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DETOTED TQ rOLIr'ICI, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO THE UENER %L INTEREST OF THE COUNTHY. By D. F. BRADLEY & CO, PICKENS, S. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11 1883 VOL. XII. NO. 16. outh Carolina will hold a tobacc< fair at Durham. Out of 688 conviots in the Arkansai penteutiary but eighteen are women. Virginia spends $15,000,000 per yeai tor.spirituous and fermented liquors. At Toledo, Ark., Sallie Burns fatally stabbed her lover, Jeff Burns, of whom she was jealous. The total budget proyidig for the xpenses of New Orleans axed at $1,830,Q86. Denis Burns, of Pensacola, Fla., will enter into ostrich farminr, the birds to be procured in S.>uth Afrler. Alabama, has 1,919 miles railroad and the railroads furnish eleven per cent, of all ta'able property in the State. The contract for- dredging the Vicks bug, Miss., barber has been awarded and work will commence about January 15. The South Carolina Legifature ha ratified a proposed constitutional amend sment disfranchibing voters for min felenious oflenses. The libraries of Alabama are worth $219,010 ; taxable paintings, $18,792, and $100,155 is invested in printing presses and material. A Louisiana sugar planter, after care t ful estimates', places the sugar crop of that Stato at 250,(00 hogsheads, and the molasses crop at 450,000 barrols. At Macon, Ga., a largo hawk swooped down on s cage containing three canary birds, fought away the woman who went to their rescue and then carried ofil o e of them. , Farmer clubs are a new institution in the South. One recently organized at Des Are, Ark., has 1,000 members. and Invites merchants to bid for their indi vidual trade. The Russian refugee colony on Sicily Island, Concordia parish, La., has proven a failure. The colonists could not stand the swamp fever and have scattered to other States. The value of farming land in Alabama * varies greatly in the different counties. The highest value is in Etowah, $6 50 per acre, and the -loweat in Escambia and Washington, less than fifty cents Nashvillo American: South Pitts burgh furnace No. 2, last weele, being in the first month of its blast, made 628 tons of iron. Ten years ago, this would ave been fair work for the Lucy or Isa selle furace. This beats any week's work over done in thc South. Montgomery Advert'Fer: Since No vember, 1880, inclurting the space of about two years, there have been decid ed by the Supreme Court of Ilhtt State about 900 cases, or a suflicient number to fill about seven volumes of the Ala bamna reports. This is saidI to be more work than all the Judges of the Uniitedl States Supreme Court have done, andl perhaps more than any other court in America consisting of only three .Judgecs. Sound Adviee. When I first commenced reporting, after I left college, it was on the Ecen ing Post; thIs was in 18541, when WVilliami Cullen Bryant the poet, was the editor. I remember an interview with himi which Is perhaps worth recording here. In seome sketch or report of mmne which had . been published the words ipse dixil were ado use of. I was called into Mr. Bryant's room. "Mr. -" said lie, "I wish to give you a hint. In that dic tionary (pointing to Webster) you'll find some 40,000 words. I writeo as you know, a good deal, and I am able to ex press all my thioug ht~s in the English language. I would advise you never again to use a Latin, or any other for eign word or p)hrase." It was a good lesson to me, though I thlouglht at tho Mme the 01(1 gentleman was h yporcriti cal. While on the Evening Post I becamie acquainted with W. 0. Bartlet t, lato of the &mn, who died a shiort time ago. IIe was a singularly ablo mnan, whose influ ence was felt Ia ever-y position lhe hold. He. also made a remark to mse which I have never forgotten. "If you wish to succeed," said he "in any p)rofession, do some one thing in it hetter than any one -else. People whose cleverness is shown in a general way rarely make a mark. Take the ease of the painters in New York. to-day; there are p)robably two hundred good artists. Tlhiey are all well-trained, industrious, and eager to make a name and~fortunie. Yet out of the two hundred there ar-o only somnq twelve or fifteen who make a liviiig, andi not more than two or three who acquire a fortune. But you will notice that, the successful painters have some gifts ab)ovo their fellows. One is noted for- his ti-eat mont of the skin, another has a nicoe sense for the arrangement of drapoi-v, a third ean paint an armn or a hand1, a fourth gives you a likeness in which, while your feats res are preservedI, you appear at your best. (One artist has a trick of color-, another of form. And these specialists have achievedt distine tion and fortutno, while ninety-eight per cent. of the other painter-s, who at-c equally as good in the technigue of their profession ,hiteral ly st arve, andl are tin ally driven into other pur.suits. Now,'' con tatnued Mr. lBartlett, "the same thing is true of medicine, law, and liter-ature, as .well aS in general businiess."-Record and Gazette. -Ex-Empress Eug~enio ''is in V ion na, closing negot iations for a schio-., in which she wvill live for the rest of her life.'' Well, well, well; going 10 livye in a schloss? TIhat heats uts; Eugenic living in a schloss. D)on' t know whaut a schloss IsP Why, man alive, havec you never been anywhere? A sabloss is ai kind of a-you take a - why, anyhbody will tell you what sehi'oss is. ~We's] rather board fifty year-s than live.in echloss six months; s'ome schlosses we have seen, anyhow. Of course, somcl schlosses are a great deal schlosser- thai others, but even at the best, any seh Os' Is apt to be pretty_sehlossy.--/auA-e ,e -A Geo,rgia prison warden, who is corpulent man, is of the opinion thal meanness and leanness go together from the fact that none of the convicta nder his charge are fat men. He think that the la fleshy individual Is amia ble. as a are receiving $40 a month because of the loss of a hand, or an arm, or a foot, or a leg, or a hand and foot. Of the last class there are fifteen pensioners on the list. It takes $2,021,244 a year to pay off these victims of grim-visaged war. A PAwNnrOKnR was sued in a Liver pool court recently for the value of two coats which the plaintiff had pawned, and which wore damaged by mice eating away the pockets. The defense claimed that the owner was guilty of contributory negligence in ltaving crumbs in the pock ets whiclt attracted the mico, and the court held that the point was well taken. Overcoat pockets should be turned wrong sido out with the advent of warm weather. A MONTREAL man recently sent sev eral barrels of Canadian apples to Queen Victoria, Gladstone, Lord Dufferin and Gen. Wolseley. He received letters of acceptance from all except the Queen, whose secretary wrote : "Her Majesty commands me to say that she fully ap preciates your kindness in sending the apples, but it is a rule that favors of this nature shall not be accepted. However, on account of their perishable nature the apples cannot be returned." What be came of them was not explained. AcTiNG Uovornor 'abor, of .Colorado, has Issued a pardon to one John R.. S. Steele, who was convicted and sentenced to death for murder nine years ago and afterwards had his sentenced commuted to imprisonment for life. The pardon has been issued in the belief that he is innocent and was unjustly convicted, but as he has no relatives in the State and few resources, it is not to take effect until March, it being thought merciful to al low him to remain in the prison during th:c,winter. Feeding the Sick. Four causes of sufTering among tho sick occur to us as worth considering. Yirst, a poor choice of diet; secondly, a poor way of preparing it; thirdly, an improper time for serving it; and fourth ly, the bad habit of retaining it within the patient's recognition by the sense of sight or smelL The purpose of feed ing the )ell or '1l is to aupply the do mand for nourishment and not the grat lIication of the appetite. Still the lat ter result has its value, in that we di gest more readily and perfectly those articles of nutrition that we like. It may be well even for the sick to have regular times for taking nourish nent; still very sick persons Can take so little nutriment of any $ ind that their needs and wants must be consulted. The general rule must be that the small er the quantity that can be taken the oftener it may be given. And a second rule .shoul be, never to o!1'er a patient the same dish of food that he ha:t once refused. If it has stood long it is not fresh and nice. A third rule founde.l onl experience is, always make the food of the sick prlata/>/c. In the course of a severe sickness, dis cretion in many things is valuable. It is needed in measuring out the food. A tea spoonful of any proper liquid every half hour or mre, may be all that. the suf ferer can bear. If he is stupid or de lirious, rub his lips gently with a spoon to notify him that he must now be ready to swallow what 3 on p)resent. You may tenderly pre'ss down the lower 1lip withI your linger, slowly introduice thre spoon to attract Iris at tention, so that Ir may swallow tiho liquid almost unconscipus 13', and yet with safety. Thre sick mray suifer from thirst and still be unable to . announce it. Small bits of ice enclosed . in a soft linen rag may meet hris needs and lie en'oorly reoceived. Some slight ly acid dlr?nks. as lemona-le, will tde miand hris gratitude. The kinrd of food should be ea - of so lutlonr in thre patient's month andA in the gastric sack. 'rho taste of t.he sick is > easily offendedl, so) that proper and agreeable food only should 1)o oll'ered, oth erwise tire patienrt's stomach wvill loane and utterly rej et, it-even if newell (down it will soon come up I again. No nurse, then, is weli eduicated t and titted for thre p)ractice of hrer pro fession, who does not know how to select proper food, hrow~ to >repare it, and hrow to serve it. What tood a sick p)er'son really needs and how it can b)0 renderedh palatable and easily dligestiolo must h)0 leairned by observation and ex perience. Thir temperature of food renders It hrard or' easy of digestion. If it b)e lower than the temporature of the stomach, the dligestionl will be more or less dlelayed. It should be as wauim at least, as thle temperaturet of the gastric sack in which it must be d iscoiver I, or it may - induce temnporatry indigestion. 'Iea, colloe, toast, on' bits of becef should be hrot whern presented to the invialid or convalescent, because tinmo will cool' threm to sut his tasto. ThIr cups for tea, or coffee, or chocolate, neodl no Swarming, buit tire p)lates, oni which iho carves his meat or toast, often dio. 'Tie phrysican, as a par't of his (hut', -may pr'escrib)e the amount of foodl tire patient may safely take, but still thre nurse should 1)0 ahle to vary his direc tions when circumstances occur to war rant it. A nurse should never urge tire sick person to eat more thtan Ihe iroally 1 wants T [ho Idea of hravinrg a certain article of food long ent ert airred *wiillI inevitably Impair tire app)etite for It. It is a care 1ess and( disagreeable p)ractico to till a cup so frull thrat it-s contents wvill r'n over andn( partiaily fill tire sauncor. 'ThIo nurse shrould nos or taste the tea or cof.. fee or broth in tire p)resonee of the pa ,tIent. It makes hrim feel that ire is to drink only s10ops r'emainring in tire nurse's cup. Be considerate enough to know what tire sick one may rneed. 1 Iv vry thing p)laced in tasteful or der on a wvaitcr--salt, pepper, fork and 3 knife, extra cup anti spoons. A neat bouquet w,ill rmake yomur patient smuub and incr'ease iris appetite. A loviner terre, and a few tender words arec oftenl worth morothanathnnlant& THE DEATH OF THE YEAR. A cloud came out of the golden west, A boll rang over the silent air, The sun-god hurried away to rest, Flushing with kisses each cloud ho prest, And oh 1 but the day was fairl "low brightly the year goes out," they saidt "The glow of the sunset lingers long, Knowing the year will be over and dead, its sad hours ovor-its sweet hours tied With service of Even song." "How sadly the year came in " they said. I listenod and wondered in <dusk of nisght: ] To to no year that might coma instead Of the old friend numbered among the dead Could over be half so bright. The sun-kissed clouds grow pale and gray The bulls hung silent in high mid-air, Waiting to ring the year away In strains that wero over toe glad and gay For mo-as I listened there. t Oh. hearts! that boat in a million breasts, Oh, lips! that utter the saine ol1 phratSo, r I won<der that never a sorrow rests ]i words y-ou utter to friends and guosta In the Now Year's strange now "nys I t Is it just the same.ns it used to be?' Have New Years only a gladudor soundt For over and always it sooms to me That no now faco can be sweot to see ] As the old ones we havo found. There is no cloud in the darkoned west The bell Is silent in misty air, The year has gono to its last long rest, Andl I who loved tiad who know it host I Shall moet it-God knows wheroI -All the Yeir Rnul. TWO NEW YEAR'S EVES. Richard Dolton, mygreat-grandfather (in my mother's side, was t id youngest son of an English lord. le was educated at Oxford, and being unusually gilted, i stood near the head of his clas when 1 it graduated; but ho sowed so many 1 wild oats during the term, that the placo < was uncomfortable for -him, and ho deemed it wise to leave the country. Ho came to America, and fell in lovo t with a pretty little Puritan. The sun of f her gentle eyes fell upon the good seet , I buried in his wayward heart, c.sing it c to spring into life and develop a hardy plant. They married, and, going east t ward, settled in the green hills of Ven. mont, where, as years passed, they trained their small family of three boys t in the way they should co. The mother, who was endowed v"itf, a rare voice, and a soul full of music, taught. their young hearts to expand in reverence to God, by means of cradle song and evening hymn, and developed within them the simplicity of conscious recti tude, sustained by holy faith, as a guide for all the acts of lift. Their father left their traini ag in her hands, yet brought to bear upon them the elleets of his thorough education, feeding their bright intellects with crumbs from the great feast spre-ad by his Alma Mater. Their eldest son, Martin,married Iermina Vanderslice, whom ho men while she was visiting her aunt, in the vicinity of his home. Ilermina's home was in the Catskills, where her father owned broad acres of licld and forest land. She being an only child, would only marry Martin on conditioo ho would live with her father, and gradual ly relieve him of the cares which h was growing too old to bear. So they settled in t he Vanderslice homestead. Their family never exceeded two daugh ters-one of these died within a year of her wedding, leaving a little daughter to take her place in the family. The other, my mother, married my father, who died when I was two years of a ge; when I was twelve, she married again a gentleman who lived in San Francisco -and I went to Grandma Dolton's to live, with which arrangement 1 was much pleased, for there rshould have a young companion-my cousin Mina, named alter grandma. She was not quite a year older than I; yet under my grandfather's instruction site was read mg IIorace and Shakespeare, and stuiv img the history of England and the United States. This would have been a great mortification to me had shte been less lovely; but as it was, she gave me so much help and encouragement, that by the time I was fourteen we were near-ly even in our studies. Grmandpa so:>n discovered I had his mother's voice, and "a deal"' of his father in me. About this time one 'of grandpla's nephews came froem Vermont to soo us, bringing with him one of his motherless daugh ters. I don't know what the gil's charm was; but we all became very fond of .her. She seemed to haivo nto narticular talent, hut was un iversally cap)atle. The trait 01 character mtost, marked was ambition; not a wicked ambition, however. We became so miuch attached to each other, that her fat her finally' went home, leavin' her with us. TVhe following winter we were fifteen, sixteen and seventeen car:us of age-- I being the yotungest and Tlildcgar-d the oldest. We had lots of L'mntry swamns, and a very merry time. Ilildegard had come in the spr-ing, anid ridino- and driving had been succeeded by'Iusking parties, andl these b)y quniltinig anid apple beos, so that there lhad been no cessation of fun till an early fall of snowv broutght wvin ter's pleasures to us. 'lThero wvere no girls for miles around that reecivodl as mutch attention that winter as we did. A cir-cumstitanueo that (onitributted to this In no small dlegree was the loeatino niear us of a ha:ndlsome and wea:lthuy widower, a Mr. Farq1uhar, from New York. lIe had comie oni atccount of the delicate health of hiis oldIest chtild--a youngtt girl about, Mina's age. Biut the daughter had quite recover-ed, and yet t,hey lingeroed away into thto winter. Alina and this chtarinitg little city gir-l, Adetle, hadl hecotme quite goodl f'riends, and( thtroutgh this friendsh ip we roveired litny litt o pleasur-es. On Christmtas Eve wvo wet-t going enroling; but a heavy snlow-stotrm prevented. '.1'ho boys, unwilling to laos to fun. proposedt a be1uschn,ierplen party for New Y ear- s eve, when we would 1( erenadel( a few of ottr naeighlbors, have sotmt coast - ing, andi thten gather at outr house5 to) wvatch the Old Year otut and1 t,hte Nw Year in. TIih)rograimm(e wva sucees fully earriedl out. niid after- the h:it g uest had depiarted, we thtree grl.is kissed ouir grancrparents good ntignl,r pentecut oiur hteart-y wihes ha tI they miightt enjoy atnother happy year, antu hastened to our r-onm, wvhtre,'rol led in ottr wirap pers, and tumbled utpon agreat robe in front of an open wood-fire, we proceeded to chat over the evenin"'s muerry-mtakinig. "WVell, girls," said Mina, "I'mi go In g to leave vou.'' It was hard to tell whethher the'tones were those of sorruow or gladness. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Vioron Huao will not keep a plant or bird as prisoner in his house. I SOMsBODY in England recently paid a Boston firm $5,000 for a walnut chamber set of five pieces. Tui Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise spent their Christmas at Santa Barbara, Cal. HARnY A. GARFIEILD, son of the late President, has been elected editor of the Williams College Athenaur. GOVERNOR-TMLET BUTLER, of Massa cbusetts, will, it is said, appear in fill military uniform at his inauguration. Tin whole number of passengers who are annually carried over tho street rail ways of the United States and Canadas is over 1,212,300,000. Srix Pompier ladders have been pro. cured for the use of the Fire Depart mont of Boston, and men will be trained especially to use them. ENGLAND is to have a Bureau of Agri culture, of which Mr. Chamberlain, the head of the Board of Trade, is to be chief, with a seat in the Cabinet. TI San Erancisco, during her recent angagement, Mme. Nilson made the tour of Chiuatown, visiting the theaters, ros taurants and Joss houses. PRESIDENT WHITE, of Cornel Univer sity, in a recent lecture upon Germany, says the German Parliament is the best legislative body in existence, IT is said that Dr. Bliss intends to make some revelations in regard to the mysteries" of Garfield's sick room that will be likely to astound the country. lirssouni, during the last twelve months, has reduced her public debt by $650,000, and has got her revenue in sucl shapo that in ten years she will be free of debt. A CHICAGO paper says that at least one third of the unmarried dry goods clerks in that city paint their choks,and scores of them wear corsets and cultivate a sor rowful look. Gov. H. M. PrsAI-TED, of Maine, has purchased a onethird interest in thc Lewis ton Gazette and will become con. nected with that paper as soon as his cx ceutivo term expires. JEFFERSON DAVIs has given the Soci ety of the Army of the Tennessee, Southern, $100 toward the erection of s monument to Gon. Albert Sidney John. son, who fell at Shiloh. Ti. relatives of Henry Rich, a miss. ing New Yorker, have sent' out 15,00( circulars to the different insane asylums, newspaper offices, .sd public instiit tions throughout the country. DURING the past two years the wealtl of Cornell University, at Ithica, N. Y. has increased nearly $3,000,000, makint it the richest educational institution ii the country, with the exception, per haps, of Columbia College, in the cit; of New York. THE Garibaldi mementos, long Iropi in his old home at Clifton, on Statei Island, have been presented to the Na tional Museum at Rorne. They con sisted of modals and stiletto given hin by the South American Governments ii whose service he fought, asid of pipe and ca.nes of his own handiwork. THrE Cunard Company, in additiont its.order substituting coffee for grog has issued a new prayer of 250 wordi p)repared by the General Assembly a the Church of Scotland, to be appende, to the regular ritual. An officer calledi the most b)eautifull prayer lhe ever heard WIr,nrdAM Hi. ENGLAND, who has hecl the publisher of the New York WVorl :or the past year, is to retire and( be sue ?eededl by .Johni (. Speed, who, for semi time p)ast, has been its managing editor A. Oakey Hall will assume the p)ositioi >f managing editor as well as of editoria writer. Iv is stated that paper made from stroni fibers-such as linen-can now be corn pressed into a substanco so hard that'i enn not 1)0 scratched by anything but diamond. In view of thia fact, it i thought that before long a great variet: of house furniture will 1)0 made of pape instead of wood. A DISPATCH from Berlin says the pre himiary p.ayw~ations for rendlering th Weser river navigable for- sea-goini vessels from liremerhaven to Breme> 1:aveheenC, finished. It is estimatedl tha t.he work wvill take six years, and wil cost 30,000,000 marks. When complet ed it will give a great impetus to trad between Blremon and New York. IN ordler to decide a dispute as to th speeCd of their respective horses, tw cahmen reently ran a race for a dinner frmteArc (19 Triomulhe to Versailles T he winner made it in fif ty-two minutes tne other in fifty-four. The sweets o the cup of victory were, however, some what soured by a fine of $10, impose< upon each of the participants in th j CexirssoNRR D)UDLUY'S report she-w ~tha hr . aa w 9.18 Uns ldoe w "Why, what do you mean?" cried Iildogard and I. " Tat I hope to have you both watch he next New Year in. with Inc in my wn home on Murray Hill.'' This was a startling statement. For ,a instant we were silenced with aston shment, then Ilildegard, recovering her oico. cried with agitation: Explain! explain in words, Mina." "You know," said Mina, "how much have been with Adele, and how fond he has been of No and I of er. You know how attentive and md her father has b- en to Inc. nd that I suppose that of courso 1 was out of cons'deration for her. Yoll, to-night, as we are going out to ho sleighs, ho said to Imo: 'Como, ou bad better ride with mo.' Ilia aner was tender and affectionate all he evening, and I began to imagine hat he would prove a devoted escort or the rest of the winter, when my nticipations Wee cut short by his roposal. It was just at twelve o'clock. Ir. Farquhar and I were sitting in the ee) window, and I, to be first, quickly aid: 'I wish you i hap py New Year.' " Do you?' said lie, taking my hand. 'I'hen, if you are really my well risher, I will make you my confidant. am not, happy when I am away from ou. I have remained hero this past ear for the happiness of I cing near ou. Now business will wait no loner, nd it is imperative that I return to the ity. Will you go with me? " Of course, girls, I said, ' Yes,' and hall conseque:ntly take up my abode n that, narrow, heated street, common v called Madison Avenue, and roll be uinl those same spanking bays we trove to night, through Central Park, vhich is all very deliglhful to think of; et it breaks imy- heart to part from this Id home, the dear trees, and the old olts, who are very precious tome. As or you, girls, you can be with mo half f the time:'" Mina had hardly taken breath durin,r his explanation; the whole thing ha1! omole so unexpectedly that she was lushed and excited. I was stunned at he thought of losing her, and said lothiing. Hildegard, who had not poken, hero uttered, as if in a dream: 'I'm glad I did it; it is best." Rtoused by the tone, both Mina and I aw that. something troubled her, for wo great pearly tears ha<i fallen on her 'heeks; and we urged her to have no ecrets from us. " Tell us, lildegard, what is the mat Six words will do." replied she. "I refused Harry Fenton to-night;" and more tears followed. Neither Mina nor I said anything; we didn't know what to say. We were sure that she loved Harry. Then she said: "Harry is the best fellow in the world; but he is a farmer, and will never be ann thiipg else. He said to-night, lho never could leave his father. I saw too much of the practical farm-lifo at home to form any (1reams of a poetical char acteraboutit. I cannot live ant die on the same plot of ground like a vogetable. 1 must travel; I started the working out of an irresistible desire when I came here, .nd 1 must go on. I would not be ust to Harry Fenton if I should marry liml; for I coubl not be happy as a farmer's wife, even though that farmor was Harry Fenton." "Don't worry, darling,'' said I; "-ou cannot hlp 1 it; it is a drop of Richard Dolton's blood in your veins. Don't lo uInhappy. (fear, just help mo congratu late Mina.'' "Anl your next move onward shall be to New York,',' said Mina. "Whero you may oapturo a Captain, with whom you can sa!I over tho high scas," a<hted I. IIildegard said nothing, ar.d I, havinr the f'Oor, conitinlued: "Well, lets go to bed for the pres emit; and( when Mina is miar'ried, and you are exploring thio antipodes, I will come1( to N\ew York and teach, if Mina wvill let me live with her,"' "le! hum!" sighed IIildogardl, nonblinig into bed; "I wonder where we will all lie next New Year!"' SOn Murray Ilhill,"' answered Mina. hut, that was a piistako; it was manny years before we miet on Murray Ilill at .New Year's - in fact, not till 'to-night. 1\lina was miarriedl in March; IlildegardI and I wvere briidesmlaids. Ilildegard went to the city with her, while her 5ster caime from Vrermuont to stay with n1e. In Novembler illdgard was married to a raithier gay young millionaire, who had1( jhist comie inito hiis mioney-, andI went to Europe for a wedding tour. Tlhe next New Year' Eve graindima was not well, so I did inot visit Mina, and Ilildo gardl was still abroad. hIarry spent the watch with mie, and talked about her p)oor fellowv, I felt very sorry for him, espiecially whlen lie said: 'If father had niot sent mei( to college, I shiould have blen lbetter 'onitenited to remain upon01 thle farm, for then I should have had no hopes of Ilildegard. Yet, wvheni mother died, she askedl liy promise never to heave father, andii I gave it," After granidmia dlied, I went to New York to teach, aind thonro met a youung jouruial it, aind married hi m. We were not buird ened with un itolhl wealth, but, we loved each other decarly, and con elud ed to take the chances about get t ing alo ng, which childlike simplicity we have nieve'r hadf causo5 to regret. I is business led( him hit her an d thiit her, and in every miove I hiavoe ccompan iedl him. L-ast summer we wvenit to Sain Fran cisco; t hero I visited my mot her. We hecardl a g'reat dea o(1(f a )(1 poinenit jour italist wiho hadl comie there a rich muan, and( muhlt iplied his fortune so many tmes thait all fe miine Frisco was now pub ing caps for hi mi. Ito was p)resenit (ed at miiamm41)a' saloon 0one evening. I magineo n.y astoniishmiient, when this goldeni manl was presenitedl to me, to 'heholmd in him Ilarry "'enton! In the course of a te/e-u-tete ('< nu ersation, ho0 toh(l moe that hiis father hi id died, loay lug him aloine in tho wor dI. Unabie to einduro life on the laind that hadi do.. privedl him of his dearest hope, he sold it, and(, taking thle proc((eeds, started on a tour much after the miannor of Jean P aiul's heroes - tially reachling the Pa cilic coa4, where lie rested. T1hen he importunedi me for inews of the frIends I hiad left. Of Ilildogard, I told that shie had remained abroad five years. At the explirationl of that time her husband had died in Arabia, leaving her a wid ow with two children. Sheocame home. at oinco, bringing tI6 two little ones and her huaand's bIMj 'Te ndA.+laml. was an immense one, and, on reaching Now York, she succumbed to a severe Illness, through which Mina had nursed hor, and with whom she had remained over since. Hero Harry asked me when we were going East. I had just received a letter from Mina, begging me to como home in time to re ceiv-e Now Year's ca'ls with her, and reminding me that we had not all hold 'he watch together since that night so memorable to her. I handed the le"ter to Harry. saying: " We will gb on Tues day." " I will go. too," said he, decidedly. I only needed one look into his eyes to know his purpose. "Go with us,'' said I. "Probably I will," replied he; "but I will see you again,' and, biddin mamma good-bye, he was gone. On Tuesday, as we were startin. a telegram came from Harry saying ihat he could not leavo, but adding that he certanly would keep watch with us New Year's lve. When we were fairly at home, I told Mina, and we both concluded that i was best not to mention anything about him to Iiiktogard, lest something un foreseen should cause a disappoint, ment. On Now Year's Eve we talked of girl hood's days and doings. It had beet fifteen years since we had held ou mountain watch. Mina and I were do cidedly nervous, no word having comi of harry s arriving. Hildeard seeme depressed. About eleven o' lock. Adele her husband, and papa. came In to helj us watch; so at a guarter of twolvi o'clock we formed euite a party. A ten m'nutes of twelve Mr. Farquha threw back the stamute.a glass doors tha closed ofi' the third room, and, seatinj ing himself before the organ, said h< would play the Doxolog3 ; we all fol lowed, and. ranging ourselves in a cir cle, awaited the striking of the hour I ildegard alone was not of the number she had been standing in one of the windows, evidently wr apped in thought Amidst a light-falling snow a sluigl dashed up to the door, and a gen tli'man leaped out. The porter haa< the door open by the tim.' the visito reached the ste s. The transit fron sloilh to the parlor had net taken mor than a minute, and !ldegard, sour prised out of action, hac only turne and faced the dour. Her whole counte nance must have told how thank ful she was to see harry again, for in ai instant he embraced her right heartily Then we all came forward to exteni welcome. Mina would not let Hlarr leave the house, but insisted upon mak ing it his home during his visit. Thie we sang the Doxology, some minute after twelve. As we finished, Mina's maid tappe at the door, calling her away amomoni Harry and Hildegard wandered (low the parlor. Mina tpoked in, sayinr "Our dre,ses camne an hour ago, an Marie has laid them out for us to se( Come up stairs." Hildegard took no notice of the it vitation; so we vent without interrupl ing her conversation, which for the nei half hour formed a sort of low obligat a -companinent to certain improviss ti Ins upon the organ. wherein Mr i arquhar gave utterance to memorie aroused by this anniversary of his be trot hal. Once in Mina's exquisite little bou (loir, shie and I rapturously embracea each other; we did not speak, but w, felt pretty sure that at last all woulh go well with lildegard; and it made u very happy. 'I'hen Adele's esclama lions of admiration drew our attontioi to the dresses we would wear upon ti morrow. F' rIn this we fell to iscusl ing the niimher ofcalls wve hoped to re 'eive; for we had each sent cards ta the friends we had made since our sop~ aration: and so on, until Mina remindes us that she had ordiered a little sup)pe laid, andl that It was probably waitinga that moment. We hurriedl down stairs to find he prediction true. Whenu we wore seateo at the table, she sai: "1'apia, can't you give us a speech?' "I think I had better defer to Mt F'enton," said Mr. F"arquhar, and then bowing to 1IIarry: "'Your voi e will a least have the merit of novelty to ou plarty,"' whereupon liarry arose an saiid, with a pre aratory ahem! "'Ladies andl gentlemen,"' andl thei dropping the imuie air, proceed "Dear friends-i am overflow ng witl joy. I have this nighlt satifactoril concludled an affair which I uindertool unisucceessfuilly fifteen rears ago (C night. Sin<oe then I have livedi in th shadeow of the great, grief in wh ich th failure envelop) 1 me1n. IBlack as th, darkness of 1.1he ight into which steppijed when I Ileft our mountain watch was thle sorro)w I bore with me. hBrigh as thle light of thiis luixurious, hiospitabh hioiio, anud of your beaming facos, is th radiant joy I bear. H1ildo gardl will b my wvife. (Congratulate me, andl I wil hieartily wish you each what this assure to ne-au happy New Year!'" On IIildegard's faco there was a resi fuil hainess11C5 exp)ressed,whioh noe merIt hiad ever' Ceen there before. The ur saLtisfiedl expression was gene. And w united in wvishiing Ilarry what 1, patier reader now wish~ you -A Happy No Yecar!- Godef s lady' s ook. --According to the London Bl andai Oscar Wilde'sa criti<jue of Mrs. Langtry first appearance as "a vapid pean hbeauty in the abstraQt and the co crete." 'The London Globe retort "'Abstract' beauty, we take it, Is logi ally that beauty which exists apau from material substance-~the sar beauty, in fact. which Mr. Oscar Wil once detected in the calves of Mr. Hie ry Irving's legs as Hamlet. 'QO his legs, the athetic sage Is report to have said, - is longer th an the otha butt it is net easy to say which is t more perfect poem.'" -Sentimental Inscriptions do not ways have the effect their author, tended. In the cemetery of Pore I chaise are two columns, sidA by sia with the inseriptions (in French, course): .On the other': " Louts R Beneath the last somte gamin has moa blea: It's too 1M now to 'em all over.-at -A man who ean't Jealousy needn't ex miration and respooe has no enemies can not has any friends. -One ounce of powder twenty-five pounds weight high. Get your exact we t, progression and then sit wn a' of powder to smoke. -If you meet's lion just right h drop his tail and dee, but ther6 urs many ohances that he will drop you stead that the meeting had better b; postponed as long as possible. -Busy Editor (to troublesome a -ppit.. cant, who -wrslsts in Calling): "To-4%Y .1 is Thursd. j and I'm very busy. eup" -Q' se you call next Thursday, and $hen 'Il tell you when to call again." -Prof. Felix Adler said recently tha a man has as much right to cane thi Prosident of the United States as to whip an unruly youngster. 'Wonder Felix his children when they desorre It1;. -Austria has got hold of a; torpe4o which will defend a pass one-fourth Of V mile lon?. After she gets it plftnts will be Just like her enemies to some ot er road.-Norristown ar ?' ' -A Michigan man who rensed to come a candidate for constable, suffered : a latal strok, of apoplexy within eighteen hours. It seems that politiat has become necessary to good health. Our Continent. -Some one wants the tax taken of whisky and put on cranks, In order to increase the revenue.. But that would be a bad move. If tacks were put On cranks editors couldn't "sit down ea 'em."-Burlington Hawkeye. -A lady at Columbus, 0., sent for a piano-tuner to come and see what gave the instrument such a sad tone. He re moved four marbles, two spools, six buttons, two coppers and a dozen hair. pins from the Instrument, and the sad. ness went away. -Why is it that a yng man and a young woman will sit for hours and hours together in a parlor without say ing a word; and then, when it is time for him to leave, stand an hour talking earnestly on the front stoop in the sti pneumoniao air P-Puck. -A bachelor and a spinster who had been schoolmates in youth and were about the same age met in after years, and, the lady chancing to remark that "men live a great deal faster than women," the bachelor returned: "Yes, Maria. The last time we met we were each twenty-four years old. Now I'm over forty, and I hear you haven't reached thirty yet." They never met again. What Surgery Can Do. The London Lancet, in publishing Its record of the progress of medicine in its many departments during the last year, gave some of the more prominent - points connected with surgery. Some of the operations seem almost miraca lous, and were regarded as impossible previous to actual experiment. No region of the body is now considered beyond the scope of surgery. Its most marked triumphs relato to the internal organs and cavities. What has rendered the operations compratvelsafe is the use of antise ti t-inds t prevent putrefaction I the wounds. Hitherto carbolic acid has been the chief agent used. But this. !proved more or less dangerous-some times fatally so-in other directions. A much safer and equally effective substi tute has been found in what is called e ucalyptol, which is obtained from the eucalyptus tree. Abscesses of the liver have been freely and successfully cut into and draine.~ * Large parts of the stomach have b cut out, including even the pylorns, wl' is the more highlyorganised part g . stomach that shuts In the food ur I gestion is carried to a certain and then opens and pours it into testines. * Entrances have been made tL .. the walls of the stomach for the rege i introduction of food in cases where t' * canophagus (gullet) has been closed b* - disease. - T wo pieces embracing the entire eai' 2 oumference, the one about three -inches in length, the other five, have I been cut out from the large intestine r the colon. In all such oases the divided t parts are brought together and sewed the stitches becoming soon absorbed r after the healing.is complete. I Considerable progress has been made ,towards ascertaining the ejract spots whore the brain and nervous systens may be affected, thus facilitating the reaching of disease. t It has been found that bone can e r transplanted and aid in the formation of I new bone; and more wonderful still, that sponge can be grafted into large I wounds, and be a porous sup~port for th~e granlations (the,new fleshi partioles) a while they are filling the cavities. The sponge is believed to be gradually ab. sorbed.- Youth's Companion. t Eccentric Burials. Squire Waterton, the well-known au thor of the "Wandering.," a' Catholie Sin the midst of Protestants, hsA, I be lieve, a small mausoleum consecrated 'for himself and his wife In his own park at Walton Hail, Yorkshire. There was 1a touching story, too, which I heard Swithin a few days of his burial, of a flight of the birds he had so fondly pro tooted all his life following the cortega as his body was borne by water to this resting-place. The case of a distant connection of tmine supplies a most singular iausiance of eccentric burial. She had been se. distressed at the loss of two children within a brief space of time that she in. d duced the clergy man of the parish tolet a he remve teodiecs directly after they >f had been buried. She had them em -balmed, and they were thus kept for a: something like thirty years in an empty c- room in her house in one of the prinoif rt pal streets of Brighton (though occa. 2o sionally to the astonishment and terro io of servants) looking like wax dolls ila n- their pretty ,little coflins with glass lida. of At her death they were burled by ket dson in erders, net many other e1ergyn~ r, men probably ha ig been ealled to burg he sisters who died before thef' were bor:n. There is also the oane of Ettore Viscont:, .whose mummified remains, buried in a a n- erect position in the churchyard wali, are shown to the few visitors to Monz.a The burial in an erect or sitting posture 'tof Charlemagne and Frederick Barbis. 'vMa (not to speak of the weird legendW preiting their return to reign oa earth) also come under this head.-J. H. Busk* ins Notes and Queries. db. -Ruskin asks " What i there beautiful than the word wife?" . wife herself.