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* "No Vlassee.^
*lie sss"-"het Why, that is idle talk.
~e ri eau sndse at t6o untry boor;
'e i a nn meean te wbo walk
wr ty streets despise the parish poor.
S 4a1 tof er at some noisy 1001 n
3014s back g4 Simentr from the kitchen
saaid;
R whle the latter leans upon her broom
Vpeonseous of the bow the laundress made.
e dauobter eyes the farmcr's lass
Mtghty glaose, while the lawyer's
W 1wyme visits fress the trading elses
If pollr weri not her oreed In life.
''e worchant's son nods coldl' at the elerk;
The proud possessor of a pedi
Ignores the youth whose fa&er rose by
The ttle.seeking maiden scorna all three.
The aristocracy of blood looks down
Upo the nouveaux riches and in disdain
Tea ve ee of the intellectual frown
n , and worship at the shrine of Brain.
"tq elasses here." the clerman has said;
"We are one family." You see his rage
Iad horror when his favorite son would wed
Bee pure and potty player on the stage.
xts sthe.valn, and natural human way
Of vaunting our weak selves, our pride, our
worth i
Net till the long delayed millennial day
$hsll we behold "No olasses" on God's earth.
-Ulia Wheeler Wilox, In Town Topics.
MY WIDOW.
She was the meekest and most docile
little personage you ever saw. That,
of eourse, was before she became my
widow.
How could she becomo my widow.
when I'm here alive and flourishing.
to tell my own story? Just wait until
rve finished, and you will see.
She was very pretty, too, with pink
apple cheeks, and eyes of that pecu
iar translucent beryl-greon that you
see so seldom, a slender lithe figure,
and a step as noiseless as it she wore
- the famous shoes of silence. There
was something cat-like about her-at
least, so Fits-Brown said, but Fitz
Brown was always prejudiced against
Lucilla.
"Depend upon it, old fellow, she's
married you for your money," said
Iits-Brown. "It doesn't stand to reas
on that a girl of eighteen should tio
herself to a fat old heathen of fifty-four
unless there is some motive lurking un
derneath."
"Fitz-Brown." I broke in irritably,
"you're a fool!"
"I may be a fool." answered that
gentleman calmly, "but a single fool
is not so bad as a married fool. in any
point of view you choose to take it."
There was no use arguing with Fitz.
Brown. He was a stubborn, opinion
ated old fellow at best, and he was de
termined not to like Lucilla from the
very first. How he did exult when he
came down to my office and told me
that Harry Sykes was spending the
evening with Lucilla-that same reck
less young good-for-naught who had
been wont to hang around her before
we were married. And Lucilla had told
me she was going to take tea with her
mother.
Nevertheless I put on a bold face.
"Well, let him spend the evening,"
said L "Where's the harm?"
"Yes; but-but the curtains were not
drawn, and-and it isn't necessary for
him to sit on the same sofa, with his
arm round her waist."
I went straight home, but Mr. Sykes
had departed, and Lucilla was darning
my stodkings by the tire.
"Luilla, said I sternly, "I must
'forbid an7 more of Henry Sykes's vis
its here.'
"Yes, Josiah," said my wife; "Harry
is rather troublesome."
"And you will please receive no more
young Fentlemen visitors in my ab
sence.
"No, Josiah."
"Tihe fact is, Lucilla, I am afraid you
read too many novels."
"Perhaps 1 do," said my wife meek
~"I will bring ,up a set of 'Rollins'
* ~ Ancient History' to-morrow and some
sermons for you to read. All lighter
literature must be banished at once."
"Certainly, Josiah."
Could Fitz-Brown himself have ex
peted more complete and dutiful ao
quaintanoe in all my demands?
Lucilla was preternaturally affeetion
ate the next two or three days. She
hung round mo in the moat bewitching
manner, sewed my shirt-buttons oni,
ran for my slippers, and would insist
on toasting the broad herself, until her
pretty face was the color of a soarlet
tomato, "because cook is so careless,
and dear Josiah likes his toast browned
jnst so."
"What shall I order ior dinner, dear?
The butcher's man is here. Steaks or
a roasting piece?"
"I don't care," I answered meehan
"F,4 t youko your wishes are my
pleasure, love."
"Steaks then."
"And about the pudding, sweet?
8hall I tell cook to make a real old
anglish plum er would you prefer
Really it was very nie to hear one's
wishes consulted in this sort of man
ner. And when I departed from the
omole, Luclla herself stood on tiptoe
to ti, the worsted muffer round my
eek.
."For if you should take cold, dear
est, and anything should happen, it
woul d,break your dear little wife's
Under these harmonious circumstan.
see that sudden voyage to India came
like a thunderbolt across the serene
horison of our matrimonial life.
"How shall I live without you slic
months, my dearest?" sobbed Lucilla
her lovely beryl eyes swimming n
But we cannot always control no
ecssity, and, after a mournful farewell,
in which my wife fairl sncumbed and
wentint bstrics, 1 aedon ne.
entar uinhefoth r f Mine
and Mrtake,I myself being the sfore.
said Mortlake.
oew it happened that my name was
erroneously lugged into the details of
that massacre in which the barbarons
coolies murdered so many of the fQr
sign populdion, when I was actuall
tens miles farther up the country,i
neer knew, and then my long fever
seing whleh I found it impossible to
write or obtain an amanuenas. served
to oiomplicate matters. When I re
.overed. I resolved to foeed ltme
diately back to my naI~v
"I'l not write 1I .~
little heart How delighted she will
beV'
So I took passage in the first Eng.
lisb steamer that sailed, pretty well
cured of all my romantic ideas of trav
sling in foreign climes, and thoroughly
convinced that when a man has lived
fifty odd years in bhe world his best
place Is at home.
Half-way across, we hailed an Eng
lish craft. outwardsbound, and there
was an exchange of newspapers and
other civilities.
As I unfolded a London paper,soaroe
ly more than six weeks old, 1 saw,
under the obituary notices, my own
name.
So I was supposed to be dead.
A curious sensation, like the running
of.cold water, orept down my spinal
column-an involuntary shudder.
It is a sudden shook to read of your
own death, and calculate how long you
have been under ground, and not by
any means an agreeable one.
"I don't think I'm dead," said I,
stretching out my arms and legs, giv
ing myself a pinch, and feeling the
strong pulses that projected healthy
currents through my veins, "and yet
this evidence is certainly very convinc
ing-that I was murdered by barbarous
natives on the night of the 26th of May.
Poor, dear little Lucillal how inconso
lable she must be?"
So it happened, you see, that I was
going home to comfort my widow.
It was a curious experience, to be
landing at last-to shrink away from
the observation of one's fellow-mortals,
as if one had no business in this created
world; to feel like a disembodied spirit.
come back to revisit the scenes of its
mortality, or a ghost, prowling abroad
by garish daylight.
I slunk through by-ways of back
lanes towards my home, not altogether
certain whether someone would not
attempt to exorcise me.
It was late in the afternoon when we
entered port, and the shadows of the
autumn evening were gathering round
as I crept up the doorsteps of my own
mansion, and catered, stealthily as a
robber.
Were the shutters down, the win
dows draped, the house dressed in
seemly habiliments of woo? Not at all;
lights glowed brilliantly behind the
curtains, gay voices echoed from the 1
parlor, und--eould my car have de
ceived me? No, surely that was Lucil
la's laugh ringing me'rrily on the air.
"A little hysterical, perhaps," I
thought, but nevertheless, instead of
boldly entering the drawing-room and
confronting my wife, I instinctively
passed on to the glaced extension room
behind, communicating, by draperies
of purple silk, with the large apart
ment-a room where I had been wont
to keep my books, and which I digni
fied by the title of 'library.'
It was but faintly lighted by the bor
rowed lustre of the drawing-room
chandelier, and as I entered I stum
bled over something-it was my own
pbrtrait, ignominiously turned with its
face to the wall.
I crept forward with an ominous
foreboding-a sudden disagreeable re
collection of Fitz-Brown s croaking
predictions. But as I put aside the
Tyrian folds of the curtain a most un
welcome vision met my eye.
Lucilla in her widow's weeds.
She looked very pretty in them, to
be sure; the close crimped cap could
not hide her clustering ripples of gold
en-brown hair, and her beautiful green
gray eyes certainly did not seem to
have wept themselves dim. Moreover,
there were dimpled roses in her cheeks,
and smiles upon her lips; and her dress
of sombre black only seemed to relieve
the fair, transparent style of her wax
doll beauty.
But she was not alonb. Close beside
her on the sofa, actually playing with
her soft little white hand, and bending
devotedly over the border of the
widow's calp, sat Harry Sykes!
"Come, Lucill1a," he said impatient
ly, "you have tantalised me long
enough. When will you give me this
little treasure of a hand, and let me
"What nonsen, Harry?" said my
widow coquettishly, but she didn't
withdraw her hand, "when you know
that my husband hasn't been dead six
months."
"Oh, hang the old duffer! Whoecares
whether ho has boon dead six days or
six monthsP He's gone, thanks to the
coolies, and he's willed you all the
cash. You know very well you never
cared for him, Lucilla."
My widow did not contradict this
sweeping statement.
"But the look of the thing,you know,
Harry doar. Don't squeeze my hand
so."
"Lucilla, don't you love me?"
"Of course I do, ' with a charming
little pout.
"Then, my heart's queen, what is
the use of keeping me in suspense?"
"Really, Harry," she murmured, "I
don't knowv what to say."
"Tkhen say yes."
Lucilla's head dropped until the
widow's cap nearly touched her com
panioni's shoulder.
"Yes," she murmured at last. ]
Human nature could stand this
no longer. I dlashed aside the purple
silk draperies, and entered precipitate
ly on the scene-quite an unexpected
addition to the dramatis personae.
"Not so fast,madame,if you please?"
I cried with a sort of demoniac exul
tation. " I may be an 'old duffer,' and
you may 'never have cared' for me, but
nevertheless you and Mr. Sykes here
are getting along altogether to smooth
ly,"
Lucilla sprang to her feet with an
eldritch scream.
"It's a ghost! it's Josiah's ghost!"
Mr. Harry Sykes stared helplessly
at me, as If he had been paralysed.
"No, madamo, i's not Josiah's ghost
-it's his living self. You thonght you
had got rid of me, did you? An awk
ward mistake to make, under the oir
euaastanesa. Walk out of this house,
sir, and never let me see your counte
nanee agin!"
Mr. ykes obeyed sheepishly onough.
If there had but been something of the
supernatural inscrutably 1.n1e in
my sudden appearauoe and vehemsent
ajurations, e might have stood by
his oolors and LueWa, As It washow
ever, he adjourned sine die, without a
vorti of apology to ma or farewell to
-As for you, madame." I said stern
y, turning to my sobbing wife-no
onger widow---yon may go home to
rour mother. I w.int no m'ore of your
reacherous wiles. Fitz-Brown was
ight!" '
Vehemently ringing the bell, I or
lered a carriage and packed the be
wildered woman ofl' ti-m ro sho could
remonstrate. C
That was the .sm of my matrimnonial
Pxperience, for L'icilla has never yet
rentured to return to the shadow of 1
ny roof.
Fitz-Brown and I are keeping house A
ogether, after un orthodox baei elor i
!ashion. I think k'i:z is sincerely sor- k
.y for me,but he i.c never yet insulted
me with the truism:
"I told you so!"
Heaven Was with Him.
"I was in Custer City three years
ago, and as dead broke as a skinned I
wolf," he said, its the boys pumped I
him to toll how he got such a sear on i
his face.
'No, sir, I hadn't a blessed nickel, I
and I didn't know a human being in '
that town. Thore was no work, no I
way to get out, and I leaned against a s
dead wall and wondered how much I
my revolver would sell for, and which f
way I should head if I had $10. Tell c
you, gents, I was feeling powerful
blue when Hope cum scootinu around c
the corner to pat me on the >ack and
give me a boost. If you remember, 4
the poet says its always the darkest
ust afore dawn, and somebody has
written that Providence never goes c
back on a man who means to do the
squar' thing." 1
"Who was Hope?" asked one.
"She was a female-a woman. I c
don't remember whether she was as
aurty as an angel or as homely as a
Digger squaw. She few up to me and
says, says she:
" 'Do I address a gentleman?' 4
"'Madam, you haven't made any
nistake,' says L
"'Have you got sand?' c
" 'Tons of it, madam.'
"'And do you want to make $50?'
tays she.
"'If I don't, then an Injun never e
iankered for scalps,' says I.
"With that she puts five ten-dollar
)ills in my paw. walks me to the corner, s
md, pinting up the street to the St.
rouis Red Front saloon, contiuers: I
"'He's in there! Go and shoot I
iim!'
'Who might it be, mna'an?'
"'My husband! He's a brute and a
yrant! He's just run me outdoors at
he muzzle of a revolver! He's a big,
ed-faced fellow with a broken nose.
Jo, and may heaven be with you.'
"'Certingly, ma'am, certingly.' says
[, and I makes a bee line for the Red
Front.
"The tyrannical husband was pre
pared for me. When 1 was a hundred
[eet away he takes a dead squint on
me and pops off his guns. The bullet
rips open my cheek, as tisii 'cre scar
makes aflidavy. I was whirled around
and sent to grass, but I whips over on
my stomach, gets a quick sight on
him, and before ho could squint agin
he was my meat. ''hat 'ere woman's
ippeal to heaven was answered.''
"Kill him at once?"
"As dead as this 'ore curbs:un! He
never kicked around or mussed up the
saloon a bit. Time iunjoored wifo climbed
Dver him and took possession, the
coroner came to conduct the funeral,
and a chap with a lot, of sticking
plaster fixed up my hu,rt and said
Custer's groat need was a dozen
Romans like myself."-N. Y. Sun.
Gitving People Taffy Does no (Goodl.
My son, If I should publish a daily
paper for twenty years--if you can just
strain your credulity to the point of
believing that I could keep a daily pa
per going longer than six weeks-if I
should publish a daily paper for twenty
years, and In sall that time take occa
sion to mention you about twice ai
week as "our distinguisbmod fellow
townsman" and "that eminent man of
letters and merchant prince," and
hould say every time you crossed the
river on the ferry that you had "de
parted" for the 'East, and when you
name back I should notice that "our
justly-popular fellow-citizen" had "re
turned;" If I should in all these years
praise your dog, your horse, your
goods, your wife and babies, your
Dlothes, and your character, and then
iome day, when I was away attending
a conversation, my local editor shsould
Dall the attention of the Town Marshal
to the filthy condition of the stroet and
sidewalk in front of your store, would
you ever forgive me? Would youP?
You would denounce the paper as a
"scurrilous sheet" and its editor as a
"lying scandal-monger that ought to'
be whipped out of the community."
T'hat is tihe reason my son why there ~
are but two kinds of editors. One is a,
meek, smiling, timid little scrivener,
who pays all the bills and allows his
neighbors to edit the paper; the other ~
iditer is a truculent savage, who vi- I
alously scratches out the nice little -
personal the local editor has written A
ibout your arrival home, and sendis It
n--"By some inscrutable decree of a
stern and relentless Providence old
Jake Diff'enbau gh has been permitted ~
to come back home alive," and then /
rneets you at the head of the stairs
with a blackjack and pounds the top ~
f your head in wvhen you come to see
ibout it.-Burdette in BJrocklyn Eagle.
A pretty little story is told of the
way Herr Cohn, the private banker oft
the Emperor of Germany, gained the
imporial favor. Years ago, when the
present Empres. was still a Princess
of Prussia, ase nade a railway journey
to Dessau. On the way her feet got
cold, so she sent out an attendiant at
the next station to procure a flask of C
hot water. Unfortunately the cook at
the railway restaurant had just used 0
up every drop of hot water in making
fresh coffee for those who had jusi
arrived onl tihe train. The restaurateur
was in despair, whesn one of the guests
sudidenly got up, seized the pot of 7
fresh coffee, and p)ouredi it into the
imperialflask. Thie attenidant hastened i
away with it, but soon returned, as the ii
Empress wihed to knowv thme name oi e
the man who had had thme happy f
thought of utilizins; the coffee. And a
she did not forgrot ham.o
STOOK-TRANiAV TIONS.
asMh Value of Annual Transaetios in th,
New York Stock Ezchange.
The cash value of the annual trans
otions of New York stock-brokers de
lea ordinary comprehension. On Feb
16, 1881, 721,808 shares of stocks of
he regular list wore sold on the floo
if the Exchange, 848.940 shares on No
,ember 22. 1882, and 8.022.407 in thi
veek ending March 26. 1881. Thl
argest single sale recorded is that o
V. H. Vanderbilt to a syndicate o
,merican and foreign bankers an<
ailroad operators. Public sontimen
oeing decidedly averse to the contro
if the Now York Contral Railroad bi
single family, he, in deference to It
old less than half his interest in it
Wut what he did sell amounted to tin
normous sum of thirty million dollars
)ne hundred and fifty thousand shares
t 120. were sold outright, and the op
ion of a hundred thousand more a
he same price was subsequently takei
tp by the same purchasers. The secu
ities daily bought and loaned ro pai<
or by chocks on city banks. Thi
,early business of the New York Clear
ng-house exceeds fifty billion dollars
nd the principal part. of this is fron
ho transactions of the Now Yorl
tock Exchange. The London systen
f settlement twice a mouth by th
)ayments of differences has failed o
tdoption in our chief money mart, ant
a certainly neither so safe nor so judi
ious as that of cash payments.
The methods of business in thi
ational monetary institution are pro
.ise, positive, and suited to its nature
At 9.60 A. x. the members may ente:
ho Board Room; at 10 the gavel of thi
>residing officer announces that it ii
>pen for business; at 8 r. al., precisely
t is closed. A fine of fifty dollars iL
mposed for each offense in public trad
ng before or after those hours, an<
uy contract thus made will not be re
ognized or enforced by the Governing
)ommittee.
Collected in groups, like spring
hickons in a rural boardin g-house
teoper's hen-yard, Now York Central
orthwestern, Milwaukee & St. P'aul
eing special points of attraction, n<
ooner does the gavel fall than a dozer
)lending thunder-storms break loose
L'ho air is rent by explosive cries
hrieks, yells, hoots, irregularly risinl
nd falling in gust ungovernable,
)roken only by the deep bellowings o
road-chested sons of Boanerges. An<
hhus for five long hours the tempos
ages, with accompaniments of flittinl
'orms, fierce gestures, uplifted hands
ossing heads and other inexplicabli
onfusions that shroud the innocen
pectator in appalling mystery. Her
nd there are individuals cool and col
cctod as if in church, but they onl
.brow the anarchic uproar into mor
itriking relief. "Mad, sirs!-mad a
1arch hares!" But there is wondrou
Method in this madness. Each offer
the stock he has to sell-cries it loudl3
number of shares, prico. Buyers natu
the prices and conditions they bid fo
desired stocks. Hundreds are vocifoi
ating at the sano moment; every es
is attent to what the owner wishes t
catch. The brokers take it all in, somt
times buy and sell without looking n
each other, so familiar are they wit,
each other's voices; cry out whilescrit
bling memoranda, "Take 'em,
"Sold," "1 bought 500 of you at 97,
and aiterward report to principals wh
the active trallickers were, thus su:
plying thomn with drta for guessing a
the treud of the market. In the Bon<
ltoon comparative order reigns. Al
uire seated. Occasionally manners ar
free, laughter loud, and jokes practical
The bids and offelrs to soll are intolligi
bie'. Between bond calls the broker
whol deal ini these securities transac
buisiness in one corner of the Boar<
Room, to which they descend by al
,levator, with the stock-brokers lroni
whiom th'ey receive orders. There thi
voices or the trailickers are torn int<
tattered shreds of sound, which con
vey no more tuonnming to the uneducat
d oar thant the gutturals of so miana
Ohoctaws. At times the nloise is terri
ble, especially In panics.
Heard b~y p)articlpants in the crush
ng throng, the sounds are distinci
mou)1gh. "Five hundred [Noew York
Jenitral] at 85-aut 4g."' "Take 'em,
lhouts a buyer. '"One hundred [Cli
:neo anud Northwestern] at 84, cash.'
'Eighty-three and three-quarters foi
.00,' with shako of uplifted land froni
mayer. "'Sold." rejoins the seller
'I<ive thousand [Northern Paucihic Pro
erred] at 42. buyer 80." "PIl give 41
or the lot."' '"Sold.'' Hlundred [La:kt
shore] amt j, buyer 3.'' "Three-eighths,
oiler 3. for 100." (Delaware, Luceka
vana, and Western) "'-any p)art ol
000 at i cash." "Onie hundred at j.'
'I will give 117 for 500" (Chicago,
urin gton, & Quiincy). "Sold the lot.'
'PIll give ( [4i11] for 300." (New Jer
cy Central) "''ll loan 200.'' ''Ill takt
00, liat.'' "Fifty [Rook Island] atl
14." ''hundred at F'' ''Il seli 50(
acre.'' "Take 'em."' '"Give It for
00) more." "Sold." '"What's the
rco?" (Lk Shore). "Thre-igh thi
-i"Wa i" "W'hy, 64g."' 'Il
ivo j for 1000."' "Sold the lot.'' Bid,
roe monosyllabic as possible. Names
f stocks are not vocalized in the 10.
alities where the stocks are sold.
brokers waste no breath in trading.
m1 oft'ers made and accepted aro bind.
ig. The securities on the free list are
or, called unless asked for.
Sales are either for cash, in which
aco delivery is miade on the same day
t or before 2.15 a..M., or in the regu.
ir way, when delivery is made on the
ay following, or on time, usually three,
sn, thirty, or sixty days. More fro
neatly option sales are for three days:
rhen stock is cliqued they may be fer
birty or sixty days. In option sales
be delivery of the stock within the
poeihied time may be at the buyer's
ption or at the seller's option. I
unst be within sixty days at the long.
it. In all option contracts extenadinq
ver three days twent,y-four hours
otico must be given, not later than 2
x. ., before securities can be delivered
r demanded.-II. Whaaley,in liar
er's Magazine for N' mber.
Chorus choirs of male voices have
scomes the fashionable church music
New York. There are six or seven
angregations which will begin this
til their first experience In male ohoeirs,
nd the chorus of boys' voices is in
reasing in popularity. It is quite En.
lish
An 01d-Time Southern Supper.
It was a treat to sit down to a South
ern supper the other day, where there
. wore half a dozen ladies of the old
. school-their respectivo ages being be
, tween 70 and 85. Ah, there were rem
i iniscences for you! Courteous of man
r nor, happy and with no thought of yet
yielding up their t'ays; dressed In black
silks with soft laces; every head silver
crowned--indeed they were a joy, and
presented a picture worthy of preser
I vation. Four of them had been neigh.
I bors and intimate friends of General
Jackson, and all had the kindliest ap
preciation of his much-wounded wife.
whom he so loved. The uncle of one
had something to do with Jackson's
duel, and a relative of another per
formed one of Old Hickory's marriage
ceremonies. A lady, hale in her
eighties, who rejoicu:l in her second
sight, and reads everything, scorning
spectacles, and possesses line conver
sational powers, related remembrances
of Aaron Burr. He had come to Ten
t nessee, and was wined and dined about
all the grand plantations. Her uncle
entertained him, and she well remom
bers her father and mother being in
vited to dinner during the time. They
rode over on horseback. her father
carrying her in front of him. She was
four or live years of age, and it was at
an era when parents "wont abroad"
(as they denominated visiting), and
the chiidron were never left at home.
She was perched up at the table beside
her mother, and stared to her content
at the handsome lion of the day.
This was after his retirement from
the Vice Presidency-Jefferson having
been President-and his maneuvers in
the Southwest gave rise to the suspi
cion that lie was organizing an expedi
tion to invade Mexico, with the pur
pose of establishing an empire there
which should embrace some of the
Southwestern States of this confedera
cy. le was arrested for treason at
Richmond, Va., and tried for treason
beforo Chief Justice Marshall and ac
quitted in 1807.
The stately matron, who continued
to grow inure eloquent over the famous
Adonis and statesman, began ufter
awhile to give much interesting history
of Jefferson's private life-her depart
ed husband having been an inmate of
that great man's home for several years
of his boyhood.
Another of the dames had been a so
I cial leader at Washington-had dined
frequently at the White House with
more than one President and had en
tertained distinguished people from all
lands, including heirs to thrones.
And her husband was Congressman
a during Buchanan's Administration, and
yet another related to that President
and to his magnilicent niece, who pre
s sided so grandly over the White House
s and was so admired by Victoria at th<
s Court of St. James. They gave vivic
s descriptions of Miss Harriet Lane an(
Mrs. Douglas, Mrs. Weller and Mrs
o McClellan and others who queened i
r over the realm, and witnessed ever'
move made by the Prince of Wale
r when he was a guest of the President
o --aan Francisco Post.
t He Saw His Father.
"Father," ho began, after taking the
old man out back of the barn, "youi
years are many."
"Yes, my son."
"You have toiled early and late, ant
t by the sweat of your brow you have
amassed this big farm."
"T''hat's so, William."
"It has pained me more than I car
tell to see you, at your age, troubling
yourself with the caresof life. Father,
your declining days should1( be spent in
the ,okt ar'mchiar in the chimney cor
ner.
feeble and helpless, give me a deed of
the farm and you and mother live out
your few remaining days with me and
Sally."
"W'ilianm," said the old man, as lhe
pushed back his sleeves, "I think I see
the drift o' them remarks. When i'm
ready to start for the p)oor-hIouse I'll
play fool and hand over the deed. Will
iam!"
"Yes, sir."
"In order to dispel any dlelusion on
your part that I'm old and feeble and
helpless I'm going to knock down
half an acre of corn-stalks with your
heels!"
And when the convention finally ad
journed William crawled to the near
est hay-stack and cautiously whispered
to himself:
"And Sally was to broach the same
thing to ma at the same time! I wvon
dor if she is mortally injured or only
crippled for life."'-. Y. Bun.
Statistics show that the people of the
United States from being one of the
haLrdest dIrinking nations are becoming
rauong the most sparing consumers of
spirituous liquors. When D)r. Rush,
in 1785, bogan his attack upon intem
perance, wvhiisky and rum were regard
ed as amnv'i g the necessaries of life, and
were "a.most as free as water." In
farma labor ardent spirits were a regu
lar daily ration. It is related by writ
ers of the period that "in the country
clergymen drank as hard as their par
ishioners; that, women and children
joined in tihe revels, and that it was no
mere uncommon to meet a tipsy cler
gyman than to see a woman or half
growni boy staggering under an over
loadt of spirits, or- a farmt hand lying
blind dIrunk by the roadsido." In
Pennsylvania there were in 1790 no
less than 6,000 stills in operation in s
population of 434,373, or one still for
every eighty-seven of the inhabitants.
A novel use is being made out of oys
ter shells by a Hartford, Conn., man,
who is coining money in his new en
terprise. The shells are p laced In a
patented mill and groundi. It has a
eapacity of five tons a day. By an in
genious arrangement sieves are kept
at work Assorting the dust into fiue,
coarse and insufficiently treated, The
tine and the coarse are taken by ele
vator belts to tihe floor below, where
through canvas chutes, regulated by
wooden slides, barrels are rapidliyfill
ed. The product is sold1 for ohhloken
feed. Twenty tons and more are sent
yearly to San Francisco, orders are fill
ed from Western states, and Berauda
andI the Sandwich Islands have been
nnnlited.
HOW TO TRAVFEL.
Iale, for Psasengers Whielb Diter Slightly
from the Golden Bute,
First, please keep off the grass.
Travelers without baggage must pay
in advance. 9o must travelers with
too much baggage. Second. the trav
eler who has never before been twenty
miles away from home is permitted to
sit in one mseat and put his feet on an
other. Third. the man who plants his
dusty boots on plush furniture at home
and in his frind s house is expected to
conduct himself in a like manner on a
train. Fourth, gas burned after four
o'clock will be charged extra. Fifth,
the passenger who knows the least
about anything is particularly request
ed to talk the loudest about everything.
Sixth. whenever the conductor calls
"all aboard," all passengers who are
taking their irst trip in a railway car
will shout, "if you can't get a board
get a rail." Tihis will enable the con
ductor to pick them out without any
trouble. Seventh, the passenger who
has been "aboard" (Cook's excursion
ist, Europe, Asia and Africa in ninety
days). will please give accounts of the
fabulous speed and superior comforts
of continental railways; (two days and
ninety seconds from Boulogne to Paris
including stops). Eighth, all loose
change in possession of the passengers
may be safely intrusted to the train
boy, who will deposit it in a safe place,
and give you collateral security for the
same. Ninth, no smoking abatt the
shaft. Tenth, please to remember the
porter. Eleventh, when the brakeman
tills his cheek with half an apple, just
cribbed from the train boy, and shouts.
"Owwowwollowollockalowal-" and
smashes the rest of it into atoms by
banging the door shut, get off; that is
your station. Twelfth, when you show
you baggage checks to the conductor,
and he says "donnonoth 'bout 'tav
task I aggishmast.," and hurries on,
put your cheek back iu your poclcet
and trust to luck. Thirteenth, no pas
sengor may smoke a fragrant 25-cent
imported cigar anywhere save in tun
cattle car set apart for a smoking
room, but he may till his jaws wilh
navy plug, and spit all over the wlow.m
train from headlight to rear brake, u
he wishes. Fourteenth, always abuse
the financial and mecuanical manaige
tuent of the road over which you ale
traveling to the brakeman; it's all iis
falt that the road isn't run in your in
terest. Fifteenth, passengers will bear
in mind that the brakeman's name is
"Johnny;" never call him anything
else. The conductor may be formally
addressed as "Say, George," or if his
appearance is usually impressive, you
may say "Mister." Sixteenth, at the
dining-station, the man who at ihome
has meat three times a week and one hot
meal on Sunday, is expected to growi
at the bill of fare, keep the waiter busy,
swear he is starved to death every time
he goes over that line, gorge his way
through the whole bill of fare twice,
then kick at the bill and rave because
the company doesn't allow its passen
gers half the time for their moets.
Seventeenth, this is a free country, and
any passenger has a right to force his
company upon any helpless stranger,
wade into conversation with him, as,,
him a million questions about himsel,
his family, his business, his persou.i
affairs, and may even compui him to
remain awake to participate in sue.,
conversati.on. Eigiiteenth, do not pick
any leaf, flower or shruu. Niucteeuti,
at intervals, it is expected that tUe
poorest whistler inl the car will wlllYtiu
a tune which ho does not know, ani
nobody eise ever hoard. Twontiet, it
is the earnest desiro of the c)mpan:ui y
over whose road you now travming,
that as soon as you hear- any other oss
senger whistling, you will toot, up a
tuneless nielody of your 0Owu1. This
pleases the vassor.gers who o not
whistle. Ti centy..irst, "sass'" the
brakeman i.ll you can wvhilo ot. the
train. It might break your back it you
postponed it, until hie took his uniformi
The Problem of Huanan Flight.
The subject ot miy paiper-fly;ng-ma
chines-In a general waly, is of inter
est to everybody. But, to thojo whio
have given it more p)artliular at tention,
It is not only interesting nut fascinat
ing, and a lhttle dangerous. The path
way has been strewvn with wrecks; and
I fear there Is a feeling prevalent that,
after all. it leads niow here inp particu
lar, unless it be to the almishouso or
lunatic asylum.
Still, thern are times when 'ye hecarti
ly envy the birds their wonderful po0w
er. I remember In reading, I thinik,
Mr. Wallace's book on the Amaz.ons,
that lie was once stand ing on the shore
of the mighty river, confronted by an
impenetrabile wall o)f gren, concealing
within itself doubtless no end of new
plants and beetles; and whien a gavly
painted mIIIaw came sailing l azily
along and disappeared behind thle tree
tops without any sort of trouble, he
gave vent emphatically to the general
wish to fly, and to a feeling of surprise
that apparently so simple a problem
should have remained so long uin
solved.
hrooe re to give an account of
soe f heattempts to lythat have
been madle in the past, and are now
being made; and to try to explain the
principles involved, and why success
has not been achieved.
TVhe old Greeks andt Romans very
sensibly appear to have been content
to give the gods and birds and butter
flies a monopoly of the air; for, except
ing the story of Dsdulus and Icarus,
little mention has been made by classi
cal writers of attempts to fly, or of fly
Ing-machines.
Daaus, it seems, had killed a man
In Athens, and with his unfortunate
son fled to Crete, whero King Minos
very properly detained birn; bus. de
tern:ned to escape, ho made wings of
feathers cemented with wax, and, In
structing learus to fly neither too high
nor too low, but to tlosely follow him,
launched himself Into the air, and took
a bee-line for Greeee. The young man,
however, was ambitious, and, flying
too neat the sun, the wax melted, and
he perished In the sea-a warning to
future generations. - "Flying-Mla
chine,," by 1. W, Mathmer, in Popular
Sclence Mlonthly for November.
Thomas A Edison does not like to sib C
for a photogrraph. Ho is too busy.j
Arranging for Organisatis ang 1Oy
union xest TMr. ^
By request, a number of gentlet
members of the Wallace Rouse, met
Wright's Hotel, Coltumbls, on the'(
evening of the 11th Inst. PenA
F. A. Connor Abbeville; 1. 8.
berg, Barnwell; John B. Erwin
caster; J. B. Humbert, J. Wpsh WOW J
Laurens; John S. Verer, Ocon.e
D. F. Bradley, Pickens ' E. 8. AIen,
Spartanburt; : A. E..H iulchinson, W. H, r
Massey, York. The followili- ofoerl
of the House were present? John oT
Sloan, clerk ; W. MCB. Slon . aslet..
ant clerk; C. 0. Marshall, dorkeeper.
On motion Mr. B. H. Massey was
called to the chair and John T. Sloan
was appointed secretary.
The secretary handed the chairman
the gavel used in the organization of
the Wallace House. [Applause.] The
chairman stated that the meeting' had
been requested for the purpose of con.
sulting with the view of organizing a
permanent society of the members of
the Wallace House of Reoiresentativ's
who organized in the Carolina )Ra ,
November, 1876. The following reso
lutions were unanimnously agreed to:
Resolved, That the secretary prepare
and publish a list of the members' of
the House of Representatives who- or
ganized, in the Carolina Hall on No.
vemnber, 1876, known as the Wallace
House, and that they be requested to
meet in Carolina Hall, in the city of
Columbia, on Wednesday or Thurs
day of the next State Fair for the pur
pose of organizing a permanent so
ciety.
ROLL OF MEMBETRS.
rFrom Abbeville--W. K. Bradley,
teceased It. R. llemphill, F. A. Con
nor, William Hood, T. L. Moore.
From Aiken--C. E. Sawyer, J. J.
Woodward, L. M. Asbill, .J. G. Guign.
ardl.
From Ander,,on-HI. It. Vandiver
it. W. Simif>son, W. C. Brown, do
cea-ed, Jumtrs L. Orr.
From Barsuwell - L. W. Yonmana,
Ml. A. Ilounttree, R. Ibrrt Aklrich, I. S.
Baunber g, John W. Iltines.
Frot I3aeattort-I'la"'thot Has[lmilton,
N. B. M N ers, lreciseal.
From Clestea tield--J. C. Coui, D. 'I'.
tedi'tearni.
Froms ('a Ilet.ar -- II. E. Bis'01, W ml.
Ma ree, decea c ', J. M. :unmiaags,
L. 1E. Par ler", It.ibert J.-nes.
Front Elgetield-W. S. Allen J. C.
Sheppard, Juiaes Ialiison, TI. E9. Jen
itings, ii. A. Shaaw.
From Snmter-J.,i. Westberry.
From Union--W. I. ,G.D.
Penke, William Jefferies. c
Fron Greenville-J. F. Mc)onald,
deceased, J. T. Austin, J. W. Gray,
J. L. Westmoreland.
From Ilorry-L. D. Bryan, J. IR.
Cooper.
From Lancaster-John B. Erwin
J. C. Blakenev, deceased.
Frot Laaures-J. B. Ilumbert, J.
Wiash Watts, ). W. Audersou.
Frt:: Lexingtoi -G. Leaphart, 0.
111rller.
From lMarion-J. G. Blue, James
Nieltue, It. If. It gers, J. P. Davis.
Fro, Marlboro-'. M. hamer,T.N.
Eden,us.
From Oconee- 3, Frank Sloan, John
S. Verner.
Fromu ( )ranrgeburg-W. H. ieedish.
From Pir.ke"rs- D. F. Bitadle% , E. H1.
iBares.
Fr-il Slarta r;bnrrg-W. T. Compton,
deceaised, J. W. Woflord, E. S. Allen,
Ctin-les Pettt".
From York- A ' E. llutchinson,
. I1_ Ma., Ji. A. D)eal, deceased,
Resolved, Tihat ex-Governor' Wade
IlaIityon, the Senate andl its officers of
876, the State officers of 1876 and
Jndge A C. IIaskeit be, and thev are
hereby, inavited to attend( the mee~ting.
Resolved, That a committee of three
hc appointed to inivite the Ion. W. H1.
Wallace to add(ress the mecethitg ont the
nistory' of' the eventful struggle of the
Wallace flouse, whe'reupon the chair
nan annuonneed Mesasrs. Verner', Bamn
>erg and1( Allen, of the committee.
Resolved, Tlhat a commit tee of three
le appointed to make arrangments for
the contemplated nmeeting, whereupon
the Chair announced Mesqrs.Eri
Bradley anid Con nor, of the committee.
The meeting then adjourned.
-Miss Angelina Brown, of New
ork cit.v, has sued her physicians,
ir. A. 8. Purdv andi his son D)r.
A. E. M. Pimrdy, for $10,000 damages
For having falsely reported that she
bud smallpox and causing her to be.
lent to the smallpox hospital on Black
vell's Island.
-rhe census of Kansas, just com
)letedl by the State board .f. agricul
nre, shows a population of 1,268,482,
galin of 372,466 in the past five years.
hle grteater p)ortion of this increase is
withi[n the past two years, during
vhich time the almost depopulated
vestern counties have nearly regained
Former numbers.
-Mr. T1hompson andl Mrs. Wood
Fall went to the agency at Lawrence,
Kan., to be married. The ceremony
was performed at 9 o'clock a. m. and
'homnpson died at nooni of dropsy of
the heart and was buried at 10 o'clock
l)ext day. The minister who married
Lhe couple preached the flunerai ser
mon, and In the evening married the
woman to another man.
-The Atlanta Prohibitionists ofi'ered
to pay the taxes of any colored man
.who desired to vote the temperance
ticket at the election this week, and
the liquor men, hearing of this, blue
ribbcned t wo hundred anti-prohibition
negroes, sent them early next morning
to the temp)erance headquarters and
ad two hundred votes qualIid, at a
ost to the Prohibitionists of nearly
-1,000.
Somebodly has discovered the dis
emraging fact that five G*overmors of
ow York have dIropped dead i/f heart
isease. Still the position will b
ought after.
4Dvron To MoTr(gRS.
Nas. WLwrNs Sni sTan? sbou1 Q "
ays be eaed for children teeth,g. itsotE
L chIld. softens the guw~ -~agfn~
ures wthd colic. and Ii h etrMy ~~,c
tanm.Tenty-Avye centsa aots