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lewis >i. grist, proprietor. | jIndependent Jamiln Jbrapapcr: Jttr the promotion of fejotitral, Social, |4traulturat and (Foinmerriat Interests of the $outh. |terms?$2.00 a tear in advance, j . VOL. 35. | YOBKVILLE, S. P., WEP^^SDAYTJAJSTIJARY" d,1889. ' . NO. 3."" | Choice foctnr. BE FIRST. What your conscience bidB you do, 'Hasten to obey it. ' Evil promptings soon would win, ? If you should delay it. ' Ira quarrel should arise, Be the first to leave it. Be the first to pardon ask, Be the first to give it. If to othms evil comes, Do you^oest to stay it. If they need a helpful word, Be tne first to say it. If a toilsman duty calls, Put your efforts to it. If you see a work to do, Be the first to do it. If a slander should arise, From your lips repel. But, if any good you know, Be the first to tell it. Conscience holds the prize of peace; Do well, and obtain it. f ? -Duty gives the crown of joy; j Faithful be. and gain it. ***f kpriDg' i ' fit ftOTjj frifaui I i anil i! iit l In the bosom of one of those spacious I coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappaan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored tne protection of St. Nicholas '"hen tney crossed, there lies a small ma. .at town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburg, but which is more generally and properlv known by the name of Tarry Town. This name was given it, we are told, in former days, oy the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days, be that as it may, I do nbt vouch for the fact, but merely advert to it for the 6ake of being precise and authentic. Not far ] from this village, perhaps about three ] miles, there is a little valley, or rather i lap of land, among higji hills, which is < one of the quietest places in the whole 1 world. A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to i repose; and the occasional whistle of a ] quail or tapping of a woodpecker is < almost the only sound that ever breaks ] in upon the uniform tranquillity. I I recollect that, whei a 6tripling, my : first exploit in squirrel ihooting was in a ] grove of tall walnut trees that shades f one side of the valley. I had wandered j into it at noon time when all nature is 1 peculiarly quiet, and was startled j by the" roar of my own gun ; as it broke the Sabbath stillness < around and was prolonged and rcverber- 1 ated by the angry echoes. If ever I < should wish for a rctrci wliither I might 1 steal from the world and its distractions, ] and dream quietly awaf the remnant of ' 4 I l*n/ttr /\^ vtAnA *w/Mw 1 a uuuuicu ixiu, x iviiyir ui uuuu uiuiu j promising than this Utile valley. 1 From the listless refoso of the place, j and the pecuUar character of its inhabit- i ants, wno are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this se- < questered glen has bng been known i by the name of Sleepy Hollow, and i its rustio lads ire called the ] Sleepy Hollow boys throughout all the ] neighboring country. k drowsy, dreamy j influence seems to hang over the land j and to pcrvado the 7ery atmosphere. ] Some say that the plae was bewitched j by a high German dictor during the j early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chitf, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, hdd his powwows there before the county was discovered by Master Hendrick Hzdson. Certain it l _ ts that the place still cmtinues under the- J a open over the nw^M^egooctpeople, causing them to w^"^ a continual reverie. They are give*, voall kinds of inar<velous beliefs; are subject to trances and visions, and frequently tee strange sights and hear music and voices in the air. The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots and twilight superstitions; stars snoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her whole nine fold, seems to make it the favorite sceneof her gambols. Tho dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region and seems to bo commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a nguro on horseback without a head. It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whoso head had been carried away by a cannon ball in some nameless battle during the revolutionary war, and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk, hurrying along in the gloom of the night as if on tho wings of the wind. His haunts are not conlined to the valley, but extend at times to tho adjacent roads, and especially to tho vicinity of a church that is at no great distance. Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who havo been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper, having been buried in the churchyard, tho ghost rides forth to the scene of hnttlo in niMitlv finest of lik hojul nnd that tho rushing speed with which he Bometimes passes along the hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being belated and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak. Such"is tho general purport of this legendary superstition, which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; andtho spectre is known at all tho countryfiresides by tho name of tho Headless Horseman of l Sleeky Hollow. ^ It is remarkable that the visionary proV. penSity I havo mentioned is not confined ft to the native inhabitants of tho valley [ but is unconsciously imbibed by every r one who resides there for a time. Howf over wide awake they may have been before tlicy entered that sleepy legion, they aro sure in a little time to inhale tho * witching influenco of tho aii and begin to grow imaginative?to dream dreams 'idfrt 1111 sco aPl)lu'itions< - I mention this peaceful spot with all Vs|? possible laud, for it is in sush little reVftpgk tired Dutch vallcvs found hem and there I V vi? embosomed in the great sUto < >f New L ?f York that population, manncs and cusI \ toms remain fixed, wliile the great tor1' \ rent of migration and improvement I. which is making such incessant changes in Ather parts of this restlas coimtry I _ sweeps by them unbb.u uro ' ?ag/' like those little nooks of Stillwater which boffk* a rapid stream, where we inav see thotetraw and bubblo ridiag qnietlv at 1 / anchor, or slowly revolving their K mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush B uf tho passing current. Though many I years nave elapsed since I trod. UkL the drowsy sliades' of Sleepy IIollow, E yet I Question whether I should not still find tho samo trees and tho saine B families vegetating in its Jheltcred bo som. A In this by place of natura thorc abode K in a remote i>eriod of American history, i I. ^hat is to say, sorno thirty yean since," a worthy wight of tho naino of Iehabod Crane, who sojourned, or as In expressed ! it. "tarried" in Sleepy Hollow, for tho purpose of instructing the children of tho vicinity, lie was a native of ConnectiJ cut, a state which supplies the Union 1 with pioneers for the mind as well as for I tho forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen anil count rv schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane [ was not inapplicable to his peison. lie was tall, but exceedingly lank, with nar- I 4 row shoulders, long arms and W h,, !,. j fj that dangled a inilo out of hk l)r< ^7 feet that might have served eW.vplq' and his whole frame most Ucselv lmnc* I together. liis head was sn^i ^ fl.{? at top, with huge ears, 1^0 preen, glassy eves and a long snipe ^ * that it looked hke a weathercock DCrclied upon his spindlo neck to tellvh ri, u-w I _ tho wind blew. Toseehimstr^g Jong tho profile of a hill on a ^vindyday with his clothes bagging and AutteW 'about him, one might havo mistake ?im for tho genius of famine descen^ 'upon the earth, or some scarecrow ebped from [ a cornfield. His school house was a low luiidin" of ono largo room, rudely conar^j 0flogs; the windows partlyand I partly patched with leavesof iw, I It was most ingeniously secii^ at vacant hours by a withe twhfcd in tl'ie handlo of the door, and stakesagainst the window shutters; so that hough a thief might get in with perfec he would find sotno embarrassm^ jn ' et_ ting out?an idea most prob^jy borrowed by the architect^ Yost V^gf0llteJ1 from tho mystery of an eel pot. Tho" school house stoou in a rather lonely, but pleasant situation, iust at tho foot of a woody hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch tree growing at one end of it. From hence tho low murmur of bis pupils' voices, conning over their lessons, might be hferd of a drowsy summer's day, like the hum of a beehive, interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command, or, peradventure, by the appalling sound 01the birch as be urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge. Truth to say, bo was a conscientious man, that ever bttre in mind the golden maxim, "Spare the rod and spoil the child." Ichabod Crane's scholars certainly were not spoiled. I would not ha Ve it imagined, however, that he was one of those cruel potentates of the school, who joy in the smart of their subjects; on the contrary, he administered justice with discrimination rather than severity; taking the burthen oil tho backs of the weak, and laying it on those of tho 6trong. Your mere puny stripling that winced at the least nourish of tho rod, was passed by with indulgence; but tho claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little, tough, wrong heaaed, broad skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked ^^sw^^a^^rew^gged^d "Doing his duty by their parents." he never inflicted a chastisement without following it by the assurance, so consolatory to the smarting urchin that "he would remember it and thank him for it the longest day he had to live." When school hours were over ho was 3ven the companion and playmate of the larger boys; and on hohday afternoons would convoy some of the smaller ones home, who happened to have pretty sisters or good housewives for mothers, noted for the comforts of the cupboard. Indeed, it behooved him to keep on good terms with his pupils. The revenue arising from his school was small, and would have been scarcely sufficient to furnish him with daily bread, for ho was i huge feeder, and though lank, had the lilofi'nn. rvftWQ?? rtf on Villf .1 I WO VI U** lAiinvvMViM-i to help out his maintenance, he was, according to country custom in those parts, boarded and lodged at the houses of the farmers, whose children he instructed. With these he lived successively, a week at a time, thus going the rounds of the neighborhood, with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief. That all this might not be too onerous m the purses of his rustic patrons, who ire apt to consider the costs of schooling i grievous burden, and schoolmaster) as mere drones, ho had various ways of rendering himself both useful andagreeible. He assisted the fanners occasionilly in the lighter lalxtrs of their farms, helped to make hay, mended the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture and cut wood for the wincr fire. He laid aside, too, all the dominant dignity and absolute sway with ivhich ho lorded it in his little empire, he school, and becamo wonderfully genie and ingratiating. He found iavor in like the Hon pold, which whilom so magnanimously the lamb did hold, ho would sit with a child, on one knee, and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours together. In addition to his other vocations, he was the singing master of tho neighborhood, and picked up many bright shillings by instructing tho young folks in psalmody. It was a matter of no little vanity to him on Sundays, to take his station in front of the church gallery, with a band of chosen singers, where, in his own mind, he completely carried away tho palm from tho parson. Certain "it is, his voice resounded far above all the rest of the congregation, and thero aro peculiar quavers still to be heard in tliat church, and which may even be heard lialf a mile off, quite to the opposite side of tho mill pond, on a still Sunday morning, which are said to be legitimately descended from tho nose ot Ithabod Crane. Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that ingenious way which is commonly denominated "by hook and by crook," the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all who understood nothing of tho lal>or of head work, to have a wonderful easy life of it. The schoolmaster is generally a man of Gnmn nnnnrtanco ill tVm fnri'ilo rirplo nf a rural neighborhood, being considered a kind of idle gentleman liie personage, of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains, and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson. Ilis appearance, therefore, is apt to occasion some little iir at the tea table of a farm house, and tile addition of a supernumerary dish of cakes or sweetmeats, or, peradventure, th< parade of a silver teapot. Our man of letters therefore was peculiarly happv in tin} smiles of all tho country damsels.-^Tlacv lie would figure among them in th? churchyard between sendees on Sundays, gathering grapes for them from the wild vines that overrun the surrounding trees; reciting for their amusement all tlio epitaphs on the tombstones, or saunts-ing with a wholo l>;vy of them along the banks of the adjacent mill pond, wiile tho more bashful country bumpkins hung sheepishly back, envying his superior elegance and address. From liis half itinerant (life, also, ho was a kind of traveling gazftte, carrying the wholo budget of localfgossip from houso to house, so that he appearance was always greeted with satisfaction. Ho was, moreover, esteemed, by the women as a man of great erudition, for he had read several books quite through, and was a perfect master of Cotton Mather's "History of New England Witchcraft," in which, by the way, ho mojt firmly and poterHy bclieigiLoMte.. ^tln . H' .'as, in fact, an odd mixture of smtfii . lxrowdness and simple credulity. His appetito for tlie marvelous and his powers of digesting it were equally extraordinary, and both had been increased by liis residonco in this spellbound region. No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow. It was often liis delight, after his school was dismissed -in the afternoon. to stretch himself on the rich bed of clover, bordering the little brook that whimpered by his school house, and there con over old'Malhcr'sdiroful tales, until the gathering dusk of evening made the printed page a here mist before his eyes. Then, as In wended his way, by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to mo larm noise where no happened to be quartered,every sound of nature, at that witchi^r hour,tluttered his excited imagination the moan of the whip-poor-will* frc&n.ho hill side; the boding cry of the tree t<xd, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of thc screech owl; or the sudien rustling in the thicket of birds frigjienwl from their roost. The fire flies, too, which sparkled most vividly in die darkest places, now and then statical him, as one of uncommon brightness would stream across his path; and if, bv chance, a hugo blockhcadof a beetlo came winging his bluncg-ing flight against him, the poor varlt was ready to give up the ghost, wii the idea that ho was struck witl a witch's token. Ilis only resourco o: such occasions, either to drown thou}it or drive away evil spirits u as to singjuhu tunes, and the good people of SleiT>;lIollow, as they sat by their doors of n evening, were often filled with awo atiearing Ids nasal melody, "in linked s\v>tness long drawn out," floating from he distant hill or along the dusty road. Another of his sources of ftrful pleasure was, to pass Icing ^winta evenings with tho old Dutch wives, j they sat spinning by thoiirejv.-ith a r<> cf apples roasting and sputtering alonghc hearth, and listen to their marvel^ tales of ghosts, and.gobliiis,and hatted fields Tho whip-poor-will is a bird ^ich Is only heard at night. It revives its Bjd from notes, which is thought to resemble word& * ana naunleU brooks, and haunted bridges and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless or galloping Heasian oi the Hollow, as they sometimes called him. Ho would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut; and- would frighten them wofiilly with speculations upon comets and shooting stars, and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that thev were half the time topsy turvyl But ir there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cuddling in the chimney i corner of a chamber that was all of a raddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and whero, of course, no specter darea to show its face, it was dearly purchased by tho terrors of his subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst tho dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night! With what wistful look did he eye every trembling rav of light streaming across the'waste fields from some distant window! How often was he appalled bv some shrub covered with snow, which like a sheeted specter beset his very path! How often did lie shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet, and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramping ^lojgabel4ad him! And how^ofteawas Eyth?wi> in A complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the galloping Hessian on one of his nightly semirings! All these, however, were mere terrors of the nigh j, phantoms of the mind, that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many specters in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in liis lonely perambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man, than ghosts, goblins and the whole race of witches put together; and that was?a woman. Among the musical disciples who assembled one evening in each week to receive his instructions in psalmody was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer. She was a blooming lass of fresh 18; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy cheeked as one of her fathers peaches", and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. She was withal a little of a coquette, as might bo perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set off her charms. She wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold, which her great great grandmother had brought over from Saardam; the tempting Btomaclier of the olden time, and withal a provokinglv short petticoat, to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round. JLcnaooa crane naa a sore ana roonsn heart toward the sex; and it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a morsel soon found favor in his eyes, more especially after he had visited her in her paternal mansion. Old Baltus Van Tassel was a perfect picture of a thriving, contented, liberal hearted fanner. He seldom, it is-true, sent either his eyes or his thoughts beyond tho boundaries of his own farm, out within these,'everything was snug, happy, and well conditioned. He was satisfied with his wealth, but not proud of it;- andpiqued himself upon the hearty abundance, rather than tne style in wliich ho lived. His stronghold was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of those jyeen, sheltered, fertile nooks in which the Dutch farmers are so fond of nestling.: A great elm tree spread its broad branches over it, at the foot of which bubbled up a spring of the Boftest and sweetest water, in a little well, formed of a barrel, and then stole sparkling away through tho grass to a neighboring brook, that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, dud might flail was bust# resounding, within > it morning to night; swallows and martins skimmed twitterng about the eaves, and . rows of pigeoni, some with one eye turned up as if watching the weather, 6ome with their leads under their wings, or buried in ther bosoms, and others, swelling, and cooing and bowing about their darns, were enjoying the sunshine on tie roof. Sleek, un wieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens, from wheice sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking pigs, as if to snuff the air. A stately squadron _ of snowy geese wero riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farm yard and guinea fowls fretting about it like ill tempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented cry. Before the barn door strutted the gallant cock, that, pattern of a husband, a warrior and a file gentleman, clapping his burnished wipgs and crowing in the pride and gladnea of his hearts?sometimes tearing up tie earth with his feet, and then generously calling his ever hungry family of vives and children to enjoy the rich monel which he had discovered. The pedagogue's mouth watered, as he looked upon this samptuous promise of luxurious winter fare. In his devouring mind's eye ho pictured to himself eveiy roasting pig running about, with a pudding in its belly and an apple in its mouth; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie, ana tucked in with a coverlet of crust; the geese were swimming in their own gravy and the ducks pairing cosily in dishft. like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future Bleek side of bacon and juicy relisliing hani; not a turkey, but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living. As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as ho rolled his great green eyes over tho fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat and Indian corn, and the orchards burthened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded tho warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart, yearned itfter the damsel who was to inherit tfc domains, and his imagination expa/ JK with the idea, how they might be^^Bly turned into cash and the money, hi immense tracts of wild land,fi/^^fcinglo palaces in the wilderness. busy fancy j alivatly v 'i ti,] pfermtH-* to him tho blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted on the top of a tVagon loaded with household trumpery, with pots and kettles dangling beneath: and no beheld himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee?or the Lord knowg wheref When ho entered tho house, tho conquest of his heart was complete. It was <me of those spacious farm houses, with llisrll ridced, out lowly Klnnir>rr roofs. built in tlic stylo handed down from the ! lirst Dutch settlers. The low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bud weather. Under this wero lmng flails, harness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for iisliing in tho neighboring river. Benches wero built along the sides for summer use; and a great spinning wheel at one end, and a eliurn at tho other, showed tho various uses to which this important J>orch might bo devoted. From this piazza the wonderful lchabod entered tho hull, which formed the center of tho mansion, and tho placo of usual residence. Hero rows of resplendent pewter, ranged on a long dresser, dazzled nis eyes. In one corner stood a huge bag of wool, ready to bo spun; in another, a quantity of hnsey wolsey, just from tho loom; ears of Indian corn, and strings of dried apples and peaches, hung in gav festoons along tho walls, mingled with the gaud of red peppers; and a door left ajar, gave him a peep into tho best parlor, where tho claw footed chairs and dark mahogany tables shono liko mir, rors; andirons, with their accompanying shovel and tongs, glistened from their covert of asparagus tops; mock oranges and conch shells decorated the mantelpiece; strings of various colored birds' eggs wero suspended abovo it; a great ostrich egg was hung from the center of the room, and a corner cupboard, knowingly left open, displayed immense treasures of old silver and well mended I china. 1 From tho moment Icliabod hiid his i eyes upon these regions of delight tho peaco of his mind was at an end, and his i I only study was how to gain the alfec- ] tions of tho peerless daughter 0f Van i Tassell. In tlxis enterprise, however, ho i had more real difficulties than generallj fell to the lot of a knight errant of yore, who seldom had anything but giants, en chanters, fiery dragons and such like easily connuered adversaries, to contend with; and had to make his way merely through gates of iron and brass, and walls of adamant to the castle keep, where the lady of his heart was confined all of which he achieved as easily as c man would carve his way to the centei of a Christmas pie, and then the lady gave him her hand as a matter of course. Ichabod, on the contrary, had to win hit way to the heart of a country coquette beset with a labyrinth of whims and caErices, which were forever nresentlg new difficulties and impediments, ana ho had to encounter a host oi fearful adversaries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, who beset every portal to her heart; keeping a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but ready to fly out in the common cause against any new competitor. Among these the most formidable was a burly, roaring, roystoring blade of the name of Abraham, or, according to the , Dutch abbreviation, Brom Van Brunt, the hero of the country round, which rung with his feats of strength and hardihood. He was broad shouldered and double jointed, with short curly black hair, and a bluff but not unpleasant countenance, having a mingled air -of run arrogance.- womtis Horctrfean frame and great powers of limb, he had received the nickname of Brom Bones, by which he was universally known. He was famed for great knowledge and skill in horsemanship, being as dexterous on ( horseback as a Tartar. He was foremost at all races and cock fights, and with the ascendancy which bodily strength always acquires in rustic life, was the umpire in all disputes, setting lus liat on one side and giving his decisions with an air and tone that admitted of no gainsay or appeal. He was always ready for either a fight or a frolic; had more mischief than, ill will in his composition; and with all his overbearing roughness there was a strong dash of waggish good humor at bottom. He had three or four boon companions of his own stamp, who regarded him as their model, and at the head of whom he scoured the country, attending every scene of fend or merriment far round. In cold weather he was distinguished by a fur cap, surmounted with a flaunting fox's tail; and when the folkB at a country gathering descried this well known crest at a distance, whisking about among a squad of hard riders, they always stood by for a squall. Sometimes his crew would be heard dashing along past the farm houses at midnight, with whoop and halloo, like a troop of Don Cossacks, and the old dames, startled out of their sleep, would listen for a moment till the hurry scurry had clattered by, and then exclaim: "Ay, there goes Brom Bones and his gang!" The neighbors looked upon him with a mixture of awe, admiration and good will; and when any madcap prank or rustic brawl occurred in the vicinity, always shook their heads, and warranted Brom Bones was at the bottom of it. This rantrpole hero had for some time singled out the blooming Katrina for the object of his uncouth gallantries, and though his amorous tovin gs were something like the gentle caresses and endearments of a bear, yet it was whispered that she did not altogether discourage his hopes. Certain it i, his advances were signals for. rival candidates to retire, who felt no inclination to cross a lion in his amours; insomuch, that when his horse was seen tied to Van Tassel's paling, on a Sunday night, a sure sign that his master was courting, or, as it is termed, "sparking," within, all other suitors passed by in despair, and carried the war into other quarters. Such was the formidable rival with whom Ichabod Crane had to contend, and considering all things a stouter man than he would have shrunk from the oompetitipn, and a wiser man would have despaired. He had, however, a happy mixture of pliability and persebut tough: though he bent, he never broke; and though he bowed beneath the slightest pressure, yet the moment it was away?ierkl?he was erect, and carried his lieaa as high as ever. To have taken the field openly against his rival would have been madness; for he was not a man to be thwarted in his amours any more than that stormy lover Achilles. Ichabod, therefore, made his advances in a quiet and gently insinuating manner. Under cover of his character of singing master he made frequent visits at the farm house; not that he had anything to apprehend from the meddlesome interference of parents, which is so often a stumbling block in the path of lovers. Bait Van Tassel was an easy, indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything. His notable little wife, too, had enough to do to attend to her housekeeping and manage the poultry; for, as sho sagely observed, ducks and geese are foolish things and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves. Thus, while the busy dame bustled about tlio house or plied her spinningwheel at one end of the piazza honest Bait would sit smoking nis evening pipe at the other, watching the achievements of a littlo wooden warrior, who, armed with a sword in each hand, was valiantly fighting the wind on the pinnacle of the barn. In the mean time Icliabod would carry on his suit with the daughter by the sideSrT^ho spring under the great elm or sau-. King along in the twilight, that hour e^mavorable to the lovers eloquence. I profess not to knt\K how women's hearts are wooed and won. To mo they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Some seem to have but one vulnerable point, or door of access; while others have a. thousand avenues, and may be captured in a thousand different ways. It is a great triumph of skill to gain the former, but still a greater proof of generalship to maintain possession of the latter, for a man must uattlo for his fortress at every door and window. He that wins a thousand common hearts is therefore entitled to some renown; but ho who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero. Certain it is, this was not the caso with the redoubtable Brom Bones; and from the moment Ichabod Crano made his advances, the interests of the former evidently declined; his horse was no longer seen tied it the palings on Sunday nights, and a deadly feud gradually arose between him and the preceptor of Sleepy Hollow. Brom, whor had a degree of rough chivalry in his nature, would fain have Wfed-maftere flin'," uii'V settled their pretensions to the lady according to the mode of those most conciso and simple reasoners, the knights errant of yore?by single combat; but Ichabod was too conscious of the superior might of his adversary to enter the lists against him; he had overheard tho boastor Bones that hewould "double the schoolmaster up and put him on a shelf;" and ho was too vary to givo him an opportunity. There was something extremely provoking in this obstinately pacific system; it left Brom no alternative but to draw upon the funds of rustic waggery in his disposition, and to play off boorish practical jokes upon his rival. Ichabod became tho object of whimsical persecution to Bones and his gang of rough riders. They harried his hitherto peaceful domains; 6moked out his singing school by stopping up the chimney; broko into tne school house at night, in spito of his formidable fastenings of withe and window stakes, and turned everything topsy turvy; so that the poor schoolmaster began to think all tho witches in the country held their meetings there, but what was still moro annoying, Brom took all opportunities of turning him into ridicule in presenco of liis mistress, and had a scoundrel dog whom ho taught to whine in tho most ludicrous manner and introduced as a rival of Ichabod's, to instruct her in psalmody. In this way matters went on for some timo, without producing any material effect on tho relativo situations of tho contending powers. On a fine autumnal afternoon, Iehabod, in pensive mood, sat enthroned on the lofty stool from whence ho usually watched all the concerns of liis little literary realm. In his hand he swayed a ferule, that scepter of despotic power; tho birch of justice reposed on three nails, behind the throne, a constant terror to evil doers; while on the desk before him might bo seen sundry contrahand. articles and prohibited weapons, detected upon the persons of idle urchins; such as half munched apples, popguns, whirligigs, fly cages, and whole legions of rampant little paper gamecocks. Apparently tliero had been some appalling act of justico recently inflicted, for hi* scholars were all busily intent.upon their r books, or slyly whispering behind them ( with one eye kept upon the master; and a . kind of buzsing stillness reigned > throughout thft school room. It was I suddenly interrupted by the appearance r of a negro fn to* cloth Jacket and trousl ers, a round crowned fragment of a , hat, like the can of Mercury, and ; mounted on the back of a ragged, wild. l half broken celt, which he managed with a rope by wap<? halter. He came ' (Uttering up tothe school door with an invitation to Icbahod to attend a merryi making, or "quilting frolic," to be held I mat evening at Mynheer Van Tassel's; . and having delivered his message with . that air of importance and effort at fine language which aj negro is apt todis' play on petty embassies of the kind, he [ dashed over the brook, and was seen scampering awiy up the hollow, full of the importance and nurry of his mission. All was now bustle and hubbub in the i late quiet school'room, The scholars were hurried thramrh their leMons with out stopping at trifles; those who were i nimble skipped over half with impunity, and those who were tardy had a smart i application now and then in the rear, to quicken their speed or help them over a tall word. Boo ja,were flung aside without being put away on % shelves, inkstands were overturned, benches thrown - dd%n and the whole school was turned loose ah hotib Afore-, the the usual .tin1?s green m ioy a$theic early emancipation. The gallant Ichafcpd now spent at least an extra half hour at his toilet, brushing and furbishing up uis > best and indeed only suit of rusty I lack, and arranging his locks by a bit of broke? looking glass that hung up in theschool house. That i he might make his appearance before his mistress in the true (tvleof a cavalier, he borrowed a horse fibm the farmer with whom he was domiciliated,!a choleric old Dutchman of the name of Hans Van Ripper, and thus gallantly mounted, issued forth like a knight errant in quest of adventures. But it is tieet I should, in the true spirit of romantic story, give some account of the looks and equipments of my hero and his steed. The animal he bestrode was a broken down plow horse that had outlived almost every thing but his viciousness. Be was gaunt and shaggy, with a ewe ieck and a head like a hammer; his rusty' mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and Bpectral, but the othtr had the gleam of a genuine devil in it.' Still he must have had fire and mettle is his day, if we may judge from his name, which was Gumpowder. Be had, in pact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric Van Ripper, who was a fu^043 rider, and had infused, very probably', some of his own spirit into the animal; for, old and broken down as he looked, there was more of the lurking devil in him than in any young filly in the country. Ichaboa was a suitable figure for such a steed. He rode With snort stirrups, which brought his knees nearly up to the pommel of the saddle: his sharp elbows stuck out like grasshoppers'; lie carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a scepter, and as die horse jogged on the motion of his arms was not unlike the flanninc of a nair of winirs. A small wool fiat rested *011 the top of his nose, for so his scanty strip of forehead might be called, and the stilts of his black coat fluttered out almost (o tho horse's tail. Such was the appearance of Ichabod and his steed as they shtfnbled out of the S'e of Hans Van Ripper, and it was alether such an appiritfon as is seldom' ~ >e met -with in brorfd daylight. < It was, as I have said, a line autunmal day; the sky was dear and .sgfene, and nature wore thai rich fifiQ golden livery which we alwa*5#s30eiate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown;'and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts iixto brilliant dyes of orange, purple and Scarlet. Streaming files of wild ducks W?gan to make their appearance high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might fee heard from the Sovesof beech and hickory nuts, and e pensive whistle qff I""*2lJwdptaiang their farewell banqxyfets. In of; fullness of their revelry tfaey fluttered, chirping and frolickingV from buah -to bush and tree to tree, oppricious nom the very profusion anfrv variety around them. There was the ' honest cock robin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note, and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds; and the golden winged woodpecker, with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage; and the cedar bird, with its red tipt wings and yellow tipt tail, and its little monteiro cap of feathers; and the blueiay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay light blue coat and white hndcrclothes, screaming and chattering,.nodding and bobbing, and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with' every songster of the grove. As Ichabod jogged slowly on his way his eye, ever open to every symptom of culinary abundance, ranged with delight over the treasures of jolly autumn. On all sides he beheld vast store of apples, some hanging in oppressive opulence on tho trees; some githered into baskets and barrels for the market; others heaped up in rich |iles for tho cider press. Farther on ho beheld great fields of Indian corn, with its golden ears peeping from their leafy coverts, and holding ^,,4- si .1 1, - -4? A uut VUC7 |UUI UiOU v/i- tuiu IJcloL^ puu* ding; and the yellow pumpkins lying beneath them, turning up their fair round bellies to tho sun, and giving ample prospects of the most luxurious of pies; and anon he passed tho fragrant buckwheat fields, breathing the odo: of the bee hive, and as he beheld then, soft anticipations stolo over his mind of dainty slapJ'acks, well buttered and Varnished with loney or treacle by the\delicato little dimpled hand of Katrina Tan^ Tassel. Thus feeding his mini with many sweet thoughts and "sugired suppositions," he journeyed along he sides of a range of lulls which look oir upon some of tho goodliest scenes of he mighty Hudson. The sun gradually vheeleu has broad disk down into the west The wide bosom of the Tappaan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and orolonged tho bluo shadow of the distant iiountain. A few amber clouds floated ir the sky, without a breath of air to more them. Tho horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a puie apple green, and from that into the diep blue of the mid heaven. A slanting ray lingered on the woody crests of tnt precipices that overhung some parts of the river, giving greater depth to tin dark gray and purple of their rocky sid?s. A sloop was loitering in tho distance, dropping slowly down with ftetMe, lm? ?n.y '"nanghig useleSiJyagaifiwji^nast; and as tho reflection of the sky gleamed along tho still water it seemed as if the vessel was suspended in tho air. It was toward evening that Ichabod arrived at tho castlo of tho Ileer Van Tassel, which he found thronged with the pride and floWer of tho adjacdnt country. Old fanners, a spare, leathern faced race, in homespun coats and breeches, blue stockings, nugo shoes and magnificent pewter buckles. Their brisk, withered little dames, in close crimped raps, long tvuistcil gowns, homespun petticoats, with scissors and pin cushions and gay calico pockets hanging on tho outside. Buxom lasses, almost as antiquated as their mothers, excepting where a straw hat, a fine riband, or perhaps a white frock, gave symptoms of city innovations. Tho sons, in short square skirted coats, with rows of stupendous brass buttons, and their hair generally queued in the fashion of the times, especially, if they could procure an eelskin for tho purpose, it being esteemed throughout tho country as a potent nourisher and strengthener of the hair. Brom Bonos, however, was the hero of the sceno, having come to the gathering, having come to the gathering on his favorite steed Daredevil, a creature, like himself, full of metal and mischief, and which no one but himself could manage. He was, in fact, noted for preferring vicious animals, given to all kinds of tricks which kept the rider in constant risk of his neck, for ho held a tractable, well broken horse as unworthy of a lad of spirit. TO BE CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK. Products of Scandinavian Labor. Tho exhibition of the products of Scan dinavian industry, opened at Copenhagen, has reached unexpectedly large dimensions, and has been converted in a measure into an international exhibition. The Russian exliibit is said to be magnificent, the public museums having been directed by the czar to display their treasures. In the hygienic department there are more than 400 exlnbiturs.? New York Post. JUiscettancoujs fading. BUTTONS. "Where's Buttons, Mary?" said little Alice Smith, the ?ash girl in a Fourteenth street dry goods store to her friend, Mary Simmons. Mary blushed and looked guilty, although she hastily disclaimed any knowledge of the person alludtd to. "How should I know vhere he is? I don't even know his name. I can't imagine why you girls aro always teasing me about him." And Mary petulantly went on with her work of rearranging the disordered showcase and w^jjb feminine tact displaying the newest guods in the mpst conspicuous places. But, despite her disclaimer, pretty Mary was thinking more about "Buttons than she was willing to confess. In fancy she could see his broad shoulders and the half bashful, half conscious smile on bis face as he appeared before ner counter on me previous weetc tte certainly was a strong young man She could tell that by his brown, muscular hand, And besides there was such an buttons, from which the gklsJiad nicknamed him, and Mary argued from his tngenuousn^fe and his respectful maimer that he must be entirely different from the young men whom she encountered on her way home at night and wh6se bold glances of admiration always made her blush. A hundred times a day Mary found herself looking down the long store toward the door, expecting and even hoping, although she aid not confess the hope to herself?that he would come again. Twice he had been there already, and, to tell the truth, he had bought enough buttons to keep him in those useful articles for five years. What ho could want with so many buttons was more than Mary could divine. In anticipation of his coming Mary arranged and rearranged the buttons in the case. There was an almost endless variety of buttons. China shirt buttons, bone coat buttons, wooden buttons covered with cloth; glass buttons, iris tinted, reflecting the gaslight in gleaming rays. But not one or these shone so brightly as the eyes which had met hers over the counter for one brief moment and then had been hidden by the long lashes which dropped over them. The chances of his coming back seemed very small indeed to Mary when she remembered that he had bought two cards of shirt buttons and enough trousers buttons to start a small store. "I wonder if he is going to sew them on himself?" said Mary to herself, a smile indenting two dimples in her cheeks. "If he does, he will have but tuns an uvei iiiui. In fancy Mary could see him sitting in his shirt sleeves with a slender needle between his clumsy thumb and forefin ger, trying to fasten a button on his shirt. She could see it all The compressed lip, the slip of the needle as it stole under his thumb nail, the muttered imprecation; and she laughed at her thoughts in such a merry way that the floor waiter censured her, and she resumed her work with a conscious blush. But the memory oL."Buttons" gradually faded trogv^inrfo. mind as the weeks wept-by. He did m.'* put in an appearance again, and as sibpped their chaffing there was ndihing left for the interest to feed upon. Tu6D came the anti-poverty fair, m which a great many of the girls were interested. Their sympathetic Hearts were attracted by the golden hopes of a poBsibleera when all want, all misery, all poverty would be done away by the new theories which were so rife in this city. What comforts, new dresses, unlimited ice cream and peanuts were contained in thosa magic words "anti-poverty 1" And so, urged on by her desire to help' the community at large, and perhrv^9 zeal of a zealot. \ She was assigned to take charge of a stand containing articles of verfcu and bric-a-brac, and in addition to these waa an assortment of sleeve buttons, a most beautiful array, made of gold, peart onyx, and some inlaid with precious stpnes. Every night after the store closed Mary hastened, sometimes very tired and footsore from standing all day, to Madisbn Square garden. There were prettier girls than Mary behind some of the counters, but none with a more demure and winning manner, none with a more sunshiny smile or brighter eyes, and so the table over which Bhe presided had no lack of customers. One night when the band was playing and the hunting shining in the gaslight Mary looked up and found "Buttons" confronting her. As their eyes met he stammered: "01). excuse me, miss. I didn't know it was you. I just called around to see if?if" "If what?" said Mary, kindly, anxious to relieve his embarrassment. The young man fingered his cane uneasily, and carefully averted liis gaze from Mary, for he could feel that she anticipated his want. Then he mustered up courage and blurted out: "If you had any buttons!" Before she could .ly he added hastily: r'The fact is that those shirt buttons I bought of you down at the store had such small eyes that I could not get the thread through them. It may be that the thread was too coarse. But, confound it all," ho continued, his embarrassment melting away before her assuring and sympathetic smile, "I've had to pin my shirt collar together ever since I came to the city. Besides that, you can imagine what a job it is for me to pin one or these stiffly starched collars around my neck!" "But I thought gentlemen were in the habit of wearing collar buttons," said Mary, with a reassuring glance. "So they do here in the city. But when I left Otsego county my mother made?me half a dozen new shirts in the old fashioned way, and perhaps I?I?I" Here he colored up again, and Mary came to the rescue with: "Of course, you like to wear the shirts because your mother made them. I'll tell you how you can fix it. Bring the shirts down to the store to-morrow and I'll get a poor "oman to fix button holes in ih? ?h.rt so thai you can uso collar buttons." He 6tammered out his thanks and, bewildered by the glamour c: Ihe bright , eyes which beamed so kind<y upon him, he bought n $9 red" velvet album, for ; which he had no use and which sug- I gested each time he looked at it as it lay m his bedroom the dainty hands which i had wrapped it so deftly in the pap&r i parcel, the string and the paper or which tie had hidden away in his valise. Mary was not aware of it, but that , night when she hoarded a Madison avenue car to go home, a tall, swarthy young man, with a bundle under Ins arm, stood bv the driver on the front platform. When she alighted at Grand street sho was unaware that behind her, dodging along in the shadows, came the young man and the bundle. How her heart would have fluttered had she known that when she lit the ; night lamp in her chamber its gleam j was watched by a nair of dark eves in j the street below, and that only when a pulf of breath from her rosy lips put out j the shimmering flame did lingering foot- i steps die away upon the pavement in the j direction of the Bowery. But the next night found "Buttons" at the fair. This time ho brought the shirts ! with him, and was even bold enough to ask Mary to go to supper with him. But ho had not courage*enough to ask if he ( could accompany her home. Did Mary send the shirts to the poor woman whom she had spoken of? Oh, | no; as tired as sho was on arriving -at homo she sat up until 1:80 making outton holes in "Buttons'" shirts. And while she was snipping with her scissors, and her needle was flying in and out, her lover was pacing back and forth on the opposite side of the street, his heart od tiro with the delirium of love. Those were pleasant days for Mary, t Her eyes took on a new luster, her cheek assumed a more roseate hue. The elixir of Iovo had animated her with new life. All rlo rr elm hnmmod iin/tar YiGT hrPflth? J Just a little sunshine, Just a little rain; Just a little happiness. Just a little pain. At last, one night just before the fair closed, "Buttons" mustered up enough ' courage to ask if he could accompany her home. His excuse was that the nighty | was wet and 6he had no umbrella, 1 she consented, so shyly, oh, so shyly,grnA suggested that &s the fair closed cBUk they should walk. As they went down the Bowery with its brilliant shqp windows and the sidewalks shining in the light it was necessary to walk close together because the crowd was so great and the umbrella was small. It was curious, but neither had eyes for the dazzling scene along the route. "Buttons" beguiled the way with the story of his life. He told her?and she listened carefully fearful that she might lose a word?how he had come to the city from Otsego county and was fortunate enough to secure a job as a blacksmith in a railroad car shop. His name was Tom Murphy. He had a good trade, and one of these days he intended to get married if he found a girl who was willing to take a homely fellow like him. Here Mary archly said: "Why, I dont think you're homely." Tom gave her hand a squeeze, just a little one, and then they walked in silence for awhile and at last arrived in front of her father's house. "I can't ask you to go in," she said, in a deprecating manner, "because it's too late. Gut can't you come around some other night?' Could he! Could the starp shine! Could a duck swim! Well, he Bhould rather guess he could! But thtfewasa held her hand while the rain fell with a flinftv Hrin ion tho ximbrcIlsL/ - ?'What Is it? aho said/palpitating Hfar a frightened rabbit A Dig lump came up In Tom's throat and a mist swam before Ms eyes. He turned pale as he placed his hand beneath her chin ana raised her drooping head so that he could look into her eyes. "I was wondering," he continued, in an unsteady voice, "if you would bo willing to give up selling buttons and devote your whole time to sewing buttons on my clothing!" "Oh, Tom!" she said, struggling to get away. But he held her fast and for an instant the Irish frieze overcoat and the waterproof were pressed close together by a sturdy blacksmith's arm. A gust of wind came around the corner and carried the answer away, but it must have been favorable to his wishes, for Tom astonished the Italian chestnut vender on the corner by buying out his whole stock and otherwise acting like a good natured lunatic.?New York Evening Sun. , Bulwer I,ytton as a Dandy. Until hjs death in disagreeable old age, Bulwer Lytton (then Lytton Bulwer) posed as a dandy and imagined himself a man of exquisite taste in dress. He was as gorgeous as D'Israeli himself, in gold and jewels and flashy waistcoat, but he didn't carry them well, as Willis testifies: "Toward 12 o'clock, Mr. Lytton Bulwer was announced, and enter the author of 'Pelham.' I had made up my mind how he should look, and between prints and descriptions thought I could scarcely be mistaken in my idea of his person. No two things could be moro unlike, however, than the ideal Mr. Bulwer in my mind and the real Mr. Bulwer who followed the announcement. Imprimis the gentleman who entered was not handsome. I beg pardon of the boarding schools, but he really was not. He is short, very much bent in the back, slightly knock-kneed, and if my opinion in such matters goes for anything, as ill dressed a man for a gentleman, as you will find in London. His figure is slight and very badly put together, and tho only commendable point in his person, as far as I could see, was the smallest foot J^ever saw a man stand upon."?The Ha&erdfe,1**. ,Beet Root"B^jar In Europe. continental authcflfcshaa calculated thatf the production of sugar from beet r/yOt grown in Europe during the year Vo87 will show a very decide^ reduction on the previous year. From the figures for the past year?which are, oi.-cSurse, more or less approximate?it is osl^Bated that 875,000 tons less of beet rot2, has jn root countries of Europe during 1887 than in 1880. The decrease is not confined to one country, but is general, the single exception being Belgium, which has, it is estimated, produced 100,000 tons last year, as against 91,000 tons*in 1880. In Germany and Austria the decrease amounts in each country to about 100,000 tons. Russia shows a diminished production of 75,000 tons, while France, more fortunate, comes within a few thousand tons of the previous year. The total production of beet root in 1880 was 2,625,000 tons, and last year it is estimated the crop did not exceed 2,350,000 tons.?Chicago Times. Men in Extreme Distress. Who are these who stand on bleak corners handing circulars, programmes? Who are these who come to the house door when the shades of night have closed comfort and domesticity within, and, .ringing, ask enough with which to buy a night's shelter? Who are these that timidly and with faint heart, late at night, sidle up to passers along the streets and ask for help? Sometimes they are dead beats. Sometimes they are condensed offense, stenchful and infamous, but oftener, and indeed oftener than you think or imagine, they are men driven by extremity of distress, and by a perfect regiment of woe, to that last resort, their wits. They aro at their wits' end for a fire, for a bath, for a bit of bread, for an unbroken shoe for a moment's comfort. You turn them from your door. The police move them on, the societies with long names and ueep pucauia iuub t,u cunsiuei their cases. Who wonders that the prisons are full? ?Joe Howard in New York Graphic. Good Being Done for Womed. Already has the kindergarten, the thought of Froebel, left its impress upon the womanhood of this generation; and the free kindergarten now being Introduced by generous hands into our large cities for the education of the little boys i and girls of the poor, will save to good < citizenship, to self nelp and culture, many ; a poor girL j Twin sister to this, so far as women are concerned, are "Women's Industrial and Educational unions," the conception of Abby Morton Diaz, of Boston. * This takes the woman adrift as it were, ' gives to her shelter, culture and bread; ] finds her work adapted to her education, 1 and competent pay; inculcates self re- 1 spect, and gives to her companionship 1 and surroundings worthy of respectable j womanhood. When these unions bo- < come established in every city, and in 3 every considerable town, the objection , made by the editor of a New York jour- ] nal, that "women are of little value as reporters because they cannot go into the' * 6lums," will be overcome, because there will be no slums.?Belva A. Lockwood in The Cosmopolitan. ] Preserving Flowers' Natural Colors. ' \ method of preserving the natural j colons of flowers, recommended in the ] Deutsche Botanische Monatsbefte, con- ' sists ik dusting salicylic acid on the plants i as they lie in the press and removing it again with a brush when the flowers are dry. Red colors in particular are well preserved by this agent. Another method ] of applying the same preservative is to j use a solution of one part of salicylic f acid in fourteen of alcohol by means of ? blotting paper or cotton wool soaked in j it and placed above and below the flow- ? ers. Powdered boracic acid yields nearly as good results. Dr. Schonland recomnmn.lr, nn .'m* LLitTiiuo, tn au iiiij;iuvfiiiriii 111 biiu uiuiuuu of using sulphurous acid for preserving g the color, that in tlio case of delicate x flowers they might be placed loosely be- g tween sheets .of vegetable parchment bo- ? foro imm?rsion in the liquid, so as to J preservo their natural form.?Home Journal. Aggravating; to the Eye. r It is a curuus fact that most of the p stout and od faced women at Long f Branch are prodigal in the use of red j parasols, and lie stouter -and tho redder e they are, tho bigger and brighter aro their sun shade. One can but think of glorified beets h looking at them. On a J cloudy day or ii a cloudy country, or as i a bit of color to ight up a landscape, the t red parasol does very well, but il^esV, m fulfills its missionin color and .slze^wufl the head of a pre* church bronze faced Budthist stall of a woman. Russia's Permit to Live. Every citizen must have a permit to live in the country. These permits are issued annually upon the payment of a fee. If he wants to leave the country or go from one to another he must notify the police, for that branch of the government must know where each inhabitant of the vast empire sleeps every night. In the provinces the rigid surveilance is relaxed, but at St. Petersburg and Moscow and other places visited by tourists there is a constant contact between the sovereign and the subject that is disagreeable to both. The police grant permission to go and come readily. There is no interference with traveljuor with trade. Submission ! submission! that is all. No one can get a ticket at a railway station nor on a steamboat without showing a permit to leave; no hotel will entertain a guest till he shows his passport. One cannot go anywhere or do anything without the consent of the authorities, but it is easily obtained, and costs forty copecks for'the stamp that appears on the document; about fifteen cants.?Cor. Chicago Times, Monkey with Yellow Fever. During, the epidemic of yellow fever -that prevailed some time ago in Caracas, profession hpH an opDOttanity ta aee, in onn-oLthe public houses of llUlli 1 . . -TTVOm. M-ith that disease. The .principal symptoms" were found to manifest themselves in a manner so marked that there remained nf AV* 4-UA A# UUI/ LilC 1UU3U UUUUV VIA IUO ?JfXl L Wi tiJC physicians who observed them that it was an undoubted case of yellow fever; there was injection of the eyes,-a certain state of stupor, sharp thirst, nausea, elevated temperature and at last prostration, anuria and black vomit. For threo days the poor animal remained in this sad condition, each day growing wotse, until the fourth day, when the case terminated fatally.?Public Opinion. The Moor on a Home Top. As I was making my toilet one morning I chanced to see a Moor mount to the flat roof of the opposite house. Placing himself in a quiet corner, shielded by the higher wall of an adjoining building, he turned toward the morning sun?or, rather, toward the holy Mecca?crossed his arms upon his breast and reverently bowed his head. After a moment or two he knelt down and touched his forehead to the floor three times. He then sat back upon his heels for a few minutes, as if in meditation, then repeated his prostrations, and rising crossed his arms again over his breast and remained sometime in this reverential attitude. Finally he prostrated himself a third time, and with that finished his morning devotions and disappeared. Truly, he went upon the house top to pray.?Boston Transcript A Bit ot Porcelain. It is while examining a collection of Japanese, Chinese and Corean porcelain, pottery and faience that one realizes the fact that no hard work illuminated by taste or genius perishes from the world. The original designers of a certain form of porcelain may be forgotten these thousand years, and so may the men who discovered this color and that, and those who found out the secret of under erlaze and over; the way to heat just so much at one stage of the painting and just so little at another; the inventor of a harmonious blending of all that his piflfecessors had discovered. But all tneir \york told, and here is the result?a bit of porcelain that when examined at leisure and in the sympathetic frame of mind is found to rank itself wjltb great poetry, great music, great sculpture.?New York Cor. New Orleans Picayune. A Lesnon to Horsemen. A Canadian writer draws attention to the fact that many horses are subjected -w Behig put! 'itKG* their mout/hs on very cold mornings without precaution being taken to free them from frost!. He makes the following remarks on the subject, which are certainly worthy of consideration: "The bits should be carried into the house and thawed out by the Ipitchen stove, or dipped into a pail of water. If you want a lesson you will not 'soon forget in regard to this matter, prut your tongue against a bit that has been exposed all night to a zero temperature. It will stick fast, and you will not get it freqjfwithout leaving some of the skin behind." Giving horses ice water is also cruel, and not calculated to conserve the health of the most useful helper man has on the faun.?Chicago Times. The Deadly Jungle Fever. Siam's great teak and ebony forests are several hundred miles from the coast. These are so dense that the superintendent of the construction of telegraph, Mr. Fritz?an American?consumed two or three months in cutting a way for a line through a forest of 6ixty-five miles. There was an advance party of some 500 natives cutting the trail, and a second party of 170 putting up tho poles and wire. Elephants were used for all carrying. So terrible was the jungle fever that in that one jungle some 250 natives died within two months. If a dose of twenty grains of quinine failed to break the fever death almost immediately ensued.^?Carter Harrison in Chi* cago man. Reporting Bismarck's Speeches. The task of taking down the prince's speeches is not an easy one. The official stenographers often trip up on his words, as in his recent speech, wherein the correction had to be made about his reference to Russia and Bulgaria. The incorrect version came from the unofficial accounts, and the correction from the prince himself. The stenographers who take^ his words have afterward to write out , their notes in long hand, and these are submitted to the chancellor, who makes corrections before they are published as the official utterances.?John P. Jackson in New York World. Alcoholic Coma. In cases of alcoholic poisoning?the comatose condition of intoxication?the . promptest recovery of consciousness will follow the subcutaneous injection of a mixture of one part of ammonia with two to six parts of water. Police surgeons who have to deal with cases of unconsciousness will find this a convenient method of determining whether a given case is due to whisky, compression of the brain or nervous disorder.?Chicago News. Serpent* of the East. A Singapore missionary says that tho leadly ?obra of tho Indian archipelago never exceeds the length of five feet. The hamadryas, a snake often confounded with the cobra, attains tho length of fifteen feet and is very fierce. The python sometimes grows to be twenty feet long.?Chicago Herald. I Australia's Big Caterpillar*. ! Australia has some giant caterpillars. Mr. A. S. Olliff, of Sydney, mentions ono ( TiAfVi 1 o rro nKnn/lonf /luwi'nr* xiVKii Aua ?u, uuuiiuaiui uunii^ itiu paov season, as being seven inches long, and I specimens of larv? of two other species 1 neasure eight inches in length.?Arkausaw Traveler. A Mystery Solved. The mystery regarding the whites of sggs after the ice cream factories have 1 lsed up their yelks is explained by a ! itatement that they are used to make 1 dbuminized paper for photography.? 1 s'ew York Sun. Artificial Petroleum. 1 Professor Mendcleef has sueceedediiu ' naking petroleum/ frpm anineral^^HU tances, whick. cannot be rom thcinatural article. ! K'troleunii is of niinvtf-aJ ering. ) It i^^Ulnt $1 f For the Yorkvllle Enquirer. REMINISCENCES OP WESTERN YORK. We would have our readers understand that those referred to in a previous chapter, were not the only persons ever scared at Unity church, in ante-bellum times. The writer had a little show of his own, on one occasion, there. In th<* spring, or early in the summer of 1858, I went to Whitesides's mill. I had to go by Unity church. William H. Hardin was the miller. It happened that I found the mill idle, and it was only a short time before I was ready to return home. The millpr f"R5ll TTarHir^ AI annvarcLfl that the fish were "bedding." He proposed | that we seine awhile, to which I readily ! agreed. We procured an old seine he had, ' J and after mending some of the holes in it, | went into the creek. At first we couldn't J do much, for the rocks hung the seine at j almost every step. Calvin Whitesides . J came and joined us. He took one staff , while I carried the other, and Bill Hardin 1 followed to unhitch the seine. We began 1 at the upper ford, hod, going down stream, J by the time we were opposite the mill, wsl had caught a fine quantity, v Jtim ArT. "7*4 anxious to try still further. By thit tip? Uncle Tommie Whitesideeea'me down to, ~Vj the mill and told Bill Hardin that he ^ would attend to the mill and give us a 1 chance to fish the remainder of the after- \J| noon if we chose. . r ^ We kept on down the creek to the bridge, nearly a mile, frequently swimming W^ere the water was too deep to wade. W'hett we got through we had fifty-two fine fish. Of these each man took a fourth, and we al? lowed Bill a fourth for tha seine. I now had thirteen to start home with. Whea we returned to the mill, Bill's wife had become uneasy about him and came to see ' what he was doing. When she saw the string of fish we had, she said : "They're fine 'uns; why, they're big enough to make mackerel uv." X' It was now dark, and I had a long road to travel. As I trudged along atr a pert gait, I felt quite happy, except for the wet clothes I wore. Along the road everybody had, apparently, gone to bed, and not a single living being was to be seen, for tho night was quite dark. When I had passed Mount Vernonchurch but a short distance, I heard something out in the woods on mv left. I supposed it was cows and though* nothing more of it. As I went on toward Unity it seemed to keep about opposite me. Still 1 thought it wascattle, and think so yet. Just before I came to the chnrch I heard a rail fall off the graveyard fence. My whole frame was struck with terror. $fy hair stood straight on end, and cold ehills ' ran up and down my back. The open church doors frowned a thousand terrors upon me, while the ghosts of "Jack, the . Sailor" and others, who in life were objects of my derision, dashed, as it were, upon my m mind. Like the negro who was about to ' be caught by the patrol, I asked the feet to take care of the body, and in a very few minutes I had passed Mr. John Morrow's at full speed. When I got home I found that I had lo9t three of my largest fish. For thea^^^ Mr. J. D. Wylie had offered me a half djfiftjHffj lar as I came by his house. I was sixteen years old, and had-always taught that of ghosts and such was supreme folly to||tok^much about. I was in cenV?xpeTieuc^'JfSr.ttbe loTna^ntysejf^^* a laughing stock for the community, j fl knew not what to do. I concluded tbatdf nobody had seen me on my haffirsftoffiV i I would be all right. But Mr. Morrdv^ne. I groes.no douht, had seen me andX-ouftl 'I be talking about it next day. So the.fi rgt 8 chance I had at Rube, (one at the ae^ro 1 men) by some carefully arranged Ijues-^ 8 tions, I learned from him that my presence I on that night hadn't been noticed by them.\ 1 I now felt comparatively easy, except that \ somebody, perhaps, had played a prank upon me, and was still enjoying it at my expense. This I had no meapa of finding out, unless they would tell it themselves. fl| The first chance I had I went into the graveyard to see if the cattle had been browsing over it. I found that they had, ^8 and that nearly all the fencing had been j thrown down. I was now warranted in 1 concluding that there was nothing there fl more than anywhere else, and from that * 8 day to this I have felt nothing more than 8 a solemn awe when l am passing such places. J. it. 8. Tea and Coffee as Rivals.?Coffee and tea are natural allies, but they are also natural rivals. As against alcoholic ? drinking in any form, they are combined. It is over the unoccupied territory, after alcohol has been driven away, that tine " contention between the two comes. Taking the world through, the general verdiqt seenps to be in favor of tea. Two of the ^ largest empires in the world?China and ' Russia?are tea drinkers. In Bokhara and Samarcand, and in most parte of Central Asia, the tea-urn is forever steaming. On the other hand, the Arab and the Turk, V V and with them the whole western part V of the Mohammedan world, are coffee- ? drinkers. The decision of Europe is Dot absolute for either side. It seems, to be ^ very much determined by what we may I call the accidents of the case. The nations which can get good coffee drink coffee. / Those which can get good tea drink teay Those which can get both drink botbV V England claims to be onelof these, but preference of England is boyond all doubt for tea and not for coffee. The unfair choice is very largely compensated for in the United States?the chief coffee con- fl suming country in the \yorld. English- fl men, too, would probablyf make more use fl nf coffee than thev do if thev could once m be induced to overcome the initial dif- a Acuities of having it prepared as it ought , to be?["London Times. ? <r\ / A Clever Woman.?Grace, while traveling in the West, an Englishwoman was fl obliged to take a seat in one crowded car, while her friends entered the next. Her M neighbor in the seat was a disagreeable-1 lookiDg fellow, whose feature showed an ! fl alarming amount of low cunning, promis- ? ing actual knavery. In spite of tne En- j glishworaan's distrust of him, she fell fl| asleep, and was awakened bjKfeeling her , companion withdrawing his hand from i J her pocket. ' Her first impulse was to raise an alarm; her second, to ascertain the extent of her loss. It proved that the thief had only 9ucceded in taking her baggage-checks, B and as his ticket was marked "Chicago" a the lady resolved to wait until they reached that place, also her destination. The train ran into the station atChica* JBH go, the pickpocket made his way to'thi, Bfl door, and the lady walked beside hina.";: A baggage express messengejfl^woassyMfj^^U by the car, and the lady "This has she messenger astonished the the tables the checks, .^^^ ^B^HBH^bhh yM