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p . At' D reLmes, meRAnI, UDetIoA Axi To Tal xINxM&L INlTaIEST OF THE 001U TY. By Do F, BRADLEY A 0. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY NOVMI P'.R 1TA ITT N~ EWS GLrhkMes, Cedar Key, Fla,, ships 40,000 ish per week. lhq Alabama Insane llu4' hox 417 inmales. Florida will soon be a perfect network of railroads. Arkansas has a two years' supply of corn, oats and wheat. 4tlanta clashn to have the finest chatch bpidlig a~ the South. Jacksonville, 'Fla., li to have a new court house at a cost of $50,000. A large bagging factory will soon be added to the industries of ufaula, Ala bama. Out of the 1,243 convicts In the Geor gla chain gang camps, only 113 are wrhites. - The graves of the 264 Federal soldiers who were burne At Key .- West, Fla., have been marked by handsome head stones. A vast jtumount of cotton will go to waste in Arkansas, Texas and other cot ton States because of the scarcity of pickers. A bill will be introduced at the com-- I ing session of the Alabama Legislature < to exempt factory operatives from pay- I ing poll tax.. Between fifty and aixty thousand dol lars in Confederate bonds held by the I city of Lynchburg, Va., have been or dered to be sold. The Chattanooga Times says large numbers of farmers f rom Ohio, Indiana and Illinois are settling in the section contiguous to Chattanooga. At Sarasat's, in Charlotte's harbor, Fla., a Northern company is established and engaged in catching fish, for the purpose of extracting oil and manufac uripg it into guano. A Mississippi physician says the day is not far distant when cotton-seed oil will have taken the place of lard the world over. He pronounces it much I purer than lard and a great deal health. ier. I Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times :The deer on Cumberland mountain are dying with the black-tongue. No less than fifteen have been found dead within the e last ten days. Some cattle are dying , with it-. a A curious Indian relic was recently found near Hartsville, Tenn. It is at piece of stone about fifteen inches long, ' hollowed out in the shape of a police man's billy. It can be blown like a horn and evidently was used to summon ~ the warriors to assemble. Moscow Lamar -co Ala N ov 1d 182 Please put this Item in the JOURNA L 1 Mr. Elia, Chaffin of this county & State < Sayes he has made a close Astronomicle I investigation of the commit in the East and finds that there is a hole through the stare & the blase is caused by the rayes of the Sun shining through, like shining thirough an Anger, hole, Sub. scriber. Near Chattanooga, Ten, are several c Indian mounds which for years have at- a tracted archreologists from many parts I of the country. The largest mound in tho group wvas opened a few days ago and many akeletons, several pieces~ of pottery and other interesting Indian j relics found. The mound was dug mnto but a short dlistance, and will be further ] tunneled, A meeting of the cotton plan ters fronm I Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama met I at Memphis Monday to find some mears to successfully oppose the monopoly of the cotton-seed oil men. An organiza tion was effected under the name of the .d "Planters' Co-operative Association." i The planters allege* that the oil men I have portioned off the cotton country I and fixed prices for the seed, to the ' great detriment of the farmer. IHeroism of Lighthouse Keepers. Iti was a rand and heroic conceptiona I to build a ighthouse on the Eddystone, but what shall be said of the men whom first of all fried the experiment of dwell- e ing in the hlorrib~le isolation of that storm-beaten ediace, cut off from the rest of the world, uncertain whether the building would stand the test of thef storm, deafened by the roar of the a waters which sometimes would shoot t right over the hantern, or dash headlong against the lighthouse with fearfuli vio- ~ ience3, causing every part to vibraite asa though the whole fabrie wvere instan- 1a taneously going to pieces ? It is re- c norded that only two men attended the lighthouse built by Rudyard, and that one of them was seized with sudden ill ness and died. It was In the roughlest a time of year, and although the survivor hoisted a signal Of distres-, 1no boat .could reach the rock. What to do wit4i ' the dead body he did not know. At first - he thought he would throw it into the r sea, but he was hindered by the fear lest I the friends of the deceased might charge . him with the crime of murder. For a whole month the weather continued t boisteroita, and for that whole month i the solitar-y survivor kept the light all might now that his comnrado could no longer share the duty, wvatch b~y watch, with him, and for that whole month lhe kept the body of the dead man, although it had falleni into horrible corruption. (Jan any more terrible strait be conceived,< thaft that in which the brave fellow was | placed ? Yet we do not even knowv his )aame. All we know is that in adhuost, every gre.gt work of public utility in volvmng doe~s labor, if one or two' men hat te to the front and leftI their names for the admiration of pos.1 terity, there have always been a hundtred obscure heroes who have lived and died and left no sign, but without whose strong d reat hearts those ver iavo been liccom TOPICS OF THE DAY. A Paw in Dr. John Hall's Church, New York, sold the other day for 12,600. Tiu late Daniel Murphy, the Nevada "cattle king" left an estate worth about ;3,000,000. A Mmsrsarirx man has a "mad-stone" or which, it is said, he has refused a ash off'er of $7,500. Ricozmmy compiled statistics plae - he death rate from the administiation >f chloroform at one per 1,000. IN France and Germany, respectively, wo francs and two marks are the medical sharges for single visits, except in the ashionable watering places. HON. JEWETT ADAMS, who is elected 3overnor of Nevada on the Democratic icket, is a native of South Hero, Ver nont, and resided there until he wa. wenty-one years old. THE story that Langtry, when a .girl, ised to railk the family cow, is said to ,reate great excitemont among New forkers who have gotten rich by milk ng the lambs in Wall Street. "SPINsTERn dinners " are given b) )etrothed New York girls on the eve of heir weddings to friends of their own sex ixolusively, and they are chaperoned by he mammas of the morrow's bride and )ridegroom. A YOUNG missionary visiting Thibet or the first time, recently expressed hit, torror at finding the practices of Mor aonism reversed under the protection of he King of Cashmere. The law allows romen several living husbands. MADAME PAj'r, who is nervous when rossing the ocean, before stariing for kmerica, made her will, in Which he desires to be buried at Craig y-nos, and leaves a sum of money o be expended in instructing a nunber I poor Welsh boys with good voice rho may show a taste for music. WE are progressing in the science of pigrammatic signboard advcetising. 'Society for the Encouragement of Vearing Clean Shirts," is the latest de ,elopment, as seen flauntingly displayed ver a laundry establishment at Chat. iam and Pearl streets, Now York City. GENERAL GRANT'S new magnzine arti. Ie, entitled "An Undeserved Stigma," oucisely reviews the case of General 'itz John Porter, giving grounds for his ormer belief in Porter's guilt, and his >resent conviction of his entire inno. ence, and appeals to the Government snd the country for prompt nction in ?orter's behalf. . S . C. H~nn, a veterau name in iterature, announces for publicationi in Jarch next "A Retrospect of a Long .Afe," In which he promises to givec es; >ecial prominence to his recollections of reland sixty years ago, when ho says ie "frequently bought eggs eight tor a enny and chickens for eight pence(~ a ouple. There were no markets except n large towns, and there was no mode >f locomotion." STAFF COMMANDEn JAMES CHIAI(LIS LTKINdON, the oldest officer in the lBrit sh navy, has just (died at the age of one undred years. He commanded th~e ~enguii, and was captured and his essel destroyed by the American orvette Hornet in 1815. For the past ifteen years he had been qite{ blina, >nt otherwise retained all his facunltiesi rmimpaired up to the very nuonment of uis death. MaI. OLIVER AMF's. Lieutenant Co' rnor-elecjt of Massachu1setts, although iow a man of great wealth, was trained1 o work, and did work for years in his ather 's shops as a commoni journeyman hlovel-maker. The proficienevy lie at ained as a mechanio is shown by the ict that for several years hie alone mnatte 11 the prize shovels and other toohs ex ibited by the firm at fairs in this and thter countries. His example is being cllowed by his son, now twenty years Id, who daily work's at the bench and "vi'. G1exanAr NcOAs n)a PIIsuoLA, ex *resident of Peru, who is in Newv {'ork, is described as a dapper little aan, about five feet ive inches in eight, with a clear complexion, laugh ng brown eyes, dark wavy hair, mnous ache with long curled ends and an im >erial. His foot is as smiall and as heatly booted as a woman's, andl he has be grace of manner of a Frenchman. A high, broad forehead alone distin guishes him from the commonplace, and few streaks of gray in his hair are the >nly indications that he is forty-three rears of age. EOuE 1,atient German has collected itatistics of the capacity of the world's largest houses of worship. First on his list, of course, appears St. Peter's, at, Rome, which is capable of containing %4,000 people. Next comes Milan Ca bhedral, with 87,000; then St. Paul's, in Rome, with 32,000; Colognie, with 30, r)00 ; St. Paul's, in London, and the Ohurolh of St. Petronius, in Bologna, with 25,000 each ; the Sophia Mosque, In Oobistantinople, with 28,000 ; St. John Latera'n, at Rome, with 22,000; At. Stephen's, in Viena, and the oathedc al Ia Pisa M2,00 eabk BL Dominkt, in ,400; the Fraueakiroke, in . 000, and San Marco, in Ven. i0,7, St Patriaks Qathedral, in We* Y~ Is given a capacity of 18,000. A DzTnorr saloon-keeper advertises that he has paid. 800 for a year's liaense to sell liquors, but that he means to vol. untarily trict his business within eer taM mo boh4s. "To the wife who has a drukard for a husband," he says inn advertisement, "or a friend who is dissipaeId, I say, emphatically, give. me notice of such cases, and all such shall be excluded from may place. Let fathers, mothers, sisters, do likewise, and their requests shall be regarded. I pay a heavy tatffor the privilege of selling whisky and other liquors, and I want it distinctly. understood that I have no de sire to sell to drunkards or minors, or to the poor or destitute. I much priefer that they save their money and put it where it will do the most good to their families. Tirinn will be an effort during the next session of Congress to reduce the fee for patent rights from thirty dollars to one dollar-the fee now charged for copyrights. The thirty-dollar foe means an exauminlaion, but it is no guaranty of the value of a patent. neither is it a guaranty that the patent does not in any way infringe on other patents or inter ests. The expenses of the Patent Office will be redqced uander the new bill to less than one-fiftieth what they now are, and there will be more profit in con. ducting it, for, while the charge for pat ents is exorbitant, the expenses of run ning the'offloe are extravagantly large. The thousands of patents issued yearly that are never heard of afterward mean the support of a certain number of clerks in the Patent Office and a certain numn ber of patent attorneys who exist be tween the inventor and the Patent Office. It is claimed that there would be even fewer patents issued under the provisions of the proposed bill, and its effect would be in the end to increase the value of a patent-right. Panana Hats. Panania haits are principally manu -factured in Veraquas and Western Pan ama. Not all, however, known to comn ience by that name are plaited in the isthmus, by far a greatr portion being made in Manta, Monte Christi and other parts of Eeuador. The hats are worn il aliost the whole Anieiican continent and the West Indies, and Would probably be equally msed in Europeo did not their high p'icee (viary ilg from 82 to $150) prevent ther im .ortation. They are distinguishled h-omallothers b~y consisting onuly of a single lueen", and by their lightness andii Ile'xiblity. Thiey may be rolled up andk Put inito the poellket without injury. In the rainy season they are ap1t to get black, bunt by washing themi with hoap~ anld water, hwemring thlemi with limne jime. (Jr aniy other kind of acid, anid ex po4sm1g Ilth to the sun1, thieir whIit: neCS is easily restored. S)o little is kniowni abi out these hasts that it may no( t b e (out ofi place to give an aLcounlt ofi their manunfactuire. Thle "' straw " (paja ),pere vious to plaitinlg, has to unidergo everai p~rocesses. TheiC leaves are gathlere~d before they unfold, all- their coarser vemns removedl and the rest, without h~eiig se.palrated froma the bease of thet IQlves, is reduced to shred~S. After having b~en e'xposed to the sun for a daiy, and tied into a knot, the s'raLw is immersed in boiling water until it be comies white. .1 t is then hung up in a1 shatdy la~ce, anid subs ,equen~tlhy bleaichied for two or three days. T1he straw is now ready tor use, and' in' this 'state is sent to dhilerent places, especially to Teru, where the' Indiiants maxnfacture frv'm it tho~se b eanatifiul cigar cases whe oe timeis bring ars high as $30 each. Thle plaliting of the hats is very trouble som114. It collmmences atL the erown anid finishies at the brim. The bats aire made onl ai block, which is plau-ed on the knees, andut requlired to b)Ceconsxtanitly pressedl with thme breast. According to their quality, more or less time is )ceu p)ied in the cocmpletin--the cearser onies may1 b~e finishI ed ini two or three (ays, w~hileI the tiniest miay' take as many mioniths. The best times for pl1aitinlg are' thme monlinig hours and thea rainy' s'*ason, wheni thet air is mioist. In.1 the middle of thle day an id in dryli, clear weather, t he straiw 5is apt to breakl, and this, when the hat is linishetd, is betrayedl by knots, 1and( muchl imlinishIe' the vahte.-.Ja.r Orighin of the Itursesh~oe Superstition. In the very early times, says ai writer in Iia/dwin'' Monw/h/.g, amnong the Celtic rnace anf effigy of the patroni saint, so commlnon in churches and temples, was miuch used in thme dwellings and shiops of the people, as a so-calledl " prote Lion " against ill-fortune. The " glory " above the head of these !lgurew-which later was often rudely carved in wood and painited--was represented by3 a circular piece of polished metai, to convey the effi'et of the shining halo or mmbuslt1 frequently seen in illustrations of the Virgini andl other scriptiure subl jects. Often this metal imtms was of semi-circular form ; andl~ after the figure itself had dlisappeared, iEy reason of de eay, the ~nmbus remained anmd was sus~ penided inl some1 promhinent l~ae at the entrance door or other point command in view. Tile effigiea mn question were not uncommningly seen by the side of theo doorway. In course of time the nim bus was much used as5 a subs5titute for the latter, and was sold1 ini shops for this pulrp)ose. The tralditioni of good luck, as5 emi b)odie'd ini the hors.eshoo theory, may thus he easily traced, since it becameI- a conmmoni occurrence, ini thme due (curse of timel, for the faiithfuil aidherent in the belief ini charml~s andl syimblols tdp the horseshoe worr, to brightness, i h aibsencee of any otheri, 'which lie nmailed over his cottage-door. Hence a piece of metal of this shape became associated in the commflon inld with supernaturat presentCte and care, ini keepitg with the belief attaching to th orig izu Q reo the patron saint, A COUNTRY TA NEKBGIVING. A closo the great barn door Th mllw aret tm1 'erl The earth has given her treasureemeet Of golden corn and hardened wheat. You anli your neighbors well have wrought, And of the summer's bounty caught; Won from her smiles and frm her tears Much goods, Orhaps, tot many year. You comn tribute now to pal The bells proclaim Thanks vinR Day. Well have you sown), well have you reapadz Ani of.the riches you have heaped, You think. perhaps, that you will give A prt, that others, too, may tLve, But If such argument you us, Your niggard bounty I refuse. No gits you on the altar lay In any sense are given away. . 'ings from Iaven a voice abromic "Who helps God's poor doth lend the Lord." What is your wealth? He'd have you know To have it, you must let it go. Th'nk you the hand by Hiowen struck cold Will yet have power to clutch its goldt Shrouds have no pockets, do they say? lioloid, I show you then the way: Wait not till death shall shut the door, but send your curgue on beforo. LoI he that givet'h of his hoard To help God ' poor doth lend the Lort]L ro-dty. my brethrer,-.o not waitg Yonder standR Demo Kelly's Iate; And would you build a mansion fair in Ileaven, send your lumber therm. Fach st!ckc that on her wood-prio lie May raise a dome beyond the skiost You stop the rents within her walls, And yonder rise your marble halls; For ev(ry patio that stops the wind There shineth one with jasper HIned. Your wealth is gone, your form lies cvl But in the city paved with gold Your board Is hold I v hands Divine; It bears a namu that marks It thine. Iehold tLe tbargain ye have nmado With usury the debt is paid. No moth doth eat, no thieves do steal, No sullering boart doth envy fool. ling out tho word.4: 'Who or h's hoa,1 loth help God's po'>r doth lend the Lord I Go get your cargo-s under way: The bAts riux out Thansgivinir DayI A M MORABLE THiANKSGIiNG. Thanks'ivin- week was always a busy veek at tfe Gates homestead, bmt it seemed to Dear that it was busier this yeat- than ever. She couldn't q'ite un derstand it, either, for as they were coming home from church on hunday she heard her mother say to Aunt Mar garet, with a little break in her voice. that .she had "no heart for Thanksgiv ing this year." Dear knew why, and she thought they Would have a sorrow full '11Thankgiing, or, perhaps, no0 T'hanksgrivingr at all. But 'Iuesday mo ning there conid b3 no do bt that they were to have 'Thanks Pvmng th's year, for therd was what .iptop called a "'bonf ire"' made in the great brick oven in the kiteheni, which. smnee D)ear's remenombrance, was opened and hteatedl on ly durna Than kngi ving' Wek. Tipfopi mountod'a cha.r so that hie coul I se' into the ovwn, and shouted "Fl:e!"' anid danced in ecstasy till, for get ting t hat ho had only a chair-hottom for a tioo:', h'e danced off, and bruisedl his nose, aind had to be comnforte.t by 1 ear ju st when~j she wva- so buiy steei raisins,.lo Roundtop. anid Siuarotop e mnted it a great privilege to) bring in the lo ng sticks of hickor'y 'wood to heat the. oven, each holding an end, tnyggng It along with great gravity arnd an occas'onal fall on their to)es, and. if ther wore al lowved to) thust a small stici into t he oven, their satisfac'tion was e mpllete. 1)ear p~aulsed, in hier huirrlied trips. ii brough the kitchen, to loo'( into the 1 la e:ne depths and think of Shadrach. MeshacS anid A bed nego. Theun they all stood around to see the coals drawn out andl the oven swept- and whenr their miother, holding her hand far in to test the temuperatureo, )iofemnly dechired it was "' just. rght,'' they wat ched treathlessly while thre loaf-('a 0 andit spice-c.ake and cook 'es wer'e care folly put in, and breat hed a1 deep sigh of relief when the oven door closed upon the g :Od thigscommnittedl to its keeping. h ednesday~ morning th3 oven wvas heated again, and filed wvith m'nce Pies, which camoe out so delighitfuilly brown and so delicisly fragrant that tihe Gates children grew desperately hutngry, and thou ght Than ksgivung never would come. And then such pumpkin -pies, and apple-pies, and tarts, andl at last, as the evening drew on, great batches of brown br'ead andt rye bread aind wvheat bread filled the oven to the door WVhen the chicken-pie and1( turkey 'were ready for tile oven next day, the tired mother dropped into the low rocking chair, and .takin g Tiptop on her tap, looked wearil - into the i re. "Let me hold rIptop, mamma," said Dear, thinking how tired her moth er' was; but her mothmer made answer only by holding Tipto; with a closer arm. The c'hih~fren gathered around as the twilight onme on, and sitting there, waited for their father to como. Grad ' ally silence fell upon them all, broken only by the subdued roaring of the fire In the stove, and the loud ticking of the clocki on the mantel-shelf. As Dear listened, how vividly came back that sorrowful night when she stood andi heard the clockc tiecking loud or and louder, ns Tiny gently breathed her life away; and it seemedl to Dear that she would never aain hear the clock ticking in the nlght without think ing of that scene. She glanced at her mother, and (did not wonder that she had no heart for Thanksgiving this year. Indeed, she thought they all had more cause for complaint thari thanks giving. Half blinded by tears, she startd up, andI, going to the window, looked out. It was a frosty, starlight night. There 'was no snlow on the ground, hut here and there patches of ic'e were forminvr over the pools of still water leftby the heavy fall rains. "WThy don't papa co: P" said Tip topm, fretrully.. " Ho will come soon," said the mueter. soothingly, and, in obedience to an ohld habit, began absrent-inindedly humming Greenville, the 6ne tune she knew, and by whose aid she had year after year h 'mnmus thme Gates babies to sloew. ithe first 1nli in thh knmmin.. Sover him with the lantern, saw his eves i suddenly open. He looked about flim in a bewildered way, and then clutehed at the reins thAt were still in his han4s, shouting: "Whoa, Fan. whoa!" ''hen lie slowly raised himself on his elbow, and seeing the planks scattered about hilm muttered: "Why! she's got away." " Are ye much hurted, sur?" asked Biddy, coneeruedly, taking his arm ai if ihe woild help him to hs feet. "I don't know, I'm co!d," said he, slowly. " An' well ye mzight be, lyin' In all that, wather," and she tolI him how they had rbuod in lying in the gutter. with the pl-tks 0,7"r him, but not on him. and the water around h:.. " Is that you, le-trP and has the horse gone home?" asked he after a moment, the little, shak ng figure beside Yes. oava." and all at once the convulsive sob.i leaped Doyon(t her con trol, and she fell on her knees, <puite unable to say or do anything but sob. The sght and the sound of her sobs did more than anything else to restore her father to himsolf. With Biddy's heir lie slowly rose from the ground, and , after standing a ruomen t, he said, steadily: "I believe I am all right, only cold -And a little confused. The fall must have si1unnoil m1e, and but for your help, my good woman, I should have bjeen at dead man soon. "Jt was ver littl0 gurl tould us. We shouldn' t have known." le held his hand to Dear, and 4he ctaught it and he'd it under her chin, still miable tb S peak. Dl)o ye think ye could walk, sur? Ye' ve no right to be standin' hero wid yer wet clothes.' 'I hus ad monished t hey began to move. Biddy and Mike and the "laulthern' went with them to the t)op of the hill. By that time Harvey Gates h:td obta'ned full wossession of himself, and he bade Biddy good night, te!ling her he would see her on the morrow. -Now, Dear," said he, '-run home and tell your mother. quietly, that the t wagon broke down. but that I am all right, and will be in directly." It was not until near noon the next day, when Dear broke into an irrv'jres ible fit of sobbintr. I hat her mother knew how near death Tiad been to them that night. She turned very white, and after a moment said: ''Children, we have great reason to be thankful today." A little later Harvey Gate caie in. He had been down with Luke to get the planks out of the road and to see Biddy McCoy. le told a pitiful story of the poverty in the littlo shanty. "o There will be no Thanksgi Ving supp'" there to-day," he said. Mrs (Gates winceo a little. She was a thriftv woman, and it was not easy for her to un(lerstand the blessedness of giving. " And such a baby. such a little mite of a baby!' continued Harvey Gates, as if speak'ng to himself. "A baby:'' repoated Mrs. Gates, pauL1sm~g en1 her waly to the oven; "did you sary lBiddy h~ad a baby 1" "Yes, and the poor ht tle thing looks a half starved.'' ".\amma,' said D~ear, eagerly, t "why~ can't we have themi all up here f to Tlhanksgivlng suipper?~ We've got enoughi for them.1' iarey Gtesghtanie'd at his wife. After a mfoment's hes'tat ion she sa1 t "'Yes, they~ can (come, 1 suppose0~&, if there aLin't. more'n forty or fiftv of 'tem;"' and she open'l-d t lie~ overi 'door and basted the turkey with eergv. "' hIar vey,'' she enlledl, as she lieard hin 1jjC going toward the door, "'tell II ddv to brn zj the babv; ande h'-re. You t ake 'that ~ thiiek shaLwh iri the entry 'to wrap) it. up warm." t And so thie Mc('ov' s had the gr~nand''st ~ Tfhianksgivinz supiper of their live4; t and1 no morm thanikfl comp~any gat hered in New England that day, the Gates family feeling very tender ocer their a eaca jc irom a ra ahmt.-J hn Re. tak,. in , a. Taies. t-~"~in By rnaans of a little instrment called ~ tesphiygnmogriaph, the pulse-beats may ~ he(ccurate'ly and pe'rmaneni.Itly record- ~ e-d. And now Dr. B. W. Richaardson, ~ LL.D., F. R. S., of Lodon~hf, by aiddig ' ai miicrophuone to a sphiygmnograph, hals I constructed a sphygmophone, by wvhichi th-plse-bet may be heard forty feet ~ away, It seems that the sounids heard cor re'spond to) those of the heart, and are three in number, one long and two ~ *short, resemnbling the words "' bother it." ~ The three sounids areC caused(, tlie first by I conatrav'tion (of the ventriele, as it throws the bhxxd into the a4)rta, a'nd the other ~ t wo by the closing of the valve behuind it aind the recoil of the arterial! column, i asM thle conI1traIctionl (systole) is fijinihed. t is found thiat theculiatr sounds of a thehart,'hien disqcaud, and1( by which thpyiian's~l earI iuseertaints its condli- C thionhave their corresponding sounds at ~ the pulse. As, for instance, thiose heard C whe~re there is aL de'fctive valve that a)- t lows the blood, which shold1 be thrown forward, to regurgitate into the chamber ~ bpehind. Another interesting facet appears, viz., that IL per~son's pulse is qluicken'led I y his ~ highter-, the sound sometimes seeming almost like an echo of the laug~h. Per hap~js this may hal to exlaun the lhv- I gieine value ofia hearty laugh to one Ini i a de l~pressedl and mlanilchiolie cond~itionl. Ini severe palp)itation the sounds are Iall lost in ai sort of loud whirr as from a revolving wheel. When the pulse-beats are over ninety a minute, there is, together with the or dinary sounds, a continuous soiund re sembling what is healrd when a shell is held to the ear-po)ssibly caused by the friction of the blood against the walls of the artery. It is thought that the sphygmnophone may be very useful in detetmng minute and( obscure p~ulaations in different pa~rts *of the body- Youth's Companion. I--A venerable darkey, seventy years *old, had beena chaining r'elatilonship with coataini Washington famiilies of color, and by telling them that he was richi, pronbis'n g that he would remembher tloem in his will and exhibiting to them rolls of bills, which he said were gen:- t ine, so worked upon their sceptibii ties that he borr owed money right and 5 loff,, nnd was entertained as a Mitscotte. y One day hie was snissed,--uNs/fington i Pos "s No; he went down to the cotton mull with a load of' bobbins, and he ought to be here by this time." "May I go a little way uad meet him?" asked 1ear. " Yes,"-remrrember;ng that Dear had bon in the huuse all day--" only first light a candle and make the tea, and put more wood in the stove, and bring me Tiptqp's night-dress, and untie the boys' shoes, and woar your hood, and don't e gonerlong.'' Dear had closed the outside door. ready to start on a run, when she heard old 1'an's whinny in the direction of the barn. "Papa has come, and is unhar nossing Fan," thought she, fiel~ug a little dIsappointed that she could not meet him and ride home. Instead, she turned to the barn. At the stable door stoud old ln, steaming as if she were har n a vapor bath. - Papa had a loau honie," thought Dear, as she went up to pat Fan. But what was that she stopped on? A thill? Yes, a broken thill. still hanging to the harness. Startled, Uear glanced around the yard. The wagon was not there, and now she saw that only a part of the harness was on the horse, and that was trailing on the gruun(L Be:ore this in her heart had time to take shape, Dear opeined the stable door and let Fan in, and, carefully closino the door, ran for the street. 'The roa3 over the top of the hill lay like three narrow foot-paiths. with straight rAdges of turf between, and alonz these narrow paths )ear sped with ;ying feet. strain ing hereyes to see she dared not think whant. At the brow of the hill she paused and looked down. The road wound like a brook down the long hill-side, turning to the right and to the left, with hero and there steel) pitches and many bars, till it was lost'in the dark ness far down toward the valley. As far as her eyes could reach there was noti ng unusual tq be seen; hut at her feet lay a broken harness strap. Up that road Fan had come, and down that road I)ear mnust go. ( n and on. over bars and pitclies, sal: e'y touching the ground, loose stones hit by her feet flying beore her, till, suddenly, halfway dowin the seep est pitch, she caie to a place in the road where the stones and the gravel had been )lowod up as if by the plung inr of a horse. Here la - the wagon seat. A little fart her on Lay two or t bree planks acro.s the road, and at the foot, of the SteeP pitch lay, on its side, a wrecked lumber wagon, which had run backward till it capsize 1; and across the steep gutter by the road-side lay a loa' of plank n% hen had slid from the wagon as it, vent over. Here was a part of the bro' en reins belonging to the harness, with th2 ends under the load of plank. The wagron was her father's, Dear knew that; but Where was her father? She stood and looked on either' side. up the hill and down into the valley. Nothing mo bd; there wats not oven wind enoug-h to bend the tall dead1 grasses by fthe road-side, and nlo sound( was to be heard in all the still night but the purling and babblino of the little brooks that had gullied fleep ohantnels in the wvater-wvays on either sido'of the road. D~our could bear this silence no longer. "Papapaa where aid vou?"' and the wild cr-y wvent up the hbll-side and down into the valley, bringing no an swer '0 papa, papal what shall 1 (10?' she cal led again, and as she listened withI str-amnmg earis, she heard, or thought she heatrd, a low mo) 13 near her. She dropped on her knees. "PapIa, pala, are you here?" It wvas a praye r now. Surely she Iheard a sound as if in 'inswer, and it seemed to come fronm the plank that had slid over the gutter. In an instant D~ear was over there pe'e ing' among~ t h planks. She could see' nothing. but she cotuld heir a soui p'.inly now. She troed withj frantic hiaste to raise the planks. but there was not strength enioughi in her small arms for that, and almost without thought she dlarted, not uip the hill to her mother, hut down into the black valle y at the foot of the hill. wvhere a car-path leading from the woods imetrsected the road. Along this (lark path, overgrown with atlders, she went till she cnme to a lowi shanty built between two trees, and, bursting open the door, she ero I: "0 Biddy McCoy! come qunick: some thino dreadful has happened on the hill.Y' "What ls't ye r sayin'?'' said the startled Bididy, starting fronm her seat; but as D~ear was already out of door-s, sihe added, suiting t he action to the words: "' iere, Bridget, tak the babby, and yotu Mike,'' to a stup1id1 boy by the fire, " get yer lauthern and come a long;," and withbout waiting to put any thing on her head she followed lDear. T1hie child was already' out of saght, but Biddy wont on at a sounding- gallop till sho came to the foot of the hiill. Thereo '-he saw the smial ligture flying before her and bee'<ouing her on. "'Shume, an' somethin' dreadiul hazs happened,"' said the breathl.*s h~ddy, crossing- herself as she camo up1 to thIo wrecked~ wagon. " Is any one hurtodi'" as. 1ear- e lied her to help. "' a't afraid-'m airaid there's some one under the pianks," gasped D~ear, trying singlehanded to lift the load. hlere. gurl, that's no way to warruk, tak' the top one first. Mike, yo lazy sowl, get along wid yer lantherun!"' iind her voice wvent down the hillside like the blast of a trumpet, starting even the slow Mike into a run,. " There hould that,"' said she.hand ing the lantern to D~ear, andI wit hi Bid dy's stout arms at one end aid Mike's at~ the other, the planks were Ilunag over into the r-oad. Decar hel her breath, and before the planks wer-e all oti' they couldl see thait a man lay' there stroe~tehed in the bedi of the guatter. TIhe planks were over~ himn like a r-oof, or the cover' of a box, and, when the last one wats o!T', Pear saw her21 fat her's fa e, still and whi to, but she Cold niot it ter' a1 sound(. H lowl r Mother, hlp uts?' ea neuhated Rld1iv. "Take his feet, Mike, andh: itllp get hiim out of tie wather. lIe'll be or-owned intirely if he's no kilt alreadly."' For as hie lay (lamming up the nalot'-w channel, tihe choked watter' had( r.'en~ and spread around him in an ever-rising pool. As thev took hira tp antd la'd hunt down in 'te road, the motion seemed ;o rouae him~ to life. for liddy, stannnm NUMOROUU. -L1 is with some nsothera in the treat anent of their children as with fire. work& Frst the rock it and then th stick. -oston Transcript. --"Johnne," said mamma to her lit. tle son, " didn't I tell you not to eat that candy until after dinnerP" John. Wie, who lisp.: ",I- A:,t eating the candy, I'm' only thucking the julthe." -Lawrrnce American. -" Did you see the moon over your right shoulder, my dear?" -aid she to him as they roamed down the walk. "N-n-no, not exnctly; but I just saw the old wan over ay left shoulder, and I'll bid you good-night." -An oil producer was requested to give a judgment note for a dcbt he owed, but firmly refused, saying: "No, sir. I will itever elgn a judgment note. I did It once, and 1 come very near hav ing to pay it."--i Cit y Dorrik. --A vague but liorr'blo rumor is be Lng handed around with blanched lips Ihat Oscar Wilde will marry and sett e In America. Just a few more stravs on tbe dromedary's back and the war with the mother country will be inevitable. EVa3ville /trgue.' -Two of a kind: An anxions-ta-marrv young mtin, Gettig-dolliara-duy young man, w hasn't iteny Never learned to wave any, DepeniUing-un pi yOug mai. A dt-hinir-n nj-gay younx girl, A m.t-ug .t-night young girl, It hoei mi does the work lke th- Wlave of a Turk. An lntertutighrbe:n y,'tu ).r gin. --The follow;ng conversation between wo hiLrd-looking cases, was overheard n the alloy in the rear of the Texta flinq/s olice: " What are you goin V o do for a living this winter.," ''I'l have to break into some house or other, I reckon." '- Then you "'ill be locked Lup in jail." "In.that case 1l have to break out. I am bound to m:ike a break of some kind or other." --A worldly fater, a'ter the style of l.ord Chesterfield, is giving good ad- ice to his son, who is about to enter socie ty: '-And. above all, avoid flirtations. But if you uitst flirt, or fall ia love, sir, be sure that it is witli a I re ty woman. It Is always sa'er." "Why?' '"Be. rause some other fellow will be sure to ot attracted an I to ut you ut befor(: m?4trim has been (ione. arIs lid. Teaching the Colt. Every farmer shoufd be as warm an Rdvocate and steadfast practicer of hu nanity toward arinials as Mr. Bergh ould desire. '1ak( it, indeed, entirely in the basis of profit and loss, and ien leness aid thorough kndness are bet er than any harshness. T1he farmer tns so much to do with animals that pa ience is an Indispensable virtue. All nimals are easily confused and terri led by irritability andl ill usage. Colts are extremely sensitive to any change n the feeling of the dIriver. A nervous :olt will be rendered almost unmnanage Lble by a fretful manner displayed to it; md not on that occasion alone, but ev ary time the person app~roaches it, it is ill nervousness and confusion. A cole >i such a nature never forgetsQ and sel lom forgives. A pet otre of mine was bree years in part ally forgivinug a man who threw her when about three nonths old. Ho could not catch her in lie lot, aud she would keep as far away Ls p)ossible when he fed her'. His en rance to tihe stable was a signal for a ialf nervous, half spiteful display of em per. She was not vicious, but it wvoul d have required but little to make ier so. Half the staky, balky, wicked iorses are madle so by some mismanagre nent of the breaker. Farmers desire, r should diesire', gentle, tractable orso4, such that the ladies will not be mfraid to drive, or on occasion to catch Lfnd harness. The colt should be handled andl hal cr-broken as soon as p~ossibile after oaling. If this is (lone in the pre~sence. I the mothcr, a little care should be sken not to irritate her, or a seat on be fence may be both convenient and esirable. It Is a general belief that lie colt is sightless until ten days old; so, It does not interfere at ali in andling or petting It. The best time o halter-break is at about three weeks f age. For breaking to the harness, f course each one has his own peeuliar otion, and each way its own peculiar divantages. But really t he proper way a break is lirst to the saddle and thou o the sulky. Iut when it seems a lit le excited and stUpid, or as some per ist in dleclarink, ugly, a little coaxing uid pettin g will do more good than any mount of whipping. A measure of oats is a very good aId > voice and caress, to impr1ess ulpon bie animal that whatsoever is d'one rl Is commendable and worthy of ontinuing to do. Nothing is so dif cult but that such an incentive, under patient, withI gentle guidance, it vill Iattemp~t. When the colt is onfused, triedf and over-excited, o amount of impatient reitera ion or harsh measures can make t und(erstand any commiandl; but twill become more and more excited md loss able to do or understand any hing. To make the colt step) over~ the hafts is anm act re 1uiring much patience ~nd forbearaunce, and is generally at ended by, on1 the part of the colt, a ervous fear and dIread, which brings im on the opposite s'de, andl by pro anlity, anger and brutality on the part f the man, which only renders the colt 'adly to shy and balk at everything, and nally, perhaps with a soliced shaft, tartedl on the projected rid'e; wvhen with oolness and calmness he might he oaxed into the shafts and sooni made to ndlerstand, anid willing to do what was xpected of him. A wvhy should be a hmng only used on occaslion, and then ever more than one or two strokes. 'he common hired man should never e trusted with it. To have the colt do roll from a desire of com mendaition and eward is as well as for children. Peot *nd love the colt and have patience with b, and It will repay all the care ex iended, in a thousand ways. Patience, atience, pat'ence. should( he0 writ ten ver every barn door in the land. firror and Farmer. --A few da1ys ago a youngi~ lady and a oung man of 1adsden, Ara., were so :aretly married. It wats considered hest to keep the ma:'riage a secret for a few days, and accordingly the youmg lady returned to the house of her father and the young manIU retuirned to hs batch ,ior lodgings. Tlhe next day his heart Iearned after his~ bride, and he wvent to ier father's anid demanded hier. 'rho p)arents refused to give her up, as she was on1ly sixteen years old. In the neantinme the ardor of the young lady's tilection hiaud cooled and she declined to ro with her husband. Th'lo vounn man