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Di-VOIED TQ POLITIU, MO LII Y, EDUC1 IN ANI) TO TME 0ENERAL 11TERE14- O' THE COUNFCY. By D. F. BRADLEY & 00. PICKENS, S. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1883. VOL. XII. NO. 50. GENERAL NEWS. MALAoA grapes are suocesafully grown in Hillsboro ecunty, Fla. Tim populatin of Chattanecq a is said to be 20,66. EIHrTr cents per huntred, ih the prico offered for gocd limes in Jacksonville, Florida. Fury-rrva thousand dollars worth of sponge wpre suld at Key We st, Flo., las Monday. Eior and three-quarter million dol lors is the valuation of property in Flor ida for 1888, an increase of four millions oveY .met year. VIcanUno, Miss., wells sunk about 260 feet reach the gulf level and an abundance of excellent water, with fhie sand and sea shells is found. Ti Chrlestou, C., News and Cou rier reports great injury -to the cotton by drouth and greater injury threatening upland crop. SOUTH CAROLINA, according to the cen eus, is the mest illiterate state, 48.2 per cent of the population being unable to read, and 55.4 per cent u al'le to write. FRoM present indications it is probable that Galveston, Texvs, will receive for the season 1882-83 about 900,C00 bales of cotton, leaving every port except New Orleans in the race. A counrrEE is canvassing for sub soriptions to a steamship line between Augusta and Savannah. It is thought that it will be a success. When the con tenplated improvements in the river are made steame: a can run all the year. Ti German colony located at Pick ensville, Ala., apprehend realiaing noth ing from their crov, on account of the drouth, and have entered into negotia tions to furnish staves to the Mobile market from the timber along the tipper Bighec. 'u work in the harbor at Vieksburg will not be abandoned. It is confidently believed that a sufhicient depth of water can be kept in the west pass of the lake to allow tributary boats to land at the city landing during the lowest stage in the river. 'T'riE Board of Directti of the Florida Ship canal and Traiit Con pany adjour ned at New York yesterday, after a four days' eession. Work will probably con monce on the canal witl in the next ninety days. Its estimated cost is $"10, 000,000. WESTRnN North Carolina is certainly a great section for fruit. In Watauga county is an apple tree fifty years old which has on it al-out fifty bushels of 4L fine apples, and lu,s nine large brainclies, which give rise to thirty-two branchlets, is seven and a half ieet in diameter and covers twenty-nine yards. Two of the best farms in Culpepper county, Va., exchanged hands recently. One of them, containing 1,300 acres, sit uated oni the Rappanonnock river, was purchased by Thomas B. Nallo for $50, 000 cash; the other, containing 200 acres, near birandy Station, was sold at $10,000 ',- the County rerer,l~ s. Russell Smnit'i. A TwO-THTOUHANnD dollar .Jersey (OW, oned in Bailtimore, lMd., has recently earned thie repuItationl of being tihe lest butter producing cow ini tihe United States, having, in seven (days' test, given 827 pounids of milk, whuich nmade twenty five pounds two aind a half oiunesi oif k butter, becing one pound of butter from a little less than thirteeni pounds, or six and a half riuarts of milk. GEOnoGIA, Tennessee and other south erni states comnblain that (logs kill their sheep. In England pet (logs are becom ing a serious drain upon0 t he edibile ne cessities and luxuries of life. Many pups are fed oin toast and tea and eggs, and lamb chops. One gentleman daily orders a beefsteak and tw o glasses of wine for his dlog. Some ot them take brandy and sodla, cheese andl pickled oysters. Mr. H. J1. GAcrwrT, Bullock county, Ala., is engaged in making syrup from melons, and has alreaidy made 300 gal Ions. This se'lla for 75 ceOnto per gaillon. An ordinary melon wvill mko two gallons of juice, and it takes twelve gallons to 4 make one of syrupl. Estimating the yield per acre 1,000 melons, which wvill give 2,000 gallons of ju1ice, or 166; of syrup, at 75 cents per gallon, the pro ceeds will lie $125. ALBANY (Fla.) Argus: An immense town is now being bilt on the line of the St. J1. & L. E. railroad(. lIt commlenl een at Riavenswood, and continues all along the line to Umantilla, ai distance of six miles, of which Altoona is the grandl center, geographically. Five saw-miills make it hum for us, and if things coni binue tils way for aniother y'ear a line of street cars and1( street lamps will have t( be inauigurated per necessity. Within this six miles are0 the towns of Ravens wood, Pi ttmann (now 'onlsolida:ted), Al toxna, Ho(neywell, Glendale and1( Uima tilla. * A NEw ca1ve has l,een discovered in! North Carolina. It is located On the Tennessee river in Swlin county. nea the mouth of the Nantihala. A blasi was put in the mouth of it and a wvay opened for entrance. Onu large room, bearing beautiful stalactites, was ox plored and a small r pertu.-e leadling t< another room was fi>und, but f'or wani of proper lightsl the exploiring part: went.no furthl .'. The railroad runs im mediately by it on the river. The laut is owned by Maj. J. W. Wilson, abou the largest landholder in North Carolina The cave is i-i the great marble belt o th west, which crops out at Marble gal On Valley-river mountain. ED)ITORIAL NOTES. 'Te sum of $931,600, bequeathed b;, J. B. Gardner, of Boston, to help pa; the National debt, was received at th Treasury Department and placed to th credit of i)atriotic ona4tions. A Reno saloon-keeper kept a bottle of pitch pine splinters soaked in spirits of turpentine for the use of custo -ers who tell the barkeeper to hang it up; but the beverage becamo so popular in lReno that it was considered too good for that class of customers. A gold idol weighing thirty-two and one-half pounds was recently excavated in Calistlahauca state of Mexico, by some Indians. The idol was composed of a group of figures, but it was broken up by the Indians and divided equally Only nine of the thirty-eight States have furnished the country with presi dents. These States are the following, and the length of time the several States have held the office is also indicated : Virginia.....................3 6 years Massachusetts ............... 8 years Tennessee...................16 years New York...................10. years Ohio..................... 41 vears Louisiana. ................ 1~ year New Hampshire.............. 4 years Pennsylvania ................ 4 years Illinois......................12 years Total from 1789 to 1885,...96 years In the seventy-two years prior to the T civil war, the South possessed the Presi deney for forty-nine years, and as good as possessed it under the eight years of Pierce, of New Hanshire, and 3uchlan nan, of Pennsylvania. In those days it made no difference where a manl camlne from, if hie was in spinpathy with the dominating Southern element. The ex traordinary contributions to the Presi- e dency, were due, not at all to her loca- I tion, but to the unusual relations of her strong menl to the Govermnent during r the perlod of the Revolution and settle v lment of the Constitution. Virginia hms r furnished no presidents since Monroe went out in 1824. Mr. Russell, a wealthy Mississipp I planter, wlho is at Rockibrilge Ahm Sp:ings, with his wife, has with him also e an adopted child, twelve years old, who S is a son of tho late Gen. John B. Hood. i Of the Hood children, the two eldest C daughters were taken by Mr. Maurv, a relative of -Mrs. Hood, and are now be- c ing educated in Germany with his diugh ters. John1 B. Hood, Jr.. the oldest b >y, is the one adopted into the fanily of Mr. Russell. A pair of twin girls are adop. ted children of a Mr. Adams, of New York; another pair of twin girls are in the family of Mr. McKee, of Mississippi; another boy, 1)nlcan 'by naune, is the a adopted child of a wealthy maideu lady of New York, and another, Oswald, is in the family of anotlier New Yorker, re siding near the Empire City. T11hus have the fatherless heen cared for. A singular coincidence is related in colnnee tion with three of tle 'entl('leei who have thus t:aken the place of fathers of these interesting children. ahsara. Russell, Adams and McKoe were class lates at Yale Cellege. 'They are all married, but have no children. Witlhuit a consent of action, or even knowic'; what the others wcre ab)out to do, ce:.1h ap- f plied for and was given the charge he now ha,&.. New England Woollen Mills. - In order to ascertain the extent of the dlepression in tile New England woollen industry, the Boston A deertiser sent cir culars of inquiry to the 500 mills in those States and hafs pulilshecd thle results of the replies received fromn 250. Th'le nium her of woollen mills in New England re ported by the census of 1880 was 490, and the number of sets of cards was 2,922. According to the Advertiscr's returns, thle nlumber of sets of cards now shiut down is 759, or more than a third omf the whole. The estimated daily con suimptionl of eachl set of cards is 300i poun1ds of wool. This wvould show a re ducetion in tile total consump111t .1 a o 230,700 pounds a day, or about 7,000,006. ponunds a month. The actul reCductiond is doubtless greater than tis, for tihe reason that thle returns mnado do not iln. cludeO all of the stopp)ed mlills. Tilhe num11 her of sets of card1s shut do,vn inl each New England Stats and tile toItal numl ber in each as retuirned b)y the cenlsus ofi 1880 are as follows: States. hut Down. Censusi 1880 Massachusotts.......861,356 Ihlode Isiand ............ 138 4312 Matie.............. .....35 '2f1 Now Hampshire..........33 293 Vermont .................18 1415 Connecticut.............139 435 Total .................. 759 2,922 Tile important hearing (If tis marked depression on tile wvollen industry oIf the country is apparent when it is remlemi bored that New England is the chief seat of that industry in the United States. According to tIle census of 1880, one fourth~ of all the woollen mills ill thle United States and more thanl a third of thle seta of cards are in Newv England, whlile New England mills consBumeI more than half of all the wool used in the country anld turn out more thlan hlalf the~ goods made. CHExoKs-A device hats beenI 'Intro duced at a Olhicago hotti !or the puir I pose of circumvenlting swindlers. JE en Lguest receives a small piece ot em;d board on which the number of the room lhe is to eoupy is plain1ly marked. Tlhuis he~ is obliged to present r.t the oflice whenI Iever he desires hlis key. Another card. on which the name of thle b)earer is written, is a pass for tihe elevator, and it is essential for a ride. Bloth thlese eheeks must be returned~ to the cashlier n W th departing visitor pays his a ' 'Cou, John1 I what are you kick eI ing that boyfor ?' "Why, he called me a muleu taIf I'm a mule 1 l;aye to kiek, HALF WA Y. Ua" you forgotten where we stood, Between the lights, that night of spring, The river rolling to the flood, So sad the birds, they dared not sing? ,f No love was over dreamed like this, I Beneath the shadows of the park, Beneath a whisper and a kiss, Between the daylight and the dark. There had been tronblo-this was rest; There ha; :'een passion--this was peace; The sunset dying in the west Made Nature sigh and whispers cease. I only felt what I had found, You only knew what I would say; But nothing broke the peace 1 rofound Between the darkness and the day. How will it end? I cannot tell; I asked it many months ago, Before the leaves of autumn fell Atid changed to winter's waste of snow. Yet we stand watching at the gate Of summer time for promise-hark I No, lv, 'tis nothing ! %Ye must wait Between the daylight and the dark. - CLEMENT 'ioOI. 'OR HIS BROTIIER'S SAKE. t1 lie True hlistory oft a Life of Self-yacrifice. BT1' CO. GEOIGE W. SYMONDS. 'The Governor pardoned John Brisben, 1. enitentilry conviet. to-<1ay. lie was sent up1) om Bourbon for fi-tern ;e:rs fior forgery, Id had ten years yet to sirvi. OttI' rtclo--s t. ro familiar with the histiorv of this ea'4 and to humane action of IIis Excellency will be rnt rally conmnended."-FIraikfort (iy.) 'cor.'ian. I read this little paragraph and my v tin(I wont back six years. I knewJoln 1 trisbenl, and I also knew his twin < rother Joseph. I was familiar with 1 be details of the action that placed r ohn Brisben in a felun's cell, and now, -hen the sad affair is brought back to s intd so vividly, I nmst write it out, for ever before have I met, in prose or oetrv, in real life or in romance, a great - r h(ro hu an plain, m1.ter-of-fact John Iriscn. The Brisbens came of good stock. I bink the great-grandfather of my hero miigrated to Kentucky when Kentonl's tition, betweel the plesent city of [aysvillo and the historio old town of Vashington, was the principal settlement n lie ''dark and bloody ground." lie nme from Upper Pemisylvania and lo. ated about live miles from the Ohio tiver, on Limestone creek. He was an adustrious, strong-limbi:d, lion-hearted 1d fellow, and in a few years his sur oundings were of the most comfortable escription. One of his sons, Edwin irishen, once represented Kentucky in he Federal Congress. I think he was hi grandfather of John and Joseph irishen. Their father's name was Samuel nd he died when they were little ehil ren, leaving his widow an excellent luc-grass farm and a snug little fortune 1 stocks, bonds and mortgages. The idow remained a widow until her death. [rs. Samuel Brisben was a good woman nd she idolized her twin boys. Like lost twins, the brothers resembled each thc,r in a striking manner, and even in mate acquaintances could not tell them part. But although the physical re. "nblance was so strong there was great issimilarity in the dispositions of the wins. ,Tosepl was surly and morose, nmetimcs cuning and revengeful. He -as withal a dreamer and an enthusiast: man well learned in books, a brilliant, ,othy talker when he chose to be soci b'le (which was seldom), a splendid orsenan, and a most excellent shot. ln Brisbenl, on the contrary. was hecerfiul and bright, hionorable and for ivinlg. He wats aL manU of high mloral rinciple, intensely pra1ctical anid mlethIod -al, cared little for hooks, and, although o said bitt little, was a sp)lendid c~omI anion, HeT wias a p)oior5Lorseman, antd I oni't tink lie ever shot a gun inl his life. Ie saw nlothing(of the poe(try of life, aa s for sport, he enljoyed1 himiself only~ heni hard at wyork. HIe loved hlis rothter, anti when t hey we(re boys to eth,er suffere'd rounishiment many times5, nid unlcomnplainlingly, that " JTodie" uighit go scot free. HIis life was, there 're, one constant sacrifice, bt tine h jeet of this loving adoratlion made 'it shabbldy returns for this unselfih de otioni. They were 20 years old when thi nothier (ied very sudkdenly. Josepht iade a great pretense oIf grief, and was 0 hiystericasl at the grave that lhe had to >e led away. Johni, onl the contrary, inever demove t1rat ive, took the great aiitin : wit l 3is cutstmary coolness, HIe sail bua it:li aund shted no tears. Th~e prop>erty left to the boys was con itderabile. T1hie day they were 21 yeion ,ld the trust(ees met and made set o nent1. There was the blue-grats. f:1: i rahuid at $50,000, and Sl100,000t in w. nyvest.d secutritijes whicb couldl Ie inr.. nto1 mon0ey. JIosephl demanided a i "'You can take the farm, Jack," lhe aid. '"I was never cut out for a farmir. Gijve mue $75,000 in money' for my share.' SoI this sort of a division was imt' h,hn continued on at the home:.ta working in his plain, mlethlodical wvay antd slowly add(ing to 11is are (If till money what ho could ralise out of the profits of the farm. Joseph1, with his newvly-acuired wealth, set upl an estah) lishmnenit at theo nearest towni and( bega n a life o f lelasure-plealsure of the grow sort. I is brtother gave hlim 110 advice, foIr be knew it was useless. Joseph spen'It his mIoneCy with great priodigahity and befote he knew it lie was a beggar. Ini the mieanutimle ,John's1 $25,001) ht:l '1 Mtled' itsel f. One day Joseph camle to him with a full confes.sion o1 his pa Cutniary imhili. bieggiar, bitt 1 am hieavily in) diebt. Help me1 out like a gooellowtIa, and11 I will d2, t.!e downi and begitn life ini sober earnlest Withi my eapacity for business I can so' itike mtoniey enough to repay you. have 5Iown my wil oats, and w'ith a lit 1.l1 lelhi 1 ean soon1 re cover all that I have squiandecred so foolishly." For an answer ,Johnt Brishen placed his nme to an order for the $25,000 Ia had earned so) I-bori' usly. "WXVill tha:t hie cu~gh, Jodie ?"' ha asked, "'hSeause. I have.' as8 1uch1 mnore, which you nont have if it 18 nnOVaIrY." "This will be sufficient, old fellow," ras the reply. "In two years I will pay back."' He went back to town, drew his money. aid his debts, sold some of his horses nd discharged several of his servants. 'wenty thotsand dollars Was left out of he loan. He invested this in busine'n, ad for a while seemed to have really re ormed. John was encouraged to say: "Jodie will come out all right. He is inarter than I, and in five years will be 'orth more money than I could make in life-time." 11 :ss than three years Joseph, Bris' en's affairs were in the hands of his reditors, and a sheriff's officer closed it his business. Again he turned to is brother for help and sympathy." "I own that I managed a trifle care ssly," he said by way of explanation. Experience is a dear teacher, and the sson I have learned I shall never for et. If you come to my assistance now can soon recover myself." Once more John Brisbon placed is name to a check payable to the order f his brother, and Joseph entered into usiness again. In two years he was a ankrupt. "I shall never succeed in business, ack," he said. "Help me out of this rouble and I will live with you on he farm. I shall st:",ceed as a urmer." It took all of John Brisben's hoard te say his brother's debts, but he made no onplaitt, uttered no reproach. He aid: "I am glad you are coming back to le farm, J1odie. You need do no work. nd we will be very happy together." So Joseph took up his residence at, the arn, and remembering his brother's vords, devoted his time principally to munting, fishing and riding about the ountry. In the meantime John Brishen mad fallen in love, and the daughter of a icigiboring farmer. Conp ton, tby name. ras his promised wife. Being a m-an of trict honor himself and having full con idence in his brother, he did not object vhen Joseph began to pay his aflianced ery marked attention. "1 am giad lie likes her," lie thought. 'I am so busy on the farm that. I hav,' ittle time for pleasure, and Alice is so 'nd of amusement." One night Joseph came to him just as he shadows of evening were beginning :o fall. There was a triumphant ring in ais vo'ec when lie spoke. "Jack, ol boy,' lie said, hokling out 1is hand, "co:gratulate me. I think hat from to-day I can date the begin. ing of a new life. Alice Compton les tlronised to be my wife." Tie t:ns te much engrossed with hi, tew happiness to see the effect of thii innouncement as portrayed o John' ace. He did not notice the tron:; suan's hand tremble in his own. ''Is this true ?" faltered John at iast. "Why, of course it is. Are you not lad ? We love each other and shall bI vcry happy." "'We love each other, and shall bn very happy 1'" repeated John mechanie nily, and all the sunshine of his life so I, b)eh)ind the heavy clouds of despal. "Yes, Jodie, I am glad, and I wish you .ong years of happiness." He turned away and staggered, ralher than walked, to his own room. He did not stir all night. Once a deep, sobbing groan struggled to his lips, and th anoonbeams struggling througii the win low fell full upon his face, and surprised two great tears stealing down his palt :he"ks. He brushed away this evidence f weakness and sorrow, and when the morrow came, no one looking into hi, alm, serene eyes would have guessed how hard was the battle that had been roughit and won ini that lonely chamber. T1hey' were married, and the man re ieted by the bride anid supplanted by he groom was the first to congratulate he newly-married pair. A vacant house mi the farm was fitted up for their recep ion and John B3risben's money paid fori lie furnishing. "'Hereafter, Jodie," he said, ''we will livide the p)rotits of the farm. I don't teed much, and you shall have fle larger share." 'Ten years passed away, and Johnu Bris ben, an old1 man before his time, still worked from dawn till (lark that his brother might play the gentleman and keel) in conifort the large family whieh the years had drawn round him, it had bteen necessary to mortgage the old homestead, to raise moneytop01ay Joseph 's gamb ling deb)ts, for of late years 1he had played heavily, and had invarialy lost. One day-it was in the summer c1 I S77-a forged cheek was presented at one of the banks at the shire town, by Jrosephl Brisben, and the money for which itealled was unhesitatingly paid over to thim. He was under the influence of liquor at the time, and deeply interestedl m a gamlo of ear*ls for high stakes, wihichi was ini progre'ss. The1~ check was for $2,500, I think. Before daylight the next morning JToseph Brisben had lost every dlollar of it. TCo drown his chagrin he became beastly drunk, and while ini his condition an eflicer airrivedl and ap pr'ehendeud hinm for forgery andi uttering iforged check. Th'le prison~er was ('on I ied ini jail, and woird oif his disgrace( was sent to Johnt Brisben. T1hie latterI read the message, aiid a mist camne over his eyes. He groanied audibly, and but or a strong effort of the will lie wouhI mye falle'n tot the floor, so weakened wats te by the shock. "-Shn must not know it," lhe said1 t e aiimself, and he made instant p)repara ionts to visit his birothier, Whoeu b, reached the jail ho was admit ted to lth< eelt of the wretched criminal. Th'I. b rot hers remained together for severi b ours. WVhat passed during the in ter vi' wi will never be knownvi. When J.1 Ibrishen emerged from the jail he wet' t raighit to the magistrate who hamW i>sued the wa jrrant for the app: ehensio, of Jo4sephi BriTben. '"Squire," he said, in his slow, biesitat ing way;' 'you have made a mistake." "'In what way, Mr. Brisben?" askl the magistrate, who had a high regir for his visitor. '"You have caused the arrest of an in nocent man." "Iut"-began the magistrate. "Issue an order for my brother's ini stant release. He is innocent of thi intent to do wvrong. I ai the guill; man. I forged the name of Oliarl' Fdllisot to the check he uttered. 11 did not know that it was a forgery." "You," cried the astotinded niagi trate. "You a forger-impossible ?" "Nothing is impossible in these da. s, said the white-haired old iman sterial "I alone am guilty. My brother is it nodent." So stoutly did lie aver that he was th forger that the magistrato reluctantil issued a warrant for his arrest, and a the same time lie wrote an order to th jailor for the release of Joseph Brisbei "My constable will be in soon." sai the magistrate, but the old hero piche up both the papers. "I will not trouble him," he said; will execute both papers." And he did. .Handing the jailor b1 papers, he explained their meanii thus: "They have made a mistake. It is who am to be your prisoner. My brot er is innocent.' Accordingly Joseph Brisben was r leased and returned to the farm. Jol remained at the jail a prisoner. Wh< the extraordinary affair became know several prominent citizens offered to on the accused man's bond, but be won .ot accept their kcd offices. At t] the trial he pleaded guilty and was se teneed to fifteen years' imprisonment hard labor in the penitentiary. Jose1 came to see him before he was removt to Frankfort, but their interview was private one. Joseph Brisben remained at the far: but lie was a changed man. From t1 day he was released from jail down the time of his death, he was nov known to touch a card, and a dro: liquor never passed his lips. Last A1p lie died, and his confossion, duly swa to before a justice of the peace, w made pAblic after the burial. Ini sn stance it was this: That he was guil of the forgery for which his herc brother was suffering a long imp,riso memr. Ilt was my brother's wish, not mine reads tooe document. "He insisted th he wlo cad no ties of blood or marria; could better suffer the punishment :: the disgrace than I who had depende: Upon me a large family." Noble John Brisben I Of such sti are heroes made.-Dcroit Frc Pre: The Young Men of the South. I have visited no town in the Sout! says M. Quad, without ainking it special point to sit down with represe tative young n, to ask about thei and to inquire of their past and futir I have visited aimost every town at city in nine Southern States, and yet never saw a quarrel between young me never saw one arrested; near heard o speak disrespectfully of the North, mo never saw but two the worse for liquc On the contrary, I have found the everywhere as at Vicksburg. They n drink a glass of beer with you, and th< would certainly rescnt an insult, but find an idler or peace-disturber amoi them is a rare thing. In a city like Vicksburg the poor class of young men are the bone and sit of the mills and factories; the educat< e.ass are in stores and offices, just h ginning law, or medicine-agents, trav< era and speculators. It is wonderf how many young men are managers mills and factories, and in positions responsibility, '1'hey vemenber tht the war impoverished the country im made it necessary for them to go vork. Whatever the struggle was the beginning, it was over long ago, a1 the young men of the South neith dread work nor hold !llor in ce tempt. It is a rare thing to find an idler, it just as rare to find a younig man who wi admnit'hat he~ is dise'ouraiged. Hie h great faith in what the fuature will brin: and he hias the pluck to face all dIisaste of the presot't. While lie caiot ma a living as easily as his father did, will make it, and feel a pride ini havi tihe talent and muscle to enable him do so. To know him is to like him.I is courteous, gentlemanly, honorable al big-hearted, and it is thle young mn whlose enthusiasm is making the whc South boom as never before. A Itlppy Thlouaght. ''While I was dlefenading DIr. Mudi said a legal gentleman ini WashIingt( ''a little thing happened which I cain member, thaougha in the lapse of eighate years I have forgotten almnoit all the tails of the trial. A colored woman hi been foimd wvith some1 cleidene tend(i t remove a very had impression fr< D)r. Muddl, and she was hbroughit up Washington City. I had my cairria there, andl Muddl's brother-in-law I the woman in with us to take her (10 to the court-rooam. As we were abc to start the qluestionl wais asked: ' Sal have you hadl any b)reaikfaist? ?' Shea sa 'NO.' We biothi thought tliat she out toi eat so as to 1)e ablle to tell her st< without being shakena or weak. 'I other gentleman drew out a live dol bill and handed it to her, telling he' go and get her break fast and thanu eO b,ack to thle earriage. I don't kna why, but for somel( reason hardly i igible to myself I reaebed out and sa 'No, don't give hia r ve do)llar~s. 'Ta her to get her breakfast at then hotel ia then comeI back and join mue.' We P: liuced the wiomain ini cour -a little lot 'and the very first qutestion .Judge H] aisked the woman wais: ' Sally, has ai baody given you aniy mlonley sinace y bave been in t his fity ? ' ' No sir,' si the wvonmen innocently. Now, suppil she had takeni the five dlolhar biil ? vou see what ani imnpre.ssion it wol have p)roduc(~iletao thIat court, and1 gt i Dr. Muadd's prejudico?" If.. was looking for the cashier. .isked the paying teller if Mr. Blatik in. '"Gone to the Mprinags," was tIe ply in the terse mannear anid court< tones usuahl to bank, hotel, and o1 kitnds of clerks. ''How much is asked the visitor. The teller dIi seem to catch on. A Los ANOELEs rancher has raia pumpkini so largo that his two chil use a half each for a cradle. This seem very wonderful in tihe rural tricts, but in any city three or four grown policemen have been found a ln ft aingin biat. A LAKESIDE MUSING. Why George Would not Accept MI. Loved One's Invitation to Stny to Ten. "You are too tart.." - A ghastly pie-crust pallor that is in strange contrast to the ruddy flush of his c new necktie passes swiftly over George y W. Simpson's face as Beryl McCloskey I speaks these words, and as they stand 0 there together in the dim half-light of 1. the conservatory, the soft. perfume of the d June rose coining through the open win d dow on the sighing breeze that is kissing the sawbuck whose haggard form is I sharply outlined against the woodshed, he feels instinctively that this woman h the only woman he has ever loved, and ig to win a smile from whom he would bravo the horrors of Inferno or go to St. I Louis in July-has been making a toy of Ih. his affections. The thought is a mad deloing one, and as it surges through his e- brain and starts on the return trip almost mn without a pause the agony is so over mi powering that the strong man reels, and a, would have fallen had not his pants been o too tight. "Do you know what you have said, le Beryl ?" he said, bending his face close il- to hors and looking with a pit.iful, pl) .ct a% ing, man-on-third-base-and-two-out ex h pression into the beautiful brown eyes td that are upturned to his. But there is r no light of love in those dusky orbs; no warm, responsive, you-may-hold-me-a little -while-when-we-get-home-from-the - I concert gleam. Around the drooping to mouth there are hard, tense lines, and i:i the white brow, that is fair as the cy vlamen leaves seattered over the lawn of n'; Brierton Villa, there came no rosy flush in -sweet messenger of love and tluthful ness-nothing bt the faint, perfuiy b- odor of homemade bandoline. And as t.' she does not answer him, but stands de I liantly, only the irregular oraekling of i- her liver pad telling of the emotion that lieryl feels, lie turns away, steps through , he open window upon the veranda, and at ,n instant later he 1s lost to view. r " My God 1" exclaims the girl, sob al hiing as if she had mislaid htur shote hot it toner on matinee day. "I have driven him away I" and hastily Imshing aside il the honeysuckles that cluster around the A window sie goes hastily out into tlit purple twilight that hangs like a mantle over the earth and ca)tN to him. There is a little stir among the lilacs [, and syringas, and an instant later a George has elapsed her to his suspender. . ''And you do love me, after all ?" he a, asked. e. She laughs softly, as if bewildered by id her sudden happiness, and then her eyes I till with tears as she softly strokes his a; f,ace. se "Yes, darling," is the answer, "and ad you must come to sulpper now. We are r. to have hot biscuits. I made them my m self." ay "You made them ?" ly "Yes," she whispers, "made them all to by myself." ig "Then," he says coldly, "you cannot love me," and starts for the gate. The or girl follows him and cries iii a low, de. w spairing wail for him to Canoe back. But l lie does not heed her. On and on he e' goes, when suddeiily she sees him throw 'i- up his arms, as the drowning mna doer ul when battling with the very air for exist of en1ee, and disappc:ar forever. of He had stepped into a post hole-Chi. at ca) 'T'ribune. 1(d __ ... to Preserving Herries. i d FRurr Juius.-The juices of many er kinds of fruits are so extremely delicate 11- that they cannot he preserved by the or dinary methods of heating, so as to re a' tain the flavor, thais being especially the ilcase with rasph erries anid strawberrIes, as8 To meet this diliculty, we are advised t( g, take p)erfetly ripe, driy, clean rasp)her. r ries, and to miash them ina ana earthen jar, ke with a woodIen peOstle, so as to ob)tain a be haomogeneouas mass. To this, five to ten ig per cent, of grape or cane sugar is to beC to adldedl, and thae whole then allowed to Ic stand(, being stirred1 occasionally. An ad ahlahlic fermientatina will before long [rm take place, in 11l. courso of which the do pectine wvill sprato comletel y, leavingp thec perfectly clear juice, which will be found to ret ain all the peculiar aroma of the raspberry. For preparing strawberries, two pounad I," of berries are to be selectedl, na directed mn, for rasp)herries, lad placed in a large :e- monathed bottle withaout nmashaing, so au enI to a'ill the bottle one-half to two-thirds: le- twoa amnd a half pounds of linely pulver ad1 ized sugar are to be added, a- d the whobl nig shakeni upl frequenatly at the ordinar-y an temperaturae, without hecatintg. Thn to sugar will extract the moisture from the ge berries, iand form a clear syruip, possess mut ing all their flavor aind odor, whichh may Vyn lhe sep)Iaited by straininag. This jllie( mat will keep pierfectly lay the addition 's hy, one-.flfth of its hulk of ialcohaol. id, PI'cx L.E ) .BU mn:nunts. - Boil tn<( hat bruiisedl b erries of a few 1huncheles in szalt >ry and water; starain Iad lint a gill of the 'lie !liquor to a quart of vinegar, with auIl 11a1 onneie of salt, a qularater of a pound1( o0 to loaf sugar, a' quiarter of ani oiunce el mel poiunided ginger, anad a little sliced horse ow raidish; hoih amid st rain it.; thena pour i A'l- haot ove r thae barberries, the fines id, hunaches having been previously selecte< ke and p)lacedl in jars; when cold, cove nd closely with a bladder. Trhey may als ro- 1he kept ini a jar witha a strong brine r'r, sadt and water p)ouredI over them. Whe1 olt any senm is observed upon the surface ay- poaur oftf the brine lad add fresh. YoUNa olector-"Here Is a very au 'eet little piece of Chainese ivory, ev dently of somne historical value, and1 onlly paid $11) for it. Can you translal thle' inascripationa for mec?" Professo atter p)rofound stuldy-"' This, sir, is and humaidry check. The inascrihptionI is n ,iglish onae, written in Chinecse chana hi-tes, and( saya. 'No money, no walshee. (ii Younttg collector (does not say that her 1romised to talke two nmore at the san it ?" hprie if the dealer can get them for hii Tm Kentucky colonael whao comels Little Rock and is arrestedl by a neg od a policeman is the moast outraged maon dren ~ th orld. Hie ailways sO'as ta maify owned a~ hundred shaves he~ gore the wi andh01( that 'at) infena "nigger" s"thl rest htim, but lie chianuges his muind a deep neompanies ''doe ul'luad gen' lemani.' A rAanasaw TPranacler. Dieisultehed Evewte ea that Du7 DurfIs Throe Qeturi. In Medical 7ith for July, 1883, Dr. Duscowski, gives the followwg table of every important historical event wMb happened on the Fourth cf July since this country was settled by European colonist$; In 1644-The Dfohawks massaered the inhabitants of St. Joseph's village, Mass. . 1676-Bacon of Virginia, suppol ted by liberty-loving colonist taumphed over the Royal Governor Berkeley, who was forced to ratify all resolutions of an in dependent assembly. 1692-Rebecca Nurse condemned as a witch at Salem. - 1744-A treaty of peace ratiAed . at Lancaster, Pa., between the Governor of Pennsylvania, the Commissioners"of Maryland and Virginia and the Six Na tions. 1754-Benjamin Franklin's plan of confederation of colonies against the In dians and French adopted by all except Connecticut. Colonel George Washing ton, having retreated with his starving men from before the three times stronger Frenchmen to Fort Necessity, capitu lated to Villiers: the Americans were permitted to leave with all honors of war. 1775-Georgia appointed delegates to the Continental Congress. 1776-The Declaration of Independ enco signed. British soldiers landed on Staten Island. Delaware adopts a pro visional constitution. 1779-Tryon started on a raid inte Connecticut with 2,600 men, pliindered New Haven, and burned Fairfield and Norwalk; from thence proceeded to Sag Harbor, committing depredations every where. 1781-Williamsburg, Va., evacuate by the British. 1788-Great procession in Philadel phia, celebrating the ratification of the Federal Constitution. 1800-All children of slaves in New York, born on and after this day, declared free. 1804-Born in Salem, Nathaniel Haw. thorne, the well known author. 1814-President Madison calls for 93,500 militia against Greai Britain. 1815-Trial trip of the first steam ves sel of war, built by Robert Fulton, and called Fulton the First. 1826--Died, the ox-Presidents, Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declar ation of Independence, and John Adams. 1827-Total abolition of slavery in Now York. 1829--The Chesapeake and Dolaware Canal opened. 1831 -- Treaty between the United Stares and F,ance, at Paris. The French Government agreeing to pay $3,000,000 indemnity. The first locom, tive built in America, by Colonel Long, was tried on the Newcastle and French. town Railway. 1845-The people of Texas ratify their annexation to the United States. 1851--The corner stone to the wings of the Capitol laid at Vashington. 1861-Extra session of 37th Congress. President Lincoln recommends the riis ing of 400.000 men and $100,000,000. The Confederates erect a battery of ritled cannon at Mathias Point. Va. 1 1863--Vicksbu rg surrenders a ft r many and bloody battles on land and water. The11 paroled prisoners n umbexred 31,277, including fifteen generals. Among the spoils of the battle were 20(0 siege guns, 6,0)0 head of rattle, 1,000t hoegsheads of sugar, 380,000 pounds or ammuni tion, 500 horses, % 000,000 worth of clothing, 50,000 stand of small arms. Confederates retreat from T1en nessec noud lose about 300 prisoners. Alexander HI. Stephens desires to confe: with tihe United States Government. 1864- The Enrolment act signed( by President Lincoln. 1865-Laying of the corner-stone of the Gettysburg Monument in Me mory of fallen patriots. 1866-A destructive fire consumes one third of Portland, Me. Loss $1 ),00'), 1868-Th ird amnesty piroclamatison by) lhe President. National D)emocrat ic Con,ivenit ion at Newv York. 1870--The yacht race across the A t. hant ie won by the American yacht D)aiun t 1871 -Proclamaition oif General Grnt aninounciing the treaty of Wash'.ngton b et weeni England and America i.i full 01pe ranon )i. 187.1- -Ground broken for the b)uildingR of the Cen tennil Exliibition at Phila delphiia. Th'le biridge over the Mississip p,i. at St. Louis, one of the wonders of tihe world. The Pullet and the ('oa. One pretty moonlight a coon toek a walk. Hie saw a pretty pullet "ppig him cff 'romn her boudoir widow. 'Come downi, piretty daiisel,"'said thle coi,n. "'Let's have a time. "Oh. nO; yout would bit a my neck, you nasty becast, ' she saidl. "I prms you upioii miy word of! in ,n-. oir thait I will niot,"' and( then tue sily liltl [pu llet flew down from her perech anId was about to go out and greet the ''Do niot go,'' the mother said, "'for lie is folir. t ne e, andii it is too late for re spitelileli pteple to lbe out."' Thei' pulet onily'i chuckled and imt agineid that she knew aL great deal more thani herai mliher, atnd wvent out. TLherei was au gentle lhutter, a soft sigh, and adl wals over. Tlhie eoon had done his work, andl the puilt wvas lost forever. MontA. -Young and innocent lambs should heed their miothters, and above all shake the intruder that entices inno eence ab)road at night. Wicked (Jypsles. A band of fraudulent gypsies are on a rtour of New Engiand. TIhey are pro vided with a tent which hats b,eenu usei herotof ore for a side showv, and a lot of old costumes. The manager has hired a knife thrower and an acrob,at, in the, guise of gypsies, and with them hie ex pects to win numerous wvagers oni feats which lie knows they can readily per form, but which the unuwary visitori will deem impossible. Hie also lias several 1 womeni who pass very well for gypisy hiags, e and who will sell trinkets and1 tell for rtunes. But the girl who figures as ihe a gypsy queen is his chiecf dep,endcnce for ni income. She. is rather hanidsomee and e- devoid of scruplles. She has learned her lesson of fortune telling mummery, shei Sis aud1(acius1 enough to) carry out the~ 1W masquerade, and that rust ic will be lu"l y a who gets away from her without leaviing a mutch larger fee than most gypsy palm' te crossers exact. rc tSinNnus were split by hailston(s in le Teiineisseo the other (lay and women wvho ai arc obliged to split kindlings in the r' moruinig an thinking seriously of mov id ing to T1ennuesseo wvhere the elemenits are - more considerde Mtn thoughtless 1uza,