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-LVO -IYI) TO POLII'Ucs, MORAI,YY, RDUCTION AND TO T'JE GENERI,L INTERtEST OF TilE COU'i.TY. By D. F. BRADLEY & NO. PICKENS, S. C4, THURSDAY, .JUNE 2 Cl. X11. No A CAIRO OfMIUH FARE. Wit to The Breedng Baetluree Whieb $tamd Beside the Virgas Tree. In company with a crowd 'of dukes and right honorables, who have lately been visiting the scenes of Lord - Wol seley's "latest and most glorious achieve ments," a New York Herald correspond ent says: I went to see the Cairo ostrich farm. Everything in Egypt has an arobological setting: 'he village of Tel-el-Kebir-the Big Mound-is noth ing less than the relies of the city called Pi-tom in the Old Testament that was built by the Jews with bricks without itraw. The Cairo ostrich farm is situated within P pistol shot of the famous Vir gin's tfee, which' i still sttuiding, and under the shade of which tradition tells us that the Virgin with the infant Jesus and Joseph reposed when they fled into Egypt from the wrath of Herod. Quito netr the Virgin's treo and hidden among ihick foliaged shrubs, is a French restaurant, that has become the favorite resort of princes and of golden youth, of comedians and ladies of the corps do ballet, and of the tourists who visit Cairo. There are few indeed who do not make an excursion to the sacred tree 4 and refresh their inner man at the con vivial hostelry. The ostrici farm extends from the Virgin's tree to the desert, and com prises several acres of land surrounded by high mud walls. The greater part of the farm is desert, not because it is iu capable of cultivation, but because the loose, pebbly sand is essential to the we.ll-beng of the ostrich. There are at present on the farm 120 birds of more than a year's growth, and of these fifteen are female and twelve are male adults Ihat is to say, they are more than three years old, the ago at which they com mence to lay. Twelve of the adults are now laying ,d three are engaged in hatching-one being upon twenty-two, one upon four. teen, and one upon eleven eggs. Strange to say the male bird attends more to the hatehing part of the busi ness than the female, especially in cold or rainy weather, and in fact often under d. takes the whole of that tedious duty himself, being only relieved byhis better hlif at meal hours. Mr. Wetter, the ostrich diecetor, has t,=en very fortunate in his effor;s to domesticate the ostrich in Egypt.. Out of 108 birds hatched last set'on eighty yearlings are now alive and healthy-a very successful result when it is borno in mind that during the late Arabi un pleasantness the ostriches were much neglected. After visiting the breeding enclosures and those wherq the yearlings were parked we were conducted to the incubating house and to a wire cage whero this season's birds were scauimper i'g about full of health and vigor. By applying one of the eggs to a hole cut in ai Piece of blackened cardboard and plac i"g it against the sun the ostrich farmer showed us a young bird which had been ii:eulated by artificial means and had reached maturity, actually pecking at the interior of the shell and struggling to break out of prison. The Wicked Boy. "What ails your pa's teeth," asked the grocerymian of the bad boy. "The hired girl was over here to get some corn meal for gruel, and she said your pa had lost his teeth." ''01, about the teeth. That was too b ad. You see, my chum h-is got a dog Sthat is old, and his teeth have all come (out in front, and this morning I borried l'a's teeth before lie go.t uap, to see if we couldn't fix them in the~ dog's mouth so he could cat better. Pai says it is an *evidence of a kind heart for a boy to be good to dumb animials, lbut it's a dlarn mean dog that will go back on a friend. We tied the teeth in the dog's mouth wtith a strinig that went around his upper jaw and another around his under jaw, and you'd a dide to see how funny lie looked wvhen he la'T'ed. lHe looked just like pa wiheni he tries to i-mile so as to get me to come up to him so lhe can lick ime. The dog paUwed his mouth a spell to get the iethi out, andit then we gave him a belle with some meat on, and he buegan to gnaw the bone, and the teeth come off the plate, and lie thought it wals pieces of the bone~ andi he swallowed the teeth. My chum noitced it first, and lie said we hiad got to get in our wvorkh pretty qick to save the plates, and I tink we were in luck to i-ave thiem. I e held the dog, and moy chnm, who was better acquainted with im, untied the . strings antd got the gl laies out, but there were only two feethI left, and tihe dog was happy. lie woggled his tail for more teeth, but we hadn't aniy miore. I am going to give him ma's teeth sonme day. My chum says whien: a dog gets an apipetite for anyth:ing you have got to keep giving it to hinm or lhe goes back on you. But I think my chum played dirt (in me. We sohld the gold plates to a jewelry manm, auid my chum kept the t mhoney. "-Afiwaukee Sun. The Light Went Out. Not long ".;so I stood by the death-bed of a l'tiAe girl. From her birth she hand bieen atfrid of death. Every fiber of her bodly andi soul recoiled from the thought of it. "'Don't let mue (lie," shte said; "'don't let me die. Hold me fast. Oh. I catin't go." ''Jenny," I said, ''you have t wo little brothers~ in the other world, 4 and there are thousands of tender-heart ed people over there who will love vou and take care of you." But she cried out agaLin despairingly, "Don't let me go; they are strangers over there." She was 9. little country girl, strong linmbed, S!et, of foot, tanned in the face; she was raised on the frontier; the fields were her home. Ini vain we tried to rec!oncile her to the death that was inevitable. "Hold mne fast," she cried, ''don't let me go." But even as she was p)leadinug her lit,tle hands relaxed their clinging hold from my waist and lifted themselves eagerly aloft; lifted themselves with such straining effort that they lifted the wasted little body from its reclining position among the pillows. Her face was turned up ward; but it was her eyes that told the ittory. They were filled wvith the light of Divmne recognition. They saw something plainly that we coulil not see; and they grew brighter anid brighter, and her little hand quivered in eagerness to go 4 where strange portals had opened upon her astonished vision. But even in that supreme moment she did not forget to *leave a word of comfort for these who would gladly have died in her place: 'Mamma," she was saying, "mamma, they are not atranugers. I'm not afraid." A nd every instant the light burned more gloniously in her blue eyes till at last it si'emed as if her soul leaped forth upon its radiant waves, and in that moment her trembling form relapsed among its' piullows and she was gone. ALrs A La.--In the town of Came rou, Steuben County, there reside ten farmers whoue farins join etch other. -They have ten babies and the rb is only 3ETTER DAYS. Better to smell the violet cool, than sip the glowing wino; Better to hark a hidden brook, than watch a diamond shine. Better the love of a gentle heart, than beauty's favors proud; Better the rose's living, seed, than roses in a crowd. Better to live in loneliness, than to bask in love all day; Better the fountain in the heart, than the fountain by the way. Better be fed by mother's hand, than eat alone at will; Bettor to trust in good than say: "My goods my storehouse fill " Better to be a little wise, than in knowledge to abound; Better to teach a child, than toil to fill perfec. tion's round. Better to sit at a master's feet, than thrill a listening state; Better to suspect that thou art proud, than be sure that thou art great. Better to walk the real unseen, than watch the hour's event: Better the "Well done !" at the last, than the air with shouting rent. Better to havo a quiet grief, than a hurrying delight; Better the twiligat of the dawn, than the noon day burning bright. Better a death when work is done, than carth't most favored birth; Better a child in God's great house, than tlh king of all the earth. G1:0aol: M. cDoN ALn. ilE 1 WAY P1E 10M1'OSlD, Major (Hinton was one of the mlost courageous fellows in the world, accord ing to the men who knew him; bit when the ladies of his aelluintance heard this opinion, they laughed it ta seorn, for they co1 sil:red li mi the ma,,st timid creature they had ever seen. II, was very fond of ladies' society, ther said, or he would not spend all his evei ings at parties or makihing calls; yet not one lady, old or young, single or mar ried, had ever known him to express his regard in any way that was not extren ly decorous and formal. Flirt? They would as soon think of a tombstone or 'a telegraph pole attempting to flirt. Most of the MAljor's male acquaintances car ried scars on their hearts, as results either of attacks more honorable than judic'ous, or of sudden surprises by fair skirnishe 's; but no one could imagiie the Major to have suflered any such mis huap, for lie not only nade no recon:nois sance, but he always retired precipitatelk within himself at the first flash of ap.Ir of eyes leveled directly at him. The truth was that the brave Maj,.r was not only as modest as a mlodl mlaidenl, but he was painfully laslhtol beside. The one desire of his 'life was i. mlarry, which he was financially able t< do, but the important prelimi1ary ste: of proposing was one he had never' dur, el to take. Until he reached adult yeaar he had met scarcely any women but his two orphaued sisters, to whoni lie h11 tried to be a father, and upon whose rare purity and sweetness he had based his ideas of womanhood. Roth marrit , and went far from their old home, so they could not help him to gain a wi' by disabusing him of his impression that all women were too good for him. To (linton nearly every woman appeared a s:ilit. He worshiped one after another, alt hough only one att tile, andc his tastes were so correct that he was ollig< d to change his divinity about once in in three mionths, to nvoid -worshiping another mnln's wife. Whenever ill old sear healed and a delicions throl,ling of the heart told of a new dart that had found its way to his heart, lhe v'owed solemnily to propose at on1ce, anid vary the dlreadfui Olotoiny of having another man st(ep ini befolre himl. AnId eaceh timle he delayed, just for a day, or a week, or b)ecaulse lhe feared too muchl, 01' hloped too wildly, anId every time 11e waited it little too lonlg--every Itimie lbuit one(. For whi n the Major miet Alice Waller son he felt that, to lose her, too, would he nul(ra thlan his. life coldt endure. Sile i as pretty, as all women seemied to thle Major. She was good anid she was sweet, the Major was surie, else wh'ly wiere all other women uinusulally fond of heri? Best of all, she seemetd the mo1st miodest anid bashful maiden inl his whole circle oft acqulain tanice, anld thr iouigh thlese <otia ities would be able to offer' lhim sympl~athuy wlithl feelings that all oItheri peopfel regairded withi provlok ing sm1iles(. Butt how shuoulO lie priops 1 ? Beinig at woman, her bashiful nature must lbe far more senisitive thlan his owni, so, Oeen if he were to ner'1ve hlimself to the (irdeal, how could 110 lhe enough of a bute to inflict greater tr'epidaItion 111)0n her, if lie loved 11er? Even~ w~ere she favorably disposed toward him, he was sure thuat li steninlg to a pr'(ioosal would putt her heart in a terr'ilhe tu mult; how mneh01 mor'e dreadful would it b,e, then, for her to tistenl to him0 shld1( she not he favor' ablydisosedlUeknow thait sheialways had even been urateful' to hint one0 evenl ing, when bothl, at a plarty anld both thriouigh timidity, rectiired to thlo,same11 hltf-idden cornier of a drawinlg-roomn, each innocent.of the atpp)'ach of the other, and each anlxious, oln meetinlg, to show thait tihe affair was a mere ac'cidenlt. This won the only basie (If Glinton's hope, and yet-he'hlad beer' disappo)(int ed so manity times that lie could nlot heatr to think of failure now. Hie made several calls, with the inltenl lion of proposing, but every timle his courage failed him, bes'ides~ Mrs. Wailler son1 or Alice's sister Nell, were always in the p)arlor; of course lie could no't say before two what he dreadcd to say even with a single hlearer. Worse still, Miss Nell, who was a b)rilliant brunette of the irrepressibhe species, 0could not avoid teasing hlim slyly at every potsible 0op portunity, and( lie always lost his tongue under her onslaughts. Trheni he tried to propose in writinlg, and for a week of evenings he wroteo steaidily withl no more satisfacetory resuIlt thlan a note0 to Mrs. WVallersoni, in which lie mntended to incolose his proposal. Ohance finially camne ini pity to hlis aid. Miss Noll, as on-i of a trio of girls who had10 devised a surnise party for a recenlt ly miarried frienid,wrotei to the Major abouzt ih3 nroeo ad e 4 th-- e. vould call and give her some assistance iunong their mutual acquaintances smong gentlemen. As the Major read i'"r note a brilliant thought occurred to iu. While talking business Miss Nell - rtainly would not endeavor to tease sint; his bashfulnless never troubled him while talking with iatics on any subjcect ctuirimg common sense opinion and 'kecutive ability; he should therefore be ble to feel at ease with' Miss Nell, and Xhile in that. unusual condition ho would nake a confidant of her and ask her ad .ice and assistance. He would try to :nlk to her as if she wore a man; it might. e a rash experiment, but he felt equal :o almost any degree of rashness when be thought of how many times before he had resolved and failed. So the Major went to the Wallerson home on the evening appointed by mis 'Iievous Miss Nell, with a stouter heart than. lie had felt, outside of business tours, since the war ended. He arranged with the young lady to bring all his male rim nd(s into the surprise party, and she, rather confused by her new view of the Major's character, was most effusive in thanks, and being only twenty-three years of age and no older than her years signified, was completely astounded by the Major's coolness. She could not help betraying her curiosity; she looked it the Major inquiringly, she dropped into reveries, and she said to her mother, who came to the d&'or of the parlor a mo mnnt about. some affair stictly of a family nature, thiat Mr. (linton was entirely 1iflerenlt to what she had imagined hiin t o he. Unt t the Major lid not know all this, and nftler the business of the evening ended he began to feel the old familiar col sweat that had bee his torment in the swamps of the Chicahominey, fif teen years Iefore. Conversation had dropped to the dead level of the National Academy, the last new novel, and Brown's last volume of poems, all of which were very bad. Mi.:n Nell looked interested, pretty and sentitmental until the Major half wished she would i,e her natural self, for he had .at last roused himself to the combative state, and ho wauted to talk with her in the most seri-ms manner about her sister. At last ie niade a desperate elfort and said: ''Miss Wallerson, I called this evening only on business, but I have for a long time wanted to say something to you about a1 matter" "Excuse me, just for an instant. Ma jor,'' interrupted Miss Nell, ''the gas is hissimg dreadfully. Won't you be good enough to s;t which burner it is; I'm just too short to reach any of them, I'm sorry to say.'' 'rhe Major hastened to the rescue. lie heard a hissing noise, as of the escape of too much gas, lie could not be sure which of the six burners was at fault, so he turned down one after another until the noise stopped and the parlor was almost dark. "You are very kind," murmured Miss Nell, a tshe Major resunmed his seat near her, ''the blowing of gas is dreadfuljy 'imnoying to the ear. By the way, you wtre saving that The Major resisted a temptation to say, "Oh, nothing of any consequence," and said: "I have been long the most reverent adorer of a certain young lady who" "Oh, Major !" exclaimed Miss Nell; "the idea of you being in love. Did Vol' "Excuse me, Miss Wallerson," said the Major hastily, "but no one is compe tent to pass an opinion on my condition of mind but msinvlf. I fully know my own feelings, and merely wish an oppor litiy to t xplain thems in such manlier as nay he most resic e"tfiul." "I beg your pardon, Major,"said Miss Nell, ntow en tirely on he'r guardI. "P'lease cotumte, and believ'e ino one here c'ani dloubht your sincer'tity." ''Te Major's hetiit gave a mighty' b iiond; evidently t his misehie'vous giril suisptecd somethting and was willinig to, suppress herself. "'I have long beent worshiping a lady whom I would have been glad to nmake my wife,'' contliued the Major, "'if 1 had not feared t hat my love anid what o'lse I hadi to offer her'would not seemn coimpensat ion for what she would be obliged t, give up." "Yor~ thought fulne'ss does you honor, M:tjotr," said Miss Nell, in the kinidest way in the wor'ld. "Tlhanik you-thtank y')u,"' saidl the Major, lustdi ly. '"Perh aps, then, yo u will understand why I speak with more' I lan nmy customary freetdom. Miss Watl lersont, I was tratiined in my youthful datys to such unquestioning reverene for woman as womnan that I feel almost like a thief when'u I thtink of asking anty womnan for her Ital ad heart.'' "'Again, Major, I must say that your thought fulntess andt delicac'y (10 you h onor,'' said M'iiss Nell. as demurely nas if shte had niever teased'( anty one in her life. ''Thank -you.-thank you," said thle Matjor again. "'I would like first to ex plaini myself, if I may troublle you for a miomienit. I am, I believe, an hionorale man; I have a good busintess and( a goiod bankml acteotunut. I wanit to devote bmoth, and1( my life, beside, t.o the service of the swetst 'woman that ever livetd. I enn nott expect her to love me as I love lier, for she is ain angel and I am only-well, onily a mani." ''A true muan," said Miss Nell, stil as deimure as a pa;rsont, ''is as good as any. thiing else in the world-even as good its a triue womtan. "D1o yout really thtinh so?'' asked the Major. "'I must believ'e you against m,v will, but entirely according to my inich nation. WVell, the woman whom I love you know very wecll; no one can khiow 1er be'tt(er; shte is putre, good, sweet, "'Major I Maijoir !" exclaimed Miss Nell "Phletse d,on't contradict mue on this p.n tientlir point,'' sid the Major; "'1 reatlly Itink I know--I am sure I do." Ilhen," taid Miss Nell, "'it would he v' v impoli(ite in ime to contradict, but ret hv" "nleally," said the Major. "I am weighmig" my words most carefully and mean tall I say. I wtant to offer her all 1 am and have, utnder any c'onditions sht roEv imOpEo. Don't imaigine me impul siveEEl orrsht ini thlis matter," conttinuel the M~aiori. extendjing both hit hands it ilUa earneSLness. '1 hleaul - What the Major meant was never explained, for Miss Nell, entirely in accordance with her own idea of what the excited man was trying to say, mur mured, "Enough I" fell upon the Major's breast and threw her arms around the Major's neck. What could the astonished man dot. c What would any gentleman do in such s circumstances ? Miss Alice tripped inta e the parlor, found it dark, turned up the R gas, saw the couple and exclaimed: "Oh, my !" Her sister looked up into the Major's at face for a second, then dropped her brow f' on his shoulder, and said: t "Oh, my !" And the Major, looking down at the ia face before him, now entirely empty of c roguishness and everything else but ten- 3 derness, forgot all the past, placed his I arms about the graceful figure that rest- 0 ed on him, and suid: t ''Oh, my I" And although he has been married ten a years he never h:Is had reason to regret r his mistake.-Ncw York flour. C CRIME IN THE BLOO). Whole Fagilltes Who Have Been Ralsed In Crime. t "Is there such a thing as hereditary criminal instinct ?" asked a St, Louis re porter of the force of detectives who con gregated at headquarters to ''sign u) for t the day," with a view of getting most in. formation from their unanimous opinion. "Such a thing as crime running in families ?" repeated Detective Lawler. "Yes, there is, and there is no better proof of it than we can show right here in St. Louis, where there are several families, nearly every member of which has becn convicted of crime. In one of the murder eases now before the Criminal Court a defense of hereditary love and yearning for strong drink is to he intro dtced as a defense, and on just as good gro)unds sonme of the crimninals locked up in our jail and in Jefferson City Peniten- t tiary might set up a defense of heredi tary inclination to be criminals. It is not an extremely uncommon thing to find whlole famniliet participating in and living by crime. Only a few days ago we had a case in the jail. The sheriff of St. Fran cois County, Mo., on his way to the Peni tentiary, had five prisoners in chargc" 'going up' on sentences of from two to six years. They had been deteeted itn burglary of a farm-house in St. Francois County, and it was supposed that this was not the first job of this description it which they had taken a part. The Principal prisoner was under a six-year sentence. His wife was going to the pen fir four years, and his brother and sis ter for three and two years respectively. The father and totherwere dead or they would probably have had a place in this family group. This however, is rather an inist,nce of a family uniting efforts in the perpetration of a single felony." "Have we any families of this descrip tion in St. Louis ?" ''Yes; only they are astronger proof of the fact that a tendency to commit crime is transmitted from father ;o son and per. vades a whole family. There is one family here named MeGuire. The old man has been in the pen, and two of his sons are making 11111 efforts to follow in the fooi-prints of their respected father. 'T'here is another fanily here, all the 1ienbers of which are not critminals, and is Ilie two respl'et:able persons ill it 1>ear the faimily I:une, it would be wrong to impllicate themli liy a publication. They will be readily identitlied by any oflicer on the force and Inauy of their victims when you state that the most daring of hie hateh are Tonimy M-s and hisi -istir KatIe. There were live boys and wvo girls. Three oIf the boys turnedt outi to 1)e thieves, atnd the two girls as hadl. Thte girls are livintg with two moen enjoy iing the reptati on of t hiieves, and dock etedl in thme Roigues' O.dllery as 'halls' (If their tree woIrthy birother s-itt-law. Tfhiis ihatch has beeni reptI atedly e rrested, 1but we have iiever suicceihed in get tinig more than one (If t hem ou t oif harm's way. Auitther famnily naal Blryland worked St. Loutis for a long timite. Thlere weree fs ar boys ini this gang, hut aill died oh contsnmption1, b rouiight on by Ithe niight dissipait ion."' "T1hese aire notI loodedi (roos{ fronm -their b irth, are iny ?"' "W~Vell, youl wvouildthink the-y were iryvot k neww te,fortihe.1 '' ave a regula r'groiw b. 'he little onie begiin atntet ty thefts firomu h awkers' aiid fainmerls' watgonis, mare t1~ st alls and gr-ocery store exhtibits and r. i i - road freight cars, for which, on accoutiti oIf the smtallness of the oftTi'ese iand of fetnder, they escape piitishmnenit. Th'le next step is pulling daminpers; thait is,. tainug tills of smallI shops. P'ickinig, po~ cke'ts, which requ ires a little mnr | Mciiince, is the next step, and about thiis siige t lhey are t aken ini t ow by I heir ('hler brot heirs and serve as 'kids,' to Ibe lifted ini a winidow, to openl a (door1, 01' pterformti siiiilar fuitctioiis. After this they are fu ll-fledged anid capalel of performitng jobts for themselves." mtir,e lurie ''e- e'ld Feet. Trhe followving remedy for ''old feet is ''e(i)mended by the F'ireman'o ,Journal si'dent iary suifferer', ams well ais 1po11icetmen, ('ar divers, Lnd o'(thler's who ar e''(xpos~ed to the eold' Aim tIat is nec'iessarv is to stemdto erre. i and v'ery gratdually tot lift nie's self upt uon the tilps of thei( toes, so as to pitt all tendonIus of thle fiiot at full strain. Tfhis is niot tot 1hop (or jumitp ill and down, hut sitmply to risi the slower the better-ulpon tipitoc, and to mrenmait standing on the poinit of the toes as lonug as posssiblIe, then graidunally c'omitng to the natural position. Repetiat this several times, and1(, hy thet amott i of work the tilts of the toes are mt'le to do ill stustainiing the b)ody's weig It, a suflicit anid lively cirenlationt is set til. A heavy ptair' of wooetn stoickinigs idrawtn over tin i cot ton neaS is also it recomi mendattionl for keintg the feet warmti, and att the sameW tn preventing their becoming tetndir atid sore. WHAT WAS Fouu'w. - Recently an augur at work oil anl airtesiain well about three miles frotm Fre'sno, Cal., brotughit to the surface fromt a depth oif 320) feet particles of wooxd. charcoal and nutshell. PROF. MOR1SE's SUCCESS. ecollections of i lte nnrkuble nudl iliNtorI , Scene in te Unitol. "Vhat is new to-ctay will be Ol to orrow,"' re!nnarl.d ex-(7overnor Jamles 'olloek, Naval Ofliecr of this port, dur ig a recent. conversat ion. "No in:tro i iscovery will be ree6ived wilt the xanto ti tubhorn incredulity that greeted the VC lectric telegraph. Speain:ieg of the h'l- e'r reph, I have always thloughlt that P'ro- f(e ssor Joseph Henry laid tihe foundation 6 .)r Morse's wonderful triumph 11as early ( s 1832. Houry had et ''lched three or st mar miles of wire, througi which lie ae- f" ally sent signals. However, after t forso had1 completed his expe'rim('nts ta nd had demonstrated the p,r,acticatbility lii f his invenltion, he applied to th'o w Wellty-eightl Congress, of whiel'I was ti meiher, for an l)Iprol)riationl of .::0,- Iu U) to assist ill the erection of a line be. l veen .saltimn >re and Washington. (fi! ''The bill was referred to the Wavs n: lid Means committee, I think, lmit whenii kic 'portud back to the 1Io1.;c it was ridi- 11 uled by nIatuy l(mbers, especially by r'_m: gentlemen from the West. To in- T icate the absurdity with which he re- tt ardled( the invention, one member 1' ,(ved to inerease the approlpri1tion to) hi ;100,000, in order to exteu(l the wires to fr he lllO< 1, eiph)aSizing a 1 nmd pun by of :tying tain! no one but t hinia-tic wou!d c nolt to use neh a mediiium of c(n11uni,i- h ation. A nother geinttl(-nm s11 gest. -d sht l5l , inorder tE ct('tend til- lines to lii I' North 'olc andu into 'S1i1m's il(ole so SI lit the I pl (it the e hter (f tIw .it Ii i( 'uid 1)n comnntuhr al w\ith. Thei bi1ll tl >ass,'d HIouse :ul(d Senate. 'The 1uO:,ey I)t n",ts ll)rel)rinted. All of this is well- ti uowil, Inl is only prefatory to what .1 W ow say. 1)4 "Inl May, 1814, it. waS anlilouncel in hi O:igress that oin the opening (f the of )emocrat ie Nat iomil (onven ii (t ilti. tli lore the now telegraph lines would 1O li ealy 'or bu'lSilewss. The Wialhingtlo n 1lu ('rlninus," was in ole of the i ioms of the t;( \apito!. When hitm d-ty ar'iv'.d a few of he members of Cngr'ss assellhed in 01 hat. room,,I among the nmuher. After a(. vaiting a Considelhl'E t ime, nmid expres. ( ion1s of ho1pe or doul)t from the friels ill >r crities of the invent(tr, all talk w:as uiddolnly cle(1 'y the Clieking of the O neluine. An impressive sil:ce of t eveinteenl imite followed. Tm mI' 1a- S( hine workel ! Finally the oe('r:,tor h< '(':d 'with co,nsidlerab1lt'Solemnlity tht, lirt. t.l nllss:Ige ever received: 'What ht It" .1Od wroutighit ?' All were nwe.-stricen it or a momlelt. It has alwvys beent a 1ea.sant iemnory that I was lre:nt. hl iilencr wats follow.."d by exp,ressi('ns of .\ tlmllirat ion. 'I "Thi a few gelth"1een hollly (1e. 11 ioimeed 1il' inessage as a it rick. Some il warml w'ords were s1okenl. But in the It 'onrse of an hour Ithe proeedings from :s fhe Natioial Con ventioll be.a to arrive, the unhelievers45cOntinued1 it) dioub. No leeision could be reacehedl until ti( he ,"n morn.h nfg ipers wel'e 1ec'eived. it is ned 1'tiSS o say 1hat the Ielegrlph1ie lessag(es ,) wore fully substait iated. This w4ondler- I Iul scene contilnued each da:y dunring thea ession of the eonventionl at. Ba llii'ore, ti 'l. sing with the nol1mi1a1ti.>1 of ,lanes K. t Polk. The result wasH so mi1e:<Iected as1, 0 carr1y conviet ion. Then t here were h.I mnly forty lnih-s of telegrap,h; to-da:y r' here Ire over 800,(O)0 nilesi ia operati<m . i II Haw the begitling -it wa'is only thirty- o line years a 'go."'-.I/ <le/>L TimeS. S - h ':1 Two Romances in lienl Life. Tlm 8(on of a leading lawyer im New V(trk, some year1:s a't , ils alt racted1 ov ho innovenlt fl.c :IE(I quick wit. of :I, \'elsh ein:unborna:ti l in bi:, flit her's howee and' dihird othae ofhle preftredih tof a11 11h1ei f.isinl :111 t VIliii who lul(lV tcourled nake wAsto conet 1 to11 ot I-:uropeJ ftr heI ml~)eanftime1, la11ing an11x ill p,''de4nt at biit scTho : inNw ok The gir was arlitiojusg :1111 dvtied In hair iftionl t4o8' iI naml wInt h:al fo. n (er. li 4SI returnd, folalhrmr lvl adyix now one of thex le:Ilers o(1f Cn-i t'v 4in the uwhar twy live nblat e, Il i ied1ll, fbarminit'' wou.xt~ Offi t11C An lvemin,'nat Verst, 'eliknown in111 leni t syNa in thin oarl it.liiI of thsenuury. wasI 1011 "making th ircit" on horseba(k, r mdecv splfor 'iniwr f ate thet hoI' of il boen awi aotblmn It redlll th T Rcertain of cadtring fac A)ftwiel Maryg started~ tio t lonb whith yoa ACROSS TilE PACIFIC. riloun VoynMe of t /inflNo Man From Mans Francisco t A strnlin. The San Franicico ('hroniclc :4ay.s 1 the 19th of A ignst, 1882, Bernard Ifoy, at native of lBuflalo, N. Y., left e port of San I'raucisco, bound " on a yage of pleasure" to Australia. The tft in which he sailed was a dory 18 +t long, ti feet 1beam11, a depth of 2 feet iehies, and a register of two tons. Ifoy wais the only passenger, and ilrted with the deternination of per rining the utnpa:r1leled feat. of crossing e Pacific single-handed ill a commnlon iling-1oat. Tlhe entter, for she was Ile m1ore, was named the Pacifie, al is eov(re(1 in all over, with the excel) )m1 Of a ctnoule of" litelhs, one amidshiip id one aft. Tin'e tore part wan used ostly for the water casks, which were led with salt water as the fresh was 'd uip, :tnd the after part wansu(d as te'hen, c:thin anrd septinig room. Noth g was hward of (iilfoy intil the arrival San1 Frptneitcco of the b arkentmo Opi( Vance from 'ahiti, whose Calp in reported thlit he 1111(1 sighted the tcilie Nov. 10. le h-d given Clilfov s correct lietriiigs and It (1itttntity of ut, and uad Iearntd(1 that after at week favorin g weather the Pacifie had in unltered1 29 days of atlterntet cahns amtu ad-winds, which had driven Gilfoy to ortent his all''wani:e. IHe crossed the le inl lonf uiile lsc de._. on 'riday Pt. 29, tndl then nui with good*wind.1s, ft)re whiebt he ran) sonth bt.w een1 lti les 5 d ;. mind 1 deg. south. His incipal disenmtiit, Ie satid, had been (' too familiar habits of the sharks, tieh eve-ry night tamo tlimping th<e at with their ugly snouts. To rid muself of them he aide aI harpoon out at hurnt book, and siceedcied in ren rin;Y I hem so Shy t1nat by proping upl s sinrt lit ni';ht inl the lplaIe where he ii:tlly s:t 1by day be was enabled to he his rest etntiiittively in iiuiled. TIh ct (nclnsion of tho Paeitie's extra dinary voyage is gatheid froml a long c(nt. 1)111ished inl the lhrMalrvorough l11eenslatnd) (Wroic/5 of Feh. a. It >pears that afitr leaVin~ the T1rop)ie aiec thingi went l.ally with Giilfoy. n the 1Itlt of 1)-cetnl Itw, being then to S=1itt h1 of" the Friendly Isles, a heavy a lirtke over 1ii tlboa t and capsized 'r. lit wenti t hwwan into thi wvater, dl1 it waS ontly by an hour's hard -work, lith th' nil if a " lti ngt!. antehl>r'' iat he w;I 'ttbled to i'I'hit the dory. o sooner W.I.. -:!w righiltdilumantother 1"nvyV seit capot.i :d her at second( timie. gain he rihstml"II her lld iissed the ght ill Itstiliig an;(d the day inl mattking lin t;s as shlip-;huip" as t)n:sible. liy wo +thi of cirt"nbltir he tad f;ot thtinigs tildr way iagati ..1inn was enjoying pl'as ut (,theJr, when the btoat was pierced a.,word-fi,h. (I h(trist1as Dav he fouild himself t": r Iuniter Ishand, at I orre"n rock, with lthi.; instrumnlits g,onet:md noilhing lef t r his ptrovisionts except I welve paluus I c;rnel 1mn nt, two ltlurts of aleolol, ul iftel ga:lloni of tvater. le tlen ied to lake finr New (":ltdonia2, but. the ind andi entrcnt wen-re is him, andl it the 1.4th of J:utiat;v in aft' the last of is nte:dt. Two d1:y\s after he lost his idtlr, and h:stl to ri'r up at lakeshift, n(i fronm thstt tinw" on he luid to subsist it whatev,er fish he c:tnght or birds ht tot. (On thlt 20th of J:unary he ate is lIst (ool~d mc:tl, a hii' sinigedl over lwa of 1rke11 match(s, and after tait e sa2ed(l the Im int enles. Then the :tys e:t)(w, ill whiichl he knew nothitg 'ill cIne-1 notIing, ste(ring aimtltssly i tIi then ,i2s (f14ihi last hpei, ad Iled1 he i hd the the Alir."d Vllthrv 24 11'w n IInIle 121 2 '2 ( ;l un illav id. tIle as11 tIlll 2,2l t I'i2 l ili l li Sll y 1' (i l e, (r( ill (x' l'-riisr ('i''Cto 2( i l''yI 122 his'. 121; (val at Marybiourouh bul t ire t hS' Ies i is 1 -}-1' limi 4 n2 as 1,(-' Sice('Slity, lil Wil it i i lji f.WWl'2 E "l 12.lid lh 21jfa(il \222!:'i : ill f o li lit i e O}fa wii2('i, I h2t 4ih:liill olay f1r iliocnty 'pit 121 Iiw b:42 tI I 1rts of110 eloipl reit, ljjmit s 42 u-14 aiia*-lll'. I (lir 4'v(iin ally "lf 't is hlii'i'I 'Ill 2I Ie lt 'e 1ti.ti: Ilto i41ion flow . heo aesodnd stre,ir -ins wa th the1' cll clos. ei t ler i i what'2 2 evidnce thooei )livers secured ud tinIlh wlle inannr tano entne ito the :2unblig p h(we ra er, eted Thisl they (''I for iihituro ofy ' guardine inkh 2424e lagat4'lis1t iturpri by he pise.tl 12intly 211a faw sle imi sedinst1(2 amblIs n11 visirt tred iine onf ofthelo ,em shours b12(1 as theg iles, 11211 Iilid itl (isCiver th ftedu im n used n the gae oe.ncotanindspehnabet inke ith rebaiy to eviane amtohecurth fello twicae the uieb.c u.oto TRADES FOR AMECANS. A *icW it TRE$$TING FAVT. ,.1 n Amerlean 1l.y Will N.t 1.esm " Trndo-What he Does Seek. [From the New York Tribune.) Two or three weeks ago a careful in quiry was instituted in Philadelphia, the largest manufacturing oity in the eoun try, as to the relative nmber of for. eigners and native Americans engaged in trades and as skilled handicraftsmen of every kind. The result was startling. Foreigners, especially the Germans and Scotch-Irishmlen, had shr ldered our own people altogether oi of almost every such oceupation. The American boys could be counlted en the fingers who were learning the trade of weaving in the great woolen ain carpet factories. The sami story was told in the cotton mills, at the stocking looms. Yet the wages paid to these skilled workmen are high and steady. The Scotohman or North Irishraan earns from $18 to $20 per week in 'hiladelplhia, owns his com fortable dwelling, and brings up his son to the same trade which his own father, most probably, followed in Glasgow or Londonderry. The American boy has not learned this sure, Alow road to com fort from his father. There was the same report from manufacturers of pa. per, soap, shoes, clothes, furniture, ship hilders, cutl'-re-every industry, in short,.but two. The American boy of the class which does not enter the pro fesions is not found in the trades ; part ly because he is larred out by the trades unions, but more h'eeause he does not choose to go into th('t. To this general rule there are, howevet, two notable ex pIi,'ns: printing nad machine shops, :'. i of these tral (s is crowded with lntive Ameri,-n tuappreitices. "We turn .aiy,"said th ' suletrintetdent of a great 'Inline v.%:. " hutidreds of applicants : : year, for whom we can find no Now hero is signiticant hint of na ii: .d charaute r. We are perpetually tol.l that th Anei:can lad of the par ti1ly edaetd class refuses to learn a trade and becoines a salesman or clerk on a nise'ral e s:ry, from the snobbish, vulgar desire to li considered a gentle mai. Yet the anwno v,mur fellow in : printin,g-otline or minrltirto-foundry worl;s narder uitd Coin~s ott of his daily drudgery more griny and shabby than any other mechanic. It is no ambition for gentility that moves him to these pursuits. But they open to him possible short roads to sue cess; they give his inventive faculties some play, It is only one man in a hun dred who out of the composing or press room becomes l odtor or publisher; or nho turns out to be a lucky Harrison or Wins ilt thle nehite-sltop. l.ut each boy is coifident that lie will be tiut mau. When he "goes into busi les" as salesmutn at $3 per week, he kaows he will some day be an Astor or a Stewart. When he goes out to Colorado as a cow-boy he sees in a vision his own cattlc grazing on a thousand hills. Hence he turns his hack on the trades in which there is no chance for sudden success, and by which the plodding 'erman or Irishman, generation after .,eneration, secures a steid\ limited com potency. Our lad must put ,oi seven league boots to go to his fortune, or lie will not go at all. In a certain sens, towrefore, there appears to be' nto renwdy'(I *r this p)res(nt coinditioni of affaiirs. Tliet h- 'pard cnmot chan,ge his spots nor the Ethiopian his siin, andi( the v'ividl, iinven tiue, sharp-c3rdo A merican, fonid of earnm in-' and sqtumuldering money in bulk, will never be brought to plod and save and4 enjoy life a pentnyworth at a time like his Eturopeatn neighblor, who was not h orni prosp1ective hir to a great estat e. A certain grtade of our skilled trades will always remitn, it is probable, in the haintis oif foreigners. Uutit onte lesson our American lad me '' learn b efo re lhe su cceeds, .d~ as heo is ex~ - eeptionalt~ ly sharp he generally does letarn' it when hU fhis lie (lees not snteceoid withuit it. Thtat is steaidintess of aim. Intstability is our national defect. The .\ meorican of twenty- four who has made uip hIts miind ats to is b usine'ss, his pol i ties and his religion, whto abides by thecm for the next teni years, is at marked and weighity man. Tatke the crtowds of for ttuie-seeker.s 1-ourintg now into Colorado u: D)akot a and1( you will find thtat each of thni ha.s trtied two or twenty methods of e umig a livig before lhe fell htmek, liko Atttiw, on thte bosom of M%other Earth 1. ;' rathe-t sItrength. 'Twuo or thI ree na mes ini ealth professioni, in htIrad andl inv*en t ion wouild complete the list of living Amieri tants' who haive made a great mid signal suc cess; and( thety nro invariably men of iuillexibtle sitigleiness of purpose. Thi Anlitrtcatn lad, educated or hitl feducnted, is too ap1t to scatter his shot anmd hit not iniig. Hie wVouild be suddenly rich, lie would be kniowni as a piolit ici an, he would Ibe a matn of society. Hlence, withl a heri t age otf ntaturttl abilit ies above mediocrity, with loent pierct) ins, fie tastes anmd a linmitless estate waiting for him to claim, lie fails. It is a story as old1 as the world. "Ii uhen,"' said theit seer thousands of li-rs ago,' "is the first-born the excel htty oft digity and the excellency of poweri. Unmstab,le as water, lie shall noti exce." Warmier thtan the Country. Thtose wuho happen to live at a little distance from the heart of a city, says A"-i ne", must frequettly htave nioticed at Ilack of ac(co,rd be'twee'n the readlings of the* pul ishted observat ioiis of the Signal Sirvice obisorver of their locality. T'he reaisont of the dliscoird is plauin; viz., the peorlurbing action of thte heat wviihi the city emits; and, however gratifying it mnay be0 to the o'itsider to find himself superior to the Government observers it is very little to the credit of the Weather Blureau that thtis particular soure of error wvas not long since recog 'iized and avoidled. The remarks of P rofessor Whitney on this' subj~ect, as aplied to observations made at London, arie p)ertinent and convincing. He says: "It is a well known fact, that cities are on isiderably warmer than the more thintly inhabtited country, otherwiso und ter similtar climatic conditions. St itisties prove tis to be true; anid there couldl ho no doubt thiat auch wou1ld lbe the effect of an immense aggrega - l ion of population within a limitet space, evon if there were no statistics bearing in this qluestion. Many millions of tons "i coal are burned ini and about London during every year; and the whole mass f birick of which the city is built is leated during the entire winter, and moore or less in the summer, many de r ees above the natural temperature. 'There can be 1no questioni that conditions -such as are here iudicated vitiate all ohb seevations made ini or near large cities, with a view to the determination of any \ h asible secular variation of the temn p rature. UsCA are in the habit of slurring A oantn-btthev all unakwell of