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lewis m. grist, proprietor, j 5.H Inkjpbtnf Jfamiljj ftepptr: Jfor % promotion of % |)olititaI, Social, ^grinilinral anb Commcrrial |nftrtsfs of % JSoiiijr. ]terms--$2.50 a year, in advance. . VOL 31. 7 YOBKYILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1885. ISTO. 29. Ihc Jfotg Met THE OLD CHARTT "With all your fine courage you would'nt dare to spend an hour in the old Grange alone after dark." "Iwould!" cried Rilla, with a flushing glance at her fair, pale cousin. "Oh, Rilla, but they say it is haunted!" faltered Bessie Sage, with a little shudder. "By rats and owls," said Rilla, laughing. Miss Justine Penrynn, the heiress and beauty and also the cousin of fearless, daring Rilla Brooks, rapidly concocted a little plot, which should test the girl's courage, and also appease the spirit of malice and spite harbored in her own heart. She had no cause to hate Rilla, but hate her she did and with venom. She had all j heart could desire?or at least it seemed so? | youth, beauty, fortune and friends by the score, while her young cousin lived in penniless obscurity. It came about in this ( way. Old Capt. Penrynn had a son and daugh-1 Tho onn m?rripd to nlease his father, ; ICI. X lk\S k7V4.* ... J k but the daughter married to please herself, and suffered disinheritance in consequence. She died in a few years, leaving a baby daughter,and a pleading, pitiful letter to her father, who read it with tears in his eyes, and who. forthwith took charge of the little girl?a brown eyed, dainty sprite, who made the old Grange inerry with her childish laughter and pattering, childish feet. It seemed that Capt. Penrynn was doomed to out-live all his family, for his son also died, leaving one daughter, so he had only two grand-children to inherit his wealth, and he made a new will, dividing the property equally between them. Two years before our story opens, he died very suddenly; but when Lawyer Sage * searched for the latter will, lo! it had vanished. He was astounded; he went through his friend's private papers again and again, but no will appeared, except the one leaving I all to his son and his heirs, forever. "Perhaps he hid it," mused the puzzled lawyer. "I remember just before he died, he pointed toward that chart and tried to speak. I will examine it." He took down the heavy chart, and shook it, and looked behind it, but only the blank wall met his view. So he read the old will, after an elaborate explanation to the assembled friends and relatives, and Justine listened with secure exultation, and Rilla with some pain and bewilderment. Miss Penrynn returned to town without offering even a small portion of the estate to her cousin. "A mean, heartless stingy thing!" cried Bessie, indignantly. Her father secretly agreed with her. He could not see pretty, impulsive Rilla turned adrift on the world, and took her home with him, to finish her education with Bessie and to help teach the younger children. She had lived a quiet, busy, happy life there until Paul Daverant came out to the village to spend the summer hunting and fishing. It was by the Doctor's orders he sought the healthy quiet of country life, and after making acquaintance with lawyer Sage's family, he ceased to groan over the dullness of his existence. 1 He had been in Hartweil more man a month,when Miss Penrynn came down for a few days. She wished to consult dear Mr. Sage about some investments, and she coolly announced that she would stop with them, and her Paris finery and finished worklly graces quite overshadowed Rilla and Bessie. The few days had lengthened into three weeks of torture to poor Rilla, for she had only to endure half-veiled taunts, and cutting malicious stabs, for the velvet-tongued heiress, but her poor passionate heart suffered an agony of jealousy. Justine stepped in between her and Paul Daverant. She claimed his attention almost as a right, and, with fine assumption of careless indifference he allowed her to do it. r Perhaps it amused, perhaps it pleased him; Itilla thought the latter and blushed scarlet with shame and indignation to think that she had given her heart to a man who cared nothing for it. She grew cold in her manner toward him, and avoided his society so persistently that he must have noticed it, though he made no sign. But she was miserable and halfreckless, and rather fancied the idea of spending the night at the lonely old Grange, which had not been inhabited since the captain's death. Perhaps it was haunted, as some of the ignorant country people said, and perhaps something would happen to her, and then - XL _ , X .?L? she would never nave uie nenruiene ?n^ more. "Suppose you go to night," said Justine, after a few minutes' thought. "We can leave you as we go on to the party, and call as we return." "But Mrs. Williams said she wanted Rilla to be sure and come; and then 1 want her to enjoy the party." Nonsense! It is sure to be a dull affair ; and then Mr. Daverant has gone to the city to-day. Our dear Rilla would not enjoy it unless?" "l am sure you are altogether mistaken ; but I care nothing for the party, and?yes, I will stay at the Grange to-night." "Oh, Rilia, don't, mamma will be so angry!" pleaded distressed Bessie. "She must not know it until afterward, I and then it will only be a joke," said Justine. "After all, Rilla's heart will fail her when the time comes." "Not so; it is made of tougher material than that," said the girl coldly. "Is it? I thought it was rather soft and weak." "Did you? That proves that even you can make mistakes sometimes." And Rilla met her cousin's mocking eyes steadily. That evening. Miss Penrynn held quite a conversation with her maid?a conversation made up of terrified protests on one side, and threats on the other. "Oh, I dare not!" sighed the woman, clasping her hands. "Then consider yourself dismissed from my service," said the mistress coldly. And then, to save her situation, she submitted. Rilla put on her white party dress, fastened some superb crimson roses on her breast and in her hair, and with her deep, dark eyes, her fresh, delicate color, and pie.-%nn T on> net cure flint. cha rlirl nnt i?umii/ jl uiii uwv ov?tv VHMV w..v v.v. ..?v . look lovlier than her cousin with all her laces and glittering jewels. The Grange was a mile from Hartwell, and Bessie almost wept when Rilla sprang out of the carriage before the lonely gate; and Bertie Wilford, their escort and Bessie's lover, used all his powers of persuasion to change her mind. But the amused glitter of Justine's eyes, she remained firm, and waving the halldoor key at them in farewell, she flitted up the leaf-strewn walk to the dark, desolate j old house. A light shiver crept over her as the hall-1 door swung open with a noisy creak of its rusty hinges, and a gust of damp, ill-smell-1 ing air rushed out; but lighting a bit of! candle she had brought with her, she mounted the'stairs to her grandfather's room. Most of the furniture had been removed, but the old man's armchair still stood by the window, and the chart hung on the wall opposite. Rilla did not feel afraid, but rather sorrowful. "Poor grandpa! you intended to provide for me," she said and patted the chair. Then sheopened the window and sat down by it to keep her long vigil. 'The hours passed, and for all her heartache she grew drowsy, and sleep was stealing upon her, when a soft, stealthy foolfall echoed from the stairs. She was sitting erect and wide awake in an instant. She listened breathlessly. Yes, the steps were coming upstairs, and along the hall. She I could hear the rustle of drapery, and then I the door swung open, and bracing herself, m she looked to see who or what it was. The sight was enough to try stouter nerves than a young girl's. Rilla felt an icy thrill rush over her, and she caught hold of the chair-back for support, when she saw a tallsheeted form standing motionless in the doorway, but she was at bay, and after the first few moments of terror, she found her voice. "Who are you? and what do you want?" Miss Justine had not provided for that question, not crediting her cousin with courage enough to ask it, but an answer was not needed. A great owl had taken up his abode in the hall, and disturbed by the unusual sounds, and the flicker of a candlelight, he gave one awful hoot, and flapping his wings, swooped down over the head of the ghost into the room. It was more than the waiting-maid could bear. "Oh, Lord, Miss ltilla, what is it?" she shrieked; and tearing her ghostly raiment off, fled to the girl for protection. It was a case of "run, black devil, white devil catch you," and after recovering from 1 ^1 4. T"> 111.-* Iier HSIOU ibll UJtjw i, jviim lau^ucu niuuu. "Sarah, what does this mean?" "Miss Justine made me do it. Don't? don't let the thing touch me? I didn't wan't to do it!" But after knocking down the chart, which fell with a crash, and upsetting the candle, the owl flew out at the window and vanished. Rilla soothed her terrified companion, relit the candle, and then essayed to pick up the broken chart. But the frame fell to pieces, and out from the back of it rolled a bundle of papers. Meanwhile, all went merry as a marriage bell at the party. Bessie left it to Justine to make excuses for Rilla, and that young lady did so with the best grace in the world, and then she danced and flirted as though she had not a care on her mind. But timid Bessie suffered a cruel anxiety, and she drew a breath of relief when late in the evening Paul Daverant entered the room. He glanced slowly around, and a shade of disappointment crossed his handsome face. "Where is Rilla, Miss Sage?" he inquired as soon as he reached Bessie. That question loosened Bessie's tongue, and she poured out the whole story to the gentleman, who listened with a quietness I the gathering fire in his eyes belied. He glanced at his watch. "It is time the joke ended. If you are ready, we will go together. If not? "Oh, yes, I am glad to go! Call Bertie, and I will speak to Miss Pendrynn." Justine smiled disagreeably, but thinking that it would not do to go too far, she made no objection to an early departure, but gave her version of the little joke, and all called Rilla a silly child for taking any one so literally. The others listened in silence, and Bessie clasped her hands and strained her eyes through the gloom to catch the first sight of the Grange, but there was a keener pair of eyes watching, also, and the horses had hardly been pulled up oeiore ine gaie wnen ; Daverant dashed open the carriage-door and sprang out. All his careless indifference, his languid nonchalance, fell from him under the pressure of fear and anxiety. He entered the empty, echoing house. He mounted the stairs two at a time, softly yet clearly calling,? "Rilla, Rilla!" She met him in" the doorway of her grandfather's bedroom, but radiant and unharmed. "Rilla, love?" he cried, and snatched her to his breast with hurried, passionate, words of love. "Is it true? Do you really care for me?" she said, in a sort of glad wonder. "So well that if you had come to harm this night my peace and joy would have been forever destroyed," he said, bending his lips to hers. In her happiness she could afford to be charitable, and she explained the presence of the waiting-maid with as little blame to her cousin as possible, and then came a brief account of the fall of the chart and leading him near the candle, she held a folded paper out to him to examine. "What is it?" he inquired, struck by some subtile change in her. "Grandpa's last will, hidden in the back of that frame. Oh, Paul, you loved me without the money, but I am glad your wife will not come to you pennilesss." "Let her come as she may, she will always be my best beloved, my dearest," he said, with tenderness. "After all, malice can overreach itself." hecontinued, and they went down stairs hand in had, the frightened maid closely following. "If your cousin had left you in peace the will might never have been found." And so she thought, railing bitterly against herself and all the world, when made to comprehend what had occurred. As for Lawyer Sage, he rubbed his hands and said,? "I knew he could not have destroyed the will, and I always felt that the old chart had something to do with it." A Murderous Old Humbug.?1Two persons, father and son, the latter of whom was named Eric the Red, having been guilty of murder in Norway, took refuge in Iceland, where Eric committed one or two more murders, and in consequence of them, and of his constant broils and feuds with his neighbors, was banished and outlawed. As the world was too small for him, he was tempted to try to discover and explore new land in the West, of the existence of which there were rumors. He, therefore, sailed west, and discovered an ice-bound country which hecalled "Greenland," because, quoth he, people will be attracted to it if the land has a good name." The intended fraud upon emigrants was an example that was followed in his own day, as well as in later times, for the imaginative chronicler subseci uently asserted that "there is the best of wheat in (Greenland." In A. I). !)i>4 Erie and his son Lief, having ! heard of new lands farther west having been sighted by Bjarne, made up their minds to explore thein, and for that purpose bought and fitted out Bjarne's vessel. But Eric while on his way to the port was thrown by his horse, and took his fall as an omen that he was not destined to give any more Green-1 lands to the world, and he therefore allowed Lief to sail without him. But, from what we know of his proclivities, we may be quite sure that he had a wonderful name already coined for the new land?Yinland the Good. Could words picture a more attractive bait for emigrants? How much of the story of the subsequent exploration of Yinland by his son Lief is purely imaginary it is difficult to say. All hot rohitosj tn th<> shin-loads of irraDes. self sown fields of wheat, and the genial semitropical winter climate of that favored land, we may dismissas myths or exaggerations. Where, then, was Vinland situated?? Popular Science J font My. Are We Too Frugal??The contiuance of dull times has enforced frugality in all directions except possibly in the case of people who have large, fixed incomes. The result has been, says the Springfield Cnion, a curtailed demand for all kinds of goods, a great depression in manufacturing and a general living from hand to mouth. The banks are full of money, the stores are full of goods, men are just as energetic and ambitious as ever, and yet everybody is holding back waiting for better times before entering upon new enterprises that involve increased expenditures. "Everybody" feels that he might go to work and do well if "everybody else" would do the same. But "everybody else" will not. The only way to start business is for each individual to relax his enforced frugality, little by little, make such improvements as are necessary, pay out what money can be afforded, and so heip to set "everybody else" to do the same. Depression is a sort of epidemic and it can be overcome only by an epidemic of hopeful activity in every line that can be followed judiciously. There is such a thing as being too econ om i ca 1.?Exch unye. flutes A# frump prods. SKETCHES OF TRAVEL IN SCOTLAND! BY REV. R. LATH AN. [Written for the Yorkvillo Enquirer.] England, Ireland and Scotland constitute the British Isles. Ireland, as will be seen by a glance at the map of insular Europe, is separated from England and Scotland by the Irish Sea, which in the South bears the name St. George's Channel, and in the North, the North Channel. England, including Wales, and Scotland are in fact only one island, which extends from about the fiftieth to the fifty-ninth degree of north latitude. The most southern part is Lizard Point, in England, and the most northI /-.> ? Unnnol Haofl in SJnnflnnrl Montlnnd C1U 1 O iyUUUUV XX^UUf 111 ^vv?..WMM is, in part, separated from England by the Chariot Hills and the riv.er Tweed. Between these?a distance of perhaps twenty miles?there is no natural boundary. In size, Scotland is a little less than the State of South Carolina, but in general appearance as unlike South Carolina as it is possible for two sections of the globe to be. Scotland is well described by a poet thus: "Land of the brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the llood." The most southern part of Scotland is several degrees farther north than Newfoundland, and the northern part is in the latitude of Hudson's Bay. Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is more than twelve hundred miles farther north than the city of Washington, the capital of the United States, and Dunnet Head is more than two hundred miles north ol Edinburgh. Scotland is divided into the Lowlands and the Highlands. The Highlands are, of course, in the North and the Lowlands in the South, but the line which separates the two divisions is not, so far as I know, well marked. With some trifling exceptions, the whole of Scotland might be called the Highlands of insular Europe. The Highlands were originally i settled by the Irish, and the Lowlands by [ variousraces from Continental Europe. The j inhabitants of these two general divisions I of Scotland have always been very different in their language and in their manners and customs. They are different to-day, but the Highlands are gradually losing their ancient characteristics. Scotland is divided for political purposes into thirty-two counties, each of which is, in some sense, under the supervision and control of a Lord Lieutenant. The whole population of Scotland, according to the best British authority, was, in 1781, 3,735,573. This is less than the population of the city of London. Scotland contains 19,490,132 acres of land, of which only 4,438,137 acres are cultivated. I suppose that one half of Scotland is covered with mountains ana JaKes. it is aimcuitto say wneuier me mountains or the lakes are more charming. Of these, however, I will speak in detail as these sketches progress. In many respects the Irish and the Scotch are strikingly alike. This is not to be wondered at, since the Protestant Irish are all of Scotch descent, and the Highlands of Scotland, as I stated, were originally settled by the primitive Irish. The Protestants of Ireland call themselves Scotch-Irish. This means a Scotchman born in Ireland. Ulster Province in Ireland was, as formerly stated, largely settled by Scotch Presbyterians who, because of persecution in their native land, on account of their religion, fled to Ireland. From Ireland large numbers of the descendants of these Scotch-Irish Presbyterians came to America, both before and after the Revolutionary war. In the Revolutionary war the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians were all Whigs. The Scotch, I think, were generally Loyalists. They were not Tories. This latter class was made of individuals of all nationalities, and, as a rule, were worthless creatures. They were of so low a grade that they could scarcely be said to be able to comprehend what is meant by the words liberty or slavery. They had no country and desired none. With these preliminaries, I commence a series of sketches of men and things in Scotland, as they presented themselves to me. I begin with Glasgow. It was in that city that I first put my foot on Scotch soil. It was on a dark rainy morning, and I must confess that everything wore a sombre hue. I left Belfast on the preceding night, about nine o'clock. The boat, the name of which I do not now remember, steamed out of Belfast harbor up the Lough of Belfast, having on the left hand the town of Carrickfergus, and on the right hand Bangor. The disfVrmn l>olfuct +n (iI(iaornvv ie nnf> him Kill W J A V/ IAS A/Vil liO V iV V* M V ?? ' </ w dred and thirty miles. The course is a little east of north until the mouth of the river Clyde is reached, then it is nearly south-east. From Belfast to Port Patrick, in Scotland, is not more than thirty miles. In going; from Belfast to Glasgow, the North Channel is first crossed and then up the Firth of Clyde. The Irish Sea has the reputation of being usually rough and foggy. The Firth of Clyde, when first entered is, I suppose, about fifteen miles wide. Its main direction is nearly north, but it branches out intoa number of firths. Opposite, ora little north of Glasgow it thrusts its arms out in all directions. The direction of one of these arms is south-east. Into this offshoot from the Firth of Clyde, the Clyde riyer flows. Perhaps it would be correct to say that the Clyde river widens out at its mouth, forming what appears to be an estuary. On the Clyde, about twenty-five miles from the Firth of Clyde, is situated the city of Glasgow. The city is located on both sides of the river. At its mouth, that is where it empties into the Firth of Clyde, the river Clyde is, I suppose, five miles wide, but it continues to grow narrow until, in some places, it is only a little wider than a large boat. The commercial existence of Glasgow depends upon the Clyde. This stream rises among the Lowther mountains, about fifty miles in a north-eastern direction, from Glasgow, in a straight line, it is about seventy-five miles from its source to its mouth. Such being the case, it would be natural to conclude that the Clyde, compared with many of the rivers in the western seci tion of the United States, is small. Such is the case. I was told by an old lady in the j city of Glasgow that she remembered when : the Clyde at Glasgow was, when the tide was up, not more than four feet deep, and when the tide was down she had waded it frequently. Now it is claimed that the Clyde is capable of bearing up the largest ships. This has been elf'ected by persistent dredging. The water of the Clyde is as ! black as ink?the filthiest looking stuff that I ever saw. I was told that this was caused by the vast quantities of waste dye-stuffs which are thrown into the river by calico ! manufactories. From the mouth of the j Clyde to Glasgow, both its banks are lined : with places of interest. The first on the left bank, and at or near the mouth of the river, is Greenock. This was in the seventeenth century, only a small fishing village. It is now a town of seventy thousand inhab- ( itants. Greenock is noted for the extensive ! commerce which it carries on. with both : North and .South America, with both the j : Kast and West Indies; for its waterworks,! for its shipbuilding and for its manufacto-j | ries, but it is specially noted in that it gave birth to James Watt, and contains the grave j of Burns' Highland Mary. In the suburban town, Cartsdyke, lived and died Jean Ad-1 ams, who wrote? "There's nae luck about the house." j Gait, who wrote "The Wandering Jew," died in Greenock. In an old and disused ! cemetery in a thickly settled part of the j i town, near the shore, are the graves of the j ; father and grand father of James Watt and ' Mary Campbell, Burns' Highland Mary. James Watt was born on the 19th of Jan- j uary, 17.%. His father was a merchant, but j without the ability to do much for his son. j The education of James Watt was received ; in the primary schools of Greenock and completed at home. He was a natural mathematician and mechanic. James Watt is sometimes spoken of as the inventor of the steam engine. This is not strictly correct. The steam engine existed before the time of! Watt, but it was very imperfect, and so constructed as to be of no real practical advant- j age. The steam engines of Savery and I Newcomen were in use, but so defective i were they that they ranked no higher than the wind-mill and ordinary water wheel. ! Watt improved the steam-engine of New-1 \ comen. So great, however, was the im- j provement, that it amounted almost to an < invention. During the early part of Watt's ; ] life, he had "a sore light of existence." < The reward come at last, and he retired j \ from business and spent the remainder of; ] his life on his estate at Heathfield. Here, | < on the 2f>th of August, 1819, he died, in the ! i eighty-fourth year of his age and was in-!? terred in the parish church of Handsworth. j ] From Greenock to Glasgow there is a rail-' road. The distance by railroad is twenty-1 < two and a half miles, whilerby water it is I ] rmlv twpntv-nnp miles. On .1 neninsula ! < formed by the Leven and Clyde and about j < fifteen miles from Glasgow is Dumbarton j < Castle. From the Clyde the Castle is plain- j < ly visible. It consists in part of a rock and j i in part of fortifications built on the rock. < The rock, which measures about a mile at i the base, rises like a wall t<* the height of ( two hundred and sixty feet. It terminates ] in two cone-shaped peaks. The buildings ] consist of a rampart wall, two batteries, a ] house for the commander, and barracks for ' one hundred and fifty men. There is a | i small structure, which is popularly regard- i 1 ed as the prison of Sir William Wallace, j | In addition to this there are the ruins of a j small circular tower, said to have been built \ by the Romans. The history of Dumbar- . ton Castle is involved in considerable mys- tery. Its origin is traced back to the Ro- i mans, but to what particular year I did not ] learn. It is thought that Dumbarton is Os- ( sian's Baldutha. At the the time of the < union of England and Scotland in 1707 it < was stipulated that Dumbarton Castle be \ maintained. Thisisdone, but only in form, ( since the garrison consists of five artillerymen with sixteen guns in position. It was < once the metropolis of Strathclyde or Cumbria. 1 ' 1 RIGHT HON. WM. HENRY SMITH. | The Right Hon. William Henry Smith, ' the Secretary of War in the Marquis of Salis- < bury's ministry, is the son of Mr. H. W. < Smith, of the Strand and Bournemouth, < Hampshire, bookseller, publisherand news- i agent. He was born in Duke Street, Gros- ' venor Square, London, June 24th, 1825. He was educated at the Grammar School of 1 Tavistock, and became, in due course, a partner of the well kuown firm in the Strand. ' In July, 18f>5, he unsuccessfully contested i Westminster, in the Conservative interest, < but his candidature was renewed, with sue- < cuss, in November, 18G8, wheivhe defeated ' Mr. John Stuart Mill. He has continued to j sit for Westminster ever since. In 1874 his j popularity was such that he ran ahead of all < his fellows, and was returned at the head of 1 the poll. Upon his appointment as Secreta- ' ry of War, it became necessary that he should be re-elected, and there were rumors < that the Liberals would leave no stone unturned to defeat him. When, however, the < election did take place, June 20th, 1885, he } was returned without opposition. In 1874 he was made Financial Secretary of the ? Treasury, serving in that capacity until Au- i gust 8th, 1877, when he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, and a Cabinet Min- 1 ister. This promotion gave rise to the fanciful conceit of Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. B., ' in Gilbert and Sullivan's opera of "Pina- < fore," of which the couplet? < "Stick dose to your desk and never go to sea, And you may be the ruler of the Queen's navee," directly applies to William Henry Smith. ; In this position he succeeded the late Mr. ^ Ward Hunt. When the Conservatives went [ out of office in April, 1880, Mr. Smith went with them. He was a member of the first 1 and second School Boards of London, but 1 retired therefrom in 1884. The University 1 of Oxford conferred on him the degree of I). C. L. in 1879, and in 1880 he was given the I freedom of the Stationers' Company. The known hostility of the Salisbury Ministry to 1 Russia makes the position of War Secretary j an especially important one. Extinction op tiif. Buffaloes.?'The 1 buffaloes were all right until about seven ! years ago, when the Indians were conquer- ' ed, which opened up the country and letthe 1 hide hunters in. It took aboutseven years, 1 beginning with 1870, to exterminate the ' buffalo along the line of the Union Pacific ' Railroad, which in the good old times could ' have been seen blackening the Platte River < bottom for miles. These poor, silly beasts 1 were so easily killed, and, from their abun- 1 dance, offered so rich a reward to the hide 1 hunter, that every idle fellow in that part < of the country could make good wages [ butchering them. The Union Pacific Rail- J road split the herds in half, and left a moie- ' tyto the north and a moiety to the south. | Those in Texas were soon used up by sports- ' men and professional hunters; but the ' great northern herd fled to Wyoming and i' Montana, where Sitting Bull and his fol- \ t lowers took charge of and protected them | 1 until Uncle Sam's soldiers began chasing 1 him around the country as well as the bison, is From 1875 to 188(1 fully 1,00(1,000 of these ' l-Jll-J 1 ? 1.1! 1 -M 1 uruies were Kineu uy suiuiers ami uui? i white men. 1 ? .. Children's Laughter.?There are 110 1 sounds so sweet to a mother's ear, except, 1 perhaps, the first lisping of an infant's pray- i 1 er. Children's laughter! How dull is the ! t home wherein its music once so joyfully j t echoed, but now is heard no more, llow 1 1 still is the house where the littleones are all: ' fast asleep, their pattering feet are silent. How easily the fun of a child bubbles forth. Take even these poor, prematurely aged lit- 1 tie ones, bred in the gutter, cramped in un-!* earthly homes, and ill-used it may be, by ,? drunken parents, and you will find that the 1 child nature is not entirely crushed out. 1 They are children still, although they look * so haggard and wan. Try to excite their 1 mirthfulness, and ere longa laugh rings out 1 so wild and free as if there was no such 1 thing as sorrow in the world. Let the little t] ones laugh, then ; too soon, alas! they will > find cause enough to weep. Do not try to :1 silence them, but let their gleefulness ring ? out in gladsome appeal, reminding us of the :1 days when we, too, could laugh without a 0 sigh. t . ^ . I Bfeg"- \\ hen a man is faithful you see then < that he concentrates many healthful virtues i around him ; the otherwise scattered chan- ? nels are converged, ond empty their cur- \ rents into one tide, lifting him up and float- s ing him on towards the shore of all perfec- ( tiom Such a man becomes the object and 1 centre of providential dealings. The wings i of many influences, like the ravens of old, < are heavy with the nourishment they bring 1 him.?Murray. 1 Reading. GETTING WISDOM TEETH. A DENTIST GIVES SOME POINTS OF INTEREST. "I have noticed that more people are interested in the condition of their mouths md teetli since the widespread report of jfeneral Grant's peculiar disease and the various causes ascribed for it," remarked a ientist to the Chicago News. "The majority of persons have been prone to give little tieed to any disarrangement of the mouth, lental or otherwise, and to pass it over even for years, as something merely uucomfortlhln nnrl nnf ijrmnrtnnt. tr> the feneral ! health." Concerning teeth-cutting, he said: "The upper wisdom teeth are usually erupted without difficulty, but those of the low^r jaw often occasion considerable constitutional disturbance, and are frequently, especially with males, the reason of various ibscure nervous affections. Crowding is the cause of the most trouble with these teeth, ivhich are known as the 'third molars,' the space between the second molars and the jpright portions of the jaw being insufficient to permit the tooth to come through readily. The inflammation which ensues frequently causes a lump to form at the place where the jaw reaches the throat. This is called a 'fungus excrescence,' and jsually has to be cut out. Sometimes simply lancing the gum and letting out the Plood will give relief. The record of the troubles caused by the attempt of a wisdom tooth to push itself out into the society of an ilready crowded arch is manifold. They ire sometimes very slow in accomplishing the job, and I've known youths and young men who were not in good health for two Dr three years from no other cause than cutting their wisdom teeth. In the cases some exceptionally susceptible and sensitive individuals, they have occasioned :leath." "What is the average age of cutting wis:lom teeth ?" "Any period between sixteen and fortyfive. The most critical periods are usually it the ages of six, twelve and about seventeen, although few persons cut wisdom teeth till over twenty. People suffer more in later years from the stupidity of their parents and the lack of attention they give to their teeth from the ages of six to seventeen than from any other cause. Now, the six-year old molars are the largest teeth in the mouth, and arc very important. They should never be allowed to decay if it is possible to prevent it. Even if they cannot be permanently saved, they should by all means be retained till the child is between ten and twelve years old. But if they cannot be kept there are reasons why they should be extracted at this particular periid. The want of proper appreciation and proper treatment of these six-year-old molars is one of the principal causes which occasion most people to lose part or all of their teeth before they are forty. Why ? Oh, the effects of their removal are so many that [ can't give them in detail. Their removal robs the arch of support, just as taking a barrel stave from the barrel would, and therefore it must collapse sooner or later. If people haven't good teeth they can't masticate their food sufficiently. Many persons don't do so who have teeth. Indigestion, is, of course, the result. Indigestion is our prevailing malady, and it has its origin eight times out of ten in some trouble with the teeth, either nervous or owing to the decay of the dental aparatus. The pressure exerted upon teeth during mastication is essential to their healthy condition. They are strengthened, the same as any other organ by exercise." "What is the most common disease of the teeth ?" "Tarter deposit. It resembles cream of tarter, which gathers from time to time and adheres to the teeth as that does to the sides of the casks. It occasions a heap of mischief. The only treatment for it is its thorough removal. It is very destructive, frequently eating furrows across the teeth just below the margin of the gum. It accumulates the most rapidly at night, for sis the mouth is then at rest there is nothing to interfere with its attachment as there is when the fluids are in motion. The acids of the mouth are more active sit night, too. Therefore the teeth should alwsiys be cleaned before retiring. If they are brushed at no other time?and it is not necessary unless convenient to brush them oftener than once a day?it should he done before sleeping. Teeth should not be scrubbed like a kitchen floor, either, but brushed gently, the upper ones down and the lower ones up. There.are nice little tooth-brushes and dentrifices manufactured especially now forchil [lren s use, ana uieir mue leem snouia ne cleaned the same as older persons." A Traitor's Bride.?1The Quaker City has not been famed for the beauty of its women in this day only. The pages of its sedate history are bright with faces of pretty maidens and stately matrons. Among the beauties of the Revolutionary days none was more charming than gay, ill-starred Margaret Shippen. Her family at that time was one of the most influential in the province, and it has continued to give to Philadelphia a succession of sturdy, highminded men and women, though her own ige was clouded by suspicions of disloyalty. She married Benedict when she was eighteen. She first met him in Philadelphia on his return from Canada, loaded with honors, \nd her girlish fancy was captivated by his Jashing manners and the splendor of his career. Her family was opposed to the union, but she insisted on it and would have become his wife in spite of all opposition, but the barriers were at last removed. She had been married about a year and just become a mother, when her husband committed the traitorous deed that will make his name despised through all time. She was it West Point with her baby. She was at mce taken into custody and given into the charge of General Hamilton and Aaron llurr to be conveyed to Philadelphia. She was not permitted to remain in peace, however, even at the house of her father. The indignation of the populace was at a fever beat, and the traitor's young bride was orlered by the Provincial Counsel, then the governing body, to leave the colonies. In vain her father, afterwards Chief Justice, nleaded for mercy. He offered the largest security for her conduct ; promised that she should receive no communications of any and from any one through any but the lublic channels and under the closest scru:iny. It was in vain. The council would lot modify its decree. The young wife eft for England, met her husband there, ina uvea wnn mm 10 u goou oi? age. tome of their descendants have donedisinguished service in the English army and lavy and in the English Church.?Chicago Tribune. Thk Would Without Sugar.?Has my housewife ever realized the alarming 'ondition of cookery in the benighted generations before the invention of sugars? [t is really almost too appalling to think ibout. So many things we now look upon us all but necessaries?cakes, puddings, nade dishes, confectionery, preserves, sweet nscuits, jellies, cooked fruits, tarts, etc.? vere then practically impossible. Fancy ittempting nowadays to live a single day vithout sugar; no tea, no coffee, no jam, no ake, no sweets, no hot toddy before one roes to bed ; the bare idea of it is too terible. And yet that was really the abject ondition of all the civilized world up to he middle of the Middle Ages. Horace's juneh was sugarless; the gentle Virgil nev r tasted the congenial cup of afternoon tea; ind Socrates went from his cradle to his rrave without ever knowing the flavor of jeppermint bull's eyes. How the children ipent their .Saturdays as, or their weekly mlous, is a profound mystery. To be sure, jeople made honey, but honey is rare, dear ind scanty; it can never have filled onejuarter of the place that sugar fills in our nodern affections. Try for a moment to ealize drinking honey with one's eotfee, t or doing the year's preserving with a pot of Narborine, and you get at once a common measure of the difference between the two as practical aweeteners. Nowadays we get sugar from cane and beet root in abundance, while sugar, maple and palm trees of various sorts afford a considerable supply to remoter countries. But the childhood of the little Greeks and Romans must have been absolutely unlighted by a single ray of joy from chocolate creams or Everton taffy. The consequence of this excessive production of sweets in modern times is, of course, that we have begun to distrust the indications afforded us by the sense of taste in this particular and to the wholesomeness of various objects.?London Cornhill. Tiie Mecca of a Mother.?It may be I 1 1 r _ i.. LK ,1 1 I only a nariow anne wun a rusty uiauc auu a broken point, or it may be a peg top half split down in the middle, or only half a dozen battered spools on a knotted string. But there it lies, whatever it is stowed carefully away in the far-off corner of the bureau drawer, under a yellow pile of little linen and stockings, patched and darned at I heel and at knee. But all the gems of Gol-1 conda cannot buy them ; no, nor the gold of [ all the wide world size their preciousness.! For they are the holy of the holies. It is not often that she goes so that drawer, not often she looks upon the treasures there. But once in a while, sometimes, the time when a knock comes to the heart, that' comes to mothers' hearts alone like the famished and thirsty she goes to the nest of her jewels. Slowly, with soft hands the little linens are laid aside, and slowly with trembling hands, the knife, the top, or the string of dingy spools are drawn forth. Ah! how gently they are pressed to the heart and lips! What words are they saying, what sad, sweet songs are they singing? Kissed and cried on, and cried on and kissed. Then yearningly, reluctantly, clingingly back they go to their nest in the far-off corner, and the yellowing little linens are put back one by one. All alone, jealous that mortal eyes should see her worship at the shrine, the drawer is closed, and she who knelt before it comes to earth once more.?Pittsburg Chronicle. Slow Eating.?The idea of rest and recreation and deliberation in eating no longer occupies the thought of the American boy, much loss of the business men. Yet the power of one's life depend as much upon this as upon any one conduct of life. The relation of the chewing and the juices of the mouth to the after digestion, all along the digestive track, and to that assimilation whicn is to give force and vigor to work, is such that we cannot afford tp forget the esential relationship. The failure of this part ot the aparatus to do its part does not involve immediate loss of power or bedridden sickness, but it is a more frequent limitation upon forceful life than any one disability. A thorough digestion not only leaves the mind clear and the nervous system placid, but so provides the physical and mental machinery with its propelling power to make thought as natural as if it were a physical function. It is not difficult to see in the work as well as in the writings of some men, the traces of a bad physical condition. Emerson over-stated the case when he said the sick man is on the road to rascality; but, nevertheless, did indicate what is true, that a man in a chronic state of embarrassed digestion is out of gear with himself and the rest of mankind. We believe that the foundation of many an incapacity is laid in the want of quiet, deliberate eatin Independent. Destroying War.?War is a thermometer of tire and death. It blots out a whole crop of grain in a week, destroys the efficiency ot a mighty railroad in three days, puts millions a day upon the public debt of a nation, stops credit in every direction, hastens bankruptcy, and lifts into glory yesterday's hostler and street car driver. The idle portion of the world will never go to the poor-house if a war can intervene in their behalf. Russia has attempted to come forward among the business nations vainly; her strong card has always been war. She would prefer not to trouble Europe, but unfortunately her path into Asia lies across the apprehensions of England. England, nursuing a huge trading and colo nial career, has awakened the "jealosy of nearly every nation in Europe which'is indifferent to a struggle in the far East or on the seas between the winter giant and the island rover. England is full of gloom, of unemployed people, of the satiety of avarice and of commerce. Both England and Russia have the temptation to arm the great hordes of Asia and use them in war. England has colonies all over the globe, and the attitude of each of these will be considered with interest. War is like fire; you can kindle it anywhere, but where you can stop it is a matter of wind and water.?Gath. Boasting.?"Boasters are cousins to liars," says the proverb. "Let him that thinketh hestandeth take heed lest he fall," says the word of God. Nothing is to be gained but much may be lost, by boasting. Charles V, before he invaded France, ordered the court historian to obtain a large quantity of paper to record the victories which he was going to obtain. But he lost his general and a large part of his army by disease, and returned bathed, defeated and mortified. Mrs. Judge B , a wealthy and aristocratic lady of New Jersey, was one day sailing with a party of friends, when the subject of losing property was discussed. Mrs. B., slipping a gold ring from her finger and dropping it into the river, said, "It is as impossible for me to become poor as for me to recover this ring." not many days after, Mrs. B.'s cook came into the sitting-room and showed her a ring which had been taken from a fish. It was the ring she had dropped into the lake. Mrs. B. died a pauper in Elizabethtown, N. J., and her husband died in the poor house of a neighboring town. TT11 m511f\r onrl nnf hnucf-innr is hppnmin<>" in a Christian. Whatever you are, give all the glory to God. John Newton said : "I am not what I wish to be; I am not what I hope to he; but, by the grace of God, I am not what I was." -? - ? Pkh.so.va litiks.?Keep clear of personalities in general conversation. Talk of things, objects, thoughts. The smallest minds occupy themselves with personalities. Personalities must sometimes be talked because we have to learn and find out men's characteristics for legitimate objects; but it is to be with confidential persons. Do not needlessly report ill of others. There are times when we are compelled to say, "I do not think Bouncer is a true and honest man." But when there is no need to express an opinion,let poor Bouncer swagger away. Others wiil take his measure, no doubt and save you the trouble of analyzing and instructing them. And as far as possible dwell on the good side of human beings. There are family boards 1 where a constant process of depreciation, assigning motives, and cutting up characters 1 goes forward. They are not pleasant places. One who is healthy does not wish to dine at a dissecting table. There is evil enough in man, uou Knows: jhh it is nut me mission of every young man and woman to detail and report it all. Keep the atmos- ( phere as pure as possble, and fragrant with : gentleness and charity. 1 . In Cuba two hours before a paper is dis- i tributed on the street a copy must be sent with the editor's name, to the government and one to the censor. When the paper is returned with the censor's endorsement the paper may go out to the public. One of the newspapers in Havana disregards the law, publishes what it pleases and when it gets ready. Every few weeks the government tines the editor and suppresses the paper. The next day the paper appears under a new name. Its frequent brushes with the government advertise it, and people buy it to see what new indiscretion it has committed. The subscription price is $24 a year. DOES DEATH STING ? THE QUESTION ANSWERED FROM A MEDICAL POINT OF VIEW. J)r. G. L. iteardsley concludes that the dread of dying is quite as intense as the instinct of self-preservation. "Indeed, it is not improbable," adds the doctor that numbers would care less about living were the modes for leaving this world a theme for happy contemplation, or an innovation to the routine of plodding that was agreeable. One is remarkably exempt from the crime of hasty induction if he affirms that there is no sane or healthy mortal who anticipates his extinction with any degree of pleasure. The function of dying is actually vegetative?we are hilling to pieces like a flower. This very fact, that the process is chemical, confirms us in this conclusion that the final throe is as painless as the inconvenience is nothing to the fcetal pilgrim when he touches on daylight. A moment's examination of the way we are to die will show marks of goodness in our taking off. The degree of sensibility is proportioned to the integrity of the tissues. An inflammation heightens it; age depreciates it. Any defect in the nutrition disturbs the comfort of the individual un tiLthe carbonic acid generated in the devitalization of the blood becomes fixed in the cells or is no longer displaced. The sensory ganglier eyerywhere part with their irritability by virtue of this poison, and cease to conduct currents. The critera of death are being satisfied, and the process is consummated when this extinction of sensibility prevails at the ultimate fillaments. During the progress of this dissolution of the nerve force, this creeping on of the numbness of death, the individual is rapidly passing into a condition of repose, and instead of torture or pangs, a degree of selfsatisfaction of approaching to enthusiasm is realized. The sensations peculiar to theaputical operation of opium, hasheeth, ether, etc., are not improbably akin to the mental activities of the dying. Barring the halluncinations experienced in the stupor as it is gained on the subject, the moribund is familiar with naught that borders on suffering. This carbonic acid has poisoned or narcotized the several ganglia, and reflux productions are interdicted. A consummate analgesia prevails. In short, the notion of pain is forbidden the instant that any stimulus fail to excite a response. The condition to this irritability is that the nerve centre and the track be sound. If this vigor vanishes, reflex phenomena are at an end, and suffering, physiologically speaking, is impossible because of the arrest of the function of the sympathetic. Fortunately, for a wholesome study of one's demise, there are assurances abundant from vivisection, the testimony of those who have been restored to consciousness and the affirmations of the dying, that there is no physical recoil from death.? Medical and Surgical Reporter. Good Reading for Young Men.?The late Edward Pierrepbon, who distinguished himself as secretary of the American legation at Rome, once received a letter from his father which contained the following sound advice: Dress like a gentleman ; never be peculiar or flashy, but dress as becomes you, not as becomes some one else. Never talk about your expenses or your money, and never be ashamed to live with economy; on the contrary, be proud of it. Your business now is to acquire knowledge, and you need ? >/ .* Ka nnvlnno tn diinlov vnitM psnppjallv liUl Ut ailAlUUQ VV/ UlUiyiVWJ J \/M>w ?~r- - ? ? to older men, but always try to learn of them. Never say to another what it would be unpleasant to have him say to you. Ilemember that good manners are of great importance. Manners should be frank and easy, with dignity. Avoid fawning, toadying ways as you would the foul fiend. Never fawn to a prince or swagger to a peasant. Be courteous and manly everywhere and to everybody. Let your manner be quiet; nothing is more underbred than a flurried address with a face wrinkled all over with grinning delight. The countenance can express pleasure and welcome without idiotic contortions, and when these appear, whether in the son of a duke or a drayman, they are intensely vulgar. You cannot have good manners in the drawing room if your habitual manner is bad; the habit will betray you; let the habit be always good. Far better that you look frigid even, than that you degrade your countenance with silly hilarity. Be a gentleman, feel like a gentleman, and you will look and act like one. Snmptimps vnn will be neerlected. and your vanity may feel woundecL Never let this annoy you. Be absolutely sure that in due time all will come right, and that you will have all the consideration that you merit. No one can do you any permanent injurj-but yourself. The world is so constituted that it is not in men's power to withhold respect from lofty character, real ability and good conduct. You may be invited to a ball or dinner because you dance or tell good stories; but no one since the time of Queen Elizabeth has been made a cabinet minister or a lord chancellor for such reasons. First Indications of Consumption.? It is not as extensively known as it ought to be that in the large majority of cases consumption begins with a slight cough in the morning 011 getting up. After a while it is perceived at night on going to bed: next there is an occasional coughing spell some time during the night; by this time there is a difficulty of breathing on any slightly unusual exercise, or in ascending a hill, and the patient expresses himself with some surprise: "Why, it never used to tire me so!" Next there is occasional coughing after a full meal, and sometimes "casting up." Even before this person begins to feel weak, while there is an almost imperceptible thinning in flesh and a gradual diminution in weight?harrassing cough, loose bowels, difficult breathing, swollen extremities, daily fever and a miserable death. Miserable, because it is tedious, painful and inevitable. How much it is to be wished that the symptoms of this hateful disease were more generally studied and understood that it be detected in its first insidious approaches and application be made at once for its arrest and total eradication ; for certain it is that in very many instances it could be accomplished. It must be remembered that cough is not an invariable attendant of consumption of the lun<rs. inasmuch as persons have died, and on'examination a large portion of the lungs was found to have decayed away, and yet these same persons were never noticed to have had a cough or observed it themselves, until within a few days of death. But such instances are rare, and an habitual cough, on getting up and on going to bed, may be safely set down as indicating consumption begun. Cough, as just stated, is originally a curative process?the means which nature uses to rid the body of that which offends, of that which was foreign to the system and ought to be out; hence the folly of using medicines to keep down the cough, as all cough remedies sold in the shops merely do, without taking means at the same time for removing that state of things which makes cough necessary.?HaWs Journal of Health. No matter what may have been your failures, 110 matter how black and ugly is the face of the past as it scowls at you through your recollections?you are not lost. You have only to clear away the rubbish from the foundation and begin again. In this endeavor you are not alone. There is not a twig on a tree which seeks growth, there is not a flower in the field that craves fragrance, unassisted by God. ? ? ? What is more miserable than to see an old man just entering 011 the practice of virtue ?