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lewis m. grist, proprietor, j !^n fittoptnbtnf Jfsmxlj ftofosp.'cr: cfor % |]i'0uiotion of f|t Initial, SSotal, !|gri?Ifnritf anii Coinmtrrial $nftrtsfs of % jlonlji. j terms--$2.50 a year, in advance. VOL. 30. YOEKYILLE, S C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1884. NO. 35. JMectd ftorttg. I AT THE GARDEN GATE. I "Come and unbar the garden gate, f My hands are full of gathered flowers," . Sang blithesome Kate, as the painted sky Was fading out 'mid evening hours ; ? A welcome song to my listening ear, J From prattling, pretty, winsome Kate; J So I hurried o'er the well-worn path t That wound along by the garden gate. e A cloud of fragrant apple blooms 1 Was hung so closely ovorhead a That even sly, eavesdVopping birds e Could not make out a word we said, ( Nor take a note of what was done j Bv bashful swain and blushing Kate, _ And both have kept the secret well-'- * Those happenings at the garden gate. ' Bright roses bloomed oa Katie's cheeks, 8 While fading sunlight bathed her hair; * A merry twinkle filled her eyes; , Her lips?well, kisses nestled there. I drew the bar and cleared the way. I That she might pass, my bonnie Kate; r But toll was claimed; she paid; and I j Returned it all at the garden gate. g * 1 nnrair thflll t IjUO^ years iiuv v ivucu o?uw vMV?.y I And we have lived and loved together, j Sometimes in sun, sometimes in shade, ^ Unmindful of the wind or weather. * Each year, when comes the apple blooms, At eve I go with my darling Kate, ? And on each anniversary day Take toll anew at the garden gate. r ifec Jfofg j " how he found her. \ "Well," began Bascom, as he drained his ^ cup of coffee, "here's how it was. About r three years ago I was connected with Gaffney's Private Detective Bureau in New a York?that was before I came west; and t about two years ago I left it; but, as I said> * just before I left it accident threw me in the * way of Sir Arnold Chudleigh, and, if you'll j listen, I'll tell you all about it. s "It was in the early part of September, I i remember, two years ag<3,1 was sitting back f in my easy chair, looking over the papers, e with my coat off?it was a mighty hot day, t too?when a gentleman entered, and, bow- t ing politely, asked if this was Gaffney's t Private Detective office, and if so, whether s he could speak with one of the principals. * I could see by his dress, manner and bear- 4 ing that he was an Englishman and a gen- t tleman?not one of these loud, blustering, e 'haw-haw' tourists, whose ridiculous as- t sumption of style and unpardonable igno- t ranee of the bwiseamces of life, stamp tnem c as snobs wherever they go?but a gentleman; and, accordingly, I requested him to F be seated, and told him I was ready to ac- t commodate him, on the part of the bureau, a in anything that came within our line of e business. f '' <lr 9~1 l- ~ - ? si InnrvvTAW 4 V* /"? Q "*"1 wisn,' ne utiguu, w uiowvu m? whereabouts, the residence in fact, of a cer- t tain lady.' * " 'Certainly,' said I, 'that is quite within a our sphere. Please give us all particulars ? that you think may be serviceable to us in a prosecuting our search.' a " 'Unfortunately,' returned the gentle- > man, with some hesitation, 'I can give you c none.' 1 "'No clue?' said I. 'Ah! that is bad. 1 But you must know something about the f party in question?description, appearance, dress?or you would not nave come here in a the first place.' . " 'The matter requires explanation,' re- ' turned my visitor, 'and I shall put it all un- f reservedly before you. While passing along 1 Broadway, less than half an hour ago, a ' lady stepped out of a fashionable millinery i shop, and crossed the pavement directly in \ front of me. The sight of this lady made so strong an impression on me that I was actu- ? ally incapable for the moment, of speech or e motion. A second later, and before J. had c recovered my self-possession, she entered a 1 carriage, which evidently had been waiting, I the door was closed by the footman, and the c horse drove swiftly off. The cause of my r sudden helplessness was, that I recognized in the iady I had just seen, a dear ana valu- t ed friend, whom -I supposed dead. The g shock of seeing her alive and well, so un- i: manned me that I could make no effort to d arrest her attention, till it was too late, t She, on her part, passed without noticing t ipe, as was very natural, seeing that her at- 1 mention was otherwise engaged. Now, what r I want you to do, is to find where that lady c lives; what are her circumstances; and, in s short, all particulars which you can learn re- t garding her. Here,'he continued, drawing p a locket from his bosom, 'isa medallion por- t trait of the lady. I will leave it in your i charge for your guidance. Pray be careful of it, as it is the only portrait I possess. I e should add that expense is immaterial, v Use what means, and take what measures t you think best, and draw on me at any time s for all necessary funds, through Seligman's y bank.' fi "'But my dear sir,' I objected,'you give t us nothing to go upon. You have seen and p recognized a certain lady?well and good, a You give us a medallion likeness of her \ face?good. She rides in a carriage, there- c fore she is presumably well off?good. But, my dear sir, New York is a vast city, with *> thousands of wealthy ladies who ride in t carriages. It Is like looking for a needle in t a bundle of hay. Of course you inquired in t the millinery store whether they knew her v or not ?' f "'They had never seen her before,' he (] returned. ii " 'She might be a stranger on a visit to a the city,' I remarked, 'or using a friend's t carriage. You have nothing to give us but s the portrait?' p " 'Unfortunately, nothing,' responded the gentleman, sadly. 'Use every effort in your q power, and continue the search for a month, q or longer, if need De, until you are satisneu v that you have left no stone unturned. Here s is my card. When you are in need of mon- r ey call upon Seligman,' and saying good-bye t he passed out. 0 "The card read : 'Sir Arnold Chudleigh, r the Windsor.' And now, you see, I have I accounted for the acquaintance." b "Well," said I, "this is certainly interest- s ing in connection with an old friend. How b did it turn out ? Did you find the lady ?" <j "That's just what I am going to tell you n about," replied Bascom. "Wait and you'll i see." h "It was a pretty hard matter, you see, to f: decide just what course to take, so we set our s heads together, Gaffney and Whipple and I, c marked out a plau of action. The first o thing we did was to get duplicates and en- n large photos made of the medallion portrait, e Then, as soon as we found that Sir Arnold S was good for any amount at Seligman's, we t increased our force and stationed our men. n We had, I think, nine men constantly on c watch, with more to relieve them, and sev- t eral for evenings and Sundays. We had a s man at each ferry, from morning till night; v two men at the park ; a man at each of the t theatres ; men at all the up-town churches I on Sundays, and at all the fashionable stores I during the week. If ever a stroke of busi- r ness was done in the private detective line J this was it. Well, we kept pegging along d systematically, knowing well that if the i thing could be done at all, that was the only v way to do it. A week passed without re- I suit. Several ladies in carriages had been n followed up on suspicion, but a comparison t with the photos at once demonstrated that p they were not what was wanted. Mean- n time, expenses were running on at the rate o of something like $201 a day, but Sir Arnold u didn't care about tha", though he called at I the office, regularly, 1o ascertain what had n been done, "i used to go round the different h posts and see that the boys were all on deck, o and exercised a general supervision over the e whole business. e "It was, I think, about the end of the sec- fi ond week that the lead was struck. I had t< occasion to be down at the Fulton ferry dur- I ing the afternoon to see that my man was all t< right, when, just as the boat was about to e start, a carriage drove on board. Thecoach- <1 nan and footman on the box were in livery, ind there was one person inside?a lady. Sver on the alert for the business in hand, is I had not had a chance to get a good look it the occupant of the carriage, I followed it >n board the boat. The lady remained vithin, but I stationed myself in such a position at the exit on the Brooklyn side, that . must certainly get a good glance at her. fudge of ray surprise when I found that he face of the lady in the carriage tailed sxactly with the photograph I carried, hough I did not need to refer to that, is use had made me thoroughly acquaintid with its every line and feature. On )n stepping out of the boat, a few paces belind the carriage, I immediately chartered i hack, slipping a five-dollar bill to the driver and telling him to follow the carriage ip and I would double the amount. I am, is you know, neither a Monte Christo nor a ool, but I knew that that was the best way o sharpen the fellow's wits, and now it was leek or nothing, as this chance, once letslip, night never occur again. The Jehu whip>ed up in high style. We bowled merrily ilong down the street and, after a drive of en minutes, stopped at a corner. " 'There you are, sir." said the hackman, >ointing up the street with his whip. "I jumped out on the sidewalk, and saw, ome fifty yards ahead, that the carriage lad also stopped before a rather elegant nansion lying back from the street and the ootman was now letting down the steps for he lady. Telling the hackman to a follow, ! walked briskly towards them, passing the louse in time to see the lady ascend the teps and the coachman drive down a lawn it the side. 'Clearly' thought I, 'this is vhere she stays. The coachman has gone o put up his horses. She has been to New fork visiting or shopping. Now to busiiess.' "Dismissing the hackman, I then set ibout making inquiries in ordinary detocive fashion, which I need not explain to o you. In this, however, I had more rouble than I anticipated. Not but that (verybody I spoke to was perfectly wiling to impart all the information he or he possessed. The trouble was that this nformation was so meager. The family, I bund out, consisted of only two ladies?one (lderly, the other young. They had only aken the house a few weeks previously, (ringing with them but two servants, all he rest having been engaged since. There ! oomorl to hp pvpn a. rlonht mmrdine" their lame, some calling it 'Lawton' and others Lanton,' owing, I suppose, to an uncertainy about the central letter, a neighboring ;reen-grocer using the one autograph on lis books and a butcher the other. Even he pronunciation of the name by residents if the neighborhood and those of the servants whom I had an opportunity to apiroach, failed to clear up this vexed quesion, being nearer to the word 'Latin' than ,nything else, thus dividing the honors qually between the rival spellings. There vas, however, no doubt about one thing, nd that was their wealth. Money, it was iniversally admitted, flowed with a lavish land. Feeling somewhat fagged and not i little elated over the result of my day's ifforts, I caught the nearest car to the ferry, xriving in New York by o o'clock; and ifter 'fixing up' a little, as you may fancy vas necessary after the toil and heat of the lay, sent up my card to Sir Arnold Chudeigh at the Windsor. Sir Arnold must lave seen something in my eye as I entered, or he rose and shook my hand eagerly. "You have found her ?" he queried, with l tremble in his accent. " lA t last^-yes,' I answered, methodically. Followed her carriage up from the Fulton erry. Fine residence. Live with elderly ady. Name supposed to be 'Lawton' or Lanton'-neighborhood don't know which? laven't been there long enough; reputed vealthy.' " 'Thanks, my dear fellow?thanks,' said >ir Arnold, effusively, grasping my hand arnestly, 'not a word more! Let me get iver my agitation. You have dined? No? ?hen suppose we have a little dinner up lere. We can then talk the matter over almly and coolly, and you can refresh your ' nemory upon minor points." < "I am always happy to dine with a gen- 1 leman, more especially when the dinner is 1 food, and there is interest in the subject- 1 natter under discussion. During dinner I ! letailed to Sir Arnold, much more fully han there was any necessity to < to you, j he events of the day, with all the various < ittle incidents that, trifling as they were, s night serve to give him even a slight con- I eption of her, who, I had been all along i ure, held his heart in fee. Once, when I < old him that I read on an envelope in a i lostman's hand, as he was entering the gate, i he words 'Miss E. Lanton,' he struck his fist 1 mpulsively on the table, exclaiming: i " 'There is no doubt about it. That is her 1 lame. It is she. And now, my friend,' he i imnt nn offpr tho cprvflnt. hnrl rpmnvpd the 1 hings and produced the decanters, 'after the i ervice you have done me, and the interest 'ou have taken in it, it is only right, and I eel it will do me good, to tell you that porion of my early history which bears upon >resent events?that i3 to say, if you are greeable to hear it, for I certainly have no vish to inflict my sad experiences upon ithers.'" "Of course," said Bascom, addressing me, lI couldn't hurt the poor fellow's feelings by elling hirn that the interest I had taken in he matter was merely a pecuniary one, for, hough you mayn't believe it, whether it ras that I had got worked up to that proessional pitch of enthusiasm where the ioctor is identified with the patient, or what t was, no matter, I felt a sympathy for him nd wanted to see him safely out of his trouble. That my curiosity was piqued, I don't ay. Hand me another of those cigars, >lease. They're good. Where d'ye get'em? " 'I needn't tell you,' began Sir Arnold Jhudleigh, pushing the decanters my way, that I am in what is commonly considered ery good circumstances. Though but a imple baronet, and consequently not a tiember of the peerage, my fortune exceeds hat of many dukes and most earls; and ur family were lords of the manor centuies before a Norman set foot in England, jike most who never intrigued in politics, ut minded their own business, our lands tayed with us. Had we swallowed the aits held out to us in the shape of titles uring the last thousand years or more, we night have had more glory and less land, lut this is nothing to the point. No matter iow circumspect one may be in" public afairs, it is not always possible to be equally o in private. Unfortunately, this was the ase with my father. Adjoining our estate n either side, separated by scarcely eight niles, lived on the one side one of the proudst Norman earls, and on the other a simple laxon landholder like ourselves. One of he earl's daughters, pround and clever but iot beautiful, in vulgar parlance 'set her nn' ?t m\r fnthpr hut. tn nn nurnnse. He S reated her advances coldly; and, in a fit of i pite, she married?almost against his will? c worthy Uthred Langton, our neighbor on f he other side. My father also married. 1 Sdith Langton, our neighbor's daughter and 5 , grew up almost side by side. As a natual consequence, shall I call it? we loved, v Lnd here was where the spite of the earl's a aughter, Uthred Langton's wife,developed i tself. It was whispered among the old t romen on the country side that Lady Malise i jangton had sworn, in some dark and dread oanner, to be avenged on our family, for \ he slight?real or fancied?that had been t ut upon her. Idle as were these old women's tales which sensible peonle, of course, c nly laughed at, they assumed a dread and t nanswerable significance from the result, i Sdith Langton was but two years my juior. By the time she was 19 and I 21, we i ad plighted our troth, and the consent of g ur respective parents had been obtained, \ ven Lady Malise giving a seeming acqui- a scence. It was agreed, however, for some & amily reasons, into which it is needless 1 o enter, to put oft' the marriage for a year. I lefore the year was out, old Squire Lang- \ on died. This, of course, occasioned anoth- 1 r delay. Two months after the Squire's rJ oath an incident occurred which stirred 1 ;he neighborhood to its inmost core?no e.ss an event than the sudden disappearance )f Lady Malise and Edith Langton. I had seen them only the day before; and when I ode over to pay my usual call I was told ;hat they had left suddenly for London shortly after my departure from the house. Though I thought the matter, strange, I attributed it to some sudden freak on the lart of Lady Malise, and as Edith had left 10 letter or message for me, to explain the novement, I naturally thought that a few lays, at the most, would clear everything ip satisfactorily. Two days passed?three? bur, and no news having reached me, I legan to become alarmed. That afternoon [ took the express to London, and called mmediately at the Langton's town house n Portmau Square, expecting, of course, to ind them there. I was disappointed. They lad, it seems, stayed there one night, and eft on the following morning, the servant ;hought for the Continent. Had they left 1-j.x?o ? TVT,. ni,.,/41o;rt.V, lily I tiller ' X 'CO) UIJU) 1U1 CV JLTXX . VllUUIWftlJi Was I Mr. Chudleigh? Certainly. (My ather, Mr. Bascom, was then alive.) I :ore open the letter, and was almost parilyzed by what I saw. The words are yet ;ngraven on iny memory, never to be efaced. They were these: "'Bask,Heartless Deceiver! " 'Oh cruel, cruel! ' You, to whom I had given nv heart and pledged my troth. But I saw you with her, yes, I saw you embracing?oh! viper. [ bless my mother tliat she opened my eyes to rour abominable baseness before it was too late. ?ou have made our home unberablo to us both. Henceforth we are aliens. k. l.' " 'You can conceive my feelings, I shall lot describe them to you. By what fatal mistake could the being that I loved best on iarth have thus been turned against me? [ knew not, but there was the damning evilence, and the certainty that she was gone. 3one! but where? Love quickened my ntellect. I employed detectives, as I am low employing you. I went to their famiy bankers asked them if they knew of their whereabouts. I was ushered into the presence of the head of the firm, who looked at me keenly through his spectacles as I asked lim the question. "Yes, Mr. Chudleigh," le replied, "I do. But the orders of my ilients are imperative that their present place of residence shall be revealed to no one, least of all to j/om," and with a grave, stiff low he returned to his papers. I experimced no better fortune with the detectives [ employed. I learned, indeed that they lad gone to Paris, accompanied by only one maid, but had almost immediately left. I lad the spas and capitals of Europe put inder surveillance at thousands of pounds ivnenfifi. but all to no numose. If 1 could I frnd their whereabouts, said I, I could very jasily make my peace with Edith. After six months passed in fruitless endeavor. I became discouraged. The mutterings of the )ld crones of the country side took on a lew importance, from the startling character of the coincidence, until, in my brooding, I almost began to believe that the whole was a diabolical plot of Lady Malise co rob me of my affianced bride?of all, in "act, that made life worth living. I became misanthropic and despondent, shunning iompanionshipand neglecting duties. Thus it went on for three years, till last year my Tather died, leaving me heir to ?80,000 a year and an untarnished name. The year chat I have spent in travel since his death bas somewhat swept the cobwebs away, 10 doubt; but, Bascom, I havent felt so jubilant for years as I do to-night, for there is 10 doubt in my mind that that is my Edith! rhe two ladies?one elderly, the other young?their retired habits, their wealth, their name?what so easy as to mistake 'Langton" for "Lanton," above all the likeness of the lady to the photo?everyching convinces me that the mission of my life is accomplished, and to-morrow I shall be in the arms of my Edith !' "Here Sir Arnold raised his fair-haired md herculean proportions to an erect posture, and after pledging him in another glass if wine, and promising to meet him next morning early to arrange the campaign, I took my departure." "Wall " cairl T linrhfinrr onnthor rofrnlin. "v,,l ?"'u 'I had no idea you nad so intimate an acquaintance with our friend. Why, you are tne man to introduce me, not I you, for I haven't seen Chudleigh since leaving Oxford. Well, go ahead with your yarn. Let's see how the thing came out." "Next morning I looked up Sir Arnold, iccording to appointment, and it was deciied that diplomacy must be employed in ipproaching the ladies in Brooklyn, as if ihey were really the Langtons (and we had 10 doubt that such was the case), it was juite probable that Lady Malise would igain use artifice in defeating any plans we night make. Arrived at the place we were fortunate enough to secure apartments over i tradesman's shop, on the opposite side of ;he street, whence we could reconnoiter the novements of the enemy to the best ad vanage. The day passed without anyone issuing from the mansion, except servants. Sir Arnold became restless, and, in spite of ny eflprts to make him observe caution, he nade up his mind to send in his card on the following day, and trust to luck for the result. This plan was also deranged, for between 9 and 10, while we were taking breakfast, the sound of wheels apprised us that i carriage was being driven round to the jate opposite. Clearly there was no time :o be lost, so we instantly jumped up ind made for the street, with the intention )f following them up in a hack, as I had lone in the first instance. A stable a couple )f blocks off furnished the necessary means, md we had the satisfaction of seeing the )ther carriage, this time containing both adies, making in the direction of the ferry. Forming a hasty council of war, we agreed ;hat the best plan was to follow them to Sew York in our own conveyance, so that ,vhen they entered some store or other, as he probability was they were going on i shopping expedition, Sir Arnold could follow them in, assure himself of their iden;ity, and depend upon circumstances for uture action. Fortune, however, dictated >therwise, for as their carriage was turning ip a thoroughfare from the ferry, crowded .vith vehicles, the coachman, in endeavorng to steer between a street car and a brewer's wagon, owing to a sudden lurch of the atter, locked his off fore-wheel with one of he wagon's, and in an instant there was as leat a piece of confusion sis it lias ever oeen ny luck to witness. The spirited carriage lorses became unmanageble, and amidst he oaths of coachman, street car driver and lrayman, and the screams of the ladies, we umped out of our hack, rushed up and, semiring the heads of the carriage horses, maniged, after a time to extricate the carriage rom the melee, though the wheel was too >adly loosened to permitof much moredrivng without interviewing a wheelwright, rhe younger lady had fainted and Sir Arnold ind myself, lifting her from the carriage, >ore her through the crowd to the drug itore?the thing happened at a corner?and mmediately commenced the work of resusitating, assisted by the elder lady, whose inxiety was painful to witness. Please iush that seltzer bottle this way. Thank :ou. Talking makes me dry." "Confound you and your seltzer. What ibout the ladies? What about Sir Arnold ind Lady Malise? What about the affectng meeting when the long lost Edith openid her eyes?" I cried, impatient at being nterrupted at this stage of the story. "Wasn't them at all," returned Baseom vith the most irritating1 imnerturbabili y, and lighting another cigar. * "Oh, I see," in the iciest tones I could ommand. "You have been treating me o one of your usual denouements?nothing n them." "On the contrary, there was everything n this one. Of course, there was the usual gratitude?'we saw them home. The marrelouscoincidence of the similarity of names .nd appearance added interest to the case. >ir Arnold became a constant visitor at the louse, was consoled for the absent Edith ^angton by the present Elenor Lawton, vho, in the course ofthree months, changed ler name to that of Lady Chudleigh. Dhere?wasn't that a good ending and the >est way it could turn out, after all?" fjtotes flf pvmp ?*awl. EMBARKING FOR AMERICA. . THE DIFFICULTIES OF LEAVING PORT, j English BoggaKe Smashers?Peddling <?n Sunday?Description of a Fine Steam VesselJohn Hull's Fondness for Betting-Tlic Banks of Newfoundland?Sunrise on the Ocean?Arriving at New York?The Trouble of Landing-Quarantine and Custom House Officials. Oil the morning of the 26th of July, I left the Royal Hotel, in Liverpool, and tramped 4-1-*m/mi/xL 41ia t?n!n r\Attm ^AfVinrlonl'c Or* fliD blllUUgll lUCKVUi uw?n ivuivuuvfto, vyu v*iv previous day I had stored my baggage away in what is known as a "left over baggage office." These "left over baggage offices" are a great convenience to the traveler, and they are not expensive. You enter the office, get a receipt for your baggage, and when you call for XQur baggage the receipt is presented and toe baggage delivered; but it will not be delivered without the receipt. The usual charge is about two cents per day for each piece of baggage. A more unpleasant morning than the 26th of July, at Liverpool, I never witnessed. It was raining, not in torrents, but a genuine first-class English rain was falling. It never rains in the British Isles as it does in the southern section of the United States ; but the whole atmosphere becomes perfectly loaded with moisture, so that you get wet under an umbrella and even in a house. Thp rain is a k-infl nf heavv toe. which iroes everywhere. Such a rain was falling on the morning of the 26th of July. On reaching the docks, I learned that the City of Rome, the vessel on which I was to embark, was lying some distance down the river Mersey?six miles some one reported?and that the passengers and their baggage would be conveyed to it on a tender, that is, on a small steamboat. About 9 o'clock a tender steamed up and the passengers all rushed on board, and the boatmen began to transfer the baggage from the wharf to the boat. It was still raining. Everybody was either wet or clammy. It was soon discovered that there was not standing room on the tender for the passengers. Everybody looked as if they felt anxious. Trunks and carpet-sacks were thrown by the boatmen as if the object was to break them all into fragments. A friend was on board whose trunks I felt it my duty to look after, and moreover I felt some interest in one of the trunks because I had deposited in it an article of merchandise purchased for a member of my family. These trunks of my friend I saw hurled about with such violence that I concluded they would soon be broken into shivers and their contents exposed to the drenching rain, and thus forever ruined. Hoping to be able to save the trunks from destruction, I crossed over from the deck of the tender to the baggage room. No sooner had I set my feet on the threshold of the room, than I was ordered back by a boat official. He was a large man well dressed and very good looking. I told him pleasantly, I had come to look after the baggage of a friend. In atone which indicated kingly authority, he remarked that the baggage would all be attended to if it were placed on the wharf. I reolieS. "The man who does not attend to his own'business is a fool, and it will have to rain a great deal harder than it is raining now if I leave this place before I see those two trunks rescued from destruction." I was in a bad humor. Some one remarked that I turned pale and closed my umbrella. The boat official cooled down at once, spoke pleasantly, and I saved the trunks intact. This was the beginning of trouble, but not the end of it. The rain continued, and the officers of the boat discovered that the passengers and baggage could not all be taken to the City of Rome on one tender. Accordingly, another tender was ordered, and all the passenges directed to leave the first tender and get on the second. I and a few other individuals determined to remain with our baggage. After a confusion of perhaps two hours' duration all the passengers and their baggage were placed on board the City of Rome. It was now after 12 o'clock and still raining. At five minutes past 1 o'clock, London time, the bell rang and the whistle blew, and away the City of Rome went. It (I never could see any sense in calling a ship she or the sun he) had not gone far, until it come to a dead stand-still and so remained until the middle of the afternoon. Again the steam was turned on, the screw began to turn, and away the City of Rome dashed at the rate of about sixteen knots an hour. At about 8 o'clock on Sabbath morning Queenstown, two hundred and twenty miles from Liverpool, was reached. From Queenstown a boat came out bringing on it a number of passengers and their baggage. This consumed perhaps an hour-and-a-half. It was still raining and had been raining since we left Liverpool. 1TT1_ ?1 .'I! i l - 1 vv line waxuiig iorcne uoai, wiiicji uiuugiu. the passengers from Queenstown, the City of Rome was boarded by a number of young girls who had walking sticks, and a number of trinkets of various kinds made out of Irish oak. These were offered for sale to the passengers. It was Sabbath morning, remember, but notwithstanding this fact, the girls effected quite a number of sales. I am sorry to say that a preacher, a man of some position in the church, bought some things. This is a good proof of the fact that the gospel of Jesus Christ is not of man, or it would long since have perished from the , earth. At 10 o'clock on Sabbath morning and it ; still raining, the City of Rome, with more 1 than six hundred passengers on board, set 1 out from Queenstown for New York. As a matter of curiosity, I may here state ; that the distance from Liverpool to Queenstown is220 miles ; from Queenstown to San- j dy Hook, 2,880; and from Sandy Hook to I New York, 15 miles. The whole distance from Liverpool to New York is 3,115 miles. 1 A ship going from New York to Liverpool, * is reported as landed when it reaches | Queenstown, and in coming from Liverpool , to New York, the time it leaves Queens- i town is regarded as the time of its setting out; and the time that it reaches Sandy Hook is regarded as the time of its landing. For a considerable part of the Sabbath day, the coast of Ireland was in view. Gradually it faded away, and all was a wild waste of waters on all sides. During the ] Sabbath and Monday, the weather alter- ( nated between a genuine Irish rain, and a . first class Atlanticlfog. Tuesday morning the sea became rough. A strong south-west wind was blowing, and great billows, ten or fifteen feet high were dashing against the side of the ship. The south side of the ship was wet all over. The water was running in a great stream in the lower deck, the part occupied by the steerage passengers. When a large wave would roll in front of the ship, it would dip its bow down like a duck into the water, so that some times fully forty feet of the fore part of the ship was wholly under water. When the bow was under water, of course as much of the stern was entirely c out of water. This didapper motion was i begun sometime during Monday night, a and contiuned until sometime during Tues- I day night. Its effects were soon visible, r The dining room was poorly attended, and c there was a much greater demand for beef j tea and crackers than for mutton chops and a potatoes. The vomiting period arrived 1 sometime during Monday, and was contin- t ued through Tuesday. Fortunately, 1 es- fJ caned. e The City of Rome is one of the largest d vessels on the Atlantic. In fact, it is the c largest passenger boat except, perhaps, one, s on the sea. It would not he extravagant to 11 designate the City of Rome as a floating palace. It was built at Barrow, in Furness, by the Barrow shipbuilding company. The entire length of the City of Rome is six hundred and twenty-five feet. The available length, five hundred and sixty feet. The breadth of beam is fifty-three feet, and the depths of the holds thirty-seven feet. The registered capacity of the vessel is eight thousand four hundred and fifteen tons. The engines are capable of being worked up to fifteen thousand horse power. The steam necessary to drive this huge fabric is generated by sixty-three fires, which consume, daily, two hundred and forty tons of coal. The accommodations for passengers on this floating palace, are equal to those possessed by any first-class city hotel. There are state-rooms sufficient to accommodate four hundred and eighty cabin, or first-class passengers, and accommodations for a much greater number of intermediate and steerage passengers. The dining room is seventy-two feet long and fifty two feet wide. ? ? i i 1 xne drawing room isono nuuuruu icct the floor of which is covered with a rich carpet, and the sides furnished with lounges, and at one end is a grand piano. The ladies, boudoir, on the main deck, is furnished in the most exquisite taste. At night the vessel is lighted by electricity and fitted up with electric call bells. The number ol electric lamps hanging from the ceiling is thirty-two. In addition to the above, the vessel is provided with hot, cold and salt water baths, two smoking rooms, a barber shop, and every other convenience. There is also a bar-room, in which are kept liquors of all kinds; but if there was any drinking to excess on board, I did not see its effects. The passengers were, so far as I discovered, all sober. There was much gambling in the way of betting on the distance the vessel would run during the day. Here I may remark, that gambling is less common among the people of the Southern States, perhaps it is less common in all the United States, than it is among some classes of the English. Many of the rich men oi England do nothing except gamble, and the practice is not uncommon among all classes. The English are notorious for their horseracing; but they are also notorious for betting on almost any and everything. They get up pools on things that no other people would think of. As an example, I may state that sometimes a pool is got up with regard to the length of a preacher's sermon on Sabbath. In this way considerable sums of money are lost and won on the Sabbath. When the City of Rome reached the banks of Newfoundland, the air became intensely A V* 11 era ititoc rl 1 c/?r?\70r?*rl nnrfn of the vessel, only a few miles distant. It rose above the water some fifty feet. An iceberg is certainly a beautiful thing, even if it is dangerous. During all my life, I have had a desire to see the sun rise and set on the ocean. This desire was at last gratified. It is a grand sight, but indescribable. On Sabbath morning, August 3rd, I rose at about daybreak and looking out I saw land. It was only a barren island, but I confess I was glad. I was glad because I was soon to join friends, and I was glad thai I saw the soil of my native land. The whole of the Sabbath from early in the morning until two in the afternoon, was spent it waiting for the tide. The City of Romt cannot cross the bar at New York excepl when the tide is up. It was a wretchedly bad spent Sabbath. Everybody seemed tc be in a half crazy state. All the passengers were moving about through the various apartments of the vessel, as if looking foi something; but no one knew what thai something was. At intervals during the day, a dense fog hung over us. About : o'clock in the afternoon, the fires in the engine room of the City of Rome were replenished with coal, and all were confident thai the night would be spent on land. But a series of hindrances awaited us. The fog continued, and our progress was necessarily slow. In addition to this, the health officers and custom house officers sent out from New York, stopped us. The health officers required us to sign a paper that we werenol then sick with cholera, and that we had nol been in Toulon during the last seven days, The custom house officers required us tc make out a correct list of our baggage, stating what was subject and what notsubjeel to duty. This consumed a long time, and aroused the indignation of every passengei 1 1 V.i. i.u?i uu uuitru. i>ut bimt nuy uncr wiw uinpusct to evade the law, but every one thoughl that the examination should have been attended to while the ship was lying at anchor outside of the bar. It was now late in the afternoon. \V? were in sight of New York. In fact, we were within a few hundred yards of the pier. Our baggage had all been taken oul of the staterooms, and baggage room, and piled up in endless confusion on the steerage deck. The Captain proposed to take the Cabin passengers ashore on a tender, Every one accepted the offer, but when the tender arrived it was learned, to the mortification of all that no one would be allowed to take any baggage off the ship excepl what was actually necessary in order tc spend the night comfortably. The resulf was, that no one except the passengers whose homes are in New York or Brooklyn landed. The baggage was all brought in and piled up in the drawing room. Every body went to bed and slept soundly until daylight. Sometime about 8 o'clock on Monday morning, the City of Home entered the slip, and the baggage belonging to the cabin passengers was soon undergoing an examination by the custom house officers. No one had any duties to pay except the preachers, and it was said the only reason they had any thing to pay, was that they told the truth. It seems hard that men have to pay for being truthful. Robert Latham. A First Lesson in Handling a Gun. The first thing to be learned is to stand properly. Plant both your feet naturally and firmly on the ground, so that the joints of your legs are neither stiff nor bent; then lean the upper part of your body slightly forward. Grip the gun-stock just behind the guard with the right hand, the forefinger lightly touching the foremost trigger, that is the trigger of the right-hand barrel. The stock of the gun, a few inches in front of the guard, must rest easily in the hollow of the left hand. Hold the muzzle of the ?un up and slanting away from you, so that the lower end of the butt is just lower than pour right elbow. Now, if both hammers riave been cocked, and you gently and swiftly draw the butt of the gun up toand against the hollow of the right shoulder, you will find yourself in good position for taking lim, which is best done by keeping both iyes wide open, and looking straight over :he rib between the barrels with the right jye. You will soon discover the trick of doing his, by fixing your aim with both eyes ipen, and then holding it perfectly steady, dosing the left eye; if the line of sight now .1 1 ^4- /.ammaaG... :uauges, yuu jiu.vc uuk nigiucu wnciuj , f it remains fixed, the aim has been taken ,vith the right eye. Be careful, after firing never to set your rundown with a hammer up. That is the :ause of many depJorable accidents. To ivoid accident you must be constantly on he alert and cautious, not overlooking even he slightest precaution.?St. Nicholas. Labor in Mexico.?Laborers in Mexi;o fare hard. Thirty cents a day is the comnon rate of wages, and for that the natives ire content to perform the heaviest labor, ^arm work, mining, factory labor and donestics service are all alike paid low. The ustom of making loans to laborers to be repaid by work is common, and tends materitlly to prevent their social advancement, fhe large factories are thus enabled to reain their hands as long as they desire, 'he latter are not allowed to leave their mployment until they have paid their lebts, and as that is generally impossible iut of wages which are barely enough for upport, the debtor continues a virtual slave o hislife'send. |p5cell;iucsni5 gUadhnj. IN ARCTIC SEAS. A It KMIXIS CENCE OF DR. JOHN HAIL'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION. "Yes, I have read some of the news about the finding of the Greely party," said an old salt, whom a Free Press reporter found in port, and knew he had been in Arctic regions in his earlier days. lie had all the outward marks of "a life on the ocean wave and a home on the roll* "? ? ? * i-i t x 1 i 1 ing cieep." weamer-ueaien siuu uruwueu skin, India ink tattoes, and several scars, 1 the result of blows from capstan bars, boat ' oars and harpoon hooks. "No, I never went on an exploring expedition, but came very near doing it once. I am told that Dr. Hall makes mention in one of his books of his meeting with C'apt. Parker, of the old Traelove, in Coddling Bay, in the fall of'61. I was one of the two men he mentions as volunteering to join his party and winter with him in Davis Straits. Hall had lost two of his crew and one of his small boats and he wanted to make up his deficiency from the whaling fleet when they were ready to leave for home. I was a young fellow then, and me and my chum i were ready to face any climate and any ' hardship, but C'apt. Parker said he felt responsible for our safe return to our friends ' in England, and he wouldn't let us go with Hall. But we let him have one of the Truei love's small boats. That was the nearest I ' ever come to being an Arctic explorer." "But you have seen a good deal of life in the Arctic regions, nevertheless?" said the ! reporter, by way of drawing him out on a subject which the finding of tne Greely party has made interesting. "Where is Coddling t Bay?" "I don't suppose you'll find it on the maps. We whalers had names of our own for > Artie ports and didn't bother our heads much about what the explorers called 'em. We could talk amongourselves about the east and west shore all tne way up to parallel 71 just as familiar as we could about the English Channel and the Mersey, but after you get above Lancaster Sound we're off. We left ! that for the scientific chaps to navigate and give all our attention to whale oil. There was more money in it and leas ships and i men lost. Of course we kept a weather eye i open for any relics of the Franklin crew that might be drifting about in hope of the i reward offered, but we didn't go out of our ' way to hunt for 'em." i "Can you give me a general idea of what ; the surface of the country is like up there ?" i asked the reporter. "The general idea, I i think, we have is of a surface entirely and always covered with ice." ? "Well, that is pretty near it. About the i only bare spots are the perpendicular faces 1 of the rocky shores, with here and there a bit of stunted vegetation during the Arctic summer. The west shore of Davis Straits is very mountainous, only broken here and there by a "fewer" (fiord) as we call Arctic rivers. I don't know as anybody has ever been on those mountain tops to see what they bear, but I don't they're up to much. Wouldn't care to own a farm there, anyway. "Do you knowhow icebergs are formed ?" he asked, by way of turning the subject to something he had more definite knowledge - about. "You know an iceberg is made of ? fresh water while the water tney float in is i salt. Some people think that the saltiness is i token out by the freezing. That's a misx_1__ Ti 1,. i.L. ! 1 i: A laae. xl is uiu spring vvmur mixing uunu ; the mountain sides that makes icebergs. It ! runs from the springs in the mountains and ! freezes as it falls until its accumulated . weight breaks it off and it goes drifting . down the channel, if it falls in plenty of ; water. I have seen icebergs grounded in i, 400 feet. ; "Talk about your Niagara Falls! I have ' seen nothing prettier than some of them mountain cataracts in the Arctics. There's i variety about 'em, too. They are always 5 breaking away and forming in new shapes, t so they never look twice the same. Fine t place for a landscape painter that, but I sup. pose they prefer to draw on their imagina> tion. Them pictures of the finding of the Greely survivors in the illustrated papers t show all they know about it. 1 "No, we never had a vessel ground up in the ice in our voyages ; always had the | good luck to get out of the way. The way t we did it was to make artificial harbors in the shore ice. When we saw a big ice-floe coming, and the wind was crowding it to our side of the channel, it was "hurrah s boys !" I tell ye. We carried long ice saws ! with pulley attachments and trestles tosup! port them overhead. When put in position t for sawing a part of the crew manned the [ pulley ropes while others held the teeth of the saw against the ice. The rope and pulley made the raising of the saw easy, and its own weight carried it down. We would start three saws at the outer edge of the ice and cut three seams, starting a hundred feet apart and verging toward each other. When the two shorter seams met, and a i small triangular piece of ice had been ; shoved out into the current it was easy to i loosen the larger piece and send it adrift. Then we unshipped our rudder and hauled i our vessel into the harbor we had made, just in time, sometimes, to see a cake of ice ten to twenty miles in area go grinding past our little harbor of refuge. The ice we sawed through would be ten feet thick, and the i sawing took us five hours sometimes. "But we got the most excitement out of our fishing. Talk about your fresh water , regattas. If you could take a crowd up there to witness a whaler's crew get away , after a fish it would be something worth seeing," said the old sailor, as his storm-dimmed optics seemed trying to flash youthful fire again in the mental contemplation of a spirited picture he had once been a figure in. "A big thing on ice," suggested the reporter, just to show he was listening. "I have seen a crew all asleep in their berths when the cry of a 'fish' was given and in one minute and a half the boats were Eullingaway from the ship. Their clothes ang in a bag beside their berths and they grab it and dress as they go. The boat that gets the first harpoon in gets an English pound for their harpoon thrower, and when several ships sight the same fish and each ship sends off' several boats you can believe there is some good pulling done. The harpooner in the first boat generally encourages his crew with the promise of a pound of tobacco to each man out of his prize money if they get him to the fish firsfr. "But the best long pulling is done when the first boat gets a harpoon in and the fish has to tow it while the crew rest on their oars and watch the other six boats pull to catch up and get a line on. Then they bend to their oars, and keep it up ten o'r fifteen miles. This generally happened when we struck a fish that had her young with her. At other times_they dive imme diately they are struck. Jiut a young tisn must blow oftener than the mother, and a fish with young skims along the surface, carrying the young one on her back if too youthful to keep up with her. We once had a pull of twenty miles of that sort, and it was the prettiest regatta you ever see. Don't know how much further we would have gone if the young devil had'nt slipped off the mother's flipper, and she turned around to find it. Then the man in the second boat struck her again, square between the eyes. If the harpoon thrower had missed his aim there would have been trouble on that boat. Nobody cares to get in front of a maddened fish, I can tell you, but that one turning back came 011 'em unOYnpotpd like "Did I enjoy that kind of life? Well, I did. If I had my time to come over again that's just where I'd go?on an Arctic expedition. Healthiest climate in the world. Never heard of any of us being sick. They either freeze or starve to death up there. Only those two ways of going to Davy Jones' locker in the Arctics. No yellow fever and cholera as we get in the the tropics. Don't wonder at the Greely survivors being ready to go again. Would do the same thing myself if 1 hadn't got my an chor down in fresh water in the shape of a wife and seven children to look after. There's no money in Arctic expeditions, but it's the independentest kind ot a life."? Detroit Free Press. EFFECT OF* IMAGINATION. The case of Dr. Taft, of Hartford, who was informed by eminent physicians that one of his lungs had been destroyed by disease and that ne could not live six months, but who did not believe it and lived on comfortably till sixty years of age, leads the New York Hour to comment on the freSuent blunders about certain internal malaies and the effect of imagination upon physical health: It cannot be doubted that every year thousands of people are frightened into their graves by unfavorable reports on the condition of their lungs. Each vital organ has disorders and weaknesses peculiarly its own; and the lungs have their full share. Pain in the chest is always attributed, by persons afflicted, to diseased lungs, and the influence of the imagination upon the vital organs is so powerful that the malady may be quickly increased. There are some forms of malarial fever which induce terrible aching in the chest. The victim knowing nothing of pathology, or even of physiology, attributes the cause to either pneumonia or consumption, and begins at once to break down. Consultation with an ordinary country practitioner usually verifies his fears, and unless he dines at a well-spread table and has a good appetite?which seldom accompanies malaria?he either gives up a'hd dies or he hurries away to a health rest for consumptives. Heart disease is another popular humbug which physicians too often support. The heart is the most vital of the physical organs, but, like all the others, it can and does endure a great deal of abuse. It is very easily affected sympathetically, so any temporary disorder of stomach, lungs or liver may make its action irregular or cause pain which seems to be located directly in the heart. Almost every one has many acquaintances, apparently healthy, who have told him in strict confidence that they have heart disease. A well known physician had a son whose heart, tested by every appliance which professional skill could suggest, seemed to be terribly diseased, so the youth was for ten years treated as a delicate invalid. Finally, the father noted that his paroxysms of pain, followed by extreme exhaustion, always came after meals which either were extremely hearty? the patient's appetite being fitful?or after repasts, the viands of which were incongruous or very rich. He immediately changed his treatment, sought the malady in the stomach instead of the heart, found it was indigestion, acted accordingly, insisted upon regular meals with plenty of nutritious nut plain food, and the heart disease disappeared as if by magic. It should be remembered by the afflicted or the frightened that all the vital organs are out of sight, and that the extreme of skill and experience can only imperfectly ascertain their condition. The kidneys are the only exception to this rule for their condition for the time being can be judged to some extent by what comes from them. But even this test may be misleading, and it is the means of a frightful amount of the abuse of the feelings and pockets by quacks and unscrupulous physicians. The excreta of the kidneys is uniform only in persons whose habits of eating, drinking, sleeping, bathing and working are absolutely regular. The natural deduction from all this is that no person should give up to fears regarding the heart lungs or any vital organ until he has first tried the effect of absolutely regular and intelligent physical habits. Plenty of well-cooked food, few or no stimulants, regular rest, frequent bathing, and either steady work or plenty of moderate physical exercise, have in a short time restored to health thousands of persons who have been given up to die of vital disorders. Such treatment costs no more than the ordinary methods of life, and as soon as fairly begun it becomes very pleasant. Beyond doubt it is far preferable to dying of fright. HOME LIFE IN UTAH. The private home routine of a polygamous family is a matter upon which so much curiosity is constantly expressed by my acquaintance that I venture to say here what little I know; but the reader must remember that less than ten per cent, of the voting Mormon population of Utah are polygamists. The polygamist, as a rule, nas accumulated some property and owns a house before he takes a second and successive wives, though sometimes he begins by marrying two or three at once. All of these marriages, however, excent the first, are made secretly by the church, and no record of them is accessible. In the city, at least, it is seldom that the different wives share the same quarters. In the country this is not so uncommon, but the natural unpleasantness follows in most cases. The general method is to have a large house, the main part of which, perhaps, is occupied by the first wife, and wings or additions by the successive candidates for marital honors. These large, straggling, hotel-like houses are common in Salt Lake City, and mark a difference between it and a town of small houses like Cheyenne and most other Western villages. In many cases, however, the husband sets up his wives in separate homes, either side by side, or in different parts of the city. In any case, each has ner own kitchen, garden, etc. I have in mind a wealthy dignitary of the church, whom you might have mistaken for the late Peter Cooper, and who is possessed of seven wives. Each of these women has some farming and garden ground of her own, and all are greatly devoted to rearing bees. With the help of their grown children they each raise a large amount of produce and honey annually. The husband acts as their agent. He hives their swarms of bees, and charges them for it; he renders special aid when called upon, and is paid for it, he sells their crops and honey when it is ready, and credits each wife with her due share. Mostof them live in suits of apartments under the roof of his great house in town, but the first wife has a beautiful farm of her own a little out of the city, to which she and her children have retired, to end their days in peaceful independence. The way in which this old gentleman has arranged his domestic life is reported to be thus: He had certain rooms in his house where he kept his bed, his wardrobe, his books, and saw any visitor who called upon him. Here he was a bachelor, and here he stayed every other day and night. On alternate day and night he was the guest of one or the other of his wives in regular rotation, devoting the one day (in this case fornightly) which was her's diligently to her society. Of course this routine was not invariable, but for the most part it was regularly followed.? Earnest Ingersol in Harper*& Magazine. Comets.?Something 4,000 comets are supposed to have been seen since records began, the greatest number of which was invisible without a telescope. Of these 285 have had their orbits determined. Professor R. H. Tucker, Jr., of Lehigh university, studying these, finds indications that more comets come in from the hemisphere from which the sun is moving than from that toward which it is moving?that is, more turn and follow after than fly to meet their solar chief. This is explained by the statement that by the comets at a great distance have yielded to the attraction, not strongly felt until the sun is directly opposite them, the sun has passed on and can only fall into his train. Writing on Metals.?To write on metals take half a pound of nitric acid and one ounce muriatic acid. Mix and shake well together, and then it is ready for use. Cover the plate you wish to mark with melted beeswax; when cold write your inscription plainly in the wax clear to the metal with a sharp instrument. Then apply the mixed acids with a feather, carefully filling each letter. Let it remain from one to ten nours, according to the appearance desired, throw on water, which stops the process, and remove the wax.