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4 ~. % ~ 7M . r' ~LdY. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1884. Constancy. I will bo true. bind stat's forsako thoer course, And, led by reckles meteors, turn away 'romt patlhs appointed by the Eternal Forocs; lBut my fixed heart shall never ao astray, Liko those calm words, whose sun-directed motion< 19 undilaturbed by strifo of wind or sen, 8o shall iny swerveless nil serene devotion Swcop on forever, loyal unto thee. I will be true. Tho ficklo tido divided BotWeen two wooing shoros, in wild unresl May, to aind fro, shift, always undecidied. Not so the tie of passion in my bioist: Like the grand surgo of soin resistless rivef That hurries on, past mountain, valo and loll, Unto the mainjUs waters to deliver. So my full heart keeps tall its wonith for thoo I will be true. Light barks ainy be belated Or Itn'ned tside by every bri czo at play, While strir ' Ehips, well inannered and richI3 freightel, with broad sill's tlyintr, anchor safe in bay Liko rotuo irn rock, that, stead fast and un shaken, Si antis all uninoved, when ebbing biilowt ioe, So woul iny hiei rt stand, fallhful, if for sakeon, I will be true, t:our,I thou art false to me --ELla Wheeler. ONLY A GARL)NEII. An evenhing in early spr:ng, grey and clouded, a low-eliled, plainly-furn Ishod apartment in an out-of-the-way ol house, and though the other rooms are the perfection of neatness, this one is in all the disarray and abandonment of art. Two young girl-students are resting after their day's work-resting, each after her own manner. To one, Gert rude 'T'revelyan, the word implied utter repose; she, therefore, leaned back her regal-looking head in a cotu fortable old chair, as with half-closed eycs, the words dropped listlessly from h r coral lips. But to Esther Forbes, re-t Was merely something less labori ous, and seated on the hearth-rug, by the fitful glimmer of fire-light, she glanced over a daily paper, tolglean,' as she said, "a little news for grand father at supper-time." "Oh, Gertie!" she cried, ''listen to this: 'The Art Decorative Company is off'ering three prizes-first, second, and third class-for the best design foi screen decorations. It is to be n yearly competition.' How I should like to compete for one of thc )rizes!" "And should not I' Let us con mlenicO to-morrow.'' And so saying, Gertrude sat upright in her chair, and .opened wide her great dark eyes. "IIow delightful 'twould be," said she, ''to awake same morning aind find oneself famous-to read in a para grain, 'Miss Gertrude Trevelyan has obtained the first prize and a gold medal for the most original design.'' 11 shall be colitent with the second,' replied H ther; "for that fifty pounds is just what I shall want next sum mner." "And what do you want so much money for, chid?" "Ai, Gertic! were I as rich as you, I, too, might, work for fame; but you re member how my dear old "randfathei suffered from last summer s heat, and yet refused to t::ke from our little in come the sim requisite for a twc months' sojourn by the sea. If ] could put this into his hand, and say, 'Let us go, dear grandpa, like xvc happy pilgrims and eljoy Old Ocean't breezes,' h, howt proud I shoul be!" The girls were not relatives, bul only neighhors, and the home of each was in that pleasant art-suburb of Lon. 7 (loll that has grown up of recent year, about that Cockney's paradise, Ilanip stead Ileath. But as Mrs. Trevelyan disliked th< litter and utidilless of an artist'. room, Gertrude frequently came anic ''worked,'' as she called it, in he] friend's studio. Esther dlid not name her aspirr'tions to hier gruiindfa ther, but she lay awakc 4 many a long hour, thinking out, tha' proposeaC designi. The nex t mornlinigi, she founid at notc from heri ftlend-she would be iabsent for a few dayvs, aus her mot her had mad e somo eng:aeents for themn botli---ani cery ghad was la Ether to be alonie wi: h er uallz ied tho(ugohts. Ini thle vjitions of the nii2hi, a sister atrt, Poesy, Uhad( come1 to her idt. and the subject chosen was from Hlood's e.itdyllic poem, "'The Plea of the Mid summer Fairies,'' where the little elves agoeentreating the pity of remorselest Cmi. She designedt it rapidly, and ere long the pictuiro told its own story. 'The ol M\ower could not ho intro duced-hew would have 'demantded toc much space -but one hand, portions os his grey, colorless raimeiit, and1 his scythe, to whuich clung fresh grass, were visible. And as lIoodt describei it: "A shiatly andii sequestered s:enle, L,ike t hose inmed gardlens of lHococolo-' So the fairies wero in half-shadowi andl in various attitutdes-somo kneel. ing imiplorinigly, somo1 bowed dowi with grief, othertl-"'the loyal fays'' surroundinig their queen, as though tc p)rotect her, whilo a fewv hadl, in de spair', east themiselves upon)1 the grouni among the ilowers. (One, that seemed to have stepp)ed out from tha:t bosky leafuge to p)lead with "'the dread K ing of years,"' point ed to a group o~(f lilies ini thle plicturol' conltre, upon01 which fell a brtoadi ray of miool igh t--a:s, wvithu their stems foldet in their large green leaves, those pale, pure lilies stood serene amid tha:t (lest) lation-and symbolic of the line.s Esth or hind selected as her motto: "'Aniu she t hat pu rIles th liIght, TIho virgrin I,ily, fail hiulii to her while, whereon Evo woptt In Edlen for lhe; shinie." "Bu~it I muilst hiavii somo) real lilics!' exclaimed Esthier. '"'Tis the most im portanlt part of the picture.'' And away she'w'ent to a florist's, thi most etxteniv(o ini the enltire neighbor ,,hood, anfd wvhere she was wvell known, But lhe hadl not eo en 0110,.and do. clared, at that seaisoin, they could( no0 "'You might soo somse at Mr1t. M~ont. calm's of O)akleigh House, Miss F"orbes,"' said Mr Is. Jiourdaini, thle 1lor .ist's wvife',"'for thley have a fine coni -servatory, andl a first-class gardlener at tends to it. You will iind hiimi quiitle r genitlemnan, anid he will allow you t( dra'uw from ranythiung you like." Esther further learned t hat Mr. ant Mrs. Montealmi had lately retulrnsl from the South of France, andii that th<' ladly was so fond of planits andl flower thathle spared no expense to gratifa her taste. Tho next morning. armeid wit.h he sketch-book and - portable color-box she set forth, but could only ride : portion of the distance, for the way laj through lanos and roads loading t< various residences. But at longth Oakloigh House wa, reached, and there the great gatqp sc appalled poor Esther that, but for the hope of gaining that prize, she would have retreated f1 dismay. In a few days Gortrude again visited the studio, but this timo to watch hot friend's progress only, having aban donGd her own attompt. "It is exquisite!"~said she, after a careful survey. "But you havo not re lated your interview, further than the door of the conservatory was oponed then you broke off to show me thd picture." "I had to wait,so long, and feared the gardener would never come, so I found my way to the lilies alone. But, 4ertie, 1 have fallen in love with that gardener! And as I don't know his name, I mentally call him 'Claude Dlelnotte.' " "In love with a gardener, child? ] hope not! But pray skot-:h for me in words this paragon of Adam's calling." "lie is probably between twenty-iv e and thirty. Not exactly handsome, but a good face, expressive of great in telligence; a pleasant-indeed, molo ious voice; and he has certainly some artistic taste, for when apparently wondering at my lily-craze, I de scribed the design, he then made a fon valuable suggestions. And lie gave mne such a basketful of ferns and flowers and greenery-sending it here to me--that 1 hop.e he won't, got into trouble with Mr. Montcalm for so doing!" 'If you looked as you do now, Esth er, with your waves of golden hair and rapt, brown eyes, like some peri that has lost her way, then I should not be surprised if he fell in love also. But only a gardcnor! Ah, well! Of course, you will go no more to Oakleig: House?" "No, indeed, Gertie; but ho asked permission to call and see my pictur< beforo I sent it away." And one day ho (lid come, bringing a-magnificent bouquet, and this tim< gave his name, wvhich wvas Bernard. Ester Forbes' picture was consider ed very beautiful and highly poetic but-ah, when does not a but, or an if, or some other stumbling-block exist? it did not gain the first prize. She was, however, awarded th< second, and that, with the sale of latoi artistic work, amply sufficed for the accomplishment of her project-a tril to the Isle of Wight with her grand father, Captain Forbes, who, havin; been a sailor nearly all his life, was, In that truly maritime little spot just a: happy as the summer days were long But before their departure, Bernart was unfortunately the cause of a sepa ration between the two girls. He had come again and again to the little out-of-the-way house in Hlamp stead, had avowed his love, had asked Esther Forbes to be his wif6, an< finally had gained her grandfather' consent to thecir marriage. "Mr. Bernard Is not a commoi gardener," urged Esther to her friend "Ho might have employment on th estate-of some great nobleman; but believo the Montcalms like him greatly and he does not wish to leave Oak leigh." "It is not the money, but the position that I think of," answered Mis Trevelyan, with a line look of scor upon her proud, handsome features. "Butt I am not ambitious. Noitho: can I look very high. You know tha my grandfather has little besides his penisionl." "Iot, an ollicor in the navy always holds a certain rank. -However, hiav< your own way, and blame no one bul yourself, if some of your friends arc less cordiaml than formerly." "I consider Henry Bernard a mos1 honorable man. HIe is kind-hearted, lie is highly intelligent, and lie lovon mc, and 1 would not give himn up foi every friend that I have. Therefore, Miss TJrevelyan, you are at libert,y tc set the others an example.'' TIhey did not meet again until one (day duiring the following winter, andl that chane mueeting was in the wend rouis city of lRome, whiero so many, wh lether beiit, on leasure, novelty, or study, and somoe from a yet higher Imotive, find their way. Gertrude Troivelyan with a party of friends in 0110 of the art galleries, when a lady wvhose face appearedl familini [passe(d by. She was richly dressed, and accom I iani ed by a genl emian. "'If that is thle Esther F'orbes of olden dlays,'' sihe soliloquized, ''then success to gardlening!"I' She weint toward her, saying, as shic held out a daint ily-gloved little hand: "Will you allow mec to congratulate you, M~ rs." '' am rejoiceud to meet yeou, Gertic,'' initerruttptedlh& Euer, " and to pr1esen1t yuto my hlutsband, Mr. Montcaelm. Henry, this is Miss Trevelyan of whom you have frequently heard me speak.' "'I will leauve you for awhile to talk over old times,'' said lie, after express ing his 1pleasurie at thle itrodutction. "AMy breath is taken away!"' gasped (Gertrmbe, whlenu they were alone togethi er. "DI id th moonl011ight, fairies bring about this romance?'' "l- think t hey (lid,'' re[plied Esther, lauhlinlg-"thI rutgh thu ageney of the lilies, anid I will relate tihe story in Mr. el l\tean i's owni words1. 'On that eventful mnoning n miessagie wa':s brought to mue that n younlg ldy reqluestedI to see the hlot hiouse', and (( was. shio said, p)eriiitted to lIse the inamei (of ,Jou rdain, the lorist. .)Our gardeoner had gone to a sale of Shrubs lO, butit as hiis return was delayed, I went to explhainl matters, whlile collect ig a few early violets froni t heir frames. Yout'--for this was addressed to mae- - evidlenltly mistook may identity, anRd app[eairing rather omibarrassed,] thought It better to leave you unin. formed. TLhe.n the shyness wore off, melted awvay by the enthusiasm withi which you describ)ed your p)roposed sketch.'' "1 mu1(st omit all the sweet nonsense, l(Gertie1 but llenry always says that I arried away his hemart that morning. 3 "[ believe lie once had a theory, I through some youthful disappointment that all womankind wvas self-Interested and( hero was an opportunIty to test thu r sincerity of ne, whom ho n11nges et have singled out from tire rest of the workd.' "And this revelation took pltae to. foro your marriago?" "Yes-for that he had always Intend cd--and it was uttered to me and to the waves durino' one lovely twilight hour, when lie had'rushod down for a brief visit to our little sea-girt home.'' "And Captain Forbes-what did ho say?" "It was some time before ho could grasp the entire facts, being so much loss poetic than practical." "But oh, Esther!-how about the other Mrs. Moutcalm?" "She is Henry's mother, and the very kindest and dearest old lady. She also has had her little romance; for as Miss Bernard (my husband's second name) she gave up the lover of her youth to comply with her father's de sire, and though a good and loyal wife, was never a very happy one, and henceforth resolved not to control the choice of her son." "Have you had time to conclude your chat?" asked Mr. Montcalm, on returni r to them. -Not q"itc." was his wife's reply. ''But Miss Trevolyan will pass the ro mainder of the day with us." "No, Esther." said Gertrude; "you have generously overlooked my onc unkind comments, but cannot have for given them." "They are both forgiven and forgot ton, dear. Ani now, Gertrude,'' she whispered, "lIenry's cousin, Jack Eilcry, is to dine with us. He admires brunettes above all others, and I can find some scarlet blossons to wreathe In your dark hair. And as Jack, like yourself, is an amateur artist, scorning lucre but craving fame, you can entor into a partacrship to design something for next competition, and then-who knows? for strange happenings sur round us unexpectedly." And as Gertrude was whirling along In her friend's carriage, away out to their Roman villa, within her own mind she partially repeated her friend's words: "'ruly, strange, very strange hap penings do come to us-sometimes!" The Coroner's Verdict. The Memphis Avalanche savs Ten nosseoans are in the habit of coming to their death by the following causes, according to the written verdicts of Tennessee coroners' juries: "She come to her death by strangla tion in testimony we have sit our handes and seal the day above wroten." "Paul Burns came to his death by a mule running away with a wagon and being thrown therefrom." "By taking with his oun hands an overdose of morphine." "From causes unknown to the jury and having no medical attendance." "Said infant child came to his death from premature birth." "Came to his death from national causes." "Said child aged 1 day old camo to her death from spasms, said child hav ing been found by the witnesse in a trunk under susjpicious circumstances.'' "The joueres on thare ouathe do say that lie comes to his death by old age, as tha could not see enny else the mat ter." "Come to his death from the follow ing causes, to wit: from some suddent cause to the jurors unknoun." "The said deceased being an orphan, father and mother both being dead." "From an overdose of gin adminis tered by his own hand." "Being run over by two coal cars while detached from the engine." "Come to his death by tender of No. 7 jumping the track on which lie was riding, either jump)ing or fallhig off and engine running over him, whic' was an accident and no fault of the engineer of said engine." "She come to her dleath by lighten striken her." "From heart deseizo,." "Came to his deatii in the followino manner, to wit: lie was born dead." "From the hands of some unknown person, or p)ersons, to the jury un known, and afterwards placed on the track and got run over by the Income ing train.'' "Congestion of theo.brain and appli cole fitze." "The body was Be mangle and mun tilato that thia could not tell ennythig about it but tha think it was put in the sisterne by some unkown person." "Calded on hir left side by kittley of hot water burning over on hiir left sidoe and causing hiir death." "From the eff'ect of injuries receive by her close accidental taking lire." "From exposier." Something Yet to be invented. A scientific gentleman in this city, speaking recently to a Graphic rep re sentative, said: "I believe that before loiig an instrument will be invented wvhich will do away with the stenog raphoers im our courts andl omlics. They worio badly seared whcn Edison invent 0(1 his phonograph, which would faith fully recordl the sounds of the human voice as well as those of musical In struments. That Idea only needls to be dIevelopecd to p)rodIuce a machine that will answer all the purposes of the moderni short-hand writer, and In fact be a more faithful recorder of all that takes pl'aco within Its range, sound1s such as laughs, sighs, moans etc., that a stenograp)her cannot write, It being alike susceptible to. Another adlvauco in this line would be a ma chine which would automatically write out these recorded sounds, as on a typoe-writor, and( thus every man could be his own amanuensis. Inventors are now looking into this matter.-New York Gr'aphic. A Board(inlg 1101ouse velops Gall. Ilotts came (down to breakfaist the other morning aut his boarding house, amnd, lookinig a bout the scantily sp)read table, put hiis ha :nd to his~ head and saidl: "Everything makes me sick to dlay.'' "Ah,'' rep)iled the lanldlady, sympa thietically,. you reqluiro a spring tonic.'' "'Yes,"'said lBotts, as lhe took a cold lben on (ih iis fork, '"tile (doctor p)rescrib. ed onlI fo me thle other dat."' "'Indueed! What was it?' "W~ell,. he said for tolling an empty stomn:.ch there waus nothing like a Messages of Love or Hate. "Do I know anything of. the lan guago of post-ge stampsP" said a well known stationery dealer yesterd w. "I don't know of any book on the et ect, if that is what you mean, but I havo heard the signification of some of the ways of placing thon on envelopes. For instance, if the writer is a gentle man who wishes to express love for a fair damsel lie inclines the label toward the loft, which method is repeated by the lady if she Is favorable to his suit. If, on the contrary, she wishes to give him the cold shoulder she inclines hor label to the right. A stamp in a per pendicular posture signifies simple ad miration; when the bust stands on its head it means that the only sentiment evoked by the suppliant is ridicule. If the stamp lies on its fnce it indicates that the writer is (lying for love; it it is lying on its back then the writer has got over his attack of heart disease. A label may be placod wrong way up with an inclination to the left that tolls a story of hopeless attachment, while should it be loaning towards the right hand cornor it is a sign that the air tion is unrequited." "Are there any other signs?" "Yes, such as sticking the label in odd places on the envelope, in wrong corners, using two or even three stamps, making kisses around them, near them or in propinquity to them. These have various meanings and may all be included in the languago of post age stamps." "Did you over know of any one using this mode of communication?" "If you promise not to give me away I will tell you of a postage stamp cor respondence in which I myself once was a principal participant." "My honor as a gentleman." "That's good onourh. Well, it's about ten years ago. I'hopo you won't be shocked to hear that this corrospon deuce grew out of my being a regular attendant at church?' "Not at all. That makes it all the more interesting." "I suppose it does, so many similar correspondences have arisen from a like cause. I have for years been a member of St. Peter s Episcopal church, at Third and Pine streets. One Sunday, ten years ago, 1 was des perately struck with the appearance of a young lady who sat in a pow on the opposite side of the aisle to me. Never mind the details-after some in quiries I found out who she was but could not obtain an introduction.'' "What did you do?" "I got fromi a friend of mine some in formation about the postage stamp lan guage and the languago of flowers. Every Sunday morning I managed to get to church in time to place a small bouquet of llowers in her pow, together with an empty envelops with the stamp aflixed in a certain way. After awhilo she discovered who her unknown ad mirer was. What is more she learned the stamp language and in return she would leave an envelope stamped in the pew for me. This silent courtship continued for nearly eight months, when, one lucky day, I found an ac quaintonco who knew the family. I need not tell you that 1 soon became acquainted, too. To make a long story short, the lady is now my wife." "Indeed! That is certainly a happy and fittinn ending to so romantic a courtship.2' "There are one or two other things you might say about the sticking on of stanq>s if you aro going to publish this.' "Such as---" - "Well, I fancy some of the stampmors at the postoflico wold feel oblige dto you if you would rceommendl foolish young p)eop)le whio are anxious to ap pear eccentric, not to puIt their stamp)s im any corner but the upper right-hand one. It wvill lift a weight of sin off the stampe)r's shoulders.'' "But how about the la'nguageP" "Easily arranged. If a square place is penciled off on the right-hand upper corner of the envelope the stamp can be affixed in any manner that muay be chosen. By the by, there is QO curious sign ii the stamp language you might mention." "What is that?" "'Pasting the stamp on with the mu cilaoo upward." de htma? "That the sticker on is a confounded idiot, and most probably drunk. Good morning."'-hiadlphia Times. Thlouight the Mi nister' was Jokingw. "'My boy, what are you doing with that cigar in your miouth? Th'irow the filthy thing away,'' saidl a clerical-look ing man to a bootblack who stood near the Globe hotel pulling a cigar. 'The urchin looked up at the mani with an injuredl air, then shaking his head said: "Naw ycr don't. I'm elite thiat trick. Th'lat's what the kids tolls me when I'm ilush and smokin' a twvo-for, so. they can p)ick it upl. But wheni a had can't take a smoke without an 01(d chap like you wantiin' him to throw it away, then there's a case for pity.'' Rea:chiing into his p)oect, the beonovo iont boy3 brought, forth three cents, say ing, ams boe ihld them out to the abashod genltlemani:iI "'lere, take them coppers andi buy one( for yerself, but don't, ask me T1hec dozen01 or mioron andCI 111 boys who hiad col lected ar oun md thie pairU shouitedl derii vely a :s thme minister' turn t.d and walkoed awavy. -Xyracuse Her aid. A newly-marrie(a modern Athenian 'ias taken a suite of rooms in a Back l'ay apartment hotel, and his bride, b ing in the sewingless condiition inci d 'nt to having a comp)lete trousseau, doslredl to cmbroidcr a friezo with a motto to go about the recop)tion-room. She accordingly asked a bachelor friend for a quotation from Shaukspearo, and thought him muighity wvitty when lhe proposedl "Suites to the sweet." The sentence was brief, however, to go all the way rouind, so the professor was asked to lengthen it. Unluckily, lie had In the meanitime opene(d a note containing a bill for rent for a flat lie had vainly tried to sublet, and lie some what disconcerted the fatir questioner by growling out: "Oh, put the rest of the way round( 'Flats to the flati' "-_ IBnsinn Adrbte-ins LONDON'S GREAT TAILOR. Recollections of the Man Who Put Disraeli on the Road to Fane. "I remember Henry Poole very well," said a gentleman to a Philadelphia Times reporter. "He was a fine, tall, handsome man, over six feet in height, 1 with bushy blonde whiskers. He i measured forty-two inches around the chest. There was no mistaking the man when you saw him; he walked the streets as if London wero his own pri vate property. Henry Poole was the second son of the old tailor of that name. " He was educated at Cambridge I and graduated with a bachelor of arts degree. He might never have taken to the tailoring business, but his broth er died and then Henry thought he saw his way to make a big thing of it. You soo the large connection lhe had among his college friends helped him. Ho was a man who always dressed with great taste, and not only expected but i insisted on all his employes dressing well, too. When Henry Poole took the business In hand first there wore not more than a hundred men employed; t in ten years there were nearer a thou sand." "Is there any truth in the story of t Poole's patronage of Disraeli?" "Oh, yes. Disraeli was in very poor c circumstances when he first obtained ' the clerkship in the home olice. Poole, 1 who was always in and out of every place where young men congregated, I saw him, took a fancy to him, and be- t lieved there was something great in t him. He took 1)israeli out with him e one evening to dinner and proposed that lie should supply lini with clothes suitable to the position in society that 1 Disraeli ought to hold. The future primo minister jumped at the ofl'er, and 1 there is little doubt that ho also receiv ed pecuniary assistance from the shrewd and generous tailor." "Did he he not assist the late Em peror of the French in the samo way?" "Yes; but there was a reason for that, you know.ry "OIl, yes. You refer to the story of Poole's wife." "'No,- no; there is not a word of truth in that. It was Miss Howard. She was a cousin of P'oolc's. 11cr mother kept a very fashionablo littlo hotel in Dover street, Piccadilly, just behind the White Iorse cellars. She was created )uchess de Beauverne by Napoleon on his marriage to the pres- I eut Empress, on condition that she left France. lie also settled a very good income on her. Poole did not marry until late in life. His wife was a lady with whom he had fallen in love while quite a young man at college." ''lie was very strict, was he not, in business?" "I should think he was, indeed. He nover allowed anything to go out of his shop that had not been tried on and fitted over and over again. lie would employ a man and keep him in his em ploy for the simple reason that lie was of the same size and build as a good customer. 1 have known a man to sit for a couple of hours on a saddle block, only having the crease in a, pair of riding breeches rectified. lie reduc ed tailoring to a science.'' ''Did he do any cutting or measuring himself?" "No, sir! There is a story told of Lord Hardeastle meeting Poole on the chain pier at Brighton. Io stopped him and said: 'Look here, Poole, I got this coat of you and so how badly it fits.' Poole took a bit of chalk out of his waistcoat pocket and marked his lordship's coat all over and said: 'Take that coat to my cutter, may lordl, and he wimll make the necessary alterations.'"' '"He was v'ery extravagant in his hab its, wvas lie not?i" ''Very. lie had ai house at lirighton, aniothier in lBurling.ton street, near his store, which wasi1 a perfect mine of art, and on the Tlhiames, at Hiammersumith, lie ha:d a regular plalace. i s chamn paiign luncheons cost him i a fortune. Hie h adI one of the finiest hunting studs in Great li:itain. lie never caredi whliat he paid for a horse, and( althioudh lie wa such a big man he wvas a ma, - "Hie (did not die rich, did he?" "No, lie was worth ab)out ?25,000 when lie died, andl thme result of the sale of his houses and horses barely settled the claims of his creditors, lie was generous to a fault, lie could neverl pass5 a beggar, and many a hialf-sover cign hie's given awvay to peWople who, perhaps, didn't dteserve ius charity. Hie was the best of emp~loyers and( hli< kept men with him for years, but there was never the least mistaike ablout wvhio was master on his premises." Admiral llowitt ini Abyss.inia. Thme special corresondncmt of the London DIaily News, wvho accompanied Admiral Hewitt on his mission to Abys sinia, writing from Adowai, gives an in terestinm- ::counit of the experiences of the m:s>j.ion so far. lie says: "TIh other day we witnessed a wedding, and we had followed the wedding party sonmc distance, having resolved to pire sent the husband with a presen t of do01 lars. lHe receive1dxthem with much p)leasure, but when thianikiing us, a mounted sold(1ier rode upj, sniatchied them from hiis hand(, anl I thre themIlii at the head of our intI. ter. Th isr was one of nianiy insults we had r ('Cived from the troops of thle governior. Since the dIay of our arrival ' e and( h xis ' oflicials have beeun mhost, dis~co ?iconi. lie pointedly delayed calling on the Adniiral, and when lie condescenmded to (10 so was so dhrunik and stuidi( that lie had to be supported by hiis inter-j p)reter on his road home. lie forbade the peoplle ini the dIistrict and( towvns te. v bringv us supplies. In A -wa there are no siop)s or hostelries of anxy descrip- I tion, the people getting their geoodsi from a market held one ai week. Tedlge and beer are brewued, corn con, 'J verted into flour, anid all coookin p lre pared in caceh hou sehiold. lfnless, therefore, these pecopk( arc allhowedl tot sell or give hospitality, the travelers& chance of escape from starvation is a1 small onec. Charlxres Re:endi's London pu bIlior says that once the novelist, as they were traveling togetheri, po(inited to a picco of wvater ii the distance, and saidl: ''That's where C;hristio Johnston caught the herrings.'' lie regarded this incident of his own invention asI reality, so sinem mvas he In hi.. w.-. fatigue of the Eye. Persons speak of thoir eyes being atiguod, he said, meaning thereby that ho soeing portion of the brain Is fa iguod, but in that they are mistakoi1. 3o men say their brains are tired. Brains seldom become tired. The re ain of the eye, wlhich is a part of the rain, and an offshoot from it, hardly sver is tired. Tie fatigue is in the in ior and outer muscles attached to the )yo and in the muscle of accomoda ion. The eye ball, resting in a bed of at, has attached to it six muscles for urning it in any desired direction, and ,ho muscle attached to the side nearest ,he nose and one at the outer angle of ho eye should, in every normal eye, be :alanced. They aro used in converg ug the eye on the object to be viewod, a,d the inner muscles are used the noro when the object is the nearer. rho muscle of accommodation is one vhich surrounds the lens of the eye. Vhen it is wanted to gaze at objects wcar at hand this muscle relaxes and dlows the lens to thicken, increasing ts refractive p1lower at the samo time hat the muscles on the inner or nasal ide of the eye contract and direct the yes to the point gazed at. It is in heso muscles that the fatigue is felt, nd one finds relief in closing the eyes r in 'azing at objects at a distance. ole chief source of fatigue is in the ack of balanceo in the two sets of inner nd outer musc'es of accomnmolation. t may be set down that there is some hiing wrong when the eye becomes fa igued. The defective eye, as it grocs ut sooner, is really safer from severe trains. The usual indication of strain s a redness of the rim of the eyelid, etokening a congested state of the in ler surface, accomhpanied with some )ain. When it is shown that the eye is lot e<qual to the work required of it, he proper remedy is not rest, for that s fatal to its strength, but the use of lasses of sufficient power to render innocessary so much effort in accom nodating the eye to vision. it is not ood sense to waste time resting the ye, and that practice (les not trengthen it. Eyes begin to age at about the tenth )r twelfth year of life, when they have cached their full development.. At the Igo of 45 or 50 years the lenses ceaso o thicken, when the iressuro is re noved, and their preshathpia, or old ;ight, begins. When a child is con ielled to use or require 'the use of rlasses thI ro is little reason to hopo hat it will outgrow the need, but the >erson will use these glasses as a basis, tdding other glasses as he reaches the tge when old sight begins, or using the .hicker glasses. Mr. Seely, however, uelntioned one case lie had observed where a child had outgrown the need of glasses, but in the meantime lie had rown from a snall and puny child to a large and well-developed man. Sccond sigilt, or the apparent recov ery of str4ngtl of vision, which is sometimles seen in the aged, the lee Lurer explained as a cllange, an dlon gation im the shape of the eyeball, by whic the person bee:tme near-siglhted, tecom paniel by a rb:n11g-e in the lens -aused by the appcaratnce of acataract. -Fromt a Leclurc; by Dri. W.: W.: Sedly. Cneio.4 in Vesti ilister Abbey. In Westmninster abbey there is a cer ain wvell-worn slone, which, without a loulit, was used for the coronation of ho Kings of Scot land, and has been luring centuries taken but once from le abbey. This solitary occasion was he instalIation of Cronwell at Vest nxinister hiall. The Seots have made nanyxx eil'orts to recover their relic, to ,vhiichx they attach very great impor Thei coroniat ion chxaixr, as it is called, salso thle sublject. of a cuxrious legend. t, is said to be thle actu al1 stone oni vhIiichx .Jacob laid hiis head at, liethxel, mxd fromx Palest ino it is rep)utedl to have >ein reino(ved to Egy pt, thence to painx, andix hinally to the ihill of T1ara, nx Irehaitl, where it, was used for the oroniationi of the Irish King's. From relandx it was carried to. Scotlanid, by 'ergus, the I rish King, whlo subdued lie northern-i coxuntriy. All these mat ers, historical :i legemilary, were at >ne time oinly set forthI in the Latin axbel but ini the year 187,1, for the coni cx nee of visitoris to the great, xli Ailia, thle liead guiide rend iereud ini the -niauii lionigue a sort oif sob-edited ge: vio wichI gave thle authentic ustor as rgardsScotland , adcn dlud<lel with the legendu as5 to lrelandh, mit 01 oit ted all refierenica. to Jacob's )illow as beiing- profatni. F-oxr thxirty years and mxore the stone, n thiis authlority, pa ssed as " thIe coro imtioni chxair of lie K inis of Scotland md1( Irebinid,"' liut the ot her day, notic oig tha:t the outher side oif the label was lirty tand gimyx, thcc sat xne gouide turn dI it over :mid wiote onl thle other sidoc lie fact, thiat thle s tone hilad beenx used it the crown ing of thle Kings of Scot andii, but jtudiciouslyv left exit, the legenid oneerini ig Ireland, for the ver'ger 'iince 18571 hias acqu1 ired! conisiderablo nitisx ar ii k no wledge, anud can no0 oniger subi scibie to thle blieif lie onxc( mhll. lideedl, the stone neiver' was lin 'alest inie, andi l I'rofessor Ramnsey, whot as exxinied it as a geologzist, pro ouniices thIiat nxonei of its kinid is fountd herex-, xxndi tha t the clhair is of true c(otehlim xiestonie..on<on ('or. /hHl She itemxove<I th PtoIeIces "Thex ixal11ted marquis av Smith,'' ays Mliss lBridget Magee, "v,holi is so sunin' in thiis maxthroipolis ini blissful noranieo that, lie is lieir to a toill an' ast isttes, was tillini' me av an advin uire xav the koinid. Sed lie: 'Oh, Miss ulagec, I wint upltown on1 Wednesday a the car, an' it, was full, tan' ihad to thiandh up fur about fourtecon blocks. hIiin somebody got out, an' jist as I vas p)rep)arin' to take the vacant place, vhxich was besoido at lady, wvhat d'yez hink she d11d? Why, she delibor-ately )icked up her parasol an' put it iacrost lie sate. Whaxt d'yez thxink I did?' WVhy pioloitely rauquisted her to ramnovo t, I suppose?' I obsarved. 'WVilI, .hxer-e% whlere ye-z make yer miishtako,' io repliedI. 'I delibeirately sot down Onl t, anx' it was she whio impolitely ra luistedl mn to move to racover the p)aces.' ''--N. 0. Mascot. It wvas Tennyson who invented the headline "Sweet Girl Graduate." GLEAXINOS : About 40,000,000 pennies werd, d in the United States last year. Colorado oontribytss 1Qp,O0Q' pr iy the country's resouroes this yeas. Of the 251 applicants for asnisstO to Harvard, forty-nine are ladles. The oultry crop of N'orth OsMida is said to - orth about $2,800,000. The births in Spa $98a bored 453,000, and the deat A woman of Greenwood, Me., is ported to be cutting her fourth sot Qk teeth. _ Canada'oxported last year $1,705,812 worth of butter and $6,451,870 worth' of cheese. Sam Collyor, the noted pugllist, is now living iii the vicinity of Hampton. Virginia. The worstod industry of England employs 2,225,820 spindles; in Franob, 2,765, 000. Alexander H1. Stephens' library,whioh cost him $20,000, has beoon sacrificed for $800. The census of 1880 shows 6,632,000 colored peopl in the former slave states. It is estituatod that the yiold of a plos in western Now York will be - 000,000 barrels. An old well in Staten Island is said to be running dry of water and taking a turn at oil giving. '1'he "Osborne" ilat-houso in New York city, which is almost completed, is fifteen stories high. Rev. l)onnis Osborne, a native mis sionary from India, says his people have 333,000,000 gods. The Cape Cod canal dredger is the largest in tho world. It takes out 600 cubic yards an hour. "The razor of Daniel O'Connell" Is labeled for salo in a shop window near the Seven Dials, London. S:uel Noblo, of Annisfon, Ala., has given $20,000 toward founding a free high school at that place. 11 is estimated that upward of 500, 000,000 tons of canned goods are annu ally packed in this country. A Stuttgart doctor says that corpu lent persons may become thin by sleep ing on and wearing animal wool. Thirty vessels havo boon wrecked and sunk ofl Norwalk and Bridgewater on the ConILcticut shoals since 1882. . Eddie lunnell, living near Court land, Sacramento county, Cal., aged six years and three months, weighs 107 pounds. Oil-bearing strata exist in the neigh borhood of Sibi, Southern Afghanistan, and the ;overnment will begin boring next winter. A Walla Walla, W. T., man claims to have picked over 8,000 pounds of strawberries from loss than two acres of Vines this Se:ns(en. An astronomer who believes that the science depends much upon photog raphy edtiluates that it would take ten years to photograph tho heavens. A woman has recently patented a fire escape. What we must need In this leap year of our Lord is a man escape. Will some woman patent one? General Goorgo 11. Thomas' widow will make Washington her permanent hone in the future, and has already blgun the erection of a handsone rest rien' there. A huudred-ton cannon that was be ing fired for the first time recently at Gibraltar sp>lit or burst at the muzzle inl consequence of the shot not being ramlmed home1). An oht duck shooter calculates that broad bills fly at the rate of thirty-five o) 110 miles an hour and other varieties rromn forty-live or fifty to eighty and 100 luiles per' hour.* Th'lere ar 330 Colleges and univorsi ties in [lhe United States, of which only twenty four hatv( mnore than 250 stu tients, :o1) only sevenlteen have more lhan twevtnty teachers. Theic aire nine octogonarians in the British house of commons, the oldest being' eigh ty-thuree. One member, Col. Northu, whlo is eighty, has a son. with ort in the house of peers as Lr It has been observed that Miss Hurst the Georgia "magnetic girl," before 3xerting her powecrs h abitually passes icr hlands through 1hcr bangs. Perhaps der streng'th, like Samson's, lies in her mia)r. Theii study of the Irish la;iguage is >eoming.popular among many Irish. ncn mn this coulntry. In most of the argo cities there aro classes orgvanized or tihe purpose. I'The Philailelphia ~lassos, for instance, number fifty >upjils. It order to p)rovent haystacks being lestroyed b)y lire, farmers in the far vest scatter a few handfuls of common alt betw~een each layer. It Is claimed hat tho salt, by absorbing the hu nlidity of thle hay, prevents its fermen ation and consequent heating. Th'ie mortality of the whole globe has >een computed by a continental publi mationl at the following figures: Sixty mCven p)or minute, 97,700 per diem and 15,6319,835 per annum; whereas the *)rths are 80,792,000 per annum, 100, )CO per diem and 70 per minute. A mysterious and terrible creature known as th" "willipus wallipus" haa mad'e its aj aranco near Clarkaville, Te'o. A i.mber of citizens have seen it and thley say it Is bullet-DrOOf and br,lches fire. The "moonshinors" must be doing a good business in that part of the country. Robert Shnmato, of Nelson, Ky., got a "gar fly" in his ear while fishing. lIe knocked it out right away, but not until after it had deposited a lot of eggs. After suff'ering several dayse with carache, he called a doctor, who remnoved nuino screw worms from his ear, and there are more to come. A corrosplondenit says that a Phila, dolphin girl, who has lived in Europq since she was a child, will create a sen, iation at Lone Branch, where she will ipend tb'c sumrwer, by the extraordt. ary beauty of he: complexion. 1 Is is' aid she owes it all to the old reolpe q Iloop)ing every night with a piece of 'aw beef on1 each cheek. She has ,tva. iced this for eight years, and ano I iow only nineteen,