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lewis >i. grist, proprietor-1 5|.n Jniependcnt Jfomilg llcurapancr: Jfor the promotion of the jdolittcal, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Jnterests of the Jsouth. j TERMS?$2.00 A YEAR IN advan^^H VOL. 35. , . 'I" YORIvYILLE, S. C., VEDN^SDAY, JANUARY 3Q, 1889. k Choice foctrg. HOW TO BE HAPPY. Are you almost disgusted p. With life, little man ? I I will tell you a wonderful trick \ That will bring you contentmeut . If anything can? Du something for somebody, quick; Do Something for somebody, quick! Are you awfully tired With play, little girl ? Weary, discouraged, ?md sick? I'll tell you the loveliest Game in the worldDo something for somebody, quick ; Do something for somebody, quick ! Though it rains like the rain Of the flood, little man, And the clouds are forbidding and thick, You can make the sun shine In your soul, little manDo something for somebody, quick; Do something for somebody, quick! Though the skies are like brass Overhead, little girl, And the walk like a well heated brick ; And are earthly affairs In a terrible whirl? Do something for somebody, quick ; Do something for somebody, quick ! ., ? [Hopie Guardian. ?hc Jtotg idler. DOLPH HEYIJGER. [CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.] When he woke the gray, cool light of dawn was streaking the horizon, and the cocks passing the roveil from farm to farm throughout the country. He rose more harassed and perplexed than ever. He was singularly confounded by all that he had seen and dreamt, and began to doubt whether his mind was not affected and whether all that was passing in his thoughts might not be mere feverish fantasy. In liis present state of mind he dia not feel disposed to return immediately to the doctor's and undergo the cross questioning of the household. He made a scanty breakfast, therefore, on the remains of the last night's provisions, and then wandered out into the fields to meditate on all that had befalledhim. Lost in thought, he rambled about, gradually approaching the town, until the morning was far advanced, when he was roused by a hurry and bustle around him. He found himself near the water's edge in a throng of people, hurrying to a ' pier, where there was a vessel ready to j make 6&il. He -was unconsciously carried along by the impulse of the crowd, and found that it was a sloop, on_the point of sailing up the Hudson to'Albany. There was much leave taking and kissing of old women and children, and great activity in carrying on board bas- ' kets of bread and cakes and provisions of all kinds, notwithstanding the mighty joints of meat that dangled over the stern, for a voyage to Albany was an expedition of great moment in those days. The commander of the sloop was hurrying about and giving a world of orders, which were not very strictly attended to, one man being busy in lighting his pipe and another In sharpening his snickersnee. The appearance of the commander suddenly caught Dolph's attention. He was Bhort and swartny, with crisped black hair; blind of one eye and lame of one leg?the very commander that he had , seen in his dream! Surprised and aroused, , he considered the scene more attentively and recalled still further traces of lus dream; the appearance of the vessel, of \ the river, and of a variety of other objects accorded with the imperfect images ( vaguely rising to recollection. . As lie stood musing on these circum- i stances tbe captain suddenly called out to him in Dutcn, "Step on board, young j man, or you'll be left behind!" He was ! startled by the summons; he saw that.- ' "the sloop was cast loose and was actually , moving from the pier; it seemed as if lie was actuated by some irresisliblo im- t pulse; he sprang upon the deck, and the next moment tno sloop was hurried off by the wind and tide. Dolph's thoughts and feelings were all in tumult and con- ,j fusion. He had been strongly worked upon by the events that had recently be- * fallen him, and could not but think that there was some connection between his S resent situation and his last night's * ream. He felt as if he was under su- J pernatural influence, and he tried to as- "x sure himself with an old and favorite , maxim of his, that "One way or other, j all would turn out for the best." For a ^ moment the indignation of the doctor ai g his departure without leave passed across ,i his mind, but that was matter of littlq j moment. Then he thought of the dis- ( tress of his mother at his strange disap- { pearance, and the idea gave liim a sua ? aen pang; he would have entreated to be ( put on shore, but he knew with 6ucli ^ wind and tide the entreaty would have j been in vain. Then the inspiring love of ( noveltv and adventure came rushing in . full tide through his bosom; he felt him- ] self launched strangely uud suddenly on ( the world, and under full way to explore * the regions of wonder that" lay up this ? inigniy river, ana oeyonu mose uiutj mountains that liad bounded his horizon since childhood. While he was lost in this whirl of thought the sails strained to the breeze; the shores seemed to hurry away beliind him, and before he perfectly recovered his self possession tho sloop was plowing her way past Spiking Devil and Yonkers, and the tallest chimney of the Manhattoes had faded from his sight. I have said that a voyage up the Hudson in those days was an undertaking of some moment;" indeed, it was as much thought of as a voyage to Europe is at Sresent. Tho sloops were often many ays on the way, the cautious navigators taking in sail when it blew fresh, and coming to anchor at night, and stopping to send the boat ashore for milk for tea, without which it was impossible for the worthy old lady passengers to subsist. And there were the much talked of perils of theTappaau Zee and the highlands. In short, a prudent Dutch burger would talk of such a voyage for months, and even vears, beforehand; and never undertook it without putting his affairs in order, making his will, and having prayers said for him in the Low Dutch churches. In the course of such a voyage, therefore, Dolph was satisfied ho would have time enough to reflect, and to make up his mind as to what he should do when ho arrived at Albany. The captain, with . his blind eye and lame leg, would, it is | true, bring "his stran?re dream to mind, and perplex him sadly for a few mo- ] ments; frat, of late, his life had been' made up 60 much of dreams and realities, his nights and days had been so jumbled together, that he" seemed to be moving continually in a delusion. There is always, however, a kind of vagabond consolati i in a man's having nothing in this world to lose; with this LJolph comforted his heart, and determined to make the most of the present enjoyment. In the second day or the voyage they came to the highlands. It was" the latter Sart of a calm, sultry day, that they oated gently with the tide between these stern mountains. There was that perfect quiet which prevails over nature in the languor of summer heat; tho turning of a plank or the accidental falling of an oar on deck, was echoed from the mountain side and reverberated along the shores; and if by chance the captain gave a shout of command, there were airy tongues that mocked it from every cliff. Dolph gazed about him in mute delight and wonder at these Bcenes of nature's magnificence. To tho left the Dunderberg reared its woody precipices, height over height, forest over forest, away into tho deep summer sky. To the right strutted forth tho bold promontory of Anthony's Nose, with a solitary eagle wheeling Jabout it; while beyond, mountain succeeded to mountain, until they seemed to lock their arms together, and ccuiine this mighty river in their embraces. There was a feeling of quiet luxury in gazing at the broad, green bosoms here and tnere scooped out among tho precipices; or at woodlands high in air, nodding over the edge of some oeetling bluif, and their foliage all transparent in the yellow sunshine. In the midst of his admiration Dolph remarked a pile of bright, snowy clouda peering above the western heights. It was succeeded by another, and another, each seemingly pushing onwards its predecessor, and towering, with dazzling brilliancy, in tho deep blue atmosphere; and now muttering peals of thunder were faintly heard rolling behind the mountains. The river, hitherto still and glassy, reflecting pictures of tho sky and land, now showed a dark ripple at a distance, as the breeze camo creeping up it. The fish hawks wheeled and screamed^ and sought their nests on the lilgh dry trees; the crows flew clamorously to the crevioes of the rocks, and all nature seemed conscious of the approaching thunder gust. The clouds now rolled in volumes over the mounfiih tops; their summits still bright and snowy, butrthe lower parts of an inky blaqkness. The rain began to patter down in broad and scattered drops; the wind freshened and curled up the waves; at length it deemed as if the bellying clouds were torn open by the mountain tops, and complete, torrents of rain came rattling down. The lightning leaped fromtsToud to cloud, and streamed quivering against the rocks, splitting and rending the > stoutest forest trees. The thunder burst jn tremendous explosions; from mountain to DUO j[Axuo ,ncio vyuww ?v- ? ? mountain; the# crashed upon Dunderberg. and rolled, up the long defile of the highlands, each headland making a new echo, until old Bull hill fleemed to bellow back the storm. For a time the scudding and mist, and the sheeted rain* almost hid- the landscape frqmth# sight- There was a fearful gloom, illumined still more fearfully by the streams of lightning which glittered amnncr thte rain drops. Never had Dolph behmd such an absolute warring of the elements; it seemed as if the storm was tearing sn? reading its way through vrTrtmifa?r\>!filer ttridTnglbrougnt all the artillery of heaven into actions-r . The vessel was hurried on by the increasing wind, until she came to where the river makes a sudden bend, the only one in the whole course of its majestic career. Just as they turned the point, a violent flaw of wind came sweeping down a mountain gully, bending the forest before it, and, in a moment, lashing up the river into white froth and foam. The captain saw the danger and cried out to lower the sail. Before the order could be obeyed, the flaw struck the sloop, and threw her on her beam ends. Everything was now fright and confusion.; the flapping of the sails, the whistling and rushing of the wind, the bawling of the captain and crew, the shrieking of the passengers, all mingled with the rolling and bellowing of the thunder. In the midst of the uproar, the sloop righted; at the same time the sail shifted, the boom came sweeping the quarter deck, and Dolph, who was gazing unguardedly at tho clouds, founa himself, in a moment, floundering in the river. For once in his life, one of his idle accomplishments was of use to him. The many truant hours which he had des voted to sporting in the Hudson, had made liirnjui expert swimmer; yet,with ill his strength and skill, he found great lifficulty in reaching the shore. Win lisappearance from the deck had not seen noticed by the crew, who were all JccuDied bv their own danger. The , sloop was driven along with inconceivaFound himself floundering in the river. ale rapidity. She had hard work to tveather a long promontory on the east- j jrn shore, round which the river turned, rnd which completely shut her from Dolph's view. It was on a point of the western shorg hat he landed, and, scrambling up the rocks, he threw himself, faint and exhausted, at the foot of a tr?e.. By decrees the thunder gust The :louds polled away to the east, .where listant play of the lightning might be seen about the dark bases, and now and hen might be heard the faint muttering >f the thunder. Dolph rose, and sought ibout to Bee if any path led from me ihore; but all was savage and trackless. Dhe rocks were piled upon each other; preat trunks of trees lay shattered about, ia fVicnr Via el lioon hlrram iVnum Vi^r V.Vi A itrong winds which draw through these noun tains, or had fallen through age. rhe rocks, too, were overhang with vild vines and briers, which completely natted themselves together, and opposed i barrier to all ingress; every movement hat he made shook down a shower from he dripping foliage. He attempted to icaleoneof these almost perpendicular leights; but, though strong and agile, re found it an Herculean undertaking. )ften he was supported merely by jrumbling projections of the rock, and lometimes ne clung to roots and branches >f trees, and hung almost suspended in he air. The wood pigeon came cleavng his whjstling flight by him, and the sagle screamed from the orow of the unending cliff. As he was thus clamberng, he was on the point of seizing hold >f a shrub to aid his ascent, when somehing rustled among the leaves, and he taw a snake quivering along like lightling, almost from under his hand. It toiled itself up immediately, in an attitude of defiance, with flattened head, listended jaws, and quickly vibrating ongue, that played like a little flame ibout its mouth. Dolph's heart turned 'aint within him, and he h i well nigh et go his hold, and tumbled down the irecipice. The serpent stood on the defensive but for an instant; it was an instinctive movement of defense; and findng there was no attack, it glided away nto a cleft of the rock. Dolph's eye folowed with fearful intensity; and he saw it a glance that he was in the vicinity if a nest of adders, that lay knotted, and vrithing, and hissing in the chasm. He lasteneu with all speed to escape from so frightful a neighborhood. His indignation was full of this new horror; he saw an adder in every curling vine, and leard the tail of a rattlesnake in every lry leaf that rustled. At length he succeeded In scrambling x> the summit of a precipice; but it was jovered by a dense forest. Wherever le could gain a lookout between the xees, he saw that the coast rose in leights and cliffs, one rising beyond anither, until huge mountains overtopped ;he whole. There were no signs of culivation, nor any smoke curling amongst he trees, to indicate a human residence. Everything was wild and solitaay. As i? was standing on the edge of a precilice that overlooked a deep ravine fringed with trees, his feet detached a rreat fragment of rock; it fell, crashing Lta way-through tfrtw* ;ho chasm. A loud whoop, or rather yell, issued from the bottorfof the glen; ;he moment after, there was the report if a gun; and a ball came whistling over lis head, cutting the twigs and leaves, md burying itself deep in the bark of a chestnut tree. Dolph did not wait for a second shot, jut made a precipitate retreat; fearing ;very moment to near the enemy in pursuit. He succeeded, however, in returnng unmolested to the shore, and determined to penetrate no farther into a country so beset with savage perils. He sat himself down, dripping, discon sowceiy, on a wee scone, what was to jo done? Where was he to shelter liim>elf? The hour of repose was approachng; the birds were seeking their nests; ;ko bat began to flit abmit in the twiight, and tiio niAthawk soaring high n heaven, seemed to be calling out the stars. Night gradually closed in and vrapped everything in gloom; and hough it was the latter part of summer, ret the breeze, stealing along- the river, rnd among these dripping forests, was ihilly and penetrating, especially to a ia!f drowned man. As ho sat drooping and despondent in his comfortless condition, he perceived i light gleaming through the trees near ,he shore, where the winding of the river nade a deep hay. It cheered him with ;he hopes that here might be some human labitation, where he might get something :o appease the clamorous cravings of Ins itomach, and, what was equally neceslary in Ids shipwrecked condition, a ;omfortable shelter for the night. It was vith extreme difficulty that he made his ,vav towards the light, along ledges of oclcs down wluch he was in danger of iliding into the river, and over great ranks of fallen trees; sotno of which had >een blown down in the late storm, and ay so thickly together that he had to itruggle through their branches. At engtn lie came to the brow of a rock that yverhung a small dell, from whence the ight proceeded. It was from a fire at he foot of a gieat tree! that stood in the nidst of a grassy interval or plat among ho rocks. The $re c^st up a red glaro imong the gray/era? and impending xees, leaving chasms ?f deep gloom that I J - i resembled entrances to cavernB. A small brook rippled /elc>60 by, betrayed by the quivering reflection of the flame. There were two figures moving about the fire and others admitted before it' As they were bfetawu him and the light they were lit Obvmtafe.ehadow; but one of them haroetfing temove round to the opposite sicleJlMph was startled at perceiving, by jthe full glare falling on paintfi features end glittering on silver ornadpttb^ tfiathe, was an Indian- He | now jjfooked jmote narrowly, and saw gunsc leaning .against a tree and a deaid bodjUying oh the ground. Dolph began to doubt w hether ho was not m ahorse oondition than before; here was th$ very foe that had fired at him -ftom the glen. He endeavored lb retreat quietty; not caring to intrust himself to these half human beings in so savage and, lonely a place. It was top late. The Indian; with that eagle quicM ness of eye bo remarkable in his raoag Serceived something stirring among the! ushes on ,the rock. He seized one or the guns thjat leaned against the tree; ond moment more, and Dolph might hs?? had his passion for adventure cured b*H Kiillof ha lmi/11tr xmfh fho IBr ViUOUWCU iVWVUJ ?? iVU w dian salutation of friendship; the wholp party sprang upon their feet; the salutation was returned, and the straggler w? invited toijoin them at the fire. i? ' Oirappbhcitfir^ foaBcfrty?ii<s& solation, that the partyAVfe composed of white mea as well as Indians. One, who was evidently the principal personage or commancjer, was seated on thedrunk of' a tree before the fire. He w$a a large, stout man, somewhat advanced in life, but hale and hearty. His face was bronzed almost to the color of an Itt? dian's; he had strong but rather jovial features^ an aquiline nose and a mouth shaped like a mastiffs. His face was hair thrown in shade by a broad hat with a buck's-tail in it His gray hair hung s^ort in his neck. He wore a hunting: frock, with Indian leggings, and moccasins, and a tomahawk in the broad wampum belt round his waist As Dolph caught a distinct view of his person and features, he was struck with something that reminded him of the old man of tne haunted house. The man before Jhim, however, was different in his drejss and age; he was more cheery, too, try his aspect, and it was hard to define Where the vague resemblance laybut a | resemblance there certainly was. Dolph felt some degree of awe in approaching him; but was assured by the rran^, hearty welcome with which he was received. As he cast his eyes about, too,/lie was still further encouraged bv perceiving that the dead body, which nadlcaused him some alarm, was that of a dfftr; and his satisfaction was complete in Jaiscerning, by the savory steams whach issued from a kettle suspended by . atttcjhedl stick over the fire, tnat there iftfi a part cooking for the evening's re\** now found that he had fallen in wt&'a rambling hunting party, such as qft^toodr place in those davs among the smttjfr''"Along the river, foe hunter is aS|jy6 hospitable; and nothing makes * Awymore social and unceremonious than tt^ee^ing in the wilderness. The commander of the party poured him out a ! dram of cheering liquor, which he gave Mm with a merry leer, to warm his ! wart; and ordered one of his followere to fetch some garments from a pinnace, which was moored in a cove close by, vf hile those in which our hero was dripping might be dried before the fire. , Dolph found, as he had suspected, that the shot from the glen, which had come so near giving him his quietus when on **rnc frnw nortv KnfArn tuc jja f ?*tto uvua vuu i/uivj mvavav him: He had nearly crushed one of them by the fragment of rock which he had detached; and the jovial old hunter, in the broad hat and bucktail, had fired . at the place where he 6aw the bushes move, supposing it to be 6ome wild animal. He laughed heartily at the blunder; it being what is considered an ex ceeding good joke among hunters; " but, Jajthj my Ida," said he, "if I had but Qungnt a glimpse of you to take sight at, . jtou would have followed the rock. AnVatKkrr Hc^Kkar irf^Hotcr'kncrrrLrid*' miss his aim." These last words were at once a clew to Dolpli's curiosity; and a few _ questions led him completely into the character of the man before him, and of liis band of woodland rangers. The commander in the broad hat and hunting frock was no less a personage than the Heer Antony Vander Heyaen, of Albany, of whom Dolph had many a time heard. Ho was, in fact, the hero of many a story, being a man of singular humors and whimsical habits, that were matters of wonder to his quiet Dutch neighbors. As he was a man of property; naving had a father before nim, from whom he inherited large tracts of wild land, and whole barrels full of wampum, he could indulge liis humors without control. Instead of staying qrlitly at home, eating and drinking at regular meal times, amusing himself by smoking his pipe on the bench before the door, and then turning into a comfortable bed at night, he delighted in all#kinds of rough, wild expeditions. He was never 60 happv as when on a hunting party in the wilderness, sleeping under trees or bark sheds, or cruising down the river, or on some woodland lake, fishing and fowling, and living the Lord knows how. He was a great friend to Indians, and to an Indian mode of life; which ho considered true natural liberty and inarur enjoyment. When at home he had always several Indian hangers on, who loitered about his house, sleeping like hounds in the sunshine, or preparing hunting and fishing tackle for some new expedition, or shooting at marks with bows and arrows. Over these vagrant beings Heer Antony had as perfect command as a huntsman over his pack; though they were great nuisances to the regular people of his neighborhood. As ne was a rich man no one ventured to thwart liis humors; indeed, he had a hearty, joyous manner about him that made him universally popular. He would troll a Dutch "song, as he tramped along the litroot- lmil pvprv one a mile off: and when he entered n house he would slap the good inan familiarly on the back, sliake liirn byjthe hand till he roared and kiss his wife and daughters before his face?in 6hort, there was no pride nor ill humor about Heer Antony. Besides his Indian hangers on he .had three or four humble friends among tho white men, who looked up to him as a patron, ana had the ran of his kitchen, and the favor of being taken with him occasionally on his expeditions. It wat with a medley of such retainers that ho was at present on a cruise along tho shores of the Hudson, in a pinnace which he fr kept for his own recreation. There were two white men with him, dressed partly in the Iudian style, with moccasins "-tmchhaiiiirTE sWrtk; the rest 01 ids crt?w '1 consisted of four favorite Indians. They had been prowling about tho river, without any definite object, until they found themselves in the highlands; where they had passed two or three days, hunting tho deer which still lingered among these mountains. "It is a lucky circumstance, young man," said Antony Vander Heyden, "that you happened to bo knocked overboard today, as to-morrow morning wo start early on our return homewards, and you might then have looked in vain for a meat among the mountains?but come, lads, stir about! stirabout! Let's see what prog we have for supper; tho kettle haa boiled long enough; my stomach criea cupboard; and I'll warrant our guest is in no mood to dally with his trencher." There was a bustle now in the little encampment. One took oil" the kettle, and turned a part of the contents into a huge wooden bowl; another prepared a flat rock for a table; while a third brought various utensils from the pinnace, which was moored close by; and Heer Antony himself brought a flask or two of precious liquor from his private locker?knowing his boon companions too well to trust any of them with the key. A rude but hearty repast was soon spread ; consisting of venison smoking from the kettle, with cold bacon, boiled Iudian corn, and mighty loaves of good brown household bread. Never had Dolph made a more delicious repast; and when ho had washed it down with two or three draughts from the Heer Antony's flask, and felt the^lly liquor sending its warmth tlirough Ids veins, /tnd glowing round his very heart, ho would not liaye change^ his situation, no, with the gov ernor or tne province. The Heer Antony, too, grew chirping and ioyous; told half a dozen fat storied, at which his white followers laughed immoderately, though the Indians, as usual, maintained an invincible gravity. "This is your true life, mv boy," said he, slapping Dolph on the shoulder; "a man is never a man till ho can defy wind and weather, range woods and wilds, sleep under a tree, and live on bass wood leaves! , And then would he sing a stave or two of a Dutch drink in? song, swaying a short "This is your trus Iff*) my boy!" squab Dutch bottle hrhib haBa, while bis myrmidons wpuld join in chorus, until the woods echped again?as the good old song has it:' it fhoy all with a shout made the elements ring, So soon as the office was o'er; To testing thoy want with true merriment, j^fndtfcple^ strong Uqncr rffora i, > In the midst of'his joviitllf ^.iiftweve*, t Heer Antxrny did not lose signt of discnption. Though he pushed the bottle. wlth<mt reserve to Dolph. yet he alwajffl took care to helpI his folhywers himself, knowing the befogs he had to deal wtth? and he was particular in granting but a moderateeliowance to the Indians. The repast being ended, the Indians having drunk their liquor and smoked their pipes, now wrapped themselves in their blankets, stretched themselves on the ground with their feet to the fire, and soon fell asleep, like so many tired hounds. The rest of the party remained chatting before the fire, whion the gloom of the forest and the dampness of the air from the late storm rendered extremely grateful and comforting. The conversation gradually moderated from the hilarity of supper time, and turned upon hunting adventures and exploits and perils in the wilderness, many of which were so strange and improbable that I will not venture to ppeat them, lest the veracity of Antony vander Heyden and his comrades should be brought into question. There were many legendary tales told also about the river and the settlements on its borders; in which valuable kind of lore the Eeer Antony seemed deeply versed. As the sturdy bfffh beater sat in the twisted root of a Aree that served him for a kind of arm chair, dealing forth these wild stories, fgith the fire gleaming on his stronglv marked visage, Dolph was again repeatedly perplexed by something that reminded him of the phantom of the haunted house; some vague resemblance that could not be fixed upon any precise .feature or lineament, but which pervaded the general air of his countenance and figure. me moon naa just; raise a ner Biiver horns above the round back of old Bull hill, and lit up the gray rocks and shagged forests, and glittered on the waving bosom of the river. The night dew was failing, and the late gloomy mountains began to soften and put on a gray aerial tint in the dewy light The hunters stirred the fire, and threw on fresh fuel to qualify the damp of the night air. They then prepared a bed of branches and dry leaves under a ledge of rocks for Dolph; while Antony Vander Heyden, wrapping himself up in a huge coat made of sains, stretched himself before the fire. It was some time, however, before Dolph could close his eyes. He lay contemplating the strange scene before him: the wild woods and rocks around?the fire, throwing fitful gleams on the faces of the sleeping savages? and the Heer Antony, too, who so singularly, yet vaguely, reminded him of the nightly visitant to ,the haunted house. Now and then he hpard the cry of some animal from the fo^Bst, or the tbejQgj^ytha^ftQteaof- tha., 1 wmp-joor-will, which seemed to rooUnd among these solitudes, or the splash of a sturgem, leaping out of the river, and failing back full length on its placid surface. He contrasted all this with his accustomed nest in the garret room of Ihe doctor's mansion, where the only ptrnds he heard at night were the church olock telling the hour, the drowsy voice of the watchman, drawling out all was well; the deep snoring of the doctor's clubbed nose from below steirs, or the cautious labors of some carpenter rat gnawing in the wainscot. His thoughts then wandered to his poor old mother; what would'she think of his mysterious disappearance? what anxiety and distress worna she not suffer? This was the thought that would continually intrude Ucnlf fA liin TinAoonf fiwiATrmnwf Tl W lllttl IllO VUJVJU1VMV. *v brought with it a feeling of pain and compunction, and he fell aaleep with the tears yet standing in his eyes. Were this a mere tale of fancy, here would be a fine opportunity for weaving In strange adventures among these wild mountains and roving hunters; and, after involving my hero in a variety of Krils and difficulties, rescuing him from em all by some miraculous contrivance; but as this is absolutely a true itory, I must content myself with facts and keep to probabilities. At an early hour the next day, therefore, after a hearty morning's meal, the encampment broke' up and our adventurers embarked in the pinnace of An tony Vander Heyden. There being no wind for the sails, the Indians rowed her gently along, keeping time to a kind of chant of one of the white men. The day was serene and beautiful; the river without a wave; and as the vessel cleft the glassy water it left a long, undulating track behind. The crows, who had scented the hunters' banquet, were already gathering and hovering in the air, just where a column of thin, blue smoke, rising from among the trees, showed the place of their last night's quarters. As they coasted along the bases of the mountains, the Ileer Antony pointed out to Dolph a bald eagle, the sovereign of these regions, who sat perched on a dry tree that projected over the river; and, with eye turned upwards, seemed to be drinking in the splendor of the morning sun. Their approach disturbed the monarch's' meditations. He first spread one wing and then the other, balanced himself for a moment, and then, quitting his perch with dignified composure, wheeled slowly over their heads. Dolph snatched up a gun and sent a whistling ball after him, that cut some of the feathers from his wing; the report of the gun leaped sharply from rock to rock and awakened a thousand echoes; but the monarch of the air sailed calmly on, ascendingbigher and higher, and wheeling widely as he of the woody mountain, until he iisappeared over the brow of a beetling ireciEice. Dolph felt in a manner rebuked 1 y this proud tranquillity, and aimort reproached himself for having so wantonly insulted this majestic bird. Heer An- . tony told him, laugliing, to remenier that ho was not yet out of the territories of the lord of the Dunderlierg, and an old Indian shook -liis head and obsencd : that there was bad luck in killing in ! eagle?the hunter, on tho contrary, should always leave him a portion of hn 1 spoils. Nothing, however, occurred to moles; them on their voyage. They passed pleasantly through magnificent and ; lonely scenes, until they came to where Pollopol's Island lay, like a floating , J bower, at the extremity of the highlands. Here thev landed, until the heat of the day should abate or a breeze spring up , that might supersede the labor of the oar. Some prepared the midday meal, while others reposed under the shade or the trees in luxurious summer indolence, looking drowsily forth upon the beauty of the scene. On the one side were the highlands, vast and cragged. feathered to tho top with forests ana throwing their shadows on the glassy water fV X dimpled at their feet. On the other side was a wido expanse of the river, like p broad lake, with long, 6unny reaches and green headlands, and the distant line of Snawungunk mountains waving along a clear horizon or checkered by a fleecy ciqua. But I forbear to dwell on the particulars of their cruise along the river; this vagrant, amphibious life, careering across silver sheets of water; coasting, wild woodland shores; banqueting on shady promontories, with the spreading tree overhead, the river curling its light foam to one's feet, and distant mountain, and rock, and tree, and snowy cloud, and deep blue sky, all mingling in summer beauty before one; all this, though never cloying in the enjoyment, would be but tedious in narration. [to he concluded next week.] 7t@r- It is folly to promise ourselvesauc- \ cess in that which wo undertake contra- 1 ry to the mind of God. piswltanrotuj Reading. A WEALTHY BACHELOR. PLE AS URES OF EXISTENCE IN A RICH MAR'S LODGING HOUSE. ft 1 ? j At about the time tltttt the lodger at 7 cents a night down La Vfplberry street was getting over the stupefying effect of his last potation of stale beer andjjwos groaning and tossing and incidentally flprsing and growling on his narrow str$> of canvas as he breathed over again for the hundredth time the heavy, fetid air, another man got out of a cab on a cross street a few steps from the corper of Broadway, bade the driver a gruff 1 gwxl night, and crossed the walk to the tall entrance of a big building that towered far above him i$ the darkness, a gloomy mass over tha/vnate architecture and gay shop wimwrs of the lower stories, which the elM^io lights reached High enough to* '""""irrr no wucueu on electric button and a qfoment later the door swung open and a sleepy "watchman admitted the late comer, who said "good morning," tried to whistle a snat^p of song, couldn't do it and hummed it Inntsgrt, and then sat down with a suddenness and peverity that seemed II11 Upon thesHjlp^^ed banph in the elevator. WhafceW tnwman may have been i drinking its effect had. not been stupefying, and the swift upward rush of the elevator seemed to make his spirit even more cordial and pleasant, for at the top ho fumbled through all his pockeWfdr a quarter, and not , finding it took a dollar instead and tossed it to the watchman as be left the elevator. Down a long, uncarpeted corridor, with many doors on either side, his step was jaunty and light, with the least trifle of unsteadiness. His key, fitted into its lock after a not unrsasonable amount of fumbling, turned with a soft click, and tho door opened. A gas jet barring low filled the room with a vague light, except where the bright glow from the firsts the gratfc illuminated a semicircular space in front of the mantel. The night wiud through a partly open window stirred the curtains with a gentle rustle. 1 rae draft was unpleasantly fresh, in spite of < the lire, so be closed- the windowre he 1 threw his overcoat an the nearest chtaf. Than he turned up the gas and sat do wn in a * huge, softly upholstered armchair that faced the grate, stretching himself out with a comfortable pease of ease apd warmth. AH ELEQAJfT BOOK. The light brought out the size and furnishing! Of tfa e room distinctly. It was a corner . root?, with one window on Broadway and another on the side spree t. It was small, , aDoui niteen reei square, ana maao sim smaller and more cozy oy the famishing and. decorations, which work of a dark tone, with 1 plenty pf red and gold ^touches to punctuate 1 its richness. The walls were papered in a 1 dark figure of greens and browns, nearly covering a gilt ground. The curtains were ' brighter than the walls, but of material, i color, and figures that blended with them well On two sides portieres of a heavier and richer material hnng in archways leading to i adjoining rooms. One largo painting of a subject suited to the apartments of a bachelor, , and with a well known artist's initials in the ] corner, hung in the only broad space on the wall that was left aftarthe windows, arch- 1 ings, and mantel were taken out. Several smaller paintings of leaf merit hung about, ' and a largo and beautiful tinted etching of a 1 Venus floating on a cloud stood upbn an ea-el 1 at one side the mantel* After a time be glanced at his Watch and 1 pushed aside the portiere leading into another I room on the Broadway side. It was smaller I than tho first room, btit held a haudsome 1 bookcase, an ornamental desk, a long, com- 1 fortablo lounge, a small table covered with a \ cloth of embroidered felt, besides a few chairs ( and some other triflee and a number of pictures on the wolL The evening papers lay j neatly folded on the table. He picked up one, J glanced it over, smiling occasionally, and j then laying it down, poshed aside a portiere concealing a door, whifn slid back easily into ' the wall. His heels struck harshly against 1 the tile floor of the bathroom, and recalled to * him his slippers. Ho went back to the fire, tpftstin?besidA-whigjvjyuy.Jgjr,-attar patting tbeih on, set hufboes in their place and returned to tho bathroom. It was small, < but finely appointed, and beautified with , pleasing evidences of the painter's skill, such < as the old Pompeiians might have enjoyed, j Steam heat rendered it comfortable, even to ( his slippered feet, and when he turned a , faucet tho warm water gushed out and a ciouu 01 steam arose, au oreatueu its uampness gratefully for a moment, and then moderating its temperature by a turn of another faucet until it suited his touch, left it running and returned across the two rooms and through the portieres into tho third, and on the street side of tho building. A bed, with a covering of lace over red daintily laid upon the quilts, was its most conspicuous furniture. This and the other furniture of tho room befitted such a suite. Tho general effect of its decorations was lighter than Jhat of either of the other room;, but not so much so as to offer a contrast. INJOYINO HIS BATH. Hero he quickly prepared for the bath, and before his tub was filled he walked in an embroidered dressing gown back to tho bath room. It was warm and bright, with no ' chill about the marble, and a thick rug for saving any shock to the bare feet Ho enjoyed his bath lazily and luxuriantly, as a man will after a night of pleasure, and then, resuming his dressing gown, choee a book as he passed through tho library, and, seated again in tho chair before the fire, toasted himself comfortably and read for an hour. At tho end of a chapter he tossed tho book upon the nearest table, yawned and moditated, gazing into the fire, yawned again and then went into the bedroom, where ho was soon tucked away, wartn and Bnug, sound asleep, just about as down in Mulberry street "de bums" were turned out from their night's stew for another day's wrestle with existence. When ho awoke it was well toward noon. He touched an electric button, and presently some one knooked at the door. "Omelet, bacon, stewe4 kidneys and coffee!" he shouted, standing with one arm in. bis embroided night shirt and the other out of it. A submissive "Yes, sir," came from outside, and whoever was there went away. The corner room had been put in order and the fire attended to as he slept His book was back in its place, the evening papers were gone and the morning ones in their place; his shoes, well polished, stood where he had left them dingy the night before. After breakfast the overcoat and hat, carefully brushed and put away, were resumed, and another day had begun. As he went out a trim chambermaid entered to put the rooms in order. At the office by tno door down stairs he stopped to give the super in- ? tendent a check for the month's rpnt for three rooms. It was for $100; it would have lodged one of "de bums" for nearly four years.?New York Sua. t CLOTHES OF THE DEAD rho Old Custon? and the New?Second Hand Clothing Dealers. It used to be, among the women of a past generation, a custom to leavl -their clothes by will in the same manner that they did their "second best bedstead" and "silver gilt teapot." They divided their furs, laces, brocades and ' 'body linen" among their nearest kin, and gen erauy lerc uio plainer ana more worn r things to old family servants or poor re- f lations. But these personal possessions, ; with the exception of laces, are rarely E bequeathed nowadays. Mrs. John Jacob c Astor kept to the old customs, and I saw . a poor, pretty girl wearing^ one of her \ sealskin coats last week, it having been E specially bequeathed to her in the will. ? The usual course is that taken by the ? aeirs of Mrs. A. T. Stewart, who sold all t let enormous wardrobe to dealers in j second hand clothes. Though little was ? 6flfd about it at the time, a good many c society women took occasion to purchase ? certain things through the dealers, but generally#handkerchiefs, stockings, silk underwear and gloves, which would not bo recognized and which they got very cheaply. Tllere is a woman on Fifth avenue who makes a business of buying the wardrobes of dead women, and who is fast niakirg a fortune out of the bargains she gets. Most of her customers who purchase poods from, her have no idea of the real secrets of her trade. She is ostensibly a dealer in imported goods and has certain French and English boxes and cases into which she packs many of her goods and sells them as new. She will take the yholo wardrobe of the deceased, new and old, good and bad, and then this goes through a careful process of selection. The new things, or those nearly so, which are really imported or have that appeiiance, she packs into foreign cases and tits them up daintily and disposes of them to rich customers. Many a time a won an has ct^netojier^^l g ings, gloves or -what not?like some T. once saw Mrs. Quelquechose have. See if you can find them for me." And the dealer has in course of time sent her a note saying that she has found something very near what she asked for. In reality they are Mrs. Quelqcechose'sown, and the dealer had them all the while. The gowns that are new or very nearly new she sells to the dressmakers, who freshen them up a bit and sell them to out of town customers. Then the dealer has a list of customers who are perfectly familiar with the real nature of her trade. They are mostly women who are struggling to keep their places in society, with lean purses and a great desire to keep up appearances. They keep the run of her place and get some bargains, because though the things thev buy are somewhat worn, they are worth the money for the good Parisian cut and style. They buy from her black and inconspicuous gowns that are like those worn by a dozen other women and are not likely to be recognized, and sometimes they have them made over at home and buy them for the sake of the good material in them. There is a third class of the wornout and shabby clothes, bonnets, shoes and general belongings which ore sold in a lump to the second hand dealers in the Bbwery. And so all the pretty frills and fancies of the dear dead women of our households become scattered to the far winds, worn by her friends, her enemies, her servants, Btrangers and women whom in life she would have turned her eyes away from as sho passed. There is something very pathetic, it Beems to me, in such dispersal and use of these most intimate personal possessions of a lovely women. The old way was best.?Cor. Brooklyn Eagle. How to Develop the Langs. The exercise which I have found of most value in developing the lungs may be described as follows: Standing erect els possible, with shoulders thrown back and chest forward, the arms hanging close to the body; the head up, with lips firmly closed, inhalation is to be taken slowly as may be, at the same time the. ex tended arum are to be gradually raised,sthe back of the hands upward, until they closely approach each other above the head, The movement should fVtn ormq ill Kn or Ut7 DU I C^Uiabgu WllUW VU9 luuio wv VA tended directly over the head at the moment the lungs are completely filled. IljMt|fS$lfc>n should be maintained from fimtb thirty seconds before the reverse process if /Wjgun. As the arms are gradually lotM ttd the breath is exhaled slowly, 0{dA lungs shall be as nearly treed itaotf$Ntth as possible at the time the armsakain ^each the first position at tb$ aide. "By these movements the greatest expansion possible Reached, for upon inspiration the wdigi|j&>f the shoulders and pectoral muscWiwr.iifted, allowing the thorax to expand while upon exhalation ^1n Jgfaring the arms we utilize the addithnflpnied of this pressure upon thp upper tati&JL to render expiration as oOmplete as possible. These deep respfr ations should be repeated five or six timw, Emd the exercise gone through Wfrlr five or six times a day. It is hMdl^'necessary to remark tnat the clothing mast in no way interfere with the exercise. In some cases this exercise iS> more advantageous when taken lying flat on the back, instead of standing. lathis position the inspiratory musolea becdpie rapidly strengthened by opposing the Additional pressure exerted by the abdominal organs against the expanding lungs, i^nd, on the other hani, expiration is mora perfect and full on account of tm pressure of these organs. This is frvnMrf^T^" advocated by several leaditjgvpoal teachers of Europe.?John L. D. r Bird* ofni Oibm. ,:. ,, An old Scotch saying has It that; "Whistlin' maidens an' crawing hens I 1 1 *. >? Xam*. ITtf LlittJ lUUii./ UUUUb ULiy LllttU D tuuu. rhufl the ordinary barn yard fowl may be a feathered forerunner of evil. Birds, from perhaps antediluvian periods, have aeen looked upon as feathered fortune tellers. The swarthy Italians, who, with their cages of trained birds, stand at the street corners in our large cities and ask passers by to allow the little feathered Dnes to read their fortune, are the straggling remnants of a whole army of superstitious souls. In some parts of England even in our day the note of the swallow means the reception of some sviljtidings; but to kill that bird is a certain way of bringing down unlimited evil on the destroyer. The whi^e owl in France is universally held as a foreteller rf death, and its "screech" is not much liked by English peasants. But in America, among the negro population, the brown owl, if uttering its hoot on the right, foretells good luck, but the opposite if on the left. In France and Belgium the cry of the white owl is supposed to foretell all sortaof misfortunes. However, the counteracting remedy is aot far to seek?it simply consists in throwing a pin'ch of salt into the fire when the sound is heard. Two crows, in some parts of Scotland, ire considered very ominous of ill. The juckoo's note is everywhere held as a sign of duplex meaning, the explanation whereof lies, not with the bird's note but with the auditor's pocket. If the cuckoo De heard when the pookets are empty a rery impecunious year and (specially). ;he need of borrowing from friends (or trying so to do) is implied. But if, on she other hand, the cuckoo's note be leard for the first time" when the pocket lontains cash, a prosperous and moneyed rear is foretold. Another sigh of good 'ortune is found in the robin perching on ;he roof and singing. Curiously enough ;he smallest of popular birds, the golden srested wren, was, till the end of the last jentury, and in some parts during the Irst quarter of the present one, despite ;he nursery rhyme associating it with ;he robin, held as a foe, and cruelly itoned on certain days, much after the ashion in which the Shrovetide cock was ortured to death.?Home Journal. , The Annapolis Naval Cadets. The plebs, or "youngsters," as they ire also called, are at onco quartered on x>ard a largo, old fashioned wooden 'rigate, which always lies alongside the lock, and does duty during tho school lessions as a gunnery ship. The vessel >ecomes the residence of the plebs during ;he summer months; here they have heir first experience of sailor life, and lere, among other things, they first icquiro the art of sleeping in a hammock. 113 truly an ecurymg signs 10 see uiesu ads on their first night struggling with heir hammocks. The hammocks used in the navy, you >ear in mind, are very unlike those in vhich people swing under the trees in he country. The navy hammocks are nade of heavy canvas, and are slung rom the beams of the ship. They are isually hung quite high from the deck, o that it is not easy for a beginner to :liinb into one with any degree of grace ?even if be manages to get in at all. Jsually the novice struggles in from one ide and goes head over heels out at the ither?mattresses, pillows and bedclothes ill accompanying him. After two or hreo unsuccessful attempts of this sort, lowever, the greenest begins to improve, md one or two weeks of practice is suffi:ient to make any one an adept in the irt.?St. Nicholas. Six Hundred Millions of Cash. . If one of those giants about which we leard so much in our younger days was o develop a modern Bill Sykes tendency ind select the treasury department as the iceno of his operations, he might make a iretty good haul, provided the watchnen allowed him to get away. Suppose all the money in the treasury vas piled up in one room. My giant lurglar would find at his hand $234,000,)00 in gold and silver, $250,000,000 in jonds, and on additional $100,000,000 in lew silver dollars, if he happened to time lis visit when the new silver vault in the nain courtyard is full, and a silver itream of $500,000 a day is steadily flowng into that subterranean treasure house, j Here is nearly $000,000,OOOAjustJ hmkofit! Mofo money than bund in any bank in Europe. jf England has Qfllj WATCHING THE BABES. THE WIDESPREAD RELIEF IN INFANCY'S UNSEEN FOES. V As soon as the babe is ushered into tbo world, a' host of superstitious observances surround it, in many countries, for its enemies are many. Aside from its natural foes, disease, teething, colic and the like, there is a widespread belief in unseen foes, fairies, witches, and the goblins that terrify the mother long before the child is susceptiblo of fright at their bare mention. The greatest danger is that the fairies will, in an unguarded moment, exchange the healthy, mortal child for one of their puny offspring. Mothers in every European country fear this, and various devices are adopted to prevent such an undesirablo exchange. Such precautions have reference also to other evil spirits which may harm the infant, and especially to the influence of the "evil eye." All these influences are especially potent before the child is christened, and it is at this earlv Deriod of its existence that measures are taken to thwart all these evil influences. In Denmark, salt, bread and iron ore placed in the cradle, and it is thought necessary in Scotland to put iron in the bed with the mother, that she may be protected also. In Brittany, even though these precautions may token, it is still, thought dangerous -to leave the child alone in the house, for fear lest the "Korrigan" will carry it off. In modern Greece the mother, before putting tho child in its cradle, turns three times around before the fire, while singing her favorito song, to warp away evil spirits. THE SPANISH CUSTOM. ' In Spain, the child's face is swept with a pine tree bough, a key is hung up before the cradle, or fennel seed or bread and cheese are hung about its neck. A coral necklace that has been steeped in the baptismal font is equally efficacious. Tho Turks load the child with amulets as soon as it is born, and a small bit of mud, well steeped in a jar of hot water, prepared by previous charms, is stuck on iu forhheod. A small bit of red ribbon is all the Roumanian infant requires to secure it from harm, while tho Esthonian mother attaches a bit of asafoetida to the child's neck. Garlic, salt, bread and steak are first put in the cradle of a new born child in Holland. A sufficient preventive for an Irish babe is a belt made of woman's hair. The following process was used in Scotland to render the child safe from evil influences: Sixpence was borrowed from neighbors, a fire was kindled in the room, the door locked and tho child placed in a chair before the flro. An old woman then placed in a tablespoonful of water the sixpence and as much salt as would dissolve. She then stirred the contents with her forefinger until the salt was dissolved, after which she moistened the soles of the child's feet and the palms of its hands three times, gave it to taste of the water twice, and touched its head with her forefinger, saying: "God preserve fra' a skaith." The balance of the spoonful was then thrown into the fire. THE OPEN BIBLE. In some parts of Scotland and Germany an open Bible left with the child will effectually keep off the fairies. Should an exchange of infants bo made by the fairiefc, the Scotch mother has a way of getting her own child back. She must carry the changeling to a fairy spot, or ring, in the field, or in a shady dell, where a "soughing" is frequently heard, and she must also take with her butter, milk, cheeso and eggs. If these gifts disappear after a while, she may safely return homo, to find her own child in the cradle. A pair of tongs or a knife put in the cradle will satisfy the Welsh mother as to her child's safety. The knife is also used in parts of England. In the Scotch highlands ash sap will protect the child from all evil influences, as the ash is all powerful against witches and such folk. In Wales, it is believed that changelings may do aececteu oy certain summary tests. Bathe the child with a solution of fox glove,or hold it in a shovel over the fire. This last test is said to have been applied as late as lHfr. The changeling will dje as a result of eitfaer tett, Fire is used in the same way in Dd&mark, but the child is only threatened IrelandLTVhipping it or throwing it into the water was deemed a sure test in Denmark. Luther believed in changelings, and Counseled the Prince of Anbalt to throw a suspected child into the river. A SINGULAR PREVENTIVE. But the most singular preventive of evil to the babe i3 used in Thuringia, where the father's breeches are nailed against the wall. It is odd that a similar custom should exist in China, where the trousers are fixed to tho bedpost so that the waist shall hang lower than tho legs, and on them is pinned a piece of red paper, with a charm, sending all evil vil influences into the trousers away from the child. In Germany, as well as in Scotland, some article of the father's wardrobe is thrown ' over the now born child, so that it will grow strong. It is bathed in salt water, in the latter counry, for a like reason. In Yorkshire it is thought essential to placo tho infant in the arms of a maiden first of all. Tho lights or fire in tho room where tho child is born must not, in Denmark, be permitted to go out, or the child runs a risk of being stolen.?F. S. Bassett in Globe-Democrat. "Baking Day" in Australia. A hard and tough compound, known as dampr, is used as bread by tho people of Australia. Judging from its consistency, ono might guess, without being told, that ''baking day" d6es not come very often on the sheep runs. The author of "Wild Lifo" thus describes the making of dampr: "Mike, the shepherd, brought out an empty flour sack, carefully folded it in two, laid it upon the ground, and spread over it about five pounds of flour. Clearing a space in the middle of the heap, sometimes in the way that builders mix mortar, he filled it with water, and worked the flour in for half an hour, when the dough was so stiff that, patted out into a cake threo inches thick, it 1 - {fa ohnnn irlmn LLlIgUb U1LUUDI/ uavc XV up U AVO 01ic*pv> n litu trundled along the ground. "His helper had by this time made a fire large enough to roast a sheep. Mike pulled off the half burned brands, leaving a mas3 of glowing embers. Raking these together ho stirred them to drive off all the dust, and then with a long stick worked them away from the center. Into this clear space upon the bare, heated ground, he skillfully dropped the great, cheese shaped cake of dough, and left it some minutes 'to get the outside used to the heat,' as he said. "Finally the embers were scraped together and spread over the cake, and this primitive outdoor oven was left to do its work. Just before bed time the cake was withdrawn from the now powdery ashes, and the shepherd, tapping it with his knife handle, remarked, 'Sounds holler! all right!' "Then he set It on its edge inside the hut to cool?a well baked dampr." Salary of a Ball Fighter. 1 asked Scnor Impresario if the present high prices were in part caused by the large pay now demanded by the bull fighters. "Yes; but only in part," was his reply. "The fact is that even amoDg the lower classes in Spain men think nothing of saving a dollar on the week's or month's wages, so as to bo ablo to go to the ring, even if wife and children are starving at homo. The great bull fighters certainly get higher remuneration nowadays than formerly, but their pretensions vary according to the season and to their list of engagements. The Inevitable accidents that put one or more famous toreros hors du combat also tends to increase the demands of tho others. The two best fighters in Madrid, Frascuelo and Lagartijo, when engaged for the season, get At 10.r ???U lroo?/Joo or. LVJl VUV/U ivi iuuuvU| uirn uvoiuw uu extra fee for each season of $1,200 in tho form of perquisites. Out of this money they have to pay their two mounted plcadores, who spear the bull; three banderilleros, who fix in its shoulders the light darts, and a puntillero, whose duty it is to dispatch the dying bull that declines to rise on its legs to receive tho death stroke. "Famous bull fighters like Mazzantini,.the ex-station master; Currito, Carancha, favorites in Andalusia and Madrid, get from $900 to $1,000 only. At second rate bull fights toreros only just rising into notice get from $250 to $500. Thero i3 that youngster, Guerrito, and Espartero, too, who ore rapidly climbing the ladder, and, in a very short time they will become famous, end alas! expensive."?Madrid Cor. Philadelphia T*mesThe Methodical 'Aptf#.'^ ornament. Richness is blended with something ot severity. The contemporaneous passion for tho cesthetio and decorative is not visible. The Astors givo elaborate entertainments, mainly dinner parties, but give them sparingly, and always see that they are fully and correctly advertised in the social columns of the uewspapers. Even festivity is a business with the family, who are methodical and considerate of cost in everything. T^ey are trained to be so from their infancy. Hence, impulse, sensibility, romance, sympathy, whatever belongs to the emotional or ideal, is, if it appear, sedulously repressed. Mrs. John Jacob As tor, who recently rooa floTjntivl +/ ? fVio r\nr\n VMVM) <TUW ?w? w*vv? w UiW ]/Wi) UVW^UU" ing to their wants personally; but alio used in charity, I am told, only the income from her marriage portion. Her memory is widely and tenderly mourned by the lowliest and neediest of the town, to whom she was a constant help.?Paul R. Cleveland in The Cosmopolitan. SUBSTITUTE FOR WHISKY. Habits of the Ginger Drinkers of Georgia. Terrible Results. "A man can't get drunk on ginger, can her i a druggist was asked. "Well, if you could see some of my regular ginger drunkards at times you would think so. Ginger is made from alcohol and ginger root The root is ground and put into one of these funnel shaped percolators, after which the alcohol is poured upon it and soaks through it, dropping into the jar, in the mouth of which is fixed the funnel. This tincture is, as you know, if you've ever tasted it, as hot as liquid fire, and a tAspoonful is a big dose for an ordinary man. One pound of ginger will make two quarts of tincture, and many prefer it to whisky." "How much does a confirmed ginger drinker take at a dosef "There are one or two men who are regular ginger drinkers, that take as much as four ounces at a time, or to show you the difference, thirty-two teaspoonfuls. If you or I or any other man unaccustomed to drinking ginger should take that much at once it would kill hs. Wo would bo apt to have convulsions at first, followed by a comatose condition, in which state death would come." "How much to make a man drunk?" "I have seen one man get drunk on four onncea, and then again I've seen a man who drank tbo same quantity have a sort of epileptic fit. lastine for several minutes." "What effect will the drinking of ginger produce in the long run I" "It is far more injurious than whisky, and will kill a man who drinks it regularly in from two to three years' time. If you should hold a tablespooniul of ginger in your mouth a minute it would blister the inside coating of the mouth, and you can imagine what the effect on the stomach would be grappling with two or three tablespoonfuls of ginger every day." "Can you tell a ginger drinker from an ordinary man, or, in other words, will the drinking of ginger affect the personal appearance of a man as whisky doesf "Whisky drinking makes a man's face red. Ginger drinking makes it pale, as the ginger draws the blood away from the surface to the center of the body. Pre watched these ginger drinkers closely and I've studied them a good deaL I've learned that a habitual ginger drinker, like a morphine eater, loses all regard for the truth, and would rather lie than tell tho truth. They also become hypochondriacs and imagine they are affected with every disease under the sun. One day they'll come in with a long face declaring they've got' cramp colic and must have ginger. Another day they'll have heart disease and will surely die unless they can get ginger. Tho next time they have dyspepsia or rheumatism, but no matter what they have they seem to think ginger the sovereign remedy, and nothing else will do them. The trouble with them is the ginger drinking, for it ruins the digestion, inflames the stomach, and throws the whole system into disorder." "Is there any advantage in buying gin "Ginger costs $1 a pint, while whisky sells at from 60 cents up. The peoplo who drink it, and they are numerous, both men and women, are for the most part mere physical wrecks who wero confirmed drunkards when prohibitiou came upon us, and their unnatural appetites must be satisfied, so they bought ginger as the next best substitute for whisky. Wo ship ginger by the barrel to prohibition towns, as the old topers think it is the best substitute for whisky, and once they get accustomed to it they prefer it to whisky. "?Atlanta Journal. A Glance at the Camel. A camel's hind legs will reach anywhere?over his head, round his chest, and on to his hump; even when lying down an evil disposed animal will shoot out his legs and bring you to a sitting posture. His neck is of the same pliancy. He will chew the root of his tail, nip you in the calf, or lay the top of his head on his hump. Ho also bellows and roars at you, whatever you are doing? saddling him, feeding him, mounting him, unsaddling him To the uninitiated a camel going for one with his mouth open and gurgling horribly is a terrifying spectacle; but do not mind him, it is only his way. I heard of one or two men having a leg broken from a kick at various times, but it was the exception and not the rule, for a camel is really a very docile animal, and learns to behave himself in most trying positions with equanimity, though I fear it is only tho result of want of brains.?Count Gleiuhen. Railway Stations In Germany. At the railway stations in Prussia there is evidence of the military feeling that pervades the country. At large stations the officials are in brilliant, soldierly uniform, and at small ones when a train passes, even without stopping, a switchman or subordinate appears in front of the building, salutes the flying carriages and then stands erect, feet close together, his stick or staff of offioe poised perpendicularly against his shoulder in true military style. In Berlin and other German and Saxon cities, when you drive in a cab or public vehicle to a railway station you pay the driver beforo you start, or on the way to the station. ( He is not allowed to wait at the station. The moment he sets down his passenger he must drive off so as not to be in the way of other arriving passengers. If ho loiters he is fined 3 marks (three-quarters of a dollar) for the delay.?Home Journal ( Study Qoura for Children. According to Dr. Newell, "for children of 10 or 12 years the capacity for bright ! and voluntary attention is exhausted by j four varied lessons requiring mental effort of half an hour each, with intervals of relief in the forenoon. In the afternoon this capacity is reduced one-half. Two hours in the forenoon and one hour in . the afternoon is as long a time as cliil- ' dren can bo profitably employed in school." | Dr. Chancellor supports this view, and advocates eighteen hours a week as the ( limit for school children under 12. . Baginskey, author of a German work on school hygiene, takes the same view, and * in demonstration of its effectiveness it is : alleged that half time pupils in the English schools learn as much as the chil- ! dren who are in school the full number of hours.?Hall's Journal of Health. , Was to of lirklu Power. What a waste of brain power there is in swindling. The swindler has all the 1 forces of law and order arrayed against 1 him. He is sure to bo tripped up sooner ] or later. The cost of a mistake is his liberty, and the mistake is bound to come, i< The ingenuity he expends in his methods j! if applied in a lawful direction is almost sure to net him a larger return in cash ! J than it does when put to a crooked use. ; The swindled person generally deserves 11 little pity. Ho usualb: expects to take 1 advantage of 6orfflBfc^nd he gets | taken in himself. bet* j torn of both Free Press.__^^^HHH^Hfltt0BH Girl* at TYpahm?^flt. For the Yorkvflle Enquirer. REMINISCENCES OF WESTERN YORK.^^H Mr. Abram Smith, who lived and di^^Hj where Mr. John M. Morrow now lives, aHI one time was quite wealthy. Both inlam^^H and negroes he had property. He was man, though, who took but little interest^Hj in his farm and let the negroes do about as they pleased. He owned ajj^ aid negro whom he called Jack. Jack-'was a kind of S foreman, and worked things his way, gen- V erally, and like such management always turns out, he never made a living for bis owner or himself. Mr. K}mith owned very good plantation on ^Juion Moo^dM creek, just below Mr. James\S?-oggiM?BHl One aay Mr. Scoggins was passin)^thrdfl|^^B the held where Jack was laving ground. It was Saturday afternoon^BH^B ne was laying the rows off about eight apart. Mr. Scoggins asked him what h^H| was going to plant there. "Corn," said '^B Jack. "Why are you making the rows so H far apart?" asked Mr. Scoggins. "I want fl to get done soon," replied Jack. H We could give our readers a long histo- B ry of poor farming in Western York were B we to attempt to do so. We mention the B foregoing instance that the young reader B may have an idea of what slavery meant H in ante, bellum times, where they had kind fl masters, as those of Mr. Smith and hun- 'B dreds of others that I could now name. I Some, though, were most cruelly treated m by their masters and overseers. B We would not have our readers to think B that the above stated case was the only in- M stance of bad farming ever known in West- ^ ern York. Parallel cases might be brought up by the hundreds. But the reader will observe that this was in the days of "hoosierdom" in that section, if we may be allowed to use that term in this connection. People in those days who owned good land seemed to expect to gather a crop any how, and good or baa farming had but little to do with the result. The gen- B erous soil did its duty always. And scarce- B ly an outright failure was ever known. In ^ 1845 the failure was general on account of the continuous and severe drought. On the other jiand, we could bring up some model cases of farming as well as horticulture. Mr. Robin Love, of the Clark's Fork section, is one of the old school of farmers. He lives and farms upon a thin, poor section of country. I am told by reliable authority that he is now using cabbage seed that he has been cultivating for the last 61 years, and, as a consequence, he never fails to have an abundance of vegetables, both for use and market. His method of cultivating his farden Is principally with the plow, and e never allows his cabbage to stop grow? ing for want of work until frost, and, as a consequence, he has but little, if any, trouble with worms, which are so destructive in this country. The freshets of 1850 and 1852 were the most destructive ever known by the writer before the war. Each came on the 24th of August, when the corn was just in roast-, ing ear, but fortunately for the county there was generally on hand in those days enough corn, &c., in some section of tne county, for a two years' supply. Mr, John Smith, on Broad river, nad scarcely room for his crop when everything was favorable. I have known him to pen hundreds of bushels of corn in the field aq44ft remained there until disposed Of. During some of those noted freshets just mention* ed, he had a quantity in pens that was-, washed away. Other farmers suffere&ih thesame way, more or less. His comgop was generally counted by Jhe thQdBfijM. bushels. M|nR In those days, and as longflg^^BB (until a few years ago), Mr. ?S?bH|B of the largest and most prog^flB^J^^n in Western York. We caBBRH^Hr and his excellent wife whatj^HJB^H for many others?that thejBB^^^B left them after freedom . Ttt&^Bj^Bter than the majority of could do; a?d what&stUldH I1""-"ble, they bad sense enoughSBBB^B Mr. John Smith was wicB^H^^B Vni-lr nnnnfv onH HloH at. His family connections their longevity. His widov^BJI |Pwla Smith, though his junior^By many years, still survives him. She is an excellent lady and her name and noble virtues are yet to appear in these reminiscences. \ The pathway of her life has been marked with acts of kindness to the poor as well a$ that of pure, noble womanhood. j. l s.v' THE REVOLUTION IN HAYTI. Santo Domingo is one of the fairest and most fruitful islands of the ocean. Its soil is rich and its climate lovely. Coffee, bananas, oranges and many other fruits grow easily there, and the island has several fine harbors. But the western end of the island, which composes the Hay tien Republic, is cursed bv almost perpetual anarchy, produced by revolutions. The Republic,"indeed, is only a nominal one. The President, for the time being, is really a dictator, and the presidential office has long been almost constantly disputed by ambitions rivals, ready to attain their end, if need be, by civil war. ^ One of these frequent revolutions broke out several months ago, and has barely closed at the present time. General Salomon has held the presidency?the term of which is seven years?since 1879. He was re-elected in 1886. But three ambitious men wished to become President, and for this object did not hesitate to stir up insurrection. President Salomon was deposed by a revolutionary committee, and was forced to . fly for his life. He sought shelter on a British vessel, went on to Paris, and soon after died there. Hayti was now in confusion, governed by a revolutionary committee, which appointed a provisional executive body*-? ~ composed of seven. Among these were Generals Legitime, Thelemaque and Hippolyte, all of whom aimed at the presidency. A fter a struggle, Thelemaque was declared to have received the electoral vote, and installed himself as President in Portau-Prince, the capital. His rival, Legitime, did notsubmit, how ever, but bombarded Thelemaque's house, . < 11 j I. ? 1 ? ?< u ana Kllieu IUIIJ UUU uuauj ui mo guaiu, Legitime then assumed the presidency, which he has held by force ever since, and has recently declared himself "unanimously" elected by the electoral college. But Legitime's claim is hotly disputed, especially by the supporters of Hippolyte, the third aspirant, who are mostly in tjj??? northern part of the island. The civil war seems, for a time at least, to have ended in the establishment of Legitime's power, twt it may break out again at any moment. Meanwhile, public attention in the United States has been especially directed to the Hay tien disturbances by the seizure nf an American steamship, the Haytien Republic, at the pOrt of St. Marc, two or three months ago. The vessel was charged with having run the blockade; she was seized, taken to Port-au-Prince, and conlemued as a prize of war. The steamship had, in fact, taken on Doard at one of the ports of H^yti, a body )f men who carried arms, and had landed the men at another port whither they went :o engage in the insurrection. This act aised the question of international law. For, on the one hand the captain of the Haytien Republic asserted that he did not snow that his passengers were, or intended ;o be, insurgents; and on the other hand ;heie was no real blockade of any Haytien port. In international law "paper" blockides which are only declared, are not ecognized. The United States Government proceeded to take action in the matter. A squad on of three American war-vessels, the [Richmond, Yantic and liaiena, were aesjatched to ffgyti. That this naval force vas sufficient is apparent from the fact hat thjLHaytien navy consists onlyo^^^ run nine hundret^pns,