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trjANK P. BEARD, Editor and Proprietor. DEVOTE? TO^oJHE INTERESTS OF KERSHAW COUNTY. TERMS :?$?.00 p*r ?mnjM, in adtancm. = ' A. VOL. I. CAMDEN. S. C.. WEDNESDA^&JlIMk 15. 1874. ? NO. 41. Written at my XoltjerN Grave, The trembling dew dro^ fau Upon the shutting fla*<Mm_jj)[e 50?iH at re?t; The stars shine K1 ^rionKly ?and ail. Have in ^ u blolt' Mother ?I ,ove thy grave ; 1 bo violet. ?ritb its blossom blue and mild, Wt-?6h O'er liiy bead ? When shall it wave Al>ove thy child ? '"Via "a sweet flower?yet must Tee bvight leave* to the coming"tempest bow, "Dear mother -'tin thine emblem?duet Is on thy brow ! And I could love to die To leave untanted life's dark, bitter -treamn, By thee. as erst in childhood, he. And share thy dreams Aud must I linger here To stain the plumage of my sinless yearn. And mourn the hopes of childhood dear With bitter tear*. Aye -must I linger here, A lonely branch upon a blasted tree. Whose last frail leaf untimely sere, Went down with thee : Oft from life's withered bower. In still communion with the pant I turn. Aird tnuee on thee the only flower In memory's urn. Am',, when the evening pale, Jjowrt like a mourner on tlie dim, blue wave. I stray to hear the night winds Tvail. Around thy grave. Where is thy spirit flown I gazo above?thy look is imaged theie ? I listen and thy gentle tone It* 011 the aii. Oh come?whilst here I press My brow ujkmi thy grave?and. in tliOfc mild And thrilling tones of tenderness. Bless, bless thy child ! Yea, bleu/) thy weeping child. And o'er the urn?religion's holiest tlnine? Oh g?V? his spirit undefiled To bleud with thine. OeOBOK D PRtNTlCK. I p THE WltoOWU 8TRA.TA.GE ML, Deacon Bancroft, though a very good man in the main, and looked np to with respeot by all the inhabitants of the little village of (Jentreville, was ru mored to have, in Yankee parlance, " a pretty sharp eye to the main chance ? a peculiarity from which even deacons are not always exempt. In worldly matters he was decidedly well-to-do, having inherited a tiae farm from his father, which was growing yearlv more valuable. It might be sup posed that, under these circumstances, the descon, who was fully able to do so, would have found a help meet to shore j his house ami name. But tho deacon ; was wary. Matrimony was to him, in some moasure, a matter o' money, and j it was his firm resolve not to marry un- I less ho could thereby enhance his wordly prosperity. Unhappily, the little village of Oentreville and the towns m the immediate vioinity con tained few who were qualified in this important particular, and of those there were probably none with whom the deaoou'a suit would have prospered. 80 it happened that year after year passed away, until Deaoon Bancroft was in the prime of life?forty-flve, or thereabouts?and still anmarried, and, in all human probability, likely to re main so. But in all human calcula tions of this kind, they reckon ill who leave widows ou^. Deason Bancroft's nearest neighbor warn a widow. The Widow Wells, who had passed through ftne matrimonial experience, was some three or four years younger than Deacon Banoroft. Bhe was still quite a buxom, comely woman, as wid ows are apt to be. Unfortunately, the late Mr. Wells had n:>t been able to leave her sufficient to make her inde pendent of the world. All that slis ] possessed was the small, old-fashioned *mouse in which she lived, and a small ?mount of money, which was insufficient tA sapport. her and a little son of seven, likewise to be enumerated in the soheitale of her property, though hardly to be olaaaed as a "productive"?of any thiiffy bQt mischief. The widow was therefore obliged to take three or four boarders, to eke out her Roanfy income, which, of course, imposed ufWttl tie* considerable labor and anxiety. Is it surprising thM under theae cir cumstances she shottMnow and then have bethought hereelf of a second marriage, as a method of bettering her condition ? Or, again, need we esteem it a special wonder, if, in her reflections upon this point, shq. should have cpst her eyes upon her next neighbor, Dea oon Banoroft ? The deaoon, as we hav? already safd, was in flourishing circum stances. He would be able to maintain a wife in great comfort; end, bll* one of the chief personagee in the vil lage, could accord her a prominent social position. He was not eepeoiayy handsome, or calculated to make a pro found impression upon the female heart ?this was true?but he waaof a good disposition, kind-hearted, and would, ?10 doubt, make a very good ssrt of a . husband. Widows are, I take it (if j any ahall do me the honor to read this story, T trust they will forgive the re mark), lees disposed to weigh senti ent in a second alliance than a first, ao, in the widow's point of view, Bancroft was a very desirable Boras sagacious ppisou, however, has srved that it takes two to make a sh, a fact to be aeHoaafy eonaider t j for ia the preeeot oase it was ex " doubtful whether the worthy I dtaeon, even iX be had known the favor i able opinion of his next neighbor, 1 would have been inclined to propose changing her nam*' to Baucroft, unless, indeed, a suitable motive was brought to bear upon him. i Here was a c'uance for finessing, wherein widows ore said, as a general : thing, to be expert. One evening, after a day of fatiguing J labor, the Widow Wells sat at the fire in the sitting-room, with her feet rest ing upon the fend? r. " If I ever am f o situated as not to I have to work so hnrd," she murmured, " I Bhall be happy. It's hard life, keep ing boaiders. If was only as well off as Deaoon Bancroft " btill the widow k< pt up her thinking, ' and by-and-by her lace brightened up. ! She had an idea, which she was resolved to put into execution at the very earliest practicable moment. What it was the I reader will discover in the sequel. " Henry," said she toher sou the next : morning, " I want you to Btop at Dea | con Bancroft's, as you go alo,ng to : school, and ask if ho will call and see me in the course of the morning or I afternoon, jast as he finds it most con i venient." j Deacon Bancroft was a little sur prised at the summon. However, about eleven o'clock, he called in. The widow had got on the dinner and had leisure to sit down. She appeared a little em barrassed. " Henry told me that you would like to see me," he commenced. " Yes, Deaoon Bancroft, I do, but I'm very much afraid you will think strange of it?at least of what I have to say to you." The deaoon very politely promised not to be surprised, though at the same j time his curiosity was visibly excited. " Suppose," said the widow, casting J down her eyes?" mind, I am only snp i posing a case?suppose a person should ' find a pot of gold pieces in their cellar, would the law have a right to touch it, 1 or would it belong to them ?" The deacon pricked up his ears. I " A pot of gold pieces, widow ! W11 d and olaimit,oould he,deacon ?" inquired the widow, further, with apparent anxiety. " No, madam, unquestionably not. When the house vu disponed of, every thing went with it, as a matter of oourse." " I am glad to hear it, deacou. Yon won't think strange of the question ; but it happened to occur to my mind, and I thought that I would like to have it satisfied." "Certainly, widow, certainly," said the deacon, abstractedly. "And, deacon, as you arc here, I hope you'll stop to dinner with us. It will bo punctually at twelvw." "Well, no," said the deacon, rising ; "I'm obleeged to ye, but they'll bo ex pecting me home.' " At any rate, deacon.'' said the widow, taking a steaming mince-pie from the oven, "you won't objoct to taking a picce of mince-pie. Ton must know I rather pride myself on i*jy mince-pies." The warm pie sent forth such a deli oious odor, that the deacon was sorely tempted, and after saying, " Well, realiy," with the intention of refusing, he finished by saying, " On the whole, I guess I will, as it looks so uice. " The widow was really a good cook, and the deacon pte with rouoli gusto the generous slioe which the widow cut for him, and after a little more chattiug upon unimportant subjects, withdrew in some mental perplexity. " Was it possible," thought he, " that the widow oould really have found a pot of gold in her cellar? Hhe did not ..ay so, to be sure ; but why should she have shown so much anxiety to know as to the proprietorship of treasure thus found, i? she had not happened upon some ?" To be sine, us far as his knowledge extended, there was no one who had occupied the house who would be in the least likely to lay up such an amount of gold ; but then the honse was one hundred and fifty years old, at the very least, and un doubtedly had had many occupants of which he knew nothing. It might be, after all. The widow's earnest desire to have him thitk ft was only curiosity likewise gave additional probability to the supposition. "I will wait and watch," thought the dflaoon. ft so happened that Deacon Ban croft was one of the Afrenlats in a mv ? ing's institutfotf, Situated in the next town, and accordingly used to ride over there once or twice a month, to attend meetings of the board. On the next occasion of this kind, the Widow Wells sent over to know if he oonld carry her over with him, as she had a little business to attend to tbm, The request was readily accorded. Arrived in the village, Mrs. Wells re quested to ? e set down at the bank. " Ha ! h? I" thought the deacon ; *? that means something." He said nothing, however, but deter mined to come back, and find out, as he jeould readily from the cashier, what business she had with (he bank. The wiiow tripped into the oflloe, pretending to look very nonchalant. " Oan yon give me smsU bill* for a flve-dollar gold piess f* she inquired. " With pleasnf*," was the reply. " By the way," said the, " the bank is in quite a flourishing oondMon, is it not?" " None in the State on * better foot ing," was the prompt response. " Ton rsosive deposits, do 709 not?' " Yea, madam, we ore receiving them every day." 44 Do you receive as high as?as dve thousand dollars ?" 44 No," said the cashier, with some surprise; 44 or rather we do not allow interest on bo large a sum. One thou sand dollars is our limit. Do yon know of anyone who " 44 It is of no consequence," said the widow, hurriedly ; 44 I only asked for curiosity. By the way, did you say how much interest you allowed on such deposits as came within your limit ?" 44 Five percent., ma'am." 44 Thank you ; I only asked for curi osity. What a beautiful morning it is !" And the widow tripped lightly out. I Shortly afterwards the deacon entered. | 41 How's business, Mr. Cashier ?" he I inquired. y About as usual." 44 Had any new deposits lately ?" '?None of any magnitude." 441 brought over a lady, this morn- : iug, who seemed to have business with I you." '? The Widow Wells ?" 44 Yes." 41 Do you know," asked the cashier, 1 | 44 whether she has had any money left , her lately ?" 44 None that I know of," said the dea con, pricking Tip his ears, 44 Why ? Did she deposit any?" , 44 No ; but she inquired whether we 1 received deposits as high as five thou i sand dollars." 44 Indeed!" ejaculated the deacon. I 44 Was that all she came for?" he iu I quired, a moment afterwards. 44 No, hJic exchanged a gold piece for small bills." 44 Ha !" pondered the deacon, reflec tively. 44 Did she give any reason for her inquiries ?" 44No ; she said she only asked from curiosity." The deacon left the bank in deep thought. He came to the conclusion that this 4,ouriosity" only veiled a deeper motive. He no longer enter tain-d a doubt that the widow had an tually found a pot of gold in her oellar, and appearances seemed to- indicate that its. prob&ble value was at least gold piece at the bank appeared to confirm this story. " I rather think," said the deacon, oomplacently, " I can see into a mill stone about as far as most people "?a statement the literal truth of which I defy any one to question, though as to the prime fact of people's being able to see into a millstono at all, doubts have now and then intruded themselves upon my mind. Nexl Sunday the Widow Wells ap peared at church in a new and stylish bonnet., which led to some such remarks as these? j " How much vanity lumc people have, to be sure!" ^^ " How a womaarfhat hflM to keep boarders for a flvLofjean aftord to dash out with suoh a W?nnet is more than I can telL I^jshoula think she was old enough to know belter." The last remark was made by a young lady just six months younger than the widow, whose attempts to catch a hus band had hitherto proved utterly un availing. *4I suppose," oontinued the same young lady, " she is trying to natch a second husband- with her finery. Be fore I would oondesoend to suoh means I'd?I'd drown myself." In this last amiable speech the young lady had unwittingly hit upon the true motive. The widow ira* intent upon catching Deacon Bancroft, and she in dulged in a oostly l>onnet, not because she supposed he would be oanght with tlnsry,but because this would strengthen in his mind the idea that she had stumbled upon hidden wealth. The widow calculated shrewdly ; and the display had the effect she antici pated. Monday afternoon Deacon Bancroft found an erraud that called him over to the widow's. It olianoed to be abont tea-time. He was importuned to stay at tea, and, somewhat to his own sur prise, actually did. The politic widow, who knew the deacon's weak point, brought on one of her best mince pies, a slioe of which her guest partook of with sent. " You'll take another pieoe, I know," said ahe, persuasively. * " Keally, I am ashamed,* said the deaoon, but he passed his plate*- "The faot is," he said apolegotioally, *four pies are so nioe I do*4know whore^o " Do you call these atftt" said the widow modestly. *J ea!T tkpgi oom mon. I can make mltioe-pieSwhen I set out to. suoh t out to but this tUkel didn* here ch good Inok m tuM." ST'' " I shouldn't want liny better, sai<f the deacon, emphatioaUv." " Then I hope if jonybjkem, you'll drop ir. to tee often. WedSfht Cbe more neighborly, iMacou Bancroft." " Deaoon Baajfoft aMdML and he meant whet he laid. The Set ia. the dsaoon began to think that the .widow was a vsry oharmlng woman. Bhe wae very comely, end thin she wm suoh en excellent oook I Besides, . he hed BO doubt in Me own mind that ahe was worth * oonmdermble sum of money. What objections would there be to her becoming Mrs. Bancroft f He brought the queetlftn before her one evening. The widow blushed?professed to be greatly nnr prised?in feet she had never thought of the thing in her life?bnt, on the whole, she hedJflH highly of the deaooi the matter, accepted A month afterwards as mistress of Mm somewhat to the s 'TjT'I*" people, who oonld not oonceive how she had brought him over. Some weeks after the ceremony the deacon ventured to inquire about the pot of gold whioh she bad found in her cellar. "Pot of gold!" she exolaimed in surprise. " I know of none." " Bat," said the deaoon, disoon oerted, "you know you asked me whether the law oould claim if " O, lor ! deaoon, I only asked from curiositv,"_ , M And was that the reason you made inquiries at the bank ?" " Certainly. What else could it be ?" The deacon went out to the barn, and for about half an hour sat in silent meditation. At the end of that time, he ejaculated, as a closing consider ation, " After all, she makes good mic^tj pies." It gives me pleasure to state that the union between the deacon and the widow proved a very happy one, although to the end of his life lie never oould-quite make up his mind about " The Pot of Gold." Prevention or Hydrophobic. ? Dr. William A. Hammond, Bars a *1 , . PftP?r? is preparing a paper on the subject of the treatment of dotfs with reference to the prevention of hydrophobia, which will be presented before the Neurological Society at its next meeting. There will also be pre Rented at the meeting a series of reso lutions condemning the practioe of muzzling as era el and unnecessary. Dr. Hammond save muzzling dogs is all very well if tue law coula only bo car ried out to its fall extent. The law says that no animal shall bo allowed to go through the streets unmuzzled. But the roving dogs are not the one* thai ordinarily exhibit symptoms of mad-1 ness. In nine eases out of ten, in hia expenenoe o| hydrophobia, the origi natoc? some pet house-dog, who. beina' afflicted with this from the h?M into the street, (? ' being the ?* - that 001 children. The ^ wni?|->p then to be of any use should include these house-dogs in its provision. It would be impossible to carry out any such measure as that. The mnzzle, he says, can be easily supplanted by a law compelling each owner of a dog to have its fangs filed at a certain ago, so that thej shall present blunt extremities. This experiment has been tried often, [ even when the animal was suffering from hydrophobia. When the operation i has been performed the dog has been ! allowed to bite at the hand of the oper i ator, bat it has been found impossible for the filed teeth of the dofl to break the skin. Dr. Hammond does not think Francis H. Butler died of hydro phobia, and says genuine cases of that diseaso are much rarer than is sup posed. Preservation or the Teeth. Ill studying the causes of decay of | teeth, Leber and Rottenstein made ; various experiments to detormino the action of acids on dent*' tissues. It was found that acids make the enamel, which is naturally transparent, first white, opaque, and milky, and the den tine more transparent and softer, so as to bo cut with a knife."* The anids whioh may actually effect the first changes in the production of earies are such as are taken with food or in medicine*, or suoh as are formed in the mcutS itself by nome abnormality in the secretions or by an acid fermentation of partielws of food. But aoids alone, says the f,ancet, will not aooount for all the phenomena of earies of the teeth.. They play a primary and principal part making the teeth porous and soft In i this state, the tissues having lost their normal consistency, fnngi pene trate the oarmlicnli both of the enam?l and the dentine, and by their prolifera tion produce softening and d<ft*iuetf*e effects much more rapidly than the action of the acid alone. It' is hot pleasant to th ink that fungi exial in the parasitic growths, while soanr water appears to destroy them. T& great mean* of preeemng the t~th, then, ^.e is to observe the most the mouth n* TIM The Winona, aaysAfter all the Mittrd so many murdera in Kansas. %ll , of the familj are still At large. We P,yu arteatad in Utah recently aa the 11 fldar Bender, and who, H was reported, Had been satiafaotorilyldentifled, proves be a demented old man by the name of Zoeh. The cemmkj attorney far La Wet^e eonnty, Flu, pnblieHls s de P?w? of the senior Bender, la whioh criminal is described aa a man hay an intelligent countenance and re ^*bling in no way the vagrants so fre natntly taken for meaoJMfe of the Ben der family. He addwthat all of the I Benders, notwithstanding their flfidS IInMnre^ appear agreeable and pinMft M *bay are sup f25fc?? wT*7\U thai il be found acting the pari of I ' " J. How Thermometers are Made. A writer in the Polytechnic Bulletin gives the following description of the method of making thermometers at a manufacturing establishment in Ches ter, Pa.: The glass tubes, as received, are about a yard long. A bo.v picks them with a hard steel knife, and breaks them into the lengths required. The bores, which are flat, are compared by means of a lent) with those of ten atandar i sizes, and the tubes assorted accord ingly. They are then passed to the blowpipe table. Each glass-blower has a foot bellows, and uses an oil lamp. Melting the glass at one end of a tube, he blows it into a bulb by pressing the Bides of a hollow india-rubber ball at tached at the other, proportioning the size of his bulb to the bore of his tube, and ascertaining the size by using a EaUi of callipers. While the bulb is ot, the tube is inverted in meranry, which, as the bulb cools, partially fills it. The tube is then withdrawn and a short India-rubber tube attached at its ope*-end. Into this mercury is poured; that in the bulb is boiled to expel the which rises up through the mer cury in the iadia-n^bber tube, and an atmosplyare of the vappr of meroury now fills the glass tube and bulb. As this condenses, the mercury in the india-rubber tube takes its place, when this tube, with any morcury remaining in it, is removed. Tlje tube is now warmed, and the open e'.f. of the glasB tube hermeticall " The bulb a&Ag^^K the tube are immersed in^^^^^R <e. and the height of the mer^^^H^iCod ; they are then transferredu at 62 deg *oe8 i Fahrenheit, anrt^j^^Viqht marked ; next to a bath at 9x degrees Fahreu- j heit, and the heighfogain marked. The lengths of the tbre^apaces of 30 de- 1 grees each are now oarefully measured. Jf they are exactly equal, the bore of i "the tube is assumed to be uniform, and i the degiees laid off on the brass scale i o?the thermometer are all made of the 'fcaqaelength. If The spaces of thirty J each are nfet found to be exact-j by mearsof a highly in ^?idina engine, the degrees ou e made to increase in length of the tube diminishes, i has been dirided, and letters pmrimU U is laterally, between two rollers, , to remove the burr left by the tools. Were it rolled lengthwise, the accuracy of the dividing would be impaired. I The plate is then silvered and laoquer- j ed, the glass tube attached, and the whole sliddeu into the well-known ja- I panned tin case. A Vlctlgs to DIsclpUuc. writer in ^he Cleveland Leartrr says, in describing the Annapolis ball : ! " 'riie ' class ' and the young debutante* I of oonrse thought it the most elegant, superb affair ever givsn. Ho it was? only the old ones were tired of it all, ] and a? we leaned near a window to : catch a breath of fresh air we could see the water and the dark sides of a prifon ' ship, where there slept (let us hope) in ; its ' black hole,' or ' dungeon,'^or what ever they call it, a peor fellow who was i found asleep on his post eighteen i months ago. For this crime he was sentenced by court-martial to two years i solitary confinement aboard ship in a ] hole under water, from which ho is al lowed exit for twenty micrutesof light | and air each cUy. What a mocking t 'fate' mnst see? to him, should he chance to hear the music of the ball, i? 1 fate, a chance, that has made him in- 1 fpTior and prisoner, and them judge i and executioner. Well I these bnl- | lioned and buttoned young fellows, and the moustached and martial old ones, think such a punishment just for | such a erijne ; they would think sympa thy and "sentiment misplaced in such a case. Well, I say it again, it is per haps well for the belles who worship a naval officer as little lower than a god that this story and others that the sea men could tell do not reaoh their dain ty ears. There are some thongh, thank fteavftn ! whose instincts will lend them to ourae a * discipline' that sanctions suoh brutality and tyranny, even with th&straina oI Btranss in their ears and the shil? of an offlcers's buttons to bl^nd their eyes." Dog* and their Cost. The honmGfot)* has been making some rthfonlationa from reoent statistics on thin finna^on, and mm* ftp in refer ence to the Btate of Missouri M fol Our 4Q0Ji00 dogs furnish one of it eoonpmio oensiJ" the ftf** la tton or op annually to the extof ledtt I^OOOCOOO ; ieeoncHy, they cost as average of 26 oenta g week each? 500,006 enough to run all our eom kooTs a?d leave a large surplna; ; they slay ^finally, throngh tfcobia, at least 120 persona, whftft? ?rW,000 each -the average price paid by railroad* for the very poor eat of brake* men ?amounts to the fnrther mm of #600.000. - Here is a di rect oxpenditnro (J nearly $7,760,000 for doga, not to mention the fine*, costs, and more remote sentimental damage* resulting from lawsuit* about dog fight* and severance of friendship between the owners of the oombative enrs. Capitaliaed, our dogs repreaent a waate of 900,000,000, ana invested at OOmpound interest their worthle**ne?* would pay off the national debt before MOO." It is faahionabla in England to jnmp for exarotae, but rmj vulgar to thinf. Item* of Interest. The swal'ow-tail coat is In danger. The Czar danced in A fro.ok-coat while in England. An inventive genius in Ohio pro poses to furnish horses with false teeth, so as to oonoeal their age. Said a justice to an obstreperous pris oner, on the day of bis trial, " We want nothing but silence, fcnd but little of that." , Th* resolutions of the Towa Farmers' Convention do no good. The pests simply twirl their forelegs against their noses sarcastically. A home-sick Pennsylvania school boy, eleven years old, walked home, seventy-eight miles, in two days and a half, with no nourishment whatever ex oept green clover leaves. A powerful temperance lecture is given by the Athens (Tenn.) Pout thus : . "There is a distillery in Chattooga Coun y, Ga., at or near which five men have been murdered since it was es tablished." A California paper expresses much sympathy for Eastern people, because of the dreadful thunder, lightning, rain, and wind storms prgWBlipg^ 4l?.re? and says that eartKqttatfes are as '"r compared with them. V The girls of Vaasar College hav^* moonlight saila on the Hudsou, and the young men of that vicinity are gra ciously permitted to stand on the shore of that noble river and see them go by. No cards, and no hope of any. WTLe Secretary of the Kansas Board Agriculture indignantly denies iu print that ohinch bugs are there doing any damage worthy of note, constitu tional grumblers and item gatherers to the contrary, notwithstanding. Alfred Martin of Cambridge, Me., was in his barn, the other day, when the edifice was taken up by a gentle whirlwind into the air a distance of 100 feet, and then wafted^wo mHes into a swamp. Mr. Martin wan uninjured by this aerial \9ysyge; "* A kind Missouri husband wheeled his crippled wife three miles the other day, that she mijght cheerfully g.^ze upon a funeral procession. It was " the first which she had had the pleas ure of seeing for seven years." ? A iMytofc walking iu the stieo^W of a rnntittT CiWjl 11ms ulfc? i1ii ?.i?j to turn and noticed two doctors ing beside him. He stopped till they passed, and then followed on behind them. "And why this?" said they. " I know my place in this prooession," saifl he. The public yialyst of Sheffield, under the Food Adulteration act, lately testi fied before a comqjittee of the House of Commons. In describing adulterations ? of t#a, he said (amidst much laughter) that he had found Chines^ toe-nails in tea, but he^ did not ognsider or rule that to be au adulteratioif. A young woman who sued for broaafc of promise of marriage in Dubuque, Iowa, 1 >st her case becausa?sho could not produce a written promise from the gay deceiver, as required by the provis ions of the statute of frauds with regard to all contracts. liove letters will here after be at a premium in that State. No one (save a hotel keeper) can have any oonpeption of tho profit made ogt of bridal parties at Niagara. Surah is to full of love to oat, and " Fed?r wick " partakes sparingly while em barrassment predominates. Every moal is merely " looked at "..by iho simple tons, while board at the rate of 84.50 per day goes right along. In some of the vineyards of Switzer land it is a common practice to light largo fires w^th the object of shielding the young shoots of the vinos from the effects of the" sun's rays in tho early morning in frosty woatner, by means of clouds of smoke. During the' recent frosts, another and equally effective method has been adopted ? that is.bv covering the shoots at sunrise witrr paper rolled In the form of n sugar loaf. Two men can protect two thousand plants in two hours. <? Spain and t&e Pretenders. The London TVm'-^refSrinta from the Paris Journal fir* [h hnt* * abatement apparently baaed npon authority to the effect that the German Cabinet in now considering the advisability of permit ting Prince Frederick Charlea, the famtfna leader of afJerman army, to ac cept the^hrono of Hpain. According to thia narrative Prince Biamarck haa beoorae " nneaay at the rivalry aud not very friendly feelinga which hav? long existed between the Prince Imperial-* andhiaoouain," and haa accordingly ang geated to Frederick Charles that he OOOM fiako the flpnniah Crown and MM an "Iberian empire," with Poftngal w a oomponrnt part. Fred erick Charlea, according to the Time*, to Do ** carpet knight," and not " to t>e handled ohl of ti pain " like Amadena. On the oontrary, ne ia " a atom diaci phnarian, with an iron hand, and '*e will reviae the military power of tlie nation and make the Hpaniarda proud of themaeWee and of their Emperor." The Journal det Debaf*, remembering Maximiffan and Amadena, would not ohjeot to aeeing a Prnaaian Prinoe try his fortanee in Hpain. " There ia a proverb," it adda, " that the air of Madrid i*. ao aubtle>hat it killa a man, although it d&ea not put ont a candle." The German Prinoe ia reminded that Napoleon, when aovereign of Europe, fonnd the beginning of the end When he reaohed the Pillars of Hi Prnaaia, which imitates oonqneat, ahooar; lo foltofj daaliny raaaaabling that which < him in Spain, Fraaoa ia not the ooa&tVy ?ithev lo eppaaa or oomplaia.