Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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But she who leaned above them like sol rare-dowerod queen, Was fairorthan the flowers, so noble did al seom. And I who silent watched her from out ti window wide Dumb by the mighty power of passion at of pride, Then, and'forever after, had counted all pa sweet Could I Lit bow repentant, low kneeling i her feet. -Annah 1ilinskl in Chicago Inter-Ooea THE PRAIRIE ON FIRE. "Turn out, Fred, turn out! Joo say there is a herd of buffaloes in sigl from the next rise of land. Biggei kind of a herd! Belively now, or you' lose your buffalo skin." I opened m eyes sleepily as Frank grasped m arm, but was on my feet before ho ha finished speaking. Joe, our guide an cook; a half-breed Sioux, was hurriet ly boiling our coifee, and George wa getting the guns in proper order. W were on our first butralo hunt, and was my highest ambition just then t securi a pair of horns to mount and robe made from tho skin of a buffal killed by myself. It did not take t long to swallow a hasty breakfast. I lifteen minutes we were ready to star 'Dere," said Joe, as we gallope over the rise of ground. Not a mile away we saw the her feeding contentedly near a small stroal that passed us oi the right. Joe suc donly swerved from the direct cours and followed the bank of the stroan so we were partly hidden from vion 1 shall never forget it! Talk of "buc fever" on a mooso huut! That is n< to be compared to what an amnatei hunter feels when tie sees a thousan or more buffaloes. "Com now," Joe said, as we stoj pod opposite the herd, felt for our cai trid ges, and tightened our sadd girths. We gave the fiery little mu tangs the rein and they sprang fo ward with a snort of excited joy. Pe Iaps they remembered whon they to were as free and unfettered as the het before us. The wind was right for t -and we approached quite near witl out being seen. Thon one groat I,ul glaring from bencath his shaggy mau gave the alarm, and soon they all wei in motion. The reports of four rilh rang out sharply, and one buffalo fe to tue earth. \Ve had all missed or game but Joe! On we dashed close i the heels of the rear ones, whotlin lik" madmen and firing into the bullov ing mass as rapid ly as possible, loal ing the dead and dying behind us. singled out t a wounded bull that wv painfully galioping :dter his wounde comrades. I was not sure I had woum( od im; but his horns and hido too any Sany, and I ielotormnined to inis mid elhimn hiim. More than once I wt saved by the quickness of my watcl ful muhlstinl as hi eharigedl at me1 do: peirateiy. O:ico his shagty man tiruslhed myv leg, but, ats ho turne again, a luie.y shiot iaid him- low, an the coveted prI'.za was wonl. I tha been so interei'sted ill my own gan that,i I haid niot thoutght~ to watch t1. others. I saw them now, nearly naile a way, still pur.suing thto oert And I saw something elso too, semi thing which I was at first unable nuderstrual, but whi'cht sunt a thrill horror through my veins when I eor prehiendled its min'it.g. My horse sniilfed the air oeciel his eyes wil aind uneasy and imovir to and fro as lie nei ihted norvously f hiis cinpan)111ions. Aw'vay in thIt d istan where the prairio maut thu sky in hieated, qluivering Iinoi arose a dar wavering cloud, small at first, but rai id ly spread ing. ' 'Iwas (ho prairie ( fire! The wind was~ blowing~ almost gale directly toward n us, aInd the lonu deaid grass wvas ais dry as tinider. Jt saw it. With a shouit to wvarni the oti ers lie whleeled his horse anid gal lopt towvard me, closely followed by Goor; and Frank. Tooe buiffaloos saw it als, Thme black mass moved slower, at finially turned anmd foilowod imy friemi as they had been following them a fo moments before. Our danger was no more in being trampled to doath tin in being burned. I leaped to thegron to start a "'back lire,'' but found' that hail loft every match ini camp. "No match," cried Joo, as the neared the place where I stood. 'Ga on horse-run Inuch fast--- Devil's t -savod.' "'Devil''s run is ten miles Iiwafy,'' answered blankly, as I sprang itto ti sadlte. "'Haven' t you aniy ma)tch either, boys?" "Not ma match. I dlon't see whati the dickens we wyore all thinkim about,"' said George. "Of the buffaloes," said Fraink. "A wve can (do is to run for it now." TIhie mustanigs knew their danr well as we, and needed no urg5ig, cast a regretful glance uit my p)riz my first buffalo--as we gallopedf awa WYe could plainly smelt the burnit grass, andl the dark, rolling smol overcast the sky above our head, On camne the bufl'aloos, shaking ti ground wit,h the thunder of many foe Joe mitttered something in his ling and his face grew ashen as ho lookc aback at the herd, which was now Auoar that we could see the flecks< :.bapthat flow froith their imnthis. fIt )it linoode\titno words to tell us that em 'tlimo had cool WVo. felt that all wi last, when the herd suddenly divide 1to tne r'ighit anid left, A omomen t mnoi anid we wero between the luiuberin 1masses, which heft au clear space as thet thundered by us, closIng in again shey swept en. ."I-leap good!" ejaculated Joe, as then he turned to watch the fire which n- we had overlooked in the greater dan 'or that monaced us. It was fast over hauling us, but it was not the inky id cloud with its low line of yellow glaro w that caused him to start and listen so eagerly. There came a sound which we had noticed before---a confused squoaling-minglod with the same r- rumble of many feet made by the butra A loces, and a dark moving mass was in advance of the tire. I looked to Joe to Co solve the myster. "Wild hofsol' he cried, as he drovo n- the spurs into his mustang. "Doy nev or turns out-Devil's' run five mile mobbo six." n- bhall I over forgot that ride? On r we went, the fire momentarily draw ing nearer, the billows of smoke each instant growing denser, and the heat O more suffocating; while the frightened squeals of the coming wild horses min O gled in a horrid chotus with the roar o of the wind and fire. One mile-two-and our ponies held their ground bravely, never halting, never stumbling, they kept their even 4t strides neck to neck, but foam flecks a covered their steaming sides, and they felt sorely the burden upon their backs. 't Like a promise of safety the stubby ,. trees near Devil's run buckoned to its in the distance. "Can we make it, Joe?" I shouted as I thought I read hope in his swarthy face. "Mebbe so," s he answered with Indian laconicism, t but h bowed low upon his horse's t neck and drove the spurs into his reek g in- sides. Y hree-four miles were passed. Y Could our gallant mustangs cover the ifth and lastP There ws now but a confused medley of sounds behind us, the roaring, squealing, neighing, and s rutmbling-all mingled in one horrid e din. The stmoke-wruaths whirled it around us, and we could not see how o near the wild horses were. My eyes a seemed to be starting from their sock o ots from the smarting heat. and my is horse's breath wa< quick and lrsborod n as he staggered bravely on. Joe rodo . straight for the fording-place. Frank, d at George, and I gave a cheer as the cool water splashed in our faces, and d if ever mortal man was thankful we n were thankful then. But tne danger was not over. Although tho wild o horses, mad with terror, did not know, , perhaps, of the nearness of water, they were blindly rt4uhing the right way. k ''Couc!' coneinantled the half-breed, t as he turned .;, the stream. We were r still in sight of the ford when the d horses reachc" I it. Even in that to ment of peril I felt keen regret and . covetousness, as I gazed upon their proud beauty. 0 We drew under the overhan., ing - bank and waited in breathless anxiety - to see whether they would choose to go up the stream or down, knowing o that instinct would teach them to keep d to the water. Ono magnificeut fellow is tossed his silken inane in the air as he i- espied us, and stood there a second or I, two, thte perfect picture of equine beau , ty, then witht a snort of surprise and e alarm dashed down the stroam, foilow 8 ad by his comrades. Joo uttered an Il exchauation of thankfuln,ess as they r disappeared. 'I'Tneu there camte a roar it and a rush like that of a tornado, the g long, red flames overhung the bank, r- almost reaching us as they drew back foiled of their prey, little pull's of smoke I started on the other side, and soon the ,s banks of Devil's run were covered with d blackened, smoking cinders, whilo the l- fire, springing up attew, swett on inl k its work of destruction. S.ived! It h was an hour or more before we retrac s ed our steps to the ford, and clitubed l- the bank to the open prairie. A, far -as the eve could see, tho brown level e was chantged to black, and, away over d a rise of ground, we could see the bil d lows of smoke as thte lire rutsh-:d on. d "Camip burned now-grass gone e buffalo gone." said Joe, antd Ito turned e his horse's head toward the settlement. a W1e reached it before another day. I I. was hungry, tired, and sore, but still - tmourning the loss of muy buffalo robe. oJoe could not be induced to try again, but wouldl answer, as hto puff'ed away at his old black pipe, and lazily watch cd the smoke curling above his head, "No ,grass-no butfTalo. Como next year."-Fred &nall, Jr, ins Chicago .Times. a Books f'or the Guitst Chamber. ,At one time I was stayittg ini a hiousi >- where the guest chatmber contained 's among the furniturc ta little shell of a books. I htave often thought of them ~, since, with a wvonder that moroe careful to hostesses did not pro'cvidoe the satmo. u- Nights whenoi I col tnot 51001), atnd d mornings when I waited in my room o for the breakfast 'ueli, I dipped into ,. the conteuts-a volume or two of d p)oems, sotme short stories, and itn Is terosting travels comtprisud the whole w and 1 found not the least pleasant p)art wv of my visit itn those quiet tmoments by n the window whicht overlooked the d groat, old-f ashtioned gardetn. Any I housekeeper coutld spare six or eight bocks from her library, tand almost y any gttest wVoutld bless her for thte ~t thought. A little work-basket fully n stocked; pen, ink, and paper ready to hand-thte visitor cares ntearly as much 1 for those as for fresh towels ar.d extra 0 coverings. TIhe golen rule, wvhicht is is a guide to all brantches of goodl house keeping, as to all bratnenes of all busi n ness, comes to one's aid htore, and ~g what we care most for int another's home we should endeavor to give tho il comer to our own.-Rfuths Jhia n Gooed llousek~eepcr. I Ex-Bloss ShtephIerd of WVtahington -City, whio has been digping gold m.ug r. pets out of thte ancijent mtittes of Mex g .eo for the host sevent 3 ears, is soon to ou visit his old htome. lie is to have s reception worthy of a conqrueror. to Grateful citizens who apphreciato thte t. ability with which he impr'oved and ~, beautifled the town are prcpatittg a d grantd ban.quet. The fact thtat thte boss o a androusomething lIke $20,000, af i3tndpolisin It ho placo-otne it third of/hich wen t to the poackets ir of rimgator. zin4 jobbers-ha, been is for otten. TIhe grateful citizens only dt real iso tnow that they have a pretty -o city, andi they think that tltoy OWl the g great imnprove.r somuething.I nut m:i san old taxpuayer will keep away from t,s the fonst anud the trihamphal procs d in--swastrl Flow totnttk"' "k + ": i.>n :t1141 thn lng andt )..c.:,: .. 1v--rr or 'r.,n Sck'uncn in t" :m' tt i :l3 lchne t".v S -Tene ity "> t {cur : . wl Truc lt M.lT'II tJ O . '1AI1'tit\tt I ,hI I 1'itli ?,irnoi> or~ -rEAfiiINt)u I'rI:tt how to m1:.k;, cn)111 Oition N and the learn1ing .id revitinlfg of tions of verse or rote inter have lon' bectn anon:-- thet m)t of the teacher's nin'. t:sks. prolit to int.'test is sin ply to 111:1 wtork So mhucih the more (killicult repeat some of WV own exiperiel suppose I shall give a fair show the trials of the average teacher. For several years it has been t tom ni a certain school of Mid county to give up Friday aftern goneral exercises. At thi$i tin pupils declaimed, recited, or rea cording to the choice of the indil TIhi teacher 7omanent.ed on the c sitions presented, criticised the of rendering the several selectioi then tried to interest the se! readings or recitations of his owi early remarked the desire of his to select the pieces whoso ron should excite mirth on the those listeniln--. Mark Twain a troleum V. Nasby found mucl favor than Longfellow and Whit Coming to the high school it cester, I found the rhetorical ex in a very peculiar condition, Al was the daytd.vottd to singin! these exercises. Necessaritv it broken day. 1:'p)Is tii,t not Ii exorcise.. it i he teacher dreaded Frequently thirit recurrenceo wol seized as au excuso to remain from school. If a visit out of tov conteimplated, the pupil would arrange to protract the stay ovet day, tius avoiding coiposition reading. Not one pupil in twent sidered the exercike otherwiso bore. The ultiimato good to be d therefroin was so for in the futut it was practically invisiiit. After a time, to obviate the d( ry selection-t that were coi made, Prolessor Hludson's two Text-books of Prose and Poetrv introduced, but these )rovotd quite too heavy. Few boys can ciate a year's study of Burke ami ster, and, as for the poetry, it w ter adapted to those who have at a taste for reading than those w" ill a formative state. To sui 1 matter, it was difficult for the I to am ouse an interest in the worl these books in hand. I frequent boys who, having gone tocol;eg "In college we ask no odds of sociates in the classics, matlei etc., but in writing essays and i work we are far behind." This was not a pleasant th one to hear, and I early decide ever had the opportutnity. I wot to remedy certain defects. Ti caine. What were lie appliai the lianI of the pupilP Tie oh of school readers,--such boo declamatory selections as had down from generations of br sisters, and parents, wvitl Garrol Choice Select ions, all of them, ularly the latter, well enot, teacher had only a :hlit-dozenl p)t direct and oversee. A word at this point on t fatniliar expression, 'Speakin- p I aun one who clai:ns to have I permanent benelit from comninii muemnory the words of fatuous 1)lt r'endtering the saime, before Iny r e t sopi s, to the uest of m y auilil common with others of ]my o% and withl 111( enn.renl of a1 jIter in) addtititn to 14 nn10 h tt was not I learned a de:u Itant I shotild be 1o p)art wVithI. Th4 e lsur th Ilat rived fromi IDhe wod ot EmmIlet, cock, AIbuni.-, XWe:'er, metIt Sew wVoul d bae uIalienIt to describec boyhood0l h1-as seting jl)wIlt pleasuirtea le recll ectionl of ''1 lindeta," "ThI'e D)eath of Napj o "The .lurial of 51n JolIn Mloore,' Battle of Waterloo,"' anti the se other selections that, twventy-fiv ago, constituted tile stock piece schools. No amount of ridlier the awvkwardtness of the tyro, no att tile arrogzance of tIle boy w, learned to (10 his pat patssab overcomo tihe fact tha:t everv Lil boy essays a1 par1t thlat it is tIiflie him, antd accomlpIishes is uI ing, lhe is gainIig couhidence in I1 ani ability to face atn audience, the same ime keelp his wits abio Perhaps some of us h-lvo see Sanith Russell ini hist mtirlthl-p)r rendering of "Bingon on the a la the small boay. While laughed loud and)4 lon ' at tIs, at thle same' time thlought thl muist hlave beenl aL timeIt whenlt A Smith Russell himself was as at' atnd bashlful us thle lad whom linetated. BIut all Lihis [ ha vte thoulghlt a to an endt si IIuply. I1 shoulId t.hini height of folly for1 a p)ersoni to cai declamnationis no faurtheltr thItan till hiave gaine )01strenigtha for motle a mtenIts, atnd lae is all the t;melt his muindl witha tihat which mlay 4) sion prove exceedingly ulseful 1 Over andt abhove all, he hias as a qutired tile ability to keep his :e4 his5 wits at the~ same timlil. A inan, retur inItg to the I SC00 narol large part (If his bo(vhIeol was' said: "I canl forgive ali tIlo sII ings o)f th is rooni save one, -th th)at, the lluastecr xcuIsedl 11o fr regulIar par4t inl declamUt)atioti. and again, I illmy su l(t>squent hlave seenl thec timne whlenl I wo)Ih in myself that miy mtates acqui1 this very roomIt while spea:kmt pieces. 1 begged elf and1( wasex Wit, LthLIis memciory b)y tIe, I hav1' rarely excused anty puplil not in ted by somo defect of thIe vocal< 9CIENCE IN4 ENGLIsit MImmg.~ Various Royal Commissions made inqtuiries atnd listued reco dations in regard to our p)ublice dowed schools. Thell commiliss 1861, 1861, 1868, aund 1873 ha~ pressed the strongesL disappro the coniltionl of our schools, c far as science is concerned, thiil Ia much the same as whon the D) Devonshiro's commnisaion In 1ht ported in the following words: "Con aidering the increasing importance 0 Learn. sciene to the muatorial interests of tht i"- I country, we can uoL, but regard its at. most total Oxelusion from the traiuin ZIGO"WI of the upper and middlo classes a little loss Ulau at n-tioual misfortune." No doubt there are exceptional caso. 'rUR1E. and solutu tritiauat exalnpics of iw. ritig pro%v"sinept. rimoe these words vort soloc. Writte", un1 generally througliout the tin Cottltrv toatcuiltg in scilnce is a lunlt rinl. rather than a reality. ''he ''eochnAca l'o adc Comissicn wl.ich roported last yc:m ko the can oniv lo,nt to tlio schools it If 1 (eat, Britain in which tcieuuc is fully lces, 1 anu auIctl:atuiy Ltught. Whiiu the com " il,r of Iilissioni ,i%vs ui tsle COISOi;ation tht " Eiglumt is still in advance as tn indtts. 10 cus- trial i,tio. it warns us that for.igi diesex n!ations, walelt aru not long ago far be >ou to hid, are now making More r.pit pro to the grei, than this country. and will sout d, ae- pass it ill thu rate of compeltLittol un ridual. We? we give ineroased attulntiul L omlpo- scnw ill puttic education. A luw of modes the Jar,:It" tons, notably Maneester, i Bradford, ludderslield, and Birmiing. auul ilk ham, are doing so. Thu working-cla;s 1. Ho es ure now receivinig butter inst1ua pupils tlol in sciencu tlaal the iuiddli etassUs dorint, .he competition of actual life asrts art of its oWn c~nditions, for th, chiren ol nd Pe- the latter lnd increasing m1i.li11y it I moru obtairinZ cInploymlent. The ta.u.e oj tier. this lies in the fact that the se,uoius fol i ti u-- the lilidillu classes have not ) 3L adtlap't 'rceSs ed theimselve. to the noOds of modeit .Idk iife.--?e aiJaion I ayfa4ir, in71 opurw. and .cic .i'on.liy_/-W ..u;e1 ber". wits It TENACITY OF EDUCATIONAL Tit.il)I KO the theml. TI'NS. i1d be T'he old traditions of education tick iwa1 is iirlnly to school as a limpot, does tc rn wvais a rock; though I do the limpet In often ju:.tice, for it. doe4 make excursions t< ' lon- seek pastures now. Are wyo to give ur S iil inl despair becauso an exclusivo syston ) cul- of classical education has resisted the t.han a assaults of such cultivated authors ai erived Milton. M) taigne, Cowley, and u th1at Locke? There was once :an enlightoned Emperor of China, Chi l1wangti, whc isulLt,- knew that his country was kept bact mll 011i by its exclusive devotion to the classici books. of Confucius and M 'nciiis. lie invitet Were live hundrod of the taenhers to brinr to be copies of these nuthors to Pekin- , and l)pres- after giving a great banquet in theii i 11eb- honor, ho buried alive the professor: is bet- along with their manutscriptS in a doel luired pit. But Confucius and Mencius stil 10 aro reign supreme. I advocate imilde ip the measures, and depend for their adol) eactler tion on the iorce. of publio opinion c with The needs of modern life will fore IV met. schools to adapt themselves to a scion e, said, tilic acre. Grammar-schools boliev, l' its- themselves immulortal. Those curiou, lIatics, immortals-the Struld brugs-describe indred by Swift, ultimately regretted thei immortality, because thov found them ing for selves out of touch, synpathy, and lit I, if I ness with the ca"ntn~rics in which the ild try lived.-t'ir l.you l'lJf tr, in Popuhi L) timo Science af.t j...r)mber. icOs .at, I rango NO MONOPOLY IN EDUCATION. ks of '1The highest possiblo intellecteiu passei efliciency and individual happines, others, based on at harnonious dievelopme t,'s 100 of tho various faculties of mind an, partic- body, are the two principal aits of a] li if it education. There is ia strong andt it ipils to telligent party who sincerely believ that thesO aims aro best, attained b li0 old. the collego training such as it has boot icees.'' and who, therefore, wish that tli lerived training shall continue for all time iog to There is another party, not a whit les n, and intelligent, and probably far more nu fellow- lerous, who maintain that the highes y. In and best education is not necossaril' n1 1lay, of 011 type; that it may differ as inti umo11(, vidualds diii'ea; that theo collego itsc' 1.senso1, hlas chlanged in the pa:st, is changin< toathi now, and is quite certain to chas goi 1 dec.. the future ini ac3cordlance with ', wel. 1 lan- known lawV of human life, and thati ard, it thlerefore, it is neither logical nor fai .His to require overy youlng person of thi nasL no0 presenlt tulme to follow the example o 101hen- older persons, inI thoa kind and manna leon,"' of education which passed as theo bes "ThIe whieni thofse older persons wore young ores3 of ''iiis Party fulrthier insist on its bein I) years unifair to shut the tdoor of the onlj in om schools iln which, according to thje viei lo over' of their Oooents thomsolves, tihe bos e ints edutcationl should be given, againis ho h-s thloso who hlonestly entertain di fforo'n lo, wviii views of edultcationl, atnd they ask: WVhl n11 thie sh oildt youI whio control these shiook n;1 0,1. dolly to usM and1 our childrieni a r'ight lerta :k- wiebi we, onl our parklt, aroi~ willing tc imtself, grant to you?' Who is to be tile judg< amd at bet,wcen usP Ia the collego to be for lut him.) ever tile schlool only of One set of be. m Sob lievers?-C. A. ECy(/crt, in P'opulai LRhino" ~ iaO An Ou 1-1)oor1 1OInnnel Asylum111. I havor The celebrated Belgian colony of the A thlert insane att Gheel hlas noting inI its ex r. 8ol. ternlal applearanlce suggcs tive of theI 01. 13mv~a dinary Ilunaitic atsylumit; its lihabitatnts ht de-~ "ivo 110 suipterfiii intdicattion,s thata Eitrs,o prop)ortioni of thiemi are mnadm[len, nmas If on1e could conlceivo whait Ghleel is, it. tihe lhe must, imagio at townI of LIVe or six truy his thlousanud soulis, in no way dlifferentl kIlarn- froni other townls of like imlportanec 1m will surroun11ded by a nu tmber of ham iot1 eqire I- COntiin lg aiLoge ther, perhaps11), aboutI -lringl as man~y mlor'e inhiaubitanl ts. 'Thlese p)ei 01oce:1- . 1 plave been)'l, fromIi ai very remIloto per ) him iod, inl the habit of talkinlg insano1 per -u1lo ae- sonis to board ill thir ho' 1uses. The t and lunatics live in conIstanlt conItact witl 'enItle- tilt family of their host. T1hey shlare heroe a In their labors andi thleir ploasures If so .01nt, ic lIed and11 their mIeanIs perml)it it. 'eIm- Thiey com11 1and go, ini tile enjoymnt C factf, of an almo11(st absolute liberty. It has, '1: my h iowever, been found necessary for the sin~ good of tile paitienits and1t of tile settled lite, j population to orgaizoi'. admninlistrativo I hatve andt meltdicatl services, in order to pro. lidthe 1( Vent dangerotus andl improp)er perons5fl red ~in from being SonIt to the colony, and for thetir the care of theO mental antd phlysical at Ilsed."' fections of tile patronp, and for sectur o very Iig to them proper accommlodlation cialita.. andh treatment; and an infirmary has >r..anls. bean ostab.lished for those who need ''medical care. But the administration Cr.Ass makes very little show. The whlolo of the Gheel district is an asylum; and havo' the streets and the surrounding coun mmoln- try are the promenadle of thea lunatics. ud an.. --11.* De Vairginy, ini Populasr Scienlce 0ons of Mfonthly for Aovem,ber. ve ex-~~ ~ ~ '* " ~ val of Jean angelow mI one11 of her charm-11 md,( so inug stories tells uls to: at, tIle owd.s call SstaAte is but two nIotus of mustiic Lied togethol uke of with a moan. 78 .. WOMAN GOSSIP. Iow the Saleilvt Wtife Works and sBu fers for HI"r L,.r.d and Master In Muntemangro. i The Secret of After-Uinmnser I)ullness 1'en P'aln:tn:a o" F.stbrlum-F,emil TIlE MONTEciaIN WOMAN. The fo!lowing is an extract from Ed ward Kings' now book. "Europe in storm and Cahlm:" Tho Montonegrin woman is im many respects an object of pity to the tr.tvolors who pass through the strange la tie principality, but there is no wolan in the country who would not be ;rievously offended at any show of syimpatihy. To work incessantly and to suflur is the destiny of the woman of this race. They are not oven welcomd into the world. A Montenugrin father, when askod by his nei'ghbor what th, sex of his now born child is, answors, "God pardon me! it is a girl." Sometimes ho says, "It is a serpent," which is a poetical manner of expressing his regret at the birth of a daughter. The girl grows up neglected and often cursed. She carries fagots of wood on her head in order that she may earn1 a few coins with which to buy arms for her broth ors. She has no youth. At 25 she seems already old. She is married young, and bears and cares for her children while supporting labor in the fields which would be hard even for strong men. She trembles before her father, her brother, her husband; she only awakens to freedom and indepen dence of action when oxcited by the noise of the combat, to which she fro quently follows the warriors. Sho urges them on, anid loads their guns, and dresses their wounds. The Mon tonegrin woman is rarely beautiful of feature, and the coarse work which she performs soon ruins her form. Her virtue is boyond reproach; intrigues are unknown in Montenegro, and gal ilantry would find a sharp reproof at ! the point of a vatg Iian. The'h women ! wander unattended wherever they please throughout the country; for while a Monttonogrin warrior would never think of relieving a woman from the heavy burden of fagots or provis ions which sno may be fainting under, and while ho may, perhaps, rail at her for her woakness, he would not by word or deed oifer her the slightest in ) suilt. The woman is almost servile 1 with regard to her husband; if she sees r him coining along the road, she turns - off, or passes him rapidly, that he may not uu compelled to recognize her. 3 Should the warrior be soon wasting - his timo in loitering by his wife's side s he would be subjected to reproach from 3 the elders in the village. A few years .1 since one could not have found in the r whole of Montenegro one woman - knowing how to road or write. Later - ly some few schools to which women y have access have been established. r The duties of hospitality all fall up on the woman. It is she who unlaces the boots of the stranger when he ar rives, and who washes his feet, who Il serves at the table, and holds the flam , ing pine-knot by which the others set t to eat. Tho husband does not even i notice his wife unless it be to request I1 some menial service of her. - It is a wonder Montonogrin babies u over live through the severe course of y swaddling which they undergo from , their earliest day until they are weaned. s They are strapped to boards and slung over the backs of their mothers, ana s thus, winter and summer, they make long journeys in the mountains and t among the rocks. y When the husband falls ill it is not -the wife wvho cares for him, but his pa f rents. Etiquette demands that the wife should not appear indlifferent to ai his condition, and should attend to her - duties in house and field as if ho were ,in no daniger. Butit when he dies she r is expected to burst into loud lamenta S tions, and( in all the country round f sing the praises of his courage and his r prowess m front of the enemy. t This overworked anid much-abused creatturo has one gr. cious accompjlish ment; the Montonogrin woman is ex ceedingly expert in ombroiderios, and they are a p)rominent feature of the na tional costume. The women work at them wvhen they are walking along the roas, liearing upon their heads bur deswhi ch seem heavy enough to crush a pack horse. TIaIa FATAL IALF-IIOURt. Considering the old qutestion of the silence wichid reigns am aong wvoan while sittinag by themselves after din nor and awaiting the adlvent of the mean from the dininug-rooma, Labouchecro says: T1hae secret of the after-dinner dullness uap-stairs lies, to my mind, in the fact that there is nothing for them to do; at most, a cup of tea or coffee is handed around-no wvino or cigarrettos, no ostensible occupation or recreation, except that dismalest of drawing-room episodes, a little music, Improvised ciefly as a signal thait it is timo for the gentlemen to come utp-stairs. We have not t'a.M ivacity of the French or Italia n ,t-e have not even the sub stanuL:dl geniality anad homeliness of tho German "l'raua." Our woamon are affectionate to indlividumals of their own sex, buat scarcely sociable, tas a rule, with one another. Still they are not incapable of unhending, and often on ly reqJuiro a pretex such as lawn ten nils, a garden p arty, or Christmna. games; butt they t4 requtiro something, and1( if they had something to do In the dlrawing-rooma as the gentlen have in the dining-room-that half-hour, no0w so drteadled and so dull, would soon loose its terrors. On the canti neat the gentlemon leave the table wIth the ladies. I anm not In favor of that; the temporary separation of thu sexes is distinctly good. In some Eng ls houses the latdles take their coffoo dlowni stairs, aind only depart when the cigarrotto is lighted, and not always then. Blut I am rnot In favor of pro longing sitting together dowun-statirs. Bly the tiamo the hostess has caught the eye of the chief lady at the table It Is usually high time tos shufile the social cards a little, and enable some1 people to get up and clanmge seats If they p)lease. No, let the l adios leave the men to their wino and tobacco for a sp)ace by aill mieans; btit, then, let the former be comforted up-staIrs somo how. There shaould be acome game or divertissements, some center of atttrao tiont, somethig for them to look at or I have known a single cheery laugh or happy remark break up the frozen silence of a whole company. A pro text is all that is required; but that is just what our ladies after dinner are so often left without. That pretext should never be wanting, and it must bn sup plied externally, and be oapaw.. of striking common chords, like the wino bottle, the walnut, or the cigar. Now, what I complain of, and what I think our ladies have at present a right to complain of, is the absence of some such metaphorical wine, walnuts, and cigars up-stairs--something to loosen the tongue, to provoke the laugh, to excite the repartee, to tickle the fancy if not to enlighten the mind. That is what the ladies want; the gentlemon have it. I am here in all events, in favor of equal rights for men and wo men. The rules and facilities for feed ing are the same for both sexes at all dinner parties; lot us have a similar re spect for the recreation and social re froshment of the sexes after dinnor. PEN-PAINTING ON FABRICS. As this method of decorating cos tumes, curtains, portiores, mantol and table borders, and lamlproquins is very fashionable, it is well to know how it is executed. On velvet the effect is handsome and bold; on satin and Iien riotta it has a much more delicate ap pearance and makes a beautiful trim ming for dresses. First, have the material upon which the floral design is outlined in chalk mounted, or rather stretched on a stiff board,and thon mix ordinary oil paints or onamol colors with a little turpon tine or mastic varnish. Having re duced them to the consistency of but ter tako them up on your palot-knife and scrape thom off this onto the edge of a small tin palet. Then, having the different shades of the flower to be pro duced already on the tin palet, take an ordinary steel pen, with wery broad shoulders, and carefully and firmly scrape up a small quantity of the paint, transfer it to the designi by striking the point of the pen firmly into the outline, turn it sharply over, and the paint will be left on the design. After carefully outlining the whole flower in this way wipe the pen perfectly clean and pro ceed to stroke down the rim of paint firmly, closely, and finely, which will produce a serious of lines, each line representing a crowel stitch. For the veins of leaves and flowers the paint is merely laid finely on with a pen, not stroked down. For the contres of such flowers as daisies and sunflowers the paint is laid on in one thick lump and then punched with the point of a coarse pin till the desired effect is produced. More brilliant effects are attained by using gold and silver in conjunction with bright co.ors. FEMININE FORTUNES. Elizabeth Garrett of Baltimore has a fortune of at least $12.000,000. The three daughters of Mr. Banker Drexol of Philadelphia are set down for $6,000,000 each. Mrs. A. T. Stewart is credited with a fortune of $30,000,000. Miss Sarah Hitchcock of Now York is set down as worth $12.000,000. Mrs. Morgan, widow of the ex-gov ernor and seuator. can dr:av her cleek for from $10,'.00.000 to $12,000,0,:. Miss Carolina Wulfe ha an ineome of $500,000, and real estato constantly rising in value. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid reads her title o soveral millions in her own right. Miss Ellen Ebon of Philadelphia is both handsone and rich. She turns thle scale at a million or more. Mrs. Paran Stevens w~as left a for tune of $6,000,.000. Miss St. Pierre of Tennessuoe, who is a Diana in tile chase and phlilanlthrlopist in her p)lans, lhas real estato,iron found ries andi coal mines valued at over $2, 000,000. Mrs. Markc lopkins, whio lives at Great Barrington, Mai s.. and left Catli fornia ont of fe.ir of lI)eniii s KearneyI and his follower'. inti att least $30, 000,000 to mtana&'. Saa makes good interest on shurewdi in vestmen,ts, and careful mtant g.teent. Mrs. John Al in turn, a New Yo,rk widow, is credited with sevoral mnil lions. John llay's wvife is worthI a cool mii. lion. So Is Congressman lit t's. Con-. gressman Bayne marriod at wVie wvorth several millions. Mrs, JosOjphinio Ayres of Lowell is worth $5,000,000. Mrs. Myers. wvidow of Gen. Al bert Myers. organli zor of the signal setee Is credited withI a fortu no of $ 1,000, 000. 'The general wats a physiemnii in moderate practico at htzffalo whaen the war began. Hei~ never held an bet salaried positions thleria fter. Mrs. Craig Wais waithi, who, tow re sides in WVashiin 'ton, conhI metet do.. mhands of over $1.500,000. in aumount. Mrs. Fair, formerly wife oif tii No vadla senator, hats about $-1 000,000 to her credit. Mrs. Tabor, the irst wifo of Colo rado's miilionair', has probably mioro money at com~imand now thanm her for moir hulsbanid. Silo is set downi for $2,.. 000,000. Mrs.Dlahigren, widow of the admiral, Is credited wvith property rising stead ily in value and approaching tho milI lion. Mrs. Scott, the widow of the rail road manager, is credited with $3,000, 000. Senator Halo's wifo ha.s nn estate of over $1,000,000 in v ahue. Mr. E. Richiardson, of Mississippi, the largest cotton plantur in the world-- his annual crop surpassing that of the Khiedive of Egypt--owns lantlta tionis In the Mississ'im'pi Valley that in ante-bellumu days wvore valned at nearly $12,000,000-among thenm the famous Wade Hamnptonm planitation. Tihoy are not worth nowv *1,000,000, biut Col. Richardson is firm he the belief that they wvill ini time recover their ol-timo In 1860 onily 5 2.53 ni e IpaporS were pubbisned in the~ Un,ited Siates, or cne for every 6,000 inhabItants. Now 18, 494 newspaipors are pu.>hished, or cine for every 3,716 Inaitants; certainly a remauirkat>le ''rowth in tweonty-five yeara. PERSONAL PAltAOlAPIIS. -W. S. Gilbert, Mr. Sullivan's col aborer, is to pass the winter in Egypt. -~King Theebaw is a handsome young :r follow of twenty-six. -Col. J. Atuwoy K ox, of Texas Sftings, has adtnttted that he is the author of "Beautiful Snow. -George W. Cable, the novelist, has becomo a Sunday-school teacher at his new home In Northampton, Mass. -Edwin Booth was fifty-two yea's old on November 20,a nd celebrated the anniversary in a quiet way In Bar timore. -Dr. Albert Thompson, a young Irish physician, has been presented with the Abell medal for removing poison in a case of diphtheria by suck ing it away. -Lr. Alvarez, the famous French hommeopathist, but who believes in big" doses in the way of bills, suedh for $12,,000 for medical attendance o al Princess, but was awarded only 7ied 000, though lie had refused $30,000 t compromise the matter. --A colored citizen of Prince Edward U county, Virginia, ascribes Gen. Lee's" election to the fact that hie carried. charms. lfe says he "seed 'em." When asked what 'the charms were, he said, the left hind eoot of a graveyard tabbit, a vicl of stumpwater, and a coon bone toothpick. -Frank Hlatton, Assistant Postmas ter-General, says it makes him sick to hear the word "reformer," anti tells the reason why, thus: "The men who called themselves reformers used to come up and camp out in the corridors of the Postoffice Department while they demanded offices for their rela tives ,and even for their wives' rela tives." -Scho;fer, the billiardist, when playing wears full evening (Iross. He has a fiue diamond stud in his shirt. Maurice Vignaux also wears a full dress suit. His diamond stud Is worn in the shirt-collar. Schaifer carries his cues in a green sack, and a piece of chalk in one of his vest pockets. Vignaux carries his jointed stick inl a leather case. -Jay Gould's father, a staid, honest old farmer in Deleware county, New York, had very little faith in his son' capacity to get on, because lie was not fond of chopping, ploughing, sowing or reaping. When the lad decided t quit his rural home, the elder Gould, it is said, handed him half a dollar, and told him he would certainly go to the devil. And lie is still going there. -Judge Kelley says that his pre"ent good health is largely (1ue to his mas tery of the tobacco habit. IIe burned the weed five and fifty years and ho actually has slept with the quid in his mouth. Now lie neither touches nor tastes the stuff and the blood feels much better in his veins than when the globules bore with then a burden of nicoline. -Sir Noel Paton has at present on his easel, far advanced toward cont pletion, a picturo for Queen Victoria, hich teserves some notice on account of the purpose for which it is designed as well as for its own sake. ''he plc turo is to be the centrepiece in the private oratory at Osborne. Its sub ject is Christ inl the Garden finding the three Disciples asleep, and its proper title is "Vigilate et Orate." it is to be placed over the prayer desk, be tween two other pic ures by the same artist, repli;;as of larger works, cnti ted res.pectively, " tho Good Shep herd'' ando "Thrie Man ot' Sorrows." T1hme three p)ictures thus form inm ellect a trirtych, though they will mnot be afl'ectually joined. HO0w TO 00 TO CH ARLEsTON. The Ta ip Shortened, and Mado More Agree ale than F'ormaerly. The traveling public aie greatly in deb)ted to the Athanitic Coast Line for the tuiaking~ of a newv and most agreca ble0 route fronm the up)-country to Charleston. This Ii ne extend(s from Colnumbin to Suumter by the Wilmitws ~ tn, Columibjia & Augusta RtailroaU1, - thence to Lane's b)y the Central, and f romn Lones to Charleston by the North casternt. VTe Coast Line, already con trollinig the W. C. & A. atnd the N. E. R1. R., had but to build thme Central, forty-oneo miles, long, to have this new route from Columbia to Charleston, one buhitred anmd thirmty~-seven miles long. Thel work was finished a little over a year ago, atnd the new hine has steadily grown in i popularity. The first iimi..ovenment was in the shorten lng of the t titme betweeni the capital and the metropolis - which, of course, brought the cotmp~eting line to do as well, till nowv the trip is madu(e in three hours atnd twenty intites. When it was made, a few years ago, it ilive hours, conlservative 1)eop)1 thought that progress in rapid transit had reached a climax I Tlo make such good time requires a fi rst-rate road-bed, and tirst-class roll inlg-stock. These the Coast Line has p)rovided, and thme cotuifort of the tray eler is infinitely greater than in the goodl 01(d (ays when twenty miles an hour constituted the height of railroad ainbitioni. Of course In makinig such speed, there is nto such wvaste as "twenty minutes [or lcss] for suipper." Thereo is, therciore, a buffet car, furnished with comfortable revolving chaIrs, whereoni the passenger may sit, as at the table of a fIrst-class hotch, anid enjoy his "snack" in peace and at leisure. The men u is simple, but nicely prteparedl and( nicely served.' It is all that the traveler wants for sup per~ or for breakfast. The pricus charg ed are very reasonable. The contrast between a meal (?) at the average railroad eating-house and the "snck" on (lie buffet of the Coast line is very suggestive of MIark Twain's "Five minutes for dinner-America,". and "ThIrty minutes for dinner-Flrancet" Thme prIce of tickets is the same on all lines. * AD)vICE TO AioTHERS.. , AIR,. Wisistow's sooThING SYRUV. Bbo .. at ways be used for chhiren. teething., the the child, softens the guma, allays all a, cures wind colic, and ia the beist r'emey iou Elarr -tv.Twenty-avec cents a bottile