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' > ? ^ lewis m. grist, Proprietor.) fnifEpenbtnt Jfamil]) ffetospaper: Jfot t|e promotion of % political, Social, ^jjricoltnral anil Commercial Interests of t|e jmt|. |TERMS?$3.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. 1 ? VOL. 23. YOBKYILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, MABOH 8. 1877. ' - NO. IP. Jflfftfd ftfCfog. a BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY. In speaking of a person's ways, Pray don't forget your own; Remember those with homes of glass Should seldom throw a stone. If we have nothing else to do, Than talk of those who win, 'Tis better to commence at home, And from that point begin. We have no right to iudge a man, Until he's fairlv tried; Should we not like his company, We know the world is wide. Some may have faults?and who has not ? The old as well as young; Perhaps-we may, for ought we know, Have fifty to their one. I'll tell you of a better plan, And find it works full well, To try my own defects to cure, Ere others' faults I tell. And though I sometimes hope to be No worse than some I know, My own shortcomings bid me let THe faults or oiners go. Then let us all when we begin To slander friend or foe, Think of the harm one word may do To those we little know. ~ Ttemem uer- curaca, oomotiiitvoo. Uln> j Our chickens, "roost at home," Don't speak of other's faults until We have none of our own. file KATE KENNEDY'S GHOST. BY MRS. HENRY DEAS. ^ CHAPTER XVIII. " I The %ick man never again rallied suffi-1 ciently to finish, in a connected manner, the . account which had so abruptly been broken off; but in a disjointed, fragmentary way, he imparted to the Earl, from time to time, the rest of his story. After hiding about for a ? ? nf mora, nnrsued all the time bv a terri JW.C W. , , ^ ble remorse, which gave him no peace, he had, he said, a vision, which made him resolve to return to the scene of the fatal catastrophe? a vision of Katie herself, who appeared to him twice in succession, at night, and beckoned to him to follow her. Unable to resist the summons, he obeyed, and under an assumed name, sought a fresh place of concealment in the little village of Bloxton. Here he fell in with Peterson?who, in some way or other, he did notezplain how?obtained possession of his secret, and thus got him into his power. From thenceforth he became this man's slave. Peterson assisted him to seal up the well, and placed the old couple in the cabin opposite as spies, to give notice whenever any one came to the place, in order that he might guard against discovery; and in return for keeping his secret, and protecting him from his former friend, Mortimer, of whom he had now conceived a mortal dread, he extorted large sums from him, until by degrees all bis property passed into his hands. What subsequently occurred has already been told?how the long-growing insanity, culminating in delirium, brought him into contact with the very man he had so carefully avoided ; and how the weakened physical frame, on which disease of mind had so effectually wrought as to reducelt gradually to an almost hopeless condition, finally gave way and sunk beneath this last and mortal blow. Wilberton died, and was buried in the little churchyard of Bloxton village, his funeral being suitably ordered by the Earl, who had comforted him in his dying moments with the assurance of his free forgiveness, and who, accompanied by his little household, followed him to the grave. Here at last his weary, wasted body found repose; while his suffering spirit, it may be hoped, having expatiated its ,guilt by a long period of repentance and an. guish, sought and obtained pardon at the hands of its final judge. ( Andrew Kennedy, his quest ended, and his fierce longing for revenge subdued, returned to his home among the Scottish hills, where he and bonnie Katie had grown up together side by side, and where his parents lay buried. His brother Davie was a schoolmaster in Edinburgh, and his long abandoned cottage lay bleak and ruined amid surrounding desolation and neglect; but he went to work, put it in repair, cultivated his garden and field afresh, and when all was in order, sought and won the band of a smiling lassie in the neighJ /"J a in n infn o f nrtnil yyiUUVU, auu ocuigu uunu iuvu ? mouvjuu uw Bestic existence, in which he found solace for the trouble of the past. Peterson, the dishonest agent, concealed himself successfully for many years, though detectives were put on his track immediately after the discovery of the forgery he had perpetrated when on the fcve of flight. He was fiually arrested at a gambling-table at a German watering-place, and brought home ; but was saved from suffering the extreme penalty of bis crime by the interposition of Lord Desborougb, who out of compassion for his unoffending family, obtained a commutation of the sentence passed upon him. On his release from imprisonment be went off with his wife and unmarried children to Australia, and was never heard of again by any one connected with his past career. Lord Desborough caused the loose stooes to be cleared away from the bottom of the well, and found beneath them, as he expected, all that remained of poor Katie's mflrtal frame. These relics were placed in a casket and reverently buried beneath the sod ; and shortly after, the Earl caused to be erected above the snot a simDle cross of Dure marble, bearing "r r~ ? u her name and the date of her death. Having performed this duty, and placed the management of the Cottage lands in the hands of a new and trusty agent, he returned with his wife to the Castle, from which he had been absent for a period of nearly a month. Under ver^ different auspices did Geraldine now pass the portals of her stately home, from those under which, as a bride, she had first crossed its threshold. Then, her heart I bad been weighed down with sad and bitter' feelings." Now it was light with happiness ' and filled with joyful anticipations of the fu- j ture which lay before her. If the Earl had failed in lover-like behavior during the period of his courtship, he more than madej amends for it now. It seemed as though he j could not do enough to obliterate the memory of his former'coldness, and to prove to her j how sincere was the affection she had awakened in his heart. He had spoken truly when J he had told her that it was long since he had j first discovered how important it had become j to him to win her love; but a proud reluc-1 tance to betray this desire, arising from the belief that she waseutirely indifferent to him, had restrained him from making any overtures until chance had revealed to him how completely he had mistaken her real feelings. Geraldine never l^pd beeu.and never could be beautiful. But with the radiaut light of a new-born joy illuminating her face, and every look, every action, softened by the tenderness with which her heart was overflowing, she no longer appeared plain. People noticed the change, and wondered how it was that unprepossessing, cold-mannered Lady Desborough had suddenly grown so attractive. Certain it was, that she now dispensed the honors of her husband's house with a grace and vivacity that made her charming. And though she had never failed in the most perfect courtesy, her deportment had formerly been marked by a degree of stiffness which had made it far less winning than it now was. There were many lovable qualities in her disposition, which had only needed encouragement to blossom forth and shed a fragrant atmosphere around. In her mother's home they had been chilled and dwarfed by coldness and neglect, so that there, it might be truly said, ?ooi nUrootor Kofi Tiflwpr hf>en brought uui x cax vuwiuwwt mmv* ? 0 into play, and only its least attractive points appeared upon the surface. "Do you still find Desborough Castle lonely, Garaldine, and its grandeur oppressive?" the Earl asked her playfully one day, as they were returning together from a stroll about the grounds. "No, I cannot say that I do," she replied, with a smile. "Why do you ask. the question ?" "Because, if you did, I had thought of a plan for enlivening your solitude a little. What do you say to our getting up a grand ball, which shall be the admiration of the country ? You know we have had nothing but a few quiet dinners hitherto, and I want to see you shine out in all the splendor of Countess Desborough under the most favorable surroundings." "Nay, George, you are laughing at me. I never could be splendid or brilliant under ' any circumstances, though I could manage, I suppose, to make a creditable hostess on such an occasion." "I'll give you a set of diamonds that shall eclipse Lady Raymond's famous heir-looms, and cast the Duchess of Kent's magnificent parure in the shade." "And I should not enjoy them in the least, wearing them with such a motive. My diamonds are quite fine enough to suit me, I as sure you. But are you in earnest about this ball ?" "Certainly; I never was more so." "I thought you were not fond of gayety." "Neither am I, as a general rule. But one must sacrifice oneself occasionally to the exigencies of society, and if it is to be done, it may as well be done gracefully. So on the principle of facing the worst bravely, let us put ^ur beads together as soon as we go in, and decide on some of the necessary arrangements." In her heart Geraldine had no fondness for gay entertainments ; but her anxiety to conform in every point to her husband's wishes, made her enter with alacrity into any scheme which he proposed. She accordingly lent all her energies to the undertaking, as far as her suggestions and superintendence were concerned. Upholsterers were brought from London, and yieldedr to her taste in the adornment of the elegant rooms which were to be open on the occasion, confessing, when all was done, that her ladyship's judgment and discrimination were of the first order. She was equally happy in the selection of her o^h toi lette, which her city dressmaker declared to be absolutely perfect; it was so chaste in its simplicity, so artistic io it elegances. The ball came off in due season, and was universally pronounced -.to be an entire success. Lord Desborough, in getting it up, had q twofold motive. One was, as he had said, the necessity of giving in to the demands of society, and fulfilling his duties to his neighbors no less than to himself aud his Countess, as behtted their rank; the other was a desire to display his wife in a brilliant And exalted position, which he had a secret conviction she would fill in a highly creditable manner. In this last anticipation he was not deceived. Moving among her guests with the air noble one might reasonably look for in a Countess Desborough, she dispensed the hospitalities of the evening with a mingled sweetness and dignity that won the admiratioh of all, and excited many a commendatory remark, even from some who had come disposed to criticise and cavil. Lord Desborougb's object was gained. The impression she made was exactly such as he had desired and intended, and the* position he chose her to occupy in the county was thenceforward established without dispute. Geraldine was not sorry wheu this brilliant affair, and the consequent influx of visiting, was over, and she could turn, uninterruptedly, again to the quiet of her domestic occupations. In her tranquil home-life, beautified and adorned now by the one element which it had before lacked to make it delightful, and, lacking which, its other charms were all null and void, she found her truest and most unfailing happiness, and needed nothing beyond to fill up the measure of her content. The attachment between her husband and herself constantly strengthened, as each learned to know and appreciate more fully the sterling worth of the other. And if anything was needed to draw this tie closer, it came, after the lapse of some years, in the shape of a son and heir, a noble boy, the only child ever born to them, and in whom their iuterest and affection became equally absorbed. ( This second George Mortimer has been brought up, so far, altogether under the supervision of his parents, though they are now contemplating the expediency of placing him in charge of a tutor, who will put him through a course preparatory to his entering college. In the meantime, his father is training him up in all the noble and useful qualities, and teaching him? which is quite as important as Latin and Greek?the duties he will be required to perform when he enters on man's estate; showing him by example, as well as precept, in what way an Earl ofDesborougn in best discharge the responsibilities of his position and do hon- j or to his name. Mrs. Harcourt, thauks to her son-in-law's ! liberality, which is so delicately exercised as ; not to offend even his wife's sensitive pride, is enabled to spend her declining years in the i way which she finds most congenial to herself, namely, a constant round of visiting at various fashiouable watering-places and sum-! mer resorts, where she passes her time in play- J iug cards, in criticising her acquaintances, and j in boasting of the wealth and splendor of Desborough Castle, in the reflected glory of which she delights?at a distance?to bask. I say at a distauce, for the quiet there does S not suit her taste; and as there exists, moreover, but little congeniality between its inmates and herself, it is tacitly conceded by all parties that they are happier, except at rare intervals, apart. In regard to the mysterious visitations from the spirit-world?as I must perforce call Ihem?which led the Earl and bis wife to investigate and discover the true fate of the lost Katie, I do not pretend to offer any opinion or explanation. I only "teH the tale as it was told to me," and leave it to wiser speculators to explore the cause of the mystery and trace it, if they can, to any but a supernatural source. I am content to believe that "there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy," and seek not to understand their secrets, or penetrate the veil which bangs between the practical and the unseen worlds. One thing I know, that no more ghostly visitations have disturbed, the tranquility of Lord Desborough or Geraldine, since the period when such-effectual measures were taken to lay them at rest; and as poor Katie's remains now lie peacefully in hallowed ground, let us hope that her appeased spirit no longer flits restlessly about, but has also found unbroken repose. [the end.] IpSfrilatiMUSi leading. ANDREW JACKSON'S DUEL. The duel between Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickinson was deadly. Dickinson had alluded, in public, to the well known and recorded fact that one Robards had obtained a divorce from his wife on account of her "living in adultery with one Andrew Jackson." She had already been made Jackson's wife, but the offence was deadly. Jackson sent the challenge. Dickinson was the most expert marksman in Tennessee, and Jackson resolved to give him the first fire. The place appointed for the meeting was a long day's ride from Nashville. Thursday UaAmia fl\/\ /la nm /lo TT T^i /?lr tnQAn LUWIUlLJgy UCIUIO IUC uanu ui UUi , A/ivuiugvu stole from the side of his young and beautiful wife, and began speedily to prepare for the journey. She awoke and asked him why be was up so early. ' He replied that he had business in Kentucky across the river, but it would not detain him long. On parting he kissed her with peculiar tenderness and said, "Good-bye, darling. I shall be sure to be at home to-morrow night." He mounted his horse and repaired to the rendezvous, where his second and half a dozen gay blades of Nashville were waiting to. escort him on his journey. Away they rode in the highest spirits, as though it were a party of pleasure. Indeed, they made a party of pleasure of it. When they stopped for rest or refreshment, Dickinson is said to have amused the company by displayiug his wonderful skill with the pistol. Once, at a distance of twenty-four feet, be fired four balls, each at the word of command, into a space that could be covered by a silver dollar. It is said that he had laid a wager of five huudred dollars that he could hit his antagonist within half an inch of a certain button 'on his coat. Both parties, with their respective cavalcades, reached the vicinity of the ground, appointed for the duel, late in the afternoon. They secured accommodations at a couple of neighboring taverns. It is related that Jackson ate heartily at supper that night, conversif? in a lively, pleasant manner, and smoked his evening pipe as usual. He retired early, and by daylight next morning the whole party were up aud in the saddle. A gallop of a ,-i j a. r?i: c ~ mue auu llltJ iUIUUig Ul a oticaiu, nuau, uning to its swollen state, it was found necessary to swim, brought them to the ground. Dickinson and his party had already arrived. The business at once proceeded. Dickinson's second won the choice of position and Jacksou's the office of giving the word. "Both were perfectly collected," says Parton. "All the politeness of such occasions were very strictly and elegantly performed. Jackson was dressed in a loose frock coat, buttoned carelessly over his chest, and concealing, in some degree, the extreme slenderness of his figure. Dickinson was the younger and handsomer man of the two; but Jackson's tall, erect figure, and the still intensity of his demeanor, it is said, gave him a most superior and commanding air, as he stood under the tall poplars on this bright May morning, silently awaiting the moment of doom. "Are you ready ?" said Overton. "I am ready," replied Dickinson. "1 am ready," said Jackson. The word was given. Dickinson raised his pistol quickly and fired. Overton, who was looking with anxiety and dread at Jackson, saw a puff of dust fly from the breast of his coat, and saw him raise his left arm and place it tightly across his breast. He is surely hit, thought Overton, and in a bad place, too, but no; he does not fall. Erect and grim as Fate he stood, his teeth clinched, raising his pistol. Overton glanced at Dickinson. Annoyed at the unwonted failure of his aim, and apparently appalled at the awful figure and face before him, Dickinson had recoiled a pace or two. "Great God I" he faltered ; "hav6 I missed him r "Back to the mark, sir!" shrieked Overton, with his hand upon his pistol. Dickinson recovered his composure, stepped forward to the peg and stood .with his eyes averted from his antagonist. General Jackson took deliberate aim and pulled the trigger. The pistol neither snapped nor went off. He looked at the trigger and discovered that it had stopped at half cock. He drew it back to its place and took aim a second time. He fired. Dickinson's face blanched ; he reeled ; his friends pushed toward him, caught him in their arms, and silently seated him on the ground, leaniug against a bush. His trousers reddened. They stripped off his clothes. The blood was gushitigirom his side in torrents. The ball had passed through the body below the ribs. Such a wound could not but be fatal. Jackson and his friends immediately left tfre field. It was found upon exarainatfbn, on reaching the tavern, that he was wounded. "Dickinson's aim," says Parton, "had been perfect. He had sent the ball precisely where he supposed Jackson's heart was beating, but the thinness of his body and the looseness of his coat combining to deceive him, the ball had only broken a rib or two and raked the breast-bone. It was a somewhat painful, bad Imtlrinir wniiml hnf neither severe nor dan- I gerous." Dickinson died that night. In this duel it is plainly to be seen, from a careful consideration of the circumstances above narrated, though the truth doe9 not appear to have reached the apprehension of General Jackson's biographer, that Dickinson was out-witted by his older and mope experienced antagonist. Advantage was taken of the very fact of his being a "dead shot," and of his perfect confidence of his skill with the pistol. His avowed purpose was to shoot Jackson through the heart, and he felt abso* lutely sure of doing this. In what manner his object was defeated Mr. Parton unconsciously discloses. He aimed 'precisely where he supposed Jackson's heart was beating, but the thinness of his body and the looseness of his coat' combined 'to deceive' him. Admitting the morality of private combat as of public war, such a strategy, under the circumstan - y ces, cannot be regarded as unjustifiable. The late Gen. Sana Dale, who was intimate with Jackson, has been frequently heard to say that Dickinson's fatal mistake was in not aiming at Jackson's bead instead of his heart. Parton is in error when he states that Jackson's wound was 'neither severe nor dangerous.' It confined him to his room for several weeks, and it healed falsely. Twenty years after it broke out afresb, and troubled him for the remainder of his life. The pulmonary affection, which finally carried him to his grave, is attributed to that wound. Jackson never exhibited the slightest compunction for the part he took in this bloody affair. He very rarely alluded to it, but when he did it always was with perfect complacen cy. It is told of him that a gentleman was once examining his duelling pistols. Taking up one of them the General quietly remarked : "That is the pistol with which I killed Mr. Dickinson." ? ? SWINDLING INSURANCE COMPANIES. Some time ago, the failure of the Continental Life Insurance Company, of New York, waa announced, and the causes of the failure are now being investigated in the Courts of that city, ^kmong the witnesses examined was S. U. Hammond, an ex-agent of the Company who was stationed in California. As a result of the examination, the public is treated to the following revelations: "Mr. L. W. Frost (President of the Continental) was in California with me, remaining thereabout three months; I went there in September, 1875, and remained until February, 1876 ; when Mr. Frost went there in October, 1875,1 was instructed to buy up all the outstanding risks of the Continental; I had received from Mr. Frost a list, and succeeded in buying nearly all of them, and inducing some of the other holders to take out new policies; I paid in orders upon H. H. Blake, the coast agent of the Company." "What inducement to sell did you hold out to the policy holders ?" asked Mr. Moses. "I told them the company was insolvent? those were my instructions from Mr. Frost; Mr. Frost told me that the Company was in great need of money; that many of the policies on the Pacific coast would be due in two years, and tbey would be unable to pay them ; as an illustration, permit me to cite a case; a party holds an endowment policy of the Continental Life Insurance Company; that policy, from the time it was drawn out, has increased in value, so that now it is worth about 83,000; in two years more it will be worth 85,000; well, if I represent to the person holding the policy that the Continental is insolvent, he will, in all probability, accept my offer for a release?8100 or 8200 ; the Continental thus saves nearly the entire amount that they would have to pay when the policy would become due?84,800, for instance, out of 85,000. If they would not sell, I exchanged 'time' policies for 'endowments.' A 'time Eolicy' is one drawn out for twenty years, luring the first ten years it steadily increases in value, while during the last ten years it as steadily decreases. My instructions were, if I could do no better than to secure a consent to an exchange, to give the policy-holder a 'time policy,' without telling him what the transaction amounted to. The limit that he was allowed to pay on a policy, Mr. Hammond said, in accordance with Mr. Frost's instructions, was 50 per ceqL_nf.the. reeepe due, but this lie did rarelyTvery often paying much less than that. For his services he got 85,000 a year aud expenses, and a commission of 10 per cent., making between 820,000 and 840,000." "Did Mr. Frost ever tell you how much he made out of this?" "Well, he used to come to my office and say: 'The Company has made so much to-day.' I recollect on one day, when he had made that remark, for he made it on different occasions, turning to him and asking him, 'Who is the Company?" He laughed and replied, 'Oh ! myself and my associates,' or words oinriilur in mpnninor T wnfl nippplv nil ftcrpnt. of the Company, and obliged, consequently, to do whatever I was requested to do. It scared the people terribly. I knew the announcement would create a panic among the policy-holders of the Continental and so it did; and I knew at the time that the Company was perfectly solvent, because Mr. Frost assured me that all he wanted to do was to relieve the Continental of some of the risks outstanding against it. The amount of risks extinguished in California by this plan was fully 82,000.000. ' Nearly all the policies were drawn in favor 6f married women, and had to be signed by them before I would give an order for the amount. I never saw the persons in whose favor the policies were drawn, but only the persons who had drawn the policies. These latter I induced to bring the policies to the former for their signatures. I knew that this latter course was contrary to the law, but didn't stop to consider that point. I worked to get the policies any way and every way, and I got them. Mr. Blake objected to buying up the policies on account of the small sum which I offered for them, but after a private conversation with Mr. Frost he entered enthusiastically into the work." Mr. Hammond also stated that the value of the policies, when he first undertdok to buy them up, July, 1874, amounted to more than 82,000,000, and he succeeded in pulling it down to 8600,000, the Continental thereby saving 81,400,000. The panic which followed his announcement to the Southern policyholders of the Continental, Mr. Hammond stated, was terrible. On all sides curses and imprecations were hurled against the Continental. The Governor of Alabama had shortly before dismissed the Agent of the Company from the State, and he then came out in a circular, in which he bitterly inveighed against the 'freezing'process adopted by the Continental. Mr. Hammond affirmed that every Life Insurance Company in this city plays the same trick on its Southern and Western policyholders when it finds itself in a strait for money. He had also 'frozen' policy-holders in Omaha, Iowa, Nebraska and Ohio, but not with such success as in California and the Southern States. He made the negotiations for reinsuring the Continental in the Southern Life Insurance Company of Mobile, although he knew at the time that the latter company was almost insolvent. "It was none of my business," Mr. Hammond said ; "all I had to do was to find some company fool enough to give bonds for the Continental." His salary was $7,500 per annum at first, but it was afterwards raised to $10,000. Mr. Hammond further testified that it was the intention of the officers of the Continental to send him throfigh the Eastern States in January of this year. A Defense of Boa'rding-House Mistresses.?Nobody who knows anything about it, can have any other feeling than compassion for the ordinary keeper of a private boarding house. She has been the prey of small satirists since boarding-houses and small satirists were. It has been customary to represent her as a willing and skillful adulierator of victuals and drink, a skiuflint and sharper. In point of fact, she is generally an intelligent aud sensitive woman, who has chosen this mode of earning a living partly because it is the only one for which her habits of life have at all fitted her, and partly because she has fancied that it would do less violence to her sensibilities than any other business open to ber. The hoarding-bouse keeper is commonly a widow, and her condition is a testimony, iu the first place, to male improvidence. It entitles her to the consideration of all men, and that consideration by all decent men is cheerfully given to her. If all boarders were decent persons, her lot would be much easier than it is. Instead of being the most crafty, she is usually the most guileless of women. There is scarcely a boarding-house keepey who has not been made the victim of swindlers of all kinds, from the swindler who merely omits to pay his board, and whom she is too compassionate to turn out at his first failure, to the swindler who engages board for the purpose of robbing the house. It is high time that these hard-working and long-suffering women should receive the commiseration and respect to which they are entitled, instead of the sneers and suspicions they oftener encounter. Not one woman out of a thousand who keep boarding-houses, derives from her business more than a bare subsistence, ana it is innuman and indecent to grudge her that. Whatever the price of board in ordinary boardinghouses may be, we may be quite sure that it is justified and compelled by the prices the boarding-house keeper has to pay.?New York World. ^ THE TRUE* CINDERELLA. ? Many of the best stories in our story-books are the reproduction of some very ancient bit of history or myth; and the finest .of all English nursery tales, "Cinderella," was once the delight of the children of Egypt in the palmy days of the Pharaohs. We will tell you how it happened; and we think that you will say that the old story is quite as clever as the new, and much more probable; for in the true Cinderella history there are no fairy god-mothers, no mice and no pumpkins. A wise old eagle takes the management of the slipper, and we, in fancy, can see him carrying it over the silver sands and dark pyramids of Egypt without greatly taxing our belief. Rodolphe?a pretty name to begin with? was the fairest lady in all Egypt. She had. a dainty foot, and wore jeweled slippers, and all the good people gazed upon her with delight when she walked, as though she were a goddess or a fairy. She went out to bathe one day among the white lilies of the Nile. While she and her uiaiuo ucic opui uug iu iuc natgt) u gtwuu shadow passed over them, and they saw an eagle alight on the bank where their clothes had been left. Presently it arose with something in its talons, and wheeling through the golden hazes, became a speck in the clear blue sky. When Rodolphe came up the bank, she found that one of her jeweled slippers bad been carried away, and she said to her maids "The eagle has taken it." And the maids said?"Then it will bring you good luck. The eagle is a bird of good omen." So Rodolphe hobbled home with a light heart, one of her slipperless feet crushing the iotus blossoms. Her maids laughed at her, but she said?"It is good luck, for an eagle has taken it." Far away up the Nile lay Memphis, with Her bright-winged temples and palaces ; a city seventeen miles in circuit, the seat of the Pharaohs for nearly a thousand years, at this time the capital of Egypt. Here were the splendid temples of IsiB, Serapis, and of the sun, and the throne was now filled with a Pharaoh who had overthrown eleven other Egyptian kings. ? : His name was Psammeticus. His son, the Pharaoh Necho, slew Josiah, king of Judah, B. C. 610. (See 2 Kings 23.) He was sitting in a cool portico of his palace toward evening.* The crimson sun was 1 ?? %.?? 1 ? I* nn r\/ln /* f a / ! Aflnwf U 1*141 LI g JUW UII tuc ilVJL OQUUO KJl IUC UUCUI tj but cool winds tripped with light feet along the dimpling waves of the Nile, and fanned the king as they passed. He arose, walked into an open court, and a great shadow passed above him. He looked up, and beheld with delight and awe an eagle descending, and wheeling above , his head, with something sparkling in his talons. He looked upon the bird as a messenger from the sun. He lifted his arms for joy. Just then the eagle began to ascend, dropping the glittering treasure from its talons into his bosom. It was Rodolphe's jewelled slipper. The next day Psammeticus issued a proclamation which caused all Memphis to wonder. Whoever would find the mate to the jewelled slipper, which the eagle had brought to the " palace, should be loaded with riches, and j taken into the service of the king. Rodolphe heard the great news. She believed that the eagle was indeed a messenger of the gods to point out to her her destiny. ( So she came to magnificent Memphis, to answer the proclamation of the king. With one slipperless foot she ascended the grand porticoes of the Pharaohs, and stood , before the king with downcast eyes, lifting her dress just above her dainty feet?a perfect ni* viaamtn OP /iaii xon T3oo *v\ m ntlnna YIOIUU U1 ucaubj. vi wuiov x gamiuouv;uo immediately fell in love with her, and mar- ; ried her, and made her queen of all Egypt, j There was great joy in all the dazzling temples of Memphis when the marriage was consummated?there was dancing and music, and strewing of flowers. All Egypt was hap- j py.?Hezelciah Butterioorth in Wide Awake. < -? WHO WAS CAIN 'S WIFE J The Rev. C. P. McCarty, who preaches every. Sunday in the University Building, Washington Square, New York, as Pastor of what is called the American Free Church, endeavored to answer the question of "who was Cain's wife ?" Sunday evening February* 18. He took his text from the fourth chapter of Genesis, and the seventeenth verse. ( The preacher said that he had selected the peculiar subject announced at the request of j several members of his congregation. Main- ] taining that the old theories as to the meaning of the Bible stories had ceased to be ten- j able because of the increased light of science, ( he said that the theory held by many as to i Cain's wife would also have to be abandoned, j "The orthodox answer to the question," said he, "is 'perhaps Cain married his sister.' 1 Well, I don't think he did. Now, I am not < going to shirk the answering of this question, j r Un *TA A tkoAWir aP Allf fOOQ UjllirtK AfKofO rl A A iJttVC a VUWIJ wi vui. muv wu?\su v*w not believe in. Nine out of ten believe that 1 the human race came from one pair. I don't believe it. Do you say that is heretical? ( Perhaps it is, but this is not a question to be answered by those who cling to the old theories. That old theory can never answer it. In the first place, Cain could not have married his sister when departed to the land of < Nod, because he had no sister. When Seth < was born, Adam was only one hundred and i thirty years old, a very young man for those days, and Seth was his third child, There is no mention of daughters. In the second i place, Cain departed to a country where there i were people, and he feared these people would ; slay him because of his crime, and the Lord i recognized the reality of this dauger and set i a mark on him that he might be saved. The i Bible nowhere states that there were only ] two people originally created. Adam was the generic name for human race, and male i and female created he them. Do you believe <. that negroes and Chinese are the descendants ] of the same progenitors with ourselves? I i don't. Caiu went over to the laiid of Nod, < and there became the chief of a race which i he found there. He built a city. He could i not have done this alone. This, then, must j be my answer to the question : there were i races of people upon the earth at the time Cain was driveu out a vagabond, and from this race Cain took his wife." The preacher dwelt at considerable length on the lessons to be drawn from the life of Cain, and exhorted all to avoid the little sins, for even Cain did not become a murderer all at once, but was led up to that great crime by envy and jealous feeling. THE BLUE GLASS THEORY. 4 A very general interest has been awakened by discoveries made by General Pleasanton, with regard to the properties of blue light as a medical agent, and the opinions expressed on the subject range through every degree, from implicit confidence to absolute skepticism and ridicule. At the suggestion of a correspondent, who writes in quest of information, we will state briefly what is claimed for the new cure and the Drincioles on which the claims are based. The good effects of the blue light on the nervous system have been known for some time to members of the medical profession, but a book written by General Pleasanton, was the first popular treatise on the subject. Sunlight passes directly through colorless glass, with slight obstruction, and produces no heat, the glass remaining as cold as the outside atmosphere. When the light falls upon blue paoes of glass, six of the seven primary rays are arrested, and only the blue ray passes through. The sudden stoppage of these rays of light, moving with enormous velocity, produces friction which, according to General Pleasanton, evolves negative electricity. The blue glass is oppositely electrified. When the opposite electricities, thus brought together, meet at the surface of the glass, their conjunction evolves heat and magnetism. The heat expands the molecules of the glass and a current of electro-magnetism passes into the room, imparting vitality and strength to any animal or vegetable life within it. General Pleasanton, in the book in which he unfolds his blue glass cure, takes occasion to combat some generally accepted scientific theories, denying, among others, the Newtonian theory of gravitation, asserting that electrici'? VI .1. 1 1 . /* .i* A. J ly is ice an-conirouing iorce 01 nature, uuu denying the theory that the sun is an incandescent body, throwing off heated rays. We have not space to enter upon his arguments on these points, however, and we state them only in order to show the aggressive character of his opinions. The usual method of making the experiment with blue light is by means of alternate panes of blue and colorless glass in the window sash. The glass used is a French glass of dark Mazarine blue, which is colored with cobalt, the ingredient* of the glass and the metal being fused together. If an exceedingly strong light is desired, a whole sash may be filled with blue panes and placed immediately in front of the ordinary sash. The diseased part of the body must be exposed directly to the blue rays. The sun bath should last half an hour or so and should be taken for several days io succession. The treatment is particularly efficacious in all diseases of the spine, and is specially recommended for these and for nervous difficulties of every description. Some astonishing cures are reported, so astonishing in fact that it is easy to understand the ridicule with which the theory has been received in some quarters. Among other cases which we notice are those of a Philadelphia lady, who is represented to have been cured of neuralgia by ten minutes exposure to blue light; two gentlemen who were entire: ly cured of rheumatism in three days; a lady suffering from hemorrhage of the lungs, wliuae disease has been a nested by a few weeks* treatment; a girl who was cured of spinal meningetis, and a young lady, made entirely bald by sickness, wk^se hair has come out luxuriantly under blue glass. Boston Journal A GAME A'TVREAMING. While Sir William Johnson was suDerin tendent of Indian affairs in the Mohawk Valley, in 1755, one of his staunchest friends was the old Mohawk sachem, Hendrick. Sir William had great confidence in the old chief's judgment, and seldom made a move against the hostile Indians and French without consulting him. "If they are to fight, they are too few; if they are to be killed, they are too many," was bis laconic response to Johnson's question touching the propriety of sending out a small body of men which he had organized against an expected invasion. On a certain occasion, Sir William was unpacking a large box of clothing which he had just received from England. Hendrick chanced to be present, and was particularly attracted by a richly embroidered coat which he saw brought forth and shaken out in all its glittering splendor of gold lace and gilded buttons and bright silk facing. The old Indian's eyes sparkled, and he could scarcely keep his hands from the coveted prize. But he held back, and held his peaae for the time. On the following morning, however, the chieftain waited upon the Governor for a purpose, as was evident from the intensity of his look. "Sir William," said he, with wide-open eyes, and a general expression of wonder, "me have a great dream last night. Me dream that you say to me, Good Hendrick, you have been my friend, and now I will reward you. And you gave me the new coat, with the bright gold on it, that came in the box." The baronet reflected a few moments, and finally said: "It is true, Hendrick, you have been my friend. The coat is yours." The chief went away fairly beside himself with delight. A few days after that Sir VY lliiam said to bis dusky ally : "Hendrick, I had a dream last night." "Ah! and what did my white brother dream ?" "I dreamed that you took me by the hand, and said to me, "Sir William Johnson, you have been my true friend, and I will give yon proof of my great lbve for you. And you gave to me the tract of land on the great rivBr and Canada creek," describing a square territory embracing nearly one hundred thousand acres of choice land. The old chieftain was for a little time utterly confounded. This was the fairest of bis domain. But he was not to be outdone in generosity. "My pale-faced brother," he at length said, 'the land is yours." And after a pause he added, with a significant nod: "Sir William, we won't dream any more. 5Tou dream too big for me." The title of the land was confirmed to Sir William by the British government, and called the Royal grant. The land was north oujlr onH lov mnatlv in what in aow Herkimer county. Sulphur for Scarlet Fever.?Dr. Henry Pigeon writes to the London Lancet as follows: "The marvellous success which has attended my treatment of scarlet fever by julphiir induces me to let my medical brethren know of ray plan, so that they may be able to apply the same remedy without delay. All the cases in which I used it were well marked, and the epidermis on the arms in each case came away like the skin of a snake. The following was the exact treatment followed in each case: Thoroughly anuoint the patient' twice daily with sulphur ointmeut; give five to ten grains of sulphur in a little jam three times a day. Sufficient 3ulphur was burned twice daily (on coals on a shovel), to fill the room with the fnmes, and, of course, was thoroughly inhaled by the patient. Under this mode of treatment each case improved immediately, and none were over eight days in making a complete recovery, and I firmly believe in each it was prevented from spreading by the treatment adopted. One case was in a large schooL Having bad a large experience in scarlet fever last year and this, I feel some confidence in my own judgment, and I am of the opinion that the very mildest cases I ever saw do 1 not do half so well as bad cases do by the sulphur treatment, and, as far as I can judge, sulphur is as near a specific for scarlet fever as possible." Stick to It.?No matter what your business is?if it be honorable?stick to it, and you will make a good living, if you do not become rich. Any pursuit, well followed for a dozen years will make a man independent? provided, always, he is prudent himself, and what is carried into the house is not wasted. How many engage in business and .drive it forward a year or two, and then abandon it for some other scheme, to be driven as fiercely at first, and to be given up as soon. No wonder so few become independent. A man must stick to it for years before he will begin to realize much. A mechanic who is now worth thirty thousand dollars just remarked to us: "I have been on this spot more than five-and-twenty xrnn wa and nnnflu liad ? dnoiM fo A^aniTO miT J ^OiO| HUU liO f Vi UNU %m UVOI4W w VMWMQV ??J business." Stick to it was the secret of his success; for, to our knowledge, when he commenced business, he had to run in debt for the tools he worked with. In the early part of his life, at different times, he was associated with partners who became uneasy and left him. Not one of them added a dollar to the funds they accumulated in the business with this gentleman. Their shiftless character made them run from one thing to another, and hence their bad success. We repeat?whatever your business or profession be, stick to it; in season and out, amid hard times and prosperous times, and if you "* do not succeed there is no truth in us. We do not say that a man may not- be unfortunate, after years of toil, for people often are; but we do say men who sjick closely to one thing will succeed better and make more money, in the Ions run, than those who are fickle-minded, ana who are driven about by every wind that blows. We would rather stand our chance at home with the steady and industrious man, than with the stranger who first commenced digging gold in California. Mourning Customs.?The ancients had queerjdeas about mourning for their dead. JL'he Egyptian women ran tbroogb tbe streets crying, with their bosoms exposed and their hair disordered. The Lycians regarded mourning as unmanly, and compelled men who went into mourning to put on female garments. In Greece, when a popular general died, the whole army cut off their hair and the manes of their horses. At the present day, the Arabian women stain their hands and feet with indigo, which they suffer to remain eight days. They also carefully abstain from using milk this timej on the ground that its white color does not accord with the gloom of their minds. In China, the mourning color is whitfe. * Mourning for a parent or husband is required there by law, under a penalty of sixty blows and a year's banishment When the Emperor dies, all his subjects let their hair grow ' for one hundred days. In the Feejee Islands, on the tenth day of mourning, the women scourge all the men except the highest chiefs. Another fashionable custom there requires the friends and relatives of the deceased to assemble on the fourth day aftp.r the funeral. and picture to themselves the amount of corruption the corpse has sustained by that time. In the'Sandwich Islands persons desirous of going 1ULU uiouruiiig.paiut iuc iunci pom ui tbeir faces black, and knock out their front teeth. No doubt this causes a very sincere kind of mourning for the time. When to LJse Spectacles.?The simplest rules for ascertaining the need of eye-glasses are, firstly, to note if you are obliged to remove small print or small objects further than usual from your eyes in order to see them distinctly; secondly, if you find yourself involuntarily moving nearer to the light than was usual with you in order to read a letter or book; thirdly, if very small objects appear to be confused after you have looked at them for any length of time; fourthly, if the eyes, after a little close attention to anything, become so fatigued that you are obliged to turn aside to give them relaxation; and, lastly, if the sight, on first waking, is very weak, and does not recover its customary degree of force until ^sometime after. As for the choice of eye-glasses, here are a fey general rules to begin with: "In the first place, good glasses ought never to magnify the objects very much, but merely to show them to 1 -S 1 J ?,,?k .. .m us cieur, siuipie tuju cabuhj ouvu <w> wcj wo. Even in exceptional cases, where rather strong magnifiers are needed, the proof when they are too strong will be when you are obliged to bring the object much closer to the eye than a sound sight requires,"?in brief, "every person ought, generally speaking, to be able to read conveniently with his spectacles at the same distance he lyas accustomed to while his visual powers were perfect."?Fraser's Magazine. J?* The great Leech Farm of M. Laurens, near Bordeaux, France, covers about 400 acres. The marsh is divided into compartments of dive or six acres, each of which is surrounded by two ditches with an intervening bank. These compartments have some 30,000 to 40,000 leeches each. In the winter the leeches remain under ground, but come out early in the spring Horses are driven into the water, about ten to the acre, on which the "blood-suckers" gorge themselves for five or six hours. The troops are then taken away to be fed and recuperated for eight or ten days, and other troops take their places, so that by June the leeches have been fed nine or ten times. In June the leeches go under ground again, the water is drawn off,. and the herbage is allowed to grow. In July and August they come out, and deposit their eggs on the tufts of weeds and grass; a little water is turned on to moisten the ground, and the young soon hatch. By the last of August the grounds are inundated, and the fishing begins; long lines of men in high boots pass through the ponds, beating the water to rouse the leeches, and putting the largest into bags ? ? ri 11 1.A r wincb tney carry, omaner ones are ien mr stock for another year. Paris alone oses 12,000,000 leeches a year, and before the introduction of these leech farms 50,000,000 annually were imported into France. An Irresistible Appeal.?Some sheep, belonging to a farmer named Reed, having been stolen in the neighborhood of a colliery village in Durham, England, while the thief was still undiscovered, a local preacher, having a collection to make, thought he would turn the event to a good account: "We have a collection to make this morning, and for the glory of God, whoever of you stole Mr. Reed's sheep don't put anything on the plate 1" Of course everybody joined in the collection. The Greatest Number.?Said Lord John Russel to Hume, at a social dinner, "What do you consider the object of legislation ?" "The greatest good to the greatest number." "What do you consider the greatest number ?" continued his lordship. "Number one, my lord," was the commoner's prompt reply. S&~ A man lately made application for insurance on a building situated in a village where there was no fire-engine. He was asked, '"What are the facilities in your vil- &lage for extinguishing a fire?" "Well, it rains sometimes," he replied, with great stm.plicity.