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NUMBER 18. 'f v tUBUBHMD <faurtU. KYMMY WKDKZ8BAT ^ CAMDEN, KERSHAW C&, S. &, FRANK P. BEARD. Ttrma of ?ub*ortptlon ? <ikyamjaml r xir xpr^jrct) 41 tf&sur* * *151 22:2'^ '? ii <a?aa ea i?wi/?n, ? .?M oT Adrertlalnc t who e4vart<ee ?i* 4w iTm| lta? ?R?r ? ?? i In Oy^-Birtig Ike Litany. ?** rm glad we got 1mm early, Nully ? We're not obliged to lit fewUy * ' jl Behind thoae horrid Smith girl*-well rm glad they go to eoon away. How does thia cushion matchjny drone ? I think it looka quite charmingly. ."3 'Bowed eweetly to the Smiths V Ob! yee [Bespooda] ... 'Pride, vanity, hypocrisy, Good Lord, deliver "I hate those haughty ObwtanayM . rm rare they needntfeel *o fin?, * . A bore ?a all?for mamma aeya 'Their dresses aren't aa nloo an mine. And one's engaged; ag, J out ftr fntx, , iv> | IVi make her jaaluue Uy to ate ' V , Her lover?show her how 'tfadouo- \\ (Beaponda] TronUiatrod, envy, mischief sin, s Good Load, dei^vM- tu.* , r the reator tt to prwch A iaA "Trif Will Qpbly give, nor duty shirk. I hate ?b gtve. Bat then one ninnt, ' Ton Kuow we have a forward seat -, People ean so??they will,1 tmst? , r] 4 From want of charity, deceit, J Good Lind, deliver nr.' f MS yonknpw Mr. Gmy had gone ? . liiat handsome Mr. Rogers, too ? Dear me ! We shall be quite forlorn tf all the men leave?and ho few ! i I trunt that wo with Cupid's darts May oaptnro mwic - let thorn beware ? [Responds] 'Behold the .sorrows pf our hearts, t. And, Lord, with mercy, hoir our prayer!' MAKING UP. " I hate 'om !" " Singular!" " I don't think it singular." *red Traey lit his cigar over again, ana resuuiel his favorite recumbent at- i ? - - titude. Hia Jriend, Harry Blake, kept cm whittling, now and tlion easting won g?rnig glnncws at tlris handsome woman hater. Aftor a moment's silenoe, Harrv p. >V' remarked: " How any man can dislike women, is more than I can tell." ; ^JtamiptedVrod; " yon for-1 get tliat I nd a stepmother, and " "Waa jilted?" ... No, I "?thia with emphaais? uo wrhnan ever jilted me f*' /.!?ut ^hat About jour engagement: with Sua Osmond f Something happen-' horH?"Wiu>ao wan it?yonrs or ' ** If you want to kno*, 111 tell yon, #a*e yon to judge whope fault it! That girl ran away with every hit to I had, for a brief period-only P?nod. Fwdte up one night to ' 1 girt PuppoeoThe baawon perfec .1 did." A very foolish thing to suppose, t > begirt with." n ' ?j 41 W**w I You den't know-what you are talking abou\ For alxntt six weeks after our ougagcinent everything i wa? lovely. Klio was pretty, fascinating, deucedly intelligent and acoomplishe?l; and I spared no paiiiB to take her every. 1 where she wanted to go. My team w'ns *fpt pretty busy i:i those dnys, I ean tell j yoq. Hne couldn't ride i0 ft hired ! ooach; and ns for the enrs or sbige, whv ' bless your heart 1 I should never have i dreamed, in nny emergency, of suRgest- i ing either." * " iI>o you. mean to tell mq that Sue 1 Osmond is such a fcml as that ?" "She'Hover Raid anything about the way she should go; but, don't you see I made ouch an idol of her that I couldn't bear to feel for a moment that she had ?topped outside of her own especial ?phere ?" " Fiddlesticks f" " All riflht. Fall in love yourself and i then see I Well, this was my manner of , treating her. One evening last winter I , was returning from the office. It. was about seven o olock, and it never rained harder since the deluge. It was a cold, aUp]?ery, horrible night, and Jim Haw- 1 kins and I walked straight through the crowd(vl boat., ami stood outside under ?the awning. There weren't but two or three there besides us. I noticed a womau against the opposite side of the window. I raw that she had on an old waterproof cloak, and the hood was d?wn over her hat. Finally, after con siderable squinting at the figure and side faoe of the woman, Jim said, with a nudge: ??'Don't yon know who that is, ? Fred |? - V-. .t f * How^?e mischief shonld I krmw V 1 I asked. ' To" ought to, if anybody. Take ! a good look, now.' ?' ' Just then' the boat touched the dock. t looked, and as sure as I live there stood Sue Osmond, my ladylove! 1 She drew the hood closer over her faoe, and while I was deeiding what to do the ehain was lowered, and Sue wss lost ! among the crowd." The man who hesitates,' you knew." ?, " Yes, I know all abont it. An hour after, 1 called on Miss Osmond. She waa dressed, ready to receive me. I j never saw her eyes so bright; there was an indefinable glitter all over her, and Mr manner wm fascinating t? tho last de gree. After a while said I; , -?v." * <*mld have sworn an hour ago that I saw you on a ferryboat 1' " 'Could your she laughed, without changing color. 'Never swear to per sonal identity. I knew a man who got intoahonrid scrape once by doing*)' Well, it waen't you, was Suef* I aaked. How ridiculous ?he fnswered ? and then with a most unusual touch of defiance in her manner : ?Suppose it waa?what then V " ' Nothing much,'said I; 'only good. , bye, Miss Osmond !' " said she, in the oalmest pos ' ngMMv "'Yaa, truly,' I answered, 'unless you can aeoount saUsfaetorily far amduot ?o questionable 1* " 'So whatV she asked, growing as yrhite as death. *'4 80 questionable,' I repeated. " She rose in a white heat This is .what she said: 4 " ' About seven o'clock this evening I erased the ferry from New York to' Brooklyn ; and I refuse to give any ac count of the circumstance* which marie such questionable conduct necessary. 80 good-bye, Mr. Tracy.' " V What then f" inquired Harry. > " Why,. alio swept out of the room like i a tragedy queen, and I liayen't spoken ' to her nince." / Three weeks, after. Same room, same I company. '* Poor Will Osmond liaa gone," said , ,c. and lxnd a talk with hie widow. Will's health failel immediately after his mar riage, and his father was so angry with j him for marrying his daughter's gov erness, that ho would not do the least tiling for him."' Mr*. Osmond said that if it h<ul not been for Sue they would have certainly starved." She pawned and s:>ld moBt of her jewelry, and managed so skillfully thnt Will wa* surrounded , with every comfort. I found cut some thing, Fred." " What was it ?" " Do yon remember the dote of the night you saw Miss Osmond on the ferryboat? Was it the third of Decem ber r '? Yes, sir !" " Well, that day Sue spent with her _ brother. He was a great deal worse, und she wiih determined, come what wo\Ud, site wonld not leave liim until he was easies. He grew more comfortable, and when she got ready to start for home it rained hard. So she l?orrowed her sister's waterproof and hurried off. Now, what j do you think ?" " That I was a brute, and I'll make it I up this very day." Easing. Scene?parlor in the house of Osmond. Sue Osmond in the library, ! alone. Fred Tracy is announced. " Good evening, Mr. Tracy and S\ie , extends a very steady little hand to her visitor. ? "I have just heard to-day of your brother's death, Miss?Osmond?and? and"? ' j Fred Tracy waa nover known tir utam mer, but now the English language fail- : ed him. ^ j " Will had been ill several months," 1 waa the eafiu answer. " And to think," said Ffced, almost j, " that I should have been sueh j day! I wonder if yWtf cau'evr 1 me?" ? ' ?? CJertaihly," repliad Sue. "I forgave y.-u a long time ago.". " A?g^ 1" whispered .Fi**!. " How can I ever Im> thankful enough !" j. The hands he tried to seise were with- i drXwn as she replied: " By rememl>ering, Mr. Tracy, that (?' no woman worth having will endure the j' high and lofty treatment you attempted | with me ! and that where there is tme ! lore, there is true confidence !" "Sun, dear Sue, what do yon mean? Why are you so cold ?" * j " Mr. Blake !" announced a servant. " Good evening, Fred," cried Harry, . oordially. \ " And how's my little Sue?" "Very well, thank you," eriod Sue, j lovingly. "TWs, Mr. Tracy," she continued, with a deep blush, " is my intended hus band." " How long boa this been ?" inquired poor Frod. " Abotit three months," repliod Blake, ! nonchalantly. " And you allowe<l me to oorae around here and make a fool of myself in this ^ mauner ?" " What manner ? I was delighte.l that you aud my Sue were going to make up and bo good friends again." Before Harry had oonohtded his sen- 1 tenoe Fred was gone. The hall door shut with a bring, and 1 the lovers were alone. Ktinulng In Debt. Jttoroee Greeley onoe wrote : Half the young men iu this country, with many ! o'd enough to know better, would go into . business?that is, into debt?to-morrow if they could. Most poor men are so ignorant as to envy the merchant or 1 manufacturer, whose life is an incessant struggle with difficulties, who is driven ' to oonstant " shinning," and who from J mouth to month barely evade tho insol vency which sooner or later overtakes most men in business; so that it has been oomputed that but one man in twenty of them achieves a peouniary suc cesa. For my part I would rather l?e a : convict in the State prison, a slave in a 1 rice swamp, than to pass through life un- ! der the harrow of debt. Let no man mis judge himself unfortunate, or truly poor, 1 so long as he haa the use of his limbs and fnonlties, and is snl>stantially free from , debt. Hunger, cold, rags, hard work, ; suspicion, unjust reprosch, are disagree able, but debt is inflntely worse than them all. And if it hsd pleased God to spare either at all of my sons to be the support of my declining years, the lesson whioh I should most earnestly seek to impress upo* them mi "Never run in debt." Avoid pecuniary obligations as you wonld peetilenoe or famine. If yon hay* but fifty cents, and can get no ' more fo* a week, buy a peok of corn, parch it, and live on it, rather than owe a dollar I Off course J know that some ! men must do business that involves a risk, and must dive notes or other obliga tions, and I do not consider him in debt i who can lay hia hands directly on the m^rns of paying, at some little saorifVoe, | all he owes; I speak of real debt?that whioh involves risk ov sacrifloe on one aide, obligation fend dependence on the other?and I say from all such, let every youth humbly pray to God to preserve him THE MISSOURI SCHOOLMASTER. A Former Ummtmrn Om^ mm4 Cm. Tln fraa KlWrU. The Kansas City Times tells the to mantio history of a gentleman who is now teaching modem languages in one of the school* of that city: r The Captain Van Atowitz was an offioer in the Russian army in the Crimea. He 7*? ? fTBttUeman of nohle family, resid ing in the provinoe of Veroneta in south era Russia, and in the rontme'of his du- j ties was sent to Sebastopol, and there i became attached to tho staff of the Prinoe Gortsoliakoff, and waa on regular staff duty when he fell into trouble. Hie details of the trouble which ? him into exile were not obtaiualilo, bm this much iB known: A brother officer c*"nnuttad n',breach of dwwpUne. Al P0"06; Th*8 offending officer, who was a captain in the Imperial army, was court martialed for his insubordination snd sentenced to the mines of Siberia for I'fc. To l?e ?ent to that ice-bound region snd to l?e sentenced to work in the sul>- ? tarranean mines is a fate worse than death. So, when the offending officer reoeived his sentence for an oflfenso his ! brother officers did not deem serious, i tuey murmured snd oomplained, snd finally ten or a doaen officers of the Im perial corps at Sebastopol determined to a.ssist their condemned companion* to es He escaped and made his way to Galaty, in the province of Wallachia, and irom thence to Constantinople, whence he is snpi>oeed to have made his way to Bugland. Prince Gort*cliakoff had eafch and all of the ten or twelve officers im plicated in the esoajje of the condemned aaptaiu arrested, and they were tried by o-jurt-martial, and each roceived the same sentence as that of the man they had assisted to ewupe- i>aniHhment for life to Siberia and twelve years hard labor in ' the copper mines. They were each stripped of their uniforms and their prop erty confiscated by the crown and sent as 1 convicts to Toblosk, in Siberia, where ' tl>ey were held for a time prior to their final assignment to a life lal>or. But, fortunately, Captain Atowi'z had j c grandfather who was occupying a verv hijli {tosition upon the Russiau bench a ; eort of supremo judge?in one of the piovinoes. Tins old gentlemen hud mends in Siberia who assisted him in transferring money to his doomed gn&id son, so that it oould be used to advan tage. When the exile received a notifi cation at the fortress of Narim to be reiUly to make his escape when the dbpor AnSL?ffetJ L? tliti not *x*et the noti %? W?rt7-T'wii ofiToefs escaped. Ten of the party were afterward recaptured and shot, two of them escaped. One of these is the Cap- I tam Atowitz. The story of his escape j , material sufficient fur a volume. He j made his way southward to the U?U 1 river and from thence across to thef Volga, and became domesticated for al time among tho Cossacks. In due time I alter many narrow escapeft from identifi- I cation and recapture, he made his way 1 to Germany and settled down to make i a giving. But tho two tyrannical auto- I crate had in force a law which required 1 the turning over or surrender of all |r>- I htical refugees, so the Russian offioer was j obliged to move on. Ho came to America and entered the United Wtates service and received a commission in tho Seventh I rs^w York volunteers, and served during | the war. At the close of tho war he I wont to Rochester, N. Y., and wont into ' business. It was there he met and be- I came acquainted with Professor Green- j w.-od, tho present superintendent of the ! public schools in Kansas City. Hut a j doaire to return to his native land, and j if possible, recover a portion of his con- ! n seated estate, or its revenue, induce<l | hirn to return to Europe. Ho went to I 'iris and thero received some assistance from his parents?his grandmother came \ to reside in Paris j bnt as a discovery of any will being rendered to the escaped ' exile would result in the confiscation of | his granilparonts* estate, he was obliged ! U> leave again. In all this time ho luis lal>ored assiduously for a pardon; but tho <oar turns his face against anv over- ; tu res for pardon of an escaped exile from j Si?>eria. In despair of obtaining a par- | don, the fugitive oxilo returned to Anier ioa, and a- few months ago took up his abode in Kansas City. His former ac- i quaintanoe with Professor Oreenw<sHl superintendent of our public schools] | has aided him somewhat in obtaining ! pupils in several (dosses of languages, j He is a close student, and has nearly perfected a work entitled " Ten Years Exporienoo in America." He hopes to i be able to enlist the aid of the Grand j Duke Alexis in an effort for a pardon and 1 a restoration of the confiscated estates of his family. But whether he succeeds or i fails in his efforts, he will make a goo<l j American citizen, and will l>o welcome I among the people of the go-ahead now ! West, A New Weapon of War. According to tho San Francisco ('hronl- I cfr, another terrible instrument of war has been invented, by a resident of that ? city. The new gun, patented by Leon- | ard and Do Vry, Mnd christened " Peaee 1 Conservator," was exhibited at tho Paoi- 1 fie iron works. The prompt action of 1 the instrument, delivering seventy shots in four seconds, and ten hundred and fifty shot* in one minute, through a thick oak barricade, proves that it is one of the most terrible death dealing inven tions ever known. The' machinery is simple and easily worked, requiring bnt few attendants, who are perfectly pro toe ted from their adversaries' bullets ; ?ud it oan be transjmrted with much greater ease tlian an ordinary six-pounder. 5? '"'Hets from tliis terrible machine T'll!^ diverge 800 feet in 1,000 yards?the distance claimed it which it, will effectually deliver shots? nod the gnn can be easily worked by one person in any direction, or made to shoot* almost solid. T.VSTM? THE UGHTHEKe. H?w a rthrrwri Qm?m ntlrH ? Kill' General Anson Stager, vice-pruaident and Western nfonsger of a telegraph company, used to be a New York State printer boy, and about the time the tele graph got into running order he turned his attention to telegraphy and soon be came an expert at the busineaa. About twenty-five yean ago he waa still an operator, and the ?possibilities of the telegraph were yet in a large mesanre in embryo. At this time Pittsburgh was the general'a headquarters. One bitter oold night he found himself on the cars on the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne railroad. All of a sudden the traih oame after half iao hour had gone oar operator made bold to inquire what the matter was, and was informed that the\>oO?no tive had gone back on them and that they would be compelled to wait at least four hours for relief. "How are we to be relieved?" in quired Mr. Stager. '?The conductor is hoofing it to the next station, nine miles away," was the answer. " Why didn't yon call me?" inquired our operator. "Call yon? What could you have clone ?'* " I would have telegraphed." " Are you an Operator ?" "Yes, sir." " Have you an instrument ?" "No." " Then what good would it have done to have called you?yon can't telegraph without an instrument ?" "Yes, lean," said the ambitious An son ; "and if the oflic.t>rs of the road are willing, I'll mftkc the attempt." It should 1)0 remarked hero that the directors' cor, well filled with dignitaries of the toad, was attached to the train. These were exceedingly anxious to reach Pittsburgh to attend an important meet ing, and the delay was exceedingly an noying to them. Although incredulous to the last degree, they gave the word te "go. ahead,'.'and all of them "stood round " in the bitter cold to witness the exj>eriinent. Detaching several car lengths of the conductor's l>ell rope our operator threw it over the telegraph wire and broke it as near an j>os?ible in the middle between two poles. Having succeeded in thin en terprise he was not a little chagrined to find that the wire was not charged. Nothing daunted, the sanguine tacklod another wire, charged and prepared po act responsive to his desires. He prepared to " mako both ends meet" in more than a metaphorical sense. Securing all the slack he conld he brought tho two ends together, and, by expert touches, succeeded in railing the nearest office. Hf then sent a brief message calling a fresh locomotive to their aid. Tho operator felt considerable confidence that his message had been properly transmittal and received, but lie wonted to be fully satsflod, and how to receive a message in return waa the problem. The sense of hearing, on which the operator had l>een accustomed to rely, failing him for want of an instrument, it was necessary to call some other sense of faculty into requisition, and henoe he de cided on that of feeling or touch, and concluding that tho tongue was tho most sensitive to electricity of all the parts of tho human body, ho ac cordingly up])lied the wire thereto. But this was not entfrtgh. Ground connec tion had to bo established. However, even this want was overcome. The rail mad track was made to do duty, and did its work remarkably well, though it was cold comfort for our operator to hold on to the rail in the nipping frost with the bare hand. Hut he inado his circuit, and ns lie held the end of tho wire to his tongrto he soon felt the shocks, and was thus enabled, through actual impres sion, to read what the operator nine miles away was putting on tho wire. Meanwhile tho conductor was trudging his way along, but before he had gone half tho distance to tho station ho was met by tho locomotive hurrying to the rescue. Ho was utterly confounded and not a little terrified to soo tho monster b K>ining along, and made frantic efforts to bring it to a halt by placing himself directly in it* path on tho track and swinging his arms for dear life. He suc cored in attracting tho engineer's atten tion, and as soon as he came within speaking distant* he wanted to know " what in blazes ho was doing on the track on his time ?" " Been oallod," was tho answer. " Who called you ?" " Been telegraphed for by a broken down train some five miles along here. The super intendent himself sent the order." The conductor now found himself in a regular fog, but got on the looomotive, and when he reached the train he iost no time in seeking light. 44 It Might Ifare Been," Hometiines what a dreamy, far-away picture of tho beautiful " had been " it calls up in your memory, when you have loved a fair, young girl with all the fervor and pas sionate ardor of * a manly nature, when your very soul has oaught the to? spiration of her presence, and her faca has been for you the realisation of aH that WM tender, 'fair and pure, and when the lose of this prise has swept over your heart like a sirocoo of agony and left it dry and bitter and hard, ten years after to look over au alley fence, when hunt ing for your runaway boy, and nee her in the l>aok yard of a corner grooery, with s draggled oalieo dreea pinned up ov s red flannel petticoat, a man's hat pe '? <*1 on her head, and strttehing a flapping shirt over a line, white aha holds two clothespins between her teeth. Partington ?fou>Aeye. r*0K ??ill OF DEATH. ? H?w Fatly Looking at the Broadway, the Bowery, tho Canal Gintre street* of 1877 it is not easy to before all the stories that old New tbrkmtf iell about them. Yet some, at leant, w these stories ore borne out by duot^Uprtirj evidence still exist ing and eoewlblk On Chrisjriy evening, in q little family party, Ate* correspondent of a New Tod pdper, it was my good fortune to meet on? of jtbe famous l>elles of the Bowery?a bellfq? Seventy-six years now, but as brighyAeeiful and talkative an old ladj aa qfre need wish to meet The oouvera?tijn turned on the New \ O&nlc ?horjrjn. j : " said, i* that everybody "?" to this centen nial year abo?the old time?. - They havejrevivecTMgreat many things?the old msakets, t&.old ?;hurclus m,.l thea ters, sad the <$u fortune teller (FriuiciB Drake):of tjMovery. But I haven't seen a wohl aPWie the * Colic ' (Collect ?) aa it whs wdledEonCiiual street, or about the murderer win fed it with the blood of the innooef$. I sm one, or, rather, Insed to be ofee of the Bowery belles, so I kllow a great many things that hap pened in thodpUayp?,ver sixty years *3?. : " This ?CWfej'. was a deep, muddy ditch, which Wa? said to have no bottom. Why they oafed *-'the 'Colic'I never heard. XhejAwa* a wooden bridge for people to rrJjk aMTws on. It was at the corner oTwhaf in now Canal and Center itreeta, iFl remember right. It w:is the torifor*' the wliolo region. Broadway was^he old main road, but ? people often liairto oross the Culvert bridge to go to and from work, day ami right.- old and deserted brewery nearwhich on anvil and other blacksmith tools had been placed. The blacksmith ww a negro, by the name of Iamael IVaiaer: He jjfks a large, poworful man, and cstobliAed this shop,' aa it afterward apj reared, to disguise his real occupation. Down under this old | brewery or blaoksnujh shop, there were dark oellar?j wliero black -and white ruffians li?M with their families. "For a long timti citizens kept disap pwiring one after another, but 110 one ' o mid discover hoy they went, or what I became of them> Tne negro had a sav age dog that ho had trained until it knew I nearly aa touch as n man, mid this dog was id wigs by his i lido. Fruiser would wait for Bfa viotima^ln the dark on that old bridge. The mud and slime beirt^h ; ^rif4jjj|ind natnrethat tho WO T i| ,-1, ?|p, W|, in,u mm. a pole handy in the shadow, of the bridge with wliicli to push i^lpwpuiul'r. "For a long tiinew jpie inspected him. He worked at hie trade in tho day timo, and regarded aa an honest in dustrious man/ But at last the mystery of these frequent disappearances wo* clearod up by tlie finding of the body of a poor, hardworkipfr girl named Polly Richardson, y v, ? <la*^ stormy fright when poor Polly; the seamstress, sorted across tliat dismal bridge on the way back to her humble home, where her old pn rentawero atixioualy awaiting her. Sud denly a wild sliriek waa heard above all \ tlio roar of the tempest. The whole neighborhood ?as alarmed. In those days there were only a few Watchmen in j tho ciiy, Lanterns were procured, and the men ruKeflfout to see what was tho matter. The fratehman joined them. '' A? they toned to the bridge a large, dark figure w*? ifeen to run from the pool and disappear into the old black smith shop. The men hurried to the bridge andifcare they found the lifeless binly of p6or Bolly in a pool of blood. Tho villain,.after striking her down, had stripped he* of everything.' He had actu ally cut off her ears to get the earrings, as lie had not time to take them out. Her body quickly removed to a place of safety, a?l then it was found she was not dead. The men returned to the bridge mid tl#re found the pole. "After a desperate straggle the negro waa capture^. The party found on his premises Po!ty?s watoh, chain, ears and oirrings, and her clothes, money, and a bundle of ?w>rk she had rolled up to tako home, Jjfolly finally recovered and told all she jfoew. A search of the pool was rosol v (jdnpon. Body after body was dragged fc^lhe surface. Fraiser was tried, oondMU aud .sentenced to' i>e J hango<l. People from all parts of the city and HUb* floeked to see the hang ing. He SM without revealing the names of Ay Of his aoeomplioes. " In thos4 days it was the custom to clip the efia of dishonest people, so that a this! {night be known at sight. Polly's fattpr laked the court to have all the facts pipt In the oourt records; and I tlris was i*" A Court Scene. The IJfdilmure American nays : Dur ing the tw of a case in the criminal tieMent ooenrred that almost produoed flpanio. The courtroom was crowded Spectators, several of whom w?M standing on a raised plat 'orm, Bn ?Pen grate. One indiSgual got ao near the stove that his coal tJH took Are from the burning M ^ f?lt tho fire in his MW be an one look behind, took in the situation Iftja glanqe, and made a spring that d^ne honor to an acm TtM^nse^tnence was that a num iflfconw were knocked down, while otifn, -thinking that the floor hotl "y, or some other serious aoci ma<Wfcfor the door. The WtAMfin was general for a few f>t when the real nature of the 'HvnirrenMbsoame known, qniet was re *t"re<l. JHe men with the burning coat never et^^ed until he reaohed a snow he plnngefl. He went, in in a nb|k eoat, but name out with a ?he* A Drunkard's ('onfmHloo. I am forty-eight yearn old, ami have been a drunkard, of mure or less effi ciency, for thirty year* of that time. I never knew the time I didn't tiko the ta><te of whisky; and, having inherited a constitution peculiarly susceptible to al coholism, it required less indulgence than is generally the case to fasten the i habit on me. Almost my entire life has been a constant struggle, a succession of sinnings and repentances. I come of an indomitable race; am possessed of tho ability to insure suocess, aud yet this oue weakness lias kept me steadily poor and often degraded, and always passing for looa than I am worth. While 1 oould thrust my right arm in the tiro aud hold it there without flinching, if there were any need for it, I have been u -nble to resiit the subtle influence wlHeh im pels me to drink. Believing that there ii no cure for dnmkeuness?that once a drunkard a man will die a drunkard, unless he hap pily dies in ouo of his periodical spells of sobriety?I know that the disuse inav be kept under partial control, and for the benefit of fellow sufferers w?. give them ray experience. Twelve years ago the habit culmi nated in my case. About every two or three months I would go on a "ben der," drinking day and night for a week, until the system beciMue bo sodden with alcohol that further drinking was a physical iinpowibility; then I would *iuit and spend tluve or four duvs in such horrible torment as bafllcs description. A strong physical organization carried me through these terrible debauches, and out of each datxmch I would come weighed down with a terrible burden of remorse, and ashamed to l(x>k mv friends in the fuee. I have often sneak ed through a dark alley to avoid meeting a friend. Realizing that there was no cho:eo save between suicide and reform, I determined tot make a more earnest eftort than 1 had heretofore done toward tho latter. The first useful lessoif I laimeil was not to give up entirely after a slip. I not only manage 1 to exteud the interval!) of sobriety, but shortened the duration of the debauches, and mitigated their sc ver'ly by taking smaller drink*, and be iug more e;. ,.ul as to tho quality of the whisky. The longest period of total ab stinence was two years and four months, but of late years my sprees have been toned down to very moderate indulgen ces of two or three days. Formerly I lost all consciousness during u debauch, and on coming out of oue was in con stant terror for a week or two lost I should be accused and convicted of,lur rf*bt*y mxk W4-4rt?ly I have never lost oonscionsusia, andhrarl managed to keep myself out of pnblic ' view more than pnblic men generally do. I foel tliat lam on "gaining ground,", and thank God for it. There is no cure for drunkenness save total abstinence; but ono of your corre spondents has advauced a theory which ! is, at least, impregnated with truth? ! that of giving tho patient nerve food. ? Drugs are u sol ess, except as tnmj>orary ' expedients, but whatever tends to re- ! habilitate tho sliattered nervous system will give tho patient strength to resist, snd strength to recover from the fall without^.i.ig to*the bottom. The nse of tobacco in any form is a bar to reform from insobriety. On? of the best helps to total absti- i nence is a church connection. I have never yet found oonrage enough to avail myself of this protection; and yet I know I it is the most }?otent means of restraint. ! I have in my mind just now three promi nent citizens of this place who have j come up from the deep beyond the low er deep of drunkenness by tho aid of i church influences. One of them has not j t-mched a drop in twelve years. The other two have each had two lapses in ' that time, but quickly rooovered Pro- | vious to their reformation they absolutely i wallowed in the gutter. From drunkards and drinking men i must come tho only Miggostions which I can assist in effecting a cure for intem peranoe. Non-drinking temperance peo- ? pie are usually narrow mindod, bigoted j fools, who saw away upon their single string until thoir song becomes as mo notonous as the drone of an Irish bag pipe. Many of them are bloodless crea tures who havA.no oapooity for this par ticular rtin, and hence are incapable of understanding it. They fancy that a drnnkjfrd craves liquor as s hungry man 1 craves food; whereas the seftt of the ap- 1 petite is in tlie brain and nervous sys tem. * It is easier to prevent the makiug of ! drunkards than it is to reform them, i Drunkards are made by the want of | knowledge as to the effects of liquor drinking. Young men should be tanght! that excessive drinking breaks down their brain cells, and enfeebles tho will to such an extent that it is impossible to refrain after liquor is onoe tested. Drinking )>efore breakfast is the deadliest practice of which Americans aro guilty. Alcohol upon An empty stomach is terribly destructivo. If peo ple will drink they should also make it a point to eat as they drink. The Oer- j mans understand this, and you always j find them nibbling cheese, pretzels, caraway seeds and salt. Bait seems to be a corrective of alcohol. Periodical drunkards ahonld enoourage the habit of taking small drinks while on a spree. The propensity is to get it all ?to fill the glasa.no matter if it is as big as a ohnrn. But a spooonful satisfies just as well, and at the and of a night's ' debauch the difference will be plainly manifest. Bryan, a London head waiter, has fallen heir to ?5,000 by the death of an uncle in India. When they told him the news i he was serving aoup to an old gentleman, and in hia joy he npaet it on hia shirt front. The gentleman kioked him, ami Bryan had him arrssted for assault. , " Jojr has it ftonow." (JwyniphlMl Distribution of Hall. In a paper in Petermanu's Mittfiell unr/cn Professor H. Friti treats of the geographical distribution of hail. He refers to onr comparative ignorance of the origin at J peculiarities of thi> ap pearance of haL^ of tlie waut of a long series of observations on tlio subject, anil iu those that do exist of the frequent confounding of hail and granpel?the balls of true hail having an icy struc ture, whereas the balls of graupel are only small pellets of snow. The latter he shows falls in all latitudes and at nil heighta; while hail is mainly confined to middle latitudes. In liigh latitudes and in tropieal valleys, liail is u rare phe nomenon. Professor Fritz brings to gether for comparison observations on the subject made in various quarters of the fflobe, the statistics being, as juight be expected, fullest iu the case of Eu rope. The following are some of his conclusions from those data : He infers chat hail occurs whenever the moisture of the atmosphere is precipitated in very great quantity as rain or snow, and that hail phenomena correspond to the amount of this excess of precipitatiou. With increase iu latitude uud in height the fall of graupel increases and that of hail decreases, while hailstones of large size are most frequent toward the equa tor. Hut since in the lowlands of the tropica hail little known, the regions of the most frequent and especially most t'ent motive hailstorms t>elong to the middle latitudes, while in high anil low latitudes hailfnllH of large stones are ex ceptional It appears, then, that no re gion in which an excessive rainfall oc curs is secure against hailstorms, if only the height of fall is sufficient to al low of the formation of hail. In high 1 it it tides and in high tablelands the ver tical distances to the atftiospberic strata with temperature below zero are small, and therefore more snow and grau]>el will fall tliuu hail, while in the middle and low latitudes this distance, especial ly in summer, ia great enough to allow of the formation of large haijstones. North and smith of the >,ono of calms the hail fall becomes more frequent and reaches its maximum between forty dc gvees and sixty degrees of latitude. The vu'Teuts of the atmosphere and the for mation of the land masses have also an intiuemo on tl. distribution of hail. A satisfactory solution of the liuil question can, however, only be obtained by com plete series of observations, the details for each station being given separately, and the distinction between true hail and granpel being attended to. The Engineer*' Union. 4'4Th* BrMWllood. of LocomotiveEu JgttHHtr,?tftM nfi Ill Hill sylvania railroad round house in Jersey (Jity, recently, " has about 18,000 mem* bers, who work on the various railroads of the Unito.l States and Canada Wost. Our fund in bonk, drawing interest, is fully #115,000. Our affairs \re superin tended by Poter Arthur, who is salaried, and has headquarters in Cleveland. He was formerly an engineer iu excellent standing on the New York Central rail road, and he knows how to manage for our benefit.. Every engineer paya for dues, if he belongs to the life and health assyjing societies, about $70 u year. If ho becomes incapable of working through piokness, an amount equal to his pay when working regularly is given him every month by the health assuring society. If ho dies hie heirB receive 83,000 in money from the life assuranoe society. Hesides, there is a permanent fund for the widows and orphans of engi neers. "Every year-the convention of tho Brotherhood makes an appropriation to increaso it. It is also increased by the yearly profits of the Locomotive Knyi nccr?' Journal, published by the Broth erhood, and subscribed for by them in dividually at tho rate of 81 a year. En gineers, ns a rulo, cannot withstand the effects of moro than twenty-five years' service on a locomotive. Tho oonstant exposure to frequent and strong changes of temi>erature. the jolting of tho loco motive, and tho inhalation of the gas of the coal are moro than the average engi neer oan long endnre. Engineers save littlo of their pay, being usually gener ous to a fault." Didn't Take the Hint. The Chinese are an imitative raoe. An American lady recently came to that con clusion after a singular experience on a railroad train, which the New Haven Union takes pains to relate. There wore two seats in tho oar turned so as to face eaoh other. One was occupied by tho lady and the other by a Chinaman. The lady did not relish tho presence of her companion, and finally explained to him that she would like to take the cushions and place them lengthwise from seat to seat. John said "all righteo," and stopped into the aisle while she adjusted the cushions and stretched herself upon tho bed which she had improvised. Bhe evidently supposed that the Chinaman would tako it for granted that his pres ence was no longer desired, and that she wanted tho exclusive privileges of the soction. Not so. He stretched himself by her side, with his head on a little bundle of baggage. The lady scram bled into the aisle and l>olted out of the car, much to tho edification of the pas sengers who had been watching tho scene. John turned oyer, readjusted his pillow, and slept the sleep of tho sleepy. Twenty years ago there was a fight in Josiah Field's family, in .lilten, Mass.; and immediately afterward a son disap peared, who, it wss reported, had run away. Lately the honse was searched, somebody having given important infor mation to the authorities, and the miss ing son was found concealed in a room. He was idiotio, and ia supposed to have been rendered so by a blow on the head in tha fight. JOB PRINTING. Tto Uuirri vAot M o?p?hU of proaaptlj 1*4 ??'lj umMbi ill atyUa of Job Prtnttui ?? Ut yWNt tenU, it?44<n? r^ni?, Ball TU*+t?, (Vmilmrm, fl> !?>?, Humlbillm, tfmtrm, n+Jgrrm, /V?j. .mmri, Iu abort, w* b?*? the pr?aa?? ud matorUl for : ftlittiK an) ordrr which n>?j b?glT?D itf. 1 Wr ?ollcil ? trlftl. Mars ana IhUsle*. The dt?r* are tinv daixio* high Opening and *Sutfing in the sky ; While dkirioo are the Ktar* below, Twinkling and sparkling aa they grow. The ntarbudi blomtotu in the night, And love the niooun calm, tender light; Hut daii-te? bloom out in the day, And watch the strong *nn on its way. Items ??r Interest. There were 55*2 suicidcs in the United States in 187C. Clergymen, 341, lawyer*, 1,048, is Boston's present record. George Eliot eays it is the \\Hut of mo tive that makes life thill nnd men feel old. Says the Wliitehnll Thnrn : Anv bimi ueip man may ruu in debt, but he can't run long after ho gets in. Mr. Moody said: "If Noah had waited for a commits to build the ark, the keel wouldn't have been laid to this day." Now, then, says the Franklin (Ky.) Patriot, if a fellow oould only snowball with his hands in his pockets we'd Uike a baud in it. Insults, says a modern philosopher, are like counterfeit money. We cannot hinder their bein*^ oflVrwl, but we are not compelled to take them. The happiest moment in the lift- of a girl is when she is in possession of a lover, a chair that holds two at once, and a pa who trusts to her experience. A French tourist, on ? visit to the Centennial last summer, wrote home : "Americans live well up to their income, anil insure their lives for the balance." The town of Wales, in Maine, by no means remote from civilization, ha* man "god to get along for fifteen years with out doctor, lawyer, minister, or pauper. A servant who plumed herself upon being employed in a genteel family was asked the definition of the term. "Where they have two or three kinds of wine, < and the gentlemen swear," was tin' reply. They tell of a New England family burial ground, in the four corners of which sleep the four successive wives of one man, while a marble tombstone, in the center of the plot is n fleet ionatclv inscribed : "One Husband. Kate Henderson, one of the contestants ill a pedestrian match in Lansing, Mich., was whipped several times by her hus band to compel her t;> continue walking. At length she informed the spectator.*, and they had the husband arrested. When I)r. Mary Walker was in Halt Lake, says the. Norristown J/era Id, Brigham wanted to mako her the I*0??0*! He said he " j wanted on? wfle'Vftosw nKtySttmim xnnxlU ^ j be cut down and mode overt Vor his boys. The two largest checks ever issued are the one for one million of pounds which Sir Arthur Guinness received on retiring from the tirm of which he was a mem ber, and flie other a chcck on the Bank of Nevada for five million dollars drawn by Flood ? O'J^fen. James Gordon Bennett has sent n $500 check to La CroBse, Wis., as a personal contribution to the two little girls of the late Mark H. Kellogg, the special corre spondent of the New York Jfrrafd, who was killed by the Indians at Ouster's Little Big Horn slaughter last year. The Freemasons of England support three charities, one of which pays an nuities to aged Masons and widows, while the other two aro schools for children of Masons, one for boys and one for girls. The sum contributed Inst year for their support was over $195, (XX). An agricultural weekly discusses " What Men Need Wives For." Any ordinary person who has poked his head from under the bedclothes on a frosty morning and listened to the melody of his wife's ax on the wood shed floor will have no trouble in an swering that inquiry. The bride in a wedding in Lexington, Ky., was ninety years old, the groom being ten years younger. She wns elalmrately dressed, and the ceremony was witnessed by relatives enough to crowd a church. Five generations were represented, and a representative of the fifth, a four-year-old lw>y, presented her ? at tho altar with a basket of orange blossoms. A poof Womifti went to the French wnr office to Obtain some news of her son. The clerk searched tho records and as certained he was dead. The poor woman commenced to cry, when the clerk told her such was not allowed in the office, that his information was private, but that, in a few days, she would receive ? letter announcing the fiujt, with every form of regret. Bays the Burlington Ifair/crt/r; A North Hill man, who only measures five feet three inches when ho strotehes so that his joints orack, has a son who is flvo feet seven when he is feeling slouchy. And it would make any woman's heart ache with sympathy to sefl that, boy's mother sit by tho hour, with the scissors in one hand and a pair of her husband's tronsers in the other, trying to in like them over for her son. Tho inlsnd ice in Greenland in now en croaching on tho land, though lit one time it appears to have covered many portions of tho country at present bare. This advance and retreat of the inland ice may be due to change of climate, to the rapid advance of the ice from the in terior, or to the rise and fall of the land. There are traditions that a great inlet onee stretched across Greenland not far from Jakobshavn, us represented on some of the old maps, but that it lino ?too now got ehoked up with consolidated bergs. In former times the natives use*I U speak of pieces of timber drifting out of this inlet, and even tell of people coming across; and stories yet linger among them of the former ooourrcnce of ?neh proofs of the openness of ths inlet.