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DEVOTED TO FOLITIC', RORALI1Y, EDUCITION AND TO T".'E OENERIL INTEREMr OF THE COUNTItY, By D. F. BRADLEY & 00. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11.18 vn n TIl ONLY i1l1itIVn1t'rs MTOKLY OF TUlE FA3M4SUP FEAT. Why s t mt,cjrr wait Sla o- and Slow st"N Mallasged to go Tbsr.ar;. The story of the tamous passage of the Maud of the Mist, istold by Dewitt C. Mo Murtry, the only one cf her passengers on that occasion now living. The old man's story r as follows! "I think it was in 1851 that James W. Bnobanan, of Toronto, Can. went to live F1usensIrdeo. ']he orignal ttJnt . Istbaet Boe. , whNls tho6ght tit It would be a good idea to build a new one, better than the other and more durable. She was 150x16 feet over all. Buchanan's money held out only until the tine came to place the engines and boiler in the boat. Hii t plans were too expensive. Captain Joel Robinson, who was to command the boat, remonstrated ,against - using old maohinery bocausa it was not powerful enough. :Mr. B3xio1anan went to Buffalo and. borrowd su cient money from td Judge Addington to complete the "it, and a' mortgage on it for $7.000 gitven -to him. The cld judge -bt his venture was perfectly safe, did every one else. One outlet tpe was blocked by the great eat. .nd the >ther by the boisterous ol rapids, supposed to he impas 11uchanan paid his interest reg a time, but finally failed to 'no. He was on the verge of 'that juncture some people in o,wati.ed a pleasure boat to i Kingston and IPrescott $25,000 for the Maid, the elivered at the dock in the Canada side. Then -d the. idea. of running ado the mortgage and q fortund. ' Captain ic ant exp '~1 the -at through it't ,0 apiece to you ' Jones was the ing it a while rein the risk. orable trip was .all never forget pressure was 130 rip we set the ball w off at 2213 pounds. he afternoon Robin. o the wheel-housie. c down into the the. were battened down at off. she was lying .ent, and had to make .urn, which she just fin. tick the currei.t. The .0 working full head, the nuarly red-hot and steam g in tlhe blow-off. The current rapids is forty- five miles an hour; ..Ad we know that if eweoould not make some headway inl it, so the craft would mind the helm. nothing ,lut an interpo. sition of Providence could save us. I am the only man now living who ever passed through those rapids, and I'll me ver try again." "Had you no fear at all ?" "I had no fear at the start, but after we got into those rapids I would have given worlds to get ashore. Had I been able to make land after the first two or three plunges that boat made, all the money in the whole United States would have been no temptation to me to go aboard again. The rirk was too great, and I tremble now as in memory I live the scenes of that day over again. It was simply a case of nature against na ture. I tell you, sir, that nothing but the intervention of Providence put us through' safely. 'We shot through with frightful velocity. Of the speed you can form some idea when I tell you that from the lower Maidl of the Mist landing, where we started, Queenston w~harf is just flve miles and we traveled the dis tance in seven minutes and forty-flive seconds. The rap ids themselves are a mile in length and two minutes was the time of the passage. "That is pretty fast traveling through a current:sixty feet higher in midstream than at the sidesa, in an unnavigated channel. From the time we left the landing until we made fast at Queenston every mom'en.t was one of expectation of death.' . expected every second to see tl e hull rent in pieces b)y the rocks and fnd myself tossed about by the cur rernt and beaten to death by the great waves. I Iived my life over again times innume.rable, and incidents which took years to'enant arose in my vision instan taneously, and with a realism that makes or 0 shudder. We felt that we were on the verge of death. When we struck the first rapid our boat plunged down. ward maybe thirty feet. - Then wvith greatly added impetus' she was thrown out of the water. Through the heavy glass port-holes and by the ditTeremi working of the engines I could tell when the wheels were in or out of water. Down would go the boat until it seemedl she would never stop, when quickly she would right herself, and with a leap which. seemed almost human, go clear out of the water. We were tossed about in the hold, Jones and I, until it seemed as if the quick succession of shocks CAR LETON PLAIN -LD AV --uoai Enio inten Reai henmn+ would kill us. I felt my strength oozing away, and I clung to tne hand-rails for dear life. There was barely time to catch one's breath between the concus sions, and the force felt inside the close ly-fastened fire-hole was so great that escape seemed impossible. Our course was in the center as near as we could make it. We got through the whirlpool rapids all right o_tough, but the boat was wrenched and racked so that she took water freely, and when I climbed out of the hold at Queenston the water was waist high. I suppose you want to know how we avoided the whirlpool. At the entrance the Maid's stern ground ed lightly on a rcek, she swung round and shot down the stream instead of fol. lowing the current into. the whiripool. It all happened quicker than I can tell it." Fifty 'Nears Ago. Edward H. Ludlow, an auctioneer and real estate broker in New York since 1836, testified before the Senate Com mittee that twenty years ago money loaned on mortgage easily commanded 7 per cent., while now the large corpora tions are content with 4 to 4; per cent. Decrease in the value of money ought to prodiue decrease in rents, but it has not. "Will you compare the social state of long ago with that of to-day?" asked Senator Blair. "I guess I am prejudiced, Senator, the witness said, "for you know that we old fellows think the old times were a great deal the best. There were not so many paupers then as now, and the poor were more comfortably housed. One hundred thousand dollars made a very rich man then, for the Dutch-English population were very conservative, and did not like to venture on the ice much. People who lived in 1825 were happier than now, more social, everybody knew everybody, and individuals were appre ciated as woll as known. "The general comforts and pleasures of life were greater than now. There was less emulation, and.more simplicity. People dressed more for comfort and wore home-made clothes. Ladies usc to be satisfied with two or three muslin dresses and one silk gown. Some old Knickerbocker families still live as in the good old days, but they are very few. Ladies nowadays wear nothing but silks and satins, and every woman must wear an ostrich feather and be dreaped like a Fifth avenue belle. Mil lionaires vie with one anot her in seeking to display their wealth and show their foreign manners. Love of show is car ried beyond common sense. Emulation makes the well-to-do seek to pattern af. ter our millionaires, and the poor strive in their turn to equal the well to-do. Every class is cursed by this evil spiril of vanity and emulation." B1asTr.s.--The most valuable bristlev Used in brush making are white, and the breed of hogs that produces them is every year growing scarcer. The best bristles come from Kamtchatka, the next in grade from Russia and Germany. They sometimes reach a length of nearly ten inches, and cost' as high as four dol. lars and a half a pound. Nothing yet in use wholly takes the place of bristles A Cimwr.-Ex-Mayor Hall says lhe once heard Thurlow Weed descr-ibe the system of lobbying by likonunm it to the construct ion of railroadsa. First, vou acquire and survey your territory' (this is the Legislature and its neighbor hood(). Next you employ ditch~ diggers who are not afraid of dirty work. Th en come the graders. Then you must lay your ties. Then the rails. Curves must be0 nicely adjusted. Contractors must be paid and divided with. And over al) must be an Engineer in chief. "Mr CAsE is just her e," said a citi-sen to a lawvyer, "'The plaintiff will swecai that I hit him. I wvill swear that I did niot. Nowv, what can you lawvyers make out~ of that if we go to trial?" ''A hun. drndl dollars ear~y." was the reply. IE01\T WORuHs STMILS 'OTNGNSadPE ill Supis UHS UOAI reurn stay,rlibe ad ecno WorkmTen.l ENagIES, MrIE, Woke. Cage modeate A COUNTRY'S PEOPLE. Some intere,utina Sntlatles From the C(ensus Bureau. In twenty years the foreign born pop Illation of Massachusetts increased from 260,106 to 448,491. North Caroliug has the snallcst foreign born population of any, the proportion being, natives. 1,396,008; foreign, 3,744. New York has the largest proportion of foreigners, 1,211,379, against 8,871,492 natives. The States where the German element is strongest are Iowa, with a foreign born population cf 204,692; Michigan, 268,010; Minnesota, 160,697; Ohio, 394,943; Illinois, 583,576; Wiscon sin,364,499; Pennsylvania, 587,829. The civilized Indians number, all told, 66,407, Califoinia having 16,277, Arizona 3 493, Massachusetts as many as 7,249, New York 819, New Mexico 9,772, Washington 4,405, Wisconsin 9,161, and Minnesota 2,300. The Southern States have but a scanty proportion of foreigners. Alabama stands 1,252,771 natives to 9,784 for eigners; Arkauisas, 792,175 to 10,350; Florida, 259,584 to 9,909; Georgia, 1, 531,616; to 10,564; K. ntuckv, 1,589,178 to 59,517; South Carolina, '987,891 to 7,686; Texas, 1,477,133 to 114,616; Vir ginia, 1,497,869 to 14,696. The Chinese flourish in California to the number of 75,132. Next comes Oregon, where the pigtails muster9,510 strong, then Nevada, 5,416; Washington Territory, 3,18G; Idahoe 3,379; Montana 1,765; Utah, 501;-Wyoming, 914; Arizona, 1,630; Dakota, 238; Massachusetts, 229; New York, 909; Colorado, 612; Louisana, 489. In the other States of the Union the Chinese are but very few. The total is 105.465, and of Japanese 148, of whom 86 live in California, 8 in Massa chusetts, 8 in Pennsylvania, 6 in Con necticut, and 17 in New York. In 1790 one-thirtieth of the population of the United States lived in cities of 8,000 inhabitants and over : in 1800, on, twenty-fifth ; in 1810 and also in 1820, one-twentieth ; in 18:30, one-sixteenth ; in 1840, one-twelfth ; in 1850, one eighth ; in 1860, one-sixth, and in 1870 a little over one-fifth. At the last (late the inhabitants of cities numbered, in all, 8,071,875. It is estimated that in 1880 as many as 12,000,000 persons were living in cities, or a quarter of the whole population. Of natives over twenty who cannot read and write New York has 26,163, of foreigners, 95,715; Pennsylvania, 44,930 natives and 36,585 foreigners; North Carolina, 74,877 natives and only 100 foreigners. In the single State of Illinois there is a larger foreign born population than in all the Southern States put together. A Curious Claim. "You don't know how many curious claims against the Government are re ceived," said the chief clerk of one of the department offices at Washington. "Here," he continued, holding up a good sized package, "are all these papers just about one man's body." "How's that ?" asked the reporter. "'Well, in 1862 an undertaker in Alton, Ill., buried an army oflicer in his vault in the cemetery there. In 1876 ho wrote the department stating that fact and saying that we could have the re mains upon the payment of vaultage at the rate of $5 per month for the time the oflicer had been buried. That amounted to $840." "Did he get the money ?" "Not much. We wrote him that we were not buying, and the body might remain where it was. He then Lgreed to take half the amount, but we declined to pay anything. Now we have been iinformed that the uindertaker has (died and thaLt the vault has come into the possession of the cemetery company, who desire to remove it to make some improvements, and they wish to know if the Government will remove the body to the military cemetery. This we will dlo." "Does tho company say anything ab)out vaultage ?" "No, not at all; and they will probably make no claim. It would not be allowed if they shoul," .A mmma~yc-uousu in Minnesota be ecame so infested with bedbugs that the congregation had to take a vacation wvhile the sexton burned up the carpets cushions and pulpit. This shows the 'vil eff'ect of Rleeping in church, SALES ROOMS. elpwe.Ti is the simls TIlE J VY. t Pushing the olods of earth aside, 1 Leaving the dark where foul things hide, Spreading its leaves to the summer sun, Bondago ended, freedom won; So, my soul, like the ivy be, Iise, for the sunshino calls for thee I Climbing up as the seasons go, e Looking down upon things below, Twining itself in the branches high, i As if the frail thing owned the sky; I So, my soul, like the ivy be, t Heaven, not earth, is the place for thee. e Wrapping itself round the giant oak, Hiding itself from the tempest's stroke; Strong and bravo is the fragile thing, For it knows one secret, how to cling; So, my soul, there's strength for thee, Hear the Mighty One, "Lean on Me I" Green are its leaves whon the world is white, t For the ivy sings through the frosty night; 1 Keeping the hearts of oak awake, f Till the flowers shall bloom and the spring t shall break; e So, my soul, through the winter's rain, t Sing the sunshine back again. Open its green and fluttering breast, Giving the timid birds a nest; Coming out from the winter wild, To make a wreath for the Holy Child; po let my life like the ivy be, A help to man and a wreath for Thee ! IENRY Bun-oN. Mar tha's Experiment t "One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, l three cups of flour and four eggs. Do t you remember teaching me that rule for making coke when I was ten years old, s grandma ?" "Did I? Well, it is a good rule- i one you can remember casily. Are you t baking coke this morning ?" I "Yes; am all done now but this one cke. I have worked fast, for I want to 11 he ready to visit with cousin Martha. n She said she would come over early. k Uncle and aunt will wait till afternoon. There she is I" l Cousia Martha had returned home a only the day before, and had not yet a seen her grandmother, who had come I from her Eastern home to spend the summer with her two sons and their t families in Town. "So you really have a farm of your I own in Dakota," said grandma to Martha, a when the two girls were seated by her e in the parlor after dinner. "Yes; I made a claim next to Ned's t when we first went out there together, I and took up a timber claim. After we v had pre-empted them we took up our homesteads, and are now living on d them." U "You talk of pre-empting like a man. v Did you live in a shanty of your own ?" i "Of course I did; I have as good h a shanty as Ned's, and we lived in it part t of the time, until we were ready to pre- v empt. Now we live on our homesteads." t Busie's fingers flew with her crochet- t work, and she bent her head to hide the e amused look in her eyes as grandma a ventured another question. "What did you have to do to pre- I empt ?" "When we Prat went there wb filed a i notice of our intentions to have and a hold those p-trticular quarter-sections of land, and after a six months' residence s on them we went to the land office and 1 proved that we had complied with all 1 the requirements of the law, paid our l: two hundred dollars each, and took our l deeds. We had selected our home- t steads, and now paid the fee of fourteen dollars each on them, which secures them to us without further p)aymenlt if we eon- I tinuo to live on them five years. The timber claims are the same. If we shall at the end of eight year.s have ten acresi of growing timb)er, with six hundred and seventy-five trees to the acre the land is r ours." "Well, I 'don't see what your father and mother were thinking of to lot you do it." Possibly Martha thought it a little : hard that the&y and all avoided telling| grandma about her plans anld wvork in I the two weeks she had been with them before her arrival home, knowing her p)rejudhice, and that her ideas oni such subjecta differed so enterely from theirs; hut she was too glad to be wvith them again to be easily annoyed, and went on pleasantly explaining to her whatevert she thought would interest her about it. "Why, grandma, I am going to make me a farm ini Dakota as soon as I am 0k1(1 enough,"' laughed Susie; ''won't I father?''" "Silas Hartwell, I hope you and Sybil won't enc'ourage that child ini any such uinladylike schenme. I am surp)rised , that you, .James and Alma, should have allowved Martha to do it.."o "'I'll tell you, mother," rep)liedl Silas, ''the land wiill be all taken up in that '[ part of D)akota before this young lady ai of ours will arrive ar the mature age ofI h y ounger, wimll net aid and abet her as a, Nedl has Martha." hn "Perhaps some other girl's b,rother may," said Martha, peeping rognuie.bly b< into her littie cousin's face. She was y surprised to see the color mount in rosy v flushes to her face for an instant, asH she a rep)lied to her father without appearing T to notice her banter. 0 "'I shall be twenty soon; old enough or to aspire to a ihanty of my own in one h year more, Yell took uip government el land when you esme to Iowa, didnl't you, fa father ?" ''Yes ; we have the deeds of our homes th here from government. We were amnit g in the pioneers of our county her'e, and he- p cause we prospered here is proubly the reason why our chuildren are so rad.iy to y do pioneer work ferther on. You re memb)er, mother, tiis was a long way fhi from home when we 'ame here, thirty or years ago, in our Hioorier wagom 5. You hardly expected then te ever 'isit us b)y y' taking a two days' ride and ilnd us surl- mf rounded with so many comfortsq, did an yell ?" ''No ; I muust say it turned out bet ter at thani I expected, andI it does not lookrl W b)adly to see thme chuildrenl going fau thmer wV out to nlew places, as things ale no'w, 01 but I must sa~y it .loes look out of place. Ou for a girl liko Makrthyl to take up such th mannish ways" of "usa~w Anniallolland when Mhej wa,s is here laat week, how tirod and worn out oil -00ked'." 4aidSi, "Shalft hoa wo years ago to teach in a city school. i don't believe she has onjoyed it half as 0 tell as Martha has her work. Do you, t ather?" '1' "She does not look as well, certainily," 1 ie answered; "but seriously, mother. it 9 easier for girls to make money that a vay than to be confined to teaching or ewing, especially when they have iii vays lived on a farm and know how to uanage. Tastes differ, of course, and, >esides, every girl would not have thet equisite knowledge to make such ia oheme successful. "I know," said Susie, "but most girls . ould if they would. Cousin Martha old us of two girls who took up claims ear them last summer. One had mtconev nough to pay for her claim, the other tad only money enough to pay expenses. y aut her brother promised to advance bei he money when she was ready to prove ip. They built their shanties together nd lived together. After paying for i heir claims they sold them for a thou. c and dollars apiece. Pretty good for hem, wasn't it, grandma?" "Yes; 1 am glad they made so much. i home women do have a hard time earn- I ng their own living." "There are Helen Marston and Philip I iffany coming up the walk," said Susan. i 'They will be pleased to aco you, Martha. suppose Helen wants to hear about led." They were soon seated in the parlor, nd naturally the conversation turned pon the subject of Daketa farming. ?hilip said he wished to ask eome ques ions before ho could decide to go there. To was anxious to go, but not quite cer ain that it would be best to do so. "You want to know how largo a home tead you can hold," said Susan. ''Yes ; something like that. You all now my means are limited, and I need o be reasonably .mre it will pay before make an investment." They all knew his life had been one of ard work and rigid economy, and that naly by his assistance had his parents eeu able to keep their home and edu ate their children. His younger rothers were now able to fill his plae', nd he was free to make a home for hin elf ; perhaps some day for a certain right-eved young lady. Who knew ? "Ned and I v:eilt up there in May, wo years ago," said Mar, ha. "Father :ave us two hundred dollars apiece, but ed was two years older than I, and lhad aved five hundred for himself. We I ach bought us a good strong team of i rork horses, wagon and harness for t hree hundred dollars. Together we ought a good breaking plow, hat furniture we should need, and a i ood supply of provisions, for one hni- j red and fifty more. We saved ear fyre - y having good oil-cloth covers over our ragons, and, packing our outfit snugly Qside, drove our teams through. Father Ia nd uncle know how to arrange it, for y lay moved to this State in the same" ray, only they camped out and slept i t t heir wagons. We did not care to dot hat, preferring to stop nights with farm- 1 rs along the way. We had an oil-stovia nd prepared our own dinners." "You drove a team from here to 1)a .ota ?" said grandma. "Certainly I did, and enjoyed it, too. t hon we arrived at the place Ned had I elected for our home, I stayed, with on ly ] neighbor's little girl for company and a lept in one of the wagons, or rather i vagon-boxes, while Ned went after hun er to build our first shanty with. h'le( ttle girl's father helped him take the Oxes off and pack the goods snugly on lie ground, then drove one team for him oing after the lumber." "Oh, my !" said Helen, "I wouldn't owe stayed th'ere for anything. Didn't 'on feel afraid '' '"No, I think not., though I must say t was lonely. We slept wvell. We wer'e avored with di(ry weather until we land a ocof to cover us." "DIidn't you feel like Rohinson i3ruso)e ?" aisked Helen. ''How nacar eie your neighbors ?" ''Two miles the nearest, and it was wenaty miles to town i." ''Did you put in any crop~s that year ?" nquired Phi lip. "'Yes, as soon as we were comnfortablly atetled, Nedl commiiecd breaiking n'y ny claim, for the shianity was ona his, ad te wanted to get in hais crops beofore tiaking other imnprovemna ts. Hie b raoke wenty acres and plianted ('orn ont it. On lie next ten lhe lanted potato''s; t hena en maore lie sowedl to flax. J tendled f lhe garden, ad we land plenty of vege ables for our use, I forgot to say fat lher ave us a cow, some henis anda two) little igs. In August Nedl boaughat a mower ndl hireda a man for a nmonth, TIhaey put a I' sixty tons of lay, besides digging a I 'elI." a "DI id you have that much hay on your a wna land ?'' caked Philip. "'I adon't think lhe cut it all on our land. 'n here is g:ooud hay on peart of it, but b acre wais soi much noielaimaned lanai thlen, e could go wvhere he fonnud the be'st cut- w tag. TLhiis year lie land to atay oni our ta ,vn landa, but t here waas as much haay as hi a cared to cut." H. ''You did nmot get your land all in one >dy, did you, eveni going as early as . m did ?'' "'No; we madue our first claims together t tal took a timbaher claim adljoiing. [ bcre enin be onlhy one timber claim on to sectioni. In November we paidi for ir claims and onr homesteads in the i st placo we couhld find where a timber b rim could join them. That b)rings our Il rmns in goodl shape-three quairters to- g flier in each one. thou gh they arc" roe miles apairt. We moved our bulihld gs all over to the haomesteadls, and are , at ting all ouar ii! provements there now'' "How much didl yeau vaise the first ari on thae forty acres ?" ''We had two huandred busl,l of corn, re hundraied bushels of patattes and ir ae hun:dre-l bushels of flax seed.''t "[It must 1.ave been dreary enoulgh faor m, mn thei e ina winter; one neighbor ini two tha iles; I thitnk I'd see myself livinag in ga oh a p)laace," said Helen. W "It was very differenit from living here home, buit we hoad our compensations. c hadl plenty of time for readling, anal studied Glermamn. We had our mail in eo ai week, anal Su.adays we met with It r neiglhbors for religious services. In t e 8pring neigh bors e uno on every side of us, and now every quarter near na occupied and' there is a good-sized " y t wo miles from our home. Our ul )P the next asa anlnaaana o lost, sanguine expectations. Ned sowed ats on the old breaking and broke weity acres more for corn and potatoes. 'hen he bought fencing and inclosed a asture of twenty acres." "Plety of room for our little Jersey iid her calf, I should say," said Susie. ''As if she didn't know all about it," aid Martuha, patting affectionately the lould< r of her favorite. "She came with father to visit us at hat tine. and stayed with me while tther went with Ned to buy calves. le bottght twenty. They, with our pet ersev and her calf, make our farm look lit tle more like home. Ned was par enlar, in taking pi) our homesteads, to ndi a p!lace with a creek ru.ning :romg:h it. That makes our pasturt cry line." "You certainly have done well, but you ;ent" before there were many settlers, mid coul(d choose your location. Now t would be 1 iobson's choice for me if I lecide to go, wouldn't it ?" said Philin. ''You wouldn't evtv have that in our lciglelorlood, but not more than twenty niles from us you can get as good a >Aaeo as ours.' "Then I'll go," said he, rising to hi4 eet. "'Many thanks for your kindness n answering my questions." -'Are. you ready, Helen ? You know we promised to help arrange the tables for hletestival this evening. I nearly for 10t. about. it."' ''Yes, we must go; we shall see vYs li this evening; till then, good-by."' Grandma toolt up her knitting-w. mid kit very itst for a few minot. hen said: "It'I I'ilip can go thiere 1o as well ats you and Ned have de. thall he glad for him. He is a worth y moug man11. ? ''One thing I would like to inquire, ;aid Susie, "how you are going to mnti ige when you want to divide up. 11 vould not do for either of you to leIavi le homestead before your five years iir 11p, would it ? that is, supposing yont hould wish to marry." "Ol, you matchmaker I Tie war is asy. Either of us could pay for *om and any time we wish to and get the iced. but what scheme have you it 1"ocur head fiat makes yout so mlnel inter 'sted in the ways and means, I would Ikn to know ? If Ned was some oi< 'Ise I should suspect you of having ( 4igns on our peaceful home." ''You need have no fear in thait direc' ion. Ned is too goodt a cousitt to .s:o 11 any such way as you suggest. l'i c'll y'ot1 some time what I was tlhinkin g f." said the sauiey girl. One week later Susan came hon rom a day's visit with Cousin -L::th,t. ust as thi lamps were lighted a.t-:l the amily gathered in tle sitting-ro-"l. "'What is it, Susie ? You loc?, like a Ih ntric ball. fairly ablaze wit i news, .nal ready to explode at any uomeni," aid her fat her. 'You'll not wonder when I tell you,' he returned. "Consin Mart ha is going o be married to P1thilip ';Itlny. She ins told me all about it, and it is jus that I wanted her to lo." Hier mother regarded her closely t nomenit, while anii expression of telief 'anme over her features. She hlad sonie ines feared that her daughlter's af ee ions might i coie too interested in Philip, for though she would have con 'onted willingly to her marriage with him 'ather than grieve her petted child with :e word of refusal, she felt that the fu ture held in store something letter for her darling than a life of farm-work ini a new coutitrv. The father had no thought of that, but he, too, had his secret. le held the promise of a young merchant in a neighborinig city that lie would make no offer of marriage to their dalrlinig child unitil shie arrTived iat the atge of twenty. "Th'ley are to lie married t.wo weeks from to-morrow," she cont iinued. ''Cou sin Martha said slie promised Ned s'he woulld refturni in four' weeks, andl woul noct dIisappiloint him, for he will he all readly for wo'~rk on the inow house. Philip is a carpeniter, andl can go right to work, They can all live together till Ned finds himi a wife. That is whiat I was thinking of thle ofther day, only I w'as afraid Philip would never ask her, he is so sensitive; f hardly believe lie did, [low." "'Why, Susan Hiartwell I You don't| hink she would ask him, do you ? hioughi if woul bo off fronm a piceo with he rest of her work if she (did." said "'I donil't kniow, bueh am1 susp1icious tat she intfrodnieed fthe subject. She~ Sonblnii't tel how it camie about, and I oni't. car, so long as the arrangement miade. Still, it looks 0(dd, don1't it, for er to comne home on a visit, marry, andl ihe her hiusbandl back with her to her ''Yes, it is odd; I doin't like it at all,'' did grandma. "'Martha is a good gir'l, att she does do) very untladylike things." ''Aller iall, gramihnia, why is it any (orso for her t hain it would be for Ned come home and ide-a wife back withI imn ? No one would think anything ranige otflhat." "I doii't know as there is anything really rang abhout it, but it is dhifferonit fronk iie uisual couirse oif evenits. We old tople are iipt to 1(ook critically at such niovat ions 02n estalhishied cuistonas." "W~ell, I hope they will lie happy a vers mi a story botok. I'll make the st. wedding cake(( I can for them and( ro w an ol shoe aIfter them when they A irrra fellow, somne four or five mirs old ndl whio nad never seen a nio. o, was greatly pierplexed one day when io camiie b y wher. lie andl his faither are. The youngster eyed thle strangera spiciously till lie had passed, and then ked his fat her: "P~a, who painted at man aill so bilack ?'' ''00d dtid, my ni," replied tie father. " Well,' said a little one, still looking aftetr the no a, "'I shounldn't have thought hIe mhld have held still.'' BE\:v1t!.--The extent of the disasiter Mlininesota's tornado-swept, city of checster may bo judged from the fact att even thie cemetery in which several the victimus of the storm were buried H ad" as Or(prr tlgr ' [rom the Ar w "{ Colorel Nucklin whose ' : came r b rden, declare4 at t diet ma 1f. f "WUny," he said to bis wfte on this way I'll soon be as6a'* Lambert. It all cornes of 7 much, and I eat too much in giel the demands of an enormous a Now, a man can't be a free man 4 low his appetite to control him ; so, > Mary, fix me a little dry toast and a w grits after this. I'll be hanged if roi nga around town puffing like an eu. gine." i,ur several days the colonel lived on us toast and grits. He would dream of uicy beefstakes and chops of tempting en derness, and once, on his way down own, he unconsciously stopped in front >f a eat-fish restaurant to watch a hungry iegro eat boiled cabbage. Every news mper he took up spoke of great dinners md "'hat certain men ate, and, stopping )mIe. he mechanically took up a pieoe of paper that fluttered toward him, and %rushed it. when he discovered that it ,vas a bill of fare. The first Sunday ight after the beginning of his trials he ittended church, where, he declared, me could sit free from suggestions of omething to eat. He looked round at he fat men and wondered if they were mngry, and his mouth watered when he uddenly remembered having seen a -oast klg somewhere during the day. he minister aroce and began to talk ibout the Lord's Supper. He was im iginative, and had the table stocked with all the delicacies of the season. EIe spoke of the venison stew into which lie betirayer supped with his master. mtd he turned the cold roast around so he colonel could see it. Then he ex iibited a baked duck, and taking up a iandful of Saratoga potatoes, he scat ered them over the table. "I'll be Billy be John Browned if I can itand tnis," the colonel said to his wife, md he turned away. At supper he ate bis toast, which lie declared was not nough to ticklo his throat, and lie ac rused his wife for making no allowance in nearing the end of the loaf. He was determined, though, for every one who knew of his fast spoke of how rapidly be was "going down." "Oh, I'll stick it out.," he would say. "I would," said an acquaintance "you ire somewhat literary in your turn, Colonel, and I sulpose you derive com fort from Byron's trials." ''Yes," the colonel replied, although he knew no more of Byron than a quar antine '1loer does of the yellow fever germ. "Byron was .iot very fat, which, to gether with the 'qd condition of his feet, made him an object cf pity, but when lie iegan to diet himself his llesi went down gradually and became firm, wbile his in. te'llect became bright. So, y,n see, you have two aims to accomplish, .iot saying that your mind needs brighte.iing. ' "Oh, no," the colonel said. 'vatching a boy who passed with a string of fish. Thus the struggle was kept up. One morning when the colonel sat i' his C office a lank tramp entered and said: "Will you please give me the price of a meal? I'm so hungry that I am near ing starvation." "I'm a devilish sight hungrier than you are," the colonel replied. "Why don't you ea, . ' "Because I want to reduce my flesh." ''That's all foolishness," the tramp re )lied. "Some time ago I was on a cor >ner's jury and we heldl an inquest over u man whlo hadl sharved to death. Oh, bumt lie was a whopper, as fat as lie could wallow. Thoi neighbors said that lie was trying to reducu his Ileshi and-" "Aro those facts that you are stat ing ?" "Yes, sir ; facts as solemn as the west 4ide of ai sepulchre when the sun is in the east." The colonel gave his hell a vigorous. ring, and wheni the p)orter app)eared he "Go to the nearest restaurant and order meals fo six men." "Six meni!" exclaimed the tramp). "Yes, sir, for I suippose you are as hungry as two men, and I know mighty well I'm as hungry as four." E.NOOH AnDEN's TR STORY. WVhen Enochi Arden camle home after that memorable andl disastrous voyage, which shipwrecked hi~m andl his hopes, he erept up the street to his old home, as Tenmyson informs us, and looked in the window. There lie saw Philip Rlay and Annie, his wife, and their child, all seated around the hearth cracking wal nuts. The whole bitter truth camne upon him with te'rriblhe force. Annie, supposing Enoch to beo dead, had married Philip, so as to have a home for herself and a man about the house in case of tramps. It was a sad coming back for Enoch, and lhe wvas mad about it. Not so much because Philip had married his wife, for there were plenty moro wives to be0 had iiot because his child hasd learned to call aiiothier man "pa," though that was a bitter pill, inasmuch as the child looked 5 little like Philip any how. Neither of these things worried him half so much as to note that Philip was wearing his (Enochi's) clothes. With a iunincig gesture Enoeh was just about o dash inito thne house and aninihiliate :lhemn, whieni suddenly the anger in his soiuntenmance was supiplansted by a 1look of :(error anid lie sluink iaway as silently as so had come. Hie had caught sight of Aninie's mother, who durinig Enioch's ihseneoe had bsrokeni up hiouss-keepiung umd come over to live with her daughter, aund had become a fixture there. Enoch told some of the boys after. wvard that it was the narrowest escape of his life, and that he would rather bo shipwrecked every five minutes than to enico,unter his mothier-in-law.--.Saturday Night. The Thirdh Time. Captain Webb's death at Niagara re 'alls the similar fate of a man ini Sicily, umst onie hundred y'ears ago. Nicholas, urnamed ''the hiver'," on accounit of is manny wonderf ul exp)loits, undertook a the presence of thousands of speeta .)rs, to dive to the bottom of the Sicil in Gulf, where there is a dangerous vhirlpool, and bring up somethiig vhiich had beeni thrown ini. He made lie attempt and succeeded. Again onmethiing more preciouis was thrown in mdi again lie succeded. Finiding that in he second at tempt lie encounterod some uhmarine ditliciulties which he had not 'xpected, he declined to make' ansother Lttempt, hut a Sicilian noble throwing ni a gold cupI studd(ed with brilliants as he prize, lie (lived into the gulf and waa oever again seen. Poo-r's wife remarked to him, as they tarted out the other night to take sup er with the Browns, that she expected irs. B. would have a stunning coiffure. 'WVell, I'm sure I hope so," grumbled Moots, "I haven't had anything good to at ano the last time we wero at noter'"~Lheur,m