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-- DEVOTED TO POLIT ORAITY EDUCATION AND TO TRE GENERAL INTEREST OF TE OUNTRY. By, P. P. ?00.ADLEY&CO* PICKENS, S.-VOL. A.--NV. 4. SONG. * ur D, .a ouA s Not where the poison dews distil, Which bring much woe to men, Shall we our brimming glasses fill, - And drink and ll again. But e shall quaff the water pure, Which sparkles in the wave, Whose draught so sweet doth health assure, And far removes the grave. Water, true gift of heaven thou art; Without thy smile to blees, Earth were a desert and man's heart Could ne'er And happiness. STARVING TO WIN A .WXFE. It was a July afternoon. Three mei sat on the veranda of the village hotel. Their feet were on the balcony railing, their chairs were tilted back and they were fanning themselves. These men were Judge Barron, County Judge, Parson Miller and Col. Gherkins, a retired militia officer, on no pay. Not one of them would see his 50th birth day, for they had passed it. "Speaking of fasting," said the Judge, breaking a long silence. S" Hasn't been mentioned," snarled the Colonel, interrupting. The Judge dropped his chair squarely down on its four legs, and looked sav agely at the Colonel. The Colonel re turned the look and snapped his fingers contemptuously. Don't be boys I " urged the minister with a smile. He smiled because he knew the fiery but harmless ways of the gentlemen. " Well, we are too old for this s'ort of thing," said the Judge, leaning back again. " But, speaking of fasting-I will have it that way-reminds me of my attempt at suicide." " It was in the papers," said Gherkins, stopping his fanning long enough to glance sideways at the other. "It was," admitted the Judge, "but it doesn't signify now, over twenty-five years afterward." "Humph I " grunted the Colonel. "I was in love, doctor," and the Judge turned his face toward the min ister. - " That is what lie thought," observed he:Colonel, with a cackle, half cough and half-laugh. "With a girl," continued Barron. "Well added I " cried Gherkins. "Though the tendency of young men is, we know, to fall in love with old Womien. "And not, as you well know, Colonel, .9 for young women to fall in love with old men. ' " Your'e as old as I am," shouted the Colonel. - " Not by fifteen years," exclaimed the Judge. "But you take my remark as - personal." -" That's the way you meant to have it -taken, I know," growled the unamiable * old man. " Bo you ought," said the Judge. -> "But never mind that I I fell in love. - That means to be tniserable. At 22 one - has love as one "has the measles, s~j * verely, all over, as a matter of business." * " When I was a boy," suddenly began the Colonel. " Why, that is ancient history," cried Barron. - The Colonel said something in an undertone, and lighted a cigar. " I had always been in love with Miss Lou Dexter," continued the Judge. " I began to suffer when I was in round abouts. was a sort of duplex, back action, extra-elastic passion. I suppose I made a fool of myself. Didn't I, Colonel ?" "Decidedly I" declared that person. " Ifelt as sure of Lou aslIdid of my * self," the Judge continued. " But when I came back from college I thought everythinig had changed for the worse. There wr a no longer that familiarity and confidence that had existed between us. Half the time when I went to see her she was fj~r busy or out for the even eng, Mj: - l with a musty old fellow who ha .e . ., but whose name I won't "N .1(r 30een ?" howled the Colonel, sprmnt m liIe ,,eet. " Musty ? Have * ci yoDu wm , ' ela e e I suppose," sug 4,e e e tisnter. "Now, if he had xIk. Tn hIy LIIJ b igiboun, just as infamous an 4 d "w0 e the Colonel, staraping e pcn a veranda. ~'O ~f e nsider the remark with drawn,' laughed the Judge. " The man '*a thiere, a~l1,;Te same, and kept me from confidendial,Nia4 with the girl I loved." " And he knew it I" chuckled Gher kins. "8Ia knew it I" said the Judge, gravely. "I didn't mind any of these tiings so much a the story that she was goingio .marry the old fox, and that her wedding clothes were being made. That struck me blhe the ball from a Whitworth gan. ' Lou,' I said, the first time I met her after hearing this story, 'is it true that you're getting ready to -marry this man?' naming him. "She had a way of half turning her face and looking up at you with a sauci ness in her black eyes that would drive a man crazy. She looked at me that way. "'Don't you wish you knew?' she asked, and walked away, looking back ward just once, in her coquettish way, over her shoulder. " Ten minutes afterward I saw har walking with my venerable rival." "Venerable alongside of veal," said Gherkins, savagely. The Judge laughed. " You are posted, Colonel," he said. "You forget that I mentioned no name for the gentleman." "You might as well," said the other. " Oh, the doctor can wait or guess," was the reply. Then-" Miss Dexter's indifference crazed me. I wanted to tell her that, as a man, I loved her. She knew that in my childhood I had idol ized her. But what chance had I? What good would it do, if she were going to marry the infirm fellow wheezing asth matically by her side? I went home as sured that life had no value to me. The more I thought of it the less I cared for it. The less I cared for it the greater my anxiety to be rid of it. To be rid of it meant to take it. Suicide is horribly vulgar, ordinarily. it is only the Frenchman who makes it sublime. He "There I here I must protest," ex claimed the parson, holding up his hands in horror.: "Such talk is not orthodox." " I'm not telling an orthodox story, doctor. What I think now and thought then are two different affairs. Enough to say I resolved on killing myself. As in my disappointment I felt no hunger, starvation seemed a very refined method of self-extermination." " Economical to the last I" exclaimed the Colonel, returning to the attack. " You'll never carry the practice of your life to such an extreme," said Bar ron ; " I have the satisfaction of know ing that. However, Colonel, your bitter ness is natural. I forgive you. Dr. Miller cannot fail to see that I'm treat ing you like a Christian--that is, as if you were one. Well, I began the siege myself. T.Lhe supplies were cut off. I retired to my room and refused to eat. That meant a great deal when it is con sidered that for four years I had lived at a college boarding-house. It meant more when one remembers that it was done for love. Men talk of killing them selves for the objects of their affections, but they seldom, if ever, try the starva tion plan. It takes true grit for that sort of thing. Perhaps this story of mine hasn't the sentimental fervor that anijnated me then. It seems now to have been an example of rather funny obstinacy. The first day was lived through without much discomfort ;.the second found me hungry ; the third, I was half crazy for food, and the smell from the kitchen infuriated me. I be gan to wonder if I wasn't makin'g a fool of myself." " Yes ! You were the only one who had doubts about it I" said the Colonel, quite cheerfully, all things con sidered. " Meanwhile," continued the Judge, " every relative got wind of the matter and came to hold an ante-mortem in quest. The doctor was summoned, and at last the newspaper of the town came out with a highly-seasoned story, in which Miss Dexter was, by innuendoes, referred to as the cause of the trouble. Of this, however, I knew nothing. I was too busy in scheming to counter act the plots of my friends to force food into my stomach to care what was being said outside of the house. The night of the third (lay was a horrible one. It was made up of a succession of dreams of banquets at which I could not eat enough to satisfy my hunger. " The next morning I was out of my head until noon." "Out of your stomach ! Brains had nothing to do with it," said the Colonel. " Out of my head," repeated the Judge. "It seemed as though t was about to collapse and die. Everything was whirling around and around, when the door was opened and a face came into view. It had a familiar look, but at first I could not tell whose it was. I looked and looked and locked, and then dropped away in a fainting fit. It lasted for a minute. When I came to, the first thing that met my gaze was this same face. The e.e. h a .the amltial gleam as of old; the lips were just as seductive in their expression, and tho voice made the sweetest of music. She took my thin face in her little hands and looked sadly-into my eyes." "Fred! Fred!" she whispered. "Dear old boy, tell me what this means!" I shook my head wearily. . "I've been away," she said; " and there's a horrible story about us in the paper-about me, I mean-that I am the cause of this. Have you seen it?" "No, Lou." "Are you going to kill yourself, Fred ?" bringing that dear face of hers cioser to mine. "I shall continue to try." "Why? What is the matter ?" "You are the matter, Lou, if you mast know," I said, getu 'desperate, with her lips so close to MJb, and the questions coming thick and fast. "You are the matter." " Mo ?". " You." I could see that she wanted to make me tell, and I believe that the only thing that kept her from asking was that she believed she knew what I had to tell. I resolved to settle my doubt, and, if I was going to die, to have her know just the reason for my suicide. " Lou," I began, putting an arm around her waist to steady myself. " Lou, I am killing myself because you don't love me." "How do you know that, Fred Bar ron? You make me ask the question." Her face came down upon my shoulder, and she began to sob. "Because, Lou, because, because"-I paused simply because I didn't know, but had only guessed at it, and in my weak condition it seemed as if I had been wofully mistaken. "Well, then, I knew it because you always put Gherkins be tween us; and how could I tell you over his shoulder that I wanted you to be my wife." "Did you want to tell me that, Fred ?" "Yes I" "And that animated old petrifaction kept you away ?" "Animatqd Old Petrifaction, eh ? Did she call me that, Judge Barron ?" shrieked the Colonel, slapping his hat on his head and driving it down with a blow of his fist, as he sprang from his chair. "If she did, sir, I demand satisfaction, the satisfaction of a gentleman, sir ! 'Animated Old Petrifaction I' And this by a woman I would have honored by marrying! It ini too much, too much ! You shall give me revenge !" Barron laughed. So (lid the minister. "You shall have what you' 'kant, Colonel," said the Judge. " When, where, how ?. That talk suits me." " By coming around to dinner with me this afternoon. You know Mrs. Barron has changed her mind.a)bint you since that day." " I'll be blanked if I will," roared the Colonel, slamming the chairs aside as ihe tramped away. " At 4 o'clock sharp," said the Judge, leaning over the railing, and speaking to the angry man on the walk below. The Colonel shook his fist in reply. " Ho is very wrathful," observed the minister. " But he will come all the same," said the Judge. "I suppose that young lady gave you a favorable reply," meekly observed Dr. Miller, who wanted to hear the conclu sion of the story. "Favorable ? Of jgourse ! See that lady over the street there ?" " Mrs. Barron ? Oh, yes !" " Well, she was Lou Dexter before I married her. Her 'yes' stopped my suicide." " Indeed 1" " Indeed. And what is more, in view of my profession, I've never had to starve since." TilE RICH ENT CITY OF ITS SIZE. Frankfort-on-the-Main, with a popula tion of about 100,000, is reported to be the richest city of its size in the whole world. It is asserted that there are 100 Frankforters worth from $4,000,000 to to $5,000,000 each, and 250 who arc worth $1,000,000 and upward. The city is one of the great banking centers of the globe. Its aggregate banking cap ital is estimated at $200,000,000-more than one-fou-th of which the Roths childs, whose original and parent house is there, own and control. Tuz total numbe.r of paupers in Ion don, exclusive (if hunatics in asylums and 886 vagranta, on the last day of tne second week in Juno was 85,049, of whom 46,793 were in workhouses and 88,256 receiving outdoor relief. A MAN4 in Philadelphia gathers slops and swill and garbage and distills it into whiskv. BIOGRAPHY. nwonas Babftgeon. Neaurav. 'This noted historian was the son of Zachery Macaulay, a West India mer chant and wonderful p)ilanthropist. His grandfather was Sir John Macaulay, a Presbyterian minister of West Scot land. Young Macaulay was born in the year 1800, educated at Trinity, Cam bridge, where he acquired a reputation as a scholar and debater, and twice won the Chancellor's medal, first, by his poem "Pompeii," second, " Evening." He was elected Fellow of Trinity and devoted himself to literature, becooming a contribator to Knight's Quarterly Magazine. In 1825 he made his ap pearance in the Edinburgh Review in his famous essay on Milton, a production so learned, enthusiastic, and brilliant that it captivated the whole reading world, and placed him in the first ranks of es sayists. In 1826 he was called to the bar but never practiced the profession. About this time he was elected to Par liament, for which he repaid his constit uents by setting forth their doctrine in a manner so luminous, powerful and at tractive that his adversaries were charmed, and convinced if they were not convicted. In 1836 he went to India and spent some time in the preparation of a new penal code, but was not very successfut1 On his return he was re-elected to Par liament. As a statesman he was thd implicit friend of freedom, both civil and religious. He eloquently sustained the Roman Catholic bill for the relief of Catholics, and in consequence was un seated, but five years thereafter was re-elected without effort on his part. In 1848 he published the first two volumes of his world-renowned "History of En gland"-tlie finest history, too, ever written by ancient or modern writer. It was received with an enthusiasn larity wluch has been attain few of the great noveliste. When he published in 1850 his twc last volumes they created such excite ment in Paternoster row as had nevej been seen before. Shortly after he wai elected a member of the French Acade& of Moral and Political cqijence, and was raised to the peerage land undei the title of Baron sulay. H( died in 1859, at Holly I wiear Lon don. He was a man of spirAtive tal ent, thorough scholarsh ip is ac cumulated knowledge was 'ous. His knowledge of modern Europia and especially English historyfrona the time of Henry VIUI. was unsurpassed. Hia style is pure, luminous and exquisitel3 modlulated, or musical, while his powegi of description were such that his " His. tory cf England " might be conipared tk the cartoons of Raphael in the Sistine Chapel of Rome. Allison said, " After a review of chief characteristics of Lord Jeoffe, McIntosh and Smith, we find Macaulay's . turn of mind and style peculiar, and ex 'hibit a combination rarely, if ever, ex hibited in ancient or modern literature. Unlike Jeoffrey, he is deeply learned in lore-ancient and modern. His mind is richly stored with thindietry and his tory, both of classical and continental literature. Unlike McIntosh, he is emi nently dramatic and pictorial. He al ternately speaks poetry to the'soulaand p~aints pictures to the eyeen $nhlke, Smith, he has omitted subject.~of party contention and party , intersg grapples with great questions *4 mortal names, which will forever at~ the interest and demana the attention of such men as Milton, Bacon Machiavelli. The gtsad charactei e~ of his style is the shortness of his sen.. tences. He often conys several ideas in one line." A NToIcaL nr, An Irniian near Maj' *.tanch was suf fering the pain of rh ' miu jaone of his legs. Concludin . loss of the leg better t i ho laid the leg across ax chopped it entirely the knee, bleeding tbh IL minutes. Each time siruck the lhe hallooed, which attst~ or the facts would fevter have ben known. And thus went another aborig iue to the happy hunting-grounds.-. Nonora (a.'Dm ra DR. BANDUI&JI OAnggg gpakg of several children who were sen* nto a garden to work during one-half of'the school hours, and who outstripped those who studied during all the hour.. He says also that some men die of stupidity artificially produoed by beglc of ta! ents with which they are endowed, All successful men are pakd to have one quality in common. they are Ahorough ly in earnest and do not aikiw them selves to beQ beaten, P42 AS YOU Go. What Mr. N. J. Shepherd says in the following article is just as good ad. vice for the printer or any other busi ness man as for the farmer : "I think one of the worst evils the farmer has to contend with is going into debt. Many and many of them are always in debt for their machiney from year to year, and to their black smith and their merchant from one year's end to another. Men of this class always have to sell their wheat at soon as they can thrash it and haul it to market, their corn as soon as it is ripe enough to gather, and their stock as soon as the animals are salable. They have no choice. They cannot wait for a better market, because, if they keep the merchant waiting too long, they know there will be no chance of getting credit another year, and it takes all they have got this year to square up old accounts. As a rule, such farmers are obliged to sell at low prices and pay the highest price for what they use, and therefore lose on both sides. Most farmers will find it far easier, and a great deal more prof. itable, to pay as they go. There is no question but that they can get goods cheaper for cash, will tell you he can gets cash wting six mon is the case whom th or deal, p'a anyone-to for in oraer ever afterw be the alling pressure of out everything that live without. Do r a new h my o dinilement sim you it on credit. and wait pa uiIl *a as~ 56 you go, wi how much a year; for I hon 1any farmer will buy more is - o exgigthan he wiff he piw, sh every tie. It is those who are in debt, heAdo heels, that feel A.he hard times at " 'ly. We farm. era who are out of debt now, aro the g~ indeppadesnt class of. men in th eoudt~ out of SOnLE REM Noston is otwofi&It contry r108 A ring does not alw ayear, for' the blue gum tree sheJI i ts bark twie a year. recently bewn, that was only 18 cears old, ahowed distinct ~ngs of growth.~ 01 a a ,ews d are not ancom wr#eld~i iAherwood fore of a entury ago, exposed, i~a n up, the date 1212 uandple King John' ;git hia that thebe a~ut -have centuries o01 t the time the mah made. Berks, Pa.; claim rthxe largest chest nut tree in the country. It measure. thirty-eight feet four inches in circitin forence ; the lowest limbs are fifteen feet from the ground, and measure four teen feet in circumference at the base~. The top of the tree is reached withott aanger by gtps that are fastened be. ;1~bs. It is estimated that tse contains about seventeen of Wood. #II still yields about bushels o( ii ute annually. oes in England, which ii In courohyarid, was mnltoned by Aubry, in the reign of Charles I., as then measuring ten yards in diroumferenee at a height of five feet t* the ground. It is sai, on the au. of De Candolle, to bel,400 Ise present growth Is about, feet. In 1820 this ldtree oute, and a cannea Wa center. In 1826 Wa evere ait of its uprightbranches. been made to t):e Inside of here seats Aeto be had for ns comf4tably. ~X N (.. 2SPENof, a young farmer of Kingston, N. 0., met Mrs. M. E. Waller in the road. After bowing her, he said she most kiss b lady indignantly hurried on, w Spence followed, andl gles, kissed hew. She~ m4 jilint, and Spence was asrid and sentenced t days In the county jail for klpw floter man's wife. A mzono barber, nie, studied law ht night for m l years, and was finally admit to the bar. He now wor in the shi baturdaymead aSy~ and pr . with conasid~thbtW sut eesin thee t on other- daysa CURRENT IT EMS. T=u Empress of Austria is said to be a dkilfu fencer. * . THE Cape May hotel-keepers arf charging guests with puppies $10 per week extra. POcKET-HANDERIEF dreses are common in England. They are garments to weep over. AN old thermometer is never very popular. Nobody wants to see a ther mometer over 70. THE fellow who picked up the hot penny originated the remark, " All that glitters is not cold." Eraus POLK, the colored carriage driver of President Polk, still lives at Nashville, aged 75 years. TE sale of Ewin Arnold's " Light of Asia " has been twentyfold greater in America than in England. LrrrE boy: "Ma, when you go to heaven shall you let this house ?" ' When I go to heaven I shall not think about such things as that." Boy: " But when everybody is dead what will be come of all the world ?" Ma : " The world will be destroyed." Boy: " And all the houses, too ?" Ma: "Yes." Boy : "0 1 what an awful waste I" TithEE little girls had great fun in a hbor's house at South Bend, Ind., the absence of the family. They I the window panes. Then several gallons of milk on pet. Finally, they empt zen cans of raspberries and into a tub, and dyed all 5 they could find in the stuCER defines life to be combination of heterogen oth si:gaueous and coresondence "ath ex coe:istence a0 'sequenoes ;' . H. as " aeries of defnite and swo eive changes, both of structure and omiposition, which take place within an individual without destroying its iden. tity." THa railroad monopolies don't have it all their own way, after all. A lady in .Chicago suel the Central Pacific for $75 damages for allowing a locomotive to scald all the hair off a valuable dog ex pressed her from San Francisco. She obtained judgment and collected the money before the company foundt out that it was a Japanese dog and never had any hair. TnlE London Economist says hun dreds of thousands of sheep, if not mill ions, have died of plague in England, and the Russian, Turkish, English, and Afghanistani ware, as well as those of Turkey, Syria, Persia, and the Tridan country, have caused tons of millions of sheep to be killed. In fact, wool-grow ing in Turkey, Russia, Persia, and India has boon almost given up on accotunt of ~th. gars and the low prices ciurent for at five years. Murrau trout-fishing in Holden, Mass., .G. Parker saw a woodchuck and a fox ~ toward the burrow of the for ~*~be for reached the entrance *z4, and, turning, faced the woodchuck. The latter turned to run away, when the fox seized-him by the throat, and a life and- n~ struggle ensued, the fox being conitauit4onz the raggresive, and in about five minuteihe had the woodchuck hors do combat. He then took the car cass by the nape of the neck and trotted off. into the woods. Aus'rm (Tex.) .Review : While bath ing in Bear creek, Lembert Briott, a stone-cutter, was bitten by a water-moc an. After being thus wounded he made a dive for the shore, striking the ~ake from him, but had scarcely reached fe bak when he discovered that the snake was pursuing him. He made good his escape, but upon reaching his camp he disaovered that he was bitten on the anger, and, taking a coal of fire, burnt the flesh of his finger to the bone, thus destroying the poison of the bite. Eanetasin business If a la 4 Ansit, it Is of 'npor hing being but ,a0 in sOrco, e be an la of IM a efent ; perhaps t; ~1 ~ .he clothes it .His life, libert y Abe at stake. British Government is consider Asturbed by the recent movements aud. The peasantry are reported a be arming themselves, and frish American agents are said to be b'usy in tlwtry. The British railitary fore $~'the island is being daily increased, and during the long, dark nights, as a British Judge once remarked, lively work is anticipated4