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* lewis m. wrist, proprietor. I % $nfojpbtnf Jfauiilj lelospapcr: Jfor % ^promotion of % political, Sotial, ^gritnlfural anb fiotimurrial lititrtsfs of % j?oufj). ] terjis--$2.50 a year, is advance. VOL 30. YOEKYILLE, S P., THTJESDAY, JUJSTE 5, 1884. NO. 23. JWrrtcd fflctog. ROSE OF KILL4RNEY. Oh ! fair are your daughters by Shannon's blue waters, And lovely the maidens of Clare and Clonmel; And look th"e world over you'll fail to discover Such colleens to love as in old Erin dwell; Yet there's none on the island, in lowland or highland, From the soft-bosomed lakes to the wild ocean shore. Whose praises could share with or half way compare with, Dark Nora, my rose of Killarnoy, asthore! Ah, Nora's the beauty to love's more than duty, In the glance of her eye there's a charm and"a spell, And her voice, like the linnet, has love's meaning in it, And rings through my heart like a musical bell. Oh, to woo and to win her would turn saint to sinner; Her beauty compels you to kneel and adore, But with sighing and suing in vain you come wooing Dark Nora, my rose of Killarney, asthore! You hear me entreating with heart wildly beating, You know how I love you, and still fein surprise! I fear you're deceiving, with glances still weaving Those snares for my life in your beautiful eyes. ? ttah, lino criistfin with toars as vou listen, "u" J Wl" "I"- o Oh fly to my bosom and leave me no more! I've but this to give vou, love, a heart fond and true, love, Dark Nora, my rose of Killarney, asthore ! m jfotf idict. CAPE DIAMONDS. With four other masculine fellow-sufferers?one of whom was a small, spectacled, inoffensive-looking man?Ned Girard and myself, were the suffering inmates of a nondescript vehicle of the stage wagon pattern, drawn by six small "cape" horses, en route from the Bloemfontein diamond fields of South Africa for Wellington, thence by rail to Cape Town. Two-thirds of the truly terrible journey had already been accomplished, yet there were still two hundred and fifty miles of travel over sun-beat plain and arid desert before us, with the mercury at a hundred and two degrees, in such shade alone as our titled conveyance afforded?for, in truth, there was no other. Our eyes were blurred and blinded by the ceaseless glare of the sun, whose rays beat down on the sandy desert from an unclouded sky, which was as brass above us. Our bodies were sore and bruised by the unceasing jar and jolt of our rudely hung vehicle. \Ve were parched with thirst, which the lukewarm water along the route utterly failed to slake, and, though continually drowsy, could neither sleep by day nor by night, because of the intense heat, the sandflies, swelled and burning feet, and intense nervousness engendered by the foregoing, with the other discomforts and sufferings incidental to a stage journev of some hundreds of miles through South Africa. The most of us knew each other by sight, through having met from day to day, for some months, and in and about the mining field which we had left. But I will venture to state that six more surly, unsocial fellowpassengers than our dusty unshorn selves were Derhaos never?literally?thrown to gether. If Ned and myself were perhaps a little more pronounced in general disagreeableness than the others, we considered, indeed, that we had ample provocation therefor. For thirteen months we had been toiling and perspiring, taking our several turns in the "dump" or in our twenty-four foot mining claim, as the case might be. In nearly? if not quite?a year of unremitting toil, we had barely succeeded in washing out enough small "stones" (the invariable term for diamond in South Africa) with which to pay our running expenses ; and then one stroke of the pick had unearthed a rose diamond of such size aud purity that for fully sixty minutes our good fortune was the talk of Bloemfontein. Well, that night, after our frugal supper, Ned, without speaking, extended the precious gem toward me in his open palm, as we sat at our rude table in our canvas-covered cabin. 1 do not answer for the scope of my partner's vision, of course. But in the uncut brilliant, as in the magician's stones, I myself saw but one object?sweet, wistful face, framed in a wreath of dark hair, within the depths of whose soft eyes was a look as if of patient waiting for the return of him who nad gone to seek his fortune in the far-away diamond fields. "Home ?" was Ned'sinterrogative query, raising his own eyes, which had bent upon the gem, with a sort of far-away look, to meet my own suddenly up-turned gaze. "Home!" I echoed, with joyous emphasis. But hardly had the word escaped my lips when a tall form was dashed through the door, and upsetting the candle by a sudden blow, seized the diamond from Ned's still outstretched hand, and was off in the darkness?the whole event having taken place in far less time than I have occupied in tell ing it. Of course we gave the alarm as quickly as we could regain our scattered ideas ; but though half the male population of Bloemfontein turned out, it was to no purpose. The robber and his booty had disappeared without the slightest clew. So it was that being in local parlance "down on our luck," IS'ed and myself, disgusted and discouraged, had sold our claim to a couple of new comers for about $300, and with those composing our present stage coach party, had taken passage, as 1 have said, for Wellington, intending to return home, even though with heavy hearts and light pockets. Beside the small spectacled man, who had represented himself as a sort of colporteur for a religious society at Cape Town, our fellow passengers composed two diamond brokers, together with a young and very boastful fellow, who called himself 31'Arthur. The latter had been very successful, and it was with feelings of envy we heard him relate the result of twoweeks's work in a deserted claim, where as he informed us with many profane assertions, he had struck a "pocket," from which he had taken stones whose value he declared was ?4,000. These he carried in a belt about his waist, together with a considerable sum of money from the sale of his claim?as he saidwhile girded to either hip was a heavy revolver, as a safeguard against possible attack from road agents. After a wretched supper at a small, bar .A..*; i_ a.? reil-lUUKHIg SlilllUH 111 UlC iiuuguuum UUItora, the journey was resumed with a fresh relay of horses, and a slight diminution of our ill temper?the heat being a degree or two less intense, by reason of the declining sun. The conversation naturally turned upon the subject of road agents some recent depredations of these gentry having been graphically narrated by the proprietor of the station we had just left. "They wouldn't play any of their games on me," replied M'Arthur, touching the butts of his revolvers in a significant manner as he spoke. The jmle blue eyes of the little man, who bore the not uncommon name of Smith, twinkled ever so slightly behind his spectacles at the remark, but he groaned dismally and shook his head, ' "My dear sir," he exclaimed in deprecating tones, "you surely would not commit the awful crime of murder, even to prevent the loss of the filthy lucre which you?-hemclaim to have acquired through your own honest efforts." "Claim to have acquired? What the deuce do you mean by that?" blustered M'Arthur as Ned and myself glanced at the little man in some surprise, for it seemed to strike us simultaneously that there was a : sort of conscious significance in Mr. Smith's 1 | tones. j S : Yet it was, perhaps, a mistake as well as I _ | the fancy that M'Arthur's bronzed face ! " 1 changed color never so little, even as the j other spoke. Mr. Smith shrank back into his corner, 11 as though terrified at the other's threaten- j J ing manner. j v "'Indeed, I meant nothing at all, my dear 1 friend," he answered, in apparent alarm, li "I?" a But his protestation was cut short by the a sudden ana abrupt stoppage of the stage, c and a terrified yell from the Krowboy who a drove. I Almost at the same moment a man sprang p from either side of the road with a leveled p rifle. o "The first one that stirs gets a ball through I his head!" said the taller of the two, a heav- G ily bearded fellow, the very counterpart of J the ruffian in a border play. d My own revolver was in the small valise t \Tn/Ho and in nwn WOflfllv A W1UUI nnu ncu a uuu ...J u., .. ^ goods. Even if I had carried it on my per- li son, it is more than likely that with the o muzzle of a rifle staring me full in the face, I should not have attempted to use it. b Ned was unarmed. So as it then appear- v ed, was the little colporteur. And the va- p lient M'Arthur dropped on the bottom of t the coach with a cry of terror which was t feebly echoed by Mr. Smith. d In obedience to a gruff command, M'Arthur handed his revolvers to the smaller c of the two road agents, who seeming to be e assured that no weapons were worn by any ii others of the party, caused us to alight, v Ned and myself submitted to be searched, r with the calmness of despair. We had t about one hundred and fifty sovereigns be- s tween us, and a bill of exchange on a bank in Cape Town, which the toll robber took p from-us, while his companion, with cocked hat and presented rifle, did the intimidat- \ ing. M'Arthur alternately raved and swore, t as he was relieved of his belt. The little I man wrung his hands, and raised his voice a in ineek supplication, "while his spectacled e eyes were fixed, as though in a sort of fascination, upon the ruffian who held the pre- c sented rifle. "Now, then, gig-lamps, what have you got about you ?" was the jocose query. j And little Mr. Smith piteously entreated * thof tho mn77.|p nf the loaded rifle be turn- ? ed aside from his affrighted face. '' "It might go off," he said, in tremulous tones; "and it makes me so nervous to have f a deadly weapon pointed at me. Do, please take it away." a With a hoarse laugh the road agent tossed his rifle into the hollow of his arm. , "All right, my little man !" he said care- . lessly. "Go ahead, Bill!" This to his companion, who approached + Smith for the purpose of searching him. Then was a transformation scene, indeed. The small man straighted uplike lightning, and with a quickness which seemed almost ? incredible, shoving his hands in the side 1 pockets of his linen coat he drew them out, with a cocked revolver in each. u Crack! and the shorter ruffian staggered t and fell, shot through the heart. Crack! and his astounded companion, with a yell j of mingled pain and rage, sprang for his rifle j which lay beside him on the ground; but . he was too late. : Before his fingers closed upon its shining barrel he stumbled forward to the earth with a ball through his brain. The whole affair was over in ten seconds. * Mr. Smith repocketed his pistols, and taking off his spectacles, regarded our astonish- ' ed faces with a benevolent smile. "Deadly weapons come handy sometimes, j: after all, gentlemen," he remarked. And I noticed a curious change in his voice and manner. So, too, did M'Arthur, who stood for a moment looking at him . with seeming perplexity in the midst of his too evident stupefaction. Meanwhile, Ned, who was of a practical turn, began taking from the capacious pockets of the taller of the two outlaws the valuables and money of which our little com- pany had been despoiled, at the eager suggestion of the two diamond brokers, who ; had been literally paralyzed with terror t during the entire scene through which we had passed, both of them having been relieved of large amounts. ; Of course, they insisted upon receiving ^ their own property tirst. men came ours. And, at the same time from a bit of wash j leather in the same pocket rolled a diamond of such peculiar shape size and color?for it J; was one of those rare gems, a perfect rosediamond?that both Ned and myself uttered a simultaneous cry of astonisment and de- 1 light, as well we might, for it was our stolen j diamond! t "You are in luck gentlemen." quietly remarked Mr. Smith, who had been watch- v ing the whole procedure, while M'Arthur stood looking on with covetous eyes. "I see that this is the stone that you had stolen j from camp somedays since. I had a glimpse t of it the morning Mr. Girard here"?nodding at Ned?was showing it to Jacobs, y the brokers, on the corner of Krall street, j I should know it among a thousand." _ M'Arthur, who, with nis recovered revol- t vers, which he had buckled on, had assum- , ed his usual air of braggadocia, was heard y to express considerable dissatisfaction. "One diamond is like another!" he growled. Jj And his idea was that under the circumstances the whole party had a sort of com- y mon interest in this one, to which the bro- N kers gave ready assent. t "I'd like to seeany one try to take it," said c Ned, with a dangerous gleam jn his eyes. j And little Mr. Smith, nodoing approv- c inirl.v removed from the dead man's body i the "money belt of which M'Arthur had been deprived. But instead of handing it to the gentleman, he buckled it about his own waist with an agreeable smile. "What the deuce does this mean?" yelled M'Arthur, whose face was purple with rage, when no less to his own than to our astonishment, his arms were pinioned by the little colporteur, who seemed to have the strength of two ordinary men. And in another instant his wrists' were adorned with a pair of shining steel handcuffs. "It's no use kicking, William," quietly remarked his captor, removing a faded flaxen wig from his own head, and exposing to view a short crop of stubby, black hair "I didn't mean to have pulled you till we got to Wellington, but this little affair has, so to speak, precipitated matters a little. And after we were all again en route, having left word at the next station as to the disposition of the outlaws' bodies the psuedo Mr. Smith informed us that the scowling prisoner on the seat opposite, who was kept in bounds by the sight of a cocked revolver in his captor's hands, was one William Hardy, with a dozen aliases, whom he?Dennison Hunt, the then best known rWpr>tivp in England?had followed from Liverpool to the very heart of South Afri- \ ca, a reward of a thousand pounds having been offered for his apprehension as principal in a great London bank robbery. "But I never thought I should be the I i means of helping you two gents to your i | lost property, said Mr. Smith with his cusj tomary placid smile, as after the weari- [ I some journey, we alighted in front of the i Digger's retreat at Wellington, with dust j j begrimed faces and stiffened iimhs, four j ; days later. t And, to his credit be it said, the detective i would not accept a penny of recompense * i from either of us. j "The excitement of the little'scrimmage,' ^ I was enough," he said, as we shook hands at I parting. * A Scorpion's Sting.?Slander, some one a ! says, "is the solace of malignity." Proba- t : bly as much mischief is done by the tongue J as in any other way. There are so many c tongues and so much bitterness. And often one indulges in injurious representations a j about another from mere envy and from the c consciousness that in pulling him down the t parties are placed more nearly on the same t ' level.?Central Presbyterian. ' c HJisrcUattcous pending. A SAD CASE. Intense excitemeut reigns throughout j Kentucky on account of the suicide of udge Richard Reid, of the Superior Court, pho was cowhidedat Alt. Sterling, on April 5, by John Jay Corneilson, a prominent iwyer, who charged him with hypocrisy nd influencing his fellow judges to decide , case against Corneilson. The suicide ocurred at Alt. Sterling on the 15th of Alay, til o'clock, in the office of Judge B:rock. teid entered the office at half-past 9, comilained of a severe headache, and asked termission to lie down in Brock's bedroom verhead. He went upstairs and Judge Jrock left his office, returning an hour later, loing into his room to wash his hands, udge Brock found Reid lying on the bed eau. The bed was soaked with blood, and he suicide's right hand grasped a Smith & Vesson revolver. The ball had entered be3w and back of the right ear and emerged n the leftside of the head. The theory is that Reid was so humiliated y his position and the certainty that he /ould be overwhelmingly defeated for apellate judge and his future ruined, that he ook his life as the easiest solution of his roubles : the SDirit of his wife, it was pre licted, would leave liira no peace. His friends are claiming that it was aused by mental abberation, but the genral opinion is that he pretended headache n order to encourage the idea that his brain ras affected, an accusation apparently caried out by the following note, written on he back of a business card and found by his ide: "Mad, mad! Forgive me, dear wife, and ove to the boy !" This was not signed, but is in the handrating of the suicide. It is a singular fact hat no one heard the report of the pistol. ?he weapon used was one Judge Reid kept t his house but never carried, and appeard to have just been loaded. Commenting upon this affair and the ocurrence that led to the suicide, the Louis'ille Courier-Journal says: The announcement of the death of Judge teid by his own hand may well shock , people somewhat used to tragedies. It las features so peculiar, so full of sorrow ,nd affliction it is so shocking; in all its as?ects, and from a public standpoint, it is at his time so calamitous that to the people f Kentucky, it must have much more than , passing interest. Judge Reid is the victim of the cowardv assault of one man, and the vitiated pubic sentiment of the State. His murderer s John Jay Corneilson, but in a communiy where law was enforced, where crime vas swiftly, surely punished, where life vsls protected, where prevailed an intelli;ent appreciation of the obligations of all he citizens to obey and uphold the laws, udge Reid would not have died as he did. Assaulted without warning, stunned by a ilow from behind, dazed and stricken and hen beaten with a cowhide in the hands cf n attorney dissatisfied with his course as a udge, Mr. Reid did not succeed in defend ng himself at all. This is a matter greaty to be regretted, and the regret to-day is ntensified many times. Failing in this, it seems to be the duty of svery man, according to the code which most ?re vails in Kentucky, that he pursue his asailant and slay him wherever found. The ituation in which Judge Reid found himelf was, indeed, a trying one, full of diffiulties, leading by any path to undying renorse. It was not death he feared, as we ee; it was disgrace in any form. His own onvictions of duty were not enough ; he tood in a public place, a candidate for a pubic office, and he was necessarily keenly ensitive to every change and shade of pubic opinion. The path he had chosen was steep and ugged ; the burden which he had assumed vas too heavy. The sense of shame and inlignity which, had he been a coarser man, nore of a bully and blackguard, he would lot have felt, preyed on him, driving him o madness. His actions were misrepresented ; his motives were questioned; in a State if brave men, few men were brave enough _ 1 TIV. Kni;n,,a,l U SUII1U Willi III 1U1 mill. iiv; UUIKWI wuv est judgment of the people was with him, .s it is, but he could not wait for passion or ndignation to subside. Much of that sym>athy which went out to him he felt as a ebuke ; he was acutely alive to any blame ir misunderstanding, and life lost its charm. Ambition died within him ; the support md kindness of his friends could not heal lis wounds. Even the love of those nearest o him, thoughtful and considerate as he vas, could not sustain him, and he dies vounded not only by Corneilson, but by all vho make public sentiment in this State. How frequent are these sickening calamties; how fast they follow one another; iow impotent are our laws; how false our verdicts; how warped our judgments have lecoine. Here is a conscientious, upright, lonorable man driven to death by the niserable attacks of one who uses only he weapons of a blackguard and bully. Corneilson has friends and they have >een quick in his defense. His case, restng on his own testimony and his own ileadings, has been decided against him. The impression has grown strong that his ittack was a political conspiracy, designed o defeat Judge Reid in his pending canvass. Whatever the motive, malice was here, premeditated malice, and the death if Judge Reid is the consequence. No man n Kentucky would attack a man with a owhide unless he was prepared to kill him f it was necessary. Assailing his victim rom behind, laying his plans so as to take liin unawares, it was not necessary to kill lim. Now borne down with humiliation, eeling inexpreasibly the shame and indiglity, bearing a grief which he must bear done, Judge Reid finds relief in suicide. Again we say, as so often we have said in hese columns, that from the sin of blood guiltiness no citizen of the Commonwealth s free. We do not deal with crime as we >ught. We tolerate murder and pardon dee and honor criminals if they are brave. Physical prowess is the only virtue that ippeals to us. We are passionate, unreaonable, unrestrained, lawless. Society proects no man either by its recognized rules if law nor by that public sentiment which jives strength and force and vitality to all vritten laws. Until we change all this; mtil murder is punished, until we educate nen to look to the law for protection and dedication; until the law does what it iretends to do, what it is instituted for, we hould cease our boastings and no longer iontent ourselves with traits and achievenents which equally distinguish the bar>arous and half civilized communities. Curiosities of Counterfeiting.?I visli to call your attention to two curious acts, said an official of the secret service at Washington recently to a correspondent. Counterfeiting runs in families, and without exception, the men engaged in it are all )oor. For instance take the Ballard family, ["homos, Benjamin, George and John, four, irothers, all in our clutches, together with m aunt. There is one brother out of jail, >ut we are satisfied that he isan honest man. Thomas Ballard is a wonderful fellow. lie s the only person, so far as we know, who las succeeded in imitating the fibre paper ipon which the genuine note and bonds are i irinted. At present he is serving a thirty j -.1 x i r?u:? 1 ears semenee asa rewuru iui ins uiatuvnv>. ie is a chemist of no ordinary attainmen ts, j md he invented a process by which he was j tble to take a genuine $2 or |l t>ill and com- j >letely remove all vestige of ink from its j urface. Then, with a counterfeit plate of j l higher denomination, he would print upon ; he genuine paper and thus raise the note. Speaking about raising notes, here is aj heck on the Third National Rank of New i fork, which was raised from $451 to $26,968, : md paid in 1876. The perpetrators worked 1 iff with chemicals all that was written in J he check except the signature, and I regret o say that we have never been able to (lis-. over who did it. Here are three steel Slates which were engraved by Ulrich for a ve dollar issue. The engraving is done on soft steel, and when completed the plate is hardened. To give you some idea of the amount of labor it takes to engrave these plates I can only say that we have evidence that Ulrich was fifteen months completing them. Perhaps the greatest curiosities in our ! entire collection are the bills which made 1 their appearance about four years ago, ex-1 ecuted with a pen entirely by hand. At first we thought that it must take a great amount of time for the rascal to turn out one of those bills, but now we think he produces about one a week. The denominations are fifties, twenties and tens, and they are turned into the treasury for redemption from all parts of the union. BEHIND THE EARTHWORKS. Ah ! it was one of the prettiest June days even Virginia ever saw. There was such a mellow sunshine that every flower and blossom turned its face to be kissed, and there was such a happy, peaceful look down on,.ricQ fho flolrlu tn warrls The .Tamps river ClViUC^J VllV a?v*\?u y M* v.M W..-W ? ? that men forgot iorfy moment that war existed. In the trees overhead the robins called to each other and once a blue bird alighted on the wheel of a field piece which had its shining brass muzzle thrust through the embrasure ready to send its shrieking shell whenever a hand pulled the lock string. There were a thousand of us down behind the earthworks, and we were so quiet that the voice of the colonel reached the last man on the flanks as he cautioned us: "My lads, we are going to hold this position against the whole army!" See a thin line of men?skirmishers to the number of fifty?suddenly break cover from the woods half a mile away and advance upon us. They skulk, they dodge? they drop down and suddenly rise again advance as stealthily as Indians intent upon surprising a hamlet. Bah! Fifty men against one thousand! No it is not that. The octopus is in the woods?these skirmishers are the long arms he is reaching out to feel us?to uncover our position?to ascertain our strength. "Puff! Puff1!" It is the fire of the skirmishers. You know where the watch dog is by his growl. They are trying to provoke the beast to betray his retreat. Zip! Zip! How the bullets sing as they go over our heads! There is dead silence behind the works. We breathe faster and harder?we clutch our guns with tighter grip, but we are silent. To kill an octopus you must strike at the body. Sever his arms 'and they will grow again. "Pop! pop! pop! Zip! zip! zip!" ' "Steady, lads, and wait for the word!' says the colonel. There is no excitement among us. I hear the man on my right shut his teeth with a gritting sound, and the one on my left is breathing like a weary man in profound slumber. If I should look up and down acro.ss the fields and over the heads of the skirmishers. The grandest sight of the world is to see the octopus of war leave his lair and come forth thirsting for human blood. Ah! here he comes: 111s ieeiers nave failed to uncover us, but he can judge for himself that such a short line of works cannot conceal more than a full regiment, lie does not know that our right flank rests on a swamp and our left on an impassable ravine, while our front offers no shelter even for a rabbit. Look! the sight is worth ten years of your life ! A full brigade pours out of the woods and forms for the charge. Regiments and companies swing into position as if on parade. The skirmishers redouble their fire, a general gallops along the front of the brigade, as if to see that every foot is on line with its neighbor. Now they get the word to advance and at the same instant our field pieces open fire. The cruel shell are striking plumb into the front rank and tearing men to pieces by the half dozen, but as the smoke lifts we find the Octopus marching on with steady movement. He will demand drop for drop?and more ! Ha! The shriek of shell has changed to the whistle of grape and canister, and tho mpn nf. Hip rmns nrp working as if the fate of nations depended upon them. The smoke drops down in a great cloud, and one cannot see beyond his bayonet. Now it is rent and shattered, and it lifts and floats away in great pieces and fragments. "Now lads?and fire low?" The Octopus has been staggered?wounded?baited?but here he comes again, right in front of me I see a face and form which I select as a target. I could kill him now, I but I grimly wait for him to come nearer. He is pale with excitement and as the man at his left is struck down, my target loses the steady step of the line. But only for an instant. Now he is not over forty feet away, and the fire of musketry has checked the advance. My weapon points straight at him. I am looking right into his eyes. I note his brown curls, his high forehead? the white teeth shut tight together in his excitement. He is not over twenty years old. He has a mother whose poor old heart will almost break to-morrow. He has sisters who will refuse to be comforted for long months. And such a fair-faced boy must have a sweetheart whose very soul will cry out in anguish at the news of'his death. I am going to kill him! The excitement of the check has confused him. He looks to the right and left, and then into my eyes. He is standing almost alone. As our eyes meet he sees murder in mine, and I read an appeal for mercy in his. The result of a battle does not hinge upon the life of a corporal. The war will not be over the sooner for his death. But I take deliberate aim at his breast, and press the trigger, and even before I feel the shock of the discharge I see the red blood spray out from the hor rible wound, and be falls back with a shriek upon his lips. The Octupus is beaten back. I go over the woods and find my target. Those brown curls are damp with death?the fair face as white as snow?the ground soaked with blood so precious that every drop will call for a hundred tears from women's eyes. The blue eyes are wide open, the lips are parted, and as I bend over him it seems as if his voice came back for an instant to whisper the exclamation: Murderer! And that was war! That was one of the acts which helped to make a victory for thousands to shout over?for flags to ripple? for rockets to ascend?for children to cheer and women to bless high Heaven!?M. Quad, in Detroit. Free Press. Ancient Music.?The Egyptian flute was only a cow's horn with three or four j holes in it, and their harp or lyre had only | three strings. The Grecian lyre had only j seven strings and was very small, being held j in one nana, me jewisn trumpets mac made the walls of Jericho fall were only ram's horns; their flute was the same as the Egyptian ; they had no other instrumental music but by percussion, of which the greatest boast was the psaltery, a small triangular [ harp, or lyre with wire strigs, and struck ; with an iron needle or stick; their sackbut; was something like a bagpipe: the timbrel j was a tambourine, and the dulcimer was aj horizontal harp with wire strings and struck with a stick like the psaltery. They had no written music, and liad scarcely a vowol in their language, and yet, according to I Josephus, they had two hundred thousand ! musicians playing at the dedication of Solo-! omon's temple. Our Chicago Theodore j Thomas would have died in the greatest! agonies at such a concert. ! Names.?Names originated from the pe-' culiarities of the life or other circumstances ! of the person to whom they were applied as distinguishing marks. John, the clerk, ! became John Clark ; James, the smith, be-1 came James Smith ; a tall man became ! Long, and a short man became Short; Wil-1 liam on the hill became William Hill, and : Samuel, the fuller, became Samuel Fuller, ' and so on. There are few names of families ! that cannot be traced back to their origin in | some such way. Ilill is English, WHAT IS HYDROPHOBIA? The season of the year, says the Augusta Chronicle, is approaching when we hear a great deal of hydrophobia and when "mad dogs" are killed in every section of the country. There was a prevailing superstition that this disease was confined to the warm season of the year, known as "dog days," and during this fateful period every canine which could not show a collar or exhibit a clear head or clean bill of health, was immediately shot down or remorselessly impounded. Of late, however, the rabies have been more frequent and general and mad dogs are reported in various sections at every season of the year. The number of accounts of human beings bitten by mad dogs is becoming painfully large, and the narration of subsequent symptoms and suffering is something horrible and revolting. This is a matter in which little investigation has been made, and we have no douDt but that the subject is largely misunderstood. Skillful physicians who are familiar with every phase of human disease, are baffled at the apparent persistence and power of hydrophobia, which exhibits itself at stated periods after a bite has been received, and which usually terminates with revolting symptoms and unutterable agonies. We are satisfied that many cases of alleged hydrophodia result from iinmagination, and the remedies employed should be those of ministration to wnat ur. campbell, would term, a diseased mind. Our attention has been called to a pamphlet by Wm. E. Sterling, combining with a system of Dog Training a Complete Medical Guide. It is the work of a man who has evidently made dog training a study and a science, and who has shown remarkable acquaintance with the characteristics and susceptibilities of dogs, as well as with their diseases and discomfitures. Among the first points bearing upon the distemper or maladies of dogs, Mr. Sterling remarks that any unusual excitement, sudden exposure, &cM may bring on fits. He recommends with dogs, as with human beings in all such cases, the animal be kept perfectly quiet in a dark place when the fit has seized it, aTter which sulphuric ether, cold water and laudanum are to be administered. "If," continues the author, "the dog is seized with a fit in the street, cover him at once with a box or barrel, have him conveyed home, and do not suppose a dog in a fit to be mad. A rabid dog never froths at the mouth or falls in a fit." Upon the subject of rabies or hydrophoK?r* "YfV QfrktOtnrr ia ploa^aiul aoamino'lvfiPH Ulil) AUl AO V/IVUl UtiVk W ? sible. We quote entire his remarks upon this point: The most deadly, butfortunately the most rare of all the diseases to which the canine race is subject, is hydrophobia. That this most faithful and noble animal, our only perfect and truly devoted friend, which is the same in sickness or in health, in poverty or in wealth, that without hope of reward, would sacrifice his life for us, yet may, when seized with this terrible disaster, inflict on us the most horrible of deaths, is a subject of profound solicitude. I have said the disease is rare ; in this country it is especially so. And while it is true that a person in whom the confirmed symptonsoftrue rabies are developed may be said to be beyond the power of medicine, the following facts may somewhat lessen our apprehension: That the periodical cry of "mad dog !" is more the result of ignorance and fright than reality. That the symptons of rabies in a dog may be readily known long before the animal becomes dangerous or inclined to bite. That they never get mad "all at once." Hydrophobia is impossible unless the dog is actually rabid or laboringuncier tne disease. That of persons bitten by dogs known to be rabid, more than two-thirds escape, even [ without treatment. That the immediate application of caustic to the wound caused I by the bite of a rabid animal is a positive and absolute perventive of the disease. That hysterics and other spasmodic affections are often mistaken for hydrophobia and the patient may die of fright?constituting the hydrophobia of the newspapers. Two instances are related here one of a woman bitten by a dog known to be in good health and who, two months afterward, by way of a joke, was told that the dog was mad. She was soon seized with convulsions and died in forty-eight hours. A gentleman received a severe bite from a dog and soon fancied the animal was mad. He felt a horror at the sight of liquids and was actually convulsed in attempting to swallow them. It was not until the dog, which was in perfect health, was brought into his room that his mind recovered tranquility, water no longer troubled him and he quickly recovered. The symptoms of rabies should be well I studied'bv every owner of a dog, that all unnecessary alarm may be avoided. .At tirst, the animal laboring under the disease, seeks solitude and obscurity, becoming dull, gloomy and irritable; he will hide in unaccustomed places, but finding no rest, is continually on the move. A dog suffering from disease will exhibit similar sijepis of uneasiness, but we see the animal is iin[ pelled by pain, while in rabies the dog seem3 drawn by insensible magnetism. ! Sometimes he will gaze steadily at an imaginary object, ending by either snapping at the supposed enemy, or toppling over on his head as if his limbs suddenly failed him. His mouth becomes filled with a gluey secretion that gums his jaws together. He tries to extract it with his paw, working in the most violent manner. These are infallible signs. There is a singular brightness of the eyes at first, but they soon change and become dull and wasted. The voice also will become completely altered and soon you will hear the "rabid growl," which will certainly end all doubts of the disease. The dog elevates his head, gives a short and distinct bark, and changes at once to a long and distinct howl in a much higher key. Any dog may bark or howl, but only a rabid one will join 00111 logemer. As soon as one is satisfied a dog is rabid, he should be at once destroyeded or at least given into the hands of a veterinary surgeon. If a person has been bitten, the wound must lie at once well washed with warm water and lunar caustic applied in the most thorough manner to the very inmost recess of the wound. It should be done as soon as possible after the injury is received. If the wound is not deep a red hot iron may be used, but it must be done with a firm hand and the part well cauterized, and by all means consult a surgeon as soon as possi ble. A Tender Incident of Jackson.?The tender memory of Stonewall Jackson left behind him in the army and the stern sense of duty he bequeathed his soldiers will be illustrated by this little incident: The army of Lee was on its march to Gettysburg, and the commanding general had given strict ordersfor its discipline in Penn 1 I ~ A M to nnmn r??Am syivanm. UIHICI uuiu^ iu uuup uwui Chambersburg late at night, was halted by the outposts. Having neither pass nor countersign, in his dilemma, he bethought him of an old pass in his pocket book signen by General Jackson, whose recent death hung like a clond over the army. He found it and handed it with confidence to the sentinel. The trusty fellow managed to read it by the light of a match, and as he did so beseemed to linger and hesitate over the signaturo. And then as the light went out he handed it back, and looking up toward the stars beyond, he said sadly and firmly: Captain, you can go to heaven on that paper, out you can't pass this post. Only a Little Baby.?A little babyonly a little baby! Only? And, well, nobody knows what a little baby can be but a woman. What comfort there is in the touch of its soft hand?the hand that does not know how to reach for what it wants, and is no larger than a little bird's claw. How happy the little head makes the breast it lies on! What a charm there is in it! what joy! Its bath, the laving of its tiny limbs, the dressing it in soft, white things, wrapping it in cosy shawls, nutting the toes into the tiny socks, Its sleep, as it lies under the canopy; its waking, warm and rosy and hungry. The way in which it ODD SAYINGS. Crossmatch.?"Patch was at one time a erm of contempt. It did not as Paris suggests, necessarily mean a fool, but signified vhat we now mean by a contemptible felow. Shakespeare, in Midsummer Night's Dream," says: A crew of patches, base mechanicals. "Crosspatch" is the only remnant of the vord. It is very expressive of a cross, 11-tempered, disagreeable person. Mad as a March Hare.?A familliar sayng found in Skilton's "Reply against Cer;ayne Young Scholars" (1020), and also in Eleywood's "Proverbs" (1046). Burden of a Song.?"Bourdon" is the Irnnonf n hnnrriinp hpncp ft. rnnninp" ncnnm first "takes notice" of the orange or the bauble! Oh, all these things fill a woman's heart, if she is a real woman; she forgets f her interest in everything else, and lives to c I be a mother. And oh, the hopes that bub- * , ble up in her heart; the dreams, never to j be realized perhaps, but just as sweet for all ] ! that. Next to the young girl's love dreams I come a young mother's dreams over her I baby. There are so many babies, men do j not know them apart. They helieve that . all babies cry alike, whereas a mother knows that her own baby has a softer sob . than any other woman's. There are wo- : men who never had any children, who ^ think it "disgraceful to be dragged down by a baby." But mothers laugh at them. There is hard work, there is care, there are vigils, and much weariness; but there is a ] baby love to pay for it all. CURIOSITIES OF THE U. S. GOVERNMENT. 1 Pennsylvania has a larger number of post offices than any other State. There are 419 typesetters, besides appren- ( tiees, in the Government printing office, in { Washington. Estimating Congress to be in session 200 ] days in a year, the salaries of the Senators and Representatives amount to about $10,000 a day. During the past ten years the Government has expended nearly $70,000,000 in caring for the Indians. The total number of Indians attached to the agencies is 2-16,000, of these 60,000 in Indian Territory, 7,700 in Wisconsin, and 5,000 in New York, are supposed to be at least partialy selfsupporting. To supply the public buildings throughout the country with fuel, light and water requires an expenditure of $1,000 per day. Seven hundred and fifty persons are constantly employed by the two Houses of Congress (while in session) in and about the canitol. * , The Government has sold more than two hundred million dollars worth of public lands in eighty years. In the last twenty years the Government has paid for interest on the public debt the enormous sum of $2,080,000,000, a sum j which would defray all the expenses of the ] Av/?Ar?ftr?? AM f All h- J government, CAtC^liiij; iukieck uu mv. j lie debt, for nearly nine years to coine, at ] the present rate of expenditure; and for j nearly 35 years if expenses could be limited ] to what they were in 18G0. I Among the expenditures of the Govern- , mentlast year was an item: "For manufacturing medals, $25,468.23." < It cost the Government $187,000 a year to ; maintain lights and buoys on the Ohio, j Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. From the five States of New York Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts and Ohio, tne Government derives one-half of its postal j revenues. More than one-half of the internal revenue receipts of the Government come3 from the four States of Illinois, New York, Ohio and Kentucky. Postal cards cost the Government fiftyfour cents and four mills a thousand. There are several post offices in the coun- ! try at which the aunual salary of the postmaster is onlySl. To wait upon the seventy-six Senators ! there are 242 employes, not counting police, watchman and librarian. Virginia has now the same number of Congressmen she had in 1790, when there were only sixty-five members of the House. Next to the President of the United States ! the best paid Federal official is the clerk of the sunreme court. The'Post Office Department uses $80,000 worth of wrapping twine a year. There are only twenty-five post offices in the country with over fifty employes. The New York office has 1,505. Honey.?Thousands and tens of thousands of children are dying all around us; who die because their ever-developing nature demands sweetness, crave and eagerly demolish the adulterated "candies" and "syrups" of modern times. If these could be fed on honey instead they would develop and grow up into healthy men and women. Children would rather eat bread and honey than bread and butter. One pound of honey will reach as far as two pounds of butter, and lias, besides the advantage of being far more healthy and pleasant tasted, and always remains good, while butter soon becomes rancid and often produces cramp in the stomach, eructations, sourness, vomiting and diarrhoea. Pure honey should always be freely used in every family. Honey eaten upon wheat bread is very beneficial to health. The use of honey instead of sugar in almost every kind of cooking is as pleasant for the palate as it is healthy for the stomach. In preparing blackberry, raspberry or strawberry shortcake it is infinitely superior. It is a common expression that honey is a luxury, having nothing to do with the lifegiving principle. This is an error?honey is food in one ofits most concentrated forms. True, it does not add so much to the growth of muscles as does beefsteak, but it does impart other properties no less necessary to health and vigorous physical and intellectual action. It gives warmth to the system, arouses nervous energy and gives vigor to all the vital functions. To the laborer it gives strength?to the business man mental force. Its effects are not like ordinary stimulants, such as spirits, etc., but produce a healthy action, the result of whicn is pleas ing and permanent?a sweet disposition ana a bright intellect. Things Money Cannot Buy.?We sometimes think that money is omnipotent, that ' it can purchase for us every good thing. This is a great mistake. Money cannot buy love. It often wins its semblance. Summer friends swarm around him who rolls in wealth, but the love of mother, the fidel- 1 ity of a father, the affection of a sister, the sympathy of a brother, the trust of a friend, t 1. X XI. -A are never oougnt wim xi. Money cannot bring contentment, and "Our content is our best having." Money alone will not secure for us a good education. A rich man, who had neglected his early opportunities, was heard to say sadly, ; "I would give my wealth for a thorough ed- , ucation and a well trained mind." But his ' money and his riches were, alike unavail- j ing. Plenty of money will not of itself in- i sure culture and gentility, yet next to Chris- j tian graces and robust health nothing is so j desirable as refinement, and pleasing, self- , possessed manners. The wealth of a Cresus ' could not give a peaceful conscience. Sin , scourges the soul of the rich as surely as of , the poor. , The poorest boy or girl, who has "always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men," is richer than the richest with a conscience seared with a hot iron, i A good character is more precious than , gold. Yet money is not to be despised. If we have it, let us accept it as God's gift, and , use it not so much for our pleasure as for the ( benefit of others. If we have it not, let us j believe that for own good it has been with- , held from us. But whether we have it or I not let us remember that it cannot purchase , love, contentment, culture, refinement, nor t a good conscience; that it will not secure t for us either, peace, purity holiness, heaven. f t SSaF- A practical joker may not be a crank, r but he is fully as dangerous and just as much r of a nuisance. He is always shooting peo- r 11 n 1 dn/1 niutnln unci friorhtonincr TV 4 VI* UI*lVUV?vw ???' v. ...Q..,v? "ID J women into tits by playing ghost, and in j short there is no end to his idiotic freaks. 11 Some idea of the extent of the practical s joke business may be formed when it is sta- t ted that a New York cigar house keeps sev- s eral hands constantly busy making innocent a looking cigars with their interiors charged r with gunpowder, so arranged as to cause an a explosion after the smoker has enjoyed two r or three puffs. These cigars aro ordered j t ; from Maine to Texas, from South Carolicf1 u to California. O'Donovan Rossa's 'nin_ j n that he had sent to England a lot * ; phi~ ? sive cigars to blow up Glads'^ e is I [ cabinet may not bo an id'- ?Tt frnmS( no tolling what danin^?'^.^ ' b box of cigars all o'"'rBc<1 wlth nalmte "v.,lvv/l ~ MMor'rvj ~ ;-P mniment or repetition ot musical sounds iounds or words is called the "burden." Sadder and a Wiser Man.?This phrase is roni the "Ancient Mariner," by Coleridge: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn. Balderdash.?Originally the froth or lathjrmade by barbers in dashing balls of soap jack wards and forwards in hot water. Bubbly spume or barber's bald rdash.?Nashe, ,599. Every One to His Own Taste.?A literal ;ranslation of the French proverb, Chacun i sou (/out. It is generally used satirically, us, "Well, I didn't think he would associite with people of that kind; but (with a shrug,) every one to his own taste." Whisky.?The stuff itself was originally in Irish manufacture, and was called usque)augh (pronounced us kice-baw) from uisqe? vater, bsatlui ? life. It meant "the water )f life." The reason the last sylable was jraitted may be that its use oftener led to ieath than life. It was called usque, and Inally spelled whisky. Folded Their Tents Like the Arabs.? Longfellow in his poem, "The Day is D xrckf&n frnm whinh ffilc HM/IV bllV ? VI UV> Itv/lil lliiivii vi<<^ aow very common saying was taken : And the night shall be tilled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall told their tents like the Arabs, And silently steal away. Siesta.?This Spanish term for a nap in :he day-time has become completely naturalized in this country. The Spanish nap is usually taken about noon, which, in their reckoning, is the sixth hour (sesta.) Hence in Spanish sextear is to take the mid-day aap, and xexteador is the room appropriated for the purpose, usually on the north side }f the house. Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady.? Phis is a very old proverb. In a "Proper New Ballad in Praise of My Lady Marynes," printed in 1639, are these lines: Then have amongst ve once again, Faint harts faire ladles never win. In "Britain's Ida," by Spenser, Canto v., Stanza i., the second line reads: Oh, fool! faint heart fair lady never could win. Cheers But Not Inebriates.?Cowper used this phrase in reference to tea, but it had been previously applied by Bishop Berkley to tar-water. In his work "Siris," paragraph 217, the Bishop says: "Tar-water is of a nature so mild and benign, and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate, and to produce a calm and steady joy like the effect of good news." Standing in Another's Shoes.?In an article on "Legal Usages Among the Ancient Northmen," in Bayley's graphic illustration (Loudon, 1834), it is said: "The right of adoption obtained one form of it consisted in making the adopted put on the shoes of the adopter. It has been asked whether our phrase of 'standing in his shoes,' may not owe its origin to this custom." A Big Word.?A very old Welsh name has just turned up, viz: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgertrobwllgerclnvyrmbyllgogerbwllzant lvsitiogogogoch. This word of seventytwo letters and twenty-two syllables, the name of a village in Wales, constituted the subject of a lecture lately given by the Rev. J. King, M. A., at the Museum, Berwick, in which he gavean explanation, as follows: Llan means saint or church : fair, Mary; pwll, pool; gwyn, white; gyll, hazel?(St. Mary's white hazel pool); ger, near; trobwll, turning-pool; ger, near; trio, turning or turn ; bwll, pool; gerchwyrnbyll, near the whirlpool; goger, very near, &c. In fact, the word simply means?St. Mary's white hazel pool, near the turning pool, near the whirl-pool, very near the pool by Llantsilio, fronting the red rocky islet of Gogo. The place has the reputation, not only of bearing the longest name in Her Majesty's dominions, but enjoys the unique position of rivaling the King of Siam, who rejoices in the following cognomen. Phra BatSomdetch Pra Paraminor Maha Chulalon-Korn Pra Chula Chom Klao Yu Hua. If this King's palace was in the above Welsh village, it would be difficult to get much more than the name and address upon an ordinary postal card. The Man Who Hurries.?'The bustling, hurrying man, as a matter of fact, is a poor worker. Too much of his steam power is expended iu kicking up dust. The habit of hurrying and of feeling in a hurry is fatal to good work, and diminishes the amountof work a good man can do. The friction is too great. So little of practical value is accomplished that he cannot go home at night with a sweet consciousness of a duty done, of a day's work completed. The men who accomplish most, never seem iu a hurry, no matter how much they have to do. They are not troubled for lack of time, for they make the most of the minutes by working in a cool, methodical manner, finishing each job properly and not expending their nervous force in bustle. They never complain of overwork, but are more likely to hunt up new work in order to give their faculties more varied employment and to exercise some which are not sufficiently used.?Herald of Health. Boys and their Mothers.?Some one has written beautifully to the boys in the following manner: "Of all the love affairs in the world, none can surpass the love of a big boy for his mother. It is pure love and noble and honorable in the highest degree to both. I do not mean merely a dutiful T v\ a 1/\?*a it'Uinh rt lr af n Kat t .llU'CUUU , x lliCiiii a, mvc wiiivw nniivuo a uujr gallant and courteous to his mother, saying to everybody plainly that he is fairly in love with her. Next to the love of a husband, nothingso crowns a woman's life with honor as this second love, this devotion of a son to her. And I never yet knew a boy to turn out bad, who began by falling in love with his mother. Any man may fall in love with a fresh faced girl, and the man who is gallant with the girl may cruelly neglect the worn and weary wife. But the noy who is a lover of his mother in her middle age is a true knight, who will love nis wife as much in the sere-leaved autumn is he did in the daisy spring-time." S@-The cultivation of those faculties in which we are deficient is a duty which most )f us wish to perform, but we rarely suspect now much of this may be done by the simnle presence of suitable surroundings. For xample, an unsocial or unsympathetic man may struggle as long as he will with his lefect without success while he shuts himself ip from society. He nnust be with and unong his fellow-men if he is ever to share heir joys and sorrows. He certainly can lever love those whom he will not know, lor have kindly sentiments to those he lever meets. B6T It is not always, and perhaps not.; the hat the gravest men and womiv is true trongest or the most earnevblity, whose here is a mirth born .ntent, but there is hallowness is soon rreedom of heart and ilso a joyousnesgspeak a fullness of life and nanner whjflaracter, and tell of abundant i depth,, for future needs. eso'* ' fer A devout thought, a pious desire, a oly purpose, is better thau a great estate r an earthly kingdom. In eternity it will mount to more to have given a cup of cold ater, with right motives, to an humble jrvant of God, than to have been flattered y a whole generation.