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flmo-l. cgsq W)OL. Xy. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, :NOVEMBERl2 85 A Havage. Dixon, a Choctaw, 20 yeare of ago, Jiid killed a minor In a Leadvillo brawl; Tried and condemned, the rough-hoards curb their rage, And watch him stride In freedom from tho ball. "1toturn on Ft iday, to ho shot to death I" 8o ran the sentence--il wasg Monday night. The dead man's comrades drew a well-pleased } breath: Then all night long the gambling dons wero bright. The days sped slowly; but the Frida'y came, And llockcd the miners to the shooting ground; They choso six rllomon of deadly aim. And with low vo!oos sat and lounged around. "lIe will not conic." "He's not a fool." "The mon who sc;t tho savago frco must face the blame." A Choctaw travo smiled bItterly, and then Smiled proudly, with raised head, as Dixon eame. a $ilont and stcra-n woman at his heels; Ito motions to the brave, who staiys her tread. Next minute-flane Ihe puns; the woman reels And drops without a muoan-Dixon is dead. -Jolm1 l:oylo O'Itoilly. THE LAWT CONTEST. A soldier, who had won imperisha blo fame on tho battle-hiolds of his country was confronted by a gaunt stranger clad all in black and wearing an impenetrable mask. "Who are you that you dare to block my way?" demanded the sol dier. '1'hien the stranger throw aside his mask and tho soldier know that ho was Death. "lave you coma for meP" asked the soldier. "If so, I will not go withyou; so go your way alone." But Death held out his bony hand and beckoned to the soldier. "No," cried the soldier, resolutely; ''my time is not come. See, here are the histories I am writing-no hand but mine can finish theni-I will go when they are done." "I have hidden by your side day and night," said Death; "I have hovered about you on a hundred battle-fiolds, but no sight of me could chill your heart till now, and now I hold you in my power. Come!" And with these words )eath seized upon the soldier and strove to bear Win henco, but the soldier struggled so desperately that he prevailed against Death, and tho strange phantom do parted alone. Then when he had gone the soldier found upon his throat the imprint of Death's cruel fingers-so fierce had been the struggle. And nothing could wash them away, for they were disease, lingering, agonizing, fatal disease. But with quiet valor the soldier returned to his histories, and for many days thereafter lie toiled up on them as the last and lt work of his noble life. "How thin and pale the soldier is getting,'' said the people. "IIis hair is whitening and his eyes are weary. Ile should not have undertaken the histories-the labor is killing him.'' They did not know of this strugglo with Death, nor had they seen the m'arks upon the soldier's throat. But the physicians who came to him and sraw the marks of )eath's cruel fingers, shook their heads and said the soldier could not live to completo his work upon which his whole heart was set. And the soldier knew it, too, and many a tinu he paused in, his writiiig an ltid his pen aside and bowed his head upon his hands, and strovo for coneolation ini the thought of the reat fame he had already won. So when 11ettht came a seconcd time ho found the soldier weak and trembliipg and eiaeiated. 'it wouild be va:in for youi io stig gle withi me now,'' sad1 Doeathi. '"My pSoio is ini your veins, anid see, my dew is oii your brow. Jhit you1 are a brave mnani and I will nothbear you wvith me' till you1 have atsked ono inver,w~hich I will graint." "G.1ive mei: an hiIou r to a-prl the favor,"' sail thle soldier'. "There'i ar so'05 mnuy things--my histories and all-give mo1 an hotir that, I nmay dreide what I shiall ask?"' And as De'ath Iitarried, th:e sold ier commnuneod with hiself. Blefore lie closed his eyes forever what booii should ha as;k of Deathi? Atid the sol (ier's hioug hits sped( bac'k over time years and his whole life caine to hi m like a ligh tn ing flash.--lIme coinpan ionishi and:1 smiles of kinigs, tihe glories of govern men t and poliiitcal power, thloI hoinors of pecace, andiu joys of(I coluest,15 the din of bat tle, tIhe s;weets of a qu'met homoii life uponm a we*. tirn pramirie, thle gentle dr.Votia'ni or a n. ife-, t he chunr~ of ioisy' boys and( th'. face of at little oirl-ah, thmere his tihoue. lts lingered-c( anil cltung. "Tlimo to e unp1lete our wvork- our books---our i'lIt;oies-,"' cotunse led am bitioni. ' Ask Death for t ime to (do tuis last and( crowning'c' fou ra But, tihe sold ier's cars woro deaf to the cries 9f nobilition ; they heard anoth er voicO-thle voice (of thie soldier's heart-anl~d the voice wiisp)eredl "Nelio -Nell ie-Nel lie.'' T1hat was all1 -no other wVords btit thlose, anmd tihe soldier strtugg r(d to hiis feet, an:d stretched forth his hands and cal lcd to Death, and( hearing hiu callinig, D)eath caine to him and( stood before him, " 'I ha1ve made my~ choice,'' said thme soldi '"The: booksP"' asked .Death wvith a scorn fid siimile. ''No,. not them" said the soidier, "ImtL my little girl-my Nelliol Give mo1 a~ lease of life till I have hold( her ini these arms, and( then come for me and I will go!" Then D)onth1's hideous aspet was changevd; his ster'n features relaxed and a look of pity camo upon01 them. And D)eath said, "It shall t>o so,'' and say inrw this lie wecnt l'is wvay. Now tho soldier's chiI'd was far away -m11any, mnany3 leagues from whlero the soldior lived; beyond a br'oad, tempest ilowi ocean. She wVas not asy)oumilight suij .mosc, a littlo child, ailthmoughi the so. dior spoko of her1 as suchb. She was a 'vife andl a inother; yet oven in her W( manhood slho wats to the soldier's heoart the samuo little girl the soldier ,hayl. hol tpon:.his kniee many anid Augumy a time whileh his rough hands weaved praliric flowors in her soft, lair ciarls. And the soltier called for Nellie iuow, just as ho dlid then, whenu she sat ont his knee aind prattled of her dolls. This Is tihe way of the human heart. it hn.vinig br-nn naIsed almtas thlft th been sent for across the sea, all the people vied with each other in sooth img the last moments of the famous man, for he was beloved by all, and all were bound to him by bonds of patri- i otic gratitude, since he had boon so bravo a soldier upon the battlo-tields of t his country. But the soldier did not hoed their words of sympathy; the t voice of fame, which in the past had stirred a fover in his blood and fallen I most pleasantly upon his oars, awakon ed no emotion in his bosom now. The B soldier thought only of Nellio, and he awaited her coming. An old comrade came and pressed I nla niana, antU LaihU 01 t1e liIes ,asae1 I they went to the wars together; and I tho old comrade told of this battle and of that, and how such a victory was 1 won and how such a city was taken. i But the soldier's ears heard no sound f of battle now, and his eyes could see I no flash of sabre or smoke of war. So the people came and spoke words 1 of veneration and love and hop, and 6 so with quiet fortitude, but with a hun - t gry heart, the soldier waited for Nellie1 j his little girl. She cane across the broad, to:npest- I uous ocean. The gulls flew far out t from land and told the winds, and the I winds blew further still and said to the t ship: "Speed on, oh shipl speed on in thy swift, straight course, for you I are bearing a treasure to a father's heart!" Then the ship leaped forward in her f pathway, and the waves were very still, and the wirds kept whispering: t "S1ed on, 0 ship," till at last the ship was come to port and the little girl h was clasped in the soldier's arms. I Then for a season the soldier seemed I quite himself again, and people said: . "Ie will live," and then prayed that he might. But their hopes and pray ers ere vain. Death's seal was on the soldier and there was no release. The last days of the soldier's life were the most beautiful of all-but what a mockery of ambition' and fame, and all the grand pretentious things of life they were! They were the triumph of a human heart, and what is better or purer or sweeter than that? No thought of the hundred b:ittle fields upon which his valor had shown conspicuous came to the soldier now nor the echo of his oternal fame-ncr even yet the murmurs of a sorrowing people. Nellie was by his side, and his hungry, fainting heart fed on her dear lore and his soul wont back with her to the years long agone. Away beyond the western horizon upon the prairio stands a little home over which the vines trail. All about it is the tall, waving grass, and over yonder is the swalo with a legion of chattering black-birds perched on its swaying roods and rushes. Bright r wild flowers bloom on every side, the quail whistles on the pasture fenco, and from his home in the chimney corner the cricket begins to chirrup an echo to the lonely bird's call. In this little I prairie bano we see a man holding on his knea a little girl, who is telling him C of he= play as he smooths her fair curls or .tro kes her tiny velvet hands; or pe.haps she is singint- him one of her i"aby songs, or asking him strange questions of the groat wide world that is now to her; or perhaps he binds the wild flowers she has brought into a lit- I tle nosegay for her now gingham dress, or-but we see it all, and so, too, does a the soldier, and so does Nellie, and so they hear the black-bird's twitter and the quail's shrill call and the cricket's 1 faint echo, and all about them is the u sweet subtle, holy fragrance of mem- P ory. t And so at last when Death came and the soldier fell asleep) forever, Nellie, P his little girl, was holding his hands. and wvhiapering to him of those days. tiers were the last words lhe hoard, and C by the smile that rested on his face when lhe was dead you might have thought the soldier was dreaming of a time when Nellie p)rattled on his kneeo and bade him weavo the wild flowers in hier curls. HIow Flyinig Fish Fly. An cxcellcnt opportunity of observ lng the aerial means of p)ropulsion In the flying fish was affbordedl me during a six dlays' calhi lately when crossing the Bay of Bengal. I watched day by day some hunudreds rise under the bows of the ship. The water surface was a glassy calm. As each fish rose it spreadl its wings at onIce, app~arently boating the surface with them twvo or three strokes before they steadied out. I say apparently, for it was not a defi-] niito boeat so much as a struggle to r.ise. The tail which, of course uinder water was in rap)id motion to escaplo fromu the shipl, no0w gave ten or a dozen rapid boats, which could be counted by the ripples on the still surface, and the fish was off in aerial flight. As each fish lost the impetus of the first riso, wvhich generally happened at about forty yards, the binoculars show.. etd us the anal fins, which had till now been fully extended, drooping to feel the wvater. As soon as the surface was felt the tail was introduced and five or six smart strokes, atlso inicated by ripplos, brought the Impetus upi again anid carried the fish about another thirty yardls, when another dIrop) sent it oni again, and so forth, some of the older fish traveling in this way 400 tor 500 yardls. 'The, younger fish frequent ly fell awkveardly 5n this attempt to regain inipetus. When waves are runn tretiuires a clever fish to gain limp)etus by a few judicious strokes on the crest of a wave, antd many a fish tumbles ever In the attempt,. I once saw a fish rise close to the ship's quarter, and it flowv parallel with the ship, pursued belowy by a dolphin or bonita. The latter followed every sway of the fish, keeping almost uin der it. At the first dip of the tail the pttrsauer made a dart forw ad, but missed it, and again doggod Aprey by kooping just under It. On the sec ond dip the tail wont Into the pursuer's mouth, anid there was an e id of the flyer. It always struck me that it seemed a strain on the fish to keop the winigs extended. -CLor. Xaturc. o0 .1011i~00 om uInO Sl, m 1,1,,, ,,,- 1 Pilliam the Con quror and the Eng. 11lh F'orests. William the Conqueror, like King anute, "took much Delight in Hunt ig, and," according to eighteenth con iry historians, "had such a Fury for ratifying that Passion that ho reserved 11 Hunting and8porting in his Forests D himself, or to such as he thought roper to indulge." These chroniclers en proceed to give a terrible picture f the King depopulating large tracts f Hampshire .n order to form a Now orest. although ho already had sever 1 in the country-"turning out all the nhabitants, destroying the Houses, hardens, and even Churches, which tood in that tract of land in order to take it a desert." This view of Wil am's conduct with regard to the New 'orest has fallen before modern exam sation of the district. Tho Koltio nd West Saxon barrows are still to be eon; the sites of the dwelling of the Lomans are clearly visible. The pot Wr's work, loft carelessly upon the round by the Roman potters, is found ndisturbod and unbroken but a few iches below the surface. What can ccount for the total disappearance of very trace of these houses and church s which William dostroycd-some 50 hurches, as it is stated in certain hronicles, and, of necessity, a number f villages to house the people- who rorshiped there. The only two church. s entered in "Domesday," those at roekenhurst and Milford, still stand; nd immediately after the afforostation wo now ones were built in the very eart of the wild forest, one at Doldrq ad one at Hordle. Most of the "cas es"in the forests were merely eartheq itrenchments made by the Kelts and lest Saxons: and though a few for, it names end in ton, which indicate to existence of some scattered home, cads, many more end with hurst, hich moans "wood." Then there are ich names as Roydon, the rough round; Bramshaw, the bramblowood; euny, the furzy ground; Stockleigh, o woody place; and Staneswood, ernwood, and Testwood. Modera aLhoritios consider that William did at commit the folly of turning a high. cultivated district into a desert, here the deer would have found no ioltor for many years; but that ho mply converted a wild woodland into royal forest. Yteno, the "furzy coun 'y," became the New Forest. A great art of this district which ho afforested o already held in demesne. It all now ocamo subject to forest laws. There ere inhabitants, even manors, within to forest: those had to submit to its ale, and were also granted its privi iges. In the Charta do Foresta of Ca uto mention is made of horses, cows, nd wild goats, which were protected i the forest, and also of cortaiu privi iges of the people. So, under Will im, there were homesteads to which Ights were attached of pasturing cat le, feeding swine, and cutting of tim er and turf. S',vero laws existed in ospeet to hunting the deer, as they did a the days of Canute. But it is very oubtful whether William did not rath r benefit the district in makino it a oyal forest than otherwise. ie was ated because he wished to make of the .nglish a race of slaves; and in the for st it was well understood to be a much ighter offense to kill a man than a cer. And so the story grew of his ruolty and tyranny. In this forest Villiam the Red was killed, and his rother and nephew; the records of heir strange and sudden deaths are ory unsatisfactory, and tradition has ttributed them to the vengeance of leaven, visiting William the Conquer r's cruelty upon his descendants. It aems most probable that Rufus was txe victim of a conspiracy, and that is brother's :rnd nephewv's deaths were oerely accidents in name.-2'TheJEng.. alh itustrated Miagazinae. Killarney Helpedl by ahe Pince. "Killarney," wvrites a correspondent, is already reaping benefit from the since's visit. The hotels are almost all, and the season improves as it ad ances. The singular feature of this car's experience is the way strangers ave trooped in. More than 60 per ont of the guests have crossed the sea, nd the company at one hotel last week icluded a Dane, an Austrian, anti two oermans. The Yankee element one wets largelg, but one expects to meet largely. 'lho Irish visitors are chiefly rides-with their appurtenant bride rooms, the display of new wedding ngs at the break tast tables quitb riv ling a jeweler's stock. The royal in ucnce is felt along the gapa and by the ike. H-fis royal highness woulId app ear > have been personally conducted by iany of the guides, rowed by most of so boatman, andl successfully solicited y all the beggars. Th le pla:ce where e first drank illicit whisky and the pot whore 'that big lady out of Lon on' (the p)rinIcess) last drank goat's illk are pointed out energetically but ariously. There is more unanimity bout the exadt place where a wood ack rose and. where a red deer do ::endod, anud in fact the prince and rincess are already regarded as rank ag para paassu with~ O'Donpghue and late Kearney. I must not omit," adds ur correspondent, "one bit of repar ie which I mnyrolf overheard. My uido scowled at a peasant who stared 'eli at him. 'You'il knowv mc again if ou meet me,' said my guide. 'Not if ou wash your face,' said the peoasant." alt Mulnl Glazette. .-------| 4 Col. Henry W. Cleveland, well known s a journalist In Georgia and as the lographer of Alexander HI. Step hens, aid one day: "The deatha of Louis Na. oleon perhaps changed the whole our,o of my life." *!a what way?" Well, I was in London shortly after 2c ox-Emperor arrived at unaselhurst om his German prison. J --s known : London as a veteran Confoderato ificer and a proposition was made to ceompany Lou is Napoleon, with a leked force, 'in a secret and sudden escent up.on Frane." "Another re irn-from-Elba aff'air?" 'Something ko it. 1 agreed, and the arrange wents were progressing when the illus rious exile became Aoo ill to carry out is project. Perhaps it was just as roll for me, but I have always won ered what the result would have een. If successful, it is possible that would have been decorated with the Oegion of Honor cross and mnad, a kineral or a Marshal-of lerance" People. -Miss Cloveland's book will not het A $50,000.os Vanderbilt's annual income, if paid secr in gold, won*.i weigh ton tons. Jam George W. Childs acts as usher ovory near Sunday in a little Long Branch church. an u President PI-lk's widow believes in a that "she stili lives in her husband's coac -tnomory.' ' ston Sam Jones calls his coarse and un. in t grammatical stylo "t,ho nigh cut in the arou English language." shov Dr. J. M. Rtggs, of Hartfor<j, Conn., sa i claims to have unearthed the first spec- cons imens of a new potato bug. who Sir Moses Montefiore is called by on.. forn of his ulog ists the most illustrious Jew eighI since Davk and Solamon. auti Chief Justiceo Waite is ..in Scotland was trying to recover his health by eating his s oatmeal in all its native wildness. 0il V Frank It. Stockton, the stor -teller, "has soft brown eyes in which is gen. byma te humor shines as he speaks." feet. Dr. Prime's estato is estimated at soon $300,000, most of which lie is said to of hi have made out of editing the Ob- ho sl server was James Russell Lowell will resume face his literary labors in America by writ- ings Ing a biography of Nathaniel aRaw- him thorne. die t Walt Whitman is the chief curiosity ing I in the town of Camden and every street two ear driver loves to talk to strangers ing I about him. sOM< George R. Sims,who wrote "The Cry an of the London Poor," is about to pub- ihr lish what seems a sequel to it, "Rogues ishct and Vagabonds." relic Speaker Aldrich, of the New Hamp- roret shire House of Representatives, is so and like president Cleveland that ho is and sometimes addressed as Mr. President. neat Judge William T. Crow, of Carnes- mod ville, Ga., has all his six children and he n forty-seven grandchildren livin- within upou a mile of the old ho..estead. Gen. Lord Tennyson's poem on the mar- did, riage of the Princess Beatrice is re- ters< ferred to as an epithalamium by one pag< writer. When poetry gets awful bad A1 it is hard to find a name for it. stoal Mlad Dr. Tiffany says Grant told hin that Lj all music seemed to affect him as dis- that cord would the sensitive, skilled and int cultured ear. lie would go a "nile out to er of his way rather than listen to a band. and Pope Leo's encouragement of histori- brea cal studies has been such a marked fea- prep turo of his policy that the papal medal calc commemorative of the eight years of Ora his pontificate, just struck, boars a fig- stag tire representing History. Mad Moriz Jokai is a Hungarian novelist, ings not a newspaper funny man, as the oric name might indicate. Ho has hit upon coac a good pla'n for disposing of the auto- tave graph bore. lie announces that he is neat willing to send a page of his mnanu- fres script, with his signature, to any per- and son who will send two florins to a cer- inih tain charitable institution of which ho ovet is a member. stoi Karl Blind claims that Victor Hugo clos was of German origin, and Frenchman the only by the accident of circumstances. sub lie states that the great poet's first iden name, Victor, is really only a Franco- .ate Latin substitute for the true namo of e lingo's father, Sigisbett, which means "brilliant with victory." lie says that there is ample documentary evidence I to provo that Victor lingo's ancestors imp were German artisans. this Miss Catherine Wolfe, the philan- pon thropist and religious arch:eologist, is Cl . not a "'Garden of Eden crank" the . had Dr. William Hayes Ward explains, and ty. it was not with the object of verifying decal the Garden of Eden story she sent hitu taxi to Asia; althtough he adds: ''1 havu sent thiought it worth while to mienition that to it, was ini the city of Sippara, the site of ini 1 whieh was discovered by the Wolfe ex, a pedition, that thle ChbaIdan~ istorian byi eirosus, says that, thio records of thle teni antedlil uvian world were buried, by the lier command of the gods. that they mnighlt girbi be dug up after the flood.'' othir -Compiled l>y ?ac Detrioi Free Presu,s. dean The Hair of' A Ar a ir8 StmientsI. Tihie pompafdouir hair-cuit wor*n by whou Ann Arboer students is self explanatory, nual and the only thing of its k ind known mmtu to fame. It is severely classical, Julius lant Cmosar having been taken dlown wtith it havi the night he rolled uap his tronsers legs fami and waded across the Ilcilespont. Thoi will barber who performs the delicate opler- to ation was pulled( greeni andu rip)enedi to The~ order. Hie has got the buisinhess dhown dlate! fine and can talk his customers to death maer in all the ancient and modern Ian- nec.,s gu tios. lie always makes change in ing Eng'ish, ho~wever. 'ITo student p)om- care pa ourt is low-necked andl short-sleeved cipa on the sides, and is cut en train over pa the skylight, of the intellect. TIhis into builds the head upi in the swanmp lands sion which nature often gives over to hard- clas; ness of heart and imparts a collegiate falle turn of mind to the r. hitecturai plan istrei of the whole st:a.c business. A yonng prloi man often enters to e un iversity w ith1 a the head cnstruactedt on the cott age plan, itnts with all the bedrooms dow nstairs, and are leaves it, after a few years of Intimacy shre with the pomipadour barber, to all ap- deal pearances a thoroughly refornmed man. and Nature has a way of getting tired veni sometimes, and lying dlowni beside her high work and going to sleep before the erim supper-bell rings. Tlhis gives the Anin on t. Arbor barber a chaneo to (demonstrate wherein ho knows more aibouit his bus- Li iness than the original architect. By (lied prmning fromi the side of the head and was putting on a hip roof where natture had thiro let it go at compoesitioni, lie gene rally pain manages to impart an air of intellectu- last ality that is warranted to hatch chick- was ens from door-knobs. If the patient llis has been pilaying with tho university ness for several years, the intellect is allow.. hadl ed to projoet over the brow, to indicato spail that seats inside aro selling at a pro- like mium. This is the onily true reason reta why Ann Arbor students are longer- The headed than the rest of mankind. -Do- Nap tro,u Journal. pris .... - - rour All of tho ol California inin "ii towns are in a dcayed or decaing fer conidition. Some of thenm, most flour-~ not Ishing fronm 1849 to 1851 or 185u6, aire hou blotted fromi existence aind lost 'to lv memory, save in the imdaeneigh- fand borhood where they once0 "tood. fr fli PICTUItE-IUYING. I low Artist Succeed in Putting People Out of the JHumor. "Lot me toll you," said a salesman C n tho picture business the other day, it 'that artists as a class are the most rying and short-sighted people in the 8 vorld. For instance, they will actually a ry to spoil each other's salo,. They t an not bo made to see that whatever l elps one hilps.the market." t "How can they spoil each other's o ales?" "In many ways. I'll give you an in tance, and will take a case that hap- a >ened a good many years ago, so that to one's feelings shall be hurt. I had or a customer a wealthy gentleman, and had just about persuaded him to >uy a really good landscape by a lead ng artist; price, $700. In fact, the ontleman had virtually bought the >icturc. le was just beginning to peak about tuaking a payment whet Ln artist, a mutual acquaintance, t trolled into the room. Now the gen loman wanted confirmation of his udgmont, as people often do, and so ppealed to the artist coming in, and :aked his opinion of the purchase. The a irtist felt a twinge of jealousy. He e ialanced himself first on his heels and e hon on. his toes, made opera-glasses c out of his hands, and squinted, at the c icture from every possible point of 'iow. Finally ho spoke. 'It is a fine a e >icture. It is well conceived, drawing o irst rate, admirable color. I like the rees, the sky, the water. In fact, it's a Ln excellent work of art. Still, if you b eally want my opinion, I'll tell you a omething. You see that small figure a n the distance-the figure of a man ishino-P Vell, if you will take the roubfo to find the scale of measure wont, you will discover that the man's ishing-polo is certainly over fifteen Oet long!' "When I heard that 1 knew in a ninute that my bargain was off. The entlemant buying the picture did not ely enough upoU his own judgment, t md besides I had had experience. The A rtist criticising the picturo appeared o be fair and square. io had really a ivon the work its due praise, to begin vith. But lie had got his deadly work } n after all. That splendid work of ct was spoiled for that purchaser by a ittle brush stroke intended to repro- a ent a fishing-polo. The gentleman a over looked at it again that, it did not ecn to him to be all fishing-pole, and p o finally told ino the fishing-pole had mado the picture odious to him, and b e would not buy it." "And you say that artists ofien do liat sort of thingP" r "Yes, they've spoiled a good man,y ales for each other, in my experience. lut, mind you, I don't say that they a ave any malicious intention or always ealizo what they aro doing. It is the asiest thing in the world to discover owe little, trilling, good for nothing r lefect that will turn a person against a picture." "But suppose a purchaser is put out f conceit with Smith's picture, doesn't hat make him all the moro likely to uirn around and try one of Brown''" "No, it does not. And that is why say artists are short-siglted. In my xperience, if a man buys a picture nd is happy and satisfied over his urchaso lie is moro than likely to turn round and buy more pictures. Tho ppetite grows on him. But if he is hecked and made to feel dissatisfied rith his own taste and his own judg- i iont just as he is about to buy a pict re he is thrown back 'of himself, rows disgusted, and turns his back on Lie whole business." "How do you think the tasto for c ictuire-buying may be promotedP,," "There's no telling anything aboutt .Picture-buying hero in San Fran isco comes on at irregular IntervalsL ko an epidemic. Sometimes I think comes in waves, like hot weather, or ko anything else we don't under tand. "Is it not p)ossiblo the trade should ver become equializeCd, and a steady, regular' dlemandl foi' pictures be estab-. ished?" "Well, if you ask me that question, shall have to tell you that hero again ~he artists arc at fault. In dull times V he ar'tists go along slowly and care ully. They growvl a good deal, but do )i'etty good work. Let tbh, market im prove ever so little and taiey get per ~ectly wild aiid turn out pictures by the lozen. TIhey reason that if they can ielI a possible thi'ee out of four pictures yvhy not fifteen out of twenty? Ther ~onsequenco is they kill the goose that ays tho golden egg. They glut the narket with poor pictures, exhauist )urchiasers at the earliest possible me ilent, andl flatten out a boom which ~ iegaa favorably and might have been ioaxed to last a long time."' "When do you think the artists will earn to manage their business affairs vithi discretion?''" "Not before themillenniumi."-San V~rancisco Chironicle. North Carolina is Leceiving tho ben- si fit of a steady flow of immigration, lie average number of immigrants per ionth being ahout 150. T[he State y ~ommissioner of Immuigration says that a hey coime mainly from Peonnsyl vania, t ut all the Middle and New i glandg tates are repri'sented. Most , f the ewcomers are farmers or mechanics.y ~he majority go to the western part ofy lie state. Charleston, Swain county, the objective point of minay. Dr. ~lark Whittier, brother of the poet, ohn G. Whittier, has lieught 50,000 a ores of land there, being abo'ut one- b hird of Swain comnty. 7Ho proposes s: o divide it into 1,00'0 far:ns of sixty p~ ocres each, and on thoso to settle 1,000 c amihes. Gion. Grar t (lid not like coarse sto- 0 -ios. It is related that on tho Genor-h tI's staff' in one of his campaigns was o i rough and( readly fighter, ''full of a trange oaths" and stranger vulgarl- p .ins. Onio evening, in the ;presence of d ten. Grant and several brother officers, tl ic openied the convqrsation in some 1 oclh way is this: '\ roll, boys, I've nm rot a ighmty good thing to tell you. ti rt wouldl hardly do to repeat, of course, h ni the >reseince of ladAes." "WVell,' v .vrant mterirupted, in his firm hut quiet d vay, "allow me: to suggest. thou, that b t iiighat bin ail visable to omiit it in the I )wCeence of genile'ueni. "1 An Anecctitc (f tadison. lotter putblishedl i,i tho Washington T gives an mtteresting necount of ai usef ioy made by Andiew Jackson's Lou tary of state from Washington to It is Madison's estate of"AMontpolier" toll Oran go Court-House, Va. After lon< ncomfortablo day and night ride A n old-fashioned Virginia stage wha It over heavy roads, Mr. Living- sick arrived at Montlpolier dt 1 o'clock rei 20 morning. Mir. Madison wvas rio sod and tho secretary of state was n to his chamber. The latter A Ono found the venerable father of the in ' titutioa at wan and wasted old man, cuct o hair was blanched and whose "to( was wasted by blasts of more than app Ly winters. lie had arisen from an- turt uo poster and curtained bed and 1 sitting before a wood lire, and by a fo ide stood a small and simpl1 table, wis hich there burned a sintgle tatllow will le. The venerable statesman was isti Olf curtained and almost concealed taki ni rhlt-ownx that reached to his by I But lr. Livingston said that as '1 as he had opened up the contents Luc s solitary embassy to the old seer the lowed, like Moos, that "his eye an not dim, neither was his natural was abated." lie rcquested Mr. Liv- bro on to read the proclanucttion to pa' (meantime ordering another can- all o be lighted,- Mr. Livingston hold- nal, he paper close to and. between the dim llhts), and during the read dr. Maiison gave austere audiheico, a times suggesting a tuodification, Sill nterlineation or a slight para so, but this mentally and subject- - When Mr. Livingston had tin- I I, Mr. Madison, after som quiet 1it ction, requested to have the papery td. Again Mr. Livingston slowly J dt deliberately read, again tho great grave constitutionalist from be- A I his night cap muttered mental i" ilication. Finally, lie asked that gre iht road the docunent and note reln it the changes or comments whlich the Jackson had requested. This he f"" and his interlieations were as it' and beautiful and pithy as the , s of the Fcdcralist. fl, ad now the gray of the dawn was re't ing through the curtains. Mr. A ison remarked that he had had Ar. call igston's carriage sent back, and ty he would drive with the secretary just s own carriage to the Court-llouse yea tech the stago for Fredricksburg in. that they would walk down to A It kfast witue the carriage was being Pa'a ared. It : fell from soie mis fail ilation that when they reached cau ago Court-louse they found the o had already some time gone. Mr. en ison at once insisted that Ar. Liv- wlh Lou should use his carriage to Fred- as tsburg, writing and giving the the himan a note to the 1:idlord of a plic rn midway between the stages, or the ly so, instructing him to turnish a pie i team thence to Freldericksturtg ly s returin. Wlen wi~~iti s iome teii bei s of Fredericksburg thc stage was i.' takel and passed, and AIr. Living- sait was thus enabled to anticipate II is ost calculations. When he reached white house the following day ai me nitted the revised draft to the pres- ici t, it was formulated and promiui d in the form and phrase of the re- la n.las The Russian I"< asantry. " tha can see ninny signs of ebange and sid rovement since my previous visit to the country in 1872, writes a corres- can lent to the San Francisco c'llrhr - mlte For contnriies the iRussian peasatat nea scarcely any idea of perNona1 libeer- hiot Hie was liable to be woiked to hi, to be nn l a wfitlly anid exressi vety h d, to be torn from Ils faily i and i l(l itto thle arnmy er to Siberia, anld, cc his cItildrenS imilarly t realted. ci B68 a Russlin serf-owner, a wvoman,od conlvicted of havinig dono to death gl ihuman tortures duinig a course of t years no less t hail oni hun td red ofgi serfs, among them several younig i of not over 12 years of age:. Ain-0f r fem ale fienid prtidcd a boy to ht hi withi a pen-kniife beiause ho had1h ected to feed her rabbits. All this >w cht:m11ged. Thie serifs have b e ye 1) inIdlw"n denit of thlir lords, so autthiority is replaied bv CcI onu- (ls zelf-governmenIc lt. Thie rutral colli-ts es hiavi: gradually ae.iiredcc tile s formlerly held by thle niobles, :111 i to I i istibuhotedl tem amlonig the son lies whilch compnlos( thie comimiilie wri grealt illpartial ity andl due regare iicov hcir several cian ns and abhilit ies. Ja nobles htavo not failed to accomnio11- sto themiiselves to the chlange. F'or-- tllo y theny passedI theirz lives ini id e- out1 ,gamlbling anld senshuality, despis thle commlliercie an Ilind iniig thir Ioinly era or in the army. Since the ('Ilan i- enr tion ilnanyv of themii hiave, herome li w it tical fa rmers andii other: s haive) goniepu bttsinless or ilnto thec legal profes- tle? anld helped swell tIle rising~ middle pr . The peasanit has of 1lato yearstr a heir to newI duties. The actin-i tion of justice hlas greatly im1- bes ed1, and trial by jury ha:s usurped havY >lalce of the nobles' fiat. Thlo peas- hIav niake very good jutrymeon. riley poll utneducatedl, but, (10 not lack in mil auydnoss and commItonl seniso. Sharp We Ig in trade(, assaults and11 battery, lhou (dunkenn foss thley look uphonl as Aim ii faults, bitt burglary, arson, rub way robbery, and the i?raver cru es are dealt Iwithl sternly am~, up- coe xc whole, very fairly. hias <e Geti. Granlt, tihe first Napoleon - ma1 of cancer. Inl his casci the caneerus in tihl stomtach inlstead of inl the do it. It cautsed Iil him much sovererl tac than Grant sutll'ored. Towardl the bIe could not digest his food. lie U tormtentedl by a constant, tirlst' bu )tlse beat with at fcvor'is h quick- ;ili Hie implIrovedl,,grow worse, ad11 all tihe hlope, depressioni andl de- tie -tat marked Orant's illness. Un-tw the Anmericant soldier, ho did not cov nx is mental facutlties to tile last. y itlmstances were dlifforont, 51)1 oleoin wvas a. vanquIjIishled man1, a or I )mer deserted by his wife, and suir- sid( dod only by the membI ers of htis slie Lary faiiy. II is last words re- stou ad to his soIl and theo armyi. Granlt and1 only suxf'orecd less. but1 his5 last buti 8 were t>rilghtonlod by a thoulsand eas g words and tributos from wife tim1) chtildron, 01l rmIy comraL'de.C, hisca ier foes, anld thec mlost dist inIgulished side of the world, yeam WIT AND HUMOR. o best English society no longer the Fall all Gazelle for bustles. i8ville Courier-Journal. is as easy to tell a lie as it is to, the truth, but it is not half so some. -Boston Post. Burlington man asked a dootor t in his opinion caused the most ness the year round. The doctor icd without hositation, ,The Pro tory law." -Biurlington Free Press. n alleged improvement on the fashionable cuckoo clock is one hich an owl appears instead of the ,oo when the clock strikes, and its" quito naturally. His daylight >arance, however, is not quito na 1.-New York Evening Pot.. ' follow who sent Mr. Cleveland ar-leaved clover, one leaf of whicit stuck on the stem with mucilage, have no inlluenco with the Admin tiont hereafter. The latter may ba n in once, but it will not be twice he same person.-Roston Post. his is the season of the year when y and John come in ruefully from back piazz:a and try to explain to unsynipathizing audienco how it that Lucy's fragile 100 pounds has Cenl down the hanimoek that her solid 185 pounds swung safely in the afternoon.-Sohrville Jour e was from Louisville. They met Blrighton Beach. She-You-aw 11 seen henry Ward Beecher, aw ioSe? 110-0 yes, often. She and what do you think of his de ry? - le-is delivery? 0 yes. I don't think it equals either ker or Morris, IIe has no curve, know.--Piltsburg (,Cron icle-'ele ,h. n old darky was preachiln some si met amid he saw one of his con ;.toll asleep. so ho began: "You ember when Paul was preaching in Temple a damsel was asleep in tho ti story, and she fell down. smash all tiie sniashers, and the frag s tiey picked up twolvo basket. and whose wife vill she be in de r"rection?" grain, Austria, has a comic paper Ad the :.-mrge, but it isn't as fun is it formerly w:as. Tho editor has gone to the penitentiary for two s, with two fasting days thrown ind the putbiisher got ton months. umnorouts article on the Hungarian Iianent, in wihilch the authorities :d to perceivo the fun, was the se of the trouble. His pants alarm me so," the maid said (referring to her poodle, ehl an unruly cow a chase had led) lie walked with Fitzuoodle. "Are y too tight?" the untaught Fitz ro d, his indigiiation rising. (Ho ught the maiden's mind ho occu i, and her soliloquizing). Sharp he turned, and in her pretty head eyes glowed liko a mouser's: I wed no man so ignorant,'' she !, "hie usos 'pants' for 'trousors!' " One of the, pillars of our State, a bler of the Assembly, with no od tion to speak of, but plenty of con neco and fondness for the sound of own voice, grew excited during the session over what in called the essuro under a bill." There's something mysterious in bill," said lie. "It struck me donly, as if a little bird brought news. I can see it in the air; I feel it in my bones. . At any mo it there may be an explosion be th our feet, and then we will see r blind we ar."-larper's B azar. I am honest in what I say, I'm est!" ho shout.ed, jumping up and in and cracking his hools together. vant to lick somebody or get lick I'm spilin' for a lightl I want a- gallons of it-an' I am willing hed barrels!. Gimme exercise or Lio death!" 'lie crowd closed in and pounded , and walked on him, and jumped him, and1 fell on hiim and whipped cold. - wo mx,.rs later his only remaining opened slightly and 'ho whispere bi a sigh of content: lloys, I was honest. This is para ml"-Drake's Magazine. merican journalism responds nobly lie strain imposed by the silly sea A mammoth cave, chuekful of thing rattlesnakes, has bean dis ored in Alabrmra this ,.week; the kson (Ga.) XEs has noted the pago of a grist-mill, owing to all snakes in the pond having erawled simultaneously to suma 'themselves, ruby lowering the wvater-hoad sov. l feet; the New York Ilerala hap ichedl the Smithsonian Institubion bi a snake that has a head like a y-dog, jumps like a frog, and whis ,andt the Now York Times has ited its annual comic article on the n-boy.-Phsiladelphia llecord. o, Claribel, we cannot tell you the wvay to make clam-fritters. We o never eaten a clam-frittdr. We o often tried to; but we are com edI to confess with shame and hu tation that we have always failed. havo eaten home-made bioardirig so bread, and we live to tell it. we have even got away with a her (loll-baby by mistake for a ller. Blut we have never yet sue led in eating a clam-fritter. We e managed the fritter part, Clari but the clam p)art hans always to. ned to p)oint the finger of scorn at andl wo are willing that it should so till the end of timio rather than kle it again, Claribol.-Puek, muggling from Canada into the ted Statof is not only very brIsk, the simugglors are bold in avow their business. Tho following ad Liseomont alpear in papers along border: "'or sale- A farm within miles of the boundary line at La e, P'rovince of Quebco, on which a of buildings has been erected ially for trade puIrposes. No'oth oise witin two miles on either of tho line. CJoal-houses, under Is, stables, hay scales, etc. T1hie di is well known to the Americans, all kinds of goods, such as liquQr, or, horses, grain, hay, etc., find an channel Inmte the States at all is. A good, active business-man, clear his $l00) a day, or night, bo a maiikiig on an average $10,00O&a of net nrolit. ''-Bson Jou...l.