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VOL. I PIC.KEN S S. C. THURSf)AY F
,.r EBRUARY
A Matutinal Episode
(Larry Wnlh,uan)
As the sun lifted his big red face u
over the lake a lurid gleam from hi
lusty eye fell directly across the sleep
ing face of Mistress Bessie McIntosh
aged 22 a bride of a year, resident o
Lake 'iew. Opening her eyes in i
wild and startled manner she sat ul
and looked around her. Her face
framed by the ruffle of delicate lac
which encircled the tiny cap, expresse<
wonder, doubt, distress, and finally
confidence.
"Are you there, Fred? Oh, yes. XtV
all right; I know now. Oh, I have ha<
sich a dream ! And I woke with thi
sun shining right in my face. I dreame(
I was married to Cousin Chawly, an<
fe bought me such a lovely white satii
drees. Isn't that an awfully bad sign
What can be going to happen? An<
he came home d-dr-drunk one night
und the next morning he had on i
golden armor, and the visor was studde<
with diamonds, and--oh, how it di<
blaze, and how magnificent he did look
And I turned to admire him and tel
him how much I 1-loved him, when
saw lying at his feet a pair of bracelets
each with a dozen bangles, and eac1
bangle a great, immense diamond
'Why, those are for you, Bessie,' h
said, and, as I stopped to pick them up
each diamond seemed a glittering sor
pont, which was reaching up to em
brace me. Then I woke, so frightened
I am going to got right up and dress
f I never, never can sleep again afte:
8 ,a dream."
' Mistress Bessie proceeded to pu
her words into execution. Two daint,
white feet, which Cinderella's slipper;
might have encompassed, faced them
selves upon the soft rug. A prett
white hand throw back the snow;
couvrietto, and Undino emerged froi
the sea. Her toilet having been ar
ranged to her entire satisfaction, thougl
it must be said no great pains had beer
taken with it, she sat down in an arm
chair much too large for her, and, in i
drowsy, yawning way, began to repen
of her hasty conclusion to forego hoi
accustomed morning nap.
"Oh, dear," she yawned, "how aw
fully early it is. I don't believe thero
is a soul astir in the house. But tha
horrid dream. Don't you know, Fred
that catams of white wedding robe,
and jewels are always followed by thi
death of one of those to be married o:
of some one near? And what if Cousii
Chawly should die? He has had suel
bad luck always. Everything seems t
go against him," and she tied and un
tied the kerchief around her neck a
she talked. A long silence. "I thin]
I hear Judith in the kitchen
Perhaps you had better rise, Fred
We can have an early breakfast if w<
ih and then a ride through the parl
.ezo4 you go into the city. But i
anything is happening to Cousii
Chawly perhaps we had better for
such pleasure," she adde.
voice. As . response from
the bed she concluded, the occupant hai
fallen asleo'p. Going to the windor
she parteog' Jho curtains and gave th<
shade an upward push, which sent it t<
the top with a whack, much to he]
astonishment, and thereby letting in r
flood of radiant sunshine. She lookei
very lovely as she stood there, hei
slander figure enveloped in the sunnj
glow. Her red-brown hair had beor
coiled on the very top of her head, ani
the bangs had been deftly parted ani
brushed back at the sides-the whol
la ing classic grace to the small
well poised head. She was not think
ing of.her personal ap)pearanco as she
a oo&there, nor of the fine sunrise at
which she scoemed to be gazing.
"Oh, if ho should find out," she
thounght, "it would spoil all. Only
few more days and there would be n<
secrets between us." So, stepping upon
a chair and stretching her arm to ite
greatest possible length, she graspell
the cord auty drowv the shade gently
down, and, closing the curtains, she
softly left the room. Left thus alone
"to 'sleep), perchance to dream," Mr.
Frederic Mcintosh turned him upon his
uneasy pillowv and sought rep)oso. With
a slam of the blind lie shut out the
amorous sunbeams that had lain so 1ov
iDgly upon Bessie's fae, as if tc
lighten and brighten her troubled sleep.
Cousin Charles had been a rejected
suItor of Bessie's, so he had believed,
Uppn the basis of consanguinity; yet he
anot positive of tilis. Heo had goe
#ff to Dakota to growv up with the
~untry, they said. .Uwice in one week
casie had dreamed of him 'and had
been unusually excited each time.
bosh I What nonsense. Yet it was
father queem . they had never
ceard from hiu. Comie to think about
~, Bessie had met some people fron
9akota at Waukesha. Could it lie she
lad heard from him, was corresponding
With him, and was keeping the guilty
secret? He remembered nowv that one(
9vening ho came home unexpectedly
SUnd found her in her dressing-roomr
writing, and she had hastily hidden th(
sheet at his approach and thought be
had not noticed. Phew! What's in a
dream I Never was one yet worth the
acriflco of a nap after sunrise. And
us he tried to throw the subject from
ind or to account for it all in ai
able and legitimate manner. But
purpose. The imp of dark
dancing jigs in the chambers
- . Sleep had forsaken the
at quiet room, which was
'by an ogre from dream
dh 'vain efforts to court the
ini determined to arise
Col
held Ws nothing. if not
bold .the water to the
th)e 'adding from a
toed near on a
A A ot water, and
ha'6m last ob
havr se and pro.
.eer. for he
trahizini f
will cound L
thme t,rcatm
dyr'pepsia ai (~
"symphony in black and white," knowi
, an Cousin Chawles, and done by
Bessie's own hand. This fortunatel3
missed fire, but a tiny vaso containing
one or two red blossoms, which had
s been left upon a small writing table
e directly under the picture, received th<
full foi}e of the discharge, and fell in
fragments upon the carpet. Stooping
i to remove the effect of his bad u#rks
b manship his eye caught the upturned
basket, and what does he find theroi
Numerous bits of torn and crumpled
x paper, which revealed the address, Mr
I Charles Barron; an envelope contain
ing a part of the address, as the writer
had not been uleased with her hand
ant lact tried again. Then a lettel
head commencing, "Dear Cousin Char
a ly." Searching carefully through the
basket he found no other trace of Bes
sic's guilt, and folding these up in a
small package he put them safely in
? his pocket. Ho finished his toilet care
I fully and sat down by the window tc
think it all out. He was quickly inter
rupted by a rustle of starched muslin
and the quick patter of slippered feet,
and Bessie came into the room in a
state of wild excitement.
"Oh, Fred, there is a messenger al
the door. A messenger. I saw him
coming. It must b from Chawly. My
dream, my dream," and down wont th,
tearful face into the depths of a pillow.
"If it is a messenger of death from
him let us admit him with open arms,
said Fred. t
"Oh, how awfully cruel you are. I
Chawly. would never be so cruel tc
you. I think you really wish he was
dead," and her tears were quickly dried
in the sudden heat of passion. She
looked at him with amazement. Then ]
he took the small package containing
the proof of her perfidy, and, rising
- up in his indignation, stood confronting
Sher-:
"These small bits of paper tell all I
want to know of you. It seems thai
though cousins may not marry, therI
is no reason why they may not keep up
clandestine correspondence, dream of
each' other, and perhaps exchange 1
visits."
"A telegram." said Judith, throngb
the hmalf-opon do.or. Bessie sprang foi ]
for it, and, tearing opc: the envelope,
read aloud:
HunoN, D. T., Aug. -, 1883.-I was mar
ried this 12 in. Congrats will be received. t
t CHARLES BA RRON.
"Oh, I am so glad," cried Bessie; and
R she dar.,;ed all over the room and
3 laughed and cried alternately.
r "How that horrid dream did frighten
i me. It's safely over at last, but I won
1 dor why they hastened the day. But f
you don't know anything about it Fred. 1
- and now I must tell you the jolliest i
s secret. You know I met some ladies at
Waukesha who had been to Dakota
Mrs. Kimball and her two daughters. 1
. Well, I found they were acquainted
3 with Chawly, and it came out thai
Chawly and M1is Lois woro engaged,
f and we had such a nice time about it.
1 Well, as they were to be married on
1 keep it for one of the surprises on that
day. But it was awful hard to keep.
I Now that you know it, you must help
r me write the letter of congratulation. I
3 have been trying, but nothing I can
) think of pleases me. What's the mat
r ter, Fred, you look so queer ?"
L "That's the bell. Let us go down to
I breakfast," was all the conscience
r stricken man could say.
Clean and h appy E)utch People.
[Holland Cor. St. Louis Republican.]
The truthful record cannot say much ]
for the taste of,the Dutch in their do
mestie arcllitecture. The houses are c
lofty and irregular, without lines of i
beauty or advantages usually of I ca-i
tion. They are very clean and are whlito
with paint. Tile furnishing is grim and
uncozy, b)ut it is pro en!inently whole- i
some. The flower gard0zna are-models
of neatness, if fosuuroloss as to arrange
ment. Tho cleanliness of the people isi
not only p)roverbial but is pursued to an I
excess that amounts almost to a mania.
One may rest assured of clean linen in
Holland. The houses are wvashed in
wside anid out. '.Uho chickons ar-o washed,
thegoas,cows, oxen, nmules and 2
hores rowashed. Everything is
scoured religiously. Vermin are consid-<
ered a disgrace. A Dutch housewife on1
discovering a cobweb, wvill net only
remiove it, but will scour and scald the I
place where she found it and will insti- I
tuto a hunt for the spider which is not I
remitted until she has the inseot's f
corpse under tIhe dust. Thme houses I
have big gilt letter-s upon their facades 3
to express the sentiment of their own.- 1
er-s. They are all expressive of content C
and full of kernels of phlilosophy of life. 1
"Lust en Rust" indicates the pleasure
and repose of the owner, "Mijn Genoc
jon" shows his entire satisfaction, "Mijn
Lust en Loven" indicates that tile home ,
ihis pleasure and life, "Bunilen Zorg" e
discloses that tile owner is without care J
andi "Vrengdo bij Vrce" shows that he i
has joy with his place. Some have 1
longer titles with fuller sentiments.
The whole tone of the country life I
leaves thmo impression that thme people I
enjoy this life.
Ilowie Knives.
[New York Suni.]
"Is tIhe present bowie knife the same 3
shape as tihe earlier onoe?"
"There is niot much variation in the t
shape of tihe real bowie. Many persons
call almost any broad bladed hunting '
knifo a bowie knife. Tho real bowio I
knife has a 'clip' point. There is a
knife which has a spear point, and
which is similar to the bowie knife in
every other respect. Nine p)eopl out
of ten wvill toll you that it is a bowie
knife. Formerly bowie knives had
blades froem ten to fifteen inches in
length, and were two inches broad, and
prop)ortionateiy thick. No'v tihe blades
are often made as short as the inches, c
and rarely are longe- than twelve
inches. A five-inch bowie blade is one
inch wide and a quarter of an inch
thick. Tile bowie knife has a singleo
edge. The point is sharp, and strong. r
Tihe 'clip' extends about one-thiirdl the
length of the blade, and gives the knife
a wicked apearance."
w ia iff ai woman 1r called "curios- C
it " in a man is grandiloquentl mag
n ed into the "spirit of innry.
George Washington weighed 209 t
ds at the close of the revolUuin
wrar.
3ECOND-HAND SCHOOL BOOKS.
healers Who ell to Nevw Genera
tions the Books That Others Have
Used.
- Now York Sun.]
"The traclo in second-hand school
3ooks, through a r,gont industry," said
t dealer, "lias grown int4 considerable
roportions, and to-day thero is not an
mportant city or village in the country
vhich has not its dealer in second
land school books. Hero is my last
atalogue and prico-list, which will give
rou some idea of the magnitude of tho
)nsiness."
The catalogue contained a list of
noro than thirty thousand text-books,
nostly standard works, all listed at
Ibout one-half publisher's prices.
"Where do you got your books?" the
reporter asked.
"There are many sources. Publish
:rs frequently introduce their books
nto schools by taking the text-books,
ilready in use and allowing something
or them. We could formerly get theso
)ooks for a little advance on paper
lealers' prices, but many publishers
iow guard against this by having chop
)ing-blocks and cleavers in their estab
lishments and chopping each book in
wo crosswise. There is no way
n which such a book can be made
alable. The old plan of tearing off
overs was no safeguard, since we can
ecover school books of medium size for
welvo cents per hundred. We got a
reat many books, most of which are
mused, from teachers in district
;chools, to whom they are mailed by
le publishers. But of course a ma
ority of the books come from the
upils themselves, who are glad to part
ith them, an ild school book having
io value to most of them. Then we
et an immense number from the smaller
lealers in other parts of the coun
,ry. Our larger New York houses
iave men constantly out for that pur
)ose. It may be that a second-hand
baler in Omaha will be the man to
supply me with the particular text
,ooks I need to complete my stock.
Publishers try to moot our competition
2y constantly changing their editions.
But these changes react ag4in, both
eachers and pupils in many schools
eing opposed to the changes and ad
iering to the old editions. The only
ext-book, which is not much changed
vith each new edition is 'Webster's
3pelling-book,'of which a million copies
year are published, and which has
een changed in no important respect
mco it was first published in 1800.
k ou can buy one of the latest edition
or 5 cents, but one of the first would
)o worth more than $5. Five years is
he average life of a school book.
fter that time the editions have so
nuch changed that the book is value
ess.
Rules for Riding.
(Bob Burdetteo
In mounting, r a the near side of
he horse, The near side io the sido
iearest yourself. If you stand on the
igilL sale of the horse, which is the
vrong side, when you mount you will
ace the crupper. Then everybody Will
:now your name is Johan Gotlieb Erni
igelfolger. If you cannot mount from
hq ground, lead the horse to the fence,
limb upon it, say "whoa" two or
bree times. and jump over the horse's
ars. You will light somewhere on his
icck, and you will have plenty of time
o adjust yourself while the horse is
-unning away.
Another method of mounting, largely
)racticed by young gentlemen from tho
ity, is to balance yourself on one foot
m the fonco, and point the other leg at
he horse, in the general direction of
,he saddle, saying ''whoa" all the time.
L'he horse, after this gesture has been
'opeated a few times, backs awvay, pulls1
he alleged rider off the fence, and
~t a rapid gallop. This gives the rider,
ni about ten minutes, all the exercise
ic wants for a week. If by some mira
be you manage to get into the saddle,
xold on with both hands and say "whoa."
L'ho sater the horse goes the tighter
'ou must hold on, and the louder you
must "holler."
If you are from New York or Phila
lolphia, you will shorten the stirrups:
mntil your knees are on a level with
'our chin. Then as you ride you willj
ise to your feet and stand in the atti-|
ude of a man peering over a fence to
ook for his dog, and then suddenly
all in the saddle like a man who has
top)pedl on a banana peel. Tih,is is the
English school. It is hard on the horse
mut is considered- very graceful. A man
an not wear false tooth, however, and
ide ii this manner.
Dlismarck's Nuperstition.
[Chicago Herald.]
Many distinguished persons in all
gee have suffered from the influences of
uperstition. Of living men, Prince
hismarck is cited as an examp)le of its
orce. Hie will never commence an
tndertaking on Friday, nor sign any
mnportant document on that day. IHa
iesitated to aceplt the title of count
Iccause there had been great mort'ality
mong the counts in Pomerania. He is
aid to have p)redicted the month, the
lay.and even the hour of hisowvn death.
Io is very greatly interestod in astrol
gy, and has been known to commend
hose whlo get their hair cut at the
rano of the moon, although, as this is
very common German sup)erstition,
o0 is scarcely answei'able for it.
A..Crlons F~lower.
[Chicago Hleraldl.J
D. M.. Taylor, of Indianapolis, lhas
ucceeded, after fiteen years' constant
fort, in p)roducing a bloum on the
)am peril or Australia glory pea, a
rent curiosity in the horticultural
ingdom. The flower is of striking
enauty, the petals forming an outline
f the human face surmounted by a
elmet. The leaves of the plant fold
p at night like those of the sensitive
lant. It grows in dry sand; the least
toisturo applied to either leaves or
oot being fatal.
Worse and Worse.
The Boston Globe thinks it time to
all a halt on the An glomaniacs who
o substituting English terms for the ]
nmerican ntames used to designate
huited S9tates money. It is bad enough<
a hear a nickle called a "tuppeneeha
oenny," but when it comtes t.> calling a I
5 note "a pun," it's enough to make
se esarle *tretoh his ak and naaat
True Dramatic Art.
[Labouchero in London Truth.j
Art consists in concealing art. N
groat actor or actress that over live
was really natural, a1 thoueh ma
have pretended that they were. If
girl on a stage approaches a precipit
of cardboard, over which sho is to 1
hurled on to a concealed feather bet
she may portray the emotion of fea
but she c-mnot really fool it. If sho
imploring some one to save her li1
with whom she knows that she will 1
gossiping five minutes later, she ca
not herself imagino that her life is i
danger. In both cases she must simi
late, and she is a good or bad actre
in proportion as she does this effec
ively. Tragic intensity isnothing moi
than the perfection of art.
I remember once being bohind til
scenes in a theatre while Rachel wi
thrilling an audience before the curtai:
When she caie off she was perfect]
cool and collected. I asked her wheth<
she really had felt what she had bec
portraying. Her reply was to paroi
the scene. That Miss Anderson inigl
with advantage throw a little more i:
tensity into some of her scenes is tru
but to expect her really to believe th
she is in the power of a savage, or th
her father is about to be enslaved,
simply to ask her to be a fool.
"Thme 'sensibility' that TaLna sa
is the basis of true acting is nothir
more than a nervous organizati<
which enables its possessor
simulate sensibility at will. Talma w
supposed to excel himself by the w
in which ho pronounced the words 'l
might have died.' Now, evidently,
had studied how to say them, and h(
to look when ho did say them; and
certainly never imagined that he w
actually the stern father in who
mouth the words are placed; if lie h
lio probably would have uttered the
most ineffectively. Full allowance mn
be made on the stage for what may
called 'stage perspective.' Nothing
more erroneous than to suppose th
'natural' acting is natural. An arti
doing precisely on the stage what in
like situotion would be done off'it won
look\; ridiculous, except in 'tea ci
comedy.'"
The Wonders of the Baby Oyster.
[New York Journal.]
Prof. H. J. Rico, employed to atter
to experiments in fish-hatching, sai
addressing a reporter: "I will sho
you the proboscis of an oyster, som
thing rarely seen except by scientis
experimentimg like myself. You st
in this little bowl of water somethin
that looks like a piece of thin seal
with a fragment of substance to it, a
the size of a lady's finger-nail; wel
that's an infant oyster, about a .,4lnt
old. I will now place it under the in
eroscopo, and you will then discover tb
proboscis."
In a moment the professor had ai
iusted the lens, and the reporter lookei
He at once arew back tu nurror, rn
grasped for the table. The professc
smiled. Through the tubes of the m
eroscope the reporter gazed again, int
a wide sea, wherein lay a hideous moi
ster, and from its indescribable hod
there rose a great serpentine coil whic
swayed hither and thither as if searc
ing for a victim.
"We aro not certain of the functior
of the proboscis yet, but think tha
like an elephant's trunk, it is made nE
of to catch and pass the food to tli
mouth. When the oyster is five mont
old it loses its proboscis; that is, it
absorbed and becomes part of the lips.
"I have counted the pulsations of tli
heart," said the professor, "and it ra
fromn thirty-five to fifty a minute; the
of a full-grown oyster does not beat
fast. I will now showv you its tentaclea.
Again the lens was adjusted and th]
imonster examuince4 ai from itms de
stretced away out into the sea wecm
number of long arms, but withiou
hands or fingers, and the monster kel
stretching them out and pulling them
Thme Chinese in Ore gor.
[Portland Cor. B3altimnoro Aniorican.]
We all made another visit ,mong tIh
Chinese quarters, and found that tha
Villard party had almc A depleted thiei:
stock of curios, leaving for us a lot o
dried meats, fish, and such uninvitinj
and unsavory things. l1hce Chirmesi
shops are to me great curiosities, as ar
tIhe Chinamen who conduet them. Yo;
often see the finest of Ch inese goods
like silks and crepes and a $enor-al as
sortment of the costliest arteles, mifxe(
iul with a butcher shop and vegetambh
store. When01 you go in to amy you art
at once surrounded by ten or a dozm
of the Celestials, who chatt(c like mag.
p)ies, ,and seem to be enga;td in con
nultation as to wh'lo you are, 5i; wvhe1 he:
they will allowv you to p)ur<haso theiu
goods or not. When a bargain h
struckc they all seem to b< delighted,
and a p)euliarly child-like fnd bland(
expr1ession covers their idi tic-lookinn
faces that resembles a stm1 ak of suni
shine over the Snake river 4 A inswvorth
station. Themy areo very hmomlest in theiu
dealings, and one Chinamnan ran sib
squares to give me a bundle I had left
behind. _______
Taxing BachtlIors.
[Cincinnati Enqhirer.]
Thme colonists in America were not
slow in adlopting measures of taxing
bachelors, for in 1695 the local authaori
Lies of Eastham, in Massachus@tts
votedl that every unimarried man inthd
township should kill six blackbird( or
three crows yearly while lie remiaiaed
ningle, and that as a penalty for iot
:>boymng thme order hie should1 not et
mnarried until lie had dostroyed o~
requisite number- in area. In 1850(
~ho assembly of Maryland laid a tIx
>f 5 shillings a year upon all bachiolors
ibove 25 years of age who were pp
lessed of $500, and of 20 shillings a
rear upon all bacheclor-s .and widoweb
nithout children who were above tht
ago andl possessed of $1,500.
The 4Great Beauty of It.
[Chicago Tribune.]
There is a story told of the lat
?rof. Henry Smith that when ox plaimt
ng some nowv discovery in the theory
>f numbers to his Oxford p)upil s he
4ded the remark: "And the great
>eauty of the thing is that it cannot
ossibly bo of the slightest practical
wse to anybow1y."
A MARYLAND E8TATE.
Slow the NegroeN Wero Proviled for
--Their %viowauce of Food and
r;lothing.
: Fred ))ouglass, in his autobiography,
thus dseribes the managoniont of a
Maryland estate, in the times of slavery :
j "Th men and tho women slaves on
r Col. Lloyd's farm received as their
monthly allowance of food eight pounds
of pickled pork or their equivalent in
ffish. The pork was often tainted and
rthe fish was of the poorest quality
u herrings-which would bring very little
if offered for sale at any northern
market. With their pork or fish they
t, had one bushel of Indian meal, unbolted,
, of which about 15 per cent. was fit only
to feed pigs. With this one
i pound of salt was given, and this was
the entire monthly allowance of a full
11 grown slave, working constantly in the
p open field from morning till night
every day in the month except Sunday,
e and living on a fraction more than a
quarter of a pound of meat per day and
1 less than a peck of corn meal per week.
1 The yearly allowance of clothing con
o sisted of two tow-linen shirts, such as
n! the coarest crash towels are made of;
at two pairs of trousers, one for summer
i; and one for winter; one winter jacket,
I one pair of yarn stockings, and only
one pair of shoes. Tho slave's entire
g apparel could not have cost more than
) $8 a year.
tc "The little boys and girls were nearly
as all in a state of perfect nudity. A
coarse blanket, such as cover horses,
1E was their only bed. The little children
l1 stuck themselves in holes and corners
i about the quarters, often in the corner
lI :if the hugo chimneys, with their feet in
am the ashes to keep them warm. More
se slaves were whipped for oversleeping
na than for any other fault. Neithcr ago
q nor sex found any favor. ''ho overseer
. stood at the quarter-door armed with the
bie stick and cowskin, ready to whip any who
was a few minutes behind time. Young
al mothers who worked in the field
s were compelled to take their children
with them, and to leave them in the
ld corner of the fence to prevent loss of
time in nursing them. But in the great
house of Col. Lloyd the table groaned
under the heavy and blood-bought
luxuries, gathered with painstakin
care at home and abroad. Fields ,- for
d ests,. rivers and seas were made tribu
d tary there. Fifteen servants waited on
Ns the groaning table, some armed with
e- fans to cool the heated brows of the
t, alabaster ladies there. Splendid
rc coaches were in the stable, besido gigs,
g phmotons, barouches, sulkies at s".:,',
3. silver-mounted bn.- "ar pnu-hirty-fivo
Il fine horsoe "
- A lanker's Family Traveling Coach.
[Chicago Timos.]
A coach in which a banker of Penn
sylvania is travoling with his family is
described as follows: The outside has
seats for three in front'and two back;
d two large lamps are on each side of the
front seat, and one large headlight is
on the dashboard. Hero also are a
clock, an ax, a knife, a pistol and other
things. On the left side of the coach,
near the box, is a private locker con
taining viands. On top is a large
willow trunk, immediately back of
which the +ont, camp chairs and
blankets ardtored. Undsr the back
t step is a plsco for.another largo willow
trunk, haging behind which is a step
ladder t( Oe used by ladies when taking
seats the outside of the coach. In
side tl boot all kinds of cooking uten
sils o packed. On the side of the
coat i are willow eases for canes, um1
br,las, fishing rods and guns. Inside
c .ct o roy seats facing each other,
acconmmodating six persons. In the
cnshions of the doors are map pockets,
and on the cushioned wvalls hang a ther
Imometer, a barometer, a compass, a
clock, night hamp and match hox, and
near the top) are racks filled with note
paperC and envelopes. The vehice
weighs only 1,370 p)ounds, a4 the reins
arc handled by the ownner, who generally
makes f om twventy-five to forty miles
dlaily. Tfhe party go into campl at 12
o'clock. The horses are then picketed
and the camp) lire is kinctiec.
'[Cor. London Gilobo.]
iAppearances are certainly not in fa
vor of the view that there is any seri
ous lack of discipline in the middle and
elementary schools of the empire. T1'
1 judlge by the regulations, thme gvmna
, iun, for instance, is quite a model ol
- sticieness and p)ropriety. T1heo scholar
is kept in ordler by rules from the very
outset of his educational career in one
of these establishments. There arc.
rules regulating his attendance at
church and his behavior during dlivinc
services; rules showing him when lhe is
to have holidays and1 when to return.
from them; imdler what pr-etexts lhe may
forsako his eIL . :st> with what dlili
Igonce ho n.E ' ake up for time lost
(luring ilh;..; rules fixing his behav
ior to his teacher inl and out of school
hours; and a variety of other rules ini
Iculcating p)olitoness, honesty, truth.
early rising, etc.
Relaxation must 1)0 .indulgcd in care
fall,y; amusement he cannot have at all
if it can only take the foi-m of
''theatrical reprIesentations harm fulI tc
the moral sentiments." Masquer-ades
lie must not visit, nor must lie enter- the
wine cellar, thme coffee tavern, or the
confectioner's shop. He is held te
cleanliness of p)ersonl and forbidmden tc
smoke tob)acco or- drink spir-its. Long
hair is an abomination 'with the school
authorities, and if the pupil has un-i
wittingly encour-aged the grotth c f a
beard, ,hmo can only hope to escape
punishment hby a timely visit to thme
barber's shop. Ornament of all kinds.
in fact, is forbidden, and so into thee
same category with the "unnecessary'
beard are thmrust the unnecessary ring,
walking-stick, and eyeglass. Saluting
the emperor when met in the street is (
provided for by a very strict regula-r
tioe, the observance of which has fallen
into desuetudo of late years rather
owving to want of opportunity thanm lack
of will.
Of course thme scholar has a uniform.
military itica howv to shoot, and it gives
material assistance to the polico, who I
Iare empowered to enforce the regula-I
tions prohibiting the visits of students
\to masquerade balls, wine cellars, and
1other objootionable places of rcaort .
Deserted Faras in Vermont.
[Rutland (Vt.) H[erald.]
Vermont fairs show better butter and o
Iheese, better cattle and sheep, than
lihey did fortv years ago, but the farm
ers' teamis do not stand for as good
horse stock as they did then; thero are
rower farms we suspect in Vermont;
thoro are as many deserted farms and
dlecayed towvns in southern Vermont LI
to-day as there ever wvere in our his- T
tory; at least that is the testimony
given us by a very intelligent farm- Ti
brcd lawyer who has rocently person-H
divy visited the towns that touch eitherH
side of the Green mountains, from the
Massachusetts line to Addison county.
In Stratton, where Webster, ini 1840,
addressed the great Whig mass-meet- ~
img, the farm house whe Webster
spent the night is a ruin and the farm
deserted. In the woodland you meet.
the ruins of the old four-foot stono 10
wall; in Somerset yeu find in the forest ti
stone walls and the remains of an old gi
highway; the decaying abutments 'of a
former b)ridge across tho stream are all i
that remain of the civilization that was
on.co represented by a church., a grist gi
mill and a country store. 11
Tholi woodland~ has so eneroached ai
upon these deserted farms that our W
friend is confident there is more wood- P
land to-day in the mountain towns of fc
Vermont than there has been at any h
time (huring the last forty years. in W
the old counties of Bennington, Wind- di
ham, Windsor, and Rutland our in
formant found, ho assures us, plenty of si
evidence of deserted farins and decay- sl
img towns along either side of the at
mountain range, and these deserted f
farms are not being reoccupied by any ei
returning wanderer, although most of
these towvns are places of much nattLral"
beauty tnd attractiveness. Among"
these towns are Rcadsboro, Somerset, tI
Scarsburg, Sunderland, Wnrdsboro, hi
yamaica, Peru, Lanagrove, Weston, ti
Plymouth, Shaftsbury, Windhall, and k
several mountain towns in~ nutlnd1
county. Our friend thinks that towns"
touching the mountains on either side e.
have beeni permanently deserted. 0
The future of Vermont, if she is to h
increase henceforth largely in wealth b
and p)opul ation, lies in manufactures, a
not enlarged agriculture, and this is C
true, not only of Vermont, but of all it
New England. If the railroads would l(
only give manufacturers a fair chance 0
to live, they would increase and multi- 0
p)ly. The growth of Rutland, of Bel- 5]
lows Falls anid of the other -A"'" inl { .
Vermont that show -' .neLgo mercasIe in ti
wealth a popul ation, is due to tho I
aecvelopment and growth of muanufac- ti
tures. There is water p)ower enough 1
wasted mi Vermiont that, if utilizedl in tI
manufactures, would add a fourth ti; a
our population and wealth in twenty a'
years. But, unt.il t.he rairoans stopi i
rubbing out the manufacture:r with 01
their exorbitant freights, the streams til
will 1>0 vexied b)y no0 new wvater-wheels wv
nor the sky dimmed by any new and ai
strange smokes. di
We presume that deserted farins are St
not so common in the northern half of et
Vermont as in the southern part, b)ut of
an excellent lawyer of Chittenden di
county', who has a very l'u'o rarmner sI
5Ie-uitanKtIce, informns us that hope
lessly mortgaged farms in his county
and section of the state are very comn
mnon, and the number of such mo(rt,
gaged farms is something of a clue to
the severity of the average farmer'sa
fight for a competence in Vermont. Ci
A Idfe-Long I)eba:uch71. a
"No, I'mu obliged to you, I don't a~
drink," v&. lied Judge (ib'bons, of Laun
caster, in. 'ho bar-room of the Girard1
huou.se. "I am (13 years old and hav'e tii
never used tobacco in any form, neoverI
have tasted malt or spirituous liquors,
never have beeni at a horse race or o
attended a circus or a. theatre."
"Yours has been ani exemplary life, b
judge," replhied The Tfimies man.
"Well, I don't knowv that it has," oi*
continued the judge, sadlhy. "I am, ,
1ftor all, no better than other men ; for th
thue p)ast forty-eight years I have beent
tho abject slave to one ungovernable
ippetito. This indulgence has gained .
iuch absolute control of me that I can
not exist four or five hours without t
rratifying it. I resolve and re-re- m1
solvo to break it off, but I am weak
very weak-and finally yield. I can "1
riot go half a (lay without it. No, I<
lar-en't travel wvhore I can't obtain it. fri
I[t is killing me. Twenty years ago I
weighed 220 pounds. Nowv I weigh ~
120. It is destroying my life, slowly ha
'ut surely. I shall (lie of it."d
"What form does this deadly dissipa-di
ion takeo?" asked the reporter, in "
niazement, prepared for an appalling
3on fession. wa
"Mush and milk," was tihe solemn tia
and humiliating rejoinder. thm
Tnoe Tragenl1es or the Nest. toi
[John Blurroughs in Thle C'entury
Time song birds nearly all build low;
heir cradle is not upon tho tree to1).
t is only birds of pr'ey that fear dan- ii
~er from belowv more than from ab)ovo of
hat seek the higher branches for their WI:
uests. A line five feet from the gr-ound at
vould run ab)ovo more than half thio th<i
esats, and one ten feet would b)ound to
nero than three-fourths of them. It is j Th
nly tile oriole and the woodl pewee | w
lhnt, as a rule, go higher than this. I T
[h crows and jays and other enemies e
f the birds have learned to explor-o l
his b)elt pretty thoioughly. But the
eaves and protective coloring of most
csts baffle them as effectually, no
louibt, as thley do the p)rofessional o
ologist. ______f___h
Their P'etting PrAoiinsIties. tei
The New York Journal has been is tal)
ertaining the petting propensities of ai Inl
umber of leatTing actresses, from ar<
rhich it is learned that Mrs. McKee lau
Ian kin's favorite is a Mexican dog, Ada nie
lilman's a squirrel, Agnes Elliott's a
nonkoy, Mine. Ponisi's a cat called
i[ethiusalem, Agnes Booth's a parrot,
klma Stuart Stanley's a. dog, given to
ier in California; Ad a Dyas cultivates
vhito mico, Rose Coghlan divides hmer pr
Lifction between a pug and a Skye fC
errier, Fanny Davenport keeps fish in
em aquarin-m, Alice Harrio inclines o
o numerous dogs, Ettio Henderson e
lotes on ponltry, Mary Anderson has a of
afssion for flowers and eurious shrubw,
m.d Saralt Jewett has no pot but her
(yatnes Loglo Roberta6dne
fair is life, as foam bells on the wi ,x
fot frail as fair, as fragile as
A little while to flourish and look
A a long while to molder in the gr ' *
a beaut born of. flesh what, w
save?
['be lion's eyo tho leopard's glossy fell
['he visionary grace of the gazelle, --
to at Itlovollet-graceful, brilliant, bravet
o land has bubbles as the water has, -
t.nd those are of them. Comes the mnadl
hour,
Loy lighten in the sun; obnes fate, they pai
Aftor a little, little lease 61 wer
xxllessly o'er them runs theeble graslt~
And all their monument's ah len flowe.
THE MAJOR'8 8N E.
ow a Famous "Three-Timei" hre"0"
Averted a Military Disast
(Inter Ocean "Curbstone Crayons.
Tho sneeze was one of the old
nod whoopeo-oo-whoop, three-t'
ree order, and as the stalwart strange
Lve himself up to the performanod
ry much as a frisky horso would let 4,
msolf loose in a kicking exploit,
o hackmon and the people asnorally
,therod about in smiling enoburago
ont. As the sneezer righted"hii3olf
'ter the storm, and was wiping his fab
ith his handkerchief. I was eur' .
-ised to see my friend, the captain, step
rward with eager spryness, and hear
in shout, with the joyfulness of a man
lio had made a discovery, "Why, how
you do, major 1"
The two men clutched each other and
ook each other by the hands and the
toulders, and finally made me under
and that they hadn't seen one another
r nineteen years. The major had
anged greatly, and he asked, in be
ilderment, how th,o capamoa know him.
By your snooze,"' was the answer.
l'hero is no other sneceze like that in
us country, you know. And when I
ard it ring out, I remembered that
mo at Guyandotto, you know, and I
2ow Major Mitchell wan before me."
Then turning to me the captain said:
Tlhat was our first scouting expedition
irly in the war. We landed in the
ening to look up some guerrillas who
ad made a dash that day to the steam
Dat landing. The regiment divided,
id tho men went scampering over the
)untry in gleeful recklessness. Soon
became very dark,nnd both battalions
ist their way. Moving forward in line,
ic battalion came suddenly on a body
troops formed to receivo thoni, with
,ir *rs out. Ncither officers nor
en wore clear as to what the regula
Lns called for in such a case, and thoro
as a hurried, excited conference. The
oops might be our own men, but they
norod every cnallengo, and we know
at they, like ourselves, were ready to
e. There was a minute of terrible
sponse, everybody excited, everybody
doubt. Then suddenly there rang
t from the ghostly line in the distance
o major's double-shotted sneeze. It
as like the ringing of a joyful knoll,
id in our relief both battalions fairly
Lnced as roar after roar of laughter
Lceeded the sneeze. It was a narrow
cape from a mistake too common then,
one Union regiment ren <Li muur
rous 'o su another. The major's
cozo saved us, don't you. see?"
Webster's Mpelling-Iook.
[Magazine of American History.]
Although the Webster Spelling-Book
not so common in the New England
id middle states as it was thirty years
o, and in many places has entirely
sappeared, the trade in it does not
>ate. As.long ago as 1847 the claim
the cover was "one million copies
e annually sold," and precisely the
me claim is mado by its publishers
-day. But thme great bulk of the edi
>n nowv, I think, goes to the south and
~st. Trho aggregdfted-sales from the
ginninge of its publication down to
to, amount to the astonishing number
75,000,000 million copies.
The hundredth bitliy:car of a school
ok, still in successful life, is not an
dinary affair. But this year the
ends of Webstor's Spelling-Book can
lebrate that anniversary. Few among
oso that are nowv happening are more
>rthy of honor.
liut wvhat p)leasant memories remai
th those who.long ago studied Web
~r's Spelling-Book i Thelvery pages
their precise form are pictured for
onl indolliblo tablets. It was a great
umph when the youngstudent'got to
aker," for it wvas the first step awvay
>m monosyllables. But ,it seemed -
o a long road to him befcro ho would
t to ''immateriality" and "incompre
usibility." Howv or when-hoe was to
it seemed incomprehensible enough
mn. Those who, in boginning.to read,
Lcoveredl that "She fed the old lhen,"
nn can hem my cap," "Fire will burn
od andl coal," "A tiger will kill and
a man," and ether similar facts, little
)ught that in all after life nothing
3y might learn would ever seem so
tching and significant.
P'ueb)lo Tharashing WVIaeat.
[Cor. Inter Ocean.]
n one or two places the thrashing of
eat was goimg on by driving a band
horses around an inclosed ring into
ich thme wheat had been throwvn; and
other. places men wyore tossing over
grain and throwing it into the air,
let the wvind blow the chaff awvay.
is is thme only manner of thrashing
ich the Taos valley dwellers practice.
o process is slow, but time does not
~er imto thme calculation of those poo
Gfreat FatI ft ee Abroad.
[Domorest's Monthly.]
[n Paris the law forbids,the erection
houses more than five stories high
ot there are none of the eight ~
B tory build ings in the French c
,which are so numerousinNowYo
Eanglish cities those greatedf
( orbidden on the ground that
idi owner has a righmt to eKoluda
gbrfrom the light and air.
Legal Magneity.
[Detroit Free Lreus.3 -
"My son," said a Chios o faUh
vo just made my wig, an 1.
operty to you, wit Sm.I{$
Liter."
The smart you6h rpied~
"Then o1ham pit.
Ll,Qr if g'ot WaM