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lewis in. grist, proprietor, j J|n Jnbeprnknt damilg lletospapcr: <for % |tromotion of t|e political, Social, ^gricnltaral anb Commercial Interests of tjje jSSonfji. | TERMS?$3.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. VOL. 24. YORKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, AlTJGLJST 15, 1878. NO. 33. Ihc Idler. THE GOLDEN TULIP. "What is the price of that plant, my frieud ?" I asked of the little Germau florist at the corner shop. The man named exactly the sum which I possessed in the whole world, and I paid it aud took the flower. "Were you mad?" I hear a reader ask. No, friend,! was only in love. ~P hooff l\ui] q traa 1/nOkja fnr 1 He UlU V Ul ILIJT Ileal U liU'l u nvunuvv^ rare flowers, and I felt sure that she would prize such a gift beyond expression. Therefore, I forgot the various persons to whom the sum that I expended was due for value received, and felt happy with the great pot with its noddiug foilage in my arms. It was the rarest tulip I had ever seen. I was not skilled euough in the varieties of flowers to know whether the man told me the truth or not when he said that only he possessed a flower of those colors, and that by certain mystic florist's arts he had produced the flower, which he called the "golden tulip." But I felt that it might very well be so when I observed its splendor. It was almost pure gold, save where, at the bottom of the cup, lay flecks of scarlet and white, and beside it the other tulips on the stand lost their beauty, and looked dull and faded. The pot in which it was planted was a curiosity, too, a Chinese thing with a perspectiveless picture of a lady walking beside a blue little river, attended by a person with a fan and surrounded by square flower pots. The florist offered to send a boy with the pot, but I would not permit it; who knew that the plant would arrive whole and sound, and undecapitated, at its destination ? I carried it myself, high in my arms, the flower out of harm's reach above my head, the leaves fanniug ray face, and found myself in the presence of Heleu Harrington, exactly at the moment when she tripped, wateringpot in baud, into her garden. Of course she admired the flower, and of course she thanked me, and her smiles were so bewitching and her eyes so bright, and she was so evidently really pleased that I found courage to speak as I had not dared to speak before, and tell her how I loved her. Then I discovered she returned my affec_ tions, and to end the story briefly as possible, before we parted we were betrothed. Certainly, under the circumstances, my trust in Macawber's expectation of "somethimr t.nrninir un" was remarkable. I had ?,,,we ?o t ? Dot a cent in the world, not a patient, though my sign, bright with gilding?"Theodore Holly, M. D."?had glittered on my office door for two months or more, and no wealthy relatives to aid me in time of need. Yet 1 asked a girl accustomed to refinement, if not luxury, to keep house for me in a year's time with as much sang-froid as a millionaire could have exhibited, as coolly as I had spent my last dime (promised to my landlady that very evening) upon a tulip 1 I inteuded vaguely to be rich some day, of course ; every ruaD does, and I had no doubt that luck would change before long. There fore I felt no compunctions of conscience, but went right home in a merry mood, thinking myself the happiest fellow under the snn. Of course, I expected that my course of Jove would run on smoothly; but before the next day passed I fouud out my mistake. I had an early caller in the morning, no other than Helen's father, a stout old gentleman with an imposing manner, and a loud voice, aud a general air of well-to do respectability quite annihilating to one of my peculiar disposition and habits. Hitherto, however, he had been very polite and gracious to me, and I was quite unprepared for the angry frown with which he stalked into my untidy room as I opened the door for him. My heart sank, but I placed a chair for him, and assuming my sweetest smile, remarked that we were having "charming weather." "Charming fiddlesticks!" was his answer. "I did uot come here to talk about the weather, and you know it. Don't you consider yourself a precious rascal, sir ?" I stared at him in amazement. "No one has ever dared to call me so, sir," I answered. "I " "Hold your tongue, sir!" cried the old getiLlemau. "No affectation with me. You know you are one. A pretty fellow, indeed, to ask a girl to marry him within the year. What do you mean by it?" "'Hi . f I I ? T I A "mat l iove ner, sir, jl ?mu. "Ball !" cried the old gentleman. "Love? a fiue love, indeed. When we love people we have some consideration for their comfort. What is ynur wife (if you ever have one) going to live on, sir. Air, sir, like a chameleon ? Good Heaven! your impudence surprises me." "We must all have a beginning, sir," I said. "You had yours, I believe." "A beginning," cried the old gentleman. "I did not begin by associating with wild young fellows whose very acquaintance was ruinous to my reputation. I did not spend my nights drinking and gambling. I did not spend the hours which should have been devoted to study in recovering from the effects of whisky and beer. A new way to rise in the world ! Aud that is your way. You cau't deny it. Rise ! You'll sink down to the very gutter. What right have you to ask a girl to marry you ?" I put my head dowu on my hands, and hid my face for very shame. It was all true enough. I was reckless, wild, unsteady. Yet I tried to falter at some assertion that I was not so bad as some men after all, and that I intended to have a large practice, and be steady aud prosperous some day. Above ail, that I loved Helen better than life; which was true enough Helen knew. "Good intentions pave the lower regions," said the old gentleman, when I had finished. Speaking rather more kindly than before, but still decidedly : "I cannot give my daughter to one who had given no proof that he intends to put iuto practice. But, aside from your habits, I have always liked you. I think you might, if you choose, become an honor to your profession, and rise in the world in every sense; and since Helen has given her heart to you, I will make a compromise. You are both young. You can afford to wait for each other. Abandon your evil habits, goto some distant city, then work hard, and strive to become worthy of the love of a good woman, and at the end of three years return. Then, if you are what you should be, you may have my child." Three years! It seemed an eternity to a young and ardent lover, but Helen was the only girl in the world for me, and I had only the choice of my obeying her father's mandate or parting from her forever. Besides, the old gentleman was right; my companions and my habits had not won me the regard of our own town, where the medical students were almost a public nuisance from their wildness and dissipation. I resolved to do what I knew would ultimately be for the best; and having declared my resolution, found a friend in the old merchant. L He gave me letters of introduction to peris sons ofinfluence in San Francisco, loaned me the wherewithal for my journey, and wished me well. But be forbade me to write to Helen during my absence, or to communicate with her in any way. "Ifyour love is worth anything it will live without billet doux for three years," he said, I and Helen never disobeyed her father. "He is very kind, Theodore, she said, and ; we may trust him at his age to know what is best for us." So in a few weeks we parted, and no one j can blame me, loving her as I did, if the mo- j ment was one of intense sadness. Three years?three weary years?before I | might see her sweet young face again, and one of us might die, or another might take my place in her heart! Who could tell ? I j i felt sure of myself, but how could I be sure of j her? Who was so beautiful, so good, and so . every way charming that others than myself must also be enamored of her, and strive to ; I win her. "Do not forget me," I pleaded, as I kissed her lips at parting, and she promised to be j true to me until we met. My last glimpse of her was taken as I turn- j ed my head and saw her waving her handkerchief to me from the window, ou the sill of which my golden tulip in its Chinese pot nodded its gorgeous head in the breeze as j1 though it were also bidding me adieu. I shall say nothing of my voyage to Cali- j1 fornia, of my first struggles in the city of San Francisco. Euough that I abandoned ray habits of dissipation, and became steady and ! industrious. I established a small pratice 'almost immediately. It increased. I did my best to earn the favor of my patients by ! thinking of their real benefit, instead of merely grasping at my fees, and considering the j] sufferers who had turned to me for aid only ' so many "good cures." Doctors would often succeed better in this j way than any other?I found it so at least; j and my health and strength of body and i mind were augmented by the regular life I led, despite the severe mental labor I im-1 posed upon myself. 1 I thought of my dear Helen constantly, and !! a letter from her would have been very pre cious. I believe it would have been kinder 1 in her father to have permitted a correspon- 5 dence. I suffered much anxiety on her ac- I count, which might thus have been avoided, j' But I had promised to submit patiently, j I and I worked without intermsision, thus leav- ! ' ing myself as little time for thought a possi- 11 ble. There were women, of course, withiu my i circle of acquaintance, who were neither old ( nor ugly, but they never made the least im- I pression on myjheart. What were they when j j tr.i o i | compared wim my ueur neicu i j I even shunned society, not from any fear j | of their fascinations, but because it involved j expenses, and my object was economy. And j I so the three years passed and at their end j I found myself with a fine practice, splendid i health, a sum of money laid up for a rainy i day, and every wild habit of my early youth | discarded. It is needless to say that the moment my time of probation had expired, I lingered no longer. Confiding m)T patients to a brother physician on whose skill I relied, I took passage for New York at once, and arrived there upon a glorious October day, with a heart beating wildly with the emotions which were naturally horn of the near approach of my reunion with Helen. I only lingered in the city long enough to banish the traces of travel from my person, and then, dressed becomingly as I knew how? j for who ever forgot personal appearance on i such an occasion??I jumped upon a train j of cars which ran through the town where I j had parted, three years before, from ray darI lingThe time of the journey was four hours? ! it seemed an eternity to me. 1 I could scarcely wait for the train to slack- . j en speed when the town was reached. I I strained m) eyes to catch sight of the pop| lars that grew above her dwelling, and rathj er ran than walked down the wide street . which led to the green lane on which Mr. j Harrington's mansion stood, when my eyes ! met a sight that transfixed nie to the ground ; iu horror. j The poplars stood green and tall as ever, but beyond thern arose only one ruined wall, ! with empty windows, and at its foot a heap i of rubbish, charred aud blackened, aud tell- . j ing, as I thought, of a recent conflagration. t I was too much overcome to move for many j moments, but at last I summoned courage to i make inquiries with a throbbing heart. I i walked up to an old woman who stood at an j ! opposite door, and asked her if she could tell ; me where to find Mr. Harrington. She shook her head. I "No," she said ; "uor no one in the place. | ! They went away in the night, and we've nev- j er heard of 'era. Perhaps you're a friend of i theirs ?" "Yes, yes," I gasped. "Tell me all yon ! know." "You see, Mr. Harrington failed two years : { ago," said the woman, "aud that crushed him down, and then the bank broke where he had 1 a little left after the things were settled, and I then some oue set his house afire, and he was ] so burnt that he lost his sight, and they j j couldn't bear, I suppose, to live where they'd j j lived so well as they'd have to live, so I i they went away secret like, and hain't been : ' seen since nor heard of. They did say she i ; was married, but that may be nonsense, and J | some say they're in New York, but it's all i I guess-work. Why, how pale you do look? I You are a relation ?" But I could not answer her. I leaned j agaiust the door-way, faint and ill. It was to hear this at last that I had strug- 1 ; gled with fate and denied ray heart a glimpse of her I loved for all these years. ' The old woman was right. No one knew ' more thau she. I went to New York and : 1 searched for her for months. I advertised, | ' " * ' .1 .It J ! , I but all in vaiu. At last, oelievmg mat i nan i indeed been forgotten, aud that the tale of j her marriage was true, I settled down in that j city as a physician, determined at least to he , j worthy of her and to live the life which I had |1 lived for her sake. And so two more years ! j passed without a glimpse of her. | j One Christmas Eve, the fifth of our part- j i ing, I sat alone in my office, and could have wept for loneliness. What was the wealth i and fame I now might confidently hope to win, if her smiles did not bless me, if no wife j ever sat beside ray hearth, and no child cull j ed me father? I began to wonder whether it j might not he better for me to find some j i woman worthy of respect and admiration, and bestow upon her what remnauts of a , heart I had to give, ere I grew cold and selfish in my loneliness. And as I thought thus, j a woman came rapping at my door to beg me to come at once to 47 street, where an ! accident had happened. I hurried on my overcoat and hat, and fol- j lowed her. It was a tipsy hod carrier who had scalded j i himself with boiling punch, and it was no easy task to bind up his wounds and convince him that he was in no danger, if he j would obey my instructions and refrain from tippling. Consequently it was late when I hurried down stairs on my way home. All the lamps in the house were lit, ami over the table of a rather respectable room on the lower floor flamed a jet of gas. Its sharp hissing, for it was turned on too high, attracted me, I glanc- j ed at it, and remained riveted to the spot. Beneath it, on the table, stood the "golden tulip" I had given Helen five years before. The same flower in the same pot, but cov- j ered by a glass case. Without pausing to think of the propriety j l of the act, I strode in and bent over it. Then i I saw that it was made of wax. The flower, at least. The pot must be, I knew, the very same. It was not my tulip, but its portrait from life. I struck with my cane upon the table, and a dignified little girl ran in. "To whom does this belong?" I asked. The girl stared. "It's hers," she said. "She makes 'era. It's wax." "Yes, yes," 1 said, remembering on the inBtant that wax flower-making was a favorite amusement of Helen's. Let me see her." The girl ran away. I waited in intense anxiety, expecting my darling, sure that I should see her, my heart palpitating, my hands trembling. At the sound of a step upon the stair I started to my feet aud stood ready to clasp her to my arms, but alas, only a stout, elderly female, with a vulgar face, and coarse, red hair entered. I shrank back as she stared at me in surprise, and strove to compose myself. "I desire to see the lady who made this," I said. "That's me, sir. I dispose of 'em," she answered, "What can I do for you ? "You J" I faltered. "I beg that you will tell me from what that flower was copied, and where you obtained the vase." She looked at me in amazement. "Honestly," she said. "But, bless me, you're not ill." "No," I said. "But that flower is an old friend of mine, I will pay any sum for information in regard to it." The woman looked at me doubtfully. I laid a bill upon the table. "Tell me all you know of the plant from which this was copied," I said. She smiled?her fingers touched the money. "It's breaking faith," she said, "but I'll Dwn up. I didn't make it. I couldn't. But you see a lady does 'em that boards with me. [ was her servant once, and she's come down to earn her living that way. That ain't for iale. It's one she made for herself to keep a flower she was fond of before her eyes. But she makes others?beauties?and she supports herself and her blind father by it. He's very proud, and won't let it be known. So I nrufotiH it'o mp nnrl spll 'pm " My heart heat rapturously. "Is she here?" I asked ; "in this house ?" The woman answered that they were, but 'would see no one." "Give her this card," I said ; "she will see rue. And I waited once more in the little parlor?this time not in vain, for in a few moments the door opened once more, and I dasped my Helen, as beautiful and charming is when I left her, to my bosom. The tale is soon told. She loved me still, ind we were married, and beside our happy Preside the old merchant ended his days in peace and tranquility, and died blessing us. And still upon a stand in one of our apartments nods the waxen tulip in all its goldeh iplendor; aud when I look upon it I often ;bink how small a price I paid for it cornDared to its worth, for who would have .bought that when in my extravagance I *ave all that I possessed for a flower, that .hrough its means I should have found at ast the joy and comfort that now crown my lays?that hy its means my love should be estored to me ? HJisccUatteattSi gteaditiiij. For the Ynrkvlllc Enquirer. FIRST PRESBYTERY. On Monday, the 29th ultimo, the First Presbytery of the. Associate Reformed Fresjyterian Church met, in accordance with previous adjournment, at. Neely's Church, in the ;outh-eastern section of York county. There vere present twelve ordained ministers, two icentiates, four students of theology aud one uling elder from each of the pastoral charges. The retiring Moderator, Rev. j. p. Marion, lelivered a very appropriate sermon from Ezekiel xliv : 5. Rev. J. M. McLain wa9 :hosen Moderator. A call for the pastoral labors of the Rev. W. \V. Orr was presented by the congregaion of Huntersville, N. C. This call was iccepted by Mr. Orr, and arrangements made :'or his ordination aud installation. New Sterling and Union congregations, in North Carolina, presented a call to Rev. W. M. Hunter, which was accepted. A call was ilso presented by the congregation of Unity, n Lancaster county, S. C., to Rev. E E. Pressley. Permission was granted Mr. Pressey to retain this call until the meeting of the Presbytery in April. Petitions asking for the moderation of a ;all came up from the congregations of Giliad and Prosperity, N. C., and from the congregation of Hopewell, in Chester county, S. u. Both these petitions were granted. Messrs. John A. White aud W. W. Millen were licensed as probationers, and Messrs. Rabb and Cochrau delivered each a sermon, which was sustained as giving manifest eviieuce of progress. The meeting was very harmonious and pleasant, and late in the afternoon of the 30th )f July, adjourned to meet at the stated time, it Sardis, Mecklenburg county, N. C. R. liberian* emigration. In one of his letters from Liberia to the Newts and Courier, Mr. Williams gives advice to those proposing to emigrate, and suras up the attractions of the country as follows : Now, after all I have been writing, comes the question, What, after ray personal observation, do I think of Liberia and of a generil immigration of the colored people hither? [ will try and answer the question so that the colored people tnemseives can unoeratana it. Liberia is undoubtedly A MAGNIFICENT COUNTRY, uid possesses a soil which it is hard to beat. There is money to be made here, and lot3 of it. But it will take hard work, thrift and good management to get it. Then there is a risk to be run of fever and other diseases. A man who can work, manage, restrain his appetites, put up with hard living for a while, and be prudent and careful, hasall the chances in his favor for getting well through the sickness. Patience will have to be exercised too. Above all things, no man should come without six mouths' full provisions, asupply of simple medicines, a little ready money, and all the bright calicoes, brass trinkets, notions and leaf tobacco he can lay his hands on. These will be worth double their value here to trade with, or pay natives for work. Salt is always valuable here too. In the interior the natives lick visitors' hands for the salty taste of the perspiration. He should try and arrange to have as little to buy here, and to depend as little on the Liberians as possible. Those who have two or three hundred dollars over their passage money, and can fill the rest of the above bill, will, I am sure, have a much better chance of becoming independent here than in America. Those who fall short, and come expecting to find a heaveu on earth, in which they will have to work no more, and who are unprovided with means, will soon become disappointed and disgusted, and want to get hack to America. Many have come here aud gone away to abuse the country, but I think they generally belong to the class last named. I can see no earthly reason why a careful, well provided and good emigrant can not, by a few years' faithful work, achieve independence. There should be as large a proportion of ablehndied hands brought along as possible. The man who has no ^ous or broth | era to help him, can well afford to bring along > two, three, four or five single nephews, cousins or friends. They can all draw land, if twenty-one years of age, and immigrants SHOULD DEPEND ON THEMSELVES for labor and everything else, as far as possible. They should also bring a supply of matches, hoes, &c., and garden seed. In short they should equip themselves completely in America. The first three or four months will be lost here, in building, fever, &c., and for some time after that it will not be prudent to work between 10 A. M. and 2 P. M. They ; must remember, too, that the land given them is not fenced meadow It iB a dense growth of woods, brush and grass, which will have to ! be cleared, and the sooner that is done the I better. Every cargo of such immigrants | that comes here greatly strengthens the country and the more it is settled the easier row i the new-comers will have to hoe. Let no one come here depending on the government or people for aid. He won't get it. Neither are in a condition to help anybody much, and they have strained a point in favor of these present immigrants. One thing I forgot? bring plenty of powder and shot. Thoy are always useful, not for-killing anybody, but for j game, <fcc., and powder especially is very high, | the government's specific duty on it being 5c. per pound. It is the same, by the way, on to; bacco, and the ad valorem duties are 121 per i cent. When the imraigiaut arrives here he I should go to his place as soon as possible, and j get to work. He should not bother his head j about politics. They will only make him en: emies where he needs friends, and take his , attention from his business. If England ; should take a notion to gobble Liberia, and I the immigrant has to march out with the railitia, iny advice to him is, as soon as he sees the red coats to fire his gun in the air, then j run home with it, and stay there. If our forefathers had had sense enough to do that, | the negroes would have been free and paid for fifty years ago, educated and prosperous; we would never have beard of Chamberlain, I Scott and Kimpton or any of their gang, and ! there wouldn't have been any "great civil war." Englishmen will not confiscate private property, nor interfere with peaceful citizens, | and they are perfectly willing to gratify colonists by allowing them to vote once or twice a year for members of a council or something, (which don't amount to a row of pins) and the principle of universal equality is strictly carried out. I would not take the responsibility of advising the colored people to come here. I will say, however, that if they are willing to take the risk and able to fill the requirements as above stated, they will here have their own lands, be among their c wn color, and have perfect social equality, acer tainty almost of a comfortable living, and a fair chance for wealth on coffee, sugar, or cotton plantations, either of which will be so much sure income after a few years. NO MOKE SHOULD COME without having arrangements made for tleir transportation and location, so that they can go to their new homes immediately on their arrival, and not have to stop in Monrovia t.nd spend money. It seems to me that the best plan is to get lauds a little hack of the present settlements on the St. Paul's, so as to be near stores, schools, churches, river and neighbors. It is also probably best for the persons composing each cargo to settle as near toge ther as possible. By spreading the settlers buck i from the river, uew land can he taken up t>nd j occupied without the discomfort and dangers < I incident to the wilderness. A good physician ; should certainly accompany the next shipload of immigrants. He could do well on the St. Paul's. Those who come here should be particularly careful about fruit, and eat it only very moderately, as any excess is very dangerous. THE GREAT DANGER HERE, and what keeps the country and people buck so, is that a mere living is so easily made that settlers get in the habit of being satislied with that and loafing. Besides this, the :limate is undoubtedly enervating to a new comer, and the enforced partial idleness of the first year or two is apt to increase the indisposition to labor. The land and country about Grand Cape Mount is enthusiastically spoken of by visitors, the former being w;>n- i derfully fertile, and the latter as possess ng i almost inconceivable beauty of scenery. The i settlements there are very sparse, but it ir-ay 1 be advantageous for the next cargo to lsnd j and settle there. This can best be arranged by the immigrants themselves. Graud Ba3sa is also well spoken of, and it is said that great inducements are held out by persons located there. One colored man there, who is the j | leading merchant in Liberia, does an "im-j i rnense" business, and is said to he worth j I ~ j L I j $20U,UUU. 11 may De menuonea nere mm j \ several moderate fortunes have been made in j ! trading in and about Monrovia, besides those | on the river. A. B. Williams, i curiouYchances. Amongst those who have been most rej markably affected by accidental surprises are ; the deaf and dumb ; and tales of unknown j antiquity relate how speech and hearing has j been recovered or improved in this way. As a case in point: About 1750 a merchant of I Cleves named Jorissen, who had become alj most totally deaf, sitting one day near a harp! sichord, which some one was playing, and j having a tobacco pipe in his mouth, the bowl ; ; of which resiled accidentally against the body j j of the instrument, was agreeably surprised to | | hear all the notes in the most distinct manner, j I The accident was a happy one, for Jorissen | ! soon learned, hv means of a piece of hard | | wood, placed against his teeth, not only to ! 1 keep up a conversation, hut to understand the ' ieast whisper. Other cures have been brought j | about less by skill than accidental circum' stances. There is a story of a Frenchman ! who, through a sword-wound received in a j duel, suffered from internal abscesses, which | forced him to walk in a stooping posture. Some time after, becoming engaged in another affair of honor, this time with pistols, the bullet of his adversary chanced to pass exactly through the abscesses caused by the former wound, which, making them discharge, : not only relieved him from the stoop, but : caused him to walk with a rather stiff car! riagti ever afterward. Not only have some of the ills to which \ humun flesh is heir been cured by accident, , but life itself has been preserved from desi truction by the same means. Lives are often lost by accident it is true; but how they have j often been saved by the chance detention of ! : passengers from traveling in ships or transit that have afterward become wrecked, is well j j known. The writer can testify to the escape j i of asailor from what is called a watery grave, i owing to Jack having been tipsy, and incapable of taking his place in a boat putting offj | to a wreck on the Isle of Man coast, when ini vited by his companions to take an oar. The hoat put off without him, and its crew were j all drowned. When a crowd collected on the j banks of the So. Martin Canal, in France, J not long since, it was a lucky thing that a roan j who lived near, was urged by his wife to go j 1 and see what was the matter. Upon arriving j i at the sceue of action, he learned that a child | j had fallen into the water and disappeared, j ; Being an expert swimmer, he plunged into j the spot, marked by a few bubbles, and res! cued alive his own son, a lad aged 8, who in ! playing had slipped over the bank.? ChamI bent Journal. j - "He was the first man that Horace Greei ley ever told to git west; likewise he was hanged for stealing a muel," is the picturI esque epitaph on a Kansas grave stone. SOUNDS OF MUSIC. The universe is an instrument, and God is the player. The Omnipotent designer alone can finger the mystic keys which bring forth such mysterious melody. It was the time when light broke over Eden, and the dawn, rosy with delight, marched to the secret music of the spheres, that the morning stars sent up their first enraptured chorus to the white throne. Richer and fuller flowed the ptean through the open gates of Heaven until the symphonies of Eden grew discordant and the reckless finger of mau dared to mingle jars with the divine consonant and threw the world out of tune.. Then followed a prolonged strain of dissonance until it melted away iuto a celestial melody, and a star?throbbing to music's measure?hung trembling over the | manger which sheltered one who was to tune this discordant universe. That pierced hand has never ceased tuning at the world's heart, converting the jangling keys of discord into sounds of concordance. Nature herself, like a great organ, yields her own peculiar music. Spring with its April-alto, seconds the full soprano of Sum mer, and Autumn's high falsetto gales, with the roaring base of winter winds, till up the chord of the year's quick-step. I have heard a tender wail-like solo quiver out from among the pines until the winds went away sobbing. And when the night breezes come down to play with the river reeds, one may distinctly hear them humming serenades to the water lilies. I have noted tbe beautiful crescendo aud diminuendo of a summer shower. Very soft and low the music comes sprinkling through the air, over tbe roof, and against the panes. The verdure brightens, the proud beauties of the garden bend their heads and listen ; a thrill shoots through the bosom of the dark clouds, and the thunder comes in with a chorus that sets theaspin to quivering. X have anyaiized the music of a stream from the fountain head to the sea. Up among the rocks the drops fall into the little pool below, with a quick tinkling drip like the highest uotes of the piano. Further down, where confluent rivulets form one common current, a lower but a louder treble gladdens the woodlands, while yet further south, where the city and town grow upon the banks of the broad stream, we hear those deeper notes which lie at the basis of all harmony. And at last, when the wide flowing river is lost in the bosom of ocean, we hear ? ? ?? n .1 / 4 / the grand baas rolling up iron; tne root or the rocks by the sea. What is life but a song? Our early notes are sweet with the burthen of tenderness and affection; the middle strain is startling and imperious in it) proud melody, and at last in a softened diminuendo, we glide down the scale and mingle in that best of all harmonious eternities, grand anthem. MUSIC HATH *CHARMS. From a work, lately published by Bentley, in London, entitled '"Musical Anecdotes from Every Available Source," we quote two: Passing through a field about 3 o'clock, a fiddling tailor was attacked by a bull. After several efforts to escape, he attempted to ascend a tree; not however, succeeding, a momentary impulse directed him to pull out his fiddle, and, fortifying himself behind the tree as well as he could, he began, upon which the enraged animal became totally disarmed of bis ferocity, and seemed to listen with great attention. The affrighted tailor finding his fierce and formidable enemy so much appeased, began to think of making bis escape, left off playing, and was moving forward. This, however the bull would not suffer, for no sooner bad the tailor ceased his fasciuating strain, than the bull's anger appeared to return with as much rage as before. He, therefore, was glad to have recourse a second time to bis fiddle; then the bull's an J ?? tknt Ua mo a nrvmnollo/1 fn I ger reiumcu, ou iuau uc nns vuiu^vuvvi ?u keep fiddling away till near 6 o'clock (about three hours), when the family came to fetch home the cowb, by which he was relieved, aod rescued from a tiresome labor and frightful situation. The next is reproduced from Borabet, author of "Letters on Haydn and Mozart": We were surrounded by a large flock of sheep, which were leaving the fold to go to the pastures. One of our party, who was no bad performer on the flute, and who always carried his instrument along with him, took it out of his pocket. "I'm going," said he, "to turn Corydon ; let us see whether Yir-! gil's sheep will recognize their pastor." He ! began to play. The sheep and goats, which ! were following one another toward the moun- I lain, with their heads hanging down, raised I them at the first sound of the flute ; and all, | with a general hasty movement, turned to the side from whence the agreeable noise proceed- j ed. Gradually they flocked around the musician, and listened with motionless attention. He ceased playing, still the sheep did not stir. The shepherd with his staff obliged those * nr\ i 1 j nearest to him to move on. iney ooeyeu, but no sooner did the flutist begin again to j play, than his innocent auditors again returned to him. The shepherd, out of patience, ' pelted them with clods of earth, but not one | would move. The flutist played with additional skill. At last the shepherd was obliged to entreat our Orpheus to stop his magic sounds; the sheep then moved off", but continued to stop at a distance as often as our friend resumed the agreeable instrument. REST. Many a woman who cannot afford plenty of j help wears herself out, when she need not do j so, by adding unnecessary work. I like pretty things ; tucks, ruffles and embroidery are | great additions to garments ; and so are pies,1 puddings and preserves to the table ; but if j the day is fully occupied in making plain gar- j ments and preparing plain meals, the hours j that are needed for rest should not be en-1 croached upon by the useless trimming of the dress, and often unwholesome extras of the | repast. Work is good for every healthy person, but rest is good also ; and we have minds ' as well as bodies. We may make slaves of j ourselves, and that is no more right than to make slaves of others. To be clean and ; whole is a duty ; to be wholesomely fed is also | a duty ; but I should like to preach to some ; women I kuow until they really feel that the 1 body is more than raiment, that to keep strong | eyes, a straight back and a sweet temper, is better for one who is a mother than to have her children clad in elaborate garments, which it takes hours to iron and flute. Good i material, perfect cleanliness, and plain hems, i or straight, flat trimmings of some kind will i make any children look well dressed ; and in 1 their season a dessert of fruit tastes aud does ; more good than all the pies and puddings | that can be manufactured. Make your work 1 as easy as consistent with utter cleanliness aud tidiness, and save some hours for walk-1 ing with your children, for reading, talking j with your husband, and even for sitting ut-1 terly idle in the twilight of summer's day, or 1 before the fire of winter's evening. Laughter.?Laughter very often shows the bright side of man. It brings out his j happier nature, and shows of what stuff he 1 really is made. Somehow we feel as if we | never thoroughly knew a man until we had heard him laugh. We do not feel 'at home' j with him till then. We do not mean a mere snigger, but a good, hearty, round laugh. I The solemn, sober visage, like a Sunday's dress, tells nothing of the real man. He may be very silly or very profound, very cross or very jolly. Let us hear him laugh, and we can decipher him at once, and tell how his heart beats. A Revolutionary Relic.?Bridgeton, IN. J., boasts of a negro inhabitant named i Jeremiah Welles, who is 112 years old. He J was born in 1766, in the old tavern kitchen j at Cantwell's Bridge, on the Appoquimink I creek, in St. George's Hundreds, Newcastle county, Delaware, and when a mere babe was sold as a slave by his father to the proprietor i of the tavern. At the age of nine he was ; sold to a Mr. Abey Cole, with whom he lived ' in bondage for twenty-six years. He remeraj bers the breaking out of the war of the RevI olution, and has a perfect recollection of ! many occurrences of those stirring times. Du| ring bis slavery days with Cole he married j and raised four children, three of whom are i living now. In 1839 he married a Miss Su| sannah Buck, he being seventy-three and she eighteen years of age, by whom he had one J L... a:, j UUUgmer. ?y ilii kiiia unuguici, nuu la tuuty-five years of age, he now lives. The old negro shows the marks of his great age in his shriveled skin and attenuated body. Although he has drunk whisky and used tobacco all his life he does not betray any marks of dissipation. He has a deep chest, sinewy limbs and a strong, clear voice, while the grasp of his hand is as firm and steady as it was half a century ago. His eyesight, however, is very poor. Twelve years ago, the one hundredth anniversary of his birth, he was made a citizen of the United States. The Newspaper.?Some one who seems to know about the relation of a good newspaper to the family, writes as follows: "The strong attachment of subscribers to well-conducted newspapers is fully confirmed by publishers. 'Stop my paper,' words of dread to beginners in business, lose their terror after a paper has been established for a terra of years. So long as a paper pursues a just, honorable and judicious course, meeting the wants of its customers in all respects, the ties of friendship between the subscriber and the paper are as hard to break by an outside third party as the link which binds old friends in business or social life. Occasional defects and errors in a newspaper are overlooked by those who have become attached to it, through its perusal for years. They sometimes become dissatisfied with it on account of something which has slipped into its columns, and may stop taking it; but the absence of the familiar sheet at their homes and offices for a few weeks becomes an insupportable privation, and they hasten to take it again, and possibly apologize for having it stopped. No friendship on earth is more constant than that contracted by the reader for the journal that makes an honest and earnest effort to merit its continued support. Hence a conscientiously conducted paper becomes a favorite in the family." n TT T1 it * a 1 otill hai'I'y.?ror me past twu wtesa a Woodward aveuue druggist has put up a prescription of some kind or other about four times a day for a certain small boy, besides filling orders for a large variety of patent medicine and porous plasters. The sales were all cash, but the druggist's curiosity was at length aroused, and he said to the lad : "Got sickness in the family ?" "Kinder,'' wa3 the reply. "Your father?" "Yes?all but me. Ma is using the plasters for a lame side and taking the tonic for a rash which broke out on her elbows. Pa takes the troches for tickling in the throat, and uses the arnica on his shin. Louise uses that catarrh snuff and the cough medicine. Bill wants the brandy for a sprained ankle, and the squills are for the baby. That's all but grandma, and this prescription is to relieve the pain in her chest and make her sleep harder." "Rather unfortunate family," remarked the druggist. "Well, kinder, but pa says it's cheaper than going to the springs, and so we plaster up and swallow down and feel purty happy, after all." Curiosities of Kansas Plains.?A Kansas correspondent says: "In traveling over these prairies many interesting phenomena are to he observed. Here in many places are to he seen the prickly cactus, the sage bush and the sand-hill plum?so much written about by travelers over the sandy plains much farther west. Many skulls and other bones of the buffalo are to be found on the surface, but these huge shaggy beasts pasture these plains no more, nor slake their thirst under the bluffs of these running streams. But the circular spots where they delighted to wallow are readily perceived, where the ground is so hard and compact that it will not bear crops for several years. The prairiedog towns are still to be seen, with this interesting little animal peering about in a comical fashion above their holes, with the attendant owl near at hand. Sad to say, the farmers endeavor to destroy them all, as they are fond of devouring the growing crops. Their other mate, the rattlesnake, is by no means unknown, lurking in the prairie grass, and its venemous bite is fatal. Abernethy Outwitted.?A very talkative lady, who had wearied the temper of Dr. Abernethy, who at all times was impatient of babble, was told by him, the first moment be could get a chance of speaking, to be good enough to put out her tongue. "Now pray, Madame," said he, playfully, "keep it out." The hint was taken. He rarely met with his match, but on one occasion he fairly owned that he had. He was sent for by an innkeeper, who had a quarrel with his wife, who had scored his face with ber nails, so that the poor man was bleeding and much disfigured. Dr. Abernethy considered this an opportunity not to be lost for admonishing the offender, and said, "Madame, are you not ashamed of yourself to treat your husband thus?the husband who is the head of all?'your' head, Madame, in tact"Well, doctor," nerceiy retorted the virago, "and may I not scratch my own head?" Upon this her friendly adviser, after giving directions for the benefit of the patient, turned upon his heel and confessed himself beaten for once. - ? The Sun Dance.?A despatch from Yankton, Dakota says : Young men at Spotted Tail's camp are just concluding their annual Sun Dance and babarous festival. It has been one of more than ordinary success. Forty-eight candidates passed through the terrible ordeal of self-torture and are entitled to full diplomas as warriors of unquestioned bravery. The candidate for honors cuts two longitudinal slits down each breast; one end of a lariat is passed under the strip of skin, and the flesh lifted between the incision, and tightly tied, and the other end is made fast to the top of a high pole. The candidate then throws himself backwards with his weight upon the lariats, and the dance goes on until the flesh gives way. Should he fail to break loose in the manner prescribed, or should he faint during the operation, he is forever disgraced. The Sun Dauce just closed was held about fifteen miles hack from the Mississippi river and witnessed by about 7,000 Indians and twenty-five whites. Old Spotted Tail was master of ceremonies. A young girl asked her mother's consent to engage herself to her beau, showing her, at the same time, a piece of ber own handiwork, a pretty match safe. Her mother drew down her spectacles and exclaimed : "Mary, you can make a match safe, but I have my doubts whether you would make a safe match." Mary sighed involuntarily, and sought consolation in singing "The Heart Bowed Down," Charmed by a Snake.?At the plantation ! of Mr. Turner, near Lake City, Florida, a | most singular scene occurred, the charming of ! a thirteen foot alligator by a rattlesnake. The ; snake first saw the alligator, and with his ratj ties attracted the latter's attention. Then began the charming process, which lasted fully half an hour. The alligator at first turned his head once or twice, but was immediately called to order by the rattles of the snake. Toward the end of the half hour, with fixed eyes, the alligator moved slowly toward his terrible enemy, until within striking distance, when the snake curled himself more compactly, and with all the strength he could muster struck the alligator. For a moment, the alligator shook tremulously, and then, as if by magic, made a semi-circle backward movement peculiar to the species, and brought his tail down upon the snake with fatal effect. Our informant then dispatched the alligator ; and found that the snake had missed his mark, j The snake measured six feet, and had nine -- J r _ /Vi.. D raiues ana one duuod.?x/oice \juy tcr. Vegetable Soup.?Seven ounces of carrot, seven ounces of parsnip, ten ounces of potatoes cut in thin slices ; one and one-quarter ounce of butter, five teaspoonfuls of flour, a teaspoonful of made mustard, salt and pepper to taste ; the yolks of two eggs ; rather more than two quarts of water. Boil the vegetables in the water two and one-half hours; stir them often, and if the water boils away too quickly, add more, as there should be two quarts of soup when done. Mix up in a basin the butter and flour, mustard, salt and pepper, with a teacupful of cold water ; stir in the soup and boil ten minutes. Have ready the yolks of the eggs in the tureen >* pour on, stir well and serve. Time, three hours. Sufficient for eight persons.?Rural New Yorker. The Society of Friends.?The Society of Friends throughout the world, to-day nnm a a a fKon if J/1 a Kolf nonfnrtr nr o uuujUQig ivog iuuu iv uiu ? uuii vvuvmij vi w century ago. The Orthodox are supposed to number 200,000 and the Hicksites 50,000. It is stated that there are at present only 17,000 in England and Wales, while in 1700 they numbered 60,000. Birthright membership is said to be the chief cause of the decline, together with the system of disowning members for slight deviations from the doctrines and polity of the Society. The sect in these days conforms more nearly to other sects than it ever did, by adopting Sabbath schools, by more frequent preaching and by making singing a part of their religions worship. Advice to Students.?Sit op to the table when you read, easy chairs abolish memory. Do not read the same book too long at one sitting. If you are really weary of one subject change it for another. Read steadily for three hours a day for five days in the week; the use of wet towels and strong coffee betrays ignorance of how to read. Test the accuracy of your work as soon as you have finished it. Put your facts in order as soon as you have learnt them. Never read A Aam ?% a sJ a & Tk/\ *l A a /\ ItAi) ntaA i alt ^ niter wiuuiguu xsu uut gu tu ucu obiaigut from your books. Never let your readiDg in terfere with exercise or digestion. Keep a clear head, a good appetite and a cheerful heart.?Medical Examiner. S&^ Gen. Marcus A. Wright, of Memphis, has been appointed by the Secretary of War as agent to collect official records on the Confederate side of the war. When the Confederate archives were secured many orders and documents were in the possession of Confederate officers, in whose families they have been retained. Gen. Wright having been a Confederate officer and having an extensive acquaintance in the South, he was chosen to collect these scattered links which are to be used in compiling the official history of the war. Justifiable Pbide.?A Western member of Congress lounged into the bar-room of a fashionable hotel the other morning to get his matutinal invigorator. When the necessary utensils were placed before him, the Hoosier statesman deliberately filled the glass to the brim with whisky. "Goodness ? gracious!" exclaimed the bar-keeper, "that isn't a drink?that's a temperance lecture!" The member's face lights up with an expression of pride whenever he relates the incident. S&* A fastidious brakeman on the Central Pacific railroad cried out as the train was entering a tunnel: "This tunnel is one mile long and the train will be four minutes passing through it." The train dashed into daylight again in four seconds, and the scene within the car was a study for a painter. Seven young ladies were closely pressed by seven pair of masculine arms, fourteen pair of lips were glued together, and two dozen inverted whisky flasks flashed in the air. ? t&" There is no greater every day virtue than cheerfulness. This quality in man among men is like sunshine to the day, or moisture to parched herbs. The light of a cheerful face diffuses itself and communicates the happy spirit that inspires it. The sourest temper must sweeten in the atmosphere of continuous good humor. t&~ It was not believed that the Paris Exposition of 1878 would be a financial success, yet the government commissioners already feel that they are out of financial difficulty. The cost of buildings and maintenance is es timated at about 89,000,000, and a revenue of nearly $7,000,000 is already assured. The attendance has exceeded expectation. An Illinois woman has written to one of the assistant postmaster-generals to pick her out a good young man for a husband. She thought his experience with the mails would give him an advantage in the selection. But the official was so ungallant as to reply that it is not his business to sort the mails. j It was in a New Jersey Sunday school. The superintendent approached a youth of color who was present for the first time, and inquired his name, for the purpose of placing it on the roll. The good man tried in vain to preserve his dignity when the answer was retnrnoH "Wall maMA mIIa idp Tiin'n hut mv maiden name is Moses." tig" Fears are entertained by various exstatesmen of the late White House crowd that Gen. Grant may die before 1880. "General," said Gen. Smith to his commander, a few days after Shiloh, "General, good whisky may sometimes hurt, but it never kills." | W&f At a festival of lawyers and editors, a : lawyer gave a toast: "The Editor?he always ' obeys the call of the devil." An editor reponded: "The Editor and the Lawyer?the devil is satisfied with the copy of the former, but requires the original of the latter." I S@F A resident of Shenandoah county, Va., Eaid, last yesr, $14.75 taxes, the 75 cents eing on his property and the $14 on his beloved dogs. The collector could not get him to pay his capitation tax. 56?"A Connecticut woman was appointed constable the other day, and the first thing she said was: "Now I shall catch a man." A man is obliged to die before his will amounts to anything ; but a woman's is always in force. Call to mind the heavier sufferings of others, so may you better bear your own small troubles.