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lewis \t.grist, proprietor. | 2U Jhtbepenbenf Jfamitj} Ifcfospaper: J;or tjje |)romotion of % political, Social, ^gritnltiiral anb Commercial Interests of tbe Soiitj). J TERMS?^2.50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. VOL. 31. YOEKYILLE, S. C., THTJESDAY, MAY 28, 1885. NO. 22. ^elected ffiwttg. ORIGIN OF A FAMILIAR LINE. ("Though Lost to sight, to memory dear originated with Ruthven Jenkins, and was fix published in the Greenwich Magazine/or M n'nes, in 1701 or 1702. As a literary gem, \ quote the whole poem): I Sweetheart, good-bye! the fluttering sail Is spread to waft me far from thee, And soon before the favoring gale My ship shall bound upon the sea. Perchance, all desolate and forlorn, These eyes shall miss thee many a year, But unforgotten every charm Though lost to sight, to memory dear. II Sweetheart, good-bye! one last embrace! O, cruel Fate, true souls to sever! Yet in this heart's most sacred place Thou, thou alone shall dwell forever ! And still shall recollections trace In Fancy's mirror ever uear, Each smife, each tear, that form, that face, Though lost to sight, to memory dear. CRADLE SONG. FROM THE NEW DRAMA "MARIE DEL CARMEN Sleep, my pretty one. Sleep, my little one, Rose in the garaen is blooming so red; Over the flowers the fleet-footed hours Dance into dreamland to melody wed; To the voice of the stream?to a song in dream, Sung low by the brook to the stone-covered be Sung soft as it goes, And the heart of the rose Gives a tremulous leap As the melody flows. Ah, little one, sleep, Sleep. Peace, my little one, Peace, my pretty one, Lilies bend low to the breath of the breeze; Lithe as a willow the boat on the billow High tosses the spray for the sunlight to tease With a kiss anu a tear?with a rainbow, a fea For the light is the sun's and the spray is tl sea's; And the wind o'ver the lea Breaks to melody free, As the waves that release The low laugh of the sea. My pretty one, peace, Peace. * Joy, my pretty one, Jov, my little one, Fairies of night from their bright jeweled cars Fling a faint sheen and shimmer 011 rippl where glimmer The up-gazing eyes of the down-gazing stars; And the boat,'while it glides, sings the soi of the tides As they kiss into languor the santl ol the oars. Oh, river, flow fleet, Ere the melody meet The sea's breath to destroy What the echoes repeat: My little one, joy, Joy. [Francis Howard Williams. fhr Jfotg fetter. THE OLD BACHELOR. "How did I come to adopt her?" M dear friend, that is about one of the silliei questions I ever heard to come from a ma of your wisdom and common sense! It wt Fate, that's what it was! Personally, had no more to do with it than you hav this moment. These things are all ordair ed and marked out for us, and we can neitl er avoid nor alter them. Fatality, do yo call the doctrine? Well, call it whatyo will?there it is, and you can't make an^ thing else out of it! But about little Magdalen. I was con ing down Broadway in a great hurry 1 catch an uptown stage before all those ferr people blocked into it, when there she si on a curb-stone, the wind blowing her ye low hair about and her poor little hands bit with cold, crying as if her heart woul break. I didn't think the veriest savap could have helped stopping to ask her whs the matter was, and I don't call myself savage, if I do happen to have my litt! crusty fits now and then. So says I: "Child, what's the matter?" "I'm last!" said she. And come to inquire, why, the poor li tie elf was fatherless, motherless, friendles in all the wide world! Of course, I toe her home, and you ought to have seen o) Hannah, my house-keeper, stare when walked in with the yellow-haired bab clinging to the little finger of my left han? For she wasn't more than eight years oh and small at that! "I give you a month's warning, sir! says Hannah. But, bless your soul, sb didn't go. Maggie took her heart by storn as she always has done that of the rest < the world, and at the month's end yc couldn't have hired old Hannah to lea\ the child. Well, sir, she grew up as tan as a ree< and as pretty as a posy. I sent her to Mat am Aimard's fashionable French boarding school, for I was not going to have in Maggie a whit behind any one's else girl, can tell you. My sister Simpkins objectet You see, with those nine daughters of her she grudged every penny of my money thf was spent on any one else. "You're putting silly notions in the child head," said she. "A girl that will hav her own living to earn, ought not to ming] with Madam Aimard's young ladies." "I should like to know why?" says I. "Because she is in no way their equal! said Sister Simpkins. "Fiddlesticks !" says I. "My Maggie good and pretty, and if that don't eoi stitute equality with any girl alive, I' own up that we don't live in a republica country! As for earning her own living why it's my business to look after that, an no one else need trouble their head aboi it!" Mrs. Simkins pursed up her lips an looked unutterable things, but she did n< dare to say anything more. She knew < old that I wasn't to be disputed when m will was up. But I sent the nine MissSimj kirises nine coral necklaces the next Chris mas, and that kept the peace for awhile. When she came home from the boarding school, she was prettier than ever?tall, t I said before, with yellow, silky hair, gret shady-looking blue eyes, with lashes thi curled up at the ends, and cheeks as fres and pink as I remember the inside of tw big shells that used to stand on my grant father's best room mantel fifty years ag< So I cast about in my mind to'find son: new plan for making the old house livel for my little girl. 1 knew she couldn thrive without her innocent gayeties, an more than a bird could without free air an sunshine; so I invited company, and mac1 up little impromtu parties and frolics, an beat my brains for something to keep ht amused. And I believe I succeeded, to< for her step was as light as a feather, an you could hear her sing all over the hous when she thought she was alone. And one day old Hannah came in, dus ing chairs, and prying about for tinge marks on the paint in her odd, near-sighte way. "Mr. Pelham," says she, rubbing away t a door-knob that was as bright before s hands could make it, "what would you sa if we were to have a wedding in the ol house ?" "A wedding!" I dropped my pen .? that it made a big round Dlot on the pape and stared. "Why, you're not .going to 1 married, Hannah, after all these years?" "Do I look like it?" sniffed Hannah, coi temptuously?and to tell the truth, si didn't very much. "No, indeed, sir; hope I know my place better than tha It's Miss Maggie I'm thinking of, sir." I sat as if I had been stricken with paralytic shock. Maggie to be married Strange that 1 had never thought of tha as a natural consequence of parties, eomp nies, evening concerts and summer picnic: And somehow a desolate chill crept dow my veins as I thought how lonesome ar dreary the old house would be withoi Maggie. "What makes you think so, Hannahe: I asked, rather dolorously, and the old w man lowered her voice mysteriously as si answered: "It's that Mr. Carlisle?he keeps coming ! all the time, and it's my honest belief he S _ just worships the ground my young lady _ ~ walks on. He is very handsome, too, and _ folks tell me he's worth money." Mr. Carlisle! Well, old Hannah was right. He was a fine-looking fellow, and t Ve well-to-do in this world's goods; but?who r was there, after all, worthy of my tall, gold- e en-haired princess with dewy blue eyes and \ lips like scarlet coral newly plucked out t of the of sea? Why couldn't Carlisle go otf p and marry one of the wise Miss Simpkinses, t whose mother was on the look-out for hus- t bands as an ogress watches for eatable young d travelers ? I began to hate Carlisle. n "Pooh !" said I,upsetting my waste-bask- o et of papers over the floor with an unwary b fling of my feet. "I don't think she cares y for Carlisle." s "Just you watch her, then, and see for yourself," said old Hannah, wisely wagging e her cap border. "I never did set up for a I prophet, Mr. Pelham, but them as isn't 1 blind can't help seeing, and our eyes is s given to us to use." s So old Hannah went her way, leaving me r " about as uncomfortable as a man has any t business to be. My Maggie to be married! a ? My pretty blossom to be plucked just as t soon as it began to shed fragrance round n my door-stone. I felt as a monarch may p a whose domains are invaded by an audacious foe. Should I write Carlisle a note and tell t d. him to go about his business, or should I e simply convey to him by my manners the t hint that his presence was no longer spe- i eially desirable, or?but old Hannah's words t recurred uncomfortably to my mind?should a I at first find out whether Maggie really did care for the young upstart? v My head dropped on my hands?my heart g sunk somewhere below zero at the idea! I e wondered if all fathers felt so when gay c young cavaliers came wooing at their gates! r r, And, after all, Maggie wasn't my real child, s l,e dearly, dearly as I loved and tenderly as I fi cherished her. I think I hardly slept all c that night. I tossed to and fro on my pil- t low, counting the chimes on the old clock, s as one by one it told the hours, thinking about Maggie and Carlisle, and wondering to if tardy daybreak would never redden over k the hill-tops. ' v By that time my mind was made up. I c would repress all these selfish ideas ana on- tl es ly think of my girl's ultimate happiness, ti If she liked Carlisle, why Carlisle should ? have her. 1< I rose, dressed and went down to my b study. The first thing I saw was a note b lying on my library table. Probably it p had arrived late last night. I broke the t< seal; it was Irom George Carlisle, asking Eermission to address Miss Magdalen Pel- tl am. . v Well?it was nothing more than I expect- v - ed?in fact, it rather expedited matters, a which ought not to run too slowly. I re- tl folded the epistle and looked severely at n myself in the opposite glass. tl z "You middle-aged old fogy," quoth I, staring at myself with the severest expres- ii sion of countenance I could call up at so s< v short a notice. "1 see through you. You t< have dared to suppose bright-eyed Magda- h sC len could prefer you to these gay young fel- tl n lows nearer her own age?you have even is presumed to fall a little spice in love with d I her yourself. It will do you good to have d e some of the rionesense taken out of you. e i- At your time of life too! Did you ever see g i- a chestnut tree blossoming in November or e u a grape-vine loaded with blue fruit at mid- d u winter?" tl So off I trudged into the garden where d Magdalen always walked in the early v i- morning, to tell her of young Carlisle's pro- i1 :o posal. t< y She listened, looking very pretty and d it preoccupied, until I had finished. 1 1- "Well?" said she. ie "Well?" I quoth, "what do you say?" d "What do I say? No, of course!" je "You mean yes, my dear," said I, "If b it you'll only take time to think." a a "I mean no!" she flashed out. "Oh, Mr. ii le Pelham, how can you think so basely of ti me?" tl "Basely, my dear. I don't comprehend you." u t- She was beginning to cry now?big, spark- Si s, ling drops like the first glittering diamonds tl ik of a July shower. y id "I don't love him. I never can love a I him." 1 >y "But why not, my dear?" t< 3. "Because I love somebody else," she sob- c I, bed, growing pinkerand prettier than ever. "Who, is it Maggie? You'll tell me, t! " won't you?" Why, child,"?as she shrank / te blushingly back?"I am old enough to be ri i, your father!" n rf "You are not," she exclaimed, indignant- ti >u ly, "and you are the last person in the re world I would tell!" I "My darling, why not?" h I, "The enigmas these women are! instead ji 1- of answering me, she began to cry again as l; r- if her dear little heart would break. d y And suddenly a great light flashed upon J I my mind ! j 1. "Magdalen ! Darling! It's me that you g s, love ?" a it And in another moment she was laughing and crying on my breast! h 's The old chestnut tree was garlanded with / -e blossoms, even though it's prime was past? J le the vine of life was mantling in blue clus- h ters in the late, late harvest! h So I had to send as civil a note as possible p " to young Carlisle?and its surprising how ? my feelings moderated towards him as I h is wrote it! a l- And that is the way I won this peerless rose r: II among women to be my wife?and I don't n n think she has ever regretted marrying the n *, old man yet. Though I shouldn't dare to tl d call myself old in her presence, to speak n it the truth. People say it's a romantic story, but I say it's only an illustration of the ? d fact that there is more romance in real life h )t than there is in books, if we only knew it. a rf a y HOW SAYAGES COUNT. ? t- It is very amusing to see the people of S| lvamtschatka attempt to reckon above ten, p for, having reckoned the fingers of both tl hands, they clasp them together, which signifies ten ; they then begin at their toes and ^ h count to twenty, after which they are quite ^ o confounded, and cry "Matcha," that is, j< 1- "Where shall I take more?" t( x A Moravian missionary relates of the c; le Greenlanders that they in counting pro- e y ceed beyond twenty with great reluctance, 't and generally apply to all numbers above c< y twenty a name which means "innumera- u d ble." le Parry, the great Arctic explorer, says of d some tribes of Esquimaux that they require S| ?r to use their fingers to count as high as three, o o, and generally make some mistake before si d they reach seven. n e, Many South American tribes are said to o have no more than four distinct numerals; si t- and the consequent difficulty in understand- n r- ing high numbers is well illustrated by a ci id statement of Humboldt, that he never met e an Indian who would not, if asked his age, n \t | say lnciinerentiy sixteen or si.\iy, uui tun- ? is scious that there was much difference be- * ..v tween the two. n d j The following anecdote of a South Amer- d i ican traveller, when out with a party of ti io ten or a dozen Indians, asked one of them, p r, "Are we many?" "Yes, we are many?" fi )e "Are we innumerable ?" "Yes, we are innu- ri merable." "That tribe," he says, "when tl a- they wished to tell how many captives a le they had taken were unable to state the e I number, but would mark out a space of f< t. ground and say there were as many as could 0 stand in it." " v a The inhabitants of some West Indian Is- n I! lands are said to exclaim whenever a num- 21 t, her exceeds ten, "As many as hairs of my ii a- head," or "As the sands of the sea." s! The Yancos, a tribe dwelling near the t< n Amazon, have no name for any number be- si id yond three, "and lucky it is for those who o jt have to do with them," says the traveler ti who records the fact, "for their name for r three is 'Po-et-tar-ra-ro-rin-co-a-ro-ac," a ii o- word of ten syllables. Who can wonder p ie that arithmetic has not flourished in these I lands ? h IWisccilimcous fading. I THE YEAH 1,000. e It was believed in the Middle Ages that o he world would come to an end at the expi- o ation of one thousand years of the era. This n xpectation in Christian countries was uni- f ersal. The year 1,000 was a year of suspense, i error and awe. The histories of this dark s eriod give vivid accounts and incidents of g he state of the people under the influence of \ his awful apprehension. A writer in Sun- a ay at Home reproduces the picture with j ouch distinctness, and relates an incident 1 f the manner that the hours were nutn- d ered on the supposed final night of that C ear, which might aptly suggest a dramatic j ubject for a poet. r When the last day of the year, 999 dawn- r ' ? J ? m V\ a? f x u lilt; ujuuuess nuu muiiucu 110 nu^iiu > Lll work of whatever kind was suspended, t 'he market places were deserted. The j hops were shut. The tables were not pread for meals; the very household tire emained unlit. Men, when they met in he streets, scarcely saw or spoke to one nother. Their eyes had a wild stare in hem, as though they expected every ino-1 nent some terrible manifestation to take 1 dace. "Silence prevailed everywhere except in 1 he churches, which were already throngd with eager devotees, who prostrated J hemselves before the shrines of their favorte saints, imploring their protection during he fearful scenes which they supposed were bout to be displayed. As the day wore on, the number of those j vho sought admission grew greater and : reater, until every corner of the sacred ! difices, large as they were, were densely | rowded ; and it became impossible to find 00m for more. But the multitude outside till strove and still clamored for admission, illing the porches and doorways, and limbing up the buttresses to find refuge on he roofs which they could not obtain inide. A strange and solemn commentary on the ext which bids men to watch because "they now not whether the master of the house till come at even or midnight, or at cockrowing, or in morning," was presented by 1 _ ^3 11 ?3 I ne raumiuue wxuun uncu tuc unuituta ? hat night. Watch in very truth they did. Jot an eye was closed throughout that ?ngthened vigil; not a knee but what was ent in humblest supplication; not a voice ut what joined in the penitential chant, or ut up a fervid entreaty for help and proaction. There were no clocks in those days, but he flight of the hours was marked by great r'axen tapers with balls attached at interals to them. These fell one after another s the flame reached the strings by which hey were secured, into a brazen basin beeath with aclang which resounded through he church. At the recurrence of each of these warnig sounds the awe of the vast assembly semed to deepen and intensify as each in jrrible suspense supposed that between im and the outburst of Divine wrath only he briefest interval now remained. At last the night, long as it was, began to raw to an end. The chill which precedes aylight pervaded the air, and in the eastrn sky the first pale gleam of morning bean to show itself. The light grew strongr in the heavens, and the flame of the canle paled before it, and at last the rays of he risen sun streamed through the winows on the white anxious faces of the catchers. The night had passed away. l new day, a new century haa begun. The *xt that says that "no man knoweth the ay nor the hour" had a new meaning.? ! rou(h's Companion. i HOW THE^WORLD DIGS. In northern Mexico a crooked stick drawn y an oxen or a mule, scratches the ground little as a preparatory move before plantig or sowing. Hoes are heavy, awkward doIs. Heaping is done with sickles, and hreshing by treading out. In Manzanillo, not a single farmer manres his fields. With a simple iron pointed tick they bore the holes in the ground and he seed corn is cast in. In a few days the oung seed shoots up, and with it innumerble weeds, which are removed by hand, farmers complain that American plows are so heavy to lilt. They prefer oxen, beause horses make them walk too fast. The axe, the hoe and the plow constitute he agricultural implements in Central imerica, and especially in Honduras, 'hese are mostly of English or German lake, being cheaper than those manufac- i ured in America. 11 The most of the cultivation on larms in i Irazil, and especially where there is slave e \bor, is with the hoe, an implement weigh- i ng from two to five pounds each ; and most- t yT imported from England in barrels, ten c ozen to a barrel. One firm in Rio de 1 aneiro imports 1,500 barrels a year from I* England, and the same firm estimate that 00,000 hoes are imported and disposed of 1 nnually in Brazil. j i An American merchant in Japan says he 11 as tried to sell nearly every description of i C American implements, but without success.! I Jow he has a stock in his warehouse which as been on hand for fifteen years. Farm tbor is so cheap that it is practically im-; ossible to underbid it with labor-saving j f fiachinery. Male field hands work twelve i ours a day, havt ' olidays in each month I ^ nd receive their . jod, lodging and wages 11 anging from $8.00 to $12.90 per year. Fe-; nale laborers work the same hours, are r ot entitled to holidays, and receive, beside j ( heir food and lodging, about $0 per an- ; j um. | f In China even an apology for a shovel is !> eldom to be met with, while the hoe is a j j >ng, narrow and heavy blade, used for lmost all purposes. The plow is a rough I ? nd clumsy affair, with only one "stilt" 11 nd only the point shod with iron. Thresh- j c 3g is performed as in the time of Moses, by j 1 preading the sheaves on an earthen thresh- , t ig floor, and driving unmuzzled cattle over ! c he grain to tread it out. ; ^ The African farmers are Dutchmen or c escendants of Dutchmen. They still adere to the old style farm wagon of twenty- i u? ! . ve years ago, tne motive puwerui *yhjui ; j ? furnished by teams of fourteen oxen or \ ?n mules. These vehicles are capable of | t irrying a dead weight of not less than j i ight tons. ! j Throughout nearly all of Europe, the c onsuls say, modern machines are being 1 c sed.?Ph i ladelpli ia Press. \ We Can Whip the Earth.?The retro- j pect presented in yesterday's Sun of some J j f the chief events of the civil war, and the j ize, the number, thelosses and great achiev- s lents of the armies pitted against each j ther in that titanic and long protracted ; s truggle, illustrates in a most striking man- i N er the vastness of the resources at the r ommatid of the United States and Confed- ? rate governments. Out of a population ? umbering in 1800, for the whole country, lc 1,443,321 souls, and with a total wealth of r 10,1.59,910,008, the two sections raised and t laintained armies aggregating the tremen- s ous total of over 3,200,000 men. The adju- .. mt general of the United States army re- ? orts 2,772,408 as sent forward for service r oin the Northern States, which number, j. educed to a three years standard, makes f lie total available for action 2,320,272. The ^ djutant general of the Confederate army c stimates the entire available Confederate irce capable of active service at 000,00 men, not more than 400,000 of whom ,ere enrolled at any one time, while the I umber in the field at once never exceeded I 1)0,000. With these 200,000 or less effected ! 1 1801-05 in the way of resistance to the ,320,272 opposed to them, and the persis- j ?ncy with which both sides continued the I truggle, consitute a valuable demonstration j f what the combined forces of the two sec ions, with the increment of men and mate- > ial gained in the last score of years, would u 1885 be able to effect against any foreign 1 ower that could undertake to invade the f Jnited States. Since 1800 our population c as increased from 31,443,321 to 50,155,783 in 1 880, or to about 57,000,000 at the present ime, while the wealth of the country has ncreased from 1860 to 1880 from $16,159,610,69 to $43,642,000,000. We are undoubtedly xposed to attack on our seacost from want f suitable fortifications and efficient ships if war, but the expensive capacity of our laval service is illustrated by its growth rom 7,600 officers and men in 1860 to 51,500 n 1865, at which latter date we had inactive ervice over 471 vesaiels armed with 2,455 ;uns, not to mention the number of men, 'easels and guns employed on the Confederte side. The military character of our leople and their recuperative energy are nstanced in the fact that after the Union lisasters in the peninsula in 1862 over 80,00 were enlisted, organized, armed, equip>ed and sent into the field in less than a nnnfh one! Inter Wl the strilfrp-le. 90.000 nen were sent from five Western States vithin twenty day$ No other power in he world could do as much after the first rear of war.?jBaltimore Sun. ? JOSEPH EGGLESTON JOHNSTON. Major-General J. E. Johnston was born in 3rince Edward county, Virginia, February, 807, and was admitted to the United States Military Academy in 1825, from which he jraduated in June, 1829. He entered the ;rmy as second lieutenant of artillery, but esigned his commission in 1837. He was, lowever, induced to re-enter the service in 838, as First Lieutenant of Topographical Engineers and was made Captain, by brevet, or nis gallantry in the expedition against he Florida Indians. When the Mexican var broke out he was made Captain of En;ineers, and whilst conducting a successful econnoissance at Cerro Gordo, April 12th, 847, was twice severely wounded. For his >ravery in- this affair he was made brevetdajor. He was successively made Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel, and in 1847, particpated in the assault of the City of Mexico, vhere he was again wounded. In 1855 he vas made Lieutenant-Colonel of the Topographical Engineers, and was appointed iuartermaster-General, with the staff rank if Brigadier-General, in June, 18G0. In 1861 le resigned his position to take part in the Confederate Cause. He was made Major4eneral in the Southern army, and was in ommand at Harper's Ferry, in May 1861, ipposing General Patterson. He joined the orces of Beauregard shortly before the close if the battle of Bull Run, July 21st, 1861. ie commanded the Confederate forces at teven Pines, May 31st, 1862, and there revived a severe wound, which incapacitated iim from taking an active part in the opeations for several months. Upon his reovery he was assigned to the command of he Department of the South West, with the ank of General. During the siege of Vicks>urg he tried, but unsuccessfully, to reinorce the garrison there. His forces were lefeated at Jackson by Grant's men, July !lst, 1862, after which they were attached to jeneral Bragg's army in Northwest Georgia. In 1864, General Johnston was placed n command of the forces intended to check general Sherman's advance in Georgia, lis system of operations in this matter not jiving satisfaction to his superiors, he was uperseded in command by General Hood, >ut this did not prevent the fall of Atlanta, leneral Johnston was reinstated in comnand in South Carolina, February, 1865, and etreated northward, in the hope of being ible to-effect a junction with Lee's army at Petersburg. Twice he engaged the Union orces under Sherman, and on the 26th of April, 1865, was compelled to surrender to hat officer, at smitnneiu, iNorrn laromm. After the close of the war, General Johnston sntered upon a mercantile career, becoming resident of an influential ralroad, and also )eing interested in various other business mterprises. He published a narrative of lis operations in the War between the States. Upon the election of Cleveland to the ^residency, General Johnston's name was nentioned for one of the ministerial or other ligh positions. General Johnston was made Commissioner of Railroads by Cleveland, March 30th, 1880. ARBOR DAY BURLESQUED. Arbor Day in Pennsylvania is a great day or the people of that State, but Mount Zion's School of Philosophy seems to have made it i jolly subject. The Doylestown Democrat hus reports the proceedings of the meeting: President Solomon Wise: "Dis special neetin' is called for to plant trees 'round dis Club House. To-day is what is called Arbor Jay, appointed by de Governor of dis State, or'all de citizens to git some trees and plant em where dey will do de most good. De )oet says : 'A tree is a thing of beauty and i joy forever,' if dey live dat long. De choolmaster-general tells us to get a clergynan to be with us and pray for de good of le people and for de benefit of de trees. As each member of dis club has brought a ree to plant, we are now ready to begin to lig de holes. De Rev. Praisegod Rarebones ..;n nmiF nimcolf ?? (]ii Chsinhiin of. >111 IIU>y v I v. v uiv 11 k iu>;v>* %*?s v.w lis Club." Kev. Praisegod Barebones arose and said: "De textdat will best apply todis occasion find in de XlXth chapter of Luke (revised edition.) 'Zaccbeus he?climbed a ree, his Lord for to see.' Now, dis Zaccheis was a little man, and if no tree had been >lanted dar, he could not hab seen de proession. Now, if men are allays cuttin'1 lown trees and never plantin' any, dar soon vill be no trees for anybody to clime. You hould plant trees anywhar you can, except n de garden, for a garden is no place for rees. Bar was once a garden in the east of Sden, whar dar was too many trees planted, ode family had to move out and get dar ivin' by hard work, then a sheriff-'em with l flamin' big sword watched at de gate and vouldn't never let 'em comeback agin. Bo, ny brederin, beware ! don't plant any in de garden, but plant 'em 'long de road, 'round le school-house, 'bout de churches and de amp-meetin's, whar their shadows may lever grow less, so dat de wayfarin' tramp, ho'a fool, will know enough to get in de hade thereof and be happy. Keep on riantin' 'em till dey look like dat 'continuous woods whar rolls de Oregon.' Keep on ilantin' till every road will look like a deer >ark, and every path a Paradise. You must udge the tree by its fruit, and de tree dat lon't bear good fruit you must cutdown and ast into de tire. Let us sing: We'll hungdu harp on dewillar treeIn de gum tree hunt de possum, And we'll list to de hum of de honey bee, As it hunts for ile sweetest blossom. When tie school mas'er-gen'al sends us word, We'll get out de shovel and de hoe, And dig up de trees for to plant 'em agin, In de place whar dey ought for to grow. We must ask all de preachers to come, (Butnot for to digin de ground ;) But to preach and pray on each Arbor Day, "Pis so nice for to have 'em around. "Now hearken unto the benediction. May de sun in his course visit no land mo' ree, mo' happy, mo'shady dan (lis, our own :ountry,' and may we flourish as a green >ay tree and be as happy asa bigsunflower." TRADITIONS OF A KEY. s In the collection of curiosities preserved J in the Arsenal of Venice there is a key, of 1 which the following singular tradition is ? related: * "About the year 1G00, one of those dan- ^ gerous men, in whom extraordinary talent v is only the fearful source of crime and s wickedness beyond that of ordinary men, v came to establish himself as a merchant or c trader, in Venice. The stranger, whose T. name was Tibaldo, became enamored of the ? daughter of an ancient house, already af- ^ fianced to another. He demanded her J hand in marriage and was, of course, re- 1 jected. Enraged at this, he studied how to 3 be revenged. 0 "Profoundly skillful in the mechanical v arts, he allowed himself no rest until he had invented the most formidable weapon which" could be imagined. This was a key of a large size, the handle of which was so c constructed that it could be turned round c with little difficulty; when turned, it dis- c covered a spring, which, on pressure, f launched from the other end a needle or c lancet of such subtle fineness that it enter- > ed into the flesh and buried itself there without external trace. Tebaldo waited in ? diguiseat the door of the church in which f V - J I i. Q tne raaiaen wnom ne loveu was auuui iu ? receive the nuptial benediction. The as- i sassin sent the slender steel, unperceived, f into the breast of the bridegroom. t "The wounded man had no suspicion of s injury, but seized with a sudden and sharp c pain in the midst of the ceremony, he fainted and was carried to his house amid the r lamentations of the bridal party. Vain t was all the skill of the physicians, who i could not devise the cause of this strange a illness; and in a few days he died. Tebaldo s again demanded the hand of the maiden a from her parents, and received a second re- a fusal. They, too, perished miserably in a a few days. The alarm which these deaths? f which appeared almost miraculous?occa- 1 sioned, excited the utmost vigilance of the t magistrates; and when on close examina- 1 tion of the bodies, the small instrument was t found in the gangrened flesh, terror was i universal; every one feared for his own > life. The maiden, thus cruelly orphaned, t had passed the first months of her mourn- i ing in a convent, when Tebaldo, hoping c to bend her to his will, entreated to speak 1 with her at the grate. The face of the foreigner had been very displeasing to her, but 1 since the death of all those most dear to c her it had become odious (as though she had s a presumption of his guilt), and her reply i was most decisive in the negative. Tebal- < do, beyond himself with rage, attempted f to wound her through the grate and sue- i ceeded; the obscurity of this place pre- ( vented his movements being observed. 1 On her return to her room the maiden felt I a pain in her breast, aud uncovering it, she t found it spotted with a single drop of blood, t The pain increased; the surgeon who hast- t ened to her assistance, taught by the past, < lost no time in conjecture, but cutting deep 2 into the wounded part, extracted the nee- 1 die before any mortal mischief had com- 1 menced, and saved the life of the lady. The State Inquisition used every means to 1 discover the hand which dealt these insidi- < ous and irresistible blows. The visit of Te- f baldo to the convent caused suspicion to f fall heavily upon him. His house was care- 1 fullv sparched. the infamous invention dis- - covered and he perished on the gibbet." I THE WONDEKS OF COAL TAIL It was not until 1857 that the great value of coal tar as a raw material was demonstrated. In that year Perkins discovered its analine properties, a discovery which has almost revolutionized the trade in dyestuffs. Perkins took coal tar naphtha, and boiling it in retort, obtained a chemical action which resulted in benzole and nitrebenzole. Adding water to this, the nitrebenzole was deposited in the form of a thick, oily mass. This he experimented with in various ways, and finally by the addition of acetic acid and iron filings, he produced a colorless fluid which is analine. This liquid he treated with different chemical salts, and the result was green crystals with metalic lustre. These he found were capable ol producing under different chemical reactions, the most brilliant gorgeous dyes?the analine hues of the paint and dye trades of i to-day. "This discovery made the long-detested coal tar a desirable product of the gas retorts, but it held still greater surprises. From the light oil of the tar a valuable naptha solvent for India-rubber was obtained, and then the invaluable discovery of carbolic acid was made. How many people in ordinary life know that this great disinfectant is one of the products of common gas . tar? After these properties were extracted j from the tar there were left heavy oils'and ( residuum, for which chemistry was puzzled to find a practical use. It was not until j 18(19 that any satisfactory result was obtain- [ ed by experimenting with this refuse, and j i then the great discovery of alizarine was , made. This product was first obtained by the German chemists Grtebe and Libernann, but Professor Perkins, who had developed the analine colors from tar, was the first to ' give a practical application to the German | work. The importance of this discovery I may be understood when it is known that j in the first ten years following the introducj tion of the artificial alizarine in the dyestuff I trade, it exceeded the total amount of natural alizarine, or madder root, that had been handled in the trade previous to its introduction. It was, if anything, superior to madder, and so much cheaper that the saving by its use up to 1880 had amounted to over $20,000,000. The discovery of alizarine in coal tar converted 400,000 acres of land that had been used for growing madder root into fertile fields of corn and other cereals. With vegetable madder it required nine weeks to perfect the dyeing of a material Turkey red. The artificial madder accomplished the result in as many hours. Three years ago the chemist produced an artificial indigo from the residuum ofgastar, and, in connection with the analine dyes and alizarine of the same base, it is rapidly taking the place of vegetable indigo. Later, the naphthalene yellows and reds, with which entirely new effects in colors were made possible, were derived from coal tar residuum. Chemists are still experimenting with the tar products, and other important developments will no doubt be made." THE LIME-KILN CLUB. } I "Loan' look fur infallibility in de human ( race," said Brother Gardner, as he arose i and looked down upon the circle of bald- r heads in a fatherly way. "We has all got t our off-days an' our weak spots. We size up i a man as possessin' honesty, industry, patience, morality, an' religun, an' we admire f him accordin'ly. Fust we know he slips a t cog. He am tempted outer de true path, s an' we whoop an howl ober his downfall as if it war sunthin' unprecedented. It ain't a bekase he was not a fa'rly good man, but t mo' bekase we had gin him too many vartues. He couldn't hold up under all of 'em. c When I gin Trustee Pulback de job of re- 1 shinglin' my cabin I fully believed dat he r war an honest man. But I didn't hand him de money to buy de nails, nor did I sot t around wid my eyes shetan' let him mix a third-class an' fust-class shingles together, f It war' my dooty not to frow temptashun in r his way. When Whalebone Howker comes a to me* an' axes fur de loan of a dollar I believe him honest an' truthful an' upright, c but I take his note fur thirty days jist de i same. If I didn't he might be tempted to i u? mo nntor it Tt am mv dootv to see dat r iie tloan' drap any of his virtues by de way- 1 side. I doan' 'speck to find de truth in ebery body. I doan' 'speck to find all men hon- c est. Some men kin shoulder about two of a de cardinal vartues an' walk frew life all 1 right, but when you add another you am' i gwine to break 'em down. We grade our o bosses into draught, roadsters, fam'Iy, an' I speeders. We doan' 'speck a fam'Iy boss to i go out an trot a mile in 2:20, an' we doan' \ 'spectour speedersto pull coal-carts. When c it comes to men we grade 'em all alike, no i matter what deir blood, whar' bo'n, or how v brung up. We 'speck to tind 'em all pos- r essed of 'nuff vartues to carry 'em half way o heben when dey die. It am 'spectin' en- n irely too much. While we may consider n 11 men fa'rly honest, we musn't advertise a 2 reward for $50 lost yesterday an' 'speck "\ le finder to hire a street kyar in his hurry 0 o restore de lost cash. While we may reaonably expeck all men to speak de truth, d ve ain't gwine to get rich outer cashin' t hecks for strangers nor believin' what we r ead on de circus posters. I'ze been turnin' t [e matter ober an' ober in my mind fur a lese many y'ars past, an' I has come to de o ixed conclushun dat de right way am fur t o regard all men as straight, but to keep v 'er eye peeled fur de defects. Let us now fi pen on de thirty-fifth degree an' purceed v vid de purceedin's."?Detroit lYee Press. a A LOCUST^PLAGUE. fc Of all destructive foes none are more I Ireaded in most Eastern lands than the lo- t ust, whose dire visitations may well be t leemed national calamities. In point of I act, the lands which are exempt from their s iccasional presence are favored few. A J *ery few details of their invasion of southern Russia in the years 1879 and 1880 will jive us some idea of their multitude. They ell upon provinces of Caucasus, utterly defraying vineyards and gardens; blockad- t no- the streets so that traffic was susDended : 1 fifing the ovens, so that for several days mking was quite out of the question ; and o choking the water-courses that not a cup >f water could be drunk until filtered. In Georgia they fairly routed a detachnent of Russian troops, who, not liking to urn aside on their march repelled by mere nsects, attempted to face the locust army, ilthough report said it covered twenty Suare miles of country. So the soldiers vanced, but soon found themselves literilly covered by the clinging, creeping inects, which crawled all over them, until inally the.men fairly turned and fled, slip)ing and sliding as they ran over the crusn(d and oily bodies of their myriad foes. Tor forty-eight hours they were detained. s aking refuge ip a village, and assisting the * nhabitants to kill millions of the invaders, c vhose corpses they carted off to manure he fields, which, however, were in the neantime stripped of every blade of grass >r corn, and the trees shorn of every green f eaf. t On the road from Tiflis to Poti the locusts c ay so thick on the line that the trains were s >bstructed. Large districts of southern ltus- e ia were swept as bare of all vegetation as s f a fire had raged over the land, and hun- r ireds of peasants, utterly beggared, aban- t loned their homes to seek bread wherever s t might be found. In the province of 1 Kherson alone, a sum of fifty thousand ru- 1 )les was voted by the Government for ex- c )enditure in the effort to free the land of c his plague; in another district, twenty- r housand persons were employed daily for c hree months in the same work; the Gov- s jrnment expenditure on the whole organisation was estimated at two hundred thous- t ind rubles, without any calculation of the r oss on crops of all descriptions. Another notable scene of locust-plague c ,vas Algeria in the year 18(56, when the lamagedone by these insects was estimated it fifty million francs, and resulted in a j amine so appalling that two hundred thousmd natives aied of starvation.?-AU the. Year s Round. - - - 1 HON. CHARLES L. SCOTT. The Hon. Charles L. Scott, who was ap- ( aointed by Cleveland as minister resident < itid consul-general to Venezuela, is a native i )f Richmond, Virginia. His father, the j Honorable Robert G. Scott, was one of Vir- ] *inia's prominent lawyers and citizens, and ] luring Pierce's administration was consul 1 :o Rio Janeiro. Charles L. was sent to the 1 college of William and Mary and graduated , shence with great credit. Luring the "gold . ever" of 1849, young Scott emigrated to i California, staying there for a term of years. ( He practiced law at Sonora, Twolumne j jounty, and was twice elected to the State 1 Legislature. He wast sent to represent ( California in the Thirty-fifth Congress and i ivas also returned to the Thirty-sixth Session. Upon the organization of this session t ie received a number of votes for the speak- s irship. In the meantime, he had married ] Miss Gorm, an Alabama lady, and when the i .var broke out, being a southerner by birth ^ ind conviction, enlisted heartily in the 1 southern cause. He cast his lot with AlaDama and hassince made that State his home. He was Major of the Fourth Alabama Itegi- ( lient, in the battle of Bull Run, on July f .'1st, 1861, and was wounded during the en- r pigement. After the war he returned to ' lis adopted State and there engaged in j arming, in Willcox county. Having lost I j: lis first wife, he married Miss Willison. ^ Mr. Scott entered the field of journalism in r 869, assuming editorial control of a news- , laperat Camden, Willcox county, Alabama, J md for nearly ten years remained thus con-, j lected. He did good service for his section . c igainst the "carpet-baggers" who over-ran I r he South immediately after the war. Mr. x scott enjoys the distinction of having rep-1 ^ esented his section in every Democratic I j STational Convention held since the war. | ? Our Natural Language.?A few years I f igo a society of eminent men in Paris dis- j < :ussed the question: "What language would i child naturally speak if never taught ?" Hie devout Catholics were of the opinion ; . hat the Hebrew language would be spoken j n these circumstances. . 5 One scientist was of the opinion that some : orm of the Chinese language would be; he natural tongue. Twenty different re- i . iultswere predicted. j At last it was decided to test the matter,; * md a committee was appointed to carry out he experiment. } Two infants were procured and put in the ' iharge of a deaf and dumb woman who ^ ived in the Alps, and made a living by earing chickens and tending sheep. The woman was given strict injunctions f o allow no one to speak to these children, e md as her cottage was some miles distant v rom any neighbor, the circumstances sur- c ounding the experiment were very favor- t ible. Years rolled on, and many of the members >f the society had lost sight of the interest- i Some mpmhprs nf the I J IJ& CApCllUiCllV. WV.MW | ommittee died, and there was great danger j J, if the results of this wonderful test being ost to the world. v Fortunately, two of the members of the 0 :ommittee kept faithful watch on the case, ind when the children were six years old >rought them, with their nurse, into a meet- d ng of the "savants." Every member was ^ ?n the tiptoe of expectation as to the result, d s'ot one word could either of the children t itter; their only form of language was a 0 vonderfully good imitation of the crowing if a cock or cackling of a hen, or the bleatng of a sheep. The predictions of science v vere totally upset by a practical experi- t nent.?Chicago Tribune. o Postal Reminiscences.?During the administration .of President Hayes the postmaster at a remote office in Minnesota gave singular reason for resigning his trust. Vriting to the first assistant Postmaster feneral, he said: "I desire and hereby give up and surrenier the postoffice, of course luking after hings until my successor is appointed. I ecommend Jeff Taylor, who hasn't much o do. You know the pay is only 840 a year, nd it has cost me half my crop as neglect f my store, fur I've been in a muss from he first month after I tuck hold I'me a man rtio shames the devil to tell the truth. The act is I've got a wife and her two sisters yho live in the store where the postoffice is, nd theirs bin sum terrible rows about penin letters, which I don't acuse ennyiody but everybody has their suspicions, iutwimmen will be wimmen as long as heir curiosity which the snake put into hem ever since the days of the Garden of Sden. And I don't propose to eat buckhot and butcher knives for the sake of 840 a ^ear. .1. u. ?. July 9, 1857. Jr. James Buchanan, President of the United States: Dear Sir?Being required by the instrucions of the postomce to report quarterly, I io\v herewith foolfil that pleasin duty by eporting as follows: The harvestin has ieen goin on peertly and most of the naiers have got their cuttin dun. Wheat is lardly average crop on rollin land, corn is yellowish and won't turn out more than en or fifteen bushels to the aker. The lealth of the community is tolluble, and iholery has broken out about two one-half niles from here. There is is a powerful iwakin on the subject of religion in the alls naborhood ana many soals are bein nade to know their sins forgiven. Miss STancy Smith, a near nabor, had twins day lefore yesterday. One of them is supposed 0 be a seven monther, a poor, scraggy hing, and won't live half its days. This-is ibout all I have to report the present quarer. Give my respects to Mrs. Buchanan ind subscribe myself, Your truly, P. M. at , Fulton county, 111. The Michigan Dam.?Some twelve or ourteen years ago, a queerly-dressed, eccenric acting individual appeared at Lansing, iuring the session of the Legislature ana isked various members to introduce a bill to mable him to build a dam on Wolf Kiver, omewhere in the northern counties. The natter was allowed to go by default, and at he next session the old man showed up igain. This time a bill was introduced, but jefore it came up he got tired and went lome. When a third session opened he was >n hand, but only to be tired out again by lelays. Last fall a Detroiter, who was a nember of the House, and remembered the ase, met the old man up the lake shore and aid to him: "I shall go back to the Legislature again his year and you come to me with your bill ind I'll push it for you." "Thank ye, but it's no use," replied the )ld man. "Don't you want the dam ?" "Fact is, I built the dam before I asked sermission of the law." "Well, you'd better have things in legal shape." "No use. During the first session the dam .vent with a freshet. Durine the third Wolf River dried up until it wouldn't turn a pin.vheel, and I want the Legislature of Michigan to understand that I am a free-born American citizen, and ask no favors of any body."?Detroit Free Press. Tickled to Death.?The degree of anoyance caused by a small object like a hair, i grain of sand or a tiny splinter depends mtirely on the location. All are not ticklish >r hypersensitive at the same place. Some ;an be thrown into paroxysms by tickling ;he feet with a straw, others go into spasms f a feather is drawn under their nose, while >thers almost take a fit if tickled in the ribs. It is said that the most exquisitely horrible torture practiced during the inquisition ,vas that of tickling the feet of sensitive lereties. Every nerve in the entire body vas set on end and made to dance at a madlening pace. This must have been the reinement of torture indeed. In order to satsfy your curiosity on this score have your lands securely tied and your head held flrmy, while some one slowly, gently, tickles ?wur nose with a feather, *or even a hair, ifou will soon conclude that death would be breferable to a continuance of the torture.? Pittsburg Dispatch. Merchant's Cholera Mixture.?Many )f our older readers will recollect the famous Cholera Mixture which was in such great avor throughoutthe country, for some years brevious to the war. It is valuable and the ecipe should be preserved in every family. For more than forty years it has stood the ;est of experience as the best remedy for ooseness of the bowels ever yet devised. A.s was once vouched for by the New York Journal of Commerce, "no one who has this by him and takes it in time will have the ;holera." Even when no cholera is anticibated it is an excellent thing for the ordina y summer complaints of colic, diarrhoea, lysentery, &c.; and we have no hesitatiou n commending it. Here it is: Take equal parts of tincture of cayenne, incture of opium, tincture of rhubarb, essence of peppermint and spirits of camphor. Mix well. Dose, fifteen to thirty drops in a .vineglass of water, according to age and violence of attack. Repeat every fifteen or :wenty minutes until relief is obtained. Romance of a Convent.?A daughter )f General Winfield Scott, who attended he Georgetown Convent a number of years igo, took the veil when a young lady. There is a little romance connected with ler life and her determination to become i nun. She visited England in company ,vith friends, and while there met a young nan with whom she fell in love. The wung man had a similar fall. For some eason the two were prevented from marryng. In consequence she determined to be:ome a nun and he a priest. The determilation of one was unknown to the other. V few years afterwards he, as a priest, isited the convent here. She was lying on ler death-bed. He saw her and recognized ler. The recognition was mutual. A word lassed between them and she ljiy back upon ler pillow and died.? Washington Letter in Chicago Xeics. SeaT" An exchange says: The American )oy to-day who learns a trade, and is not ishamed of it, has an honorable future beore him which will grandly reward his ipplication and zeal. In a great industries country like this, the man who lives by lis own energy and skill in productive emiloyments is one of nature's noblemen, and he development of American intelligence vill so reward him. Let the boys learn rades and be proud of them, for the field of ipportunities in this country expands with vith each year of our growth and progress. &aT A convict says he was sent to prison or being dishonest, and yet he is compelled very day to cut out pieces of pasteboard, vhich are put between the soles of the heap shoes made there and palmed off" on he innocent public as leather. A man is always a fool. If he be 'oung, the world says, "When he is older le will know more." If he be older it says, Tie is old enough to know better." And vhen he is old. it savs. "There is 110 kind >f fool equal to an old fool." ft?"1 "If man wants to own the earth, what loes woman want?" inquired 3Ir. Grab of lis better half, after a family matinee a few lays ago. "Well, my dear," responded hat lady in a gentle, smothering tone, "to wn the man, I suppose." ffiar I don't like to talk much with people i'ho agree always with me. It is amusing ' o coquet with an echo a little while, but ne soon tires of it.?Carlyle.