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..)# i + r" h r .r r f F *M " ' ^ 1 t VOL_Xv PLOK:ENS, S. C., THUR.SDAY, OCTOBER2,185]Q One of the Pack. I see how It Is; I'm one of the pack A paltrv playing card: nothing more. You shufilo and deal, then take me back, Or toss me.to IHo where I was before. There are royal heads at your mimio court, But they fare no bettor: they're In the same Oxz; For you vary the usual order of sport: You take wbt you please while you play )"our"trioku. No doubt it serves well as a source of fun To match your lovers, this one against that Though perhaps when the evening s amuse went is done And the pack put aside, we seem rather flat. But suppose that by chahee in the dead of the When you dream with disdain of our being Inert, We should break your repose, rising up in our might, And declare to your face that our feelings are hurt? Fo', whatever you fancy we each have a soul. And the rules that apply hero are oddly so planned That while we seem bent to your fnger's control. And are played with, yet we two are taking a hand. Don't you see that a sequence of hearts you mnty break Whilc attemnpting one mean little trump spot to savo, Or succumb to an equally luckless mistake And lot a king go for the sake of a knave? Does Tom's Diamond to you, or Is it my heart? Thoradece, after all, will perhaps end the Then, again, you may yield to young Alger non Smart, Or the one-eyed old banker's Cyolo an ace. The game's to be Lottery-so you sad Or Matrimony? No; both. I deelarel Why, the next thing 1 know you'll take to Old And leave me to sorrow and Solitaire. Cress purposes still! This never will do. You ve begun Vingt-et-un; I'm at Thirty one Just ten years apart. Ah, I wish I knew Sonmo smoother way to make matters runI You change the game like'a pantomime; And now it's Euchre, I really believe, For you're trying to cheat me half of the time. With a"little joker'"-a laugh in your sleeve. Let us end this nonsense! What do you say? Leave me out, and go on with the rest, Or throw the whole heap of cards away, And steko your all on a mnnn as the best. You can't manage love according to Hoyle And yout' effort. to do so you surely would 4 rue; Besides. what's the use of such intricate toil? You shall win all the games If I only win you I -Geo. Parson Lathrop, in Editor's Drawer, Harper's Magazine for September. HE WAS AN ARTIST. He had a studio on Chestnut street before his arrival it was known as an attic. It had that trade mark peculiar to an artist's den, namely, dust and disorder. But this morning there was a suspicion of neatness in the arrange ment of many unfinished canvases; some of the dust and dirt had been re moved, though a few spider-wobs lurk ed in the corners. However, takino all into consideration, it was not so baa a place as it might be. So thought its sole lord and master, by namo David Marvin, as he sat be fore his easel, putting in a little darker background to the lovely fpco he was painting. Perhaps you might not call it lovely, but I assure you that the art ist thought those deep brown eyes, the auburn hair, and the firm red lips something extraordinary. "So you think a broom and water has somewhat improved the appear ance of my room, Miss Lothorp, ' he was saying to the original of the por trait. -"I do, indeed; I believe if I hadn't reminded you in time you would have been entirely lost in the lacework those little creatures were spinning about you," she replied, laughing, and flash ing a glance of those liquid orbs at Marvin. "I wish she wouldn't do that," he thought, bending his flaxen head to avoid any more flashes let us suppose. "By the way, you wished to see those new w ater-color sketches of mine, didn't you?" "Yes, I should like very much to see them, Mr. Marvin." There was no mistake this time; the eyes had a curious gleam that caused. the painter to dive into a corner in an agony of search for the sketches. But whliat was this? Bump, bump, up the stairs it canme, and amnid a great hoaval of sighs the door was swung open, and in the open portal appeared a personage of great proportlens; an immense white chip bonnet adorned. with flaming red roses and blue rib bons, a purple gown, green-flannel bag of dimensions unknown, and a white cotton ulmbrella made the tout ensem ble. "Laws a mercy, D)avy! But them be the awfulest stairs I ever seen. Hero am I, a-blowing like an old whale, and never a breath of air in this stujo of y<ours; It oughter been called stewpan, It's my opinion. Ho, he!" Miss Lothorp had withdrawn into a corne,r by the window at the panting dame's unceremonious arrival, and was now oyoing her gaudy attire with bad ly coneenled merriment on her face. "And never a cheer, nuthor. Bless my soul, Davy, yer getting airy in yer sky parlor; but you haln't larning no. sense, that's one thint; a tumblin' out. yor cheers for this rubNsh," she con tinued, with a majestic wave of her hand to the works of art lying around. ,Well, upon my word, Aunt Eliza, iou' ye taken me by storm. I did niot ook for you on such a hot day as this," -at last gasped David. "Oh, nol, I was sarten sure of that.. I knew I wasn't wanted; thates just why I came, Dave Marvial" snapped Aunt ElIza,looking vindIctively at Miss Lothorp. "Who's thatP" she asked,mn a stage whispor. "I beg yourjpardon, Aunt Faliza," said David, recovering his lost energ and pulling himself up with a erk "Miss ILothorp, allow me toinrdc my aunt, Miss Hawkins." inrdc "I'm from Redington, Pa.; ye've heord of Redington, missP" InquIred. the old lady with seome pride. "It's a, real snigart town, Davy was brung up there," she went on, seating horse f, "Indeed!" Miss Lothorp murmured, endeavoring to appear interested,,while Mr. Marvin inwardly cursed hi fate. "I hope that feller hasn't been telling ye yarns about his an--an, oh, whatey or you call 'em; -they say all In Philh. delphy d,o, you know. Why, do you know, I 'mqnber Davy When he wee -a little chap In pettiooats, fetchingwa ter from the well, and mnindia' e. babies, carryin' then PIg-a-baek o' needn't blush, Davy; ft. 's I wonder what yer mnothe,, r6r )t she seen ye now, d abbliu n those nasty paintsP Lik, as note g * 'q ing your father's clothes; his faither's a miner, Miss Lothorp. Why, yor surely not gcoing?" "Yes; you will please excuse me, but I remember that 1 have a pressing en gagement that I cannot slight. Good bye." "I am sorry, Miss Lothorp," said David, in a husky voice, surprise and indignation making his naturally stupid tongue dumb. "Good morning. Oh, aunti What have you done.P' he ex claimed, as he closed.the door after the young lady. "1 can hardly say I thank you for airing those spicy anecdotes of my juvenile days," he continued, bit terly, as he busied himself beforo his easel. "What will she think?" was the next thought. "And she'll never come back!" he unluckily muttered aloud. Alas, poor Dave! "You blamed fool, Dave Marvin!" exclaimed Aunt Eliza, grasping. the erule of her umbrella. "You blaind fool!" "Aunt!" "Y'are. I s'pose ye'll be bringing that proud hussy home ter Redington when ye git her. He, he! When you Jo! But, never fear, Dave, no one that's insulted me-" "Once for all, aunt -" One-half hour aftergarj Aunt Eliza came out into the broad daylight,tmop ping her moist brows, and frowninlg darkly at the fifth floor widow, from$ whence her painter nephew was gaz ing down stupidly on the crowded street. Another morning two wooks later, David was at his easel, working on the Jeep brown eyes, with the heavily fringed lashes. Was it-no-but it was the original again sitting before 1im. "Yes I really thought that you would never come again. You weie so terri bly put out, you know," he was saying the hot blood mounting to his brow. "Why, what made you think that? I was very much amused by the old lady; she is very communicativo, don't you think?" she asked with a queor gloam in her eyes that the poor follow dread ad so much. "Ah, yes-that is-" :he stammer ed, then quitted his work, and brush and palette were thrown down. "Miss Lothorp!" "Mr. Marvin!" He stopped and looked doubtingly around him. "Miss Lothorp, don't you-I mean would you mind hearing more about that little fellow who carried his sisters -the way she said?" No answer; the eyes wore hidden by 'he long lashes, and a faint, shell-like tint crept over her face. "You will not say that you have an mngagement?" ho asked, thinking he mad the upper hand, and consequently feeling brave. "Oh, will you not believe me? It was really the truth. Why should I make an excuse when I like-" A full stop. "What? Whom?" "What were you going to say, Mr. 6[arvinP" she inquired, ignoring his luestion. "Something about yourself, you'll remember." "It was-not until you finish your sentence," he said. "Mr. Marvin, yourself or nothing ." "Myself! Do you mean it. Mabel? I was goin to say that I love you, my Queen Mab!" That incorrigible young man was on mis knees, grasping the two warm alms of Miss Lotrorp. Her dark head was bent over hith, the bonnie brown )yes that David both loved and feared were looking dpwn in his blue orbs with unutterable tenderness. What neo was needed P "Darling, yeur turn now," he whis ered. "You liked-'-whom?" "1! 0, David! I intended to tell iou-not now, but somewhere off in the rague ages-that I liked to listen to he lady's chat about--" "M!Odarling of darlings!" The postures were something artis Ic, since their attitudes were struck luito Innocently, somewhat after that mainting of Romeo and Juliet in Friar Uawrenco's cell. The friar alone was ieeded. But lo and behold! Who made an ippearance at this moment but that renerable gentleman In feminine garb af-Aunt Eliza! "David Marvin! Ye blamed Bakes alive! I'm sure I beg yer par tion, Miss Lothorp. I--" "'Aunt Eliza, allow me to introduce n1y little wvife to be," David said,rising rrom his cramped position. "My soul! Ye don't say! Would you marry an artist, Miss LothorpP" "Yes, indeed, any amount of thoem," she answored, with a fond glance at David. "One at a time, darling, I think would be best," ho suggested. "Taico no first for a trial."-Waverly Maga Great Mni's F"ect. "Rev. Henry Ward Beeckor, the pas tOr of Plymouth," continued Dr. Palm er, "has soft, chubby feet. He always wears a broad-soled, easy-fitting shoe >f the finest kid made, and suffers but ittle from corns or bunions. I bright en up his finger and too nails aboub nce a month. Mr. Beecher Is a most anterestin g talker. Thme last time he was h ero he related many pleasant an mcdotes of his home in Poeks kill, where Leo resides with his family during the mummer. In speaking of the regiments' encampment at Pookskill, Mr. Beeher remarked that the boys in blue greatly idded to the income of the sheopkeepers ef the town, and taken umpone the whole ~hey Improved its social and moral eou ltion. "Rev. Dr. Talmago, who recently sailed for Europe to rejoin his family ~n London, is also one of my custom ers. His feet in some respects resom ble a canoe, being long and narrow. I 3annot say the~y are froe from corns and bunions, like Mr. Beecher's, but eevertheless they are plesant to look ipon. Dr. Talmage's too-nails grow mat perfectly straight, and tare as pink tad white as a wonwans."---N.jew Aer/e World. As a curiou's statistical trifle It may >e mentioned that the United States sas over fifty psenitentlaries and 2,400 ails. These insti&ntiona cnan. ov WINTERlNG CORZQ. A Practient Mans.r of Arranging Corn Crib. With a Vi.,w to Utiity. One of the objections often stated against farmers is an assorted habit of working on the hiapd-to-mouth princi ple. In other words, to answer a tem porary purpose rather than a perma nent one. In the settlement of a new country this is often necessary from the want of nioney, where so many things must bi accomplisheud, and is unwarrantable. But at habit once fixed is apt to be followed, and in no respect more often than in cribbing corn. T'he result is a loss from ratted, bitter, moldy, or rotten corn, and to a degree capable of paying all the way from 10 to 20 per cent. on the investment nec essary to build permanent cribs that would keep the corn perfectly from year to year. An examination as to the result of imperfectly-built cribs in deteriorating the value of corn, and the rule will ap ply measureably to all grain, will show that a crib infested with rats and mice the difilculty is not alone in what the vermin destroy by eating out the chit or germ of the corn, but also from the efiluvia arising from and contaminat ing the corn from their nesting-places. It is also known that bitter corn arises largely from fermentation of the cob, which, put in wet, does not dry out properly. Mold is incipient decay from too compact storing when damp and rotting is an advanced stage of decay. The loss of a few cents per bushel in selling makes a large a4gregate in the crop. Hence, however the crib is built, it should be only of such size as to give circulation of air, immunity from rain, and safety against vermin. The writer has never 'known a crib made of rails, eight feet at the botton, fared to twelvo feet at the top, and covered sou rely from rain, to faii in preserving corn perfectly if dry enough to crib. The reason is, the air circu lates freely all around the crib. If a crib eight feet at bottom and tweive feet at top sanouid be extended, say, 100 feet, the cai,e would be ditlrent, and if the crib is uniforn:ly twelve foot wide the danger of injury will be in creased in a large degree. '1'welve feet cribs are not unusual in t.,e dry autumn and winter climate of the West, and if filled so full that the rain and snow cannot beat in unduter the roof, in ordinary seuson, they k,-op the corn perfectly. In seasons waao corn does not ripen perfectly, or when from a long spell of foggy weather peonet rat ing the crib, the corn becones danp through and through. If warm weath er ensues before the wind dries it out the germ is attacked, producing bitter ness and mold, and at length rotten ness ensues. The fact that corn kept compactly in wide cribs never dare be used for seed is suflicient evidence that such are not calculated to season corn in the best manner for commercial uses. It is questioaablo if it really is foe amimal feeding purposes. It is therefore wiso economy that every farmier build crib room enough to properiy save all corn that must remain with him after the first of March or April. in buildin: at crib thero are three things to be taken into consideration. Immunity from rats and other vermin, provision against tho-eakago of roofs, and the driving in of rain or snow next the caves, and safety from heuting. Protection against vermin is provided by elevating the crib eighteen inches above ground on posts, placing an in verted tin pan on a large, flat, smooth stone between the top of the post and the sills of the crib. Danger from leaky roof is soeutred by a proper In chination--not less than a quaarter pitch -and attention to keopiang the roof boards, if so made, caremully nailed. A roof of grooved boards, properly bat tened, makes a porlect roof. It should be a double pitched roof for obvious reasons, and extend over the sides of the c,rib twelve inches to prevent the drip from dIriving ia on top of the corn. if bufore snow is exp)ected it be temupo rarily boarded tight from under the eaves, six inches below the top of the corn, this boarding to be removed ear ly In the spring, no danger from driv ing snow will be experieanced. To prevent heating or fermentation in the body of a crib tweolve feet wide, the writer has found the following plan safe and practicable: Form a skeleton of aix-inch fencing two or three feet wide at the bottom and half the height of the crib, carried to a sharp peak at the top of the skeleton, running the en tire length of the crib, the spaces be tween the boat'ds six inches wide. Thus you virtually divide the crib into twvo, the bases of each being only four and a half or five feet wide. The crib will thus have a horizontal and a ver tical circulation of air through the cen tre, and at a more noaminal cost com pared to that of flaring the outsides of the crib. Tho1 projeetion of the roof prevents drip bomag blown in. that striking the sides never penetrating to do dlamage. If, in additionm, the side strips are put on diagonally Instead of vertically, this drip will be distributed still more equally along the outside and quickly dries. Built in the man nor described, the writer has never had corn spoil that was put in the crib in t,he ordinarily dry condition ns it comes from the field at husking time, nor even when other cribs of the same di mensions, but not so prteeoted, were serlonsly injured. Footo aand the Liawyors. Foote never tired of roasting the law yers with hisi wit, of which a sample may be given. A simuple country far moer, who laud just buried a rich rela tiona, an attorney, was complaining to hinm that the expenses of a country funeral, in respet to carraiges, hat bands. scarfs, oe.,* were very great.I "What, do you bury your attorneys here?" asked Foote. "Yes, to bo sure we do; how else?" "Oh. we never do that in Loandon." "Nol'' exclaimed the astonished countryman. "liow do yoiu manage?" "\Vhay, when the p)atienat h.;appens to die we lay hiam out in a rooma over night by himself, throw open. that sash, look thme door, and in the maoringa lhe is entirely off." "in. doodJ!" saidl the other am:azed. "WVhat becomecs of haima?"'' "hy that we can not tell ex:actly; all we know is there' s a strong amoi of brimstona in the room next morningr."- Temudcleiar. De siect c" E'.,.,?lt,tat "No, sir, we dsn't make cocoanuts," said at member of a lirmt whose sig read, "Coconnut Manufntctssin~ Con pany," in re p.un-e to nit iurv of a reporter for the New Y"rk "1..ii! and Express. "What w'e 14s is to 1trep1:are cocoaunut for acatlot ion.-r,. b ker.. and families. to be u<wd 1. :i a . pi sry. The nuta ara b:rou";i:t h-ro bt" iho vos sel-load. smu Nhips.. brin: :in;r as many as 400,000 in onu earg.i. 'h."y ure }itt up in bagsof t on hnndr.d ac.h. ''h average weight of tr,- gr..-it taot is one and ono-half pounsIa. Tan best are those thickest an nat and ric"hast in natural oil and sugar. Th,-v cono from San Blas, Cow island, San An dreas, Rituatans. Janm:cicat. and l3arat"oa. They grow on the islsnds of this Car ribean sea, and the trees areso planted that the roots are constantly w:ashed with salt water., The nuts aru not picked from the true, but tall to the ground when ripe becaase of the decay of the stems. Whun the husk id taken off they are ready for shipping. The perishable nature of the green nut has made desiccated cocuanut more dusir ablo in the market, and this is the ar ticle we manufacture and sell." "What is the operation P" "The cocoanuts are placed in a largo hopper, from which they fall to a zinc covered table on a lower floor. In front of this table several men are placed, who crack Ue shell of the nut with a hatchet as it falls on the table. Then the shell is pried off, leaving the meat whole. From 6 to 11 o'clock six men at this work open twelve thousand nuts. A peeling nachine then takes off the brown skin of the tints, after which the meats are broken into pleces, the milk drawn oft; and the pieces put into tubs of cle:an, cold water. The meat is then inspected as to its quality, and next it is put into a grinding mill turning four hundred revolutions a minute. The pulp thus mado is mixed with granulated sugar and put in long pans of galvanized iron, which are put in tho desiccators and the water ex tracted at a high temperature. An in teresting fact about the work is that the entire process must be completed by 2 o'clock in the afternoon, be cause of the delicate nature of the fruit. The number of people employ ed in this department is forty-six. The desiccated nut is white as snow, and perfectly dry, when it has been through the process, and it is then allowed to cool, and is left in a dry temperature for ton days before it is finally put up for the market. At 3 o'clock each day the work is all clone." "What about the idea that cocoanut is indigestible?" "It is supposed by many persons to be so. But the best growths show by an alysis about 48 per cent of digestible oils, 5 per cent of a\tgar, about 46 per cent of water, and only 1 per cent of ash. This being -the ease, there is scarcely anything people eat nore di gestatue ua.t nutratou.." Tha ltattltes:ak.:'s Ittvutgo. . "Speakin' o' snakes," said the Texas frontiersman, "reminds me ov a little adventure me and a chum had with rat tlesnakes that made me respect the rat tlesnake over since." "What kind of an adventure did you have that makesyon rdspect the rattle snake?" asked a St. Louis man. "Well, one evening just before dark 1 out among the Rio Grande canyons there come the all-firedost rain you ever seed. Before we could get out the water had risen so the only w:,y of escape was to cross a canyon thirty feet wide and 500 doep. " When we got to this canyon we found about one million rattlesnakes there. They recognzed me as their friend, It seemedsa, as 1 tried to kcep nmy ehum from shootintef ito a mound ofa 'em, for they crawl~ed taroanid me and looked into nmy f:ace, as much as to say: 'Yout can hlpi us over if you will.' I noticed that the snakes paid noe atton tion to may chuttm, except a big raittlor mny chuman woundeid would lookat him anad thean go iaroundl tco his followvers and seoem to tell them something. ( ''Well, I tied a knot in thme tail of a big rattler anid then got another and looped his neck into this, and so on uan til I had a snake rope about sixty*fooc long. 'Theta 1 coiled it in my hand as I would a lariat and throwved it a --oss, and the haead snke tied himaseaf to a treo, and -the last one on my side did the same. I haad mny let of snakes to a go over first, and then I went over on this snake-rope bridhge. The last snake tet go of thte tree, and he crawled up and the other, followed until all were ceross. "My chum had done as I did, but he r et the big wousnded rattler have haim elf maada, the la.t sniakai, and tie hima 'elf rouand the tro. so whon all tho h makes were over, and my chuim w:asc ~oing ovYer as 1 haad donea, that big ~ voundeda rattler scaemetd to gr'n, show ad all his teeth, :and lest go. Of course, he whole ashbang wenit, downi wtith 'swish,' and tany chumti was thirowed ~ >ff andc smnashted itt joily, and--,,' ut thae crowd had %cattered and left he big Tiexan to hhniself. le muatteread: *-1 don't keer a durn-; hose teller. tink a rattlesnake Is the loadlisast enemy to mnankinad. He Is a iot as poisonons as t,he copperhead, and ta always rattles a wairning be*foro ho al itrikes, lie's nmy frienad, anayhow."' St. Louis Gflob'e.1-o oro f. i What would becea,of ass unnwatchedb 3ablic g:ardeon ini th.s city to-dhayP la brief spa'ce it would be a deCsolaL.. Th grounads of thes lIochester Unaiversa. y are nan ex:ample. ilasro is not ,. lowering shrub uon thoe ground~s that a not deaspo.iled of its baaty every ~ 'ear by taause w ho have notL searneda to espsect puiblic piro crty. 'The chiladren I ire not tatughat to rou pec t suach paroper y as they oughst to b. Asnd here It ~j nay be well to suaggest that sach ram poet ou ght to be tuctalcautod in the ohoohs, if it is not rat haomo.-1ochester * rJemocrut. Of all thae stattes in the Union, Geor-t fla brings the mtost fantsastic thingas to he susfaca, its ery' latost oddity is a 'pider as bug as a hickory nuit,the long, :urvedl back wheareof shows thto human 'ace In protise. Thec face Is like that of ~ a an of the Mlalaiy typo, the brow, the a syes, the stn, the mouth andh the chink >oin g imaitate-d with a precision quite startling in Its wavy. MEN OF 't'lIIi PEOPLE. Diethiguished PHrs'nag.s Gath,ered at the Grant Obsequies. Possibly so manly distinguishod men have never before been brought to gether in New York on any one occa sion. In the groups that gathered now and again. there were to be seen the incised foature.s of Senator Evarts; "the cultured Lincoln," as I hoard him called; Senator Morrill, of Vermont, tall, stoop-shouilere4. with a white, student face, sometlin4 in appearanco like Charles Sumner's, but not so heavy or leonino and vigorous; short and inclined to be stout, with a soldier ly mustache and goatee, gold eye-glass es and a light slouch hat, and hand some and dapper enough for the adini ration of all the fair sex; Senator Warner Miller, with his large round face, blonde mustacho, heavy weight and slow movement; John Sherman, erect and angular as a guide-post, with his keen face lifted above all his fel lows; Senator .han G. Harris of Tou nessee, with bald and shining head; Dx-President Hayes, with sandy hair and freckled fatce, stouter than of yore; ex-President Arthur, also grown a trifle grey and a little stout, elegant in at tire, as always; ex-Attorney General Pierrepont who, by his cut of whiskers and facial expression, might have stopped from a picture of. a Puritan gathering into hIs modern garb and modern surroundings; the smooth shaven, wrinkled and smiling visage of Governor Oglesby, of Illir.o&.; Henry Watterson, in a brown business suit, brusque and nervous, with his head turned slightly to one side and moving e0nstantly about to secure for his one eye the vision of two; Murat lalstead, with a Field Marshal air, and mustache and goatee white as the driven snow; Speaker Carlisle, with a dark suit strangely in contrast with a high white .at, under which the same cynical smile is constantly to be soon on his bare face; Samuel J. Randall, standin by him, heavier in form, larger in mold and feature, with the same thin-lipped smile, but dressed in better tasto, Gen. N. P. Banks, of Red river fame. These and hundreds of others command at tention, by reason of their prominence n public life or their personal appear ance. Nearly all of the throng have risen, as Grant rose, from the ordinary walks of life. It is a revelation of the possibilities of the new world, of which (eneral Grant wrote to General Buck Ler, "I know now the value of our in heritance." I saw General Sherman moving about the Fifth Avenue Hotel corridors in an old straw hat, an alpa ca blouse with a single button, and a p-dr of battered slippers, and then blossoming out in full uniform, tall, erect, martial and proud, a tine ty1pe of the American citizen soldier. The quaint manners and the freedom with which he can be approached by any one and every one, are not least of the features of his character that draw men involuntarily to like "Old Tecumn sel," the leader of the March to the Sea, that cut the rebellion in two. Al together different is General Phil Shori dan, who went about with his brother, Colonel "Mike" Sheridan, who is fro quently mistaken for him, as a sort of twin Sherkian, in a crowd, and would be picked out by a stranger as a pros perous turfman. In civilian's dress he Looks as if he had just stopped out of a )andbox, except that his face is bronzed md reddened. His suit of grey En ;lish goods fits him like wax. In the wearer of a high white hat it would be liifnbult to discover off-hand the hero if Winchester and the gallant cavalry nan who cut out the Confederacy at licmond. These mna were Grant's oromost lieuteniants. Jn the group of enators cailled here by the Vice-Presi lent, a third type of soldier was p)re ented to view in the swarthy face and aven mustache of General Logan, vho, perhaps, mioreo thani anay other uan, is to-day the kavorite of the vol mteer soldiery, whose deedis and valor aved tti' Union. It would be hard to lad, the country over, or the world ver, a handsomer typical warrior than ieneral Hancock, whose 250) pounds re carried in military haness with a uartial air and gallantry beyond all riticism. These four men, like Gens. irant are of humble origin. Glancing through the gath ering rowds I saw Genmerail Law Wallace, osokinsg sober and thoughtful, throngh old-bowed spectacles under a t>rown kauch lhat, but missed lisa follow otlicor, ~eneral McClornand, wht> foil with hims ndor the wrathsful criticism of Grant t Shiloh and D)onolson. General Wal ice has acted with a umnly dlignsity in do matter that I hsoar is likely to be awarde(d, though he mnay' not know it, y words of ju.<tice to him which (Gen. rant has writtens and loft behind in Is mnemoirs. General WVallaco hs ahned that, but for himself and Mc lornand, Grant would have beens rushed in either of those battles. If rant should have so written it, Wal ice may well have wvalAid in silence util now. --.,. Y. Tribuneu'g "Urups Usch II.e .s."' Very few people know how to eat a atermolon, just as not one man in mn thousand knows how to eat asn or uge. Tro be properly enjoyed the per ret watermelon should be pounced on the patch just after sun-up. it should a carefully selected. In response to a eager thump there should follow a iad and mealy sound, and the melon sould weigh not less than twenty-five ound(s. After it la pulled It should be lit end to end wifth a short bladed acket-knife, so t.hat in tearing At open so glowing and juicy heart, ouristing >ose from 10 conhinement, shall find a >dgmont on one side only. At this at>n the knifs) is to be flung s-,,av, or a moment theoeye should be~ allowsd i feast itself on the vision thus cud unly brought to view, then the heart iould be alcooped out with the hand od its nectarous meat thrust upon so hot and thirsty palate. There ought be something savage In the enjoy.. sent of a wa.termelons; it ought to be rushed and swallowed with avidity. he man who knows how to enjoy one i come away from the fray with the eetls in hsis board, in hsis hair, and on is clothes. --'Atlanta Consti(tton. An Afrinan!natantata i,s. nam.Pic A Bright Boy Without Logs And Arms. There are many who have to gc through a part of life at least with the loss of an arm or a log, and anyone can realise in a measure the privations such a loss can occasion; but very few are called upon to exist without either, and very few realize the extent to which human ingenuity can provide moans of compensation in such cases. Somo times it soems as if nature gives what aid it can, and when the physical com plotonoss has been denied sought to make up the deficiency with more than average mental gifts. Such observations might naturally occur to the individual who was tc quainted with the son of G. B. Wil hams, of Mendon, Mass., who was born without arms and legs, and yet goes around the villago and tills a worthy place in the youthful society of the town, with promise of an activo and useful manhood in the years to com. The young man is 12 yours of ago. His features are rather old looking for his years, and the expression is briirht and intelligent. 1ils language ant7 looks indicate a belief in his ability to taue care of himself before a great while. Ile is nearly qualified to enter the hii;.i school of the town, and nis hand writ ing is above the average. In accoms phshing the latter work the pen is held under the chin, and with the aid of the shoulder the tracings are wade. He attends the public school and goes around the village without the aid of any other person, but the tmuais to this cnd were not invented until within a year or so, and not until after a long time of study upon the subject and trial of several aids, which proved by experiment to be of little use. He could get up and down stairs, put on his cap, and roll and throw himself from ono poitit in the rootn to another without help, but to go much outside of the house it was nccessary to carry him. Now he carries himself. For this pir pose a pair of wheels similar to those on a boy's velocipede were procured and the axle padded. The boy rests his chest on the pad and by means of his imperfect lower limb propols him self around the town. It required some practice to learn to balance himseif at first, but he soon overcame the diflicul ty. The wheels were obtained in De troit, efforts to find the kind nearer home having been without success. "I can go anywhere I want to," saisi the lad. 'Can go down hill faster than a walk, but have to rest on up grades." He does not complain of any pain or trouble in the stomach fin. resting the weight of his body on it so much. In spite of his afilietion and the way ho is handicapped in the race for worldly re wards, lie impresses the stranger as one who bids fair to make his mark by strong mental attainments.-0osfnn Globe. Stage intoxication. McCullough's last performance--in Chicago-was under the nlYhct of ex cessive stimulus, and this renmiinds us that most of our actor ar irrent drink era. CId Junius riuntus B.;otlh (father of Edwin) was rarely sober on the stage, and required incredible pota tions to enable him to go through his role. Sometimes he got drunk beforo the hour, and the audience wits th en obliged to submit to disappointiment. George Frederick Cooke, the first Brit ish star that appeared on our shore, was also a victim to strong drink, which destroyed a constitution of rare vigor. Edmund Kean was another brillanut victim to inteniperance. lue was the most wonderful perform.r f his day. but he required groat quatit ies of strong drink, and thme hma bit ,ii,rease.d till it destroyed him. Tiiis tous lac in lis 46th year. Like McCullough, he broke downt while oii the stage, anid sank late the armis of his son, who boire him oil, and the play wvas stopped. lie rallied, but never reappeared, and in a few weeks death closed his is-vereid ca reer. Forrest, in hiis heav~y eforits, used strong drink, but it never 'it Ithat dio gree of mastery w. hicm prvo unerly destructive,li 1 10 wat tii moutiS ai.usen Jar man that the staeivr pro.duced, and no doubt this wvas the, re.~ao wh lie drank le,ss Lhan someti othar., ii. teimperanie,bhowe'. r, ti te wisey.a istortune of tbe dramau~. -..ovr Alanan l. cer. James Dennman, principail of the grammar school whtichi bears his it:uuo, retumrnedi 'iTuaa frotm a tmontIh's ex cursion anmng Ltho romn tic isl ano.s and picturesque inlets of Ahiska. :0t r. Den man devoted imch of inis nLoeai .m to the glaciurs, cutauparedi with w..i,:n he pronoumnces those to Ibe wo '~ nm Swvitzerlandl andt othier parts of B loi rpe to be "'babies.'' Muir glacier. mt Gia cier bav, named front tue dhstintzut.,ed naturaiist, is a spectacle whose gran-t en river of ice, e vor slowly tmvinig to the sea and pitlin g the enormious iia; es higher between the tioutin at iks until their summnit towers htmudrod.i of feet in the air. Where the ptoint of the glacier pushes wit int,o anid overhangs the water. vast fragments breaking apart every few mnonmnts of their own weight and falling with a thunideriing erash into the sea, to float away as enormous iceber's, it ahlords a specta cle which cant on y be und~erstood and approciated by onte who beholds it with his own eyes. Fronm the stunmit of Muir glacier no less thani twenty..nline others are to be seen ini various direc tions, all grindinug antd crowdting their huge masses towvard the sont, a sight whtich must certainhy be Otno whicnt few other scenes can equali.-,San F'rancis co Vall. "I have not road Miss Cleveland's took," said Col. Iugersoll to ai report ir, "but if the author condemns the toetry of George Eliot she has inado a nistake. There is nto poem in our Ian ~uapo more beautiful thant 'The Lov Irs, and none loftier antd purer titan he 'Choir Invisible.' Thormee Is nlo ootry in the 'beyond.' Then poetry Is iere---hore in this wvorld wYhtero love Is -in the heart. Tihe poetiy of them 'be !oud' is too far awiay---a little too gemn iral. Shelley's -Say Lark' wits in our aky--the 'Daisy,' of liun, grew ini )ur ground, antd between tint h.rk and that daisy is rom ior till tihe real anotre of the earth." GENERAL NEwS 1T3 Facts of Interest, Gathered froma''Vlt 6 Quatenw. -Work on the Hudson Rivee ,n,,tghh Is to be resumed this winter. -The mania now in Washingtotisr for bridalcouples to call on the Trl. ? : dent. -The New York Cremato la reydy for business. One can get urned up for $25. -Ex-First Assistant Postmaster General Hay died in Pittsbuig last Tuesday. -Bartholdi is coming over to super intend the erection of his statue of "Liberty." -Morris Frankinu, President of the Now York Life Insurance Company, died last week. -Montreal is distributing stnallpox over the country with an impartial and lavish hand. -A Canadian crank says If you w,il, trim your nails every Friday you -ill never have the toothache. -King Alfonso has pardoned the Cuban rebels Varona, Gal4no, Sumag vera and Itounuan, condemned to bo shot. -A foot of snow Is reported from nearly all parts of the northern ponin sula of Michigan, blockading the rail roads. -A woman scored the highest per centugo ever reached in a civil service examination in this county. It was ninety-seven. --'The National Wholesale Druggists' Association niet in Philadelphia last week. The proceedings were of no public interest. - The Catholics object to the ap pointnent of Mr. Curry as Minister to Spain, on occount of his denuneiation of their religion. -John S. Wise has figured in thirty six duels, which is not so very bad for a left-handed man and a repudiating Republican at that. -Johnt Jarvis, a well known turf man of New York city, dropped dead from heart disease at the Jersey City race track last week. --Secretary Lamar has suspended Chief Justice Vincent, of Now Mex ico, for improper conduct. This Is tanuamuount to a removal. *-A vast quantity of potatoes are lein worked up at the starch mills, the produt of whli will be greater than for three years lpast. -The Chicago Tribune, in Its re view of the money market, insists that the rate of interest will decline, what ever may happen to commodities. -Mrs. John Conway wife of a dairyauun in Kansas City, and her daughter Kate were murdered is day tine on Friday, it is supposed by a tratnp. -Italian Opera appears to be going out of fushion in London. T.9 ..yy- .,, beent engaged fior this basoli at the ridiculously low price of $2,000 a night. -Cadet lRalph Bailey, of Arkansas, a inember of the third class at Annapo lis, found guilty of hazing by courl murtial, has been dismissed ' from the -it is stiled ihat 'resident Cleve land tendered the Chief Justiceship of New Mexico to Judge Benjamin Buck ncr, of Louisville, Ky., but he will not accept. -The bucket shop of F. 1. Fried man, lBroad street, New York, has suspendedl, owing $33,500. The ad vance ini oil and stocks is assigned as the cause. -A mani, atged about sixty, who had carefully removed fromn his coin and1 efets eve'ythinig that would lead to his idlentitlcationi, studcded in WIVI mningtoni, D)el. --A t a meceting of the Irish National League last week, ini New York, pre sided over by Chats. A. Dana, of the Sun, $10,000 was11 subscribed to alid Pairiiell ini Jrelaiid. -G;overnior Ilill, of New York, feel, conflident of electioni if the Demwocratse of New York city will come to the scratch like the Democrats of the re malider of the State. -Johni Chatham, of Pinie Station, Pa., had beeni on a protracted .drun~k' and beiig giv'en a pint of whiskev dranik it (iff at a gulp and fell dezdd immed(iattely afterwards. -A inegro named Ward was hanged by a mob, last week thirteen miles south ot' Eufaula, Ala., for the attempt ed muirder of a citizen and the sup, posed murder of another. -Nelsoni, Stewart and~ Anderson, D)avis, colored, wvho burglarized tihe residenice of S. (G. Stricklanm, at Ch'i. lotte, N. C., hiavo beeni sensItnced to be hanged oni November 25th. -Steel is constaiitly being put, into newv uses. The latest noted is the emiplloymeint of eight thousand tonis of steel castinigs in the construction of an immense block of bonded wvaiehonses in London. -D)r. Dio Lewis says that a brain worker should not eait more than twvo meals a dayv, but Edlward Everett Ilale, (one of the hardest brain-workers in the world, eats five squlare repansts in twenty-four hours. -Thle coniionis of the landowners ini East Lothilan, Scotland, is unienvia ble and thte depr-ession 1s "fLt all over Scotland. One nobleman. vithI a rent~ roll of $350,000 per 'anntun liau just received $20,000 neot. --A cottage in Vernonr P~ark, Cihi cago, was dlestroyed by fir. mand four of' the Inmates-the wife and two children of' Mr. WV. S. Wales and hIs mother-in-law-were burnt to decath. The husband was badly injured. -Willie Schlenuker, aged ten a.ci dentally shiot and killed Willie tuCa., aged seven, while they were -exatniti iiig a toy pistol last week, in (Gt1elh nuati. Sch enker was taken into. oup today, but afterwards releaej. -Thos. WhItely, a travelling, hivn from St. Louis, w as married Sa(nvday at Linicolin, N'ebraska, and *ent fo V St. Louis. The husband and wifei were found in their room, d ing fro0: the effects otf morphine. T se 6se -is supposed1 to be one of suioide.