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vol.i. \.r; camden, s. c., Wednesday, may 2q,? 1874. no. 33. : ... <1 ??. lt.?iU'' . ?? , 7 -I .. t.> .>? . ? 7 7 Life's A venae. There is a slender cottage. built of earth, With flower* ^before the door, and many weeds: The gate>lodge of the avenue thai leads To the great House, called Death. i ,.i The tree* that skirt the avenue Are willow trees, and cypre? tress, and yew ; Close Interwoven, yet uot all so cloee Bat that, from high, betwixt the riven boughs, A little glimpee of sunshine sometimes mem through. And here beneath the cypress and the yew, And willow trees of the dark avenue. We meet, in the shine, in gladnesn. And fart, in tBo shade, in sadness, Father and husband, friend and brother, ] Bister and children, wife and mother, j And laugh and mourn, and kiss one another, A ad glxdien our sad hearts with converse | sweet, Or bathe, with mutual tears, our weary feet. I Then, at late twilight, when with j cutworn, And bruised feet, sore-pieroed With many a tiioni, We ctme at last unto our Journey's end, At the g?at House wo stand, and knock with Jnf : . And (feath that kuows no soorn, Or brooks annoy, Opew unto us, like a generous friend, Ami bids us sleep with him until the Morn. TIT FOR TAT. Entiios Bateinen was sitting at the >arlor window working on a muslin Iress, a thing of infinitesimal tneks and ruffles. Her mother, a fat and fair lady of forty-five, sat opposite, talking to an afternoon visitor, a spinster of her neighborhood. Both talker* were also busied with sewing. " Well, Nix," said the spinster, gir I ing Eanice a glanoe as she shifted nee dles, 411 suppose you and the doctor *11 go to the parish picoio next week ?" Nix "supposed so," in nonol\aUot fashion, as she brushed the ourl# ou of her eyes and settled * straighter. " Getting that dress occasion, aren't you ?" "Not particularly," Nix with a shrag of her should betokened impatienoe of tha qu ing. Ifia waa not especially fond of Misa Clarke. ? v?i " Welly I wouldn't upend ioo much precious time over dresses. "? The doctor s sure to think you pretty What ever you wear, and you shouldn't think too highly of the good opinion of other gentlemen. When a girl's en gaged?" Nix flushed with anger, and gave the muslin dress an impatient twitch, as she responded : "I'm not in the habit of thinking too mnoh of gentlemen's opinion of me, Miss Olarke. I suppose, if a girl is en gaged, she can still try to make herself look nioely." " Speaking of the doctor," said 3^nk> Bateman, "here oomes his ofitar boy now?with a note for you, Nix, Ignean. Sit still; I'll open the door." . *?.?**?? Mrs. Batemen presently re-entered, and tossed a sealed note into Nix's lap, with the remark : " I told you so." The latter took it up, her round cheeks deepening somefflintt flT'68Tft. . for her engagement was Mfret Q|h t month old, opened and readily watched by the curious eyes of Miss Clarke The letter was in s bold, fcaHqlfefc hand *It#d >4| its butlffi m iToon writing, and ran thus "Mr dkah Nixis,? I'm oalled to the city suddenly, and have minutes to write vou in. _|r?; nnltation case. I hope to be back by Sunday?at any rate I shall bo on hand for the Tuesday pionio. I>S only known of going within the last honr, or I should hare oome np and bidden you good by. A week seems a long timo to be #**y. Bo a good little girl, and writo to me every day, or 1, shall throw up the case and osme horns to y6u. '' Yours hastily, but in all affeetion, "Jans. " P. S.?Read the inolosed sMp of paper ; you will find news in ik" *?' The printed slip had fallen to the floor. Nix reached for it Kith a girl's eager curiosity, and read, trith dilating eyes, ons of the quack advertisements of the day: w " Uss Johnson's creamwhito f(frithe complexion. Warranted to remove freckles and blotches. Sold by all druggists, Nix read thtsptotgaaph AJbbgh three j*r four times, with such a blankldok at wonder on her faoe that the attention of hsr two Companions waa SMraeted finally eiamilated, after tbs fifth' ing, finding ths advertisement still ri rions mother v ? Bat Nix wss loo busy wHh her wonderment ttd?oajifli She sat with the slip still staring straight before * sting, with additional < "what eon it mean T* There was a large old-fashion*d ml* | the r?fl*?tionof h^ri^lf therein a clear made move vivid I* lbs stent rays of the afternoon snn that fell noon *T?.? W brPUw. mi DMk twnlM b*tS?'jfg i *f III mwt speck to him ?gain? " Eunice Bateman I" Her mother'* surprise could not ex preeeitself more strongly. Miss Olarke'a pale bine eyes' gleamed behind their spectacles at she ejaculated : " Wfcst shi SSIBi has happened t" Nix shock the bits ot paper through the window with trembling nan da. Half of them went on the osrpet, but her eyes were too full ol tears to note it. don't care. The impertinent wretch ! * Ho# did he ever dare ! He olaiming to be a gentleman, too I I'll make him sorry for this, or my name Is not Ennios Beteman !" Nix went on with a perfect flood-tide of words> utterly disregarding her mother's attempts to sheok her, and M!bs Clarke's supplementary exclama tions. It was not until the latter, ren dered iacautions by eagornean, asked, for the third time, " But what was on the paper, anyway, Nix?" that she stopped short in her angry speech, and, testing the muslin dress on the floor in s heap, ran out of the room without a word of answer. Poor NIxl Her feelings were not amiable as she sat down before the mirror in her o* n little room, dashed away the tears, pushed away the curia, and took a long look at the dimpled face that had seemed so Satisfactorily pretty an hour ago. The brow, the bridge of the nose, and the cheeks were slightly freckled ; there was no denying it, though the oolor snd the dimples idtsre enough to make one forget the de fects. Beside the left ear, half hidden by willful short ringlets, was a small brown discoloration. Nix was too angry to crj again. She just opened the bureau drawer, took oat a formidable pile of letters in the same bold and careless handwriting, and shut them in a box, mattering to herself, "Freckles and blotches, indeed 1" The next Saturday , morning Molly Bateman danced into her sister s room, where the latter was still prolonging her morning nap, and exclaimed : i ?' Say, mx ! The doctor's home 1 No answer from Nix, tare a toss of ^ *A; J e yesterday, they say. I s the matter with him. itfneb lobk at me tint on the street. n<to"r " if " MoUy," interrupted her sister, table and m will yon .,u. has it, please," and Nia fell back en the pillows with something suspicious ly like'a sod as MoTly closed tke door. She had spedt the night writing that letter, and new gave way te a passion of tsars heoanse ske had written it. Moljj* % bright little girl of ten, did not let the grass grow under her feet on the wsy to fia, Wentworth'i office. In the middle Of the main street she met' Elijah, the doctor's office boy, ifeoing sa if for dear life, holding his on with one hand, and swinging a Jetter in the oQier. " VThert a^e you going ?" inquired Molly, arresting nis progress, i To your house. This here letter's for your sister.'' Ik is/ Why, look here; I've got a letter NiX seat the dodtor." ?' Very welL all right. You take this, and I'll take that," said the practical Klijah, effecting the exchange without oerfmony,^' "rta tn a desperate hurry. He** " as cross as all possessed' this morning." sympathetic cross for a the matter ?" Elijah did not Unit to answer this question, but dstohftd off again furious ly. Molly weak boms witn ths letter, which- her sister received in some amssemeat. The aeoond letter was aa follows: morning.' BRid. the i Mplly. So's Nix been wee*. I wonder what's the " Mitt Batkvak?As I learn from ts rions and trustworthy authority that you hare said publicly that I am ill mannered and impenrtinent, and as the rwpOTt BaS been aonflrmed by your ailehoe during my abaenne, there are bottwaaratMi opaa to ma, to auk an explanation, or to di?p?nse with ike ne oeasity of on*. J?Qa bare ohoaen to make you newly formed opinion of me so unnecessarily public that I, from ahner mortJflnation, prefer the latter alMtfudliVfe. I SA not eonaoiom of hay ing done Mitlrihg 't> ofhadyoo, and if yon wiahea to end ike relationa be tween us*yoa jrithllwia done ao in ? asyfiEBSS yon in ay alwaysornialder me m a Mend. ?fV ** fceapeetfullr, i^rfav# *? JAIW "HffWOETH/1 " Thai -Ifretched Mlaa OlaAe !H was Kfafs tt)div*nm oommont as she tossed aaid., the fetu*- tfc*u she aided, with a quick oompransion attheUps, V WeU, WWII catfifcldfrtte* saren sign myself yonr irinnA. <fe? JZvwum Batuum. Hie^dny ol tb* psrfih pkwfte arrived in dtte aeaaon. It was * oaautifnl Jul In dns season, it waa a aeaatifni June SoX&J-SHSS not da*a *ay a* bt*m*; Nix pi* on the Bsnslln dffNS M h?*r hHfthttlt HhK<y^ fkkttlwaior ***> bar ebenks, and rod? sSSSaS.SS hi* best attention to a young his tide?one of Nix'* rivals m _ society. ?e11 soon find out that two oan play at that game !" thought Nix: and straightway she commenoed a violent flirtation with one of her old admirers. Dance suooeeded danoe, and Nix and the doctor rivaled each other in gayety, nnt.il refreshments were announced, when both volunteered as waiters. Amidst the bustle of passing provisions Nix awkwardly enough spilled a oup of coffee on her dress. Consternation among the waitresses followed, but Nix was equal to the occasion. 41 Don't mind me," she said, hastily ; " I'll run down to the pond and wash it off."" So, taking the nearest way, Nix ran down the hill, through the pine trees, and. in her haste, came in violent oontact with some one ooming up hill and carrying a pitcher of spring-water. That some one was Dr. Wentwortb, who looked from the fragments of his broken pitcher to Nix's amazed faoe in ludicrous perplexity. "I'm sorry, stammered Nix^-en deavoring to pass him. "I didn|t see you, I'm sure. I'll see that the pitcher is replaoed." The doctor looked more in sorrow than in anger at the averted faoe, and said, gravely, " You are more sorry ior a broken pitcher than for a broken heart, it ap pears, Miss Bateman." Nix's anger suddenly revived at the implied aocusation in this speech. "It is you who ought to be sorry, Dr. Wentworth," washer sharp reply. " Love seldom survives insult. "Insult?" The doctor barred Nix's way by interposing his own figure de terminedly. " Pray tell me how I have insulted you, Miss Eunioe. I declare to you solemnly that i have not the faintest idea. He looked so thoroughly in earnest, and was so determined, that N'x was taken abaok; then, angry at h?r mo mentary hesitation, she retorted, " It is adding insnlt to insult to pre tend ignorance." The doctor's look became, if possible, more blank than ever, and he oanght Nix's hand and turned her back reso lutely as she tried to pass. "Now," he said, "we aren't going to part in way. Tou must tell me what you mean."?* > "Well," said Nix, finding herself ?e*c*aed^L*J4aa't J&OW 4hft1i ttf'Tgl makeWit bete o} pT1''* tbak you sent me an adiwumwueui fox removing freckles, if you like to hear it." ?? I sent you an advertisement ? I never thought of such a thing. How j foolish 1 I had better cause for my in dignation with you. El-mannered and impertinent, indeed 1 But what was | the advertisement ? Where is it ?" ."Torn up. Tou needn't think I would keep it. The Impudence of your referring to my freckles ! Let go my hand, Dr. Wentwortb." I " But give me a moment. How did you get the advertisement, and when ?" | " In your own letter. This is uo news to you, Sir." Light began to break over the doc tor's faoe, but following the first gleam of intelligence came such a burst of laughter as made the woods eeho and oompleted Nix's disgust. Too indig nant to speak, she stood and watched him as he went from one oonvulsion of merriment inte another, all the while making vain efforts to use his voioe in telligibly. "I always thought you were a gentle man," she at last remarked. "I have discovered my mistake." "For aueroy'ssake," gasped the doc tor, ' let me speak a mom ent I Did you?did you turn the paper over?" And he had another hopeless relapse in to mirth. " No. Why should Irtarn it over ?" " Because, said the doctor, wiping the tears from his eyes, "the ether side was the right one. It was a notice of the marriage of your friend Miss Willis. And you? This is the riohest joke of the season, on my werd P' " Fanny Willis ? Is this true ?" ?? Tree I I'll show yott a copy of the paper if you like. An advertisement to remove freokles 1 Ha 1 ha I ha I" Nix was ashamed and diaoomfited and sorry and childishly glad .at pooe. Shs had bnt one thought when at last, ?he understood the mat tet; that was to make her peace with the doctor. This was not very hard. " You poor little puss T hs ssid. " Why, Nix, I sever noticed that vosr faoe had a freckle on it. And ao I am ill-mannered, am I ? What ?" "I never said you were ill roan nsr ed," Nix declared, with soarlst oheeks. "You didntt Then that wretched Miss Gierke made il no. It was all over town when I came home. Nix, I aay let us make up something loo : tod lei that something be qnr qaarrrl " | Nix's eyes were like stars when they joined the dancer* again, and th# floo tor was boyishly g^f. Bnt theU lMftU were no! over yet.. 'A Mr. W?y, from the city, had been capti rated W 'Nix, and waa so devoted aeaeriouely to fere with the doctor's uesalort. - f "Don't danoe with anj CI* Nix," he said, nnoossciously tone of authority. "Hare yott that ftfttow three dan<*s tin want von til to myself ?"raat fellow T W isn't s feiow) he's a dsaecAwlji ytfc Ave I _ to enjoy other people s Uttl the doctor walked off mc Ntx looked after hi neohition to call him ? was deterred by ? sense of Ws W junties, and by her own pride f beeides had just proved her power over "Wentworth, and Mr. Leroy tm agreeable, and Terr much charmed her. Nix decided to risk de flapee. Mr. Leroy end she danoed till they were tired of dancing, then strolled off to the woods. They had a row to gether on the pond, and there is no telling how long their tete-a-tete might bare boen kept up if Nix herself had not become alarmed for results. Twilight was gathering over the pionio grounds when they came back to them, and people were departing. A dark finre standing w^hrn the last fringe of woods stepped forward and drew Nix's hand within his aim, end a stem yoiee said? " This way, Miss Bate man. I have been waiting for you." And before the indignant and bewildered Nix oould say a word of farewell to her oavalier, she was lifted into the doctor's light wagon and whirled away. For a while she was perfectly silent, wanting words strong enough to ex press herself with. Her final remark was ooldlv practical: " I will thank yeu to go back for my hat." "Your hat? Nonsense. I'd rather buy/on fifty hats than go back to that picnio ground," answered the dootor, sharolv." MI don't wish any hats of your buy ing." 44 No. You'd prefer Mr. Leroy'e gifts to mine." 441 see," said Nix, ooldly, " that mj remark about your manners was per fectly correct." I "You have just denied having made it." " I denied saving that you were ill mannered, and I aid not say that I said that you had no manners at all." "Thank you." replied the dootor, ooolly, but venting his anger in a smart I blew that made hie hone plunge side ways. "The only thing for me to do is to relieve yotf of my presence ss soon as aaaaible. 1 was just thinking of a little speeoh my mother onoe made. She Mid, I None but a lady or a gentle man vrer can insult me, and no true lady eg gentleman ever will.'" They were perfectly silent a while, the doctor driving at tearful speed, but v,?w-??? ? litis | behind." The doctor, to whom their progress seemed tUtdforaWy slow, tafestHred *br another eharp out of the whip, which drove his horse hall frantic. He rushed down the main street of the village, the light wagon swaying and bounding fearfully behind. Dr. Wentworth biaeed himself and set his teeth, but all his strength was unavailing. The horse was beyond his control; yet he knew if he oould only keep the animal on the straight soad he oould finally master him. But just a little ahead was the oorner of the street where his offioe stood. If the horse turned there they were lost. Dr. Wentworth pulled upon the right rein with both hands, and*Nix half involuntarily helped him ; but the horse heedefeift not a whit. Around the oorner as went like lightning. There was a crash, a darkness before the dootor's eyes, then a sensation of I falling. When he came a little to himself, he i discovered the! he was tying at full length on a heap of soft sand, and peo ple were trying to raise him. It did not take him long to decide upon bis ability to raise himself, for beyond the shook to the nerves he was not injured. The heap of sand had saved him. Bat lux t The dootor was on his feet and stsogering toward the spot where she had fallen in an instant. They were carrying her into a druggist's store n^ar by. She had fallen against the curb stone, and one arm hung help leeely at ier side. ^ Dr. Wentworth turned away from the coach where she lsy with a very white faoe, after a brief examiaaMon of her injuries. ** Her arm is broken," he said. ?? Bend for a dootor to set it. I can't. Nix's eyes half spewed, and an ex preeeioa ef childish terror easae over her faoe ae she touched his sleeve. "itoa't I" she said. " Don't let any one else set it but you t Plesse 1 please!" The doctor was like a new man. Ashamed of hie momentary nervous ness, and elect rifled by her words and look, he set the broken arm skillfully and tenderly. And through tha illness thst followed he was the most patient and devoted of morses. One day in the last of summer, when Nix for the first time left her chamber, as they sst to gether in Mrs. Batsman's little parlor, the doctor said, with a mischievous twinkle in his eye : " Nix, do yon know you've been in '"~k" Nix glaaoed jn the mirror, laughed, I'di aa Mat t.hem, now, sitiee "r. . i . W<QflpI*? Oor<m. ?Diikmeiri nf th* t>*4 ?btho^n '-of niitM" ooufh, the H?rtfari THnms ny?: lady who took a little ehild to the ?as work ? weet, lot the Piurpo? of curing whooping oonghTy the inhal#. Uon rtf the fnmwi of thetti|<l? cm from the retort*, wm told that there had tMtfB !? thoneand' ellldni tirnrnrtt there 5n A NEW XOTIYE POWER. A. Her bail teal Discovery of Inconceivable Valve. Prof. Faraday, of England, asserts that a grain of water contains electrical relations equivalent to a very powerful flash of lightning. Knowing that the equilibrium of these relations is some times deetroyed in the heavens, merely by a change in conditions, resulting in enormous mechanical work ; and as we are constantly discovering means to change natural conditions, the qnestisn arises (whioh seems a legitimate one) why are not our locomotives and steam ships provided with grains of water, instead of tons ? The only answer that can be given is : We have as yet no knowledge of suitable means to destroy the equilibrium of these relations. Mr. John W. Keely, of Philadelphia, has discovered a method of destroying this equilibrium, or something analo gous to it, and made it the basis of an invention by whioh these conditions are changed. , By a peculiar mechanical deviee hitherto unknown, a force is generated whioh can readily be applied to driving all kinds of machinery for which steam or other motive power is generated and applied, without oost other than the mechanical device or generating ma ohine and the necessary wear of ma chinery. The generator is simple and comparatively inexpensive, ooenpying but a small space, and isjlight compared with the requirements of steam power ; and since this pojfer is prDduoca with out heat, eleotrioiiy, galvanism, mag netism, or chemicals, it is destigbd at an early day to revolutionize the pres ent motive powers of the world, by reason of the eoonomy of its oost and spaoe. The power, so far as at present evolved and tested, has shown a pres sure of fully 10,000 pounds per square inch, aa the following explanation will show : The principal part of this power generator, now in uae, ia mads of metal, , ick, _ strong iron tube an inoh in diameter, connecting the generator with a cylinder used aa a reoeiver of the power or force from the generator. This cylinder is ***** J 1 ' inohe s in inter power in fve second?, in<T the power rftnained therein" at least eight days withomi any addition, and from it a groat number of teste were made with out any apparent diminution of its energy or foroe, At the end of the charged cylinder is attached a flexible brass conductor of drawn tubing, one-fonrth inoh in dimaeter. with a bore of one thirty second or an inch, passing from cylin der to ceiling, and thenoe to tho other side of the room, for a disUnoe of twenty feet to the test apparatus or foroe register; this apparatus oonsists of a thick bed plate of iron, to whioh was bolted and packed a cylinder four inches in diameter, having a plunger or piston, the area of whioh was a little less than one square inoh in snrfaoe. Below this piston is a cham ber of about twe cubio inches, with which the tubing from tho charged cylinder is connected. The plunger or piston, acting perpendicularly, wfcs the point at whioh the power was applied to a compound lever, which, according to Mr. Has well's measurement, was as one to fifty-two. The end of the short arm was securely bolUd and fastened to the iron bed plate of the apparatus ? upon the long arm of the oompounci lever was suspended an iron weight of 200 pounds. On opening the stopcock of tne charged cylinder connecting the tubes, the weight of 200 pounds was aft once raised to the limit of thn^juMmcd movement of ftfcfcpior ; thus, with the wnight of th? lever and its connections, indicating a pressure power of about 10,400 pounds per square inoh, as stated before. The power generator and re ceiver was supposed to be, when con *trooted, fully adequate in strength to generate and develoo the full power of the invention, bnt itches been found too weak ; the foroe has proved to be co enormous that Mr. Keel} has not dared fto *pply more than half the power he oan attain. An apparatus in in process of construction which will be able to generate and sustain a pressure greatly in exoees of that already shown, with out rupture, though Mr. Keely does not *xp^ct fto need one of more than 26,000 pounds to develop his power. "When the full power is measured and bal anced, it will then be <v,mp*rati vel y ea^f to construct an apparatus of tho reqniaite capacity and strength for gines ef sny desired power. ,. In oomm.mting on the above the SoUntiflo American speaks eontemptu onsly of Mr. Eeely's inventing and stigmatise* the new motive power as afcevrd and ioprfletieable. T . , 1Mb OC tan ia the ?M of wfcich in biUend id rarall in fr*an?mt ftvm NM only km h?lf ?Ttinirimh^i mfttnriMI ?OrOwT7 OET^iH^Wy fcw%y# OTIT li ?* - ? " JAila 4<k * 4a fin* to rfiponri to l^aiw I |H ? WI ttfc> thr (T^ral hooiehoM iwmnoli tor WjMgpfcpf iftd biU and end* of *11 sort*, what won ?der th?t <>?*? end* *otn?ttaM mMi and kin tie tn un ?1 Items of Interest. Bigots ever think others most per versely and willfully wrong-headed. The ablest and most successful mer chants are, almost invariably, liberal advertisers. Next to twenty-four grains, there is nothing like a mean man's pocket to make a penny wait. Returns from local registrars in Eng land show that nearly 100 children have been named Roger Tichbome. A dying Kansas postmaster cheerfully signed the recommendations of fourteen different men who were after his snug berth. An old logy In Philadelphia objects to paying a gas bill of 818, for the friv olous reason that there are no burners in his house. The Bald Mountain shake is said to have been gotten up by illicit distillers to frustrate a raid by the revenue de partment. They suoeeeded. Transient newspapers, books, mer chandise, etc., cannot be forwarded un less fully prepaid. Bushels of them may be found in nearly every post-offioe. If they were all day laborers in the U. 8., every man would work sixty days in the year?think of it, two whole months !?to pay the debt of the nation. IiOrd Braxfield, a Scotch judge, once Baid to an eloquent culprit at the bar, " You're a vera olever chiel, mon ; but I'ni thinking ye wad be nane the waur o*? hangin. Speaking of birthdays at the club the other night, Nogg, a very talkative member, said he was born in March. " That's the reason, perhaps, said Jogg, " that you are such a blower." A hard, money U. 8. Congressman condCBsed his speech by holding a ten dollar greenback in one hand and a ten dollar gold piece in the other, and ask ing, " Whicn will you have ? " A lady In St. Chailes, Minn., had the misfortune to inoculate herself with virus from a friend who had died of erysipelas. Her sufferings are most agonizing, and her life is despaired of. If the cremationists have their way the number of ash-carts will need to be increased. And how will it sound to hear the ash-men ring their bells and bawl: " Bring out your mother-in-law's ashes t" of London, an by aU aiwmuxu. oagje. A maii< In Wisconsin found reoently that the flames of barning kerosene may be extinguished by throwing on flour. It seems reasonable that any absorbent material not readily oom bustible might be effective for stlch a purpose. The Titusville Herald puts it thus : Our doctors and surgsens begin to feel happy again, now that the base ball season has opened. The saw-bones al ways oalculate on a harvest of broken noses and fractured skulls from this manly pastime.. A oertain lad of five summers made his debut in one of the publio sohools reoently. At night his mother asked if he had learned anything that dav at school. ?."Oh, yes," said the boy. " Well, what was it, my son ?" inquired the anxious mother. " Well," said the pupil of one day, with an air of proud satisfaction, " I ? earned golly !" Where Does Water Come From t How natural for a child, standing by the banks of a river, to inqaire where all the water cornea from ? To inquire why grass is green ? what makes it ?Towf how is it that birds oan fly? why fishes are not drowned in the sea ? or Where all the sand cornea from thoy see on the shore ? They will ask, also, Where the rain or the snow comes from ? what is thunder ? what are clouds ? or, how is it that the grass is no wet with the dew? Thonaaoda of questions like these are asked by thoughtful children, and what parsat would not wiah to be able to give them satisfactory answers ? But to answer these questions satisfao torly requires a knowledge of natural phenomena, and the canae* producing them. If any one of whom the child asked, while atanding bv a river's banks, ?'Where does all the wator oomes ftpotnf" were to take him to his homs, however humble, and ahow him the Tapor rising from the water boiling lor tee, end ask him to put a cool nlnte or glass in the path of the vapor for a few moments, and then look at it and notice the drops of water oou' ? - 3d npon it, and make him underpin ml , nat those drops were lermed by the vapor. Then explain to him that a eat part of the earth was oovered * th water from whieh vapof ys rising, awd tfttt, when It rose into the upper ragion* of tie air, it was eoadsnsed in to drops of water, jost as thejwor had b*e? bj theegA plate, and-Btwhen thus oondsnsMlt fell in rain. That a great partofffcU rain MM on the ?nr rane of the ground, foriSng little Itwn end brooks, which were gradu ally Joined by others, till those nnited streams formed rivers, whioh by ths unoeasing flow, which has led to hi* question, gave bank to .the ooean the waters which had been raised from them i?jnapor by the heat of the s^n, juit aa the vapor hsd been raised fr?m the water boiling for tea, by the heat of the Are. child wodUl readily forget meh a lesson f Or what eMd, oonatant lyjo rwpHed to oonld fail to grow np aWiBtoUigantobserrsr of all tb? nstu ral events joocuring around him f