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CAMDEN, KERSHAW COUNTY, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1880.
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A Man's Month Newert Up.
The Syracuse (N. Y.) Herald layas
There la one of our oity physiolans who
Is sometimes in tho habit of Imbibing
fcly. And when tho trials end tribu
of the busy world bear down
_ upon him no drowns hlsgrlufo
and drives dull care away in tho flu wing*,
bowl. Ifc wm While in this oondiUort
that one day he was oalled to one of tho
suburban villages of Bjraouse to attond
a man who had rcoelved^ severe gashes
on his faoe. The patient was put under
thelnfluonoe of ether, and after a fashion
the doctor proceeded to sew up the
man's Wounds. When ho had complete
the operation, as ho supposed, he ob
served a large opening in the faoe just
below tho nose, from whtoh the blood
was oosing. After swallowing another
|jotatiqn from his now .nearly
VlK?u
daged the man's (Wee and departed.' Not
many minutes elapsed before the man
recovered hisconsciousness,and "UrnI
umt uml" was heard from underneath
bandage, and "ttml uml uml" Was
emphatically as It was poMl
man to ejaculate under tho
ces. Another physician was
d. the bandages and stltohes
were removed.
[$;> The Cat and a Looking-Glass.
(KMure.l
Many voars ago, at Qarne farm-house,
whore roiatlvos of mine were then living,
the household cat was observed to enter
a bedrooth it* course of being spring
cloaned. The loofeing-glass bolng on the
floor, the cat on entering, waa confronted
with ltd own reflection, and naturally
concluded that ho saw before him a real
liuruder on his domain. Hostile demon
strations woro tho result, followed by a
tush to the mirror, snd then mooting an
ofotaelo to his vengeance, a fruitless cut
round to the rear. This mnnohvor wai
more than once repeated, with of eourso,
oqitnl luck of success, tonally tho cat
WAS seen to deliberately walk up to tho
looking-glass, keeping its oyos on the im*
age, end then, jvhen near Chough to the
edge, to fcol carefully with one paw be
* hid, for tho supposed intruder, while
head twisted round to the front
iUwlf of tho persistence bf the
sriment
frfn
1 *n? Horulu*, and the l>?ya ai?
Lqxi^
I had ft d^eam ot other days}
In golden luxury shone the wheat,
la tangled greenness sbot>k the maizes
m The squirrels hah with nimble feet,
And la and out-among the tress
the hang bird da* tod like a flame,
The oatbird piped ber melodies,
Purloining every waibier's fumes
And then I heard the triumphal song,
" 'Its morning, and the days are long.^'
They scattered roseft, sire Wed the palms,
And shouted down the pleasant Tales;
I heard a thousand happy psalms,
And, laughing, wove a thousand tales
Oi mimlo revelry and foyj
They mocking well the worldly greats
Each tanlhoed girl fend barefoot boy,
Dear shapers ot my early late?
And tbqn again tho feolian soug,
" "Pis morning, and the days are long.*
Far winding pa*t the etoriod town,
The river ran through bv>nky groves i
Its floods we sailed our vessels dewn
Full-lrelghted with a myriad loves j
Our souls went floating to the gales,
With soarUt leaves and shreds oi bark;
We named thoin cutters, schooners, sails,
And watolled them f*do in shadowy dark |
rhen down the water flowed the song,
"Tis morning, an*t the days are long.''
?Oh, morning, when the dnye are long,
And youth and innocence a*e wed,
And every grove is tall oi song,
And overy pathway void ot dread I
Who rightlV sings its rixhllul praise,
Or rightly dreams it o'er again,
When oold and narrow are the days,
And shrunken all the hopes oi men,
He shall reawaken with his song,
" Tis morning, and tho duys are long."
There palpitations, wild and sweet,
The thrills oi many an old delight,
And dimpledIBanda that lightly meet,
And hearts that tremble to unite,
Arise upon the early morn.
Pass down the lovely valss and stand,
A picture oi a memory born,
The mirage of a lotos land?
A lanft where once we trolled the song,
" 'lis morntqg, and the days are long."
*-JJ. 8. Par/lwr.
A. Controversy With Uupid,
" Littlo wretch! .1 hate him. Wo
tiavo never had a moment's pence since
be took poesesslon of the house/' de
clared Polly Patten, witlx a stamp of
her foot.
The "he" referred to Was not, as
might be supposed, a tramp or a sheriff's
officer, not even a poor relation, or an
'rleh butler, or a heathen Chinee. Hot
at all. The object of Polly's wrath was
a personage lifted up, as it would seem,
by virtue of his position, above huiv.m
criticism as above human rules, a myth,
an unknown entity?no of
than the little Jfc&fccupld
and his machinations had o
wrought chnng b?woful ones, Polly
thought?in the constitution ot the Pat
ten family; loud to her imagination
represented all manner of discomfort
and dicoomfUure, the alteration of plans,
the blight of hopes?Innovations and
uross-purpoeos without end. She folt
toward him a good, honest, hearty hos^
tllity, as one may toward an oppoiiont
of flesh and blooa, as she sat in her bed
room, inveighing upon the subject to |
her speoial friend Susan Gilmore. who
was perched beside her on the broad
window-sill.
"Oh, it's all very well to laugh," she
went on; " but just wait till you try it
yourself. All last year was given up,
vou know, to marrying Helen. Her
trousseau, and her presents, and her fur
nishing?nothing else was thought of or
spoken of for twelvo long months. The
house wail choked with licr things. We
all worked our fingers to the bone.
Nobody could turn round without find
ing a woman and a sewing machine at
his back. We never even pretended to
iear ourselves speak. Well, just as it
vtfti ail over, and Holen oomfortably off
our minds, Lizzie must needs set up a
lover and a long engagement John
Shaw, top, of ail persons I Now I may
b? /lull, but In the name of common
sense why John Shaw,-of all men in the
world F"
" LisEte knows, I presume "
"Well, perhaps sho does) still. It Is
provoking. Every morning oi his life
John Shaw looks in for half an hour on
hls.way down town. He and*Liasle
absorb the parlor, of course. That is ,
all right, no doubt: but. as It happens,'
that particular hair hour is precisely the ]
one whloh I used always to take to tidy
up the flowers, water and trim, fill tho
vases, and make the room nloe for the
day, and the want of It puts me out
dreadfully.;^! sit and twirl my thumbs,
and scold to mother, and she never will
agree with me. ? Lovers are privileged,'
she says." ? y
1 o? course they are. Don't be a
. ?il-sport, Polly. It's their turn now.
ours will oome."
"Never! But there's more behind.
What do you say to Eunloe's Indulging
Inanengagement toof
??NotrSulyf"
/?Very really indeed. John Norman
If the happy man this time. : Two
Johns, vou obaervo, by W%y of making
the cenraslon greater. 89 they sit in
the dining-room everts ovenlng, while
litaie and her John oooupy the parlor."
'?And where do thereetofyousltr
"Echo answers. . We sit wherever
we may. Mother takes her mending
basket upstairs, and has a student
lamp on tho round table in the upper
entry. Pepa shuts himself up; in that
dreadful little oloso 'den* of his,or
9Sl
TOU
goes to the offioe. I observe that fie
has buslneoa there of evenihga much
oftener than formerly?because there Is
do comfortable nlaoe for him at
home, no oouot. .?mi maces a point
of being out. As for Amy and me. we
lit on the back stairs, or lh the but
ler's pantry, or any other odd corner
whloh nobody else wants." Polly
laughed, but there were tears in ner
brown eyes, and a very mutinous look
about tho pretty mouth, which John
Norman, while in process of " sampling
the family," to borrow Polly's own
phrase, had once likened to henutiru'
Bvolyn Hope's, of the true "geranium
red."
" As If all this wasn't enough," eho
went on'presently with a hall giggle,
jialf sob. '* here is a letter oome to-day
from Fanny Allen?our cousin, yon
know?and sho Is engaged too; and sho
proposes to make us a vlnlt. and her
young man means to 'drop along,'
forsooth, while she Is hero. Now Where
are they to slVr I oan't lmriKlm\ utiles*
tuoy take the nir-ohamber of the fir.
naoe. The front stops ate quite too cold
at this time of the jeor. Or 1 mighi
have the trunk-room cleared out for'
th?*m 51 hadn't thought of that beforo."
"Polly, you aro ridiculous, Yottr
I ' \ /
yon are abominably tolerant about
?uch matters. Tnat mikehiolo capiat
I vrS'h I could bold bis win?* in the
?iwinle and burn iJ.fin off. Ho never*
(lies in bat to do mischief somewhere,
flow peaceful and happy we all were,,
together beforo this sort of thing be
Kan I*1
" Take caro: be will hear you, and he
is a revengeful creaUire. I believe him
to be tbb oHgtnal 'little pitcher with,
long ears,'" laughed Susan.
" I tion't caro if he does hear me,";
asserted Polly, defiantly.
Has oupid earsP Certain it is that1
matters grew (worre rather than
better for Polly from that day forward.
Fanny Allen oame; and in due timo
ll er lbvor, fccGording ttt programme,
and With the latWt a cousin,
Mr. Olhniel Oliplmnt, a suo
eessful merchant, just homo from China
for a brief visit. Ilis return was not
purely for business purposes. Mr. Oli
phant was oil-the look-out fcr a wife;
and with the prompt deciMon of a mer
cantile man, he elected Polly ratten for
ihat position on a two days' acquaint
ance. A firm believer in the faith that
?? faint heart never won fair lady," and
" MOthing venture, nothing have," he
offered himself at the end of the week,
and quite undiscouraged by Polly's dis
mayed ??no," sat resolutely down and
traoed his parallels, resolved to gain by
siego what he had failed to win at a coup
by assault. This complication set the
aeal to Pollv's dhcontei\ta.
"for juwi imagine what a. state of
things ft makes," she told her confi
dante Sue. "There they sit?the three
?sets of ninnies?one in the parlor, one
in the dining-foom, one in the ' den,*
from whloh poor papa is turned out bag
and baggage; ana tnere is that abomin
able O! Of (never did man have such
?ultable initials) looming like doom or
a thunder-storm all day long, deter
mined to get mo by myself, and ' culti
vato my acquaintance.' How can he
make me care for him, he says, if he
nover has the chance to see me alone?
It is the most embarrassing, abominable
condition of affairs. I seriously medi
tate running away to teaob school?or
something. Home is growing unbeara
ble."
Why do you dislike Mr. Oliphant so
muohP He seems to mo very pleasant?"
'? Sue t When he teases tne life out ol
me 1 I declare she is blushing. Are you
turning traitor too P"
'?Not in the least?I don't know what
you mean, that is. What I wanted to
tell you was that we're going to have a
young man of our own also. My brother
JacklsQomlng home next week."
?' How coherent! I declare, Sue, you
make me suspeet something. JaokP
He a the one who's been ao long in Ger
many. Well, I hope you'll enjoy him:
but praykeepWm to yourselves. I've
had enough of young men. Johns espe
cially. I never want to see one again as
long as^ I live?I think. Graokraat
tlrbre s that tiresome O. O- strolling up
and down in hopes of catching me aa I
oome out. 1 declare it la unendurable.
wtffcta' '
in her eyes,
tied hers on, and issuing sedately fro i
the front door, encountered Mr. OJi
phant, and presently, undor his esobrt,
walked up the street, ?? After all." she
thought to herself, " if Polly oan't like
him, and doesn't wont him, why notP1'
Why not* indeed P It waa unanswer
able. ???
Another fortnight passed. Cousin
Fanny and herfiavM went away, but O.
O. still lingered. Polly gnvo an exola
matlon of despairing disgust when she
learned his intention; but/ after all. he
did not prove the nulsnnoe she had
feared; He had otl er friends in town by
this time, other erg igenrtnta, and did
not haunt the Pattens' house every day,
and all day long, as at first. Polly heard
of him often at the Gllmores'. She saw
little of Sue in those days; Sue was oo
oupled with her brother, Just returned
after his long absence. Mind ful of Polly V
interdiot, perhaps, she was in no haste to
present him to her friond?a fact which
Polly waa disposed to resent, when, aiul
week after his arrival, she was at Insi
brought faoe to faco with him. She
liked John Qilmore at once. He wa
quite different from tho oilier Johns, and
not at all formidable, Polly thought
tall and spare, quiet in speech and any in
manner, wearing epeotaclcs, too, but al
together very "nleo." What a myriad
of dlvorso meanints may bo inoluded in
that word, b<?lovetrof girls, "nloel"
In John Qilmore's case It meant that
he did not talk nonsense to Polly/and
yet that jie Roemcd to like the nonaenae
she talked; at least he brightened under
it always, and it made him laugh* He
never bored her with sense and Jong ex
planations, but sho was nevei I* his
"omoanv without findlnsr herself nfter.
waro Miinawg aootu tilings wimo nu
fiad said, and looking up little points of
information suggested by his talk. He
was .?o Kind-hearted, too-alwaya so
ktndl He didn't sneer at her diatribes
against love and lovers; and ho seemed
to understand and be a little sorry for
her, left out ih the odld, solitary in the
midst of tho sisterly oirole onoe so one
in Interest and so closely united. Here
waa a genulno friend atfast,?ho reflected
?a friend of hor own: and comforted
thereby for her losses, she tfrew a little
more tolorant of tho happlnesa or otlior
people; and even when, a little later, a
great Wave of surprises and sudden
changes broke over the home and all in
it, still tho tolerance oon tinned.
For. first, John Nortaan had a part
nersblp offered him in South America,
and he and Kunico had to be sot ready
at two months' notloe to sail to their
now home. And while Polly waa toil
ing ovor the hurried preparation whloh
wm all that time mndoposslblo, Susan
Oilmore, her ono speoial friend, called
one morning, and with a burst of emo
tion quite unwonted in the staid Sue
oonflded the fact that sho waa engage
It out?a fact ahe (Sue) waa very glad
of now?and they wero to be married In
six weoks, find sail for China directly
afterward. And would hor dearest
Polly forgive her, and promise to love
O. O. all, she possibly could, just for
her sakef
"Ton tooP" was all Polly's reply.
Hut sho put her arms round Suo\? necV
with a tour end a nob, and all wa*
omooth between them. flue, who had I
dreaded tho Interview, ?m amnsed ni
Polly's forbeftrahce. A chnnae bad evi
dently qpmeover tlio splrltof her drcAtfi.
Trials, Ve are told, have a chastening
effect on the character. Wat It ho
trials which were thus ble?*sd to Polly f
After that all was bowiidernifint amf
confaslon rilrc till the two wedding*
woroover. Kunlee and John departed
the day after theirs, and a lull fell upon
the weary household.; MIrs, Patten
went upstairs to He down. Polly, who
sighed for Irorfh sir. deputed for a
walk with John Ollntore, who missed
nl? sister 00 much, poor fellow I and
Amy, the oadetto of the family, pre
pared tocelcbratc tholr hewl '
ft^dtobyjdprnlng Rnd
'ful the
A busy afternoon indeed did ]ittl?
Amy iunko for herself, but it whs n
murry one, and she sang as she -worked.
Every vase tu the room she lllied with
violets and wild flowers,' or Apple
blooms from the just blossomed
orchard. The curtains were pulled
to exaotly the ideal angle, the
chairs regrouped, till the horrid
look taken away, Am}r thought, as
it tho room were meant only tor two,
and lor no one else. It was dusk when
sho finished, and curling up in the sofa
corner, she awaited with impatience
Polly's return?Polly, who had hated
tho love-making as much as sho hsd.
and would be so pleased. Polly was the
ono person in the house of whose sym
pathy Amy felt quite sure.
She was long Id ooming, but sho cami
at last. Amy heard her sftp on the
porch, and with It another step, louder.
Armor. Surely that tiresomo John Gil
rnoro was notconilngin to spoil every
thing this first pleasant night.' No: 1m
had come to soe papa. Amy heard iilun
tap at the door of the "den," whi)<
Polly ran upstairs. He emerged as sh<
oame down; there was a long oonfub
bing in the entry; but at last tlie front
door shut with a delightful emphasis,
and Amyjuraped up from the sofa to en
Joy the effect of her sui prlso.
"Come in?oh, do ooine in I" eheorlcd.
" I want you to seo if the dear old room
doesn't look lovely. I've been all the
afternoon doing It, so that It might \y
nico for our first evening. lent it pleas
ant to have a room to sitlnagalnP Aren't
you glad that the wedding Is over, am'
all theftiresome love-making, and we can
have coKy little times at home like other
people P Why, Polly, how quoer you
look I Don't you like UP What makes
^you do soP"?for Polly, half tearfully,
was kissing and fondling the ohild.
" Oh, I do, Amy darling, I do llk?
;W'
ing here this evening to sec me. and I'y
afraid I shall have to ask you to lrt u?
have this room."
,*"John Gllmoret Good ?' gracious!
Polly Patten "?with almost a shriek?
" you're not engaged to himP You don't
mean thafcP"
W." Jf-e-e-s," faltered Polly. " Oh, Amy
dear, don't look so distressed I"
*?! will look distressed; I have n
right to," cried Amy, with a burst oi
sobs. "After all you said! A man
n*med John, too?three Johns in the
nfuilyt Oh 1 Polly! And you who dc
"irea you hatod men named John!
ell, after this, I never, nevor will he
ft in anybody again."
Amy, dear, I talked a great deal of
sense. You must forget it. I didn't
ow." But Polly urged in vain. Amy
shed her hand aside, and rushed away
/ponsole herself m best she might
1th a hard fit of crying, and Polly
jivioted, repentant, but by no means
ihappy, was left behind.
lo ended Polly's controversy with
aid. She was vanquished, as Pollys
i apt to be in suoh warfare; but there
i defeats which count for moro than
>riw, as we all know, and this may
been one. I regret to say that sho
np, _ i umiant ii jj. il _ jiji j I] I I
Of the proceeding. Amy. W b
greatly scandalised, but cut bono? To
e*ca his turn. Mttle Amy's wlU come
some day, ana then sho too will forgive
and understandHarper's Bazar.
A Negro Camp Meeting.
Tho following extract from a report
of a. negro camp mooting in the -HacKen
sack (N. Y.) Jtqpub'ican is of a very in
to renting nature:
Rev. Mr. Dorsoy then introduced "the
Rov, Hopklun of New York," when a
colored gentleman with a gray chin
whisker stopped to the front, with an
open Bible in his hands, and proceeded
to giro out his text, though from tho
length of time occupied it was feared
that the sermon would he aacrlficcd in
tho proceeding. He Anally gave his
hoarerf to understand that he would
?peak from .TOb xlv. 18, affjrlng: " I shall
prove by de Justly, secondly, thirdly,
io'thly an1 fifthly dat de to*' rest on
somethin'. *When de doctor comes an'
make a subscription, he fust find de cause
an' don ho inakede subscription, an' den
goes ahead.- tfust, don, ' If n man die
shall he live sgMnf Y?s, aere's nothln'
liken unto man. Bugs an' inHoc'n ia
nothln' liko a man. 4 If a man die shall
he HVe ag*inr Death is your great
itiemy* Ev'frything mus' die?even do
birda my*' die; ev ryone in dl? grove
mus* die. If we git sick wo mus send
for de doctor. So sayL Let us stay
hore aa long as Qod wanta us tor 'thout
takon out"own life. Glory to God an'
de Lamb. 1 If a man die shall he live
ag'ln?' Dan 1 was cast in do lions' don,
an' when de king comes he wants to see
him. You hear of Him dls mornln.
Martha said: ' I shall see my brudder in
de rlxceitccshun.' Glory to God an* de
Lamb. 4 J(f a man die shall ho live ag'inY'
* # '? f Jestis was God an'matt. He
He said: * L-o-o-o, 1
of de book I' Olory
b. 4 Q'-o-o a-n-n' t-e-e-ll
) gospul. IA I come
ebook to do de will of
4 % matt die shall he live ag In?'
Dey httng .A?-c-hus on de o-r-r-oss of Cal
vary, an' when de man died dereOn Cal
vary humanity dlod on Calvary. 1 If a
man die shall hellvO ag in? Jlalloluyah I
Olory to God an'do Lamb. You kin
fairy one tlghtchuR man under one hun
dred sinQen, but when de last trumntt
shall blow on de Ws-zerrecshun mornin'
i <y*llln' de tloryfied Ones' to gedder ott
drenn parade in de street* ob gold bofo'
I de throne ob de great Glneral, de right
! ohus man will lis turn over an' march to
de front rank wnlle de ninnors am a-gottin'
dere shoes on. 4 If a man die snail he
live ariaf " At this point the speaker's
enunciation beoame so indistinct that
nothing eould be understood but his oft
repeated and emphatic "4" and 44 % it."
Upon hit retirement in an exhausted
condition, the collection was announced,
and while teVeral brethren were panning
the hate the congregation lang:
Oemp meetlni
" Oh, a m)('1
In do prom
tUng! Otmp meeting!
Ighty camp meeting
Sutton'.
Itjftn11 WMifclt ?*) In my ?1n,
Mighty c*mp meetln' In de promuat lend.
Mi dear lWioomer took me In,
Nlsntjr t*wp meetln' In de protmue Una.
1 know whnt Jfeeni prnmlte'd me,
Mighty c*mp meetln' In de prom urn Und.
Jeeu* done 11m what lie Mid,
Mighty otoap meetln' la de premuMland.
Nev^r kin forglt de day.
MI|My wnp meetln* la de prtimow laa4L
When Jatua Wttk'd dni away,
Mighty <*mp meetln' la de prom u* Und.
llsSler
tlt&A
* iar West ttaiofclng'L'ar.
. Mr. Bala, the English journalist,
writes m follows about his experienoe
in a smoking-car during a trip from
Chioagoto San Franclsoo: As misery is
said to make a man acquainted with
strange bed-fellows, so the habit of
smoking brings all sorts and conditions
omnium gatherum of humanity horded
together In an American smoking-car.
As fol* the possible "rough," there Is not
much need for you to trouble yourself
any about him. If you refrain from
adopting the asinine practice of carrying
a revolver under peaceable conditions
of tratelihg, it is with the extreme*!
rarity that you will find a revolver
drawn upon you. It is, as a rnle, those
who neodlessly talk about shooting Who
run the greatest risk of getting shot. It
is not by any means certain that you
will get into a quarrel by refusing to
drink with the first possible rough who
accosts you, whereas I have been told
tovqr aha over again tli^t to accopt a
drink from a Utal stranger Is a sine qua
non in the West. It is a case of "inside
or out," I was assured. Either you
must swallow the dram or 1 un the risk
of ulterior consequences in the way ol
steel or lead.* Frequent experience,
however, leads me to the conclusion
that if you civilly tell your unknown
friend that you i ave "sworn off," or that
"you are not equal to anything else be
fore supper." he will take your refhsal
in thoroughly good part. Of oourse
there are exceptions to the rule, but of
ono thing bo oertain, that if by ill-luck
you do rail across a fouurh American
who if wholly or partially tight, and
proportionately fractious or prone to
exhibit tendencies of an ugly or violent
nature, the vast minority of your fellow
travelers will be peaceable and l?w
abiding persohs, Whose interest lie in
the direction of the rough being "run
out" or "chucked off" at the earliest
nossible opportunity. Be not afraid,
then, to mingle with the many seated in
the smoker. Keep Yourself to yourself
as reasonable discrimination shall dic
tate, but speak when you are spoken to
shortly and courteously, and you will
get along Very comfortably. You
may or may not be somewhat of a
physiognomist, thus you must use your
own discretion in the application of
Juvenal's warning against trusting to
facial appearance, but I would entreat
you not to judge traveling A merioans
in the West from the olothes they wear
aboard the oars. For example, in tho
"smoker** between Chicago and the
important manufacturing city of Oedar
Rapids I was addressed as " partner "
mid offered a plug of " terbacker " by a
gaunt youth, seemingly of some nine
teen summers, with lank, hay-colored
it air, whose coarse, homespun coat and
vest, red flannel undershirt?overshirt
lie had none?misshapen felt hat, and
pantaloons tuoked into boots reaohing
kaee-hlgh and quite innocent of blaok
. iog ostensibly bespoke him to bo a
rough of the roughs* He was nothing
whatever of the fond. He was a grad
uate of the university Of his State, had
taken high honors In the department of
around" In ;^ae fislnl
inaught that he oould get a job,
told me, and from his subsequent con
versation I was led to infer that he was
ready to inspect and report upon any
new metalliferous deposits Which he
might enoounter, to form a new mining
company, to speculate in mining stock*
or to become the conduotor of a freight
train. In fact he was ready for any
thing in the conduct of which pluok,
energy and practical knowledge ooul.l
be made availably. He had an elder
brother, he casually mentioned, who
was doing very well as a portrait
painter somewhere in Nebraska. .Ills
parents had in the outset strongly ob
jected to this young man's following
ihe arts and had placed him in the
office of a lawyer?wishing, as his
brother tersely put It?" to bring him
up to something respeotable," but the
mpprentice of the law oould not abldo
the profession ohalked out for him;
*o the old folks at -home, making the
t>cst of a bad bargain, mortgaged some
land and with the proceeds sent the
artistic young hopeful to study for two
or three years In Franoe and Italy.
Then he had gone West, and was at
present jotting as mueh as $75 for a
half-length in oil. " It wasn't a very
brother would be able to get up to
'Frisco and start in tho photograph lino,
and so mako his pile." I hope he may
make It with all mv heart.
Don't Pity.
/ [Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune.]
Don't pity men and women?they
don't like it. Show pity to some strong
man in blue overalls, that you used to
know in tho nobbiest of business suits,
and 8co how quickly ho will freoze over;
but show sympathy and friendliness to
the man himself, without one glance at
his clothing, or employment, and his
great soul looks out of his oyes and ro*
turns your greeting. Ho isn't without
hope?there are many bright things in
life for him. Don't pity a woman who
docs bet own work, nnd often looks tired
?nd discouraged. Don't pity the farm
er's wife, rior her equally hard-working
slsterjn tho village or city. They cer
tainly have their dark hours?everybody
has?but there is always something
for which we work and liopo. Always
something for which, in our worst trials,
wo whisper ','rmtrgam." Don't pity the
woman who enjoys lace-making and
decks herself and children with tho labor
of her hands. Let her bo oomfortablo
in her own way. We don't know what
happy fenoies sho stitches into her work.
If ner ruling passion is to Wear purple
and fine linen and home-made lace every
day, don't feel sorry that her mind has
no greater compass. Those things are
pretty, and if she repoats " rtturanm"
over ner Btitching, thnt is the gospel and
bow?f promise for her. Don t pity the
woman who goes without collar and cufft;
though she might look much better
with them, she would l>o tho same per
son; and then so many tremendously
mean animals of tho apo kind, l>oth mala
and fomalo, wear such nico collars and
end's.
No; nevor pity mon and women. Pity
babies who aro not loved and well oared
for. Pity dumb animals whoso right to
existence is not recognized. Hut don't
ptand Up in the templo and thank God
you are not like other folks; go closo to
your brother or sister who is so humble
in attitude, and you will find they are
waiting for an inheritance too, but me&n*
ing to obtain it by a different process.
WO stand together on Mount I'isgnh anf'
look for our promised lAnd, but each on
sees his own purplo mountains and vino*
covered valleys. It Is no more true that
"every heart knoweth its own bitter
ne<'!fflan th***,. - .
A Bravo English Woman.
A Constantinople letter to the Phila
delphia Telegraph ?ays: The quiet Greek
village of Kadekom, on the Aslatloshore
of the sea of Marmora, souie foar miles
from here, was tho scene the other night
of wild excitement and alarm. At
dusk, while tho family of Mr. B., a re
spectable English resident, wero about
sitting down to a comfortnblo supper, a
knock, timidly repeated after an instant,
was heard at the door. The wiu^ was
howling around the anrks of tho house,
and as Mr. H. oper^d tho door, a gust of
sleet ami rain took hirn in the face and
almost prevented him from perceiving
his nocturnal visitor. It was a
wretched woman, bent nearly double
with age and clothed scantily with
filthy rags, who, in quivering accents,
hogged food and shelter f->r tho night.
After somo hesitation tho spirit of the
good Samaritan prevailed over the natu
ral suspicions aroUsea .by such a visit.
The hag's story was a plausible one.
Having, owing to her infirmities, missed
?.he last steamer back to town, and
being loft with only hor return ticket in
her pocket, sho was exposed to pass that
bitter night out in tho open air unless
-omo charitable person lent his roof to
-heltor her. Already she had been
turned away from several dwellings
when sho knocked despairingly at Mr.
B.'sdoor. Thus ran her tale.
Resolved, when onco " in for it/' as
Mr. B. said, "to do the thing up brown,"
hot food and drink was given to the
wanderer, who, oomplaining soon after
? f great fatlguo, wa? led into an emptv
i'.>om on tho third floor, where a sort of
^hako-down was provided her. The
f.tmily stayed together somo time after
in tho parlor, chatting over tho fire
:thout tho inoident, then separated for
'.he night.
A mysterious anxiety, howevor, hung
over Mrs. B., kept hor awako and cul
minated in a determination to visit tho
guest room and see how the gueBt was
fai ing. Arriving at the door, which, as
a precaution, had been locked, noise
lessly in her bare foet, a narrow ray of
light stream ing from the keyholo aroused
hor suspicion, and an unwonted noise of
steps. Peeping in, tho first object that
wet hergazo was a bundlo of rags, sole
rolio of tho pitiful hag that they had
resoued from the elements, while in her
plnco stood a tall, hra wny Circassian in
full dress, his leather belt st ick full of
pistols, while ho tried on his thumb the
edge of a *' cauia " or long, curved dag
Ker. His faco was turned toward Mrs.
B., and sho saw in his set mouth and
rascally faco bucIi murderous purposo
that sho with difficulty restrained a
scream oi fright. However, she crept
down the stairs, trembling with oxoltc
ment, aroused hor slumbering lord, and
told what she had fceen. A short con
sultation followed, in which tho strange
deolslon was arrived at that the husband
should run at once to the nearest corpB
de garde for policemen, while the wile,
armed with her husband's revolver,
would stand behind and bear tho at
tack. A fow minutes after B. had sllp
Sed on bis olothes, and closed the street
oor, that sound found its echo upstairs
In the crash of the guest room door,
which yielded to th0 bMterlng-ram
i 1 - ? -? _ ^# .Ala a* ^ ^ .
gowii thrown over her, admirably pool,
tier rlght hand grasping a revolver. The
stepsoamenearer, andtherufllan, after
trying the door or the parlor in which
tin lady was standing, burst It open, and
T:-hed in. His headlong course was
*to pped by four shots I n rapid succession.
i wo of which took eft'oot In his arm and
ii'.i k, and rolled him on tho ground al
most at Mrs. B.'s feet. The nouso se/
iu.t then appeared, aroused by the
tii\?ig, and Mrs. B., for vhom tho air
was just then full of Circassian murder
ers, greeted him with a fiesh wound In
the Teg. Luckily for tho rest of tho
household, who bogan pouring in, tho
Inevltablo revulsion of fooling came, and
tho courageous woman fainted/ Just
about then the husband, with slk zap
tlehs or pollcomen, arrived, as usual, too
lat? to bo of muoh use
Eighty Tears of the Uulllotlne In
France.
The number of criminals brought to
the soafTold in Paris has nover been any
thing like largo, says the London Globe,
and it has manifested In late years, not
withstanding the extraordingary pre
valence of atrocious murders, a tendency
to decrease still further. The statistics
show that in soventy-nlno years thero
have been only 263 oxecut/ >ns, so that a
Parisian who had constantly assisted at
each such scene slnoe the first of January,
1801. would on aa average have seen tho
guillotine in operation rather more than
three times In every year. Tho begin
ning of the oentury was, however, con
siderably more fertile in oapital punish
ments than the latter part, ana ltap
poars that In the first fifteen years thero
were seventy-one executions, giving an
average of nearly five each year. Tho
least sanguinary period was the twenty
years from 1860 to 1880, whon the yearly
return was 9 00, and the next In order is
the period from 1830 to 1800, when It
amounted to 9.7ft. A curious feature in
this dismal record Is the extrome rarity
of cases In which more than ono offender
has been put to death at the samo time
and for the same crime. Such execu
tions have occurred, in foot, at Paris
only four times within the century. Tho
first occasloii was In 1804, whon the
famous Chouan conspirator, Georges |
Cadoudal, who was absurdly supposed i
to have been bribed by William Pitt,
was guillotined with eleven companions
in the place do Grove. A year later
three ooiners of false money were exe
cuted together, and then there was no
doublo execution until the year 1899,
when four mon known generally In the
annals of crime as th? T' Bergants de la
Rochelle" ascended the scaffold to
gether. The la?t spectacle of the kind
was afforded In 1830. when Piesohl. the
Invontor of the "internal machine,"
attempted the assassination of Louis
Philippe, and, having killed eleven per
sons In his abortive endeavor, waa put
to death by decapitation with his two
accomplices, Pepin and Morey. The
executions of women have deoreased
also In a notable manner. Six female
murderesses were guillotined under the
first empire, three during the restora
tion, and only one In the period of forty
five years that have just elapsed.
A Philadelphia firm iome years since
inadvertently failed to return tho value
of certain paper boxes In whtoh their
imported goods wore cnolosed. The
value of tlio whole Involoe wm $03,
3tW CO, on which duties were paid to tlu
amount of $15,065.67. Tlic duty on the
boxes would have been $390.09. A gov
ernment detective alleged that under the
act of 1807 the whole Invoice of goods
could be forfeited, but he magnani
mously offered to "settle." The lm
p< rter* went Into court, and the oase,
after eight years, wan finished tho other
day, the Jury bringing In a special ver
dict entirely exonerating the Importer*
from any fraudulent Intent and limiting
the damages to the amount of duty on
tho bo?* and In Intercut thereon.
The 1 em ale lobster Will lay 19,000
10ms
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST,
?
The Rochester Express oomplains
the mornings get up too early.
Arizona contains 73,000,000 acres oi
land, 5,000,000 of whloh are surveyed.
The negro physioians of Tennessee
have organized a Statu medical associa
tion.
London Truth says that in the last
ten years there have been 9,368 Btrikcs in
England.
The British national debt laoks a little
of being twice as largo as that of tho **
United States.
A Boston inventor has made a ma- .1
chino which makes thirty seamless
paper boxes a minute. ? . \v ;v!-Y
Edison has a salary of $25,000 a year
from the company ho serves, beside#'^
royalty fio n all sorts of patents.
? ; ? \v<- vH> .
During the past year it cost the Oana>
dian gcivernmont over $1,000,000 to pro*
vido for the wants of its Indian popu- . v
lation. " vV'.:T^Ep|ra|
For sale?A full set of resolutions!^
now tho first of the year, but consider*;;#]
nbly out of rcpnlr now.?MiddldounM
lYanscript.
Does your mother know your route
asked that tease ot a Tom when-Charley^
und his bride started on their wedding.;-^
tour.?Boston Tratycript.
Illinois farm produots amounted to {
$200,000,000 last year, which is double*;}
the product of all tho gold and silveti^
mines in the United Stntes.
?
The pin manufacturers of tho United ,^
States have a very strong combination,
and have quadrupled the price of their
product during tho past year. s- '$kH
The grapo islands of Lake Erie have
4.000 acres of vines, and the yield in 1879 v.
was 16.000,000 pounds. Tho wine pro-.
duotion w ag l,62fl,400 gallons', ^
A twenty years' prisoner in the Indly,>r&
una prison has been released after thir* .3
teen years service, his " good time" Oi'ft?
one day each month for the first year.
and gradually increasing, having reduoed V.'
his term seven years.
A child was born two years uostv^
Accord, N. Y., with no apparent exter
nal auditory passage for tho auriolo ofHf
tho ear to tho membrana tympani fej^
the bony canal. There is no root in the\ V,
mouth of tho child, yet it hears, talks,
laughs and mastiaatcs Its food as easily
ns other children do at tho same age.
The eeneral health of the child at pres- :t
cat Is good. .
Parents and others will be interested ~$x
in the result of certain recent exper|^?
ments of Dr. Bollinger with oows* milk.
Tho doctor lias observed that
of cows suffering from tubercular dls
enso will rommunioate that affeotion to
human beTnga. Boiling will not destroy
i he propagating power. He also makes' ?
tho alarming statement tha^flveiper $
cent, of old cows have tuboroular dls- %
jaso.
It Is popularly ,
naos, like railroad tit
the "
S
York, aooto
small .volume of tWer.., .
knocked down for #555, ,
volume relating to an atit of tpt _
bly of the Provlnco of KTaw
printed in 1724, was solu to the i
library for $0&5. Tho whole pi
of that day's sale amounted to $1(
of h., color. Tho building is ,oon<>
structod of freestone, and after the 0
British burned tho interior in 1814 the $
walls were so blackened that when J| "
wns rebuilt it was found necessary to fi
paint them. Ever since at intervals of
a few years tho wholo structure receives
a fresh coat of white paint; The cum- ;/$
brous title of exeoutivo mansion was
very naturally dropped for thoshortand^
litorally descriptlvo name of WMU*
House, and now only figures in ofUclal A;
documents and correspondence.
Tho sowing machine branch of Ibl ? ?
machinery trado is becoming of great
importanco in the United Stntes, vefy ,,v>
nearly 4.000 skilled artisans being 6tn
ployed in the sewing machine factories.
The following figures show that ah ex- '
tensive export trado is being carried on
under this head: Germany, $539,000; : '
England, $106,'XH); Mexico, $163,000;
Australia, $110,000; Colombia, $03,000;
Cuba, $00,000; Franco, $41,000; "Vene
zuela. ?30.000; Brazil, $21 000; Argetx- '
tine, $18,000; Scotland, $10,000; PejrU,
$16,000; Central America, $19,000;
Belgium, $10,000; NovaScotla, $11,000;
llawrii, $B,000; Porto Rleo, $9,000;
Quoboc, $7,000; other countries, $29,
000; total, $1,601,000.
Window glass is a terrible perplexity '
to the animal oreatlon. Tho murmurs
of astoniuhment a fly emits when he
goes hoadflrst against a pane of H Is
familiar to all.- But perhaps the most
tormented oroaturo Is a frlendlv eat on
one side of the glass with a hand pre
tending to stroke tabby's back on the
othor side. Tho cat's back will aroh In
the customary attltudo of such occa
sions and a faint purr, suddenly Inter
rupted by surprise at the ahsdhoe oi
sensation along the fur, Is heard, Sho
turns and trios it tho other way, Hut in .
vain. IWr philosophy h, ?ot eoua. to
the occasion, and she goes off in despair.
What oan a ntoady-goTng animal think
of mon's " new fanglcd notionsf
llocJw.ticr Herald. v$SH|
wnen (general Grant had completed
his trip through Florida, be gave the
Now York Tribune*$ correspondent his
conclusions as to the future of that Btate.
"I think," he said, "that Floridahss
a bright prospeot. Iter productions will
be a monopoly; and besides her oranges,
pinespplen and seml-tronical fruits and
vegetables, sho will in time produce the
sugar for the consumption or the entire
country. Then she grows th6 finest
long-stapfe cotton, the best of tobaooo
for cigars, and her timber is of Immense
value. Then, when the swamp land li
eloared of tho timber, there will remam
theohoicest kind of ai Jce country. The
soil, while apparently barren, is suited
to the ollmaie, and there are extensive
beds of material for fertilization that
will not only supply the need^qf the
land, hut will be an article of expert**
New W'M-rtn.
Whllo many words onco in common
uao Are now nearly olftolete, few penopa
Are awaro how large a number of new
words are constant 1/ coming into our
language. Tho Ruivplomcnt of the new
edition of Webster's Unabridged Diction
yet It la'but ft feWyeftt* since a general
revision was mude And great cAre taken
to Insert All the Words then properly be*
longing to the English language. '
these words on mo from And wl
Are is ft surprise to persons who hft1
examined them. That
beenhAstil