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}^w?SrCc^2rlSn^!^ 'W*TCmh& ?vfw''-^;I r;'- ?""',* ?/>?" \> y v* '? <. <x ITL. ?*'-&. .. ?' * r -. f -o-\W' f ?"?' . -?-?, ? FRANK P BEARD, Publisher. 315 JXX8T A.2ST3D FEAR NOT. * TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. ' 1 11 1 "' -" 1 ? ' . ,. .. .??-r^rt.,'-^rr:--_"r--f_ VOL. X. CAMDEN, KERSHAW COUNTY, 8. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 30. 1883. .? . NO, 49. ? ???' > '??" ?'?'?? ' : ; o . .'???? '?.'A./ slS ? - m TIIB PEOPLE'S PAPER, ? i. " mi. '? FiniUfNO AT OAKDMII, I. O. FRANK P. BEARD; Publisher *' ^--L ?X-~-?J ^ Allow ??bjthon mt To C*rrMp?a4eat?. All oonnmauloatloni for thle paper tboaki be ac ted by tba nana of the author, not nocea for publication, bat aa an opulence of good aa tba part ^fthawrl tar. Write only on ore of the paper. Be particularly care rt?l In gt ring aad da tea to ha?a tbe lettera plain and dla~ Job __ Printing Officb ; The It bkttka prepared thu ochar oao* la ftMTm to M?cu? m u???t iMmttummn ***<**>. Uoq of Job PrtaUnf. uich aaPampbtat** BUI Heads, letter ma Not? ttaad*. Poater?, IKxljer*, Circular*, Hand Billa. WbUlM Vl*HIogavU \(J4r?HCW?, VailnMUinlii T.iNli Work done I n Bronte, KM, Illue ana 81?c* ''?** lo The |iabllc must remember that the boat la ilft/i the cheapest. ' -y ? :? We do work at Charleston Prtw, and (wrtatM ' eutlre satisfaction to our patron*. k> Wo keep constantly on hand the Wtwt stock, o Paper* and Caul* In town. M DARWIN'S MI3SINQ LINK, If Darwin wa* co-root, A? ipony no-r ns*pecl, And his theory ie plktuible we think. And if we're not mlatakea After doe consideration,,. We have positively eeeh the mi wing link. Thia scientific teeker Oenldnow ox claim Eureka. Though the object did his eearoh bo long elude. He would feel a thrill of pleasure 1 And joy beyond all measure Could he gaze ux oa the gay and festive dude. ?New York Journal, THE MUSIC TEACHER Tho following conversation too"k Slaco between two young men one unduy afterncou in an upper room of ? German hotel in New York. Tho conversation was in German, which I translate into English. ?fr/'rou liftve done well to come to America, if it is for money," said the elder of the two men, lingering his lvavy watch chain and eying compla cently bis genteel boots. " It is money I wont," answered bis ooippanlon?" money to buy me leisure and freedom. It shall be the servant of my ait. It is the life of a dog this ; teaching. It will kil' in me the ere atlve. Five years in this land, you ?ay, are twenty in Germany. Five .years of tho dog's life will buy me , fifteen of the mus 'clan's." "Oh, Carl,you lumb of an innocent!" cried the other from out a cloud of smoke. You landed yesterday. You're not yet Americanized. I tell you this is the place to win money and the place to find out what money is worth. There is nothing money toannot db in America. You would buy leisure! You will want your -WKn lO buy good clothes, gcod com retty wife," ' , " his shoulders In pro " That is what I have done. Be tween wa two I am a humbug, but I am a toll rably eu -cessful humbug. They do not suspect it. They are gulli ble when it comes to a bargain in the s fine arts. Let your hair grow long, your talents high, talk as bai B?gAlsh as you can and be what the ladies,pall 4 so charmingly foreign.' There you have It," " Ah, Frledrlch, you are ohanged," Said Carl, with a laugh and a sigh and ?* shrug. "And you have forsaken ^yottr art? Do you rise no higher? ? Are you so anon content?" & "Carl, that is all your German senti < ment. You have something in you; I have always seen that. But If you mean to amount to anything, you will not go mooning round with your head among tho stars, talking eternally >about your art. You will find your Pyjvlf Jtt a garret; that ii *hat art does r;j i(fora man in Ameiloa. You have a %raro chance with me for a friend; ex cuse my plain spoooh. You have come *to dye lesions on the piano and violin, Wjand toph y when you can. How much <? English do you know ?" W: :cF?P0UK^ to eat and drink and ? ? sloep." ; 1 '' You could not tell a blundering girl how to hold her hands properly ?" " I oould quickly le^rn, I think. I have the English books." "That will not do. You must take a shorter way. Let me think," Carl wa ked over to the window and looked curiously out on the foreign steet scene. He was a well-formed young fellow of twenty-two, with Teu tonlo features and complexion. His hair was tosse.l back from a suuaro, HI broad forehead. His eyeswrejdkK and deep-set, and would have been melancholy as the traditional artist's, bad not an occasional flash revealed them. ***' ^ WftS 8tm lMhiad Friedrioh had oalled In his pipe to assist his meditations. *<I have it!" he oried at last. ?? You have no oh lection to lying a little fit a good ?' Or stay, there is no need of I will tell you, young man, this oourse. Find out an American eaoher, and take lessons of him a few weeks. Pretend that you do not know one note from another ; make every blunder oonoeivsftle. Then store up his corrections, and I' will Wafter six weoks of that wlU give you more of the EnglWr you want than ihs of the dictionaries. It Is ral method whtoh they afe all xty over. Sauveur would, ad jftjf'do. Thea drop lu when i my lossons?I give fifteen a day-a lesson of a half ttoh what you can then/ _ tened. There was ads* venture about this scheme, ?/ Ifelps " hot hurt bim," laughed ighed as soon as yOu- can. I must a now. I go to dme with the Diapers. That is what I hare next day a younj ig^WWongij g mm ? "tins, mu<?eek le?S-una,H iUred ; J)ut no such sign had . eye. Ah I here at last is a that Contains the invitation, nihe Piano." ^ ? |the doorbell quickly, end j htl little speech. An elder Bwered the rwg, ay. I eome for museek the young man, slowly. ' looked as If she thought and held the door nut inf off museek." fellow 1M thought the all, he looks harm utter walk Into loudly and dis t?p the narrow y wish you'd nulo I thV heart that pussy met his advances in a friendly spirit am), tubbing herself against his legs, purred in excellent German. Meanwhile the lady of the house stood guard in the littl? entry, calling shrilly to Emily from time to time. Emily at length appeared.. She was a girl or twenty or thereabout. Hea face was rather fine than beautiful? one of the f ao s that do the soul just ce, and perhaps in youth soirtewhat more than justice. Her manner was re served but business-like. An extra ordinary family, Carl thought, in which the mother goes behind the door and leaves the daughter to transact the business. The father is plainly away teaching his music. Carl made his fine European bow and remained standing until the young lady had seated herself and said, calmly : "You wish to take music lessons, my mother t -Us mo." " Ye?. Fraulein ; I lmf gret luf for museek." "Are you a beginner?" said Etpily, in a clear, Ann voice. . "I veesh to begeen," answered Carl, with a quick gesture toward tho piano. " How many lessons a week do you wish ?" asked Emily, taking out a little note-book. "Two." "Would Tuesday and Thursday be convenient?" "Yes, Fraulein." "The charge will be a dollar a lesson. I am Miss E. R. Lord. You?" "Carl Llstmann, at your sarevice, Fraulein." There seemed nothing further to say, and Carl took his 1. ave. Ho had not dared trust his English to inquire about Ids future Instructor. Evident'y the daughter was quite competent to act for him. Promptly on Tuesday Carl re-ap pear?*d at 7 Brick street. The thought of his muslo lesson was not unmixed with the hope ot seeing ag in the pretty American daughter, with her surprising foreign ways. Once more the cautious mother allowed him to enter; once more ho waltei in the little parlor' with the cat for company. Presently Miss Emily e:it red, fa d " Goo l-morning," and ad lid, ?? Shall we begin at unco ?" Carl was a Ger ran, and dnz d?a young Ger pan, and d Jll^ht d. He sat down mechani cally at the piano, while Emily w#b absorbed in arranging some mule. She seated herself at length beside him. The youifg man lni I his la "go hands on the keyboard, and looked at them he'plessly. "Touch the keys w th tho ends o" your finger.?, ploaso--the ends of your fingers.11 "Touch viz ends off your fingers, pliz." " No-^your wrist up." " Wreest up?ees it so?" "No, no; you must not iay your fingers flat on the koys. Uho your finger-tips. And do not use tho jiedai yet. " Ach t I make neffer right. Seo once now." "You ho'd jour elbows out, sir. And now your wrists aro down, and that is just as bad." "Wreeits aro dnvn, and that ees zhoost as bad. Veel, you tay that once again, pll>.?" She repeated it; then ho recited it. 41 Your thumb must not ba bent under the hand. Remember tho el bows, please." M Mine tumb inns' not bo bent unter mine bant," nntd Carl, laborlous'y. "Ah I now your hand is all wrong again," said Emily, in the teacher's tone of studied patience. "lam stupeol, ees it not?" sighed Carl, With well-feigned dejoctlon. "Exoune me "said Emily; "but I can show you best by pla ing your hand for you. Pardon me;" ana with light finger-tips she bent the unruly joints. Under her soft touch they took instantly the right curve, and she exolaimed delightedly. At this they fell fiat on the' keys. Tbe wretch had discovered another foreign sensation that was highly agreea >Te. His stiff fingers begged in vain for a repetition. I Emily drew baok Instantly, and threw a little more frigidity Into the "sir" that she had set up as a barrlor be tween them, i / u well, what do you make out of him ?"sald her mother looking up form h*r sewing as Emily ontered the room. "Has he any wits? I though he looked as if he'd got out from some where that first day he came." Em ty; flushed and excited, walked rapidly up and down the room. The coollttle business woman hpd taken her departure with the new pupil. "I don't know what to make of it, mother?I don't know what to make oH^ Why should ho havo com<fto " Why, you are a very good musio teacher, I'm sure,'* said her mother, threading her needlo. > " I don't understand him. He is poor, but he is not a laboring man. His hands are 'a^ge and strong, but isupple and deilste as any musician's, sha'n't have to keep htm long on njjer exercises, though he is very dull about some tilings. But I don't under stated his hands.'7 "Perhaps he's a dry goods clerk,'' suggested her m< ther, briskly. < " And his face, too," Emily went on, half In soliloquy. "It Is the real artist fade. I have seen pictures of such.'* "Don't you think you'd better sit down?" tald Mrs. Lord. "You'll be tired. You've got more lessons to give to-day*" "Yes, the McFarlanltwins,"sighed Emily, and went wearily to put on her hftiaod shawl. T.mrsdny brought her neW pupil IMiOt MYou tea h goot," he sad. "Hear me already on and he playod the last lesson faultleedy. " You vlll girt meanodere? Move deefflcult?" . Itt spite of his blunders Emily's pupils made great progress. She told tilm so with a mixture of reserve and warmth,' ?. ".V* . "You play a leetle/'said ho. vish to near you," rising from the piano. Emily said not a word, but sat down e t a Beethoven andante with sense of exultation. The i ftood wit i arms folded bent, hi j deep e,es Axed ? v. when she had finished. She look*# 0t him quickly, i.er eye filled with tears. "I come again Tuesday," he said, and took his departure. (. arl d opped {a that night at Fried rl h Heller's fireMe. The youngest Heller had the meahs, and Mrs Fried* rich wa? upstairs'in attendance. MA good joke that was, Carl, your stumbling upon that pretty little music teacher. Now that never would have happened to me. I never had an adventure in my lifri I met my wife at a ball, met b >r at half a dozen more called on her a few times, and married her. llow Ion-? is your joke to last?" x ? - " That is a base triek I am playing, Frledrlch. >1 am going to have done with it." "Nonsense, Carl. You 1 ko It, you know that well." Carl turned and look'd at the fire, and laughed a big b >yisj? laugh. He shruggtd his shpuldera ?iQd. threw out his hanls as if denla'b were unless. ** Did you evor glye that letter to Pfelffer?" *atd Frledrlch, abruptly. "Yes; ho heard me play. HejJiaoed mo among tho fist. vio.ins. I play with the orchestra three times next week." "':V "When you are ready for piano lessons, tell mo. I am turning-mem" away everv day. I am the fashion/ you know. * "I do not want many," said Carl; "I want only those wh.> are gifted." Frledrlch Heller roared with laugh* ter. " And what will you sa^ to the magnificent Fraulein who has about as muoli music in I eras a hind-organ, but who w 11 pay five dollars a lesson ahd adore you he idea?" "I will say, 'Frau'ein, you haf mis taken your gift. 1 vill not rob you off your money. " " Carl, what a precious young fool you are 1" And vory soon Carl said good-night. * ' * * * ? * The gallery nearest the roof in the Achdemy of Music be^an slowly to bo filled long before the seats b ;low were occupied. Among the early comers were Emily and her friend. Angle Howies. Emily sank into htr seat^nd closed her eyes wearily. ".You're tired to-night," said her friend. " It's the McFarland twins," sighed Emily. "But I must for jet them here. I can shut my eyes and fancy t at this music comes to me through the gates of heaven. Oh, tho hatd living there'll bo befi ro I really hear it?-ir I'm ever g od enough. That sounds like grumbling;' but you understand, Angie; you and I don't have to translate to each ther." Angle seemed -to be reminded of something. " Don't you find it very hard to talk with that German pup 1 of yours?" Emily' was s lent an instant, and then said, quietly: " We are both goo 1 at guessing, and he Is learning English fast, wo always understand ea bother. Hush! the music is going to begin." Tho music began, at first distant and tremulous, then broad and strong, sweeping on steadi.y to the highest note of exaltation. Tho creeping, crawling troubles of this earih had vani he i; 11 to seemed clear and lofty, and heaven easy to attain. It was a fine mood that is very fragile. Sud denly Emily started, and clutching her friend s hand, lean >d forwar-1, "What do you see?" whispered Angle. " Aro you dizzy?" " 1 thought?I thought I saw somo one I know," answe od Emdy,b rfaco a shado pa'er " I mus* bd mistaken. The stage Is so far from here and I have no glass. Ye*, I am dtazy. < I think something Ins ailed my head lately." And she closed her eyes ; but only to open them again and fix than on the lert wing of the orchestra. " It was?but of cowfce it wasn't. And yet? , Why, the idi a was absurd," " Hear me now play ray lesson," said Carl, one day. " I play it goot." He sat down at the piano and Emily stood besldo him. A* the , young musiolan struck the key& her nerves vlhratdd to the touoh. 8he felt a strange subjection to the influence that mtole it an effort to speak Of act, j "You are making remarkable pro ?ress. You will som play bettor tlian can," she said, in a constrained volee. ( v,. I He played on, looking neither at notes nor at piano, but Steadily Into her face. She moved to the end of the piano and oalied the eat to her. ?"And you air g!ftd V" Carl continued. ?*? shall be verr proud of you. You are the only pupil I am proud of," said Emily, unhappily. , ^ " Ees it so r said (M; with com passion. "Air they stupeed? Haf they no museek in their soul?" Emily laughed bitterly, ?? Your life not JlflSjtf* ho said, gentl/. ^ "It's ail I expect. It's more than :'ve had any right to expect. I came near being a dress raker/' 'i he young German aid nothing, but still lingered the keys and lo.ked at her. "You say I Shall orie day p'ay bet ter than you V Vill you then turn and 1 teach you? That would be a llttlv joke, ees it not? to change oyr place," If Emily was dieple is d, she n&ld nothing in reply, but oonfelnued r" You should go to a great teacher. 1 am for children and poo* people. YOu shou'd go to Enedrloh lleller. I am nothing. 1 can appreciate; that Is my one gilt. 1 am nol>ody. WhydU ydu'ever come to meV" she said, pas sionately, and turned her head away. , There was a dead si lore ?. Sudden ly, without a word or warning, the young tnudclan touched the kOys with the hand of a master, and dashed Into a brilliant rhapsody of I,lxrt. Emily darte i from the piano to the middle of the r om, her face'Alkd with dismay., Bho stood there, trem bling nom head to foot, till Gnfl, with out stopping, looked round upon her. She was pale and qnlv< ring with anget and oonsternation. She net bin i ok, Hunhod a painful crlmsoA,,.and btlrst* Ing into tears, rtishe I from tin room. HCarl stufcnb'ed out of the house^in an agony of shame at his bruta Jty^ It even aided to his offense, he thought, that It had been co nm tt d with entire lnnooenoe. That he had had no fore sight of these disastrous oonscqnvnoes he felt proved not only his masculine density, Jfctthe unintelligent ernelty of the dumb brute. He subjected him self to every form of self-castigfttion, regretting every moment that Emily could not know what he was suffering. The next day he rang at 7 Ilrick street, and the mothtr guardedly opined the door, thrust out a bit of paper, and said: "My daughter don't expect you to come any mor4," she says. "I've made out our bill. I 8*pose you can send us the money by t>morrow." In the meanwhile, thanks to Fried* ? i rich Heller's influence, Carl Listmann prospered. Ho played at one or two I concerts, and was at once adopted as;| u New York favorite It was under? stood in tho highest circles that young Listmann, tho n<$w pianist, gave but fow lessons, and theso only to pers ns of decided natural gifts. Whether tho highest circles were right or not, it is a fact that Carl worked night and day. "What did I tell you?" said his friend. "Who is moro anxious to make money than young Carl List mann? One does not hear so much about his art these times." .% ?, Carl looked gloomily at his frieim. He gave a laugh out'of wtolch the boy ishness had gone coinpl tely. He said [^nothing, but in his heart lie answered that work is a desperate remedy,'which [must kill or cure, and either remit he would welcome. It happened that Carl was one morning giv ng a lesson to a merchant princess on Fifth avenue. It mu&t be acknowledged that ho had been sa lly falsa to hiis ido.ils when ho accepted this pupil. Tnc lesson proceeded with mary affectations of humility and rapture on the one side, and with dogged endurance on the other, when the sound of another piano in the distance caught the ear of the young German. " Anode* I-hear.'Y ?*. ?.? ~ J 44 Ohf ye?," said Mitt MoFarland, 1 vivaciously; "X)on t listen to that. That h the nursery piano,'" The twins* are taking their lesson/' "Thet.veensl" ochocd Carl, "The MoFarland tweensl" Instantly a two,, things connected themselves in his mind, connected theniseWea So vividly: that it is to I e* feared his eager pup 1 found him very unresponsive during tho remainder of the lesson. By-aud-bye the distant piano ceu od, and there wns a light step in t e hnll. ^Jarl glanced at his watch, and pleaded unusual hasto that day. As tho stately hall door clo ed he had his hand upon it, and as the twins' music teacher reached tho skie walk lie was by her side. "Can you neiTor forgif me?" he pleaded. The girl started and turned pale. Something sce.i otl to have gripped her heart, and then in suddenly to have let go. A hot, agonizing (1 Ah mounted slowly to hor very hair. "Can you nolfer forgif me?" the voicd in her oar repeatort. " I am un happy a'aways." "X Bhall mvor," said the proud woman, ''forgive?you," said tho tremulous girl. Emily co aid not trust her unsteady vo ce to sh-'po another syllable. Carl cursed hi < la It of English, and they walked on in s.lence. '? How can I say to you?" oxclaimed Carl, desperately. 44 it was to learn English, that I might teach again. It was a wrong, but,, oh I it was a joy. And it was a base thing to display to yqu my music. But ft was a rash thought. 1 did ropent tho novt mo ment. But you did nofcr let mo say it. And I haf suffered. It eiw be cause I luf tl.ee." Emily gave a little gasp. Carl burst into a torrent of Qennan, which sho understood. 41 Thou does understand," ho cried, joyfully. "Thou will forgif. and thou will luf me? Thou wilt forgif me?" 441 will forgive you,?' shamurwurod, with her eyes on tho ground. . "And you will luf mo?" - She looked up into his face. Snnshln* ai.d 8 MOW. In tm&lfhd 6t Wataty. tml swung in an eifcyfh^mo&k >that4ivayed in the profound shadow oi & Norway maple th'a long, dretmy afternoon, I was and ant the happ est man in ail the land of t?eo America. I was and am at peace with al; mankind, and, bettor still, with all womankind. I held my hand *"11 of luscious cherries, and in my excess of comfort I thought with tenderest sympathy of the people sweltering in tho .cltie*. How happy was II And how grateful 1 For I was blessed in haikt and store; in my coming in and in my going out; I was Weaned in the fruit of my ground, for the robins and Robbie had left me, of all the trees, a whole hatidful of oherplesf:?My enemies that came out against, me in one way had fled before me aoveral ways; At feast they would if I had any.'t W*4 bleftted itknll that I set my hand unto, even to knocking down tne imifi wasp's neat in the bath room, for the wasp himself came out of dine ctad while I was poking In the other, and bles&d me for that., Tho heavon had given ve o rain in season; 1 had nothing to pay, and twice as much to pay it With. u My dAys have been of gold, my nights of silver*" and what more could I a^k, And why shouldn't & be happy ana glad and grateful. , And just then a nest o1 caterpillars In the tiiaple broke loose and* came down squirming and wriggling alt over me, from the nut-brown looks that Clustered lovingly about' my brow of marble < i ar down to my daintily slippered feet (the caterpillars, not the ends), the liammoo* " run down by the head " and la d n e out on a brick and an tnvortod gurdun-rake that *1 dldh't know was th$re. I rolhd over on the cherries and masheff overy ono of the n us flat as p istage stamps. A lurking tfaup of a rain cloud broko all to pieces right ov r the maple, an 1 chased tfie lht<i the < house and ruined my new white hat that I left in the tree, ho full of water that It Isn't dry yet, although It hftl Chang <1 shape and t&KetY but a new, but not attractive, crushed rtutnrig ooh?r, and as I rushed up the porch steps 1 trod on the cat, and fell oyer a chair, breaking Its spine and ? sbraidlhg, as if it were, HT i fw but olVray* ditto* -i'?"H?? 1 1 . ?. 000 melons, find son for |J#r,03.000. ? FLORAL WHIMSICALITIES. I !%? Oar|?N Hniatr >? Wh'rh Jnpnuc** Uu4tu arc Cult vated. ? It Is not-only certa n places in the.*] Japanese capital that at o noted for par- | tioiilar flowers, but insignificant vil lages in distant provinces aro c< lebrated through all Japan for the sanjo rea on. | The little town of Yoshino, thirty miles from Nara, would probably never be heard of but for its plantation of flowering cherry trees. Tbe.se are con sldertd to be incomparable for beauty in the month of April, when the hill sides are covered % with th ir delicate pale pink blossoms! The cherry tree3 .of Mount Arashi, in Kioto, were trans planted from here, and even the two miles of plum trees of Tanki-ga-se, though almost as widely celebrated, are considered inferior to them. But it is a poor place in Japan that is not famous for some natural beauty. Biwa lake, near Kioto, has no fewer than eight distinguished beauties, and it may be averred that the Ingenuity with which the catalogue is made up would find something to admire in any situation. People go to Ishiyama, on this lake, to bee the autumn moon; to Hirayana (yama, mountain) to ad nire the snow scene3, to Seta for the sun set, to Mu-dera to. hear the evening chimes, to Yabase to see the boats sail by, to Awadza when there is a bright sky with a breeze, such a conjunction being pleasanter at that place than anywhere else In Japan. Katada is famous for its flights of wild geese, and Karasaki, having nothing el-e to brag of, boasts of the beauty of its rainy n'ghta. It is this fanciful way of regarding nature and dwelling upon partiouiar .effects that has developed the peculiar style of landscape gardening in minia ture that is common to China and Japsn. For this a sharp and poetic observation of nature is ne -essary, and ?a whimsical determination to. get around her ordinary laws, and to pro duce sonjethingraore extravagant tiian her mildest vagaries. The garuenor of the extreme Orients a great fellow to make ubo of honeycombed roo'ts, the hollows of which he fills with flowering plants. If he cannot get roal rooks rrmn some neighbor ng sea coast, he has them mado of baked clay at the n: arest pottery Ui'n. Out of a cupful of water, so to speak, he will have a stream with a cascade, a lake with islands, and abridge or an arm of tho sea with its junks and ro -ky coast?. Ho delights in old trees, dead or living, and turns them to all sorts of uses. At Shimo Zehaka-thi-ru is a hollow keyakl troe of immen?o age, and twenty-seven feet in circumference. The hollow is the result of artist c proopsses, by which the tree has bom trained to grow around a well which ' is sunk between its roots. At Nara, tho ancient capital, a huge old treo trunk Is showu, on the dead bramhes of which a whole grove of camellia, cherry, wisteria an<u?other bushes are growing. The art of dwarfing trees is pracliccd with great bu<jcoss. Tho pine, the cherry and tho willow aro the favorite subjects. The young treo is taken in hand, and for many years its branches are bandagod and twisted, its buds are n pped, an t it is kept on a starvation allowanco of soil and water, Tho stunted tree is quite a costly object, and whpn a large number are used to form a miniature landscape the work of art represent a consider able sum of money. Toy houses, bridges and temples are accessories in theso ourious reproductions of nttural sconce; models of oelebrated moun tains, promontories and ravines aro made in pottery, covered with turf, and finished off With rook wo*k; stream lets supplied fr >jn hidden conduits, groves of dwarf trees; bridges and retractions of all the tnore remarkable features of the real scene. One of the finest in Japan is tho publlo garden of Mito, the cap!tal of the province of Hitachi. It was laid out about half a oentury ago by ths old lordof Mito as a retreat for him self after ho had resigned the govern ment of the clan. The gardens occupy the summit of n little hill and sur round the old lord's summer residence. Dwarf plum trees in gro es, artlfici.il mounds, covered with springy turf and fenced off with rustic hedges of bam* boo, and a lako With stepping stones and bridges are among the principal attractions of tho scene. There is s little arbor on one of the slopes whero the old daimlo tiflod to sit in tho even ing. By the door are two small stone tables fixed in the ground, ono marked With lines to form a chessboard and the other arranged for a similar ga no much in vogue in Japan. In a grove below is a well, the unper portion hollowed but of a single l.look of marble, over which the water flows evenly on all sides. < > In the Mikado Uda's gnrdon, in Kioto, are gardens in the form of tor toises'standing out of (he water, and a EIne tree trained ih tho shape of a eat in full sail* A lafge hill at tho end cf the garden Was ohco covers! all over with white silk, by the e*> mikado's orders, one broiling hot *da>*r in July. so that lie might M least havte something to look upon that Would suggest winter and oool weather. At Tomioko, near Yokafiama, \ti tho tea house attached to the templer Is a fine example of the mdre ordinary sort of mlnlatnre garden, which, {hough very stusll, is yet more whiterful to foreigner th -n the mor* ambltlouft ones described above. Into a sp iee of about six feet by four is co npressed a landscape with hills, dales, a mountain stgpftl and lake, groves of tlrty bam boos and pine trees, a r? ad that may be walk-d over, an artistic stono bridge, with some lanterns at either end, and at the rear a model of Fuji yama itself, tho great extinct volcanb, whose outline rnty bo reen upon count 1 ss p iper fans nnd tea ui?s. Another pretty example of the $rt was seen In Toklo, in the housibf a fsrifhaKef w o had It built for the pleasure of his old mother, who whs unable to go qjit of dbors. This oonslsted of a grove of | dwarf willow tms, very old, and worth severa* huridred dollars. A < little streatn ?an through It, with its rustio bridge, from which a path led each way, di appearing among the ! trees. It wss raised upon a platform so as to bring it on a level with the window Tbe latest dlscotery iscoal tar sugar. Its advantages are said to lis la Its BLA KIYELL'S ISLAND. A tt?portrr*?^ Vta't to Xew Y?rk'? Noted PrUoa?Hatv Conrlota ar? M?cilr?d? r A Tiijuiie reporter wuo visited New York's famous penal institution says: To the summer pleasure-so< ker who passes ftp and down the East river, lila.kweiTs Island appears an attractive spot, its natural charms being too many to bo quite spoiled even by its stern and forbidding edi-1 fici s. A. glimpso of several gangs of i men, clad in the hi leous uniform of | State c< n > lets, sti ndily tolling In tho hot sun, under supervision or armed patrolling keepers, presents the initial idea to the gazer of the suffering en dnrtd by Its population from the nard toll and Iron dis.ipUne exactcd and en fori'od in that penal Institution. It was early morning, and sixteen nowlv arrived prisoners were being put through their preliminary exer cls s in a largo i liambor on the ground tloor, dignified with the style and title of " Reception- Room." At a ^desk erected in an olevated position, his book r wording ad mi sions before him, sat Hall-keeper Michael Kenuedy. On t ho opposite side, rang d in rows, were numerous large baths and three or lour chairs, tuch as barbers invite tho r clients to be seated In. A gauge fur measuring tho height of pris oners and a weighing machine completed the list of accessories lo the 44 It ecept ion-Room." Pres ently a keeper on tho outside thrust nls arm through the iron bars and. In serting a huge key in tho lock, opened the door. Then entered the sixteen flnnois in double Hie an.l ranged themselves in a row before Ke.per iCenn dy. 44 Your nan* 6?'* shouted that official to tho foremost offender. It was given. Then followed in success Ion tho questions, "Your age?" 41 Na tive col ntry?" "Religion?" 44 Occupa tion V" 44 Been hoi ob< fore ?" and If the answer were in the affirmative, 41 How many times':" *4 Under what name or names?" These qu stions being sat isfactorily answered and the replies re corded, the pri oner was h nd d over to. an attendant who measured his height and weighed him, the result?>f thesj two operations, together with tho color of his hair, eyes and com plexion, be ng qui kly added to the statement ami spread before Keepe: Kennedy. Each man was then made to strip and enter a bath and, under the vig lant eyes of tho k: eper andh s satellites', non ? fal.od to escape a thor ough washing This clo:?n ing process coinp etcd, each pr aoaer drejss d him elf in tho s iit provldi d for him by the State whlh. whatever may be aid of its utility, cannot by any stretch of the imagin i tion be considered astiietlc. Tho clothes belonging to each' prisoner were then collected, no; t y folded, made Into parcels and labeled with the owners namo previous to being put away. Unlet-s a man wore sentenced to a very short - term and raised an ob ection to- It, ho was next shaved. | after Which he was c nsld rid to be duly prepared f r the pr so.i llfo before him. D puty Wa don us orno rapidly Scanned t e column headed "Occuja ilon," and assigned every man t ? some particular keeper's gang; some to work In t; e quarry, some to the black smith's and some to the carpenter's shop. Alter this all that remaine I to bo done was for Keeper Kennedy to show the prisoners their cells and exolaln the mannor of cleaning them. Then they were marched off, every man to his gang. Tho numb r of prisoners admitted daily varies greatly, but, approximate ly. it may bo said to average ten. At present there are 700 malo and 150 femalo prisoners in the penitentiary, but, alth ugh on one occasion ?in January, 1878?it accommodated tho large number of 1.184, It is much overcrowded, and the system of 44 doubling up," as putting twe prison ers in one cell is termed, is in some cases found to be necessary. Fifteen Follies. 1, To think that tho more a man cats tho fitter and stronger he will be come. % To*believo that the moro hours children study at school the faster they learn. 8. To conclude that, if oxerciso is healthful, tho more violent and ex haustive it is the more good is done. 4. To imagine that overy hour taken from sleep Is an hour gained. ? 6. To act on tho presumption that tho smallest room in the house is largo ?nough to sleop in. 6. To argue that whatever remedv i makes you feel immediately better is ? ? good for*' the system without regard to ulterior effects. 7. To commit nn act whloh is felt in itself to bo pre udMal, hoping that ?omehow or other it may be done In youfr Vase with impunity. 8. To Udvish another to take a i remedy which you ha. o tried on you"r ?olf, without making special inquiry whether tiic oonditlons aro alike. Xo fiat without an appetite, or to liU?,to eat After it tta4 toten satis ifleroiy to gratify thd taste, 10, To eat a heftrty tapper for the pleasure experienced during the brief time it Is passing down the throat, at titf expense of a whole night of dis turbed Hieep, and aweary wnklng in the1 morning. ell. To removo a portion of the Covering Immed ately after exercise, tVhen the most stupid drayman kn>ws ?thai if he does not put a cover on his horse the moment tat ase? to worjt in * Inter, he Will lose him In a few days tw jn umonls. ' 12. to contend that because the ?Rrtlest ohlldren on tho stre t or high way are hearty 6' healthy, therefore it Kt tho healthiest to he dirty ; forgetting that pore ont>door air In J >yous, un restrained ac lvlties, is suoh a power ful auency of health that those who ttvfi thus are Well in spite of rags and filth. ; M 18. TO presume to repeat later In life, without injury, the indiscretions, exposures and IntemperAn es which In the flush of youth wtre practiced with im 4. To bel eve that cold air is neces sarily moro heathy than the con* fined *ir of a crowd d vehicle. The Jat o." at most can only cause nau e ?, while inter ing a conveyance after wa king bthfeiy and lowering the win dow, <fUL by ?<poiute to a draft, give a cold infallibly, ov an attack of pleur> % ?kuMrwm lay or pneumonia, which will cause ' wet>ks or months of Buffering, if not ' actual y de.th within four diys. lf>. To "remember the Sabbath day" by working harder and later on Sat urday than any other day of the week, with a view to sleeping late next morn'ng and staying home all day to rest, conscien e b >ing quieted by the plea of not feeling well. How.Apples are Sold in England. There aie live auctioneers In the business in Liverpool, and all the ap ples received are sold by them. The Bale Is held In a largo amphitheatre, in the center of which is a large table on which a bartel of each mark is poured out as a sample. Each auctioneer sells for three-quartqrs of an hour at a time, and tho salos continue, if necosiary, till 1(J o'clock at night. Apples are sold In lots of twenty barrels each. The understanding is that tho apples shall bo perfectly tight In tho barrel, whon such bring twenty-ftvo shillings per barrel; "shakers," or (hoso not tightly packed, will bring four shil lings less. Tho next grade Is '? wet and wasted," which brings only half tho prico of the best. The Baldwin Is the only variety sold to nny amount; it is tho only - we whi h i nn be obtain* d in sulllcient quantity to sell by the thousand ba rels. Ketail lots and odds and <mlsnre not wanted. Sales "re held three days in tho week. Tno trade date* from about ten years ago. \V.hen it became apparent that New England could raise apples on ugh for its own consumption, the New York growers began to ship. In pao ing. a basket of high cj1< rod and m dium s zed spo i rens aro placid in the bot tom of tho barrel as close as p > slblo, w th the stems all d<,wn, and iho bar rel is shakt n as often as a basketful is put In. It is filled half an inch above the chimes, tho head is pro sed in by means of a screw, and tho barrel is t en turned over and ma k d on tho fnce h ad, so that when opened it phows an evon and uniform surface Apples thus faced will bri. g Iran twenty-live to fifty cents more than tho^e not faced. Thei e i < very little demand for sweet apples Applos are sometimes shipped succe sfuly In warm weather, when later shipments, in cooler weath er, will decay. Tho New York !IorRe-Car3. The street-cars of Now York city carry about 3v0. 00 persons every day in the year, and employ 5.00J me > and y,i>U01iors s A car cost. about $1 2 X) to build, an I if ke| t in repair is good for ab -ut flf oen years' sorvice. The hor .es a -e worth from $1J5 to $190, and they ure worn out in two years, the sorvice required being considered the hardest to whth t!iey c 'Uld be subjected. The principal lino is the Third ave nue, which has about ten miles of double track, over which 220 cars are run, carrying about 2.".,800,000 passen gers annually. Upward of 1,1 JO men and 2jU0J horses are constantly em ployed! Next in magnitude to the Third ave nue is; tho Kighth avenue line, which has nljne miles of dor.blo track and 108 cars, which make 80 ) trips a ay and carry about 1(5,000,000 passengers an nually. There are eighteen different lines, the construction and equipment of which has cost from $<,000.0 0 to $300,' >00 Their gross earnings are from $1,500 000 to $100,<-00 a year. The elevated roads have, of course, reduced their prufits, but not to so grei>t an extent as was expeoted. Oranges. The first record of oranges is found in historios of tho tenth century, when they were introduced in Arabia and Syria. In tho elo\enth century thy were introdu ed into Italy, Sicily and Spain, but it is thought that the sweet oranges wore m>t cultivated until the flfteonth century^ England's tlrst im portation of oranges was in 1290. Tho Mandarin, or n,?blo orange, which originated in China, is believed to ba tho oldest variety, and to h ive been cultivated centuries before the Euro pean orange. Oranges have be n cultivated on tho Amer can continent for about two centuries, but in tho United States tho cultivation of this fruit wan begun within tin memory of many persons now living. The Jesuit misdonario . introduced oranges into Los Angeles and < ther parts of California, when they first visited thi< country, and now there are tome of the most wonderful gioves in tho world to be found In that 8tato, and the ylel 1 for this year is estimated to be 20,000,0<j0 oranges.. A Bear's Paw In Ifot Ifesns. I was pleased with an anecdoto about a party of young men who onco went hunt ng up a Call ornia rav ne, says a co. r sp indent. At night they tat around their fire watching the boil* Ing of a moss of ho..ns, wnen a bear su denly joined t o circle, whipped the cover off tno n >t, and, without so much as by youi leave, tlmist his paw into the seething sup or. Hoar.ng with pain and as onisiiment, he as quickly drow it out ag in, ovp turned the pot with one vinorous blow, and throwing th < hot beans into the yoting men's faces, lumbered o.7 growling Into the darkn ft). What the young men did for supper I never heard. Well Equipped, "Is your railroad well equipped?" Ralltoa I prod lent??? Well o iiiippM? I should sav it wa*. 8 len lldiy equlp p d, sir, splendidly. For instance tuere are our first mortgngo sevens, and our second m rt^ a jo si es. and our equip* ment bonds, and out JLind grant bonds, an I our common stock, and our pre ferred stock, and tin b.gg^ct Hunting debt of any road in tho country. But that ll?rt*t all, sir. We've got the flfirest lobby that any corpora'!on can show; a peffo t daav.slr. |f yon know of a road that's better equipp nl than oura is, name it, sir*, name It if yotf p1e*a*.w~~Sontnn Transcript bto> ve Holcomb, for ninny years a no tor.otw Western gambler, has sctthd down aa pastor of a mission church 'In LouisYiile, He draws from h e own experience for warning IllustiatLnito as* in hi* Mroion*. A SUMMER DAY, ' ' De?p down be Jdo the tail" led sedge The meado v-lark sings all the day, And buret* at tiinei from out the hedge ' *'v The mimia olm tor of th3 jay; And he.-o and there a wandering note, A cr okot'rt chirp, comes swoet and cloaz Wli? re die uny mUts of ournmer float At noon upon itio gn asy more. Afar awny betow tli9 hill I Boe the noisy mill-wheel go, Tho smooth br ad lake abovo (ho mffft The (1 Bio foam that rjara below. And on tho ovo. s'opos that riae So gun ly toward t o mountain's brow, Tho cattle v atoh w.thsloepy eyve The la/y pljwboy at tho piow. My soul is sleeping and its dreams? Ah ! sad i nJ swoet that dreaming thrills! Forthore are othor Tales and Btreams, Ai d othor flocks on other hills? The hids wherein I climbed to pnll Tho go'.den-roJs und woods of May, When all tho world was bea-itifol, And all my life a summer day. HUMOROUS. A summer resort?Catolling flies. Clara (looking at tho bonnets, etc.): "Don't yo i think they are very hand some?" Amy (whoso thoughts art on tho other side of the street): " Very, 'specially tho ono with th? black mustache." Somo or. j says " no thoroughly oc cupied man was over miserable." That n an evidentl;? dian't know what it is to attempt tho feat of keepiug twip babies qu et whilo their mother gOQd to church.?Pit tlatfet, hia News. An interesting oil transaction took place in tho t.nrd ward yesterday. Though the 1 ttle boy bellowed like a bull and said ho couldn't bear it, the old ljidy oarnered him and male him take it. It was castor oil.?oil Ciiu Derrick. t ,V A writer says : " For a stimulant to every faculty give me a stroma enemy ra'hcr thaa a weak friend" The trouble is that a good many peo ple in want of a stimu'ant to eVery faculty put tho str< n;? enemy in their mouths.?Philadflpma Ntirs. ?.*ji At a w^od-cutting conte?t in Mo Kcou eounty two women won the Hfst pri. e f?>r cross-cut sawing. It is cafe to wnger that ?ho lesthetic education of tl o e wo'rou has been f< ari'ully neglected Tho probaMllt oj aro that th y don't know anything about crocheting a sky-bl'te d g on pink can vas. or painting (rightful things on pi iquoH, but. tl.ey t. ay be pretty well tip in the a'-co a tramp off the fivjhut! to urn Z/< raid. XI K LAT OF THB0J4I ' Oh. it to' a g 11 n. di NVh ? h id tr.i el j ? iffit On tho BG'ithern o Of a h g auu ca t Just to I o a bnl 1 i ? As in bool.sroad a#>i He'd a second h-n t >i, And a six- n di And ho w >ro but ?>' (i Jt A d I at witl holu'" And ho bou^l t a s Ji st to tell Li'u wlwji Then 1 e made a cnjl On a end ng t n Anl observed, " I' l rel of-f yo i of jU y lOy 8o e ovate yoor i st? ?n, Or I U bo obiig id t^> alio But n os) wl h iie to Ttit n i entle tendfcr And mpa'ed tho a'f.i On ids pnUnt b And ho caused h rrif* Liko a whirligig to if ? A Farm I-it William Smith, ut the Interact tion>* land and Ponns;) purchaso of lund , which ho inherited estate, thus makii tends into three ?tead house, wh ro Air. Smith waft? born, was at one time tho pubjeftt of ono of the most interesting diflpptes on record anywhere in thl& country. In 184? William Smith, tho fattier of tho present proprietor of tho ftiuoh Alsputed territory, was olCcted t*V* tho DoTuwaro Legislature, and, without question from aty one. took hie 4eat. lie had been returned as one of (tho sovon representatives from NeWi.Gaetlo county. Politics ran ^fdrn'.and, tho voto had bt on close. Toward tho close of Mr. .Smith's firstHcssionilrithe spring of 1848, tho<ommf^mn ap pointed by Delaware, MarjWlW and Pennsylvania to roloeato the'northeast cornerstone of Maryland;. whlelU had been miss ng for many. yeac9r .t?)%ie a report, by which it jpcidentnlly ap poared that tho house In which Mr. 9m.th resided wat ndt^in Delawaro at a'l, but was situated on tho strip of land belonging to "Tendon, Urltain township, (Jhester county/ Penn, llere was a pretty kcttlo <?#>ljtloal Ofh for Mr. Smith, but as th^'commis sion had been intrusted w/tfl'lft(fduty of reloo -tl:.g tho lost cojrniftf'rtfone it could not of itsellf affect tho legMjty of his seat in tho house^:.. XJwrA, was great po it'citl talk and manythnats inado against MW, bftf Wrtfus d to rtsgn, and moved aboht fwp miles RuuthoRot of his cj 1 fafrrth'oftse to a ?not on his farai whlcn ivas uy^juos tf Oft ably in Dolaware. TnflruM(Were one or two important bills psa*ed at the cess on of the Delaware Jdjghlaturo of 1848 by ono majority?^.)hr>Smith's vote?and for a long ti ne thMtrlaws were in depute. After 1 48 4H*mith was elect-d to tlic* ^ol^^'tState was i was ionnto, and on<? dav when jW driving to hlsli< mo fr >m pWwjL met at Vlddl town by a largo mob of men an/? b ys and compelled To witness the hanging of hlmxolf tn.ettlgf. It has never ynt been ft ?aUV *,(Attled whether the house In whlbh tno doubt ful senator lived when ho WjH first electod really stood ort DcTaW/fro or IVnnaylvaula sol', so that,tho farmer who now occupies that dwelling does n. t really know whet ter he Isaeltlzep of the forirer or the latter Btato.? Philadelphia Iteoordi v j40^ Evory one whtf hki waUhovi the rain cloads In Florida on amugnmer day must have been Htrueltby the fact that they do not ome on tho wltogi of th$ wind from soms dther'rtMotCand ?enrry aeross the ?!<y und thff ^irth.' ac^Ofppafti<#fW reVMt'atinir Wlnt'i. but on the thfy A th r In the cl ar sl<y with little moTMatat except an expaueion on every sidty and ; '-.'a iji-j!?* i' ? ?> .4^.! I'a