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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.
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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.