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lewis m. grist, Proprietor, j Jndepcndcnt ^uitilfi Jtaspaper: <Jfor (he fromotioit of (he fjolitiral, Social, ^(jricultural and ^ommmiat Jnttrtsfs of (he jsouth. | TERMS?$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. VOL. 35. YOEKYILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1889. NO. 46. TAKEN J The Story of a Younj ences in I Copyright by J. B. Lippiucott Compan Special Arrangement through t CHAPTER XIII. to" ^ounc* John at Jij=?'vr [JJ his rooms, and y', If I asked him what /?J|M he was doing at the (Delias'. Bei fore he answere^' ?^?hn asked Xh Rush what he was doing there. N S "I have known . them for some time, and was arranging to take Italian lessons," answered Rush. "J. too, have known them for some time, and was arranging to take Italian lessons. There is nothing like a pretty woman to teach a fellow a language. 1 can learn more Italian from Leoni's eye* than from a dozen text books," John re'plied, lightly. Rush tried to press the matter, but his brother answered him with chaff. "When are you to marry Amy Bayliss, John?" ashed Rush. An expression of annoyance passed over John's face, but he replied, amiably enough: "Some time in the fall, I believe." "I thought it was to have been la June," said Rush. "Something was said about June, but Amy thought we that had better wait,* replied John, carelessly, beginning to dress for dinner. "Delays are dangerous, John." "And haste is often fatal." After a pause Rush resumed: "1 AKmkfc **A?? *V1 ft ?*A11 /1?/1 M/vd b-T>AVS iuuu?iib y\ju tviu mo jvu mu uvw Leoni, John?" "Did I? Then I suppose I didn't when I told you. One makes acquaintance# on short notice in the city. Nice iittl# thing, isn't she? The mother is a deaf old body. I quite like the athlete, too. It is he I go to see, you know; he is very fond of me." There was no use in trying to talk seriously with John. He never for a moment allowed himself to be concerned, and, as Rush was going to dine at the Archers' with Helen and Archie Tillinghast, he had to leave without accomplishing his object, which was to take John to task for forgetfulness of his vow to Amy. The dinner at the Archers' was delightful. Mr. Archer was famous for his cook, and there was no better housekeeper in New York than Mrs. Archer. Rush took Helen out to dinner, Archie took Mrs. Pryor?the woman with whom Bessie visited the mediums and the Buddhists, and whom he detested?and Bessie went out on the arm of Dionysius O'Hara, an Irish artist, with some talent but more pretensions, who sat at the feet of the Parapoff and smoked bad cigars. O'Hara seemed a clever fellow at first sight, and it took you some time to find out that he was telling you how clever ho was, rather than proving it Ho affected some eccentricity in dress, combed his black hair straight forward from the middle of his head to his eyebrows, brushed the ends of his mustache out straight from his thin lip, and, parting his beard from the middle, brushed that up, too, from either side of the part. His eye3 were a pale blue, and the pupil expanded and contracted like a cat's as he talked. Altogether, he was an odd looking fellow, and if he had not been so absurdly conceited would have been rather interesting. His pictures were of the impressionist type, and, although his portraits could hardly be called likenesses, they were fashionable, and O'Hara was quite sought after in society?that is, by the women. The men could not stand hi* affectations and conceit, but the women said, "Mr. O'Hara is so cleverl You know he is a Buddhist?eats nothing but vegetables. You could not induce him to touch meat; it is against his religious principles." Mrs. Pryor was intimate with O'Hara. He was very fond of painting her portrait, and she was very no u iUUU ui \AJ 111111, OUUll UU till?** loctual man, my dear!" she said to Bessie. "You should hear him read poetiy I And he writes poetry, too. Pure inspiration. He says he never made a rhyme in his life by trying; but he can take up a pen and in a 6ort of trance write verses that are simply wonderful. I only hope that you may see him in a trance some day, when controlled by the spirit of poetry." It was Mrs. Pryor who introduced O'Hara into the Archer household. He knew enough not to have any of his trances before Mr. Archer, but he matched his opportunity to have one before Bessie. Mr. Archer thought he was a rather clever man. He had heard a good deal about his pictures, but had never seen them, and he took their merit for granted. Archie did not like the Irishman any better than he liked his pictures, and he owed Mrs. Pryor a grudge for bringing him to the Archers'. Rush was so delighted at having Helen by his side that every one at the table seemed pleasant to him. Bessie noticed the unusual brightness of his manner, and so did Archie; but he attributed it all to Bes sie. Rush was in tine spirits, and kept the table on a roar by the sharpness of his wit and his fund of good short stories. "The man who confines himself to short stories is the man for a dinner party; but heaven defend us from the long winded diners out!" Such were Mr. Archer's sentiments; and he determined to invite young Hurlstone again, and before long. Notwithstanding poor Archie's depression, the dinner was a pleasant one. From the dinner table they strolled through the conservatory, and Helen, who had Rush's arm, stopped in front of a box of forget-me-nots, over whoso delicate blossoms the moon was spreading its silver light. "Let mo give you one of these flowers," she said, picking a bunch and fastening it in his button hole. "You know I am going away, and we are so Boon forgotten when we are gone." It was all that Rush could do to keep m from seizirtg the hands that were so near his face and kissing them with protestations of the love that was burning so hotly in his heart. Instead of that, ho u: ?a xiio luuiua Ln:iiiiiu iuui, auu an6wered, with mock seriousness: "I need no flower to remind me of you, Miss Knowltoru Your absence will bo felt in the very air we breathe. The birds will chirp, 'She is gone!' from the tree tops, and the stars will write it in the sky at night." "Mr. Hurlstone, you are chafllng me; and I don't like to be chaffed. I thought that you would bo a little sorry that I was going away," replied Helen. "A little sorryl If you only knew what your absence means to me, you would"? His voice shook perceptibly and Helen looked quickly at him. Fearing that ho had gone too far, he added, "I shall never leave the foreign editor's room, but will haunt his desk night and day seeking for early news from' Drurv Lane." "Now you are joking again; but I belkive you will miss me. Wo have had some pleasant times together, Mr. Hurlstone, and although I have only known you a few short months you are like an old friend, or perhaps I should say an old young friend. You seem to like me tY SIEGE. % Journalist's Experilew York. y, Philadelphia, Pa., and Published by he American Press Association. for myself and not for my profession. With most people I feel that it is Helen Knowlton, the prima donna, rather than Helen Knowlton, the woman, whom they care for. Am I not right? If I had nothing to do with the stage I really think that you would like me better." "That tvould be Impossible, Miss Knowlton," replied Rush. "Still chaffing! I thought better of you. Give me yqur arm; let us go to the drawing room. I see they have all left the conservatory. I want you to I be my guardian angel this evening and keep me out of the clutches of that man O'Hara. I cannot endure him. He looks like a Russian Nihilist and smells like an Irish stew. He wants to paint my portrait for the spring exhibition. Shall I let 1 im?" "Let him? I should say not. Does he think the young ladies of New York have nothing to do but to sit to him? The minute he sees a pretty face he asks its owner to let him paint her portrait. I like his conceit, indeed!" "Thank you for the implied compliment; but you need not get bo excited; I haven't the slightest idea of allowing Mr. O'Hara any such privilege." "I am glad to have your assurance in the matter; otherwise I should have my fears, for O'Hara seems to have irresistible attractions. The fact that he was able to get three of the belles of New York society to pose to uim as the three Graces shows his power." "You are not a woman, Mr. Hurlstone, or you would understand how hard it is to resist a request put in so complimentary a form. Could you refuse if Mr. O'Hara asked you to sit to him for Apollo? I'm sure you couldn't." "That might be a temptation," said Rush, smiling, "but if it came from O'Hara I should be able to withstand it." "There he comes now, with Bessie on his arm. Let us get over to that far corner before they see us," said Helen. But she was too late; O'Hara and Bessie bore nrvin fhnm nnH fliprfl wriQ inn pa cape. "Helen dear," said Bessie, "Mr. O'Hara is so anxious to paint you in your 'Helen of Troy' costume. He has asked me to intercede for him. Won't you sit to him? He would make a delightful picture." "He could not help it with such a sitter," said O'Hara, slowly distending his eyes at her. "Mr. O'Hara is very kind and more than complimentary," answered Helen, "but 1 am too busy a woman to sit for my portrait." "Were you not quite as busy when you allowed Fessenden the privilege?" said O'Hara, with a smile, but in an unmistakable tone. "Yes," answered Helen, with an equally unmistakable manner; "I fancy I was; but one can always find time to give to one's friends, and Mr. Fessenden is an old and valued friend." Then, to Bessie, "Mr. Hurlstone and I were just going over to that pretty corner of your drawing room to examine that new bit of Japanese bronze." And 6he moved off in tho opposite direction witn Kusn. "I don't think O'Hara will ask you again to sit to him. The cad! I wanted to choke him," said Rush. "Don't you believe it; ho is not so easily crushed. But he will never accomplish his object." "Charming person Miss Knowlton is," said O'Hara to Bessie; but to himself he said, "The prig! I owe her one for that snub." "Indeed she is charming," answered Bessie; "but she is very set in her waj s, and she will make up her mind to a thing without any apparent reason and stick to it" The Japanese bronze furnished Helen and Rush with a subject of interesting conversation. She admired the patience and the devotion the Japanese display in accomplishing an end, even if that end be only tho adjusting of tho scales of a bronze serpent. "I am glad that you admire patience and devotion," said Rush. "And why, pray?" "On general principles?they are such admirable qualities; but they are not always appreciated." While Helen was wondering just how to parry this remark, the servant at the door announced Miss Sandford, and in a 1 A j. .'ib 4.1 moment num. iveuecca was witu mem. She had come to tako Helen home; bo the pleasant evening was done. Rush had to go down to The Dawn office, and Archie walked as far as Canal 6treet with him, and aired his opinion of O'Hara. "You needn't tell me that that banged haired Buddhist has any right in decent society," said Archie. "I don't believe in him at all," answered Rush; "and I shall tako pains to inform myself on the Bubject. As a friend of Miss Archer's, I believo it to be my duty. 1 don't like to seo a man whom I suspect on such terms with a young lady whom I admire and who I believe is as unsuspicious as she is pure and good." Archie iistened to these words of his friend with varied emotions. lie shared his sentiments towards O'Hara at he thought that ho detected something more than ordinary friendship in his solicitude for Bessie; and his manner was a little cool when he said good night to him in front of the Brandreth house. Rush quickened liis pace and mado good time to The Dawn office. The night doorman told him that Mr. Musgrave had asked for him; so Rush went direct to the city editor's room. "Ah, hero you are, Mr, Hurlstone," said the city editor, looking up from his schedule. "In one moment, please. I have a matter of iinDortanco I want to speak with you about." After ho had checked off a few names 011 his schedule and called a few orders up to tho compositors' room through the speaking tube, he invited Rush to come inside tho iron railing, and then he told him what ho wanted. It was a very nice bit of detective work. A popular actress, Rose Effington, had died some two years before, and there was a great deal of mystery surrounding her death. She had fallen from her high position on the stage, and, it was said, all through tho fascinations of a man about whom very few knew anything, and about whom those who did had nothing good to say. At tho time of her death ho disappeared and had not been heard of since. "Now it seems," 6aid Musgravo, "that there is 'a party by the name of John- | son,' a prosperous wine merchant, who i entertained a tender passion for Rose, ! and would have married her if the other j man had not cut him out. This Johnson ' believes that Rose was murdered, and ho ; has spent the last two years in trying to : discover her murderer. He has procured strong evidence against a man who, he suspects, was tho favored lover, and ho has brought his clews to me, and wants The Dawn to work them up. Now, I propose to have you do the work?you and Martin, the detective. You are tho only man on tho paper who is not known to the police and to other reporters. We want to do this thing quietly, and we want it well done. Here is an opportunity to distinguish yourself. If you make a good story it may be the turning point in your journalistic career. I will send your salary to your lodgings every week, as this may take 3omo time; and any money you want for tho search draw upon mo for, and when you have anything of importance to communicate drop me a Hno and_mark the envelope personal. Martin will call at your lodgings to-mor- < row morning at 11 o'clock, and you can ] arrange a plan of action together. Keep i a sharp eye and a stiff upper lip, and good luck to you. Good night, Mr. Hurl- i stone. Well, what is it, Grady?" to a 1 reporter standing outside the railing. "Have you any more facts about the sinking of the Jaybird?" < Rush was rather pleased with the idea i of a still hunt after a murderer. He re- 1 membered having seen Rose Effington in i Bos top when he was a student at Harvard, and that added interest to the i search. If he had only known then what l he knew later, his interest would have I been still keener. i CHAPTER XIV. i , Y eleven ] ||H IBjtbe next ' the detective ar ^aifrUuT'l rived at Rush's 1 lodgings. HisapiffrfjBtll:? pearance surJjlj ^T" - prised Rush. He jm |ifffilrX\ had expected to IMi fffMXPf? <jeo a ferret eyed, -.1 ' 111 ill dressed man, ?fjf- HP with short cut ~ ~>m\ B^e whiskers shorter hair?a | veritable Sergt. Bucket; instead of which he saw a tall, slim man, with a delicate, foreign looking face, finely cut features, pale complexion, curling black hair, well kept beard and mustache, and large eyes with drooping lids?altogether a well dressed, fine looking fellow. Rush could hardly believe that he was the detective, but soon found out that he was, and they began at once to plan out a course of action. Martin had never seen the alleged murderer of Rose EiBngton, but had a careful description of him, knew that his name was Costello, and that ho was mixed up with mediums and freethinkers. This was clew enough for him. The man who had given him this information had been called out west on business, but wrote that he hoped to return in time to take a hand in the hunt. Rush and the detectives visited all the mediums, astrologers and fortune tellers in New York in the cou. jo of a fortnight. They held conversations with the spirits of departed friends, had their horoscopes cast and their fortunes told. The detective palmed himself off as a medium, and exhibited so thorough an acquaintance with the slang of the profession that Rush had a suspicion he must havo practiced its arts some time in his life. One day Martin received a letter from their informant in the west telling them that he had heard of Costello being at a certain medium's on East Fourth street, and advising them to watch the place with the greatest vigilance. After this letter of information Martin and Rush walked over to East Fourth street, where on the front door post of No. ? they found this legend painted in white letters on a black square of tin: j MADAME FANNY. COUNTESS DE PARIS, i CLAIRVOYANT AND HEALING MEDIUM; I UNEQUALED SPIRIT GUIDE; Z UNITES THE SEPARATED. ' FRONT PARLOR; DAILY. Martin found the janitress, and at once secured the back parlor of this miserable tenement, which was connected by folding doors with Mme. Fanny's front parlor. The two men had got themselves up to look like very disreputable fellows ?Rush like a Bcwery boy and Martin like a Spiritualist. The latter's pale face and inky beard, and the peculiar expression of his eyes, helped him to carry out this disguise; and ho parted his rather long hair in the middle, and wore a coat with a cape, and a big soft black hat. Rush could hardly contain himself when he talked to the mediums about the "control," fell into apparent trances and spouted the greatest lot of rubbish, all of which was listened to with delighted ears, particularly by the novices. The old hands knew it was only acting, just as their "trances" were acting. In their back parlor Martin and Rush spent many long hours, the former beguiling the timo by telling thrilling sto- 1 ries of his detective work. He had had < some wonderful adventures, and ho. ; sometimes named names when he was : telling them, name3 that were well ! known in .New York, out aoouc wmcn i few people knew that there were any i Buspicious circumstances. Rush and Martin visited "Madame I Fanny, Countesse de Paris," one day, to get a took at her room and see how the communicating door was fastened. It 1 was not a very secure fastening?a bit of string tied around the two handles. A sharp knife dexterously thrust through < the crack would easily cut the string, 1 and the ill hung doors would roll open of 1 their own weight On the day of their visit to the "countess," Martin introduced Rush as a young man who had been robbed of his watch in the Bowery. It was a valuable one, and he hoped she would be able to tell him where to find it. As an inspiration to her trance, 1 Mme. Fanny demanded a fee of one ' dollar in advance; and then, taking her seat in a shabby stuffed chair, she closed 1 her eyes and waited for the trance. The men seated themselves on an J equally shabby sofa, and Rush watched ' the medium as she lay back with her eyes closed. She was thin and pale, with sharp features and hair that had been touched up with dye and that was still ! in curl papers. She wore a soiled wrapper, and the slippers on her feet had evidently seen better days. Mme. Fanny ' herself looked as if she might have once ' been pretty. That she thought something of her appearance was seen by the attempt to tako caro of her hands. Her nails wero not over clean, but they were long and carefully trimmed, and her fingers, though thin, wero well shaped. By tho time Rush had made this 1 mental inventory of her personal charms Fanny heaved a deep sigh and her lips 1 moved. "Mo see watch?pretty watchtick?ticky?tick?gold watch." "Yes," said Rush, "gold watch and chain?watch with gold face, and fob chain." "Such a pretty watch! Numbers in cold, too." she continued, not noticinc 1 U ' * ' V tho interruption. "Pretty chain! I see pretty things hanging on chain. Oh, naughty man he tako 'oo watch. There he run fast to shop. Three balls hanging out in front. Old man with big nose. Ho got watch." Then* shuddering from head to foot, Mine. Fanny opened her eyes and looked around her. "Did you get tho desired information?" she asked. "Yes," replied Rush; "a little lisping child told us that the watch was a gold watch; that I had been robbed of it and that the thief had taken it to a pawnbroker's." "Tho 'control' is little Mamie; slio always tells these things correctly. If you search tho pawnshops you will find your watch." Rush thanked her for her , information and the two men retired to their room. "Did you ever hear such a pack of lies in your life?" said Rush, as tho door closed behind them. "Hush! you will bo heard," answered tho detective. "Yes, of course I have, often, from the same class of people." "And to think that they can get any person to believe in them!" "I am not surprised that they can dupe tho lower classes?tho poor ignorant creatures that infest this neighborhood; but they succeed in getting a presumably respectable, intelligent lot of patrons. Didn't you notice that nice looking turnout a few doors below hero yesterday? Well, I saw a handsomely dressed woman, heavily veiled, get out of that carriago and come in hero to Mme. Fanny's. Sho probably listened to just such drivel as you heard in there just now; only, of course, it was about a lovo arfair; and she went homo satisfied. It is (j a credulous world." _ "Yes, credulous where it tfhould be ~~ suspicious and suspicious where it should 0 be credulous," answered Rush. While Rush was doing this detective work he was almost isolated from general society. There was some excitement to bo got out of it, but ho and Mar- j tin were rather holding back until the arrival of the man Johnson from the west. Martin thought and expressed his vv suspicions to Rush, that Johnson had been in lovo with Rose EfRngton, and bad been cut out by Cosu.llof who was reported to have strango fascinations for j11 women. Johnson had not the time or j* the money to spend in ferreting out the proofs of his suspicions, and was obliged to take The Dawn into his confidence. ^ Ho had not seen Costello many times, jj and although he declared that he would }1, know him again if ho saw him, he felt ^ surer or recognizing nun uy nis voice, fl, which he said was indescribable, but pe:ufiar and never to bo forgotten. fc Rush longed to see Helen with an irre3istible longing, to which he gave way e( Dno evening. Leaving Martin on watch, r( tie went to his lodgings first and dressed W liimself, and then walked around to the t Academy. The opera was "Faust," a igain. Helen sang divinely. Rush idored every note of that beautiful ^ music, and he was lifted out of himself J" by Helen's exquisite performance. Marjuerite was admitted to bo her best part, P( uid 6ho certainly gave an ideal interpre- *c tation of it Dear girl, how ho loved | ber! He forgot the tenor, who was acting in his most impassioned manner; he ^ forgot everything but Helen; and when fc she appeared at the window in a flood of sj moonlight, her dark eyes intensified by n ber golden hair, and sang the exquisite gj iuet, he actually weighed in his mind fl< the probable result if he should clamber p] jver tho foot fights and fold her in his ni irms. "Hero I sit," ho thought, "a pas- gl sion-of love tearing me in two; and yet li [ suppose I look as calm and as unruffled A is that venerable banker in his box." sc His only relief was to join in the out- V( jurst of applause that broke from all w parts of tho house. He never liked to go behind the scenes between tho acts when Helen was singing "Faust," because she was so absorbed in tho part that ho felt . j t was profanation to bring her out of it; je >o ho wandered about tho lobby, hoping w ;hat he might meet some one whom ho (j inew and who knew her. He did meet l some one very soon. West Hastings was >ut there, looking very blase, and talkng with two or three club friends about iis projected trip abroad and the good le ;imo he intended to have. Then he came ir (cross Mr. Archer, who insisted unon his ir joing up to the box. "Bessie has that O'Hara there, and he tf x>res the life out of mo with his insuffer- fr ible affectations. I don't like the man, ii md yet I have no right to take so violent W i prejudice against him. It would be a re jreat relief to me, however, if you should 11 jomo up, and I know Bessie would be *r ;lad to see you. We haven't seen you ^ for a long time. What has been the " matter?" Mr. Archer asked, as he conducted Rush to his box. Rush explained that he was working * up a special :joso for The Dawn and was unusually busy. As they neared the ^ tx)x, they saw O'Hara bepding low over Bessie from his seat above. They could ^ almost see the pupils of his cat like eyes a! dilate as ho talked to her in his slow, pe- ^ culiar voice. Mrs. Archer looked at him a] md shuddered. She could only catch a t( word of his conversation now and then, and that more than satisfied her. He tl was talking upon a subject she disliked, bi "Whether one believes in spiritualism T cr not," O'Hara was saying, "he must bi admit that there are some wonderful ei things done in its name. I should like n you to meet a little woman down town bi ?a medium, I suppose she calls herself. Jf1 She would tell you things that would set you to thinking. If you want to make an ^ appointment to meet her, I will arrange 01 the meeting, and get Mrs. Pryor to chap- ^ eron us. It's not an attractive place, but rp it is perfectly reputable or you may bo sure I shouldn't suggest your going there." rp All this was said in a low voice, so that 0] Mrs. Archer did not catch enough of the v, conversation to know what It was about, j j Had she known, she would have spoken ai out plainly. O'Hara seemed to speak c( behind his tongue, and it was quite diffi- ti cult to understand him unless you gave ay pour mind to the effort. This impedi- b: ment, if impediment it could bo called, ai made him speak slowly, and this slow- ai ness gave a certain impressive- iss to the b: simplest remark ho made. C' Mrs. Archer greeted Rush with the w greatest cordiality. He seemed like a 11 whiff of fresh country air after a breeze from Hunter's Point. Bessie also was ~ pleased to see him. Though she was very much interested in what O'Hara V* was saying, she found the man rather ^ oppressive, and there was something jt about his dilated pupils that she didn't ... altogether like. 'J Wh6n Rush entered the box, O'Hara u went out, and Mrs. Archer seemed to a! breathe more freely. Tho conversation i, was lively and general until tho curtain tl was rung up again. Then they listened tl with breathless interest to the beautiful p music. Rush could not help contrasting his present surroundings with thoso of a i i few hours before and a few hours hence, b On every side of him were youth, beauty, <>l pofinompnt nnrl wo.alth. The WOUiail llO aV adored was boforo his eyes, singing as no Dno else could sing. SJ "Oh, to seo her, hear her singing, tl Scarce I know which is dlvinest," 01 quoted Rus!u Then his thoughts wau- t( iered back to the iniserablo tenement in C( East Fourth street where ho was to spend the night, with poverty, wretchedness r< and crimo on every side, and ho himself 11 on the track of a murderer. Tho life of a journalist has variety in it, if nothing ! elso. Then ho looked about him, at tho 11 "glittering horseshoe;" tho delicate perfumo of tho flowers that lay upon tho (j railing of tho boxes was wafted to his ^ nostrils, and he was intoxicated by tho j j scene. His reverie was broken in upon j, by Mr. Archer, who tapped him on the a shoulder. < ] "Just look at West Hastings," said lie. ii "That fellow is moro in lovo with Helen than I gavo him credit for being. Ho n has not taken his eyes off her onco sinco c< she camo upon the stage." (1 Sure enough, there ho sat in his pro- tl scenium box, alone, his eyes riveted on . <1 tho lovely face of Helen Knowlton and his cars drinking in every note of her y voice. This was not a pleasant sight to } Rush, and it sent him back to his tene- 11 mr,r,( Iinnon irotnV, in tm Imnnir frnmn nf 1' mind. But his work grew moro inter- ? esting as timo went on, and ho soon be- ? camo completely absorbed in picking up ^ tho threads of evidence against the mur- ' derer of the unfortunate actress. TO UK CONTINUED NKXT WEKK. t II Skkix<; tiik Wind.?Take a pol- 3 ished uietalic surface of two feet or c more, with a straight edge; a large ? handsaw will answer the purpose. ? Select a windy day, whether hot or fold, clear or cloudy, only let it not c rain or the air he murky?in other J' words let the air he dry. Hold the metalic surface at right angles to the p wind, i. e., if the wind is north, hold p your surface east and west, and in- a cline it at an angle of about forty- p five degrees, so that the wind strik- p ing, glances over the edge. Now sight carefully over the edge at some 'r minute and clearly defined object, Sl and you will see the air flow over as () water flows over a dam. (] r A Shout Storv.?Fifteen years t ago a Missouri hoy left his home and t started out to become the President t of the I'nited States, lie got as far n as Cincinnati. The hoy is now a man, u and he is one of the best shoe makers u in the Ohio State prison. 11 Iftc (Sonfdcmtc^ar OMPANY B, TWELFTHS. C.Y IN Bivonac and Battles. IY MAJ. WM. 8. DUNLOIr Formerly Captain of the Company. 'rltien for the Yorkville Enquirer. About 11 o'clock, that part of thi nmense column designed for the a1 tck of the Confederate right, bega > move against the position occupie y the Light Division. With ga; ennants, State, regimental and brig le standards flying, the divisions c [eade and Gibbon, supported b; oubleday, advanced. Major Pel am, of Stewart's horse-artillerj lrned his batteries upon the lei ank of this advancing column wit ich disastrous effect that the enem; r a moment staggered; but Ger Leade ordering up his batteries oper 1 a terrific fire upon Pelham, wnic iassured his troops, and the advanc as continue^. The twelve gun bai (ry, upon Hill's right, now opene furious fire upon their lines, but th nionists closed upon Hill's fron ne, which met the shock with thei ^customed steadiness and valoi he Federal plan was to carry th Dsition occupied by the Light l)ivif >n, penetrate the Confederate line ear Hamilton's Crossing, with aco mn of 40,000 men, strike Jackson1 irps in reverse and roll it back upo ongstreet's right; while a still mor irmidable column under Sumne lould, by direct assault, carry Mi ^e's Aeights, and thus drive th Duthern leader for once, from th eld of his own selection. But thi rofound military conception wa ot to the mind of the boys i rev," and proved to be just " ttle top thin." Pender, Lane an rcher swept their front with >lid sheet of lead, while a cor Brging storm of screaming she as poured into the compressed line f Meade and Gibbon from our bai sries on the hills behind. So vigoi as was the defense and so accurat le fire of Lane's J\orth Carolinian.' lat the enemy edged off" to thei ft to escape the terrific volley hich swept through their ranks, an iscovering the interval betwee ane and Archer, they gathered u leir greatest strength and drove i atween those two brigades. Lan vung back his right and Archer hi ft, and obstinately disputed ever ich of the ground. Into the wider tg gap the Federals crowded, an veeping forward up the hill throug le woods,struck Gregg's brigade ur wares, mainly upon its right-flan I lg regiment.?Orr's Rifles. The me ere lying down some distance i >ar of their stacks of arms, protect ig themselves as best they coul om the storm of shot and she hich cleft the air and crashe irough the timbers above thei eads. Suddenly the advancing Fee als discovered the stacks of arm id the Confederates discovered th Ivaneing Federals, when both side lake a rush for the stacks. Th afles barely succeeded in recoverin leir arms, when a withering voile as poured into them. A scrambl id hand-to-hand fight ensued, i hich the regiment was rent to piece id slaughtered in its fruitless effoi > rally and repel the unexpected ai lult; and after losing at least one lird of their number, were drive ick upon ^he centre of the brigade he First regiment, having threiw vr?lr ?fc r\n\nnertiorci/1 fli ni/iv no II^JIK uauiV) nv u ui nemy. The Twelfth regiment r( mined stationary, ready for actior ut awaiting orders and the full dt elopment of the enemy's design: ir it will be remembered that ther as firing in front and rear as well a ti the flanks of this regiment, and i as uncertain from which directio le attack would be made. Th hirteenth and Fourteenth regimenl mnged their front to the right an ere about to attack, when Early an aliaferro came thundering down uj 11 the enemy from the third line, r( ersedthetide of battle, and swept th isolent foe back through the wood nd out into the open plain to th iver of their reserves and heavy ai llery, literally piling the groun ith their killed and wounded. Th rigade lost in this battle 336 officei nd men. killed and wounded ; an niong tne slain was our lamente rigade commander, Brig.-Gen. Ma? y Gregg, of South Carolina. Th isualties in Company B, I cannc ow recall. During Franklin's attack of th onfedrate right, extensive prepan ons were made to attack Lonj reet's position. Dense masses t oops, concentrated in and aroun redericksburg, were now forme lto columns of attack to be le gainst Marye's Heights. About 1 'flnpU- flip nt.hn'L- ooninieneed. Co inn after column advanced to th *sault, to be hurled back with terr le slaughter. Again and again wi le attack hopelessly renewed, unt le stoutest heart quailed in conten lation of the dreadful carnage. The Federal commander, witnesi lg the slaughter and defeat of h est troops, ordered a discontinuanc f the conflict, and so the day close 'ith the relative positions of the tw rcat armies unchanged. Gen. Jacl >11, however, made every prepan on for a counter-attack upon th neniy after dark, and was only d< irrecl by the positive order of tli nnnianding general. Gen. Lee confidently expected niewal of the attack 011 the ne> lorning, but the enemy maintaine sullen silence all the day long, an le following night recrossed tli iver. After remaining in position in froi f Fredericksburg for two or tlm ays, the army of Northern Yirgini us distributed along the hanks ( io Rappahannock, the Light 1 >ivi: m taking position at Moss Necl hout eight miles below the citi >ur curnp was named ('amp Ore#} 1 honor of our lamented general. Col. Hamilton, of the First reg lent, being senior colonel, assume inimand of the brigade after tli eath of Gen. Gregg, and as soon i tie troops were settled in winti uarters, put the brigade upon dri 1 the schools of the company an attalion, and evolutions of the lin< \Te remained stationary, with notl lg to do but swap yarns, keep up oi icket and drill, from about the 2l)t f December, 1S(?2, until the openin f the campaign of lHM. About the 2<)th of January, Co ani'l MeGowan, of the Fourteent ogiinent, was promoted to the ran f brigadier general. A little Iat< . i T........ ?.,.i T f?,o \\ ()! ?Junun (iuu uiciu.-vuii ti I. Mct'orkle, of the Twelfth reg lent, resigned, and Major John 1 tiller was promoted to the rank i olonel, Capt. Henry C. Davies, < onipany C, to lieutenant colonel, an ,'apt. K. F. Bookter, of comjiany 1 i) major of "the Twelfth regiment. "Fighting Joe Hooker" had su ceded (Jen. Burnside to the con nand of the Army of the Potomac. About day light on the mornir f the 29th of April, artillery wi eard in the direction of Frederick urg, and about 11 o'clock the brij do struck camp and moved off i hat direction. \Ve reached the ba lefiekl of December 13th late in tl fternoon and bivouacked in our ol ifle pits. The next day was spei omewhat quietly, with an occasion utburst of artillery. On the fir [ay of May we moved out in the d ection of the U. S. Ford, marclu hirteen miles, driving the eneir hree miles, formed into line of ba le at sunset and opened on the en uy with two batteries, and conti ed the fire, with heavy skirmishin ntil dark. At daylight the ne: uorning the Federal artillery ope ed upon our lines a spirited fire, to a which our guns replied vigorously. w _ This was kept up until the valley x - intervening the opposing armies was r( r. completely filled with clouds of smoke. About 7 or 8 o'clock Gen. tl Jackson withdrew from the lines the t< three divisions of D. H. Hill, (com- b manded by Gen. Rodes,) Jackson's e: division and A. P. Hill, and began his famous march around Hooker's " right. The Federal commander had crossed his whole force to the south side is of the Rapidan and had taken posit tion at Chancellorsville, with his lines n formed facing eastward, with the J right thrown back at an angle of a ^ y square. " r. Moving rapidly to the southward If for three or four miles, we turned A y squarely to the right, passed the old " [_ Catherine furnace, thence westward ? r along unfrequented by-paths into 11 ft the Wilderness, we urged our way M h until nearly sunset, when we came . v into the turnpike, leading from Or- j? ange court house to r reaericKSDurg, *: {'_ about three miles west of Chancel- J1 h lorsville. Here the line of battle was " e formed at right angles with, and on 8( t_ both sides of the road, along which ^ j Howard's corps was formed and for- y e tifled, facing southward. Rode's di- y ^ vision was in front, then Colston, ?r r with Jackson's old division, then J1 P> Hill. About sunset the order was M 0 given and the whole column sprang S1 upon the unsuspecting enemy, strik- ^ !S ing him squarely in the flank. Like S( |. the wild rush of a howling tornado 's the grey columns of Rodes swept ^ n through the woods, crushing brigade 1 e after brigade of the Federal right, b, ,r while Hill and Colston swung fort. ward upon their front and rear, t( e poured a withering converging e fire across the breastworks into f( [S their discomfitted ranks with such a lS deadly effect that resistance was 0 n madness, and clean heels with n a horizontal coat tails were the c< d only safe alternative, which the P a gentlemen in blue proceeded to ex- " hibit with a will, to the delightful P II entertainment of the gentlemen in w a grey. The whole right wing was a jj. routed and driven back upon the 81 r_ Federal centre, leaving their killed e and wounded, with more than 2,000 11 j prisoners, in the hands of the Confed- a - orates. Fortunatelv for the Union P -8 commander, night'intervened; and 11 still more fortunate was the unfortu- M n nate volley fired in the darkness by ^ p a Confederate regiment which closed n forever the brilliant career of that J1 e illustrious Confederate commander, is Stonewall Jackson. A strange and " v mysterious providence, that Gen- ? eral Jackson should escape the " (1 dangers of so many battlefields e h to be slain by accident by tbe 11 i_ hands of his own men! General f( Stewart was assigned to the com- s n inand of the corps, and the battle was ? n renewed the next day. Hooker (J [. made a gallant fight, but was finally " (j driven across the river. Gen. Lee 1' II now dropped down the river and P (1 occupied his former position; the ^ r Light Division at Moss Neck and j* j_ McGowan's brigade at Camp Gregg. 11 i9 The Twelfth regiment was placed M e at the junction of the turnpike and u 19 Culpeper plank roads to guard ? e against a cavalry attack upon the g Confederate rear, while Jackson dis- 11 y posed of the Federal right, and af- M e terwards placed in charge of 2,000 M n prisoners and marched off to Rich>9 mond, and < .nsequently was not se- 11 .'t riously engaged in the battle of 11 j. Chancellorsville. The 3d day of (l j. May we marched to Spottsylvania fTho dtli tn fill in AH ?tn- 0 tion, where we remained, guarding n the prisoners, until the 7th, when e we resumed the march, reaching " x. Milford station about dark. On the v I 8th we marched to Hanover junction. a jl On the 9th we reached Richmond, I .where we turned over the prisone ers and rested at Camp Lee until the 1S 12th. At 7 o'clock on the morning ^ it of the 12th, we took the train for the L n front, and arrived at Camp Gregg e about G o'clock p. m. On our j s return to camp \\ e learned that the s. d brigade had lost in the battle of (| Chancellorsville 452 officers and men. and among the slain were Colonel ? i. Edwards, of the Thirteenth, and Col- ? 'e onel Perrin of Orr's Rifles,than whom [s no better soldiers or more gallant of- e e .fleers were to be found in the service. r. On the 13th of May we moved into ?( d a beautiful pine grove, near by, and e established a new camp which was n s systematically laid off in streets and d alleys, and the regiment placed in d regular order. Here we rested and j. c_ recuperated for nearly a month, with v a nothing to do in the way of military c, )+ service except to keep up our pickets ? and drill. The Rev. J. Monroe An- ^ e derson, our esteemed chaplain, began v at once a series of religious services ^ r. for the benefit of the soldiers. We ? cleared off a spot in a shady grove, ? d improvised a pulpit, arranged seats ,, - e 1- x: ? ^ (J Ol uniiewii iiinuurs iruiii mc iuicdi, jj (1 and with solemn service dedicated 2 the whole to the worship of God. j {i Here brother Anderson held services e ie "daily with increasing interest during v i_ our stay, and some forty men of the j LS Twelfth regiment made profession of i'l religion. To these, with others, the ' j. Lord's Supper was administered on f. Sunday, the 24th, the last time to u s. numhers of them. x js A large lot of shoes were here issued jJ o to the troops. They were comforta- v d hly clothed. Their health was good, c () and their spirits buoyant over their SJ c. recent victory. There still remained, t. however, a few cases of dysentery in ^ ,e camp, and among them, now and 2_ then, a case proved fatal. T. W. ' ,e Ramsay, of company H, after suffer- j( ing for several days with the painful a disease, departed this life at 7 o'clock }l a. in., May Kith, 18(5:1, and his retl mains were laid to rest in a soldier's (1 grave in the woods near Camp Gregg. ^ .v Tom was acrinnle. hut a more cheer- ? ful, willing ancf gallant soldier never {J ,t shouldered a musket. About this time the Army of Northla ern Virginia was reorganized and an ,f additional corps formed. Longstreet s. commanded the First corps, as heir fore; (Jen. Kwell the Second corps, / which was composed of Early's, r Itodes's and Trimble's divisions ; and A. P. Hill the Third corps, which j_ consisted of Anderson's. Heth's and (1 Pender's divisions. The two last K3 named corps-commanders had been lH promoted to the rank of lieutenant?r general, and (Jen. Pender to the rank 11 of major-general. (Jen. Pender was (1 assigned to thccommand of the Light [i. Division, which was now composed il of McGowan's, Lane's, Thomas's and ir Scales', brigades; and in the absence h of (Jen. Mc(Jowan, Col. Abner Perrin, of the Fourteenth regiment, commanded the brigade. 1. A battalion of sharpshooters was t }| here organized in jyicGowan's brii frjide. cninnnsed of t ree companies, IV n 7 i ?r each commanded by an officer of the "j% line, and the whole by Capt. Win. T. Haskell of the First regiment. Lieut. () Walker Poag, of the Twelfth regi- c ,f inent, commanded one of the compa- ? [,f nies. This was a gallant corps of r ltj picked men, and did valiant service (] ) in the campaign which followed. r Gen. Lee took charge of the fisheries e 0_ on the Rappahannock, and through his commissariat issued to the troops j, rations of shad and fresh herring, v ,? which was a luxury indeed to the j soldiers. i sj. ()n the 28th the Light Division was s reviewed in a body by the command- f in ing general, and 11 general order pubt. lished requiring officers and men to j ,e pack up and send to Richmond all j Id surplus baggage and prepare for ac- j d tive service in the fielu. t al (1 ,X t'ORKECTION. r, Littm-; Rock, Auk., Nov. ">.?Editor of . the Yorkvillc Enquirer: B. C. Press ley, xl whose name appears in the roll of com- 'V iy pany B as a corporal, informs me that he r t_ was not a corporal, hut was appointed g. orderly sergoant of the company at Light- t wood Knot Springs, and tilled the office rj until he was transferred to another Sj branch of the service, when M. V. Dar- r Kt win was appointed to fill the vacancy. I 1 11- remember now that such was the case, S nd that the change occurred while we < ^ereon the coast of South Carolina. I I will add, by way of explanation, that prepared the sketches?especially the j all of non-commissioned officers?large: from memory, after a lapse of more 1 lan a quarter of a century, and am ready ) confess and correct any error that may 1 e pointed out. Please note the above i rror. Respectfully. W. S. Dtmr.oi'. ] TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK. i gltiscrUiutcous grading. ! HASTY WORDS. 1 Half of the actual trouble of life i -ould be saved if people would re- < lember that silence is golden?when \ ley are irritated, vexed, or annoyed. \ o feel provoked or exasperated at a < me, wnen tne nerves are exnausii, is perhaps, natunil to us in our n perfectly sanctified state. But 'hy put the annoyance into the lape of speech which, once uttered, i remembered; which may burn ke a blistering wound, or rankle ke a poisoned arrow ? If a child be ying, or a friend capricious, or a jrvant unreasonable, be careful bat you say. Do not speak while ou feel the impulse of anger, for ou will be almost certain to say too luch, to say more than your cooler idgment will approve, and to speak 1 a way that you will regret. Be lent until the "sweet by-and-by," 'hen you shall be calm, rested and df-controlled. Above all, never write a letter 'hen you are in a mood of irritation, here is an anger which is justifiale; there are resentments which are ighteous. It is sometimes a duty ) express indignation. But if you insider the matter, the occasions >r putting such feelings on record re comparatively few. They come nee in a lifetime, perhaps, and to lany fortunate beings they never 3me at all. Upon the whole, peole?our friends and neighbors and ie community of which we form a art?are trying to do the best they in; and in hours of good temper nd health life wears a bright and tinny aspect. Much of the friction which makes ie machinery of living move rough nd discordant is caused by things >o petty to lie noticed if we were 1 our normal condition. The hasty 'ord spoken in petulance may be xplained, forgiven and forgotten, tut the letter written in an ebuition of wounded feeling is a fact ingible not to be condoned. There ; lies, with a certain permanence bout it. You have sent it to a iend, who, reading it a half dozn times, will each time find it lore cruel and in cisive than beire. Letters once written and ent away cannot be recalled. You unnot be sure that your friend , >r enemy) will burn them. Hiden in bureau drawers, or in comartments of desks, folded up in ortfolios, locked in boxes, they -'ill, it may be, flash up in suden feud and fire, months after you ave ceased to think of the folly hich penned them. Never write n angry letter when you are angry, ill heated feeling seeks the superlaive as an outlet, and superlatives re apt to be dangerous. Ho long as e cling to the positive in speech, e are pretty safe. We all need to be cautioned against ndue haste in speech, but mothers lost of all. It is so easy to misunerstand a child; so easy to grieve little person who is forbidden to nswer back; so easy to leave a picare of yourself in the plastic memry, which will be photographed lere for the remainder of life, and of 'hich you would in coming days be shamed. A BEDOUIN INN. Frank Carpenter writing to the tew York World from the Holy ity, says: I was much interested in ] Bedouin inn, which I visited, and 5 imagine that this inn is much the ( line as the stable in which Jesus 1 hrist was born. It consisted of a ( jries of vaulted chambers, the walls j nd roofs and floors of which were f stone. These chambers, like the 1 tores, had no lights, and they cov- < red altogether about the area of a 1 ood sized house. Entering the nar- 1 3\v door, I found four donkeys and j ivo camels in one vaulted compart- ' lent. Upon a ledge near by, with otliing but a dirty straw mat to sep- J rate them from the stones, three tedouin men in their black and 1 r'hite gowns lay dozing. In another | ave-like compartment were several orses, and the only sign of eiviliza- ^ ion was a European lamp, which < ,ras burning American coal oil in the ' ack of another cave. Through my 1 uide I chatted with the keeper of ] lie inn, and he told me that his 1 barge for feeding, keeping and wash- : ng a donkey or a horse was five ! ents a day. As I chatted, a long 1 aired, gypsy looking woman enter- * d, and I was told that she was the 1 rife of one of the sleeping Bedouins, looked at the food for the camels nd was shown a chocolate-brown like which was made of the refuse rom the making of olive oil, and pon asking to see an oil mill I was < iken to another cell-like cave near ( y where a Mahomedan and a negro < 'ere grinding out some of the deli- 1 ious fluid which we mix with our 1 ilads. At the side of the door of this cave ' here was a stone ledge as high as a : avement, and in the centre of this ' as a hole as big around as a Hour arrel, in which tied up about his i /aist, with bare logs and bare feet, n Ethiopian?whose sweating face as as black as oiled ebony?was i landing and treading the oil out of 1 lie ground and mashed olives. I < ecped over into the well in which i e was standing and I saw that he ' ad a linen cloth laid on top of the lushy-like mixture. He trampled Ills cloth jfhtu the olives with his jet, and faking it up wet, wrung lie oil out into a red clay basin, from /hence It was poured into pots to o strained for the market. Further 1 ack in the cave stood a tall ungainly 1 amel and a very small, knotty little J onkey, who was munching away /bile the mill was not going. These /ere the animals who grind up the lives, and in another cave opening 1 uto tliis 1 could see the mill itself, t was much like that of a threshing iiachineor the bark mill of a country iinnery, and the camel and donkey 1 /ent found and round in a circle 1 * ? 1*1 x 1 il%<> i iltClH'd to si osir wnicn lurm-u mt- i nill. Four men slept in these caves nd there were a half dozen others [Hiking on while I made my notes in he establishment. HOW IKON CHAINS ARE MADE. The first operation is the making f the links. The material comes in oils, each containing from eighty to i ne hundred and ; wenty ieec 01 ound iron rod, which is of uniform liameter and of various sizes, eoresponding to the different styles of ; ha ins. A piece of iron is placed in the roove of a powerful machine, the rheel is started, a twisting motion mparted,' and the iron comes forth 11 a spiral roll, looking as the outer traiul of a rope might if separated rom the component parts. The grove into which the iron is tressed, and spindle-like arrangenent about which the coil is formed, nake the coil exactly uniform hroughout, the links being the same listance apart and of the same size, ["he machine does its work rapidly; >ut little time is consumed in con-erting the eighty or more feet of od into shape for chain links. The next step in the manufacture if a chain is the cutting of the links, die spiral coil goes from the hands if the first workman to another who ilaces it in a long sheet iron trough, uspended as high as a man's head, me end being considerably lower me than the other. an: One end of the coil is then submit- chi ted to the operation of the cutting 1 machine, which at a single blow she strikes otf enough of it for a chain on( link. The machine is regular and len rapid in its motion. The workman his lias only to hold the iron in position, wa md from two hundred to two hun- hel lred and seventy-five links are cut cor 2very minute. They drop into a ri spout, and roll therefrom into a small pets jart, which is hauled away when full soo to the welding department. to So far all the work has been done foe without the agency of heat, but the effe ihain cannot be completed without I the agency of fire. Ime final opera- der tion is welding the links together, set "ttnndimr hosido a furnaoe in whinh a kin Iiot natural gas is blazing, the work- ha( man seizes a piece of the white-hot in metal with his tongs, places it on a pre lie, and putting his foot on a treadle in\ causes a spring hammer to descend, jiving shape to the link. 'I Two more turns and two more Ho slows of the hammer and the link is cor completely formed and welded to- cor jether. Another piece is then taken wh rrom the Are, and the open end deft- nai y slipped around the link just fthn- be id. It is then operated upon just as fro: the first link was; another is added, fivi then another; the chain is growing 1 apidly?so fast, indeed, that too feet Pn )r more of it has been finished before ma :he red glow has died out of the first ne^ ink welded. a s Of the small chain, which the mo workman is now making, the weld- pre ng of three thousand links is con- iaii sidered a good day's work. More pre can be made of a smaller size, and I less of a larger. It is hot and noisy a 1< ivork.?[Pittsburg Dispatch. pie ? - ; teo HE NEVER HOT USED TO BATTLES. but Col. James M. Thompson gave his an( >pinion as follows: "The quality of courage in battle I regard as being to 1 i large extent a physical attribute. I hive heard a good deal of talk about J :he nonchalance of men in action, fltsl md their ease and composure after the first gun was fired, but I never took much stock in it. I went ?r1 through the war in the army, and it fac A'HH inv fortune to lie in a portion of tiie service in Virginia where there J was a good deal of hard fighting to Th io, and there wasn't any creditable Lei way to get out of itt either. I saw ten service in twenty-eight battles, and hai [ can freely say that I for one never ha? ?ot 'used to it.' I never went into a anc fight/without an all-prevailing sense tin )f danger, and was always glad when as i it was over. Of course moral cour- the ige, high patriotism, and the milita- to i ry spirit kept the great majority of hoi men right up to the mark, but there tab were notable instances of men whose grs physical natures simply failed to re- vei *pondwhen called on. They could of) not possibly go into a fight. A clear tin bead and a full conception of the clu anormous consequences of cowardice mo to themselves failed to spur them to spi the staying point, and on the first reli whiz of a bullet their signals of dis- ke< tress were visible to all in sight. fro "A well-known New York colonel, pei i perfect gentlemen and scholar, a nei patriot, and a really noble fellow, was so weak in point of courage, and Sk his humiliation so great at really be- gin ing afraid to face danger, that he was cal forced to retire from the army, went oul to Washington, pined away, and vit lied in a few weeks. I knew anoth- ho> er prominent officer whose friends, chi mit of consideration for his well- int known-failing, used to manage, on tw< me pretext or another, to keep him op< :>ut of engagements, and thus shield cor 1 1 ? i:u? loll hum irum e.\pu?ure. men unc iniu j<-? ire to be pitied, not blamed. They are want to tight, but their bodies actu- the illy refuse to do their will."?[Globe spc Democrat. the agi HIS BREATH TOOK FIRE. is 1 About twelve years ago, August, seq 18(!(j, a man met death in a peculiar sct md horrible manner in San Francis- coc io. The writer believes that a full eat md succinct account of this rare accident has never been given to the ^ public, the proprietor of the estab- tyv lishment where it occurred keeping ipg the facts from the reporters for fear Sta if hurting his trade. They are about tis is follows: James Harley, the vie- thr tim, had just recovered from an at- <>n tack of delirium tremens. He had the been a regular sot, and was thorough- he \\r cjoii 1/n/l urifVi o1oa1\a1 Trie loct ut. I hei ^ ilWHIWU H1VJI UlV^IIVlt ^ a.i>; iui;v Mv tack of the "jim jams" was the third grj lie had undergone in a few months. we On the morning in question he had en< started on another spree. At about wo 11 o'clock in the day he had about all agi the liquor on board he was able to the carry. Stepping into a saloon on hai one of the principal streets he called tin for a "swig of bug juice." which was the promptly refused, the bartender no- jo*1 ticing the condition of the man and to i remembering his late battle with makes. Harley scowled and turned * to a gas get to light his pipe. A Wt1 second later there was a drunken moan, a flash of alcoholic flame and the Harley fell heavily to the floor, his h01 head and neck veiled in smoke, st0 while blue jets of flame was issuing e from his ears, mouth and nostrils. As soon as water could be procured Pa1 (water is a kind of commodity rath- at er scarce around such places) it was P [lashed in the sufferer's face, not in bui time, however, to save his life. The ^ face was as black as that of a negro. The ears were charred, the inside of w" the mouth black and the tongue ^ roasted to a crisp. It was a horri- kn l>le and uncanny death, one for an< which a duplicate would be hard to cor find. tk A Word to Mothers.?Let lx>ys tot issist in the housekeeping. How by Dften do we see a poor tired mother tnt exhausting her strength and vitality is i in efforts to acomplish her daily task onl iil)out the house, while at the* same arr time a big, strong youngster is lolling the in an easy chair or lying upon the wi sofa! Why should lie not lend a wh helping hand to his overworked and Th tired mother ? and why should he not hei lie encouraged and induced to light- ed en the mother's burden, by }?oing an hei errand, performing numberless little wa actions required during the day, tak- inn ing lalxir oft' her hands that he is per- hei fectly able to dispose of, anticpating m< wants that would be suggested by a loving and affectionate heart? Hail I the mother, in bis earlier days, jj.* taught her boy to lend his aid in wf trifling household matters, when he am grew apace in years his reason and Kr duty and love would naturally sug- At gest to him in what manner and on foe what occasions his service would lie clei welcome and opportune; nor would doi lw> oMtivwlnr that. such notions detract- dm ed from his manhood, but make him on feel that, by contributing to his moth- am er'sease, he would be performing a Ki good and noble action. The result tin of such training, on the part of the fre mother, would often keep the boy out of mischief, would make him handy, and an adept in domestic ,** matters, would produce a feeling of solicitude for the care-worn mother, in and last, but not least, cause him to ar( have more consideration for his fu- ne ture wifein her struggles and efforts about the home circle.?[Donahoe's an' Magazine. ^ ani . ? agj Invention of the Telescope.? Pn Some of the most important discover- rui ies have been made accidentally, says ?n( a writer in the Budget. A lucky instance of this kind was the discovery "a of the invention of the telescope. Nearly 300 years ago there was r living in the town .of Middleburjj, on ce the island of Walcheren, in the Neth- ve erlands, a poor optician named Hans vis Lippersheim. stc One day, in the year 1008, he was thi working in his shop, his children "I helping him or amusing with the tec tools and objects lying about, when ou suddenly his little girl exclaimed: thi "Oh, papa! see how near the steeple tic comes." be Half startled from this announce- Tr nt, Hans looked up from his work, rious to know the cause of the Id's amazement. burning towards her, he saw that s was looking through two lenses, 3 close to her eye, the other at arm's gth; and calling his daughter to side, he noticed that the eve lens s piano-concave, while the one d at a distance was a pianoivex. 'hen taking the two glasses, he retted his daughter's experiment and n discovered that she had chanced hold the lens apart at the proper us, and this had produced the !ct that she had observed, lis quick wit saw in this a wonful discovery. He immediately about making use of his new nvledge of lenses, and ere long he 1 fashioned a tube of pasteboard, which he set the glasses at their >per focus and so the telescope was ented. 'hree Hundred Miles an iUR.?The New York World's fair nmittee has been notified by a npany of solid business men that en the fair comes off in 1892, a row gauge electrical railway will ready to convey visitors to and m the fair grounds at a speed of 2 miles a minute. 'here is nothing fanciful about it. ictical experiments have been /In onrl KKin n vrmrf c ca if fhof f)in uv aiivi iiiv viijjvi. 10 ijcvj huh vjiv v system of rapid transit will be uccess. We need not waste any re time on pneumatic tubes. The >posed railway in New York bids r to settle a big transportation >blem. low such a line would work for >ng distance is a question. Peowill naturally view such americ rate of speed with distrust, i if it can be utilized for the mails i light freight it will be a won ful thing. 'ive miles a minute! Three hun*1 miles an hour! When we iz across the continent in that hion distance will be nothing, and vel will cease to be tedious, "he world's fair will show wheththis is mere brag or a matter-oft scheme. sTo Courting in This Case.? e parents of Koo, of the Chinese nation at Washington, have writhim informing him that they re selected a wife for him. He i never seen his prospective bride 1 is not likely to do so for some le, even after he goes back home, in a Chinese marriage ceremony ; bride and bridegroom are forced nt back to back for three or four irs in solemn silence on a board le, during which strange proimme the woman is so heavily led that even the most ardent gaze lier legal partner would fail to disguish her features. At the consion of thecuriously intricate eereinies, the crowning stroke is the riting away of the bride by her atives, who for days thereafter ip her in the closest seclusion away m her husband. He, during that iod, can neither see nor speak to gp At Shepherdstown, West Virlia, a curious custom prevails, led "soups." It is a sort of >door picnic. Every person ined brings a dressed chicken. The ?t provides the vegetables. The ckens and vegetables are put 0 huge kettles holding ten to L'lity gallons, and cooked over >n fires for several hours until the nbination is reduced almost to a y. Pepper and other seasonings 1 introduced. The young folk stir ! soup with long-handle iron onsj walking around the kettle as sy stir. When a girl's spoon clicks linst the spoon of a young man he >ound to catch and kiss her. Conuently there are many lively immages around the kettle. When iked the soup is ladled out and en. It is saiu to be delicious. One of the laziest men in the intry is John Curtis, who is serv; a three years' sentence in the te prison at Salem, Oregon. Cur -i 1 VVUrKOI in liic luunui j, nnu umuul ee months ago took off his boots, a plea that they hurt him, and in burned his foot so severely that was laid up. When the burn was ding he put vinegar on it and agivated it to prevent it getting 11. The prison physician threatHi him, and managed to cure the und. Curtis was set to work tin. He worked four days and ;n with a hatchet cut off his left id. It took two blows. One cut ough the fleshy part of the hand; ! other clean through the wrist it. He confessed that he did it avoid work. ? ? ? g- There is a woman in New York io is an anthor, a doctor, an artist, i an actress. After breakfast in j morning she spends a couple of iirs over the manuscript of the ry or essay which she has been ployed to write. From ten to two * practices medicine and receives tients in her office. She next works her ( sel as a painter till six, and ikes pictures for which she finds yers. After dinner and an hour's t she betakes herself to a theatre, iere she plays the light part for dch she may be set down in the t. Besides all, she is a mother, ows how to make her own clothes, i understands how to use her iline from all her professions. iyOne of the stranarest stories idling the origin of woman is told the Madagascarenes. In so far as ; creation of man goes, the legend lot unlike that related by Moses, ly that the fall came before Eve ived. After the man had eaten 'forbidden fruit he became affected th a boil on the leg, out of which, len it burst, came a beautiful girl, e man's first thought was to throw r to the pigs, but he was commandby a messenger from heaven to let r play among thediggins until she s of marriageable age, then to ike her his wife. He did so, called r Baboura, and she became the >ther of all races of men. \\ssing Time Agreeably in .tt i.e.?As an example of the spirit lieh animates the Herman army, I which doubles its force, Prince aft Hohenlohe tells a fine story, the battle of t'hateaudun a battery md itself without ammunition unr a heavy fire. What was to be ne? The officer commanding orred the gunners to take their places the limbers and sing the "Watch l Rhein," "in order," its Prince aft says, "that they might pass the le agreeably while waiting for sh cartridges."?[New York Sun. iT Always keep an enemy 011 nd?a brisk and active enemy, e having of one is proof that you > snniehudv; wishv-wnwhv npttnln ver have enemies. Men who nevmove, never run against anything, d when a man is thoroughly dead d utterly buried nothing runs ainst him. To be run against is 3of of existence and position; to a against something is evidence of >tion. The next best thing to hav; one hundred real friends is to ve one or two open enemies. riiK IIoad to Wealth and Sucss.?When he was in New York, ry late one night, Wilkie Collins uted a large drinking saloon, and >od for a few minutes gazing at the rong of dissolute men and women, "ools! Idiots! Asses!" he ejacula1, and then added, as he sought the ter air: "If we could but persuade e world that morality is the founda>n of wealth and success, this would a happy universe.?[New York ibune.