding." We have no especial cause for shame, on the whole, as to the r results of our one hundred years: e nay, we have much for pride. But s we need to remember, in receiving ? our guests and the "tin" which it I is at least to be hoped that they - will bring us-(1) that we have I enough deficiencies, as compared r to opportunities, notably to modi. e fy our arrogant conscioustiess of that which we really possessed; (2) i that the nations visiting us are f materially sharers in any glory F which we may have acquired I their former subjects, with the e idioms of their languages not yet e worn from their to4guea, hAving f been among the stardiest and 1 most beneficial workers in securing - any and all of our grand. results; I and (3)-that, however hopeful we a may be of the future, and how ever staunchly every true Ameri can is determined to straggle, and .labor, and reason, to make that f future glorious, we have as yet s by no means proved our capacity -to put down national weaknesses L- and temperamental vices, in such a degree as to assure the world of f our capacity to maintain the bless s ed union of good will, helpfulness, a and national homogeneity, beyond e the "Tin Wedding" stage so close Sly following the mere nuptials, up -to the '-Silver" of three times the Speriod, the fine "Gold" of vet ion e ger endurance; or the true "Dia! - mond" qfW gi score of eenturies, o -From T HE ALDINE for May. S IN THE DEAD OF IGIHT.-Most fpeople imagine that house plants - poison the air of a room by the t exhalation of carbonic acid during a the night. That this is a popular s fallacy, and that it should be a speedily consigned to the well-peo s pled limbo of "Vulgar Errors," was .demonstrated not long since by - Professor Kedzie of the Michigan ~Agricultural College. To make the test as conclusive as possible, Sinstead of taking the air from a jroom containing a few plants only, *the professor gathered it from the a oollege green-house, where more i than 6,000 plants were gro wing. - The room had been closed for more ,than twelve hours; and if the r plants exhale carbonic acid to an 2 injurious extent, the analysis of air s from such a room would certainly ,have disclosed the fact. Three 2 specimens of this imprisoned air a were gathered shortly before sun e rise, from .different parts of the e .room, the analysis of which gave 4.11, 4.00. 4.00 parts of carbonic ~acid in 10,000 of air, or an average of 4.03 in .10,000, while the outdoor ,air contained 4 parts in 10,000,thus Sproving that the air in the green. ,house was better than "pure coun iftry air." s NOT MUCH CHANGED.-A party .- had met at a public table, when ~.. the conversation turned on the . subject of transmigration. Mr. K, twas a firm believer in the doctrine, Sand was expatiating largely upon h its points when he was interrupt s ed by a gentleman who was pres e ent with "K., wha.t do you,suppos -. yourself to have been before yot ~f were K. ?" "I do not know," re e plied K.; "I might have been a 'e hog, for aught 1 know." "Well,' d rejoined his friend, "you have not jaltered much-only got upon your kind ligs. . All the Candor of youth-Aunt a Bella (who has read aloud "The e Burial of Sir John Moore,")-.-"Now, n then, which of the verses do yor e like the best ?" Jack (with alacri .et)"!Ikio-Fwadso d e th"O pryr knw'ew adshor a were the prayers we said.' " - THE OBELISK AT THE TEM PLE OF HELIOPOLIS. I have the interpretation of the beautifully sculptured hierogly phics that cover two sides of the obelisk from top to bottom. The profusion of flattering words on the obelisk are addressed to King Ousertasen I., who, according to the highest authority, reigned 2,803 years before Christ, and dua ring the period of forty-six years. The obelisk, therefore, if the dates given are correct, has stood where it still stands for nearly the period of 4,700 years. Herodotus says Sesostris or his son (both kings of Egypt) pre sented two obelisks to the Tem ple of Heliopolis, and that each was at least 150 feet high and twelve feet in diameter. As the obelisk now there is of fully one third less dimensions, it is possi ble there were, in his day, two 1 obelisks of greater magnitude, and not placed on the masonry of the temple, but on the ground in front. It is also to be suggested that the obelisk now there must have been erected in Heliopolis t long -fore the University was t erected by Sati Mernephtah. And although the obelisk fixes positively that it is on the site of the ancient city of Heliopolis or Onoo, yet it does not deter- I mine positively and of itself that I it was adopted as one of the 1 obelisks of the university. From other surroanding indications it is probably at the very spot where I the university stood. But as it was erected in commemoration of a panegyric festival, and some ', 800 years in advance of the uni versity erected by Rameses I., or j at least the university temple dedicated by Rameses I., and claimed to have been erected by him, its exposed part does not of Itself alone afford sufficient evi dence of the precise site of the university. The attention of learned antiquarins is respectful ly Wglled to the propriety of ma king excavations at the surround ing mounds and in the plain it self where I believe little or nothing has yet been done to1 explore the site of perhaps the : oldest city in lower EIigypt. During the lapse of thousands e of years, insects fixing specks of t dirt into the cavities of the sunk- a en hieroglyphics cut into the gran- i itic obelisk, have completely obli, e terated them on one side. But the ~ inscriptions on both sides are be lieved to be exactly the same be- r cause all other obeliaks are known to be 80, and the interpretation of r the side which is legible (and t which is now given for perhaps t the first time in the Englis hlan- s guage) is as follows: "The Horns, t The life all that is alive, The king of upper and lower Egyp t Chaper-Ka-Ra The maker of kings, The life of all the living, The son of the Sun, Oasertasen, loved by the spirits of the City ofOno And of immortal life, The golden hawk, The life of all that lives, The gracious god [king] Chaper-Ka-Ra- . a At the commemoration of the festival of panegyric Erected this obelisk;t He who bestows the immortal life has erect- I ed it." Even this obelisk, still serving a to fix the site of the temple, shows I that the vast surrounding plains a have risen, by scarcely percepti- y ble accretions, perhaps more than nine feet since its- foundations were laid. indeed, the plains of ~ Egypt, and of Nineveh, and of I Babylon, and of Persepolis, and a of the Indus in upper India, laugh i to scorn the utmost labors and !i contrivances of man to render his r fame lasting, or .his grandest structures continuous. Even the pyramids, and tbe hills from which their material was taken, must be yet changed and obliterated.--Win.] F. ,Shatw, in Overland Monthly for May. SELF-GUIDANCE.-It is the asser tion of a scientific paper that self guidance is the first condition of a reasonable, improvable being.I Children should learn at school1 how to study alone-to discover 1 for themselves what they wish to know. In giving them no initia tion, in denying them their free will we prepa.re them to resign themselves to the passive part im posed upon the nation by govern ments that take the initiative in alli measures of social interest. Wei thus form subjects for a tyrant, .not citizens of a republic. When a Connecticut deacon nudged a somnolent worshipper Iwith the contribution box, the sleepy individual awoke partially, f smldmrue,tIdntmk! anild,urmred,f a"Idn' mk! and droDDed off again. I HE WAS "SHOOK." THE LADY WAS TWENTf YEARS OLD ER THAN HE, BUT HE LOVED HER. "What I want to know," said a white-headed young man of twen ty, as he stood before the sergeant in charge of the Detroit Central Station, "what I came here for was to get some advice." "Proceed," said the sergeant. "You know Nancy Thompson, ion't you ?" "Never heard of her." "Well she's a widder, over forty rears old, and I've been boarding -here." "Yes?" "And we were engaged to be narried." "Whew !" whistled the officer. "I don't blame you," continued he young man in a broken voice. 'I'm only twenty and she's forty, mt a man can't always tell when ie's going to make a fool of him elf." "And you fell in love ?" "I did that, and as soon as we ret through talking I'm going out o hire some one to kick me over o Canada and back I Yes, sir, fell ead in love-loved a woman over 'rty." "And what followed?" "What follered ? What allers 'ollers? I'm human, same's any. )ody else, and when I love 1 love ike a lecomotive on a down grade. N'hat do you think I did in just ix weeks by -the watch. Went 0 the theatre sixteen times, went >ut sleigh-riding tw6lve times, had bree parties, went to three lee ures and took her out to eat oys ers ten or eleven times. Fact, ir-cost me darn near $200." "But it w.s allfor love," replied he serg;ant. "I thought so, and what else did do ? Bought her a $40 watch, a 10 bracelet, a $5 ring, a $7 set of ewelry, a new dress, and gave her $5 gold piece with a hole in it! les sir, I drew $500 from the bank very red I had-and used it all ip on herl" "And then ?" "She purtended to love back, and vhen I aguone her hand she smiled ~nd smiled and look heaps of love ~t me. She lean on my arm, talk .bout Cupid, and git off poetry by he rod, and it was plainly under toQd that we were to be -married a June. Oh~ Bhe knew her - biz, ud she slid around me as the Ben ~al tiger does around a lamb !" "Did she break, the engage c'ent ?" "Last night," said the young nan, swallowing the lump in his broat, "she told me she'd been rifling with me all along. She aid she was engaged to another 2an, and she could never be more han a sister to me; I tell you, son eant, you could have knocked me own with a straw#. I braced up fter a while and called her a ypocrite, when she called me a rhite headed idiot, and the board rs threw me out of doors." "Five hundred dollars gone, arnd 'm a wrecked man." Hie blew his nose, wiped his eyes nd con tinued:* "I don't want to drown myself; he water's awful cold, and perhaps can get over this. I want them resents back and I'll go to Mus egon and try and forget her. t's wrenched me all to pieces, nd I can never love again. Were ou ever shook, sergeant ?" "No, never." "Then you don't know the an uish--the gripping around the eart. It cuts like a knife, and 1l .[ can think of is being laid out El a coffin, my right hand hold ng a bunch of roses and my left 'esting on my heart." "You are young-you may out ~row it." "I may-I may, but it's so aw '1l sudden, and hits so hard, that feel as if I'd fallen from a house. ~o to the house, sergeant, and iee if you can't get them things ack. If I'm alive I'll be round kgain to-morrer, and if I don't some you may keep the things for tour kindness. I'm white-headed, ut I'm tender-hearted, and want o retire behind some barn and And he retired. After relating a snake story, he Owensborough (Ky.) Exami ~er adds: Were our informant iot a man of truth - and strictly emperate habits, we should be nore than half inclined to suspi ~ion that his little snake story was ~rected on the ruins of a pint of Jincinnati whisky. "The great need of Cairo," said ScapitaIist after being taken over he town, "is a fine-tooth comb actory, with a retailistore in con ection-" ADVERTISINC RATESS IAdvertisements inserted at the rate of $1.-00 Jper square-one inch-for first insertion, and I75c. for each subsequent insertion. Double column aiverdisements ten per cent on AbOTO N~otices of meetings, obituaries and tribu' e of respectr-same rates per squre as ordinarY advertisements. Special notice in local column 20 eats per line. Advertisements not marked witb the nlum ber of insertions wil be kept in tMl forbid and charged accordinely. Special contracts Made With ]=s.adver. tisers, with liberal d6dfictiots; on aberates. Jos P5W, PA Done with Neatness: and D*sp6@ Terms Cash. THE MAN WHO W&NT IN FORM.&TION. Yesterday noon, while the 'peo pie around the office exoept the "bead reporter" were at dinnor, the smell of smoke suddenly be came apparegat, ad a fat- man, smoking a big pipe, cam6 ti6ng up*stairs. When hb hAd TM'oVer ed his breatb And taken a sout h,6 inquired: "Is der big editor what knows everydings in ?"1 "1No-gone to dinner," wat the reply. "And he shall come backpry soon?T' "In about two hours.y "I can't wait so, quick as dAt; I hab to a funeral." "Did you want anything ? "&Yes, I wants to -know somae dings aboat dat Peecher scandiL You zee, one day aboat -dree months ago. a feLlow Comes =4t my zaloon and he says. TDid you -heir noddings about Mr. Peecher?-U nd I say nix, und he say Mr. Peecher Fithole corn." "Yes." "E7Lnd der next day when I *ent home my wife iays: 'Did dl hear noddings-about Mr.Pehr? Und she sid Mr. Paethev %sthol 1L. man's life. He lives thirty days in one. Old. trite proverbs -take on new and startling meanings.- - He looks upon all men and all things in a strange new light. He judges all men and all things with regard to the accomplish