Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.4 -* ' VOL. IR..NO. 18 ' '* -r . ~ 9 4 .k * ~I~m ? I----- so _o iio t80 evaa ares 8540 haabieen @olleet-u 'ing a monument to 8en oo Qasette says the sofhea moninArlnaansthis IUI aa ger than evsr bejfore. '.1bea has over 8,000,000 acres of -land.,s.bjeet to entry un sted ad pte-emption laws. nad, Va., b fifty factorles, resentIog.a .capital. of, $4,000,00 ales for 1881 iggregated $11,250. the debt of Memphis is four and a millions and the Avalanche says it ng At the rate of $270,000 per e .1athern paper estimate that at sesit 100 cotton gins have burned thiy pbaion. Manyof the ros wereincen diary. The general local option petition hiaIoh Is to be presented to the Georgia Zaislature in a few days is 800 feet in ength. bill has been introduced in the 4 eorqia Legislature to require all the ..Ualihed voters In the State to register hfbre voting. A bill introduced in the Alabama Ligislature provides that the study of the laws of health be introduced into the.public schools. the North Carolina peanut crop wil "this fear reach 140,000 bushels. The nuts are of better qtiality than any grown during the past fve ypars. Fifty-one, women from Northeast Qorgia left Atlanta a day or two ago fqr .omes and husbands in Utah, hav I' been converted to the Mormon The dam across the Chattahoochee river, at Columbus, Ga , is nearly com. Pleted. It is the largest in the South, * aind contains about 200,000 feet of solid masoniry. Virginia will soon have the largest1 iron furnax in the United States. The Victoria furnace, in Rockbridge coun ty, now nearly ready to put in blast, will daily produce 200 tons of iroii, Georgia has more illiteratesa than an other State in the Union> North Caro ina is second on the list, Alabama third, Virginia fourth, Tennessee fifth and Mississippi 8ixth. . Geological examination reveals in the delta of the Mississippi, along a space of 800 miles, ten distinct forests of bu, tied trees. Bald cypresses with a diam 4ten of twenty-five feet have been *fond. 1Rev. Geo. W. Balker and wife have sued W. A. Huff; proprietor of the Markham House, Atlanta, for $10,000 damages for injuries sustained by M rs Baker by being bitten by rats while a guest of the hotel last summer. Male relatives of the girls employed in the Nashville manufacturing estabs lisliments are acting as detectives, on their own y~olit ion, to punish fast young men who are in the habit of insulting working girls on their way home after dark.. -The Columbus (Ga.) Enquiror says there is a probability that the Cotton -~ and Woolen IRutual Manufacturers' .In surance Company, a Northern institu tion, will extend its borders so as to take in Soeuthern cotton and woolen mills. Austin Statesman : In the most relia ble quarters the crops of Te xas for this ,.esson are estimated at 1,400,000 bales of cotton and 150,000,C00 bashels of corn. Texas DOW stands first on the list of Southern States in the produc tion of cotton and corn. Great excitement exists in Franklin and Wake counties, N. 0., over the wholesale- killing of hogs blonging to the farmers. .They allege that the hogs have been poisoned by tramp peddlers an the interest of Western pork packers 8carcely twenty live hogs are left in the tiro counties. . Bills in the interest of temperance lire eorihuming a great deal of the time of ';the Georgia Legislature. Many coun ties want the sale of whiskey within their borders prohibited altogether, while others ask-that the license be fix-. ed at $1,000, $10,000, and even $20.--. 000 per year. * Atlanta has a candidate for Mayor rwho proposes, if elected, to gradually reduce taxation until, at the end of fif A' tee~n years, the city government can be rug without one cent of cost to her cit hies. The scheme proposed by the can diaate is pronounced feasible by many prominent citizens of that place. + John Milton and another colored man Aimied Long entered a Vicksburg (Miss) saloou, and a .wager being agreed upon --R~ them as to their relative capac Itir sterlag awa y whiskey, a drink ing toirnmasset was begun, the bill to bs~ settled by the one who drank the indtr MRii succeeded in drinking d Iits. . His funeral occured the es ~.t evening. .. A Waiter. *'il i lese pass the milk Min~ WAMAb Aral* IT 2s gently whispered that Mrs. LAntr drinks ber regularly. SiU usand petitions, bearing 679,000 signatures, in favor of a Sunday closing bill for, England, have already boon Presented to Parliament. A SAN Fnaiarsoo club has been or ganized which has as its aim the nomi nation of Robert T. Linooln for the Presidency of the United States in 1884. Dunme the past twelve months Amer ican newspapers have been received by mail in England at the rate of . more than 25,000 a day, or 10,000,000 a year. Tan Geath is annonnoed from thze western coast of Africa of King Omora. He leaves 700 widows. Of his ninety live children seventy-seven are still alive. Him oldest son has 400 wives. DUBnme_ the Egyptian war a column of leaded telegraphio messages cost the London newspapers from $1,000 to 11,250. en shillings and two pence (about $1 .8) per word was the r oharged. . Eurra ZoLA wrote to the Connecticut parents who had named their boy after him, advising that he- be made a man of science, rather than trained for "the career of literature, where there is noth ing to reap but bitterness and disap pointment." IT Is thought at Washington that the Mississippi River Committee will report favorably upon the jetty system, and in substantial opposition to the experimen Sal system of improvements now being conducted at such vast cost between Cairo and New Orleans. ACQoRDING to Supervising Inspector Damont's rep6rt, in the year 1851 there were 89.000,000 passengers carried in steamboats with aloss of 700 lives-anav erage of one life lost for every 55,700 per sons carried. In the last fiecal year there were 854,000,000 persons car ried and 205 lives lost-an average of only one to every 1,727,000. A rairrn from St. Petersburg of re cent date states that Russia is unable to compete in the European markets with wheat grown in the United Statos. It oosts much more to grow wheat in ]Rus sia than in this country, and the average product per acre is only one-third iuio former of what4 is in the latter. Lead ing merchants consider America the granary of the world. SENATOn DAVID DAvIs lives in a verit able palace, in the ,center of a hand some and spacious park, just outside the city limits of Bloomington, Illinois. From the lofty turrot that surmounts his mansion he can view fertile fields that aire all his own, extending almost to the horison, to the north and east. It is reported his contemplated wedding has been postponed until next spring, at the request of his affianced. H AtuIET BERnnRI STOWE is very proud of her achievements as an orange grower at her charming winter home of Mandarin, In Florida, about twenty miles south of Jacksonville. Her grove, which was set ont when she established herself there not long after the war, numbers something over one hundred trees, and from seventy-five of them she now reaps an Income of 61,500 a year. THUnrLOW WEED'S autobiography, though left Incompiete by him, will be published. The Albany Argue reports his grandson, Thurlow Weed Barnes, as saying: "The editorship of the woi-k will probably devolve upon mhe. The manuscript of the first volume Is corn plete, but the rest is fragmentary. My grandfather seemed to think he had plenty of time, and though we urged him to finish the work, he did not has ten It." __ _ _ _ _ _ _ CANADA has adopted the system of competitive examinations of candidates for admission into the civil service. It is now charged that the protectionist Ministry has hit upon an ingenius method of ascertaining the political views of candidates for government po sitions and rejecting or admitting appli cants aqcordingly. In some recent ex amin ation papers the apparently harm less question was asked: "Who was Ricbard Cobden?" If the candidate In reply show, any enthusiasm for Cobden as a free trader he doesn't get an ap vointmnent, Mvz. NfrasoN-Ro aEAUD received a few days ago, fn Baltimore, a large en velope bearing the Paris postamark of November 6, and the address,."Madame Christine Nilsnson, New York," to which some post-office employe added, "North America." Without postage or further directions It had come from Paris to New York. to Boston. and finally to Baltignore. It was found to contain an invitatidn to the wedding, in Paris, October 20, of the M~rquis Ferdinand Guell de Bourbon, Secretaryv to the Spanish Embassador in raris, to Senorita Maria Josefa Alfonso y Guell. TEM anatrimonlal insurance swindlers Will *nd It dIcoult to continue their op @*$S~5thrughthe mails hereafter. ar money orders will .*41ostoc Do a list of ors detailed for the purpose. The great- V eat number are located in Tennessee and Mississippi, where it is said they continue to operate in spite of the expo. sures which have already been made v concerning their fraudulent character. Under the watchful supervision of the V postal authorities, however, their days will soon be numbered. A 3mMoD of preventing pitting in smallpox is given in the Gasete deo Bovitaux. A maak is inade of very plia ble linen cloth, leaving apertures for the eves, nose and mouth, and the inside of this is smeared with a liniment prepared in either of the .three following ways: One of these contists of carbolio acid. tour to ten parts, forty parts olive oil and sixty parts prepared chale; another, five parts carbolio acid, and forty parts each of olive oil and pure starch ; and a third, two parts thymol, forty of linseed oil and sixty of chalk in powder. The mask should be renewed every twelve hours, and compresses impregnated with one of these mixtures may also be placed on the hands, and on any parts of the face which the mask does not directly touch. BALm Monsa Is actively engaged in the preparation and rehearsal of the Passion Play at New York (Jity, which he proposes to put upon the boards within the next sixty days. Whether or not this second attempt to introduce this performance to the public will be suo cessful, is a question concerning which varied opinions are expea ed., Mr. Morse seems to be backed by ample capital. He recently purchased a bnild ing in New York, and is expending sev eral thousand dollars in remodeling and furnishing it in a manner appropriate to the solemnity of the play. His purpose, as expressed in an interview a few days ago. Is not to make money, but to present in a striking and affecting manner the suffering and crucifixion of Christ. He claims that the play will be the direct means of familiarizing the masses with religion and the teachings of the Savior who would otherwise re main in total ignorance. The estimated cost of the production is $1,00 per night. The number of performers will exceed three hundred, all amateurs. No professional actors wfil be allowed to take pr-rt in the play. A Baby Cas'hage hi fhe Hall. A baby carriage ia the hall. The happiest piece of furniture that any house canboas:111 t, always making an honorld2 exception in favor of the cradle. TI at baby carriage means a home. Without it, onflya place to stay in. It means a "dear little dimpl3ed darl ing"--th a t ma2kes suulshinle all tne time wheni it halsn't got the colic. It mean:I!s a haipp'y inother, whose life is filled with all tender care, all sweet r~espon'sibI ilit ies, all wvonderful hope for th future. It means a father who holds his head up aongmen iththe ranestdig To mother it is ''Baby." Tfofaither it is "My boy." That:hlaby carriage in the hall means all the wealth of rosy hours as mother sings lullaby songs-perhaps, "1i~~ Hl:s mydir, lin still arnesittmber, Holyengls gta ltly bt'd."' Wheni atll the time she is the angel that God appoinited to guardl it, as none of all high heaven's host conl (do. It means a word of plans and p)rojecte which all conter in that 0one little life It means a father that studies his ba k halance with wonderful diligence, for " My son must have a good education, and a good start in life," you know. And ho goes home and catches the laughing toddler up1, and reddens the. dlimles wit~h his whiskers, and then put ting stardy little twelve-moHnth's 01ld on his feet, sets him at his a, b, e of walk ing, addressing him with comical dig nity, "Well, Governor, where shall we go no0w?" And although ho only calls him "Oov ernor," theO miother's heart says-andlthe father wouldn't deniy it were 'she to put it in wo)rds--thlat more likely it will be President, in that dim, heautiful and certainly very grand future. 11er choice, though, wonld be that he should be a good man and a happy one. Between them both they parcel out for his manhlood's years all that makes life wor(,th the living. Thaiit baby carriago in the hail means a goodl deal, doe~s it not? 1t mneanis everything to the father and mother. it means more than canl be told. U1 you have such alpice of furniture in use youi know all about it. If you haven't, it's a waste of raw~ ma terial tu bother with you.-Whl~eling Leader. __________ Hlow Texas Cattle Are Utilized. There are beef-packing establishments at Rlockport and Fulton, Texas, both of which places are in the center of cattle ran~ges, in which at least 100,000 beeves are slaughtered every year. Every part of . the beef is utilized, oven to the tuft. of the tails, which aure p reserved ard sold for the maiking of ladie' frizzettes. The blood flows into tanks and is pressed, and is sold at 2 cents a pound for the making of fertilizers. The tongues and lean beer are boiled and canned. The hides are salted and sold again. ThE fatty matter is extracted and goes to tal low. The bones sare boiled to a pulp tk extract this fatty matter, and the dry bones, mainly phosphate of lime, are sold at 1 cent a moud for fertilhzing. The feet are cut of, and from the hoots neats-foot oil Is extracted. The horny p art of the foot, the shin-bone and knuckle-bones, are sold for the manu facture of domestic Ivory. The horns are piled up until the pith becomes loose, and this is added to the fertilijer and the horns are sold '?or mannfur Every atom of the animal Is probably used. A nt-1mnD of a'1exqa dootow, tihualy - Go4 and the doctor we alike ado~m, Just on the brink of 4.*,not befot.: he daagar.ee btt eike rANDWRING . FROM HOME TO so hai NOME. so qui great rhen swallows were building In early spring, gone And the roses were rel In June: rhen the greet, white lilies were fair and sweet factor In the 944tof the August noon: Th rhen the winds were blowing the yellow . wheat, . - refine And the song of the heest nigh tracte ,nd the beautiful world lay oalm and sweet, In the joy of a oloudless sky- b at 'hen the swallows were full of glad content dark In the ho~e Of their northern nesit dr Tre Burt that the land they Wore tarrying in purity Of all other linds was the best. hual Lh I it they had heard in those blissful days , The Voice they mUst heed say: " Go," len s. hay had left their nests with a keen regret, Of the And their fight had been sad and slow. . bility 3ut when summer wag'gone and flowers were new dead brain And the'brown leaves fell with a sigh, braln and they watched the sun setttig every day rired Further on in the northern sky. dred rhen the Voice was sweet whedt it bid them: Of AThe&Wdfe eaer for southward flight, she br Ind eY beat their wings to a new-born of hei When they went at the morning light. Icutu If the way was long, yet the way wam iaaL for tli And brighter and brighter grew, But As they pped the!r wings in the glowina heat and t As a= to the southward flew; ackni Tll1 they found the land of - the summer sun, The land where Phe nightingale sing griev And Joyfully rested 'mid rose and son life. Th beautiful, weary wing vanel Like swallows we wander from home to whol home- extei We are birds of passage at best- whet In many a spot we have dwelt awhile, than We have built us many a nest. than But the heart of the Father will touch our ly cc hearts, -' He w1i speak to us soft and low, trenl We shall follow the Vdice to the better land, TI And its bliss and Its beauty know. the i -'-Mary A. Barr in 1iarves Weekly. gl I JUDGE NOT. pent .. reve In the ante-room of Meredith & Son's conr rreat cotton factory in Philadelphia a niou group of girls were standing engaged in his a in animated discussion. They were all ly, a roung, somo pretty, all dressed nes.tly, sam( ;bough many wore ill-chosen and unbe- hour 3oming finery. One of these, who had thou a mock gold chain and bracelets and a Ti profusion of jet trimmings upon a cheap her silk dress, spoke very emphatically: "It mirr is the'stinglest proceeding I ever heard vate4 :f!" nforg( "What are you all so excited about?" storii asked a pretty little blonde coming in Ating from the loom-room. had i " Ellen Churchill!" Bu "Dear me! What has she been do- sent< ing now' Yoi are always discussing nami some dreadful deed of Ellon's. I like tors her myself." shari "Yes, we all know that," said the knev first speaker; "you will defend any- had g thing Ellen does. ' factc " But what has she done?" in hi "Refused to sign the subscription list m#n1 for the tankard to be presented Mr. Rod- yet s man." that " And Mr. Rodman has been such, a fello, good friend to her!" said a third voice. Fa The little blonde, Susy Whiting, by fideri name, looked rather staggered at the lowi new accusation against her friend. Mr. open Rodman, manager for Meredith & Son and I for nearly fifty years, was about to rc- ly. tire on account of the infirm'ties of age, "3 and the persons engaged in the great "I factory were collecting money to buy a I cot' silver tankard to present to him, 'He wife. was a kindly old1 man and always readly "I to lend a helping handl to the small arnmy that of work-people under his control; so shall that the presentation was realagitWi of love. judg if Wi Ellen Churchill had come to the great "i factory two years p~revious to the (date "I of the indignation meeting in the ante- clerg room, and had risen to the position of hage, forewoman in one of the loom-rooms, here She was a handsome girl of about knex twenty when she applied for work, and tell by every action and word betrayed the ra fact that she had stepp~ed from a life of in hi refinement to the hard drudgery of a elevy factory hand. -Her low, even tone be- left trayed the lady in its well-chosen wvords, a si and her slim, white bands bore no trace poul of toil upon their smooth skin. She was snili courteous to all who came into inter- play course with her, but intimate with none. Wh< She had nursed Susy WVhiting through a Gra< long period of contagious fever, win- pn lng the devotion of that little maiden, deat and the manager soon put her into posi- fort1 tions of trust till'she became forewvoman- boy. Here her education enabled her to keep her. the books required in the room, thus her. doublin g her salary. And here was the great ground of rok complaint by her companions. It was pie, well-known that the salarv of Helen orw~ Churchill was sumewient to warran ta way good style of living and dressing. In Hi the great boardmng-hfouse, where seventy bomt of the girls had rooms, she could well mInak afford to pay for the best, to contribute she to the amusements of the house and fron dress wvell. Instead of all this she lived that In the attic, poorly furnished, with a ago tiny stove, where she cooked1 the cheap. into est of food. Her dress was of the to I coarsest description, made by her owvn time hands, and no ornament broke its Be- comn yore simplicity. She never spent money aai in any pleasure-seeking, nor joined in had any of the quiet merriment of the WVal house. But the crowning enormity was but the refusal to contribute to the silver tarnkard. The excited group in the ante-room 30 dIspersed frte day, wkighome in forg the twilight of the September evening, onrg andl still they talked of the young fore woman' Casi " The question is." saidl Mary Leigh- la~ who had been foremost in the antA rett room discussion "what does she (10 dis with her moneyP She never puts anywh in the factory savings bank; she cer- gi tainly spends nothing on her (tress, the Where is it all, then?' " Perhaps she supnports her parentsP,, and " Both dead! I have h eard hor say He so.~ who "Well, I dare say Mr. Rodman won't acts think her quite such a paragon as he . has done, when he misses her name self from the subscription list." s " And Walter Rodman willl ,probably Cr's resent the insult to his father.' n There was an exulta:-ion in the tone Navi of the last remark, but ill-concealed- wen Walter Rodman, the only child oif the lad. old manager, was in the counting-house thin, of the factory, with every prospect of but poon becoming a partner. A man past anad thirty, he had? risen in the employ of Dve feredith & Son from a lad of fourteen, ... nd had saved money from a bandsome pay salary, with the savowed intention of y eat perchasz a plage in the 5ra upon the n antelpat retirement of Mr. Meredith, wa vdho wallinoen to f a'rr the hitention- brot Amongst al1! the-clerks and Workmen Elle Pteia ~~y hrwsh ~ adeome w Wilter Rotidman, none t1? otly refined In manner, none so Adv a favorite with all. But he had Moi 1hrough thirty years of li'e fancy ery util Ellen Churchill came to tho life, 7. off I re was something in the noble, of I d face of the young girl that at- 1lhe d Walter Rodman from the first. beir there was some heavy trouble ed t Ing In the sadness of her great Stal iyes he never doubted; but if ever fOW and go6dness wore pictured In me a countenance, they were in El- pire From his father he learned much dre< new-comer, of the quick adapta ter, she showed for work evidently you to her, of the almost masculine that fitted her so soon to take con. As r f the loom-room where over a hun- spit rirls were at work. war her antecedents he knew only that can ought a letter froin the dlorgyman , parish, in a small town in NeW Ohini State. That she was a woman of noo -e and refinement they could see sun emselves. toll Walter Rodman, by nature frank the rue, as his heart more and more begi )wledged Ellen for ite queen, was ad over the evident mystery in her Let While in her conversation she ad- of d anoble and generous views, her thel a style of Vfing wfs pettUrlous to an gla it rarely seen in women of her agd, fny a living upon a much smaller salary she commanded. It was not mere- sun onomy, but saving pushed to ex- whi pty- . th-e aere was a struggle coiistantly in, ger nimid cif thO young clerk--a strug- tall Jetween his love and his fear of re- out ance if he urged his suit. It was tfia lting to him to think of his wife Mi lucting his household upon parsinio s principles. refusing to bestow of the bundance in charity, dressing mean- re nd perhaps influencing hhn in the i miserable habits. And yet, one tra with kIlin drove away all such by ghts. co e low, soft voice, always tinge( by wi habitual sadness, convoyed such a in :r of a pure, tender heart, a culti- H I mind, a noble soul, that Walter sti >t the course. mean dress, the many an s rife in the factory 'of Ellen's iness, and know he loved hrtr ira he of iever before loved any Womati. tri t when the silver tankard was pro. at d to Mr. Rodman, and Ellen's m4 h was not upon the list of contribu. sc, to the gift., Walter experienced a Sli > pang of disappointment. He 10 that his father's recommendation qti pined Ellen her first place in the hO ry, that she had found afirm friend WE m, and owed her rapid advance ,to his ititerest and intludnee. And th4 he had refused her mite to the gift testified the good feeling of her sh v-workers in the factory! ha ther and son had long been con tial friends, and on theoevening fol- Su ig the presentation the Tatter .tal ed his heart and told all his doubts ha ears. Mr. Rodman listened quiet- an be et ydu lovV Ellen," he said. of love her, ' feplied Walter, "but fac 1(1 never be happy with a fniserly fui oor Ellen, how little she deserves reproach!" said Mr. Rodman. "I violate a confidence reposed ini me, rg or, wheni I tell you how you mis- tar her, but I think 1 can trust you." clii [as she toldI you her secretP"n [o. 1 .heard the story from the no' ymaii of Lenwood, her native vil- tie who wrote to me before she came tht He is an old friend of mine. and tin , he could confide in me. I will un you what lie wrote to me. Six mt s ago Ellen's mother died, leaving m: ~r carl a sickly step-brother, then Ari mn years oIL Her own father had mel E~lleni a pretty cottage, and~ she had ha nail inecme from the fruit and cal try on the place, while she made a ha iient living teaching music and rm ing the organ in the church. m< ~n her mother died, leaving Stephen th< ly, her ste p-brother, an orphan and sh, iiless (for her step-father before his at h squandered all her amother's little tei me), Ellen promised to care for the rel Remember, she was but sixteen arl elf, though early care had matured eni rar beyond her actual years. a l'he boy grew up like his father, bu less of expenditure, loose in prinici- hW yet tender to his sister-miother, and a of those loving scapegraces who al- co a wm some goodl woman's deovotion. fo svon Ellen's. She thought herself 'j id by her promise to her mother to L4 o every sacrifice for Stephen, and lhn faithfully tried to lead him away or the comp~anionls and evil influence he were ruining his life. Thav., years gc r~ friend of Mrs. Grady tookStephen to his counting-house. Hore he was of earn. the book-keeping. and for a p lie worked steadily. Thena the bad a paniy which had ruined his boyhood th nm exerted1 an evil influence, and he Su Jearnedl to gamble. Renmeniber. ot ter, he was but'fourteen, and Ellen ph live years older. wi One of his accomiplishments wvas the ce. or of imitating handwriting, .and by lia ')ersuiasion of sonme oldler beads he go od a check for two thousanad (dollars w( hie firm he was with. Thle chock ami ed the bank undetected, for the ti(] tier was in the habit of p)aying over ma a sums to Grady. Bunt when it was p rned to the firm the forgrery was foi >vered and traced to Stephen- hui n the truth came out that he hiad ho bled away the entire amount, and ap wo men who had urged the crime c/i p~ocketed the money had l'ed, leav. the lad to bear the consequences. vas arrested, and repentance came n he saw the full conseqnence of his P~ [t was then that Ellen proved her. OX the noble woman 1 believe her to be. th was suffering already for her broth- Ai crmhaving lost erplace a r st, and tanost of her music pupilsd ng left her. Despite all th fs, she i t-o the firm and pleaded for the ru Her eloquence gained him somo- kr ~. They agreed not to prosecute, m ~o allow the boy to leave the town, oc go to an uncle who was willing to a him another trial in, a Western city, ly niark that if, Walter-if Ellen tould the U'2,000 and interest within two 6.p Shre ndertook the task. Ste p en a released. and sent to his fpr's ta he/,' wher~e le is doing w~l an* i ai left her hoie iad oame oa. ft i in her own town. 1. knowing all, oined her interest In every way. ith after mouth, denying herself ev hing but the merest necessaries of she has sent her earnings to wipe ier brother's debt . With the rent he house and what she saves here hts paid it all, the last installment g acknowledged i-t a letter I hand o her yesterday. You . can under d why she could not take even a ddllars to subscribe for a present to wherl 1 tell yott the two years ex d on the very day when the last hun t dollars was received. Now, Wal you know Ellen's secret. Judge for rself if she Is a miser." She is as noblo and self-sacrificing iy heart always told pue she was, in c of appearances!" said Walter, mly. "To-morrow I will see if she over return my love." Not to-morrow," said Mr. Rodman, ling. " Ellen went home this after n, her task finished. Out of the I paid her for the last week of her here, she begged the acceptance of copy of Longfellow upon the table do you, asking me to believe she grateful for all my k'ndness to her. her rest a little from her long strain self-sacrifice and toil, Walter; and 1, if you can win her love, I will lly give her a daughter's place in heart." inter had come an-l gone and sprng shine was mak'ng all nature glad, m1, one cleery morning, the train Agh Lenwood left a sing'e passen at the village station. lie was a handsome man, dressed well. with foinishness. snd he inouired of a n at the stntion for the re:'dz, of ;s Churchill. 'The first white cottage as you turn . econd street from here," was the 0v. I was soon found, and at the gate the veler halted. The windows, shaded a wide verandah, were open, and he Lild nee the tasteful parlor. Near the ndow stood i haudsome woman, trail ? a vine over a net-work of string. w face was partly averted, but the -anger could see that all 'the pallor d sadness of the pnst woynone. Upon the graceful figure was a dress fleecy muslin, tastefully made and med with soft lace ruffles at throat d wrist, and a few well-chosen orna nts. Suddenly some inner sense 3med to tell Ellen she was watched. o turnel and saw Walter Rodman )king earnestly, wistfully at her. A ick abush swept across her check and r eyes lighted glady;: s' a came tor Lrd to greet him. "May I come in? " he asked, opening I little gate. "1 am very glad to welcome you." a answered, and then extended her nd as he sprang lightly up the steps. It is not fair tc repeat lovers' talk. flee it that before Walter left the lit. cottage to take the return train he it won the dearest wish of his heart; dt when summer roses bloomed Ellen came the bride of the junior partneo Meredith & Co., the new firm of the tory where she had worked so faith 1.y. _ _ _ _ _ The Story or a Sprain.. 'he foot of a daInse3use is as Iipor t to tihe lovers of the ballet as the ~st si of a tenor is to the lovers of sie. Tfhe habhitues of the opera have San all-absorbing topic tor con versa a in the foot of Mile. Mauri, which t estimable ballerino s'pratined some oe ago. Theii treatment that she is lergoing for this sprain dleserves nt.on as w'ell as the history of the nnerm in wvhich she3 came to adopt it, old1 habitue of tha opecra, who ro mbe)4red that a similar accident once ipened to Fannie lssler, commuhlni ed1 to Mile. Mauri the teatmnent that .1 euredi hie. predcetssor'. Trhis treat ntt was to go to the ahaittoir every rning and insert thc bm-: foot into wvarmu entrails of a freshly killed 'p or calf. MIle. Msoriii, ini despair the slowness of' her recovery, de mined to try the eficacy of this nedy. But Bos'ta Mauri if a grand ,ist is also a woman, and on the oe sion of her irst visit to the attoir at La Vi'ette, when the tcher appeatred. armed( with Slong knife and followed by young calf, bloating as5 thiouth nlsc.ious of the inte that was in store e it, she shut her eves and declared: o'no. I can niever ~sce such a sight. t the poor animal live. I will not ye it dlie for me!' The Superintendent. the a'ltto r' e plained to t ho tender arteid (lane en--e t~h t the cnlf w~is not ingz to die for her; it was goinir to die satisfy tim hunger of the Parisians some of i he abonnes of the Oper 1, rhaps. Whet her she used its body as reme6dy for her foot or not the( fate of a celf wvas sealed all the same.' The peorintendencft, howe or, sent1 for an 'ier enlf, whios eveIauition' took ice bh'n~d a curtain, through aich Mile. Mauri passed her foot to re lve the treatment prescribed. 'fag. ni, the famous danseuse of another neration, used to have sprains that ire the fr'erpient torment (it her ad ren. These spraizis were the inven ns of her father, a very ord'nary inufacture of ballets, but an incom rable guardian of his daughter' s fame, tune and honor. If he was in a bad mor, or if het wanted an increese in r salary the sprain at once made its ronicle. -A strange balloon accident hap ned at Vienna recently, and caused iniu sensation. The weather beinj ceedingly stormy, the proprietor o a balloon tried suddenly to lower It it touched the groprnd the rope es ped from his hands, and the win4 agged tlie balloon a distance of iou ometers into a church-yard, where it shing Along with terrific spoed ocked down a do~en marble mopd ents and a high briek wall. The tWi cupants of the car were throwft out d found among the graves,dangerous injured. A spoomsey spelled d-e-o-i-m-a-l and 'orounced it dismal, "What- do yor 4 "uft's diensal fractions, sTeu erK 2.~ wia wb6 the butoher.6--W -ot are theA It mentiomsthat cleaned's leoeof bas of 500 acres, in threp T plote was the work tha& e undergrowth s left. -fen-minute cake: pound of butter a Li pound of Bfour, th sameW eggs beaten' separal mace or other favo bake in muffin rings.-I Ok -Potato basl ar vpfynicp fast. Boil them, and w lle mash them until there are b left; then zoix' butter, peppe,( little chopped parsley, and ono0er raw eggs; boat these toget oughly, then mold In balU, dip en eggs and then in fiour, an butter.-N. F. FWJ. -To make cologne water: T pint of alcohol and p.t in thi*ty of oil of -lemon, tblrtajf berwgsfnOt half a ill of water. Ifmk or la",* Is desired, add the same each. The oils should be put alcohol and shaken wall bfor he Is added. Bottle It fot use.--t Globe. -Cake or Fruit Sandwiches s k of fruit sandwiches are made ths1: Four , eggs, their weight in flour, sgar ald butter, warm the butter and beat it to a cream, then stir the dour and ug**' - into it gradually, beat up the eggs stir them in. Beat the cake well .o i ' half an hour and bake in a rather qi oven. It for sandwicbes slice the in half and put the preserves between -Ezchange. -Fried Herbs: Clean and dry a quantity of spinach leaves, two handfuls of parsley, and a handful of green onions, and sprinkle them among the spinach. Set them all on to stew, with some salt and a bit of butter, the size of a walnut; shake the pan when it begins to grow warm, and let It be closely covered over a close stove till done enough.-Household. -Very careful experiments made an New York this season shoW that the flat culture of potatoes produces the finest tubers and the laget yields. The es results followed the Dtch meth lof planting, which consists of keeping the .surface of the ground level, planting a single eye in a place, covering it six inches deep, and llowing but a single stalk to grow ina hill, which are afoot *~ apart each way. Courting AlU of' Thema. "1 don't want to make any trouble, but there is one man in this city ..who ought to be gibbetad!" begin a blu~t spoken woman of forty-five as she so before the officials of the police satin When they inquired the partioulars i.> handed out a letter aiid said: "Olmerve the envelope. That tt , is addressed to mec. You will sea tat writer calls me his jessamine, u 1 wants mec to set an early dayfo't. wedding!" When the Captain had finished the letter, she was ready with another, g44. img: "And this ii addressed to my daugh ter Lucretia. You will see that he calls her his rosy angel, and he says lie can't ~ live if she doesn't marry hinm. It's the same man." So it was, and his letter was as ton e der as a spring chicken. That finished, she handed out a thiird, with the roe mark: " This is -directed to my daughter Helen. It's the very same man, and in s it he calls her his p'ansy, and sayb he dreams of her." "Why, hie seemed to love the whole family,' remarked the Captain. "That's just it. I'm a widow with two daughters, and he was courting'us all a~ once and engaged to three of us at the same~ time, Oh, what wretches there are iv this world!" "Yes, indeed. It's lucky you found him out." "Yes, it is. IflIhadn'theimight have married the whole caboodle of us. If Lucretia hadn't opened ono of my let. ters, and if I hadn't searched 'the girls' pockets while they were asleep, ' we'd have thought him an innocent lamub." "And do you want him arrested?" "No, I guess not, but I want this matter to go into the papers as a waru ing to other women. Just think of bis sitting up with me Sunday night, Lucre tiai on Wednesday niht, and Helen rop Friday nighit, and calig each one of i his climbing rose! Oh, sir the women ought to know what a deceiving animal man is!" "Yes, he's pretty tough." - ."It has learned me a lesson," she said ashe was ready to go. "The next man that comes spari' around my house has got to come right out and sayswhich he's after. If it's thels5 I won'ti ay nothing, and if it's me it won't do 'em a bit of good to slam things around and twit mne of buring two husbandel" A Trait ath aPolar Bear. The natives of the polar regions have a most ingenious method of trapg bears. A thick and strong piec whalebone, about four inches broad *ud two feet loug, is bent double. While in " this state some- pieces of blubber are wrapped around it, and the contrivance renders it hard andi compact; it is now .' ready for use. The natives, being armed ~ with bows and arrows,. and taken the frozen mass with themn, depart ia qesist of their prey, and as soon as the ann.' Is seen, one of them deliberately dia. n charges an arrow at it. The bear, i e ing the result, pursues tile p arty, full retreat; but meeting with thie a' blubber, dropped expressly for It, laws the lump. The chase, the of the inside soon cause the dI~st' -of the blubber. The whleow -freed from encumbrance snn'~ I its old position2 and m kes ~* r with the intestines that thebR ,tinues the chpni^ nnai ftew' ,-1toost , o * sand million *T~y > Islao Governin