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I)EVOTED TO 1'OLI'ICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO TUE GENEI IL INTEREST OF TIE COUNTRY. B y D. F. BRADLEY & CO. PICK ENS, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1883. VOL. XII. NO. 3 GENERAL NEWS. Tie females outnumber the males in Alabama by 17,247. There are cvcr 1CO vaiietles of timber lh"Murray county, Ga. There are 60,000 orange trces at B 'y St. Louis, Mississippi. There will soon be three cotton-seed mills in and around Cheraw, Ala., From one acre of long staple cotton in Rankin county, Mississippl, Mr. W. Waddell realized $260. Tihe Pen. Hilt residence in Athens, Ga., which some time since Eold ror $6, 000, is now held at $12,000. A young ladv near Bainbridga, On., has about four acres in onions and ex. pect.h: to realize $1,600 on the crop. The number of bearing orange treEs k on ,ialifax river, Fla., is estimated at. 300,0( 0, New groves are being planted all the time. - A bill withdrawing all public lands in the State from sale or lease for two years is to be ihtroduced into the Texas L^gidature. The Key West sponge fleet, number- 1 ing 70 vessels and about G00 men, is out e on a ci uise. A large catch of sponge bringA about $SC0,0(I0 into that, city. The entire police force of Birming- i ham, A il., have demandcd higher wages, C and refu cd to work. They are being li paid $60 per month in city script, dis- o counted twenty per cent. h Al most , i t iii sight of the Court house at Monticello, Fla., there are 300 acres of watermelons and 90 acres in potatoes. These crors are estimated to bring the producers 120,000. The Nath Cmoilina State P((d o e Agriculture have decided to make a full dhsp1 Iy of State produets at the fair of the 'ew En11land lechanic's Institute, at Boston, in Septcmbr iext. An aml-i ple appropriation will be made to secure t an admirable display. The Charleston News and Courier states that South Carolina phosphates are in d(mnand in alost every market., I and South Carolina fertilizers are pro nounced by progressive farmers to be the cheapest and at the same time the a mn-sat val uable commercial manures that a can be used in the c'ultivation of our various crops. More than $3,000,000 are invested in the manufacture of fertil izers in that State, and a very large cap. ital is also employed in the mining of phosphate rock. The great bulk of the jugware used in the South is manufactured above Ath. ens, where clay especially adapted to this purpose is found. It is taken from the banks of btrcams and all the work done by hand. A man can manufacture t about 100 gallons a day, but a one-leged u jug-maker in Jackron county easily put 1 up 200 gallons. 'The clay is first ground, every !r'op carefuilly weighed, when the vessels atre formed around a revolving wheel turned by the foot. T1hey are then baked in furnaces and1 g'azed with glas!. They sell for about four cents a gallon at the works. The story is told that some distance down the Georgia railroad, niot far from .Augusta, a case was before a .Justice, andl an Auigusta lawyer was one of the attorneys emp)loyed. The lawyer, hav ing all the facts nd the law that hee desiredI in the case, made little or no la argument before the .Just ice, but to his utter astonishment the caee was decided( against him. After court was over thez lawyer went to the Justice nrivately and asked him how in the name of commens sense he could (decidle that case as lie (lid. He sim ply replied :'" Well now, sir, we .Justices know a great dceal more about these cases tlian is ever brought up before the court. Montgomery, Ala., hats the following manufaetoriea now in operation :Two oil mills, onel flouring miilI, (onc cotton mill, two planinig mills, four grist muil Is two ice manufactories, two candy man uifactories, two sodawater manufactories, two carriage muanuifactorics, one furni ture manufactory, one hiroom mainufac tory, one tinware manu factory, on clotliiung uninuufactm'y, one wvagon imian ufauctory, one cigar manut~factory, one fertilizer works, onie iron works, two marble works, two rail roadl machine shops, one railroadl ear wvork 3, one gin andmachine works, one cotton comphress, one oil refi nery, two i roin foundries, four printing houses, foumr brick yards. The above makes a total o~f 44 establlish ments in operation, which is a fair ex hibit for a cit.y comparatively unknown as a manufactu rilng poinut. There is talk in Georgia (If purch ising Liberty Hall, Alexanider Stephen's late resideince, b)y volu nt ary contribttions, and retain ini it the fatmouis rolling chair ando other relics, ima:k ing it a peculiar pilgrim shrine for the peol of the State, especially the young men. It is also Suggested that the State employ some famous se'ilptor toI make a statue of the late governor, seated in a roller chair, for Gecorgi.'s contribution to the Nationol Capitol. It Was Hungry. A fair young mo(thecr, with a crying habio in huer aims, sat ini a Western stage coach. On the opposite seat was a prom ned: politician of engaging manners. By aind by ho said: "'Let imo hold your hiaby. Pvhiaps I can soothe liim.'" ''Oh, no0; 1 am snuch obiliged; you couldnt help mne ay," was the answer. ''But," lie persisted, '"you had het ter let m e try." ''You1 are very kind; butt I know y'ou coln't biel: mex, for h1o is hungry,'' replied tIh lushing 'uother. Tun dutty of bleinig chieerful, says ia contemplorairy, is one V. ich is at all times binding upon01 us. We have no right to be morose or auliec, or accuis. toim ourselves to look oni tihe dark side of +hings. No senlse cd tuo s'oemnity and importance of life can eX('Itn u' or giving way to a~ sour pa~d ippppy $Au.) pam TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE largest vessel in the Engliih navy ost ,a million and a quarter to build, nd nearly a thousand dollars a day to eep them at sea afterward. ENGLISH railroads have paid, since 876, over $5,000,000 in damages for ersonal injuries to passengers. In 1876, 1,435,000 were paid in this way. THE estimated expenses of the Gov rnment for 1881 are placed at $340,280, 62. The amount of import duties is stimated at $235,000,000, and of inter al revenue at $145,000,000. liss MARY A. H. GAY, who was prom iently instrumental in establishing the fonfoderate Soldiers' Cemetery at Frank u, Tenn., has now undertaken the task f raising money for a monument to the to Senator Hill, of Georgia. THE charge for third class passengers or mile on the railways of India has een reduced to about one-half *ent. 'lie result has been a large increase in rafflc, the poorer classes availing them elves more generally of the railways. NEw Yonn CITY has 2,000 rag-pickers, rhose collections are valued at $750,000 er year, while the handcarts engaged in ie same business gather $3,000,000 'orth. The entire rag tradeof the comi y reaches about $30,000,000 annually. CHILDREN born before the marriage of ieir parents can not inherit property uloss by will, according to a statute ex ting in New York. A different law revails in Pennsylvania, where the sub quent marriage of their parents legiti iatizes the children. Ir Is estimated that the wheat crop of 1e present year in the United States ill fall below that of 1882 by at least D,000,000 bushels. Much of the wheat. iroughout the Northwest and 'West is )ported to be winter killed by the ex eptionally cold wesilter. WILLIAM P. ALLEN and 1iorace L. ones, of Caribou, Mo, have bousit 0,000 acres of land in Aroostook Coun. y, in that State. This land will be set led by immigrants from Sweden, and a ow town will be organized that will robably be named Stockholm. THE Treasury )epartment has mado ontracts for the establishment of cattle tuarantine stations at Baltirnore, Boston, ortland, and New York. It is the pur tose of the department to put a thorough ystem of cattle qunrantine into opera. ion at the earliest practicale day. P1ILADEI1r[IA is rejoicing im the suc essful opening of the cable motor rail ray, a substitute for the horso railway, nd regarded as a much more agreeable ubstitute than the elevated road. The able runs at the rate of seven miles per our. AT a wood cutting contest in McKean ounty, Pa., a few days ago, two wVomen von the first prize for croenit sawing, he contestants working in pairs. It vomon really desire to competo withl nen in industrial pursuits, here is a fihel hey may occupy, aiid no maii will mnolct hem. INvEsTroATIoN shows that in Utah thle AIormon Cliurch has 120,000 miemb ers, n the Western States and Territories thout 80,000, andl in the San<hvichI [slandis about 7,000. It has about ninety Thurcs in Great Britain, and Ite do. somination is one of the largest ini the southern part of Wales. Da. E. 1I. SIIow wALTEII, of Mobile, Ala., has presented to the Ulniv r.sity of Alabama his collection of fossils and aiarine fresh-.water shells, embracing noro than one hundred thousand speci. miens, together with a fine liha!ry of icientiflo works. It is saidl to be one of the best collections in the United States. JIoun G. WairrTmn thinks that ihn ald Indiani policy of reservationu is no longer available. " The Western tidle oh immigration," he writes, ''is everywhere sweeping over the lines. What is neced. ed,''hle adds, "'is that not 'nly the Indian schools should 1h0 more lberally sup. ported, butt that new ones should be opened without delay. 'Tho matter does5 not admit of procrastination." IN CUTTING away the knolls abhouit the old fort at Lake George, N. Y., to obtain earth and gravel for repairing the rail. roaai embankment, the workmen lately dug into what was doubtless at oue timei the military burial ground. Seven skel etons were exhumed, nearly all of whicb bear the markA of battle. One skull has a bullet-hole in the forehead, and when tIhe sand wvas shaken from it out dropped the flattened bullet. DUn. YOUNG, in his work on "Madaria andl its Effects," says: "When the poison of malaria exists in the humani body in a hidden form, it will exei/e andi complicate any disease to which the body may ho diU)spos. It becomes a great danger when complicated with local affections of the lungs, heart, liver, and kidneys. The liver should pass out two and one-half pounds of hile daily. 'The kidneys also relieve the system of a proportionate amount of polaon. Lrrz, tho composer, has been supposed to entertain the same enmity for the Jews that was evinced by Wagner, hut in a letter just published in a Hungarian case, and says that Meyerbeer, Heine, and other Jews were long his personal friends. He also speaks of various services that he rendered to meritorious Jewish artists, and of aid that he gave numerous Jewish benovolontinstitutions in different countries during his long public career. Tun English rate of telegraphing is to be lowered to sixpenee for an ordinary mnes sage, any distance. The motion u - ing the reduction advigable was Qanied against the wishes of the government, but time will undoubtedly make-manifest its wisdom. Cheap telegraphing is a neces sity. The English Covernmont is coim pelled to meet this need by arbitrary reductions. In this country the domand is likely to b answered by ingenious in v'entions, which of themselves work arev olution in methods of transmission and expenses of operating. Where improve. ments are desired in order to cheapen the cost of a system an ounce of private en terpr;so is worth a ton of government inertia. Dn. Wr. JAMES, of Harvard Univer sity, has made some experiments to test the modern theory of the semi circular canals of the ear, instead of being con nected with the sense of hearing. serve to convey the feeling of the movemein of the head through space, which, when intensified, becomes dizziness. He sub jected deaf mutes to rapidl whirling. Of 518, 186 were wholly incapable of being made dizzy, 131 wers mado dizzy in a very slight degree, and 199 were nor mally, and in a fer cases abnormally, sensitive. Of 200 stu<teuis a,,l instruc tors, but a single one proved exempt from vertigo. These results sened to Dr. James to support the theor' which was the object of his inquiry. WHEN the new electric lights :n the Big Mountain colliery, near Shenanaoah, were first put in operation a few dys ago, seven dazed and dazzled mules, which for. five years had seen no brighter luminary than lanterns, turned tail and fled into the depths of tho mine. The workmen tell interesting tories about the habits of colliery mulus, their tough ness, their contentment, and their totel depravity. Several months ago the lower levels in the largest colliery at St. Clair were flooded, work was stopped, and all the mules were hoisted to the surface. More than a dozen of them had passed eleven continuous years in the mine, and had apparently forgott,n that there was a world of grass and sun shine, for when they were turned out to pasture they huddled together in evideni alarm, and for a whole day did nothing but gaze on earth and sky. The prob ability is, that they were at first blinded by the glare-a common experience with their kindred under similar circum stances. Just as they were beginning to enjoy their now life work was resumed in the mines, and they went lback to their old home in the darkness. A Knotty Problem. It was a severe retort; and yet a mer ited reproof for a piece of uncalled-for nsperity and unkindness, if not of down right indcecencV. They were in the small cabin of a river ferryh'out. Two young ladies sat, to gethier, one (if whom had jusit had an ambl.rotype l iken ess, or miniatur e, of herisclf taken, whlich ishe was exhiiting to her compilanion . Shei was an ordinary appi ng girl--shte of the ambrotype --with one0 (exceptionl: slit had a very large nlose--an enormitous nose for such a face. Oni the seat oppisite sat a middle-aged, fat herly-loolintg nit. to who m an qam - t)rif//pe was somt1(hingl( now. IIlis garbt indl generial illearanceIi(t htispoke it inan of thle ruiral (listrmi t. As thle owner of the picture i was aboutt to puit it a way, this inan iiput ou t is hanud, anud asked if lioi migt~l het permilittedl to look at " that (re pict ori? Th'le girl looktd at. him indignantly. "Whtat is my p ictur tio ynu?" she re tort ed, an grily. " duist you mind your own business ! F'or a mom en t the manH was as one thiunderst rick; the in lie seemed lhurt, and pined;til and, Iinially hiis honest face wits staimpedi with disgust. A fter a ftme lie cauighit tie gaze '4f lie dam nsel fixed upo imin as thouighi half ashiamietd of hetrself; but Ishe wouhill ntot . break the silen ce. HeI, litowever, ven tuired: part ieu litr reaison foru wantfing fto see thIiat er-e ptit tir o' v-ourn."' "Wel," siiilted the girl, with a de terminted ellbrt to mintint lier assiimned d igi tyt, "'whait mtighlt flitit particuliar reason have lIppci ?' ."a -it ighit a' 1heen a good many thiogs; but realy I was tiur't uts tto see how in thie wtorlti the n11in 'at maido thie icetuur ever .contrnivetd to get that nose oin to so small a ptlato ! A t that moment the 1boat touched thle lauding, aiid the coiunt rynmatn picked iup his bundle, 1howetd politely at thle (chik - iigf, Ju iv'ering daml,I an mi o ived oin. The lEind Father. A omn wentii to ai doct on antI loltd him: "Dototr t hire is utomtethlingi thle mtit ter w'ithI my brnain. A ftei- anyi seve-e mtental exert ion I huavo hieadav.-h. What it thi r'eimedy fo r it?" "Te biest remedy isi to get yourself elgeted to thm Leogislaturie, wh'eie you will have no occas ion Io thinktl " The ptatienit repliedi if it wasn't for the sake of hii chiiIldren lie would make the experiment. He ditdn't want them to go through life with a itigmna attachied --A one-logged anti one-aimed col ored, man, who supports himself b)y driving a cart, doine all his woi-k a.s qluickly and thioroughl?y as any teamster wit hi the full complemont of limbs, is nted by the Camden (N. J.) Daily Posi as one of tho most remlarkabIle moni ithn nty. TILE ALL-GOLDEN. a r. 11) Through every hnppy line I sing' 1 feet tho tonic of the spring. The day is like an old-timo face That. gleauns across som grassy place An old-time face-an old-time chun, Who rises from the grave to come And lure me back along tho ways Of Time's all-golden yesterdays. sweet. Day I to thus remind mhe of I rho truant boy I used to love To set, once more, his finger tips Against the blossom of his lips, And pipe for me the signal known fy none1 but he and I alonel F see, across the schol-rnom floor 'lie, t<hadow of the opnl door, Anl dancing dust. and aunshine bilent lainting the way the miorning went, A_nd beckoning my thoughts afar Where reeds and running watt:rs are; Whero ambercolored havns glass l'he half-drowned weedi and wisps of grass; Where sprawliniz frogs, in loveless key, Sing on and on incessantly. A Rainst the dim wood's green expanse The cattail tilts its tufted lance, While on its tip-one might (leelare The white "snake-fee<ler" blossome<l thorol j 11i. I eatch my breath, as children do in wNoodland< swings, When life is new, And nil the bltoo<l is warn as wine Anl It ogles It hil a tang divino. My soul soars ux the atmosphere And sings aloud where God can hear, A a all my bwing leans intent. 'lo mark his sinlling wonierment. O, graclons dream and gracious time, And gracious theme, and gracious rhyie 'hen burls of Spring begrin to blow In blossoms that we used to know A nd lure us back along the ways Of Tirne's all-golden yestrrtdaysI -Jn mcs 'hitcolb RIleyj, in lmdiianapo!is Jour M14Y LOVE STORY. Are there no underwriters for human1111 ] holesY for the itost, precious of interests is there no insurance?" I had been telpted all day, tem itedl by fate and t he devil. All stmmer lon g I had been trying to clasp hands for a life jotirney with a man I did not love; a man noble of soul and born to the purple, who set. tipl high lineage against my poor gifts of beaity and song. lie threw some love into the scales, too, hut I, God help me, had none to give in retr I1n. I had bartered erewhile Imy whole pos sessions for a few gl:uces of a dark, dark eye, and my note had gone to pro test. Could I, could I? It kept following me about with fateful persistency, foi to-night. I was to give my answer to mi highl-born lover. I tried to look things in the face, to count the cost. Money was a goo.d thino; it insured one warmth in wimnter :d cr'lic"ious coal ness in sumnmer, and prettiness and daintiness, and the entr:tnce into (ood society. Yes, money was a good t Ilinig, azndl po)sition :and power, aInd houses and lands. So fart, giod; but my soul lungered and thirsted for a love ('I11m mensurate with Iny own, which this man, who ollfered me purple and 1.4hl(, had it. TIot. in his power to givi, or, let me qualify that, had it not inl his natur to give. The stars came out golden and soft, and tho fragrant, suinliner dusk crept around me wheire I sat inhaling tile scnt of the roses. Ambition adll love tor" my heart by turn, and we:ariness, too, put in a pool'1itiful plea, for I was o tired, so fired. It was a brilliant fulttre that llegiald D)acr'e otlfered mie, wheein'ii toil :014 weaintiess couii ndiever' comie. I tl hought of the purp'Jle andi fine linien; the liix daily life patssedl in r'eviewv befor'e iie - tat. of comipanion to1 a haughty, hiine lady, and a sin<rer' in a faishtioniablle chu trch, amtong i?shioniablde saintl s andt s imi(ers. I begani to (eroon over' t lie ol sai te: andu gall, Witlt . illhar andi' reredos(l, withI gargole and111( grolin, Theii peiteiit-s' dlresses are sealsk in and tiablle, iut. surely it Lucife fl''ying froml Hadeils, Couldt gauze ait tis crowd, wlih its paiiers nil piiaits. He wotuld saiy, oo0k ing roun d at the lords and11 the ladies, 'O where is All Sinners, if' t his is Allt Saints?' " T had entetred tupon thIiis life ftrom an tinloved atnd un loving htome, a home doled ot to ime by thei t.ardy just ice of a grand-ttncle wh1olihad robbed mc of' my in heritance. I thought at first I mnight find the satngreal somewhere in thiis new country, which seemed so fair, bit alas! I had tiot even hieaird the swish oft wings. I thotighit (of it aill* thle fever andI thle frt; thle pettyv jars; the inistunde4rst andii ings; the pain of iflncmprehlensionii; the uniguteirdoned' toil; the laggring touirs; the awful paulstes. Th'is~ ori mnarriauge; tis or' marr'iage. It. seemoed wtrit ten like a lali(ard' otn earthI atnd sky. It seleed blound liko phyl aeteiry upon01 thle brows (of t he ple( ple' as the4y passedl to andil fro; atnd soon1 the word miariage lost aill ittsri igii - (cance for' m', as wor'ds do afteir oft re pea ting D~Iid it mean m iisery oir hiappi 114>s, bliSs otr woe? TIhis imariaige tI. V rung its c'haniges throutghi my bria in was it God-appointed? Did it imeaii Gosd' blessing ot' IIis cturse? Yout know I dlidi not love t his mni:i who offeredl me r'est from my laboirs. I1e had not p ower to evoke one t hrill at his call. Buit then'1 love is onily one1 ireasoni wh'y one shtouild marry a' man.. T here might be love and plenty of money, and1( vet one go htingry aill one'sI life. I have known such thiings. I had tr'ied to make my life st raight and fair. I had tr'ied( to keep ele'an hands and a11 pure heairt; trnild God whlo kn:lows the secrets; of all hlearts5, knows this-to light dlespair'. " * eA 41ng. greenl days, WVorn hare of gras's and siuishine; long (enIm nighiti From which the silkent leeps were fretted out fle witness for me." We see t.hbrough shiadowus till our life long'. We come into this wor'ld with out our being giveu a ch'oiee as to our advent,and go out of-it intbe camne man ner. Weo have ntot becui. consulted as to( birth or'death. Mor'e and more thu prayver| Lof Eniotua haunta me. "Lead me. 7enu ud Destiny, whithersoever I am ap- M. ointed to go; I will follow withourt 1' 'vering; even thouglh I turn coward nd shrink, I shall have to follow all he same." Should I marry Mr. 1)aere? Was he good parti? as the world said. Too 00d for me, as my lady elegantly hrased it. I had been horn into the world amid erce throes of ment'tal anguisi. My al nother's heart was rent. with the grat fa ain of my father's sudden death- -- ( rowned oilf the Cornish coast, for I was or orn at sea. She lived until I was ten tr 'ears old, a life of sorrow, antl pover"ty, al nd renunciation. Then she died, leav- 0l ng me to the care of a compassionate Sc vorid and my uncle. Of him I have of iready spok'en. My lilte dragged on wit Ii clotggeil vheels. I was alwavs at war with i1y surroundings. T'1hougi too proud to i xpress it, I had never realized my o leal of womnulhood, or in any way V,. rowi u) to lly aspirat ions and1 di('eaI1. f I had grown at all it. ha(1 been in hrough pain and repression -a fatal 1 hing always for a warm-hearted, "I "arne-itwOmn . My uncle, Edward Earle, 1ha(1 pro ured me the friendship (?) of the la<ty nt whose house I had passed a I 'velve niont.h-t-Mrs. Lt,lien Grangr, a distant t 1ou1sin of his own. I was an llsalaried N overne'ss or '"ominli1on, mur reiote Musinshtip becing alwiays m:ade availabi by my uncle. '1t wa iduing' my r' i- ul lene. with that. lady that my fate came r( to me. A young nephew of AiMr's. (;ran er's came to the hall. iIe was ai ar- g< tist. young and haidsome, an fresh m from at four years' sojourn in Role. is I leed not weary you with the pro ogue or the epilogue of our love, for ej vords are so pool' to express til he:rt's I( .itterance. O golden (ihlys! O tender, lo )assionate nights! O prin'ely ieart, ,ome back to me! Alan Leighton was the last n o)' a w :igh-born family, a4 11' 11'use of the \ >luie blood--the united blood( of a1It i he lIowards-- flowing in his veins. 1r i's. 1) 3ranger interposed her liat aga'mst n ur o i ove, dreading, doubtless, the 1(bteian n1 ldmixture of mine. i It is a pity that blo l d Ies no1 :il avs ii elI. It. was an inglorious Ilillnlph t" 1h ie-yet still a triumph - to iare my it white arms to the shoulltr iulringI ou' s ala nights-to whiclih Iy voice was al- sI ways illvited--contr"asting their satiny ei ,moothnless:and perfect conltour wit h t he l lean, brown appendlages Mrs. Graiigr ' . folded over her :ristoeratie heart. u lhit, a cloud (trept into the sky, an11 its shadow fell across our path. Alan was calh'd s'tienly i)y tele,-r:n l to Enghlald, whr hl '!is graund ol tt-I. - laly dlying. W\e hadl but. a1 mn,, t for t' our farewells, for Alan's heart. wyas rent It with sorrow, and 1 helped to expedite his (lepartlure. 11 Bhut one letter ever. reacehed me. HIis father was dead, and lie was Sir Alin 114( W. "\Mv PiE("rors Ilrr.EN: My fatther, mhoin I loved anl re4 pete4l above all nlent, liel ves- I tertin.v. I ne"tt not tell .o3 how <leroh1 te we n feel, Itinc how then li:lit Ft"cnis to hinve tti("l out 01 every nook and1 corner. M v dear tnot he-r i p roslrlttetl with the blow which hits 1tken at' the lover o' hotr youith, andl I 4111l not, I>- 14ll' to ttun to vou for onIe weeks. An 44o(ne our betlothat'a, tlearest, to ly stnit 11n<4 uncle, wich, you ki>w, was tiv intention the v ery night I wns enlletl awaty. lie troe to In, Iny arling I1(1(11, as I S1h111l he trute to you. (;ootl-flight, <1e1ar 1ove. 1 14111l write 4 !("Irlth 1 is i;oon ts mny muother antl I hnvre nuit uretl our 11n111 ior her ontely f't 4ur. (iool-nig'ht, uoo)I ght. Mity 1ling'ls gulitde you. ltntI Innty hI:, ,oo<l Fa t her fol abhout you illis evet-htsting 1rmn. Your lie ' d 1a11 4 l iover, "Al AN IN:1.ieoN." Two years lun dIraggd their slow Iengt h a.lon g since 1i1:h t letter :.11', "Imd I had never heardi from Alan, though i raving his presee as the J)iiomer" raves the sunshiie. I had writte himi 41nt'e, and4( I h1:441 reetted4 that11:. "'1 Ie was4 so<m4 t4o be w4'bled to an) : ar1 ' handi(som11e dang21l,"'Il Mrs. Gran:44-4r ret:14! aoud froman open (4let 1411r1 iln 1er1' 1pri4or 14) his5 visit to the) 14ill,'" etc4., 4etc. r Ilomv 1 re4gr'ettled I had44 wrVit 441,thou41gh1 the wordtj'(s h:441 heen few''., in4'ee l akinlg if hei h4:141 heen' t'na:bled t) pro'ure'4 m14 0i :'ortIn boo4 44k w..e h4:141 m1:44l4 ment'ion1) of to geth1441, :4114 1the tilme wa.:s 144or''e thani a year1 a4go when0l 1 h4:441 the4 right. thus4 toa address him41). AndI now''.! O) pitiful Chriist ! :mother('1 w..oman11 wavs to bIe his wift', and4 no0w 1 mu1st, never''1 tink oIf j I 44the. lays, or the'(4( l re:nns, or1 loo)k J into0 1his dar4k ('y(s, (4r feel' hiis k isse's upon01 )ny unlkissedi lips! Nev'er1! and4( 1 mligh4t live liftyv ye'ar's. All.! ( th pity of1' ) it, ou1.t. of 1 all thi w.orbl's m)illionl po)ssib)ilitie I 1 a 1 only4144 the ebance('4 of two (' it'i er to wed H4'4r4 14a1d I)aer'e, a man'41 (ob4 enoughL~l t) b)e my hauItghty womn.lll 1 h4:1)! dec'(ided' upon necpt''I ing Mr'. Iere('4. 1The tl i io of barely 13 tw'.o lines I h41 4:)' 4-! i'e'w.n tihel]eaveso(f a book it. was : his n)ightly' h1im1 so true44, so noble14. I h:oI (ald im warmll1i dus4k on1114r thest:-' "I w..ill 1not sol 111hy11 puph with11 my dutst,"' 1 h4:44 l)Lhi )'pe in4) 1 14)':)ri. "' N~or breae:11414' my p'i'in on1 \ 'a'.n grlass." "* * *'4 wn b>nt h st'a 1(o listenI to1 its .4ulb- ro r;4) hear1 it fatces dead44 4ur444r its wav:es;~' 44f ''b :4 1 4) jew..els lyinlg o)n green4 I bd of mo)11)): of arlgosi's gone144 dow1 n), t11 h 4 wai1 44f ho444n 1 miser'4y their 4' equiern444. 1I tried4 to'ri nwm'Ili>)r'l' 4411 s11', so) that4 10nin4 ighi not4) see1in such1 a grea'4t thling :ainid4 a1 worbl) 4f sobiniig and14 tears. It,'44 was agood) thiing to1 tinuk of thle 4ufferiin4gs of tothes and'.41 try' to ignlori' your4 0own;44 a good iin.. hut , my44 m114i'er! Ite 1i4 r of44 4 the1 girl Tis gir wa1 some5)414twhat1 of a geniu41)s, (of SOnJg and4 she: was1 hal4:l ome)1), too),r men41 said4. Arii. s'mt h:id 'w'o ('bances4'' inll thet workl1(, :4nd4 * she 1h:441 had money)4 t'nou1gh4 to ha:''. ut ilized1 hier gift of son))). 11441 sh14 44101 544i4ired her soul, for' a4ll 1he1 beaulty 3'414( gifts; 1(ad4 been( fal se 1o4) hetrs~elf, to Go<l: and1 hutmanit y'; false, too4, to Reginaild I)aecre, for 51he kep)t lier love for' Alan! loc4ked4 iln 1her heart'I "I have stoh l my soul for' 1houses and4 "I have sold miyself w.it hi open eyest1," she said, ''knowingly, with malTlie(o pre pen'lse. I hav~e no one in blame. Thait Alan forgot~ his vows did1 tot mailke it right that I should forswear myself." B3ut the sea, with its fuss anid fret, anad mumrdah 4a igb..ad iter seemed wooing mo thitlherward. to chimes of our quaint old church, tying an old song, caused a choke in y' throat. I would go and invoke and airs from the organ, and mayhap hould forget the sea s roar11. It was my wont to go there to prac e, and I knew the service woul(t not held for a hilf hour. The lights 1're turned down to a semi-darkness, d the old texton, With whom 1 ^.las a vorite, had left the key inl the door r m1e. The mloonl shone across the ganl keys tand aeross my face; ainl the illing folds of my white dress looked most. ghastly in itK li(rht. ) quaint d church! O tluaint O id chimes! Too onl I would be far awav from you, ri hle sa to my suitor's lordly home, rrinvithl me) a heavit'r he'rt. thanl y ye'ar; shIoultl w\arrant. luit it was too late to look back; and e fauilt was mine. I had ruined uy Iln life, and must pay the price. Be tuse I had hen forhidden the desire mine eyes, I had sealed lay fate. I idl bound my hands, and hid intoned hiebe (:ry's wailing vords: have turne<l from the good giftsThy boulnty supplietI me, ;entise of the 0110 which Thy wisdoml deuled 1110: lave tandaged Inine eyes-yea, 1mne own hands have bound ine; l1\o tnlado me a darkness whot light, wis arounnd ruo. >w I ('ry by the wayside. 0 Lord, that I might rece"ive bac'k niy sight." "'rectavi," I eled, and my head sank ton the organ and tears stained the (1 roses at iy throat. "llelen!" and my head was lifted 'itly and Alan IeiAghton'a tender eves et mine. ''Alan!'' was all my aston hmiient could utter. " My girl, you have su lT''erld," lie at'ullate(, ini a tone of e'xquisite ten 'l'tess. " lIh(''n, Iy' first anil on.v ve, litmw wo la:ve 1 In \ wrontret, I ily l'earn'd. an hour e'fllre I em lrkett, Ilhat \*tlt \\ti't 1itl. the f:tlstm t u: Voilt ll:t l ti' - 1 1:1 I n ill:ii- t . rs. iranger r wr'"tlt' n1' t tiht't'n Ithl s :t_'t that youi hi:ltl 'marr11ildl M r. l ar: 1 left wil1 lill fi . ('llh:.' A h t'<p -t I -t'i , w't'ith' iut u:i' f w i" i tur l el nt . w la ' tiy tl ail I r l l t 1 el'iveni ylouri, letdh tiuen lilom fr it l'( 'i' l \"'iIl ls t oi, :ilt 1'tltl ftill )uIbt. I left Eiir.i, n tilnd ' 1 tf i '. :tii ar te'('ll (1in thl wu ig "\herI si:e', finli l: no rest. for my he:rt on sea or I0>r1. IIi'ltn, I stitl'-rt'd as fewv mn ltl'r f bevlln gou, nii d hilll:ut he ltnse of yo1ur appa1;rti fa l.enwu. Illut. ciod otil v watil my wvhoitl life' he uti- of i w unt's untrut h, so I ( 1t 1) the broken tur'aeats and tried not to Itk back. It, was hv ehane Ii.met, l'rlall Nt!lit, :lld in the idst of ut1al vconideinc' ie t in :lfo ais ' why ha14 ileer reti iled to Alieri'a :llI( >1 the beautifull liit'l l Pretni , woi) ad (e'tlin (led aill suitors, :lnt l as still itwed . I ll'h'n, I bah:trktnd that aftei ten, atltI i m ht-' t', hie r to Iui h:rt. i roil li larlil. \\ i vhe ill wve ho a1retii't, sv 'et " arrietl! Ala , 1111 ll ( the ( alry "'gsntll,'('i r teul illg tN it'i, I wit'hdrew lyself fromi his armus, andl allost unl (mseioutsly m ry lis ftoanw' thillvors: I hal died for is h st"ar to ndsow ott h t loved nt . hlo shull turu on ilyt? I earo not itc iove come or go Now, though your love seek mnin' for lutte, I is old ittna."' 'Too late! I1e1n, my'( only ove, ex.. lil your illeanlin , for td i'.s sake d' I'enl ealne a br"oketl, li.jointetl taltl f ml strrov tanll telmptation when I eat of I hil ihaiinsoii and high-f-htrn ride; Of ly e rariness ol f the hiall; of rlls. (iranigt'r; of myself, of MrI1. 1)at rei's eonlistai wvo iil , atl tl l last of thi itIle nIot o l t hll is night, t, tt Ii i the leaves of his book, makin liin's coming fitori'I too late for Ily Ra~idi''li hoflali aon lhe roa(1dand At ouiiy ''lover 1am il n siht.l oi ur "ved!il an,"y dandh myiih wordsWi'm' hiirandy fast. ife it leri' "EingCaeo ins linveai tlan, ilg'ard the hr, Ms Grnger, hck y'i the wstr lowor ll to 1( the all 5. auron their a n hn wO, Anlan!!"tl10 "ly idateninititem brih tsarang! Cut hroked from- ais clasp anditt lsped oce half that the roses' fe fro myf L.o eevgraced asornbush,ordil that air, uloose fwrm -ia fraseinto hei uprv! erieve:t i Itr oi tan hidbu it m of o,ff,o --A great modiste issued the fo . ing dirootions for wearing a new stylE of head-gear: "With this bonnet the mouth is worn slightly open." -A writer on subjects of solenco says that as a fertilizer an inch of bone is worth an inch of roses. One shad ought 9 produce a mile of bloom.-N. F. Herald. - ,. - A Hartford architect says "the b4sf fire-escape is a cop head." We'd like to see that architect letting himself down frQu aysixth story window on a cool head.-Boston Post. -"Otway, a ramatlo poet of the first-class:. pe bed with hunger." What became of the third glass poetsi Otway's day is not btated, but they were probably fired from a mortar against a stone wall.-Norristown Herald. - -A soyen.year-o dor, with the pun ster's nmrk on h lrow, at didner, asked his mother what was in a Jar on the table. ."ikojdes, zny s.e," was the reply. "Then, niammia, please pickle little one out for i4," came with stun ning force from the child, and the mother f 11 over a chair and fainted. Detroit wee Press. -If you want to find a logician, go to your tailor. The other day one of these fractions of the human family was overheard to remark : "I never ask a gentleman for money." "But suppose he doesn't pay you then?" Well, if he doesn't pay me within a reasonable time, I conclude he is not a gentleman -and then I ask him."-The Judge. -A man drank some Bowery whisky in Now York last wo9k, and turned in eight fire alarms before he recovered. In one fire-box he left a note asking the fire department to put out the comet. No villain ould have successfully played it on our firemen. Not because our police are too vigilant to allow it, but simply because Laramie has no fire alarm boxes.-Laramie Boomerang. -"low can I leave you, my darllgP" murmured a Toledo lover in tones of (i4tressing tenderness, as lie observed both hands of the clock ap proach a per pendicular on the dial. "Well, John," responded the girl with wicked inno cence, "you can take your ahoice. If you go through the hall you will be liable to wake up father, and if you leave by way of the back shed you'll be likely to wake up the dog."-Exchange. -A Chicago paper says that a printer in that city has been cured by prayer. It does not say what the printer was cured of. If he was cured of extracting the word in a paragraph on which a joke hinges, and substitutj a word of his own "to make sense," a he puts it, we will indorso the prayer cure, and give it a five-inch eleetro ad. free, one year, top column, next to reading mat ter. All omissions and wrong insertions to be imado good at end of contract. Te.xrs Sijzings. -The only way to deal with a .iar is to beat him at his own gan. What started this item was reading about an American who had been to Europe, and who was telling a friend who knew he wps a liar, about his trip across the Atlantic, and how, on the 25th of the month, "they encountered a swarm of locusts, and the locusts carried every stitch of canvas off the ship." The listener looked t houghtfully a moment, and then he said hesitatingly: "Yes; I guess we met the same swarm of locusts the next day', the 26th. Every locust had on a palir of canvas pants" The first liar wont around the corner and kicked hum asif.--PecW-s Sum. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. STMnNINE, when administered. in heavy doses to maninals, ac:., accord ing to M. ihet, nets pairtly like chloral andl partly likco en rare. I'r is estimatedl from observations on the shiadows o,f .Jupiiter's mlotmai thatit thme umIfosphlero of that planet is from three to nino miles deep,. 'J'rrs preseniee cf iodine ini Curacoa gnianmo lias been p)roved by H. Steffers. When a mass of gnano was subjected to a heat from 110 degrees to 120) degrees C,,the soluble vapors of iodine were given ofi. TmomrhNv ar-e by no means confined to pork. Two Froneh soldiers (died lately oif trichinosis contracted by eating the flesh of geese. Dr. Gilendenning has do tecte-d the danige-rns parasites ini a p)ike caught niear Ost(ond. WrEuN bars of a magnetic nature aro or'mpressed, twisted (or stretelhed, they h'o a tendeney, says M. Ader, to re sume their primutive molecular disposi tion when they are subjected to the ac tion of magnetizing current. iram German African Society lhas at Ipresent six dIifferent expeditions tramvel - ing through Central Afinca. Tho money for theso expeditions is ob)tained from the German Government, or through private subscript ions. Dr. Nachtigatt is the President of the Society. A. W. STEnANS, son1 of the late Presi dent Stearns of Amherst College, has gone to Labrador, wher-e he will pass thoe winter in scientific r-esear-ch, a.wl( in col lect ing zoological, botanical and geologi cal specimens for Amherst College and for severa limulseumlis. Anowd MNAYER hcsdiscovered that oxy.. Igen line n direct influence upon fermen "oj,. When potassium-hydrogen tar trate wa.s added to a strong syrupi con aimning yeast, the cells of the yeast grew~ tapuimlly and thew fer-mentation was easily reco mi shied. Tm'nI committee app)oinmted by the Fr'nencah Gioverunent lumw recommended that the prize of $10,000 he awarded to P'rofessr G-( raham Becll for hi5 invention of thle telephone, and that a prize of $-.. (l00t ha given to Mr. G4ramnmo for his mag neto electr-ic macline. Puioi-. (O. N. 11o0n, of Columbia Col lege, contelmi t hat theories of Br-ucko andl Aubnmst fail to account for the( phe-nonnna ohbsem-vedl wheni while light 15 mrixed with color-ed light. And Pro fessor Rood himself is a yet unable to advauneo a p,lausibjle explanation of the ob)servedl facts. A Fnmursonn seicimist states that on one occasion, at the biegininmg of a vio lent snow-storm lhe sawv small tufts of light at tihe ends of the steel ribs of his umbrella, anid heard at tIhe same time a sor tof imunning somnl. When helbrought his hanid near one0 of the luminous points he rteceivedl a slight shock, andl( thielighmts then disappearedl. This electrical die play is rather exceptional. P'nenr-rxTen silica attracts and fixes aniline colors, turkoy red much b)ettor on foaris than silcious ininusorial earth, but argues a writer in R~icmann's .Farber ie/un.g in opposition to Engel, these proper-tics of silica cannot be duo to ca-pillanrity because, of the two substances, the influsorial earth canm only be said to possess capillarity. --The Boston Trarscriptsa musical critic oharacteri-zes Mr. Mass' an playing as "ominently muaicianly.v* I isorrowingtully to see tIle EngIl s a gmug majrat.dly