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NUMBER 35. 5Flw ??slww PUBLISHED MYMMY WKDJOtSDAT AT '' ?AMDEN, KERSHAW p6.,S. 0, FRANK P. BEARD, I Terms of Hubcorlptlon < ' UMTAJUAMLT ttf ADTAMCM.) * i ? ? ? 1 Of ' Om taah eaaatttaMS I MMt*. 'Literal nt? rrlitil Uom (or throe, ?ls or ImIiIwA, rr All bills KtlHrtw; ttaM kftor At* iv PMMMOf ?lll HMWIlilt, Ml? ???? * o looking 'degrading to e" large tear* gathered for bis eye# a* tho goutlo voice ?ko the worts that told him tho strongest hope of liis life wac grnaBod forever. The room wkh Hiicut after Maggio spoke, and a strong hoart wrestlod dumbly with it* great agony ; a tender one sought for words of com fort and relief. When Maggie spoko again, her own pretty eyes were inoiat, and a tremor wan In her low swoot voice t - " Bellevo mo, Goorge, I never droamod of t his. for so mauy yoars, evor since I was a littlo girl, yon have bocu^o like a brother that I have given you a sisterti love and did not think you wished, for any other. Oeorge," the -?auJinnod, piteonsly, " tell n)e you do not think I have beou trifling with you, vor willingly wounded tbo noblest, truoat and beat heart in tho world." "Darling," said George, hoaraely, "I know you havi not. It waa my own blindness, my own great love that doooirod me. Toll mo, Maggie, thc#B no hope toe no hi the future, " a Mother, yo?. The answer came slowly "hnd tenderly: "I au tho promised wifo of Edward Glover." Tho room reeled before George's eyes; then by a groat effort, he straightened himself, and oontrollod his voice to speak : " Ho is worthy, Maggie, even of your love. May heaven grant you overy happiness!" and as he Kfoke, ho. softly touched the raven hair of Maggie's b< nt head with his lips, and left her. 8ho went to her own room crying softly. It was aeore pain to her to kuow that GeoTgo loved her so deep ly. Thoro was iA thought of the girlish triumph ovor a now conquest, for Maggio had not one spark of coquotry in her simple nature. No pain of her happy, innocent life had be?i so great as this sympathy and rogrot for George. Hhe was but a mere chili whou her undo had takon Qoor,;o into his household to study medi siue with him, to become, in conrse of time, as dew to him as a son. Ho was not entirely do pondent on his profession, having a sniall in como Inherited from his father. To Maggie her unole's bonne had boen a sooond home since she was a child. Bitinted about two miles from her father's rosidence, the dintanoo had been considered too great in lier rhih'hmd for two walks in tho day, so that a visit to hur uncle's was usually of two or threo days' dura tion. Hhe was tho star of tho whole house hold, from her unelo to tho houtekouper, and even down to tho office l>ov, who considered her a littlo angel. George's arrival gave tlie damsel a now admiror in tho strong, rough lad, whose ringing voioo woke the eeh?es of tho quiet old house, as her silvery laugh and low, swoet tones had never done. It wan ploanaut to moo how (he young nature# controlled each other in their frank, pleaaant intercourtio. It wan George who conquered Magglo'n timidity, and made her a foar'.eaa horaowoman, who wakened lier from dreamy roverlea lo roalitiett of life, turned her tender aynipathioa to practical charitleH, and l<?d Iter up to higher and nohler aims in lifo limn Iter shrinking goutlenoHf* would have over Kought nl me. It wki* Maggie who taught George to 'aofteu IiIh rou?,-h, rather uncouth mnnnerrf, and pora'taded him that c?mrto*y wnn no want of and ||tiitk'ii4?i i(tlplicdllo tr6xktK>iM. Hut while (loot-go watt allowing hitt wliolo heart to become liound np in M.iggie, giving her the entiro dovotiou of hitt life, making her returning love for every exertion, every act of ftclf'H&criflco, dreaming of Ida fnturo aa only a lifetime of loving care for her, Maggie regarded him aa only a brother and kept ber heart untouched till Edward Olover earn? to olalm it. Me waa but a visitor at the village where Maggleapcnt her happy life ; hut in hia brief summer aojonrn ho won the heart for whoae lovo Goorgarwould have given Ida life, and in the apririg eaqte to carry Ida bride to hia city home. pi In the library, whori George Goodwin had pokou hia lovo tele to Maggie, tliero were Koated, eight veara later, an old gentlouian and a young, fair lady in deep mourning. " Your mother mu?t have miaaed your letter, Maggie," Dr. Eaat aaid. " Hhe would never have loft home oxpocthig your return." " I found my lost letter unopened on her table. All waa ao andden at the laat, uncle, k Edward waa ao well whin I wroto before, that I do not think tho.ldo* of my return occurred to her. It ia ao lonely at homo, I came at onco to you, hoping to atay till father and mother rotnru. " You know, dear child, how glad ( am to ! havo you with mo. Mangle, thero in aomotbing j to ?M1 you *# did not ?rite of, thinking it I would only griovo yon. Ooorgc i<aa been deep Jy afflicted." '4 George ? Ho la horo, in he uot V" "Alwaya. I will tell you all. Yon heard noon after your arrival In Italy, did yon not, of the dreadful accident at the now bnllding Jn?t out of tho village? Many were killed and wonnded hy tho prematura fall of a largeqnan tlty of brick and mortar. Every one haatoned to tho apot to aid the aufferera, mippoatng all danger -waa over. Oeorgo wont down to the bull-ling, auperiutended tho removal of the ?n fortunate wounded, and I received them In the long Htonertnttot'a ahed above, and dreaaed their wonnda. All waa removed but tho dead, and Oeorge waa atill in the balldlns when a ?eoond fall oarae that horrified na air" " Oh, onde ! Oeorge?" ?' He wm taken up lhaenalble. Apparently M? Injortea wore alight, but a* he recovered OonaclOMne** we found ft blow upon W? head with the nervous shook, bad total!* Oo hia eycigbt." ot incurably/" "Yoi, deer. Every effort skill could *ug or moo or procure hu been made. Wo had the advice of the first surgeon* iu oountry, and all remediet have been faith tried. All ha* been in vain. Be U hope Mind." Maggie's tear* were falling so fMt she could ?peak t and her unoJe continued : "He bear* his trial with fortitude, but it la a giief none can appreciate, eioept under similar u. Hush ! ho la coming." Don't ujl am here. I cannot apeak to yet," whispered Maggie, riadng softly and a aeat in a farther corn or of [the room. Where the watched George'a entrance with -painful earnestness. e same in' very ato^r, his arms ont * ed, and bis step uncertain. Maggie to offer bcrumpport,, but could not con - , her voice to speak. ? -VJ Ate you hare, Dr. East?" Georg^asked ; and tho deep, sweet voje^Wt^k*pon Maggie's mr. ?, ? , , Y "lam here, in my old place." w ? "Let me find my chair, ^h! herd it is;" and he sank down wcAlly.in tbvtfalU # { " I hare glafi but sflll sad news for ??you," as id Dr. East. ? * m "Had and glad ! Now* from Abroad?" "Yes. The sad news of Edward Glover. He diod in Italy last month.'' . " And Maggie i* coming home, that in your 'glad new a?" ? " Yes. Poor Maggie 1" ??Thero wan a doep silence. Then G?oigo spoko in a meditating tone, aw if following aloud a train of thought : ' Better to ho i widowc 1 than to have beoff burdened an alio : would have been, had my lifo been messed an , ' I once hoped. May heaven bleu* and ooinfort I i licr in her sorrow "You loved li# very' trhly, George ?" " I lovelier while life remains. I oan never I cease to lovo Maggio. When is sho coining I home, doctor i" -| " Sho has come." "But ljer parents arc away." "She is here, Georgp."* It was painful to^oe how tlio sad, Yaee of tho | aftlietwl mail lighted up a* ho beut forwanl , eagerly, his band* ^outstretched and his fea- | turns working with emotion. "Here, ho.e, I Maggie!" He had forgotten his blindness, her j widowhood, everything, but the fact that j Maggie was uoar hin? "I cannot seen you, Maggio, darling," lio said, with omotion. " Speak to me." She camo softly to him/her fcoars falling fast. " Oh, Maggio 1" he remarked, " I have no word tooomfort your sorrow." "And your affliction, (loorge, 'she replied, " is a ndlr ao/row to me." They talked to gether for a oonsiderablo time. Thero was much to tell by both parties, and oach sym pathised with the other for tho sorrows which had fallen upon thom d iring their separation. It was not long before Maggio had found her old place in the homo cirolo as if sho had nover loft it. To George a now and perhaps happior lifo had opened. Maggie again waa his sweet, tender, loving hoartod aistor. It waa Maggie who drovo hhn out in tho carriage; "it ' who Mm. saim for travels. Maggie had openod a drawer in George's desk, searching for aomo ^jipora ho wished to sco, wlieu sho said, suddenly : " What arc all thoso looso papers, Gcorgo ? Thero aro an immensity of pages." Ho ropliod, very sadly: "That is the WTeck of my ambition, Maggie." " Toll mo abont it!" "You cannot realhw tho temptation thero is for a student of medicine to dovoto all his energy to some special branch of the profes sion, and to study all that l>ears ujiou It. It was my fancy that I could givo my follow students some valuablo information upon dis ! eases of tho brain, and I lind written what yon | seo when my labors were stopped and I became | the useless log I am now." " Bnt tho book, GeoTgo; havo yon for | gotten it ?" "Forgotten/ Nover! It is eloarer and j more distinct in my darkoned lifo than cvcrl>e fore. My mind,* in my solitary hours, has i dwelt on each phrase of the various treatment I of tho diseases till I find, my blindness a :nis j fortune for others as great as for myself." "But, George, why should you ecaxo your ' work? Cannot you dictate to mo V" ' " Maggie, is it right to tie you down to such j drudgrry V" I ''It will not bo drudgery. Let mo arrange , tlioiu) papora now, and read thetu to you, and | you can contiimo the work to-morrow." " I know it In aclttrtli, but tlio temptation in I too groat. Maggie, yon are >ny guardian j angel !" ? The work prngrflmted rapidly, and I)r. Kant ; watebed witli loving gladnetta tbo chango in ) I Oeorgc. Maggie wrote for bim, and read tbo I extract* bo dictated, entering with Iter whole i heart into the work. [ A year pawned away from tbo day tbo work i waa commenced before it waa ready for tbo | preaa, and they were rewarded at In at bv a j package containing tlio handnonuly bound j volume. Maggie waa in the library alone when Dr. ' Eaat entered with the lx>ok. 1 "Look at it, Maggie darling, while I find I George." "lam here, doctor," naid Clourgo, entering. " I/Ot me fuel it. Maggie, doar, )>leaHe read me tbo title page." Hlowly abo road the page, evon to tbo fignroa that announoed the date of pnblication. "1804," Hbo aakl, na if pondering. " It ia leap yoar." O?orgo looked up. Deapito hia hlindiieaa bo bad never loat tbo habit of turning bin face to ward any object of intereat. Now hia faco waa pale, eager and yet radiant. "I/oap year," Maggie continued, "when ladiea may offor their hands to gentlemen. Georgo, will you take mine ?" ? " Maggie, dp not mock mo. You are young, lieantiful and wealthy. What am I ?" "What you are to others," aaid Maggie, "let J the tiuivoraa) love and respect you meet toatifv. | What yon aro to mo I can never tell yen. Yon J love mo, George ?" " With my whole heart and soul?" ??Lot your love, then, read mine." | "Ob I Maggie - Maggie, can it bo true? You ! love ma, blind, helploaa, nucleus "? j "Hnah! Cleorge." j "You are my eye?, my flngera, my inapira i tion!" "Then you will have mo?" hai<l Mi^gin, merrily. " I have no annweryoi." I>r. F.aat slolo Koftly away, bto?Mii>K thorn In hit? heart am Iw did audibly wltvia tho wedding day oamo For Uioy ware married, and tho honeymoon hax not yet waned. Ills Wife #?ng Wretchedly. Two yonng Imlieit wore on<*o Ringing a dnot in a concert-room. A atmng^V, who Iiiul howil tatter performance*, tnrno?l to hfa neighbor, Maying : " Dooe not tho ledy in white aing wretchedly ?" " Rxomm mo, fir, I aoAroely feel myaolf At liberty to oxpremi my eentimonte; she id my eintor." "I beg yonr panldn, ?far," nmtwovod lie, in in nob eonfnaion. " I moan tho lndy in bine." " Ton Are perfectly right there," replio<t the neigh bor. " I have often tohl her no mynelf; iihe i? my wife," A I<ONtt SIGHT OF AOOXY. 1 PraMfBtr Htraillf for l.llc wllU n Knud ) ? or MaHfrrn. "A Londou correspondent of the Hew York World writes as follows : The natives of the South Sea Islands should either be speodily brought under th* influenoe of Christian civilization or suf fer extirpation. Tift latest cose of hor ror which reaches us from this section of the world is the massacre of part of a crew belonging to a Melbourne vessel, the particulars of which have been fur Jlishgd by a%>rre?pnd0it of an Austra lia paper. / ;<-r It appears jtyiat in Jauuaiy the schooner Don gins, with a crew of ten white men, including officers, left Cairns for Cliiloot island, lying two hundred | miles to the east, to tuke iu a load of I guano. On Ihe passage the vessel stop M>ed off Drink island and sliipi>ed thrde natives, who boarded the Douglas from i a canoo. On arriviug at Chiloot, a small i detached, uninlmbifed island, a brig be 1 leugiug to the sanv* owners was found j there parthdly loaded. A member of the firm*who had gone out with the schooner decided that, oh there was uot t native labor enough to screen the guano ' as rapidly asdetired, he would return with , Lhe brig and fill up her cargo \^th cedar ! at the Daiutree. In the presence of the ' three natives shipped at Drink island, nearly all the anus belonging to the^ ^chooner were transferred to the brig, aud the latter sailed on the mon^ig of the fifteenth. The arms, it may be said, were tuken because the Daiutree was known to swarm with treacherous in habitants, and no one dreamed that the natives on the remaining vessel would undertake the murder of more than three times their own number. . A hut -hnd beei^freotcd on shore for the storage of ^ter and provisions. Early itP the night this hut was occupied by, two white men named Cochrane and Mcin tosh, and two of the natives. The latter seemed cheerful and lnrjtfPy, * mid the whites were under no apprehension of danger. Watching their opportunity tho two natives stealthily approached their vietiinrf and dispatched them with an Instrument known as a half ax. Re taining their weapons, the murderers swam off to the vessel. The whites were all sleeping iu fancied security, and not a soul was on tho nlert save tho third native, who waited tho ooming of his fellows. Softly they stole about their bloody task. Two of the whites were Bleeping on dock, and murderous blown rendered thorn inoapable of nttoring it M Leaving these two raon for hold, and finding a sailor named Tureell they chopped his head, face and arm in a frightful maJiuer, and cut a huge gnp ing gash in his back. They believed him dead, but subsequently ho managed to crawl through tho hold in the after cabin. Tho acting second mate, Deasy by toame, who was asleep on tho foro castlo, hearing tho outcry made by Pur cell, rushed on tho deck. He dodgod tho blow of a bloody ax and cried out : "Captain, tho natives are murdering UB !" Tho throo murderers attacked him,but he managed to get away with numerous flesh-wounds and a severe chop on the arm. Oneo they had him on his back, and one attempted to chop off his legs while being held by the other two. Ho managed to freo himself,and struck down one of his assailants with a small grind stone lying on deck. Deasy and two men then succeeded in reaching the rig < ging. Tho natives followed, but the j men gained the foreyard, and kept them at bay with blocks, cut away with the | mate's knife. The struggle aroused the captain. Ho started to go on deck, bnt nH he laid hiu hand on the top of the { companion it was chopped off with an , ax, and lie immediately retreated to the ! oabin. Here ho remained with his sou, I and was subsequently joined by Purcoll i anil Shaw, the latter one of the men first ; attacked. On lying down to sleep Shaw 1 wrapped a rng and a thick bag about his J shoulders, and this alone saved him from immediate death. According to his own story, he awoko in a sort of dream and found himself one mass of clotted blood from woundu on tho head and arms. Tho men on the foreyard?tho m?t;> so wounded that he had to be lashed to prevent falling?supposed that all hands, save themselves, were dead, and did not | dare vonture down. Tho villainous wretches, not able to attack them in their position aloft, commenced a search | for the liodios of their victims and such , others as might have evaded tho;r at tacks. The wtoward had shut himself np in his galley and escaped their murder* ous intentions. Shaw and Purcell, as we have seen, had crawled away to the cabin. Coming across the Imdy of Troy, one of the two first struck, thoy found i him still alive. They then chopped his l>ody and clove his head, till all life, all 1 somblnnco even of humanity, was lost in the horrid butchery. Trembling 1ft his galley, and momentarily expecting his 1 own fate, the steward heard tHo poor victim groan out: " Oh, Ood ! I'm fin ished now." The wounded, mutilated | men in the cabin attempted, nnd vainly ao, to lonu a piatol, tho Mowing blood clogging tho woapon and bo (lamping the powder that they could do nothing. ]>aylight came at laat, and with it came nonie liopo for the poor blooding victlhiR of tho murderous fiends, although de liverance wbb yet to ho delayed. The aituation aa tho day dawne<Kwiw an fol lowa : The throe blood atainod demon* ' held the deck, three mou were on tho yard, the a toward wn? hidden away in the galley, and tho captain, with hiahoy, 1 held watch in the cabin, with two poor wounded men, weltering in their blood 1 l>asido them. One of the yillaina com* > menoed pelting the men on the yard ? with stonoa and pieoea of ooal obtained from l>elow, while hia fellowa, with area in hand, ronewed the attempt to ascend the rigging. The aling blrtoka kept them1 at bay, and at laat they gave up tho at* tempt. Then the natives discovered / that tbe steward waa in t1"" ? was sent to guard ^tbe while another burst open the _ door. J amping throng Ir the other < the steward rushed to the oomj way, and, dodging a murderous aimed at him by the guard, tumbled low into tbe cabin. This changed situation of affairs. An unwouadeckcna was now below, mid in thrtfebln was a revolver and ammunjKoti. watchful sentinel, thirsturf 'for life's blood, cunningly ahielcNA hi but at last, in on incautious tnomant, exposed his head and a bullet i steward's revolver went crashing ! his Drain.* The two remaining exchanged a few hurried words in own language, and one of them went 1 .pick up their fallen oomrade. ' * Then the sailors dropped from tlrii rigging. One of tlicmg seized a ' -J*m iqftke and ilealt thej^mdntftive a gering blow on the helBr The one who had gone to the dead gtfkrtl, that the game was up, jumped overt and was not seen again. On visiting i shoro the survivors found the bodic their comrade* in the hut. Tire attitude' of the bodies indicated that the unfor tunate men could hardly have bew^ aware of tho death sttoke. Tho veefH wfin at once got under way for CairxM? On reaching that point tho three worst wounded were placed in a hospital, atul at List accounts were progressing favorably. The RUQrfvorn will proba bly never forget night of terror spool at Chileot-ifWLi. Mourning Costumes. Black undressed kids ore worn for mourning now more than the dressed. Wl?n people must economize, fold* of tlio materials used, piyed with erejM?, and solid eollitr ifud enflfe of erep^ alone made. 1 Camel's hair bnrege is good material for travel; oh is also bunting, a loosely woven fftbrie, especially for country and seashore. * ' *3 Henrietta and Barathea cloths are con sidered the choicest materials for mourn ing coBtumcs, very lew ladies olinging to the bo long used bombaziuo. Australian crepe cloth and Tamise cloth ore the popular summer fabrics, and nro found better than grenadine for ladies of limited means, not requiring to bo made over dead sillt, Onyx and dead gold or jntire set* of solid jet is the only jowelry permissT " in mourning. Tho watch, of con being nctoeeaory, it is not ma. hut ahn.irl Tn> ,*> with an onyx chain or a oord. Widows' veils are throe yards long, with a hem a half yard deep. Orepe is found injurious to the lungs and eyes and is not worn ovor tho faoo after three months; and xinless a widow, the veil is often attached by plaits and jet scarf pin to'tlie back of the hat. Crepe hats nre made laid plain over tho foundation, or a plain front with puffed capoto crown. A stylish three cornered acarf, edged with tape fringe, is attached to tho back of many hats with a jet clasp. In this cuse a tine net veil, edged with a fold of crepe, is worn over the face. In deepest of mourning English crepe is profusely used. Often the skirt is trimmed more than half its depth with crepe solid, and tho sack composed en tirely of crepe. Crimped tape fringe, known as mourning fringe, is th?yonly appropriate trimming for blacknTTaterial. This comes in V?oth wool and sim. blnls and StoHiii Knyrlmoh. A London newspapor of a recont date says: " In a German engineering jour nal a writer discusses tins behavior of different animals and birds toward steam engines and steam works gene rally. He notices the boldness, and, at tho same time, dexterity with which dogs] will run amid the wheels of a departing^ railway train without suffering the least injury, while bouts of workmen continu ally lose their lives. On the other hand, tho ox, 1 proverbially stupid animal,' continues standing composedly on tho , rails, having no idea of the dauger j which threatens him, and is run over. I Hut birds, ,:trange to say, have n pocu ! liar delight in U;o steam engine. It Iias often happened that larks have built J their nests and reared thoir young nnder ' the switches of a much traveled railway, while in engine houses the swallow is.n frequent guest. In a certain mill, wliei^ ! a noisy 300-horse power engine is th I ing and bumping night and day, t; pnirs of swallows have built their n for years, and rear their young reguURrly Tho writer mentions an instance of almost incredible trustfulness tA tho part of swallows, a pair of whi^n early last year built in the paddlo-Hox of a Dunuhian steamer, and rogulMfly made tho journeys from Pesth to Berlin." Tub Pabtok'b Dimcmma -J" It was lit i that, critical moment of tbar battle," ?aid a Dubuque minuter in tm impassioned burnt or eloquence, " w^eti tho Wuko of Dollington?I moan, tM Dclk of Wul ington?I should "ay, Won the Weik of Dulington?that is, llhon the Dule of WelkinRtou at tho wottJo of Hattcrloo? 1 or urn "? And then somehow the pna- ; WKO appeared to l>e ho brully mangled 1 that ho didn't think it would pay to re- | pair it, no ho said : "And seventhly and lastly," nhd wont on. ? /{uNirif/ttm Ifawket/c. ^ > \ Ruah a0 A PsAomrAKRH;?Blessed ! j are the nesromakers," sighed Rijah, aa he stood In tlic station door and h>oked j out uptfi a dog fight. " Dlcssod arc tho peacemakers, hut by tho great horn spooll I I can't stand hr^p an<l see that trig frog iihako that little terrier up in Alyit style 1" IIo wo.it out and hit tho feftg dog with a barrel stave, received a Volley of oyster cans from tho Ijoys, and retired, feeling tliatr ho ha?l done his whole duty, and would probably have a Aght with the owner of tne big dog, Ml* Care for thy Calf. ^ ^ The Toronto (Holt* prints the follow ing an "a very am fining occurrouoe " ! whioli happened on hourd the Cumber i land, on the occasion of lier atriking the rock near Brace miuea : Among her pas jtfngcra w#h a farmer, who had with him | his wife and family. In order to l?e ahle to stock hin farm in Goshen with a au | perior clans of animals, ho, before start ing on his journey bought n "tlrntclann oftlf," for which ho paid 8'2()0. When the Bteamer struck the rook tho ornHh which followed wn?, to our fanner's earn, like " tho crash of doom," and forgetful of her whom he had promised to love and protect, and tho " olive branches " of tho family, be thought only of "that naif," and granping two life preHervors he ran to the placo whore it wan tied, I and, putting one of them around tho calf, be bnoklod the other around him , self, and prepared to flght tho waves for I'Mio life of himself and his dear cnlf, I totally unmindful of tho dnngor which i mntiaced his "old woman and ohildron." When thK danger was panned, those who witnenaod Kjn anxiety for tho nnfety of tho calf, proponed presenting him with n j pair of life presorvera for their special service in ?.ane future mishaps. " Algernon," *b? whV?|*'rr'l, " will jrou alwivy* love ?m??" " KvangetlKr, I swear It," he r?v ?p?ndsd in a paaaionatn ; mnrmnr. Than thera wu a Round as of a ajMi) falling in tii* mod, and all wan (till. DR. JAJOE8 C. AYEB,^ r Brief HImM ?T Ike Ufe tf the Dm KmwI BmMT ?( Ik* A?c?The of Hh Wwn? . ITtmm Its BiiIii Poat ] The hearing before Judge Brooks, in the Middlesex pvobste court, at which guardians were appointed oyer Dr. James 0. Ayer, of Lowell probably ends the j business life of one who has made him ?elf known throughout the eirOised world. This celebrity is duo to the won derful and persistent energy of the man, md this very energy hss reacted upou iim, and now he is considered to be un- j Kble to manage his own affairs. The life of suoh a man must be- one full of interest, and its end, so far as the world that has known him^est is ooncerned, { Is an evgpt of more than passing inter est. 'Mb mania which now holds him with an iron grasp has been for yearn warning him of its approach, and al though travel and other means were re sorted to to ward it off they were unsuc cessful. To Jfce last his business >vns this real pleasure, and in that lay his only danger. ? Dr. James 0. Ayer was born in Gro ton, Conn., May 5, 1818, his father bqing Frederick Ayer, a farmer, and there he remained until he was thirteen years old. Thou ho left his father's farm and went to Lowell to his unole, (Tamos Oook, who sent him to school, and after ward to tlio Westfield Academy, whore he fitted or college. He did not enter college, however, but returned t4t Lowell and entered the drug store of Jacob Bobbins. While employed tliero he studied medioino under the instruc tion of Dr. John 0. Dalton and Dr. Graves, and completed hiB course at the Pennsylvania University of Medicine, where he received the degree of M. D. from Dr. Kirfcwood. He never pruc tioed medicine' ** a physician, but de moted his time and attention to chemis try, making a specialty of analytical chemistry. While engaged in his early I researches and experiments lie kept n 'drug Btore, and during these investiga tions he developod the " Cherry Pec toral," a compound that is now of world widc fame. He first sold it over tlio Oounter with his own hands, putting it pp in small quantities and reoomraoud ing it to the medical profession when ever he had au opportunity. Its goueral use is due in great measure to the fact that it was pi escribed in numerous in stances by physicians. As the business increased he advertised the pectoral in l\ke proportion, and from its sale he ^Dtufde quite^ largo sum of^w^ey be fow> he ventured to add to its mannfao aftar/when its use had beoorao quite general, he first gave his eathartio pill to tho public, and since tliot timfl his business bos over been a growing one. He early associated with him in the business several of his present partners, and they havo shared with him in the wonderful prosperity that lias attended his efforts. Ill addition to tho preparation of tho remedies, there is on the premises ft large printing establishment, where all tho typographical work demanded by the business is executed in the best manner. Not ouly tiro nlmost countless labels tnrnod out yearly, but millions of almanacs aro also published and dis tributed throughout tho world. They are printed in almost all the modern languages, and their tide,solar nml lunar tables are calculated to huit the localities to which these little pamphlets are sent. The businesA has always boon a profita ble one, and no doubt millions nre used yearly in conducting it. From it Dr. Ayer has amassed a fortune, yet not nearly so large as some of the journals of the day have stated it to be. It is large enough, however, to require con siderable skill in its management. His personal fortune is probably under S3,000,000. With oil these growing cares on his hands, tho doctor was indeed a j hard worked man. Naturally very active, ho often carried Ids labors far into the night, and in consoquenco of this over work lie broko down, and is now suft'er ing from what physicians term " general paralysis of the brain," which places him in a truly lamentable condition, ns it is said that there are no instance* on i record where one who has been afflicted ' with it has ever been able to return to business again. Those who know Dr. Ayer well assert that I41H condition is duo solely to busi ness cai'es, and in no way caused by political disappointment. Ho was, of oourso, desirous of being elected to Congress when I10 was a candidate for Representative in 1H74, but the notoriety which ho achieved in the canvass was quite as satisfactory to him then as liis success would liavo been. It was sn 11 cr equaled advertisement, of his bnsineiWj and o? such be fully appreciated it, N>i man l>etter understood the art of adver tising than ho did, and 110 one could1 write ho bitterly or so sarcastically about him or his actions that he oouhl not ibid somewhere in the words on expression which he could turn to advantage, and which he often used. Ho always took an interest in the municipal affairs of Ijowell, and he held inony city offices, and oven when out of office he liked to make his political influence felt in local matters. A man of strong self-will and self-eontrol he was often unappreciated, and so his kindly acts were frequently done under very discouraging circum stances. He Ims a wife, two sous and a daughter, and for them ho has always manifested a fondness which is fully re ciprocated. Tho appointment of guar- ' dians over him was noeessnry for busi ness r?*osons, and eoch of them was obliged to furnish bonds of a quarter of a million of dollait. At tj^e examination of tho case prior to thoir appointment, much of tho mystery that hod surround ed it was cleared up, and there is no longer any doubt tliat snoh a disposition of the matter was th 1 only possible one. The doctor is not likely to ever again l>o able to resume his business, and although the restraint to which he is necessarily yorie ' subjected is very irksome to him, it is believed to be the only means whereby Lie Ufr <m bo preserved fotHny length of time. From hie retirement he write? i letters to hi? friends which ere quite m j cqhereut a* letters ever ere, yet to re sume the management of his extensive business woul&involve him in oares which experts in supli matters assert would crush him uot only meutally bnt |Jhy sioally. The following aooonnt of the doctor's | condition at the preeent time is taken from a Mew Xork daily : His ruling hal-. lncination nfcihat he poeeeescs qiore than mortal power, and his delusions ase fre quent andlnoonsistent. At one tiide he belie vea^h at his wife and son have con spired to keep him in confinement; at another he looks upon Dr. Ohoate as n mortal enemy," after haviug vowed eternal friendship to him only the day before. He almost always asserts that lie is perfectly well, ami that his reten tion in the asylum iB an outrage, but now and then he shows by an unguarded ex pression that within his inner conscious ness he knows his failing. His fits of violence have no regular recurrence, nor are they always of the saflno degree of intensity. Thore is nothing by which the doctor or the Attendants can judge when an attack' is imminent, tu^l in this Dr. Ayer's caso is peculiar. Ordinarily the insane gW# palpable signs of tho coming of a period of violence, but with ! Dr. Ayer tho change is instantaneous. | He may be pleasant and smiling as a , May morning at one moment and raging like a November storm at' the next. H# does not kuow_ himself when the paroxysms of rage are oomiug, and when they are passod over he betrays no oon sciousness that h^^members them. He chafes under his confinement, easy as it is, and constantly asserts that he is abundantly able to cfaeountcr the world as of yore, taking or giving blows as for tune may decree. He has iniule many efforts to escape, but he has never suc ceedod in carrying out his plans, which are very transparent. Hon to Writo to the Newspapers. The staid Biirliugtou (Iowa) Haw key e reoently gavo some advice to oorre sjxmdenta which will probably perplex English journalists, but which deserves the consideration of persons who under take to write to the newspapers. A few of its points are as follows : ? " Never write with pen or ink. It is altogether too plain, and doesn't hold {he mind of the editor and printers cfctoly enough to their work. If yon are compelled,/ to us? ink, bldUiu* $ad. If you dropCa blot of ink on the paper, lick it off. *Ae intelligent compositor loves nothing bo dearly as to I read through the nraear this will make I across tweuty or thirty words. We have j seen him hang over such a piece of j ?opy half an hour, swearing like a pirate , all il;c he felt that good. i " Don't try to write too plainly. It is ! a sign of plebeian origin and public j school breeding. Poor writing is an in i dicatiou of genius. It's about the only J indication of gonitis that a groat inuny ! men possess. Sprawl your articlo with j your eyes shut and niako every word as ! illegible as you cnu. We get the same price for it from the rug man as though ? it were covered with copper-plate sen tences. " Avoid all painstaking with proper ! names. Wo know the full name of every man, woman and child in the United .States, and tho merest hint of the name i is sufficient. It is n great mistake that proper naniM should be written plainly. "Always write on both sides of the paper, oiul when you have filled both sides of every page trail a line up and down every margin and back to the top of tho first page, closing your article by writing tho signature just above the date. How wo do lore to got hold of articles ! written in this style! And how we would | like to get hold of the man who sends thorn. Just for ton minutes. Alone. In tho woods, with a cannon in our hip pocket." Iii a Shape to he Answered. In one of tho courts in Sacramento thero came up for trial a ease in which a Chinaman was the complaining witness against a white man. During the im panelling of the jury one of the attorneys | questioned closely tho men summoned as j.jurors, to ascertain their views on tho | Chinese question. Ho askod ono of them : " Would you beliovo a Chinaman under oath ?" Tho witness responded in tho affirmative. " Would yon helievo a Chinaman as quickly as you would a white man?" "Well (hesitatingly), I would believe him as soon as I would some'white men." "That isn't on ntiHwer to my question. I now ask you, 'and I desire a categorical answer, would ? you believe a Chinaman as soon as you would believe me, or the attorney for the defense, f??r instance ?" "Oh, yes, sir; certainly I" The attorney did not appear to fool much better after he found out. A Compromise. An Austin gentleman, who served through tho wtir, told his wife that the thirtieth <?f May would ho Decoration day. " I hope, tlinn," she said, "-you will decorate mo witli a now bonnet." "My dear,'' ho replied, "thin in a year of compromises ; I'll compromise on ton yard* of calico." The spirit in which thin offer was mot Ims convinced hiin that the orn of good feeling has not jot arrived, and he thinkn ho will adopt a policy of reconciliation. Ahparaoijh Eni>?. ? 'Asparagus ends, it soonis, are to have a commercial value. It has been discovered that those ends, aftor the edible portion has boon oaten, can bo made into the tlnost papor, and manufactories for the pnrpoM havo boon started in Franco. The colleetion of asparagus ends may, therofore, Ihi o*. peeled to become one of the many hum bler yet remunerative industries, q n n JOB PRINTING.1 ?.. V Tk* lium 3&M la f Vi1? of |ii tad all Mj<h at M FilalH U lk? Oil <l. |MM9 fl . Ml ?? la abort, wa hara tba prcMM and nutarlal for AlUoc u; or*?r whiofe may b? (lr?s u*. Wa aaUett a irtml. Items of luttmt. Turkey's battle [song is " Hold tho Porte. Though Prince Arthur list been refused, they say he feelsas happy u a man who haa drawn a barrel of flour at a raffle. , In a Turkish uewspapci* ottoe they don't allow eight word* toaliue, as thev do over here, but allow eight line* to one word. Should the Turkiah soldier* at Kara run a||prt 9t rations they will probably fall back on Mash?which U only an inch ant] a half dis tant, on the map*. At lua recent marriage, the governor of Maryland went through the ceremony in a business rait and sack ooat. N. B.?The bride didn't gfve him the saok. Newark barber* are all mind-readers. Fix your thought* fo? a moment on a bottle of hair tonic and a barber will yank it off the sbulf and be wrapping it up for you before you can nay Jack ltobinaon. . The Norwich Hulletin man remarks: "(A North Carolina paper speaks of a habji which was born black and subsequently turned to white. In this latitude a baby is usually born white and turns to a lively yollor. An exchange says : A dear old ladv present ed hor eon, on his'departurc for boa, with a Bible. On opering it during a gale it full frovi his hands, and out dropped a tine tooth oomb and the admonitory book mark: " Search daily*' Tlio Norristown llertiM knows of a girl who was kissed 0SO tinios in one evening at a church festival, and each kiss brought her in ten cents. Nouc of us could afford to pay a girl ?'.?$ for kist-ing her all alone all the evening, and tho ' ten-cent way gives all a chauce. Here's another warning. A man refused to stay at home Vfter an early sutler and help his wife whitewash tho back yard fence, and his black<hair turned white in less than a minute. His wife's painful awkwarduess with the whitewash brush caused tho sudden change. An old baolfolor was courting a widow, and both sought tho art to give their fading hair a darker sliada. "That's going to'bo an affec tionate couple," said a wag. " How so ?" asked a friend. " Why, don't you eeo that they aro dyeing for each other already V" was the reply. Tho time of year will *0011 be at hand when you w ill buy a dollar's worth of i>ost*ge stamps, fold them up and plaoo them in your pocket book, and when you need them find the bunch glued togethor in such a shape that the entiro mass would not carry an bpen circular to tho next town. General Grant is the first ox-President to go to foreign parts ntuco tho day* of Frank Pierce. Of tho nineteen Presidents, Washington, Madi son, Jackson, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Lin eolu and Johuson never crossed tho ocean. Those who visited foreign lauds were John Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, Quinoy Adams, Van Buren, Fillmore, Pierce and Ilnchnan. A young ladv in Newport lost a thousand dollar ring. A young gentleman found it. On claiming the privilege of putting it ou her finger himself, the y?nng lady assented, and held forth tho forefinger of her loft hand, tlio engagement ring finger. Tlio young man wan ^ I caught, but didn't flinch from his doom, as the \ young lady's papa is worth two T **T>jfi'< ? Over the pai And never a thought had sbe of oaro, $ <? And never a fear of alipptng. But oh ! alas! for all of that, Her feet flow out and dowu Ae flat? . Down in tho cold, cold snow. 1^. ' **?,? And in her face eamo a flush of j Ai# a look of surprise, hut all xlio Was?''Domino!" ^ Ail Adventure with n Hear. Tho Portland (Me.) AV(/un tells tho ' following story : A man by tho name of i Seidell llunscom, who liven in Clintlmni, i N. II., rode to a neighbor of liin to get 1 two small pigs, carrying them homo in a basket. On his way home, at about ten ' o'clock iu the. evening, he saw an nniuinl beside the road which heat first thought to l>e n very large dog. It turned on', however, to be a black bear. His benr ship commenced tho battle by trying to spring into the wagon between the for ward w heels and tho horse. ITanscoin, finding he had to light, seized hold tlio bear's head, and, by chance, hap pened to clutch into his nostrils. TJeing a very muscular man, he held his grip, the hind foet of tho bear being all tho time dragging on the ground, and thus they were dragged by the horse over twenty rods. Hanwom shouted for help, but 110 one heard him. His strength failed him, and the bear, making another spring, freed himself and fell outside the wagon, and Hanscom got. away. The bear was accompanied by it? cubs, and hence the cause of attack ing the man. The above is a Into bear story. Illcli Without Money. Many ft mnn is ri?*li without. money. Thousandsof men with nothing in tTieir pockets, tiro rieli. A man Inmi with u good, sound constitution, iv good atom aclt, n good heart, mid good limbs, and u pretty good headpiece, is rich. Good bones are hotter thnn gol 1 ; tough mus cles tlian silver ; and iicivoh that Hash tiro and carry energy to every function are better tlian Iiouhch and Intnl. It in hotter than a landed estate to have the right kind of a father and mother. Good breeds and had breeds exist among men as really an simong herbs and horw'H, Education may do mneh to check evil tendencies or to develop good ones ; Imt it is a great thing to inherit the right proportion of faculties to start with. The man is rich who has a good disposition?who is naturally kind, )>a tient, cheerful, hopeful, and who has si fhiVo^ of wit and fun in liia co:npo dtion. A Relief for Asllinni. The Hiiioke of,the leaven of l>? !lud< nn i ia better than that of Btainonium for it - lieving person* sutTering from asthma. The belladonna leaves should be smoked in n long pipe mid drawn deep into ti e chest. When the snlVerer in ko much opprense 1 that he cannot u**e tin* pipe, ? ho breathing of an atmosphere in which the leave* are hurned will be found beneficial. " Vacohh and HtohMh." A liiairied Indv, in alluding in conversation to the 148th 1'nalm, ohHcrvcd that while young inen and maidens, old men and children w<*re expressly mentioned, not a word wiw said ahout marrifjd women. An old clergyman whom she wax addressing assured her they hud not been omitted, nml that she could tlnd them included in one of th? preceding verses, tinder the description of vapors and storms,