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77 -f. . , it OL. .IV P ' - T _ _ _ _ _ L VOL. XIV... PICKENS, S. C., THUJRSDAY~ JANUARY 29, 1885. NO Joseph Cook to Niagara. AJout threo n1onths ago the faculty 0 Wcllsley College, of which Mrs. Josepl Coo wais In early years tut Iitstrtuctress, wroto t theo Itov. Jost 11l Cook asking for an aut< graph sepitlnelt to place amuong the value amrehives of the collego. Ho responded wit - the following whiel has never beforo be prited: When lIonl fell, whero wert thou, colossi T nslow $ce(ssion thou hast vatn1ered baok: 'I'h("so 1nils of sot hing ehasin were thy track wVli'ii lost Atltutis sank, where dlidst tho' call 'T'o Ilt vexedl prccipitoes? What. if all Thy dates stoo on thy cliifs, froll the storlc sack Of ''roy to 1111 l1elu{m green Inei black, 1io ("loctuont. wer(+ tiy stor(A wall W l ien.irst ill thee was (lipped the swallow wilt;' whenl lienrd'st tliou first the shy brown wood thrush sing? Whlen thou and< man first mnet, hltt thou foi got? Whero wert thou In thy youth1; when mtt Was t iOt? Speak, tatc"le15 roarl for thout art old anl wise; Thy inemories aire 115s011Oldn ^ ilajestles! I hear the thIinder-ous thind, tihe mu1i1lk roar"; I ,ee the blnding, vlieolIlng, Sillitln. mist , 'I iC grec"ns and grays, purpll(s an1 atn( tllysts; Fronil Got1's wo1e palmn thy frlglitencd catt ratets pour;. Al i( 1 look lp heneat11 them tin1 adore. Albove mto tllttlg ebini lihtnintg on the intist O' stunter tei nwsts. Ill n1e 1(111onle lists Of contst uruthe tliuideri and thy shore. lieneath thiy (luiverin: rilen rocsks I li Ai gaze inito the ligltniiigs anl the sky, uliut I i nt" only hee,andl feel awnl s(e A h:la n 1that unde(lrirts i:nulnsily. 'thol 1 1(1'kest inucIt, b1t i11st thon spcalc'8liClt God, GOw, od walls on th w11atery rim. A SEASID)E M~ONSTIER, "I cnn't See whiat YOU Can) Want ru1 ninlg of], to the senstc 0 for, Edwin; yo had nearly a week at I)erby only la n Easter," grumtbled Al iss' loloa (ays, but g:thling abo t and holida 11a:kinlg. Whe 111 w ~as yo(ug w toughlt a quliect Visit to our relatior on(e in two years <Inite cainge enoug but,.mv - ''There, (1( 1 1)e 'oss, Aunt Mary I cnn't be ImewVeld 1 Pi i1,01dol (11rinl this hot Augus,tt weather", andi you mu111 confv:.s that I stick clos(ie ciioigh I business to deserve mny holiday when get one. I went to I)erhv on Imsines; you know,'' said Edwin, 1I bright, goot naturlIed, gent 0lmanlyV yoIgI follow; the fatti's of I W) old mlaid. "You' b etter go With m1e, Aunt Mary,"' jt contim(uod; the lebange would (do ya an( Aunt lieekv m)1ore g!ood than all ti doet.ors' stutY1. :"Nonsense!" snappedl the old lady "Change, indeed! That's just what w both ha:te, aind what eause.s more tha half the peophll1's illnes.----leaving the own h1Illom's, whiere everythin is w -lito after, to go and sleep in daml dirty hedis, and to 'at. half-cooked foot to be robldo riglt and left- they ca tha:t a holiday!"; "'And( t he.-:bs that, which doe)S n<c mattir to a y: an fellow like you as i wouh1l(1 to old folks like us,"' pt i Aunt I3eeky, solemnily, "there is tL 11uti ;r-"l(e ' ( Ilger" of 1tllg 1:t c201i1:11::1iOil.. "ie of some designing, pllntd0(1 Cre t11re getting hold of you, and mnakin yoI ma1rry her whether you will < "1 will :O1mise vou n one will hoh of me; so bc0 quite 0o ut don't worry your:4elf, aunt," antS-ere the object of their dIOub,t1, ad( fear; "I1 don't inte"nd to mlarriy for m1an1 ve:rs vet I like mtv li)erly too well and you 11k( 111e too comfourtalle." And witht this soothintg concllusiol 1Edwin Ilolih d 1i ten(, andl, his lp1'rll alrations h)emt2 >:con1 madle, a1 few d1:1 after Ile wa strollin;: tnl the 1elh I se:asl ton1' on the 1)1 (coat. * * * '1 * rlnakinig Itho preser01ves, :nd( 1 expe'ct m1 broth1ier' and11 11is wife 1to lunch, so that r'eally luve myii hands so1 full I CanntI her. illan t~ei1 Swansek imelis. G'l ('onl w1as 1not fill t wo, but tihe visitoi(1 nught arri ve at any momI1lent, so Shle s1 d'own conltentIedly inl the coo1 ldinline loked out1 at te waIves gent 1f ripplin m1 thle Auguist sunIsine, a1 tihe boat glidin g on1 th101 withI their white sail Spread11(, and1( she enlvied the1 people0 wh wee able111( to be out1 in tile sweet, co<( sea-air2, and( grewv restless and( (disco3 "Ailigh uttk oeltl u aunt just1 1toi th (klov (and back? 'i woul 1201 st ay3 (out too1 long,"' she ver ''My dlear, L wouild g,lliy let yo P4o; but, you1 knowIV how veryV strict wver ac(co(lmt to 10t you stray abouIIt by yom( self.' "'I kniow, altunt, and1( it is nonsens11e fe mianunI,a tringi30 me1 like at&l'I gragr'o.wt "l1iut y~ouI kno1w, d1ear, binig her 01n1 about11 yOu,"' an2swer'ed I -1s. Gra'n V '"1hen 1 wish I 1had( hIalf-a-lonen sigJ about11, and1( wathed( and2( wVorriedl over, wa'1s Kate('s ungacius eY. " ''Wl can1 mamnm111 plossibly seof danger mIy tak inig a wal(k by mlyself inl tisquIi "There(1( are alwayI(s mlonlster's of 801 kind lying m wait for thle younrr an pre't ty, my1 (dear; it is of thlese ou 1man11na) is fearful, ' answ11eredl~\ Eir Gray1, I iyig 1( ospeak serliouIsly, buIt mr able Lto repress'5 at meri'( twinlle in hc (lye. much01 pride to allowV any13 gentllemn: t sp)4'1k to1 111 wh'o 12uis not1 been1 prloperI 13nl'0 duc2(ed . I shiall neIIver do as 1poo1 1man3 she 1110 at1 Scarbkloough,and tile - i1( Indlse ihad marr1'1iedIlii herunele's clerk, and1( tile stately plose (If Kaltie's head0( I sh10 spoke WOulId havt~e befi Ittd a(1 duIl "' Ie lieve you1, 11y (lear Katie. Yo * will never, I amn sure, br'eak your1 mot011 er's heart' bly any foolish esc1laade." Te sh1ow your' trutl ill 111 by a1 lowing me a little libertyno andV~ti thler dlear aumtie. You often go (out whoi Lot me go out this morink; I' Wyo my word of honor no one shall speal to mp, and I will speak to no one.' k Aunts,need 'be mado of sterno o stnff than Mrs. Gray was composed o - to withstand the pleading of such (1 pretty winsome girl as Kate Leigh. STen minutes after, she was walkinl merrily along the Parade, alone, an a rejoicing in the unaccustomed senso e freedom. About half an hour's walk brougli u her to some sequestered spot midwa between the town and a small fishin a villagre. ' Here sho sat down to rest fo awhile in a natural grotto in the rocks whence she had a good view of the sea * Then she fixed her sunshade in front c hor to keep off tho sun's rays, and, prc ducing a novel from her pocket, sh - preparcd to enjoy herself for half -ai hour, at the end of which time she mus " return to be in time for-luncheon, a About five minutes elapsed,. and Ka tio was (le) in the interest of a thril d ling tale, wh1en "Whew!" came a sud den gust of wind, and away went he sunshade tmnbling over, and careerin gaily down the rocks. She rose, wit a little cry, to rescue it, when anothe little squall took the book from he e hand. I n desperation she prepared to de scen( the rocks. "Pray do not move! You might fal and seriously injure yourself. I wil t endeavor to recover your stolen pro: erty for you," cried a voice, and look iug round in perplexed wonder, Kati peCrceived a young man scramnblin; down the rocks after her sunshade. Had she not I ecn so immersed in he story, she might have been aware tha he had been watching her for the la4 nunute or so, tlinking what a prctt; picture she made sitting there. " ow awful provoking!" though Katie, instantly recognizing one of thl "monsters" of. her aunt's late conver :ltion. "What shall I do? I nis say 'thank yon' if lie brings it to me. lmost visi he may not get it! Shall (r( straight on and1 not wait for it? Nc that wouhl look too foolish.'' While she was still discussing the dif o ficulties of her position, tihe youIg gen ilemlan returned, 1l11shed and panitir; with his exertions, :ld restored her th sunshade and her missing leaves. He would have offered to carry then for her, but to his astonishment, sho o took them from him without even snile, and the stiffest possible "than you!" She turned her back on him, an( walked rapidly away. "What a qieer girl! Her manner 1 certainly does not match her looks,' rthought the young man. who was n other than our good-nature(d friend Edwin Holland. IIe had been struc wit I such a keen sense of admtiratio for Miss Katie, that her abrupt manne of receiving his lit tle service uonsidera bly disconcerted him. t ext evening lie was walking on th Pier when he saw her again, walkin with aln older lady. Io 0would havy (t passed on without the slightest sig - ithalt, no:a"gnized her, but' Mrs. (Gra L stopped him, and said, courteously: "I must thank you very sincerely fo the service you rendered my niece, yes terday. It was extremely kind of yo to take so much trouble." (1 "Oh, prav don't! , It was nothing nothing at all,'' answered Edwin, coil fnsed at the uinex eeted meeting, an feeliIg, "it II nmuh vexation, that tl capacity for intelligent conversatio had deserted him. The ladies bowed (Kate with a prett; smile that made her look prettier that A ever) and passed on their way. From that day Edwin haunted tho like a shadow; he was madly in lovi with Kate, but could find no opphor'tunii tv to nmke her acqutaint ance. Soimetimnes lie wished that she wvoul fall kito thle sea, that lie might pluing in and pull heri out, or that a terribi1 storm would come on and frighten bi so t hat she wvould gladly niee >t his prc tuteton IBit iot.hing of the 'ind hap penied. Tlhiings went on in a provok while his holiday was swiftly- exyi-ini and lie knewv that lie would leave hi Iheart behind hinm whien lie left Swanis -combe. s And Kate? Ahi! p)roud(ly as she hat - kept to her resolve, she cotuld not hli s feeliing a strange initerest in thle hand t some younRg fellow wvith the good, earr ( St face, wvho seeimed instinctively I 3 know whier'e she wvouild he, vet whios Sgenutlemanly itnstinets kept him fi'or 5 the slighitest i nt ruusiotn. s Mi's. Gr'ay watedt the alhiir with st . ci'et amuiis-emenut; slie wainted to see lie pr)ietty niece marri'iy well, anid she ha atseritainied that this young "mnonister, who had thus appeared on Kate's ver first walk alone, wa:s the junIor partnc m i a well-kn ow L ondoni firm; if, t herr -fore lie hiad taken more t han a passini fancy to her neice, it would b)0 a capite ithing for the gui. , On the very laist, (liy of his stay a h waiiseombe, feeling desperate, Edwii - dalled oni Mi's. Grauy, though lie turne hot anut cohol as lie stoodl on the step1) r' and felt a relief lie cotli iai'dly analyz - when lie saw that thle I ldy was alone i the dlraw'ing--room.i V IHe wvenit away t riuphan t aind viete s iouts, anid i'eturn'ied to towvn with a fac so brighit aiint inanni ier so 'hdeirv, thia - his aunits wer'e forced to confess that Ci thle a1ir' at Swvanseoiiibe hiad evideiitl1 augre'ed withI hii''. tMArs. Gray s:.id niot a worid to lie la niiece of her uanmiruer's vis- t, and shi tsaw with satis0c,tlonl thaRt K itie misset him i when thli'y went ouIt, at'' t hat sh a dlid niot niow show so111 muh anlxiet.y t. .go out by herself. .' Th'e auituiimn w',as over', winter fiad se -ini, ain1i Katie was at home againi. .'"Iave aniot her plate laid thIiis even r ig, my dPalr; I have invitted a yountR frinda to dIinle here,'' sait d Ar. Leigh t n;1iwife as lie wvent out onle mnling. LI llero was a siiall dinnRer- >ar.ty a) rthe Leighis that eveRning, and0 1 niti wva V In the drawing-oom,1 tr'yinge to onlivei ter frienids In that, try'~ing t.izi just 1)e aL foreilier Is annlouinedt, wihien lie , fattier eniteredl with the ne0w guest. 'Katie, mf~ (leai', this is Au'. hlolland ~'Il eave.you to amultse him for awhile. Mr. Leigh tunied to his other rn. andl Katie looked upl with pleasa Ssmile to behold hier liuko yn caaien Swanscombule. it was. Katie wVhot was tonigue-tiet and1( stupid n1ow with astonishment; hu it did not malitter', as Edwin found phln 1ty to say, and1( talked away aus if tho - woro 01(1 fu'ienmt Q the 'e.at Indg. tion of two of Katie's other adnirors, C who were ready to knock him down when Mrs. Leigh asked him with much i L Sweetness (having heard from her hus f band of his unmistakably good position) I to take Katie down to dinner. That was a very happy evening, and 1 1 was followed by many another like it. I f Soon after Edwin wrote a glowing f letter to Mrs. Gray, informing her of his engagement to Ratio and his per t fcet happiness. When they were married in the au- t 1 tumn, his aunts were obliged to confess t r that his bride was not one of the paint- I ed creatures who alone, existed in their imaginations, as denizens of the sea- I I side. - Bat Mrs. Gray often laughs when 3 Edwin and Katie visit her, and tells 1 him that, after all her mother's warn t ings, it was very sad that the naughty t girl should have found a monster and - insisted on making a pot of him. 1 - -|- - 1 Amusing Printers' Errors. r The unlucky poet who wrote: Sec the pale Inartyr In his sheet of firci r must have been completely crushed L when the line appeared as: See the pale martyr in his shirt of firo! We can sympathizo also with the poet who, writing of his love, asserted that ho had "kissed her under the silent i I stars," and found the compositor made - him state that he "kicked her under the collar stairs." True, it has been doubt 3 ed if these two poets ever existed; but others, of less mythologic fame, havo suffered as badly at the hands of the r printer. Burns, in a cheap edition of t his works, is made to say: 0, gin my love were you red nose. A well-known temperance lecturer was indignant at finding the sentiment as scribed to him that "Drunkenness was 3 jolly," whereas he had declared that it - was "folly." t Much surprise was occasioned by Sir I Archibald Alison, in his "History of I Europe," including among the persons present at the funeral of the Duke of Vellington the name of "Sir Peregrine - Pickle. ' There can be little doubt 1 - that the author had made an uncon i scious slip, intending to name Sir Per 3 egrine Acton. Sir Thomas l3rassey having referred in a speech to the "Gol I denl Treasury of Songs and Lyrics,"1 3 the coml)ositor transformed the title 1 I into the "Golden Treasury of Soups and Cynics.' A report in a Manches r paper of a recent dramatic perfor p mance mentioned the well-known farce of "No. 1 Round tho Corner" under the s amusing and suggestive title of "No One Round the Corner." 3 In the following instance it was no - doubt a bachelor compositor who, in C setting up the toast, "Woman, without I her man would be a savage!" got the r comma in the wrong place and made - the sentence read, "Woman, without her mlan, would be a savage!" The deplorable state of the press in Field's time may be realized frogp the ' fact that Bishop Usher, on his way to t preach at Paul's Cross, asked at a sta r tibner's for a copy of the Bible, and on examining it found to his astonishment r that the text from which he was about - to preach was not in the book! The I well-known ''Vinegar Bible" was pub lished in 1717, and obtains its name - from the Parable of the Vineyard being - printed as the Parable of the Vinegar. 1 1 One of the most willful alterations of 3 the text, and one which cost its perpo- I I trator her life, was committed by the widow of a German printer. One night, ' while an edition of the Bible was being < I printed in her house, she took the op portunity of altering the word Uerr I :into "Narr," making the verso road, 3i ''lie shall be thy fool," instead of ''He - shall be thly lord.'' A Glasgow divine, and1( one of her3 i.Majesty's chiaplainls ill Scotland, was lately reported as sayinig that "'person 3 ally ho0 violated the Lordl's Day as , . uchl as any member of the court." - .'"Venerated"' was pIrobably the wvord(3 - actually used by tile reverenld gentle. - man.-thU/and>crs' Journal. , The GoodI Womlan's Logic. - Dr. Kimball, of Saco, Me., wilo is one of the oliest and most widely Sknown practitioners ill York county, .tells a good story of himnself. lie hlad -attended an old gentleman dulring ai -lingei'mng illness, and1( about a year af 3 ter is decease senlt in his b)ill, whiichll 0 amliount.ed to a conisiderable sum11, to the 1 widlow. IIle repeated tihe pIrocess threo tinies wVithloult1 eliitiing a rep)ly, 1and( I then'l called, lie wvas pult off from timoli to timle, until patienlce ceasedi to be a virtue, and ti.eii he( agtainl called wvith < griii dietermlina:tionl im his character. " 'omie, miy goodh woman,'' said he, r whiein the deilngIuent appeared, "'I have waited long enloughl, andl must haivo imy mlon'ey '' Fixmig upon01 im ia look of wvitherimg eonltemp 1t and brandishingc her broom ini his face, she replie: I I "'You've beenl here thbree times for that c mloney, bu1t, I'll pay my hlonest deObts, I thank ye, before I pay liy dloctor's bills." ''Thie grood phlysiciani was so we~vll lelased withi the iogie of his debt Ior that lhe receip)ted the bill on thet sp)ot.-lboston Ciouricr. W .hen M'hrs. TIoo(les wais Younig. T 1hie method0( of condulctinl the nue tion Hales t wenity-iive or 1F0irty yearsr ago was pecuiliar. Previous to thle sal10 eachl person1 desirouls of pulrchasing fur.. i nisihed the auictione(er with tile nam l111 under which lie could bid. Thuts, .John r SSmith, of P'ittsbuirg, bid not as .John 3 811mithi, but as5 "P1ittsThu rg." 'Th''e boo0ks were pult up1 ill lot s.'t an the auct ioneer proceedled to1 obta:in ids4. llIavinc clic itedi the highest piossible figure, 'if the I ~ first bidlder didi inot dlesire tile entire lott any other personl could( take the re a mlainlder at the same1( pricre. Should 1 tthis not be t he case, tile remaining boo0k1 werei the pu1 lmt uIp and1 the hiddiing 9 recommienicedl. O f fifty volumes of t I Shakspeare "Plittsburg'' might take tell. .lhe reply wasl p)romplt, "'Lancas ter ten,'' "'Lastonl five,'' "NorristownC two,"' "Hlartfordh tell,'' and so on. In I this way halif a million dlollars worth of I books woul .9ometiimes be wvorked off c ill a week.-lJ%ila<lelphia News. llostonl has1 anm appl)e mnission whlichl I -listribultes -1,000 or 5,000 bushels of I I pples among tile poor every year. Comp jarison with this scheme ought to 1: - make tile average tract society go oft I )iadsoti~l CREOLE LOVE-MAKING. )angers of Flirting In the French Portion of New Orlea. the Down in the old French portion of and gow Orleans it is highly unsafe for era roung unmarried men to venture alone, thri vrites a correspondent. The black- Th< yed beauties are only too glad of the the .anco to capture an American, and gra vill resort to all sorts of devices to en- rec, rap the unsuspecting youth. In order A o depict for our Northern friends this roa )cculiar phase of creole character, I wid vill relate the true story'of the exper- owi once of my friend, Jack Laflance, who she oli a victim to creolo strategy not long rigl go. unt Jack met the beautiful Melanie at a oireo dansanto on the Rue Bon En- of I ants. Being a good dancer and also ey, L first-class waiter, he was Mile. Mo- ' anie's partner for many figures, and agi )y a judicious use of cream and oake ing rained the good will of Melanie's mam na. An invitation to call next Sunday froi was accepted, and the visitor entreared hay o "call again." Jack did so upon the law iunday following, and was so cordially rig] eceived that he repeated his visit a Pm hird time. For my friend Jack was mn innocent soul, totally ignorant of turl creolo customs, and he walked rio-ht ' uto the snaro. On his third call Mo- of anio's papa tappd him on the shoul- Jus for and said: I'll "M'siou Laflanco, I would lak fo' see har (ou one minute," and led him to the a v lining-room. Suspecting nothing, chi Tack followed him. Once there the old her entleman produced a decanter and ) ;aid: mo1 "Mon ami, tek some cognac You um will fin' it ver' fine. My fodder buy it ' [rom Cavaroc. Ah! you lak it, ehP bac rek cigar-ncvah min , thass a real foh lavana, shuah. Now, Iron' Laflanco, his you lak fo' know fo' w'at I want see you-oh bien? M'sieu Laflance, I have A iotiz yo' attentions at my daughter"- me bere the luckless Jack began toprotest. evc "0, I am not displeaso', my-do' young las man. My fai'ly, soh, is one of the ai )es' in the city. Yes, sah, we are nl twenty-firs' coozin with Jean Baptiste ' St.-Louis do Lormo; whose gran'fodder atti dap that Spanish canaille, O'Reilly, on the ckik a hondred year ago, as yo' will abc in' wrote down in Ga yarre. But, my rag ren', whoso those Yankee r-r-rascals dot ek ou' plantations an' ou' nigroes, seh, and ye was force' to leave ou' place, selh, wit in' come yoh an' work, yes. An', knc imi Lallance, I do not objec' to my roli laughtah choose ye' fo' husban', no.', [ere the unfortunate Jack broke in lon vith: "But, my dear sir, you are mis ;aken. I did not make loo to your any laughter." The old gentleman bristled An ap. "My do' seh, I love my fam'ly. na l'hass my h'only thing yeh on earth. goi You have visit Melanie Sunday after bui Sunday. You have talk with her, sid lance with her, sing with her. You fau have compromise my. daughter, schl' l'hero is no otheh co'so .lof' a man of Ma hionah, seh, thali to imiai'y her; yes, seh, to ma'y her." Sol "But, sir," blurted out Jack, "I am chi nly a poor clerk with $50 a month, I'ml ind could not support a wife even if I don wanted one." feel "Ah, mon cher, thass all 'ight- vol he m onnaio is nothing. You don't Do atcli motch, thass true. But fo' in S ,hat I don' keh mne. You como live ,,eb, yes. 'hen, afteh w'ilo, when yo' >atron lie got fo' lak you mo' and give ou r-r-raise to seventy-fi' dollah, we T viii do ver' well, yes. So thass all fix, exc ,hi? Come, you tk-soime mo' cognac. unli \li! mon cher Lailanco, you don't know eni v'at it is to be a fodder, I suppose? He 'lien you can't nevah on'stan' 'ow self, >lnaei nfeel when a young manlak you pig mask mec fo' miy daughtah! Yes, salt, diwi 'out are the only young mian w'at I to t vouldl rattahi have my daughttahi than was noes' anybody w'atevah, seh!'' tian "So wo will eomoi back to the salon, nit v'ehi I will tell to Melanie I have granit yet, .'o' denmand. M'sieU 'utLallance, alt, to era: elI yo>u the trut', you did not tek me by eon oppriso, nio. Alh, a fodder can su non .'en his daiughtahl love a young~ man! egg Xn' Melanie, she .love you, ahr! site ble lreaLm of you all nighst, yes. Alt, salt, twil v'en a St. Louis do Lorutt love she at v mevah lot go, no, bXrt she, lak the poli- jc can, she die firs'. c '"Thass all 'light. ami Jack, I othi vill see Pero ho Cure, an' we dog sill mek the annttouncement nex~t q.ua sund(ay. You camn get onto It'll sit 'ing, yes, an' Melaic will be ready car or niext miont. I know you don't want the *e wait long. Allous, let t!5 tell thtemth v'at we have nrrango." And oft Jauck H vas hustled to the patrlor before htotta ould say Jack Robinson. And though, la ~S it happened, Melanie has proveni an he xcellent wife, there are mtany whlo are rot Melanios, andt( it is to put our visit-st nig friends next winter upon theirpr uard against the wiles of designing to i roole papas that I am constrnainod toto ublishi this true story of Jack Laflane's habi ourtship. wob A Racny Rant Story. the tival A large numbher of rats established with htemselves in a bay-loft, about miidwg.y with 'etween the floor and the to1) of tho excc ray., T1he owner of the promiisos, men caring a continuous squealing noise pure ni the l oft, took a fork and removed duhg he hay from the place whence the off'sj roise p)roceedod and uncovered a nest PP >f about twenty rats. Several of themuT an and were caught by tho dog, but a . mnrdle of sixteen full-grown aninials I emaiinedt on the sp)oti their tails were such >laited together, somiethting aifter thefo ashioni of a whbip-cord. 13' pickintg u sort. 'no of them the rest adhered anid cou end1( rot be shaken apart. It was supp)losed 1)10' >y' por'ns wIho sawv them that in order ce o avoid the coIl the rat occup)ying the nian opof the pile sought am warmer placo shio' y creeping underneath, but not hav- lu ng room to draw his tail after himt itJa utas left sticking otT the next rat (lid wa lie same, and so on until all had r9il hangod their poeAtioni and every IndI-- 0(1 a 'iunal rat's tail was onntwvinedl into the im al unious knot that bold thtem together. Ilow f they' had riot been discovered randA illed they nmust have starved, as they cAg ould not have separated. ea James Gor'don llenneott has toldi a itiesi 'rench papler that wvhen the Mackey.. feed otniett cale getA"mr thiorough work- mioh rag order, not only all the fore igni news, cose ut all the leading editorials of the New and ork Herald will be cabled from Len- men on. ge . A Devoted Mother. then Mal. Converse was laying out line of the Galveston, Harrisburg San Antonio railroad ho spent sov 1 days in obtaining the right of way mgh the little town of Kingsbury. ro was considerable opposition on part of some of the citizens to nting the right af way unless they iived extraordinary remuneration. .mong those who regarded the rail d as a nuisance was a hard faced ow of about 50 years of age, who ed a small farm. She said that if was not compelled to have $100 it oft she would fight the company it a certain warm place froze over. That 'ore road will run over some ny cows, but I've got to have mon ' she said. It will not be as bad as you im no," replied Maj. Converse, sooth t will be a heap wuss. The sparks n the locomotive will set fire to my stacks. But necessity knows no . I reckon I'll have to sign the it of way, but I'd rather take I don't think that you will be dis >ed as much as you suppose." I never expect to get another wink sleep at nights for them trains. t know my health'll break down. be in my grave before a year, but d out yor hundred dollars and it's hack. I'll do it on account of the ldren. What won't a woman do for own flesh and blood?" fajor Converse handed over the noy and the woman signed the doc ent cheerfully. 'Do y'ou really nieed the money so ty?' asked Major Converse, as he led up the document and put it in pocket. 'The worst in the world, stranger. ,entloman from Galveston-a drum r, I believe they call him-visits me ry time he comes to this town. The time he was hero ho called me his clle, and wanted mle to sit on his .e, but I told him, 'no, not yet.' " 'I understand. He is paying you ntions." And he's going to be here again in ut two weeks. He is right on the ed edge of proposing, but if 1 t encourage him he may grow cold listless. It may be good-by-John me unless I do my part. You v how men are. They are so on sble." Yes, I understand, You want to I him the money," said Converse. Not much I'm going to lend him money. But I'm going to San ,one to-morrer, and I'll buy me a r silk dress and a new hat, and I'm rg to have a new set of false teeth lt, and if I ain't Mrs. Drummer in of three weeks, it won't be my It." Do you really love kim?" asked j. Converse. No, I'll never love again. But ho's dad to the children, and ry poor dron need a protector so bad, that ready to make any sacrifice. I 't think we ought to take our own ings into consideration when the fare of our offspring is concerned. you know who is the best dentist an An toneP"- Texas S'ftings. An Eccentric Pigeon. lie present writer knows a pigeon of )edinly eccentric disposition, not ko ''th e single gentleman" in Dick "Curiosity Shop'' in his habits. keeps seven pigeon-boxes all to him and persecutes relentlessly any ~ons which propose to share their flings with him. lie is as averse lie society even of the gentler sex as St. Anthony himself in the Egyp deserts. .Not au pigeon will lie ad within the circle of his swvay. And in sp)ite of this resolute and irnvet ;e bachelorhood, this eccentric pig is always erndeavorinig to buiTd s, and lookinmg out for objects of an like formi, which lhe thiinks it possi to hatch, lie will accumulate as andI straws now here, now there, cry great p)ains aind labor. Hoe coo somietirmes to inanimiate ob s, sometimes to cap)tive birds of an r breed, somectirmes to a kitten or a or even a flower-pot, with the intest andI politest antics, iIe will patiently on china-saucers en the tel-piece of onie room, while lie ac mlates the materials for a nest on top of a closet in another room. I"o not even drive away tn:o possi nother of a family with moreo zeal lieo shows In seeking to be a good er to some imiaginary chick whI ich icmns to expect to elicit fromni a rinig d or a letter-weight. SG far as the ont writer can jundge, lie il4 a pigeon rong hialthiusian views, who hopes augurate a new regime which nmay the same relatiomn to the ordinary ts.of pigeons which the Positivist hip bear4 to the other religions of vori. lie hopes to foster andi cul .tho family aind p)areinal idoea Ou t anly ,correspond inig reality, out any aid from outsidle, indleed, pt anaparatus of external cere y,hchfignis the existence of a ly ideal mate, amnd affects to in e.i the expectatin of impjossihlo rmng. -" A nial Eccentfricitics,'" in nlar Science Mfonthly for Decembcr. 0o fashionable flower at this seasoni 1o chr'ysanthenmium. It presents a variety of shapes andi hues as to by itself a bouquet of the loveliest .1'here are colors ailimost without -maroon, violet, eimnnarmomi, punr buff, ruby, orange, pin k, salnmon, ry, ivory arnd silver white, aind y ethers. At the chrysanthnemniin in New York one of the miost cur exhibited was Juliums Sharofl, a nese variety. 'Tho blossomi showni about five iches ini d iametor, the I. edi rays of a (lark rose color, curv-e id twisted qwith the t ips pointinyr j I directions, mnakiing it a miarke<l h staitisticiani has found thai t the av eage of nmani -in the paist forty a s hasL ad1vainced t hiee yeairs. Tlhis .rtiiall1y'(due to1 thle toiigheinlg qual ini the imodlern adiult iition of 4 and liquiors. Logwood p)ort wine, ~ t 5sses whi.sky, oleomiuargarine, ght- ~ (cottIonl oil, anid other vegetable mineral c4onstituents of the refresh HIsupplies w"ere sitranmgors to the ohld tiinieh Imaginary Diseases. "A great deal of what passes for heart desaso is mild dyspepsia," iaid i a young physician yesterday. "Ner.. s ousness is an aristocratic name for irri- p tability and bad temper, and two-thirds of the so-called malaria is nothing but i laziness. A follow practitioner onoe m told me of an old lady he know in Now. is buryport, Mass. She had kept her bed for three years, and, in spite of her physician's assurances, she believed c herself hopelessly paralyzed. One b night her grandson got up a ghost to scare her, and the old lady run half a mile before they could catch her. a "The longer an hallucination is in- P dulged the more deeply rooted It be- t comes. In many cases it ultimately m develops into monomania or delusional insauity. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell per- o forms many of his most remarkablo 0 cures of so-called nervous diseases ti simply by his wonderful success in per- m suading patients that nothing on earth ails them. Few physicians have the sc ability to (10 this, and still fewer have A the discretion to adopt a course of '1 treatment adapted to the mental pocu- r liarities of each particular case. Some times persuasion is necessary, but I frequently, a little tonic combined with It a good scolding, produces the desired s result. "When a delusion is harmless it is often the best plan to humor it. A relative of mine, who was a clergyman lived for several years in my family. a le firmly believed that ho could not sleep after preaching on Sunday night I unless he was put under the influence i of an opiate. Time and again I have h seen him dose ofl' as soundly as a tired child, after taking a teaspoonful of t sweetened water, which I had pro- ( scribed as 'morphia.' Without this 8 harmless little dose, however, ho would V toss about restlessly for hours. t "The negroes indulge some very fun ny superstitions about diseases and s their cures. One of the things of which G they have a horror is the common dif- d culty known of elongation of the pal- g ate. When I was practicing as a now- n ly-fledged student in Virginia, an old negress called upon me one evening. Her hair was pulled back froru her forehead and knotted with a cord in a tight bunch on the crown of her head. She was suff'ring from a bad cold. "'Mars' doctor,' she said, 'i'so afraid l'so got fallin' of de palate. I'so done tied uIp my harr' as hard as I can, but it don t 'pear to make it no better, an' ti I 'spects iebby I need some pills.' d "I examined her throat and found A nothing the matter but slight inilamma- P tion. 'Idon't think you need any pills, t auntie,' said I. 'If you can only got cl your hair tied up a little closer for a day or two I have no doubt your pal ate will shorten up all right.' She came a in again in a few days and told md she I( was much better, but her 'ole man' had I Wed her hair so hard that she had to i sleep with her eyes open, ''cause she s couldn't even make a wink.' "--7ila- f :lelphia Tin?cs. i The Decay of the Dude. C The knell of destiny has struck, and b the dude must go. The samo cosmic t principle which folded away in the t archives of geologic history of the once agile ichthyosaurus and the foro- a cious trilobite has clutched in its resist- a less embrace this swcat, young species ( of the genus homo, and is slowly wrap- t pmg it in the cerements of tradition. e llen as a sappy, verdant fern, plucked ) by some gentle maid in summer rain bles, and pressed with care in her red inel " vangelin,'' but forgotton amidl the ensuing gayetics of social life, the fair, shiort-lived1, emerald-hued dudo(1 will soon pass into oblivion. Vor ily, all tiesh is grass. t lie whio studies the testimony of the y rocks soon learns how slight a chian go t of circumstances avails to work do- c strucetion. D)iro catastrophe, the up heaval of an ocean's bed into air, or the submierging of a continent, has, In deed, more than once been the abrupt and wholesale instrument of slaughter. Yet this is the exceptioni andl not thec rule. Nature p)refers more gradual ~ methods. Speies after species evolves, exists, and dies. Solme slight mnodifica tion~ of env~iron ment suffices first to i lecinmat e and then to extinguish thet whole family.v And so, analogy warns us, will it be with the altogther-too-ovelyfor-ny thiing and1( yet ne(ver-quite-to-the-utter miost-applreiate~d dude(1. For a chan go 0 Eias ('nine - niot ov'er the spirit of his ! ream; for onlhy er,catuires with brains a [iave dIreamis b ut over the cut of his * trousers. Thuiis far it has becen with al lum a1 sur2vival, niot of the fittest, nort f the titter, but of the fittedl; very ~losely fit ted, too(. 1 ut 1no longer shall I he draupery of is niethier limb>s cling, d v'it h thle adhIli~ esieess of a plaster, to W is attenuatedi form; in the spacious .01(s of the raimnent which the latest " ashioni deces, lie can but collaso mddisappear. So adicalh revolution ni thle (circumst ances of his existence oc canniot hope to survive. His fato is a paled. And( 'with a tear in the e,ye, ce mdIA quill over the ear, thle historian fr4 ernd rasaks the p)ig'ou-hioles of as nimuien t aundh iiemory and1( prepares to Ini eite his (career.-N. Y. Tr:bune, in "Filiiging the sto)ckings." es ~~~ in An 01l1 tinme wedding freak was the sa ustonm of '"flinging the stockings,'' at to vh ich the bridesmaids took a p)romIi- w< ent lead, a ceremiony to which no of niall imp~ ortanlce was attached. It has th een2 made the subject of frequent al- al usions by our old writers, andl one w. hiyme, describing a wedding, tel us: a "'lut still the stockings lare to throw - to Sone,, throw too hIgh, ian<l 801me too low, is 'theri a none coukd hit the mailrk."' ci Missioii further informs us that if the er ridegrooui's stockings thrown by onea f the bridlesmiaidls fell uiponi his ioadl, se was regardied as an omien that she A erself would soon) be mairried; andi a ho mniiar pirognostic was takeni from the y Wling of tihe bridec's stockings thrown v y' onie of the groomumneni.-Ca~ssell's lagazine. - - --- thi Among a yt of muodhrn proverbs "I cnt to a L~ond(on nlewspaper dvero a biese: ."It's a p)oor miianiR who can't d 'low his own trunipet.'' "Tho want of r~ toney is the r'oot of all evil.'' "If you'd ti now a mani's character follow hiim a omie-'' "Only whispor adl n s cho Is heard bv y cadlano GLFANINGS. There is a movement on foot In Eng.. mnd, participated in principallff by tfie entlts, looking to &e abeltioa of rivto,insane asylums. The Popes one of the busiest men L Europe. ls time, from early orning to late a ht is completely ken up by business a allers. A Massachusetts man h covered sure cure for sea-osikness. a )untor-Irritant in the shape of a m istor application behind the ear. A recent estimate, made by means of very intricate testing apparatus, laces the rate at which an electric dot avels over a telegraph wire at 16,000 ilos per second. Recently in Paris. during the session the Congress of the Free-Thinkers, to ominent thinker, striking an atti ido passionately exclaimed: "Gentle en, I am an atheist-thank God!" A Now York street oar company mds cars to Japan. Australia. Bueno* yres, Santiago, Calcutta and Berlin. ho company makes 600 cars annually, nging in price from $950 to $1,200. A clean and perfect vopy of John unyan's "Pilgrim's Progress," 1678, as just been added to thu British Mu, 3um library. Only three other copies ro known, and but two of these are orfect. Professor Baron Nordonskjold is bout to vary his arctic experiences by n attempt to visit the south pole. He as gone to St. Petersburg in order to iterest several influential porsons.ln is now enterprise. A brick in the gable end of an old overn at Hancock's Bridge. Salem unty, N, J., bears the initials of "W. H.' The were placed there by Villiam and Sarah Hancock, who had lie house built in 1734. Herr Myor, a Gorman statistician, nys that 95 per cent. of the people of 'ermany receive loss than a dollar a ay. 1 ho sudden and formidable rowth of Socialism in that country May thus be understood in a measure. 1'he Progres Medical describes two ow Oriental poisons, which are said to o innocuous when taken into the Lonach, but have the remarkable uality of immediately arresting the etion of the heart when introduced tto the blood. The discovery of a silver mine dis. -iet sixty miles by thirty on the bor ers of Now South Wales and South ustralia, is the excitement in t*oso arts. In one instance a mass of two ns yielded 10.000 ounces. A. similar iscovery is also announced in another art of New South Wales. Bismark evidently thinks that it is a easy to make a horse drink as to ad him to the water. lie caused a w to be passed forbidding the inhab ;avts of the duchy of Schleswig-Hol toin, recently wrested from Denmark, rom -speaking the Danish language. von school children are punished rhon they speak among themselves in heir native tongue, and so far has this iw boon carried, that a young girl's irthday festival was broken up and io guests arrested and fined because iey sang some old Danish folk songs. During the Franco-German war Mots nd Paris communicated with the out do world by carrier-pigeons, and the erman Generals decrared them con aband of war. They continued how vor, to be introduced into France from Algium, where they are a specialty, igeon-racing and breeding having long een a national sport, there. The Bel. ium societies were never more flour ihing than at present, and are verf articular in regard to breeds, the ntworp being the favorite; in some of he!r nurseries the boxes are mahogany, rith solid silver embellishments. Thir y miles an hour is the average speed f the Antworp pigeon, which always escends at night for shelter and re ese, the carrior's flight being uided by sight alone. In France, by a refinement of judicial ruolty, the dat of execution is not nlown until the previous evening. otices are then sent to the gov ~nor of the jail, ixocutioner and chap im. From the hour of his sentenc~ 10 criminal is dead to the world. En.. roned by guards, he is taken to a cell ith two beds, one of which is occupied r' a monster (prison spy). He is put to a suit of rough canvas shirt, wool. 1 trousers and felt shoes. A shiort aistcat of canvas, openaing behind 1(d securedl with leather straps is fixed rer this suit, and the long sleeves are tached to a cord which passes around e thighs, so that ho cannot lift his mads above a certain height, and is al oat helpless to perform the most or nary movemont. is food is taken ~th a wooden spoon. A warder and ndarmo keep perpetual watch. He ay sleep or smoke or cat, but no vlsi rs are admitted no? any tidings from o outer world. The German newspapers report that very destructive insect has been r -4 utly introduced into that countr >m the United States. It is dosedbed a mothi, imported with wheat or dian corn, and ceapable of reproduo. itself rapidly. The a)pearan0e of ainsect has caused no little alarm,i pecially among the millet., because some mnstances it has become noces. ry already to suspend work .in order free the bins and machinery which ire choked by the lodgement in them myriads of the pest. Herr Z/eller, o well-known entomologist, has elas. led this small butterfly, the worm of iich only lives upon flour or ieal, as P'hicyde. TIhis injurious moth is said have been first seen in HIolland 14~ 79, since which time It has spread ormously to Ger many. 'The remark Io part of this story is that this in at, if it exist. in America at all, gaas t been talked of on this side of- the lantic. If, indeed, it has. its origin ro, it certainly must require the SON. age to develop it. hurtful cha. 'If Noah and his family," remarka - ad no been in the ark that foate4 on the water, th~ey would have been >wnedl, as all the rest of the peple re." Nothing quite so obvious as a has been uttored sine. Sau*Peteh's 1ous declaration that WaAtig