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. ? * *; . *? ' "^* * ;/ " lewis m. grist, proprietor, f %\ Jnbepenbtnf Jfamitj ftelospjier: Jor flje ^promotion of % |)oIitical, Social, Agricultural anb Commercial Interests of tbe jiontj). ]terms-$2.50 a year, in advance. VOL. 32. Y OEKYILLE, S C. WEDNESDAY, J IT YE 23, 1886. NO. 25. ?rigiital fflftrg. Written Tor the Yorkville Enquirer. MY CHILDHOOD'S HOME. BY INGOMAR. I'll sing you to-night of a faery spot In ambrosial's valley set, ' And of all the lands I have traveled o'er 'Tis the fairest I'ye seen yet: 'Tis a vale of peace and of glad release From Grief or Sorrow's moan, And the woodbines twine with the ivy vine In th* vale of my childhood's home. I've traveled afar o'er many aland And sailed o'er the deep blue sea; I have viewed earth's gardens and valleys bright, And they all seemed fair to me: But th' vale of my home where I loved to roam,? Where tho birds sang sweet and low,-Is the dearest vale,?'tis the sweetest vale Thro' which crystal streamlets How. In that dear old vale, with its ivyed cot, I dream all the songs I sing; Afomnrr lik-o Ihn liehtnimr's Hash. ; Or Thought on an angel's wing, Takes me'to the vale where the woodbines trail And the babbling brooklets flow,? To that dear old vale,?that sweet old vale, Whero the birds sang sweet and low. Jforg Irllrr. THE BE WITCHED HOUSE. A MEMORY OF MAURITIUS. While I was on a visit Mauritius a few I years ago the following mysterious circum- j stances occurred, and, although everything was done to find out the orginator, natural or supernatural, of the trick played upon us?if trick it was?we never succeeded -5^ in elucidating the matter. Travelers in different parts of the world ; . may have had the like disagreeable experience, as I have since heard that this J species of revenge on supposed enemies, of which so disagreeable a specimen came under my notice, is commonly resorted to in Ceylon and several parts of India. I happened to be spending a year with my sister and her husband in the lovely island made immortal by the fact?or fiction?ol' the romantic loves and deaths of Paul and Virginia. The house servants, with the exception of the nurses, were all natives; that is Indians either born in the Island?the offspring of coolies imported for the labor of the sugar plantations, or who had come to prosecute their fortunes?Creoles of mixed race, natives of the island, and varying con, siderable in tint and feature. The cook was a Madrassee, the butler ? a creole of African descent ; three of the ? "boys" were pure Indians. They all seemed to get on very well together; now and S again we heard a tremendous noise?six or seven tongues raised in unintelligible hubbub of incomprehensible talk, but i.t gradualy sank away or ended in a hearty burst of childish laughter. The language in which we communicated ik. with them was vaguely called creole, a mixture of French and other tongues, the former predominating; as in Mauritius, though an English colony/ French obtains in the shops and in a considerable portion of the commercial world, most of the principle planters in the island being descendants of old French families. It is a childish language full of abbrevations, odd abrupt terminals and ejaculations, with a universal and most catching burr, which, all children born in the island involuntarily acquire. None of the servants spoke English; only one, the butler, Alphonso Apparvoo, familiarly termed "Sammy," understood it, and he only imperfectly; so that, notwithstanding the presence of three or four "boys" at the table we could speak uncoustrainedly on any subject. The cook, whose name was Manuel, had been nine years in my brother-in-law's employment, and was a most respectable, steady, harmless man, and occupied with his wife and children, a small "case" in thegrounds, hidden behind a hedge of bamboo and tamarind trees. It was my brother-in-law's intention to finally leave Mauritius in six months, and as the house was to be occua pied, after his departure by his partner, a single man, the establishment would naturally be considerably reduced. But, as his intention was only known to his imtne- J diate family, and he did not wish it generally spoken of until his plans were fixed, I do not see that the servants can have had any acquaintance with his projected movement, although subsequent events have made me come reluctantly to the conclusion that Sammy, in spite of being a trustworthy servant and the factotum of the establishment, was the prime mover in the disturbance of peace and comfort. I may be doing him an injustice, but he must, I think, have in some way become aware 01 ine impending changes, and have taken the means I am about to narrate to get rid of a servant whose footing in the house was of a longer standing than his own. This, however, is onTy conjecture, as we never succeeded in clearing up the mystery.; One hot evening we were seated at a ta- i ble, the party consisting of my sister, her husband, two young men?his cousins?and myself. The servants had left the room for one of the courses, when instead of returning, we heard a hubbub of mingled voices, cries of terror, a stampede of naked feet pattering along the tiled veranda, and while we were lost in amazement as to what the cause of the sudden disturbance might be, in rushed one of them, Dijuman by name, his face that ashen hue which Indians assume when pale, his very turban shaking on his head, as in tremulous voice he cried piteously: "M'sieu, pierrc fine tombe, venez, gete-li, fine coupe tete doomon, n'a pus conne doomon zette-li, sarse, ue trouve-li." But as I cannot speak creole correctly, not to mention spelling it, I had better give a translation of the more puzzling words in his ejaeulatory sentence. "Sarse" is "ehez chez" as creole cannot pronounce "ch;" "gete" is "look" or "see;" "doomon" is a very general term applied to all and sundry. Any one wishing to see you is a "doomon ;" all news is heard from "quelque * " 1 T l.nlinfo ic framl fn ? uoomon," anu 1 i?cnu>c ? ? monde." Every second sentence begins with "fine" and ends with "li," followf ed by an extraordinary sort of a grunt? "Eh!" something like the "Yah!" of the London street boy. Djuman's trembling utterances were to the effect that while the cook was dishing the dinner, stones began to fall at intervals on the stove, on the table and indifferent parts of the kitchen, coming down on the outside wooden roof of the building, which stood alone some fifty yards from the house with a sharp, clear "ping" and falling down into the room without a crack or an aperture of any kind being visible on the ceiling to show how they had effected an entrance. My sister, who was of a nervous temper ament, did not like it at all, and shrank close to her husband's side, begging him not to leave her. The two young men and I rose, ran across the veranda and the bright, moonlit paved yard into the little kitchen, where I did not know at first whether to be most alarmed on seeing the cook's brother, who had rushed in from the neighboring "cour" at the first noise of the falling stones, standing ruefully rubbing his head, which was bleeding from a blow he had received, oramused at seeing half a dozen full-grown men capering about like so many children, whimpering, teeth chattering from terror, all talking at once and each giving a different version of the story in high-pitched voices. I stood gazing at the ceiling when a sharp thud above me made me leap suddenly into the air, and a stone larger than my fist fell at my feet. ' ft"" /.ii'nUnn. In'c IIM Tu'c f/Mira O (111 V iXIICi Uio HUV, 4J ?VUIW V. y?"j brother-in-law) followed us, and instead of sympathizing with the general terror, sharply told the servants to stop all this nonsense, that he would soon find out the practical joker, cut him a month's wages?the usual threat?and deprive him of his monthly bag of rice. Then he ordered them to proceed at once serving the rest of the dinner. The excitement was too great to permit of my doing anything so prosaic as to return to dinner while this mystery was unexplained, so the two youths and I remained in the veranda. One fetched his gun and fired into the woods and across a neighboring ravine, hoping that if the aggressor were hidden in its wooden recesses the sound of firing would cause him to desist. He then climbed a tall tree, from which, as it was a glorious moonlight night?and no one who has not seen the beauty of a tropical full moon can have any idea of its soft yet clear brilliance?hecould see a great distance, while I fearfully peered about among the low bushes, keeping all the while in the close vicinity of my six-foot companion, who, pooh-poohing the whole affair, did not, I could see, like it at all*. I confess that I surreptitiously picked up the stone I had found in the kitchen and smelled it, to see if I could find any trace of brimstone. An nouror iwo eiapseu, ana sun tne siuuts fell-, doing more or less damage. Sometimes one or two would come bang ! bang! after each other; then a quarter of an hour would elapse, and we would think it was all over, when the noise and battery would recommence. It was getting beyond our usual hour for retiring for the night, but somehow we forgot to propose breaking up our little party. It was useless to settle to any occupation ; my sister, the two young men and I talked 1 with bated breath, and I did not at all enjoy the prospect of the night before me, as I occupied one of the three pavilions?small wooden rooms built outside the large house with a connecting veranda between, and whether the thrower of the missiles was or was not a supernatural personage, I did not relish his vicinity. About 11 o'clock the servant came to say thatohe noise and damage still continued, when G. once more repaired to the kitchen and announced his intention of sending for the police to find out j and punish the offender. Accordingly his | cousin went off in his little caleche to the nearest police station, and returned with three men?one a French Creole, one an Irishman and thethird English. When we explained the circumstances to them they smiled in a superior manner and said: "You'll never find it out, whatever it is; it has been practiced in several parts of the isl and before, and quite lately, too. Some weeko ago we were sent for to Savanne for the same cause. The inhabitahts left the house and we stayed there alone on the alert for three days, and, though we watched steadily night and day, the very glass globes of | the lamps were broken in the room where I we were sitting; we saw the stones fall and j heard the sound as they struck the outside I roof, but never once saw any appearance of even a crack in the ceiling, and left the place without having found out anything." This was not satisfactory ; but it was a little reassuring, in the long hours before I fell asleep, to hear the police pacing up and down the veranda, or when their steps ceased, to know, by the tell-tale scent of their cigarettes through the open winuow, inai they were not slumbering. I had meant to keep the stone I picked up as a memento of the incident, and had it put in my room ; but fearing such an uncanny object might take to capering about my premises at the I witching hour of midnight I opened my window and deposited it outside. [ The police left next morning, as they said it was quite useless to remain. G, and his cousins had to be in Port Louis daily from in in the morning till oo'clock, so my sister and I were left to face the terrors, which, however did not look half so great by day as by night. My sister would not ask a question, nor listen when the servants volunteered details; but my curiosity, which is considerable, overcame my terror, and I kept going backward and forward to the servants' quarters to mark the progress of affairs so as to report them faithfully toG. in the evening. I discovered that the principle victims of the missiles were the cook's two sons, bright little fellows of 8 and 10 years of age. Wherever they were the stones fell thickest?in the avenue, among the trees, in their own hut or in the detached kitchen. On mentioning this circumstance to my brother he immediately sent for Manuel, told him to punish his children once, and make them understand that he would have no more of this tomfoolery going on, and ordered them to he shut into a room alone all night, and a guardian placed at the door to watch. I was quite aghast at this summary and, as I thought, cruel behavior, but I only attempted a laint remonstrance, and made up my mind to reserve the rest of my exciting adventures for a more sympathetic ear. Next morning the guardian declined to watch the children any longer, as a stone had ieft a large lump on his own forehead. "I shall stop this," said the now angry master of the household. Accordingly Manuel's boys were dispatched to the school at ltosehill, some two miles off, with a note to the schoolmaster asking him to receive them as boarders for a few weeks. We heard nothing further for twenty-four hours, when the boys and a polite note were simultaneously handed back, to | say that the schoolmaster declined having ; them any longer, as since the arrival of his i young visitors his own head had been neari ly broken by a mysterious stone coming J through the roof, which, however remained j intact. Next day, after my brother had I gone to town, I was in my bedroom when ! I heard the patter of naked feet on the j veranda outside my window, and piteous cries for "grande Ma'amselle," as they always call me from my height. I ran to the window to find ten or eleven creatures crying, wringing their hands, Manuel in their midst, u sobbing child in either hand, telling me in accents of despair that whenever the children seated themselves to eat a dish of rice an invisible hand seized and flung the dish some three feet ofl', scattering the rice all around; and that as he and their mother were beside them they heard the click, click, of a pair of scissors, and the children's beautiful silky hair was lying on the ground, shorn off in jagged, uneven masses. The two boys were in a great state | of terror, sobbing and trembling, their father the image of misery and wretchedness. I consoled them as best I could; tried to laugh away their fears, albeit my own were increasing; and desiring Djuman to bring me a bunch of bananas I fed the little ones out of my own hand at the window. In order to be able to confuse my brother's 4 f Kn /lAtrirtl Soi f tr if nnf nr?f5\rn lUCiiD iia IU L. 11I Win fSl 1V.I VJ y *? uvv uvvi vv agency, of the boys, 1 armed myself with a large umbrella, and taking the children with me I repaired to theirown hut?a regular "ease"?filthy and malodorous, but the excitement of my own nervous system was such that I would have gone through a good deal to find out the origin of the mystery. It was a day of intense heat, but I stood in that baking, reeking hut?where all there was in the way of beds were some filthy looking-mats; where old clothes hung on the begrimed walls, and where the only air was admitted by high, narrow windows?with the two culprits before me, their only attire little shirts and nankeen trousers. I thought if they threw up the stones b^| any quick movement I could not fail to see the motion or their hands; ten minutes, a quarter of an hour, elapsed, and no sign. I was beginning to feel faint from heat and bad air, when hang went one and another on the roof, and two stones fell before me, one narrowly grazing my nose. I dismissed the children, who evinced great fear, and recommenced sobbing and shivering, and rushed out of the "case," cannoning in my flight against the coachman, who was waiting at some distance to hear the result of my courageous exploit. "Have you ever heard of this sort of thing before?" I mustered up sufficient Creole to say. "Si fait, Ma'amselle; si fait!" he rerUinrl finrl tnlrl nip forthwith SDITie {rhastlv tales, ending most indignantly with "and they say, some of them, that I am at the bottom of it." "Nonsense," I said, and rushed out of the blinding vertical sun-rays on to the comparatively cool veranda to encounter Djuman, my own servant, who next respectfully asked if Ma'amselle had seen or heard anything. "I wonder what It can be!" I said more to myself than to him. "he Diable!" promptly responded Djuman. "Nonsense!" I said again, this time quite sharply; for though I had a vague idea in my own mind that perhaps "le diable" was at the bottom of it somehow, my honor and self-respect required me to keep up an appearanse of courage I was far from feeling ' * " 11 - ? 1 T ?1. - -II 1 1-^-1 | neiore mese umiu inuians, who uii kjukou I to me as a rock of defense?an infallible authority as well as a most welcome outlet to their feelings as an audience. To their mistress they did not attempt to speak, for she was too frightened by the whole proceeding to listen even to my experiences. "Si, Ma'amselle, si; there is a little book," continued Djuman ; "they consult, and it is some one in the house who is doing it, and the little book is called "Le Petit Albert' and there is only one copy in the island." I was interested in this relation and noted the fact, and the reader can judge my sursurprise when, long after, in reading a book of P. Ilamerton's, cjdlcd "Round My House," I came upon the following passage: "In one part of France the peasants have the fullest belief in sorcery. The belief that the secrets of sorcery are contained in a mysterious volume called 'Albert,' and they are convinced that certain persons possess the book, though I never could see a copy of it nor ascertain if it really existed." Had J known the tact at the time my interest would have been doubled, as Mr. Ilamerton's testimony shows that a book of divination or demology, called Le Petit Albert, does exist in other countries, though whence it derives its peculiar and somewhat modern name I have never found out. Next day, Manuel, his wife and children took French leave, and went off for the day without our having any ciue to meir wnuieabouts. The place was quiet during the day, but we were at dinner, between 8 and 9 o'clock, a servant came to say that Manuel had returned, and sent in a message to "tell tnassa he was drunk." Dark though it was, the instant he and his family turned from the high road into the avenue the stones rattled around them in the | path. Next morning, as I sat in the store-room, giving out rice, Hour, curry?all the articles necessary for the day's consumption, I began to speak to Manuel thus: "Cook, I am very sorry indeed to thinkthat, after being a trusted servant here for nine years, you should come home in such a state as you were in last night. 1 assure i you that if it ever happens again your master will not pass it over, but you will have to go." Manuel, who, like most Madrasses, spoke | a little broken English, replied : "What me do, Missy? Me no eat, me children, wife mis'rable; they no eat, no sleep, no nothing. There is nothing to do j but to get drunk." I remember that I read him a moral, lec' ture, and said by adding the effects of drink ! to his present misery he was not doing much to improve his conditon, but all the time I felt deeply for the poor man. Slightly infected with my brother's reiterated suspicions of his two children, who ! bore a name for mischief, I asked him earn! nestly if he thought they had really anything to do with it, and seeing the success 1 of their trials in the general terror and \ mystification, were induced to keep it up. I did not add that (1. insisted that I was j very much to blame in the matter, as my evincing so much interest encouraged them to continue. "Was it likely," said Manuel in reply, "that children of 8 and 10 would go on doing a thing, even if it were possible for them to do it so closely watched, which was making their parents miserable, involving themselves in punishment, and which would ultimately deprive them of house and home?" "No, Missy; it will go worse, you see; we will be pinch black and blue. Needles will go through our tongues when we sleep, and in two months we die if no one find out and stop." Then shutting the store-room door mysteriously, he approached me and said in a low whisper: "Missy, some one in dis house want to get rid of me. I not know who. I tink, but I not sure. Jfj Missy give me?lend?20 rupees I go see ' woman in town who will go to sleep .and write names on paper, and I show Missy in store room to-morrow morning." "No, no, cook," I said, "don't doanything so silly as to waste money on a clairvoyant. She can't tell. And don't suspect any of the servants here. It is merely a mischievous trick. I am very sorry for you, meanwhile, but we will tind it out by and by. I could not lend you money for such a purpose, and you must not waste your own." But the poor wretch was too miserable to heed my remonstrances. The day following we had to trust our cooking to one of the boys, who were all becoming quite demoralized in the unusually exciting atmosphere in which we lived, for Manuel had again taken French leave and was absent all day. Outwardly indifferent, it was with a thrill of expectation I repaired to the store-room next morning, when Manuel immediately closed the door, and, glancing tearfully all around and out at the square grated win (lows, pushed a paper into my nana, saying in a quick, low voice: "Missy, read that in room. No tell nobody." "Haveyou seen the clairvoyant?" I asked, breathless from astonishment, and with a momentary terror of perhaps seeing my own name written on the paper. "Yes, missy. She go sleep; she ask how many servant; then she tink long time; then she say massa go to England soon?six J months; two boys here want took leave dis house. They try frighten him away. Missy, see?" Jj^n across to my room and there read niHwie of Sammy and another servant (the two who were subsequently retained by (x.'s partner as head servants). To say the least of it, the woman had not made a bad guess, and how she contrived to know my brother's intention of leaving Mauritius I don't know. It was, in any case, a most curious coincidence. The other servants, who knew or guessed the mission on which Manuel had gone into Port Louis, and suspected that he had told me the result, scanned iny face carefully and questioned me as to my having found any elucidation of the matter. But I studiously concealed my knowledge, and gave the paper back to Manuel, telling him not to put too much faith in information obtained in such a manner, though if I had any suspicions in the matter, they certainly pointed in the same direction. Manuel's, I may say, had till now gone wide of the mark. The molestation after this ceased for some .time, or occurred at rare intervals, but the poor man had become so unnerved from terror that he neglected his work, and finally got his dismissal. I had returned to Europe before this happened, but on leaving begged my sister to keep me informed about the supernatural affairs I left behind, and she wrote and told me that his persecutor followed him to his next situation, harrassed him for some time and then disappeared. In talking over the matter with an English woman who had spent nearly the whole ofa long life in the island she said: "It is a most extraordinary thing, but worse cases than this have come under my notice. A young girl whom I know came out from England here as a dressmaker. A ereole youth fell in love with her and asked her to marry him. She rejected him, and, mad with rage, he resolved to compass her death. lv?* LA,o/df Ktf /HiKArill \V IlUlllCl ir^ wi u uiliiuu vj vaiviui friends, this poor young thing woke in the morning, her arms'iind body pinched, the blue marks visible on her tender flesh, her hair cut off close to her head, her food snatched from her; needles passed through her eyelids and tongue, and she pined and died under the ceaseless and mysterious powers against her." I neither affirm nor deny the tale. I merely tell it as it was told to me by an English woman whose veracity I never had any occasion todoubt. Another person told me that on the island there resided a very evil man, a Mozambique, who possessed some power supposed to l>e allied tosocery or witchcraft, whose aid was frequently invoked to bring disaster or death on their enemies by revengeful persons. The stone-throwing may have been?I suppose must have been?sleight-of-hand pt'rionilt'U uy some une, uui 11 was aumudinary that the discovery of the perpetrator or the means by which he accomplished I his deeds should have eluded the careful watch of my brother, his couisins, myself? j a most interested spectator?three policemen j and many other persons. A XAl'OLKOX OF SWIXI)LEKS. A Vermont man named Plymouth White died in that State recently, who first and last in thirty years, made $1,500,000 on a capital of a gentle winning manner and an appearance of an entire frankness. lie began his career in his native State by j buying great quantities of land with worthless notes ; mortgaging the land and then retiring to New York where he began a regdim* Kiicm nncc cu'lnrlllnnr lwr luirrn wincr money 011 gold dust and nuggets which lie did not own. When he was at last landed in jail he persuaded an under-sherill' to advance him $800,000 to buy diamonds at a great sacrifice, of which amount he finally robbed the deputy of ?.10,(KM), lie even in-1 duced the tender-hearted jailor to let him out of jail in order to engage in this enterprise. lie never came back. He went to Louisiana and helped tocount in Packard as Governor, but the people there having no money to lend, he was fore- i ed into honest industry. He started the I raising of chickens 011 an island off the Tex-1 as coast, but a storm drowned out his 10,000 fowls, and so he decided that honesty was not the best policy. 1 le robbed his partners and creditors of ?17.1,000 in a dry goods business at Denver, leaving a lot of empty dry goods boxes as the only assets. He often made his loaners believe him the soul of honor by paying back their borrowed money with money borrowed from others whom he did not pay. He had two or three wives at once, celebrating his marriage to the first one by swindling her brother and sister out of ?10,000. His wives never knew of his crooked ness; when lie was in jau no mane mem believe he was away on a business trip. lie borrowed as security of one man on a solemn promise not to cash the checks, lie promptly cashed them, and then laughed at his victim. Thirty years afterward lie called on the man he had thus duped, asked and obtained not only forgiveness, but (MM) more?the savings of ten years?giving him as security a blue envelope on condition that the envelope should not be opened for two months. .Strange to say his former dupe agreed to this condition. The securities were found to be worthless. For this, White had to spend three years in Sing Sing, not, however, until he bad been once released on false bail. That such a man should die from a boil on his neck, is almost as inglorious as that the great Napoleon should have died from a cancer in the stomach. ||tisiccU?ue0usi ?Udiug. LOUIS I. OF BAVARIA. The suicidal death of King Louis I., by drowning himself in Lake Staberg, was : after all, no more tragic than his life has been for years. It was a strange ending for a King and yet no more strange than his whole career has been. Too eccentric to be conscious that his wild whims and caprices were abnormal, the shock which followed his deposition from the throne perhaps had partially restored his mental balance, and overwhelmed by humiliation he killed himself. King Louis I, popularly known as the "music mad monarch of Bavaria," was born in 1845, and succeeded to the throne in 18C4. lie was a man of genius, of romantic nature, and an artist, with rather capricious opinions concerning political questions. King Louis was an example of the type of virile ideal beauty thought of in connection with the heroes of the "Nibelungen," justifying his appellation of the "Knight of theSilver | Swan." Tall, with magnificentauburn hair and mustache, with soft deep blue eyes, his embonpoint, which only began to show four years ago, added to his majesty, and to his stature, and made him look the wished-for champion of outraged innocence. Louis lived in deep seclusion in his magnificent palaces, spending the greater part of his time on music and painting. The description of the lakes which many of his palace grounds contain, with their constellated boats drawn by living swans, in which the king reposed, may be below or far surpassing the reality. Very few have ever seen them, rmr> njae nnfroca ti'Vin nrnnfnrl fhe? rnln nf "I'seult." The king was so charmed with her singing that lie invited her to ride in one of his boats and repeat her great aria. Becoming too enthusiastic, she was about to iling herself into the royal arms, but their owner merely chucked her into the lake and left her to get out as best she could. It should be added that the diva was of dark complexion and anything hut comely. In 1807, while he was visiting Paris and the Exposition, he became passionately enamored of the Empress Eugenie. In accompa' nying him to the station, upon his departure, the Empress embraced him, it is said, and since then he has never allowed the lips of another woman to brush his face. On account of his passion for music the composer Richard Wagner, gained considerable influence over him in the first years of his reign. The people however rose against the composer and Louis was compelled to send him from court. lie sometimes arranged great theatrical performances,at an immense expense, at which i?">a +!u> cinlo Vnlii'ithut'ltifl. j ingthe whimsical nature and spend thrifty habits of the Kin},', in the internal Bavarian politics he showed himself equal to all occasions, looking through the plans of | the various parties and trusting none of them. In the affairs of Germany he also I played an important part, giving substan| tial aid to Prussia in the late war with France. After the war he visited Paris and Versailles in order to study their works of art. Another peculiarity of Louis was his enthusiasm for Louis XIV. He imitated | that monarch studiously and required similar worship from his courtiers. Louis never visited theart studios with which Munich swarms, which his predecessor made a habit of doing. He disliked all festivities and was indeed a "Hoi Soleil." I le was unmarried. Tin: MAM FAtTi KK (IF CANDY. The word candy comes to us from the Arabic and Persian tjaml, another name for sugar. Candy-making is a considerable trade in itself. The census of 1S80 reported I3,G!>2 confectioners. There are eight or ten large factories in New York alone, employing perhaps a hundred each, and using a hundred barrels or more of sugar a week, besides quantities of glucose. The "stick" candy which seems to bean indigenous American product, is of ordinary "A" sugar, boiled down with water and a little cream of tartar to prevent crystalization. The mass is taken in batches of about fifteen pounds to a marble table, where it is kneaded like bread, and the flavoring and coloring worked in. The paste then goes to the "pulling hooks," where for five or six minutes it is pulled and twisted and repulled and retwisted at the handsof a workman who certainly earns his living. Thence it returns to the marble table, at one eml of I which is a metal plate, kept hot, on which he works the candy into its final shape. Stripes are pressed into the batch, two feet Ion}? and a foot thick, and it is then drawn and twisted out till it is the proper size of the penny "stick," the right length of which is clipped off by huge scissors. Clear candy is not kneaded or pulled. Flat candy is run into pans, and a knife is run across where it is to be broken intosticksorsquares. The drops, fishes, and other fancy shapes are made by passing the paste through a machine, which cuts and presses it to the proper size and shape. Lozenges are rolled out like pie-crust, sometimes printed in carmine with a handstamp, and then cut out with dies. Sugarplums and sugared almonds are made in a very interesting way, by throwing the nut, seed, or other nucleus with boiling sugar into great copper pans, which are shaken by hand or revolved by machinery over a hot fire. Rolled over and over in the moist sugar, the plums soon begin to grow, and are "polishedoff" by each other, while the above steam-worked fans carry off the dry dust, (iiim drops are made of gum-arabic and sugar, boiled and mixed, seven or eight hundred pounds at a time, in huge copper steam-kettles, whence the mixture is taken out into smaller kettles to be flavored and colored. The cheap gum dropsand "marshmallows" are made chiefly from glucose. Cream or soft candies are made in a simple way, from sugar mixed with cream of tartar to prevent crystali7/1 ng. To give them their . fancy forms, a Hat tray is filled with starch,; which is pressed into moulds by a series of plaster-of-Paris models?a drop, hand, face,' berry, or what it may be?arranged on a long stick. Into these starch moulds the j hot cream is poured, and then allowed to 1 dry. Some factories have as much as 50,000 pounds of starch in this use. The drying, room is kept at a high temperature, in which "creams" soon become dry and solid. : They are then separated from the starch by j huge sieves. I f they are to be glossed, fhey j are placed in huge tin pans and a cold solution of sugar poured over them to stand overnight. In the morning the ice sugar on top is broken, and the "creams" are found coated with fine crystals. The liqueur drops are a very curious product. The syrup is mixed with brandy or flavored water, j and is poured into the starch moulds. As j it cools at the top and on the mould, the crys-} tills make a continuous case, imprisoning the liquor within. The adulteration of candy is chiefly by the use of terra alba, or white clay. This harmful stuff can be detected by dissolving the suspected candy in water, when the clay falls to the bottom undissolved. An ounce roll of cheap lozenges will sometimes contain three-quarters of an ounce of this injurious stuff. The coloring of candies is for the most part, not dangerous, since a piece of red coloring matter the size of a gum drop will color 5,000 pounds of candy. Unscrupulous manufacturers, howfever, occasionally use mineral instead of safe vegetable colors, and cart-loads of such candy have been seized and destroyed by the health-oflicers in New York. For the most part, carmine and cochineal are used for red, saffron for yellow, caramel or burnt sugar for brown, and this with carmine for orange. Green and blue candies are to be avoided. These colors are used sometimes, however, in "decorating"?a surface treatment of fine candies by hand, in which a water-color artist is employed to do art work at wholesale according to the model set him. As for this purpose the proportion of coloring matter to sugar is about one-millionth, the result of swallowing paint is not so disastrous as might be expected. In flavoring, essential oilsare used, about a pound to a thousand pounds of sugar, and this is worked in duringthe boiling or kneading. Licorice colors and flavors j both at once.?Harper's Maqazinc. THE OLD BOY AND THE NEW. There is a vast difference between the boys of to-day and those of fifty years ago, more especially as regards the things which minister to com fort and pleasure. The new boy, even if his parents are only moderately i blessed with this world's goods, has a ward-1 robe which would have astonished the old j boy. Instead of the unlined cowhide j boots?oftener shoes?rough woolen or rougher fur cap, coarse cotton shirts, coat and pantaloons cut down from the cast-off paternal garments, rarely an overcoat and still more rarely any underwear, except the aforesaid shirt and home-made socks?the new boy has his button shoes, rubber boots, handsome cap of sealskin or cloth, neat linen, substantial underclothing, knickerbockers, coat and vest of fashionable cut, with overcoat to match, all bought for him at first hands, and frequently a watch and chain. Think of an old boy with a watch and chain ! He would have been a greater curinsit.v nmnno- his vntrmaninns than a trick elephant. From the time the new boy is out ol his cradle he has a full assortment of "store toysand as he gets older money provides him with marbles, tops, kites, balls, bats, knives, wagons, sleds, skates, bicycles and nearly everything else in the shape of playthings that can be imagined. The old boy, in his infancy, was lucky if he got a silver dollar to cut his teeth on, an improvised rattle and a rag baby. Toys of larger growth he manufactured himself, "swapped" for, got somehow by "hook or crook," or borrowed or did without; they were seldom or never bought for him, and I Christmas and Santa Claus never favored him with their visitations?while New' Year's was proverbially stingy and Thanks-; giving only stufled his stomach. Now and ! then he had a few coppers in his pocket, but silver was quite beyond his reach. A j warm sleeping apartment in winter he never enjoyed unless on the sick list. In a cold room, usually no bigger than a closet, he crawled between the ice-cokl sheets, and with chattering teeth saw his breath go out in white vapor. In the morning he often nroKe me ice ior wasning-water, nau-uressetl himself with numb lingers and finished his toilette by the kitchen stove. The new boy has an infinite variety of literature, prepared especially for him ; that of the old boy was of the ancient Sunday-school sort. s>- -O- > A Goon Example.?In cultingdown our trees, we have been in danger of destroying the greatest of our heritages. In Prussia and Germany the laws relating to the forestry exhibit the wisest forethought on the part of the government, and the people sustain it in every effort to preserve what other i generations had well-nigh deprived them ! of. These nations set us an example which it would be wise to consider. Their laws have given rise to a large system of treeplanting, thinning and preserving, and also to an enormous literature regarding arboriculture, and great rainfalls and droughts are obviated, while malaria from both causes is greatly diminished. The ill-results of the old denuding process are rapidly disappearing, showing that nature's capillary clothing must be respected, for utilitarian as ' well as sentimental reasons. In the United States the general fashion of extravagance prevailing in respect to forests is largely due to ignorance. Only lately has the scientific man impressed upon him of average intelli-1 gence, the necessity of tree-preservation and the desirability of using other materials than lumber for many purposes in which wood was formerly considered indispensable. ftsSf" Commodore Vanderbilt used to say that a man who was worth a million was as well off as though he were rich. Another millionaire was fond of saying that lie worked for his board and clothes. Now Senator Palmer, of Michigan, who has an income of upward of $200,1)00 a year says: the happiest man is the one who has the' most illusions. There are only three real i substantial things that you can get out of life, and the man who has those at the required intervals is as well off as the richest. The three realities are a full stomach, a good suit of clothes and a bed to sleep in. Everything else belongs to the realm of illusions. - ?. jfcy-If you mean to act nobly, and seek; to know the best things God has put with- j in the reach of men, you must learn to ; lix your mind on that end, and not on i what will happen to you because of it. j And remember that the calamity which ' might come to you would come just the same if you were to choose something lower.?Itomota to TAUo. ' A Ct'lliors MOUNTAIN. Fifitcen miles north of Atlanta, Ga., rises Stone mountain. Though frequently visiited by picnic parties from that section, it is not as generally known as its grandeur merits. America boasts many higher mountains, this measuring but eleven hundred feet, but has lew showing such remarkable beauties. The circumference of this mountain at the base is five miles. For more than one mile it rises abruptly eight hundred feet, is nearly four times as high as Hunker Ilill monument, and nearly as straight, then slopes gradually to the summit. Of course the ascent from this side is impossible and on every side except one is accomplished with great dilficulty. The view from the summit well repays great efforts as, in addition to the usual charms of a Southern landscape, one can readily (liqfino-nish T,nnknnr .mil ICermosnw rnnnn tains, so interesting from their historical association. Stone mountain is comprised of a tine, light colored granite. In some places where exposed to the action of sun and water it lias become striped, having the appearance of pieces of bright carpeting hanging over the precipice. Scattered over the mountains are boulders, some of immense size and worn by water into curious forms. The Greeks of old would assign its formation to some god or goddess and surround it with fascinating myth. We moderns would rather reverently ascribe it to the one Creator while curiously studying the means lie chose to employ. No grasses grow on this mountain, but its absence is supplied by a reddish moss found only in high altitudes. Occasionally a stunted cedar appears, presenting a peculiar appearance. Not only is tiie trunk itself twisted by the force of the wind, but each branch shows an unequal conflict with unseen forces. At the foot of the mountain azalias afford a wealth of bloom in their season. At least seven shades appear, varying from white to deep red. A yellow vaoKnmwlu Tlioon tirif li n hnlf Af utij aiou auvuiiuo< x wiui tv i/^it v? woodland furnish a setting worthy the beauty of this jewel. Stone mountain has given its name to a village about a mile away where dwellers in the heated cities may sometimes breathe pure air. In looking upon so much of beauty and grandeur they may find rest for mind and soul, that rest which an intimate acquaintance with nature always brings.? Cottage Jlearth. SALARIES (IF BASEBALL PLAYERS. ''There is money in baseball nowadays," said J. I']. Allen, one of the directors of the Providence club to a New York Sun reporter. "The time was when a man who put his money into a club was quite sure of coming out more or less ahead, but that is past. When the national league had control of all the best players in the country a few years ago, and had no opposition, salaries were low, and a player who received $1,000 for liis season's work did well. In 1881 when the American association was organized in opposition to the league, the players' salary at once began to go up and : each side tried to outbid the other. When the two organizations formed what is known as the national agreement, the clubs retained their players at the same salaries. Several other associations were then organized in different parts of the country, on/1 worn rwlmiHo/1 nn/lnr nrr?fo/?f5/in nf thA national agreement, the clubs retained their players at the same salaries. This served to make good ball players, especially pitchers scarce, and forced salaries up higher still, until at the present time a first class pitcher will not look at a manager for less than ?1,500 a season. Itadbourne, of last year's Providence club, received the largest amount of money that has ever been paid to a ball player. Ilis wonderful pitching, which won the championship for the club, cost about ?5,000 as he did the work of two pitchers, and received the pay of two. "Some of the salaries which base-ball players will get this season are: O'Rourke, Gerhardt, Dealsey, Ewing, and Ward, of the New York club, ?3,000 each. Mullane was to have played with the Cincinnati club for ?1,000. Dunlap has contracted with the new league club of St. Louis for ?3,400. These are only a few of the higher prices paid, while the number of men who get from ?2,000 to ?3,000 is large. At these prices a club with a team costing only ?15,000 to ?20,000 is lucky; but it has not much chance of winning the championship. To this expense must be added the ground rent, the salaries of gate-keepers, and the traveling expenses, whiuh will be about as much more. "As a high priced club, the New York club leads, while the Metropolitans are nearly as expensive. The income of these two clubs last year was nearly ?130,000, yet the Metropolitans lost money, and the New York club was only a little ahead. The first year the Metropolitans were in the field their salary list was light, as were their traveling expenses, and at the end of the season they were over $50,000 ahead." TIIOI (HITS ABOl'T WOMEN'. Woman is the queen of social life.? J Vtaire. Men make laws; women make manners.? J)e Segur. But one thing on earth is better than the wife?that is the mother.?Leopold Sehefer. Excellent woman is she who, if the husband dies, can be a father to the children.? Goethe. Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she is the moon and thou art the man in the moon ?Congreve. The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by the observation than reading.? I7? identified. I know the sum of all that makes a man, a just man happy, consists in the well-choosing of his wife; and then well to agree it does require equality of years, of birth, of fortune.?Mamnger. The mother makes the man, perhaps, but the wife manufactures him. Sometimes the wife in her manufacture confirms the making of the mother, sometimes counteracts it.?Rose E. Cleveland. All amusements to youth to which virtuous women are not admitted are, rely on it, deleterious in their nature. All men who avoid female society have dull perceptions anil arc stupid, or have gross tastes ana revolt against what is pure.?Thackeray. Their intuition, or insight, is more subtle, and if they cannot see a cat in the meal tub there is no cat there. In counseling one to tell his trouble to his wife, we would go further, and advise him to keep none of his affairs secret from her. Many a home has been happily saved, and many a fortune relieved, by man's full confidence in his better half. Woman is far more seer and prophet than man, if she be given a chance. Seefvtcd.