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lewis >1. grist, proprietor, j Jninptittaf Jfamiln ftctospapcr: Jfor % ^romofioa of f|e political, Social, Agricultural anb (Commercial Interests of tjie Scnt|. Jterms--$2.50 a yeab, in adtance. VOL. 37. YOEKYILLE, S. C.? THURSDAY, JU^E 3, 188i. NO. 33. Selected ?ortru. THRILLING VERSES. The circumstances which induced the writing of the following touching and thrilling lines are as follows: A young lady in New York was in the habit of writing for the Philadelphia Ledger on the subject of Temperance. Her writing was so full of pathos, and evinced such deep emotion of soul, that a friend of hers accused her of being a maniac on the subject of Temperance?whereupon she wrote the following lines : Go feel what I have felt, Go bear what I have borne? " Sink 'neath the blow a father dealt, And the cold world's proud scorn; Then suffer on from year to year? Thy sole relief the scorching tear. Go kneel as I have knelt, Implore, beseech and pray? Strive the besotted heart to* melt, The downward course to stay ; Be dashed with bitter curse aside, Your prayers burlesqued, your tears denied. Go weep as 1 have wept, O'er a loved father's fallSee every promised blessing swept? Youth's sweetness turned to gall? Life's fading dowers strewed all the way, That brought me up to woman's day. Go see what I have seen, Behold the strong man bowed? With gnashing teeth ; lips bathed in blood, And cold and livid brow; Go catch his withered glance and see, There mirrored his soul's misery. Go to my mother's side, And her crushed bosom cheer; Thine own deep anguish hide; Wipe from her cheek the bitter tear; Mark her worn frame and withered brow ; The grey that streaks her dark hair now ; With fading frame and trembling limbs; And trace the ruin back to him Whose plighted faith, in early youth, Promised eternal love and truth, But who foresworn, hath yielded up, That promise to the cursed cup ; And led her down, through love and light, A nd all that made her prospect bright And chained her there," mid want and strife, That lowly thing, a drunkard's wife? And stamp'd on childhood's brow so mild. That with'ring blight, that drunkard's child. Go hear, and feel, and see and know. All that my soul hath felt and known, Then look upon the wine cup's glow, See if its beauty can atone? Think if its liavor you will try, When all proclaim "'tis drink and die!" Tell me I hate the bowl, Hate is a feeble word ; I loathe?abhor?my very soul With strong disgust is stirr'd, When I see, or hear, or tell, Of the dark beverage of hell! m ftoi| idler. "the hard school. In the autumn of 1862, I received' a visit from one of the Superintending School Committee of the town of G , in the State of New Hampshire. He itftroduced himself as Mr. Brown, and at once proceeded with his business. He wished to employ a teacher for one of the schools in his town. He ran his eyes over ray frame, and I saw the result wjis satisfactory, for he immediately expressed a desire to secure my services. I asked him what sort of a school it was. "Wal," he said, with a peculiar nasai twang and pronunciation not set down by any of our lexicographers, "it's a pooty hard school, now I tell-ye. But you've got the bone an' muscle, an' I reckon as haow yeou might dew it." He again run his eyes over my large sinewy frame, and rubbed his hands with evident satisfaction. "Have the scholars been in the habit of gaining control of the school ?" I asked. "Lord bless ye, yes. Why, no master can stand it a week. Ye see. 'Square, thar's some all-6red stout boys in that ere school? ye see they work in swamps, an' they're kind o' rough in their ways. We hearu tell o' yeou, an' I was sent to see ye. Aud I was privileged to otter ye torty dollars a montn, ef ye'd only come aud keep it. That's niore'n twice as much as we ever paid afore." "How large is the school ?" J asked. "VVal?thar's nigh unto sixty scholars, all | told, when thev come?some boys an' some j gals." I had heard of the school before, aud had been acquainted with an excellent teacher who had been thrown out of the school house and rolled in a snow-bank by the larger boys ; yet I resolved to go and try it. Of personal danger I had no fear, for I happened to possess a large frame and a proportional amount of nerve and muscle. I had exercised freely in our gymnasium, and there was not another man in the place who could at all hold his strength by the side of mine. Nature had been lavish in her favors, and evil habits had not impaired the faculties God had given me. I told Mr. Brown I would keep the school. It was to commence on the first day of December, and continue three months. But I told him I must have my own way. That in all things appertaining to the school I must be master?that ray will must be absolute, even to the casting out of half of the-scholars. - He said I should have my own way ; and he pledged his word that the Committee should not interfere, iu any way, nor under any circumstances. At the appointed time I packed up my wardrobe and school-books, and started for G . When I reached the village, I learned that my school was in a distant part of the town??in a rugged region known as Raxvbone Hollow. On the following morning Mr. Brown took me "over" in his sleigh. I found my school-house upon the edge of quite a 1 r\ m /\?* ? mU 1 rtl* ll'Of 1 A/ta f A/J Vn O ftl 1 rl A Tf Q 1 _ OCl UCLLICU l, nuiuii nw ?u a hiuo ?atley, with high, black mouutaius upon all sides. I was taken at ouce to the place where I was to board, and in this latter respect I was fortunate. My host's name was Elias Bonnev. He was a well-to-do farmer about forty-five years of age, a firm, intelligent man, and one of the selectmen of the town. He had five children, that were to attend school?the oldest being a girl of nineteen, named Lynda, and the youngest a boy of seven. Mr. Brown remained to dinner, and then took hi$ leave; and as soon as I was alone with Mr. Bonney, I began to enquire particularly about the school. My host shook his head with a dubious expression. "You know what boys are," he said, espe cially it" they've had their own way tor a long time. For six winters we've had no school here that could be called a school. There are quite a number of stout boys, and they generally contrive to get the master out at the end of a week. But I think they'll find it hard to put you out." "I don't know," I replied. ''But I really shouldn't want them to try it, for I'm not apt to be very considerate when acting on the defensive against mere brute force." Bonney said he should thiuk 'twould be dangerous for the scholars to make the attempt. "But," he added, with another dubious shake of the head, "the boys are not only stout and hearty, but you must remember there's a number of them. Once get 'em started, and they don't fear anything. They've had some pretty stout masters to deal with." "But how many are there in the school," I asked, "who are really bad, who are ready to go ahead in any evil pranks?" Bonney pondered a few moments and then replied : "Why, there's only two of them that are really ugly; aud even they ain't bad neighbors. They're kiud and ready in cases of need, but they seem determined to resist the ; schoolmaster." We kept up the conversation at intervals until bed time, and when I retired for the night I had about made up my mind as to the nature of the work I had to do. I had learned enough to assure me of several important facts. In the first place, each succeeding teacher had gone into the schoolI house with the firm belief that he had got to j fight his way through. The very feeling had served to excite his corabativeness, so that ; his first position to the scholars was an antagonistic one. The result had been inevitable. At fighting the large scholars were handy; | they had prepared for it and expected it, and consequently were easily led to an exhibition of their pugnacious qualities. On the next -norniug I went to the school house a little e;? lier than the usual hour for commencing. found the building nearly new and lookinn clean and neat. I liked that. I went in and arranged ray books on the desk. Mr. Booney had given rae the key to his desk, at the same time informing me that he believed there were some implements there ! I might need. I found a heavy rock-maple ferule, some two feet long by two inches wide, and three quarters of an inch thick. It was a perfect club, and was, moreover, enough to excite the ire of any decent person who might see it flourished about in the hands of a superior. It was not alone. It had a companion in the shape of a long, stout, ; heavy "raw-hide," as they are called sometimes. I let them remain in the desk. At nine o'clock I rang the hand-bell with which my host had supplied me, and the scholars all took their seats. The school was full, and as I |azed carefully around, I was 1 pleased with the appearance of most of the 1 scholars. They were a comely, intelligent set ! for such a placo. But among the larger boys : were some faces which I wished to study. John Putney and Stephen Oliver had been so thoroughly described to me that I recogI nized them the moment I put my eyes upon them. They were two hard-looking customers, especially the former. Putney was tall and stout, with a head and shoulders not unlike those of a bull. He wore a scowl upon his face, 'and seemed to lean back in his seat like one who held sway over all around. When I first came to him in my sweeping glance I caught his eye. He tried hard to keep up his gaze, but in a very few seconds his lids trembled and his eyes sank. I knew I could conQuer him in some way. Stephen Oliver was not so tall as Putney, though some said he was stronger. But he was a better man. His face was more intelligent, and he seemed to have some pride. As soon as all was still I made a few remnrlro T nnt>ni:d mv Hpsk und drfiw forth the ponderous ferule and raw-hide. "Do these belong to any one of the school ?" I asked, holding them up. No one answered. I then asked Lydia Bouney if she knew to whom they belonged. She said she believed their last teacher brought them. I then stepped down and put them into the stove. After this I told the scholars that I had come there to teach them?to help them to an education which should fit them better for the various paths in life they might be called upon to pursue. I pictured to them the educated man and woman in contrast with the ignorant, and urged them to weigh well the considerations I gave them. 1 called up all ray powers of imagination and simplification. "And more," said I, "I have come to help give you this education, if you will only receive it. And in order to gain it properly?in order to have a profitable school, we must have order and regularity. We must all behave properly. Now, I am sure you do not know so much of arithmetic, geography,* history, grammar, and other i 1 e ?i 1 ?j t urmiciiea ui scnuui cuuuauuu as j. uu , vuuooquently I feel it ray duty to impart to you all the information upon these subjects which I can. But I believe of that other qualification of a scholar you know as much as I do. You certainly know how to behave. You know how to behave properly?how to be quiet, studious, and peaceable. If there is a scholar present who does not know how to do this, will he or she arise ? I am in earest. If no one rises, I shall consider that I have an assurance from each and every one I of you, that you know how to behave properi ly in school." I waited some minutes, but no one arose. But I could see that Mr. John Putney was ! uneasy. He seemed to be feariug that I was | compromising him in advauce of his will. I However, I appeared not to notice him. "Very well," 3aid I, with a graceful smile, j "I thank you for your assurance. And now I am going to place the government of the school at your disposal. You are all voters, and I wish you to exercise the privilege. Shall we have, during the coming three months, an orderly, model Bchool ? All in favor of that wall hold up their right hands." The girls commenced first. "Come," I urged, "I want you all to vote one way or the other. I shall think all who do not vote on this side mean to vote on the other. All up ?". By this time every right hand was up Bave | Putney's and Oliver's. The latter bad got j his hand half up, when I saw Putney catch j it by the elbow and pull it back. "Down," I said. "Now, are there any of j the opposite mind ?" . John Putney hesitated, but I saw that he was anxious to raise his hand. "If there are any who do not wish an or1 deriy school, I should be pleased to know it," ; I resumed, "for I am determined not to have | scholars who need to be forced into obedience, i I am not fond of punishing." Putney's hand came up with a nervous | jerk, and I saw him try to push Oliver's up; but I had caught the latter's eye, and he gave up to the influence of an imploring glance. "What is your name ?" I asked. "My uame is John Putney, the world over !" he replied in a coarse, impudeut tone, but yet there was an effort in it. "And do you not desire a good, orderly | school ?" I resumed. "Wal, I don't care much one way nor t'other," he answered iu the same tone, but with increasing effort, and I could see, too, that he was trembling and his strength giving j away fast. j "Very well," I said, in a firm, but yet kind , tone. "If such is your opinion, then your presence here will not ouly be useless to yourself, but of great detriment to the rest i of the school. So you can retire before | proceed any further. But should you at any time make up y< ur mind to come iu with a determination to be orderly and gentlemanly, j you can return." As I spoke I stepped down and opened the door. "You can leave," I said. "Sposin' I'd ruther stay here?" he replied, j turning pale. "But you can't stay here !" I resumed in a tone and with a look that made him start, j "We cannot have you here. For the good of the school, alone, you must leave. I can wait but a moment longer." The fellow was determined to try my strength. But he might as well have thought 1 of facing a lightuiug bolt. I was uerved up ; to my most powerful mood. I felt in my | arms aud hands that were I then where Sam- ! sou once was, I could have pulled down the ! 1 pillars of the temple-roof. ' I walked slowly up to the man's seat (for ' he was a man in age and size, coming one and-twenty within a month,) and placed mj hand upon his collar. He grasped the edg< of the low desk before him aud held on With one mighty effort?an effort that sur I prised myself?I tore the fellow from bit seat and raised him above my head 1 1 strode on to the outer entry, and when J gained the outer door-stone, I cast hinj upon the snow. He scrambled to his feet, and, with an oath, rushed towards me. I struck | him between the eyes and knocked him j down. I went and lifted him up, and then told him to go home. He cast one look into my face from out of his already swelling eyes, and then, with mutterings of vengeance, he walked away. I returned to the school-room, and, of course, found the scholars all at the windows, or, rather, rushing back to their seats. "Now," said I, with a kindly smile, - "suppose we try that vote again, for really I feel a deep, earnest desire to have the whole school with me. All who are desirous of having an orderly, model school, and who are 4? InknH /\ tkflf mill t* O IQQ f Kol r ICOU1VCU IU lauui kU luat CUU) nui luiob buwi right hand." . Every hand went up in a moment. And so I commenced my school. I went to Stephen Oliver and asked him bow far he had gone with his studies. He told me, and I then informed him that any evening when he wished for assistance, which I might not be able to render during school hours, I should be happy to grant if he would call upon me at my room. He was as grateful as I ever saw a person. I made the scholars understand that I should have no whipping going on. If any one would not behave he must leave the school. I had come to teach the various branches of a common English education, and those who had not yet learned to behave properly, were not far enough advauced to be admitted to the school, where the scholars themselves had determined to have good order. I never bad a better school. I have at times found it necessary to punish children, but I knew that that school had had altogether to much of it, and I resolved at the outset not to Strike a blow, save in self-defence, and to turn from the school every child that would not obey. Oliver was of great assistance to me. . When I wished to leave the room for a short time, I felt perfectly confident of good order in leaving bim in charge. He spent many evenings with me, and they were profitable to both. I had kept the school three weeks. On the Sabbath evening following the third Saturday, as I sat with Mr. Bonney and family, some one knocked at the door. One of the children answered the summons, and returned, followed by John Putney. He said he wanted to speak to me. I led the way to my-room, where we found a good fire was burning. I bade the young man good evening, and told him he bad taken a stormy season for a walk. "Yes, sir," he returned, in a half choking tone, "it does storm hard, very hard. But sir, I don't mind that?I'm used to it. I wanted to see you, sir, I?I?" He stopped and gazed upon the floor. "Don't be afraid to speak plainly, John," I said, "for I assure you that you are speaking to one who would be your friend under any circumstances." "I want to come to school!" burst from bis lips spasmodically. "I thank you, John?I thank you," I cried, extending my hand, which he took at once. "Since I came to this place, nothing has occurred to afford me more pleasure than this. Come to-morrow morning and you will find one of the best schools in the country. We won't think of the past?we'll only try for improvement in the future." The stout, hard youth cried like a child. Mr. Bonney said, "It beat's all." "Why," said he, "there's a school that's been going to rack and ruin for years, because they couldn't find a master strong enough to conquer the big boys, and they're all conquered without even so much as a blow. "And yet," he added, after reflecting awhile, "taint the nature of man to be very good under blows, and I suppose children have all the feelings of men. The lash may keep 'em under while it's over 'em, but it don't produce an effect you can depend upon."1 "That's it," I replied. "The obedience produced by the lash is only obedience to the lash. It can never beget one iota of respect for the one who wields it. I am not prepared to say that the lash is never, under any circumstances, necessary, society is in such a terribly warped and unchristian state ; but there is one thing I can say, I will never keep another school that I cannot govern without the rod. If there chance to be a boy who will not behave, then the school shfll not suffer by his presence. I will send him back to those whose duty it is to teach hira the first rudiments of behavior. People were astonished at the results of my efforts. The committee were forced to report "the school kept in the district known as Rawbone Hollow," to be the "best in town." So much for the "Hard School." Jokes of tiie Druggist.?Drug clerks will have their little joke, especially where no one is harmed, says a prominent New York druggist. Woe be to the fellow who comes in and asks for love powder, or the stuff to make moustaches or beard grow. Love powder is one of the few things that is different in every store that I have clerked in. Sometimes it is plain powdered sugar, sometimes epsom salts, sometimes flax seed meal, and now and then it is ginger or charcoal. We generally pick up the handiest thing that is lying around, jfo thoroughbred clerk wifl decline to supply a want of that kind, especially if he enjoys a joke. Customers of this kind are always simpletons, and they go away happy with anything you give them. We generally make them swear on a pile of almanacs that they will never divulge the secret, under nenaltv of their point* to the neniten ? I -J -- O o * tiary. Having taken the oath, all you have to do is to tie up anything that is lying around, and they are contented. I have frequently given them a good dose of tartar emetic. If that don't produce love, I don't know what will. I have never known one of them to come for a second dose, so it must do the business. When fellows come around after a "beard grower," we give them a box of some waste ointment. Auything at all in the shape of grease satishes them, and they depart with a look of mingled contentment and guilt. One day an old gentleman asked me to make up a hair dye according to a formula which he handed me, which I did. In an hour he returned with his whiskers, which were formerly snow white, of a deep black hue. The next morning he again came back. But what a change ! His hair and beard were a bright carmine ! He was wild. He charged me with playing a joke on him. But soon I convinced him I had not done so. The only way he could get ont of the scrape was to go to a barber shop and have his hair and beard dyed black with nitrate of silver dye, which always gives a kind of a rusty appearance to anything it is applied to. #aT" A careful observer of Ohio politics predicts that the temperance ticket will poll 50,000 votes in that State next autumn, instead of 10,000, which is the usual number. The increase will be due to the dillatory action of the last Legislature upon the temperance question. : ^istfUancflitsi fading. THE NEW TESTAMENT. , J ENORMOUS SALES IN NEW YORK?THE STYLES IN WHICH IT IS GOTTEN UP. The hands of St. Paul's Church clock in* i ! dicated precisely 6 A. M. yesterday as (he , I cashier of I. K. Funk & Co., Nos. 10 and 12 i Dey street, deposited in his drawer the price i of the first single copy of the revised New j Testament, Oxford edition. Its purchaser i had been waiting patiently since daybreak, and went away happy in the possession of his i prize. Other persons had also been besiegj ing the doors of the publishing house with the '} object of becoming the owners of the first sini gle copies to be sold, eagerly bought up vol* i umes. Similar incidents occurred in the i early morning in the store of Thomas Nelson | & Sons, in Bleecker street, who, however, were i obliged to immediately discontinue retail 1 sales in consequence of the multiplicity of J orders from the trade. Business with the j latter was opened at 4 A. M., from which ! hour until nightfall sixteen clerks and sales | men worked like Trojans, taking orders and putting up packages. *The largest sale of j any house in the city was made to the Amerij can News Company, who in turn supplied an i army of news agents and small book sellers, j An incessant clatter wa9 kept up in Bleecker I street by the arriving and departing express J wagons, many of which transported immense I packages and cases of the cheaper editions to I cities, towns and villages in this vicinity. Dealers in this city, it was said, took 75,000 copies, one house alone taking 35,000. The orders from New England were also very large ; 10,000 volumes were shipped to San Francisco, and double that number to i booksellers in Chicago. The entire number I of copies of all kinds disposed of by Nelson & Sons up to 3 P. M. was 250,000. Of these the largest number were 20 cent-books. The only edition exhausted was that known as the Long Primer, the retail prices of which ranged from $1 to $7.50. Funk & Co., dispatched 50,000 copies by express and freight to many points in the United StaBs, and a great number of single books were sent by mail to those who had submitted the^r orders in advance. The local demand included a large number of orders for finely bound volumes, priuted in large, handsome type. At 2 P. M. only a few copies of the 25,000 20-cent Testaments remained to be disposed of. The sales of the 15-cent edition, which is bound in tinted paper, aggregated 10,000 copies, and the profit to the firm per copy was 3 cents, while that of the 20-cent book was 4 cents. A larger margin of profit is allowed in the sale of the companion book, which explains the changes made in the text of the New Testament as well as the reasons for making them. This book is furnished in two diffent styles of binding aud letter-press at the rates of 25 cents and 75 cents. Funk & Go's. first edition of the companion, consisting of 20,000 copies, was nearly exhausted yesterday. Letters have been received by both houses from clergymen throughout the country informing them that it is their intention to read the revised edition of the New Testment from their pulpits on Sunday. Orders for supplies are also being sent in by various Sunday schools in this city, Brooklyn and elsewhere. Before noon yesterday the cheaper editions were displayed on the counters of every book store, wholesale, retailed second-hand. Every news stand had a stock of them, and they were hawked about the streets in hand carts by men, who succeeded in selling large numbers of the neatly printed twenty-cent books for twenty-five cents. In fact, no work ever introduced here was bought up with such a degree of avidity ; and it is not likely that a larger number of copies of any other book were sold in a single day. At the book-store of Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., Broadway and Twentieth street, the demand began at 5.30 o'clock in the morning, the earliest purchasers being clergymen and theological students. The dollar edition was disposed of very rapidly, and there were also many requests for the fifty-cent ones. Leggat's new store, in Chambers street, was also besieged by purchasers all day, while the other houses in the trade were kept equally busy supplying customers with copies of the revised Testament.?New York Times, May 21. W It would be almost impossible to describe in detail all the forms that the book assumes iu coming before the public eye. Firstly, there are the two sets of publications bearing respectively the imprints of the Oxford and Cambridge presses. These are in the main similar, price for price. But few copies of the former have as yet got into circulation here, the Philadelpuia agents being the representatives of the Cambridge press. The prices are graded, at small intervals, from fifteenjeents to 810.50, but the differences arise mainly from variations in the binding and finish. As far as the letter press is concerned, they may be divided into four groups. First conies the cheapest, measuring about 32 by 41 inches, priuted iu nonpareil type in double columns, with the disputed reading in a par I row central space. There are 332 pages, not | including 18 which contain the preface. It i has the readings approved by the American ; Committee at the end, and is in all respects j complete. It is a neat, readable, handy little | book, and is bound in half a dozen different j styles, from plain paper to flexible Morocco. The second style is also in double columns and small pages. This ranges in price from 50 cents up, according to tinish. The first edition printed across the page is an octavo at 81, up to about 85, according to binding, | which varies from stiff muslin-covered boards ; to elegantly worked Morocco and Russia | leather. In this copy, as also in the finest, ! the notes, references- and different readings I are in the margin. The largest and best form is a crown-octa! vo on heavy paper. It is set in very bold type I and is in every respect a typographical masterpiece. The bindings vary much in cost| liuess, but not in appearance, and one of the j Lippincotts' experiences yesterday was rather ; amusing. It was only with the greatest difculty the two most expensive makes could be distinguished. They sell at $10.-f0 and 87.50 respectively. The letter press is precisely similar in both, and the difference in the | binding is only that between different grades j of material. It simply defies detection by . any but an expert eye, and it was only after careful examination by the foreman of their bindery that the firm ventured to determine the prices of the two sets of copies. Curious ly enough, the work on the more expensive is decidely inferior to that on the other. Por' ter & Coates, of Chestnut street, also had the book on sale, and their experience was simply a repetiton of that of the other firms. It | must be added that in every form the work ; i it presented in a style that is likely to attract readers. The printing is, in all cases, admira-1 ble, the paper good and the general get-up of; the volumes neat and convenient in the high-! est degree. The abolition of the old division ! into verses permits the matter to be printed in a much larger type than formerly, without covering any more paper, besides rendering the pages much more smooth as reading matter. From early morning, the pages were in the ; hands of compositors setting up American editions. These will be of all styles and prices, from a paper covered pamphlet at five cents, to a costly tome at five or six dollars. Holman & Co. are having it printed in four different styles, but they do not^ expect to have any of their editions on their counters for three weeks. Accuracy and finish, not speed, are their aim, as they intend the plates to be of permanent service. Their lowest price will be fifty cents.?Philadelphia Times. THE WEEPING*WILLOW. HOW A PRODUCT OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN IMMIGRATED TO THIS COUNTRY. You have seen and admired the weeping willow tree?the Salix Babylonica?upon which the captive Hebrews hung their harp9 when they sat down by the rivers of Babylon and "wept when they remembered Zion." It is a native of the Garden of Eden, and not of America, and I will tell you how it immigrated to this country. More than 150 years ago a merchant lost his fortune. He went to Smyrna, a seaside city in Asia Minor, to recover it. Alexander Pope, one of the great poets of England, was the merchant's warm friend, and sympathized with him in his misfortunes. Soon after the merchant arrived in Smyrna, he sent to Pope, as a present, a box of dried figs. At that time the poet had built a beautiful villa at Twickenham, on the bank of the river Thames, and was adorning it with trees, shrubbery and flowering plants. On opening the box of figs Pope discover* en in it a small twig of the tree. It was a stranger to him. As it came from the East, he planted the twig in the ground near the edge of the river, close by his villa. The spot accidentally chosen for the planting was favorable to its growth, for the twig was from the weeping-willow tree?possibly from the bank of one of the "rivers of Babylon"? which flourishes best along the borders of water courses. This little twig grew vigorously, and in a few years it. became a large tree, spreading wide its branches and drooping in gracefully sprays, and winning the inspiration of the poet's friends as well as strangers. It became the ancestor of all the weeping-willows in England. There was a rebellion in the English-American colonies in 1775. British troops were sent to Boston to put down the insurrection. Their leaders expected to end it in a few weeks after their arrival. Some young officers brought fishing tackle with them to enable them to enjtfy sport after the brief war. Others came to settle on the confiscated lands of the "rebels." Among the latter was a young officer on the staff of General Howe. He brought with him, wrapped in oil silk, a twig from Pope's weeping-willow at Thickenhara, which be intended to plant on some stream watering his American estate. Washington commanded an army before Boston which kept the British imprisoned in of /ltftr a lrvnrr tima arrafnaf. tVlpir will. Oil his staff was his step-sou, John Parke Custia, who frequently went to the British headquarters, under the protection of a flag, with dispatches for General Howe. He became acquainted with the young officer who had the willow twig, and they became friends. Instead of "crushing the rebellion in six weeks," the British army at Boston, at the end of an imprisonment of nine months, was glad to fly by sea, for life and liberty, to Halifax. Long before that flight the British subaltern, satisfied that he should never have an estate in America to adorn, gave his carefully-preserved willow twig to young Custis, who planted it at Abingdon, his estate in Virginia, where it grew and flourished, and became a parent of all the weeping-willows in the United States. Sometime after the war, General Horatio Gfites of the Revolution, settled on the "Rose Hill Farm," on New York Island, and at the entrance to a lane which led from a country road to his house he planted a twig from the vigorous willow at Abingdon, which he had brought with him. That country road is now Third avenue and the lane is Twenty-second street. Gates' mansion, built of wood and two stories in height, stood near the corner of Twenty-seventh street and Second avenue, where I saw it consumed by fire in 1815. The tree which grew from the twig planted at the entrance of Gates' lane remained until comparatively a few years ago. It stood on the Northeast corner of Third avenue and Twenty-second street. It was a direct descendant, in the third generation, of Pope's willow, planted at Thickenham about 1722.?Benson J. Lossiny, in Harper's Young People. THE END OF MY MONKEY. I haven't any monkey now, and I don't "?ro whut hepmnes nf me. His loss was an awful blow, and I never expect .to recover from it. I am a crushed boy, and when the old folks find what their conduct has done to me, they will wish they had done differently. It was on Tuesday that I got the monkey, and by Thursday everybody began to treat him coldly. It began with my littlest sister. Jocko took her doll away, and climbed up to the top of the door with it, where he sat and pulled it to pieces, and tried its clothes on, ouly they wouldn't fit him, while sister, who is but a little girl, stood and howled as if she was being killed. This made mother begin to dislike the monkey, and she said that if his conduct was such, he couldn't stay in her house. I call this unkind, for the monkey was invited into the house, and I've been told we must bear with visitors. A little while afterward, while mother was talking to Susan on the front piazza, she beard the sewing machine up stairs, and said, "Well, I never! That cook has the impudence to be sewing on my machine without ever asking | leave." So she ran up stairs, and found that Jocko was working the machine, like mad. He'd taken Sue's night gown and father's black coat and a lot of stockings, and shoved them all under the needle, and was sewing them all together. Mother boxed his ears, and then she and Sue sat down and worked all the morning, trying to unsew the things with the scissors. They had to give it up after a while, and the things are sewed together yet, like a man and wife, which no man can put asunder. All this made my mother more cool toward the monkey than ever, and I heard her call him a nastv little beast. The next day was Sunday, and as Sue was sitting in the hall waiting for mother to go to church with her, Jocko gets up on her chair, and pu lis the feathers out of her bonnet. He thought he was doing right, for he had seen the cook pulliug the feathers off'the chickens, but Sue called him dreadful names, and said that when father came home, either she or that monkey would leave the house. Father came home early Monday, and j seemed quite pleased with the monkey. He ! said it was an interesting study, and he told I Susan that he hoped that she would be J contented with fewer beaux, now that there j was a monkey constantly in the house. In a little while father caught Jocko lathering, himself with the mucilage brush, and with a j kitchen knife all ready to shave himself. He j just laughed at the monkey, and told me to j take good care of him, and not let him hurt i himself. Of course, I was dreadfully pleased to find that father liked Jocko, and I knew it was because he was a man, and had more sense than girls. But I was only deceiving myself and leaning on a broken reed. That very evening, when father went into his study after supper, he found Jocko on his desk. He had torn all his papers to pieces, except a splendid new map, and that he was covering with ink, and making believe that he was writing a President's message about the Panama Canal. Father was just raging. He took Jocko by the scrulf of the neck, locked him , j in the cleset, and sent him away by expres; i the next morning to a man in the city, wit! , j orders to sell him. 1 The expressman afterward told Mr. Trav ers that the monkey pretty nearly killed eve rybody on the train, for he got hold of the signal cord and pulled it, and the engineei ; thought it was the conductor, and stopped the I train, and another train, just behind it, came within an iuch of running into it and smash| ing it to pieces. Jocko did the same thing three times before they found out what was the matter, and tied him up so that he could : not reach the cord. 0, he was just beautii ful! But I shall never see him again, and I Mr. Travers says that it's all right, and that I I'm monkey enough for one house. That's . I a a Qua knA?\ on*tin/? fkin/vfl oraamaf ucuausc ouc uaa uccu oajiug tiuugo agaiuab tlie monkey to him ; but never mind. First, my dog went, and now my monkey has gone. It seems as if everything that is i beautiful must disappear. Very likely I shall go next, and when I am gone, let them find the dog and the monkey, and bury us together.?Jimmy Brown in Harper s Young People. ? m ? BROOKLYN BRIDGE AND ITS BUILDER. Roebling was the greatest bridge builder in the world. He started the making of wire cordage in America and built suspension bridges to carry the aqueducts of canals across rivers, and engineered the Pennsylvania railroad across the mountains. The Brooklyn bridge, between towers, is 1,595 feet long. Behind the towers there are 940 feet each side, back to the anchorage. The whole length of the bridge and approaches is 6,000 feet. It is one of the widest bridges in the world, eighty-five feet, with a promenade thirteen feet wide, two railroad tracks and four carriage and horse-car tracks. It is 135 feet in the centre above the water. The rock on which the towers rest is about ninety feet below the surface of the water on the New York side, and half that depth on the Brooklyn side, the most stupendous thing about the structure. Each tower is 134 feet long by fifty-six wide, and at the top these dimensions are reduced to 120 feet by forty, or the size of a very large house. Each tower is 268 feet above high water. It is 1,336 feet from the beginning of the causeway on Chatham street out to the anchorage on the New York shore. The architect of the bridge received his death wound almost at its incep tion, standing on the upper framework of Fulton ferry slip as a boat came in and threw its weight against the piles, which yielded and crushed his foot. As if the spirit of the old ferry, about to be supplanted, had revenged itself on the innovator! They buried Roebling in that summer of 1869 at Trenton, N. J., near the spot where poor John Fitch, the watch-maker, eighty-two years before, had started the steamboat. But Roebling's true monument is the Brooklyn bridge towers, and between them in the nerves and tendons, trembling like a weaver's web, plies the shut tie of bis soul. You can hear his own words, if you are reverent, calling to the ships and steamers beneath : "It will be the greatest engineering work of the continent, and the greatest bridge in existence. Its towers will be national monuments! It will forever testify to the energy, enterprise and wealth of the great communities it overhangs !" Upon the portal of the bridge they might also inscribe his motto: "I have no fear of honest difference of opinion, it is only cavillers that I dread."?Nexo York Tribune. Baby's Bow Legs.?These need not cause anxiety in all cases, if the child is healthy, and has good, nourishing food and pure air? the two great essentials probably of making pure blood?it will probably outgrow its bow legs naturally enough as its strength increases. Eubbing the legs with your hand in the morning may help to strengthen and straighten them. If the case is pretty bad, the two legs may be bound together with comfortable bandages during sleep, rubbiDg them well before and after binding them. If the cfcild is still quite young, it may be kept from standing on its feet for a few months, giving nature time to straighten the crookedness while the limbs are growing stronger. A carriage and high chair are helps towards carrying out this plan. All things that have been mentioned as curative agencies may well be used as preventives. A healthy child, with wholesome food, and pure air to breathe, if kept from standing and walking while too young and weak, will -?'?k Ca*?aAi1aiio nk 1M ron ore UUb IJOVC UUW 1C^5, Utiuiuivuo vuuuivu wiu i more likely to suffer in this way, and those lhat are very fleshy. Don't take pride in your fat baby. Excess of fat is really a disease instead of a sign of health. Fatten your pigs as much you fancy, but do not deliberately fatten your children. Give them plenty of good growing food, and they will be plump enough for symmetry and not too heavy for comfortable activity. It is 110 wonder that the little legs bend under the heavy weight of some of the fat little toddlers. Such children should not be .encouraged to stand or walk until they have grown strong enough to do so of their own accord, and then should not be allowed to walk too much. Paper Plates.?The latest application of paper is the adoption of paper plates by some of the great restaurants and cafes in Berlin. The innovation was first introduced during the summer of last year by the adventurous .landlord of a much-frequented open-air restaurant. Every customer who ordered bread and butter, rolls, cakes, buns, or similar articles, had them served to him upon a little paper plate, made of light papier mache, adorned with a pretty border in > relief, and having at the first glance a great similarity to porcelain. Guests, waiters and host were all pleased with the novelty ; it saved the waiters many a deduction from their wages on account of breakages, which the deftest and cleverest can scarcely avoid when he handles hundreds of pieces of crockery during a single afternoon and evening. The 1 -I--* .U- 1__J1 J paper piaies were so cneap mm mo iuuuiuiu did not care to assert his ownership over them, and his customers were allowed to carry them away, like the pretty serviettes of thin paper used in so many restaurants in Holland. There was also a considerable saving of the time lost, and the chance of accident incurred, in the cleansing of earthenware pottery. The success of the experiment has been so marked that the new species of plates is likely to be introduced into a great j number of restaurants. I?"* The special correspondent of the London Times thinks that the number of persons killed by the Chio earthquake does not greatly, if at all, exceed 4,000, and that this is possibly too large. In the southern half of the island, scarcely a house remains in a habitable condition, so that a population of nearly 50,000 persons is campiDg out in the open air. Throughout the northern portion of the island, the repeated shocks wrenched the houses and frightened the inmates without doing them any serious bodily harm, except in a very few instances. *65" A New York fruit dealer, who has just returned from an extended tour in the peach districts of Delaware and Maryland, reports the outlook to be hopeless. He says he was prepared to hear that the severe winter had done some damage, but had no idea.that the whole crop was ruined, not only for this year, but for some years to come. The cold has been more severe there this winter than any time for the last forty years. He say3 he made a personal examination of the trees and found them blighted. 3 S&* There is a landlady in Cleveland, Ohio, i who does not intend to lose the pecuniary reward of her hospitalities. A few days ago a young man among her boarders became de linquent. Appeals in ordinary form for seti tlement were fruitless. So, one morning be fore sunrise, she entered his room and sums moned him from dreamland by a gentle put i on the cheek. Then she demanded the money ' due her. He demurred. Again she asked , ; for payment with the same result. Her third i appeal was kind but firm, but met with no success. Then she abandoned words for ac- ' tion, and gathering up his entire worldly possessions?clothing, gripsack and all?deliberately seated bertielf by bis bedside, and instituted a search through his pockets and other receptacles, while he looked on in helpless ? *v1 tmirat* oko An uieiuajr, i' iiiuu.ig a p^buvuv ^v??wvj w?v propriated what was her due, returned him his goods, and left him to renew his slumbers or to meditate upon the vicissitudes of deadheading in a bearding house. IST Col. A. Po pe, the general passenger and ticket agent of the Associated Railways of Virginia and the Carolinas, has if'ied a circular asking for information as to the employment of respectable and industrious German, Swiss and French immigrants he is now bringing into Virginia, the two Carolines and Georgia. During the last thirty days he has brought five hundred immigrants into the territory named, and by the end of May hopes to increase the number to one thousand. Be is doing this work on his own account, and all agents that are employed work under his orders. He claims for his work "Cohesi veness, through system and uniformity of policy and operation." He is locating the immigrants at various point along the lines of roads that he represents, in order that they may make their own contracts for service, and it is very certain that as soon as they become acquainted with our modes of farming and the customs of the country, and have accumulated a little money, thoy will themselves become proprietors. Still in Favor of Hugging.?The account of the Iowa girl who is said to have been hugged to death by her lover, has caused "quite a sensation" among the young ladies of Westfield, New York, who recently held a meeting to devise ways and means to prevent . another case of death from hugging. They unanimously passed the following preamble and resolutions : Whereas, It is reported that an Jowa girl died recently in her lover's arms while being hugged ; and Whereas, Judging from experience, we believe such an event to be utterly impossible ; therefore, Resolved, That, notwithstanding said report, we are still in favor of hugging. W? prefer to run all risks of death rather than have the beautiful, lovely, delightful, perfectly elegant custom abolished. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions ho aont to tho noTORnanors for nublication. " wv? ""t?i r + + Professor J. W. Price, of the Atlanta University, is a full-blooded negro. He lately returned from a visit to Virginia with a handsome young white wife. After a few days the bride left him, and took refuge with a neighbor. She said that she had no recollection of marrying Price, or of coming with him to Atlanta ; that she was Isabella Hill, ' the possessor of 375,000; that miscegnation was utterly repugnant to her, and she could only have taken u black husband while temporarily insane. Price maintains that she is an octoroon, but says that he has no desire to hold her to the marriage against her will, and now has no doubt of her occasional insanity. A true bill: "So that's the grand jury, is it ?" asked the man from the suburbs, after eagerly scanning the forms and features of the twenty-four individuals in the box?one man with nnlrpnv. sandv locks, another with ~j r" ??j ' an aroma of sentimental eeediness brooding over him, a third with a look of benign vacuity irradiating his countenance, and others indicating different stages of wretchedness and misery. "Well, sir, if you've got any common every-day jurymen about here, I guess I don't care to look at them."?Boston Transcript. AfifThe editor of the New York Corner Stone (Masonic), S. R. Beckner, was recently cured of a severe attack of diphtheria by keeping his throat wrapped in a woolen cloth well saturated with kerosene?another cloth was placed over it. It soon makes the throat feel as though it were "on fire." He was cured in a few days. The disease left the interior and came out, locating on the outside of the throat, at first in great lumps. These all being carefully guarded, disappear- * ed without trouble. AST' An authority on dentistry stated, in a recent lecture, that the first knowledge of dental surgery was brought to this country by a person who accompanied the French troops here during the Revolution. The first dentist was established in 1788. George Washington's false teeth were retained in the mouth by spiral springs. In 1839 there were 300 dentists in the country; in 1842,4000; to-day, 15,000. AST" Two patients in an Iowa insane asylum, a mau and a woman, escaped by means of a rope ladder one night lately, saddled horses in the stable, rode twenty miles to a clergyman, and by him were married, nothing in their manner at that time indicating that they were not sane. They continued their journey until the afternoon, when each became convinced that the other was demented and applied for protection. AST' A company of New York capitalists is preparing to tunnel Broadway, Fourth avenue and other streets, for the purpose of building a system of underground railroads to facilitate rapid transit between the eastern and western shores of Manhattan Island. The main stem will extend from the Battery to Fifty-ninth street, ancl thence under the Boulevard or upper Broadway as far as may be desired, and there will be several branches. SSP" The New York Senate has passed a bill regulating the sale of oleomargarine. It provides that all kinds of oleomargarine shall be stamped "imitation butter;" that when sold at retail a label shall bear the same words, and that restaurant keepers who serve oleomargarine shall display show cards announcing the fact. The bill had previously passed the Assembly. t?" The "star" routes are so named because j they have been designated in the records of the department by three stars, which represented the words "celerity, certainty and se-curity." Attention has recently been directed [ to the resemblance between this combination of words aud that other group more widely known, "addition, division and silence." BST Friends of the administration say that it has been determined to have an administration party, pure and simple, not only in New York, but in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, and all other States where it has been the custom for Senatorial bosses to run the machine. MOP The Herald stands solitary and alone amoDg the leading New York papers in supporting ex-Senator Conkling. The Herald is dubbed by one of the others, "our esteemed Conklemporary."