Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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She sin led a dreamny smile, and said: "The Thinghess of the Ilere Is that whichl is not past and hasn't yet ar 'ivea, iny dour; Indeed" tbe mail continued, with a calh, un ruflled brow, "The 'Thingnoss of the Horo is just Tnisness of tho Now." A smilo illumined the lover's face, then with. lout any hasto slid a manly arm around the maiden's waist, And on her cherry lips impressed a warm and loving kiss, And said: "Love, this is what I call the Now nose of the This." ONLY A GOVERNESS. Shewas only a governess in George Wilbraham's house. A pretty, lady like, quiet, little creature, whom his two motherless children dearly loved, and before long their father was in danger of following their example. Mrs. Vane saw that. She was a widow; handsome, poor, and with eyes that wero unusually keen for all that concerned the wealthy widower. For he was her cousin, and she had kept house for him since his wife's death with the -intention of ultimately consoling him for his bereavement. "That girl is dangerous,'' she thought. "She must be got rid of at once." More easily said than done, however. The children loved their gon~lo friend and play-follow, and their father made no secret of the pleasures her presence and sweet companionship afforded him. While as for Lily-though she was "only a governess"-it was plain that an unwonted sense of happiness made her blue eyes more bright and her smiles more frequent. Was it since Mr. Wilbraham returned? Well, yes everything was surely pleasantor under the master's sway. lIe was so good, so kind. And he, surely his life was lonely. She wondered how would he over And at that thought she stooped and kissed a red rosebud that she held, _a4, which he h ,d given, her. aTint instant a voice fell on her car "Mid a firm hand grasped her arm. ;-Do you kiss the flower for its own stdkoP" asked the voice, "or for tho g ver's?" 1Poor Lily started guiltily. "The-the giver, madam?" she falt ..area' "'I do not understand " "-Mr. Wilbraham gave you that rose. 1le !s my betrothed husband. I will never give him up. His fancy for you . can only result in your dishonor; for though you may steal his heart from .m0, you cannot win his hand. That is . engaged to me, and I will claim it." Lily, with white face and great, dilated eyes, now, suddenly, with one sharp cry of paui, icll down fainting at hier enemy's feet. ''Oh, madam, what must you think .,f me" she cried, with a burst of p'as -nato sorrow. ''Oh, I must, leave this "ilace! Oh, let me go at once!" il's all1 placc no costrlaint upon o ydear,'' she s:id. "'I sec that I can trust * ou honor.dsadtht i Mr'. vilb -aa1hdsadthth shouild not be "01mo that, nlighl( and the poor girl's one * liOt I.was to leave withoutt agi see'u him. So, when he rprain e '0 (10n1, she( stole diow n te a rdein to bi. the pla.ce where she had iir'u:amed such hlippy dI~Yreamlls a laist gooIl-b'a. It. was bu,'. 3 o'clock, As shie stood( near th rest bushes, brushing away the fast-coming tears, Mrs. Vane joined her hurriedly. ~l "Miss Doe"a," she said, "my co.,9 's returning. I saw him from my wVi 'dow slowly riding up thle lane. You must not moeethimn. You can sill) out by the back wvay as he enters at the front. Mmcan walk to the station-it is not lore thlan a mile." (It was more than two miles, but Mrs. Vane was not trammelled by any p)ainful reverence for the truthl.'l ''ere is your money, andI to-morrow I will send your trunk. ,Will you (do this, or"--with a look of inlsultinlg tuspicio-"w'ill you stay adtyandi steal from me my hus The young girl's fair faced flushed and she threw back her head with a proud gesture. "'You itnsult me, madam,'' she saidl, with diignity. "'I have shownVJ no in clination to do you wrong."' Th'len she hastened away. Little Annie was playitng by tho gardoen gate. She caught her in her arms anti kissed 1hcr. "tI3od-byo, little darling!" she criedI an'd tot her down again. Next miouto the gate swung to and the governess had gene. * * * * * * ''Without an explatnation!'" Mr. 'Wilbraham said. "I cannot under. stand it, Helen. Surely she told you whyP" "Something about a lovor,I believe," salid Mrs. Vane, Indiff'erently. "You know she was a very pretty girl and young." Mr. Wilbraham turnedi away with a clouded brow and sauntered into the garden. "I could have sworn she eared for tne," he muttered, "and all the while * he was engaged to some follow. Tils night I should have asked her to bo m~y 'ie. Curio such false coquettesh 'd ho stumbled against somothing on a .grass. "Hulloi what's thisP" Annie, his own little five-year-old A~nnie, seemingly quito broken-hearted and In tears, "Oh, pa,a," she sobbed, on sdoin , him, "she6a dorns. Miss Lily's dern.' fl6 took the little one into his arms an~d soothet her, Whyd di i Lily go, Annie?" "Abntle EXt1en~ did Scold her, papa, A'tause she thssod do little f'owor you o ar her', I heaakd he. And *ho Usus..4 Meantime Mrs. Vane, in her rival's empty room, was rejoicing over her departure. "The gaY3 is in my own hands now," ahe thought, "and I shall win the prize," The sound of a horse's hoofs under tho window startled her. She sprang to ascertain the cause, and foil back as if Aho had received a blow. Goorgo Wilbraham was riding away to t o station at full speed. "He suspects me-ho will find -hor and learn all," sho thought, and sat down conquered and despairing. The game was lost indeed. A letter from ) e couqin apprsed her, that he had found Lily in London, and there married her. Ho requested Mrs. Vano o. leave his houso bufo}o, k? bropght his young brido homo. She obeyed, too humbled and defeat ed to utter a complaint, and Lily camo back to be mistress and queen of the home whore she had once been "only a governess." To Young Men. Now that you ]htvo attained that age which brings with it the physical en durance and the mental powors of man hood, you will find that you are enter ing into the real battle of life. The past, with its memories of school days. tho petty trials of boyhood and the hon est dreanls and colored romances of youth, has been but play compared with the solid work before you. You will meet people whoso habits aro not your habits, whose views are not your views, and whoso opinions are not the opinions that you hitherto have in dulged. Some of these people will tell you that life is not so rosy and that its work is not so easy as you would wish. And yet, if the truth wore consulted, it is a fact that life is. taken altogether, a beautiful existence. l)o not, t'erefore, bring to the now work a heart lacking in the belief of the good and the truth; do not forget that the strongest mnus cles of your body, the best impulses of your soul, arc those which constitute a young and healthy ambition- and an in spiring hopefulness of the future. The only honest words that the old fogies utter are the reference to life's brevity. You will find, indeed; with the rest of us, that life is short. But that is no reason why we should not make the most of it, enjoy it, and be grateful for the bountiful privilego to which we owe the right of participa tion in the joys and sorrows of man kind. Put your best foot forward, and whether fortune frown or smile, mako the best of life. Those sour souls wlose days are gone and wasted will try to blacken the great picture of your fuhture;.but lot not your ardor b^ damp ened; leap into the sea and swim foi' ward with a strong, sure stroke. Sum monh to your work the best passions of your manhood, and recollect that the successful life is not the one that accu mulates vast wealth and possessions, but that which enjoys its possibilities as God and nature have endowed the man with power and equipment to do the work. We are all, each and overy one of us, cogs in the great wheel of life; each vocation fits into the other, and when one falls out another is ready to take the place of the missing one. It is only when we aspire to do too much, when we grow dissatisfied and want to be a whole wheel instead of a useful little cog, that our endeavors fall of the ef fort and we are relegated to tho idle shelf of uselessness or repair. To have bright hopes and to be satisfied with doing a little of the great work, this is the greatest honor for a young nian. Williamnsport Breakfa/st TaNe bc.' Thurman's Fish Story, Once upon a time, whien crowdIed about his p)residenltiall aspirations, Mr. Thurman rep)liOd: "1 really have no ambition in that direction." A look of incredulity on every face wvas the onily response. Th'ie Judge took ill thoese looks and related a little story. Said he: "One summiior I was at,the Oakland hous1o, Maryland, spending a little va.. cation up inl tile cool muountain region. We got to telling fishing stories. I re hatedt something of my own experience hoin I was present and saw caught a o sh weigigninety pud.When - ~I tile weighlt there was a general laugh, and I was hlumloroulsly awarded the prizu, for tellinlg fish stories. I qui otly remai -ked to my~ incredulous lis teners that hop>ed soon1 to convince thenm of the tr fithi of my story that in western wvaters .fhere were catfishl that weighed ninety 1,'oLlnds. Whoiln I re turned to ColumbuiO I Went to a leading restaurateur anld instYutiCod him topro ouro for 1mo tile largost, citfih hoe could possibly secure. I 'e rcp)ateod in a fowv days that lhe had1 onle. I a5flkOd over and found an excellenlt spechl'1n weigh ing seventy-live poundls. I L.'ad hun boxed and carefully p)ackediIl in h:, and shippedl him to my dlisbelieving frj'onds at Oakland. From the restauraten?v I got all tile rocllpes I couIld for oatfish' chlowder, catfish steak, stuil'ed catfish, roast, etc., and sent them on by mail. I telegraphed as follows: 'Skin your fish before you cook himn,' a catfish's skin being so rank as to spoil the flesh when cooked wyithi it 01n. Thiey got my telegram and were puzzled. Whena the box arrived, dripping from tile mel ted ice, they were more p)uzzled. The let ter, which arrived by theo same train as the fishl, exp)lainled all. T1hey hlad a fine feast, and it wvas formually organ ized withl a president and( secretary, and pas'sed the following resolution, wvhlich was sent me: "'Resolved, That the truth of Allen 0. Thurman's statemlents should11 never be questioned; that his fish stories aro always absolutely true, oseial his catfish stories.' "'-levelandt Press. The Emperor of Anam uses a largeo and deep pond of wvater as a safe for muoney and valuables. Tile moneily not intended for uso0 is p)laced1 ill ihe hollow ed out trflnks of trees,which are thrown into the ws.tor. To keep away tieves and prevent the King himself from bo0 tng temnp ted to draw upon the reserve fund without suffleent cause, ar number of crocodiles are kept in the water, thir presence and .thp certainty of be ing qaten alive acting as a wholesome restrainer and insuring the security of the royal treasure in a most ,offoctual manner. A WONDERFUL ISLAND. The Curiosities to Bo Seen on Queen Charlottes Island. Probably no other group in the wide world carries more curiositios, natural and artificial, than Queen Charlotte Island; few, I think, have as many In the same extentof country. The geol ogist, the mineralogist, the botanist, the artist, and the agriculturalist may each of them find a wido field for re search, while the antiquarian, the the ologist, and others of that ilk would be highly intorested. n their strango angd Nonidrful sea margins, in their not loss woz(dorful caverns, in which nature's mark in lng past.acs is-w;rittet} as plainly aa on the page of z book; in their rodks, whose volcanic contortions smito the 1 beholder with amazement; in their shells, which as fossils are found deep down in the seams of its anthracite coal, while near Cape Ball the same sort are found alive in the sands of the seashore; of theso the geologist can write volumes. In their quartz lodges, which have boon traced from shore to shore, in which gold is plainly visible in coal measures and other materials, a wide field may yet be found for the mineral ogist. 1 Tho various kinds of plants belong ing to these islands, the tiny flowors In I their natural beauty peeping out from behind the melting snow-drift on the lonely mountains, the modest lupins and the lusciouts strawberries, nature's oift to men, auil even the broad-loaved fiush grass--.11 these, as they follow In the wake of the receding waters of I Queen Charlotte's stormy seas, would 1 yield an ample store for the botanist. Among the snow-clad mountains, by the wild torrent and the gentle river, by the lights and shades reflected by their sunset hills in autumn's shorten ing days, a boundless range is ollored I for the pencil's magic skill, while the t broad acres of rich alluvial bottoms I and the unlimited extent of lands t whose nutritious grasses, waving in the breeze, would lead the farmer to s say: "Oh, if these lands were mine,and 1 my flocks and herds ranged over the plenty they afford!" To the antiquari an, the ethnologist, and other scien- } tists, the rich carvings on the columns, 1 and the quaint old legends they depict, 1 and the leiendary lore of the people, 1 would afford a va-t untrodden field. f To the phieatorial disciples of Izaak 1 Walton an unlimited amount of sport i is 4urnishIed by the streams. In them V they can find the silver sahnlon and the I dainty little trout of the mountain rill. 1 If tired of these and, wishing larger 8 sport, let the mn go to the greater depths C of~the ocean, down to where the stormy a depths of winter are never felt, to s where, deep in ocean's caves, he will c find a myriad throng of those denizens 0 of the deep-the black cod. c On these islands even the moralist rr will find something in his line. Let s' him seek tile deserted villages and lin- ti ger in their ruined halls and study the works now crumbling to ruin, left be- u hind by their ancient inhabitants. The tl tall, carved column, pointing heaven- t wards, with its mystical hieroglyphics 0 from bottom to top. Here is one whose hI elaborate carving bears the image of a man on top wearing a storiea head- P dress. It is three circles in height, and 1 each circle i.s twelve inches above tho g other. These circles show the ruins ti to have been the dwelling of a chief. b: Having reached the house let him de- 04 scend the half-rotten stair down into fr the body of the house among tile intru- h, sive elder bushes, and note what ho d' sees. Piled in one corner is a heap) of ill iront, the remlainis of 0one unifortunaiito il ship. What are those boxes, mildowedl tl a11( nd o,s cove red, 1piled in the co'rnorP ti T1hese are family boxes. Some held thle oil and others the food they used, while ot hers held their clothes. T1heso bie willI fin d, but where are tile people? Where arc the women whom Captain a Dixon writes of as fair, when they are a washed, as English milkmaids? Whore ire they or their desceendantsP Call P themii antd echio, through their deserted 0 allIs, in wailful, mournful numbers, II replies: "All are gone." Ask those b mortuary columns on every hand, and a the answer is still the same: "All are o gone." .Ask tile Indians who may be p along wvith you, and their answer is: e "All are dead." Look among the emp- c Ly bottles scatteredl in larwo numbers ii 111 over the floors of tiGe (desertedi b bouses, among the long grass, and to A Lhe boxes on posts amiong the green c aushes, and you wvill find the mummi- c ied remains of all that is left of the e seoplc. -Victoria (II. C.) Chronicle. Biroken or F~ractuired? "Is the bonio broken, or only frac Lured, doctor?" is an anxious question t ften asked apropos of an injured limb, BIroken andl fractured are synonymous terms in surgery, my dlear muadlam-it is always a lady who asks this-but I think I know what you mean. A fully :lovelopod bonio is partly cracked-- C nearly always It snaps In two pieces aut the soft cartilagoinous bones of 3hildron sometimes sustain what is lalled a "green-stick fracture," a name C whichl almost explains Itself, meaning ~ that the bone is broken through p art af Its thickness, but not sep)arato d, as 'iappens with the green bough of a troo. Many peopl)1 have a totally erro aoous Idea, when an arm or leg ist badly bruised only, that it would be I bettor if it were b)roken. "Right across the muscle, too!" implies that an in jury has been received across tho upper arm in tIle region of the biceps, that being the only ''musce''" which is lhon ared by general putblic recognition. [Low many 1)0op1)1 know that what " they call their flesh andl the lean part l of meat is nothing but muscle, the pulh- I Lys bywhiich every action of the body ia porformedP Common mistakes lie ' In trying to "walk off" rheumnatisiji h sprains, andi othler tihings wVhich shoul be kept entirely at rest, andl in squooz, ing collections of matter which have ~ burst or boon lanced with a view to ~ hasten their healing by the more speedy' emp)tying of their contents.-Chamnbers' A falrmer, Abraham Levanx by name, I af Blerks county, Pa., who was stone f blind for sixty years, ' led recently. In spite of his afilietion lie wans always able to do weoll overg kind of farm I work. even that of mowing the graus. Gathering Rubber in Brazil. Writing about the u:oduotion and 3xport of rubber in " Brazil, Consul lonoral Andrews says: "The rubber roo requires a growth of twenty to wenty-fivo years before it begins to yroduco, hence little or nothing has bon dono for its propagation. The milky sap which forms rubber is taken from the wild troe, which grows mcattered through the forests of the amazon and many of its afiluonts. The Industry, being principally in the liands of an uneducated and half-civil ized nomad population of Indian mixture, is of a crude character. Noth Ing has been done to Improve the system of labor. A wasteful and ox liaustivo system of labor has been fol lowed for half a century, and the cou sequenco is that nilllons of rubber tres have been destroyed and many thors abandoned from premature and 3xecssivo use. There are instances of groves of trees which, by careful use, mad by not permitting them to be tapped in the months of August and Septembor, in which they change their leaves, have been yielding for thirty years, and still are in good producing 3ondition; but the common practice is to wasteful that many well-informed icoplo apprehend that, unless som omedy is applied, this rich resource vill before long suffer a serious and erhaps fatal decline. "The rubber tree thrives only on soil vhich is annually overflowed to a lopth of three or more feet, and pro ers the lowest nad most recent river loposit. Tlio rubber gatherers are oemporary squatters, and their dwell ug is a but with low roof of palms, >oneath one end of which there is a aised floor or framework of lath, one >r two yards from the ground, to vhich the occupants retreat at high vater." The following description of the >rocess of gathering rubber was writ on by Mr. Franz Keller: "Narrow >aths lead from the gatherer's but brough dense underwood to each operate tree, and as soon as the dry cason sets in lie betakes himself with tis hatchet to the tree to cut little 0oles in the bark. The milkwhite sap mmcdiately begins to exude into rieces of bamboo tied below and hav ug their ends in the little clay cups set nder the gashes to prevent its trick ing down the stem. Ho travels thus rom tree to tree. On the return visit e pours the contents of the bamboo ito a largo earthen vessel provided rith straps, which ho empties at home ito a largo turtle-shell. Without do iy lie sets to work to coagulate it with moke of palm nuts, and pours a little f the milk evenly on a light wooden bovol, whiclh he-irows ' to the. thich, woke issuing from a little narrow himney made by the neck of an earth n bottle. He moves the shovel sev ral times to and fro with groat ipidity, when the milk is seen to con 3lidato and to take a grayish-yellow nge. "Thus lie puts layer upon layer, ntil at last the rubber on both sides of ic wood has reached a thickness of vo or three centimeters. Cutting on no side, ho takes it off the shovel and anns it In the sun to dry. A good or -man can thus prepare live or six Dunds of solid rubbor in an hour. rom its Initial color of clear silver ray it turns shortly into a yellow, and nally becomes the well-known dark rown of the rubber, such as is export I. The more uniform, the denser and ocr of bubbles the whole mass Is, the igher the price it brings. Almost ublo the value is obtained for the est-rate article over that of the most ferior quality, which is nothing but to (drops collected at the foot of the 'ecs." A Long Pneumatic Tube. A company is getting ready to build p)neumiatic tube for carrying letters id small packages from Chicago to ow York. The l(dea at first seems im racticable, but on examination It turns at to be feasible. Tiwo tubes are to be iaado of brass, which will run side by do, although it Is said one tube will m tried lirst. A powerful engine with ai exhaust wheel is to be stationed at no end, It is said that if the tube is roperly made and planted no air will scape. The right of way it is believed Elo be secured for nothing, or at anom mal expense5, and the main cost wvill e the tubes, the engines and stations. Sltter, a sample of grain, or package f any kind which is to be sent, is on losed in a leather bali. A ball pro ants the least friction as a rolling ob :ct, and the loather is to be stiff and eavy. A continuous current of air is assing through the tube constantly. lith one pipe the p)lan is to reverso ic engine every hopr-the first hour >rcing the air into it at Chicago and mnding p)ackages to New York, the ext hour exhausting the air at Chioa 0 andi drawing the packages as quick back. TIhe men who have it in barge do not say how long it will take send a p)ackago this way, but claim > hoe ab)lo to (do it ini less thani a min te. Stations will be established at 20 importaiit cities oni the route. It is xpeOcted to pay a largo protit, andI to o the business of the toelegraphl comn aunies, express companies and the u:ail. TIhey say the schiemi of sending rudi(e petroleum by a pipe for. long dis rinices, as is now d one, wvas laughed at l irst, andi, thait this onie is more p)rac inablie, if poJ.ssile, and not ne arly so ostly, as the pi pes arie to be sumall andi an~ go( ariountd (curlS andi oveor hills as <c11 as on I evI1. N. Y'. Grheu,ic. 1ie had just gradiuated, r they rore strolin a II~bot the cmamul while o eJxplained. to her the exIercises and(1 3latedi the various. exp)loits in whitich 43 haud been engaged d uring his course. bright idea seemed suddenly to strike im as lie turned, anid with a happy. ght dancing~ in his eyes, asked: "Why o they call it commencement, do you| tuppose, when it comels at the l end in-I Lead of the beginning of tihe dO>urse?"' 'I don't know,"' sheo answered thought ally, "unless it is becauiso y'ou'jl have La comlmenco at that timoe tO) learn omethinug or get left." And esshe poked up the( happy light h ad v Anished rom his oyeos.-lioston P'ost. / Young women haeve defeated! a West ?oint order by smuggling ci garettes nto the g-rounds for incipient i noral8. 1118 WEI)I)NG TRIP. r. o Transmilgrations of an Anecdote Illustratedl by a IMight Examllple. Thore is a story about a wedding trip hat has been knockin^" about the ':ountry for some time. Wo have tried to keep it out of the "Drawer," but it is of no use to kick against 4t any longer. It was first told to the "Draw or" editor in October, 1883, by a clergyman of strict temperance prin ciples and high character-in fact, a total abstainer-who had It from a friend of his, first-hand, who had just returned from the west. This friend, mind you, saw and heard what ho re lated, and he was a person of undoubt ed voracity, though perhaps as an ab stainer, when traveling, not so total as the clergyman. It was, in brief, to this effect: In the car on a train from Toledo to Chicavo was a man who sat alone, looking absontly out of the win dow and appearing dejected. During the passage an accident happened to a newsboy and the generous passengers passed round the hat for him. . Tho solitary man alone of all the car full refused to contribute anything, not even a quarter. Somebody remarked audibly upon his stinginess, when hto turned round and said: "Gentlemon, it may appear strange to you that I give nothing; but I haven't a cent of money. The fact is, I was married yesterday, and I am on my wedding trip, and I hadn't money enough to bring my wife along." In December following the editor of the "Drawer" was seated with two other gentlemen in a library in New York. One of them said: "I heard a good story the other day from a friend of mine who has just returned from Europe. Going down the Danube from Posth last summer ho noticed on the steamboat a melancholy-looking man, who did not appear to care much for the scenery, but leaned over the guards and vacantly regarded the river. Fall ing into conversation with him ho as certained that the man was aPrussian. Remarking that the journey did not seem to interest him, the Prussian said: 'No; I'm rather lonesome. Tho truth is I'm on my wedding tour, and I could not anford to bring my wife.' " Tho editor of the "Drawer" said that it was a good story, and that ho began to think it was true, as it was confirmed by so many independent witnesses. Thereupon ho took from his uocket a letter which he had re ceiveci that morning from Paris. In it the writer, a gentleman of culture and travel, said that a curious incident happened to him last summer. Ie and his wife wero on a Rhine steamer, when they noticed a melancholy passengar whom all the beauties of the scenery failed to rouse from his dejec tion. He was an object of interest to them all the morning, and at length his wife's sympathy was so much cx cited that she proposed to go and speak to the melancholy stranger and had out the cause of his sadness. 'Tho husband said that would be a foolish thing to do, and she might got into troutle. But the wife insisted (for .hough American women have little -uriosity, they have warm hearts), and 3rossed over to where the stranger stood, and accosted him, and they eu zaged in conversation. In a few mo monts the lady returned, laughing. "What is it?" asked the husband. "Why, the man is on his wedding trip and couldn't afford to bring his wife." The editor then related the original true story as it was told him by the T. A. clergyman. So it appeared, on un impeachable testimony, that the same strange incident hkappenked in the expe rienco of three persons the same year -one near Chicago, one on the Rhine, the otheri on1 the D)anube. Did it hap pen to any one Of these veracious pee p)le? WVhen the editor had raised this question, the third memb her of the party, whio ha:d been silent and had not interfered withk thko story in any way, said: ''I cank tell you Like real orig-inal of thkat story. Several years ago, ilk a well knownm wholesale house in thkis city, an old bacel]or hook-keeper, who had beekn many years with the irm, muddenly announced that ho was to be married. T'ho p)artners gave him a week's holiday, and his follow-clerks raised a little p)urso and p)resentedl it to pay the expenses of his wvedding trip. A couple of (lays afterwvard onec of the members of the firm went doewn to Newport, and there, lounging about the Ocean house, and ap)parently enk joying himself immensely, ho saw hkis recently-mnarried old book-kon >er-b ut rione. 'Whore's your iife? 'Shko's at home.' 'But I thought you had money given y'ou for a wedding tripP' 'So I did, but I di't unde(irsand thkat t was intended to include hker." Now we are nkot saying thkat this is mn unwise way of taking what is really me of the most perilous journeys in ife-a weddinng tour. But what culd inve indue~d all these different re Ilpectab:e ~peolo to approp)riato this >articular mjstanco to their own p)ersonl ul observation? It somnetimues seems as f people are not what they should be. --llarper's Magazinc. On ia Bob-TiaII Car. "Sometimes a coiuntrymn k comes nto the car and drops somne monecy ate the box, expeCctinig that the con Luetor will take it out and give him thange. They do noet knowv there is mn aperture for change inu the door. some of them are so ashamed of the g norance that, they sub)sido whenk they md( out what a bad break they have nade. Often on this car gold pieces inve boeon p)ut in as fare inu that way. i granger onico camo in andl threw a our-bit picce in thoe box. Ile continued standIng and looking at me for a block r so, anid thken hadl thie door op)oned. LIe saidl that lie wanted hsis (hange.I ried to explain matters to hinm, and bold him to go to the oflico. iIe would )Ot hkavo that, 'You needln't take me or a sucker,' he saidl in a loud voice; I know as umuch as you do, and I von't sta,nd anyl) of your little games.' lio commience(d to get violent, 'and so I prop)osedt tha~t lie should take his 3hango In tickets, in order to pacify khm. To thkis lie agreed, and I gave him a half dlozen transfer tickets, which lie could only use that day. lie was nc sucker, but he took those tickets and sat down as if lie were the smarter ol the two."---Driver, in ASan Franciscs Eza.miner. Pop ular Cookery. Whether from some instinct preserv ativo of health, or from a mere taste, man distinctly prefers hot foo(1 and to gratify this fancy puts himself and his womankind all over the world to tho trouble of daily cooking. Even 'bread" Is daten hot by tho majority of mankind-the uso of broad which will keep well being a European par ticularity; and very few races habitu ally eat anything cold, except when hot food is unattainable or expensive. They like their rico or their millet, or their whoateakes, or their vegetables, or their meat, just as it comes from the fire. As this practice involves im mense additional expendituro for firing -which in most places is one of tho heavy burdens on the poor--and- the loss of at least six hours labor a week, this of itself might be hold to prove that a taste for pleasant food is univor sal. Among the immense majority of mankin'cach household cooks for it self, the work falling mainly on the wife, who is never tn w-ht except by her mother, and in the most traditic....d way. Improvement, if any is over made, is excecdino(ly slow; and among some people popuflar cookery has prob ably retrograded, owing in this in stance, to the chasm of years which, so to speak, broke or interrupted the pop ular knowled-o of the way to prepare meat. They found fresh moat diflicult to procure, and failed to hand down the needful instruction for its prepara tion. Half mankind at least knows nothing of boiling; of those who do know, another half will eat their vege- t tables in a sodden condition. Among the races who eat meat, only a limite d p)erccentage of personis try" to make meat tender; we believe the flosh-eat ing Mongolds form an exceptionto this rule, and among those who oat grain there is a distinct preference for the under-cooking alike of flour, rice and millet from a belief that such food is more fully satisfying. But cooking does not advance. A new article of diet is occasionally add ed, like the potato or a new condiment, like pepper; but it may be doubted if a European laborer's dinner is made a bit nmore palatable than the dinner of an Israelite was when the lawgiver t promulgated the curious notion that roast meat was more acceptable to the I superior powers than moat boiled or c stewed. Indeed, the way to make a , kibab, which is known to the humblest i in Asia, has been lost here; and only 1 tho gypsies are aware that meat cover- N ed with damp clay and placed among I the hot ashes is not only delicious but much more nourishing than meat either c baked or boiled. The natural way with a civilized peopl, if they cared for nice. 1 food, would be to entrust the prepar ation of it to professionals, who would learn that trade by apprenticeship and incessantly improve; but, except in Tus cany and South France, this is hardly done anywhere, though it ought to be the easiest of arraongenients. It is only in the making of bread that men com bine;- and they have only just be;an to to that in Europe, and do not do it in Asia, or we believe, in most parts of North America--the Western woman iakiig bread for her household as tho Mexican woman makes her thin cakes. Yet the world everywhere in order to get its drinks, and the thinns it drinks tradually but quite steadiFy improve. lousehold brewing is, by the mercy of r Providence, dying out; and nobody in Germany, America, or England would now swallow the horrible stufT which our ancestors called ocor.--London Spieclator. Mrs. McCarthay% Phi losophy. An ouldl toni cat an' a bisecklo wul name up fern ist ye afore yez beknownst to.it, but a haythen Chiinaso wvasher man goos beyont yez like a shiaddow, he do. WTan foine nuss girl a ladin' twvo kids widl the two hiandls av her wuml kapo miore honest pl))o bcehint her on the strate than a funeral wid forty backs an' a wagonful of swate flowers, so she wuil. Thie eloods drap their rain an' the sun may hido hiisself ahmint 'em, but wvhini the plavini' stones of the strato bees wiite :ui'dhiry loike there wuml bees "- J)i(rIi thel niixt dlay, or me name isn't Bridgoet. Ae bye, D aniy cl, hee a p)ollytishuiner, bie bees, ani' sez. 1h( wul bi o in fur hievin' an orli. after a hit. I *growed him a mieself ani' hev kep him i till sinIce, an' div'4il a tighvhegot, barrin' a a hie:nlachi, tilyit, an 4n)likes av i 'Tlis thle la st dro a41 v lbeu ris the swat-- t esit, an p)oor 14(4)11pe4 widl smiall cans knowv thle tnste avs it, best. (halirs wVidl rockers: wvtl do for the rieb, hut pel4Ile as worksi~ sit dIown to rest5 .- - /To:g'o (i/u/h. 'The Coi uhabu ((Ga.) &ntinc1 ipub- i &shed thel following' model letter: 10"7.; 1 have jui.t laid aside my , work and4 hlave iakeni lny pen in hand t to show you1 thiat 1 do think about you ini fact1 thel trouble14 is to keep from tiin ll of V(ou all thle 12.1me this after rIo ju0 s 1lt t.'f(ore0414 commencing dlinnor I fet s) lonll y t1hat I dlidnt't knowv w4hat to dl) no4w a1 I ne4~ver h.iad such feeling be4fore( I met1'41 yo i can not help11 but tink I must,- he) inl1)( lo v ell if I am in 1love with IIoui I am sure I have no need to be 1)ashaed of it you see when I got the4 po4tatoe44s andl was about to have themIl for d inner I just thought how IIine it woua i1ld e if I was11 jutst dloing thIat for your1 dinner4' and miine only in (41ur snu ii ittle hiou -e whent are you go ing' to ge~t y our liWenso .5 thinik you Iare so) hong about it, I aint, in a hurry but114'i th I 11ouh like to get married 1i wIe are g.oin~ to4 do it a1t all and( not be foo) ln W away nil thesCe short1 suimmler e vein lgs as ever youir l)A ILIN(l. A lawvy a at P'ort land, Ore., has sued bte miayor of th at p lace for the recovery of a bill thus itemized: For writing a letter which Chapman pulished( over: his ownV signature iln defense of chargO ] of bribery, $100; for legal advycf our ing- an investigation by the cottncil, $250; for writing the mayor's annual message, $100, andl for assisting ,the mayor to securo a $1,500 loan, $50. The cruiade ondon against cl ored stockings continues, and shados (of rc(d, violet andi yellow are doolayod most Injurious to health. a Artesfin two tho44a tian era. Mr.. go( that Londo. in the wdrl. A Conoy awarded $4 now chiokoj A lu 140,OC niing? All ' which with tW marine comi The now army are v buttor are eyes~ u&t - So w rosist of the par" of la. to tlhe LAS. "U Iera mnessont'kIrof th Wasliington, WhOo. .a than any other, m lh year and llyes' In. ~age. Front.thd Wil.of at na Iaugliton), who' rdoeh 4k in: "l bequgan the is of ho naional oAUie for ho nco of Irelandd;41b1)r ygo m1 o rule hq1(agli TrIohieilbk mults of the.wQ?r of ['ouard, in 2ak; 1re to b ire rend or '"Ulf ontainingh rsites ha p ected to a to rlatge Logroes ooC ite, The stato tredefN of hire has is'uod ;r n!Qt! to >f towns informi i theyp menting claime ftnr bouni thucks they must utify ,he animal_ were'kille' A084pd ,iI ho claim will n beallowe The Digger 'Inlans of Qalif cast upon gras 9p era an wUld y. To secure e ormer h grand drive, gott!ng nto a pond of water sUd hem in baskets, dry t*omr- c the ; vings off and store thetn ay to or food. - They say that the upright.O ollar i9 gradually going out of 1dk Vhlich wi'l be. p1oa g, housanl4j of yits p f the timu of QueQn 1'i mfllicted qy' simbil&rly suit Vhich1 finally attinod to, i1 nous propdrtions that the fa4h 'y nit. I nglish paporat havO .l}a!' niorican pross 310 being e nd fond of the ' arh aide;,i .ondon -r't4 says: "One eurdor, fro : a newspapet 'iew, is worth moto than an hat can li; d a - and interests otets to ampaign oq the "y "Chicago,will go d 4 viii tumblo "intb the ulf which: thoso ,tireless ats are diggiug for hor. , To - n this ow-okiug, fest al no slo plg in the ladiesa an hoar rate as large as *'" 4a: alloping over the floor and to I , ~eds all night long!o Sow1g ~ditor of the NashvilleWo4 Jhicago. '1 St. llornard dogs are relolly rained. At meal ,ime they s ln' -ow, oaoh with a tin dish before ontaining his repast. Gre Is. SI4 >y one of the monk,, the dogs sl$4ips niotion loss with bowed head.. *$pt Qe19 >f thom stirs until the 'ameh" da a m. If a frisky puppy, attemnpts.te s >io his znoal before the grate is eyet >nlo of the older dogs growls, and,'e JIy tugs his oar. Vaccination, performeid oc? et as a preventive of amul.p% ortain ti me has elapsed. AE ation of the statistics of jI~ai hows that of those wpho h ad had been vaccinated i~ or cent. are ovor teft yea$ ' ~hilo only 10 per oept. ore oars of ago. Revacoinatio E~' 'als, say, of seven year, nown effective measure Ion. An Irish farmuer hasab cres of land and 10,000 ur four years' laying ~ aned for market ina the *Ok ro fit for the marktet. le'J' atchod in simply cons%tsG nrs, consisting of autlk laced in rows, and heated nO regular temiXperature by steam ggs are covered .frem the lig' s the chioks ?ppentr they aie r o another room. By actual counti there are 'Maiden Rooks" hn iho United xclusive of Idahi 4and Wash orritorios, which are still to be rom. Those teoks are widely dist. itod, but there are no fewer thin I. n Michigan, 800 in Witconsin, 180 owa, 187 in Illinois, 100 ija Indiana md 567 in Vermont alone. A "Maidena LRock" is always connected 'with the invarying legend that a besutIft4 A#d igentle Indian maid, dIaughter o~ e, acted chief, leaped fromi Its apeg~ to yawning abyss be1o,sathtr tha~. with a barbarian bravo, Ohosen b' stern parent, or to prove false. e other redskin upon whomi thq of her heart were set. A southern senator wtWne Georgia had occasion ote on busliess. lHe went 4 bought his sleeping oetiu the train, and wentto ioundly and eon4*tby n the morniu utions 1prep (bry -y at Jersey IJty.' iar windoW ue WR here was on, thes ffact tb was in n' ~ha dir'